The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-12-04

the votes OF MS Fellow Democratic members
for the place, not that there is any chance for
his election, but that he may be recognized
as the leader of the party in the House, and
his personal influence thus be increased.
These papers denounce him as ''the prince of
those professional Legislators who make
money by making laws, one who ''hires votes
and pays his hirelings in open day." in short
he has been known in the Legislature here
tofore as corruptionist of the deepest dye,
always ready to join the corrupt men among
the Republicans in every scheme to plumber
the treasury or put money in their own
pockets.
1t is alleged by the papers in question that
b. b. Strang, of Tioga, who is declared to be
the head and front of the Republican division
of the corrupt ring last winter, will be the
candidate of the Republican caucus for
Speaker, and will undoubtedly be elected;
and it is intimated that the object in making
Mr.. Josephs the Democratic candidate is to
allow the Republicans to escape from the
odium that would naturally attach to the
choice of such a man as Strang, by showing
that the Democratic candidate was equally
if not more dishonest and corrupt, and thus
deprive the Democratic party of the political
capital they would otherwise be able to make
out of the bad conduct of the Republicans.
1t is no doubt true that the corruptionists
in both parties would regard it as great
point gained to have the opposite party, as
we'll as their own, committed and put upon
the record as sanctioning the various rascally
schemes of plunder which rogues in and out
of the Legislature are constantly concocting,
and we must acknowledge that the Demo-
cratic newspapers which protest against the
adoption of a course on the part of their
members, which would lend countenance to
the worst and most assailable acts of their
political adversaries, deserve credit and are
pursuing policy the best calculated of all
others to strengthen their party.
In the Republican party also, no less than
in the Democratic, its worst enemies, who
will surely lead it to destruction if they sue
ceed in their projects, are those of its own
household, who would organize the Legisla-
ture in such a way as to proclaim by ac-
tions, speaking louder than any words, that
corruption is triumphant, and plundering
the public treasury for private benefit to
be the order of the day. Let the Republi-
can press throughout the State show itself
no less jealous of the honor and integrity of
their party than their political opponents
are of theirs-sounding the alarm against all
such corrupt schemes as nave disgraced the
record OF recent sessions of the Legislature
with their authors and supporters-and
their voice will be needed and the party
saved. The Republican party of Pennsyl-
vanla has not so great a preponderance of
numbers over It's Democratic competitor
that it can afford to allow itself to be COM
mitted in favor of legislative extravaganza,
corruption, and general disregard Of the in
terests and wishes of the people, especially
after the Democratic party, taking warning
by and avoiding our errors, shall present
itself before the people as the champion of
honest legislation, and shall give evidence
of its sincerity by refusing to recognize as
its candidates men who have heretofore
been identified with corrupt measures and
schemes.