The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-07-21

what beautiful boon money is when the
contest is a close one; how it will buy coffee
pots; how, in the twinlling of an eye, it will
transmogrify foreigners into full-blown ma
tves; how 1t will cause dead men to rise from
the grave expressly to vote the Democratic
ticket; how it will inspire enterprising souls
to vote ten times at ten different pre-
cincts the self-same day: how it will
transport superfluous voters from counties in
which they are not needed into counties in
which they may be needed very much indeed,
paying nobly both for their carriage and their
keeping: and how it may induce the guar
dians of the poll-lsts to see names there which
are not there, and not TO see names which are
leglbly enough written upon osemysterous
rolls. campaign during which deficient
numbers must be supplied by cunning and
cash cannot possibly be carried on without
the sinews of war. We suppose that it has
been already ascertained that Packer
will submit like lamb to his
predestinate bleeding. In a word, every
body seems to take it for granted that if
the Office of Governor of PENNSYLVANIA
IS to be had for the purchasing. Judge
Packer is just the man to bid for it. Only it
seems to be pity that the bargain and sale
should be so clumsily conducted. Why not
put up the place at auction at once. making a
subsequent distribution of the proceeds of the
vendue among the whole people? Somebody
might be found who would make a loftier bid
than even the pecunious Packer Alas in
such case the big Democrats would not get
from ten to twenty times their Just share of
the plunder, and that would not answer at all.
There may be those who think that Packer,
for Democrat occupies a rather undignL
fled position; but to the Democratic" eve no
man is undignifed who has full pocket and
an open palm. There was a time in Rome
when all the offices were put up for sale to the
highest bidder and when patricians purchased
their way to the tallest places by unrestricted
largess-the era of Senatorial degradation and
of imperial audacity,! Judge Packer would
have found his fifteen millions of greater use
there and then than here and now. But let
him not despair! He may not be able to pur-
chase the empire of the world, but the pos
session of Pennsylvania should satisfy any
reasonable mans ambition - if Pennsyl-
vania is to be purchased at anything like
a reasonable price. If a man has nothing
but his money, no particular capacity
for public affairs, no abilities which in poor
person would attract attention, no
genius except for the accumulation of wealth,
we do not know that he is to be blamed for
buying distinction and honor, if he should
find them, like stocks, in the market. To be
sure, it may be said that it isn't Judge Packer
who is the candidate-that it is his Honor's
been put in nomination; but then it is but
invidious, after all, to attempt to sever the
property from the person: and while money
is money, and an empty pocket the most pain
full of vacuities, the plethoric Packers will
always seem lovely to the hungry eyes of the
needy, and will be regolol by those who
have votes to sell as simply political paragons.
While Packer continues to come down with
the dust, he will always have a train of enthu-
siastic followers ready to roar itself, in his
honor, into a chronic bronchitis.
Let us hope, however, that the Judge will
be sagacous in his distributions, and not play
at needless ducks and improbable brakes
with his superfuous wealth. There are a
good many of his most enthusiastic admirers
who would not hesitate to reduce him. if they
could, to the squeezed orange condition. and
then to fling him aside, limp, shapeless,
juiceless Packer indeed Let him beware of
the Democratic Diddlers! Let him remember
''the certain man who went down from Jeru-
salem to Jericho and fell among thieves, which
stripped him of his raiment and wounded
him, and departed, leaving him half dead. "
Minus his money, it seems to be generally
allowed the Hon. Asa would get precious little
attention from the Democratic priests and
Levites. And Good Samartans in the party
we take it, are rather scarce. Packer, it is
true, must bleed; but let our prayers go up
that Packer may not be bled ad deljQujumI