Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1869-04-07

The people of Pennsylvania have long
looked upon these proceedings ut Harris
burg with fear and disgust, but have new
er been able TO correct them. Year after
year they elect the same class of men to the
Legislature, and groan under the abuses,
extravaganza and corruption of their ty-
rants. Tt seems impossible for themsto re-
form the character of their so-called repre-
sentatives." ...s .......
1t is thus that the Radical editors cry
out when they feel, in their own pockets
the tiitclnng fingers of these Legislative job
bers. Why are our Radical cotemporaries
silent when the same polluted hands are
thrust into the ballot-box, and the votes of
thousands of our citizens are dragged out
and cast aside like waste paper ? These
are the men-corrupt beyond measure or
denial-who have now undertaken to give
this city its judges, and who are higgling
and caucusing over scheme to give US a
police of their kidney They do, indeed,
as the Inquirer says, ''hold the State in the
hollow of their hand :" and, in the same
itching palm, lies this great city, with all
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foul purlieus of the State Capital, that n
party in our midst transfers the conduct
of our municipal affairs, the review Of our
municipal elections, the choice of our local
judges All to be managed, out Of the
sight Of Philadelphia, by men whose knav-
cry nobody denies-they do not deny it
themselves They advertise ito draw
business! Judge Greenbank is probably
not the only victim. 1t is even easier to
blot ont a district than to upset an election
There is a bill now in the Senate to destroy
the judicial district of Lycoming, because
the transactions of certain prominent Rad
icals there have been brought into the
Court for examination. The Harrisburg
Patriot says
Owe solemnly make the appeal to honest
men of all parties in the good Common
wealth, Look to your Judicial districts =
If this Infamous Dill can be retained, not
judicial district in the State is secure from
the polluted grasp of the bandits of the
Legislature and lobby. Judges and court
will be driven to the necessity OF purchas-
ing the forbearance of the ring to maintain
their existence, or deeply wronged and
insulted people will be compelled to rise
and lash the meTcenaries ont Of the legisla-
tive halls. Railroads and mining corpora
tions, it seems, do not furnish sufficient
amount of plunder and the ring, in raven
GUS hunger for spoils, has begun an attack
on the courts, which have been hitherto
deemed inviolate If this Lycoming Job
be not defeated, there is not court in the
Commonwealth safe from the assaults of
the ring"
The Radical party that elected the ma
jority of this Legislature is responsible for
its infamous character. Especially respon-
sible are those who carry up to that corrupt
and incompetent body the municipal af-
fairs of Philadelphia To Harrisburg fly
the kindred spirits of the Ring" of this
city to bemoan their loss of power and to
plot its restoration. The people of Phila-
delphia made one vigorous effort, last fall
to free themselves from this horde of plum
derers. We rescued the city from them
This fall We must rout them out of their
last stronghold at Harrisburg. PhiIadel-
phia Age. ...