The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-06-28
MONDAY, JUNE ss, 1859.
A LESSON TO PROFIT By

GENERAL r. b. HAYES, the present Governor
of Ohio, who has Just been renominated by
the Republicans, has made speech which
contains some observations which are quite
as pertinent in this State as in his own. He
declared that the last Legislature of Ohio
afforded examples of many of the worst evils
to which Legislative bodies are liable. Among
these evils he cites '1ong sessions, excessive
legislation, unnecessary expenditures, and
,recklessness in authorizing local debts and
local taxes Governor Hayes then appeals
to the men Of both parties to condemn the
BODY which inflicted all these evils on the
State, and urges them especially to ''insist
that the parent evil, long Legislative sessions,
shall be reformed altogether" But the pith
and point of the indignant Governors spec ch
are the words he quotes from one of the
ablest Democratic members of the last Legis-
lature, who declared, at its close, that
''enough hodbeen done to keep tile Democratic
party out of po,oer in Ohio for tWenty yearsi"
The only difference between the Legisla-
lures of the two States consists in the fact
that the Republicans controlled that of Penn
sylvania, while that of Ohio was under Demo-
cratic sway. In both States the members cast
entirely aside their partisan differences their
appetite for punder being stronger than their
aversion for unsound political views But the
acquiescence Of the party having the majority
in neveryvillainous scheme presentedrenderst the
members of that party directly responsible to
the people for its perpetration. If the Demo-
cratic members of the Ohio Legislature and
the Republican members of that of Pennsyl-
vania had taken bold stand against corrup-
ton and rascality in all their varied phases,
the minority might have been composed of
the most reckless and unprincipled men in
either State, and yet have been utterly power
less for evil just as they would have been
utterly powerless for good if the circum-
stances had been reversed For this reason
the rebuke administered to the dominant
party in Ohio by one of its own members is
entirely applicable in our own State, and we
again appeal to the Republican voters of this
city to reject with indignation the claims of
every man who sat in the last Legislature
and now has the audacity to present himself
to the people for reelection. Messrs. Stokes,
Davis, Bum, Adaire, Cloud, and Hong are
the names of the men upon whom every
true Republican who desires the publication
and future success OF the party should turn
cold shoulder at the next election.
Tomorrow morning the Democrats hold
their nominating conventions, and they hive
it within their power to materially assist the
honest Republicans of Philadelphia in an
effort to purify the halls of legislation at Har-
risburg. If they nominate good and true
men in each of the six districts which were
represented last winter by Stokes, Davis,
Bum, Adaire, Cloud, and Hong, their chances
of success will be materially improved through
the assistance of hundreds of Republicans who
are determined that no man who held seat
in the last iniquitous Legislature shall have
another opportunity to bring disgrace upon
our law making power and the entire State.
We can only, in this connection, repeat the
language which we used when these shame
less plunderers first secured their so-called
renominations:-'It will be much better to
have half-a-dozen more Democrats in the
next Legislature than there were in the last,
if these half dozen Democrats should prove to
be decent and honest men; it will be infinitely
better to have the six seats filed by Demo-
Gratis, if they must be filed by men who are
deficient in both decency and honesty"