The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-06-14

ticket at least at the outset they unexpectedly hear
Gearys, meir favorite soldiers, warning vOoe, tell
ing them tnat the radical candidates are not to be
trusted for that they are little short OF robbers, who
will 'seize and carry of the vast fund now sacredly
devoted to the payment OF the public debt and entail
heavy taxati IN to replace it. COincidently with this
clap OF thunder from a clear sky:oomes Fred. Doug
lass counsel in the same city 20 the Philadelphia
negroes not to consider themselves bound TO vote
the Republican ticket, and the consequence must be
to puzzle sorey the new citizen Let 1t be )rne in
mind that, IN stating the practical embarrassment
likely to result from the present abnormal state OF
things we do not mean In any way to censure 9 W
ernor Gesry. SO far from this that we applaud
what he has done and II It rebound, of course II
, us,, ~ 'ne ANY T S"e ycaUtinsru has
naught to do with these plunderng Devices we shall
not on that account abate our praise. IL Is really
heroic; for not only does the Governor by this
course array against him the compact phalanX OF
individual lobbyists and adventurers OF his own
sthe affiliated corporations" which, he says,
threaten the honor and virtue OF the COM
monwea elias not" the Governor boldly says
''has not the time come for determining the ques-
ton of title to the sovereign power in this Common
wealth? Is that power rightful and indefeasible
estate OF the people, does it reside in iucorpo
rated companies enacted by our laws? Shall your
Government be the instrument of corporate
ambition and avarice, and an object OF jest,
ridcule, and reproach; or, in other words,
shall corporations supersede the Government
and become masters of the people?" This Is
brave talk, for it is bold thing TO defy the m am
moth corporations which now bind Pennsylvania
and IL is a healthy social sign that Geary-he who
trembed and fed when he thought he heard the
rumble OF Jackson's artillery over the Blue Ridge
does not fear these arrogant corporations, which
from East and South and West, marshaled by
pert ttrategists in this sort of campaigning like
Scott and Cameron and Cass, may at any moment
march upon Harrisburg 1t may be that the Gov
ernor, being an ancient Jackson man (Andrew, not
StonewalD feels within him something of the an
cient spirit which vanuushed the Bank of the
United States and is will to try fall with the giants
of our day, alongside of whom the 'Fiscal Agency"
with its patry thirty-hve millions. was a dwarf.
1t is certainly bold experiment. In one respect
only, as sincere wel-wishers OF Pennsylvania, do
we see cause to regret the sharp issue Governor
Gesry has made. Bis language is this:-'The ques-
tiun [of the saDctity OF the sinking fund.- is in fact
SUI mitted for your judgment The issue is now
before you for your arbitramen II you alive to
your interests and honor you will sustain the appeal
now sent to you from the executive chamber" 1t
the decision Of so precise an issue. 1t involves the
whole credit OF the State and we see tand we incline
to think Governor Geary too) but safe path
out of this grievous perplexity-the reputation of
the whole radical majority, aud placing the legsla
tive control in the hands OF Gearys ancient and yet
uncorrupted friends, the Democratic party.
In sober earnest, is it not a sad sight an awful
proof OF the decentralization Of the times, when
Governor has TO make such an appeal In order to
avert actual and certain dishOnOr
Thus much for Governor Geary's restlessness. HIS
unhappiness so far as it purely personal is very
intelligble. He is suffering from disease which
mas been long endemic on the banks OF the Susque-
hanna-a febrile craving for the Presidency Ritner
thought he would be President by viitue OF anti
Masonry! Johnston was Of It, Pollock, rely
ing on Presbyterian piety and hatred Of Popery
u Al ms nW gTa TuT @ red hs a on ms R
is assumed influence at Washington, is, or was,
looking covetously at the baube. No pentup Penn
syvania confines his powers; but although
nothing but petroleum leaves the shores of his Com
monwealth, and naught but brown sugar comes in,
he has taken foreign commerce under his wing and
writes essays on that head to Admiral Porter. Yet,
at the very moment when he thought his greatness
was a-ripeniDg, comes summer frost that seems to
kill 1t ALL Cameron, his sworn, relentless foe cap
lures the great cheftain on whose sympathy at
least in 1875, Gearv relied, and brings him
trout-fshing to Lochiel. With most men this
would prove and nothing, aud the
Presidents partaking Of the convvial and highly in-
telectual society OF which Senator Cameron is the
centre, would preserve his independence. But Gov
ernor Geary knows as every one to his sorrow Knows
that social influences are Omnipotent with our ducte
Chief Magistrate, and actually in despair flies from
the seat Of government when the President in the
Senator's train approaches. IL Ia a cruel blow, and
more than accounts for the spasmodc, If not con-
vulsve, action which he has so recently developed
World editorial, June 12.