The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-02-17

istration of which the local authorities and
the people are quite competent. "By the
same reasoning" says the Governor rising
with his theme and, as the chief magistrate
of a State, going out of his way to hur the
gage of defiance TO Federal exorbtance-
f'by the same reasoning, Congress pos
sesses like power to legislate for the diff
ferent States, enact grand metropolitan
police bill, and secure plenary executive,
legislative, and judicial powers in the
hands of few persons, and thus exclude
the masses of the people from all participa-
ton in the government of themselves. / must
confess that am entirely unprepared to sane
ton any legislation so mischievous in it's ten
denotes and so anti-republican in its charac-
ter. and which is calculated to uproot and
DESTROY the dearest principles and privileges
of the people which underlie the institutions
of our weli-regulated commonwealth JUS
tice and the dictates of sound public policy
reuuire that the citizens of every political
and corporate division, however great or
small should be permitted, as an Inherent
RIGHT of self government, without 'oflicious in
termeddling from any quarter, to manage
their own local affairs in their owu way
through officers selected at the ballot-box by
themselves"
This seems to us perfectly sound State
right doctrine as it used to be taught in that
school where Governor Geary was educated,
and which, after its long eclipse, he now un-
wells again. Are his many scars but flesh
wounds, and is his Democratic bone unhurt?
Even the Governors military sympathies
seem to be aroused, though in rather On odd
way; for, says he:-''The police force is also
to be put on a war footing. Every applicant
is to be submitted TO an examination by a
properly qualified physician, and if not found
entirely competent, and under As years of
H., ha rofnntaH Nbxr ubn,,1I
able-bodied men and experienced police Off
GERS be excluded from the force, without re-
gard to past service or present efficiency,
merely because they are over i5 years of age :?
1t is probably the first time in the history of
the State that a man in civil life, who is 9TH
erwise suitable in every respect shall be
prescribed when he may have served his
country faithfully in her armies and attained
the age of 40 years. This is monstrous in
Justice and ostracism, which I trust will never
meet the sanction of, or be tolerated by, q
brave and generous people.
In the meantime radical Pennsylvania, and
especially radical loyal Philadelphia, is stirred
| to its centre by this apostacy. If the Arch
| bishop of Westminster were to 60 over bodily
| to Dupanloup, or Rochefort to Napoleon, il
would not astonish the old gentlemen of the
| Vatican and the Tuileries more than does the
| detection of Geary the antique loyalty auC
| wnrlilIe zeal of Philadelphia. All is confusiSr
and dismay. A writer in the Press, signing
himself ''Public Honor, charges the Governor
with being bribed bya fund formed out o
! $77'50-a months pay-subscribed by eacl
of the present police. Cheap, one would
think, for Governor Nor is this all. Ii
the legislative proceedings on the veto, W.
read that in the House of Representatives,:
| 'Mr. Davis Republican, OF Philadelphia, said tina
! to-day there had been more done to damn thi
morals of Philadelphia than for ten years past
| Lewis Cassidy, Alderman McMullln ana others haC
| damned the city and defeated bill-the MetroEoi
| tan Police bill-whicn would have brought harmon
and decency. The time was coming when Phlla
delpha would be q sea of blood, unless some hghe
executive sends troops to keep the peace
We are not acquainted with the gentlemen
who are charged with being engaged in thi
(not to speak profanely) ''damning' business
or who are planning the bloody deluge thu
foretold; but we implore them to pause
Philadelphia has, in its day, burned abolition
halls and negro orphan houses Gas, we ar
sorry to say, New York once did, and thre
or four Catholic churches, and would, i
emulation of Boston, have set fire to a cor
vent had there been one at hand; but neve
yet has she INDUCED in the horror of sea {
blood. Let us hope that the Davis vaticinJ
ton may be frustrated, Mayor Fox continu
to administer his police force efficiently an
peacefully, and Governor Geary remain tru
to his resumed Democracy.