The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-06-03


citing a disturbance that can scarcely have
other than bad effect.
rs CORRUPTION TO LEAD REPUB-
LICANLSH?
WE copy in another column an editorial
article from the Pittsburg Commercial on the
management of the coming campaign in this
State. The Commercial is the most widely
circulated and influential Republican paper
in Western Pennsylvania, and the plain
warning given is singularly significant of the
probable fate of the Republican party in this
State if it be surrendered to the leadership
of Cameron, as now seems probable. AS no
Republican State Convention will be held this
year, no new State Committee can be ap-
pointed, and it is evidently intended by the
trick of a Congressional conclave to foist
Cameron into the management of the party.
This has been adroitly arranged by Cameron
to enable him to control the Senatorial and
Legislative nominations with the view of his
reelection to the United States Senate. With
the organization of the party in his hands,
and the means of the party to dispense to aid
his favorites and defeat the will of the people
in primary elections, he hopes to send to the
Senate this fall a majority of Republicans
who will repeat the consuming shame of 1867
and re-elect him TO the first Legislative tribu-
nal of the nation
Cameron we'll understands that the control
of the Republican organization in this State
can be secured by him only by defrauding
the party. No State Convention of the party
would tolerate his leadership, and only by the
mockery of Congressional committee could
he attain such commanding position, to be
welded to debauch, disgrace, and eventually
defeat the great party that has hitherto tri-
umphed in this State in defiance of his
frauds. When he was opposed to its success,
as he was on more than one occasion since
1860, its triumph was comparatively easy;
but when it had to stagger under the load of
his active support its efforts were desperate
to preserve its supremacy; and in 1867, when
it had to 60 into campaign with the crush
ing load of his election to the Senate, it could
not save itself from defeat.
In 1864 Cameron played the same bold
fraud upon the Republican party. Looking
solely to his own election to the Senate, he
forced himself upon the party as Chairman
of the Republican State Committee, through
the weakness of Hon. George V. Lawrence,
the president of the convention, after three
fourths of the delegates had positively re-
commended another gentleman. His appoint
msnt chilled the party into almost hopeless
indifference, and his management made
Pennsylvania blot her once noble record with
defeat, while all the other debatable States
gave decisive majorities. While the Repub-
lican leaders of Ohio and Indiana devoted
themselves to attain success for the national
cause, and won overwhelming victories,
Cameron devoted the organization, and the
then almost illimitable means of the party, to
force his fsvorites upon the local tickets for
the Legislature, and thus sacrificed thousands
of Republican votes. The result was that
Pennsylvania alone, of ali the loyal
States, faltered, as the legitimate
fruits of Cameron's incompetent, selfish,
and factional leadership. The State was lost
on the home vote in October, and the whole
nation was appalled, at the anomalous position
of our thoroughly loyal State. In confusion
and despair at the disaster he had given the
State as the legacy of his imbecility and sell
fshness, he at once called two of his success
full predecessors - Messrs. Mcclure and
McVeigh-to his aid, and asked them to take
the helm and if possible retrieve the State in
November. Mr.. Lincoln also interfered and
had competent men to take charge of the
campaign, and by almost superhuman effort
the State gave Lincoln small majority on the
home vote. Such are the records Cameron
has written in his attempts at leadership in the
Republican party and at this critical june
ture, with New York lost by nearly 80, 900,
and discomfort widespread in the Republican
ranks, it needs but the leadership of Simon
Cameron to make Republican victories in
Pennsylvania known only in the history of
the past.