The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-01-10
GEARY.
The Hero of Lookout Mountain Compared to
Lord Nelnon-He Is PretentIons nnd Fnssy.

The Hero of Lookout Mountain Compared to
Lord Nelson-He is Pretcntious and Fassy.
Governor Geary is pretentious fussy sort of
public fuuctionary. He is all the time attitude
nzng He Is nothing IL not stdtuesque He
seems always to be standing for his photograph.
Heis never happy out OF his regimentals. AS
a soldier, he was arrogant and boastful, and
cannot help being so in the station in which the
money of the Union Leagues has put him and
retains him. These are the characteristics, we
regret to say, of his recent executive mani
festo. 1t is Geary all over. The mes
sage opens with u tremendous explosion
of piety, winding up with grotesque
anti-climaX, where he tells the Legislature
that he trusts their action, during the coming
session, will be equally acceptable to "the
Almighty and our common constituents" He
informs the public that it has been the practice
of all his predecessors, from 1.-THE great and
pious William Penn downwards, to say their
prayers in public. This may be so; but there is
a vague impression on our minds, albeit not so
familiar with Pennsylvania history as Governor
Geary, that William Penn and the denomination
of Christians to which he belonged never have
been much addicted to the ostentatious use of
the Amighty's name, and that it would puzzle
any one to cite an instance of their having been
So Lord Nelson and Governor Geary were and
are very fond of it. This, however, is small
matter.
We do not, of course follow the Governor in
all his local suggestions confessing, however.
our amaZement at the TRADE which, in connec-
ton with the pending election of State Treasu-
TcT, nc lulullutLtb dSalusJ lib OMn pdIbJ duu
the present Republican incumbent. "Unlawful
use of State funds;" subsidies from sources that
dare not be revealed;" ''acts positively prohi-
bited bylaw under penalties of no ordinary mag
ntude;" 'disgraceful scrambles;" political and
moral debauchery;" ''murkiness of the polluted
atmosphere of the past" such are the choice
phrases, literally quoted, which Governor Gcary
bestows on his own party, which for the last six
troll of the State Treasury. Need any one won
der, if one tithe of what he says be true, that
Pennsylvania credit is sometimes relatively
damaged in the markets of the world?
1t is in this connection that we have graver
criticism to make. We have read and reread
this message with infinite care and, though it
discusses matters of national finance, from be-
ginning to end there is not one single word in
favor of the involability of the public faith or
the honest way of paying the public debt. Not
one word or letter! Senator Sherman or Gene
raj Butler might with perfect consistency say
all which Geary says. The ghost of Thaddeus
Stevens, the great greenback teacher is in arms,
and awes Geary. Let us hear no more, then, of
Democratic reputation. While Governor
| Hoffman speaks out like man on this subject,
| the radical Geary is as dumb as the grave.
| We have no desire to do Mr.. Geary injustice;
| and if any one of his friends-the Public
| Ledger or the Press, for eXample-will point
| out our error on this head, we will cheerfully
correct 1t. In "a Pennsylvania Governor such
| silence is especially mischieyous when we re-
member her legislation of years ago, when the
|
| her antecedent loans taxed and the insulting
| ,etter which, Mt the beginning of our civil trou-
| bles the then State Treasurer wrote to distln-
| guished New York banker who simply asked for
| justice. Governor Gearys remedy for our finan.
cial troubles is ''an expansion of the bank cur
rency;" mo contraction of greenbacks;" "liberal
| appropriations (by Congress, of course) to rail
roads, manufactures, and eUery project that will
afford employment to toiling millions;" and q
| natural and constant return to specie pay
| ments.' On this neutral mixture prescription
| we have no comment to make.
Silent as to the public faith, Governor Geary
| is loud d-mouthed to the Gem of the Antilles
and the immediate recognition and early acqui
sition of Cuba; in fact, so emphatic as to cal
| forth from the press an earnest rebuke for his
impatience. He is, in TRUTH in absolute revolt
against the Federal administration; and, though
his historical precedents of recognition as tC
what he calls ''the French Revolution" Greece
| Hungary, and Poland, are strangely muddled
| up there is no mistake as to the desired result
so much for Geary.-N y. World today.