The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-10-28
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The Pittsburgh Post, not satisfied with
hasing deservedly won the approval of
the Democratic press by It's advocacy OF /
An additional amendment to the Con- |
stitution removing the disability from n |
foreigner being elected President of the
United States. is again in hot search of
In it's issue of the 18th there appeared a
lengthy, carefully written, double-leaded
editorial article, in which it is attempted
to be shown that Thomas A. Scott, Vice
President of the Pennsylvania Rail Road
Company, is the coming man of the Dem
ocracy-that he alone can surely be elect
ed President over Grant, and urging LIS
nomination by the next Democratic Ma
| tional Convention. When we first read
this lucubration of the Post, we were in
clined to regard it as merely sensational,
or as huge joke, but as it was followed
on the next day by an article of similar
| import, we are bound to believe that it
expressed the deliberate and matured con-
v;ctions of the formidable editorial array
! of that democratic journal. Although we
had heard great deal about Tom Scott"
we we'll knew that he has not concealed
his light under bushel, we were not
aware that we had in our midst gentle
man of such varied accomplishments, pro
found wisdom and unrivalied statesman
| ship, until The scales had fallen from our
eyes after having read and digested the
blushing but modest euloeium which the
Post has seen proper to pronounce upon
him. Happy Pennsylvania in having
given birth to such man, and thrice
happy Tom Scott in having such pan-
egyrist as the Pittsburgh Post. The
democracy of the State are frantic with
delight.
And still they gazed and still the wonder
grew,
That one small head could carry all he knew -
The reasons assigned by the Post for
this sudden and alarming attack of Scott
on the brain, are numerous. The princi>
pal one, however, is what the Post calls
'sp'rsOnai n,Rgnetsm," which it claims is
possessed by its tavorite in a remark a ble
and wonderful degree. We remember
having heard heretofore of the nanqnef.c
power os Thomas A. Scott. We have
been told indeed that W hen he visits Har-
risburg during a session of the Legislature.
as he sometimes does in the interest of his
rail road company, be carries about him
n'"goet of unequalled attraction, capable
ot accomplishing results only surpassed
by the magical properties of Aladdin 5
lamp. If this magnet could be introduced
into the next Democratic national cunyen-
tion, 1t might possibly work a political
miracle. Archimedes is said to have de-
clared, that with his lever he could move
The globe, if he only had place to stand
upon But TO be serious. Does the
Pittsburgh Post suppose, that the demo-
cratic party is prepared to commit fcio
de SCI 1t will be dark day in the history
OF the Republic, when rail road Kinq
or even a BirOn is installed in the Ex-
scutive chair of the nation. Even now
the Legislation of Congress, as we'll as of
most OF the States, is absolutely controlled
by the Influence of mammoth rail road
corporations superadded to that of fifteen
hundred national banks. They are a
power behind the throne greater than the
throne itself Ifthe liberties of the people
are to be preserved, the grasping power
Of these soulless monopoIes must be cur>
tailed and hedged, rather than augmented
and enlarged Consolidated capital ia the
DEVILS rock in the sea of politics, on which
the ship of state will eventually split and
go to pieces, unless there is a sure and
ateady pilot at the helm. Thomas A.
Scott III his present position, is doubtless
the right man in the right place. His
becoming the next democratic candidate
for the Presidency, is contingency not
even to be dreamed Of Let him take
any other shape than Mnt. The article
In the l'OSt Is iBopporiune and uncalIed
for, if not positively mi.chievious 1t has
not met and will not meet with any re-
sponse from the democratic press of the
state, which is just now not in humor
to run after strange political gods AL
though much time and study were be-
slowed on its preparation, the article of
the Post has failed in its intended effect
and has missed the mark at which II was
directed. Parturient monies et nascifuy
rtdIcuLuS mus
! WHEN the two Return Judges for the