The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1872-06-28
The Indcpendcnt Press.

Nothing has proved more futile than |
the attempt to break down an indCpcu.
dent and incoriuptiblc newspaper.
Tammany.tric to smother the INor1d I!
when IL attacked its corrupt rulc; fnas
ties preached crusade against the
Tribune when Horace Greeley bailcd
JEFF Davis and even the Republican of
this place gained strength in the
attempt Of somc Of It's early supporters
to ruin it. -.........
just now the Clucrnnians have taken
tho heavy contract Of crippling the
Philadelphia Press, but The II ult viii
ast0nish them. The people will endorse
Il movement the object of which Is to
break down Ring which has disgraoed
our State, and attempted to force com.
mon thieves and scOundrels into positi-
ons Of trust and honor. And the Press
finds itself endorsed by such able,
outspokcn papers as the Scranton Re
| publican, Wayne citizen, and the Lam
caster Express, hqWrer and Enter
prise.
We would commend the following
extract to the Post Master of this place
who edits the Republican.
Our only danger, and the only ele.
ment that bodies Grant and Wilson evil
in November, is about fifteen hundred
corrupt politicians, all told. These are
threatening the Independent and honest
Republicans, who have rC ~olvcd to de-
feat part of the State ticket, with the
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their dictatiOn and acquiCsce in the
sell, ction Of The men they have chosen
TO rule over this grand old common
wealth and control its finances.
The threats OF these men would be i'm
potent and meaningless but for The fact
that the entire machinery OF our politics
is in their hands, and the knowledge
we have that they Will hesitate at moth
ing to accom- plish their base ends. They
are acquainted with the Tive 3d-like
methods of defeating popular will by
ballot-boX stuffing and rep ltin~, and
they have a long purse and flexible
conscience. They openly boost upon
the streets that they will count in their
man if the majority against him be not
too great. If, es we expect, in the
mand of the people and remodel their
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upon them by an overwhelming major
ity, they say they will retaliate upon
the independent Republicans, who have
never faltered in their devotion to the
party and who are true to Grant, but
who will no longer submit to the rule
Of crime and incompetency, by voting
for Greeley and counting him in
November. This is their programme,
and Il nicoly-laid, clever scheme it is,
, and worthy Of the men.
But will it win? Will the people of
Pennsylvania, upon whose rights and
. independence these men have been
yearly encroacbing until they think
that the Republican voters of the State
are but slave to do their bidding and
ratify their will, allow tho3e unscrupu-
lous and corrupt tricksters to succeed
, We think not. We know they recog.
nize the disg ace and danger of contin-
uing the rule Of the men who are at
; tempting to rear Tammany Hall In
Philadelphis. They are faithful, both
to their country and their party, and
| they realize that the men who are en-.
gagged in this plot arc danger to the
one and disgrace to the other.
: One word to those individuals who
have already ''read The Press out of the
party" You have too long sheltered
! yourselves behind the cause of Republi-
canism; your only conception of its
ideas is office, of its success the gratifi-
cation of your abnormal appetite for
/ pluuder, and it is about time that you
retired from your assumed leadership.
The Republican party can work out its
, mission without your assistance. Your
great prototype Tammany is dissolved
like the baseless fabric of q vision, with
several wrecks behind, some of whom
others Candidates for prison cell Its
: fate should be your warning.