The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-09-06
The Situation In Pennsylvania.


contest will be fought in Pennsylvania.
Is usual. ''As Pennsylvania. 80 will go
the Union," has passed into political
proverb; and it is as true now, perhaps,
as III any previous election. There the
two contending factions are concentrat-
ing their heaviest guns, and bringing
into play all their knowledge of political
strategy.
The Liberals and Democrats have all
the legitimate advantages on their side,
and could not have the least doubt OF
success in fair election.
Mr.. Buckalew, the Democratic candi-
date, is one of the worthiest of Pennsyl.
vania's sons. He is man Of high and
spotless character. No shadow of suspi-
cion has ever been cast upon him. He
is also statesman OF large experience,
of commanding ability, of liberal nd
catholic views, and a man, too. OF great
personal popularity.
The Liberals and Democrats could not
have selected better or more available
candidate. If character, capacity and
true patriotism can conquer at all in
conflict with Cameron's gold, they will
do so in the person of Charles r. Buck
s!eg. The Administration has been sim
gularly unfortunate in the candidate
forced upon it by the Cameron ring.
Hartranft. the Radical nominee for Co.
vernon, is the present State Auditor, and
is mixed up in the Evans frauds and
several other swindling schemes, of
greater or less magnitude, which have
been perpetrated upon the people of
Pennsylvania under the existing. admi.
nistration. The Government OF the
State of Pennsylvania. until, perhaps.
the recent daring exploits of the Scott
Moses dynasty in South Carolina robbed
her OF that unenviable pre-eminence,
ranked as the most shamelessly corrupt
OF any in the Union.
Simon Cameron, the great American
corruptionist, has had the State of Penn
sylvania in his meshes for many years.
With her great iron, coal, oil, railro ad
and banking corporations, all of which
are greatly affected by legislation, she
offers field of operations to the specu-
Iative lobbyist second to none on the
continent. Cameron has proved him
self the master manipulation of her Gone
raj Assemblies, and to him have sue.
cumbed all the lesser lights. Among
these, as man after his own heart and
his possible successor, is Hartranft,
whom he has procured to be nominated
for Governor by the Irregular" Republi-
can party. esa
Our Patterson-'honest Johp"-who
is now pitting Moses. is said to have
been pupil, and still sort of partner,
OF the oanny Cameron. This accounts
Tor the fact, which has lately been dis
closed, that Hartranft. last year, specu-
lated largely in South Carolina bonds,
mostly the new ones. using for that pur.
pose the public funds of Pennsylvania.
Hartranft, in short, is nothing more than
q willing tool of Cameron's, who, by
the use of corrupt means, forced his
nomination, much to the disgust of all
decent Republicans who knew anything
of his record. Forney's paper. the Phi
!adelphia Press. perhaps the most inAu-
ential Republican journal in the State,
opposes him bitterly, and other Repub-
lican sheets, not entirely the slaves of
party. refuse also to advocate his cleo
tion.
In this condition of things it is plain
to see that if the people OF Pennsylvania
were left to themselves, and fair cleo
ton secured, Buckalew would inevitably
sweep the State With handsome majo-
rity. There is every reason to hope that
ne will be elected any way, despite the
evil Vaccinations Of Cameron and the
Grant administration. These latter,
however, will use every means in their
power to put in Hartranft. Shonld he
be defeated and Buckalew and an honest
set OF subordinates gain control of the
government, many vf Oameron's frauds