The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1872-09-13
COUNTY,

THE N. y. Tribune in speaking of
pemnsy ivnuia'scudid ties COr Goveiuor
BaAe!
Tho iudepcudeut newspapers aud
public men In Pennsylvania arc now
eng eyed IN an earnest aud hopeful
struggle against a Ring not less corr
rupt, not le3s shameless than that which
we put under our foot last year. Yot
there IL one assertion frequently made
by the Administration papers in that
State, which If IL were truo would prove
how much less hopeful Is the prospect
there than with US. They say that Hart
ranit will receive the full Republican
vote Of the State. IL is difficult TO con-
cCive that tho sen 80 OF shame should
have bC IN so driven out of tho hearts of
good cilizou5 by the power of party
discipline. Last year in New York the
indignation ut the itauds of Tive ID and
his associates was 30 universal that in
the election there was but one question,
and that was between honesty and theft.
Thousands of Democrats voted against
their own ticket bc 'atlse they imagined
IL tainted with fraud, and tho State,
with a large Democratic majority, fell
into the hands of the Republicans SIM
ply because Tweed ana Connolly and
the rest had cOmmittt their roJberieS
in the name of Democrats. Yet Penn-
sylvanians complacently tell US that
there Is no prOspt It OF any such revolt
of Republican conscience in their State.
There was never q clearer issue be-
tween right aud wrong, between hon
C3ty and dishon ty. 1t is patent to
every voter in Pennsylvania who can
4 t. s, ont BOD
i'm fraud and illegalitie'. By sworn
aflidavif5, by letters, autographed
and published, in his own lar d dwi.sing,
by extracts placc1 in evidence from the
books of his brokers, it is proved that
he corruplly use the public funds for
stock spGculations whiie Auditor Cen
oral that he made use of secret official
information to deal in stocks which
were rail- or Depressed by his official
acts. These are events ofy 'terday. The
money thus gained is in his pocket
part of it, doubtless, employed in this
canvass. His partner and associate, be-
ing more careless or less influential than
himself, is now expiating in o felon's
cell his spirit of irregular ent trprise.
Mr.. Hartranft wPs nominated d because
of his bad character. He VIZ chosen by
the corrupt Ring Of Harrisburg, at the
head of which is Simon Cameron, not
on account of any ability or influence
he possessed, but simply because PS
Governor he would stick at nothing
which his managers demanded.
Nominated against him is candidate
entirely above suspicion from every
point of view. Mr.. Buckalew is man
with thoroughly clean hands. He is a
good lawyer, and man of such solid
and useful knowledge of public affairs
that we may properly give him the
much abused name of statesman. Prob
ably not an intelligent man in Penn.
sylvania but thinks he would be bet
ter Governor than Hartranft. He is
supported by the entire Democratic
pre- s and by no less than twenty Re-
publican newspapers in the State.
Many of the most prominent Republi-
can politicians refuse to vote for Hart
ranft, and declare the State disgraced II
it elects him. When Gov. Geary was
ell cted over Packer in 1860 he received
50.40 per centum of the votes cast to
1860 thrown for Mr.. Packer, only 1896
majority in total of 576,50S. The
merest breath of popular feeling would
have carried it the other way.
To say now that when Buckalew
stands for honesty, intelligence, and
capacity, in its highest eXprC ssion, and
Hartranit is proved to mean fraud and
corruption In / lOwcIt manifestations,
there are not honest and Independent
men enough in the State to elect the
former, is the most savage attack upon
the character of Pennsylvania which
could possibly be made.