New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-08-26
THE PENNSYLVANIA STRUGGLE.

A rumOr apparently well accredited, finds
its way TO the public that Senator Simon Cam
eron has gone in haste to Washington to de-
mand Che never sOlicits) pecuniaiy aid Tor
pennsylyania, assuring the Administration
managers that, unless more money is fur
nished, the October election assuredly will be
lost. Our charitable inclination is to doubt
the authenticity of this. That there are just
now needy, starving missionaries from Penn
sylvania craving aims generally "the dis
"carded, unjust serying-men and reyolted
"tapsters" of Straight-Out Democracy" we do
not doubt. But we do not believe that the
well-fed beadle of the Pennsylvania parish has
the effrontery "to ask for more" Not only
are the Cameron resources ample per Sc, but
the banking firm of Hartranft, Mackey d
Co., must be affluent in this worlds goods, even
though two OF the partners labor under the
disadvantage of being in the Penitentiary.
Poverty is the privilege or the penalty OF
the Liberal RefOrmers. Mr.. Buckalew IS not
ashamed to say he is poor man, and that no
money gained by indirectiOn, and indeed very
little money of any kind, has ever soiled his
palm. The resources of the Administration
men are patent. We have in print the accounts
current of these gentry with their banker in
Philadelphia, and find the State Treasurer's
balances (his own private means, he wishes us
to understand), in 1871, vary from $25O,OOO to
S165, OOO and that the Auditor Generals (Hart-
ranft account sales with the same concern
amounted in 1901 to an aggregate of more
than $6SO0OO! Mackey, the State Treasurer,
swOre before Committee of the Senate that
he had no stock transactions with Yerkes,
while his account current, since reached,
shows that between June and September of
one year he bought and sold, Yerkes, as usual,
aiding, $4,000 of Pennsylvania and Readings.
The truth is, it is something more powerful
than money these people want. Mr.. Biddle
and his bank had money, and had, what the
Administration agents need, large and active
intelligence-and yet the Democracy wOrsted
them. The New-YOrk Ring had money, their
own and other people's-and where are they 2
There is a consciousness more appalling than
that of the want of money to carry an cleo
ton which now paralyzes Pennsylvania Radi-
calism, as incarnate in Cameron and Hartranft.
They feel that, at last the moral sense of the
community is aroused against them. 1t is high
time and the catastrophe comes in strict ac-
cordance with those immutable laws of poll
tics which, sooner or later, bring the guilty to
Justice. The abuses which the Cameronian
domination have for thirty years fastened on
Pennsylvania are ending in a sort of lnsolent
riot, for as nothing else can the prOtrusi0n
of such a man as Hartranft be described.
There is not disinterested Republican
in the Commonwealth who does not think so.
The insolence too Of the thing is made more
palpable by the contrast with so pure and I'M
suspected man as Mr.. Buckalew. We do
President Grant and his immediate advisers the
justice to believe that, had they had their way
in the beginning, different selection would
have been made, and the advice of such lead
ers as Mr.. FOrney and his friends been taken.
The awkward and hesitating support given to
the Hartranft ticket by the respectable Re-
publican journals especially of Philadelphia,
shows that their heart is not in it. But they
were not allowed to do as they pleased. The
iron will of Simon Cameron interposed. He
whom the simple integrity of Abraham Lin
coin subdued and awed-is too strong for the
negative nature of Abraham Lincoln's successor
and hence what we call the riot. the insolence
which, for adequate aud selfish reasons, puts
everything to risk. There is, however,
metnVu III ll' NJ ohe Can lOOh aI TIE reN-
Citations which have been made of financial
without feeling that much re-
mains behind The guilty parties do not dare
to let the rest of that truth be told. There is
one--pefhaps there are two-who know what
the concealed comment of truth is; and it is
difficult to say who of four guilty men look
with greater interest at the result of next
October-the cOnvicts in the Penitentiary or
their accomplices wIthout-the DIR. or the CIR.
in the Third-st. accounts current with j. T.
II. and r. w. NJ III Hartranft DO elected