The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1872-07-19
COUNTY, PA.


cans who will not vote all tho State
ticket. lie Is an adept at the business |
he has been at il for half century, in
and out of all organizations. llo read
the old George Wolf mon out of the
Democracy, he read the Democrats out
of the Know.Nothing party, of which
he was chief; and then, after fairly
buying himself into the Republican
camp, he proceeded to read out such
Eli Slifer, John Hickman, and every
other who would not bow TO the cap Of
Gessler. He has been n rare roadCr-out
at Washington, but never II reader-in,
His decroes were frequent and fierce.
Even President Grant has had such
knowledge Of his hostility to the good
men Of Pennsylvania that one Of his
maXims is: ~ have no influence with
any Of the Senators, and must yield
my wishes to theirs"
The now class to be read out are the
brave and incorruptible Esaias Billing
felt, of Lancaster-the same who has
been fighting the corrupt manipulators
of the Sinking Fund ut Harrisburg
the able and gifted editors of the DG1g
Express, at Lancaster, Messrs. Pier5ol
and Geist, who have built up q power
full paper by unsolfish devotion to
business enterprise the eloquent Thom-
rs e. Marshall, OF Allegheny, whose
stirring arguments for the Republican
party have made all Western Pennsyl-
vania ring for the last twenty years
the fearless Republican, at Chester,
Delaware county, edited by that hard
working printer and editor, y. $.
Walter, ESQ, who has grown to be n
man of power, because he writes and
"sets up" his own editorials, and sup
ports our great cause because he loves
it; also the editors of influential Jour
nails in Luzcrino, Wayne, NcnauGO,
Beaver, Crawford Cambria, Hunting
don, Allegheny, and Bucks among
the latter, Mr.. Darlington, OF the h'-
| telhigencer, who Ohends because he is
| too fair man to submit TO transparent
unfairness. All these are to be "read
out' either because they will not or
| cannot swallow the nauseous dose pres
| ented to them by General Cameron'5
| son and his associates at the late Har-
risburg Convention.
Is it not question whether. when
you "read out'' such influences as these,
you may be at last without successful
party?
Among Others. who are TO be tread
out" is The Press. This Pennsylvania
Pope says we are communicable
| Against us the ANATIIEMA is special,
| We have always revoltcd at intlllibili-
| ties and inCapahles. We have neycr
| believed in either. Our offence in this
case is therefore grievous. Let MS look
| ii boldly in the face. 70 help the cause
and President Grant we asked only
that Cameron and his friends should
give us q candidate for Governor that
would unite our party. We had no
| candidate Of our own. Cur objection to
| Hartranit at first was simply his inca
pacity. We had an idea thai perhaps
| Pennsylvania desired q statesman I0r
| Governor, q Skunk, a Muhlenberg, or
Curtin. We begged Cameron ana his
following to give las such q nan, and
| stood ready to support the son.iu-laH
of his own brother, William Cameron,
of Lewisburg, Hon. John b. Packer, a
| fit, honest man, II ripe scholar and gen
| tleman. Since then, to our deep regret,
other charges, besides incapacity, are
urged against General Uartranft, and a
large portion of the Republicans of the
State are against him, so pronounced
that their judgment can only be revers-
ed by new nomination for Governor.
Now, mark! Our protest against this
nomination was months in advance Of
the State Convention. How it was met
we need not recall. Everybody was
ashamed of its actions. Except the unan-
imous denomination of Grant, all else
was bad and base. Hartranft was
crowded through. He was not even
decently ratified. Our delegates TO the
Philadelphia National Convention We're
not selected but dictated, and when the
convention met at the Academy of
Music our delegation, with most hOnora-
BILE exceptions, was found to be owned
by Senator Cameron, who first expert
mented on it with the name of his son
for Vice President. and then refused to
allow the name of any other Pennsyl.
vanian to be mentioned for that office.
Judge Kelley could easily have been
presented as the choice of the State that
is to decide the Presidential issue this
year-especially with the war be-
tween ColfaX and Wilson-but General
Cameron waved him away.
In view Of these facts we spoke. For
this we are to be read out. Perhaps
President Grant has truer friends than
The Press, but we don't know it. Per-
haps Pope Cameron may drive us ont
of the Republican party, but we do not
think so. He can never, at any rate,
drive lis out of our Republican con-
victions. These are a religion TO be
followed even to the stake.
And now one word as TO our business.
The Press is a newspaper. 1t wins by
its worth. 1t is in no one sense 4 party
organ, though it is in every sense
radical, progressive Republican paper.
1t lives only by its enterprises, and if it
ever loses, it is because it does not fear
to attack public crime or error, even in
its own party. 1t would support Sen
ator Cameron tomorrow in any cause
that was right, and denounce Grant in
any cause that was wrong, but The Press,
like ''any other man." owes something
to itself, and good deal more to the
Truth. So, gentlemen of the Grand
Commandery-Mr. Cameron, Mr.. Rus
without us this year, why, "leave of
your damnable faces, and begin."
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