The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1875-10-04
The True Issue in Pennsylvania.

The Pennsylvania canvass IL warming
up, and the tactics OF the CAM ERoN- NJ AcKEY
Ring are developing apace. They intend
10 run the campaign on the currency
issue, and ignore the troublesome Ring
robberies altogether. IL N hopeful
refuge, and they take 10 IL with great
alacrity. They are a modest party, and
would fain retire for the present from
public notoriety. Life in jails and peni-
tentiarics has fsw charms for them, and
they would much pEs'er continued
residence in the luxurious palaces
reared at the public expense. Having Sow
eral millions of the peoples money. stolen
at odd times and in various ways, sudden
ana imperative demands for restitution
would fall heavily upon them in these
hard times. They ask TO be let alone.
They insist that the several hundred cases
of bribery and corruption, the few millions
embezzlcd in the form OF interest, and the
triting diversion OF the sinking fund
from the payment OF the public debt
TO the pockets OF the Ring, shall not
be dragged into this canvass. II
would be an outrage. The attention OF
the people ought not TO be invited to a
matter of so little moment US the whole
sale plumber of their treasury, and the
habitual use of ut least n part of the pro-
oeeds to debauch their Legislature in the
interest of the thieves, and even TO oor-
rupt the ballot boxes, so that u fair cleo
ton has been thing unknown and i'm
possible in the second State OF the Union.
The Ring managers nre decidedly in favor
OF any other issue, and have seized upon
the alleged soft money delivennce at Erie
with an eagerness which shows that they
regard the change OF discussion from state
TO national affairs as a matter OF life and
death.
The election OF PERsHINo after heated
campaign, in which the Ring enormities
had been the principal issue, would be ut
terly ruinous, not only to the Ring as u
body. but 10 every individual member OF
II. 1t would be followed by prosecutions
and suits, imprisonments and enforced
resolutions OF plumber, which would rem
der the occupation of the public robber In
Pennsylvania both odious and unprofit-
able. PERsHIHG's swift visitation of jus
tice upon the peculating Commissioners Of
Schuylkill was anything but reassuring to
the treasury thieves, and with q very lit
tie popular encouragement he would make
the executive power in Pennsylvania as
terrible TO the Rings as il is now In New
York.
As for PIoLETrE, he is even worse. From
him they have no reason to expect any
thing but sharp and serious work. His
life, his character, his aggressive career as
a reformer, with the great constituency OF
farmers aud workingmen whom his elo-
quence, more than anything else, has
awakened 20 the necessity Of self-protec-
ton, make him the very incarnation OF all
that Is dreadful to the Ring. When 6AM
JOsEPHs heard OF his nomination he ex-
claimed, out OF the depths of his soul (;
Great GoDl II he ever gets into the
treasury he won't leave leaf unturned 20
MAcKEY, IL In said, cannot contain his ter
ror; aud the faces Of the whole gang are
white over the prospect. His election
means their destruction, and they know
II. They oannCt buy, bully, or deceive
him. He ie rs able as he is honest and
when he places the key in the Treas
ury door, the Dlundered public will be
invited TO walk In after him. Every
book win be laid open for inspec-
ton. Every record win be turned up
10 the light. There will be no