The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-10-08
The True issue Of Pennsylvania

cameron M9ckcN lNlilO are NcN NSicpii'S
apace They intend to run the Gains
paign on the currency issue, and ignore
the troublesome Ring robberies alto
gether. 1t is hopeful refuge, and
they take to it with great alacrity.
They are modest party, and woaid
fain retire for the present from pubic
notoriety. Life in jails and peniten-
tiaries has few charms for them, and
they would much prefer continued res
idence in the luxurious palaces reared
at the public expense. Having several
millions of the peoples money, stolen
at odd times and in various ways,
sudden and 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 embeZzled in the form of ill.,
/ terest, and the trifiing diversion of the
/ sinking fund from the payment of the
/ public debt 30 the pockets of the Ring,
! shall not be dragged into this canvass.
| 1t would be an outrage. The attention
| of the people ought not to be invited
| to matter Of so little moment as the
wholesale plumber of their treasury,
/ and the habitual use of at least II part
! of the proceeds to debauch their Leg
| islature in the interest of the thieves,
and even to corrupt the ballot-boXes,
! so that fair election has been thing
unknown and impossible in the secOl q
/ State Of the Union. The Ring mana
/ gers are decidedly in favor of any
/ other issue, and have seized upon the
alleged soft money deliverance at Erie
with an eagerness which shows that
/ they regard the change Of discussion
( from State to national affairs as n
matter of life and death.
I The election of PershinT after a
heated campaign, in which the Ring
enormities had been the principal issue,
would be utterly ruinOus, not only to
the Ring as body, but to every in
dividual member of it. 1t would be
followed by prosecutions and suits,
imprisonments and enforced restitu-
tions of plunder, which would render
! the occupation of the public robber in
! PENNSYLVANIA both odious and unprO~
/ iitable. Pershing's swift visitation of
/ justice upon the peculating Commits
/ sioners of Schuylkill was anything but
/ reassuring to the treasury thieves, and
| with a very little popular encourage
ment he would make the executive
| power in Pennsylvania as terrible to
/ the Rings as it is now in New York.
As for Piollet, he is even worse
/ From him they have no reason to eX-
pect anything but sharp and serious
work His life, his character, his ag-
gressive career as a rcfOrmer, with the
great constituency of farmers and
workingmen whom hjseloquencc, more
than anything else, has awakened to
the necessity of selEprotcction, make
him the very incarnation of all that is
dreadful to the Ring When Sam
| Josephs heard of his nomination he
exclaimed, out of the depths of his
soul: Great God if he ever gets
into the treasury he won't leave leaf
unturned !" Mackey, it is said, can
not contain his terror; and the faces
Of the whole gang are white over the
prospect. lis election means their
destruction, and they know it. They
cannot buy, bully, or deceive him. He
is as able as he is honest, and when he
places the key in the treasury door
the plundered public will be invited &c
walk in after him. Every book will
be laid open for inspection. Every
record will be turned up to the light
There will he no more concealments
and there will be enough material
dragged out OF the secret recesses O
that office in the first quarter of Piol
let's administration, to employ the
, AuditorGcneral, the Attorney-Gener
. al, aid the courts of the Common
, wealth for several years to come
If a Legislative committee, which ha:
been studiously baflied and denied &C
cess to single book or paper in the
T custody of the Treasurer, was able tC
report the enormous defalcation o
, 81 200, 000-intercst embezzlcd-wha
, may not be expected from thorough
and unhindcred examination of the ac
counts so carefully concealed? Th,
Republican leaders were shrewd whei
they seized upon the currency question
and pushed it into prominence, in tn,
hope that it would prove the one alb
= 9oi iplIS Illcihe Vi Tue campaign ant
= the Democrats will be foolish if the'
. allow the ruse to succeed. The whol
r Republican party-press, orators, anC
all-arc out in full cry on the impro
vised money issue. Mr. Wright an,
the Democratic marshals should brin.
| them up on a sudden turn The elec
, tion in Pennsylvania is for Governo
. and State Treasurcr-nOt for Presi
. dent or Representatives in Congress
: The real question is whether the Stat
+ shall be honestly or dishonesty gov
erned whether the taxes wrung from
the people shall be applied to the pun
\ poses for which they are levied, or q
: to feed and fatten the Rings. TIL
! taxpayers need care but little whethe
e their money is hard or soft, if it is t.
| no Crrnnn1 ont of than, 70 e,,,,Do,+ :,