The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1875-10-27
Pennsylvania.

Pennsylvania.
Another week will decide whether the
Ring which has so long ruled this great
State, plundered its treasury, appropriated
or sold its political honors, huckstered its
patronage to the highest bidder and made
Its very name n byword throughout the
Union, shall receive new lease OF power,
OF be driven out II Office. All other issues
sink out OF view in comparison with that
which demands the redemption Of the
State from the hands of common thieves,
and seeks to restore the good name II once
possessed.
The CAMERoNs, KEMBLEs, MAcKEYs, and
their confederatos, ave reduced Pennsyl-
vania into the position OF n close partisan
corporation, run in the interest of it, man
ayers exclusively, and with no other aim
than to enrich themselves. The public
money has been the chief means of this
tyranny and corruption, and the State
Treasurer, it's legal custodian, the instru-
ment of it's criminal diversion and misuse.
The process was simple enough, when
the combination was perfect between the
State officers. OF the millions OF revenue
annually collected, the great bulk was
.lsshNN oht W pa lirdu UduhtTb ana IuVOT-
ties, who paid interest on these so-called
deposits to the Treasurer, not dime OF
which was returned to the State. This
system expanded until the Treasurership
became the first political prize, not only
fnsurng certain fortune to its occupant
and his associates, but large corruption
fund to control The party organization for
their use and benefit.
While the Republicans held complete
sway IN the Legislature, no attempt was
made to inquire into or break up this or
ganized robbery. But the revolution of
last year brought change, ana then "A
special committee was appointed with
power TO send for persons and papers to
investigate the condition of the treasury
and the charges Of misuse Of the public
money.
MAckEY, the Treasurer, shut his doors in
the face OF this committee denied their
authority To Examine his books and ac-
counts, defied their process, and refused to
appear before them. His example was
followed by KEMBLE, IRWIN, and others
who had been summoned. who in turn had
held the Office and administered its trusts
by the ru of Addition, Division, and
bilence. But the revelations extorted by
the committee, small az they are in com
parison with the concealed mass yet to be
explored, disclose the methods by which
MACKEY and kEMnI.E diverted the public
funds TO their own profit and grew rich
upon the spells.
That the state has been robbed of mil
lions by this practice and by abuses in the
sinking fund, is no longer disputed If this
was all, it would be bad enough, but the
decentralization which has followed such
open protigacy, the corruption OF legisla-
lures, courts, public officers, and the de-
bauchery Of politics, are appalling to con-
template To get Pennsylvania out Of the
hands of this crew is, therefore, the first
duty AT the approaching election, to which
all other quesic ms are subordinate. Grant
ism aud Cameronism reduced TO their true
construction, mean precisely the same
thing. What one has achieved in the
State the other has achieved in the nation
1t was, therefore, 1T that the Republican
Convention should endorse ana applaud
the administration of GRANT.
30 far as the financial issue is concerned
II has hardly entered into the canvass The
Republican platform was even more pro-
Dounced for imitation than that OF the Dem
ocrats in Ohio, over the defeat of which
CAMERoN, MAcKEY, KEMBLE, and their fol-
lowers recently rejoiced. Here Is what
they declared last May:
Free banking safe and uniform national currency
Adjusted TO the growing wants OF the business Interests
tebt."
Not word or even an intimaton about
specie payments CAMERON had voted in
the Senate for every scheme OF expansion
proposed by MORTON, FERRY, and LOGAN,
and the Convention in this plank sustained
and justified his votes by an approval
which he himself dictated.
Pennsylvania has now the opportunity
20 throw of this yoke and to take position
In the front line Of the great popular
movement for reform in tho national Adj
mnistration.