The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-10-29
Reform Republicans IEeas, Eictory.

Enough and more than enough of Con
servative and Reform Republicans will vote
for Cyrus L. Pershing for Governor to elect
him oy 5o,OOO majority. and it he shall fail
OF an election it must be because the, De
| mocracy fail to appreciate and accent the
grand opportunity offered them TO rapener-
| ate our municipal and State authority The
| mass OF the people feel that the contest is
not between Republicansm and Democra-
cy, and tens of thousands will vote in obe-
dience to their convictions Of duty to them
| selves and to the Commonw ealth. without
regard to their party affiliations. In Ohio
not less than 10000 Republicans voted for
Governor Allen, but the large Republican
| majority OF the State in the extraordinary
poll of 600, 600 votes, the dissection on the
school question, the positive support given
| to Hayes by the Prohibitionists. the trans
fer of the Democratic hard money element
| and the lavish expenditure of money in
every election district barely saved the Re
| publican candidate 10y less than 5000 ma
jority. Here there is no diversion on the
| school issue, for 1T is confesSedly out of the
| contest the Prohibition element. stung to
/ organization and action by Governor Har-
tranft s hesitation aud final surrenderto free
| license, will tell thousands of votes against
| him tic detection Of the Democracy on the
platform will be imperceptble the party
! Golfers. emptied to save Ohio, will not be
/ filed to oveTiiOwiug for Pennsylvania, and
! the party majority to be overcome is not
| half that Of our sister State. Every element
| that operated TO transfer votes from the
! Republican ranks TO Allen is stronger in
Pennsylvania than it was in Ohio. The
enforced idleness, want and distress among
our industrial classes because of bad gov
| crnmeuG are ive-fUld greater here than
/ there, and tie necessity for q sweeping
. change OF local rulers is ten times more pro
found and widespread among our people
than it was in Ohio. The people of the
! Buckeye State had nothing TO fear from the
| election of Hayes touching his exercise of
! authority. He is not IN tie leading-strings
of political desperadocs Of the Cameron
! Pilgrim school. and he is personally honest
and confessediy competent. None who
voted for him shuddered lest he should
/ bring dlShOnOr upon the State by submiS-
! sion TO worse men than himself. His tri-
! umph means thoroughly faithful admin
istration, and all that faithful citizens of
/ the State desired for their local government
, has been achieved. But it is not so in
| Pennsylvania, and il never can bc so while
the present domination OF Rcpubiicanism is
permitted to hold its sway. Give it but
/ new lease of power and it will accept the
verdict rs IN approval of its intolerance and
profiigacy, and postpone all hope of reform
! for years to come.
The people of Pennsylvania do not desire
! to give a partisan victory to Democracy, bat
they do desire good government. They
demand that our Executive shall be not
only free to assail and pulish faithleSS Of
| fcals, but that ali his surroundings and
! supporters shall aid and strengthen him in
so doing. They are imperative in requir
| ing that The prostitution oC the Treasury to
Il mele political engine the pollute ouT cleo
| tionS shall end, and they would wreSt our
| Legislature from the ruthless grasp of
Cameron and MaciSey. They have sirug
gled for reform within the Republican
party until hope has died within them.
They have heard It promised from year to
year, and Vet with each year the tide of
corruption has swollen until it has swept
away all the old landmarks of Republican
integrity. They see the Pilgrim and the
ballot-stuffer crowding the Republican
State Convention to nominate candidates
for Governor and Treasurer, and hand in
hand with the power that dictated the tick
ct. They see the forger of returns crown
ed with Executive favor in Philadelphia
by commission for the most lucrative Of
ice within his gift. They see the crimi-
nal whose frauds ara ,potent in elections
! favored with Executive clemency. They
see millions upon millions piled upon our
crushing city debt by the most incompetent
and prof gate rulers that ever cursed a muni-
cipa!ity, aud they see every element. Of both
parties, that has brought distress aud shame
| upon city or State rallying in desperation
for the reelection of Governor IIartranft
No such appalling picture made men hesi-
tate in Ohio, but in Pennsylvania there
| viii be tens of thousands of as true Repub-
licans in their convictions as can be found
in the Union who will vote for Judge
| Pershing the only hope of enforcing IL
deity and economy in our local govern
ments. Here Republicans will vote re.
gardless of organization or parades or
committees or bands or banners. They arc
in earnest, and no persuasion promises
or threats viii turn them from their purpose.
They do not favor Judge Pershing because
lie is a Democrat, but because he is a thor
Oughly honest man, with honest surround
in9s, and pledged alike by his record and
his instincts and his declared purposes, to
a relentless war upon the prostituted power
Of our State. Whether there shall he sue
cess for reform depends upon the fidelity of
/ the Democracy TO their grand opportunity
If they shall poll full vote, Judge PERISH
ng's majority will be larger than was Har-
tranft's returned majority three years ago.
! They have to fight money and discipline
aud fraud, and they win find the traitor
here and there in their own household, for
Pilgrim debauchcry has left none OF its
thousands of channels unemployed but if
| they are faithful to the reform they have
professed, .hey will toll the death-knell Of
corrupt political authority in Pennsylvania
on the first Tuesday Of November. With the
| Democracy rests the issue, and they can win
an impcrishablc victory for economy and
good government fthey will.-Fhtl0. Times.
a PUBLIC Duty. There ism particular
difference between the payment of pgi-
vate and public debts. When individuals
get in debt the only way ont of it is To
save more money than they spend until
they can pay. Nations must pay their
debts in precisely the same manner This