The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-11-18
THEPENNsYLvAN1A ELECTION.

cance of the Pennsylvania election o.
to-day in regard to the question of fl.
nance, we shall be much indebted
therefor.
The audacity of the assumption tina,
in this contest the Republican party is
the hard-money party, cannot be sur.
passed. Ii is kno VA from one end ol
the country to the other, Lnat Pennsyl
vania Republicans are the authors and
hnlshers OF the imitation L.e.esy. Thad.
Stevens, tine great Republican leader
III Congress during the war and SUBJ
sequently, was the representative
spokesman of the Pennsylvania infla-
tlonists. He it was who, when it was
proposed to issue four hundred mill
ions Of greenbacks, clamered for one
thousand millions, and then died clam
oring for their issue as the only saliva
ton of the nation. Nearly the whole
Republican press of Philadelphia have
never failed to echo this cry and they
are to-day advocates of initiation as a
national policy. Henry G. Carey, the
antique political economist of that
State, as indeed of the whole country,
all out-and-out Republican and Pro-
tcctionist and anti Democrat, has form
ulated the whole theory, and declares
he has placed it on an impregnable
basis of logic; and Judge Kelley, his
blind Republican disciple and faithful
echo, who is the travelling Ajax of the
policy, backing his wares peddler like
into every town and village North,
South, East and West, and proclaim
ing their healing and restoring quail
ties, along with undiluted Republican
party politics OF the Credit Mebilier
stamp-these two are lively co-work-
ers in the advocacy of infiation.
Simon Cameron, the leader of the
Republicans OF Pennsylvania, and
their Senator in Congress for long
years past, and the supporter ofG rants
administration through thick and thin,
is All inaationist. He not long ago
declared in his place in the Senate that
what was wanted to revive the declin.
ing and PROSTATE industries OF his own
State was more paper money. The
majority of the Pennsylvania Repub-
lican delegation in Congress have been
for imitation always, and are so to day,
if their recorded votes arc to be taken
as true illustration Of their views.
The truth is, the Republican party
of Pennsylvania is wholly demoraliz.
ed on this subject. Ex-senator Scott
may be said to be about the only man
in Congress from Pennsylvania, DUR
ing his long and honorable term of
service in the Senate, who opposed the
d1ctrine of imitation. For his views on
the currency he was freely assailed by
his colleagues, by the Philadelphia
newspapers, and the Republican infia-
tienists generally and he was driven
from his seat for his course on this
subject, more than for any other one
thing. With the exception Of little
knot of the upper ten in and about the
chief towns of the State, whom the
Carey school assail with venomous
hostility as ignoramuses, the whole
Republican party OF Pennsylyania is
for imitation. There is probably not a
more rotten State in the Union on this
question. We need nothing more
than the tone of her leading Republi-
can journals. and the votes and speech.
es or he delegation in Congress, to
not be contrOvered.
And yet in the face and eyes of all
this, it has been imprudentIy pretend
ed all through the late contest in that
State, that the Republican party repre-
SSHeSNA SiO hai O-iHOucy sue III the Cnr-
rency controversy Journals and in
dividuals, protesting intelligence and
independence, and pretending oppesi-
tlon to the cancerous corruptions OF
that party, have given their support to
its candidates on the ground that they
were supporting financial honesty.
There never was more uuiouuded
notion. The brazen pretence to which
the dupes have surrendered is a phc-
nOmenOn in politics. II shows want of
knowledge and a want of penetration
tfst-ase surprising and scanelalous.
1t is discrediiable to the public intelii-
yence that State canvass conld have
bcenSo long conti ihcted on false Issues:
and that the vote at last represents SO
much confusion of IDEAS. antt is so
warped by imposture an .nIisrepre-
that it means nothing csm-
paratively. 81" ~ 'i'
There should have been plain and
open contest with fraud aud cOrrup-
tion, and the whole body Of reformers
and independents should have gone in
to:.ether for their overthrow and an
In that contest the triumph
would have been overwheliuiug. But
instead of that we have got what we
have got. So far as the election of to-
lay expresses any distinct idea, Penn
y ylvania might as we'll have not voted.
". \. Hun.