The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1875-11-11

ZEE PENNSYLVANIA ELECTION.

ZEE PENNSYLH HANIA ELECTION
Kanybody can tell us the significance
Ofthe Pennsylvania election of to-day in
regard to the question of finance, we shall
be much indebted therefor.
The audacity Of the assumption that in
this contest the Republican party is the
Aard-money party, cannot be surpassed.
n Is known from one end of the country
10 the other, that Pennsylvania Republi-
cans are the authors and finishers of the
imitation heresy. Thad. Stevens, the
great Republican leader in Congress dur
ing the war and subsequently, was the
representative spokesman of the Penn
ylvania inhationists He it was who,
when it was proposed to issue four hun
dred millions Of greenbacks, clamored
for one thousand millions, and then died
Slamoring for thir issue as the only sal
vation 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 ma
hional policy. Henry G. Carey, the
antique political economist of that State,
as indeed OF the whole country, an out
and-out Republican and Protectionist
and anti-Democrat, has formulated the
whole theory, and declares he has placed
it on an impregnable basis of logic; and
Judge Kelley, his blind Republican dis
siple and faithful echo, who is the trav-
cling Ajax of the policy, backing his
wares peddler like into every town and
village North, South, East and West, and
ProClaiming their healing and restoring
qualities, along with undiluted Republi-
can party politics of the Credit Mobilier
Ttamp-these two are lively co-workers
IN the advocacy of imitation.
Simon Cameron, the leader of the Re-
publicans Of Pennsylvania, and their
Senator in Congress for long years past,
and the supporter of Grants administra-
ton through thick and thin, is an inAa-
ZIONIST, He not long ago declared in his
place in the Senate that what was wanted
10 revive the declining and PROSTATE in
dustYies of his own State was more paper
money. The majority of the Pennsylva-
mia Republican delegation in Congress
have been for initiation always, and are
30 to-day, if their recorded votes are to
be taken as true illustration of their
views.
The truth is, the Republican party of
Pennsylvania is wholly demoralized on
this subject. Ex-senator Scott may be
Saidto be about the only man in Congress
from Pennsylvania, during his long and
honorable term of service in the Senate,
who opposed the doctrine of initiation.
For his views on the currency he was
Aercely assailed by his colleagues, by
the Philadel phia newspapers, and the
Republican inhationists 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 a lit
tie knot Of the upper ten in and about
the chief towns of the State, whom the
Carey school assail with venomous hos
tility as ignoramuses, the whole Repub-
hcan party of Pennsylvania is for infa-
tion. There is probably not more rot
ten State in the Union on this question.
We need nothing more than the tone of
her leading Republican journals and the
votes and speeches of her delegation in
Congress, to bear as out in this state
ment. 1t cannot be Controvered.
And yet in the face and eyes of all this,
il has been imprudently pretended all
through the late contest in that State.
that the Republican party represented
The hard-money side in the currency
controversy Journals and individuals,
protesting intelligence and independ- |
Snce, and pretending opposition to the |
oancerous corruptions of that party, have |
gwen their support to its candidates on
the ground that they were supporting
financial honesty. There never was
more unfounded notion. The brazen
pretence to which the dupes have sur
rendered is a phenomenon in politics.
II shows want of knowledge and want
Of penetration that are surprising and
scandalous. It is discreditable to the |
public intelligence that a State canvass
could have been 80 long conducted on
false issues; and that the vote at last rep
Fcsents 80 much confusion of ideas, and |
h 80 warped by imposture and misrepre-
Bentation that 1t means nothing COM |
paratively. |
There should have been plain and |
Spen contest with fraud and corruption,
and the whole body of reformers and in |
dependents should have gone in together |
Tor their overthrow and annihilation. In |
that contest the triumph would have
been overwhelming. But instHd ofthat |
We have got what we have gVg So far |
- the election Of to-day expresses any
distinct idea, Pennsylvania might as well |
have not voted.-N. Y Sun,