Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-12-26
CIEARFIELD, PA
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MS SINS AND BLAMEs IT ON THE CAR
pET.nAOuER.

Democratic editors have for years
drew pictures of the CARPET baggers,
but our Radical friends condemned tho
photographs We drew Of them and pro-
nounced all our statements ialsc. Now,
however the boot is being worn on the
other !eg Read what the Lancaster
Era, one OF tho Radical organs of that
county says;
Tho Republican party beholds to-
day the deepest degradation into which
it has yet been dragged its members
blush to own themselves Republicans,
as the fact stares them in the face that
Republican Senator, to save himself
from the pcnitcntiary, is willing to be-
tray his party, and by his prostiluted
vote turn over all the political power
Of Senate to his enemies to preserve
his vile carcass from the ielon's cell.
And yet, when we go to the root Of
the matter, there is nothing in the con.
duct of the carpet-baggers to incite sur
prise. "Men do not gather figs Of this
ties nor grapes of thorns.n
Men like Patterson know party not
for its principles, but for the use they
can make of it for themselves. In the
school OF politics in which Patterson
was reared, the motto is Anything to
win" Its disciples learp that il is
right to deliberately betray a friend, to
crush out and to coolly ruin an honest
opponent, to violate plighted faith, to
bribe the weak, pollute the ballot box
at primary and general elections-to
do anything to win. Patterson receiv-
ed his political schooling at the feet of
the Gamaliel of political corruption,
Simon Cameron. Many years ago he
was one OF the old Winncbago's most
apt and willing tools, and as the master
won his election to the Senatorship
from Pennsylvania, 40 did the carpet.
bag adventurer, spcwed upon South
Carolina soil, purchase the votes that
seated him by bribery in tho highest
place in the nations councils. The son
who inherited his fathers scat may
well gnash his teeth as the pupil OF his
sire now presses to his lips the bitter
fruit of Sodom. Years ago Cameron
sowed the wind the party and the
country are now reaping the Patterson
Conover whirlwind. We are feeling
the effects OF causes started long ago,
and the dogs Of the Cameron ActGon
are turning to rend their master
The carpet-bag crew whose political
lives were conceived in sin and brought
forth IN iniquity are only demonstra.
ting that the men who by their villai.
ny and fraud made the Republican
party an impossibility under their lead
in the South will not hesitate 10 sell it
in the Senate to save their liberty or
make point"
This Senatorial sale is but one OF the
many effects of the style of politics so
long peculiar TO our State, and whose
baneful example found apt apostles
elsewere. So thoroughly were its be-
levers trained in the doctrine, "stand
by the party machinery, right or
wrong" that it is with dismay that
every henchman beholds in a crisis two
trusted standard.bearers throw down
their colors and take to the woods,
where the enemy's commissary stores
are found.
But, then, what is fellow to do
when he finds that he will get in the
penitentiary by sticking too long to
machine politicsY