The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1877-03-22

FATHER AND SON.
.AcceSSiOns to the Senate
How Received.
TORNEY'S LOYAL HEART BOW.
ED DOWN.
s.The Grand Duchy Of Pennsylvania"


''The Grand Duchy Of Pennsylvania"
IThe Philadelphia Press (Friday) March 1871
1t is one thing to have a Republican
aristocrat in the Senate, but it is another
thing to see him transmitting his politi'
cal power to his posterity, The Honor
able Simon Cameron, Senator in the Con-
gress of the United States from the Grand
Duchy of Pennsylvania, proffers his res
ignation to the Legislature at Harris
burgh, with the order that it shall elect
his only son and heir, j. Donald Cam
eron, Esquire, as his successor, under a
tacit agreement, that he, the said j. D. c.,
shall transmit the same title to his pos.
terity "to the last syllable Of recorded
time" Now we must not be understood
as objecting to this long order upon the
future. The second Commonwealth in
the United States of America, and, as we
believe, the first, has earned precisely
the magnificent distinction, of being the
only one of the sovereign States of this
Union, which permits single family to
override it and underride it in every
political relation, State, county, city, town
ship, and school district. Why then
should not the father, with all his extra
ordinary capacities, culture, learning, ora
tory, purity, integrity, and patriotism, ,ap-
point his children, grandchildren, and
great-grandchildren to the same magiste-
rial command which he has enjoyed dur
ing half century of time ? His only
son and heir deserves the exclusive dis.
tinCtion. Daniel Webster had sons, but
with his stupendous power over Massa-
chusetts he never ventured to dictate
successor to himself in the Senate. Hen.
ry Clay had sons, but he never dared to
name of one Of them to the proud Ken
lucky Legislature as his successor. John
Adams and John Quincy Adams, both
great Presidents, never attempted to ter
rorize over the Massachusetts, Legislature
in the same way. But we have fallen
upon different times. The senior Sena-
tor of Pennsylvania, the Hon. Simon
Cameron, seventy-eight years old March
s, 1877, sends orders to the Legislature
of the State of Pennsylvania-the State
of Benjamin franklin, Thomas Mitflin,
William Hester, Simon Snyder, and
Francis R. Shunk-that when they ac-
cept his resignation as Senator in Con-
gress they must elect his only son and
heir. Such is the history of the times.
"Utterly Barren of Honor"
Philadelphia Inquirer, Republican,
When it is considered how utterly bar
rem of honor or of that ordinary respect
which the American people generally
give to their public men, Mr., Cameron's
political life is, seems almost incredible
that such a bargain be carried out, and
yet the bargain has been made and is to
be consummated. X There is
the soiled reputation, the public life
without real honor or usefulness, and
standing reproach and disgrace to the
State Of Pennsylvania.
San Organ in Despair"
philadelphia North American Republican,
x x x And finally, we appeal
again-vainy we fear, but earnestly-to
the Republican Legislature to save the
State from the discredt which every man
knows will attach to it when the story
goes to the world of this hereditary
transfer of title.
"A Little Family Arrangement"
philadelphia Ledger independently
"Word was sent out from Harrisburgh
yesterday of a nature calculated to puz
zle those old-fashioned folks who sup
posed that Proprietary Government'had
come to an end in Pennsylvania in 1776.
1t is to the effect that the representation
of the State in the Senate of the United
States is to be transferred from Cameron
senior to Cameron junior-by virtue of
some little amicable family arrangement
it may be supposed. Whether the title
to the succession is to pass by deed of
gift or by last will and testament, or by
any of the other well ll.known modes of
conveyance and inheritance, is not known
in the dispatches. If there shall be oc-
casion for any ballotting on the subject
we shall have chance to find out
whether the proprietary Government"
really ended hundred years ago, or is
continuing in full vigor in our own
day."