The daily gazette., 1878-09-11
proceedings by quo warrant on the eve
Of the election tosdeceive the oil produ-
GERS. III

proceedings by quo warrant on the eve
OF the election tosdeceive the oil produ-
GERS. ~
STATE EXPENDITURES.
Ring rule has brought with it, of course
a large increase in the number of officers
and q large increase in the annual ex-
penditures. ! cannot refer to these in
detail, but as fair sample of the system
OF ring rule select the expenses of the
Executive in 1861, the year before the
war, under Governor Curtin, aud the ex-
penses Of 1877, under Governor Hart
ranft.
The speaker then showed that the an
nual expenses OF the Executive depart
ment under Governor Hartranft are $i6,-
aH ~ more than they were under Curtin
! and he also exhibited the vast increase in
the legislative expenses of the State,
| showing that each member cost ST ,g77
annually. He then proceeded =
Thus it has gone for many years, and
| thus 1t Will go az long as the present dy
nasty shall rule the State. Under Packtr
| our late Democratic Governor, it costs AZ
| cents per head to govern the people for
| three years. Urder the first term of
Hartranft 1t costs 81 cents, cents and un-
der his present term it will cost 50 cents.
And in this increase no expenses arising
from the Rebellion and no interest or
pensions are included.
And in return for these heavy and grow
| ing burdens what have the people receiv-
ed? What struggling industry has been
aided? What monopoly has been seized
| by the throat and taught obediencs to
| the law? What legislation has been
passed to enable individual shippers and
producers to secure justice in the relent-
less warfare waged agains them by cor
porate wealth and Ring combinations
What single measure urged by the peo-
pie and opposed by corporations has been
coined iuto law?
ISSUE OF THE CONTEST.
The vital issue of this contest is, Shall
the Government of Pennsylvania be
rescued from Ring rule and restored to
| the people7 Upon this platform all
honest men can stand, and together they
should make common battle against a
jcommon foe. In the presence of the
great peril minor differences should be
| trampled in the dust; disorganizers
should be hung to the lamp-post, and the
army of the people, under the banner of
reform borne by our gallant leader,
| should march with resiStless tread to
| victory. First drive from the temple
the hands that violate it, and then it will
be time TO arrange the order OF our wor-
ship. 1t is nContide madness for any one
w
full personal rule in Pennsy Nania to
waste his fire in this bayonet charge.
And upon the other hand, what propo-
sition for tue creation of slnecures and
the further oppression of the people has
failed? When the ears of the Legisla-
ture were deaf to the appeals in behalf
of the depressed oil interests of the State,
they were open wide to the imperious
demand of the ruling cabal to pass the
Do TTpx IN, hal
ing hand to great industry that devel-
ops tine resources OF the Common wealth
and employs thousands of men, the law
making power was yet servile in its haste
to create new office, with enormous
and underlined emoluments, with the ex.
traordinary tenure to its appointee of ten
years. Why not give him life estate al
once' If the people are to be plundered
under the forms of law, to raise funds to
debauch electors and perpetuate the rule
of rings, 1t would save the expense of re-
peated legislation to declare by general
act that the offices and courts of the State
do, and of right ought to, belong to the
Republican ringsters, their heirs and as
signs forever. From the Judge upon the
bench down even to the notary public,
the commission passes through the same
channel. Strangers to honest labor, with
politics as profitable trade, q few des.
perate men have by desperate means in
stalled themselves in all the avenues OF
State power, and now, like birds of prey,
they claim the people as their own. Need
| name them? No; for there is scarcely
child, from the rivers to the lake, able
| to prattle at It's mothers knee, that eau
not moan the roll.
And my friends, it Is well for you and
| for all taxpayers that the Democratic
party presents candidates whom it is an
| honor to support. In the full bloom OF
vigorous manhood; ripe in experience,
and in virtue; loved at home and esteem
ed abroard; born to toll and schsoled in
adversely; faithful to friends and fearless
in duty, tnsir lives and their honors are
like lesson aud a legacy to every yonng
man in Pennsylvania And when the de.
cree of the people shall have been record
cd and The aged minister shall greet his son
as Governor, the child of the circuit as
Executive of the state will be true to the
early training of his pious father and
faithful to the interests and the honor ol
the Commonwealth.