Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1881-01-26

There are those who want to do what
they can and who with such opportu-
mites as a we'll conducted aims house
could afford, would feel more manly or |
womanly as they realized that they
were earning their own maintenance
So much now; with your leave, MIR.
Editor, more anon.
HUMANITAs.
A Graphic Picture of the Caucus.
The following remarks, made by r.
C. Martin, Esq, before the Lancaster
Republican County Committee, in
March last, possess a significance not
then attached to them, in view of the
coalition Of Quay, Oliver and McManes
to control the Senatorial caucus against
the expressed sentiment of the State,
through the power welded by Phila-
delphia and Allegheny. The question
of instructions being under discussion,
Mr. Hiestand moved to amend, further,
"that our Senators and Representatives
be instructed, after :hey have ascer-
tanned the choice of she people, to attend
erery caucus, and use every honorable
means to secure the nomination of that
choice"
The caucus clause of this amendment
was opposed by Messrs. Martin and
Landis. Mr. Martin said:
Mr.. Chairman, | am against that
amendment, and right here ! take is
sue with the gentleman Mr.. Hiestand)
when be says that United States Sena-
tors are usually elected honestly III
Pennsylvania The election OF u Un;-
ted States Senator by fair means II
| this State would, / bel eve, be an cX-
treme case and the scandal of our polit;
cal history, which has made Us by
word and reproach in the nation, is as
sociated with the bestowal of this high
dignity. Does the gentleman believe
that it was honest persuasion which 10
the many contests of the past arrayed
the representatives from this county
upon one side, and the people on the
other? No, the track Of such campaigns
lies over broken trusts and disaonored
promises, and leads to political Pot
ter's field.
| And the caucus has been the rock
upon which Lancaster county's hopes
have been dashed again and again; it
is here tiIll the clanking chains have
been forged, and pat on, and bolted,
rivitcd. Under the specious plea for
harmony, the far-sighted managers,
who live by politics, who trade III mcn
as you farmers trade in cattle; who
measure a man as you woulu measure
an OK or horse, and for the same pu:-
pose, to buy him; who have money for
knaves, promises for fools, threats fol
towards. 1t is to solidify the caucus
that human nature is subjected to the
infamous tests that make Us blush that
men in high position can be found tc
, Judge it so meanly.
With Philadelphia and Allegheny il
their power, controllable every time be
cause of the vast patronage-national
State and municipal-tbat centres
there, the country districts, under The
caucus rule, might as well be blotted
out of existence, so far rs they car
, have any voice or derive any benefits
except what "cur masters" in charity
) see fit to bestow and how often, alas
these fmastars.i are the ward hummer:
and pot-house politicians of those tw(
, cities 1t is the caucus that gives
emphasis TO the vote of the crimlIE
f classes, who stand very near to 'he
"throne." 1t is the caucus that giyo
: the great, honest. aahia manhood o
+ the agricultural districts the humiliat
/; ing place Of protestation without power
f of dissatisfaction without hope of n
I dress, that sneers at them for their ef
forts, and p;ties them for their pains.
= With the incentive of political plum
f der to whet their appetites, and the
t hope of poitica! gains to sharpen thei
, wits, the leaders Of the caucus have ma
: tured their planseven years in advance
, 1t is their way to anticipate, just as
, believe Bill Kemble's pardon was guar
, anteed before he would consent TO plead
. guilty.
, No-I want the man whom Lancas
: tur county indicates as its choice fo
y United States Senator to have some
r thing more than an empty compliment
q hgrrnn resolution, which, by trick
; may be interpreted against him.
, want our representatives under thes
instructions to stand by him, caucus ol
. no caucus, until he himsei gives ul
/ the contest as hopeless. Thus may w
, become a power for good instead of {
f tool for tricksters.
| am proud fthis days work. | be
lieve that the rights of sovereign
r people have this day been kept from
9 being trampled undor the feet of bolt
aud desperate men, and that our exam
Pile will be initiated, and our dctermi
nation will be hailed el5ew here ii th'
Commonwealth as the acts of peopl,
| who, knowing their rights, dare main
tain them This is emancipation day
!: in Lancaster county politics, and there
D must be no backward step by the shA!
r low artiGce of such pe9oluti1n as the
: gentleman offers. | cali for the ques
a tion
+ Mr.. LIiestand withdrew SO much oI
| his amendment as would obligate oa
Senators and Representatives to attpnC
| the caucus, leaving them under tnstf~c
! signs only "ta use all honorable medn'
, to haze the ,etit of the people respected,
The resolution as ameuded, was ;heI
, adopted.
I MARRIED..