The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-10-11
INpEpENnENCE ANp nossIsM.

Becoming dishcartCncd, discouraged, dis
gusted under the tyrannical rul. of the
bosses, thousands of the citizens of Penn
sylvania, republicans, have arisen in their
might in aunitcd effort to wrench from their
throats the grasp that the Camerons and
their henchmen have held for years. The
radical machine had 50 completely ruled
the keystone state that force and
fraud, deceit and corruption and
all sorts of vile means and practices
had become so common and had so inter,
woven themselves among the people, that
their destruction or their restriction seem.
ed impossible. But like every other cx-
IRENE, the machine must needs find, lis end
The fires of nntagonism, lit by the outrages
pcrpctratcd, though smouldcring from the
rcprcssive force the heavy hands Of boss
ism presented, hayeat last burst forth and
seem spreading with magnificent intensity
and rapidity Mr.. Charles s. Wolfe, a life
long republican, shocked, hcart-sick, alarm
ed at the manner in which the people were
being manaclcd, handcutled, humiliatcd
degraded, plundercd under the arrogance
and -villaincs of the tyrants, has through
n committee Of one, announced himself
as candidate for Treasurer of his State in
opposition to his old-timc comrades
Feeling that he could not avert the dangers
being prepared finding that his counscs,
his protests, his appeals were unayaling,
he resolved to quit corporation with
cliqucs whose designs and actions no colors
were too black for painting, and he is now
doing great service toward decent govern
mcnt by exposing the rascalities of the
rings, while thousands and thou
sands are ilocking to his stand
ard now that the split has been made.
The Cameron coteric had concluded they
were all-poworlu, and AT first laughed at
the detection which now startles them and
makes them TO quake in terror at the posi-
Bile result. And yet Mr.. Wolfe Is a rcpubi-
can, prciering to fight for the remedy of re-
form inside his party, but outside the ring,
approving party organization and due dis
Ciplne, but bitterly dcnouncing the peryor-
sion of its true mtcnts and Indignantly re-
pudiating the usurpations of the
bosses who run the machine in
their own interest and not that OF
the people, who dictate to the ward poll
tician how he shall handle the primaries,
and to the convention officers how they
shall manipulate the convention. The
lesson that Mr. Wolfe is teaching, the work
that he is doing may be as difficult and dis
agreeable as that Of licrculc, in cleaning
out the filthy Angcan stables, hut ii is one
that every true citizen Of an homes republic
and good government will bid thcm Cod
speed in accomplishing When parties be-
come too strong they grow 10 be oppressive,
dictatoral selfish and then corrupt.
The longer the incubus is allowed on the
body polite the more foul becomes the dis
gushing fungus growth and ytiating to the
whole community, until at lAstits generous
roots are next to impossible 10 be cut out or
cicatriScd to harmcssncsS. In such a con.
dition of affairs the ring party leaders be-
come 80 arrogant that they appear like u
crysalizcd embodiment Of belief of their
own iniallibility and warranted despotiSm
They regard as an offence merting the
most prompt and condign punishment for
him who in his desire for right and tho pro-
prietics, might happen to demonstrate, or
even to suggest that officials are the servants
Of the people, and not their commissioned
RoboSpierrcs, Murats, Caesars and czars.
Undcrtheir reign and vicious system every
man must be either foe, wear the collar,
or keep his lips sealed for very fear The
Pennsylvania Wolfe is not the dog to
wear this collar, and like ircobom being,
prefers to assert his independence, and to
plead for virtue and liberty, and govern
mcnt of the people, by the people and for
the people Let his example be followed in
every state north and south and in every
city too, where bosses and cliques and rings
shall undertake to reverse the rule.