Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-09-22
The independents.

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near future, raise our great Common
wealth will be inconceiveable. The
Republicans of Pennsylvania little
think, Cor if they do think, they fail
entirely to act, that the party of which
they boast so much and which once ex-
listed for noble purposes and had high
aims, is now owned, controlled and
bound by one family. And who is
this family, if you please, father and
son, that rule this once great party ?
We desire to inquire so that Republi-
cans may for themselves see who owns
them, and that they may for shame, if
for nothing else, flee from the power
of the boss as from the bite of an adj
der or the sting Of serpent. in 1885
twenty.eight members of the Legisla-
ture belonging to the American party,
refused to go into caucus where there
was chance of the father being elec-
ted to the United States Senate, and
they published an address to the peo-
pie of the State, in which at that ear
ly day they spoke of him as follows;
"A man whose whole history is but
"the history of intrigue. A man who
has despised all party obligations,
"and treated all caucuses with con-
tempt. The inquiry arises who is
"Simon Cameron As a statesman
"fame has never associated his name
with the world. There is not char.
"acter enough in the man to impose
"on credulity itself. We consider him
"the fit representative of nothing good,
"and as a fit exponent Of no honora.
able principle. Ask us not TO support
"a nomination brought about, as We
believe, by the concentrated and CO.
"hesive power of public plunder and
"the superadded element Of shameless
and wholesale private bribery" The
career 80 fitly described in the above
quotation was continued, in the same
shameless and corrupt manner before
the public until in 1877, when r. b.
Hayes, more properly known to fame
as the great fraud, refused to make
the son Secretar' of War, the father
resigned his seat in the Senate and the
son was, by a venal and corrupt Legis-
lature, elected to fiji his place. And
the same inquiry may be made Of the
son that twenty-eight members Of the
Legislature made in 1856 of the faith
er. Who is james Donald Cameron ?
Perhaps the very best that can be said
of him is, that he is the son Of his
father. What has he done that would
give his name to the world as states
man9 He quartered troops upon the
Southern people while Secretary Of
War, and attempted to arouse the
people of the State 10 the horrors of
war by sending from Washington to
the Legislature at Harrisburg, resolu-
tions to intimidate the people from
questioning the election Of Hayes. BY
attention to the primary elections in
1878 he had representatives chosen to
the Legislature who again returned
him to the Senate In 1879. He named
the man to be voted for for Senator
in 1881, and Legislature obcdient
to bis will hastened to publicly ratify
the choice. And from The hour Of
that ratification there has been q con.
tinued assault made on the men who
showed resistance to his fret choice.
This is the feast, young men Of the
Republican party, TO which you are
invited b. Cameron. Dare to show
your independence aud exert your IN
telIectual power, and you ere tramped
upon by the most powerful, - well as
the meanest and most eelfsh ring on
the face Of the EARTH.
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Wolfe invites you TO q better work
and nobIer feast. Follow him and
you will have an opportunity 10 make
uss Of your powers and free yourselves
from the influences that oppose and
degrade you. BosSes do not desire
and have no use for men of knowledge
and intellectual strength. The less
brsias shey have the more abiecs