The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-10-13
INDEPENDENCE AND BOssIsM.

Becoming disheartened, discouraged, dis
gusted under the tyrannical rule of the
bosses, thousands of the citizens of Penn
sylvania, republicans, have arisen in their
might in united effort to wrench from their
threats the grasp that the Camerons and
their henchmen have held for years. The
radical machine had so completely ruled
the sKey.tone 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 ex-
IRENE, the machine must needs find its end.
The fires of antagonism, lit by the outrages
perpetrated, though smouldering from the
repressive force the heavy hands of boss
ism presented, have at last burst forth and
seem spreading with magnificent intensity
and rapidity. Mr.. Charles S. Wolfe, life
long republican, shocked, heart-sick, alarm
ed at the manner in which the people were
being manacled, handcuffed, Inundated,
degraded, plundered, under the arrogance
and --villainies of the tyrants, has through
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 counsels,
his protests, his appeals were unavailing,
he resolved to quit cooperation with
mr. pn1DrS
were too black for painting, and he is now
doing great service toward decent govern
ment by exposing the rascalities of the
rings, while thousands and thou
sands are hocking to his stand
ard now that the split has been made.
The Cameron coterie had concluded they
were all-powerful, 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 republic
can, prefering to fight for the remedy of re-
form inside his party, but outside the ring
approving party organization and due dis
cipline, but bitterly denouncing the perver-
sion of its true intents and Indignantly re-
pudiating the usurpations OF the
bosses who run the machine III
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
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out the filthy Angean stables, but it is one
that every true citizen of an homes republic
and good government will bid them God
speed in accomplishing. When parties be-
come too strong they grow to be oppressive
dictatorial selfish and then corrupt.
The longer the incubus is allowed on the
body polite the more foul becomes the dis
gushing fungus growth and vitiating to the
whole community. until at lastits cancerous
roots are next to impossible to be cut out or
cicatrised to hsrmlessness. In such con-
dition of affairs the ring party leaders be-
come so arrogant that they appear like
crystalixcd embodiment Of belief of their
own infallibility and warranted despotism.
They regard as an offence meriting the
most prompt and condign punishment for
him who in his desire for right and the pro-
prietiss, might happen to demonstrate, or
even to suggest that officials arc the servants
of the people, and not their commissioned
Robespierres, Murats, Caesars apd czars.
Under their reign and vicious system every
man must be either a 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 frceborn being,
prefers TO assert his independence, and to
plead for virtue and liberty, and govern
ment 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
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