The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-11-18
OUR PHILADELPHIA LETTER.


THE ELECTION IN NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. OF
TINES REyENGEs-THE DIFFERENCE BE-
TWEEN PERFORMANCE AND NEGLECT
COSTLY MACHINE PoLTTICs-wONDERFUL
AMERICAN PRoGREss-sYsTENATIC SNUG
GLING-NATIoNAL THANKSGIvING-THE
GUITEAU ADMINISTRATION.
PHILADELPHIA Nov. IA. 1881.
Especial Correspondence of the FREEMAN
DEAR MCPIKE-The election in Philadel-
phia tells the same old stnrv-the Democrat Is
were beaten because oT their own surrender
They ca mot even find consolation in the cleo
ton of Krumhhaar, as his nomination was
effected outside of their organization. If
the Democracy Of this city can learn any
sense, the last election will end all dual con-
tests. The Democratic vote Of Philadelphia
fell short at least 1000. Until some other
plan is devised for conducting the affairs of
Government, the duty of going to the cleo
tion polls and voting is incumbent on every
man who is the poSsPsSor Of his wits and la
boring under no illegal or physical disah hilitv
The Democracy of Philadelphia either did
not poll their fu,l vote, or. If pOlled. they
were pOlled for the boss candidates. Making
allowance for all the Scurvv Democrats the
McMullen- DOnahueS were able to sell to the
Republican bosses. the Democrats should
have brought Noble up 70 Baiv and shOaId
have elected Major Veaje. There is hut lit
tie, If anY doubt about ire thousand Demo
CIdtlC Nttt~ bPlil4 cast LOT IJalleN 9'10 u Don
nell for dollars in cash given to Democratic
traders. Had not Major Veale been traded
on by Democratic hOSSSeS he wOuld have
been elected With the Committee of One
Hundred against him-the ringmaste of
both the Democratic and Republican partins
against hm-vithOut money and without
the espOuSal of his cause by any newspaper
in the city. save ard except the Record-he
ran eight thousand ahead Of his ticket Had
the Committee nf One Hundred been sincere
in its professionalism one half She members
of the Committee been honrst--an honest,
brave and Christian gentleman would have
been elected. His honestly expressed views
on municipal affairs which should have
warmed the Committee 0f One Hundred had
il been honest in its professions If reform,
chilled the Democratic bosses Major Vrale
Is a gallant soldier, whose pnhlic and private
integrity is uTqueStiOned which is more than
can with truth Ae said Of his opponent, and
in not giving him ITS warm and united sup
port, the Committee Stultifpd itself. OF the
inSincertv and dishonesty Of said Committee,
! may have occasion TO speak in future let
teTS. Notwithstanding the machine has tri-
umphed, and the banner of the confederate
bosses tiaunt, dpfantlv from the citideIS Of
the Pardon Board Gas Trust DpIiu0upnt
Tax Office, Street Railway EXtnrtioniStS,
and the Jo5hers' Brigade in Select and Com
mon Council the battle Of the people against
boss rule is not ended. There will I've anoth-
er grand ally OF the good people against the
bosses IN FeDTUaTN. Inen again Will the
people move upon the "citadclS Of prOfligate
authority. when It is hOpeG that both branch
es Of the Councils will he wrrsted from the
spoilers.
ONE OF TINES REvFNGEs
One Of times rrvengas worked beautifully
at the late election in New York. Two years
agO, when Governor Robinson was uOmina-
ted by the Democrats, three fOuTths of the
delegates were ready to compromise on Gen.
II. W. SlOcum, and he would have beaten
Cornell by forty or fifty thousand votes but
Boss Mclaughlin, who carried the Kings
county delegates in his pocket refused to
listen to the proposition. This caused an
open, organized rebellion against Boss Ne
Laughliu this year, which has stripped him
OF his patronage and hurled him out of power.
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PERFORMANCE
AND NEGLECT
The difference between serving one Presi-
dent and another is not quite so obvious to
the popular apprehension aS the difference
between the performance and the neglect OF
public duty. 1t is not generally considered
to the credit Of Attorney General MCNeagh
that he left his post at the time the StaI
route contention was approaching danger
Mr. McNeagh, in connection with Mr. James
should have finished the postal reforms they
had Jointly begun. BY refusing to do 50 ht
has given Mr.. Arthur an excuse for washing
his hands OF the Star route business.
COSTLY MACHINE POLITICS.
Nj. Astor, the Republican candidate 70
Congress in one OF the New York districts
had twenty seven men doing clerical wOrl
for him. The postage on his circulars An,
letters was upwards of 81 900. and the eos
OF printing and stationery 81, 800 Their
were one hundred and five election district
which cost him near IS, 900. Each HouO
dealer was we'll paid. Twenty thouSant
dollars were expended in MT. AstUr', can
NaoS. such Is tht way an A-tOr runs fU
Congress iH a New York district II it eos
Mr.. William ". AstOT upwards Of $50 90
not to be elected, it may be fair To presuuI
that it cost, great deal uf money to D
elected The defeat of Mr. Astor in tn
Eleventh New York Conversational di,triC
shows that even in those surdid davs. an
III the heart OF WDney-gettHg CITY, q cand
date cannot always buy a seat in CouurtS
with his double eagles. The latest estimat
made of the sum total is, that wealthy Nj
AStOr bought his defeat for Congress wit
$4,000 7tHpuHched dollars, a great MANY a
winch went 1Or punches. For the eiacti5
return there Is III the pltilusoDhic mind
thousand crumbs of comfort.
WONDERFUL AMERICAN PROGRESS.
The increasing facility in the United Stat,
for finding out ways ard mraus how not
do what ought 10 be done Is truly wonderful
1t has hren discovered that the Star roul
thieves have not offended against the Df
triCt of Columbia, but against the Union. am
that the United States has no more right
interfere in the prosecution of tiuiteau tha
If the murder of Garfield had been cOmmi
ted in one of the territories. The Star roul
IUuuers have not offended against the. Di
tnct, or any State or Territory, 1ut did O
frHd against the Union, and therefore
does not come under the special province {
the Attorney General to enforce tine Law
against them nor has District Attorne
CprkhIll any legal right 10 prosecute them
The present state of things al the Nation;
Capital appear To be that he Attorney Ger
trai OF the United State, has no more call
interfere IN the prosecution Of Guiteau tina
il the murder of the late President had bee
committed IN one of the remote tpTritorip.
whie the District Attorney OF Washiugrc
has legally no more to do with the Star rom
cases than the District Attorney of q Sfat
, has. The doinGs at Washington in the Gu
: teau case serve to illustrate the increasil
facilities American lawyers have for fudiJ
. ways and means how not 90 do what ougl
- To be done. American progress in ever
Jhing, and especially that of law, is trn
, wonderful.
SYSTEMATIC SMUGGLING.
The -avorlte dodge o. American Congress
men If tranKing their Soiled linen back
their domestic wash tub has 1T least the me.
- il Ot an aspiration To the dignity of a cIe,
shirt. But it seems that &c is not the Coz
greSSmen ut America who alone appreciat
the advantages of free postal services tt
vigilance OF NJ. Hilaire has unearthed a sv
tenatic smuggling of foreign goods by Il
clerks in the French Foreign Post Office.
bag was recently opeHeed by accident an
found 20 contain quantity of fur, a Co
sack saddle, q pair of boots, and other thing
instead OF important dispatches. This Dea
the iavorlt- dodge of American Congress
men, that OF fraDking their dirty shirts.
NATIONAL THANKSGIVING.
Whereas Chester \. Arthur, President ,
, the United States, has recommended All ii
people To observe Thursday. the oath of Il
present month, as a day of National thank
.Lr- Il L..t.