The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-11-17
The Result In New York and Pennsyl-
yania.

be no for discussion as to the
meaning of the result in New York
and Pennsylvania. The tremendous
majority under which Secretary Fol-
ger is buried in New York deserves
greater significance from the mex
ceptionable character of the candidate
himself. He was overwhelmingly
beaten, beaten by Republican votes,
not because it was not everywhere
conceded that he would make an adj
mirable Governor, but because the
influences which were back OF him,
and which had been instrumental i'm
securing his nomination, were of the
kind to be fatal to individual liberty
and political purity, it they should
become dominant. New York Re-
publicans, who but recently had
freed themselves of an intolerable
dictatorship, found that the elements
which they had deposed from the
office of direction were coming again
into power, by means both of ~trickery
and actual fraud. The influences
which prevented the denomination
of Gov. Cornell could be traced di-
rectly to Roscoe Conkling and Gould,
and to interferences from without the
State, and of a kind to suggest an at
tempt to direct the politics of the
State by Washington influences. Be-
sides, and as if to give a special m
phasis to the character of the party
management, there was placed at the
head of the State committee a mar
who was widely and justly distrusted.
Under these circumstances, the Re-
publicans of New York had before
them the alternative of rewarding the
influences which they detested by
helping them to success, or of adj
ministering a singing rebuke, even
at the cost of defeating a very
worthy candidate. They acted wise.
ly and chose the latter and, although
we wish well to Secretary Folger, and
would have been glad to have seer
him Governor of the State of New
York under different circumstances,
we see little to regret in the result,
though there is very much to regret
in the causes that produced it.
Similar causes have produced a
similar result in Pennsylvania. The
revolt there against political bossism
was determined and exceedingly de-
liberate. The Cameron managers
had adequate warning of it in the
Wolfe movement in 1881, and had
they been open to reason it would
have been very easy to have harmo-
nized the party, and to have placed
it upon a sound and lasting platform.
But it was rule or ruin. Everything
or nothing, with the Cameron dynasty
and they got nothing but inglorious
defeat. Such a letter as that from
Gov. Hoyt, which was published a
few days before election, affords a
glimpse of the almost incredible
tyranny to which men like him in the
Republican party in that State have
been subject, and the promptness
with which the publication of that
letter was followed by an attempt on
the part of these Cameron managers
to break down his personal character,
shows how INSCRIPTIONS and BASTARD
ly are the methods which they are in
the habit of employing to accom-
plish their ends. 1t is absolutely vain
to argue with such men, or to try to
persuade them /; the only is
to drive them from power, as the Re-
publicans of Pennsylvania did.
The result in Pennsylvania is
claimed as a Democratic victory, but
we claim that it is a victory for clean,
progressive Republication against
machine rule. The fact is Pennsyl-
vania is as strong a Republican State
to-day as she ever has been, and if
the Democrats are sanguine enough
to count on more than a temporary
advantage from the course of events
there they have reckoned without
their host. The humiliation of the
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