Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1882-10-04
LEAR TO MARSHALL.
Why Mr.. Lear Cannot Support
The Harrisburg Ticket.

Special dispatch to the Press.
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 29.-The Hon.
Thomas NJ. Marshall having tele-
graphed George Lear, Esq, with re-
gard to their appointment to speak IN
G Chambersburg on October 4, to-day re-
ceived the following:
DoYLEsTowN, Pa, Sept. 25, 1882.
Hon. THOMAS NJ. MARSHALL
Ny DEAR SIR Your telegram Is
received. l will not be at Chambers
burg on the 4th of October, and SO !
wrote to Mr.. Mckee and telegraphed |
Mr.. Stewart as soon as received
their dispatches. 1t will be impossl-
BILE for me to leave home at that time,
and if | could / would not spend three
days going and returning to make one
speech, and besides that, it would be
necessary to explain why l made
speech against ticket which | helped
to nominate, and, while | have sui
fcient reasons for such a course, the
meeting only would hear the justlh-
cation, and all the Republicans in the
State know / had made the speech.
The reasons are very manifest, and
a little reflection will satisfy any
intelligent man that the delegates IN
that convention above all others should
protest against the use which is being
made of their work. That convention
on the 10th of May nominated ticket,
and, in accordance with party usages,
Io,forno Tho candidates
were unobjectionable, and the platform
not only enunciated the established
doctrines of the party, but took ad-
vanced grounds on important questions
of political and official conduct which
the public sentiment of the period lm=
perativelv demanded. The candidates
and the platform were an entirety
the former toreceivethe suffrages of the
people on condition that they repre-
sented and supported the latter.
AN OBLIGATION THAT MIGHT BE DIS
SOLVED.
A breach of faith by the candidates, or
by those who were delegated to con-
duct their campaign, not only absolved
the Republican voters from all obllga-
tions to support the ticket of their
party, but demanded their emphatic
rebuke for such an attempt to secure
their suffrages by fraud, and yet
since the day the nominees were placed
upon that platform, containing prom
ises, pledges and declarations Of prln-
ciples, upon the faith of which the
voters were asked for their support,
there has not been promise performed,
pledge redeemed, or principle main
tanned.
A party without principles has DO
claim upon the suffrages of intelligent
men, but party whose practices are
utterly at variance with its professed
principles is unworthy the support of
honest men.
If we do not repudiate these acts of
bad faith, are we not justly chargeable
with an original design to deceive and
cheat the people with empty promises
which we never intend to perform in
order to obtain their votes. These
violations Of faith have been so frequent
and fragrant that common honesty and
self respect demand protest from the
delegates, and they are certainly re-
lieved from all obligations to sustain
any part of the work of that convention
in its present mutilated form. And
these breaches in the platform are not
In mere formal or immaterial matter,
but of the most important and sub
stantial character, among them is the
leyying of compulsory assessments, and
this, too, to raise fund which by its
amount can be required only to cor
rupt the very source of political power.
POLITICAL ASSESSMENTS DENOUNCED.
A campaign run on such system Ia
inconsistent with the high standard of
political morality which has been the
pride ard boast of the Republican party,
and victory achieved by the means
now in use to secure success-such as
the lavish expenditure of vast sums of
money for the purposes forbidden by
law-will be more demoralizing and
disastrous to the party than defeat. A
party of principles, high aims and noble
purposes cannot afford to win by the
arts which make the occupation of a
jockey disreputable.
1t cannot be disguised, and is ap-
parent to every man of ordinary obser-
vaton, that the issue in this campaign
which has been rendered and accepted,
and which is now ON trial, is whether
the political practices and methods of
Senator Cameron stall be endorsed
and ratified by the people of Pennsyl-
vania. That endorsement is to be Sc
cured by him and his managers with
out regard to costs in money and prin-
ciples, and by such means as can never
be repeated. The election or defeat of
the candidates is a mere incident. His
strength is TO be tried in their names.
The question could not be made palmer
if he were the candidate and if the
Republicans OF this State desire to ratify
his acts of the past, and confirm him in
his political despotism in the future,
they may bow their Decks like the
patient OK to the yoke, and continue to
bear the burdens of his imperious sway.
But unless the race of men who formed
the Republican party has become extinct
his defeat will be heavy, decisive and
terrible.
THE WAR FOR THE BOSSES.
The events of the campaign are too
numerous to recite, but every act |
tends to prove the one central purpose,
the endorsement of Cameron. The |
might be elected if the con-
test were made for them alone, but it
must be done in manner to make it
his triumph, or he will wreck the ticket
and party. No plans but his can be
and every movement
must be stamped with the impress of
his method But it will not be
wreck of the party except by his sue
,esa The Darty can bear ANYTHING !