Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-10-13
BREWSTER ON BOSSISM.


AIS DEFENsE Or DONALD CAa1kON
Mr.. Arthur's Attorney General Makes .
Speech Tor Heayer-rhe Independents
Den0unced ~ Trsitors
Benjamin Harris Brewster, the attorney
general of the United States. mad, =
speech in Fulton opera house last evening.
III furtherance Of the waning fortunes OF
Beaver and his bosses. The house was
fairly filed, but by NO means crowded.
there being quite a number of unoccupied
seats both in the parquet and in the gal
lery. In response to the invitation extend
ed to the ladies to be present, some thirty
or forty Of tho fair sex occupied seats in
the parquet.
The attorney general was escorted to
the stage by U. s. Commissioner Slsy-
maker, chairs were arranged on the stage
for the accommodation Of o score or more
gentlemen, but nearly all of them were
unOccupied, there being no others ON the
stage except ex-Mayor Atlee, ex-District
Attorney Eshleman and VIM. Leaman.
MIR. Brewster was introduced to tho
audience by ex. Mayor Atlee and was re-
ceived with applause. He commenced by
stating that it was twenty-five years since
he had appeared before Lancaster audi.
cnce. lie was then . young man. Nearly
all whom he then met are dead and gone,
and many who are now present he never
heard Of! 1t is remarkable how time
flies, how things spring up, advance and
decay how boys become men young
men become old and die 1t is melancholy
to reflect how rapidly time passes! The
child who was born on the day the
battle of Bull Run was fought, will vote
at the coming election. Iu rejecting over
these things when he sees apathy or want
Of zeal ON the part Of young Republicans
he says to himself, well. they arc young
mon they know nothing about tho war
and tho Republican party except
what they have read; it is to
them only matter of history but
VIC that are older feel aud appreciate it !;
We were in it and a part of it. There are
many young men in the ranks of the Re
publican party who are Indifferent and in.
sensible to the real condition of affairs to-
day. 1t is melancholy to think of the pos
sibility of the power of the state and na-
tiOnal governments passing into the hands
of the Democratic party. He had no
patience with men claiming to be Repubh-
cans, who say they will not vote the Re-
publican ticket, because it is a Cameron
ticket, but that they will allow the Demo-
Gratis to triumph this year and thus purify
the party by the overthrow of the bosses.
MIR. Brewster said he had made no
special preparation to speak he had
come here to perform a public duty, be-
cause he believed there was necessity
for all Republicans to be up and doing
they cannot afford to be apathetio at this
time "the party is in the greatest danger,
not merely from the common enemy, the
Democrats, but from, those who were
formerly of US and with US, but who arc
now in open rebellion against u.s.
Mr.. Brewster at some length rccOunted
the principles and the early history of the
old Democratic and Federal parties. Tho
former. led by Jefferson, Madison and
men of that stamp, had an abiding faith
in the people j.; the latter, led by Hamil-
ton, distrusted the people, opposed uni
versal suffrage and wanted to keep po-
itical power in the hands of the wealthy
and educated. Finally in 1919 they com
mitted the deadly sin Of refusing to stand
by their country in it's struggle with
Great Britain, and their fate was sealed.
The party died, as it deserved to die, and
the Democratic party took possession of
the government and ruled tho country for
many years. triumpbantly and success
fully. Opposition existed here and there,
but it was healthy opposition, and the
Democratic party, ruled by wise leaders,
absorbed the greaser portion of the Fed
eral party.
Mr.. Brewster next attempted to show
that the Democratic party, like the old
Federal party. had committed tho deadly
sin Of distrusting the people. refusing to
abide by the will Of the majority, and Civ
ing aid and comfort to the enemy during
tho late civil war, and that thereupon the
Republican party arose, took possession Of
the government, saved the country and
have governed it wisely ever since.
MIR. Brcwster's next point was that all
great parties act through their leaders
bosses, as they are now derisively called
by some. The mass Ot the people ale
untitled to rule. They have no aptitude
nor inclination for government. They
must have leaders-men who are fitted
to lead by education aud force Of charac-
ter. Tho Federalists had Hamilton, the
Democrats Jefferson, and modern parties
have also their great leaders. There can
be no parties without leaders. Leaders
act for their followers through the means
Of district, state and national conventions,
and the result Of tho convention
is tho expressed will of tho
party, and they are bound to obey it or the
party dies. The acts of the SO called In
dependents of to- day arc like those of tho
Southern Confederates-t they refuse to obey
the will of the majority. Poor men did
not inaugurate the rebellion it was tho
leaders who did it. When they saw the |
rapid growth of the North and West, |
hey feared slavery was in danger they
said this don't suit us We will soon cease |
70 possess the power we now hold We |
will not yield to the will of the majority !;
We will take not John Stewart
Jeff Davis to rule over US. They would be |
independents and this is the position the !
independents occupy to-day. Mr.. Brew
ter said the great Republican party was |
;ic product of tho war we arc here re-
oicing on what we have done we saved |
he country and feel able to maintain it !; |
md hero with our splendid record, we
ind men in our own ranks, not working
men, but leaders and wOuld.be leaders !
Who have been rejected by the people,
Who are now, like the cOnfedcrates, calling
n the white trash to follow them, but
hey will find there is no white trash in
he Republican party.
declaring him to b, the choice of the Re-
publican party for governor, and fairly
dominated, Mr.. Brewster denied that he
vas CamerOn's candidate, and declared
hat Cameron could not have defeated his
omination if he desired to do SO. If
cameron nominated Beaver he did good
hing. He exercised wise bossism, and
rOved himself a safe leader. How do
1en lead in this country? BY virtue of
ocial position =? BY virtue of wealth? BY
irtue of political power? No: but by