The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1882-09-30

ptuucHt oepuOuc8uS III ueuultFly Oc~
clining to accept either of the four
''compromise" propositions of the Stall
warts settles the question that there
will be five pc it cal parties contesting
the field in the State at the approaching
election. 1t also settles it as a fact that
the Cameron-Stalwart forces led by
General Beaver, will be defeated, unless
wholesale purchase of the Greenback
and labor organizations should avert
the threatened defeat That Cameron
means to resort to purchase OF voters.
both by money and the sale of the adj
ministration of justice. is evident Says
the Philadelphia Times, speaking of the
tactics which Cameron has already in
augurated: evidences multiply ON ev-
cry side that the present State contest is
to eliminate in a general Boss auction
shop, to secure the election of the Cam
direct purchase of Democratic votes. 1t
is no innovation ON the Cameron policy
of managing State campaigns. 1t was
first boldly inaugurated in 1872, when
the Molly Mcguire organization was
openly debauched, and when every GEN.
ter of organized industry was tempted or
betrayed by corrupt demagogues. who
sold their followers for machine cash.
Nor did the decentralization end with
pollution of the ballot. II taught the
idle, the venal and the vicious that when
they entered the political market-place
to barter their votes to the bosses, they
could secure immunity for crime in adj
dition to the corrupt consideration paid
for their votes. The leader of the trad
ers in the anthracite region, who sat in
the parlor Of a. prominent politician of
PottsviIle. to contract for the delivery
of Irish votes to Hartranft, received the
last ns'alment of his pay as Governor
Hartranft' s death-warrant sent him to
the gallows, and dozenothers paid the
penalty OF crime on the gibbet who had
been encouraged to lawlessness by the
reckless and irresponsible assurance of
protection against the just Judgments Of
the law. ~
"What was begun in 1872 was con-
tinued in growing political debauchery
of q large class of voters in the coal
regions, until the long pent up yen-
geance of the offended law forced even
those who had profited by the crime in
political promotion to bow to the man
dates of the law and punish their own
deluded friends. At last the people of
the State were compelled to hear from
the lips of an eloquent aud fearless adj
vocate, when pleading for the majesty
of the law in its own temple, the distinct
accusation that high officers of State
had contracted with crime for political
results, and had given the pledge
of protection to criminals whose
votes were auctioned to INSCRIPTIONS
leaders. That charge was made circum-
stantially. and to this day it is unchal-
lenged by those who were thus accused.
The final issue was the only logical re-
suit that can follow lawlessness. The
labor organizations which had been be-
trayed by corrupt leaders, were broken
up; the murdererswere executed; lesser
criminals were imprisoned; distrusted
Judges and other local officers were de-
throned, and law and right triumphed,
as they ever must in the fuilness of
time. Who is there to-day ready to re-
peat the blotted and bloody record of
the political debauchery inagurated by
terrible retribution Of 1877-79?'F
x.., maj Doss cameron = ready ana
wi'ps ~ IePeae INC nuckster'ng opera,
slons ~ zen years ago Is evidenced
Clearfield coal region. where violators of
the law have already been protected by
Cameron's political shield against the
avenged sword of justice. the considera-
ton for such protection being that the
voscs ~ .,i1 nu'gn.s u Laoor organ'za-
aron sa.ou,I oe e.,s. ior 'ne osalwst'.,cke..
nc .lC9 1.ns MIN sh's scnene tnat Y
VII pe u.lucu'', = noI iInpoSslole' lof
S,Iner party - en's snaIns'ess bargain 20
ss alo PROMISED goouS. cameron :
nencnluen may Prolect inc Clearneid
"a" % ~ .nc Ple''nlInary stages
o. tn1 ProsecuIlon, put Wnsn sney get
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.ne scSles " justice gre ~ ,ne nanus O
an lhoePS 3, s anu lsat'ess luuic,ary
when WIZ p Droo a 20 SAFE or &. denial .,s OF