The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-08-09


knows that there is no earthly
chance of Stewart being elected
Governor. In fact, the Independ-
ents do not even claim that he viii
be. Either Pattison, the Democrat,
or Beaver, the Regular Republican
nominee, viii be the next Governor.
Every sensible man also knows that
in the struggle between the Demo-
cratic and Republican parties every
Republican vote cast for Stewart is
a vote lost to Beaver, and half a vote
in favor of Pattison.
Suppose that by throwing votes
away on Stewart, the Republican
total is so reduced that Pattison is
elected? What then? 1t follows al
most certainly that if the Democrats
elect the Governor they win also
carry q majority of the Legislature,
and if they do this-as the State
must be re-districted next winter
they will have the power to so ar
range the districts that for the ensuing
ten years they viii have a majority
in both branches of the Legislature
and in the Congressional delegation.
Or. in case Pattison is elected, and
the Legislature should be Republi-
can, he can by the use OF the veto
power prevent any fair apportion-
ment by that body. But the conse-
Guences of the loss of the State are
not confined to it alone, but reach
far beyond its limits. The loss of
but three or four Republican men,
bers of Congress from Pennsylvania
may throw the next House into the
hands of the Democrats, and thus
all the great interests of the country
that are bound up in the tariff, in
the reduction of internal taxes. in
the preservation of our banking sys-
tenn, and the integrity of our Ma
tional currency would be imperiled.
Nor is this all. A Democratic vic
tory in Pennsylvania this fall,
brought about by Republican divis-
ions, means as surely as the day
will dawn, a Democratic victory in
the Presidential contest two years
hence, and "as goes Pennsylvania,
so goes the Union "a Democratic
President in 1884.
The Independent leaders prate
very glibly Of purifying the party
by defeat this year, and then re-
uniting and recognizing it for vic
tory at the Presidential contest in
1884, but men cf sense know that
defeat through such methods and
under such circumstances means de-
struction. The millennium will not
dawn in 1884. and until human ma
ture is changed, human passions
stilled, and meekness, charity and
the spirit of forgiveness fill and con-
troll the human heart, there viii be
no reunion of a party divided, be-
trayed and beaten by a minority,
because it could not control it.
Oil and water will not mix; 10y
atty and treason cannot consort to-
gether, nor will a beaten majority
lick the hand that smote it. The
salvation of the Republican party is
only to be secured through victory
now, not by victory next year or the
year after. A united party may
survive defeat after defeat and still
retain its organization and vitality,
but a party defeated through its
own divisions must die, without the
hope of resurrection. Sensible men
who appreciate and value the great
principles and interests that will be
imperiled by the defeat of the Re-
publican ticket in Pennsylvania this
fall, will weigh well the consequence
es before determining to stand in
with the Independents.