The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1882-06-29
National Americana
The Pennsylvania Independents.


the Vallandigham meetings held in
Southern Ohio during the war. If
foreigner had been dropped into one
Of those meetings he would have i'm
agined President Lincoln some kind
Of horned monster, and every Dem
ocrat slave with ring in his nose,
led by negro. So with these indie
pendents; they must, involuntarily,
have felt of their noses, and looked
about for the bosses holding the
strings. One Of the reformers could
only say, II am here" when he was
called out for a speech. From the
tremendous applause" which this
speech elected, we havs no doubt the
speaker exhibited the sears on his
bare back which the Cameronian lash
had left. These boss-ridden Pennsyl-
vania Republicans have been sorely
oppressed. The tyrannical Don Cam
eron has trodden on their sorest corns.
They are slaves, 'bound hand and
foot" "The clanking Of their chains
has been heard all over the land"
For twenty long years they have felt
the lash of the Camerons across their
bare backs. and haze been led to the
polls with whip-lashes around their
necks like st. Louis pound dogs to
the slaughter. They have not only
been forced to the polls by these
ghoulish bosses, but they have been
compelled to vote for such men as
Hartranft and Beaver for Governor.
This is too much for free born Amer
lean citizens. Were we so unfortu-
nate as to live in Pennsylvania, we
should be in constant terror lest. un-
der such state Of things, the Key
Stone would drop out Of the old Com
monwealth. Think Of it; single
boss compelling Republicans Of Penn
sylvania to elect Republican Cover
nors and Senators! Look at Maine
and Ohio, the young mother OF Presl-
dents; at Indiana and Illinois, all
strongly Republican States, With no
bosses to put the yoke upon the
peoples necks. Look at their Garce-
Ions, their Bill Aliens and Bill En-
glishes, their Thurmans and Pendle-
tons, and Davises and Voorheeses, and
then tell us whether "the people" the
dear people, the poor innocent people
Of the Republican party, are not freer
to vote their own sentiments in those
Republican States. which are repre-
sented by Democrats than in Penn
sylvania, represented by Republicans
only. In short, is it not clear that in
State which is strongly Republican,
if ''the people are not led by bosses"
they will elect Democrats to Office?
The people must have their own
way. This is Government of the
people, by the people, and for the
people. and the Pennsylvania, like the
Ohio Republicans, must at all times
be free to elect Democratic Cover
nor or United States Senator. How
can an honest Pennsylvania Republi-
can look into the face Of Pendleton
and VOORHEES, representative of neigh
boring Republican States, without a
blush Of shame for his own ''boss-
ridden" State? True, the good Mr..
Mitchell is in the Senate, but what is
a seat in the Senate if one is denied
the Presidential ear and the Pennsyl-
vania teat? Was not the nomination
of Garfield a mighty (miscarried)
movement Of the people," to put
Blaine, the friend of Jay Gould, into
the Presidential chair, in "the inter
est of anti-boss and anti-machine pol
itics"? And did not every half-breed
in the land weep. and wallow in ashes,
when President Garfield so far forgot
the great movement" as to make a
change in the New York Custom
House for the express purpose Of
turning the State Of New York over
to the half-breeds? Pennsylvania
is our native State. Our eyes first |
saw the light on the borders Of old
Berks County, whose patriotic quad
rennial vote for Old Hickory we can
petmit no boss to interfere with, with
out raising our voice as ap, independ-
ent journalist against it.. We have
no doubt that before the campaign is
over, Mr.. Mitchell will be able to
show the four-ffths Of the boss-rid-
den Republicans whom Cameron is
still leading about that they are
slaves, with yokes about their necks,
and rings in their noses, and balls and
chains upon their ankles. lie he can
do this, then "bossism and machine
politics is at an end, and the Democ-
racy will be happy.