The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-06-21
rg. no,.r IN PENNSYLVANIA.
Tha Way Republicans Outside the
state Regard IL.

+be BOSTON Traveller of June D. Ii
sbows tnat outside of Pennsylvania
tho causeless bolt is clearly under
s.ood and the motives of the revolt
lesnisea 1t is good reading, and
esTeciallv welcome when so many
renfrs in our own State, pretending
= be Republican, strive to stab ouI
grand old party in the back;
n was hardly necessary that sen,
o.a- Cameron should have denied
the sillv story set afoat by the In
danendent organs, TO the effect that
he had threatened, unless the busl-
ness men of Pennsylvania support
ed the Harrisburg ticket, to devote
the remainder of his term IN the
senate TO an assault upon the pro-
tect;ve tariff. of which he has here
tofore been a staunch defender. No
man of intelligence ever believed IT,
TIE Camerons have more than q po-
I;t;cal interest in Pennsylvania; their
nrosnerity is thoroughly Identified
Nth that of the State in which they
nave for a quarter of a century, ex-
erciscd an able and honoreole lead
ersbin. They are among the largest
;,vastors in those industrial enter
,,r;ses on which the prosperity OF
Pannsvlyania resis. The prosperity
Of those enterprises rests, IN Its
fnrn on the maintenance OF the pro-
tectiye tariff, and the protective tar
;T IN its turn. on the national as
neDdancv of the Republican party,
md the exclusion from power OF Its
odversaries. whose immemorlal pol
icv he's been "a tariff for revenue
o6lv" In sayingthat Senator Cam
oro1 simplv stated the obviously IN
evitable sequence to the success OF
the Mitchell mutiny in the fall cleo
ton 1--WE shall all go to ruin to-
either " the Senator is reported TO
have said. referring to the posslbll-
itv Of the capture by the Democratic
n3rtv of the keystone State. The
bns;1ess men Of Pennsylvania have
been fairly warned, and there is evi-
dence that they have not been warn
ed in vain.
Senator Cameron's forecast of the
disastrous effects of Democratic su-
nremacy in the National Govern
ment upon the enormous trade inter-
es;s that depend on the maintenance
of protective tariff is one which
may well command the thoughtful
attention OF Massachusetts Republi-
cans also. In the campaign of 1880
\ urominent Democratic leader de-
clared that the protective tariff was
maintained mainly for the benefit
of two States-Massachusetts and
Pennsylvania. This is not true. but
IL i true that there are no other two
States in the Union where the capi-
tai invested. and the labor employ
ed. in manufacturing establishments
would be struck such staggering and
universally ruinous blows by the
national advent of the Democratic
party and "a tariff for revenue only"
The manufacturers, the merchants,
the business men of Massachusetts
know this, and they are inquiring,
with no little impatience and alarm,
whv MIR. Mitchell and his followers
propose to wreck the Republican
partv next fall, and for what good
reason Pennsylvania is to be surren-
dered in advance to the anti-tarlff
partv. and all the industrial inter-
ests of that and every other man
featuring State placed in jeopardy
in 1854
What is Il all about? Do the In
dependents declare for any principle
moi also declared for by the regular
Republicans of Pennsylvania? Not
one. Have they been excluded from
representation on the State ticke2
Not al all. Why, then, this revolt?
The only answer we get from the
newspaper mouth-pieces of this re-
markabie movement is that the
President has not appointed the
right kind of men to office. When
we inquire a little further we find
that the complaint is not that inca
pable men, or characterless men
have been appointed to office, but
that. though capable, honest and
worthy. they, nevertheless, happen
ed prefer Grant to Blaine or Sher-
man. in 1880, as the Republican
nominee for President. That is the
whole Of it. After keeping up an
incessant rub. .a-dub dub on the ket-
tle drum of reform for years, and
vocifercusly announcing their con-
viction that the only tests for office
should be, is he hones2 Is he capa-
bic? they now propose to revolt
against the Administration and
wreck the party unless they can set
up as the only tests for office, Was
he against Grant in 1880?
In New York, where Mr.. Miller
has placed himself in similar atti-
tude toward the Administration Oc-
cupied bv MIR. Mitchell in Pennsyl-
vania. President Arthur has, during
his occupancy of the Chief Execu-
tive chair, made somewhere about
one hundred and ten nominations
of Federal ofiice-holders. And of
this number Just twenty, or less than
one in FIVE, have been affiliated with
what is called the Stalwart wing Of
The party: ass this in a State which
was overwhelmingly Stalwart in
1880. and still is. So, too, in this
State. OF six nominations TO Fed
eral office made by President Ar
thur In Massachusetts,, just one has
been given TO Republican identi-
lied with his own wing of the party.
But that one. Ike every one of the
twenty Stalwarts out of the total OF
one hundred and ten appointments
in New York State. was the general
signal for shower OF abuse upon
the Administration bv the entire
guerilla press. Were they eapable9
Ayere they honest? They cared
aoth;ng whether they were or not.
Were they Half Breeds or Stalwarts?
That was the crucial test, to which
every other must yield.
This is the situation. We have
a president OF whom it is not COM
planned, and cannot be, that he has
failed 70 uphold with al the power