Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1882-10-04

TIC lie, Wnen ne SAID that he WOulC
/ vote for an OK, if nominated. never dis
played single statesmanlike quality
Two years ago Galusha A Grow
was presented as a candidate for the
United States Senate He had served
IL years in Congress, had been Spea ker
of the House for one term he was
familiar with public men and public
measures; he was a ready debater
could have gone on the floor of the
Senate and maintained the honor and
credit of the State with fair ability, but
because he was not an avowed adherent
of the Ring; because he was type of
a higher order of Republicanism; be-
cause he wonld have overshadowed
Don Cameron, he had to be stricken
down
The result of this Cameron-serving
is that Pennsylvania has been dwarfed
in the Senate of the United States in
comparison with other States. They
send their foremost men. Massa-
chusetts sent Sumner and Wilson
Maine sent Fessenden aud Hamlin !;
Vermont, Collamer and Edmunds; In
diana, Morton and Hendricks; Ohio,
Chase and Ben Wade, while Pennsyl-
vania sends the Camerons
But the evil influence of this corrupt
system is still more widely extended.
1t tends to corrupt the younger men
who arc coming upon the stage of ac-
tion. 1t leads them to. believe that the
only avenue to Office anl distinction in
through the Camerons, and the conse-
quence is that they throw away con-
science and principle, surrender their
manhood, and meekly submit to having
the collar fastened upon them for life.
1t has created distinct class of poll
ticians, who are commonly known as
CAMERoN's HENCHMEN
This class is composed of his survile
followers, who are his willing tools,
ready to do his bidding at all times
and upon all occasions. Perchance
one of them may be chosen a delegate
to State Convention, and unless he
has had his cue from headquarters he
will not venture an opinion as to who
should be candidates, for fear that he
would have to swallow his own
words, for he knows full we'll that
although he may for a while believe
that he is a free man and means to do
what his judgment leads him to be-
lieve would be best, that he dare not
do it; that no matter what his own
convictions are he has to obey his mas
ter and do his bidding. He may st
times indulge the conceit that he is O
leader, that he is shaping the policy of
the party, that he is power in the
politics of the country, but let him
walk one inch out of the line marked
out for him by his master, and how
quickly will the collar remind him
that it is there with as firm hold as
when first put on. He may talk
boastfully as to what he has done,
and strut and swagger in his own
self Importance, but he can't impose
upon his neighbors, for they know
that he has had no right of opinion in
what has been done; that he has SIM
ply done what he has been told to do
and could not help doing it He may
have accumulated some wealth which
he could not have done in any honest
vocation in life, for he would have
been q marked failure as lawyer,
physician, merchant or business man,
and he does not by nature belong to
that class of men who make blades
Of grass grow, or to cause the fields to
brighten with waving wheat, for in one
respect only is he like the lilies of the
field, in that che tolls not, nor does he
spin," but other people understand
that his accumulated wealth is the
price of his manhood that he has got
it only because he has bartered away
The most precious rights of an American
citizen; that in a land where the
Droadest liberty of opinion is tol-
Grated, he has had none of his own
that in land of universal freedom, he
has been slaye, as abject and power
less as was the lowest serf in the da ys
Of the feudal system. Everybody un-
ierstands, and no one better than the
henchman does himself that his power
his strength and his influence depends
upon the collar held by an invisible
cord, but strong as adamant, and only
10 be dissolved at the touch OF the
master, but that sooner or later will
De dissolved, for the bond between
hem is not one of affection or regard,
out of utility only. and when the
time comes, as it assuredly will come,
hat he will no longer be considered
efficient in his masters service, the
collar will be unloosed and he will be
turned adrift, but too late in his old
lays to comprehend what freedom is,
and will be like the prisoner of Bastile,
who after long years of Imprisonment
was given his liberty, but he had got
so used to his prison house that after
about for some days he
went back and asked TO be locked up
in his old cell. But the henchman
won't be taken back, for the reason
that his usefulness is gone, and then
with sense of manhood gone, of prin-
ciple bartered away for a life time, be
iIO "Cli CAClulul,
slightly the language of Cardinal
Wolsey to Cromwell: : "Oh, Cameron,
Cameron, had | but served my country
with half the zeal l served you, it
would not in mine age have left me
marked to mine enemies"
THE BEAVER TICKET.
But. nv fellow citizens. You ask
what has all this to do with the ticket
at the head of which is the name of
Gen. Beaver? 1t is very pertinent
question and must answered, for if can
not successfully be answered, then all
the arguments against the Camerons
and Bossism fall to the ground. | re-
ply that with the exception of the Con-
gressman-at-Large, it is Cameron's
ticket, made up by him at his home in
in the District of Colum-
bia, long in advance of the convention.