The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1882-11-10
GOV. HoYTs LETTER.

A bomb was thrown into the stall
wart camp last week Friday, by the
publication of letter from Governor
Hoyt, in which he declared for Stewart.
When man who was made what he is
today by the Cameron machine is oblig-
ed to denounce the very methods that
put him in the executive chair of the
state, then indeed has his party fallen
low Here is the letter;
HARRisBURG, Pa. November s.
To Wharton Barker, Esq., Phila-
delphia: Adhering to the accepted
traditions of our people, must decline,
while holding public Office, essentially
non-partisan, to take any part in dis
tinctive political meeting. This point
of propriety, which need not be urged,
will forbid my acceptance of your invi-
tation to preside over the assembly of
independent republicans at Horticultu-
raj hall to night. H''H.t "' ...HH
If understand the object of this
gathering of careful and judicious citi-
zens, it is to give effect to certain con.
victions affecting the political welfare
of the state. 1t is the assertion of the
inherent right of the freemen of the
republic to declare the proper aims and
ends of public conduct, and to proclaim
their own motives and purposes. This
right inheres in every individual and
every assembly A political party is a
voluntary association, and in no sense
does its right to exist depend upon its
numerical size or upon the accident of
its itcluding the mere brute force of a
"majority.' .t'' -
When standing room is no long
er allowed to members of the political
party with margin for self respect;
when its lines become simply cotermi-
nus with the limits of the usurping dy-
nasty; when in all the space between
abiect submission and rebellion, no
place is gwen for appeal, argument or
protest, revolution is an appropriate
remedy All proud and generous
minds will resist the imposition of serf-
dom, and will leave to " villeins" and
retainers their badge of servitude to the
intruding feudal system Any charac-
terization of those engaged in this
movement which flippantly classes
them as ''sore heads" and ''kickers,"
mistakes the. rating of Pennsylvania
manhood. There is an undeniable jus
tifcation for your uprising. Its grounds
are open and plain to the people wheth-
er accepted or not ..........
This the tens of thousands of the
best instructed, most conscientious AMI
spirited citizens who have joined in
this method of uprooting palpable
public wrongs, attest other tens of
thousands of such citizens sympathizc
with you and only doubt whether your
heroic surgery is the best treatment
For myself / had not seen my way
clear to act with you. / had expected
to drift along giving the republican
ticket formal support, and have done
so. have to friends maintained that
attitude until now. AT this late day /
am fully advised of the methods of
vengeance being contrived for those
now considered in revolt some of these
rebels, nay most of them, are among
the most courageous spirits IN the state
They know the humiliation it costs
proud men to have masters their NOR
al power crushed out in repeated call,
to surrender to the gross demands OF
those who only see in party success the
means of patronage-distribution, an6
that made in the interest of persona
lpower, 9a...I..t t.
i When reflect upon the humiliation
, put upon myself as Chief Magistrate
for resisting some of the purposes OF
the irksome domination which put,
politics above administrative propriety
and when reflect upon the force o
the insulting methods applied to my
self by means of threats, intrigue, an,
bad faith, l realize some of Cardina
, Woolseys regrets that he "had onl,
served his God with half the zeal h
had his King"
In the name of deoency and in be
J half of my successor i wish to em
lpbasize the curse of the whole business
and sound note of warning to tn
, whole people. Self respect compel
+ me TO this ayowal. Nor will peac
and reform ever come until the mora
Lorces in politics which you have or