New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-11-02

rost of the Marty has no reason to be alarmed.
General Beaver shows his weakness, therefore,
in deyoting 80 much time to this bogus tarlil
| scare,r invented by Simon Cameron 10 heip
his son Don out of scrape.
But if he is weak in doing that, he becomes
foolish when he attempts to demonstrate his
independence as candidate. This Is oovi-
ously subject which he ought not to touch at
oil nnless he il prepared to make thorough
work of il. Halfway explanations on thaC
point of all Others are not the kind wan'eu Ill
Pennsylvania this year. Yet General beaver
not only makes that kind, bat he supplements
them with virtual confessions OF all that ID
charged against him. In speech in Phlladel-
phia tho other evening, which his friends
claim to have been a "plain talk " that estao-
| lished his position as I" free and untram-
meled candidate, he said "NOt pledge
| has been made to any living man that the
State Administration will be used for any
@personal purpose" This was well enough 80
| far as it went but he showed its utter worth
lessness as guarantee of conduct on his part,
should he be elected Governor, by adding in the
very next breath: 1t is just as dishonorable
| " to pledge oneself against a man AS it would
| abe to pledge oneself for him" On that point
the Independent Republicans Of.Pennsyvana
differ widely with General Beaver. They do
not think it would be dishonorable for him to
pledge himself against Boss Cameron. On the
contrary they refuse 20 trust any candidate for
Governor who will not make such pledge.
They say that Boss Cameron has made such a
pledge necessity by his INSCRIPTIONS use OF
the Office us his personal property. lie is not
merely a single citizen of the Commonwealth /;
he is Boss who places his personal interests
above the interests of the entire common
wealth. General Beaver shows foolish
ness by playing with so serious matter
as this has become to thousands of the Repub-
Leans of the State, but his public utterance
agrees entirely with his private observations.
lie said in conversation with Mr.. Ely, Hour
manufac ;urer of Lancaster, recently, when
asked why he did not unload Cameron and go
for Beaver on his own merits" 81 would
rather not he Governor than do that" Gem
eral Beaver has made denial Of this, but Mr..
Ely, whose reputation for veracity is unim-
peached in his part of the State, adheres to his
version of the conversation. The sentiment
certainly comedies with the statement of his
speech that it would be "dishonorabe " for
rather than Cameron.
As for the point that he has made no pledges
to anybody, it amounts to nothing. Mr.. Cam
eron knows his man too well to feel the neces-
sity of putting him under pledge for the new
service he had marked out for him. General
Beaver was under no pledge to serve Cameron
in the Chicago Convention, yet he did serve
him there and did not scruple to break the
pledge he was under to serve the Repu blicans
of his district who sent him there. He is run
ming for Governor simply as Cameron's man,
and pledge one way or the other would be
mere superiority. Surely a man whose zeal
for his Boss has enabled him to break II solemn
pledge to his constituents need not he put
under bonds to serve that Boss faithfully in
the future. He says truly that he would
rather not be Governor than unload Cameron,
and it looks very much as if the Republicans OF
Pennsylvania would permit him to have his
choice.