Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-11-11

stocks in which they dealt with State
noneys
Hoyes, 1t will be remembered, was elect.
State Treasurer on the Democratic ticket
by the deliberated, concerted giye-away of
the State by the Cameron clique,
~Asa Rebuke 20 Hayes-1
He appointed Blake Walters his chief
clerk. after the most earnest protest OF the
honest. Democratic press Of the State against
his contemplated appointment Of William
j. Bayard, who, as Corporation Clerk Tor
Auditor General Temple, had been shame
fully derelict, and had been involved in
the contract with the transportation COM
panies, by which they escaped some $5O,-
90 just tsxation, and by which a couple
OF Harrisburg lawyers got Sl9, 900 fee for
the easy collection of claim which Bay
ards department could have and should
have collected.
Bayard was, however, given a second
clerkship, greatly to Walters pretended
disgust
Walters Started I'm BraveIy.
He was going to reform irregularities and
cut up abuses by the roots There were
outgivings of general shaking up of affairs
by him, and the correction of manifold
petty steals in the furnishing of State sup
plies and other chances for peculation. In
short time his aversion to Bayard was
overcome; they were thick friends and both
cheek by jowl with the Republican manip-
ulators. When the NOyes administration
came TO turn over the Treasury TO his sue
cessOr, there was painful hitch for week
or ten days, and rumor was rife that the
syndicate of Republican and Democratic
Ring politicians, who had been buying
stocks with the Treasury balances for mar
gins, had lost heavily, and were unable to
,.ss slksstnc DemsRds Upon Them:
It was patched up somehow, and the
threatened exposure avoided. Bayard and
Walters left Harrisburg for Leadyille.
Their Republican partners remained to dis
charge in politics the obligations which
they had to incur to find financial relief.
The failure of the Pittsburgh Riot Loss
bill, and the subsequent vigorous prosecu-
tion and conviction of those who had tried
to secure its passage by bribery, were
severe blows not only to the lobby but to
the effective use of money in Pennsylvania
politics. In the incipiency OF the bolt at
Harrisburg last winter the Republicans
made light boast that they would soon COM
pass divers election. They depended
upon purchaSable Democrats and Repuotl-
cans.
pointed.
ana, WIN the lOSS OF tue power OF mOuey
in Pennsylvania politics, Don Cameron
finds himself at the end of his rope. He
cannot play the bully with the men who
hsYe served him, for many of them, nOta-
bly, Quay, are men Of far greater genius
and with larger following than himself.
The array of influence and leadership
which Cameron has aroused against him
self has been long coming TO focus. In
Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, and
all over the State, men of wealth and am
bition stirred by the disintegratiOn OF the
old rings, and inspired by the desire, it may
be, if sharing the heritage of the Cameron
fortune, secretly aided TO equip the oppOsi'
ton, and voted under cover for either
Stewart or Pattison, and long ago
the young Senator must have felt the
seepter Slipping from His Grasp.
Had Simon Cameron been at the head of
affairs the result might have been different.
Stewart was only a leaf in storm. A pop.
ular desire for his election in some cOun-
ties, and his assiduOus seeking for the place
created fortunate nucleus for the organi-
zatiOn of the anti Cameron revolt, but his
election would have vindicated no princi-
pie, and in q short time il would have dis
organized the forces to whom he owed his
triumph. The result is better as il is. 1t
has overthrown the boss and the boss sys-
TEN in Pennsylvania. The fabric which
Simon Cameron built up so carefully, and
the strength of which he tested withouta
strain when he handed his seat in the Sem
ate down to his son, has gone to pieces in
the November gale, aud is beyond hope of
repair. CamerOniSm is dead and buried.
May it rest in peace.