Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-10-13
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FRIDAY EVENING, OCT. :1s. 1854.
ssThe Democrats Are Coming"
When Blaine was so disastrously
beaten in the state election in Maine in
September, 1880, the baffled leader sat
down to think q bit. The situation was,
indeed, desperate one for himself and
his party, and it was plain that only a
desperate measure would meet the ext
gencies of the case. Presently the
twice-disappointed presidential aspirant
was heard to exclaim 6" I have it !!
We must scare the business men :"
And the scheme was quickly and ener
getically put into execution, the Repub
lican managers everywhere falling in
with the idea and joining in the senseless
cry that Democratic ascendency would
ruin the industries of the country.
There never was perpetrated;a more
shameless and stupendous fraud. The
leaders in the plot could scarcely re-
strain themselves while they raked in a
vast amount OF money from foolish bust
ness men, and before Garfield was inaug
urated the vice president-elect publicly
rejoiced at the debauchery Of state
where the conspirators were successful
in their great object.
But burnt powder is never SO harm
less and useless as in politics. And SO
when the younger Cameron first, and a
little later the elder chieftain of the inn
periled tribe of Donegal, rushed out of
their wigwams shouting to the business
men that they must come to the rescue
or submit to be ruined, the "business
men" responded with an answering
shout of derision, emphatically declaring
the tariff spook to be fraud of the first
water. Beaver and Brosius have taken
the matter to the stump, only to be ridi-
culed and to note, as the result of their
evasion of real issues and an attempt to
mislead the people, an astonishing
growth of Independent Republican SEN
timent in the sections visited by them !;
the enlistment for the war against the
bosses of leading business men, and es
pecially manufacturers, in every part of
the state, while the people everywhere
turn in disgust from such campaign
twaddle to hear, discussed by the Demo-
cratic and Independent speakers and
press, the vital questions of the hour,
touching the abolition of the spoils sys-
tenn and the political machines, and the
Inauguration of administrative reform
in the state government. -.,
And now the disguised and demoral-
lied Stalwart managers, growing more
desperate every hour, have ordered gen.
eral midnight alarm to he sounded sim
ply that the Democrats are coming"
The people are to be made the victims of
an indelined fear that something terrible
is about to happen unless they rally to
the support of the lost cause of Cameron
ism. The idea to be operated upon is
that an army of Democrats, no better
than the wickedest Of the wicked, and
under leaders having hoofs and horns,
is about to sweep down upon and seize
the state government and inaugurate
reign of commercial desolation and offic-
ial free boot;ns. The unhappy ghost of
the rebellion is to he once more dragged
from its always open grave and made to
stalk about in the rural districts, and the
whole idiotic business is to he worked
for what it is worth, especially in the
back counties. And what 4 gigantic
farce it it will be. The fate of the Cam
eronian tariff srook will be as nothing to
the greeting which this last and worst
performance of the sinking bosses and
their used-up machine will receive. AS
the Cameron |" supes " march in OH the
political stage there will be a moving
shout that will make them realize that
the day of judgment has come in Penn
sylvania.
Friends of the boss persuasion, I" the
Democrats are coming" The people of
this great commonwealth have taken
your promises for the last time. You
are now on the last round of misrule,
extravagance and corruption. You have
driven the machine rough-shod for these
many years, regardless of political de-
cency and in defiance of the continued
and now successfully rebellious pro-
test of the better element of your
own party. The end is approaching. The
long suffering people Of the state are in
revolt, an" the Democrats are coming"
to bring back honest administration in
government and pure political methods.
The Democrats are coming" to drive
out forever bosses and bossism; to
smash the machine beyond repair. ''The
Democrats are coming" to give Penn
sylvania once more her rightful place in
the politics of the nation. Yes, "the
Democrats are coming," and that is
the matter with the machine.
ATTORNEY GENERAL BREWSTER
appears in the canvass as the
special eulOgist of the Camerons.
The task is heavy one and
none will dispute Mr.. Brewster's bold |
ness in essaying it. There can be no
question apparently in which there may
not be two opinions if there could be
there might reasonably be expected to |
be no difference Of Oninion aS to tho ~,