Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-09-02
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SATURDAY EvENnso. SEPT. 2. 1881.

EvENnJo, SEPT. 2. 1889.
The Crisis and the Nan.
No man in Pennsylvania during the
past year has been under greater pres
sure from two opposing sources than
Henry N. Hoyt. Entering political life
actuated by high ambition he chose
what seemed to be in his party not only
the shortest and quickest but the only
road to preferment, and closely allied
himself with the Cameron power. For
years he worked quietly but energetic
ally for the success of the machine! of
which he had deliberately become a
part. He knew its laws and obeyed
them he knew its methods and pursued
them. He knew that unquestioned 10y
atty and efficiency meant confidence and
promotion, and that halting criticism
and lack of devotion meant ostracism
and punishment. He marched to vic
tory or defeat, as his commander order
ed. In 1877 the Republican state COM
mittee allowed the canvass to go by de-
fault because Senator Cameron wished,
in the expressive language Of Bob
Mackey, to give this man Hayes a
slap in the face" The following year
Colonel Hoyt's turn came, and he was
given the place of honor ut the head of
the Republican state ticket. but not
until he had been reduced to the most
abject servitude to the iron-handed mas.
tsrs, as witness the testimony which fol-
lows:
In no part of the state IS the existing
Republican rebellion against Cameron
ism and the machine more bitter and
more wide. spread than in the immediate
vicinity of Governor H0yt's home. The
first meeting to ratify the work of the
Philadelphia convention was held in
Wilkesbarre, Immediately following the
nomination of the Independent Repub-
lean ticket, and the impromptu gather
ing was a startling revelation to the
power against the continuance of which
it so earnestly declared war. 1t must
also have been q painful surprise to Gov
ernor Hoyt, for it was an. .outpocring OF
his personal and political friends men
who had stood by him in all his strug.
giles men who had rejoiced at his sue.
cess and who regarded his career with
local pride. And they were assembled
for the purpose of enlisting in a deter
mined crusade against the man who in.
exorably commands his services. 1t then
became known that for some time past
these friends-old and true friends and
not interested and selfish political allies
had been earnestly wrestling with the
governor to 60 with them and lead them
in the struggle for freedom from ma
chine bondage, and now the pressure
increased an hundred fold. At last a
semi-Oflicial and authoritative statement
of his position was wrung from the
governor, the most humiliating and gall
ing ever made by an executive of this
great commonwealth. This came from
the home organ of Gov. HOyt, and said
in effect, that in his election rs governor
he had incurred an obligation to The
Cameron power which he could not and
would not disregard under any circum.
stances short of direct sacrifice of his
personal and official honor In other words
the governor of Pennsylvania publicly
exhibited himself before the people of
the state IS chained to the Cameron ma.
chine and /" i'm honor" bound to do its
bidding. And there he stands to day,
and there he will stand until he is sue.
ceeded either by another slave in the
person of James A. Beaver, or by 4 free.
man representing the people and not
their insolent would-be master, in the
person of Robert E. PattisOn.
Which shall it be ? We have before
earnestly pointed out in these columns
the fact that the commanding issue in
this great contest is political and al,
ministrative reform, and that this i'm
peratively demands the highest stand
ard of personal and official character in
the coming executive. lie must he alb
sOlutely free from OdiOus influences and
bsyOnd the reach of all machine power
lie must bc man who does not owe his
position and prospects to the political
powers of darkness, but who has risen
to place and power in spite of them.
He must be one who has faced unmOvct
Establishments and threats, intrigue and
calumny. He must regard the faithful
performance of public duty rs ever a
consideration paramount to all others.
He must not be the servile creature OF
pardon board and corporation influences.
For more than four years Controller
Pattison has been on trial. During thi.
period he has stood as a faithful sentinel
at the gate of the treasury of the second
city of the continent, guarding it with
an efficiency which has commanded the
admiration of friends and the respect of
foes. The whole history of his admins
tratiOn is the story of a continued re
sistance of dishonest effort to reward
political reprObates. He has been beset
on every hand by the contracting horde
of public cOrmOrants and their inlluen
tial friends, but he has uniformly been
superior to their WileS and proof alike