Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-08-28

NcW LUX. 1neIe are TOO many nOuoSL
Republicans in New York 10 justify
the expectation that q thimble- rigging
Wall street sharper can be elected gov
ernor of the state though he he on the
Republican ticket.
History Repeating Itself.
Simon Cameron and his sordid crew
of camp-followers have no political prin-
ciples except those of plunder and pa.
tronage. Neither he nor his son, nor
any man who ever wore the badge of
their servitude without a sense of shame,
has been distinguished by state-craft or
patriotism. They are in politics for
what is in it for them. They make
money by being in Office and they use it
to keep themselves in. They prostitute
their power and portion out their plum
der to support a dynasty which overrides
the will of the people and fattens on the
robbery of their rights. They are politi-
clans, they are bosses, they are ring.
AS such alone they have become dis
tinguished, notorious-nay, Infamous
over the whole country. In setting up
conventions, bossing committees, buy
ing delegates, bull-dozing officials, brib-
ing Legislatures, and manipulating pri-
maries they are adopts. For ballot-box
stufling, return tinkering, gerrymander-
ing and every crime against political
purity and decency, they are always
ready. Where these invite they are always
to the front, and those who are conspic-
uous in this kind of service naturally
gravitate toward their fellowship.
If the Cameron element has ever
meant anything else in our politics, his
tory fails to record it. If it has ever
been loyal even to the party to which it
professed to belong, it has only been
while it was able to use and abuse it.
Away back in 1889, when Simon Cam
eron held the position of commissioner
to Prairie du Chen, it is recorded in the
archives of the government that he was
faithless to public trust reposed in him.
More than twenty years later, acting
with another party, and wearing high
honors, gained by dirty intrigue and
shamed by brazen abuse of them, he
made for himself a record biistered all
over with diShOnor. Thrice, ut least,
our legislative annals bore testi-
mony to his barter of the CON-
monwealth's honor. The elder Cam
eron's first election to the Senate was
gained by his treachery to the party,
which up to then he had espoused and
whose regular nominee lie defeated by a
bolt; ;" and after vainly attempting by
the aid Of connection with the Know
NOthings to secure another nomination
in 1851, lie was repudiated as one who
had despised all party obligations and
treated all caucuses with contempt"
There never was time in his career
that he would not sell his party for him
self. No political principle was ever so
serious matter to him that he could
not lightly abandon it for his own in-
terest. And the cabal in the Republi-
cln party Which wears his name has
never hesitated to betray its party when
the nominations did not suit.
That Don Cameron followed in the
footsteps of his father was made plain
when, in the earlier days of this present
campaign, in the city of Philadelphia, lie
is responsibly reported to have indulged
in this threat:
The success Of tho Republican (Camc-
ron) ticket rests with the great agricul-
tural, mining and commercial interests of
the state l have fought for protective
tariff in the Senate, as my father fought
before me, but il those who have hereto
fore supported tho Republican ticket
want to stab me, am ready to receive the
blow, and IscM oppose tariff in thc Senate
as heartily as hduc upheld 1t. If you
want to kill tho party we will 60 to hell
together, and don't care if this is repeat
ed to the world"
And this is their purpose. They arc
trying now to identify the cause of pro.
lection in this state with the cause of
their corrupt control in state politic:.
The old mans late silly screed against
the Independents shows this intention.
Foresighting their own doom they want
to pull down with them the protective
system and all ego to hell together"
AS the vital elements of the most al
vancel protection party in this state
are in the Independent movement
they will not of course be
disturbed at his threat, but will
most likely he shrewd enough to
take advantage of it to demonstrate
that Cameronism has again come to one
of the periodical points i'll its career at
which to save itself it is willing to be.
tray its party and professed principles,
and since it must 60 down it will drag
them down with it, and, in Don's ex-
pressive language, they will all go to
hell t0gether.''
TIE river and lrarbor bill makes appro-
priations for thirty creeks too small for a
place in Lippincott's Gazetteer, Of which
five are in Mr.. RobcsOn's district.
DOrGPIA PARyA.
Parva vagabundus BOpOpia per.lIdit a.snos,
NeScta Secrctt quo latucro loci;
Bcllula, cant, abeant; ad pascua nota re;li-
Et reduces can,las post sua terga gcrcnt
THE fact has been officially published
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