National Republican., 1882-07-31
The Campaign in Pennsylyania.

down and out if it was the wish of the
Republican party. He said he had all
along been willing to take this step if the
welfare of the party demanded it,"
This willingness of General Beaver to
obey the wish of his party, even to the
extent of surrendering his legitimate
nomination for the governorship if the
party should by free vote so request, is
going to give him the vote of every Re-
publican who has not already decided to
leave the Republican party for good.
The hypocritical pretenders to Republic
canism who are deliberately trying
to cut the party's throat under the
sneaking pretense of reforming its
methods" have been parleyed
with long enough. They are in
solent enough to admit that the major
ity of the Republican voters do not want
General Beaver to retire They only ask
the party to place itself in the hands of o
gang bent upon destroying it. After the
election of Mr.. Lincoln in 1861, it was
proposed, by men who remained in the
Union to plot treason against it, that he
might be allowed to enter upon the
Presidency if his party would allow the
Breckenridge platform of intervention
for the protection of slavery in the Terri
tories to be made part of the Constitu-
ton of the United States. The reply
was that the people were for Mr.. Lincoln
because he was against that platform.
In Pennsylvania it is proposed by ene-
mics who remain in the Republican
party to plot treason against it, that the
majority shall bend its will to minority
faction as the price of the continuance
of the existence of the party. The reply
is now as it was in 1861, that the rights
Of the majority shall not be surrendered
under the threats and bluster of men
who meant nothing but foul play from
the beginning. The Independent Re
pullicdns in Pennsylvania who desire to
retire Don Cameron from the Senate will
not allow themselves to be drawn out
side of the party by Democratic spies and
Independent malignants. They will
vote for Beaver, and thus entitle them
selves to his neutrality in the contest
two years from now between themselves
and the supporters of Cameron.
AS for the so-called Independents who
refuse to submit to a majority of the
party, for the esecond time, question once
decided against them, they are not Re-
publicans, and do not intend to be. To
further temporize with them would be
childish, and dangerous to the Republican
cause. Let them be treated as the
enemies they are. They are fitly repre-
sented by Mckee, the chairman of their
self-appointed committee, who has
coarsely assailed the President as one
of a combination with Guiteau.
Political companionship with men
who tolerate such diaJlerie as this is
neither desirable nor profitable. There
are not men enough in Pennsylvania of
Republican antecedents who are thus
reckless and malignant to make it of any
consequence what political cause they
| espouse, or what candidates they sup
port. The President and his acts form as
proper subject of fair discussion and
truthful criticism as if he were the hum
blest citizen. But when desper-
ate crew of factionists undertake to
make head against him by class
ing him with the assassin of
his predecessor, they thereby stigmatize
themselves. Whoever lends them aid,
countenance, or support becomes as vile
as they. If certain great journals support
them, it will only illustrate the truth of
the proverb of Solomon "that the dog
will return to his vomit, and the SOW to
her wallowing in the mire."
There are no depths to which
the spite of some of these reckless
journalists will not descend, in their
desperate determination to be re-
venged on men in high station who
will not be their instruments or obey
their impudent dictation. The decent
people of this country will not tolerate
| the beastly effort to poison their minds
with the thought that Guiteau's Grim e
was less abhorrent to the opponents than
to the friends Of General Garfield's ad-
ministration. Attempts to make lines
of division in parties or between parties
upon the foul pretense that any differ
ence of opinion or of degree of feeling
exists or has existed among Ameri-
cans concerning the assassination of
their President are worthy only
of wretches who would be assassins if
they dared,
We hopet the Republican party ofPenn-
sylvania will now go on with its cam
paign against the Democratic party. 1t
has no other enemy worth expending
ammunition on. 1t will triumph, as it
has for more than twenty years, over foes
without and traitors within.
THE Civil Service Reformers will not
abate their croaking a jot upon being in
formed that under the present system
$l4G,5O0,0O0 of internal revenue taxes
have been honestly collected during the
past year and turned into the Treasury of
the United States without deficit or de-
fault, and that the cost of collecting the
same was but 81 per cent, and that in
disbursing that there has been no irregu-
larity The truth is, the public service,
instead of being sick, is healthy and ro-
bust. The Reformers are quacks who
find portion of the public hypochon-
driacal, and proceed to prescribe their
| own nostrums for the various imaginary
ills. The Reformers live by making it
appear to the credulous that the country
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