New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-11-05
4 MANLY DECLARATION.

Don Cameron closes his last campaign with
his greatest blunder. BY fooishly attempting
30 bully Governor HOyt into subsection he has
driven him to open revolt. 1t has been known
for weeks that the Governors sympathies we're
with the Independents, but he naturally felt
some delicacy about avOwing them openly. He
was nominated and elected Governor by the aid
Of the machine methods which the Indepen-
dents are seeking to destroy, and he could not
turn against Cameron without subjecting him
self to a charge of ingratitude. He was, there
FORE keeping silent and taking no part in the
campaign. This did not suit Mr.. Cameron. After
the usual Boss style, he cracked his whip over
the Governor and attempted to force him to
the support of Beaver. He ordered his Harris
burg organ to attack him as warning of his
coming wrath, and then spread abroad a report
that the Governor was about to declare ale
glance to Beaver. No longer ago than Friday
morning a letter was published by a tool of
Cameron in Harrisburg saying that its writer
had received letter from the Governor in
which he declared himself friend and sup
porter of the Beaver ticket. This appears to
have gOaded the Governor into revolt, for on
Saturday he published his letter of emancpa-
ton.
1t is remarkable document We can read
ily believe that it will influence thousands of
Republicans who were intending to support
Beaver to cast their votes for Stewart Ii is
the voice of one machine Governor warning the
people against electing another. "When |
"refcct" he says, "upon the humiliation put
"upon myself as Chief Magistrate for resisting
"some of the purposes of the machine, which
q adj mil .tro
land when l reflect upon the force of the in
"sulting methods applied to myself by means of
threats, intrigue and bad faith, realize some
of Cardinal Wolsey's regrets that he had only
"served his God with half the zeal he had
"served his king" That was the impressive out
burst of man who has found machine dicta-
ton intoerable. lie cannot maintain his self
respect and keep silent: " In the name of de-
"cency and in behalf of my successor, wish to
"emphasze the curse OF tho whole business and
sound a note of warning to the whole Deo-
"ple." We presume that this declaration will
be sufficient to end the foolish talk about unload
ing Cameron and electing Beaver at the same
time. Governor liOyt shows that the Boss con-
sders the Office OF Governor his personal prop
erty to be used as he shall dictate without re-
gard to the welfare of the whole people. The
surest way to cure him of that notion is TO de-
feat his candidate and thus show him that here
after the Republicans of the State and not Don
Cameron will select the candidate.
Governor IIoyt has had the courage to break
away from the curse of the system which helped
to elect him, but does anybody suppose that
General Beaver would he man enough To do
the same if lie were elected Assurediy not.
He has refused to pledge himself to iudepen-
dent action Oh the ground that il would be lust
"as dishonorable to pledge ones self against a
" man as to pied &c ones self for him" lie SAYS
he would rather not be Governor than unload
the Boss who is SO absolute dictator that, in
the language of the present Governor, " in all
the space between bject submission and re-
"bellion no place is given for appeal, argument
" or protest" General Beaver thinks it would
be dish0norable for him to pledge himself to
prefer the welfare OF the people to the interests
of such Boss, and he must be taken at his
word. The people will listen to the voice of
experience as it is uttered by Governor Hoyt
and leave Beaver to his fate. After four years
of service as machine Governor the present EX-
ecutive sounds "notc of warning to the whole
people " that the position is intOlerable to any
honest. patriotic man. There was hardly q