The daily gazette., 1882-04-12
Republican Peril ln Pennsylvania
From the Now York Tribune.

The Republican situation in Penn |
sylvaDia does not In prove as time goes
on. A growing feeling of bitterness
towards the regular party management |
is perceptible iD mapy directions. In |
spite OF all protests and appeals for q |
free convention which will represent |
the Pill of the party, the determination
TO make General Beaver the candidate
is steadily pressed by the machine. In
Philadelphia, where the people are ami
mated with an unusual spirit of inde-
pendence, due to their recent success
fdl uprising against Boss rule, the inde-
pendent Republicans are openly declar-
ing for revolt. Mr.. Wharton Barker
writes to Senator Mitchell:-"My fears
have been fully realized, and the Re-
publican party, In the hands Of The
present leIders, is dead in Pennsylvania
because OF the revulsion of feeling In
Philadelphia" To this Senator Mitch
ell replied in the long letter OF rather
melancholy acquiescence which had
been published in the Tribune.
Whether these gloomy forebodings
will be realized, II Is not possible to de-
eide now. They seem to us to be more
gloomy than the facts warrant, but they
are expressed py men who have studied
the situation with care and concern.
They and the men for whom they speak
are disposed to claim that the only way
possible for securing q more Just and
liberal representation Of Republican SEN
| timent iu the councils and leadership of
the party Is to revolt and take the risk
giving the State into the control of
the Democrats. They claim that the
present leaders will only abandon their
autocratic methods when they are shown
that to continue them is to invite de-
feat.
They declare hat under the present
system of representation in the State
Convention the vast body of Republic
can voters have practically no voice,
but are completely at the mercy of the
few who control the machine. In sup
port of this they claim that at the con-
vention, which ls to be held in May,
the delegates ( ON only ten of the
sixty-seven counties of the State will
be chosen by the people on the issues
now before them. The convention,
they believe, was purposely put at 80
early date as to make a free and
accurate expression by the people inn
possible. This is a serious charge,
and though it was made a long time
ago we have never seen any refutatiOn
of it. 1t is charged also, that the
candidate for Governor was selected
by the machine, even before the con-
vention was called, and that his nomi
nation is to be forced upon the party
whether 1T wishes him or not. To thii
charge there has been no reply except
+ confession.
: These ars some of the elements o.
discord. Senator Mitchell, in conver-
: salion with Washington correspon'
. dent of the Tribune, has mentioned
others which are not peculiar to Penn
sylvania. He said concerning Fedora
i appointments in the State = "rhe.
: have been, like thoso IN New York
: pretty much all one way" What h'
meant by that was explained by
Pennsylvania Congressman, who sail
: he believed Senator Cameron "pro
posed to secure from The President b!
degrees the removal of every anti
!, Cameron Republican holding Fede'
raj office in Pennsylvania"
= This reveals one cause of all th
trouble in the State. An attempt il
: being made by the use ofpatronage tt
Stalwartize the Republican party-t'
4 convert it's majority against its will
a from Garfield to Stalwart Republican
/. ism. General Beaver, the predeter
i mined candidate for Governor, is hrs
a of all a Stalwart. He voted thirty-si1
0 times for q third-term at Chicago
: knowing all the time that he was mis-
: representing the sentiment both of hi
district and his State. He was picke'
a out for Governor because OF this ser
y vice, His selection was an affront T.
l. vast majority of Pennsylvania Re
2, publicans, who objected to him on &C
d count of his third-termism, his sub
3 serviency to the machine, and tn
pi manner of his selection for the office
y The Independents, IN view of al
these grievances, and the most loya
Republican must confess that the,
give cause for dlscon ent, say the
think the time has come for revolt
Many of them hope that the gravity Q
the situation will SO impress itsel
F upon the leaders of the party by th
time the convention meets that Ger
eral Beaver will be wi hdrawn. w
IN sincerely hope this will be the cas'
al Neither President Arthur nor Sanatc
D. Cameron can fail to see the damagin
,y blow it would be to both of them |
lis have Pennsylvania go Democrat,
ly That certainly would not help on
at Stalwart revival. Senator Camera
A has often shown that he possesst
be more sagacity than the other Stalwal
In leaders. Unlike Mr.. Conkling,
ed has been able to recognize the necet
o, sity of occasionally retreatlng. L
IN cannot do better now than pondl
or upon the efforts of Mr.. Conkling
at show himself bigger man than I'll
m mae whele Republican party of New Yorl
In