Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-09-01

clining to accept either of the four
compromise propositions OF the Stall
warts settles the question that there
will be five political parties contesting
the field in the State at the approaching
election. 1t also settles it as fact that
the Cameron-Stalwart forces led by
General Beaver, will be defeated, unless
wholesale purchase of the Greenback
and labor organizations should avert
the Threatened defeat. That Cameron
means to resort to purchase of voters!
both by money and the sale of the adj
ministration of Justice. is evident Says.
the Philadelphia Times, speaking of the
tactics which Cameron has already in
augurated: Evidences multiply on ev-
cry side that the present State contest is
to eliminate in a general Boss auction
shop, to secure the election of the Cam
eron machine ticket by the direct or in
direct purchase of Democratic votes. It.
is no innovation on the Cameron policy
of managing State campaigns. 1t was
first boldly inaugurated in 1872, when
the Molly Mcguire organization was
openly debauched, and when every CEN
ter of organized industry was tempted or
betrayed by corrupt demagogues. who
sold their followers for machine cash.
"Nor did the decentralization end with
pollution of the ballot 1t taught the
idle, the venal and the vicious that when
they entered the political market-place
to barter their votes to the bosses, they
could secure immunity for crime in adj
dition to the corrupt consideration paid
for their votes. The leader of the trad
ers in the anthracite region, who sat in
the parior of a prominent politician Of
Pottsville, to contract for the delivery
of Irish votes to Hartranft, received the
last instalment of his pay as Governor
Hartranft's death-warrant sent him To
the gallows. and dozen others paid the
penalty of crime on the gibbet who had
been encouraged to lawlessness by the
reckless and irresponsible assurance of
protection against the just judgments of
the law.
"What was begun in 1872 was con-
tinued in growing political debauchery
of a large class of voters in the coal
regions, until the long pent up VEN
geance of the offended law forced even
those who had profited by the crime in
political promotion to bow to the man
dates of the law and punish their own
deluded friends. At last the people of
the State were compelled to hear from
the lips of an eloquent and fearless adj
vocate, when pleading for the majesty
of the law in its own temple, the distinct
accusation that high officers of State
had contracted with crime for political
results, and had given the pledge
OF protection to criminals whose
votes were auctioned to INSCRIPTIONS
leaders. That charge was made circum-
stantially, and to this day it is unchal-;;
lenged by those who were thus accusedJ
The final issue was the only logical re-
suit that can follow lawlessness The
labor organizations which had been be-
trayed by corrupt leaders, were broken
up; the murderers were executed; lesser
criminals were imprisoned; distrusted
Judges and other local officers were de-
throned, and law and right triumphed,
as they ever must in the fullness of
time. Who is there to-day ready to re-
peat the blotted and bloody record of
the political debauchery inagurated by
the bosses in 1872. and ending in the
terrible retribution of 1S77-79?''
That Boss Cameron is ready and
willing to repeat the huckstering opera
tions of ten years ago is evidenced
from the recent developments in the
Clearfield coal region, where violators of
the law have already been protected by
Caneron's political shield against the
avenged sword of justice. the considera-
ton for such protection being that the
votes of the Knights of Labor organiza-
ton should be cast for the Stalwart ticket.
The trouble with this scheme is that it
will be difficult, if not impossible, for
either party TO this shameless bargain to
deliver the promised goods. Cameron's
henchmen may protect the Clarified
iaw-breakers in the preliminary stages
of the prosecution, but when they get
into the courtroom they will find that
the scales of justice are in the hands of
an independent and fearless judiciary
which will brook no sale or denial OF
justice. Before these Judges the guilty.
will suffer the pena'ty of the law. To
be sure. Cameron owns the Board of
Pardons, but the weapon has already
been strained to its utmost tension. and
any attempt to save convicted criminals
for political purposes at this date will
be resented by the great mass of the
honest voters of the State and will only
hasten Cameron's doom. Nor is it like
ly that any considerable portion of the
vote of the Knights of Labor can be car
RED over to the Republican Stalwart
ticket by promises of pardon to crimi-
nails. The great mass of the laborers of
Pennsylvania is law-abiding and order
iy, and it will not allow itself to be he
trayed into the hands of Cameron to
serve the ends of a few selfish and de-
signing leaders. The tactics of Gamer
on at this juncture are interesting, main
~ as showing the desperate condition of
his affairs, and to what lengths this
trusted leader of the Republican party
will go to gain his ends That the re-
suit of the campaign will be an over
whelming defeat of the Stalwarts seems
beyond any reasonable doubt.-Nesc h.
ten Register.
"A remarkable sand-storm. accom-.
panied by an intensely cold tempera-
ture, is mentioned in Icelandic journals
as having ragged on that island for two
weeks during the past spring The air
was filled with dry, fine sand to such a.
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