The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-05-23

concerned, they have been treated
with great forbearance. If the fel-
lows who invented this new variety
O ex-governor were satisfied and the
Democrats happy in possession OF
the spoils, there seemed no good rea-
son why Republicans should worry
themselves about the matter, and
they have not done SO.
The complaint comes from anoth-
er quarter. The people most disap-
pointed are the Republicans who
voted for Democrats under a mis-
taken sense of duty or under the
spur of petty resentment. The
erowls and grumbles come most
from the stiff jointed impracticables
who love to call themselves Inde-
pendents, and who affect %conscien-
tious devotion to reform methods.
The Democrats who voted the
straight ticket have no reason to COM
plain except in the case of Butler,
who of all the tidal-wave governors,
in the only one who has been true
to the title.
In Kansas certain classes of Re-
publicans votedfor Click as a rebuke
to Governor st. John. No sooner
was Click in office than he proceed
ed to read all the Republicans who
voted for the prohibition amend
ment a lecture on the error of their
ways. Ifhe had given the anti-tem-
perance Democrats a pledge to undo
or render void all the work of Re
publican Legislatures on the liquor
question he could not have done
more in that direction than he has
done. He is the fruit of Republican
dissatisfaction and resentment, and
it is comforting to know that the
men who are most ~disgruntled over
his official actions are the Republi-
cans who voted for him.
In Pennsylvania there was in the
issue between Republicanism and
Independentism as aggravated a case
of political throat cutting as is on
record. Republicans, to accomplish
a certain purpose, voted either for
Pattison (Democrat) or Stewart
independently, and Beaver, a Re
publican of unimpeachable record,
was defeated. The leader in the
Pattison movement was Colonel Nc
Clure, of the Philadelphia Times,
and if he is not satisfied with results
in may be assumed that not many
who followed him are.
In a recent interview Colonel Nc
Clure pronounces' Governor Pattison
a misfit. He has done absolutely
nothing; he is not bigenough for the
place he has not kept his promis-
es; he has made bad appointments
he has surrendered to the worst ell
ements ofthe Democratic party; his
administration has been weakness
itself, and has paralyzed the Demo-
cratic organization in Pennsylvania.
Worse than this, failure to do what
was expected of him has convinced
the Pennsylvania independents that
under the circumstances independ-
ence is folly"
These are the admissions or con-
LESSONS of a man who has believed
in independent action. And he has
no hesitation in saying that the ex-
pertinent in New York ended as bad
ly for Independents and Democrats
as that in Pennsylvania. In all the
States except Massachusetts the
tidal-wave Governors have been
misfts or disappointments, and the
end will be, Colonel Mcclure be-
lieves, a reunited Republican party
and a divided or disorganized Dem
ocracy.
Charles z. Smith, an anti Cameron
Republican, and editor of the Phila-
delphia Press, agreed with Mcclure
on the main points, and declares that
Pattison's administration has been
a great disappointment to all who
hopes for reform in methods. In bis
opinion the Republicans have had
all they are for of reform Democra-
CIV, and after this they will 60 it
alone and win.
On the evidence submitted by the
boilers of 1882, Butler is the only
tidal-wave Governor who has made
a respectable record, and he went
in, not on the wave, but by hard
work and political shrewdness in
management. Butler is not a misft
from the independent standpoint,
bat he isa standing menace TO the
peace of the Democratic party. So,
take it all in all, the political child
ishnesss of 1882 has already met
with suitable reward. The men who
did the most mischief ere now most
willing to acknowledge the error OF
their ways.-Inter Ocean.