Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-10-23
lancaster Entclliuenrcr.
TUESDAY svENrNa. OCT %. 1888.
Money In Politics.


Ex- Senator Gwin, OF California, who
has reached the ripe age of seventy
eight, be ing at present sojourning IN
New York, has given bis views upon the
presidential nomination Of the Democ-
racy to Sun reporter. He is Tor III
den and Hendricks, and seems to have
but one particular reason for his prefer
ence. He says that Tilden's money in
1875 was more potent than many are
willing to acknowledge. His record as
q reformer undoubtedly had its weight,
but men of discernment know that
Il wouldn't have amounted to much
we're it not for his income OF
four hundred thousand year,
Mr., Gwin declares that " Dorsey
disclosures give the key to the over
towering element in modern politics
1t is money. No man can now be an
available candidate for president VINO
cannot control large sum of money
1t was the million spent by Garlield's
managers that defeated Hancock. Money
will be as potent a factor in the
next campaign. 1t is fact all the more
deplorable because it is a fact. All the
signs point to Blaine as the Republican
candidate. He would be backed by in
creditable sums Of money. He would
swamp any Democratic candidate who
ran on his rec c,rd and popularity alone
Take your man Holman. \ more worthy
candidate could not be found. Econo
my, frugality and honesty would be
insured under his administration. The
business interests of the country would be
far safer than under the administration
of a man like Garfield" Mr. Gwin says
that Conkling protested to him that the
great bane of his life has been his pow
erty. He avows that every observing
politician knows that the first question
asked concerning a candidate is not, is
he deserving but how much money
can he raise ~ You can't shut your eyes
to the fact, h says, that candidate 5
money as we'll as character is to be con
sidertd in estimating his availability
which he admits Is humiliatng,
but insists that it is true.
We note these declarations of Mr..
Gwin because they are frank avoWaI
of the belief entertained by many men
and perhaps the major portion of the
class whom the aged X.senator describes
as "Observing politicians meaning
men who take up politics as a business,
to be conducted on business principles
for individual profit. Mr, Gwin is a
first class representative Of this type OF
men. He believes that money. being
the mainstay of human action, must be
accepted as likewise the motor Cf
political evolutions. Apd no doubt Mr..
Gwin is right in his conception of its
temporary power. Certainly Dlrsey's
dlstr button of the Republican campaign
fund elected Garfield. Bat where is
Dorsey now and where is the R-publi-
can PARTY
Money VIII not be the prime motor ot
the permanently successful political
party rr politician IN this republic, n
the view Of those wHo have iajth
in the purity, strength and vitality
of our democratic institutions. y
little while ago it looked far more as
though the country was to be subdued
by the money influence than it dOtsnuw
The wreck of the Republican party OF
this rock dispels the delusion. The It'd,
of feeling growing up against the money
power points out to the truly ObseT
want politician the need to keep his
party free from suspicion Of its iulu
ence. The future tribune of the people
is not the man Of repu.cd wealth, but OF
esteemed poverty. The man of millions
does not recommend himself to the
people; and this not because of his
millions but becG use Of the unpatriOtiC
and wrongful ways in which the million;
are generally got They are not the
rewards of honest toll of mind or body
but the results of dishonest conspiracy
against the interests of the people, whiCl
cause their money to immOdeTately llov
into private Golfers.
The Democratic party, standing rs th,
champion of the virtue, liberty and in
dependence which the nation wa
formed to proclaim and enjoy, will no
make money the measure of its candi
date.
Three Black Crows.
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