Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1883-09-29
CLEANSE THE AIR.

tagOn1Sm TO Bosses In p0lltlcal analr6
that has assumed positive shape among
the people, and threatens certain death
to any movement mar ipulated by trick,
sters, who assume ownership Of q party.
This deep seated, ever growing. and
determined opposition to such misrule
and wrong, has grown out of the fla
grant use of money in the caucus, at
the polls, and through all political
measures. Napoleon said the man who
never made mistakes never went to war.
The Republican party has fought SO
many battles through its war against
wrong, that to make mistakes was ex-.
pected. The greatest mistake permitted
was the ascendency of any man in any
state to the unnatural and autOcratic
position of Boss. In some states this
was undoubtedly done, while in most
states it was not done. But the health
fulness of the party is seen in the fact
that it heals its own sores. REPUBI-
CANS WILL NOT TOLERATE A BOSS-WILL
NOT SUBMIT TO A CORRUPT USE OF MONEY
IN POLITICS. Thus, In Pennsylvania the
Boss Cameron was defeated and dis
owned by Republicans, who would not
endorse ticket made in the interests
of the Ring. In New York the Boss
Conklirg was Overthrown and relegated
to the rear by Republicans, who en-
phasized their hatred of BOssism by yot-
ing, to the tens of thousands, for DEM
Ocrat. In no state, under no circum-
stances, will Republicans admit boss
to control public affairs.
The selfish, ruinOus practice of Boss
ism goes back to the days of Tweed,
Democrat the Boss of Bosses. While
there is unquestioned loyalty among
Democrats to their ticket, good, bad, or
Indifferent while they have more of
submission to the ipse dixit Of party.
and but little of the robust independence
of Republicans in politics, it is but fair
to say, that there is, in the Democratic
party, an element of protest and fight
against Bosses, who assume to have, and
to hold, for their own selfish purposes,
the entire Democratic party. There is
now an excellent opportunity for Demo-
Gratis to show their sincerity in warning
against Ring control in Ohio. Will
they do it? Will they initiate the eX-
ample of Republicans in Pennsylvania
and New York, and render an unmis-
taxable verdict against the whole in
famous business of Boss rule and Bari
rule? No one of knowledge will deny
that Bookwalter would not have been
nominated for Governor by Democrats
in 1881, would not have been mentioned
as Senator in 1883, would not have poll
tical influence, were it not for his
money. An old Republican, he has
bought his way thus far with the Demo-
Gratis. And it is patent to all. that HOad
ly owes his nomination as the Demo
cratic candidate for the Office of Govern
or, not to his loyalty to Democracy for
he has abused the party most of his pub
lie life, and denounced the Greedy move
ment, combination of thieves and
scOundrels, not TO his gifted genius, or
bright talents, but, simply and alone to
the fact that, in addition to him being
shrewd man, hard hitter, and good
speaker. he was willing to, and did,
spend $4,000 to get his nomination, and
then contribute $4,000 to the campaign
fund. Democratic papers have rung all
the changes in denouncing Ring Rule,
Money Rule, and Boss Rule. There can
be no more aggravated case of an at
tempt to install Boss than the money
ed effort to elect Geo. HOadly Governor
of Ohio. We do not expect Democrats to
do their whole duty, in rebuking this
high-handed outrage against free
government, and vindieate the election
of Judge Foraker, against whom none
can say aught, poor man,>tO whom the
nomination was given, without money
and without price. The Republicans,
however, will be sufficient, of their own
strength, to save the state from the dis
grace Of being ruled by one who does
not hesitate to offer his money as an
equivalent for that which should be
above price. In this result some Demo-
Gratis, we are quite sure, will join. And
throughout the country there is an un-
dying determination to cleanse the po-
litical atmosphere of all that is impure,
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