Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-02
ONE MORE ADDRESS
Issued by the Lincoln Independent
Republican Committee.
AN APPEAL TO TIE SOLDIERS
To Vote Against Delamater and for Ex-Gov.
ernor Pattison.
THE REASONS GIVEN FOR THIS CALL


ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE p1sPATcH.l
PHILADELPHIA, October 1.-Justu G.
Strawbridge, Chairman, and Herbert Welsh,
Secretary, of the Lincoln Republican Inde-
pendent Committee, to-day issued the fol-
lowing address to the soldiers of this State:
On the field of Gettysburg, the battle ground
of Pennsylvania. Abraham Lincoln said of the
men who fell there that they died in order that
government ''of the people, by the people and
for the people" should not perish from the
earth. Lincoln truly represented the peoples
government; he himself was "of the people, /"
plain of face and speech; "for the people, in
the devotion of his life and in the sacrifice of
his death: "by tine people," in that he came to
power and held it, not by craft but by their
sovereign will.
The Lincoln Independent Republicans ask
the men Of Pennsylvania who remember Get
tysburg to consider the dangers which now
threaten that government of the people for
which both Abraham Lincoln and the soldiers
of Gettysburg died. The government of the
people is threatened by the government OF the
party boss. The peoples government, of
which Lincoln spoke, is one in which the peo-
pie themselves choose the representatives who
shall manage their affairs, but in boss govern
ment it is the boss alone who selects the man
for whom the people are allowed to vote.
Underlings carry out the boss will without a
murmur.
THEN AND NOW.
The man who has mind of his own and ex-
presses it commits objectionable sin-he is
the outcast of his party. Free expression of
opinion. fair argument on public policy is the
life of free government. By such methods
Lincoln conquered Douglass in their great de-
bate. By making clear those truths which he
saw and believed he became the first and
greatest leader of the Republican party
1t is not SO under boss government A boss
does not reason about sound or unsound policy
he turns the wheels of the political machine,
and his will is done. Matthew s. Quay is the
boss of Pennsylvania. Unlike Lincoln he COM
mands but does not argue. He shuns the air of
public opinion. Lincoln spoke to the mind and
the heart of the common people. He appealed
to public sentiment. Quay's skill is used to
stife it.
At recent great Republican meeting in Phil
adeIphia, where leaders of the party from within
and without the State were gathered, Quay,
the most powerful of them all, did not appear,
and no one alluded to him. 1t would have been
bad politics to have brought back to the public
mind the story of the Pardon Board, the re-
corder's bill and rifed Treasury. In a gov
ernment of the people. by the people and for
the people, leader who dares not face the
world should step down and out.
COMPARED TO THE czAR.
The government of which Lincoln spoke de-
mands free, courageous press but boss gov
ernment, by heavy hand or skillful manuver-
ing, gags the press; it changes the free news
paper into the trameled official gazette, in
which the boss praises are sounded and his
orders are carried out, but from which, should
his interests demand it, the words and the
movements of his adversaries are excluded.
The boss of Pennsylvania controls some news
papers as effectively as the Gar of Russia con-
trolls offending sheets within his own territory,
or blots out by the ink smears of his censors
suspected printed matter which crosses his
frontier.
Those who believe in the peoples govern
ment seek to influence the public mind on pub
lie matters by fair statement of fact and by
argument. They know that such government
depends for its right action and permanent
success upon the intelligence, knowledge and
wisdom of the people, ana they seek to appeal
to these alone. Under boss government morals
have no place. Their every influence is con-
bribes of office; the boss says nothing can be
done without such inducements; great corpora
tions are justified il letting their employees
know that dismissal follows vote contrary to
their dictatIon; it is right for business firms to
put large sums of money into the bosses hands
and to shut their eyes while the bosses spend
1t; 1t is right to do anything so you win. Let
the voters of Pennsylvania reflect on these
things before November.
TO THE SOLDIERS.
Soldiers of Pennsylvania. you are called on
either to approve that Kind of government, for
Wnlcn tne DlOOQ OIL your DreInren nOWeQ at
Gettysburg, or that which maintains itself by
bribery, by corruption and the unrestrained
will of an unscrupulous man. You are asked
to cast your vote for a candidate for Governor
who calls himself a Republican, but who, if
Lincoln represented Republicanism, is not one
"a candidate who was determined upon by
Quay two years ago. and who has publicly an
nounced that he indorses wholly that platform
which wholly indorses Quay. He is therefore
the representative of boss rule. of Quay Re-
publicanism.
If however. you cast your vote for the Demo-
cratic candidate you do so for one whose rec
ord all may read-for one of whom the Repub-
Iican press once said that his administration
was pure, wise and safe. We ask you, fellow
citizens of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
to make your choice between the government
of the people. by the people and for the people
and the goYernment Of by and for the hoSses