Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-18
MIR. ANDREWS CHARACTERISTICS.


which burst upon the political atmosphere
concurrently with the boisterous winds of
night before last has two characteristic
features. One is the grievous complaint OF
the opponents of Delamater for personal
abuse; the other is the unique theory de-
veloped concerning the effect of the cleo
tion of a Governor in one State, on the vote
for President in another State two years
later. The originality of Mr.. Andrews
logic on these points makes his address de-
serving OF preservation in the dime muse
ums as a curiosity of political literature.
Mr. Andrews complaint about the abuse
and ISLANDERS of the opposition is suggestive
of the tendency of extremely intoxicated
persons to think that every one else is
drunk. Whether Mr.. Andrews is ''intoxi-
Gated with the exuberance of his own verbosi-
ty" is not further important as Indicating the
necessity that his associates should sober
him up. But the production of an address
which contains nothing of pertinence to the
campaign, except unsubstantiated and facti.
tious allegations against the opposition, and
at the same time cries out because the oppo-
sition has been attacking its candidate, is a
fresh manifestation of political Stiffness.
Pa!tison is demagogue because he walked
from the Harrisburg station to the Capitol,
instead of spreading himself is a carriage
according to the Andrews style; Wallace
would not support the State ticket, if he
did not see chance to steal the State by
gerrymander; Scott, Cassidy and Singerly
were bosses: "characterless men have been
suborned, meaning Messrs. Humes, Beach
and Odell, the last named one being at last
accounts suborned to stick to the Delamater
side; but the awful crime of spre ding "the
slime of slander" has been committed in
making definite charges against the Repub-
lican candidate of violating the Constitu-
tion, of suppressing investigation into
violation of law, of purchasing votes, and
of defeating a party associate. an old soldier,
because he would not agree to bargain
about the deposits of public funds, which ap-
pear to have been the polesta- of Mr..
Delamater's political career. To give the
details of these allegations; to produce the
evidence; and to challenge for it the test Of
investigation by judicial authority is Mr..
Andrews idea of slander. But to splutter
out in an official address whatever puerile
Imagination can manufacture against the
opposition is also that gentleman's theory of
political leadership.
But this feature is surpassed by Mr.. |
Andrews deliverance to the effect that If |
Beaver had been elected in 1882, Blaine |
would have carried New York in 1884 This |
is brought out by Mr.. Andrews final resort |
to the pitifuI plea that the people of Penn
sylvania must not stand up for clean State ad- |
and the supremacy of the Cons !
titution and laws over the corporations and |
politicians, for fear it would hurt National |
politics. To forestall the obvious reply that |
after giving Pattison 40, 900 |
in 1882 gave Blaine 80, 900 in 1884, |
Mr.. Andrews evolves from his mighty in |
tellect the following:
Our answer is that if Beaver had been elected |
in 1882 all the election villainies usual to New
Y FORK could not have counted out Blaine in |
1854, and SO now with Delamater and the entire |
State ticket.
Here we find two allegations, that the |
election villainies counted out Blame in |
New York in 1884, and that if Beaver had |
been Governor of Pennsylvania he would |
have prevented it. Up to the present time |
the only specific charges of election villainies |
in New York in the year of Blaine's defeat |
was that John j. O'Brien received from an |
eminent corporation king S100. 900 to be in |
vested in votes for the Republican candidate, |
and that he shamelessly omitted TO deliver |
the goods. This doubtless appears in Mr.. |
Andrews political system, like villain |
ously defrauding the Republicans of what |
was theirs by the vested right of purchase. |
But the allegation that Governor Beaver, if |
he had then been sitting in the executive |
chair at Harrisburg, would have sternly COM
pelled the wicked O'Brien to deliver the |
votes, is crediting the man who could not
call an extra session of the Legislature for |
the relier of Johnstown with an unneces-
sary amount of stamina. Mr.. Andrews as
Bertion renders it pertinent to inquire if in
the case of Mr.. Delamater's election it will |
be part of his Gubernatorial duties to
march the Pennsylvania State troops to
New York and compel the strikers OF that
city to fulfill their contracts of political bar
gain and sale?
Mr.. Andrews address partakes more of the
character of contribution to comic paper
than of serious political argument
AN ANTEDMUvIAN ORATOR.
Those people of the South who have as
simi lated perception of the fact that the