Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1890-07-14

LANCASTER. PA, July IA, 1890.
Wantetl--A yiNdicatiou.

How did man whose name stands
for no principle of craftsmanship, for no
line of public policy, who Is the cham
pion Of no measure of municipal or state
4 reform, who is neither an orator, writer
or thinker upon any political, social or
economic question, and whose reputa-
ton, both public and private, IL I'm the
last degree unsavory did such n
man become the most influential and
powerful political leader in the second
state Of the Union? How did he gain n
seat i'm the highest legislative body of
the nation? How did he, when not n
( candidate for any Office, and no more
entitled at the present time than his
bro'her-senator, J. ID. Cameron, to a
public endorsement of his career, force
himself upon state convention of his
party and compel IL to make as the chief
declaration of its platform the assertion
that as a citizen, an assemblyman, a
state secretary, state treasurer and
United States senator :" he has won and
retains our respect and confidence?
There is but one explanation. Men
who attain power in a republic either
soar or crawl. There is no middle course.
"There are but two creatures says
d. Alembert, that can reach the top of
the pyramid-the eagle and the ser
pent.' And Matthew Stanley Quay Is
not an eagle. Like the serpent he has
reached high place through base means.
But
" Pygmies are pygmies stilI though perchcd
And pyramids @ @ are pyramids in yalos."
And now that he boldly commands
the good people of Pennsylvania to AS
/ sert respect for his character, which
they do not feel, and confidence in his
integrity, which they do not possess, by
electing "agovernor whom he can own,''
they should make good the old Demo.
cratic aphorism, cor popodi est por del
and answer him in the very language OF
deity to another Of his kind-the com
mon ancestor of the Quay family of pol.
ftIcians Z" upon thy belly shalt thou &c
and dust shalt thou eat all the days OF
{ thy life"
But in the vigorous language of an
honest and patriotic Republican, Mr.
Henry G. Lea Z" A viudcation truly is
needed at the coming election, but II Is
not the vindication Of tainted politicians
& who dare not vindicate themselves. You
are called upon to vindicate your own
manhood, 10 vindicate the honesty o
your own party, To vindicate the honol
Of your own state, You are called upon
TO show that you do not wear tn,
collar of Mr.. Quay that your "e,es ar,
4 not to be bought and sold by the manip
ulation of patronage, and that you ar,
not to I've driven to the polls like cattle {,
make good the bargains of your DO sses.
And Of the Democratic candidate ht
I says: In Ex-Governor Pattison the
y Democrats have given you an uncxcep
tiOnable candidate, whose record shows
that the interests of the state will he safe
In his hands IL in making that record
he earned the hostility of the giant cor.
poratiops-if the influence of the Penn
sylvania railroad and of. the Standard
Oil company is understood to be counted
upon by Mr.. Delamater--it is only an
other claim on your suflrages for Mr.
Pattison. He represents not only the
people against the bosses but the people
against the corporations, and his defeat
will be the triumph of all that Is most
dangerous and most deadly to our insti
N tutions.n
This, truly, is the vindication wanted
by the good people of Pennsylvania-s
yindication from the methods and
morals of Quayism f; or, AS Mr. Pow
derly terms it, a new Declaration of In.
dependence from the rule of a worse
tyrsnt than King George Ill.