Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-11

sylvania voters allow the Georgians to rule
the roost, to fill the fat offices, to represent
the State, to boss things generally. while the
white folks retired to the joys OF obscurIty
and the sweets of private business? we
trow not But yet Reed in his pursuit OF
the Presidency, Sherman in his reach for the
same high position, Ingalls, with his soaring
ambition for the highest seat, are all slop-
ping over with sympathy, boiling over the
terrible wrong, raging over the iniracteo
srights of citizenship where their object Is
jeopardized by Democratic votes. but this Is
all we'll accounted for by Ingalls, definition
OF politics in which the decalogue and the
Golden Rule are out of place.
TRIED BY INGALLS, CODE.
Under his rule and theory, and political
principles Wade Hampton, and Brecken-
ridge and all of the other Democratic
leaders of the South are doing exactly right.
The politicians of the solidly Democratic
States are working their way on precisely
the same lines as the Republicans. They
are using every means. They are hiring
"Hessians," they are purchasing mercena-
ries, they are mutilating, killing, destroy
ing. They are sowing sorrow, embittering
lives, breaking hearts, covering reputable
men with infamy and doing all manner OF
cruelty and inhumanity TO men to insure
political success. This is what Senator In
gals says both parties do in political
campaign.
But while the assertion that activity of
the moral nature should not be allowed to
interfere with using all means, fair or un-
fair, to insure success, it is pretty plain that
the politicians want to pose before the peo-
pie as virtuousIy indignant, as sincerely
honest, as piously shocked at any hint of
bribery, or intimidation, or forgery, or
counting out, or elimination of character,
or killing, or DESTROYING. All they want,
as they say, is fair election and an honest
count But now Mr.. Ingalls, has let the
cat out of the bag. and owns up that what
they really desire, and will move heaven
and earth to secure, by fair play or foul, is
success for their own side. For this Ingalls,
has spasms of agony over the ignorant vote
OF the South being suppressed in favor of
the Democracy, but he regards with COM
placency, and perhaps admiration, every
device, intrigue, fraud, bribery, corruption,
defamation that insures Republican success
anywhere. He is wholly in favor of the
representation of Ignorance, and strongly
opposed to the expression of intelligence.
IT EXPLAINS MUCH.
The definition of politics as given by Mr..
Ingalls, explains a great many questions
that have bothered many good people a
great deal, who are not committed to the
political confession of faith-that the end
justities the means-as set forth bv Mr.. In
gals. To them it has seemed strange and
incomprehensible that men in private life,
deemed decent and reputable citizens by
their friends and neighbors, are set forth as
rascals and reprobates when they happen to
be nominated for public office. The demand
for party supremacy shows up the purest Of
patriots to be utterly corrupt and base the
enemy of his country, the most infamous of
creatures, the representative of vice and
pollution and all vileness. He, himself, his
family, his relations are made the prey of
the opposition, if by their vilifcation and
abuse success is more assured. This is in
accordance, we are told, with the ruling
principle of politics as defined by Mr..
Ingalls,.
1t also discloses the extent to which the
people are gulled and deceived by the tricks
and malignant devices of intriguing politi-
clans. In view Of all this vileness, corrup-
tion, trickery, bribery and all manner Of
wrong, unrestrained by the decalogue or the
Golden Rule, it may we'll be thought that
publication of politics-as Mr.. ingalls,
avers-is an iridescent dream, and that we
are near to the day when a government by
the people will become q mere farce-a
going through the motions only-while the
Brices, and Quays, and Dudleys, and Platts
do the real fighting without regard to the
decalogue or the Golden Rule. Then the
country will 60 to ruin, and be overrun and
overcome by bribery, monopoly and all cor
ruption-the Goths and Vandals of the nine
teenth century. BESSIE BRAMBLE.