The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-06-07
THE SHAME OF PENNSYLVANIA.

The State Of Pennsylvania and the city Of
PHILADELPHIA are now reaping that harvest of
dishonor which always follows sooner or later
from the INSCRIPTIONS use Of money in pro-
noting political objects. When the last presi-
Dental campaign was in progress a leading
citizen Of Philadelphia, who had always
posed in the public eye as a man of remarka-
BILE s%anctity, shocked the conscience of all
thoughtful and conservative Americans by
subscribing $4,000 to the general fund,
which, it was notorious. the Republican Ma
tional Executive Committee was using for
the corruption Of voters. The criminal ex-
ample-for it practically amounted to neither
more nor l~ess-whIch he set has been initiated
on a smaller pecuniary scale by all others
who were eager to influence the local or ma
tional elections which have taken place in
Pennsylvania since the memorable act which
obtained for Mr.. Wanamaker the Postmaster
Generalship of the United States.
The inevitable result Of this reckless and
immoral use of money is now coming 10 the
surface. When the number and the heinous-
ness of the defalcations of which 50 many
citizens of Pennsylvania have been recently
guilty are considered a feeling of shame is ex-
cited in the breast of every true American
that there should be communities in the
United States in which the tone of public
morality and private honor should have sunk
so low as to permit the preparation Of crimes
so disgraceful to the general reputation of
the whole Union.
A. a. ,,.,ont An,r Dxrrr1ro~.c 49, ~
most dlscreditable spectacle to the world at
largo. Her senior Senator, as is well known.
secured his election by a contribution Of
800, 900 to the Republican party in the last
State campaign. Her junior Senator, whose
name has become the synonym Of all that is
degraded in national politics, was only saved
from indictment when he occupied the posi-
ton of State Treasurer by the pecuniary
assistance of friends who came forward and
made good the amount of his defalcation.
Her representative in the Cabinet was adj
vanced TO his seat in return for his lavish use
of his fortune in promoting by corrupt
methods the success Of Mr.. Harrison, and he
is now charged on substantial grounds with
seeking to shield from punishment several of
the i"ullhuelpnla banker VINO nave wrecked
the institutions over which they presided.
The Treasurer of the great city of Phila-
delphia is now la%nguishing in prison, but with
sufficient energy left to accuse the leading
bankers of that city of having bribed him to
deposit in their vaults the funds which he had
collected, by paying him on his own private
account 2 per cent. on the amounts which he
placed with them. By the defalcations of this
man the State of Pennsylvania has been
robbed Of a million Of dollars. and the loss of
the city of Philadelphia through the same
agency falls little short Of an equal sum.
There now pines in jail with Bardsley one Of
the foremost bank presidents of PHILADELPHIA.
and another is a fugitive from justice, while
two bank cashiers are under heavy bonds on
criminal charges. And as the crown of all
this infamy. the late candidate'of the Republi-
can party for the Governorship of the State
will soon be placed in the dock to stand his
trial as a common embezzler.
Truly the people of Pennsylvania are reap
ing a harvest of the deepest shame and dis
honor.