The advocate., 1892-03-16

dent Harrison, while in the United states
Senate, protested so elOauSntly and 80 fer
Vently.
Hon. Edward o. Wolcott, the junior
United States Senator from Colorado, In
letter from Washington, D. G., January
2l, 1892, to Gen. G. J. Langdon, of Ell
mira, New York, says:
The charges against DR.. Flood, and upon
which it 10 pretended his removal was based,
are of the most trifing character, and are
wholly unsupported by any evidence in cor
roboration of them, If charges Of SINH
lar character were made by any individual
in some matter nos affecting the govern
ment of the United States, they would not
stand moments scrutiny. they deal only
in vile innuendo, and would not bear the
light of the most superficial investigation.
They were sufficient for the pOstmaster-g
eral OF the United States; they would NOT
be sufficient for any fair man.
In discussing these fsgrant, naked evils
of our present time, the Record says:
The Office holders are NOT allowed to act
according to their own convictions. They
are removed or suspended unless they act
according TO the wishes of their superiOrs.
Is this American indppenderce2 Il this IL
accord with free government Where
is the indignation that used to be aroused
at the slightest interference with the libeF-
ties of the ptople2 Why do not the citizens
of Boston flock to Faneuil Hall to denounce
this tigh handed dCtatiOn?
The public are deluded by the ballot. but
let them remember that Caesar Augustus al
lowed the Roman people to cast their ballots
after the empire was established. he only
took care that it should be he who selected
the candidates. The ballot means nothing
unless it carries with it free and untram-
melled choice of candidates TO be voted for,
and such choice the American people are
not exercising TO- day.
The New York Nation in lengthy
screed on "Ohio's Republican Tammany,"
aud on its gaudy sachem, Hon. ~ George
B. Cox, the proprietor of CINCINNATI
palatial man Staying saloon, thus closes
Is article:
Such is politics to-day in one of our chief
cities and in one of the largest states of the
union; an illIterate saloon KEEPER absolutely
controls the municipality, and almost sue
ceeds in controlling the Legislsture,in order
TO turn out from the United States Senate
its most eminent member! Unhappily it is
not unique case. Many another large city
can match 1t in its chief features, and many
smaller one as far as circumstances allow
imitation. Cox ls Republican in Cincin-
natl, but he would be a Democrat in New
York, and he would be here as loyal asup
porter of Dave" HILL and as bitter an Op-
ponent of Grover Cleveland as in Ohio he is
the backer of Foraker and the "knifer" of
Sherman. The significance of Cox is as
type of the men who are to-day the most
powerful class in the government Of this
countryside bosses Of our great cities.
1t might seem to the superficial ob
servers In current politics, that President
Benjamin Harrison, with hosts of big and
little satellites, as aid de- camps, Is the
mammoth Republican coDjuror in this
,our hundredth year from the discovery
Of America by Christopher Columbus
and, that "Governor Senator" David Ben
nett Hill is the clpqueror to whom tht
Democrats In martial acclaim may fierce
ly and hOarsely shout, Hail to the chief
Let all the people hail Hlll!"
The New York Times of March 8. 1892
10 lengthy, vigorous editorial on "Tht
Voice of Democracy" speaks out III