The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-01
PATrIsoN IN PENNSYLVANIA.

4NO puDllC iildH III the STATE Oh feHnSyI-
vania processing Democratic principles
has in recent years been able to secure
for himself any marked degree of public
favor. Year after year the late Samuel
]. Randall occupied a seat in congress
from a Pennsylvania constituency; but
that result was due in much greater
measure to Randalrs devotion to protec-
ton than to any other cause
The only other man who has ever been
able to secure the suffrages Of majority
of the voters of the state is Robert E.
Pattison, who has recently received the
Democratic nomination for governor
That gentleman has already been elect
ed twice as governor of the state, and
there is reason to believe that in the
coming election he will prove successful
over Judge Moneypacker, whose cnarac-
ter and standing are beyond exception, or
would be were he not the chosen favorite
of Senator Matt Quay.
The Pennsylvania Democrats nave act
ed wisely in devoting themselves in the
forthcoming campaign strictly to state
issues. The great need of the public life
of Pennsylvania is the one of a thorough
moral securing. Its pollution at the
present time has become a national by
word, and represents a menace to rep
resentative institutions.
The platform adopted by the Pennsyl-
vania Democrats leaves no doubt that
they are ready to handle the prevailing
corruption in the state without gloves
If the majority of the electors should
not decide to elect Gov Pattison and to
hold his hands up with the aid Of a Dem
ocratic majority in the legislature, they
certainly may ne accepted as welded for
all purposes to public corruption.
1t would be nothing short of a grave
crime against the good name of the COM
monwealth if the following statements
of the platform on which Gov. Pattison
stands admitted of substantial denial
That platform is here quoted at consid-
cradle length, so that the nature and
extent of the Indictment against Repub-
lican administration in the second state
of the Union may be brought clearly be-
| fore the readers of T e Globe. 1t is
as follows:
We repeat that every department of our
state government is heneycombed with
prohigacy, dishonesty, and a reckless dis
regard of constitutional and moral obliga-
ions; that the powers of government are
prostituted to the purposes Of public
thieves; that constitutional restraints and
commands, the sanctity of law, the obli-
| cations OF official oaths, and the demands
| of common honesty are thrust aside by
! the substitution of higher law-the de-
| mandS OF an lnSatiate greed of public
plunderers for money, money, more
money; that shamelessly and open
! ~ the votes of legislators are
bought and so persistently and
! constantly that market values for
! legislators have been established by set
| tied custom; that the apparent indiffer-
! ence of our people to these outrag es en-
boldened the corruptionists~to such an ex-
! tent that the last session of our legisla-
| ture out-Heroded Herod in it's infamies,
and that all men pronounce it the most
corrupt legislative body that ever con-
Vened in any state of the Union; that it's
very organization was founded on the
! purchase of venal legislators with money
! and place, and that it closed it's session
with the crowning infamy of that most
| SlupGHuOuS lIduCHlS6 SI6dI, shocking IN6
moral sense of the entire country; that
| the selection of a United States senator
was accomplished in a carnival of corrup-
! ton and bribery; that in the reckless de-
| termination to punish enemies and re-
| ward subservient tools. established mu-
| nicipal governments were ruthlessly over
! turned and the chosen servants of the
people expelled from their offices to make
| place for the creatures of a corrupt ma
chine. while the faith of the people in the
sanctity of the judiciary was broken by
its hating efforts to find plausible excuse
| for the crime
The conditions which would evoke such
public statement from the representa-
tives of large body of the citizens of
the state affected suggest the necessity
of heroic remedies. The one man fully
qualified by character and experience to
apply such remedies is Gov. Pattison.