Danville intelligencer. [volume] (Danville, Pa.) 1859-1907, 1906-09-07
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cerity and its greatness. The oldest
party In the nation and destined prob
ably to endure for many generations
10 come. It nevertheless has not hest
tated for the accomplishment Of a
great immediate public good to fall be-
hind the leadership Of the youngest OF
all parties.
Placing. therefore. at the head OF
its ticket the nominee Of the Lincoln
party for the Office OF chief executive
Of the state. the Democrats gave him
three colleagues of highest character
and eminent fitness to do battle at his
side.
"By the command Of the Democratic
state convention, 1t devolves upon me
to give those candidates formal noti-
fcation OF their nomination. This I do
by announcing that you, Louis Emery,
Jr., Republican, are the Democratic
nominee for governor. and you, Jere-
miah 8. Black. Democrat are its nomi-
William T. Greasy, Democrat. its nomi-
nee for auditor general. and you. John
J. Green. Democrat, are It's nominee
for secretary Of internal affairs.
1.-THE Democracy Is fulfilling Its mis-
sion when 1t refuses to strive for
partisan victory that would fasten
chains on honorable foes. Democrats
must stand for liberty first and always.
Partisanship will be a helpful manifes-
tation Of public spirit when 1t ceases
TO be an asset by which the boss main
tains his power.
Political bosses are never partisans.
They preach partisanship to their fol-
lowers. but themselves practice the
most miscellaneous libertinage. They
are professed monogamists but practi-
cal Mormons. The politics of boss and
corporation are the same. An IRE
sistible affinity for the party In power
and an inveterate hostility to unrepre-
sented minorities.
Rests With independents.
"The hope Of the coming campaign
lies in the fact that united Democracy
will bring more than 100000 votes to
the ticket. 1t now rests with the in
dependent Republicans who love de-
cency more than dishonor, righteous
ness more than regularity, to say
whether they will lift up their party
out of its degradation and the state
out OF its shame.
Fortunately, the issue In the cam
paign will not be obscured by divert
ing personalities. The Republican Ma
chine has placed ticket in the field
composed OF gentlemen Of unimpeach-
able personal character. 1t is due to
them to say that their defeat will be no
reflection on their personal fame.
1.-THE Machine platform. likewise, is
in the main unexceptionable. Every vi
tai line of 1t, however, is a recantation
and reputation of It's past But will
the independent voter trust the reform
cause to the defiant bosses who have
made the reforms necessary
Would a corrupt and criminal COM
bination masquerading as 'Republi-
cans be any more trustworthy when
masquerading as 'reformers'? Is ii
safe to continue the reins of political
power In the hands of those who have
used that power to create the mon
strous abuses against which the ma
tion is now in armsH
"The Machine In Pennsylvania has not
been whipped into abdication, but only
frightened into false pretense. 1t re-
tains power and only surrenders prom
ises.
Some malignant growths are SO
deep-seated that the only hope OF life
Is the surgeons knife. But you can
not expect the cancer to operate on
itslef. Neither can you expect the Ma
chine to commit suicide.
Remedies to be effectiev must be
applied with a view TO the duration and
extent of the disease. When Hercules
undertook to clean the Augean Stables
he did not use lace handkerchief. but
turned the bed of a river upon the
foul mass and washed the fostering
filth into the sea. Only Herculean
methods will serve for the disinfection
OF the Pennsylvania political Machine.
when q political boss or his Ma
chine is In danger he Immediately turns
reformer-that Is. he writes reform
platforms. The greater his danger and
the more manifest his guilt and wick
edness, the more radical will be his re-
form professions. The father of the
present Republican Machine often and
successfully played this ruse to save
himself from disaster.
"Greater Than Clay Or Webster"
HE was the greatest OF all reform
verbalists-greater than Webster. or
Clay, or Roosevelt.
so the platform on which the pres
snt Machine candidates stand is loaded
with sound doctrine and reform prom.
ises. 1t Is specially radical In its de.
nunciation of the wrongs of railroad
corporations. This from those who un.
I'll now have been the most servile
tools Of all corporations Is sardonit
in Its insincerity.
'It raises the question whether the
real and vital reform of Mr.. Cassati
in abolishing all free passes is not thus
countered by threats of reprisals or
the part Of Machine lackeys deprived Of
q chief source of their power and
means Of corruption. There Is no such
radical even In the ranks of anarchy
as an exposed boss who sees his oppor
tunities for plunder slipping from hii
grasp.
mo candidate is better or stronger
than the cause he represents. and nc
Machine candidate can possess such ar
excess Of virtue in himself as to atone
for the vicious system of which he 1.
the chosen exponent.
Men of ordinary attainments have
often served the state we'll as repressn.
tatives Of a worthy cause or system;
but good men who have been put for
ward to save and shield an evil organ.
izatlon from defeat have never risen
above their environment The Ma
chine suffocates after election the re-
spectacle characters behind which II
masquerades during the campaign.
How can a candidate whose graft |