Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-31
Guilty

Guilty
FTNHE indictment against Boies Penrose has
4 been drawn, and he has filed no answer to
1T. Instead, he has seen At, as usual, to defy
the people OF this Commonwealth and rely, as
ne has done before. on the cohesive power
of puolic plumber and the immensity OF his
"sush" fund to override and nullfy the
wishes and verdict Of Pennsylvania
with the stains OF former scandals yet vivid
on him, he has the bold effrontery vantonly
and deliberately to summon the hovel and the
dive, the rum shop and the groggery to his
support He makes an open alliance with all
disreputable elements, veneering It with the
meagre Endorsement OF such respectable gen.
tlemen as he has been able to wheedle by the
protection plea into his camp. He does not
apologize; he does not come before his con-
stituency begging for mercy for past delin-
quencies; but with his hands deep down In
the treasures OF the underworld he rallies
anew all the phalanxes OF selhshness in a last
desperate effort to subvert and prostitute
government to his ends Had his hands been
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his trading of his party for bipartisan sup
port, his open conscription OF rum. would for
ever preclude the possibility Of his again
bearing in his knapsack the commission OF
Pennsylvania.
The evidence Is piled up about him. He
invites the state to send him to Washington.
that there the linen he has dlrtied may be
washed before the nation. He pleads for
votes, this man who has been authorita-
lively charged with having personally con-
tr1buted s6soOO wherewith to corrupt a mu-
nicpal administration, although he has not
dared TO try that charge before the courts
or let 1t be put to the proof. He Knows that
no man can sit in the United States Senate
who has raped the till OF every groggery in
the State to secure his election. yet he per-
ststs that he must be sent to Washington
where the Senate is already prepared to hear
evidence OF this deplorable alliance
Maliciously and deliberately he has shouted
calamity TO the detriment OF the people he
preteuds to serve. The processes OF trade
have caught him IN trap. Everywhere the
revival Of prosperity gives the lie to this
claim for favor. The United States is left
the sole great productive market in the
world. The news dispatches are loaded with
the recital Of voluminous buying AS the
result OF many orders received in the United
States from the warning nations Of Europe.
a wave OF prosperity is sweeping over the
country" The meat packers Of Chicago have
already enough business to keep them run
ming on full time for a year Into the discard
goes the extravagant claim OF Mr.. Penross
that he Is the arbiter OF prosperity There Is
no necessity FOR the people 20 barter their re-
spectab!lty. Mr.. Penrose has offered them
price for it. but the feel Of the coin is not
good.
Ropudiated by his associates IN Washing
ton, deprived of the support Of even one ma
tional Republican statesman, desolats OF
among the great Republican
and independent newspapers or. the nation.
adhered TO only by those whom he Is able 10
promise something definite supported even
by the Wares only because they have been
tricked into subservtenca. Penrose. the sole
remaining advocate of midnight government,
enemy of Repubncanisn and democracy. an
tagonist OF the general interests and protag-
Onist Of selfish interests. stands forsaken in
a great loneliness.
The conscience and the logic ot the voters
are against him. He is IN the twilight Of his
activity, and the shadows OF approaching de-
feat have settled all around him. Pennsyl-
ysnia is about to break loose to throw him
of, to recover her Independence. to strike a
decisive blow for good government There is
nothing left OF his campaign but the money
that is IN H.