Excerpt from A Few Words for Honest Pennsylvania Democrats

Unfortunately, however, the long continued neglect of their political duties by the people had for years been placing the management of parties in the hands of men less and less reputable. The Democracy was never more thoroughly and efficiently organized, but its organization was controlled by those who had made politics a trade, whose livelihood was dependent on political success, and who could not rise above the considerations of selfish ambi tion. Such men could not appreciate the motives which led their fellow Democrats to abandon expediency for patriotism, and to sacrifice their private interests for the public good. Controlling the machinery of the party, they therefore read out their former comrades and leaders, and released from the trammels which the loyalty of the latter would have imposed; they have since then been using the honest masses of the Democracy with the single purpose of furthering their personal advancement, regardless of the ruin which may be entailed upon the country by the gratifica tion of their unholy ambition.

As citizens of Pennsylvania, we shall in a few weeks he called upon to decide upon which side our great common wealth is to stand. \ve are to choose a Governor who will represent the second State in the Union during three years which must prove the most momentous in the history of the Republic. The voice of our State is too potential to be lightly disregarded, and it behooves her people to weigh well, how, and in what cause that voice is to be raised. It may prove, in truth, that our coming election may decide not only our own destinies, but those of the whole country; and every voter as he casts his ballot, must be prepared to assume the dread responsibility, not of his own acts, but those of the men whom he will thus assist in elevating to power. It therefore becomes his first and highest duty to learn the objects and purposes of those who solicit his suffrage. Let us then see what the leaders of the Demo cratic party have published as their principles, and let us deduce the results which may be expected from their success.

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