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"as Goes Pennsylvania."

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Parent Issue
Day
12
Month
April
Year
1872
Copyright
Public Domain
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'lbo "i'resiclentiaL year nas tuways ■arkablo interefct in tho politics of JVun.-ylv 'ui:t, whüiv Urn partios aro usually so noarly uqual that tho resul t rleponds upon a vigorous canvass. This yoar tlio interest will bo greatly inereased, if we may judgo by tho liyely manncr in which the i i 9 opnningi and Poniisylvania will bo ono of the principal battlo-flelds of tho carupaign. Tho BepabUoon party luis a feebie tm-. uro in that State. It has thrown awav ngth in tho defense of Philadelphia riims and of an inefficiënt, it' not corrupt State governmont. When the fevi of reform was at its hoight last full, the Kepublicans promiséd to improvo tho Philadolphia city government to somo extonfr, but thcy eluotod a legislatura which luis steadily rofused to reform any of the abusad whieh havo uiado Pennsylrania jiolitícs a byu-wordand a roproach. ordinary signs aro tobo truted, tho llcpublicivns prbposo to continuo in their olil cotaxse by nomiiiiiting General John K. Harbraaft tor Govornor, and making the re-olection of Senator Cumeron an issue; in the campaign. If the Eepttblioana of I'cnnsylvania, many monthSof Bofortn aitnüou, can pi M bhan this, t'iey ought to bo defsatei next fall. Gon.-ral oftiflnpt a suitablc man to direct khe administratioa of a great State, aad Mr. Simón Cameron' has the confidenco of no parfty and nobody excopt the crcutures of lus rhig. Tliustí men supposo that ti;cy oani sei.o tho prestige of tho Iiepublican party in a national canvass to ;:'!v 'iheni power whieh thcy do not deserve; but they will liad that there is a limit even to the burdeos which tho .Uopublican party can carry. The mwnifal tatiuns of the rings have alrcady aroused csriticism and opposition in imexpected qnarterg. The Phüadelpbift l'renê plaini f denonnoea General Haririinft as inoonvt for Coveri:or, aml the Philadetphia Post liints that the Cincinnati Conto is the hopo of tho reformrs. joiinnils havu bcenamong the most strai' niirtisan organs, and yet no oommend t!e cfforts of mou who assort that it' the riiv's aro to control the politics of Pennsylvania, thcy will 't any party which will give them reform. The Itopublican leaders of Pcnnsjlvania have presumed too long uprm the pni turo of tho peopio. Thoy are plainly inviting defoat both in 1lie State and tho National canvass, and thev will have to "turn over iv new loaf."

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Michigan Argus