Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-02-27
AN ANTI-GRANT BOOM,
SOME EXTENSIVE ROOFING ny THE
HOG RING.
A Movement to- Mash the Maciine-Lccal
Republican Leaders Aiming to Undo the
Harrisburg WOrk-WhO Is to Eat


Grow:
Within the present week, ut Washing.
ton, Senator J. Donald Cameron warninsly
said to number of visiting newspaper ed
itors of this state, whom he encountered
on Pennsylvania avenue, and all of whom
had, in the journals they control. vigor-
ously opposed the third-term conspiracy
:" You have been preparing nice feast of
crow for yourselves. After the Sd of June
you shall ca. it" There was in this
speech the fine imperial. l.insolcnce of man
who either wields unlimited authority or
who believes he does. 1t is yet to be seen
who is to 8 eat crow - and news has lust
reached the Cameron folks in this city of
very general movement set on foot
throughout Lancaster county to force the
feast of crow down the throatS of the Cam
erOn clan, here at least
For few weeks the Ntr Era has been
busy endeavoring to show that the recent
action of the Republican county committee.
in selecting the delegates to the state con-
vention and thereby controlling the choice
of national delegates, is violation of the
precedents and entitled to no respect.
Last evening it had another article on the
same subject, declaring Eshleman's COM
mittee usurpers. and concluding with
this threat:
But the Republicans of Lancaster coun-
ty are aroused to an intensity OF feeling
greater than was manifested in any of the
''precedents' we have quoted against the
usurpatiOn of which he has been made the
Obedient instrument. and before the June
roses bloom he and those who still cling to
his waning fortunes will be buried So deep
beneath popular Indignation rs to he for
ever beyond political resurrection.
These editorials have been only plough
ing and narrowing the ground for the seed
time, which has now come, and during the
past three days the anti-Cameron wing ot
the party in this county, composed largely
Of the so-callcd - Hog Ring" have been
busy working at project which has for
its purpose an election of two delegates to
Chicago by popular vote, and their in
structiOn against Grant and for Blaine.
1t is proposed by getting up Il monster
protest, signed by ten thousand Reprbli
can voters, and possibly by mass meet
ing, to arouse such n storm that the Bull
Ring will either be driven from their posi-
tiOn, or that the ant-Camcron delegates
will go to Chicago with Il backing that
will command their admission to the na-
tional convention instead OF Kaufman and
Seltzer.
In the furtherlnce of this purpose the
anti-CamerOn politicians tn ereiy srA0,l
district Of Lancaster County have been
instructed to secure signcrs to 4 protest of
which copies have been provided them amt
which reads as follows:
To tile Members ef the RepuJiicon County
Committee Of lancaster C0unty. Pt.
The undersigned, Republicans of Lam
caster county, hereby record their protest
against the action OF a majority OF your
body in selecting delegates to the late
state convention, that privilege bein.
clearly one of the reserved rights of the
people. acting in their primary capacity,
guaranteed both by the letter aad spirit of
the rules Of our party. as conclusiveIy
settled by the contest and prece,lents Of
1863 and 1872.
We protest against the arbitrary action
Of the late Republican state convention. in
selecting delegates to represent this crn-
gressional district in the national conveiI-
tiOn to be held at Chicago, on the 81 OF
June next. Under our rules :s interpreted
by the precelents of 1868 and 1872, and
the decision of the national convention of
1876 against the ''Unit'' rule, and the
terms of the call itself-recognizing only
representation by districts-we claim and
shall insist upon our right to elect dele
gates to said convention, and to express
our preferences for the candidates for whom
they shall vote.
AS it is understood that the chairman
does not intend to call your committee to-
gether in time to arrange for the usual
primary meetings, until too late to choose
delegates, we hereby instruct you, or as
many of you as are willing to fairly repre-
sent a majority of your constituents, to is
sue the call for the annual primary meet
ings, to be held under the rules, on Satur-
day, the 22d of May. 1880, for the purpose
of elccting delegates to the national con-
| ventiOn and nominating candidates for the
several Legislative and county offices to be
voted for at the general election in NOvem
Der.
Accompanying nearly thousand of
JncSc DltIkS, ScnC OUT 10 - WORKERS., was II
letter of instructions urging ''The i'm
pOrtancc of organizing your township or
district, by getting committee of at
least one reliable person to make u thor
Ough canvass of each school district, call
ing upon every Republican, roter and, ii
possible, obtain his signature, and, wilens-
ever practicable, have him rrite his name
legibly in ink." The canvass is to be COM
pleted in a week or ten days when 1T is
probable that arrangements will be made
for county mass meeting in this city, to
give further expression to tie views of
Republican voters and it is submitted as
a matter for the judgment of our friends
in the country whether district meetings,
when practicable, might not be advisa-
ble.'
Our informant reports that i'll his dis
| trict, one Of the most pOpulous and most
largely Republican in the county, the anti
Cameron politicians are hard at work and
meet with great success. They expect to
get in all 10000 signers, Il clear ina jOrity of
! the Republican vote, including nearly two
thirds of the Republican county commit
| tee and they declare that if the county
committee is not duly called together, or
in case it fails to provide for the election
of national delegates at the usual time for
| the primaries, they will go on, issue call