Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-10-30
McMULLEN OR DAVIS:
A Republican Organ Declares for tho
Former.

A Republican Organ Declares for tho
Former.
The weekly edition Of the Netc Era
comes out to-day in the following editorial
leader urging Republicans to scratch
Davis, the Republican candidate for dis
trict attorney, and vote for McMulien, the
Democratic candidate:
Why Davis Should be Defeated.
The constitution Of Pennsylvania wisely
makes provision against partisan state
judiciary. In Philadelphia both parties,
earnestly as they are arraycd against each
other on general political issues, unite in
| maintaining the purity. dignity and ability
Of their local judiciary. Judge Ludlow. a
Democrat, was reelected by the votes Of
both parties. On next Tuesday Judge
Finletter, \ Republican, will be re elected
by unanimous vote. the Democracy Offer
ing 10 opposition. No Republican re-
grcts having ~Oted fer Judge Ludlow, and
no Democrat will regret having voted for
Judge Finletter. No Republican is con-
sidered less loyal to Republican principles
for having voted for Judge Ludlow, and no
Democrat will be rated less loyal to the
Democratic party for having voted for
Judge Finletter. But the administration
Of justice is and will be all the better pro-
moted by having raised the purity and
efficiency of the judiciary above mere par
tisan consideration.
The office of controller of Phla,lelp phia
is nearly allied to 4 judicial Office, and Mr..
Pattison, the present Democratic incum-
bent, has so served the taxpayers, and his
re election by tic aid of Republican votes
seems SO well assured, that Joel Cook, the
Republican candidate, and an wn"Xrcp-
tionabIc man, has withdrawn from the
contest. SOME two or three thousand
Democrats, in the interest of municipal
.jobbcrs, who don't like Mr.. pattison's
honest methods of running his Office viii
vote against him, but it IS sbclicvcd he will
be reelected by the combined votes OF the
honest, independent citizens and Taxpayers
of both parties.
The Office Of district attorney is more
nearly allied to the Judiciary in the admin
istration of justice than any other. Every
citizen is directly or indirectly Interested
in having it filled by an honest and COM
petent man. That Thos. J. Davis is no
toriously unfit for SO high 4 trust no rca-
sOnable man can doubt, who read his pro
fessional record as published last week.
The only defense he has offered We print
to-day. No one can read it without
feeling that it still further weaIons
his claims. With more than :. weeks
time at his command since the
specific charges were first printed
he has utterly failed to meet the
damaging facts of his record that stare
the public in the face. AS We have said
elsewhere, the defeat OF such candidate
is 4 public duty. Tile election Of the oppo*.
ing candidate, NJ. McJfullen. rhose charac-
ter for personal and professional sntcgrity is
HbOre suspicion, has become npublic necessity.
And this necessity exists only because Mr.
Davis's friends, after repeated warnings
and cntrcatics from the Ne'r Ere and many
of the most earnest and respectable Re
publicans in city and county, have refused
to withdraw him from the ticket. that the
vacancy might be filled with an hnncSt and
unexccptionable Republican.
The only way to make sure of saving
the Republican party from disgrace and
the county from an impending calamity,
is to rOte for Darid M.Wullea. If Davis is
defeated, rs We believe he viii! be, it can
not be done by voting blank for district
attorney. That would be only half vote
against him. The only objection any Re-
publican can make to Mr.. McMuIlcn is
''a Democrat" But he is honest and
capable and that he is popular among
those who know him personally is at
tested by the fact that he has been elected
and reelected member of the Lancaster
city councils from one of the most intclli-
gent Republican wards, and enjoys the re-
spect and confidence of the best citizens of
all parties.