Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-02-20
The Lancaster Lesson.
Philadelphia Times.

Philadelphia Times.
Two years ago MIR. MacGonigIe was
elected mayor of Lancaster by tifty-tllree
majority. 1t was not strict party victory,
but the conceded intelligence and integ
rity of Mr.. MacGonigle turned the scale
against what was regarded as wasteful
rule under the Republicans. At the No
vember election for state treasurer, the
Republicans carried Lancaster city for
Mr.. Butler by 4S3 majority, and on
Tuesday last. after most exhaustive
struggle, Mayor MacGonigle was re-
elected by S17-making an apparent
Democratic gain of 1,3O0 votes out of
an aggregate of ), 327. 1t was not assumed
that Mr.. Boring. the Republican nominee
for mayor, was dishonest or lacking in
competency; but he was the candidate OF
those who sought to rule both the Repub
lican party and the city for their individual
political and pecuniary advantage, while
Mayor MacGonigle projected the interests
of the whole municipality rather than the
emphasized their protest against political
trading and municipal extravaganza.
1t is idle for those who have been so
pointedly condemned to cry out that they
have been betrayed in the house of their
friends. 1t was not the work of faction.
1t was the work of independent Republi-
cans who follow no leadership but their
own convictions, and who submit to no
discipline from those who crack the party
whip to crafty their ambition for greed.
1t is an admOnitiOn to those who HAY e
deliberately defrauded the Republicans of
Lancaster county by denying them their
own representatives in state and national
conventions, and who trade i'll municipal
lawlessness, and even in the admins
tratiOn of justice, to maintain the
supremacy of distrusted managers, whose
cause dare not be submitted to the people.
Against such abuse of authority, whether
in party leadership or in municipal govern
ment, there will he stubborn rebellion, and
the more the people arc suppressed by
trickery, the more violent will he the revO-
luton when the proper occasion offers. In
order that none should misunderstood
their purpose, they made Mayor MacGon-
igle's majority ST, because the 53 ajori-
ty they gave him two years ago, while it
would have secured the same practical re-
suit in the chief magistracy, would not
have expressed the measure of their resent
ment against political manipulators and
city :jobbers. The lesson is most legibly
written for those who have provoked it !;
will they understand and profit by it?
Go i'm Major.
Senator A. II. Mylin, of Lancaster
needn't read the result of the Lancaster
city election between the lines to get at its
true inwardness. Those who made Mr..
Boring the candidate for mayor to employ
him as a handy pack-hOrse tor machine
Legislative candidates, seem to have made
misventure in political sagacity, and
whenthe pack-horse falls, how will it be
with the riders Ex-Representative Rein
oehl may now CLEAN the field to advan
tage.
Notice to Quit.
The people have taken the trouble to give
very positive instructions OIL political
affairs, since the late Republican state con-
vencion, but about the loudest call they
have made on the leaders was in Lancaster
on Tuesday.