Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-07-09
Aancaster frltelligeilrer.
FRIDAY EVENING. JULY 9, 1890.
Garfield and Cameron.

Garfield and Cameron.
Mr.. Cameron has made up his mind
definitely that he will takc no hand for
another Ohio man. He cOOlly cheated
Mr.. Blaine out of the vote of Pennsylva-
mia in the convention of 1876, and nomina-
ted Hayes whom nobody knew or wanted.
Him the machine managers fraud
ulently seated in the place to which Mr..
Tilden was chosen, and supposed that
they held him fast in the bonds Of COM
mon crime. But lie disappointed them
bitterly They were willing enough that |
Garfield. Foster and Matthews should |
trade with the Southern brigadiers for |
the completion of the fraudulent count,
but they were amazed when they saw the
bargain kept, Packard and Chamberlain
overthrown, and the Republican party
South abandoned Mr.. Cameron had in
tended to remain in the war department.,
whose authority he had prOstituted for the
promotion of the fraud, but Hayes was
no sooner counted in than he developed
other views, and started his benefactor
over the plank with little ceremony.
1t is not wonderful, therefore, that
Mr.. Cameron has been reluctant to enter
the service of another Ohio man, who is
not only of the same variety rs Hayes,
but who is to large extent respon-
sible for the offensive conduct of Hayes.
Garfield was one of the high contracting
parties in the formation of the Southern
coalition. He encouraged Hayes in his
determination to throw overheard the
Republican leaders and in his wild pro-
ject of forming a new party, and there
was time when he himself expected to
b. elected speaker over the Democratic
candidate by Southern votes secured
with IIayes's patronage. The machine
Republicans know Mr.. Garfield through
and through they have felt him all over,
and they are quite certain there is not
bone in his body that is not us soft as
putty. They deem him only half Re-
publican lie has no principles and no
convictions he has nothing in common
with them but his record of personal cor
ruptiOn and official prOdigality. The
machine Republicans cast their three
hundred and six stalwart votes against
him. when it was well-knOwn lie was
nominated, and those votes stand us the
irrevocable protest of the more stalwart
wing of the party against the disastrous
folly of Chicago. Garfield's defeat is
now as certain rs any future event can
be, and that defeat will be regarded 10y
Cameron, Conkling and the rough
liders of the old machine, us
their vindcation. They consider it
inevitable and they will make no
effort to prevent it. When Garfield con-
sented to the nomination of Arthur to
appease COnkling, he humbled himself
for nothing, rs Evarts and Sherman did
in the campaign of last year: and when
he crlwled Oh his belly to Don Cameron
and begged him to take charge of his
canvass, he only displayed in new form
his proverbial weakness, and proves the
insincerity of his pretended opposition to
ring men and ring methods. But humil-
late himself as he would, beg rs he might
Mr.. Cameron had read the decree of fate,
q I'd he would not lend his hand to help
the losing cause. lie has fully made up
his mind that those who nominated
Garfield may shoulder the defeat.
THE postmasters and postmistresses
in these parts are being visited with Il
little circular in lithograph from Edw
Mcpherson, secretary of the Republican
congressional committee, reminding
them that their - interests or princi-
pies are involved in the pending strug-
gle, and adding that ''under the circum-
stances in which the country finds itself
placed, the committee believes that you
will esteem it both privilege and a
pleasure to make to its fund Il contribu-
tion, which, it is hoped, may not be less
than s. The committee is authorized
to state that such voluntary contribu-
tion from persons employed in the service
of the United States will not be
objected to in any official quarter
The hint is very delicate and yet
unmistakable. 1t is to be presumed that
only their ''principle'' is at stake in the
case of the big paying offices like the
iostoflice at Lancaster or Columbia,
while with the postmasters at such places
rs Terre Hilland Spruce Grove it is only
matter of g. interest," Exactly by
whom authorized to say that such sub
scriptions will not he objected to in any
official quarter Mr.. Mcpherson does not
inform his taNables, but as there is no
warning that refusal to pay will he visit
ed with decapitation, we incline to think
there will not be many favorable re-
slNnses from this county, as most of the
pOstoflice tenants expect in November
get notice to quit on the 4th of March.
WHAT more powerful commentary
upon the foolish and murdcrous institu-
tiOn of the duel could be written than
the tragic and pathetic story of the re-
cent meeting i'm South Carolina which
We print to-day? \ community is robbed
of one of its foremost citizens and a fam.
lily of its dearest hole in the cold blood
ed shooting of Col. Shannon; the atroc.
ity of the killing is scarcely mitigatetl 10y
the share of responsibility for II which