Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-03-27
lancaster fntelligenrer.
The Philadelphia Delegation.


The Harrisburg Patriot has trouble all
around in making itself understood on
the question of the right of state COM
mittee to fix up the temporary roll of
delegates to convention: 1t has happy
time explaining itself to it's stupid con-
temporaries. AS the matter now stands
its position seems to be that the commit
tee had right to give the MCGOWAN
delegation from Philadelphia seats and
votes, and that there its power IS ex-
hausted; it cannot do the same favor for
anybody else; at least it fails to point
out any others, among the hundred con-
tested seats that it has information of,
who ought to be taken care of and whose
regularity it has determined.
The Patriot is anxious to know what
we would do with Philadelphia in the
state convention. We hardly conceive
that it is any of our business to give an
opinion as to the matter in dispute there,
for the reason that the duty is not
thrown upon us to make decision, and
the further reason that we do not have
the facts before us on which to base one.
We made the same objection to a de-
cision being made by the state committee
which did not have before it the creden-
tials of the contestants nor the testimony
they will doubtless produce before the
state convention. Still, we are always
ready to say what we think about public
matters of general interest, and we have
for some time had an individual cOnvlc-
ton as to the way in which our state
conventions could best dispose OF the
chronic trouble they have with the
Philadelphia delegations. We have found
from experience that turmoil is the un-
ceasing gift of the Philadelphia Democ-
racy to their brother delegates from the
state; and that then the Philadelphlans
90 home and get soundly beaten there
at the election with unfailing reg gularity
We roll up majority in the state, only
to have it swallowed up in the city. We
are somewhat tired of it; and so is the
country generally.
We have observed, too, that the tcstl-
mOny offered to the committee on Gre
dentials is SO pOintedly contradictory
that it is generally unable to come to
conclusion without saying that one party
or the other lies which it is not pleas
ant to say of Democratic delegates.
If it was possible for a state convention
to come to decision between the con-
flicting parties which would be acquesced
in by them and reduce them to harmony
and make the party in Philadelphia al
effective element in the work of carry
ing the state, we would be in favor OF
continuing to endeavOr to make such a
decision.
But of this we have about despaired 4:
and it does seem to us that the delegates
from the rest of the state should consider
seriously now whether they would not
act wisely and in the best interest of the
party, by excluding Philadelphia from
representation in our conventions until
it can bring to them a harmonious del
egatiOn. We could, at least, thus get
rid of a wrangle in our conventions which
is disagreeable and disgusting. We be-
lieve that as many Philadelphia Demo.
Gratis would accept the ticket we would
give them as take it now; no Democrat
there would have any cause of soreness
with the party in the state by reason OF
what he might believe to be its unfair,
ness towards his friends.