Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-01-02
lancaster fntellige1lcer.
EVENING, JANUARY 2, 1880
The Cameron Plan.

The chairman of the national Repub-
lican committee is troubled with neither
scruples nor timidity and if the Republl-
can party need and is content with bold
rascality as the Distinguishing feature IN It's
leadership, Don Cameron is just the man
it wants. The qualities he has have been
the winning ones in the political admin
istration of this state for many years,
and of late they have been promoted tothe
guidance Of the Republican party in the
nation. The Pennsylvania system and
the men who managed it are entrusted
with the larger task of making the ma
tional administration as solidly and un-
failingly Republican as they have sue
ceeded in making that of the state.
Whether their plans and processes will
work as well and unfailingly in the larger
field remains to be seen; if they do they
will have demonstrated their OmnipO-
tence in the present condition of popular
enlightment and virtue, for they will
owe much of their success to their un-
suspected nature, or to the fact that the
Democratic party, their proposed victim,
is not fully aware of their precise nature
and as fully aroused as fOreknOwledge
can make it against their success. There
is nothing of the value of an ambush in
the Republican plan of battle.
Every kind of unfair advantage will be
taken, but from the known character OF
Mr.. Cameron we have ample notice to
prepare for these. 1t is not, one would
think, to all the Republican voters Il very
pleasant thought that their party is to be
led on the Pennsylvania idea and with
the PENNSYLVANIA devices, but it has been
, chosen for them for the campaign OF this
year, and they will have the satisfaction
of knowing that if there is a saving viz
tue in the plan it will give them the
country, since Mr.. Cameron will devcloI
all it's power He has no other idea OF
the way of winning a political triumph
but of this idea he is the exponent by ma
tural disposition, by association, and by
training. If he had l'G1 M:;chty will
him he would he sure to make no ms
take i'm his fnCsSe. as it is he will prob
ably make T. my, but he can be trusted tt
redeem them SO far as they can be re
deemed by iLtrepidity, determination
llnScrupulOusnGSS and cash.
The resolve to take the selection OF
their delegates to the national convention
from the Republicans of Pennsylvania
reached in consequence of prlol
resolve to give the presidential vote OF
the party in the state to Grant, is the
fairest sort of eXcmplification of th'
Cameron processes that could b'
imagined. With this move he opens
the campaign. There is no delicac,
about the movement. No cover il
sought for the object. The bald fact il
presented to the Pennsylvania Republi
cans that Mr.. Cameron has determined
to give their vote to Grant and propose
to do so by simply calling the state con.
ventiOn at SO great a period ahead tha
the delegates may be selected by thu
present machinery without prior consul
tation with or authority from the people
OF course ii is obvious to every under
standing that the supreme moment whel
every voter wants to he consulted by hi
party leaders is when the choice of ;
presidential candidate is made; ant
when party quietly submits to the sc
lection of that candidate by their leader
without consultation with tie people, it
amiable subscrviency is very notable ant
conspicuous. Our experience doe
not allow us to entertain an,
surprise at any exhibition of thi
kind that may he made by TIN
Republican party in Pennsylvania, ant
we do not take any interest in th'
new exhibition that is given us of it:
complete control by the men who have
SO long manipulated it as they pleased
our comment now is upon the fact thai
the Republican party in the country has
passed under the dominion of men wh(
have reduced it to this state of vaSsalagt
in Pennsylvania, and our wonder il
whether the same success is to attent
their attempt to master it in the large
field, and to guide the country into it
arms to the sole end that it may carr!
them.