Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-01-12
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EVENING, JAN. u. 1890.
About ss Rings and Things.''

About I" Rings and lhings'
The New Era does not seem pleased
with the nomenclature of its party quar-
rels in this county. We cannot help II.
We did not coin it. The general impress
sion is that it was started in the NeT
Era Office, and if the now classic names
of the two rings which struggle for the
spoils worry the Era people it is only an
other case of chickens come home to
roOst.
Of course the Era says what it knows
is not true when it denies that there IS
an impending disruption OF its Hog
Ring. We state only facts when we say
that when the bundle of sticks with which
g. the Cameron ring was twice routed
in this county fell apart it was found to
contain so many {. crooked sticks that
it will be hard to get them together
again in the compact bundle which alone
can chastise the opposition. The cohesive
power of public plunder, g the tie which
binds," being loosed in the scramble for
petty patronage, we repeat that there are
threatenings of disruption, and it is lit
orally true that McMellen complains
that he has not got his share, and those
who expected to be the benefciaries of his
favor half suspect him of treachery and
do not give him credit for his efforts on
their behalf. Ed. Martin sulks in his
tent and J. w. johnson untimely claims
his reward at Tom Davis's expense. !"
And while some of the Hog Ring leaders
are seriously considering Dustin up
this party of Ours''-tO use the language
of the Era's classic friendS-OtherS
have been for months negotiating with
1.-the Cameron ring'' to come in on good
terms. We know whereof we affirm.
As to ''Ed. Martin sulking in his tent, u
the INTELLIGENCER intended to convey
no such impression as that 6 he was
forced off the track as candidate for
district attorney by others interested in
securing that Office for themselves or
friends.' If this journal had intended
to s'cOnvey any impression" in the matter
its language would not have been un-
certain since, as is usual in matters OF
news, the INTELLIGENCER finds itself
ito he i'm position to know more about
Ed. Martins alleged 'sulking i'll his tent
than any other" journal. If Mr.. Martin
had any communication Oh the suject to
make to the public he would hardly Sc.
lect as his medium newspaper whose
recent cowardly back out of the
fight against 1.-the Cameron ring >
merited his contempt and aug.
mented the dangers of a dissolution
of the faction with which he has CO.
operated. If that journal honestly de.
sired to fairly state why 'Martin sulks
in his tent" it might have done so with,
out such fulsome adulation of itself and
of what its editor did and said and how
he talked like father to Martin. For to
the public generally no better reason
need be given for Mr.. Martins retire.
ment from factiOnal politics than the
company in which he finds himself. Con
siderations of propriety no less than OF
policy would suggest to him dissertation
from a fellowship SO largely made up OF
towards who shrink from the issue they
have raised, of return tinkers and fOrgers
of naturalization papers, of political cut
throats and blackmailers, and of men who
after waging fight on the high anti.
Cameron issue would "bust up the
party" if they did not get their share OF
the prison or poor house spOils.