Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-06-10
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THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 10, 1890.
Easy to Beat.

Dental campaign. The Republican can
didates are SO handicapped by their rec
ords that there is little danger of their
success and what little now exists will
be removed as soon as it is certain the
Cincinnati convention has made judi
ciOus nominations against them. There
is no telling in advance what degree OF
folly political convention may be guilty
of, as the Chicago convention has just
demonstrated. So that until the one at
Cincinnati has come and gone, it will
not do to feel certain of the defeat of
Garfield and Arthur. But surely We
need not be very fearful that the Demo-
cratic delegates, with these candidates
before them, will not have wisdom
enough to oppose to them men of another
sort, whose characters will command
the country's confidence and gain its
honest vote.
We really sympathize with the Repub-
lican party that has been crucified in the
hour of it's strength by the crazy work of
it's representatives. 1t may be fairly ad-
mitted that it had good chance for sue
cess with decent candidates. Even with
Grant it need not have despaired, for ne
had positive elements Of strength to Off
set his points of weakness. Against Har-
risOn, of Indiana, or Washburne, of llli-
nois, both strong and unassailable men,
with elements about them appealing to
the popular heart, no Democratic NOM
inee could have felt certain of success.
Against Garfield it will not be difficult
to pit Democrat of whose success we
may feel nearly absolutely sure. The
battle is lost to the Republican army be-
fore it is begun if the Democratic candi-
dates are well-chOSen. And we pity and
heartily sympathize with the Republican
politician who is bound to make his
fight under such diScOuraging circum-
stances 1t can not be an exciting con-
test when the enthusiasm of both sides is
not aroused and honest enthusiasm for
such candidates as Garfield and Arthur
is not possible.
The Republican party journals will
stand 10y them with as stout hearts as
they can command and will protest
against what they will call Democratic
calumny. They will undertake to per
suade their readers that their candidates
are virtuouS and good, and that Oul
charges against them are but campaign
SANDERS But it will not do, simply he
cause the facts are too notorious and the
evidence to prove them too abundant ant
plain. Garfield is not supposed to have
profited us much as Blaine by the sale OF
his legislative influence, but he has beer
caught oftener and his offences can be
more clearly proven. There was a posi-
BILE chance for the Republican newspapers
if Blaine had been their candidate, tC
have made noise enough to persuade
their voters that their man was being
basely slandered a; but there is no sucl
chance for Garfield.
SOME of the Republican papers are com
planning that there has already been in
augurated "a campaign of abuse" agans
Garfield, as though the public record o
their candidate for president was no
public property. We have seen no per
sonal abuse of Mr.. Garfield in any Dem
Ocratic paper, no intrusion into his pri
vate affairs, nor any reflections upon hi:
private character, further than it is re
hected in the record of his public acts
BY those acts, as they are indisputabl.
recorded in the annals of American leg
islation, he must be expected to b'
judged. His party invited such scrutin.
when they put him up. If the trutl
hurts it is their fault not ours. If h'
took the Credit Mobilier bribss ant
lied about it he must expect t.
be reminded of it. If he took
$4,000 fee from a lobbying corporation
to help their job through Congress, it i
no unjustitiable abuse of him to sprea'
lis disgrace before the public. 1t woul'
be better taste and better policy for tn
Republicans to try to cOntrOvert thes
charges than to complain of them. The
are singularly silent concerning them
They attempt no denial, they make n
justification, they can find no escape
Mr.. ColfaX when asked about the prob
able effect of the Credit MObilier busi
ness turns his back upon the question
His party will have to do the same ant
will fifty die with its heels to the foe.
SENATOR HERMAN thinks that Ga1
fields nomination takes Thurman, Payn
and Jewett out of the list of Democrat
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