Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-11-23
Counting Chickens too Early.

TUESDAY EVENING, NOV. 90. 1880.
Counting Chickens too Early.
The death of Governor Williams will
have the curious effect of giving the
Democrats the organization of the In
diana Senate with the assent of the Re-
publican senators; since it is only by this
concession that the Republicans can get
their new governor into his Office and
United States senator in the place of
Mcdonald. The Indiana Senate being
a tie and the law requiring it to be Or
ganized before the governor is inaugu-
rated, the state will be left without a
governor, at the expiration of the term
of the lieutenant-governor who has
taken Williams's place, if the Re-
publicans of the Senate do not accept
a Democratic organization. AS they
have also senator to elect there can he
no doubt but that they will be very glad
to be very amiable, and that they will
think themselves very fortunate if the
Democrats consent to any organization
ut all when they can secure SO great po-
litical advantage by avoiding it.
Luck seems to be deserting the Repub-
lican party, for it is in trouble, too, in
Ohio, over the scnatorship. Garfield ,hav
ing been chosen president, cannot serve
in the Senate to which he is elected but
yet he fills the place and cannot resign it
until the Senate meets and the Ohio
Legislature cannot fill the vacancy until
there is one SO that at the opening of
the session of the Senate, after the 4th
of March, one senator from Ohio will be
absent from the roll call.
This is supposed to he important,
since the Republicans expect to tic the
Senate with Mahone's vote and to give
the deciding vote to Vice President
Arthur. They have excellent ground
for believing that they can get Malone
if they pay his price. His insincerity and
dishonesty have been amply demon
strated 10y his political course. lie is un-
worthy of Democratic confidence and no
reliance should lie placed upon him.
1t has not been unnatural for Republi-
cans, flushed with apparent success, to
rashly count their chickens before they
are hatched. Not content with claim
ing the presidency they have also con-
sidered both houses of Congress as
theirs. Really they do not yet have either
one or even the presidency. They are
premature in fixing up a cabinet and
chalking down the foreign min
listers, who are to be appointed by a
president and Senate not yet in office.
Especially are they too ''previous'' in
fixing up SO many contests to he decided
in their favor by a Republican House of
Representatives which they have not yet
organized. They ought not so clearly to
disclose their purpose Of putting out
elected Democrats to swell their sup
posed small majority in the body. 1t is
impudent: before they have organized it.
Providence, which has interfered to spoil
their calculations in the Senate, may
disappoint their expectations in other
directions; and it will be well for them
not to fix their minds too eagerly upon
the enjoyment Of fleshpOts that may
after all escape their lips.
The New York Times does the DEM
ocracy of Indiana the honor to declare
that their state senators are men Of too
much character to attempt to defeat the
will of the people by 4 refusal to organ
iZe the Senate and to permit the Repub-
lican governor to be inaugurated and
United States senator to I've elected. 1t
is truly very remarkable how the Re-
publicans fall back upon their convic-
tiOn OF the magnanimity Of Democrats,
when they find themselves at their
mercy. Although they are. chuckling
over their scheme to buy Malone, and
thus defeat the will of the people, they
find sufficient confidence to declare that
Democrats would not be SO wicked !;
and they really expect from our decen-
cy the means to profit by their own in
decency.