Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-01-30
THE WAR OF FACTION.
The Rules the Party.

The Rules the Party.
Examiner Bull Ring Organ is in Il bad Hunor.
The "rules of the party were carried
out in letter and spirit, as interpreted by
precedent. The rules require that ''candi-
dates for the various offices shall be nOna-
mated by direct vote of the members of
the Republican party" 1t has never been
claimed that the position of delegates to
state convention is in any sense an ''office."
When their election did not involve the
holding of a special primary election dele
gates have been elected at the time of NOM
mating candidates for the several offices.
In 1876 the delegates to the state conven-
tion were elected by the county committee,
and again in 1873, and in both instances
the state convention met before the usual
time for nominating a county ticket. 1t
has not been the custom to hold a special
primary election, only for the purpose
of electing delegates to the state con-
vention. 1t is about time this falsehood
was nailed, that any "rule " of the party
was not carried OUT in the election of
the delegates by the county committee.
No voice in the committee was raised
against the right to elect. In 1878 the 6 Hog
Ringers indorsed and approved it. In 1880,
if they had been able to control the COM
mittee, they would have taken fiendish de-
light in using the committee to put full
delegation of ''swine" into the state con-
vention. There is not one of them, who
gives an honest answer, that does not adj
nit it, and has done so every day since
the call was issued for the state cOnven-
ton.
The Times and Press are only too ready
to re-echo all the falsehoods and SANDER
the INTELLIGENCER and it's aid-thc Era-
grind out in Lancaster, and because they
know we rate them at their true value, and
do not care to take the time and space to
contradict them, they keep Oh repeating
them.
An Impudent Usurpation.
Philadelphia Press.
The Lancaster Examiner denies that any
''rule'' of the party in Lancaster has been
violated by the refusal of the county COM
mittee to order a primary election for the
choice of delegates to the state con-
vention, and says that the ''other side :"
would have done the same thing if it had
had the majority of the committee. With
the quarrel between the two factions in
Lancaster the Press has no part. 1t
merely insists that county committee
ought not to have the power which the
Lancaster county committee exercised, and
that the people, by direct action, should
have it. In ordinary cases the voters
might not care for the privilege. But when
Republican nomination for the presidency
is more or less involved, and great public
interest attaches to the act, the county
committee which conscientiOusly and
intelligently grasps this power
belonging to the people and which
defiantly exercises it, is guilty
of an impudent usurpation. 1t is
just such tyranny which had raised up an
army of scratching protesters of 10000 in
the state of New York. Every true Re-
publican should frown upon practices
which arc calculated to breed dissensiOn
in the party, to cause just rescntments
and to weaken general confidence in its
management. The Press believes in the
rule of the people composing the party,
and not in the rule of any Ofthe machinery
of organization. And under all circum
stances it will maintain the right of the
individual voter against the usurping and
selfsecking placeman.
| just Like Him.
Philadelphia Times.
The Republicans Of Lancaster county
will hardly get much real comfort out of
the resolution slipped through the county
committee to allow them to instruct the
Chicago delegates at primary election
in May. The able chairman of the county
committee has such distrust of the pcO
pie and cares so little what they think OF
things that it would be just like him to az
range to have no primary election i'll May.