Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-05-24
The Result.

Hon. A. Herr Smiths nomination for
Congress by large majority will not sur.
prise anybody. Doubtless his friends
had to avail themselves literally of the
means by which Republican nominations
are controlled in this county, for which
they had ample resources. If they had
not done SO they would have been over
run in this city and in many districts
where the politicians have a strong foot
hold. But beyond such aid Smith has a
firm grip upon the masses of his party
which it would have been very hard fo
anybody to loose. The country people find
him an accommodating, prompt repre-
sentative, and they believe him to he
economical in his legislative tendencies,
and Il decent man in his personal charac-
ter. Length of service and public expe-
rience only commend such an one to
their renewed favor and the politicians
have found anew that it is hard
to beat him and they are not likely
to make the effort again especially will
they not experiment with burnt powder.
Maj. Griest is shelved, to the great salts
faction of some who supported him this
time.
Major Reinoehl has again demon
strated that he has not the breadth nor
bottom to make the anti Cameron fight.
He was sold out by his pretended allies
and he suffered the disadvantage of his
opponents having ten dollars to spend to
one which his friends had. But for all
that, his supporters now see that his can
didacy was a mistake, and if anybody
could have beaten Mylin he was not the
man to do it with. The majors politi-
cal career will interest him no more.
Mylin's reelection is in some measure
due to bold and unscrupulous use of the
worst political influences, to the weak
ness of the opposition to him, to the per
sonai sympathy awakened by the relent-
less fight against him and to skillful
trades and combinations on all sides in
his behalf.
As we expected, the fittest candidate
for district attorney comes in at almost
the tail of the race, while about the
worst presses to the front. Mr.. Davis
has energy, as his fight shows, but it is
nObOdy's secret that his professional
character is not such as to recommend
him for the important place of district
attorney. He was probably encouraged
to the hardihood of making himself a |
candidate for it by his observation of the |
fact that Irregularities in the admins
tration of that Office are not punished,
nor the offenders brought to book. His
three immediate predecessors in the |
office of district attOrney-if not |
more of them-have been exposed to an
imadversiOn for abuse of it, without |
being held to account by the court and
if he shall continue the multiplication of
the prostitution of Justice in
behalf of the best workers of the wards.
and improve ON all the methods of those
going before, he will only fulfill the ex-
pectatiOn of those who know him. He
was elected by small clique of men who
have long ago thrown conscience to the
levil' in politics, and if the community
should reap the whirlwind of his elec-
ion they may wake to the re-
Ilizaticn of the fact that so long
IS three or four speculative poll
icians elect the officers for 10000
popular" suffrage is farce, and it
would be better to surrender our rights !