Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-05-27

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THE REPUBLICAN PRIMARIES.
Allegations Of Corruption and Frauds.
New Era.
Pierson NJ. Eberly is returned as de-
feated by Al votes. lie and his friends al
lege that they can prove enough fraud in
a single ward in Columbia to cover this
majority. They should leave nothing un-
done to probe the matter to the bottom.
The Crawford County System.
Lancaster Examiner, Rep.
What We are now acting under we agree
is "disgraceful failure But that any
public good is to come of washing the
dirty linen Of the present or past prima-
ries we have our doubts. That the whole
thing "stinks" we are 10th to admit,
and we too could ''tale unfold, =" but we
are "too full for utterance." We prefer
to let ''bygones be begOnes.' There are
many gentlemen whose names have never
been before the public, but who have been
in one way or another involved in things
connected with office-gettins whose ac-
tions it will now do no good to the public
to expose. And yet all would help to make
the thing more Odious in the estimation of
honest citizens. "Let us have change"
comes up from all classes of citizens, with
out any more filth.
A Hint to Quay.
New Era.
Now that Mr.. Quay's Lancaster machine
has " counted" Mr.. Quay out of his Lam
caster city instructions, by rejecting the
returns from the Eighth ward( (the home of
"the best workers y, it is in order for
Hay Brown to return Mr.. Quay his con-
tract money. While his abitrary rejection
of the returns from the Eighth ward
removes the shackles which Brown, COch-
ran & Co., had placed on MIR. Demuth,
and thus opens the door to the election OF
Republican member from the First
district, the proceeding don't pan out
we'll rs a compliment to Mr.. Quay. TAX
or $4,OO to carry a district for him, and
taking his vote from him by an arbitrary
act, which confcsses that his majority was
obtained by fraud as we'll as pur-
chase, is pretty rough treatment even for
a member of pardon board which has
covered itself all over with infamy.
Another.
New Era.
He nearly carried this city, it is true,
but how did he do it. The 1000 he left
with Hay Brown did it. If he could pur
chase only 1900 votes with that sum, how
much does the Neps suppose his seat in
the Senate is likely to cost him, for be it
understood that nobody except a score or
SO of personal friends cast their votes for
him voluntarily-a!lt the rest were bought
in the open market, varying i'll price from
| fifty cents to four dollars. This method
of carrying on campaign is in entire ac-
cord with Pardon Mill Quay's well-known
style of doing business. Luckily for the
people of this commonwealth they have
long known his methods. If they had not
the prompt style in which he, sworn
officer of the commonwealth, fastened to
release kcmhle, Rumberger & Co., would
have opened their eyes etfectually.
An Indepen dent Suggestion.
Philadelphia Times.
If the Republicans of Lancaster would
take the matter in their own hands and
reform their leaders instead of pretending
to reform laws which are OdiOus solely
because they have been abused or detied,
the root of the evil would be reached and
the popular system would speedily vindi
cate itself. And there is an easy way to
do it now. Mr.. Smith, who heads the
ticket, is acceptable to all honest Republi-
cans but every machine man and every
anti-machine man who has been nomi-
mated by trickery and combinations with
fraud should be marked for defeat. Sena-
tor Mylin owes his place on the ticket to
the disreputable coalition that shamed the
county and the state by its appalling
frauds, and Mr.. Davis was nominated for
district attorney by the sacrifice OF every
attribute of manhood and political integ-
rity. They should both be defeated by
the people, and thus reform the leaders
who would speedily reform the primary
system. 1t is folly to daily and tempo.
rize with political leaders who have
so completely debauched the primary
elections of a county like Lancaster.
They must be overthrown by sternly
rejecting their bastard nominations, if the
political atmosphere is to be cleared Of the
malaria that now pervades it. Where
candidates have gained their nominations
by compacts with fraud, let them be con-
fronted with clean-handed and competent
Republican competitors, and if that shall
he done in good faith the Democrat s
should leave the field open for a fair fight
between the traders and the people. One
such battle would reform everything. by
reforming the leaders through the sweet
uses of adversely, and the popular prima-
ries would honestly voice the will of the
party thereafter.