Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-05-03
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Why They Are Pleased.

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The Democratic organs are more tickled
over the results of the Pennsylvania con-
vention than married couple is over the
first baby.-New York Tribune.
1t is very much that way they are feel
ing ,as is evident from the extracts which
we re-publish on our first page to-day.
And they have good right to feel in
jubiIant frame of mind. The hopes of
the Republicans and the apprehensions
of the Democrats were that the state
convention would be a slaughter of the
the best interests of Pennsylvania Dem
Ocracy for years to come. Local feuds
were carried thither from every quarter
of the state, to be thrown into the gener-
al contest, and fuel for the flames was
borne by small politicians who marshall
ed their petty riyalries under the oppos-
ing banners of greater men. Every
question of principle, every dis
puted seat, all the state and ma
tional candidates were to be hotly con-
tested, and on whatever side the accident
Of victory might turn there were to be
heartburnings and bitternesses and divi-
sion left in the wake.
How different the issue from all these
anticipatiOns Peace with honor has
been won, by compromise of difficulties
that required no surrender of principle,
no abatement of true Democratic posi-
tiOn. In fact men are just beginning to
realize, after all, how little there was to
quarrel about and what hair-lines kept
them apart. The barriers of cOntending
factions in this state were only cObwebs.
When Messrs. Speer and Dill and
Mutchler, selected by one side, met in
conference with Messrs. jerks and
Stenger and Gibson from the other side,
they were quite able to come to a unani-
nous conclusion upon every point sub
mitted. So their work meets with hearty
ratification in every quarter of the state,
and party disputes are being wiped out
as::with a sponge. Here and there some
hot head who is guided by prejudice and
not by principle, and who esteems fac
tional aggrandizement above party sue
cess, will bring home from the state
convention the disputes which it settled,
but such people will only take rope
enough to hang themselves, and their ef-
forts to fan into life ashes that are dead
and cold, will only expose their own ri
diculOusness.
There is nothing in the character of
the delegation to Cincinnati which af-
fords either of the late factions opportu-
nifty to claim or take advantage of the
other, if either was so disposed. Mr..
Wallace is reported to have said that he
will not cease to exert himself to have
the Keystone state make a creditable
exhibition of itself at Cincinnati. Mr..
w. l.. Scott is reported to have claimed
40 of the delegation as Tilden men. To
both of these gentlemen, representing
diverse interests, it may be said that the
delegation is quite able to take care of
itself. 1t was selected in that view. 1t
is composed of independent men.
We doubt if half of them are commit
ted to any special candidate and we be-
lieve the whole of them will at the proper
time sacrifice their own personal
preferences to the party good,
and will be willing to impress
upon the national convention just
such a policy of wisdom and harmo-
ny as prevailed at Harrisburg. The
adoption of that policy has made the
Pennsylvania Democracy the standard
bearer of the national party, and will
give her delegation at Cincinnati the
first place of power.