Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-03-13
KERNs's CONFIRMArION.
Disgusted and In . Oussing Humor
BellefOnte Watchmon,

KERNS'S CONFIRMATION.
Disguised and In . Oussing Humor.
Bellefonte Watchmen.
The confirmation of Marshal Kerns by a
Democratic Senate is enough to destroy
the confidence of the whole party in the in
tegrity of our senators. We are simplX
disguised, and in common with the Dem
ocratic press of the state feel like cussing
the whole machine. That such man as
Kerns, who was investigated, convicted and
damned by the Wallace committee, should
be confirmed for the same office
by the votes of Democratic senators, is al
most incredible.
Let 1t Retire.
If it would be considered in order and
not disrespectful to those most interested,
we would mOdestly move that the Senate
to investigate election frauds
quietly disband. It spent year under
Teller, it has spent a year under Wallace,
and it has cost the Lord only knows how
much more money to unearth frauds
committed at the polls and to uncover the
rascals who commit them, and just after it
has pointed out most positively the worst
criminal in the whole gang, and in the
city that is notorious only for its
thieves and frauds, this very commit
tee recommends, and the honorable
senators who have exposed the rascal
vote to confirm his reappointment to
the place they have proven him so unfit
and so unworthy to fill. Since this exhibi-
tion of inconsistency, not to use harsh
word, on the part Of the Democratic sena-
tors it is a question with Democratic peo-
pie whether Kerns with with his infamous
record as United States marshal is any
more unfit for his position than are the
senators who voted to continue him in
office for the places they have SO shame
fully disgraced. There is no question
with any one, however, about the propri-
ETY. of abolishing the committee that is
hunting up frauds it is as useless as can
be, unless its object is to point out the
rascals for a radical president to appoint
and Democratic Senate to confirm.
Inaputes No Motives, but Wants to Know
the Reason.
Erie Observer
After so thoroughly exposing Marshal
Kerns-after showing that he was the bull
dozer of bulldozers-after placing him in
the same light before the public as
the notorious Davenport, of New York,
it seems a little strange that Senator
Wallace should have interposed no objec-
ton to his confirmation as marshal of the
Eastern district of Pennsylvania. The
objection of Mr.. Wallace would have de-
feated his confirmation. Why was that
objection withheld
While we impute no motive of doubt
full character as controlling the action of
MIR. Wallace in the premises, the strange
and incomprehensible action demands
oc. h. l0c
far made. Ifhe cannot clearly show that
he iii justified in his action, he stands be-
for the Democracy in very peculiar
light.
Assaults on Senator Wallace.
Harrisburg Patriot.
Certain newspapers have invariably been
made the avenues of assault upon Senator
Wallace just before the meeting of Demo-
cratic state conventions. Among these
the New York Sun is pre-eminent.
Through its columns the malignant per-
sonal enemies of the devoted senator shoot
their envenomed shafts. The Pitts
burgh Post picks up the poisoned
darts of the Danites Of the Sun
after they are spent and uses them ut sec
ond-hand. Then the Lancaster INTELLI-
GENCER gathers them up, puts them in its
little quiver and shoots them from very
long bow, but with nervous and unsteady
aim. Mark, now, that this newspaper war
ON Senator Wallace is always made just
before the meeting Of a Democratic state con-
uentiOn. After the convention has been
held it ceases and is not renewed until the
delegates are to be chosen to the merit c0nren-
ton. This is rather peculiar, but not by
any means as difficult of solution as the
s. fifteen puzzle"
How have Senator Wallace and his
friends met these assault? Have they re-
paid them in kind? Have they demanded
an eye for an eye and tooth Tor a tooth ?
Not at all. They have borne them with
out resentment for the sake of harmony in
the party. They have given a cordial sup
port to the ticket when it was named by
their opponents, and when the canvass
was managed by men who train with their
enemies. They have refrained entirely
from making cOunter-attacks in the news
papers upon the principal men in the Op-
to act that no door might be closed through
re-enter. But their patience and forbear-
ance have evidently been misunderstood.
When cOntumely and reproach are silently
endured for the sake Of the common good
fools mistake the act of fortitude for cow
ardice. But the time generally comes
when they are undeceived.
Senator Wallace aud his friends still
desire, above all things political, the unity
and harmony of the party in order that
success may be assured in the coming con-
test at the polls. Any one with a modicum
of sense ought to know that the senator
has deep personal interest in the success
of the party in this state at the next cleo
tion. His term of Office will ex-
pire on the fourth of March next. If
the party cannot carry the state and Sc
cure majority of the Legislature on
joint ballot at the coming election his
public career will end with twelve
month. He can have no political future
except through the success of the Dem
ocracy in this state in November next. Is
it then reasonable to suppose that he
would lend himself to any scheme calcu-
lated to injure his party? If he has secured
appointments for Democrats by conceding
other appointments to his colleague, is it
not clear that he must have acted on the
belief that he was serving his party? Will
liam A. Wallace is too able and far
sighted a politician to deliberately commit
all act which will injure his party, especi-
ally when he knows that his pOliti-
cal future depends solely and absolutely on
the success Of the party. What he has done
in the matter of federal appointments will
rebound to the advantage of the Demo-
cracy, as aoiU appear after the count Of the
cote in Philadelphia and other centres Of
population nert Nouembcr. Meanwhile it is
for those who have assailed him and are
still engaged in traducing him because of
these appointments to decide whether or
not there shall be an end of feud and fac