Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-03-26
STATE POLITICS.
DRIFT OF DEMOCRATIC DISCUSSION

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DRIFT OF DEMoCRAT1o DISCUSSION.
Tildsn and Anti-Tilden-The State Commit
tees Actton-No Bosses Need Apply
kerns's CONDENSATION.
Indiana Democrat.
We should like to see our friends of the
Pittsburgh Post, Harrisburg Patriot, Phil
adelphia Commonwealth, and Lancaster In
TELLIGENCER, let up on Messrs. Wallace
and Randall and give the Republicans
whack. Just for change, you know!
Mr. Wallace May Have Been Misunderstood.
York Press.
| 1t is possible that Mr. Wallace has been
misunderstood in this matter. If he did
not vote for the confirmation of the Cam
eron bulldozer he can readily vindicate
himself, and as we have before said, he
owes it to the party to do so. He should
ask the Senate to make public the pro-
ceedings of that particular executive ses-
sion, so that all may see just where he
stood. Meanwhile, it is not pleasant to
have him eulogized by Republican men,
bers for ''rising above party" in the con-
tirmation of kerns, and the affair is doing
him great injury. We hope he will ex-
plain it.
| The Amende Honorable.
| Wilkesbarre Union-Leader
In recent article we declared that the
real motive of those newspapers which
haven scolding Senator Wallace concern
ing the Kerns business, was to deprive
the senator of his leadership in the party,
because his views as to the presidential and
other questions do not tally with those of
the malcOntents."
There was in our mind at the time the
article in question was being penned,
among other journals, the Lancaster In
TELLIGENCER. That paper has, however,
since published an article, in which its po-
sition as to the presidential question is very
clearly set out, and that position is so
commendable one that we present the
cream of the statement of it to our readers
in the INTELLIGENCER's own language. +
The spirit of the foregoing para
graph is the spirit that animates every true
Democrat. The candidate who is all that
a good Democrat and good president
should be, and whocommands the greatest
share of popularity, is every patriot Dem
ocrat's candidate.
. Publish the Vote.
Cambria Freeman.
The only thing about the matter which
vexed us at MIR. Wallace, was the dispatch
from Washington announcing the contir-
nation of kerns as having been unanimous,
and that Senator Wallace had uaiyed all
objections to 1T. This meant, Ofcourse that
MIR. Wallace voted to confirm Kerns,
: which must surely be mistake, for if the
official record of the Senate would show
that he had done so in the face of his
, letter to the committee, it would end him
politically in this state. Why cannot Mr..
Wallace's vindicatiOn be made complete by
, publication of the vote?
. the Kerns Matter---Ths Record.
Uncle Jake Ziegler's Butler Herald.
, We can but reiterate our opinion of this
: matter, and it is, that under no circum-
stances should he have been confirmed.
5 We have nothing personal against Marshal
Kerns, but we say, the public officer who
! prostitutes his Office to surround election
polls with crowd of bummers of the very
, lowest class to overawe Democratic voters,
, has 10 right to leniency in his confirma-
ton at the hands of Democratic senators.
l Our general principle has always been that
S no factious opposition should be made to
= presidential appointments by the Senate,
l but when men are appointed simply be-
4 cause of gross violation of public duty
i perpetrated in the interest of one party as
Y against another, then Democratic senators
i fail in their duty by allowing such persons
: to be confirmed when they can prevent it.
r The Committee Has Nothing To DO With 1t
Cambria Freeman.
= However much this Philadelphia Mon
tague and Capulet quarrel is to be regret
ted, it is very plain to- us that the state
G committee has nothing to do with it, but
that it is purely question for the conven-
tion itself. Can anything be palmer than
1 that delegate who answers to the call
Q when the secretary of the convention an
t nounces the districts he is there to repre-
sent and whose right is not disputed, is
entitled to his seat, and that where there
is a contest both the claimant and contest,
$ ant must stand aside until the controversy
is settled? If the state committee can die.
tate the names Of the delegates from one
county who shall take part in organizing
the convention, it can do so for every
county in the state, which would be an
exercise of power not to he dreamed of fol
5 a moment. Every convention has the in.
herent right to judge of the election OF
, those who claim membership in it, and
when that right is surrendered conven.
tion abdicates its highest functions.
Peace, Brethren, Peace.
l Delaware County Democrat.
1t may be true (although the tangible
. evidence thus far looks Otherwise) that
Senator Wallace may have winked at OF
even aided the confirmation of Marshal
Kerns, and it may be, too, that the senator
is envious or hostile personally toward
, Speaker Randall but the passage of EN-.
1 bittered resolutions by county committees,
, like those adopted in Allegheny county,
against Wallace, and violent personal in
vectives, such as few of the newspapers
on both sides have indulged in, can certain
ly do the party no good at this juncture,
and we doubt very much that either Mr..
Randall or Mr.. Wallace has in any way
given cOuntenance to them.
An ex-Parte Proceeding
Fayette County Genius of Liberty.
,, The only effect that tho resolution can
i have is to give one faction of the party in
Philadelphia, where the party has been
rent by dissensions, the Endorsement of the
state at large, and to give that faction a
prestige in the convention, which they
: should not enjoy until the question of
the eligibility to seat in the convention is
determined, upon the evidence produced
; before the convention or before committee
. appointed by the convention. The passage
of the resolution would therefore be an
er parte proceeding, determining the status
of the one faction and their orima facie
right and title toa seat in the convention, be-
cause some of the faction now had the right