Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-01-12
Who .. Sulks in His Tent"

New Era.
The INTELLIGENCER tries hard to make
itself and readers believe that there is
imminent danger of disruption in that
wing of the Republican party which routed
the Cameron ring in the last two
campaigns in this county. Both of its
editors having been so fortunate as to
receive college education, including a
smattering of the classics, and both prid-
ing themselves on their ''society'' man.
ncrs, of which their paper is the un-
disputed Jenkins organ, they naturally Use
such refined phrases as ''hog ring,
"skinned and quartercd, 1.-THE feed is
scarce and every hog wants to get his feet
in the trough" ''OminOus grunting and
squealing," "disemboweling its porcine
enemy" all rolled from under the classic
editorial tongue into single paragraph OF
moderate length, and pointed with the
declaration that Ed. Martin sulks i'll his
TENT AS there is no more truth i'll the
remainder of the INTELLIGENCER's polite
utteranccs about Capt. McMellen, j. W.
johnson and Tom Davis, than there is in
the allusion to Mr. Martin, the reader will
have no tronble in estimating the whole at
their true value.
The impression the INTELLIGENCER in
tends to convey is what has been frc-
quently asserted of late by those whose
''wish is father to the thought that Mr..
Martin "sulks in his tent because he was
forced off the track as a candidate for dis
trict attorney by others interested in Sc
curing that office for themselves or friends,
with whom Mr.. Martin SO efficiently CO
operated in defeating the Cameron ring in
this county.
The Confession of a Modest Man.
Now, it so happens that the editor OF
the New Era, of all other persons, finds
himself to be in position to know more
about Ed. Martins alleged ''sulking in his
tent" than any other person. His cOnclu-
sion not to be candidate for district at
torney was reached through his own ,judg-
ment, in accordance with the advice of the
writer. Had we given that advice as a
politician, looking only to the success of
that section of the party with whom we
both have been and still are in sympathy, We
would have urged him to be candidate :;
for we then believed and still believe he
would have been successful, as his candi-
dacy would have done more to take rival
claims out of what will probably be a
scrub race than can now be accomplished
by any other candidate. But our ad-
vice was given as personal friend who
has never advised a young man to try to
make his living by politics when he has
anything better to do, with a fair prospect
of succeeding in doing it. Our friendship for
Mr.. Martin was cemented by our knowl-
edge of the fact that he helped
to fight bur battles against ring
rule purely from honest convictions Of
right, with a courage which compelled the
admiration of his political enemies,
when they were trying to hound him down
with the idle cry of ''Buckalew Republi-
can," Moonshine politician" and similar
epithets. He lived down all aspersions of
loyalty to Republican principles, fought
his revilers in two hOtly contested cam
paigns, in planning and executing the Win
ming cards of which he had more to do than
any other one man, triumphed in both, and
Judged as one who did it all to vindicate
his fidelity to honest convictions and Re-
publican principles, he has now less cause
to g sulk in his tent" than any other man
We know of. Simply as politician he
can we'll afford to rest on the laurels he
has won.