Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-04-02
Harmony and Success.

| OFk TreSS.
1t is now pretty we'll settled that Grant
will be renominated for a third term
| against clearly expressed wishes of the
rank and file of the Republican party,
This suicidal work will be done at Chicago
by the voters of solid delegations, like
those of Pennsylvania and New York, tied
up by the unit rule and delivered to the
absolute personal control of lOrdly
senatorial political bosses. The Re-
publican party dooms itself to in
evitable defeat, by this abdicatiOn OF its
right to select its own candidates, and sub
mitting to the selfish dictation of a couple
of commonplace United States senators
and thus furnishes the Democrats with an
opportunity of victory, which must not be
lost. With only ordinary prudence, the
Democracy cannot fail to get full possess
sion of all branches Of the government {;
but in order to put that success beyond
doubt, We must observe the following can
didates
The people must be allowed to make
their own nomination without the inter-
vention of bosses. All that should be left
to the Republicans. Let us, here and
everywhere, choose delegates to the state
convention who will represent the voters
who send them and not the will of one
man who resides in remote corner
of the state. whether that corner
be Philadelphia or Cleartield. Let them
vote against the unit rule, no matter by
whom offered, or in what interest, and
then choose delegates to the national
convention who will faithfully reflect
the wishes of the Democracy of the
district. We believe that it would be every
way to the best interests of the party, that
our representatives should go to Cincin-
natl uninstructed. and free to cast their
votes for the candidate, who seems, after
consultation and comparison of views with
all parts of the union, most likely to be
elected. But if the friends of any particular
candidate, say Hancock, Bayard or Tilden,
should appear to be in 4 large majority
of the state convention, and he is mani
festly the choice of the people, that
majority will have the right to instruct
the four delegates at large but it will
have no right to instruct the district dele
gates, and require them to vote Us unit.
The people Of each county and district
have right to be fairly represented
in tho national convention, and
there is no power Oh earth that can
take it away from them. Further
more we believe that it would be extreme
ly impolitic in the state convention to ex-
ercise under any circumstances its conceded
right to instruct even the four delegates at
large who represent the state rs a whole.
Independent and discreet men, subject to
nobody's orders, would be far more like
ly to reach a wise conclusion three months
hence at Cincinnati than we arc here and
now.
We hope the honest Democrats of the
country will think over these grave mat
ters, and not permit themselves to be
moved by mere clamOr from any quarter.
The Republican party has been degraded,
haltered and shacklcd by the Harrisburg
ring machine, and handed over to one
man as his private goods, simply from the
failure OF the people to attend to their own
business at the right time ; and if this
does not insure its defeat nothing could.
As to the supposed rivalry between
Speaker Randall and Senator Wallace for
the control of the Democratic party, we
have to say. that the personal merits
or wishes OF these two gentlemen have
nothing to do with the matter in hand.
No man ever controlled the Democratic
party of Pennsylvania, and the man,
who, for his own selfish purposes, says
he does is a pretender and fraud. The
DiCCCueS "cIc ucSCI Will pOCASt
big enough to carry the party of the
peoplc-the old-fashioned Democracy of
Jefferson and Jackson. Mr.. Randall and
Mr.. Wallace are not candidates before the
people, and for the present we have moth
ing to do with them, nor they with us, and
any yattempt on the part of either to obtrude
his personal will into any county, and
to divide and disturb us, by making
submissions or resistance to that will
an issue. should be met by such
a rcbukc as will prevent any repetition
of the offence. These are our SEN
timents and we arc sure they are the senti-
ments OF every good Democrat IN York
county. We are for the man that can
win, and to win we must have harmony in
the party, and the people should promptly
sit down upon those who would create
division by any effort to Cameronize Or har-
ness us up in the leading strings of any self
asserted boss. We have seen where that
ends in the pitiful spectacle which the Re-
publican party presents to day, squirming
helpless under the cold and selfish hand of
Senator Cameron.