Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-12-10

SATURDAY EVENING. DEC. 10. 1851:
Beaver for Governor.
There is nothing surprising in the
news which the Times prints as coming
from Washington that the Stalwarts
from Pennsylvania have had caucus
and agreed to push General Beaver as
their candidate for governor. This de-
termination On their part has been un-
derstood in welI-informed political cir
cles for some time. Mr.. Quay's nomina-
tion of Grow and Senator Cooper's
nomination of himself have not been
sufficient to divert them from the direc-
tion in which they had set out to travel
a long time ago When Grow pulled on
the track for United States senator to
let Beaver on he was no doubt promised
the governorship, and his weak yielding
to the Cameron programme lost him the
respect of his Independent friends.
Quay has made a feint of carrying out
that bargain, but of course he knew that
his associates would never assent to it,
especially as Grows withdrawal did
not ensue in Beavers election
and as his nomination would
leave the obligations entered into
with Beaver still unpaid. 1t was
bargained that Beaver should he COVER
nor for leading the Pennsylvanians for
Grant at Chicago, just as Frank Eshle-
man was made district attorney in this
county, for betraying his constituents in
the Cincinnati convention in 1876, and
helping to beat Blaine. The Cameron
party have not so far forgotten the cum
ming which has made their policy sue
cessful in this state as to fail to reward
those who serve their cause or betray
their enemies. There never has been
any other idea generally approved in
their council than Beavers nomination.
They know that Grow is utterly useless
and entirely harmless, despised alike by
both factions and neither wanted nor
feared 10y either. Cooper too, with a
revolt i'm his county of some 800, is
easily disposed of. He has no following
that can successfully press his nomina-
tiOn, and he is time-server, who has to
abide by the decision of the Lochiel par
lor caucus. If importunate he will lie
easily satisfied with the nomination for
lieutenant governor.
The Ring Republicans have done as
we'll as they could probably in their Sc
lection. Beaver will bring to their aid
in getting his nomination as many votes
which they could not otherwise secure, as
anybody they could have agreed upon.
They have not taken him because he
is one,legged soldier, fair lawyer,
and Il man of good social repute, but they
expected these things to get them
some votes for him in the nomination
which they could not have obtained for
such man of their natural preference
as Cooper. They expect Beaver to be
submissive to their future plans and
there is nothing in his character or rec
ord which threatens them with dis
appointment in this confidence.
His candidacy on the part of the Cam
eron faction then being agreed upon and
his nomination well assured, it only re-
mains to consider the probable attitude
of the so-called Independents in his party
toward his nomination and election. The
Continental hotel conference committee
must he either for or against him. 1t
really matters little which. If they are
for him their support is of no conse-
quence {; if against him hc will be nom-
mated anyhow, and they have given in
their adherence in advance. But that
wing of the party which opposed Baily
has all the same reasons to oppose Bea'
yer. AS contemporary remarks: he is
of the Stalwarts, to be dominated by
Stalwart agents and methods and for the
purpose of maintaining Stalwart nomi-
nation in Pennsylvania" and this move
ment has behind it the support of the
administration, whose purposes are
much further developed now than
few months ago, when the
boiling Republicans in this state
took up the gauntlet and met the issue
forced upon them. Now the president
is said 10 he in full sympathy with the
success of Stalwartism and its represen'
tatives in Pennsylvania, and every act
of his administration has shown this to
be true from the McKeesport postmas.
tership to the disposal of the Pennsylva'
mia members in the speakership contest
If the Wolfe Republicans will assent to
this they will belle their position in the
late canvass. Not only they but the
leaders in the Continental hotel confer
ence refused to support Beaver when he
was offered as the choice of 4 majority Of
hisparty caucus for United States senate,
They challenged him only because he
was the selection of Cameron and his
ring. He is that and only that now
and they took in his stead man of nt
greater fitness or strength only because
he appeared to have the Cameron collar
less tightly riveted upon his neck.
For some reason or other the Y. M
c. A., of this city, has not received the
hearty sympathy of our citizens nor the
support which is needed to keep it out
of debt, even with the liberal terms upor
which it bought the property it occupies
Either its plan and purposes or its man
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