Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-01-17
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NoNDAY EVENING, JAN. II. 1891.
Hands on.

MONDAY EVENING. JAN. IL. 1891.
Hands on.
We do lot have much sympathy with
the project to trade the Democratic vote
for senator on u Republican agreement
to make a fair apportionment. The
trade would be legitimate enough as 1t
10 of no particular interest to the Demo-
cratic party that one Republican rather
than another should be senator, and the
concession to them of fair apportion-
ment is what should be given them with
out any consideration being paid for it.
The Democrats want an apportionment
that shall not do them injustice ; the Re-
pu.,!icans want senator, which their
majority entities them to. There is no
injury done the state by the Democrats
voting for a competent senator and the
Republicans voting for decent appor-
tionment. That is the argument Tor the
trade.
Nevertheless We are opposed TO II.
We do not believe in dickers between
the parties. We have never ultimately
gained by them. And however fair they
may appear in proposal there is sure to
be somebody cheated in the execution ;
il not one of the parties, then the peo-
pie. In this case we do not know any
cast iron guarantee that could be shown
is strong enough to induce US to place
confidence in the promise of the Republl-
can machine to make an appointment
fair to the Democracy, after they have
come into the enjoyment Of the chestnuts
we have plucked from the fire for them.
We cannot touch pitch without being
defiled. We cannot trust a scoundrel's 8
word without being cheated. Nor
could our representatives, vote for such
q candidate as Mr.. Oliver with self-re.
spect. To be sure, as Democrats 1t does
not matter who the Republican senator
is; but as citizens it does matter to us
that he should he a man competent to fill
the place. Mr.. Oliver is not. He has
not had the training or education neces'
sary. We have no confidence that he
would make creditable representative
of the state, though he is man of in
telligence aud business capacity.
The responsibility is upon the Repub-
Ncans to select senator. We do not be.
lieve in taking it away from them, un-
less they choose to permit us to elect
Democrat, which is very unlikely.
Therefore let US not bother with their
quarrel or interfere in it. Let them
work out their own salvation If they can
and let US attend to ours, which we will
best secure by "a policy of mastery in
activity.
Mr.. Wolfe says Demcmocratic trade oi
its votes for senator for Republican votes
for the apporiionment bill, would be
bribery. 1t would he if the apportion'
ment bill should give the Democrats any
advantage they are not entitled to. But
that is not proposed. The demand sim.
ply is for an apportiOnment just to botl
parties, and such one as the rep
resentative's oath would require him to
support at any rate, if he had proper
IkkdIu lOl tJO Iu0I llC plol1OoOA OnA
gain would hardly be bribery. Still il
might he charged with that aspect. We
will keep ourselves cleaner by avoiding
the appearance of evil. Let the Repub'
licans elect what senator they will.
He is not likely to be very great man
They have no great men. The best oi
the candidates proposed would not bt
equal to the iirst-class men they will
meet in the senate. Wayne Mac Veagh
comes up as the latest contribution tG
the list curiously enough, on the anti
Cameron side, though he is son-in-law OF
Simon. He is Il man of talent, a g0OG
speaker, and has honest instincts, though
he is by no means up to the proper sena
torial standard Of power. Yet he would
make Il far better appearance than his
class mate at Yale, Platt, who has just
been chosen senator from New York, al
Senator Conkling's double. Mr.. Mac
Veagh would not I've his brother-in-law
DOn's double in the Senate for a Ger
tainty and Donald don't want him there
Just as surely. Yet family pride may
make old Simon look with favor upon
MacVeagh' 's::candidacy. Brothers-in-law
in the Senate are rs scarce as fathers
and sons; and THE FAMILY would have
a big feather in its cap to have been
represented in the body by father and
son and sOn-in-law, and the world would
laugh to see how we couldn't get away
from TIE FAMILY in Pennsylvania
whatever we do. Whenever the bones
are thrown they are at the front.
WE are beset with complaints about
unprecedented gas bills and import uni
ties to know what the people who are
suffering are going to do about it. After
q ten per cent. increase in the price and
the invasion of the peoples houses and
stores with noxious gases, the public
will not tolerate an imitation of the gas
bills. such aS they now SUSPECT they are