Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-01-01
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SATURDAY EVENING. JAN. I, 1881.
The Proper Senator.
Representative Wolfe might be en-
yaged in . better business than in press
ng Mr.. Grow for the senatorship, the |
Dnly Recommendation of his candidate |
to him being the fact that he is the anti
Cameron ring representative. That is
m excellent recommendation it is true;
but it ought to suggest itself to the op-
ponents of this ring that they can best
themselves to the people by
selecting for official positions better
candidates than those favored by the
men they seek to overthrow. If they do
not succeed, they will then..at least have
tho consolation of knowing that they
deserved to do SO and that they have a
right to ask the applause of their con-
stituents. Mr.. Wolfe has often placed
himself in position to secure strong pop
ular approval by deserving it. We wish
we could say for him that he is doing his
best to that end just now. But we can
not. To us as partisans it matters little
who is settled by the Republicans of the
Legislature for senator; but SO far as
our interest lies in that directiOnit would
prompt us to look with favor upon the
selection of Mr.. Grow as man who
would divide Republican coun-
sells and shed very little lustre
upon his party in the exalted position of
senator. But We confess to pride in the
state which browns such selfish partisan
desire. We would like to see Pennsyl-
vania represented in the Senate by man
who would be the peer of any one there,
and as state should he which is not ex-
celled in greatness by any state in the
Union.
OF course Mr.. Grow is not such a
figure as we ought to see there. He has
bern long before the people, who know
him well, and there is no chance of there
being any undiscovered greatness in him
which may make him surprisingly illus
triOus in the national councils. He is
not modest man nor given to hiding his
light under a bushel. He has been hunt
ing down this senatorship as only small
man would and will fail to get it as a
small man should:
Nor does Mr.. Oliver come up to the
senatorial stature. He has developed a
capacity to make money and to manage
an iron mill, but the United States Sen.
ate is not an iron mill; nor will Mr..
divers special talents enable him to
shine in it; SO far at least as he has dis
played them. He may be miraculous
genius-a son of thunder-whO cOnceals
under his hat any sort of talent that the
emergency. may demand the exhibition
of. But that is possibility with every
man; and it is not safe one for legis.
lature to go on in selecting the fittest
candidate to represent Pennsylvania in
the Senate. We all know that it is very
seldom, indeed, that the Lord grants
every talent and virtue to one individ.
ual, and as He has given to Mr.. Oliver
very valuable traits of character, which
have made him prosperous and enabled
him to take very good care of number
one, a fair suspicion would be that He
has not richly endowed him with the
disposition and necessary talent to take
care of all the other people in the country;
to his own injury even, rs a senator
should he ready to do. 1t must in fair
ness be admitted that Mr.. Oliver comes
squarely up to the standard of the Penn
sylvania Republican senator, and that he
would be quite as creditable representa-
tive of the state as the Camerons. But
the fervent prayer of the people goes up
tothe good Lord ,on this New Years day,
to deliver them from any more represen'
tatives of this sort. And we are strongly
inclined TO think that this prayer is going
be granted. If Mr.. Wolfe and his asso
ciates can accomplish nothing for Grow,
as we believe they cannot, they may still
be able to win creditable incumbent o1
the high Office in the gift of their party
and in such effort they have our sym
pathy, despite our Democracy; OF
rather because of it and its purity.