Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-09-10
WOLFE FOR STATE TREASURER,


The Union County Representative an Inde-
pendent candidate.
To the Editor cfMe Press. Philadelphia:
LEwIsBUIG, Pa, September 9.-The
black flag has been raised against the In
dependent Republicans of PENNSYLVANIA.
Please announce that on my own RESPONSE
bility am an Independent Republican
candidate for state treasurer, in full SYM
pathy with the administration and against
the rule of the bosses. will stump the
state and give my reasons for this action.
CHARLES S. WOLFE.
"But."
Philadelphia Press, Ed.
We are equally amazed and grieved at
this extraordinary action of our respected
and valued friend. If his dispatch had not
reached us last night at an hour after the
telegraph Office in his rural town had
closed, and too late to admit of further
| communication, we should earnestly have
begged Mr.. Wolfe to desist from this ill
judged and unjustiGable purpose, as we
now counsel him to retrace his hasty and
impetuOus step - =
MIR. Wolfe is earnest, courageous and un-
faltering. He has the fervid spirit of the
enthusiast. He has won the confidence Of
many Republicans who care nothing for
politics except as a matter of principle. If
he shall take the stump through the state
the people will come to hear, and it will
require earnest effort and candid argument
to remove the impression he will leave.
The swift development Of this peril is proof
| that the warning We sounded in advance of
the convention was spoken in the highest
interest Of the party.
An Independent View.
Philadelphia Times.
The dose administered by the bosses on
Thursday was little too much. To see
Quay presiding over Republican state
convention to sec one of the Grant dele
gates to Chicago rewarded with the nomi
nation for state treasurer; to see one OF
the boltcrs of last winter severely sat down
upon to see Cooper put at the head OF
the new state committee, and then to Iavc
all this declared to be the Republican
party by set of resolutions indorsing
Garfield $ administratiou-all this is more
than Wolfe can stand. 4
Mr.. Wolfe Is as good a Republican af
there is in the state. He announces his
support OF the administration and no one
will question his sincerity. From a
thoroughly available position Mr.. Wolfe
offers the Republican party Of Pennsyl
''S".s ssA OppoA AIuultS " NCVCI lAS
question as to which faction should rule il
the party councils. He offers those who
have become tired of boss rule an oppor-
tnnity to declare themselves and to show
that an overwhelming majority of the
party is opposed to such domination. The
organs which have hurried forward to eat
the Baily crow will not be able to do any
thing for Mr.. Wolfe, but the organs arc
understood aud nobody will wait for theil
opinions. The anti machine Republicans
OF the state have never had such an oppor.
tunity as this to demonstrate their right
by force Of numbers to control the party
From the CIVIL Service Standpoint.
New 1ork Evening Post, Rep.
We are inclined to think that, whatcve,
else may DC at stake in the Pennsylvania
election, the cause of civil service reform
will gain nothing by Gen. Baily's success
and lose nothing by l:is defeat