Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-05-05

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THURsDAY EVENING, NAY 8. loel.
Hard TO Tell.
It is really getting to be difficult for
to it to tell that he is reading
q Republican newspaper. But a few
since its politics were obvious
enough It had then no aim in the
world but to elect Garfield and no de;
light SO great as to expatiate, after The
deed was done, upon the virtue Of the
Republican party and the great glory it
was to continue to shed upon the com-
try.
The Republican press is not SO unani-
NOUS now. Its tunes are discordant.
The organs do not blow. sweetly and in
unison. They are not alone occupied in
the Democracy. In truth
we get but small share of their atten-
tion, and come in fos more
ha'pence than kicks, and more
smiles than frowns. The hcuse : ID
divided against itself, and herfY2rring
factions even look to the common eaemy
for aid and comfort. The New Fork
Tribune, which has been conspicuous Of
late years for the exceeding blackness of
its Republicanism and the extremity Of
it's phobia against anything DsmpcFatie,
reads now almost like q Democratic
sheet in the expression Of its disgust at
the conduct of the Republican senatorial
bosses, whom it charges with attempting
to usurp power that does not belong to
them in refusing to 60 on with the
public business until the president nomi-
mates the men to Office whom they
want to have nominated. Are we
sorry that Garfield was elected !?
asks the Tribune; and it thinks
not but nevertheless recognizes the
fact that while /" six months ago the
Republican party was wild with joy" be-
cause Garfield was elected, it is not thus
joyous to-day. 1t refuses to believe that
it is because it has changed its mind and
repents of what it did, but finds that the
difficulty is that some men, who could
not be elected themselves, think that the
president belongs to them as part of
their live stock" because they turned in
at the last moment and secured his cleo.
tion. The whole story is the old one the
Republican dogs having secured the bone
now fight among themselves Cor its mar.
row; and those who don't know them
as of one party would never recognize
the fact in their present demeanOr.
That other metropolitan newspaper, the
New York Times, is more free and con
spicuous a great deal than the Tribune in
its assaults upon Republicans. Really the
party politicians can get no justice done
them save at Democratic hands. Stand
ing between the factions with unpreju'
diced minds, We can discern readily
enough that one is as good as the other
and that there is no principle at al
in a fight which is simply in it.
issue to determine which set of leader!
shall walk the plank. We recognize tn,
energy with which the Garfield Blaine
combination are seeking to bury thl
Conkling- Grant men, and we cannot ge
up any violent indignation over tn
strenuous efforts at self-preservatlol
which the proposed victims are making
even though in the effort they obstruc
the public business for two months ant
fall under the condemnation of theil
party organs of the Blaine Garfield type
as usurpers > and " senatorial bosses.
There is no doubt at all that it is a sim
pie question of ''bosses," and though w
object to the country being made to pal
the expense of the struggle, our fairness
won't let us demand that the senatorial
victims selected for the presidential jug
gernaut shall deliver themselves up to it
We are willing to pay our quota of tn
cost to secure fair play and to see TIN
fun and whenever we get chance w
will be disposed to help up the under do,
in the fight. 1t is quite comfortable t.
feel that we arc out of it and bound t.
profit by it, whoever wins. We can reaa
the remarks of our Republican cOntem'
poraries with great complacency and en-
joymcnt, now that they are directed to
wards exposing and denouncing the sin
of one another. We frankly confess tina
we never found them so interesting be
fore, nor so truthful and full of inform
alton.
They are speaking now from the in
side on subjects with which they are ia
miliar and about which they have {
great deal to tell. But really for the
benefit of strangers they ought to labe
themselves and put up in big type at the
head of their editorial columns, &c Thi:
is Republican organ" Here are two
local organs of the party in our town
daily firing away at one another Al
though they really were political enc
mics. No one could possibly tell from
the way they talk that they were mem.
bers of one political family. They are
edifying to the public in that they tell it
a great deal that is bad but very true
about each other, and how they sell their