Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-04-07
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THURSDAY EVENING. APRIL 2, 1881
Wanting q Tonic.

Wanting Tonic.
Senator Cameron wants to be sup
ported. That a man so disposed to go
his own gait should ask the Pennsylva-
mia Legislature to approve his senatorial
course is in itself remarkable enough to
show that he feels his political corpora
tion to stand in need of tonic. Senator
Cameron does not ask the endorsement
of his constituents through humility,
which is feeling he is quite stranger
to; nor with any disposition to alter his
course if it should not be approved, for
that ne was never known to do. But he
is aware that he came out of a late con-
test in the Pennsylvania Legislature
very ragged and torn and all forlorn,
and he sees here chance to be rehabili-
tated and to secure an0intment at the
hands of the very Legislature which is
generally believed to have severely phle-
botomized his political body and
done serious damage to his prestige.
Then he appears, too, with Senator
Mitchell tagging at his heels, and Mitch
ell is the man who was supposed to rep
resent those who Drained him. No
doubt it is with great satisfaction that
Senator Cameron introduces Senator
Mitchell to the public as his acquescent
colleague and drags him before the Penn
sylvania Legislature to receive thedisar.
proval of the men who made him, and
thought they had made something that
was not shapable into a Cameron tool.
The other day, in the Senate, when
Mr.. Cameron was twitted by a Demo
cratic senator with the fact that the
Pennsylvania Legislature had declined
to swallow Malone, he replied, " they
will though - and Immediately WI
are greeted with a Republican eau
Gus resolution in the Legislature
approving the course of Pennsylvania:
senators. The caucus adopted it ant
the Legislature doubtless will {; though
all the members Of it who are really de
sirous of dealing THE FAMILY a coup d'
grace will surely vote against it. They
have Il splendid opportunity to give thei
enemy the tOmahawk, if they hav'
blood enough to embrace it. 1t need no
matter to them that they let out also tn
brains of their own Senator Mitchell
for he is not so much their own as the
thought he was, and all the brains he viii
be able to spill will not make him o
much less consequence than he is
judging at least from his senatorial per
formanceS There may be virtue in tn
man, as We used to think there was, bu
he has such a desperately mean way o
showing it that it needs very abundan
faith to longer believe in it. Neithe
need the anti-Cameron Republicans o
our state Legislature care a grea
deal that, in refusing to apprOv
the course of Pennsylvania sena
tors on the Malone business, the.
are condcmning the action Of all the sen
ators of their party. There is little doub
that the majority of the people condemn
that action and that it will be hurtful t,
the Republican party. Advice to quit
rendered by the Republicans of tn
PENNSYLVANIA, Legislature to the Repub
lican senators, would be the most whole
some service they could do their party
The people will not swallow the MaEOn'
business, and it would mistake fO
Pennsylvania Republicans who know
this to fail to give notice of it to thei
party men in Washington, who are 81
strangely blind to the injury that they d.
their party 10y their alliance with rebe
brigadiers and repudiatOrs, bought will
high price and conspicuously placed il
fat Offices. 1t is fearful dose to give t.
the Republican rank and file, and the,
will not take it down. Nevertheless
Mr.. Cameron will get his resolutions
There are not enough wise mel
among the Republican legislator
of the state to refuse their approva
to him. whether they believe them wis
or otherwise. But he will hear SOM
talk before he gets them, and he and hi
colleagues will he notified that they ar
not sustained by solid Republican sen
timent. Mr. Cameron may have rea
son to regret his venture dowI
into Pennsylvania on this mission
Notwithstanding the trophy he vii
carry back. He comes with chip OF
his hat, and he will find those ready t.
undertake to knock it off and when III
carries it back ne Eiay take a bloody nos'
along with it. Mr.. Cameron's arrogant
way Of doing things will lie APP
to keep his political body sore as long al
there is any life left in it 1: which Won't