Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-09-09
BEFORE AND AFTER.
BRAVE WORDS, THESE, BRErHR
The Duty OF tho Convention.

Th6 DUTY OF tho convention.
Philadelphia Press, Sept 8.
The convention which meets at Harris.
burg to day is charged with grave respon-
sibilities. The manner in which it per.
forms its important duty will exercise q
potent influence on the future of the Re-
publican party. 1t is within the power of
the representatives who will gather in the
capitol, by conciliatory counsels and pru.
dent action, to unite the party and make
it irresistible. And it is equally within
their power. by pursuing an arbitrary and
proscriptive course, to sow the seeds OF
discord and disaster. 4
1t is for you to determine whether the
party shall enter upon the campaign with
the unity and the inspiration Of victory or
whether it shall at the very outset trample
on the influences and repel the votes which
are indispensable to success
and to make sure that the Republican
party of Pennsylvania shall not be arrayed
against the honored president who is
waging the heroic battle between life and
death, but shall uphold and strengthen
his hands. You cannot
safely proclaim in the present state of the
public temper that the arbitrary power of
the machine shall ride roughshod over
the unmistakablo sentiment Of the people.
If President Garfield shall live yOn cannot
prudently undertake in this hour of his
trial to array the Republican party OF
Pennsylvania against him and tlaunt in the
lace of the country 4 reassertiOn of the
offensive domination WEIGH was rebuked
and defeated in his nomination.
AFTER.
Tho Work of the Convention.
Not from the Philadelphia Press. sept9.
The work of yesterdays convention
must exercise "a potent influence" fol
evil 8 on the future of the Republican
party While it was within the power -
of the convention, "by conciliatory coun
sells and prudent action to have "united
the party and made it irresistible " it chose
to pursue "an arbitrary and prOscriptive
course" and to "sow the seeds of discorl
and disaster" The foolish and unpatriotic
majority Of the convention led their party
into the path Of danger and defeat.
Having trampled upon the influences
and "repelled the votes indispensable to
success )" having "nade war upon a
leader who has rendered conspicuous ser.
vice to the Republican party" havin.
"raised the standard Of faction" and pro-
scribed the better element of the party
having, finally, arrayed the party organiza
tion of Pennsylvania against its "honored
president now "waging the heroic battle
between life and death" the men who con-
trolled yesterdays convention can not ask
honorable and right minded Republi-
cans'' to endorse their folly aud consum
mate their blunder, worse than a crime.
"The question OF men is Of small conse-
quence. The question of principle is Of
supreme importance and when the
machine rides rOughshod over the
uumistakablc sentiment of the people, u
the best interests of the people and the
Republican party, require tho wreck oil
that " machine" "The offensive domi
nation which was rebuked and defeated
in the nomination of President Garfield
now spcculates upon the chances of his
death by exercising its notorious "appli
anccs " to promote the wishes Of the poll
ticians who arc against him and to defeat
the people who are with him. From thu
DEGREES of the caucus and the verdict OF
the ring the Press appeals tho cause o.
the president and of the people to thu
judgment Of the voters at the ballot box