Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-07-17
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MONDAY EVENING. JULY II. 1852.
CamerOn,s POeltlOl.

Cameron's Position.
1t looks very much, indeed, as though
the two Republican factions will stay
apart q situation which will suit the
Independents very well, but one which
Senator Cameron, if he was wise man,
would avoid. He has made so many
concessions lately that could not have
been predicated of his stiff-necked char
acter that we have been inclined to sup
pose that he would make all that were
yet needed to ensure the success of this
stoop to conquer policy that he has taken
to. But it seems that it don't agree well
with his stomach, and that he has
reached a point beyond which he has
no capacity to bend, 80 his friends
say, and they ought to know ;
but il he does not 60 ahead with
his new game he is lost man. 1t
may be that he will be damned either
way but his destruction is certain If
the Republican party is beaten in the
coming election through the. failure Of
his leadership to keep it together. We
should like to see the old concern stand
up before us in some sort of entirety to
receive a knock-down blow. If it is all
soundly cemented together with new
convention and a new ticket we believe
it will not he hard to beat and there
will be good deal more satisfaction in
meeting such an antagonist than in
having the walk over that is prom
i,ed us by the split condition of the
enemy. There will he no excitement
in the canvass at all if it proceeds on
it's present condition. The Democracy,
enlivened by the fair prospect before
them, will have a cheerful time of it and
will all step out to vote but We could
enjoy q more exciting campaign than We
are likely to have. And the distracted
Republicans, for whom our bowels OF
compassion yearn, we know would feel
a good deal better if they could fiatter
themselves with a hope of success and
their candidates would stand a much
better chance of heaven if they were not
compelled to loudly declare every time
they took the stump that they were sure
to be elected, knowing it be lie. 1t is
a necessity for candidates to avow their
confidence in their success it seems.
They all do it. Probably even the
Greenback candidates SO declare.
Charley Wolfe last year was free in his
prophecy that he would be elected, and
people did not call him crazy only be.
cause they knew he was doing the regu-
lation thing for candidates. So, too,
Beaver started off in this campaign with
. public assurance to every one
who would listen to it that there was
no doubt at all of his election, when he
knew we'll that he had no more chance,
in the present state of his party, than a
cat in a very hot place without claws.
Really it would be very grateful
thing all around if Senator Cameron
would be sensible enough to return
Beaver from his present place and make
him q minister extraordinary some
where, or a cabinet officer, or give him
some place Of extraordinary Importance
that would at once salve his wounded
spirit and exhibit the CameroDian power
of transmitting his friends into birds OF
gorgeous plumage in nests of softest
down. Let Donald take this One-legged
soldier in ont of the rain and give the
country chance to see and advance the
abundance of his resources and the rich.
ness with which he can provide Tor the
maimed veterans Of the country who
have been bound down, too, in his ser
vice.