Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-05-13
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SATURDAY EVENING. MAY 10, 1882.
WOlfe's Position.

WOlfe's Position.
Mr.. Wolfe announces that he never
sought nor consented to accept a nomina-
tion by the Harrisburg convention, and
explains that he kept silence over the
widespread report to the contrary be-
cause he did not think it proper to de-
cline a place before it had been offered
him. He says to an interviewer that if
he had been nominated at Harrisburg it
would have been improper for him to
have declined or accepted until his nom
ination had been passed upon by the In
dependent convention of May 9th" lie
feels very much aggrieved that he has
been accused by his friends, on the
faith only of rumor, of having been Sc
duced to the Cameron side by the prom
ise of Office. He is so disgusted that he
thinks of retiring as a a"peaceful politi-
cal corpse" and will not promise TO take
an active part in the coming campaign,
although he considers the Harrisburg
ticket "a piece of insolence and insult
to the Independent element of the state. -
According to Mr.. Wolfe's showing he
has cause for his Indignation at his treat
ment by his political friends. The story
that he had been led captive into the
Cameron camp waS one that v dS imprOb-
able On it's face, and could only iiave been
believed by crediting Wolfe with as lit
tie political sense as political honesty,
yet it was stated with so much conf
dence that it was generally accepted as
true Those who were of his household
of faith surely should have known the
truth ; and if they applied for it to Mr..
Wolfe and failed to get it he can only
blame himself for the trouble that has
come to him but if his friends con-
demned him without a hearing, as he in
Inmates, he justly complains Of them.
Still the reason he gives for his silence
about the rumor which compromised him
is not satisfactory. He knew that he
was being presented 10y Cameron and
Quay for place on the Republican
ticket and if he had not desired the
nomination, and especially if it had been
understood among the independents
who had the conference with the Cam
eron committee in Philadelphia that
none of them should accept a place on
the ticket, it was manifcstly incumbent
on Wolfe to decline to permit his name
to be proposed for a nomination. Mr..
Wolfe's statement that he would have
had the Independent convention to pass
upon his nomination if it had been
made, explains clearly enough his pO-
sitiOn. lie would have desired 4 place on
the Harrisburg ticket if the Independent
convention had adopted it. He would
have been pleased to have been the can
didate of his united party; and he de.
sired, doubtless, to see that union ac-
complished. What sacrifice he would
he would have been ready to make for
it is one Of the things unknown and
whether he would have been ready to
make greater concessions if he had been
on the ticket than he will be now.
Evidently he is not SO much of a kicker
us he was a year ago; for hc announces
his indisposition to pull the Democratic
chestnuts out of the fire." Heretofore
that has not been much of Il considera-
tion with him. 1t would only be natural
that he should not now burn with so
much ardor against the regular machine
which has proposed to bestow upon him
its hOnors. In the light, however, of
Wolfe's declaration that he had no con-
ference or understanding with Cameron
orhislieutenants concerning his nominal
tion, it may we'll he doubted whether the
proposition was seriously made by Cam
eron. 1t does not seem likely that he
would have desired his convention to
proffer Il place to his enemy, with
probability or possibility that the offer
would be spurned. 1t has been suggested
before that Cameron's pressure for
Wolfe was all a sham and that his
followers were instructed to do the
kicking which they did. The device
seems to have been successful in creating
sOreress and distrust between Wolfe and
the independents and in causing an
impression of Cameron's desire to con-
ciliate the discordant element of his
party and this may have been its Oh
ject.