Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-10-02
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MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER q. 1885,
Remember the LEGISLATURE.

EVENING. OCTOBER q. lse2.
Remember the Legislature.
The plan of battle of the Cameron
managers in relation to the
legislative tickets appears to be that of a
still,huut. They are not making much
noise in this direction, but no effort will
he spared to hold the intrenchments at
Harrisburg, and the fact that the pros
pect of doing this is anything but en-
couraging will only serve to intensity
the struggle on the part of the machine.
In regard to the twelve Republican
senatorial districts tho policy generally
adopted has been that of setting up
masked candidates as regular nominees,
men who make more or less pretension
to independence, but who are secretly
pledged to vote for Mr.. Cameron's re-
election to the Senate, this being done to
deceive the Independent Republicans.
This little game will not work, however,
as the Independents are determined not
To he thus misled. A nomination OF
this character has been made in Mont
gomery, but the Independents have
promptly challenged the decoy candidate
to show his colors, and if he does not
come out squSfs5 against Cameron
they will either utTb another candi-
date or vote for Mr.. Sutton, the Demo-
cratic nominee, an able and worthy
young man. The machine will be met
and blfiled in the sam, way III the
Philadelphia districts. In Allegheny
City the democrats and Independents
have united to defeat the regular Cam
eron candidate and their SUCCESS seems
certain. In the Pittsburgh district the
regular candidate always has been an
anti -Cameron man. The Bucks district
is sure to elect a Democrat. In the
Washington, Beaver and Warren and
Venango. districts, the result is conf
IDENTIFY expected to be the same, unless
anti Cameron Republican candidates
prevail. And it is now clear that Mr..
Stehman will have a rocky road to travel
in the Northern Lancaster district, as
the Independents are increasing in
strength every day. But the Stalwarts
will not give up the fight, even in the
most rebellious of these districts, and
they are trying to get in some character
istic work in the Democratic districts.
Their hopes, in this respect, however,
will speedily be crushed if the Demo-
Gratis are. ON their guard and do their
whole duty. To this end all local jeal-
ousies and quarrels should at once cease
and give place to united and harmonious
work in behalf of worthy representa-
tions of the party. As the fight stands
in the senatorial districts Cameron is
badly beaten let us see to it that he
stays beaten.
Then, as to the House. In the begin
ming of the campaign the idea got abroad
that as the members of this body would
not hold out for the senatorial election
in 1885, that they need not command any
special attention. This neglect might
have proved q serious blunder. Tht
next Legislature will make a new appor.
tiOnment, and it therefore becomes very
important to prevent machine con
troll of either House. Cameron ha:
y reliable contingent holding over il
the Senate, and should he control ma
jority of the House it would he inlpossi
ble to secure a fair and honest appor
tionment, although Pattison's election
would prevent the creation of one like
the present. 1t is of the first import
ance that Democrats should remember
this fact and act upon it. The legisla
tive ticket should be clean and strong
throughout, and it should be pushed
right along in the vote close to that fol
the state ticket. The Democracy should
make clean work of it in this contest
and not only elect its whole state ticket
but a reform Legislature to sustain it, ir
the great work of administrative re-
form. And, with close, steady and per
sistent work, this is entirely within the
range of possibility, notwithstanding
the heavy disadvantages of the existing
apportionment.