Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-06-24
In q Bad Predicament.

Als A/cSlI NIlIcS duOIucI lcIttI W ocll-
ator Cameron, but says nothing of con-
sequence save that he proposes TO vote
for Beaver though he is sure to be de-
feated. He declines to be an Independ-
ent, because he is Republican, and for
the same reason he won't he a Demo-
crat. The independents he likens to
mules, and considers their function to
be TO kick the Republican party tod death.
That attitude he is not willing to as
sumo; and summons Senator Cameron
to help him get the party out of the
kickers' reach. His plan seems to be to
get close up into the embrace of the
mules, so that they won't have room for
their heels to play in. The plan
is a very good one; if there is
no objection to the mules company
it is very easy to escape damage
from them by getting close up. Mr..
Lear's trouble, however, is that the Re-
publican party is between two mules and
in such close quarters that when it gets
near one it comes within fair play Of the
heels of the other. If he could get these
mules heads turned the same way he
could find a safe place in the rear for the
party to follow after them. But mules
won't be managed; they decline to 60
where they ought to 60, to make things
agreeable all around. The only rem
edy the Republican party seems to have
istO club one of the mules to death or
all of them. AS it has not capacity
for the job, the Democratic horse is
left to hitch on to the public
wagon, without much opposition.
Mr.. Lear may console himself in his
solitary attitude between the mules, and
in this foreknowledge of defeat which
has come upon him, with the very sound
thought that party which is managed
by mules is not fit party to manage
the country. No doubt Mr.. Lear is a
patriot and wants to see the country
well managed. If he acted up to his
convictions no doubt he should vote for
the Democratic ticket but he is doing
his best, poor man, under his prejudices,
in retiring from active participation in
the campaign, and giving his vote to
Beaver where it won't count anyway.
The nomination of Mr.. Brosius is
eminently satisfactory" to Cameron,
although his Decoration day speech at
Albany was stigmatized by the Stalwart
paper there as ga political harangue
which did him no credit, and which sur
prised and disappointed great many"
Upon an examination of this speech, as
ithas been reported, the sentence which
is supposed to have given the Stalwart
organ offense is found to run thus:
In this country to-day factious politics,
bride of power, ambition for supremacy,
AID an Unsuitable selfishness, are the su-
perlative curses. .............. Ambitious
men climb over the ruins of their country
to the spoils of Office selfishness runs
riot factious feuds dismember parties
principles be forgotten in the struggle for
place !; disregard of the obligations of pa
triotism be 20 in use, and tho dissensions
Of factions SO familiar, that men who have
long enjoyed tho honors and emOluments
Of Office and leadership will smile as they
hug the phantom of their greatness, while
they witness the disintegration of the
party that elevated them to place, and
whose machinery enables them to hold
power against the will of the people.
But if the Independents read a little
further on they will find, as the Stall
warts found in the caucus the other day,
that Mr.. Brosius bounds over the fence
with great agility and alights on the Stall
wart side. For in this same Decoration
day speech at Albany he said:
And yet others, fresh candidates for DO
litical distinction, weary of the public