Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-06-19
THE DEMUCRATIC MENTOR.
A Carping Critic Challenged 10 Name Names
Harrisburg Patriot.

A Carping Critic Challenged TO Name Names
Harrisburg Patriot.
1t is certainly we'll for youthful aud
inexperienced political organization like
the Democratic party to have the kind
offices of a mentor. The giddy young
thing might go astray and stumble into all
sorts of pitfalls If its steps were not care
fully directed by some wise, far travelled
and skillful conductor: The only difficulty
that interposes is that if the Democratic
party surrendered it's own volitiOn to the
will of such q guide, it might rendor itself
obnoxious to the charge that it had given
itself over into the hands of i. g boss"
The foregoing reflections arc naturally
suggested by tho gratuitous advice which
the Philadelphia Times is in the habit Of
obtruding upon the Democracy of Penn
sylvania. The Democratic state conven-
tion about to assemble will have to decide
between tho defeat OF the ticket it will
nominate and the acceptance OF the mem
torship of the IImes This is q very
grave question and will probably give the
convention more profound concern than
any other matter that may challenge its
consideration. Let the delegates to that
body be admonished iu time to approach
the subject with proper solemnity and 4
due regard for the consequences. It
seems only fair aid reasonable to infer
from the interest which the Times mani
tests in the future of the Democratic
party that it desires tho election of the
Democratic ticket next November IL
this be an erroneous conclusion that jour-
nal will of course correct it. But in order
to be on the safe side let us put the matter
in the alternative. If the Times does de.
sire the success of tho Democrats at the
ensuing election, its advice should not be
rejected without due consideration. Ii, on
the contrary, the Times prefers the cleo
tiOn of Of the Cameron ticket to the sulc-
cess of tho Democracy, it's counsels should
be disresarded. But it is not a hard mat
ter to unriddlc this sphinx of Philadelphia
journalism.
The Times declares that tho Democrats
Of Pennsylvania can nominate q ticket
which will sweep the state, but that if
"guided by machine placemen and Bour-
bon stupidity they will be hopelessly de-
feated." This simply means that if the
personnel of the forthcoming Democratic
state ticket should not be satisfactory to
the Times it will oppose it and assist in
the election of the Cameron candidates.
For certainly no Democratic ticket could
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port of that journal. 1t will therefore he
seen how important it is to the Democracy
| that they should accept the proffered men,
torship Of the Times.
Nevertheless the Democrats of Pcnnsyl-
vania would be glad to he informed more
particularly and specifically of the dan
gers which this voluntary guido would
have them avoid. "Bourbon stupidity -
and "machine placemen are glittering
gencralities, The advice to avoid them is
| altogether to wide and uncertain. Who,
for Instance, is the "Bourbon." candidate
for governor against whose nomination
the Democracy are warned? The Times is
an "independent journal and will not
| shrink from naming names. But a few
gentlemen have been formally introduced
to the public as candidates for the Demo-
cratic nomination for governor that is to
say the only instructions that have been
given by tho people to their delegates
with reference to that nomination are for
those fow, namely, Messrs. Pattison, Hop
kins, WoIverton, Coke aud Monaghan.
There is plenty of dark horses likely to be
brought out and it is not at all unlikely that
one is being groomed in the stables of the
Times disguised under q: blanket which
bears another name than that of the wearer.
We confine ourselves, however, to tho can
didates formally presented and ask the
Times to declare specifically which of these
if any of them,-Mr. Pattison, Mr.. Hop
kins, Mr.. Wolverton, Mr.. Coke, Or Mr..
Monaghan,-is the "Bourbon or " ma
chine'' man against whose nomination it
warns tho Democracy. Let us have done
with vague illusions which are often mis-
interpreted. An honest guide will not
content himself with merely limiting at
the dangers that impend.