Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-12-30
" ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS



WHAT THE DELUsIvE CRY MEANS.
Bait to Catch GudgeOns -stalwart Schemes
to Entrap Cnwary IrdePendnts-The
Hand Of Cameron VisiD.e-A Repro.
sentative Journals Views.
New York Times, Rep.
Harmony in the party is the daily theme
Of the Stalwarts Of Pennsylvania. The
governorship and all the executive Offices
have gone to the Democrats for term of
years. None of these can be recovered
until 1884, when a new state treasurer
will he elected. But in great state like
Pennsylvania there are many minor Offices
which the thrifty politician will not
neglect and numerous strategic positions
which the prudent boss must take care to
occupy during the lull in the battle. The
Stalwarts are not giving themselves up to
the luxury OF skulking in their tents, but
are already astir, with q CHEEKY good
morning for every Independent they meet
and they are laying their plans with such
confidence and skill that the oldest politi-
clans in the state are unable to make up
their minds whether tho result of tho No
vcmber election was q disguised victory
for Cameron or his overthrow.
From Washington We hear that Sc natOr
Cameron and Senator Mitchell have buried
the Ratchet and become political friends
again. Senator Mitchell, it seems, has
been struck with 4 sudden aud sharp re-
morse for tho part he had in making q
Democrat governor Of Pennsylvania. He
reasoned, rightly enough from his point of
view, that as he had been instrumental in
splitting the old party in two. he could
atone for his errors III no way so COM
pletely as by working heart and soul now
for its reunion and future harmony.
In this contrite frame of mind
he sought Mr.. Cameron. This wicked
man, whose atrociOus political crimes
Senator Mitchell described in glow
ing periods to tho Independents in
the Horticultural hall convention, was also
in a sore and repentant mood. lie had
reached the conclusion that it would be,
on tho whole, rather unwise to ask the
president to punish tho disObedicnt Repub-
licans of Pennsylvania by discharging
every Federal officer in the state suspected
Of Indepsndett inclinations. He was,
therefore, ready to shake hands with
Senator Mitchell and to join with him
heart and soul in working for reunited
and harmonious party. 1t is understood
that Mr.. Matthew S Quay will lend his
powerful aid to this EOble work, as he
doesn't see any reason why the Rspubli-
cans of Pennsylvania shouldn't march
under the same banner and to one tune in
1884.
What Senator Mitchell does or thinks is
of very little consequence one way or the
other. The Independent movement gave
him some prominence which he might
never otherwise attained, but it gained
nothing in strength or numbers through
his nominal leadership. By going back to
Cameronism he simply throws away
what little he gained by his last summers
work, and it cannot be said that for a man
of his not very lofty political and mental
stature this is a course that surprises or
neutrality-suspicious. those who have watched
him. But, while nothing that Senator
Mitchell can do at Washington will greatly
damage the cause for which the Indepen-
dents fought, the reported willingness of
those at home who organized ana led the
movement to sacrifice their principles and
all they have gained for the sake of a
Harmony" that can have no other than .
merely partisan purpose, is far moro sig
niicant indication of the transitory char
acter of the Independent sentiment in
Pennsylvania, and a somewhat discOurag-
ing omen of the re establishment Of tho
Cameron dynasty.
A test of the spirit and intentions Of the
Independents will DO had next Tuesday in
the organization of the state Senate. That
body will have 81 Democratic, 20 Stalwart
Republican, and Independent. Republi-
can members. The "balance of power
is in tho hands of the Independents. If
<l,ox, xr:tJ, thu Ilop, -, onuc
and committees of the Senate may be
named and made up in the interest of re-
form legislation, of which there is crying
need at Harrisburg. A union with the
Stalwarts will be accepted as proof that
the reforms which the Pennsylvania In
dependents we're so firmly determined to
effect " this year have been forgotten. =!
The temporary president of the Senate will
have the naming of the committees. It will
be in his power to determine whether this
Legislature shall do the work of the bosses
or of the people. The Stalwart candidate
for tho place is Senator Reyburn, who rep
resents everything that tho Independent
voters condemned and protested against in
voting for Stewart. The other candidate
is Senator Lee, not very strong man, and
hardly the misrepresentation of independ-
ence and reform law making that could |
have been put forward, but ono who is, at |
all events, not friendly to the Cameron ma |
chino. His election would encourage the !!
hope that the Independents would keep mp |
the fight against boss rule. But it Is rumor-
ed that the urgent necessity of harmony |
has been so borne in upon the incOnstant ;
minds of the nine Independents that they !
are likely to go into a caucus with the
Stalwarts. Should they do this, Mr.. CAM
erOn will have no further reason to feel
sore over tho defeat of his candidate for
governor. With the Senate organized in
his interest he can block the proposed
and SO make his re-
election to tho Senate in 1885 prac-
tically certain. and he will be able to
keep a sufficient number of most useful
henchmen in their present comfortable
places until he has occasion to call them
out again for active service. None of the
reforms so loudly called for in the plat.
forms of the three parties of Pennsylva-
MIA can be carried out if the Legislature
continues to be a Stalwart body. Gov.
Pattison will be able to administer the
executive departments ON basis of hon.
ssty and regard for tho interests of the
but he cannot dislodge
Cameron. That work was undertaken
and half accomplished by the Iudepend-
,nts. It rests with them to finish the
ask or give it up and let the state and
party sink back into their former condi-
ion Of nnlitical Rarvitndo