Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-06-22
Gantastc, flltelligencer.
THURSDAY. EVENING, JUNE %. 1881,
The RumD Convention.

The Kump Convention.
In the absence of the editorial staff OF
the Philadelphia Press from their posts
yesterday, in attendance upon the rump
convention at Harrisburg, their chairs
seem to have been occupied by some
cheerful Mark Tapley, borrowed for the
occasion, likely from the Bulletin. This
improvised Press editor sees the ''promise
of peace" in the scornful rejection by
the rump convention of the proposition
for a new convention, and he declares
that "the convention leaves the way
open for harmony" by requesting the
state committee to adopt such measures
as will promote harmony and elect I" the
Republican ticket that is the regular
ticket with Beaver at the head and
BrOsius at the tail of it. 1t is very diff
cult to see how the Cameron
people could say less or ask more
than this. The editors of the Press
who attended the convention know
very we'll the meaning of the reso-
luton that was passed. 1t means
that Chairman Cooper and his commit
tee, who are the agents of Cameron shall
20 ahead and elect the Beaver ticket and
waste no time in parley with those
whom the caucus cheered Isaiah H.
Brown for calling "parricides." Mr..
Brown said L" Let us nail our flag to
the mast and say as did Admiral Farra-
gut when told while sailing up Hampton
Roads that there were torpedOes ahead
Damn the torpedoes, go ahead 80 And
Mr.. Bum was quite rs loudly cheered
when, with flashing eye and scOrnful
lip and wandering, whitening " voice
he said: Shall the itching nit of the
annoying louise which has fastened itself
in the tail of the kingly lion he of more
importance than the royal beast him
self Shall the moon come down as a
plaything to quiet babies When will
concession end ! IL you let down one
bar the hogs will rush into the orchard
and devOur all before them. ! beg par
don of the Independents for the simile,
and as l don't wish to offend anyone l
beg pardon of the hogs" These were
the lnen and the sentiments which pre-
vailed in the caucus and which control
the state committee. There will he no
doubt about its course.
The Press has occupied a very equiv
ocal position in regard to the troubles in
its party. 1t has assured its readers
that it would be time enough for it to
determine which ticket it would support
when every effort had been exhausted
to get a single Republican ticket. 1t
affects to believe that chance
is not yet exhausted. 1t processes to see
in the suggestion to the state committee
to adopt harmony measures an
solve branch" to the independents
Conceding that this may be inferred
from the letter of the resolution it j:
we'll known that no such intention un
derlay the action Of the convention, o.
of the caucus rather, and Mr.. COoper''
committee will not adopt them.
This construction of the resolution
however, offers bridge for the Press t.
cross over into the Independent CAM
or back among the Regulars. If TIN
Stalwarts make no move for ''harmony,
in the opinion of the Press, it can max
their failure an excuse to quit their com
pany. On the other hand if the Inde
pendents do not accept the alleges
"olive branch rendered, the Press ma
part company with them and satisf
itself of its consistency in gulping dow
the Regular ticket. The convention will
not have met and died in vain if it eli
ables the Press to get down off the sllar
edged rail on which it has been sittin
for the past few weeks.