Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-04-25


is particularly consistent, too, with his
we'll known character. And few people
will incline to accept without hesitation
his declaration of his spotless innocence.
Butter wanted for the Parsnfps.
Senator Mitchell has written a letter
to Editor Geist in which he says he has
Leard of a {" vindictive persecution of
senator Kaufman made on account
of L.y course rs an independent senator
in the senatorial contest at Harrisburg
last winter" and as Senator Mitchell
holds that his election in that contest
was made possible only by the united
votes of Republicans in both Houses of
the Legislature" he thinks it not i'm
proper for him to say that " all such op-
position to Mr.. Kaufman is, in my
opinion, wholly unwarrantable and
grossly impolitic and unjust. The Re-
publican party in Pennsylvania cannot
be reunited and continued in power by
any such warfare of the one faction upon
the other, and earnestly hope that the
good people of Lancaster county will
put an end to this vindictive per-
secution by returning Mr.. Kaufman
to the Senate As Senator Mitchell's
election was made possible only by the
bolt against Oliver, the regular caucus
nominee of his party, in which Kauff-
man bore such conspicuous part. it is
hard to see how lie could have said less
in his letter than to approve Kauffman's
denomination and to deprecate any" vim
Iictive persecution of him because of
his rebellion. But il Senator Mitchell
wants to make himself effective in Lam
caster county politics he must prove
what he is worth at Washington. While
his letter of sympathy with Kaufman
was being read amid enthusiasm to the
seventy-fve members of Kauffman's 8
Committee of Seventy-Two, Cameron
was getting in his work at Washington
by Rutan's appointment and paving the
way for the appointment of another
kind of Kaufman. Until Mitchell
can prove himself strong enough to pre-
vent this sort of thing either in the ex-
ecutive chamber or in the executive ses-
sion of the Senate, letters of sympathy
will be regarded as mere husks by such
practical politicians as J. w. johnson
and Levi Sensenig, whose experience in
Bull Rings and Hog Rings has taught
them that even committees OF Seventy
Two cannot live on letters of sympathy
alone.
The ever ready arithmetic man "of
the New York World has already figured
out Democratic majority Of II in the
next federal House of Representatives.
1t must be admitted that the estimate is
u rather sanguine one, but an examina.
tion Of the way in which the new appor-
tionment is distributed gives quite as
much reason to hope for Democratic
control of the next House as the unskill-
full leadership of Robson and ridiculous
performances of Keifer in the present
House. 1t seems that there are thirteen
states in which there is no change in the
present number Of members, three lose
and twenty-five gain !; and of those that
lose, Maine has not redistricted, so that
all of her four members will be elected
at large, with a chance for Democratic
and Greenback fusion to carry them
and of the states which gain, Arkansas,
California, Georgia, Maine, Pennsylva.
MIA, Kansas and North Carolina, will
not redistrict now, but elect their extra
members at large. In the increase of
Southern members the Democrats gain :;
in California and Maine gains are
promised them, while In the Western
and Middle states where there are new
members the Democracy cannot lose
much, notably in Ohio they have pros
poets of gain. Even should the World |
man err 20 on either side Of his present
;alculation-Democrats, 1sS Republi-
cans, 137 Greenbacks 5-the Demo- |
,rats would still control the next House. |
TIE Committee of Seventy-two,"
which started out to reform the Repub-
lean party of this county and to confine
tself to purifying the primaries Of cor.
:uption, has gone into the business of
setting up a ticket. It could hardly
lave been expected that an organization,
# which J. w. johnson is q leading
pirit, would confne itself to
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