Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-06-06
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TUESDAY EVENING. JUNE 8. 1850.
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Figure.Heads In q Farce.
The gubernatorial nouineo of the
Greenback party in Delaware declares
that he has no ambition to be the "fig-
urehead of farce and he wants some
satisfactory assurance that there
is Greenback party Of respecta.
BILE size in Delaware before he coz
sents to accept its nomination. That
candidate seems to be sensible man
but his conduct is SO conspicuously ,un.
usual that it necessarily calls up the
question as to whether the other class of
candidates, who are not wont even to
decline anything, are people of very good
sense. The man who is nominated for a
desirable Office, to which there is fair
chance OF election, need not defend his
sanity in accepting gracefully and CRATE
fully the situation. There may
still lie reasonable doubt upon the
minds of many good people as to
whether one who desires an Office
of any kind can be considered wholly
sound in mind. But as there is no dis.
putting about tastes and rs it is easy to
see how nice fat Office may he very
agreeable to some imaginations, there
will he little difficulty in conceding gen.
orally that those who seek such places
are not altogether silly. Then there is a
respectable class of men who have high
ideas of duty, and who consider it in
cumbent upon them to accept nomina-
tions that are thrust upon them, that
the principles they represent may be
properly applied :; to which class the fact
that the chance Of election is poor is
rather an enticemcnt to their duty than
otherwise. That class, perhaps, is not
very numerous; at least it is not very
often that they are thrust into painful
positions of candidacy.
The biggest class of candidates prob
ably is that which seeks after nomira-
tiOnS because il tickles their vanity to be
distinguished by them, and because the
hopefulness of their nature unites with
their self-esteem to promise them the
success which no one else can see before
them. 1t would have required Il big
stock of these qualities for this Della
ware Grcenbacker to see any prospect of
all election and he evidently is not of
those who consider it a duty to lead an
absolutely forlorn hope But it is cred
liable to his good sense that he was able
to see and confess the folly of his aspir.
alton; for few nominees there are who
ever do it,.
At the present writing we have exhib-
ited to us in our own state two sets of
gentlemen who arc asking an election
from the Republican party; and as that
organization steadily requires all the
votes that it can muster to get its c;,ndi-
dates to the goal, it does not require any
strong prophetic vision to discover that
neither of these sets of candidates will
reach there this time, provided either of
them commands the respectable vote
which their respectable array of second
ers indicates for them. If either or any
of them are prompted to stay in the field
through hope of election, they are more
than usually sanguine even for candi-
dates. General Beaver has ventured to
say that he considers his election quite
certain IA remark which will convince
his fellow citizens that he is great liar
or a great fool, and ought to deprive him
of the votes of good and stalwart Re
pubiicans who do not think that false
hood and folly adorn the gubernatorial
character. Mr.. Stewart being man of
reputed good sense, does not hope for
election and still he is not the "fgure-
head of farce in hopelcssly presenting
himself. There are many characteris-
tics of the farce" i'm the existing Repub
lican situations, but the honors are quite
evenly divided between the elements.
and it is quite matter for a reasonable
difference of opinion as to which, if
either, is the more foolish of the two.
The regularity of the position is that
no question, among those usually en-
bodied in platforms, divided the two
sections OF the Republican party: the
one convention resolved just as it was
asked 10 do by the troubled mi
nOrity, and the disturbed spirits
were hot content until they had held
convention of their own to resolve the
same thing. 1t has been very embar
RAISING for the Republican newspapers,
who accepted the concessicnsof the regu
lar convention as everything that could
be demanded TO make the family united
and hippy, to find that this is not
the situation and that they must
take the back track if
they would get on the Inde
pendent side. The Philadelphia Press
is peculiarly unhappy over its precipitate
but has discovered some words
omitted from the regular platform out
of the formula prescribed for it by the
Independents which it hopes will let it
gracefully out. This feature of the play
is particularly farcical and has done
much to redeem the performance from
tie tragical air that hangs about the |
political guillotine it displays in the dis
tance for men who have been conspicuous
and eXecutioners in the Re-
publican party.
'SOLELY in the interest of honest
elections = we venture to inquire what
has become of the election contest case