Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-05-05
CANDIDATE CRITICISED
Anti-Beaver Demonstration in Delaware
County


At large meeting of Independent Re-
pubiicans held at Media, last night, resO-
lutions were adopted protesting against
the nomination of Beaver, ''because his
nomination bears upon its face the mark
that it is the personal selection Of Senator
Cameron, made in his interest and through
means and methods which have received
the unequivocal condemnation Of q great
constituent element of tho Republican
party of the state;" and because Beaver
misrepresented the people of Pennsylvania
in the Chicago conventiOn; because the
third reason given in the resolutions as
originally submitted was as follows be-
cause General Beaver has not satisfactorily
explained to the farmers of this vicinity
and the state, the failure of the agricul-
tural college, over which he has presided
for a number of years, to benefit either
the class for which it was primarily estab-
lished or the state, which has appropriated
large sums of money from time to time to
sustain and make it uesful.''
On the latter there was an acrimonious
discussion, during the course of which
Judge Shortlidge, formerly president of
the agricultural college faculty, said that
he would not charge General Beaver with
misapplying any of the college funds but
there were other ways of mismanagement.
General Beaver keeps incompetent men
in the faculty. '..There is Professor
Smith, of chemistry but he doesn't
understand it. He IS kept there be-
cause he is going to marry Beavers wife's
sister. Professor Smith has built house
by Beavers favor, and in doing so sacri-
feed 81 900, which Beaver ordered paid.
Then Professor Hamilton, who manages
the experimental farm, is incompetent.
The president of the college is there mere ly
because he is one of Beavers friends, al
though he is notoriously incompetent.
The college, in short. is failure because
it is run by Beavers incompetent friends.
Beaver wants to rule or ruin everything.
He can make moro promises and keep less
than any man l ever knew" said Mr.
ShOrtlidge, warmly. He then told story
of how General Beaver had acknowledged
to him that he had introduced a bill into
the Legislature " merely as binder. "
81 tell you.' continued Mr.. Shortlidge,
that Beaver is schemer. lie can't look
you square in the face, and don't think
that makes HIM a Christian gentleman"
l Finally, as a substitute for the fore.
going, the following resolve was passed
"That VIC believe that tho imputatiOns
CtSL upon UcL. DcbNcT 3 tCIlOu, III uls
connection with the agricultural college,
will drive from him the farmer vote of the
county and state" The resolutions
specifically declare that General Beavers
nomination will endanger party success,
and it was further resolved that the
protests applied to all whose names
may DO presented as nominees in tho in
tercst of Senator Cameron, for tho pur-
pose Of keeping him in power. The resO'
lutions further declare utter adherence Of
Cameron's political methods and rule
founded as it is on minority county repre-
sen:ation, trickery and manipulation, un
scrupulous use of patronage, and the onl!
hope for the Republican party is in com
plete surrender OF these methods.
The turn taken by the meeting as abOv'
described was altogether contrary to an
ticipation, the cut and dried programm,
being disarranged by several Independ
cnts, who were independent of those VIII
had arranged tho demonstration. Stat
Senator Cooper sat at the reporters table
making report for his local paper, ant
listening with an amused smilc to tho FIRE
quent references which were made to tht
Boss of Delaware county,"