Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-11-03
la!,rastcr flltelligcucer.
FRIDAY EVENING, NOV. 3, 1882.
A Clcud OF Lies.

AbC 'osdi"diS EtdudSClS VI IblS Suih-
paign have fought a losing battle with
out principle and without conscience.
They have uniformly acted in serene
obiiviOusness Of the fact that their in
ventions and misstatements were Ger
tain to be exposed in fact, the conduct
of Cooper, Quay and company in this
respect has at times been grotesque in
is absurdity. One might have supposed
that they looked upon the people as a lot
of feeble-minded children and regarded
the editors of the Independent and Dem
ocratic press as born fools. From the
beginning Of the contest there has been
no attempt to meet squarely, honestly
and fearlessly, the vital issues of the
hour, but, on the contrary, a STUDIED and
persistent effort, as we have before said,
in referring to General Beavers humil.
iating part in this disreputable work, to
confuse and mislead the public mind and
to betray the people once more into the
lianlS Of their enemies.
The Harrisburg convention of May
10th was in itself shameless swim
Gle. 1t pretended to hare come
from the Republican party and fairly to
represent it, When it was the creation
and the creature OF the bosses. 1t ap-
pirently broke away from the control of
itsmaster at the close, vet, as was after
wards discovered, the nomination Of
Marshall was largely the scheming work
of confidential agents of Mr.. Cameron,
who openly and heartily approved of
what had been done in his interest.
Fearing that the veteran Allegheny In
dependent would not remain a captive of
the machine against which he had
warred for twenty-five years, the bosses
and their organs We'd with each other in
Eanifestly insincere and treacherOus
praise of the uncertain candidate. Now
these same men and journals find Ian
guage inadequate to characterize the
persona! and political vil!ainy of Mar
shall. 1t has been the essence of false
hood in both cases first, in lauding the
man whom they feared anl only in
tended to uss and afterwards betray,
and next in accusing him of political
crime.
When the Independent Republican
ticket was put in the field, the food gates
of Misrepresentation and abuse were
opened upon it and its champions. Scores
of damaging statements, if true, have
gone forth to the country about Mr..
Stewart, for instance, yet not one of
them has had the desired effect, simply
because all were quickly shown to be
utterly false. No Democratic candidate
for governor in the history of Pennsyl.
vania was ever SO stupidity and persist
emily maligned as Mr.. Ptttison. The
machine has sunk SO low that it would
seem tn be really incapable of telling the
truth, either about its own candidates or
their opponents. Beginning with the
absurd invention about MIR. PattisOn'S
"rebss sympat',ies lat the age Of six
years., Mr. Cocper and his newspaper
echoes have continued from bad to worse
in the cuntemntible work of downright
Misrepresentation. They lave not only
refused to let Mr.. Fattison speak for
himself l.. lie readers Of StalWart
papers, but lave deliberately perverted
his public utteraGces and nds!!amsesslyi;
about the manner of Lis reception 10y the
people and ia regard to the popular effect
Of his addresses. This was notably so
at Harrisburg, where The demoraiiZed
organ of the bosses became possessed OF
an evil spirit and fairly out-did itself
in disgracecul ia.Selooa, while it char
acteristically refused to print a line OF
what the Democratic candidate said. 1t
las been the same with regard to the
machines attempt to selfjuStiiication.
1t has uniformly made false pleas aud
endeavored to bolster itself up with
statements grossly at variance with tie
facts. Aud it keeps up this course with
an eifrontcry that is amazing. The
Stalwart managers know that us certain
as two and two make four, Beaver is
hopelessly beaten, yet they brazenly
predict his election and be!ittle the In
dependent movement, just as they did
five months ago. The moral of it all is
that ti,e machine has lost it's head. 1t
has, in fact, butted its brains out against
the iron wall of popular revolt. 1t has
not even seuse enough left to know that
honesty, decency and truthfulneSs pay in
conducting political campaign.
Mr.. MACVEAGH wonders that Mr..
Blaine should urge all his friends to vote