Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-05-10
CAMERON'S SLATE.


WOLFE CKOwDED OFF THE TICAET.
Beaver, Davies, Kawle, Greer and butler tho
Candidates-A Stampede Against WOlfo
Which Cameron Could not Check
McClure's Harrisburg Special,
Senator Cameron arrived here last night,
took command in person, called council
of war. and at noon to day the following
ticket had been definitely decided upon !:
Beaver for governor, Wolfe for lieutenant
governor, Rawle for supreme judge, Greer
for secretary of internal affairs and Davies
for congressman large. Tue decision
of Cameron and his associate leaders was
declared to be final, and prompt measures
were taken to enforce submission. Davies
had been compelled to consent to
his transfer from the second place
on the ticket to the tail end, in order to
give position to Wolfe that Cameron re-
garded as necessary to play Wolfe for all
he is worth. He believed that Wolfe
would be strong with the Independents
for an Office that would make him a men,
Der Of the board of pardOns, and for that
reason he forced Davies to a reluctant as
sent to be changed to congressman at
large. Cameron has been used to sudden
| hOwls from his followers, and he was pre-
pared for a grand serenadc of hOwlers
when he flung Wolfe at them and ordered
him to be taken straight. But for on &C
| the kickcrs among the regulars Outkicked
anything ever exhibited by the kicking
| Independents, and Cameron, Beaver and
Quay were entertained all the afternoon
and early part of the evening with indig-
nant kickcrS from his own camp. swearing,
| that they would not take Wolfe sugar in
thcir'n.
Cameron Gives In.
Cameron stood resOlutely to his Wolfe
programme till 8 o'clock in the evening,
when hc discovered that his own followers
had gradually gravitated to the point of
holding unanimous mass meeting OF
| kickers against the kicker Wolfe, and
Davies was finally forced by the irressti-
bic tide to reinstate himself rs candidate
for lieutenant governor and notify Cam
| erOn and Beaver that he would be 4 can
| ditlate for that position and for no other.
That was the feather that broke the
Wolfe camePs back, and Cameron, Beaver
and Quay decided that they must call 4.
halt and retract from Wolfe or have the
convention tomorrow set up for itself.
1t became plain to all that Wolfe would
be defeated IN convention regardless of
orders Or combinations, and Cameron,
Beaver and Quay surrendered uncUndi-
tiOnally. General Beaver had not been
responsible for stating Wolfe for lieutenant
governor, but he and his immediate friends
and personal advisers, Messrs. Millikcn
and Hastings, had assentcd to the Wolfe
programme as supposed necessity.
When the tempest came and the floods
rose, threatening to turn the convention
into 4 go as-yOu-pleasc circus, Beaver and
his friends took the alarm early and
pressed u prompt reconsideration of tho
Wolfe part of the slate. A conference was
held at Quay's headquarters, in which
Cameron, Beaver, Quay, Rutan and u few
others participated, and Wolfe was uncere
moniOusly tossed overheard as the Jonah
of the ship.
The Final Slate.
With Wolfe thrown out to quiet the
/ raging tempest among the howling rcgu-
lars, the formation of new slate was a
short horse to curry. Davies was restored
to his position for lieutenant governor
and Farmer Butler for congressman at
large. The ticket was thus made as fol.
lows: Beaver for governor, Davies fol
lieutenant governor. Rawle for supreme
judge, Greer for secretary of internal
affairs, and Butler for congressman at.
large. The new slate was speedily an
nounced TO the throng in the Lochiel house
and it was accepted with general delight,
as a happy deliverance from Wolfe. Hun.
dreds Of intelligent men assuming to repre-
sent intelligent constituencies accepted the
slate without q question and rejOiced that
they were allowed to escape the Wolfe dose.
Even the Rawle kickers were generally glad
| 20 q kha,
cused from swallowing Wolfe. McManes
delegates from Luzerne will stand by him,
but the sense of relief felt at Cameron 5
permission to drop Wolfe out of tho fight
was SO great that Rawle will be nominat-
cd without serious struggle. The AllcS
heny men, led by gallant old Tom Mar
shall, the uncle OF Brown, will mako :,
dress parade for Brown, and Marshall
will lead them in dead earnest but the
bulk of tho Brown delegates from the
west understand that Brown is doomed,
and the new slate, with tho Wolfe bitter
coating displaced for the Butler sugar
coating, will go through with Il yell.
| Tho Work Of the Convention Done.
| Tho work Of tho convention is now
practically done aud it will tomorrow 60
through the motion of nominating a ticket
with all the afectation and assumed
dignity Of Il delegated body charged with
the duty of selecting party candidates.
Tho president will mako the regulation
speech, bcsceching wisdom and harmony
! in the deliberations. Milliken aud the
other gentlemen assigned to present can
didates will clOquently delineate the
virtues and qualities of the slated nom
inees and appeal to the consid-
ate judgment of the delegates just
the same as if there was to be
some dcliberatiOn or judgment excr.
ciscd in the matter. The gentlemen designa-
ted by Cameron will be nominated with as
much solcmnity as if they had not been
handed in for tie form of approval. The
opera house will resound from parquet to
dome with sheers of the convention over
its own hidden work. A reform platform
will be adopted amidst the widest enthusi.
aSm, declaring that there shall he no ma
chine dictation of Republican tickets, and
General Beaver will congratulate the con-
vention, with Cameron's distinct approval,
upon its independent action, and pledge
himself to be sublimely independent in his
administration.
| Those who don't care to waste time
reading dry details will lose nothing by
reading tho foregoing outline of to-mcr-
row S work and dismisSing the proceedings
of the convention that will be reported in
Thursday mornings journals. The con-
ventiOn is over, all but the ornamental
forms necessary to be observed on such oc.
casions, and Cameron, with all his way
ward wandering after strange gods fol
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