Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-11-09
zancaster fntelligerlrer.
THURSDAY EVENING, NOV. 9. 1851

4arlcaster f,ltelligenrer.
THURSDAY EVENING. NOV. 9. 1851
The Vote In This State.
Tho vote for Stewart in Pennsylvania
is Unexpectedly small, being placed at
fifty thousand instead of double that
number. The only explanation offered
is that q great many Republicans voted
directly for Pattison with the determi-
nation to make their vote rs potent as
possible in defeating Beaver. But the
explanation lacks evidence to support it.
No doubt Pattison received number of
Republican votes, but the figures do not
show the number to be very great.
Adding Stewards and Beavers
votes together, the total expresses
nearly the full vote that would
have been reasonably been expect
ed for the Republican ticket, especially
at this time when the tide was clearly
running in favor of the opposition to the
Republican party, of whose rule the peo-
pie had become tired. They wanted a
change; and the Democratic ticket
would have received great many more
Republican votes, if Stewart had not
been nominated to receive the support
of dissatisfied Republicans, than it did
with Stewart in the field to catch them
In times of political discomfort the op-
position party is, of course, strengthen
ed by votes from the majority party. In
New York. where there was but one Re-
publican ticket, the change to the De
mncracy has been much more marked
than it has been in Pennsylvania. Even
aiding the whole of Stewart's vote 10
Pattison's, no such notable increase OF
the Democratic majority would have
been expected here as has been shown
in New York, where our majority has
now risen to the astonishing figure of
one hundred and seventy-seven thou
sand. Stewards fifty thousand votes
added to Pattison's thirty-six thousand
plurality, would have produced Il total
majority for Pattison OF nearlya hun
dred thousand less than that of Cieve-
land.
We do not mean to say that if Stewart
had not been in the field all Of his votes
would have gone to PattisOn, but it is
reasonable to believe that the larger part
of them would. Pennsylvania does not
seem to have q people 50 easily moved
from their ancient political moorings as
those of New York and other states.
Such wholesale desertiOn of party as
has occurred in New York could not be
expected of our voters. Here in Ian,
caster county and across cur line inBerks,
the Republican and Democratic parties
for time out of mind clung to ths mass
of their voters and a tenacity which
shows no sign of weakening. Before
these counties become politically revolu
tionized . great change will have to take
place in the character and education of
their citizens. New York is greatly in
fluenced politically by metropolitan cities
lying down in the southern neck OF
her territory, which have a population
of mobile political sentiment g; but they
contributed less than half to the ma
jority of Cleveland and left a hundred
thousand of it to come from the state
outside. Notable changes took place in
the rural counties; some, which are
accustomed to give Republican majori.
ties nearly rs stiff as those of Lancaster,
have swerved over to the other side.
The country districts of Pennsylvania
do not seem to differ greatly in their
political minority from the metropolitan
city of the state, for Philadelphia does
not show in its vote any great move
ment from the political tide that has
swep: over the country, notwithstand-
in, that tide has had the effort of the
influential Independent Committee of
One Hundred, we'll supplied with money
and agents, to help it along. Stewards
candidacy had the sympathy Of this
committee, although it is especially Ge.
voted to the work Of municipal reform /;
and yet Stewart polled his eight thousand
votes in the city and Beaver has a
plurality of thirty-six hundred.
Manifestly Pennsylvania snot rs easily
moved politically as her neighborirg state
of New York {; and yet the element that
is movable is very determined in its in-
dependence, as has been shown by the
open revolt of the dissatisfied Republicans
against the regularly nominated ticket
of their party. 1t is certainly fair to
conclude that most of these discomfort
ed Republicans would have been carried,
by their opposition to their party man
agement. into voting for PAttison if
Stewart had not been nominated. We
are satisfied that if Beaver and Pattison
had been left to dispute between the
vote of the state, PattisOn would have
been elected by a majority Is large if
not larger than his present plurality
So that the Stewart movement cannot
he credited with any part of his vote.
What Republican votes he received he
would have received without it, and Il
great many more in addition.
THE CHAIRMAN Of the state commit
tee pays only u deserved tribute to the
Democratic women of the state when he
says:
"My greatest pleasure of this victory