Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-07-07
THE STATE CAMPAIGN.
PREPARING TO PATCH Up PEACE

luE OldlU OdM1 d1UNs
PREPARING TO PATCH Up PEACE.
tenants I'm Philadelphia.
Senator Cameron arrived in Philadel-
phia from Washington yesterday after
noon at one o'clock. A conference was
held between Mr.. Cameron, Secretary
Quay, Chairman Cooper, Collector Hart
ranft, of the custom house, General Beaver
and Marriott Brosius, at the St. Cloud
hotel at three o'clock. The purpose of
the senator's visit was, first, to discuss
and arrange line of action for the state
committee at its meeting OH Wednesday,
next with reference to an effort to cOmprO-
mise the difficulties between the Stalwarts
and the Independents, and second to con-
slider changes in the heads of the post
office and custom house. George s. Leland,
q clerk in the custom house and president
of the Republican committee in Quay's
ward-the Eighth-had been pressed for
the postmastership to succeed General
HuidekOper, whose civil service propensi-
ties are not exactly the thing to suit the
Stalwart people. 1t was not until yester.
dny, however, that the matter attained
the dignity of subject OF formal con-
sideratiOn by Mr.. Cameron and his lieu
tenants. The proposed change in the
custom house, by giving Collector Hart
ranft the Mexican mission and appointing
Chairman Cooper to General Hartranft's s
place, had also been published and talked
about.
The early part of tho conference was
devoted to the question of formulating a
plan of compromise with tho Independents
to be submitted through tho state com.
mittee ut its meeting next Wednesday
There was but one plan that seemed to
find favor, and that was Chairman
COoper's proposition to hold primaries and
let all Republicans who voted for General
Garfield vote to decide which ticket shall
remain in the field. Mr.. Cooper grew
eloquent over his plan, and said it was the
fairest that could be offered. If the Inde
pendents did not accept it they would ac
cept nothing, He held that they would
either have to accept it or allow them.
selves to be put in the position of desiring
the defeat Of the party by tho election of a
listened to Senator COopcr's argument,
but did not, in the early stage of the meet
ing, express any opinion. Gen. Beaver
| SsbSO lilo VtCWo VI GuO OltuhglOHs O0OCu upUu
what he had learned in his tour of the
state. He thought the Importance of the
Independent movement was largely exag-
gerated. Outside of Philadelphia lie saw
little of it. In Philadelphia, his impress
sion was, the newspapers made more of
tho thing than there was in it.
This brought from Secretary Quay a
fow words OF caution. He said there was
M oOp,ooa 1insp tho coot hot tho,o oo,,
siderable edisaffection. 1t was well for them
to recognize that fact at the outset. 1t
was not the Independents alone that made
for the Beaver ticket. The labor vote
would make trouble. He was in favor of
Senator Cooper's plan, but doubted if the
Independent committee would accept it.
Chairman Cooper said if they refuse it
then the blame could rest on them. Fred
Masee gave a favorable account of things
in Pittsburg and thought tho Independent
strength would dwindIe until election day.
Still he wanted to sec harmony if it could
be brought about.
After the conference Candidate Brosius
said that he had called to see General
Beaver aud did not know that Senator
Cameron was to be there. Questioned as
to tho proposition which has been sug-
gested for the voluntary withdrawal OF all
the candidates Oh the Beaver ticket to
allow the state committee to arrange for .
compromise, he said he could make no
statement Oh that point. He preferred to
speak OF tho state committees authority
under the present circumstances. "That
resolution passed by the state convention
of the 21st OF june" he said, "in my
judgment is very plain. 1t places the
whole matter in the hands of the state
committee, gives that body full power to
act, limited only by what is not honorable
and fair. The committee is to be the
judge of its own acts, and there is no other
constituted body that can under that res
olution sit in judgment over it." AS to
the result of the conference Mr.. BrOsius
said that no plan had been adopted,
although he added that what tho confer
cnce had done would perhaps facilitate
the work of the state committee.