Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-04-08
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The Republican primary elections have
been fixed for about month earlier than
usual this year on account Of the date Of
the state convention and 80 that the dele.
gates to it and the county ticket can be
named at the same time. Prior to the
first of April and its attendant business
activity, not much interest in local politics
had been developed, and as it is an of
year, for short ticket, dull campaign
was apprehended. The most important
things to be considered at the primaries in
the latter part of this month are the new
rules, and as usual they will receive the
least consideration. Like the project fol-
the $67, 900 loan at the late city elections,
the people generally do not understand
them, and the politicians fear to take
active sides lest it interfere with some OF
the issues of moro importance to
them. The city newspapers being
committed to them by tho participation
of their editors in the formation Of them,
there is little discussion of their. merits
and less manifest opposition. Among the
"best workers" there seems to be a diff.
ference of opinion as to whether s'Hiestand
and Griest drew Geist on toward a step
which must ultimately lead back to the dele
gate SYSTEM" or whether "Geist smart.
ly entrapped the others into the support
of device which refastens the Crawford
county system upon the party" Percy
Shocks Marietta Register seems to be
about the only outspoken opponent of
their adoption, ,and it recognizes and points
out the incoherencies, the crudeness and
the absurdities Of the now plan, by the
operation of which minority candidates
may be nominated, all sorts of jugglery
and tricks may be perpetrated, and endless
confusion ensue ; also, the absurdity ol
trying to make them retroactive by order.
ing that they apply to an election at which
their own adoption is to DO voted upon
and of swearing election officers to conduct
the primary according to the existing rules,
under penalty of the law, and at the same
time asking them to count votes for dele
gates to county convention, when under
existing rules all votes for such candi
dates-unknown to the existing rules
must be void. 1t is said the people gen.
orally are beginning to discover these de-
fects, and that there will be a heavy if not
prevailing vote against them. In any
event, the proposition to make them cover
this election, if adopted, will be combatted,
and the return judges may be assembled
on Monday as the present rules-only
changeable by popular vote-direct.
For Congress.
The original programme was that Smith
was to have a walk over, and that he was
to quietly submit to Collector Tom Wiley's
decapitation. This seems to lave miscar.
rled somehow. Wiley "holds the fort, ~
and though Hiestand insists that it is
"the Gods truth that he is for Smith,
it is equally true, as the New Era re-
Gently stated, that some of Smiths oppo-
nents "have tried to make two or three
gentlemen believe that it is their duty to
consent to run for Congress against Mr..
Smith, and it is reported to-day that they
have found one willing to enter the temple
of the bosses and offer himself as an
atonement for their political sins. -
Whether by this was forecast G. L. Hun
seekers announcement, which has come
to pass, We do not know, but of course
his candidacy would not be flea bite.
Under the new rules, he might serve the
purpose of carrying few townships to
hold them in for third candidate, but
such one has not yet been developed.
Before the death of Mr.. Garfield
changed the plans of the politicians, it was
widely reported that our esteemed fellow
citizen and tho welI-known educator, ex-
State Supt. J. P. Wickersham, L. L. D.,
was slated for pleasant consulate in
Switzerland, where, under the caves of
an Alpine cottage, he might write his
projected history of education in Pennsyl
vania. Now, however, a man has been
sent to that post who calls the seat of his
undivided affections his "hole hart" and
DR.. Wickersham is left. It is said the
congressional bee has again begun to buzz
in his bonnet, and that if Major Griest
has any power of persuasion Smith will
not have clear track and that Wicker
sham will be his competitor.
The Fight For State Senator.
The hottest and most interesting fight
and that upon which the Examiner stakes
it's factions all, is tho Standardization
contest for senator. Besides the ordinary
Bull Ringers, stehman is reported to have
Sensenig with him this time, and as the
other faction never had quite as strong a
hold in the upper as in the lower end, the
reinforced Bull Ringers affect to be con-
fidcnt of Kaufman's defeat. For the
next few weeks a hot fight will be waged,
and it is too early yet to predict the issue.
Some new candidates are talked Of. but
they are not likely.
For Assembly.
Courtney, Eshleman and Snader, the
former delegation from the Upper End,
will be generally supported by Stehman's
friends. They have "been there" and
wero not found wanting. Snader will be
antagonized in his section by
P. M. Eberly, whom he beat for reelection