Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-07-18

TUESDAY EVENING. JuII ,e, iisa.
Concerning "Allens.''

Concerning 'Alleas."
Chairman Cooper is determined to let
his party know that he is doing some
thing. He has been engaged in distribu.
ting what he calls I" an argument show
ing that the contest for governor is
really between General Beaver and Con
trOller Pattison." Without waiting for
his executive committee to meet and
make answer to the proposals of the In
DEPENDENTS, Cooper assumes that they
are rejected ; and as he appointed that
committee and knows his men he can
safely assume this. He berates the In
dependents very soundly for their failure
to nibble at the cheese in his trap, and
scornfully refers to four Of the candi-
dates posing "in the self sacrificing at
titude of martyrdom - while McMichael,
through a simulated or real difference
of opinion, ptoclaims in an incoherent
and inconsistent way that he remains a
candidate, and shall himself be the judge
whether he shall support any nomination
made even under harmonious conditions.
Exit McMichael." Whereupon Cooper
consigns them all to the demnition bow
vows as factious, insincere, trifiing
and dishonorable men," with whom he
and his can have no affiliation nor fur
ther negotiations.
Having thus taken the responsibility
of declaring the issue to be simply
whether Pattis0n or Beaver is to be gov
ernor, the Republican chairman aban-
dons the tariff question, which was the
leading issue last week, and boldly ar
raigns Mr.. Pattison for having been
born ON the south side of the Maryland
line, the son of u Methodist itinerant
preacher. Besides this objectionable Of
fense Pattison committed the benious
crime of coming into Pennsylvania at
the mature age of six, with the deliber-
ate purposes Of "mere adventurer. -
That nativity elsewhere entirely dis
qualities one from serving the people of
Pennsylvania in public capacity,
Cooper amply proves in this able para
graph:
The Office of governor is one that Spe-
cially calls for an intimate knowledge on
the part Of its occupant of the people OF
the state, their peculiarities and local
idiOsyDcrasies, their special wants and
desires, and Of the measures necessary to
promote their varied interests. This is a
knowledge which none but a native can
fully attain. A man must grow up among
the people to understand them fully /;
and it is the unwritten knowledge and ex.
perience thus acquired, and which only a
native Pennsylvania can acquire, that is
essential to the success Of any one in the
gubernatUrial chair.
Seeing that Thaddeus Stevens came
into Pennsylvania when he was @, Ben
jamin Franklin IL, and Robert Morris
13; that Blaine left this state after he
had grown to manhood, that Daniel
Webster was - when he entered Massa-
chusetts, that Henry Clay was q before
he ever set foot OH Kentucky soil and
Andrew Jackson of full age before he
went to Tennessee, that Abraham Lin
ooln WAC unknown, T." illinois before he
had grown to the full stature of manhood
and Sergeant g Frentiss had attained
ma maturity before he landed i'm Missis
sippi-it is little remarkable
how the men whom their adopted
states learned to cherish, and whose
memories they adore, became acquainted
with the Especial wants and desires - of
their people and "the measures neceS-
sary to promote their material interests, :"
although they were aliens to the soil of
these states al an age when Pattison
was growing up with Pennsylvania and
fitting himself for that brilliant career
in which he has already done the state
such signal service. As controller of
Philadelphia he has done more than any
other official-.vhom that city ever had to
accomplish municipal reform and open
the way for the wider field of state re-
form. 1t must be borne in mind
that MIR. PattisOn was elected both times
without the Intervention Or assistance of
the Committee Of One Hundred. No
such organization then existed, and
many of its members, as individuals, did
not support Mr.. Pattison. 1t grew out
of his iabors it was organized to sup
port the work which he had almost
'singlehanded begun. 1t is no wonder
that his work does not suit Cooper and
his party. 1t has dislodged the corrupt
Philadelphia ring from power and driven
the thieves from their stronghold. Penn
sylvania feels far more pride in him than
in degenerate native born sons who have
sold their birthright and shamed their
commonwealth by betrayal of trust aud
abuse of~power.
FROM the beef-eaters of the custom
house, the loungers in the capitol and the
incumbents of the thousands of sine.
cures who hang like barnacles upon the
body polite nothing is to be expected
but liberal responses to Hubbell's levy.
They get and hold their offices upon the