Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-06-16
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COODer'S CslamitieS.

Cooper's Calamitfes.
One Thomas V. Cooper, of this state,
needs a pretty thick skin. to bear with
equanimity in this hot weather the ag-
gravating literature that is thrust under
his attention. He should forswear the
newspapers and avoid the postman if he
would escape a brain fever-if he has
any brain to fever which is not a clear
case. The letter of Chairman Lear was
bad enough, but that of delegate and
ex-candidate for Congressman -at-large
Marshall is worse, because terser and
stronger. Mr.. Cooper will not smile at
being told that he has " let himself out
beyond his measure in calling together
a convention, with whose original as
sembling his official authority had
ceased to exist. Nothing could well be
palmer than the fact that the conven
tion could only be reassembled by its
officers and not by them if it had ad-
journed without day. Surely a state
committee chairman whose Office was
vacated when the convention met and
who has not yet been re-elected, has no au-
thority to do any official act and though
a real live chairman could reassemble a
dead convention, Mr.. Cooper is not that
sort of chairman and he won't long
be considered that sort of man even,
if he continues to get such battering
from his quondam Republican associates
of high degree as he is now receiv-
ing. He will make a worse public ap-
pearanco than Mr.. Maloney, whose face
has just been hammered by Mr.. Weeden
out of all appearances of humanity. Mr..
Cooper is fast taking on the appearance
of a whipped spaniel, and if his good
master Cameron does not soon get him
an appointment to a nice foreign ken
mel, Mr.. Tom Cooper will have right
to consider himself to be very much
abused little dog.
What remarkable exhibition this is,
when the chairman of a Republican con-
vention and one of its candidates are
found, within few weeks of the happy
gathering of the apparently united
party, trampling upon the chairman
of the Republican committee, or the
only man who assumes to be that officer
of the regular organization, and who is
known to he the representative of the
Republican senator who is the represen-
tative of the Republican administration.
A party never before went to pieces so
suddenly and completely when it still
held all the places of power. The col
lapse is indisputable and total. 1t has
already become question as to which
wing of the party will poll in November
next the larger vote. The revolt has
but one impulse, and that is hatred of
the arbitrary rule of the Ordi-
nary man who assumes to be
the party boss. 1t is simply u question
of Cameron. The regular Republican
candidate for governor would poll every
Republican vote but for the fact that his
election would be an endorsement of
Senator Cameron and continue him in
his place Of power in the party !; while
his defeat means the political death of
Don Cameron. The Republicans who
will vote against Beaver do not-all of
them, or perhaps even the majority
believe that he will be Cameron's tool.
Beaver loudly proclaims his independ-
ence and no doubt many believe him.
But it is too clear for dispute that his
election will be considered the personal
and political triumph of Senator Came
ron and the intense feeling of disgust
for him and his ways which inspires the
Republican voters will not permit them
to lend their votes to a result which will
tend to his aggrandizement. About
this there is no question. Senator Cam
erOn understands it. In the first fury
of his rage and tooth-ache he pro
claimed that if he went down the
party should 60 to hell with him ;
and he proposes to take it there. AS
for himself he may be considered to have
already arrived, with MIR. Cooper in
charge of his carpet bag. How near
the fiery furnace the party is going to
get remains to he seen perhaps not so
near as it would had it remained longer
under Senator Cameron's control. That
it will he beaten this year is clear
enough, bat probably there is virtue
enough in it, after the leading devils
have been flung into the abyss, to pre-
serve it from eternal destruction.
The Democratic Platform.
We heartily agree with the Pitts