Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-05-27
Nanrastry tIltelNQe,lcer,
SATURDAY EVENING. NAY ~. 1889.

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EVENING. NAY ~. 1852.
What Does The "Times'' Want?
We very much fear that the Philade.-
phia Times is neither able nor willing to
the INTELLIGENCER in re-
gard to the matter which appears to be
in controversy between that journal and
this. 1t seems to require both inability
to understand and a willingness TO mis-
represent to induce the Times to so per-
sistently declare that the INTELLIGENT
GER advocates a policy which invites
deserved defeat for its party in this
state. This journal comedies that the
Democratic party needs to 60 outside
of its organization" to obtain votes to
elect its ticket, and has always urged
that its party should measure its candi-
dates and platform up to the issue of
honest government. We have at the
same time just as vigorously insisted
that the honest, dignified and respectable
way to do this is not to go outside the
organization for candidates, huckstering
with fugitive political elements and
trading for their votes by promising
place to the adventures who so often
control if they do not compose them.
Do We understand that the Times calls
this Bourbonism ?" If so we do not
propose TO unlearn or forget that the De-
mocracy which we have always espoused
is the Democracy of honest political
principle.
The Times is not L" the one journal
of Pennsylvania which looks solely to
public issues to public integrity, to
political progress and manhood, and to
the regeneration of political authority
by every method consistent with patriot
ISM" Honest Democracy and honest
Democratic journalism are as unselfishly
looking to those ends as the Times is ;
and it admits that they can be accom-
plished 10y positive Democrats regularly
nominated when it says:
1t 1.-THE Ismes] believes in honest citizens
of all parties uniting for the election of
honest men, and it has urged the Demo-
Gratis of Pennsylvania to lead in the work
of reform. Democracy has done SO in
Philadelphia. largely in defiance of its
leaders, and it has Democratic mayor, 4
Democratic controller and many Demo
cratic councilmen, all elected by Rcpubli-
can votes. They were elected when regu-
larly nominated by the party and known
to be something more than mere regula.
ton Democrats. They believe in De-
mocracy advancing its standard to the
highest battlement OF honest government,
and giving Democracy the victory that
good citizens of all parties must honor.
The policy of the Philadelphia city
Democracy and of the New York state
Democracy-tO which the Times refers
us-so far as it has been practical and
progressive, has been just what the IN
TELLIGENCER has commended rs the
fit policy of the party in this state, to
measure itself up to the issue of honest
government and only combine with those
who believed in the political ideas the
ticket represented and who would cling
to the party proclaiming them" Nor
is it for the Times to deny that
the Democracy of Pennsylvania have
been doing this for years. The Bour-
bons here have been those Republicans
who, protesting to be tired of Cameron
ism, have refused to endorse the Demo.
cratic candidates and declarations for
honest government simply because they
were Democratic. The Times supported
l.. Dill's nomination for governor and
Noyes' for treasurer in 1877, and Mobiles
last year as progressive" policy for
the Democrats, and about all that the
party has done in this state since its es-
tablishment, except the nomination OF
Judge Turnkey, in which campaign we
believe the Times was for Sterret.
The Times says that g. a Democratic
nominee for governor who can command
the absolute trust of Independent Re-
publicans in his aggressive integrity
would assure success from the hour OF
his nomination and such selection
would at once decide tens of thousands
of hesitating Republicans to cast theil
fortunes with the Independents" That
is much more sensible than the dry.rOt
in which the Times indulged when it
said Stewart and his colleagues on the
independent ticket are earnest Republi
cans, and they have found no open Demo
cratic gates to invite common effort fol
REFORM "They seek and demand the
supremacy of the Republican people.
Earnest Republicans !" who "seek and
demand the supremacy of the Republi
can people - are not likely to look for an
open gate into the Democratic camp, but
hesitating Republicans who are satisfied
with Democrat of " aggressive integ-
rity' will, we earnestly trust, not have
occasion to complain of the nominee of
the next Harrisburg convention.
How Not to DO II.
The good people who champion civil
service reform have brought themselve!
into discredit by the manifest inefliciency
of the chief means by which they propose
t, secure the reform they seek no one o1
good sense will deny that the Object
they aim for is very good one; but W.
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