Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-09-22
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FRIDAY EvENrEo, SEPT. AZ. 1882.


FRIDAY EvEN1Eo. SEPT. ~. 1882.
An Ill.Begotten Ticket.
TIE success of the administration in
the New York Republican convention
is charged by the New York Times to its
alliance with Jay Gould. 1t declares
that " Jay Gould has triumphed at Sar-
atoga, let the facts be distorted ever so
ingeniously." The knowledge of this
fact among the New York voters will
certainly, we think, prevent the election
of the Republican ticket. Nothing more
injurious of it could he said than that it
was nominated in the interest of Jay
Gould and that class of men. 1t gives
free field to the Democratic ticket as the
representative Of the people as against
monopolies. This field will be taken
possession of by the New York Democ-
racy with q suitable platform and suit
able candidates. The Republican plat
form no less than its ticket gives the
Democracy the popular position on the
issue of the day against the encrOach-
ments of the moneyed power. 1t is
drawn in terms to suit the agency that
aided the administration and the
straight outs in their fight against
the half breeds, "and gave them the
victory.
A victory, too, that was gained, it
seems, after the peculiar methods of the
sharpers who undertook to win it. 1t
was done by bribery and trickery.
The chairman of the state committee
who obtained his official place as a half
breed, and who was as such chosen to
the convention, deserted his colors and
carried his delegation to Folger under
a contract that he should get the nomi
nation for lieutenant governor which
he secured. In further consideration he
voted in the state committee to give the
organization of the convention to the
friends of FOlger. Another vote being
needed in the committee for this purpose
it was secured by the appearance of PO-
lice Commissioner French as L substi
tute for Collector of the Port Robertson,
under tho authority of telegram
from the latter, which now turns
out to have been barefaced
forgery, and never to have passed
through the telegraph office at all !:
it was written on blank used by the
senders of messages and not on one of
those used by the operator in receiving
them. This discovery has naturally
created a sensation and will tend to
greatly embitter the feeling of the de-
feated alf-breeds. It was hard enough
for them to yield their adhesion to a
ticket put upon them by their foes, even
if the victory had been fairly gained !;
but when they know that it was obtain
ed by the barefacel bribery and fraud
that secured it, they will have no need
to repress their anger and no occasion to
give their support where their heart is
not. Men who cheat cannot expect
their victims to be willing to give them
their stake when they know how it was
won from them. 1t is dangerous game
to play in a nominating convention,
whose candidates take nothing unless
they also carry the election. Clear
sighted and sensible men would not seek
to carry a convention by methods that
would embitter their opponents, when
they have to face a close election, no
matter how unprincipled they may be
nor how willing to cheat if cheating is
safe.
The trick played upon Collector Rob
ertson was probably conceived and car
ried out under the impression that he
would be afraid to denOunce it, after it
had accomplished it's object, because he
holds his place at the mercy of the ad-
But he turns out not to
have been S, timid as he was credited
with being. He was timid enough to
stay away from the state committee and
the convention when his political duty
required him to be present. lie was
enough not to stand i'm the
way Of the administration in it's under
taking to nominate Folser. He was
weak enough to be deceived by its ad-
herents with the belief that they would
perhaps nominate him for governor in
stead of FOlger. But he would not play
into their hands as far as they expected.
He has exposed their shameful trick and
they threaten to remove him from his !
office for his contumacy.
If after these exposures and the de-
velopment of the influences supporting
him, Judge FOlger can he elected gov
crnor of New York the country is past |
praying for. We regard it as an impos-
sible feat, with any reasonable degree of |
in placing in the field Dem
,cratic ticket. New York as surely as
will pass under the con-
;rol of democratic administration at
he coming election, and the Republican
eaders in the retirement of private life
will have leisure to consider the profit of
the thimble-rigsing methods of Wall
street in party management.
A WRITER in the Gcntleman's Mag-
lZine takes the position that drunken
less is device of nature for relieving
Of its inferior members, and
hat this natural cleansing and renovat-
ng process cannot be advantageously