Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-05-19
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FRIDAY EVENING. MAY 10, 1882.
Principle and - PrOgreSs."

Principle and - PrOgress.''
The Philadelphia Ila.es, while con-
ceding ability and sincerity to the IN
TELLIGENCER, insists that it is an
' anti-pr0gresSive - journal because it
regards Senator Kaufman and Repre-
sentative Lands as kickers rather
than Independents, and does not favor
the Tines suggestion that tile Democ.
racy of Lancaster shall endorse and
help to elect them. This policy it calls
the way of g. stOne-blind Bourbon De-
mocracy'' which is responsible for
twenty-five years of laundering defeat
and growing popular disTespect. In
this community, where Senator Kauff-
man is better known than by the Times,
it need not he said that he is a bitter
and relentless partisan. lie demon
strated this very plainly in the Senate,
when, with most Pharisiacal affectation
of virtue, he voted against the admission
of Senator Ecklcy B. Coke. He and the
faction of the party which he represents
here regard Cameron as "only less
of an evil than Democrat )" and
had he received the regular nomination
of his party for the Senate, for which he
earnestly strOve, he would have support
ell the Cameron state ticket just as zeal,
Ously as Representative Lands will do.
Neither has ever affected independence
in politics, except within their own
party; they are as strictly Bourbons as
can he fonnd anywhere.
The INTELLIGENCEE has never failed
to advocate any measure that was calcu-
lated to keep the Democratic party in or
advance it to the support of honest gov
ernment and it has repeatedly invited
its contemporaries and the professed
" independent Republicans Of this city
and county to join with it III Il sim
cere" and progressive" movement
for non-part,an, honest local gov
ernment. The Times need not be
told that no such issue us that
has been offered by either section of
the Republican party here. FOlr years
ago Kaufman was nominated in Il
carnival of fraud" by the support of
one of the most corrupt combinations
ever formed in our local politics, and
the spawn of that combination devel-
Oped into corrupt county Office holders,
under whom all previous official iniqui-
ties were only intensified. Senator
I.Acanfnl thic ts,,,n 1,n
cause the support of some of this elc-
ment was withdrawn from him 4; his fac
tiOn TIarreled with them purely on Il
question of "spoilS" and not Of princi-
pie. And Representative Lands owes
his election largely to Il cOmbina-
tiOn with Levi Sensenig, Ben. Long
eneckcr and eX-Sheriff Breneman,
who were g fur him " simply because of
political trade. There is nothing in
issues 50 made up between the Republi-
can factions of This county to justify
Democratic interference between them.
Never will the influence of the INTELLI-
GENCER be exerted to lead its party into
the position of catspaw to serve the
ends of one OF these local corrupt fac
tions against the other. When one or
the other or any individuals embraced in
them shall shake off the shacklcs of party
and of faction they will find the INTEL
LIGENCER and its united party of II ,OOC
voters i'm Lancaster county ':prOgreS-
sive" enough to show them the way to
nrrf ,,I
body of intelligent and sincere Demo,
Gratis will suffer themselves to he miSled
into serving the purposes of men, whose
only source of dissatisfaction with the
Republican party is their failure to OF.
tain control of it, and who, if once helped
to that control 10y Democratic aid
would turn upon and rend their benefac'
tors.
Nor have the Democracy of Lancaster
county, in the case of any editor of the
INTELLIGENCEH nor in any other in
stance, departed from this principle
of conduct. For over eighty years
this journal has advocated those
principles of honest government
which are the essential principles
of pure Democracy, and neither OF
its present editors has ever eSpOused
any other. From these it has never been
swervcd 10y Liberal Republicanism
Know NothingiSm or any other device
nor has it ever followed any ''leaders .
who sought to mislcad the party into
other ways than those of honest govern.
ment We do confess that our progress
sion is not like unto that of the Times
which we consider somewhat crab-like
Our Democracy is subject to no vacilla-
tiOn or shadow of change. Can the
Times say Us much for its political prin-
cipies
Who are the BOurbOnS!
1t is very easy for Il class of self
styled Independents and professed
Reformers TO glibly assert that " the
one thing that las made despotic boss
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