Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-07-29
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SATURDAY EVENING, JULY ., lss9,

SATURDAY EVENING. JULY .. lse9.
Tempting the WorklDgnea.
IT now seems quite likely that Chair
man Cooper spoke entirely prematurely
when he INDUCED in vain and vague
boasts rs to the 10000 votes which Bea
ver was to get from some mysterious
quarter, and when he exultingly referred
to Armstrong; candidacy as scheme
to lie operated to draw off more votes
from the Democrats than the Republi-
cans, Mr.. Armstrong, who has the
reputation of being an honest and sim
cere man, and Mayor Powderly, of
Scranton, who is also a gentleman of
intelligence and high character, and a
prominent leader among the Knights OF
Labor, do not propose that their purpose
to benefit the labOring men shall be
traded upon by political hucksters. They
resent the idea that they are organized
for any such purpose and their associ
ates are speaking out in every quarter of
the state against the proposed auction of
their votes. The few desperate men
who are engaged in the design are known
and watched. Nothing can be done that
will not he known and when it becomes
known and public it is bound to fail.
The workingmen Of the state are not
fools They know their political influ-
ence. They know that they cvn never
assert it successfully by allowing their
votes to be auctioned off. They knew.
too, that the Democratic party is their
natural friend. Whatever wrongs they
have suffered are the results of twenty
two years of Republican misrule. If
change is TO come there must be a change
of administration.
AS TO the third party scheme they
showed in 1878 how it was manipulated
by Quay. They were made the catspaw
to draw the Hoyt chestnuts out Of the
fire. In the state campaign of that year,
out of every one hundred votes polled
for governor, the Republicans polled
As; the Democrats pOlled 43; and the
Greentsack- Labor men polled IL. That
sort of work elected HOyt, although the
majority of the whole vote was against
him by 1886 votes. The first session
of the Legislature after Hoyt's election,
the labor men succeeded in passing in
both Houses the company store bill, and
Hoyt promptly vetoed it.
When the Cameron managers come to
the back doors of the labor organizations
this year to make their base proposals,
will they mention this trifling circum.
stance? Scarcely! Will the working.
men again put whips of scorpions in
the bands of their enemies by placing
in power oyer themselves, these, their
natural enemies Slaves bend their
backs to be beaten again and again, but
this is not the spirit of the workingmen
on American soil. Wepredict the utter
failure Of any second attempt to lead
the workingmen of Pennsylvania astray
What Shouid be Done.
The Patriot sounds note of warning
in its remarks on Legislative Candi
dates" printed elsewhere, which W.
trust will he heard and needed in every
legislative district where the election of
a Democratic member is among the pos
sibilities. Nothing will So strengthen
the Democratic state ticket as good
local nominations, and nothing can bt
more important to the new administra
tion, to the welfare of the state, and tC
the future standing Of the Democratic
party, than that the majority which il
expects to have in the next House should
be composed Of the best material, and
enjoy the cOunsels of men whose integ
rity and ability have been tried in the
fire of previous service in opposition
to the corrupt and donineeriDg Ring
Republican majority. No constituency
can hope to gain power and influ-
encc in any legislative body, if it shall
persist in turning out Its representative:
as soon rs they have learned how t,
serve it, and substitute raw men who
must undergo the same process of edu
cation before they can be as fit rs their
predecessors were when they were dis
missed. 1t is crying shame that such
men as some Of these named 10y the Pa-
triot should be lost to the state and the
party merely because some other, and
perhaps totally incOmpe: cnt men, want
their places. When Governor Pattison
comes to recommend his system of re.
forms, reirenchments and economies to
the Legislature; and shall demand the
passage of appropriate laws to carry
them into effect, we will want the ser.
vices of our ablest, truest and best tried
men in both Houses. The obligation tG
send such men rests with special weight
upon the heavy majority counties where
the Democracy can make its own selec-
tions and do as it pleases.
The Republicans appeal to their party
to elect Beaver and Brosius because the
Democrats, they allege, propose to ger
rymander South Carolina. The argu-
ment is little far-fetclled, but tho
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