Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-09-28
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THURSDAY EVENING, SEPT. %. 1892
Too One.Sided.

THURSDAY EVENING" SEPT. &0s 1857
Too One.Sided.
The Committee Of One Hundred in
Philadelphia has attained great deal
of political strength by the success
which has attended it's efforts to secure
a good class of officials for the city. 1t
does not represent q political party, but
acts for that class of citizens who desire
good city officers regardless of their pol.
itics. The committee has resolved this
year that it is expedient to support a
candidate for sheriff who is an Inde-
PENDENT Republican and who will com
mand that vote together with the Demo.
cratic vote. But the committee does
not pay proper regard to the Democratic
desire to support good Democrat for
that Office nor to the probability that If
such man is nominated he will com.
mand the Democratic vote as against an
Independent Republican. If the Dem
crats'of Philadelphia are willing to &C
cept an Independent Republican for
sheriff the committee is right enough
in declaring it expedient that such a
nomination should be made. But the
Democratic preference is likely to be
otherwise, and then it would be inexre.
dent in the One Hundred to start out
an Independent candidate, provided the
Democratic nominee is a proper man for
sheriff. The committees function being
to secure such proper officers for the city
it has no reason to demand from the
Democrats that they shall do more than
to nominate Democrat who will make
in their judgment a good sheriff. Obvi-
ously the candidates politics have no
concern with his fitness, and an Inde-
pendent Republican will he no more fit
because of his independent Republican,
ism than a Democrat because of his
Democracy. The One Hundred, being
Republicans, naturally may prefer a
Republican and they may have cause to
think that such one would be more
readily elected. This latter reason is a
good one for desiring his support by the
Democracy {; but if that party chooses to
nominate a Democrat who is better fit
ted for the sheriff's Office than the Re-
publican candidate, he will be entitled to
the support of the committee of One
Hundred, if they act up to their profess
sions. They are understood to desire to
support the Democratic candidate for
treasurer and perhaps other officers, on
condition of the Democracy yielding to
them the naming of Republican for
the sheriffalty. In this the committee
is not acting up to the proper idea of its
duty. 1t will continue to do a
most useful work if it stands
ready to support the good candidates
nominated by the political parties,
and to oppose the bad ones. Inthis way
its demonstrated power enables it to i'm.
pose most salutary influence upon the
political conventions; and in no other
way can it preserve its power. Citizens
will vote for officials according to tbcil
political predictions, if there is none OF
but little difference in the fitness of the
respective candidates. The Committee OF
One Hundred cannot turn many Repub-
lican votes away from good candidate.
of their party, if they would, and should
not, if they could. Neither can they
withdraw Democratic support from goo;
candidates. We do not think that tht
Democratic conventions of Philadelphia
are bound TO listen to the Committee OF
One Hundred urging them to nominate
Independent Republicans, but they
should hearken to it and to every one
else who urges them to nominate fit
Democrats and they should heed.
If the Committee of One Hundred
wants to organize political party, with
independent Republicans and Demo
Gratis rs its cOmponents, it may do so
and if it can find enough of them it may
create a successful one. But we have
no idea that this is within its power. II
it has no such ambition and proposes tt
content itself still longer within ths
sphere which itoriginally chose for itself
it will simply scrutinize the nomination!
of the political parties, accepting what i,
finds good in either and if it finds M
good candidate for any place, proposing
its own. If its judgment is good, as il
has been, its success will be as great a.
ever but we fear from the indication.
that it is somewhat undIly inflated b,
its prosNGity.
Down in South Carolina Mr. Mackey
white, has been having struggle Ovel
the nomination for Congress with Mr.
Smalls and Mr.. Lee, both black. Mr.
Mackey won, seemingly because he had
the most money, for Mr.. Lee exhibited a
promissory note for $3.50 that he had
given a delegate for his vote. That
however, only shows that he had the
most brass, for his promissory note wa.
not money. as the delegate would prob
ably have found when he came to have