Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-02-04
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The Republfcan Nominations.

The Republican Nominations.
The gentleman named by the Repub-
lican city convention as the candidate
of that party for mayor is 4 very re-
spectacle citizen, we'll known in business
circles and with a brief public experience
as city treasurer. Against his personal
character and integrity nothing could
be said, though he has no mopl special
fitness to discharge the Office Of mayor
than any one of hundreds of other citi-
zens who are very we'll satisfied that no
public interest will suffer from contin-
uing the present municipal executive.
Capt. Ricksecker's nomination in the
face of his peremptory and unqualified
declination, together with the with
drawal of nearly everybody else who had
been asked to stand for candidacy, was
an admission by the convention that its
nomination was an empty honor and its
nominee had no chance for election.
Republican nominations to Office which
are likely to he followed with election,
never 90 begging in these parts. Capt.
Ricksecker's renewed peremptory declin-
alton and his refusal to accept the nom
ination conferred upon him shows that
he meant what he said, and that he has
enough political sagacity to know that
large majority Of our tOwnspeOple favor
Mayor MacGOnigle's reelection. He
may be opposed by man rs reputable
and personally free from reproacl as
Capt. Ricksecker, the result will he the
same. His experience in the office !; his
complete knowledge of its duties his
faithful discharge of them, and his spe.
cial aptness for the place, point to him
pre- -eminently as the proper man to be
mayor of Lancaster.
Our Republican friends may as
we'll gracefully recognize this and
conclude either to compliment him
with all their votes, or to EN-
phasize his popular endorsement 10y
running somebody against whom the
better element of their party will make
the majority SO decided that it will be I:
renewed rebuke to jobbers and jObbery
in municipal matters. For many years
this journal, and, We believe, the great
body of the Democrats Of Lancaster,
have been ready to cooperate with our
political opponents in any sincere and
practicable scheme to eliminate partisan
politics from our purely local affairs.
There are certain things-such rs the
outrageous gerrymander of the wards
and cOuncilmanic appOrtiOnment and the
required appointment of the cOnstables-
elect as pOlicemen-which stand in the
way of Z; successful movement to this
end. Against greatly adverse odds the
Democracy have secured and kept control
of the executive departments of the city
government and one branch of the leg
islature and they have given the city
very much better government than it
had before. Their administration has
been free from the waste, the jobbery
fered from under previous Republican
control. The present administration
has certainly been as nearly non partisan
as any could be that was chosen on party
lines. None the less, we believe that an
entirely non-lmrtisan city government is
the better control for any municipality.
To secure this the Republicans, as 4
party, have had an opportunity that they
have not embraced i'm y chance to cor
daily indOrse Mayer MacG"nisle and to
secure the cooperation of all good citi
zens in some practical scheme to pick
out cOuncilmen in every ward with 4
view only to their fitness capacity and
integrity. 1t now remains for the de-
mocracy 10 make nominations that will
accord with the recent record of the
party in municipal administration, and
to invite the people to ratify these nOmi
nations at the polls Oh their merits. We
believe they will do this, SO that we can
consistently ask the public of all parties
to vote for them.