Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-08-02
The PlatIOrn.

The convention platform tersely ex-
presses the position of the Democratic
party on all the questions of the hour,
and declares q policy that entities the
party to the support of the intelligent
voter who believes that it means what it
saws and as the policy enunciated is one
that is traditionally Democratic there is
no reason to doubt that it will be pur-
sued if those whom the party elects to
Office are mindful of their trust. The
platform demands honesty, intelligence
capacity and courage in public servants !;
it calls for economy in administration !;
requires that taxation shall be limited
to the requirements of such econo
my; but declares that import duties
shall be so laid as to encourage
home industries and secure just COM
pensation to labor while avoiding the
fostering Of monopolies. These declara-
tions in favor of the Limitation of taxa
ton to the needs of government econom-
ically administered and in favor of a
protective tariff, are criticised as
inconsistent 4; yet they are not so. A
protective duty which excludes a
foreign manufacture certainly offers a
bounty to the domestic manufacturer ;
and if this manufacture is so important
to the country as to cause it to be to its
interest to foster it with bounty, IT
may consistently do so, though its
policy calls only for necessary taxation ;
the protection of its industries being
necessary to its prosperity. The tariff
question cannot be elaborately treated in
a party platform, and when we demand
that in laying tariff we shall not make
it undrly protective, we say all that is
possible.
Governor Pattison received the un-
qualified appreciation of the convention
for his intelligent, upright and courage
Gus exercise of the executive power
and he we'll deserved to have it. Tie
economies of Democratic administration
are justly praised, and private specula
tion with the funds in the treasury is
properly denounced. The governor and
the House of Representatives are strong
ly upheld in their demand for fail
apportionment of the state, as they
deserved to be. The enforcement of the
constitutional provisions regulating cor
porations is demanded, and a revision OF
the tax laws called for. The position OF
the Democratic party as the friend OF
labor and the foe of monopoly is truly
stated. All the declarations are such az
the party will unhesitatingly sustain and
the candidates who have had them giver
to them to sustain will have no difficult
labor, as they are buoyant enough tt
float themselves.
| THE Philadelphia Inquirer should b,
supplied with an atlas. 1t speaks O
Powell and Taggart as coming from ad
joining counties. Their counties arc a
far apart as Lancaster and Fayette.
THE platform is a very good one tn
Republican platform is very bad one
and Independent voters in Pennsylvania
ought this year to support the Democrat
without question or hesitation.-Ne'
York Herald.
FOLLOWING is the latest and most accu
rate description of dude: "He is tn
reminiscent ghost OF fragmentary phan
tom of an extinct illusion of some forgot
ten form OF an abortive effort at rudimen
tary life."
SOME of the newspapers think tho con
vention at Harrisburg was too tame.
There wasn't riot, to be surc but ther
was no funeral. And as the party nee
not wait to heal scars and wounds in it
own ranks it is ready to move forwar
without delay against tho common enemy
EDITORS are often made tho recipient
of considerable attention, agreeable a
we'll as otherwise. Out in Fremont, Ohio
on Tuesday night, the local Nestor wa
burned in efigy before his own Office b.
some indignant workiDgmen whom ha'
dared to criticise. Yet the action OF th'
mob can hardly be regarded as an unmixe'
evil, for it no doubt doomed the subscrip
tion list of the guilty editors paper.
| THE contest over the senatorship in Nev
Hampshire, where the Republican major
ity in the Legislature is nearly seventy
forcibly illustrates how great larty ma
split up into as many factions as leader
when it has no issue to present to tn
people. The same fact was Observable il
the Pennsylvania senatorial contest il
1881, in Oregon in 1882, and in Michigan
aud Minnesota in 1883. The absence o
an issue makes such contests mere strug.
giles for spoils. In marked contrast will
these deadlocks constantly occurring il
Republican states is the celebrity will
which the states wherein the Democrat
enjoy supremacy return their best men t.
the Senate. Tho caucus nominees in thes
states arc not mere spoilsmen fighting TO
the crumbs of Office, but are the choseI
ones representing the great ideas of tn
party of honest government, hence tn
infrequency of their defeat.
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| PERSONAL.
GENERAL TREvINO, sailed from Nev
York for Europe yesterday, in the steam
ship Caller.
HENRY WARD BEECHER. lectured O,