Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-10-25
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THURSDAY EVENING. OCT. 20. tsss.
INV or Meyer.


s,ecal charge OF the Republican party
IA this county, Is urgent upon the voters
OF It's party, in double loaded invocations,
TO come out and vote. 1t asks them TO
appear now in view Of the coming pres
ilential election. Nothing less than a
miracle, il declares, can elect Blaine, or
any other Republican, next year IL
Pennsylvania is lost this year. Tbs
ye,r's contest in PENNSYLVANIA is magni-
fed by the Examiner into the decisive
struggle for the presidency. But We
shall not expect to see our co.
temporary folding its arms when
the election is lost, as all the signs
portend that it will be. 1t is not the
habit of the party organ to sing the same
song or draw the same deductions after
the election as before. Hope eternal
rises in the party editors breast or he
pretends that it does. He sings a lively
tune always, sometimes sweetly, some
times hoarsely but he is ever singing.
The Examiner is particularly bold
bird, however, to 50 decidedly declare to
its friends that 1t isnow or never. 1t tells
the truth, too, this time. WerecOmmeud
its party friends to march out to tie
polls this time, il they want to slve
their bacon next year. They have been
whipped too often lately to make it safe
for them to lose any more battles, if
they expect to come up smiling and con.
fident next year.
Ohio was fearful damper to their
hopes. There they had to beat
a man who was away off in Phila-
delphia, being doctored for malaria,
aud they had candidate who made a
speech, and good ones, tor, in every
hamlet in the state. And they got out
the vote. They had an exciting election
and cannot charge their deteat to the
stay.at- homes. They were beaten be.
cause they did not have the votes.
The same trouble may reasonably be
expected TO cause their downfall In
Pennsylvania though their forces are
brought to the polls they will still be
found lacking. But il they come out
they will have the conviction. to s1lace
them, of duty performed. AL the Re-
publicans in Lancaster county who have
desire to have a conscience void Of
ofense, when the defeat of their party is
recorded after the election day, will
harken to their organs appeal and
come out to vote. The organ hopes
that there are sixteen thousand such out
OF the twenty thousand Republican
voters it claims to live and breathe aud
have their being in this county {;
and it confines its hope to a
IL. 600 poll. 1t must be said that it is in
no way wild and extravagant in calling
for sixteen out of twenty. Ii we were
doing it we think we should call out the
whole body. If this is the crucial con-
test for the presidency, our opponents
ought to fetch out their whole army.
They cannot afford to keep fourth Of it
in reserve. We, of course, expect to see
the Democrats turn out to man. We
do not ask them to come out this time to
show what they can do next time, but
we want to see them record their verdict
upon the Issues of the present cam
paigu, which We conceive to be i'm
portant enough to claim their verdict.
There are hardly twenty five per cent.
of the Republican voters who are phvSi
cally incapacitated to attend the polls
and we understand that their organ il
summOning only thTee.fOurths Of then
to the election, considers that one fourtl
Of them cannot be got out by the most
touching sort of an appeal. II consider,
that it has that number of political
sluggards in its ranks whom nothing
less than frst-claSs political earth
quake. or Dorsey presidential fund,
can fetch TO the polls. Having
a poignant realization, from long
and sad experience of the Use
lessness of wasting words of in
vocation upon this class of its voters,
it leaves them to their plOughshares
and husking gloves, and contents itself
with possible seventy five per cent. 1t
is true and evident that in doing this
the organ comedies that there are
twenty-five per cent. OF its voters who
will not listen to or believe it for the
Republican contingent that turns out
only in presidential elections would
come out in this one If it is persuaded
that this is really the presidential con
test, as the Examiner declares it to be
We suggest to our cOtempOrary that il
make thorough test Of the confidence
its followers entertain in its veracty
and judgment by sending marked copy
of its declaration that this is the presi
Dental field to each one of the twenty
thousand, If it can find them all and
then it will certainly find out how many
of them are its true and faithful fol
lowers, with confidence in its truth an(
faith in tsjudgment. We hope, indeed
that our cotemporary may not find az
many as four out of twenty to use i
despitefully, for so large percentage o
rebels in an army argues something
wrong in men or leaders.
OUT in Utah there IS lively war be
tween the Union Pacific and the Denye
& Rio Grande railroads regardin,
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