Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-05-15

litical situation in Pennsylvania,
and his present trouble comes from
that exhibition OF weakness, as we may
term it, since an editor who can talk
daily through his own paper is hardly
wise to let q reporter talk for him in
another 4 iStill Editor Mcclure does not
seem to have suffered from reportorial
inaccuracy, as so many of the unhappy
interviewed d.. Editor McC Clure, being
an experienced bird. knew how to secure
the printing of his words as he wanted
them to appear, and no doubt revised
carefully the copy or the proof. What
he is reported to have said in the
Herald he did say; and that Governor
Pattison had promised to recommend the
abolition of the Offices of recorder and
of sealer of weights and measures that
on the contrary he had sent to the Senate
for confirmation the names of his own
friends for these offices that the Senate
refused = con6rm them, and that ''then
Pattison, seeing the mistake he had
made, did what he should have done at
first :" he demanded the abolition of the
offices.
Through the Harrisburg Rtriot the
governor, upon seeing this statement of
his quondam friend Mcclure, presented
to the public q short letter addressed to
him by Editor Mcclure from the Office
of the Times on Nov. 20, 1882, which
runs thus q w - - 2
Ny DEAR GOVERNOR Upon reflection,
think you were right in tho suggestions
to appoint q recorder at once and an Inde-
pendent Republican, and was wrong in
suggesting delay for legislative action. 1
write merely to say that upon full consid
Grafton l think your suggestion entirely
right. EE o
Apparently that is an expression of
Editor McClure's approval of the gov
ernor's appointments of a new recorder
and sealers of weights and measures as
soon as he took his seat an act which
he appears to have explicitly condemned
in his denunciation of the governor in
the Herald.
And how does Editor Mcclure explain
this apparent Inconsistency ? Simply
thus He admits the letter but he says
that in the interview had in the editorial
s.nctum that day after the election,
when he undertook to start the governor
straight on his official path, he "urged
that it was important for the admins
tratiOn to start with the boldest de
mand for the abolition of all needless
and oppressive offices, without attempting
to gil them" The governor and he had
already agreed, he declares, that among
the frst of the formers official duties
must be efforts to abolish the office of
sealer of weights and measures, and to
repeal the odious features of the record
ership. The governor suggested that the
repeal might be aided by the appoint
ment of an Independent Republican of
high character and qualifications, to
which the editor then dissented; but the
day following, Mcclure believed that
the governor might be right in the prop
osition to appoint an Independent Re-
publican to the recordership, at the same
time that he demanded the repeal of the
offensive features of the Office, and he
wrote the letter before quoted"
Mr.. Mcclure seeks to walk away from
his letter upon the statement that he
only approved the filing of the offices to
be vacated, provided the governor ac-
companied their appointment with
demand for the abolition of the offices,
and this he declares tho governor well
understood, but nevertheless in contempt
of his pledge, the governor made a
cowardly and disreputable effort to
transfer the plunder Of the offices to his
personal following, without one word in
favor of their abolition :" and only made
q virtue of necesaity when the. Senate
would not confirm his men.
Which may be possible. The governor
may have deceived thsworthy and trust
full Mcclure and meant to be vicious,
when his appearance was virtuous but
unfortunately for Mr.. Mcclure he does
not present the evidence to prove his
case. The record il against him. He
cannot failt observe that his letter to
the governor does not say word in
modification of. its approval of the
appointment of new officers. If
Brother Mcclure had been an individual
inexperieuoed in the wiles of the world
and the politician and the uses and
abuses of Language, 5We might not won
der that he said one thing in writing
when he really meant another but it is
certainly surg itsihE - hear from an
editorial warrior Of so many battles and
scars thathe Nh written over hissignar
ture an unqualified approval Of certain
action, which yet he did rot mean to ap-
prove unless it was cotemporaneous with l
certain other action. Governor Pattison
was very young man, it is true !; and,
perhaps, q very fresh man. He was Ger
tainly quite fresh III calling upon Editor
cCIure) I" to coafee about his cabinet
and the general policy a his administra.
lion - q he did It rlbat, pt1haps, his
call was Mo9e H6eHAM6E6ae sof CON-
plimeut and congratulaatiQu. Anyway, !