Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-09-01
Pennsylvania and Ohio.

The chairman Of the Pennsylvania
Democratic state committee tells a New
York Herald reporter that the party In
the state is in a good condition to win,
and that he has found good feeling
and good organization existing wherever
he has been In the twelve counties that
he hsa, visited. He finds shat little at
tcntiop is being directed to the canvass
In Ohio, but that the concern is felt for
our own state election. Though we
would like to see q Democratic victory
in Ohio, there are no issues in common,
and defeat In Ohio, IL such should
occur, would not have the depressing or
demoralizing effect that such result
has occasoned In years gone by"
We shall be truly glad IL 1t be true that
the Pennsylvania Democrats are not dis.
posed to regard with extreme solicitude
the outcome OF the Ohio election. 1t Is
true that there is little in common in the
issues c0ntended for by the parties In
Ohio and Pennsylvania, and 1t is also
fact that the Democratic party in Ohio
Is unduly handicapped in its present
race, so that Its success cannot be conf.
IDENTIFY predicted. 1t is safest to assume
In the Pennsylvania canvass that it will
encounter midway in its course an Ohio
defeat and II this anticipated defeat
should, instead, be victory, 1t will be
all the better for our own prospects. The
Ohio Democrats started out with great
deal Of dissatisfaction among the rank
and file with the candidate nominated
for governor, who, though fresh recruit
to the party, defeated a consistent old
line Democrat. A story was soon
afoat that his nomination had cost
him a great deal Of money, and
whether true or false, it has been so per-
sistently alleged as to have done his
canvass no good. Nor has he deyelor d
much skill in the conduct of his part OF
1t. To eliminate the Democratic diff
culties, such dissatisfaction has been
occasioned by the local ticket in Hamil
ton county, in which is Cincinnati, that
another Democratic ticket is to be put
in the field. This last trouble is directly
due TO the determination Of Mclean the
editor Of the Cincinnati Enquirer, to
dominate the politics of his county.
He was an original opponent of Judge
Hoadley for the gubernatorial nomina
tion and is an ardent foe of Senator
Pendleton, whose senatorial scalp he is
going for.:Judge Hoadley's necessities,
as the Democratic candidate, have com
PEELED him to support the Mclean local
ticket and the Democratic newspaper
started by Hoadley aud his friends to
offset the Enquirer's influence, falls into
line in support Of his ticket. Neverthe
less it Is said not to be good ticket, and
great many of the better class of the
cincinnati Democrats are determined to
repudiate it. Probably they are as much
moved 10 this by their disinclination to
submit to the bossism Of Mclean as by
their objection to his candidates person.
ally. Democrats naturally incline to
kick at bosses, and Mclean is not very
agreeable one to submit to. The Gin
cinnati Enquirer, under the conduct Of
the Mclean family, has ever heen a
thorn in the Democratic side through
the lack of good political sense it has
displayed and the fevor and forwardness
with which it pressed its nonsense. The
Greenback craze had 1t for its loud
est champion, and 1t is largely through
its exposition that Ohio Democracy has
become by.word throughout the land
for its waywardness.
We should be quite content TO cut
loose for this one year from our Ohio
associates, and 10 let them bark and
bite at their owD sweet will and work
out their salvation as best they may,
while We go on in steady and harmoni
Gus vindcatiOn of old fashioned Demo
cratic principles. There is no row or
prospect of any in the democratic ranks
In Pennsylvania. A difference Of opinion
exists between the Democratic news
papers of the state and the Democratic
House of Representatives on the subject
Of the adjournment of the Legislature :;
but that is only difference of opinion
as to the obstinacy of the Repub.
lican Senate. The newspapers, crediting
the Senators declaration that they will
never make an apportionment, and be
lieying them to be sufficiently wicked to
do 1t because their party profits by the
existing apportionment, counsel ad
journment. The Democratic legislators,
having large faith In the integrity of
their Republican colleagues, desire to
extend their opportunity to do what is
right. Very we'll 1; IL the legislators choose
to stay at Harrisburg until 1885, we do
not particularly object. We observe
that the Republican journals only objec
tion Is that the session costs the state
ten dollars day for each member. But
II the state gets the apportiohment the
constitution demands 1t will be cheap at
any price and IL it don't, no dou'It the
Democrats Of the Legislature need only
forego the appropriation of their pei
diem to prove the disinteres.ed sincerity
with which they have striven to defend
the constitution.