Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-05-18
"Let Governor PattisOn Answeri"


Philadelphia Times.
The Lancaster 1NTELLIGENCER, edited
by Mr.. Hensel, the efficient chairman OF
the Democratic state committee, says:
1t looks very much rs If the editor OF the
Times in his more Jealous than discreet as
sault upon the administration had again
Overleaped himself. He criticises Mr.. PattisOI
in a New York Herald interview tor having
appointed recorder to succeed Lane before
the Legislature had moved on the abolition Ct
from his SC rap book and publishes 4 letter
from Mcclure to the Cover elnor:clect advising
him to DO just what he did. If the editor keeps
closures Of his respoa sibility tor the acts OF
the present executive may stop.
1t is possible that Chairman Hensel is
not answerable for the foregoing, as its
want of candor is not in accord with the
character of the responsible editor but, in
either case, the oracle of the Democratic
state organization should correct itself.
Chairman HeDsel well knows that the
editor of tho Times never advised Cover
nor Pattison to do just what he did " in
his action on the recordership. He
knows that tho abolition of all needless
offices was publicly and privately urged
by the editor OF this journal, in and out of
season, before and after the late election,
as Mr.. Hensel and Mr.. Mcclure many
times conferred on the subject ; and he
knows that Governor Pattison, after pub.
licly and privately protesting to desire the
prompt abolition of all such offices, first
tried to fill them with his personal fol
lowers to give them the emoluments, and
recommended the abolition of the plumber
only after the Senate refused to allow his
favorites to share it.
The editor of tho Times has distinctly
declared that Governor Pattison deliber-
ately withheld material portion of the
truth when he published Mr.. Mcclure g
letter as justifying his action on the
recordership, ard thereby sought to con.
vey false impression to the public. On
this point Mr. Mcclure challenges Gov
ernor Pattison's contradiction, and no man
should be moro interested in having the
governor vindicate himself than Chairman
Hensel. Let him inquire of Governor Pat
tison whether Mr.. Mcclure ever recon-
mended or intimated whether it would be
proper to appoint 4 recorder Or sealers @;
weighs and measures without an emphatic
demand for tho abolition Of tho offices.
Governor Pattison will not, dare not, say
that Mr.. Mcclure over advised anything
other than the abolition of those offices,
and he finally assented to the governors S
suggestion to appoint an Independent
recorder only because it might facilitate
the repeal of the recorder act.
Instead of acting in accord with his
repeated public pledges and his voluntary
private pledge to Mr.. Mcclure, to sum-
mon the whole power of his admins
tration to aid in the abolition of tho need
less and oppressive offices in this city,
Governor Pattison personally directed the
division of the sealer OF weights and mea
sures plunder and nominated mon for
those Offices without ono word in favor of
their abolition and he in like manner
nominated personal follower for recorder
without any official demand for tho repeal
of the offensive act. II Gov. P.ttison has
any answer to give to these gravo state
ments going directly to his personal candor
and official consistency. The Times will
gladly give him tho benefit of its wide
circle of intelligent readers of every politi
cal faith. This journal has no time or
space to waste in dispute with superser-
viceable party organs. whose editors,
almost without exception, individually
deplore tho weakness and folly of the
administration while family defending it
in public but Governor Pattison has
raised an issue in which the public have a
vital interest and If he can excuse or
defend himself, he should do so; and
Chairman Hensel should help him in some
better way than by organ. like suppression
and perversion.