Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-06-28
The Stiffness and the Governor.
nur estaomod and courteous cOntem-

The "Times'' and the Governor.
Our esteemed and courteous contem-
porary, the Philadelphia Times, at some
length, explains that it has other causes
for complaint against Gov. Pattison's
administration than his q" nomination of
a recorder and of sealers of weights and
measures before moving for the abolition
of these Offices ;" and, in illustration of
his fatal surrender" to Pilgrim leader
ship and the " disorganizatiOn of the
honest Democracy" it charges that
Z" his attorney general, with his ap'
proval, had bargained away the large
plunder of the office of sealers of weights
and measures" and " the failure to de
mand the abolition of the Office was
because of the Pilgrim contracts to
which he bad made himself a party
With respect to this charge, point
edly made before and now repeated, we
have said before that it is one for the
governor and his attorney general, at
whom it is aimed by Col. Mcclure, On
the authority, we understand, of Mr..
Josephs, to answer. If it is denied, as il
has not yet been publicly, the issue thus
made will require the Times to produce
the proof of its charge. Until that is
forthcoming the honest Democracy of
the state will not believe that any such
surrender to Pilgrim leadership was
made it certainly has not been fatal
the reputable appointments of Messrs
Iseminger and Sensenderfer were no evi
dence of it, and hence it had no disorga
nizing tendency Oh the party at large il
the state.
The Times indulges in the diffuse and
vague charge that " every great reform
demanded in this city, that directly
affected the old Cameron bosses with
whom the Pilgrim Democratic bosses
have affiliated and divided, has beer
defeated at Harrisburg, and by the Pill
grim mastery in legislation and in per
verting the power of the administration.
This is not true. The editorial column:
of the Times for months past have
borne witness to the contrary. Tht
proclamation Of the Committee of Ont
Hundred, TO the effect that numerou!
reform measures, which sought passage
in vain from former Legislatures ant
succeeded in this, have become law
effectually contradicts the Iin.,o. These
measures had the sympathy and secured
the approval of the administration.
The defeat of the bill TO repeal g the
boss railway act of 1852 which th'
Times calls " the gravest failure in re-
form effort" was not chargeable to th'
state administration in any sense. Th'
Times has at different times held the Oi
men, the speaker of the House, Mr..
Singerly, Mr.. Cassidy and other in
f1uences responsible for that failure
And yet, far more than any Of these, il
knows that incompetent management Of
the bill defeated it. 1t suffered mos
from its friends, least from any influence
the attorney general had in the Legisla
ture-if he exercised it at all-and nom
from any interference Of Gov. PattisOn
1t is true that the present Legislature
has not done all that could have beer
hoped from it but what it has done O
a salutary character, it seems to us
has been largely in accordance will
the governors recommendations wha
it has failed to do has not been his fault
and what it has done ill-advisedly, ht
has largely corrected. On the whole
his administration has been wise, hon
est and intelligent and it 50 strikes thu
public judgment. In its criticism of i,
the INTELLIGENCER moves 10y just a.
high standard as the editor of the
Times, who claims that he 6 can have
no personal disappointments in politics
and tasks only of public officials, high
and low, that they shall be faithful t.
their solemn pledges to the people who
hOnOred them"