Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-04-30
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Washing Dirty Linen.

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Washing Dirty Linen.
The attack of the Blaine people on
Edmunds has recoiled upon them. The
New York Tribune eagerly took up
william Walter Phelps charge that
Edmunds had voted for a land grant to
a railroad, whose securities he held at
the time, and the value of which was
enhanced by the legislation he helped to
pass. The effects of this exposure upon
Mr.. Edmunds' chances as candidate
we're gleefully related in some CORES
pondence of the Tribune, purpOrting to
have been sent from Washington. 1t
told how Mr.. Edmunds, next day after
Phelps publication, appeared, "ill at
ease" in the Senate he was not at all in
his usual "happy frame of mind"
Among senators and representatives the
statement that Mr.. Edmunds had voted
while in the Senate in favor of a land
grant to railroad in which he was in.
terested, was reported TO have produced
a sensation. One of The former was
alleged to have said "It is to be re.
GREETED that that statement was made,
because it seems to me to be sexposing un.
necessarily possible presidential candi'
date, and putting him on the defensive" "
Another: "If it be true, it is better
that the statement be made now, than
that the fact should be dug out later in
the course Of Il heated campaign Still
another cynically remarked am
afraid that Mr.. Edmunds' little boom
has been bursted. That statement made
IN Mr. Phelps letter,if not Contradicted,
will finish him" And now comes Mr..
Edmunds with an emphatic and explicit
denial Of the whole story and just as
The Tribune had about convinced people
what wicked thing it was for con-
gresham TO vote public favOrs to the
railroads, in which he was interested,
it is seen that the STRIPED jacket fits
Mr.. Blaine AMI he cannot transfer the
fatal garment 70 Elmund3 or anybody
else.
Bat for tue fact Of Mr.. Eimunts lay
ing out Blaine in New York the coun
try would probably never have known |
what disreputable man the Vermont |
senator is. In the agreeable task of dis
closing this another correspondent of
the Tribune from Massachusetts renders
valuable aid. It seems that the Bay
state utterly rejects Blaine aud has
shown great tenderness for Elmunds. |
Hence the Tribune recalls some facts in |
his senatorial career with special refer
ence to their bearing on Massachusetts,
politics which mus. be rawhide and brine
on the tender back of that state.
All in all, this Republican washing of
dirty linen, is very edifying sort of
business. What the New York Post
says about Blaine, aud what the lines
says about Arthur, and ths Trijme'S
revelation Of Einunds' real character.
ought at least be consoling to those faint
hearted Democrats who cannot see
further beyond their tear swept noses
nova days than to discern the certain
disruption Vt their party because some
Of its members cannot agree upon the
exact rate Of duty OH pig iron
and coal, ur the proper time TO
collect the overdue whisky tax. So
long a5 tho most enlightened Republi |
can organs are proving beyond perad |
venture tha, most Of their conspicuous
candidates for president are liars or
thieves or iguoramuses or nObodes there
Is hope that The Democrats will pick cut
an honest and fit man. and that the
people of the country will elect hiIn.