Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-03-20
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A Mad Place for Editors.

editors to 70 to Washington. Whethe
Il Is the much wisdom there that make
them mad, or the much wine that flows
We do not know, but certain 1t is tha
mad they become.
Poor Wattersop, who has been hang
log around the capital all winter, gun
ming for copyright law and running
the Democracy, has finally broken on
In . raging lunacy, In which he reads on
OF the Democratic party nearly all III
members but himself. And now
fred by the example, comes Col. Mcclure
with a strange foretelling of Democratic
disruption on the free trade rock. Mr.
Mcclure has been dining and winiDg the
leading Democratic lights In Washing
ton, having had Carlisle and Morrison to
a dinner and Randall and Mutchler to
the next days breakfast, or vice
versa, and evidently he has dined
too much and heard too much,
but comprehended too little, for
what be tells OF what he heard to
the readers of his newspaper is sheer
nonsense.
The free trade Democratic leaders, Mr..
Mcclure tells us, distinctly avow that
"they will desert Democracy to follow
free trade" Mr.. Watterson, as the
bugler of the movement, blew his late
''ringing order for free trade advance"
as "a result of the deliberately deter
mined purpose on the part of the free
trade leaders to force the fight" Speaker
Carlisle and Morrison are head devils
in the conspiracy, and the speakers
speech to the Free Trade club In New
York was "the first step in the depart
ure to force free trade as the positive
policy of the Democracy" These men
confess that free trade declaration by
the Democratic national convention
will defeat the party this year, but
they are willing to let defeat come if
necessary" to clear the way for
free trade victory in 1855. "If the
convention shall refuse TO accept free
trade and fall back on the Ohio plat
form as the policy of the party, It is
now openly declared by Carlisle, Morri
son, Watterson and others OF their per-
suasion, that they will go outside the
Democratic organization to battle for
their free trade theory"
We feel like apologizing to our read
ers for quoting to them such silly stuff.
But Mr.. Mcclure has reputation
which entities his words, wild as they
are, to be heard. II he keeps on, how
ever, with such outgivngs, he will soon
lose that claim. He is capable, as he
showed when Mr.. Carlisle was nomina
ted for speaker, of great eXaggeration
and his present deliverance is no doubt
inspired by his desire to show that he
was not the false prophet then that he
was set down to be. He would like tC
see first class shindy in the Democratic
party, just TO show that as a political
seer he is a first class article. 1t is a
role he has always assumed with great
confidence, but mild success.
The discovery he has made that Wat
terson blows the trumpet Of Carlisle and
Morrison, and that they follow him in
his crazy screed for free trade and moth
ing else, would be notable one, if true ;
for it would be discovery that Carlisle
and Morrison are fools as well as Wat
terson which no one will believe. The
statement made by other Washington
reporters that Carlisle styles Watterson
as blatherskite, whose foolish
utterances do the cause he espouses great
harm, is far more probable, because it
assumes Mr.. Carlisle to be the man Of
sense he is reputed to I've, who knows
Watterson to be the goose he is known
to be. Mr.. Carlisle's speech at the free
trade banquet, If it was intended to start
a bloody free trade war. TO. the-knife
crusade. such as Mcclure charges as his
intent, must be considered to have shown
remarkable disposition in its author to
say the reverse Of what he intended to
say. as he specifically declared himself to
be for reformation, not revolution. Now,
clearly, il Mr.. Carlisle is proposing to
upset the Democratic party in free
trade crusade he is for revelation, not
reformation.
Taking Mr.. Carlisle and Mr.. Morrison
to be the sensible men and good Demo
Gratis they are claimed to he, and coasd
ering that they have now at
tained a position in the van OF
the Democratic party, no one OF
ordinary good sense will for one moment
believe that they are disposed to chal
lenge the success Of the Democratic
party or disturb its harmony by an undue
pressure upon 1t Of their opinions. MOI
will 1t be believed that those Democratic
leaders, who are opposed TO any present
change in the tariff, will persis, in their
especial views with an obstinacy that
will disturb Democratic unity. We wish
1t to be understood that the men who
are guiding the Democratic party to day
are men of sense, who will see to it that
no jarring OF opinions shall be so harsh
as to Interfere with the step of the army.
liz they should show any such weakness
and unitness for their trust, the places
that know them would so quickly be va
cant and 80 speedily filled with filter mer
that there would hardly be ripple mad,
or bait In the Democratic march. w,
give notice all around that the Demo
cratic soldiers are on guard with quicl
shaft and short shrift for faithless officers
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THE members Of the New York stocl