Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-03-13
9 ConsIstencIe,s Q JeMel.D

[" ConsisfencIe's q Jewell"
Our esteemed contemporary, the Ne,o
IRA, expresses itself with much indigna.
ion at the outrages perpetrated upon
some Of its political friends because Of
their "strong sympathies with James
G.. Blaine." 1t seems that solely on this
account one of them was defeated for
school director in West Lampeter {;
another In the same district has had
notice served on him - in Pequea one
/" who served acceptably for years, than
whom the county never had better
director, and who was the choice Of the
better class of citizens, was compelled
to give up his place simply because his
Views were not IN accord with the wishes
of q political faction which seeks to force
q candidate of its own upon the people
contrary to their Wishes" and "in
Manor township the same disreputable
game is being played" This systematic
bulldozing of the victims, because they
will not "yield their preferences for
James G.. Blaine," leads the Ne,o Era
to declare that politics bave no more
business in debating that school direc
tors shall be Of this or that faction than
they have in the school curriculum
itself. A school director is none the
better for being Republican, and none
the worse for being Democrat"
These are fine sentiments, indeed, and
IL honestly expressed, would do credit
to the head and heart of our esteemed
contemporary. We fear, however, that
it will be suspected Of disingenuousness
in the profession Of them, and that its
view of such matters depends entirely
upon whose OK is gored. For it is with
In the memory of this generation that
the NeU Era has banded with the worst
political thieves and cut throats in the
county, to buy, bully and beat their
common ticket through, Withholding its
censure from its rascally allies and ten
derly coddling them as long as they
were serving its purposes, and returning
to old time abuse of them only after
they had quarIeled, or when one had no
more use for the other
IL it IL true that men are beaten for
school director, simply because they are
for Blaine, it is very reprehensible but
not a whit more so than the act of the
Republican county commissioners and
Republican school boards In awarding
the collection of tax to the higher bidder
and rejecting the lower bids, simpl,
because the former was Republican
and the lower offer came from Demo
crat. We have called the NelC Era
attention to this state of things, and
has not expressed the slightest indigna
tion aE this political bulldozing" O
men, "simply because they have th
courage to assert their God.given man
hood by public expression Of thei
political opinions"
And then the Ne,0 Era has been hope
lessly and pitfully Inconsistent In de
nouncing the Fitz John Porter relief bill
as a measure only fit to be supported bl
those who would whitewash Benedic
Arnold, and studiously concealing from
its readers that its candidate for Con
gress voted for tie Lii, like a man.
After AL, wnat the anti-Blaine men
sIe charged with doing or trying to dc
In the several townships of this county
is just what Blaine and his friends did
as soon as they got into power, and
would do again if they ever got the
chance. There never was more outrage
GUS political bull-dozing than the dis
placement of Merritt, as collector Of the
New York port with Robertson. 1t was
done in violation alike Of good faith and
of what is called civil service reform.
The incumbent was not Stalwart lie
had even been appointed against Conk
ling's wish ; but, in accordance with an
understanding entered into between the
Garfield administration and Conkling,
Platt, james and Arthur, by GaIiield's 5
direct authority, the collector was to re
main undistuIbcd Blaine bulldozed
Garfield into breaking his word and into
gross violation of decency and truth as
well az OF civil service reform. Merritt
was removed aud Robertson appointed
simply 10 pay ohe of Biaines debts. The
methodsof the man are as unscrupulous
and rs bull-dozing as these Of any boss
who has ever figured in Americal poll
tics and his friends should not squeal
because they ara treated, in small way
dowu in the toYl3lips, to the same pro-
cesses which they administer on a larger
scale at every opportunity. Besides, #
the blaine sentiment is so overweelmirg
in this county as represented, how does
it happen to be fatal TO any one to ex
press ii in such Republican strOngholds
as West Lampeter, Pequea and Manor ?
We fear the Ncm Era has been imposed
upon again
Not the hight sort or EIOqueuce.
Governor Bate, of Tennessee, is re
ported to have "spoken eloqueutly,"
before the Southern Immigration society
pnw in eascinp nj