Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-09-20
PULlTIUAL supnlsTKiEs.
A correspondent VINO Iesrs to Istter
some Republican Professions.

POLlrIUAL sOpalsTKiEs.
| correspondent VINO Tears to rs,tsrs
some Republican Preteustons.
| For the lNTELLIsENcsR.
Under the inspiration of the "platitude"
| that " the second sober thought Of the
people Is always efficiept and never
| wrong" it was thought that Martin Van
| Buren, would certainly be nominated for
president in 1874, but it is we'll known
| that his chances were '' fcreshortened"
| by the adoption of the (doubtfully demo
cratic) "two-third rule" in the Baltimore
convention. OF course, that matter now
belongs to the history of the past but
some OF It's coincideEces may serve to
| illustrate the peculiar evolutious of parti
san politics for long time 10 come. Ga
| the occasion referred to, Speculstiug
junto essayed "corner" in song books
adapted to the candidacy of Van Buren,
which could no. possibly DO adapted to the
candidacy of Polk. Then the antagonistio
party manifested any amount of sympathy
for the Van Burenites, and vowed it " an
everlasting shame" that such man
as Van Buren, should be overslaughed
for the sake of such man as
James X. Polk /; and, very disin-
terestedly suggested the withdrawal of the
latter from the presidential ticket, in he
half of the former, and, no doubt there
were many unsophisticated Democrats
who were in sympathy with these hypo.
critical professions, just as there may DO
now, in reference to the withdrawal of
Gov. Cleveland. The object then, was
the same as that which dominates the
suggestion n0io. The adversases of Gov.
Cleveland are more solicitous about Bay ard
and Thurman, and Flower and Butler.
than they are about their own "Plumed
Knight" If they are SO anxious about
the welfare of the democratic party and
its relations to the prosperity of the coun.
try, why don't they withdraw Blaine, and
substitute one of the above illtreated men
instead? They probably contemplated a
corner in "bloody shirts, that now cannot
be made available, hencs their crocodils
sympathy with the Democratic masses.
One would suppose that such luRiRi as
the New York Sun. John Kelly, and
Tammany ought to be able to see the pith
OF this wondrous interest for a stran-
ger" When will Democrats learn to
know that the party's legally expressed
uiH cannot be set aside to please the
party's enemies ?
This "belittlcing process which has bs
come so fashionable in modern political
canvassing when discussing the merits OF
opposing candidates, may always be taken
as a pretty sure sign of the personal weak.
ness in the candidates of those who resort
to II as weapon of aggression or defence
The fact that Grover Cleveland was elected
governor of the most populous state in the
Union by such an overwhelming majority
"a majority greater than had ever beer
, cast for any governor since the foundation
of the American Union, was anything bu,
desirable to the Republican party, and
when it became unalterably manifest i,
Immediately cast about for means to break
} the force of such popular nomination
and Its first efforts were spent in the be-
littleing process Of assailing private char.
acter.
|, Taking it for granted that this had
wrought its damaging effect, it affected to
see more worthy candidates in those it felt
confident 1t could more easily defeat, ard
hypocrtically began to suggest the with
drawal of name that had been endorsed
by conventional acclamation. 1t was
practically an attempt to ignore the Demo
cratic convention by making the nomina
tions itself and making them, Of course,
1t would seek its opponents among those
it deemed the weakest-a false decoyiug
bait, at which, perchance, few Demo-
cratic gudgeons may "pibble or bite. "
Admitting for the sake of illustration
that Governor Clevelend is, symbolcally,
only hickory scavenging brush, hs will
be moro efficient in cleaning out the sinks
and sewers of fraud and corruption than
such service could be accomplished by the
most elaborately wrought hair or to0th-
brush. Admitting even, on the same
premises, that he is thief thieves have
been the most efficient instruments in
catching thieves, from the times of iona
than Wild down to the present day. We
know he is not an angel nor is il neces
sary that he should be, in dealing with the
administrative elements of the govern =
ment in its present ambiguous condition.
1t will yet be long time before an angelic
man is needed for president of these United
States.
Again, to these who have been voters for
the past fifty years, it is something re.
freshingly new to find the party that has
| always been antagonistic to the Democratic
party OF the country manifesting any
kind of political sympathy for the Irish
man. II Irishmen are decOyed into the
support Of the Republican candidates
through such sympathetic sophistres, they
cannot possess that honest quickness of
wit, which has heretofore been 80 freely
accorded them. Any honest Irish laborer,
mechanic, merchant, farmer or profess
sional man, must certainly see that he has
never been able to acquire anything for
WHICH, no LAS not Dt6n required To render
an equivalent, no matter what system of
tax or tariff prevailed and he must also
have seen that all excise laws affect all
who live under them alike I; so that no set
OF men under republican government
car possibly enact oppressive laws that
will not equally oppress themselves and
yet the Republican twaddle about oppres
siVe or antitarif laws are presented in
such way as to leave the impression that
the Democratic party proposes laws that
would ruin the business intsrests of the
country, just as If they could ruin their
country without running themselves.
And they expect the Irish masses to
shut their eyes and swallow this twaddle
by voting for Blaine and Logan. About
every twenty years great business and |
financial crisis has occurred In this coun. |
try ever since the foundation of the United |
States government, with partial interme-
date dlsruptions. We have lived through |
half dozen of these financial events, and |
1t would be safe to say that not one of |
them was ever said to be brought abont |
through tariff laws. IL was always attri- |
buted to overtrading, reckless speculation, |
individual prohigacy and intensified by |
of aI