Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-06-11
Ut)e lanfaster 1ntelligei,ter.
LANCASTER, JUNE II, 1885.
The Red Rose of Lancaster.

To the temporary irritations Of personal
disappointment may easily be pardoned
the very indiscreet, foolish and even some
utterly untrue statements, with which can
didates for the revenue collectorship OF
this district and their friends now rush into |
print. The most of these answer them |
selves, and need no reply from those against
whom they are directed. The president |
has no doubt become used to being accused
one day of unworthy motives and Of yield
ing to improper influences by the very men
who the day before appealed vainly to such
motives and invoked the aid Of such
influences. He can stand it; and those of
less responsibility and power can take their
share with equanimity.
But when our esteemed contemporary,
the York Age, whose editor was candi-
date for the position, undertakes to belittle
the great body of loyal and long g-suffering
Democrats Of Lancaster county, by con-
trasting them and their services with his
own constituency, the INTELLIGENcER
cannot and will not refrain from testifying
tathe truth.
There is no body of Democrats in the
commonwealth more entitled to the respect
of their party than the loyal and ste.1fast
organization in Y ork county, Their fidelity
to good principles, and the results shown
in satisfactory administration ef local
affairs attest their worth. Their last
representative in Congress ,/Col. Maish
and their present representative in the
state administration, L Lieutenant Governor
BiaG&S,ud many 81 them in less con
.ssspicuous posiii0psI are such men as The
party in the whole state delight to honor
The York county Democracy are ou
neighbors and our friends. Ii they eve
become less it must be by their own act
If the collectorship could not be kept here
where it belongs, for business and politica
reasons, the Lancaster county Democrat
would have been most pleased TO hav
seen it lodge in York.
The largest amount of business OF tn
office, more than third and nearly hal
of its collections, is transacted here, an
here the collector has been located sine
the internal revenue system was frs
established.
Moreover the Democrats of Lancaste
county have not been pace behind thos
of York or Of any other county in their
deity 20 Democratic faith and their 10y;
devotion to Democratic works. Withol
offices to reward them, without positions {
profit or honor to tempt them, and withol
any incentives, except their sound prime
pies, they have stood straight and steadfa
in sunshine and shadow.
1t is true that Republican majorities il
crease here, like Democratic majorities
York and Berks, and for the san
cause, that the natural increase
greater with the majority part
and when that organization nun
bers nearly two to one Of the population il
greater increase is proportionate. In is
Lancaster county cast 1888 votes ft
Cleveland Allegheny, Berks, Luzern
Montgomery, Philadelphia, Schuylkill an
York alone did better. For Patt
son only these counties did better tina
Lancaster. For Hancock, too, the san
counties and no other polled more vot,
than Lancaster county's Democracy. Sur
ly the members of an organization tn;
have so constantly held high place in the
parry nave SoLlle iiBu0o eiiao cNch tlle
more favored brethren who fatten in I'll
rich pasture of York's Democratic pow'
will not begrudge. And if their own righ
are not conceded to them, or are sought
be wrested from them, who will blan
Lancaster county Democrats for assertin
them and standing up for them Weldon
propose to take place behind the doc
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