Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-08-14
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LANCASTER. AUGUST IA. 1855.
To who m IL May Concern.

man Hensel to task for saying that the
Democratic party I" is united and whoever
Is nominated will get its every vote.'
g Chairman Hensel" has said no such
thing. which the Record falsely and
wilfully attributes to him in the same
issue the Record quotes the very words
upon which it comments from the INTEL
LIeENCER, which did use them. But the
INTELLIGENCER is not Chairman Hensels
organ it does not speak for him nor by
his authority; it sometimes agrees with
him and sometimes does not, and in more
than one instance it has very broadly and
distinctly announced its disagreement. 1t
has again and again stated that what it
says neither is to gain nor lose significance
from the fact that one of its editors and
proprietors happens for the time to be
chairman of the Democratic state CON-
mittee.
Respectable and intelligent newspapers
generally ought to be able and willing to
recognize this distinction and to none of
them should this be easier and more agree
able than to our esteemed contemporary,
the Record, which carries at its editorial
masthead the name of " William NJ. Sin
gerly, proprietor and which, it is very
well known, often expresses sentiments
that Mr.. Singerly does not hold individu-
ally and privately disclaims. We should
be sorry to have the sprightly and vigorous
editorial utterances of the Record dis
counted by the fact that they are moulded
to suit the interests or humor the caprices
of its individual proprietor, who is busy
with building houses, milking Holland cat
tie, running race horses, operating paper
mills, dabbling in all kinds of politics and
helping to strengthen candidates for gov.
ernor whom his paper assails. The INTEL,
LIGENCER recognizes the Record as a con.
Celn distinct from these relations of Mr.
Singerly; and ii asks the same considera.
ton for itself.
Chairman Hensel, like the INTELLI
eENCER, is of age, and can speak for him
self. But if he has any of the instincts o
Democrat and freeman, and any of tn
regard for party organization which per
son occupying his official position ought L
have, he will likely regard the threats
ng state convention, in the same spirit
that they are entertained by the INTELLI
GENCER and every other right-mind
ed Democratic journal. When our
esteemed Democratic contemporary, o.
Harrisburg, and our still more esteemed
independent contemporary of Philadelphia
undertake to divide the great Democrat,
party of Pennsylvania into two classes
the office-holders and the disappointed of
fce-seekers-they show lack of truth and
an oppression of ignorance which make
their diagnosis worthless. The entire body
of federal oflice-holders do not constitute
one per cent. of the party in this state; the
disappointed Office hunters do not aggre.
gate at most five per cent. Between them
their aspirations and rivalries, the Pennsyl
vania Democracy are not to be ground to
pieces, nor will they let themselves be torn
up by their dissensions.
The demand of the Patriot that
the candidates on thejstate ticket must be
satisfactory to the element that has been
disappointed by the dispensation of the
federal patronage" is as ridiculous and
unpatriotic as would be demand that the
candidates must be satisfactory to those
who were not disappointed in the dispen-
sation of patronage. The great body of tn,
party neither got office nor was disappoint
ed in not getting it. They are Democrat
from principle and not for plunder; ant
for such the INTELLIGENCER assumes tC
speak, when it reiterates its confidence that
whoever is nominated by a majority of the
Democratic delegates, fairly chosen ,at Har
risburg next week, will receive the united
vote of the party, whether he suits tn,
ofice-holders and ofiice-hunters or not We
have as little regard for the impu den
dictation" of one class, as we have fo
the impudent threats of the other.