Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-04-17
oUAYs POWERFUL MACHINE.
No Matter who's the Republican Candidate, so
Its Beaver.

From the New York Times. Rep.
In Pennsylvania politics history repeats
itself with tiresOme regularity, the erring
refuse to profit by their mistakes and the
prophets OF change and reform are without
honor. Four years ago the Republican
party in Pennsylvania, ridden by Don Cam
eron and driven where he listed, nominated
Gen. James A. Beaver for governor. This
nomination split the party in two and the
fires OF independence blazed up briskly
Gen. Beaver was a brave soldier and is an
honest man. But he was CamerOn's man,
and with the other nominees upon the tick ct
he was forced upon the party by Cameron.
The convention which nominated him was
held on May IL. on May p a convention of
Independent Republicans was held in Phil
adelphia and another ticket was put in the
field headed by the name of John Stewart.
An active canvass was begun IN support of
this ticket, and when, one week later, the
Democrats put their best foot forward and
nominated Robert T.. Pattison for governor It
was ielt that Nemesis was in hot pursuit ofthe
CamerOns and their candidate.
Henry NJ. Hoyt was at that time governor
of Pennsylvania. Though evidently sym
pathizing with the Independent movement.
he managed, with some difficulty, to keep
silent until the week before election. On
November 3, however, in a letter TO Wharton
Barker declining an invitation to address an
JDutItHutul Lld,S illttllUR HI Ia,
the governor broke this silence and gave
frank and emphatic expression TO his opinion
of the Cameron machine We quote one no
table passage of his letter
"When / reflect upon the humiliation put
upon myself as chief magistrate for resist
ing some of the purposes of the machine
which puts politics above administrative pro-
priety, and when l reflect upon the force of
the insulting methods applied to myself by
means of threats, intrigue, and bad faith, |
l,Fn
Wolsey, that had he only served his God
with half the zeal he had his king. In
the name of decency and in behalf of
my successor | wish to emphasize the curse
of the whole business and sound a note OF
warning to the whole people. Self-respect
compes me to this avowal, nor will peace
ever come until the moral forces in politics
which you have organized prevail.
With such at triumphant outcome the Re-
publican voters at least will have rescued
outrages. = In future the halls of the
LOchiel house at Harrisburg will no longsr
resound with the tread of cidquerS hastily
sent to summon self-respectng and honor
able delegates OF the people to a base sub
mission to slated tickets and prearrange
programmes, threatened with ostracism in
case of noncompliance, or sent home dis
honored to face the angry constituents
whom they have betrayed"
The moral forces" " arrayed against the
Cameron machine in that contest were
triumphant Gen. Beaver was beaten, the
independents pOlled ~, 600 votes besides the
uncounted thousands that went direct to the
support of the Democratic ticket, and Patti,
son was elected by 10000 plurality. And
vet, another courage" of the kind de.
scribed by Gov. HOyt in terms Of such indig.
nant denunCiation is about to he perpetrated
upon the Republcalt party of Pennsyl vania
Matthew Stanley Quay, the brains and
chief executive force of the Cameron ma
chine in the past, has issued the order
that Gen. Beaver must be nominated again.
His iron hand has been laid upon the Repub.
lean organization, and the members OF ths
state committee of that party, at their meet
ing in Philadelphia on Wednesday, displayed
a spirit of che srful obedience TO the will that
guides their action. The convention at
which Gen. Beavers nomination will be
formally ratified will be held at Harrisburg,
on June 30th, and once more, in spite OF
Gov. Hoyt's confident prophecy, tie halls of
the Lochiel house will resOund TO the tread
of the enthusiastic cidguer, and honorable
delegates will be forced To swallow the slated
ticket and sent home to face their "angry
constituents"
81 have no fear OF the result" said Chair
man Thomas '. Cooper at the meeting of the
Republican state committee on Wednesday,
"nO matter whom we nominate, with Gen.
Beaver at the head OF our ticket" "l don't
care a - what color you paint the engine"
said the machine member OF the fire COM
pany, $50 long as you paint ii red"