Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-07-02
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some scoring Of the Republican state Platform
hy Independent Lournals.

some scoring Of the Republican state Platform
by Independent Journals.
From the New York Times. Rep.
Commencing with "demaud" for the re.
peal of the Limitation on the presentation of
claims for arrears of pensions--neither the
merits nor the consequences of which one
delegate in a hundred remotely understands
the resolution, after some incoherent refer
ence to the labor question, and an 'indict.
ment," idiotic in form, W baterer its intention,
of the Democratic administration, is given up
to declaration iu favor of "protection"
This declaration is said to have been drawn
up by the candidate for the office Of gov
ernor. 1t this be true, the state will not lose
much by his deiea' Certainly something
may he said in favor of a protective tariff
and of subsidies tn steamships, and
since II can make little difference TO the aver
age Pennsylvania who Will consent TO vote
tor Beaver how 1t is said, why did not the
committee on the platform get resolution
from Judge Kelley. or Prof.. Bolles, or Mr,
Wharton Barker, or some other person who
can at least write the English language intel
ligibiyT Mere common respect tor the fair
ly educated men of their own party should
have prevented the managers from toistng
on the CONVEX ton lot of meaningless rub
bish which no human being can make head
or tail OF, aud TO which only the known in
tention of the authors eau afford even a re-
mote clue 1t Is TO be presumed, however,
that Quay and his lisuten ants understood
that the platform was of no consequence, and
that no one was likely to vote for their ticket
who d!S nGt do so from direct interest or
from blind force OF partisan habit And this
really Is the position to which machine rule,
based on the spolls system, has brought the
once great and noble party in Pennsy lvania.
Seem to he sadly scared.
From the New York Herald. Ind.
They put on bold front and re-nominsted
General Beaver, the same candidate whom
Governor Pattison then beat by a plurality of
OF 20, 202, but when they came to resolutions
something like panic was visible and they
threw out numerous anchors to the wind
ward. Few Of the cables, however, seem to
be of honest material. The temperance res
oluton and the raj road transportation reso-
Luton both are examples. They are attempts
20 save support from both sides on those
suhiects-to couciliate ProLibitionists with
out forfeiting the liquor vote, and to propi.
tiate the opponents of the great railroad
monopolies in Pennsylvania without losing
the favor of the moropolists. This conveu-
ton impresses us that the Republican poll.
ticisns of Pennsylvania are badly scared, As
they richly deserve to be.
beavers Dilemma.
From the Reading Herald, Ind.
He must steer between the Scyls of Pro-
ilibition and the Charybidis of the liquor in
delicate navigation of chat sort. He will talk,
and as a talker for votes he is generally un-
fortunate. He stands pretty well with the
Prohibitionists now, being a teetotaller, but
in attempting to cater to the liquor interests
the chances are that he will offend them,
while he utterly fails to mend his standing
with the saloons The saloon interest alone
is capable of giving him lots of trouble, but
with these and the ProhibitiOnists both to
fight his troubles and snxieties will be many.
Ot course the chance Is still open to the Demo-
Gratis to make weak nomination, and a
laundering campaign. They may accept this
chance and thus remove many of the thorns
from the path of Beaver, but otherwise it
promises to be an interesting and close cam
paign, in which Beaver will have TO defend
himself in many directions
Sinking Responsibility.
From the Pittsburg Dispatch, Ind. Rep
In place of adopting strsight-out, readily
understood pledge to enforce the constitution
against corporate sggressions upon the rights
of the people, such as was offered by Mr..
Hulings, of Nenango, it took refuge in an en-
dorsement of the CullOm interstate COM
merce bill before Congress, the merits of
which are but imperfectly understood, and
whose chances OF passage, the convention
must have well known, will he in no great
degree either hindered or promoted by any
thing state convention might say on the
subject Having the power and being called
upon TO make its own law within its own
Jurisdiction. il shirked the responsible ilty on
the insufficient plea that Congress was the
party to shoulder il.
They VIII Deceive Nobody.
From the New York World, Dem.
But no such resolution can any longer ue.
ceive the Prohibitionists in any state In New
York the Republican convention OF lSS2
pledged the party to the submission of the
constitutional amendment to the people, and
in three successive legislatures in which they
had majorities-in lSsi, lSS5 and lSS6-refused
to redeem the pledge.
Beaver is in the cage.
From the Philadelphia Record.
General Beaver took an unusual step in
helping TO build his own platform. He put
a ridiculous tariff plank in it which is more
ridiculous for the reason that as governor of
the state, if elected, he will have nothing to
do with the tariff. But why-oh, why
didn't he insist on an antidisCrminatIon
plank? Have the corporations taken him also
INTO their keeping?
Go Away From Home to Hear the News.
From the Philadelphia Record.
In the meantime the prohibition or tenn
perance wave is travelling all over the state
with that certain roll that attends all "isms !"
and the like. The feeling is becoming 30 IN
tense III Lancaster county even that a girl
Will not ride out with a gentleman unless he
has the badge of the Blue Ribbon Army
in the buttonhOle OF his coat.