Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-11-18
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LANCASTER. NOVEMBER Is, lsss.
The Candidate.

The Atlanta Constitution, leading
Southern journal, lately endorsed remark
OF the New York Sun, that Mr.. Randall
would make a good president. The S,m
understood from this that the Constitution
thought he should be the next president,
which understanding that journal hastens
10 correct and to "disclaim any disposition
to join the San in its attempt to put Mr..
Randall in the field for the presidency in
1882
1t declares its confidence in Mr.. Ran
dall's great ability and honesty, and that il
believes he can have the vote of Georgia
whenever he wants it, but says that he
understands the political situation as well
as 1t does and as well as the editor of
the SIM would understand it if he would
think with his head instead of his liver -
and 1t makes this emphatic declaration
The man for lSSS does not bear the name
OF Samuel j. Randall. His name is Grover
Cleveland. Mr.. Randall knows this, and
he will not stand in the way of the fit and
chosen candidate under whom, and under
whom alone, the shifty and dangerous Mr..
make mistakes here and there, but he is a
great big man, and in him is comprehend.
ed Democratic hope and Democratic assur-
ance for 1885,"
And we consider that to be very sound
statement. There is in the political situa.
tion, as it stands to-day, but one candidate
for the Democratic party for the presi.
DENTAL succession. Whatever Democratic
criticism may be justly bestowed upon
President Cleveland's administration, il
remains that in its essential features it has
recommended itself to the support of the
party and the approval of the country.
Tho president, by his position, has been
largely invested with the power to guide
the course OF his party, and it is
fairly committed to the policy he has es-
tablished. Those who are disposed TO kick
against it, in some of its particulars, will
be controlled by the need of party unity,
TO follow along in the wake of the policy
which alone can lead to party success.
The president is strong man, and has
so impressed himself upon the country.
He has encountered Democratic criti-
cism by the earnestness with which
he has maintained the idea of civil
service reform; but he has in his main
purpose the support of his party as well as
OF the country; and the measures which
he has taken to advance it are generally
approved. We believed that, in lately sus-
pending Democratic United States dis
trict attorney in Missouri for making
political speech, he stepped beyond the
line OF proper policy of reform in the
civil service; but this step he has now re-
traced. His restoration to duty of this
Official brings with it statement of the
reasons which induced his suspension, and
removes the impression which it caused,
that he desired to emasculate United
States official Of political viriIity. As the
president explains his act, it was only in
tended to deny to the official the right to
devote all of his time during a political
campaign to political business, since this
could not well be done with justice to the
public interests in his charge. With this
position no fault can be found. Politics
cannot claim all the time and attention of
The public officer, nor more than his spare
time, after his official duties have been per-
formed.
With this statement from the president
we lind ourselves in accord with his civil
service policy and we believe that the
Democratic party is hearty in its sup
port. This policy will be leading issue
In the next presidential campaign. Mr..
Blaine has just been forced to write a let
ter declaring that he too is in favor of
civil service reform; and the letter serves
both to point this political issue and TO
show how very far outside the civil service
reform fold Mr.. Blaine really is. 1t makes
up the issue between these two men as the
battling candidates of the next presidential
campaign.
The Democratic party is fairly astride
good, strong horse and has no purpose TO
swap him now that it is in the stream.