Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1888-09-28


Ss &AnCAsrHR, sEPrsMBRR o. 1853.
Asxisus 10 Be Kicked.
onator Chandler stirred up the Senate
s 10 very Characteristic way when he
oased the old charges Of intimidation
- negroes in Louisiana and asked for
s. eo0mittee Of inquiry. Chandler IL
{ olloloian who resorts to small devices
Er1o - no idea Of decency or honor.
q 40 wanted to mako . statement that
EpUuM be effective In the campaign, and
4 ~ eoud think Of nothing but fresh re-
conl of Southern outrage. This has been
1no Republican stock In trade for many
5eoEs, but In this campaign has been gen.
cn1lly lost sight Of under the newer issues
1 ooeesd upon the country by the aggres.
~ attitude Of its bold president. Sena.
) ~ Sherman, when he was running for
- presidential nomination, undertook
- tsvive the bloody shirt business, but
4 WA notably poor success and since he
- besn laid on the shelf, be has not had
oopugh interest In the campaign to ex-
I. ~ himself TO find issues for It.
G1nndler 10 livelier and smaller
cAep, and his specially has always been
southern outrages. He has been polti.
3 oaIly bred on them and they have been
broad and meat to him. He was a chief
eook In the Tilden count-out, and has
beon up to his elbows In all the rascally
Wofk Of the Republican manager, for
8 yoaxs since the war.
Tho Southern senators were provoked
a Into answering the little rapscallion,
which delighted him and was just what
~ wanted. Senator Coke suggested that
- talked as though he wanted to be
kloked, which hepresidipg officer thought
- b remark out of order but 1t was a
Vogy correct diagnosis OF Chandler's dis.
position. Nothing would have suite d him
botter than to have been distinguished
4 ~ Coke's kick he would have been
nlked about and might even have posed
- . martyr II he had been kicked hard
anough. 1t was mistake to dignity the
shAp with notice.
His motion TO reinvestigate Louisiana
eloction methods would hardly have in
\ oerested the country, which has in past
yam had 90 much of that sort Of investi.
nation ladled out to 1t. What 1t has not
learned about Southern wrong doing In
& ~ twenty years that the Republican
1arty ruled the country after the wal
cannot be much. It has chance now te
aean that there .is wrong. doing IL
e1oction matters In the North no lest
than In the South. No sensible person
viii doubt that the vote of the Southern
negro Is largely that Of the South
white man who employs him s-'
own him. And no one ,mns SN.s ., can gan gam
II Ahe o. u. ere result. up Of red
M taxation, or OF the presidents Yectitu,
trifshs veto Of penaion bills, Il is difficult
~ whore they csn obiain even fractieN
--t rhstr appeals TO labor are pourS..
.sa9sss.icndly ears, and are rsiqi. yN6u!
- O0B4 W umenta In trruace WAT.
alezs yiEhgS 'y6narors have
Anf.. pa. :. : Ito devise bill for tSf.
The az action Of ? Dnts Contest
fxsmp ut touse !. .. omistir situation In Ne
! risspressic 5blitics. A mayor is to /
oven 9sa,...i. Mayor Hewitt says he do'
..sNant the place, but that he will be
candidate for 1t IL anyone is put In nom
nation for 1t whom he does not think
tor the place. And the popularity of Il
nituatl0n Is that he seems to be stror
enough to dictate the nomination, or
defeat the man nominated against hin
The @phw York Democracy is 80 hume
ous slhat 1t cannot seemingly
Cuntained In one organization. From
ame out OF mind Tammany Hall hs
ruled the Democratic roost. Natural
.s 1ts power is corrupk Then 1t was oyel
ehrown and younger organizations COZ
kolled the party for brief time. Br
Iammany, purified, has arisen to II
ancient power and is the prevailin
Democratic organization in the city. Br
= does not prevail with Mayor Hewitt
Inc men who control it are clean an
honorable but the mayor does not lik
q - b controlled. He is restive under tb
power Of the organic alton and declare
i that he will take Office as mayor agai
Without pledges or promises or indebted
q nen to any man or organization.
But that IL about the way he took
before. He does not seem to have don
q even asked to do anything by Tan
many. Doubtless its leaders found
more comfortable to keep clear Of th
lively and irrascible mayor, who was a
uncertain in his striking out as a Ken
tucky mule. But he has the faculty of al
ways striking straight, and hitting the bel
every time he shot, so that he has becom
. prime fsvorite with the New Yor
voeeu, who laugh when he tramp
o. the toes Of the big political bos
and dances upon the PROSTATE form
Of Indignant editors. He is apparentl
sfrung enough to be elected mayor agai
On his record. He may have tn
aeld to himself and Tammany Hall /
uiee IL 1t will give it to him. Tam
many will gain enough by getting il
back up at the performances and saving
of such an honest, housekeeping un
bridled Kentucky colt as the insomniou
mayor. W