Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-11-27

Il seems to be a Very Weak Wall.

come out from the TWO ually INPuoAo"h
organs that have had their feelings out
ragged by the appointment Of Mr.. Griest
as postmaster. We looked for some ex-
preston commensurate with the depth
Of disgust the appointment excited. we
nctUniy suggestion to Congressman
Broeius from the NcW Era that he may
not be ercnominated; which the Etdn'iser
next day repeats. The reason given Tor
this suspicion Is the understanding
OF the two journals that Congressman
Brosius has offended the people,
in procuring the appointment OF Mr..
Griest. 1t is interesting to hear that
these newspapers think that the Repub-
lican voters of Lancaster county are so
heart-broken over the selection of Mr..
Griest as postmaster Of Lancaster city
that they will cut Mr.. Brosius' head OIL
when they get n chance at IL next year.
q It seems to the disinterested observer
to be rather a small occasion for so vio-
lent feeling against Mr.. Brosius, who
is by party usage entitled to n nomina-
tion for second term rs matter of
course.
The Nc,o Era says that this usage has
never been violated in Lancaster county,
save once, when Isaac +. Hester in 1854
failed to secure reelection to Congress I;
and 1t was not violated then, as Mr..
Heister was renominated, but was de-
feated by Anthony Il. Roberts, the
pioneer Know Nothing candidate !; and
the New Era raises nothing, by this
citation Of history, to damage Mr..
Brosius but much that would he credi-
table to him If it could put him in the
position then taken by Mr. Hester. As
It happens, there is nothing parallel in
the circumstances, save the fact that Mr..
Brosius has acted in this case against
the advice of the Ne,c Era editor, as
that editor says Mr.. Hester did
in the other. Now Mr.. Brosius
appoints postmaster that the Neac Era
man dislikes then Mr.. Hester resisted
the KNOWN Nothings. He stood with the
flag of the Wing party in his hand and
refused to lower 1t to the rabble. He
clung to his convictions and refused to
listen to the voice of the majority of the
voters who stood in this county in OPP
position to the Democratic party. Tired
of the ill-success of the Whig party
the mercenaries had gathered into secret
lodges and adopted new cry. 1t was
Mr.. Hiester's opposition to Know
Nothingism, and his steadfast adhesion
To Whigery that led to his retirement
from Congress.
Do we understand that the ancient
adviser Of Mr.. Hester, who sought to
swing him into the Know Nsthing
movement to save his political life, now
declares to Congressman Brosus that a
new party will arise twixt now and
then to end his political career at next
November poll ? Are we to know that
the Republican party is to fall there as
the Whig party did third of century
agoy
We have not heretofore understood
that thesplit between the administra-
tion and anti-administration forces had
arisen to this degree.
We have understood that the dissen-
tion was such that the party would be
an easy prey to the Democracy ia 1892,
and in the state elections prior to that
presidential year but we have not sus-
pected that the disturbance was such in
this Republican stronghold that the
Republican party candidate for Con-
grcss would go down so early as next
year in the fight against the Democratic
and new party candidate.
II the idea simply Is to defeat Mr..
Brosius for the nomination, it was very
irrelevant to point out to him the tale
Of Mr.. Hiester's discontinue. If Mr..
Brosius should in the course of the CON-
Ing session have the opportunity and
spirit to make as brilliant record as
Mr.. Hester made in his first session
and should in defending Republican
principles and his own convictions have
occasion to collide with the opinions
OF the editor of the Neap Era, it might
be opportune in it to recall to him the
ancient history of the rise of Know
Nothingism and equally opportune in
him TO reply with the recital of its early
decay and fall.
It is somewhat surprising to us to find
that we have been engaged in putting
IN a word of expostulation in be-
half of our Republican congressman
against the assaults of the two daily
Republican organs of the county but
1t is the popularity of our mission that
the call of distress never appeals to us
unheard and when two Republican
dailies pitch into the one Republican
and seek to fire him out of
his seat for making the postmaster he
we have to say that they are
donkeys for their pains. What congress
man wouldn't take advantage of the
"unbroken precedent of fifty years ~
as the postmaster general described to
the Ne,e Era editor the rule which gives
the congressman of the party in power
the selection of the postmasters in his
district? The rule may be very bad
one, and We think it is but while the
postmaster general confides the selec-
tion of postmasters to his party con-
gressmen, the postmaster will be selected
70 suit the congressman and his friends
aud anybody who does not like the
appointment only makes himself ridicu-
lous by kicking unless the selection is
c0nspicuously bad one; which it is
absurd to say in the ease of Mr.. Griest
who Is Objectionable to the Republi-
9 IN politicians who are working be-
cause he is of the Quay wing,
1t is all wrong that any particular
politician or set Of politicians in a party
should be permitted to build themselves
up over their party by grant of the
tsderal patronage but probably the
practice will continue as long as
the offices remain to corrupt polite al
morals aud manners. The evil is greater