Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-10-18

LANCASTER, PA. October 1s. 1889.
TIE Pending Election.

permitted 10 make up their minds rs TO
whom they will vote for without attempt
10 influence them by fiery oratory or the
noise Of brass, and doubtless the great
mass will not trouble themselves TO con-
slider how they shall vote but will
follow along in the party path that they
are accustomed to tread But there will
be many who will not vote without
thinking and from this portion of the
vote we may fairly expect that the
Democratic support will Ike increased.
For there are very good reasons why
thinking voters should incline to vote
the Democratic ticket though their party
affiliations have been Republican and
there ID now 30 little warmths of po-
lltical feeling that 1t is time when
men may be expected to shake
loose from party associations under
the inducement Of the reasons.
The honest Republican must confess
that the administration Of the affairs of
the state would be bettered by shaking
out those who have hived so long In Its
Offices as to think that they own them,
and to feel free from their accountability
to the public. II is bad thing for a
state to stay under the dominion of n
party 30 long as Pennsylvania has been
Republican and it has been bad
thing for the Republican party so far as
the interest of the members Mt large is
concerned, who have been simply
lookers-on at the feast that they have
aided their political bosses to spread
for their own delight and profit.
The Republicans who have prpfted by
the Republican control Of Pennsylvania
have been few. The masses Of the party
have only had the joy of knowing that
the state administration was labeled
Republican; against which delight they
have had the pain Of realizing their
responsibility for Its transgressions. We
assume that we may confidently say
that In the impartial judgment of sensi
bic men the administration of Pennsyl-
vania affairs has not generally reflected
credit upon the responsible Republican
party.
This affords abundant reason for
change and 1t is because the intelligent
judgment of the state may come IN play
In this election, which is not attended
by party heat, that we hopefully look
for . change. We hope TO see
the Republicans who are disguised
with their control by man of
Quay's stamp and by their representa-
ti0n In the Senate of the United States
by men Of the character and stature of
Quay and Cameron who are tired of see
Ing such weak tools placed In the chief
magistracy Of the state as Governor
Beaver has SO clearly shown himself TO
be; who would like to have from the Leg
islature some sign of its being their Iegis-
lature and not the facilc instrument of
the bosses and paymasters who want
10 see Pennsylvania rise to its full
stature among the states and show her
self foremost instead of rearmost in the
art OF good government /; who wish To
zee her as much respected her po-
litical wisdom and virtue as she is ell
WED for her great natural resources and
wealth.
There Is no hope, under the present
Republican ring domination that Penn
sylvania will ever command the respect
Of the world for anything save the things
the Almighty has put SO richly and
abundantly In her soil. In mineral and
agricultural wealth she stands first
among the states, but she has had
little help from her governors in the de-
.yelopment Of these means of her az
grandizement. The richness of her Pc
troleum fields has mainly fallen into
foreign hands and places and her rail-
roads have fodnd no obligation upon
them to carry the coal and iron of her
soil a. cheaply to Pennsylvania towns
a. to outside cities. The industries
which would naturally have gathered
around her great deposits of mineral
wealth have not been invited TO sit
down there and are not found there.
Who can say that the state administra-
tion Is not responsible for the fact that
pennsylvania petroleum is not refined in
Pennsylvania? And who can deny its
responsibility for the fact that her coal
is carried cheaper to Boston than to
philadelphia, for the part of the carriage
that Is In the state ; and that the pro-
ducts OF the West are borne to Philadcl-
phia at a lower price than those of Lam
caster county?
ANY one who can say that gross injury
has not been done to the interests of
Pennsylvanians by this permission that
has been given to monopoly to strangle
hs industries, knows not whereof he
speaks. We believe that the truth of this
destruction of state interests by an un-
faithful and imbecile state government,
has impressed itself upon the voters,
and that they will feel free in this period
Cf little political excitement, and when
only state issues are at stake, to speak at
the ballot box at the coming election
aud say that they are no longer content
to endure their representation by
Quay, who is without an instinct of
patriotism, or knowledge of useful art,
or conception of genteel conduct that
they want filter senator than Donald
Cameron, who inherited the place and
who has not the needed talent for il,
though he has not disgraced il and is
an incomparably better man in his
instincts than his associate that
they are sick of Beavers sit
ting in high places that they are
tired Of waiting upon the Legislature 10
pass the law yet lacking to enforce the
constitution and bring the railroad
tyrants of the state in subsection to the
people. We expect to see many of them
In such revolt. To them we offer a good
candidate and good declaration of
principles. They will wisely think that
u is time that they gave us trial.
The Peril ef Big Crops.