Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-04-23

I.istenl Governor.

Do you note how unhappy the Repub-
& N0an marshals In this state seems to be,
4 xAFom Quay down? The latest howl con. )
zkum Rutan. Rutan hss been i'll, and Is
10 still. Governor Beaver, to whom his
z A1lusions are uncomplimentary, says of
them, ,--and II appears to be all that he
! has to say -" sick man will growl, and
Ne must award him that privilege"
It ID quite true, governor, that sick
men growl but well men, who are
s sound In body and mind and morals,
4 must not award to sick men the privi-
Iege of saying false things about them
4 which reflect upon their interests, and we
submit to you, Governor Beaver, that
I Senator Rutan's accusation against you
cannot be thus safely whistled down the
wind. He considers you, governor, to
be q great hypocrite and in this his
opinion follows that of the country. He
I thinks you are liar; and in this opin-
4 lon he Is abundantly sustained by public
Z opinion. He charges you with the de
feat of the revenue bill that you pre-
tended to favor; and intimates that you
set up the game whereby you found
an excuse for refusing to sign It after
III II had laid ten days upon your desk
with the lack of the Senate presidents
signature undiscovered.
We have declared ourselves long ago
and often the like opinion of your du-
plicity governor, and we have never had
occasion to change it. You are weak
creature and a poor creature ready tool
y and pious fraud not worthy Of much
respect or Of many words and the very
poorest apology for governor the state
4 has had within her memory. Senator
Rutan's respect for Governor Pattison
grows in the contemplation of yours,
j naturally.
The senator is able to make many dis
coveries concerning the dishonesty of
( his party, Of which he was parcel. We
know no one who would accuse Rutan of
being too clean for the political company
4 he has been keeping. We would not be
surprised at all If his present disclosure
! h merely by way Of serving notice on
4 his associates Of what he will do If his
I demands are not met. II is kind threat
4 that he IL making, and doubtless for
the senator's age and illness has brought
him to the stool Of repentance and to the
confessional. 1t is a plan to which the
4 infirmities of age bring the most of
folks. Whatever the motive, the public
profits by the result. After awhile the
Republican voter may be persuaded of
that rascality in the control of his party
Il In the state Of which we have been telling
him for years.
We do not believe that the Republican
voter naturally likes depravity in his
leaders. He does not want them to be
public thieves. He does not believe that
bis party leaders are more corrupt than
the Democratic leaders. For years the
honest Republican has been sustaining
the dishonest leaders of his party in this
state, though his intelligence must have
told him of their rottenness. His party
spirit has controlled his Judgment. He
has not stuck to the facts and gone
blindly" to the support of his leaders
he must now feel as much ashamed
Of himself as of their leaders, whose
rascality Is exposed In their own house
hold. The revelation of Rutan follows
In line the exposition by Quay of the
need Of change in the clerkships
Of the Legislature. Mr.. Cochran
and Mr.. Losch were stood aside
because of their alleged too intimate con-
nectiOn with the process of legislation
and with the expenditure Of the appro-
prfations. AS Mr.. Cochran has now
ascended into the editorial chair of the
Lancaster Examiner, ii will be eminently
proper that he should meet the state
ment Of Senator Rutan, who has been
his friend and supporter, and the charge
OF Quay, that he ''stood in" with those
who despoiled the state. There is no
particular reason why he should be shot
at without shooting back.