Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-05-25

The Lancaster Inquirer persists In
t1hArging the INTELIIoENCER with error
~ stating that "Quay was for Major
)DinRhl In 1856 when he was defeated
md against him in 1889 when he was
knuCcessful." And now says that he was
Z not for him In 1886 and was not against
\ him In 1889, thus exactly reversing the
I. tact ~ we state il. To which we have
Z 10 stay that the files of the TNTrLIIGEN-
! GER all through the contests of both 1885
and 1859 stated Quay's position towards
Rein9hl as friendly in 1885 and as
adverse in 1889. We beg to say that IL
seems to us 10 require an immense
capacity in the Inquirer to see things ms
others do not see them, to put Rein9hl
on the Quay side in the late contest :;
and its undertaking to do SO deprives its
Statement Of his position in 1855 of any
4 value.
1t does not matter to the INTELLIGEN-
GER who of the Republican chiefs or
Y factions win or lose II Is party of
1 slaves and bosses and nothing happens
In It save TO elevate some chieftain and
E 10 sacrifice some other one There IL n
constant waving of shillalahs among
them when there IL fieshpot i'm
sight. Quay who is now the controll-
ing Republican spirit in Pennsylva.
mia is put on one side or the other
B Of every brawl from the Delaware to the
Ohio, and seems TO love to be there.
He has just undertaken to tomahawk
Magee in Allegheny, and been toma-
hawked himself even worse than he
was In Lancaster county. In Philadel-
! phia he has drawn blood In his latest
L achievement, which put one Of his
most trusted lieutenants in the saddle,
providing him with United States col
lectorship, its emoluments and depu-
Il ties, with which to boss the party in
and other old time leaders, who think
that they can swim even with n shark
like Quay i'm the water beside them.
May he they can il looks AZ II they
were going to try and peace will not he
likely to come until the political waters
are red with these pirates blood.
What respectable Republicans think,
In reading of all these contests of their
party leaders over the spols, and how
patiently they regard their assumption
that the party voters have delegated
the party TO the man who can knock
down any other man who claims 1t,
we do not know but we should like to
know. II seems 10 us that respectable
Republicans must chafe under the do
minion Of such material as the Quay
MageosAcManes stuff, in which there is
<leeKing intellect and culture and abound.
\ ingl vulgarity and deceit. This ma
terial Is strong In its ability to control
common men. II Is the like genius that
I Cuables the contractor to control labor.
IL Is the ability aud the readiness
TO use the lowest devices to achieve ends
The man of refinement and the man Of
conscience is hampered with burthen
which forbids his aspiration for party
leadership and II seems TO be necessary
In this situation that political leadership
shall fall into foul hands. II must go
70 those who make politics u profession,
70 he rewarded by its gifts. II
must go TO those who are willing to use
the potent agency ofmoney, In anyway,
~ an instrument. Patriotism working
4 for money and offices, is of a kind that
viii uVt wash cream ana tnht mas Its
devotees among the unwashed, unre-
lined, graceless, goddess and evil. That
is the sort the Republican leader in Penn
4 syivania is ; and God save the common
I wealth while he is.
We record his doing, his triumphs and
failures, as we would those of the beasts.
There has been no honor in the crowd
since the days of Simon Cameron, who
ret the fashion they have faithfully
Followed and improved upon. They are
1 disgusting lot, who have made the
political profession n by-word and
Teproach, when it used to he u career of
honor; who have kept out of the
high offices of the states its
best men, with hardly an exception
who have brought the governorship into
contempt and made Pennsylvania a word
ofemptiness in the federal Senate. Where
are the states great men, its orators and
Statesmen? Echo answers. Not one
appears to the call The evil genii have
slain them.