Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-04-29
lAl0CAsTER, PA, APRIL 60, 1889.
Nhaf Ther rouRht About.

Our Republican friends In this county
|&nght to know what they are fighting
&kCut, and we accept their statement
@1hat the issue between them at their
Dfimary election was Quay and anti
|uay. Nominally II was the nomination
"a certain county officers and the Sc
lIoction Of delegates to state convention
- nominate nm auditor general (; but
a1ually II was an array of the supporters
"a Mr.. Quay, in his present act as the
boes Of his party, and those who would
'dlrag him from that elevation. The vic
.toHy was not for Quay neither
was II for Martin or for Kennedy,
whom the Quay question dragged down.
The influences that aimed to call check
10 Quay were too strong for resistance.
In this county Is their particular roost-
ing place and II was bad place for the
dictator to stand up in, for fight. He
would have shown better discretion to
have waited for another day. Still, In
! his roll Of dictator, ii hardly behoovcd
him to lower his plume voluntarily.
He has been carrying things with so
high q hand in the Legislature, that
it would hardly have done to
show any trcpidation here. II would
mot have been dictator style; and GER
tainly not Quay's style; in which lies
his present weakness. He seeks to
batter the president above him, as well
y the workers below him, into com
plete compliance with his ideas. He
fails with the president, succeeds with
the Legislature, and fails again before
the politicians I'm Lancaster county.
Its true that his rebuff here does not
necessarily show that the Republican
politicians In the state generally will be
~ like disposition. Here abide those
whom he has offended; and here there
= permanent division Of the Republi-
can body into two camps, ready always
70 battle with each other for supremacy |;
and ready to take any issue and any side
that will offer to bring them on top In
the county. The significance of the disas-
ter TO the Quay forces here IL that II shows
the existence of an organization, in one
OF the greatest Republican sections of
the state, that has been ready to take up
s Ouay's gauntlet, thrown down by him
~ dictator, and that II has been strong
enough to overthrow him. 1t shows
4 that there are Republicans around who
ere not afraid Of his power, and that his
control Of the federal patronage does
mot render him Impregnable. But these
z Republicans are the worms that he has
B trOdden upon, and who have nothing
TO expect while he is in the
4 naddle. Their forces will Ike nat
! urally recruited through the state
- time goes on and brings with
/ It Its additions TO the ranks of the dis
appointed. The federal feed will not go
4 around for the lambs even II Quay can
command 1t all and at present he seems
to he making poor speed in the distribu-
ton. He appears TO Ike entering upon
the experience common to patronage dis
pensers and his situation seems To call
for DETER handling than he has a gift
to give 1t.
We extend our sympathy TO the unfor-
tunate gentlemen hereabout, who have
come to grief through their association
with the leader whom the majority of
their party politicians in Lancaster
county desire to overthrow. We ex-
tend our sympathy to the party
that Is thus disturbed by the
quarrels of the politicians. We desire
e remind the reputable members of that
pArty that the Magee faction, which APP
pears 10 have won the fight, is the one
that Quay drove from the state house
upon the allegation Of its corruption;
that 1t was through what he claims was
the performance Of virtuous act that
be has met the hostility here which has
overthrown him. We remind the repu-
table Republicans of Lancaster county
that this quarrel seems to be one wholly
of spoilsmen and thieves, and ask them
how they like to be driven TO the polls
70 settle the issues between such people.