Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1890-06-28

dX not appeared in a national or
ven state field to any extent. Being
~ Democrat in Republican COM
munity, he has occupied public Office
but once, long ago, as mayor of his city.
His public career has been cut off by
his pronounced Democracy and In his
own party he has not been thrust for
ward oftener or further than as its sx-
Igencies demanded him. Such an occa-
sion presented itself when it wanted q
universally esteemed candidate for Mr..
Randalls seat in Congress. Bat for
this occasion doubtless Mr.. Vaux would
have been gathcredTo his fathers leav-
Ing behind him but the rich fragrance of
his local fame.
Great as that has been, how much
greater seems his figure now that lie has
found and seized the occasion TO estab.
lish his national fame His tried metal
proves itself upon the first occasion. The
acuteness of intellect, earnestness Of
conviction, originality of conception,
warmth of persuasion, boldness, pic
turesqueness and eloquence Of speech,
which have distinguished Mr.. Vaux
and made him one of the most attrac-
tive Of men needed but a wider platform
ofexhibition to establish him as one of
The FIRST men of the land. And when
TO these qualifications are added the
knowledge that from the score to the
three score and ten of his years he has
been Democrat without shadow Of
wavering; that he has been q mirror of
uprightness in every dealing and when
Il appears that the universal acclaim
of the community that knows him de-
clares him to be in intellect, in character
and In accomplishments among the first
Z men Of the nationis II not indeed a
notable and instructive thing that ii is
only after he has reached IA patriarchal
age that the country is given vision of
him, though he hns been always ready
TO obey a call to its service, being by his
taste inclined TO public life and by his
means enabled to yield obedience to his
taste
II Is indeed pregnant revelation of an
s inherent vice in our political govern
nient that such men are showed under
In this government rs though they did
not exist, and Its Quays thrown to the
surface, until cyclone comes TO reverse
positions. Surely every one will see
and say that what the country needs
ID the rule of its NauXs in
3 either party, and the exclusion from
rule Of its Quays in all. And until
this thing is done, there is no safety for
the nation nor assurance of It's pros
pcrity. Its life demands that il shall be
SyAvarnrI lx, of int IN
understand dts republican foundation
and of vigor and integrity to apply their
labor and understanding to Its admins
H.
Thon'.ssever get this from men who
are floated into public Office through
their self-seeking and their corruption,
and who seize it to secure its power for
their own profit. 1t Is from this class
chiefly that our rulers come. Office.
seeking is believed In most of
our communities to be essential to
office-getting. The man for the place
generally is not selected for his con.
spicuous fitness for it, but 1t comes to
him through his eXertiou to get it. The
country cannot prosper until public SEN
timent generally SO changes that it shall
suffice to send man TO the rear, that
he demands office and until the only
recommendation to 1t shall be tn,
spontaneous recognition by his fellow
citizens of his fitness for it.
This il what bore Richard Vaux into
the national arena from the ranks O
private life, which he never once in al
his long career, during which much O.
his labor has been given to works O
charity and to gratuitous public service
sought by his own melton to leave IL,
is an illustrious example of the maj
whom the Office is made TO seek anC
as such, and as shining figure of thu
honest, earnest and intelligent publ
servant, we name him as one who woul,
distinguish the choice of the natona
Democracy for president of the Unite,
States and who would carry their pur
banners 10 victory.