Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1890-07-10

LANCASTER, PA. July 20, 1890.
The Number Of the Mugwumps.

The Number OF the Mugwumps.
The Philadelphia Inquirer, special
organ of Boss Quay, raises the question
4 - TO whether there are any Mugwumps.
! II comedies that all that exist will vote
1.-THE Democratic ticket in Pennsylvania
z this year, but II says there are mighty
few ofthe creatures left. 1t marks Whar.
4 ton Barker as one and the only one
+ but Its count Is evidently short. There
are more Of the sort left, but the inter
esting question is how many will turn
up before election day. That distin
guished representative Of the order,
Charley Wolfe, is heard from to-
day, and there will he n goodly
parade of II before many moons
are gone and the interesting political
question is as to just how big 1t will be.
The Democratic candidate for COVER
nor has been selected for the accommo-
dation of the Republican voters whose
political stomachs are not strong enough
for the present Republican managers
and methods in Pennsylvania, and we
await the development of their exodus
TO the Democratic camp. We see
. Inv the Inquirer that our de-
friend and ex-Lancaster county
icandidate for lieutenant governor,
has completely composed his feeling of
disappointment at not getting the nomi-
nation or any votes to speak of for 1t,
outside the Lancaster delegation he
appears in Philadelphia with the an
nouncement that the Republican ranks
In Lancaster have closed up solidly for
the ticket and that the voters await with
burning impatience chance TO cast
= their ballots for Delamater and that
the disgusted Democrats are going to
4 stay ut home.
4 1t is refreshing TO see men smile
Y under and after hard kicking which
II condition Of body pertaining to the
majority of the members of both parties
In this county but the conditions are a
deal better for tho recovery of gladness
by the Democrats than by the Republi-
cans, for no one says that our ticket il
4 not clean, whereas the uncleanness of
the Republican ticket is not capable of
denial Republicans who propose to
vote for it do not deny its vile creation
but vote for II for the party's sake.
They look to the future and still have
hope. II rises even in the crushed
bosom of our Martin, and makes him,
VIVA once was almost Mugwump, an
Outspokdn defender of the ticket which
Quay has Eiyen them. II is his kind of
Mugwump that, as the Inquirer says Is,
safely gathered back into the Repub-
can fold. But there Is another kind
that we expect to see come out of it,.
y The ranks of the party are not SO solidly
closed even In this black and benighted
county as to conceal the places
whence the self-respecting Republican
voter, who is not n Republican for the
fishes but citizen of the country for it's
honor, will come out to join the Demo-
cratic body. Our local columns have
already noted the signs of this outcom-
lug, as the contest advances we may
expect them to appear more abupdantly.
The interesting question: az we have
said, Is as to how abundantly the Re.
publican voter will revolt from the
leadership of Quay and the burthen OF
his vileness. The people who picture
him, as he has been pictured by the
Pittsburg Times, Republican journal
: hostile to his leadership, can harly vote
for his candidate, one would think. II
compares him with Stevenson Archer,
the Maryland state treasurer, who has
just been sentenced to five years in the
penitentiary for using the state funds
for his own purposes. Quay having
done the same thing on two occasions,
~ has been charged with great explicit.
mud /, L.
Il u only ahead OF Archer in not having
! been tried and convicted.
he could not replace the money, on
one occasion, any more than Archer
could but he confessed and Don
Cameron furnished him with the money
10 make the treasury whole. In this
instance he had raided the treasury
though not treasurer himself, but it does
not make his oflense any less that the
work was done by his tool.
Stevenson Archer is not known 10
have done any other wrong than this
one which has put him in the peni.
tentiary. While with what and
how many evil deeds is not Ouay
charged? Certainly the picture offered
by the Pittsburg Times of these two
criminals, of whom the lesser is in peni-
tentiary stripes and the greater is run.
ming candidate for governor of Penn.
sylvania that he may have the pleas.
ure of knowing just once how it feels to
own governor" may well be credited
with creating fluN in the Republican
body for it must be mighty hard pic
ture for the decent Republican TO con-
template without distressing emotion.