Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1890-03-26

~ Reyolt Araipst Delamater.

81 DenAtor Delamater Is evidently des.
f11ed to enjoy rough experience In
f>1aveling towards the gubcrnatorial
Suination that Quay has promised to
& h1m and still rougher one In reaching
- election. The revolt against him In
80 Republican ranks will be noisy II
- numerous, and It 10 certain 10 lsave
him In very much bruised condition
NJ enter upon the final run for
'lko Fovernophip. It Ii assumed
that be will be the party candidate, tho
1slsgates having been diligently set up
- his interest. The methods by which
'thsy were selected may not have been
~ood, but they are In accord with Isepub.
( lsAn practice, which IL not wont to
bother the Republican voter to record
H opinion when the Republican bosses
soyo % much more competent to do 1t for
him.,
The Plttsburg Chronicle Telegraph
4levotes four columns to telling how
fDolamater carried Cambria county, a
result which excited general surprise
fowiug to the assumed popularity that
4 8Adjutant General Hastings secured In
NJ food administration among the
\ CAmbrians. II was soon explained
y shat the Republican voters had
!. not been consulted In the matter,
the delegates having been chosen by
!. = 1sw Of the politicians Of the county ;
md the Telegraph tells the tale Of how
: q was engineered by Andrews, the Re
fpublican state chairman, who Is
\ sOolamater's humble and obedient
Gorvant; Delamater himself being
Hths creature Of the Standard Oil COM
apany, to which powerful influence il
1Oubtless due his otherwise somewhat
Y 0ysterious selection by Quay as the
\ opming Republican standard-bearer.
4 Naturally Quay would have taken
Hastings In preference, Us GER
1Ainly the strongest candidate. But
Quay's power IL based on cash, and
tths unlimited quantity of 1t that the
i Standard people are able and ready to
place at his service 10 more potent than
y Popularity In securing Republican nomi-
4 nation In Pennsylvania.
The Telegraph can hardly think that
3te exposure Of Dclamater 10 going
80 be effective In preventing his
y snOmination or promoting his election.
,S4t has evidently made up Its mind
5 That It will be bad thing for the
8epublican party, or for Its section Of 1t,
10 have Delamater nominated and
e1eeted. As its party standing will
4 *pcobably prevent its assailing him when
80 becomes the party candidate, II
eakes the eligible opportunity prior to
& - nomination to fire upon him. II 1t
! 1ces not bring him down before the
examination, II will do its work after
& ward. And II It puts the party In the
3nture into better methods Of selecting
~ candidates, It will be an eventual
benefit to 1t.
No one, we should think, can take
Il great pride just now in being a Republi-
can In Pennsylvania, realizing as he
must how totally ineffective is the voters
voice In selecting his candidate. Who
3magines that Senator Delamater would
have the ghost Of chance Of nomina-
;;Saion for governor II the voice OF the party
& Vas really taken? He has no fame as
Waterman and no brilliant qualification
upon which to base his ambition to bs
4Uvernor.
he has wealth, education and lntelh-
sgence, and doubtless quite sufficient ca.
pacity for the gubernatorial Office,
which does not demand vast intellectual
teeources, an our experience abundantly
folls ". But there 10 nothing striking
about Delamater's career or character to
'can him up to the gubernatorial chair,
- loudly as he seems how to be called
~ tho influences potent to give the
7 1Domination. Against him 10 his reputa.
] ION a. the instrument Of monopoly. 1t
ooght TO suffice to kill him before the
Y people. ltwould suffice before his party,
y the bosses consulted it. 1t will 90 suf.
~ before the people II partisan preju.
dee dcss not prove sufficient bulwark
I - him.