Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1890-06-13


D,or Il, and doubtless II
keral principles, politicians
"a 70 losc their heads as well
mnrais when they get towards
Is last days Of their fight. Upon both
Republican and Democratic sides there
= very diverse statement ms to the man
who IL going to he nominated for gov
ernor.
Delamater gets knocked out every
other day by some untoward occur
renee reported to have happened, only
70 be knocked in again by its denial.
Just now we have him killed entirely
by report from Washington that
Quay refuses to say whether he shall he
governor and on the other hand 1t ID
declared that there is no doubt about 1t,
because long string of Republican Phil
adelphia voters say that they are some
in favor of him /; and among these one
declared to be old-time independents
and men naturally inclined to he
kickers. We are told that these spirits
are all quiet now, that blue and gray
snd all colors Of Republicans are ready
- support the party candidate; and that
about all of them are ready to take the
man that Quay sets out for them. That
great general, while now sulking in
Washington over his overthrows In the
6enate, 10 expected TO grid his loins
shout him and to appear In
Pennsylvania before the Republican
convention with hot effulgence that
will teach the Republican world that he
lives and rules and that will make
the contemptuous Republican senators
quake in their seats. Who he will
( name for governor Is uncertain, and Il
may be himself, but whoever he names
h by that act nominated, elected and
consccrated.
Such IL the story we read on the Re-
publican side and when we turn TO the
Democratic exposition we find figures
from one side nominating Pnttison be-
yond doubt, aud upon the other nomi.
mating Wallace. The intelligent reader
OAn tell how the lists are made up by
considering their closeness to truth in
his own section; and upon thi,
basis Lancaster Democrats will have nc
trouble In concluding that the
Pattison bow is long one, since |,
claims pretty near everything hereabout
This disposition Of men TO ovcrstate th,
etrength Of their favorite candidate IL /,
natural one and doubtless II would bt
too harsh to say that all those who do II
Intend to misreprssent. Their wish Il
father to their thought and their enthu
/ slasm runs away with their Judgment
No doubt the originators of the figure,
have malicious purpose to help theil
man and hurt the other, but II Is child
ish and ineffective warfare that Is hardly
even amusing.
But by great odds the funniest thing
that has SO far happened is the com
piaint of the allentown Democrat thai
ex-Congressman Sowden Is not Dem
ocrat, though hi has been selected b,
the g4 candidate of tn,
county, 70 head the dele
-axtes to SeiolI bonn the count,
4 convention directed Mr.. Wright Co Sc
lect. Hero is Democratic newspaper
supposed to be edited by man and no
monkey, complaining that the unan
tmously chosen candidate for governor
by the Democracy of the county ha.
selected as his chief among the delegates
OF the county to the nominating conven
tion man who ID not Democrat ant
that man ex-Congressman Sowden
known all over the state as one of tn,
most stalwart and sensible Democrats il
1t, one Of the dyed-in-the-wool, fire-proo
sort, who can be relied upon TO blow tn,
Democratic bugle under all circum
stances and conditions, and who has al
ways done it. And when such maj
is appointed by another Democrat o
like distinction, who has been mad
BY his people their choice for governor
TO be the one who shall propose hi
nomination to the Democratic state con
vention, 1t is clear that any man wht
undertake to deny that mans Democrac,
writes himself down very distinctly to b,
an ass Of the first water.
I'VE presume this ENHANCEMENT of the
Allentown mind which has caused sucl
evidence of brain softening, is due to tn,
fact that Congressman Sowden stooC
along with Congressman Randall
against the advanced tariff reform posi-
tion of President Cleveland and tn
majority of Democratic congressman
which caused Mr.. Sowden to lose tn
Allentown postofIice and the continued
representation Of his people; bu
Congressman Sowden had plenty o
Democrats to think with him, and Their
would be a sparse Democratic fold il
Pennsylvania should they be exclude,
from it for which action furthermor
there Is no longer pretense of excus,
since the Democratic party of the coun
try has come well together by the level
ing up ard down Of individual tariff
sentiment to common plain.