Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1890-06-26

lie uhs StTlNeu ubIu
PAST months to create
that he was taking no
IN the fight and that II was
nee one between the candidates but
a on the nominating day, the story of his
2 position was plainly told by his son and
representatives at Harrisburg, In his
declaration that Delamater's nomina-
tion was called for in his fathers vindi-
cation and IL was had with hardly the
semblance of resistance. The chairman
cut off the tide of votes changing to Della
mater, when he had enough, on the
second ballot; no more sacrifices OF
pledges made at home to the other can
didates were called for than were needed.
The party was to be left in as composed
condition as possible under the cir
umstanccs.
Montooth, to this end, was asked TO
take the lieutenant governorship and
Hastings was thrust into the state chair
manship without asking him. Both
declined the ardent embrace offered
them after their fagellation. our own
Martin was offered nothing. The only
candidate that the great Republican
county of Lancaster has had for years,
could get but three dozen votes, all told
for the second place on the ticket. While
we wonder at the readiness with which
this great county, with unanimous
delegation, was 80 sat upon, we have
no sympathy to offer it or its candidate,
q who took his votes to market that was
not fit for him to trade In. Personally
Mr.. Martin is to be congratulated
upon his defeat. 1t is no reflection upon
him, since he was borne TO the front on
the broad shoulders of his great county
+ The injury is to it. There is nothing
but benefit to its candidate in being
saved from becoming u part of the ticket
that is labeled Quay's ticket. The only
injury that he has encountered has been
In his seeking to be made part of that
ticket. He has been saved, not by his
own virtue, but by the madness of the
makers of the ticket.
For certainly 1t was madness Of the
worst midsummer kind to put this
ticket in the field in the face Of the senti
ment that has been already stirred up, IN
advance of its making, TO degree that
warrants a confident belief in its rejec
tion. As matters stand to-day Delama
ter cannot be elected. They may
change and II Is in this belief tina
Quay has persisted in his nomination
He remembers how he has before wor
battles against adverse public sentiment
He remembers how lie was chosen, whsI
v he bore an uncleaner reputation thar
even Delamater's. But this per
y sistence, in the present conditions
confirms our opinion that Quay's obsti
macy is pig-headed, and that he is no
endowed with II high degree of intelli
gence. He has no art but cunning of that
low order of the politician, which ha
no SAVIOR in ii of statesmanship nor any
conception of the public feeling, outsid,
his own run of swine.
The election of Delamater must ant
will be sought by those acts and appii
ances which are now familiar 10 tn,
public as Quay's; but can not b'
worked under their.old cover, and thei
own and their engineers staleness ar,
wOefully against their success again
The pitcher goes once too often 10 tn,
we'll.
This is Just what has been done
candidate has been nominated sgains
great public protest, when candidate
was offered for whom the public cried
We consider il open to no question at al
that General Hastings had the publi
sympathy and confidence and woul,
have been elected governor with case
though he may be, in fact no better maj
than Delamater, and no less servant O
Quay, if he had been given the chance
to be such; and who is certainly not th'
4 superior nor even the equal of Delamate
In general intelligence and ability. Blu
3 he has the public confidence and woult
have commanded the governorship a
the peoples hands. The Republican
machine has chosen To saddle itself with
a great labor and great risk for II,
other purpose that to seek to save tn
leadership of its leader and the question
10 each Republican mind must be Is i
not paying dear for the whistle cost