The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1893-07-25

have won great fights are the men who kept
their thoughts painfully to themselves.
Matthew Stanley Quay, the great Republican
leader, is conspicuous illustration of this
assertion and a dozen Others in this state aud
county could be named who possessed this
great attribute at times when it was most
needed and who brought their hosts out of
chaos and confusion into discipline and
snatched victory from the very jaws of de-
feat.
This is just that critical period in the Dem
ocratio campaign in this county when the
chairman of that party should move and
speak cautiously. Every utterance of his is
weighed and analysed at this time and he
would do well to remember that wise injunc.
tion (which has become historically sent by
Chairman Quay to Candidate Beaver on
notable occasion-"Dear Beaver: Don't talk /"
This could be proftably employed now by
one of the candidates slated by the Demo
cratic chairman to win, and the advice would
sound well in these words:
Dear Maurice If you are for US
Please button up your lip;
Or our opponents will Overpower us,
And smite us on the hip,
"Out of the mouth the heart speaketh," !"
and Chairman Litsch has unwisely let slip
the names of his pet candidates ut time
when he should have been as silent as the
grave. He has all along been suspected of
clinging to the skirts of certain clique of
candidates, but it was only the other day that
he was so injudicious as to mouth his prefer
ences in public.
THE CHAIRMAN's CHOICE.
That he has been openly for Wadlinger for
Judge has been patent for long while and it
is very natural and perhaps excusable, when
their long association and friendship are con.
sidered, but one day last week he let go the
information that 'some people would be sur.
prised ON the morning after the convention
when they learned the ticket would be Wad
iinger for Judge Folmer for Treasurer, Bren.
nan for Prothonotary, Toole for Clerk and
Scheurman for Recorder" There he stopped
and let his auditors use their Imaginative
powers in framing the balance of the ticket
Now this is a nice morsel for the other can
didates to roll under their tongues. Messrs
Weidman, MuldOon, Duffy, Boyer, Kirk, Pur.
cell, POrtz and others now know, if never be.
fore, just where the chosen leader of their
party stands in the fight and if his slate is
broken and they or any cf them, are nomin
ated they know now the individual to whom
they will have to entrust their cash and
chances. They will know their captain
general is a man whose heart was not for
them and they will have to battle under
leader in whom they cannot even confde
About twenty years ago, during the labor re.
form period, the county Democracy woke up
on the morning after the convention with
good ticket and discordant committee to
manage the campaign. The chairman him.
self was discreet enough, but he was unfor.
tunately handicapped by a number of COM
mitteemen who wanted to run the campaign
for him and into the ground. The chairman
Of his predicament to number
of staunch leading Democrats of this town
and county, and it was not long before a
committee was organized TO conduct the cam
paign TO win while the old committee was not
only ignored and ostracized from
the real movements of the campaign The
old headquarters in the Loeser building was
retained and the old committeeman went in
and out and were entertained by the chair
man and led to believe they were the people, |
when they were only drummers and the
working committee of the party met at night
in a private room in the Esterly building and
by quiet and efficient work snatched victory
from defeat
HISTORY MAY REPEAT ITSELF.
It is most likely that history will repeat
itself this year, for it is not improbable that
Chairman Litseh's slate will be smashed to
smithereens and it will be necessary for the
anti-ring candidates TO get together take the
bull by the horns and conduct their own
leaving the chairman to sit and
sing, Daddy, won't GU buy me bow.wow."
If any one considers that the Democracy has
a pathway of roses this year he is woemlly
mistaken. The Republicans are going to
their strongest men this year, tax
ing advantage of all mistakes made by their
opponents and they are going to pay partio-
ular attention to the organization of their
especially the selection ofa chair
mAn which will be made by the candidates
named ON the ticket, the only safe and sure
method of securing the right man at the