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icorrcslonlence Of the Le~isbsrr Chronicle
Durr,n. NJ. II 1879

lipTIcsi ionIence OF the Leslsbary Chronicle
PHILADA, May IL, 1888.
The event of the last fortnight: has been
tho change of our city government. De-
mOcracy-Lecompton DemOcracy-is fat
on its back, splitting and showing its teeth,
but perfectly harmless, its claws cut, and
its fangs broken.
For year or two we have borne the
tallest load Of municipal guilt borne by
any city since Sodom but the evil, like
many others, bore its own cure, and we
are couvalescent, though badly SCARED.
Richard Vaux, our late Mayor-a man of
most respectable connexions, educated and
reared among the best class of society
has for the whole period of his official
term, associated with himself, and quar-
tered on the city, the vilest crowd of loaf
ers ever collected together III any capacity.
/ Mr.. Vaux himself is by no means an i'll
meaning man indeed he is, as far as | can
i"l"a in"linaa ia very unrirht and rigid
principles; but being man Of the most
easy temper in the world, he has been
made mere tool for the sharpers peculiar
to his party, and he and they go out of
Office as fOully disgraced as they could
have possibly rendered themselves if they
had tried.
We have elected a most gentlemanly
and Christian Mayor, and the best word
iu his favor is that it was offered him by
his fellow citizeus-un honor truly uu-
sought. Let US hope it is the beginning
of great reform.
We have good and wholesome laws
which have been winked at. That restrai-
ming the liquor traffic on the Sabbath, since
the time Of Mayor Conrad, has been en-
tirely unobserved, and the poor devotees
who 60 to mass in the morning and get
drunk in the afternoon, have been able to
indulge their guzzliug rrOpensities as deep,
ly as they pleased, and nobody cared
The very first sounds which burst on the
ear, Oh Sabbath morning, are sure to be
the cries Of hawkers Of Sunday papers
and at every corner on your way to church
you are way laid, and the vile trash thrus,
into your face. | fancy il will be other
wise hereafter, though the Democratic or
gans should burst their pipes il defence Oi
the poor widows whose little boys are com
pcllcd to sell papers Oh Sunday for support
or to enable them to enjoy the luxury Of
u lounge six nights in the week in thu
"pit" Of the Arch or the /" National
have not observed whether the Demo
cratic organs have advocated the meeting
held for the benefit Of news boys, but
presume they have, though some Of the
boys IRE nightly an:i-LecomptOn.
The "peOplo" did not have it all theil
own way intireiy," for in one ward th
much abused Bill MMullin was electet
ALDERMAN. | need not say who he is
you have seen his name SO often in Cour
records and riot reports that he is as wei
known as Frank Pierce. Bill keeps on
of the lowest rum-shops in Moyamensiug
and is himself the most unerc3ti0aaIl
character you could possibly pick up, an
one would hardly suppose it possible t
fud man within the bounds of the Stat
50 far lost to common decency and sens
Of what is due to public safety, as to vot
for such man for Alderman; but we judg
human nature wrong, sometimes, and
confess gave it credit for more honest
than it seems to possess. But We can
better it any by complaining of it, an
our duty lies in keeping the better side @
the picture before the people.
We have decidedly settled weather thi
month SO far, aud it seems to be settle
down for the balance, for the sun has no
shown bis face for two weeks, and he i
apparently receding further and further
Passenger Railroads arc the 90, now
and We shall shortly have tracks radiatin
In every direction so if your folks hav
never seen an omnibus, they had bette
come down soon i. s the last chance
The big hotel. Legsu year ago, tu
N ticL sacc4utei ;s The hard tines.