The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-10-16

'oheb W SNe t1em Tue UalauCe aU OOl-
umbus. This means the shelving of
Senator Thurman and Columbus Delano,
both aspiring to the Senate, and the
probable selection Of Judge Headley or
Tom Erving. Jr. A trlerable good
point was made on this immaculate
Peoples parry by Senator Thurman at
Mozart Hall lately. Ex-senator Pugh,
in one Of his speeches, gave as a reason
for the establishment of the new party,
the terrible corruption of both the Re-
publican and Democratic parties. And
that corruption was described as only
Pugh can do it. A little further on,
he. said the Peoples Party recognised
neither Democrat nor Republican but
expected and intended, from those par
ties, TO found the new organization
which would have as Its platform RE
form; and future honesty in public af-
fairs" And just how they were going
to form perfect honest party, out Of
two parties described as foul, rotten cor
rupt and notoriously dishonest, was,
Thurman said, what he could not COM
prehend. | think so too. There are,
undoubtedly, occasions when party
trammels should be pitched over board !;
example, when ring or clique obtains
control of party machinery for party
ends, instead of the good of the people.
These great re6ners, however,it seems to
me should have set to work, inside their
respective parties, aud thrown off the
corrupt and dishonest leaders; for the
masses, whether Republican or Demo
cratic are neither corrupt nor naturally
dishonest. And this mode would have
attained purity and lasting refolm in the
body polite, much more speedily than
by the formation of this new party:
which, its leaders say publicly, will not,
perhaps. for years, control the country,
and. knowing this TACT, these wonderfully
pure men are willing to see the country
robbed and plundered, while their honest
rosebud, growing from Gas they say
themselves) dishonest root, comes to
maturity; instead of scraping off the
mud they profess to see on the two
powerful engines already fitted for the
great work and using them. Reiorma-
ton shonld have been begun at home.
But we shall see.. If any good come
from this Nazareth no one will be sorry.
THE YELLOW EEvER
is sending citizens of Memphis, by the
hundred, to Cincinnati, where they arc
received kind ~. and have their needs
generously supplied. BY all accounts
the fever is raging with the greatest
violence in Memphis. The Howard
Association, the Sisters Of Mercy, and
the various Masonic bodies in he
stricken city are evidently doing the
nobless service of charity. The hospit-
ais under the care Of the Sisters are
already overcrowced with the dying and
the dead. Their Orphan Asyluns have
been converted into temporary Hospitals,
the children having been sent to the
country; the good Sisters whom words
never can sufficiently praise-and, in
deed, they do not labor for worldly
praise-devote their time inside the
Hospitals, while the Howard Associa-
tion and Masonic bodies give their time
to the noble work Of seeking out the
sick, and removing them, if possible, to
the Hospitals; or, if the patient be too
far gone, they relieve him, to the ut
most of their ability, at his house, aud
see that he receives decent burial. The
Hebrews, too, always noted for their
charities are in the van in the good
fight. Truly is the virtue Of charity
the greatest; in the face of terrible
death gentle women do not finch, and
men forget their annimosities Of race
and religion, seeking only the good OF
their neighbor. In times of public ca
lamnities, such as we witness now, and
as VIC saw in the burning of Chicago
and Boston, how contemplate becomes
the cry of the pedant that "mankind is
daily degenerating." Perhaps he is
physically. But there is a fountain in
every heart, and the cry of distress never
fails to start the pure stream of charity.
These are the times to make US proud of
our race; and the Almighty feels not
that it repented Him, that He had made
man. There is no degeneration Of the
heart L. j. B.
A man recently appeared in Goyles-
town, Pa, driving horse which is de-
scribed as being without a particle Of
hair, and without main or tail, the ami