Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-10-02


Special Correspondence of the Commercial
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. /.
Tho Political campaign hereabouts was fully
started by the mammoth meeting held by the Re-
publicans at the League House shortly after the
date Of my last letter. 1t was on all sides ad,
mitted to have been one of tho finest political
demonstrations in many years. We all know
how much humbug there ia in this subject but
| this opening meeting WAS quito unusual, not so
much for the numbers of people it called out as
from their character and the earnestness and
feeling which prevailed from first to last. /
have heard the spirit of the affair remarked up
on enthusiastically by Democrats as by Re-
publicans. In fact there is no opposition TO the
Republican ticket in this section worthy the
name. The German Democrat ls a paper of in
iluence but it is true nevertheless that Philade-
phia Germans are nearly all Republicans The
Tinies il the only English paper of consequence
which opposes the Republican. candidates, and
although it is certainly widely read its vote-mak
ing power il not equally great. The entire Re-
publican local ticket will be elected and the ma
fcity for Hartrauft and Rawle will be heavy
IN this city.
At the same time that the Union League was
active in getting up the re,ent demonstration it
had lively internal discussion over the lues-
ton of endorslng some of the names on the Re-
publican City Ticket. The action of the " Com
mittee of Sixty.Two," AZ it il called, was the
subject Of much comment, and there ID division
OF feeling in tho club well outside of it.
Some of the committeeman say Withdrawals are
not to be thought of that the ignored candi-
dates feel as safe those who endorsed
and that the vote by no means expressed the
entire sense of the Union League. Other mem
bers OF the committee believe that In general
meeting of the League on tho subject the action
of the committee would be thoroughly sus-
tanned. The matter has been fully brought out
by the expressions of views of various members
of the League the substance of which rather
ncllnes to tho individuality ofputting the ques-
tion before the club as body. The feeling is
that the dispute is an unfortunate one, leading
to no practical end, and can have the only effect,
If kept up, of encouraging the Democrats. The
League id in no temper to do that, but the de.
maud for full vote on the committees resolu-
lions may be too strong to be resisted
A new test is to be made of the Civil Rights
Law,-one stirring moro deeply tho passions of
people than questions whether colored persons
shall ride in the same cars with white men or sit
at the same hotel table or in the same concert
room with them. The point now raised is
whether or not colored people can be lawfully
buried in a cemetery also used by white men?
Ii was hoped that this great city had got over
an utterinozt vulgarity OF prejudice only explain
able in a Geoga or Mississippi town, yet here of
all places does this question rise for solution
There recently died worthy colored citizen--
Cmsrk, citizen they cannot get around that.-}
who also happened to be wealthy (Which fact
might have induced strong feeling to subside)
and his widow naturally made arrangements to
have the remains of her husband inferred in
Mount Morah cemetery, in which lot had been
bought and paid for, months before. But just
AZ the funeral was about to leave the residence
of Mr.. Jones message came fiom Mount
Moriah saying that the burial could not bo per-
mitted at that place. 1t seems, or al least that
is the excuse offered, that in the interim be-
tween the announcement of the funeral and the
day OF it, dissatisfied lot-hoders had appealed to
the cemetery authorities to stop the funeral,
threatening to abandon their property if it was
not done, and prophesying the ruin of the en-
torpIise. In o weak moment the Secretary
yielded, and not only was an outrage done to
large class of citizens but direct business obli
CATION was disregarded.
For it becomes clear that, however looked at,
the cemetery people have done wrong. The ori
gina excuse was that the lot had not been di-
rectly decided to Mr.. Jones but to a Mr.. Boleau.
But MIR. Boieau promptly sSnitied that he had
III turn sold the ground to Mr.. Jones, and fur
thermore that it was done with the immediate
knowledge and;acqulescence of the Secretary, re-
presenting the Mount Morah company. This
gentleman, Mr.. Connell-son of the lata State
Senator, has involved himself by a contrariety
| of statements, but the bulk of the testimony,
| showing that he knew all about the transfer to
Jones-is decidedly against him. Could more
| ptiable sample of bigotry and insane prejudice
/ be shown than tile entire case exhibits What
| sort of religion can it be that these irate lot
| nOluerb huu Olllcid5 pFOlehS Nllliub W
| the same Fathers Mansion with tie black man,
but fighting hlm to the last step OF the earthly
| Journey, even to the spot where both lay off
mortality There is something inexpressibly
| little about the dispute, but mean things some
| times create the greatest " confusion i'll the lit
tie ISLE" There is anxiety to learn how the Court
| will treat the matter as question of property
| That MIR. Jones owned his lot is as certain as the
existence of the ground, and with the colored
| mans right as citizen to buy and hold real es-
| tata as.ured ii will ba iptaraHtiuQ TO note how
the cemetery people are to clear themselves of u
| very disagreeable situation.
| The catastrophe which all persons knew would
| certainly come from the practice of running
| steam cars and passenger railways on the same
| surface has occurred at last. Tho wonder only
| is that the calamity has been 20 long deferred
| assuredly not for want OF hourly opportunity.
| Tho collision between a train oil the Pennsylva-
MIA railroad and a dummy steam passenger
car on the Frankford extension of the 9th Il 9th
ST. railway has resulted in the deaths of five per-
sons, while several others linger between life
and death aud others still will be seriously Grip
pied even after their recovery. The inquest
winch has been progressing all tho week Is to
determine which of the parties to the collision
was to blame but more important considerat on
| il the right of steam transportation companies
to imperil life and property by running trains on
the grade used for ordinary purposes. The svs-
TEN in at once barbarous and childish and it is
not in reason to suppose that it eau continue
before the increasing wisdom aud needs OF so
ciety. Numbers of our street railway tracks
cross steam railroads. The crossings of the
.'Reading" by some of the lines are very dan
gerous. The Germantown Branch Of the "Read-
ing" is the worst road because engines are snort
ing over its track iucessantly and 1t lies in a
largely travelled neghborhood. Yet cars of the
Union, Green and Coates and Girard avenue
lines CROSS the rails every minute of the day. A
, change must surely come before long. The
, Prankford Road DISASTER seems to be individual
, ly charGeable to the engineer OF the "dnnmy, y
although tho case is not entirely clear. The
, engineer says he did not see the lamp of the
Pennsylvania signaman, but the latter official il
/ supported by witnesses who saw him display
| the danger signal at the accustomed place. Sc
we're as the accident was it's marvel that ever,
person on the dummy" and its accompanying
! car was not killed outright Very few escaped
} without injuries of some sort but il not one hat
. got ont alive it would not have been surprising
3 The auction sails at "Ogontz," Jay Cookel
/; palatiel country house, was the recent socia
. event You will remember that last spring an
/. attempt was made to sell this entire property
r house, land and furniture, in single. lot.
suitable offer could not be obtained and it wa
resolved to sell in small lots This re ult ha
been disappointment also, for although thu
furniture, &c, has been sold, good prices wore
| nlt na1 rao ,1rpbpbly That th