Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-09-17


content; but the son has felt it necessary
to feel aggrieved and thrash somebody.
He ought not to have done it.
The tone of the Republican journals
over the defeat in Maine is very familiar
to us. 1t is that which we have so often
in the past found ourselves compelled to
adopt over the discouraging results in
the early elections in presidential years.
It never saved us though. We might as
well have acknowledged the corn and
given up the fight. The extraordinary
energy which the disaster was to bring
out, thus proving itself blessing in dis
guise, never snatched the brand from the
burning. 1t was loves labor lost.
MINOR TOPICS.
CANAL BOATS do not ply between Men
tor, Ohio, and the White House.
PLA1sTED says he will take the stump
for Hancock if tho Maine Grcenbackcrs
nominate a separate electoral ticket.
CHAIRMAN BARNUM has declined the
Democratic nomination for Congress in the
Fourth Connecticut district. He prefers
to devote all his attention and energies to
the Democratic national canvass.
KILpATRICK has finally got something.
1t is nomination for Congress in Jersey
district, which has funny habit of giving
four or five thousand Democratic majority.
Anybody can see what good thing Kill
patrick has finally struck.
GENERAL WEAVER now expects the
Greenbackers to carry Texas and West
Virginia, with hopes of support from In
diana and Maine. General Weaver may
not have much chance for the presidency,
but hc manages to keep himself before the
public pretty well.
OUR esteemed Republican exchanges are
certain Garfield will carry Maine in No
vcmbcr but they also had dead sure
thing on O,OO0 majority and all the Con
gressmen last Monday. Still there is no
law to stop whistling to keep your cour-
age up. 1t is rather commendable.
WAYNE MACVEAGH says t., his Republi-
can friends I'm the present contest the
intelligence, rather than the passions of
the people, should be appealed to )" but
John Cessna says the people sc vote through
their eyes," and that bloody shirt, a
canal boat and a mule will prove more cffi-
cacious than argument.
CONSIDER what Longstrce.t and Mosby
are doing for the Republican party
Theirs are the same principles of hate and
disunion for which they fought for four
years, and they arc tho men that arc rc-
warded by Republicans with fat offices at
New Orleans and Hong: Kong to repay
them for the defeat they sustained at the
hands of Hancock, Mcclellan, Meade,
Hooker, Rosecrans and other Democratic
officers and soldiers.
SENATOR MCDONALD. of Indiana, said,
in reply to an inquiry about the Indiana
canvass and the probable effect of the
Maine election upon it "The canvass in
Indiana is proceeding satisfactorily. l
have never doubted our ability to carry the
state, and am now more firmly CONVINCED
of it than ever before. The great disaster
which has bcfallen tho Republican party
in Maine is crushing blow, from which
it will not recover. Its effect in our state
will be to inspire our people, bring over
doubtful voters, and add thousands to our
majority"
THE nomination of Hon. Frank Jones
for governor by tho Democrats of New
Hampshire makes hand-to-hand battle in
that usually reliable Republican state in
November. He is the most popular man
of the party in New Hampshire, and one
of the most public-spirited citizens the
state can boast of. He has twice carried 4
decided Republican district for Congress,
and the Maine election has made him ac-
cept the nomination that he had previously
declined. His acceptance means that both
himself and his party believe he can be
elected, and that is half the battle in a
doubtful struggle.