Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-08-11
1anraster fntelllgerlrer.
WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUG. II, 1880.
On the Road.

WEDNESDAY EVENING. AUG. II, 1880.
On the Road.
Mr.. Garfield had learned the lesson
of experience he would not have gone on
his political pilgrimage to New Y ork and
Chatauqua. A correspondent of the New
York !Sun reminds us how all the travel
ing presidential candidates in the past
have come to grief at the election.
Henry Clay made a progress through the
country in all of his campaigns, meeting
an enthusiastic reception everywhere
Van Buren at the close of his first term
made tour through New York and
PENNSYLVANIA, and was beaten by Gen.
Harrison, who stayed at home ut Cincin-
natl and continued to perform his duties
as clerk of the common pleas court !;
Taylor attended to his duties rs general
and defeated Cass, who Travelled through
the country making speeches Scott,
who did the same, was beaten by Pierce,
who stayed quietly at home Douglass
made a tour and SO did Seymour and
Greeley: and we may add that Grant late
ly made such royal progress and met so
many enthusiastic friends that he was
beaten even for the nomination and never
got on the course at all.
There are good many reasons why
the results of these presidential eXhibi-
tiOns should be just what expert
encc shows them to be. Men are
greater in the eyes of men when their
imagination is. left free to picture them.
Few great men come up to the ideal
which their fellows form of them, and
the presidential candidate who could ex-
pect to lose nothing 10y an exhibition of
himself to the people needs to he very
eloquent and very noble in appearance.
And even then he will hardly add to his
repute, while he subjects himself to the
danger of damage by the disapproval of
those who think it unbecoming the high
dignity Of the first Office in the country
that ii should he thus personally can
vasScd for; and by the criticism of hos
tile politicians to whom it would not be
possible 10 avoid giving plausible
cause for ;nimatlvcrsiOn. Silence is
golden; and no one has better reason to
realize this than the presidential candi.
date. Even the customary letter of ac-
ceptancc which is now expected from him
is Il source Of danger, and through appre.
hension of saying something damaging
has come to I've clothed in words signify.
ing nothing.
The portraits of candidates even are
damaging to them. Probably candi.
date WHO would not permit his picture to
I've taken would find his account i'm it
Their portraits do not generally give
them very majestic or gOdlikc appear.
ance. Every voter would in his minds
eye see in his candidate Il much nOblel
physiognomy if he had not lithograpl
to umleceive and discnchant him.
-
A Nuisance.
There is but one opinion as to the
street railway in this city which is that
with its present width of track it is q
nuisance. We know of no other cit,
which permits Il railway to be laid upon
its streets whose width of track does moi
correspond with the wagon track. MOI
is there one which permits the Il rail to
he laid for street railway use. We dc
not know why the authorities of this
city are 50 exceedingly accommodating
to those who seek to abuse it's streets
and 10 make them disagreeable and
dangerous to travel over. Our street
committee are afflicted with singular
desire to spend money Oh streets which
yet they are not willing to protect the
people in their use OF. The railroad
trains are allowed to cross them at Il higl
rate of speed although the ordinance!
forbid it. When the street grade doe.
not suit the railroads they arc kindl,
permitted to change it. The prop
erty owner5 are permitted TO consul
their own IDEAS only in regard to tin
proper state of repair of their llvementS
But the most remarkable thing of all il
the fact that this street railway is per
mittel to obstruct the streets with it
narrow track and Objectionable rail. L
seems that il is never to be got rid of
The Belgian pavement now being lai(
will probably fix it Us an institution
amongst us and the daily smashing o
wagon wheels will continue to the great
contcntment of the cOachmakers. Surel.
il is asking very little Of the street com
mittee to demand that they shall require
this railway, il it persists in using on
streets with its very useless track, t,
make it the width of 4 wagon track
so that it may be convenient for Othel
vehicles besides the half dozen horse car
that daily struggle along its course. II
can be alEited i'm its present condition a.
a nuisance. Any jury would so pro
nOunce il.
a WOMAN who lives happily with hc
husband and children would seem to b,
clad i'm mail against seduction and We
they have found one in San Francisco
and she the daughter of Il distinguished
clergyman, who had such surrounding