Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-09-21
MINOR TOPICS.

not in Ben Hills.
MINOR TOPICS.
EDWARD HANLAN, the Canadian oars
man, had an easy pull on the Tyne on Sat
urday last. He says he never pleased him
self SO we'll with his sculliDg as during the
pas. three days. Laycock and Trickett,
the Australians, had short spins on the
Thames ON Saturday.
If you are laughed at for deriding the
Republican claims of New York and for
asserting that either or all of Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin, Oregon, Califor-
mia, Nevada and New Hampshire arc doubt
full, turn to the vote of 1876. New York
gave 5000 more Democratic majority than
all these states together did for Hayes.
Your Prohibitionist politician is quite
as modest as his Democratic, Republican
or Greenback brother. OF the committee
of seven appointed 10y the Lancaster county
convention to name the county ticket, one
is put on it for Congress. another for dis
trict attorney and third for prison in
spector. They ought not to have gobblcd
up the best paying Offices.
WHITELAw REID does not edit the Tri-
bune almanac, and when Ed. Mcpherson
got it up 1873-79 he did not anticipate be-
ing called to act as a Republican campaign
clerk, or OF course it would not have been
allowed to tell in eloquent figures of the
economies of about $50, ,OOO, 600 a year en-
forced by Democratic Congresses. Figures
will not lie, though Reid and Mcpherson
have to.
The Boston Transcript Rep, which is
several hundred miles nearer to it than the
Lancaster Examiner, confesses "The
Maine election is undoubtedly setback
to the Republicans, and nccessitates harder
work, if they would succeed, than some Of
the leaders at the headquarters in New
York have been vainly imagining. A vic
tory will not he won by mutual congratu-
lations as to the brilliancy of Republican
prospects. Victory has now got to be
plucked from the jaws of defeat-if gained
at ALL
SINCE Col. Baxter. alias Tom Pepper,
discovered that Hancock was not at Gettys-
burg somebody has exhumed Meade's tcs-
timony before the congressional committee
on the conduct of the war in which he
said: Early in the evening of July 1,
should suppose about or 'cIcck, re-
ceived report from General Hancock, l
think in person, gicing me such an aecount
Of a position IN the neighJorhood Of Gettys-
burg as caused me at once to determine to
fight battle at thatpoint. :; = The army
was ordered Immediately to concentrate,
and that night did concentrate on the field
of Gettysburg"
"Judgc" Bum, of Philadelphia, is
quite rabid because he failed to beat John
Z. Reyburn for the Republican nomina-
tion of senator. He blames it on all the
departments, but more still on the "lying
hypocrisy of Joe Cavcn, the servile weak
ness Of George S. Graham, eager and
trembling for his candidacy, and, most
potent of all, Daddy's bar'l." Among his
discoveries, when candidate, was this by
Bunny: "Broken faith, divided trust, un-
fulfilled pledges, the destruction of the
party safeguards for personal assgrandize-
mcnt, the violation of the principles in
scribed upon its banners to further his
ends, the action of the hand bclying the
promises of the tongue and the wheedling
of the serpent that devastated the garden
Of Eden, these arc the characteristics of
the leader"
The Republican state committee must
be hard up and badly scared. John Cess
M has quit his funny business since the
canal boat was wrecked and is now in
dustriously engaged in sending circulars
to Republicans, Democrats and Green
backers-all kinds turning them into the
INTELL1GENCER officc-in which he plain
lively calls for money to help elect Gar
field and Arthur, a Republican Congress,
and state Legislature. He says Cup to
this time We have received no funds by
voluntary contributions for the manage
ment of the campaign on behalf of the
state central committee. Without mate
rial aid, under the methods and necessities
of the campaign work, canvass is not
generally successful certainly by no
means as vigorous as it can and will be
with such help" Well now, we thought
Cessna relied on the canal boat alone, and
the mules and the rolled-up trousers. He
shall have our subscription next time he
comes to town, for Cessna has done good
work for the Democrats this campaign.
The Examiners affrighted editor has
seen in the quiet, unostentatious and effec-
tive organization of the Democracy in this |
county evidences of bar'l being rolled |
this way, and he (says he) "knows" of s.
being offered Republicans to join Democrat
c clubs. Inasmuch as there has not been
\ dollar of money in the Democratic cam
paign of this county, for at least six years,
except that which was put into the hat as
it was passed around here at home-nota a
cent ever being sent here by state or
national committee or outside contributors
the chances of even a stave of an
eighth - keg floating this way is very re-
mote. If the Examiner knows any Demo-
.rat who il OFFERING S5 a head fnr RenuhI;.