Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-10-20
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treasury, has decided that when q claim Or
iginates in favor of a partnership firm, and
before draft issues for its payment some
of the members die, it should issue to the
survivors described as such.
EVERY day it becomes palmer that this
is not Garfield but a Grant campaign.
Even the torchlight professions have
transparencics with laudatory notices
about the noble BOG who stood by Grant at
Chicago, while not a single lantern glows
in honor of Gar1ield's 329.
An ingenious Republican figures it out
somehow that, if the worst comes to the
worst, Garfield still will have two ma
jority in the electoral college. AS tho
number of the members of the college is
an odd one it does not seem very clear
how majority of two can be figured out,
unless they halve one of the electors
For instance. it would be difficult to
figure out a majority of two in henumbcr
329.
Ex-senator SIMON CAMERON in tho re-
treat of his Donegal farm tells a news
paper reporter that Grant will yet be pres
idcnt. Fresh from the Indiana and Ohio
battle-felds and exuberant over Republi-
can success there, he lets the cat out of
the bag ON the Mentor conference and
reveals it's Significance. Conkling, Cam
eron and Logan there bargaincd with Gar
field that bis election was to make way for
the Grant succession. That is the pro-
gramme. The 3O6 who went down at Chi
cago came up at Mentor.
IMMEDIATELY after the Ohio election the
betting in New York, which had been at
odds in favor of Hancock, changed, and
Garfield was the favorite by three to one.
Gradually, however, the odds were given
at less figures, and yesterday, in the pool
rooms the figures were: Garfield, $1,000;
Hancock, $3.50. Many thousand dollars
were wagered at these rates. On New
York state the betting is $1,000 to. 500
that Hancock will carry it and even betting
that Hancock will have 10000 majority.
Two to one on Garfield carrying Connecti-
cnt was bet several times, and even money
was bet to the extent Of ten thousand dol
lars in small lots, on New Jersey.
THAT able newspaper, the Boston Pilot,
whose editor, Mr.. John Boyle O'Reilly, is
admittedly one of the most brilliant of our
Irish poets. orators and scholars, takes the
Grant Fowler interview in hand and gives
it. most scathing review. All that
the ex-president said about Hancock, the
Pilot AYERS, shows that he has grudgc
against Hancock, probably for resenting
his interference when the latter was going
to New Orleans, anu like meH political
mud. Singer he takes this way of letting it
out. HIS attack on Hancock is just such
as might be made by an ofice-hunting par
tisan. It lacks both dignity and decency,
and it shows that Grant did not improve
his character much by his opportunities in
the presidential Office. Ifhis nature were
not notoriousiy coarse one, it would be
surprising that an ex-president and
ex-general Of the army could de-
scend so low as Grant has done in
this attack. The Pilot comedies with Mr..
Blaine's expressed opinion of Grants dia.
tribe when the senator said "Grant has
made mistake. Gen. Hancock's record
as soldier is beyond criticism" The Bos-
ton newspaper is not surprised, however,
at the self.exposure Grant has made in this
recent utterance. Grant, like other COM
monplace and inferior people, has culti-
waited silence in order to appear wise But
it is only an outside show. Take the hal
ter off these dumb wiseacres, and at once
they will make it plain that tho animal
everyone calls mule is in truth mules |
father.