Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-10-07
MINOR TOPICS.


THIS is the season when the enamOred
youth til inks of the warm ulster which
mataphorically went down his best girls
throat in ice cream saloons during this
summer.
THE figures 329 added together make
II. There are fourteen letters in each of
the following: ':James A. Garfield"
"Credit Mobilicr," "DeCioyler Frauds, I"
''Conscience Fund, :' Counted Hayes In,"
"Wili be Defeated Queer isn't it:
IT is instructive to watch the Republi
can organs dropping from their exalted
pedestal i'll anticipation Of inevitable de-
feat in Indiana. They say now that the
Hoosier state is not necessary to Republi-
can success in tho presidential election, and
the mathematical and algebraic calculation
by which they strive to convey this fact to
the comprchcnsionoft their readers is enough
to confuse the average intellect which by
some strange perversity Of the figures is un-
able to bring about the same result by the
oiIHpIO IuIC III lHdS UuO l|T-
amincr takes the cake for lightning calc,,-
lation.
THE New York Tribune says that every
utterance of General Hancock comedies
with General Grants alleged remark that
Hancock is ''crazy to be president, Gam
bilious, vain and weak" But then how
are the 1riJune's readers to know that
this is true, seeing that that newspaper,
alone of the entire metropolitan press,
failed to publish at least one utterance of
General Hancock given recent publicity,
and that was his letter to General Sher-
man on the electoral troubles of 1876, for
| which the Tribune had called lOudest of
all the Republican organs: The Tribune
should back up its statements by Il reason
able amount of proof. Let us have the
Hancock Sherman letter.
THE New York World, commenting on
the unprecedentcdly large registration of
voters in New York last Tuesday, says
that the figures indicate that 200, 600 voters
will appear at the polls Of that city on the
I'd of November to take part in the con-
test between sectiOnalism as represented
by COnkling, Arthur and Garfield, and the
Onion as represented by Hancock and the
Democratic party. This means majority
Of 6j, 900 votes for Hancock despite the
conspiracies Of Davenport and his train
band, his threatened "bulldozing" of
naturalized citizens and the intimidatidsls
of his refurbished "cage." This with the
contingent of Brooklyn means a march of
the Democracy from the metropolis with
column Of 10000 majority to meet and
join hands with the Democratic hosts of
the interior.
Our esteemed local contemporary, the
Lancaster Examiner, is assured that it was
not the associated press that gave Hancock
alift'' by the telegraphing North the piece
of information that one hundred and
eighty-one former colored Republicans had
signed call to organize Hancock club
in Memphis. The associated press never
puts itself out of the way to give a Demo-
cratic coloring to the news it furnishes its
patrons, as the Examiner and other Re-
publican newspapers we'll know from their
recent experience with "the news from
Maine" The INTELLIeENCER is indebted
for the bit of information indicated to the
local columns Of a Memphis newspaper,
and if "the organ" would like to have
the article in full for publication, it will he
cheerfully produced on application at this
Office.