Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-02-18

Which was not much margin in an esti-
mated total vote of 5000, and it was liable
to be readily overcome by detection,
treachery Or bribery. The elections had
not progressed far, however, before it was
seen that the Democracy were getting
their full vote out and capturing fair
share of the doubtful vote though little
was known even when the polls closed of
how the quiet conservative vote was cast
and whose side the cutting had favored.
At p. m., alter a hard days work, the
Democracy confidently hoped to keep the
Republican majority down to merely nom-
inal figures in the Ninth wartl-Boring s
own'-and to have carried the Sixth !;
that the Third and Fourth would not beat
200, nor the Fifth Is, and that
the Seventh and Eighth would go up
to $50, which gave them good margin.
At the close of the polls the Republicans
gave up the Sixth, claimed the Ninth by
Is, hoped the four central wards would
give them $50, the Fifth 90 and that the
Seventh and Eighth would not beat 400 for
MacGonigle.
It was not long until they found out that
it was not that sort of in election.
The first ward that was heard from
showed that Boring was defeated, and near
ly every succeeding return made it worse
for him.
AS one after the other came in, the
crowd in front of the 1NTELLIGENCER Office
increased and became more enthusiastic.
A big bonfire was lighted in the square :;
the INTELLIGENCER flag foatcd from it's
flag staff, and cheer after cheer rent the
air.
J. L. Stcinmetz, esq, briefly addressed
the crowd and was loudly cheered. About
II p. m, the City band came down and
headed the procession. 1t moved to the
Stevens house, where Mayor MacGoniglc,
attended by many friends, appeared on the
front balcony, and after loud cheers from
the crowd which numbered $500 or 5000
he spoke as follows:
FELLOw-CITIzENs: l feel profoundly
grateful for the very handsome compliment
you have given me to-day in again select
ing me as mayor of the city of Lancaster
Born and raised among you, it is pleasant
to think that in a private and public rec
ord of fifty years, you found no such seri-
GUS blemishes as to induce you to withhold
from me the first gift in our municipal or
ganization. tCheers. 1 particularly
thank those citizens, who. throwing aside
the political associations of years, making
party fealty yield to the more ennObling
duties of true manhood, came forward to-
day and voted as they believed the best in
terests of the city required. [Applause.
Three years ago you entrusted to my
hands the executive control of your NUM-
cipal affairs. construed that trust then
to mean no idle nor empty compliment, but
an expression of your desire to stop the
reckless expenditure of the money of the
taxpayers, and to cOniine the expenses of
city government to a light taxation upon
the assessed valuation of city property.
[Cheers.1 Year after year the debt of the
city had gone OH nincreaSing-frOm $3.50. 600
in June, 1872, to 1854 900 in June, 1877
$2O8, 600 of an increase in five years. |
proposed to myself, upon entering upon the
discharge of my official duties,a clearly de
fined object, and that was, and shall be to
the last, to oppose, by every legitimate
means in my power, any increase of the
city's Indebtedness, unless where the ne
cessities Of our people clearly point it out
as sound policy. Such al increase must he
incurred before many years in providing
better, larger and higher reservoirs than
we now have.
In tracing the history of our municipal
management am forced to the conclusion
that We arevery much like other people after
all; that here too the people may bebeguiled
by the deceptive cry of progress. That
cry may cover selfishness of the most cor
rupt and disgusting character, and we
should be very careful not to give our
assent by our ballots or by our voices to
projects, made in violation of law, the
inevitable effect of which must be in