Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-09-24

be in this campaign; 1t IS concise ana
yet comprehensive as all political
speeches ought to be; and it is truthful
and logical as every argument must he
that is to bear the test OF criticism and
exercise any influence On the public mind.
MINOR TOPICS.
Az address of the Philadelphia Republi-
can politicians appealing to their busi-
ness men for money says seven weeks
from this day the great battle will be
fought, and, if the present apathy contin-
ues-lost.'
THE Republicans Of Pennsylvania
should not order Frank Eshleman to Ohio
to help their sinking cause there, and at
the same day inform him that Lancaster
county must give 5000 Republican major
ity 70 save Pennsylvania to Garfield.
COMMODORE HIEsTAND needs to come
back from Indiana straightway. His
friends here arc getting ready for frauds
that we feel certain he would never coun-
tenance and to shirk the responsibility of
which he would certainly not flee the
state.
The Lancaster New Era makes mis-
take when it says the Republican vote in
Maine this year is Many thousands more
numerous than it ever was before" 1t is
in fact, more than two thousand short of
what it was at the corresponding election
in 1S76.-Ifmes.
MIR. THOMAS J. DAVIS is respectfully
invited 20 take himself off the Republican
county ticket. AS Murat Halstcad said of
Garfield, he hasn't record fit to run
on" If he compels that record to be
shown up for necessary public informa-
tion his be the fault. Will he take him.
self off or make the people do it q?
WHES the Eramiaer says that Hancock
Oh one occasion "took down the Ameri-
can flags which graccd his banqueting
room lest they would offend Beauregard
am other Confederate guests it lies.
More than this-it knows that it lies. Nc
such thing ever occurred, and no rcspecta.
ble authority ever offered to sustain the
report of it.
THE following startling dispatch is sent
from Richmond to the New York Times,
the leading Republican organ Of the coun-
try e.: In the next election thousands OF
the black citizens of this state will, OF
their own free will and knowing fully the
importance Of their action, walk deliber.
ately up to the polls and cast their votes
against the nominees Of the national Re-
publican party and for the Hancock and
English electoral ticket
A WRITER in the CornhW Magozine who
is "compcllcd to admit" the general
physical beauty of the English upper
classes finds the squa|id poor of merry
England to be, as 4 class, noticeable fol
their absolute and repulsive nglincss. lie
also finds the average personal beauty
everywhere to roughly correspond to the
average general love for beauty in the ab-
stract. The English poor, who live and
die in the sitting dens Of large towns OF
chcerless stone floored cottages Of the
country. are gaunt, low-browcd, sickly,
shapeless or bull-dog-looking, in compari'
son with even the beautiful and shapely
South sea sayages, whose love of the ath-
lctic is displayed in carved furniture, in.
tricately traced war-ciubs and boat pad
dies, graceful pottery, and even handsome
stone hatchcts and arrow-hcads.
THE New York World was much inter.
cstcd in Mr.. Blaine's special telegram to
the Tribune, in the course of which he
spoke of certain alleged Democratic frauds
as having been "sisnaliy exposed and re-
buked as long ago as 1853 by the Hon.
James S. Pike, OF the Iribune.'' James
s. Pike! 1853! The World asks il it
wasn't just about time that Horace
Greeley, founder of the Tribune, sent a
subscription to the campaign fund to Mr..
Pike, with an earnest warning against
letting the money get into the hands of
the Republican local managers rs they
would surely steal it? And wasn't Mr..
Blaine one of the local managers just at
that time? How single name will some
times awaken flood of old-timc memo
ricS.