Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-08-19
la,lraster f,1telllgenrer.
THURSDAY EVENING. AUG. 10, 1880
Governor English.

Governor English.
Ex-Gov. English has been renominated
rs the Democratic candidate for COVER
nor of Connecticut, and the nomination is
conceded to be the strongest that could
have been made. Governor English has
been SO long in public life that he has be-
come tired of it and has been 10th to
surrender his time again to the service of
the state. The duties of the Office of gov
crnor are not, however, SO engrOssing rs
TO afford him 4 sufficient reason for re-
jecting nomination conferred upon him
in so flattering a manner, and his accep-
tanca will place almost beyond a
doubt the success of the party in Con-
necticut. The Republican gubernatOrial
candidate is not personally strong; the
present governor having been set aside
by the convention because of his diSpOsi-
tion to be independent of the managers
of the party, the candidate nominated
can claim no particular sympathy from
the people, and is entitled only to the
votes of the machine Republicans who
believe that their party can do no wrong
and is to be sustained through thick and
thin. There are not enough of this
kind of voters in Connecticut TO uphold
either party. The state is close and the
successful organization prevails by put
ting forward its best candidate and con-
sulting carefully the independent vote of
the state. To this class of voters Cover
nor English has recommended himself
by his past official conduct, and with the
warm support which he will receive from
every Democrat, his election ought to be
very sure.
THE artists are dropping fast nOw-:l-
days. Another from the first rank went
out when Nelson SO suddenly died. She
made three visits to this country, in each
succeeding one being found to have
greatly improved in power. Her main
reliance, in her earlier experience, seems
to have been on her beauty of face and
form, which she literally displayed in the
tight fitting page costumes she WAS fond
of wearing. Constant experience in her
art finally taught her to he Il fine actress
and entitled her to high rank in the pro-
fession. The heart disease of which she
died, which was caused Immediately
by Indigestion, possibly was primarily
due 20 the extremely emotional life
which she WAS compelled to lead us a
tragic actress, and which must have been
calculated to strain and cnfceble the Or
gals of circulation. She varied her tragic
acting with presentations in comedy and
is said to have declared that she would
not otherwise have been able to endure
the strain. Plausible us is the theory
that heart disease should De the natural
consequence of emotional representations
we do not recOllect that it is sustained by
the facts in other cases than this one OF
Miss Nelson rs she chose to be called
though she had been married and di-
yorced. and it is said had married again
Sudden emotion will undoubtedly affect
the heart and often has been
known to cause it to cease tC
beat but not in actresses. They
don't often die of emotion. Probably
they have tough hearts. Miss Nelson's
even did not give way until her stomach
had first revOlted. The moral of hcl
story is that actresses who want to be
emotional with impunity should take
care of their s;omacLs; perhaps, then
their hearts will take of themselves.
UON. JAS. II. EOOLITTlE, formerly &
Republican United States senator from
Wisconsin, knows as much us anybod!
about the DaGolycr fee which Mr.. Gar
field drew, and is quite rs well qualified
TO tell what he knows rs any mau who
was connected with the case in which
this DeGolyer business WAS brought tG
light. In recent speech in 1ndianaro'
lis he forcibly exhibited the true inward
ness OF the case by rccting the use that
the lobby made OF Garlcld's participation
in it to prove what he was retained in it
for. Their contract for $1,000 more
yards of the pavement depended
upon the District board getting Ill
appropriation from Congress for Their
previous expenses, and their get
ting this appropriation depended
upon the congressional committe on :.l'
propriations, of which Garfield was
chairman. When they had him retained
is it any wonder their agent telegraphed
~ can hardly realize that we have Gen
Garfield with us. 1t IS rare-:lnd very
gratifying. All appropriations of tht
District come from him. They under,
stood it if Garfield didn't.
PERSONS cannot be too diIigent about