Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-10-21
MINOR TOPICS.

MULE Tide Chairman Cessna's long
cared specimen in to-day's parade, evident
ly designed to catch the fancy of the labor
ing men who according to that Republi-
can chieftain, vote through their eyes,"
''IF We can thwart the internal villiaDy
of the south this time We may possibly
end it forever" says that pious organ, the
Philadelphia Bulletin, meaning that the
"infernal villiany" Of voting the Demo-
cratic ticket is what cannot be endured by
the Republican party.
APTLY enough, Schuyler Colfax comes
to the fore as candidate for United States
senator from Indiana The dishonored ex-
vice president evidently regards the recent
Republican success in that state as a vim
dication Of his own and Garfield's un-
savory Credit Mobilier record. Noven-
bcr will reverse the verdict
THE vote at the Soldiers Home at Day.
ton, Ohio, shows how the wounded veter-
ans feel Oh political questions. We give
the official canvass on congressman
Mcmahon. Dem. 4 Cos
Schultz, Rep. 1916
Democratic ma jOrity.. 3S2
The influence of the officers: of the in
stitution was cxerted against the Demo-
in their political faith.
THE Sixth Virginia district will reward
the herculean efforts to prevent the rc-elcc-
ton Of Hon. John Randolph Tucker to the
Forty-seventh Congress, that have just
been exposed, by returning that eloquent
and able representative to the seat he now
honors backed up by the largest majority
which he has yet been complimented by
an appreciative constituency. The scheme
to defeat this distinguished son of the Old
Dominion was being quietly engineered by
the Malone crowd, and was being liberally
aided 10y Pennsylvania money, in spite of
the fact that Mr.. fuckers effective labOrs
on the ways and means committee have
been uniformly devoted to :: tariff for rev.
enuc and the consequent protection to
home industries implied in that phrase.
The country will not bc deprived of Mr.
fuckers liquid e!oquencc and conscien-
tious labors by the schemes OF contriving
politicians like Malone and his .lemagogue
Republican allies.
SOMEONE discovered 4 flag lacking the
exact number Of stars floating from 4
staff in a Virginia village. 1t was decor
| ated with the names of Hancock and Eng
lish. and though it's colors were the red, white
| an; blue, irenzied. Republican fanatics
pointed at the emblem as the hated rebel
rag. 1t is admitted that the field wears
more than the traditional eleven stars and
in no way does the ensign resemble the
| stars and bars of the Confederacy. The
simple fact is that it hadn't quite enough
stars upon it to represent every state in
the Union, and all the descriptions that
have come to our notice appear to indicate
| that the flag was rather clumsy home
made piece OF work. Since, however, our
Republican friends have become SO par
| ticular about the number of stars proper
to be placed upon the American flag. we
PLEASANTLY advise the authorities of the
| Fifth ward Garfield club in this city to
carefully eNapine il,e handsome bunting
they have hung before their headquarters
in the First ward. The most rigid canvass
of the map of the United States fails to lc-
veal forty states, and that is tl.c number
of stars their otherwise patriotic emblem
wears. The curious looking object on the
banner in front Of the Young Mems Re-
publican club room, on East Kin. street,
evidently designed to represent the Amer
lean Shield, though the lower portion of
! the device is missing entirely. has seven
stars upon the field, but SO far from i'm
putting any trcasonabIe motives to the dear
young men in thus defacin. the national
emblem, we cllaritably presume that they
took this means OF publicly signfying the
| probable number Of states they hope to
carry for Garfield.