Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-11-30

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CROSBY s. MOVES. ........ Editor.
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Washington. and equal to that Of all a.
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Mr.. Richard Grant White may quite properly
take heart OF grace. Formerly It was quite III
fashionable thing to rebuke his pretensions, but
ten years have wrought great changes in tn
publicS estimate OF Mr.. Whites qualifications a
a teacher. The great war correspondent who
wrote from the banks OF the Rapidan, that ''the
troops fought bravery, but terribly decimated
and fell back" would scarcely do so again, and
one who turns To Mr.. Whites contributions tn
The GdiGTy for 1S67-s-9 but Will perceive that
great many OF the words to which he took
ceptOn, and for doing which he was sometimes
scOlded by his contemporaries, have now fallen
Into disuse among careful writer's, or have been
made 10 stand for what they mean instead of bein9
impressed into service to do duty in strained and
absurd sense Perhaps the most marked con-
ceSsiOn which has yet been made to Mr.. Whites
good taste and common sense teaching lies In the
fact that the officers OF the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company have decided to call their stations by
their proper names. instead OF speaking OF them as
s'depots." One surprised writer says: 'Even the
great Union Depot at PttSburg Is TO be known
hereafter rs the Union Station" Well, and why
not? To quote the words of Mr.. White: every
depot Is station, although not in all cases
passenger even 4 freight station but very few
stations are 'depOts-' A depot is place where
stores and materials are deposited for safe keep
a a
lo'ige outside a garden OF cucumberS with STA
glag OF a few plankS upon which two or three per-
sonS Sttni like criminals upon ScanOld-to call
SUI n places 'depot5' Is the height OF absurdity.
Bet 10 is not less Incorrect TO give the same name
70 the most imposing building which is used
merely as "A stopping place for trains and pas
sengers- Station means simply standing, as In
the well known passage in .Hamlet'-
station. like the herald Mercury,
Sew-hehted on a heaven kissing hill,-
and railway station is railway standing-a
place where trains and passengers stand for each
other. There is justification whatever for cal
ling such place depot"
The inventive genius of Philadelphia politicians
has been sorely taxed to provide fictitious names
for the registration lists 1t has been discovered
that parrot which hung in cage in the saloon
or OF the political strikers was regularly en-
rolled voter IN the name Of Z. Parrot, and that
the bird voted regularly, by proxy. A picture OF
the beer god, which Ornamented the walls of
another saloon represented voter on the regiStra-
tion lists by the name OF L. B. Gambrinus, and
ballot was regularly deposited for this inanimate
citizen. These fabricated names were furnished
70 repeaters who, at each election, deposited bal
lots for the parrot and the picture. In this way
thousands OF fraudulent voters have been cast
despite all the efforts OF the courts to purge the
voting lists. Another scheme of the boss political
manipulatorS has been to omit the names OF bona
Nde citizens from the registration lists, and thus
deprive them of their ballots The reform move
ment of the citizens of Philadelphia is growing
steadily in strength and erowding the political
rings to the wall. New developments OF past
fraud and raScality are being made. showing that
that city has been as cOrruptly governed as New
York.