Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-10-13
dressed by Conkling to Garfield on that
occasion. 1t was not such an epistle as
has been reported.

THE interest in the Yorktown Gen.
tennial celebration, which eliminates in
the literary exercises and the spectacle
of grand army and navy reviews next
week, is enhanced by the presence on our
soil and at these scenes of a French
delegation. These visitors come, at our
own invitation, to remind us of the gal
liant assistance generously rendered to
our Revolutionary struggle by that
one of the first European powers which,
in the fullness of time, has come to be
well-established republic itself. The
French government has seen strange vi
cissitudes its history fills bloody page
in the worlds annals, but the French
man has a heart which always beats re-
sponsive to the cause of liberty, and he
is very near to his American brother.
MA-HONE-sTY is not the best policy.
AFTER awhile some of those English
turf.sharps will find out that Foxhall is
loaded.
SHOULD David Davis hold the beam it
will be less likely to break down than if he
| got into either scale.
DAVIS and Malone, though not exactly
the long and short of it, may fairly be
classed as the "fat and lean.'
WHAT have the Pennsylvania preachers
done that they should DO slighted in the
proposed picture gallery of the Philadc!-
| phia Press
A CONTEMPORARY rer,arking the fact in
natural history that bees love blue thinks
it is a pity that the man who takes hold
of one of them ever so gently does not
have blue fingers.
THIS is indeed strange climate. Yester
day a man on North Queen street was
wearing q straw hat, and he said as he
rushed by, "This is good weather for I.
hot Scotch.
W. Il. BIERLY, late Democratic men,
county, writes to the Hughsville Enterprise
that he kn0rs "that the Democratic nOmi-
nee for state treasurer was not put up to
win, but that the race is sold to Cameron.
| We fear Mr.. Bicrly is luny.
THE people of the state having cvinccd
| a fondness for fruit at the last election by
putin. a Lemon in the auditor generals
! office, will emphasize their preference in
this respect next month when they choose
an Orange for the state treasury. This is
pun, but it's true just the same.
ROBERT CoLLYER may lack Boston
"culchaw,' but he has that better. part
-"clear grit: His life is romance and
his career from anvil to pulpit" an
example. We begin to-day the publica-
ton of his story as he tells it. Every
young man eau read it with profit and
every old one pcruse it with pleasure.
THE NOrristown Herald triumphantIy
| declares that Rutherford Il. Hayes will
hold place in the Democratic memory as
long as life shall last. Right you arc.
Fraud first Triumphant in American history
will never be condoncd, or will its guilty
beneficiary ever be permitted to sink into
| the kindly shades of oblivion which Ordi
nary dccency would lead him TO court.
The Philadelphia Record will soon begin
to publish 4 series of letters addressed by
the Rev. Alfred Nevin, D. d., to Colonel
Robert G. Ingersoll, and in announcing
them speaks of that DIR. Ncvin rs Il con-
trovcrsialist who "has reputation for
readiness which makes him 4 dangerous
antagonist for the most nimble- -wittcd op-
ponent." Did the Record ever hear Of his
controversy with Judge Black:
SENATOR EDMUNDs delivered himself
quite glibly in the Senate the other day,
but in cold type his words have signifi-
canoe which will hurt him and his party.
Even decent Republican journals discover
that it is Stalwa:t Republicans who give
out prizes in the lottery Of assassna-
ton " and that no political party eau con
tenn tho constitutional opinions of the
Populacc-with big P, brethren.
CONGRESSMAN DEZENDoEF, a Straight.
out Virginian Republican, does not pro-
pose to flop" to Malone. Ho says Jor
gensen will add no Republican votes, and
will diminish the Democratic vote for the
Readjuster ticket. He believes that Cam
cron will be defeated. Until Malone stops
substituting Hancock Democrats for Gar
field Republicans in office in Virginia, ho
will not ally himself to him, although he
approves of his course in the Senate. Two
such names as Dezendorf'' and "Jor-
genscn" would ruin any party.
CHAIRMAN COorER's plan of campaign
is as variegated rs it is able. The latest
coup de gucrre that has come to light is
general order putting the names of all
Republicans who attend Wolfe's meetings
upon the black list. This on authority
Of Chairman Bogcrt's Wilkesbarrc Union
Leader, in which city it alleges it to have
been done. and where, too, tho machinsts
resorted to the statcsmanlike course of
covering up and destroying the posters
announcing the gathering. Here is po-
litical sagacity of the highest order which
is confidently relied OH to bring Chairman