Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-12-10

foolish to try An keep m insligib3s man in
became he is Mormon as the Republi-
cans willbe to try and seat man never
elected, simply because he is not a Nor
mon. We do not see what his faith has
to do with either contestant. Certainly
it will not be very edifying to have man
turned out, because he Acknowledges sew
eral wives, by the votes Of Some men who
keep quite as many in secret. Nor does
it lie with Republicans to raise q hullaba-
loo about the representation of Mormons
by Mormon, when under twenty years
OF Republican administration the "twin
relic" " has flourished as never before, and
for years Delegate Hooper, staunch
Mormon, sat unchallenged in Republican
congresses.
"ARMoUR, OR WHAT ARE YoU GoING
TO Do ABOUT IT ?" is the title Of very
lately published political novel written
by c. II. Anderson, of Hunting
don, Pa. The scope and purpose
of the work are illustrated by the
highly original frontispiece of the book,
which represents the national capitol, with
the statue of liberty on its summit ex-
changed for a golden calf, presumably, a
huge anaconda composed of train OF
passenger cars labeled monopoly -
wrapped about the dome, network Of
telegraph wires in tho grounds surround
ing the building, and hosts of people in
the foreground bowling down and wor-
Shipping. The aim Of the book is to
satirize the political evils of the day and
to arouse the indignation of its readers
against the growing and alarming
dangers of bossism, corporation abuses,
political corruption, stock-gambling
and social decentralization ensuing
from the mercenary view of marriage. In
the elaboration of this comprehensive pur-
pose in a book of some s75 pages the
author introduces quite number of char
acters whom he locates in the scene of his
story and whose relations form its ground.
work, the central idea Of the book being
to group them around plot which will
depend upon some facts of undisguised yer.
| ity in our state and national political his
tory. One of these characters is intended
for Don Cameron aud certain matters
reproach to tho Cameron family are dis
tributed around indiscriminately and with
out consistency to a number of the per.
sonages who figure in "Amour,'
the object being to revive the
Winnebago business, the secretary
of war scandal, and dozen or more other
incidents of our political history under the
semblance of fiction. Quay and Mackey,
John Scott and Sam Barr, Forney, Nc.
Clure and Curtin, Hartranft and others
are introduced in very thin disguise anc
the characters and incidents treated il
this manner gain no force nor picturesque
ness from their embodiment in an attempt
at nove!.writing. It will easily be seer
that they are not good subjects for ro-
nance. For realism the story is quite ul
to "Ten Nights in Barroom," OF works
of that kind, and all sorts of unwarrant
able liberties are taken with the unities.
As might be inferred from the tremendous
reach which the author essays he passe:
with great rapidity from one to another o.
the abuses which he aims to score, and til
incidents and the characters have to be
pitchforked about pretty lively to get then
all in, including a slice at legislative cor
ruption, Molly Maguireism in politics, th'
Conkling- -Sprague scandal, and heap o
other things. But they arc all crowded
| betw tho lids of "Armour."