Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-16

lIy tp6ECy W SCI IIle OppOSlClOn all cX-
ample of strict compliance with these
strict laws.
MINOR TOPICS.
The parsons who 60 to the horse races
and walking matches would do we'll to re-
member that it is written Psalms cxlvii.,
1O): "He delighteth not in the strength of
tho horse lie taketh not pleasure in the
legs of a man."
By all means the Delaware county Re-
publicans should trot out Hon. VIM.
Ward as Republican candidate for gov
ernor. He will make splendid running
mate for Tom Cooper and Delaware
county is big enough TO enter double
team.
WITH great ceremony, the account Of it
taking up an entire page of the Carbon
Democrat, Mauch Chunk has laid the cor
ner stone of its " Concert hall,' new
building for public entertainment and
with business places in it. John F.
Stockett presided and made a speech /;
District Attorney E. NJ. Mulhearn was
the orator, and E. II. Rauch read and de-
posted the history.
THE Wiliiamsport Banner keeps bang
ing away at tile alleged corrupt county
commissioners. regardless of party, and
its city editor is trying TO raise a popular
fund to bear the expenses and risks of
their prosecution. One of the crying evils
of their administration was their demand
upon every one having business with them
to "sct 'em up" They were ten cent
set.
IT is circumstantially charged by Ed
mund Hudson, the Washington correspon-
dent of the Boston Herald, that the ring
of claim agents that had long endesvored
to get Bently removed as commissioner of
pensions, and who now see with no little
satisfaction Dudley, Of Indiana, in his
place, raised SIS, 900 during the campaign
and offered it to the Republican campaign
managers, with the statement that tie
money was theirs if the next administra.
tion would remove Bently. 1t is the COM
ment of tho Springfield Republican on this :
"The story is not improbable that is,
Garfield would not have been party to
any such bargain, but the letter which he
wrote to Hubbell about Brady shows he
could be easily played upon by less scrupu-
lous men,"
An entcrprising correspondent Of the
Record, with some mysterious sources of
information at bis command, has found out
that in the Hoyt campaign Quay's state
committee spent $16S, 600, of which s51 900
went to newspapers for advertising and
gratuities. The committee came out $685.
600 in debt, which Quay manfully paid out
of his own pocket, aud for which he has
never yet been reimbursed /; although he
desired to he paid from the funds raised
last year, and put his knife into old Mr..
Cessna in the senatorial contest because
81. c." was doing business on his own
only. OF the subscribers of last
years fund this explorer discovers that
Harry Oliver marked down $1,000; the
Union League of Philadelphia volunteered
to raise $4,000 for Pennsylvania, but
finally dropped to $3.50 of which sum
SIS, 900 was secured through the aid of
Baker and his committee of the
Industrial League. There was 4 cry of
funds for Indiana, and a special purse of
s2S, 900 was raised, $4,000 of which A. J.
Drexel told Cessna to draw upon him for.
About 1000 was sent to Maine. The CON-
mittee was unable to procure passes upon
;he railroads for the speakers, and as re-
'ult of this 81, 900 was expended in tickets.
senator Don Cameron gave $1,000 in one
ump to the state committee, as much
more to the national. 1t is believed he |
contributed sl5, 600 altogether to the cam
,aign. Ario Partlee stands next on the |
tate roll with g., ,0O0, and he gave as much |
more outside. Cramps, the Philadelphia
were in for $4,000. Wharton
Barker gave $500 Wayne MacVeagh, $500;
,hris. and Fred. Magee, $500 each Sena.
or Roberts, of Titusville, 81 900, and so onf
own the list until it came to the $50 SUBJ
criptioD of Charles s. Wolfe, who also
,ade speeches.