Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-07-05

plainly ulIcCtS IIllS. III CdSc VI ti'c lHC"i-
dents inability to discharge the
powers and duties of the said Office
Those are the existing conditions. Mr..
Arthur will not likely do anything rasf.
while the tenure of his present duties
and powers is in such painful doubt.
MINOR TOPICS.
THE Democratic editors Of Indiana at
their late meeting refused, after a long
and bitter wrangle, to pass a resolution
opposing prohibition and female suffrage.
The superstitious who found their
faith in the inauspicious quality Of Friday
much fortified by the killing of President
Lincoln on that day will he staggered by
by the shooting of President Garfield Oh a
Saturday. Still, they can fail back on
the fact that hc was inaugurated on a
Friday.
QUEEN VICTORIA has received 4 me-
mortal of the Ashantee troubles in the
shape of an Ashantee gold axe. Alter the
conclusion of the last war with the tribe q
memento of the strife was presented to the
Queen-this being King Koffee's umbrella,
which was of great proportions and Of
gaudy material.
MIR. WILLIAM w. ARMSTRONG, editor of
the Cleveland Plain Dealer, prints a card
withdrawing his name from further use in
connection with the Democratic nonina-
tion for governor. The almost unani-
nous opinion is that Mr.. BoOkwalter, Of
Springfield, will be the nominee. At the
Democratic convention of Mahoning coun-
ty, emphatic resolutions in favor Of Judge
Thurman and the fostering Of American
industries were adopted.
SENATOR VOORHEES, told reporter
that the representation of the South in
Congress nowis higher, in the aggregate
of talent, than before the war, and that
Senator Garland, for example, " "despitc
the legal reputation of Thurman, McDon-
aid, David Davis, and others, is univer-
sally acknowledged to he the best read,
best equipped lawyer in the United States
Senate"
GENERAL GARFIELD, in one Of his COL
lege poems contributed to the Williams
Quarterly and entitled Memory wrote
these lines
" When the rough battle of the day Is done
Ana evenings peace falls gently on the heart,
boWnti awayacrOs5 the noisy years
Unto the utmost verge of McImOry's land.
And wandering thence along the rOling'ye:,rs
| see the shadow of my former self
Gliding from childhood up to mans estate
The path OF youth winds down through many
And on the brink of many deep abyss
From out whose darkness comes no ray of
life
Sace that q rhuntom dances DER the guy
And beckons towards The rcrge."
APROPOS of the succession to Lowell,
at Madrid. the Philadelphia Times says
''Hannibal Hamlin rs a diplomat is a
spectacle which must give the Spanar,ls,
to whom he is accredited minister, whole
| some idea of the longevity Of American
| statesmen. Minister Hamlin held Office il,
this country before King Alfonso's mother
| was queen or before she WAS born, for that
matter. Indeed tho memory of man hardly
runs to a time when Hannibal iIamlir
didn't hold office. 1t wouldn't be difficult
to imagine that he was born in Office, and
| it is pretty certain that it he ever dies it
| will be in Oflice.''
STRAIGHTwAY the interviewer ackled
the last two Democratic candidates fol
president Mr.. Tiltlen said It is too early
to moralize upon the subject, but two
things are SO obvious that they cannot
escape consideration even now. The first
is the great peril that attends the enor
nous and increasing power of the chic
executive magistracy. 1t addresses temp
tations too strong for the public safety tt
the interests and passions Of millions of
persons. The other is the unbJuuded
licentiOusncss that charactcrzes party.
Competitions and political dissensions. tho
assassination of private character and tho
unscrupu'ous methods resOrtcd to to intlu
ence the public judgment. All good mel
| VI al pstl w uO uCllDSG u
limit and restrain these mishaps. The
undue stimulus to mad passions arms tho
hand of the eccentric individual who as
sumes to himself to work out results. ,
| Gen. Hancock, who at once had tele
graphed his sympathy, said: "It wa
assuredly the act of q lunatic or a man
driven into crazed condition by politics
The latter is probably the true description
of his condition. 1t is the natural result
of strong political feeling in other word
of political faction. 1t is the outcome OF
the state of affairs which has been devel
Oping in tho country through factiona
anmosity."
| PERSONAL.
Horace Porter, Grants next friend, tele
craps CONKIING to come to Long Brancl
at once.
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