Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-09-20

DOUy WHO Is supposed W Have all eye OIl
our officials conduct. We wonder like
wise. Our contemporary says that it ex-
pected nothing better from the Bar asso.
citation, from its past experience of the
performances or rather nOn-perfOrm-
ances of that remarkably promising and
strikingly inactive association. 1t init
mates, however, q mild surprise that the
court did not " grapple with the case"
We are with our contemporary in its
blessed condition of non expectancy from
the Bar association, but we cannot say
that We have any of its expectation as to
the court. We are in blessed state as
to everybody and thing around our court
house from the Goddess of Liberty ut the
top to the rats down below.
THE Boston Post ventures tho opinion
that the Star Route jury knows just about
how Indiana was carried against Han
cock.
ONCE more the man who has sworn to be
one day governor Of Massachusetts, comes
before that ancient commonwealth for the
suffragcs of the people. Twice his ambi
ton has been balked, each time by majori.
ties that would be as nothing to Louisi-
ana returning board. On these two for
NOR occasions General Buffers canvass
was an occasion Of division among the
parties from which he expected to draw
his strength. This year both Democrats and
Greenbackers unite in an effort to place
in the gubernatiOnal chair the man who
promises to bring them reform in their
state government. And with his bound
ng hOpefulness Benjamin promises to
make a mighty interesting canvass Of it in
the Bay State.
THE handsome face of Mortimer F. FL.
lott, nominee for congressman at large,
adOrns our columns to-day and completes
the INTELLIGENCER's portrait gallery of
the Democratic state candidates. Mr..
Elliott is tower of strength to the ticket
in the northern part Of tie state,
where his abilities and worth arc best
known. He will poll thousands of Re-
publican votes besides the full Democratic
strength, and in Mr.. EIliott's election the
party and the people will gain a represen.
tative in the halls of national legislation
who will reflect lustre not alone upon tue
famous old Wilmot district VIII ence he
halls, but upon the entire commonwealth
whom he will be sent to serve in the na-
tional capital.
The notable gathering in Philadelphia,
of which We elsewhere print full account,
has a significance as pointing the spirit
that animates tho Democratic party in the
great conflict upon which it has entered in
such good heart and in the proud con-
seriousness that it is going to win. The
assembly that thronged the apartments of
the Commonwealth club, in honor Of the
Democratic state candidates, was repre-
sentative of the best elements of the party
on the city and state. The familiar figures
of the old warehouses of the party COM
mingled with those Of the younger actors
in tho theatre Of political action who have
SO much to inspire them to their best en-
deavors in this contest. All were imbued
with the same spirit Of union, harmony
and aggressive fervOr, and if the enemy
had been cherishing the hope that any
feeling of apathy prevailed in the ranks
they would havo had them rudely dis
pelled had they been thcrc to
hear the words Of good cheer that
passed from one to tho other, representing
widely divergent sections of tho state, and
to SEQ with their own eyes evidence Of tho
activity that has been infused into the
campaign. Tho handsome candidates
were there in person to receive the con-
gratulatiOns poured upon them, and it is
safe to say that in the recent history of the
party in this state there has been no do
monstration of equal significance. 1t was
indeed an event calculated to cheer
the hearts and brace the nerves of the
sturdy Democracy for tho final charge
that is to capture the Cameron citacel and
restore to tho state government those
attributes of Virtue, Liberty and Inde-
pendence that have been we,l-nigh oblit-
Grated during the asccndency of corrupt
and prcfigate oligarchy.