Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-05-06


That mourns, alone and silent,
On ledge Of burning sand.
-Heine
THE Philadelphia Times very sensibly
argues that the contests in the Democratic
delegation from that city to the state con-
vention should be settled at home and not
taken to Harrisburg. The city Democrats
have often been disgraced by the transfer
of their quarrels to the state convention,
where they have become state scandal.
Those from the interior long since became
disguised with that kind of thing and
have repeatedly given notice that Phila-
delphia quarrels must be settled in Phila
delphia, and this the Democrats are now
trying to do. There is every prospect
that they will succeed.
IT is in Crawford county that the sys-
tenn reaches its perfection. If tue Pitts
burg Chronicle is to be believed the Lam
caster striker should strike for Meadville
at once. According to the Chronicle at the
late Republican county convention, where
Dick was laid out and Reform won, ''of the
SO delegates it is a modest estimate to
place so as having sold their votes, and it
is very doubtful if the lowest price was
under $500. The issue Of the contest
depended entirely on the strength of tho
financial backing of the candidate
THE wise Serpents and innocent Doves
having long trained in different Factions,
conceived tho Idea that for sweet Har-
mony's sake they would combine their
Fortunes and form party Of superior
Wisdom and Innocence. But when the
combination had been effected it was
found tha: the Serpents appropriated all
the Wisdom and left only the Innocence
to the Doves. Whereupon tho larger por
ton of the Doves, who had somehow be-
como inoculated with Wisdom, found out
that they were no better off than before,
and withdrew from the Partnership.
MORAL: " Reform smother year."
AS might have been expected, the York
Eccning Dispatch, is entirely reconcilcd to
Kauffman's displacement of Wiley as col
lector, on the ground that the counties of
York and Perry-both. Democratic-help
to make up the district aud by custom
the patronage of the minority counties
belongs to the senator. Besides, "Col-
lecter Wiley to strengthen Congressman
Smith in his district would appoint his
friends and send them into York county
to do duty in a district he did not repre-
sent" whereas under Kaufman, "the
best men qualified will be chosen as deputy
collectors, store keepers and saugers, and
the revenues carefully returned to the
government" 1t is to be hoped that when
Andy comes to handing out tho places to
the "best men" Brother Hiram Young Of
the Dispatch will not be overlooked.
REV. DIR. CUYLER states the case sue
cinctly thus : 'No stream rises higher
than its fountain. The vital point at
which sound temperance principles are to
be applied is the conscience ofths indiuidual
Righteous laws against the drink traffic
are eminently desirable. When sustained
by powerful public sentiment they pro-
duce admirable results but. no civil en-
actment will prevent man from becom-
ing a drunkard if he is fool enough to
tamper with Intoxicating drinks" Has
itevor occurred to the Temperance agita-
tor that, after all, local option practically
prevails in Pennsylvania /? Wherever
local sentiment is strong enough to elect
and sustain court which will, in tho ex-
ercise of its discretion, grant no licenses,
there the liquor traffic may be virtually
abolished without any amendment in tho
| existing laws of the state.
THE New York Sun calls this L" the
voice of true craftsmanship" 1t is the
voice of Hon. Sam'l s. Co1.in Congress:
81 favor, openly and boldly, tho entire
abolition of the cumbruous, corrupt and
spying system of the internal revenue. 1t
is not necessary to say that it's officers are
corrupt; it is the system. Its officers
pursue the voter into his cigar and tobacco
shops and into stills, breweries and facto.
ries with threats, and it has its army of
5000. Worse than tho january or tho
mameluke, it undertakes by it's occult
machinery to intimidate and defraud,
Away with it I! Every speck Of 1t on our
body polite is cancer. I am willing to
meet this issue at the polls, aud woe be to
that member who upholds it to overfill our
treasury, that the greedy may riot in the
peoples hard-earned means collected by
its officials. Indeed, it seems part of the
| plan adopted by the dominant party to
allow no reduction. The surplus is to be
piled up year after year, and this is the
| issue we are to meet"
A.Fitiabls Spectacle.
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