Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-01-09

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enough for one section of them to oppose
and for another to support him. AS we
have before said, We do not consider Mr..
Pattison's nomination or defeat, the
qualification or disappointment Of Mr..
Cassidy's desire, either, as essential to
Democratic success in Pennsylvania.
But decency and harmony in the party
organization in Philadelphia are indis-
pensable, and if the . best workers.
there will labor to secure these half AS
strenuously as they seem to he working for
and against Pattison-or for and against
Cassidy-they will deserve the thanks of
the rural Democracy, and perhaps get
grateful recognition from them.
THE Centre Democrat has entered upon
its fourth volume and promises with i'm
proved facilities to do better in future than
the excellent journalistic work that has
characterized ssPast.
The Northern Tier Reporter, published
at Port Allegany, Mexican county, has
changed it's name to the Port ANegany
Reporter. BY whatever name that excel
lent paper is known, it cannot fail to be as
popular with its patrons as its able editor,
A. j. Hughes, is with those who know
him.
THE Western Press, of Mercer, Pa, enters
upon the new year under 4 new manage
ment. Mrs. l.. l.. Garvin succeeds W. 5.
Gavin as proprietor and Thomas w. Nc
Claim assumes the editorial chair. The
new editor has qualified himself in the
school of practical journalism and is 4:
ready writer and competent manager. The
veteran statesman and journalist, Hon.
William S. Garvin, father-in-law of Judge
Turnkey. though he has grown old in the
service Of the Democratic party, still pre-
serves his interest in the paper and, with
unimpaired mental faculties, will continue
to give its patrons the benefit Of his exten-
sive information and ripe Judgment.
OUR esteemed Stalwart contemporary,
the Examiner, copies from the Hour AZ
editorial with which it is no doubt pleased
in which this sentence occurs
While steering clear of faction lac | Ar
thur has already accomplished much to-
ward the reunion of the Republican party,
and has most decidedly distubcd both the
cabinet and the policy Of the adninistra-
tion by removing it's premier and appoint
ing sound, conservative statesman rs
his successor.
If the Examiner will compare this with
what Guiteau said when he fired his shot
and just before about Arthur and Blaine,
it may he still further impressed with
what prize its party has drawn. in the
lottery of assassination"
TmE ,imsrtcan, Philadelphia political
and literary weekly, proposes TO print
soon number of articles on American
authors, giving such details, personal and
literary, as may properly interest the pub
lie. Mr.. Horace Howard Furness, the
scholar, whose great Eva
riorum edition is regarded rs a crown.
ing achievement in it's field, will be the
subject of an article, rs will Mrs Harding
Davis, the novelist Mr.. Paul II. IIayne,
the poet, and Mr.. Frank II. Stockton, the
humCrist, and others. All these are Phil
alelphians by residence, or 10y birth tui
the American's theory rs that the literary
culture ana products of the Middle state,
are entitled to more attention and a fuller
The editor of the National Republican
in Washington is as stalwart in defense of
the new administration as he was bitter
against Garfield and his cabinet. 1t is
thus tenderly that its editor, Gorham,
speaks of parting with the Postmaster
General James A refoymer and an oili
cial ; a hireling by nature and 4 pap
sucker by profession a master of cum-
ming and al adept in craft fawnin. upon
his superiors and tyrannizins over his sub
{ rdinatcs hc was in all positions the
same inflated, incompetent and self
seeking failure the same spineless and
ignorant fisure-head man without
honor. an official without capacity, and q
perjurer without shame"
THE editor of tho Marietta Tmcs, who
went over to Washington to look after the
pOstmast ership HAD 4 nearer view OF Don
Cameron than mortals generally get and
thus he records his impressions "He is
O-day the busiest man at the rational
capital, yet he alway takes time to give
every constituent who calls upon him Il
hearing, and every cause in which Penn
sylvania is directly or Indirectly interested,
finds in him All ardent champion. A
favO: itc plan Of these discontented people
is to speak Of him as 4 cold, heartiess and
man, too distant to be ap.
preached by people in the lower walks Of
life. This is simply not true From
which it is to be inferred that mamesakc
Cameron of the Times is solid.
DURING the late state campaign Il suit
was brought against Orange Noble, Demo
cratic candidate for state treasurer, by
Miss Lille j. Whitney, daughter Of the
inventor of the Whitney sewing machine,
$4,000 damages for the re-
noval of the stock aud machinery of the
Whitney manufacturing company, of Pat.
'rson, N. j., which Mr.. Noble had pur
'hased and taken to Erie. We said that
It the time the suit looked as if it was