Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-10-21

PArTIsoN took look at Harrisburg, or
rather Harrisburg took look 1t Pattison
last night. We trust they were mutually
satisfied, for the people Of the common
wealth have made up their minds that
they shall become well acquainted with
each other during the next four years.
HIPPLE MITCHELL is trying to get back
to the Sepste from Oregon. The Legis-
!ature has been in a deadlock over him for
weeks. His supporters are gradually
leaving him, however, and all the indioa-
ton now are that he and his fragrant
record will remain in the retirement that
is so grateful to long suffering public.
BUCKEYE enthusiasm couldn't stand it
any longer, and last night it had full
vent. While the Ohio Democrats were
celebrating their great victory in the state
capital the Harrisburg people were en-
tertaining their spotless candidate in a
way that is only foretaste of what is to
come after Pattison's election.
JUDGE FOLGER, Is secretary of the treas
ury the United states, is qualified as no
other man is to know how easily stock
values may be manipulated to suit tho pur-
poses of the millionaire speculators Of the
land. His claim that values have depre-
ciated since the Ohio election is about as
reasonable as would be the assertion that
oil remains at its present high figures by
reason Of prospects Of Democratic success.
DemaSOgism of this kind will bring more
of loss than gain to the Republican party.
"PUBLIC Office is public trust
to be executed for the benefit of
the whole people, to whom alono officials
owe their responsibility and of whose will
they should be tho faithful exponcnts.
When this conception Of duty is lost sight
of OF modified, the way is open for an i'm
mediate, certain and constant dcgcncracy
o! tho public service. A merely mechan-
ical and negligent performance of official
functions follows the OblitcratiOn Of these
standards of duty. This results from tho
long continuance in power Of selfish poll
tical leaders, and is most serious evil in
the public service. ."-FrOm Rttison's Conn
monccalth Club Speech.
OK Beavers visit to Connellsville, Fay
cite county, the Stalwarts engaged two
carriages to take him and escort to the
hotel on arrival. One of these convey 9
ances was procured from a wellknown
liveryman Of the town, and tho other
from an undertaking establishment, the
owner thereof being a relative Of the post
master. A dispute arose at the depot as
to which carriage skould have the honor,
a fight ensued, the liveryman Was knocked
out of time, his conveyance sent home,
and the general was placed in the under
taking conveyance. Some people might
regard this as an ominous incident.
MIR. HERBERT SPENCEE's pbilosopbic
observations on public affairs in this
country, as published in the morning
journals, arc having a wide reading.
There arc but few thoughtful persons who
do not recognize in them a new proof of
his powers as an acute analyst of the men
and events of our time, and of the impell.
ing motives which shape their courses
The ideas which make the deepest i'm
preston are the delusion that education is
the true and only panacea for political
evils !; that the average American citizen
has not sufficiently quick sense of public
duty, lot a sufficiently quick sense of the
claims Of others, and that he is afflicted
with an easy going readiness to permit
small trespasses because it would be
troublesome, Or profitless or unpopular to
oppose, which leads to the habit of ac-
quiescence in wrong aad tue decay Of free
institutions.