The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-07-28

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Twill puzzle the rest to undo us.
Fortunate Pennsylvania.
The Pennsylvania Democrats have
been unusually fortunate this year.
Their State Convention has been con-
Quoted with perfeet harmony; the spirit
of the party is everywhere enthusiastic,
and every independent voter in the
Keystone State, even without the help
of the outSpoken platform. would rec
ognize the ticket nominated at Harris
burg as the only effcctual rallying- point
of the opposition to bosses in this
year of revoits. Not one of all the
candidates named at Harrisburg was so
much as tainted with Il suspicion of
:. bossism The nominee for Gov
crnor. Comptroller Robert L. PattiSon.
of Philadelphia, was elected to the I'M
portant office which he now fills in
1877, running somewhat ahead of his
ticket but rs the Republicans were then
staggering under the weight of the
HAYES fraud of 1876, this fact attracted
little attention Mr. Pattison made so
good n Comptroller, he 50 distinguished
himself by his keen attention to the
public interest and his searles, oppoSi-
ton TO all sorts OF iobbery, that not
withstandipg some unpopularity with
one wing OF his own party, he was re-
nominated in 1880, and soon developed
into such a formidable candidate that
the Ring Republican standard bearer
WAS hastily Withdrawn and a safer nom
inee substituted. Mr. Pattison, howev-
er, was re elected by an overwhelming
majority, running II, 600 votes, or about
twenty-five per cent. ahead of the Han
cock Electors, and carving the city by
Il, coo votes, while the other Democrat
ic nominees were defea ell by 20,000
woes. This notable circumstance led
the World to commend Mr. Patt.son last
year to the Democrats of Pennsylvania
as an eligible nominee for Treasurer.
He has now been selected as the Guber-
material candidate of the party even in
preference to SO strong and popular
Democrat as Mr.. Eekley Coke, of Lu-
zerne, and this selection gives the coun-
try the best pos sible assurance that the
Democrats OF Pennsylvania have no idea
OF aiding the Camerons. 1t will encour-
ace the Independents to continue THEN
warfare. since not the mos timid of re-
formers can Ae himseffor failing to
support Mr. Pattison by alleging that the
interests of the State would be safer in the
hands of General Beaver. 1t will be said
OF course here and there that Mr. Patti
son ; reputation is purely Philadelphian,
and that he may suffer as a candidate
from the long-standing divorce between
the citv and the rural districts. But il
must be remembered that only through
the vote of Philadelphia has the Key
stone State been kept in the Republican
column. and Mr. Pattison has already
shown himself capable of making for
midabie inroad upon the Republican
majority. From still another point OF
view Mr.. Pattison's 5 nomination is to be
commended The Harrisburg Conven-
ton is the first great Democratic gath
ering of the year. 1T has assembled just
at the moment when the country is ask
ing itself where the audacious eXtrava-
gance of the Republican majority in
Congress is TO end, and what curb can
lie put upon the impudent disregard OF
decency and of efficiency in the Civil
Service displayed by the Republican Ma
tional Committee and the Republican
Administration. Mr.. Patlison'S nomina.
ton pro5es that on the greatliving issue
OF economical and business like Govern
ment the Democrats are sound beyond
peradventure. EX-Speaker RandaIrs
denunciations of Republican reckless
ness on the floor of Congress are echoed
at Harr sDurg by the nomination of
public officer of proved capacity and
/ integrity. whose strength with the indie
pendent and respectable voters of his
State overlapssthe lines of his own par
tv. In this sense the nomination is a
matter Of National interest. and should
il ripen into an election, those who re-
member the political events of 1852 will
not be surprised to see it become a mat
ter of National Importance. Democrats
all over the country viii do well to in
vite Republicans all over the country to
compare the standard-bearer of the
Democracy in Pennsylvania with his
rival, the agent OF boss committed
by machine convention to the policy
OF = Addition, Division ard Silence, .
and pledged against reform in all its
phases and shae T. World.
New York City has the youngest
burglar on record. He is eight years
old and his plain unvarnished name is
George johnson. He was arrested in
company with thieves much older than
himself, and when questioned as to what
part he played in the depredations. said:
II d be a fly an pipe OF the perlice
while de udder fellers were working the
inside racket. When asked what he
did when strangers approached he re-
piled: : Yell Cops an skip de gut
ter" Instead of locking the boy up the
''perlicen sent him home to be spanked
and put to bed. N T. Herald.
-AnAllentownC Constable recently saw
some suspicious looking characters, one
of them masked. dividing some money
behind an old stone quarry. Being a
Constable he thought they had earned
the money, and were merely wearing
masks TO keep their noses warm. He
was afterward greatly surprised to hear
that farmer had been robbed. No
arrests. - Philddelotid Netcs.
James Fogarty, of Chicago, tried to
eat three quarts of peanuts in twenty
minutes ON bet of 50. andit took sur
geon whole hour to get the shucl1s out
of his throat and call him the biggest
hog in America.
"A too funny man named Bristol
threw chew of tobacco to an elephant
attached to circus, exhibiting at Cleve-
land. Oswego County, n. T., and barely
escaped being killed by the enraged an
imal
There is postmaster in Louisiana
named Takeaway, but he only takes
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