Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-03-02

aClOn Oh popular new taH Dlll tndI
is to he completed by the revenue COM
mission about the middle of this month,
and which will propose 4 reduction of
something like sl,OOO,OOO in the annual
tax levies. The story breaks down from
it's own weight. Gov. Hoyt is not alto
gether fool. He knows no such pre-.
text would deceive the people. The call
of a special legislative session would
arouse a storm of Indignation before
which he and his party would go down
together. 1t would introduce a dan
gerous element of discord into the ap-
preaching canvass that would speedily
work Republican ruin. There vii! be no
special session of the Legislature.
THE ten gentlemen in the Philadel-
phia select council who, on state and
national issues are Democrats, have
| wisely united with one Republican
and three Independent Republicans in
the selection of a Republican for presi-
dent of the select branch. Their choice
is not made because he is 4 Republican,
but because they have confidence that if
elected he will take the chair unpledged,
except to advance the best interests of
the community, and his election will
show that they are opposed to the plac-
ing or dlsplacing of officials for party
motives. This is the proper position for
the Democrats to assume, and they do
we'll to show their sincerity in it, by not
seeking to elect one of their own party,
however worthy, to the presidency. The
address which they and their Reform as
sociates have put forth says what is true
Of all city governments ''No party
question can come properly before coun-
ellis. The measures which we are called
upon to consider are those exclusively
of finance, of taxation, of economy and
the administration Of local government
for the benefit of the masses of the people.
The proper time has come when all good
citizens should cast aside the trammels
of party dictation and unite upon the
best measures to tighten the burden of
taxation and to apply the sums assessed
upon property to the best uses'' OF
course, McMullin and the Ring Repub-
licans will set up candidate for them
selves, the most pliable that they have
any hopes Of electing 1t is as satisfac-
tory to see McMullin in the right com
pany as it is natural that the Democrats
should prove to be the majority of those
who will make reform triumphant.
| REPUBLICAN STATE CHAIRMAN COOPER
picks out Senator Wolverton for the
Democrats to nominate for governor.
This will not help Wolverton's chances.
| THERE seems to be a demand upon
somebody to chronicle in verse the charge
of the gallant three hundred and six upon
tho federal Offices that are turned out by
the lottery Of assassination.
Tue scheme for an elevated railway in
Philadelphia is effectually scotched fol
the present by a unanimous negative re-
port by the council committee on railroads
Meantime the reports Of the street rail
ways to the state show that their profits
like their rates of fare are undimnished
The Free Masons of Philadelphia and
other parts of Pennsylvania-there is some
outlying territory-will have a grand pa
rade and other festivities in celebration OF
the sesqui-ccntennial, Or one hundred and
flftieth anniversary of the organization
of the r. W. Grand Lodge of Pennsylva
MIA, on the Gath of June
NEW YORK is not apt to mako mucl
headway in securing the removal of the
Philadelphia mint so long as the reports
like that of last month, show that its coin
age during the past month, amounting tt
IS, ,Gs1, ,S7O.5O, was very nearly two-third.
of the total production, thus leaving bu
one third to be distributed between three
other mints.
THE New Jersey House has followed tn,
Senate in overriding Governor Ludlow.
veto of the bill empowering the New Jer
sey Central railroad to increase it's capita
| SWIM ohu VuO OOulu anu T. IL. IL. COmDl
nation will be'able by means of the watere,
stock to keep control. New Jersey alway
was considerably corporation-ri ridden, ant
in the strife Of the corporation combina
tions to get tho better of each other tho
old ring has shown that it still encircles
the Legislature.
THE Examiner displays some spirit an,
some spunk in its defense of the "3O6.
1t says truly that the Half-breeds Away
call upon the Heavy Brigade whe,
the fighting is to be dore and as it
editor was along with Cameron when b
made his Western trip in 1880, he know
whereof he speaks when he says that bu
for the Salwarts Garfield would not hav
been elected. The Examiner editor coult
probably tell his readers something abou
the treaty Of Mentor when, as one of th
Stalwarts puts it, "the Republican candi
date would have signed his name to a shee
of blank paper
THAT our literary and critical reader.
may have q chance to contrast the earlie
and later production of Tennyson, O
which his own act has invited compari-
son, we print together his two battl.
poems for which he found subjects a,
Balaklava. Despite the almost universally
kind recoptiOn of tho G Charra of tbr