Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-05-16

lptes in nppositipn. eAllathat remains
lpw q for Mr.. Asthur. to Ign the com
mission ofshis ff1end, and the beste~al
of another rich prize in the lottery will
have been completed. Our own Senator
Mitchell, who was one of the spartan
band of nays, must view these proceed
ings with especial interest, as the vote
on this nomination may be taken as
fair estimate of the anti-administration
strength in tho Senate, and indicate the
part he may expect to play in the distri.
button of government pap since he
sounded his slogan of defiance. Mr.
Cameron may now hurry along his nomi'
nation of Kaufman.
In Chicago yesterday stock exchange
was opened. Verify, there shall be no rest
for the wicked.
"MERRY May" seems to have been
lost, strayed or stolen, and the substitute
furnished by the weather bureau turns
out a very poor and imperfect article.
TIE substitution of "b" for "p"
in tho Boston Adrertiser's otherwise beau.
tiful account of some Emerson memorial
services made line Of poem appear
"We brayed and sang together"
THE first spring chickens crow will be
heard from the far.off slopes of Oregon
this year. The election of governor and
congressman takes place. on the 9Th Of
Juno.
THE friends of Arthur in New York arc
be ginning to express, in charactcristically
plain terms, their views of the SO called
"bolting movement at Harrisburg.
They say they are certain that the hand Of
Mr.. Blaine is back of it, and that its real
purpose is to make a second term for Mr.
Arthur is out of the question. The Com
me,'eial Adosrtiser, a recognized Stalwart
organ, says "All the signs indicate this p
then adds, Barker, who slops over on all
let the cat out of tho bag when
he announced that the work of tho late
calls upon the Independents to
make war on Cameron and Arthur"
EQUALIED by few and excelled by none
is the following definition furnished by
the New York Herald in reply to the
query of Harper's Weekly, "What does
half-breed mean ~: "Well," says the
Herald, "a half.b breed is politician just
as eager for tho spOils as the other, but
equally eager to mako men believe that
he is not in the least anxious on that
point. He has all the vices of the out.
and out spoils hunter, with tho vice Of
in addition. He is a man who
can snivel through the nose about civil
service for four years or eight or twelve
when he is not in power, and then cast
civil service to all tho winds of heaven il
the first half hour in which he obtains 8
position that might enable him to put hi
theories in practice if he were honest: Ii
fact, a half breed in politics is just like :
half-breed between two races-he has th'
vices of both parents or parties and th'
virtues of neither"
THE tone of the Republican press i.
Ohio and Iowa is extremely despondent
and the newspapers declare that the
recent sumptuary legislation in those
states, which was conceived and executed
in the hope of catching the "religious y
vote, has not only failed of that purpose
by reason Of the quick intelligence of the
people seeing through the transparent
veil with which it was hoped to concea
an unworthy make shift, but has actually
alienated the large German vote, together
with considerable proportion OF other de
cent and shrewd people. Heretofore the
Germans of the West, except on merel!
local issues, have voted almost solidl!
with the Republican party now their Owl
newspapers declare that their strength
will be transferred to the Democratic
ticket in the approaching elections. tt
hear the Republican organs preach of tn
moral courage exhibited by their party il
enacting these laws that have recoiled s.
disastrously upon their trainers is anus
ing and does not cali for serious considera
ton. Persons with ordinary perception
could not fail to see in the laundering dc
vices of the Western lawmakers anothe.
frantic gasp by the party of expediency te
maintain its fast waning powder, who in
this instance seem to be hoist by their owl
pctard.
Ii tho North american Reriea, for June
Senator w. B. Allison has q paper OF
" The Currency of the Future" in which
he indicates the measures that will hav,
to be taken by Congress for insuring :
stable currency after the national deb
has been extinguished. "A Memoran
dunn at Venture" by Walt Whitman, j.
I'm explanation of his purpose and point
of view in trenching upon topics mo-
usually regarded as amenable to literar,
treatment. "Andover and Greed Sub
scription," by Rev. DR.. Leonard Woolse,
Bacon, is a philosophical review of tn.
present state. of dogmatio belief in thu
churches. Hon George F. Seward, lat,
minister to China, in an article entitled
" Mongolian immigration" makes an
argument against the proposed anti-Chi
nese legislation. DR.. John w. Dowling
Dean of the New York Homeopathic
Medical college, comes to the dsfencs
of the Hahnemannic school of medicine