Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-02-17


not he able to understand these figures.
But the taxpayers can.
As the Nc,r Era has lost all faith
in the multiplication table, we will not
expect it to tell US why, if a Democratic
administration can pump water by steam
at cost to tine city Of only S77.74 per mil
lion gallons, when coal is S3.OG ton, a
Republican administration expends $500
per million gallons for the same service,
when coal is only S2.4 per ton. The
double rule of three will work out the
answer in favor Of Democratic economy
by 4 large majority"
AN extract that we republish from
Mayor MacGonisle's last annual mes
sage-which has been before the public
for months and has never been yainsaid
puts the responsibility for an increase
of the city tax just where il belongs, upon
aprohigate Republican street committee.
Should our citizens be so slort-signted as
to let such men rs ran that committee
again get control of city affairs they
may expect more floating debts and more
increase of tax.
The Erunincr cOmmends tine ecOnO-
my of pumping water into the reservoir
by water power. 1t is right, and Supt.
kitci has used the water pumps when-
ever practicable, and he has pumped
with them ut Il cost to the city of 1857
per million gallons pumped, while the
same service under Talbach cost 1915
per million gallons.
THE president on Wednesday evening
gave 4 state dinner to the diplomatic
corps 1t was notable in being the first
| state dinner of the administration ; the
! first in the refurnishei, repainted and re-
| papered executive mansion the first in
four years to the foreign legations, for
whom, during the last three years Of his
presidency, Mr.. Hayes gave an annual
| dinner party in place OF a dinner and the
most elegant in certain of it's appointments
known in many years at the mansion.
As Mr. MACGONIGLE' administration
ha~ pail OF sl5, 900 Of Me city debt, and
! therefore decreased tie ttr burden 40 cents
on erery 500 'aluatton, and as w. d..
Stauter's administration increased tie debt
5000, OO0- nnd therefore Increased tie tar
lufasn $40 on eeerysl0O ea.uation, there
.to', et,ry o'c~er Of property IN tbs CITY 'rAo
is IN .Jator Of lo,c tares, and ecery tenant
IN .fator Of loc rents, should gies to Jha T..
Nae Goaig'c his eote for magyar on Tuesday
| Hctt.
The Carlisle Volunteer, Dem, points
| out that a noticeable feature Of our nOm-
nations for governor is the way they have
been concentrated in certain districts of
limited number and limited area. Four
counties adjoining Centre have had the
candidate six times in the last forty -fcnr
| years and six counties, Of which Schuyl
| kill is tine centre, have had the candidate
eight times within the last thirty eight
years. The balance o; the state has had
| the candidate only once in these forty four
years.
The cv!ored citizens Of Harrisburg as
senblcd liz mass meeting Oh Wednesday
night to discuss the rucen. refusal of the
mayor OF the city, Republican, to give
their race representation on the police
force. Speeches were made by professor
w. Howard Day, Major Simpson and
others, after which 4 series of resolutions
| were reported aud unanimously adopted.
The resolutions recite that whereas colored
natrolmen have been appointed by Demo-
cratic mayors il. Philadelphia, Pittsburgh
and Wlliamsport, the refusal to appoint
| them in Harrisburg is detrimental to the
best interests OF the party and the out
:5owtl Of il prejudice which the mayor and
the patty cannot too soon remove, and
that the colored people will pursue what
| they deem the best course for their own
respect and protection until what they
think right and just is accorded them.
! TIE ETHni.ner has either been misiu-
formed or states what it knows is not true
when it says g that in Lancaster the Dem
ocrats assess the mayors Democratic po,
licemen annually $40, for the election
(corrnpt;onO fund.- No such assessment
or any other assessment has ever been
made upon the police under Mayor Mac
Goniglc, nor upon any other Democratic
/ officeholdcr or candidate for any city office.
within the past six or eight years at least.
Every Democratic officer, like every other
Democratic citizen, is and has been at en-
tire liberty to subscribe voluntarily just
whatever he sees fit t. the Democratic
campaign fund and O! this right to give
moro or less. or nothing at all, the police
men have availed themselves, without any
more uniformity in their subscriptions than
| in those Of ether Democrats. Whether
| they have seen fit to contribute literally
or sparingly or to not contribute at all,
they have neither been coaxed, threatened,
nor influenced by any consideration except
their own inclination. For Of all parties
interested in the campaign Mayor Mac
Gonisle has neither known nor inquired,
nor will he know what any person who
owes his appointment to him has con-