Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-03-16

tand-Te Deg to inform him that he IS
Low regularly referred to in that journal
by the sobriquet which crstwhiIs was SO
Objectionable to him. While he ref.ains
from bringing his suit does he mean to
have it understood that his character is
below ridicule and contempt or that it is
not worth picayuna? { Webster" A
small coin of the value Of 6I cents.'')
THEY manage these things better in Can.
ada. Our Indian military expenses during
the past ten years have been more than one
hundred million dollars, and we have
nothing to show for it but the record of
one more decade in our century of dis
honor" In Canada the government has
to deal with more than one hundred thous-
and Indians, scattered over q wide terri
tory, belonging to different tribes and of
different degrees of civilization. A war
with the Indians in Canada is almost w.
known. The Indian department report is
taken up with the peaceful accounts of
the establishment Of schools, the reclama-
ton of land, the cultivation Of farms, the
building Of churches, the advance in the
mechanical arts. With us Indian official
literature consists mainly of reports
Of massac:es, wars, the swiEd!ing
operations of railroad companies, miners
and adventures generally.
We have not yet met with i word OF
4 20 1of
! it was asserted, was expressly cabled for
New York PAPER. was it beyond criti-
cism? We would like to know.-G German
toscn Telegraph.
Our esteemed contemporary either has q
very short list Of exchanges Or it does not
read them very closely for any other puv.
pose than to see if they have appropriated
it's excellent agricultural articles without
due credit. Scarcely paper OF any standing
in the country failed to criticiss Tenny-
sons new poem. 1t was variously pro-
nounced good, bad and Indifferent. Two
of the Lancaster daiiies, which arc known
to exchange with the Telegraph, rated it
, as far below Tennyson's best, and the other
iutin:atcd that the charge of his Three
| Hundred couldn't compare with the charge
Of tie Three Hundred and Six at Chicago.
The Telegraph has 40 good ground for its
insinuation that the poem was not actually
. cabled to the Iadependsat, and though it
has been suggested that it was heavy
enough to break the submarine wire had
! it not been laid on the bottom OF the sea.
the Independent got big advertisement
by furnishing the poem to the dai'ies.
The astute committee which drafted
the new rules for tho Republican party Of
this county provided in the schedule to
them, that the first primary election of
1882 sh;:: be held under the foregoing
rules an! regulations, at which election
! the question of their adoption or rejection
shall be voted upon.'' This is probably
the first instance on record in which it was
proposed to hold an election under new
law which was to be submitted for ;idop-
tion or rejection at that same election.
This is clearly er post facto, and violation
Of the existing rules Of the party. They
are in force until after new rules arc
adopted and cannot be changed with
ont . popular vote. They know
no such thing rs the delegates
proposed 10 he elected at the coming pvi-
mares, and election officers sworn to con
duct the primaries under the rules Of the
party will be bound t" count all votes cast
for such delegates as "nil. Should it
happen that one candidate for any Office
be elected by q plurality of the popular
vote, under the old system, anu another
candidate for the same place be chosen
under "the rcw rules" clearly the first
will be entitled to claim tho regular nomi-
nation, even though the new rules pre-
walls. The committee WHO proposed the
new rules oycrreached themselves and
suggested 4 violation Of law in scheduling
them for operation before they are
adopted.