Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-10-02

now that Judge FOlger cares little how
he gets office but perhaps he may not
he ready to take advantage of fraud
when i. will not serve to elect him.
DRESSED hogs arc selling in st. Louis
for fraction more than nine cents q
pound. On this basis of calculation it is
figured out that Ben Butterworth, who is
a candidate for Congress in Ohio, runs we'll
up to $50 in value.
THE Suspension Bridge IN Y.) Journal,
an old Democratic paper, last week hoisted
the Folger ticket and paid a heavy mort
gage simultaneously. This paragraph
scarcely needs any commentary for per-
sons who have knowledge of Jay Gould's
peculiar methods in politics.
The great evil of "boss" government
is that tho interest of the official is made
inimical to faithful public service. His
interest is not on the side of fidelity to
the public veal, but on that Of abjcct
obedience to the orders of the ' machine'
and re follows his interest.-From Rt-
tison's Commonwealth Club Speech.
DION BoUcIcAULT has played a practical
joke by producing his old drama of the
Long Strike at Brighton under the
title Mary Barton "-the tital, as VIC
need not say, of Mrs. Gaskcll's very clever
novel, of which the play is merely dra-
matte version. He gave no intimation of
what ho had done and several able critics
declared that his new production could
not possibly hold the STAGE" Thereupon
Mr.. Boucicault amiably spanked them in
tho papers, saying that in " the hurry of
business they had mistaken full grown
man for a new. born child" The Long
Strike is ono of tho most popular of
acting dramas.
DORSEY, secretary of the National Re-
publican committee, and q awaiting trial as
a public thief Robson, renominated,
leading the grand old party" in New
Jersey Folgcr's nomination in New York
brought about by a forged telegram ;
Malone. Cash, Houck, Chalmers ct i'd
omne genus, evangelizing the South !;
and General Beaver relying on "volun-
tary contributions from tide walters and
scrub women to compass his election to
the chief seat in tho gift of our common
wealth. These mark the dissolution of a
party that has long since out-live! its
usefulness.
MIR. WHITTIER writes to protest against
anything like the nonsense and absurdity
of an Italian carnival or New Orleans
festival of unreason, in the bi-Csntennial
celebration Of the founding of Pennsylva-
mia. He thinks the observance of the an
niversary should be more in accordance
with the character of the world-honored
founder of the commonwealth. His main
objection is to the proposed display of
military parades and he asks. "Is it not
possible that this part of tho programme
may be changed: Waving altogether
the question of any Difference to the feel.
ings and principles of the religious society
70 whom the memory Of William Penn is
especially precious, it strikes me that
something is duo to the truth of history
and to that holy experiment. of Christian
craftsmanship, which God has abundantly
blessed in the prosperity of the great
commonwealth whose sure foundations
were laid upon the precepts of the Prince
of Peace"
An interesting bargain is reported by
the New York World to have been made
by Messrs. Hubbell, Hale and Reed, if
Republican reports can be believed.
Hubbell, We are told, furnished the
money to carry Maine, with the under
standing that Mr.. Hale, who, through his
marriage to daughter of the late Mr..
Chandler, has inherited a controlling in
terest in the Republican party in Michigan,
would do his best in return to defeat
Senator Ferry and elect the great black
mailer to the Senate. Mr.. Reed, better
known, thanks to Mr.. Hiscock, as the
"cheerful lido" =" is to cooperate towards
the same end, and-inasmuch as he has
the indubitable qualifications for post of
small wit and hot zeal, not to mention his
notorious connection with the Northern
Pacific /" Ring "-Reed is to be rewarded
with the speakership. The combination
is neat, though it is perhaps open to OBJ
lection on the ground that it savors of
monopoly" It must afford good deal
Of satisfaction to the average decent Re-
publican, when he sees his party threat