Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-07-01

contest was effected in such manner |
that the vanquished party could afford
to yield most gracefully and assent most
heartily to the will of the majority which
at once became the will of the conven-
ton.
The three days of holiday before US
will be trying to the peace of the town
Monday being sandwiched between Sun
day and the Fourth, will not be likelyt
be much of a work day. 1t is we'll
enough to take it in as holiday, but
we hope that the long-drawn-0ut sweet
ness of the Fourth will make it less of Il
nuisance than it usually is. The small
boys will have a hard pull on their
pockets for so prolonged fireworks dis
play, and it will be mercy to them If
the mayor cuts off that part of their fun
entirely, as perhaps he will.
THERE are good many people who
think that writing poetry is about the
next heinous crime to shooting president.
And such as those will find additional
reason for yesterdays tragedy, in tho pit
tiful verses which Guiteau chanted on the
gallows.
"SwANs sing before they die; it were
better if some people died before they
sing" The latter sentiment will be ap-
plauded by people who read the senseless
babble which Guiteau was permitted to
chant on the gallows and which added SO
largely to the painfulness Of the remark
able scene.
WITHOUT desiring to he captious it
would he satisfying to be told by some Of
our esteemed contemporaries who have
been talking SO glibly of the execution
of Guiteau - just how the feat of cxecut-
ing a man is accomplished. Our own i'm
preston of hanging was that it signified
tho execution of the sentence of the law,
not of the condemned malefactor.
MIR. ROBERT GRANT, author of "Con-
fessions of Frivolous Girl,' and tha}
bright brochure, ''The Little Tin Gods on
Wheels" has written burlesque tragedy,
"The Lambs of Wall Street." satirizing
the Wall street mania, and Introducing
choruses OF ''bulls," ''bears," and Osborn
lambs.:' 1t will be one of the attractions
of the midsummer holiday (August) num-
ber of The Century Magazine.
UARvARD's crimson cOlOrs went gallantly
| to the front in a brilliant Oaric contest
with their old-time rivals, the Yale college
crew. The Harvard boys have plenty Of
cause for self graduation upon tho hand
some victory they achieved in Connect
cuts Thames yesterday it puts them
ahead in the series of seven eight cared
contests that have been rowed since 1876
the time is with a single exception the
fastest time ever made over four-milt
course, and prior to the race there were
serious apprehensions in Harvard circles
owing to the illness of ono of the crew.
THE Malley boys and their female &C
complice are set free as it was anticipated
they would by those persons who have hat
the time and patience to follow the vol
luminous evidence elicted by the trial ant
perceived its weakness in many Of thu
legal requirements necessary to convict
But the verdict does not alter the opinion o
the great public-or that portion Of it VIII
have read the sad history of misguided
and frivolous girl-as to the moral respon
sibility of the defendants. "Who kille,
Jennie Cramer? ?" is a conundrum who's
answer has only technical value. The rea
answer has long been known and the pub
lie verdict iirevocably sealed.
The criminals in tho Jail started th
cheer that greeted the springiag of til
trap that launched the slayer of Garfiel
into eternity !; and the crowd withou
we're wonderfully quick to take up til
, refrain. Just how much of credit wi
' attach to the great American people j
tho spectacle of thousands of them ap
plauding the act that took the life of
man whose responsibility for his awfu
> crime was at least a matter of divergen
opinion, is a question. Silence woul
have been decenter at this supreme mo
ment of drama that Mortified the country
when one of tho principal actors yielde
his wretched life as the expiation de
> manded by the law for what has been S
freely characterized as national loss.
= Now is the season of "summer excul
, sion routes upon us and the handsOm
publication of the Philadelphia g. Readin
railroad is an esteemed contribution t
= this class of holiday literature. The boo
contains upwards of hundred pages,
t enclosed in an illuminated cover, is pre-
e fusely illustrated with sketches of til
: most inviting resorts, and there is ma
, of the Reading road and its branches tia
will be of value to the tourist. There ar
| given bewildering number of pleasar
: summer routes, the prospective travele
D is told just how to reach any desired poir
D and how much it will cost him to 80
and return from his favorite resort IL
j descriptive matter is graphic and allurine
and on the whole the production is highl
e creditable to the enterprise that prompte
:, it.
. We reprint from the columns Of Il
Philadelphia Record, the hostility ,
whose proprietor to Mr.. Pattison was OF
c of the conspicuous features of the recel