Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-12-01

poor house and hospital have been run
by the McMellens, Mentzers and Sem
senigs to the shame of the county. Is
it not time there was a change: !: The
warning Republican factions OF this
county have shown themselves alike
faithless or imbecile to accomplish any
reform. Under the present system of
choosing them and in the present cor
rupt and demoralized condition of the
Republican party in this county there
will be no reform. If the people of this
county really want change now is the
time to move for it, when reform Leg
islature and governor are soon to be in
Quoted into Office, pledged to give the
state and its counties the best admins.
tration of the best system possible.
AN aggrieved st. Louis husband met
his wife coming out of house of i'll
repute with her paramour, and he shot
her-compaaion. The shot was not
fatal so there will likely he no proscu-
tion of anything but a divorce suit
against the faithless woman. ''Society''
can hardly expect to have the protection
of the law nor the respect of the lawless
when such a mess of offenses like this
receive no cognizance from the police
authority of the commonwealth.
i DEMOCRATIC exchange gets around it
in this manner "If Butler did steal the
spoons, and we do not knop that he did, it
was when he was Republican"
THE Centre Democrat wisely suggests
that unless other than political reasons are
urged against him, Professor E. f. Hig
bee superintendent of public instruction,
should DO retained in ofice.-TSmss.
DR.. Hisbee's commission runs for four
years, of which two have not yet expired
Until the expiration OF his term, at least,
there will certainly bo no though. Of his
removal.
THE chief of the statistics bureau fur
nishcd to Washington minister some of
the reasons why we, as people, ought to
be thankful. Among these were the facts
that the corn crop of this year was $780,
600, 900 bushels against /, 104, GIG, 600 in
1881; the wheat crop increased from $780,
$50, 900 to 100000, 900; the last years
fiscal report was 9G, GGS, 1GO tons Of freight
carried on railroads 20 81, 100. 344 the year
before and 20, 905, 900 tons of coal mar.
keted against 60 zoe, ,0S4 in 1880.
The real working journalists Of Phila-
delphia have organized what has long been
needed there, press club, composed ex-
clusively of newspaper men. H. F. Kee-
nan, of the Press, has been made presi-
dent of it, and DR.. Lambdin, of tho Times,
vice president. Tho management is rep.
resentative Of the leading newspapers, and
the chief editors Of all the city papers will
be elected as honorary members. The
membership is open to country editors
and many Of them will doubtless avail
themselves of the opportunity to establish
closer relations with their Philadelphia
brethren. There is also a state association
of Pennsylvania editors, which holds its
annual meeting in January, and measures
should be taken to establish good relations
and free correspondence between the state
society and the new Philadelphia club.
In tho North american Rev. George T..
Rider makes furious onslaught on jour
nalism, his complaints eliminating in the
charge that the American editors still
living arc guilty, among many naughty
things, Of spreading further and wider a
corrupt mongrel vocabulary" The
Printers Circular answers this charge by
simply quoting the following gem to
illustrate Rev. Riders style:
"a latter day parvenu, its ephemeral
futter, its perpetual coming and going, its
very irridescence of transiency and unrest
ing 1lux constitute its rGis0n d'etre. Like
the chorus of old tragedians, it lives,
moves, and has its being outside the un-
folding drama Of growing civilization. and
is only impersonal voice-comment. Its
illumination is cold, auroral, spectral, as
of the cerebrum. The radiance of the
head kindles it, if at all, at long, raro in
tervals. This is, in substance, its record
of ITSELF"
There are very few newspapers so utter
" abandoned as to tolerate such writing
as that.
TUE Pittsburgh Post, which knows all
such things, tells how the Democratic
newspapers came to print the rooster on
tho day after political victories. In In
diana in 1874 at some local election pre-
liminary to the general election in the
state, the Democrats Unexpectedly SCOOP
ed the Wings, and letter from an active
Democrat communicating the views to the
editor began with the injunction Crow,
Chapman, CroW." Sure enough, Chap
man did crow, and using these words as a
head line in his next days issue, first in
troduced the Democratic roosters as the
harbinger of victory. The Whig. and later
the Republican coon was one of the pro-
perties in the log cabin and hard cider
campaign Of 1910, when the enthusiasm of
the Wings found vent in all sorts of odd
conceits. It was the fashion in that can
vass to construct log cabins for political
meetings, and in backwoods style COON
skin was nailed alongside of tho cabin
door, to be cured or dried. This is a COM
mon sight now in coon-hunting regions of
the mountains, and in 1910 it was supposed
to symbolic frontier life and the incidents
of "Old Tippecanoe's'' pioneer days.
The first paper in the United States to use
the elephant as a symbol of Republican