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


our success in Indiana, which was more
largely due to Senator Dorsey than to
anyone else" According to the prose
cutions of Mr.. Arthur's attorney gen
eral this Dorsey is a thief, and the
/" soap - he applied to the Indiana cam
paign was money stolen from the public
treasury. And yet he remains secretary
of the Republican national committee
and there is no sign that the president
thinks less of him than ever.
IL seems that the New York superin-
tendent of prisons, Pillsbury, who has
been removed to make place for bad
lot Baker, 4 friend of ConkliDg, was
as eminently fit for his place us Baker is
unfit. The latter is low
grade politician without experience or
ability in the line Of his appointment.
Pillsbury had both In al eminent, degree
and the result of his administration was
that whereas in the year 1876, which i'm
mediately preceded his entrance into
Office, the deficiency in the cost of main.
tenance Of the state prison, which had
to be made up by public taxation, was
S704.379. in 1881, the last year of his
term. this annual deficiency had been
wholly wiped out and there was sur
plus OF earnings over expenses. Gov.
Cornell. himself, referring to this fact in
his last message. said - for the first time
in their history the state prisons during
the last year We're self-sustaining. Mr.
Pillsbury has been entirely fair and non
partisan in his administration, and his
displacement has no motive but to secure
a political advantage to the Stalwart
faction. The Democratic majority in
the New York Senate should not con-
firm Pillsbury's successor. The vote on
this issue will test the sincerity of their
party fealty and develop what there is in
the alleged Republican-Tammany bar
gain.
MALONE has got his man nominated for
the Norfolk postoflicc over the incumbent,
Il regular Republican, urged by the Re-
publican congressman from the district.
AS tho latter had been sent in to the Sen
ate and withdrawn by the president at
Mahone's instigation, Gov. Hoyt. may yet
succeed in getting Arthur to draw back
Congressman Scranton's man for the
Wilkesbarre office.
THE president shows the white feather
too often. 1t is notable, however, that when
nc recedes from a position it generally
proves to be a recession in favor of the
Stalwarts. lie was bulldozed into with
the appointment oc Halfbreed
editors brother in-iaw to the Rio Janeiro
and Mahone's wrath forced him
to change his mind on The Norfolk post
office appointment.
SENIOR ZAMACoNA's withdrawal as Mex
ican minister at Washington marks the
close of term of service which has been
Of great valuo both to the country he rep
resented and that to which he was accred-
tied. NJ. Romero, tho new envoy, will be
as one of the associates with
General Grant in the Mexican Central and
= conspicuous figure at tho Could G rant
Mexican banquet in New York; sort of
Mexican Stalwart, as it were.
GEN. SKOBELEFF, the reckless, lashing,
brave and popular young Russian general,
under the influence of champagne, lightly
made somewhat boastful speech in Vienna
indicating warlike purposes on the part of
his government toward the rest of Europe.
The old world governments have taken it
wherever goes lie is dogged by
spies, and while the weary powers at St.
Petersburg await his return to discipline
him the sentimentalists find even in the
publication Of Tennyson's new poem
revival of anti-Slavonic feeling With an
lncrowned Car afraid to stir beyond his
palace, Russia has enough trouble at home
70 keep her employed for some years to
,omc
THE Chambcrsburg Valley Spirit, one of
he most cstimable of our esteemed Dem
'cratic contemporaries thinks the latter
'art Of the month of July would be none
oo late for holding the state convention.
The middle Of June, which some suggest,
would, it seems to us, be earlier than nec-
'ssary. The Republicans will meet on
LAY 10th, and tho Wolfe Independents
wo weeks later. Two months, whilst it |
Gems long time to wait, would develop
he purposes of the enemy and the delay
Vould give us every advantage we could
ain by an early convention and at the
anne time avoid prolonged and expen-
i've campaign" The general sentiment
t the party is against an carly convention.