Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-07-20
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TAe exercises Of tho Alumni association
of the state normal school at Millersvillo.
took place on Wednesday sltessooo, in
the chapel building, whore these had a.
sembled . goodly andiso6A oh6 6pbkd 49,
most entirely Of studentn- and alnmni of
the institutiOn. The number Of the latter
returned to the scenes of their early
scholastic labOrs is quite largo and lends
An additional feature " ineerSse ID tho
exercises incidental to commencement
time. .
1At trose.ock .,e phP.l was we'll filled
with Mo Aarian6a Gibbons president,
Miss Harriet !. Bruckhart secretary, Mr..
A. 4. Byerly treasurer, and Mr.. Thomas
Il. Baker chairman Of tho executive CON-
mittsG ..bhSrtly alter The hour Reatiaasj
Miss Gibbons delivered the salutatory adj
dress upon "The Day and the Hour"
Quoting the words ascribed to Robert
Bruce On the eve Of Bannockburn Miss
Gibbons proceeded to- paint, in tho
most vivid 6lor4 - etlS corrup-
ton and rosteunesy of oar present
political methods and the urgent necessity
Of q OneelcoTecting, the thhn0 thatJb4ve
ihfested every branch of bur geverpm6nksl
system, cOrrupting the legislative branch
Of tho service and making the executive,
department. of the admnistiaSisdfa crusf
and powerful Oligarchy, that has laid hold
Of the liberties of thu, peOple and IL stead
10 SV1nv masn SkC III
tho sfaifs Of the natiOu. Miss Glib.
bons graphically sketched the man
nor in which political conventions aro
run, where the will of the BoJis'i b oannip6.
tent and where his puppets 20 through the
motiose or Deniuasine the cSaltires-, q,
his choice. MifiionsUf dollarS ars-tksn
raised to put these men into tho Office, for
vhich they hAyo.b been designated, to con-
'tinus tho teiiD d fraud, pro0igacy and
dishonesty in every department. OF the
public service. In the space of sixteen
years the expenditures of tho navy depart
nsnt aoountod 10 tAa ee0neus san Of
$243, ,0OO, 900, Of which S18O, ,OOO. 900 wero
spent during tho six years prior to 1877.
These figures argue that there was some
thing radically wrong with tAe' zlisinis-
.tIation Of that branch of the service, and
- result Of that immense outlay We have
Amsr;ca corH hiov amt of tb. vats-
Mia Gibbons nitsnccd the camrc;o- a ~
PhiI.6elni,sI ~ S;is,;.u ,ss,o IN iate.esisis
tn ha aIsct.d sks,;a, lsv;a1 al sSssSIss.see
of A40 OOO nnon tho emnlovce. of ths
-alnshcnss r,k;la the nnforfnn.te ;nm.tss
Of Chat ;nst;tnt;on vera Tr;nr ~ ;n.tts~
t;on "a and neoject and snfsr;no for ~.
nece.sor;e. of I;Ss Evsrvona -e.ocn;..S
The nortra;t 40 that of Rov." Hs H..
in . mo.t cans,;c ,nanner S-cv.J ~. r,-o1
tr:;t of ~ m"d.,n .nsse;.aI Nos. . nm
dnctton N stHss 19i xntnrv c;1;i;zat;o.
Ghcss conntsrnarf las nsver .nns.rsd
in the hi.forv of, tha vrA. IA h~
ia =, alcmade man ~ has laid ths
fonndat;or nj IL. fortupc bv robh;no ths
haInless ,nerhans ,novcr,has hecn hsnd.d
dam frnua fsther Ia son : in, e;ther ca
tbe tra;ts AZ chsractsr sre mnah tL. .an.
in private life he Is vuloar In hia manners'
lox In h;s ;rst;not., ae ,lrm,h.,d :. ,c..'
hlsr Ard a dehanci,er !. ss a SnhS, ~: r.
10 ahove ,ne.s"rs ova,be.r;nr I.nt.I
tvrann;oaI raveno.rn, ranac;o,," .nd 80
6d;on. moral ;5sas arc to him =. soIo-.
IN IN. Hind sm.n.h;s, I.,h..,~S
stndied Lnovs M more ~ than a Hoe.
teotot. opeuiv sidionies and despisss
SPrsct;c.l noiit;cs "~fSa. ;s ofyscs.hnnt.
inc and afSice-hod;ur~.re h;s f;sid
TSonoh . klSt.nt natr2,. Ia do. nok Ts.;'
tate 70 ifiliate vith unreSensans traifors.
noy.r G-s.dv G Soah r sor r,o.,.- .s " .nS ""-.-
the only crime that is crime in his eves ia
res;stancs to hi. tvranny- S,,ch ,.s,ss...s
"a, ~ tS,csfs, the 49, ,SSua". h''s; %
.@t~c
neas men ref,sa to do his Sid6;no Per.
n. IN Ss.H vl.o SSSs 80 H;s RI M h;a.HxsY NJ Ssni.t.
inc ths r,o.t .oI.r,,. r,,.Jc.. 90 sh". n.
s fss4. ~ A. "ho;"" - H. y's..,s ~. ~
h;oh..t oSBc. in th.;r eff, = ~sr.-,i.d -;.S
nIsce "a ~, - ]. II An Sc"r,ss = it'll
boss. imitates tia vorst vices of hi. r,..
ter ter ard Isl iiEe e. him a nSSiic % 81 SaSmv I'm We: an
eyesore, and ! csrss +, scelety. n
Mis- Gibbons then said that il leadar.
Stevens and .Jamen Abram- -Gerl,cld In
Whum y We % shsSiaie look for Il. and osid a a
glowing tribute tn the memory and nol;ti-
cal virtues Of those celebrared characters.
The onlv vav in which the nernici0us avs.
tam that sped the assassin's bullet and IN
bindino the n6tiod with chainl 0fIsteeI
eoe Of cS ses1o. pso1% n TSs sn
pofrtments ~ ones shall DO made With
regard 70 the,special fitness Of the persona
arrolitda tS fuifill he slueies(Sf tho Sn6lI
tiOn:. let the tenure 10 for hHbr dmRs
made in regular osder after the manner nj
the military branch of. the goverDment !;
,Iolitisal aSsessmeits ID b declArsd fol-
Ony and punishable as such. Now in the