Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-04-15

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a great deal more creditably to himself
than Samson's. 1t is, of course, unfor
tunate for their own credit and for tht
public interest, that the aldermen exer'
else their discretion'' to make the
most business for themselves and the
most expense for the county, but the
auditors seem to give Pat the cake for
being the least voracious of the loca'
magistrates, SO far as heard from.
HADN'T ex-senator Hiestand better be
looking after that First ward contes,
stsolely in the interest of honest elections. u
1t might get away from him.
THERE is contest between the Er-
aminer and the Inquirer for the jack. knife
The matter might be settled by awarding
the handle to ex-senator Hiestand and the
blade to ex-County Treasurer Griest.
WAYNE MAcVEAGH's example is con-
tagious. Even the editor of the Lancas
ter Inquirer shows a disposition to leave a
reform party that is in favor of levyine
political assessments, bribing voters and
violating the law" The worlds grown
honest, then is Doomsday near"
The New York Sun thinks Repub.
licans should desire: 1. Tho aboli
tion of Speaker Kiefer. He is fool. II.
The abolition of ex-Secretary Robson.
He is knave. When fool and knave
are the leaders of political party, and the
knave runs the fool, the party is likely to
be damaged.
A "LIBERAL PATRIOT" who writes us
inquiring "whether the jolly editor oi
the Examiner receives or has ever applied
for pension" is respectfully but perempt.
orily informed that he has not. He fought
with distinction, We believe, at Bull Run
and served ably in the war against the
Whisky Ring in this county. but his only
injuries were received on the Sunbury &
Erie railroad and for these the New Era
declares he has been amply pensioned.
THE story is told of a popular Massachu.
setts preacher that he recently built a
house and drew the plans himself. His
carpenter told him the portico as planned
would be too low to allow a carriage to
drive up to the front door. He said he
knew better, and the carpenter went ahead
in accord with his plan. His first visit to
his new house was made in a top buggy,
but when the carriage stopped in front OF
the door it was buggy without top.
To this complexion has it come at last /:
MY party leaves me in this predicament :
1t has but three principles, and I find
myself opposed to all three. Its first
great principle is the spoils system; the
second is opposition to civil service reform
and the third seems to consist of repndia-
tion in Old Virginia. Then the boss sys
tenn is degradation it goes from the
gutter to the White House. It subsists
on the spoils of Office. e.''-Er-A attorney
General Wayne Mac Veagh on the Repu6li
can party.
&C. A. G." from Chemung county, N.
Y, having grown tobacco for many years,
came over to Lancaster county to get some
ideas on the subject and writes to the
Country Gentleman that 81 have learned
much regarding the business from my
visits and conversations among the sturdy
go-ahead farmers of the Lancaster sec
tion." The culture of other crops beside
tobacco, the rotation of the crops, ample
fertilization. we'll selected seed and
good plant beds he observes as some OF
the incidents of our successful local tobac-
co culture.
In no part of the country is pollution of
the franchise more prevalent than in New
England. Where the average of intelli-
gence is higher the price of votes only
seems to rise. On single page of New
England paper We find the two following
{:
"It is no secret that about 100 votes
we're purchased outright in East Green
wich, r. l., Wednesday, the prices rang.
ing from $10 to &25 each"
mayor Bulkeley, Hartford, Conn.,, has
! majority Of 229 {; but it is safe to say
hat 500 Republicans did not vote for him
md it is generally belived that cash was
,aid for at least 500 Democratic votes"
LoxaYzI1ow.
Thou who taught me, oh 20 often
Thy sweet lessons with their Joy,