Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-10-26

SouRAoAA VA eAOA UOSSCS, WIZ WOUlu
learn good behavior fast enough if they
were made to realize that any other kind
would not pay. The Republican voters
in their effort to redeem themselves are
about to smash their party if they had
exercised little gentle but steady
persuasion during the past twenty years
they might have accomplished their
purpose and saved their party too.
TIE Democratic difficulty over the
state Senate candidacy in the district
formerly represented by Glr. Wallace
has been happily settled by the accept
ance of the nomination by Mr.. Wallace,
and the acquiescence of the other candi
dates in this solution of the difficulty.
Senator Wallace goes back to the scenes
of his early triumphs and the state will
be a gamer by his mingling in the legis.
lative councils.
SECRETARY CHANDLER will not take
charge of the Republican congressional
fund. He is willing that all the glory that
can be won for his side in this campaign
shall belong to Mr. HubbelI. Mr.. Chandler
is far-seeing man.
Ex-SrATE SENATOR BUTTERFIEID. Of
Erie, created a sensation in that town on
Tuesday night by making a speech at an
Independent meeting and declaring for
Stewart for governor. Buttcrfield has
regarded hitherto as Stalwart of Stall
warts.
THE Beaver hat seems to have been ef.
fectuaIly shot. Following it's mysterious
disappearance from our own streets comes
the announcement that the manufacturer
out in Pittsburgh has any quantity of it
that he is willing to dispose of at a dis.
count. And no wonder.
lF our esteemed contemporary the
Examiner is seriously in earnest in its
inquiry Who is Pattison ~ We advise
it 10 ask the thieving contractors whose
raids on Philadelphia's strong box have
beeen checked by the fearless controller
The thieves have found out who Pattison
is, and they have learned to beware Of
him.
Mr.. JOHN G. WHITTIER playfully said
that the verses read at the Chester, Penn,
celebration of tho landing of William Penn
(the work of country farmer boy jus,
entering on his sixteenth year) were no,
intended for publication, being the sort OF
thing which should be "hrshed up among
ones friends" He asks a Boston paper
to do justice, however, to the poor boy
who painfully concocted them. by correct
ing two errors as printed there.
IT seems as if tobacco We're destined tt
universal empire. The latest sign Of ths
times was furnished fortnight ago ir
England when Croydon evangelist in
vited the people to attend his service il
their working clothes and smoke theil
pipes if they pleased. This example wouli
probably have proved more contagious il
the experiment had not been cut short b,
the evangelist's arrest and sentence to pa,
fine OF 4Os. and costs for using abusive
language to woman.
The bitterness existing between the
rwo Republican factions in New York hal
had the effect of letting in the sunlight Of
truth on the monstrous fraud by which
Hayes was seated in 1876. The New
York Commercial Adoertiser, whose Stal
wartism is Of the simon. pure variety
brands as hypocrites Bcecher aud Curtis
who have boited tho Republican ticke
because Of forgery practised in obtaining
Fo'ger's nomination. It. justly csl1s why
these hype-critical gentleman condonet
the presidential steal to which the fraut
in the New York Republican convention
was rs molehill to a mountain. Whor
rogues fall ont honest men are likely tt
get their dues.