Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-10-09

puhlished on opr first page to-day are
worthy the perusal Of all thoughtful peo.
pie.
SENATOR JONES has informed Denver
reporter that Mr.. Arthur is tired of being
president. There are struggling frag'
ments of evidence that this WEAKNESS is
shared to some extent by the country.
The candidacy OF James w. Bosler 70,
senator puts the sturdy yeomaury OF Cum
berlaud county on their mettle. They
ought to give him lesson in politics to
last him for the rest Of his life-that the
voters Of the Cumberland valley cannot be
bought up on the hoof like beef cattle 70,
tho Indians on the plains
THE Western Press, the publication o
which was begun at Mercer at least 7(
years ago, has been discontinued aud viii
be succeeded by tho Mercer County Demo
crak. The property and franchises of the
Press have been purchased by the gentle
men who propose the publication of the
Democrat, 70 that in reality it is only q
change OF firm. Under the now condition
w. H. Griffith, a able writer and faithful
Democrat, will be the editor.
Mr.. BREWSTER informed his Philadel.
phia audience Saturday night that Senator
Cameron could not have defeated the nom
ination of General Beaver at that conven-
ton ii he had wished to. Just tue same
when General Beaver was u candidate 70,
tue same Office, before he had earned his
306 medal, he found himself singularIy
short of votes. And he was just as much
of one-legged soldier and Christian gen.
tleman then as now.
The Press pleasantly reminds Mr.. Pat.
tison that Gen. Beaver has a large sized
caip on his shoulder. By the time our
candidate gets through with the Stalwart
pugilist, the latter will scarcely feel like
his lately recruited organ for
bringing the subject forward SO conspicu
ously. BY the way Mr.. Beaver seems to
be totally oblivious to the chip that Mr..
Stewart has been parading over the CON-
for weeks past in the vain en-.
deavor to gain tho notice of Mr.. Cameron 8
candidate.
AND now, just as the people were getting
reconciled to the division Of their pet
comet, the naval observatory people up
and tell them that it's no such thing and
that our fiery visitor is just as good as
new. If these astronomical fellows would
just keep quiet and lot people get up at
four o'clock in the morning to look at the
long. tailed stranger, without being torn by
these various scientific opinions, the world
would be no worse of, and the experts
would feel a good deal less foolish
"PUBLIc Office is public trust
to be executed for the benefit oi
the whole people, to whom alone officials
owe their responsibility and of whose will
they should be the faithful exponents
When this conception of duty is lost sight
of or modified, the way is open for an i'm.
mediate, certain and constant degeneracy
of the public service. A merely mechan.
ical and negligent performance of official
functions follows the obliteration of these
standards of duty. This results from tho
long continuance in power of selfish poll
tical leaders, and is most serious evil in
the public service. ."-From Rattison's Com
monoealM Club Speech.
LET BENJAMIN Harris Brewster stand up
and inform an anxious public why his
opinion of J. Donald Cameron has under.
gone such miraculous change. In 1870,
shortly after Don had "jostled his old
father out of his place and thrust himself
into the Senate" this Same Brewster
drew the following pen picture of the
erring Donald: "a man that has neither
mind, attainment, dignity of character,
knowledge of public affairs, party services
or personal worth to warrant his advance
ment, and who has no record but bad
one as an intriguer and manager of bad
men," In Mannerchoir garden, Philadel-
phia, al the Stalwart rally last Saturday
evening, he spoke of the same Don as one
whom he knew to DO ga worthy and re-
spectacle man." In the interests of con-
let Mr.. Brewster tell us which of
these opinions represent his real convic-
tions.
IT must be perfectly disgusting to Mr..
Cameron when he observes the largest
iron manufacturers in the United States
joining in the revolt against the machine
and figuring as officers Of Democratic and
Independent Republican meetings. Evi-
dently the blonde senator, who at the
outset of the campaign threatened to let
the tariff and the Republican party " all
60 to hell together" if Beaver wasn't
elected, has failed to strike home in his
subsequent attempt to bulldoze the manu-
featuring interests by trying to show a
base conspiracy against protection in
which Stewart is playing chief bottle.
holder to Pattison. The PhGnixville
meeting on Saturday night, is a case in
point to which Gen. Beaver will no doubt
give his attention when he speaks to tho
people of Lancaster on the dangers that
threaten the industrial interests of the
state in the event of his defeat.
A GIRL HORSE WHIPPED.
Punished BY Her rather for Kid.
ing With n YO0pH Man.