Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-06-13

papers to invent fresh canards almost
daily.
The Essning Telegram ID tho name Of
new, neat and newsy daily started IN AL
lentown by "The Leisenrings." More
como to 60 than to stay, but Allentown
has room in the upper story"
Ur in Venango county tho Independents
have control Of the Republican machine,
run tho county committee, the primaries
and the conventions, and anybody who
wants to get on the ''regular" ticket there
has to declare against Cameron and boss
ism. This is entertaining.
The Press implores Governor Hoyt to
stand forth a. tho deliverer Of the Repub-
lican party from it, depth Of perplexity.
As the recognized head of Tho po.ty in the
state he is asked to issue . cal tbr new
convention. That ID an original idea.
some of the Now York Hebrews, who
have been earnest and anxious in welcom-
ing the Russian refugees and furnishing
them with new homes and opportunities
now complain that they are arriving in such
numbers as to overtax tho generosity
of their American friends, and that more
over the immigrants are entirely too loath
to take to agricultural pursuits and earn
their livelihood by tilling the soil.
"THE present system ofinflation of prices
is shameless" says tho Philadelphia Press,
and the New York Sun wants it not to de
forgotten that the high prices arc the effect
of keeping up war taxes after seventeen
years of peace. "Abolish the taxes, and
prices will come down but the Republican
majority in Congress prefer to extort from
the people q surplus of one hundred and
fifty millions year, Al enormous mass of
money against which endless schemes of
jobbery and plunder may be directed"
The form of marriage proposal popular
with New York young men will now be to
this effect !: Darling will you be my
wife, gear after nertr' For Judge Wal
lace has found that il the engagement is
not to be performed within a year ; if the
wedding is set for . year later than the
proposal, the promise must be in writing,
or it is not obligatory. The statute of
frauds in that state requires written evi
dence of contract in order to sustain a
1o oxucnsk Ind xyosA SSouorvy
agreement that by its terms is not to be
performed in one year from the making
thereof"
THE withdrawal of Wheeler and Phelps
makes room for two more appointees on
the tariff commission and the sharp crit
icism on the first batch will make Arthur
careful in the new selections. The Now
York importers are likely to get. at least
one man and Jackson 8. Shultz, an avowed
free trader, is urged also Ex-Governor
Fish, A. A. Low, Solon Humphreys, while
Samuel L. Haynes is urging himself, and
has said in his own behalf that ho didn't
know blanked thing about tariff and
wasn't either for protection Or reform but
for glory" for which his tasto had been
educated during brief period of service
on the defunct Worlds Fair commission.
"JUDGE Bill" " BuNN, it seems, has
made statement in order to get Cameron
out of the scraps he got into by thre atep
ing the tariff. Bum says it was he,
himself, who told the story to tho reporters
and that he did not say that Cameron in.
dulaed in this language, but that he,
Bum, if he were Cameron, would do it.
On tho other hand the Eosning Telegraph
has an affidavit from its reporter, made
before this "explanation Of Bum, ir
which tho reporter swears positively tina,
Bum said Cameron said it, that he re-
peated this next day, and that even aftel
Cameron and Cooper denied it, when theil
denial was put at Bum. he simply " smiled
and walked away"
THE Graphic has been making critica
examination Of tho crop of Decoration
day poetry this year, and this IL the best il
has been able to find:
Ask not before what affairs they have bent,
What holy prayers they murnured soft ant
Ask not their faith, their nation, their de
They fought for Us !-snoash for us to know
Bring wreaths for tnsm-theIrs be the same
Through Coming ysars. on all Memorial
Alike with thoee we loved, Lot us accord