Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-11-02

Ftssnsn's y6ursSs ,vepresentative Irish
Catholic authority, whose views of the
in this state we reprint to-day,
gives corroborative testimony to the same
effect. Quay seems to have hurled q
boomerang when he insti2ated that SIAN
der against the Democratic candidate
and its reactionary effect is already begin
ming to make itself apparent.
IT is said that tue Republicans expect a
large gain Of fcongressmen in the South to
Offset the heavy losses which seom inevita-
bic in the North. On what ground they
base their hopes it would be impossible to
tell. Surely it cannot be on account Of the
virtue of the Republican leaders in that
section. With Malone in Virginia, Cash
in South Carolina. Hcuk in Tennessee,
Chalmers in Mississippi and Tom. Ochil-
trec in Texas, it is hard to understand how
reasonable Democrats can be expected to
abandon their party.
COOPER, red.headed and hopeful, pre-
diets a majority Of 1900 for Beaver in
Philadelphia. The same Cooper predicted
the defeat of Pattison when the latter ran
for controller two years ago. At that time,
Notwithstanding Mr.. Cooper's vatic:na-
tions. the young reformer was found to
have 13 900 more votes than the other
fellow. That was in a presidential year,
too. There's TO telling what might hap.
pen next Tuesday, when Philadelphians
are accorded the opportunity Of giving
their favoritc son rousing send-Off.
"PUBLIC Office is public trust, to he
executed for the benefit of tho whole
people, to whom alone officials owe re-
sponsibility and of whose will they should
be the faithful exponents. When this
conception Of duty is lost sight Of or modi-
fed, the way is open for an immediate.
certain and constant degeneracy of the
public service. A merely mechanical and
negligent performance Of official functions
follows the obliteration of these standards
Of duty. This results from the long con.
tinuance in power of selfish political lead
crs, and is most serious evil in the pub
lie service.-Fr0m Rattison's Common
acealM Club Speech.
1T is 10 be hoped that no effort will be
spared to ferret cut the holders of the
fraudulent tax receipts stolen from the
Office of a Republican collector, and it is
presumed with the knowledge or conni
vance of persons high in Republican coun-
ciis. Let the Democrats at every poll,
and especially at those in the western
wards where it is known the receipts were
freely distributed, keep a vigilant watch
for them, and if any person attempts to
vote on them do not hesitate to prevent
the fraud on the ballot. TIE people are
determined to have an honest election this
time, but the desperate boss managers know
that an honest vote and a fair count mean
utter humiliation to them and theirs.
That is tho reason they are resOrting to
such low and contemplate devices as the
ono which has just been exposed.
AhoSE Sd"guIuo lscpuOHCttaS WIN 1io
looking for a regulation machine-made
majority from Philadelphia appear to
have forgotten the fact that the police
force under Mayor Kings administration
no longer INDUCES its old time propensity
to knock down and drag off Democratic
voters on their way to the polls, aud tssist
Republican repeaters and personators in
their nefarious operations at every pre-
cinct in Philadelphia. What was formerly
an organized army of 1900 active party
workers will at this time have no hand in
the contest. Mayor King has directed
thar the policemen DO vigilant in the dis
| charge OF their duties on election day,
that repcaters and others who interfere
with tho right of suffrage be prevented
| from plying their trade. Officers must re-
main thirty feet from the polls, but
promptly respond whenever their assist.
ance is demanded. The average Philadel.
phia policeman has found out that Mayor
King usually means what he says.
| MARRIOTT BRos1Us says that it is " puor
lie 10 say that 500 newspapers can be subsi.
dised and 10000 people can be bossed by
the will of :. single individual" Ay, aud
it is more pucrile still fer Mr.. Brosius to
he defending methods against Which his
wEole political life hitherto was one con
tuned protest. He did not express such
sentiments when tho local bosses ordered
his defeat at the time he was candidate
for the school board, and elected in bis
stead man conspicuous only for his illit-
eracy. The same gentleman also said in
a speech at Horticultural hall, Philadel-
pbia, on Tuesday night: elf any man
will satisfy me that any individual, in the
management OF this campaign, has laid
upon any government employee 50 much
as the weight Of his finger in the way Of
extortion or duress of any kind, l will dc
nounce that man as the violater of the Re
publican platform and q traitor to the Re-
publican party.' Does the nominee Of
Cameron's rump convention think that
such bathos will help his cause? Has be
not heard of the ''volurtary contributions
imposed upon the tide-waiters aud scrub
women in the employ of the government :
Such bait would pauseato even the sim
plest gudgeons.
PERSONAL.
EX-GOvERNOR HENDRICKS condition il
pronounced decidedly more favorable.