Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-07-09

PERSONAL.

PERSONAL.
ARCHIBALD FORBES. gsts paid 1000
year az o 'retainer' from tho London
Dolly Nsos.
M, DE LEssEPs was presented with a
son by Madame last Thursday. He is
seventy-eight years old.
FIELD MARSHAL Won MoLTKE travels
about incognito, and has been taken for a
begger and a tramp.
Mrs. FRANK LEsLIE's friends contradict
the renewed story of her engagement to
the Marquis de Lenville.
BEN HOGAN, the reformed prize fight.
er," is lecturing to large audiences in the
West.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES attributes
his good health to an early morning walk
or horseback ride before breakfast.
SECRETARY CHANDLER has gone to Con.
cord, N. H., and Admiral Nichols will be
acting secretary during his absence.
JUNIUs BRUTUs -BoOTn, who retired
from the stage some years ago, now keeps
| hotel near Boston.
BLAINE's friends in Kansas say he could
have the delegation from that state to the
national convention if he wanted it.
MRS. LANaTRY is writing book on
America. OF course she wouldn't be
from England if she didn't.
| OSCAR WILDE intends delivering q
lecture at the Princess hall, London. in
the course of next week, on the subject
of his experiences in America.
PIP. BARNARD, of the 5th cavalry, ia
the oldest lieutenant of the United States
army. He is G3, and 20 years older than
his colonel.
"SIsTER DORA" the self.sacrifcing
Z" Anglican Catholic" whose biography
created suoh q sensation year or two
ago. is to have statue to her memory al
Walsall.
MISS MAMIE STURGIs, daughter of Gen
Sturgis, in charge of the Soldiers home at
Washington, delivered the valedictory at
her recent graduation from the convent of
the Sisters of the Sacred Heart. She will
accompany her mother and Miss Sturgis
to West Point and tho different watering
places.
PORE LEO is suffering from rheumatism,
partly brought about by the capriciOus
character of the climate in Italy. He is
also hurt by the constant tension of sup
erintending every report sent out from the
Vatican, and anxiety about the state OF
Catholic affairs in France and Ireland.
Will tho Democracy Commit Suicide?
| N. Y. Sun.
The success of the Democratic candi-
dates at the next presidential election is
we'll nigh a foregone conclusion. 1t Can
be prevented by no skill in tactics on the
part of the Republicans, and by no false
and irrelevant issue foisted into the can
vass at the critical moment, as the tariff
may be prevented. however, by some huge
blunder of tho Democratic party itself,
and not otherwise.
1t is now nearly ten years since the first
great tidal wave swept away Republican
majority in the House of Representatives,
and it becomes plain that nothing but the
most egregious Democratic folly could
sacrifice the victory which the people were
manifestly disposed to give to that party
in 1876. The initial and the turning
point of that battle was the organization
of the House of Representatives. A
failure there would have been fatal
But Mr.. Kerr organized the House
wisely and with view single to honest
government and economical expenditure.
As chairman of the committee on appro
priations, Mr.. Randall reversed tho whole
policy of Republican legislation. He
drew the purse strings of the nation close
he let out no dollar which was not absol.
utely necessary to the public service.
This policy was founded upon the funda.
mental principles of Democracy. 1t was
the Jeffersonian system in full operation,
and it was all there is of it. 1t cut up the
lobby by tho roots, for it allowed no
plunder upon which lobby could live. 1t
smothered scandal, for it allowed no job
out of which scandal could arise. 1T stop
ped class legislation, for it denied subsidies
to the few out Of the proceeds
of common taxation, and went upon
the theory that the money raised
by levy upon the whole people must be ex.
pended for the benefit of the whole people.
During the entire period of Mr.. Randall s
speakership this was the attitude of the
Democratic House and it is not too much
to say that, Notwithstanding Mr.. Tilden's
great reform work in the state of New
York, his election to the presidency in
1876 would not have been practicable
without the support afforded by this re-
markable record of the party in Congress
under the scrupulous and prudent leader
ship of Mr.. Randall.
Tho situation is again very much the
Same. The Republicans were beaten last
fall at every point a Democrat is again
governor of Massachusetts, the House is
again largely Democratic. Again every
one sees that national Democratic vic
tory is impending in 1884, as it was in
1876. 1t can be thrown away in the
House, or it can be placed beyond a
peradventure.
Some people are vexing their righteous
souls about the plans of Mr.. Randall or
his friends boyond tho spsakership. Mr..
Randall may or he may not succeed in
making his eletion to the chair the step
ping stone to a higher Office but one
thing is almost certain his election, or the
election of some one very like him, is the
stone upon which the Democratic candi-
date will mount to the presidency, if he
gets there at all.
Louisiana Lottery Letters Excluded from
| tho Mails.
Postmaster General Gresham has de-
cided that the first order of the depart
ment dated November 13, 1879, in regard
to the exclusion from tho mails of letters
for the Louisiana lottery company, must
be executed. He says that the second
order, suspending the operation of the
first one, was intended to work only a
temporary suspension pending an appeal.
The appeal having been dismissed by the