Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-08-15

SOME of the Republican newspapers
are pathetically representing their can.
didate for state treasurer, Livsey, sitting
up o. nights with the ledgers and &C.
counts and balances of his department
and they triumphantly exclaim ''there is
a notable application of civil service
reform what other clerk on the hill
will you find at work this hour of
night ?" 1t is no wonder Cashier Livsey
has to work late. He and his chief have
several million dollars of state moneys
scattered around in the favored deposi.
tories of the Republican officials, for
which neither the treasurer nor the
state has security. The law requires
that this money shall be called in and be
invested in interest bearing state or fed
eral securities. The state treasurer has
concluded to obey the law at
his leisure and take eight or
ten months to execute its mandate.
How to frame decent excuse for this is
enough to keep Liysey awake and at
work. And even to call in $2OO, 900 a
month will keep him scratching until 10
o'clock at night to determine which of
the banks to strike first. The Public
Ledger was nearly right when it said:
What fiutter has been created among
the state treasury pet banks by the propo.
sition to invest in interest paying securities
the million and three quarters of tho sink
ing fund moneys now in possession of the
banks! Is not this unfolding tale of
favoritism and of bad management of the
state funds and is it not Q reason for
voters at the coming state election to
be wary about candidates for state treas
urer, and warning to keep clear of any
one groomed by patrons of the present
system.
SEVERAL large business failures have
varied the character of the news this
week.
PRocToR KNoTT's majority for gover-
nor of Kentucky keeps growing. Tho
back counties are boosting him.
THE fact that the American hog is ex-
cluded from Germany and American beer
admitted is only another instance of q
difference of taste.
AN associated press dispatch yesterday
talked about "metal upbraidings." We
think there is good deal of mutual up
braidings consequential to the strike.
The sweet girl who graduated in June
is now turning somersaults in the back
yard, for amusement, and trying to make
the people believe she is at Saratoga.
THERE wss striking and weirdly
beautiful blending of the aesthetic in the
M@nnerchor parade to-day when the
eaudy sunfower was overtopped by the
dainty Japanese umbrella.
FRENCH medical journals claim to have
established the truth of the theory that
excessive and prolonged mental labor
caases the teeth to decay by consuming
the phosphates which would otherwise
nourish the dental structures. Those who
consider tooth-brushing a crime will be
thankful for this scientific suggestion.
The congressional apportionment bill
of Representative Lowry, Republican,
PASSED the House, but was promptly mega
tived in the Senate committee and on an
effort being made to place it on the Senate
calendar, it received ignominious burial by
solid Republican vote. This is only one
more nail in the Republican coffin.
LIQUOR bids fair to play a very import
ant part in Western politics In Iowa
Republicans are dissatisfied at the position
taken by their party on the temperance
question, it being practically declaration
that man must totally abstain or become
a drunkard. In Illinois the liquor men
threaten trouble for the party that takes
stand against the extension of the bond
ed period for whisky. And in Ohio the
Scott law has had the effect of an Ischian
earthquake on the Republican party. The
Prohibition state convention has declared
against it. The non-political Prohibition
lists have denounced it. The state associ.
alton of liquor men have eulogized it with
kick, and the fact that it is in direct
violation of the constitutional mandate
against liquor licenses adds to tho general
hubbub. In all three states the Demo.
cratic party, true to its old traditions,
steers clear of sumptuary legislation,
deeming it wiser to allow each individual
the broadcast range in the conduct of his
private affairs consistent with the public
good.
The greatest reason which justifies the |
prolonged efforts of the Democrats to !
secure apportionment is that tho present
division of this state is 30 |