Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-11-23

DemOcraJlC as hepuOnCaH ltCoi'u''"
dation to high political honors and we
think we have heard Of another man oil
Ohio, who is entitled to the Democratic
palm, if Ohio is to get it, and whose
name is Thurman-the noblest Roman
of them all. When we come to Ind
ana, we come to another presidential
candidate, like Mr.. Mcdonald in not
being brilliant. II Gov. Hendricks will
let Mcdonald have the Indiana delega-
tion, and the convention agrees that the
true type Of presidential manliness is to
be sought across the Alleghenies and the
Blue Ridge, the Ohio and the Miami
and on the hither side of the Mississippi
Mcdonald will do very well for US.
THE Egyptian army in Soudan, under
the English General Hicks, has been
annihilated by the overwhelming nnm.
bers of the followers of FL Mahdi, the
false prophet, after valiant defense,
lasting three days. The followers q.
FL Mahdi are not an army they are a
people, permeated with the wild religious
fanatiCism which brought the same races
to the feet of MahOmet when he came
from his austere seclusion in the lonely
cave in Mt. Hara, as prophet and
teacher from Allah. Since the days when
the sacred fires of the ParseeS, ,wOrShipped
as the gift of the great XorOaster, were
eXtinguished and the imperial palace at
Mecca swayed like reed before the
wind from the terrible rockings of a
mighty earthquake, and other proligieS
caused the deyout worshipper Of the
East TO call upon Allah for protection,
because he knew not that these unnatural
things were the heralds which proclaimed
the birth of Mahomet, down until to-
day a like fanatic Zealousness and re
ligious sophistry has characterized these
desert races. And when five years ago
there came from the banks OF the White
Nile a man of noble bearing, exactly
forty years of age" and "au arm longer
than the other as the propheSy to
the faithful predicted, thousands
tlOcked to the green standard of the sheik
and swOre allegiance to him. With
efforts COnsOnant in nature and spirit
to those of Mahomet, FL Mahdi has led
his hOrdes over the burning plains Of the
Numidian desert into the dense forests Of
SOudan, and with varied success has
retained his precariOus leadership, until
now his power, for time, is assured.
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IT begins 20 look as though Autumn in |
its closing had borrowed a few days from |
soft, sensuous spring.
IT would have been almost better for the
Democrats to have lost control OF Congress
f sCCtionalism is to be dragged into the
'peakership contest.
THE election of James Russell Lowell 10
.he rectorship Of the University Of st
while simply an honorary dis
inction, is n graceful and deserved tribute
TO one of Americas first scholars.
lIErTEE to weave In the web Ot life
\ bright and golden filling.
And TO do GODS will with u ready heart
- And hands that are ready amt willing,
Than Ia snap the delicate, minute threads
~ OUr curious lives asundCT,
Aud then blame heaven tor the tangled en- '-
Ani sit and grievc ana wonder.
TWENTY-FIVE thousand seven hundred |
aud fifty niue more votes were cast by the |
Readjusters in the recent struggle 10 Nir |
glntl than were polled in last years con |
test. Still Malone asserts that his voters |
were intimidated. The boot is probably !
on the wrong leg as the returns seem to |
slow on the part OF the voter desire to
forever iutim!date one William Malone.
FRANCE had better call of her two sea
dogs, Admirals COuIbet aud Meycr, before
1t is too late. The China OF twenty years
ago in a military point of view Is vastly
different from the China Of to-day. The
young republic of Europe has enough to
do without embroIinG itself with a power
which besides being we'll equipped for
fight has the friendship of all of Frances
enemies.
TnE defeat of Hicks Pasha by FL Mahd-
the false prophet, was foregone concIu.
sion. The forces OF the latter beside.
being vastly superior in numbers were
animated by all the tierco Mussulmau
hatred for the intidel invader. The army
OF Hicks Pasha was dsorganized mob
aad contained many of the unwilling fol.
lowers Of Arab Boy. Inferior in disci.
pline and strength to tho forces Of the
false prophet, the Egyptian army was
routed with great slaughter. This disas-
ter will serve to teach the English govern
ment that strong force will DO required
to put down the rebellion in the Soudan
aud 1t will probably have the effect OF
bringing about permanent English oc.
cupation of Egypt.
1T has become the fashion to regard the
South as unprogressive and lacking in en-
terprso, and current newspaper literature
OF the eastern and middle statss contin
ually depicts the people below Mason and
Dixon's line as lying on their backs await
ing tho advent of Northern capital. That
this Is gross exaggeration most well it,
formed people know, but few are &C,
quainted with the marvellous progress and
enterprise that has been developed in some
sections Of the South since the war. Ten
years ago two gentlemen of moderate for
tune bought several thousand acres of
land and q mountain of iron ore ia Ala.
bama. They built a charcoal iron furnace