Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-07-17

SOuuu VI lulS Wal SAys AhOy oAO SAO0iAS
ranks to make solid front. The open.
ing of the civil service examinations
finds every yawning vacancy filled before
the new rules could be applied to the
incomers. Those who are in Office pro
pose to hold the fort againstan attempt
to inquire into their moral or mental fit
ness. They want the rake and the rack
applied only to people who are after
their places. The public sense OF the
fitness of things calls for fresh deal.
Turn the rascals out.
AL SHENcK was "a good enough chair
man " until after the Republican printing
Offices had their bills paid.
WHAT'S the use of the New York Times
canvassing presidential preferences and
probabilities? Harry White declares him
self for Arthur. That settles it.
ONLY the fact that the convention was
held in very hot weather restrains the New
York Times from sitting de lunatico
inqu,rendo on the Republican party of
Pennsylvania.
SOME man named cray" is said to be
the dark horse who is to take the senator
ial stakes in New Hampshire. Another
Mitchell affair, no doubt For this are
we boilers.
To the Wilkesbarre Record, it seems the
right thing for the colored people to
render themselves capable of under
taking diversified labor, and in that way
destroy the barriers which now are opposed
to their progress.
WHARTON BARKER says the manage
ment Of the Garfield campaign at Chicago,
before and during the convention of June
1S, was wholly in his hands. This probably
explains why Garfield nevor got above two
votes until the freshet of accidents started.
Gov. HOYT denies that he has left the
Republican party or is getting ready to 60
into the Democratic. He is for the ticket,
but disapproves of the Barker plank of the
platform and says Of it: Il do not think
there ought to be a redundant treasury.
Tho raising by the general government of
moro morey than is necessary to meet the
expenses of the government would be un-
constitutional as 4 matter of law and mex
pedient as matter of fact. An extrava-
CANT position on public question like this
cannot result in ultimate advantage.
MIR. JOHN &. HAGER is one of the prac-
tic., comaon sense and farsighted class
o. business men who recognize that the
way to check contagious disease, which
imperils tho health and Injuries the busi-
ness Of the community, is not to suppress
the truth about it and thus give currency
to many tongucd rumor. but by prompt
and efficient curative and remedial meas
ures. He accordingly cooperates heartily
with a movement of the municipal and
county authorities to this end and if some
of his mercantile contemporaries will i'm
prove the dull times by following his
example they will make relief from the
prevailing business depression, for which,
of all influences, tho newspapers are the
least responsible.
MIR. WHARTON BARKER gives to tho
public letter which he wrote to Gen.
Garfield just after his nomination for pres
ident. This passage is from it:
or nns,fh hc L J.. he
lieved that you would receive tho nomina-
tim of the Republican party for the presi
dency, and to that end have labOred. |
am thankful to have been in a position to
destroy the political machine, as known
under Cameron, and to have built up in
my own state a party of true Republicans,
led by politicians, to be sure, but under
the direction and guidance of manrfact-
urers, merchants and bankers-a party of
the people. The destruction of tho power
of Cameron led to the destruction of that
of Conkling and Logan, and defeated Gen.
Grant.
And yet there have been greater destruc.
tionists than Barker. One of them once
slew ten thousand Philistines with the
jaw bone of an ass.
In answer to the Philadelphia Records
Inquiry for Thad. Stevens speech on the
common school system a correspondent
informs it that he did deliver a speech in
the Pennsylvania House in 1885, in oppo.
sition to the repeal of our first FREQ school
law, which had been enacted the year
before. The speech is in print, all but tho
rhetorical peroratlon, and was published
in the Pennsylvania School Journal q few
years ago, "The real point Of the speech
that carried the House with him was not
it's cioquence ard vehement delivery, but
an arithmetical calculation in the body of
the speech, proving by dollar and cent
argument that the free schools were
cheaper, financially, than the pauper
system they supplanted. This was an
argumen: that the plain, unlettered men
of the House could understand, and one
that they could stand on before their con
stituents and gained votes that Stevens
classic illusions could never have reached,
because they were all Greek and un-
Ineligible to most men upon whose ears
they fell.''
THE New York Sun, in an elaborate and
detailed statement of the incidents and
events OF the movement in 1880 that led to
the nomination and election of tho late
President Garfield, made out that Gar
field went to that convention ostensibly
fOr Sherman. but really a candidate him.