Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-02-21

potent influences In elections, should be
sent to the rear.
THE man who predicted short session
Of Congress has gone to join Virgins,
V ennor and HazeD.
The poor man who soils his vote parts
with what makes him the peer of the
richest on election day.
In West Chester everybody woes an
open ticket. The plan is said to work
well there. There is no coercion, and no
hired poll committees.
ENGLAND is at present kept 50 busy
watching certain Egyptian dependency
that her Emerald sister across the channel,
Ireland, receives but little attention.
THE ISTELLIGENCER has called for a re.
form of the poll committee abuse as often
after its party won as when it was beaten.
# is consistent, and now it proposes to be
persistent.
| Ir a property qualification for voters
we're proposed for Lancaster the men who
are not possessed Of il would raise q howl
aud rightly, too. But when voters can be
had at s2 apiece the purse Of 800 will
control fifty of them. Reform is ueces.
| sary.
| THE purgiug Of our local politics from
the evil Of bribery is one that calls for no
partisan recrimination. The politicians of
both sides will, We believe, be ready 10
join hands with the moralists in cutting
out the cancerous growth. Let the good
work begin. Send the bell man out to
call tow n meeting.
i CoNGREssMAN SMITH Is reported from
Washington to DO greatly delighted over
the election of Rosenmiller, who was for.
merly law student in his Office Once
upon a time Mr. Rosenmiller was greatly
delighted at Mr.. Smiths election, but his
cup of JOY was not full until after he had
brought suit for the expenses Of that
memorable campaign.
The Independent Republicans through
out the country have agreed TO meet in
New York city on Saturday morning
next and have a talk over the plans for
the presidential campaign. The conclave
will begin in Brooklyn TO morrow evening,
, when there will be a banquet. The sig.
nifcauce Of the gathering depends very
much upon who participate in it.
NIsETEEN men killed in one Pennsylya
MIA mine aud two in another, thirty six
persons dead from the furious wind storms
prevailing in the South aud West, two
prisoners hung oy western mob, together
! with the regular list of railroad casual
ties, fires and suicides make the newspaper
OF to day read almost like a gazette do
voted TO the official chronicle of disasters.
Ii has been determined by the board of
trustees of the state college to reduce tn 0
number of the faculty nearly one-half, as
at present moro than two thirds OF the
income of the institution is paid out in
salaries. A still better plan would bo the
total abolition Of the establishment. IL
may be confidently stated that more money
where else on the globe.
THAT great and good man, Senator
John /. Mitchell, it appears, has brother
in law, one Cameron, who draws a salary
OF $3.50 per annum as an assistant United
States district attorney for the western
district Of Pennsylvania, lives at Wellsboro,
Tioga county, about 400 miles from Pitts.
burg, and renders no public service.
Ridiculous, indeed, has been the mouse
that was born when the legislative noun.
tains were in labor In 1881.
THE dealers in fireworks are said To
have very generally and systematically
opposed Mayor Kings reelection because
he insisted upon strict observance of
rAe ordinances prohibiting the noisy and
dangerous mode Of celebrating the Fourth
OF July, which had come to prevail in Phil.
aielphia to the great danger of life and the
destruction OF property. Conservative
1 people Will not view without apprehension
the successful attack upon chief maRis
4 trate for enforcing the ordinances which
0 he has sworn to execute and it is even
Y doabtfui II the mayor. elect will be sus.
tanned by sound public opinion IL
D returning to the old order OF things. The
Inquirer warns Smith that the termination
OF the noisy nuisance I" was one of th,
few acts Of his administration in which
, Mayor King had the approval of the en-
!, tire population of Philadelphia, a few
, adult oranks and the assertiye but unre
fieeting small boy only excepted. 1t was
, worth while to elect Democratic mayor
simply to have the ordinance against fire
) works enforced, II that could DO accom-,
: plished in no other way. Since Mr.. King