Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-01-25


he would support the nominees OF the
party.
II Is seldom that 80 complete and al
together deserving a municipal ticket Is
presented for the voters OF city rs that
which the Democrats Of Philadelphia
have put up. 1t has been assumed that
the withdrawal of Pierre and the Re-
publican nomination of Hunter will
make it more difficult to elect King and
Sheppard than it would have been other
wise. This is discreditable TO the lnde
pendent Republicans. They would
never have had Hunter as a Republican
nominee but for the unselfsh and un-
partisan conduct of the Democrats in
taking him up besides, Pierre was the
| mos. deserving OF the three Republican
candidates, rs he was less Objectionable
than either Smith or Warwick, and his
sacrifice will not save them.
Monk truth than wit is discoyerable in
the punster's view OF the verdict In the
Unioutown tragedy, Mutt guilty"
Ir IL be true rs stated that there were
lis cassS Of lynchiay last year aai only %
legal hangings, Americans cinuo: lag
claim to being o law loving people.
Az interview is reported from Harris
burg in which Senator Gordon plainly
iutimates that tho Legislature will be
recalled bofore the present term expires, TO
make another effort to pass appoytionment
bills.
THE stat, assessors Of New York recon.
mend tax on incomes which exceed
sl0, 900 year As by no l tsibility
could legal provision OF this kind effect
the newspaper fraternity, the press will
doIbtlssJ heartily endorse the proposition.
PLANT Republican Congresses have
given the Pacific railroads 10, 200, 900
acres OF the public lands. At the low rate
| of s2. so an acre, this means a donation Of
s42j ,000, 000 Counting subsidies and in
terest due tko govegumsat from the rail
roads at sl03, 900 900, grand tota! OF
s52S coo, 900 have been given away, It is
not at all surprising, therefore, tha: the
| Democratic House is now trying 70 get
back aS mujh as possible of what Rspub.
licau Congresses So lavishly presented 70
lald grabbsrs.
THE state sinking fund commissioners,
or more exactly State Treasurer Baily and
Auditor General Lemon, who have been
so 5.coauousiy opposing the enforcement
OF the Humas act requiring the invest
mont OF the public moneys for the benefit
Of tue state, have at las: reached the end
o. theiz tether. The Dauphiu county
coart has decided that it has jurisdiction
to enforce by mandamus proceeding
obedience to the Law, and as the recalcit
: rant commissioners have exhausted theit
dila.ory pleas, the case will come up OF
its inertia.
IT is not fair to assume that the entire
press Of the country has fallen In with the
current Of popular opinion which justifes
Nuts acquittal on the ground main.
tanned by Counsellor Voorhees, that his
oct was justidable. The Philadelphia
EreHiHg Telegraph declares that there is
"nO more pernicious, dangerous, or de
moralizing doctrine that can be promul- =
gated, If carried to its conclusion, thar
thai which Senator Voorhees, announced. >
Tho Philadelphia Ledger thinks the Nut
verdict I" is as squareIy ia the face o
the facts and the Law as was the first case
1t is mistaken notion that private inju.
ries, or the Judgment of the law, when il
goes wrong, may be recti6ed by the sho
Of the revolver" The New York Tine
says: Tha. this Is a miscarriage Of JUS
, tice no reasonable man will deny. It i
an ingenious evasion of all forms Of law
! 1t sanctions the taking into ones owl
hands tho avenging Of private wrongs
Until the community is educated up to
lofty regard for the sapctity Of human
lifo aud for the laws OF the land, jurie
will gladly avail themselves OF any excus
to set free homicides whose offences re,
senble that Of young Mutt"
FEATURES OF THE STATE PRESS.
The Reading Herald challenges til,
Times and Nsps to contest in the matte