Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-02-27
HERE AND THERE.

thropic citizen the other day, % that those
poor tramps are still in Jail G''-referring TO
the halfdo1en homeless, harmless Germans
whom Judge Patterson sentenced for three
| wears 10 separate and solitary confinement
| at hard labor, because IL was shown that
| they had neither work nor home, and were
| found In a woods where somebody had built
| fire. OF course they are in Jail, good
friend, and will stay there about two years
and half mere, unless somebody stirs to
| get them out What is every bodv's bust
| ness is nohody's business IL will cost sl5
| to begin with, To- have the record ot their
| conviction made up for the board ut pardous.
| But, never mind, there will I've volunteers
| enough To Iay this and tn get for their case q
| hearing Wait until the snow meltS IL is no
charity To turn homeless man out of Jail
| this weather He would have to build u lire
and then 20 to Jail again.
DO you think that the living have no rights
| that the dead are bound 10 respect? If the
| child has died of scarlet fever, the more
| privately the funeral is held the better The
| coffin ought not, least of all tn I've opened in
| the house and TO ask the minister tn ride
| with 1t to the cemetery is the gruSSest and
| rankeSt injustice. Is he net, as Shyiock says,
| "hurt with the same weapons, subject to the
| same diseases, aS the rest of us9
| -
| Somebody has been telling the Pittsburg
| DtsPatch campaign secrets'-huw the Re
| publican state committee got the names OF and
sent circular letters 10 iO,ONO or $4,000 of the
best party workers melting them to special
eNertions by this attention. Bless you, my son,
| there is nothing new nor secret in that. 1t is
| the plan pursued by Mr.. Tiden's famous
New York organization in many campaigns
| The Democrats began it in Pennsylvania In
| lSs2, and more than one installment of over
| 10000 addressed circular letters was sent out.
| 1t has been repeated rs well as the letters to
asseSsorS, election officers, subcommittee
| men and the like which the Dispatch cacklCS
| over as a mares nest found. 1t is question
| of money. For it costs at least 81, 600 to make
one such remittance hy mail of good advice
| and cheering encouragement to the best
| workers in every district.
-
| William llamilton-graudson of that An
| drew Hamilton who first acquired hv pro.
priotary grant the site Of Lancaster, and W who
| transmitted it to Andrew the second, from
| whom il came to his son William--was one of
the first American PATRONS and collectors of
the art of painting. He cultivated ornamen-
tai gardening, but his appetite for good living
| led To- his financial embarrassment. He
never married and he lost faith in the Rovn-
lutionarv cause too early for his fame.
dred and fifty years before Squire Spurrier
and his rabble of friends boSsed the Fourth
ward primaries; and return tinkering was
in vogue before the grandfathers of the Bull
Ring and the Hog Ring were born. When
| Andrew Galbraith and John Wright con-
tested for the Lancaster seat in the Assembly
in 1882, Mrs. Galbraith rode through the
town at the head Of numerous mounted
band OF her husbands friends and achieved
| his election. In l7iS, when the tight WAS for
the vacancy of Thomas Linley, the Irish
compelled the sheriff, then holding the elec-
ton, to take such tickets as they approved,
and to make return accordingly with bold.
ness Of hull-dozing that would have dis.
r counted HarVe Raymond'S finest work. In
EI9 complaint was made to the Assembly
that a member was returned from Lancaster
by Violence many persons voting hal
/, | dozen times, and 300 votes being east ON
of possible l,Wp.
There were liars and demagogues in the ear
lier days of the republic, as well as bull
dozers and ballot box suffers The odious
excise and mpust taxes laid by the FEEDER
alists were very cunningly worked for al
they were worth in the hands of their NOR,
adept political opponents. From tax OF
farms houses and windows it was easy t,
reas ON that next tax would be laid upor
horses wagons and ploughs. In the contes
} for governor, the skirmish of jefferson
victorious battle for the presidency. tn
| Republican Democrats very successfully an
, pealed To the popular hatred of direct fedora
taxation; and to the Shrewd use whicI
they made of this issue is aScribc,
Mckcan's triumph; while like causes
operating in the same direction
throughout the union, not long afterwarC
invested Mr.. Jefferson with the presidency
The author of Memoirs of a Life Chief,
Passed in Pennsylvania Within the Las
sixty Years." printed in Harrisburg, b,
John Wyeth, ISL, makes loud complain
that the Republicans circulated in this cam
paign fabrication, which, he laments ''wa,
nottoo monstrous for the intellectual outlets
of the voters. Hear the charming canard o
the great Pennsylvania campaign of 1899
| :" John Adams il was stated, was alb out tc
unite his house TO that of the majesty o.
Britain, either by marrying one of his sons
to one Of OF his daughters, or one of his
daughters to one of the kings sons
| Il forget which) but the consequence was the
bridegroom was to be king of America =
That General Washington had heard of this
as well as of the other anti-Republican con.
duct OF the president, at which he was OF
| course most grieyously displeased THAT
therefore he went to talk 10 Mr. Adams upon
the subject, and by way of being more per.
Suasiye by appearing gay, good-humored and
friendly, he dressed himself in a suit of white
and discussed with him very mildly, but
| neither his dress nor his arguments were OF
any avail. Then he waited upon him a sec
ond time, and in order to render his re-
monstrance more solemn and impressive, he
| put on suit of black and set before Mr..
| Adams The Nervousness of his proceedings
but with as little purpose as before He at
| length paid him a third and last visit in
which he appeared in full regimentals, when
| finding the the president still deaf to good
E.I l.. l.
| would never sheath it until Mr.. Adams had
relinquished his wicked designs; and he
| left him sworn enemy.
| -.
The ''ingenious romance" proved "a good
enough Morgan until after the election'
| SINnHAD