Evening journal., 1891-09-24
LITTLE JACK hoRNrRs.

Ouu curious result OF the agitation
concerning the bribery Of the tax col
lectors and the purchase Of the "a 800
worth negro pole-tax receipts is the evil
denoe it presents Of Republican ignorance
OF the law.
II the managers Of the party and the
steering committee Of the Levy Court
had possessed an Ultimate knowledge of
the tax system and the laws governing
II, they would not have allowed their
purchased poll taxables to be returned as
delinquents, or, II returned, they would
not have attempted to recover them from
outlawry.
But none Of them seem either
10 have read the law or compre-
hended the system Almost every
day the Morning News exhibits
It's Ignorance Of the law in proposing to
correct the chancellor 1t is evident
that the editor Of one Republican paper
does not understand the law and the
editor Of the other paper cannot write
explanations which anybody else can
understand. We have two papers, one
too ignorant Of the laws ana the other
too Ignorant Of the use OF the English
language to explain the situation with
sufficient cogency to stop the party from
running into perfect slough Of ridicu-
lous entanglements by which the whole
plot has been exposed. That is spec
tacle for gods and men.
Then we have the managers duplng
somebody here, or, possibly, drawing
money from the national committee
perhaps from the Keystone Bank gang ia
Philadelphia for "a, 800 or more, to buy
tax receipts for outlaws whom the
steering committee allowed to be re-
turned as delinquents.
That Is another spectacle.
OF course those idiosyncrasles do not
hurt the party. The average Republican
is careless and cAllous. The greater
number OF them get their mallnforma-
tion from the sources mentioned and are
satisfied to let matters drift That con
fidence Of indifference is gratifying to the
organs because It enables them TO 90 on
In their attempts to justify and apologize
for the mistakes Of the managers, the
ignorance Of the steering committee aud
the asinInity Of the Levy Court dupss as
II everything we're lovely and the goose
we're hanging high,
So, everything is lovely, and, so, the
sacred bird Of Ancient Rome does hang Al
a delicious altitude. with Bach, MahafFy.
Stewart & Co. They are all drawing sala
ries and collecting $4,000 to expsnd al
they choose or whenever they are con
WINGED that the exigencies Of the party
demand Il.
II the silly people who do the voting,
the rich people who subscribe the money
and the candidates whom these managers
and steerers deteAt, do not object, surely
Bach, Mahaify, Stewart & 90.
will not. They stick In their thumbs
pull ont the fat plums, and sing what
good, what bully what sophisticated
highly unmitlgated, impossible to investi
gate leaders are we
Surely with that rich refrain rever
berating with sonorous unison from thei
tax oiled chops they will never object &
any sort Of situation, no matter how
humiliAting to plain, honest folk, which
enables them to sit in soft, warm nest !,
Not they.
The situation, truly, is humiliating
but it does not make the benefciaries IN
comfor table.
They have their soft berths; it was nc
their money shat was lost.
It is not their midnight oil thes
newspapers are burning it is not thei
sweat that is filing these subservisn
newspapers With defences aud apologies