THE COURIER
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POINTS IN POLITICS
Tho News, referring to our remarks about its bolting of the nomin
ation of J. W. Percival for water commissioner, says that the editor
of TjikCoukiek is ono of thoso reformers who shout eleven months
in the year for municipal reform and tho nomination of good candi
dates, but who can bo bought off when the time for action conies.
We do not consider it necessary to reply to any insinuations as to
our being "bought off." Some people who are familiar with recent
events in this city may question the good taste of our highly esteem
ed contemporary, tho News, in bringing up tho subject of the bar
gain and sale of newspapers. This is a topic that our contemporary
would do well to avoid, it it desires to have tho public forget recent
disclosures which affected it in a moro or less painfully direct man
ner. Tho editor of The Couicikic in his feeble way shouts for re
form not eleven, but twelve months in tho year; but he believes in
doing his fighting before, and not after the conventions. He does
not believe in tho absurdly sensational policy of the News that
Bwallows.on occasion, wholo pooler of corruption and strains at a speck
on tho surface. He is a republican and ho believes republicans can
consistently and conscicntously vote for tho republican candidates at
tho election next Tuesday. Certainly any teapot tempest that may
have been raised in a bushwhacking newspaper oflice has not made
it apparent that Mr. Percival is unfit for tho oflice of water cum in is
sioner. The News presumes to state what "Mr. Smith knows;' but
no one has a clearer understanding of what Mr. Smith knows than
Mr. Smith himself, and we require no suggestions from the News on
this point. If our contemporary is honestly of the opinion that Mr.
Percival is not a fit man for tho oflice, tho proper time for it to have
expressed itself, as wo remarked last week, was before the caucuses
and the primaries and tho convention. But it maintained a resolute
silence during the ante convention campaign, and only when Mr.
Percival was nominated did it suddenly discover that he is a bad
man. The oIicy of our contemporary has for more than a year past
been dominated by a blatant demogogism, and in the bolting of Mr.
Percival observant persons can see, besides a desire to be sensational,
a studied purpose to play into tho hands of what are, after all, its
dearest friends, the demo-pops. Tho News claims to be republican,
but it is never so enthusiastically happy as when opposing republi
can measures and republican candidates and boosting the fanatical
schemes of the populist party or assisting pops or democrats to
break into public oflice.
H. M. Bushnell is said to beliovo that a scat in the state senate
would requite the obligations of tho republican party of Lancaster
county to him, up to date, for running a straight republican news
paper, (with strong Byran, free silver, free trade and petticoat tendencies.)
Judge Strode is one of an uncertain number of men in this county
who might, "under certain circnmBtances," as Governor Crounse
says, become a candidate for congress.
The Young Men's Republican club, which is now acknowledged to
be the strongest political organization in the state, has displayed a
marked activity in this spring's campaign, and it will be well repre
sented in the big republican majority that will be rolled up next
Tuesday.
A number of women have taken offense at some statements in last
week's Coukier concerning the board of education, and in some in
stances the idea seems to havo been formed that we are opposed to
the women nominees because they are women. This is a very much
mistaken idea. The issue in the campaign for the election of mem
bers of the board of education is not the right of women to hold
this oflice, as some of the advocates of the "non-partisan" ticket
would have the public believe, but a proper administration of school
affairs, and without indulging in any personalities we can say that
we believe the interests or the school patronizing and tax paying
public would be best subserved by the election of the republican
nominees, Messrs Ludden, Hackney and Stire. The board of educa
tion is a most important body, with large powers and the control of
a vast expenditure of public money, and the nomination of these
three gentleman by the republican party was .dictated by a desire to
take the board out of its present rut, and infuse new blood into it.
for the purpose of giving the city a nioro practical and economical
administration of school affairs. The nominees on the non-partisan
ticket are, we are convinced, thoroughly reputable and well inten
tioued persons; but to speak plainly, they represent an clement that
is already dominant in the board. Messrs Ludden, Hackney and
Stiro are in every way well equipped for the proper administration
of school matters, and thoy represent a sentiment in this city that
calls for economy in school, as in all other public expenditures, and
the management of tho school department along practical lines.
Mr. Abbott has made an excellent city attorney, one of the most
ellicient the city has ever had, and ho is entirely deserving or the
tribute which ho will.on Tuesday, receive from the voters of this city
The attempts, not always of tho most honorable sort, to weaken
Judge Waters have not had tho desired effect. He is a jmpular can
didate and will be re-elected by a handsome plurality.
The nomination of John Fawell for cemetary trustee wai a happy
thought. Fawell's candidacy is very opular.
.Ulna Dobson is standing squarely upon his record as city engi
neer, and that is what is going to re-elect him by a wide margin.
The republican councilmanic nominees are. in most instances,
good men, and the re-organized council will be an improvement.
Republican oflicials and citizens who have been called upon, sue
cessfully, to pay tribute to the afternoon newspapers in this city on
the ground that they were performing and would continue to per
form valuable service for the republican party sometimes speculate
as to whether they have not been buncoed.
THE ETIQUETTE OF VISITING.
Married women leave their husband's cards with their own; that
is to say, one is left for the gentleman of the house and one for the
hostess, writes Isabel A. Mallon in an article on "The Art of Dress
ing for Visiting"" in tho April Lutlies' Home Jonnntl. A dinner
party demands a call within two weeks, but this is not required after
a tea or a large reception. If a friend is ill it is proper to call in per
son and leave a card with kind inquiries written uj on it. A very
pretty English fashion is gradually finding its waj here. After a
severe illness a lady may send by mail to all the people who have called
to enquire for her an engraved card reading in this way: "Mrs. James
Brown presents her compliments and her thanks for recent kind in
quiries." This does away with the necessity of making visits when
one is still in ill-health, and yet it is a recognition of the courtesies
received. It is polite, also, to leave a card of congratulation when a
new baby appears in tho family, but one is never expected to ask to
see the mother.
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Remenyi, after the concert Tuesday evening, was present for a few
minutes at a i rivate dancing party. The violinist made some re
marks to an acquaintance on dancing in general that were interest
ing, and he also made some comparisons between dancing in the old
country and the new that probably would not have been particularly
gratifying to some of thetcrpsichorean experts present. "Dancing,"
he said, "is an art in the old countries."
One of the most interesting matrimonial rumors now current in
this city concerns a well known musical director and a lady who has
a large acquaintance in social circles and who was the erstwhile wife
of a prominent business man.
University people arc looking forward to the expected marriage or
one of the professors, the initial of whose name is found very near
the commencement of the alphabet. The university has a iiumlwr
of distinctly available men in its faculty just nojy.aud the assiduous
attentions of certain of these accomplished galiants to Lincoln's
belles has given rise to considerable speculation of an interesting
character.