Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 27 May 1893 — Page 2

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SATURDAY, MAY 27, 1893.

IF the President IB unable to shake Con Cunningham in any other way let him try the Carter Harrison plan—singe his whiskers.

THE Democratic party has attempted several times to organize a Grand Army. They have at last succeeded and now have a Grand Army of the Disappointed.

THE laws enacted by the last Legislature have been distributed in every county in the State, and the Governor has made proclamation that they are now in force.

THE report of the Civil Service Commission shows that the classified service of the "United States now includes 43,400 employes subject to the civil service rule. In 1883, when the law went into effect, the number was about 15,500. To this President Cleveland added 11,800 and President Harrison 16,100, making the total of tcr-day. This does not include "several thousand laboring men in the navy yards, placed under similar rules by Secretary Tracy." As President Cleveland is committed to an extension of the classified service it may be expected that he will increase the number still more! largely.

THE subject of uppermost interest in the minds of the members of the Presbyterian General Assembly now in session at Washington is the case of Dr. Briggs. The efforts of the supporters of the Dootor will be concentrated in trying to have the case remanded to the New York Synod for trial, but the antiBriggs faction, which will without doubt be largely in in the majority, propose to prevent thiB and decide the matter once and for all. But the question is, will this settle it? The conflict seems to be irrepressible. Even though this General Assembly may decide against Dr. Briggs the agitation will continue and •which will probably end in a division of the church or the withdrawal from its folds of many of its most eminent and distinguished divines. fvb-

THE Review, gaining its political information from Democratic sources, al^lays unreliable, says:

Mr. W. It. Brewery, Norfolk. Va., a good Republican no doubt, lias been arrested for swindling the government through fraudulent pensions. He had secured pensions for 150 persons or more, not one of whom was entitled to them. Of course all the names will be dropped from the rolls. It is the discovery of this kind of business that disturbs Republican harmony so much and gives a hollow sound to their loud cries whenever any tiling thing looking to a reform in the pension business of the government is made by the Democrats. Seek to stop this fradulent work and you are an enemy to the ex-soldiers gauged by Republican measurement.

The facts in this case are that the frauds of Drewery were discovered by Commissioner of Pensions Raum more than eighteen months ago. General Raum had Drewery arrested. He was tried and convicted and is now serving a sentence in prison. In politics Drewery is a Democrat. If the Review can make any capital out of this case it is welcome to what buncombe there is in it.

MRS. ELIZABETH CADY STANTON'S appeal to the women of the United States to form local sanitary leagues is worthy of earnest attention. The housewives of the country have it largely in their power to prevent cholera, Bhould it come, from gaining a foothold here. A little intelligent care on their part in the disposal of household garbage, the maintenance of wholesome domestic sur roundings and the observance of the Bimpler rules of hygiene are as essential to the prevention of most epidemics as a pure water supply and clean streets. The domestic duties of women especially qualify them for sanitary guardians. Their entire life is more or less devoted to protecting the physical welfare 'and comfort of the rest of the family. To this experience Mrs. Stanton proposes to add the results of the interchange of views and organized efforts through the means of the proposed local leagues. Naturally sensitive as women are to offenses against personal cleanliness, and instinctively eager as they are to avert the evils of pestilence, so generally due to neglect of cleanliness, it is a matter for surprise that their active co-opera-tion in sanitary work has not long before this been generally enlisted. The women of Crawfordaville should organize

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a league and demand among the first things to be done a system of sewerage.

A CLASSIFIED OFFICE.

The attempt is being made by the local Democracy to make it appear that the CrawfordBville postoffice has not been furnished an eligable register by the United States Civil Seivice Commission placing it in the classified list. And to emphasize this delusion the Star of this week says:

If there were a change in the Crawfordsville postoffice at this time tho carriers and clerks now employed would not be protected by civil service. The registration list will not be filed for three weeks. If Mr. Honnell be allowed to serve three weeks longer the present lorce will be enabled to stay in office. There is abundant cause for tho removal of Mr. Honnell for olfen sive partisanship and if the Democratic boys who aspire to places in the postoffice to which they are entitled, are left out it will be due to lack of nerve and disregard of duty on the part of those who could do something.

The Star is doubtless honest in its belief that the employes of this postoffice are not protected by the civil service rules, but Good Government the official journal of the National Service Reform League, has a different opinion. In its issue of May 15 appears an article in which Crawfordsville is specifically mentioned as one of the offices that is in the list. It says that the Civil Service Commission has been compelled to look for local satisfaction or dissatisfaction to express itself concerning the selection of examining boards. In almost all instances the people of the neighborhoods concerned have acquiesced in the choice of examiners, but here and there a complaint

waB

sent in.

In these cases, it says, it was difficult for the Commission to decide whether the complaints are genuine and the boards composed of unfit persons, or whether the boards are all right and the complaints made from malicious or partisan motives. It has endeavored to weigh each complaint on its own merits, and those obviously frivolous have been dismissed without further ado. For instance, it further says, at Ithica, N. Y., Haverhill, Mass., Ironton, O., Asheville, N. C., Crawfordsville and Vincennes, Ind., either the accusations proved untrue or the accusers failed to come forward when requested to substantiate their statements, in time to allow the Commission to act before the examinaiton. At Montgomery, Ala., Little Rock, Ark., and Terre Haute and Evansville, Ind., the charges were so grave, and made with such substantiality and on so seemingly good authority that, pending investigation, the Commission sent one of its own force to conduct the examinations, being obligee1 to defer them so as to enable the examiner from the central board to get out there. Good Government then says:

In order to settle some differences of opinion as to the precise stage at which a postoffice becomes "classified" in a technical sen^e— whether by the simple act of the President in proclaiming an order of classification, or by the holding of an examination and the preparation of a register of ehgibles—tlie Attorney General lias given, by request, an official opinion. The majority of tho Commission believed that classification occurred with ihe President's order, and that, from that date, no postmaster was at liberty to make removals and appointments l'of political reasons. They have acted upon that presumption. Commissioner Johnston felt uncertain, however, and in pursuance of his policy of conservative action, preferred to have tho law officially and formally construed. The opinion was rendered on Wednesday last [May 10] and was to the effect that an office becomes subject to the Civil Service Rules when the Commission shall have provided an examination, whether the examination remits in the establishment of a list of eligibles or not.

It will thus be seen that having pro vided an examination for this office, and that examination having been made, and the examination papers of the applicants forwarded to the Commission, Crawfordsville is clearly and without doubt in the classified list. Under the AttornneyGeneral's opinion even had there been a postponement of the examination of applicants, as was the case at Terre Haute, Civil Service rules still would have governed.

SAM JOHNSON is an applicant for the postoffice. Mr. Johnson served as mail clerk under John A. Booe and is familiar with the duties of the office. He was a good Union soldier but thiB will cut no figure with this Administration. If Grover wants to reward a clever and deserving man let him send a commission, upon the expiration of Mr. BonneH's term, to Mr. JohnBon.

THE Star is getting restless and begins to chafe under the collar. It wants somebody to say something or do something. It Bays:

It would be mighty good politics for Hon. E V. Brookshire to get a job for somebody from this county before all the jobs are gone. Tho rule of betting men is to "drop tho favorite" and try the field once In a while just for luck.

RICHMOND Item: The State Undertakers' association meets at Crawfords ville, while the United States Baking company meets in Richmond. This is sifinificant of the difference in the two cities.

I had a severe attack of catarrh and became so deaf I could not hear common conversation. I suffered terribly from roaring in my head. I procured a bottle of Ely's Cream Balm, and in three week3 could hear as well as I ever could, and now I can say to all who are afflicted with the worst ot diseases, catarrh, take Ely's Cream Balm and be cured. It is worth $1,000 to any man, woman or child suffering from catarrh.—A. E. Newman, Grayling, Mich.

ITEMS like the following from the American Wool and Cotton Reporter, a free wool journal, by the way, are becoming ominously frequent in the trade papers of late:

The

men'swearsituation

is not encouraging

a great many looms are shutting down, probably more than the commission trade would willingly acknowledge, and the position of tho woolen manufacturer is not comfortable by any means, for with orders running out and not much prospect of obtaining new orders for a lew weeks, the risk attending putting goods into the works that are not covered by orders are too great to assume.

Commenting on this the New York Press says that a great many looms shutting down means a great many workers thrown into idleness. These are among the first fruits of Democratic victory, and they naturally appear in the industry'especially menaced by the free trade policy. If the people wanted a change they certainly have it—a change from confident prosperity under Republicanism to one of industrial demoralization under the party of destruction.

THE Supreme Court has once decided that a gerrymander is unconstitutional The apportionment upon which this decision was based was reenacted by the last legislature. If it was unconstitutional then it is equally so now. The steps that are being taken to bring it before the court again are therefore legitimate and proper. The fact that the court has been changed politically should cut no figure. It very seldom occurs that a court prostitutes itself for political purposes. With such a glaring and manifestly unfair apportionment as disgraces this State it is hard to see how the court, even though it is Democratic, can do otherwise than to affirm the decision of its predecessors. The suit should be pushed to its conclusion.

THE new Congressional Directory shows that of the 104 members of the House and Senate from the States which seceded, 77 served in the Confederate army. Of the 340 from the other States, only 74 are shown to have been Union soldiers. In other works, 75 per cent, of the membership from the States which seceded were Confederate soldiers or ollioers, and only 22 per cent, of those from other States were Union soldiers or officers. From this showing who will dare to say that the Confederates are not on top.

Tns Indianapolis Sentinel of to-day prints nearly a column of names of Indianaians who are applicants for jobs in the treasury department, and

estimates

there are 106 Indiana applications in the State department, 187 in the Interior, 34 in the Department of Justice, 5G in the Post Office department, 45 in the War department, 17 in the Navy and over 100 in the Department of Agriculture. And yet the Sentinel has the gall to say that Indiana Democrats are not spoilsmen.

UNDEB the Gifford law, all building associations must now file reports at stated times with the Auditor of State. The first report was to have been made' before April 1st, but as the law was not in force until the governor's proclamation was made many of the associations had not reported, and they should now report at once to escape a fine. Building Association secretaries in this county will please take notice.

THE World's Fair managers should harness Helen Gougar, Ph(cbe Cozens and Theodore Thomas in a tandem team and exhibit them as the champion high kickers of the universe.

THE Clover Leaf railroad lifts gone into the hands of a receiver. This is only a necessary step in order that the managers may reap a richer harvest. They all do it.

THE shortest way to end the riot cases in Tippecanoe county and save coste would be to bunch them and give the remaining defendants each two years and 81 fine.

The Advantage of a Trust (JompanyCapt. Herron and A. F. Ramsey be lieve that a Loan and Trubt Company organized under the law passed by the last legislature would be a paying investment in Crawfordsville and they greatly regret that all of our capitalists do not see it the same way. If they did we would have a trust company here which would be an institution to be proud of and advantage to the commun ity in every way. It would facilitate the borrowing of money on mortgage securities, make big financial transactions of all kinds easier and keep thousands of dollars in Crawfordsville that otherwise will go East. We hope our moneyed men will, after all, conclude to organize a trust company. We feel sure that the people would encourage them in every possible way.

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THE SWIFT-F0ULKE REPORT. Lucius B. Swift has given to the press a copy of the report of the investigation made by himself and William Dudley Foulke of the Terre Haute postoffice affair. In handing out the report for publication Mr. Swift adds:

Alter a week's rellection 1 am satisfied that the report is too mild. Tho whole thing was a piece of scoundrelism. Nothing less can be said of men wlio offer an officer money if he will resign and at the same time tell liini If lie does- not resign sensational charges will be filed against him. Their only object., and it was openly avowed as the only object, was to get possession of the office, fill it up with heelers, and thus boat tho civil service law. The postmaster had only seven weeks to serve and he had been struck blind, lie refused to resign and the sensational charges were made, not in the interest of tho public service or ol' public morality, but solely as a means of making vacancies Into which henchmen might bo put and the law cheated, and to gain time, charges known to be false by all who had to dj with them, wore filed against the local examining board, following the receipt of his commission, the new postmaster, standing in the Government building, refused to obey the explicit order of the Government directing tho transfer to be delayed until Saturday night but after this order was shown to him he continued his attempt to take possession by force, and delivered written dismissals to employes, and tried to keep them out of the building. In dismissing employes lie piled violations ol the postal regulations upon his defiance of the order of the Government. Vet this double law-breaker files charges of insubordination against employes who were merely trying to curry out the orders of the department by performing their duty and keeping int erlopers out of tho postoflico. Up to Saturday night, the time fixed by Hie Government for the transfer, Donhuni was nothing but an interloper. It is inconceivable that he can remain postmaster at Terre Haute a week longer. This whole business shows tho desperate expedients to which those who have to do with the piracy ol'public office will resort."

The report proper occupies nearly two columns of space and shows up the whole affair from beginning to end as an unparalleled piece of political thuggery, thievery and scoundreiism. This report will be supplemented by Theodore Roosevelt, of the United States Civil Service Commission, who afterwards made an examination which will be corroborative in character. If Donham can retain his position in the face of this evidence it will disgrace the administration of President Cleveland in the eyes of all decent and self respecting citizens regardless of party affiliations.

THE M0WN-WESKER TRAGEDY.

Comments of the Press on This Most Shocking1 and Bloody Affair. 1 Lafayette Cull.]

Wo neither know or care anything about tho merits of the miserable law suit, whose issue was of entire inconsequence in value when compared w'th the life it has cost. We only Know that any self respecting court would have '.-tilenced the speaker if in argument he went outside the record to attack the private character of the defendant in the suit, and the assumption is that there was some justification or occasion for Mr. Wesner's comments developed by the evidence, or he would not have made them or been permitted to make them. It vvas a deliberate murder, for which, ir law is not to fall wholly into contempt, the perpetrator should not be permitted to escape because he has a barrel of money. If the people are to believe in judicial justices must be shown that it can neither be purchased or intimidated.

[Frankfort News.1

The untimely death of Attorney Samuel Wesner is much regretted by his many friends here as elsewhere. Sam, as he was familiarly called, was a good lawyer, and in his outward bearing was a jovial, hale lellow, well ne., but in speaking to a jury could and did say bitter things. His sarcasm was of the biting, irritating sort, and his power of denunciation was great, and it was this that cost him his life. Mr. J. C. Brown, the man that did the shooting, is a gentleman of line reputation as a man and citizen, and no man in Lebanon stands higher in the estimation of the people than

Coley" and he is the last man that would be taken for a murderer. The affair is sad and unfortunate, and one by which the whole State is more or less affected, as Wesner's death is a loss to the Uir, while Brown's usefulness as a business man has in a great measure been destroyed, even if he should be acquitted of the charge of murder.

Frankfort Crescent.]

As the mystery that surrounds the killing ing of Judge Wesner, of Lebanon, at Dan ville Saturday, by Coley Brown, is clcared up and the facts in the case are brought to light, it appears that Brown actcd wholly in self-defense and that with him it was a case of kill or be killed.

LIndianapolis Suu.l

The tragedy that occurred in the court house at Danville Saturday is to be regretted for more reasons than one. Lamentable as it was because of the place of the occurance and the persons involved, it is to be regretted that such conditions existed that it was deemed necessary to remove the prisoner to another county to save his neck from Judge Lynch. The threats and summary actions of mobs are becoming too frequent in Indiana. We are advertising to the world that we area State having no respect or confidence in the law. Brown had no sooner fired the shot that proved fatal in the Danville court house than threats of lynching were heard. So aggressive did tho friends of the dead man become, the Sheriff felt that the safety of his prisoner could only be obtained by a quick and secret removal to Indianapolis.

I Indianapolis News.]

It is an awful thing to take the life of a fellow townsman, whatever the provocation may be. The Danville slaying may have been at the least a case of self defense bat the quarrel which resulted in the slaying was sought, not avoided. The men were both armed, ready for desperate deeds. So long as men go about with

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desperate weapons, there will be sudden murders. So long as communities belittle or palliate such murders they will not cease. It is an awful thing to kill a man to be ready to kill a man to enter a quarrel that may result in killing a man. No community can be considered really civilized that does not by all means uphold the sacredness of human life: that does not punish by extreme penalties every manifestation of private vengeance.

[Lafayette Courier.T

It is not the object ol this article to discuss the character of the man who met his fate, tha*. most of his acquaintances have for years been expecting. It is sufficient to say that he was generally regarded as a revengeful and desperate man, and that, in the estimation of the best class of people whore they lived, the slayer vvas held in much higher regard than the victim of his sudden and deplorable passion. Mr. Brown had much to live for and to hope for. His past was not unpleasant to eontemplate. A southerner by birth he became a defender of his country under circumstances the relation of wine! would inspire patriotic sentiment his business career has been honorable and successful his parents are high-minded, peace-loving people his domestic lifewas pure, and his home was pervaded with genteel luxury and a spirit of Christian refinement. In short, he had reason to believe that his personal honor was entitled to respectful consideration and it is easy to imagine how his whole nature could have been wrought up by the pitiless attacks ol a criminal lawyer, who availed himself of the inexcusable custom of making license of his profession to ruthlessly defame the victim of his displeasure. Reputable lawyers discourage and deplore that kind of practice but there is a class of men who engage in legal pursuits who depend almost wholly upon bullyragging tactics to accomplish their purposes. This is not stated in a spirit of hostile criticism, but as a matter of fact deserving of the most deliberate and unpiejudiced consideration. The lawyer who makes a specialty of publicly traducing witnesses and intimidating those who oppose him is no worse than the newspaper that recklessly attacks the private character of individuals, but while the latter is properly held accountable for libelous utterances, the former seems to be not amenable to any law for committing a similar offeuse. The abuse of privileges by any man, oe he lawyer or editor, is unmanly and cowardly, and is calculated to lead to some such result as is so forcibly and shockingly illustrated in this tragedy at Danville.

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