Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1884 — Page 2

oiljc JlrmorraticSe ntiitel RENSSELAER, INDIANA. JW. McEWEN, - - - Publisher

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Reeord of the Week. EASTERN. From April 24 to June 20 the net profits of New York City national banks decreased $1,157,200, while loans and discounts fell off $43,129,800, and the amounts due other banks and depositors were lessened by $49,737,300. Philip Hamilton, youngest son of Alexander Hamilton, who was killed by Aaron Burr, died at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., aged 82. At the iron works in South Boston, where a mammoth gun was in process of Hasting, a mass of 120 tons of molten metal exploded forty feet beneath the surface of the ground, and rose to a height of sixty feet. The damage is reported at $30,000. The assignee of the Penn Bank bebegan suit at Pittsburgh last week for conspiracy against President Riddle, Cashier Reiber, and M. K. McMullen, I. J. Watson, and R. M. Kennedy, oil brokers, for wrecking the bank by overdrawing $1,075,000. Bail for the two former was fixed at $20,000 each and $15,0C0 each for the others. The failure is announced of Best & Co., of New York, dealers in children's clothing, whose liabilities are SIBO,OOO. A fire which broke out in Mrs. Charles Reilly’s bakery at Bradford, Pa., destroyed ten structures. Two children of Mrs. Reilly and a domestic perished in the flames, and the frenzied mother received such burns in attempts to rescue her babes that she died in a short time. Four other persous were injured, two being girls who jumped from upper stories, one receiving a fatal hurt.

WESTERN.

There are thirteen cases of small-pox at Leroy, Mich. The stockholders of the Central Pacific Road re-elected Stanford, Hopkins, the Huntingtons, and the Crockers as Directors. Maud S made a mile for exercise at Cleveland in 2:12)4. In an affray in a Keokuk, lowa, hotel, B. D. Courts, of Dean, shot R. Spence dead. Tho murdered man accused Courts of stealing money from him, and followed up by an assault* when Courts used his revolver, firing fonr shots. W. L. Lamb, a Toledo (Ohio) tobacco racrchrnt, was fatally shot by a burglar. lamb tried to overpower the robber, whom he caught in the hallway, but after the shooting he escaped. At Denison, Tex., Joe Knntz shot his divorced wife, and, walking several blocks to where he lodged, entered his room and shot himself dead. A number of bogs at Rockford, 111., which had been bitten by a mad dog, are dying with hydrophobia.

The net earnings of the St. Paul Road for tbe first half of the year are fully up to those of tbe preceding period, owing to a diminution of expenditures, although the receipts fell off nearly $1,000,000. It is alleged that the late President W. R. McGill, of the Cincinnati and Eastern Road, who was killed by falling from a car, procured about $30,000 on spurious notes, and that bis victims were friends.’ These developments give rise to the belief that he committed suicide. At the Chicago Driving Park a wonderful performance was witnessed by 10,030 persons. The pacer Westmont and running mate, harnessed to a light road wagon, made a quarter of a mile in thirty seconds, a half mile in one minute, three-quarters In ninety seconds, and the full mile in 2:01%. But for a break by on the last eighth of a mile, the record would have been two minutes.

The estimated yield of wheat in Michigan this year is 21,965,391 bushels—--1,512,841 bushels less than the crop of 1883. St. Lonis is arranging for an international convention of veterans of the Mexican war, in October. It is claimed that President Diaz has promised to send fifty prominent participants to the gathering. Everett & Weddell, who for thirty years have conducted a private bankinghouse in Cleveland, made an assignment liabilities at 81,000,000, They state that their assets are ample to pay all claims in full, with interest. Some citizens of Kewanee, 111., tarred and feathered a social offender, and rode him out of town on a rail to the musicof-eleigh-bells. The Illinois Department of Agriculture reports an average yield of winter wheat in the northern division, and about threefourths of a crop in the central and southern portions of the State.

SOUTHERN.

At Baltimore, Gus Slater, nephew of a noted gambler, shot and killed “Prlnoe” ! McGowan, a well-known sporting character, as the result of a quarrel begun in a saloon. McGowan met his death a few feet from the spot where he killed Ouno Garter, another gambler, two years ago. Under orders from Secretary Lincoln, all settlers will be compelled to leave the region known as Greer County, Texas, Which is said to belong to Indian Territory. Secretary Folger has advanced $333.333 to the President of the World’s Exposition at Mew Orleans. Paul Morphy, the famous chessplayer, was drowned in bis bath tub in his residence at New Orleans, last week. He was 47 years old, and had been demented for | some years. A fire which broke out at Chattanooga., Tenn., resulted in the destruction of several stores. The total loss is estimated at 175,000. The insurance is about SBO,OOO. Dallas (Texas) dispatch: A tragedy has just occurred at the National Hotel, in which two of the most prominent young men of this city evidently fought a duel to the death. W. H. Beale and Bowie Strange are both lying dead in a room in the third story of the hole.. Strange is partially dressed, and Beale is nearly stripped, showing that they I

fought as they were about to retire for the night. The pistol of each is lying by his side.' Both appear to be shot through the heart, and Strange also through the head. The doors to their auite of rooms were locked, but were broken open when the pistol shots were heard. They were devoted friends, but are said to have bad hard words shortly before the tragedy, and one was heard to say to the other: “I will kiil you." The announcement of their death has created a profound sensation, and hundreds of people arc congregated in the streets.

WASHINGTON.

W. S. Jackson, a banker of Colorado Springs, has been appointed receiver of the Denver and Rio Grande Road. The State Department will soon issue to the public a volume of information ob. tained by American consuls as to the wages of labor in Europe, the cost of living, and the social condition of the toiling masses. The Postmaster-General has $500,000 more at his disposal this year than last year for the free-delivery service. It is proposed in many cities to enlarge the force of carriers. The free-delivery sy-tem will be extended to twenty cities, $45,003 of the appropriation being available for that purpose. Secretary Folger has decided in the case of William Butler Duncan and his family that a wedding trousseau and widding presents when brought into this country, even though they form part of the baggage of the party for whom they are intended, are dutiable. They exceed in kind, quality, and value the personal goods of ordinary passengers and are intended for a special occasion.

MISCELLANEOUS. A railroad has been opened from San Joso de Guatemala to the City of Guatemala, a distance of seventy-five miles. It is controlled by Mr. C. P. Huntington’s Central Pacific. The Baltimore and Ohio Company has purchased the Pittsburgh, Cleveland and Toledo Road. Sanvalle, a French journalist, who was expelled from Mexico as a pernicious foreigner, has arrived in New York. He states that for publishing three articles, demanding an investigation into the negotiation of a large public loan, he was imprisoned in a fort at Vera Cruz and sent on board a man-of-war. At Fort Smith, Ark., a white man and two Indians were executed by the United States authorities for murder. William and Charles Hamilton were hanged at Warren }- burg, Mo., for killing Carl Sterble. Ton thousand persons were present.

The Masonic Grand Lodge resolved at Brockville, Ont., that the presence of intoxicants on refreshment tables of subordinate lodges was not desirable. The Mexican Government, it is announced, has agreed to give a bonus of SSO per head for Imported Chinese. Bradstreei's reports 196 failures in the United States for the week, against 146 in the preceding week. The Canadian judicial authorities have decided against the extradition of John C. Eno, tho absconding New York banker. An explosion of coal-oil at West Winchester, Ontario, caused the destruction of a mill, a factory, and several dwellings, •all valued at $200,000. “Boss” Shepherd, after acqiring considerable wealth by mining >n Mexico, will return to Washington, where his admirers propose to give him a grand reception.

FOREIGN.

The French Government has decided to release the Montceau-les-Mines anarchists, but will not pardon Prinoe Krapotkine or Louiso Michel. The Communists of Paris propose to march to the City Hall on July 14, with a red flag bearing the word “amnesty.” A magistrate at Lurgan, Ireland, named Liddel, was fired upon while driving with his wife, the latter receiving a wound. A cable dispatch from London says: “The cholera has driven thousands of Americans from French soil to I.ondon. Any infectious cases in the latter city will be taken lo Gravesend hospital. The authorities bavo been asked to intercept a steamer from Marseilles for Cardiff, on which there are said to bo two cases. Ten deaths were reported at Toulon on Monday ovening, and fourteen at Marseilles. Cornwall, Secretary of the Dublin Fostofllce, has fled the city since the failure of his suit against O'Brien, as have also several other persons involved with him in criminal acts. The French Admiral Courbet telegraphs to Paris that he has occupied a town on the Chinese coast. The war, therefore, has commenced. The bullion in the Bank of England decreased $1,870,000, in the Bank of France about $1,000,000, and in the German Imperial Bank about 92,000,000. Orangemen have been arrested at Newry, Ireland, for shooting a Nationalist. A commission has been appointed to inquire into the cause of the alarming increase in the number of Buicides in the Prus- | sian army. Michael De Young, of the San Francisco Chronicle, and a select party were entertained at a banquet by Irving, the actor, in London. Some Orangemen shot a Catholic near Belfast, Ireland. The police arrested one of the Orangemen, but he was rescued A fierce fight ensued. A London dispatch says that, should the House of Lords reject the franchise bill in the fall, the Government will dissolve Parliament, and a goneral election will take place before Christmas.' Several persons who have figured in the O’Brlen-Cornwall case in Dublin hive been arrested on criminal charges. The dej teetives are looking ior Cornwall. Considerable excitement prevails in consequence of the arrests. Another attempt has been made to kill the Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria. The rails over which his train was to pass near Pola were removed. This was discovered in time to prevent a serious and perhaps fatal accident. The New York dry-goods house of Halstead, Haines & Co. made an assignment for the benefit of its creditors. The liabilities aggregate about 92,090,000. Cholera continues to prevail, and the

increase in the death srate at Marseilles has increased the general alarm. The origin of the disease is traced to Egypt and England's carelessness there. Israel H. Hamburger, of New York, has made an assignment. He was in the stationery business, and his liabilities are put at $60,000. Elias Brown, a comb manufacturer, also made an assignment. At Conshocken, Pa., John Mann, a Shoemaker, stabbed his daughter seventeen, and then himself fifteen, times, and died. The daughter will die. She repelled the unlawful advances of her father.

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

The clearing house exchanges last week are but $703,645,589, a falling off from the corresponding period In 1883 equaling 23.5 per cent. Prof. Bichard A. Prector, the astronomer, with his family, has leached St Joseph, Mo., from London, and intends to reside there for the future. Burgert & Hart, who for a quarter century have conducted a wholesale boot and shoe house in Toledo, have made an assignment to L. S. Baumgardner, with liabilities of sioo,o:o. The failure is announced of Buford & Co., extensive plow manufacturers of Rock Island, 111. The small mission town of San Jose, Cal., was almost totally destroyed by fire. Ihe loss is $50,000 and tha insurance small. When water was exhausted, claret was used to extinguish the flames and prevent the destruction of the old mission church.

Secretary Frelinghuysen has instructed the consular odicers at London, Liverpool, Marseilles, Havre, Bordeaux. Bremen, and Hamburg to employ competent physicians to inspect all vessels and passengers departing from those ports to the United States, and to refuse clean bills of health to all unless upon the recommendations of such physicians* and sanitaray inspectors. The Consuls are instructed to report promptly by cable any cases of infectious disease. At Newberry, S. C., Mrs. John Nelson found in the center of a potato a bright go d ring. The vegetable had trown through the metal and then around it until the ring was completely concealed. Newton Carpenter and Ned Macks, negroes, were hanged by a mob near Starkville. Miss., last wees. About two year 3 ago Carpenter fatally poisoned B. J. Parish s two sons, aged 14 and 12, Macks furnishing him the drug. Carpenter confided his crime to a negress, who d.vulged the matter a day or two before the lynching.

W. J. Lucas, jailer at Owensboro, Ky., was riddled with bullets by a mob to whom he refused to surrender the keys. His wife took his pistol and vainly endeavored to drive back the bloodthirsty crowd. They then took a negro named Richard May, who had made a criminal assault on a white girl, and hanged him to a tree in the court house yard. Dispatches from Berlin state that the crops in Prussia are unusually good. An avalanche at Mont Blanc, Switzerland, overwh ’lined a party of travelqrs. One person was killed. Some 250 Italians brought into the Hocking Valley to take the place of striking miners have to be guarded by the police. The caving of an enbankment at Parker, Pa., buried seven men, two of whom were killed, two mortally, an! the others severely injured. An engine and coal car, running out of time, came in collision with a passenge r train at Greenwood Cemetery, near Brooklyn. Both drivers reversed their engines, and after the crash the engine and the coal car started back cn the traok and dashed into a crowded passenger train at the depot, causing a great wreck. Nine persons were injured, some fatally. The Secretary of the National Committee of the Greenback party, who accompanied Gen. Butler from Chicago to Buffalo, states that the latter will certainly remain in the teld as the Anti-Monopoly candidate for President. Intellectual and bodily activity are rarely found in men of great age; but when so combined add to the chances of prolonged life. Witness three men who have played a great and active part in the world and who combine these rare gifts of nature and will, the Earl of Shaftesbury, the great humanitarian Cardinal Newman, and the Emperor William.

THE MARKET.

NEW YORK. Beeves $ t.oo @ B.o# Hoos 5.35 @ 5.T5 Flour—Extra. 6.00 @ 6.2* WHEAT—No. 2 Chicago 92 @ .93 No. 2 Red 97%@ .9654 Corn—Na 2 60 @ .02 Oats—White 38 @ .44 Pork—Mess 15.25 @15.75 CHICAGO. Beeves—Choioe to Prime Steers, 6.75 @7.25 Fair to Good 5.25 @ 6.00 Butchers' 6.00 @ 5.50 Hoos 6.25 @5.75 Flour—Fancy White Winter Ex 6.25 @ 5.76 Good to Choice Spring... 4.50 @ 5.25 Wheat—No. 2 Soring 80 @ .81% No. 2 Red Winter. 87 @ .90 Corn—No. 2 51 @ .53 Oats—Na 2 29 @ .SO Rye -No. 2. eo @ .02 Barley—No. 2. ect @ .62 Butter—Choice Creamery 17 @ .18% Fine Dairy. 18 @ .16 Cheese—Full Cream. 08 @ .09 Skimmed Flat 03 @ .04 Eggs—Fresh 15 @ .16 Potatoes—New, per brl 2.00 @ 2.50 Pork—Mess 22.25 @22.75 Lard 07 @ .07% TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 Red 86 @ .87% Corn—No. 2 .64 @ .65 Oats—No. 2. 32 & .34 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 so @ .81 Cohn—No. 2 47 @ .48 Oatr—No. 2 32 @ .33 Barley—No. 2 54 @ .56 Pork—Moss 16.25 @16.75 Lard 7.00 @7.50 ST. LOUIE Wheat—No. 2 84 @ .85 Corn—Mixed. 45 @ .46% Oats—No. 2 26 @ .27 Rye. 55 @ .56% Pork—Mess .*.... 16.00 @16.50 CINCINNATI Wheat—Na 2 Red 90 @ 91 Corn. 53 @ .55 Oats—Mixed. 34 @ .35 Pork—Mess 16.00 @16.50 Lard 07 @ .07% DETROIT. Flour 6.00 @ 6.50 Wheat—No. 1 v\ hits. 1.01 @l^o2 Cohn—Mixed. sj @ .55 Oats—No. 2 Mixed 83 @ .35 Pork—Mess 19.25 @19.75 INDIANAPOLIS. Wheat—Na 2 Red 86 @ .88 Corn—Mixed 48 @ .60 Oats—Mixed 30 @ .32 EAST LIBERTY. CATILB—Best 8.00 @ 6.50 Fair. 5.50 @6.25 Common.. 8.76 @ 4.2# Hooo. 5.60 @ 6.00 Sheep 4.00 @ 4.50

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—Near Logansport, the little sox of S. A. Michaels, a farmer, poked a stick into a hive, and was stung to death by the bees. —The body of a man was found floating in the river, near the old Cave pork-hoase, at Madison, supposed to be Harry Jone.s, of Indianapolis, who was drowned by walking overboard from the steamer City of Madison. The Ccr mer found nothing upon the body by which to identify him. —At a picnic at Marysville John Robinson struck Elmer Smith, who was dancing, in the f ice. Smith then knocked Robinson down, and a general row followed, in which knives and pistols were freely used, and nearly every one was more or less hart. Robinson was stabbed in the groin and John Wrightliouse in the leg, and Wyatt Mikesell had his jawbone broken. —Charles Selby, of Vincennes, a conductor on the Ohio and Mississippi Railway, was shot by a tramp at the Clay City water-tank, while putting him from the train. The tramp had stolen Selby’s revolver from the caboose. Selby, it is thought, will soon recover. The ball entered his left breast, and was taken from his arm above the elbow. The tramp escaped.

—New Albany is to make an effort to secure tho Air-Line Railway shops, and it is called to mind that when the city subscribed to the stock of the road, und voted about about $400,C00, it was upon the express agreement that machine shops should be erected there. It is held that though the company did change that does not reloase the present company, as the franchise they bought could only have been had through the aid of New Albany.

—For some time a series of daring and successful burglaries have been taking place in Bedford, with no clew, it was thought, to the guilty parties. By quietly working up the case, however, with the aid of a special detective, enough facts were discovered to warrant the arrest of a hard character about that town, known as “Buck Davis.” It set ms that Davis is a well-known criminal in Louisville, as it is stated by the police there that he has served two terms in the Kentucky Penitentiary for burglary. —As a lot of Columbus boys were iu swimming, a little colored boy got beyond his depth and was drowning, when a boy named Henry Hartwell swam to his assistance and saved him after he had gone under the second time. This is the third boy Hartwell has saved from drowning. Three years ago Hartwell plunged into the river, when the water was ice-cold, and saved a boy—one of his playmates—and not long afterward, saved another lad near the same place.

—At Jeffersonville, Clara Harris, colored* lged 30, was shot in the abdomen with a double-barreled shotgun loaded with slugs and nails. The wounds inflicted presented a sickening spectacle. Her husband has several times threatened the lives of citizens, and twice attempted to kill his wife. After the murder he remained in the house with the children until morning, when the eldest daughter notified the neighbors, resulting in his arrest. At the jail he was reticent, claiming he did not commit the murder, and that it must have been another party who had a grudge against him.

—Deputy Sheriff Bradou, of Greencasile, went to Cloverdale to arrest Doug Akers on the charge of aiding a prisoner to escape from jail. The prisoner is a brother of the accused, and is waiting trial for burglary. Doug was detected in passing tools into his cell to enable him to break jail. The Deputy got his man on board a freight-train for Greencastle. The train was running thirty miles an hour, when Akers gained the top of the caboose through the observatory and made a leap for liberty. The Sheriff also jumped from the car and fired at the fugitive, but was too badly crippled by the fall to pursue him farther than the thicket into which he disappeared. —Samuel Young, one of the alleged leaders of the Crawford County gang of counterfeiters, for whom the Government officers have long been in search, has been brought to Indianapolis and lodged in jail. He was indicted by the United States Grand Jury last November, and Deputy-Marshal Barneclo went to Crawford County to arrest him, but he took to the woods and escaped. He then went to Missouri, bought a farm neir Barney, and se;tled down. Marshal Foster was informed of his whereabouts and sent a detective to assist In the arrest of Young. The arrest was made after a desperate struggle. Young is accused of some expert counterfeiting jobs, and the officers are elated at his capture. —ln Indiana the readjustment of Postmasters’ salaries add 3 SIOO to the salary at North Vernon and Portland and reduces by SIOO the salaries at the following places: Anderson, Bloomington, Bluffton, Brazil, Butler, Covington, Crown Point, Decatur, Delphi, Edinboro, Evansville, Fowler, Greencastle, Huntington, Kendalls ville, Kentland, Lagrange, La Porte, Lawrenceburgh, Ligouier, Madison, Martinsville, Michigan City, North Manchester, Notre Dame, Princeton, Rensselaer, Rockport, Sullivan, Terre Haute, Thornton. Union City, Valparaiso, Vevay, Vincennes, Warsaw, Waterloo, Winchester, and Winamae. The salary at Jeffersonville is reduced S2OO, and Goodland and Remington are reduced to tho fourth class.

—Fred Vogel, an old citizen of Connersville, shot himself through the brain recently and died instantly. He Berved as a civil engineer in the Army of the Tennessee. Of recent years he has been very poor, and has been a persistent applicant for a pension, which was denied on technical grounds. He left a letter in which he bitterly denounced the Government officials for neglecting to grant his pension. —John Upper, of Evansville, was drowned while bathing in the Ohio.

DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM.

Fnll Text of the Resolutions Adopted by the National Convention at Chicago. The Democratic party of the Union, through its representatives in national convention assembled. recognizes that, as tbs nation grows older, new issues are born of time and progress and old issues perish. Bat the fundamental principles of the Democracy, approved by the united voice of the people, remain, and will ever remain, as the best and only security for the continuance of free government. The preservation of personal rights, the equality of all citizens "before the law, the reserved rights of the States, and the supremacy of the Federal Government within the limits of the Constitution, will ever form the true basis of our liberties, and can never be surrendered without destroying that balance of rights and powers which enables a continent to be developed in peace, and social order to be maintained by means of self-govern-ment. But it is indispensable for the practical application and enforcement of these fundamental principles that the Government should not always be controlled by one political party Frequent change of administration is as necessary as constant recurrence to the popular will. Otherwise abuses grow, and the Government, instead of being carried on for tbe general welfare, becomes an instrumentality for imposing heavy burdens on the many who are governed for the benefit of the few who govern. Public servants thus become arbitrary rulers. This is now the condition of the country. Hence a change is demanded. The Republican party, so far as principle is concerned, is a reminiscence; in practice, it is an organization for enriching those who oontrol its machinery. The frauds and Jobbery which have been brought to light in every department of the Government are sufficient to have called for reform within the Republican party; yet those in authority, made reckless by the long possession of power, have suconmbed to its corrupting influence mrt have placed in nominatim a ticket against which the independent portion of the party are in open revolt. Therefore, a change is demanded. Such a change was alike necessary in 1876, but the will of the people was then defeated by a fraud which can never be forgotten nor condoned. Again, in 1880, the change demanded by the people was defeated by the lavish use of money contributed by unscrupulous contractors and shameles-jobbers who hid bargained for unlawful profits or for high office. The Republican party, during its legal, Its stolen, and its bought tenures of power, has steadily decayed in moral character and political capacity. Its platform promises are now a list of its past failures. It demands the restoration of our navy. It has squandered hundreds of millions to create a navy that does not exist. It calls upon Congress to remove the burdens under which American shipping has been depressed. It imposed and has continued those burdens. It professes the policy of reserving the public lan's for small holdings by actual settlers. It has given away the people's heritage till now a few railroads and non-resident aliens, individual and corporate, possess a larger area than that of all our farms between the two seas. It professes a preference lor free institutions. It organized and tried to legalize a control of State elections by Federal troops. It professes a desire to elevate labor. It has subjected American workingmen to the competition of convict and imported contract labor. It pro esses gratitude to all who were disabled or died in the war, leaving widows and orphans. It left to a Democratic House of Representatives the first effort to equalize both bounties and pensions. It proffers a pledge to correct the irregularities of our tariff. It created and has continued them. Its own Tariff Commission confessed the need of more than 20 per cent, reduction. Its Congress gave a reduction of less than 4 per cent. ,

It professes the protection of American manufactures. It has subjected them to an increasing flood of manufactured goods, and a hopeless competition with manufacturing nations, not one of which taxes raw materials. It nroiesses to protect all American industries. It has impoverished many to subsidize a few. It professes the protection of American labor. It has depleted the returns of American agriculture—an Industry followed by half our people. It professes the equality of all men before the law* Attempting to fix the status of colored citizens, the acts of its Congress were overset by the decisions of its courts. It "accepts anew the duty of leading in the work of progress and reform.” Its caught criminals are permitted to escape through contrived delays or actual connivance in the prosecution. Honeycombed with corruption, outbreaking exposures no longer shock its moral sense. Its honest members, its Independent journals, no longer maintain a sftccessfnlcontest for authority in its counsels or a veto upon bad nominations. That change is necessary is proved by an existing surplus of more th n $100,000,000, which has yearly been collected from a suffering people. Unnecessary taxation is unjust taxation. We denounce the Republican party for having failed to relieve the people from crashing war taxes, which have paralyzed business, cri. pled industry, and deprived labor o< employment and of just reward. The Democracy pledges itself to purify the administration from corruption, to restore economy, to revive respect for law, and to reduce taxation to the lowest limit consistent with due regard to the preservation of the faith of the nation to its creditors and pensioners. Knowing full well, however, that legislation affecting the occupations of the people should be cautious and conservative in method, not in advance of public opinion, but responsive to its demands, the Democratic party is pledged to revise the tariff in a spirit of fairness to all interests.

But In making reduction in taxes it js not proposed to injure any domestic industries, but rather to promote their healthy growth. From the foundation of this Government taxes collected at the Custom House have been the chief source of Federal revenue. Such they must continue to be. Moreover, many industries have come to rely npon legislation for successful continuance, so that any change of law must be at every step regardful of the labor and capital thus involved. Tue prooess of reform must be subject in the execution to this plain dictate of justice. All taxation shall be limited to the requirements of economic 1 government. The necessary reduction in taxation can and must be effected without depriving American labor of the ability to compete successfully with fo-eign labor, and without imposing lower rates of duty than will be ample to cover anv increased cost of production which may exist in consequence of the higher rate of wages prevailing in this country. Sufficient revenue to pay all the expenses of the Federal Government, economically admin'stcred, including pensions, interest, and principal of the public debt, can be got, under' our present system of taxation, f > om customhouse taxes on fewer imported articles, bearing heaviest on articles of luxury, and bearing lightest on articles of neco-slty. We therefore denounce the abuses of the existing tariff, and, subject lo the j receding limitations, we demand that Federal taxation shall be exclusively for public purposes, and shall not exceed the needs of the Government economically administ- red. The svptem of direct taxation known as the “internal revenue," is a war tax, and so long as the law continues, the money derived thetfefrom should be sacredly devo ed to the relief of the people from the remaining burdens of the war. and be made a fund to defray the expense of the care and comfort of worthy soldiers disabled in line of duty in the wars of the Republic, and for the payment of such pensions as Congress may from ttme to time grant to such soldierß a like fund for the sailors hiving been already provided: and any surplus should be paid into the Treasury. We favor an American continental policy based upon more intimate commercial and political relations with the fifteen sister republics of North; Cent al and South America, but entangling alliances with none. We believe in honest money, the gold and silver coinage of tho Constitution, and a circulating medium convertible into such money without loss. Asserting the equality of all men before the law, we hold that it is the duty of the Government, in its dealings with the people, to mete out equal and exact justice to all citizens of whatever nativity, raoe, color, or persuasion—reli ious or political. We believe in a free ballot and a fair count; and we recall to the memory of the people the noble struggle of the Democrats in the Fortyfifth and Forty-sixth Congresses, by which a relnotant Republican opposition was compelled to assent to legislatton. making everywhere illegal tho presence of troops at the polls, as the conclusive proof that a Democratic administration will preserve liberty with order. The selection of Federal officers for the Territories should be restricted to citizens previously resident therein. We oppose sumptuary laws, which rex the citizen and interfere with individual liberty; we favor honest civil service reform, and the condensation of all United States officers by fixed salaries; the separation of church and state; and the diffusion of free edneation by common ..schools, so that every child in the

land may be taught the rights and dntiee of citizenship. Whilewe favor all legislation which will tend to the equitable distribution of property, to tbe prevention of monopoly and to the strict enforcement of Individual rights against corporate abases, we hold that the we fare of society depends upon a scrupulous regard for the rights of property as defined by law. We believe that labor is best rewarded where it is freest and most en ightened. it should, theres re, be fostered and cher shed. We farm the repeal of all laws restricting the free action of labor, and the enactment of laws by which labor organizations may be incorporated, and of ail such legislation as will tend to enlighten the people as to the true relations of capital and labor. We believe that the public lands ought, as faras possible, to be kept as hom "steads for actual settlers: that all unearned lands heretofore imP" ovidently granted to railroad ocrpoi ations by the action of the Republican party should be restored to tbe public domain; and that no mo e grants of lands shall be made to corporations or be allowed to fall into the ownership of alien, absentees. We are opposed to all propositions which upon any pretext would convert the General Govei nment into a machine for collecting taxes to be distributed among the States, or the citizen* thereof. In reaffirming the declaration of the Democratic plat orm of 1856, that “the liberal principles embodied by Jefferson in tbe Declaration of Independence, and sanctioned in it e Constitution which makes ours the land of liberty and the asylum of the oppressed of every nation*, have ever been cardinal principles in tire Democratic faith,” we, nevertheless, do not sanction the imports ion of foreign labor, or the admission of servile races, unfitted by habits, tra'nJug, religion or kindred for absorption into the great body of our people, or for the citizenship which our laws oonfer. American civiliz-tion demands that against the Immigration or importation of Mongolians to these shores ourgates be closed. The Democratic party insists that it is the duty of this Government to protect, with equal fidel ty and vigilanoe, the rights ot its citizens* native and naturalized, at home and abroad; and to the end that this protection may be as--bu ed. United States papers of naturalization* issued by courts of oompet'nt jurisdiction* must be respected by the executive and Jeg slative departments of our own Government and by all foreign powers. It is an imperative duty of this Government toefficiently protect all the rights of persons and: property of American citizens in foreign Unds* and demand and enforce fnll reparation for any invasion thereof. An American citizen is only responsible to hla own Government for any act done In hs own country, or under her flag, and can only be tried therefor on her own soil and according toher laws; Rnd no power exists in this Government to expatriate an American citizen to be tried in any foreign land for su h act. This country has never had a well-defined and executed foreign policy sat e under Demo—oratic administration; that policy has ever been* in regard to foreign nations, so long as they do not act detrimental to the interests of the country or hurtful to our citizens, to let them alone; that as the result of this policy we recall the acquisition at Louisiana, Florida, California, and of the adjacent Mexican territory by purchase alone;, and contrast, these grand acquisitions of Democratic statesmanship with the purchase of Ala ska, the sole fruit of a Republican administration of nearly A quarter ot a entury. The Federal Government should care tor and improve the Mississippi River and other great waterways of the republic, so as to secure for the interior States easy and cheap transportation to tide water. Under a long period of Democratic rule and policy our merchant marine was fast overtaking and on the point of outstripping that of Great. Bi itain. Under twenty years of Republican rule and policy our commerce has been left to British bottoms, and almost lifts the American flag been, swept off the high seas. Under Democratic rule and policy eur merchants and sailors, flying the stars and stripes in every port, successfully searched out a market lor tue varied products of American industry. Under a quarter century of Republican rule and policy, despite our manifest advantage over all other nations in high-paid labor, favorable climates and teeming soils; despite freedom of trade among all these United States; despite their population by the foremost races of mm, and an annnal imrnigt ation of the young? th- ifty and adventurous of all nations; despite ourfreedom here from the Inherited burdens of life and industry in old-world mo archies —theircostly war navies, their vast tax-i onsnmiug, non-preduotng st • nding armies; despite twenty years of peace—Republican rule and policy have managed to surrender to Great Britain, along with our commerce, the control of the markets of the world. nstead of the Republican party’s British policy, wp demand in behalf of the AmerLan Democracy an Americ n policy. Instead of tbe Republican party’s discredited scheme and false pretense of friendship for American labor, expressed by imposing taxes* we demand In behalf of the Democracy free om for American' labor by reducing taxes, to the end that these United s tates may c ompete with unhindered powers for the primacy among nations in all tbe arts of peace and fruits of liberty. With profound regret we have been apprised by the venerable statesman through whose person was;s ruck that, blow at the vital principleof republics (acqnlesoence in the will of t e majority), that he cannot, permit ns again to place inh,s hands the leadership of the Democrat hosts, for the reason that the achievement of relo; min the administration of the Federal Government is an undertaking now too heavy for his age and failing strength. Rejoicing that his lit" has been prolonged until the general Judgment of our feilow-country-men is united in the wmh that that wrong were righted in his person, .or the Democracy of theUnited Slates we offer to him, in his withdrawal from public cares, riot on y our respect, sympathy and estem. bn also that best boma.e of freemen—the pledge of our devotion to the principles and the cause now inseparable in the history of this Republic from the labors and thename of f-amuel J. 'lilden. With this statement of the hopes, principles, and purposes of the Democratic party, the greatissue of reform and change in administration is. submitted to the people in calm confidence thatthe popular voice will pronounce in favor of new men and new and more favorable conditions for the growth of industry, the extens on of trade, the employment and due reward, of labor and of capital, and the general welfare of the whole country.

A Politician, Not a Statesman.

It is the fashion of Mr. Blaine’s supporters to speak of him as the great statesman, the Republican statesman, the statesman of Maine, the statesman of this, that, and the other, without, specifying any act of statesmanship that be was ever connected with. In pointof fact, Mr. Blaine has betrayed lessinterest in the legislation of during the past twenty years than any other man who has held a prominentposition in the national councils, except, possibly his rival, Roscoe Conkling. Itis, perhaps, some excuse for him that he was during a large part of thistime in the Speaker’s chair, buthe never found any difficulty in coming down from the chair and taking part, as he had theright to dp, in any business in which, he felt an interest His interest was. never awakened except when he saw. or thought he saw, some political ad- j vantage to he gained for himself, as, for instance, when he came down and moved the Credit Mobil ier investiga- j tion, which dragged half a dozen other “statesmen” over the coals, and putsome of them to death. Mr. Blaine is ] a politician pure and simple. The useof the word statesman as applied tohim is a misnomer of the most glaring type. Statesmanship implies identifi- j cation with, or at all events interest- ; in, acts which go to make up the country’s history. What act in this. J category ever originated with MrBlaine? What one is he bo identified ' with that it has ever been referred to asthe Blaine bill, or the Blaine measure, or the Blaine proposition? —New YorkEvening Post (Pep.). Behind Blaine the people in distinct outline the sinister features, of Jay Gould. A President whom Jay 1 Gould wants the country must Instinctively distrust. — Philadelphia Records ( Ind .).