Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1887 — Page 3

WATTERSON IN FULL FAITH.

The Distinguished Krataddei Sees Nothing trat SueecH in Store for the Democracy—HU Views on Correait Political Topics. . [New York special] CoL Henry Watterson, of Kentucky, ■was seated by a .window in his room at the Everett House, coolly enjoying the faint breeze that struggled through it, when a reporter was received by him. The well-known editor was in his shirtsleeves. He was collarless, his feet were incased in maroon-colored slippers and were calmly resting on a chair in front of him. “Well, Colonel, what do you think of rthe political outlook now?” “I consider the present political situation the most picturesque and unique in the annals of recent history. But everything to me is as clear and pellucid as a mountain stream, and way beyond I see success for the Democratic party. The battle-flag incident and President Cleveland’s letter of declination to the Mayor of St. Louis, coming as they do now, a year before the nomination, just show the luck of that man. If 4he flag episode had happened six weeks before the election in 1888 the bloody-shirters might have used it to defeat Mr. Cleveland. Why, that chap that sits in the chair of the President at the White House is the very apotheosis of common sense. He is practical and crafty, and anything that comes within the orbit of his understanding he strikes it to the core and never makes a mistake. What he does understand he understands thoroughly and hits the nail on the head, and following closely on the flag •episode can but have a benefical effect. Why, his order in regard to the flags did not express near as muoh as the fraternal feelings exhibited by a meeting of the Pennsylvania veterans the ■other day with Pickett’s division at Gettysburg, and yet no spasmodic howl has been raised over that peace gathering. Those old soldiers exchanged captured swords and old battle flags, for aught I know, and yet the demagogues of the North and the bloody-shirt orators did not seize upon it as an incident worthy to haul over. The South does not desire the flags back, cares nothing for them, and I can tell you that all the outbursts in the North over the matter will not create any friction with the South, simply because we have no interest in it. Why, by Jove, the South is busy making money and hasn’t time to indulge in such things. The President’s declining to visit St. Louis after the flag hullabaloo and the things that have been said by some of the Grand Army men was the proper •course to pursue. Why, some crank like Guiteau, incited by the intemperate language that has been used, might fire on the President.” “Do you think, then, Colonel, after all this that the President will be renominated ?” “He will be renominated by acclamation and re-elected. There is no possible exigency that I can imagine uow which will defeat his nomination. It is one of those things that seem morally certain. He grows with the people. If Mr. Blaine runs against him he will carry nearly all the Irish vote of the country, but the German vote will go solidly for Mr. Cleveland. If Mr. Blaine desires to be nominated •of course it will be done. As to the Labor party, it will run a separate ticket and draw from both parties, but more, perhaps, from the Democratic. In the great fight the Labor party will be engulfed, and will not change the general result. ”

The Country Financially.

During the last Presidential campaign the Republican managers and the Republican press informed the people, if the Democratic party was permitted to gain control of public affairs the finances of the country and the business interests of the country would be wrecked, and widespread disaster would at once take the place of prosperity. Lying lamentations were heard everywhere throughout the country. The Republican party had won so many victories by lying, by frauds and perjuries, by devilish devices, that they had reached the conclusion ’ that the progenitor of the party—the devil —could hold the fort against the truth indefinitely. In this a great mistake was made. The Republican party was routed. A Democratic administration was inaugurated, and the people are called upon to note results. Financially, the country was never in a sounder condition. Money is abundant and cheap. The Treasury Department reports receipts for the Useal year ending June 30, 1887, to $371,380,893.95, and expenditures at $268,516,190.29, leaving a balance in the Treasury of $1(12,864,703.66. The Treasury statement shows that the publ : c debt during the last fiscal year was reduced $109,707,646.38. The receipts of the Treasury for the last fiscal year were in excess of- the receipts of the previous fiscal year $34,941,166.89, conclusive of the fact that business-in all departments is prosperous. The Republican lie, largely depended upon to defeat the Democratic party :n 1884, related to the payment of pensions. In the first place, appropriations to pay pensions were to be discontinued, and applications for pensions were to be disregarded. The country has learned to understand the unprecedented viciousness of Republican lying in that direction. During the two years of President Cleveland’s administration, $139,058,613.31 has Leen paid out for pension; $63,404,864.03 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1886, and $75,653,749.28 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1887, an increase in 1887 over 1886, of $12,249,885.27.

“Not since 1866," says the Chicago News, * have as many original allowances of pensions been made as during the year just closed, the total being 55.146,” and, “in addition to these, increased pensions were granted to 57,146, thus making 102,340 veterans or their representatives who have reason to be thankful for the expeditious business.” , The people are making a note of these things, and are saying of the Democratic administration, “ Well done.” Money is plentiful and cheap, business is active and prosperous. The business boom is confined to no locality or class. The Republican press and bosses contemplate the situation and are massing their resources of mendacity, and are estimating the amount of lying required to enable the Republican party to withstand the assaults of the truth. So far they are making poor headway, and the people having seen that the Republican party in 1884 lied like the devil, and still depend upon lying for success, are ifbt likely, in the face of the splendid record made by the Democratic party, to retire it from power. —lndianapolis Journal.

The Mission of the Bloody Shirt Ended.

One significant feature of the recent discussion concerning the rebel flag matter was the total absence of any ill-feeling on the part of the South. The time was when the Republican bosses could produce political capital very readily, simply by irritating a few Southern editors, and then inflame the N orthern heart by repeating their illy considered utterances. This time has passed, and one reason why the South will not be drawn into sectional controversies with Republican agitators is that it is too busy building up new industries and increasing the general business of that section of the country. A very recent review of the industrial growth of the South demonstrates that the people have been earnestly at work within the last two decades, and that the fruits of this earnest work have been most marked during the last six months of the present year. The Manufacturers' Record , published in Baltimore, in its issue of this week gives the following encouraging figures: ■—First six months of—. XB-J7. 1886. Number. Number. Iron furnace companies 20 7 Machine-shops and foundries. 63 40 Agricultural implement factories 11 7 Flourmills 68 48 Cotton-mills 44 8 Furniture factories 33 18 Gas-works. 24 15 Water-works 46 15 Carriage and wagon factories.. 26 11 Electric-light companies 33 17 Mining enterprises 323 70 Lumber mills 361 248 Ice factories 55 30 Canning factories 49 8 Stove foundries 2 3 Brick-works 116 36 Miscellaneous iron-works, roll-ing-mills, pipe-works 46 8 Cotton compresses 26 7 Cotton-seed oil-mills 13 2 Natural-gas companies 30 19 Miscellaneous enterprises not included in foregoing 475 198 Total 1,855 812 This table shows a wide diversity of. new enterprises, indicating a new and healthy growth. The building of cotton mills is again attracting much interest and capital. In nearly all the Southern States new mills are being erected, and especially in South Carolina is this activity noticeable. Several very large mills are being put up and the older and smaller ones are being enlarged and otherwise improved. At Greenville a cotton mill to cost $500,000 will soon be built. Texas is also becoming largely interested in cotton manufacturing. The amount of cap'tal (including capital stock of incorporated companies) represented by the new enterprises organized or chartered in the South, and in the enlargement of old plants and rebuilding of mills destroyed by fire, during the six months of 1887, as compared with the same time in 1886, was as follows: For six months of-. 1837. 1886. Alabama $!2,6H1,D00 8 4,803,501 Arkansas 22,212,010 11,428,010 Honda 805,000 . 891,000 Georgia 9,257,001 1,399,000 Kentucky 21,71u,000 17,221,701 Louisiana 3,972.000 1,202,000 Maryland.. 11,295,000 5,139,000 Mississippi 2,233,000 417,000 North Carolina 3,212,0>1 1,485,200 South Carolina 1,606,0)0 533.000 Tennessee 26,25-,0:0 5,297,000 Texas 10,604,000 2,981,000 Virginia 10,38 t.O-W 5,553,010 West Virginia 4,961,00) 5,12),-.00 Total ....$161,192,000 $63,618,200 These statistics mean “business.” They are no idle tales invented by boom-makers, and they demonstrate the vastness of the recent revolution that has been quietly going on in the Southern States. The bloody shirt may flap and flutter for the Republican agitator, but it can be used no longer to retard the progress of the Southern States.— Exchange. The fact has leaked out that during the administration of R. B. Hayes, the centennial and continental Republican monstrosity, who accepted the stolen o'lice and rewarded the villains who made the theft possible, was in the habit, for the purpose of sa ing a portion of his stolen salary, of having the early vegetables khd fruits produced by the soldiers at the Soldiers’ Home sent to the White House, thus depriving the veterans of delicacies of the season. Other Republican officials, equally debased, participated in the piratical confiscation. The Presidential fraud and officials of the same stamp were willing to reduce the soldiers to the level of serfs if thereby they could save a little cash. It was General Drum who exposed the scandalous business, and the fact should be stated alonside of the rebel flag episode.— Indianapolis Sentinel. “Assignee” is the man who has the deal and gives himself four aces.

THE PRESIDENT.

Mr. Cleveland Recalls the Old Days When He Was a Student at School. Celebration of the Hundradth Anni- • versaiy of the City of Clinton, N. Y. [Clinton (N. Y.) telegram.] President Cleveland and party reached Clinton, from Holland Patent, at 10 a. m. Wednesday, to attend the centennial exercises of the town. A great crowd greeted the Presidential party upon its arrival. The party was escorted by the J&oksonians to Mrs. O. S. Williams’ residence, where it was greeted by prominent members of the Centennial Committee and many venerable citixens, while the parade of six divisions was going over its route. After the parade the President spent an hour in receiving callers at Mrs. home, and over three thousand people were presented. The exercises in the park began at 2 o’clock, the Rev. Henry Darling, President of Hamilton College, offering the opening prayer. The Rev. E. P. Powell then made an address of welcome, to which the President responded as follows: “I am by no means certain of my standing here among those who celebrate the centennial of Clinton s existence as a village. My recollections of the place reach backward but about thirty-six years, and my residence here covered a very brief period. But those recollect.ons are fresh and distinct to-day, and pleasant, too, though not entirely tree lrom some somber coloring. It was here in the school at the foot of College Hill that I began my preparation for college life and enjoyed the anticipation of collegiate education We had two teachers in our school. One became afttrward a judge in Chicago and the other passed through the legal profession to the ministry, and within the last two years was living fartner west. I real a little Latin with t»\o otuer boys in the class. I think i floundered through four books of the ASneid. The other boys had large, nice modern editions of Virgil, witu big print and plenty of notes to help one over hard places. Mine was a little, old-fash-ioued copy, which my father used before me, with no notes, and which was only translated by hard knocks. I believe I have forgiven those other boys for their persistent refusal to allow me the use of their notes in their books. At any rate they do not seem to have been overtaken by any dire retribution, as one of them is now a rich and prosperous lawyer in Buffalo ana the other is a professor in your college and orator of to-day’s celebration. "Struggles with ten lines of Virgil, which at first made up my dally task, are amusing as remembered now; but with them 1 am also forced to remember that, instead of being the beginning of higher education for which I honestly longed, they occurred near the end of my school advantages. This suggests disappointment which no lapse of time can alleviate, and a deprivation I have sadly felt with every passing year. I remember Benoni Butler and his story. I don’t know whether he was an habitual poet or not, but I heard him recite one poem of his own manufacture, which embodied an account of a travel to or from Clinton in the early days. I can recall but two lines of the poem, as follows: “ 'Paris Hill next came in sight And there we tarried over night.’ “I remember the next-door neighbors, Dr». Bissell and Scollard, and good, kind neighbors they were, too; not your cross, crabbed kind, who could not bear to see a boy about. It always seemed to me that they drove very fine horses, and for that reason 1 thought they must be extremely rich. I don’t know that I should indulge in further recollections that must seem very little like a centennial history, but I want to establish as well as I can my right to be here. I might have spoken of the college faculty, who cast such a pleasing though sober shade of dignity over the place, and who, with other educated and substantial citizens, made up the best of social life. I was a boy then; but, notwithstanding, I believe I absorbed a lasting appreciation of the intelligence, of the refinement, which made this a delightful home. "I know that you will bear with me, my friends, if I yield to the impulse which the mention of home creates and speak cf my own home here, and how through the memories which cluster about it I may claim a tender relationship to your village. Here it was that our family circle entire, parents and children, lived day after day in loving, affectionate converse; and here, for the last time, we met around the family altar and thanked God that our household was unbroken by death or separation. We never met together in any other, home after leaving this, and death followed closely oar departure. And thus it is that as, with advancing years, I survey the havoc death has made and the thoughts of my early home become more and more sacred, the remembrance of this pleasant spot so related is revived and chastened. I can only add my thanks for the privilege of being with you to-day, and wish for the village of Clinton in the future a continuation and increase of the blessings of the past.” Prof. A. C. Hopkins delivered the historical address, Prof. Root the oration, and Clinton Scollard the poem. The literary exercises were followed by a banquet. To the toast “The President of the United States,” Mr. Cleveland responded as follows: “lam inclined to oontent myself on this occasion with an acknowledgment on behalf of the people of the United States of the compliment which you have paid to the office which represents their sovereignty. But such an acknowledgment suggests an idea which I can not refrain from dwelling upon for a moment. That the office of President of the United States does represent the sovereignty of 60,009,000 of people is to my mind a statement full of solemnity ; for this sovereignty I conceive to be the working out or enforcement of the divine gift of man to govern himself, and a manifestation of God’s plans concerning the human race. "I by no means underestimate the importance of the utmost care and circumspection in the selection of the incumbent. On the contrary, I believe there is no obligation of citizenship that demands more thought and conscientious deliberation than this. But lam speaking of the citizen’s duty to the office and its selected incumbent. This duty is only performed when, in the interest of the entire people, the full exercise of the powers of the Chief Magistrate Is insisted on, and when, for the people’s safety, a due regard for the limitations placed upon the office is exacted. These things should be enforced by the manifestation of a calm and enlightened public opinion. But this should not be simulated by the mad clamor of disappointed interest which, without regard for the general good or allowance for the exercise of official judgment, would degrade the office by forcing compliance with aeltish demands. “If your President should not be of the peo* pie and one of your fellow-citizens he would be utterly unfit for the position, incapable of understanding the people’s wanta and careless of their desires. That he is (me of the people implies that he is subject to human frailty and error, but he should be permitted to claim but little toleration for mistakes. The generosity of his follow-citizens should alone decree how far good intentions should excuse his shortcomings. Watch well, then, this high office, the most precious possession of American citizenship. Demand for it the most complete devotion on the part of him to whose custody it may be Intrusted, and protect it not less violently from unworthy assaults from without. Thus will yon perform a sacred duty to yonrselves and to those who may follow you In the enjoyment of the freest institutions which Heaven has ever vouchsafed to man. v

SPHERE AND WILLOW.

Professional Base-Ball Teauns at Work—The League Pennant Race. Chicago Still Playing at Wonderful Speed—lts Present Eastern Trip. [CHICAGO COKBESPONDENCE. ] For the past two weeks the fight for the League pennant has been narrowing down to the three present leaders in the race, Detroit, Chicago and Boston, and the prospects for last season’s great struggle between Detroit and tbe White Stockings being fought over again are improving with almost each day that passes. No one seems more strongly convinced than President Spalding that such will be the result, and when asked Saturday how he thought it would all end, he said: “Nothing that I know of now can stop us. We shall win the pennant in a gallop if our men continne to play the ball they are playing now, and even though we should meet with misfortune of any kind, such as the disabling of our players, postponed games through unfavorable weather, or any of the other ills a ball club is heir to, we shall, I think, beat Boston and New York out at the finish, and take a good second place, We usually have a pretty fair share of luck, however, and by the 15th day of August I expect to sea Anson’s men in the lead. I predicted before the team returned to Chicago on June 9 that, before it left on its next Eastern trip, we should be in second place. You see that the prediction has been verified. As for Detroit, the team is playing a strong and winning game just at present. It may continne to do so. As you see by tbe result of last week’s games, however, the team is not too strong to be beaten by New York. There is an element of grit and nerve in the New York team that one cannot help admiring, jand if they should steadily improve from now until the end of the season, it would not surprise me in the least. On the contrary, I rather anticipate that such will be the case.” “Is there any prospect that the Association or League will consolidate this fall; that Indianapolis will drop out; or, that in the event of the failure of the two big organizations to become one, that the St. Louis Browns will be admitted to the League circuit?” “Well, it is as yet a little early to discuss such matters, and yet I am free to confess that I have thought of all of them. In the first place, the matter of consolidation is in exactly the same state it has been in for Bix months past save that the demonstrated superiority of the Bt. Louis and Baltimore clubs has made it pretty clearly apparent, that they are out of their class in the association. At no time sinoe the matter of consolidation has been considered or proposed has the time for it been so propitious. I can not say on the whole, though, that lam as anxious for it as many newspaper correspondents have represented me to be. Tbe League is without question the greatest athletic and amusement organization of its kind in the world to-day. Look where you will and find any organization if yon can, with aggregate salary lists of $300,000 a year, and expenses of fully three-quarters of a million. Point out any enterprise that can draw 158,000 people to its performances in a single day, and I will grant that it is a greater organization than the National League of American Ball Clubs. There is no comparison that I can see between the Le ague and the Association. “Wouldthe League make auyconcessions to Yon der Ahe, such as the privilege of playing Sunday games, or of selling liquor upon his own grounds, in the event of his being admitted?” “No, sir; not a concession of any kind. If Mr. Von der Ahe wants to enter the League circuit next year, he may be able, in tbe event of the unanimous agreement of the League Presidents, to do so, but if he comes in he must do so under exactly the same rules that govern ns all, and no others.” THE GOOD EFFECT OF TOTAL ABSTINENCE. In speaking further upon the good effect of total abstinence as practiced by the White Stockings this season President Spalding said: “I am no prohibition crank, bnt I am a believer in temperate, careful living on the part of men whose business Is to entertain the public as athletes. I felt that it was my duty and that it would be to our interest to have a squad of players who would challenge admiration because of their good habits on and off the field. But there is another side to the question, and lam not ashamed to discuss it. There is a man iu our team upon whom this new order of living has worked a wonderful change. A home that was not as happy as it should hare been because of overindulgence has been completely reorganized, and on what 1 believe to be an enduring basis. A more overjoyed little lady than this player’s wife is not to be found in this -city. They are saving money, and were never before so contented. If the result of the temperance plan had been only to reform this player I should have been quite satisfied. But it has had other splendid results. We have young men in the clubmere boys, some of them—who take as much pride in their temperance record as they do in their ball-playing record. That is saying a good deal, but it is only the truth, and I know what I am talking about. When I asked the boys not to drink anything until the close of the season, and they promised me that they wouldn’t, I said we should adopt any plan we thought best to discover whether they were keeping their pledges to ns. It gives me a good deal of satisfaction to say that no man nas violated his pledge. There is a rivalry among them not only to keep liquor away, but to so conduct themselves that there' shall not be the slightest grounds on which to rest a suspicion.” Tbe White Stockings are now upon their second Eastern trip, which they opened last week by defeating the Philadelphia team three straight games. They play Washington, New York, Boston, and Detroit three games each before returning borne for a game im Chicago, dh July 28, with Boston. Oon Creoan.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—A terrible tragedy occurred near Logansport, recently. Several months ago William Goerner received a large pension. T nacuf nlons neighbors tried to borrow the money, and failing in doing so, made threats against Goerner and his family. In ♦he past two years bis house has been nrned, two horses have been poisoned, and cattle and bogs turned into bis growing crops. On this account, Goerner has lived in fear of assassination for some time past, and has always retired with a gun and revolver within reach. Shortly after midnight, recently, he was awakened by a noise at his door. He seized his gnn and commanded the supposed burglar to halt. The order was not heeded, and Goerner fired. Upon lighting a lamp, Goerner discovered that he had killed his wife, the Toad of shot entering the month and tearing out the entire right side of her throat. Goerner gave himself up, but was released after the Coroner’s ihquest. —The following patents have been issued to Indiana inventors: Alonzo Collon, Oaktown, gate; Peter Dion, assignor of onehalf to L. Dion, South Bend, wheel; Albert M. Grinnuan, assignor of one-half to Wagner, Indianapolis, elevator gate, also barrel skid; Miler Kehoe and A. Zilker, New Albany, brick kiln; Llewellyn G. Kenton, Monticello, monument; Anson L. Massey, Rainsville, hame tug loop; Baker S. Ruddick, Columbus, harmonica holder; Chas. E. Wintrode and E. L. Griffith, Washington, folding feed box for wagons. —At Evansville, Mrs. Helen McClure and daughter, colored, were cleared of the charge of the murder of John McClure, the husband and fnther, who died of arsenical poisou. Several hundred colored people were court-room when the verdict was announced. They shouted and rushed forward to congratulate the defendants. Several old women hugged the Judge and tli6 defendants’ attorneys before tbe latter were aware of what was occurring. It was a ludicrous Beene. —The South Bend Common Council, by unanimous vole, ordered the Central Union Bell Telephone Company to remove its poles and wireß from tbe city by the 10th of next month. A franchise will be given D. C. Boloy & Co., of Chicago, to put in nn exchange of the American Cushman telephone. This action is taken because the Bell people are trying to force their pntrons to adopt the toll system as against the legal $3 rate. —John C. Ebert, a young patternmaker, residing with his parents at 572 North Pennsylvania avenue, Indianapolis, fell out of a fifth-story window of the Talbot Block, and was dead when picked up. Ebert had attended the meeting of Koerner Lodge, K. of P., and retired to a window in the corridor to cool off., The air was close, and it is supposed that the accident occurred while Ebert was sleeping. —At Poseyville, Mr. Lavan W. Spellman, in company with a friend, was shooting at some crows, when his companion’s gun was discharged in some manner, the shot taking effect in Spellman’s thigh. The wound was not thought dangerous until recently when he was attacked with lockjaw, which gradually grew worse, and resulted in his death. —Andrew Walters, moving with his family in a wagon from Missouri to Indianapolis, met with a probably fatal accident near Evansville. He was in a state of intoxication, and let his team run away. Walters was thrown from the wagon, and both wagon wheels passed over his body, inflicting internal injuries. The family escaped unhurt. —Joseph Mayer, a tramp from New York, stealing a ride to Chicago, attempted to board a freight train west on the Niokel Plate to ride to Fort Wayne, fell into a trestle work and was run over and both legs cat off. He was picked np and brought to the Ht. Joseph Hospital at Fort Wayne, where he died. —Lizzie Batson, aged about eighteen years, a resident of Lewisville, jumped off a car while the train was nearing tbe depot at Cambridge City. She was thrown violently to tbe ground and her collar-bone broken. Severe internal injuries will confine her to her bed for some time. —While William Brown was threshing James Sharp’s wheat, in the neighborhood of Coatsville, sparks from the engine ignited the wheat stacks, and the flames spread rapidly, consuming the thresher and about four hundred bushels of wheat. Loss, about SI,OOO. —Tbe annual meeting of the Indiana Trotting and Pacing Horse-breeders’ Association will be held at Terre Hante on August 2,3, and 4. Tbe entries already show a promising lot of speed horses, and the races give promise of being as good as any held in Indiana. —Tbe exhaustion of the Insane Hospital’s funds has made it necessary for the managers to discharge thirty of the employes, of whom thirteen are sewing women. In consequence, insane women will be required to do much of the work of repairing clothing. —David Harris, a wealthy farmer east of Montpelier, was found wandering aboat his barn-yard with a broken jaw and badly bruised. Tbe peculiar feature of the case is that be doesn’t know who struck him. There is much comment here over the occurrence. —John Robinson murdered his neighbor, Samuel Hay, at Charleston Landing, by sbootiug him while he was waiting with his sister for the Lonisville packet. Ho rested the gun on the shoulder of Hay’s sister in order to take aim. An old feud. —William Naylor, proprietor of the Brookville Hotel, aged about forty-five years, dropped dead, after performing a. day’s work. Heart disease is tho supposed cause. He leaves a family.