Greenfield Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 24 March 1892 — Page 2

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CURRENT COMMENT- V.

The Democratic Conspiracy to Secure the Presici ?ncy.

.('copies Party People to ho '-Worltsil"—

Outrageous Gerrymanders—Otlicr

Trite Political New#.

During the last two years of the Cleveland Administration patents were issued to agricultural settlers to the number of 44,443. During the year 1830 and 18D1 patents were issued to the agricultural settlers under the Harrison Administration •to the number of 231,GOT. The difference here—187,1U4—is a shining illustration of the difference that exists between the Democratic and Republican parties in their attitude toward the West. The Democratic party under Cleveland and Sparks openly charged that the settlers of the entire western country, from the Missouri to the sea, were a lot of swindling land-grabbers, and accordingly they never issued any patents until it was pulled from them by main force on an appeal to the courts. The Republican Land Commissioners have, on the other hand, assumed that the farmers of the West, who were building up new and great -empires on virgin soil, were men of integrity and character until the contrary as to individual cases was proved. There is not a farmer west of the Ohio river who would vote the Democratic ticket if he fairly understood the operations of the land office at Washington under the Democratic Administration of Grover Cleveland.

TARIFF PICTURES.

New York Press: In 1860 Great Britain was making most of our woolen goods for us. Her woolen mills consumed 300,000,000

pounds of wool and ours only 85,344,896

pounds. In 1890 we made mostly our own woolen goods, and in that vear Great Britain consumed 470,000.000

pounds, but our manufacturers 400,000,000 •aBESS.TSSHBSBMCV SCST223 .'•ifiifiwi C3

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pounds. We are catching up just as we did in iron. We have crossed Great Britain and gotten ahead of her in iron manufactures and we will do the same in woolens.

DEMOCRACY'S BASE SCHEME. Staff Correspondemc of the Indianapolis Journal.

WASHINGTON, March 19.—The most striking political development of the week is the evident purpose of the Democratic managers to form an alliance with the third party in the South and in the West and Northwest. In Kansas, Minnesota, Nebraska and other Northwestern States, where the Farmers' Alliance is especially strong, overtures have been made by the Democratic managers proposing fusion in the coming Presidential and Congressional campaign whereby the Democrats will put no ticket of their own in the iield, but will indorse and support the electoral ticket of the Alliance, and will divide the Congressional representation nominees. The same proposition is being advanced in Mississippi and Georgia, but it is not likely that in those States the Democrats will be willing to concede as much to the Alliance as in the Northwest. This movement is regarded here as formidable i» its possibilities, although it is regarded at the same time as a task of great difficulty and delicacy to accomplish the proposed fusion successfully. Some of the Farmers' Alliance leaders, notably .Terry Simpson, have already explicitly declared that it was their intention to place a third Presidential candidate in the field, and to nominate third electoral tickets in the States where tliev are strongest.

The purpose of each of these plans is the same, namely, to throw the election of the next. President into House of Representatives. The Constitution provides that if no person have a majority of votes of the Eleo torol College, then from the persons having the highest number, not ex reeding three, the House of Representatives shall immediately choose the President. Another provision of the Constitution which is not generally understood, reads: "In choosing the President, the vote shall be taken by States, the representation from each State having oue vote a quorum tor this pupose shall consist of a member or members from twothirds of the States, and a majority of all the States shall be necessary to a choice." In other words, each State has one vote, and a majority of the forty-four States, or twentythree States, would elect the President if the election were thrown into the House. The present House is so overwhelmingly Democratic by State that there are nearly twenty States having solid Democratic delegations. There are, in addition, sufficient States, a majority of whose individual members are Democratic and whose delegation would therefore cast a Democratic vote, to make the result of this action by the Farmers' Alliance, if successful, the election of a Democratic President. This fact, when made clear, will show the Alliance voters in the Northwest, who are normally Republicans, the purpose to trick them into helping to elect a Democratic President.

Aside from this development, the "situation as to the next Presidency has not materially changed during the week in either party. The extraordinary performance to which

candidate Hill treated the country during his swing around the circle from Washington to Mississippi ?md back through the South Atlantic States, has excited in Washington sentiments of mingled wonder and astonishment. As was predicted, Mr. Hill's fearful and wonderful speeches have contained no revelation as to his attitude on the question of free coinage or upon any other national issue. But it is not only Hill's failure fro discuss any of the topics upon which his Southern auditors must have expected him to speak which excites unfavorable criticism. What he does say is such a mass of meaningless phrases and incomprehensible verbiage that the Democratic leaders here do not attempt to conceal their chagrin or disguise their belie? that Senator Hill's mind must be in a state of perpetual fog.

Senator Gorman smilingly continues to plunge his saw through many cords of wooden silence. It will be recalled that many people wondered why Mr. Gorman showed no signs of disturbance at Mr. Hill's invasion of the Southern States, in which the Maryland candidates strength was "supposed to be greatest. Mr. Hill has now made it quite evident whv Mr. Gorman had no objection whatever to his rival exhibiting himself before as many of the Southern people as possible. Indeed, it is believed that Mr. Gorman read with sincere regret the announcement that Mr. Hill would finish his astonishing "march from Atlanta to the sea" and return to Washington on Sunday. It is amusing in this connection to note that Senator Hill has made an engagement to deliver a speech in Baltimore, Mr. Gorman's own stronghold. Representative Rusk, Mr. Gorman's first lieutenant at home, has promised Mr. Hill a •'rousing reception." There is no doubt that Mr. Hill will get if.

It seems a pity to waste the space, but there is no other way to place before the readers of the Journal the inconceivable nonsense with which Mr. Hill has been beclouding the Southern mind, than to quote a single sentence from his speech deliv ered before the Hibernian Society, at Savannah. This speech was evidently intended to be the culminating effort of his entire trip. It was an after-dinner speech, but it was read from manuscript, and as Mr. Hill himself told the Hibernians that he could not get drunk on coffee and ice water, the excuse which the flowing bowl might afford can not be urged. The sentence is as follows:

So let us thank the God of all mercy and grace that there is a welling up from the deep, exhaustless fountains of human fellowship, that here and throughout our land there is ever a welling up and overflowing from the profound, mysterious source of our common ancestry or kindred birth and blood, our common or kindred inheritance for unaccounted ages of the slow upbuilding powers that blend the heart, mold the minds, knit domestic bonds, and consolidate and ameliorate the, social structures of the advancing foremost races of mankind, and of that fraternal affection and fraternal peace of which our federal union is a political type, its justice their sanction, its liberty their law.

Some of the brightest minds in Washington have wrestled in vain with this sentence. It is only a fair example of the- bulk of the many thousands of words with which Mr. Flill has smote the Southern air. It is significant that the office cat of Mr. Hill's New York organ promptly devoured this paragraph as its very own.

Meantime, score one for Mr. Mills. A resolution offered in the Texas Legislature, inviting Senator Hill to extend his tour to Austin, was promptly tabled by an overwhelmingly majority.

Mr. Cleveland's 'vBarkis-is-willin' letter excited ranch amusement in Washington. His thinly veiled scorn for Mr. Hill's "seif-seelcing" campaign was fully appreciated. He still believes that the office should seek the man. but his letter betrays an inclination to set up an occasional guide post. The announcement that Mr. Whitney had subscribed $20,000' to the Cleveland campaign fund, followed by the withdrawal of "Horizontal Bill" Morrison from the field, coupled with a denunciation of Mr. Hill, has somewhat encouraged the flagging hope of the Cleveland follower.* in Congress. Governor Bucknor, of Kentucky,in announcing on his return home after some time spent in Washington, that the sitution seemed to point, to Governor Boies if a Western man is chosen, or Seuator Gorman, if the nomination is to remain in the East, simply shows the general trend of Washington opinion.

The pretended "economy" of the Democratic House grows daily more flimsy. This week the Democrats made Tammany a present of $10,800 a year by providing for fifteen additional employes of the folding-room. There was not the slightest excuse for this needless addition to Iceman Turner's patronage, except the insatiable hunger of the Tammany tiger spoils. P. s. »t.

OUTRAGEOUS GERRYMANDERS

Uenoerats Could Not Hear to I.oolc at Maps Showing Their Unfair Work.

Washington Special to Indianapolis Jonrr-al.

"It took a great deal of nerve for Mr. McMillin of Tennessee and Mr. Oates of Alabama to enter objection to the publication, in the Congressional Directory, of the outline maps of the various congressional districts," said a member of the House, "and if the conscience of those two

members were perfectly clear as to the make-up of their districts I do not see what their object was in making objections." Such observations have been made repeatedly by both Republican and Democratic— mostly Republican members of the House during the past few days. The objections offered to the publication of the congressional district maps in the Congressional Directory has called attention again to the fscb that there are a number of congressional districts outside of Mississippi formed in such a manner as to make the gerrymanders ridiculous when the outlines of their work appeared on paper.

The Congressional Directory is a book of 400 pages when it contains all the matter prepared for it and before the partisan censors get at it. It gives a biographical sketch of all the Senators and Representatives, together with facts and figures, in very brief words, relating to their election, so that any one caa at a glance put his eye upon at least the age, residence and information relating to the congressional career of every man in Congress. It contains,, also, a list of the committees of the two houses of Congress, a chronological list of all the committees' members and Senators serve upon, the officers of the two houses, clerks, messengers, etc., together with the residence of all. This enables anyone to turn to the whereabouts of any one connected with Congress in a moment, if they are on duty

A couple of years ago it occurred to the gentleman who compiles the directory that it would be a useful aud interesting bit of information to include a congressional map of each State, which would show the boundaries of and the counties co.nlioiing each congressional district, as persons interested were often put to much trouble to find on ordinary maps of the congressional districts. As each map was only the size of the page of the little" book and was simply a trace of the counties it will be seen that the work was inexpensive and not cumbersone. The joint committee on printing saw the usefulness of the books and directed they be put in the directory. When they appeared there was not a word of open criticism. On the contrary a great many words of praise were heard. Some Republicans shook their heads, however, and predicted that the Democrats who represented the "shoestring" districts would object, either directly or through their friends, as an outline of the outlandish shape of their districts made the gerrymanders ridiculous in the extreme. They stood it one term, and the other day came their protest through McMiilin and Oates. They asked that the maps be taken out, on the ground that the}' are unnecessary and ungermane. Some Republicans contended that the outline maps, showing the form of districts were just as useful and germane as were the lists of counties given in the districts. But the protestors had their way. and the last issue of the Congressional Directory has n« maps in it. Some of the districts in the extreme South were models of wonderful tracery. They showed great genius on the part of those who gerrymandered the States, for the puprose of making as many Democratic districts as possible. Under the law the counties in the congressional districts must be contigu in. Many of the "shoestring" districts were ahrosfc shapeless as the two lingers of the hand when drawn apart. The work of the gerrymanders. in order to throw the black counties together and keep the whites in the same districts, was, indeed, curious. None of the men in Congress who enjoys the benefit of this diabolical work was willing that the country should him hold responsible. None of them was willing to stand in the House, if he was ever called upon to do so, and defend the action of the Legislature in making sure his own election against the will of the majority.,

PRICES OF FARM PRODUCTS.

jf the farmer will carefully study the changes in the market price of all farm products by a comparison of the farmer's price and the manufacturing price, or in other words, the price on the farm and the price at the factory, he will see what an advantage manufacturing States have over those which are purely agricultural. The manufacturing States during the past year have baen paying an average of 91 cents ,or corn, 95 cents for wheat, 60 cents for rye, 35 cents foi oats, 60 cents for barley, 58 ccnts for Irish potatoes and $11.25 per ton for hay while in the agricultural States the average price for the same period was for corn 25 cents, wheat, 66 cents, rye £5 cents, oats 23 cents, barley 40 "cents, Irish potatoes 25 cents, and hay $5.30 per ton, being an average of about 60 per cent, in favor of the manufacturing States. It can not be said that the cost of production in Pennsylvania is any greater than it is in Wisconsin,therefore the comparison leads the thoughtful producer in this investigation to clearly see and understand that the farm needs the factory in order to secure the best prices.

Mrs. Amelia E. Barr, the popular novelist, is the mother of fifteen children.

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at their place of abode. It is absolutely necessary to have this information in some form, and it is found most convenient in the form of the Congressional Directory. There is also in this little book, which is in thin paper cover and distributed to all connected with Congress, a sketch of all the executive departments, with the leading officers of them, and the ministers to this and all foreign countries, both foreign and domestic.

By Robert Buchanan.

CHAPTER XXVIII.

A THUNDERCLAP 1

Despite the quietness with which the amicable arrangements between Linne and Marjorie had been carried out# they somehow other soon became known. At all events, in an Incredibly short spade of time the news of the changes reached the ears of Mr. Menzies, tne family solicitor. One morning Linne and Marjorie received letters from the old gentleman, announcing his intention to visit Linne Castle next day, and requesting them both to be ready to see bim.

The receipt of the letter had no

fect on Marjorie, who had

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$0 wonderfully contented and happy since the day when the new arrangement

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made but it made Edward

Pfhne furious. He looked up savagely from the letter, and encountered Marjorie placid gaze. "is your letter from that old fool?" he asked. •'It is from Mr. Menz:es." "Then you know he is coming. Do you know what he is coming for?,' "I suppose," answered Marjorie quietly, "'he has heard about my giving you the mo'nev." •'Y^s and he is coming to question my righi to it but it has nothing to do wiCh him. You have signed the document which made it mine, and you will have to hold to your hand." "I will hold to it." "TKen Mr. Menzies can't, have much to say. Did you write and tell him of it?" "No." "Then who OM earth did?" "Perhaps Mr. Macgillvray." "But how the deuce did he know?" "I told him," said Marjorie, frankly-

I seel" he said, with «, sneer,

he added, with mock courtesv, "of

tunate person? Stung by his sarcasm, Marjorie rose indignantly from her seat. "I have always tried to do what is right, and I will not let you insult me," she said. "It will be better for us not to meet again, Mr. Edward. I hope you will soon go away, and leave me here alone."

Early next day Marjorie received a summons to go to the library to see Mr. Menzies, who had arrived. She went and found him closeted with Edward Linne.

Since thfe moment when Marjorie and Linne had parted in anger the two had not met, and now she hardly looked at him, but she gave her hand to the lawyer and sat down near him. The old man put on his spectacles and looked at her curiously. "You area very peculiar young lady," he said. "What do vou mean by &11 this?"

"you still cultivate the acquaintance i. of my uncle's ragged friend. A nice arrangement, and I think she lias companion for a young lady, t^ulv." ^een numbuggied and misled, and I "Don't talk about him and don't ^van^

sneer at my guardian," said Marjorie hotly. *'I don't like to hear it.' So Linne was silent, but a few hours later he reverted to the subject again. "You seem to go pretty often to that hole," he said. "I may go where I please." returned Marjory, flushing angrily. "Look here, he continued, watching her very closely "I want to ask you a question. You never gave me a proper reason for refusing to marry me." "I told you I did not love you, and I am sure,"now, you did not love!

Marjorie laughed. "Mean by what, sir?" she asked. "Why, by throwing about your. money in this way, and making over valuable estates as if they were' farthing candies. Bless my soul

turvy. Here is a will that it too! my old friend the laird several months to think out, camly cast aside I'ke a straw upon the wind." "But what could I do, Mr. Mrnzies?" "What could you do? Why. keep the will, of course. What do vou suppose these things are made for, if not to be followed?" "I have carried out my guardian's wish," said Marjorie firmly. "Pardon me, my dear young lady, that is just what you have not done." "He wished," continued the girl, hurriedly and nervously, "to keep the estates all together, and to have them owned bv one of his own kin." "Then why didn't he say so?" "He did say so very often, to rm\t' "But he did not write it in his will. What he said there was this

He produced a copy, and seemed about to read from it, when Linne interrupted him. "This seems to be a ridiculous waste of time," he said. "I tell you, Mr. Menzies, everything is settled, and everything is mine. I was perfectly willing to carry out my uncle's wishes. I asked the young lady to marry me, and when she refused to do that she restored to me the property which was mine by right." "There you make a mistake," said Menzies, sharply "there is no right in the case. If vou, a man of the world, choose to take advantage of an innocent girl," that is another matter." "It is oo use to b^ndy words about It," cried Linne, "but to discuss common facts. Has this young lady

a right, or has she no right, to dispose of her own property?" "I presume she has a right the will imposed no restrictions. "Very good. Then, now that she has signed the necessary documents, the property is legally mine." "Certainly, if you are the man to take it." "I merely regard it as restitution of stolen goods," said Linne. assuming an air of insolence now that he knew the real extent of his power. "But I don't wish to be ungenerous. If the lady likes to change her mind now without more delay, I am still willing to marry her." "Now, that's uncommon generous," chimed in a voice from the door. "Nothing could be more square!"

Looking up, they saw the young Canadian, standing in the doorway. "Don't put yourself out, governor," he said, in his old twang, nodding familiarly to Linne," whoso face was white with anger. "But I heard you'd got a little family party here, and I thought I'd join." "Curse your impudence!" cried Linne. "Leave my house!" "It is not your house, Mi*. Edward it is mine, and he will stay," said Marjorie, quietly, who, however, was as much amazed at this sudden and unexpected apparition as Linne himself.

Roberts gave a laugh and threw his hat on a chair. "It's as well to have the- ladies on your side," he said. "But go on: don't let me interrupt you." "Really, my dear sir," said the lawyer, who found his voice at last, "1 don't know who you are or what you are doing here." "Don't you? Well, there's time enough tor th&t, I guess. At present I'm not of much account, you see. But there's one thing I want to have a word in, and that is, the disposal of this young lafly." "What the deuce has it to do with you?" cried Linne, aghast. "Well, she hasn't had quite so many dealings with me as you have, but she has told me about this little

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"Very frank of you to say thatj£u®5®-i ,, ,, when I have told you I do. However, Jics, I would certainly. let it pass. Since you find it so ut- ™en

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is some reason for it. You love an- Walking to the windaw, he waved other man. May I have the pleasure" |11S ^an^-

learning the name of this most for-! wun^ ?!,

lt'«« lik*P tm nino- tim idyll of real life has ended and there ts like turning the world topsy- ,mnrA

know if you mean to give

her her property back?" "I do not—I can not," stammered Linne. "You mean to stick to it, then?" "Of course I do." "Come, governor, don't you be ,mean," said Roberts, slyly. "Say vou split the difference, and give her half "I tell you the arrangement we have made will be kept. She has reI fused to marry me I "'You would have married her? 1 you were ready to marry her?" it. She can

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Roberts smiled. "You shall hear all now." lie said. "This young lady, "taking Marjorie's hand, "has plighted her troth to me and I am Robert Mossknow, alias Campbell, alias Roberts and. unless I'm^mucb mistaken, the lawful heir of Linn?.

EPILOGUE.

The revelation of the young man's identity, which my reader has, no doubt, guessed from the first, came like a thunderclap, even on Marjorie. As for Linne. he was stupefied.

On that sudden tableau the curtain shall fall, for my little dramatic

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is little more to tell—save that Rob ert Campbell proved his identity beyond all question that Edward Linne wandered away from Linne Castle like a beaten hound and that, within a month, Robert and Marjorie were married in the old castle by 110 less a person than the Rev. Wii. Ham Macgillvray, B. D., of the TJni versity of Glasgow.

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'/•'•••••Arcadian liife in Cicrmany, Indianapolis Journal.

Life here is easy and quiet. The Goverment, and the police attend to everything. The authorities have their eves on you awake or asleep, and both in and out of doors. Open lights are not allowed on your own premises, and as scarcely any fires occur you are in no danger of being run over by the "machine," and as nobody"gets drunk there is no tearing patrol wagons to get out of the way of. Street railroad cars do not start until you are safely aboard, and the cab driver turns on his brakej which he works tuuch like the handle of a coffee-mill or hurdy-gurdy, when he descends an elevation no bigger than -a penny loaf: dogs which arc hitched to carts and little wagons as beasts of draft are muzzled, and the others are led around by cords and little chains. Theaters commence at 5 and are out at 9. The piano must be muzzled at 10 p. m., aud if at that hour you are not in, the garden gate is bolted and the house locked for the night. It was of Weisbaden after night the Irishman spoke when he said: "And silence speechless as the grave was all the sound heard."

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At sight of her. Lin no uttered a cry of surprise and fear, and the Canadian, throwing aside his rough manners like an old glove, said, turnI ing to the lawyer. '"Now. sir. you shall see what this man is. Having ruined one life, he was ready to wreck another. This young lass is Edward Linne's wife!" "But you, sir, who are you? asked the lawyer, staring amazedly into the young man's face.

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