Hope Republican, Volume 1, Number 27, Hope, Bartholomew County, 27 October 1892 — Page 2

HOPE REPUBLICAN, By Jay C. Smith HOPE INDIAN “Sour, soap and salvation” is the alliterative motto of a Baltimore mission. The inference is that hunger and dirt are unconquerable enemies to salvation. The claim of a Washington lawyer that he discovered the fifth moon of Jupiter is not looked upon with favor. Lawyers should be content with the earth. England is experiencing much difficulty in finding a poet laureateIf Vickie will only set aside national prejudices we can send her several who could fill the bill. It is generally admitted that presidential campaigns “hurt business;” but think of the poor defeated candidates after the battle's smoko has cleared away. Hurt is a feeble word to use in describing their condition.

Chicago has been called the Windy city, but it draws the line at being called the “Terra cotta” city. If it persists in putting up hotel fare to 630 a day and cab fare to $22, it will be likely to be called the “Hog city,’* and it will be the most deserving name it ever had. The advocates of cremation are taking advantage of the cholera plague where it exists, and the scare where the scourge is dreaded, to urge their method of disposing of the dead because of the thoroughness with which it destroys disease germs of every kind. An enterprising Mexican attached to the legation at the City of Mexico was married by proxy the other day to a young woman in London. Mar* riage in which the contracting par' tics are several thousand miles apart may be all right, but what this country really needs is a divorce-proof marriage at short range. Lizzie Borden is believed to be insane because she alternately smiles and weeps. The fates forfend! Is this a conspiracy to Incarcerate as deranged all of our vast female citi* zenship except soured spinsters and antiquated matrons? Out with the woman that cannot smile and weep a dozen times in as many minutes.

There are too many signs of advertising a host our coming Col umbras celebration. The money making aspect of some of the arrangements is too prominent. The spirit of gain is too strong. This sort of thing might do in some other places. Co1 ambus—peace to his great, big bou1~hs not a latter day sandwich man. Emmet Dalton, the eminent but at present somewhat incapacitated train and general robber, states that the cause of the Dalton gang’s raid, ing the Cofleyville banks was that they were “ broke ” and wanted to leave the country. Well, they’ve loft it, most of them. And the best thing is that they can’t get back. Mautinot, a French doctor of eminence, asserts that an unfailing test of death may be made by producing a blister on the hand or foot of the body by holding the flame of the eandle to the member for a few seconds. The test is said to be as simple as the proof is conclusive. Dry blister, death ; liquid blister, life. Any one may try it. There is no error possible. Some Adirondack campers contrived a great luxury for themselves last year. Adapting a roughlymade trough small mountain stream, they propped up one end on a forked pole some nine feet high so as to improvise a fall of cold spring water, under which each camper took a morning douche which made him feel good for the rest of the day. There is not the smallest village in Sweden, it is said, that does not boast sf such a douche, and they do not detract by any means from the picturesque side of the scene. No bath in a lake will ever do so much for hygiene as this five minutes under your own cascade.

CURRENT COMMENT. ? SLAPPED IN THE FACE. Secretary of State Matthews and Auditor of State Henderson Denounced by Organized Labor. Indianapolis Typographical Union No. 1 Characterizes tho Appointment of Chris. Stoiu ns Clerk of tho State Uo-trd of Printing as Unlawful and Antagonistic to Organized Labor, and Passoss Uesolutious Denouncing the Same. On Sunday, March 1,1891, Indianapolis Typograpieal Union No. 1, passed resolutions protesting against the action of Secretary of State Matthews and Auditor of State Henderson, who constitute a majority of the Board of State Priu tingCommissioners. in electing, in violation of law, Chris. Stein as clerk of the Board, a man who has no knowledge or experience in the printing business, and who at one time was an employer of scab workingmen in Indianapolis. A precedent had been established by former administrations recognizing organized labor in giving out this appointment. Strong Eressuro and influence has been rought to bear on Mr. Matthews by the union printers of the State, asking that said appointment be revoked, but he positively refused to interfere. Tliis direct snub at organized labor, and the appointment of a non-union and inexperienced man as clerk of the State Printing Board, justified Indianapolis Typographical Union in passing the following resolutions of censure; Whereas, The law requires that the clerk of the State Board of Printing Commissioners shall have a practical knowledge of the printing business; and Whereas, Messrs. Claude Matthews, Secretary of State, and J. O. Henderson, Auditor of State, a majority of said Board, in violation of the provisions of this law, and in utter disregard of the request of organized labor, have appointed to the said position a man who has neither experience nor knowledge of any branch of the printing business, and is unknown to the printing craft. Whereas, Said appointment was made largely through the influence of a man whose hatred to trades unions is well known; and in view of the fact that one member of the State Board received valuable aid from union printers in the late campaign in refuting certain charges against him detrimental to his political interests; therefore Resolved, That Typographical Union No. 1 hereby enters its protest against said unlawful action on the part of said majority of the State Printing Board, and denounces their action as a violation of a public trust and dangerous to public interests, as well as a flagrant disregard of the reasonable request of organized labor. Resolved. That the Secretary send a copy of these resolutions, under seal of the Union, to Secretary of State Matthews and Auditor of State Henderson, and to all sister unions throughout the State; that they be published in the Labor Signal and Typographical Journal, and that our delegates lay the same before the Central Labor Union and request its indorsement. Organized labor throughout the State should remember that the passage of the foregoing resolutions did not involve any political trick by preventing an honest and truthful expression of opinion by the members of the above named union, but are a faithful statement of indignation of that body and union men everywhere at the manner in which Messrs. Henderson and Matthews treated the printers of the State. The author of the resolutions is a life-long Democrat, and was then and is now a Democratic office holder in Indianapolis. The above resolutions still remain upon the minutes of Typographical Union No. 1, of Indianapolis, and have never been rescinded. The People Know and Appreciate a Good Thing. Reaioa, Light and Reminisceiui« With tint Bepublleaiifl—Tho Force Dill— Ing-alU Praii«s Harrison— A Prosperous Country. THE FORCE BILL. Inter Ocean. That the editor of the New York Sun is ridiculing his party is now quite clear. He has refused to accept any part of the Chicago plat- i form as serious, has made a new issue for Mr. Cleyeland,and has gone to Europe to escape voting for him. Mr. Daua enjoys a joke, and on the other side of the Atlantic he can laugh heartily at the Democrats taking seriously his cry of “ No Negro Domination ” after he had refused to dignify one plank in their • platform with his approval. The ridiculous position of the Democratic party in taking up the old worn out cry of the South twenty years after Southerners had ceased to believe in

it is shown by the Hon. Albert Griffin in a speech at Baltimore last week. Mr. Griffin is a Southern man by birth, and has spent most of his life in the South. He asks the question: Why should any intelligent Southerner disregard his own interests and those of~ his family, State and Nation in order to help the Democratic party and the politicians of the black belt who control it ? In answering this question Mr. Griffin shows that the rulers of the black belt have been supremely selfish in their dealings with all but their own small set. Their contempt was not for the black man alone, but for the poor white man who was known as “a mud sill.” This was the class that kept up the agitation of slavery until it involved the country in war. By undertaking to practically reenslave the blacks in 1866 in Alabama and Mississippi,they compelled Congress to give the colored men the ballot for self-protection. They have ever since complained of this, and at the same time have taken no legal stops to disfranchise the negroes because it would lose them thirty-eight members of Congress and thirty-eight Presidential electors who now nominally represent the negro race. It would involve a loss of national power, and also revolutionize State affairs which are now controlled by the few white men in black belt counties instead of by the great white majority that live in white counties. In domonstrting the truth of these assertions, Mr. Griffin quoted from the laws of Alabama and Mississippi, passed in 1866, before the reconstruction acts of Congress. Tiiese laws “prohibited the negroes from renting or leasing any lands or tenements except in incorporated towns or cities, in which the corporate authorities shall control the same.” Another section of this act provided that every negro who had not a home, and a license from the mayor to show that he had such a home, should be regarded as a vagrant and fined. These laws were meant to practically ro-ensalve the negroes, and the fifteenth amendment was absolutely necessary to insure them against such oppression. But had the whites really regarded the negro vote as a danger they might have prevented it by surrendering the representation in Congress and in the electoral college given them by reason of the negro population. They have never attempted to do this. They cared more for this vote in Congress and for President than they feared negro domination. They found that they could criminally control or suppress the negro vote and retain their representation at Washington. They preferred to defraud the whole people at the ballot box to legally disfranchising the negro. The white population of South Carolina in 1890 was 462,008, and with seven Congressmen they had one member of Congress for each 66,001 of the white population. Four of these members are given to South Carolina by reason of her negro population.

The other Southern States show the following white population for each Congressman; Mississippi, 77,836; Georgia, 88,659; Alabama, 93,746; Louisiana, 93,066; Virginia, 102,012; Florida, 112,474; North Carolina, 117,262; Tennessee, 133,664; Texas, 134,303; Arkansas, 136,459; Maryland, 137,749; Delaware, 140,066 Mirsouri. 144,587; West Virginia, 182,519. South Carolina has four Congressmen representing negroes, Mississippi has 4, Georgia 5, Alabama 4, Louisiana 3, Virginia 4. Florida 1, North Carolina 3, Tennessee 2, Texas 3, Arkansas 1, Maryland 1 and Kentucky 2. In all there are 38 Congressmen in the South given them by reason of the negro population, and nearly every one of them stolen. A South Carolina white man has three times the political power of a white man in West Virginia, Missouri, and most of the Northern States. Mississippi. Alabama, and Georgia are but little behind South Carolina in ibis political power. There is another reason why the politicians of Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina; and Mississippi do not fear negro domination enough to disfranchise the negroes legally. It would change their representation in State Legislatures so as to dethrone the bosses now holding power by reason of frauds in the black belt. In Alabama, Cullman County, has 13.394 whites and only forty-five blacks. Were the blacks disfranchised Cullman County would have three, times the political power of Lowndes County instead of one-half the power. Cullman County is Republican but Lowndes is Democratic, because the negro votes are falsely counted. The rulers of the South before the war were the planters in the black belt. They have been able to continue that power since by reason of the black vote which they appropriate to themselves after it is in the ballot box. These crimes have given the Southern nulliflers a greater power in the government than have loyal men. But they have hurt the South more than they have harmed the North, because, recognizing these frauds

upon them, the Northern people have stood more solidly against the ! South than they might have done had elections been as free there as here. They have hurt the South iu this, that they have begged for white immigration and it has shunned them. In 1880 there were only 283,035 Northern born whites in fifteen of the sixteen Southern States, while those same States had lost three times that number (692,534) of their own white people to the more prosperous section of the country. There were only 634,080 foreign born whites iu these fifteen Southern States in 1880, while there were 6,919,853 foreign born whites in the North and West. In 1890 the number of foreigners had actually diminished in five Southern States and while the net increase in all of them was only 100,722 in ten years that in the North was 1,686,729, or nearly seventeen times as great. The old Southern boast was that one of their men could whip five Yankees. In but two Southern States to-day are there more negroes than white people, while in West Virginia and other States not in the black belt, the whites are about five to one negro. And still goes on the cry of the New York Sun that those States' are in danger of negro domination. Mr. Dana is a very successful humorist. He has made the whole Democratic party ridiculous. PROSPEROUS COUNTRY. Indianapolis JournaL A day or two ago the Journal printed interviews with several leading wholesale merchants of this city showing, without exception, that all were doing an unusally large business for the season of the year, and that trade was not injured or affected to any appeciable extent by the Presidential campaign. This shows that the conditions of prosperity are healthy and solid, and that business is not disturbed as much as usual during a political campaign. The New York Sun, in a leading editorial, says: In no past campaign for President was the regular course of business and pleasure so little disturbed as it is now by political excitement. So far as appears on the surface it is not affected at all by any such influences. The volume of trade is probably as large this October as it would have been if an election for President were not so near at hand. Commercial travelers report that their enterprise is not checked by the campaign. At no past lime was labor so generally employed and so well paid. In all directions manufacturing industries are active, and the prosperity of the people is manifested in the volume of trade, the increase of savings bank deposits, the paying off of farm mortgages and the steady progress of improvements. To-day the United States, of all the countries of the world, is the most prosperous. In Europe, in England more especially, doubt and anxious forebodings as to the business and industrial future prevail. Here we see only buoyancy and hopefulness. Here is one Democratic paper honest enough to tell the truth. The prosecution of the present campaign on the Democratic side consists very largely of efforts to make it appear that the country is not only not prosperous, but it is suffering terribly from the effects of the McKinley law. In the prosecution of this plan of campaign all sorts of stories are invented and circulated to show the stagnation of trade, tht oppressed condition of labor and the general state of calamity that now prevails throughout the country. In the face of these campaign lies w r e have the statement of leading wholesale merchants, irrespective of party, that trade is unusually good, and we have also the admission of the New York Sun that business never was better at this season of the year; that “at no past time was labor so generally employed and so wall paid,” and that “to-day the United States, of all the countries of the world, is the most prosperous.” There is not an intelligent business man iu the country who does not know this is true. Why, then, should any intelligent man vote in favor of a radical change of policy and a general upheaval of business conditions? COMPLIMENTS OF GROVER. Mr. Cleveland in his first letter of acceptance strongly expressed himself in favor of a single presidential term. In less than two years after he had entered the White House he repudiated the doctrine which he so earnestly espoused in 1884 by scheming for a second terra. To better accomplish this purpose he suddenly stopped writing civil service reform letters and sprung upon the country | bis tariff message, which his admirers ask us to accept as a sort of “inspired deliverance,” but which in fact was but a revamping of what had been said a thousand times before by politicians who were neither occupants of the White House nor aspirants thereto.--The South Bend Times, Dem.

INGALLS PRAISE S HARRISON. Thinks His Letter to Salisbury One of th« Greatest State Papers of the Century. I have never been, ladies and geatlemen, an idolater of Ben Harrison. I am under no personal obligations to him, and in the struggle which I waged against the combined hosts of anarchy, socialism, paternalism and disloyalty in this State, and in which I went down, I never had even the assurance of personal sympathy from his administration, therefore I have no occasion for idolatry. But I affirm that we have placed able candidates upon an invulnerable platform ; I affirm that the administration of President Harrison, for dignity at home, for force and vigor, is without a parallel or peer in the whole history of American statesmanship. He is the only man who has sat in the Presidential chair for the last half century that could conduct eveery department of the government himself and run it without a break. He was a gallant and heroic soldier. He was an eminent lawyer. He has been an efficient and trained legislator. It is not often that a man grows after he is fifty years old. Ordinarily a man is pictured so that his specific contents are known as they will continue to be until the end. Harrison has distinctly grown intelligent in his mental vigor since he has passed the half century line, and stands to-day immeasureably higher in the estimation of the American people than he did when he was sworn into office nearly four years ago. The series of speeches that President Harrison made in the campaign preceding his election, the series that he made since in his tour across the continent, that he has made in response to invitations to address gatherings of his comrades and upon various other opportunities afforded him, have not been surpassed at any time in political literature. I affirm that for elevated patriotism, for purity and grace of diction, for discretion, which left nothing at which partisanship would scoff, or which any enemy would find fault with, that they have no superior in the compositions of politr; ical orators, ancient or modern. JF” is a courageous man. He is afraid to do right. Ho is a patrj man. he believes in the Aim people, and spells the word “r with the biggest letter 1 N” alphabet. His letter in re--objections of Lord tinue the modus vivendi t«- v ing trouble with Great my judgement one of the finest, one of the ablest, one of the strongest State papers of this century. He wrote it himself. He had no Secretary of State, and he is just exactly as competent to conduct the negotiations with any foreign power of Europe as he is willing and competent to look over the private papers in thecaso of a pensioner applying for a pension, and beyond aU that he did not trench upon the proprieties of his position, and I believe there is no American citizen, whatever may be his political affiliations, that does not feel, as he sits in the shadow of that most doeful thing that can darken the windows of a man’s soul, that it is something to them in this state of tribulation and danger to have a chief magistrate who is neither afraid or ashamed in this age of materualism and agnosticism to have faith and belief in that Supremo Being who is the arbiter alike of the destinies of nations and of the fate and fortunes of man. I know that in this great crisis in his affairs and life, which may soon turn to be a calamity, he has the sympathy, affection, regard and respect of the entire American people. WILD CAT MONEY. Craw fords vllle Journal. The Indianapolis Sentinel makes the most absurd efforts that were ever heard of to get away from that noted resolution of the Democratic platform which “ recommends ” the repeal of the 10 per cent, tax on State bank bills. It says, in substance, that this resolution aims only to restore State banks in which the State shall have an interest, like the old Indiana State Bank, and that the repeal of the 10 per cent, tax will not result iu the restoration of “wildcat' 1 banks, such as we once had. The law which imposes the 10 per cent, tax on State bank bills is as follows : Every person, firm, association, other than national bank associations, and every corporation, State bank or State banking associations, shall pay a tax of 10 per centum on the amount of their own notes used for circulation and paid out by them. It will be seen that the tax is imposed on the bills of all State banking associations, and that it is the only obstruction to “wild cat” money. With this tax removed there would be nothing to prevent any State Legislature from again authorizing wild cat banks. Deep regret is felt in the artistic circles ef Munich at the death of Herr Kleinmichel, the famous painter of child figures. He was also one of the sketch artists of the Miegende Blatter, the German comic journal.