Hope Republican, Volume 2, Number 4, Hope, Bartholomew County, 18 May 1893 — Page 2

HOPE REPUBLICAN. Br Jay C. Smith. HOPE INDIANA The Mayor of Abilene, Kas., receives the munificent salary of $1 per annum and is said to earn the money. A Kansas Judge has rendered a decision in which he holds that the laws of that State are paramount to Federal authority. Kansas is a great State. An Indianapolis restaurant-keeper became greatly excited over the Liberty Bell demonstration, and inscribed on his street blackboard bill-of-fare the following legend “Liberty or Death! Roast Beef! Pork Chops! Biggest Lunch in Town for 10 cents.’’ Earl Granville, whose younger son has recently been appointed lord in waiting to Queen Victoria, was slightly deaf, and was in the habit of turning his infirmity to a very practical use. Whenever an unacceptable request was made of him he would insist on its repetition a number of times, and then say: “No use; so sorry; my unfortunate hearing; some other time when there is less noise.” The crop reports from several European countries indicate that bad weather is prevailing to an alarming extent and that a serious shortage in all staples is threatened. Providence may thus interfere in our behalf and the constant drainage of gold to European money centers may be checked in time to avert the ■ serious consequences which financiers have been anticipating should present conditions continue. Ex-Senator Ingalls, in an article in the New York World, announees that Chicago is an “awfully” wicked city, and that the closing of the gates of the Exposition on Sunday means only an increased indulgence in all forms of vice and dissipation. At the same time he assures the general public that a peaceable and well-disposed person will be perfectly safe in visiting the modern Sodom, and that if all will keep away from the easily-avoided haunts of wickedness no trouble need be anticipated. The Associated Press employs some first-class romancers, and these brilliant literary geniuses occasionally endeavor to earn their salaries by inventing highly sensational artk 13S which they telegraph over the country as news. One of their latest efforts in this direction was the story about the 200 Zulus, cn route to the World’s Fair, capturing a train and imprisoned the train crew in the baggage car. It was very thrilling and was generally published and believed. Now comes the Chicago Record and demolishes the whole fabricated lie by stating that there are just three live Zulus at the Fair. Rev. Sam Small, though nominally a journalist, still does odd jobs of evangelistic work as occasion may offer. Recently he conducted a series of meetings at Griffin, Ga., and in the course of his remarks indulged in some very severe reflections upon the characters of young ladies who were habitual dancers and members of the “German” club of that place. The club thereupon appointed a committee of four to wait on the evangelist and demand a retraction and apology. After some diplomatic parley Mr. Small promised to make ample amends for his ungentlemanly x-emarks, which he claimed were made upon informatien that he had reason to believe was reliable. The Pennsylvania young woman who set out to collect 1,000,000 cancelled stamps three years ago, believing that she could find a purchaser for them at $500, has finished the work of collection but can not find a market for her unique merchandise. The task of collecting this vast number of useless bits of paper has not been easy and all manner of devices were resorted to before the required number were obtained. Now- that the reward to which the young woman had so long looked forward fails to materialize, the revulsion of feeling has un-

settled her reason and it is feared that she will become permanently insane. The young Earl of Craven and his parvenu New York bride traveled to Chicago for the World’s Fair opening,arriving several days in advance with baggage and a retinue sufficient for the largest opera company on the road. He was astonished to find that he was not “in it” at all, and that the great busy city had no time to waste on English dudes no matter what their pedigree. The long-continued adulation of the swells of New York had somewhat turned the young man’s head, and given him erroneous ideas of Amer ican character, and it is gratifying to know that his pride was brought down by an encounter with the highest type of Western independence. The Yankee swindler is very bright, and the American “con" men are believed to be especially “smooth,” but our best talent in this line would be sadly put out to invent a game more original or successful than an apparently stolid German porter worked in a Prussian town the other day. Staggering along the street under a heavy burden, he fell against a plate glass window oi a store, crushing through and ruining it. The proprietor demanded payment. The porter said he had no money, but he was searched and a thousand mark note found on his person, which he protested belonged to his employer. Nevertheless the storekeeper retained one hundred marks to make good his loss and returned nine hundred to the stolid bearer of burdens, who went away in great anger swearing and vo wing vengeance for what he termed a shameless robbery. Shortly after the storekeeper discovered that the thousand mark note was counterfeit and took his turn at swearing. The escape of two condemned murderers, under sentence of death, from the Sing Sing, N. Y., penitentiary, a few days since, continues tc excite unusual comment, although the prison -officials have given up all hope of capturing the criminals and abandoned the pursuit. Much has been written concerning the inefficiency of the guards who were foundjlocked in the escaped prisoners’ cells, but there is a suspicion that these men have been made the scapegoats for officials higher up in the scale of political preferment. In New York, if the metropolitan journals are to be believed, there is a deep-seated conviction that somebody has been paid to wink at the whole transaction It is in evidence that the escaped prisoners traversed the whole length of an extensive prison yard, after leaving the cell house, and finally quitted the place without once being molested in their progress. Nobody saw them, or apparently wanted to see them, and the entire prison could have easily been emptied had the prisoners saw fit to avail themselves of the opportunity offered. An official inquiry is urgently demanded, but is not at all likely to be irlstituted. William Waldorf Astor, who recently purchased the ancestral estate of the Duke of Westminster in England, known as “Cliveden,” has abandoned his American citizenship and renounced the land of his birth. He essays to be a molder of public opinion in English society, and will spend some of his millions in literary ventures. He also has an ambi* turn to be known as a landed proprie tor and a member of the British ai’istocracy. The nobility of that country do not in many cases take kindly to the aspiring American, and broadly hint that he is a parvenu, and that vast wealth does not compensate for lack of high birth and a long line of distinguished ancestors. Such an episode is not creditable to the good judgment of a man who owes everything to America, whose family have acquired untold wealth by reason of the advantages here offered, who has been highly honored by the Government of the United States, and who by every rule of right or honor was bound to cast his lot and expend his fortune in the land to which he owed so many obligations. Patriotic Americans will read with satisfaction the accounts of the various “snubbings” that Mr. Astor may from this time on receive from that aristocracy to which he aspires by reason of his dollars gained on American soil.

REPUBLICAN LEAGUES. The Sixth Annual Convention, at Louisville. Republicans* Greeted with Kentucky Hospitality—Mr. Clarkson’s Speech— The Proceedings. The sixth annual convention of the Republican Leagues of the United States convened at Macaulay’s Theater, Louisville, Wednesday. The Republican national committee, the American Republican College League, the Women’s Republican Association of the United States, and the American Protective Tariff League also held sessions at the same time. It was 11 o’clock when President Clarkson called the meeting to order. Prayer was offered by Rev. Ur. Heywood. Mrs. J. Ellen Foster appeared on the stage and was greeted with a storm of applause. Mayor Tyler welcomed the delegates and extended “the freedom of the city.” Col. Crawford, President of the Kentucky State League, welcomed the visitors in behalf of the State. Col. Cowan presented President Clarkson with a gavel made of nineteen different kinds of wood, all grown in Kentucky. Thirtythree States responded as having delegations present on the roll-call. President Clarkson then delivered his annual address, from which we extract the following: MH. CLARKSON’S SPEECH. We meet here to-day in the name of the Republicanism of Lincoln, Grant and Blaine. This is the Republicanism whose eternal word is human liberty. It is lighting Republicanism, and all the world loves a man or party that believes enough in its own cause to fight for it. As we begin here to-day the march of victory in 1896, we have neither complaints nor apologies, nor explanations to make, for the defeat last year. Wo have had a Democratic President and a Democratic Congress sixtydays, and Cleveland has hauled down the American flag where Harrison and the Republicans ran it up in the name of liberty on the Sandwich Islands. He and his Secretary of the Treasury have already frightened the business world, and created uneasiness and fear, where safety and prosperity ruled before. They have shown an adverse balance of foreign trade in the last four months of 180,000,000 as against a favorable balance of $70,000,000 in the first four months of Harrison's administration. The negro of slavery days is Republican. The new negro, like tho young white man, will make his own terms with the existing political parties. The South has already injured itself on this line more than it can recover in generations. In teaching its young people dishonesty in politics, it has been logically teaching them dishonesty in all things. Of the railllonsof immigrants who come to America all seem to know that political liberty in some States of the South is for Democrats only. On the laboring men of Northern cities begins to fall the greater injury of the injustice toward the Southern negro. As to money and banking the country will depend on the Republican minority in Congress for defense from threatened harm. Bi-metallism will, of course, bo maintained by Republicans and the sagacity of the Republican minority in Congress will doubtless provide, with the aid of conservative Democrats, some provision in substitution for the Sherman act which will preserve a continacd parity In the value of coined gold and silver. Neither the extreme Eastern view-, that would force this country to a gold basis, or the view that would make money dearer and all other property cheaper, will solve the problem or save the country. This is a silver-producing nation and our money should bo of gold, silver and paper, every dollar of which should be as good as the other and a volume of safe money kept, and kept sufficient for the demands of our expanding nation.” It took over an hour for Mr. Clarkson to finish his address, and at its conclusion he was loudly applauded. A resolution favoring Woman Suffrage was introduced by Dr. Henry Blackwell, of Boston, which was referred to committee on resolutions. At Thursday’s session Wm. W. Tracv, of Springfield, 111., was elected President for tho ensuing year. The following resolutions were adopted: THE RESOLUTIONS. We, the representatives of the Republican League Clubs of the United States in national convention assembled, reaffirm our bellfff in and devotion to the principles of the Republican party as enunciated by the National Republican Convention in 1893. Wo point with pride to the passage of a general law for the safety of the life and limb of railway employes, upon recommendation of President Harrison, by a Republican Congress and in conformity with the expressed pledge of the National Republican Convention. We declare that we are in hearty sympathy with every legislative enactment which will promote tho interests of the wage-earners and tend to equalize conditions and harmonize the relations between labor and capital. We declare our faith in genuine secret ballot laws, fortified by efficient acts for the suppression of corrupt practices in elections. We demand the suppression of all public gambling, whether in food products or by means of lottery tickets. We heartily urge an amendment to the jonstitution making the President Ineligible to a second successive term. Wo recommend to the favorable considiration of the Republiaan clubs of the United Stntes as a matter of education, the question of granting to the women of the State and Nation tho right to vote at all elections on the same terms and conditions as male citizens. The foreign policy of Benjamin Harrison and James (I. Blaine deserves tho commendation of all Americans who believe in preserving the rights and dignity of the United States and in extending the scope if its influence. Whereas, The Democratic party, for the first time in thirty-two years, has succeeded to power in both the executive and legislative departments of tho Government, we now direct attention to the fact that it should either give tho people a fair trial of tho policies advocated in its national platform, or admit that it gained supremacy by gross misrepresentation and hypocrisy. Supplementary resolutions of sympathy were adopted on the deaths of James G. Blaine and R. B. Hayes. There was a heated discussion in the committee on tho woman suffrage resolution. In the convention it was put to a vote and carried by 375 ayes to 185 nays. The convention adjourned to meet at Denver next May.

REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE. At Wednesday’s session of the Republican National Committee, Mr. Carter was formally re-elected Chairman. Mr. Scott, of West Virginia, offered a resolution in reference to the basis of representation. The resolution was tho outcome of a feeling that the South, which could do nothing for tho party, had too much influence in National conventions. Powell Clayton, of Arkansas, opposed the resolution in a vigorous speech. Mr. Payne, of Wisconsin, offered the following substitute to Scott’s resolution: Resolved, That the basis of representation in the next Republican National convention be fixed at four delegates at large for each State and one additional delegate for each seven thousand votes or majority fraction thereof cast in each State for the Republican electoral ticket at the election of 1893, and that each Territory and tho District of Columbia be entitled to two delegates—provided that no congressional districtshall have less than ona delegate. This was just as warmly opposed by the Southern members, and on a vote to table the vote stood: Yeas 9, nays 19. After discussion of various business matters the following rule, offered by Mr. Manley, was adopted, which closed the business of the meeting: No debt shall be incurred binding this committee unless authorized by vote of the executive committee at a meeting duly called. FRAUDULENT PENSIONS. Spurious Claims Amounting to S100,000 Paid. The Pension Department believes that it has unearthed stupendous pension frauds. An attorney of Norfolk, Va., named W. R. Drewery, now under arrest, is charged with securing fraudulent pension claims by the wholesale, using as his instruments in many cases colored men and women who could not road or write. About twelve months ago Secretary Noble ordered three cases dropped from the pension rolls that Drewery had secured, and later on he was debarred from practice. When the present administration came into power a thorough invertigation was made into the cases that Drewery had secured, and, when it was concluded a few days since, it was discovered that about 98 per cent, of the cases he had handled under the act of June 37,1890, was secured through the filing of false declarations. The importance of the discovery has necessitated prompt action, and A. D. Albert, supervising examiner for the southern district, with several assistants, were immediately sent to Norfolk, whore they are pursuing their investigations. They have learned that Drewery did a thriving business. In his office, occupying desk room, was a notary public named B. A. Richardson, Jr. When Richardson went out of tho office Drewery used the notary’s seal, attesting the false evidence which he had prepared and forwarding the papers to Washington. It is expected that the fraudalent pensioners will soon be dropped from the rolls and a series of prosecutions commenced. Drewery was arrested about one year ago on the charge of securing fraudulent pensions, but owing, it is said, to laxnoss on the part of the local authorities, escaped punishment. The. amount will not be known until the special examiners make their report, but the arrears in considerable sums have been paid on many of the 166 fraudulent cases. The steals will probably aggregate $100,000, THE HORSIER EXHIBIT. Indiana at the World’s Fair—Hex* G-v Exhibit. A Chicago special to the Louisville Cour-ier-Journal, Friday, says: Indiana, like the State of Washington, has devoted a large portion of her World’s Fair fund to the State building, rather than to competitive displays by the State, distributed in the several big buildings. The Hoosier State, like Kentucky, experienced difficulty in securing an appropriation from a granger Legislature. After two trials, however, it succeeded in getting the very neat sum of $150,000. A big part of this has been put into a magnificent State building, splendidly located. Again like Kentucky, the building is just nearing completion. It will stand a handsome monument to the enterprise of Illinois' twin sister and State and Kentucky’s neighbor. It is one of the largest State buildings on the grounds; has nearly a hundred rooms besides the parlors, rocep • tion rooms, etc. These will bo used by the State commission in the entertainment of prominent guests, and many of them are already filled with exhibits of the rich resources of this progressive State. Tennessee alone, of all the older States, Is unrepresented on the grounds by a State building. The two new Dakotas have among the neatest and most attractive buildings here. Even Oklahoma, Arizona and New Mexico have united in tho orec tion of a most creditable common little home. PARDONED BY CLEYELAN D. Edward Stokes, of New York, Springs a Surprise In Court. In the Court of General Sessions, at New York, Thursday, ex-Mayor Oakeley moved for a dismissal of the indictment against William R. Martin, charging him with criminally libelling Edward H. Stokes. The motion was based on the affidavit that the indictment docs not possess vitality, as Stokes, having been convicted of homicide, and having served a term of imprisonment, is civilly dead. In replying, Assistant District Attorney John D. Lindsey, created a sensation by handing up a copy of the pardon which fully restored Edward Stokes. The pardon was signed and sealed by Grover Cleveland, Governor of the State, Dec. 6, 1884, seven years after Stokes had been liberated. For nine years the secret had been so closely guarded hat nobody ever knew of the pardon before. Judge Cowing took the papers, reserving his decision on the motion.

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