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THE DAILY JOURNAL. BY JNO. C. NEW *: SOX. For Kates of Subscription, etc., see Sixth Pace. MONDAY, APRIL 10, 1888. Republicans not favored with an invitation to the Iroquois banquet feel as though they had missed a rare picnic. It will be a long time before the Democratic idea of free trade or of tariff for revenue only captures the country. It has already wrecked the Iroquois Club. It was a lucky chance that kept Mr. McDonald away from the Iroquois dinner at Chicago. Even a stronger boom than his would have been wrecked in that angry tide. Memories of the bout between the Kearearge and the rebel pirate Alabama, in which the latter was sunk, are revived by the report that the former vessel is now on its way to Hampton Roads. Carter Harrison seems to have been troubled with indigestion at the Iroquois dinner. Mr. Bayard’s free-trade gruel disagreed with him. Carter’s stomach is used to something stronger. If free trade cannot carry the Iroquois Club, an organization composed of Democrats who have passed the rigidest inspection, about how soon may it be expected to carry the country? This conundrum is respectfully referred to ex-Senator McDonald. Mr. William Henry Hurlbert, of the New York World, telegraphed his paper from the Iroquois Club dinner: “The general 'flrift of opinion seemed to favor Samuel J. Tilden for Democratic standard-bearer in 1884.” These little straws it will be well to watch to catch the drift of the current. The Fenian torpedo ram, long moored on the New’ Jersey coast, has disappeared, and knowing ones, with many a wink and nod, seek to give the impression that she is now on her way to annihilate the British navy. This will be as easy of accomplishment as to attempt to knock down a mad bull with a huckleberry. The Louisville Courier-Journal is quite sad over the conduct of Mayor Harrison at the Iroquois banquet, and is moved to denounce him as “flamboyant.” A single dose of “flamboyant” has a very bad effect on Democratic gatherings. It is feared by Some that Henri doesn’t love Carter any more. How very sad that such a joyous occasion should be suddenly plunged into impenetrable gloom. Tiik insanity dodge can no longer be played by murderers in Delaware worth any degree of satisfaction to themselves. The Legislature of that State has passed a bill which authorizes a commission in lunacy to pass upon the sanity of such criminals. If found insane they are to be confined in a jail or asylum according to the grade of the crime. Should they regain their sanity they will then be liable to trial or sentence. Has the American eagle forgotten how and when to boiler? Robert Me Wade, city editor of the Philadelphia Ledger, has been subjected to a fine of $lO at Hamilton, Ont., because he cursed the Queen and the Canadian government. The effete monarchies of the Old World seem trembling on the verge of dissolution when they can't stand a little newspaper criticism. But who would have thought that the gentle poet Chiids gave employment to a man who would swear? The first proposition of the free traders is that their policy would reduce the wages of laboring men 25 per cent. That is conceded. Jt is asserted, however, that to offset this reduction, the absence of tariffduties would save to the laboring man 33 per cent, on the cost of his living. Tiie first is a fact, the second is a hypothesis. Let a workingman figure on what his living costs him, and see whether the free traders’ proposition is sound. How much will free trade reduce rent and the price of the ordinary articles of tood? Dr. E. C. Spitzka in the April number of tnc “Alienist and Neurologist.” explains that Guiteau exhibited signs of “sorcalled theomonia, querlantenwahnsinn, erotomania, or simple megalomania.” This makes it all clear, and we understand it now. It is no wonder that, as Dr. Spitzka says, “Guiteau experienced difficulty in uttering labial Bounds, and that his niece said ‘trat’ and ‘tritten* for cat and kitten.” But, still it is a good thing to hang a man troubled with querlantenwahnsinn and simple megalomania. The News is enamored of the marvelous principle of political economy just enunciated by Colonel Johnson, of the Street Railway Company, to the effect that competing companies only increase the monopoly. As Colonel Johnson put it in respect to street-cars, with one company you have one monopoly, and with two companies you would have two mono]H>lies. The News has discovered this to be the case with gas companies. It is evident that the world is on the eve of anew icience, or, at least, of new principles in an old science. No sensible man questions the necessity for teriff reform. That is universally conceded, end the Republican party is faced that way, And has scored the only progress in that direction of any' party. With six years’ confol of the House, and two of absolute control of Congress, tbc Democracy did nothing. But the last Republican Congress made a tart, and reduced the tariff and internal ■evonuc by $70,000,000. Is that nothing?

Any man can find flaws and abuses in the tariff laws. It requires no great ability to discover them, and only a narrow petulance rings the changes on them to the ignoring of the fact that the Republican party has not only committed itself to the policy, but actually begun the task of needed reform. But there is a vast difference between a reform that would overthrow the principle of protection to American industries, paralyze production and greatly jeopardize industrial and financial stability, and a reform conducted by a party the known friend of our own people and their diversified labor as against the foreign producer. AN APPLE OF DISCORD. The feast of the Democratic gods at Chicago, the annual convivium deorum yclept the meeting of the Iroquois Club, was sadly disfigured, if not actually knocked out of time, in the last round. As in the ancient feast of the mythical gods, so in this more tangible and fleshly banquet of mortals, the Goddess of Discord wrought sad work, and it is not improbable that a ten years’ war will follow among the adherents of the factions. The apple in the present instance was thrown into the feast by Colonel Vila 9, of Wisconsin, and it was picked up later bv Everett P. Wheeler, president of the New York Freetrade League. The fruit was beautiful in the eyes of the free-traders present, and each in turn fondled and admired it until Mayor Harrison’s turn came to make a speech in response to the toast, “A Public Office a Public Trust.” Now Carter, anticipating this duty, had prepared a very neat and very virtuous address on this topic, which at the time he arose to respond was already in type in the composing-rooms of the various Chicago papers. In that beautifully-prepared speech there was nothing whatever that would ruffle the feelings of his fellowbanqueters. Their surprise and chagrin may be imagined when Mr. Harrison suddenly changed his tactics and brought his guns to bear on those nearest übout him. Point blank ho sent solid anti-tariff-fur-reveniie shot into their ranks until they wriggled and worried in a manner most painful tc behold. One after another of the speakers who had preceded him had extolled the beauties of free trade until the Mayor’s indignation knew no bounds, and from nursing his wrath to keep it warm, he rose redhot for the fray. Like the Irishman that he is, or should be, be was saturated with the knowledge of the harm wrought Ireland by the free-trade policy of England; and like an Irishman he was not slow to express his condemnation of the attempt to commit the Democratic party at this time to the principle of free trade in America. As the mayor went warmly to work Bayard scowled and squirmed, Hovne met it duck-fashion by taking the storm on his back, Hulbert and Wheeler, who had grown happy over the enthusiasm evoked by free-trade talk, grew strangely morose, while Vilas and Congressman Springer vied with each other in trying to look sourest. To say that the happy assemblage was petrified with astonishment and chagrin would be drawing it very mild. While horror sat on every averted face, each tongue was tied, and the assembled Solons were very unhappy indeed. The comity of the symposium was sadly marred, and it was evident that there were present adherents of Minerva as well ns of Venus. With no Paris present to adjudicate the contest, there was nothing to do but to depart as quietly as the exigencies‘of the hour would permit, and this was done speedily, the benediction being omitted in the confusion.wrought by the enthusiastic but indignant mayor. The morning papers reported Harrison’s, speech as he wrote it—a regularly prepared college green af-fair-while the address he delivered was, in the estimation of those present, a very fine reproduction of a lively afternoon at a Donnybrook fair. But the real speech was impaled on a reporter’s stylus, is evident from it that Carter whacked the pompous statesmen right and left, and the few who had their eyes open next day w[ere only too conscious of the fact that of the Irish legion, that has ever stood fast in support of the Democratic party, but few could be rallied again if the party adopted the tactics of Enggland relative to free-trade. liis said the burnt child dreads the fire, Ireland has been consumed in the fire of free trade. Her industries have gone down until now they are the mere skeleton of what they once were, and are not even the ghost of what they should be. Educated in the school of bitter experience the Irish will not soon forget the lesson they learned in this direction. The leaders may rail at Mayor Harrison all they please, hut they will learn that Iroquois Clubs, at terrapin dinners, do not make either politics or candidates for parties in this free country. The growing shortage of the water supply in New York city has developed the fact that the elevated roads there consume the enormous quantity of 800,000 gallons daily, or 202,000,000 gallons yearly. The problem of providing an adequate supply for the great metropolis is now pressing for speedy solution. The need is imperative, but the expense is so great that the undertaking must be entered upon with deliberation. As it is, in many parts of the city the water pressure is insufficient to force it übovo the first story of the buildings. A virtuous reformer of New York advocates prohibition of more things than whisky. He has introduced a bill into the Legislature making it a misdemeanor, punishable by fine or imprisonment, for any person to

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“sell, loan or give to any minor under sixteen years of age any dime novel or book of fiction.” The bill has received the sanction of the committee on education, a fact which seems to show that the education of that committee is limited. There is a class of “dime novels” which is worse than trashy, but there are also numberless works of fiction sold at ten cents per volume which many good people believe cannot injure the minds or morals of any child. The committee probably means well, but really ought to read up. POETRY AND LAW. The State of Indiana at last, has what it has long needed, a poetical officer, in the person of Attorney-general Hord. In his recent lengthy opinion regarding the new insurance laws the following extract is found: “Insurance is a business in which the whole public has a direct and positive interest, and it is subject to the power of the body-politic, which may command and enforce compliance with such regulations as may be established by legislative authority for the common good. It is the policy of the State to subject insurance business to its supervision and control, for the better security of policy-holders, and the Auditor, an executive officer of the State, has been rendered the custodian of this vital and important trust, invested in some degree with power and authority to interrupt the practice of oppression, imposition and fraud, with which the people have been too often deluged by the unconscionable machinations of some irresponsible companies, ‘the baseless fabric of a vision .Land as unsubstantial as an exhalation, a bubble, or a dream. The grejat philosopher of poetry must have had some such institutions in view when he declared that—‘“lmagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown; tbo poet’s pen Turns them to shape, and *rivt*s to air}* nothing A iocal habitation and a name.’ ” Now “that’s something like,” as the street expression has it. Heretofore official opinions have been dull and prosaic. Their publication was necessary, but they were of little interest to the general reader. Attorneygeneral Baldwin promulgated some learned and frequent opinions, but they lacked poetic fervor. The facts were all right and tiie construction legally correct, but in none of them could you find a positive exhalation of genius. Mr. Baldwin could not invest an opinion on an insurance law with delicious sentiment, as in the extract given above. When his official opinion was asked regarding the proper tax on dogs of divers genders he could not answer it in a manner to satisfy the longing soul and lift the weary mortal above base worldly affairs. Mr. Baldwin was au fait in the general duties of his office, and he was also real handy when somebody was wanted to make a speech; but he was no poet. Mr. liord is, and the auspicious beginning he has already made will cause his future opinions to be looked forward to with great interest by the literary world. Indeed, it is understood that already a movement is on foot to dramatize his opinion on the road law, when it shall have been given. The subject is full of contemporaneous human interest, and a play based upon it, under such circumstances, when produced with the proper accessories, red lights and slow music, must achieve great success. If this venture proves successful. Mr. 1 lord’s subsequent opinion on the decedents’ estates act will be worked into a melodrama and produced with startling realistic effects. Mr. Hord is a man with possibilities. Captain William Clark, a revenue officer in Tennessee, bears a charmed life. Thursday evening he was waylaid and halted by a party concealed in the bushes by the roadside. When he stopped, nine guns were discharged at him. His horse threw him and injured him severely, but he got on to his feet and sent two barrels—two gun barrels—of shot after his would-be murderers. When ho took an inventory of his wardrobe, he found that there were ninety-two holes made by buckshot and slugs, though not one of them touched him. It is evident that his clothes did not fit snug and tight. While it is a mistake that the £und collected for the relief of the sufferers by the Rhine floods has not been applied, it is gratifying to note that of the 010,111 marks contributed, 588,110 came from America, aud only 22,001 marks from all other sources. In addition to the sum sent to Germany, America soon afterward raised about SIOO,OOO, or 400,000 marks, for the benefit of flood sufferers at home. It is a grand tiling to be an American, and to live in a country where such things are possible. ABOUT PEOPLE. Tub reseinLlauco between Mrs. Garfield aud Mrs. Wiudom is said to be so treat that portraits of one arc easily mistaken for tile other. The Rev. David L. liuun, ot Buffalo, is thought to be the oldest living graduate of Yale College. Mr. Huup is hearty at the age of ninety-three years. Thk Chicago Advance learns from private letters that Messrs. Moody and Sankey ami their party will sail from Liverpool for this country ou the ll)th insc. IT is said that when General Diaz learned what a programme of entertainment had beeu prepared for him In Boston lie gasped, in Spauish: ‘‘Great heavens! If I only live through it!” It is now denied, on seemingly good authority, that Prince Kraporkine ever devoted himself to researches luto the manufacture of dyuamite or its upplicatiou lo social and political problems. A LONDON magazine for 1794 contains the following almost unique death announcement: “In childbed of lier thirtieth child, the wife of Mr. Joseph 61ms, at the Bell Inn, Cambridge, County Gloucester.” The Bourbons are all very wealthy. The villa at Cannes of the Count de Bardi, one of the Parma branch of the family, is so expensive that t tie late Empress of Russia did not feel Justified in renting it at the price asked. There is now residing in Hamilton county, live miles from Cincinnati, one of the heroes of the famous “Charge, of the Light Brigade” at the battle of Balaklava, named Mutthew Hamilton. Ho is a coal miner by occupation and is fifty-six years old. At the tfhie of the Crimean war, in 1854, he was only twenty-eight years old, and was a member of troop B, No. 1,004, of the British light drugoons, lie came to this

1 country in 1871, and has resided in Hamilton 1 county about ten years. He is quite an intelligent man, and loves to converse on the incidents I of his army life, especially the part connected with the was of the Crimea. It is related of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts that an old and experienced lawyer coming into the court room and looking ai the bench, distinguished perhaps for Ability more than age,murmured in the ear of another old advocate, “Kiudergartenl By jove!” and walked out. The last descendants of Americus Vespuclus, two aged women, have petitioned the Italian government to restore them the pension of $6 a month which the Republic of Ftoreuce granted their family iu 1690. The last male descendant of this navigator, and who bore tbo latter’s name, died seven years ago in Florence. Justice Field, of the United. States Supreme Court, will, with Mrs. Field, return to Calitornia in May. Justice Field, walking along the busi- ! ness streets of San Francisco loses much of the Judicial air, has a Just perceptible easy swing of the shoulders, wears the average lack luster black coat, and is, to the casual observer, no longer “your honor.” But while his manners are of California unpretentiousness, he speedily frowns down any unnecessary familiarity. The bright, witty paragraphs in prose and verse which share with brilliant comic pictures the last page of each issue of Harper’s Bazar are all original, being prepared expressly for the columns of the Bazar. This section of the paper is under the charge of a genial and accomplished gentleman, well-known in journalistic circles in New York, who revels in the weekly outburst of hilarious explosions which attest the success of his designing schemes against the gravity of the public. A murderer recently convloted in Salt Lake, Utah, was given, uuder the provisions of the law, the privilege of choosing the method of death, ana said: “I have been talking with the marshal about it, and hud uot fully decided, but now I will say that I prefer to be hanged.” The judge thereupon sentenced him to be hanged on Friday, June 1. The Salt Lake Herald says the reason of his seleetiug hanging iu preference to shooting was understood to be that he did not waut to be “mangled by men who are his enemies.” The grand offense of parents, 8:13-8 Alexander Dumas, lies iu shirking the difficulties presented by the curiosit}' of children. He dwells upou the lieiuousness of the time-honored practice of lying to children. Children, be declares, are always old enough to receive correct answers to the questions they ask.. “There is no such thing as a stupid child. A child may have a more or less prompt lutelligeuce; it may develop special aptitudes or autipathies, but you will never hear it say a stupid thing as long as you have uot deceived it, us long us you have uot told it u lie.” THE SPIIUT OF THE PRESS. Ohio must get rid of its obsolete constitutional provision prohibiting all license for selling liquor before it can count with certainty upon me maintenance of uuy law regulating me traffic.—Cliicago Tribune. Whatever the effect of bravado may be on the stur route jury, ii does not influence public opinion iu favor of the accused in the least. Tiih people made up a verdict in this cane mouths ago.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. \Vk hope the authorities iu Springfield will do their duty aud punish severely tin*, men who have attaeked aud injured or Killed their tellow workmen. Such moo violeuce deserves tiie severest, punishment which the law allows, —New York Herald, Mr. Pendleton’s bill is against, poor men in the public service, and New Y"ork ha 9 her share of poor men. This is :* goverruieut of the people, and the places belong to file people. The “Civil-service Reform” act is in Ibe interest or au official class Cincinnati Enquirer. President arthub, by virtue of his position, can do more tuuu any one, or many others combined, to harmonize the party. He can do it l>* showing favor to neither faction as a faction, b.v making worm first and untramiueleil Republicanism last the only requirmeuts for office. —Fniludelphia Telegraph. The winuiug platform for 1884 will be the absolute repeal of ihe whole costly, corrupt ami cumbrous internal reveuue system and a revenue tariff wnh just incidental protection to domestic industry. Republicanism dare not go farther than that; Democracy dure not stop short of It.—Philadelphia Times. Criminals are becoming so defiant and hardy and crime is exhibiting itself iu so many uiniuturtl and moustroiis forms, that the public can uot afford 10 be specially romantic, nor even scientific, in its treatment. In plain truth, the public does not cure wnat the scientific treatment of eriine and criminals is.—St. Louis Republican. Legitimate business will flourish on the New York block Exchange. Good railroad bonds and stocks will sell. But the next great speculation will not be in tiie manufactures of Wall street. It is difficult to foresee the future, but- the gigantic transactions iu land reported in almost every issue of the daily press seem to forecast the next fashion in speculation.—Chicago Tiibuue. Wk do not imagine that. President Arthur has any ambition or expectation in regard to a reelection. There was evident sincerity in his remarks that he desired only to leave the office at the end of his present term with (lie thanks of the country for a respectable and patrollc administration. And if he continues the policy pursued tor the past six months, be will bo sure of this.—Boston Herald. The negro belongs to tbo Inferior race, ana his race will alwavs be inferior, and will never be the ruling power in any portion of this country. Iu vain the Republican party essayci to set up negro governments iu the South. Negro domination, except spasmodically and temporarily, through revolutions, is impossible iu a country bused on Aryan civilization. The diffusion of common school education among negroes will not alter the situation.—Louisville Courier-Jour-nal. Thk French government policy of providing employment is obviously calculated to arrest the'natural and healthy reflux of workingmen into the country, and, in t lie end, to aggravate rather than cure the disease they are Heating. After tlie>' have drawn some thousands more from the eouutr>' into the cities, and have more riots to quell in consequence, they will probably begin to entertain a somewhat better opinion of L-on Say’s policy of “abstention.”—Chicago Times. The soale on which newspapers are published nowadays, and undertaking, as they do, to cover all the news incident to public interest and the public welfare, makes it inevitable, that many mistakes should occur; the wonder is that there are not more of them. It is light, therefore, that newspaper® should be protected in publications made from hproper motive concerning people in public-positions, if the disposition be shown to correct errors and give satisfaction iu case of mistakes.—Cnioagb Tribune. The British press tony as well cease its efforts to array Englishmen against our country. If that press had given wise counsel as to the. Irish policy' of tho government, and insisted upon the effectuation of a righteous aud just mode of dealing with Irish questions, there would be little popular .discontent to deal with; but it is very evident that just in proportion to the adoption by the government of Russian despotic expedients the Nihilistic subterranean methods will b* resorted to in Eogluud and Ireland.—Louisville Courier-Journal. The result of internal revenue laws nndof privilege licenses is and has been, to lessen the numbers cngaglngln the taxed occupations and to concentrate tho business Into few hands, which necessarily makes laborers of those who would otherwise be small proprietors. In such cases the profits go to the few, and the many are mere drudges, wit it hard labor and email pay. No system is wholesome which tends to tins end. By every limans tnur system must be readied which will leave open all occupations to the largest number,with tho largest opportunity in lif a for every Industrious amt aspiring man. —Cun innaii News. A learned man, with tho true, humble, earnest, scientific spirit, would be willing to listen to a mule’s Praying, if he thought lie could add thereby to his stock of useful knowledge. But it is death, ratsbane, cold poison and pistols to your simon-pure quinine 11 ml calomel doctor to consult with anybody not also a simonpure quinine and calomel man. Once it was women doctors ho would have eaten Ids own head off before recognizing in a professional way. But. the grim logic of events has forced the*recognition of women doctors, and now It Is the homeopaths. The regulars of the undent school are that miff that they vow they will die 111 their tracks and lie put into a pickling-box for dissection In fora they will ho much us crook n finger toward meeting a little-pill man ou professional grounds.—Cincinnati Journal.

A ROW AMONG THE BRAVES Carter Harrison Disturbs the Harmony of tho Iroquois Wigwam, Aud Succeeds In Completely Dumfounding Bayard, Hurlbert, and Other Democratic Leaders, While Protection Is Denounced as a Hydra-Headed Monster, The Time Has Not Yet Come to Cry Free Trade, and a Tariff for Revenue Only Will Not Suit the Farty. Chicago Special to St. Louis Globe-Democrat. A sensation was created at the Iroquois banquet, at an hour too lute for the morning papers to catch, by Mayor Carter H. Harrison. He was down on the programme opposite the toast, “Public Offices a Public Trust,” He was at the end of tho list, and was not reached until 1:30 o’clock a. m. Senator Bayard had spoken, so had W. H. Hurlbert, of New York, Congressman Bill Springer, Colonel Vilas, of Wisconsin, and a half dozen other leaders, and all had devoted themselves to showing that the safety of the Democratic party depended upon its coming out fearlessly for free trade, and against the “greatest monopoly of the day—protection.” Mayor Harrison discarded altogether the sentiment to which he had been assigned, and devoted an hour to combating the position taken by all the other speakers. “I say to-day,” said Harrison, “you may make your tariff for revenue a plank in your next resolutions, and you will split the Democratic party. Free trade was Democracy once; free trade was not Democracy at another time. Free trade is not Democracy today. In part of Indiana they tell you there give us protection to home industry, and Mr. Hurlbert himself says a tariff for revenue brings incidentally protection. Why talk of it. then? You may win on anew doctrine or a principle of that sort when the country is oppressed and suffering; when the finances are in a bad condition; when labor is not winning a proper reward, but you cannot bring on a change of that sort when a country is prosperous. You cannot change a policy of government which is fixed in the minds of the people when the people have living wages and are working every day for these wages.” There was at once a panic among the score or more of distinguished guests seated at tiie head of the room. Bayard scowled and moved back from the table. Hon. Thomas Hoyne turned squarely' around, and, with his back toward Harrison, expressed disapprobation by continually shaking his head. Hurlbert and Everett Wheeler, of New York, who had moved the assemblage to a great pitch of enthusiasm by their orations in favor of free trade, looked daggers. Vilas carried on an excited whispering with Bill Springer. There were marks of disapprobation among all the club men. Not a syllable of applause was vouchsafed. As Harrison saw these signs he grew more vehement, paced up nnd down behind the long table, shook his finger within a few inches of Bayard’s nose, and waved his arms over Bill Springer’s head. When he had finished his harangue, without, a minute’s delay the assemblage was dismissed, and the club and its guests withdrew, boiling over with wrath, to the reception-room. Harrison was not congratulated, but was allowed to move off alone. “That,” shouted Tom Hoyne, “was the blankest outrage a guest ever perpetrated on a host.” “Harrison,” shouted back L. Z. Leiter, “is a blanked ass!” The main doctrine enunciated in the declaration of principles of the Iroquois Club is “A tariff for revenue only.” The first man seen this morning was Phociatt Howard, who was the perfect picture of despair. He said: “When the sun set last night, no man could have prevented Carter Harrison from receiving the Democratic nomination for Governor of Illinois. To-day he couldn’t be elected road commissioner,” A large number of prominent Democrats said that he had digged his own grave, fallen into it, and covered himself up so deep that even if Old Hickory should rise and call for Him it would not he heard. Many declared that the banquet bad opened up a chasm in the party which it would take a long time to bridge. Mr. Harrison said to-day that he did not regret a single utterance of the night before; that he meant every word of it. He dared them to attempt to read him out of the party, etc. The scene at the banquet during the delivery of Harrison's speech was one long to be remembered. He strode up and down behind the table, and waxed the warmer the more he perceived that his remarks were not received with favor. Senator Bayard leaned over and covered his fuce with his hands. Hurlbert, of the World, looked amused, then anxious, and finally lost his composure, and conversed in fitful spirits with his neighbors. As soon as Harrison concluded, the president’s gavel fell. Harrison went his way, alone ami unattended, save by Comptroller Gurney. The speakers and prominent men went out tlie rear door. Hon. Thomas Hoyne, Melville W. Fuller, President Phelps, and others of the Iroquois, gathered around Hurlbert, Bayard, Vilas, Wheeler and the others, to assure them that the true Iroquois were as much surprised and disgusted ns were their guests and visitors. Hon. Thomas Hoyne cried forth: “It was the blankest outrage ever perpetrated by a guest upon his hosts! We had to support hint for mayor, and we had to put him on the programme.” Several Iroquois chimed in: “We tried to avoid putting hint on the programme. We put him at the foot, where we thought he could not do much harm,” etc., ad nauseam. When the newspapermen were mentioned a deep silence, enforced by “hushes,” followed, and then they commenced to talk about to-day’s programme. Mr. Hurlbert could not unlock his door, and hence fell a victim to the question, how he liked the Mayor? “I wanted to sink through the platform.” he replied, and vanished. the gist of tiie speech. I say to-day' you may make your tariff for revenue a plank in your next resolutions and j f ou will split the Democratic party. * * * Let us go on steadily discussing the tariff question until you can educate the people. Strike down protection, but do not make a platform to be spoken about in Illinois and sneered over in Pennsylvania. Do not make a platform that one part of your country denies while another part preaches it up. Be honest, I say. Be bold and be fearless. Say that the tariff must and shall be reformed. It has errors in it. It has criminal sides. You can reform it and Bti 11 have revenue, and yet not drive our friends from us who believe in other parts of the Democratic doctrine. Whu) is the Democratic doctrine? Some say it is the tariff question. The tariff was a free-trade tariff, or tariff for revenue was the doctrine of the Democratic party in tho past. It was an incident, however. It was

not the great underlying principle of the Democratic party. It is not the great underlying principle of the Democratic party. It is not a principle. It is simply a policy. But there is a principle that is Democratic, and that is the principle enunciated by Thomas Jeffersion—that man is capable of self-government; that the poor man, in his humble citizenship, is as grand a man with a ballot in his hand as is your Vanderbilt, or your Gould, rolling in his carriage or traveling over the country in his palatial coach. That is Democracy. Free trade was not Democracy at any time. Free trade is not Democracy to-day'. In part of the country they will tell you give us protection to home industry, and Mr. Hurlbert himself says a tariff for revenue brings incidentally protection. Why talk of it, then? Let your newspapers, I say, the Democratic newspapers of this country, educate the people up to the question. Let your public writers educate the people up to it. But when you come to our cities with these vast monopolies which you have, and when you tell them that you are going to have a tariff for revenue only, the ballot will be printed and put in 3 T our voters’ hands the night before election, and he is commanded to vote as his employer orders him to vote. At the last election in this city, when Hancock and Garfield were running. Republican ballots were put in the hands of eveiv great employer in this city the night before election. Employes were told that their bread depended upon the election ot Garfield, and the}' voted with their bread. You cannot convince them to the contrary. You may win on anew doctrine, on a principle of that sort when the country is oppressed and suffering. when the finances are in a bod condition. when labor is not winning a proper reward, but you cannot bring on a change of that sort when a country is prosperous. You cannot change a policy of government which, is fixed in the minds of the people when the people have living wages and are working every day for those wages. It is a good principle. We all believe in free trade It is the true principle of government. You have no right to tax one man to help to make another richer; but is it necessary for us as Democrats to put that sort of thing in our platform to-day? We do not know what Congress may do in the next two years. Go ask them there what they are doing to-day. Are the Democrats in Washington all of one mind on the question of tariff? Here is my friend, Mr. Springer. Ask him if every Democrat on the floor of the House of Representatives is a man for tariff for revenue only. He will tell you no. A congressman from Virginia wants to tax some commodity by tariff'because bis constituents demand it. A Democratic congressman from Louisiana has voted for a tariff' upon sugar because his constituents demand it. But we may break down the monster that is now building tip the wealth of the few at the expense of tho many, and that is by reforming the present tariff, reforming it so as to take off the burden of the people, and then you have a living principle, a living issue to light for, and not a thing of the dead past that we have hauled up for years and paid no attention to when we got to Washington. I believe iu living issues. I believe in the Democracy. I do not want the Democracy of the dead past. I do not want to tie myself to a dead corpse that is lying yonder in the distance. that\ve have trodden over and the sod is green over its grave. I want to be tied to living issues, and there are plenty of them that we may go before the people and win on. * * * 1 wish to say one word here for my friend Mr. Hurlbert. He alluded to the power of the press, and he asked v ho made Chicago. [Someone jocularly said, “Carter Harrison.”] Who made Chicago the Sodom and Gomorall throughout the length and breadth of tho United States? The Chicago press, that has fattened in our midst and lias slandered this city for the purpose of putting down a Democratic administration. [Applause.] Like that foul bird that fills its nest with litter until it is so full that its eggs drop out, they have befouled the nest Chicago, which is no better and no worse than any other city in America. You, my friend in New York, came here in fear and trembling lest youshould be sandbagged on the road. Mr. Hurlbert—Not a bit of it. He says he did not believe it. He knows what a press can do. [Round after round of applause.] Tha4.js(blushingly), a Republican press. He knows what it can do to slander a Democratic administration, and that it will even slander abusively its own city for the purpose of striking down one who is in opposition to it. Sir, there is another public officer, or quasi public, and a quasi public trust, and tlias is the press of tiie country. It is quasi public in its position and quasi official. Let the Democratic press say to the Republican press of this country: You may criticise fairly, but you cannot hurt anybody by slandering them foully. Here in this city the Democratic administration has been elected three times in spite of pulpit slander and press lies, because the people here see for themselves, and they know that a Democratic administration iu Chicago believes that a public office is a public trust, and administers it for the good of the people [applause]; because we believe in Chicago, with the Democracy, that that is the best government which governs least; that that is the best government and safest which leaves all of his rights, all of his personal liberties which is safe for the general public, and which does not do violence to the interest of the individuals around him. General Gresham and His Successor. Interview with General Fred. Knefler. “When Gresham was on the bench lie had little familiarity with the attorneys practicing before him, though when he was off the bench he was a big-hearted, whole-souled fellow. This made him a peculiar composition, and when he was on tiie solemn strain lie was not as agreeable as at other times.” “Who do you think is Gresham’s choice for the judgeship?” “Well, I don’t think he will have anything to do with the selection of anew judge, ana I don’t think he wants anything to do with it. He will leave the whole matter with Senator Harrison, to whom it properly belongs. Gresham has a great deal of good sense, and he will not b found trying to do anything Put his plain duty, and that you may depend on his doing.” No Paper Freer from Whims. Frankfort Banner. Hon. John C. New has, through bis panrr, the Indianapolis Journal, stated that hoTfas not been at any time a candidate for an office from the present administration. He has stated facts so plainly that they carry conviction with them. Mr. New has made the Journal a power for the right, and being an active Republican can have no interest other than in the success of the party. He has by his acts in the past shown that ho has fiilth in the principles of the party, and is entitled to the confidence of our people. The Journal never has been so good a paper, no daily i3 freer from whims, none so outspoken upon all the live issues of the day, and the Banner trusts that both Mr. New and his paper may prosper. _ The British Criminal System. Chicago llorald. In every respect the British system has tho advantage when compared to tho general practice adopted in our criminal courts. Itt dignity, impartial sternness, and speedy justice it occupies an infinitely stronger position between the community and criminals. And lie Will Likely Flndllt. Philadelphia Thaos. , Mr. Watterson, Armed with a fire-brand, is looking for the Democratic powder magazine. _ One of the Signs of Spring. Cincinnati Enquirer. Seal skin no longer lingers on the back ot lovely woman.