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DYNAMITE! For the past few days we have heen selling lour lines of Cassimere Pants, two of which are STRICTLY ALL WOOL, at the low price of $1.90. We now offer an ALLWOOL LIGHT-COLORED PANTS at #1.50. If there is any competition that can afford to meet this figure with as good goods, or anything nearly as good, we shall be pleased to continue the circus, and make matters still more interesting. MODEL CLOTHING COMPANY. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. GRAND OPERA-HOUSE—Frank Mayo in ‘ Davy Crockett.” THE DAILY JOURNAL BY JNO. C. NEW & SON. For Rates of Subscription, etc., see Sixth Page. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 1884.

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can be found at the following places: LONDON—American Exchange in Europe, 449 Strand. PARlS—American Exchange in Paris, 35 Boulevard des Capucines. NEW YORK—St. Nicholas and Windsor Hotels. WASHINGTON, D. C.—Brentano's, 2,015 Pennsylvania Avenne. CHICAGO—PaImer House. CINCINNATI—J. C. Hawley & Cos., 154 Vine Street. LOUISVILLE—C. T. I faring, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets ST. LOUlS—Union News Company. Union Depot and Southern Hotel. Delegates to Chicago. First District—General James C. Veatch. of Spencer-, Frank B. Posey, of Pike. Alternates—Gil. R. Stormont, of Gibson; Philander Cooper, of Vanderburg (colored). Second District—G. G. Riley, of Knox: W. R. Gardiner. of Daviess. Alternates—C. C. Shreder, of J)uhois: William Farrell, of Orange. Third District —D. M. Allspaugh, of Washington: A. 2*. Charles, of Jackson. Alternates—Franeis Norton. of Floyd; W. T. Walked of Scott. Fourth District—J. O. Cravens, of Ripley; Eugene G. Hay. of Jeffer-wm. Alternates—J. P. Hemphill, of Ohio; E. C. Thompson,, of Uniou. Fifth District—Joseph I. Irwin, of Bartholomew: W. A. Montgomery, of Owen. Alternates—U..S. Hammond. of Putnam; J. O. Parker, of Hendricks. Sixth District—C. H. Burchenal. of Wayne: J. H. Mellette, of Henry. Alternates —A. 21. Kennedy, of Rush. J. N. Huston, of Fayette. Seventh District—L. T. Micliener, of Shelby; H. C. Adams, of Marion. Alternates—O. 11. Hasselman, of Marion; J. M. Freeman, of Hancock. Eighth District—W. C. Smith, of Warren: W. R. Me* Keen, of Vigo. Alternates—M. L. Hall, of Vermillion: E. A. Rosser, of Clay. Ninth District—Gen. Geo. B. Williams, of Lafayette; Americus C. Daily of Lebanon. Alternates —Hon. R. C. Graham, of Noblesville: O. G. Forrer, of Tipton. Tenth District —Simon P. Thompson, of Jasper; G. W. Holman, of Fulton. Alternates—U. Z. Wiley, of Benton; C. F. Griffin, of Lake. Eleventh District —J. B. Kenner, of Huntington; Jonas Votaw, of Jay. Alternates—R. S. Peterson, of Adams: John A. Cantwell, of Blackford. Twelfth District—O. A. Simons, of Allen; O. Carver, of Steuben. Alternates—John Mitchell, of Noble: Williamson Rawles. of Lagraftge. Thirteenth District—Joseph I). Oliver, of St. Joseph: Geo. Moon, of Kosciusko. Alternates—A. M. Tucker, of Elkhart; Amasa Johnson, of Marshall. State Central Committee. First District—Henry S. Bennett, of Vanderhqrg. Second District —Samuel M. Reeves, of Martin. Third THstrict—M. M. Hurley, of Floyd. Fourth Distinct—A. 13. Pattison. of Dearborn. Fifth District—E. F. Branch, of Morgan. Sixth Distinct—J. F. Wildman, of Delaware. Seventh District—D. M. Ransdell. of Marion. Eighth District—J. I>. Early, of Vigo. Ninth District—W. H. Hart, of Clinton. Tenth District—J. M. Watts, of Carroll. Eleventh Distinct—A. F. Phillips, of Howard. Twelfth District—W. L. Penfield. of DeKalb. Thirteenth Distric t—Aaron Jones, of St. Joseph. The report of the rescue of the Greely party was a very dastard Ist of April hoax. Mr. Lamb, of the Terre Haute district, does not want to monkey with the tariff buzzsaw. T 1 [F, Journal's scoop in securing extended interviews with the “old ticket" is wormwood and gall to less enterprising dailies. If the police commission were half as strict about other matters as they are about members of the force participating in politics, we would have a better enforcement of law. Congressman A. Herr Smith, of Pennsylvania, has been defeated for renomination, a fact attributed to his vote in favor of the restoration of General Fitz John Porter to the army. Tiif. Courier-Journal denounces as “a wicked, wanton and shameless falsehood" the statement that Mr. Watterson was in the service of the whisky men during his recent sojourn in Washington. Senator Vance, of North Carolina, showed up very handsomely in the Danville investigation yesterday. Head the report, and see how it is proposed to turn the whole affair into a dirty-clothes washing. Now that the House will he torn to tatters by the discussion of the Morrison bill, why would it not he a good idea for the Senate to adjourn for a few weeks in order to let its members enjoy the Donneybrook fair? The determination of the House of Representatives to enter upon the consideration of the tariff question is wise. The tariff is a question upon which the country wants and should have all possible information and fair discussion. The Republican position is one that we believe will he strengthened the more it is debated and the better it becomes known. It is a position, we believe, in accord with the

intelligence of the people. The Democratic position is one that will not stand daylight. Therefore, we are glad that the debate is to go on, that the country may see precisely the purpose and effect of the Democratic theory of free trade, for that is the Democratic idea and purpose, cover it up and sugar-coat it as some of them may attempt. The public has already passed sentence on the unsavory Cincinnati jury that made a farce of justice by convicting the assassin Berner of manslaughter, but it now appears that they were even more infamous than they were believed to be. The records of the county were either destroyed or hopelessly scattered during the riots following the Berner business. On Monday- last one A1 Shaw, foreman of the Berner jury, had the effrontery to approach Coroner Museroft in the following manner: “Is this the coroner?’ “Yes; what do you want?” Shaw hesitated for a moment, shuffled from one foot to the other, and finally said: “I have in my possession, or I know a man who has in his possession, a number of valuable records and papers that belong to your office. What will you give me for them?" Astonished at the fellow, Dr. Museroft never answered for a moment, and he continued: ‘ ‘lf you want them, I will sell them to you for $lO. What do you say?" At this Museroft sprang to his feet, with flushed face and blazing eves, and said: “Do you want to sell to the county what belongs to the county? Go away from me! I don't want to have anything to do with you!” The impudent fellow then made good his escape, and will hardly repeat the attempt to barter for.the return of stolen property. He will fool around Cincinnati until public patience is exhausted, and then justice will come up with him unexpectedly. Few would mourn the loss of such a characterless rascal. South Carolina chivalry (!) is now engaged in making war on Miss Marion, a talented young lady and a graduate of Due West female college. She has been teaching school at New Harmony, and incurred the displeasure of certain patrons on account of physicial discipline inflicted upon their children. Since January, three school-houses in which she taught, have been burned, but the plucky little woman has bobbed up serenely every morning and taught as usual. She now declares that she will teach in a tent, which can he taken down every evening and stowed away. She is not a bit disconcerted, although she has been made the recipient of a regular Ku-klux warning, saying: “You must discontinue the school or you will be a dead woman. Burning lias failed to stop you from teaching. Lead will next he used." Strange that these worthies have not thought of trying whipping before resorting to extreme measures. It is barely possible, however, that they do not care to come into personal contact with the heroine. She is evidently possessed of all the pluck of tlio gallant revolutionary geueral who bore her family name. She is an admirable little lady, and it is to be regretted only that she has incurred the displeasure of the gallant (!) sons of South Carolina.

The citizens of Breathitt county, Kentucky, known as “bloody Breathitt.” on account of its almost innumerable murders, are aroused to the fact that something must be done to remove the stain from the county’s name and to put a stop to the great number of crimes that have disgraced it. At midnight on Saturday night a baud of fifty masked men visited the jail at Jackson, the county-seat, and took two assassins out and hanged them to the court-house portico. They then pinned notices to the bodies forbidding any one to take them down before 9 o’clock, and declaring that in the future persons found guilty of similar crimes shall receive the same punishment. In view of the fact that one of the men thus hanged was guilty of having killed eight men, this, the first hanging that has ever taken place in that county, will hardly he viewed as a calamity, no matter how much regret there may be that it had to be done outside the law. Mr. Lycurgus Dalton, Postmaster of the House, is reported its saying in Washington that “the returns show that the Democrats have increased their majority of two years ago, which was 17,000. It is also claimed that the recent elections give the Democrats control of the election machinery all over the ►State.” Tliis is a flagrant instance of the impropriety of a |K>st master improperly interfering with politics. The Democracy did not have a majority of 17,000 two years ago; they only had a plurality of 10,684, and were in a minority of the total vote 1,878. The recent election did not give the Democrats control of the election machinery. On the contrary, it is more than probable that the Republicans have elected a fail* majority of the trustees; at least, it. is certain that the Democrats have not elected nearly so many as they did two years ago. With these exceptions, Mr. Dalton’s statements are substantially correct. Ol’R readers may have noticed in the list of clearances of the leading clearing-houses of the country, usually published each Tuesday morning in the Journal, that the clearances of the associated banks of this city are much less than they were at the corresponding time one year before. While the bank clearances of Indianapolis may not be so great as they wore in 1883, the published statement gives a false idea of the volume of business done. Until the failure of the Indiana Banking Company the Indianapolis balances were paid in certified checks, which checks were, in most instances, added to the checks sent the clearinghouse the following day. These checks amounted to from 15 to 20 per cent, of the total clearances, and as the balances are now* paid in money, it will be seen that the busi-

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ness may he as great as it was ono year ago, and still the clearances he 20 per cent. less. The public should remember this when considering the clearances of our city hanks. Immediate advices, right from the locality, declare that the Coeur d’Alene mining excitement has been worked upon a false basis. The country is overrun, and very many already on the ground will severely suffer, to say nothing of those who will be attracted there by the glowing misstatements already put forth. Stay away from mines, and particularly from the Coeur d'Alene mines. There is more solid money to be dug out of a wheat or com field, on the average, than can be washed out of the sands of some presumed Pactolus or picked out of a mine somewhere. Mr. Tilden’s letter to the Iroquois Club is a clever paraphrase of his repeated talk in 1876 about reform, and that when the people talked about reform they meant and wanted him. In addition, there is a very deft allusion to the “great fraud” practiced by the Democratic Electoral Commission, closing up with a feeble protest that the writer cannot again hope to be one of the leaders in the great work the Democratic party has before it. The whole letter is a bid of the loudest kind for the nomination of “the old ticket,” and it is authoritative. Some admirers of Mr. Blaine are enthusiastic in their praise of that gentleman for what they are pleased to call his magnanimity in making favorable mention of Mr. Conkling in his book, and also permitting his portrait to appear there. Had Mr. Blaine been so lacking in dignity or diplomacy as to slur or ignore a rival for personal reasons in a work which assumes to be historical, he would speedily realize the mistake politically and financially. He should beg to be saved from the friends who thought him capable of such an act. The authorities of Minneapolis had no difficulty in enforcing the laws last Sunday. A majority of 7,000 against lawlessness, which was given hv a long-suffering community the week previous, proved a wonderful stimulus to the officers. The only real things needed are a public sentiment and a willingness on the part of the officials. Then a fair and proper enforcement of law is as easy as the uonen forcemeat. Sadif, Reigh, of Chicago, the dining-room girl who shot and killed the man who so shamelessly slandered her, has entered a plea of guilty of manslaughter, and will be sentenced next week. Had she beaten the fellow's brains out with a club, or killed him in a drunken freak, she might have pleaded insanity and been acquitted.

The Ohio Legislature was probably satisfied that the defeat of the wool-tariff bill did the business for tlieir party in that State, and adjourned without repealing the Scott liquor law, as they tacitly agreed to do last year. The only question to be settled now is whether the Republican majority in Ohio can be kept below 50,000. The Philadelphia Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals takes it all back, and now officially declares that there is no evidence that the elephant in question is not what Mr. Forepaugh claims it to be. Evidently Mr. Forepaugh is in position to give Barnum points on advertising tricks. The “smoking pistol" has left Chicago and and is now in Cincinnati. This remarkable fire-arm emits smoko fully a quarter of 1 an hour after it is discharged, and in case of a homicide is always found in a “smoking” condition. no matter how much time may have elapsed. The price of reserved seats at the national prohibition convention, at Pittsburg, in June, has been fixed at five dollars each. Prohibition may not. prohibit, but the convention will probably discover that high prices do—at least so far as attendance at its meeting is concerned. If Mr. Pendleton had talked as he did to the Iroquois Club while he was a candidate • for re-election to the Senate, he would have more honor in his defeat. He then stood mute on the subject of civil-sorvice*re£orm; as a sheep before his shearers, he opened not his mouth. Kentucky is gradually coming out of the woods. There is a bill to make gambling a felony and another to prohibit bucket-shops pending in the Legislature of that State. It will not be many centuries until the Democratic majority in that State is sensibly reduced. MEXICANS are taking up with Boston ways. The other day two gentlemen went to the Chapultepee woods, and had a regular standup fight. One got a broken head and was satisfied, and the “duel” was at an end. Civilization will yet prevail in all portions of this land. __ The entertainment to be given to-night, at Lyra nail, by the lady managers of the Home for Friendless Women, should attract a large attendance, not less for its unique character and undoubted attractiveness than for the charity in behalf of which it is given. Work for the fallen and sinned against—the outcast —is ono that appeals to every kindly and Christian feeling, and the noble, devoted women engaged in maintain ing the Home for the Friendless need every encouragement they can receive, not only in money, but in the sympathy and encouragement of tlio public. So long as these and kindred institutions are left to voluntary support, so long will the ingenuity, patience and good will of those whose interests lead them to take them iu special charge, bo taxed. It is the light

est possible burden to the general public to bo asked to contribute a small amount, especially when it is in return for an entertainment fully worth the price. The “Cradle-song Concert” enlists the services of some of the best talent in the city, reinforced by that from other cities where the concert has been given with the greatest success. The Journal takes pleasure in Emphasizing .this matter in behalf of the the ladies who are giving their time and energy to a charity that deserves well of the people of Indianapolis. A remarkable but not unprecedent accident occurred to tho Are alarm system of Louisville on Monday evening. During a moderate wind storm an electric-light wire crossed a lire-signal wire, whereby the full force of the current was carried to the central fire-alarm station. Iu an instant the room was ablaze, the light was blinding and intensely hot. It took but a moment for the connecting wires to melt, and the dazzling brightness was followed by pitchy darkness. Investigation showed that nearly or quite 300 alarm boxes had been burned out and will have to be replaced, the city meanwhile being driven to depend on carrying notices of fire by telephone or by hand. The diroct monetary loss, whieh is insignificant compared with what might result, was but about SI,OOO. Accidents of this character have occurred in several cities and are liable to occur in any place where electric wires are strung overhead. The only remedy, and one that must sooner or later be adopted, is to require them to be conducted under the surface. Indianapolis would do well to anticipate such an accident by ordering electric wires buried. Suicide may not be epidemic, but its victims are certainly affected by a "contagion of thought.” Mr. Agate, the Yonkers millionaire who shot himself last week in New York, sought the sleep which knows no waking because, though he enjoyed every other earthly blessing, sleep would not come to him. Mr. Schultz, of the same city, heard of the case of Mr. Agate, and expressed a wish that he were in that happy man's place, Mr. Schultz was something of an invalid, but in comfortable circumstances and with pleasant family relations. He was also of a calm temperament and not of a sort to be suspected of a desire to take his own life, but he went straightway to a bath-room and, after elaborate preparations, drowned himself. Another hotel has been found—this time in Philadelphia—that sees no difference in guests, and will no sooner permit a prima donna to foist a dog on the other guests than it would submit to such a thing from a ordinary mortal. Madame Scalchi, who isn’t Madame Scaichi at all, but Mrs. Lolli, became very indignant, and sum moning a carriage, bolted off to a caravansary where pug dogs are rated on a par with other people. “The idea,” she exclaimed, “of sending my dear pet to a horrid porter. ” A hotel clerk that would separate such a loving pair is cruel indeed. Both of them should have been committed to the porter. At a spiritualist seance in Washington a piano rose from the floor without visible aid and tried to bump its way through the ceiling. While this may go far towards convincing the skeptical that there is a spirit land, it is also an indication that the promise “there shall be no- pianos there" is false, and the effect of the exhibition is consequently depressing. The mayor of Pittsburg is strictly impartial in his rulings. Ho ordered the arrost of base ball players on Sunday, and, in order to keep a balance, had some Salvation Army people locked up for holding an open-air meeting. When he comes to shutting saloons he will, perhaps, find it necessary to equalize the matter by closing the churches at the same time. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: 1. Has a notary public the right to “swear in” election boards’ 2. When an officer swears them in should he say “you" or “oacli of you ’’l A Subscriber. 1. Yes. 2. "Each of you.”

The address of William G. Huff is wanted. POLITICAL NOTE AM) GOSSIP. R. P. Flower:* President Arthur, I think, will have at least 150 votes from the South at Chicago. The Boston Post advocates the nomination of Senator Bayard for President, and McDonald for Vice-president. Congressman John D. Long has written home to Massachusetts declining positively to be a delegate to the Republican national convention under any circumstances. The States of Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Nevada, Oregon, Vermont, and Rhode Island have less than one half the population of Illinois, but have the same number of representatives in Congress—twenty-two. Philadelphia Item: It is one of the conceded points in the presidential canvass for the present year that it will not be safe for the Republican convention to nominate a candidate who is not reasonably sure of carrying the State of New York. The London correspondent of an Irish paper says Mr. Henry George was asked in his presence if he would run for a Scotch constituency, and he replied: **l guess not; 1 would then be ineligible to the presidency of the United States. ” Lafayette Journal: The Journal does not hesitate to put the prediction on record that Senator Harrison will develop such positive strength in the Chicago convention as will make him not only a formidable competitor, but whichwill result in his nomination. Kokomo Gazette: Hon. John Overmyer has consented to servo as chairman of the State central committee. He will doubtless be elected without opposition. He is a splendid organizer, possesses good executive ability, and will be a splendid man to be at the helm during the presidential canvass. In an interview yesterday, David Davis said that under no circumstances would he lead the Illinois delegation to the Republican convention at Chicago, nor would lie be a delegate. He is living in the retirement of private life, and does not wish to enter the bustle and commotion of the campaign. The Elmira Advertiser learns by actual canvass that the presidential preferences of the members of the boards of supervisors of Allegany, Steuben, Schuyler, Seneca. Tompkins and Chemung counties are about as follows: For Blaine. 31; Edmunds, 11; Arthur. 2; Tilden, 5; Bayard, fl; Randall. 2; Lincoln. Harrison, Cleveland, Hancock aud Weaver, 1 each. Columbus Republican: It is not our fight, but it cannot be denied that the course of Colonel Matson in regard to the congressional nomination is most contemptible. It is almost in-ert-dibit* that a man of his standing, after giving the pledges that lie did, should squarely repudiate them. If ho should now succeed in getting the nomination, instead of being an honor it would be a dishonor. A reporter for the Chicago Tribune called on Judge David Turpie, and asked him if ho was a candidate for Governor of Indiana, but the Judge would give no positive answer beyond admitting that his name was being used in conjunction with Governor Gray, General Manson ami Congressman Holman. The .fudge left the impression upon the mind of his interlocutor that he would not object to the nomination if it was given to him.

THE IROQUOIS COUNCIL FIRE Third Annual Banquet and Big Talk of the Chicago Warriors, A Letter from the Great Chief Tilden, in Which He Says the People's Representatives Were Intimidated. Bayard Mourns Over the Broken Constitution and the Bad Republicans. Pendleton Makes a Strong Argument in Support of Civil-Service Reform —Other Speeches and Letters. Chicago. April 15. —The Iroquois Club, of this city, composed of gentlemen prominent in the Democratic party, gave its third annual banquet at the Palmer House this evening. The local attendance was very large, in addition to which there were many distinguished gentlemen from all parts of the country. Mr. Erskine M. Phelps, president of the club, in introducing the speak ers of the evening, and speaking of the career of the Iroquois, said: This club has exerted its influence for reform in politics, and especially upon the great question before the people—tariff reform. Believing that it is the only sure road to prosperity in this country, now that the wheels of commerce throughout the length and breadth of the land are clogged by a burdensome system of protective taxes, we feel that the people should understand and so act upon this important, issue as to enable themselves to compete in the markets of the world, and for the American flag to float again triumphantly on every sea. as of yore, under Democratic auspices. LETTER FROM MR. TILDEN. After an address by Colonel W. C. P. Breckinridge, of Kentucky, upon the sentiment, “The Republic, an Indivisible Union of Indestructible States,” the following letter was read from exGovemor Tilden: New York. April 11, 1884. Gentlemen—l have had the honor to receive your invitation to the third annual banquet of the Iriquois (’lub, to respond to the sentiment. “The Federal Eonstitution.” I have also received private letters asking a written response to this sentiment in case I am prevented from attending. I have been for some time, and am still, exceptionally engrossed with business, which 1 have no power to defer or abandon. I must, therefore, communicate to you in writing, and my answer must be brief. On the formation of the federal Constitution, Governor Morris, who had been a conspicuous member of the convention, being asked what he thought of the Constitution, replied: “That depends upon how it is construed.” The Democratic party, organized in resistance, by the more advanced patriots of the revolution. to the efforts which were made to change the character of our government by false construction of the Constitution, imposing on the new system a monarchical bias. Mr. Jefferson’s election, in 1800, rescued our free institutions from the perils which surrounded them, ami secured sixty years of administration. mainly in harmony with their design and true character. When an attempt was made to break up the Union and to dismember the territorial integrity of the country, the people wore compelled to make a manly choice between these calamities and the dangerous influences of civil war upon the character of the government. They patriotically and wisely resolved to save the Union first, and to repair the damage which our political system might sustain when more imminent dangers had been provided against. The first work was successfully accomplished, but twenty years have since elapsed and the work of restoring the government to its original character is not yet accomplished. Our wise ancestors had warned us if we fell into civil discords our freo system was liable to perish in the struggle. By an insensible change of ite character not only have the best tradition of tlio patriots who won independence and established freedom lost their authority, but our cherished political system is slowly losing its hold upon life under the faults growths of false construction and corrupt practices. The government itself has become a menacing factor in elections. As long ago as IH7( l expressed the opinion that the opposition must embrace, at the beginning of the canvass, twot-hirds of the voters, to maintain a majority at the election. In this, history repeat* itself. In most countries the government maintains itself by force or fraud. Even in the comparatively popular system of England, the monarch has, until lately, controlled a majority of Parliament, and frequently decided elections by court favors. jobs and money taken from the public treasury. This is a hard saying. but the recent publication of pajiers of one of her deceased statesmen leaves no doubt upon the subject. In our own country the government, instead of* standing as an impartial arbiter amid the conflicts of opinion and contending interests, has itself descended into the arena, equipped with all the weapons of partisanship. Its i myriads of office-holders, its alliances with or against vast pecuniary interests, its unlimited command of money levied from its defendants and contractors, have sufficed to determine a majority in every case but one. In that euse it collected military forces around the capital, and by this and other menaces, intimidated the congressional representatives of a majority of the people to relinquish the fruits of their victory and to surrender the government to the control of the minority. No reform of administration is possible so long as the government is directed by a party which is under the dominion of false doctrines ami animated by enormous pecuniary interests in the perpetuation of existing abuses. The first effectual step in reform of our government must be a fundamental change in the policy of its administration. The work of reform will be difficult enough with the whole power of the government exerted in accomplishing it. i have such faith in the benignant Providence which has presided over the destiny of our country in every great trial hitherto that Ido not despair of our ultimate deliverance. Though I can no longer aspire to be one of the leaders in tliis great work, 1 bid those upon whom this august mission may fall God speed. 8. J. Tilden.

senator bayard. The reading of Air. Tildon’s lettor was followed by the subjoined communication from Senator Bayard, of Delaware: Washington. April 3, 1884. To S. Corning Judd, Chairman, etc.: I duly received the invitation of the political commit te of the Iroquois Club to attend and speak at their annual banquet on the 15th inst. My remembrance of their partiality one year ago. when it was my good fortune to be their guest, is a potent induce ment to renew the pleasure; but a survey of m3* field of duty here precludes it. Measures of great importance are now pending before the two houses of Congress, and it is impossible to fortell when they may come up for derision. The welfare of tlio country ami the prosperity of all classes and occupations demand a speedy loosening of the restrictions upon production and trade caused b) r the present tariff laws. which are palpably congesting every branch of manufacture, prohibiting exchanges with other nations, convulsing our home markets with alternate excitements and depressions, and com polling the laboring classes to obtain their daily bread, not by readiness to work steadilv, but by’ dependence upon the condition of our home market alone and its capacity, fitfully and not regularly, to afford them employment. This is the condition of things, and the attitude of the Republican party, under whose policies and administrations it lias been brought about, is clearly shown b}* the votes in Congress and the declaration of their party press; and it must !>o seen that the>* are so enthralled by the oligarchy of the protection of a favored few at the cost of the many that hone of reform or relief can be expected only from tlio ascendency of the Democratic party. Evils of maladministration are everywhere apparent; are confessed in many and proven to exist in nearly every department of the executive branch. Itesiectable men of every part}* are compelled to hold their nOses over the developments of the star routetrials. The fallings-out of rogues In office and out of office are exposing a state of tilings so corrupt and shocking that the only marvel is that public business could have been conducted at all through such agencies. The testimony of special counsel and agents of the government, of members of President Gar field's Cabinet, and the official reports of the Department of Justice, are adding chapters in tlio history of maladministration equal to the worst days of the worst government. Those evils are thus proven by internal evidence of the facts themselves to bo so deep-seated and widespread in the very structure and substance of the Republican party that it cannot reform them from within; that they have grown by reiterated use to be its customary and daily food, and the means of obtaining and prolonging its powers, and cannot now be abandoned unless it. abandons, also, all hopes of continuing in power. Os what material the Republican convention soon to assemble in your great city is to be composed, and by which its action will be chiefly dominated, may be learned by an examination of the composition of the Louisiana delegation, headed by an individual now under indictment for bribery, accompanied by a band of official mercenaries and jwlitical camp-followers. Under such conditions, how idle to hope for civilservice reform, or tariff reform, or reform of any

kind or nature from a party of such antecedents, anch present composition ami such inevitable administration in the future, should it unhappily bo permitted to continue its misgoveniment of the country. I am truly and respectfully yours, T. F. Bayard. REFORM OF THE CIVIL SERVICE. Senator George 11. Pendleton, of Ohio, then delivered the following address upon, “Reform of the Civil Service:” Mr. President and Gentlemen —The sentiment to which the kindness of your president has invited me to speak opens up a wide field for reflection: indeed, in its largest scope it embraces the whole civil administration of the government. It touches every queslion of administrative reform. I have known that this growing and influential organization is composed m groat part of the business portion of Chicago. I am honored by an invitation to speak to the business moti on a business question. Surely* the executive administration of this great government is a business matter. We have a territory of over four million square miles; we 'have more than fifty millions of people; we have nearly fifty thousand postoffices; one hundred and thirty-five custom-houses collect $400,000,000 of revenue: forty ministers of high grade represent us in foreign courts; 750 consuls attend to our commercial interests; wo have courts, and judges, and marshals in every State; we have military and naval establishments; more than 100.000 officers are needed in subordinate civil administration alone. These officers of government having neither political power nor choice of policies, but routine administration only, touch at some point, in some degree, the material interests of every one of our fifty millions of people. Is not wise and faithful administration of this great trust a business mutter demanding the clearest judgment, the most conscientious devotion to duty and the most approved methods? I will not argue to this assemblage of enlightened men. 1 feel as if I were scarcely justified in stating, the admitted theory of all popular governments. The offices of the govern- | merit are trusts for the people. The performance of the duties of these officers is for the interests of the people. There is no excuse for the being of ono office, or the payment of one salary, except that it is necessary for the welfare of the people. Every superfluous office should be cut off. every incompetent officeholder should be dismissed. The employment of two, where one will suffice, is robbery. Salaries so large that they can submit to an extortion of 10 or 20 per cent, assessments, are excessive, and ought to be diminished. Appointments should bo made of those best fitted to perform the duties. Capacity, fidelity and honesty were Mr. Jefferson’s crucial tests. Are not these all plain, sound propositions, applicable alike to the conduct of government and private affairs? Do they not commend themselves to your conscience and judgment? If it were possible to imagine that anyone of you were conducting this government as a private enterprise for private purposes, would you not adopt and put in force every one of these texts as a maxim from which there would l>e no departure? What less. then, can you do than to clothe the officers whom you select to manage this great public business, which, to each of yon and your fellow-citizens at the same time, becomes private. with power, and by inexorable public- opinion require them to exercise it to attain the same fidelity, efficiency and Economy? Is it not true, gentlemen, that in this greatest concern of all. the government and its administration exhibits less economy, less fidelity, less efficiency than any great private enterprise? Unless your great city is a single exception, the conduct of public and private business presents a marked and painful contrast. It is very true that no single human being, however great his intelligence, discrimination, industry. devotion or endurance, even if relieved of every other duty, could possibly, unaided, select and retain in official station those best fitted to discharge the many, and varied, and delicate functions of government. All the greater is the necessity of aid in making fit selections and testing the capacity of incumbents. and of placing guards against the undue exercise of arbitrary patronage. The power of removal is essential to secure efficiency. Under this system, which we have attacked ami hope eventually to eradicate, the President and his Cabinet, unable personally to choose from the many applicants, have remitted the question of fitness to tlieir friends, and t hey, in turn, have remitted it to their partisan friends, Tlio administration has need of the support of the members of Congress. It therefore remits to the members of Congress the use of its patronage in the various districts. These members find themselves under strain and pressure to secure a nomination or election, and they use their places to win or reward those whose friends, and families, and connections, ami aids, and deputies serve their purposes. Tima fitness, capacity and honesty cannot bo essential qualifications for obtaining or retaining office. Personal fidelity and partisan activity alone control. The idea that 100,000 offices. purely administrative, almost absolutely clerical, paying $100,000,000 a year, are to be distributed by the President and his appointees after every election, and as of’en during his term as the rapacity of place-hunters can persuade or force him; that they shall be reward of mere partisan service, to be earned by personal activity or a contribution of morey, is a crime against civilization. It is the prolific parent of fraud, and corruption. and brutality. It sets up the emoluments of office as the prize of a party struggle and a stimulant of partisan effort. It induces ferocious activity iu the spirit of party and the pursuit of party success, which is a condition of getting office and parceling out salary. Necessarily, by the logic of the system, which is stronger than the determination of good men. however good and strong they may be, it awards, in its furthest ramifications, the highest comparative prizes to those who have done most of the dirty work of the lowest politics, and therefore are the least fitted for trusts of public service. It makes our Presidents and Secretaries peddlers of office, and diverts their time and attention from the high duties with which they are charged. It creates the necessity and stimulates the exaction of forced assessments on salaries, which go to enrich ‘“bosses” of high aud low degree; to corrupt voters; to prevent freo elections and secure dishonest counts: and. worse still, sadder still, it coerces incumbents for the sake of their offices, at the price of their manhood, to stifle their honest sentiments and submit to be voted at the will of their masters. The spoils system! It is a brutal name for a moro brutal thing, and yet it is entirely fitting. It suggests war and carnage in those barbarian days when a conquered people-became slaves and their. property was confiscated; when prisoners were chained to chariot wheels, and wives, and children, and household goods decorated the triumph of the victors, It suggests no civic contest* no peaceful and beneficent success of virtue or intelligence, or even of the wellconsidered of the majority of patriotic citizens. It is instinct with the ferocious spirit of bitterness, of exasperation in both victors and victims, when to every shout <£ the exultant war-cry, “To the victors belong the spoils,” there comes the mournful refrain of “Woe to the conquered.” Yes. gentlemen, they are. indeed, the spoils of the public treasury, the spoils of public service, the despoilment of public virtue, the despoilment of a pure ballot, the final despoilment of a free government. Can you reconcile tliis system in any of its parts with an honest, intelligent, business-like method of administering the government? Would you permit it to exist for an hour in your private affairs? Senator Pendleton here read an extract from tlto Democratic platform adopted at St.. Louis, it 187 G. upon civil-service reform, and extracts from Governor Tilden’s letter of acceptance. He then said:

On tliat platform and that letter Mr. Tilden was elected President of the United States. They were an inspiration, a stimulant and a promise to the people. On that doctrine the Democratic party won its first great victory after twenty years; on that doctrine it will win its great victories hereafter. We have a good law. and it is well administered. The results are satisfactory. The law does not touch the question of tenure of office or removals from office, except to provide that removals shall . not be made for refusing to pay political assessments or perform partisan service. The single fundamental idea is, that when an appointment is to bo made in the subordinate service, the greatest fitness to perform the duties—not patronage, not favor, not. partisan service, not contribution money, not more political influence —shall secure the appointment, and that such fitness shall be ascertained by open, fair, honest, impartial tests, which shall be applied to all who present themselves, even if they cannot bring a letter of iutroduction from some politician or petition from their fellow-citizens. Let us improve the law wherein it is deficient; let us strengthen and stimulate its administion; let us enlarge its scope and application; Ictus follow the example of New York, and, under State enactment, secure to the States, and counties, and cities the rich rewards of economy and pure administration. The Democratic party is pledged to this reform, to all reform, and it will gain no victories by failing to pass specific, laws, or to enforce them when passed. It will gain no recruit bv loud professions which may afterward be violated or forgotten, if it fail whenever and wherever it may havo power, in the House of Representatives, or in the Senate, to testify by its acts to the faith it professes. It may not have power to succeed, but to the extent of m ability it must show its sincerity. Wo daro yield nr. vantage ground already won; we dare take no step backward; we must go forward—onward—l believe up* ward, or we shall assuredly find that the people arc m the lead of us, and will consign laggards and cowards to an iguominous and deserved fate. OTHER SPEECHES AND LETTERS. Hon. J. Sterling Morton, of Nebraska, was called upon to respond to tlie toast, “Reduction •of Taxation, Tariff for Revenue Only.” In tlio course of his remarks Mr. Morton said: The highest exercise of the functions of government is in imposing taxes upon its subjects. A tax legitimately, is nothing more nor less than payment for a service rendered by the government to the citizen, That service, in a republican form of government, should l>e nothing more and nothing less than absolute protection of the citizen’s property, liberty and life. For that service, and that only, should ho be compelled to pay tribute. Any system of tax imposition which compels ono class of citizens to contribute to the profits of another class, arbitrarily, without the consent of those taxed, is obviously unjust and iniquitous. At the present moment there seems to be great distress iu the minds of some members of the Democratic party because there is agitatiou against tho protective system of taxation. It had been declared the timo wu