Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 September 1884 — Page 3

BPEEOH AI/BEBT PORTER Delivered at Liberty, Saturday, Ang. 30, 1884 Fellow-oitiaans: J.had been.appointed to speak at -Evanswille to-day, .but the occurrence of u great calamity there has led to the withdrawal <Sf thesappointmenut, and I have been requested by -the State central committee to address .you instead. It is a great .pleasure to me to do so. Sou are a rural community, and I have always felt most at home in such .communities. Besides, I was not able to virit.yau during .the campaign 1680; yet you genarcuusly.excused mo, on account of the great labor I had on hand, and gave a handsome majority to the‘Republican ticket. I have felt.that it wo-uld'be proper here, where you contributed so much to place me in the high office -my ■ temi in -which is drawing near to its close, that I should first say something on -State questions before.taking up apynational issues. So far as my political opponents are concerned, Thavehad'little ill-treatment to complain of. A Democratic State convention is always aggressive,andUlways/t-ager to arraign an qppuuentln .vegy strong .language .for any error or .niisconHuct; yet, the .two Btate conventions that 'have met since I-took office have nevur cammed .my .conduct .as a-public officer, except so far as it.may be implied ima resolution of the late State convention, where I am referiod to as a “partisan Governor.” But as I have never been censured by any party friends except for jjot -being more fioccely partisan), I must think, from these conflicting censures, that 1 have struck, on the Whole, a pretty good average. Concerning "thelast Legislature, whieli, in-ondar to. cover, if possible, the wrongfulnese of most inexcusable. legislation, strove to blmd their partisans to what they were doing by a 'furious political 'assault upon myself, J ean cherish little personal resentment, because the .acknowledged and conspicuous leader on the Democratic aide.in the Legislature, .the midst of the fray, was pleased to say .that .he hbelievAi Governor Porter to.he an honest, cares ill and conscientious public officer. ”

State Affairs. RAPE OF THE BENEVOLENT INSTITUTIONS. But lam compelled to say that T do 'not believe.a Legislature has assembled in the State ■within many years that had less resnectfor party consistency and for .the-heist good of the people, and "which the people, without regard "to party, so anxiously desired should adjourn, never again to-resume the "business of legislation. It started at the very beginning with a revolutionary and reckless spirit, and it maintained that.spirit to the end. I had appointed, during the preceding Legislature, as a trustee for. the House of Refuge for Juvenile offenders, a man who'had oucebeen a member of the Legislature and had served with credit as a member Os the committee on benevolent institutions. He was a man of unblemished character. He had been a,gallant.soldier.in the army, which he had entered when very young; .had .wen shot through the lungs at Chiekamauga, and had lain on the'field of 'battle several days. His 'sufferings bad been very great. His recovery was so marvelous that his case is mentioned in .tlie United,States Surgeon General's report, of remarkable recoveries from gunshot .wounds during the war. His appointment as a trustoe had'been confirmed by a unanimous vote of the Senate to which he was nominated. He was the only Republican on the board. lYet he was not Allowed to serve out his term, but an act was passed by the last Legislature to turn him out. When the question of his displacement was pending in the Senate, a Republican Senator asked what was the reason of this proposed Change, and a Democratic senator, from the soulhern part of the State, responded, sin open Senate: “Because there is a Republican over there, apd we want to kiok him out” The management of the ' ‘Soldiers’ Home,” at Knightstown, has long ‘been, in some respects, unsatisfactory. After I came ’into office one of the trustees,’a Democrat, went to California, and remained there seven months without returning to attend a session of ..the board. He drew his salary as a trustee every month, claiming an me tihle that he was TnUy-tenrpornrily Absent and meant soon to return. Upon my ■urgent appeal be was induced finallydo resign, and I appointed in his .place a gentleman of qualifications that made him particularly suitable for the place; hut the Legislature changed the law to displace him, made the hoard wholly Democratic, and immediately increased'the salaries of the trustees to twice and a half what l they had ever .been before. The salaries of the trustees are by law paid out of the ‘ ‘support fund” pf thg children, which is very small, and the increase is thus made to diminish the comfort Os children-who have a peculiar claim to the'favor of the State. The law crenthrg-this institution enacts thatdhe trustees shall be the legal -guasdians .of the children admitted to the Home. The object of this provision,is to secure to these children a good .elementary education and a careful supervision of their morals, yet in the report of the institution made in November, 3888. it is shown that three have “eloped,” and .that one-eighth of the remainder .have not ,re,turned .from their summer vacation. It would seem to ne left .to the children to make Choice whether they Will remain in the institution or ■not. The management of the institutions of the ■lnsane, 'the -Deaf and Dumb, and the Blind, under the trustees displaced by the last Legislature, was .much commended 'for a time 'by the Democratic press •and speakers as evidencing great economy in expenditure. The figures were paraded, -having been .manipulated no as to make saving appear .where there had been no -saving .in .fact When vacancies occurred in the boards in 1883, I nominated to the Senate, which was Democratic, three gentlemen of high Character, to -supffly these vacancies. But with a great show -of wdigaationtand party fury these nominations were loudly assailed. The law .was changed a© as to take the nomination from the Governor and make the trustees 'elective by the Legislh•ture. And 'the Legislature then, after an amount of dioKering and bargaining such as bad •never before been witnessed in the 'State, proceeded to.displace every oueof-these Democratic trustees and to substitue personal favorites ip their places. These newly .chosen trustees proceeded without delay to turn out of office many ■officers whose administration of 'their several offices had been constantly commended by the Democratic press. ■ .THE -METROPOLITAN PeI.ICE BILL. A resolution passed at the late Democratic (State convention,.commending :the .passage by the last Legislature qf the metropolitan police .till, boasts that it is particularly appropriate that tho-State. should “nave some'voice in choosflng the police of-its own capital, where the State Treasury, public buildings and archives, and much .public property are situated,” and.it,adds that “about the greatest nuisance that can be indicted on a ,qity is a mere partisan police, chosen py a lot of ward bummers, and lpwgrafle pdlrticians and adventurers.” The Democrats of Indianapolis have a feeling recollection of .the justice of .this reflection on a police appointed fiy lowvgrade ,pplitians. The last Democratic police .ye had in Jndianapolis was appointed in that way, after the Republicans had been overthrown and after the Democrats had come into power with aa expectation of having long tenure of office. Hut, to the astonishment of ail Hie best men of itheir party, a pqlice was appointed much worse in character than apy that bad ever been known before. A lot Os seedy, moldy, decayed old politicians, who had been so long in hiding that ■they had been most of them forgotten,'were pulled cmtof their holes apd made policemen, gpd were so utterly jneompoieut, unfaithful and disgraceful that the Demounts .t the uext.city election joyfully unit#! with the Republicans ip turning them out. There has feever since been a Democratic police in Indianapolis. The Democrats could never he brought to desire that. Audit is to be noted to .their credit.that when the last Legislature wasappealed tp to take away fpom the people the I'tgkt to choose their own police, the law was carefully framed to provide that at least half the poiicefedn btumid be Republicans. *MfMNGTH* STATE MONEY. The 'Democratic convention says, Wrfh an wudadtMte coolness,-that R wants this police ‘to protect the ‘®t*te Treasury.” Where is -the hktate Trensuryf’ Why, tlieee is not -enough WTuey in it to short a respectable village roeat-

shop. When at the last session of the Legislature a Republican member proposed a resolution of inquiry, asto wherettre State’emorrey woe, and in what.it was invpatod, Mr. Bell leading Democratic senator, said he'“would be glad to know where the -vaults of the treasury /are located. Tliore is an old safe,” he said, “in the State Treasurer's office, which cost about $200.” And Mr. Brown, aisenator, and-the ohidf Democratic leader,.said: “The senator xiiho offers the resolution insists that the Treasurer of State shall keep $700; 090'm 'the State's -safe or vault, as he.calls.it, which the senator from,Alien and Whitlev [Mr. Britj, who knows all about it, says is an old dilapidated -safe, 'Which originally-cost only $250.” This is the State Treasury, which the police is to guard—a treasury with no money in it—the.money Os the people‘being loaned out in fbeee timea of peril ito trembling f*udaßnd individuals. The .treasury law,passed fivaand twenty years ago. provides that the room then occupied, or which might thereafter he assigned to and.occupied -by the Treasurer of "State, together with the safes, vaults, etc., for the seourity and safekeeping of the public mouoy, shall ■constitute the Treasury of the State, and .that the Treasurer of -State shall ;be -required to use the Treasury as the sole place .for the deposit and safekeeping of the moneys of the State; and the Auditor amd Treasurer of .State are -required by this law, under the direction of :the Governor, to provide-suah additional locks, safes anil vaults as may render the public funds .{tbsolntely aecure against file and burglars; and ®n appropriation was made of such money as might be necessary to procure-the sasne. No attempt having been made since the passage of that lawto repair this vault or procure another sdfe, Xhad mot-supposed that the old appropriation, made twenty-five years ago, "was-yet available "for .rebuilding the vault and making it a safe flepositoiry for the State's revenues. But a Democratic "newspaper, the Cincinnati Enquirer, .having assailed. me for not directing that a vault should lie made, and several Democratic newspapers in the State having taken up the chorus, I submitted to At-torney-general Hord the question whether that appropriation was still available to replace the did vault and safe with -new ones thoroughly burglar and Tthiflf proof. After carefully invas ligating the question, he reported thatdt was. I then promptly appointed two gentlemen of the very best capacity and of special skill —one a Demoerdt, the other a Republican—to report concerning "the vault anfl.sofe, and after.* thorough examination they reported .that they were neither burglar proof nor fire-proof. I then notified "the auditor and -treasurer : in -writing,-to proceed writhout delaytto burld amew vault and to procure a new.safe. that would be .thoroughly burglar-proof and fire-proof, so that .the public moneys might be placett’fherein-and-safe-ly'kept'thore. Thad-previously learned "from the fitatesarchitect tliat the.new Capital building—iu which there is to be a treasury vault — would not be completed, in 'his opinion, in time for even the wext -Governor of -the ’State to occupy rooms iu it. The Auditor and Treasurer have refused -to build -a -new -vault or repair the present one, or to buy anew safe, or in any way to.provide.a secure place of .deposit for the State for the custody of the public money. As soon as I notified them to build this vault the'Democratic press raised am outcry, eoas to-rescrtve the matter into a party question and show mo that, with the delay that would be created by a prosecution of a suit aud an appeal to the Supreme Court, a mandate to compel the building df a vault and thopurchase of a safe could not he obtained he fore the meeting of the next Legislature. And I therefore determined that, instead of suing and taking a-perilous and slow course through the Supreme Court,,l would appeal tothe.tribunal of the .people. It is for you to say, fellowcitizens, whether the State's Treasury Jh.-tll be made a safe place Tor the custody of the State’s revenues, and whether they -shall be kept there, or whether tbeyafiiaU.be loaned out by-every incumbent of Dial office, until some day the moneys shall "bo lost and the doubling of taxation shall awaken you ‘too late to -the peril which you might so easily have avoided. PROTECTING .THE ARCHIVES. The police, which I have mentioned, the Democratic State convention says is needed to protect the “archives” of the State. How little these Democratic ‘leaders care for "the archives Os the State T-can soon make plain do-you. At the last session of-the Legislators, in my message to that body, I said: I particularly urge upon you the importance of passing a law, in conformity-to the Adj ataritngeneral s recommendation, to provide for copying into record booli,to he procured for that purpose, Ike muetcr-in and muster-out rolls of the Indiana soldiers. These con-tain nr. account rif she service Os each •soldier. When this record shall have been made,.* .frequent handling of original papers will he unnecessary, and tlie-papers will thus be preserved from injury. It will be a reproach to‘the State-if a performance of this-duty shsllbe longer neglected. There is a necessity, also, that you shall provide, without delay, a iirreproof vault-for-the purpose of securing "these papers against, the hazards of .fire. Their destruction would do incalculable -injustice to persons ’having the strongest claims to grateful-recognition by the State. 'No at.tontian was giwn to -this most .important request. All these valuable papers—’archives” of the State—are exposed to daily hazard-of fire, to injury by "haufiling in the absence of copies for handling in their stead, and "their loss would (be-inoaictilabiy injurious "to a class of man to whom the State owes a debt wbieh no •pains and pare for their .interests ean ever fully ditsehaige. The last Legislature had no .excuse for neglecting this import ant legislation. The commission for revising the low®, which hart reported "to the previous Legislature, had revised the whole body of our laws, and their revision'had most, of it been adqpted and published. When the last Legislature met, Mr. Bynum, the new Democratic .Speaker of the House, in accepting hjs Offico, told’the House: ‘The time allotted to us .in which to transact the nooossury business of the .State .is .short. yet by -diligent labor we can and .we ought to complete our work within the regular aonstitutional period. * * We ean avoid the errors and escape the eensure of Tor mo r Legislatures hy oon fining our labors-strictly -to -matters of -necessity .and impertanee. * ' It is certainly gratifying to us all that after so many contests within and without these 'halls, we meet to legislate,for tlie interests of the State, without any important or exciting political quesrions to distraot-ourtboughteor'distutb our -delibeßatioß.'’’ The Legislature had no sooner met, however, than the Democratic members, under the pretense that the‘trustees dt the henevdlcift insti--tutions Were going to be turned ovft, (whom “they soon after hastened to turn out "themee-lyes,) ipTunged headlong‘into politics, -and mare than .half-the .session was occupied with political cou troversies. One would have supposed from hearing 'their discussions that Congress had turned over to them its oooupotioa, aad that all the interests of the Nation were res ting-on their sustaining shoulders. THE DECADENTS’ LAW. The Democratic State-convention praises the Legislature far .repealing terms it) the “iufp.mpus,law paaaqd by tlie former Legislature ,for the settlement of .pecefienta estates, under which estates were beipg consumed by court coats: and we declare,” say they, “in farvor of reducing all fees and salaries according-to the necessities of the times,” etc. Nothing can better illustrate-the contempt in which the Democratic leaders hqld the intelligence of the people, than this.resolution. This law which they.characterize as “infamous” was reported to the Legislature by a commission which a ‘Democratic Legislature had required to be appointed by tho judge% of the Supreme Court of Indiana, a majority of the members of whjeh.oqvwt wqre Remporata. T-wo of ,the three poippiiasionprs OMiointed were Democrats. These two were David Tqrpie and John H. Stoteenhurg. the former of whom had beenpuee a Diunocratic United States .Senator, and is now taking a covapicupus part ,a.sa DeiuoorMif <®eaker in the StaAe canvass, and the latter of whore .ie the most Aoading Demoqratip lawyers in thp,-State. This eqrowiii>n engaged Judge Maiott, a learned Demoeratic CJrcliit Judge, who resides at Vincennes, to draft the put conoeriring decedents' eatatas, On acaowit of liis .-Supposed special qualifications for tlie Mndertakiog. His draft of the bill underwent the ariticiil inspection of the qomrowsAon before being eubmitted to the Legislature. From beginning to end the whelp matter bad been ,in Die bands of persons of distinction, a majority of whom were Democrats, and-a Democratic convention Characterizes their work as inifainous. The act having passed the Legislature of 1880, when the Democratic Legislature of 1882 assembled a pemocratic memlxnof the House '(Jdr. -Price) offered a bill to awend ,R. His hill was neftwred to & ,eomi)iUeo, aud was reported back by Mr. Fragef, a Republican member, upon whose motion ,'rae' title of Mr. Jnceas.hiH a u 'l.the .whole Qody of the bill were sftickon out by a House and a bill offered by Mr. ”,razor was adopted by the House in its plaae. ft then went to tho Senate, where it

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was referred to a committee and was reported back by ‘Mr. Sayre, a Republican Senator, with amendments, wbidh -were adopted, and tlie bill thus amended was passed -by both Houses of the Legislature. Thus it was 'the Republicans of the last Legislature -Who led m oorwdting'the bill reported by a Democratic commission ap poirtted by a Democratic Supreme 'Court, that had been fiesignnted to anake .the apj.aii£tmout by a Democratic Legislature. FEES AND SALARIES. The declaration of the llemacratic Stdte.-eon-weatian thatthe .parfy.is in favor of .the .redustion of Tees and salaries, tallies with Its declaration concerning deeedents' estates. I hnd urged in my message to the last Legislature that such a'btll shoUld , be.passea; , but , from rite very .frrtt it wastevide utithat.tlie .hill .for the Eiductiou .of fees and salaries could not pass. PROTECTION OF LABOR. The Democratic State -convention, assuming that tlie people .had .not .been watchful of -the proceedings of the last Legislature, declared "that the party " “favors, as-far as practicable, "the use of-prison and reformatory labor so as not to compete with the labor of the-honest citizen upon-the-outside.” IVorkingmen will, however, judge the party by deeds instead of words. Professions will not go far when performance is ’in opposition to it. Eariy at the last session Senator Johnson, a senator of German -birth, from Tippecanoe county, Offered a bill to correct the evil complained of He was very earnest, and in tlie course of his speechin supjaurt of .his'blll'he said: “There are hundreds of workingmen in the City of Lafayette whose hearts are throbbing with.anguiah and hope, and whose eyes are looking with intense expectation towards this Assembly, wttitmgiftnd waiting, whether anything will he done to relieve their distress and help their wants.” But Senator 'Brown, the Democratic loader of the two houses, replied to ‘this appeal by saying: “All this‘talk about convict contracts "having any effect .upon the price df labor is ridiculous, it does not operate ,in the .slightest -degree upon fixing the wages of laboring men throughout the State. * * * This bill is a bill of abominations, and an injustice to .the people of this State.” Aud Mr. Gibson, one of the mostieadiugDemocrats in the House, made the remarkable statement that “-vrtiile'fho persons who employ this labor made more money on their products than other manufacturers, they did not place the products of their convict labor .upon /he market at reduced prices or at prices.lower than other manufacturers.” Senator Johnson, when a motion had been made at one time to refer his bill to a committee, had said that the oojeef of the bill would he defeated by a reference to :a committee; but he became finally so worried and disoourugfd by the .opposition of hie party friends that he himself moved toa-efer the subject’to a committee of three bedding-over senators, to.reprt rthoreon at -the Legislature -to meet two years afterward, and added a.proviso that the members of "the committee should not be entitled to: any compensation for their services. Die Democratic Statte-vonventiondlso.resblved that the .mechanic "phould.be secured by a first lien upon work douo Tor wages thereon performed.” I knew that fill-. Cleveland lrad -vetoed a ure chaniea’ lien bill, and was fully sustained in it by.his.party friends: and I had, therefore, .no sooner read this resolution than I suspected there was au intention to appropriate to the Democratic party the credit of some recent Republican labor. And-.so I -found. At she "last session of the Legtslat.ure.Mr. .Shively, of W.abaah county, introduced into the-House a mechanics’ lien bill, that is believed to have been one of the most comprehensive, complete and liberal bills that have ever‘been prepared in favor of theseiliens. I cannot -tmdortnke to repent Rs numerous provisions, but I will Suite, ip the presence of-workingmen, that it -contained a section providing that -where the mechanic obtained judgment for the enforcement of his lien, -he ..should also recover attorney's, fees. I have aeon :how often, when a mechanic has obtained a judgment to enforce liis lien, and bos lost mud: valuable time in the courtihouee, a large part of his judgment was eaten up by attorneys' fees, so that the triumph of having succeeded in-obtaining'the judgment was nearly all that -was .left to him. Wall. Mr. Shively's -bid was referred to a committee of which Mr. Frazer, a -Republican mouther of the House, whom I have had occasion before to mention, -was a member. He reported it back favorably, and it was passed-through Ohe House without amernftraeut. it was.theu sent to tho -Senate, -where, havine been referred to a committee of which Senator. Say re. ,a Republican, was a member, be reported it back favorably, aud it passed tho Senate also without amendment. Itivas so just a measure that the Republicans voted for it unanimously, and the Democratic members were constrained to vote for it also. DEFEATING THE APPROPRIATIONS. It re:pmper, at this stage, that I should -rdfor to the action of the last Legislature upon the eenernl appropriation hill. That importurrtibiTl, intended to provido means for currying .on the different departments of the State .government during "the fiscal years beginning Nov. 1. 188S, and ending Get. 81.1885, had passed bathhouses before March 1, 1883. But on that day, onrthe nation of u Democratic -member, Itho vote by which the bill had been’passed was reconsidered. It was reconsidered, in order to compel me, as ■Governor, Id return xhe me. tsopolitan police bill, then in my hands, before the .expiration of the three days allowed to me ’by "tho Constitution for considering all bills. At that lime 1 had many other Uillslu. my hands, -midi was engaged also in the grave and laborious duties iinpqsed upon me -by the ’Legislature itself, as a member of the vommittoe for tho relief of the-Ghio.antl Wabash river flood sufferers. My colleagues on the committee had devolved upon me ,tho,responsible duty of conducting the eorraspondeuce and of remitting drafts. In ' the midst of these important labors l-was .-given to understand that if I did not lay aside the work in hand, and return tho -particular 'bill to which I have referred, -on the second dataller -I had .received it. the general appropriation bill would not be .passed and I would be compelled to call au extra suasion. 1 said to the mon who brought the demand and menace, that I would not lay aside the work I-.had iuihtmilin order to reconn .the bill before,the third day .allowed me by the Constitution. anti that 1-would-not call an extra session. I have been as good as ray word. I havse called no extra session. I returned the metropolitan police bill to the House in the forenoon of the third day after I ’had -received it. -OBd in -rime •for the .action of ttbe House—dull the .general appropriation bill was not passed. TheGoßßli&ution of she State providesthat “no hill shall .be-presenteiltp.tbp.GoMcroor within two days next previous to the 'final adjournment of the General Assembly;” and-no hill can .become a law that ha^not Jeen pgeaenjtedto him. After the failure qf the general appropriation .hill, Wliwi the -revelution'ists in -the House disooqerad that no estea session would be called, and when jibe indignation of-the (people-begun to fill the air, the House ivent .thraugli the ahaan procoediug, .at the dost hour of the session, of pretending to pass that bill. To show what they thought of .tho.-pro ceeiing, I will quote .the .words of Mr. Speaker Bynum hipiseff. Ho said that “tlje House could pass-the bill at the present time, but oould nojtjpresentJt |to tho Governpr.” Gs course, then, it could not become a law. And afterwards he said-that ‘it,he biH /might be passed and could be .presented to .the Governor in .the event of his calling a special session.” "Yes, even they admitted that the sham bill wti3d be dead unless the “filosecnor would call an extra session. Their scheme for an extra session came to naught The people and rite -institutiotis that have suffered the .greatest iiconvenience by-the failure of the specific and general appropriation bills have not urged me to",call toat Logialat uce together agaia. Toe .plalu JUoaaooratic people of the State, whom I respect, have not desired jjiat it should he called together. . Tho SIO,OOO or SBO,OOO. ,pr more, that- a apecril soseioc ffesl'i havo.cost has beqn payed to the people. Evil legislation ‘has been spared, and, on the whole, the ip geftkag along -corofHrkaWy well without the appronrmtion bilfj. The late Democratic State eofiveptlOli also resolved tihat '“jt. favors the passage -of laws for the pai-ment pf labor performed, iti lawful currency, instead of private and depreciated scrip.” It was She Republican party that ;aholi*died scrip and rag money, and created a .currency everywhere equivalent Jo gpld—-.a currency-that from Maine to California, from Alaska to’ Florida. maintains the same equi valence, and tliat in all the civilized epun.tries qf .Europe cuq be exchanged at par for gold. What Rip Van "Winkle, has just awaited trum a twenty notes’ sleep and not yet fpuud ibis ouG TJIE OOq.SJ’ITUTION DKMQCRATIO OJfiOß^. I observe that Mr. Voorhees, for the purpose of magnifying the achiovemnpte pf hip jwfrn?

whiah. -even whqn much -magnified, sink into obaemity. like stars in presence of the sun, before the;splendors eff ’Republican -achievement—has lately,said: “.Tlboeonstitutional couventioin Which gave to InHiana her present progressive ami glorious 'Constitution runs a Domoeratic bad}-, composed of the ablest representative men of the party in ‘fhe State. ‘Tho 'Cougt.rtufion thus framed in !the sleep wirfinandf strong councils went into official force and operation on the let at November, 1851. I floUbt :if, in all history, any other -organic instrument of .government has ever been productive of such amazing results.” Well, my friends, that .is * eulogy .that could have proceeded from no imagination except one heated by a wild .party frenzy andirecklessness. That Constitution contained a section that no negro or mulatto should come into, or settle-in, the Ltate after its adoption, laud .another -section shat all contracts made with any negro, or muhrito, coming into -the State,•contrary <to'the pro visions of the fomnor section, should be void; and any person who should employ such negro, or mulatto, or-other wise .encourage :him to remain in the State, should bo lined iuany sura-not less than ten nor more than five hundred ddllars. ".&>nu afterDhe-adoption of this ConstiAotion a young mulatto woman camo to Rising Sun. in this State, without ever having heard of this provision Os the Constitution, .and there beeauie acquainted with a young mulatto man,, of respectable and blameless Character, -Who wooed and wedded.her. He was indicted for “harbor ing” a negro woman, contrary to this provision of this Constitution. He wae ooreviotod. He-took an appeal to the Supreme Court of this State, and that court-d.hen Democratic—‘held that "the marriage was void.and his .living with his lawful and loved wife, of his own color, was characterized as'“harboring a womarff in violation of the Constitution. The marriage botween this loving and virtuous pair was thus adulterous, and their Offspring illegitimate. I.repeat what Mr. Voorhees has said: “I doubt If in all history any other organic instrument of government has ever -been productive -of sudh amazing results.” In 1801, when this same '“progresffive and glorious,Constitution,” as Mr. Vfoorhees, with high and impassioned fervor, is pleased to characterize it, was adopted. the law of Tndiftna-.erx-eropted from -taxation the personal property of every widow and orphan child to the extent of two hundred dollars in value; akso. all prowerty exempt from-execution; also, the polls and property of all revolutionary soldiers. But this Constitution wiped ant all .these henelioent provisions. A few years since the Legislature passed an net exempting the property of widows in .a small amount fromitacuition. But tlie Supremo Court promptly hold the law to be unconstitututional. Since I’have been in mv present office, several widows have -written tonne that umlor -this law they hud been kindly excused m-ers from paying taxes, but their having excused them.had been found out; -they had been taxed again for tlie years during which they had been excused; and "their property, in some instances, hud been sold, and in others mortgaged, .to pivy these taxes. I had to write .to them that under tlie Constitution-there was no teUef’.for t-hem. I fiee before me a .pool- soldier’s widow. She has a little home at Indianapolis which is her only shelter; her pension pittance was all lost by the late failure of .the banks. Her husband fell at the desperate charge at Kenesaw. She goes to tire treasurer's office at Indianapolis and approaching timidly the opening where taxes are reedivefi, she says, “can’t you let off fnun tlrese taxes a poor woinan whose luiriband fall,at KenasaW i I have lost al.I the little I had by the banks.” The officer, with suffused eyes, says: “Q, how glad I would bo -to do so. but it is contrary to the Constitution. Mr. Voorhees Hus said (that the constitutional con weution which gave to Indiana.her present pro gressive and glorious Constitution was a Democratic body, and that he doubts if in all history any other organic instrument has ever been productive of-such amazing results.'" Leee,before me an old soldier. Ho lost his leg at the first assault upon the intrenchments at Vicksburg. Ho-cunnot labor. His-wife lies rick from the hard wark.of supporting him aud .their chiidren. He has been to a great political meeting. and has heard Mr. Voorheos -pouring out witli glorious .fervor his words-of sympathy and ■his hidh-sounding periods in praise, of what the anldiorsidid. iMr. Vouchees has turned to the old soldier himself, and re feared to his honora tile cruteh, Which lie has described ns more glorious thou .a icrowo. Tho .old aoldior goes (to the tax office without a daubt, and his crutch beats -notes-of tr'i-mnjlnvnt confidence as he ap-m-oaches the treasurer eiiti'ng at the receipt, git! Utbute. Tho treasurer is tender but inexorable. Tho-Constitution as -in the -way. Then tlie old soldier driwsifrom/hie poukot the well-thumbed speech of Mr. Voorhees, and he reads from it, in rhe light of his -wounds and his tntried linfb, and Mr. -Voar here's tribute to tlie soldiers, and -t® him especially, singled out for praise from them all: 'Tndtann-is tltemort remaulk.-fiile State-in wealth, .development and social .elevation in file American Union. The constitutional convention, which-gave to Infliamt ’her prceeitt propreseivo and glorious Constitution, was .a Democratic body. I doubt if m all history any other mgamje anßtrumant.af gin-BEniußiist Imßiovur been productive of such amazing results.” I see before me a dusky face ft -rs ‘fhe face df a miiai-whose hollow Cheeks -and sunken eyes show me thitt his race of life is nearly run. I aSk'him'for his'history. And, Iris face shining ut onne as with .a lieavenh- ghny, he tails me-how he once met a poor, escaped soldier .from the -[/risen-at AmHe-rsonrifie, foot-sore, heart sick, warn out with the .waurineos of night travel, and hunger, and apprehension, and hid him in a /e-cure thicket anil took ’hie <dy blanffcet and wrapped it around .him, arid fed him until he could renew his travel and bade him many and many a Godspeed; and (then the -poor dusky fellow turns to his career as a soldier, and tells liow Sherman, during a fehrifUl charge, had-once witnessed in iiim a desperate dead of valor, and had ridden up to him aud saluted.him: and then, the dusky face-clouding-with a deeper diirkiHs,,the poor tfolio-w refers to his gallant young.son, who havine heard the story of his •fatheris walor,/desired b-hnsfilf to ’train .in the exercises of a ooldiar, hut be bad just .that day come to the father, humiliated, by having read, for the fitot rime, tthata/cuiomid citioen, in Indiana, may not train .under tho State as a soldier. Thp'Constitution reads: "“The militia shall oepuist>f/UU able-bodied write male per sons between the ages of eighteen and forty-, five years:” Tiiis .poor father .than turns to .a Domoorut, happening to bo near, to know if this thing could bo, and -the Democrat -says to him, “God douMTS I know wot why it should he so, hut Jdr. Vouchees has said, ‘This progressive .and glorious Constitution of ours was framed in the deep wisdom of strong councils. I .doubt if any other organic instrument of 'government 'lias ever 'been pro-du(-trve oftK!h amazing romllts.-’-” Thereasidtao aoeqairement in the J&tute<Q*nslautiqnthsrt the (Supreme Court/shell, npon ithe decision.qf /eotay cnae, give n stKtomcnt m writiag of.each-question arising In the record of suoh case.gud-the decision of tho court .thereon, and that liie General Shall provide by law for the speedv publication of riie decisions of that oourt. Now, under this requirement, the judges havw-derided over and over, for a hun dredthora thousundlt-h rime, .prints that have bem fumiViar flaw for -mare than a hundred years; and they liavo derided very cases which turned upon questions af fantmetoly, no questions of low /feeing for.dotisiaa; yet every word contained in these decisions, it is held, must be reported jin UK*.published -decirioos.ttf that court. The .state, pnder the (provisions qf .a statute, purchases a considerable number of volumes of these deciatotis -query year fiortiie nee of -tho supreme and qircuit judges and othpr public qfUeers Last year the ’State paid more than four-1 teeq -thousand dk>l boss (Ear those Bepurte-TUhtoe than was paid for the .combiued salaries of the Governor, “the'Necretary Os State, itlte Auditor eff -SUtu, *he (Of State, and tho/ Superintendept of Public Instruction. g 0 large an expense is -utterly-m-rices and Snnsseless, and it teuitiu the Oustituiiau.wltioh . inight be remedied by linilting the publication in the reports to 4eMrion Wpon pointo on which the law has before bpeu vnisuwlod. A NEVV CONSTITUTION SEEDED. I confess tluit/there -is one ctitjeet which has eiven me very grave concern, anl about which. I think, if I may use Mr. VoorheeCs phrase. The "deep wisdom of strong councils* is greatly -needed. Mr.'Voorhees iufbrmfl us that, -‘icon i-leriug ju age suvd anea, lodiaua is the most re markable State in wealth, development and soriai -elevation iu tho Anuu-ic*i Union.” Yet, in this enligfctejned Statq, wit-hip Dip last two years, four moses have assembled In the darkfiepe eff tofltft aa4 to<*qafh, without warrant of law. fouy citizpns of the Htate. .The courts were open. No Governor has for the last twonty }-ar)i SRflretaed the pardoning power a*

sparingly-as your present Governor. He has withheld’bis hand u Hiundred times, ‘for .public rsasans, -fram' pardons, where his heart, hut for those reasons, would have constrained him to set f roe'the prisoner. There has Ven n® complaint from ./Rnv .source that tlie jmrllomng power has been daugei-ously exercised. "Who nosrrposefi these -mobsf I-have-reason to behove that, in great jpaiit,; good - aud peaceable janil lawre vexing citizens cojnposeli them. Under my ‘directions the ■ Attorney .general, .not loqg since, appeared before the fraud jm\v in a county in which one of ‘these inohs had-oc-curred and obtained leave to summon before it and to examine mauy good citiaeag, who, it was believed from -their situation, .could .give some clew rt-gariling-tlie -persoits .who had composed this nuiawfnl aeseirthlage. Hut nil mouths were sealed. No Slew could bo reached. It was evident that-what-the mUbhafl-d/me woe -sustained by the general an*e.of an lintelligeat and,peaceful community. What is wrong in our criminal laws, or in 'the /mode f ndm inisteriug/tiuem, tliat-shouldOMike.quiet peaceful oiizene<openly break laws and erect gibbets in order "to take the hoes nf men rihom they rhcli/eve vto -be .public malefactors? I confess that I should liko to see a body of our wisest citiaens, selected by the ,pqple for their kuo.wn wisdom, assemble to solve this most grave question and'to placoin-the/Gonstitu tion souae provision to.racouoilo- the peace and good ordei of society with the administration of criminal j native. Hut when any one dares to .talk abou/t j/o grave a subject, Mr. Voorhees,-Who is always profuse in .his /praise of .the people and of itkeirraldlityto choose agents who will moat wisely serve them, says—Take care now What you do, for fliowerer carefully you may do this thing, same pom 1 fellow juat returned from a temperance meeting, may spring atrt df ambush ami capture the convention. When I came into mv present office I thought that wlmtever ammuhneuts of the OowetWution were naetk-d couki well bo. made by submitting them through the Legislature. Bnt I:now think that such amanfimonts are needed as require, in the aot.itself of framing them, grave and prolonged consideration ‘by man chosen for Aviedooi .and knowledge, and a strong sense oT justice, and proper conception of the new /conditions -of society. Anil I think that these men should .be. separated, as far.as possible, from the business and excitement of politics. I mention. in this connection, tlie subject .of -taxation. -J believe that half the personal prop erty an this rttrete, including in thre tfimnse debts-owing to escapes tuxation. And it is so in ofl/er States. The sense vat die -peqple Will not tolerate (the inquisitorial methods necessary to ascertain the amonnt-ofit, and -no inquisitorial methods ran bring it. all,to light. J believe that tho heavy weight of taxation in this State is borne by the farmers and rim owners -df small homesteads. Their faems and their homesteads aud the visible property thereon generally represent about their whole possessions. It as .adl -oxposed to open view and laidibare.to the,assessor. Pennsylvania does not 'tax lands -for State purposes. New Jersey, I believe, taxestthem very (lightly. Corporations axe. made, in these two States, to corttribute to 'the revenues -more largely tlian with us, in return for .their valuable .franchises. I do not pretend to say what is the host mode of tajemg. But it would/ be well if wise men,-chosen by the peqple, and experienced in affairs, coulii meet to deliberate hi a constitutiannl convention /on these questions, aud ouother questions not less grave, in which the-people are vitally ‘interested. Lot us bo frank about this Constitution as it is. It contains much that is good and a good deni that is very ’bad. National Affairs. Fellow-citizens, I harve taken -up so rnudh-df your time in Biscusemg questions relative to the State, that! shall have tame only to -refer very briefly to -nathmaS-politics. Hut and should not dismiss State affairs -without commending to your war mest "favor the. gallant gentleman—Bcddier and statesman—who lias been chosen as our 3landard-beaser for Govemoi-, anil is now gallantly conducting the eanvass. THE PAWT IBS OOMtCRBETED. My objection to the Democratic pirrby in reaent years is rihut it is -a party /without oanviclious. It;has Ivad no settled belief any public questions. It has repeatedly approved, aud pledged itself not to disturb, -measures adhioved'By tneßepifWican party, against whidh ’ it had waged the fiercest party warfare, it ie always nuskhtg -that its past -may fee forgotten. Its .enemy is mamory. Tho first sentence-in its Tdcent platform Uliows its sore ness about thepast. “IClte Domouratic party,iff the Union, throughits representatives in national aom-ention assembled, reeegaizesahHtmß nations grow older, now issues .axe (born of time aud progress, and old issues perish.” Why remind the people anxiously of the did (issues having perished? Banquo perished, but his ghost hooka seat atthe'hanquet table, and tho ghost was a hundoed times mare /Inu-rawamg than Banqmo kad ever been himself. That is what is the trouble. It is these memories connected with did issues that will not ‘.'down,” that-haunt aud .paster-the party. The RepnbKcan party haw no ghosts of memory connected with past issues Hiat put it in dread that the .past will be referred to. A vast territory—.mother of -many Btittos—preserved from the presence and taint of tuireoampensed liiboi': an enemy overcome by the sword yet mono benefited by war than -ft had .ever /been by peaoe, by being ridded of a destructive sys tem of labor and df 'having had opened to at. as by daoras tficing vride apart, au enlightened systemof free aud diversified industries; a national-credit, through tfho -exercise of an umieviatiug good faitli. unexampled in tlie history of nations; a cm-rency, since the issuing sf which mo bifi-hdlder <bas -ever lost a dollar; an arbitration.tif a great national dispute, through which, as a redress for national wrongiluisLg, Share whs -wrung from the meet warlike nation of Europe .fifteen million dollars of treasure; a "tariff-system, "Whidh.at the beginuing/of our gßt/civil strife, b.y setting -cm foot a vast system of manufacturing industries, spanned lihe dor-best otoruds-df-war-with the Ttrin bow of promise. Tliese ‘toast iaauw” have left no Rliosts to terrify Republicans. We never beg tluft ithey riinti nftfec rememl/evod. THE TAHIFF. Os all /these “past issues” but one -of tham survives and is continuous. That Is the tariff. No /one will .deny .that upon that issue the Republican platform -i3 explicit. It is due to the laboring classes of of the country, to those -who Thee /by manufacturing industry, that every party /shall deal with them fairly. It is a question that touches their bread. St is a -question that affects their bearth-oitones. It is ;* .question in which the youngest child in their families is concerned aliike with Uharasrivos. Now, has the Demoeraticparty qy convictions on the tariff question whatever! General Butler was (present ns mem bend s the last national Democratic convention, and was a member, also, of -the committee on resolutions. He has turned historian. He has graphically drsaribqd the long struggle to make tlie tariff resolution pend equally we'll for revenue only and fer protection. He has happily illustrat ed the struggle by an anecdote: “Then ensued,” says he, 'ln the .committee n struggle -of noway honre -so to frame a tariff plank that should appear to say what mine said, and yet not sny It. like the Western hooter who tried to -shoot .bos rtftu et something he dimly saw stirring in a bush, so as to hit it if it was a deer nnd miss it if it mas ■* fluff.” 3'hey war* able to get the resolution to straddle at last, but the “tariff for revenue” leg had been so badly hurt hi -past m---tltowei-sios that a wood/an one bad to be substituted, and an equilibrium could not be maintamed. Mr. Cleveland will not tadl ws which tag of tho tariff resolution he favors —the wooden one or the other! Paper was .too #e*roe in the AiUroodacks. Os course Mr. Headricks hadn't room enough in his postal card. Mr. Voorhees has great trouble with the quostioa. He voted for Gun oral Cutler's resolution. He must have felt, very lonesome when he did so. He is plagued with the resolutions of the Demti-ratic conventions. Hu cannot keep the run or'flioui. In a letter to Baylees Hanna, wiittea October 20, 1881, he said,referring to the national Democratic platform of 1880: “Tlie platform of 1880 was a violent departure on tlie subject of the, tariff, and has no precedent in the history of the Democratic platforms adopted in national corrveutiaoe- I have examined than all. The declaration for ‘a tariff for revenue ouly,’ was never before made ik a national Democratic oowrewtibr., aud is a burlesque ou common sense.” I regret

to have read .these platforms a little more attentively than Mr. Voorhees and to find that his party has played in this Lnrieeqste before. 1n4876, only.four.?ears ,p*viqug, the .Democratic national eonyention hat said,“‘We denjnnd that all oustOm-feouae taxation shall he only for revenue.” Mr. Voorhees should be pardoned. When a party lias no views except to catch the favor of the passing hour, .it is liard to follow it. Since the organization of the Republican party, tho the Democratic party has never, on the tariff question, sought to be consistent upon, any settled principle, but only like the weather-vane on a steeple, by always changing with the winds. And, as a student of the Winds, though it has been very diligent, J must think it has also been very dull. In its national convention of 1856 it declared itself in ;favor of ‘-progressive free trade.'” I 1861) it reaffirmed tlie plattfoxmiof 1856. in 1864 itwas toliolly/fiilantupon the question. In 1863 t declared itself in favqr of a “tariff ior revenue.” • In 1872 -it declared that “recognialing that there are in our midst honest, but irreconcilable differences of opinion with regard to the systems of free-trade and protection, we remit the discussion of the subject to the people in their congressional districts, and to the decision of Congress thereon, wholly free of executive interference, or dictation.’ Here is where Mr. Cleveland, no donbt. got his cue of Silence. !In lß76:tfiin party ituag'medffor a little while that, it had an opinion and was verv emphatic—“We demand that all customhouse taxation shall be only for revenue.” In 1880 it declared ‘‘for a tariff for revenue only!” In 1884 it passed "the two-faced resolution Which General Butler has so hqppilycharaßterizeitl. Mr. Voorhees voted for General Butter's absolution, wbieh was specifically for protection. and Mr. Hendricks did not. So we are left properly in doubt, I suppose, what Mr. Cleveland is-iii (Ta-vior df. Horen-tbe record of tho Democratic party upon this question, npon which labor is so vitally interested. HR BLAINE'S AMEBKJANfHM. iff Mr. jClevelasUl cannot-tell where lie (stands upon this grout question, there is one -man whose trumpet has never given torth an once rain sound—its -notes being ever dear and resonant. You know .very well whom I mean. James G. Blame answers to the description. Beginning life :in "the humble occupation of a schoolmaster, he lias, tby.fhe loroe of hw talents, by the strength and vigor of his character, by his personal -.intrepidity, by his iereevstible .social charms, by that combination of high and sympathetic qualities which belong -to rave .an/d fine natures, made himself one of the best kndwn and best beloved of all tire public men in our history. As Speaker df the House -of Representatives of his adopted State and of Congress, distinguished always for the fairness and unerring clearness of his decisions; as a debater -on the floor of -each ".house, whenever he entered the lists his plume shinning in the front of the combat,; a® a statesman, long known .for the surprising hreadth and.accuracy of his political knowledge; as a writer depicting the .incidents mid scenes -of ;long public life, in which he has borne a most conspicuous part, rich and perspicuous in style, copious.and accurate in information, just /aud generous to every one with whom -he hos-ever ernrsefl as worth hishomc'the abode of domestic bliss and hospitality—its haepitahle doom open alike to friend and fee—‘the bitterest adversary iu his warm and’joyous presence forgetting his feud and dissolving :iuto kindneqs; a citiren of the United States, broad-minded and just towgi-d the whole world, yet his whole being pervaded unfl burning wrfh the American instinct; /so frank and opeiT tlrot he is as trens? parent as the air; this is tlie man whose banner is in our’front. whose jflume nods at the ‘head, o the column, and under whose leadership we k---pect to move on to victory. Among the many distressing forms-of neuralgic and rheumatic disease, there is none mare malignant than sciatica or lumbago. A joint testimonial to the radical powers of Atlilophoros in dealing yritb ihesie enemies of ,peace of mind and body, comes from Mrs. A. P. Luke and Mrs. John-Nutting, whose .mothor, alter suffering indescribable-agony day and night, was materially relieved l>y /throe doses of Athlopboros, nnd by ite continued use was soon made quite comfortable. “We think the cure wonderful,” wrote Xhe ’ladies. This medicine, -combining Iron vrith -pure vegetable tonics, quickly and completely Cures Dyspepsia, Indigestiom'Wcakness, Impure Blood, Malaria,drills and fevers, and Nciinttov. U te-an unfailing remedy tor Hiseaees of the Kidnexm nnd Liver. ft is invaluable for Diseases peculiar to Women, nnd ah wlm laad sedeiitury lives. ltdoesnot hi)uro the teeth, cause headachpior produce constipation —other Iron mtdieivm do. It-enrifihes and -purifies thebteod, strrmilutes the appetite, aids Cbe assnnUßiiontrf food,relieves Heartburn and Itelcliing, aud strengthens the -muscles and nerves. For Intermittent fevers, Xassttuflc, Lack of (Energy, the., U has/no}uol. - 3tS~ The gemttoe basnbove trade mark nnd crossed red lines on- wrapper. Xahq naether, ttelMolr Or "SOWN CHBSICtL <'o„ R.t I.TIIOHE. RB. £jlß IRON Wpipe mßik FITTINGS. BeiHr.gagentß'frrrKßtnonriTnba Works Cos 1 ‘ Globe Valves. .Stop Cocks. En- '*** K Ai! a eiw Trimmings. PIPE TONGS, f j V set CUTTERS. VISES, TAPS, |A j \Kj Stocks and Dies, Wrenches, f flj j 181 Steam Traps. Tuir.ps, Sinks, IJE HOSE. B&TJCING, RABBIT 135 g IPJ METALS (25-pound boxes), ■H HB Dutton Wiping Waste, wiiira pj J I B snil colored (J 00-pound boles), Ijtf j VWI Bnfinll other snpplieensed inoonfmJ I®4 nerttou with STEAM. WATER Ilf Wm GAS, in JOB or RETAIL mgt ffwj Ulus, ©o a regular rteam-fitc * - iS ting, bnsineas. Estimate and ife! contract to 'betft 3tfils, Shops, M HE Turtopies and Lumber Dry M 9| Houses with live or exhaust steam. Tlpe out to order by m K|ateump*>wes. ■ ' WKICrefIf&IILLSOH ll ® 75 and 77 S. Penn- St Passenger Hydraulic IT T DCIT HV ELEVATORS. i il- O. Factory Belt Mosul jFstahlinhed 1860) ELEVATORS. Freight and Passenger "£3ssr (ELEVATORS. Hand or Steam Baggage, ,o ß jc ELEVATORS. Offioe, 128B.Eighthst, RSJBfgS

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