Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 November 1884 — Page 4

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THE GREAT sls Suit sale commences to-day at the MODEL. Cassimere Suits, Worsted Suits, Corkscrew Suits and Whipcord Suits, all worth $lB and S2O, now marked sls at the MODEL CLOTHING COMPANY. THE DAILY JOURNAL. BY JNO. C. NEW * SON. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1884. It means a solid Nation. It means a united people. Hendricks, he didn’t get no bird? WILL Cleveland retire to a convent? We believe that Cleveland is beaten. The man who laughs —the Republican. It is a cold day when the g. o. R. p. gets left ____________ A LONG and loving farewell to the solid Bouth. It was tlie “affair which I have not denied" that did it. Blaine 233 electoral votes! Therefore let her scream! The top of the morning to you, Mr. President Blaine. There were very few Republican deserters in Indiana on Tuesday. The Sentinel again showed how absolutely ridiculous it can make itself and its party on the slightest provocation. The Journal never makes a mistake. We •aid two weeks ago that Indiana was an Ohio State, and it sticks there.

Hon. Charles T. Doxby is defeated for Congress in the Ninth district by Judge "Ward, the present incumbent. There is but one contented Democrat in Indiana. There is no need of saying that his name is Joseph E. McDonald. Now let Henry Ward Beecher, Carl Schurz Mid George William Curtis take'their way up Balt river, to the appropriate strains of the “Hogues' March.” The immense Democratic corruption fund not buy Indiana out of hand. The people of the State have resented the “crisp twodollar bill” insult. But for the report of the shotgun in the Carolinas, in Alabama and Louisiana, the report of the election would have settled the Contest on Tuesday night. The crime of a South terrorized into solidity ia a disturbing element in politics, the monstrous injustice of it being soundly condemned by all fair-minded citizens. The Democratic cry of fraud in Hamilton ’county, Ohio, in the October election has 'been stifled by the people returning a still ‘larger majority on Tuesday. The Republican party deserves unstinted praise for its magnificent fight and defeat of a candidate that would have entailed everlasting disgrace upon the Nation. Ip the Democratic methods practiced in the South were adopted with equal effect by Republicans in the North, the vote would stand: Democratic (solid South), 153; Republican, 248. ________ Joseph Pulitzer, editor of the New York World, will boa noteworthy member of the next Congress. Pulitzer is a much abler man than the blockheads whom the New York Democrats often send to Congress. The Democratic leaders have begun tlielr cry of “fraud.” It is to let them down easy from their almost criminal altitude of boastfulness, whereby they have lost vast sums of money to their credulous followers. noN. George W. Steele will soon be knowu as the warrior who does not know defeat. Despite all the obstacles he had to contend against he has a plurality of 251 in the ♦Eleventh district for re-election to Congress. The first act of the so-called “independent -Kcpublicans” in New York was to assume the supposed election of Cleveland for themselves. The “unterrified” Democracy of the “bloody Sixth” must have looked aghast at that piece of “monumental cheek."

THE GENERAL RESULT. The skies are bright. The Democrats had their innings, early on Tuesday night, under the influence of the exaggerated reports sent out from Now York. Later on, early on Wednesday morning, the complexion of things began to change, and, although the day yeserday was passed in anxiety, the clouds kept steadily breaking away until before 10 o’clock the final result was known, and Blaine and Logan’s triumphant election assured. The Republicans have carried every Northern State, with the exception of New Jersey and Connecticut, and probably Virginia and West Virginia have joined the victorious column. At any rate the Republicans have 233 electoral votes. In this estimate we claim Indiana. On the basis of the present returns, we think the State has gone Republican by from 2,000 to 4,000.

THE MEANING OF IT. The meaning of Tuesday’s victory is not obscure. The wayfaring man though a fool may easily understand it if he will. For weeks the opposition has boasted and blustered, and had everything their own way, claiming 90,000 independent Republican votes in New York alone, with a proportionate number in Massachusetts and in some other States; with a solid South to operate on as a basis; with New York “sure" by a majority from 50,000 to 150,000; with Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana and what not else. Mr. Cleveland was to have everything he cared for, while Blaine was to get but the crumbs from the electoral table. With Cleveland nominated to make New York solid, and Mr. Hendricks to take care of Indiana, these two States, added to the solid South, were enough to insure Democratic success without looking further, and whatever might be gained beside would only add to the magnitude of the success expected. From tlie outset the independentRepublieanß practically directed the campaign for the Democratic party, and a meaner, more scandalous one never was conducted. They began by dictating the nominee of the Democratic party, and selected the unknown and untried Cleveland, over such representative Democrats as Thurmau, Bayard and McDonald. No man but Cleveland would do. He was the one man out of the millions to lead the Nation into new paths of purity and reform; he was a man without reproach, a reformer sans peur. It was useless to urge that he was unknown. The answer was that he was Governor of the greatest State in the Union, by the largest major ity ever given a candidate for that office. It was equally futile to say -that he was untried and had no experience in national affairs. Having chosen the candidate for the party, the independent Republicans sounded the key-note of the campaign and recklessly plunged into a lino of assault not ong in descending to the most dastardly scurrility and personal abuse. This alone would probably have overreached the aim of those bent on the defeat of Blaine and the overthrow of the Republican party, had there not been other and even better reasons for the rebuke administered on Tuesday. Solid sectionalism, as opposed to solid nationality, is and ever must be hateful to the great mass of the people who love their country and have its interests at heart. The victory that seemed almost within the grasp of the enemy and their new and incongruous allies that were ashamed of their fellowship, was turned away from them just when the critical hour came. The conscience of the Nation came to the aid of the party that saved this Nation from dissolution at the bauds of the Democratic party, and once more tlie verdict lias been spoken against tlie unholy alliance of hungry Democrats North with murderous Democrats intent on a solid South above a solid and united Nation. This was, perhaps, one of the prime causes of the Republican triumph, though there were other reasons that impelled the people to refuse to place confidence in the professions of the Democratic party, preaching reform while greedily reaching with both hands for the spoils of office. Tho marvelous personal influence of Mr. Blaine is without parallel in American politics. Going into New York State against the man who but two years ago was elected its Governor by a majority of 192,000, he aroused the dormant energies of the people so thoroughly, and won their sympathy so fully, that this great adverse majority has been not only disposed of, but a decent plurality has been given in his favor. He performed a like feat in Indiana. Visiting this State, the home of Thomas A. Hendricks, a petted and pampered “favorite son,’> he actually rode right over him as if there were no opposition at all, and easily wiped out a Democratic plurality of 11,000, and placed in its stead odds in favor of the Republican ticket. A like influence was felt in Ohio and West Virginia, and wherever he wont The splendid energy of his canvass was the marvel of all who beheld it. Scorning everything like meanness and personality, but

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meeting the people in fullest confidence that his cause was just, he went among them and freely discussed every great question, as would neighbor with neighbor. Much of the credit of the grand achievement of Tuesday must be ascribed to Mr. Blaine personally. Defying precedent and despising the auguries that predicted a disastrous outcome of a personal meeting with the American people, he has most grandly marched upward to glorious vindication, and stands to-day on his own merits one of the tallest men of the age. New York, despite the most infamous warfare waged upon the character of Blaine, is Republican by probably 8,000. With tho exception of Connecticut and New Jersey, the entire North is united in favor of the party and the policy that have done so much for the people of all portions of the Union, and without regard to location or political complexion. Nor is it yet certain that there still exists a solid South, so long held together by methods that shame civilization. Present indications show both the Virginias and possibly Florida doubtful, so that, while they may not actually be Republican, they have come near enough to touch hands with the party of progress and national unity. The solid South is dead henceforth forever. This alone is an achievement to call for the proioundest gratitude to the party that, through a quarter of a century, has been striving for one country and a united people. Patient under the perpetration of fraud and outrage against it, the Republican party has worked on, inspired by the hope that time would assuage the bitterness of prejudice and heal the wounds of war. The prejudice is fading out, and the wounds are healing. A solid South will never be heard of again. Such narrow sectarianism will hereafter be hateful even in the South. The American people have risen to the highest plane and to a realization of kindred and intimate interests. South will now strike hands with North and all will move on to better things and to more nearly perfect concord. Mr. Blaine’s great charity and force of character will inspire confidence everywhere, and all the people will gladly unite to do him honor. The American people are nearer together than ever before. The solidity of the South means more to the Republican party than the loss of thirtyseven electoral votes, the number apportioned the South on account of colored voters. It means the loss of the entire electoral vote of those States in which an undoubted Republican majority exists, but is beaten and shot out of existence by Democratic ruffians. What share of the votes of the two Carolinas Florida, Alabama and Louisiana, forty-two in number, would the Republicans have on a free vote and fair count? Certainly;not less than twenty-seven, leaving the Democratic vote of the South but 126, intead of 153, and rendering it very easy for the Republican party, representing the honest majority of the people, to carry and control the country.

The Supreme Court of the United States, in a suit brought by a Nebraska Indian against an election register for refusing to register him as a qualified voter, has decided that an Indian who has voluntarily separated from his tribe and takeu up bis residence among white citizens of a State, but has not been naturalized or taxed, is not a citizen of the United States within the meaning of the four teenth amendment. It hardly seems the right thing to make a foreigner of the aborigine in his own country, but he will find plenty' of sympathizers in this matter among the woman suffragists. Mr. St. John has suffered at the hands of a bold, bad man. The ex-candidate owned a paper at Olathe, Kan., which the exigencies of the campaign required him to leave in charge of an employe. While engaged in canvassing the country in the interests of Cleveland, this heartless subordinate transformed the sheet into a Blaine organ. Mr. St. John, having nothing more to do, will go home and talk prohibition onco more, while the employe will hunt another job. The Democrats have won a gallant victory. —Louisville Commercial. Will you please say why gallant? A nastier, more contemptible campaign never was conducted than that by the Democratic party in 1834. The diapason of meanness was swept, from stealing and distorting private correspondence to desecrating the graves of children and assaulting the fair fame of wife and mother—nothing was too low, nothing too dastardly. May the Nation ever be spared such gallantry. Rev. Henry Warp Beecher, Respected Sir Why is it that the Republic party, after twenty-four years of power, has not lost it? —Many Inquiring Mugwumps. Because its reputation is such that men believe it means liberty, civilization, [>ower for the best elements in human society. That is its reputation, and it Inis gone into power again, or is on the eve of doing it, unless the State of New Yolk is thrown out.—Heury Ward Beecher, iu answer to same question in isao. ________ The British press has been “too previous” in expressing its satisfaction at the supposed election of Cleveland. The premature rejoicing of the Loudon journals confirms what lias been said in the campaign of the interest which the British people took in the canvass of the free-trade candidates. It is worth much that the blatherskite Thomas Jefferson Wood, of the Tenth district, has been defeated for re-election to Congress. Our advices render it certain that Hon. W. D. Owen, of Logansport, has been elected in the

Tenth district by 300 plurality. Mr. Owen will be remembered as the gentleman who seconded the nomination of Hon. W. H. Calkins for Governor at the State convention. Mr. Owen is a gentleman of ability and character, and will make a most excellent member of Congress. His was a wise nomination. A COLD DAY R-BCHURZ lx the midst of the general rejoicing there is a fly in the ointment. The county ticket of Marion county has been lost, with the possible exceptions of State Senator Winter, Representative Jameson and Commissioner Guion. Such a result as this suggests the propriety of some observations which the Journal will take occasion to make at an early day. Grover Cleveland to Mrs. Beecher: “Os course I have been to church." The Christian people of the country sincerely trust that any little disappointments of this week will not bo allowed to interfere with the Governor's devotions nor with his leaning toward a holy life. Against murder, mugwumpery, personal vanity, inflamed egotism and Mr. Beecher’s adulterers, the Republican party has won a glorious triumph. Once more the deck is cleared, and the party can go ahead in a earner of usefulness, having laid aside every weight.

Henry Ward Beecher is a prophet. In a sermon preached in 1880 he foretold the de feat of Cleveland in the following words: “We cannot afford to put for four years a man in the presidential chair who is not such a man as the Nation shall be proud of.” Waiting for the returns is harder than fighting a campaign.—Louisville Commercial. It’s altogether owing to what kind of returns you are waiting for. If you are waiting for the return of the Democratic party to power, you may grow very weary, son, very weary. The J ournal proposes to be safe. It misleads no one willfully. It gives the news. It “tells the truth." It does not display its poultry until the proper time. It does not prematurely mount upon eagle's wings. When it puts its flag up, it is there to stay. “The Democratic party has got a bad name, and I don’t know how it is going to get rid of it. Certainly not in the measures that have been taken will it be accomplished.’’—From sermou by Henry Ward Beecher, in 1880. The defeat of Congressman Finerty in a Chicago district is to be regretted. As an independent Democrat he supported Blaine, and was bitterly opposed by the Bourbons, who probably counted him out. There must have been great consumption of Bourbon at the Confederate Cross Roads on Tuesday night. But what a woeful disappointment now! No postoffice, no nothing! We put Indiana and Michigan in the list of Blaine States. The latest returns from Michigan show a close vote, but private advices say Blaine has an undoubted plurality. Chairman Henderson ought make good the losses of the Democrats whom he advised to bet on Cleveland, on ’Tuesday night. Tlie misled Democrats consider that he earned tho joke too far. SUMMARY of Boston Herald's Indiana editorial of Saturday: “He buys best who buys last.” Well, the Democrats bought last as well as first, but they didn’t get there, Eli. New York Evening Post: “Cleveland’s virtues are those which bind human society together, and on which States are founded and maintained.” So? So far as heard from Major Calkins has run very nearly even with Mr. Blaine. He has been scratched in certain localities aud in others has run ahead. Four years from now the solid South will be so engrossed in manufactures and business as to forget the “necessity” of being solid. Kentucky men and money failed to “take care of Indiana” on Tuesday, as the full returns will show, we think. The election of William R. Grace as mayor of '■iv York is one of the surprises of Tuesday. Mr. Grace, is an Irishman and a wealthy man, was fox-merly elected mayor on

the Tammany ticket, but this time John Kelly was bitterly opposed to him. Mr. Grace was nominated by the County Democracy. HoosiEß mugwump ia New York on Monday: “I hear that a good many Democrats and independent Republicans here in New York are doubtful about Indiana. Wall, now, they needn’t bo." No indeedy; they needn’t be, and probably they are not by this time. The Republican dissensions in Colorado endangered the success of the Republican ticket, but Blaine’s popularity carried all before it. “O, say does tho star spangled banner still wave, O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?" It does—thanks to a Republican majority. "TIIERB was an independent party; but, oh, where is that party now? A New York man has recently io3t his life from the bite or scratch of an ant eater or antbear, and the cry goes up that the bite of that animal is A9 certain death as that of a rattlosnake. We don’t believe it Os the hundred or more thousand deaths that have occurred in In diana probably not one was from the bite or scratch of the ant-eater, so that it is quite apparent that such deaths are very rare. We have not the statistics of fatalities from ant bear bites at hand, but wo feel quite sure that the proportion is enormously in favor of natural deaths or deaths from the bite of ants over bites from ant-bears. Still, if you have doubts concerning this, do not take our work for it. but go at once and chain up your ant-eater, or put a muzzle on him. Children that cry for anteaters must bo kindly but firmly refused. Since the adjournment of the prime meridian congress, which has been in session in Washington for the past month, considerable quiet sport is being made over the choice by the members of French as the language tojbe used during the discussions. At least five sixths of the foreign delegates are said to speak and understand English perfectly, while the number speaking French was much less; but the latter being considered the language of diplomacy, these diplomatic gentlemen selected it as the medium for communication. Several of the members were unable so take part in the debates, owing to this choice, but it is supposed that their gratification over the knowledge that the affair was being conducted in proper style overpowered any feeling of inconvenience. To be truly diplomatic is to be great Miss Fortescuk, the actress, has r.ot compromised her breach of promise suit against Lord Garmoyle after all, but will prosecute it to the bitter end. The end will probably arrive in the course of a year or two. and will be bitter, because the lor l and the actress will each have to devise some new advertising scheme if they wish to keep themselves before the people. What must have been tho feelings of the aristocratic Rhinelanders when some noble philanthropist, anxious to swell the contribu tions for the relief of William C., tendered An overcoat "not badly worn, but laid aside!" Now, if somebody would present. Rhinelander pore with a second-hand ulster, the stars would fall!

T.A.H.I T.A.H.I “I need(ed) your Votes ly even more now than before Tuesday.”—T. A. H. The “American Society of Professorsof Dane in"’ held their sixteenth meeting in New York on Monday. After a secret and solemn conclave they announced that “the style of dancing introduced last winter, in which partners held themselves at some distance from each other, will be continued " This is important, but it may also be added that those who wore not introduced to this style last year will nrobably decline to make their acquaintance, nud will hold fast to their old loves. Miss Florence Kelley. daughter of Con greseman Kelley, of Pennsylvania, the Father of the House and the great champion of protection, has married Mr. Wischnewoteky, of Zagaurak, Russia. If Mr. Kelley was really the protectionist he claims to be, would he not have protected his daughter! Misfortunes never come singly. The author of “Silver Threads Among the Gold” announces that he intends to publish a volume of verses soon. How Hancock Took His Defeat. The editor of Tile Washington Sunday Herald, a personal friend of Gen. Hancock, publishes the following: "Which one of the defeated candidates for the presidency, we wonder, will take his defeat as quietly as did Gen. Hancock"! His wife, who told the story to the writer, says that on the night of the election he went to bed at 7 o'clock, utterly worn out. When she begged him not to retire so early, as there would probably be some one who would want to see him that night, he said emphatically: "lean not see anyone to-night. 1 ain so tired I must go to bed at once, so he retired and slept so soundly that when his wife, who staid up to hear tlie news, went to bed site did not disturb him. nor did ho awake until 5 o’clock next morning, when, Mrs. Hancock hnvinga coughing speli, he roused enough to ask her ifsiie had heard any news. She said she hud. and added: 'lt is a Waterloo for yon.' "All right,” lie answered, and, turning over, was soon sound asleen again. A Mysterious Murder. Lynchburg. Vo.. Nov. s.—Last night, Lizzie Wilson, a white girl, aged fourteen, while walking along a street in Roanoke, was dragged into a back lot. When parlies attracted by her screams reached the spot they found her weltering in blood, with her throat cut from ear to ear The murder is a deep mystery. Rape was the supposed object. Intense excitement fob lowed tlie discovery.

SUMMING UP THE RESULT. ADay of Most Intense Anxiety and Interest Throughout the Country. A Gloomy Morning and Forenoon for RepnV licans, Followed by Pleasing Tidings of Success at Night. Two States of the Solid South Break Away and Join the Republicans. Probability that Mr. Elaine Has Carried Every Northern State Except Connecticut and New Jersey—Famous Victory. Special to tho IndinnapcUs Journal. New York, Nov. s.—This has been a day of great anxiety in New York. The fate of th parties has hung tremblingly in the balance. On Tuesday the people said, “By midnight the name of the next President will be known.” Midnight came, but it brought little or no satisfactory information. 1 ‘Morning willsurely tell tlie story,” murmured the restles* multitude which hung about the headquarters of the Republican national committee. The people remained in tho streets till nearly daylight, and still the result was clouded with doubt. The early morning information was discouraging to the Republicans—it looked as though they had lost New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Indiana, and Illinois. The outlook in New York State was very gloomy. The Republican State committee became despondent and gave up New York. Their doubts wore made public. All the morning; weary politicians who had spent the night watching, bent over long tables of figures and tried to wrench victory from apparent defeat. The Democrats claimed the State confidently and noisily; they also claimed the election of Cleveland, ani the Democratic morningpapers exulted editorialy over the defeat of Mr. Blaino. Members of the Republican national committee did not sleep last night nor to day. They watched, waited and worked. Finally the tide seemed to turn. The later reports irom New York promised well. Virginia w&3 heard from, and by 6 o’clock ia the evening there was a complete revolution ia public sentiment in regard to the result. Tho national committee said Mr. Blaine never for a moment lost confidence. They hoped for the best when the returns wero gloomy and unfavorable; they were prepared for the turning of the tide, and their intelligent estimates enabled them to predict it. To-night the Democratic papers practically concede tho defeat of Cleveland in New York State, and admit there is a grave possibility of his defeat in the Nation.

At this writing the election of Mr. Blame seems assured. New York State will give the Republican electoral ticket a majority exceeding 2,000. New Jersey and Connecticut are Democratic. Indiana is considered doubtful, and the Republicans need not include its fifteen electoral votes In their column to elect Mr. Blaine. Virginia is Republican; the majority cannot be estimated at present, but the indications are that it will be small. There is some danger that the Democrats may hold the returns of a low districts for tho purpose of fraudulently tampering with them. It is not likely the Republicans will allow themselves to he defrauded of the glory of breaking the solid South. It is likely that Me. Blaine has wrested two States from the solid Democratic phalanx of the solid South—Virginia and West Virginia. The news received by the national Republican pominittee from West Virginia leads them to believe that they have carried it by a small majority, probably less than 2,000. It would be a great victory to carry it by a majority of two. Tho exact result in West Virginia cannot be determined till the official returns are all received and counted. A. W. Campbell, one of the owners of the Wheeling Intelligencer, was at the Republican headquarters all day. Said be: “I think West Virginia will cast her electoral vote for Mr. Blaine. He is much stronger than the Republican State ticket which was defeated in October. We lost the State then because our candidate for Governor was an unpopular man. We expected a great change in our favor, and it has come. Blaine and the protective principle, I think have given the State to the Republicans. The Republicans have gained one congressman, Barbee, in the Parkersburg district.” The latest private information from California is to the effect that the Republicans have certainly carried that State by a large majority. Oregon will give Mr. Blaine over 1,500, and Nevada will not fall much behind Oregon. The secretary of the Michigan Republican committee has just telegraphed that Mr. Blaine will have more than 15,000 plurality in that State. Wisconsin has given him a fair plurality. There is no doubt about tho result in any of the Northern States which I have not mentioned. Chairman Watson, of the Tennessee State Committee, telegraphs that returns, up to date, lead him to believe that the Republican* had elected Reid, tlieir candidate for Governor, and that possibly they have carried the State for Blaine. Jail Deliveries lit Wisconsin. Milwaukee. Nov s.—Two jail deliveries occurred in this State last night, one at Appleton, where five prisoners made their escape by digging through and under the wall, amt at Miller*? villa two men held for mnrder, Perkins and Martin, and a noted horse-thiuf named Thompson, knocked down the janitor, took a revolvet from him and escaped to tho woods. A larg* force of men is in pursuit.