Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 November 1884 — Page 4

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THE DAILY JOURNAL. BY JNO. C. NTW & SOX. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27. 1834. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can be found at the following planes: LONDON —American Exchange in Europe, HO •Strand. PARTS—American Exchange In Taris, 35 Boulevard des Capucines. NEW YORK—St. Nicholas and Windsor Hotels. CHICAGO—PaImer House. CINCINNATI—J. R Hawley & Cos., 151 Vine Street. LOUTSYTLLE—C. T. T tearing, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. ST. LOUIS —Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern Hotel. HIGU-W.ITER MARKS. The actual circulation of the Indianapolis Daily Journal for the days named was as follows: Wednesday, Oct. 15 17,100 Wednesday, Nov. 5 24,175 Thnrsday, Nov. 6 21,100 Friday, Nov. 7 20,300 Saturday, Nov. S 19,500 The actual average circulation of the Daily Journal for the eleven days ending Nov. 15th instant was 10,258. The mugwump motto is: ‘‘Wait and see.” If tilings suit them, it will be “We killed the bear." If not, they will blandly declare “Thou canst not say we did it.” This is the day designated specifically as a day of thanksgiving. There is no statutory provision, however, forbidding people being thankful the year round. AFTER all the kicking, the Associated Press is vindicated from the charge of partisanship In the recent election, those who were in •nch haste to make the charge now being in equal haste to retract it and apologize. We observe in two or three esteemed contemporaries that the Journal is not conducted in a manner to win the approbation of tho Democrats of Indiana. This is to be greatly regretted, but we much fear that the evii is incurable. Speaking of the presumed rivalry between Mrs. McDonald and Mrs. Hendricks, a prominent Democratic contemporary just across the border calls it the “battle of the bustles. ” The ladies should be spared such ungentlemanly Comment upon their private affairs.

It is announced that Senator Conger, of Michigan, will probably resign and be appointed Chief Justice of the District of Columbia, vice David K. Carrier, of Ohio, who ean retire under the law. Mr. Carrier is an Ohio man, and that makes the whole thing look doubtful. Tire mugwump papers now repeat with evident alarm what was spoken of before with but bated breath, and that is, that there is but one life between the presidency and Thomas A. Hendricks, who announces to “the boys” a laturnalia of spoils if he were the administrator of the government. “Ex-Congressman Lemoib, of Indiana,” U quoted bv New York papers as saying that “Cleveland's election to the presidency is the best thing that couhl happen to the government.” This is convincing, but would be more so if any one in Indiana had ever heard before of ex-Congressman Lemoi r. A Southern paper tells a romantic story jf (he way Calhoun's bones turned in their coffin when it was thought, in the early days of the war, that Charleston was about to fall into the hands of the “enemy,” the United States troops. Unless that deceased worthy's opinions have changed in twenty years, an ©lamination would probably discover his frame standing on its head on account of Cleveland’s olection. The New York Post trusts that Congress •dll not fail to pass a law at an early day permitting every administrative officer to hold his position during good behavior. The list includes district attorneys, some Territorial judicial officers, surveyor-generals, registers sod receivers, collectors, naval officers, surveyors and presidential ]K>stmasteis. The Post is kind in thus endeavoring to procure permanent employment for its hungry DemoBfatie friends, and its anxiety about the matter indicates a fear that they may otherwise he able to hold a four year's job. The government printing office Is said to be overwhelmed with demands for copies of the “Blue Hook” or official register of government jmployes. From all parts of the country come orders for the book, the seekers for information uniformly laboring under the impression that it is published for free distribution. When they are politely informed by she clerks of the department that the work, which is in two volumes of 850 pages each, urn only be had upon receipt of price, the nuttorings of discontent are sufficient in the .pinion of those who have listened to them to have caused the prevailing cool weather. That the Republicans have dared to charge for this book will be treasured against them as another proof of corrupt party practices. We are informed that the Vice-president need not necessarily be a nobody, so far as political influence and importance is concerned, because Mr. John C. Calhoun managed to make himself felt and known. Mr. Calhoun made himself of importance by becoming so tear a traitor that the line dividing patriotism tom treason was practically obliterated in his life and character. Ho made himself felt and mown by leading a revolutionary- movement

—a movement which became formidable enough for President Jackson to proclaim that if it went any further he would hang its promoters from tho nearest tree. This is the conduct on the part of John C. Calhoun that made him of political importance. Are we to understand that Thomas A. Hendricks is to play a similar role in Mi'. Cleveland's administration? A DAY OF GRACE. To day brings us around again to tho annual religious festival celebrated in New England from the first, settlement by tho Pilgrims, and long peculiar to the Eastern and Northern States of the Union. It has grown westward, and southward and since 1862 has become a national institution, designated by proclamation, and almost universally recognized by the people of the United States. Jiverywhero else in Christendom the year has 365 days, but in America the fourth Thursday in November is a day of grace, a day to give thanks, a day touched with tender memories that warm the heart and bring one close to his kind. One of the old legends of Thanksgiving is that the day was appointed by the Pilgrims in thanks for Indian summer. They had gathered their corn and pumpkins, piled up great heaps of back-logs and made ready for the winter. But it proved to be only the “squaw winter" which precedes Indian summer in all well-regulated American autumns. Tho Pilgrims mistook Indian summer for spring, commenced shelling their seed corn for a second planting, and returned thanks that not only had they found a land where there was “freedom to worship God,” but also a land without winter, and with two seed-times, summers and harvests in a year, and only a thin slice of autumn sandwiched between. Asa result, Thanksgiving was decreed, and when the mock summer was gone, and the grim Indian winter came, their gratitude was kept warm by its heavy snows. The gratitude wintered through, and so this most Messed of puritanical blunders survives to the present day. Whatever its origin, Thanksgiving is the American family day. To-day the old ties of home and blood will be renewed; the names of father and mother, brother and sister will be called again, and the household fall into the old places about the hearthstone and table. There will be vacant chairs and moist eyes, and low spoken names of the dead. There will be old memories revived of the early days when peace and righteousness clasped hands in the firelight, when friendships were brightened and old feuds forgiven and forgotten. Three generations have come together with a common object to return thanks for mercies past, and to enjoy the one great feast of the year. What appetizing odors are wafted in from the kitchen door. Heart and stomach are today very close neighbors. Travel into the world fast and furiously as we may, we can never get out of sight of this blessed New England day, a day that warms the heart and the blood, and makes us truer, purer, more childlike than before. Let us invoke the flame and wheel out the table; let us ask a blessing and give thanks. Let us take anew grip on the year, and anew lease of life, laying hold of that hope which sets tho head and heart to work, puts difficulty out of countenance, and is the real riches of the world as fear is its real poverty.

TRYING TO JUMP FROM UNDER. The New York Post, mugwump of mugwumps, goes to the trouble of washing its hands and those of the score or more goodygoody patriots of that State of all responsibility for the acts of the incoming administration. The Post loftily scorns the proposition to boost a mugwump into Mr. Cleveland’s cabinet. No, indeed! “Why,” exclaims the Post, “it would never do, for wo are too holy to be Democrats, too good indeed to be Republicans; we never forfeited our membership in the Republican party, and only assassinated it because we did not like its nominee; and, besides, have we not already a mugwump in the person of Mr. Cleveland himself? If he should fail us, the appointment of ono of our number would be but a bitter mockery!” And so on. It was to be expected that the independents would come to a realization of the shame of wallowing in filth, but hardly so soon as this. It is impossible for them to escape the responsibility for their part in the election of the Democratic ticket. It is pharisaical in the Post, in behalf of the elect, few, to plea*!, as it does, that “they cannot now, in consequence of anything that has occurred, accept, without serious detriment m the public eye, any position which would imply that they had already begun to trust it implicitly, and had not meant what they said when inveighing ugainst it on tho platform.” Would it be any compromising to accept fellowship with tho party for which tho independents have done so much dirty and despicable work? With whom do these self-canon-ized men purpose affiliating, if not with Democrats? The Republican party lias no use for them. The company of assassins is not desirable, either in political or social life. Having sought to cut the throat of the Republican party in order to make possible the looting of public places by Democrats, they now hypocritically express amazement that they should be held accountable for the only legitimate outcome of their acts. The Post flounders in the mire of dishouor, vainly attempting to extricate itself, and says further: “Moreover, it must not be forgotten by those who cling to the idea that they should be represented in the Cabinet, that the canvass has clearly shown not only that the independents dictated the nomination of Cleveland, but that they elected him. They will,

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therefore, if he is the kind of a man they suppose him to be, be represented in the new Cabinet by the President himself. He is their man. He is to them not a Democrat, but one of themselves, chosen for a certain work, and if he fails them in this character, his bestowal of a Cabinet office on one of their own number would simply be a piece of bitter mockery.” If this be true, if Cleveland is “your man,” how do you hope to escape the burden of responsibility, if, as you claim, you elected him? If you are meu of intelligence, why plead the baby act and attempt to shirk your share of the odium that may attach, and that you evidently fear will attach, to a Democratic administration? Why was not this thought of before the election? Why did you not see further than the mere figurehead of the very hungry, very thirsty party? Why did you not see Mr. Hendricks immediately behind him, and the others, if possible, even more hostile to honest government and civil-service reform? The Post is eminently right in declaring that “there is enough that is novel or uncertain about Democratic rule to forbid every independent from formally casting in his fortunes with the party at present. ‘Wait and see’ should, in our opinion, be the mugwump’s motto.” The Post is right in seeking to unload its shame; but it is cowardly, dishonorable, in flying from its fellow-conspirators for spoils at a moment when the sacking is about to begin. Had Mr. Blaine been elected, the Republican party would have manfully assumed all responsibility for the Republican administration. Its excellence or disrepute would have been the party's glory or shame. It is exactly the same with those who voted to place the Nation’s interests in the hands of Cleveland—all, independents and Democrats alike, must be held accountable for the kind of government given. If the civ-il-service rules be dishonored—as we think they in time must be in answer to the inevitable demand of the office-hungry hordes that supported the Democratic nominees—mugwump must sit cheek by jowl with the men who murdered the South into solidity and face the jury of public opinion. Tho Republican party is content to leave the independent “party'’ where it now is—a freebooter on the political highway, a pirate on the sea of American politics, allied in honor to no one, and ready to murder its best friends if it have not its own way.

A TRUCE TO FILTHThe election of Grover Cleveland has stopped the protest against the disgrace of his elevation to the presidency; not that the disgrace accomplished is not felt, is not real, but rather that to prolong the ineffectual cry would be but to advertise the Nation’s humiliation. “The affair which I have not denied” is as great a blot on Mr. Cleveland’s character as before his nomination and election. In the sight of all the people it is but magnified, bat the humiliation of shame compels silence. Tho people would, if possible, forget it all as a nightmare, intangible, and having no basis in truth. Self-respect demands, not its condonement, but rather the ignoring of it. With this feeling strong upon the people, Republicans, at least, have refrained from further comment upon the matter, except when compelled to protest against the ribald obscenity of Democratic past campaign songs like the one beginning “Hurrah for Maria," etc. Impossible as it may seem, Mr. Hendricks himself is reported as haviug referred to this vulgar jingle as “running through his head” in spite of himself. A large portion of the Democratic party seem to gloat over the Democratic victory, and no more beoause of the mere matter of Cleveland's election than because of the elevation of a confessed adulterer. Let us have an end to all this cataclysm of filth, and the disgusting spectaole of Democratic partisans and bummers literally Bwimming in it, and with evident satisfaction. The spiteful spirit with which Mr. Blaine has been and is being followed, is in marked contrast with the generous manner in which Republicans have treated Mr. Cleveland since his election. The gla is house containing the Democratic leader’s private life ought to forbid the throwing of stones by any of his admirers. The fair fame of the American Republic can best be preserved by kindly allowing Mr. Cleveland’s past to sink into oblivion. LINCOLN'S ABSABBINATION. The attempt is renewed to show that Lincoln's assassination hail no political significance, but was done as personal revenge for the President’s failure to pardon a friend of the assassin, condemned to death. It is amazing that anybody ean be found to patiently listen to such stuff, and if the political party responsible for tho awful crime of his taking off hope to escape the odium that for nearly twenty years has attached to it on that account, it is hoping vainly. A moment’s reflection ought to convince any reasonable person that a conspiracy such as was concocted by Booth, Atzerot, Spangler, Dr. Mudd and Mrs. Surratt could hardly be engineered to avenge a wrong committed against but one; and, furthermore, it Is absurd to plead that Lincoln's assassination had no political significance, because its purpose was to so striko as to paralyze tho government, and to do this the lives of other prominent Republican officials were sought. Lincoln’s failure to pardon Captain Beall, the rebel spy, had nothing to do with the concerted attempt on the life of Secretary Seward and others. “Tho prominent ex-Union offioer in Baltimore,’’ or elsewhere, who gives utterance to such a theory as has once more been advanced to free the Democratic party from one of the awful crimes for whioh it is responsible, is probably a myth. If not a myth, ha should devote his time to some better end, for sow will eare to

listen to such preposterous nonsense. The blood of Lincoln, with that of Union soldiers, is on the hands of the Democratic party. All the fino-spun theories in the world will not remove it. The clearness of the steal of a seat in the Illinois Senate is not obscured by the means taken by the thieves to secure the fruits of their crime. About two hundred votes were returned for Leman, whereas there are affidavits from three hundred men in the precinct that they voted for him. The fact that Republican tickets may be found in the ballotbox to the number of two hundred having Leman’s name regularly printed on them, instead of being “pasted,” is additional evidence of the theft, and proves that these tickets have been put into the box since election day in order to have tho ballots tally with the “corrected” returns. Everybody who knows anything about elections knows that, if such a ticket as that now said to be found in the box was in circulation at the polls in any number on election day, the fact would have been known, and the voters warned about the fraud. But no one ever heard of such a mixed ticket, and there was never an idea in the minds of anyone that Leman ran behind his ticket or that Rand ran ahead of it, until it was found that the Legislature was a tie, and that the steal of the seat would give the Democrats a joint majority of two, and probably secure the election of the notorious Carter Harrison, whose tools had charge of the election in Chicago, and in particular had charge of all the machinery of this special precinct, both on the day of election and since. The steal is one of the most shameless and barefaced in political history. What kind of example have the mugwumps set the rising generation? They have assisted in the election of officials for whose integrity they do not care to vouch, and whom they did not respect before election, nor trust after it. Mr. Whitelaw Reid s secretary has been interviewed in regard to tho probability of his chief consenting to be a candidate for the United States senatorship. The secretary says that while Mr. Reid believes this office to bo in many respects the highest in the country, he, the secretary, does not think that he will accept it if offered, and adds that “while he does not believe m declining office before it is offered, he has certainly declined it whenever it has been offered under two administrations.” A private secretary usually knows a great many things, but it is hardly safe for one to risk his reputation on the prediction that his employer will decline to be United States senator, if the appointment is tendered to him with proper humility. Men fall sometimes from the tallest towers.

M. Czarnowski, a gentleman apparently of Polish extraction, is the originator and director of an international newspaper exhibition to be held at Nice, France, next month. He asks for every journal, especially of every daily newspaper published, including special or trade journals, and in any and every language. M. Czar nowski is evidently tilled with a lofty ambition to become the editor of a patent inside or a “plate-matter” journal. Rev. DeWitt Talmaoe addressed an assemblage of ministers on Monday, and informed them that the doctrine of evolution was out and out infidelity. He declared that there was no such thing as a survival of the fittest, and demolished Spencer and Darwin at one fell swoop. It is plain that Brother Talmage will permit no monkeying with his family tree. The Boston Herald peppers its editorial pages with warnings to its readers to prepare for the cholera which will visit them next spring. There is nothing like taking time by the forelock in gettiftg ready to receive guests, but the Herald might have waited until Thanksgiving Day hospitalities were past Indiana can discount the Arkansas meteor and easily beat it The latter simply killed a mao, while our Fountain county aerolite passed through a roof, ceiling, transfixed a man in bed, passed on through the floor and buried itself in the cellar. It had some style about it. Louisville has a thief who walk3 oft with featherbeds in broad daylight He would take pianos, but doesn’t care to be tortured by his daughter practicing on them. Dr. Talmaoe says Cyrus W. Field is a Chris tian. The reverend gentleman has evidently not consulted with the editors of tho New York Post It isn’t our year to be thankful, but let us be as thankful as we can. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Says Truth: “For a woman to receive a love letter and show it is as unfair as it is for a man to kiss and tell.” Mr. Bkkoh is wanted lit Cincinnati. The hardhearted owner of Maud S. has ordered her shoes removed, and she will have to go barefoot all winter. The Earl of Shrewsbury, who has recently engaged in the cab business in London, is the head of and the leading mover in the Young Men’s Christian Association in England. Mr. Gladstone was described by one member of the House of Commons last week as a “caekling old goose,” and Mr. Chamberlain was called by another a “political drunkard.” A Vassar girl has presented Grover Cleveland with a sponge cake of bor own baking. It is charged that she was bribed by the Republicans to do the deed. —New York Graphic. Mb. Cleveland, it is said, will attend the Now York-avenue Presbyterian Church in Washington. It was the presidential church of Buchanan and Lincoln. Rev. Dr. Bartlett is the pastor. The best shot in Dakota is said to be a woman, Mrs. Lowucr, wife of Colonel Lowner, of Fort Totten. Sho has killed 114 prairie chickens tills fall, and the first deer ever brought down from Moose river. One of tho principal graces of Sarah. Duchess of M arlborough, was a prodigious abundance of fine hair. One day at her toilet, to anger her heroic lord, she cut off her commanding tresses and flung them in his face. Captain Richard Kino has sold the largest ranch in America to a Now York company for $0,5001 OOt). The ranch is in Texas. It comprises upward of 800,000 acres, all under fence, and nearly 200,000 head of cattle, horses and sheep. Five out of the twenty-one Presidents were of Scotch-Irisli lineage—Jackson, Polk, Buchanan, Johnson and Arthur; two of Scotch, Grant and Hayes; one of Welsh, Jefferson, and ono of Dutch, Van Buren; the remaining twelvo being of English descent. Victor Napoleon Is said to bo leading the life of a model young man in Paris, avoiding all public places of resort, including the theaters, and devoting his

time to political studies. He has cut all his father’s friends because they did not treat Idm with sufficient consideration. Os all the cities of Peru but two, Lima and Callao, are lighted by gas. Steps are now being taken, however, to supply these, and other Peruvian oitiesnow dependent upon keroslne oil, with a system of electric lighting. Not only the streets, but publio buildings, stores and privato dwellings are to be illuminated by this means. Lady Florence Dixie recently sent a wreath of African immortelles to Balmoral with which to bedeck John Brown's grave, in Crathie ohurchyard, and the Queen has responded by sending Lady Florence Dixie a print of one of Landseer's pictures. The sentimental yearning for tho dead and gone gillie is beginning to pall on the public taste. Hon. Lkverett Salstonstali., of Massachusetts, says that Cleveland is the first man ho ever voted for for President who was elected. Mr. Salstonstali was an old-line Whig, and his first vote was for Scott. In 1860 he followed the fortunes of Bell and Everett. Discovering that there was no chance in this direction, he joined the fusion with the Douglas wing of the Democrats. Ex-Governor English, the richest man and the largest real estate owner in New Haven, prediots a rushing revival of all kinds of business in the spring. In his opinion the present stagnation is not phenomenal. Duriug presidential years a dullness in trade is usual, and there is no reason why this one should be an exception. Governor English has been an observer of presidential elections since General Jackson was elected in 18*28, and his judgment should count. Mr. Spurgeon told an interviewer tho other day that he thought, on the whole, the world had grown better since he first knew it. “There have boen many improvements,” he said, “especially in tho direction of temperance. A whole elass of men, who were very numerous when I first came to London, have become extinct. I refer to those good and respectable gentlemen who never got drunk, but were in the habit of getting—well, let us say tolerably mellow. You never come aoross one of those nowadays. ” A Democratic senator who saw ths Presidentelect lately says that he told the latter that there were many ladies in his State who had seen the report in the newspapers that he (Governor Cleveland; would be married this winter to a Buffalo lady, and were greatly Interested in the rumor. "Now, what shall I tell these ladies who are so anxious to know about this?” asked the senator. “The news papers say it is true,” coolly answered the President-elect, “and it is no use denying a newspaper report.” Whilst Frederick Morel, the great scholar and eminent printer, was employed on his edition of "Libanius” one day, he was told that his wife was suddenly taken ill. “I have only two or three sentences to translate, and then I will come and look at her." A second message informed him that she was dying. “I have only two words to write, aad 1 will be there as soor as you, ” replied the philosopher. At length he was told that his wife was dead. “lam very sorry for it, indeed,” he said, going on with his work, “she was a very honest woman.” Professor Vclpian, of Paris, on Saturday swal lowed a lot of cholera microbes and still lives. One of his patients died from eholera, and the bold experimentalist swallowed four centimetro cubes of the dejected matter in the form of pills coated with gum. This extraordinary experiment was made in the presence of Drs. Charpentler, Pinot and Marcus, of the Medical Faculty of Paris. Singularly enough, two guinea pigs that had received a cutaneous injection of the same matter both died. Not the slightest inconvenience has Dr. Vulpian felt. A London paper publishes a curious case of bigotry in real estate. A Mr. Daniel, of Strodleigh Court, Tiverton, recently advertised a farm to be let. The highest bidder was a Mr. Yeddell, and it was agreed that he should lease the farm. Before the lease was signed, however, he was asked if he were u churchman, and replied that he was a Wesleyan. Subsequently he received a letter from Mr. Daniel's agent, saying that Mr. Daniel had decided not to lease him the farm, as all his other tenants were churchmen, and no exception could be made.

CURRENT PRESS COMMENT. As Mr. BlainK wouldn't be senator from Pennsylvanio if he could, and couldn't if he would, we regard it as entirely safe to say that all discussion of him as a candidate is unprofitable, even for the now generally idle organs.—Philadelphia Times. There i no promising field for investment in the South, no hope for permanent prosperity there, till it is ready to deal properly with its laboring class as voters, not because they are negroes, but because they are citizens; to correctly count their votes when freely cast, not because thev are Republicans, but because to do so is to do right and to execute justice.—St Louis Globe-Democrat. The loyal forces have again sustained a repulse. They have lost the presidency, but they lose nothing else. They gain in the Senate, and they gain in the House. They are more united, compact and determined than ever, with more men in line than ever before, and a clearer purpose. Their leader, too, like General Giant, doos not retreat, but the next day deliberately moves forward into the enemy's country. No, friend; Appomattox is yet to come. The chances are that it will not bo reversed.—New York Tribune. Having failed to interdiot these [polygamous] marriages, the government is now embarrassed by the results of its negligence. The most that can be done, apparently, is to prevent, by sure penalties and punishments, tho contraction of further polygamous unions; to require a license, publioity, and a record of all marriages; to confirm and oxtend tho disqualifications of polygamists, as a deterrent force with the voung men; and to prohibit the immigration of lawbreakers recruited by the Mormon missionaries abroad. It is too late to cut up the upas tree by the roots, but it can be girdled and left to die.—Boston Herald. The greatest question regarding the negro race today is how its education may be advanced. There are not wanting numerous writers and speakers who contend that tho negro’s place is In the workshop and the field, instead of the school-room, and we recently gublished a charge to a jury by a circuit judge in outh Carolina, embracing the opinion that the negro is injured by education, and that schools ruin him for all useful purposes. It is to bo hooed.that the negro will not lack for friends. But what is to be looked for in his behalf from the Southern people whose expressions are of the class outliutid above/—Louisville Commercial. In most parts of the South the colored people are a s secure in their rights as they can be made by any natioual action. It only needs that the white citizens should divide, and make the competition for votes general, to settle the race issue then' for the present, leaving to education and other civilizing influences the completion of the work, in which time is an indispensable element. The Republican principles and policy, with respect to the conduct of the government. will commend themselves to the judgment and tho self-interest of Southern people, the same as they do to corresponding classes at tho North, when once tho old prejudices and fears have been removed. And it is in tho work of allaying these that the Republican party will find the most practical results. —Boston Advertiser. That the negroes are not without warrant for their fears is proved by tho recorded utterances of the lead ing members of the Democratic party, as well as by their long sustained attitude of hostility to the negro, both as a man and a citizen. Tho men who resisted the emancipation and the enfranchisement of the negro. and every act which has since bean introduced for his benefit, have not been suddently converted into his friend by the acquisition of authority in the Nation. They threatened long ago that the advent of the Democratic party to power would bo the signal for the disappearance of the political power of the negro, and now that they have seourod the power which they have long been reaching after, is not the negro justified in bis fears that they will rob him of what remains to him of political rights?—Philadelphia I*res3. One great source of danger is in privato and lodg-ing-houses. There should bo an immediate and thorough official inspection of the traps and plumbing of every dwelling and of every manufacturing and business house in the city. Wherever there is seworgas or foul odors the plague lurks.. Not a 6tone should bo loft unturned anvwhere if there is a possibility that it may conceal filth. Because we are on the threshold of the winter is no certain barrier against cholera. It is raging in Paris now.. It made its first visit to London in 1831, in midwinter, and prevailed in Paris tho next year before the spring had set in. Only extreme cold can check it. With us extreme cold never lasts long enough to be looked to as a barrier. We must look to ourselves aud our owu preparations to prevont the coming of the plague. —New York Truth. The tirao is fast passing when the Idiotic shotgun policy of a “white man’ government” and ‘‘keeping the nigger in his place’’ can remain seated on the safety-valve. The only way out of this threatening complication of race caste and ignorance is Washington’s way, emphasized In his farewell address, “Promote, as an obiect of prime importance, institutions for tho general diffusion of knowledge,” and Jefferson’s way—“lf a nation expects to'be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never waaaud never will be.” Ijet t.he appeal be made unceasingly to Casa**, till the legislators and the executive ofut American people hear it from tho people,

and, compelled by an aroused public sentiment, give national aid to publio education and ita allied moral forces. We have made the slave a free man. We must do that other thing—make the freedman a citizen with all that that implies.—Springfield Republican. The trim path for the Senate lies between unreasoning opposition to the one side and weak kneed complacence on the other. If Mr. Cleveland has but a tithe of the good sense with which his admirers credit him, there is no reason why his rolationswith the Senate should not be cordial ami mutually satisfactory. But if he goes into office with Mr. Hendricks's idea of bringing everything hack to “the good old days" of Andrew Jackson, the Republican Senate will probably disclose itself as an obstacle, it will be tho duty of the Senate to exercise a wise discrimination: to be firm when firmness is called for, but to be courteous and yielding when principles are not at stake. —Boston Journal. PESTIFEROUS MR. HENDRICKS. Another of the Mugwump Journals Spank the Man They Have Elected. Chicago News, tDem.) Ever since Thomas A. Hendricks sneaked under the platform at the July convention to give his friends in the Indiana delegation a chance to betray ex-Senator McDonald, and was subsequently tacked onto the tail of tho ticket, he has been a source of weakness and reproach to his party. During the campaign ono long apology had to be made for his unpatriotic reconi during the war and the goneral shiftlessness of his course since. Hundreds and thousands of republicans refused to vote the Democratic ticket because it included voting for Hendricks. “The great fraud of 1876,” repudiation of which h was supposed to represent, did not arouse the Democrats, and, if anything, repelled anti Blains Republicans. Only a firm faith in the sterling character of Cleveland’s reform and civil-service record was sufficient to overcome tho natural and justifiable distrust that Republicans felt for Hendricks. In New York, Now Jersey, and Connecticut his name was an element of weakness to his party. His supposed influence with Tammany was imaginary, as the returns proved. He wa3 only favered by Butler in the Democratic convention on tho anything-to beat-Cleveland policy, and when Butler was voted down and out of the convention he was through with Hendricks. It is true that Hendrick’s own States Indiana, went against Blaine, bat it would probably have gone the same way without him, and with an increased plurality, had McDonald been on the ticket Now that the election is over, Mr. Hendrick* is making himself unpleasantly and gratuitously numerous. His speech at Brooklyn the other night was in the very worst possible taste. For the moment he seemed to imagine that he had been elected President. He could not seem to say enough about the glory of the victorious banner of Cleveland and Hendricks, with the emf hasis on the little end. In a fine giow of loosier eloquence he announced that he did not believe in a civil service dependent on a schoolmaster’s examination, but “as it was In the day* of Andrew Jackson." There is just one trait of Old Hickory that the people of the United States want Grover Cleveland to take into the White House with him, and that is tho power to say and mean “No, by the Eternal!" when such bourbons as Hendricks come nosing aroung the publio crib. During the campaign just passed the New York Tribune warned Republicans who were inclined to vote for Cleveland that they should remember that if elected his would be “only one life” between the presidency and Thomas A. Hendricks. It was the public confidence that that one life, with its strength of will and honorable purpose, would always stand between the presidency and Hendricks that elected Grover Cleveland. The Daily News sincerely hopes the report is true that when Mr. Hendricks visited Gov. Cleveland last Saturday he was given to understand that the President-elect was displeased with his Brooklyn utterances, and that the cabinet would bo constructed with a view of satisfying the country- and not Mr. Hendricks. The early return from Albany of the Indiana Mark Meddle would warrant the belief that his interview with Gov. Cleveland was a disappointment. When President Cleveland takes hi* seat in Washington he should be careful to usa Thomas A. Hendricks as a cushion.

THE SUPREME COURT BENCH* Bradley to Retire, Provided a Republican 11 Appointed. Washington Special to New York World. The retirement of Justice Bradley, of the Stipreme Court, depends entirely upon his own froo will. He is is a very ardent partisan, and would hold on until death rather than resign his position to a Democrat. He is quite well advanced in life, and it is feared that if he does not resign tills winter the chance of a Republican getting in the place would be very slight, indeed. In tho first place, Judge Bradley might not live through one Democratic administration, and there is no certainty, if he did, that the country would at that time be willing to restore the Republicans to power. So it is generally agreed that the Justice is to ask for retirement sometime during the winter, so as t* give the appointment of his successor te Sir. Arthur. It is now understood that Mr. Bradley will ask to be retired early in January. There are a number of men who are very anxious for the place and are doing all they can to secure the prize. Brewster has had his longing eyes upon the place for some time, but his appointment is entirely out of the question. Judge Uresham has been anxious to wind up his career on the Supreme bench. He is a man in whom Mr. Arthur has the most oerfect confidence. He was originally presented to the attention of the President by David Davis. Mr. Davis has always had much influence with the President. When Bradley retires Judge Gresham will be the most prominent among those who will bf considered by the President There is another reason that will act in favor of the Judge with the President Mr. Arthur believes Mr. Blaine may have some chance or hope of securing the nomination of his party four years from now. The placing of Gresham upou the Supreme benoh would give him such promiueuce as to materially strengthen an adverse element to Mr. Blaine. CLEVELAND’S DISCOVERER. Something About the Man Who Named Him for Ail the Offices He Has Won. New York Special. Os tho gentleman known as the “discoverer* of Cleveland, who named him successively for sheriff, mayor. Governor and President, a New York acquaintance said, to day: “Dan N. Lockwood was a member of Congress a few years ago. He married a Miss Brown, daughter of a large furniture manufacturer in Buffalo. Old Mr. Brown had the greatest love for his son-in-law, and when he was called to join the innumerable caravan of Browus gone before, he left an estate valued at $4,000,000. One million he willed to Lockwood and one to Lockwood’s wife, and loft the other two millions to tho rest of the family. Lockwood is not a great orator, nor is he remarkable for particular shrewdness, yot lie is successful, and when it whs decided that Cleveland’s name would be used in the convention, Lockwood was selected to present it, although Col. John R. Fellows, William Dorsheimer and other eloquent men sought the honor. Lockwood’9 words were fervid, heartfelt and to the point, and every one felt that he meant every word he uttered in Cleveland behalf, and when he finished and his powerful frame trembled with emotion I grasped his hand in congratulation. The eagerness with which people from every delegation crowded about him to express satisfaction at his words convinced one that his efforts wore not futile and that Cleveland would surely be nominated. “Surely Lockwood is entitled to Cleveland’s gratitude. Four times had he brought him before as many different conventions, and four times he has mado him the choice of the conventions, and each time with a proud majority, and each office that Cleveland has held he has been obliged to resign to accept one of a higher trust.” Bob Ingersoll’a Fee in the Star-Route Cases. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. While ex-Senator Dorsey was hore in attendance on the cattle convention he was asked one day how much he paid Bob IngersoU for his defense iu the star-route trials. “Well,” said he, “it was very curious how that was (lone. From tho boginuing to the end of the trial Ingersoll never asked me for a dollar. One day, after I had been acquitted on the second trial, I met Ingersoll, and I asked him how much 1 owed him. He at first declined to talk about it, saying ho had no charge to make, and he didn’t care ii ho never got a cent. I asked him to walk a few squares with me, and we wout to tho Safe Deposit building. 1 unlocked mV box, and took oufc a 4-per-cent, government bond for SIOO,OOO and gave it to him. He put it in his pocket and wo walked away, and have not referred to tUe sub* ject since.”