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THE DAILY JOURNAL. RY JSO. V. SEW & SON. BATUBDAY, DECEMBER 6. 1884. TWELVE PAGES. THIS INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can be found at tho following pianos; LONDON—American Exchange in Europe, 449 ■Strand. PARTS—American Exchange in Paris, 85 Boulevard des Capucines, NEW YORK—St. Nicholas and Windsor liotela CHlCAGO—ralnaor House CINCINNATI—J. R Hawley & Cos., 154 Vino Street IiOTTISVITiLE—C. T. Dearing. northwest, corner Third and Jefferson streets. ST. LOUTS—Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern Hotel The Sunday .Journal. The issue of the Sunday Journal to-morrow should command the attention of readers and patrons. It will have many attractive features. The Sunday Journal, sold for three cents, has the largest and best constituency of any Sunday paper iu the State. It is the people's paper. Rev. Henry Ward Beecher threatens to tell what he “knows" about the Tilton affair same day. “An ounce of civet, good apothecary." _______________ There have been 8,000 cases of measles in Cleveland during the past seven months, with 175 deaths from that disease in the last past sixty days. Thf.RE was but one man selected President on the 4th of last month, and his name was Grover Cleveland. Able statesmen who are preparing to run the country would do well to bear this in mind.—Cincinnati Enquirer. Et tu, Brute? —Thomas A. Hendricks. It is greatly to be hoped that Gen. Sherman will find that alleged letter of Jeff Davis to a Southern general, now a senator, in which the arch traitor proposed a Southern dictatorship for the country, with himself as dictator. Joseph, alias “Mickey" Mackin, of Chicago, refuses to testify relative to the fraudulent Republican tickets he caused to be printed. He pleads that he does not want to incriminate himself. Let the prosecution proceed. Now that the toils seem to be tightening around “Joseph" Mackin as one of the men who stuffed the ballot-box at Chicago, it is developed that his name is not Joseph, but Michael Mackin. A rose of that kind smells about as sweet with one name as another. Grover Cleveland may conclude to go “slow,” but wait till the Democratic tiger breaks loose. The fellow yolked up with the steer won't be a circumstance to the Governor as the animal leads him at a break-neck pace. ‘ ‘Here we come, blank our fool souls! Somebody head us off!” Asa specimen of the “reconciliation" we are promised in this new era, be kind enough to read the opinion of the Shreveport (La.) Times of Gen. Sherman. It calls him “brutal,” “vile," “a miserable hound,” because he did not go with the South into rebellion; “a swashbuckler,” “a mercenary’" and “abrute.” Oh, the South—that is, the political, rebf| old South, which is uppermost in the Democratic success—is such a mild-mannered, gentle, sweet-tempered, “reconstructed” old tiger.

Thf. latest scheme for getting rid of the department clerks who might hold over under civil-service rules, is to insist that all who were in office before the passage of the law shall be subjected to an examination as searching as that provided for new applicants. Not being fresh from their books, it is expected that many cannot stand tlio test and will, therefore, lose their places. The fact that long service has made them thoroughly proficient in their duties will no# be considered for a moment by the promoters of this plan. If Mr. Cleveland loves sweet simplicitly so much that he desires to ride in a street oar to the Capitol, read his inaugural and go to work without any fuss, why doesn’t he plant his number-ten foot down and say that he will do just that way. This is an invaluable opportunity for a display of that Spartan firmness which he is said to possess; and being thus shown fit the beginning of his career would do much id strike terror into the ranks of officeseekers who hope to bend bim to their will. Let Mr. Cleveland brace up and walk to the White House if he wants to. Ik answer to a question from Carbon, Ind., whether a man could hold an office upon his "first papers,” as they are commonly called, wo have to say: The Constitution of the United States and of the State fixes certain qualifications for specified officers; as, for instance, President, Vice-president, senators and representatives in Congress, Governor, Lieutenant-governor and State senators and representatives. All these must be citizens of the United States, which, of course, they are not until they complete their naturalization. But section 104 of the Constitution says: “No person shall be elected or appointed as a county officer who shall not be a county elector; nor anyone who shall not have been an inhabitant thereof during one year next preceding hiß appointment.” Section 84 gives as qualifications of an elector: “Every male of foreign birth, of the ago of twenty-one years and upwards, who shall have resided in the United States one year, and shall have resided in this State six months,” etc., “and shall have declared his intention to become a citizen of the United States, conformably to the laws of tho'United

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States on the subject of naturalization,” etc. So it will be seen that a man cun be a county officer on his “first papers,” if he has been a resident of the county for twelve months prior to his appointment, as a man is an “elector” who has only taken out his “first papers,” and has not completed the process of naturalization. .'1 THE SUNDAY JOURNAL. The popularity of the Sunday Journal steadilyadvances. It is by far the best Sunday paper ever published in the city. The number, for to-moirow will contain, among other special features, a Canadian sketch, by Hon. Benjamin S. Parker; a sketch of a visit to a Chinese joss-house in Portland, Ore.; Rev. J. C. Fletcher's regular letter from Italy; a sketch by Capt. J. W. Tindall, entitled “Sweet Beulah Land;” an article of special interest to parents and girls, by Mary Estelle Cardwell, and poems by Freeman E. Miller and Ida May Davis. These are all Indiana writers, and the articles are written for the Sunday Journal exclusively. Besides these there will be the usual miscellany, editorial, local news, society and musical gossip, and all the regular features of telegraphic news, markets, railway news, dramatic review and sporting matters. The Sunday Journal is a paper for the home and the family; it caters to the best tastes of all members; even the little ones are not forgotten. Political discussion is given a rest for the day, so that tho paper appeals to the general public for support without respect to political faith. The circulation of the Sunday Journal enlarges every week, and its value as an advertising medium is constantly enhancing. The popular price of three cents makes it the people’s paper. HIS WAR RECORD. If there was any particular section of the Democratic party of the country in the States not actually in rebellion more thoroughly saturated with treason than any ojher, it was the Democratic party of Indiana, and of that treasonable Democratic party Mr. Thomas A. Hendricks was the particular, conspicuous representative and exponent. So patent was this fact that in 1865, at the time of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, Governor Morton and Joseph A. Wright were forced to interpose to protect Mr. Hendricks from the fury of an outraged loyal people when he attempted to open lips which had steadily been used in detraction of and opposition to that work in the prosecution of which Mr. Lincoln became the victim of a Democratic assassin. But for the personal intervention of Governor Morton and Governor Wright it is probable that Mr. Hendricks would not have been in a position to-day to affront the intelligence and insult the patriotism of those people of Indiana and of the country who can remember back to 1861. There is nothing more monstrous in history than for Thomas A. Hendricks to stand up now and prate of his record during the war of the rebellion. The secession Legislature of 1863 knew its man, and the Democrats of that body unanimously elected him to represent them in the United States Senate, which he did in so satisfactory a manner to them that he has ever remained “the favorite son” of the Indiana Democratic party. It was this Legislature that elected Mr. Hendricks which attempted to overturn the State government and place tho military power of the State in the hands of three rebel-sympathizing State officers.

It was in this Legislature that resolutions were introduced calling a convention of States, including the Confederate States, to meet at Nashville on the Ist day of June, 1863, “torestore the Union as it was,” and an armistice was demanded that such a convention might meet. It was the Legislature of 1903, which killed, by a strict party vote, a resolution declaring “that the sacred cause in which our patriotic soldiers fell shall never be given up.” It was in the Legislature of 1863, of which Mr. Hendricks was the chosen representative, that a resolution was introduced and referred declaring that “Indiana will never, voluntarily, contribute another man to bo used for such wicked, inhuman and unholy purposes,” and fifty seven Democrats in the House voted for the reference. Mr. Hendricks became the representative of this type of Indiana Democracy in the United States Senate. At Shelbyville, after his election, he made a speech to his old friends and neighbors, in which he said: i / : “I make no appeals to men to volunteer, as I would not say go where I was not going myself. * * At any moment lam ready for compromise and adjustment upon the basis of a restored Union—to give the South all the rights under the Constitution, and such guarantees as may make these rights secure. * * If Congress should take a bundle of switches and switch them [the President and his advisers] all out of the White House, it would be well for the people; but until it is done it will not be well.” On March 25, 1863, at a meeting held at the Bates House on the request of tho authorities, for the purpose of inducing leading Democrats to use their influence to suppress the prevailing resistance to the draft, Mr. Hendricks said: < “The majority of the people of Indiana are desperate under the despositism of tho government, and no one can tell how long it will be endured.” Before and after this time the Democrats bad resisted the arrest of deserters, resisted the enrolling officers, and on the 18th of June, in that year, Fletcher Freeman, an enrolling officer, was shot dead. In April, 1864, Mr. Hendricks was one of two senators from the Northern States who voter! against the thirteenth for the abolition of slavery. • On tho 14th of September, 1864, Mr, Hcn-

dricks was announced to speak at Soymour, in a poster which called — “All who were in favor of peace; all who desired to be free from the death grip of this wicked, imbecile, tyranical administration, its arbitrary and illegal arrests, and its draft and conscription laws, by which peaceful citizens were dragged from their homes and all the endearments of domestic life to butcher and be butchered, to come out and hear this advocate of peace and reunion.” Is it possible that the Democrats of Jackson county did not know Mr. Hendricks and understand his sentiments and attitude respecting the war? If they did not, Mr. Hendricks never took the trouble to disabuse their minds. In 1862, Mr. Hendricks made a speech in this city to the Democratic State convention, in which he said: “The first and highest interest of the Northwest is the restoration and preservation of the Union upon the basis of the Constitution—and the deep devotion of the Democracy to the cause of the Union is shown by its fidelity in the past; but if the failure, and folly, and wickedness of the party in power reuder a union impossible, then the mighty Northwest, must take care of herself and her own interests.” In 1864 Mr. Hendricks was present in the city of Chicago when the Democratic national convention passed a resolution declaring the war a failure and demanding a cessation of hostilities, which resolution was received with cheers inside the rebel lines when the newspapers containing the proceedings of the convention reached the Confederacy. Mr. Hendricks confesses that he opposed the drafts. Mr. Hendricks opposed the enlistment of colored troops to fight for the Union and the federal government. Mr. Hendricks said, that Congress should force Mr. Lincoln to take back the emancipation proclamation, and for one ho would vote to make him do it. Mr. Hendricks was cheek by jowl with the most malignant “copperheads” of the Northern States, and was universally regarded as one of them. Mr. Hendricks never uttered one word against the machinations of the Knights of the Golden Circle, which contemplated the murder of Governor Morton, the release of the rebel prisoners at Camp Morton, the sacking of Indianapolis, and a union with the rebel forces in the field under command of Kirby Smith. Mr. Hendricks was the chosen representative of those Democrats at home of whom Colonel Cyrus L, Dunham wrote to Governor Morton, under date of Feb. 4, 1883: “Vigorous measures must be adopted, or our army, under the influence of the scoundrels and traitors at home * * * will be demoralized and destroyed.” Mr. Hendricks was in perfeot accord and sympathy with those Democrats who, a number of Indiana colonels, among them at least three loyal Democrats, said might have to be shot by the boys at the front before the rebels in arms could be conquered. Mr. Hendricks so conducted himself during the war as to win from George William Curtis the statement that he “had done all in his power to destroy the government.” This is the man who now flouts himsolf in the face of history and the American people as a loyal man, the bosom friend of Abraham Lincoln, whom he wanted “switohed out of the White House"—and who was finally shot out of it by a Demoorat in the interests of the South —and who rouses the hot scorn and indignation of every man of decent self-respect by saying “my oolleague, Col. Lane, voted with me!”

This man, whose record is rank with disloyalty and offensive with treason, has the effrontery to throw his smirking hypocrisy over the grave of Henry 8. Lane, his senior in the Senate, a senator and patriot whose memory iB loved and cherished by every loyal citizen of Indiana. “Voted with met” forsooth! Mr. Hendrioks should be content to rest in quiet, enjoying the fruits of a victory won for him by his friends in the South, by means of treason against free suffrage as black and bloody as that they committed against free government in the years when Thomas A. Hendricks gave them aid and comfort. Even in this “era of reconciliation” there are some things the temper of the loyal people of this oouritry will not calmly stand, and one of them is to see Thomas A. Hendrioks masquerading as a friend of the government in the prosecution of the war against rebellion. Will the Journal he kind enough to state what custom and law is with referenoe to cases of this kind! It soems to us that In all fairness Mr. Shively ought not to be subjected to such severe criticism uuless he bas violated custom and law. This we do not believe he has done.—South Bend Times. This with respect to the petty, oontemptible little gouge whereby Mr. Shively’s pay account is made up from the 20th of October, the date of Major Calkins's resignation, al though he was not elected until the 4th of November, and did not take his seat until the Ist of December. We do not care what the law and custom are. If they are in accordance with this practice they should be changed at once. The practice is dishonest and outrageoitsly small. It would not be tolorated for a moment in private business. Mugwumpian opinion is not in great domand, but sometimes it is interesting to know what apology they offer, and how they feel. That prince of mugwumps, tho man who would have wept on Cleveland's bosom in sheer sympathy, Ilenry Ward Beecher, says of the President-elect: “Ho made a good sheriff, mayor, and an exceptional Governor, but a man may be a good sheriff and mayor, and an exceptional Governor, and yet not a good President, just uh a man may tie a good colonel but not a good general. How Cleveland will act as ooin-inander'-in-chief is purely a matter of specula-

tion. Os course, I have no idea who will compose the Cabinet, but I hope Mr. Cleveland will give nothing •to the independents. We went in for right, and as soon as the disinterestedness is taken away down goes our independence. No, this country proposes holding Mr. Cleveland and the Democratic party responsible for the new administration.” Mr. Beecher is right in the main. Certainly, no man who values his opinion will venture a prediction Os what kind of President he will make. The observation that the country will hold Mr. Cleveland and the Democratic party responsible is about as brilliant as that of Mr. Cleveland when he said the land always remained. Great men, these reformers. IT is difficult to understand why Mr. John R. McLean, editor of the Cincinnati Enquirer, should be permitted to stand iu the way of George H. Pendleton’s appointment to a Cabinet position under President Cleveland. It seems to be generally understood that Mr. McLean has been a member of the grand old Democratic party only since Nov. 5, 1884. —Chicago News. It is possible that this was intended as humorous. If not, it ought to he. Tho Democratic party has no use for men like George H. Pendleton, except to scalp him for engineering the civil-service bill. He was relegated to the rear in Ohio for that. Pnop. Eastman’s widow has made it all right with the community. She is the Poughkeepsie lady of somo fifty summers who created a sensation last week by marrying a youth of twenty - two, who was a pupil in a business college of which she is the proprietor. Mrs. Eastman, now Mrs. Gaines, explains to the world, through her inti mate friends, that the college, which she inherited from the departed Eastman, has been a source of great trouble to her, and that she needed a man to help her maintain her rights. Mr. Gaines appearing to be about such a man as she wanted, she married him. It was a business transaction; they knew what they were doing, and regard the matter entirely as their own affair. Considered in the light of a business partnership, arranged by a business woman connected with a business college, no impertinent outsider has a right to criticise. This is an advanced age, and when lovely woman insists upon entering a business it is the custom to grant her the privilege. Mr. and Mrs. Gaines aro excused. Some men don't know when they are well off. This is particularly true of John T. Norris, of Loveland, O. He was arrested for wrecking a passenger train at that place, but was discharged for want of evidence. This did not satisfy John, and he wrote to the authorities threatening arrest for false imprisonment. The result must have been surprising, for the officers came forthwith and rearrested him. His letter, compared with a memorandum book picked up at the scene of the crime, showed the ehirography to be the same. Mr. Norris is not as aggressive as he was. The Philadelphia elite are about to give a new and unique social entertainment, called a “kir misa” If the elite read the newspapers they will be pained to discover that ignorant and uncultivated editors are confounding kirmiss with the new-fangled anti-dyspeptic drink, and allude to the coming event ns a koumiss. Os course, every intelligent man ought to know the difference between the two, but some people are so stupid. A Detroit preacher, in a sermon denouncing the stage, advances the interesting theory that “when a business man goes to the theater to laugh off his cares you may bo sure he has cheated somebody during the day.” Probably this drama haling pastor has encountered some uuregenerate merchant who has refused to make the “usual reduction to the clergy,” and is endeavoring to wreak a sweet and sanctified revenge. Mr. Charles J. Fuss, of Parsons, Kas., was buried the other day. Complaint not stated, further than no less than 350 Philadelphia physicians had taken a whack at his case. Ho will fuss no more. Iv a patent lawyer can “cut out” a millionaire’s son and elope with an aristocratic belle, of what deeds of valor and love may not a regular attorney—the unpateuted article, so to speak—be capable? Now that all the papers have published Tennyson's “Freedom,” what is the press opinion of it? How will it compare with, say, something you contributed to the waste-basket? Kentuckians will now make a rush for Rhode Island. Judge Blackwood has decided that liquor accounts can not be collected by law. To tho Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: First—What year did the ‘bill abolishing slavery in the United States pass the Senate? Second—Was this during or after the war? Who were the senators from Indiana at that time? Third—Did any senators from any free or Northern States vote against that bill? If so, who were they, and what States were they from? Indianapolis, Dec. 5. E. H. and. First—lß64 Second—During the war. Third — Hendricks, of Indiana, and McDougull, of California. To tho Editor of tho Indianapolis Journal: When does the law prohibiting tho killing of quails come into force? R a. w. Indianapolis, Dec. 5. Dec. 20 to Oct 15.

ABOET PEOPLE AND THINGS. Thk story of six thousand bottles of wine in the late Senator Anthony's cellar, is a bit of fiction. It is now understood that Matthew Arnold resigned his position as inspector of English schools to become an expecter of American money in return for a new dreuly and dreary lecture. Thk Rev. Dr. John Hall, of New York oity, Is ahead of hia clerical contemporaries in having a genuine live English lark in his study. The rest of 'em have to go away from home for a lark. A forty-ton rock fell from tlio arch of the natural bridge of Virginia the other morning, with a noise like the crack of doom. This is the first fall on record since the bridge was struck by lightning in 1779. Thk elaborate icing that imitates frost and ico on Christmas cards is done by scatteriug particles of ground glass over gummed cards. Tho tiny atoms penetrate the lungs of the poor girls employed in tlio manufacture, and either kill them or render them soon helpless invalids. "You are very late sendingyour evening mail out," said an editc-r to his daughter, when he camo homo at 2in the morning aud met a tihnid, shrinking young man between the frontdoor and tho gate. “Not at all,” answered the thougheful girl, “Charles Henry is now a morning edition.” “Thk nicest old lady that ever you saw Was' littlo Miss Nancy Mehitaboi Morei Bo cunning and small She was only as tall Asa child of twelve years, no morn; And she lived all alone In a house of her own, A gingerbread house, with a chocolate floor.” An Irish Catholic priest has written to a Dublin paper condemning holding of wakes, and making some startling disclosures. He says that upon oue occasion

he visited a wake in a fashionable quarter of Dublin, jvhen ho found the corpse placed In a sitting position, an umbrella tied over its head, while drunken mon lay about all over the room. Wakes, he says, often last four days, and he advocates the building of mortuary chapels, where the dead can bo properly waked. Mrs. Mask Hopkins will spend upwards of sl,* 000,000 upon her now residence at Great Barrington. It. is to be built of blue stone, will be 170 by 140 feet in dimensions, and will bo finished in three years. Those who have seen the plans say that it will bo the most magnificent residence in the country. Queen Victoria is now 05. King Christian of Denmark is 60, and his wife, the Queen, is a year older. The Emperor of Austria Is 54 and his wife is 46, while King Leopold of Belgium, 40 years old, has a wife aged 50. The Sultan of Turkey is 42, King Oscar of Sweden 55, Louis of Portugal 46, Humbert of Italy 40, and President Grevy of Franco 71. The attention of Mr. St, John is called,to a receipt for tho manufacture of Irish poteen by Matthew Brady, a Dublin distil lor. It is for ten gallons: "Ten ounces of prunes or French plums, one and a quarter ounoes of green tea, two ounces of orris root, onoquarter ounce of angelica root, one-half ounce of sulphuric acid, one-quarter ounce of cream of tartar, tincture of vanilla, essence of almond." There is nothing "alcoholic" looking about that. Many British manufacturers eutertain the notion that anything is good enough for the colonies, and Mr. Arthur Clayden, writing from New Zealand, says: "I have again and again had pointed out to me the vast superiority of American work to English. A coach assured me that he had long stood out against American fittings, but had at last to yield to necessity. Tho English makers would not, or could .not, come up to the American lightness and finish." Apropos of the colon following tho abbreviation of the first name of Ben: Perely Poore, which his younger journalistic brethren and the '‘intelligent compositor" at large do not always treat with becoming reverence, the Major successfully defends its use by citing the custom of tho early fathers of the Republic and their stately contemporaries, whose autographs continually are found in such form as the following: Geo: Washington, Thos: Jefferson, ot ah In his extensive collection he has hundreds of such autographs. Op tho two Alexander Dumases, pere et fils, Edmund Yates tells the story that when the first successful novel of the son appeared, the elder wrote to his son, as though to a stranger, congratulating him on his book, and adding that ho ought to know something about the difficulties of novel-writing, as he had himsolf been guilty of several. Alexander fils replied in the same spirit, thanking his correspondent for his •congratulations, of which he felt specially proud, as coming from ono of whom he had often heard his father speak in the highost terms. Mrs. Cowdkn Clarke's admirable concordance of Shakspearo owes it conception to a more accident. It was in July, 1829, when Mrs. Cowden Clarke was sitting at tho breakfast table of some friends in Somersetshire, that regret was expressed that there existed no concordance to Shakspearo. Eager in every* thing, Mrs. Cowden Clarke resolved then and there that she would write this desired concordance. And that very forenoon, while joining her friends in awalk through the fields, she took with her a volume of the poet and a pencil, and jotted down the first lines her book under B. She says: "I had a separate portfolio for each letter of tho alphabet. These portfolios were ranged round in front of mo on my writing table. I opened my father’s copy of Shakspoare at my side, having two pages in view at a time. I took tho first word that, presented itself at the top of tho first page (wo will suppose this to begin with ‘a’) and entered each word commencing with the same letter on the MS. page which was headed by the word, and placed it in its respective portfolio. Going thus alphabetically through tho whole of the two spread-open pages, until every salient tvord therein was duly culled and registered."

CUItRENT PRESS COMMENT. One thing, at any rate, should be attended to at once. The land laws should be ao amended at the present session of Congress as to prevent the further taking up of government lands by adherents of the conspiracy against the Nation and its system. We should at once cease th us to aid A pubiio enemy to - establish a hostile power within our borders. There is a chance for statesmanship to win laurels in this matter; and there is need for active leadership on the Mormon question in Congress.—New York Cummer* cial Advertiser If tho world was just makings start, and every man and every nation starting fair and on an equal footing, the iaissez faire theory might be well and universally applied to all transactions of a business nature; but, as the world is pretty old, and pooplo live undor greatly varying conditions, its application must ho mollified by common sense. Statesmen must study practical political economy, which is abstract political economy modified by an existing condition of things which aoquired a troublesome permanency before political economy became a science.—Louisville Commercial. In suspending the further coinage of silver dollars, the United States would take the same position as that assumed several years ago by the bi-metallic nations of tho Latin Union—i. e., tho p’.-ucipie would be maintained, silver circulation would be protected, but we would stop our further enforced investment in silver metal, and make it an object of as much importance to Europe and Germany as to the bi-metallic nations to help maintain the monetary position of silver. At all events, the case oould not have been seriously prejudiced by a provisional suspension of coinage.—Louisville Courior-Journal. Thk Republican party has not controlled tho legislative branch of the government but two years since 1875. and during those two years its hold upon both Senate and House was so slight that it could ilot count on a majority in tho former or mustor a quorum in the latter. Therefore, it may be fairly assorted that since what Judge Tourgee styles "the revolution by which the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth amendments of tho Constitution wore practically nullified throughout the South," tho Republicans have not had sufficient strength in Congress to prevent the present condition of things.—Boston Journal. ThkRR is a large number of Republicans who labor under the delusion that patronage is essential to tho maintenance of the efficiency of party organization. Such is not the case. Tho Republican party has, on the whole, becu rathor weakened than strengthened by patronage. In the years that it is to bo in the minority we believe that it will ho ablo to show as great vigor and power of organization ns it over has. On the other hand, we believe that the Democratic managers will be 80 eager for oflioe that the disappointment of the many will seriously interfere with the harmony of the party, and the eucooss of the organization.—Boston Journal. Wk enter protest against the progress of tho tyrannical d'sorimination against the blacks: the usurpation of the political power that belongs to the black Republicans of the South, for cap I wring ilia high places in the government; and we point to the question raised bv the wrougfuloiection of a President and the majority of the House as tho one that will swallow up all others; and we tell the timoroua persons who are pleading that there shall ba nothing said by anybody about anything that is unpleasant, that they avo deficient in common understanding, and must make up their minds to ivituoss with composure the majestic inarch of events.—Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. Thk Mexicans, especially tho business men, have faith in Diaz. They believe in his honesty no less than in his capacity, and ho will promptly restoro tho confidence impaired by .the administration of Gonzales. It is a miatake, however, lo suppose there has boon any abatement of the friendship between Diaz and Gonzales, whielt they consecrated anew when tiicy embraced upon the blood-stained ground of Tcxacoac and knew that they had caught from the revolution new life for Mexico. Dial is the superior statesman, and seems to better understand the needs of his country at home and abroad. His first administration gives warrant of the excellence of the one upon which he has just entered.—Chicago Inter Ocean. Wk have more than once expressed the opinion that the location of the Indian Territory was unfortunate for the development of the Southwest, as it is obstructive to settlement and commuuication between important States. With great anil populous Stales arising all round it. the difficulty of maintaining iU exclusive character will increaso overy year. But this is a question for tho government to settle. If over it is to tie thrown open to the world, the chango mast he effected in an open and public manner, under tho proper sanctions of law. Pending this event, not even tho compliance of local councils should be considered sufficient authority to enable private parties to acquiro control of valuable land within Its boundaries. —SI. Louis Republican. TIfKP.U arc a large number of removals to bo made, of course, and they are of officers who have prostituted their positions to politics, but that the Presi-dent-elect is going to work to remove all officials simply because they ivro Republicans is not reasouable. From tho utterances lie has rna.tr it is more probab’o that Mr.' Cleveland will content himself by waiting until the terms of the oflioers expire, and then fill them with Democrats, in the meantime discovering who would be the best appointees. While the change fs making sloivlv, there, wilt be many burning and broken hearts- Those who are applying cannot lie made to understand that it should not all be accomplished in a day, aid they will bo in condition p* warmth before next to makei Washimrtou a sduuner resort all WiutW.—-luUvtllo Commercial.

HOW INDIANA WAS CARRIED* Evidence Tending to Show Wholesale Corruption in St. Joseph Count)’. Republican Poles Sell Their Votes for $8 Apiece—Lying Promises Made by Bourbons—Laborers Out of Work. South Rend Letter in Chicago Tribune.' The effect of the comingchnngeir the national administration is not what was tlr ;tred by the Democrats of this section. 'Tho uncertainty with which tho future is forecast has led to the heroic treatment of a reduction iu the number of employes and the amount of output at all the large manufacturing establishments of this place. The same news is heard from Elkhart, near here, and from Indianapolis, Terre Haute and Fort Wayne. Thousands of men are out of employment, and dissatisfaction is spreading. The Democrats are wondering whether they have not been blessed with more than they desired, and are trying in various ways to escape the responsibility that properly belongs to them. They have plucked the fruit and now they must eat it. The Studebaker wagon and carriage factories are running a force somo hundreds short, the Singer Sewing-machino Works have shut down, and there has been a lockout at the Oliver Chilled-plow Works for several weeks. At the latter place a small force is now employed, possibly 100, instead of 1,200 to 1,500, and it is not likely that a very large force will be called into service for a month or two to come. It is said that all these establishments have full stocks of manufactured goods, and they do not wish to produce more until tho country is in a more settled condition and tho policy of tho new President lias assumed definite shape. Partisan feeling is still strong, and the publio mind continues to dwell upon tho election, which is believed to have been carried here, as in the four other manufacturing places named, by fraud, misrepresentation ami the use of money. In this county the wonder as to how a Democratic majority could have been secured in a Republican community would be very great If the answer to the problem was not so easy. The whole thing was due to the use of money. Almost the entire Polish vote, amounting, at the least, to 700 or 800, and a number of colored votes, appear to have been bought Leading Republicans, and many Democrats, do not hesitate to affirm it. At an early hour of the day of election it began to be suspected that votes were being purchased, and evidence to that effect has been steadily accumulating day after uay. In various ways it has leaked out that about $15,000 was distributed here, and the peoplo are now upon the point of taktng some official action, with the hope of punishing the corruptionists. With the exception of one or two instances, this county has always gone Republican. A largo number of ignorant Poles, who are employed in the extensive manufacturing establishments, have always been regarded with more or less suspicion, though they claimed to be Republican to a man. This time they were believed to bo solid for the Republican ticket, but the Democrats concentrated all their attention upon them. Kegs of beer were sent to their houses ana to their clubs, aad the palm. 4 of the leaders among them were freely sugared. It is not contended that every man Who voted the ticket got money, but the leaders were well paid, and many of the rank and file who could not be reached took the money at second hand and voted the ticket. Some were reached through the church, where a sermon was preached the Sunday before the election inciting them against Mr. Blaine and tho Republican party as being hostile to the Catholics arid the Catholic Church. The text for this sermon was, of course, taken from Burchard and his nonsensical alliteration about “Hum, Romanism and Rebellion.”

OPF.N BRIBERY. This, of itself, would have had no qreat off eat if it had not been subsequently united with some very tangible and concrete evidence of Democratic affection in tho shape of beer and money. In order to accomplish their purposes the more nicely, the Democrats began shrewdly by employing Poles as ticket-peddlers and drivers of wagons used to carry voters to the polls, and they have not attempted to disguise the payment of money to these, great numbers of whom gathered about the doors of a large shoe establishment the day after the election to get their pay, that establishment being under the oontrol of a retired business man Os considerable means who ranks as one of the Democratic bosses. Envelopes containing $8 each are said to have been paid out there. Os these facts there is not a particle of doubt, and leading men can bo found who will swear to them. A witness can be found, it is said, who will swear he saw money handed to largo numbers of Poles under the circumstances described, though lie does not know what the money wag given to them for. Tho explanation given by the man who paid it out, was that it was for “work” done election-day, meaning such work as peddling tickets and escorting voters to the polls. The mere employment of a man to peddle tickets has no significance, but there is another fact to be taken into consideration here. Tneso Poles were all members of the Republican clubs (luring tlio campaign—were uniformed as “Plumed. Knights.” In this capacity they had paraded on all occasions behind Republican banners, and were conspicuously present at the Blaine reception held at this place, which, it will be remembered, was on his route, ho having delivered one of his most memorable speeches here. The employment of Poles, therefore, in any capacity by the Democrats was a palpable fraud and an act of bribery, for they knew well enough that by so doing they were ihfluencing men to vote against their convictions. But this is not all. Tho employment of Poles to peddle tickets was a cunning move, for who could tell better than they what countryman of thews it was safe to approach! The tickets thus .distributed were in onvolopes, it is said by leading Republicans, and each envelope contained acertain sum of money. Tlio exact amount may have bcon SB. Eight dollars may seem a Ut'llo large, but all tho ovidcnce points to that amount wherever it was distributed in the rank and file, the leaders, perhaps, being oven more liberally rewarded. The exact number who received money is estimated at 700, for that is about the size of three detachments who gathered at th# polling-places of the three precincts in which th# greatest numbers live. The principal colony is in the Third ward, which has heretofore boon Republican; but election day 350 or 400 Polos mado their appearance iu a body, each falling into line.with his fist tightly closed and refusing to receive tickets from tho Republican ticket peddlers, as they made their way to ono of the polls This conduct oxcitcd suspicion, and a count of the votes at the precinct confirmed it by showing a large Democratic majority. In their glee the Democrats havo lot slip a few remarks which are being treasured up and which may prove as illadvised as Joseph Mackin's boast of 1,500 majority for Brand in the Sixth senatorial district. To appreciate the facte of tills case it must be understood that these Poles, who belong exclusively to the laboring class, are extremely ignorant, so barren of discretion and judgment that they can be utilized by the largo manufacturing establishments only in the performance of tile simplest duties, such as grinding plow-points, carrying material from one placo to another, or shoveling sand. Many of them were told that the surplus in the treasury would bo taken out. and distributed among tho voters as soon as Cleveland was elected. Not a few wore scared by being told that if Mr. Blaino were olected their clubs of “Plumed Knights” would bo turned into reciinonts of soldiers and compelled to do military' duty—that that was what was meant by being called “Knights" All tills had weight, but tho real influence which made them Democrats was money. Very little attention ivas paid to any other element iu tlio comity except tho colored people, and tbace U no doubt in tho popular mind that souio of theso were bought It has bean asserted that, a club known as the McGill Guards, who trained .with the Republicans, wero bought, but Dr. JlcGilk