Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 January 1885 — Page 4

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TIEE JOURNAL—IBBS Tim INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL is recognized everywhere as the leading newspaper of Indiana. No proper expense will be snared in the future to maintain this undisputed excellence and to increase the value :tnd interest of the paper. TIIE JOURNAL was never so weli •quipped to serve the public. Our arrangements for the collection of the news of the day are more complete than ever, and we are adding some special features for 18s5 which must enhance the i*opu!arity of the paper. THE JOURNAL is the only paper in Indiana that prints regularly the fu*l reports of the Western Associated Press, which are now more comprehensive than ever, covering the whole world. These dispatches are supplemented by the work c? special correspondents at all the principal cities and towns of the State and of the country at large. We have a special resident representative at Washington City, who looks after the news of the national capital with vigilance, paying particular attentiou to that which most nearly concerns THE JOURNAL'S constituency. The national administration will s<*on pass into the control of the Democratic party, and the fullest and most reliable intelligence from Washington will be presented in our news columns, free from party bia°, impartially, and without restraint. The new State administration takes charge of affairs with the beginning of the new year. The Democratic Legislature will be in session. The Journal will pay unusual attention to the daily presentation of such a report of its doings that any citizen of the- State may know all that is going on affecting the public interests, accompanied witli such comment as may be needed to explain the possible political, social and economic effects of the proposed legislation. Editorially THE ’JOURNAL is a Republican paper, believing in the principles and general policy of tbe Republican party; but it recognizes that the day of blind party organ ship has passed, •ml it proposes to be perfectly free to criticise and condemn, but in a spirit and with u purpose for good, having a proper regard for personal rights and reputations. The citizen, whatever his political faith, can he assured of seeing in the columns of THE JOURNAL ttip fullest and fairest presentation of the news, and in its editoiial columns such comment and strictures as will command his reaped if they do not meet his approval. It may also be said that THE JOURNAL is published as a FAMILY NEWSPAPER. It recognizes that the women and the children are to be instruct'd and entertained. They will always find in its columns matter specially prepared for them, while the paper will be so conducted 11s to prove a welcome visitor in the household. The news will be presented in such tdiape as to minimize the evil, and its editorial and local columns will he kept free from moral taint. .. The Railroad News of THE JOURNAL is admittedly the freshest, fullest and most accurate printed by any newspaper in the country.

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THE DAILY JOURNAL RY JXO. C. NEW & SON. ” SATURDAY, JANUARY 3 f 18 So. TWELVE PAGES 7 'liitu INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Ctm he four.d at tli* following places. IiON’IXJX —Ainei:<aa hxenunge in Europe. 449 .Strand. TARTS—American Exchange in Faria. 35 Boulevard de Capuciuea. NEW YORK—St. Nicholas and Windsor ttptels. CHICAGO—PaImer House. CINCINNATI—J. R Hawley & Cos.. 154 Vine Street. LOITSVTLLF,—C. T. Hearing, northwest come Third and Jeilerson streets. ST. LOUTS—Union News Company, Lnion Depot and Southern Hotel. The Sunday Journal has the largest and best circulation of any Sunday paper in Indiana. Price three cents. The Sunday Journal. The issue of the Sunday Journal to-morrow will not suffer by comparison with any that have preceded it Among the special features will be a story by Mrs. M. H. Uatherwood, poems by ‘*E. C.” and Ida May Davis, and several local articles of interest by special writers, one on '•Early Mobs in Indianapolis.” The usual features of miscellany, society, musical and art review, news, etc., will be fully maintained. The Sunday Journal is sold for three cents, and has the laivest and best circulation of any Sun day paper in the State. Will Judge Norton have his grand jury investigate the crime against the ballots in the Marion county court-house? Tiik public debt increased during the month of December $041,384. The total decrease of the debt during the last six months of the year was $84,315,018.04. We cannot understand why Mr. John B. Finch, chairman of the national Prohibition committee, should be in such a sweat. How does the fact that Mr. Bt. John is charged with being ‘‘a brainless and mercenary sneak’’ affect him? Mr. Finch should keep qool. It seems, after all, to be actually true, that Dr. Milton James, of Muncio, has really made himself believe that he can aspire to become Commissioner of Pensions. When his name was first mentioned in connection with that office, everybody, of course, understood that it was a monstrous joke. It seems that the inauguration ball will really be held. The new pension, building will b~ far enough completed to be used for the purpose, and at least 12.000 dancers can bo accommodated. This now being off our minds, the country can proceed more calmly to the recuperation of business.

There is a suggestion of cool weather in the Northwest that will have a tendency to boom the New Orleans exposition. Thirtysix degrees below zero at St. Paul, and possibly fifty, will put even Indianapolis in a state of uncomfortable apprehension. And Indianapolis is really a winter resort. It is reported that Mr. Cleveland will not put Mr. Bayard in his Cabinet, beeauso he is too much under the influence of the Belmonts, agents for the Rothschilds in this country. But William C. Whitney, who is the tool of the Standard Oil Company, is reported to bo his choice for Secretary of the Treasury. George William Curtis is to receive a gold medal from the city of Boston for his eulogy upon the late Wendell Phillips. Mr. Curtis declined any pecuniary compensation. The effort is worthy the best medal that can ho made. It is one of the stateliest and grandest pieces of eulogium in modern literature. Judge Norton has made too good a reputation as criminal judge to lose any of it now by neglecting to use the full power of his court for the detection, arrest and conviction of the scoundrels who raped the ballots in the third story of the court-house. They can probably be found, if a real, earnest effort is made to run them down. The discovery has been made that Brooklyn school children are in the habit of getting druuk on candies filled with a mixture of fusil oil and alcohol. Who knows but what Mr. Beecher had been eating candy beforo he made that speech about the seventh commandment? Such an excuse would be far better than the one he did offer. Tn;<: News, in a u cent issue, announcing the formation and list of “professors’' in one of the sporadic medical colleges which spring up in W extern cities as often as there is a quarrel in the faculty of colleges ahead} existing, dubbed one of the teachers as “professor of rm-dical ceremony.” The supposition on the part of the profession is that “medical chemistry” was intended; but the average layman, who is only aware of the half a dozen medical colleges in this city by their gilt signs and catalogues, will be inclined to believe that “professor of medical ceremony" is a good title for many medical teachers. It in stated that a consultation of physicians has decided that General Grant’s health is in a state of collapse, and that absolute qoi**t is essential to the prolongation of his life. The grand old soldier and public servant is undoubtedly badly Woken, Lis recent overwhelming misfortunes having had the effect to completely prostrate him, he being in poor physical coudition from the effects of

his fall a year ago at the time of the disastrous failure of Grant & Ward. The respect and sympathy of the Nation go out toward him, howbeit the Democratic House of Representatives disgrace themselves and their party by refusing to do an act that common decency demands of them. In the extra sheet of the Journal of to-day will be found the first installment of the story by Iljalmar 11. Boyesen, which is published by us in pursuance of a special arrangement with the distinguished author. The second and concluding part will bo published in the Journal of Saturday next. As already announced, the Saturday Journal will have some special and distinctive feature each week throughout the year 1885, The week following the conclusion of Mr. Boyesen’s American love story —the first he has ever written for a newspaper —we shall r begin a series of four articles by Kate Field on Mormonism, which will be of absorbing interest and value. Miss Field has made a close study of the Mormon problem, and will treat it in a manner at once original and thorough.

AN OLD PEOBLEM. Next to the question of tariff that of Mormonism is one of the gravest before the American people. Os the two, Mormonism is the worse in some features, and is second to the question of protection only in that its evils are not so palpable to all parts of the country as is the doctrine of free trade, nor are the effects of its promulgation felt throughout the country to the harm of all the people. But that a gigantic evil is steadily growing around the nucleus planted at Salt Lake, can no longer be disguised. Rev. R. G. McNiece, Presbyterian minister at Salt Lake, a man in position to know of what he speaks, declares that unless something effective be done to end this thing there .can be but one result—civil war, The teachings of the Mormon elders are thoroughly indoctrinated in the minds of the duped followers of the unscrupulous leaders. Polygamy is a Mormon crime, but not the only Mormon crime, nor the most dangerous to the peace of the Nation. People outside of i T tah might possibly be content to let tho followers of Smith and Young do as they please relative to plurality of wives. The harm done by it is comparatively local in its effects, and it might with reason be expected that time would work such changes through education as to finally drive it out of existence. But the Mormon Church is not content with ruling Utah in religious matters, but is steadily pushing into the political field, arrogating to itself rights and powers pertaining to civil officers and to the people. Rev. McNiece says that it is very difficult for a truo American to live in Utah, even for a few months, and maintain that respect for our government which it ought to command of every good citizen, when ho sees froe government, and the laws of the land, and our sacred American home system all tiodden under the filthy hoofs of a polygamous hierarchy; when ho sees this hierarchy claiming and exercising supreme authority in all civil affairs, nullifying the laws of Congress and arrogating to its control one Territory after another, bringing immigrants from abroad for no other purpose than to build up this hostile power, and the government adopting a weak and trifling policy which leaves this anti-American system stronger every year.

It would seem from this that Mormonism is occupying much the same position held by the advocates of slavery before the war. The “divine” institution was the corner-stone of Southern arrogance, nullification and eventually of secession. This is exactly the "trend of things in Utah, and no opportunity to place the church above state in temporal affaire is passed unimproved. Nor are the Mormon officials satisfied with the possession of Utah, but aie constantly and vigorously extending their influence and authority over the adjacent Territories, already wielding a great pow'er in Arizona and Idaho, while colonies have been planted in New Mexico, Nevada, Wyoming and Montana. Some idea may be had of the helpless situation of gentiles and friends of the goverment in Utah, when it is known that they can muster but 5,000, while the Mormons count 23,000. The situation is steadily growing worse. What with natural Increase and an annual importation of 3,000 “converts” from Europe, the solidity of Utah is being placed on a rock foundation. The church, growing in numerical strength, and fortified by the confidence inspired by ignorance and credulity, teaches its devotees to despise civil Aaw and live only for the church and its advancement. All hope of gaining a foothold In the civil government o that Territory by gentiles is driven out by the arbitrary way in which election laws are changed to make Mormon rule absolute. If it be discovered that a gentile majority is likely to obtain tn any ward or precinct, tliat ward or precinct is immediately consolidated with others. In Bait Lake City the entire twenty-one wards have at times been consolidated so as to carry them all for the Mormon candidates. Whenever a Mormon candidate ha3 certainty of election he may be voted for separately; that is, the ward may vote for its individual candidates alone. But if there be a doubt in any case, the doubtful ward is joined to others, in some instances six ward candidates Wing voted for in a hulk. Despite everything said and done, polygamy is on the increase, proof being cited to show that no less than 450 jersons have violated the luw of Congress against polygamy during the past two years. The govern incut should

be empowered to grasp this monstrous thing by the throat and not let go until life is choked out of it. But for the good old Democratic doctrine of State’s rights—no wonder Mormonism warms to the Democratic party —this evil could have been rooted up long ago, and the danger now threatened would have been averted. Little or nothing can be expected from a Democratic administration. The traditions of that party are all interwoven with the crimes of slavery and of treason. It is mere folly to expect it to make war against its friends in Utah. But some day this question will have to be met and settled. If not in the halls of legislation, then it may be on the plains of Utah and tho West. The debt the Nation owes to decency and self-respect, to morals and to society, is swelling daily, and will be the more difficult of settlement the longer it is postponed. The Mormon iniquity should be grappled now, and settled by law if possible, by force if necessary. What becomes of the newsboys is a question sometimes asked but never satisfactorily answered. Even the matrons and managers of the “homes” established for them can offer but a brief account of any given boy who comes under their care. The little waifs come and go, springing up first from no one knows where, staying a few months or at most two or three years in one city, and then drifting away from the knowledge of all to whom their faces have become familiar. Their records are difficult to trace. No one keeps watch over them as tho passing years bring them to manhood. It is supposed that they do become men eventually, for the one reason, if no other, that a newsboy sick or a newsboy dead is seldom heard of. The wandering little merchants seem, in particular to be free from the accidents which make the life of the average boy one on which no cautious insurance agent would take risks. It is this peculiarity which causes tho fate of one newsboy to atti'act an attention that it would not otherwise command. lie was a Louisville boy, ten years old, and, with the instinct common to the youth of that age, irrespective of sex, he preferred to descend stairways by means of the bannisters rather than the steps. It was in the newspaper office where he purchased his supplies that lie tried this method of descent once too often, fell upon a paved floor, and opened his eyes no move upon a world which doubtless had its charms for him, though he was ragged and hungry. Other little waifs gathered about with awe-struck faces, and one told the life-atory of their dead comrade. “His name’s Mikey Griffin,” he said, “but the boys call him Patsey. He’s been sellin’ papers, an’ tulu, an’ caramels fur a long time. I’vo knew him three or four years. He hasn’t got any mother an’ no father that I ever heard him say of. He lives with his aunt, some’rs on Tenth and Grayson, an’ he’s the only one who takes his money home. Mikey was a good little chap as never swore. He had lots of customers, an’ ever’body liked him.” He had come to an untimely death. He was one newsboy whose record was definitely known and closed. Hail he lived to manhood and come to honors—legends tell that such things have happened—he might not have found a better epitaph—“everybody likod him.” Os even an ignorant newsboy it may bo said: “He did what he could.”

The Charleston News and Courier plumes itself because, as it claims, the Democracy of that State have long enjoyed and practiced civil service of the reformed sort, and have made no fuss about it. “The Democrats," it says, “have been in power in South Carolina for eight years. Every department of the goverment is in their hands. Yet in South Carolina no single officer who is appointed by the Governor has been removed except for cause, and no capable and faithful officer has been removed at the suggestion or demand of any set of politicians." A faint suspicion dawns upon the News that this condition of affairs is not exactly a parallel case with the situation in the North, for it adds, ingenuously: “This evidence of the conservatism of Democrats will reassure some of the brethren, though there is some difference between keeping Democrats in office and turning Republicans out." There is some difference, for a fact; and if this esteemed Southern organ will allow its memory to wander back a matter of eight years, it will perhaps recollect that the Carolina “reform" did not begin until the Democrats had every office. This sort of “conservatism," which is claimed to be an indication of the course the national administration will follow, can hardly do otherwise than “reassure" such brethren as may have feared some Republicans would be allowed to retain their offices. Governor Begole, of Michigan, makes some astounding assertions in connection with his defense of his com*se in granting pardons by wholesale. He says: “From my experience in our prisons, w here I have devoted much time, I earnestly believe that there are 200 men in our prisons to-day in w hose cases t lie ends of justice, both to the State and the convicts, would be better served by their release. There are many young men serving out sentences for no other crime than being poor. There are rings in all of the large towns that arrest, convict and send to prison persons for no other reason than to make business for constables, sheriffs and justices, that a small sum of money would release." Few w ill believe that the Governor knows of what lie speaks. It taxes credulity to believe that there is anything like organized prosecution anywhere, especially to the extreme of sending innocent men to prison. If anything, the difference is the

other way, and only too many guilty men escape their deserts. For a Governor to impeach the courts by wholesale, as being in. league against the innocent, is a serious "offense, and cannot be used to apologize for too great leniency toward the criminal classes. The inconsistency of declaring that men are in prison because they are poor, and sent there by “rings” bent on fees, is too bald to deceive anybody. Governor Begole must seek some other excuse for his abuse of the pardoning power. It is reported that Louisiana sugar-planters are greatly discouraged. A telegram from Franklin, that State, says: '‘The prospect for the coming year, in view of the proposed ratification of the Mexican and Spanish treaties, and the difficulty of procuring advances for cultivating the cane crop, is very gloomy. Planters are in great doubt as to the proper course to pursue. No contracts with laboivrs for the new year are being made, and much apprehension is felt as to their future, as they are without means of support, and wholly dependent upon their dailv labor.” W * This is simply the experience of men in all branches of manufacture. Striking at the policy of protection, and striking to strike it down, no man who owns a mill knows what to expect, and sees only financial disaster in continuing operations. Asa result, to protect himself ho begins to curtail, cuts down the output, lessens the number of days or lowers wages—not because he would have it so, but because compelled to. The Democratic party’s hostility to the tariff has paralyzed manufacture in this country, and there is a; choice of two ways of arriving at some conclusion—one to keep hands off the tariff; the other to get down to British prices and British wages as soon as possible. Tho Louisiana planters have nobody but themselves to blame. A strange suit—the strangeness lying principally in the faot that such a proceeding is necessary—bas been brought by the Baltimore & Ohio Telegraph Company against the Central Telephone Company, to compel tho putting in of a telephone in its place of business. It is alleged that the telephone company declines to put in an instrument unless the telegraph company will agree not to use it in the wav of business. This is a remarkable affair in any phase it may be looked at. Wo have no earthly, interest in the Baltimore & Ohio Telegraph Company; but the Central Telephone Company obtains its right to do business in this city from all the people; it uses the streets of the city, and assumes to serve the people andxbusineas of the city without illegal discrimination. The Baltimore & Ohio Telegraph Company is hore to transact business on the same terms. It must carry messages for anybody, upon compliance with the rules it has established for itself. We cannot see how the Central Telephone Company can evade alike duty. There is a touch of odious monopoly in the attitude of the telephone company which certainly neither the law nor the courts will uphold.

It is solemnly announced that the Democratic State officers will not agree to the selection of any Republican member of the police board who is a strong partisan. It was in obedience to this high controlling principle that they elected Mr. John P. Frenzel, the most furious little ward politician in the city, the treasurer of the Democratic State central committee, and the man who enjoys the unique distinction of having defeated a woman for school commissioner by the active help of the saloon-men, an obligation he now repays by seeing that the law is not enforced against them, despite his oath to the contrary. In this violation of his sworn duty he is joined by Mr. John W. Murphy, whose character and standing are such as to make it an amazement to the respectable, law-abiding people of Indianapolis that he can so far forget his moral obligation and the demands of his citizenship. General Grant, in his paper on “Shiloh,” written for the February Century, scouts the idea that his army was in a defenseless condition at the close of the first day of the battle. He says that before any of Buell’s troops had taken position, he had given orders to his division commanders to attack at daybreak on the second day. Os the close of the first day he says: “General Lew Wallace arrived after firing had ceased, and was placed on the right. Thus night came, Wallace came, and the advance of Nelson’s division came, but none—except night—in time to be of material service to the gallant men who saved Shiloh on that first day, against large odds." He fixes the time of the capture of General Prentiss as certainly after 4:30 o’clock in the afternoon, as ho himself was with Prentiss at that hour, “when his division was standing up firmly, and the General was as cool as if he had been expecting victory.” OrR Metropolitan Police Board (of which Mr. Malott is not a member) yesterday signalized the new year by ignoring the law made and provided for that day, and in violation thereof permitted the saloons to traffic in intoxicants. —News. And on that day, as on other days, patrolmen, in uniform and on duty, went into saloons at will, and staid there as long as suited them. The police of the city is in a beautiful state of dUciplino and efficiency. It may not be very long until the country is again cursed with a State bank currency. The North Carolina Legislature, at its coming session, will be petitioned to pass a general banking law, in anticipation of the expiration of the charters of several national banks in that State. Money is scarce in North Carolina, and the opinion is growing in favor that a State bank system will best supply the

want. The repeal of two or three lines of a statute —irapoismjg a tax of ten per cent, oa bank notes—will open tho flood gates t the old wild-cat system. And tho Democracy is allied with that currency system because of its devotion to the dogma of State rights. Has Mr. Hendricks retired from public life? —Pittsburg Dispatch. Insatiate editor, do you expect that good man to sit up every night to write letters to his beloved colored fellow-citizens, or to Jot down reminiscences of the way he helped quell the rebellion? It is too much to ask of a Vice-president who “doesn’t want the place.* The next thing to follow the Princess Beatrice’s marriage engagement will be tho wrangle in Parliament over the government allowance which will, of course, be demanded for her by the Queen. As the coming husband is penniless, a round sum will be necessary in order to set the young couple up in house keeping comfortably, and the row raised by the M. P.’s will be in proportion to the size of the portion asked for. Come to think of it, however, tho Princess and her beloved are not to be permitted to enjoy their love in a cottago, or in any domicile of their own, but must remain with the royal mamma of the bride. Whether the impression, is correct or not, a feeling prevails in this part of the world, at least, that the wise and most ex* cellent Queen is notan agreeable person to live with, and that Princess Beatrice has had rather more of her parent’s exclusive society than Is reasonable, considering the fact that a number of othor children, not to speak of grandchildren, are in existence, and should help bear the brunt The elders may claim that, being married, they had other duties to perform, but it may be noticed that they take good care to remain at long range, whether absorbingly occupied or not Particularly is this the case with the sons and daughters-in-law. Tho world at large wishea tho Princess Beatrice well, especially so as being in some sense ill-used, and trusts that her husband will not be so in awe of his mother-iu-hur that he will absent himself from her side more than is agreeable, or find it necessary to hunt a separate boarding-house for himself before the houevmoon is ended. Nowadays the successful fisherman—that If to say, the man who brings home the biggest string of sish —is not he who follows Izaak Walton’s patient example most closely, but he who has the largest purse. Helms improved upon that ancient author’s methods, and learned a dozen tricks worth one of his. These accomplishments of the latter-day fisherman are well understood, but it may not be so well known that the mighty hunter has allowed himself to bo aided by modern improvements. A Pennsylvania mountainier, who has been remarkably successful catching wildcats and bringing them to town alive, and with none of their ferocity abated, has confidentially disclosed the fact that he does not do it with his little gun, nor yet with a trapi He traces the beasts to their lairs in tho rocks and hollow trees, nnd chloroforms them, after which capture is neither difficult nor dangerous Such disclosures as these, if brought to the attention of the srtiall boy who wants to becom* famous as a hunter of bears and other wild beasts, will be calculated to catch a shadow ot doubt over the hitherto entrancing dime uoveL

While dying, on Sunday last, Miss Annie M Lowes, of Baltimore, made request that at her funeral eight of her lady friends should act as pall-beafers, and that her casket should be trimmed with white satin, with gold fringe. She furthor requested that the young ladies should wear white satin dresses, with wreath and flowing veils, and that each carry a white lily. Jusl as she completed the arrangements she died. The funeral took place on Wednesday, according to her expressed wishes, the occasion attracting the attendance of several thousand persona. The custom of girl pall-bearers, while rare is by no means so in some portions of Europe. In Paris funerals of children,Especially of young girls, are often attonded by girl pall bearers* they walking beside the hearse and holding white ribbons attached to the corners of the hearse. One of the most gruesomo things possible is a family quarrel over the remains of a deceased relative. The w idow, it may be, is not able to buy a burial lot, or to pay funeral expenses, o* something of that kind, and the “remains” arw interred in the lot of his parents. The widow afterwards secures means sufficient to provide a lot and the expense of re interment The trouble then begins. Just such a disreputable snarl has occurred at Norwich, Connecticut. A year ago Michael Enwright died, and, the widow being poor, tho remains were interred in the burial lot of his sister. Last May the widow was able to purchase a lot and pay for the removal of tlie bodjr to it, which was done at night, secretly. The sister was mean enough to bring suit for trespassing and remuneration for the cost of the burial robes and coffin, amounting to S7O. The relatives of the wealthy Miss Welton, of Watorbury, Conn., who bequeathed her proper* ty to Henry Bergh for the use of the Society foe the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, object to the will, and are endeavoring to have it set aside. If the question comes before a jury ther* can be little doubt of the result About twelve of the dozen honest men and true] may be depended upon to be poor relations of somebody themselves, and a fellow feeling will lead them to decide in favor of the plaintiffs, oven though elderly dogs are thereby deprived of false teeth and decrepit street-car horses get no horspital to di® in. There Is a good deal of the Yankee in Clucinnatinns ufter all; they never eat what they can sell. Among tho “Christmas stock” received there this season was a steer from Tun* nelton, Ind., w eighing 3,450 pounds. Instead of serving him up to the i>eople of the Queen City they allowed him to bo taken to tho New York market. The city of New Y'ork is quite a metropolis. During the year just past 6,700 dead horses, 10,800 dead cats and one dead monkey wer® found in the streets. The fact that but o® dude perished is accounted for by tho fact that they are too young to die. Having sworn off. we declino to give credence to the story of a boa constrictor dying of stag® fright The boa is traditionally of a retiring and diffident nature; but to die of stage fright probably uover occurred to one of the species. Die. Fokdyob Barker, the distinguished New Y'ork physician who has practiced Ins profession blamelessly for thirty years, and w hoso high char* actor as man, citizen and physician has drayvn about him troops of friends, is out In a card la the last number (Dec. 27) of the Medical Record, saying that he has received over 200 letters and telegrams lroiu New Y'ork and Brooklyu phyai*