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THE DAILY JOURNAL TtY J'SO. C. NEW & SON. TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 1883. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can ba found at the following places: LONDON— American Exchange in Europe* 410 c&ramL TARTS—American Exchange in Taris, 35 Boulevard des Capucines. NEW YORK—St. Nicholas and Windsor Hotels. CHICAGO—TaImer House. CINCINNATI—J. P. Ilawley & Cos.. 154 Vine Street LOUTS VjIJjE—C. T. Bearing, northwest corner Third and Jellerson streets. CT. LOULS—Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern Hotel. Telephone Calls. Business Office 238 { Editorial Rooms 242 ALL is forgiven, Mr. Patten. We start into tho special session with the books squared. The cap and bells tire transferred to Dave Gooding, the untamed ass from llaucock county. The market-house ordinance last night passed both the Council and Board of Aldermen. Now, let the work go forward at once. Browning, the cheap little man from Brown, could not help showing his extreme cheapness. Six dollars a day turns the poor man’s head. If the Democratic party can afford to have Joseph E. McDonald sent out of the country 5t the instance of the Hendricks-Gray crowd, the Republicans can. Too bad. Even bright-eyed, toadying preachers sometimes, in the phrase of the worldly, "got left.” Mr. Cleveland did not go to church on Sunday. Probably Mr. McDonald will be complacent enough to accept expatriation for the benefit of the little gang of conspirators who want him out of their way when the next senatorial election comes around.

If the extra session has been called for the purpose of ferreting out rascalities in the management o.f public charities, like that of the Soldiers’ Orphans' Home, and swindling practices by Democratic attaches of the Legislature, the Journal has no more to say, save that it will be necessary to sit the, entire forty days. The St. Louis Globe-Democrat is getting :peady to eat crow again in 1888. It is rather early in the campaign to begin abusing prominent and popular Republicans. It was that whit'll lost last election. It doesn’t pay to fight within the ranks. Since any good Republican is preferable to a Democrat, the duty ■of Republicans is to staud together. Complaint is made by Philadelphia Democrats that the federal officials of that city did not raise flags over the government buildings on inauguration day. Perhaps the officials emitted the cermony for fear of seeming to sympathize too much with Mr. Cleveland, and thereby being accused of “offensive partisanship.’’ That partisanship is a thing that may work two ways seems not to have occurred to the hungry and thirsty brethren. Thf. project of connecting London and Paris with pneumatic tubes can hardly strike les3 terror to the soul of-the average Briton than does the mention of a railway tunnel under the English channel. By means of the latter they fear that the sacred British soil would bo invaded by the French in case of any unpleasantness between the two countries; and they will not, of course, be slow to reflect that enough dynamite may be shot through the proposed tubes to blow up all London.

Tiie next city campaign in Indianapolis will likely turn on the question of high license upon the liquor saloons. When the taxpayers return fresh from the payment of their taxes upon real estate and personal property, uni reflect that the whisky shops pay hut little if anything, they will go to the polls and vote for aldermen and eouncilmen who will not stand shivering in front of the proposition to put ns high a tax on the saloons as they practi (•ally can. The present tax of $52 is merely a burlesque, and even that was only enacted after prolonged struggle, and hv a dishonorable tom promise. It is understood that the “gentlemen of the army" are highly gratified with the appointment of Mr. Endicott as Secretary of War, for the reason'that he has no affiliations with the army either through personal friendships or by having taken part in military affairs. The apposition to a military Secretary is bitter because, owing to the dissensions in the army, such an appointee could never secure their confilence. In plainer words, the jealousy £>f each other is so strong among the leading officers that they could not see the promotion of one of their number without anger and opposition. The army is a great institution. That the Journal is the best advertising medium west of the Allegheny mountains has long been conceded, but anew proof lias been afforded. A few days ago the Journal incidentally mentioned anew variety of cotton, the characteristics of which were larger and fiuer fiber, besides being nearly, or quite, fireproof, the latter being a quality long the deiiideratmn of a cotton wearing public. Now, J6O far as the Journal is concerned, it matters little whether the story is true or not; but the very fact that the Journal gave countenance ‘k> it, ha,- created a demand for it, and the pharlestoii News and Courier readily offers $lO

per seed for the entire stock. As may readily bo believed, this is a higher price than ordinary grades of cotton command, so much higher, in fact, that it 13 a valuable testimonial of the advantages gained by advertising in the Journal. Cotton seed, we presume to say, is worth very much less than the rates quoted above, say from ten to fifty cents per bushel. It is apparent, therefore, that the mentidu of an article in the Journal has the effect of greatly enhancing its value, as has been demonstrated in this instance. The News and Courier will have to take its turn, the same as others, though its bid is flattering for a starter. THE EXTRA SESSION. The proclamation of Governor Gray calling an extra session of the Legislature will be found in the report of the legislative proceedings. It has been manifest, as foreshadowed in the Journal, that the Democratic majority in both Senate and House have been working for this result for weeks. The Democrats havo within one or two of a two-thirds vote in each branch of the General Assembly, and, as has been demonstrated by the passage of the congressional and legislative apportionment bills, they had the power to pass whatever measures may have been agreed upon in their caucus. Never in the history of Indiana legislation Lave such outrageous and unfair laws been enacted as by the Democratic majorities in the present Assembly. The shotgun policy against the Republicans of Mississippi and South Carolina, and other' States, takes the color of law, for precisely the same purpose, in Indiana. The ends that have been attained by murder and intimidation at Hamburg and Copiah are sought by gerrymander in Indiana. It remains to be seen whether the desired results will be accomplished. The chance advantage that the Democrats obtained in the present Legislature they now seek to use for the perpetual disfranchisement of the Republican voters of Indiana. These apportionment bills seek to control the next • House of Representatives in Congress, and to send a Democratic Senator from this State in place of Senator Harrison, hoping theroby to get the majority in the United States Senate, and thus, with the President and House, the absolute control of the national government. Should they succeed in these designs, there is no limit to which Democratic greed may not lead. As stated, the Democrats have had both houses of the Legislature by overwhelming majorities. They have left nothing undone which they sought to do, nor have they done anything that they tried to leave undone. They havo failed to investigate the accounts of the Treasurer of State, because it was manifest that the investigation would cause trouble to a Democratic official. They have failed to pass laws removing officials from the Soldiers' Orphans’ Home at Knightatown, when it was in sworn testimony before their Democratic committees that soldiers’ orphans had been outraged by such Democratic officials. They have even failed to prepare the appropriation bills necessary to carry on the asylums for the insano. the deaf and dumb, and the blind. They have failed to so much as introduce a bill to levy a tax to complete the State-house, while they knew that, the contractors were only waiting such an opportunity to increase its cost. In short, they have failed in everything they were sent here to io. The chapter of their shortcomings could be enlarged; the record of their beneficent measures is naught. A thousand dollars a day for this extra session is to be wrung from the taxpayers of Indiana, to bo levied on their lands and their personal property. While the whisky saloon goes free, the widow’s cow and the lame soldier’s horse may be sold to pay this extra expense. Great is Democracy.

A GRIEVOUS DISAPPOINTMENT. It was very thoughtless and inconsiderate of President Cleveland not to go to church last Sunday. If lie had uo regard for his" immortal soul, and had the singular and inexcusable taste to prefer his own society to listening to a mellifluous sermon from llie lips of ,the pastor of New York-avenue Presbyterian Church, he should at least have reflected that by remaining away from the sanctuary he was causing grievous disappointment to many souls. For long months the members of that flock have liad reason to believe that he would enter their fold. No pains have been spared to turn his footsteps in that direction. Was it not given out that the distinguished shepherd in charge was an old friend of the presidential family, and loved one, if not all, of them like a brother. That there might be no thought of political bias nor a suspicion of offensive partisanship—of a Republican character—did not the pastor carefully omit a mention of Lincoln from his sermon on the groat men who had lived at the Capital? Was it not made known, months in advance, that in order to make room for the coming stranger the minister would sacrifice his family and all his relations to the extent of giving up his own pew? Did he not hasten to call upon the chief magistrate before lie had fairly shaken the dust of Albany from his garments? In view of all this, was the expectation of wearing the spiritual scalp of the President an unreasonable one? The congregation thought not, and prepared to welcome the new member in appropriate style. The silver plates on the pew doors were polished up till they shone again, the gilt pillars and other golden decorations were retouched till they glittered like new, and much thought and labor, to say nothing of money, were expended in the floral decorations. Among other things, one thousand wide-mouthed bottles were provided and filled with choice exotics. But all this expens© was for Mr. Cleveland re-

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mained at home in heathenish disregard of church, and especially of New Yorkavenue Church, privileges. The congregation came, an immense one; the choir, which had carefully rehearsed for the occasion, sang, but without spirit, feeling that they were wasting their powers; the delicate allusion to the President, understood to have been prepared by the pastor as a part of his sermon, was not uttered, and altogether it was a disappointing service. Clearly, Mr. Cleveland should go to church, lest he prove a stumbling block, not only in the way of sinners, but of saints as well. It is fondly hoped that he will attend the deacons’ meeting this week. Let him see to it that he does not disappoint these good men. THE DEMOCRATIC DEVIL. When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be. Democracy in i3 very different from Democracy out. During the last past campaign, as in every campaign from 1860 to that of 1884, the air has been filled with Democratic professions of earnest desire for reform. It was to be reform for breakfast, for dinner, and for supper, with reform luncheons early and iato, when Democracy came into "her own.” Democratic Governors had talked like missionaries among the brethren, pointing out a better wav, and smiting their breasts and bemoaning the general unrighteousness of those in power. In his inaugural address, delivered Jan. 13, 1873, Gov. Hendricks said: "I wish to call atttention to representative reform, which, during the last ten years, has been advocated by some of the best minds, both in Europe and in this country, and is now undergoing the test of experience. I desire to make this the more emphatic, because in this State it seems yet to be regarded as right and proper for the majority to deny to the minority even that representation which an apportionment based upon population and contiguity of counties would give. Representative reform rests upon the proposition that minorities ot constituencies should have a representation as nearly, in proportion to numbers as as may be practicable. All the citizens contribute to the burdens of government, and should yield obedience to the laws, and it is just, equal and fair that all should be represented.”

The context show3 that the great “reformer” was not content with an ordinarily fair apportionment, such as could bo made by retaining tho political boundaries of representative districts. His great, warm, honest Democratic heart bled in the presence of the then Republican Legislature and refused to be comforted unless the minority had not only a fair representation, but one exactly proportioned to its relative size. If a certain county polled fifteen thousand Republican votes and ten thousand Democratic, then must the Republicans be awarded three representatives and the Democrats two. In counties polling a Democratic majority, the same rule must obtain, the conditions being reversed. It was a touching scene—this great, honest-hearted patriot pleading for justice. But political conditions have changed since then- A Democratic Legislature soon gerrvmamlored tho State in a manner that shotflH have driven Mr. Hendricks insane, though it does not appear to have worried him in the least. The minority—now Republican—was obliged to get along as best it could. But the Democratic hog, increasing with age and feeding at the public crib, has developed an appetite that demands more. The beautiful theory of the rights of the minority has been relegated to the past, and the practical Democratic trait of inherent rascality is brought to the front. Not only have the representative rights of the minority been despised, but the Democratic plurality has actually disfranchised a third of the legal voters of the State. Considering both branches of the Legislature as a whole, the Democratic plurality, with a most shameless exhibition of partisan insincerity and dishonesty, has taken to itself no less than 110 members, equivalent to one for each 2,319 Democratic voters in the State. To tho remaining 250,000 voters, not Democrats, they allow forty members, or at the rate of one for overy 6,250 voters. A just apportionment, made without regard to partisan ends, would giro to the Democratic party seventy-four members and to the opposition seventy-six. It is evident, therefore, that the law' passed by this conscienceless Democratic majority in the Legislature, approved by the Governor, is for tho purpose of stealing thirty-six seats, equivalent to disfranchising 118,800 legal voters in Indiana. If this isn’t partisan scoundrelism, it would be interesting to have some Democratic legislator defend it at length.

It should not bo forgotten that while the appropriation bills were pending in the House and their passage was being rendered impossible by the action of the Democratic majority, the Republican members of the Senate Endeavored to get the measures before them. Senator Foulke introduced, or sought to introduce, bills of like provisions with the House bills, but was prevented by the Democratic majority in that body, which played into the hands of their party associates in the House, '"his occurred twice. The Republican senators did all in their power to avoid the necessity of a special session, but were blocked by the Democrats, who seemed determined to force it upon the people of the State. Two years ago the same party tried the same game, but a Republican Governor could not be coerced, and lie carried on the State government without the Legislature. As soon as the executive branch of the government fell into Democratic hands, the way was plain to force a special session, and .the six-dollar-a-day spoilsmen played their game successfully. It is already announced that not only must the Commissioner of Pensions be a wellknown Union general, but, m order to disarm all future criticism of the appointment of Senator Lamar as Secretary el the Interior!.

his first assistant, who shall hear and decide all appeals from the Pension Office, must be a Union soldier. But the pension for every Union soldier is liable to go before the Secretary of the Interior, in obedience to law, and the present Secretary is the man who stood up in the Senate of the United States and defended Jefferson Davis. The Lafayetto Sunday Times, edited by Col. John S. Williams, the well-known Democrat, has this fitting article, which we commend to careful reading: "The Re apportionment Outrage.—The Legislature has passed and the Governor has signed the gerrymander bill, under which the Republicans—numbering nearly one-half the people of the State—are almost entirely disfranchised so far as the Congress of the United States and the General Assembly of Indiana aro concerned. Os the thirteen members of Congress from Indiana, it has been so arranged that the Democrats will secure eleven—leaving the Republicans only two. In the General Assembly the outrage is proportionately great—the representation of Republican counties being systematically cut down and the representation of Democratic counties increased. "And not only are Republicans outraged by this outrage, but Democrats as well. In this congressional district parties have been very evenly balanced—two Democrats and*two Republicans—Myers, Ward, Orth and* Doxey having represented it. Under the now deal it is overwhelmingly Republican, and the Democrats of the district practically voiceless in the popular branch of Congress. * Tn the General Assembly Tippecanoe county bn3 for many j-ears been represented by one Senator and two Representatives. We cast 9, - 200 votes—in round numbers. This wouFd make 4, GOO votes for each representative. We are a couple of hundred votes below the average required, and so we are cut down to one Representative and a joint representation with Clinton county. Why? Because Tippecanoe county is Republican. For in Democratic counties Senator Husted notes that in dozens of cases only from 2,215 to 3,000 votes are required to elect a Representative. "The object of this, of course, is to keep the State Legislature continually under Democratic control. Query: Will it succeed? The Times predicts not. The Democrats of the country to-day are in power, mainly through a desire of the people to inaugurate more decent methods in politics. Outrages such as noted above have been in times past perpetrated by Republicans—and always to the in jury of the party; for decent men cannot be controlled by party shysters—and the Democratic party will find it out in this case.” ————w—————i In his farewell address to the regular session of the Legislature, Mr. Speaker Jewett —who has been, by the way, a capable, clearheaded, though intensely partisan officer—

says: “The first hour of this session I declared that, in my opinion, this House was, in point of worth, the peer of any that ever organized in Indiana. What was then an impression is now a settled conviction. Day after day I have seen you diligently and intelligently discharging your duties as worthy representatives of those who sent you here." In the proclamation convening the special session, Governor Gray says: “Whereas, The present regular session has failed to pass a general appropriation bill, making provisions to carry on the State government and support the various State institutions for the years 1886 and 1887, a bill making specific appropriation, a bill to raise revenue, and make appropriations during the years 1886 and 1887 to continue the construction of the new State-house, and other important bills/’ etc. Governor Gray tells the truth by the record, and Mr. Jewett was getting off the usual twaddle. Wo put Governor Gray against the Speaker. The people of the State know that tlio Legislature did not “da}’ after day diligently” do anything. For a week they “diligently" frittered away the time, and Mr. Jewett more than once expressed his disgust. There has been an attempt on the pai't of the Republican papers to fix upon the Democratic majority the responsibility of the extra session. The charge will not, however, hold water. Certain it is that in the last week the Republicans of the House have voted solidly against the taking up of the appropriation bill. They, more than the Democrats, have trammeled whatever action might have avoided a reconvening of the Legislature. —Sentinel. The Republican members of tho House who voted against taking up and passing the appropriation hills have here a foretaste of the charges they will have to meet next year in the political canvass. General Garfield is quoted as having said of Rosecrans: “The fault in him seems to he that he has a screw loose somewhere. He is always about to succeed, but does not succeed. He has everything in shape, and, when you are about to see a great success, he collapses and nothing comes of it. He has been in mining, in stock-raising, and I don’t know what all, and this same fate always overtakes him." Fate overtook him again when he voted against the Grant bill. Indications are that the collapse this time will be final.

There are faith cures and faith cures. But when it comes to the kind that are warranted to work, commend those of Ohio. At Steubenville a young man named Chamberlain injured his nose and bled, apparently, to death. While his life blood ebbed away the mother spent her energies in prayer, relying solely on the Great Physician. The boy finally went into convulsions, and, to all appearances, expired, The indignant spectators then rushed off after a coroner. The official did not come until next m'orning, when he was astonished to find the young man, not only alive, but “as well as ever.” He avers that he was dead, but that his mother’s prayers restored him to life. This is the first instance of the kind in the history of Ohio. Two “niggers” have been killed at Mount Sterling, Ivy., for stealing coal. The citizens were determined to put a stop to it. Were they half as anxious to put down the crime of murder in that Stato, Kentucky would boa moral paradise. The mellennium .an not be very far around the corner. Tho saloons and gambling places at Hot Springs were closed on Sunday last, in compliance with anew State law. The world moves. Some friend of the New York Herald, some one that has influence w"ith it, should kindly but firmly inform it that it is an ass for publishing its Berlin news in German. Presumably it is to accommodate its German readers, the inference being that non English reading Gormans are

patrons of the Herald. The disgust of the man who does not read German may be imagined. The only possible result of this very brilliart bit of enterprise will bo to compel those who want German news in English to go to other newspapers to find it. March 18 will be warm, sunny and bland—a Juno day set in tho midst of March. Wiggins has predicted a great storm and a skilletful of earthquakes for that day. Reader, Cottago Grove, Ind.: Your inquiry relative to Dean Tucker was answered in the Journal last month. to the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: To settle a dispute, will you please state whether New Year s day, 1801, was the beginning of the first or second year of the nineteenth century? A Subscriber. Dana, Inch It was the beginning of the first. The year 100 closed the first century, 200 the second century, and 1800 the eighteenth century. Consequently, the nineteenth century began with the year 1801. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Diminutive wire-tailed pugs are becoming fashionable. Miss Cleveland is said to bo very much] opposed to dancing. A Macon man is trying to devise a method of sawing wood by electricity of which he dreamed. Eighteen or twenty years ago Judge Endioott, the new Secretary of War, was a proud expert in amateur photography. Henry Bergh is opposed to Scotch terriers kissing ladies on the clioeks, because cosmotics have a deleterious effect. Princess Beatrice has already accepted the bridal music of Sir Herbert Oakeley for performance at her approaching marriage. On one of the Azores islands, St. Michael's, the people invariably drop the family name, each being known by entirely different titles. The same names are also applied to either sex indiscriminately. It is stated that exT-President Arthur is going to Europe in July, and that ho will remain abroad for several months. He will spend several weeks in England before proceeding to tho continent for a lengthened tour. The author of “The Prettiest Woman in Warsaw" says there is no truth in the published statement that Madame Modjeska is the heroine of the book, as was, of course, given out by the truthful theatrical agents. The story is that of a crime which was committed in a Roumanian chateau; two sisters, Polish actresses, are concerned in it.

Avery curious superstition is connected with the origin of the horseshoe, which i3 supposed to have come from the halo surrounding tho heads of saints in old pictures. This halo was usually composed of a shiny metal which remained long after the picture hail faded from view, leaving only this metallic horseshoe to still x-eceive the habitual reverence given saintly pietures from generation to generation. A WELL-KNOWN scientific man has lately given an order to a Liverpool dealer for a hundred specimens of the electrical eel, for the purpose of closely studying tho singular power possessed by these creatures. Hitherto this has not been investigated so far as to determine very positively what is the nature of the marvelous emanation that has generally beon accepted as electricity. But there are, it is stated, some reasons lately discovered for doubting tire identity of this power with a veritable electric shock.

“Human hibernation in India" is thus explained in Nature by a correspondent: “A tunnel is dug from the grave to tho neighboring jungle; the grave itself is partly prepared. The subject is then, in sight of the spectators, prepared by having his ears and nostrils filled with wax and his tongue turned back. He is then apparently buried, creeps through the tunnel and gets away. After six months, or any other interval, ho creeps back agaiu, is dug up apparently lifeless, and restored with infinite pains. Senator F.vauts rejoices in excellent digestive powers. A gentleman speaking with him at the Albany banquet, last week, expressed surprise that he was able to dine out night after night without experiencing any ill effects from the superabundance of the viands and of the different wines set before him. “Oh," said the Souator, “I get on very well with the ‘different’ wines: it is tho indifferent wines that trouble mo." The following morning, while on his way to the station, he rallied Senator Arkell on a mistake in announcing to him the time of departure of the train. “Your son," said the Senator, “told me that the train leaves at 10, and whilo at breakfast I found that the time is 9:55. That decision lost mo two pancakes," ho added pensively, “and these pancakes were particularly good." It is somewhat singular that tho title of “El Mahdi" should have been originally borne by tho very Caliph who destroyed the most famous of the present Mahdi’s predecessors, viz.: the Turcoman impostor, Hakim Ben Hashim, surnamed “Mokannah” (the veiled) from the covering of silvered gauze which always hid his face. This worthy's career was a pretty exact counterpart of that of the Soudan prophet. Os mean birth, and by trado a fuller, he quitted his native city of Merv at forty years of age for a dosert hermitage, whence he emerged with a proclamation of his divine mission, which drew crowds of enthusiasts to his standard. Fixing his capital at Merv, he repulsed several attacks, but was at length defeated, in 730, by the Caliph Mahdi in person, who drove him across tho Oxus, and finally blockaded him in Neksheb, the modern Korshi, ninety miles southeast of Bokhara. Hero the impostor, finding his cause hopeless, poisoned his remaining followers, and then plunged into a tank filled with corrosive acid, that the disappearance of his body might give rise (as it actually did) to the beliof that he had ascended to heaven. His life has been written by the French historian d’Herbelofc, but ho is chiefly known to western readers through Moore’s famous poem in “Lalla Rookh," “Tho Veiled Prophet of Khorassan."

CURRENT PRESS COMMENT. We incline to believe that Great Britain will be left to pursue her Egyptian adventure unmolested. She will be left to her Irish muddle, and nobody will disturb her. She will be left to worry about her colonies in India, Africa and Australia. And while she is worrying, and quarreling, and wasting her strength the other powers will bo unhindered in their schemes of conquest and annexation. For, in the ancient fable, it was while two of the robbers were coming to blows that the third robber ran off with the booty. —New York Herald. The Democratic party has lived a hand-to-mouth existence, considering that the evil of the day was sufficient therefor, and usually has had so much evil on hand that there was little disposition to worry about the future. Hence, as the party has at present several matters of far more pressing importance than. laying the foundations of future prosperity and extensive commerce, it is altogether likely that the treaty question will be indefinitely postponed. The idea of wasting time in discussing trade relations when offices are to be divided and spoils to be discussed is something which the average Democrat will consider supremely ridiculous and not worthy the attention of a true party servant.—St. Lotus GlobeDemocrat. It is natural that those who were Instrumental in electing Mr. Cleveland should be sanguine of his success at the outset and predict the best results; it is equally natural that those who. before the election, distrusted his fitness and thought his party incapable of wise and wholesome government, should attach but little weight to general professions of reform, however copiously uttered, until they see them materialized into accomplished facts. In the meantime, it is proper that the' nfew I'resident should be treated with the deference due to the higli station in which he has been placed, and that ho should be encouraged by his political opponents as well as political friends in every just and honest endeavor to advance the public welfare by such means as lit- within the power of the national oxecutivo.— Milwaukee .Sentinel, Roller-skating at best is a craze, and is no worse than other crazes, such as tobogganing, bobbing, progressive euchre. 4-o'elock teas, metaphysical seances, and other mild forms of insanity, at which all that is charged against roller-skating may be committed. Has it never occurred to these moralists, who, we fear, have passed the heyday of youth, that the tobog gan offers facilities for flirtation, and that in the wild and reckless struggle for the booby prise in progressive euchre many a young man may be sowing the seeds of progressive poker? If the young person cannot be trusted in the roller skating riiitka, cm he or

she he trusted anywhere else? And mas it not fl claimed for this very absurd recreation that it mafl keep the young fellows from places a good doal worsql even if thoy do not succeed in skating In tho style prj scribed by Brother Moody?—Chicago Tribune. Certainly there is every reason why, at this time, ' Democrats of every stripe should unite to smooth over difficulties and preserve the utmost harmony between the President and all sections of his party. The failure to do so indicates that, instead of drawing a prize in tho lottery of politic*, they have in reality only caught a tartar. The Democratic party ought to make haste to get rid of its habit of chronic grumbling. It is charged with tho responsibility for tho affairs of the government, and must act as wisely and discreetly as it can. Mr. Cleveland, too, must act, and can no longer shelter himself behind commonplace declarations of opinion. The Democratic party is no longer a looker-on. but is in full charge of affairs, and is to be tried by the record it makes.—Chicago Tribune. ~ I8 I ? m ' n< ? as J a^°r revolution fthe strike on the tioulil lines] is simply the culmination of a series of ambidextrous and sinister business methods to which the entire railway system of the country has been remorselessly subjected for a long series of vears. This svstem of legalized extortion and robbery began with the pluuder of investors of all ranks and conditions, from the wealthy and self-reliaut capitalists to the need) and dependent widow and innocent and unsuspecting orphan. Having exhausted the patience and tho purse of every individual who had a dollar to land, the manipulators of tho securities of the Wabash. Denver & Rio Grande, Texas & St. Louis, Denver, Rio Grande & Western, Texas Pacific, Texas & Littl* Kock, ct id omne genus, arc now raiding their several employes m order if possible, to keep their heads above the financial wave that threatens to overwhelm them, and thus enable th&m not only to retain the plunder they have alreadwwrung from a deceived and deluded public, but to possess themselves of more. —Chicago News. With the capture of the Tekke stronghold the subjection of the southern and so-called independent Turcomans was practically finished, for the Mervli chiefs have voluntarily submitted to the Czar. The annexation of Merv was speedily followed by Persia’s cession ot Sarakhs. A glance at the map will show that by these two accessions-of territory Russia wau enabled to approach Herat either by the valley of tho Murgab river, which flows through the Merv oasis, or by the valley of the Hari Rud river, on which Sarakhs is situated. Penjdeh, now the subject of conte-ntion, is on the Murgab, but considerably further up the river than Merv, and some miles south of tire boundary claimed by Afghanistan, Os the other strategic points now disputed, the most important arc on the Hari Rud. some distance south of Sarakhs. In brief, the Russian forces, with their advanced basis of supplies at Merv and Sarakhs. are, while tho British Foreign Office is amused with negotiations only intended to gain time, being steadily pushed onward by two distinct routes, which converge at Herat.—New York Sun. Not the Dove of David and Jonathan. She byville Republican. As Hendricks had shrewdly guessed, this cry for tho “old ticket” in Indiana effectually hamstrung the McDonald “boom." It divided tho Democratic forces. About that time (we speak now upon very high authority) Hendricks, in talking to one of his most intimate friends, used this remarkable language: “I do not know that I can ever be President of tho United Statos; but one thing I do know, and that is I’ll l>e blanked if Joe McDonald ever shall!” That doesn't sound very much like the David and Jonathan, Castor and Pollux, Romeo and Juliet sort of uudying lovo and relationship which the henchmen would have us believe exists between their idol and McDonald. Mr. Hendricks’s Treacliery. Terre Haute Mail. Honest Joe McDonald can stand his defeat, and will bear it without a whimper. He is the ablest Democrat the State has to-day, and he ought, and doubtless would have been asked into the Cabinet but for Mr. Hendricks’s opposition. He has received nothing but treachory from that gentleman in return for bis faithful and self-sacrificing service to him. Joe McDonald can stand this treatment if the Democracy of Indiana can stand it, but there is likely to bo a good deal of bad blood engendered in the party by this kind of management. Os Course, He Did. Chicago Inter Ocean. Did Hendricks, as chairman of the Indiana delegation, conspire from the first against the favorite son whom he professed to support? Was that speech itself cunningly devised to throw cold water upon the nomination by deftly slipping in the remark that anybody could carry Indiana? Was the little Hendricks booralet that rose and fell so suddenly manufacturedurti£fc. his own direction? Was it, in fine, anotlter case of Joab saying: “Is it well with thee, my brother?" and at tho saino timo running a sword through the unsuspecting Abner?

. A Righteous Act Performed. Indianapolis News. Wide spread attention should be attracted by a righteous act which President Cleveland performed yesterday. He refused to go to Brother Bartlett's church, where everything had been prepared for him (an eloquent sermon having been fired off, the account says); the pooplo were packed in like sardines, and they went away disappointed. And yet it is to he presumed that & similar desecration of a sacred place may ho expected every Sunday, the place for tha worship of God being turned into a presidential peep show. The Lion and the Jackass. Warsaw Times. The indications are that McDonald is at last aroused by the outrageous treatment ho has so continuously received from Mr. Hendricks, and now proposes to strike back. Ho has borne much, and it isn't in human nature to stand such treatment as he has received from professed friends any longer. The lion seems at last brought to bay by a jackass, and the outcome will be the same as usual, wo presume. Not After the .Manner of Cleveland. Columbus Republican. The Indianapolis Sentinel says that Judge Endicott, the new Secretary of War, is a son-in law of George Peabody, the great philanthropist As Peabody was a bachelor, we do not see exactly how that can be. as it was never charged that Peabody bad a family after the style of Cleveland. A Foul Blot on Civilization. Clark County Record. Indiana seems to be peculiarly cursed, in late years, by the very worst and most unscrupulous legislatures. The last one would disgrace heathenism, and constitutes a foul blot upou Christian civilization. In the boiling of the political caldron the filthy scum rises to the top. The Value of Small Debt-Paying. Toronto (Can.)Globe. If you can manage it at all, pay your little debts promptly. It may boa benefit aloug an extensive circle. An old resident remembers an incident in his own business experience wherein a certain marked coin came iuto bis till three times in one day. The Republicans Guilty. Natioual Republican. Among the many changes noted by the Democrats who have not been in Washington since their party was last in power was the improvement of the Capital City. This is also charged to the account of the Republican party. And Yet They Are Not Happy. New York Tribuuo. The South will furnish the brains and Mr. Manning the reforms for the present administration. Yet neither the Times nor the Evening Post is altogether happy. ——— Time for Business. New York Commercial Advertiser. Now that the President is seated, the Cabinet chosen and the country safe, let every man go to work, and, so far as in him lies, help to make a lively -pring trade. Concerning Wm. b. Holman. Madison Courier. This district will have to unload itself of the great objector beforo it can ever rocoive any consideration in Congresa. But Six Dollars a Day la Desirable. Terre llaute Gazette (.Dew.) An extra session is something quite undesirable, nnd it is certainly to be hoped that it will be avoided. _ Great Wisdom. Greensbnrg Review. Our Thomas showed great wisdom in going to Washington beforo the other great men got there. \