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THE DAILY JOURNAL. BY JNO. O. MEW & SON. WASHINGTON OFFICE—SIS Fourteenth St. P. S. Heath, Correspondent. MONDAY, AUGUST 31, 1885. • RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. ntUB INVARIABLY TN ADVAN(*K—POST AOS PREPAID BY THE PUBLISHERS. THE DAILY JOURNAL. 0 year, Ry mail 512.00 One year, by mail, including Sunday 14.00 But months, by mail GOO Six months, by mail, including Sunday 7.00 Tbree months, by mail 3.00 Three months, by mail, including Sunday 3.50 One month, by mai1...?... ; J*oo One month, by mail, including Sunday *-20 Per week, by carrier lin THE SUNDAY JOURNAL. Per copy 5 cents One year, by mail ▼*•00 THE INDIANA STATE JOURNAL. (WEEKLY EDITION.) One year SI.OO Less than one year and‘ over tbree month*, 10c per months. No subscription taken for less than three months. Jn clubs of five or over, agents will take yearly subscriptions at sl, aud retain 10 per cent, for their work. Address JNO. C. NEW & SON, Publishers The Journal, Indiananolis, Ind. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can be found at the following places: LONDON—American Exchange in Europe, 449 Strand. PARlS—American Exchange iu Paris, 35 Boulevard des Capuciucs. NEW YORK—St. Nicholas and Windsor Hotels. CHICAGO—PaImer House. CINCINNATI—I. R. Hawley Si Cos., 154 Vine street. LOUISVILLE—C. T. Bearing, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. ST. LOUIS —Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern Hotel. Telephone Calls. Business Office 238 | Editorial Rooms 242 It is alleged that Olivier Pain is still alive. The French republic suffers many disappointments. We do not see much complaint in the Democratic press about John Sherman being "a cold man,” There was no broach of the peace at the Sullivan-McCaffrey hippodrome. It was entirely harmless. This country doesn't live up to its privileges. Only 15,000 people witnessed the Sullivan McCaffrey slugging-match at Cincinnati. If Keiley, and Lamar, and Butler, and their kind lay down the bloody shirt of treason and never touch it again, it will never bo picked up. Sucii hippodromes as that of Sullivan and McCaffrey will work their own cure. Bummers and sports will not long spend their money for such things. Bismarck has great respect for the feelings of Spain, and, coincidentally, Spain has a better navy than has Germany. There is nothing like being able to compel respect. Minister Keiley wears two pairs of spectacles at once. It is troublesome to get a focus on vanishing missions, for a fact, but three pairs of glasses will not help him much. If fifteen thousand fools can bo found to spend their money for such an “exhibition” as that given by Sullivan and McCaffrey, we can see no reason why anyone should interfere. A Georgia man recently fell a distance of 800 feet and survived the tumble. The Democratic party has fallen a much greater distance since last March. Its survival is doubtful. Tuf. rule requiring full dress from all who would attend grand opera at Paris will undoubtedly be a campaign document when the pext communistic rising takes place. The Grand Opera-house is supported by taxatiou. Tiie ambition of the administration is to •show a reduction of expenses. There should be a very marked reduction of expenses, judging by the kind of material chosen by the President. In every department of the public service that has been touched, a marked decrease in efficiency’ has been noted. “SEVERAL thousand unemployed working men assembled at Hackney (England) last week and adopted a resolution demanding that the government should assist them to emigrate. ’ Has arybody ever heard of an occurrence 6f this kind iu the country while “in the clutches of a robber tariff ?” Ohio’s blatant evangelist, O. R. Munger, is about to be deposed by the Saltation Army. Aud, as if this were not humiliating enough, the army “desires it to be understood” that they are not responsible for the sayings of Munger. Wheu a preacher gets low enough for the Salvationists to be ashamed of him. he is about gone. Women must go. Mrs. De la Hunt, postmistress at Cannelton, has been removed to make place for a Democrat. Mrs. De la Hunt is the widow of Captain Do la Hunt, a Democrat, ■who saw service in the Union army, aud died of wounds received. This by the same administration that appoints unrepentant rebels to his Cabinet and sends men like Keiley to foreign missions. Mr. I rancie Murphy, who may be supposed to know something about the temperance situation, lma been making a summer lecture tour through Pennsylvania and Virginia, and has resumed work at Pittsburg. Mr. Murphy is “sorry to say that the feeling pmoDg temperance people is not aa cordial as

nfc once was. There used to be,” ho says, “but one kind of temperance people. Now there are two. There is the side which is inclined to politics, which has taken up the idea that only by legislation can any reform be brought about. And then there is the religious side. Between the two there has arisen a kind of ill-fdeling. The one is inclined to say that tho other i3 wholly wrong because it does not do as they do, and vice versa.” But Mr. Murphy admits that though he sees the evil and the disastrous consequences, he does not see tho way clear to remedy it. Scorning to take a leaf from the book of their enemies, who practice upon the theory that in union there is strength, each temperance faction resolves to stand alone until the others come to it. In the meantime tho work languishes and the wicked triumph. THE CITY ELECTION. There are not many voters in Indianapolis who do not pay more or less property tax. She possesses a proprietary population in larger proportion to the whole population than any city of her size in the Union, we believe.' A larger proportion of her voters, therefore, have a cash interest in the prudent and honest administration of city business. Yet we have not always bad an honest administration, and frequently not a prudent one. Debts have been made that annually tax us for interest, and the money went for nothing, or worse. Sometimes it went in jobs, worse than waste by tho amount of rascality they involved. We made a costly tunnel, and gavo it away, virtually, to a particularly illiberal monopoly. We improved needless streets and sidewalks by the mile, to give work to pet contractors, who understood “addition, division and silence.” They grew up dog-fennel and rag-weeds till the gravel of the roadways and the brick of the sidewalks were hidden as completely as the tile paving of Nineveh. Wo built the Eddy-street culvert, for some thousands of dollars, and the “job” washed out in a freshet. We built the Cath-arine-street culvert, for other thousands of dollars, and it was never used by any wagon, horse or wandering hog, till it was washed out by another freshet. We built bridges to sag or break. We borrowed money at big interest to do all this jobbing with. We had anything but a prudent or honest administration when these things were done. “Which,” as the old saying is, “nobody can deny.” Now all this loss, arid folly, and useless burden of business and property could have been saved by a tithe of the care that every sane man shows in the management of his individual property. We had only to put in the direction of city business tho same kind of men that we would have trusted with our private business if W'e had needed help in it. We didn't do it. We have rarely done it, and now is a good time to begin, City affairs have not been greatly mismanaged for some years, not since the era of Democratic “reform” ten years ago, when the city tax went up to $1.50. But they are falling into lines running more and more nearly parallel with the old jobbing ruts, and it wont be long till they run together and go on as beforo. To prevent it wo want the best class of men in the city in the Council—men of business experience, of general information and unimpeachable honesty. Iu one word, we want no more men of the Dowling pattern, or of the pattern of the men w T ho palter with his crime and insult tlie intelligence of tho city. Avery safe rule—with occasional possible exceptions—is to beat every man who owns a saloon or is put out by saloon influence. That is a reckless influence when it is not worse. We want an honest or serviceable influence to control; one to raise the saloon tax and mqjve the cause of evil bear its burdens. Dr. Andrew White, late ministep to Germany, says only what is notoriously true in saying that the municipal governments of Europe are invariably and incomparably better than ours. There probably never was so much corruption, ignorance, fraud and abuse in any civilized government on earth, general or local, as in the city governments of the United States. Our State governments are almost uniformly honest, decent and dignified. Our county governments are not often bad. Our school direction is rarely mismanaged in honesty of purpose, at least, but our municipal governments are rarely pure or respectable, and very often the councils are the most atrociously and defiantly corrupt bodies that can bo assembled on the planet. We can remedy all this in this city by keeping in mind that the Council’s business concerns every household nearly as closely as its own economy. The Council has a good deal to do with the comfort, tho health, the convenience of every family. It makes the streets, rules the maikets, preserves order, protects property, suppresses fires, keeps down nuisances, protects health, and taxes us more heavily than all other administrative agencies together. The Council has the most to do directly with the citizen, costs him the most money, and should be made of the best men. We haven’t got them now; but now is tho best possiblo time to get them. ONE of the many contemptible things accomplished through tiro machinations of Democratic politicians of small caliber is the removal of Mrs. Isabella De la Hunt, postmistress at Cannelton, this State. The widow of a Union soldier, who died in 1872 of wounds received while in tho service of his country, she finally becamo postmistress in his place, her father, an old man, being first appointed. Almost from the day Mr. Ifuckeby, her father, was appointed she took practical charge of the business, made out its reports, etc., and it iq said of her that

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her papers were faultless, not one of them ever being returned for amendment or correction. From 1871 to 1884 she attended to the duties of the office, and then her father, on account of old age, resigned, whereupon President Arthur appointed her to the place, it being admitted without controversy that she was eminently fitted for the office. With the election of Cleveland, and an opportunity made for tho “faithful” and “hungry" to get at these things, it was still thought that she was safe in possession of tho office. But it was not long a Democrat and a man was appointed. At first Congressman Kleiner refused to listen to such a thing; but the local Democratic press opened its mud-batteries on him, and he evidently capitulated, and the abusing editor was given tho place. The shame of tho whole disgraceful business is all the more apparent when it is borne in mind that the husband of Mrs. De la Hunt, Capt. De la Hunt, was an honorable Democrat, although he had gone back on bis party to enter the Union service. Had Blaine been elected, this widow of a Democrat would not have been molested; but by the election of a Democrat, and one that would seem to take especial pleasure iu indorsing such efficiency and non partisanism, she is discharged and the position given to a man. This is a well-defined policy of the new administration, that women must be displaced to make room for men and voters. The people of Cannelton and Perry county are justly indignant; but it will avail nothing. The Democratic party is after votes and the, spoils must be distributed to the best advantage. The Boston Journal says of Mr. Sherman’s speech: “Before some of his mugwump critics were born Mr. Sherman was in Congress participating iu the struggles which led up to the accomplishment of these great results. Perhaps he is as well qualified to measure their significance as some of the young persons who will deride him for reviving the past. * * * Altogether, the speech is clear-cut and aggressive, and, if it does not please the mugwumps, there is the satisfaction of knowing that it was not intended to. Mr. Sherman is evidently a Republican who believes that an era of political peace must be preceded by an era of justice.” The Louisville Commercial, not a Republican paper, and published in a Southern city, is candid enough to say: “Senaor Sherman may not have been politic enough for the preseut time when he said in his Mt. Gilead speech that he bad noticed ‘many signs of a disposition to waive all the glorious results of the war,’ but in his protest against tho tendency to obliterate all distinction of war records ho merely echoed a sentiment that is bound sooner or later to prevail again with great strength. The temper of the country has been against the nursing of old issues and old feelings, but the present tendency is to revive in some manner tho old discussion of State’s rights, and that is sure to revive the war feeling. Senator Sherman is not a good party trimmer, but he is an eminently sensible and far-sighted man.” Tlie Pittsburg Commercial Gazette says: “To all of his statements we will hear the customary answer that the war is over, and there is no necessity for waving the bloody shirt. This answer, however conclusive it may be to Democratic minds, will not explain the attitude of the party towards the results of the war, much less will it excuse the administration in its policy of always placing the confederate above tlie Union soldier in dispensing the honors and emoluments of office.” We have no Alexander 11. Stephens to teach “all of us that our interests are identical,” but, instead, we have Mahones to preach suspicion and enmity between the races, and others, on one side and tlie other, foolish and wicked enough to follow in his footsteps.—Petersburg (Ya.) Index-Appeal. We also have “Minister" Keiley, who does not hesitate to declare the war for tho Union “a gross and bloody violation of public rights,” and a Democratic administration not only does not rebuko him, but appoints him as minister to a first-class power. We also have the flag lowered, not for an ex-rebel, but for a man w r ho planned to assassinate women and children. The country, only a few months ago, was edified by a Southern senator rising in his seat to eulogize Jefferson Davis, and by just implication reaffirming the undying “principles” for which the South so gallantly and ineffectually struggled, being temporarily overcome by mere force of numbers. We have yet to see a Southern Democratic paper condemn Keiley’s unpatriotic utterance, or to deprecate Senator Lamar's intemperate eulogy of the Confederacy and its traitorous leader. Democracy lias no word of criticism for disloyal utterances, but is ready to blackguard aud abuse any and all who dare remonstrate. The statement from the State Depprtment is that the objection to Mr. Keiley was the nationality of his wife.—Atlanta Constitution. If such a statement has come from the State Department, the Constitution has the exclusive monopoly of it. That is the plea put forward for Mr. Keiley by superserviceable friends, but it is not accepted even by him. Austria objected to him because be had made himself obnoxious to a friendly power, by a gross and discourteous attack upon its government. The “objection” to the fellow on tho part of loyal, respectable people in the United States is that be offered a treasonable insult to bis own government, for which he has not only not apologized, but on account of which he seems to have become the special favorite and pet of the Democratic administration. When the Mexican band struck up “Dixie” last night a shout arose in the audience that brought back the old rebel yell. Who has forgotten the sacred memories of the lost cause, and whose heart is not stirred up to quick passion when ho hears the old strains that still embody the hopes and tears, and longings and heroic sacrifices of the four bat-tle-shaken years? We love the North, but we idolize the South. —Memphis Avalanche. When the Mexican band struck up “Dixie” in this city, the tune was received with enthusiasm, which showed that the people of

the North are in full spirit of reconciliation. It did not awaken any “sacred memories of tho lost cause,” neither did it call up any such unpatriotic contrast between the North and South as tho Avalanche says the people of Memphis made, as expressed in the last line: “We do net love the South, but we idolize the North.” “We” love and idolize our co;nmou country, knowing no North and no South in patriotic devotion to the Union. That is the spirit of the Northern people. Reading between the lines of the Avalanche's paragraph, it is possible to see why it is that the North and South are kept apart by the “sectionalism" of the old South. It is not tho North that “waves the bloody shirt.” Indiana’s vast army of school children are again about to be marshaled for active service. During the month about to begin the many schools of this State will reopen, afterthe summer holidays, and the active work of education will be resumed. But, meanwhile, the leaders, the superintendents and teachers, have-not been idle. All through the summer new methods of instruction have been considered, and the best of them selected. The county institutes held during the past few weeks have been the best that the State ever had. The attendance has surpassed all those of the past, and it has been demonstrated that there are more applications for schools than can be accommodated. This affords school officials an opportunity to choose the best, and to secure good teachei’3. The future of education in Indiana was never brighter, and with proper management the State may easily retain its position in tho foremost rank of education. The Republican papers of tho country, almost without exception, heartily indorse John Sherman’s speech and the platform of the lowa Republicans. The attitude of tho press of Indiana is not doubtful, as we knew it could not be. The Journal is reprinting the comments of the Republican State press, in order to show that the Republicans of Indiana have not yet readied the point* of either apologizing for or fmgetting the principles upon which the party is founded. The Republican party of Indiana will not make a campaign solely upon tlie duty on asafeetida and the quarrel between Aquilla Jones and Brother Swift. The Republican party stands for something else, and the Republicans of Indiana will not forget it. In two separate editorials in tho Boston Transcript we fiud the follow sentences: “Somehow the Republican party platforms Lave a striking family resemblance this year.” * * * “There is a lack of unanimity in the Democratic platforms.” It will be a good tiling if the Republican party all over the country shall come together upon platforms having this “striking family resemblance.” It will show tlie essential unity and nationality of the party, and will be a presage of that union 4n which there is strength, and out of which there will come success. Tho “lack of unanimity’’ in Democratic platforms shows the essential sectionalism and localism of that party. It is all things to all men, if by any means it may wdn the spoils. Secretary Bayard, while a member of tho Senate, and as a member of the Ku-klux investigating committee, made a report in which he said: “Such a state of things may last as long ns the party shall last which had the power and the audacity to inaugurate it, and no longer. But whenever that party shall go down, ns go down it will at some time not long in the fu ture, that will be tho erul of tlie political power of the negro among white men on this continent.” Mr. Bayard has not changed his opinion; but because the Democratic party has come into power by an accident, shall the Republican party cowardly abandon its defense of the principles of freedom and equality? Judge Whiting, the Democratic candidate for Governor of lowa, made a speech at the opening of the war in which he said: “I hope that no soldier who goes into the abolition war will return to lowa alive.” But it is waving the bloody shirt to allude to this now, although Judge Whiting retains his Democracy unaltered. The theory of the invertebrates is that all the one-armed and one-legged exUnion soldiers should now vote for Judge Whiting. There are not many Republicans, either in lows or in Indiana, nor in the country at large, who w ill accept that definition of their political duty. Frank James says that if he should “make a plain, calm statement of how little we [the ‘James gang,’ the pride of Missouri,] did, and how entirely lawful our acts were, the people w*ould be surprised, and say there was no truth in my book.” If the “truthful James" of the playful pets of Missouri pride has any doubts on the point he suggests, he may put them out of tlie way at once. We and everybody else will assure him that tho people will be very much surprised to learn that what he and his friends did was “entirely lawful,” and they will not believe a word of it. They know better. The early frost brings John Sherman and the political chestnut. —Chicago Times. We are still waiting to see someone undertake to open that chestnut bum The New York Grand Lodge of Good Templars, devotod to prohibition, yet passed a resolution by more than a three-fourths vote against the formation of a third j>olitical party for its advocacy. The third political party is the work of cranks and uneasy and ambitious men who want somfl* organization in which they can pky the Big Injun. Reduced

to its last analysis this is the raison d’etre of the third party movement everywhere. In trying a lot of Salvation Army people the other day for a breach of the peace, Justice Kersow. of Chicago, said: “It seems to mo that the actions of these Salvationists resemble a monkey show more than anything elso. From my own experience I would say we have more arrests caused by the Salvation Army than by all the saloons on the North Side. They gather great crowds on the streets.’’ And the righteous and sensible justice fined the fools $lO each, in default of which he sent them to tho Bi'idewoll. Mu. Joseph O'Connor, formerly the editor of the Sentinel, of this city, is mentioned as a probable Democratic candidate for Secretary of State of New York. Mr. O'Connor is a gentleman and a scholar, and his faithful work as a Democratic editor entitles him to the consideration of his party. It is mentioned as a curious fact that the introduction of electric lights has increased the consumption of gas. Tho eyes becoming accustomed to a better light demand a double quantity of gas. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Lat>y Tennyson is in such delicate health as to cause much anxiety to her family. Lieutenant Dannenhowbr, iu a recently prepared paper, has taken a firm stand against arctic explorations. The San Francisco papers say that the practice of shipping coin by men-of war was frequent in former times, both by American and British vessels, the captain having a per cent, as a personal perquisite. Dan Rice, the old circus clown, has set up a claim to the whole island on which stands the city of Galveston, Tex. Mr. Rice has in his possession an old Mexican land grant obtained from Daniel McLaren, an original Spanish aettlcr. which covers the claim. Elia Yolpi, the Italian artist, is painting for the Queen of Italy a beautiful fan, which is described as a marvel of elaborate finish. It is painted on kid leather, and represents tho Queen surrounded by the Graces and other allegorical figures, with the genius of Italy in the act of crowning her. Thk remains of Prince Paul Demidoff, after resting in the chape I’of the Villa di Pratolina during several months, lighted day and night by enormous candelabra, have been sent from Florence by special train to Siboria. accompanied by the pope of the family. The DemidofTs are immensely rich. Their ancestor was a blacksmith New York Sun: Prospective bridegroom (to prospective bride) —Would it be possible, do you think, dear, to postpone our wedding until Monday? lam in receipt of a dispatch calling me to Buffalo on important business. P. bride—l'm afraid not, George, dear. The wedding presents, you know, are only rented until Saturday* Elephants are not numerous on the western slope of equatorial Africa, being found only alUhg tlie fertile river valleys, and rarely ever goiug near tho banks of the Congo until the hilly and barren country is passed. Above Stanley Pool they increase in numbers and roam in large hci’ds. seldom being molostcd or hunted by the natives. It is told of Gabrielli that when she visited Russia in 1 <63 Catherine wished to engage her services, for which the songstress demanded a salary of 5,000 ducats. ‘‘Far too much," said the Empress, amazed. “Why, that is more than I pay iny field marshals." “Then let your field marshals sing to you," was the swift rejoinder of the singer. It is recalled tha^Carlyle, speaking of the late Lord Houghton, once said: “Well, Dickey Milnes has has peculiarities, but lie has a kind, good heart. Many a starving man of letters owes his life to him. No one knows better than I do the many £SO notes he gave to keep a struggling man’s head above water, and no one ever knew it from himself.” Statistics show that the export of wheat from California, ()r?gon and Washington Territory gives employment annually to more than four hundred sailing vessels. The averago passage for each craft is about 16,000 miles, in an average time of between four and five mouths. Many of the largest and finest sailing ships, American, Norwegian and English, at e kept busy iu the trade. Proses ioxal beauty on the Pacific coast finds lucrative employment as a pretended illustration of the merits of a patent medicine. A wonderfully lovely young woman travels in the chariot of a vender of medicine, which, he declares, caused tho perfection of her complexion. He sel Is a tonic, too, to which he attributes the abuudance of her hair, and drugs for the increase or reduction of flesh to her standard. Seventeen years ago the death penalty for murder in tho first degree was abolished by Minnesota, and life imprisonment was substituted; but the gallows has just been re-orected. Michigan has tried the same experiment, and not long since a bill was passed by tho lower house of the Legislature re-enacting the hanging policy, although it failed of adoption in the Senate. Maine did no hanging for six years, and then went back to capital punishment. A WRITER fur Alexander Dumas's short-lived journal, the Mousquetaire, recollects that the editor fixed liberal prices on accepted articles but that the cashier usually showed an empty money-drawer when asked to pay. Dumas kept a uotice in the paper that no books or theater tickets would be accepted as gifts, hecauso he preferred that his critics should buy what they needed; but a request for money with which to obey this rule always made the cashier grin. The lasso commonly used by cowboys is made of sixty feet of rope, a third of which forms tho loop. When thrown, it is swung over the head and left shoulder, and then over the right shoulder, with a peculiar turn of the wrist calculated to keep the loop open until it encircles the object at which it is flung. Expert thiowors do not pride themselves on catching a steer by the horns, but try to bo hurl tho noose in front of the beast that ho will step into it, thus entaugling his legs aud throwing him. In a Wyoming exhibition, a cowboy repeatedly caught a bull by auy leg that the spectators named. Sir Henry Bessemer, the steel process inventor, first made his mark by devising a stamp that could not be used twice. Tho English government made him superintendent of stamps, at a good salary, and he called on his betrothed to inform her that they could get married soon. Ilis invention consisted of a die that punched four hundred holes in the paper to be stamped, and tho young lady suggested that it would lie much simpler to make a stamp that contained movable dates. Ho set to work and devised one, which the government adopted, and which cost him the position that had just been created for him. He had himself rendered it unnecessary. CUK RUNT PRESS COMMENT. IT would be a matter for universal regret if something greatly to the advantage of Ireland be not the outcome of .the present struggle. There is too much at stake to permit the attainable to bo thrown away in impotent eil'orts to go beyond it.—Louisville Commercial. WHAT Ireland wants with independence, and what the Irish people would do with it if they got it, are pertinent inquiries. Home rule should bo sought by Irishmen, so that in the future they might secure their proportionate share in the government.—Denver Republican. The significant thing which the Democracy in this State now fully apprehends is the fact that tens of thousands—perhaps a hundred thousand—of its own voters cannot be depended upon to vote the straight ticket. It has not long been thus. The cast iron fidelity with which the rank and file of the Democratic party used to follow its leaders has been one of the strongest impeachments against the intelligence of the average personnel of that party.— Albany Express. WHEN summary judgment can be obtained on an obvious obligation, when rich litigants cannot get new trials or otherwise postpone the vet diet without adepuate cSuse. when cases are not laid over from week to week and month to month merely because the lawyer pleads another engagement, when a judge cannot go off on a fishing tour without commissioning somebody to dispose of unfinished business, then, indeed, will barristers and shysters and robbers be defeated in their unrighteous schemes, and good lawyers

and honest clients rejoice that justice is attainable. At the present moment, it is far easier for a poor man to obtain justice in England, France or Germany than here in “the model republic,” and if we desire that our form of government be held in respect, thing mnst be done at once to wipe out this reproach. —Frank Leslie’s Weekly. We shonld be willing to pnttoany group of businos* men, whatever their individual political sympathise might be, this question: “Suppose that the business interests of the country could be assured that Congresa would suspend the silver coinage, would enact a just national bankruptcy law, and would refuse to rneddle with the existing tariff, would there not be an imme* uiate and general revival of business activity and confidence? —and we are confident that there would scarcely be a break in the affirmative reply.—Boston Journal. The Republicans of Ohio believe in the principle* ' JR s t‘ce, ami they cannot help accepting the position laid down by their senator. Tho Republican party oi tho country should have upheld and enforced this doctrine when the South first began its work of practicady disfranchising its colored citizens. If tho right stand bad then been taken, peace and concord would have been established long ago between tho sections, and tho government would still be in tho hands of the party who saved it from tho assaults of traitors in arms.—Cleveland Leader. The people of the United States are gradually being thrown more and more Upon a home market for buyers of the animal and vegetable food that is raised hero, and the prospect is that the producer will find himself compensated less even than now, till the “pooe pay" puts a eh ck upon the industry of food culture. The prospects are not in favor of a greater increase in. the production than corresponds with the growth of the population. It is always difficult to measure in advance the value of an exertion or a discovery, and the attempt to do it may prove to be a foolish one, but it looks as if the present conditions are decidedly a nd; scouraging to work in this field of labor. —Chicago Tribune. The depth to which the Republican parly has bee® stined by the injustice done it in the South is evidenced by the fact that tho subject occupies a conspicuous place in every Republican platform adopted is convention this year. The party has irrevocably set its face toward righting this wrong, and it cannot b* duped into turning to the right hand or to the left. There can be no compromise with bulldozers and bal-lot-box stuffers, and the Republican party can bo deterred no more from demanding its just rights in this instance by eries about the bloody shirt than the Union army was kept back from tho field by tho derision heaped by copperheads upon “Lincoln’s hirelings."—Philadelphia Press. There are many Liberals who sincerely sympathize with the sufferings of Ireland, and would do what they eould to ameliorate her condition. There are many Liberals who see the immense importance to England of doing all that can safely be done to conciliate tho Irish. There is no evidence that any Conservative statesman takes any other view of tho Irish question, when lie is not actually engaged in bidding for Irish votes, than that, it is a bore and that ho wishes tho beggars would be quiet. The event to be most wished for Ireland is the return to power of Mr. Gladstone, with his cout nual desire to gratify the Irish quickened by these events, and backed by so strong a Liberal majority that, what should be done can be done by the English members-with some semblance of dignity as an act of grace, aud not as a concession to tho bullying of the Irish members or as the result of an intrigue for their votes.—New York Times. The Republicans of lowa never hesitale, quibble or halt in accepting the logic of Republicanism. Their State platform, adapted at Dos Moines, Thursday, starts out with the proposition: “We protest against the Union soldier having one vote and the rebel soldier having two." This epigrammatic statement puts tho case strongly but fairly. All the signs of the times point to a renewed and increased appreciation of this supreme issue. Governor Hoadly and other Democrats may sneer at it as waving the bloody shirt, but no escape is possible from the danger which menaces the country, except through the suppression of the crime itself. Any one who thinks it is all right to let the fourteenth amendment be trampled in the dusfc belongs in the Democratic parly, iu tho present attitudu of parties, and should not hesitate to affiliate with it. The Republican party cannot afford to cater in the slightest degree to any ’alf-and-’alf sentiment. —Chicago Inter Ocean. For our own part, in spite of the confident tone of Mr. Parnell, wo cannot believe that England will over listen to a plan that contemplates the immediate separation of Ireland, aud we fear that the “finish of the struggle" is not so near as the utterance of Mr. Parnell might lead some to believe. British statesmen are evidently not inclined to underrate the strength of tho Parnellites, nor do they ignore tho danger to which imperial unity is exposed in the event of the next Parliament being evenly balanced between the two parties. But this danger will bo made prominent; by the Liberals to show the advantages of a large Liberal majority to the country. It would, therefor©, seem that there are many obstacles yet in tho way of Irish independence, and that, while the prospects of the ationalists are undoubtedly brightening and their hopes for local self-government even such as Mr. Chamberlain is willing to concede, and other muchneeded measures may bo obtained from the next Parliament, there is yet but little reason for believing that the demand for home rule will be met with anything but firm opposition from both the English parties. —Philadelphia Press. Kleiner’s Hunt for Soldiers. Minneapolis Tribune. There is something truly touching in the way theso Democrats scour the country for Union soldiers to fill tho offices with. Now, there is John Kleiner, congressman from the First Indiana district. John remarks in-a loud and triumphant tone of voice that under the Republicans there were nine soldiers holding office iu the First congressional district, and to-day there are twenty-seven. He says he crossed streams, hunted through the hills, and penetrated remote school districts, calling for men who had borne arms in the service of tho Union to fill the offices. He now regards the band with a feeling of triumph, believing it one that will constantly grow in public favor. It will bo observed that Mr. Kleiner had to do a good deal of skirmishing to find Democrats who had been Union soldiers. Tho great majority of tho southern Indiana Democrats who were grown men during the war busied themselves burnine the barns and stealing tho horses of their Union neighbors, or scouring the woods for “niggers” who had escaped from their owners on the other side of the Ohio. Jones Not a Native Hoosler. Now York Tribune. Jones, the obstreperous postmaster at Indianapolis, turns out to be an importation from North Carolina, and not a native Indiana Democrat. This is a point in his favor on which evg the Civil-service Commission should feel wilir ing to give him an extra mark or two. Going to Needless Trouble. Rnsliville Graphic. Mr. Hendricks, with great calmness and selfaatisfaction, assures the country that he is not responsible for the errors committed by the President. Mr. Hendricks is certainly going to needless trouble. Very few people consider him responsible in any sense. One of the Foremost Leaders. Boston Advertiser, Senator Sherman is entitled to be called one of the foremost leaders in the Republican party. As such, his formal opening speech this fall in a canvass whose chief issue is his own re election to the Senate is worthy of especial notice. Exit Denis Kearuey Chinese Agitation. Portland Oregonian. The fact is that the Chinese question as a political issue is about worked out in California; the people are thoroughly tired of it The tide which so long set against John Chinaman is now turning in his favor. Now Yell ‘‘Bloody Shirt,” Wabash Courier. In their State convention, hold the other day. the Mississippi Democrats decided in favor oi pensioning the rebel soldiers. Now, you Democratic organs, hate off. There, now, as one man, yell, “Bloody shirt!’’ A ISihlical Coincidence. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Keiley is about to resign, we aro assured—which recalls that significant and touching passage of Scripture, “And tho ass turned aside out of tho way and wont into the field” —Number®, xx, 23. Interesting Coincidence. Philadelphia Press. It is an interesting coincidence that Presdont Cleveland left camp and adjourned to a hotel the very day that the New York World says the party rau out of whisky. Sherman's Fence*. Philadelphia Press. John Sherman, of Ohio, is bound to put Ml fences in first class order, even if he has to stick some of the Democratic candidates into thi ground for posts. Governor Begolly. Philadelphia Press. Ex Governor Josiah Whackem Begole that he is still in politics, but wo dare him prove it.