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THE DAILY JOURNAL. BY JNO. O. NEW A SON. WASHINGTON OFFICE-513 Fourteenth St. P. S. Heath, Correspondent. V—r— 1 ~ 1 ■ ' MONDAY, AUGUST 9, 1886. g--- • - ■--- ■■■ THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL. CanJte found at the following places: LONDON—American Exchange in Europe, 440 Strand. PARlS—American Exchange in Paris, 35 Boulevard des Capucines. NEW YORK—St. Nicholas and Windsor Hotels. CHICAGO—PaImer HouseT CINCINNATI—J. P. Hawley & Cos.. 154 Vine street. LOUISVILLE—C. T. Bearing, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. BT, LOUlS—Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern Hotel. WASHINGTON, D. C.-Riggs House and Ebbitfc House. Telephone Calls. Badness Office 238 | Editorial Rooms 242 Bynum is anxious for some oue to hold Bailey. He will hold himself. There is infinitely more reason for getting Into a war with Great Britain than with MA'ico. But then Mexico is not so big as £ngiand. . The disturbances in the several districts among the Democratic candidates for Congress are simply side-shows. The performance in the circus will begin this week when the State convention assembles. It won't do to throw the Seventh district Apple of Democratic discord into the State convention, for that organization will have nothing to do with it by right, and, besides, It would not caro to fool with this bomb. The Bloomfield Democrat flies at the masthead the names of Grover Cleveland Daniel W, Voorhees as the national Democratic ticket for 1838. The season is approaching when these attacks will seize the average oounty paper Is it possible that*the Democracy is embarrassed by the necessity of nominating a can didate for the Lieutenant-governorship? It were something unprecedented that the Democratic party should feel lost because of the need of electing another officer. The more the better has been the time-honored Democratic rule.

It is said that a war would have the effect •f solidifying the North and South. Perhaps. But is it not about time for the sections to come to some mutual understanding without necessity of a war that would prove very expensive? There is no reason why the South should not perfectly affiliate with the North without waiting any longer. Ex-Governor Glick, of Kausas, is said to have been selected by Secretary Lamar to succeed Pension Commissioner Black, who has about run the length of his tether. Governor Blick is the man whoso notoriety rests solely upon the fact that he defeated St. John for Bovernor of Kansas, at a time when the people of that State were thoroughly disgusted with that phenomenal fraud. The wisdom of keeping up a force of militia Is now apparent. If it became necessary, a large force of well-drilled men could be concentrated on the Rio Grande within twentyfour hours, for it is morally certain that nine cut of ten of the members of the militia organizations would be glad to volunteer to take part in a campaign against Mexico. That was whero our first armies came from in !ihe War of the Rebellion. Ip the People will be kind enough to bring lorth its proof that the authorities of the Newsboys’ Home are using their positions under the city ordinance to discriminate Igainst the boys who sell the Sunday newspapers it will have the support of every healthy individual in the city to put a summary stop to such a canting outrage. As it la, the ladies say they do not do so, and there Is no evidence to contradict their denial. It is given out that the Treasury Department is about to honor the memory of Samael J. Tilden by putting his likeness on the sew stamps for oleomargarine. The idea is a happy one. His portrait would fittingly jp-ace bogus butter. While the authorities ure at it, they might accompany the portrait irith a sac-simile of some of the cipher dispatches that were sent to his residence at the time there was an attempt made to buy electiral votes to secure hs election. It is generally understood that the fight made against the American fishermen in Canadian waters has been made in reprisal for the tariff law, in force in this country, against ill imports, including those from Canada. And now it is said that the effect has been to reduce to the verge of starvation thousands of fradeVs in New Foundiand who have, in the past, /nade money off the vessels from the United States fishing in those waters. It is in the nature of a boomerang, with effects that are anything but pleasant for the Dominion officials to contemplate. Lord Randolph Churchill, the new Qhanoellor of the British Exchequer, is a protectionist. Four years ago, in a speech at Blackpool, he used the following language: “You find foreign iron, foreign wool, foreign silk and cotton pouting into this country, flooding you, drowning you, sinking you, •wamping you, and I suspect free imports to be the murderer of our industries much in the same way as if I found a man standing over a corpse and plunging his knife into it. I iheuld suspect that man of homicide. Silk,

leather, wool and iron are all coming into the country, duty free, hopelessly underselling your own products, and driving your industrial population to America, to the colonies, to the work-house or to the prison.” With Churchill at the head of the British Treasury, and with Morrison and his followers knocked out in two successive Congresses, it is about time to hear once more the feeble cry of the mugwump, that free trade is steadily progressing in the thought and practice of the world.

CONGRESS AND TBE PEOPLE. The usual amount of cheap wit, and worse, has been fired at Congress, now that it has adjourned. Some of this has been merited, perhaps, but the bulk of it is simply a reflection on the people who vote. Congress is simply an aggregation of Congressmen, and each Congressman represents a certain constituency. If Congress is not what it should be, the fault lies in the people who elected it and who are perpetuating it. It is not likely that any Congressman who cares for his political prospects would jeopardize them by going contrary to the wishes of those who chose him to represent them in the halls of national legislation. And if he does so represent their wishes, there is nothing to be said against him that does not equally apply to the masses who did the voting.~Tf any Congress has proved worthless, there is nothing to do about it, for it was the people who elected it, and they have it in their power to correct anything they do not like in the conduct of their representatives at Washington. There is no occasion, then, to “thank God,” or to cry “hallelujah,” when any Congress adjourns. There will be a time to thank God, when the people are wise enough and patriotic enough to select as their representatives such men as are best qualified to discharge the duties of the position. It is an insult to all the people when any one rejoices that Congress is through at last, and has adjourned. Unless popular government is a failure, there should be every reason why the people should afford every encouragement to the men who compose the national legislature. They have a difficult duty to perform, and should be afforded every chance to do their duty well. It is often true that the man fit to go to Congress is fitter to say what legislation is good than those who presume to offer captious objection to all that is done. The great majority of foolish resolutions offered in Congress at the expense of the time and patience of that body are in response to a demand that something of the kind be done. Many a Congressman has presented bills and resolutions that he knew at the time did not deserve to

pass and did not merit even a moment’s serious consideration; but he has had to do it or offend those to whom he must look for support. It is not to be thought of that he should throw these things under the table, where they belong, for the votes of the men who are intent on having them considered are not to be despised. They must be had to keep the party intact and to further other and more valuable objects. This is the secret of much of the work that has been thrown away on the various questions of the day that are already settled but for the demands of certain people that the agitation be kept up. Herein lies the secret of very much of the idle, not to say vicious, things that are discussed in Congress. The men who present them are not able to refuse to do so, though well knowing that they can never be adopted, and should not be allowed to take up the time that should be given to more Important things. It should-be understood that Congress is as good as the people who elected it, for were this not so the men sent up to make the laws of the land would not be there. The people have chosen them, and they are doing the bidding of those who sent them there for that purpose. If there is any fault to be found the people know where to go for redress. The ballot-box will be opened at the usual time and place for the purpose of determining what the people want. A good deal less cheap wit and blackguardism would better become the press of the country.

Mrs. J. Ellen Foster, of lowa, the celebrated temperance worker and speaker, was present last week at Lakeside, O. On Wednesday last she conducted a “question box,” and in replying to interrogatories gave her opinion of a political third-party prohibition, as follows: “I am opposed to the Prohibition party because I consider it a delusion and a snare, and I think it a great hindrance to temperance work. “Tho third party would hurt prohibition in Kansas and lowa if there was enough of it. “Tho third party did nothing to secure prohibition in Georgia. The people down there don’t believe in it. “The third party did not secure prohibition in lowa. The people did it. “The third party is doing prohibition more harm than the adherents of high license.” Mrs. Foster has spent her life in the temperance propaganda, but because she will not now unite with a movement conceived in ignorance and matured in malice, we shall see her reviled by tho third-party scribblers aud orators, just as they have reviled Francis Murphy, who has made more sober men out of drunkards and drinkers than all the St Johns and Leonards, et id omne genus, in the world. Until quite recently pretty babies have never been a drug on the market It was left for the administration of Mr. Cleveland to got these little bits of humanity down so low in price as to make it practically unprofitable to raise them. It is given out that the mother of a bright little babe in Scott county, this State, a child born out of wedlock, mortgaged the same to a neighbor for the sum of sls, the mortgagee to hold and keep the same in perpetuity in event the mortgage was not released by a certain date. The stipulated date having passed, and the mother not putting in an appearance, for the had mar-

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ried since she had mortgaged the babe, in fact, had raised the money in that, manner for the purpose of buying a wedding gown, the holder of the child concluded that it was her’s, and, when the mother at last thought she wanted it, she would not surrender the same, claiming it in fee-simple. The matter will likely get into the courts, and will have to be settled by a jury that perhaps has no adequate idea of the real market price of babies. At sls a head it is quite likely that there will not be many raised for the Indiana market. It is possible that they, are higher elsewhere, but Indiana will not engage to supply tbe world. In the colored editors’ convention, held last week in Atlantic City, Hon. Frederick Douglass

made an address. “Fifty years ago,” he eaid, “I was lying in jail on the eastern shore of Maryland as a slave, a bond slave, with no future before me because I had written passes for men to escape the chains of slavery, which I could not escape myself; but if I could have seen this day I would have rejoiced in what I suffered then. I can say for ray people that they are doing well, both physically and intellectually. They must be considered in reference to the depths from which they have been emancipated. Our liberties came to us ’mid the quaking of civil war, over bloody fields; not from moral choice, but military necessity. There never was a people turned loose under such unfavorable circumstances. The Israelites and Russian serfs fared better than we, for we were turned naked on the world and not a penny or inch of land for over two hundred years’ servitude. It was thought the race would soon die out, but the last census shows they are the only people increasing now in the South.” Mr. Douglass then took up “The future relation of the negro to existing parties,” saying: “I cannot understand for the life of me why any colored man who remembers that too. twelve, fifteen years ago, when tbe questions of emancipation and citizenship were up and the Democratic party was upon one side, and against our emancipation and citizenship, with the Republican party in faypr of it. I can’t see for the life of me how any colored man could side with the Democratic party and against the Republican party. The Democratic party has not changed sufficiently to cause me to join that party. Although I have been retained in office I can say to-dav I have never kept back, never suppressed my adhesion to the Republican party. Cleveland was brave enough when public sentiment set against me, he was brave enough to invite me not once, twice or thrice, but many times to his grand receptions at the White House, but Grover is in bad company. I must remember the party that set us free, though there are good and bad in all parties. We can’t be independent, and we can’t be neutral. It is better to be a part of the whole than the whole of a part, we can’t afford to go tumbling into the Democratic ranks because Cleveland makes a good president.”

Says the Cleveland Plaindealer: “The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has recently been quietly making experiments to ascertain whether or not it would pay for a big railroad corporation to observe Sunday by cutting off more or less of its Sunday traffic. A great many of its excursion and several of its regular passenger trains have been discontinued. The freight trains, excepting those carrying live stock and perishable goods, have been ordered off from 8 o’clock Saturday night till midnight Sunday, and all repairing work on Sunday has been stopped. To make tbe opportunity still further beneficial, freight engineers are allowed the use of their locomotives to take themselves home for the day. Tbe results have so far proven so satisfactory that the directors are now arranging to make these experimental changes permanent, and to extend them. The men are found to be worth more and the liability to accident is lessened.” We might be permitted to suggest a trial of Sabbath observance to the various camp-meet-ings and holiness associations throughout the country. If the events of the war had grown dim in the memories of the Grand Army veterans'at San Francisco, they had the opportunity to refresh their recollections by reading thaH6n Francisco Chronicle of last Monday. The issue of that date contains a history of the war complete in all the main incidents from the first mutterings in Buchanan’s time to the dawn of peace after the surrender of Lee. Eight pages are devoted to this, after which follows a history of the order of the Grand Army, a statement of the object of the association, the work it has accomplished, and what it proposes to do. The remainder of the paper—sixteen pages in all —is devoted to “business” and the setting forth of California's attractions. It is a magnificent piece of newspaper -work, and having been executed in houor of the visiting veterans, certainly loaves them no chance of complaint of neglect from the press.

The city of Louisville, or that portion that sees no particular harm in a quiet game of “draw”—and all games of that kind are usually very respectable on account of the quiet that prevails—is greatly wrought up over the fact that the gamblers have but moved across the river, and are conducting their business with all the vigor for which they have become famous. The objection to this is not based on opposition to the game per so, but to the fact that the revenues that once fell into the coffers of the merchants of Louisville are now diverted largely to the Indiana side. This is very distressing. Another “genuine Rubens” has been found, this week in New Hampshire. It is estimated that there are more genuine Rubenses in this country than there ever were in Europe. The genuine Rubens market has experienced a slunk recently, since everybody with a second-rate painting claims that it is one, and supports the claim by exhibiting tbe inscription on the border of the same, “This is the only genuine Rubens this side the Atlantic,” put there by Rube himself. The man Cutting, over whom there has been a great deal of unnecessary fuss made, is tricked out with a horse-doctor mustache, and is evidently not the kind of man to get into a stow over. One fishing smack on the coast of Newfoundland were worth a thousand such, yet there seems to be no particular fuss made over the way the owners of these craft have been mistreated. The Democracy of this district are sadly humming the refrain— O, for the touch of a vanished hand. And tie sound of a voice that is still. ABOUT PEOPLE ANI) THINGS. Joaquin Miller has had his hair cut, aud now he looks almost human. The New York Times notes as a peculiarity of Mr. Tilden’s political career that it did not begin till he was 60 years old. The Baroness Alphonse de Rothschild is always accompanied on her drives by a number of yellow terriers, her only pets. And now the Civil-service Reformer remarks that President Cleveland bears a strong resemblance to Charles the Second. No one ever said more good things or did fewer. David Davis bequeathed to his son two historic canes, one of which belonged to Henry Winter Davis—presented to him by the American party—and the other to Abraham Lincoln. General Fremont is the only remaining representative of the presidential candidates of ante-bellum days. Rutherford B. Hayes and Chester A. Arthur are the only men now living who have occupied the presidential office. Grant, Seymour, McClellan, Hancock, Tilden and Hendricks have died within the past thirteen mouths. Mrs. Tyler, Mrs. Polk, Mrs. Grant, Mrs. Hayes aud Mrs. Garfield are still in the

land of the living. All of them but Mrs. Haves are widows, and each receives an annuity of $5,000 during life. The term “mugwump” has been taken up in England. Henry Labouchere applied it recently to the Unionist Liberals. Now that it’s “English, you know,” there should be no doubt about its getting into the dictionaries. A preacher in southern Indiana is mentioned by the New Orleans Picayune as the owner of a horse so spirited that no blacksmith could shoe him unless the owner stood at his head and sang lively camp-meeting hymns while the process was going on. Mme. \ r iALARD, upon whom the French military medal has been bestowed for distinguished services upon the field of battle, is a widow, fifty-five years old, and is—as for thirty-five years past—the cantiniere of the One Hundred and Thirty-first Regiment. Miss Ellice, the founder of the White Cross movement in England, has accepted an invitation from Miss Frances E. Willard to visit America and to attend the annual meeting of the National Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, to be held at Minneapolis, Minn., in October □ext An atheist named Reynolds, who was once a preacher, went to Boonton, N. J., the other day, to give a lecture. It was of the Ingersollian order, with Ingersoll left out, and so exasperated the good people of the place that they caused his arrest. He is now going about under the cloud of a S4OO bail. Mr. Peter A. B. Widenbb; tbe millionaire street railroad operator, is about to build for himself what will be the finest privato residence in Philadelphia. It will face Broad street with a frontage of one hundred feet, eighty feet high, and will extend along Girard avenue one hundred and sixty feet Gen. John B. Gordon, it is positively announced by the Jacksonville Herald, has recently disposed of his railroad interests in Florida for $700,000 —$200,000 cash in hand and $500,000 to be paid in a few weeks. This, with the prospect of the governorship of Georgia for the next four years, ought to make General Gordon a reasonably contented man. William O’Brien, editor of United Ireland, has at length consented to go to the Chicago convention as chief representative of the Irish party. OBrien is, perhaps, next to Parnell, the member of the Irish party in whose keen intellect and uncompromising patriotism the Irish people have most thorough reliance. There will go with him Mr. Deasy, M. P., possibly John Redmond, M. P., and Mr. Leamy, M. P. The Englishman sometimes exhibits at home the qualities that make a Yankee of him when he comes to this side of the Atlantic. A man who had been summoned to serve on a jury, a duty he did not like, recently came swaggering into the court-room and sat down, retaining his hat on his head. An officer soon shouted “Hats off,” but the juryman took no heed of the'warning. Whe he refused to uncover, after having been personally requested to do so, two warders took hold of him and escorted him into the open air. His ejectment released him from acting as juror, and he explained the trick he had played upon the court with great glee to the officers who had turned him out.

COMMENT AND OPINION. Mrs. Cleveland having joined the church, why doesn’t Mr. Cleveland join the Democratic party?—Chicago Herald. Recent precedents give reason to suppose that, if Geronimo were to be caught on Mexican soil, he would claim the protection of the United States government. —Boston Record. One of the reasons why the President signed the oleomargarine bill is that it was passed by a large majority of Congress. So were the pension bills which he vetoed. —Boston Journal. Asa member of the next House, General Butler, with health and strength spared, would be a conspicuous and active man, though which side be would worry most is hard to tell. —Philadelphia Telegraph. Mr. Tilden did nothing to sustain the Nation in the war of the Rebellion. His influence, powerful even then, was insidiously and constantly against the administration which put down the Rebellion.—Albany Express. When a merchant takes an article of goods worth $4, and marks it at $7.50, he wants to be understood as selling out regardless of cost. It is the purchaser who must regard cost in such cases. —New Orleans Picayune. The Chicago Anarchists would like to have it appear that the Haymarket meeting, at which the murderous bomb-throwing was done, was held for the purpose of conducting a prayermeeting.—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. We doubt if prohibition will ever be a national issue; but the agitation which i9 going on in the several States will accomplish good, even if it falls short of its object. The Prohibitionists will, we believe, finally succeed in restraining the traffic in liquors and robbing it of many of the evils which now attend it. —Denver Republican. There is one cheerful side at least to the river and harbor improvements—that the charge of fraudulent contracts cannot lie against them, however unwise the undertakings may be in themselves. They are under the charge of army engineers who must be credited with having made clean records in such matters. —New York World. Mexico’s responses to us have been of the most conciliatory nature possible. She is willing to do anything and everything that is right. There is no possible cause for quarrel in it. There are, of course, upon our Southern border, as everywhere else, a lot of boys who would like a free fight. They should be promptly squelehed. It i3 Cauada that we want at present—not Mexico.—Cincinnati Enquirer. In his address of last year, Mr. Curtis spoke eloquently of his hopes concerning reform under Mr. Cleveland’s administration, and held up to the general view the dear promises made by tho President. The columns over whieh Mr. Curtis presides have borne testimony to the steady violation of these promises, yet in this annua! address the infidelity of the President is quietly ignored.—Milwaukee Sentinel. Prohibition is not a political question in lowa, but only a question of the enforcement of tho laws of the State. There prohibition is the law, enacted in the regular manner, while here it is merely a question of partisan politics. Preacher Haddock’s judgment may be questioned, but his right to advocate the enforcement of even an impracticable law cannot be denied, even while we deny the propriety of church societies organizing for political agitation.—Milwaukee Sentinel. EXPRESSIONS OF THE STATE PRESS. Madison Courier The Democracy hold their power by virtue of the Solid South, the reorganized and improved form of the Southern Confederacy. Shelbyville Republican: Tne Democratic ap poiutments in Indiana have been so uniformly weak or vicious that it is a relief to occasionally be called on to congratulate .the accession of a Manson or a Turpie. Evansville Journal: Until there is mere managing ability amongst our State military dignitaries, militia or “legion” reunions ought to be discontinued. The Lafayette affair was a failure; so is Adjutant-general Koontz. Frankfort Banner: The Republican party has a financial policy; it has a tariff policy; it has a policy of internal improvements, while the Democratic party has neither; and because this is so is why the people will return it to power in 1888. Shelbyville Republican: We can’t blame Bailey for being a little suspicious about walking into this pretty net spread for him by the Bynum spider. It is only a scheme to sprinkle a little salt on a goose’s tail preparatory to catching him. Logansport Journal: It is only moral blindness and deafness that can fail to see and hear the terrible misery and agonized wailing that must result from a refusal to mitigate the evils of the liquor traffic while abiding the fullness of timo for its entire suppression. Princeton Clarion: The various discordant elements heretofore united under the common name, “Democracy,” seem to be unable longer to adhere together even in form. They nil have the same desire—the same end in view—and they all know that the end in question is not sufficiently numerous to go round. If there were

enough offices to supply the want of each individual Democrat, there would be no serious party divisions at their congressional {conventions. Logansport Journal: This the off year in politics, and a very good time for the people to call to account the management that has cursed the State with its misrule for several years past, disfranchising political opponents, piling up debt, depreciating property and increasing the bnrdens of taxation. Goshen Times: There are sincere prohibitionists in the third party, bat they cannot see that all they ever have accomplished and all they ever can accomplish, is to help the Democrats, a party which is in the hands of the Whisky League. Prohibition is one thing, and the third party is quite another thing. Franklin Republican: The raal teranerance sentiment of the country will not make itself felt in all its strength till it is divorced from politics. Each political party fears giving the other some advantage by taking a docided stand on this question. It will never have a fair chance till it goes before the people freed from party influences. Marion Chronicle: The charge that the Republican party is a “whisky” party is untrue in every sense. The strongest argument that it is not is the bitterness with which it is fought by the Liquor League, and tho strongest argument that the “Prohibition” party finds favor with the league is the encouragement which its organs are constantly giving it. New Castle Courier: A good ticket and a ringing platform that voices the honest convictions of the party are necessities to Republican success this year. Half-hearted words framed to hide rather than express convictions are not needed now. The party has no principle and cherishes no conviction of which it need be ashamed, or that it need fear to submit to the popular test Lebanon Patriot: The only consistent feature of the Democratic party is that its members are in constant disagreement. This would make no difference if it were not for the fact that business men and capitalists cannot know what a day may bring forth. They therefore shut down their business and lock their capital in banks and await the return to power of a party with a policy. GEN. ALVIN P. HOVEY. His Views on Leading Questions —Opinions of a Strong and Thoughtful Mind. In answer to the announcement of his nomination as a candidate for Congress from the first district, Gen. A. P. Hovoy has written the following letter: Mt. Vernon, Ind., Aug. 8. To James B. Gamble, William A. Oliphant. John Zimmermaun, Alfred Mjier, > urran A. De Bruler. I). Pe Forest and Frederick P. Leonard, Committee: Gentlemen—l have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of the 20th ult., informing me that the Republicans of the First congressional district of Indiana, on the 29th of July, 18S6, selected and nominated me as their candidate for Representative for Congress of the United States, and inclosing copies of the resolutions passed by said convention. I accept the nomination and approve the resolutions. It may not be improper to state my views more at large upon some of the subjects referred to in the resolutions. I do not agree in full with the theory of civil service proclaimed by the President, and far less with the action of the administration in ignoring and trampling that service under foot. lam opposed to quasi life tenures of office, save those provided for in the Constitution, and believe that every person holding an office, whether Democrat or Republican, should have the right to enjoy the same for the full term for which he may have been commissioned, until he forfeits it by some illegal act, and do not believe that either religious or political opinions can constitute such illegal acts. The thought that political parties are to Mexicanize our government, and fight for office and place only, is too degrading to be entertained by any man who loves his country. Let “the spoils go to the victor,” but do not claim the offices until they are legally vacant. The immediate surrender of all the offices of the government to a successful party is the bribe offered by demagogues, and can only lead to fatal results. Let the examples of the South American republics be a warning. As long as our parties divide for the sake of political principles tho Republic is safe, but when the contest is for office only, we are making a wide departure from free institutions and the practice of our fathers.

The President has piaced himself in opposition to a Democratic House of Representatives and a Republican Senate, and sneeringly vetoed pension bills passed bv large majorities of both on technical and-trivial pretense. Widows and orphans must suffer to permit the great head of the Nation to ventilate his wit and override the legislative branch of our government. He has already vetoed more bills than all the Presidents from Washington down. Now let us look at some of these vetoes from au equitable standpoint: A soldier has volunteered to defend his country and taken the oath prescribed by the articles of war. He must serve for the period of his enlistment. Desertion before the expiration of the term is a disgrace, to which may bo added the punishment of death. He is compelled to serve though the government should pay him nothine, and his family should be in want and destitution at home. Asa matter of fact, in the late war he received his pay in greenbacks, which were only worth about thirtyfive cents to the dollar, when he was entitled to have that dollar paid in gold. If such a contract had been made with a private person no court of law would refuse to give judgment for the loss sustained, by the payment made in depreciated currency, but now the President narrowly scans every little pension bill with a technical telescope, and refuses to the widow and the orphan a few dollars per month, that should in all honesty have been paid to the dead soldier. lam most emphatically opposed to such statesmanship. This country depends upon the volunteers for its protection and defense, and every law passed in their favor should be most liberally construed.

.There is one class of men that, in my judg ment, have been most shamefully treated—the men who fought, conquered, and acquired a territory as large as an empire. They have brought millions into the treasury of the United States, and they are yet unrecognized and many of them poor—l mean the heroes who marched from the Rio Grande to the halls of the Montezumas. The man who never served knows nothing of the privations and sufferings of the common soldier. I cannot concur in the efforts made by the administration to demonetize silver. How could such an act be done without injustice and loss to the holder of the silver? The government has received for each dollar 100 cents in value. Would it be just upon the part of the United States to pass any law that would lessen that value, unless the government should redeem such depreciated coin in gold, dollar for dollar? No such justice has yet been suggested or dreamed of by this administration. Wall street, with her bankers and brokers, would grow richer and fatter, whilst the laboring man would find his silver dollar cut down to about seventy-five cents! There can be no disturbance of the currency by the government, either in greenbacks, silver or gold, that will uot result in loss to the classes who are not brokers, bankers or millionaires. The greatest loss would naturally fall upon the laboring class, who receive a largo part of their wages in silver. The great question of the hour and the age, which is now just beginning to show its disc above the political horizon, is the question of labor. The adjustment between capital and labor will require all the wisdom, forbearance and patriotism of our wisest and best men. This question is surrounded with great difficulties and will be found of no easy solution. The rapidity with which millions are now accumulated, the tendency of favoring and fostering great monopolies, the greed of gain and the widespread intelligence amonest the working classes, present phases and problems of life unknown to any former period in the history of the world. Members of Congress will have much to do in the solution of these grand problems, and they should be men who are familiar with every condition of life, and in morality and honesty beyond the reach of the millionaire. We should pause when we remember how the Roman purple was once sold for con. Does not history repeat itself, and is there no danger now? JtVe must not forget that we cannot hope to find a political panacea iu anything not founded on the principles of right between man and man. It is the duty of every elector to choose tho best men, whoever they may be, to aid in the adjustment of this important question, which rises Above all party and party names of the past. An

aristocracy of wealth must not be built upon the ruins of onr institutions, nor a thoughtless and blind for ee used to paralyze and destroy the progress of onr wonderful Nation. Laws should always shield and protect the feeble and the weak, and curb and restrain the strong and aggrsssive. We should not forget that Capital is the child of Labor, and that neither capital nor labor can prosper and continue unless the relations between the two shall be harmonious. No duty is more plain than that a child should protect its parent, and capital being the offspring of labor should protect and shield the working classes. Like the Siaraose twins, thoir separation would be the death of both, and anarchy would inevitably follow. I have the honor to be your obedient servant, Alvin P. Hovey. STATE ELECTIONS IN 1880. List of States Which Hold Elections This Year, and for What Purposes. New York Times. Alabama elects State officers and Legislature Aug 2, and votes upon two proposed amendments to the Constitution of tho State, one of which authorizes a special tax for the erection of public buildings and the improvement of roads and bridges, and the other authorizes the city of Birmingham to levy a special tax to pay its bonds at maturity. Elects Congressmen Nor. 2. Arkansas elects State officers and Legislature Sept. 6; Congressmen Nov. 2. California elects State officers, Legislature and Congressmen Nov. 2. Colorado elects State officers, Legislature and Congressmen Nov. 2. ■* Connecticut elects State officers, Legislature and Congressmen Nov. 2. Delaware electa Governor, Legislature and Congressmen Nov. 2. Florida elects Legislature and Congressmen Nov. 2, aud votes upon the proposed new Constitution of the State which was framed by the convention which met in 1885. Georgia elects State officers and Legislature Oct.. 6, Congressmen Nov. 2. Illinois elects minor State officers, Legislature and Congressmen Nov. 2, and votes upon a proposed amendment‘to the Constitution of the State to abolish the contract system in the prisons of the State. Indiana elects minor State officers and Congressmen Nov. 2. lowa elects minor State officers and Congressmen Nov. 2. Kansas elects State officers, Legislature, and Congressmen Nov. 2.

Kentucky elects Congressmen Nor. 2. Louisiana elects Congressmen Nov. 2. Maine elects Governor, Legislature and Congressmen Sept. 13. Maryland elects Congressmen Nov. 2. Massachusetts elects State officers, Legislator! and Congressmen Nov, 2. Michigan elects State officers, Legislature aud Congressmen Nov. 2. Minnesota elects State officers, Legislature and Congressmen Nov. 2, and votes upon a pronosed amendment to the Constitution of the State to facilitate the erection of county and school buildings. Mississippi elects Congressmen Nov. 2. Missouri elects minor State officers and Congressmen Nov. 2. Nebraska elects State officers, Legislature and Consressmen Nov. 2. Nevada elects State officers, Legislature aud Congressman Nov. 2. New Hampshire elects Governor, Legislature and Congressmen Nov. 2. New Jersey elects Governor, Legislature and Congressmen Nov. 2. New York elects a judge of the Court of Appeals, Asserabiymen and Congressmen Nov. 2, and votes upon the question of holding a convention to revise the Constitution of the State. North Carolina elects justices of the Supreme Court, Legislature and Congressmen Nov. 2. Ohio elects minor State officers and Congressmen Nov. 2. Oregon elected State officers. Legislature and Congressmen June 7. Pennsylvania elects State officers, Legislature and Congressmen Nov. 2. Rhode Island elected State officers and Legislature April 7, and ratified the proposed amendments to the Constitution of the State, one of which px*ohibits the sale of intoxicating liquor and the other admits foreign-born Union ex soldiers and sailors to citizenship. Elects Congressmen Nov. 2. South Carolina elects State officers, Leglslalatnre and Congressmen Nov. 2. Tennessee elected judges of the Supreme Court Aug. 5; elects Governor, Legislature and Congressmen Nov. 2. Texas elects State officers, Legislature and Congressmen Nov. 2. Vermont elects State officers, Legislature and Congressmen Sept. 7. Virginia elects Congressmen Nov. 2. West Virginia elects Legislature and Congressmen Nov. 2. Wisconsin elects State officers, Legislator* and Congressmen Nov. 2.

The River and Harbor BllL New York Sun. Mr, Cleveland’s hesitation over "the bogus river and harbor bill, and his hesitation over the bogus revenue measure known as the oleomargarine bill, ended in the same way. He signed them both. The river and harbor bill, over which the President shook his head, and to which he then proceeded to attach his signature, appropriates $14,473,900 —an amount, on a rough estimate, about one thousand times greater than the earing effected by all of the President's pension vetoes taken together. General Grant never signed a river and harbor bill half so big as this. Hayes signed none that came within $5,000,000 of it. Mr. Arthur signed none that approached it in magnitude. In the whole history of river and harbor legislation, the efforts of the log rollers never but once achieved a job surpassing that of the present year in the aggregate of the appropriation, or in the shameless character of many of the items. That was four years ago; and when the bill went to Mr. Arthur he took a stub pen and wrote across the face of it, in bold black letters: “.Veto; I forbid.” And that is just what Mr. Grover Cleveland has not done. Evarts’s Defense of Beeclier. New York Sun. It was only last week that Brother Evarts elaborately defended, in the Senate, the personal character of the younger Beecher—the Pugetsound Beecher. The immediate effect of this effort of the family lawyer seems to have been to persuade Mr. Cleveland that he had better withdraw the nomination, and withdraw it he did. Boston Too Small for Two Conventions. Springfield Republican The Odd fellows have actually asked the Republican committee to postpone the party convention, because the hotel accommodations of the frog-pond village are likely to give out. The Boston politicians are so far ashamed to take action in the matter, and the situation grows serious. A Dig at “Boiler Plates." Seymour Republican The death of Mr. Tilden develops the important fact that a majority of the little dailies of the country have a special correspondent in New York, who immediately telegraphed the news of his death to thpir respective papers. A Warning to Lambs. Pittsburg bispatcli. Now that the petroleum market has been hit again, it is well for the festive lamb to beware the mysterious and mocking jaberwock, which, according to the legend, “came whiffling through the tulgey wood, and burbled as it came.” Come to Stay. Boston Transcript. The Pittsburg Commercial-Gazette has just celebrated its one hundredth birthday, and proposes to keep right on until it is firmly established. Tho President and Maurice B. Flynn. Harper’s Weekly. Last year Mr. Flynn went abroad, and carried, among other letters of introduction, one from President Cleveland to President Grevy. A Gentle Hint. St. bools Poßt-m*patch. President Cleveland's recent manifesto against office holding politic! reads weii, but is not self-enforcing. jf V|^K|giffgH The Short Cnt smperanoe Reform. FrnncU Mnrrby. Liquor is not removed by legislation, but by individual abstinence.