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THE DAILY JOURNAL. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1886. WASHINGTON OFFICE—SI3 Fourteenth St F. S. Hbath, Correspondent at—■ -—= THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL. Can be found at the following places: LONDON—American Exchange in Europe, 449 SleaiuL PARIS —American Ei chan go in Paris, 35 Boulevard des Capucinea. I NEW YORK—St. and Windsor Hotels. CHICAGO—PaIm# House. CINCINNATI—HawIey & Cos., 154 Vine street BP LOUISVILLE—Of T. Hearing, northwest corner Hhird and Jeffefson streets. ST. LOUIS—-.Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern Hotel. WASHINGTON, D. C.—Riggs House and Ebbitt House. Telephone Calls. Business Office 238 | Editorial Rooms 242 August went out like a lion. An effort will be made to get an instantaneous photograph of Democratic harmony, to see what it looks like. Up to the time that Egvoy Sedgwick reached the city of Mexico pulque was a very popular driak. It is too scarce and expensive now. Envoy Sedgwick declares that he had a delightful .time at the ball—as if that proved anything.;* Nobody has been saying that he did not eq|oy himself; quite the contrary, in fact. ® . When" the Republican party of Indiana started to their convention they started so unanimously that the earth tipped a little, and there were many who said there had been au earthquake. The Mexican "bloods’' like Mr. Sedgwick so well that they are determined to give him another reception to show their esteem for him. In other words, they will "set 'em up in the other alley.” The last seen of the sea serpent it was as far up the Hudson as Kingston. The last seen of Democratic harmony it was in Simeon Coy's pocket. It remains with him to say whether it shall ever be seen again.

When the location of that marvelous artesian well, which floods whole counties in a few minutes, is remembered, the wonder subsides. lowa is a prohibition State, and just the place for big water stories, if not big wells, to originate. There i3 probably no truth in the rumor that the shake up of the country night before last was caused by the frantic jumping up and down of feocretary Bayard as the dispatches from Mexico gave him the true inwardness of tho Sedgwick matter. The Cincinnati papers are imploring each other to be respectable during the next few days, as the city is on its good conduct during the exposition. The idea is an original one, and should be adopted as an experiment. With the Cincinnati papers respectable, there would be little left to be desired just at this time. STOCKSLAGER weakens at last and announces that he will not continue in the race for Congress, giving as an excuse that his health will not permit him to make the canvass. The question is whether he heard from headquarters regarding office-holders running for office without first relinquishing their office, or whether he was dragged off in the interest of "harmony.” Mr. Henry George, the dilettante who is posing as the laboring man's friend, is said to stand well in New York, "although he is comparatively little known.” It is possible that this statement involves cause and effect. Mr. Rollin M. Squire, late superintendent of public works, also stood well in New York when he first arrived from Boston, and before the people got acquainted with him. Mr. Henry George’s admirers aro taking him at his word, and have issued blanks for the purpose of getting the signatures of 30,000 voters to an agreement to support him which he demands before he will consent to be a candidate for Mayor of New York. Mr. George may secure the pledges of these "many friends,” but he will do well to remember that *. ballot in the box is worth at least five names on a petition. The system of private letter expressage is laid to be constantly assuming greater proportions in Germany, three companies now being ingaged in the business. Unless the United States postal service is speedily brought back to something like its former efficiency, the people here will be forced to depend upon the express companies for carrying all their mail, is they have already done in sending the most valuable portion of it. A special dispatch to the Cincinnati Enquirer from this place says of the earthquake: "Great excitement was created among the guests at the Denison House, the leading hotel of the city, where a corner of the stone building fell, but fortunately without injuring anybody.” It was not so bad as that. The worst that happened was that a stone fell from one of the windows, so that there was nothing serious in it, and no one in the hotel knew of the shock. The very earth seems to be tired of the way Jungs are going under this administration, ind what with cyclones, floods, forest fires, and earthquakes, there will be little

left to tels tUeiaw at the end of the year, unless souie ireform takes place. Storms have swept the face of the earth in all of the country. The waters of the sea have flooded the streets of Galveston. There has been a submarine waterspout uncovered in lowa, and the Excelsior geyser in Yellowstone Park has belched forth again after being quiescent for over four years. And now the earthquake comes and destroys what the other calamities overlooked. "Reform should be reformed. THE CHARLESTON DISASTER. The sympathy of the entire country will be with the city of Charleston in its wrecked condition as left by the earthquake, ind if there be need of assistance it is morally certain that it will be forthcoming in any quantity deemed necessary. It is au unprecedented thing in this country that a city should suffer as Charleston has. The effect of the earthquake is so terrible that it cannot be adequately depicted, being so rare a disaster. Other cities have suffered as much in a pecuniary way, but ndne of them on this continent north of the Mexican line has been so disturbed by seismic convulsions. Tho danger that threatens the people of Charleston is so unusual that it is appalling. There is every excuse for the panic that prevails, and it cannot be doubted that the real distress is as great as that imagined or brought on by the uncontrollable fears of the populace. There is no way to save a city from tho destruction that lays hold of the very foundations of the earth, but it is possible to come to the help of the people so suddenly driven from their ruined homes, and it is to be hoped that the country will be promptly advised of any needed assistance at this time. As long as the people are afraid to go back to their toppling homes it is the duty of the government to furnish tents for such as have nowhere else to go, while the generous people of all parts of the country will see to it that.everything needed in the way of food will be promptly supplied. It is to be hoped that the damage has been overestimated, and that the city may speedily recover from the disaster. Indianapolis should be prompt with its proffers of needed relief. Let not the day pass without telegraphing an order to the Governor of South Carolina or the Mayor of the city to draw on us for a proper amount, as the necessity of the case may be developed.

TO-DAY’S CONVENTION. The Republicans of Indiana meet in Slate convention to-day for the first time since the Democratic national administration came into power. They aro, for the first time, in the minority both in the Stato and the Nation. The circumstances are, therefore, peculiar to them as a matter of experience, and will demand of them somewhat different thought and action than they have been in the habit of taking. Politically speaking, the Republicans are on the offensive; they are the attacking party now, and what they have to say to the people will be from that point of view, and with the purpose not only of showing the weaknesses of the Democracy, but their own virtues as well, which shall commend them to public favor. Tactically, it is both wise and necessary to take a decided step in advance, and to meet the oncoming public sentiment on various important public questions frankly and with sincerity. The possession of power has demoralized the Democracy everywhere, but particularly in Indiana. Here they are, and have been, drunken with the lu3t of power. So far as the national administration is concerned, an Indianian cannot speak of it with complacence. It has made Indiana the d,ung-heap on which it has piled rubbish and off-scouring, until even Democrats have been forced to cry a halt to the scandalous and unfit appointments. There have been a few respectable and worthy selections; but these are almost forgotten in the monstrous and willful perversion of the public service to the lowest partisan and personal ends. This has brought about a condition of affairs from which every branch of business and almost every citizen is seriously suffering. That we do not and cannot overstate the case, a look at the mail service will demonstrate. Asa State tyat has been made the field for national coutests, and that has occupied, and still occupies, a unique position politically, the Republicans of Indiana will feel called upon to make such declarations as will, at least, outline their relations to national affairs and questions; but what will and must demand the largest share of attention is its local matters. By brute force and conscienceless infamy the people of Indiana have had a gerrymander forced upon them whereby it was sought to practically disfranchise half of them and to deteriorate the value of anti-Democratic votes, so that, by no possibility, could the majority be represented in the General Assembly. The Democratic party is a minority party in Indiana. It was so two yeara ago; but it returned a Legislature with forty-six joint majority. Yet even this did not suffice them; and they passed a bill, conceived in sin and carried forward in corruption, by which they hoped and expected to increase this majority to seventy, and to continue their partisan control of the State, even were the popular majority to be against them by many thousands. The Democrats knew that a United States Senator was to be elected, and it was their purpose to handicap the race for that important position. It is under these circumstances that the Republicans of Indiana enter into tho canvass; and, while recognising the

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difficulty of the situation, they are*ready to appeal to the sense of fairness of the people, and make their battle with an enthusiasm born of the belief that they can and will overthrow this political infamy, as base as that attempted and made effective in some of the Southern States. Besides this being a paramount question, a question which affects the manhood of every anti-Democratic voter in the State, whatever his party name, whether Republican, National or Prohibitionist, there are other important local topics upon which the party must speak. The rape of the benevolent and penal institutions by a lustful Democracy cries out for stern rebuke arid a promise of legislation that will relieve them from the wickedness of partisan debauchery. The effective control of the liquor traffic is a rising question, and one that cannot be ignored or evaded. It is a question that goes far outside and beyond the narrow confines of party, and affects the whole people; but, nevertheless the Republican party must place itself squarely against the political power of the saloon and liquor league, and in view of the alliance between the Democratic party and the whisky power, the Republican party should take such a plain and positive position as to permit men of all phases of thought respecting methods to unite together compactly in the work of defeating the unholy alliance. It is a matte; of great congratulation that in all the preliminary work the candidacies of individuals for office have been measurably forgotten in the extraordinary interest over what the platform might say. This is as it should be; but tho platform, however good it may prove to be, must be supplemented by a ticket of strong, popular a;.d able men, men who will properly and uncompromisingly represent the Republican party in the uncompromising contest upon which it is about to enter. The party want3 only fighting meu at the front this year. The telegraphic columns of yesterday made a ghastly exhibit of domestic infelicity, and it is scarcely to be wondered at that there was a convulsion of the earth, the marvel being that there was not an upheaval that would have so alarmed the people as to cause them to think of something else than deeds of violence. At Rochester, N. Y., a dying woman confessed that she saw her daughter and her son-in-law murder the husband of the former, six years ago, but that she had kept the fearful secret until she felt she was dying, when she could not keep it longer. At Cadillac, Mich., Mrs. Brass confessed to being a party to the murder of her husband, the crime being committed by a paramour named Craft. At Lagrange, Mo., Frank Lake shot and killed his wife, after they had been parted for some time, and after they had lived together for thirty years. At Anchor, S. C., a man named Senn murdered his wi!e to get rid of her, he at the time being criminally intimate with auother woman. At Paris, Ky., a man named Thomas was shot and killed by his sister-in-law, who claimed he had in some way insulted her, though how she refused to say. Near Louisville, Ky., two women got into a dispute, and when their husbands returned home the trouble was taken up by them, and one shot and killed the other. In New York city a colored man murdered his white wife. Thi3 is the record for one day, and bloody enough it is.

Mrs. J. Ellen Foster is acknowledged on all hands to be one of the most intelligent and clear-sighted of the women who are laboring in the temperance cause, and this is what she has been saying in Boston about the third party movement: "Prohibition in lowa has been a movement of tho people, by thb people and for the people, and now good men in all parties are supporting it. The Democrats at the last State convention resolved in favor of local prohibition, a thing which never occurred before. A Democratic platform without a personal liberty and anti-sumptuarv law plank is a unique incident in the political history of lowa. The fact is that the prohibition sentimeut of lowa has become so dominant through the agitation of the question by non-partisau methods that even the Democratic party has become leavened with it, and the Democrats from the rural districts have been able to control the whisky Democrats from the large cities in the direction of the prohibition. I believe that the third party movement is based on a wrong idea of the relation of reforms to party action. The results have been disastrous, and only disastrous.” Just at this time the government of Bulgaria is of interest to the world at large. The principality is under the suzerainty of Turkey. It was created by the treaty of Berlin, July 13, 1878, and is governed by a prince elected by the national assembly, with a popular legislature and constitutional government. It has a population of about 2,000,000, and an area of 24,700 miles. The capital is Sofia, with a population of 20,500. Bulgaria contains the five famous Turkish fortresses, Widdin, Rustchuk, Silistria, Schumla and Varna, and has an army of 80,000 on a war footing. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. The unploasant intelligence comes that the widow of Paul Hayne, the Southern poet, is in want. The Washington Herald suggests a subscription for her throughout the South. Mbs. General Custer, who has a cosy resiresidence on Eighteenth street, New York, has given up writing for the newspapers, and is devoting herself solely to the preparation of a biography of her late husband. A London clergyman wanted to raise the sum of £1,200, and he converted himself into a "sandwich man,'’ carrying a couple of boards setting forth his desire. He obtained 2a 6d, and nar rowly escaped being jailed. Miss Clara Barton, head of the Order of the Cross, is broken down in health from overwork. When her earthly work is over ah* can truly comfort herself with the reflection that she will leave the world better than she found it. What a victim Mary Anderson is, to be sure. “I have been interviewed for the past year on an

average four times weekly,” she recently said to an English reporter. "You will therefore readily understand how distasteful it has become to me." Moses Sterns, of Philadelphia, is endeavoring to organize the women and girls of that city who are engaged in domestic employments. He thinks they should be permitted to receive their company in the parlor at least two evenings each week. A careless nurse in Providence left her little charge in its carriage on the sidewalk while she went into a store. The wind rolled the carriage off the sidewalk, it. overturned and frightened a horse, which, in is plunging, crushed the poor little baby's head. A near-sighted man chooses a pair of spectacles at an optician’s. "This is not strong enough for me.” "But it is No. 3.” "No. 3, you say? My sight grows worse and worse every day. What, comes after No. 3?” "No. 2 and No. L” "And after No. 1?” "A dog!” Thirty-four liquor-dealers were arrested and locked up in Newport, R. L, on Sunday, on the evidence of two young men who style themselves "Barnes Brothers, detectives,” who obtained board in the families of well-known liquor dealers and immediately began their series of spotting. Gen. Butler, as he appears while sailing about in his yacht, is thus described: "He rarely has a coat on, and wears a large straw hat the lower part of the brim of which is covered with dark cloth to shade his eyes from the glare of the sun upon the water.” It was the glare of the Sun that knocked him out in 1884. Rev. W. J. Drought, an English clergyman of Chantilly, France, -who wrote the Count of Paris a polite letter of regret at his exile from the country, was required by the French government to go too. Drought had met the Count in charitable work in his parish, and there is considerable indignation among English residents in France over the affair. When Harrison Oliver, of Bolton, Tex., was a boy, a companion mistook him for a deer and fired thirty-six bullets into him. He was wounded a number of times during the war, and in 1873 a Bolton dentist, mistaking him for an enemy, fired fifty-one duck shot into h ; .3 back. Sixty bullets, ranging in size from a duck shot to an ounce ball, remain in his body. The ex Communist General Dubisson, was encountered by Potapoux, one of his former aides-de-camp, in a small town in Italy. "How do you manage to live?” inquired Potapoux. "It is quite pimple,” answered Dubisson; ‘Tve run across a beggar who is both blind and dumb. I follow him about, and as ho can’t see the pennies that people throw to him, I stoop and pick them up.” Fort Worth Gazette: Wanted —A schoolmaster and a missionary. The following "notis” (applicable to Bandera as to hogs) is posted on a fence in Morris county; "If any man’s or woman’s cows, or oxen gits in these here oats his or her tail will be cut off, as the case may be. I am a Christian man and pay my taxes, but d—n a man who lets his critters loose, say I.” Senator Evarts is famous for his long sentences, but he has demonstrated the fact that he cau formulate a very short and crisp utterance on occasions where his personal Interest in the subject is strongly excited. An instance of this is at hand. When, after his recent accident, the surgeon was sewing up the scalp wounds the Senator said promptly and with no unnecessary gestures: "Either your needle is dull or my scalp is very sore!” A London paper offered a prize for a "political epitaph,” and the following lines secured the guineas:

Here lieth Joseph Chamberlain; Alas, how fate will baulk us! By his own patent weapon slain— The sharp, two-edged caucus. Though Joseph with his latest breath (See Laboucliere’s last wbeeze) Ascribed his all untimely death To catching "Bright’s disease.” Capt. Joseph Whitridgb, who recently died near Springfield, 0., at the age of eighty-three, had made pretty thorough preparation for death up to a certain point. Thirty years ago he put away a heavy plank of burr oak, and, after letting it season for twenty years, had his coffin made of it He bought a winding-sheet and placed it in the coffin, which was stored away in a dark room. Twelve years ago he dug a vault in a field near his house, walled it up, covered it with sandstone slabs, and placed a boulder weighing seven tons for the headstone. He was buried in his coffin and grave. Miss Phcebe Harrod, of Newburyport, Mass., was born in that town just 100 years ago last Saturday. She is still in possession of her faculties, and was able to hold a birthday reception in the old town where she was born and has always lived. There was a prayer by the pastor of her church, singing, an address by Richard S. Spoflord. and a poem by his wife, Harriet Prescott Spofford. Over fifteen hundred persons paid their respects to the venerable lady, among them four old men. aged ninety-four, ninety-two, ninety, and eighty-nine years. Mrs. Sarah Stickney, aged ninety-two, assisted Miss Harrod in receiving the guests, and the bell of the F.rst Presbyterian Church was rung 100 times. The licensee of the Cathodral Hotel, in Melbourne, has sold, by distress warrant, the personal effects of Lord St. Leonards, of Eugland, for £l9, owing for luxuries. There was much merriment, while his Lordship’s wardrobe was knocked off at auction to an unpitying crowd of dealers. The liveliest competition was for his shirts, both white and Crimean. His hope of obtaining £70,000 from a case pending in London was not enough to stop the sale. Lord St. Leonards is the man who suffered imprisonment for indecently assaulting a servant-girl. He has frequently been before magistrates for drunkenness. He burnt the last will of his grandfather and predecessor, Lord Chancellor St. Leonards. Altogether, his Lordship is a bad man. and seems to be gathering in as much of the wages of sin as he can without paying the debt of nature. COMMENT AND OPINION. A standing political prophecy: For Bulgaria, local reigns.—Boston Record. At all events the State Department would be safe in calling Sedgwick back from Mexico and ascertaining his position on the liquor question. —Philadelphia Press. The boys who now meditate jumping from the Brooklyn bridge would be much more usefully employed if they would offer themselves as bait for sea serpents.—New York Times. The regulations that have been adopted for the enforcement of the oleomargarine law read as though they might have been formulated in St. Petersburg against the dynamite industry. —Washington Critic. It is not beyond the limits of probability that mugwump activity in the propagation of free trade may bother the Democrats as much as the Prohibitionists have bothered the Republicans, —New York Mail and Express. Secretary Bayard should open negotiations for the release of Mr. Sedgwick. It is probable that the envoy has absorbed all the information about Mexico that he can utilize for several weeks. —St Louis Post-Dispatch. We believe that "Mr. Cleveland’s civil service policy”—which means, as interpreted by facts, the practical nullification of the civil-service law —is now almost univer v approved by Democrats.—National Repubi. an. A woman has been appointed master workman of a Chicago assembly of the Knights of Labor. It would not be surprising if, after all, the first important demand for woman suffrage came from the working people.—Philadelphia Times. The masses of the people will as soon get beside themselves with excitement over Webster’s and Worcester’s spelling, or the wisdom of studying grammar in learning languages, as over the rates on sugar and spool cotton, or a horizontal reduction, or the substitution of a specific for an ad valorem levy.—Brooklyn Eagle. Parsons and his colleagues would reduce the civilization of centuries to a chaos worse than that which exists among the Patagonians. They would make null and void all progress that the human race has effected since the first tribes of men went about as law discoverers. Os all the schemes to remedy current social evils, Anarchy is the most insane.—New York World.

THE REPUBLICAN ROUND-UP. The Day Before the State Convention Closes with Much Earnest Work. Review of the Situation as It Appeared Last Night—The Officers and Committeemen Elected by the District Delegations. The Republican convention to-day will probits deliberations without any clearcut plan in the interest of any one candidate. In the densely crowded hotel lobbies, last night, with each late train bringing delegates and look-ers-on to swell the crowds, the general interest maintained was little short of outspoken enthusiasm. Under all lay a feeling of confidence, with no especial fear of breakers ahead, and if any should appear' the determination grew with every hour to meet them with a courageous acceptance as something that must ho surmounted. If anything, the crowds were larger, the spirit less free from friction, and hope more abundant than at the recent gathering of Democrats. But all this did not go to the extreme of regarding victory as certain. The chances were measured with care and a judicious view of conditions, the recognition at the same time being present of the necessity of hard wort until the day of the election. There was no discounting what must be done after the ticket and platiorm are once announced, but the old-time Republican courage was there to give them both a send off that will sharply define the spirit of the party to be maintained through the campaign. In nothing was this more apparent thau in the willingness to let every candidate take care of himself without the assistance of combinations and deals. Several times during the evening reports gained currency that here and there this aspirant had succeeded in giving his candidacy additional vitality by a trade, but before it had gone far on its way would come an emphatic denial. “I see," said a man who had been in all the headquarters, “nothing but a disposition to divide on locality. If such and such a man is chosen, the nomination for this or that office will go elsewhere.” He told the truth, for no candidate allowed his confidence to overleap itself, and his vigilance seemed to he directed to the candidates for offices other than his own. This reduced a forecasting of a ticket to an impossibility. Some, no doubt, would have been willing to stake their chances on the tos3 of a nickel, not that they were dubious as to results, but the favors appeared to be so equally divided that this mode of settlement would be as just to one as the other. “This is a free-for-all race," an old campaigner remarked. I have never been in a convention where there was so little disposition to trade votes. I have been around all evening, but for the life of me I can see no ascendeucy of one man above another,” “What are you doing in the way of deals?” was asked of one who is always speculating in political futures. “Deals? I have not seen one to-night. I have tried to make several in the interest of my candidate, hut no delegate will tel! me who he is for. I believe everybody is running a close race.” “Your ideas as to the ticket?” “I havn’t any. lam for the ticket, and have quit bothering about any one except the man I want nominated.” This is a sample of the bit of news gathered nt the headquarters of the candidates, where the crowds came in and out, dispensing the favor of visits upon every one with strict impartiality. Each candidate had surrounding him a coterie of friends to sound his praises, tell his history and dwell on his achievements. And all this only confirmed the impression that a candidate’s hope of success depended upon tho work of himself ami friends in the way of entertaining, without resorting to schemes. There was nothing startling either in the upper or under currents of talk. “I am at sea as to an opinion,” said one who could not live without being in convention work once a year at least. But with all no one need "to look for surprises to-day. It is just as certain as there have boon no deals there will he no compromise candidates to spring. There is no crisis to warrant this, although within a day or two candidates who have been late in announcing themselves have disturbed what, might otherwise have been. Again, so little of machine-work has been done that a few efforts last night to get solid district delegations to commit themselves to any one candidate signally failed. They had the effect of weakening, to some degree, the chances of the candidate in whose behalf these exertions were made. There was some gossip about the platform, hut with a willingness to submit to the voice of the majority.

In the canvass for the lieutenant-governorship thero wero references to possibilities, but inquiry resulted in finding this talk without authority and backed by no organized effort, thus leaving Ridpath, of Brazil; Gregory, of Muncie; Todd, of Bluffton, and Robertson, of Allen, in the field. Euch was backed by good workers, who made themselves heard in and out of the headquarters of their favorites. Frank B. Poesy, of Petersburg, also began yesterday a very active canvass for this position. He and Gregory are both late announcements, but they have a support that indicates that neither is a figure head. As to probabilities for those named it is not safe to say. for each stands out prominently. Griffin of Lake, Baldwin of Grant, and Strittor of Posey, had, until a day or two ago, an uncertainty to encounter as to W. L. Dunlap’s candidacy. Yesterday he opened headquarters and added to the perplexity of this situation. The names of each were heard frequently in the crowds, but no one ventured a prediction. Bruce Carr and S. C. Daily are having a close race for the auditorship. The same can be said as to the conditions surrounding Byram, of Marion; Leucke, of Vanderbure, and Beem, of Owen. The contest between Michener, of Shelby, and Lovett, of Madison, for the attorney-general-ship, is one of the most interesting of the list. Whittaker, of Greene; Yancey, of Handbck; Noble, of Wayne, and Wheatley, of Bartholomew, in their race for the Supreme Court clerkship, have reduced probabilities to a narrow margin between them. For Superintendent of Public Instruction, Butler, of Marion; Olcott, of Putnam; LaFollette, of Boone: Smith, of Tippecanoe, and Mather, of Wabash, have strong backing, with a fair show for any one of them to secure the prize. This was the condition of affairs at midnight, with chances depending upon locality attending the order of nomination. The district meetings were all harmonious, and their business was transacted with such expedition that all had adjourned within a few minutes after being called to order. Resolutions w.jre adopted at the meeting of the Thirteenth district delegation, as follows: Resolved, That the only safe foundation for a free representative government is equal representation in our legislative councils. We therefore denounce the action of the Democratic majority in the last General Assembly in the passage of the congressional roapportionmentaad legislative rcdistricting bills as abold, corrupt and despotic disfranchisement of largo bodies of our people in order to perpetuato power in the hands of the Democratic party. A party so lost to all sense of justice and decency, so oblivious to the rights of a free people and the principles of popular government, is wholly unfit to bo trusted with further political power. A resolution was also adopted denouncing the President's course in vetoing pension bills. ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE CONVENTION. The convention will be held in Tomlinson Hall, and will be called to order at 10 o’clock. The seats on the main floor will be reserved for the delegates, but the galleries will be open to the public. Delegate, press and stage tickets should be presented at the norfcb entrance on Delaware street All other tickets should be presented at the main entrance on Market street. Seats will be reserved for ladies in the gallery. A corps of under the direction of John R. Leonard; sergeant-at-arms, will be on the floor, to show delegates and others to thoir seats. The eonventioc^will bt composed

of 1,191 delegates. The chairman, selected bf the committee oc permanent organisation at itfl meeting last night, will be Senator Harrison, and John L. Ruff, of Wayre county, will he the principal secretary. The nominations will he raado in the following order: Ideil-tenant-govornor, Secretary of State, Auditor of State, Treasurer of State, Attorney-general, Judge of the Supreme Court, Clerk of the Supreme Court, and Superintendent of PabliG Instruction. The District Officers and Committeemen. The officers and committeemen elected by the different district delegations, last night, are ai follows: VICE PRESIDENTS, First District—J. G. Potts, of Yanderburg county. Second—G G. Reilloy. Knox. Third—Peter Platter. Jackson. Fourth—William H. Jones, Franklin. Fifth—S. P. Oyler, Johnson. Sixth—A. M. Kennedy, Rush. Seventh—Stanton J. Peelle..Marion. Eighth—J, H. Lindley, Parke. Ninth—George W. Norwood, Benton. Tenth—Peter 11. Ward, Newton. Eleventh—J. W. Jordon, Wabash. Twelfth—Senator Drake. L&Grange. Thirteenth—Joseph Kachmaieck, St, Joseph ASSISTANT SECRETARIES. First district—J. W. Gladish, of Pike county Second—John A. Pate. Green. Third—H. D. Rogers, Clark. Fourth—W. A. Grier, Dearborn. Fifth—J. G. Bain, Morgan. Sixth—L. L. Broadens, Fayette. Seventh—Dan KneSer, Marion. Eighth—F. ff. B. McCain, Montgomery. Tenth—Addison K. Sill, White. Eleventh—A. D. Moore, Huntington. Twelfth--J. P. Prichett, Noble. Thirteenth—C. F. ?.losier, Elkhart. COMMITTEE ON RESOLUTIONS. First District—A. R. Twyman, of Gibson county. Second—A. C. Voris, Lawrence. Third —Judge Bnrcliard. Jennings. Fourth—M. C. Carver. Jefferson. Fifth—Simeon Stansifer, Bartholomew Sixth—Eugene Buudy, Henry. Seventh—E. W. Halford, Marion. Eighth—R. W. Thompson, Vigo. Ninth—T. J. Kane. Hamilton. Tenth—Daniel A. Baldwin, Cass. Eleventh—Calvin Cowgill, Wabash. Twelfth—J. P. Creed. Marshall. Thirteenth—Judge Olds, Whitley. COMMITTEE ON PERMANENT ORGANIZATION. First District—William M. Hoggatt, of Warrlet county. Second—W. R. Gardiner, Daviess. Third—E. P. McCaslin. Scott. Fourth—Will Oumback, Decatur. Fifth—N. N. Hitt. Monroe. Sixth—Henry C. Fox, Wayne. Seventh—R. A. Black, Hancock. Eighth—Maj. W. W. Carter, Clay; Ninth—George A. Smith, Clinton. Tenth—L. G. Beck, Carroll. Eleventh—L. I). Adkinson, Miami. Twelfth—G. W. Wilson. Allen. Thirteenth—W. P. Fraser, Kosciusko. COMMITTER ON CREDENTIAL.'*. First District—John W. Johnson, of Gibson counts Seoond—William Farrell, Orange. Third—Walter B. Godfrey, Floyd, Fourth—W. D. Ward, Switzerland. Fifth—George W. Grubbs, Morgan. Sixth —John M. Ross. Fayette. Seventh—Charles L. Henry, Ma'lisoa. Eighth—J. T. Compton. Ninth—D. B. Vice. Tipton. Tenth—M. T. Chileote, Jasper. Eleventh—A. H. Ileadington, Jay. Twelfth—Capt. J. B. White, Allen. Thirteenth—J. W. Crumpacker, LaPorte.

Minor Mention. John R. Leonard, sergeant-at arms, requests that all the assistant ushers report at Tomlinso* Hall promptly at 8 o'clock this morning. The members of the committee on permanent organization will meet at the parlors of the Denison House this morning at 9 o'clock sharp. The committee on resolutions, which was in session until 1:30 o’clock this morning, organized by electing E. W. Halford, chairman, and Eagene H. Buudy, secretary. The convention will be relieved of listening to long nominating speeches, as the committee on permanent organization has decided that no suoh speeches would he allowed. A large delegation of Republicans, from Leba n on, headed by a brass band, arrived in the yesterday, to work in the interest of A. OL Daily, and marched in a body to the Denison House. A boom was started yesterday afternoon for Charles L. Holstein for the nomination foi Lieutenant-governor, but it was suppressed by that gentleman iu the early stages of its development. When asked by a Journal reporter during the afternoon if he would accept the nomination, Major Holstein said: “I am in no sense a candidate for anything, and will not accept the nomination. I have just been defeated as a candidate for one uomination, and I now take my place in the ranks as a worker. ” The newspaper fratornity of the State is well represented. Among those who were here yesterday were Theron P. Keator, Ft. Wayne Gazette: J. O. Lambert, Muncie Times; E. Si. Baldwin, Fairmount News; S. Vater, Lafayette Call; L. O. Saltmarsh, Salem Republican; A. A. Smith. Greencastle Times; John F. Wildman, Muncie Times; S. R. Bell, Union City Eagle; E. G. Darnall, Lebanon Patriot; Chas. F. W. Neely, Muncie News; James T. Brayer, Logansport Journal; H. F. Kramer, Lebanon Mercury; W. H. Elliott, New Castle Courier; W. S. Montgomery, Noblesville Ledger; S. A Bramble, Kentland Gazette; George "Arnold, Bluffton Chronicle; S. W. Bradfute, Bloomington Telephone; John A. Deem, Knightstown Sun; John French, Kentland Gazette: Ed Goldwaithe, Marion Chronicle; J. W. Gladdish, Petersburg Press; I. N. Jenkinson, Richmond Palladium; D. W. Barnett, Franklin Republican; B. B. Johnson, Kokomo GazetteTribune; R. F. Clark, Paoli Republican; M. W. Pershing, Tipton Advocate; W. P. Hauk, Westfield News; C. E. Martin, Richmond Telegram; T. ,H. Adams, Vincennes Commercial; Charles W. Stivers, Liberty Herald; George J. Langsdale, Greencastle Banner; A. CL Boeson, Winchester Journal; Reuben Daily, Jeffersonville News; J. W. Stout, Noblesville Ledger; Will D. Pratt, Logausport Journal; J. ff. McNeely, Evansville Journal; W. D. Paige, Fori Wayne Nows, W. C. Frasier, Lafayette Journal; Z. Hunt, Camden Exposition; I. T. Brown, Columbus Republican; U. D. Cole, Rushville Republican; A. F. Bridges, Brazil Register; J. G. Bain, Martinsville Republican; Luther Brazil Enterprise, and J, W. Brown, Harrodsburg Review. Third District Congressman. Louisville Courier-Journal. Hon. S. M. Stockslager declines to be a candidate for Congress in the Third Indiana district on account of his health. It is reported that his friends, apparently anxious to give the Republicans an opportunity to elect a Congressman, will tender a nomination to some gentleman in Stock* slager’3 placo. Suspicion Removed. Washington flatcliet. If Secretary Bayard should ever get hack to the Senate, he would hardly he put in his old place, on the committee on foreign relatione. The suspicion that he had a vast amount of knowledge on international affairs concealed about his porson soems to have been entirely unfounded. —- Without Regard to Party. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. No matter whether a man is a Prohibitionist or not, no matter whether he drinks or abstains from liquor, he will oppose tho saloon in politics unless he belongs to the vicious hummer elotnonf, that swings to the skirts of every considerable political party. A Distinction with a Difference. New York Star. Tho Times comparos the Prohibitionists to the home rulers. There is an important difference. The home rulers want to rule their own homes. The Prohibitionists not only want to do this t but they want also to rule other people’s homos. Tho Prohibition Movement. Now York Commercial Advertiser. The Prohibitionist cause is advancing in the South, since one of the propagandists of this political religion yesterday killed two voters of the opposite faith in Cayuga, Miss. Free-Traders Crowded Out* Philadelphia Record (Lem.) There is room enough ia Pennsylvania for but one tariff party, and this is occupied by the publicans.