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THE DAILY JOURNAL. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1886. WASHINGTON OFFICE—M3 Fourteenth St. P. S. Heath, Correspondent. * THE INDIANAPOI.IS JOURNAsC Can be found at the following places: LONDON—American Exchange in Europe, 449 Strand. PARTS—American Exchange In Paris, 35 Boulevard des Capucine's. NEW YORK—St. Nicholas and Windsor Hotels. CHICAGO—PaImer House. 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 Ebbitt House. Telephone Calls. Business 0ffice...... 238 | Editorial Rooms 242 , -* ? , ■ TnE SUNDAY JOURNAL. The Sunday Journal for to-morrow, the sth of September, will mark high tide in the size and extent of its circulation. Last Sunday it was larger than the Sunday before, and its circulation increases with each week. To-morrow’s issue will contain: THE EXPLOSION AT 19 BESSBOROUGH GARDENS—By Count Alexis Chapalsky (the famous Russian exile, now in New York city.) This is a atoty of Nihilistic revenge, And is full of most dramatic incident. GRANT IN PEACE—The fourteenth paper of Gen. Adam Badeau, In which he treats of tpe relations between Grant and Sherman, which began with tho battle of Shiloh. fcEV. J. C. FLETCHERS LETTER—Tn which he discourses of beautiful Amalfi, where paper was first made. Mr. Fletcher’s letters are always read With the greatest interest. DR. TALMACE’S SERMON—The circle of all human deeds, good and evil; preached on Sunday last. DUBLIN IN FULL DRESS—Mrs. Helen M. Gougar’s description of the departure of Lord and Lady Aberdeen from Dublin Castle. Besides these particular features, our New York correspondents give a sketch of Arthur Sedgwick, who figured so prominently in the city of Mexico; the speculations on the Produce Exchange, and the latest matters in art and the drama. There will be a number of interesting local features, including a personal sketch of Rev. J. Albert Rondthaler, pastor of Tabernacle Presbyterian Church; an article about the residences in this city of Indiana Governors; an interview with a well-known horseman regarding contrivances for accelerating the speed of horses, and other articles, besides the usual personal and social gossip, and the news of the secret societios and the various local organizations. Advertisers wiil please send in their copy as early as possible. It facilitates the work for early editions, and advantages them.

Mr. Garland is still in the Cabinet of the *'reform” President. Geronimo is at large, but Attorney-gen-eral Garland is still in the Cabinet. The compliments of “Old Saddle-bags” to the New York Sun, and do you detect anything green in my eye? The results of the Republican convention do not please the Sentinel. This is scarcely neighborly, but we will try and worry along. The news of Geronimo’s escape is less startling than it might have been had the public been previously convinced that the able warrior was captured. Mr. Parsons, one of the condemned Chicago Anarchists, does not like the Indianapolis Journal. The Journal does not like Mr. Parsons. Shake! The yellow fever has found a foothold at .Biloxi, Miss., a little town only a few miles from Beauvoir, the home of Jefferson Davis. Both should be rigidly quarantined against. The Sentinel says the Republican campaign ,4 is the apotheosis of cam paign lie." This is fine writin’. There will bo ample time forour esteemed contemporary to gnaw a file between now and the day of election. The horses belonging to Mr. Johnson's street-car lines in Cleveland are disabled with the pink-eye. The very thought of the loss of profit is enough to make the mules on Mr. Johnson's Indianapolis lines weep salt tears. Maine has had a prohibitory law for a generation, but is dissatisfied, and wants something more. Would it not have been a good idea to have heavily taxed the saloons that have been doing business in that State all this time? Charleston’s pluck in the face of the disaster that overtook her on Tuesday night is certain to win for her universal admiration. It is the kind of spirit to show. The city may not be troubled with another earthquake In a thousand years, and tho thing to do is to go to work to repair the damages. The columns of the News, at tho time of the lowering of the flag in honor of Jacob Thompson, and during the revival of Jefferson Davis in Georgia and other States, were filled with much more “foolish talk” than is the Republican platform. It was from our contemporary that tho platform evidently drew its inspiration, and it is an awful tumble to one’s implicit faith in the all-wiseuess of the News to be told now that such lauguage is “foolish,” and does “no credit to good taste.” We cannot believe such a thing possible. A distressing tendency toward tho use of ’the staccato Okolono States style of editorial already manifests itself in the Sentinel. A somewhat extended acquaintance with phenomena of this nature, gained from a study of the Democratic press, has convinced the Journal that no editorial is so exhausting and braindestroying in its effects upon the writer as the Staccato* variety. We are moved, from sentiments of the purest compassion, to advise the

young and inexperienoed editors of our contemporary to coik up this kind of writing and keep it for use only in tho direst of emergencies. They are no doubt under the impression that the emergency which has arisen calls for their greatest efforts in this direction, but this is an error. Before the campaign is over they will want to “squeal” even louder thau they do now, and what will happen if their breath is wasted with hysteric violence so early in the fray?

THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION. An attempt is being made by certain parties, some of whom should be ashamed of themselves, to create the impression that the late Republican convention was “tricked” in the matter of the temperance plank in the platform adopted; that the convention was "hoodwinked," and that a substitute, which wa3 to be offered, was “squelched." That such charges should be made by the Democracy and by third-party men occasions no surprise, but that they should find echo and favor with men of presumed fairness is matter of astonishment. The city of Indianapolis never saw a more intelligent body of men than that sitting in Tomlinson Hall on Thursday. They were all, from one end of the State to the other, intently eager as to the platform, and particularly so as to the plank on the question of liquor legislation. Every observer agreed to this, both before and at the time of the meeting. The platform was reported from a committee composed of men of at least fair intelligence and character —men like Hon. R. W. Thompson, Hon. D. P. Baldwin, Hon. J. G. Berkshire, Judge Olds, Judge O. W. Voorhis, whom the Republican party deemed worthy of a nomination for Supreme Judge; Colonel Simeon Stansifer, Judge Kane, ex-Congressman Cowgill, Hon. A. R. Twyman, Mr. M. C. Garber, Hon. Eugene Bundy and Hon. J. P. Creed. It is a serious charge to bring against such men that they deliberately entered into a conspiracy to “trick” and “defraud” the convention, and it is a libel on their intelligence to say that they did not understand a plank, every phase of which had been under debate in the committee for many hours. To say that the convention was “hoodwinked” is likewise an imputation on its intelligence. The mind of each member was alert and eager. The first sentence of the plank—the declaration against the Liquor League—evoked the fullest applause, which was continued unchecked. A second reading of the resolution was demanded, and we venture that no part of the day’s proceedings had more careful or intelligent consideration. The charge, as insinuated, that tho substitute report, signed by Mr. Bundy, of the Sixth district, and by Judge Kane, of the Ninth, was “squelched,” in the offensive sense in which that word is used, is more of an insult to them than to anyone else. • The committee came into the hall with two reports—the majority report, agreed to by eleven members, and the substitute, by the two gentlemen named. These two members know the terms of the majority report, as well as their own, thoroughly. They had exhaustively discussed the two planks. When the reading of the report was completed, the chairman of the committee informed Senator Harrison that a substitute was to be offered, and called several times for Mr. Bunuy, who was to present it. He was not on the platform, but—as afterward developed—had gone to tho Sixth district delegation when the applause upon the reception of the majority report was so remarkable and unanimous, and was instructed by his constituents not to present his substitute. The Sixth district delegates had had the resolution submitted to them in the morning, not later than half-past 9 o’clock, and they knew its language precisely. When Mr. Bundy said the majority plank was accepted by his people and he would not present his substitute, the chairman asked Judge Kane whether he wished to present it, and that gentleman said no—that his friends were satisfied with the majority plank. They had -witnessed the satisfaction and enthusiasm with which the convention received it, the applause being led by Colonel Cumback, who knew what the plank was, who had read it and studied it before, and who had had hours to make up his mind about it. This hearty enthusiasm, and this only, was what “squelched” the minority substitute. The honorable gentlemen who came into the hall with it were invited to present it, and they voluntarily declined to do so. These are the facts in the case, as will be borne out by every member of the committee, and by many gentlemen of the convention who had been consulted as to the terms of the resolution, and knew precisely its language and purpose. It is an infamous outrage to honorable gentlemen to charge them with “trickery," or “hoodwinking," as it is an insult to the intelligence of tho convention to say that it was “bamboozled." It will be well to remember that last Thurs day’s convention wa3 a Republican convention; not a local-option convention per se, nor a high or low-license convention; not a Prohibition convention—indeed, no other kind of a convention than a convention of the Republican party. It was a convention of men that sought only to advance the cause of the Republican party, and to make that party as broad and wide a* the State, and as just and honest as are tho people who compose it. To this end it adopted a platform that was believed to be in harmony with the spirit and desire of the peoplestalwart, progressive, decided. The platform strikes a blow between the eyes of the political Liquor League, aud puts squarely

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and unequivocally in favor of such laws as will permit the people in their several localities to have such measures of restriction of the liquor traffic as they may deem wise. It recognizes that principle as clearly as language can express it, although it may not have seen fit to assume the functions of the Legislature, or to have precluded the judgment of the people upon details. It left all that to the proper tribunal and to the proper time. A criticism is passed upon the nomination of Captain Lemcke by the same purists who are so glib with their assaults upon the integrity of men as good as, if not better than, themselves. It was a fact, and a significant one, that Captain Lemcke was nominated by the votes of the strongest Republican temperance counties—so known—in the State. The vote of the Sixth district was given largely for him. Wayne gave him 20 out of 31. Henry, Randolph, Delaware aud other counties voted largely for him. Hendricks and Parke voted for him with practical unanimity. These votes thus given, and the ticket as constituted, showed, more conclusively than anything else, that the convention knew no North, no South, no East, no West, no imaginary line dividing a supposed sentiment on any question; but by the magnificent enthusiasm with which the platform was adopted, and by the heartiness and unanimity of the nominations made, that it was a thoroughly representative convention of the Republican party, with war-paint on, and ready to take the war-path against the common enemy. This is the fact that hurts, and that has started all the Democratic hounds and their assistants—whelp, mongrel and cur—into a common chorus. Let them howl. Will someone have the kindness to pass tho cordial to the Cincinnati Enquirer? It took upon itself the office of peace-maker in the State of Indiana, and sent out envoys to arrange for pouring oil on the troubled waters of Democratic politics, and it has not only failed in this philanthropic effort, but is now confronted with domestic political troubles. The charges brought against Mr. Mcßride, the Democratic candidate for Secretary of State in Ohio, are of a nature to make sick the warm heart of the Enquirer, and it is in sackcloth and ashes a foot deep. The Enquirer wails: “There ought to be some way out of this dilemma. There ought to be some way to ascertain the real facte before the State campaign opens. Can it not be done? If the plaintiff is not playing a bribed game to injure Mcßride’s political chances, and if McBride is ready, as an innocent man, to meet the charges, then let the case be called at once, by agreement, before a special judge and an impartial jury. There ought not to be a week’s delay. The State of Ohio wants the facts." ‘ Piling right on top of this . load of misery comes the latest report from the Ergnjirer’s missionary, sen.G to Indiana for the puroose of seeking out some corner somewhere whore Democratic harmony can be found even in the smallest quantities. Writing from Terre Haute, the home of Senator Voorhee3, ha

says: “I am in hopes before leaving the Hoosier State to strike some Democratic citadel where there is real harmony. In my triangulations thus far I have not found it. There are too many kickers and sore heads obtruding their griefs. Their grievances do not assume any deep-seated moral or political principle, but are a sequence of disappointed ambition and a greed for office." It will yet become necessary to offer a reward for a genuine article of harmony, bearing the Democratic stamp. The eyes of tho party are now centered on the convention which is to meet in this city to-day to select a candidate that will be sweetly accepted by all, and it is confidently expected that the light kind of man may be found. This much is certain, however, that the man chosen must be someone agreeable to the Englishes, father and son, and their many friends, else the war will go right on. With Simeon Coy and the Englishes placated, harmony may come right in and sit, not only at the table, but on the table, if it so pleases. Sometimes it sits under the table. It is to be hoped that there will be sweetness and light, and that the Enquirer may have a prominent seat at the feast. ____________ It is said that Minister Jackson, accredited to the republic of Mexico, resigned because he was snubbed by the State Department. Minister Jackson made a great mistake in not distinguishing himself in some way. Minister Keiley had established his reputation by declaring the government of the United States a bloody usurpation. Mr. Sedgwick, envoy to the City of Mexico relative to the Cutting affair, achieved fame in one round by painting the Mexican capital a deep crimson, whereby the attention of the world was directed to him, and he was officially commended by the Secretary of State. He will doubtless return the compliment in his report after investigating the Cutting business between polka and pulque. The New York Sun, bereaved by the death of Samuel J. Tilden and estranged from “Objector” Holman, is now peeping through its widow’3 weeds and coquetting with Uncle Joe, or “Old Saddle-bags,” the endearing term employed by that paper. It is apparent that the Sun ha3 again fuund a comforter. It will not be long, at the present rate of progress, till the Sun is again as bright and serene as ever. Referring to the announcement that Mr. McDonald is to make an address in this city to-day, on the occasion of the second meeting of the Democratic congressional convention of this district, the Sun is positive “he can deliver a speech, if he chooses to, that will wake the echoes in every State in the Union." This is enough to stir the blood in the heart of this kindly old geatleqian, sn4 he

would be cold indeed were he not to feel and acknowledge this sweet compliment. “Dear, good Mr. Bardell," were the words of a certain widow on a certain embarrassing occasion. And now they in essence are repeated, so sweetly that they can hardly be ignored. But the Sun, alas, wants that speech to be one accepting the nomination for Congress. And now the fat is all in the fire, and there will be mourning in the capital city of Indiana. The idea of accepting a nomination to the lower house is not one calculated to fill Mr. McDonald with that ecstacy that would come to the tyro in politics. The wily widow would like to have the old gentleman, not as husband, but to bring in the wood and draw the water for the family use. Joseph will not accept the situation. The tumble is too great to be thought of. Secretary Bayard did not intend that the appointment of Judge Manning as minister to Mexico should be made public just at this juncture, but the Judge could not keep the secret. The great trouble with nearly all of the Bayard appointees has been their tendency to garrulousness. He should at once establish a civil-service examination for the purpose of testing the qualifications of wouldbe diplomates. It might be necessary to preface this by the organization of a school where the aspirants could be taught that the main requirement in the line of diplomacy is to look wise and keep silence with all their might. A Louisville man says it was the mown that caused the earthquake. A good many had thought it was Winneke’s comet that was at the bottom of the racket, but now it is all made so plain that even a Louisville man thinks he understands just how it was done. It took the moon a long time to get in its work, but it did so at last with a thoroughness that leaves no doubt of the determination of that orb to make itself felt in mundane affairs. General Bragg, the gentleman who loved Cleveland “for the enemies (the Irish) he had made," is having a hard time of it, and has been rejected by the Democratic voters of his district, so that he will not be sent to Congress. He made as much an ass of himself in the district Democratic convention as he did on the occasion of the national convention that nominated Mr. Cleveland. His fel-low-partisans were wise in sitting down on him. Flynn and Squire, the last men to be detected in robbing the city of New York, are very bitter in their denunciations of the daily press, which they charge with their exposure and conviction. This, with the compliment paid by the condemned Anarchists of Chicago, goes to prove that the press has lost none of its power, nor has it failed to exert itself for the good of the public. Rogues do not like the press any better than they do the law.

Wonder if it has occurred to the Anarchists at Chicago that were it not for the law that they have denounced they would not be alive to-day. The decent respect for the law shown by the people of that city is all that has saved them from being hanged forthwith. The safety and happiness of the individual rests in the enforcement of the law of the land in which he lives. The second escapade of Victoria Morosini, the foolish girl who eloped with her father’s coachman, is just what might have been* expected. She must have known that the man Schilling was not her social or mental equal, and that marriage with him could have but one result other than confessing her fault and going back to her father’s, as she should have done. Instead of doing that she has taken up with a Boston dude, and her speedy descent to still lower levels is morally certain. It never pays for a girl to make a fool of herself under the impression that it is romantic or anything else than unpardonably stupid and wicked. It is to be hoped now that this woman will drop out of the public gaze and not take up so much space in the public press. The bogus butter stamp is not to have the image of Samuel J. Tilden on it, after all. It presents a picture of the Treasury Department Building on the manufacturers’ stamp, and of a farmer and a mechanic on the stamp intended for packages of ten pounds. It is said that the former’s face presents a satisfied grin, while that of the mechanic expresses anything but pleasure. This may have been an accident, or it may be that the designer did it purposely, in accordance with the eternal fitness of things. The Taylor brothers, rival candidates for the Governorship of Tennessee, are billed for something like a hundred “joint discussions” between now and the end of October. If the affairs are conducted with the freedom and familiarity common to fraternal “discussions,” the father, when nominated to the same office by the Prohibitionists, should at once arm himself with a gad, and proceed to act as umpire. Excitable negroes in the South are inclined to lay the blame of the earthquake upon the Democratic administration. This is hardly fair; still, it must be admitted that nothing of the kind ever happened under a Republican President. California is a little slow in coming forward now with an earthquake shock. The big show is over. This summer, while a hot one, will go on record as one remarkably free from sunstrokes. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. T. B. Aldrich is on his way home from England. Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett has almost fully regained her health. Professor Winnecke, of Strausburg, the discoverer of nine comets, has gone mad. Mr. Andrew Carnegie has spent much time this summer at Cresson Springs, among the Alleghenies. Col. Thomas Moonlight, the Democratic nominee for Governor of Kansas, is a Scotchmap, and id described, as "a brave, generous

and fearless soldier, who won distinction in many of the hardest-fonght battleß of the war.” Ismail Pacha has tamed aside on his way to Baden Baden to spend ten days in London “out of season.” Lieutenant Grekly is now in better health than at any other time since his return from Lady Franklin bay. • Lowell Courier: The American cup for which the yachts are competing is an ugly specimen of silverware, looking like a tall pouterpigeon suffering from king’s evil Nickles are so scarco in the Northwest that merchants in Minneapolis and St. Paul have written East to have several barrels shipped to them, offering to pay all expenses and 2 per cent premium. The blue fox furs presented by the Czar to the Sultan are described as two magnificent pieces made up of the finest skins, and measuring each three metres square. Their value is reckoned at 150,000 roubles. There is never a sanitary theory arises that is not immediately reversed. The great apostle of woolen clothing, Dr. Jager, has found a rival in Dr. Lahraann, of Stuttgart, who advocates the substitution of cotton for wool, as being less irritating to the skin, cheaper, and cleaner. Colonel Hooper, the provost marshal in Burmah, who photographed condemned criminals at the moment of execution and caused a prisoner to confess under threat of death, is judged guilty of the charges aerainst him. Consequently, Colonel Hooper is to be—reprimanded. Mr, Georoe W. Childs has a high estimate of woman’s ability as an editorial writer, and declares that two of the best writers on the Philadelphia Ledger are women. He adds that “when women do the same work as men they should have th 6 same pay, and I carry out this rule in my own business.” A young woman at Beaver Falls, Wist, went fishing and took a number of children with her. In bating her hook she cast it into the water and instructed the children to cast pebbles in a circle around the line, so that the fish would be frightened toward the halt. And yet she wonders why she didn’t catch any fish. A smart fellow at the Chico, Cal., races, bragging about how be could endure the pressure of any carriage running over his open hand, illustrated his remarks by placing his hand in front cf the hind wheel of a carriage that was passing. When the carriage had passed, the fool had two badly smashed fingers that may have to be amputated. A Chinaman, who ha3 been in the New Westminster, Canada, jail, under sentence of death, was very angry when told a few days ago that he was reprieved fop a month. He said that after death his soul would inhabit the body of a bird, and he was anxious for the transmigration to take place that he might peck out the eyes of those who had testified against him. Andrew Burke, a sailor, went swimming on Sunday from his vessel, which lay off the Havre de Grace coal wharves. While he was in the water a shark grabbed his foot and yanked him under, but he freed himself, and his splashings and yells scared the fish away, and he was rescued. His ankle bone was found to be crushed, and several pieces have been extracted at the hospital, where he now lies. At the recent convention of homeopathic physicians at Saratoga a doctor from Springfield, Mass., telling of his success with diphtheria, is reported to have said: “I have cured hundreds of cases with sulpho-carbolate of soda, and never lost one, while my neighbor, a highdilutionist, has lost every case he had.” “Name him! Name him!” cried the delegates, and the doctor did name him, and now there are two Springfield physicians that are bitter enemies, It is related that just after Tilden’s supposed election to the presidency, Man ton Marble, Henry Watterson and John C. Jacobs were trying to find out from Tilden to what big offices they were to be appointed. One of them said: “Now, Governor, be frank, for once, and tell us just what you intend to do with us.” Holding a glass of sherry in bis hand, Mr. Tilden looked at them steadily and said, in a calm and measured way: “Gentlemen, you shall all have the reputation of being influential with the administration.” An interesting feature of the recent Grand Army gathering was the attention paid by some thousands of the veterans at Los Angeles to the children of John Brown. The veterans had gone down there for a day’s excursion. The fact that Jason and Owen Brown, together with their sister and her husband, Mr. and Mrs. Thompson, are living near Pasadena, and were in town, did not seem to become known to the visiting sol diers until late in the afternoon. When it was known, the children of the old hero of Ossawattomie were put into a carriage, the horaes unhitched, and with a long rope the Kansas, lowa and California boys formed in procession and hauled the family through the streets, the band at the head of the line playing “John Brown’s Body,” and the whole enthusiastic crowd singing the stirring battle hymn and cheering. The demonstration visibly affected the occupants of the carriage. When the procession reached the depot Owen Brown made a pithy and characteristic speech.

COMMENT AND OPINION. • Many people will never believe that Geronimo has surrendered till they see a lock of his hair. —St. Louis Post-Dispatch. St. John is said to’be dyeing his mustache for the campaign of 1888. Cleveland ought to pay for the dye.—Providence Star. A volcano is reported in Indiana. Perhaps it was only Dan Voorheea rehearsing a stump speech, though.—Pittsburg Chronicle. Why hasn’t Sedgwick thought to explain that he was made dizzy by the rarified atmosphere of the Mexican table land?—Milwaukee Sentinel. SenatorVoorheks announces that he does not care to be Vice-president in 1888. That is just where a great number of his fellow-citizens agree with him.—Boston Record. Mr. Sedgwick got drunk, to be sure, but what of that? As the late Mr. Tilden once told Dan Laraont: “All great men get drunk.” Mr. Sedgwick was undoubtedly a Tilden Democrat. —Chicago Times. If it were possible to have the congressional campaign run on the issue presented by the Free-trade League, the next House would be divided about thus: Republicans, 203; Democrats, 122. —National Republican. The earthquake shook up things pretty extensively. Why doesn’t President Cleveland take a hint from the earthquake, and shake up his Cabinet? Garland and Bayard are both ready to drop.—New York Tribune. It is unfortunate, but desperate difficulties require desperate expedients, and it is a most desperate state of affairs when no man shall be allowed to earn his living except by consent of a trades union.—Philadelphia Inquirer. For our own part we are still in favor of breaking up the solid South, but we must flatly condemn the earthquake as a means of doing so. Put away the quake. Bourbonism can be crushed without it.—Philadelphia Press. It is said that the Socialists of Chicago are organizing to make themselves felt at the polls. This is quite sensible. The ballot-box, when properly filled, is superior to bombs loaded with dynamite in the matter of bringing about political and social reforms.—New York World. Any person may be struck by lightning, and any town may be visited by an earthquake; but the same kind of experience that teaches us not to fret our souls over the chances of the former casualty may well apply, and with even greater force, to the wisdom of preserving our equanimity in presence of the chances of the latter. —New York Herald. Among the'things favorable to the Republican party in this campaign is the attendance at the State conventions of prominent men like Senators Cullom, Harrison, Wilson and others, either as advisers or as particinants in the proceedings of the conventions. This has been the rule in Maine, lowa, Ohio, Illinois, and was the rule yesterday in Indiana.—Chicago Inter Ocean. It is not likely that since the first earthquake was noted by a human observer the progress of any has been so closely observed and so accurately recorded as this. A seismologist who had been apprized beforehand that an earthquake would occur, and who had unlimited means at

his command for arranging the observation of it; could not possibly have devised any better sy§‘ tem than that which was actually in operation* —New York Times. Our architectural.forms will have to be remodeled if cyclones in the West ana earthquake* in the East are to he recognized among the definite and permanent conditions of existence in America. The taller the biylding the more dangerous and disastrous the wreck. In Charleston, at least, there is likely to be a demand in the future for earthquake-proof structures. —Philadelphia Record. It would probably strike the members of the free-trade league as absurd to tell them that the power of the free-traders was as nothing compared to that of the Prohibitionists, bat by actual demonstration in the past, and by the promise of the future, such is the fact. Whatever diversion there may be from the Democracy in 1888, it is not likely to be brought about through the action of the free traders.—New York Sun. The amount saved by the veto of pension bills will a little more than pay for the eulogies on the late Vice-president Hendricks. The latter was in Congress when the war was going on, and voted against every war measure. One handred and two veterans and widows of veterans are in want to-day that the Democratic party save enough money to pay official tribute to whose loyalty was doubted when the Nation wall struggling for its existence.—Concord Monitor.' STATE POLITICS. The Vanderburg county Republican convention will be held at Evansville on Saturday, Sept It. Hon. H. G. Thayer is being encouraged to make the race for the Republican nomination for Congress in the Thirteenth district The convention to nominate a Republican can* didate for joint Representative for tho countiei of Tippecanoe and Clinton will be held at La° fayeitee in the forenoon of Tuesday, Sept 14. The Eleventh district Republican congreflsional convention will be held at Peru on Tuesday, Sept. 7; the Thirteenth district at Qosheu, Sept. 16, and the Ninth district at Lafayette, Tuesday, Sept. 14. The delegates to the Republican joint representative convention for the counties of Monty 'mery and Putnam will meet at Greencast! Saturday, Sept. 11, 188 G, at 10 o'clock a. m., to nominate a candidate for joint Repto* sensitive. A Urge map, clearly and intelligently defining the v*r : 3 congressional, senatorial and represent! districts of Indiana, as gerrymandered by t .ast Democratic Legislature, has been posted at the State central committee room*, and is attracting general attention. Tho infamy of the Bourbon redistricting fraud can be seen'al a glance, and the more it is studied the more its value as a campaign document becomes apparent Tho map is Sxlfi feet in size, and was arm executed by Major O. M. Wilson, of city. V

THE STATE CONVENTION. TICKET AND PLATFORM ALL THAT COULD BE D* j SIRED. Evansville Journal. " The nominations are in every respect eminently fit and proper, and bespeak victory a* the result of the labor of the convention. The platform is ail that could be desired as an ex* pression of the political opinions of a body asking the suffrages of the people for its nominees. Taken altogether the Indiana Republican* are to-be congratulated upon the work of the convention and the political outlook. The sign* of the times point to a Republican victory id November. It remains only, now the harnes* has been adjusted, for every Republican to take the reins and crack the whip until the close of the polls on election day. AN OUTSPOKEN DOCUMENT. Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. The platform of tho Indiana Republicans is an outspoken document and attacks the issues without hesitation. It has been complained that the Republicans of Ohio and some other States have ignored the currency question. This the Indjr anians have not done, fyproposition on which they will stand in the fof* lowing words: The wisdom and honesty of the Republican party secured sound money to the people. Gold and silver should be maintained in friendly relation in the coin circulation of the country, and all the circulating me-dium-coin and paper alike—should be kept of equal and permanent value, A STRONG TICKET AND A SATISFACTORY PLATFORM. Terre Haute Express. The ticket is an excellent one. and will prove to be of great strength. The platform speak* out boldly and clearly. From top to bottom the ph tform may bo considered an arraignment of tho Democratic party for its mismanagement of public trusts and its cowardice in meeting public questions. It is long, but pithy, and It if filled with words of wisdom for voters. AN ESTIMATE ON THE RESULT. Lafayette Journal. The big convention, the excellent ticket and the manly, out-spoken platform means 12,000 Republican majority in Indiana. A STRONG TICKET. Vincennes Commercial. The ticket is a strong one throughout, an<| there is little doubt that it will be elected this fall. A GOOD TICKET. Indianapolis Independent: On the whole, it is a good ticket. Th 6 Public School Superinteudenoy. Tho Freeman. We do not think it will be possible to elect a Roman Catholic to be the head of the publicschool system of the State; this may be the result of prejudice, though we do not believe that an honest Roman Catholic wiil deny that the attitude of the church toward the public school* is not friendly. Into the merits of the controversy we do not care to go. It is enough to know that there is a controversy, and such being the case we do not see how an honest and earnest Roman Catholic could become a candidate for Superintendent of Public Instruction. The Thing to Try Now. Attica Ledger. Prohibition closes the front door of the saloon. High license will close many a saloon entirely, aud would bo the means of making the traffic assume the (burden it now puts on the people. High licence would make one saloon watch it* fellows, so that none of them escape the tax paid by proprietors disposed to be honest. This is the thing to try in Indiana before proceeding to the enactment of prohibitory laws that cannot be enforced at this time. A Point for Prohibitionist*. Loudouvillc Democrat. According to the New York Voice brewers salt their beer, so as to create a thrist for more. There is a pointer for prohibitionists. Let them salt their water, so as to create a thrist fo* more. • _ Nothing but.Harmony. Philadelphia Press. The liquor-sellers and the Prohibitionists keep right on trying to see who can shout the loudeat against high license. There’s nothing but bar* mony there—not even decent consistency. A Paper with Opinions. Winchester Herald. The Indianapolis Journal is one of the best edited papers in the West. It is always ready with an intelligent opinion upon every question of any importance. Denials Useless. Philadelphia Tress. Sedgwick is a mugwump, too, and that settlos it. If he was in tho sarao room with a champagne cork thern'a no use denying the story. Growing in Popularity. Madison Courier. The Indianapolis Journal is growing in popularity in this locality all the time. After Careful Ilollection. Washington Critic. As botweea Congress and an earthquake, fiivo us Congres*.