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THE DAILYJOURNAL BATURDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1886. Washington office—a 13 Fourteenth st. T. S. Hbath, Correspondent. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, Cm be 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 House. CINCINNATI—J. P. Hawley & Cos., 154 Vice street LOUISVILLE—C. T. pearing, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. T. LOUlS—Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern Hotel. WASHINGTON, D. C.—Riggs House and Ebbitt House. Telephone Calls, Business Office 238 | Editorial Rooms 242 THE SUNDAY JOURNAL. The Sunday Journal for to-morrow, the 3d instant, will contain the first chapter of Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett's dramatized story, “The Fortunes of Philippa Fairfax.” This will continue for several weeks, and readers should commence with the first issue, as we shall not be able to supply back numbers to any great extent. The issue will also contain the eighteenth paper by Gen. Adam Badeau, which is upon General Grant as President-elect. The value and interest of these papers cannot he overestimated. Our New York and Washington correspondents will have interesting letters by mail and telegraph, as usual. The regular weekly cable special letter*will appear, and all the news of the world by regular and special press reports. The local department will have a number of special features, among them one of scenes in and about the Union Depot, a sketch of Rev. Reuben Jeffery, of tho First Baptist Church, and J. Seazer Smith’s letter giving his observations on political mottoes. All the regular departments will be fully maintained. The Sunday Journal is the best paper published in the State. It is read by more people than any other paper within the boundaries of the country, commercially tributary to Indianapolis, and is, therefore, the best advertising medium that business men can avail themselves of. Hon. John Sherman 3peaks in Louisville, Ky., to-night. The Democratic party in Indiana does not deny that it was afraid to trust the people. Let the Prohibitionist ask himself what he expects to accomplish by voting in the alection of 188 G. If the Democratic party in Indiana cannot trust the people, the people should not trust the Democratic party.

It i3 said that Senator McPherson, of New Jersey, is likely to be made Secretary of the Treasury, with a view to capturing the vote of that State for Cleveland in the next national convention. Let the Nationalist aslc himself what is his first duty in the approaching election. Is it not to secure again the right to vote, and to have that vote counted on an equality with the ballot of any other legal voter? The United States Circuit Court for the Northern district of Ohio has sustained the Dow liquor law. The court says it is not in conflict with the fourteenth amendment, and is a proper exercise of the State police power. The citizens of Cleveland will be gratified to learn that the visitors to our State fair contributed about $7,000, which will be duly forwarded to them by the Johnson street-car company. This will go far toward paving another street in that city. A* exchange explains the present strained felations in the Balkans by the statement that Rusgia is anxious to manipulate the Bulgarian bollot-boxes while the Bulgarians insist upon counting their own votes. If this is the case it must bo that Russia is getting ready to join tho Democratic party. On all matters of national importance the State of Indiana is pledged in advance, and before the will of the people has been ascertained. A majority of 10,000 will not be enough to deliver the people of Indiana from the bargain in which their political rights '■were sold without their consent. There are no free elections in the South, because the South is Democratic. There is no political equality in the Stato of Indiana, because the last Democratic Legislature so arranged the districts that it is next to impossible for the majority of the legal voters of the State to make themselves heard. The correspondent of the Louisville Cour-ier-Journal gives away the secret of Senator Voorhees’s admiration foi* the President, by saying that “over 70 per cent, of tho offices in Indiana have been distributed under the direction of Senator Voorhees, and naturally the latter has not been backward in his personal assurances of what he can do.” THE last Democratic Legislature, afraid to trust the people of Indiana, arrogated 110 members of the Legislature for a total Democratic vote of 244,000, while the opposition polled a total voto no less than 5,000 larger. In other words, tho Democratic party, in the minority by about 5,000 votes, assumed 110 members, leaving but 40 to the majority. Mb. John E. Sullivan has not denied, eqd will not deny, that he tried to effect a. eettlement with tho Ritzingers at fifty cents on the dollar, and that he was forced to settle dollar for dollar, after an investigation of his ffidavit, in ithich lie swore ho was worth

thirty thousand dollars. He was as willing to oheat and defraud the Ritzinger trust as he was to cheat and defraud the inmates of the Insane Asylum and the State of Indiana by furnishing 18-cent butter-grease and taking pay for 38-cent creamery, which he should have supplied under his contract. And this is the sort of a- man the Democrats have nominated as the head of their county ticket, and who is supported by them and the Sentinel on account of his “business success.”

THE CONGRESSIONAL NOMINEES. With the exception of Republican nominees in the Third and Fourth districts—Judge Allison having declined the race in the Fourth — the list of congressional nominations in the State is now complete. The Democracy have fifteen candidates for only thirteen districts, the surplus being in the Third and Twelfth districts, where two Democrats represent two party factions, the fight between which is bitter and apparently unrelenting. The Republican nominations are of first-class men. Alvin P. Hovey, Milton S. Ragsdale, Ira J. Chase, Thos. M. Browne, Addison C. Harris, James T. Johnston, Joseph B. Cheadle, Wm. D. Owen, George W. Steele, James B. White and Jasper Packard are the names of the eleven men the Republican party have so far presented to the people. Browno, Johnston, Owen and Steele, the four members of the present House, are renominated; their records and their standing are the best and only needed commendations to the confidence of the majority of the voters of their several districts. No better equipped man can be found in the State for the lower house than Gen. Alvin P. Hovey, and if he shall be elected —as seems within the probabilities—he will add decided strength to the representation of the State. Captain Ragsdale may be said to lead a forlorn hope; but every Republican in the district can vote for him with the greatest satisfaction, and he will he an aid to the State and local tickets. In the Fifth district Rev. Ira J. Chase ought to defeat Courtland Matson, a man whose congressional career is strewn w'ith broken promises, and whose action as chairman of the House pensions committee has been debasingly stultifying. Mr. Chase is a gentleman of the highest character and ability, and will make an efficient Congressman. In tho Seventh district it will be ten thousand pities if Addison C. Harris does not defeat Mr. Bynum. Mr. Harris is a lawyer of the first rank, a man whose standing at the bar, whose character in the community, and whose recognized abilities as a student of political affairs specially befit him as a representative of the capital district of the State. Mr. Bynum’s course in Congress has been that of a conscienceless spoils taker; many of Ins appointments have been scandalous, and about the only notoriety he has achieved has been in contest over offices, during which he most villainously assailed the late Mr. Hendricks, according to good Democratic authority. Addison C. Harris is a clean, honorable, upright, capable gentleman; one in whose hands the honor of the district will be worthily upheld, and we hope to see him overcome the “gerrymandered” Democratic majority, which Mr. Bynum, certainly, under the circumstances, cannot hope to secure. Mr. Cheadle, in the Ninth district, is a man of opinions, positive, and thoroughly honest. He will be elected, and be a credit to the State. Capt. James B. White is the most popular man in Fort Wayne, a business man of reputation, a special friend of the workingmen, who are enthusiastically his supporters. His election is quite confidently expected. Gen. Jasper Packard has already served in the House with credit, as the successor of the late Mr. Colfax, and his renomination by his old constituents indicates their satisfaction with his past service and their determination to have him again. With this ticket of congressional candidates in the field, the Republicans ought to elect in the First, Fifth, Seventh, Twelfth and Thirteenth, beside holding the four they now have and gaining tho Ninth, which has been given a certain Republican majority. Such a result is worth a strong, united and enthusiastic effort.

“DISEASED MEATS.” The Civil-service Reform Association committee reply to Dr. Harrison’s statement, denouncing as "a malicious lie” their report to the effect that diseased meat had been fed to the patients at the Insane Asylum, by giving their authority. Dr. Fletcher, tho superintendent, in answer to the direct question said he had no doubt in the world that such meat had been fed to the patients; and, further, that particular part of the report was read to him before publication, and he 3aid it was correct. This settles that question beyond peradventure. It is open and notorious that Dr. Fletcher has been strongly at outs with the partisan and unbusiness-like management of the asylum for some time; he has not been chary about expressing his opinion; he has given it in his official reports, in his protests to the board, and in other shapes. He was so much at outs with the board that he ceased to attend the meetings. The civil-service committee properly give Dr. Fletcher credit for desiring the best good of tho institution of which he is nominal superintendent; and were ho away from the malign influence and domineering spirit of ‘‘Doctor” Harrison, he would exert all his power to bring about the reforms which he has so often asserted to be imperatively necessary. “Doctor” Harrison has unduly influenced him to seem to indorse the board in reply to the report of the Civil-service Association committee; but there are limits to Dr. Fletcher’s “com-

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plaisanco, and in view of his repeated testimony, officially given and otherwise, the superintendent will not be likely to go any further to save such a man as “Dr.” Harrison, and such a board as that which he presides over and controls, from the just execration of an indignant people. DISFRANCHISEMENT NORTH AND SOUTH! 1. Indiana Gerrymander—On senatorial representation one Democratic vote is equal to two Republican votes. 2. On Representative apportionment two Democratic votes are equal to three Republican votes. 3. On congressional apportionment one Democratic vote is equal to three Republican votes. 4. Southern Disfranchisement—ln national elections one Southern Den*ocratic vote is equal to two votes in the Northern States. 5. A rebel soldier’s vote is equal to the vote of two Union soldiers. 6. In Indiana 24,499 Democratic votes elect a Congressman, while it requires 79,493 Republican votes to elect one. 7. One million colored voters in the South are wholly without representation in Congress and the Electoral College. 8. Six million colored people in the South are counted for representation, and are counted out in elections. A YOUNG man of the name of Beveridge, whom a flaming poster describes as a “talented young orator,” is announced to make a Republican speech at New Castle to-night. This poster also urges the people to hear him, that they may learn “how Democratic bummers have been feeding the inmates of the Insane Asylum cholera hogs, rotten butter and sour bread.”—Sentinel. Mr. Beveridge is not responsible for the language of the poster. That he is “a talented young orator” cannot be denied, any more than it can be deuied that Democratic bummers have been feeding the inmates of the Insane Asylum meat taken from a drove of diseased hogs, rotten butter and sour bread. Those facts have been established by indubitable and undisputed proof taken by a non-partisan committee. The evidence consists of statements made by officials connected with the asylum and official reports made to the superintendent. These statements and reports stand uncontradicted. “Dr.” Harrison has blustered a good deal and has paraded a lot of figures, but he has not touched the question of cruelty to inmates, nor the bad food fed to them so that pet contractors might fatten off their misery.

The old saw that politics make strange bed-fellows never had a more striking illustration since Greeley swallowed up the Democratic party, than now in this city. The W. C. T. U. is the only tempeiance organization in this city, yet it is straining every nerve to defeat some of the best temperance men in the city, on the county ticket. Notably among these is one who never failed to take a hand in any temperance movement, whose money and time have been at the disposal of the Union for years, and whom, for this very reason, the entiroliquor force is pitted. But such ; s politics. —Indiana Advocate. That is not politics; it is simply conceit, prejudice, ignorance and malice, which are the principal ingredients of third-party temperance as indicated by many of its chosen leaders. The prostitution of the W. C. T. Union to such extremes is one of the saddest facts connected with the political craze that has lately taken possession of a small minority of “temperance” people. The New York Post is gratified by the growing tendency of political conventions to choose young men for office, and cites the action of the Minnesota Republicans who nominated candidates varying in age from thirty-five to fifty-seven years, as an example. A man of fifty-seven is hardly young, and one of thirty-five is “no chicken;” but perhaps the Post, which has had no chance to officiate at conven f io\.s for a good while, is losing its memory, ana thinks it was once customary to nominate octogenarians for Governors and the like. It is wrong; but then the best of us are likely to make mistakes, especially when the intellect is on a strain with the effort to regulate tho entire universe. mymmmmmmßKmmmmmmsucsmtmm Rev. J. S. Hughes, the political Prohibition candidate for Secretary of State, explains that the bills in which he is advertised to speak were printed before his nomination, which is the reason they make no reference to the fact that he is a political candidate for a political office, making political speeches instead of temperance addresses. It is to be hoped the old stock of bills is about exhausted. If not, it would be more candid and honest for his party managers to provide him with anew supply that tell the truth. Eight Republican counties in this State have been deliberately and purposely disfranchised in order that tho Democratic party, which is afraid of the majority of the people of Indiana, might be assured of a majority in the next Legislature. No more contemptible trick, none more dishonest, was ever perpetrated in the solid South. A third-party paper, called the Phalanx, publishes the following: The Journal is the leading organ of the Republican party in Indiana, and as that party has nominated a liquor dealer for Congress in this State there will be found no words in its columns against the Liquor League. Every reader of the Journal knows that to be a lie. Mr. Cleveland is said to be devoting much of his time since his return from the woods to inquiring about federal officeholders who have violated his order directing them not to engage in political conventions. Ho

needn’t go feeling around in the dark, at least so far as Indiana is concerned; but it is safe to say that he will refrain from finding out any serious offenses of this sort until the elections are safely over. The Congressional Nominations. Following is a list of congressional nominations in Indiana, so far as made: Districts. Republicans. Democrats. Ist Alvin P. Hover, James E. McCullough, 2d Milton S. Ragsdale, John H. O'Neall, 3,1 C Jonas G. Howard, 4th.... William 3. Holman. sth ....Ira J. Cha-ie, Courtland O. Mutson. 6th ... .Thomas M. Browne, George S. Jones. 7th Addison 0. Harris. William D. Bynum. Bth James T. Johnston, John E. Lamb. 9th Joseph B. Cheadle, Benjamin F. Ham. 10th.. .William D. Owen, H. D. Hattery. 11th... George W. Steele, J. C. Branyan, 12th—.Jamas B. White, < g^ofSia,. 13th.... Jasper Packard, Benjamin F. Shively. Frances Hodgson Burnett. Perhaps the moat notable feature of Mrs. Burnett’s life is her extreme love and devotion to her children, and their chivalric love and adoration for her. The fortunate readers of her story in St. Nicholas are given glimpses of this ideal life. Little Lord Fauntleroy is her brave and loving Lionel—-a lad perhaps ten years old. Mrs. Burnett is a strong believer in the rights of children. She cares for hers with the utmost love, and with the courtesy of a queen. They, in turn, love her with tender and noble devotion. To them she is the all-lovely one. No outside duties, literary or social, are permitted to interfere with her care for her two happy little boys. Mrs. Burnett is spending the summer at the “Tudor Homestead’’ in Nahant. This is a colonial residence of palatial proportions, situated on a hill commanding sweeping views of the Atlantic and surrounded by extensive grounds, including orchards and grassy lawnsr Here Mrs. Burnett proposes to remain until October. She is constantly entertaining friends, and often drives to Lynn, along the coast road, a distance of five miles, to meet guests. She is greatly improved in health, and is planning out one or two new novels, which are already sought after at enormous prices by different publishers. Frances Hodgson Burnett’s literary career is, perhaps, more remarkable than that of any. other writer in this country. Her earliest work is characterized by the finest literary finish. Her characters stand out close and natural. She is equally strong in tragedy or comedy. Her first two stories appeared in Godey’s Magazine in 1868, Mrs. Burnett receiving $35 for the two. She wrote with amazing rapidity, and her stories appeared in Frank Leslie’s, Peterson’s, Har per’s and Scribner's. The first story she sent to Scribner was returned, ostensibly because of its length, but really, as it afterwards appeared, because the editors, on account of its excellence, feared it was not original. Her next story, forwarded to the same magazino, was accepted and published in 1872. It was “Surly Tim’s Troubles,” and the following note was sent upon the receipt of the story:

Nkw York, Feb. 23,1872. Dear Miss Hodgson—Dr. Holland and Dr. Holland's daughter (Miss Annie), and Dr. Holland’s right-hand-'man (myself) have all wept sore over “Surly Tim’s Troubles.” Hope to weep again over MSS. from you. Very sincerely and tearfully, WALTER Gilder. Soon after this she went to England and remained at Manchester, where she was stirred up by the hard lives of the miners and weavers, and wrote in consequence “That Lass o' Lowrie’s,” a story which has been pronounced “the flower and crown of all reoont fiction.” The heroine of this story was a girl whom she first saw when nino years of age; a tall, handsome figure, clothed according to the custom of mill girls, with a long, coarse linen apron over the dress, and tied close down the back with strong tapes, to guard against accidents from machinery. She stood in a group of children—playmates all, save her, for in the midst of their romps her fingers busily knitted on a dark, rough sock. She WB.B so different from the others —strong, massive frame, large, luminous gray eyes, pale, clearcut face and head rivaling in pose the Venus of Milo—she instantly riveted the attention of the maiden at the gate; but not till lone years after did Francos realize her to have been so wondrously boautiful, for at that period of the young romancer’s life her type of female loveliness demanded rosy cheeks and sparkling eyes. The refined strength of the girl had a fascination she could not then analyze, but 6he has since looked in vain for a face so fair, a form so majestio. The boisterous children apparently recognized her superiority, as appeals were made to her in the adjustment of all differences, and her voice answered the expectation of the listeners at the gate, as the replies fell upon her ears in broad, yet musical Lancashire. Frances saw her only once more in the square—as before, not at play, but friend ana adviser of the children. This time a brutal-looking man, whose face was swollen from drink, came and drove her out with angry words and threatening gestures. She obeyed silently, proudly, yet without defiance or apparent fear. For many afternoons Frances watched at the gate for her, but in vain—that noble form was never again seen amid the group in the sunny square. Returning from England she was married to Dr. Burnett, in Knoxville, Tenn. Perceiving his talents in his profession, she determined that he should have the best training possible in European colleges and hospitals, and decided to go abroad and to pay the expenses by her writings. Under these circumstances she wrote, in about fifteen months, “That Lass o’ Lowrie’s,” “Pretty Polly Pemberton,” “The Fire at Grantley Mills,” and she also wrote short stories which appeared in Scribner. Then returning, she went to the home of the Doctor's father, in New Market, and Dr. Burnett went to Washington to establish himself in his speciality, that of an oculist. She soon joined him in Washington, where they lived plainly and obscurely in the West End. In a short time she began her work, sending “Louisiana” to Scribner’s and “A Fair Barbarian,” to Peterson’s. The latter novel was sent to Peterson’s in fulfillmeut of an engagement. As soon as it appeared in Peterson’s, it was bought for publication in the Century, thus receiving a compliment that ha3 been paid to no other American novel or American novelist. Mrs. Burnett is generally regarded as the most popular novelist in America. Her new serial begins in the Sunday Journal to-morrow—“ The Fortunes of Philippa Fairfax. ” Dr. J. E. Wklliver, of Rushville, says ha administered nitro-glycerino to a child on the 26th instant, and restored it from collapse, and also that the remedy is an old one in homeopathy. The nomination by the Democrats of the Fourteenth Illinois district of one Daniel Voorhees, of Decatur, for Congress looks as if there might be something in a name after all. A Boston paper is authority for the statement that Secretary Endicott’s coast defense scheme involves stationing a militiaman every few miles. With true Yankee thrift the prudent Secretary

probably regards this as a great improvement over the lamented Tilden'e plans in that it saves great expense. ABODT PEOPLE AND THINGS. George Francis Train has not put his hand in any adult human being’s hand for six years —and the adults are in excellent spirits and health. Mrs. Folsom, the President’3 mother-in-law, will.reside in the White House, it is said, as long as Mr. Cleveland is President She has no other home. A Missouri burglar, while attempting to enter a house, had his lower jaw shot off. A local paper in describing the affair said the victim “resolutely refused to talk." Early-rising and Early-going-to-bed clubs are being formed in some parts oyDngland. The members pledge themselves to be up at 7 a. m. during the larger part of the year. The latest census of Rhode Island shows an excess of 11,000 women in that State over the male population, the result of immigration of women who go there to work in the factories. The Baltimore American says that while the late Joseph Neal, of that city, desired no notoriety as President Cleveland’s uncle, he was very much displeased that his nephew, the President, paid no attention to him at all and treated him as though he did not know that he was living. James Russell Lowell is described as homeless in his old haunts. Mrs. Ole Bull rents his old homo at Cambridge, where be was born and lived so lone. Cambridge is said to be not so attached to him since the death of his old friend Longfellow. Mr. Lowell has boueht a summer place at Ashland, but is at present in Boston. Washington correspondents are beginning to write of “Colonel” Benedict, meaning Public Printer Benedict. If any military title is applied to Mr. Benedict it should be “Sergeant.” Several years ago he was much interested in the organization of the Ellenville Separate Company, fN. G., S. N. Y., and as quartermastersergeant did good work. Count Tolstoi, the Russian novelist, was found by a recent visitor clßd in a peasant's garb and sweeping his hearth. His white shirt was soiled with mud and soot, there was a strap about his waist, and his heavy boots were coated witn clay. After breakfast the Count and his son went to help repair a neighbor’s barn, and worked ail day like a common artisan. A few days ago the country was startled by the announcement that Professor Baird of the Smithsonian Institution, employed a copyist who could not write her name. The evidence was unimpeachable, because she witnessed her name on the pay-roll with a cross. It turns out that the lady is a most efficient clerk, but had the rheumatic fever when she made her mark on the pay-roll. Mr. W. H. Norton, the Boston marine painter, has worked bis way up from the bottom of the ladder. Not many years ago he was a decorator of chamber furniture, of the so-called “cottage” styles, and the little medallion views of sea and shore which he put upou the crude surfaces of blue or green attracted attention. As soon as he had the time and the means to spare for something better, his talent was recognized. Knights Templars have to pay pretty well for their membership. Seventy-five dollars is about the average fee for joining the Masonic fraternity itself, then the chapter fee is about SSO more, and the comrnandery SIOO. The outfit costs at least"slso, and the yearly dues amount altogether to about sl2. That makes a total of about $387 for the first year, with SIOO added if a man wants to be a member of the consistory. There is said to be a lodge in New York that it costs SSOO to join at all and in which the dues are large in proportion. On the door of Prince Bismarck’s study at Friedrichsruhe are notches indicating the height of all the members of the family. They are as follows: Prince Bismarck, 6 feet 2 inches; Count Herbert, 6 feet 1* inches; Count William, 6 feet and sinch; Connt Ramzan (Bismarck’s son-in-law), 5 feet 10$ inches; Princess Bismarck, 5 feet 8$ inches, and Countess Mary von Rantzan, the Prince’s daughter, 5 feet 8 inches. This gives an average-height of 5 feet 11 inches for the whole family. But opposite the name of Princess Bismarck is a note scrawled with a pencil saying that when she was measured she stood on her tiptoes. Count William Redern, who was married on Tuesday to the daughter of Prince and Princess Licbnowsky of Germany, is a young man who has made almost every capital in Europe resound with the noise of his follies. Hi3 father is one of the favorite cronies of Emperor William, holds the post of grand master of the robes at the Berlin court, and is known as the worst tongue in the whole empire. His life i3 passed in putting into circulation malevolent gossip, either true or false, regardless of any pain which it may cause. He is only tolerated on account of his popular and respected wife, who has one of the most charming salons in Berlin, much frequented by the old Emperor. General Pleasonton tells the following about the last earthquake at Arica: “The people of that afflicted country have been shaken up so often that they have no difficulty in recognizing an earthquake by* sight. But the last one wa3 recognized long before it was seen. It —ie more slowly than any one of its predecessor slowly that all the people had time to run c\ their little one-story adobe houses into the ph where they fell prone on their faces. When the earthquake got there it carried the ground up just like a wave. The people lying in the plaza felt just as you do when a big wave rolls under you on the beach. Those who lay in the trough of the wave, so to speak, were all right. But those who went up on the crest of the wave fell into it where it broke and were buried alive under it. It was all over in a minute.”

COMMENT AND OPINION. Tiie harmony which prevails among tho Pennsylvania Democrats is unfortunately not yet dense enough to be photographed.—Philadelphia Press, The Atlanta people, on finding that they were not to*be swallowed by tho earthquake, swr.llowed the contents of their jugs.— Louievil’e Courier-Journal. The last vote in Atlanta on the liquor question seems to be to the effect that the metropolis of Georgia is in favor of prohibition, but against its enforcement. —Pittsburg Dispatch. Secretary Bayard appears to be courteous to everybody except American citizens who represent American enterprise and capital. He has become very English.—Boston Journal. Men who are capable of believing in Wiggins would be quite capable of drowning their neighbors for witches if their credulity happened to take that dangerous turu.—New York Times. Now, that the 29th is behind us, we cannot afford to treat the matter as a joke. The wild words attributed to Wiggins damaged the commerce and industry of the Atlantic coast to the extent of thousands of dollars, and resulted in an amount of mental suffering that cannot be estimated.—Atlanta Constitution. If the workingmen are to run their politics as they run their trades unions, and to boycott any man who votes as he pleases rather than as the union directs, we shall see very clearly the precise relations of the labor movement to political liberty. If men are to be whipped up to the polls like cattle, let us know it.—New York Mail and Express. It will be folly for tho Knights of Labor to reorganize the order effectively until they have organized all such men as Martin Irons out of it and taken from every individual officer of it the authority to compel five thousand or fire men to strike who do not want to strike, and who, as in the case of the Southwestern railroad strikers, had no cause to strike—Philadelphia Inquirer. If Dr. Aveling, the English Socialist, goes to Chicago to stir up the restless element to a res cue of the condemned Anarchists, he will probably meet with a warm reception. Chicago Is iu no mood to stand any nonsense of that kind Dr. Aveling? if such is his purpose, had better not stand upon the order of his going, but go at once to a more congenial clime.—New York Herald.

DEMOCRATIC BUTTER-GREASE. Farther Comments of the State Press Upon the Insane Asylum Infamies. LaPorta Herald-Chronicle: The Democratio leaders are not satisfied with skinning honest people; they have gone to skinning dead con* victs. Lafayette Journal: The Democracy have made Indiana’s benevolent institutions brothels and hog pens—places of licentiousness and theaters of rapine and lust. Greencastle Banner: Instead of refuting the specific charges against him. Dr. Harrison resorts to the bad boy’s argument—“you’re another.” That won’t do with intelligent people. Richmond Telegram: The president of the trustees of the benevolent institutions is still rumbling away, but his rumbliog isn’t strong enough to put down Mr. Sullivan’s Insane Hospital butter. Martinsville Republican: When we consider the kind of a man who is at the head of the management of the benevolent institutions of the State, there is no wonder at the corruption and demoralization that exisits in these insiitu* tions. Lafayette Journal: Dr. Harrison, the Democratic president of the State board, unblushingly says that the Indiana Lunatic Asylum is run in the interest of the Democratic party; hence there is no wonder that outrages, abuses and corruptions daily abound in that institution. Logansport Journal:' The spoils management of State institutions that abuses lunatics, and feeds them on diseased meat, rotten butter and sour bread, and skins the bodies of dead prisoners to secure material for fancy canes, must go. It is inhuman, and the great heart of the people will revolt against it. Logansport Journal: Every honest and rightthinking tax-payer in Indiana feels it in his heart that the management of our State benevolent institutions ought to be lifted out of the morass of the partisan spoils, corruption and brutality, and placed where “the light of God’s sun will shine lovingly upon it.” Richmond Telegram: Dr. Harrison says that the trustees of the Insane Hospital paid the grease-vender, Sullivan, the highest price for creamery butter for the lowest grade of butterine because they were legally bound to. It must be a very stupid, or else a very knavish, body of trustees that would get themselves legally bound to do so unbusiness-like a thing. New Castle Courier: The recent exposures of the corrupt management of the Insane Asylum, and the earlier exposures of the beastly and in< human treatment of the inmates of the Soldiers* Orphans’ Horae, all the direct result of partisan control, are well known to every Democrat in Henry county, yet they are expected to stultify their manhood and vote tocontinue these infamies for party’s sake. Spencer Republican: The inmates of the Indiana Asylum for the Insane have been under Democratic bummer control for some time and the outrages perpetrated upon the helpless inmates would shame a heathen. Maggoty and rotten meat is furnished for them to eat because Democrats could speculate therein and make money off the tax payers of the State. Turo the rascals out.

Seymour Republican: This deplorable condition of our benevolent institutions is the irnme diate fruit of the heartless partisan measure originating in the prolific brain of Hon. Jasos B. Brown, and known as the Brown benevolen.S bill. Next to the infamous gerrymander, this is probably the most wantonly wicked and un* just of any of the romarkable statutes enacted by the notorious Legislature of 1885. Richmond Telegram: The president of the board of trustees of the benevolent institutions seems to have a heart for most anything in the way of defense of the Democratic mans.gement of those institutions. Suppose he gives the public his views regarding the late Trustee Goar and the late Superintendent White, of tho Sol* fliers’ Orphans’ Home. Are they as pure and in’ 1 - corruptible as Sullivan, the grease vender? Monticello Herald: A party that will openly advocate the policy of conducting charitable in* stitutions on a partisan plane will not heßitate t> profit by cruelty to the inmates. The wickedness practiced at the Insane Hospital, as disclosed by tho recent investigation of the civilservice commission, speaks plainly of a condition of things closely borderiug on barbarism, and only possible under the dispensation of a vena? and partisan management. Goshen Times: With the gerrymander in dorsed, benevolent institutions of the State will continue in tho hands of the men who are using them to enrich themselves and their friends, while the helpless inmates will be at their mercy. The gerrymander was intended to stifle all investigation. It disfranchises the people who want to know what is being done with the vast sums that are annually collected for the purpose of maintaining these great charities. Franklin Republican: Dr. Harrison’s reply clearly shows him incapable of understanding his duty in any higher sense than to serve bis party, and his idea of party service is so low that the better element of his own party will not approve of it. Every honest-minded man who reads the Doctor's attempted vindication of his course must acknowledge the necessity of making the management of the benevolent institutions non-partisan as soon as possible. Elkhart Review: “Dr.” Harrison, of tho Insane Asylum, insulted every respectable citizen of Indiana wnen he blusteringly declared that that asylum was conducted on a partisan basic and that appointments are made for partisan purposes. Such a declaration's worthy a ma<l who would ever try to cover up such atrocitie* as aro reported from that institution. Aftetf that statement it is not to be wondered at that he defends tho disreputable contractors who cheated the Stato in the supplies furnished. Princeton Clarion: If one-half is true of tho management of the Insane Asylum that is reported by the recent investigating committee tha institution is a disgrace to the State. It ts enough sorrow for the friends of the unfortunate who are confined in the asylum to know that it is necessary for them to be there. But an additional weight must be added by a partisan board of managers, who are so lost to all self-re-spect and manhood as to misuse them, and to place before them food that dogs would not touch. Seymour Republican: For a legislative body, having only selfish and partisan ends in vletf, systematically and in the fullness of mature con* viotions of the great wrong done to make laws that hold as naught even tho ordinary feelings of humanity, that transform the State's benevolent institutions to foul electioneering retreats presided over by men whom tho wonder Is that aD overwatchful Provulonce has not struck dead in their tracks for atrocious and manifold sins committed, is an innovation at which honest and hutnaine people, regardloss of party, stand aghast, and which they will not sanction. Columbus Republican: This cold-blooded boast that all the institutions provided for the unfortonates of the State at so much expense are run as political machines to aid the party in powef and reward party servlco is infapious. Has it come to this, that the asylums for the insano, the blind, the deaf and dumb, are to bo tamed into asylums for party bummers, that the wel* fare of the inmates of those institutions is to be subordinate to that of party workers? How much longer will it be until the people will arise in their might and demand that theso great institutions shall bo usod for tho purpose for which they wore created, entirely free from party influence and unaffected by party changes? Mr. Voorlieos’s Ambition. National Republican. It is understood in Washington that Mr. Voorhees has no desiro to be utilized in that way. There is but one offico in the United States for which he would willingly vacate hie seat in tho Senate. Jones’s Predicament. Philadelphia Press. Senator Jones, of Florida, wants anothet term, but he will hardly get it until he admits that Washington, and not Detroit, is tho capital of the country. A Good Place for Bayard, Sr. Boston Post. Thomas F. Bayard, jr., has entered Yale. * There is a great chance at Now Haven to leart poiuts iu diplomacy. Singular Remark from a Democrat. Philadelphia Times. The rotation system seems always to rotas tho wrong man in.