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THE DAILY JOURNAL. MONDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1380. WASHINGTON OFFICE—SI3 Fourteenth St. P. S. Heath. Correspondent. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, Can be found at the following places: LONDON—American Exchange in Europe. 440 Strand. PARlS—American Exchange In Paris, 35 Boulevard dee Capuciues. NEW YORK—St. Nicholas and Windsor Hotel*. CHICAGO— PaImer House. CINCINNATI—J. P. Hawley & Cos., 154 Vine street LOUISVILLE—C. T. Hearing, northwest corner Third and Jefferson 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 Turn the rascals out. Shall the boohs be opened? Mr. Garland is still in the Cabinet of the "reform” President. ■—T— —‘ "J The Civil-service Commission must have become pretty tough when old Mr. Bdp'erton cannot stand it. The report in the Courier-Journal shows that Hon. John Sherman had a magnificent reception at Louisville on Saturday night. The majority in Indiana has been disfranchised by the party that for years has professed a desire for reform. Democracy is not Omd never has been favorable to free and honist elections. Senator Faulkner may not know how to tpell correctly, but be knows how to work in his family on the State. A daughter, a nephew, three nieces, and other appointees are in the Insane Asylum. One thing is certain —“Dr.” Harrison would not tolerate the idea of having “butter'' from the asylum placed on his own table. It is good enough for the mentally unsound, out will not do for sane people. Os course there is no truth in the absurd story that the late Emery Storrs was poisoned with digitalis. It is the suggestion of one of the many sensational brains that are the disgrace of the newspaper press. PUBLIC Cifice is not only a public trust, but affords the opportunity for the Democrats holding such a “trust” to reward their fellowpartisans by paying them the price of good butter for an inferior article of grease. When Mayor Harrison, of Chicago, pleads for leniency for the condemned Anarchists he proves himself the enemy of every honest and law-abiding man in that city. No laboring man cares to champion the cause of his greatest enemy. One-third of the legal voters of Indiana were disfranchised by the last Democratic Legislature. There is not a Greenbaeker or Prohibitionist in the State that will have the least influence in the election to bo held in November next.

For the benefit of the Louisville CourierJournal it is to be hoped that women will never be given the right to vote in elections. Its distress over the way Mrs. Thompson, the postmaster at that point, has beaten it in the game of politics is very painful to contemplate. In the Ohio penitentiary it has been the custom to skin dead convicts and make canes and other things out of the dried hides. In the Indiana Hospital for the Insane it has been the practice to enrich Democratic commission men and produce dealers by allowing them to charge for good butter while supplying a second-class grade of oleomargarine. And this is Democratic reform. B - I The New York Sun is very mad because the Democrats of Massachusetts have nominated the son of Ctov. John A. Andrew, a degenerate son of a noble sire; and the Republicans ought to be mad because they have .nominated a mere money bag for the same office. Neither of the nominations in the old Hay State is worthy the confidence of the parties they severally represent. The accounts of the Democratic State Treasurer were shown to be in a very crooked and unsatisfactory condition; but the Democratic Legislature refused to allow investigation, and to prevent any inspection of the office in the future, so fixed the legislative districts that it will be next to impossible for the people to take measures to discover the Irue condition of their treasxiry. Turn the xascals out. The Evening News is a mighty discoverer of mares’ nests. In its attack n our remark that the consumer buys of American workingmen it is simply pettifogging and seeking to confuse ideas for its own purposes. The con•nmer does in effect buy of American workingmen. Every man who invests his labor in a factory is interested in its earnings. His wages rise with advancing commercial prosperity, and are depressed by the receding tide, as aro other earnings. The fact that his dividends are paid in stated wages is an incident, tnd a recognition of his current needs, not an infraction of his interest. If his interest in a particular business is temporary, it is because his investment of labor is temporary. If the man who invests daily labor is not put at the lead of the management in place of the man

who invests organizing ability and accumulated labor in the form of capital, buildings, machinery, working balance, etc., it is no necessary infraction of relative rights and interests. It does not take a week to state a simple principle. The News may juggle, and wiggle, and tvaste acres of tautological editorials in its attempt to mistify workingmen, but the intelligent workingman will still understand that he has a vital interest in the business of the country and in its protection against the un due competing advantages of other industrial countries. ELECTION OF SUPERIOR COURT JUDGES. It is important that the voters of Marion county should be correctly informed concerning the election of the judges of the Superior Court, which takes place at the ensuing general election. In the minds of some there is an impression that for one of the terms which commence in November, 1836, Judge Taylor and Livingston Howland are directly opposed to each other, and that for the other term, which commences in the same month of that year, Judge Howe and James W. Harper are direct opponents, while there are others who incline to the opinion that as there are three judges to be chosen, and six candidates from whom they are to be chosen, the th|pe candidates of the six receiving the highest number of votes cast will be elected. That there is no ground upon which to base either this impression or that opinion a brief reference to the statute and a concise statement of the terms to be filled at the ensuing general election, and the candidates for those terms, will sufficiently demonstrate. The general election in this State, for the present year, 188 G, takes place on the 2d of November next, and no general election takes place thereafter, in this State, until the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, 1888. At this ensuing November election of 188 G the statute requires that “all existing vacancies in office, and all offices the terms of which will expire before the next general election thereafter, shall be filled.” —Section 4G78, R. S., 1381. The terms of Judges Howe and Taylor expire after the 2d, and before tbe end of the month of November, 1886, and the term of Judge Walker expires in the month of October, 1888, and before the general election of November, 188S. It results, therefore, under the statute, that each of those terms, though expiring at different dates, must be filled at the ensuing November election. To fill the places of Judges Howe and Taylor, these gentlemen, Judges Howe and Taylor, Livingston Howland and James W. Harper, are candidates, and the two out of these four candidates receiving the highest number of votes cast for those offices will be elected. No two of these four candidates are distinctly opposed to each other, and the voter may vote for any two of these four candidates that he prefers should be elected. To fill tbe place of Judge Walker, whose term expires in October, 1888, and before the general election of that year, Judge Walker and Thomas L. Sullivan are the opposing candidates, and the voter must choose between these two for that place. A vote for either of the four candidates for the terms commencing in November, 188 G. for this term commencing in October, 1888, to fill which Walker and Sullivan are the distinctive opposing candidates, will be practically a vote thrown away by the voter. Care should be exercised in stating the terms to be filled, and in placing the names of the candidates to be voted for, for such terms, upon the ticket. As there are two judges to be elected whose terms begin in November, 1886, and one whose term commences in October, 1888, the form of statement and placing of names upon the tickets may be substantially as follows: For Judges of tlio Superior Court: (For the terms commencing in November, 1886.) A B C D (For the terra commencing in October, 1888.) If these suggestions are followed there will be no confusion, and a mistake will not be liable to happen.

INDIANA DISFRANCHISED. In the last general election in the State of Indiana there was cast a total vote of 494,774. At the meeting of the Democratic Legislature next ensuing that election it •‘fixed’' the congressional districts so the Democratic party could carry ten of the thirteen. At this rate there should have been cast for that party ten-thirteenths of the total vote of the State, or 380,590 votes. Had it cast this vote it would have been honestly entitled to ten or the thirteen Congressmen. In point of fact,. however, it did not cast more than 244,990 votes, leaving a discrepancy of no less than 135, GOO votes that it did not cast but claimed to represent. Here is the problem of this campaign. Is it to be recognized that any political party i3 to arrogate to itself the right to dictate for 135,600 voters that do not elect to go with it? From this it will be seer that the Democratic party has forestalled public opinion, and done so in a manner that gives the voters of the State of Indiana no •chance to speak for themselves. With anything like a fair apportionment it could not claim more than seven of the thirteen Congressmen, or, if the line be drawn on the strict boundary of right, it could not take to itself more than six of the thirteen, for the Democratic party is in the minority in this State by little less than 5,000 votes. Here, then, is a theft of four Congressmen and a swindle on 135,600 legal voters, defrauding them of their rights as citizens of Indiana, and rendering their votes not worth the paper they are printed on. Tho same results that have been accomplished in the South by means of

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the lash and shotgun are to be secured in Indiana by a sharp trick of legislation, whereby more than one-third of the legal voters of Indiana are deliberately disfranchised. To secure this end the tricksters of the party, the “smart” men of the Liquor League, were called in, and for weeks the scheme was pored over and plotted until, when it was finished, it was the boast of the party managers that they would undoubtedly carry ten of the thirteen districts, with a “fighting chance” in one more, leaving to the opposition but two districts that could be relied on. Yet the opposition cast nearly 5,000 more votes than did the Democratic party. This is the point to be settled before any other question can claim attention. Free men are to make sure they are free indeed before they can attempt anything in the way of legislation. It remains that no less than 135,600 voters in this State are worse than disfranchised, for the reason that their franchises are voted by men who do not represent their wishes. What has the Democratic party to say in defense of this infamy. It would have been far better for “Doctor” Harrison to have left unanswered the serious charges made against him in a letter to the Cincinnati Com mercial Gazette, than to have come out in an evasive, disingenuous and unfair explanation. Our Lebanon correspondent says that C. S. Wesuer, who was Dr. Harrison’s attorney in the trial before the County Commissioners, says publicly that “every charge and allegation was proven, and proven conclusively; that the Commissioners decided that the question as to jurisdiction was well taken, as the trial was had at a special instead of a regular session, and that at his (the attorney’s) suggestion, they found for the defendant, and that he be not removed.” As to “Doctor” Harrison’s retention of the office of county superintendent, the record shows that the term for which he was originally elected expired June, I 79, one year after his trial. When the trustees met to elect in June, 1879, eleven of the twelve were present. After organizing, nominations were called for, and W. 11. Dickson, Republican, and John W. Kise, Democrat, were nominated. Rise withdrew, whereupon a motion was made to nominate Dickson by acclamation, but one vote being in the negative a ballot was declared necessary, which resulted, Dickson, 5; James Dale, 1, Dale being a Greenbaeker. Before the vote was taken the Democrats withdrew. This was June 16. On June 25 Dickson filed his bond, which was approved, and he qualified. Harrison refused to give up the office. On June 26 he got a transcript of the proceedings from the auditor and went into court, meantime holding the office, and that was how and why he continued. It is also of record that “Doctor” Harrison was expelled from the Drake Medical Society, the Boone county physicians’ organization, upon charges similar to those made against him before the Commissioners, the “Doctor” not answering the summons to appear and defend. Under this condition of things, we submit that the “Doctor’s” reply has not helped him; it would have been infinitely better if he had refused to notice the charges altogether.

Here is the testimony of Mr. Gibson, a man whose Democracy is certified to to the satisfaction of Trustee Gapen, of the Insane Asylum: “I saw some barrels of apples furnished by Kreitloiu, where the tors of the barrels contained one kind of apples and the bottom cont.aiued apples of another kind, inferior and different. Dr. Fletcher dii’ectod these apples to be returned, but Kreitlein sent them back to the asylum, and they were afterwards accepted by Hall, the steward, and by Gapen, one of the trustees. Nearly all that Kreitlein sent was in very bad condition. Goods were received over Dr. Fletcher’s condemnation again and again. They were simply sent there and left. He would make compla’ints nearly every month, but they were not heeded. Gapen and Harrison accepted the goods over the protest of Tarleton, the other trustee. Kreitlein’s rice was inferior. It was not the rice which was bid for. His prunes were very bad, and his coffee was bad.” The Sentinel says this is a Republican campaign gun. Tho ammunition seems to be furnished by' Democrats. At Flatbush Insane Asylum they boil tho patients to death in superheated baths. At the Indiana Asylum for the Insane the patients are fed upon maggoty meats and John E. Sullivan’s cheap butter-grease, so that I>r. Harrison's pet contractors may be able to boast of their “business success.”—Journal. The above is a very base slander, and the Journal should be made to sweat for it.—Saturday People. Well, we are ready to sweat. Who will begin the sweating process? We repeat: that at the Indiana Asylum for the Insane the patients Lave been fed on meat taken from a diseased and dying drove of hogs, and on John R. Sullivan’s butter-crease, furnished and pa hi for at high rates through a fraud upon the asylum and the State. Now let the “sweat” begin to pour. Captain Dawson, of the Charleston News, has stood faithfully by the Democratic President through thick and thin, but even he is forced to admit that great indignation is felt in South Carolina over Mr. Cleveland’s failure to express any sympathy for the misfortunes of the people in that region. If the election were to take place this year the South would not be solid for him by a large majority. Don’t turn the rascals into the Insane Asylum. —Sentinel. For gracious sake, no; there are enough of them there now. Turn the rascals out: also, the butter-grease and the diseased meat. The candidacy of Henry George for Mayor of New York cannot be laughed down by those whom Father McGlynn calls dudes and Pharisees. The canvass is evidently an earnest one, undertaken by earnest men in an earnest way.

The Journal would b > glad to see Mr. George elected, for many reasons, chief of which would be that of electing a man for a city office entirely disconnected with political rings and political manipulations. It might be the beginning of the end of having purely local affairs, in which there can be no possible question of political policy or administration, determined exclusively upon grounds on which parties properly divide in State and national politics. Democratic trustees have adopted anew form of adjuration: “I appeal to you, gentlemen, in the name of a Democratic Board of Trustees, to join with me in the matter which, if not corrected at once, mustJead to disaster to the management. Respectfully submitted, “R. H. Tarleton.” This is from the records of the Insane Asylum. There was a great meeting in New York city on Tuesday night in favor of the mayoralty candidacy of Henry George. A number of very noted men spoke, among them Father Edward McGlynn. In his remarks he said: “The other day the Pharisees and dudes were expressing wonder again and again why it was that the workingmen did not have tbe courage to nominate a candidate of their own and show their earnestness. Well, here we have Henry George, an honor to his country and an honest man. What do the mugwumps do? Forthwith they raise a cry of ‘Socialism!’ ‘Dynamite!’ ‘The assurance of these lower classes, you.’ [Laughter.] And they want to know all about Henry George—‘ls he in society, you know?’ [Renewed laughter.] Well, we’ can reply Jproudly that Henry George is in society, and a society ten times more honorable, worthy and humane than any society that your dudes and Pharisees belong to. [Prolonged applause.] If there be an animal upou two feet that is to me insufferable and unbearable, even at a distance, it is the mugwump. [Laughter.] His immense sense of superiority, the ease with which he dismisses the aspirations of a nation, the cool hauteur with which he will pass over the histories of continents and nations to get at one little point that may help to glorify himself [laughter]—the impassable gulf, you know, that is between Pirn and the laboring men [renewed laughter]—all this is his characteristic. In fact, what he does not know is not worth knowing, you know. [More laughter.] He believes that we are all made of clay, that we are dirt, in sact —and I am sufficient of a philosopher to know that dirt is dirty [laughtei], and that our common brotherhood of man is owing to our common motherhood of dirt. [Continued laughter.] But the stuff that a mugwump is made of is a nice white, particular kind of clay, specially made to create mugwumps of, and the fun of it is that this particular clay is not dirty at all, and it lasts longer and looks nicer than the clay we are made of. [Laughter.] There, now, is the mugwump for you, or the dude, or the Pharisee, or whatever you like to call him. If I were to offer advice, 1 should say that whatever these noople tell us not to do we should do with all our might. [Applause.] The doing in this instance will be voting for Henry George.” Asked what he thought of the apathy of the phlegmatic President relative to the awful disaster that befel the city of Charleston, Captain F. W. Dawson, editor of the Charleston News and Courier, said: “I do not like to talk about that,” replied tbe Southern editor, with feeling. “I have been very close to tbe President, and have had high admiration and love for him. “It certainly seemed, considering the fearful calamity which had befallen a city, that tho proper thing for the President of the United States was to go at once to Washington and say to the suffering people: ‘I am her* at the post of duty. What can Ido for you?’ We expected it, particularly from a Democratic President. His failure to say a word caused not so much anger as disappointment and pain. We don’t know what to make of it. But it was not merely the President who surprised us; there is Senator Wade Hampton. He has been the idol of Charleston, and Senator Butler, also, of South Carolina. We have not heard a word from either. Butler is in Europe, but there is a cable. It would not havo cost so very much, either of money or labor, for him to send us a few words. No; we don’t know what to make of it all. You remember how Charleston came forward at the time of Cleveland’s mar riage, and sent a beautiful present to the bride. We have always stood stanchly by him.”

ABOUT PEOPLE AN!) THINGS. Wiggins points with pride to one man who went crazy over hi3 prediction. There are fifteen men under the age of thirty years in Portland, Ore., who are worth over a million dollars each. Quails have become so plenty in one place in Petaluma valley that the owner has been killing them off on account of the damage done to grapes. An Evangelical Missionary: It is impossible conscientiously to escape the necessity of informing the Chinese that the ancestors they worship are all in hell. Mr. Beecher recently declared, in a lecture at Gateshead, England, that he never yet had spoken in a hall where a thousand persons could breathe comforably for an hour and a half together. A divorce between Mme. Gorster-Gardiniand the Doctor is now whispei'ed of in musical circles. Mme. Gorster’s voice is believed to have left her forever, as a result of her accouchment and its precedent and attendant illness. Letters from Gen. Cassius M. Clay to friends in New York and Washington speak of his disposition to re-enter the political field. He once thought of a candidacy for Congress, but is believed to look more seriously upon the governorship. Charles R. Jones, editor of the Charlotte (N. C.) Observer, proposes to run for Congress solely on the declaration of his ability to terrace the State Capitol grounds with a two mule team at an expenso of SI,OOO, $150,000 having been appropriated for the worK. The Presbyterian young folks of Canandaigua held a corn festival the other evening. The decorations of the room were of corn stalks, corn was cooked in every style known to Ontario county, there was singing of “Cows in the Corn,” and “When the Corn is Waving, Annie Dear,” a young man played the corn-et, “Blessing the Corn field.” from “Hiawatha,” was read, but not a drop of corn juice could be had for love or money. A Washington correspondent recalls the fact that when Mr. F. E. Spinner was Treasurer he used to honor some of the prettiest young lady clerks in his office by having their features given to some of the eoddesses that grace the currency. But, it is said, the head of Martha Washington, which adorns the new one-dollar certificates, and an idealized head of Dolly Madison, are the only accredited portraits of distinguished women that can be discovered. The Emperor of Germany is subject to fre quent attacks of somnolence, which, his physicians say, if allowed to last longer than is absolutely necessary to allow him to rest, might result in death. Every two hours he is given soup or broth and waked up by his attendants during the day. He is troubled with a weakness of tho heart and ossification of the veins. Still he continues to work and supervise all things relating to the army. Gen. Booth, of the Salvation Army, gave a Toronto reporter this account of the naming of the army: “One of my secretaries was writing a little tract, describing the movement, and he wrote on the title page, ; The Christian mission is a volunteer array.’ I leaned over his shoulder, took his pen ont of his hand, crossed out the word ‘volunteer,’ and wrote ‘salvation.’ We liked the sound of it, seeing that it really described what the organization was— a body formed &od united after the fashion of aa army,

with the purpose of delivering mon from sin and and the devil. So we adopted the name Salva tion Army nine or ten years ago. The terms, general, captains, lieutenants, &c,, soon followed. The drums, flags, hannprs. and the like, were adopted gradually, in carrying on the purpose of attracting the people,” During the month of August there was in London a series of temperance meetings and festivals which exceeded in interest and enthusiasm anything of the kind in former years. An army of total abstainers opened this series of meetings at the Crystal Palace, and 43,000 persons turned the entrance stile on that day. An order of exercises unbroken for over ten hours, music by a choir of over 3,000 voices, and addresses in various parts -of the palace, were features of that day. An inventor at Shanghai, China, has contrived an electric sword, wnicb, when the point touches the party attacked, sends a powerful shock through him, and if not immediately killed will at least put him hors du combat The sword is an ordinary military saber, but along its whoie length is let in a fine platinum wire, which ends at the point of the weapon. A small but very powerful storage battery is carried strapped about the waist, much the same as a cartridge box. Insulated wires connect this battery with the sword, and by pressing the button the holder can complete the circuit at pleasure. The use of natural gas has led to the manufacture of mirrors in Pittsburg. Up to this time all mirrors manufactured in the Uuited States have been from imported glass. The quality of the glass to retain the silvering and give a perfect production of the object, must boos the best. This quality Pittsburg has never been able to produce until natural gas came into use. Now, by its aid. the fineness of the glass produced rivals that of the imported article. The entire absence of impurity, the perfect fusing of the ingredients, the rapidity of the melting, and the pure, intense fiame for reheating or working are the principal advantages. Janauschkk, the actress, save that every week some young girl comes to her asking her advice about going on the stage. “I answer,” says the actress, “ ‘No, no, no, my child: no.’ They know nothing of the life of the stage; its temptations, and its hard work. They see us only at night, nicely' dressed and with everything perfect. They know no more. I have been thirty-three years on the stage, and I say there is no life like it. It lias no happiness; it leaves you no time for domestic or Bocial pleasures, no time for anything but work, work, work. I whs once a good pianiste. But for years I have hardly touched a piano. I love to draw, but there is no time ever. All is work and travel, travel and work. To girls who think of going on the stage again I say ‘No. no.’ ”

COMMENT ANI) OPINION. The tariff feather in the Democratic hat still dances at mention of Randall’s name.—Philadelphia Times. It is but too probable that General Miles captured Geronimo irregularly, and will have to let him go .and catch him over again.—Philadelphia Inquirer. Senator Voorhers is d?fending Commissioner Black's management of the pension business. Black needs something of the kind. —Philadelphia Press. The strongholds of intemperance are the strongholds of the Democracy. In the cities these two elements are in natural and indissoluble alliance.—Boston Journal The best thing the press can do when Miss Cameron conies forward as an alleged artist is to give her no notice that the intrinsic qualities of her performance do not call for. —Boston Herald. Is Saul among the prophets, or do our eyes deceive us when we read that Dan Yoorhees is defending the civil-service law on The stump in Indiana? After this the earthquake.—Boston Herald. The only thing noteworthy about Wiggins, if such a person there be, is the absence of those feelings which deter a man from making himself ridiculous in the eyes of the public.—New York Evening Post. The indiscreet leniency with which General Miles treated Geronimo creates a suspicion that he has some Pocahontas blood in his veins. Under certain conditions, blood is thicker than whisky.—St. Louis Post Dispatch. A “palindrome” is a sentence that reads the same forward and backward. One of the best wo have ever seen is that which the Lowell Courier claims to have originated: “No, it is opposition.”—Burlington Free Press. Chicago papers tell of a man who has turned up in that city, and who harbors the impression “that he lias discovered the system of government of heaven.” Carl Schurz most likely', some mugwump certainly.—New York World. The high license policy in Missouri seems to have met with great success. The saloons have been absolutely eliminated from twenty-one counties, while over 1,000 saloons in the State have been wiped out.—Philadelphia Call. Nobody in this part of the world pays any attention to what Jeff Davis says, and the best answer General Sherman can make to this last exhibition of spleen on the old traitor’s part is to let it alone.—New York Mail and Express. There is a loud demand' in Washington that the President should have his hair cut. There area good many other things about the administration that need to bo lopped off before the President's hair is attended to.—Boston Record. If now any employer were to attempt to force any of his employes to vote as he commanded, not as they pleased, he would be held up to universal condemnation. But what capital dare not do for the most tyrannous oppression of labor the labor union itself does. Between catiital and organized labor the workingman’s iot would appear not to be a happy one.—Philadelphia Inquirer. A resolute English government could take a very long step toward settling the question of the Afghan boundary unfavorably to Russia while Russia had her hands full in Southeastern Europe. It is generally safer, nevertheless, to trust to the probability that the peace will be kept in Europe than to trust to rumorc of war; however threatening and definite they may be. —New York Times. When civil service reformers solemnly approve the President, who made Higgins appiointmentclerk, and Oberly chairman of the Civilservice Commission; when members of Congress who pretend to favor protection “indorse” a President w'no labored to secure the passage of the Morrison bill, against which those members voted, one is led to wonder whether any untruth or deception is so palpablo that these men would think it unsafe. —New York World. EXPRESSIONS OF THE STATE PRESS. Richmond Palladium: The gerrymander outrage is a topic that. Democratic orators entirely ignore. Bv this measure 135,000 voters of Indiana are disfranchised. Lafayette Courier: Whenever a government lets its defenders goto the poor house, that government will, soonor or later, go to a worse place, and that, too, without regrets. South Bend Tribune: St. John's followers are mostly Democrats, and they follow him only up to election time, when they turn around and vote their own straight ticket and keep on taking their whisky straight, as usual. Franklin Republican: The masses of the Democratic party are honest. If they v/ant honest. government, they must have honest leaders. If they have honest leaders, they must have a change from the present leadership. Plainfield Progress: Democratic papers score no point when they refer to the Republican gerrymander of 1873. What they ought to boar in mind is the terrible drubbing the Republican gerrymandered cot at the following election. Steuben Republican: Those who profess themselves unable to understand the temperance resolution in the Republican platform, proclaim themselves imbeciles or ignoramuses. Whoever desires to understand it can do so easily if he will only read. Those who do not wish to understand it, or are determined to misrepresent it, might, with equal consistency, pursue the same course with the statement, one and ono make two. Richmond Telegram: In Indiana this fall the Republican party hasn't said, as the Democratic party has, that it was opposed to prohibition and sumptuary laws. No, indeod! It has said that it is opposed to the domination of the “Liquor League,” and that it is in favor of the only strin-

gent restraints upon the liquor traffic that can possibly be enforced—namely, such as a major* ity of the people may deem wise in their severs? localities. Kokomo Gazette-Tribune: Yoorhees fails tt note the significant difference between the Re* publican and Democratic parties in their treatment of thoir representative rascals. The former exposed and kicked out its own thieves; the latter rallies around theirs and keeps them in power. Terre Haute Soldier Labor Advocate: Ttaft Democracy has ever been the foe of protection to free American labor. It has not kept a single pledge made you since its accession to power, and never will. It steadfastly refused, through its majority in the last Legislature of Indiana, to relievo you from the unjust competition of convict labor. Lafayette Courier. The Republicans of Indiana favor an aggressive and earnest campaign Their platform is bold, plain and unequivocal. Tnere is nothing to explain or apologize for, The Democratic party is now on trial, and we have the necessary facts and arguments to secure its conviction. Let us make good use of them. Put the opposition on the defensive. Greensburg Standard: It is not strange that a “Union Soldier” who would join the Democratic party prefers not to have his name given. People who join the Republican party have no cause to be ashamed of it. Can Union soldiers be proud of their membership in the Democratic party—the party whose leaders during the war were as much their enemies as the rebels in thft field? Richmond Pilladium: The fallacy of the free* trade theory is that the foreign price is a fixed one, and that we must pay that price whether we have foreign import duties or not. Th® truth is that British manufacturers must sell their wares, at a large profit if they can, at ft 6mall one if they must, and the price at which they seil to us is regulated solely by our bom® competition. Richmond Palladium: The methods by which the Republicans in this State are being defraud ed are in no respect better than the bulldozing and terrorizing adopted in some of the Southern States for the same purpose. It is through this iniquitous law that the Democrats hope to carry the Legislature at the coming election. If they succeed they will have consummated the greatest outrage ever practiced upon the voters of Indiana. DEFENDED HER REPUTATION. Pretty Alias Decker, of Totenvltle, Horsewhips a Rase Slanderer. New York World. Four bright-eyed young maidens walked down Main street in Totenville, last night, until they reached Fisher's drug store. There were quite ft number of the young men of the village just at that corner, and when the girls reached therft and Miss Decker began plying a riding whip on the shoulders of Mr. Harry Hartly; there was great excitement It is said that Miss Decker, whose fair name is without reproach, heard from someone of her lady friends that Hartly had told other girls that “ho would not like to be seen walking in the daylight with her." and that “there were no ladies in Totenville.” In justice to Hartly. it is said he made a denial to a reporter last night. Miss Decker, who is a petite, pretty, dark-eyed and dark-haired girl, said last evening: “This young man has recently come to our village from Now York. He has talked about the young girls here in a manner that tends to injure our reputation. My father will not be home until to-morrow or he would have taken my place. I defend my reputation.” Another young lady said: “He started to take four of us home one night, abont two or throe week® ago, and left us half-way home at 11 o’clock, saying, ‘Well, girls, it’s half-way to your house and half-way to mine, so good-night,’ and the girls walked home alone." When the girls met the young man the whip came down heavy and there was a picket guard ready to help the ladies out. A reporter who investigated the case last night learned that all of the ladies and young man are highly esteemed, but Mr. Hartly says the case is not closed, and arrests will probably follow.

What Will Prevent Djnum’s Election. Saturday People. His lack of votes — His false promises— His putting miserable men into office and than charging it upon others — His putting himself above the State and district committees— # His going back on his friends who helped him into place and power— Ilia refusal to pay his assessment two year® ago Ilis arrogance and haughty spirit that goeth before a fall— The opposition of the leaders of the Democracy whom he has antagonized— The quiet work that is being done against him— The scorpion lash administered to him by the Sentinel The influence of the People among the people— The workingmen who are opposing him— The friends of Leon Bailey who cannot ba whipped into his support— And above all and beyond all the fact that h® slandered aud fought Indiana’s favorite son, the Yice-president of the Nation—the dead Tom Hendricks. No friend of the dead Tom Hendricks can ever vote for the living Bynum. Prohibition a Failure in Kansas. Leavenworth Times. We have opposed the prohibitory law because it ha3 proved a failure in every State where it has been adopted. It is a failure in Kansas, as the 200 open saloons in Leavenworth will bear witness. It is a failure in other cities of Kansas where, under the infamous drug store law, any amount of liquor can be purchased by simply signing a certificate to the effect that the applicant is biiious, is troubled with the gripes or needs an appetizer. The men who made this law, and who are now its strongest advocates, are the fellows who can and do absorb more straight out rot-gut whisky at one sitting of & Republican State convention than all the antiprohibition Republicans of Kansas in one year. Did Mr. George Say So? Atlanta (Ga.) Journal. We apprehend that when the laboring men of New York city learn that Henry George said that every workingman who raised a boy and a girl prepared one inmate for the penitentiary and one for a brothel, he will fall somewhat short of those 30,000 votes promised him. Cause or Effect. Philadelphia Press. The Democratic campaign in Indiana opened last Monday, and the next day two men in Indianapolis tried to steal a locomotive. Wo leave it for an intelligent public to decide whether this was a coincidence or a case of cause and effect Accounting for the Blaze. Minneapolis Tribune. The political atmosphere of Indiana has become so superheated that they have to keep a hose playing on the Bhingle roof of the ueW State-house, aud even then a blaze bursts out occasionally. A Dark Deed Come to Eight. Brooklyn Eagle. Near Milan, Mich., some great bones have recently been discovered, among them fragments of a jaw bone forty-nine inches long. It is feared that Gov. Begole has met with foul play. Cleveland’s Skill. Minneapolis Tribune. President Cleveland gained strength during his vacation, and now claims to b 6 able to put up a medium weight veto thirty-eight times without stopping to spit. Almost a Necessity. Boston Herald. Georgia seems to be growing weary of prohibition already. Something is evidently needed to wash down the Georgia crackers. Remember the Day and Date. Richmond Telegram. Nov. 2d is the dav set apart by Providence and the Statu statutes for the redemption of Indiana. Politics iu Massachusetts, Boston Journal. Every Republican that we have mot is parfee tly satisfied with the Democratic ticket