Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 October 1886 — Page 7

AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS. Personal and Low'i. B. S. Wetsell, general agent, of the Vandalia At this point, has gone to St. Louis, and will combine business with pleasure the day or two be is in that city. To day is to be a holiday at St Louis, it being the big day of the fair. All the railroad offices and freight depots are to be closed, aud no local freights sent out Thomas Edson has been appointed freight accountant and freight train agent of the Michigan Central road, with headquarters at Detroit, vice James Graque, resigned. Word has been received from Percival Lowell, late of tho Burlington road, in which he states that he is now at San Diego, Cal., and that xus health has improved some. It is said that Wabash engineers will not be permitted to earn more than $l5O per month, and when the money earned amounts to that much they are laid oft aud their run given to other engineers. In the month of September the platform men at the depots of the Pennsylvania Company at this point handled 25,012,648 pounds of freight, against 23,037,571 pounds the corresponding month, 1885. H. S. Depew, having resigned the position ft joint agent of the St. Louis committee of the Central Traffic Association, E. W. Braisted. the chief clerk, has been placed iu charge of the Bt Louis office. The Belt road company yesterday commenced the putting in of a spur track to the ground purchased by the Woodburn-Sarven Company, west of the river. The spur will be about one-third Os a mna in length. A meeting of the auditors of the lines in the Central Traffic Association, passenger department, will be held in Chicago, Friday, to agree upon statistics to assist in the preparation of arguments for percentages. The inspection party of the Pennsylvania lines will inspect the Indianapolis division of the C., St. L. & P. on the 11th of this month, and stop over at Indianapolis that night. President Rob •rts and nearly all the higher officials of the Pennsylvania system will be in the party. The Cairo, Vincennes & Chicago railroad oarned in September. 1886, $57,611; corresponding month, 1885. $43,965; increase, notwithstanding suspension of through traffic for nine days, lb consequence of fire in the tunnel, $13,546. A. C. Cowan, general traveling passenger agent the Florida Southern road, will be married this evening to Miss Mattie George, of GlenWood, Ind. The bride was a graduate of the Kappes Female Institute, and a very amiable lady, while Mr. Cowan is an exemplary young loan. The Indianapolis car-works has this week been awarded the contract to build 500 coal cars for the Chicago & Indiana Block Coal road. Preside it Mikard expects to have 500 men at Work within a few days. He is now pushing the construction of 300 box cars for the Union Pacific road. W. S. Ogden, formerly in the Vandalia office at this point, now agent of the comnany at Greenville, Ill.,hasfer some twenty years worn the hame silk plug hat. The train men, with whom be is quite popular, this week made up a purse and purchased one of the finest silk bats made, and presented him with it.

J. G. Hartigan, at present division superintendent of the International & Great Northern division of the Missouri Pacific, has tendered his gesignatiou to accept the position of assistant ■uperintendent of the Chicago & Council Bluffs division of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul (railway, vice L. B. Beardsley, resigned. Amos Parrish, who for some years has been in the passenger service of the Vandalia at this point, and who has done good work, removed jyesterdav to Rushville to engage in farming pursuits. Although he owns one of the best farms In Rush county his friends here predict that he Will be back in railroad servioe within two years. The Bee-line is putting in twenty miles of new Steel rail. Coming west from Versailles, 0., ten miles have been laid within the last five days. The track of the Bee-line proper will soon be in as good condition as that of the I. & St. L. division. which is considered by railroad men to be as good uack as there is west of the mountains. The Logansport Pharos makes a good point When it says: “It would be well if managers of railway lines would establish bureaus of information from which trustworthy particulars of serious accidents could be had by the presß. The first and unofficial reports of mishaps are generally exaggerated and the reputation of the toad for careful management too often wrongly suffers.” The representatives of the Louisville & Nashville, the Louisville New Albany & Chicago, the Ohio & Mississippi and the Jeffersonville. Madison & Indianapolis roads, who form the Louisville committee, met at Commissioner Blanchard’s office Tuesday, and presented their arguments for new percentages to the new arbitrator, E. P. Ripley, who took ths matter under advisement. F. A. Potts, of the Coal and Iron Exchange, says it is perfectly trne that the Pennsylvania does not belong to the anthracite pool', but it particularly observes our prices. That is Mr. Roberts’s diplomacy. He is with us, but not of tie. You see he plays fast and loose with the trunk line pool in the same way. But he sticks very carefully to the pool, all the same. He poses as n reformer, and maneuvers for all the Advantages he can get. It will be noticed that the Union Railway Company in this issue of the Journal advertise for bids for the erection of the new depot. Bids to be received up to noon Nov. 1, 1886. It seems that the improvement is now to be pushed as fast as the weather will permit. The occupants of the thirty or more buildings which are to come down to make room for the new structure are rapidly vacating, and all will probably be out by the middle of next week. The taking of the 1., D. & S. road out of the hands of a receiver will not be at as early a date as expected in midsummer. It is quite probable that some further changes will be made in the plan of reorganization. The friends of the property are getting their eyes opened to the fact that some plan should be hit upon that will bring the fixed charges down to figures that the ro&d will earn, be the crops good or bad. The surplus of earnings in the good years can be disbursed in paying dividends, as the stockholders and bondholders are the same persons. A member of the Coal and Iron Exchange speaking of Governor Pattison’s assertion that it was contrary to the State Constitution for the coal roads, which are common carriers, to be engagen in the prosecution of mining enterprises: ‘‘That is so. It is so under the Constitution as it stands now, and the coal companies got charters under the Constitution beforo it was amended, and tr.ose charters cannot now be nbrorilfd. >lr. Gowen has fought the foreclosure ot Reading so persistently, and, so far. so successfully, because be thought the charter, which would be sacrificed by foreclosure, was of inestimable value, and so it is.” The Vandalia comnany has adopted the Waters-Sweeny telegraph switch on their entire py-lf’T of the instruments ’ Hi the office ot General Agent WetselC Clie first instrument of this character which has been put in at Indianapolis. The following are some of the advantages claimed for the switch ever the old system, which requires a full set of instruments on each line: Its groat economy; no waste of local battery whatever. None is used except when the operator himself is using some line. Only one local is required in ary office, no matter what the cumber of lines may be. Its simplicity. No keys to get open. The one key is entirely disconnected from the lines except when in use by the operator. No lines can be open excopt when in use or at reauest, in testing for ' grounds" or “crosses.” Less damage from 1 ghtning. The greater ease with which an operator can perform his allotted work. He remains in one chair and operates any number of lines, instead of running from one table to another. Less space occupied by instruments, etc., for any given number of lines. The operator requires but one comparatively small table for any number of lines. On the table, just before bim, is his relay and sounder, while to his right is his key, and to his left the switch. Back further on the table, or on a shelf a little above, are the box relays, numbered to correspond to Mm lines they are on. Less noise. The box re- * ays give sufficient sound for any case required. The Days of Pools Numbered. A railroad man of large ability, and who is •anally quite correct in his judgment, ex- •*•*•* the opinion that the days ot pools are

numbered, and as an argument in that direction he cites the feeling entertained toward the pools by the Pennsylvania President Roberts. Vicepresident McCullough and several directors of the Pennsylvania lines have manifested a disposition to ent entirely loose from ail pools. In commenting on this very matter the Philadelphia Record says: “The Pennsylvania Railroad Company now occupies a position of singular advantage. Having completed its branch road into the heart of the anthracite field at the opportune moment when its ereat rival for local tonnage is in the throes of reconstruction, it can refuse to go into the illegal combination to which it is seductively invited, and definitely fix the pace for future competition by making coal freiehts what they should be in fairness to the carrier and in fairness to the consumer. Such a large policy, while it would confer great benefits upon the industrial interests of this eity, and of all that part of the country tributary to the anthracite coal supply of Pennsylvania, would have the further effect of discouraging the construction of new competitive lines, and of minimizing and rendering harmless the opposition of those now in existence. Not less advantageous is the opportunity for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company to withdraw from its costly and indefensible pooling arrangement with the other trunk lines. Nothiug is to be gained by a partnership in which the several partners cannot be made to stand to their agreement. If the agreement is to do a thing in itself illegal and tantamount to a conspiracy against the public interest, the sooner it is broken up the better for everybody. If the pool be broken the Pennsylvania Railroad Company would have nothing to fear in whatever struggle might result for through business. No other company has superior facilities or can carry freights for less money.”

President Ingalls’s Report. M. E. Ingalls, president of the C., 1., St. L. &• C., has published, in pamphlet form, his annual report to the stockholders, the more important points of which are given below. President Ingalls shows that the gross income of the company for the year ending June 30, 1886, was $2,526,934.64; operating expense, $1,480,491.47; net, taxes, $59,570.32; net, less taxes, $986,872.85. After paying fixed charges, balance for stockholders was $352,540.29. During the year 3 per cent, was paid in dividends, leaving in the treasury to profit and loss, sl4 2. 540.29. President Ingalls says: The policy of improving and enlarging the plant has been continued. Sixty-seven pound steel rail has been laid in the main track, and the fifty six-pound steel taken up and used for side tracks and od the branches. Iron bridges have been built to take the place of wooden ones; heavy masonry where the old was giving away or was too light: ballast has been distributed in needed places; new equipment has been bought to replace old and worn out; 6,847 feet of side track has been built and charged to operating expenses. The directors, taking advantage of the present low price of iron and labor, have closed contracts for the renewal of the remaining wooden bridges on the main line with iron during the coming year. During the year, the directors thought it a good time to commence refunding the debt of tbecompany in a long-time bond bearing a low rate of interest Upon the lines owned and controlled by the company there were of every kind and name, nine million dollars of bonds, all bearing 7 percent., except $1,180,000, which were 6 per cent. They were secured by seven different mortgages, none of which covered all of the lines, and were due at different times. This made them an undesirable bond for investors to hold. In addition to these nine millions, there were liabilities of branch lines, for which this company was virtually an indorser, outstanding for about $300,000. Anew mortgage covering all the lines and property of the company was prepared, securing ten million dollars of bonds at 4 per cent., due in fifty years, interest and principal payable in gold. As this is along bond payable in gold, and of unquestioned security, it is a desirable investment for estates and trusts. Provision was made that one million could be sold and the proceeds used by the company for a new equipment, payment of the $300,000 heretofore referred to, and for payment of the old bonds as the directors might determine, and that the remaining nine millions should only be sold or exchanged upon the payment and surrender of an equal amount of the old bonds. One mill ion of these wero sold in June last at par, to be delivered in August, and the operation of exchanging the old bonds for the new fours is now being carried on. The outstanding bonds, as previously stated, are due at different times. It is believed, however, that they can all be exchanged for the new bonds at a fair premium. When this is accomplished the interest charees of the company will be but $400,000 per year, a saving of $224,000, or 3 fier cent, op the present stock. Mr. Ingalls states: “A contract has just been concluded with the Illinois Central railroad for an entrance into Chicago and terminals there for one hundred years. By this contract the company obtains the right to manage its own affairs in Chicago, naming its own rates and conducting its own business, and paying therefor a percentage of the gross income of the business to and from Chicago over its line; the contract being especially favorable, from the fact that if business is dull the payments will be light, and if good, the company can afford to meet them. The rate received per passenger per mile was 229-100, against 2 22-100 per cent, last year, an increase of 3 15-100 per cent. The through passengor trains earned an average of $1.34 per mile run; commutation, 60 cents; branch trains, 41 cents; and freight, $2.04.” The report of J. W. Sherwood, superintendent, shows-that there was laid 10 miles and 2.261 feet of new 67-pound steel rail on the main line, and used the steel taken up on the branches. Trains during the year were run with great regularity and remarkable freedom from accident The company owns seventy-seven first-class locomotives, all of which are in excellent condition. There are eighty-eight cars in the passenger equipments, fifty-three of which are flrstclass coaches in every respect. The freight equipment during the year was increased t0~3,053 cars. The report of the master mechanic shows that $75,496 53 was expended on locomotives, $34,316.83 on passenger equipment, and $81,294.46 on freight equipment.

Louisville & Nashville Stockholders. Louisville, Oct 6. —The regular meeting of the stockholders of the Louisville & Nashville railroad occurred to-day at the company’s office. The following New York directors were present: Eckstine Norton, Frederick W. Foote, J. A. Horsey, J. D. Probst, John A. Inman, Arnold Marcus, Thomas Rutter aud J. S. Rogers. The meeting to day was of the usual routine order, butderived its chief interest from the fact that one of the Louisville directors was dropped from the board. The following directors were elected: Jno. A. Carter, Frederick W. Foote, J. A. Horsey, John H. Inman. August Belmont, jr., Arnold Marcus, Ecksttne Norton, J. D. Probst, Thomas Butler, J. S. Rogers, Milton H. Smith, John D. Taggart, J. B. Wilder. The only change is the substitution of August Belmont, jr., of New York, for Mr. J. H. Lindenberger, of this city. Out of 300.000 shares, 205,196 shares were represented fit itz and *re voted for the above-named ticket, flin Belmont is supposed to represent the Rothschild interest. The yearly statement showed that the total receipts were $17,515,181.25; total disbursements, $17,515.181.75; floating debt, $2,149,020.10. The new directors met this afternoon and elected E. X. Norton, of New York, president, vice M. H. Smith, of Louisville, and M. H. Smith first vice-president. This change is said to have been made at the request of the foreign stockholders, who wanted the chief executive in New York. Mr. Smith has not, as yet, accepted the vice-presidency. If he does the offices of the road will remain in Louisville, and his duties will be the same as when he was president; if not, the offices may be removed to New York. A Tax Collector Fined for Trespass. The West Newton justioe of the peace fiued Collector Daniels, of the treasurer’s office, $1 and costs, for trespass, on the complaint of Richard Sellers, of Massachusetts avenue, whose organ was seized for delinquent taxes. Sellers paid the tax before he had Daniels arrested. Defendant took an appeal, as he thinks the fine was imposed merely to place the cost of trial ou him. Asa Cure for Bore Throat and Coughs, “Brown’s Bronchial Troches” have been thoroughly tested, and maintain their good reputation.

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER TANARUS, 1880.

THE RECORD OF THE COURTS. Supreme Court. Bon. Q. V. Bowk. Chief -justice. The following opinions were rendered Oct. 6: CONTEMPT —SPECIAL JUDGE. 13168—John M. Mowrer vs. the State. Henry C. C. Reversed. Niblack, J.—Appellant filed a complaint alleging that he and one Hateh jointly owned a piano worth $400; that the piano had been and was in the possession ot Hatch; no accounting tor rent had been made, and a receiver was asked, ad order was made by the court that the piano should remain where it was, and the defendant and all others were restrained from moving it until the cause was determined. At the next term a special judge was appointed, when an affidavit was filed charging appellant with having removed the piano to his own house. In answer to a rule to show cause, etc., appellant stated that Hatch had removed to another State; that Hatch had rented his house without reserving any for storage of the piano; that the piano was a valuable one and needed protection; that the house had been unoccupied for some time, when t family moved iu who declined to keep the piano without use; that appellant took the piano for safekeeping The court held the answer insufficient, and fined appellant. The special judge had jurisdiction to hear and determine tho charge of violating the restraining order. Appellant, under the facts, was guilty of no wrong in taking charge of the piano. • * BEAL ESTATE —WIDOW —PARTIES. 11440. Ephraim Daugherty vs. Sarah J. Deardorf. Fulton C. C. Reversed. Elliott, J.—ln order for a widow to recover lands left by her husband, she must show that her husband left no father or-mother, and no children surviving him. (2.) Where the vendees of a mortgageor were not made parties to the suit for foreclosure, no title is acquired by the foreclosure against them. GRAVEL ROADS—APPEALS. 12940. Richard Neptune et al. vs. James S Taylor et al Boone C. C. Affirmed. Zollars J-—A ruling of the county board, in a proceeding to establish a gravel road, striking out a motion to vacate an order approving a report of viewers, made before any action had been taken on the report, is not a final decision to be appealed from. VEXATIOUS SUIT—BILL OF EXCEPTIONS. 12670. Sarah E. Carrothers et al. vs. Andrew Carrothers. Marshall C. C. Affirmed. Howk. J.—(l.) Where a second action is vexatiousiy brought by the same parties for the same causo the court will by order stay the proceedings in the second action until the costs of the former action shall be paid. In the absence of a contrary showing it will be presumed that the second action is vexatious. (2.) The answer stricken out is not properly in the record. It is not in the bill of exceptions where it might be inserted, but there is a memorandum by the clerk that he believes the rejected part may be found on a certain page of the transcript, but wholly outside the record. 13149. Thomas T. Murphy vs. The Slate. Owen C. C. Howk, C. J.—Affirmed on the authority of Murphy vs. The State. 106 Ind. 96. TELEGRAPH COMPANY —PENALTY —SENDER. 12610. Western Union Telegraph Company vs. Thomas B. Buskirk. Orange C. C. Affirmed. Mitchell, J.—A complaint against a telegraph comnany to recover the statutory penalty need not allege that the partv to whom the message was addressed resided within one mile of the station where the message was sent, or within the city or town within which the station was situated. (2 ) Where a message was properly directed and sufficiently indicated on its face who the sender was, and the company received it without objection, it cannot in such suit question the authority of the person who signed it for the sender.

Superior Court. Room I—Hon. N. B. Taylor, Judge. Jerome B. Knapp et al. vs. George Kimmick et al.; contract. Judgment for defendants. To-day’s call: No. 35680. Frederick Burst vs. Moses K. Fatout. No. 35365, Raffaelo (Jominora tto vs. Vincenco Fiorella. Room 2 —Hon. D. W. Howe, Judge. To dayV call: 35339, John F. Thomas vs. Hannah M. Thomas. Hoorn 3 Hon. L. C. Walker, Judge. Citizens’ National Bank vs. Wm. Henderson; suit to quiet title. Finding for plaintiff Theo. B. Cahill vs. Mary Cahill: divorce. On trial by court. To-day’s ca 11—34557. Wagner vs. Maars. NEW SUITS. Room 1—35965. Charles Schall, administrator of Frank Sulzer, vs. Continental Life Insurance Company; policy; $2,500. Room 2—35969. Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Companv vs. Ebenezer Sharpe etai.; foreclosure, $20,000. Room 3—35964, Thomas J. Vater vs. Preston Force et al.; mechanic’s lien; $l5O. Circuit Court—42os, Frank Louden vs. Wm. A. Schofield; appeal. 4266, City of Indianapolis vs. JoSeoh Haffbaw; appeal. 4267, City of Indianapolis vs. James McGauley et al.; appeal. 4268, City of Indianapolis vs. John Smith; appeal Criminal Court. Hon. John 8. Duncan, Judge pro tem To-day—Calls: The State vs. Samuel Almond; The State vs. Silas N. White. Parade of the Wheelmen To-Night. The resident and visiting wheelmen will have a parade to-night. Their bicycles will be decorated with Chinese and Japanese lanterns, and there will be from sixty to one hundred wheelmen in line. They will meet at Meridian Rink at 7 o’clock for preliminary arrangements, and will form in line at University Park, starting promptly at 7:30 o’clock, going eaet on New York to Alabama, south on Alabama to Washington, west on Washington to Delaware, north on Delaware to Market, west on Market to the Circle, north on Meridian to Seventh, east on Seventh to Delaware, south on Delaware to Second, west on Second to Tennessee, south on Tennessee to New York, east on New York to University Park, where they will disband. Several of the riders will appear in comic costume. A Big Foreclosure Suit. The Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company has made Ebenezer Sharpe and Charles Sudlow, with their wives, defendants to a suit for foreclosure on twu lots in Martindale’s addition. The property was mortgaged by the Sharpes to plaintiff in 1879 for $14,000, and sold to the Sudlows in 1883, subject to this incumbrance. Judgment is asked for $20,000, Was Not Foully Dealt With. No further effort is to be made in looking for the absent insurance collector, Joseph Morris. The theory that he met with foul play came to nothing. A neighbor said the night before his disappearance Morris quarreled with his wife, and told a friend the next morning that he intended to leave the city. It ic thought that he is in Chicago, Halford Sauce. The most delicious relish. When Baby was siok, we gave her Castorla, When she was a Child, she cried for Caetoria, When she became Miss, she clung to Caatoria, Whan the had Children, she gave them Caatoria, FOR BRIDGE RODS, TRUSS RODS, Stirrups, Plates, Washers, And CONSTRUCTION WORK Call on or address THE MACHINE AND STEEL PULLEY C 9. 1 Successors Machine k Bolt Work#, INDIANAPOLIS.

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[OFFICIAL.] COPY OF STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION OP THE UNITED STATES BRANCH OF THE Employe’ Lily Assurance Corporation Insurance Compaoy, (LIMITED) On the 30th Day of June, 1886. Located at No. 61 State street, Boston, Mass. ENDIC3TT & MACOMBER, Manager*. • HOME OFFICE: London, England. The amount of its oapit&l is $5,000,000.00 The amount of its capital paid np is 500,000.00 THE ASSETS OF THE COMPANY IN THE U. S. ARE AS FOLLOWS: Bonds owned by the company, bearing interest at the rate of 3 per cent., secured as follows (market value): United States loan, act of July 12, 1882 100,000.00 Total assets— $100,000.00 The greatest amount in any one risk 10,000.00 State of Indiana, Office of Auditor of Stato. I, the undersigned, Auditor of State of the* State of Indiana, hereby certify that the above is a correct copy of the statement of the condition of the above mentioned company on the 30th day of June, 1886, as shown by the original statement, and that the said original statement is now on file in this office. In testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my name and affix my official seal this 6th day of October, [seal. ] 1886. JAB. H. RICE, Auditor of State.

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THE REPUBLICAN BTATE PLATFOR®. The security of government rests upon an equal, intelligent and honest ballot, and ws renew our declaration against crimes of fraud and violence, wherever practiced and under whatever form, whereby the right of every man to cast one vote, and have that vote counted and returned, is imperiled or abridged. We especially protest against the flagrant crime of the Democratic party of Indiana against free suffrage in the passage of an infamous gerrymander. We demand that, man for man, the votes of members of all parties shall be given equal force and effect. Freedom of labor is essential to the contentment and prosperity of the people. Workingmen should be protected against the oppressions of corporate combination* and monopolies. We are opposed to the importation of contracted and ill-paid labor from abroad; the unfair competition of convict labor with free labor; the competition of “assisted" emigrants and the vicious classes of Europe with American workingmen; the employment of. young children in factories and mines; and we recommend to the next General Assembly the passage of such laws as will guarantee to workingmen the most favorable conditions for their labor—especially in the proper ventilation and safeguards for life and health ia. mines and factories—and the sure and prompt payment of wages. We favor the reduction of the legal number of working hours wherever practicable, and the submission of ali matters of controversy between employs and employer, under just regulation, to impartial arbitration. The right of all men to associate for the promotion of their mutual good and protection without interfering with the rights of others, cannot be questioned. We favor the maintenance of the principle of protection, under which the resources of the State and Nation have been and are being developed, and whereby the wages of workingmen are from 15 to 30 per cent, higher than under the revenue tariff in force before the Republican party came into power. Favoring the reduction and readjustment of the tariff from time to time as circumstances may require, upon the basis of affording protection t* the products and results of American skill and industry, in our opinion the duties should be reduced as low as will be allowed by a wise observance of the necessity to protect that portion of our manufacturers and labor whose prosperity is essential to our national safety and independence. We at the same time condemn the declaration of the Democratic party of Indiana in favor of practical free trade as a menace to the prosperity of the State and to the welfare and advancement of workingmen. 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 medium—coin and paper alike —should be kept of equal and permanent value. The surplus in the Treasury should be steadily applied to the redemption of the national debt We favor a thorough and honest, enforcement of the civil-service law, and the extension of it* principles to the State administration wherever it can be made practicable, to tbe end that the corruption and flagrant; abuses that exist in the management of our public institutions may be done away with and they be liberated from partisan control.

The Republican party carried into effect the homestead policy, under which the Western States and Territories have been made populous and prosperous. We favor the reservation of public lands for small holdings by actual settlers, aud are opposed to the requisition of large tract* of the public domain by corporations and nonresident aliens. American lands should be preserved for American settlers. The watering of corporate stock should be prevented by law. Railway and other public corporations should be subjected to the control of tbe people, through the legislative power that created them, and their an due influence in legislation and in courts should be summarily prevented. We favor the creation of a bureau of labor and statistics, whereby the interests of both labor and capital may be protected and the welfare of the State promoted. The constitutional provision that all taxation shall be equal and uniform should be made effective by such revision of the assessment and taxation laws as will remedy the injustice whereby certain localities have been made te bear more than their due share of the pnblio burdens. The strict and impartial enforcement of law is the only safeguard of society; and wa demand of ' State and local authorities the vigorous execution of legal penalties against all criminals. We congratulated people on the unanimous opposition of all classes to the imported crime of anarchism, which is the enemy of social order and An attack upon the safety of life and property. It is the special foe of honorable workingmen, and is justly condemned by intelligent and patriotic labor everywhere. Lapse of time does not weaken the gratitude due the soldiers and sailors of the Union. We favor such changes in the pension laws as will make proof of enlistment conclusive evidence of the physical soundness of the applicant; that will equalize allowances, and will simplify the methods by which just claims can be adjudicated in the Pension Office. We favor the granting of a pension to every honorably discharged Union soldier and sailor suffering from unavoidable disability. The Legislature should make a liberal appropriation for the erection of a soldiers’ and sailors’ monument At the capital of the State. We favor tbs granting of pensions to the survivors of the Mexican war who are not laboring under political disablility. We favor the separation of the Soldiers’ Orphans’ Home from the Home for the Feeble-minded Children. We renew the pledge of our devotion to the free, unsectarian school system, and favor measures tending to increase its practical value to the people. We are opposed to any movement, however insidious, whether local or State, whereby a sacred fund may be diverted from its legitimate use, or the administration of the schools made less impartial or efficient The amendment to the Constitution of the State providing for the equalization of fees and salaries ought not to remain a dead letter; and we favor the enactment of a just law for tbe compensation of all public officials. Wo favor the pending constitutional amendment making tbe terms of county officers four years, and striking out the word “white" from Section 1, Article 12, of tbe Constitution, so that colored men may become a part of the regular militia force for the defense of the State. The attempted domination by the Liquor Leagne of political parties and legislation is a menace to free institutions which must be mat and defeated. The traffic in intoxicating liquor* has always been under legislative restraint; and, believing that the evils resulting therefrom should be rigidly repressed, we favor such laws as will permit the people in their several localities to invoke such measures of restriction a* they may deem wise, and to compel the traffic to compensate toe the burdens it imposes on society and relieve the oppressions of local taxa* tion. The party of freedom to all, irrespective of the accidenta ©’ birth or condition, the Republican party welcomes every advance of the people to a higher standard of political rights. The peaceful revolution in Great Britain, whereby Ireland is sure to receive the benefits of local self-government after centuries of oppression, has our sympety, and should command every proper and legitimate assistance. Hon. Benjamin Harrison. United States Senator for Indiana, has worthily won a front rank among the trusted and honored statesmen of the Nation, and, by his signal abilitios and devotion to the highest public Interests, has brought credit upon the State and country. His course in the Senate of the United States meets with our warmest approval, and we comment! him to the esteem and confidence of all the people. The Republican Representatives in the lower house of Congress abo deserve the thanks of the Republicans of the State for their faithful and honorable service. In common with the Nation we deeply mourn the doath of UlysißS S. Grant, whoso deeds in war and in peace secured for him the grateful admiration of his country and the honor of tho world. Wo favor an appropriation by Congress of such an amount as may be necessary to erect, in the city of Washington, a monument befitting the military achievements aud civic virtuo* of one who shed imperishable luster upon tbe American name and character. Coupled with our great chieftain and leader in the country’s history is the name of one of Indiana's most illustrious citizens. Hon. Sohuyler Colfax.** Hl* death is sincertdy lan!o;;id, -ini Ins memory should be appropriate hum rcJL

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