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Alone At the time it occurred. He furnished abundant evidence that he was a sound man when he enlisted; proved bjr comrades that he bad spoken to them of the injury shortly after it occurred, and, by his brother, that he had ivrltten home a few days after the battle, giving jin account of nis injury. He also furnished evidence that he had suffered from his injury since the war; but the Pension Office rejected his claim because he could nqt prove by other evidence than his own just how his injury originated. Congress passed a bill giving him a pension. and the President vetoed it. And yet, what evidence could be more satisfactory in a moral, if not a legal sense, than the letter written to his brother and his declarations 10 his comrade made immediately after the injury. But, my comrades, not only were these vetoes, many cases, cruel, but the manner of doing it liras not kind. Let me call your attention to itome of the flippant things, intended to be witty, •4hat the President threw into some of these pension veto messages. We may be compelled to refuse a soldier what he asks, but we can certainly afford to do it respectfully and kindly. Yet listen to some of the utterances of the President in his veto messages. He says of one: What ever may be said of this claimant's achievements during his short military career, it must be said that lie accumulated a good deal of disability. That of some poor, disabled soldier! And Again: The Ingenuity developed in the constant and persUteut attacks upon the public treasury by those Claiming pensions and the increase of those already granted, is exhibited in bold relief by this attempt to iclmle sore eyes among the results of chronic diarrhea. I might say to those who think the hoys are making bold attacks on the Treasury that we marched by that treasury over 100,000 strong. Borne of you here to-night remember the time, general Sherman's army in review swept up that inagniftcent avenue of the national Capital. The Aun never shone upon a grander spectacle. The boys who had assembled in the West entered the Confederacy at Louisville and marched with Sherman down to the sea and up through the Carolinas to Washington, brushed up their faded, tattered uniforms for this occasion. We were reviewed by the President of the United States, and as we marched up that great avenue and under the shadow of the Capitol, the streets and housetops wore covered with men and women, waving with I1 ad acclaim our welcome home. We marched by the treasury of the United States, and yet we never turned an eye in its direction. We could have emptied its vaults that day if we had been so minded. [Applause.] But we were not thinking of money—that was not in a single soldier’s mind. He was thinking of home; his heart was full to overflowing and many eyes with tears M he received that glad welcome for a work Well done, and saw the undimmed flag floating aver our Capitol, emblem of the power that had ®een re-established over every foot of the national domain. [Great applause.] We were willing to take up again the battle of life, to care for ourselves, to enter into the Atruggles and competitions of civil pursuits. It is only now, when disease and disability have come upon the soldier, it is only now, when failing strength and reverse of fortune have brought 4lm to need, that he looks to this government to do a grateful and honest part to the men who ttnade it possib'e for Grover Cleveland to be President of the United States. [Applause.] Again the President says, in another veto: lam so thoroughly tired of disapproving gifts of public money to individuals who, in my view, have no | <ght or claim to the same, notwithstanding apparent congressional sanction that I interpose, with a feeling relief, a veto in a case where I find it unnecessary Ao determ* tie too merits of the application. lam sure, my comrades, that you all sympathise with the President in his fatigue, [laughter ?,nd applause]; that he should have'been made so lred la writing these vetoes cf pension bills; but you knew also what it was to be tired. I iiave seen some of you, after a day's march and day’s fighting, digging trenches in order that we might And cover from the enemy's guns, when the morning dawned drop asleep •n the side of the ditch with the pick in your hand. That jtm your time of weariness. You little thought then, I suspect, that the time would come when ? r e would have a President who would wear imself out vetoing private pension bills. [Applause. ] Let me give you another illustration of the flippant way in which the President dealt with these bills. He said, in vetoing a bill where the soldier claimed to have been ruptured by beiug thrown forward on his saddle: The number of instances in which those of our loldlf*r<i who rode horse* during the wav were injured ir being thrown forward upon saddles indicate that those saddles were very dangerous contrivances. The man who wrote that never heard Phil Sheridan's bugle sound the charge. I have another veto message here somewhere, in which the President speaks of a soldier’s “terrible combat with the measles.” Now, my comrades, any tn&u who makes a joke of the measles or of the pommel of a saddle, did not have such a relation !o the war as to understand what was going on t the front. He must have shut himself off rom sympathy aud communication with the great army. The President's idea of horseback riding is probably connected with an ambling palfry in a public park. [Laughter.] These few eases will serve as illustrations of the manner of these veto messages.

PENSION LEGISLATION. * At the last session some general pension legislation was enacted—a bill increasing the pensions of those who had lost limbs. I beg my friends to remember that this bill originated in the Senate and passed that body first There fra* also a bill passed increasing the pension of widows from $8 to sl2 per month. Mr. Matson claims to be the author of that bill, but a bill was introduced in the Forty-eighth Congress increasing the pension of widows to sl2 per month, and it passed the Senate but failed in the House. This was all the general legislation accomplished, but the Senate passed a general bill, the provisions of which wero briefly these: It became known at the last session as Senate Bill 1886. It was the same bill, in substance, introduced bv mo in the Forty-eighth Congress. It provided that any soldier who i prrv disabled, otherwise than by his own gross carelessness or vicious habits, and is dependent o bis own labor for support, shall have a pension; pplause] that he shall not be required to pr > that his disability originated in the rviee, but if he is now dependent upo' his own labor for sup port, and is so disabled that he cannot Labor the government will take care of him. {Applause. J That is not too liberal a proposition, is it, my comrades? Someone has to take care of them. Here is a soldier who, twenty one years ago, came home from the war apparently in good health. He made no hospital record; was always on duty, marched w?h his company, went on picket when hie time came, and, fortunately escaping wounds, came back appareatly well. But now he is old; rheumatism ha 9 seized him. Who can doubt that those nights when he slept under the ODen heavens, rain or snow pouring down upon hie bed, had something to do with his present disability? The doctors cannot connect the cause with the effect, but common aense does. He is disabled now. What are vou going to do with him! I went a year or two ago to one of the poor-houses in this State and found tbero several soldiers of the class I have deacrjbod. I knew one of them, a brave, active, willing soldier. He came back without a icrfttch, He made his own way in life until, a >*ar or two ago. paralysis seized upon ono side of his body. He was unable to earn a living, and foijpd a place In the poor-house. I prefer that relief should come to these mou as soldiers, aot as paupers. I prefer to save that manly •elf-respect that is in the soldier. Shortly after I introduced this bill in the Forty-eighth ConItress I uoticed in the Indianapolis News the folowing interview with ex Senator McDonald. It does not have a friendly sound: A reporter to-day asked Senator McDonald his opinion of the Harrison pension bill: ‘I can gtve y° u a case of what might be done should the bill become a law,” said he; ‘‘l know of an e* soldier who is already preparing his papers asking for a pension. '1 hey set. forth that ha entered the war at an early age, served faithfully three years and W&S “ uc “ Rr S e d a sound man. Since the war, howhas become disabled,‘but the cause of his disability is of such a nature,’the application reads, that applicant does not like to state it. but there is po question of hu being disabled.' He can neither root hog, or die, And the only thing in sight for him tea pension under the Harrison bill/’ 6 The Senate passed this bill in the Forty-eighth Congress, but no action was taken upon it in the Democratic House. It was passed again by the Senate at the last session, but again, after aa eight months' session, the House adjourned without taking any action upon it. There are a class of Democratic politician* in thi country who call themselves “revenue reformers. 1 ’ They want to reduce the tariff daties. They say we are collecting too much

income, and they seem to be more willing to give the surplus to the British importer than to the soldier. They say the revenue cannot be reduced if these liberal pension bills are passed, and rather than not reduce the revenue they delay or defeat the pension bills. Now, I want to call vour attention to a movement which I think was the roost unfriendly towards the soldier that has ever been suggested in Congress. An amendment to the rules of,the House was reported by Mr. Morrison, from the committee on rules. Let me read it: Resolved. That it shall be in order, when any general bill or proposition to increase the rates or amounts of pensions, or to grant pensions to persons not previously entitled thereto by law, is under consideration, to amend the same so as to provide by taxation or otherwise for the payment thereof; but no such amendment shall be in order unless the net revenue provided for shall be thereby set apart for the sole purpose of paying such increased pensions. Do you gather the effect of that amendment? It means that whenever this general pension bill I have spoken of, or any other, shall come up in the House, it shall be in order for any member to move, as an amendment to it, a revenue bill, upon the pretense of rasing the money necessary to pay the pensions. It would be in order to move as an amendment Mr. Morrison's tariff bill, or a bill providing for an income tax, or a bill increasing the tax on whisky, Now, do you think that would help to pass pension bills? Why, instead of the pension bill being debated upon its own merits, the House would be dividing on the questions raised by the revenue bill attached to it. What was the pretense for this amendment? It was this: That if we were going to pay these increased pensions we must raise the money to do it. If it is necessary to raise more money to pay the soldiers what is justly duo them, I will vote for it [Applause.] But I want the money raised in that way to go into the general Treasury. I want the debt we owe the soldier paid like any other debt out of the general Treasury. We take the money raised from the tax on whisky, the tariff taxes, and all other taxes and put it into the general Treasury, and whenever any one comes along who has a debt against the government—a bona, or interest on a bond —we take the money out of the Treasury and pay him. I would like some Democrat to tell me why this rule snould not apply in the payment of pensions to our soldiers. Why is this discrimination to be made against him? Why is the tax payer to be set grumbling at him alone? Why shall not he havo his honest debt paid out of the general Treasury? If it is a good plan to put a tax bill upon bills appropriating money, why not apply the rule to the river and harbor bill as well as to the soldiers’ pension bill? It was the most unfriendly proposition towards the solder that has ever been made in Congress, yet it was supported by nearly every Democrat in the House of Representatives, including Mr. Matson, of Indiana, chairman of the committee on invalid pensions of the House. But do we need more money to pay these pensions? Why, my comrades, Mr. Morrison at this last session introduced a tariff bill which he said would reduce our revenue $40,000,000 to $50,000,000 per year. Why. then, Mr.JMorrison, do you want to attach a special tax bil 1 to these pension bills when you declare to the country that we are now getting $50,000,000 per year more revenue than wo need? Mr. Morrison also declared last session that we had $100,000,000 surplus in the Treasury. Ah, the boys will not be deceived by these "pretenses. There were a great many “green" boys went into the army, but none came out. The pension committee of the Grand Army said of this attempt to discriminate against the soldier’s pension. This proposition is not to increase the revenues of the government for general purposes by new taxation, but in effect a declaration that while all other expenditures of the general government, for salaries, public buildings, river and harbor improvements, and the like, shall continue to be paid from existing sources of revenue, the debt due to the soldiers and sailors of tho Republic, for which tli6 most solemn faith of the Nation has been plighted, the pensions to the men who gave sight and hearing, limbs and health, and who offered their lives in defense of the Nation, shall mercilessly stand aside unless subjected to the invidious distinction of a special method of taxation. That every obligation of the national government shall be mot from the usual and ordinary revenues, but the obligation to the soldier be singled out and alone made to bear the burden of anew aud special tax. That in the payment of pensions, and pensions alone, one class of the people shall be arrayed against another—the tax-payer against tho beneficiary—by providing as to pensions, and for no other form of indebtedness. a particular tax for a specified purpose. Speaking in behalf of our comrades of the Grand Army of the Republic, we protest against this measure as the most raiquitiotts possible, and which the Union veterans of the country will .resent and repudiate. Now, my comrades, these are 9ome of the thiDge, hastily thrown together, which show the attitude of this administration toward the Union soldiers of the country, and, in conclusion, I ask you to think upon these things; to consider whether, in the votes you are to give in November, you will vote your approval of what this administration has done and omitted to do in the iuterest of the Union soldier. My comrades, it will not be long until we are all gone. We are passing away. We do not want to be greedy. We never have been. You were paid a pittance for the fighting you did. Many of you left lucrative employment and good wages at home to serve the country for a pittance. You endured hardships, suffering, pain and sickness that tho country might live, and now, in these times when peace is over the land, in these times of abundance, in these times when there is a surplus in the national Treasury, and a discussion as to how it Bhould be used, it is certainly not too much to ask that the man who did his duty as a soldier during the war may be succored in his distress by the government he saved. That is all, and to that reasonable request every patriotic man and woman in this iaud will respond. [Applause.]

HARRIS AND nODSTEIN. Two Good Speeches at Shelbyville—Abstract of Mr. Holstein's Remarks. Special to the ludianapolla Journal. Shelbyville, Oct 11.—Hon. A. C. Harris and Major Charles Holstein spoke to a large crowd in this city to-night. The meeting was held in Blessing’s Opera-hall, which was packed to Its utmost capacity. Besides a large number of ladies, a number of Democrats were present and paid close attention to the speakers. The meeting was called together at 7:30 by Chairman Bone, and Captain H. S. Byers was made president. Both gentlemen delivered fine speeches, and great enthusiasm prevailed. An abstract of Mr. Holstein’s speech is appended: Fellow citizens and Comrades: During the last national canvass I made a very careful study of the various party platforms on the subject of pensions. I took occasion to review, compare and contrast them. I should like to present the matter to you to-night fully, but the time I have already taken upon other subjects forces me to brevity. In a summary way these are the facts: Since 1868 no Democratic national platform has ever expressly or by name mentioned the Union soldier, or his cause, or the war of the Rebellion. In its platforms of 1804 and 1868 it spoko of ‘'the soldiers and sailors who carried tho flag of our country, H in grateful and generous language. But after 1868 that language was dropped, and from that time 00, I repeat, no Democratic national platform has ever expressly and in name mentioned the Union soldier or his cause. After IS6B, tho war of the Rebellion became a forbidden subject. Thenceforwards its platforms igpeak in genoral and guarded phrase of the “soldiers disabled in the line of duty in the wars of the Republic.” Mark the language. It is broad enough to include within its meaning not only the soldiers of the Union, but the soldiers of disunion—not only the federal, but the confederate as well. Why change the laneuago unless for some covert purpose? It is an open secret that the platform committee of the last Democratic national convention seriously considered a resolution providing ponsions “for disabled soldiers, whether confederate or Union.” I yield to no one, North or South, in my admiration of the gallantry of the confederate soldier. While I make no fight on him, I still believe there is a difference between the blue and gray, and I beliove that the substantial gratitude of this government is due and payable to the Union soldier, and his widow and his orphans, and that as long as one of them is in dire distress or emergent need that debt is not paid. My examination also showed that no Republican platform ever failed to mention and acknowledge the Nation’s dobt to the soldiers and sailors of the Union, or to pledge its best endeavors to secure its payment; and I find that lapse of time ha* not weakened the expression of it Right here let me call yoor

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attention to the present State platforms on Ails subject: REPUBLICAN PLATFORM, 1886. Lapse of time does not weaken the gratitude due the soldiers and sailors of the Union. We favor such changes in tho 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 Penk>n Office. We favor the granting of a pension to every honorablv discharged Union soldier and sailor suffering from unavoidable disability. We favor the granting of pensions to the survivors of the Mexican war who are not laboring under political disability. The I .legislature should make a liberal appropriation for the erection of a soldiers'and sailors’ monument at the capital of the State. We favor the separation of the Soldiers' Orphans’ Home from the home for the feeble-minded children. DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM, 1886. Resolved, That we cordially approve the recent legislation of Congress giving increased pensions to the widows and dependent parents of deceased so ldiers and to soldiers who were disabled in the Union array and we cordially approve all measures of legislation in behalf of the soldiers of the Union army who suffered in defense of their country and of their widows and orphans. Resolved, That it is due to the memory of the brave men of Indiana who crave their lives for the preservation of the government, that a suitable monument should be erected at the capital of the State, and for that purpose we ask of tho General Assembly a liberal appropriation. There is a world of difference between these resolutions, both in their text and in their spirit. Upon careful reading you will notice that the Democratic platform is simply an ex post facto approval of the pension laws already enacted, and now on the statute books, and does not pledge the Democratic party in any way to any future action or legislation upon the subjectmatter of pensions. It is entirely non-commit-tal, and negative in its character. It, in fact, means nothing. Read it carefully for yourselves and see what you can make out of it. The Republican platform gives forth no uncertain sound. It is full, and round, and generous in its tones. It is not cold and meaningless. It speaks in plain Saxon phrase. It favors substantial amendments and improvements. It pledges tbe Republican party to future action. It favors making the proof of enlistment conclusive proof of soundness, and it favors the pensioning of every Union soldier or sailor, having an honorable discharge, who is suffering from unavoidable disability. , It needs no analysis. It speaks for itsolf. Put these platforms together and compare them for yourselves. In this connection, let us examine, briefly, the record of tbe present lower house of Congress, which Senator Voorhees described, in his opening speech at Indianapolis the other day as “a House of Representatives, with an overwhelming Democratic majority, and largely composed of ex-confederate soldiers.” It is a pleasure to me to find a political statement then of the distinguished Senator’s, the fairness of which I can admit. The record shows that sixty-six of the ex-confederate soldiers who make up the overwhelming Democratic majority in the House voted against the widows’ pension bill, which increased the widow's pension from $8 per month to sl2. Every Republican member voted for the bill, and every vote against it was a Democratic vote. This “overwhelming Democratic majority” in the House also tried to make all further general pension legislation impossible and odious. It attempted, by an amendment of the rules, to compel the embodiment of a special-tax law in every general pension bill, providing for the payment of the pensions. One hundred and thirty-nine Democrats voted for it, and every Republican member voted against it. Every Democratic Congressman from Indiana voted for it (excepting Mr. Ford, not voting.) Its final consideration was defeated by dilatory tactics on the part of the Republicans, but it is still pending in the House. Its passage will defeat all further general pension legislation. If a special tax bill, Imposing anew tax and providing for its collection is to be made a part of every pension bill, it will make further general pension legislation practically impossible, because of the difficulties, obstructions, embarrassments and complications incident to new tax laws and their collection machinery. And that was its intentiou and purpose. It is anew and anomalous piece of legislation. All other bills providing for the expenditure of money are payable out of the general revenue. Why make a marked and odious discrimination against pension bills. Even the President of the United States, with willing helpfulness, reinforced tho Democratic House in its opposition to pension legislation by the extraordinary and relentless use of the veto power. Let it be remembered that during one session of Congress the President vetoed 101 pension bills, aDd that he reluctantly permitted 154 other pension bills to become laws without his signature, refusing to approve or sign them. He has the bad pre-eminence of being the only President that ever vetoed a special pension bill. His pension vetoes equal in tho aggregate the whole number of vetoes of all the Presidents before upon all subjects whatsoever. You will find it a difficult matter to restrain tho expression of an honest indignation and disgust when you consider the offensive language in which the President was pleased to write some of these pension vetoes. It remained for the presentjPresident to be the first in his high office who has found it consistent with its dignity t-o fill his veto messaeea with jests and sneers. l\fy respect for that office is so great that I shall refrain from comment, contenting myself with reading you the language of the President himself in a few of these extraordinary messages. [Mr. Holstein here quoted from certain vetoes, extracts from which are given in the speech of Senator Harrison, elsewhere printed, aud which are familiar to the people.] Remember, this is tbe exact language of the President, in his messages to the Congress of the United States. It needs no comment. It condemns itself. It is added proof of the truth that “he jests at scars who never felt a wound.” My comrades, smarting under the unjust censures of the President, it is with pleasure I recall the generous and sympathetic words of our first Republican President, the martyr Lincoln, in the last address he ever made, his last words, which seem to-day to be his benediction on us: With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the Nation’s wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and a lasting peace among ourselves and with all uations.

Mr. Chase at Edinburg. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Edinburg, Oct. ll.—Hon. Ira J. Chase, Republican candidate for Congros3 in the Fifth district, addressed to-night, at Pruitt’s Operahouse, one of the largest and most enthusiastic audiences ever assembled here. Republicans in the district are confident of his success. Major Calkins at Warsaw, Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Warsaw, Oot. 11.—Maj. W. H. Calkins addressed a large Republican meeting here to-day. The opera-house was filled to overflowing, and tho Major made one of the best efforts of his life, Temperance Receptions, Philadelphia Times. It is proposed to give a number of “tempe rauce receptions’’ in private houses during tho coming winter. They will be given by both ladies and gentlemen. Persons who are friendly to the movement in favor of abridging the political and other vicious influences of the saloon will be invited, and in the refreshments served everything intoxicating will, of course, be oxc.uded. It is expected that through the influence of those receptions more harmonv than now exists will be brought about among friends of the temperance movement and the way be paved for more united action. Several of these temperance receptions have been given during the season at Newport, at Stockbridgo iu the Berkshire hills, and other fashionable places, and a number of them will be given during winter by some of tho most piomiaont wornon in New York. Doesn’t Apply. Minneapolis Tribnno. The President’s famous civil-service order of July does not apply to Democratic office holders. They are not “federal officials.” On the contrary, a great many of them wero shootin" at the federalsa few years ago. The pain and misery suffered by those who are afflicted with dyspepsia are indescribable. The relief which is given by Hood’s Sarsaparilla has caused thousands to be thankful for this great medicine. It dispels the causes of dyspepsia, and tones up tho digestive organs.

MOVEMENTS IN POLITICS. The Trades-Unions Will Not Indorse Any Candidates for County Offices. Boss Coy Continues to Keep a Close Watch Over the Election Inspectors—Talk About the Campaign Here and Elsewhere. .The Central Trades-union has decided that tho county officers cannot do them as much service as Congressmen and members of tbe Legislature. Its committee to consider and report on the candidates went over the whole field, but recommended only the indorsement of Bynum for Congress, Conger for joint Representative, Griffiths, Morse, Schley and Foloy for the Legislature. Wm. Hugo’s friends tried hard to get the organized workmen committed to his interests, but John Caven’s friends being as numererous, and the feeling in his favor if anything somewhat more extensive than for Foley, the committee concluded that the best way out of the difficulty was to let the workingmen do as they pleased individually in regard to the candidacy of these two. On the county ticket, Sullivan and Taggart’s backers made an energetic effort in their behalf, but it is the action of the Union to let these two men take their chances along with Rollins and Col. Merrill. The same view was entertained as to the other candidates, except as to King and Saulcy, who are in a measure formally favored without actual indorsement, because they are Knights of Labor. County Commissioner Clinton was surprised yesterday to learn that his colleagues, Sahm and Reveal, had, in caucus with Sim Coy on Saturday, appointed several election inspectors to fill vacancies. “I did not know anything about it,” he said: “It would not havo made any difference, for in appointments Sahm and Reveal never say anything to me. These inspectors were no doubt appointed Saturday, while I was out in the country.” The resolution of appointment, with the names of the appointees attached, was fished out of a pigeon-hole on the clerk's table. The clork himself did not know it was there. Sahm, Reveal and Coy at first wanted it to go on Saturday’s record, for the paper had been indorsed “Saturday, Oct. 9, 1886.” They did not think it necessary to again refer to tho matter yesterday with the full board in sossion, but a quiet effort was made to have it entered on Monday’s record. The indorsement had been chanced to read'“Saturday, Oct. 11.” If Sahm will explain to-day how the record is to be made for the 9th or the 11th he will relieve the doubts of the clerk. The inspectors thus choaen’are John Costello, for the Second precinct of the Fifteenth ward: James Nelson, Second, Twenty-fourth ward; M. L. Reinhardt, Second, Third ward; August Weber, Third, Twenty-third ward; John Butch, Second. Twenty-third ward, and David Cable, Second. Thirteenth ward. It is said that it is difficult to find a Democrat in tho First precinct of the Eleventh ward eligible for the place who is willing to serve; hence the failure to provide for the vacancy caused by Police Commissioner Murphy’s resignation. The laboring men of the Nineteenth, Twentieth, Twenty-first and Twenty-second wards will hold a grand Republican rally at the corner of Virginia avenue and Bradshaw street, some time the first of next week, which will.be addressod by Hon. Theron P. Keator, of Fort Wayne, one of the charter members of the Knights of Labor. The soldier record of Chris. Brink, Democratic candidate for county recorder, needs to be revised as to some details. His ticket, as to its soldier force, was balanced, there being a Union veteran and a rebel recruit, Colonel Hicklin, on it, until Mr. Brink went into the Chapman Post, G. A. R., a week or two ago. It appears that when Morgan came into the State, and raided the southern counties. Governor Morton sent for ex-Sheriff Foudry and William J. Wallace to raise a hundred horse men for service. One of the' gentlemen who enlisted, became sick and offered Mr. Brink as a substitute. Wallace who was lieutenant of the’fcoinpany. provided the substitute with a horse. Tbe company all day waited marching orders and finally went down to the cars to be carried into the region raided by Morgan. Before a soldier got on board, orders came for the company to ride back to the State-house where it was disbanded. Mr. Brink, therefore, did not go to Sunman, nor was his length of service sixteen days. It was a little more than twentyfour hours. Governor Portor has returned from a, trip through tne northern part of the State, where he has been delivering speeches. He was greeted by large crowds wherever he went, and Lis meetings were in every way of an exceedingly gratifying character.

Glimpses of the Political Situation. Charles Walker: “The wisdom of the State central committee's action in deciding on a short campaign has been completely vindicated. I have never known the Republican p'rty to be in better condition at this stage of the canvass, and the notable enthusiasm will no doubt continue until the election. If the campaign had begun in mid summer, as usual heretofore, it would be listless by this time. As it is, the party is more aggressive and enthusiastic than I have ever known it to be in an off year." W. W. Pershing, editor Tipton Advocate: are making a strictly local campaign in Tipton county, and expect good results from it. The mismanagement of our county finances through a long series of Democratic administrations has been so atrocious that an unanswerable publication of the facts has brought the tax-payers to an understanding of the impositions that have been imposed upon them by the corrupt leaders of Democracy.” Theron P. Keator: “I have been spending some time in the counties of northern and eastern Indiana, and, from what I have seen and heard, I do not hesitate to predict that we will carry the State in November. All that is necessary to do to accomplish this is to get the vote out. Our people are thoroughly alive to the importance cf the State issues involved in this canvass. To my surprise, the temperance issue is not so Important a factor in the contest as I bad anticipated it would be, the lamentable condition of the State’s benevolent institutions seeming to have aroused the people to such an extent that all other questions are secondary. This is not to be wondered at when we take into consideration the fact that everv opunr,Unity lu Indiana is represented :n. robjs of these institutions, and the interest in their honest and humane management is general. Xhe State debt question, too, is one \vbicu appals stroßgly to 1 tho people. The enormous increase of *A ia Public debt and the mysterious air of uncertainty which hangs about the StAte treasury, 1? not faassuring to the tax-payers, and tho influences at work to make an investigation possible are more potent than the Democrats are aware, and more determined than conspicuous. In our district, the Twefth, Judge Lowry will be defeated by a thousand votes. Allen county will make a good showing for the Republicans, just how good I will not venture to predict, but the result is likely to be an eye-opener.” 11. H. Lancaster, Lafayette: *'The Republican organization in Tippecanoo county is in splendid condition. We have no sore places to heal, and will elect our whole ticket by good majorities. Our fellows are as thoroughly wide-awnko as they usually aro in presidential years, and are making a red-hot campaign. One curious phase of the whole business is the fact that the tomperance issue is not proving any importance in the campaign. While our people generally stand by the platform enunciated by the State convention, the temperance question is not an absorbing theme. The gerrymander, the condition of tho State benevolent institutions and especially the alleged mismanagement of the State's funds, are subjects of general discussion, but one rarely hears the temperance question referred to. We will get out a full vote and roll up an old-time majority.'* Ralph Gregory. Muneie: “The outlook for the Republican* ia Delaware county is very eneour-

aging. We have been having a protracted squabble about the judgeship, but the events of the last day| or two practically settle that disaffection. The vigorous campaigning that resulted from this rivalry, however, had the effect of stirring the party from the depths, and. as a happy consequence, we will get out the full Republican vote and roll up the mightiest majority Delaware has reported for years. While the contest has been spirited, there has been no particular bitterness manifested by either of the factions, and we now feel that we have clear sailing.” PERSONAL AND SOCIETY GOSSIP. Robert Mitchell, of Princeton, is in the city. Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Lynch left yesterday for Washington, D. C. Miss Martha Caldwell has returned from a visit to friends in Vincennes. Miss llettie Sherwood, of St. Joseph. Mo., is visiting her aunt, Mrs. James Broadbelt. Mrs. Harold Hibben returned on Saturday from a visit to her mother at Marshall, 111. Col. M. A. Downing, wife and daughters, Mrs. Charles Wood and Mrs. Jobu Vajen, have been attending the exposition at St. Louis. Mrs. Agnes McCutcheon Frost is very ill at the residence of Mrs. Harry Patterson, on North Mississippi street. Her sister, Mrs. Harrison, of Chicago, is attending her. Mr. Harry Burns and Mr. Robert Burns, of Muncie, have just returned home from a week’s visit with their sister, Miss Laura Burns, of No. 222 North Tennessee street. C. A. Munson, of Fort Wayne, and T. B. Byrnes, of Evansville, two of the candidates on the Democratic State ticket, are in the city, stopping at the Grand Hotel. Mr. J. A. Hanson, wife and daughter, and Miss Bristol have returned from St Louis, where they went to see the Veiled Prophets and expo - sition. The young ladies attended the grand ball. SOCIETY. Miss Annie Porter will go to Pittsburg next week to visit friends. Mr. Jos. K. Sharpe, jr., has gone to Dayton to attend the Karnsliaw-Stockstill wedding tonight. The Art. Association meets to-day at the residence of Mrs. Morrison, No. 73 Circle street, at 2:30 o’clock. Mrs. Paul, wife of the late General Paul, of Washington, D. C.. and daughter, Mrs. Marmion, are visiting Mrs. Andrew Graydon. The fifth general meeting of the fair will be held by the ladies of the Flower Mission at the Denison House this morning at 10 o’clock. Mr. George H. Talbot and Mr. Fred L. Thomas will embark to-day in partnership in the wholesale commission business on South Meridian street. Mr. Alfred B. Carney, of Boston, is visiting his daughter, Mrs. S. M. Webster, for a few days, previous to going to Now Mexico to embark in business. The Flower Mission and Training School will meet again this morning at 10 o’clock at the Denison House parlors. Several matters of importance are to be discussed. Miss Zee Beaty has gone to Dayton to visit Mrs. Pease. She will attend the wedding of Miss Sarah Louise Stockstill who visited Miss Annie Wright in this city, and Mr. William Blake Earnshaw, which occurs to-night. Miss Rella Mather gave a pleasant tea party last evening to a few friends, whom she invited to meet her cousins, Misses Kate and Nellie Mather, of St. Louis, who are her guests- for a week. The tea table was most inviting with its flowers, in a huge heap in the center, and the appointments were tasteful. The guests were Mrs. Fred. Bowman, Misses Rose and Belle Nelson, Kittie Baldwin, Edwina Brown, Laura Lang and Bessie Scott. At the conclusion of tea the flowers were found to be separate bouquets, which were distributed to the ladies. Hotel Arrivals. Grand Hotel: James W. Stewart, Monticello; R. C. Wallace, Rochester; M. W. Pershing, Tipton; Joseph George. Fayetteville; W. N. Shoness, Bloomington; M. D. MansoD, Crawfordsville; H. R. Wiggins, Richmond; M. V. Kelly, Springfield; John M. Berry. Montezuma, Ind.; A. S. Knapp, Columbus; H. D. Bond, Knightstown; J. N. Jones, Washington; VV. G. Irwin. Columbus. Ind.; J. G. Cloyd, Decatur; C. G. Harris, St. Louis. Bates House: W. Buckley. Peoria- D. L. Anderson. Greoncastle; W. G. McManus, Urbana, 111.; S. O. Bayless, Frankfort; Richard Thomas, Columbus; Johu P. Allen, Greeucastle; F. C. Doran, Richmond; C. B. Dare, Minneapolis; Mrs. J. P. Barclay, Bowling Green, Ky.; D. H. Rudy, Hagerstown; R. L. Delaney. Marshall, 111.; 11. S. Prewett, W. E. McCord, Martinsville; W. H. Coleman, South Bend; John R. Hartzell, New Haven.

TflE CITY IN BRIEF. The Supreme Court convenes to-morrow. A letter addressed to J. Roland Brudy, Annapolis, Md., was delivered to A. McKnight, in this city. The>reading-room of ihe Public Library will be closed for the rest of th*: week, on account of much needed cleaning and paii*M n SPersons whose names are known iC tbe police have been killing fish with dynamite in bite river near tne Big Pour bridge aud several aFrests will probably be made soon. The lady friends of the Eleventh Indiana Regimont will meet at the residence of Mrs. James W. Sulgrove, No. 288 East Market street, ou Wednesday afternoon, at 2 o’clock. The funoral of J. N. McClelland, a member of the Tippecanoe Club, will occur this morning at 10 o’clock. Members of the club will meet at No. 2 engine-house, on Massachusetts avenue, to attend the funeral. The County Commissioners yesterday allowed John K. Tower’s claim for the death of a horse from injuries for which the county was responsible. A rotten plank on the Iventucky-aveuue bridge caused the trouble. Francis Turner and Jag. B. Curtis were appointed administrators yesterday, the first of the estate of Nathan Turner, and tho second of Samuel T. Dixon's estate. Bonds in tho sum of $2,150 and of SI,BOO, respectively, wero given. The When llamt Wins a Prize. A telegram from J. B. Cameron, at Evansville, to the When clothing store, says that the When Band won first prize in the band contest in that city, yesterday, over the Ringgold Band, of Terre Haute, scoring 7.8 points against 7.5 by the Ringgold. The prize is SIOO. Bert Clark, of the When Band, won the cornet In the same contest. The band will arrive home this morning at 10 o’clock. Arrest of Conroy’s Assailants. James E. Cook and Martin Viehman, who murderously assaulted Barney Conroy, wer* yesterday arrested on capiases, to await trial on indictments charging them with assault and battery vfith intent to kill. The bond of each was fixed at $1,500, but, failing to furnish it, they were taken to jail. A Missing llig Found. Six weeks ago Ed Brown hired a horse and buggy in Dayton, 0., and did not return. The police bore were notifiod of his absence, and yesterday found the horse and buggy in C. E. Shover’s stable, on East Market street, and Brown in a neighboring saloon, drunk. Union of Church Congregations. A proposition to unite tho congregation of the Eleventh Presbyterian Church with the Seventh baa been accepted by the latter. The Elevonth has property valued at $3,500, and the union will make the congregation one of tho strongest in the city. The Military Park Meeting. To the Editor of tuo luilianapnlis Journal: The Journal is in in its report of the Military Park temperance mooting of yesterday, at least as far as its reference to any discourtesy shown to mo is concerned. I was advertised, without my knowledge, to speak thero yesterday afternoon, at i o'clock, but owing to a press of

church duties I was unable to attend and did not appear on the ground at all. I have no doub# that had I been present I should have been invited to address the meeting. Wilbur F. Sheridan, Pastor Blackford-street M. E. Church, MR. CLEVELAND BOTHERED. Tho Indiana Civll-Servico Reformers'Pestering the Administration. Special to Ckicaeo Tribnne. If the Indiana civil-service reformers keep on they will worry the administration between now and election. It is understood that specific charges are filed at the White House of the way Hoosier federal officials have been abusing their position by political manipulation. These charge* all relate to offenses committed since the President order of July last Internal-revenue collectors are the chief sinners. The complaints as maae cover all the conditions for receiving tho President’s attention, and they cannot therefore be pitched into Lamont’s waste-basket. People who ought to know say the Indiana civil-servioo men talk quite plainly to Mr. Cleveland and invito him, as evidence of their good faith, to give tho charges careful and prompt investigation, so that whatever action he may decide upon may be known before the November elections. Ia view of the condition of Indiana politics, this is a cruel test for the Hoosier Bourbons here. All unite in saying that the removal of half a dozea prominent officials now would chill the party beyond the hope of warming up to its duty in electing a Democratic Legislature and Democratic Congressmen. Besides the complaints laid before the President, the Civil-service Commission to-day received a copy of Secretary Swift’s reports on ‘‘Civil Service in Indiana Since March, 1885,” the main pointsof which have already been published in the Tribune. Commissioner Lyman said this afternoon that the document might be interesting reading, but that there wa* nothing of which the Commission could take no* tice. If attention wore called to specific portions of it by formal letter, then the commission might do something. This hint will probably be takea by the Indiana association. Many of the facts set forth are familiar to Commissioner Edserton, more especially those relating to the way. Congressman Lowry was renoininated by the aid of federal patronvge in the Fort Wayne district. He doesn’t like Lowry, and is willing to sec the officials who abused their trust punished. The activity of the Indiana civil service contin* gent is the more remarked just now because the Louisiana case has been under discussion. The Bottom of the Sea Yields no pearl that can exceed in beauty teeth whitened and cleansed with that incomparable dentifrice, the fragrant Sozodont Nog is coral rosier than the gnms in which such teeth are set. So say the ladies, who are the beet judges in such matters. EISELE, THE PHOTOGRAPHER. Whose place of business is in the Yauce Block, ie making s.mio beautiful pictures. His work is attract* ing attention all over the State. His gallery has th* best appointments of any in the State.

Ladies’ Gold Watches. Gents’ Gold and Silver W atches. Soltaire Diamond Ear-rings. Fine Gold Jewelry. Roll Plate Jewelry, Spectacles and Eye-yl as sea. Best stock in the city. Watch repairing a specialty. M ARC Y, “The” Jeweler, 38 West Washington St. AMUSEMENfS. DICKSON’S GRAND OPERA - HOUSE. TO-NIGHT, To-morrow Afternoon and Evening— Thf Temple Theater Comic Opera Company in the American Japanese Opera, THE LITTLE TyCOoH After a most successful run of 178 nights at the Temple Theater, Philadelphia, and 103 night3 afe Fifth-avenue Theater, New York. Original cast, seen* cry, costumes and effects. seats at box-office. ENGLISH’S OPERA-HOUSE. Three Nights and Matinee, beginning THURSDAY, Oct. 14.—The Romantic Emotional Actor, HUBERT B. MANTEL 4 In the Now end M ‘- I<lam Bdat F Dram., “TAILED LIVES!" A play of strong human Interest, illustrating society and Bohemian life in New York. Reserved seat sale now in progress. WE HAVE A URGE LINE Os NEWEST PATTERNS of MOLDINGS And our facilities for FRAMING PICTURES Os all kinds are unrivaled. B. LlElEKMrtipni, 82 East Washington Street. —and— The IMPROVED CALIGRAPH Is the STANDARD TYPE WRITER of the age. Every machlhe warranted for nVE YIU.JW, Be aur and exawiue it before buying & typewriter. Orel 12,000 sold in four year*. It. T. CONDK. General Agent, 70 West Washington stmt, Indianapolis,

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