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THE DAILY JOURNAL. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBEE 13, 188 G. WASHINGTON OFFICE—SI3 Fourteenth St. P. S. Heath. Correspondent. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL. Pen be found at tiie following places: LONDON—American Exchange in Europe, 449 Strand. PARlS—American Exchange in Paris- 35 Boulevard des Capucines. HEW YORK—St. Nicholas and Windsor Hotels. CHICAGO—PaImer House. CINCINNATI—J. T. Hawley & Cos., 154 Vine street LOUISVTLLIB C. T. Bearing, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. BT. LOUlS—Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern Hotel. WASHINGTON', D. C.—Riggs House and Ebbitt House. Telephone Calls. Easiness Office 238 | Editorial Rooms 242 Mr. Bynum deserves to bo thrown out of Iho Democratic party.—lndianapolis Sentinel. Mr. Bynum has forfeited the respect of every Democrat.—lndianapolis Sentinel. Vote for the devil, if necessary, to secure Hie election of a Democratic United States Senator.—lsaac P. Gray, Governor of Indiana, at Logansport. So long as this management continues, it will remain exclusively partisan.—“ Dr.” T. $L Harrison, president of the benevolent Wards of the State. If I had my way, I would vote the inmates the Insane Hospital.—“ Hon.” Sim Coy, chairman of the Marion county Democratic central committee. The speech of Senator Harrison to the soldiers, printed in yesterday’s Journal, was delivered at Lafayette. The Republican party favors the separation of the Soldiers’ Orphans’ Home from the Asylum for Feeble-minded Children. When the remains of the late Chief-justice Chase were exhumed, the body was so well preserved that it was easily recognized. The base-ball pennant goes to Chicago, where it has belonged from the beginning of the season. People are entitled to what they pity for. The farmers of Indiana who are now obliged to accept 70 cents a bushel for wheat are paying interest for money that ought to be used in paying the debts of the State, nor will the Democratic officials tell where the money is. Open the books.

The Republican party favors the passage of laws that will give local communities the opportunity to control the liquor traffic for themselves, and that will impose upon the traffic a degree of taxation commensurate with the special expenses it creates. The Treasury Department does not credit the report that counterfeit ten-dollar silver certificates are in circulation in the Northwest. The banks know nothing of such paper, and no telegraphic advices have heeu received at Washington respecting them. It is but fair to say that the Democratic attendants at the Hospital for the Insane were not fed on bogus butter aud diseased pork. It is only the patients that were obliged to partake of that kind of food. This is a species of Democratic reform whereby great “economies” are practiced. The action of Governor Hill, commuting the sentence of the boycotters after they had served a good portion of their terms, and with the understanding that it is in the interest of the law, which must be and will bo upheld, was well enough, perhaps. The boycott has to go, and the people will see that it does go. The mugwump-Demoeratic candidate for governor of Massachusetts modestly but firmly announces that he is running upon his honor and will not contribute to the campaign funds. This settles Mr. Andrew’s case with the workers of his party. Money and its uses in politics they know all about, but honor It was a curious coincidence that the big men of Richmond failed to a man to respond to the invitation to address the the Knights of Labor on Monday last, on the occasion of their big parade and celebration. Coming right after the indignant protest against the admission of the colored man to the commonest rights enjoyed by the white citizen, it is apparent that the chivalry of the Old Dominion are still sore about it. They will yet learn their mistake. The attempted diversion by the Democracy, about the overpayment of war claims to the State of Indiana, wa3 very properly answered by State Auditor Rice in the interview given in yesterday’s Journal. The attention of the people of Indiana cannot be diverted from the condition of the State treas- • ury, the increase of the State debt, and the partisan management of the benevolent institutions. As Mr. Rice justly says, the truth of what Auditor Williams avers can only be known by a thorough examination of the accounts between the State and the national government; and, in any event, upon the face of it the State lias received the overplus of money, if any was paid. The manner in which the Democratic party has treated the Soldiers’ Orphans’ Home is shown up in tho speech of Colonel Black, which is printed this morning. It should make every soldier in Indiana hot with indignation to see how, simply to keep a few tffices for party procurers, tho orphans of vnion soldiers have been made the prey of

partisan rascality and outrage. Think of it! The orphans of Indiana’s Union soldiers made subordinate to feeble-minded children, and their home, contributed by the patriotism of loyal people, taken [from them and made the asylum for feeble-minded. The feeble-mind-* ed children should be cared for; these poor, helpless ones need and should have the care of the State; but no right-minded man or woman will say that the soldiers’ orphans should be robbed for their benefit, or made to play a ‘secondary part to them in what was once their own home.

THE INSANE ASYLUM S3ANDAL. The manner in which the defenders of the Insane Hospital management shift their ground would be highly amusing if the subject of it were not so serious. At first Doctor Harrison said that he supposed tho committee had been able to find something to put into their report, but he found there was nothing in it. The abstract of the report published in the Sentinel is beaded “A Batch of Old Campaign Charges Revived.” At first it was thought possible to ignore it with the general declaim tioa that it was a tissue of falsehoods prepared for campaign purposes, and that no further notice need be taken of it. But from every quarter of the State came anxious inquiries and indignant remonstrances, and Dr. Harrison and the Sentinel found that something more had to be done. They tried to talk of it as a report founded upon idle gossip and based upon libel and perjury, but these libels and perjuries were contained in the records of their own board and in the reports of their own superintendent. So it was found that that would not work. Then Dr. Harrison, under the pressure of public opinion, which even his thick hide could not withstand, was driven to preparo an answer. This consisted mostly of abuse of the committee and a statistical statement of the expenses per capita in taking care of the patients. Every specific allegation in the report is evaded. The committee replied to Dr. Harrison immediately, and called his attention seriatim to each of ♦ their original charges which he had failed to deny. Tho Sentinel would not publish this reply, and in an editorial entitled “The Sentinel Refuses to Print It,’’said the only thing to be gainod by preferring charges now is to make voters for the Republican party. Maddened at their inability to escape from accusations which they were wholly unable to deny, they commenced to heap abuse and vilification without stint upon the committee and the Journal, upon the principle of the distinguished advocate who indorsed upon his brief the private memorandum: “No case; abuse opposite counsel.” But not a single member of the committee was to be diverted by such epithets as “slimy Republican reptile,” “hungry hawks,” “political Pharisees,” “trinity of counterfeiters,” “double-faced hypocrites,'' and other endearing names applied to them by that dispassionate newspaper. The facts appearing upon the records of tho asylum were not to be whistled away by epithets, and something more had to be done. >So Dr. Harrison at last makes a statement denying that diseased meat was used for the tables. Here at last comes one denial of ail the charges made. But the committee answered, and disclosed the unmistakable authority for their information that tho hogs were killed from out of a drove of those dying of cholera. Then the Sentinel becomes comparatively silent. The abuse which so picturesquely adorned its editorial columns assumed a sickly hue. But something heroic must be done. So a “non-partisan” Board of Health swoops down upon the asylum, remains for a few hours, and comos back with a report that the happiness of paradise is dimmed beside that which prevails in the Indiana Hospital for the Insane. # Let us examine for a moment the logical character of this answer to the charges of the committee. For example: . Charge: Merithew, Thayer, Mrs. Anglemeyer, and others, saw patients beaten, teased and inhumanly used. Answer: On October C, 188 G, when the Board of Health visited the asylum for a few hours, not a single act of cruelty was committed. Charge: In December, ISB4, and July, 1885, hogs purchased of prominent Democratic politicians died of cholera. Os over GOO hogs purchased, more than one-half died, and slaughtering for the table went right on out of the dying drove. Answer: On October 6,188G 1 when the State Board went to the asylum, no diseased meat was observed by them. Charge: The reports of tho officers of the day in June last show that meat was tainted, coffee not good, butter not fit to use, etc. Answer: On October G, 188 G, the asylum authorities were prepared for tho visit of the Stato Board of Health, and the subsistence was all that could be desired. Charge: Maggoty butter was concealed in tho sewer to prevent its inspection by the committee. John E. Sullivan was found by the records of the board to have supplied the asylum with the oleomargarine. Answer: On October G, 18SG, the asylum authorities saw the necessity for doing better, and provided a supply of good butter. Charge: Gapen, one of the trustees, has drawn his salary for the last year, and was present at only one of the meetings of the board. He is running a saw mill iu Arkansas. Answer: The rooms of tho asylum are clean. Charge: Favoritism and corruption prevail in tho letting of contracts. Political favoiites are awarded most of the bids, and double pricesare paid. Answer: The drainage at the present time is good. Such logic is adapted only to the intelligence of those who are determined not to be-

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lieve even the records of the board or the admissions of the trustees. The committee may well congratulate itself that their work has brought about an amelioration of the condition of the patients during the few hours in which the State board were inspecting the asylum. But can any permanent reform be looked for from a board which for years past has been guilty of these outrages against common humanity? If the pressure of the present investigation is removed, the old bad habits will be sure to return. “When the devil wr J sick the devil a monk would bo. But when the dev : . was well the devil a monk was he.’' A CIVIL-SERVICE (!) VICTORY. The Democrats of Louisville, with some appreciation of the dishonest inconsistency of defeating a man who has stood by the principle that the President affects to champion, hasten now to declare in print that their action was not intended as * disrespect for the President or the policy he stands - for. If it was not that, what was it? The President himself was inconsistent in tt j [case of the appointment of Mrs. Thompson, for when he was argued with by Kentucky Democrats, his reply was that the request for her reappointment was made by the Democratic Congressman from her district and by one of the United States Senators from that State, and that he could not disregard their “rights” in deciding who should be the appointees in their region. This is the spoils doctrine, pure and simple, and unless the President be insincere in his profession of love for civil-service reform, he was at least guilty of a very serious disregard of it in this instance, for he acted according to the old plan of dividing the offices among those members of Congress nearest the place of appointment. But, whatever the moving impulse of the President in this case, the defeat of the gentleman who had his confidence [and support in this matter was a formal notice to him that his action was disapproved of, and it wa3 nothing else than a slap in his face. It is not probable that he will realize that he has been insulted by the action of the Louisville Democrats, so there is no occasion for such a display of anxiety on their part, unless they are afraid of the effect of their action on the public at large, for if it be conceded that the President’s policy is to be spit on and dishonored, there is an end to it for all that the Democratic party will honor it. The Democrats of Louisville have demonstrated, in a manner that cannot be doubted, that they have the heartiest contempt for civil-service reform, and that they will not submit to any policy that interferes with their “rights” in the matter of dividing up the spoils of victory. There are no mugwumps among Democrats.

ANDOVER THEOLOGY. Some of our esteemed contemporaries have entirely misapprehended the recent action of the American Board touching the question of a future probation. The fact is that this “New Departure" movement in theology came out of the discussion at I>e3 Moine3 at the little end of the horn. Instead of the new theology men, as represented by the Andover Review, gaining any victory, the result was for them a signal defeat. The past action of the prudential committee was not only most heartily approved by the board, but, in addition, that committee was instructed to pursue the same policy in future. Still more significant, if possible, was the action of the board in dropping from the prudential committee the Rev. Prof. Smyth, of Andover Seminary. Prof. Smyth has been and still is in full sympathy with the new departure, and the fact tffiit the board refused to re-elect him is most significant. All this we gather from the dispatches of the Associated Press, and we candidly confess our inability to see in these dispatches what some of our able contemporaries seem clearly to see in them —namely, that the new theology has won a signal victory. Whether this new theology be right or wrong, and whether we like it or not, the truth seems to be that the American Board very decidedly refused to indorse it. It is not at all probable that this is tho end of the new departure movement, but it certain that it found little favor at the recent meeting of the American Board. THE Y. M. 0. A. FESTIVAL. The laying of the corner-stone of the new Y. M. C. A. building, on Thursday, and the grand musical festival to follow the event in the interest of the building fund will be the feature of the week, and should attract the attention and the generous patronage of all the people. The ceremony of laying the stone will be observed on Thursday afternoon, at 4 o’clock, on which occasion a short address will be delivered by President Jordan, of the State University. Prof. Jordan stands at the head of the State institution for the higher education and equipment of young men; he is himself a young man; he is identified with young men, and it is eminently fitting that he is selected to speak the proper words that should be said at the inception of an enterprise intended for the physical, moral and spiritual betterment of young men. On Thursday night the musical festival will begin, for which a chorus of six hundred female voices has been trained by Professor Pearson, which will be assisted by an orchestra of forty pieces, and with Mrs. F. W. Britton, of Cleveland, as soloist. On tho same night ReV. Dr. McPherson, of Chicago, will deliver an address. Concerts will also be given on Friday evening and Saturday afternoon. No effort or expense has been spared to make these concerts worthy in every respect, and we hope to see the City Hall filled to overflowing, as it was on the occasion of tho festival with which (that build-

ing was opened. The occasion and the cause appeal to the pride and generosity of the citizens of Indianapolis. THEY ARE DEMOCRATSThe Sentinel and the Insane Hospital Board have been continually clamoring that the report of the civil-service committee is nothing but the work of Republicans for campaign purposes. But Mr. Thayer, whose complaints prompted the investigation, and who saw the acts of cruelty, is a Democrat. Mr. Gibson, who testified to the wretched character of the supplies furnished, is a Democrat. Dr. Fletcher, who reports to the board that complaints of cruelty are numerous, is a Democrat. Dr. Tarleton, who protested against the incompetency of Hall, the steward, is a Democrat. Captain Stansbury, who shows the failure of bidders to fulfill their contracts, is a Democrat. The officers of the day, who report the wretched character of the subsistence, are Democrats. Mr. J. H. Hoffman, who testifies to crookedness in the appointment of the carpenters, is a Democrat. Mr. Burrell, the member of the board who states that the system of purchasing is a bad one, is a Democrat. Mr. O’Conner, who testified to the unfair character of the bidding, was a Democrat. The previous board, that rejected the claim of John E. Sullivan because the article furnished was oleomargarine, were all Democrats. The Sentinel, which refused to publish the reply of the civil-service committee on the ground that it would make votes for Republicans, it is needless to say is a Democratic organ. It is encouraging to see Mr. Powderly maintain his position in regard to having been introduced to the Knights of Labor convention by a colored man, and declare that he would again invite him to do so under similar circumstances. The swell people of Richmond are not the friends of free labor, and have no patience or sympathy for any who are the champions of the rights of the colored man. It will not take long for organized labor to realize that their only hope of ultimate success is in elevating the colored working man with them. He will be a helper as an equal, a dead weight and obstacle as a citizen disfranchised and kept out of his political rights. The labor question is going to do much to solve the free-eloction problem in the South. There must be free elections there for all men, or labor all over the country is to be the sufferer.

A letter in the Fort Wayne Gazette explains that the reason why Judge Lowry refused the use of his horse and buggy to some ladies who desired to cariy food to sick soldiers was that it was Union soldiers to whom the food was to be taken. The Judge was honestly and earnestly a sympathizer with the Rebellion, and hence could not conscientiously loan his vehicle for any such purpose. If the ladies had desired to'collect food for both Union and confederate—rebel soldiers—the Judge would have unhesitatingly offered his horse and buggy. This explanation, made by a Democratic friend of Judge Lowry’s, must go for what it is worth. If it be the correct one, the Journal is not quite able to see why ex-Union soldiers should be very enthusiastic supporters of such a Congressman. Mr. Powderly thinks it strange that the Richmond people should complain that their hospitality has been abused by the visiting Knights when, as a matter of fact, the convention assembled there upon invitation from no one, and the members are paying for their own entertainment. Mr. Powderly is plainly not aware of the prevailing Southern opinion that a Nothern man who attains the esteemed privilege of sojourning in that region even at the highest hotel rates is thereby placed under. the most sacred social obligations. To read the Democratic papers it might be thought that General Corse, the newly-ap-pointed Boston postmaster, was a bigger man than either Grant or Sherman, and that he really saved the country. The organs cannot stop talking about his brilliant war record. No one is going to find fault with them for this enthusiasm, though; they don’t often have a chance for anything of the kind under this administration. If eligible ex-confeder-ates didn’t happen to be scarce in Boston they wouldn't have an opportunity now. Thf. Washington correspondent of the Baltimore American tells of a boy who made it a point to be present at every reception given by the President, till one day be asked the President for an appointment. He finally secured a place in one of the departments. But that did not prevent him from coming to every reception just as faithfully as before, and after they were over he would run back to his work, apparently very happy. This is a very pretty story, and it may be a romance. Who knows? The'lad may be from the Buffalo Foundling Asylum. The prediction that the women of Washington and New York city would speedily follow Mrs Cleveland's example of posing as a professional beauty has not been realized. None of of them have done so. It were treason to insinuate that the originator of this brilliant idea is not a beauty, professional or otherwise, but that is exactly what the correspondent of the San Francisco Argonaut is ungallant and reckless enough to declare. The professional beautie aie a European product. “He has handled immense sums of money and remains poor,” used to be said of a mau as proof of his honesty; but before being accepted as an indication of probity in these defaulting days it is nacessary to inquire whether the money went to its rightful owners or got away from him on pork deals. With from $250,000 to $300,000 in the general treasury of the order, and with balls, banquets and other entertainments given the visiting delegates at Richmond by the local organization, it looks as if the laboring men would have some

trouble in proving themselves to be the ©oar, downtrodden, poverty-stricken sons of toil that they have claimed to be. Bloated capitalists would hardly fare better than those “oppressed” workingmen are doing, Between the Chicago doctors who restore animation to the dead with dynamite and Georgia physicians who perform the same act by injecting brandy and ammonia into the heart, it will soon come to pass that in the midst of death we shall be in life. Mrs. RiEOEL.of Philadelphia, admitted to the best society of that very exclusive town, ha3 gone on the stage. As she is a beauty and has lots of good clothes, it must be conceded that her debut will be en Riegel. Henry George has been nominated by the workingmen for Mayor of New York, and the Democrats propose naming Mr. Simmons. Some of the voters will swear by George and some per Simmons. The prospectus of the American Opera Company indicates that this organization will score a great musical success the coming season. More than ninety dancers have been secured for the ballet. It was a Georgia woman who was revived with brandy after life was pronounced totally extinct. This is what comes of living in a prohibition State. Will the Attorney-general dare declare that he does not read Literary Life?

ABORT PEOPLE AND TILINGS. Prince Henry of Battenberg has at last learned how to wear a kilt like a genuine Scotchman. Sir Richard Sutton is not only a jolly tar Vut a mighty hunter as well. He rents 25,000 acres of the best deer forest in Scotland. Soldiers are picketed all along the line of the railroad when the Czar travels, with orders to shoot any one who attempts to approach it General Grant bequeathed $5,000 to his physician, Dr. Douglass, but the latter chareed and collected $7,000 additional for medical attendance. The passion for nicknames which reigns in London just now results in christening the proposed American exhibition, which will be arranged next year, the Yankeries. * Mr. and Mrs. Mackay never write letters to each other. Thoy use the telegraph and the cable altogether, and the* little birds and the little fishes are thus enabled to get some of the taffy. Work sadly drags on the alms-houses that are being erected in Paris on the endowment left by the late Mr. William Galignani. Two years have already beeu wasted, thanks to the inevitable red-tape of the French bureaucracy. TnE Armour Brothers, of Chicago, have founded in that city a mission church and school which promise to bestow great benefits upon the needy public. The buildings are nearly ready for occupancy, and include a nursery, kindergarten, a library, bathing-rooms and a free dispensary. The establishment will be maintained by the rentals of fifteen apartment houses, now being erected for the purpose, at a cost of SIOO,OOO. “Mr. Gladstone in society is just as much a center of attraction, and a spectacle of exuberant energy and brilliancy, as in the House of Commons,” says a letter-writer who dips his pen in London ink. “He talks incessantly and delightfully, never mentioning ‘shop.’ His eyes sparkle, his old face lights up with animation, and he laughs the loud, joyous laugh of a school boy. His conversation flits with the lightest of wings over a whole world of subjects.” One day the Czarina appeared in anew corncolored gown, which was much admired by the court ladies. A few minutes later a young lady attached to the imperial household, Miss Feodoroffna Ghika, entered, wearing a gown exactly like it A blunder had been made by the Paris dress-makers, but that did not diminish the Czarina’s evident anger nor the young lady’s consternation. But the Czar came to the rescue. “I and my lieutenants,” he said, smiling, “also wear exactly similar uniforms.” General Sir Rkdvers Bcller i3 a popular and indeed a “model” landlord of large Devonshire estates which turn him about $75,000 a year. He has only one child, a daughter, and if, as is likely, he is raised to the peerage, the patent, will probably be extended to her, as was done in the case of Lord Wolseley and his daughter. Sir Rodvers has four brothers: a Staffordshire pottery owner, a doctor, a Ceylon planter, and a real estate agent. Their mother was a niece of the Duke of Norfolk. A near relative is Dr. F. Buller, the eminent Canadian oculist. „ A story comes from Huntingdon, W. Va. that a man saw, at the entrance to a cave near that place, a serpent forty feet long swallowing a sheep. He hurried up the hill above the cavern and rolled a huge bowlder down on the monster, which let the sheep go and it rushed from the cave. The man ran home and told his story, and the neighbors armed themselves-and started for the cavern. Upon arriving at the place nothing could be seen of the snake or the sheep, but upon approaching the mouth of the cavern a sickening stench met them, such as that coming from a maddened snake, and its fierce blowings and hissings could be heard. They could do nothing with it, so had to return to their homes. A search will be organized to hunt up the monster. COMMENT AND OPINION. If the Chicago Anarchists had worked half as hard as they talk they wouldn’t be whero they are. —Philadelphia Times. Gen. Neal Dow says that no party is capable pf more than one reform. Have they never had a progressive euchre party in Maine?—Boston Record. This is a bad season of the year for workingmen to strike, unless their coals are in the cellar and the winter clothing and winter fare provided for. —Philadelphia Record. When it is accepted that every man does not become a scoundrel the moment he offers for office, we shall be able to induce better men to become candidates. —Atlanta Constitution. The drinking habits of a people are not removed in a day, and there is not an instance on record where they were essentialty reformed by the operation of law. The lessening of the grogshops is a good end, and it ought to be encouraged; but the most reliable way of achieving it is by beginning in the other direction and working upon the grogshop’s customers. —Boston Herald. The revolutionist of the future is the wise and unselfish man who interprets in his life the ethics of Christianity; and whatever abuses may be found to exist in America, they are beyond the power of the angry foreigner to correct who comes to a peaceful country on an errar.d of war, with nothing to recommend him but disheveled hair, frantic gesticulation and a frothy and explosive habit of speech.—New York Tribune. Senator Ingalls, of Kansas, declares himself a convert to prohibition, after having for years stoutly resisted that doctrine. This step is made necessary on his part by the fact that in Kansas the temperance issue has been reduced to a plain choice between prohibition and free whisky. Where such a question is presented a good Republican very naturally prefers prohibition, and most Democrats just as naturally choose free whisky.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The doctrine of the Chicago cases I s that alone by which society can be protected froiS the most dastardly of indiscriminate assassinations. Even admitting these men to' be the victims of a wild delusion and imbued with the idea that they were engaged in a crusade against monstrous injustice and oppression, what are their lives compared with those of thd men, women and childreu who might become the victims of the modes of redress which they advocated?—New York Times.

COY’S DABK POLITICAL PLOTS vSchemes of the Little Boss for Getting Full Control ot the Ballot-BBxes. He Quietly Arranges to Have the follsOpened in Heavy Democratic Wards an Hour Before the Generally Expected Time. Taggart’s False Pretensions of Friendship to the Colored People. Dissatisfaction Among Workingmen Over th* Unfair Manipulation of the Central Labor Union in Bynum’s Interest. ANOTHER OP COY'S SCHEMES;

The Polls In Democratic Wards To Be Opened an Hour Earlier than Expected. The Democratic inspectors, of whom there if one in every voting precinct of the county, except in the four townships having Republican, trustees, who act as inspectors by virtue of their office, will have absolute control of the next election, from the time the first vote is cast to the last return passed upon by the canvassing board. More than this, the inspector in each precinct will have the power to appoint two judges to act with him—one a Democrat and the other a Republican. This is the boginning of his authority, and it gives to the Democrat* a majority of the precinct election board, which will pass upon all questions relating to the suffrages of the people. Agaiu the election board will appoint two clerks, one a Republican and the other a Democrat. Thus all power in appointment falls upoß the Democratic inspector, who will be sure not to give the people an opportunity to select a judge at the polls, which they can do if the inspector fails to act. Sim Coy, having assumed the authority of the auditor to notify these inspector# to qualify, “as this is a matter of great importance, and must be attended to without delay, 1 n will see that every inspector appointed by him, with the approval of the County Commissioners, is on the spot at the opening of the polls. Having conducted the election to suit themselves, the inspectors will sit as canvassers of their own returns. The law places upon thi* board a ministerial duty only, but it is all Sim Coy asks, as the canvassers will have no authority to reject a tally-paper, poli-book or certificate returned from any election by the board of judges thereof for want of form, nor for lack of being strictly in accordance with the direction# Contained in the election law,’ it the fcajae can to satisfactorily understood.” But the law goea further in the next sentence, and says “such board of canvassers shall in no case reject the returns from any precinct, if the same be certified by the board of election of the precinct.” N© matter what the return is, bo it is signed as directed, the canvassers must accept it and count the votes thereon. It may expose the most glaring frauds in cancellation of tallie# credited to a Republican candidate, and added to his Democratic competitor, but the canvassers have the power to receive it without inquiry into such acts of injustice. The tallies .may carry with them absolute proof of having bean reached by an illegal count of illegal votes from a stuffed ballot-box, and yet there is no help for the candidates or candidate thus wronged, if th# election board appointed by a Democratic inspector says the return is all right and gives it a certification. About a year ago the exciting incidents attending the recount of the vote of the mayoralty election occurred. The Democrats had sway through Sterling Holt and Albert Ayres, the recounting commissioners representing that party. Sim Coy and John E. Sullivan were watchers in the interest of Cottrell, but the majority of the board and Sullivan, as well, obeyed the order# of Coy. He was the master of the situation and advised the breaking of the sealed ballot-bog containing votes that had been recounted, ia order that they might be counted again to produce a different result. Sullivan got the hatchet, Sterling Holt used it, and Albert Ayres acquiesced in the proceeding. Ayres ia the Democratic candidate for criminal judge and Sullivan the Democratic candidate for countv clerk, with Sim Coy the ruler of the party machinery. During this recount Coy insisted oa handling the ballots when they wer# emptied by precincts on the table. He had his upper left-hand vest pocket at all times bulging out with Democratic tickets. Th* Democratic contestant for the mayoralty, whil* tho ballots were being sorted, would always make it a point to stand between the Republican watcher and Coy, who held his position directly in front of Holt and Ayres. Several crisp new tickets never failed to turn up among those that had passed throueh the hands of voters, and they were counted,credited to Cottrell, strungand replaced in their ballot-box, which was resealed. When the tallies were added, and Cottrell still wanting a few to be elected, Holt and Ayres allowed (Joy to recount them again. The bright, crisp tickets that never passed through a voter#' hand, again appeared in increased numbers, bul after all Coy had to give up the count. However, he coneoled himself with the remark that if he had another chance his man would b* elected. This is one of the Coy methods, and no on* need be told what he will demand ot the Democratic inspectors at the approaching election. It is ho who had them appointed and. he will not miss the opportunity to remind them, as he doe# the police, “If it had not been for me you fellows would not be on this board.” As he controlled the recounting commissioners so he mastered Commissioners Sahm and Reveal in the appointment of the inspectors. Those two officers, who, under the law, should have made tho appointments, delayed doing so until Coy and Spencer, the county attorney, came in at the last hour of about the lost day of the June term with tho list prepared. Th# Commissioners ratified the selections, and ably not one of them except Sahm knew who were to be appointed. On the same day Coy asked of these Commissioners an order to have the polls opened at 6 o’clock in the morning. A law of the last Legislature gave the board authority to do this in every precinct, whero twenty voters applied for the change. The Commissioners had ia their possession applications from every precinct of city and township except the Third of the Second ward, First of the Tenth and the three precincts of the Eleventh. In all other precincts but these the County Commissioners, at the bidding of Coy, have ordered the opening of the polls at G o’clock in the morning. That a change was made has been known for some time, but through Democratic reports many Ro* publicans on the South Side have th© idea that 7 o’clock was the hour named. It is an hour earlier, and is in keeping with other Coy methods. At that time it will still be dark. The manipulation of the poll-books can be done at any time during the day. but it 16 necessary to get in as many fraudulent votes as possible before Republicans are very thick about the polls of Dernocratio wards. Late in the evening, just before the polls are closed, it is expected to havo the ballotbox stuffing take place. This is to be the development of tho scheme in having the polls opened at G o’clock in the morning. This order was passed ostensibly fit the reqne&J of twonty voters in each precinct. It is known that tho petitions, before they were presented, were in the hands of Sim Coy. They were carried to the board by County Attorney Spencer. Whether the signatures were real or ficticious does not appear. The petitions ar# now in the keeping of the Democratic county central committee, or in other words they ar# controlled by Sim Coy, for on the 18th of htl