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THE DAILY JOURNAL FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, ISBG. WASHINGTON OFFICE—SI3 Fourteenth St. P. S. llkath. Correspondent. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL. Can be found at the following places: IjONDON—American Exchange in Europe, 449 Strand. * PARlS—American Exchange in Paris, 35 Boulevard des Capucine*. NEW YORK—St. NicholasTand Windsor Hotels. CHICAGO—PaImer House. CINCINNATI—J. P. Hawley Ss Cos.. 154 Vine street LOUISVILLE— C. T. Hearing, northwest corner Third ami Jefferson streets. ST. LOUIS —Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern Hotel. WASHINGTON, D. C.—Riggs House and Ebbitt House. ..—... - ■ . ~ Telephone Calls. Business Office 238 | Editorial R00m5......242 Mr. Bynum deserves to bo thrown out of the Democratic party. —Indianapolis Sentinel. Mr. Bynum has forfeited the respect of every Democrat. —Indianapolis Sentinel. VOTE for the devil, if necessary, to secure the election of a Democratic United States Senator. —Isaac P. Gray, Governor of Indiana, at Logansport. So long as this management continues, it will remain exclusively partisan.—“ Dr.” T. H. Harrison, president of the benevolent hoards of the State. If I had my way, I would vote the inmates •f the Insane Hospital.—“lion.” Sim Coy, chairman of the Marion county Democratic central committee. Strange, isn’t it, that Democratic papers of other States do not come to the aid of the party in Indiana? An Eastern exchange contains a profound article on the genesis of the Anarchists. What the majority of the people are more interested in now is their exodus. The managers of tho Hospital for the luaauo think diseased pork good enough for the insane, and Chairman Coy would vote them to a man if he could. No wonder the State was gerrymandered. It is about time that the Chicago strike were ended. The packers cannot afford to disregard public sentiment by refusing or foiling to do all in their power to get their works again in running order. The Sentinel, in an unguarded moment, expresses an admiration for backbone. It is a psychological principle that what ono has the least of he most esteems. The Sentinel was probably thinking of its experience with Mr. Bynum. The Sentinel says it hasn’t been kicked in large capitals. Well, perhaps it wasn't so bad as that; the’ operat ion may have been accomplished with small caps or italics, or oven with mere dashes. It was doae,-*'and done deftly, and it is hardly worth *wbile to go into details.

Mr. Cleveland is reported to have said that he has no charges showing that any office holder has meddled with politics improperly. If this is so, then it mast be that the formal charges which ore said to have boon sent to Washington have got lost in the “reformed" Democratic mails. The Springfield Republican remarks with more haste than accuracy that “Indiana is a black spot for civil-service reform, and i3 likely to be, but the work of the reform association is treated*, with respect by the politicians, and that is one point gained." By the Republican politicians, yes, but what others, for instance? Not the Democrats, certainly; and, up to date, not by the administration. Tnr;Sentiuel says that if Ger.ei’al Corse had been appointed Secretary of War the President would have had about him “at least one man with a backbone." Mercy! Doesn’t this mvor of disloyalty to the administration? And what is the matter with Vilas? Doesn’t the rate at which he is turning out Republican postmasters indicate the possession of that sort of backbone which the Sentinel most admires? There need be no passion in this campaign in Indiana. Unless the people feel indignant at the infamous treatment accorded the insane, or over the gerrymander, whereby they are debarred from ; nquiring into these abuses or into the condition of the State Treasury, there is absolutely no occasion for the people of Indiana to take much interest in public affairs. If, however, they feel that mies should be rebuked, they will be excused for expressing the heartiest condemnation, and the marvel will be if they do not. The Democrats in charge of the Hospital for the Insane have been feeding the unfortunate inmates on the flesh of dise.ased hogs, and those in charge of the mono} 7 borrowed to erect new accommodations for this unfortunate class are using it in some other way, while the contractors are hawking estimate allowances about the State for buyers at 7 and 8 per cent, discount, which must inevitably come off the workingmen who are doing tho work. This is one of tho reasons why the gerrymander was arranged, so as to prevent the people from looking into their affairs. We regret to see that an erroneous impression prevails among certain excellent but nonicclesiastical journals in regard to the religious controversy, at Andover, growing out of the statement that tho matter might have to be settled in the civil courts. For the benefit of t&ese secular brethren, it seems necessary to

explain that the civil courts will not be called upon to decide the question of probation after death, but merely the right of Andover professors to draw their respective salaries after announcing their belief in doctrines differing from those to which they subscribed on first entering upon their duties. The alarmed and but too worldly editors can calm their fears with the assurance that their future fate is not to be determined by a Boston jury trial. DEMOCRATIC ALARM AND FRAUDThe Democratic managers are evidently alarmed at the outlook in the State, and are preparing all manner of schemes and frauds. The following circulars, issued by the chairman of the State central committee, have come into our hands, and tell their own story: [No. 1. ] Indianapolis, Ind., Sept. 27,188 G. [Dictated.] Dear Sir—lndiana is a Democratic State, and can ocly be lost by the inactivity of our pood organizers and workers at the polls. Your work in the campaign and at the election in 1884 warrants me in writing you now to £fiain place yourself in the lead, and see that every Democrat is for the entire ticket, and ready to go to tne election and vote. I know you will be on hand when the polls are declared opened, and remain until thev are closed. TTTK DOUBTFL L OTERS ARE THE FELLOWS WE WANT. You must challenge, or have challenged, every illegal Republican who attempts to vote, and see that all Democrats who have a right to vote are sworn in, if challenged. Organize a sufficient force to protect every Democrat in his peaceful rights. See that no voter is led to the polls by Republicans, and forced to vote against his political sentiments. I reel assured of victory in the State, and write you this plain letter because I have implicit confidence in your willingness to work for that victory. Two years ago I assured our friends everywhere we would carry the Stato by from six to eight thousand; it was no guess work but the result of figures furnished me by Democrats like yourself. lam again i f command, and do not intend we should be beaten. WILL YOU STAND BY ME AS YOU DID THEN? If so, all is well. I hope some time to take you by the hand as one who did his whole duty for his party, and the perpetuation of good government, administered by TRUK Democrats, from the President down to the smallest federal officer. I am. very truly, yours, Eb Henderson, Chairman. [NoT 2.] Indianapolis, Ind., Oct. 11, 1886. Dear Sir—ln order to reach the German voters in a more effective manner we are preparing reading matter for them, and have arranged that they may correspond with us in their own language. It is also contemplated to bring about an organization among themselves to run parallel and in unison with the main organization. For these purposes you are respectfully and earnestly requested to give us a small number of addresses of German Democrats in your county, well considered as to locality and activity, at tour earliest convenience. Respectfully, Eb Henderson, Chairman. Mr. Hendeison wants “the doubtful fellows,’’ and his instructions are not to fail to understand that “doubtful fellows” must be had. Just what, tho cash prico of “the doubtful fellows” may bo expected to be Mr. Henderson does not say, but they must be had. The talk of Republicans leading voters to the polls and forcing them to vote against their sentiments is, of course, merely a negative way of telling Democrats how to lead up ttieir purchased men and vote them according to the terms of the bill of sale. The Democratic workers are instructed to challenge or have challenged all the Republicans possible, and to organize a sufficient force to see that Republicans are intimidated wherever possible, and allowed to take active control of the election. This is the Democratic game, wherever they feel strong enough to play it. They are preparing for it in Indianapolis, and will prepare for it wherever they can put it in operation, under tho impetus of such a man as “Sim” Coy, who is the directing force of the Democratic campaign. These schemes and plots the Republicans must meet. They must bo met by organization; by unflinching work and determination; bv the law, and by the immediate arrest and unrelenting prosecution of any and every scoundrel who attempts fraud or intimidation. The “gerrymander” is as much as Republicans should be asked or expected to stand. If that is to be supplemented by fraud and intimidation tactics, on the Democrats be the responsibility. The effort to capture the German vote may well be left to Germans themselves. There are too many self-respecting men among Ger-man-Americans to permit such a shameless proposition to vote them as so many sheep to succeed. But it is well for Republicans and the people of the State to know the plots of the disreputable Democracy.

WHO OWNED THAT ORDER? It will be remembered that at the time the legislative committee called on the Treasurer of State for an exhibit of the State’s funds in his hands, among the securities he then showed the committee was an order for SIO,OOO on Hamilton county. How did that order get into the Treasurer’s hands? The treasurer of Hamilton county never sold that order to Mr. Cooper; but, on the contrary, that order, which was for a temporary loan, and dated Dec. 22, 1884, due six months after' date, with interest at tho rate of 8 per cent, per annum, was sold to the First National Bank of Indianapolis, and the First National Bank paid to tho treasurer of Hamilton county the full face value of the order—slo,000. In January, 1885, the legislative committee called upon the treasury for a showing of tho State funds, and presto! among the securities appears this ten-thousand-dollar order. If Mr. Cooper had the money why did lie exhibit the order, and if he had bought the order from the bank with the State money, who received the interest? The interest amounted to S4OO. If the order was tho property of the State the State was entitled to the interest. The State never received a single cent of interest on that order, for the simple reason that tho order did not belong to tho State. To tjhom was that S4OO of interest paid? If the order was the property of the State, who appropriated the S4OO of interest? These inquiries, and the facts touching the ownership and exhibition of that SIO,OOO ns a part of the assets of the State Treasurer, only add to the mystery and unsatisfactory nature of that alleged legislative investigation of the treasury. Tho presence of that county order, and the absence of any accounting to

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the State for the S4OO of interest, will add strength to the demand that is going up all over the State for tho opening of the treasury and an accounting of the funds. Open the State Treasury; count the money. MR. CLEVELAND'B CIVIL SERVICE. Says Mr.-Lucius B. Swift, a gentleman who worked and voted for the election of Grover Cleveland as President of the United States, and who is the chairman of the executive committee of the Civil-service Reform Association of the State of Indiana: “Regarding the Pendleton act, the President said: *Mv conception * * * of public duty requires that this * * * should be, in good faith and without evasion, enforced, and * * * I have in effect promised the people that this should be done.’ Yet, in the Indianapolis postoffice, the only office in Indiana within the Pendleton act, that law has been completely and faithlessly evaded and nullified.” Says Ml Swift: “' ir ’ith regard to removals, the President said that 'They should not be made during the terms for which they (the incumbents) are appointed solely on partisan grounds, for the purpose of putting in their places those who are in political accord with the appointing power.’ Y'et the displacement of former employes by those in political accord with the appointing power has, in this State, using the words of Mr. Hendricks, in 187 G, been a 'remorseless proscription for political opinions.’” Says Mr. Swift: “Speaking of former partisan officials, the President said: ‘Such officials, as well as their successors, should be taught that efficiency, fitness and devotion to public duty are the conditions of their continuance in public place.’ Yet their successors have been platoons and companies of ‘unscrupulous manipulators of local party management. Says Mr. Swift: “The President said of many former incumbents that ‘they had forfeited all just claims to retention * * * because, instead of being decent public servants, they had proved themselves offensive partisans and unscrupulous manipulators of local party management.’ Yet of the hundreds of their successors, who, in Indiana, have impudently and brazenly manipulated the local party machine, not one has forfeited hi3 place.” • Says Mr. Swift: “The President said: ‘Selections for office not embraced within the civil-service rules will be based upon sufficient inquiry as to fitness.’ Yet the places in Indiana have been given out as tho booty of Congressmen in disregard of fitness.” Says Mr. Swift: “The President said Oct. 30, 1884: ‘lnhere should be no mistake about contest. It is an attempt to break down the barriers of the people of the United States, and those that rule them. The people are bound down by a class of office-holders. * * * *’ Y'et this year, in six congressional districts of this State, tho federal office-holders have, without hindrance or rebuke, thwarted the will of the people.” Says Mr. Swift: “It is not a pleasant task for those civilservice reformers who had a steadfast faith that every promise would be kept to examine the work done and report the truth; but their sincerity is on trial. Besides, to stand silent now would impose silence when some other party succeeds to the national administration. The truth must be statod plainly. In Indiana civil-service reform has been disgraced and made contemptible.” These are not tho expressions of a JCepublican partisan; they are the statements and the opinions of a man who felt that the Republican party was not good enough for him in 1884, but who exerted his utmost influence to secure the choice of Grover Cleveland, with the impression and expectation that under his administration civil-service reform would be in the hands of its friends. In 1884 Mr. Swift and his colleagues had the promise; in 188 G they have the fulfillment. Behold the contrast.

MR. BYRNE AND THE “RING." We received the following fiery and untamed last night, from Mr. T. B. Byrne, of Evansville, the Democratic candidate for Treasurer of State: “In to-day’s Journal you copy an infamous libel ou me, published originally in the Commercial Gazette. The statements made concerning me, with the single exception that I am not rich, areJfalse in every syllable. I demand an immediate retraction. “T. B. Byrne." We beg to say to Mr. Bvrne, that it might be well fdt him to keep cool. The Journal is not in tho habit of publishing libels upon anybody, “infamous" or otherwise; and if it has published one upon Mr. Byrne, we shall be quick to retract it, not on his demand, but because justice and right demand it. What we copied from the Commercial Gazette is the following: “To further aid them in hiding the real condition of the Treasury, the ring secured the nomination of Tom Byrne for Treasurer. Tho Treasurer is required to give a boud of $750,000, and it is natural to expect that a man with some property of his own would be nominated for such a place; yet Byrne has not a dollar. In fact, he was not able to pay bis assessment for campaign purposes, and it was paid by the ring, and it is whispered about that the money came from the State Treasury. If money can buy the election of Byrne he will be the next Treasurer, for the ring is desperate, and will throw into the campaign immense sums of money." That a “ring" nominated Mr. Byrne wo presume no one will deny. His nomination was “set up" weeks and months before the convention met. He was the candidate of a “ring," and is the nominee of a “ring." The objects that “ring" had in nominating him are perfectly legitimate matters for inference, to be deduced from all the facts at hand; and the Journal believes there is good reason for the people of Indiana to think that one of . the reasons is to koep the real condition of the State treasury from being found out. The “ring" succeeded in doing that during the last Legislature, and the “ring" will succeed in doing it again unless the Republican candidate for Treasurer and a Republican Legislature are elected. That is a belief we have a perfect right to entertain, and one which the Journal has frej quently expressed on its own account Mr. Byrne concedes that he is not a rich man, but tho “libel" must be on the suggestion that lie was not able to pay his campaign assessment, which was paid hjr

the ring, it being whksper€cTthat the money came from the State treasury. If this is what he complains of, we fail to see how that is an “infamous libel” on Mr. Byrde; but if he feels that it is, and if his denial goes to that point, we very gladly deny it. But we say again, and say emphatically, that if the people of the State want to know the real condition of the State treasury, they will have to defeat the Democratic “ring” candidate by voting the Republican ticket. Only in this way will the books be opened and the money counted We have no doubt but the “ring” will spend a great deal of money to prevent this. The Democracy will use all manner of fraud, if necessary, to se cure themselves from defeat. If Mr. Byrne does not think they will, be is too innocent to associate with the “ring” into whose hands he has fallen. IT WAS NOT KICKED. We must beg the indulgence of our readers for reprinting from the Sentinel of yesterday the following able article: “The News yesterday printed an account of a difference, if we may call it such, between the Sentinel on one side, and some of Mr. Bynum’s friends on the other. The News's reporter is right—and he is wrong. The Sentinel has no complaint to make against Mr. Bynum—Mr. Bynum is consideration itself —except that it believes he should take a few of his fool friends—indeed, we may say one particular fool friend—his First Lieutenant, so to speak—the man with an eye to a postoffice, as it were—out into a back alley and apply a very vigorous lash. .“The Sentinel has bad a great deal to endure. It has endured a great deal because of its disposition to serve the Democratic party. It has, it may be remarked in passing, endured about ail it deems necessary. “It seems to be a time—now that the election is about twenty-two days off—for some very earnest denials and apologies. The Sentinel serves the Democratic party because it believes in Democratic principles. It is compelled to serve no man or set of men, particularly a set of loud-mouthed swashbucklers who haven't the discretion of careful politicians or the graces of gentlemen. “Most emphatically, the Sentinel has not been KICKED into the support of anybody. The kicking boot, if memory serves, has been on another le^ “We know no reason why bats should not be taken off to the Indianapolis Sentinel.” It was not KICKED. The Sentinel says so, and it says that “Mr. Bynum is consideration itself,” because he did not kick it. The kicking seems to have been done by Mr. Frank Creelmau, and the Sentinel demands an apology for the indignity, inasmuch as “the election is twenty-two days off.” The Sentinel scarcely feels able to the task of “keeping in” for so loDg a time, unless Mr. Bynum’s kicking lieutenant makes an apology and some other people make “very earnest denials.” It is evident that something must be done. If an “apology” is not made, at least “hats should be taken off.” The Sentinel is affording the community a vast deal of amusement at the present time. It seems to be edited “between the mint bed and the sugar-trough.”

The foreign boycotters, of the fellows pardoned by Governor Hill, after having served a terra of three months for the crime of boycotting, shows that they were very far from deserving the kindness shown them. They pleaded in mitigation of their offense that they were ignorant of the law on the subject, and professed repentance of what they had done. As soon as they reached the station at New York city they were met by a committee of Socialists and Anarchists, and were at once erected into martyrs, and were welcomed as though they had escaped from some tyrant who would punish them without reason. The fellows themselves consented to address the drunken crowd, and proceeded at once to denounce the court that convicted them and the Governor who had interfered in their behalf. They declared that there must be war for the “rights” of labor, and ran the gamut of incendiary and revolutionary talk. It is apparent that it was mistaken clemency on the part of Governor Hill to release them from Sing Sing. They have had fair warning, however, and now if their offense is repeated there should be no mercy shown. Their names indicate that they are all foreignborn, who have come to this country only to abuse the larger liberty they find here. They should be taught that the American people will not tolerate such things on the part of men who seek the hospitality of these shores, nor of any men, native or foreign. It is infamous that so much has been borne from this class of cut-throats, and it is a mistake to longer temporize with them. It is to be hoped that nothing will intervene to save the Chicago miscreants from the fate they so richly deserve. These men must be dealt with as they have merited, and the time to begin on them is right now. They are tho enemies of all the people, rich and poor. The authorities at Washington have been formally notified that the American flag has been wantonly insulted and hauled down in Canadian waters. The notification will probably be filed away in the State Department among the President’s “private” papers. The Secretary of State lias shown no disposition to deal with the dispute betweeu American and Canadian fishermen. Even a small power like Mexico is too much for him. Says the Sentinel: “You have heard from Colorado, Mr. President, and you have heard from Louisville. You will presently hear from Indiana.” If the Sentinel refers to the progress of "reform” in these various precincts, the President has already heard from Indiana per Swift, but be doesn’t seem inclined to throw up his hat over the matter. At the American Academy of Medicine, now in session at Pittsburg, one member Ims had the

audacity to suggest that doctors ought to know how to spell, and to urge that a literary as well as a medical education be required of all students before they are permitted to practice. If such a rule should be adopted and made retroactive, the members of the profession who would be turned out to grass would thin the ranks amazingly. The “family doctor” is usually a dear attentive man, but it too often happens that he can deal out physic better than he can spell it Something new in journalistic enterprise is an interview with a divorced and re married man on the subject of his former wife. ExGovernor Sprague says some very flattering things of Mrs. Kate Chase to a newspaper correspondent He is pleased to observe that she is a very fine woman, with rare charms of person and manner, and is of the opinion that she will bring up her “daughters to be an honor to their blood and parentage.” Mr. Sprague regrets that th® world has been so inconsiderate in its treatment of her, and thinks she should bo permitted go her way, unmolested by the intrusion of comment or scandal. Tho ex-husband does not add to these excellent sentiments any expression of regret for his own inconsiderate treatment of the lady, nor any apologies for talking about her now; but no one who reads his ill-timed comments can wonder that Mrs. Chase prefers a place of residence which puts an ocean between them. A Boston’ paper makes the suggestive remark that the subject of probation after death is the burning religious question in that city. Dr. Withrow is said to be the only old school pastor who absolutely repudiates the second probation, but it would probably not be proper to draw the inference that the “burning” interest of all the rest of the people in the matter is duo to the fact that they are heathen, and not willing to burn

SOLDIERS’ REUMONS. Successful Reunions of Old Soldiers at Points in Indiana and Illinois. Special to the ludianaDolis Journal. Gosport, Oct. 11— The reunion of the Twen-ty-first and the Fifty-ninth Indiana was held at Gosport to-day. After short addresses by Dr. Wooden, Colonel Burton and Colonel Robertson, adjournment was taken for dinner, which was served in the town park. At Ir. m. the late membersof the Twenty-first Indiana, First Heavy Artillery, mot in the hall and effected a permanent organization for future reunions. Dr. Jesse Jones, of Cataract, was made chairman, and L. E. Campbell, of Centerton, secretary of the meeting. At roll call the members present wer6: Company B—James Grimsiey, James R. Henry, Charles Myers, James Jinnisonf M. L. Rodgers, Joseph Wampler, Martin F. Arnett, G. E. Chrisraan, W. R. Dacley, all of Gosport Vint Anderson, Silas Johnson, Albert Taber, of Quincy; Newton Edwards of Fountainville. Company E—H. Murphy, of Spencer. Company H—F. M. Moody, of Frankfort. Company K H. 11. Olds, of Martinsville; William Black, of Brooklyn; Jesse Jones, of Cataract; L. E. Campbell, of Centerton. Company L—B. F. Frogdon, of Mooresville; James E. Ward, of Indianapolis. On motion the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, James R. Henry; vice-presidents. Captain Fisher, of Company A. Grant county; Captain Book, of Bloomfield, Ind.; Captain G. W. Branson, of Company E; Captain John F. Campbell, of Rockville; Walter Elkins, of Saline, Ind.; Lieutenant Seth Matthews, Company K, of Brooklyn; T. J. Youart, of Indianapolis: Major Ed Armstrong, of Terre Haute; H. H. Old. treasurer, L. E. CamDbell, recording secretary; James M. Grimsiey, corresponding secretary. The next meeting was appointed for Bethany Park, near Brooklyn, Ind., Sept. 14, 1687. At North Salem. Special to the lndi&naoolig Journal. North Salem, Oct. 14—The Ona-bundred-and-seventeenth Indiana Regiment held their first reunion since the war, at North Salem. Hen dricks county, to-day, and perfected a permanent organization. There were about one hundred of the survivors of the regiment present, and the day was very enjoyably spent in speechmaking and the renewing of old acquaintance ship. The citizens of the town spread an excellent dinner for the members of the regiment and their families. Quite a number of the members of the regiment who reside in Indianapolis were in attendance. John A. Moorman, late quartermaster of the regiment, was chosen chairman, and Arch McGinnis, late sergeant o's Company E, secretary. Those present were Nicholas A. Owens, private, Company A; C. W. Ilasket, private, Company A; A. J. Smith, private, Company A; J. C. Walker, private, Company A; C. F. White, private, Company A: C. A. White, corporal, Company A; E. H. Hall, sergeant, Company A; Thomas Welshans, musician, Company B: Addison Soots, corporal, Company B; E. D. Nichols, private, Company B; D. B. Keleher, private, Company B: N. J. Ilouk, private. Company B; W. H. Nichols, private, Company B; J. M. Jetfries, private, Company B; Fred L. Patterson, private, Company B; William R. Scherer, private, Company B; J. W. Irwin, private, Company B; O. T. Ivuhn; A. McGinnis, sergeant. Company C; John A. Moorman, quartermaster of the regiment; C. W. Stewart, chaplain of the regiment. At Greensburg. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Gueexsburg, Oct. 14.—Owing to the inclemency of tho weather, to-day, the first day of the soldiers’ reunion was not as well attended as wa3 expected. However, a goodly number came on the trains from a distance, and the “boys” had a good time. In the afternoon, at the operahouse, Frank E. Gavin, son of the late Col. James * Gavin, delivered an address of welcome, which [was resDonded to in a.i address by Gen. Thomas W, Bennett, of Richmond. To-morrow will be the big day, with a sham battle in the afternoon, and the dedication of the soldiers' lot in the cemetery. Reunion of the Twenty. Sixth Illinois. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Bloomington. Oct. 14. —The reunion of tho Twenty-sixth Illinois Volunteers closed to-dav. This morning the veterans visited the Soldiers* Orphans' Home at Normal, and spent several hours in an inspection of the institution and its workings. Adjutant Hardon, of Covington, Ind., delivered a short address. Captain Kereg, of Normal, explained to the children the meaning of “Marching Through Georgia,” a song which they had ju3tsung. The visitors then passed resolutions asking the Grand Army of tho Republic of Illinois to use their influence to secure the erection of the new buildiugs needed at the home. Tho veterans elected the following officers: President, Captain Custer, of Homer, III.; vice-president, Capt. John A. Davis, of Downs, 111.; secretary, Adjutant C. E. Harden, of Covington, Ind.; treasurer, Capt. T. N. King, of Normal, 111. The next reunion will be held at Effingham, 111., Oct 12 and 13, 1887. Sixtyfour veterans were present at the reunion. Schooner and Two Lives Lost. Port Colboune,, Ont., Oct. 14.—An unknown schooner, supposed to boa three-masted vessel, foundered wlion about three miles off this pOPt, this afternoon. She had just openod up the ranges and was straightened away for the harbor when she disappeared. The tug Booth started immediately to try and pick up the sailors. A heavy gale was blowing from the southwest at the time. Later. —The tug Booth has returned and reports the foundered vessel as the schooner Geo. M. Chase, Captain Cook, grain laden, bound from Chicago for Buffalo. When the Booth reached the ill-fated vessel she found thetug W. A. Moore there, and together they saved four of the crew, whom they found clinging to the spars which stuck up out of the water. Captain Cook and one man never came up alter the Teasel went down.

MR. BYNUM’S LIEUTENANT, Pleasant Reading for Friends and Ad-> mirers of the Late Vice-President. The Man Who Made and Who Now Rons Mr t Bynum Calls Mr. Hendricks a “NaturalBorn, Djed- in-the-Wool Traitor,” Etc. In the Lafayette Courier of the 20th of April, 1880, appeared the following article, which wilt be good reading now. This same Mr. Creelmat is still Mr. Bynum's principal manager, or, as th* Sentinel calls him, Mr. Bynum’s lieutenant If -Bynum is elected, Creelman will gain the “usufruct” How many Hendricks Democrats will help the Bynum-Creelman combination? A Courier representative was introduced to Frank E. Creelman. the defeated candidate sos the postmastershiD of Indianapolis, in the Labr House rotunda. Mr. Creelman was in the city yesterday and this morning, on business connected with his wholesale grocery. He found Mr. Creelman a pleasant, communicative sort or on individual of about thirty-five years of age, and not at all averse to talking about the late unpleasantness. “We have been hearing a great deal about yoft of late. Mr. Creelman,” the reporter remarked bf way of a sta&ter. “I expect that you have, and * significantly, “the time will come when I shall be heard front again, in a way that may not be altogether pleasant for some of the parties interested in the fight just ended. 1 want you to understand lam tu no wise disappointed in not getting the appointment. It would have cost me SIO,OOO and 1117 business, which nets me $6,500 a year. My only desire to gain the appointment was to gratify mv friends, and for the honors I might obtain by a clean, business like administration of the office. It was at the earnest solicitation of Mr. Bynum, Senator McDonald and others that I entered the race, against my inclinations. I had elected Bynum in a county strongly Republican, cutting down a. large Republican majority. Os course I did it with money and hard work and all that sort o£ thing, and had I been appointed postmaster should have bent every energy toward insuring tho continued success of my party in th* county. Mr. Hendricks himself was at first disposed to favor me, but when he sent a friend of his to sound me on the patronage business and 1 sent him back word that if the appointment of ft janitor would secure hi3 support I would nek make the appointment, he turned his batteries against me. I was determined that lIE [Hendricks] SHOULD NOT USE ME TO SECURE SINECURES FOR HIS BARNACLES-PO-LITICAL PROSTITUTES—WITH WHOM HE HAD BEEN WHORING FOR YEARS.”

“How do you account for bis support of Aquillft Jones? Was it his life-long friendship, and in return for services rendered years ago, when Jones was a power?” “The most charitable construction we can put on his action is that THE OLD MAN HAS GONE INTO HIS DOTAGE. There can be no doubt that he is getting/childish. How else can you account for the selection of Hughes East for his private secretary?” Here Mr. Creelman interjected a number of forcible statements concerning the private secretary, which might destroy the beauty jv4 symmetry of the type, and hence are withheld from tho public. “This is the man the Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks, Vice-president of tho United States, takes in his confidence. 1 have always been opposed to Hendricks—first, BECAUSE HE WAS A TRAITOR TO HIS COUNTRY, and I was a war Democrat. Show me any decided stand Tom Hendricks has ever taken that was no*; antagonistic to the principle and the spirit of our government. lam opposed to him, in the second place, because I was and am a hard money Democrat, along with McDonald, while Hendricks—well, nobody knows where he stood, not even the Vice-president. Third —I am opposed to him because HE IS A NATURAL BORN, DYED-IN-THE-WOOL. TRAITOR. NOT ONLY TO HIS COUNTRY. BUT TO HIS BEST FRIENDS, WHENEVER IT SERVED HIS PURPOSE. He has betrayed McDonald, whom I admire for his honesty and integrity, and who is opposite in every trait, whenever the oceastouJfc 51 *"' seated itself, as he has betrayed every friemx he ever had. He betrayed McDonald at Cincinnati, he betrayed him at Chicago, and later b* betrayed him at Washington. McDonald 6aid to me: “You know, Frank, it would cost me SIO,OOO a year to accept a Cabinet position, and but to gratify my friends and for the bonot there was in it, I should never have consented to have my name mentioned in that connection, but when one comes to the door it is mighty hard to have it shut in one’s face.' And Hendricks would have botrayed Aquilla Jones, a* well, and actually did propose to do so. With this end in view he called upon William Henderson, of Indianapolis, unsolicited, and told him to start a petition, and ho would sien it himself, and see that he got there; but Henderson wouldn’t have it.” “How did Mr. Hendricks prevail upon tha President to give him the appointment over Bynum’s head?” “BY GETTING DOWN ON HIS OLD KNEES AND BEGGING LIKE A DOG FOB IT. He criod like a baby, and told Cleveland if he refused him this request it would sign bis |Hendricks’s] political death warrant—destroy him completely. He would never dare go back home and face his people with such a humiliation. The President replied: ‘I am deeply pained, Mr. Hendricks, that you should bav* placed yourself in such a humiliating position, but I cannot do otherwise than my duty. If you can show that the appointment belongs to you and not to Mr. Bynum, I will gladly accommodate you. If you can show a precedent for this extraordinary business I will appoint Mr. Jones.’ This was said in the presence of Mr. Bynum, who was the only man who had tho nerve to beard THE OLD VILLAIN [Hendricks] AND, AS HE [BvnumJ STATED TO THE PRESIDENT BEFORE HENDRICKS’S FACE. ‘PULL THE MASK' FROM THE FACE OF THIS —■— OLD LY ING HYPOCRITE AND EXPOSE HIM AND HIS INFAMY.' Hendricks agreed to abide by the precedent established, and, accompanied by Mr. Bynum, went to Postmaster-general Vilas. Mr. Vilas called the oldest and best-posted department clerk to him, and placed the matter before him, told him to investigate, and by 3 o’clock that day to let him know if there was any case on record where the Vice president bufl made an application for tho appointment of ft postmaster. The clerk made an examination and reported negatively, and Mr. Bynum imagined, of course, that Mr. Hendricks would honor his word, and withdraw from the contest; but at 6 o’clock the same evening the Vicepresident of these United States, forgetful of his pledge, forgetful of the honors heaped upon hinii forgetful of his manhood, filed his application and again called upon the President, and WITH TEARS AND THE MOST LAMENTABLE DISPLAY OF PUSILLANIMOUS PUERIL ITY again importuned tho President to sav* him from destruction, to save hia life. The President, proof against all other influence, yielded through pity, and promised him tho appointment, made against his sense of justice and his will. Afterward, when Mr. Bynum called upon him for his decision, Mr. Cleveland said: 'Mr. Bynum, by every right you are entitled to the appointment. Your candidate is well recommended, and there is no doubt as to his fitness for the position, but can yon, Mr. Bynum, afford to take the appointmont over a corpse? As it is you are helped and Mr. Hendricks injured by tho appointment I have made.’” Fasting Made Easy by a Doctor. Pittsburg, Oct. [4 —SUCCI, tilt ltd’llmay have a formidable rival in Dr. R. C. Fisher) hi Shhfon, who claims to nave three years ago discov* red a preparation by which life can b* sustained for a long period, and which can be But to practical use in the sick room. By its aid >r. Fisher claims to have fasted for seventeen days. He is anxious to subject himself to ft most severe test, conducted by scientific men. After that the world is welcome to his secrel free of charge. The New York Mayoralty. New York, Oct 14.— Abram S. Hewitt ha* agreed to accoDt the Tammauy Hall nomination for Mayor, and has written a letter announcing the fact Mr. Hewitt stipulates, however, that the remainder of tho ticket shall be satisfactory to him. The committee of one hundred to-night, nominated Thoodore Roosevelt lor Mayor.