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(THE DAILY JOURNAL. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2. 1886. ■WASHINGTON OFFICE—SI3 Fourteenth St. P. S. Heath. Correspondent. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL. Can be found at the following places: LONDON—American Exchange in Europe, 410 fc-'trund. PARlS—American Exchange in Paris. 35 Boulevard des Capacities.’ NEW YORK —St. Nicholas and Windsor Hotels. CHICAGO—PaImer House. CINCINNATI—J. P. Hawley & Cos.. 151 Vine street LOUISVILLE—C. T. Dear.ng, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. ST. LOOS—Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern HoteL WASHINGTON, D. C.—Riggs House and Ebbitt House. Telephone Call*. Business Office £3B | Editorial Rooms 242 C ~~ ■: —■. THE REPUBLICAN TICKET. The following is a correct copy of the Republican ticket. Any voter finding the names on his ballot to compare with isth printed list may be certain that he is voting or the right men: The State Ticket. FOR LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR, ROBERT S. ROBERTSON, of Allen County. FOR SBC RET ARY OF STATS. CHARLES F. GRIFFIN, of Laka. FOR AUDITOR OK STATK, BRUCE CARR, of Orange. FOR TRBASUKH OK STATE. JULIUS A LK.MCKE, of Vanderburg. FOR JUDGE OK THE SVPRF.ME COURT, BYRON K. ELLIOTT, of Mariou. FOR ATTORNEY-GENERAL, LOUIS T. MIOHF.NER, of Shslby. for clerk of thk supreme court, WILLIAM T. NOBLE, of Wayne. STOR SUPJCRINTBNDttXT OF PUBIJC INSTRUCTION’, HARVEY M. LA FOLLKTTE, of Boone. Congressional. SEVENTH DISTRICT. ADDISON C. HARRIS, of Marion County. Joint Representative. MARION. HANCOCK AND KHKLBT. SIDNEY CONGER, of Shelby county. Marion County Ticket. FOR CUKRK. THADDEUS S ROLLINS. FOR SHERIFF. RICHARD 8. COLTER. FOR TREASURER, HEZEKIAII SMART. FOR AUDITOR. SAMUEL MERRILL, FOB RKCORDSR. EUGENE SAULCY. FOR CORONER. THEODORE A. WAGNER. FOR SURVEYOR. B. W. HEATON. FOB OOMVISSTONEKS. First, District—TAMES E. GREER. Second District—WlLLlAM HADLEY. FOR SUPERIOR COURT JUDGES, For Term* Commencing November, H 35, LIVINGSTON HOWLAND. DANIEL W. HOWE. For Term Commencing October, 1333, LEWIS C. WALKER. JUDGE OF THE CRIMINAL COURT. WILLIAM IRVIN. FOR PROSECUTOR. JOSEPH B. KEALING. FOR REPRESENTATIVES. PARKER S. CARSON, 1 OTTO STECUHAN. WILLIAM MORSE, JOHN L. GRIFFITHS, JOHN CAVEX.

VOTE down the men who fed the insane on grease butter. To-day’s vote will determine whether the of the State treasury are to be opened. We can tell better to-morrow whether Thanksgiving will amount to anything this year. Map.tix Ikons has at last given over the idea of being a professional workingman and gone to work. Vote against the men who caused a convict to come into competition with honest farmers at the Indianapolis market. THERE may be no political significance in it, but the President, in the very first paragraph of his Thanksgiving proclamation, returns thanks for divine “protection.” It is the duty of every honest citizen to so vote to-day that the gerrymander will be rebuked and the Insane Hospital be delivered from the grip of merciless speculators. The President will not vote this year. He ins had his name stricken oft' the tax-payers’ !!iat at Buffalo, and thereby loses his residence. Probably he regards this as a neat stroke of reform. It is reported that a girl thirteen years old has been sentenced to jail in Michigan for two years as a horse-thief. The judge that did that should be sentenced to hard work in the penitentiary for a like term. The ancient rallying cry “Millions for defense, not one cent for tribute,” has been changed under the p:esent administration to read: “Twenty dollars for Charleston, SSOO for the campaign in New York.” There is talk of raising the President’s salary to SIOO,OOO a year, possibly suggested by the fact that ho contributed S2O to the earth-quake-stricken city of Charleston and SSOO to the Democratic campaign fund in New York. Mr. Jefferson Davis has written au artille on “Our ludiau Policy,” which appears in )he North American Review. For a man without a country, Mr. Davi3 shows a great deal of assurance in alluding to “our" policy. A few hours' work to day will redeem the Btate of Indiana from the disgrace under which it rests by reason of the gerrymander and the treatment of the insane, to say nothing of the questionable manner in which the State’s money has been handled. Yesterday was the ninth anniversary of the death of Oliver P. Morton, the great Re publican leader and statesman of Indiana.

Could there be any greater inspiration for the work of to-day than for Republicans everywhere to go forward in the memory oi h*s great name and services to the country and to the party? The voter who remembers the counsel of Oliver P. Morton will not hesitate as to how he should cast his ballot to-day. THE ELECTION RETURNSThe local election returns will be received to-night at the counting-room of the Journal, to which our the city and county are asked to send or bring the figures at as early an hour as possible. The general election news from this and other States will be announced from the balcony of the Journal editorial rooms as fast as received. The Indiana election figures will be compared with the vote for President in 1884. The Democratic plurality then was 7,392. There aro 1,G78 election precincts in the State. It would require an average gain of four and a-half votes to the precinct for the Republicans to carry the State. If these figures are borne in mind it will be easy to determine from the returns, as received, whether the drift is favorable to Republican success. In our city columns will be found the vote by precincts cast for Governor in 1884, which will be useful for comparison with to-day's vote. TO-DAY’S OUTLOOK AND DUTY. It is the plain duty of all honest men to stand together to-day, and to forget all personal or petty prejudice in the interest of good government. There should be no trading, for every candidate on the Republican ticket is well deserving of success, and if elected each will do his utmost to better the condition of public affairs, which are now in such deplorable fix. Cast a straight-out Republican ticket. There is the very best of reasons for all honest men to lay aside prejudice and vote for better things in the State of Indiana. Now is the time to act in concert, so that the result may be lasting. The Journal has not blindly asserted that the Republican party iD this State will achieve a brilliant success. Handicapped as it has been by a partisan and corrupt Legislature, which gerrymandered the State in such a way that a very large portion of the legal voters are practically disfranchised, it will be only by * the hardest kind of work that victory can be achieved. But hard work and careful'attention to details will do it, and these should be given to-day ■with a heartiness indicative of the determination that no coterie of men can take the State in charge for their personal aggrandizement. With the ring rebuked and the speculators driven off the Insane Hospital, the voters of Indiana will have cause to rejoice over one of the greatest triumphs possible to a patriotic peo pie. No exertion should be spared to-day to get out a full vote, and no man can do his whole duty by simply casting his vote. He should go out of his way to influence others to do the same. The hours are few for work, and not a minute is to be lost. An energetic rally now will accomplish much, and no effort should be spared to get out every possible vote, A full vote means success for the Republicans, and of this there seems good assurance.

WHAT IS TO BE DECIDED. The tax-payers of Indiana, all of whom are supposed to bo interested in good government, are directed to the fact that the issues are to-day exactly the same they have been from the outset of the campaign. The Democratic party has not attempted to reply to the arraignment that was presented at the time the campaign opened. There has been no attempt to meet and disprove the damaging charges made, but a studied effort to draw attention from them. It remains a fact that tho doubtful condition of the State’s treasury has not been cleared up, and there is not a mau in the State, outside of the few who are in the ring that profits by it, who can tell anything about the true condition of the treasury. It has been admitted, for it could not be denied, that over a million dollars were borrowed for the purpose of completing the State-house and the new insane asylums, yet at this time the treasury is practically empty, and estimate allowances, evidences of the State’s indebtedness, are afloat to the amount of more than one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. It has been apparent for months that the treasury of the State has been badly managed, and there is no way of getting at how much has been wasted, or worse, without electing a Republican Treasurer, who will open the books and make a showing. This should be a point of business to-day for all who feel that this things should not be tolerated. The condition of the Insane Hospital, which has been established beyond successful controversy. should be looked into and remedied. It is a horrible disgrace that the people of Indiana allow tho unfortunates confined there to become the victims of brutality, avarice and personal speculation. It is enough for honest men to know that they have been fed on diseased pork and on butter not fit to be eaten, the reason being that such articles were furnished by favorites of the management, who ■profited inordinately by charging for these things full market rates. Suffering humanity pleads to be rescued from such imposition. To-day is the day to take action. To barricade the way of the people who would redress these wrongs the infamous gerrymander was arranged, whereby the minority party arrogated to itself a possible majority of seventy in the next Legislature. This barricade will have to be surmounted today, or things will go on in tho way they have indefinitely, and from bad to worse, if tho iahumau speculators on the necessities of the

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unfortunate be not driven off by the defeat of those who have charge of the State’s charities. It will prove a lasting shame upon the people of Indiana if reform is not promptly inaugurated through to-day’s election. There is enough in these things to stir all to action, and to sand every honest man to the polls to do all within his power to rout out the schemers who are responsible for this state of affairs. To-day is the day, AT THE FORKS-WHICH FORK? No doubt we are at the forks of the road, and the hour has come' to choose which fork the voter will take. The old men will take one fork or the other from habit, but the young voter naturally hesitates. Which fork, young man, will you take, to-day? The Democratic fork will certainly take you out into some very dreary country and into some very queer company. No Democrat likes to have his party’s history referred to except it be some very ancient chapter; and if you tell him anything about-suefc portions of his party’s history as is within living memory he roars out, “The war ended over twenty years ago,” or you are “waving the bloody shirt.” On the other hand, you can’t please a Republican better than to talk about the history of his party. It is brief. Its first national election wa3 only thirty years ago. Since that time there has not been a year, up to 1880, when a Democratic victory was not a public menace. A Democratic victory in 1860 would have perpetuated American slavery. A Democratic victory in 1864 would have divided this Union into two governments, and have been the beginning of indefinite subdivisions. A Democratic victory in 1808 would have defeated the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments. A Democratic victory in 1872 would have ruined our national banks and currency and delivered us over to the sham of fiat money. In 1876 the danger of Democratic supremacy somewhat lessened, for anew generation had arisen who had become partially leavened with tho new order of things—in a word, after twenty years’ work the Republican party had educated up the Democratic party to a point where they ceased to be a national menace, and became only a national danger. Hayes’s administration was the last step in the healing process. Under him the wounds inflicted by the Democratic party South-with the aid often expressed and always implied of the Democratic party North, cicatrized so that in 1880 Hancock’s election, save its menace to our national industries, might have been a fairly safe one. Democratic principles to-day are still dangerous. Democratic power depends upon an organized and successful nullification of the Constitution of the United States. Does the

young voter waut to join such a party? It is impossible that any party should permanently succeed whose title to success lies in resisting the organic law of the land. Give every voter in the United States an equal and fair chance at the polls, and Mr. Cleveland and the Democratic majority at WasMugton would have to pack tneir gripsacks and leave for a more honest occupation—openly. At home the Democratic party is a public danger. It protects and legalizes the whisky traffic. It does not deny that it is hand and glove with the Liquor League. Its management of the great charitable institutions is a stench in the public nostrils. Its leader in the Governor's chair shamelessly advises tho party “to vote 'for the devil” if necessary to preserve party supremacy. The Republican folk of the road certainly leads to a better country. The Republican party has made its mistakes, but these mistakes have often afterwards become Democratic principles. What would this country have been had the Republican party been defeated in 1860, or ’64, or ’6B, or’72, or ’76? The Prohibition party is too small in numbers to be useful, and, besides, it is doubtful whether their principle will bear the test. The Republicans are right upon the tariff. The Democrats have not revenue-reform men enough, with an enormous majority in Congress, to oven debate an anti-protective tariff bill. Unquestionably tariff reform is the best card of the Democracy. But the sober, second thought of the country is unmistakably in favor of that tariff system that put down the great Rebellion, restored specie payment, and covered this country with selfsustaining industries. Which party, for the last thjrtj- years, lias produced the greatest men? Under which banner has the greatest intelligence and culture of the country enlisted? Where will you find the great majority of teachers and preachers? Which party ha3 been the richest in eloquence, in statesmanship, and in great and progressive ideas? What great measures have the Democratic party ever advocated? What of our great and successful national reforms has it not bitterly opposed? The Journal cheerfully admits that thousands of Democrats are far better than their party. How an ardent temperance man can hope for any whisky reform from the Democratic party is beyond comprehension. We regret re have not space to multiply words. Young man, which fork? That of the party of Lincoln. Garfield. Grant, Sumner, Seward, Chase, or that of Jeff Davis, Slidell, Tweed, Yallandigham, Fernando Wood and Jake Thompson? Name a Democratic statesman of the first order that the country has seen for thirty years. Save Thurman, of Ohio, we can’t recall one. Name a Democratic measure that has proven a great national blessing within the last forty years. We can’t recall one. Start right there! Take the fork of the road that will briug you out to a country that

will be a pleasure to live in. Avoid that fork that leads to the slums of saloons, and to * region the chief occupation of whose people is the robbing of American citizens of their votes, and the manufacture of cunning combinations of voting districts of a great State so as to defeat and disfranchise the political wishes of its citizens. A Democratic vote means free whisky, fraudulent apportionments, and organized resistance to the constitutional rights of American citizens.

GUARD AGAINST FRAUDS.

It is the present duty of all honest men to guard against election frauds, :*There is danger from the moment the polls are opened till they r j closed, and the ballots are counted and the result declared, of frauds being practiced. There is a likelihood of the Democratic gerrymandered attempting the trick of “switching” ballots, meaning that Democratic ballots will be adroitly substituted for Republican between the hand of the voter and the ballot-box, so that the ballot given in never reaches the box at all. Failing in this, there is danger of the ballots being falsely counted when they are taken out at night. These things must be guarded against, and the only approach to safety in this thing is for honest and trusted men to be present at every poll from the hour it is opened till it is closed, and to closely scan every movement made. The men dishonest enough to perpetrate the disfranchising gerrymander will not be above cheating in the election. It must be borne in mind that the man at the head of the Democratic campaign in Marion county is none other that "Sim” Coy, a man who has no respect for the law, and who never misses opportunity to attest his contempt for all legal restraint. This is the kind of man the Democratic party has intrusted with the serious business of conducting the elections. That he would hesitate at anything, however dishonorable, is not to be thought of. The necessity of careful watching need scarcely be urged if the people will only take the trouble to reflect a moment. If lawlessness is to be preferred to a decent and impartial enforcement of the laws, then it need not matter what is done to-day; but if the voters of Indianapolis, of Marion county and of the State at large, believe in progress toward better things, it is their duty to attest their desires to-day by voting for the men and measures best calculated to bring the needed reform.

SUPERIOR COURT JUDGES. Daniel W. Howe and Livingston Howland, Republicans, and Napoleon B. Taylor and James W. Harper, Democrats, are opposing Candida 4 s for judges of the Superior Court. The two of these four receiving the highest number of votes will be elected. Lewis C. Walker, Republican, and Thomas L. Sullivan, Democrat, are opposing candidates, and the one of these two receiving the highest number of votes will be elected. This fact should be remembered by voters, to avoid confusion. The statement of Collector Hunter, of this district, respecting the employment of exsoldiers in the revenue service, will not hold water. During Mr. McKay’s term of office, receiving it from the hands of his predecessors, there were forty-six ex-Union soldiers on the pay-rolls. Mr. Hunter has this roll in his office, and can readily verify the assertion. The roll contains a brief record of the military service of each of the forty-six men. Only one of those forty-six men is now in the service in this district. It is asserted that Mi'. Hunter has appointed but five ex-soldiers since his accession to office. He says he has appointed thirteen. It would be easy for him to give the names, and the company and regiment in which they served. The facts, as shown by the records of the office, bear out to the letter the statement of General Harrison. Some one at Chicago deserves to be roughly handled by the law. On the occasion of a fire of some magnitude there the telephone wires were disarranged, as they are likely to be in such accidents. Men were sent to repair the breaks before the firemen hall* got through their work, and though they were warned not to proceed with repairs, they did go on, and the result was that a portion of a cornice was thrown down, fatally wounding a well-known and efficient fireman. Somebody deserves to be sentenced to a long term of imprisonment for that, for the services of a fireman are dangerous enough without having him subjected to the criminal haste of a corpoi’ation intent more on making money than respecting the rights and lives of others. President Cleveland’s SSOO contribution to the New York Democratic campaign fund last week, bore swift results. The chairman of the Pennsylvania Democratic central committee heard of that contribution, and forthwith posted a circular to government employes at Washington who haded from that State, and demanded that they send in their offerings to aid the brethern at home, and also that they come home to vote, assuring them that the President could not now object or interfere. The chances arc that the employes are not half so glad to learn of their opportunity to ignore the civil-service law as the managers at home are to inform them. That eminent reformer, Postmaster-general Vilas, has been "working” the postoffice and mail service in Wisconsin for the benefit of his senatorial boom. The business partner of Mr. Yilas, who is one of the Democratic campaign managers, urges the postmasters not only to take a personal part in the campaign, but has also advised the use of money iu certain coses, and has accompanied the suggestion

with the necessary funds. This, however, as has been frequently remarked, is a strictly "reform” administration. *’While we contemplate the infinite power of God, in earthquake, flood and storm, let the grateful hearts of those who have been shielded from harm through His mercy be turned in sympathy and kindness toward those who have suffered through hi3 visitations.”—G. Cleveland’s Thanksgiving Proclamation, "Inclosed please please find twenty dollars (S2O) for the relief of Charleston.”—G. Cleveland. "Inclosed please find five hundred dollars ($500) for the relief of the Democratic campaign in New York.”—G. Cleveland. The New York World thinks the report that President Cleveland has contributed SSOO to the Democratic campaign fund "ka3 a preposterous sound.” The World is mean to call up the fact, by innuendo, that he gave but S2O to Charleston. He sent his check for SI,OOO last year to the Democratic managers of New York. The United States consul at Chemnitz, at great length, reports that he has discovered that the evil in the use of intoxicating drinks in the United States lies in the fact that the Americans drink them too hurriedly, while the guzzlers of other countries do so with great deliberation, often spending hour over one glass of beer. A man need not be sent to Germany to discover that men who gulp down a glass of beer without removing it from the lips get away with it very much more rapidly than if they dallied with it as though it were a sweatheart leaning over the gate at 11 p. M. On the day that Liberty was dedicated in New York harbor there were smaller celebrations in the city of Paris in houor of the occasion. At one of the theaters, near the fortifications, a patriotic play was given, with George Washington in the cast, much to the delight of the patrons of the place. It was advertised that no expense had been spared, and that the uniform used by V/ashington on this occasion cost $lO. The idea must have been taken from the uniform on exhibition in the Patent Office in Washington, whioh must have cost as much as $0.75 at some secondhand shop. _ President Cleveland likes Washington so well that he has given up his residence in* Buffalo, and is now numbered among the citizens of the District of Columbia, who have no vote. This looks as if he thought favorably not only of a second term, but of taking up permanent residence in the White House. Mr. Henry levino, it is announced by cable dispatch, has dotermined to make another tour through this country next season. There are people who have .suspected as much since the actor’s "pleasure” trip to America last summer, and are. therefore, not entirely overcome by surprise at the disclosure. Mr. James Russell Lowell’s poem, "The Finding of the Lyre,” is going the rounds, but was not written, as some might suppose, since he discovered that Mr. Julian Hawthorne was an interviewer. The mysterious murder at Detroit, in which the life of the husband of an actress was taken, might be explained on the hypothesis that it was suicide. He probably saw her act the part of Juliet.

With two steamers of tbe largest size ashore, one twenty-five miles from where her officers thought she was, ocean travel is not as popular as it was earlier in the season. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THISGS. Michael Davitt will have no mother-in-law, as Miss Yore, whom he is about to marry, is an orphan and lives with her aunt. George Gould and wife will live at the Windsor Hotel, New York, having five rooms on the second floor, for which he pays S2OO per week. Mr. Charles Dudley Warner will be one of the writers who will accompany the Harper Brothers’expedition fitted out by Mr. John H. Inman. Fred M. Bunker, of Alegonia, Sumner county, Kansas, died in Fort Smith, Ark., and his remains have been sent to his home. He was the eldest son of Chang, the right-hand ono of the Siamese twins, and was thirty years of age. He was fairly well off. A well-instructed Boston four-year-old said to his mother at breakfast, the other morning, boiled eggs being on the bill of fare: “Mamma, unshell my egg.” Then, apparently thinking he had not been sufficiently polite, added: “For Jesus'sake, amen.” „ A current advertisement in a Seattle, W. TANARUS., paper reads as follows: “Whereas. I have left my wife and board; whereas, I have become attached to another and more attractive woman, I hereby give warning to the public that I will in future pay my own bills without any assistance from her whatever.” In anew dictionary of biography, containing 40,000 uames, all the Rothschilds and Astors put together receive only as many lines as are ac corded to Harriet Beecher Stowe. Cornelius Vauderbilt receives less attention than Paganini and A. T. Stewart no more than Daniel Lambert, the fat man. Even the three rich benefactors—Girard, George Peabody aud Sir Moses Montefiore—united take less room than John Wesley or Nathaniel Hawthorne. The tomb of Thaddeus Stevens, upon which Mr. Blaine recently placed a rose, bears the following characteristic inscription, written by the great Commoner himself: “I rest in this quiet and secluded spot not because of any natural preference for solitude, but finding other cemeteries limited as to race by charter rules, I choose to be buried here, that I may exemplify in my death the principles I have maintained throughout a long life—equality of man before his Creator.” For ways that are dark and tricks that are vain the old world gambler, perhaps, discounts his enterprising brethren in America. A correspondent writes that in a gambling saloon in Moscow the walls and ceiling were covered with paper on which stars were stamped. Amongthw stars in the ceiling boles were cut, and a map lying on the floor in the room above saw the hands of those playing cards and telegraphed them, by means of wires connected with his shoes, to his confederate. Kaiser Wilhelm is economical. He uses a second time nearly all the envelopes of the documents addressed to him. One of these bearing his autographic superscription was recently seen by a correspondent of the Concordia, who writes about it as follows: Privy documents sent to the Emperor from the Ministers and imperial officers are put unfoldod into an envelope, which bears the inscription: “To his Majesty the Emperor and King.” The name of the sender appears in small letters in the left hand lower corner of the cover, as, for instance, “Foreign Office,” etc. The flap of the one in question was closed with red sealing wax. In opening it, the Emperor had carefully torn it open close to the wax, and after perusing the contents, he had folded the flap so as to make it long enough to cover the original seal, resealed it with his own hands, changed the word “to” into “from," crossed off the address of the sender, and directed it to “Privy Cabinet Councillor v. W This economy is one of the characteristics of the Hohenzollern family.

GRAY’S WORDS CONFIRMED. Additional Testimony as to the Governor’s Heartless Expression. lie Thinks the Inmates of the State Benevolent Institutions "Fare Better than They Ought To” —Democrats Testify The Journal republishes the following affidavit from its issue of yesterday: Greencastlk, Ind., Oct. 29, 1986. In the course of his speech here, yesterday, Governor I. P. Gray said, substantially: The Republicans have accused the officers of the Insane Asylum with having fed the inmates on maggotty meat and oleomargarine butter. Is there any sane man here who believes that? What motive could officers have in doing such a thing as that! The law requires that they should purchase all supplies from the lowest bidder, and this the Democratic officers of the Insane Asylum have done, greatlj- reducing the expenses. as compared with the Republican management. The State settles the bills; the officers pay not hing. What motive, then, could they have? When the State pays the bills my experience is that the inmates of these institutions usually fare better than they ought A. J. BaVERIDUE, Robert G. Johnson, Oscar Vaught, J. W. Raymond. Before me, Thomas T. Moore, a notary public in and for Putnam county, Indiana, personally came A. J. Beveridge, Robert G. Johnson. Oscar Vaught and J. W . Havmond, and made oath, in due form of law, that they were present at Greencastle, Ind., on Thursday, the 28th day of October, 1886, and heard Gov. Gray s address, and that, to the best of their recollection and belief, he made the statements as set forth in the foregoing affidavit. Witness my hand and notarial seal, this 29th day of October," 1986. [Seal.] Thomas T. Moore, Notary Public. In addition to the names of the above citizens, who heard the Governor, the Journal, yesterday, received the following additional affidavit: Before me, Thomas M. Bosson, a notary public in and for Putnam county, State of Indiana, personally came the undersigned who, being sworn, on oath say that they were present at Greoncastle, Ind., on Thursday, Oct. 28, 1886. and heard the speech of Governor Gray, at the Opera-house, and that to the best of their recollection and belief he used the language set forth in the above affidavit. Charles Zaringl R. E. Kirkman. W. H. IiATTA. C. W. Everett. James M. Huff. W. S. Davis. W. L. Thompson. O. H. Carson. Subscribed and sworn to before me this Ist day of November, by Charles Zaring, James M. Huff, VV. S. Davis, W. L. Thompson, and O. H. Carson. Thomas M. Bosson, Notary Public. Subscribed and sworn to before me this Ist day of November by R. E. Kirkman, W. H. Latta and C. W. Everett. my hand seal, John P. Allek, Notary Public. These are the Dames of well-known and reputable citizens of Greencastle. and at least one of them, Mr. James M. Huff, is a Democrat The evidence in support of Governor Gray’s words is, therefore, not partisan—it comes from both Republicans and Democrats. What do the people of Indiana think of the Governor’s deliberate declaration that "the inmates of our benevolent institutions FARE BETTER THAN THEY OUGHT TO?” Is any wholsesome food tooeoodfor the poor, unfortunate insane, deaf and dumb, and blind? Is a diet of meat slaughtered from a drove of diseased hogs, together with cheap butter-crease, better fare than these ward* of the State ought to to have?

HENRY WARD BEECHER. He Has Become Puritanical and Refuse* to Talk Politics on Sunday. New York Special. Henry Ward Beecher and Mrs. Beecher reached their home, in Brooklyn, about 12:30 p. m. today, after an absence of nearly four months and a half in Europe. They came in the Etruria, in which they made their outward voyage, and sailed from Queenstown a week ago to-day. Mr. Beecher was the first passenger to step ashore. As usual, he suffered from seasickness, and he was greatly fatigued when he reached Brooklyn. After dinner, however, he visited the three Sun-day-schools of his church, and spoke a few words to the children and teachers, expressing hi* great joy at being with them once more. His house was visited by many friends in the afternoon and evening, and he held an informal reception the greater part of the time after he got home. Late in the afternoon he went out for an hour or so, and on his return found a group of reporters waiting to see him. When asked if he had anythiug to say, he absolutely refused lo talk for publication. , "In the first place,’’ said he, “I have been on Scotch soil, and now I am so much of a Puritan that I refuse to talk politics on Sunday. In the second place, I am so fagged out that I wouldn't be able to attend my wife's funeral”—and he looked up at hi* wife with a merry twinkle in his eye. "In the third place,” he continued, "I have nothing to say.” Mrs. Beecher said that they had a rough voyage, and that in a storm on Tuesday aha was thrown violently across the cabin. Mr. Beecher tumbled into his berth soon after he went aboard, and wouldn't even take off his clothes. She wanted the steward to pull off bis boots, and Mr. Beecher said: "Don't touch me. for if you do I know I'll be sick.” Mrs. Beecher said she hadn’t seen the sun in three weeks and didn't know hardly how it would look. She had only two things to find fault with in England, the climate and the bread. She couldn’t cut the bread, and Mr. Beecher said he could use it to fire from a cannon and batter down the stoutest walls in the kingdom. Both Mr. and Mrs. Beecher look well despite the hardships of the voyage. The Way of the Candidate. North Carolina Letter. Politics is a science here, just like it is in Georgia. It is red-hot now. ana most everybody who has nothing to do is running for something. A wirv chap from Coon Hollow, whose nama was Wigeins. came to town the other day, and told a candidate that if he would give him five dollars to treat on, he could carry every vote in his beat. Os course he gave it to him. When the candidate happened over there last Saturday, he found Wiggins just saturating the boys with whisky, and heard him say: "Come up, boys. Come up and help yourselves. This here is Wigginses whisky. When Wiggins are a runr.in’ he don’t forget his friends.” It turned out that Wiggins was a candidate for constable, and took this method of raising the wind. He never Sbid a word for the man who furnished the money. There is a Dutchman running for the Legislature in these parts who ie not skilled in politics, and when be found a few sovereigns in one beat who were against the stock law, he chimed in with them and said that it was an outrage and so forth, and should never have his support. Next day he met his opponent over in another beat where there were lots of voters gathered, and everyone to a man was in favor of the stock law. He was chiming in with them unanimously, when hi* opponent, who was up making a speech said: "Now, Deidrich, didn't you tell the boys at Hogwallow yesterday that you was against tbo stock law; didn't you?” Deidrich wilted and said nothing. His opponent continued in a thundering voice: "Deidrich, what are you for to-day, and what will you be for to-morrow?” Deidrich saw that every eye was upon him, and he nervously scratched his head and said, in half Dutch and half English: "Falo-sitzen, I ish for—for—for ; eco no my,’” which was his Dutch for economy. They say he will be left Verily, politics is a hard road to travel, and the way of the candidate is hard. Pleased with Mr, Morton’s Speech, Indianapolis Freeman. We have always thought that civil-service reform was the only thing— erceot a direct interposition of Divine Providence—that could save our free institutions from ruin. Since reading Mr. Morton’s speech we are confirmed in that opinion. A Georgia Regulation* Atlanta Constitution. Rockdale county has a peculiar liquor law. la. that county liquor is sold by only one person, lie is appointed by the grand jury to sell for medicinal purposes, and is not allowed to keep more than ten gallons of spirits on hand at oat time.