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THE DAILY JOURNAL FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 26. 18S6. WASHINGTON OFFICE—SI3 Fourteenth St. F. S. Heath. Correspondent. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL. Cun br found fit the following places: LONDON—American Exchange in Europe, 440 Strand. PAfClS—American Exchange in Paris, 35 Boulevard des Capueines. _ . NEW YORK—St. Nicholas and Windsor Hotels. DHIC' AGO—Palmer House. CINCINNATI —J. P. Hawley Sc Cos.. 154 Vine street. LOUISVILLE—C. T. Hearing, northwest corner Third and Jefferson street,*.. ST. LOU I S—Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern Hotel. WASHINGTON, D. (J.—Riggs House and Ebbitt House. Telephone Calls. luulness Otfre 238 | Editorial Rooms 242 Thanksgiving was generally observed yesterday throughout the country. In this city the observance was quite complete, and the day was as near a Sunday as could be. It was an eminently fitting thing that the leaih of a Tennessee citizen, at the age of LO2, should occur at Chestnut Mound. It is understood, a’so, that he will he interred in one. rnmn—n numttmmmmtmmmammmmm Federal officers will, henceforth, when •Dieting upon their duties, take oath to support not only the law and the Constitution, but the administration, as well. Or. perhaps, Mr. Cleveland considers that the first two include the lasU^^ Judge Seraphim Meyer, ‘‘a Democrat of many years standing," and a probate judge of Canton, 0., I\a3 resigned his position and recommended the appointment of a Republican as his successor. A man named “Seraphim" must have something angelic about him, and it crops out in the resignation of an office to give place to a Republican; but the wonder is how he could conceal seraphic qualities under a Democratic garb for so many years. WASHINGTON correspondents are disputing with each other as to whether Secretary Manning is physically able to perform his official duties or not. The Secretary’s friends indignantly repudiate the assertion that he is not, but there is so much smoke on the other side that the public must necessarily have many doubts ns to his health being all that could be desired. Should he suffer a sudden collapse at any time no one would feel surprised, although such event will be a matter of great regret to all parties. The country can hardly afford to lose the most intelligent and able member of the administrative circle. Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland has written' four hundred lines of verse for Lippincott's Magazine for which she will receive, compensation at the rate of $1.23 a line. The verses treat of the “Woman Question." That she should write verses is not surprising; that magazines should be found to pay a round price for them is merely one of the unaccountable things that publishers will do. The real woi'der of the incident is that any poetry could be extracted from the woman question. Come to think of it, however, the promised verses may have no poetry in them. The publishers take care not to warrant that. Judge Scott, of the Illinois Supreme Court, has granted a supersedeas in the case of the Chicago Anarchists, and, therefore, the sentence in their case will not be carried out at riie date set. This action was to be expected and is entirely proper. Even such criminals as the Anarchists should not be hanged until after the law, in all its stages, has pronounced upon their crimes. It will be worth something, from a moral point of view, if the highest court of the State should affirm the judgment of tho lowpr court; but should it be xwersod, it will be worth the delay that the punishment meted out to the Anarchists be on all points according to the strictest forms of justice. The charge and confession made by the Greenville (S. C.) News, to the effect that the Democratic opponent of Congressman Smalls, in the Seventh district of that State, waselected by shameless fraud, has aroused the Charleston News to fierce anger. It berates its neighbor for giving comfort to their political enemies, and mourns over the chance “Radicals," meaning honest Republicans, will have to chuckle. If it will be of any comfort to cur troubled contemporary, the Journal will •ssure it that Radicals do not chuckle over aueh knavery as that porpetratod ngaiust Smalls. They are stirred to righteous anger by the commission of such crimes, and tbev are deeply concerned at the condition of public morals which permits a paper of the respectable standing of the Charleston News to apologize for, and try to conceal, the rascality anrebuked by tho sentiment of tho community. The offer by the American Protective Tariff League of a prize of $230 to the college student who .shall write the best essay on the advantages of a protective tariff, will stimulate the boys to their strongest efforts. They have a “meaty subject, and no lack of telling argument within their reach, and should be able to proi.uce papers at once convincing and able, bu; the scccetsful young man will probloiy conclude that tire pecuniary re wauls of literature hardly compensate for the labor involved. An ersay of 10,1*00 words on the at if: involves a greater amount of hard work i an would U r quired of a man in earning that amount of money in ordinary manual oc-

cupation. Ilowever, there is the honor of the thing to be considered in this case, and honor and distinction fortunately count for more than cash with ambitious young men. DEMOCRATIC DIBHONESTY, The Louisville Courier-Journal is still so overwrought by the calamities that have befallen the Democratic party that it blindly strikes out every time it hears the name of an opponent mentioned. Such is its frenzy that it does not realize that it is doing nobody harm. In its last issue it rails at Mr. Blaine because he chose to declare that, while .ie was in favor of civil-service reform he was opposed to the introduction of anything like the system in vogue in England, which ha3 been pronounced a failure even by its friends, as has been shown repeatedly by quotations from the British press and interviews with the leading politicians of that country. The C.-J. then proceeds to declare that it, too, opposes the civil-service idea, but on much loftier and more patriotic grounds. Getting down to the essence of its bitterness, it then declares that “there are those who couple civil-service reform and revenue reform.” “This is a fallacy,” continues that paper. No one thought of connecting the two in relation to the Democratic party. No one was simple enough to hope that the Democratic party was the honest champion of both, unless it be the handful of mugwumps, whose common sense has to be impeached to save their integrity at this juncture. The C.-J. then admits, with a candor that is as surprising as its ingenuousness, that “we can better afford to pay the robber barons exorbitant subsidies than to revolutionize our democratic system by introducing the Anglo French bureau system of non-partisan civil-service business principles, which is a cheat and lie in England and Fiance, and would be, if established here, a hypocrisy and a sham besides." This is about the ground that Mr. Blaine took, except the C.-J. states it with that peculiar Southern fiery impetuosity for which it is famous. It is pretty generally known that the Democratic party does not respect civil service reform, though it made a specious attempt to appear that it did at the time Mr. Pendleton introduced the bill that has since become a law. At that time it was recognized that it would apply only to Republicans, and there was the hope in it that a few Democrats might profit by its operations. But from the minute that it became known that Democracy had succeeded to the control of official patronage, the party has dishonored the law in a manner that indicates its intense contempt for it, and as for Pendleton, it spat on him. It can be said with absolute truth that no Republican has profited by it since Mr. Cleveland has become President. True, there are a few Republican officials who have not been thrust out of offico, but they have been hustled out of everyplace possible without killing the efficiency of the service. That Democracy is impatient, even under this stato of affairs, was demonstrated everywhere in the last election, for Democratic majorities declinod in every Democratic stronghold. The ranks could not be rallied. The C.-J. is right—the Democratic party would rather wait for civil-service reform than for tariff reform. l"et has this same Democratic paper been howling without ceasing about the iniquity of the war tariff, and walking the floor day and night because it could not sleep on account of the infamous imposition, as it was pleased to term it. There is a measure of dishonesty in this that stamps the Courier-Journal and its kind as insincere, to say the least that can be said. The effect of the enforcement of the civilservice rules would reach about one man in a thousand, while, as that paper knows, the tariff, if unjust, bears wrongfully upon ninetenths of the people of this country. The Democratic party, by its own pleading, lias shown that it is more intent on the spoils, that not one in ten of them could enjoy, than on measures influencing all tho people, from the highest to the lowest. Democracy is true to its traditions of dishonesty. A DAWN OF INTELLIGENCE. If Democrats live long enough they do learn something. There have been times when the Journal would hesitate to make this statement so positively, but certain recent developments seem to warrant it in doing so. Seveial hints of a dawning intelligence and of a desire for honest progress have lately been ovserved in the party whose name has hitherto been synonymous with hide bound ignorance and stubborn prejudice. These indications, slight though they were, have been noted from time to time, as they have attracted attention, and they need not be recapitulated. We wish to chronicle here a most unexpected and encouraging growth of the true sentiment of refoim. The New Albany Ledger is responsible for this new departure from time-honored Democratic theories and practices. Having contemplated Republican r ;hods and customs for many years, it has at last been able to realize their importance and value, and formulates its conclusions in an address to the members of its party. After telling the Democrats that Republicans do not work with brag, or bluster, or “flooence," but do good solid work that tells on election day, the Ledger goes on to explain how it is done. “Hundreds of thousands of Republican newspapers," says the New Albany organ, “are put in the hands of men who would otherwise not get them. Clubs are got up and all who are able are induced to subscribe; those who are not able are supplied gratis. That is cheaper than buying votes. And the voter made a partisan by reading, sticks. lie don't have to be watched

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or bought. Not only that, he soon begins to help get others into the party." This Democratic paper shows such a breadth of intelligence and such a comprehensive grasp of tho needs of a community which undertakes to govern itself, that we cannot refrain from quoting further from its remarks for the benefit of Republicans what was primarily intended for the enlightenment of their political opponents. The Ledger continues as follows: “This is not written from a newspaper stand-point It is written from observation and experience. The writer remembers a campaign in this distric where the hardest in* fluence to contend w ith was the old New York Tribune, then edited by Horace Gfeeley. It was met with everywhere, and the Democratic arguments were answered by farmers and others w ith: ‘But the Tribune says' so and so. ‘The Tribune explains that matter this way.’ Those men were supplied with facts and arguments to uphold their party and to make converts of their neighbors who had no similar means of information from Democratic papers. “But the newspaper circulation is only one of the advantages of thorough local organization. There are many others. Indiana is going to be a great political battlefield in 1888. The side that wins will be the one that does the most and best work between nowand then,” The Journal is truly rejoiced to see this movement, or rather the inclination towards a movement, to educating the rank and file of the Democracy. It is glad for two reasons: first, that the desseraination of knowledge, political or otherwise, in the benighted region oi! Indiana, where the Democratic majorities are largest, is a thing greatly to be desired for the sake of the State’s reputation; and second, because when a Democrat becomes well educated he is apt to be transformed into a Republican. Let the Ledger push the good work, and increase its circulation all it can. We are of the opinion that the people to whom it refers would reach a plane of civilization earlier by a perusal of the Journal, but this will come later. For those, however, who desire something a little different from the ordinary Democratic pabulum, and wish to get facts that are facts and arguments which will hold, this paper will fill a want. Now is the time to subscribe. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. The Patriarch of Jerusalem is prouounced the roost kingly-looking man in the Eastern world. Mil I.ABOtrcirKUE is the greast smoker in Parliament, and wants everybody to smoke everywhere. Norristown Herald: The vital question, “What is sausace?” is being discussed before a Nebraska court. It is believed the jury will disagree. Gayaruf, sixteen years ago, got 80 cents a night for singing in a music hall at Madrid. Now he has made an engagement to sing at the opera fifty nights for $70,000. Loring Pickering, of the San Francisco Call, married his third wife at seventy, and is the father of a bouncing boy baby. All boy babies are bouncing, however. At an afternoon tea given by * millionaire’s daughter on Murray Hill last week the menu consisted only of black tea served in common blue-stone china aud potato cakes on tiny tin plates. M. Paul df. Cassagnac can or not as he pleases. Au offended fellow-editor recently telegraphed to him, “I shall have the honor to 6end you my seconds to-morrow,” and the fireeater coolly replied, “You need not send them, for I will not receive them.” The Buffalo Courier tells of a clergyman who is so conscientious that he never commits himself to any positive statement. One day he officiated at a funeral, where he had occasion to allude to the departed. lie did so in these words: “Our dear sister is now dead, most probably.” Mr. Holt, Lincoln's Judge-advocate-general, still lives at Washington. He is white-haired and bent with age, but his eyes are as bright and his mind as active as ever. He lives much alone, drives out a great deal, and reads the classics. There is no truth in the story that he is a remorseful misanthrope. A marble bust of General Daumesnil is to be placed in one of the Versailles galleries. It was he to whom Blucher in a letter offered $600,000 if he would capitulate at Vincennes, “I shall not surrender, ’’ replied Daumesnil, “nor shall I return your letter-—it shall be an heirloom to ray children.” And it was all he left them. The Duchess de Mouchy, Anna Murat, possesses more jewels than anjr other woman in Paris. She inherited them from the Noailles family, and from her grandmother, the Queen of Naples. After her comes the Duchess tie Bisaccia. Mme. Maurice Ephruesi, nee Rothschild, has the finest collection of rubies, and the Princess de Leon the finest pearls. The oldest voter at the late election in Connecticut waß Levi Johnson, of Torrineton. He is ninety-seven years of age, was born a slave in •Connecticut, and was made a voter in 1865. His father was a slave in Southington, Conn., and his mother a runaway slave from New York. He is one of only two or three colored people in the Nutmeg State who were once Connecticut slaves. The Queen Regent Christina, of Spain, will go out of deep mournine on Nov. 27. The ladies of the Madrid aristocracy asked the Queen to grant them permission to nresent her with the first dress she will wear in the next stage of her widowhood, and the favor having been accorded, the dress is now in preparation. It will be made of ivory velvet, with a train of heliotrope moire, and the body trimmed with chenille of the same color. Mr. W ilson Barrett, the English actor, says that tne most interesting man he has met in this country is Gen. Tecumseh Sherman. When first introduced the Geueral wanted to talk about theaters. He has a fondness for the drama and dramatic people. But Mr. Barrett skillfully brought him around to the war, and for an hour or two had the pleasure of listening to a most charming recital of history. He wonders why the General doesn’t mount the lecture platform. Mb. Edmund Russell has just furnished a room with fur, and horns, and plush, to suit the taste of a Russian nobleman. A ereat lion’s skin, chairs of polished horns, with fur cushions and ruge, plush curtains, held back by a stuffed money, and a couch with deerskin cushions are the principal, things in the room. An alcove, curtained with Indian gauze bordered with white fox, contains a white bearskin, *i cast of Diana and an ivory cabinet, and is the colorless spot which deepens tho tints elsewhere. Anothf.r story about the Rev. Dr. Phillips Brooks appears in the Boston Gazette. One day he was observed walking aloug the street, his magnificent form towering head and shoulders above common mortals, closely followed by a very small man who gazed upward at him with delighted admiration. Meeting a friend, the little man stopped to ask earnestly, “Do vou know who he is?” “Oh. yes; that’s Philips Brooke.” “Well, I ain’t very big myself, but 1 cun just admire a man like tha* *hen I see him.” A London correspondent < the New York Times says ho has talked, at v. ious times, with a score of people who have met tue Czar of Russia, and are fairly qualified to judge what man-

ner of man he is. Almost invariably he is described as a big, burly, bearish sort of man, strangely unlike any of his more recent ancestors on either side, and a face with a curious Teuton-Tartar type, picturesque, but unpleasant. He has vast physical strength, of the blacksmith sort, and has the kind of mind which not unfrequently goes with that order of body —slow, honest, obstinate: confiding where faith is reposed, suspicious everywhere else. He is a most devoted and single minded husband, and an excellent family man. His tastes are simple. COMMENT AND OPINION. Next to the preaching of God’s word, there is no calling better fitted to call out all that is true and lofty in manhood than that of the true politician.—Gen. Joseph Hawley. Some of the London papers are trying to start a boom for President Cleveland for another term. One trouble with such a boom is that American Presidents are not elected in England. —Chicago Journal. It i3 suggested that the party known as the “Progressive Democracy’’ may be something like “progressive euchre.” It has already moved down one table and bids fair to be euchred on the next deaL—New York Graphic (Dem.) Civil service Commissioner Edgerton is a good deal more intent upon having his own way than he is upon securing a thorough application of the rules in the Philadelphia case. He is a partisan first and a reformer afterward.—Boston Journal. Popular education will undoubtedly increase the letter writers out of proportion to the increase in the population, until even at our present low rate of postage the postoffice department shall become an important source of revenue. —New York Commercial Advertiser. What is the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers about that it permits one of its members to work sixty hours without rest until ho falls asleep on his engine and is only wakened by a collision? Tne latest accident on the lowa Central road needs investigation.—Philadelphia Inquirer. The Socialists of Chicago are bitterly hostile to the proposed co-operative slaughter-house of the striking butchers. Under co-operation a workingman is permitted to use and enjoy what he earns; but t.he Socialists propose to take it from him and give it to other people.—Philadelphia Record. The Democrat of to-day who appeals to the prejudices of the landless can not honestly hide the fact that the Republican party has for twenty-five years offered free homes for all, and that its policy in that respect was defeated by the Democratic party as long as it retained power in either branch of Congress.—New York Tribune. The Postmaster-general Is yielding a little to reason. He is not so fierce an opponent as ho was a year ago of the policy of making provision for carrying the mails for South America, but rather leans towards spending money for that laudable object. The Democrats will know something if they remain in power long enough; but their education fearfully expensive to the business interests .of the country.—New York Mail and Express. Tiie probabilities are that the universal disarmament, the lopping off of military, royal, ecclesiastical and civil establishments will be a matter of slow growth and by gradual processes. There is a strong temptation to expect universal war. followed by universal revolution and an end of these things, and yet corrective processes are not cataclysmic. Great convulsions are sometimes necessary to pave the way to them, but the corrective processes themselves are like the healing of wounded parts, slow. —Memphis Avalanche. Ik the people will not consent to the indefinite maintenance of so much of the public debt as may be necessary to supply a basis for national bank notes —and many arguments might be advanced in favor of this—it ought not to be difficult to agree upon some satisfactory substitute security. The country is not willing to have the national bank svstem —acknowledged to be the best in the world—disturbed, and the emission of paper money in times of peace is not properly a function of the general government. What shall replace the paid-off bonds? That is the question.—Philadelphia North American. Almost sixty years ago a great Democratic leader announced that the party in power was always the party of centralization, and he was right. No party in power can ever have enough of power to be satisfied. If the limits were re j moved so as to broaden the field indefinitely, the love of power would grow on what it fed on. It would be as easy to satisfy a coquette with flattery, or a miser with money, as to sate the appetite of a triumphant party with power. It is creditable to Governor Gordon that he sees the effect of a taste of power on his own party, after its long fast, and lifts his voice in solemn, eloquent warning. —National Republican. One of the main objects of a protective tariff is to keep prices of labor, manufactured goods, and agricultural products from falling below a certain level—tho level of profitable employment ami production. The periods of good prices are the periods of general prosperity. This applies to the farmer as well as the manufacturer. If the farmer buys his fabrics and implements in Europe, he must sell his wheat and pork in Europe and lose tho home market. By selling them to consumers at home, he saves transportation both ways, or divides the saving with home labor. The general effect, therefore, of a protective tariff, operating over long periods of time, is not only to cheapen home manufactured products as far as they ought to bo cheapened, but also to maintain higher rates of wages than are paid in Europe.—Cleveland Leader. It seems to us that Mr. Edmunds has the best of the situation, and that Mr. Blaine lost an opportunity of exhibiting a broad-minded tolerance of other people's prejudices. Had he responded to the greeting of the Senator from Vermont, the meeting of tho two gentlemen would probably never have been commented upon, and if it had, the inference would have been that Mr. Blaine was so secure in his own integrity that he could afford to overlook the other’s mistakeu opinion of him. Ou the other hand, Mr. Edmonds’s personal recognition of the Maine gentleman would have been accepted as the act of a gentleman who did not wish to obtrude his own judgment upon others, and who saw nothiug io the quarrel between them which should prevent the other from receiving every personal consideration to which honorable men are entitled. —Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph. The Indiana Election. Philadelphia American. The minor and exceptional disturbances that have occurred in several of the States are vastly less significant and less important than the organic change which is shown in Indiana. That State, after being long considered doubtful—though it had chosen Republican officers oifly twice in eighteen years—seemed to have gone definitely into the Democratic column in 1884. No Republican calculation, since the election of that year, has ventured to claim its electors. It is, therefore, a great and notable change that has beeu effected in its status, when the Republicans elect their candidates for State officers by good majorities, elect a majority of the members of Congress, and, also, in the face of a most gross “gerrymander,” choose a majority of the new members of the Legislature. The result puts a different face upon national politics. The success which the Republicans have won in Indiana is due, no doubt, to several contributing influences. Perhaps, since the death of Mr. Hendricks, the Democrats are less easily united under the direction of aoy other leader; and they are, besides, distracted rather than strengthened by the possession of the federal “spoils.” a large part of which has been notoriously ill-bestowed. Tho public disgust with this gross misassignment of the national places may have counted for something, for while it ia true that Indiana's hardfought battles have left room for but a small element of non-partisanship in her politics, and have tended to discourage the growth of independent feeling, it is also true that the uncovering of the administration’s bad work, in the speeches of Mr. Harrison and tho reports of Mr. W. Dudley Fuulke, has boon most thoroughly and conclusively done. The neoDle of Indiana, as of other States, prefer capable and honest public officials, and could not fail to disapprove of tho methods by which good officers had been ousted, and incompetent, inexperienced, and unfit persons had beeu put in their stead. To use the advantage of the situation was not easy for the Indiana Republicans. Their appeals to the strongly Republican States for help met with no response. Their faith that they could work a revolution drew out no evidences of a corresponding faith in other people. Mr. Blaine spoke iu Pennsylvania and New Jersey, but not

in Indiana. General Logan was not able to visit his neighboring State. Mr. Allison, of lowa, did not find time to come. Senator Sherman, we believe, was the only prominent Republican from outside the State who gave the least help to the Indiana canvass. The work, consequently, fell upon the men at home. General Harrison, whose re-election to the Senate was involved in the result, naturally took the lead, and he was supported with hearty cordiality by all elements of the party—a unitv of effort which it has not always been possible to secure. He made, during the canvass, ten to twelve speeches a week, traversing tho State in all directions, meeting the people of every important locality, and presenting the issues of the canvass vigorously and convincingly. So earnest an effort deserved complete success, and this would undoubtedly have been attained, even in the face of the tremendous odds of the “gerrymander,” if there had been but a moderate amount of outside support given General Harrison and his gallant co-workers. As it is, they elect their Stale ticket, and take Indiana out of the Democratic list over into the Republican. * * * The share of success attained in his splendid struggle by Mr. Harrison is ono of the political events of the year, and marks him as a resolute and able leader. Tho Republican Dome. C. L. Holstein, at Madison. The dome of St. Peter’s, at Rome, is the finest piece of architecture in the world. It stands alone, and neither time nor place furnishes its second. Majesty, power, Glory, strength and beauty, All are aisled— In this eternal ark of worship Undefiled. Its beginning and completion embrace more than three centuries, and the great Angelo gave the best years of his life to its building. It is grand beyond description and expression. In reverential admiration some have even doubted whether it was the work of man or not. “One must stand afar to see St. Peter's,” said Emerson. A fly on the dome of St. Peter's, it has been said, with its limited vision, sees only the space of a few inches about itself, within which it might find some slight discolorations of wear and weather, or even some inequalities of surface, whiie it is blind to the great glory of the dome itself. So it seems to me, remembering the glorious history of the Republican party, and recalling its splendid achievements, that its critics of to-day, like the fly on the dome, with narrow vision, see and magnify a few slight imperfections, while they are bieotedly blind to the great glory of its round and perfect record. Ignoring little things, my fellow-citizens, let us stand out, and, open-eyed, look at the great dome Itself —greater thau even St. Peter's —the work of the Republican party seen in a people freed, and a Nation saved, and its government rebuilt ou everlasting foundations of justice, equality and freedom! The Indiana Sei.atorship, New York Mail and Express. The chances are that the result of the contests will be to give the Republicans the Legislature &nd eject a Republican as a successor of Senator Harrison. We think it most likely tnat Senator Harrison will be re-elected. Os course there will be beard a Democratic outcry about stealing the Legislature, frauds and 1870 over again. But there will be no reason for it. It is evident that the Democrats realize the jeopardy of their position, and know that their opponents are entitled to the control of the Legislature. They are already beginning to cry fraud, and ex Senator McDonald has so far lost his head as to threaten that the Democrats will resign their seats and break up the Legislature if the Republicans do not decide the contests to his liking. There is probably no trick, honest or otherwise, to which the Democrats will not resort to secure a United States Senator, but the Indiana Republicans are not the kind of people to be frightened by the silly threats of Mr. McDonald. Air. McDonald’s Views. New York Times. The views of ex Senator McDonald, of Indiana, on public affairs are not precisely those of a statesman, and have not their value, but they are the views of a prominent and experienced politician, llis idea that the Democrats in tho Indiana Legislature should break ud the Legislature rather than permit the Republicans to elect a United States Senator is a very fair indication of his standard of politics, and it is certainly low enough. But it is interesting to see that he is confident that the Democrats would win a considerable Republican vote in Indiana if they could be trusted to reform the tariff. This is not the notion of a theorist or that of a Pharisee, but of a very ambitions man who would not willingly make mistakes in his calculation of the drift of sentiment in his own State. It agrees vary well with the evidenco of opinion in other States. The Tariff' Ding-Dong. Chicago Herald. Senator Beck, although forty years or more in this country, still speaks with a broad Scotch accent. While talking with a group of prominent genllemeu at the Iroquois Club rooms, the other day, the conversation turned upon tariff reform. The Kentucky Senator spoke rather gloomily about the prospect of educating the people to that point where they could see the evils of the present system of spoliation, but suddenly remembering that it was neither the time nor the place to be mournful, he brightened up and said with charming accent: “Oh, it (meaning the agitation) must be kept oop. As auld Tawm Benton, of Missouri, used to say. ‘there’s nae twa words iu the English language like ding-dong.’” The Colorado Election. Denver Tribune. Mr. Olney Newell, secretary of the State Central Democratic Committee, has written a letter to the Indianapolis Sentinel, in which he handles Cleveland’s administration without gloves. For this Mr. Newell is to be commended; but he is mistaken if he thinks that the election of a Democratic Governor in Colorado was in any way due to the unpopularity of Mr. Cleveland, it was In no sense an anti administration victory. Mr. Adams was elected by Republican votes. Mr. Reed, whom the anti-administration Democrats made special efforts to elect, did not receive as many votes as Thomas did two years ago. l’lain Language to Mr. Lowry. LaGranco Sentinel (f eni.j It is said that Mr. Lowry “will contest White’s election.” Mr. Lowry well knows that his case is hopeless; yet hs knows that a contest can he made and that it can be protracted until near the close of White’s term, and while doing so can draw the salary of a Congressman during the period of contest, and thus draw the sum of nearly SIO,OOO. White’s salary will not be disturbed; he will also get his full pay. Should Lowry do this, it is but another good reason why he is not fit to be Congressman. A man that will take SIO,OOO or $1 from another, or from bis country, without giving in return something, is not to be considered a man of “great ability.” Well and Properly Said, Evansville Journal. It was eminently proper that- the gentlemen who wore of President Arthur's Cabinet should be invited to serve as pall bearers at his funeral, but it would have been vastly more decorous had none of them, while awaiting the ceremonies, been engaged in laying plans to secure his mantle.—lndianapolis Journal. This is well said and well meant. It would have been far better if tho friends of a certain presidential aspirant had waited until Mr. Ar thur was in his grave before making arrangements to dispose of his ex-official mantle. Nothing is gained by such unseemly haste. Nearly two years will elapse before the election of 1888. An Admission of Weakness. Chicago Journal. Ex Senator McDonald, of Indiana, is reported as saying that the Democrats may prevent the election of a Republican United States Senator from that State by resigning in sufficient numbers to break up the Legislature, if such a course should bocomo necessary. This threat at revolution seems to be an admission of the weakness of the Democratic claims in Indiana. Not a Great Issue. Denver Tribune. We really believe that the mugwumps think civil-service reform is a burning issue. President Cleveland evidently thinks so, too. To anyone who appreciates the greatness of America, its grand future and the work that must be done to fully realise that future, the question of who shall or who shall not fill tho clerkships in the

government offices seem to be ridiculously infini tesimal. For a President to make It the leading feature of his policy is as trifling and absurd aa it would be for the manager of a great railway system to make special and personal inquiry into the morals and habits of the men who labor on sections of his lir e. The civil-service question has been given a prominence it never deserved. The President and the mugwumps could see this, if their intellects had not become warped bv a too constant contemplation of it* supposed importance. Tlie Secret of Qig Success. Boston Jt nrnal. No public man has over been more sincerely, if less ostentatiously, mourned than ex-Presideni; Arthur. Others have won higher renown and performed greater deeds, but none have displayed a higher appreciation of his duties or labored more faithfully or successfully, if unostentatiously, to discharge them. And the secret of his success, and of the esteem of the people for him. lies in the fact that he never forgot that he was an American citizen. Air. Rounds Makes a Suggestion. Omaha Republican. It is understood that the new Public Printer will use plate matter in the Congressional Record this winter as a measure of economy. There are some copies of the President’s message left over from last year, and he will also try to induce Air. Cleveland to use them up this voar instead of preparing anew message. lie does not believe that anything should be wasted. A Chairman of Nerve. Philade’phia Record. The chairman of the temperance meeting who, after listening patiently for an hour and a half, told orator Cable that he had talkedlong enough is a deserving and discerning citizen. It was the opinion of the great, preacher Whitefield that a man who could talk like an angel ought toeud his discourse in fifteen minutes. Daniel Shops Before Election. New York Graphic. Airs. Lamont is in town, and has been indutnously doing her own shopping. The Colonel’* experimental efforts in that line may do well enough in the pleasant fall weather before election, tut he is apparently inadequate to the task • of replenishing feminine aud family wardrobe* for the rigorous winter season. Where the Extra Money Comes From. Philadelphia Inquirer. The Postmaster-general’s report that the special delivery service made a profit of $27,00C-faxt" year is somewhat of a surprise. The explanation is probably to be found in the number of persons sending letters to Philadelphia who paid ten cents extra to have them delivered the same day that they arrived. They Knew Something. Boston Herald. President Cleveland lias called attention to th# fact that only twelve of his predecessors wer# college graduates. Fifteen of them, however* taught school before they became statesmen More or leas book learning may be set down a* pn essential qualification for admission tortbwWhite House. He Alay if He Is a Democrat. Thi adelphia Press. The sum and substance of the President’s action in the Benton case is simply this: He admits that every federal office-holder shall be the judge of the measure of his own activity in politics. The veriest spoilsman has never contended for more than that. Letting Him Go as a Missionary. Boston Record. We are sorry to lose Dr. Withrow, of the Park-street Church, from Boston, but now, a* ever, Boston must continue to raise up missionaries to convert the dark places of the world. We need hardly say Dr. Withrow is going to Chicago. A Good Example to Follow. Boston Journal. The Republicans of Indiana are already organizing permanent clubs throughout the State, with a central organization in Indianapolis. It would baa good thing for other States to follotf the example of Indiana. m - 1 l iwsiiiißl A Reason for Howling. Minneapolis Tribune. ** Another Indiana treasurer has fled with th# funds. It will be remembered that the Republican campaign cry in that State was “We want to see tho books.” There was good reason for . the howl. What Kentucky Needs. Louisville Commercial. A little less liquor and a great deal mora learning is the only recipe for the moral ills that are eating the social and business heart out of many of the counties in eastern Ken* tucky. Ia n State of Misery. Winchester Heraid. The misery of the Indianapcdis Sentinel denotes a lack of confidence in u reliable Democratic majority on joint ballot of the two houses of the General Assembly. A Call for Specifications. Boston Journal. The President should state the number of speeches which a Democratic office-holder may make without beiug regarded by him as an offensive partisan. The Real Source of Power. Chicago Inter Ocean. It is a notable fnct that two-thirds of th# statesmen who have lived in the United State# began their career as teachers in district schools. A Democratic Lesson. Oxford Tribune. The Prohibitionists gained largely in Democratic districts this year. The third party will hardly be encouraged by the Bourbons in 1688. What an Experienced Editor Has Noticed. Goshen Times. Democratic papers and politicians hardly ever mean what they say, and when they are taken at their word they get mad about it. Rubbing It In. Atlanta Constitution. The Courier-Journal claims to have “flushed * covey.” It certainly did in Louisville—a covey that gave a Republican majority. * And Now You Don’t. Boston Herald. Now yea see the Democratic majorities in th# New Jersey and Indiana Legislatures, and now you don’t. Peek-a-boo! A Tough Bird. Louiiville Commercial. The free-traders Thanksgiving turkey is mad# out of brown canvass, and is stuffed with nail# and sawdust. A Hint to Now York* Philadelphia North American. If aldermen are always locked up a# soon a# elected, it will save a great deal of trouble ia th# future. Referring to the Hallot. Cincinnati Enquirer. Tho world is too old for the proposition that a thing is wicked simply because it is beautiful. Wlmt Next? New York Pont, Hand-painted coai scuttle? have made their appearance in many artistic households. What's the Alatter with Clovclaud? Shelby vllle Times. The Democracy of Indiana demands a Democratic candidate for President iu 1888. No Contest There. Boston Advertiser. The man who stands up before John L. Sullivan never bowls for a recount. Ask Leftingxrell, Philadelphia North American. When a man is ojected ff>m the Knight# of Labor he has to go to work.