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THE DAILY JOURNAL SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1886. WASHINGTON OFFICE-613 Fourteenth St. P. S. Heath. Correspondent. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL. Can be found at the following places: LONDON—American Exchange in Europe, 449 Strand. PARlS —American Exchange In Paris, 35 Boulevard des Capuclnes. NEW YORK—St. Nicholas and Windsor Hotels. pHlCACrO—Palmer House. CINCINNATI—J. P. Hawley A Cos., 154 Vine street. LOUISVILLE—O. T. Doering, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. BT, LOUlS—Union News Company, Union Depot aqd Southern Hotel. WASHINGTON, D. t.—Riggs House and Ebbitt House. Telephone Cnlla. Business Office 233 | Editorial Rooms 242 THE SUNDAY JOURNAL. As on last Sunday, the Sunday Journal for tomorrow will consist of sixteen pages, crowded With reading for the people. It will contain — THE SECOND PART OF “EDGED TOOI,S”-The si*ecial story by Brainier Matthews and Walter Herries Pollock, concluded in this issue. GENERAL GRANT AND*KING LEOPOLD—Gen. Badeau's account of the reception of the American cx-President by the King of Belgium. THE BOYHOOD OF CHRIST.—Gen. Lew Wallace's magnificeut paper in the December number of Harper, upon the youth of Jesus; CLARA BF.LLE'S LETTER will be piquant and interesting, ns usual, of the social and fashionable life of New York. Our special New York and Washington correspondents will cover a wide range of personal, Social and general topics in their entertaining manner, while in all departments, news, literary ana miscellaneous, the number will be of more than ordinary pleasure and profit. A special feature of the Sunday Journal is the social and personal news from the towns and cities within our patronizing territory. The people of all these places may be sure of seeing in the Sunday Journal a notice of all their most prominent social event?. Among tfco features of special interest in the local department will be articles on the following subjects: GETTING A LIVING FROM LA W—The experiences of young men in the legal profession, and the earniugs of lawyers in Indianapolis. THE SERVANT GIRLS OF IN*DIANAPOLT.S—Their ways, the claß> preferred by employers, and how they are secured. THE LARGEST CHURCH IN INDlANA—lnformation about Sh John’s Catholic Church, and its many societies. THE MERCHANT POLICE—Their system of organization and their work. ODDS AND ENDS—lnteresting glimpses of Leal life. There will be other special articles, anv.og the number a personal sketch of Rev. H. A. Edson, pastor of Memorial Presbyteriau Church. It Is extremely important that our advertising petrous should send in their copy at as early an hour as possible. With the cold weather and the approach of the holidays, trade is stimulated, and our tradesmen can find no channel of communication with the buying public equal to the Sunday Journal. It goes into more homes than any other paper published in the State, and, of course, has the most careful and thorough reading. The mugwumps will please come forward and take a last fond look at the once beautiful and symmetrical civil-service reform as it passes into innocuous desuetude.

Probably the transparent effort of the white-aproned law-breakers to put the police in a hole, as the phrase goes, will not be successful. When will these liquor-selling gentlemen understand that they must obey the law? The net Republican majority for the return of Senator Benjamin Harrison, as shown by the vote for members of the House of Representatives, is 9,580. Senator Harrison cuts a splendid figure in the estimation of Indianians. Governor Gray has appointed Hon. Eu gene 11. Bundy, of Henry county, successor to Gen. William Grose, upon the Insane Hospital Board of construction. This is a most creditable appointment, and, if accepted, secures to the State the services of a capable, intelligent and faithful man. The appointment was made without Mr. Bundy’s solicitation. The Grand Army men should not complain of Pension Commissioner Black for appointing an ex-guard of Andersonville as medical examiner of Union veterans. They forget that the “total wreck” has vice-presiilential aspirations, and must necessarily wish to make himself solid with the old confederate party, which is now an element of influence. The Grand Army must not be unreasonable. The accident on a freight train in Illinois, where a man in charge of cattle and poultry was found smothered to death with his stock in a locked box car which had taken fire, will lead the public to ask if a traveler, under such circumstances, is not furnished tvith a key, or if his safety in emergency depends upon the memory of a traiu hand. If the latter be the case, travel seems to be invested with >ome dangers not hitherto taken into consideration. We beg to assure the Sentinel that the Journal is not, and never has been, in the slightest degree disturbed by anything that appears in its columns. If, in a somewhat comprehensive attempt to give credit to the various influences that contributed to Republican success in the late election, we omitted to mention the Sentinel, we hasten to do it now, and to make our most respectful apologies for tho lamentable oversight. Among the subsidiary influences favoring the Republicans, our esteemed contemporary was not tho least, by any means. It is suggested that the Democrats will attempt to capture the United States Senate by passing the bill for the admission of Washings

ton Territory as a State, which has a Democratic Legislature, and thus secure two Senators. A bill to admit the Territory passed the Senate, and is now pending in the House. If the Democratic party wants to cut its throat, let it admit Washington Territory for that purpose, and leave Dakota, with six times the population, out in the cold. The people have a way of disposing of that sort of political trickery. Vide, the late election in Indiana. THE CONSTITUTIONAL PROFESSOR, Professor McDonald is delivering lectures on constitutional law whenever and wherever he can obtain an audience of even one reporter to listen to his garrulous talk. The Professor would have the public understand that he has made a laborious and profound study of the Constitution, with special reference to Green Smith's preposterous and dishonorable claim that he is “acting Lieutenant-govern-or/' and would succeed to the office of Governor should a vacancy occur in that place before the expiration of Governor Gray’s term. The Professor, not to say the Democratic autocrat, has ventured “to moan, and groan, and paraphrase” upon the subject in all its conceivable phases as it appears to his great mind. The “sum tottle” of his lucubrations, as Mr. John Bright might say, is tnat Mr. Green Smith is in succession to the gubernatorial office, were Governor Gray to vacate it, for any cause, before 1889. Thia result is reached because Mr. Green Smith is a member of the Stato Senate from Jennings county, and at the last session of the Senate was elected President pro tern, of that body, to preside when “occasion” should leave the chair empty by the absence of Lieutenant-governor Manson. Mr. Green Smith's membership in the Senate is the basis of the entire claim. But for this fact he would no more think of asserting his right to such succession than would any other member of the Smith family, who may be a day laborer anywhere in the State, and who has never beeu so much as thought of for any sort of public office by his fellow-citizens. But somehow or other Professor McDonald's protracted study of the Constitution has not led him to the following section, which is numbered ninety-six in the Revised Statutes of 1881. We respectfully call his attention to it, as well as the attention of Mr. Green Smith, and of all the other conspirators in the disreputable scheme to overthrow the recent election and to defeat the expressed will of the people. The section reads as follows: “The powers of the government are divided into three separate departments; the legislative, the executive, including the administrative, and the judicial; and no person charged with official duties under one of these departments shall exercise any of the functions of another, except as in the Constitution expressly provided.” We call the attention of Professor McDonald, and his associates and pupils in constitutional law, to this provision, as well as to the letter of Mr. W. H. IT. Miller, to whom wo are indebted for the point. We unite with him in the invitation to the professor to please point out the constitutional provision allowing a member of the legislative department to discharge executive functions. It is not within the power of the Legislature to provide that this may be done. Mr. Senator Green Smith may be President of the Senate “for the occasion,” but he cannot, at any time or under any circumstances, be even the “acting Lieu-tenant-governor,” much less the “acting Governor.” Mr. Green Smith should tuck up his little feet and bo gathered to his fathers, politically speaking. The people of the State have had quite enough of him, and of his ridiculous claim.

THE LEGISLATIVE VOTE, The Journal prints this morning a table giving tbe majority in each county of the State for members of the lower House of the Legislature. By reason of the infamous gerrymander several counties did not vote for Representatives at all, and in these instances the vote is taken upon Lieutenant-governor, ns a fair indication of the attitude of the two parties. In cases where more than one Representative was elected, we have given the majority for each candidate, not taking the highest majority for a Republican and the lowest for a Democrat, but by this means giving an absolutely fair average of public sentiment as expressed by the voters for all members of the Legislature. The total Republican majorities foot up 36,312, and the total Democratic majorities 26,732, leaving a net Republican majority of 9,580. This is the expression of the people of the State upon the legislative gerrymander. The Journal has stated that, when the figures were in, the result would show that the people had condemned the Democratic party by from ten to fifteen thousand votes. We spoke from an estimate based upon only the few figures we had seen; but the actual official figures bear out, substantially, the Journal’s claim. On a straight vote upon the State ticket the Republican majority over the Democratic was au average of but 3,500 votes; in condemnation of the legislative gerrymander, and in the determination that the frauds and abuses of Democratic administration should be remedied, the pople spoke with an added force of six thousand votes. These six thousand votes mean that Benjamin Harrison was to bo returned to the Senate, that the benevolent institutions should be placed on a non-partisan basis and relieved from the control of the men who.have scandalized the Stato by frauds and corruptions, crimes and cruelties; that the public funds of the Stato should be at all times within tho call of the proper authorities, and that the money collected by taxation nud bor-

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rowed for a speoific purpose should be properly applied; that the domination of the liquor powers in politics should be peremptorily stopped, and that the traffic in intoxicating drinks should be made subordinate to the law and to the people; that, all and sigular, the reforms promised by the Republican party, and denied by the Democratic, should be carried into effect. This is what the ten thousand majority means, and, although the people were so bound and chained by the infamous Democratic gerrymander that they could not secure a representative majority in more than one house of the General Assembly, the Republican members-elect will see to it that, so far as it may be possible, the commands of the public will shall be obeyed. In commenting upon Mr. Myron D. King’s “analysis of the vote touching the Legislature,” printed in the Sentinel, the Journal said that the vote for members of the Legislature was not on file in the office of Secretary of State, and that, in making it appear that it was, Mr. King had made * dishonorable attempt to mislead the public. The Journal spoke by the statute, which does not provide for the certifying of the legislative vote to the Secretary of State, but it seems that the vote is and has been so returned without statutory direction. In so far the Journal’s stricture upon Mr. King was unwarranted. But the fact remains that the “analysis” was a discreditable effort to juggle figures for the purpose of deceiving the public, as was indicated in the vote for Ivnox county, to which we referred. The like treatment occurs in other places in the “analysis,” which, as we have said, was false and misleading in intent and in effect, so far as may have been influenced by its absurd conclusions. We reprint from the Cincinnati Enquirer Mr. Eb Henderson’s statement of the manner in which Hon. Will Cumback was defeated for the United States Senate in 1867. Just at this juncture it is especially good reading. It reveals the character of the buccaneers who stole a seat in the State Senate to carry their point then, just as they propose to do now, if necessary to secure the defeat of Benjamin Harrison. Probably this dishonorable story by one of the conspirators and parties to the theft is made public at this time to give fair warning that no crime is too gross for the Democracy to commit for political advantage. Whatever may be the motive, the publication of this choice excerpt from the Democratic Newgate Calendar will have the effect to once more disclose to the people the scoundrelly character of the Democratic party.

A WOMAN is to blame, of course, for the trouble into which Mr. Reed, the defaulting treasurer of the Boston Horse-car Company, has got himself. The woman is his wife; but she did not drive him to embezzlement by her extravagance and expensive tastes, as is customary with wives under such circumstances, if newspaper reports are to be believed. On the contrary, Mrs. Reed was a naughty woman, who flirted with other men than her liusuand, and finally eloped with one of them. It was after her departure, and when the bereaved Mr. Reed had nothing with which to occupy his mind, that he took to stealing from his employers. This was three years ago, and as the stealing continued up to last week, he seems never to have become entirely consoled for the loss of his spouse. Women are responsible for a great deal of wickedness in this world. Tin? great questions in dispute now between Boston and New York are whether Mr. Blaine was justified in refusing to shake hands with Senator Edmunds under the roof of the dead President, and whether Edmunds had a right to expect anything but a snub when offering his hand to a man whom he had recently charged with being a liar. Boston thinks Blaine was inexcusably rude, while New York maintains that Edmunds exhibited an amount of “gall” that called for the treatment he received. The Journal takes no part in the controversy, but merely rises to remark that as be. ween the two it prefers Harrison or Sherman. “Colonel Robertson should be informed that when the Constitution of Indiana comes into conflict with a statute the former wins invariably.”—Sentinel. With very great pleasure Colonel Robertson calls attention to Section 96 of the State Constitution, Revised Statutes. Carry the news to Mr. Green Smith. Col. Kline G. Sheyock. of Fu.ton county, will be a candidate for Door-keeper of the House of Representatives. Col. Sbryock was one of the organizers of the Republican party, and has attended every State convention held in Indiana. He is a worker, as well as one of the ablest advisers of the party. He certainly deserves the recognition of his services, and the Journal will rejoice at his election. Emma Abbott sang “The Last Rose of Summer” in honor of Jeff Davis at the Memphis Opera-house the other night, and the papers of that city call it a tasteful and touching tribute. The papers have a very correct idea of tho ap propriate, but J. Davis's thoughts on the touching occasion are not disclosed. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Mrs. John Bigelow is noted for her generous heart and independent ways. The President has invited his sister to spend the holidays with him at Oak View. Patti’s favorite color is red, Mme. Nilsson's is blue, while Henry Irving’s is crimson. They all match well with the old gold of American dollars. Miss Maud Melville, daughter of the heroic chief engineer of the Jeannette expedition, is presently to appear in public as a concert singer. The frozen meat trade of New Zealand has become an important service to that colony, the exports since Jan. 1 amounting to 600.000 carcasses of mutton. Still, December, January,

February and March are the only months in the year when shippers feel safe in shipping In large quantities. A check for one cent was recently drawn in New York by the government in favor of an importer who had paid excess of duty to that extent. Reed, the latest Boston defaulter, is fifty-one years old, short in stature, with blonde sidewhiskers. As far as known, bis habits have been good. Somebody who has studied Henry George’s views on ownership in land proposes that Mr. George should christen his followers “the Freesoil party.” President Pierce alone has the honor of the twenty-two administrations of having retained his Cabinet intact throughout the four years he was in office. Life: In place of the chestnut bell, we now have the electric button. You are invited to press it, and the point of a needle rnns into the finger. We are a humorous Nation. Puck: It has at last been found out that the reason the Salvation Army recruits wear their hair so long is because they can wear one eollar an entire season without being detected. New Haven Nows: A man out West rolled a pillow-sham up and choked his scolding wife to death with it. We have often wondered if those articles wouldn’t some time have a use found for them. The King and Queen of Corea, according to the Berlin Borsen Courier, have dismissed their native physicians and intrusted themselves respectively to the care of Dr. Allen and Miss Ellen, a lady who studied in Boston. Recent illness, from which he has now recovered, has obliged Mr. Wilkie Collins to defer for a short time the publication of his new story called “The Guilty River.” It will, however, be in the hands of the public very soon. A young woman at Banksville, Pa , want into a trance and visited heaven. Her father thinks her experiences in the celestial kingdom are too holy for a daily paper, and he proposes to have the story written out for the Pittsburg Christian Advocate. Gakabed S. Azhderian, an Armenian, is a member of the freshman class at Williams. He supports himself by selling embroideries, scarfs, etc., sent to him from his native land. When he graduates he will be able to keep a little “gents’ furnishing store” and dun his classic customers iu pure Latin. “Dr. Alfred Russell W vllace, the greatest naturalist of our time, is having much success with his illustrated Lowell Institute lectures,” says the Boston Beacon. “He is a simple speaker, leaves out mere technicalities, and offers the best lectures of the kind ever delivered in this country.” Theodors Roosevelt, who Is cowin Loudon, is quite a social lion. The aristocracy have extended a very warm welcome. He goes fox hunting, and his name is up at the Athenaeum Club. He Is to be married next week, and will proceed to Italy for the honeymoon. The Prince of Wales, it is said, will give him a dinner when he returns to London. Probably the last letter ex-President Arthur ever wrote was addressed to William W. Wright, of Geneva. It was dated Nov. 16, and received the day of the writer’s death. It acknowledged the receipt of a sketch of Judge Folger by Mr. Wright* who besides being an active politician, is a man of good literary taste, and was written in a firm, bold hand. About two years ago James Gleason, of New Haven, received word that he had fallen heir to an estate ia Ireland. He went over to take possession, was shipwrecked on tho voyage, escaped, reached Ireland, hut failed to obtain his fortune. He returned home, and recently died. A few days after his death came uews that tho money was on its way to New Haven. Miss May MoTavish, of Baltimore, a descendant of Charles Carroll of Carrollton on her father’s side, and of General Winfield Scott on her mother's, ha3 sailed for Europe, to enter the convent of Carmelite Nuns at Brussels. Sho was a young and well-known member of Baltimore society. A younger sister took tho black veil at the Convent of the Visitation, near Baltimore, three years ago. The Book-maker reports that several American publishers have discovered that they can save money by having their books printed in Europe. Printing offices in London and Berlin have taken orders a year or more ahead of the time of delivery, and the contracts have proven equally satisfactory to both parties. The jobs have been large enough to warrant the casting of type in exact tmitation of the styles in vogue here. A STROLLING gypsy told a West Virginia farmer that if he would place $23 in a certain hollow 3tump and leave it there all night it would be doubled in the morning. The farmer tried it, and sure enough he found S3O in the stump. Then the gypsy advised him to put all he had, S7OO, in the stump, and draw out $1,400 in the morning. The farmer took this advice, and is oow looking for a gypsy who he says h3 stolen S7OO from him. Mr. Stilson Hutchins, the well-known Washington journalist, has the necessary wealth and leisure now to give himself up to the organization of a first class club at the capital. It is to be called “The Jefferson,” and will be modeled after the Iroquois, of Chicago, and the Manhattan, of New York. The matter has been considered, and about two hundred Washingtonians of the Jeffersonian persuasion have taken an interest in it to the extent of lending their names. A member of one of the militia regiments which guarded tbe Chicago stockyards during the recent strike having, because of his enforced absence from business, been discharged by the firm which employed him, Mr. P. D. Armour 6ent word to General Fitzsimons, in command of the militia, that all soldiers who had lost positions by reason of their military service would be employed by him at work similar to that they bad been doing, and at as good wages as they had previously received or better. “Where are your tickets, gents?” asked tbe door-keeper of a St. Louis theater to a line of men who confronted him in “Indian file.” “It’s ail right,” shouted a man at the tail end of tbe line. “I’ve got the tickets. There's twelve of us with me. Count ’em as they go in.” “In you go, gents,” said the door-keeper, and he tallied off eleven who immediately mixed with the crowd within. The Cerberus turned to look for the holder of the tickets, but he had disapDeared, and eleven men saw tbe performance safe from identification in the tremendous throng of peo pie.

COMMENT AND OPINION. Dr. McCosh would make a capital successor to Bayard, in case the latter retires—Albany Journal. Some one says, “Poets are declining.” This is incorrect. Editors are declining, not poets. —New Haven News. The one way to preserve the national bank system is to find securities which, for reliability and universal acceptance, can take the plane of United States bonds as security for circulation. It remains for legislative wisdom to discover or invent such securities.—Pittsburg Dispatch, We are happy to be able to announce that, notwithstanding the refusal of Mr. Blaine to take the hand of Mr. Edmunds, “God reigns and the government at Washington still lives"—to quote the memorable words of a greater man than either Blaine or Edmunds.—St. Louis Globe Democrat. It is alleged that the climate of the United States is undergoing rapid changes, and it appears that Mexico, also, is affected. It was not until the Democratic administration came in that the Mexican climate was guilty of doing such sad service for the represemtatives of the United States.—Milwaukee Sentinel. It is probable that Colonel Stone never expected to get back, but all tbe same it was a good thing to do when he put the pin into the President’s chair and made him sit on it. The

y&wp he has given and the ridionlons effort he makes to explain tho stultification of himself only add to the colossal effrontery of this political hypocrite in affecting to pose as a reformer. —Chicaeo Tribune. Fred Douglass claims that he is a free man only in name, and is ostracised socially. Colored men who voted the Democratic ticket are reminded that it is not tho fault of the Democratic party that the black man enjoys even nominal freedom. Instead of negative, harmless ostracism, it would restore ancient and aggressive slavery, boldly, if it had the power to do so. —Terre Haute Express. Development of the great natural resources of the South will, we predict, be wonderful and unprecedented in the remaining portion of the present century, and the beginning of the new century will find the Southern States of the Republic in a far more prosperous condition than ever before, and rapidly drawing Abreast of, even if not outstripping, their sister States of the North. —Albany Express. Many persons who sleep in church are perhaps not aware that “in 1643, Roger Scott, for repeated sleeping in meeting on the Lord's day, striking the person who waked him, was, at Salem, sentenced to be severely whipped.” Mr. Scott, had he lived in our day, might have peacefully slept throughout the services and read the sermon in the Monday morning paper. —Louisville Courier-Journal. A careful study of the various aspects of the difficulties between labor and capital the past year will confirm our deliberate opinion that, so far as this country is concerned, we have passed the point of greatest danger, and are gradually and surely approaching the period when, under the operations of our peculiar institutions, labor and capital will recognize, as never before, the fact that they should be the best and closest of friends, each essential to the other, each depending on the other, neither able to prosper long in selfish indifference to the other.—New York Mail and Express. No decently intelligent person has any more doubt that the condemned Anarchists are responsible for the massacres which they instigated than any such person has that McQuade, when he was an alderman, took a bribe to vote for the grant of the Broadway railroad franchise. In 6uch a case even judges may be expected to be guided by a sense of stern justice, and to regard it as desirable that the wretched brood should be exterminated. It is not, therefore, likely that this last desperate attempt of the murderers will be any more successful than their previous attempts to cheat justice.—New York Times. Mr. Blaine, in a word, is a boor. His conduct was that of a clown. He not only had not resolved to observe the conventions of society and the obligation of good manners in saluting his foe; he went the opposite extreme and deliberately made a vulgar scene, to wit: The exhibition of himself over a coffin. His discreet friends, one would suppose, if he has any, would make an effort to distract public attention from the story instead of giving it circulation. It places Mr. Edmunds in a magnanimous light before the country, and represents Mr. Blaine as an ill-mannered, ill-tempered, unmanly churl. —Brooklyn Citizen.

THE STATE PRESS. Its Views Upon the Election and the Attempt of the Democrats to Steal the Results, Meagher is not a member of the Indiana General Assembly, and he should make himself as scarce as possible.— Greencastle Times. For heaven's sake shut up about Green Smith and the lieutenant-governorship. What on earth would he do with it if he were to got it?—Seymour Republican. Sweeney, an Irishman, ran way behind his ticket for Superintendent of Public Instruction. An Irishman always runs behind on the Democratic ticket.—Delphi Journal. Free trade protects tho capitalists. Protection protects the laborer. Reduced to the last analysis, no better statement of the effects of the two systems can be made. —Lawrenceburg Press. The Democrats are howling that the Republicans intend to steal the Legislature of Indiana. The real facts are that the Republicans are fixing matters so that the Democrats cannot steal it. That is what hurts them.—Union City Eagle. Governor Gray might as well rest satisfied with what he already has. Senator Harrison will be his own successor, even though the simple Smith should by some strange mishap squeeze into Lieutenant-governor Robertson’s place.—Richmond Telegram. It is announced that Senator Yoorhees will issue a pronunciamento to the Democrats of Indiana on the legislative troubles, shortly. The Senator can blow himself hoarse, but those legislative troubles aro going to be settled according to law and precedent.—New Castle Courier. Tho press throughout the State is voicing the sentiment of the whole people in urging upon the Republicans the importance of carrying oat tho spirit of the platform with regard to the temperance question. It is of the utmost importance that the promises be adhered to. —Fairmont News. Indiana is certain to cut a prominent figure in the coming presidential struggle. The death of Vice-president Hendricks removes the great leader of the Democracy, and the recent Republican gains will give confidence to that party, and enthusiasm for another brilliant campaigu. •—Auburn Dispatch. Our advice to the Republican party in the premises, is to stick to local option, and stand by that issue. The people are not ready for general prohibition. When publio sentiment may bo brought to it, through local option, we will raise no objection. All we ask is a free ballot and a free conscience.—Hendrioks County Republican. Suppose it should be decided that the election for Lieutenant-governor was void. Suppose further that Gray should be elected Senator, and Green Smith, the “yawping" wiud bag from “Jinnin’s,’’ should become Governor, would not Indiana's cup of disgrace and humiliation be full and running over?—Columbus Republican. The Democratic members, despairing of being able to control the Legislature, now threaten to break a quorum by resigning. That will do very well, but half of them would not be reelected, and the Republican majority after a new election would be a quorum in itself. They will probably not try it.—Richmond Palladium. Our people have seen with apprehension the encroachments upon popular rights elsewhere, and the movement to overturn, upon flimsy pretexts, the result of a fair election here at home is greeted with astonishment and indignation, which will make themselves felt in a manner not to be mistaken or disregarded.—Rushvllle Republican. It begins to look as though there was no fraud they will not lay hold of, no paltry subterfuge they will not grasp, no dirt they will not eat, no dishonor they will not achieve. Like the state of Governor Kent, the Indiana Democracy is evidently “h 1 bent.” They are sowing the wind and they will reap the whirlwind.—Kokomo Gazette-Tribune. Sweeney, an Irishman and a Catholic, ran way behind his ticket for Superintendent of Public Instruction. With one exception, we have never known an Irishman to run behind on the Republican ticket. He always gets the loyal support of the party. We know of no exception to the rule that an Irishman always run behind on the Democratic tickot. —Hartford City Times. If Indiana men would unite on General Ben Harrison as should be done, we might have some show of getting a presidential candidate. General Harrison would be strong in the East, and would carry Indiana by 15.000 majority. A presidential candidate must be a man that can carry Indiana and New York, and that man is General Harrison, as against any other Indiana man.—Rushville Graphic. The frauds at the late election, the forgeries upon the tally-sheets, were committed in the interests of Democratic candidates. The rational presumption would be that they were committed by Democrats. These are the frauds and forgeries, the crimes, that need to be ferreted out and the perpetrators punished. If anybody is in earnest in this matter something will be done. The people will see.—Lebanon Patriot. The Republicans of the Indiana Legislature will be expected to carry out to the letter the doctrines laid down in the platform on which they were elected, and if they are defeated let the responsibility rest where it belongs, on the Democratic party. The people are d'sgusted with the action of the Democratic party, both State And national, and look to the Republican legislators for relief. —Peru Republican. All the talk and bluster about counting out or counting in members of our State Legislature by

either party, in order to pain a political advairfe age, is senseless and out of place. If a majority of the legally-elected members are Republican they will take their seats and vote for and eiect a United States Senator, and vice versa. The people of Indiana will allow no Mississippi tactics to be employed.—Worthington Times. Hon. Joseph E. McDonald deserves to be classed among “the greet converters.” No man responds so readily and fully to the blandish* ments of the interviewer. It requires no per* suasion to induce him to tell all he knows, o* expects to know, on any subject to be contained within the wide expanse of conservative and simon-pure Domocracy. His arrival anywhere is a boon to the hustler after fact and fancy. —Terre Haute Express. Ike P. Gray, the renegade, has always had many bitter enemies in the Democratic ranks, and, as the gerrymander engineered by him wal so palpably in his own interests, hundreds of others have become disgusted with his supreme selfishness and notorious political dishonesty, and they openly rejoice at his defeat Gray has received his death-blow. He will go out of the Governor’s office into private life never to be resurrected.—Liberty Herald. What the Democrats failed to get by the honest suffrage of the people they have sought te obtain by cunning and intrigue. In Indiana they have boldly threatened to unseat one Republican Senator for every Democrat unseated in the House, in order to keep control of the Legislature on joint ballot Accordingly, while the Republicans have contested three seats in the House, the Democrats have contested seven in the Senate. —Brazil Register. If the Republicans had a majority of forty on joint ballot it would still be their oath, required constitutional duty to prevent the stealing of some of the Democrats who claim a membership in the Legislature, and tbey will be cowards, unworthy of the name of Republicans, if they shrink from the performance of that duty on account of the revolutionary threats of Democratic conspirators and scoundrels at Indianapolis or elsewhere.—Logansport Journal. The rascals who have dared to change the result of the election by “doctoring” the returns in Marion county cannot be too soon proven guilty and put safely within the walls of the penitentiary. The sooner political circles are ridded of such characters the safer will be our State and national government. Frauds upon the ballot, by whomsoever committed, must be rigidly and severely punished. Turn the rascals in—the penitentiary.—Shelbyville Republican. The disreputable scheme to deliberately steal the seat of Senator A. R. Shroyer, the member’ elect of Cass county, is meeting with the indignant condemnation of the rank and file of both parties in that county. Mr. Shroyer was elected by a handsome majority of 382, while the county was usually considered good for 500 Democrats majority; he of course was elected by Democratic votes, and the fight thatisnow being madS is creating discension in the ranks of that par* ty.—Frankfort Banner. Wo! be to the party, Republican, Democrat, ot what not, that by bribery, miscount, tissue-bal-lots, counterfeit returns, or any other similaf frauds, undertakes to gain an advantage that does not belong to it. As if the infamy of th 4 past were not sufficiently damnable, the Demo l cratlc leaders in this State are bent on going down to a deeper depth of infamy still. Gentlemen, it won’t pay. and you’ll yet find it so. There is a sense of right and justice, innate in Human hearts, that you can’t trample on forevei with impunity.--Steuben Republican. The contest of Mr. Shroyer’s election as Senator from Cass county is one of the most barefaced attempts to steal a seat in the Legislature in the history of Indiana politics. It simply serves notice that the Democratic State centra! committee is determined to elect a United Staten Senator whether by fair means or foul, and that every seat lost to them in the lower house will be replaced to them in the Senate. Bat the gang that perpetrated the gerrymander and engineered the tally-sheet frauds at Indianapolis is equal to any infamy.—Monticello Herald. When we come to consider that the Republicans have a majority of more than 20,00 U in thii State on the legislative tiiket, it would seem that the Democratic managers would not dare to attempt by fraud and downright theft to secure the election of a United States Senator. But void of principle and determined to win by whatever means, they will give no heed to the expressed will of the people, but. if necessary, by outrages heretofore unheard of, Dan Voorhees, Jo McDonald, Ike Gray and Eb Henderson will estop the people from the enjoyment of a victory fairly and decisively won.—Muncie Times. The Democratic leaders of this State will stop at nothing to accomplish their nefarious designs to thwart the will of the people. Fraud, bulldozing and downright theft are the means to be employed in the accomplishment of their purposes. It is time for the law-abiding citizens—those who have the good of the community at heart—to give these plunderers and despoilers of the ballot to underttand that honest elections must be the rule. Honest and good government stands higher than party, and good government cannot bo the order where the ballot is vitiated. The bummers of the Sim Coy stripe must go. —lndianapolis Herald. The newly elected Legislature hag much important work to perform after the question of contested seats is settled, which should be done with reference only to who is justly entitled to those seats. Bills Bhould be Introduced and passed by the Republican House that will convince the people that the Republicans intend to stand squarely on every plank they put in their platform. Then if a Democratic Senate defeats or opposes those measures the responsibility will rest where it belongs. The Legislature has it largoly in its power to say which party will carry Indiana in 1888. We trust it will not lose sight of this fact, —Franklin Republican. Why not embody all these features, local option, high license and State inspection? The local option feature would enable tho people of counties to decide for themselves whether or not they wanted saloons. In counties where the people decide in favor of saloons, they roust impose high license upon them. The State inspection should be a feature in connection with the high license law. We think there is an overwhelming sentiment in the State In favor of a local option and high license law, and we regard the Republican platform as a pledge in that direction. The Republicans in the Legislature will be wise to carry out the will of the majority as they understand it. —Shelbyvillo Republican. A majority of the people of the State, undep the forms of the law, have decreed that certain very important work shall be done by their servants in legislative and other offices, all of which rights, and purposes, and decrees will be defeated by the proposed Democratic break-up. And what are the ends to be accomplished by this defiance, and outrage, and rebellion? Only the prevention of the election of General Hamson. State of one representative in the United States Senate for two years; only the retention of power and place in the State benevolent institutions now held by Democratic spoilsmen; only the defeat of probable legislation affecting tne Liquor League; only a forlorn hope of a chance in 1888 that the partisan ringsters and gangsters, who were downed in 1886 may recover their grip and once more revel la plunder and power.—Logansport Journal.

Takes Rank with tho Rost. Warren Republican. Frequently through the columns of the Republican we have called attention to the daily Indiauapolis Journal, and have takon occasion to recommend it to our readers as a newspaper published for and in the interests of the peopltt of Indiana- All wo have said in praise ot the Journal in the past we are ready to ropeat, or more, for during the late campaign and sines the election the editors and managers of that paper have even surpassed themselves on formet records, and by their fearless and manly course made tho Journal a paper eagerly sought after by all parties and classes for reliable news and honest exposure of the rascals in authority in all places of honor and trust. In the reports furnished of the ret ami they have been fresh and reliable, and at the close of the count in this State the oirculation of the Journal was enormous, the demand being much greater than the supply, and the agent* throughout the State had, as thoy supposed, taken sufficient precautions to have a supply equal to all anticipated demands. While the Journal is radically Republican, and sound to the core on all questions of labor, reform and tariff, all sides are given a fair representation and the issues of the day aro laid before the people in plain and intelligent terms. A Hoosiercan and should support the Journal with pride, for it i* the paper in Indiana to day for the masses. A* an oxponent of good and living ideas and principles the Journal is at the head of the list and takes rank with our best aud leading dailies of the ago.