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THE LNUIANArOLIS JOURNAL ANNOUNCEMENT FOR 1887. The Irs Jianajioils Journal has long enjoyed (he dis- \ iCticn of being the loading newspaper of Indiana, Br.d occur.ie® a position among the great journals of the country equalled by no other in the State. The ex{erience of the past has clearly demonstrated the necessity for such a paper in this field. The Journal ha- spared r.o effort or expense to give to the public a wide-awake, aggressive newspaper, and it row conies before its readers better equipped to serve them than ever before, and with the assurance that the high f taudard of excellence it now maintains shall not be lowered in the future. The near approach of the session of the National Congress anil the State Legislature, and the important questions to he considered by both bodies, make a i rst class newspaper indispensable to every person. The Journal's reports and reviews of the proceedings of ea'-h will be full and accurate, prepared by its own correspondents and reporters. The work before the Incoming Legislature will attract more attention than has been bestowed upon a like body in many yc*ar3, and is of the most important character, involving, as it does, the election of n United States Senator, the government of the State institutions, and other mattor- of unusual interest. Ti e Journal enjoys facilities for receiving ar.d publishing the news of the day in every way superior to those enjoyed by any other paper in Indiana and initial to any in the country, being a member of both he great associations, the reports of both the W • stern Associated and United Press being rec* ircd at its own office, and presented to its readers to the fullest extent. The Journal is represented at Washington and New York, and other large cities, by tried and efficient corre-pondents of wide reputuation, who will furnish it with full and extensive accounts of all matters of public interest. The vigilance of these correspondent* is a guarantee that the readers of the Journal will he kept fully informed in all that goes to constitute the history of the period. In every town in Indiana, and such portions of adjoining States as arc in its patronizing field, the Journal is represent!-J by a special correspondent, and great iaru is taken to see that the new3 of this section is •iven to the fullest extent possible. The city news will be given much more fully tbnn by any other paper in Indianapolis, and reports of all occurrences will be presented with impartiality and completeness, by competent writers and nevs-gather- * In this department, as in all others, the Journal challenges comparison. Particular attention will be given to its market report* financial ants commercial, and the attention of bankers merchants, brokers and alt others interested .1 the markets is invited to the Journal’s columns. The excellence of these reports has long been recognised: no other paper in Indiana bestows the attention upon th:3 important department given by the Journal. The decisions of the Supreme and local courts will he < at efullv reviewed by special reporters, and vcjll be accv.Tand comprehensive. No attorney can afford to b- r. ithout these reports, as in no other way can he keep s > fully informed and abreast of the times. In addition to its news features, the Journal has secure : the services of some of the best known writers ;u the li’eravy field, among them many of the favorite _-ontiibutovs to the leading magazines of the country, •.•I. will furnish regular features. Their writings will appear chiefly in the Sunday Journal, which, in point of excellence, has no rival in (ho State and no eui'C-rior in the country. No expense will be spared to m.<he it retain its advanced position among the be-t journals of the period.

THE INDim STATE JOURNAL Ti e weekly edition of the Journal is a complete C'.upeudium of the news of the week, with special features of literary and miscellaneous character, toget:, r with latest and most, accurate market reports, and *p> cial departments devoted to agricultural, horticultural and household topics. It is under special charge (J f an experienced editor, and. is prepared with intelligence and care. It is mailed to subscribers on the morning of its publication, and no time is lost in ph. ing it in the hands of its readers. Hd eving thoroughly that the interests of the State and Nation can be best subserved by a Republican adininisiratiithe Journal will heartily devote itself to the championship of that party’s principles, and a ill do ail in its power to compass Republican succ *s. It- eye* shall not bo blinded, however, by pr.r-th-ur. bias, and it will not hesitate to criticise Republican wrong-doing wherever it rcav occur. ThRMS. Yl* derms of the DAILY JOURNAL are as follows: Delivered by agents, per week, without Sunday.. 25c Delivered by agents, per week, including Sunday. 30c BY MALL: Ore month, without Sunday 91-00 Three months, without Sunday b.(>o :: mouths, without Sotmluj' 0.00 o>.- year without Sunday 12.00 One month, with Sunday 1.20 Three months, with Sunday 0.50 Six :• ouths. with Sunday 7.00 One year, with Sunday 14.00 Sunday only, one year 2.00 Weekly. Wct.li'. J v.vnal, one year 91*00 mm newspaper to., Market and Circle Sts., Indianapolis. . THE DAILY JOURNAL. THURSDAY. DECEMBER 2. ISSG. WASHINGTON OFFICE—SI3 Fourteenth St. P. S. liEATH. Correspondent. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL. Car be found at the following places: LONDON—American Lxcnange in Europe, 440 Strand. PARIS —American Exchange in Paris. 35 Boulevard des Cupueines. NEW YORK—St. Nicholas and Windsor Hotels. CHICAGO—PaImer House. CIX< INNATI—J. P. Ilawloy & Cos., 151 Vino street LOUISVILLE—C. T. Dear ing, northwest .corner Third and Jefferson streets. ST. LOUlS—Union News Company, •Union Depot and Southern Hotel. WASHINGTON, D. t.—Riggs House and F.bbitt Blouse. Telephone Calls. l!u* : nf-ss Office 23H | Editorial Rooms 242 AND so it was that ailed Minister Manning. The doctors didn't call it that in Sedgwick’s case; but pulque by any other name will taste as sweet, and lay a man just as low. The vote of Dakota at the late election will reach about 100,000, and the majority of the Republicans will be 20,000. The poll is 15,000 larger than ever before. And yet Dakota is kept out of the Union by the disran -.hieing Democratic party as a penalty for being Republican. A “fcTAXCH friend" of lion. Joseph E. IcDonald is quoted by a Washington paper a* taying that, although that amiable gentleman would be ready to obey if called upon by the Democracy of his State to serve them

in the Senate, ho is not seeking tho placo, and would be compelled to make positive sacrifices to take it. If Mr. McDonald still has hopes, this friend evidently ha3 none. When a man bogins to talk about sacrifices that must be made in order to accept an office that hasn’t been offered him yet, it i3 a pretty sure sign that the jig is ud, and that it is time to bring on the mourners. Referring to the work of newspapers in the late campaign, the Vincennes Commercial says: “The people were in no humor to be cajoled, or treated as children. They wanted facts, plainly stated, and these they could get through the newspapers bettor than through any other source." The Washington Star mentions the fact that a messenger at the Navy Department has been in continuous service for sixty years. It may be inferred from this that there was a non-partisan civil service in existence sometime before the advent of the “improved" brand introduced by reformer Cleveland. They have had a great row in the American Opera Company, now singing in St. Louis, and, at the latest accounts, that eminent American prima donna, Madame FurchMadi, was out. There is no longer any doubt that this great moral, musical aud spectacular combination is an oporatic success Until there was a genuine row no one could be sure that it was really an opera company. A LODGE of Pennsylvania glass-blowers concluded to surrender their charter as Knights of Labor rather than strike, as ordered to by the autocrats of one of the assemblies. This is one of the many indications of the fact that American labor isjntolligent and independent. The amount of misery entailed upon workingmen within the last few months by strikes ordered by persons entirely removed from the local facts and situation, and in pur suance of some iron-clad rule, cannot well be estimated. The thoughtless and unfounded strike is the worst enemy the workingman has. He has suffered more from that than from any other cause. Theodore Thomas is unquestionably correct in liis attitude respecting the FurcliMadi trouble in the American Opera Company. The public will heartily indorse him in any proper effort “to break up the tiicks of the star system,” especially that “trick" of being paid ridiculously high prices under the presumption that the American people are fools enough to pay any sort of an admission fee. This presumption has been altogether too well founded; but if Mr. Thomas can assist in upsetting it he will do well, and will be aided by a very large proportion of the opera-going public. In the meantime, Mrs. Thurber’s statement that “Furch-Madi is a friend of mine,” broods no good for Mr. Thomas’s discipline.

The meeting of representative Republicans yesterday to inaugurate the movement for the formation of Republican clubs throughout tho State, came near being a young State convention. The attendance was unexpectedly large, and the enthusiasm and determination of the party equal to the occasion, and to any proper demand that may be properly made upon it to secure to the fullest the results of the late Republican triumph and to put the party into such trim as to make it a sure and certain Republican State, not only in 1888, but for the future. The Lincoln League —a well-chosen, appropriate and inspiring name—was organized as the central directory for the State organization, and arrangements made for the immediate organization of auxiliary and affiliated Republican clubs throughout the State. This organization should meet with prompt response from tho Republicans in every section of tho State. Properly worked, the influence for good cannot be over-estimated. A sort of Republican lyceum in every locality, where Republican principles and policy are discussed, and a Republican club whose duty it will be to see that Republican literature is distributed, beginning with the local party newspaper, which demands, and should always receive first consideration, and where neigboor will meet neighbor in the legitimate wmrk of- party organization, will as certainly make and keep Indiana Republican as that the sunshine and shower will bring forth a harvest. We commend the proposed club organization to Republicans everywhere. The present attitude of the Liquor League and the saloon-keepers of this city relative to the enforcement of the law is in strict keeping with their antecedents. At all times and under all circumstances their policy has been rule or ruin. Tlieir assumption invariably has been that tho retail liquor trade is in all respects as legitimate a branch of trade as any other; that there is no reason for applying any restrictions to the saloon business more than to the dry goods, or to the grocery business, and that any attempt to restrain the o\ils of the traffic is an attack upon personal liberty and an interference with constitutional rights. On this theory of the legitimacy and sacredtuss of the saloon .business they have persistently opposed every effort of the authorities to enforce the law and have defied public sentiment with most brazen audacity. Candor compels the admission that the authorities yielded a great deal too much to an influence whose viciousness should have made it a special object for legal punishment. At last, when the authorities were fairly pushed Ly public opiuion into an honest effort to enforce the law, and tho saloon-keepers found that tho new superintend-

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1886.

ent of police could neither be scared, bullied, bribed, cajoled nor trifled with, they take a new tack and attempt to break the law down by insisting on an extreme enforcement of another statute. Admitting that all laws, while they are such, should be enforced in all their parts, it comes with poor grace from notorious breakers and defiers of law to assume its championship. This is carrying the idea of Satan rebuking sin to an absurd extreme. No matter how defective a law may be, it is better in the hands of its friends than in those of its enemies. The people have a good deal more confidence in the constituted authorities and sworn executors of the law than they have in those whose business and pleasure it is to violate the law.

Indiana politics are generally prolific in interesting situations, but they have seldom furnished a more interesting one than the present contrast between tho attitudes of the Republican and Democratic parties. The Republican party may be compared to an army that has just achieved a great victory in a good cause under disadvantages which might with greater probability have brought defeat. A victory achieved under such circumstances adds to the enthusiasm and morale of an army, and puts every member, whether in the line or the rank and file, in the best possible feeling. The Indiana Democracy, on the other hand, may bo likened to an army which, anticipating victory by reason of advantages dishonorable to themselves and obtained by the basest methods, has met, instead, with a defeat so unlooked-for and so crushing that it hardly knows whether to be most surprised by the unexpectedness of the event, or stunned by the weight of the disaster. The attitude of the two parties is such as might be expected under these different circumstances. One is united and strengthened, and tho other is demoralized and disheartened. While defeat may bring up “leaders," for which the Sentinel so lustily calls, willing to assume the responsibility and odium, victory not infrequently begets a sudden multiplicity of those anxious to seize or at least divide the honors. In tho present case tho Republican party is not in this trouble, In this victory and this campaign, at least, there is no division on that question. By the force of circumstances Senator Harrison was forced to the front, aud he accepted the duty and discharged the trust in a manner that not only brought credit to himself, but solidified the party. Very different is the situation of the Democracy. While tho so-called “leaders" are looking fora scape-goat, the rank and file are looking for a “leader." Messrs. McDonald, Voorhees and Gray are engaged in the interesting occupation of trying to unload their political sins upon one another, and each to push the other into his political grave. Mr. English, not particularly grand, but by spells gloomy and almost always politically peculiar, regards the destructive warfare the other so-called leaders are waging on each other with a smile somewhat less benignant than that of a professional philanthropist. Mr. Green Smith looms up in the middle foreground of the picture with a portentous aspect, which is by no way lessened by the strictly professional, and, therefore, of course, strictly disinterested, success of the two distinguished Democratic lawyers who are retained by a faction of the party to make its most deliberate utterances and acts of reco.d a monumental joke and screaming farce. And while all these socalled “leaders" are thus engaged tho Sentinel rushes into the ring with wild, disheveled locks, beating its breast and demanding a “leader." It would be a weak figure to liken the Democratic party in Indiana, in its present condition, to a house divided against itself. It is divided and subdivided into as many warring factions as there are chambers in tho Louse, and every occupant of every chamber seems to be pulling down the wall and throwing bricks at his neighbor’s head. Postmaster-general Vilas once remarked, in a moment of sporadic confidence, that “your natural orators are seldom great men.” As the remark was unaccompanied by foot-notes, it was not fully apparent whether it was intended to refer to Senator Voorhees or to himself. The public regards them both as natural orators, in the sense and to the extent of being able to mass words together in a seemingly impressive way, and to marshal phrases in such fashion that they make a formidable appearance, whether there are any ideas behind them or not. But the question of orator aside, it is, we think, demonstrable that Postmaster-general Vilas has at least one element of a great man. lie knows a good thing when he sees it. The full text of his annual report, a sufficiently comprehensive abstract of which was printed in the Journal a few days ago, shows that it opens with an eloquent eulogy of the extent and perfection of the United States mail service, and closes with an unusually effusive tribute to the intelligence, the faithfulness, the zeal and the success with which the officers aud clerks in the Postoffice Department have discharged their duties. Both the eulogy and tho tribute are plainly and directly, though doubtless unintentionally, very strong praise of the Republican party. Tho greatness and efficiency of tho United States mail service are, in so far as they have survived the political vandalism of the present administration, solely and entiiely due to the Republican party, while the excellent administration of the internal affairs and business dotaila of the department is almost

wholly in the hands of Republican officers and clerks, whose knowledge and experience make them so valuable that a Democratic Postmas-ter-general is glad, for the sake of his own reputation, to retain them in office, and renders them a voluntary and almost gushing tribute in his annual report. This goes to show that, while Mr. Vilas is 11 right smart’ of an orator, he is not so devoid of the elements of greatness as not to be able to recognize a great fact when be sees it. And not every Democrat would have sense enough to see it. The Journal’s advice in regard to the“leadership’ of the Democracy in this State has not been asked for by the parties in interest, and may not be valued at its intrinsic worth; but we offer it all the same. It is that, while Mr. Voorhees has been coddling fine fancies of his senatorial greatness, and Mr. McDonald was slipping in and out of the side door of the White House, to cultivate the impression that he belonged to the kitchen Cabinet, Mr. Isaac P. Gray has been slowly but surely forging to the front. Governor Gray is not exactly the man on horseback, but he seems to be a man on a step-ladder. By one step after another he reached the governorship, and if the Democracy had the necessary strength in the Legislature it would not be his fault nor the fault of his able and unscrupulous raanagei’s if he did not step into the United States Senate. Step-lad-ders sometimes break, and it is never safe to trust them implicitly. But Governor Gray is a very careful man, and belongs to tho school of slow but sure climbers. Badinage aside, as the Democratic party in this State is now organized, or rather disorganized, we regard Governor Gray as the nearest approach to “a leader" it has. lie has the following of the young Democracy. Young Democrats are not as bad as old ones, but they are more active and aggressive. What they lack in meanness they make up in zeal, and their aptitude for party work weighs more than the matured malignity of the old ones. The young Democrats are for Governor Gray. They recognized the recent campaign in the State as his fight, and the work they did was done for him. He holds the Democratic strength in the Legislature in his hand, and but for the fact that the office of Lieutenantgovernor is filled by a Republican, Goveruor Gray would easily receive bis party vote for the Senate. Mr. Voorhees is in tho sere and yellow leaf. Mr. McDonald struck twelve some time ago. Governor Gray has not yet culminated. It will not be forgotten that he took the complimentary vote of his party away from Mr. McDonald in 1881.

The Sbelbyvilla Democrat refuse to be comforted. It says under the caption “Who”— “If we are now having a so-called new, modern and purided Democracy, then away with it forever; for it has no blessings to bestow and curses only should visit it. No, we want none of your new-fangled Democracy; but will cling to the old-fashioned kind. It was good enough for our grandfathers and is good enough for us. ‘When’ these false notions of new Democracy shall be abandoned then the skies wiil be brighter and a better day will dawn. “But it will be Democratic 'when’ David B. Hill, in 1888. shall have been elected President of the United States. In ISB9, when President Hill shall have chosen his Cabinet and inaugurated his administration, there will be no question as to its Democracy. No mugwump damphoolerv will enter into his executive make up. From the time lie takes his seat in March, ’B9 to March, ’93, the country will be Democratic, and no Republican will be heard to complain that he is hampered by the civilservice reform rules. Then, and not until then, is ‘when’ we may expect a purely Democratic administration, and then is ‘when’ wo may rejoice in our victory over the common enemy, the Republican party and its mugwump offspring. The Democrat is drawing no fancy picture while it indulges in this pleasing hone. “It looks to the future with warm and glowing expectations—not the immediate future, as nothing but angry clouds overhang the present political heavens, but to a future beyond the next Democratic national convention. Then is ‘when’ the Democrat builds its hopes; we would burn all of our old bats if the time were shorter, but we don’t believe it possible to shorten it much.” Mr. “Arthur Richmond” addresses one of his celebrated letters to President Cleveland, through the medium of the North American Review, and takes the liberty to contrast that functionary very unfavorably with great Presidents who have gone before him. The present condition of the Democracy is described as follows: “A united and exultant party transformed into a demoralized mob; an opposition confidently expectant of further folly; a country curiously apprehensive*of evil—these are the net results of the first two years of your administration. M'ith the ‘Solid South’ showing signs of fracture; the Republican host reformed, and confident iu their front; the Labor vote entrenching on their flank, and with you upon their backs, the Democratic party may well ask, with lugubrious forebodings, ‘What shall the harvest be?’ You have not only missed your opportunity and forfeited your title to fame as leader or statesman, but it is even doubtful if there be left to you an available ‘equity of redemption.’” When the President reads this it will be a very fortunate thing for Mr. Arthur Richmond that he is not a federal officer; for instance, a district attorney. The New Albany Public Press says: “ The Democrat lc organization cannot afford to become a party to stealing the office of Lieutenant-governor, though the party may bo temporarily benefitted thereby. The Public Press refuses to play the baby act with the political tricksters that a party advantage may be gained. Party leaders, schemers and political tricksters ought always to remember that the people are powerful, and at the proper time will make all things even by punishing those who cheat them out of their rights.” mmm n—niw "Mwirr—l The Terre Ilaute Express says of the Democratic party managers: “They are already plotting schemes even more disgraceful than those of two years ago, which the Democratic solons will proceed to carry into effect as soon as th© Legislature

convenes. The proposed plans are varied, cunning and numerous. If one fails, there are a dozen others in reserve, all bearing upon the one important purpose of electing a Democrat to succeed Senator Harrison. This cannot be accomplished by any fairness, if the results of an honest election are to be regarded. That they are not to be is already evident, but the party managers are warned that their success will be dearly bought. The patience of the public has been exhausted, of which they have had some strong intimations. A repetition of the same trickery and dishonesty will insure a Republican majority in 1888, that will sweep everything before it.” Brother Talmage builds up his sermons while be is traveling, and says he returns from every lecture tour with discourses for 150 years blocked out. When the number of journeys Mr. Talmage makes In the course of a year is considered, a little figuring shows what an awful prospect lies before us in the next thousand years or so. Philadelphia is agitated over the finding of a woman’s skeleton in a box. If it had been hanging up in the closet, in the old-fashioned, sensible way, nothing would have been thought of it. The name of the Representative-elect from Orange and Crawford counties is Mr. S. B. A. Conder, and his postoffice address is Orleans, Orange county. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Col. Sir Reginald Ranron, the new Lord Mayor of London, used to be the best football player at Rugby. Count Beust directed that above his tomb should he inscribed “Peace to bis ashes; justice to his memory." “The art of journalism,” says an indiscreet journalist in London Truth, “is the art of concoaling ignorance.” Messrs. Blaine and Edmunds might effect a compromise by using a pair of pincers or an ice-hook in shaking hands when they meet. Laura Bridgman, the wonderful blind deaf mute, has returned to the Institute for the Blind at South Boston. She is now nearly fifty-seven years of age. Lord Salisbury never uses tobacco, and seldom drinks any alcoholic liquor. Lord Randolph Churchill smokes segars, but is almost a teetotaller. Tid Bits: “Why, Chawlev,” drawled Gus de Plipkins to his chum, C. Percy Giddibraine. “where’s your watchT “Oh, I couldn't stand it,’’ he replied, “the beastv ticking shattered ray nerves.” Frederick Dubois, who has been elected delegate to Congress from Idaho, only went to that Territory three years ago. President Arthur appointed him United States marshal largely to resist the encroachments of Mormon treason and he now comes back to Washington a pronounced anti-Mormon delegate. The great brewery of the Guinnesses has always been managed with marked liberality toward the employes, and now that it has been turned into t stock corporation, Sir Edward Cecil Guiuness has celebrated the change by giving every worker a bonus of three months’ salary. This bit of generositv cost him about $250,000. A rat was put into a box with a rattlesnake in Sacramento the other day. Instantly tho snake struck it, and in a moment the rat turned over and died. It was then swallowed by the rattler. The next day another rat was put in tho box. The snake made no movement toward it, but the rat at once attacked the snake, which, in defending itself, struck its enemy several times. The bites bad no apparent effect on the rat, which after a while was released, and ran away seemingly none the worse for its battle. The former husband of Adelaide Neilson died iu England a few weeks ago. Ho was so nearly forgotten at the time of his death that only one or two newspapers there noticed it. Philip Henry Lee was the son of a clergyman of Derbyshire when, about 18Gf>, he wooed and won Adelaide Neilson. lie was with her when she *iarae to America for the first time, late in 1872, and he went back with her. The States never saw him again, though she came here twice afterwards. They lived together unhappily, and then a divorce separated them forever. Afterwards he married the widow of Charles Thorpe, a Londoner. Wiggins, the weather prophet, has recently bobbed up again, charging Prof. Richard A. Proctor with numerous errors, and making some amazing remarks about his own and Mr. Proctor's scientific standing. Mr. Proctor disposes of him curtly In a note to the Globe-Democrat, saying that, “As to my standing, I often wonder myself why. among so many, 1 was chosen to contribute ‘Astronomy’ to the Encyclopedia Britannica and Hayden’s Dictionary of Science, and ‘Meteorology,’ also, to the latter. As to his standing, his power for mischief is dead. I helped, in the way of duty, to kill it, I will not galvanize it into the appearance of fife by noticing him further.” The common supposition that young Mr. Asbmead Bartlett, who became the husband of the Baroness Burdett-Coutts, is an American, must be incorrect, for the will of the Duchess of St. Albans, lately published in anew edition of the “Memoirs of Miss Mellon,” expressly provides that “in case any of the three daughters of Dame Sophia Burdett shall intermarry with any person being by birth an alien, whether such person shall or shall not have obtained letters of denization, or have been naturalized,” her share of the legacy shall bo utterly forfeited. As the P.aroness and her husband are still in the enjoyment of the St. Albans fortune, Mr. Bartlett would appear to be a native of England,

COMMENT AND OPINION. Peace is a great thine, but it seems to be a very expensive luxury in Germany und France. —St. Louis Post Dispatch. The mues still insist that they will not wump for any candidate in 188S unless he has a great white soul. —National Republican. No Anarchist is ever found engaged in useful work. This fact should bo enough to settle the status of the tribe.—Philadelphia luquirer. It is a somewhat noticeable fact that as a general thing when a man pets to be a leader of workingmen he ceases lo bo oue himself.—Boston Record. If tho workingmen can be brought to enlist in the battle against tho rum fiend it will insure the final triumph of tho temperance cause at an early day. and be worth millions of dollars to the country.—Pittsburg Chronicle. The emigration laws cf the United States should bo so amended as to exclude from its seaports foreign tramps who come to this country to preach anarchy and revolution.—Chicago Journal. No reasonable tariff reform can be effected until the men who believe in sustaining our industries control Congress by an absolute majority, and that will come as soon as the laboring men of the South are allowed to vote and liavo their ballots counted.—Boston Advertiser. The wish of men of education and refinement to exclude from their presence all that is gross and offensive, or the desire of men who have accumulated fortuno to surround themselves with its pleasures, must not be mistaken for au aristocratic, sentiment. Those are natural aud laudable desires. Aristocracy abroad is an institution. Here it is humbug, ai.d humbug seldom gets far in this country. And when it does it is sure, sooner or later, to come to an untimely end.—New York Tribune. With discreet action on the part of the leaders of the anti saloon Republican movement, there is po r?5Pn why new life, vigor, energy aud hopefulness should not be put into the Republican party in this State, by the adoption of a platform of eternal hostility to all the diverse and diabolical influences of “the saloon”—in politics, in society and in the family—and of support of all practicable measures for reducing the evils of the strong drink habit and trafiio.

The material of the Republican party is such that it always needs living issues on great Drift* ciples and the enthusiasms that come from earnest fighting in the interest of humauity. —New York Mail and Express. When Henry George undertook to attract votes for himself a few weeks ago by telling th# poor men of New York city that they bad ft right to ride free in the street cars, and wer! even entitled to homes in the suburbs without paying for the same, he put himself so nearly upon the Most level that the Rev. Beecher wa| quite jnstified in regarding him as being uport that level, and as representing the same social and moral ideas that the preachers of anarchy represent. —Philadelphia Telegraph. Some Southern Democratic papers, especially the Richmond Dispatch and the Charleston News and Courier, have interested themselves ia the Indiana situation, and are making their columns lurid with charges of Republican outrages and frauds. If the Dispatch will call to mind the infamous methods by which the Virginia Democrats obtained a two thirds majority in th* last Legislature of that State in order to over* ride the veto of n Republican Governor, and th# News ami Courier will study up the murders and tissue-ballot frauds by which its party gained control of South Carolina, they will have time to cool off and take a calm view of the situation. To hear them giving lessons on morality sound* much like Satan rebuking 6in.~Philadelphi* Press. GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC. Goo. Lucius Fairchild, Uoiiimander-ln-ChleH on the Growth of the Body. Chicago News. The executive committee of the council of ad* ministration of the Grand Army of the Republic composed of ex-Gov. Lucius Fairchild, commander iu-chief; Maj. D. R, Austin of Toledo, Capt, J. L. Wheat of Racine. Col. E. F. V iegel of St Louis, and Col. 11. F. Wilson of Chicago, met ift parlor 3 of the Grand Pacific hotel yesterday. The object of the session wa9 to arrange detail! for the next encampment of the G. A. R., which is to be held in St. Louis next summer. Thft council adjourned to meet in St. Louis on Thurg* day of tins weak. During the day the commau-de;-iu-chief was visited by the most distinguished Grand Army men of this vicinity—Past Depart* ment Commander J. W. Burst of Illinois, C#L J. G. Everest, Gen. W. H. L. Wallace, Geo* Horace 11. Thomas, Cos!. Watson of Aurora, Col* Phocion Howard of Danville, Capt 11. P. Thompson of Chicago, Congressman Cannon of Daft'* ville, and many others. In conversation with a reporter Gen. Fairchild said: “As commander-in-chief of th# Grand Army I have decided that no tinge of suapicion shall attach to my administration so far as political matters are concerned: When invited to take part in the recent carapnign in Wisconsin I said to my Republican friends that of th# 30,000 soldiers living in the state probably not more than 10,000 belonged to the Grand Army, and that during the year of my administratioft I intended to proseiyte to the utmost of ability, not resting content until every honorably dll'* charged soldier now liviug shall become a member of the Grand Army of the Republic. T# this end I shall visit St. Louis this week. OA Dec. 6 and 7 1 shall be in Nashville, on Dec, l 6 II in Little Rock, and shall spend the first week in .January in tho State of New York, I harji already made a tour of the State of Ohio, and everywhere I find the Grand Army growing and thriving. Let me say again that there ift no political significanc ewhatever in Grand Arm s affairs. As far as pensions are concerned I agree with the pension committee of the nation#! encampment that every man who Is diseased oP disabeled from wounds recieved in the army, #f since he was honorably mustered out. or who ift over 60 years of age, should be a pensioner.” A l'rophet Without llonor. Lafayette Call. The new Indianapolis Sentinel editor is a fertile cuss, and is continually astonishing the n# tives with new departures. The very first dasii was made into the midst of the Bynum-Baile# contest, which it did up In a most masterly matt*; ner. When the election went wrong, a weeks ago, the Sentinel had a prescription tft offer. It proposed a purgative treatment, and immediately began to physic the President Now the Sentinel has a Dew prescription to offefc The Democratic party is suffering, the State organ says, for want of a leader. A leader it must have, and It proposes that the Democratic meffii bers-elect of the Legislature shall immediately caucus and anoint a leader; or, in other word*, choose a caucus candidate for United States Senator. The suggestion will hardly have ft pacifying, but. on the contrary, a very disturb ing effect. Nor is it likely to be acted upon.

Honors to Grandpa Jones. Pbi’adelphia Press. W T e observe that Postmaster Aquila Jones, Indianapolis, is enjoying a brief visit In thft Eastern cities. The distinction which old Mft. Jones acquired in making the cause of civil-serf* ice reform a thing of ecorn and contempt among his fellow Democrats in Indiana, fully entltloft him to have his name printed among “Promty nent Hotel Arrivals” in all truly great newt* papers. A National Issue. New York Jrapliic. Mrs. James Brown Potter has begun to apoeag in the weekly pictorials, and has besides beguft to monopolize a fair portion of the cable. Let us hope that the President will not forget her iq his annual message; and Mr. Manning will b# deaf to a great public demand if he fails to put her in the forthcoming Treasury document - ft Too Inquisitive. Boston Transcript. A correspondent wants to know why, when # great man goes wrong, all the revolting detail! of his wickedness should be telegraphed over th# civilized world, any more than if he were plain John Smith or inconsequential Bill Jones. Our correspondent betrays an inquisitiveness which is positively disgusting. No Accident* Boston Journal. The official canvass of the vote in Indianft shows a net Republican majority of 9,580. Thai is not bad in a State which gave its eleetnral vote to Cleveland. It was no accident, either, but tho result of a square fight on clearly defined issues. Mr. Vilas’s Improved Mail Service. Atlanta Constitution. The “fast” mail from New York to Atlanta has become so rapid that the New York paper# are generally twenty hours late. If this lift* provemont goes on, we will get the New Yors papers the same week they are published. A Disagreement in tho Family. Brston Transcript. When Mrs. Fdsora invites anybody out to visit her at the President’s house, she speaks o! it as Oak View. 'Whenever the President speaks of it he cails it Red Top. The broach, is not yet serious. A Suggestion to Republicans. Vincennes Sun (Pom.) Let Republicans understand that it is not “infamous” to follow the laws and obey the Const!* tution of the State. The “infamy" consists ift refusing to show respect and obedience to thft courts of the law. Why Ho Was Confused. Richmond Palladium. Eb Henderson's political history is a little confused, but ho got hurt in his hoad on the 24 inst., and ought to be excused. In fact, all thft Democratic heads have been a little off sine# the election. A Philosophical Conclusion. Atlanta Constitution. It is a very sad affair, no dov-bt, but for our part, we are not going to lose any sleep over it> Wo believe the country is safe if Brother Plain# never takes Uncle Edmunds'® lily white hand ift his. _ A Simon I'ure Article, Spencer republican. A well-known Democrat of Owen township said: “If he was sure that Jesus Christ was ft Republican, be would not belong to church." Not tho Slightest Occasion. Chicago Journnl. Mr. McCulloch had the right to entertain sue)# an opinion, but there was no occfitfon for hi# lugging it into hits pulpit.