Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 January 1887 — Page 4

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THE DAILY JOURNAL. SATURDAY, JANUARY 22.. 1837.

WASHINGTON OFFICE 513 Fourteenth St. r. S. IlKATH, Correspondent. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOUKNAI4 Can. be found at the following plac9s; LONDON' American Exchange ia Europe, Strand. 440 PARIS--American Exchange ia Faris, 35 Boulevard -des Capucincs. KEW YORK Gedney House and "Windsor Hotel. CHICAGO ralmor House. CINCINNATI J. P. Hawley& Co., 151 Vine street. LiOiJISVHiLE C. T. Dearing. northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. ST. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot ana southern Hotel. Washington,, p. House. C Riggs House and Ebbitt Telephone Calls. Business Office...... 238 Editorial Rooms. .....242 --Jf ember $ of the General Alterably wanting the Journal during the regular tftnion thould leave their tubacriptiont, itith directions a to where then desire to receive the paper, tit the Journal Couni-roorn. THE SUNDAY JOURNAL. People will want a respite from the wear and tear of politics to-morrow, and the Sunaay Journal will come to them like a poultice of good i things o heal the blows of sound. It will contain a story by Woodruff Clark, entitled The Sneech I Did Not Make;" an article from Gen. Adam Badeau on "Grant and Glad stone," and ''Personal Recollections of General Logan," by Gen. Reuben Williams, ot the Warlaw Indianian. This last paper will be of great interest to Indiana soldiers. Clara Belle's let ter, and all the regular literary and news features of the Sunday Journal will be found in to-morrow's issue. TnK interstate commerce bill yesterday nassed tho House of Representatives by a vote of 219 to 41. Chesterfield is dead, according to the cable dispatches. We were under the impression that he called the joint convention to order yesterday. Ex-Senator Platt, of .New York, says the election of Mr. Iliscock will thoroughly unite and harmonize the'party and insure New York State for the Republican in 1888. SnERiEF "Matson, of Chicago, i3 winning golden opinions galore for refusing to permit the marriage of Anarchist Spies and Miss Vantandt in jail. His course has been eminently right, and he is getting his reward in compli mentary letters by the score. The Illinois Houso of Representatives has passed a bill appropriating $50,000 for the erection of a monument to the memory of General Logan, tho selection of the site to be left to Mrs. Logan, provided it shall be in Illinois. Chairman Htston correctly states the legal position as to the election of a United States Senator. It is in harmony with what the Journal editorially said yesterday. The vote of alleged Senator , Branaman will not "'count in making a majority of the joint con vention. There is such a thing as too much of a good thing. Pinkerton and I113 men have done some good jobs of detective work, but this thing of flying to them in every trouble or outbreak is a mistake. Pinkerton ought not to be made a co-ordinate branch of the government. ' IN addition to the more public expressions of opinion, to which place is given in this isissue, the Journal has aso received a large number of personal and private letters of tho same tenor and import. We tender the writ ers our thanks for their expressions of indorse ment. . There is no question whore the Re publicans of Indiana stand. IN a speech on the 18th day of May, 1861, lion. David Turpie, - late a member q United States Senate, and' how af Democratic candidate, is report M ia ve said: "If this war interferes wrtfcthe status of'tlavery I m opposed toTt, and will not give ono dollar 0. carry it on." And in July 1862, he is, re ported to have said: "President Lincoln is a traitor, robber or fool." Mr. Blaine is reported as saying: "Senator Dawes cannot afford to accept his election under such circumstances. If I were in his place I would resign and let anotner election take place." This because some Democrats voted for Dawes. Perhaps Mr. Blaine overestimates his self-sacrificing devotion to the party. Would he have objected to a few thousand Democratic votes in '84? Crawford county, in the southern part of thi3 State, is terrorized by a band of self- ; styled "regulators," who are punishing people right and.kt for alleged moral delinquencies. No doubt there are a good many tough people in Crawford county, but the laws are adequate to such casea, as they ought to be, also, to dealing with those who are practicing the new code. Somebody should regulate the regulators. The Indianapolis correspondent of the Louisville Courier-Journal, who gets his inspiration from inside Democratic circles, makes merry over the discomfiture of Col. Robertson, who, he eays, "was ready to defy the court, but at the last moment his political brethren sold him into Egypt." Yes, Joseph yas sold into bondage and went to Egypt; but be came out all right in the long run, and was aonored above his brethren. The Indian commissioners have concluded t treaty with the Indians at the Fort Bel knap agency by which nearly all laud

contained in their reservation is transferred to the United State3. Tho consideration is the payment by the government of $115,000 a year for ten years. The lands transferred to the government measuro about 700 . square

es. Payment is not to be made in cash, but i3 to consist of merchandise, cattle, horses, etc., to the amount agreed upon. The lands reserved by the Indians -will be divided among them in severalty, and they will settle down as farmers. It is virtually a dissolution of the tribal relation. This is one step in the right direction. SOME THINGS TEEPE0PLE "WILLN0T F0SGET. The people of Indiana will not forget that every step taken by the Democrats since the .,. . T . , . , , . assembling 01 the .legislature nas oeen pare ;mbling of the Legislature has been part of a deliberate plot to reverse the result of a popular election, set aside the declared will of the people, and by lawless and revolutionary measures to steal the offices of Lieutenantgovernor and United States Senator. The people will not forget that in carrying out this conspiracy the Democrats have repudiated the official acts and utterances of their own party and party leaders, broken faith with the people, openly violated the Constitution and laws, and sacrificed political decency and personal honor. The people will not forget that the officestealing conspiracy had its origin in a gerry mander of the State, the most infamous on record, by which one-fourth of the legal voters of the State were disfranchised, and under which the Democrats openly boasted that the voice of the majority could be successfully stifled for years to come. The people will not forget that in the elec tion of 1886 the gerrymander was rebuked, and its boasted efficacy destroyed by a pop ular uprising which, out of a vote of 500,000, gave R. S. Robertson a majority of over 3,000 for Lieutenant-governor. The people of the State will not forget that the necessity and legality of the election were concurred in by every Democrat in the State without exception; that Governor Gray ap proved the election; that Senatoor Voorhees presided over the convention that nominated Mr. Nelson for the office; that Green Smith was a delegate thereto, and his name was be fore the convention for the nomination, and each and all of them, and every Democrat in the Legislature, or candidate therefor, worked and voted for the election of Mr. Nelson. The people will not forget that the scheme to make Green Smith Lieutenant-governor by virtue of his being President of the Senate was not broached till long after the election, which resulted in their unexpected defeat at the polls, and in giving the Ropeblicans a large majority in one branch of the Legisla ture, and a probable majority on joint ballot. The people will not forget that the conspira tors first applied to the courts for an order to prohibit the Secretary of State from deliver ing the returns of the election to the Speaker of the Mouse, as required by law to do, and, when the Supreme Court declined to issu-e the order, the Democratic State organ exclaimed, "Damn their cowardly souls!" The people will not forget that, in further ance of the plot the Democratic Auditor of State refused to perform the duty required of him by law of presiding at the organization of the Senate, and aided and abetted Green Smith in the performance of that duty for the purpose of giving color to his claim of a continuing right to the chair, and, inferen tially, to the office of Lieutenant-governor. The people will not forget that the Demo crats in the Senate, led by Green Smith, refused to perform their constitutional duty of attending in the hall of the House to witness the opening and publishing of the votes for Lieutenant-governor, thereby violating their oath3 of office and insulting, very honest elector in the State kosewho voted against as well as th voted for Colonel RobertsonThe people will not forget that afterColonel Robertson had taken the oath of office, and when he presented himself in the Senate and respectfully demanded possession of the chair, in order that .he might perform his constitu tional duty of presiding over the Senate, his demand was refused, and the Democrats con tinued to hold possession of the chair in open defiance of the Constitution and law. The people will not forget that it wa3 not till after all these illegal acta had been per formed that an attempt was made to legiti matize them by obtaining an ex post facto de cision from an inferior coui;t, which assumed to decide a question already decided by the people, and, it still in doubt, is expressly committed by the Constitution to the General Assembly. . The people will not forget that the proceed ing in the lower court wa3 purposely so timed and managed that it was impossible to appeal the case and get a decision of the Supreme Court before the time fixed by law for holding the joint convention for electing United States Senator, and that under a temporary restraining order of the inferior court, Green Smith assumed, and still assumes, that as President of the Senate, he is ex officio Lieutenant-governor, thus continuing to ignore the choice made by more than a quarter of a million of voters. The people will not forget that at every stage of the conspiracy the Democrats have shown an utter disregard for public aud priVate rights, and have violated every principle of parliamentary law and political decency. The Indians occupying the Indian Territory have determined to test the right of the government to make land grants to railroads traversing the Territory, without the consent of the tribe whose land is donated. The. Cherokee Council, at tho late session, appro

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priated $5,000 to have a judicial test of the j issue, unaertne aumoniy conierrea umei ( 1L Bushyhead has employed ex-Senator McDonald, of this State, to represent the tribe. Suit will be instituted at once in the federal court at Fori Smith, Ark. THE DIFFEBEBCE. It will be well, in passing, not to forget what wa3 said by the party spokesmen in nominating the - senatorial candidates. The Democratic orator, State Senator Zimmer man, lauding the Democratic caucus candi date Judge Turpie, said, as reported in the Indianapolis News: 'In the dark days of tho war, when the unhappy South was being trampled and spit upon, as it were, Turpie arose, a friend to i" f MnbnnTw npftinn " I that unhappy section.' This the Democrats con sider Turpie's strong est point. . - The Republican orator, State Senator Hus ton, lauding General Harrison, the Republican nominee, said among other good things: "During his. career as a soldier, manv in stances might be cited of his valor. When the call to arms resounded through this hitherto peaceful country he was among the first to re spond. He was in the Atlanta campaign of one hundred days, in the battles 01 Kesaca and Peach lree creek, in tue second, battle acting as the commander of a brigade. After the smoke of the battle had cleared awav, and after victory had been achieved by our forces that grand old leader, Joe Hooker, came riding down the line, and seeing Colonel .Harrison at one side, went up, and shaking his hand, said: 'Colonel Harrison, you have done nobly, and for your services to-day, by God, I will make you a brigadier-general. " We commend these speeches to the careful reading of every Republican and Democrat in the State. Senator Huston's speech was full of telling facts, pointedly stated. It loses nne of its force in cold type. It was a truth ful review of General Harrison's career. The Democratic orator emphasized the fact that the Democratic candidate, Judge Turpie, was a friend of the South during the war. He spoke as if he were nominating him torepresent Indiana in the Senate of the late South ern Confederacy. It is a wonder he did not arraign and denounce General -Harrison for being a Union soldier. Modern Democracy seems to be tending that way. No Demo cratic Union soldier has ever been mentioned by his party as a possible candidate in the pending struggle. To them no soldier need apply. Senator Voorhees will have the univer sal sympathy of the people of the State in his bereavement by the sad and sudden death of his wife, which occurred in Washington yesterday. Only last week Mis3 Voorhees gave an entertainment, at which one of the guests was General Hazen; who is now also with the dead. The suddenness of death lately is startling. It3 grim fingers take hold of persons in the prime of life, and seemingly in the full glow of health, and in the enjoyment of all that love and honor can bring them. How hollow and mocking wil'. all political plots and prizes seem now to Mr. Voorhees, as he sits bv the coffin of her who has been the sharer in his triumphs and the sympathizer with him in all his work and effort. Forgetting the strife of poltical difference, Mr. Voorhees will have the deep and sincere sympathy of everyone in this hour of his great sorrow. It is proper to say that not all the Republic an members of the Legislature favored the "compromise" with the Democratic revolu tionists. It was strongly opposed by a number; who are entitled to exemption from the criticisms passed upon it. It is also fair, 'we think, to believe that the great majority of those who voted to accept it did not properly appreoite the full force of its terms. Weannot think, and do not think, that any considerable number of Republicans intended to condone the infamous and illegal acts of the Green Smith gang, or proposed to tie their hands in a fast loop with hands that were dirty, with such work as has disgraced the State Senate. But, as the Richmond Palladium, edited by the conservative and veteran Isaac Jenkinson, says of it, the compromise wa3 a "blunder amounting almost to a crime." WHEN the Supreme Court gave its first de cision against Green Smith, in the effort to steal the office of Lieutenant-governor, the Logansport Pharos, Democratic, said: "Robertson, the Republican Lieutenantgovernor, will therefore take his office so far as the courts are concerned. Democrats 1 ,i i 11 j -it, .. snouia now accept me inevitable in a proper spirit. Tne election was ordered upon the advice of a Democratic Attorney-general; the Democrats were beaten at the polls, and two Democratic courts have decided that they nave no jurisdiction to inquire into the legal lty ot the election. We therefore say that Democrats should not kick. The election may have been illegal, but why was the fact not thought of before the election was ordered? The Pharos cannot join with the Indianapolis nenunei in masting a uowi against the courts. Let us take our medicine like men." The Cincinnati Price Current for this week shows a decrease of 95,000 in the total num ber of hogs packed, as compared with the corresponding week of last year. The reports show that as a packing point Chicago stands first, Kansas City second and Indianapolis third. From Nov. 1 to Jan. 19 there were packed at Chicago 1,445,000 hogs, at Kansas City 566,555, and at Indianapolis 314,872. Chicago falls considerably short of last vear, while Kansas City and this city show a hand some increase, that here being the largest. The election of ex-Governor and ex-Senator Paddock, of Nebraska, to replace Sena tor Van -Wyck, 13 a distinct gain to good government, good morals and the Republican party. Van Wyck was elected as a demagogue, and has continued to be such throughout his whole term. His defeat is a wholesome indication that demagogism does not pay in the long run. For a season it

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the sober second thought in time, and. in variably relegate demagogues and cranks to the rear. Iter. Thomas H. Lynch, I. D. To-morrow, Sunday, is the eightieth birthday anniversary of Rev. T. H. Lynch, D. D., now a resident ot this city, but for fifty years of the itinerant ministry of the Methodist Church. whose members have no permanent abiding place. Prom the faithful and unwearied service Mr. Lynch has rendered in the cause of religion and humanity, his long life may rishtfolly be called eighty beautiful years. He has come to them full of honor and crowned with the love and gratitude of a multitude of people, whose hearts he has comforted and whose souls he has sustained in their hours of sorrow and despair. No clergyman was ever, more ready to ....... ..-. respond to the wants of the suffering than he. It is the testimony of one of his brethren that no minister in this region has ever attended so many sick persons, never, in any case, declining a visit to such, or attendance at a funeral, even thongh the demand came at a time when compliance interfered with other duties and from people with no parochial claim upon him. So well understood were his customs in this respect, and so great was the desire for his tender minis trations, that he is Known to have officiated at three funerals in a single day. Far and wide he is known as "Father"' Lynch, and this affectionate term expresses better than columns of encomiums could do the high esteem in which he is held. The suggestion comes from a ministerial brother that this birthday, or the Monday following, affords an opportunity for the friends of the venerable preacher to call and congratulate him upon having reached so advanced a milestone, and that if the congratula tions should take a substantial form on the part of those who owe him a debt of love and grati tude it would be the carrying out of a happy thought. This suggestion will doubtless meet with ready response, and if the sentiment of the community materializes in such a manner Dr. Lynch will be showered with testimonials of re gard. Boston Corbett, the man who shot Wilke3 Booth, the assassin of President Lincoln, has been elected an assistant door-keeper of the llonse of Representatives of the Kansas Legisture. A Topeka paper says: "He is living on a farm in Cloud county, where he has resided for the past ten years. His home is in a dugout, and he i3 scarcely able to obtain enough to eat or clothing to keep him warm. The Represent ative from Cloud county 'will very generously pay Corbett's way to Topeka.'" Reader, Terre Haute: The State Auditor has mads estimates on population since the census of 1880, for apportionment purposes, but we have not his figures at hand. The total vote of the State at the last election was 504,353. At the common estimate of four to each voter, the pop ulation can be approximated. It was 1,98,301 according to the last census. Philadelphia repudiates Miss Vanzandt and her claims to have been amemberof fashionable society ia that city. Investigation proves that the Vanzandts, when there, lived below Arch street, and that settles ft so fa; as Philadelphia is concerned. Miss Vanzandt need hope for no sympathyfrom that direction. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Mrs. Langtry has told a friend in New York that she is engaged to be married to Freddie Gebhard, and that as soon as she obtains her divorce the ceremony will be celebrated. TffK first few months of happy honeymoon They bill and coo awhile; then coo and bill A short time after that., bnt all too soon the cooing disappears. 'Tis now all bill. Merchant Traveller. Undeterred by the. dreadful results which have overtaken those women who were too familiar with kerosene cans, a Memphis lady is seeking the appointment of coal oil inspector for for 1 ennessee. Mme. Christine Nilsson has written to frieuds in New York that her marriage to the Count d'Amaranda will take place during the present month. She hasjust conclnded a very successful concert tour through Belgium and Holland. Mr. Gladstone recently read the lessons in Hawarden Church. Though the Right Honor able gentleman is in his seventv-ceventh year he stood up and read with his usual vigor. His son, the Kev. totephen Uladstone, is the rector of the church. Further search into the affairs of Joseph Perry, the so-called Philadelphia miser, who was recently frozen to death, leaving an estate of $130,000, shows that be was not a mteer in the ordinary sense of the word, but a rich man whose depraved tastes led him to live a life of debauchery in a bad neighborhood. The doctors who embalmed Prince Talleyran found, on completing the job, that they had omitted to replace the revered and princely heart There was no time to reopen the body. so one of the doctors slipped the heart into his handkerchief, put it in bis pocket and on his way borne quietly dropped it down one of the sewers. The statue of the Queen, by Mr. Boehme, which is to be erected at Windsor, will represent her majesty clad in her royal robes, wear ing a small crown and a lace veil, and her sash and insignia of the Garter, and holding in her right hand a scepter and in her left an orb. It will be of bronze, on a pedestal of polished red ranite. It is said that there is an unwritten romance in connection with the early life of Spies, the Chicago Anarchist, which, if it were known to the beautiful and accomplished Miss Vanzandt, might possibly make her change her mind about marrying him. lie is said to have sown his wild oats in profusion at no great distance from Chicago, and to the sorrow of several families. An Englsh vicar recently discharged a parlor maid because she refused to attend family prayers. She went to law . about it, and having shown that she could not go to pravers in a spirit of devotion and faith, she got a judgment in her favor for her year's wages. The vicar was much surprised and disgusted at this "heathenish decision." In his opinion a domestic has no right to think for herself on any matter. The German Emperor now obeys the direc tions of his physicians more than ever before. For the first time since childhood he has taken to sleeping in a warm room, and he takes food, generally beef tea, eggs and wine or coffee and isinglass, every two hours during the day. He has almost entirely given up the dishes he used to be so fond of, such as lobsters, crawfish, veal stewed with cloves and cinnamon and spongecake soaked in rum. At her marriage the daughter of Marshal MacMahon wore a superb veil of Limerick lace, and indeed an entire gown of that material which had been worn by her mother at her marriage. She wore orange blossoms intertwined not as usnal with myrtle but with shamrocks. The MacMahons are almost the only wellauthenticated descendants of the ancient Irish kings, and they take pride on all occasions in displaying tokens of their race. Ben: Perley Poore says that Mayor Hewitt once hired an upper story in one of the caterer Wormley's houses, Washington. He had three bedrooms, and wq wander from one to the other in" hope of finding sleep ia the third that would not come iu the first or second. The first

night he was kept awake by dogs, the second night by cats, and the third night by birds. The fourth day Wormley said to him: "Mr. Hewitt, I have killed the dogs, and I have hopes of getting rid of the cats, but the birds are beyond me." . The Duke of Sutherland,- who is now in Wash ington, owns very large tracts of land in thU country, aggregating, it is said, 423,000 acres. His possessions in Great Britain cover 1,358,545 acres, yielding an income of $708,335. He also has $1,500,000 invested in a Scotch railroad. He

is the owner of the Dunrobin Castle, Locn Inver House, House of Tongue, Tarbet House and Castle Leod, all in Scotland, and Stafford House, Trentham Hall, Lilleshall Hall, and the Chiefden, in England. In some hundred published messages and letters of condolence to Mrs. Logan only two, it is said, made any mention of the Supreme Being or of the consolations of religion. These two are by Stephen A. Douglas and Col John Hay, both of whom said: "May God comfort and sustain you." Fifty years ago, says the Washington Post, it would have beeu impossible for such omissions to have occurred, and a century ago a message of condolence that lacked the religious element would have been a mockery. A farmer sat reading in an Albany restaurant, and commented on an item in a Connecticut paper in reference to the intelligence of a dog, which could tell the date on a newspaper: "I had a dog," said he, "a common, long, yeller dog, and I called him Zeke. He knew more than a grand juryman on his second term. He would just loaf around and think. I brought home some canned sausage meat, and I didn't like it. and so I put it on a plate for Zeke, Well, he took the 6ausage out in the garden and buried it. Kegular grave. .Nothing strange in that, you say? Wait. He went back to the house. jumped upon the table, grabbed a big bouquet and went back and laid it on the grave, and he was only a long, yeller dog." This pleasant 6tory is from the Albany Journal COMMENT AND OPINION. In legislating against railroads Congress manages to take up everything but the accidents. Philadelphia American. We predict that if Harrison shall be elected Senator from Indiana he will be nominated for Vice-president next year. The ticket will be Blai ne and Harrison. Denver Republican. Apparently, the House committee on invalid pensions thinks jt was Logan's business to feather his nest while he had the chance. But Logan was not that kind of a man and we don't believe Mrs. Logan Was, either. Philadel phia Inquirer. It is announced that the President has ap proved of the new civil-service rules. That ia all very w ell, but would it not be better to ascertain from him how it is that many men get clerk ships in the departments without passing the civil-service examination! .Boston Journal. President Cleveland, unfortunately for himself, is a President without a party at his back. His party has supported him in not a sin gle one of the important recommendations he has in his second message made to it through Congress. He stands aloof from it or it from him an isolated, lonely figure. The country, after the expiration of nearly half his official term, has grown tired of his administration. which, though it have a policy, cannot execute it, and it is tired, too, of seeing pledges made in an parent good faith broken or evaded. Philadel phia Telegraph. EXPRESSIONS OF THE STATE PRESS. Brookville American: McDonald's defeat wil hurt him less than it will his party. Knightstown Banner We will not imitate the Sentinel by abusing the court I Avres s, I bat the people will pronounce judgment on the whole nefarious business hereafter. Lafayette Courier: "Let us have peace," is what Grant said. But it is possible that the time will come when peace will come too high to be within the reach of the consumer. Pike County Democrat: When will this coun try be ruled by men who can take a legal and constitutional view of their every act? Set down on any man who will not do what he knows to be rizht. Kentland Gazette: Decent Democrats are becoming alarmed at the depth of the grave that their party is digging for themselves at Indianapolis. The depth of the excavation has already reached un uncomfortably hot temperature. Rockville Republicans At no time since the days of the Rebellion have the leaders of the Democratic party in Indiana made a record so infamous as that of the present Legislature. It was lawless and revolutionary then, and so it is to-day. Columbia City Commercial: The anarchist Democrats are standing upon the ground of usurpation and revolution, and their acts will never be recognized as being right and lawful either by the people or higher powers to which appeal may be made. . ' Crawfordsville Star (Dem. ): Robertson was duly elected Lieutenant-governor of Indiana by a small, but positive plurality. He is entitled to his seat. Honest men who voted for the other candidate wish right to triumph and demand that Robertson be seated. Monticello Herald: The proprietors of the "Senatorial bear-pit" seem oblivious to the fact that a half million sovereigns have proclaimed the election of Colonel Robertson, and that the "health lift" will be applied to them after the most approved methods at the first opportunity. Albion New Era: The people are in no mood to be trifled with, and the earthquake that was the result of the infamous gerrymander will be as nothing as compared with that which is to result from the revolutionary acts of the Democracy now being enacted in the State Legislature. Portland Commercial: During the shifting and exciting scenes of these contests, the Democracy have seemingly eared for neither law nor justice, but have been as regardless of both as when they passed the infamous gerrymander. We predict that Indiana will go Republican by at lea9t 15,000 majority in 183& Yincennes Commercial: There is a higher f ower than the rump State Senate at Indianapois. The wrongs perpetrated by tbe revolutionists of that body will be righted in the Nationl Senate. Whatever its political standing,- decency and dignity prevail there, and Green Smithism will not be admitted within its threshold. Ligonier Leaden Ex-Senator McDonald was undoubtedly the greatest man in the Democratic party iu Indiana since the death of HendricKs, but he is politically dead now owing to Gray and the senatorial toughs the pigmies of the Senate, as it were. But with McDonald, Gray also dios, and is now holding the last office be will ever get by the aid of the Democrats of this State. Union City Eagle: It is seldom that men acting under oath ever commit a grosser personal insult than that of robbing Mr. McDonald of his seat in the State Senate upon serious and grave charges without giving him an opportunity to be heard in his own defense. There is not an honorable Democrat in McDonald's district but who unqualifiedly condemns the action of the Senate partisans. Lawrenceburg Press: Judge Holman inter views to the effect that it will b Harrison, and indeed mo?t Democrats hereabout have taken that to be a foregone conclusion, and while under ordinary circumstances they would have been very much interested in the senatorial question, the oaoy act Dusiness concerning the Lieutenant governorship has so disgusted them that they uon 1 care mucn aoous it. lilnriton L'hronicle: The Democrats in the Senate violated the law and Constitution in rermitting Senator Smith to preside, while the Con stitution says "that in the absence of the Lieu tenant-governor the Auditor sball preside." It was this outrage that caused all the turbulence in that body. On the other hand, the House has kept within the strict letter of the law, and will continue to Qo so to tho end. That is the differ ence. , Martinsville Republican: Turpie, during the war for the Union, was a vindictive copperhead and rebel sympathizer of the Dan Voorhees stripe, and, since thawar. had been living ia re tirement aud merited obscurity until Cleveland dug him up and made him United States district attorney for Indiana. In addition to these qua! ifications he possesses another, which also has great weight with his party, namely: for years be has been the attorney, defender and champi on of the Liquor League of the State. It will thus be seen that he is eminently Qualified to re

ceive honors at the hands of his party. Beiesf champion and defender of rum and rebellion h

appeals irresistibly to the instincts 01 nis party. Logansnort Journal: The people have settled this question by declaring the election otRobert S. Robertson as Lieutenant-governor under aH the authority and form9 of law, and the court have no jurisdiction over the case. Assumption of extrajudicial authority by courts will not b regarded with any more favor by the masses who hate despotism fnan is given to the revola tiomsts and anarchists who have eamea imraor tal infamy under tho leadership of Green Smith, Sim Coy and David Turpie. Brazil Register: Colonel Robertson was fairly elected Lieutenant-governcr in an emergeney whose existence the Democrats recognized by an honorable and vigorous opposition. Had the Democratic candidate for the office been elected, his right would have been unquestioned. Robertson right is inst as inalienable. The people elected him, and they demand that he serve. To thwart the popular will m this matter is to violate tot most sacred right of the sovereigns of the Cotn morwealth. There is nothing to compare to tat reactionary power of such political wrong-doing. Franklin Republican: If the Supreme Court does decide that there was no vacancy in the oft ficeof Lieutenant-governor to be filled by an election it will not reliove the Democracy f rona the odium of the dishonesty of purpose which necessarily attaches to their course. The fact will still remain firmly fixed in the minds of all V ..... I carter ihtt tha Anu ent proceeding was an afterthought, and would never have been thought of had they elected their candidate. They are responsible for th , present disturbance and danger to the publie peace, and will be so held by the people. Senator Harrison and tlie Legislative Vote. New Cr.Btle Courier. Representatives Grover, Cates and Mackey are Knights of Labor, but were elected by tha votes of tho Republicans of their respective districts to represent the interests of the majority. They have sworn to discharge their duty to th peopie, and are violating their oaths when they insist on serving a secret order ia preference to the people who placed them in power. It was well understood before and during the campaign that Ben Harrison was the choice of the Republicans of the State for Senator. That was one of the things most talked about during the fight, and to that circumstance is largely due theRe publican victory at the polls. . Senator HarrU son's abilities and the honor reflected upon the. State by his services in the United States Sen-4 ate, caused the people to wish for his return, and they voted accordingly. Glover, Cates and Mackey stood as candidates of the Republican party, and not of the Knights of Labor. ' All were well aware of the desire to re-elect Harrl son, aui aquiesced in the proposition. What right have they now, under the influence of the . political tricksters who are nocking into thel order and rapidly gaining control, to Jihruat aside the plain mandate of their constituents What Would Be Said, IfNew Yorfc Tribune. : In Indiana, there is surely not a respectable "- Democrat who would not say, if no great party date for Representative who had been sworn into another office before his election is express ly disqualified by the Constitution. The Democrat ousted for that reason by the House was rightly ousted, and it served the scoundrels' right who impudently defied the Constitution by running such a man, kuowing bis disqualification. As for the Lieutenant-governor we all voted for candidates for that office in November, and it is not decent to set up the pretense that there was no vacancy because our man "was not elected as we confidently hoped. Better loss both offices than brand the party with infamy by revolutionary lawlessness" Should Have Stood Ills Ground? ' Loganeport Journal. , The Journal regrets that Lieutenant-governor Robertson and his advisers have appealed frord Judge Ayres to the Supreme Court, or in any manner recognized the jurisdiction of any court over his claims to his office. He is the Lieutenr -ant-governor elected by the people, and declared so elected by the only competent jurisdiction id the matter, the Legislature of Indiana. Upon that ground he should stand or fall, and we hope he will yet take that ground and withdraw his; appeal, or any other plea beyond the answer of a denial of court jurisdiction, in his case. Let us have a clear-cut issue on the power of the people to fill a vacancy in any office not Other1 wise provided for by law. . , An Attack on Voorhees. Kransvllle Courier (iem.) : . c If Mr. Voorhees were a candidate before the Legislature now, does anyone suppose he would have been the nominee of the Democratic caucus? He would have been worse beaten, if pos sible, than was Mr. McDonald. It is, therefore, preposterous to suppose that anyone-will think of Mr. Voorhees four years hence in connection" with a re-election to the Senate, even if he should be an aspirant for such an office. Mr. Voorhees's public career will be finished at the end of his present term. Mr. Kellison'g Opinion. Plymouth Republican. Two years ago, when there was a dead-lock in the Illinois Legislature, just as tht re is in the Indiana Legislature now, our Representative, Charles Kellison, declared that General Logan ought to be elected because a majority of the voters of the btate of Illinois had voted against the Democratic party. A majority of the voters of Indiana did the same thing last November. Mr. Kellison, to be consistent, should now support General Harrison. A Good Motto. nuntln?burgb Arprug. t The colored people of Indiana have a sterling representative of their interests in the publica tion at Indianapolis of the Indianapolis Argus, Ben D. Bagby, editor. This paper ha3 for Its motto the famous assertion of Fred. Douglas? that, "The Republican party is the earth all outside is the sea." JuOce to Governor Porter. Indianapolis Sentinel. The Sentinel does not wish to do anyone injustice. Although ex-Governor Porter's sign a ture appears to the act containing the "intimidation" section in the printed acts of 1881. it is not attached to the enrolled bill, showing that it became a law without his signature, the printer being in error. Will Be Supplied. National Republican. The burning of the largest distillery in Indiana said to be the largest in the world will not deprive the belligerent Democrats at Indianapolis of ammunition for the pending war. There are about fifteen railroads centering at the Hoosier capital. Will Be Stronger than Ever. Marion Chronicle. General Harrison has the united, hearty support of his party to a degree seldom witnessed in politics. Whatever may be his fate in this election he will go before tho public in the next campaign more popular and stronger than ever he was before. The Very Man for the 11 ace. Chicago Times. ' Perhans the proper person to appoint to the head of the Signal-service Bureau is a mugwump. A mugwump would probably give us weather like his politics neither too hot nor too cold; not violently partisan in either direction. ..." " Scandalous iteoort. Chicago Jonrnal. Indiana ia t rying hard to keep up wtth Chicago in the mattr of sensations. It is reported that a deluded IItosier girl is going to marry one of the lawless Democrats in the Indiana Legislature. McDonald's Friends. LIgonlcr Leader. The leading Democrats in this part of the State feel very sore over the defeat of ex-Senator McDonald, and are hoping that tho nominee will have nothing but empiy honors. Evidently a Personal Allusion; Kentland Gazetto. Probably some of the Democratic ring who i attempting to rob this district of their honestly elected Senator, would be glad to settle tafc question 25 cents on the dollar