Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 February 1887 — Page 4

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOLTBNAIX FRIDAY; FEBRUARY 4, 18S7.

!THE DAILY JOURNAL. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4. 1887.

WASHINGTON OFFICE 513 Fourteenth St. P. S. Heath. Correspondent. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOUIvWAI. Cnn 'e found at the following places: LONDON American Exchange in iitrand. Europe, 449 PARIS American Exchange in Paris, 35 Boulevard des Capucines. . NEW YORK Gednoy House and Windsor Hotels. CHICAGO Palmer House. CINCINNATI J. P. Hawlfly & Co., 154 Vine street. XOriSVILLE-C. T. Dearing, northwest corner Third aad Jefferson streets. BT. LOUIS Union News and Southern Hotel. Company, Union Depot WASHINGTON, D. C Riggs House and Ebbitt 1. Telephone Calls. -Business Office 23S Editorial Rooms 242 lUmhtrt of the General Aembhj wanting the Journal ivrina the regular ttrion ihowld leave their tubscriptiont. Kith Jir c lions a to where they desire to receive the paper, at the Journal Counting-room. The Indianapolis Journal is an uncompromising Republican newspaper. Now is the ttme to subscribe. There were a good many swollen heads among the Democratic statesmen yesterday. Nerve has won. The Sentinel. And crime. 'Republicans are prouder of their defeated candidate for Senator than Democrats are of theirs "elected." WnAT Republican member of the General Assembly cannot assist in the work of impeaching the alleged election of Mr. TurpieT

selves that they made no mistake in their cau.aus nomination for Senator. Democrats generally admit that they did.

A New York boodle alderman goes to the v penitentiary nearly every day. Justice is v-having her day in the metropolis now, but mil reach Indiana later rthaps.

If the Democracy of Indiana had any senatorial honors to dispense Hon. Joseph E. McDonald is the man who ought to be wearing them. His defeat in the caucus is a continuing outrage. With the exception of the unfortunate compromise, Republicans have nothing to regret in the late Senatorial contest. On their part it-was honorably conducted from beginning to end. We were told that at the end all persons would rise up and call the compromise blessed. The Journal waits to hear the chorus, and its columns are open to catch the echo of the , jeneral acclaim. There is this difference between Speaker Sayre and Green Smith. The Speaker told the senatorial bully to his face that he was a pretender and usurper. Smith retorted at long range from the Senate chamber. Cft'R Washington special has interesting reading for Mr. Tnrpie and the Democrats, ind for Republicans, as well. When Mr. Turpie gets his seat the fact will be promptly aoted in the columns of the Journal. The blackguardism of Green Smith in attacking Speaker Sayre will only increase the sontempt every decent man entertains for the presumptuous bully, and' enhance the regard in which Mr. Sayre is held for his manly and manful exhibition of what is called "sand." Senator Harrison will leave for Wash ington to-morrow. On the 10th instant he i3 expected to be in Providence, R. I., at a reception to be given in his honor, and ou the 12th he will be present and make an address it the banquet of the New York Republican Club. Senator Green Smith, the bully, pretender and usurper, gave a further exhibition of his quality yesterday. Doubtless the history of parliamentary assemblages would be searched in vain for his parallel in all the sharacteristics that a presiding officer should not possess. ' The Louisville Commercial says: ''Indiana is necessary to Democratic success. There is a possibility that the present contentions will - affect the contest in 1888." The Commercial is correct. The present contentions will not only affect the contest in 1888, but will result in such a rebuke of Democratic methods as the State has never known. . Editor Henry Watterson says Mr. Cleveland's reprehensible conduct in the Matthews case is due to the fact that the "one term" President is feeling for the negro vote. According to this view then, Mr. Cleveland, to be consistent, must decline to turn out the

colored man, West, at the head of a bureau we sna surely have the encouragement of in the Land Office, who is charged by one of very man throughout the country who bethe white female clerks in his department lieves in free and equal suffrage, and in tbe

with making love to and subsequently breakv ing a chloroform bottle over her head. West's vote will count as well as that of Matthews's, and one is no greater rascal than the other, if All accounts are true. THE nouse committee on pensions having

'favorably reported a bill to grant Walt Whit- eral Assembly who voted for Senator Harrison man, the poet, a pension of $25 a month on on Wednesday should be present to-day, to account of his services and "devotional min- back up with his vote and voice the protest of .istr&tions" a3 volunteer nurse during the war, the Republicans of the State against the ille- . should cause some of the women who served gal and fraudulent election of Mr. Turpie. In a Ike capacity to put in their claims. The What Republican will aid the Democratic '.Logat pension was defeated oa the ground crime by having it appear that the Republic-

that there "was no proof that the General's death was in any way a result of disease contracted during the war, but there is not a shadow more of proof that Whitman's ill3 result from such cause. Thousands of women are equally entitled to pensions for ministrations no less faithful and devotional, and

should they demand them the precedent established by thi3 case will not be easily ig nored. THE EESULT AND ITS CAUSE, The "compromise" has done its appointed work. Its purpose or effect was to protect and perpetuate the illegal and fraudulent Democratic majority in the General Assembly "until the election of a United States Senator," and, so far as was possible for the State Legislature, it has answered the object of its creation, and will from henceforth and forever take its place iu history along with other political curios. The idea that the ''compromise" had specially or primarily to do with the question of who should preside over the joint assembly is erroneous; and to attempt to make ft appear that its purpose was simply to determine that, and to prevent disorder and possible bloodshed in the beautiful new capitol, by setting aside Colonel Robert son and dividing the presidency between a lawful officer and "a usurper and pretender, is an afterthought, a mere pretext, an abattis hastily thrown up behind which those re sponsible for it could defend themselves. The Journal has not and does not now impugn the motives of anybody; it did not and does not now believe in either the wisdom, the ne cessity or the rightfulness of the agreement, and appeals to the operation and to the result as the vindication of its dissent, as well as of the dissent of ninety-nine hundredths of the Republicans of the State and country. It should also be said that the parties responsi ble for it can be counted upon the fingers of one hand. With the fewest possible excep tions, the body of the Republican members of the Assembly would have been glad to be relieved from the burden it imposed upon their manhood and self-respect. Had the final result been what it has been in the ab sence of any "compromise" with the Demo crats, there would have been a sense of po litical freedom and independence that would have done much to relieve the disappointment from the failure in carrying out the will o: the people, and in upholding law and justice. It should be once more stated that what the "compromise" did was to concede the whole of the Republican position. It recog nized Green Smith; it recognized Branaman, who has no more legal right to a seat and vote in the Senate than any Michigan City convict who might be imported to make up a Demo cratic majority; and it prevented the House of Representatives from exercising its consti tutional privilege and discharging its consti tutional duty, at least in the case of Beasley, from the district of Vigo, Vermillion and Sullivan. We should like to poll the Republican members of the General Assembly upon these questions: 1. Do you believe the unseating of Meagher and the seating of Dickerson was constitutional and right 2. Do you believe, from the facts you know, that Beasley should be unseated and Downing admitted to his seat? 3. Do you believe that Mr. McDonald was entitled to his seat in the Senate, and that Frank Branaman has no legal right to the seat beholds? The columns of the Journal are open to any Republican Senator or Representative who desires to answer either of these questions in the negative. If they are answered in the affirmative, then the Republicans had honestly and legally elected seventy-six members, and the first and most sacred duty was to protect and defend that legal and valid majority; to have defended it with at least equal courage and unflinching unanimity as the Democrats displayed in the defense and protection of their illegal and fraudulent majority. Against this proposition we believe there can be no sound argument. How that majority could have been expressed in the choice of a United States Senator was the problem before the Republicans. The Journal said at the time, what events have no v proven to be true, that in the end the question would have to go to the United States Senate for final decision, and the Journal believes it should have gone there with the Republicans on the vantage ground as to an actual election, instead of being compelled to go there to contest the apparent election of a Democrat. But when the compromise was entered into the conditions were changed, and from that time until Wednesday last the re suit has been inevitable. The only thing left to do is to do all that can be done to prevent the revolutionary Democracy from realizing upon their crimes, and seating a Lnited States Senator "elected" by virtue of a fraudulent and illegal majority. To that duty we are certain can be summoned the full, hearty ani determined effort of every Republican member of the Legislature and of every member of tno Republican party in the State, and J right of equal and honest representation. Several of the Senators explain that it was a misunderstanding that kept them away from yesterday's meeting of the joint convention. There need be no misunderstanding to-day. Every Republican member of the Gen-

ans are not unanimous in their protest as they

were unanimous in their vote? That is the use already made by the Democracy of the unfortunate absences from yesterday's meet ing-' . " : A GREAT VICTOST. For United States Senator, David Turpie, 76; Benjamin Harrison, 74. These are the figures as they appear on the record of the final ballot for United States Senator. . They show a majority of two for the Democratic candidate, and barely enough to elect Two years ago the vote in the Legislature for United States Senator was: For Daniel W. Voorhees, 98; for A. G. Porter, 52 a majority of forty-six for Mr. Voorhees. Not content with this majority, the Democrats set to work to increase and insure it for the future. To accomplish this they planned and passed the gerrymander. The assistance and advice of Senator Voorhees and other Democratic poli ticians were freely given, and among them they framed a legislative apportionment bill which was a monstrosity of injustice and the embodiment of political rascality. The object was to insure the State to the Democrats for years to come, and this object was secured, or the Democrats thought it was secured, by a bill which practically disfranchised fully oneiourtn or the voters in tne otate. it was claimed, ,and believed at the time, that the bill would give the Democrats seventy majority in the Legislature on joint ballot, in 6pite of anything the Republicans could do. Senator Voorhees said, not long before the last election, to Senator Camden, of West Vir ginia, that he "should feel personally dis graced if the Democratic majority in the Legislature was less than sixty on joint ballot." Such were the hopes entertained of the gerry mauder. Circumstances made Senator Harrison the Republican leader in the last State campaign. His position made this natural, and Republic ans were glad to recognize and follow him as such. Personally he had no more at stake in the election than any other Republican, for he is not wedded to public life nor in any sense dependent on office. But, as a life-long Re publican and the leader of the party in a dif ficult and doubtful campaign, he was anxious to succeed. He went into it as he does into everything he undertakes, with his whole heart. Senator Harrison does nothing by halves, and he threw himself into the campaign with a degree of vigor and determination that surprised his friends as well as his enemies. Accustomed to meet and battle with difficulties, he recognized the magnitude of those that confronted the Republicans, but he was not dismayed and never for a moment lost heart. He believed it was possible to carry the State and the Legislature a3 well, and he showed his faith by his works. Comparatively few Republicans thought it possible under the gerrymander to carry the Assembly. Senator Harrison believed it was, and worked to that end. He was not unaided. His splendid leadership developed a splendid following; his earnestness and enthusiasm begot the same feelings in other Republicans, and the party and press of the State gave him a magnificent support. It was a brilliant campaign. The strong points of the Republican cause were massed and presented in the most effective manner; the Democracy were kept constantly on the defensive, and the fighting was forced au aiong tne line, vvnen tne votes were counted on the night of the election they showed the Republicans had elected the Lieu-tenant-governor, State officers, and seventy-six if not seventy-seven membera of the General Assembly. The result was a splendid revivifi cation of Republican hopes and the conduct of the campaign. The Democrats were stunned and bewildered. Their sheet anchor, the gerrymander, had failed them. Instead of the seventy majority they were counting on, or the sixty Mr. Voorhees fixed as the personal disgraceful limit, the Republicans had a ma jority of two on joint ballot. As soon as the Democratic leaders and managers could gather themselves together they set about arresting the tide of Republican victory. In two districts where Republicans had been elected dispatches were sent from this city "Stop that nonsense," and a messenger folt 3 1 1 1 i 1 l i rm ioweu me uispaicu posi-naste. ine nonsense was stopped. The Republicans were counted out and two Democrats counted in. This made a difference of four votes in the Legis lature, and gave the Democrats their pre tended majority of two. They stole the ma jority. To maintain it they have resorted to every species of fraud, and were at last com pelled to resort to outright corruption. The re sult is a temporary apparent triumph for one of the most audacious and elaborate schemes of political fraud ever devised. On its face it is a Democratic victory, but read between the lines it is a magnificent Republican success, Senator Harrison comes out of the contest with his personal honor and political prestige unhurt. Uo him the mere possession of the senatorship is a small consideration. It has been a large pecuniary sacrifice to him every year he has held it, and would have continued so had he been re-elected, ne can easily make several times the salary of a Sen ator in his profession. Of course it is an honor to sit in the United States Senate, if a man is honorably and fairlv elected, and benator Harrison properly appreciates that, as well as the unanimous and loyal sup port of the It-epublican members of the Legislature in two successive assemblies. c A- tt : i oeuiuor xaairiauu ixaa given six years in the prime of his life to the public service. During that time he has steadily grown in public estimation, and has achieved a national reputation in all that goes to constitute a statesman. His own

self-respect, the respect of his friends, and

the reputation he enjoys throughout the country are of infinitely greater value to him than the holding of any office. He is to be congratulated on retaining all thse unimpaired. He i3 to be congratulated further on having demonstrated to the country that under his leadership the Republicans can carry Indiana in spite of the world, the flesh and the devil. He demonstrated this in the last election. The extent of his victory is measured by the reduction of the Democratic strength in the Legislature from ninety-eight votes for Mr. Voorhees, in 1885, to seventv-six for Mr. Turpie in 1837, and of these two stolen, and at least two illegal. The joint convention of Wednesday was adjourned, on the motion of a Republican, to meet at 12 o'clock noon on Thursday. No Republican member of the Senate or House was heard objecting to the motion. Every member of the joint convention heard .the motion, and heard the result of the vote announced by Speaker Sayre. Every Republican Senator and every Republican member of the House knew that it was voted that at least the Republican members of the joint convention were expected to be present at noon on yesterday, in the hall of the House. Every Republican member of th House was present and answered to hi3 name. Senators Campbell, Davis, DeMotte, Drake, Huston, Macy, Marshall, Thompson, Winter and Moon were the only Republican Senators who responded. So far as the record shows the other Republican Senators were not present. The Journal states the fact that these gentlemen were notified of the meeting of the Republican members of the two houses at that time and place, and that they were expected to be thero a3 representatives of the Republicans who voted for them. But eight Senators failed to put in their appearance at the roll-call. Two of them came in later, but when asked by their fellow Senators to have their names called to show their presence, de clined to have it done. The Republican members who entered into the "compromise" with the Democratic mob of office-thieves and law-breakers must have been greatly edified by the proceedings in the Senate yesterday. They probably found out now mucn tne democratic moo care either for their words of honor or their oaths. The "compromise," having served its purpose, was contemptuously kicked aside, its terms outrageously and indecently violated, and the records of the Senate, under the direc tion of the boss bullv and his little tool, the Secretary, made to express a notorious and unquestioned lie. The man who certines to - tnat record peing a cor rect- record of the proceedings of the joint convention will commit moral perjury. Of course that fact will not cause any Demo era tic officer to hesitate in affixing his Eiie to it, but no Republican officer will be found to sign the lie a lie against the law, against the compromise, and acrainst the facts. The Senate proceedings were a fitting sequel to the whole Democratic campaign of fraud, forgery and brute force. There are Republicans who are of the opinion that Turpie has been legally elected, and that the Republicans should accept the situation philosophically? Major Gordon, for instance, said last night that the federal Sen ate could, in his opinion, do nothing but accept the vote as certified to by the Governor of the btate. This vote would show that Turpie had received a majority of all the votes cast. It would destroy the last vestiere of State rights for that Senate to inquire how that majority was constructed. It is the province of the State alone to judge of the qualifications of the members of the Assem bly. JNews. Has Mr. Turpie begun to retain "criminal lawyers" already? This "opinion" is an opinion for the defense of any sort of fraud or crime that may be perpetrated, if only somebody can be secured to "certify" to it. It may interest the "criminal lawyers" to know t.hat the United States Senate has very often looked beyond what the Governor or somebody else has "certified." After presenting a memorial from the Kansas Legislature concerning the dilatory mail service in that State, Senator Plumb prodded the Postoffice Department with a few remarks of his own. Referring to the service he said: "It is simply disgraceful; it is without suf ficient force; it is negligently carried on, and in every way it is tne reverse of what it ought to be in order to render that service which the Postal Department wa3 organized to render. There are, as stated in the resolution, several hundred mile3 of railroad in that State unon which no service has been put at all." It is perhaps as well that Mr. Vilas has been employing a portion of his time in taking dancing lessons. To answer all the demands upon him made by indignant citizens of the West and South he will have to waltz around very lively. The Democrats would not move in the matter of an investigation of the charges of bribery and corruption in connection with the senatorial election, and so the Republic ans had to take the initiative. Representative Covert offered a resolution raising a committee of five, with power to send for persons and papers. Now let us have a committee that will move on the works an investigation that will investigate. Editor Dorsheimer, of New York, pays' his respects to Editor Watterson in language of which the following is a choice sample: "Henry Watterson, having exhausted every other resource of sensationalism and every expedient of notoriety, is now in Washington lobbying for a whisky bill and blackguarding the President. It ia "difficult to imagine what devices he would not adopt to attract the attention of the public. Finding it impossible

to become famous, he has resolved to make himself notorious, and at any cost. The day

may not be distant when he will appear in a painted wagon, with feathers in his hat, wagging his tongue in praise of patent drugs to lttle gatherings of the gamin, who will stare at him and reject hi3 quack nostrums as wiser men now despise his quack doctrines. The harmony existing in the Democratic ranks is one of the most edifying spectacles of he season. We do not believe the Senate of the United States can be depended upon to accept the orged credentials of a Republican claimant. The Sentinel. There will be no such credentials; no Re publican ever proposed that there should be; Senator Harrison, at least, would not have gone to Washington with them. We do not believe the Senate of the United States can be depended upon to accept the credentials of Democratic claimant based upon frauds, forgeries, usurpation and alleged bribery. The charge of the Journal that attempts had been made to purchase the votes of some members of the General Assembly for the Democratic candidate for Senator was a bluff. It was the last gasp of the Republican con spirators writhing in the clutch or fate. There could have been no bribery. Sen tinel. Well, will the Democrats dare order an in vestigation? Shall this confession and avoid ance be the only answer made on behalf of the Democracy? The Republicans are waiting for an answer. Ax Ohio correspondent of a Cincinnati paper, referring to the complaints from Indiana fishgrowers of the dying of German carp, gives his experience in the management of the twelve ponds of which he is owner. He says: "In tne five years tnat 1 nave been raising carp I have had none to die. , I am always very careful to keep a hole some four feet square open every day when the pond is frozen over. One of mv neighbors lost all his fish in this wise: His pond froze over, and the wat6r came in on top of the first ice, and froze a second time. He forgot to cut through the lower ice, and when the ice melted his fish were all smothered. I have another neighbor that never cnt a hole in his pond, and when the ice melted his fish were all dead. I think it ia very essential, when the ponds are frozen over, that the fish have air every day. I write this for the benefit of fish culture." It is possible that the suggestions here given may explain many disastrous failures in carp culture of which so much has been heard. The two facts that fish must have air to breathe, and that the atmosphere does not penetrate solid ice, are easily forgotten by the unscientific person. The Sentinel of yesterday said respecting the joint convention announced for that day: "It is positive that Senator Sears will not go, and there is also high authority for the state ment that Senators Dresser, Kennedy, Thomp son of Jasper, and Harness have signified their intention to remain in the Senate. They are conservative men, who do not wish to be partici pants in. any particularly indecent outrage or any childish play of a joint convention which has passed oat of existence by reason of a completion of its work. They, of course, do not openly avow that they think there was an election yes terday, but nevertheless it would seem to be their conviction. Slightly aiding to this unusual morality is the fact that their going would be a contempt of the Senate, and for that body they have a respect which amounts to awe. The whisper may have reached them tbat two cases are already made out and the reports written for expulsion, which will give the Democrats a twothirds majority, a sufficiency to expel on resolu tion." Again the crack of the whip of the bullwhacker. The South Carolina Spartan figures out that food can be provided for field bands at a cost of $1.75 a month each. This snm Is precisely what the editor of the Charleston News says he pays a pair for silk stockings. Possibly, the fact tbat tbe negro field hands are paid wages which com pel them to subsist upon the scanty rations sue gested, may have something to do with the cir cumstance that the gentleman in question can afford to wear silk stockings. Democratic papers are facetiously calling attention to the fact that the celebrated bath taken by Congressman Reagan early in the ses sion did not do him a serious injury in his own State, as his election to the Senate amply proves. If Democrats, encouraged by Reagan's exam ple, should take to bathing, that Texas gentleman will deserve a nomination for the presi dency. X he legislatures oi several states are con sidering measures to prohibit members of these bodies from securing free railroad transporta tion. Between such laws and the Interstatecommerce bill, which forbids the issuing of passes, it looks very much as if the coming legislators would count the ties in estimating their mileage. The proprietor of a summer hotel at Narragansett Pier has been sent to the lunatic asylum, it being claimed by his friends that he is insane only in the winter season, while in warm weather he is of sound mind. There is poetic justice and a ballancing of accounts about this. It is the guests of the hotel who are crazy in sum mer. A syndicate has been formed in New York for the purpose of creating a corner in Turkish prunes. General joy over this announcement will give way to grief when it is clearly understood that the Turkish fruit is an entirely dif ferent variety from the boarding-house prune. Professor Anderson, United States Minis ter to Denmark, denies that he ever squeezed the Queen's hand or that he lives in a fifth rate boarding-house. Now let us hear from the Minister to Japan in regard to making calls upon the Mikado in his shirt sleeves. ABOUT PEOPLE -AKD THINGS. General Logan is said to have written two plavs, one of them being a military drama. He was fond of Shakspeare, and could recite whole scenes from memory. Clara LiOuise Kellogg, having gone to i -. : xT x- f . . uuu3t;ii.t.-eiiuK iu ow iur& city, IS giving a series of dinners that are the delight of her circle or friends. Ernest Ingersoll, a well-known writer, has accepted a position at the head of the publica tion department of the Canadian Pacific Rail way, and will make his headquarters in Mon treal. "Would you marry an old man for his monThe late Charles Francis Adams left property amounting to $1,026,000. Mr. Adams made generous provision for each of his children during his life-time, otherwise the estate would have amounted to several million dollars. Mrs. S. R. Cooper is eighty-five years old, and is one of the earliest- settlers in Douglas county, Illiaoif. Last Thursday she entertained

eyF asked Mildred. "Well? I declare," exejaimed pressed the opinion to-day that Senator HarriLmra, with a startled air, fryou surely don't o". under the circumstances, could not afsuppose anything else would induce me to marry ford to contest the of Mr. 1 urpie. ue said himi" : rtV.i.m ftaiii a fair and legal one;

a number of friends at her home, near Bourbon, and prepared for them a dinner without assistance, ?hich all pronounced equal to any ever spread in the neighborhood. Notwithstanding " her advanced age, Mrs. Cooper is still as spry

and chipper as a girl of twenty. The song of the tenant farmers in Ireland runs: So landlords and grand lords Go grumble as yon may A low rent or no rent Is all the rent we'll pay. General. Boulanger was the son of a poor advocate at Nantes and a beautiful Englishwoman, and in his boyhood was as vain and theatrical as now. He would often go without his lunch in order to save money for the pur chase of lemon-colored kid gloves. Gerald Maxwell, the young English actor in Wilson Barrett's company who has been put in a mad-house at Cincinnati, is a son of Miss M. Jb. Braddon, the novelist. He is cow hopelessly insane, although when Mr. Barrett left Cincin nati he expected him to join him this week in Chicago. One of the most astonishing pieces of news ia regard to the Queen's jubilee is that she is to receive an address from thirty survivors of the Light Brigade which charged at Balaklava. Ac cording to frequent reports the last survivor of that noble body has died repeatedly. W here dC the thirty come from? Colonel. Mosby, the guerilla, is said to be building up a handsome law practice in San Francisco, acd he has recently made a contract to deliver a series of lectures on the war which will pay him $15,000. He is now busy in the preparation of an article on the battle of Gettys burg, which he says is going to prove a "bombshell." The Catholic clergy of the Philadelphia dio cese have received orders from Archbishop Ryan to instruct the choirs of their respective churches that no music not especially written for the church shall be sung at any church service. All operatic music and many popular compositions which have been adapted to thf words of the service will be banished. COMMENT AND OPINION. Mrs. Proxy Van Zandt Spies can now t&ks a single-barreled wedding tour. Jfittsbure Chronicle. The money that Walt TVhitman has saved by not having his hair cat ought to be sufficient to support him. Puck. Texas has elected a clean man to the United States Senate. Mr. Reagan took a bath last December. Philadelphia Record (Dera.) If the worst should happen and a war take place, we can,' load our cannon with the cart wheel silver dollars. Baltimore American. When Daniel Manning retires from the Cabi net, Samuel J. Randall will probably be asked -to surrender his pass key to the White House. Philadelphia Press. A victory won by the coarse, brutal, illegal and unparliamentary methods of the Indiana. Democrats ought to be easily overcome at Wash ington. New York Tribune, As between a life position at $20,000 a year and an official position for two years longer at $8,000 a year, Mr. Manning s choice would seem to be akin to a jug handle. Philadelphia Inquirer. The horns of the dilemma upon which the Democrats are impaled are, firat, that they dare not refuse to investigate; and, second, that possibly they dare not investigate to find out The result will doubtless bo an inquiry to whitewash. Rushville Republican. This direct charge lof briberyl against the Democratic members of the Legislature, fol lowed by a change on Robinson's part, without the promised notice to his labor party associates, makes the situation such that the party will certainly have to take some formal notice of it Lafayette Journal. The Dayton Journal predicts that Hoadly. from hie experiences as a political gymnast, will naturally gravitate toward the mugwumps in New York. Possibly, for the big dose of coaloil and ballot-box-stuffing Democracy that be swallowed in Ohio was enough to turn the stomach of an ostrich. Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. It is our boast in this country that we have no classes, but the leaders of the Knights of Labc have teen endeavoring to organize bor with their bands into a class and to arrav them against the rest of the community, including all laborers whom they do not succeed ia bringing into the organization. Against this great body of the community they undertake to make war as a means of forcing a redress of grievances in every petty cae of disagreement between employers and employed. New York Times. JUDGE KELLEI'S PIiAN. A Proposal to Reduce the Surplus by a Re peal of the Tobacco Tax. Wnshincton Special In Philadelphia Press. In the meantime the Speaker, with his accus tomed suavity, is bowing and saying prettv gen eralities to the Hon. Samuel J. Randall. Some thing may come of these generalities, these smiles, these pleasant words, but shrewd observers of the situation shake their heads and say: "Morrison will never let Randall's bill come up." In the meantime the Republicans have completely deserted Mr. Randall, so far as his Dew bill is concerned. They have had time to look it over and have come to the same con clusion as the Press did the day of its publica tion namely, that it was an attractive bill to free-traders, but out of gear with all protection ist principles. At this juncture Judge Kelley steps in and is preparing a bill which is a prac tical way out of the whole dilemma.. The Judge's proposed measure is a simple bill for the repeal of the internal tax on tobacco. It will be nntrammeled by other issues, and he will ask the Speaker to recognize him and try to pass it un der tbe suspension of the rules. He intends to make his first attempt within a few days, and if he fails he will continue his efforts to the end of the session. Judge Kelley thinks this is the one practical bill for the reduction of the rev enue that can be passed at the session, and his wide legislative experience leads him to believe tbat it is better to concentrate your strength on a thing that you can do than to fritter it away on a dozen things that you can't do. This is the programme aa decided to-day by some of the Republican leaders. That Judge Kelley is the best man to bring both Democrats and Republicans, free-traders and protectionists together on tbe surplus revenue there can be no doubt With the veteran member from Philadelphia the repeal of the internal revenue has been for years a fixed principle. It is not a party expediency. He advocated this course when it was unpopular, and has never departed from his ideas on this issue. Every member knows this, and speaker Carlisle recognizes it The Southern members feel particularly friendly to the Judge for the boom he has recently given the growing industries of that section. Without wishing to embarrass Mr. Carlisle by saying in advance that he will do thus and so, I think it safe to say that he is more likely to recognize Judge Kelley with a simple proposition of this Kind than any other man on the Republican side. It is equally safe to assert that next to a Democrat the majority would rather Judge Kelley should make this motion than any other man. Should he do so and sue-' ceed, no one can claim a victory either for Morrison or Randall, and, further, it would not be a Republican victory nor a Democratic victory. It would simply be a reduction of war taxes made by the Forty-ninth Congress. The tariff battle would be postponed, in accordance with what is undoubtedly the sentiment of the present Congress, for tbe Fiftieth Congress to wrestle with. Here is the way out of the difficulty that would be satisfactory in more ways than one. The Compromise Responsible. Washlneton Special to Courier Journal. An influential Republican in this city exbut he believed that had the ReWJ? VQ0 Indiana Legislature refused to go into JjT venticn with the Democratic members, and nTT? by themselves, and allowed Colonel Robertson to preside as Lieutenant-governor, as President of the Senate, and cast their vote for Harrison, that tbe Senate would have recognized his elee tion. But he believed that they lost their case, and threw up their hands, when they entered with the Democrats on a compromise me&saxe-