Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 September 1887 — Page 4

THE ISTDIAKAPOLIS JOURNAL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 188T.

THE DAILY JOURNAL. FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 2, 18S7.

WASHINGTON OFFICE CI 3 Fourteenth. SU P. S. HEATH. Correspondent. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can be found at the following places: LONDON American Exchange ia Europe, 449 JjtrinU. fARIS American Exchange in Paris, 35 Boulevard ies Capucuie. KEW YORK Oedney House and Windsor Hotel. CHICAGO PaJmer House. CINCINNATI J. P. Hawley & Co., 154 Vine street. LOUISVILLE C. T. Bearing, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. BT. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern JtioteL WASHINGTON, D. C. Riggs House and Ebbitt House. Telephone Calls. Business Office C3S Editorial Rooms 242 It is singular howVarmonious that Allentown convention became after Mr. Randall had arranged everything to his own satisfaction. Master "Workman Powdekly can go to Ireland and make as many speeches as he likes in favor of the national movement without being accused of selfish political motives. No party is thinkics ot nominating Mr. Powdrly for President. ST. Louis ha a Hendricks club, too, and for some reason or other even the Democratic papers speak of it in terms that verge on levity. It can't be in the name, for there i3 a dignity about that. It must be that, like the club here, it does not fit its name. SATS Colonel Matson: "Governor Gray is immensely popular with all classes of Democrats in Indiana." Sh! All classes? Did the Colonel forget Mr. Voorhees and. his following and Mr. McDonald and his friends, to say nothing of the Coy-Harrison gang? THE platform of the Chicago convention is a Democratic treasure whose value the brethren find it difficult to estimate. They can indorse it unanimously, and then the protection and free-trade rings can each boast of a triumph for its own Bide. The platform catches them going or coming. When a Virginia negro strikes a white woman it costs him $50, while a white representative of a first family can hit a black woman for $10. Perhaps the unequal fines are imposed on the theory that the negro with his debased nature gets five times as much fun out of the proceeding as does the refined and cultured white gentleman. The literary bureau which is conducting Dr. Joseph Parker's boom as candidate for the Plymouth Church pastorate should find something fresher than the worm-eaten almanac jokes it ia passing off as specimens of the reverend gentleman's wit. It seems to be thought that Plymouth Church requires something humorous, but the people who have been accustomed to Beecher's originality will hardly be attracted by the heavy English style. Editor SlNGERLY, of the Philadelphia Record, expressed the opinion, on the morning at the Allentown convention, "that the fact that Samuel J. Randall voted against the veto of the indigent pension bill afforded no reason why the President's courageous and patriotic act should not be heartily Indorsed by the Democratic convention." All the same, however, it wasn't indorsed. Mr. Randall had a finger very deep in that convention pie. TnE St.,. Louis Post-Dispatch accuses Chicago of wishing for some act of Democratic discourtesy on the part of St. Louis citizens at the time of the G. A. R. reunion, in order ' that offended visitors from the West and North will henceforth have no favors to bestow on the Missouri metropolis. Arguments based on the laws of hospitality and good breeding have had no effect in quieting the threats of the old rebel element to insult the veterans, but when they understand that Chicago will profit by their foolishness they will probably desist. They have no sympathy with the G. A. R. but they hate Chicago. THE idea of a eand pool seems rather absurd at first blush, but it is a reality at Pittsburg. The immense- manufacture of window-glas3 there makes sand an important factor. The present trouble is between the glass men and the sand men as to the price of raw material. There are five principal companies which furnish sand for the Pittsburg market, and these produce about 500 tons per day. This is in excess of the present consumption, and yet the sand producers propose to raise the price from GO cehts to $1.00 per ton, an increase which is very naturally resisted by the manufacturers. As usual in such cases the sazd producers propose to form a pool to regulate production and enable them to fix and maintain their own price. IN the multitude of articles printed by the News in defense of the obstructive policy on the natural gas question, was one a few days ago elating in substance that the Standard Oil Company had succeeded in crushing out competition in Toledo and that city was completely at the mercy of "the Octopus" a term constantly used by the News to prove that it ia not prejudiced against foreign capital. An article which we copy from the Toledo Commercial, replying to that in the News, puts a different phase on the matter. Toledo has pursued the wise policy of legislating to get gas instead of to shut it out. Accordingly ehe has got it at a rate greatly below the price of coal and is enjoying it. No doubt Indianapolis will get gas some time, but it will not be under the present ordinance nor as a result of the present policy. THE Chicago Tribune has a loud complaint against the unjust discriminations of the railroads against that city. It says that owing to this discrimination over 500,000 hogs have been diverted from Chicago since March to Omaha and Kansas City. It is something new for Chicogo to bo complaining of railway discriminations. As a general rule, for many years past rates have discriminated in favor of that city aa against every other in the "West

and Northwest, and if this present complaint of the Tribune is well founded then Chicago ia only getting a little of the treatment she has so cheerfully measured out to others in times past. It does not follow, however, that the large increase in the packing business of Kansas City and Omaha is due to discriminating rates. It is no doubt owing in a large degree to the fact that the hog belt has been moving westward, and these citie3 are relatively nearer the source of supplies and the center of the hog-producing country than they were a few years ago. The currents and centers of trade change with changing conditions, movements of population, opening of new markets, etc It was hardly to be expected that Chicago should retain a permanent monopoly or even undisputed supremacy in the packing trad 9. The earth is large and it is not all tributary to Chicago.

THE GEORGIAN IDEA. To the IMltor of tlia Indianapolis Journal: You say in your issue to-day that the fundamental idea of the- Henry George theory is that individual ownership of land should be done away with, that all land should be owned by the government and leased by individuals, the entire rent being taken by the State, and no other form of taxation allowed. You ought to be fair and truthful in this matter. The Socialists believe and advocate the above, attributed to Henry George. Mr. George differs with them, henc& the howl. The fact is Mr. George is in favor of the people holding the land individually, just as they do now, but instead of paying rent to landlords he thinks it would be better to pay it to the State in the shape of taxes, for the benefit of the State, county and township, and do away with the personal tax altogether. He believesthat such a system would kill land monopoly, that is a curse to any country, and would force men to use and improve their land or sell it to some one who would thereby furnishing 'employment to honest labor. In closing I will just inform you that the majority of our people are honest and intelligent, and I warn you against telling lies or against willful ignorance. A. 11. Wynn. Toledo, O., Aug. 28. ' The writer of this letter, evidently a follower of Mr. George, says the Journal misrepresented his position. "What the Journal said exactly was that "the fundamental idea of the Henry George theory is that individual ownership of land should be done away with, that all land should be owned by the govern ment and leased to individuals, the entire rent being taken by the State, and no other form of taxation allowed." The writer of the letter above says that is the Socialist doctrine and that Mr. George "is in favor of the people holding the land individually, just as they now do, but instead of paying rent to landlords he thinks it would be better to pay it to the State in the shape of taxes." We did not intend to state Mr. George's position unfairly, and do not think we did. ne proposes to make the State the universal landlord. This, in effect, abolishes individual ownership of land. It would turn all land-owners into tenants of the State. We will let Mr. George define his position. In "Progress and Poverty" he says: "I do not propose either to purchase or to confiscate private property or land. The first would be unjust, the second needless. Let the individuals who now hold it still retain if they want to, possession of what they are pleased to call their land. Let them continue to call it 'their land.' Let them buy and sell and bequeath and devise it. We may safely leave them the shell if we take the kernel." The "kernel" which Mr. George proposes to take is to be obtained by taxing land to the extent of its full annual value, this tax to take the place of all others. Under this system the government would take the "kernel," as Mr. George expresses it, and leave the so-called land-owner the husk. He could, as the children say, "play pretend" at owning land or as Mr. George says, he might continue to call it his but tho kernel would be gone. All that a land-owner would own or could convey would be the right to pay the government the full annual rental value of the land. Without following out the theory to any of its other conclusions, we repeat that by making the government the sole landlord and all land-owners mere tenants of the government, it would, to all intents and purposes, destroy individual ownership of land. Perhaps we ought to thank our correspondent for the advice contained in the closing sentence of his letter. In return, we advise him to go and buy an acre of ground as near Toledo as he can afford to. That will cure him of Henry Georgeism. No man who owns or ever expects to own a foot of land can accept the doctrine. The special attention of the Indianapolis Journal is directed to the case of John Waterside, of Smiley, Indiana, who took delight in maiming his step-child, which has died from the barbarous treatment that it received. We really do not believe that the editor of the Journal, or any of his immediate family or associates, had anything to do with this dastardly crime; but they live in Indiana and the good people of the Iloosier State should be held responsible for, the outrages committed by the thieves and scoundrels who infest that State, just a3 the good people of South Carolina are held accountable by the Journal for the work of the criminal classes here. Charleston News and Courier. The case of John Waterside did not escape the attention of the Journal, as very little in the nature of current events does. It was a bad case. The News and Courier is right in supposing that no person connected with the Journal had anything to do with the crime. The entire force has been busy about other matters and can prove an alibi. We feel to thank our esteemed contemporary for its generous vindication, and in return may say we have never thought the News and Courier responsible for the Charleston earthquake. For the rest, there are outrages and cutragea. Many of those occurring in South Carolina reveal an element altegether lacking in this State, namely, the color line. Personal violence is deplorable under any circumstances, but it takes on additional indignity when it is directed against unoffending persons on account of color and when it becomes part of a general plan to deprive them of rights which black men as well as white hold very dear. We have not noticed anything of the kind in South Carolina very recently, but that may be because there is no political campaign on. hand. The News and Courier will hardly deny that outrages of this kind and quality have occurred in South Carolina in the past, and notwithstanding its efforts and influence in the direction of reform, we expect they will occur in the future Perhaps at some future time, say during the next campaign, we may have occasion to remind our contemporary

that carving men for opinion's sake or firing Democracy into them with a shotgun is a very different if not in some respects a darker crime than beating a step-child to death.

The second item in the plan of entertainment at Indianapolis, as arranged for the President by Colonel Matson, is a drive to the tomb of Thomas A. Hendricks. "After that," said the genial Colonel Matson, "you may depend upon it that you will be safe in the hands of the Hoosier Democrats." It was immediately after the rehearsal of this cheerful programme that the President remembered that in order to keep engagements previously made he would probably be unable to remain in Indianapolis more than two or three hours. In that time he can listen to Kern's speech or enjoy a drive to the cemetery, "one er turrer, as Uncle Remus would remark, but not both. The Charleston News and Courier does not approve of the plan for inviting Jeff Davis to meet Mr. Cleveland at Atlanta. "For our own good name," it says "our" meaning the Southern people "and out of a tender consideration for the sacred memories of the past, let Mr. Davis stay at home. He is -not a menagerie that he should be dragged away from Beauvoir to be carted around the ring in Atlanta." Is it to bo inferred from this that the News regards Mr. Cleveland in the light of a menagerie? It looks that way. Perhaps it is because the President isi less sacred being than Davis that it ia permissible to make a show of him at an agricultural fair. A Washington special to a Cincinnati paper says that when Colonel Matson went to the President to present the formal invitation of Indianapolis to Mr. Cleveland to visit that city, he asked Colonel Matson what they would do with him after he got there. Colonel Matson said: "We will take you first to call oil Mrs. Hendricks." It is to be hoped, for the sake of an concerned, that the Colonel did not make this promise without having taken the precaution to ascertain whether or not Mrs. Hendricks would be at home when the President called. General Master Workman Pctwderly will deliver an address at the labor convention in Minneapolis next month, on "The "World as Knighthood Would Make It." The speech will doubtless be very interesting, but so many men have undertaken the business of making over the world and regulating its affairs, each on a plan of his own, that the cautious citizen is unable to decide which js the best plan of reform, and is driven back to the old and fairly satisfactory system of attending to his own business and leaving that of his neighbors alone. There are a good many wealthy and influential Republicans in St. Louis, and one Democratic paper has the sense to see that it is poor policy to antagonize them by permitting any exhibition of banners or emblems intended to give offense to members of the G. A. R. at the coming reunion. St. Lcuis is contemplating a grand display on the Occasion of the President's visit at the end of this month and it is remembered that the aid of these Republican citizens will be wanted in carrying the affair through successfully. A member of theMicroscopists' Society, now in session at Pittsburg, offers some remarks which should make us thankful that our eyes do cot possess microscopic strength. He says: "If we could see in the fuzz of a ripe peach, the animals that come out from under those great fruit trees, which those delicate filaments appear to be, and fight like wild tigers, and retreat and come back at one another, and draw streams of blood, and devour one another, the peaches we eat thereafter would be pretty well wiped off. Or, if we could see at one grain of sugar the sugar bug, one on each side of the erain, mounted on their hind-lees with a pair of great crab-claws on each front leg and immense teeth, shaking themselves all overevery time they brought their heads down on the sweets, it would be very little of that stuff that would go into our coffee. The skeleton of the great megatherium, now in the Smithsonian Institution, at Washington, representing that extinct species, squatted on its hind legs and kangaroo tail, and feeding from the top branches of the tall pine tree, is about the only thing that could be compared to the sugar bug, should it be seen with the aid of the microscope. And as for the bundle of sn.fkes, turtles, and other reptiles which we gulp down with every swallow of water, why all theeermonsof Francis Murphy or Father Mathew would not prevent a man from mixing just enoueh liquor with the water to kill the animalcule." The young Prince de Yturbide of Mexico told a New York reporter that he was at tho famous ball where Mr. Sedgwick came to grief. The Prince remarked that Mr. Sedgwick's trouble in Mexico arose from lack of knowledge that three cocktails in that city, "at an altitude of 7,300 feet above the level of the sea. are equal to five cocktails in the city of New York." It was an oversight on the part of the State Department not to remind Mr. Sedgwick of this fact before ho went to Mexico. It should be given a promi nent place in the instructions given to all Demo crats going abroad to represent the government in high latitudes. A traveler in Alaska of an investigating turn has discovered that the name Alaska is a corruption of Al-ay-ek-sa, the name given by the native islanders to the main land, and signifies "ereat country." In this respect it is well named. Bounded on the north by the Arctic ocean, east by the northwest territory of Canada, south and west by the Pacific ocean. Behring sea and strait, it contains about 531,400 square miles. All the other States and Ter ritories of the United States combined contain 2,970,000 square miles; hence. Alaska is nearly one-fifth the size of al! these. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. New Orleans has a brass band of fourteen members who are all newsboys. Mcrat Halstead is hunting Franco-Prussian chestnuts in the vicinity of Strasburg. Mr. Spcrgeon tests the readiness of his pupils by sending them into the pulpit with a sealed envelope containing a text. From that text the pupil ia supposed to preach. Fred Carruth, the funny man of the Dakota Bell, has been engaged by the New York Tribune at $GQ per week. lis will remain at his Dakota home on this very comfortable salary. The flag that floated over the Marshall House in Alexandria, Va., in 1801. and was indirectly the cause of the death of Jackson and Ells worth, is now in the State Capitol at Albany, N. Y. Gen. M. G. Vallejo. the oldest native son of California, will be a conspicuous figure in the annual celebration at Napa on Sept. 9. ne will ride in the procession in a chariot which be made in 1313. Isabella Flipper, mother of the famous col ored West Point cadet, died recently at Thomasville. G.v She possessed many fine traits of character and enjoyed the respect and good opinion of all who knew her. Ernest Leoouve, the author o "Adrienne Lecouvreur," is still, at the age of eighty, one of the best readers aud eauseurs of Paris. Like Auber, he baa scarcely ever left the French capital, and he boasts of possessing, in addition to

France and Paris, a third "fatherland" his

house. He still inhabits the stone bouse in which he was born, and his study is the one ia wnicn n:s rattier worked. Tallon Dxuzr, with limbs tied, and great beads of sweat upon bis face, being about to be hanged, at Camden, S. C, kissed his baby and epoKe tnese oia words, unutterably human and toucning, to nia children. "Mind mamma." Henry Clay once had his daguerreotype ta ken by a Philadelphia artist. He was taken to the gallery by a friend named Potter, and when he was asked bow he wished to have his likeness taken said: "I am Clay in the Potter's hands mold me as you wilL'' H. Rider Haggard is not yet thirty-two, and is a lawyer by profession. He accompanied Sir Henry Bulwer to Natal a few years aeo, and it was this journey which induced him afterwards to lay the scenes of some of his most successful tales iu the dark continent. Tippo Tip is the son of an Arab of Zanzibar, and his real name is Hamed-ben Hamed. lie has been of the greatest help to Mr. Stanley in maintaining order among the Zanzibar men, and is lirmly attached to the whites, while, like all Arabs, be cordially detests the negroes. J. M. Bailey, once known to fame as the "Danbury News man," is a large, handsome man, with black eyes and dark hair, and lives very quietly, never spending au evening away from borne. His wife is insane, and requires him to do everything for her, even to putting up her pair. Emperor Dom Pedro, of Brazil, once called upon Victor Hugo. Said the poet: "Sire, allow me to present ray grandson to your Majesty." "Aiy boy, said trie imperor, passing' -his band caressingly over the child's dark, soft hair, 'mv boy, there is only one majesty here, and there he sua." Two bells cast in 1775 at Messilla, Mexico, for the Catholic church, are to go to Milwaukee to be smelted. It is believed there is at least $1,000 in precious metals which became fused ia when the laborers at the original casting drop ped jewelry into the molten mass to propitiate patron saints. There is no end to the foreign appeals for money from this side. Rider Haggard and other friends of the late Richard Jefferies now desire that it Ehould be known in America that he left his family nearly destitute. Thev hope his American admirers may like to add something to the tuna now collecting there. Alvan Clark, the inventor and manufacturer of the greatest refracting telescopes ever made, and who recently died, was one of the most modest of men. ith all his genius he did not seem to care to build up a great business, ne was perfectly contented with his life work and willingly lay down to rest when it was done. A sheep raiser named Thompson, living in the division of Victoria West, Cape Colony, South Africa, drove a flock of 1,430 ewes np to a small building in which he intended to take shelter from a storm. As the sheep huddled around the building it was struck by lightning and shattered and 790 of the sheep were instantly killed. Ada Rehan brought with her from San Francisco a warm admirer. He is a little Chinaman, eleven yeara of age, named Lu-Feen. Mr. Daly purchased his services for a term of three years and intends to use him aa a page in his theater. Lu-Feen has lost his heart to Mies Rehan and follows her abont wherever she coes. He is only just beginning to speak English, but is a bright little fellow and promises to learn a great many things in New York in very short order. Yino Lee has for some time past kept a Chinese fancy-goods store on Main street, Hart ford, Conn. He is twenty-six years of age and was born near Canton. He is about to forsake the paths of trade and enter upon a four years' course of theological study. He will be under the eye of Evangelist Moody at Mount Hermon School. Northfield, Mass. He is a young man of quick intellect and high ambitions. At the end of his course at Mount Hermoa he will begin missionary work among his countrymen either in this country or China. Harold Knox-Hunt, the English reviewer and art critic now visiting this country, writes to the London Guardian that in bis opinion the Rev. Dr. Frank L. Norton, of St. Stephen's Church, Lynn, Mass., is the best type of American pulpit orator. Dr. Norton's delivery is simple, earnest and effective. Says Mr. KnoxHunt: "His enunciation is so good, that his lowest tones are audible to the remotest corner, and his illustrations, which seem inexhaustible, are like parables." Dr. Norton is probably the wealthiest clergyman in America. About a year ago a young man named Saunders, living in Huntingdon, England, stabbed his sweetheart in the chest with a sword cane. The girl apparently recovered, but she has always insisted that a piece of the weapon must have broken off and remained in the wound. Professor Humphrey, of Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, has just succeeded in extracting from the girl's body a piece of the blade more than six inches long. It was taken out from her back, broken end first, showing that it had turned completely around since she was stabbed. ; In an age when skepticism is undermining all the cherished beliefs of our childhood, and when the seven wonders of the world are becoming for most of us as dubious as the seven champions of Christendom, it is pleasant to learn that the great wall of Ciiina at least stands solidly where it did. The Abbe Larrien, having published a pamphlet to prove it a fiction, has been met by the counter-assertions of Mr. W. G. Howell in the London Standard, who has seen the wall, and of Mr. William Simpson in the London Daily News, who has not only seen the wall, but has drawn, engraved, painted and exhibited it. Preparations are being made in Detroit for the reunion there of the Army of the Tenness. Gen. William T. Sherman, who is president of the society, has sent a characteristic letter in the shape of a running commentary on the programme. Referring to a reception to be held at ex-Governor Aleer's, he suggests that Aiger's reception ought not to be on the same night as the banquet. "To begin at 10 o'clock at night will be heavy on the members." he says, "and tax their ability to sit it out. Even as usual the late speakers receive slight attention. In this country you cannot control a head servant, who thinks only of the style of his banquet and will not be hurried." He adds: "I have been more fatigued by being pressed to go here, there and everywhere during these army reunions than by any single battle. It is misplaced kindness, wrong and oppressive. I also shall insist on going to a hotel where the soldiers can reach me. Sheridan and 1 have solemnly resolved on this after some considerable experience." COMMENT AND OPINION. Perhaps the reason why the English aristocracy is so opposed to home rule is to be found in the conviction that the next relic of feudal injustice to be attacked will be the House of Lords itself. Pittsburg Dispatch. The Colorado people, to make a long story short, are trying to get the last remnant of the Utes out of the State. They have been harwless for a long time; but they are Indians, and "Injuns is pison." Boston Transcript. When the Mormons of Utah shall have voluntarily put aside polygamy, and shall -satify the people of the United States that there is no danger, or at least likelihood, of its restoration, TTtfch will have no difficulty in securing admis sion to the Union. Philadelphia Press. Probably it would be considered "improper and contrary to the rules of evidence"' to ask whether the judges of the United States Supreme Court carry free passes over the Central Pacific railroad; but the people would like very much to know, all the same. Philadelphia Inquirer. . The simple truth is that, in temporizing with Higgins and his "influence" the administration is estranging independent Republicans and Democrats alike in all the Northern States. What is gained by tolerating him is not clear. What is being lost is plain to everybody, it seemsrbut the administration itself. Charleston News and Courier. We may agree with the opinion of Judge Field that an extrajudicial parliamentary commission has no power to extort any confession of eins or transgressions from Mr. Leland Stanford while totally dissenting to the opinion of Judge Sawyer that the nation has no power to protect or defend its own right and well-being against the crooked, vicious, and unconscionable practices of tne Central Pacific Railway Company. Chicago Times. When the pulpit is regarded as a money-making field, it would be about time to shut up the religious shop. Happily, an overwhelming ma jority of minister recoil from such an idea aa they would from lieeizebub, the arch enemy. The preacher who really discloses a greed for money ought to have a congregation made up of brokers. lie ought not to profane the gospel. however, with his clammy fingers Pittsburg Chronicle. There seems to be every reason to believe that the Colorado people, in order to get rid of Color jw, made much of the charge of violating the game laws; that it was not the violation of the law they cared about, but only Colorow's

presence. It strikes persons at a distance that what General Crook is now called oh to do should have been done by agents of the government before the outbreak. It would have been as easy to persuade Colorow to go on the reservation then as cow. Milwaukee Sentinel. The action of the Wheeling editor in hanging Cleveland's portrait over the route of the Grand Army might have been entirely harmless at any other time. But in view of recent events it was viciously intended to create the very disturbance that followed. Under ordinary circumstances no patriotic Amerian would think of repenting the inscription upon that banner: "God bless our President, commander-in-chief of our army and navy." But President Cleveland has been so vilified and misrepresented to members of the Grand Armv that they were not capable of discriminating between the honor due tho office and the man who, in their misguided minds, fills it so adversely to them. Chicago News. The financial convictions of the Prohibitionists seem to be about the same everywhere, but the tariff of rates for which they are willing to aid the Democrats varies in different States. In Ohio and Wisconsin they come high, but in Iowa they are not very expensive, according to the circular issued by Chairman lligley. From this it appears that the candidates themselves are willing to make speeches for their expenses and entertainment. The reformers who are not up for office can be had all the way from $5 to $50 a nieht. Among the $3 fellows are quite a number of clergvmen. The cheapest offers made are

job-lots of six speeches for $20, or $3.33 1-3 each. which is dirt cheap for efforts in "the cause of conscience." The Albanv Evening Journal intimates that in New York State there is no regular tariff. The reformers take what is offered them by the Democratic politicians, who get their funds out of the Saloon-keepers Association treasury. They ought to be making a pretty good thine out of conscience in New York this season, as their services are in better demand than for some time rast, to offset the labor defection from the whisky party. Chi cago Tribune, A WEAK CANDIDATE. A Prominent Democratic Editor Tells Why Cleveland Cannot lie Elected. New Albany Public Prees. "It is a cold day," even during this sultry, dry summer, that, some self-constituted "states man." some professional politician, some toady and flunkey, does not nominate and elect Grover Cleveland as the Democratic nominee for the Presidency in 1888. The Democratic political leaders, the Democratic Federal office-holders, and those expecting Federal appointments, are all for Cleveland earnestly and enthusiastically. These, with the President's fool friends, have worked up a boom and appearances indicate that all other Democratic aspirants for the Presidential nomination are not only silenced, but distanced, and Cleve land will more than likely be nominated without opposition. Cleveland himself, with all his alleged courage and self-conceit, is quite susceptible to sickening flattery and unmerited praise from willing and weak underlings; he has cast aside, for the time being, his impractical and almost idiotic ideas of civil service, has thrown himself into the contest for the nomination, and will soon swing around the circle in his undignified and ill-chos en electioneering scheme. Enormous crowds of people will gather together, out of mere curiosi ty. to see if the Prescient of the United States is a real flesh and blood human being, or an an gel from heaven. The size and enthusiasm of the crowds and the earnest hospitality of those managing the show, will, no doubt, be flattering and captivating to even the President of the United States, and calculated to make him and his ardent supporters believe that he will be again wafted into the presidential chair as easy as rolling off a log. But when election day comes, in November, 1S88. some 12.000,000 voters will go to the polls and decide, after calmly and deliberately consid ering the matter for months, whom tbey desire to be their chief executive for the coming four years. At that election there will be many dyed-in-the-wool Democrats missing who prefer to vote for an uncompromising, out-and out Democrat one who does not apologize for his Democracy one whtse party fealty cannot be impeached or questioned. xso Democrat, or professed Democrat, can be elected in 1888 without the United support of the party. Ihis Cleveland cannot hope to re ceive, lie can neither carry Tn e w lorK, iNew Jersey, Connecticut, Indiana, and at least two or three Southern States, without which a Re publican will surely be elected. Cleveland cannot hope for the mugwump vote. for he has pleased them no better than he has satisfied the Democrats. Thousands of Democratic soldiers will not vote for Cleveland, because they believe him to be their enemy, and no amount of argument can change their minds. The labor vote is not for Cleveland. The Irish vote of New York and many parts of the country is against him. It is to be. hoped the Democratic leaders, those who control conventions and mould public opinion, will look this matter squarely in the face before it istoo late. With Cleveland as our nominee, certain defeat awaits the party. In fact, it is hoped that Cleveland himself may discover the hand-writing on the wall, and decline to be a candidate for a second term. If Cleveland, by hook or crook, should man age to be re-elected, it would not be a Demo cratic victory. Democrats supposed thev bad elected a Democratic President in 18S4, but soon found themselves wofully mistaken. Mug wumps immediately took possession of the President the Democrats had placed in power, and for all practical political purposes, so far as Democrats are concerned, a Republican might as well fill the presidential chair. Any respectable Democrat who has been named in connection with the presidential can didacy in 1883 is stronger, than Cleveland. Cleveland is the weakest material in the party, and the people will so decide. NATURAL GAS IN TOLEDO. A Correction of Some Glarlnc: Misstatements lllade by an Indianapolis Paper, Toledo Commercial. The Indianapolis newspapers are bent just now upon keeping the Standard Oil Company out of that citv. The standard has applied for a natural-gas franchise, and the local newspapers. faithful guardians of the people s interests, are writing long and thrilling editorials, in which the terms "octopus," "stony-hearted monopoly" and the like are prominent. Now we can heartily sympathize with our esteemed Indianapolis contemporaries in the fight they are mak ing. We have been through it all ourselves. The Standard Oil Company is a heartless cor poration, and will derive tre last advantage pos sible from any agreement it may enter into with another corporation, municipal or otherwise. But we would have our esteemed Indianapolis contemporaries to understand that when they point to Toledo, as they are doing, as an evi dence of, the fact that to intrust a natural-gas franchise to-the Standard Oil Company is to stamp out competition and is a permission to that company to gather up everything in the gas line, our esteemed contemporaries are wrong. The privileges that have been granted the nat-ural-as companies in Toledo were eiven in re sponse to an unmistakable public opinion, which the members of the city council, though some of them were personally opposed to the measures. did not feel they could ignore. Ihe public sen timent was the result of thought and investigation on the part of citizens, who came to the con clusion that the gas companies asking for a franchise offered the city advantages which were not forthcoming from other sources, and that the privileges they asked for did not constitute a monopoly, did not endanger competition or leave a chance for permanent fixed charges beyond what would allow a fair profit to the companies. The citizens of Toledo are about as careful and sagacious in business matters as can be found anywhere, and they have not, by any means, come to an agreement among themselves that they were hasty or lacKing in common sense in what they did. If the Standard Oil Company are trying to claim more than they deserve from the Indianapolis people, the Indianapolis papers have our hearty sympathy and encouragement in trying to prevent it, but it is not a proper argument to adduce the example of Toledo's stu pidity and haste in throwing berselt into the arms of the "octopus," to warn the people of In dianapolis against committing themselves to a similar condition of thintrs, a condition which the Indianapolis papers are pleased to represent aa being very bad in loledo. We have before us a clipping from the Indianapolis News of Monday, Aug. 20. The article is headed "Toledo's Octopus." The article contains an interview with Mr. M. It Hyman, of the Herald of that city, who came to Toledo especially to make an examination of our gas supply. This able investigator, from all he could learn, evidently went away laboring under the impression that natural gas has been consumed in Toledo for months and was yielding a handsome revenue to the "octopus" corporations. Says he: "The Standard Company is making Toledo pay for its own mains, too. Only a limited mileage of mains was nut down at first. The earnings from these for each month are immediately put into extensions of pipes, and no original capital is employed. A very small amount of foreign money has been utilized." Of course this watchful guardian of his city's interests finds that Toledo thinks "there is no economy in the use of gas at the Standard's rates." and cites the testimony of Toledo people said to have gas in their houses, who, it is needless to say, have not commenced to use gas, and who. as stated by one of them to a representa-

tive of the' Commercial, have not even made application to be supplied. Mr. Hyman has also collated the valuable information that factories are giving up the idea of locating in Toledo and moving elsewhere, because they cannot get natisfactory terms from the gas companies. From this accurate data Mr. Hyman is naturally lei to the conclusion that "There was a boom in anticipation of gas, but when it was found that gas was to be a luxury and entirely beyond the reach of the many, th boom faded. Prices are too high to make gas an attraction. It is to coal what manufactured gat is to coal oil much more agreeable to use, but too expensive for the majority and by no meant a necessity." Now we would etate to the Indianapolis News that the first household supplied with natural gas in Toledo has lighted the first fire within a week, that the number is being increased a fast as plumbers can make connections and that in each case there is enthusiastic commendation of the new fuel on account of its convenience, cleanliness and cheapness. That the Standard or Northwestern company has not yet turned on their first supply of gas and so are naturally not making Toledo pay for her- own mains as they have not vet commenced to derive any revenue from Toledo; that aside from the advantage of increased cleanliness and convenience, there is an actual money saving in the use of gas for household purposes of nearly 30 per cent, ovei coal; that the Mauraee rolling-mill, recently burned, has received rates for gas from the Toledo companies which has determined th directors to rebuild here instead of going else' where and that there was no boom in Toledo but what is as manifest now as it was in anticipation of ga's. Our factories are all enlarging their facilities and employing increased numberi of laborers, and new enterprises are being re. moved to the city or started here all the time. We submit that this method of investigation on the part of Indianapolis people ia unscrupulous and calculated to do this city great harm. If Ipdianapolis wants facts, send some one wha is capable of ascertaining them, and if she simply wants a showing to controvert the Standard Oil Company regardless of facts, send somewhere else than Toledo. Citizen of Toledo are not idiots nor lacking in common eenseand they have not given away their rights and privileges to a soulless corporation or bound themselves by conditions to their own injury.

THE DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH, Sometlilner Abont the Englishman Known aa tho "Prince Kupert of the Divorce Court." Newport (R. I. ) Special. The visit here of the Duke of Marlborough, who arrived yesterday afternoon, could not have been timed more opportunely by that nobleman if he desired to see the resort at its best. Tha concluding days of the tennis tournament aud the coaching parade, following the notable entertainments of last week, have filled the place to repletion with prominent society people. The coming of so noted a personage as the Duke has produced a ripple of curiosity on the tide of gayety, for there has been much natural speculation as to how the leaders of society in America here assembled would receive an English nobleman whose career has been so notorious of late years. Immediately upon his arrival here yesterday the Duke was driven to the Ocean House, where he registered. It was reported that many cottagers had called upon him, but inquiry proved that Mrs. Paran Stevens was the only one of the summer residents who had done so. At this call Mrs. Stevens invited the Duke to become her guest at Marietta Villa, an invitation which he promptly accepted. The Duke of Marlborough, otherwise known as the "Prince Rupert of the Divorce Court," on account of his chivalrous conduct tewara be fair dames whose reputation he helped to tarnish, would have made a far greater mark in political life than his younger brother. Lord Randolph Churchill, if bis name bad not unfortunately been connected with several social scandals which have outraged the notions of respectability and propriety of the English middle classes. A singularly well-read man he has traveled extensively in every quarter of the globe and his ideas are of so enlightened a nature that they err perhaps in being almost too broad. Although on excellent terms with his brother Randolph, he differs strongly from him politically and is as pronounced a Radical an a man who is a German Prince and an English Duke, with an hereditary pension of $25,000 per annum, ean well be. His popular theories on the subject of bimetallism, franchise and tenure of land have attrated a good deal of attention, and had not their source been considered as tainted by the respectable British bourgeois there is no doubt that the Duke would have become the leader of an important party. Born in 1844 he served for a short time in tha Horse Guards, and then, painting the city of London a most brilliant vermillion hue, he started off on a visit to India. A splendid shot and fine sportsman in every sense of the word, his peregrinations extended to Cashmere, where he became exceedingly intimate with the Maharajah. It is sad to relate that he started off that respectable Oriental potentate on a course of the wildest dissipation, which resulted in repeated attacks of delirium tremens and a world of anxiety and trouble to the Anglo-Indian officials who shudder at the very .name of the Duke. After visiting' Persia, China and other foreign lands in turn, he returned home and married one of the beautiful daughters of the late Duke of Abercorn, who occupies such a prominent place in Lord Beaconfield's well-known novel "Lothair." His conduet to his lone suffering and charming wife was the reverse of commendable; for, notwithstanding the fact that she forgave him for having been the principal cause of the divorce between the late Earl of . Kylesford and the latter'ft wife, be continued the tenor of his ways, and finally foreed her in 1883 to obtain a divorce from him. The Queen expressed the utmost sympathy for the Marchioness of Blandford, for her husband only succeeded to the title a few months later, and when the late Duke died her Majesty refused to permit the present bearer of the title to appear In person at Windsor Castle for the purpose of delivering up to the sovereign his father's insignia of the Order of the Garter, as is customary in such cases. The Duke's name again appeared before the public in connection with Lady Aylesford's illadvised lawsuit to prove her son by th Duke of Marlborough heir to her late husband's title, and more recently still he figured as co-respondent in the Colin Campbell divorce case. John Churchill, the first Duke of Marlborough, died without male issue, and the titles find estates were inherited in the first place by his eldest daughter, Lady Godolphin. and on her death' by the son of his Eecond daughter, who had married Charles Spencer, Earl of Sunder land, from whom the present duke descends by direct line. The palace of Blenheim, at Woodstock, Oxfordshire, which was presented to the first duke by the nation as a reward for his brilliant victories on the con tinent, is a magnificent place, but costs a good 1ah1 tn Veen tin. The. nresent Dnke is far from rich, but has adde'cl somewhat to tho resource of the entailed estate by selling, last year, for an enormous sum, some of the magnificent Ru bens and Vaudykes which figured in the Blen heim galleries. The Duke has three daughtert and a eon, who is now fifteen years old, and who will succeed to his father's title. ' It may be added that there are at the present time two Duchesses of Marlborough In existence namely the mother and grandmother of the present peer. The Indianapolis Gang; Unpunished. Lafavette Courier. Wicked as Chicago is supposed to be. recklesr as Cincinnati is in many ways, when the critical period had been reached there was found in theii midBt a sufficient number or honorable and determined men to rid their respective communi ties of the bands of boodlers who had nnhlushinglv and openly debauched the public treasuriei and bad mads popular elections a faree. To the shame of every self-respecting Indianian. it re mains for Indianapolis, the capital city of the State, to allow to go unpunished its eang of election sharps and ballot-box stuffers, who are quits as disreputable in themselves and in their meth ods as were those who formerly made the name? of Chicago and Cincinnati odious. Whv these, men of the Coy stripe have not been summarily punished is something the people of the State outside of Indianapolis do not fully understand. Mr. Hyatt' Hunger. New York Sls'l and Express. The new Treasurer of the United States will get into trouble if he does not look out. By tha last Treasury decision, anyone who imitates any part of a United States note is a counterfeiter. Mr. Hyatt's name being a part, and a verj important part, of these notes.certainly comes under this provision. Consequently, if be writes his name anywhere else it will be counterfeiting, and he will be liable to arrest. A Change. Mnncie Times. . ... Three weeks ago many of our farmers claimed that the corn crop would be almost an entire failure, and were inouiring around about where they could buy corn to ship in to fatten their hoes. Some of the samenen were in this wet-k looking for hogs to feed their surplus corn. The rains come in time to make a great difference in calculations. How Greliam Voted. New Albany Tnblic Trots. . . a , The V.vansville Courier is authority Tor the statement that Judge Gresham voted for Tilden in 1S7G and for Cleveland in ltN4. Give That Impression. Pittsbura t'broniclB. The letters from Mr. Manlev lead to the oalief that his last two deaths did not pro ye fatal