Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 September 1887 — Page 4

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THE DAILY JOURNAL. THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 29. 1S37. WASHINGTON OFFICE SI 3 Fourteenth SU P. S. HlATH. Corresoondnni. KEW YORK OFFICK 104 Temple Coart, Corner Beekman and Nassau streets. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOCKNAt Can be found at the following places: liON DON American Exchange in Europe, 449 titrand. PARIS American Exchange in Tarin, 35 Boulevard aes Capueines. KEW YORK Gedney House and Windsor Hotel. CHICAGO Palmer House. CINCINNATI J. r. Hawley Se Co., 134 Vine street. LOUI8VTLLTC C. T. Dsaring, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. ET. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern Hotel. WASHINGTON, J). C Rfggs nonse and Ebbitt House. Telethon Call. Business Office 2IJ8 Editorial Rooms 242 REPUBLICAN CUT HEADQUARTERS. Headquarters for the city campaign have been opened at No. 53 North Pennsylvania street No. 3 Martindale Block. Citizens will find seme member of the City Committee there at all hours of the day and night, until 12 o'clock midnight, from now until the close of the fight. Everybody interested in the contest for good g overnmeat is earnestly invited to visit these headquarters, wit.) suggestions and information that may help the committee in their work. Inquiries In regard to the canvass, with respect to pubha meetings and all other matters, should be made to these headquarters, where they will be promptly answered. LXJ ". T" I . g TEE rain falls alike upon the just and the tinjust. Thia week the ju3t are having their tarn in St. Louis. Do the Veilwd Prophets of St. Louis intend to imply that Mr. Clef eland is the Jonah of the Democratic party? And now Internal Hever.ue Commissioner Miller denies that he is to make an analysis of beer. The adulterators breathe easier. The triumph of the Coy gang in the com)ng city election would be the worst advertisement Indianapolis could possibly have. To read the gang oigans one would think the issue in the city election to be anything but what it is. The gang id attempting the uttle-fish tactics. Rose Elizabeth Cleveland, 6ister of the President, and the former mistress of the Vhite House, contributes a valuable paper to the columns of next Sunday's Journal. At this late date, the eleventh hour, the President has determined te snub Nashville. It Li announced by authority that the Cleveland traveling combination will not stop there. g l. J 1 , !!! Hon. Chauncey M. Depew, the celebrated after-dinner talker and prominent politician, president of the New York Central Railway, will have an interview in the next Sunday' Journal. mmmmmmmm The Journal of Sunday, Oct 2, will contain an authorized interview with Hon. James G. Blaine, now in Europe. There will be great interest to know what Mr. Blaine has to say At this time. TnE street railroad monopoly ia working might and main to secure the election of Coy and Edenharter. Working men who are opposed to the monopoly cannot consistently rote for its candidates. EVERT Republican in the city who has any suggestions to make, or who desires any information concerning the city election, is requested to call At Republican headquarters, No. 55, North Pennsylvania streot. Had not the Veiled Prophets of St. Louis better send their proposed "floats' to Wash-, ington for revision by Colonel Lamont and Mr. Cleveland? It seems to us they greatly" need reconstruction in certain pajrt3. THE signal-service reports give us clearing weather to-day. It is to be hoped the weather may be favorable for the President's reception on Saturday, and that everybody will unite' in helping to make the event a complete success. - In addition to Edenharter and O'Donnell it js said that eighteen of the councilmanic and aldermanic candidates on the Democratic ticket were selected and approved by Coy before they were nominated. This is bossism with a vengeance. ONE the "floats" of the St. Louis Veiled Prophets, being prepared for Mr. Cleveland's visit next week, represents Joseph distributing corn to his brethren. Is this a sly hint to the old man that he should distribute a few offices-to the starving "colonels?" Knights of Labor and workingmen who have taken sides against the street railroad on iccount of the recent car-drivers' strike, will be playing into Colonel Johnson's hands if they vote for Edenharter. Edenharter is Coy's man, and both of them are Colonel Johnson's men. Grand Marshal Knefler should see to it that when the carriage containing the President and Mrs. Cleveland reaches the transfer car the procession khall stop long enough to have its beauties and uses pointed out by Colonel Johnson. They will see nothing like it on their travels. The Veiled Prophet exhibition in St Louis next week is to consist of a series of scenes from the Bible. As a means of instructing the presidential visitors in scriptural history these object lessons may all be very well; but what, in the same of the Piophet, have they to do with Democratic politics? - The indications are that there will be a very large crowd of people here on Saturday. The various railways are making arrangements to handle an unusual trade. Indianapolis should be put into gala attire for her visitors, from the President and his wife to

all our country cousins. Let the streets, particularly upon the line of the procession, be cleaned up, and business and private houses appropriately and handsomely decorated. The line of march should be made one bower 'of red, white and blue. This is Mr. Cleveland's first visit to the "rowdy West," and Indianapolis is the first city at which he has ever stopped west of the Allegheny mountains. The Hoosier capital must be in the spirit and the plight not enly to extend a gracious and patriotic welcome to the President of the United States, but to impress Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland and their traveling companions with the beauty of the middle West and the heartiness of its people. The date of the City Election Is Tuesday, Oct. 11. PUSH ON THE FIGHT. That was a splendid meeting of citizens held at Pfafflin's Hall last night. It was not prearranged; it was not advertised; it was net summoned together with fife and bugle. It was as near a spontaneous expression of public interest in the approaching city election as could be made. The men there came in obedience to a verbal invitation, extended from man to man as they met upon tHe street, because it was felt that some such public expression . was needed, and needed now. It was an earnest and a determined meeting. It was not partisan; it was entirely and wholly an assemblage of men interested in the welfare and good name of Indianapolis. The meeting adjourned with every expression of satisfaction, and with a unanimous desire that it should be repeated in each precinct and ward, and that at an early day a general public rally should be called for Tomlinson Hall. A committee of representative citizens, not active partisan politicians, has been appointed to confer "with the Republican city committee, and arrange for a series of public meetings in every precinct and ward, and to advise with that committee in the further conduct of the campaign .against the gang. Let the influence of last night's meeting radiate into every nook and corner. Let every man talk to his neighbor about the issues involved in the election. Let the whole city blaze with the spirit manifested last night. Let every man with the desire to defeat the gang pledge himself not only to be at the polls himself, but to "close up shop," so far as may be necessary to see that every other voter is there and casts his ballot, and the fight for law and decency against crime and corruption is already won. Push on the fight. The date of the City Election Is Tuesday, Oct. 11. The Grand Army of the Republic is really founded upon the expressions of Abraham Lincoln's second inaugural. Standing in the presence of his fellow-citizens, with the fearful clouds of war just lifting, but with all the boys still under arms, and the graves of their dead comrades yet fresh, that great man and beloved President said: "We must take care of these men who bore the brunt and fire of the battle; we must shield their widows and orphans from the cares and trials of this life as far as we can." One who was there, writing about the scene, says: "One must have seen his eyes, have looked upon his animated countenance, his thrilling gestures, to be enabled to appreciate the nobility of his soul, the sterling honesty of his heart.' His last days seemed impregnated with this all-absorbing thought and occasioned his great care and attention. He never lived to see how his noble words were carried out by the establishment of the G. A. R." Look on thi3 picture, and then upon Grover Cleveland writing a flippant, sneering veto of some poor soltdier's, or some poorer widow's, pension. Let the records of Mr. Cleveland's vetoes be searched for a word or a phrase of sincere, hearty, devoted regard for the Union soldier. From Abraham Lincoln in 1865 to Grover Cleveland in 1886! What a fall! No wonder the Grand Army of the Republic did not want Grover Cleveland to attempt to make "conquest" of a second term under the cover of their badeje. The tax-paying voters of . Indianapolis should eonsider that the approaching city election and its results are less a matter of politics than of property. It is a contest between a good city government and all that implies ono on the one hand, and Coy ism and all that that implies on the other. The one means an economical administration of the affairs of the city, looking to the material benefit of all the people. The other means a government run in the interest of the baser element, looking to the personal benefit of a gang of bummers and boodlers. The one means the building up of the city, an increase of business, of manufactures, of population and of wealth. The other means an advertisement and notice to the world that the city is governed by the very worst classes of a city population. It means an increase of taxation, an increase of pauperism and poverty. The one means more churches and school-houses; the other means more saloons and work-houses. All good citizens, Republicans and Democrats alike, demand a safe and honest administration of city affairs in the interest of the city instead of an administration for the benefit of boodlers and bummers. The Democratic bosses are boasting that they will carry the coming city election by buying the colored vote. The boast illustrates their methods, and at the same time is an insult to the colored people. Of course, they will buy all the colored votes they can, and all the white votes, too; but the intimation that the colored vote is in the market and for sale bodily is an insult that could only com e from a Democratic source. Unfortunately, there are purchasable colored voters as there are whito voters, but the proportion is no larger among the former than among the latter. The Coy gang will have a large corruption fund, the result of their general levy oa the breweries and saloons, but they will not be able to buy any considerable proportion of the colored vote. There are hundreds of col

ored men in this city who live by daily labor, who are honester than any of the gang, and as little apt to sell their votes. And, in addition to all this, the gang's schemes of buying votes will be made very dangerous to anybody who engages in it. President Cleveland will ride from Chattanooga to Atlanta by night, and without a single stop. The journey will be made through one continuous battle field. He will not see Lookout Mountain or Missionary Ridge. General Boynton calls attention to the remarkable fact that Mr. Cleveland, able to command his time and train, will pass over this historic panorama without so much as a look. He says: "Over this line, where he will snore the night away, more than 150,000 men with four hundred gunssplendidly fought day and night through four months for the mastery. For that time the sound of battle never ceased. Every mile of the way is marked by field works, which yet exist. Every stream is historic; every ridge a battle line; every mountain worthy of a pilgrimage. And yet the presidential train will sweep over it with occupants dead to every sentiment which the scene would inspire in the heart of Union and confederate veterans alike. If there is another man in the country who would do this, when time and train were at his absolute coutrol, it would be interesting to have his name ard Barnum would have them both. The ghosts of the fifty thousand men who fell en the field through which this train will roll on in the darkness should arrange themselves along the line and point their bony fingers in scorn at this indifferent and stolid presidential party. Could any one have made the veterans of Thomas and Sherman and Schofield believe, as they earned line after line and won field after field, from Lookout Mountain to Atlanta, that in less than a quarter of a century a President of the United States would ride over the whole line of their triumphs without curiosity enough to look at a single foot of it!"

The date of the City Election Is Tuesday, Oct. 11. mmmmmmm At an informal meeting a few nights ago a prominent business man of this city, who had quietly put in an appearance, rose and said that while he was not in politics and had never been asked to render any service or contribute a cent to the Republican party, he thought the present was a time when every Republican and every good citizen should do what he could to defeat the corrupt crew that were trying to capture the city. With this introduction le said. "Here is my check for $100, to bo used in legitimate campaign exexpenses, and if you think I ought to give more let me know. I am also willing to serve on any committee or do any work at the polls on election day that may be assigned me." That was a good speech, and a good token of sincerity. The money contribution was appreciated, but the motive and spirit that prompted it were even more gratifying. If this spirit could be inspired into business men generally there would be no doubt as to the result. It is understood that Colonel Johnson and the street railroad management are working for the Democratic city ticket, and will throw their influence that way on election day. This was to be expected. Coy and Edenharter have stood by the street railroad in the Council on all occasions, as have other Democratic members of both branches, and it would be base ingratitude in Colonel Johnson not to support them, especially as he is a Democrat from way back. Coy and Edenharter could not have been more zealous and steady in their support of the street railroad monoply if they had been its paid attorneys than they have been as members of the Council, and now when they are asking for votes and a "vindication," they have a right to expect the active support of Colonel Johnson. As the President of the United States, Mr. Cleveland's vi?it to Indianapolis will be properly appreciated by every citizen of city and State, entirely regardless of political feeling, and the Journal has printed ten lines in urging all the people to be here and give him a royal Hoosier welcome to one that has appeared in any Democratic newspaper. But the Journal is not blind to the fact that Mr. Cleveland is openly and avowedly in the field as a candidate for the presidency; while Speaker Carlisle, second only to Mr. Cleveland himself in official place and power, has declared that the projected trip to the West and South "means conquest." The Journal hopes to have sense enough to recognize politics when it sees it, whether in Mr. Cleveland or in anybody else. The coming city election does not involve issues of the last century, the last decade, or the last year. It involves issues of to-day, and very important ' ones, too. The question is not in regard to the past, but in regard to the present and the future. It is whether the city government shall be turned over bodily to Sim Coy and every business interest of the city made to pay tribute to the gang. The question is whether law shall be respected and enforced, or trampled in the mud at the behest of a few law-breakers. The question is whether the power of the corrupt gang that is trying to fasten itself on the city shall be broken or permitted to fortify and entrench itself for further operations. These are questions of to-day, and much depends upon their right decision. The character and attainments of Dr. Edenharter are not involved in the city election. It is Dr. Edenharter's misfortune, doubtless, that his candidacy is the candidacy of the gang. Tray was a good enough dog, but he was in bad company and he suffered for that reason. The defeat of Edenharter is the defeat of the corrupt and criminal gang, who are seeking to "vindicate" themselves, and to capture the city government for corrupt and lawless purposes. They have succeeded in securing Dr. Edenharter as a cat'spaw, but they will not succeed in blinding the ieople to the real meaning of his candidacy, or the real result of his election, should that be accomplished. ' " The Court-house grounds have been reserved for the school children of the city, from which to witness and participate in the reception of the President on Saturday. Tickets will be distributed to them by direction of the general committee on arrangements. But, in view of the fact that many will have to cross the Union tracks during the period of incoming special end regular trains, and of

the other dangers to children incident to crowded streets, the members of the school board do not wish to become responsible for the safety of the pupils, and think that it is the duty of parents to use their own judgment in caring for them on that day. Members of the schoolboard desire the public to so understand the matter. . The Grand Army is increasing in numbers, but it will soon come to pass that those who are furloughed by death will outnumber the yearly accessions. The comrades are growing old, and can call themselves veterans in life as well as in army experience. The time will never come, however, even when they are few and feeble and out of the current of events, that they will not have the honor and sympathy of patriotic men as well as protecting care and substantial aid from the country they fought to save. In the meantime, however, the country looks to them for the invaluable service which can be rendered by faithful citizens in time of peace, and which none is so well qualified to render as they. Long may they live and prosper. Mr. Shields was put on the gang ticket for whatever his name and influence among a special class might be worth to the gang. The gang did not love Shields, as witness their indeceut conduct while he yet lay uncoffined. Mr. Shields's friends of the special class the gang hoped to capture through his name, will ;iot be likely to forget that they are ruled out by the nomination of O'Donnell, and will find another handy channel through which, to express their strength and indignation. It is safe to say that every hoodlum, every tramp, every dead-beat, every saloon loafer, every gutter-wallower, that by hook or crook can get in a vote for Coy and his gang, will be on hand on the day of the city election. If the tax-paying voters of the city, those who have a real interest in the city, will be as sure to vote and use their influence as their interterest requires they should, there wfll be no doubt as to the result. But they must not neglect or forget. A FEW days ago administration papers ' had a good deal to say about the way in which the President and Mr. Carlisle were going to "knock out" Mr. Randall. Since the stories about that letter written by Mr. Cleveland to the superintendent of the mint have got into circulation, the silence on the subject is oppressive. If Mr. Randall holds that letter, as seems to be the case, and it is what it is reported to be, then Mr. Randall holds the winning hand. The people are aching for an open fight. They want meetings in every precinct and ward. They desire to see and hear, not only Mayor Denny, but every other man who is interested and can fairly discuss the issues - There are plenty of good speakers who will be glad to volunteer their services. Let the city be campaigned as we campaign the State in a gubernatorial or presidential year, and the vote will be brought out. The Hon. Eb Henderson is to be here at the Cleveland reception, and Washington, reports say he has brought with him "a bottle of Cleveland tonic with which to dose the boysV' When he has them sufficiently under the influence of the bottle, the question j is whether Mr. Henderson's glee club will greet the President with his well-known and stirring campaign lyric, as composed and sung by him in 1884. ' If co-education of the sexes is right, why should the trustees of Lincoln University, in Nebraska, issue an order forbidding male and female students from attending the same college societies? Nearly all the students have rebelled against the order and been suspended. Their position is more consistent than that of the trustees, though we pass no opinion on the merits of the question. A PICTURE of Jonah and the whale is one of the features of Veiled Prophet tom-foolery on which the President will be requested to gaze in St. Louis next week. Is there, perhaps, a veiled significance about this? Will the observers, for instance, be reminded of the possible fate of a chief magistrate who is likely to sink his party if not heaved overboard? Ne"W YORK city has s"ent Jake Sharpe and the boodle aldermen to the State prison; it remains to be seen what Indianapolis will do with her Jake Sharpes, boodlers and tallysheet forgers. Can it be, instead of sending them to the penitentiary, that they are to be sent to the City Council, or still be permitted to control it? Owing to what is doubtless an unintentional oversight, no prominent position has been j assigned to Postmaster Aquilla Jones on next ! Saturday's programme. Mr. Cleveland will, of course, have a natural desire to meet the man for whose sake it is said Vice-president Hendricks went down on his knees before him. Some curiosity is expressed as to the reason for the hollow square maneuver which is to be executed by the Hendricks Club and the Duckworths next Saturday. Perhaps it is intended to symbolize the aching void which fills their hungry souls at the sight of offices which are so near and yet so far. A Democratic organ traces the career of candidate Edenharter "from the workshop to the forum." Democrats who can read were inclined to suspect a libel, until they found that "forum" meant the City Council, and even then they were not sure that a slur had not been cast on boss Coy's own. The date or the City Election Is Tuesday, Oct. 11. mmrmmmmmmmmmmmmm, "Daniel, please tell me again the name of that town where we make onr first stop? The idea of this long journey has completely upset me." "Yea, sire, the name of the town is Indianapolis. You will slow up at a number of places, but the first stop will be at Indianapolis." "Ah, yes, I remember now; and the town is in Indiana, deriving its name, I presume, from the Indians, part of the old Northwestern Territory, governed by the ordinance of 1787, admitted to the Union in 1816, area 33, 800 square miles, population by last census 1,378,000; big State, great resources, agricultural, mining;, eta; yes, I re-

.. member all about it now. I am to say some-' thing about the great West and the duties of citizenship there. Daniel, that's the other side of Pittsburg, isn't itl" "Yes, aire, Indianapolis is 380 miles west of Plttsburz and a very long distance this side of San Francisco." f "A glance at the map confirms what you say.; Do you know, Daniel, the greatness of this country really oppresses me. I sometimes think if I had realized it I would sot have accepted the presidency. Daniel, is it likely to grow any this yearr "No, sire, I think not" "Ah, then there will be no additional responsibility in a second term. I am glad of that Now in resard to Indiana politics; that is a Democratic State, is it not Daniel?" "Sometimes, sire. It voted for you in 1884, but tho Republicans carried it in the State election last year, and yeu remember some Democrats tried to lay it on to jou." "Yes, yes, I remember that It was a cruel, cruel thing. As if I could appoint every Democrat in Indiana to an office. They are a hungry lot anyhow. That man Vorhees has given me no end of trouble. Who is the other Senator from Indiana?" "Senator Turpin, sire." "Not Turpin, Daniel. You must mean Tburtnan; but I didn't know they had elected the old Roman to the Senate. Well, I am glad of it; I like Thurman. Daniel, am I to say anything; about politics at Indianapolis?" "No, sire. The reception is to be non-partisan, and from what I hear, I expect the Republicans will behave very well " "I hope they will Daniel I hope they will give me such a reception as I and the office deserve. It takes considerable of a man to be President of the Uuited States, if I do say it myself. I hope the Republicans will treat me well, and I don't want them to think I look down on them. Now Daniel, please bring me the guide book and atlas, I want to go over the route again." The Hon. Daniel Webster Van Voorhees recently made a speech in the eity of Denver. In that speech he referred to the silver bill, and said that Mr. Blaine had voted to sustain the veto of President Hayes: then adding: "When I spoke of these things to my Democratic friends here they told me it wouldn't make any difference to you Republicans, yoa would vote that way anyway. I have thought, at least I have hope, that they were wrong, but it may be that like Ictaabo 1 you are joined to your idols. I can only lay the facts before you, and leave them with my prayers to your earnest consideration. It is to be hoped the American Bible Society will send a cheap copy of the Scriptures to Mr. Van Voorhees at once. Mr. Van Voorhees enjoys something of a reputation as a literary man, and, we believe, is ehairman of the Congressional Library committee. But if he keeps on quoting the Bible this way, Icbabod will soon be written upon the ruins of that reputation. By the way, the reason we allude to our distinguished Senator the only one Indiana has now as Mr. Van Voorhees. is because Mr. Van j Voorhees says that Vaa Voorhees is his name, j To his Denver friends he said: "My right name is not Voorhees, there should be a 'Van' before ray name. Clear down to the time cf my childhood ray ancestors were old Knickerbockers and I am the first cross in that long ancient Dutch lineage. It is not my fault that the 'Van' has been dropped from our name. It was a mistake, and could I have foreseen the future so far as my own career was concerned I would have tacked it on uptn my own responsibility." How Senator Van Voorhees would loon, to be sure, in Knickerbockers, with silver buckles to his shoes, and with a crest upon his carriage door. The borny-banded and mast-fed Democrats of Sullivan county might not recognize the aristocratic and blue-blooded Senator Van Voorhees. - The Cincinnati Commercial Gazette is fearful of trouble growing out of the President's visit to Indianapolis. Quoting from the published programme the arrangements for the visits to the residence of Mrs. Hendricks and to the home of ex-Senator McDonald, the C G. says: "We remember, with a sense of apprehension, that when Mrs. Hendricks visited Washington a few months ago, neither the President nor any member of hie Cabinet seemed to be aware of her presence. Mrs. Hendricks has not met Mrs. Cleveland, however, and the lady ot the White House will, as soon as she is introduced, charm away all the shadows of difficulties. "But Governor Gray and McDonald are not ! happy in each other's sight Gray cut McDonald's political jugular vein last winter, and we have this solid information by pneumatic tube: " 'Voorhees is McDonald's friend. Gray wants the nomination for Vice President with Cleveland. The Voorhees movement is being worked up to kill Gray off. In the meantime poor old Joe is celebrating Cleveland to be put in the next Cabinet or on the Supreme bench.' "There should be complete pacification at Indianapolis before the arrival of the President, or before the critical time is ever. Columbus, i passed in the chilly gray of the morning, may be regarded as fortunate m comparison." It will be observed that all the apprehensions of a possible disturbance of the harmonies of the occasion relate to party and personal considerations. The nen-partisan features of the reception at Indianapolis will be a great success; the Republicans will see to that The Republicans are not embarrassed by any of these petty annoyances, and can and will pay their respects to the chief magistrate of the Nation with a sincerity and heartiness to be commended to his own party friends. It is reported that the Hendricks Club will supply itself and the Duckworths with small flasks of beef and iron Mr. Cleveland's favorite beverage when exhausted and will refresh themselves with the same while the presidential party is being: fed next Saturday.

The date of the City Election Is Tuesday, Oct. 11. AB0UT PEOPLE AND THINGS. A French scientific man named Le Bee, says that civilized man is gradually losing the sense of 6mell, and that, through disuse of its functions, the nose itself must finally disappear. The Mayor of Argonia, Kan, has given birth to a fine boy. As that is something out of the usual line, it may be added that the Mayor of Argonia is a woman, Mrs. Sue anna Salter, the only woman Mayor in the world. Fetth. the Bridgeport safe burglar, says that safes should be set on blocks, and placed in a corner in such a position that the door will shut toward the wall. This makes it necessary to move the safe in order to ret at the door with the wedges and jimmy, and the job is difficult and dangerous. The car in which Abraham Liocln made the journey from Buffalo to Albany, on his way to Washington for his first inauguration, is still in good condition, and running en the Auburn branch of the New York Central railroad. The portraits of Lincoln and the national flag with which the interior was decorated for the occasion remain as permanent fixtures. Mrs. Annie Tomlin, of Mauricetown, Mass., has received an envelope post-marked Philadelphia, which contained a crisp $20 bill, and a note stating that the money had been taken from her pocket-book twenty years ago. Mrs. Tomlin remembers having been robbed of that amount on a schooner at Dighton, Mass., about nineteen years ago. The money will be applied to charitable purposes. Geneeal Albert Pike, who is writing a work in Sanscrit, is one of the most distinguishedlooking men in the wide, wide world. Considerably over six feet in height, with a marvelonsly handsome face, snow white hair, which falls in curls nearly to his shoulders, a picturesque curling beard, and eyes brilliant and expressive, despite his almost eighty years, he is a superb man, physically as well as mentally. As a profession the practice of medicine seems to be pretty lucrative. The late Miss Wolf used to pay $20,000 a year to ber medical attendant. The late Mrs. A. T. Stewart paid an average of $32,000 to three physicians. Mrs. C. Vanderbilt nays ber doctor $10,000 a year, and Mrs. William Astor pays $16,000. Mrs. Ellis, an American lady, phrsician to the Queen of Cores, receives $15,000 a ysar. At a meeting, of

,3 the' County Medical Society two white-haired physicians with whom a reporter talked agreed in saying that at least one-half of the practicing physicians of New York received incomes of $5,000 a year and upward. " A Chicago law publisher who printed a vol. ume of 500 pages containing a summary of Cap tain Black's defense of the Anarchists, says that it has been impossible to dispose of any number of them even at the low price of a dollar apiece. The receipts from their sale were to be devoted to the effort to save the men from the) gallows, but they will scarcely amount to $100. The price is to be reduced in order to stimulate) sales. Besides the colonel ot an Ohio regiment, tho governors of New Jersey ana Maryland neglected to salute the President at Philadelphia. Both of these governors are " Democrats, and their . justification is that, in the. absence of any flag; or colors to designate it , they knew not where to look for the President's reviewing stand. The Army & Naval Jonrnal enters a general acquittal of officers neglecting to salute, and flies the blame on those who forgot to place the customary flag at the reviewing stand. Chicago Tribune: A tender, homaly little poem, "Nothio' to say," Whioh Mr. James Whitcomb Riley lately contributed to the Centnry, is recited nightly at the Grand bv Mr. Sol Smith Russell. The simple pathos of tne verses are worthy of the Hoosier poet, to whom might be applied his own tribute to another: The little brown thrush that harshly chirred Was dear to him as the mocking bird: And he pitied as much as a msn in pain r . A droopiug honey-bee wet with rain. Mr. Rnssell does the poem exquisite justice, and his rendering of it shows that sensibility which is alwaysvthe gracious side of true humor. An amusing story of Mme. Grevy, wife of President Grevy, of France, told in Paris) under the gnise of a fable. A niece of the President was to be married, and "Mme. Grevy was supplied with liberal funds with which to buy suitable dresses for herself, her daughter, Mme. Wilson, and her granddaughter, Margaret Wilson. Mme. Grevy -unfortunately spent all the) funds on herself and Mme. Wilson, and there wan nothing left with which to buy a hat for the granddaughter. A bit of diplomacy let thera out of the difficulty. Mme. Grevy sent to a "millinery store under an assumed name and told them to send a child's hat to the house of a friend. The hat was sent It was worn by the child, and next day was returned with the message that it did not suit. The bat is now being exhibited by the President's enemies.

The da tar of the City Election is Tuesday Oct 11. CURRENT COMMENT. . In considering the convicted' Anarchists claims to mery, it is well enough to remember . that the murdered men cannot appeal, New York Tribune. - The attorneys for the condemned Anarchists announce almost daily that their confidence ia being able to save their clients is still growing. At its present rate of increase the confidence of these gentlemen on the day of the execution wil be something enormous. Chicago Times. . New York's Anarchists number only about 150, a lazy, dirty, drinking gang whose moor, bombs, dynamite and guns have all been traded off for beer. These are they who are making all the noise and claiming, now that the Chicago leaders have qeen condemned to die, to be the leaders of the movement in this country. Springfield Republican. There can be no doubt that the veterans of the Union army, whether organized or unorganized, retain in the confidence and affection of the) people the high place which their illustrious service has given them. Those who criticise and abnse them now are the same men who assailed them from the rear while they were fighting at the front The veterans can stand it if their critics can. Brooklyn Standard-Union. A Very Mournful Cry from Massachusetts. As the cow makes nit eons lowing, being of her calf bereft. As the hen a moment struggles though her neck be rung or clef t. E'en so helpless and so hopeless sit we down and moan out, Left! . O, the gorgeous Eastern bird whose plumage sparkled in the sun. m Torn and muffled is his plumage, all his cocky pride undone. And the cruel, cruel spoilsman still pursues him with a gun. , Through the town and country no more stately flits he) now or stalk. All his loud and blithesome crowing changed to melancholy squalka. Clipped his pinions, eut his feathers by the savage) tomahawks. Higginson. Codman, Everett, Williams, O, ye master mugwumps true. So, the red war paint has faded, and the hue of fear shows through. And the foe has closed around us, and we know not what to do. Civil-service quizzes ruined; scorned, and marred dear Chinese god, - Still we worship thee though writhing, tortured by the spoilsman's rod. Though in sackcloth and in ashes, we must murmur, Ichabod! Yes, our hearts they sink and falter, and our eyes drop salty dew, . , And we Bhuuder. Grover Cleveland, as Maguire's unholy erew , Fall on SaltonstaH and Corse and sit tremendously on you. Grover, will you sit supine and see reform's pure altar fires, Whereabout once trilled and quivered all mugwurrpia's sweetest choirs, Quenched and trampled out by ruthless, porcine feet of the Maguiresl . Will you prove a broken reed to us who put in you our trust. Or revive and lift us lying bruised and wounded ia the dustt Help us, else are we all helpless, save us, else are .we quite bust! ' New Tor Sun. A Real and Imminent Danger. Indianapolis News. The city election is now barely two weeks off. Every one who has the prosperity and good growth of Indianapolis at heart; they who pay the taxes, and by the fruits of whose industry citizenship here is made attractive, should vote to "down" the Coy gang. This is no cry of "wolf." The danger is real, imminent' The election of Edenharter means lawlessness; means an unchecked rioting of the worst elements of city life. It means the same thing that was sought in the tally-sheet forgeries, and the same gang is pushing it. More than this, it means that "possession," which is "nine points of the law." Once in, the "ring" will be rif eted. It is far easier to keen it out than to put it out It is a critical time for Indianapolis. On the eve of the realization of cheap fuel, which is certain to enormously increase the material wealth aud population, should we give over the control of our affair to this gang we will enter noon a career of lawlessness and extravagance which means corruption, increased taxation, and the grinding conditions of life which make a city to be avoided. The President's Trip Criticised. Washington Special. A leading official concludes a long criticism of the trip bv saying: "Now I don't approve and 1 never have approved of thin procession. If there were no other reasons against it, the fact that the conntry is menaced bv financial stringency is enough to make it seem in thoroughly bad taate. But even if there were nothing of this sort to emphasize the ioopportuueness of the junket, I should think Cleveland ought to be sick of the unconcealed purpose of these Southern and Western towns to use him as a theatrical attraction. There is not even a decent pretense ef welcoming him as the chief magistrate and of,' utilizing his presence as a patriotic occasion. If he were a vegetable freak or a phenomenon in fat stock he eoul not be set up mors honestly as a catch-pen n v. Anyhow, if he is not sick now he will be before be gets back, and I'm sick enough for both of us at this moment" Reversible Politics. -w York Sun. Here, then, is the situation: Outside of New York Mr. Cleveland's canvass is conducted upon the assumption that the party must take him, willy nilly, because he ia the only man able to carry the Empire State with certainty. Democratic unanimity, and perfect decorum. In New York, on the other band, his canvass proceeds on the ground that he is so popular and stroog in other parts of the country as to justify almost any expedients for bringing New York into the solid column. For this sort of politics the lexicographers have supplied various closely fitting descriptive phrases. In some lines of business, we suppose, a game like this would be called a confidence game. But it is politics sure enough any way; and in our experience during many presidential elections we have never seen this sort of politics practised with more energy or less concealment Pointer for Their Parly Orators. Chicago Journal. New York brewers and maltsters propose to raise $100,000 to be used in defeating Republican members of the Legislature. That will afford fine picking for the third-party Prohibitionists, and should enable Mr. St John to gel. some very profitable engagements.