Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 October 1887 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL. MONDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1887

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MONDAY OCTOBER 1S37. IVASIILNGTON OFFICli 513 Fourteenth St. P. S. IllATH. Correspondent. KEW YOKIC OFFICE 101 Temple Court, Corner Beekman aud Nassau streets. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOCKNAL Can be found at the following places LONDON American Exchaoie ia Europe, 449 Strand. PARIS Amerlran Exchange ia Paris, 35 Boulevard ds Capucinea. KEW YORK Ge2ney House and Windsor Hotels. CHICAGO ralmer House. CINCINNATI J. P. Hawley & Co., 154 Vine street. LOUISVILLE C. T. Dwing, northwest corner . Third and Jefferson streets. BT. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot acd Southern Hotel. WASHINGTON, D. CKiggs Home and Ebbitt House. Telephone Calls. Bu1n Office 238 Editorial Rooms .242 I am not willing to trnst what interests I bare as a citizen and tax payer to such men as (Joy and his followers, even if they do carry in their pockets a certificate of pood character from Sir. English and other reputable citizens. I am free to say I do not like Mr. Coy. I do not like men who are like Mr. Coy. and I have a very poor opinion of men who like Coy or his pang." W. I. Fishback. 'I am heartily in favor of every measure that will add to the credit and to the pood name of oar city. I am heartily opposed to any measure that will detract from its credit and its good name. I believe with all my heart that the success of what is commonly known as the Coy ticket' in the coming election would be a great shame a preat disgrace, and therefore I am opposed to it." Rev. Dr. McLeod. "I know Dr. Eenbarter, and personally like him, but I should be sorry to see him elected Mayor onder the existing circumstances, for the reason that he represents an element which, if it gets control of the city government, will encouraee lawlessness on the part of the saloon element, and general demoralization." Gen. T. A. Morris. "Every good and decent citizen, irrespective of party ties and affiliations, should join hearts and bands in this contest. The victory should be so preat and so marked that no one party enn claim it- It should be so overwhelmingly in favor of law and order, and decency and virtue, that all good citizens can rejoice in it." Rev. Dr. McLeod. "The same old crowd that i have been BUYING FOR YEARS." Such were the remarks of Mr. Coy when he looked in upon a gathering of the Knights of Labor, last spring, in the Eighteenth ward. The boys in that ward, on election day, will cause the little boss to think that he made a mistake. He may havo bought up a few leaders with nominations or promises of political swag, but the rank and file never were and never can be bought by the little trickster. The Post (Labor OrThis is practically the last week. Push, on the fight. . The latest turn of the gang organs is to threaten. Black-mailing tactics will not help the gang now. The triumph of the Ccy gang in the coming election would be the worst advertisement Indianapolis could possibly have. Whether Mr. Cleveland get3 any glory out of the reception here or not, it is conceded on all hands that Indianapolis did the thing handsomely. Rev. Dr. Parker, of London, will deliver the long-expected eulogy on the late Henry Ward Beechar, to-morrow night at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. The principal part of the cheering wa3 done by the Democratic Club on Saturday night. The longer they thought about it the more enthusiastic they became. Mr. "Boss" Coy looked upon a convention of workingmen and said: "The same old gang I have been buying for years.' Possibly the little Napoleon of politics may find that the workingmen will resent the gross insult on lection day. The President's puff of Senator Voorhees was a cop to the spoils Democrats of Indiana. In going out of his way to compliment Mr. Voorhees the President insulted his own civilservice professions. The Senator's opposition to civil-service reform is open and notorious. The Cincinnati Enquirer editorially remarks: "The President reached Indianapolis safely, behaved himself very nicely, and got away with his life. The Duckworth Club was a little late for the ceremonies, but sufficiently early for the accompanying refreshments." , "WHAT other man than Grover Cleveland, as President of the United States, would absolutely forget and ignore the war of the Rebellion and the struggle to protect and preserve the government. 13 it necessary to obliterate that part of the country's history in order to be "non-partisan?" Grover Cleveland remembered Thomas A. Hendricks and Daniel W. Voorhees; but he did not remember Oliver P. Morton, or a single one of the long line of heroic men who gave their lives and services to preserve the government of which he is the executive head. Mr. Cleveland's speeches were not "non-partisan." The comparative ease with which the President repeats his speeches shows he is blessed with a good memory. The special correspondent of the Cincinnati Enquirer says of his speech here: "he had evidently committed it to memory in the most thorough and painstaking manner." lie adds: "Mrs Cleveland's face paled some and her heart seemed to rise in her throat as she followed the President with intense interest. She tried to appear calm, but not indifferent, but beneath the enforced serenity was evidence of nervousness. She acted as though she had heard Grover rehearse hia piece, and with a pardonable pride she was anxious to see him go through dispart well " !' ', . 11111 -a THE man who says, "I care nothing for politics, I vote for the man," is apt to make a great mistake. In private life and relations private character is of paramount importance, but in public life and office a man's politics and political surroundings are of great weight. No man is bigger or much better than his party. A stream docs not rise higher than

iU source. Tho claims that are made for

Dr. Edenbarter on personal grounds amount

to nothing in face of the fact that he was nominated by Coy, and is the willing repre sentative of the Coy gang. In this contest Edenharter stands for Coy and Coy for Edenharter. They are working together to a com mon end, viz: the election of Edenharter, the vindication of Coy, and th9 triumph of the - - . . v at vi gang. lr. iaennarter may ue iu umiauto ani harmless young man that his friends claim he is, but he represents a gang that is neither amiable nor harmless. The voter should look beyond the man to the principles ani ideas he represents, and to the dangerous following massed behind him. The date of the City Electioa Is Tuesday, Oct. 11. THE "KON-PABTISAN" EECEPTIOH-. The President's reception being past, some comments can be made that coald not well be pending the event. The proprieties of the occasion do not any longer forbid a reason ably free expression of opinion. The Journal did its part in helping to secure for the Presi dent such a reception and welcome as were due to the office, and having done its duty in this regard, it feels free to criticise the performance. First, we remark that the arrange ment throughout was characterized by illconcealed partisanism. Republicans tried to make it non-partisan, but Democrats, and especially the Democratic managers, did not. The grand marshal was a Repub lican, because there is not a Democrat in the city who can organize and handle a procession. For the rest, the non-partisan business was all on one side. Ex-Senator Harrison was not invited to participate till the last moment. Judge Woods was not invited at all a punishment, probably, for his charge in the conspiracy case. The soldier and sailors' monument commission were not invited a slap at the old soldiers. And the same undertow of Democratic partisanism ran through the whole management. As for the factional fights and personal jealousies that cropped out here and there, we say nothing. They are not our f uneraL The President's speeches here and at Terre Haute were models of common-placenes3. Aside from a few dry remarks concerning the early history and growth of the city, the only point he made here was a labored eulogy of the late Mr. Hendricks, and at Terre Haute he tried to tickle their local pride by referring to the "Tall Sycamore of the Wabash" as one of the most remarkable productions of the State. There was nothing of a particularly "non-partisan" nature in these references. While the President was descanting on the growth of Indianapolis, and referring to Senator Voorhees as the greatest product of the State, he might have made, at least, a passing allusion to the fact that Indiana was as great in war as she is in peace, and that she sent over 200,000 soldiers to do battle for the Union. But that might have been "partisanism," while the eulogy of dead and living Democrats was not. The visit was doubtless expected to add to the personal strength of Mr. Cleveland and make capital for the party in this State, and both were to be done under the guise of a "non-partisan" reception. We are quite sure neither result was accomplished. The date of the. City Election Is Tuesday, Oct. 11. THE ENFORCEMENT OF LAWThe best laws are of no account unless they are enforced. In fact an unenforced law is worse than none at all. What is needed everywhere is a stronger public sentiment in favor of the enforcement as well as the observance of law. It should be the duty of every good citizen to assist in bringing this about. We note an excellent movement in this direction in the county of Steuben, this State, where the friends of law and order have united, irrespective of party, in forming a citizens' committee of one hundred. In their articles of association they define its object to be "to prevent the granting of licenses to persons unfit to secure the rigid enforcement of the laws regulating the sale of intoxicating liquors (i. e. to minor3, to persons intoxicated, to habitual drunkards, on Sunday, etc.) to prevent public drunkenness by enforcement of laws relating thereto to secure the enforcement of laws relating to gambling to sustain and assist public officers in enforcing the criminal laws of the State to provide ways and means for securing the above objects." The Steuben County Republican says the organization has already accomplished "splendid results." There ought to be such an organization in every county in the State as a rallying point for the friends of law and order. It should be made non-partisan, and composed of citizens who think more of good government and of the enforcement of law than they do of party success or party advantage. Such an organization in every county-seat of Indiana, confining itself to strictly legal methods, could do a vast amount of good in creating and strengthening public opinion in favor of the enforcement of law. The date of the City Electioa Is Tuesday, Oct. 11. THE GEEMAN VOTE. Sim Coy is reported to have said: "there is no trouble about the German vote I'll bring them into camp solid." This is the boast of a boss who has unbounded faith in corrupt methods and none whatever in honest motives or good citizenship. Coy insinuates and probably believes that the Germans will all vote with him on account of the temperance question. He assumes, first, that all Germans aJace beer above overythingelse, and second, that in order to make sure of their beer they must vote for his wide-open policy. The assump tion is an insult to the Germans. It implies that they have no other interest in politics but beer, and that in order to get that they will vote for him and his gang, with their tally-sheet forging record and other crimes thick upon them. Again we say, the assumption is an insult to the Germaus. They may like beer that is a national or an individual taste with which we have nothing to do. But they are not all patrons of saloons, much less of all-night and Sunday saloons, and a very large number of them see something in politics besides free whisky. It is neither true,

as the boss assumes, that all Germans place

beer above everything else in life, nor is it true that in order to obtain beer it is neces sary to indorse him and the gang. The Germans as a class are conservative and lawabiding, in favor of honest politics and good government. They have no sympathy with, tally-sheet forging and the criminal methods practiced by the Coy school of politicians. A very large number of them are property own ers and interested in good government and low taxes. Those of them who belong to what is commonly called the working class" are noted for industry, economy, thrift and the practice of homely virtues. These in their quiet, unobtrusive way are pre-eminent ly among our best citizens. There are great numbers of such occupying little homes in all parts of the city, minding their own busi ness very strictly, living comfortably and happily and laying the foundations of future competence. What sympathy have they with Coy and the criminal classes? No more than they have with the condemned Anarch ists. Suppose they have their beer with their families; does it follow that they will vote to indorse the tally-sheet forgeries and turn the city government over to the Coy gang? The boss seems to think they wilL We do not. We shall see. The date of the City Election Is Tuesday, Oct. 11. THE ARGENTINE EEFUBLTC We have received a copy of the annual message of the President of the Argentine Republic, delivered at the opening of the session of Congress in May. It is somewhat remarkable that the people of the United States should take so much more interest in European countries, peoples and govern ments than those of South America. Geographically speaking we are compara tively near neighbors with the republics of South America; politically speaking they are more in sympathy with us than European governments are, and our commercial relations ought to be much closer with them than with any of the transatlantic countries. But, as a matter of fact, we have very little to do with our South American neighbors and know very little about them. The wisdom of this as a national policy is very doubtful. Regarded either as an abstract question of national duty, or in its relations to possible developments of trade and commerce, it would seem to be the part of wisdom for the government and people of the United States to give a much larger measure of attention and interest to South American countries than they have heretofore done. The relation between the United States and the South American republics ought to be one of neighborly feeling, good understanding and close and friendly communication, instead of the cold and distant relation that now prevails. The commanding position of the United States among the nations and its manifest destiny as leader in the march of Western civilization imposes upon it a duty in this regard that is further emphasized by considerations of self-interest. This is to cultivate close and friendly relations with South American countries with a double view of impressing American ideas and institutions?: on those countries and of benefiting the people of both by building up between them a large and profitable commerce. The development of this idea is one of the most interesting problems that can engage the attention of American statesmen and its importance will, we predict, be far more generally recognized a generation or two hence than it is to-day. The message of President Juarez Celman is an able state paper, and furnishes interesting information relative to his government. The Argentine Republic, we may remark, has an area more than forty times as large as the State of Indiana. Thus at a glance we see we do not own the earth. The government is a federal republic, modeled on the Constitution of the United States, except that the Ministry is responsible to Congress, an adverse vote leading to the formation of a new Cabinet. The Constitution and laws are liberal and conducive to good government. The government embraces fourteen provinces corresponding to our States, each of which has a separate local government. The capital, Buenos Ayres, is a city of 200,000 population, and with all the attractive features of a prosperous city. . The country is thinly inhabited, by a simple, pastoral people, but possesses great agricultural and grazing resources. It is a country worth knowing and cultivating. In opening his message President Celman says: "For a long time past peace has been maintained in the Republic. The respect for our institutions and for the authorities which emanate from them is gaining ground in the conscience of tb people; and the citizens, free from the prejudice which the possibility of revolution engengendered in them, now apply themselves to some profitable labor without omitting their civic duties. In speaking of peace, therefore, I set forth a decisive victory in our national life. Foreigners judge of our importance more by the duration of our internal tranquillity than by the richness of our soil or our written institutions. Under the influence of these, the Republic is making rapid strider, capital flows in, immigration in-, creases daily, colonization and industry are rapidly gaining ground, and a great oreniug is afforded for moral and material advancement." The message, much like an annual message of our own President, touches on the different branches of government and questions of national interest. He recommends government control of railways and offers strong reasons in favor of it. He also recommends judicious government aid to public works. He recommends the abolition of the free postage, or franking privilege, as "absolutely necessary. if the republic wishes to place itself on a par with other nations." He states that the total imports during the vear 1886 were $118,294,353, and the exports $78,192,850. Of this considerable trade the United States ought to have the lion's share, but as a matter of fact they have very little. The financial budget is clearly stated but need not be quoted here. The banking system is intelligently discussed. As to the general condition of business the President says: "Commercial prosperity, proved by figures and faets, is growing rapidly, owing to the confidence which a firm and lasting internal and ex ternal peace affords, aud the powerful ele

ments which the country can boast of, and which surprise by their vigor both ourselves and foreigners."

A strong argument is made in favor of pubic instruction, and the school system is shown to be improving. In 1886, 1,804 pri mary public schools and 611 private ones were in working order, making a total of 2,415, with 180.768 pupils and 5,348 teachers. These figures look small beside ours but they show a good beginning. Buenos Ayres has fifty-four school-buildings, forty of which, accommodating 22,000 - children, were opened ast year. There are twenty-seven normal schools in operation, which last year graduated two hundred teachers of both sexes. The army, navy and udicial system are each discussed in their place, as are many minor interests. The entire message is statesmanlike in tone, and shows on the part of the President a due sense of Responsibility to the people and appreciation of the prosperous future unfolding before the country. The United States might find a noble and useful mission in helping the Argentine Republic along the path of free . governmnnt, and at the- same time find a large profit in developing closer trade relations. " " We cannot conceive of any reason why any Republican should not vote for , Denny for Mayor, and we trust there is"nbne; but if there be we advise him to vote for Davy, ' the Labor candidate, who is not only an honigi and respectable man, but represents honest and respectable principles and has an honest and respectable following. On the other hand, if there is a workingman in the city, who for any reason 13 disincline d to vote for Davy we would urge him to vote for Denny, who in this contest does beyond a doubt rep resent the interests of the workingmen as he does of all honest, law-abiding and conserva tive citizens. Workingmen, in common with all such, are interested in fair and honest elections, in good government, in the enforce ment of law, in the suppression and punishment of crime, in low taxes, and in an honest and conservative administration of affairs. We have no reason to doubt that Mr. Davy represents these ideas, but we do not think he can be elected. Would it not be wise, then, for workingmen to vote for Denny, and thus assist in defeating the Coy gang and the Coy candidate, who represent ideas and methods dangerous to the peace and welfare of society and to the prosperity of the city. The chief reason for the defeat of the Ten nessee prohibitory amendment probably lies in the fact that under the existing law prohi bition prevails over at least three-fourths of the State. This is not a local-option meas ure, but is known as the "four mile law," the sale of liquor being forbidden within four miles of any school-house. Its provisions are strictly enforced, and a double good is worked, through the organization of schools where none existed before. The operation of this law has been so satisfactory to a majority of the citizens that they have felt an indifference to the amendment, and have evidently pre ferred to let well enough alone. - An excellent measure of President Cleveland's capacity will be afforded by a perusal of the eff-hand speeches which he will have to make on his grand tour thrcugh the Western and Southern States. No President has yet withstood this ordeal, and the only candidate for the presidency who came out of it with a larger reputation than he had at the start was the lamented Horace Greeley, whose speeches during his presdential canvass were modsls of freshness and originality. Philadelphia Record. Mr. Cleveland has provided against any trouble of this sort by having his "off-hand" peeche3 prepared in advance and printed in the liovernment irrinting unice. ine one he delivered in Indianapolis has the government stamp on it. THE meeting to be held this afternoon, at 3:30 o'clock, at the News Boys' Home, No. 23 West Ohio street, should attract the attend ance of all who are or may become interested in the welfare of the homeless and friendless boys and girls of the city. Colonel Hogeland, who is devoting his life to this work, will be present, and his talks are as interesting as a romance and full of facts and practical suggestions. Indianapolis needs to have this special phase of its charity put upon a proper and business-like basis, and that is the object of the conference this afternoon. Gentlemen and ladies are alike invited. k It is perfectly well known that the men who are engineering the gang ticket rely upon money, and corruption, and crime for success. No respectable man will deny, as no respectable man doubts that fact. What argument or excuse can any respectable citizen make to himself for action that will con duce to the triumph of such a combination? Can any man reason himself into the belief that officers and CouncjhTien elected by sufch men and by such methods'could possibly give a prudent, economical and safe administration of city affairs? WHY did not President Cleveland have a word to say of the soldiers of Indiana, the patriotism of Indiana, and the great" names of men who distinguished themselves in connection with the war to preserve the Nation of which he is the President? The omission was painful and significant, especially in view of Governor Gray's graceful and proper allusion to the part Indiana played in the great struggle for the Union. Why had Grover Cleveland no word or thought for the 200,000 brave boys in blue? "When I was walking with the President from bis carriage to the Capitol," said Mayor Denny last night, "he seemed to be ereatly taken with our State-house and it was then that I told him it was built within tha appro priation, which fact he alluded to in bis response to the Governor's address of welcome." Sentinel Report. 'The beauty of this lies in the fact that tha President's speech was prepared and printed in Washington, allusion to the cost of tha Statehouse, and the reflection upon Mr. Hendricks, mad "at the moment," and alL General Slocum's effort to climb tathe top of theO. A. K. was not successful, xesteraay tns St. Louis Encampment chose as the successor to r..... 1 T.i.ohiM & Mfiikmin from Minnesota. !..,., .a Tnd am. TV. Tha .InAmm la in Ohio man. and bis highest army rank seems to hava been that of major. Uf course ne is a jtepunncan in politics. New York World. General Slocum and his friends attempted to introduce politics into the G. A. K. by putting

him forward as a candidate on the ground that

he was a Democrat. The attempt was promptly sat upon. ' ' The date of the City Election la Tuesday, Oct. 11. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Let the feminine tennis-player beware! Mrs. Curwen, the daughter of Jesse, the British naturalist, has just died from the effects of a fall over a tennis net Pittsburg Commercial: "FIs was a man who had suffered much," tays a country paper in a short obituary notice; "be has been a subscriber to this paper since its first number." The wife of a Congregational minister in Wis consin has the bowl out of which Jonathan Ed wards used to eat bread and milk. This relie has been kept in each generation by a descend ant eneaged in pastoral or missionary work. The creature who finds it so irksome To go in like a man and work some Hardly ever is short Of a kind of a sort Of excuse to go oS and shirk some. Oil CitT Blizzard. Polydore de Keyser, the new Lord Mayor of London, has a name which means "Many Gifts." It is a most appropriate title. A Lord Mayor of London is expected to Rive away almost avery thing be owns, if he doesn't give himself away be is very lucky. Madame Vincenb is a French woman who has save 1 twelve persons from death by drown- : ine. Last month she jumped into the waves en tirely dressed and rescued the twelfth, a six-year-old boy. She has seven children of her own, the youngest being still an infant. ; . To be Scotch, don't say Thistle, But always say thustle; Don't remark that winds whistle, For now they must whustle; And when Barr's whiskers bristle 'Tis his whuskers that brustlo. - New York Commercial Advertiser. The old question as to whether the upper part of a carriage wheel in motion goes along faster than the lower part seems to have been settled , by instantaneous photography. In the photo-. graph the outer ends of the of the upper spokes appear indistinct by reason of the motion, while the outer ends of the spokes in the lower part of the wheel are photographed with distinctness. The justices of the Supreme Court of the United States now wear plain black robes. In the beginning of the century the robes bad a scarlet facing, because once Chief Justice John Jav borrowed the robe of the Chancellor of Is ow York, which was so faced, and ail the other justices followed the style. In leOo, however, some one asserted that the red trimming was too English, and it was discarded, and the plain black has been used ever since. Gen. Ben Butler said to a Kansas City re porter that anybody may become President, but it is not so easy tt be acceptable as a department clerk. "When I was a young man," con tinued the General, "I was examined for ap pointment as a department clerk, and failed miserably, though 1 tried to bribe the young woman who distributed the list of questions to give me easy ones. I remember ous of the Questions was: "What States and Territories would you cross in going from New York to the Pacific coast?' I didn't know, so the answer I wrote was: 'None; I would go around by Cape Horn."' Critic Lounger: Miss Mary L. Booth, of Har per's Bazar, has just returned from a five months' vacation in Europe. She traveled hard, and saw a great deal. She stayed longest in Rome a city which impressed her more than any other In Europe. In the course of her travels. Miss Booth did ..something that 1 am very sorry that I did not do: she brought baetc with her slips of ivy from some of the most in teresting places she visited, and has planted them in her New York Garden; for, small thoneh it b, she has a bit of garden in the heart of the city, where she has grape-vines and peach trees and a few rare shrubs. L iberty will soon illuminate the world from the western as well as the eastern side of the continent. Adolph butro, the mining million aire, is erecting her statute on Mount Olympus, in San Francisco. The figure was sculptured by . Wiertz, a Belgian artist, and he called it La Triamphe de la Lumiere, the triumph of light. and says it was meant to represent "light triumphing over darkness liberty ovar tyranny and despotism." Sutro . saw it exhibited at Antwerp and fell in love with it. It is made of artificial stone, sawed up into fourteen pieces, and in that shape imported into this country. It is twenty-five feet high, acd will stand on a fifteen foot pedestal, while the mountain under it is 700 feet high. Californians count in the mountain, and all its altitude, 740 feet. It has taken two weeks to build the pedestal, two weeks more will stick the fourteen pieces of artificial rock together, and the great work will be done. The light in the uplifted torch of the figure will be electric, and of 16,000 candle power. It will illuminate a park, and can be seen from the bay. while Millionaire Sutro can sit at his parlor windows in the evening and, see bow great a public benefactor he is. The date of the City Electioa is Tuesday, Oct. 11. COMMENT AND OPINION. Henry George's sew dispensation is like the bag of gold at the end of the rainbow. Balti more American. It is a pity that Ohio couldn't have been moved for a few hours out of Grover Cleveland's way. Cleveland Leader. Every day or two a little pernicious activity crops out in the appointment of postmasters. Philadelphia American. The Massachusetts mugwump is now hitching along up to the Republican row of seats. He is ready to tell his experience. Detroit Iribune. "General, depression" is what ails the whisky trade, it is said. That is the only kind of trade depression of which the country cannot have too much. Chicago Journal. Perhaps President Cleveland will be renominated. If so, it will be not because he is rich in merit, but because his party is poor ic available men. Philadelphia Press. It's time to- start a Know-nothing party in England, and cry "England for the English!" Polrdore de Keyser has just been elected Lord Mayor of London. New York Star. "The Democratic party is looking up," shouts a Cleveland organ, which is rather a unique way of saying that the Democratic party is on its back instead of its feet. Detroit Tribune. Indiana Democrats claim that their new Senator-elect, Turpie, will be a match for Senator Ingalla in his peculiar line of oratory. Mr. Turpie is not Senator yet. Boston Journal. If Henry George would open up one of his anti-poverty societies in this town after the races close he could gain the attention of an army of broken "plungers." Louisville Commercial. ,. There is another call, long and loud and deep, for the dismissal of Attorney-general Garland, but the President heeds it not! He is bound to Garland by the same mysterious tie that holds him to Gorman and Higgins. Philadelphia Press. The mugwump is useful in his way, but he should be made to keep his place. That place is not in the parlor where the family conference is held, but in another and not quite so pleasant part of the house. Brooklyn Eagle, (Dem.) Preachers skilled in rhetoric, who are misled by nonsense on economic theories, mean well, but they don't know. He in whose name they speak did not have any scheme for abolishing poverty, but was content to remain poor himself. Boston Herald. There is no sound reason why existing disability, not a result of service in the army or navy, should have been accepted by the President as a valid ground for pensioning veterans of the Mexican war, and then rejected as a ground for pensioning veterans of the war for the Union. New York Sun. ' As candidate of the Progressive Labor party in New York for Secretary of State, it ought to be a comfort to John Swinton to feel sure that the result of the election will not interfere in the slightest degree with any plans he may ' have made heretofore for his own progressive labor as a private citizeu. Chicago Tribune. The moral of the verdict of the federal courts in the telephone suits is simply this: That any attempt by the Attorney-general to convert the Department of Justice into a department of injustice in the interest of a syndicate of speculators will receive the judicial rebuke which its wickedness deserves. Philadelphia Press. The Anarchists and Socialists have a poor idea of the firmness and moral courage of the American people, or they would not bop to benefit their convicted brethren in Chicago by threats of dire vengeance in case they are hung. Governor "Dick" Oglesby is the last man to be moved by such threats. New York Tribune. The extraordinary severity of the sentence ' inflicted up'-n a Kansas druggist's clerk for selling liquor will de more to bring prohibition into disfavor than a thousand speeches in opposition. To send a man to jail for seventeen years, beiaes fining him $20,000, is to pot the offense on

a par with manslaughter and highway robbery, and even above it. It tends to bring ridicule 01 the whole question, for no one can expect sue! a sentence to be fully executed. New York Tribune. . It will not help the condemned Anarchists to fill thair with direful threats of what will happen if they are hanged. The average American is on the whole a very good-natured and kindhearted animal, but yon can't scare him. Bear that in mind, please. New York Herald. With the President and Congress they cap ture the Supreme Court, and then and not till then should we have Democratic rule. Th question before the people of the United States is whether they want to take this risk. Tht question is not whether Democratic rule shall b continued, but whether it shall be accomplished. Cincinnati Commercial-Gazette. ' It is to the credit of both sides in Tennesset that they have conducted a much more decent campaign than that which recently excited Texas. Tennessee has considered the greal question with comparative calm, and has set s good example in m an n era for all communities, -large or small, which may hereafter indulge in prohibition elections. Atlanta Constitution. : The story that Mr. Henry George, bavin accumulated some $20,000 by strict attention ts business, will distribute this amount of money to the poor of New York on Christmas day, bears internal evidence of inaccuracy. If Mr. George had accumulated $20,000 or any othei sum of money, which be intends to appropriate for theelief of the needy, he will probably. dis tribute it on election day. Brooklyn Eagle. If Mr. Cleveland's popularity is half as greal as bis friends claim, Foraker should be defeated by at least 20,000 votes, which is only the majority Bishop and Hoadly the last two Demo cratio Governors of Ohio received. Certainly there is no election this year in which Mr. Cleveland can take greater personal interest o which will involve a clearer test of bis own per sonal popularity. Foraker should be defeated. New York World. - The coal monopolies have begun their regular autumnal marking up of prices. With powei

in their hands to fix the production, the miners' wages "and the rate of transportation, and a tarifl to keep out competing soft coal, there is nothing to prevent their putting upon this indispensable article "all the price the market will bear." And still the old parties are quarreling over the offices and disputing about dead br trivial is sues! New York World. THE INDIANAPOLIS CITY ELECTION. THE BANGERS OF A GANG VICTORY. Shelby ville Republican: If the people of Indianapolis fail to give Coyism a "black eye" at their approaching city election they will be made to pay dearly for theii mistake. Let the gang get control of the city and immediately a new edition of the Mackin ring, which plundered Chicago, and the Tweed ring, which plundered New York, wiil bein augurated. The city's progress will be stopped, expenses will be increased and the laws will ba administered in the interest of pot-house politicians and corrupt rings instead of tor the benefit of the people. Everybody can see this ' who considers for a moment. The Coy grtng are simply working to get their ereatnres in office for the purpose of ulterior plunder. They expect to benefit themselves and none, other. They are pretending to operate in the interest of the Democratic party, and claim that , their triumph will - be the party's triumph. This is a dodge as old as it is hypocritical. As a matter of fact "gangs" have no politics. When they fasten themselves on a party it is simply for the purpose of using; that party for their own selfish purposes. When they once get control they know no difference in their plans to plunder between tax-payers of one party and the other. The decent Democrat will suffer along with the decent Republican. Honest citizens of all kinds will be plundered with refreshing impartiality. The question at issue in Indianapolis is nominally between Republicans and Democrats. Practically and actually it is an issue between the lawless elements on one aide and law-abiding citizens on the other. The Democratic ticket is backed by the class which lives by violating the law; it is backed by the class which believes in and practices corruption to gain ascendency. Every man directly or indirectly engaged in the taliy-sheet-' forgeries last fall is now supporting the Demo- , cratic city ticket. Every fellow who. wants to violate the laws in f nture is supporting the same tieket if successful they expect to control the city government and have it run to suit themselves. Their intentions are not good intentions, but bad intentions. Their objects are vicious and their aims malign. Their purposes are sinister, and if they once get control they will not be long in showing the cloven boof. They expect honest Democrats to support the ticket from force of habit, simply because it bears the party label Many an honest man is fooled into supportinr a corrupt gang by this specious plea, and afterwards finds that instead of helping his party he has assisted in fastening upon its back a pack of knaves intent only on plunder and upon plundering him along with the rest. When the issues are purely political and between parties, no one blames a man for sustaining bis own party against the other. But at Iudianapolis just now such is not the case. It being an open contest .between the' friends of law and order on the one side and the representatives of all that is vicious on the other, no good citizen can hesitate as to where his vote belongs WOULD INJURE THE CITY. Evansville' Journal: Edenharter is said to be) a clever sort of a man just the kind to be manipulated and managed by the "Coy gang," than whom there is not a more unscrupulous and dangerous set of politicians outside of the great cities. The election of the Democratic ticket would be a sad affair for the capital city, and it is not thought probable that the respectable elements will permit it- It would give Indianapolis a serious backset in her onward career. BETWEEN COYISil AND GOOD GOVERNMENT. Crawfordsville Journal:- The Indianapolis city election occurs on Oct. 11. It wi!3 be si contest between Coyism, in all that name implies, and public honor and good government. Let us all pray that in the contest Simeon may be eiven a set back from which he will never recover, in the election of Caleb S. Denny-ovej Edenharter, the candidate of the Coy ring. ALL HONEST VOTERS INTERESTED. Oxford Tribune: The Indianapolis city election occurs Oct. 11. All honest voters are interested in the result. It is practically an appeal from courts to the people in the case of the committee of one hundred in their endeavor to unearth and convict the euilty in the ballot-box frauds at the last election. The success of the Coy ticket means the surrender of honest ballot. THINKS COY WILL BE DOWNED. Terre Haute Express: The Express has little) fear that Indianapolis will suffer Sim Coy to succeed in his manipulations to capture the forthcoming election. There is enou eh self respect in the city to thwart him and push him, aside, dangerous though he may be in the corrupt practices of boss politics. DOEfe LOOK THAT WAY. Knightstown Banner: The Indianapolis municipal campaign is on now red hot. It is tha law-abiding people against the Sim Coy gang now, and it begins to look like the "little boss' would be downed this time. WHAT IT MEANS. Logansport Journal: A victory for Coy means that the city is to be turned over to the rule of the saloons and toughs, and rouehs of the city, as he gets all of his political influence and power from that class of people. THE WHOLE STATE INTERESTED. Lafayette News: The whole State is interested in the defeat of the Coy eang, whope manipulations are at the fountain head of Indiana politics, and whose corruption pollutes th.6whole stream. THE SITUATION DEFINED. Greensburg Review: The political situation at Indianapolis seems to be the honest, lawabiding citizens against Sim Coy and the gang. Standard Oil Company In Muncie. Mancis Times. The Standard Oil Company have purchased considerable property in the suburbs of this citv, and will commence erecting storage buildings at once, the object being to make Muncie a distributing point for their oiL A contract was closed to-day with Jam-s Carpenter for tho erection of a brick building, 40x80. two stories bigb. and the work is. to begin on Monday morning. When this is completed, other and more extensive buildings will be erected as rapidly as possible. Muncie, instead of being afraid of this company, welcomes them and their capital to our city. - Within the Limits of Possibility. Philadelphia Inquirer. . Possibly both are right While not contracting to dead-bead the party, it is within the limits of possibility that Mr. Pullman and the Pennsylvania Railroad Corrpany may conveniently forgot to send in their bills for services Mnriareri. It wonld be much more dignified and honorable to all concerned if this tour were paid for out of the public treasury. Ioapproprl ate. Naw York San. One of the three ears in which Mr. Cleveland is courting the magnificent West is named the P P. C. This seems a peculiarly inappropriate name, as be ia not taking leave, or at least doesn't mean to take leave, but to show that be is always at home in ease the country can beinduced to tali again.