Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 October 1887 — Page 4

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6. 1SS7. ; WASHINGTON OFFICE 513 Fourteenth St. T. S. Heath. Correspondent. JTEW YORK OFFICE 104 Temple Court, Corner Beekman end Nassau streets. Telephone Cell. Business OfKee 238 Editorial Rooms. .....242 "I am not willine to trust what interests I have as citizen and tax payer to such men as Coy and hia followers, even u tDey ao carry in their pockets a certificate of good character from Mr. English and other reputable citizens. I am free lo say I do not like Mr. Coy. I do not like men who are like Mr. Coy. and I have a Tery poor opinion of mea who like Coy or his pang." -W. p. Fisabaek. "I am heartily in favor of every measure that will add to the credit and to the (rood name of our city. I am heartily opposed to aoy measure that will detract from its credit and its good came. I believe with all my heart that the success of what is commonly known as the 'Coy ticket io the coming election would be a great shame a srreat disgrace, and therefore I am op posed to it." Rev. Dr. McLeod. . "I know Dr. Edenharter, and personally like him, bat I shoald be sorry to see him elected Uaror under the existing circumstances, for the Teason that he represents an element which, if It gets control of the city government, will encourage 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 hands in this contest. The victory should be so great and so. marked that no one party can Slaim it. It shoald be so overwhelmingly in favor of law and order, and decency and virtue, that all good citizens can rejoice in it" He v. jDr. JlcLeod. "The same old crowd that i have been BUYING FOR TEARS." 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 hare bought up a few leaders with nominations or prom 'JKs of political swag, bat the rank and file never were and never can be bought by the little trickster. The Post (Labor Or-E0-"It's boodle that talks in politics, and ho hasn't got no money." Such was the objection urged by Sim Coy to the nomination of an honest working-man on the Democratic ticket. When the boodle crowd places a -working man on their ticket it is safe to assume that they expect to control him in the event of election. Morning Post (Labor OrMr. Powderly's speeches bear no evidence of having been taken out of the encyclopedia. TnE triumph of the Coy gang in the coming election would be the worst advertisement Indianapolis could possibly have. And now it is eaid Indianapolis will have a winning base-ball club next season. Hope springs eternal in the human breast. A CITY is not built up by turning over its government to the criminal classes. Capital, labor and enterprise are not attracted that way. ' ' ST. GALL, Switzerland, seems to be a favorite meeting place for Socialists. When they come over here thay bring their gall with them. Just at present we do not think of any easier way for one to make $100 than by furnishing the citizens' committee with evidence of bribery by the Coy gang on election day. THE President yesterday treated the Chicago people to some startling utterances conserning the early settlement, incorporation, and population of the city. The gift of ex temporaneous oratory in some men is truly surprising. ' "The old attendants must go, d n 'em," says Dr. Thomas, assistant superintendent of the Insane Hospital. And they do go; to be succeeded by new men whose knowledge of nursing was evidently gained" in a hog-killing establishment. It seems to be Assistant Superintendent Thomas's impression that it was a woman who betrayed the secret of the scalding of McConahy. If the guilty person is discovered, will she be drawn and quartered, or will she be put in a bath tub and the hot water turned ont The law-abiding citizens are becoming aroused to the danger of permitting the whisky ring to gain a stronger foothold in the city. If everyone will do his duty, not only in voting and seeing that his neighbor votes, but in preventing the perpetration of frauds, the gang will be defeated. Senator Van Voorhees Bays President Cleveland is one of the greatest men of his day. This is a discreet remark, and one not calculated to arouse controversy. The Senator is not familiar with the avoirdupois of all the great men, and is careful not to commit himself by rash assertions. And so the Andover controversy is to be "settled" by a compromise consisting in the withdrawal from the institution of an olddoctrine trustee and a new-doctrine professor. This may be conclusive; but what the wondering publio would like to know is what becomes of the second-probation theory in the shuffle. The Torter-Denny Club, in organizing systematically to assist the committee of one hundred to guard against trickery and fraud on election day, has pursued the right course. If every voter who favors honest government will transform himself into a 'detective ' on next Tuesday there will be little chance for the rascals. . Perhaps the most exclusive and select convention on record was that of the National Reform party at Syracuse, New York, on Tuesday. There was only one delegate present, the other member of the party being unavoidably detained at home. The attending delegate indefinitely postponed himself, formed a hollow square and departed ' from the city. . The young fiends at Williams College who have brought a fellow-student to death's door by hazing, might have served an apprenticeship in the Indiana Insane Hospital. Th.ey placed their victim in a bath tub and poured ice water on hira until he was throughly chilled, after which he was compelled to dress himself In wet clothing. The young man is the son of the well-known lawyer, Joseph II. Choate, of New York," and thelatter announces hU intention of prosecuting all who had a

hand in the outrage. The college faculty has joined with Mr. Choate in offering large rewards for their detection, and there i3 greater reason to believe that justice will reach the young rascals than exists in the case of McConahy, since the murderer of the latter is shielded by the authorities at the Insane Hospital. WHY 18 THIS7 Why is it that every movement for the enforcement of law, every suggestion in the direction of purifying politics and elevating the tone of public affairs, should arouse the wrath of Democratic papersf They seem to take every suggestion of the kind as an attack on the Democratic party, and resent it as if it were a personal insult. Surely, not all Democrats are opposed to honest politics and the enforcement of law and order. Surely, a considerable number of that party are as much interested in good government and good morals as the members of any other party. There are honest, self-respecting men in the Democratic party who have no sympathy with corruption in politics, and who do sympathize with the cause of law and order. Why i3 it then that every movement and suggestion of that kind so excites and enrages the party organs? It must be because the organs do not represent the better sentiment of the party, and are wholly in sympathy with the lawdefying and law-breaking element. There is in this city an organization called the Evangelical Ministers' Association, embracing nearly all of the Protestant ministers in the city. It is non-sectarian, and its discussions and proceedings relate to such matters as pertain to the field of religious and moral reform outside of denominational work. At a meeting held a few days ago, attended

by twenty or more ministers, the Rev. R. V. Hunter read a paper which he had been requested to prepare, in which the nearest approach to politics was the following: "The election laws were broken in this city only last autumn. There has been no denial of the fact that there was a changing o the tally-sheets. There is not much question as to who the forgers were, and although the courts failed to find the guilty parties, yet the court of public opinion has them located. These leaders in lawlessness seem to have g, large influence among certain people. Their influence and their violations seem to be too much for the safety or the healthfulness of our city. We need a standard of public opinion that will relegate this class of criminals to the shades, where they properly belong." Every word of this is true, and there is nothing in it to offend any honest man. Mr. Hunter never uttered truer words or sounder moral teaching from his pulpit. The statement is one that can be indorsed by every preacher in the city, Protestant or Catholic, Jew or gentile, and approved by every honest man, irrespective of party. It is a non-partisan and non-personal statement. There is no disputing the facts stated, nor the conclusion that we need a public opinion that will "relegate this class of criminals to the shades where they properly belong." The Sentinel attacks the paper and its au thor in a very abusive editorial a column and a naif long. it evidently construes the presentation of the statistics of vice and the suggestion of the enforcement of law as an attack on the Coy gang. Perhaps Mr. Hunter erred in not exposing the vices of ancient Rome and the political corruptions of the republic of Venice. Possibly he might even have ventured to deprecate the growth of immorality in European cities and the corrupt practices cf Boss Tweed in New York. Rut when he discussed lawlessness and vice in Indianapolis, and denounced the tally-sheet forgeries of last fall, he became an "offensive partisan," and exposed himself to the wrath of the Coy gang and their organ. In proposing a law and order league for the better enforcement of law and the punishment of crime Mr. Hunter touched them on the raw. THE Sentinel of Sept. 3 published an inter view witn jfostmaster Mmunds, at Jlainfield, who was represented as "one of the most substantial and best-informed Democrats in the State." Being asked if Congressman Matson was his choice for Governor, he replied: "Decidedly no. Congressman Matson is a man of no principle whatever? His constitu ency is thoroughly disgusted with him. His nomination to bis present position was secured through dishonesty. - There are many better and abler Democrats in the State than Matson who deserve the governorship. and they will be named when the proper time arrives." In due time this came to the knowledge of the Congressman, who cracked his whip over the postmaster's head with such vigor that the Sentinel of yesterday contained a retraction, in which the offending postmaster stated "that he had always held Colonel Matson in the highest esteem; has voted for him, and entertained him to the best of his ability when in town." The incident showsthat.it is not safe for a postmaster to speak disrespectfully of a Democratic Congressman under this "civil-service reform" administration. The Morning Post, the workingman'g or gan, says: "Mr. Oburn's card, published in yesterday morniug'B Post, lets a ray of light on Dr. Edenharter'a career, and sets him forth in his true character before the workingmen of this city. Almost on the heels of joining the Knights of Labor he came before the public as an ofiice seeker, and few men have played their political cards more adroitly to catch the labor vote. Yet this man, who was selected as a candidate for the responsible office of Mayor by Sim Cov: who stands on no plat form except Sim Coy; who is making his cam paign on money gathered for that purpose bv Sim Coy, has the impudence to set his record above that of Walter YY. Davy a man whose life has been a perfect tvpe of citizenship whose service in the labor cause covers a period of over twenty-five years! It requires no small amount of assurance on the part of the young doctor, who has been an office-seek er ever since joiuing the order, to charge Davy with joining for the purpose of getting an of fice. Dr. Edenharter has already been honored beyond his due, especially when it comes to weighing any claims he may advance against those of Walter W. Davy." TnE city of Nashville gave a majority of about 30,000 against prohibition in the recent election. In the Michigan election the city of Detroit did the same thing. These two instances indicate the utter impracticability of a prohibition amendment or law. Where re striction of the saloon is most needed a pro hibitory law would be a dead letter in the face of an overwhelmingly hostile sentiment; and where the least restriction is needed,

where prohibition would be carried by the largest vote, another and a different remedy would be ample to shut out the saloon.

It can not be possible that the people of Indianapolis, the capital city of Indiana, will turn over to Sim Coy and his followers the control and management of the municipal affairs of the city. They are no more fit to have the custody and control of the money, morals and affairs of the city than Bernhamer, one of the gang, ia to be guardian of young children. . And the Circuit Court ha3 passed upon that question. Emperor William is said to have indorsed the report concerning the Schnaebel affair: "France must be accorded what she rightfully claims, but nothing more. In the future take good care not to place a man of my age in a position that would make it necessary for him to apologize." Our uncle Fritz has not been used to apologizing much, and does not like to begin so late in life. It is one of the lessons not easily learned. One William Welch, an eccentric lawyer, of Minneapolis, has been indicted for criminal libel of Postmaster-general Vilas. Welch published an article in his own paper charg-" ing Colonel Vilas with assisting to wreck an insurance company and profiting largely by the transaction. He tells a singular story, and says the Postmaster-general must disprove it or leave the Cabinet. The latter proposes to dieprove it. General Master Workman Potvderly said in an- interview at Minneapolis, "the principle that I wish to inculcate in the minds of all workingmen is that they should attend to their local politics and the affairs of State will take care of themselves." This is good doctrine, and we commend it to the workingmen of Indianapolis. They will have a chance to apply it next Tuesday by voting against the Coy gang. : . Secrets will leak out. The story comes from the Government Printing Office that President Cleveland spent two weeks in writing and revising the speeches to be delivered during his trip. A high-school boy who could not prepare speeches equal to those delivered in this city and St. Louis in an hour and a half, and with his hands tied behind him, ought to be sent to the foot of his-class and would be. T. V. Powderly: "It is the principle that I wish to inculcate in the minds of all " workingmen that they should attend to their local politics, and the affairs of state will take care of themselves." If Mr. Powderly werein Indianapolis he would localize his advice by urging every working-man to use all his efforts to defeat the Coy gang. The labor leader has no friendliness for the saloon element. The Sentinel's reproduction of Mr. D. M. Ransdell's Noblesville's dispatch, sent inlSS2, 13 a boomerang. Mr. Ransdell was heading ipg off Democratic repeaters, .employed by Democrats for that purpose. The like tactics are being employed by the- gang now; only that this time the fraudulent voters are being quartered in cheap boarding-houses, instead of being sent to the city on the day of election. ONE of the gang organs says there are 30,000 votes in Indianapolis. There have never been cast more than 20,000 votes in any election in this city. The figures are 'put this high by the gang in order to cover up their expected "fine work" in fraudulent voting, double voting, voting four or five tickets, possible false counts, and perhaps more forgeries of tally-sheets. AND now a censorious press is inquiring by what right President Cleveland had his speeches printed in the Government Printing Office at public expense. It was highly commendable for the noble "reformer" to buy his own railroad tickets, but some virtue would have been shown in paying the printer. THE Chicago "reception" to President Cleveland seems to have been one entirely worthy of the bulls and bears of the biggest gambling-house in the world. As near as can be judged from the report, the reception was something like the one given by the Chinese Minister in Washington. Just now there is a cloud hanging over Indianapolis which the light of a good many natural-gas wells could net penetrate. We trust the cloud will be dissipated by the result of the election next Tuesday. Speaking of the rivalry between Chicago and St. Louis, President Cleveland said, in his speech in the latter city, in that free, oft-hand manner which is so noticeable in his public addresses: "Both of tbse cities exemplify in a wonderful decree how completely and how speedily American energy and business ingenuity utilizes every available element of municipal growth, and how every useful type of the world's population is assimilated to the grand purpose of American expansion." This smacks a little of Lament's style, and the proof-reader at the Government Printing Office in Washington will probably recognize it, when he read it, as something that he has seen before. But, no, these things cannot be, for it has been announced that the speeches are impromptu, the overflow of a mind bubbline over, with facts, figures of speech and happy phrases, and it would be unkind to attribute tEe foregoing stilted state ment to be the .result of study and rehearsal. Perish the thought! Grover is nothing if not spontaneous. Thk Associated Press man who was graciously permitted to accompany the presidential train. while special correspondents were excluded, is evidently making a tremendous effort to live up to his privileges. The President, who is supposed to revise the report, is doubtless pie ased with the narration of the patty details of his trip, and if be is happy, the general public, which does not take time to read the account, ought not to complain. Thk free advertisement of the dramatic star is, it appears, to relate to opium-eating instead of diamond stealing this season. The effectiveness and artistic finish of the "ad." would be increased however, if the denial of the star's weakness were delayed, say for one day, instead of following the first report while the wire ia hot. The New York Sun continues to unmercifully prod Sir. Cleveland for his cyclopedic plagiarisms. The President unrolled another of his ponderous performances at Chicago yesterday.

THE GANG IS GETTING MAD

Fear of Defeat Causes Candidate Edenharter to Lose His Equanimity. How He Talks and Works Expressions of Democrats Who Are Dismasted with the Ganj What the Fijrht Means to Coj. A significant feature in the municipal canvass is that the Coy gang, in its desperation, is becoming mad. The continual detailing in speech and press of its nefarious political methods has had an effect in awakening all good, citizens to the danger which threatens the city. From Edenharter to the men who were immediately responsible for the tally-sheet forgeries, no decent man who is opposed to a control of the municipal government by this disreputable element is free from abuse. From every one of them, Coy included, can be heard expressions of the most virulent character. Bernhamer, heaping on them a vile epithet, said yesterday that not a minister anywhere was any better than, he. Rev. Mr. Hunter came in for special mention. Bernhamer characterized him as a fool,, and what he said as bosh and buncombe. When a reporter met the defendant in the tally-sheet conspiracy trial and asKed him what he thought of the coming election, he held his wrath in check and exclaimed: "These ministers have no right to interfere in the campaign." "But they are citizens?" "Yes, and as citizens they have the right to wnfA- Vi a f . all . bail. . .a , This is akin to the ravings of Edenharter, whose assertions that Coy is an angel with widespread wings, compared with the ministers, is referred to as the utterances of a candidate gone made in face of defeat. Edenharter, it is said, has never taken the time to visit many large manufacturing establishments. His canvass is made solely in saloons and places where the saloon influence prevails. Their personal solicitations are varied by speaking at night in certain parts of the city where' his ideas and expressions In his zeal for the Liquor League and Coyism run unchecked in , the bitterest denunciation of those who favor law and order. Bnt he has another dodge, and that is a letter in which he begs for votes on account of his record in the Council. Inclosed in each is a sheet of pasters, and these be asks to have pieced over Mayor Denny's name, if the recipient, after a personal examination of Edenharters record, finds that bis actions "have been consistent with a proper regard for the best interests of the city," and that there has been a determination on his part "to do that only which is right and in accordance with law." He is sending this appeal to reputable voters, because, as he states, "I may not have an opportunity to see and ' converse with you in person." The gang demands his time and services, and if there if any interest Edenharter has that does not belong to . Coy, the people would like to know it. The trade between them can be none other than that Edenharter agrees to do Coy's bidding in the event Coy elects him Mayor. The doctor's electioneering methods, day after day, are showing indisputably the fact of his purchase by the gang bosses in the interest of the Liquor League and lawlessness. Edenharter stepped into a Delaware-street saloon not long ago and said to the owner of the place: "You vote for me and if I am elected there will be no trouble about your selling liquor on Sunday." It was asked the other night, in a party of Democrats and Republicans, what would be the particular evil to the city if Edenharter was elected. "I will tell you," said one of the former. "The Coy gang differs in nothing from the McIDoaald gang in Chicago. It means plunder at irho expense of the tax payers. But that is not a!!. The worst dives in the city will be put under tribute to the boss. Once in power, through Edenharter, Coy ran favor the criminal classes and law breakers to the widest limit. He 'will run houses of prostitution, gambling dens and saloon dives as the resources of his political power. In the meantime he and his followers will get rich at their expense, and the interests of the decent people of the city will be mercilessly enbjected to the devices of the vicious. In this election the people have a chance of defeating the gang by not failing to vote, but if the opportunity is neglected the work will be harder two years hence, and harder still in after elections if law and order does not then prevail. The longer a gang is in power the stronger it grows, until relief will be forced upon the city tbroueh riot and bloodshed or by the good people uniting at the polls for self preservation. , The latter can be done more easily now than at any time, for the gang must some day be crushed, and the sooner the better' A citizen from one of the western wards said yesterday: "There is entering into this eam- ' paign scmithiog more than Coyism. That, of course, is taken into account chief y, but I find many Democrats who are leaving their party in this flebt on account of Green Smith's proceedings last winter in the Senate. Cleveland's treatment of the soldiers is also unfavorably considered, but the burden Sim Coy seeks to place upon the party is what they want to first throw off. The Union Labor ticket will get a large proportion of this vote." "I nod." said another citizen, "a marked dislike among the Irishmen to O'Donnell. This is caused by the indecent baste with which he was nominated after the death of Mr. Shield's. The eane has made every effort possible to allay the feeling and restore the vote which would have been given to Shields to the gang ticket, but it has failed to a very large extent. While Mr. Shields's friends were not as demonstrative as they were in their denunciation of the gang, hundreds have quietly resolved to have their revenge by voting against Edenharter and O'Donnell. My impression of the campaign is that the gang candidates have no solid support outside of the saloons and the hoodlums controlled by Coy." A man who is a careful political observer said: T think the strength of the Union Labor vote will surprise many who -are basing their estimates upon the representations of the gang. " Coy and his followers refer to it contemptuously, but at the same time they admit the election, looked at from their side, will be close. The Union Labor people claim accessions day after day to their cause, and I have no reason to doubt their statements, for a large manufacturer told me that out of forty Democrats in his empioy be knew of only three who would vote for Edenharter. The rest, he says, will divide their votes between Davy and Denny. At no time within the past three weeks has the election of the latter been morn certain. All that is required now is to get every citizen who is against the gang to go to the polls on Tuesday." If any saloon or resort for the vicious has not been taxed to pay the campaign expenses of the gang, it is because it accidentally escaped Coy's notice. This is hardly possible, for as hard as the little boss has worked in past elections, it is said he never put forth his energy as he is now doing. At the Grand Hotel last evening, this was referred to, when a gentleman remarked: "It is no wonder. It is a matter of his political life or death. His interest is not only that of the Liquor League, but he thinks Edennarter's election may help bim ont of his trouble in the courts. The disagreement of the jury in the first conspiracy trial. Coy has sense enough to know, was only a brief release from the courts. He knows he will be tried again on the conspiracy indictment, as well as on the indictment against him individually in procuring the tally-stieets upon which the forgeries were made. He wants to go into thene trials with the prestige of baying been re-elected to the Council and having elected a Mayor and city clerk. The appeal for vindication is the gang's watch-word. Last fall, I think, he gave about two-thirds of his time to the campaign, but il he is now letting an hour go by without his consulting with and ordering one or more of his hoodlum lieutenants, I don't know it, and I have good opportunities for watching the movements of the little boss. He is using every means, and will put in operation every pernicious force in politics on election day to elect Edenharter, and try to save himself." While the gang is keeping up to the work it is receiving no active help from Democrats who are not directly in sympathy with Coy. Ross Clark was seen, last night, giving orders to a hackman to call him this morning to take him to

an earl v train. lie turned to an acquaintance and said, "I am going over into Ohio to visit my

father for a few days." "Will you return in time to vote!" "Perhaps, but I don't care about that. I am not anxious to vote." A few minutes after this Congressman Bynum was led into political talk, when he pointed to one of his friends with the remark, "I sometimes become so disgusted with my party that I feel like giving up politics altoge ther. v hen the ballot-boxes are given to the in spectors on Monday each box will contain a printed synopsis of the election laws relating thedutiesof inspectors and judges. It will give in substance every section of the statutes gov erning the receiving, depositing and counting of votes. It will state explicitly how the " tallysheets are to be preserved and retnrned to the propet officer. No opportunity will be given on this occasion for an inspector or judge to plead ignorance of the law. He can have it before him every minute during the depositing and counting of ballots. This synopsis is being prepared by city attorney Taylor, who, with acting city clerk Fanning, will sign it as something in the order of official instructions. Yesterday the committee of one hundred put ont its posters containing the law against bribery and offering a reward of 4100 for the detection of any violation of the law. The committee is daily in receipt of letters from citizens offering their services as watchers at the polls. In every precinct there will be scores of men whose self-imposed duty will be to keep an eye on the boodle-agents of the gang. No voter suspected of selling bis vote will be able to cast it without the closeet surveillance. The colored Republican voters of the First ward have a very active membership of fifty in their club, the officers of which are: President, Wm. Jackson; secretarv, Allen Dudley, and ser-geant-at-arms, E. W. Hawkins. 1 The gKDg are continuing their work at the Indiana Hospital for the insane. Mrs. Fairchild was discharged yesterday. . She was a ward matron,. one of the best if not the best of those holding that position. She was suspected of being a Republican, but what relevancy her politics could have in the matter, in view of the fact that she had no vote, is past finding out and would perhaps even trouble Harrison and Gapen to explain. The Republicans who met at Pfafflin's Hall on Tuesday evening to organize for work on election day in their wards and precincts, will meet again to-night in Superior Court-room No. 2, when further measures will be adopted. They will provide far a systematic watching of the polls irrespective of the excellent system adopted by the committee of one hundred. Many of the wards under Republican organization are in first-class condition, where the block system to bring out every voter has been adopted. A large number of blocks have already been canvassed, and in no instance has there been fonnd an indifference to the importance of the issue. In these wards it is thought that no Republican or other citizen favoring the rule of decent and law-observing people, will fail to vote. By this work the spirit of resistance to Coyism and the reign of crime is strengthening day after day. There will be, to night, a Republican, rally of the South-side voters, at the Virginia-avenue Rink, which will be addressed by Wm. P. Fishback, Hon. Stanton J. Peelle and others. To-morrow evening colored Republicans and others will meet at Zion A. M. E. Church, on Michigan street, to hear speeches from Hon. John L. Griffith, Dr. Boyd and others. The president of the meeting will be Dr. S. A. Elbert, and the vice-presidents Revs. Morris, Farmer, Preston, Price, Slaymore. Owens, Green and Gazzaway, and J. B. Bagsby, A. Dudley, F. Daniels and Jay Franklin. The Democratic Repeaters from Noblesville. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: Previous to the election ot 1882 I received instructions from D. M. Ransdell, then chairman of the Republican connty central committee, to look out for Democratic repeater from Noblesville. On the day of the election he sent me a message by one of our carriers to, look out for certain men whose names had been telephoned to Mr. Ransdell from Hamilton county. This dispatch was delivered to Edgar A. Brown, the then Democratio committeman of the Sixth ward, and I did not know of its existence until months afterwards. Mr. Brown and the Sentinel now seek to make capital out of this dispatch, while there is nothing in it for them, and the facts made known show conclusively that Mr. Raosdell was seeking to keep out illegal voting and that Mr. Edgar A. Brown, by keeping this message from me, was seeking to let these Democratio repeaters into the city. Three of the four names, as published in the Sentinel of this morning, are Democrats, and Mr. Edgar A. Brown knows them to be Democrats and knew they were Democrats at the time he got the dispatch, and he knew these men were coming to Indianapolis to assist the Democratic party in its duty work here, and he also knew the meaning of Mr. Ransdell's words, and he knew they meant three less Democratic votes, if the dispatch had been delivered to the proper owner, therefore he carefully kept what was intended for me and now seeks through the Sentinel to put a false meaning and lying construction upon Mr. Ransdell's instructions to me. If the Sentinel folks will take pains to look into the facts of the dispatch sent to me by Mr. Ransdell, they can easily rake up a "lee tie'' more Democratic frand. Ethan A. Bbown. Mr. Ransdell and the Negra Repeaters. The News of last night says: The Sentinel to-day reproduces a copy of a message issued by Dan M. Ransdell as chairmanin the campaign of 18S2, relative to certain supposed illegal voters on their way from Noblesville to this city, and attempts to make it appear that Ransdell was seeking to use them for illegal purposes. The Sentinel fails in making the point, as the boot is on the other foot. Those instructions were issued to Ethan A. Brown, and he states that a courier was sent to him in the Sixth ward, but the message was delivered to Edgar A. Brown, whose initials are the same, and that the latter kept it, though knowing it was not intended for him. Some of the men named in the dispatch were Democrats and were coming to the eity in the interest of the Democratic party. Among them was one Republican coming on business, but Ransdell supposed him to be a Democratic repeater, and so included him with the rest. Mr. Ransdell wanted these men watched and challenged, but this was prevented by the message falling into the bands of Edgar A. Brown. Etban A. Brown also asserts that Mr. Ranedell was conducting an honorable campaign, and that the above . is the fact and that Edgar A. Brown will now admit the same, if he will but tell the truth. Formation of a L.w and Order Leaeae. Every man interested in the formation of a Law and Order League is requested to be present at the adjourned ministers' meeting, to be held in the Y. M. C. A. rooms on Thursday, Dec 6, at 10 o'clock a. m. People, without regard to party affiliations or creed, will be welcome. Committee. The 15. & O. Telegraph. New York, Oct. 5. A Wall-street circular says: "The street this afternoon is flooded with talk about the Baltimore & Ohio telegraph sale. A member of the executive committee of the Western Union Telegraph Company is given as authority for the statement that alt the preliminaries for the transfer of the Baltimore & Ohio Telegraph Company were arranged at a meeting to-day, and nothing remains except the formal approval of the stockholdera" to close the deal. The Western Union management already have sufficient proxies to guarantee a ratification of the agreement, and the bulk of the Baltimore & Ohio stockholders have bound themselves to vote for it on their side. No details can b obtained as to the price, but it is understood that the stock of the Baltimore & Ohio telerraph is to be exchanged for an equal amount of Western Union stoek." The exeeutive committee of the Western Union board of director met to-day. After the meeting Russell Sage said that only routine business bad been transacted. Mr. Gould said that nothing had been done about the purchase of the Baltimore & Ohio lints, but declined to say whether or not the subject was discussed. Th Lot a I Legion. 8peclal to the Indianapolis Journal. New Yokk. Oct. 5. The New York commandery of the military order of the Loyal Legion held its annual dinner at Delroon'co's to-night. In the absence of the commanJer, General Schofield, Captain Erban, U. S. N., presided. Gen. Wager Swayne read a paper on 'Reminiscences of the War;" Gen. Horatio i King sang the "Battle Cry of Freedom," and ex-President Hayes made a speech. General Sherman also made a short address.

HISTORY OF CIIRIST CHURCH

Interesting Reminiscences By a Few of the Early Workers in the Parish. Dr. Ingraham's Address on "Woman's Work," and Reviews by Others of What Has Been Done by the Women of tne ChurchIn the semi-centennial celebration of Christ Church, yesterday was devoted to women's work io the church and in connection with it. In the morning Rev. Ingram delivered a discourse on "Woman's Work." He said: "Woman's work begins with woman's life with womanhood and ends only with her death. No; it lives after death. It is inwrought into everything on earth. Like the warm, cheering, lifegiving rays of the sunshine, that penetrate everywhere, and give life, and beauty, and color to all things, so is woman's work, and that which is a part of her work her influence. It is the work of love, and love never faileth. It begins at home in the family. It begins with the mother's work. To the liitle child the mother is as God. The Lord said to Moses, 'Thou shalt be to Aaron instead of God. A mother is to her liitle one in the place of God. Her face is to her little child as Heaven. Her voice as the voice of an angel, and she, who gave it life, as its model and moulder for eternity. The father speaks authoritatively and outwardly. The mother inbreathes her life, her soul, her being into the child's lifdi and soul and being. The mother makes the; man. When the boy leaves home to go out into the world, it is the mother to whom his thoughts turn with yearning and homesickness. ' Woman's work will never cease, for its end is the regeneration of the world. Man is strong to labor, woman to love. It comes from God. God is love. Love is the atmosphere of heaven, and it must be again the atmosphere of earth. Christ came to restore it to us. By his love must every valley which separates mankind be filled, and every mountain and hill which barricades one nation from another be brought low, and the crooked made straight, and the rough ways smooth, and 'all flesh see the salvation of God.' And much of this will be 'woman's work.' Already she has done wonderfully. She, with all her natural timidity, with sneers and ridicule attacking her, she has taken bold of the education of women and lifted it up; she has entered the college of medicine a proper place for her, and mitigated the suffering of her sex. She has even entered the courts of law where her influence may yet be felt. She has engaged in the defense of better wages for her sex. so that a woman doing the work of a man - shall have the wages of a roan. She, the great sufferer from intoxicating liquors, has dared to take hold of the question with both hands. Bantering and laughter have been cast upon her, but lika Deborah, the prophetess, when the men of Israel were mightily oppressed by the King of Canaan, and sat still doing nothing, until she a mother in Israel arose and delivered them from their slavery, so women of to-day while until lately the men of our country have suffered themselves to be mightily oppressed by the king of intoxicating . liquors she, woman, has arisen in her weakcess, turned her weakness into power, and is giving liberty and rest to the enslaved men ot America. But woman's work is not yet done, it , is only begun. Wars must cease entirely. The human raee must be melted into one brother-' hood. Love musfdo this work. Christ's gospel must be not only preached but practiced, fand it must begin its work at home. It is well to send our missionaries to the heathen. But it is better to let the heathen see the practical operation of the Christian law of love, the law of brotherhood, the law of really loving one's neighbor as one's self, the law of ministering to others as "Christ catne not to be ministered unto but to minister," the law of living not t on's self, of each man looking not upon his own, interests ouly, but to the interests of others; the law that we are not our own, but Christ's; that nothing in our bands is ours, but His; that all we, His disciples high and low, learned and ignorant, rich and poor are "brethren" Christ's brethren and therefore our brethren. Christ's people must do this work. Woman has done much but must do more, not only in regard to the wage question and the temperance question, the Sunday question and the impurity Question. My friends, may Ha who holdeth the seven stars in His right hand, who walReth in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks, tho churehes, accept and bless your works and - labor that proceedeth love, and give to you as faithful workers to eat of the tree of life which is in the midst of the paradise of God." The afternoon meeting was strictly a woman's meeting, all the addresses being made by women, and many interesting matters In the history of the church were brought to memory by their addresses. The first paper read was an extract from an autobiographical sketch of Mrs. Elizabeth M. Martin, recently deceased, which re counted the early experiences of the charge. bhe says: "We moved to Indianapolis in ths year 182L In the year 1843 there were not more than a dozen baptized Episcopalians in town. We would meet in a small room oa Washington street, over Houston Talbptt's jew elry store, and would have the service of the church. William H. Morrison, now deceased, would remember the little band that met in that room. They commenced and built a goodsized frame church where Christ Church now stands. It was in the year 1844 or 1845, I don't remember which. I think the first rector we had was a Mr. Hunter, and the next Mr. Britton." The next paper was by Miss McDonongb. on the work of the young ladies of the church. Sher said: "About twenty-five years ago, it seems that ths married and young ladies worked together in one society, meeting in the after noon with their sewing. The young gentlemen came in to tea 1 be first society of eirls was formed from Mrs. Talbot's Sunday-school class. By the sale of fancy-work they raised enough money to buy the communion service. Satur day, Nov. 3, 1881, The Gleaners were organ ized, with seventeen members. Iheee girls, br their work, earned enough to buy the organ for the chapel. Nov. 16, 1883, the Young Ladies' Guild was organized. There were thres reasons for organizing this guild first, to excite an interest for church work among the young people; second, to assist in every way we could in the worK of the ehureh; and third, to promote sociability. In the four yearn the guild has been organized, it has raised $703.49 for the use of the church. On Oct 4. 1886. an Altar Guild of seven ladies was formed. The work of this guiM consists in having the elements of Holy Communion properly placed at every celebration; to see that the linen is nicely laundrled; to change altar cloths as the church's season's chance; to have tbe churcn decorated on festival days, and to place flowers on tbe altar as often as it is possible to get them. On May 1, of this Tear, tbe older girls of the Sundav school were organized into a guild called tbe Willing Workers. They do sewing and fancy work for the benefit of any church work they may choose." . Tbe MiSBion Church has had two. societies. The first, known as St. George's Mission Guild, devoted itself to raising money for the mission. Tbe present society, known as Tbe Gleaners, is engaged in similar work. On last Friday a society not strictly within the church, but connected with it. was organized. It is called the St. Cyprians Missionary Society. Its first work will be to tack comforts for the Newsboy ' Home. Money raised thereafter will be con tributed chiefly to theorpbanage fund. The next paper was by Mrs. R. R. Parker. on tbe Charities or (jnrist unurcn. tone said that the first church school was opened in the building now known as tbe Pyle House. The principal teacher was the Rev. Samuel Johnson, third rector of Christ Church. He was assisted by bis sister and Miss Smallwood. The school was called St. Mary's. It was quite successful for a few years. Airs. Jobn luove, Airs. Kegmald Hall, Miss McChesney, and Mrs. William Mansur were among the pupils. The greaterpart of tbe charitable work of the church has been done since 1865, because the financial condition of the church did not admit of much more than personal exertions in outsids work prior to that time. Among other work done by, or aided in by Christ church, was the relief of Southern refugees just after tbe war. the building of the Mission Church of tbe Holy Innocents in 1866, tbe buildine of Grace Church in 1864, and the building of St George's Misbion Church in IS 74. The last work began in cottage services at the bouse of Mrs. Gilbert, and were continued at the house of Mrs. Wilson, at the corner of Ten nessee and South streets. They next rented a room over the Rolling-mill Grocery, in which a Sunday-school was held, and later on, meetings of the mothers ot the Sunday-school children. Much work has been done by this mission for both the spiritual and temporal welfare of tbe people in tbe southwestern part of the citv. Tbe next paper was by Miss Upfold. It was a sketch of the earlier bishops who have been connected with the work in the diocese. The first mentioned was Bishop Chase, of Ohio sud Illinois, whose labors extended into Indiana, and who was consecrated in ISI'0. Jackson Kemper, first missionarv bishop over Indiana, came in 1835, and was Bishop of tbe Northwest. On account of the vast extent of his diocese ha was sometimes called "bishop cf all out-of-doors." He traveled constaotly and preached whenever opportunity offered. There ware four persons called to the episcopate of Indiana after its foundation, all of whom declined. Ths fifth was Bishop Upfold, who came on a visit to

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