Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 October 1887 — Page 4

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THE DAILY JOURNAL. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7. 18S7. WASHINGTON OFFICE 513 FourtMnth St. P. S. K.IATK. Correspoudani. fEW TOK1C OFFICE 104 Tempi Coort, Corner Beokman and Nassau streets.

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can be found at the following places: LONDON American -Exchange in Europe, 449 fcu-aod. 7ARIS American Exchange in Paris, 35 Boulevard des Capueinea. KEW YORK Gedney House and Windsor Hotels. 5HICAGO Palmer HouseT" nNCINNATIJ. P. HawleV & Co., 154 Vine street. LOUISVILLE C T. Dearing, northwest corner Third and Je&erson streets. ST. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot and ctautiiern Hotel. WASHINGTON. D. 0. Riggs House and Ebbitt iionaa. Telephone Calls. .Business Office .238 Editorial Rooms 242 The animal were all loose in Chicago. A GOOD many men will vote for Mr. Denny because of the enemies be bas made. A good deal of the Democratic campaign ammunition is in tbe shape of boomerang-. Law and order against free whisky and general rascality, is the issue next Tuesday. SIM Coy is playing a utsperate game, but if good citizens will do their duty bis defeat will be accomplished. It is a bad omen for the gang when prominent and reputable Democrats leave town on the eve of election day. There are Browns and Browns. It was not Ethan A. who figured to disadvantage in the Noblesville repeater episode. John J. Cooper, W. F. A. Bernhamer and Sim Coy will hardly elect Edenharter by mudilinging at the clergymen of the city. The gang is to have an argus-eyed opponent next Tuesday. All the anti-Coy voters will be on guard with their eyes wide open. Mem. for the Sentinel: It is hardly safe to publish bits of ancient history as campaign documents until all the facts have been ascertained. The "Noblesville repeaters" dropped out of the Sentinel in great . haste when they were found to have been Democratic repeaters. TnE committee of one hundred will have so many assistants on election day that it might properly be called a committee of. several thousand. The Baltimore & Ohio telegraph is a thing of the past. It has been swallowed up, bodily, by the Western Union. The dicker was coneluded yesterday. President Cleveland snubbed Governor Oglesby, of Illinois. Like Governor Foraker, Governor Oglesby fought in the war against "the Confederate States." Barriers were ineffectual in restraining the onslaught on the President at Chicago. The wild-eyed Sucker was out in his might And was not to be roped in. Senator Van Voorhees tells a reporter that he believes the published interview with his son Jim to be a lie. The public, however, will wait for a denial from Jim. Ex-Treascrer Cooper somewhat improves upon Dr. Edenharter in an indecent and Ecaodalous attack upon the ministers of the city. The Doctor should take the ex-Treasurer with him in his canvass. The prosecution against Lord Mayor Sullivan, of Dublin, failed yesterday, and the proceedings against editor O'Brien were dismissed because of some technicality. The government that fails is lost. There is reason to believe that Mr. Cleveland will go around Ohio on his way home. Even were he to cross it in the night, echoes of Governor Foraker's account of his Decoration-day fishing trip would be apt to give bim the nightmare. .. Candidate Edenharter makes his canvass principally among saloons and places where the saloon element prevails. And yet he has the audacity to claim that if elected he mill administer the law according to the best interests of the city. Not being a township election it will hardly be possible for the gang to vote the male patients of the Insane ITospital next Tuesday, but it may be as well to keep an eye on the ex-barkeepers and bummers whom they have put into the institution as attend- ' ants. Candidate Edenharter does not visit the manufacturing establishments, but electioneers among the men who congregate in and about the saloons. He knows that he can hope for little support from honest and intelligent laboring men who have an interest In the prosperity of tbe city. There is no doubt that the most conservative and politically apathetic citizens have become aroused to the seriousness of the issues involved in the coming election. The results will so closely affect personal and private as well as publio interests that no man can afford to be indifferent. The people are waking up to the fact that the coming election is a crisis in the city's history, and that the success of the gang ticket means an injury to the business interest from which it may take years to recover. The time is short; but if all will do their part the danger will be averted. JonN J. Cooper said yesterday, at the stockyards, that "Sim Coy is a G d d d tight more honorable man than the G d d d -bopocritical preachers that are talking about bim." This may be Mr. Cooper's opinion; if but there are hundreds of honest and churchgoiog Democrats in the city who do not

share that opinion with him, and they will

resent with indignation the holding up such a man as Sim Coy as better than the ministers of the gospel in the goodly city Indianapolis. No doubt, however, Mr. Coy is the patron saint of some Democrats, but not of all Democrats. "Sim Coy Is a O d d d sight better man than the O a d d hypocritical preache that are talking about hiin." John J. Coopie, ex-Treasurer of State. THE EEAL ISSUE. The issue in the present contest is not one of politics, but is primarily one of govern ment. It is a contest between the law-abiding and conservative citizens and property-owners on the one hand, and the Coy gang, which means the turning over of public morals and society, and Jthe administration of all the affairs of the city, to the saloon and vicious elements on the other. Everybody knows what Coy ism means, and everybody knows that the election of Edenharter and O'Donnell, and their majority of the Council and alder men, means the success of Coyism. Should the gang succeed in this election Mr. Eden barter and those elected with him can no more get away from the Coy influence and the carrying out of Coy precepts than can the stream rise higher than the fountain. The people of the city will determine, next Tuesday, not whether the city is to be governed for the next two years by Republicans or Democrats, as such, but whether for the next two years the laws of the State are to be re spected and obeyed or whether every law restraining vice and immorality shall be disregarded, and the city thrown "wide open" to gamblers, ballot-box ( stuffers, . tally-sheet forcers and the very worst ele ments and influences that congregate in cities. This is no ordinary election. The issue is clearly drawn, not on party lines, but upon those of a good or ball administration of the affairs of the city. The result will not only affect the city for . two years, but for a decade at least. Democrats and Republicans will vote together for the best interests of themselves, their families, and their property. Tbe contest is between the good and the vicious elements of society. If the Coy gang carry the election, the city will be given over to the boodlers, bound hand f oot, until they 6hall have driven the city to bankruptcy and the people to that degree of desperation that they will rise up in their might and overthrow the corruptionists, as New York did the Tweed gang and Chicago did the Mackin gang. This i3 the turning point in the life of Indianapolis. Should next Wednesday morning's papers announce to the people of the State and" country at large, that the Coy gang and its ilk and kidney have control of the affairs of the city what hope is there of population and capital coming here to build up and develop the city? A fire that would destroy a quarter of the city would be a less serious misfortune. The defeat of the Coy gang will be a victory of the people irrespective of party in the in-. terest of good order and good city government, the suppression of open vice and the enforcement of tbe penalties for the violation of criminal statutes. THE EECOSD EXAMINED, Dr. Edenharter has flooded the city with a private type-writerletter, asking the persons to whom it is addressed to examine into his record, and if such examination proves satisfactory, to then vote and use their influence for him as a candidate for Mayor of Indianapolis. This letter has not found its way into the saloons and like places; no necessity exists for such a circular there; but it has been sent to reputable, tax-paying, home-owning, home-loving citizens men whose interests sway them in the direction of good government, the enforce ment of law again jt open vice and public dis order, an economical and honest administration of public affairs, and consequently low taxation. Dr. Edenharter hopes to secure a few votes from such men. The Journal may be able to assist some of them in the examination of the Doctor's "record." The record shows that Dr. Edenharter voted against tbe improvement of Washington street, by which improvement a much-needed public work would havo been accomplished and a large number of honest workingmen been given needed employment. The record shows that Dr. Edenharter voted against the proposition to change the present bob-tail cars to double-enders, in ac cordance with the requirements of the railway company's charter, and for the great safety and convenience of the public. The record shows that Dr. Edenharter voted against the proposition to require the Street Railway Company to place conductors upon the street-cars, in answer to the almost unanimous demand of the people and the company's charter. This vote kept a large number of men out of useful and needed employment, besides keeping the public in its present condition of bondage and servi tude to Tom-Johnsonism. The record shows that Dr. Edenharter, whenever it was necessary, gave his vote for the street-car monopoly. The record shows him to be a subservient tool of that company, one upon whom Tom-Johnsonism can safely and certainly rely. The record shows that for a time Dr. Eden harter, as a member of the Council, attempted to act and vote upon some questions as a man, and outside the influences uad dictation of the gang. During this period Dr. Edenharter received words of encouragement and praise from his political opponents, which are now being paraded as the strongest reasons why he should be voted for for Mayor. The record shows that when Dr. Edenhar ter was thus acting, boss Coy arose in his place in the Council, openly denounced him as a "d d irgrate," and said he had kept him in bread and furnished bim with money when he needed it, and also had put a brother of the Doctor's in the postofSce. The record shows that from that time until the present Dr. Edenharter has been com pletely under' the domination of boss Coy, never daring to again provoke tha wrath of the Democratic dictator. The record shows that Dr. Edenharter was nominated for the office of Mayor by Sim

Coy and through, his influence, and by no

other influence whatever. The nomination

was taken out of the hands of the party con vention, and of. even the full city committee, and reposed in the executive committee, of which Coy is chairman and absolute ruler. The record shows that Coy and all the Coy gang are the main supporters of Dr. Edenhar ter in the present canvass. The record shows that the tally -sheet forg ing gang, the unconvicted criminals, whose escape from the penitentiary "is a disgrace to the administration of our criminal jurispru dence, both State and national," are support ing Dr. Edenharter. ' The record shows that the saloons and breweries of the city and State have been assessed for a corruption fund to be used in furthering the election of Dr. Edenharter. The record shows that Dr. Edenharter, after making a speech in the First ward, personally visited the saloons in the ward in the furtherance of his canvass. The record shows that Dr. Edenharter, in a public speech, said that Sim Coy and hi3 gang were "white-winged angels" compared with the "gospel meeting at Pfafflin's Hall," which was participated in by such men as John B. Conner, Revs. Edson and McLeod, and others. 4 :; The record shows that John J. Cooper, exTreasurer of State, an ardent supporter of Dr. Edenharter for Mayor, said at the stockyards yesterday, that ' 'Sim Coy ia a G d d d sight more honorable man than the G d d d hypocritical preachers that are talking about him." The record shows that every 6aloon, vevery saloon man, every bummer, every man whose vote is in the market, every saloon loafer, every person engaged in a business placed under the ban of the law because it is in opposition to the best private and public good, is a supporter of Dr. Edenharter. This is the result of a brief and very hurried investigation into the "record," and it is not such as will warrant us in giving support to Dr. Edenharter for Mayor. We invite anybody to dispute or correct any of the facts stated in this summarv of the record. Fred Grant is called "Colonel" by way of compliment to his father, not that he ever wore the title, even in his militia service. Democrat. The Democrat is wrong, as usual, whenever it attempts a statement of fact. Col. Fred Grant is a graduate of West Point, and as a lad served on $he staff of his father during the Vicksburg campaign and elsewhere. Since the war, and after his graduation at the Military Academy, lie was an aid for two years or more on the staff of Lieutenant-general Sheridan, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel. Colonel Grant is of course proud of his father, as he has a right to be. But, independent of his ancestry, Col. Fred Grant is an educated, capable, intelligent gentleman; in character, deportment and ability the peer of any man on either ticket in the pending contest in New York, and fully the equal in qualification in every respect to any nominee for the office of Secretary of State of New York in this or former campaigns. It certainly can not be to bis discredit that he is the son of General Grant, and it is to his credit that he, in very many respects, inherits the traits of character that made bis father by odds the greatest man of the century, and that of himself he is capable of filling honorably any place or office to which the people may call him. One of the strongest characteristics of Mr. Powderly is his determined and consistent stand on the temperance question. In his address before the Knights of Labor General Assembly, at Minneapolis, he said: "I am also called a crank on the temper ance question. I may be a crank on this question, but 1 am not ashamed to say that I would far rather see a man a sober man than a drunkard. It is better to educate our children to be temperate than to be drunkards. There's not a man living who will say that it's right to bring into the home that which damns the head of the family. There are those who have threatened to leave the order because of my position on this question. I say to all who would withdraw for such a cause, 'Go.' I'll trust the fate of this Nation with sober men and women.' These are strong and brave words from a man in his position, the head of a body a con siderable portion of which is composed of men who do not believe as he does; and by them he strengthens the opinion generally held of him, that he i3 the right man in the right place. "Reform is necessary." The Philadelphia Press has discovered that the government stationery and government printing material, connected with the postofSce of that city, has been used for printing the notices of meetings, and other things for the Democratic city com mittee. Mr. Edward Frysinger, the postofSce printer, is authority for the charge that, by the instructions of 'his superior, he was obliged to do the Democratic printing. The postmaster of Philadelphia is Mr. Harrity, who succeeded the one-armed General Huidekoper, and has already been once under examination by the Civil-service Commission. The result, of course, was a white-washing farce, as in the case of Postmaster Jones, of this "city. On the same principle that Governor Fora ker's reference to a whipped spaniel is claimed by Demecratic organs to be equivalent to calling Mr. Cleveland a dog, the President's comparison of himself with the Queen of Sheba, in his Chicago speech, must be held to signify that he regards himself as a potentate of high degree and monarch of all be surveys. And yet there are people who will take their Bible oaths that he resembles neither Solomon nor Sheba's Queen in the smallest particular. The pretenses to decency in which candi date Edenharter has attempted to disguise himself have been effectually swept away by the attacks made upon the ministers of the city. Every man who votes for him now does so with his eyes open to the fact that he represents the most corrupt and degraded elements of society. The ministers' meeting did a wise thing yesterday in dissolving its official connection with the proposition to form a law and order eague, and turning the matter over into the hands of a citizens' meeting, where it prop erly belongs. And the latter meeting did a

wise thing in postponing the formation of the

league until the 19th inst., after the pending city election. - We believe nothing should interfere with the one work of defeating the Coy gang. There is no time for the forma tion of new associations, or societies, or organ izations. The language of every man and every o ter opposed to Coyism should be that of the apostle, "This one thing I do." That one thing done, and there will be time for the formation of a law and order league. The meeting of the Civil-service Reform Association to-night, at Plymouth Church, is likely to be one of unusual interest to the people of the State. It has been" announced that the Insane Asylum management would be considered in relation to the investigations of the last Legislature, and in view of what is known about them, as well as of some recent developments respecting the Insane Asylum management, the meeting will be likely to attract unusual attention. The public is in vited; ladies especially, no one being more interested in asylum management than they. A NUMBER of otherwise respectable and reputable people are hunting for reasons to ease their consciences while they vote the gang ticket. We beard of one yesterday who had been made "mad" by something some one had said, and was contemplating voting for Coyism out of spite. The man who holds his duty bo lightly as that will have little difficulty in finding reasons as thick as blackberries in July for sporting with his conscience and dishonoring his citizenship. We beg the pardon of readers for the necessity of disgracing our columns with the foul and indecent language credited to leading men who are supporting the Coy gang ticket, and aiding in the Coy-Eden har ter canvass. But it is imperative, in order to show the publio the character of the influence that nominated Dr. Edenharter, that is supporting Dr. Edenharter, and would control the city if Dr. Edenharter and the gang should be elected on Tuesday next. Senator Van Voorhees, by way of offset to son Jim's injudicious revelations, has been having himself interviewed in Pittsburg, and pays Mr. Cleveland a glowing tribute. In fact the warmth of the Senator's eulogy and the energy with which he defends the President is strongly suggestive of his celebrated bursts of forensic eloquence in behalf of noted criminals. What is the President's idea, anyway, in reeling off local statistics as to settlement, population, etc., at each of the places he visits? There is nothing offensively partisan or pernicious about such speeches, to be sure; but his audiences would rather hear some thing with which they are not already familiar and which they cannot find in the ency clopedia. An organization calling itself "The Farmers ' Alliance," has been in session this week in Minneapolis, and from all reports bas had a lively meeting. The horny-banded delegates got into a wrangle over a report submitted by the committee on credentials, and called each other liars, horse-thieves, low-lived cranks, and other such endearing terms, in a way that would put to blush a bar-room habitue. What this convention will accomplish in such a spirit can easily be guessed, and the future of tbe movement will be as obscure as its past. These alleged "farmers" had better go back to their plows. The Louisville Courier-Journal has discovered that Justice Samuel F. Miller, of the Supreme Court, was once a justice of the peace at Barbourville, Knox county, Kentucky. When he located at Barbourvill e, in 1838, he opened an office for tha purpose of practicing medicine. He began the study of law there, and finding that profession more congenial, adopted it He was then about twenty-five years of age, and had achieved considerable success as a physician. He married in Knox county, and moved West in 1848. Since then he has made "right smart" progress. - . . St. Paul society is in a ferment because of the refusal of the wives of the haute monde to officiate with tbe wife of Senator Cushmau K. Davis in tbe reception of President Cleveland and wife. There is no shadow of a shade against the character of Mrs. Davis, but she was a poor seamstress when the ex-Goveriror married her, and she is very pretty. "Sassiety" has no for giveness for a poor and pretty woman who has "risen above her station." Mr. and Mrs. Cleve land could make a ten-strike by declining to re ceive any woman of the "set" except Mrs. Davis. Senator Voorhees, of Indiana, and his son, Charles S. Voorhees, delegate in Congress from Washington Territory, are said to be on oppo site sides of the fence regarding the present ad ministration. Senator Voorhees is an ardent admirer of President Cleveland, while the son is bitterly opposed to hioi. Courier-Journal. The Van Voorhees family seems to be organ ized upon the happy plan adopted by a newspaper catamarau we know of, which is two-headed, so as to catch everything that drifts its way, "comin' or gwine. " At the pilgrimage to the tomb of Gen. William Henry Harrison, at North Bona, on Wednesday, the following resolution was passed: "Resolved. That the members of Congress representing the States, of Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana and the great JNorthwest, are here by' earnestly requested to ask the Congress of the United btates to appropriate a suitable sum for the purpose of erecting a shaft over the tomb of Gen. W. II. Harrison, at North Bend, O." President Cleveland has always proved himself an effective speech-maker when he has appeared on public occasions. He has a severe ordeal to undergo in his tour through the West, but he has begun felicitously in the remarks re ported to have been made by him in Indiana. Hia humorous allusion to "the tall sycamore of of the Wabash" is in a vein which is new to him, but appropriate to the semi-social nature of the receptions of his trip. Philadelphia Record. "Felicitously" is good. Maxwell, the murderer of Preller, divided the honors of the week with President Cleve land, and got more money, if less f uc, out of the occasion than did the latter. He did a flourish ing business by selling his photographs to the stream of visitors, and that was more than the President did. The Methodist Church is facing the woman question squarely. Mrs. Angie F. Newman has been elected as lay delegate from Nebraska, and Mrs. Frances E. Willard from tho Rock River Conference. The correspendent of the Cincinnati Enquirer speaks in high terms of the efficiency, the kind ness, and the capabilities of CoL W. E. McLean, Assistant Commissioner of Pensions. Senator Van Voorhees is kept busy explain ing that unfortunate interview with his son, and wisely says it was all a mistake. Just wait, though, till he gets Jim alone ! A NEW play called "Diplomacy" is having a great run in the Eastern cities. Secretary Bay ard might gather a few points by attending the performances..

FIGHTING THE LABOR PABTY

Coy and Edenharter Try to Counteract the Influence of Honest Workingmen. The Gang Candidate's Readiness to lield Anything to Vice, So Long: as It Will Help to Elect Him Mayor. A Rousing Meeting of South-Side Citizens Opposed to the Coy Gang's Rule. Addresses by W. P. Fishback, Stanton J. Peelle, Mayor Denny and Others Features of tha Municipal Campaign. . The operations of the gang yesterday were chiefly directed against the Union Labor ticket. Coy and young John Cottrell, whose efforts in this campaign give it a likeness to that of two years ago, were driving here and there, always in a hurry, trying to counteract the influence of the honest workingmen who have become tired of the disreputable gang rule of the Democratic party and propose to aid in defeating it on Tuesday next. A very strong indication of the workingmen's fight is the frequently-repeated statement of gang heelers to the effect that they do not hope to accomplish anything without this vote. They claim that the Union Labor movement is the uncertain factor and they do not pretend, to measure its strength, where a few weeks ago they referred to it as something that did not amount to anything. When Benj. F. Rogers was tbe Democratic candidate' a year ago last spring for township assessor bis chances of election were diminished, his friends say, by the Coy hoodlums and the Liquor League working against him. One of Mr. Rogers's supporters said the cause of his being slaughtered by men who controlled his party was, in tbe first place, that Rogers was nominated by the people who defeated tbe man the Liquor League wanted. "That has not been forgotten," continued the workingman. "It is the first opportunity we have had to get a revenge on Coy and we are determined to have it. It would surprise you to learn of the accessions our ticket bas made within the last few days. Workingmen who have all their lives voted the Demo cratic ticket are as strong in their denunciation cf Coy, Edenharter, and O'Donnell as those fellows are in abusing the ministers. It has, been tbe opinion of Coy that he owned us as he does the hoodlums, the saloon-keepers and the vicious elements of the city. We will show him that he has counted on something he cannot control. The workingman who has his humble home, pays taxes on it, observes Sunday decently, and favors law and order, is opposed tp the money and whisky idea in politics as represented by Coy and Edenharter. We are opposed to star chamber nominations. Edenharter was afraid to come before the people on his nomination, hence Coy and Sullivan took the matter in band and forced him on the party because be had sold himself to the saloons and the worst crowd of political heelers that ever disgraced a city. Edenharter has. no support that amounts to anything away from the saloons. They are spending money lavishly in his behalf, besides giving him all he needs for his personal use in making his campaign. He never visits manufacturing establishments, or places where the representative working men can be found, because he knows it will do no good. There is not a Knight of Labor in the city who docs not regard him as a renegade to his assembly. He used it solely to advance his political chances, until the time came when he might choose between the order and Coy. He has chosen Coy for his backer, and must bear the consequenoes. As tee campaign advances jaennarters etiorts to secure votes are those of a man who is ready to do all for vice so long as it will help to elect him Mayor. An evening or two ago he was in a saloon with a crowd of frequenters of the place about him. Be assured them in a burst of enthusiasm that everything would be wide open when he is Mayor. "Elect me," as he put it. and evervthine will be free and easy." At the same time the money influence is being used for all there is in it. The gang agents have become so-desperate that they are losing their wits in distributing tbe corruption fund. Yesterday a blacksmith not far from the court-house was openly aooroached with an offei of money if he would vote for Edenharter. He scorned the proposition and ran the Coy agent out of the shop. In tracing the gang's movements, everywhere can be found the taik of money, the denuncia tion of decent people, the cursing of ministers and tbe whoop and hurrah that with Edenharter Mayor no criminal, no matter bow heinous his crime may be, no loafer, no gambler, no saloonkeeper need fear tbe law if he cau control a vote or two to help the gang to plunder the city treasury and wreck the city's prosperity. "Why," said a gentleman, yesterday, "if Edenharter is elected it will not be worth while for tbe police to make any arrests. They will have no support, for upon Coy's say so every rascal will be saved from punishment, it the little boss can think he can use him. Edenharter will simply sign his name as Mayor. Coy will attend to the administration of justice and the business de tails of the office." "In no ward in the city," said a citizen yester day, "are Coy and the league making such a fight as in the Fourteenth. They are doing there only what bas been and will be done by them in every ward in the city. They are rallying their voters around the saloons. Wm. Hild, a saloon-keeper, has been nominated by the gang for the Council in that ward. Until re cently Hild was denouncing Coy, and when ap proached to make the race for the Council said he would under no circumstances do it unless he had his expenses paid. A brewer told him to call on him for all the money he needed. Coy forced Hild into the race and owns him politically, as he does Edenharter. It is the Union Labor vote up there that is worrying the gang. Every influence is being brought to bear to in duce the leaders of that party to throw their candidates overboard and indorse Edenharter, but tbe fight is too bitter for the accomplishment of any plan like that. The leaders are not the men to be corrupted, although I understand large sums of money and favors have been of fered them by Coy and tbe league." A Ronsing Meeting: of South-Side Citizens. Several hundred citizens of the South Side were at the Virginia-avenue Rink last night to hear W. P. Fishback ' and Hon. Stanton J. Peelle on the issue involved in the coming election. They were attentive, responsive and enthusiastic A fact clearly stated in proof of the enormity of the Coy gang's methods and lawlessness never failed to win applause. Tbe meeting showed that the poople of the South Side, where Coy expects to accomplish most of his villainy, are deeply interested in the result, and that they are prepared witn votes, energy and honest work to counteract the influence of his heelers. Mr. Fishback, in the beginning of his speech tersely said, "Laws cannot be tyrannical in a community like this where the people are to vote." He developed this proposition in showing that each man had an equal share in making the laws and that the people would never submit to those that were burdensome. On election day, before the ballot-box every man stands on a plane of equality. The President and the hostler, the saloon-kseper and the-Governor, the paupers and the rich alike have a voice in saying who shall govern them and make their laws. It is the fate of large cities to be divided into two classes. One is made up of the workers who own the property, pay the taxes, sustain the schools and churehes, who have families and care for home and children. The other consists of men who have no families and take no interest in what is good and ennobling. They loaf, they idle, and scheme until they grow into what is called the dangerous elements of society. After a while (There comes among them a man whom they admire. He is their little king, or as th?

term him, their boss. They pay no taxes, own no property and many of them have co children to send to the schools and churches. When this state of affairs is reached one of two things must happen. One is that this dangerous class will get control of the city when it will - be difficult to dislodge them, and the other is that the people will meet them at the threshold and prevent them from coming into power. Mr. Fishback then detailed the operations of the Tweed ring, which was controlled by a man who represents all political bosses of the dangerous classes. He owned every official from the lowest rank to judges who sat on tbe bench. ' "If a ring has judges to decide for it and sheriffs to pack juries in its interests," he continued, "it is all right. But Tweed is said to have been a clever man. He might have obtained, good word from Mr. English, as he did from Mr. Astor. Yes. he was clever and talked about as Sim Coy is. Tweed one day gave $50,000 to the poor as he stood in his car-" riage, surrounded by a throng, and that afternoon forged a warrant on the New York Treasury for $150,000." - Passing to the question of law and order, tha speaker said that to open a dry goods store, to sign a note, or to transact business of any kind' on Sunday violates the law. Why. then, should not the saloon-keeper be mad to observe it? He had no sympathy with this cry against t.n liquor laws being enforced. It is a strange platform for any candidate' for criminal judge or Mayor to adopt in announcing that if he is elected certain laws will not be enforced. Mr. Fishback then touched upon the tallysheet forgeries, which he said were committed by the men who are trying to elect a Mayor to do what was expected from the criminal judge, who was to have profited by the forgeries. Referring to the O'Donnell nomination, he said that if he had been nominated in place of Shields, be would bang his head in shame on account of the hyena-like manner Coy and his followers adopted in putting O'Donnell forward as the candidate of the gang. "It is said," tho speaker continued, "that Dr. Edenharter is a very nice man, but he is found in very bad company. What can & nice man do in the paws of Coy." Mr. Fishback then read Edenharter's circular letter in appealing for votes on his record in the Council. "I havo done what the Doctor has asked me to do," said he, "and have ex-" amined his record. I find it to be in every particular the record of Coy. The Doctor is not as near the penitentiary as Coy, but be will be if he continues in his company. If Edenharter is elected. Coy will be prime minister. Coy is ia trouble, great trouble: for when the grand jury of Republicans and Democrats says he ought to go to the penetentiary, and escapes conviction by a close shave, his position is shaky.' Where will Edenharter get his advice when Sim is in tbe penitentiary. When a young man goes to a strange city seeking employment, he bears letters from the best people wbo know him. Dr. Edenharter comes before tbe people with a letter of introduction from Coy. It reminds me of an incident when, years ago, while a struggling young man, I sought to borrow money from a bank on tbe indorsement of a certain lawyer. I took the note to Uncle Stoughton Fletcher, who looked at tbe indorsement and then at me, saying: 'Young man, go into the back room and scratch out that indorsee's name, and I will give you the money.' The advice applies to Edenharter. Let him scratch out Coy's name, and then the people may think about voting for

him." Mr. Peelle strongly set out Coy's record, and said that those who voted for his candidate became part of the gang. He dwelt upon the importance of keeping it out of power. The same conspirators who were tried in the United States Court are on trial again, but they bave eh an eel tbe forum. Th jury now. instead of bfing twelve, are 30,000 voters. He did not believe the people were ready to indorse tbe tally-shret forgeries, and appealed to his hearers in defence of tbe ballot, and law, and order, not to fail to cast their votes against tha . gang. Mr. Denny's record was unimpeachable. He had done all he said he would do two years ago, and tbe people are not going to set bim aside for another whose only recommendation is that he is Coy's candidate. "Coy and his candidates," the speaker continued, "are crying, for an open policy which means that saloons can run riot, that brothels shall be open to the public gaze and that gambling dens can be freely found. An open policy meant a practical doing away with the police and opening tbe road to ruin for the young of the city. Mr. Denny appeals to your conscience, your sense, and your love for iaw." The crowd then dispersed with, a feeling that promises good results on election day. - . Dr. Edenharter Did Say It. Dr. Edenharter, Democratic candidate for Mayor, denies that be made certain statements imputed to him at the meeting on Monday night at tbe corner of Michigan and Noble streets, instead of saving that "Sim Coy and bis followers are angels as compared with the ministerial puritans," Dr. Edenharter says that he said that "Sim Coy and his followers are angels as compared with some of the Republican tricksters who are backing Mr. Denny in this campaign." The News. Dr. Edenharter- made tbe comparison specifically and in terms with "the gospel meeting held in Pfafflin's Hall." These are his exact words, and they were received with yells by the rabble to whom they were addressed. B. & 0. TELEGRAPH LIKES. The Western Union Pnrchases tbe Plant, Pay ing Five Million Dollars for the Property. New York, Oct. 6. Although the officials of the Western Union Telegraph Company decline) to make any statement formally in regard to Baltimore & Ohio matters, it is given out by tha officials in an informal way, under a promise to use no names, that the papers for the transfer of the Baltimore & Ohio telegraph to tbe Western Union have been signed. The wires of tho former company are already virtually under Western Union controL The contract signed includes not only tbe Baltimore & Ohio Telegraph Company's lines, but the wires and tho exclusive right of-way of the railroad company. This gives the Western Union, as well, tbe right to the wires on the West Shore , road. All the avenues to New York by the trunk-lines are now owned by Western Union, the only other wires entering tne city coming by highway. George J. Gould said this afternoon, after readipg a statement that he had said, "The facts in tbe Western Union purchases of the B. & O. are as already stated," "I never said anything of the kind. Dr. Green can tell you if there is anything new. I don't know whether the story that he would give out a detailed official statement this afternoon is true or not. There was a meeting of the executive committee of the Western Union this morning, but I did not attend it Mr. Jay Gould is not in." Dr. Norvin Green was also out. Before leaving his office he had denied that there would bo a meeting of the stockholders to-day. Just before leaving his office, Mr. Jay Gould said: "We have bought the Baltimore & Ohio Telegraph Company. We have paid for it, or agreed to pay, the sum of $5,000,000." Dr. Norvin Green said: "We have bought the B. & O. teleerapn. We own all its lines and property. We have paid for it. It is ours. The terms are our business. I don't propose to tell whether we paid for it in cash or stock. I say that's our business; but we have got it and tho new ownership takes effect to-day. It begins now, though for the present the lines will be run under the present officers." Jay Gould stated that payment was to bo made in Western Union stock. Baltimore, Oct. 6. The dispatch from New York announcing tbe completion of the deal of tbe Western Union for the Baltimore & Ohio Telegraph Company created no surprise here. It is understood that the terms are $5,000,000 of stock of the Western Union and a cash payment annually by the Western Union of $60,000. It is thought that tbe Baltimore & Ohio telegraph will be conducted without change for the present. Tbe B. & O. directors will meet on Wednesday next, when the matter will be acted upon. As soon as tbe announcement was made at the stock board Western 'Union advance! from 77$ to 78f. . Philadelphia, Oct 6. Tbe Select and Common Councils passed a resolution this afternoon directing the law-officers of the city to proceed to realize on the bond of th Baltimore & Ohio Telegraph Company for $50,000. This bond was given in 1883 and stipulated that the company, in return for the privilege of bringing its wires into the city, would not consolidate with any other company. The purchase of the B. & O. by the Western Union led to the Councils' aetion. "Shook" the IXooaier Democrats. T the Editor ot tha Indianapolis Journal: I was not a little surprised at G rover Cleveland's refusal to shake hands with the Hoosier Democrats. He Is the first President who was ever known to stand up in front of a crowd to be looked at and admired. Presidents Lincoln, Grant and Hayes all visitwd this city and shook hands with the people. Cleveland would not dtt so. He snubbed the Hoosier Democrat. A Voter.