Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 October 1887 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOUBNAL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1887.

THE DAILY JOURNAL. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15. 18S7.

WASHINGTON OFFICE 513 Fourteenth SU P. S. U EATH. Correspondent. ' XEW TOKK OFFICK lOl Temple Court, Corner Beekmaa and Nassau streets. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL "an be fonnd at the following places: 0i DON American Exchange In Europe, 449 fctrand. PARIS American Exchange In Taris, 35 Boulevard 2es Capucinea, KEW YORK Gedney House and Windsor Hotels. CHICAGO Falmer House. CINCINNATI J. P. Hawley & Co., 154 Vine street. , LOUISVILLE C. T. Dearing, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. 5T. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern Hotel. WASHINGTON, D. C. Kiggs House 'and Ebbitt House. Telephone Calls. Business Office 238 Editorial Rooms.. ....242 WE did not think it would hart the Sentinel so terribly. Coal is up and gas well, gas is in the bowels of the earth, and likely to stay there, Bo far as Indianapolis is concerned. It is about time the Posey county farmers were reminding Mr. Cleveland that he ought to be docked of his salary for two weeks' lost time. A confidential word in your ear, Mr. Cleveland. Honestly, now, do you think that as far as you've got the trip has paid expenses as a "tour of conquest." ONE of the bolting Democrats in Baltimore complains that the administration has not only placed "tried Democrats" in office in that State, but "tried and convicted Democrats." ' "WHETHER it is the genuine yellow fever or not, the scaro is likely to check the regular winter exodus from the Northern States to Florida. Boarding-house-keepers down there will shower maledictions on the wretch who first let the secret out. What is the charm about counterfeiters which leads the President to turn so many of them loose on the community? Mr. Brock- ' way, late of Sing Sing, has a record which hardly fits him for an ornament to society, however romantic it may appear to Mr. Cleveland. The medical discussion over the nature of the disease which affects Prince Frederick William's throat will, probably, be waged with virulence until he is in his grave, just as it was in General Grant's case. Loyal Germans dislike to acknowledge their own misgivings, but it is evident from the anxiety shown in regard to the Crown Prince's condition that a fatal result is feared. New York society must have suffered a severe shock from the legal classification of Trinity's new English rector as an "imported laborer." Rev. E. Walpole Warren may not object to being called a "laborer in the vine yard," but that is a very different thing from going on the same list with coal-miners and railroad section hands. And, indeed, there is something incongruous in tho idea. Who but the law would even think of speaking of an English rector as a workingman? It seems that Congressman Howard agreed to the arrangement whereby General Saxton appointed Walderman Wulff, Republican, to the superintendency of the Jefferson ville depot, an act that has stirred the souls of the Democrats of that part of the State and of Kentucky to the profoundest depths. The Louisville Courier-Journal informs Mr. How ard that the consent he gave to the appoint ment has ruined his political prospects. So marches on the grand and glorious Demo cratic civil-service reform humbug, Grover Cleveland high priest. The city of Baltimore was a large holder of Baltimore & Ohio railroad stock and loses so heavily by the depreciation of the stock that a considerable floating debt will have to be created and city taxes be increased six and one-half cents on the $100. The Johns Hopkins University loses $150,000, or more than half its income, and will have to draw on its reserve fund for current expanses. During the elder Garrett's life the stock was sold at nearly $200 per share, and paid 10 per cent, dividends; now it is down nearly to par, and last dividend day has just passed without any being declared. The Richmond Telegram calls attention to the fact that while great looseness has prevailed in regard to many contracts at the Insane Hospital one has been carried out with punctilious care, being made and executed by Dr. Harrison. "The contract that enjoys thi3 distinction of having been carefully observed," says the Telegram, "is a contract to appoint Dr. Howard to the position of assistant phyeician at the hospital. Dr. Howard was a member of the last State Senate, and it was while he was serving as such that the contract was made. Dr. Fletcher was ordered early in the spring to remove Dr. Browning in order that the contract might be carried out. He declined to do so, and his own removal followed soon. Yesterday it became public that Howard had received his appointment." The gang organs continue to repeat that during the late city campaign no word leas uttered against the private character of Dr. Edenharter, and then proceed to say that be stands before the community in the peerless ind irreproachable character of a chevalier laos peur et sans reproche. We believe it to be true that not a word was uttered by speakers r newspapers against the privata character of l)r. Edenharter. and on the day befo re ihe election the Journal called attention to Uie tact, and contrasted it with the course of ilander, brutality, infamy, indecency, filth ind defamation of character that had characterized the gang campaign, both in speech ind in print. So far as Dr. Edenharter himlelf i concerned, he lent himself to the lowest meanness, and descended to the deepest depths of vileness. Too cowardly to make 3irect charges, by innuendo ho attacked pri

vate character, and gave currency to false, foul and infamous charges, trumped up and bolstered by the subornation of false witneses on the part of those who were working in his interest. He stands before the community in the character of a slanderer and libeler, too cowardly to put his slander and libels in tangible shape. IKTEENAL WATER-WAYS. The river improvement convention at Peoria, 111., did as much as such a convention could be expected to do, viz.: Effected an

organization, took steps to bring the subjectmatter before Congress, and appointed committees to arrange for a national convention next year. The convention was held to promote the project for connecting the great lakes with the Mississippi river system by by means of a navigable canal. It is claimed that the proper improvement of the Illinois and Desplaines rivers, with a few miles of wide and deep canal, will so connect the southern end of Lake Michigan with the Mississippi river as to form a continuous water-way between them and the longest line of connected inland navigation in the world. Such a line, if feasible, would traverse the heart of the continent, and be of immense value to the entire Western country as an artery of trade and a means of reducing and regulating railway rates. That water-ways do accomplish the latter result is beyond doubt. Their immense value as a means of interstate commerce is not to be questioned. If the project of connecting the great lakes and the Mississippi river is a feasible one, it is certainly of sufficient national importance to command the attention of Congress. Its feasibility is a question of engineering. Among the resolutions adopted by the convention was the following: "That Congress may, early in the coming session, authorize and provide by suitable appropriation for the appointment of a corps of United States engineers to make surveys and investigations, and report upon the feasibility and estimated cost of developing a water-way from Joliet to Lake Michigan, at the city of Chicago, suitable for the largest river steamers, and capable of drawing from said lake not less than CC0,000 cubic feet of water per minute, with a current suitable for all navigation purposes, and to report the effect thereof upon the waters and navigation of the Desplaines, Illinois and Mississippi rivers." As this merely asks for surveys and estimates by competent engineers, it would seem to be a proper and reasonable request to make of Congress. The government has reached a point in its history when the question of internal improvements, especially of water-ways, should receive careful and intelligent consideration. It is amply able to undertake any improvement of national importance, and as this lake and river canal is put on that ground, there would seem to be no reason why Congress should not comply with the request of the resolution. DUTY OF C0L0EED MENFrederick Douglass writes a letter to the Republican State committee of New York, in which he clearly defines the duty of the colored voters of that State, and, indeed, the whole country. He advises them to stick to the party that befriended them, and expresses surprise and regret that any colored man will denounce the Republican and praise the Democratic party. He says: "No honest Democrat to-day can respect either the head or the heart of the black citizen who pretends to be a Democrat and urges other black men to support the Democratic ticket. Pointing to such a man, he naturally says: 'Why, that negro is not a Democrat. He is only the miserable tool of Democrats, using his persuasive powers to entice votes from the Republican party.' "Disguise it as we may, the welfare of the colored people, North and South, has not yet passed beyond the line of danger. While the negro can be dragged from railroad cars in the South, for no fault but the color of his skin; while he can be sold into slavery on the mere pretense of crime; while he can be doomed to work in chain gangs while others are only put in prison for offenses against the law; while he is presumed, when accused, to be guilty until he can prove his innocence ; while he is subjected to lynch law and the halter without the pretense of judge, jury, advocate or legal accusers; while he is compelled to work for nominal wages and defrauded by store orders; while he is deprived .of equal means afforded to all other classes and colors for the education of his children, and while a Republican Senate passes a bill for such equal education and a Democratic House of Representatives votes down that measure of enlightenment and statesmanship; while he may be driven from the ballot-box and his vote goes uncounted it may be safely 6aid that the negro has a cause, and a great cause, which will be favorably affected by a Republican victory in New York and the Nation, and disastrously affected by a Democratic victory. "No colored man who is true to himself and to his cause will allow himself to be diverted from it by any merely side political issues. However worthy may be the ends sought by labor parties, prohibition parties or other partios, the first duty of every colored man is to support with all his might the party which thus far has done most and is doing most to cause his rights, liberty and manhood to be respected. The colored roan who does not see this to be his duty, and allows himself to be used as the tool of the Democratic party, shows himself to be utterly blind to the highest welfare of his people, or willingly and wittingly sacrificing the interest of the whole to the personal interest of a few." The report that Coroner Letherman had found no one guilty of blame for the Kouts disaster was erron eous, and did that gentleman great injustice. He seems to have carefully investigated the causes of the calamity, and has fixed the responsibility where it belongs upon the railroad company for permitting disabled engines to go on the road, on the employes who failed to observe proper precautions in handling their trains, and on the train dispatcher. The coroner has done his duty without fear or favor, and unmoved by the influence of the railroad officials who remained in such close attendance upon him after the first hours of the accident. If grand juries and courts will do their duty a3 well, somebody may yet be punished for the crime committed last Monday. It is faid to be Mr. Henry Villard's intention to utterly wipe out the Northern Pacific railroad laud ring, which Dakota people openly charge has very seriously injured the prospects of that Territory. They say emigrants have been prohibited from settling along the line of the road in order to provide large tracts for speculation, impossible booms and town sites without the echo of a town. Many papers charge the ring with corrupting cheap legislators, courts and jurors with levying a tell on emigrants, and with all manner of

swindles. Mr. Villard is now in a position to

break it up, root and branch, and his estab lished character for honesty and justice leads to the belief that he will do it. Mr. Villard, who, by the way, is an Indianapolis man and war correspodent, has passed through the singular experience of rising to great wealth and power in the commercial world, then meeting with misfortune and losing everything,' and finally overcoming all obstacles and recovering even more than his former prestige and power. Through it all he has maintained the highest character for integrity and honor, and was able, on the strength of his personal credit, to command unlimited financial support abroad. Those who know him best say, also, that through all his varied fortunes he has preserved his simplicity of character, and that he still holds among his best friends those of his early newspaper days. The following we reprint from the Andersost Democrat, edited by W. R. Myers, late Democratic Secretary of State, as one of the "humors of politics." Any comments upon it would tend to destroy the richness of its flavor ; therefore we give it just as it appeared : "The city election passed off quietly in Indianapolis on Tuesday last, resulting in the election of the entire Republican ticket. The result is no surprise to those who are familiar with Republican methods as practiced by the slick six of our capital city. The saloons and gambling-houses were running wide open regardless of law. The keepers of gamblinghouses were enthusiastic supporters of Denny and the gang. The metropolitan police were utilized to drag in the voters, and spent the day industriously peddling Republican tickets. Under Democratic rule the many good citizens took pride in calling, attention to the fact that the gambling hells of Indianapolis were closed. This highly creditable state of affairs has passed away to return no more until the Democratic party shall gain the ascendency in Indianapolis politics. The total vote of the city shows the Republicans to be in a minority of 780. The Prohibition vote dwindled down to 99. The Independent Labor vote was 1,455 five-sixths of whom were from the Democratic ranks. By a lavish and shameless use of money the Republicans slipped into power by a plurality. Boodlers and sharks will fatten on the tax-payers of the city for the next two years." The Louisville Courier-Journal says: "A manlier or a more modest gentleman than Colonel Grant doe3 not live, and no party capital is to be made, nor ought to be made, by subjecting him to misrepresentations." And the New York World says: "Col. Fred Grant has been subjected to undeserved criticismby a stupidly or maliciously incorrect report in a morning paper of his brief speech at the recent Chickering Hall meeting. Colonel Grant did not say: 'Should I be elected in November I will try and show that I have inherited the ability of my father, and be faithful to the trust you repose in me.' What he did say, as reported in the World and most of the other papers, was, that 'if elected I will try to show that I have inherited at least the ability to be faithful to the trust imposed upon me.' This was an entirely modest and natural remark, and called for no invidious comparisons." The course of the infamous Democratic party press will cause the election of Colonel Grant by many thousands of votes. Counsel for the condemned Anarchists have gone to New York with the transcript of the record and, in connection with General Pryorand J. Randolph Tucker, will begin at once the -work of preparing the case for presentation to the Supreme Court at Washington. These papers will probably be presented within a week. Assuming that a writ of error and a supersedeas will be granted, it is said that the case may be reached by the court within six months if advanced upon the calendar, as is sometimes done in important cases. If the usual course of procedure is followed it will be two or three years before it is reached. The transcript of record cost $2,810. This is "law" in America. Hon. -John J. Knox, former Comptroller of the Currency and now president of a national bank in New York, read a paper at the meeting of the American Bankers' Association in Pittsburg, in which he advocated refunding the government four-per-cent. bonds into two-and-a-halfs or twos. The four-per-cents. are payable nineteen and half years from now, and command a round premium of twenty-five per cent. Mr. Knox argued with much force and apparent reason that the project was entirely feasible, and would be very advantageous to the government by greatly reducing its interest account. They have a nend ricks Association over in St. Louis, and this is the way a Democratic paper talks about it: "The black-balls of the Hendricks Association should not be accepted by the administration as conclusive arguments againat any man's fitness for office; nor should mere membership in the association be regarded as a sufficient certificate of worth and competence." This fits the Hendricks Club, of Indianapolis, like the paper cn the wall; but it is hardly worth while to call the President's attention to the fact, since it is not known that he ever pays the slightest attention to the club's requests or recommendations. The announcement of the death of Mrs. Dinah Maria Craik, or "Miss Mulock" as she is better known, will cause a feeling of regret wherever English novels are read. She had an unusual faculty of impressing her personality on the readers of her books, perhaps because her style was that of the confidential friend, rather than that of the essayist or impartial narrator. This peculiarity might be described as a quality of motherliness. "John Halifax" made her famous and was perhaps not equaled by any later work, but she has written a number of other stories which have been well received. All of them differ from the common English society novel in having a high moral purpose, and in being written with earnestness and vigor. For the past five years sbe seems to have written .little fiction, but devoted herself to philanthrophy and to improving the condition of oppressed working-women. Mrs. Craik was born in Stoke- npon-Trent, England, in 182G. Her first novel, "The Ozilvies," appeared in 1845. "Olive" was published the following year. John Halifax, Gentleman," followed. As a pleasant reminder of this novel. Miss Mulock received oa her marriage, in ISGj, to Mr. Geo. L. Craik, a gold pen-holder with the words "John Halifax" inscribed thereon, the expressed appreciation of an anonymous donor. In 1864 she received a literary pension of $G0 a year. She was a very prolific writer, and continued to

work in her chosen profession until very recently. She also translated several French works, and wrote a number of stories for children.

Nutting, Gathering pumpkins, Husking corn, Pruning grape-vines. Laying in coal. Burning leaves, Hunting mushrooms, Bicycling. Talking about black bass. Preparing for dock: hunting. Eating paw-paws, chestnuts and persimmons. Wouldine von were a bor This is beautiful weather for I again. A Pennsylvania preacher is undergoing a church trial on the charge of plagiarism. Able and acute members of his congreation assert that his address delivered on last Memorial day was taken from Gen. Stewart L. Woodford, Dr. J. H. Twitchell, Rev. Phillips Brooks, Schuyler Colfax and Rev. Dr. Talmage. A compilation from these sources must have made an uncommonly good address, and the preacher should come into immediate demand by Memorial day committees. - If the Minneapolis Tribune voiced the sentitiwent of the great Northwest in regard to the presidential party now "touring for votes," the tour in that region can hardly be considered profitable. Kansaj has been altogether to "fresh" lately, and needed a little salt for savor. The discovery at Hutchinson is timely. Perhaps Mrs. Cleveland's form of conquest might appropriately be termed tho transist of Grover's Yenus. AB00T FEOrLK AND THINGS. It is now recalled that when R. B. Hayes visited Chicago as President he was relieved of bis watch. ,A female member of the Cold water (Mich.) Salvation Army has worked on her jersey jacket the words, "No water in hell." It is asserted that ninety out of every hundred male children born in Ireland at present are named after Charles Stewart Parnell. Queen Emma, of Holland, is a brunette whose eyes would be very pretty did she not continually wink when speaking, thus giving you the impression of preparing for a good burst of tears. Daisy, Attorney-General Garland's daughter, will be one of the coming season's debutantes in in Washington. Society is wondering if she will be able to overcome her father's aversion to the use of a dress coat. Mr. Blaine's youngest daughter will enter the Pension of Fifty, Avenue de Jena, where her elder sister was educated. She will not accompany the family to the Riviera, where Mr Blaine has almost decided upon going. Mrs. Gakfield recently remarked that the only thing that pained her in connection with the rumors of her own marriage was that the public should think that she could so soon prove false to the memory of General Garfield. Old Marshal Bluehsr is still warmly remembered by the Prussian people. On the recent anniversary of his death bis statue in Berlin was covered with laurel, and one aged veteran who fought under Blucher laid at its feet a wreath of oak leaves. "Is Bishop Taylor a Bishop?"7 is the mysterious topic of discussion in a great many gatherings of Methodist ministers. Bishop Taylor himself, however, doesn't seem to be much interested in the discussion. He is too busy doing practical Christian work. Stead, of the Pall Mall Gazette, said of the hubbub raised over his allusion to the Prince of Wales as "the fat little bald-headed man in red clothes," that he. Stead, believed the English people wouldn't have been half so much horrified had he attacked the Trinity! The Saturday Review says that it is a common belief among the lower classes in England that all patent medicines are the property of the goferoment, being valuable remedies that have been bought at a great prise and sold by a paternal government for the general good. One of the female attendants at the Palmer House, Chicago, is responsible for the statement that the reason Mrs. Cleveland stands so well the physical strain of handshaking is that she has a pair of Indian clubs with which she exercises just before going to a large reception. The latest "crazy quilt" to challenge fame is one made by Miss Ella Fike, of Warrensburg, Mo. It contains scraps which came from the clothing or effects of several of the Presidents, and a vast multitude of other public men and noted persons. It took four years to construct, and is brought down to date by containing bits of ribbon from two of Mrs. Cleveland's wedding bonnets. Jacob Hoffner is one of the most interesting characters in Ohio. He lives at Cumminsville. Although ninety years of age he is active and well-preserved and bids fair to live many years Ion ger. He was one of the most intimate friends of President Harrison, the hero of Tippecanoe. Hoffner i a pronounced free-thinker and is called "the Ingersoll of Ohio." He is a close and brilliant reasoner, and defends his views with a force much younger men might well envy. One of the marked peculiarities of United States Senators from the South is their unwillingness to remain at their homes after having onre lived in Washington. Senators Call, of Florida; Pugh and Morgan, of Alabama; Cockrell, of Missouruand Jones, of Arkansas, have been absent fromthe capital scarcely a day since Congress adjourned. Some of them make up all sorts of excuses for remaining, while others frankly assert that ihey like Washington better than any other place on earth. Congressman Charley Russell, of Connecticut, a few years ago was eking out his slender purse at Yale by reporting for a New Haven newspaper, and he spent a number of years afterward on a Worcester newspaper, where the work was hard and the pay dubious. Trie paper burst up, and Rnssell quit. That changed his luck. In three years or bo he was elected Secretary of State of Connecticut, and last fall was elected to Congress. A rich father-in-law, who is a great politician, and his own good looks and good nature brought him luck. A noted hotel-keeper in Saratoga, the excellence of whose table is a matter of national repute, admits that he grows very tired of hotel fare at times. "Once in a while," be says, "I go and hunt up my steward or some other employe who has his family with him in the village, and I say, 'May I go to your bonse to dinner today?' I go there, and as I eat the corned beef and cabbage, or Irish stew, or whatever the wife puts before me, I think I never tasted food so good. After that I eat all my meals at the hotel for awhile, and then I hunt up another oldfashioned dish in some simple little home." At a recent meeting of the California pioneers in San Francisco, Judge Niles Searls delivered an elaborate eulogy on the late ex-Senator Aaron A. Sargent, containing a complete sketch of his life. The speaker related that on his voyage to California in 1849 Mr. Sargent's ship was delayed for a time at Rio de Janeiro, and the Emperor gave a reception to the most important passengers aboard. Mr. Sargent, not having a Cress coat, was in a quandary. He wanted to attend the reception, having a newspaper reporter's instinct for fine things, but without a dress coat it would be impossible to enter the royal mansion. But he had a frock coat, and this be ingeniously pinned so as to give it the appearance of tbe swallow-tail garment. The Emperor received the boy, and, talking to him, became much interested in him. The blood comes surging to the cheek As we waik through the thoroughfares At night, and hear the fiddles squeak In the dancing-halls up 6tair. Oh. the pit-a-pat of the tuneful foot Falls sweetly on the ear. And the cornet's tra la to:t toot toot Tells the dancing season's here. iiohton Courier. COMMENT AND OPINION. It is in the air that the Republicans are going to carry New York in November. Chicago Journal. The Democratic effort to convince the public that Col. Frederick D. Grant ought to feel ashamed of his father has not yet succeeded. Brooklyn Standard-Union. The same law of self preservation which justifies communities in prohibiting Anarchist meetings and arresting tbe half developed plans of burglars or incendiaries ought to give warrant for the breaking up of any confederation or society the object of which is public robbery. The police ought to be ordered to break op meetings

of coal-pirates with as little ceremony as is used in -dispersing a mob of pick-pockets. Chicago Times. That remark of Fred Grant, that it is easier to manage a surplus than a deficit, has in it the dry, good wit that was characteristic of his illustrious father. New York Graphic. The crime of anarchy is against society, whereof prudent and law-abiding workmen are as much and as important a part as are merchants or bankers or lawyers or any other segment of the social circle. Chicago Inter Ocean. A defeat for the Democratic party in Maryland would do more for civll-eervice reform than any political event that is now within the range of possibility: but, next to that, we may hope for such a falling off in the Democratic vote in Massachusetts (defeat is certain) as will effectually put the seal of the people's condemnation upon the effort of the Massachusetts Democrats to re-establish the spoils system in tbe civil service. Citil Service Record. No one for a moment supposes that the vote of the American board of Foreign Missions will in any way decide the question of probation after death. Such an idea is blasphemous, if the word blasphemy has any meaning. There is either a state of post-mortem probation or there is not, and. the opinions of a few Congregationaiists will no more change the Divine fiat than a series of schoolboy resolutions will shift the sun in his orbit. Boston Globe. If Mr. Cleveland were not to be urged upon the country for another term if this tour of his were not for the express purpose of augmenting his chances of re election it would rot be necessary to tell the truth about him so coldly and disagreeably. But he is admittedly the one prominent candidate for the Democratic nomination next year. Ke is personally objectionable to almost the entire body of Democrat, and has been made a butt of ridicule by the brightest minds in the party; but circumstances seem to combine to ruakts him tbe most available man, and the Darty has made up its mind to take the unpleasant medicine. If, indeed, he secures the nomination, the country must assert itself and declare that it will no longer have this man to rule over it. Minneapolis Tribune. When it is remembered that thousands of intelligent men have been meditating the subject for thirty years; that there has never during that time been any difficulty in getting tbe most stringent provisions enacted in Maine; but that in spite of opportunity and the support of public sentiment prohibition does not yet prohibit; snme doubt ought to arise even in the minds of General Dow and his friends as to the efficacy of the means they persist in vaunting above all others. New York Tribune. The first returns from the presidential electioneering trip are in, and Mr. Carlisle's declaration that the 'tour means conqnest" is not sustained by the results. Mr. Cleveland exhibited his attractive wife and made an encyclopedia' sneech at Indianapolis ten days ago in the interest of his second-term boom. At the election held in that city on Tuesday the Republicans made a gain of about a thousand votes, elected their whole city ticket and regained full control of the muncipal government in all its branches. Mr. Cleveland should not have accompanied his wife. His personal appearance and speeches effectually nullified the good impressions she made. Detroit Tribune.

THE LNDIAXAFOLIS CITY ELECTION. THE city and state. Chicago Inter Ocean: The Indianapolis city election is evidence that man can be led to regard local matters as of the first import. There, as in Baltimore, New York and Chicago, Democracy has come to mean saloonism, gamblerism, thuggism, prostitution of public sentiment, and profligacy in public expenditure. The Republican and independent press of the city wisely abstained from "beating the drum" political during the campaign, the voters were urged to support the Republican nominee, not as a representative of a national issue, but as a representtative of good local government. The issue of the campaign was not made toward the presidency in 1888, but toward suppression of the power of tbe gambling hells, the whisky shops, the brothels ail that is included in the slang of "a wide-open policy." The result is extremely satisfactory; the city is naturally close in politics. Mayor Denny was elected by a bare plurality of sixty-two in 1885, and his strict enforcement cf tbe laws against vice and immorality arrayed the vicious elements of society against him in such ardor of battle as to make bis friends doubtful of his re-eleetion. However, his second election is assured by a plurality of GOO at least, tenfold increase on that of bis first. This is firstly and mainly a triumph of virtue in a lecal contest; but not the less is it an index of results in the next national contest. For it is a disclosure of the temper of the people toward vicious politicians, and the management of the Democratic policy of the State of Indiana is in as vicious bands as that of the city of Indianapolis. In the city Democratic success meant non-enforcement of the laws against saloon", gambling-houses and brothels, a low municipal license for saloons, and an extravagant expenditure of taxes. In the State Democratic success has resulted in the appointment of a trustee of the Soldiers' Orohans' Home who was found guilty of debauching the still childish girls who were wards of the State; it has resulted in the appointment of trustees of tbe Insane Asylum who have fed the patients on butter and pork that crawled in its maggot-haunted putrescence; it has led to the appointment of trustees of the southern penitentiary who elected and supported a warden under whose management the prisoners were treated with barbaric cruelty and the State robbed with oriental magnificence. It has resulted in an empty State Treasury and an increased State indebtedness. The State of Indiana, like the city of Indianapolis, is cio&e as to politics, but surely such vice and profligacy as Democratic rule has engendered in State affairs will lead to a rebuke at least as grave as that which was administered to those who sought to deliver the city to the control of its worst elements. A BAD YEAR FOR GANGS. Chicago Tribune: The Republicans of Indianapolis, aided by the reform voters of the other parties, achieved a splendid victory in smashing the Coy gang of Democratic corruptionists Tuesday last and re electing Mayor Denny by an increased majority. As in our municipal election it was a contest between the reform elements on the one hand end the corrupt and criminal classes on the other. The latter, who controlled the Democratic machine, had made the most desperate effort to capture the city. They had resorted to bogus affidavits. The liquor men spent money like water. The gang even resorted to tbe forgery of tally-sheets. They did not hesitate at any crime which they thought would carry the election, but in spite of all their efforts, and by the aid of the heavy rewards offered by the citizens for the conviction of vote-buying and illegal voters, the law and order men not only smashed the ring and saved the city from gang domination by electing their Mayor, but they emphasized their victory by securing a majority in both branches of the Common Council, thus obtaining complete control of the municipal administration. Having made sure of victory they should now follow the example of Chicago and leave no step untaken which will secure the apprehension and conviction of the tally-sheet forgers. Evidently it is a bad year for the gangs all over. a clear gain. Philadelphia Press: The result of the municipal election in Indianapolis Tuesday is a clear gain for good and honest government. The city has been cursed by one of those Democratic "gangs" that infest every large city in the North. This "gang" is led by the notorious saloon-keeper "Sim" Coy. who is now under indictment for committing forgery on the tally-, sheet at the election last November. He has controlled the Democratic party and allied it with the liquor interest, compelling the Democratic convention to nominate a man for Mayor who was pledged not to enforce the laws regulating the liquor traffic. The respectable citizens of Indianapolis determined to rebnke this combination and they did it on Tuesday by reelecting the Republican Mayor by ten times the Plurality he received one year ago. As the Democratic lenders from Senator oorhees down tried to rally their party on the plea that defeat in Indianapolis now meant defeat in the State next year, they must accept the verdict of the people given on their own choBen ground. And the liquor dealers have received another lesson on thrusting their business into politics. a democratic ring mashed. Brooklyn Eagle (Dem.): The honest Democracy of Indianapolis are to be congratulated upon tbe defeat of tbe Democratic ring at the polls in that city yesterday. It was a ring instict with tbe love of spoils and bottoraea on sour mash a rine with a head full of Bourbon ideas and a skin full of wbisky. It managed to hold its own as long as it did for the same reasons that rings just as corrupt in other cities have enjoyed a long lease of power. That is to say, honest men of the party were loatb to believe that it was as bad as it was represented to be, and by their votes enabled it to continue its career of rascality. They have at last awakened from their delusion and sided with tbe Indianapolis Republicans as the best meaus of delivering the Democratic party from the yoke of such a servitude. " When tbe present national administration came into power tbe Indianapolis Democratic rine was about the toughest customer with which it had to deal in the matter of federal patronage. It wholly declined to acknowledge tbe Pressdent's obligations under the civil-service law, and its organ, the Sentinel, commenced a bitter warfare upon him, which it still keeps up. Tbe clamor of the Indianapolis spoilsmen was more deafening than the . clamor of any other Western gang of flesh-pot hunters. They

never ceased their importunities, and, although they .received greater concessions than fell to the lot of the clamorers elsewhere, they could not he satisfied. The fact is, that in attempting to appease their voracious appetite for office, the State was lost to Democracy, and the seds ' sown of disser.sions that survive to menace the party with fresh disaster. This is the precious crew whose political citadel has just been successfully stormed by the united forces of Republicans and honest Democrats. It is a great victory for the cause of honest municipal government in Indianoplis and a great blessing for the Democratic party in Indiana. With this nicer eating its very vitals the organization did not deserve and could not hops to achieve success. The Democrats who deserted the party ranks to perform this duty have taken a sten and accomplished an end which will clear the path of the Indiana Democracy and greatly increase the probabilities of their winning a victory in tbe next national contest. have a right to crow. Chicago Tribune: The Indianapolis Journal comes to us covered all over with roosters crowing for the victory of law ar.d order in that city on Tuesday last. The detailed accounts of the election show . that the Republicans carried the war into Egypt, and achieved success by constant vigilance and hard work against t hecorrupt and fraudulent practices of the Coy' gang. They held their rifhts over the poll-books' by force. They sent police into tbe lumberyards and out-of-the-way places and arrested ringsters who were purchasing votes with money and whisky. The superintendent of the workhouse let out criminals to vote, but they were nabbed by the efficient police, and the superintendent himself will be called upon to answer for his conduce The gang tried to bring in repeaters from adjoining counties, but Republicans from those counties came along also, kept them under surveillance, and prevented them from voting. ' The Journal's roosters have a good right to crow, for, as one of the Democrati orators in the campaign said, "As goes Indian apolis, so goes Marion county. As goes Marionr county, so goes tbe State in 1888." Comments of the State Press. Greensburg Standard: The election in Indianapolis was a gratifying triumph of the law and order element over Sim Coyism and its long line of attendaut evils. Attica Ledger: The defeat of Coyism will have a healthy effect all over the State. It was a big day's work for the Republicans and honest Democrats of the capital city. Evansville Journal: The election of the . Republicans at Indianapolis eives the ntmost satisfaction to law and order peonle everywhere. A square fight was made against the Cov gang and they were overthrown, horse, foot and dragoons. Franklin Republican: Indianapolis has repudiated tbe gang; now let the committee of one hundred push its good work, and eee if another partisan jury can be found willing to take the responsibility of robbing the penitentiary of a lot of dangerous criminals, on party grounds. Peru Republican: The result of the Indianapolis election is very gratifying to all who desire the perpetuation of honesty in elections and purity of the ballot box. It is the verdict of the people on 'the methods of the pcoundrels who carry elections by forging tally-sheets and stuffing ballot-boxes. Greencastle Times: The verdict given at the ballot box is that Coyi6m, and all that term implies, must go, and that decent, honorable and righteous methods in the government of the capital eity shall prevail. It is an emphatio indorsement of law and order and a stinging rebuke to corrupt methods. Greencastle Banner: Indianapolis has done herself proud. Heretofore there has been too much of a disposition among the Republicans of that city, to bow down before the sUoon. fearing their active opposition,' but the issue of Tuesday's contest shows that we have nothing to fear from them, if we only fight them positively and bravely, without asking for quarter or giving any, whenever they choose to throw down the gauee of battle. Kokomo Gazette-Tribune: Popular suffrage speaks through Tuesday's election an unerring prophecy that Indiana Republicans will carry the State in 1888 by a majority largely in excess of that which marked their splendid triumph of 1886. Kokomo Republicans hear tbe cheering news with great enthusiasm. They rejoice over the magnificent triumph of their brethren at the capital, and take renewed courage and zeal for the hearty discharge of tbe patriotic wort so soon to engage their best thought and their best effort. ANOTUEB HOLLOW SQUARE. Tbe Hendricks Club of St. tools In Trouble with IJself and Others. St. Lonia SneciaL.

The Hendricks Democratic Association, which Will uo rriuouiVQtcu via C.l.v. 14 i . . ...w " ' -1 and delightful way in which it received the Iroquois Club, of Chicago,- will figure in a local sen sation in the morning. Nearlyell the Democratic politicians of the city are members of the organization, and as it is generally understood that the association was organized for the purpose of "fixing things," those who are not members are willine to be. Among the latter is exGovernor Campbell, the city comptroller. He made application, and after the box had been, sent around at the last meeting it was found to contain a number of black-balls. This shut him out, and made his f riends inside and outside tbe organization very indignant. John W. O'Connell, a school director and member of the organization, made an investigation, and came to the conclusion that John J. Steffen, a contractor, was the party who started the black-balling. He encountered Steffen to-night on the street, and they slugged each other right merrily until; friends dragged them apart. The association is divided into factions over the casa. Tbe Cardinal 'ana the Sentinel. Indianapolis New Record. We are inclined to the opinion that the editor of the Sentinel deserves the, blue ribbon for asininity instead of ther Cardinal, and an investigation of tbe facte" will prove that we are right. We quite agree ' with Cardinal Gibbons in his estimate of the public school system, and we believe it pernicious and dangerous to the future success and permanency of our grand Republie. But we caa hardly expect a writer whose , moral sense is so blunted, and whose conception o religion is so obscure to understand and fully appreciate the reasons which prompted Cardinal Gibbons to point out the glaring eviis in our social and political system, and we must dismiss him with the questions involved before he undertakes again to criticise and ridicule the opinions of so distinguished and able an authority as Cardinal Gibbons. Emerson' Opinion f Female Suffrage. From Private Letter Written in 1SSO. "The fact of the political and civil wrongs of women I deny not. If women feel wronged, theu they are wronged. But the mode of obtaining a redress, namely, a public convention called by women, is not very agreeable to me, and the things to be agitated for do not seem to me the best. Perhaps I am superstitious and traditional; but while I shall vote for every franchise for women if women asked or if men denied it, I should not wish women to i.h Ttni;tii.ni fnnc.tiona. nor. if eranted. assume tbem. I imagine that a women whom ail men. would feel to be the best would decline such privileges if offered, and feel them to be rather obstacles to her legitimate influence." The Work of the Journal. Anderson Herald. Among the workers in the Indianapolis) election to whom tbe pople of that city, and, in fact, the State zl large, owe, thanks, is the Journal. It has stood by the law-and-order-loving people faithfully to the last, and to its efforts, perhaps more than any other cause, should be ascribed the grand victory of Tuesday. Its able advocacy of tbe cause of right over wrong, of decency and morality oyer bummeriBm and lawlessness, ant of th sanctity of the ballot-box over forgery and conspiracy is deserving of the highest praise from all who have any regard for the welfare of society. Overreached Himself. Lafayette Courier. The Indianapolis Sentinel ascribes the crushing Democratic defeat of last Tuesday to tho vote cast for the Labor ticket. It appears, therefore, that Mr. Coy overreached himself when he petulantly declared that the men who acted with the Labor party was ":he same old crowd I have been buying for years." Too lile Contract. Chicago Mail. Even the son and heir of a great railroad magnate cannot hope tc encompass the destruction of ail the champagne in the principal cities of Europe and America. Greater men than he have tried it before and failed. Wine and railroad financiering do not go well together. Iteaatirul Non-Partiautsiu. St. Louis Poet L'lspatch. The non-partisan character of the President's visit to St. Louis was attested by the fact that he was warmly received bv some or his appointees who worked like beavers for the Republican ticket at tbe last Congressional election. Thla Cover It , Minneapolis Tribune. Mrs. Cleveland is just as charming as they've painted her, but the old gentleman Great Gosh!