Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 November 1887 — Page 4

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER. 11, 18ST.

!EHE DAILY JOURNAL. ' Fiinxsnr, November ii, iss7.

OBTICE 51S Feerteentb BU P. E. HXATB, OWTWPO4MX ' JfEW TORK OFFICE I O Temple Court, Corner Beekman and Nassau streets. TUB IXDIAXAPOUS JOVJSSAI Caste found at the folio wing place - LONDON American Exchange ia Europe, 449 StrancL PABI5 American Exchange In Paris, 35 Eonlerard das Capuciaes. NEW YORK Gedney House and Windsor Hotel. CHICAGO Palmer House. - . . CINCINNATI J. P. Hawley A Cb.. 154 Vina street. LOUISVILLE T. Dearing; northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. ST. LOUIS Tnton News Company, Union Depot and Southern. HoteL WASHINGTON D. 0 Riggs House and "Ebbitt House. Telephone Calls Easiness OflSee 238 Editorial Rooms. .....242 It takes but seven men and one woman to stampede Chicago. JLrKGO has been anxious to go into history M "martyr, but suicide is not martyrdom. Herb Most worked for the Democratic ticket in New York. So did Grover Cleveland. , 2Hlfact that Idngg did not die a lingering 'death mitigates the horrors of his suicide Somewhat. ABOUT 850,000 people in Chicago are in a fttate of nervous collapse. They are afraid of Itlra. Parsons. THE ' Prohibitionists worked with the whisky ring and the gamblers for the success cf the New York boodler ticket. GORDON, of Georgia, has not been heard from since the eleotlon in regard to the effect s cf his campaign work in Ohio. OHIO Democrats who introduced the snub Issue into the campaign over there, seem to realize that it was not an entire success. JTKXT time Ohio Democrats will not import confederates, fresh from a baptism of Jeff Pavislsm, to make campaign speeches for them. EEFOR'S is needed in the manner of treating prisoners and especially convicted felons. Sheriffs and jailers need to be taught a few severe lessons. Bravx old Judge Gary and lawyer Grinnell are not among the fugitives from Chi cago. They are in danger, if anybody is, but they are not cowards. A Philadelphia paper speaks of New York as "Boodleburg." The election of Col. Fellows, the candidate of the boodlers, makes the title very appropriate. The friends of the Anarchists who are to be hanged to-day speak of them as martyrs. Admitting that they are, there is every reason to believe that other Anarchists will not be in haste to seek the same sort of martyrdom. THE recent additions to Chicago, swelling its population nearly 70,000, will make a fine showing in the next city directory, and cause t Louis to tear its municipal hair and weep corporation tears of envy. BY the annexation of Hyde Park to Chicago a part of the eastern boundary line of the city now extends to the Indiana State line The sovereign people of this State are in a position to say thus far shalt thou go, but no jfuzther. A FEW weeks ago Mrs. Mary A. Xiiverxnore i withdrew from the Republican party and has gdnoe labored arduously for the success of the Democratic ticket in Massachusetts. The reresult of Tuesday election has a tendency to discredit the weight of woman's influence in fsUtica. I "Whenever the actual thrower of the bomb i bt the Haymarket massacre i3 located and - the proof of his identity and crime furnished, there will be no difficulty about giving him a ) legal trial and a just sentence. If the New ' York lawyer knows who he is and where he Ss, let him send on his information. ALL the Kew York boodlers, whether in . Canada, in jail or at large, used their influence in favor of the election of Colonel Fellows; so did the whisky ring, so did the gamblers, so did President Cleveland. The old caw relative to birds of a feather flocking together, seems to have a fitness on this occasion. Mr. Cleveland was elevated to the presidency, not by his own inherent ability to rise, but by artificial means mugwump windpower, so to speak. Left to himself, he sinks to his own level as a machine worker and ward politician. A man who has spent twenty-five years of his life in the manipulation of saloon politics cannot rise above his source. Governor Oglesby is an old man, and if he had weakened under the tremendous pressure that was brought to bear upon him, and had granted clemency to 6even Anarchists instead of to two, the wonder would not have been great. lie has shown himself as fully equal to the emergencies of to-day as to those of twenty-five years ago, and deserves the thanks and honor of the country. Now that the election is over. New York Democratic papers will probably stop calling Bach others' editors and proprietors "Judases," "dung-hill cocks." "obscene scavenger birds," "caitiffs," "mercenary assassins," "venal old reprobates," "expert liars," "hissing snakes ttf party treachery," "self-inflated toads of personal aggrandizement," and other terms of like nature, and be admitted by cautious parents into family circles once more. The case of the Anarchists has emphasized ery strongly some of the defects of. our legal system and of our manner o treating condemned felons. If they had been executed promptly after their conviction much scandal and excitement would have been avoided. . The long delay has given them false hopes,

encouraged "their friends and sympathizers, and given an unhealthy publicity to anarchist ideas. The law has been attacked at every point, and while it has not been broken down, the spectacle of hired attorneys battering away at it month after month has had a demoralizing effect, f As condemned felons the convicts have been treated too leniently, accorded too many privileges and given too much newspaper notoriety. The sheriff and his deputies seem to have vied with the criminal lawyers in making pets and heroes of the condemned men. The dignity of the law and the rights of society have been trifled with.

THE FATE OF THE ANAECHISTS. One of the condemned Anarchists yesterday committed suicide, the sentences of two have been commuted, and four will be hung. Lingg is dead, Fielden and Schwab will go to the penitentiary for life, while Spies, Engel, Parsons and Fischer will suffer the death penalty. Thus the terrible drama approaches a conclusion. The shocking circumstances of Lingg's suicide give it a prominent place in this series of crimes and horrors. His death was in keeping with his life, and seems a fit conclusion of a lawless career. Daniel Webster once said regarding a criminal, "Suicide is confession." If not confession of guilt in this case, it is at least a confession that the doomed man felt he had no hope of escape. The demands of justice would have been better met and the dignity of the law more completely vindicated if Lingg had suffered death on the gallows, but he has chosen a different way out of the world, and one in keeping with his life and practices. The circumstances of his death, not less than what is known of his life, show him to have been a very desperate man. That he deserved death there is not a particle of doubt, and it is equally certain that society and the world are better off without him. How he could have received and concealed the explosive machine with which he killed himself is something of a mystery. The prisoners have, however, been accorded many privileges in the way of receiving visitors and packages, and the explosive was doubtless passed in from the outside. The responsibility for this phase of the tragedy rests on the sheriff and jailer, who have evidently tried to make things too pleasant for the convicts. The commutation of the sentences of Fielding and Schwab has been generally expected for some days past. There were miti gating circumstances which seemed to justify the exercise of executive clemency to the extent of commuting their sentence. In doing this, after very profound consideration, Governor Oglesby has shown a desire to do equal and exact justice under the law. This is all the law demands. It is not blood thirsty nor vindictive. Justice as much requires the suspension of the death penalty in the case of those who may not deserve it, as it does the execution of those who do. The grounds of discrimination were not such as the courts could take notice of, but the dis cretionary power vested in the Governor enabled him to do so and justice required that he should. His exercise of clemency towards two of the convicts strengthens the case against the others, and gives the final approval to their sentence. Governor Oglesby was placed in a very trying position, and subjected to a great strain. His action will be approved by law-abiding citizens everywhere. The decision of Governor Oglesby is brief, manly and humane. It keeps strictly within the law and within his legal prerogatives. He is satisfied of the guilt of all the prisoners, but in the cases of Fielden and Schwab there are elements and circumstances which permit the exercise of the clemency he extends without sacrificing the interests of law and justice. The decision of Governor Oglesby is valuable in this: that it emphasizes the justice of the verdict. In the trial court, after a long and exhaustive hearing, where they were ably defended, the jury returned a unanimous verdict of guilty against the prisoners, with sentence of death. The judge patiently heard arguments for a new trial and refused it. The Supreme Court of the State, after a patient investigation, in an opinion that stands as a monument to the care, conscience and ability of the bench, affirmed the righteousness of the sentence and the legality of the trial. The Supreme Court of the United States, after a full hearing of arguments from some of the most distinguished lawyers of the Nation,' affirmed the legality of the action of the State courts, and now the court of last resort, the Governor of the State, a bluff, plain, honest, honorable, brave, tender-hearted man, a man who has fought and shed his blood for the supremacy of law and the reign of government, gives his opinion, after a careful and thorough study of the record and the evi dence, that the sentence of guilty passed upon the seven men was just and deserved. There can be nothing further, and no further room for doubt, or appeal, or denun ciation, for sentimentalism or cowardice. If law is worth anything, if government is to count for anything, the four felons, go to the scaffold in Chicago to-day under the operations of law and justice, affirmed and vindicated by every means civilization has afforded to test the guilt or innocence of men. They are murderers; they were tried as murderers, con victed as murderers, sentenced as murderers, and will be hanged as murderers. This should not be forgotten, but should be remembered and emphasized. Law and justice pronounce them murderers worthy the gallows, and from that decision, reached as it has been through such careful, tedious, conscientious and diverse channels and meth ods, no honorable citizen of the country, no man or woman who cares for law, the safety of society, and the maintenance of organized government, can afford to further appeal or dissent. To use the words of Frederick Douglass, applied to another idea but equally applicable here, "The law is the deck; all else is the sea." It is strong language to say that somebody has lied, but there certainly is a difficulty in getting at Mr. Blame's exact intentions. Mr. Depew, Mr. Elkins, Mr. Phelps, and other personal friends who have met the distin guished gentleman abroad, asseverate in sol emn chorus that he is out of politics, that he

is really not thinking of the presidency, and has no political plans whatever. A sender of special cable dispatches from Paris tells a different story. He says Mr. Blaine had an interview, ' recently, with Congressman Alley, of Boston, who is now at the French capital, and said to him in confidence: "I had the best physicians in London and Paris, who have pronounced me to be in perfect health and condition, I am quite assured of a renomination, but should I not be elected. I would not even then give up politics. I consider The Senatorship of a good, sound State equal, if not superior, to the Presidency as a position worth seeking. All I want now is perfect rest and quiet." There is a discrepancy between the reports which seems to need some explanation. Perhaps the truth is midway between the two stories; or, perhaps, as both were told before the election, an entirely new account of his purposes may be in order. The New York cat having jumped, circumstances may be altered somewhat.

WISCONSIN women nave more rights than they thought they had. , The last Legislature passed a law giving them the privilege of voting at elections pertaining to school matters. A suit was brought to test the constitutionality of the law, and the court has decided that not only is it constitutional, but that under its, somewhat bungling terms women are entitled to vote for all the candidates on municipal tickets as well as for school officers, every city election pertaining to school matters in some degree. The case will be appealed to the Supreme Court, but in the meantime the suffragists are rejoicing loudly. Governor Foraker denies the idiotic story telegraphed to the Cincinnati Enquirer and New York World, in which he was alleged to have pointed to himself a3 the next Republican candidate for President in yiew of the results of the Ohio election. The Journal did not credit the report for a moment; to have done so would have necessitated the belief that the Governor was a blatant fooL The publication was a disgrace to the newspapers which made it upon the unsupported authority of a correspondent who is denounced as a liar by Governor Foraker. Something like a panic prevails in Chicago, and many people are reported to be leaving the city, pending the execution of the Anarchists. This exhibition of cowardice is disgraceful. Tho sentiment of law and order in Chicago must be strong enough to insure the quiet and orderly enforcement of law, though the action of these cowardly fugitives shows they do not think so. By running away they advertise to the country and the world that they have but little confidence in the orderly processes of law, and are afraid or unwilling to do their share in enforcing it. Thb New York dramatic critics are at it again. This time they are gushing over Mr. Irving and Miss Terry. After devoting a column and a half to their presentation of "Faust," one of them says of Miss Terry's "Margaret:" "It is one of those supreme things which one does not talk about or write about, because no words, spoken or written, can give the least hint of its absolute perfection. We say of it simply, that if it wer other than it is in any smallest particular, it would be less perfect and less admirable than it is." This is the first acknowledgement any one of these writers has ever made that their endless streams of talk are simply twaddle. The longsuffering public, however, discovered it long ago. The marriage of Mrs. Mark Hopkins to a plain resident of a little country town has set the tongues of all the Eastern gossips to- wagging. They seem to be unable to understand what a woman with a five million dollar house wants with a five hundred dollar man. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Mrs. J. A. Logan has sold the Logan homestead in Chicago for $40,800. H. Rider Haggard is said to have two more literary monstrosities in course of construction. Mr. Gladstone still keeps in his library a bust of Lord Beaconsfield and a medallion ; of Mr. Bright. ; Arxaxsaw Traveler: Nashville Preacher (addressing deacon)--Are there any opera singers in the congregation? Deacon I think not, sir. Preacher Then 111 proceed to denounce the stage. David Cronk, President Cleveland's Adirondack guide, has left the woods for the first time in years, and recently called on Dr Ward, in Albany. He is in New York now, and needs a guide himself. Perhaps the most lucrative office in the national government, next to the Presidency itself, is the clerkship of the Supreme Court at Washington. It yields an annual income in fees of from $25,000 to $40,000. Charles Dickens was presented to a man in Boston a few days ago who opened the conversation by the graceful remark that the son of the famous novelist is not the man his father was. The conversation ended just there. Edward Everett Hale, who presided at the dedication of the statue to Leif Erikson, in Boston, is said to have been a better representa tive ot the Vising than the statue, as he stood on the platform, his shaggy beard and hair shaken by the wind. Sunday last Rev. Dr. Phillips Brooks cele brated the eighteenth anniversary of his rectorship of Trinity Church, Boston. During this long pastorate he has had many calls to other helds and has been ottered more than one bish opric, but has remained loyal to his Boston parish. S. D. Hopkins, who told the lie about the in fernal machine sent to Chief -justice Waite, is now said to have been the author of the story of a young lady riding a big codfish at one of the seaside resorts. There is no telling what one will come to when he yields to the tempta tion of fish stories. It is said that the art exhibition at Venice has closed with a deficit of 200,000 francs. The painters have done but a bad business, for very few pictures have been sold. Exhibitors seem not to have fared much better at the Milan Brera. Three days before the closing of the ex hibition only eighteen works of art had been sold. A carrier pigeon sent from Cortlandt street, in New York city, alighted the other day on the window of a shop in Spencer, Mass. Under the bird's wing was a paper with this written on it: 'Give me corn and water to drink and bathei in, and let me go. A he owner or the store did as requested, and the pigeon, much refreshed, flew away. The name of Fernando Wood, once familiar in Washington, has been revived in that city by the receipt of a letter addressed to him at one of the leading hotels. No person of the name can be found in Washington, and it is thought that the letter was sent by somebody who had not heard that Fernando Wood died some years ago. The funeral of Mrs. Mulock Craik was an im pressive event. Among those at the grave in the Keston church-yard were Mr. John Morlcy, Mr. Frederick Greenwood, Mr. and Mrs. Holman Hunt, Messrs. F. and G. Macmillan, Sir George Grove, Mr. Norman Lockyer and Miss Mary An derson. The cofiin was covered with wreaths, some of them being contributed by Lord Tennvson, Sir Noel Paton, Miss Anderson. Mrs. Oli-rVha-nt Prof, TTnVerr. Herkomer. the enmlovps of the Macmillans, the students of the Working

Women's College and the girls employed at Waterloo House. The coffin-plat bore simplv: "Dinah Maria Craik. Died Oct. 12, 1887. Aged sixtyone." Professor Herkomer.by the way, has very recently painted , a remarkably fine likeness of Mr3. Craik for her husband. W. E. Crist, of Washington, is now considered the fastest amateur bicyclist in the conntry. He is not yet twenty -one years of age, and has a great future before him on "the wheel." During the past season he has ridden in fifty races, winning thirty-eight first prizes, eight second prizes, dropping out of three handicap races and having one serious fall. Mrs. Garfield's social distinctions in England recall the question of precedence that worried the entertainers of General Grant.. As an ex-President he ranked in English etiquette as a simple American gentleman. ' As a soldier he was entitled to precede a mere civilian and English officer of lower rank who were otherwise untitled. Mrs. Garfield, who was' once the first lady of the Republic, must go into dinner after the wife of a knight. . An art commission formed of experts and connoisseurs unconnected with the government has been suggested at Washington in order to act as judge of art work to adorn the Capitol. Political pressure is now brought to bear by artists and their friends, tho result of which is the purchase of poor articles at high prices. Congress has lately paid $7,000 for a Monitor and Merrimac naval piece by Haskel, and $3,000 for "Farming in Dakota' by another painter of little fame. California cowboys declare that the proper way to capture an otter without hurting his skin is for the hunter to put on a huge pair of loose-fitting high boots, stuff the feet and legs with gravel, and then wade the stream. The otter i3 a pugilistic creature, and no sooner does he see a strange pair of legs in the water than he will make a dash for them, seize a leg with his teeth, and will only loosen his hold with death. It is claimed that several have been caught in this way in Lake Klamath.

When Sir Charles and Lady Dilke were leaving his palace, the Sultan took up a small packet, which he asked Sir Charles to accept, as,"though of no intrinsic value, it contained some views of Constantinople." When it was opened at the hotel, the packet was found to contain a gold cigarette box, with enameled views of Constantinople set in brilliants.. An irade was also given to enable Sir Charles and Lady Dilke to see the treasure and the palaces: and if it did not, said the Father of the Faithful, cover everything, further facilities would be granted. President Eliot, of Harvard University, who has just returned from a trip through Europe, says that English is rapidly spreading over the continent as the universal language. He traveled through Spain, Northern Africa, Greece- and Austria, as well a3 through more commonly visited countries, and found he could travel "comfortably through all those countries with no language but English." President Eliot must bo fond of sticking close to the "beaten track." Had he ventured a step aside from this path in any of the countries named he would have quickly found his English of littlo use. At the same time it is true that next to French, and perhaps without that reservation, English is the most serviceable language for tho ordinary tourist in Europe. Mr. George Kennan, the Siberian traveler and writer, has been black-listed byjthe Russian government, and will not be permitted to reenter the Czar's dominions. "I expected, of course," said Mr. Kennan, "to be put on the Russian black-list. I am only thankful that I succeeded in crossing the frontier with all of my material and papers coming this way. The outside of the Russian frontier line is a good enough side for mo at present. I became satisfied before I got half through Siberia that I should never be permitted to go there again, and that after the publication of my papers no other foreigner would be allowed to make investiga tions there, and I lpst no possible opportunity to secure accuracy and thoroughness. I brought back more than fifty pounds of notes, papers, and original documents, many of the latter from secret government archives, besides five or six hundred foolscap pages of manuscript prepared for me by political exiles in all parts of Siberia, and covering the most noteworthy episodes in their lives. I visited every convict mine in Siberia, and every convict prison except one, and I believe I know the exile system better than most officers of the exile administration, and far better than any outsider. I can regard .the black-listing, therefore, with a certain degree of complacency. The stable door is locked, but 'the horse has been stolen and I've got him. Whex we're getting along in years And more of the world we see, It almost makes ns weep to think How fresh we used to be. Boston Courier. Count that day lost whose low-descending sun, Views from thy hands no worthy action done. Count that day lost and gone to smash When you have taken in no cash. "' Gorham Mountaineer. THE SWELL'S SOLILOQUV. A tail or not a tail! That's the question; Whether it is sweller in the night to flutter The old ei&whammer of outrageous pattern, Or take scissors 'gainst this two-pronged trouble, And by off-cutting end them. Harper's Bazar. COMMENT AND .OPINION. There was a mugwump party. Where is that party now? Chicaso Journal. M. Daniel Wilson seems to be the Garland of the French administration. Pittsburg Dispatch. . Grover Cleveland is a Democratic reformer with a very large D and an extremely small r. Cleveland Leader. As a political factor, Mr. Henry George has dwindled to slim proportions in a single day; and his hope of holding the balance of power in the grat State of New York seems to be dissipated. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The effect of this election on the political movements in the next6ix months will therefore be an interesting study. It almost insures the nomination of a Western man by the Republic ans, in the Jtuist the Kepuoneans could name but one formidable candidate. St. Louis PostDispatch. If we are to have serious trouble with the anarchistic elements in this country it is sure to come sooner or later. There is no advantage in postponing the struggle. On the contrary, the longer this hideous force-is allowed to simmer and boil the greater strength it will acquire. New York StarTo every citizen who thinks he can improve on the present conditions of government are freely given the rights of a free speech, free press and constitutional agitation. For the murderer, there can, in the nature of things, never be anything but retributive justice and universal execration. Pittsburg Dispatch. Br the tax of 3 per cent, on wills the British exchequer gets $1,250,000 by the death of two rich citizens of London. This is a style of taxation which is scientific and reasonable, but in this country it would meet with practical ostacles which would probably make the system inoperative. New York Commercial Advertiser. Through all ages and all laws this responsibility for what follows, grows out of, or comes through the words or acts of a man can be traced. It is something that is implanted in the heart of man himself, and no man ever yet said or did anything which led his fellow-man to commit a wrongful act but in his inner self he felt the responsibility. Chicago News. An honest conclusion to be reached is that there is nothing in the labor propaganda that is not also characteristic of any other great political party. The Labor man wants nothing that the Democrat and Republican does not want. As a separate party his organization is a hollow and super-expensive form, merely giving aid and encouragement to one or other of the old political bodies. Chicago Herald. Jcst think of expending $162,000 as a corruption fund in New York city. Is it any wonder that the metropolis sends so vile a representation of its citizenship up to Albany every year men who are hi public office solely to fill their pockets and debauch the public service" When liriiioTv is otienlr resorted to as a notent means of carrying elections, what else but purchasable legislators will he selected as law-makers! Boston Transeri.pt. Never have men been more patiently tried for crime, never has more freedom been given to the defenders or more opportunity to those who sought couimut&tion of the sentence of criminals. Evervbodv has had his say: the truly humane, the gushingly sentimental, the sophist, the criminally sympathetic have either forwarded their petitions to or had their interviews with the executive. The least obtrusive voices have been those of law, justice and public policy. Chicago Inter Ocean. The story of Chicago's anarchy is rooted in a want of public morality. The anarchistic organizations were aiioweu xo grow wiinoui mierierence. Little acts of violence went unrebuked and unpunished. Anarchy flourished and culminated in assassination, inen at last xne puimu conscience awakened to the awful reality. Is it any wonder that now the conscience of Chicago twitches as she feels her 'responsibility for the crime for which justice demands a sacrifice of Beven lives. Philadelphia Inquirer.

THE GAS TRUST CANVASS

The Subscriptions to Stock Now Reported Amount to Over 300,000. Meeting of Real Estate and Insurance Men The Indianapolis Company Likely to Supply Gas at Present Ordinance Kates. While the directors of the Consumers" Natnralgas Trust expected to make a better showing as to their subscriptions, the aggregate is large enough, they think, to encourage them with the hope that the full amount will be raised by Saturday night. At the same time they do not try to conceal the belief that to accomplish this will require much harder work than has been done. It was said by some interested in the trust that a larger amount of subscriptions would have been obtained bad the work of canvassing been intrusted to fifteen or twenty representative business men who understood just where to go 'and how much to ask from individuals and firms. Putting the books out indiscriminately, some of which went into the hands of men who began the work with the best intentions, has left part of the field inefficiently . gone over. Colonel Lilly said, last night, that in the hurry and rush that attended the opening of the movement this could not be helped. Crowds came in asking for books and promising to canvass thoroughly their particular districts and localities where they considered they could obtain the best results. No time could be taken in discriminating as to the fitness of everybody for soliciting. The same thing attended the ward meetings, where everything was done quickly and ths volunteers were many. He believed, though, that most, of tho wards were well organized, and that from them the best returns could be expected. In a few improper organization existed, and it is in those, he thought, where the subscriptions would fall off. A gentleman who is an enthusiastic advocate of the trust remarked yesterday: "I can take hold of (the subscriptions just where they are and raise the balance within a week or a few days longer. I would know whom to approach for large subscriptions, and, if he could subscribe for more than $100 or $1,000, I would not have it. I would insist upon taking shares up to the amount which I know he could meet. That is. the trouble in general canvassing. A man will approach another, and, if he is told that $100 must answer where $1,000 could be subscribed just as well, he accepts it rather than have nothing. However, I be lieve that the full amount will be raised, for the interest in this movement has permeated all classes of people; yet I must say that the matter is getting down now to a strict line of busines where it will take hard pulling to get the last $100,000 or more. The books having the largest subscriptions have been reported." There was another ge ntleman who took a book, and when asked how many subscriptions he bad obtained, said: "Only a few. My business has been such that I could not leave my office and the subscriptions received have been from those who came to see me on other matters." But there are others who have worked every hour in the day, at the sacrifice of their own interests, and if the movement fails they can have the credit of doing all that was possible for them to do. Perhaps John P. Frenzel anl Frederick Fahnley have turned in the largest amounts. A. A. McKain, though, up to yesterday afternoon, had secured $14,000. M. S. Haey, too, has been indefatigable, and C F. Thornton has raised $6,000. A book represents either 575 or 1,150 shares, and as 53S were out yesterday, 14G having been issued since Wednesday, there is a strong probability that several of them will show the $J0.000 to be in sight by Saturday evening. Up to last evening reports had been received on 178 books, aggregating 13.293 shares, or $332,325. It will be seen that there are only 6,707 shares not reported. Apparently subscribers for them oueht not to be hard to obtain, but the directors say thai to gee them in time for Saturday night's meeting the canvassers must do their best. It is estimated by them that the subscriptions are from 4,000 persons, which gives an average of a fraction over three shares to each person. The real estate, rental and insurance men had a meeting at the Board of Trade rooms, last night, to consider what they should do in promoting the enterprise. D. M. Bradbury presided, and Myron D. King acted as secretary. At the opening of the proceedings J. M. Ridenour reviewed the local gas agitation from its beginning, and spoke of the organization of the truet as promising a new era of enterprise and progress for the city. Ho had canvassed the -district allotted to him in the Second ward, and found but four persons who refused to subscribe. Judge Lamb in his short speech referred to the benefits that would accrue in real estate values. When it was discovered last spring that Indianapolis lay near to a vast gas territory, activity in the real estate market began. It partook somewhat of a boom and he personally knew of the effects of this discovery on the market by his disposing of nearly all the real estate he held as receiver. He sold it at an advance of 50 per cent., while during the two years before that time he not only waited but sought for offers. ''If the trust movement," he contiuued, "should fail, right here the people of Indianapolis would owe its promoters a debt of gratitude, for it has saved them from the possibility of raying 50 cents more for their natural gas. The trust could ?uit now and say it bad brought the ndianapolis company to considering about coining into the city under the ordinance rates. I believe that after the 1st of January we can count on the company accepting the ordinance as it is. If it had not been for the movement it would have held out for a 50-cent higher rate, and to make its acceptance of the ordinance doubly sere tbe trust should be made a success. All of the $500,000 must be raised by Saturday night." A. F. Potts said that the company was having prepared a list of all the resident real-estate owners holding property of $2,000 or more. This list, he suggested, would be at the disposal of a committee of real estate men who could, from the company's books, check off those who have subscribed. Tbe others who bad not could be Visited by the real estate men and nrged to take shares. It was decided to adopt this plan for the present, and the gentlemen of the committee to do this work are Captain De Souchet, J. M. Ridenonr, Thomas H. Spann, Benjamin F. Goodhart and Charles E. Reynolds. They are also to report & more definite plan of operations. It was also agreed by the several agents present that they would communicate tbe purposes of the trust eomoany to non-resident property-holders and solicit them to subscribe. It was talked about yesterday, that the City Council would be asked to subscribe $75,000 for the city, but this will hardly be done, as the law relating to the limit of indebtenness is an obstacle. "If it was not," said a Councilman. "We could not do it, for in the present state of the city's finances I doubt if we could borrow tbe money except at a high rate of interest. As for ready money it is about all we can do to get along with our present revenues." But in order to meet the legal obstacle it was mentioned by some persons that tbe Trust could raise the $500. COO, lease gas lands, lay pipes, issue certificates on a loan, and then when the Legislature met get an enabling act for the city to aid the enterprise. In this condition the possibility of prevailing on the Governor to call a special session for tbe purpose mentioned was canvassed. In regard to what the Indianpolis company intends to do after it reaches the city with its pipe line, there have been many surmises and rumors. A director of that corporation was asked, last night, about them and be replied, "Of the thousand and one rumors relative to our purposes one thousand of them are false. In the nature of things the results to be obtained from the construction of a pipe line in this territory is an experiment, but you can authoritatively stat9 in behalf of our company that should the line now being laid prove a success, as the company hopes and believes it will be, it is onr intention to accept the present ordinance, provided the ordinance is so amended in other respects as to make it possible for it or any other company to operate under it." Legislative Courtesies. Bancroft's Popn'ar Tribunals. The courtesies extended between members of the early California Legislature were often characteristic oi the times. A great deal of the bit-, terness which was then felt between the friends of the great California vigilance committee and the members of the law and order party was constantly cropping up. Many anti-vigilance bills were introduced, and one in particular, by Harvey Lee, provoked much discussion, although it was filled with absurd and unconstitutional provisions. Lee, being of an ardent temperament, spoke long and strongly for his bill. . A crushing reply was made by Caleb Bur bank, who was a man of large physique as well as

strong intellect, and afraid of nothing. He haj scarcely taken his seat when a page handed hin a note which read as follows: Bar bank: Sir If you ever refer to me in that manner agaft I shall take occasion to visit your desk with a bowi knife. II. Lkk. To which the following Jprompt reply wa sent: H. Lee: Sir Whenever yon find occasion to visit my deal with a bowie-knife, be sure and fetch a pail to earrj home your entrails in. C. BCBBANK.

AGAINST ANARCHISM. Expressions Indicating: the Sentiment in Indianapolis as to the Chicago Execution. The suicide of Lingg, the elemency givef Fielden and Schwab and the execution to-day oi the other four Anarchists in Chicago absorbed all conversation in the hotel lobbies last night, Now and then some one would advance the bet lief that imprisonment for life should be th limit of punishment for all ot them. ThU would bring about arguments coverine nearly everything bearing on treason, sedition and fanaticism. One gentleman, at the Grand Hotel, whose frequent visits to Chicago latterly had impressed him with the danger that would threaten all society if tbe sentences of these men had been commuted, said: "Ten years ago, in that city, I heard fanatical speeches made by such men. They were just as threatening and incendiary as those that led to the Haymarket riot, but nobody paid any attention to them. They were laughed at as the utterances of crazy men." "Free speech," said a listener to another traveling man, "has been the bane of this country. Those fellows have been run out of their own land, and came here to excite riot and bloodshed under the name of liberty. There should be laws enacted by Congress to Keep such dangerous lunatics from going too far." "Yes and should go further" replied the first speaker. "Coneress ought to provide for a commissioner of emigration in every large Euro pean port as it does for consuls. These commissioners should be given full power to examine into the record of every man who proposed to emigrate. Permission to come over here should be granted only on application and then not until six months had elapsed from the time the application was made in order to give him time to trace the record and life ef the applicant down to his birth. This turning into the United States of traitors to other countries. Socialists, Anarchist, idiots, criminals and paupers should be stooped by the most stringent laws." Two well known Democratic politicians, in the Bates House lobby, divided on tne policy of mild and severe Dunishmect. One of them opened the discussion with: "I do not want to see those fellows hung. I could go out in the street and shoot them down, but to bring them in and hang them is a revolting spectacle. They deserve punishmeut, but thev have not harmed the country half as much as Jeff Davis did." "Jeff Davis," replied the other, "ought to have been hung. It was a stretch of mercy to let him live. He is always popping npatthe wrong time, and never fails to do it just befora elections. I am an Indianian, and have been taught to respect the flg and government. If men can't live under them, let them get out of tho country or bear the penalty of their treason. VERY NEAR THE LIMIT. Boardof Trade Membership CertificatesLikely To Be at a 1'reminm Soon. The recent additions ' membership of the Board of Trade are Jol olnisn, Samuel G. Phillies, Edward Ha s, J. K MeGillican. James W. Lilly, Frank I). Stalnaker. Charles S. Lewis, George H. Rehm. Alfred F. Potts and C. E. Culpepper. The number of members is limited by the charter of the institution to 500. hdA to reach that limit only three vacancies are to be filled. Whn this is done a membership can not be obtained except by the purchase of soma other member's certificate. It is expected that before long these certificates will bo at a premium, se that the persons already in the organization can drop out whenever they are inclined with a small profit on the investment of a few dollars. Thf a.-T.:rs of the board have improved the last year throuch tbe increased interest the members hate taken in them, and one of the things looked for in the future is to have an enlarged daily attendance. In other cities "Change or the Board or Trade is the great gathering M.ice for merchants, moneyed men, manufacturers, and large dealers in all branches of business. Here until recent ly the attendance has been confined to a few, the average not being higher than thirty, "But ii we had a building of our own. with spacioni rooms and something to attract the members," said one of them yesterday, ' the attendance would be much larger. Another thing that interferes with the attendance is that onr business men persist in going home to dinner at the noon hour. No matter how far away they may live from the business center, to home they go, and manV of them do not return until 1 and 2 o clock. They have not yel learned to take dinner down town, which would enable them to attend regularly the daily meetings of the board. When anything of importance is to be discussed or talked about tbe attendance reaches fifty or more. What we need is space for reading and reception rooms. They would brintr in the members and afford them means outside of the dull routine of business for spending a pleasant hour in the middle of the day." The board will no doubt nut np a building some dav, but not in tbe near future. Tbe proposition to purchase the old Chamber of Commerce building is opposed by a large number of members, who object to it on account of its location being of no particular advantage to any class except the grain men. The building is suitable, but the majority say it is necessary to have the rooms more central, where bankers and merchants can get at them easily. FORAKER NAILS A BIG LIE, Told by a Drunken Reporter for Several Prominent Democratic Newspapers. Special to tbe Indianapolis Journal. Columbus. O., Nov. 10. W. A. Taylor, a newspaper correspondent, sent out from here, last night, the substance of what purported to be an interview with Governor Foraker, to papers he represents, among them the New York World, Cincinnati Enquirer and St. Lonis PostDispatch. In it the Governor was made to say that he considered the result in Ohio eave him "a sure thing" on the Republican nomination for the presidency next year. After reading it in tbe Enquirer, Governor Foraker to-day gave the following statement to the press: "What purports to be an interview with me, as nublished in the Enquirer, is but a tissue of falsehood from the alleged salutation given Mr. Taylor by my wife, at the beginning of the interview, to the last Hue of it, witb the single exception that Mr. Taylor did call at my residence, as he states. There was not one word said by me or by him about Ohio furnishing a candidate for the presidency next year. Justice to myself requires that I should state, what I would not mention under other circumstances, that when Colonel Taylor called at my house he was in such a state of intoxication as to be a very unpleasant visitor, and I said as little to him as possible about anything, except only to express regret that he should have had the misfortune, as be told me he had, of losing $700 on bets made that Powell would be elected. The onlv thing said about my plurality was in answer to a question by bim as to how great it would be, and I told him I had not given any attention whatever to the returns to-day; that I had been engaged all day in answering my mail, which had been accumulating. The only allusion to tbe proceeding was a .question by him as to whether I thought we would elect a Republican President next year. I answered that in tbe affirmative. No reference was made whatever to the subject of candidates. So far as I am personally concerned, it is well known by all my friends, and, I had hoped, by everybody else, that I am Dot a candidate for anything. I hope to see Ohio send a solid delegation to the national convention to support the candidacy of Senator Sherman. Anything and everything that I can do ia that behalf will be done." Knows Uis Party. Cleveland Leader. President Cleveland gave $10 to the Grant monument fund, $20 to the Charleston earthquake sufferers, and $1,000 to the New York Democratic campaign fund. Evidently Grover knows the kind of generosity that is popular with his parly, and it is not anything that smacks of civil service reform, either. Don't Look Well In Odd Years. St. Louie Globe-Democrat. Roosters don't look well in a newspaper, except ia years eading with even numbers.

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