Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 November 1887 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOTJBNAL, 3IONDAT, NOVEMBER 21, 188T.

THE DAILY JOURNAL MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21. 1S37.

XV AJSIlUiGTOH OFFICE 513 Fourteenth St. P. S. Heath. Correspondent. KEW TORE OFFICE 104 Temple Conrt, Comer BeekmarT end Nassau streets. XflE INDIANAPOLIS JOUIiNAl. Cm be found at the following places LONDON American Exchange in Europe, 44.9 fetrand. PARI? American Eictiango in Paris, 35 Boulevard das Cpueine. KEW YORK Gedney Hoase and Windsor Hotels. CHICAGO Palmer House. CINCINNATI J. P. Hawley & Co., 154 Vine street. LOUISVIUj'B C T. De&ring, northwest . corner Third and Jefferson streets. BT. LOUTS Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern HoteL WASHINGTON, D. C Eiggs House and Ebbitt House. Telephone) Calls. Business Office 233 Editorial Rooms 242 Another brutal prize fight near New York hows that John L. Sullivan's enthusiastic reeept'on in England is bearing fruit. The bruisers all want to become famous, and be lionized. Anaechist Schwab is now washing dishes and Fielden is breaking stone in Joliet prison. These occupations may not be as exciting as disseminating anarchism and plotting murder, but they are more useful. The Italian on trial for murder, at Buffalo, who illustrated his narrative of the homicide by dramatically plunging a knife into the breast of an interpreter in open court, was rather too swift a witness. Courts should not encourage such realism. THE terrible disaster which occurred Saturday night in the English channel, a few miles off Dover, was accompanied by a revelation of carelessness that would be surprising if 6uch revelations were not so frequent. When the boats came to be lowered, it was found that three out of five were unaeaworthy and useless. Doubtless the shocking loss of life was due in part to this fact. Somebody ought to offer for such criminal blunders as this, but, as a rule, nobody does except the unfortunate victims. THE snow that fell Saturday and yesterday, though not nearly as desirable as rain would have been, will have the effect of checking the extensive fires that have been devastating forests and fields in various directions. If the snow should fortunately melt before the ground is solidly frozen, it will be of further service in furnishing a small modicum of moisture to the parched earth, though copious zains are still greatly needed. If these do not come before the ground freezes, the present distressing situation will be greatly aggravated, and farmers especially will have reason to feel very much discouraged. Senator Riddlt.berger's position in the next Senate will be grand, gloomy and pecul iar. As the sole proprietor of a casting vote, which he proposes to use regardless of party, he becomes an object of special interest. Mr. Riddieberger knows how to make the most of such, a position, and the indications are that be intends to do so. He says that on the contested election cases he will be "guided by the evidence as a judge of the Supreme Court would, and render bis decision according to the evidence. Mr. Riddieberger seems to bave confounded the functions of the Supreme Court with those of a petit jury. It would seem that Japan is suffering from the liquor traffic, as her neighbor, China, is from the opium trade, and in both cases the heathen have to thank Christian nations for introducing the curse. Dr. Holland, naturalist to the United States eclipse expedition, now in Japan, writes that European and American drinking customs are rapidly grow-' ing there. "The native rice wine," he says, 'with about the strength of table sherry, was bad enough when used to excess, but Japan to-day is being flooded from abroad with aloobolie drinks, good, bad and indifferent. It is impossible to find a town of any importance in which there are not large shops filled with beer, wine and distilled spirits bearing the marks of "Western makers." We trust the Japanese will be able to keep the saloon out of polities. It would be a pity for once sober and respectable heathen to be brought to that pass. - THE Pennsylvania Railroad Company ha3 established savings fund scheme for the benefit of its employes, which is to begin operations on the 1st of January next. One of the officers of the company is to have the 'H ' . f 11 management oi me concern, aim iu employes can deposit amounts from $5 to $1C0. The company thinks it can use this fund and t c a. a. - :i J xt 1 mate u per cent um oi it, nuu. me employes are to be paid 4 per cent, interest. The plan is benevolent in its purpose, and doubtless will result in good to the employes of this great corporation,' making them saving in their habits, and industrious in their work. The Pennsylvania company already has a lifeinsurance scheme for its employes, which is working successfully, and this new plan will still further add to the good feeling which bow exists between the army of men on its lines and the managers who have it in charge. THE advocates of co-operation as a remedy for all the ills of the workingman will be somewhat surprised at the reports published recently in the New York Sun on this subject. That paper has collected statistics from all sections of the United States, and finds that most co-operative undertakings bave filled here, owing to "lack of business tiill and judgment, contentions among managers and inability to compete with the regular trade." Former efforts to arrive at ' the facts concerning co-operation in France, England and Germany showed that its success . there had not been encouraging; and, although the conditions abroad are very different from those in America, the successful application of the principles of this supposed cure-all seem to bave been impracticable wherever they bave been tried. The profit-sharing plan ppears to come E-sarer a solution of the

question of a happy union of capital and labor than anything else, yet this is only satisfactory when business is done at a profit. It fails to cover when there is a disastrous year's business, and the best of concerns sometimes lose money. The risk is all on one side, and capital hesitates to take it; hence but very few attempts have been made to operate business under the profit-sharing plan. The strongest argument in its favor is that each workman feels that his own personal efforts will add to his wages, but he never will agree to stand any loss that may occur, and the one thing offsets the other. After all, these various plans to adjust the differences that are raised between employer and employe are experiments which, as yet, have not been successful, and businesss will have to be carried on in the old way a few years longer, until men can agree in earnest to live up to the golden rule to "do unto others as you would be done by." THE "CAUSE" TO BE "VINDICATED." A movement is on foot in the South to raise a sum of money for the benefit of Jeff Davis and family. A committee has been appointed, and an appeal has been made to the people of the State of Georgia, at least. Whether it is to extend to the balance of "the Confederate States" to use President Cleveland's official language does not clearly appear. Mr. Davis indicated some time since that he would decline to receive the money for his own personal use though that would be a remarkable piece of self-abnegation in one who acquired a home in the way he did "BeauToir" whereupon the Charleston News and Courier says: "If Mr. Davis is of the same mind, and will accept nothing for himself, it will still be .practicable to commemorate his confederate services and his confederate primacy. As was suggested last Sunday, the issue of an edition of "The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government," at a price that would bring it within the reach of every man, woman and child in the country, would be a monument more enduring than bronze. It would worthily commemorate the leader, in justifying and vindicating the cause of which he was, by virtue of his official position, the foremost exponent." Here goes the rebel flag and the bloody shirt again. The News and Courier wants the "cause" of which "he was the foremost exponent" "justified" and "vindicated." What was that "cause?" Let us hear an authoritative exposition. Was it human slavery, as Alexander H. Stephens said it was. If so, is that "cause" to be "justified" and vindicated?" Was it the doctrine of State sovereignty, and the right of a State to withdraw at will from the compact of Union? If so, as Mr. Jeff Davis says, is that "cause" to be "justified" and "vindicated!" What is the cause that is to be vindicated? But whatever it is, the "vindication" and "justification" must be the reversal by history of the decision of the war. The war decided that the "cause" of the South was wrong, and the effort now is to "vindicate" that cause, and have it made to appear to the present and to the future as a right cause, temporarily defeated by virtue of superior numbers alone, and by the fortunes of war. That is the struggle of the South to-day. It is a struggle to which its leading men an d newspapers are committing themselves with all their ability and power. It is a struggle in which they have the sympathy of the Democratic party organization of the North, as they had before they inaugurated the war of rebellion. It is a struggle in which they have the sympathy and the support of the present Democratic national administration, as they had of Demooratio administrations throughout the years when they were preparing for the secession movement of 1861. There is no use in trying to blink the facts, or for mugwumps and chalk-faces to cry peace when there is no peace. The South does not propose to allow the verdict of the war to stand. It does not propose to allow th e rebel flag to sleep in peace. It does not propose that the bloody shirt shall rest in the graves with which the country was ridged by treason and rebellion. It does not propose that the present or the future people of the South shall come to think and acknowledge that their splendid bravery and their stern endurance were expended in a mistaken cause, and that they should let the past bury itself, so far as 'may be, and with new thoughts, new impulses, and new purposes, with the people of all the States go hand in hand to the perfection of a homogeneous and united nation. This the South does not propose and will not have. It continues to flaunt the rebel Hag in the face of the people, and to wave the bloody shirt in token that the "cause" of the South was just and holy, and the "cause" of the North, or of the government, was unjust and tyrannous. So long as the South elects to place itself in this attitude, the men and the States that stood together for loyalty, for the Union, for the government, during the years when the "cause" was being "vindicated" by arms and by bayonets, must stand together as unflinchingly when it is to be "vindicated" by a reversed public sentiment and by ballots. It is the South that waves the rebel flag and the bloody shirt; but the North is not afraid of them, and is not too cowardly to accept the contest the South invites. The next campaign will show the people of the South, we think, that if a "bloody shirt" issue be insisted upon, the North will be found on the old lines. It is folly to talk about any thing else when the peopla of the South count the blood shed in the war of the rebellion an unholy thing, and propose to "vindicate" and to "justify" the "cause" for which the attempt was made to disrupt the government and dismember the Nation.

The objection held by Senator Edmunds and at least two or three other Senators to Mr. Lamar's appointment to the Supreme Bench is, that while he accepts the results and all of the accomplished facts of the war with loyalty, nevertheless, as an abstract question, he still entertains the opinion which he did in 1S6L that the Southern States and all of the States had the right to secede, and that he accepts the results of the war as the final decree of force and not as a consequence of the proper interpretation of the Constitution as it was, or of the rights of the States in their relation to the federal government. The distinction is obvious and important. As a

private citizen, or in many official positions, Mr. Lamar's views on the abstract question of the rightfulness of secession might not be important, but on the Supreme Bench they might be of vital consequence. In that position abstract opinions are a controlling power. -

GOV. GRAY AND TEE INSANE HOSPITAL. Governor Gray is a sly coon. We believe no one of his most ardent friends and admirers will doubt that fact. Indeed, they depend upon that quality of the Governor for much they hope fcr in the not distant future. It will not be forgotten that the Governor concluded that the best interests of the Insane Hospital demanded a change of trustees and management, and so, proceeding upon the theory that the terms of Dr. Harrison snd Mr. Gapen had expired, he emphasized his opinion by declining to reappoint them, but named Mr. Joseph Carson and Mr. Joseph Flack as their successors. These appointments were brought to the attention of the superintendent of the hospital by means of the following letter: "Jcne 4, 1SS7. "Dr. William B. Fletcher, Supt. Insane Hospital, Indianapolis, Ind.: "Dear Sir ?Fhe Governor directs me to inform you that he has appointed Joseph L. Carson, of Fairland, Shelby county, president of the three boards, to succeed Dr. Thomas H. Harrison, whose term has expired. Mr. Carson qualified on the 30th ult. by having taken the necessary oath of office, and filed a proper bond as provided by Jaw. He is therefore duly authorized to act as president of said institutions, and entitled to be recognized accordingly. Very truly yours, "Pierre" Gray, "Private Secretary." A fac-simile of this letter, announcing the appointment of Mr. Flack was also sent. It is known that Mr. Joseph Carson, and probably Mr. Flack, were ready to assume their offices, and were prepared to do so . at once, and if they had been recognized and supported as they should have been, the infamous Sullivan-Coy-Harrison gang influence would have been removed from our chief benevolent institution. But somehow or other the whole movement of the Governor "fluked." Mr. Carson and Mr. Flack were left in the attitude of holding the bag, while the "ring" continued to fatten and to batten upon the spoils of office. How did this come about? Why this sudden and unexplained collapse? Perhaps a little inside history may throw a side light upon the performance. The next day after Governor Gray had sent the letters to Doctor Fletcher announcing the new appointments, the Governor telephoned the Doctor and asked him to come to the Governor's office, and to bring with bim these two letters. The Doctor went. Governor Gray asked if he had the letters, and Doctor Fletcher answered that he had. The Governor said, "Let me see them." Doctor Fletcher handed them to him across the table, when Governor Gray put them into his own drawer. Doctor Fletcher asked, "Why do you keep them? I have acted on those letters." Governor Gray answered that perhaps there was a mistake iu the phraseology of the letters; that it might be considered that the language was mandatory, whereas it was a matter to be settled by the court, and that he did cot know anything more about it, except that he had done what he could. Governor Gray kept the letters. What influences were brought to bear upon him to effect this change of mind we, of course, cannot certainly determine, and they must remain a matter of inference. But the Governor is a sly coon. THE Journal has sometimes been criticised by some of its esteemed friends for publishing 6o much base-ball and other sporting news. A sufficient answer to such criticisms i3 that a large clas3 of people wish to read sporting news, and it is the duty of a newspaper, which the Journal pre-eminently is, to supply the popular demand. On this subject we call attention to the following experience of Mr. George W. Childe, of the Philadelphia Ledger. Having greatly increased his mechanical facilities and the size of his paper he determined to make a feature of sporting news. A correspondent says: "Thi3 was a 'shock.' Mr. Childs, who had not taken any one into hi3 confidences, for once was a shade nervous about public opinion, for Philadelphia (as no one knows so well as Mr. Childa) is a very peculiar city, with a devotion to virtue" that is sometimes alarming, ' as well as delightful. But Mr. Childs did not have to wait long for an indication that he regarded as satisfactory. A venerable Quaker gentleman came to call on Mr. Childs. He was dressed in broad-brimmed hat and shadbellied coat of brown, that constitute the leading features of the uniform of the Order of Peace and Good Will. 'I came to congratulate thee, Friend Childs,' said the visitor, 'on the new feature of thy paper the sporting news. My sons can now read that news with-' out going to the papers that are filled with other matter unfit for them to read.' " The application is obvious. Excellent old gentlemen who have been accustomed all their lives to reading the Journal can recommend it to their sons for its sporting news, and thus kindly and gently wean them from reading papers of the baser sort. The cost of the late election in New York city, according to the .World, was nearly $1,000,000. There were seventy-six offices to be filled in the city and county, and 333 candidates of all parties. Some of the candidates for judicial positions spent as high a3 $30,000 to secure election, and many of the candidates for other offices spent from ten to fifteen thousand dollars each. These figures show that none but the wealthy can stand any chance in politics in New York, and, in some degree, account for the corruption that attaches to municipal and county government there. Judicial officers who pay such sums to be elected are very apt to get back their money in questionable ways, and members of the Assembly and aldermauic bodies sell their votes for all kinds of schemes, like the Broadway franchise, and get even that way. In the end the people pay these vast amounts, and it is a wonder that they do not openly rebel. WRITING of Postmaster-general Vilas, Gath says: "It was formerly said, when a Republican had twenty years in office, that it was mysterious how he got his wealth, but here is a Postmaster-general who has been in office barely three years and is now said to be worth a million." It is said, and probably truly, that Mr. Vilas has made a great "deal of money during his term of office by judicious invest

ments in the mineral lands of northern Wisconsin. That is perfectly legitimate and all right. He has the reputation of being a shrewd business man, and if he has been able to make a fortune legitimately and without prejudice to the public interests committed to his hands it is nobody's business. But what will the able Democratic papers say that have been in the habit for years past of abusing prominent Republicans who have made money while in office, calling them thieves, corruptionists, etc. The theory of the able editors has been that a public man had no right to look after hi3 private affairs, and if he added to his fortune while in office the presumption was that he was a thief. The case of Postmaster-general Vilas ought to suggest to them that perhaps they have shown themselves to be as3es of a very malignant and stuoid kind.

The News has at last realized the need of conductors on Mr. Johnson's street cars. The News is a little slow, but it can usually be depended upon to follow in the Journal's tracks within six months after they are made. Some remarks in favor of street sprinkling are about due in its columns. A Democratic paper of St. Louis charges General Tuttle, of Iowa, with drawing a pension for a "congenial malformation." And vet the St. Louis people were insisting not long ago that there was nothing congenial about Tuttle. ABOUT PEOPLE AXD THINGS. "Joe' Jones, of Georgia, a brother of "Sam' Jones, has made his debut as an "evangelist," and is described as the liveliest one yet seen. Charles Carroll, of Maryland, who has just married historian Bancroft's granddaughter, is a young man of twenty-three, stout in figure and very dark in complexion. W. W. Corcoran-, of Washington, will bo eighty-nine years of age in December, but he says that he expects to entertain more than usual during the coming season. It is now rumored that Prince Alexander of Battenberg is to marry Princess Louise of Wales. The enthusiasm of Queen Victoria over Battenberg sons-in law is simply astounding. Anent Thanksgiving day it is observed that the national observance of that pleasant anniversary is to be credited to the efforts of Mrs. Sarah Jane Hale, lata editor of Godey's Lady's Book. Mrs. Grundy, of the New York Mail and Express, tells how the divorced wife of a man not long ago married again, applied to his second wife for assistance, and received a check for $1,000. Josh Billings: We should be keerful how we encurridge luxury s. ' It iz but a step forard from hoe caik to plum-puddin, but it iz a mile and a half by the nearest rode when we have to go back again. Henry George's wife is almost unknown in New York, but his daughters' faces are becoming familiar. They are pretty girls, who are enthusiasts in their fathers behalf, and who will probably make themselves felt one day in the organization of working women. Roscoe Conklixg lives in a suite of what is popularly known as "bachelor apartments," opposite the Madison-square Theater. The editor of a society paper says that not a week passes without some one sending him a paragraph, nearly always laudatory, about Roscoe the superb. Yale and Amherst Colleges have put the Bible on the list of elective studies. There is certainly enough in its literature, its ethics, and its historyr as the Rev. S. H. Lee argues in a paper in the November New Englander, to warrant effort to make the study of the Bible mora profitable than it usually is iu college. ," Headings by authors from their own works, itr"iehalf of the international copyright movement, will take place ia New York this season, as such readings did last year. Two readings are announced at Chickering Ball, the afternoons of the 2Sth and 29th inst. Mr. Lowell will preside, and among the authors who will take part are named G. W. Curtis, R IL Stoddard, Mr. JEggleston. Mr. Stockton. Mr. Cable, Mr, Clemens. Mr. Warner and H. C. Bunner. Another story is related concerning Emperor William's economic habits. On a recent cold morning his servant brought him his military cloak which he has worn for many years. He put it on, looked into the glass and remarked thatthe collar ought to be renewed, as it seemed faded. The attendant suggested it wotild perhaps be better to get anew cloak, whereupon tho Kaiser replied: "What are you thinking of! The cloan is good enough. I have not even worn it as long as a good coat has to serve for recruits. " William Andrew Jackson Sparks, whose resignation from the General Land Office has just been accepted by the President, is a tall, erect man, fifty years of age. and rather handsome. His hair is tinged with gray, and his mnstache and chin whiskers are nearly white. The most remarkable feature of his costume is his hat. He has his headgear especially manufactured for him. It is made of black stiff felt, with a top like an inverted flower-pot, and a perfectly flat brim about three inches wide. This peciiliar hat he wears in both summer and winter. In December the Secretary of State will reopen his houso in Washington, which has been closed for two seasons, and his eldest unmarried daughter, Miss Nannie Bayard, will preside. The houso is on Massachusetts avenue, a plain, roomy, substantial family mansion. Mr. Bayard is not a rich man, and he has six children living to provide for. He does not care much for stylo. He likes a good horse to ride, and has one, and he gives capital dinners He is said to be the best terrapin cook on the continent But he has no gorgeous plate nor liveried footman. He has not changed his style of life since he came to Washington, although in that time a great advance has been made in the cost of hiving there. Oh, gas may escape a nd gas may burst And vanish in noise and flame. But the meter's hand, in its quiet way. Goes traveling onward, day by day, And gets there just the same. Omaha World. OUR JOHN ABROAD. His Yankee feet are on our shore, tool o' vban, onr Sool o'vhan! Ho's come to tap the British gore, Sool o' vhan, our Sool o' vhan! Let Bison William hunt his hole, His fame is now a broken howl One wan alone charms England's soul, Sool o vhan, our Sool o' vhan! Kurdette. GOOD ADV III. Oh, merchant in thine hour of e e e, If on this paper you should e e e, And look for something to ap p p p Your yearning for greenback v v v. Take our advice and be y y y. Go straightway out and advert i i i: You'll find the project of some u u u. Neglect can offer no ex q q q. Be wise at once, prolong your i a a a; A silent business soon dkkk. RnfTalo News. COMMENT AND OPINION. No real estate agent is a George Washington -to his office boy. New York Journal. After the awful disaster at Kouts, Ind., there was a loud cry all over the land that the "car stoves must go." They have not gone yet. It will take a few more disasters to .get them started. Chicago Journal. As the Democrats have a majority over all of onlv eleven vetes in the next Congress, they will probably perceive the necessity of going somewhat slow with any disturbing measures of legislation. Boston Journal. The general falling off in the "labor vote" is significant of the fact that there is no basis for a distinctive "labor party" in this country. There is no "cause of labor distinct from the cause of the whole people. Philadelphia Inquirer. G reater courage, clearer perception of the real political situation, greater reliance on the strength of sound principles and right methods these are what tho Republican party in this State needs in its leadership. New York Mail and Express. Labor unions under whatever name awaken expectations that cannot be fulfilled. Co operation is good, arbitration is good, but after all. a man's success in life depends on himself. All that these means can do. all that legislation can do is to assure to each man among us greater

freedom of action, greater frsedom of choice, greater security for his wages, his savings, his property. Loiiisville Courier-Journal. The strong right arm of the 60,000.000 of people was back of that sheriff in Chicago, and agitators would better not forget it. New York Tribune. The recollection that one-seventh of the postoffices in the country are still filled by Republicans is all that keeps the cockles of the mugwumps' hearts warm this chilly administration weather. But wait until January freezes out more of that lingering seventh. Buffalo Express. Mb. Sherman's plan of reducing the surplus will attract attention. Any proposition which comes from this able statesman deserves consideration. But with the highest respect for his judgment he will find many dissenting, both from his idea of leaving the whisky tax untouched and from his other leading point of abolishing the duty on sugar. Philadelphia Press. The fight is fairly on, and nothing but disaster can come to the Republican party from any further attempt at conciliating the liquor interest. The saloons of the United States are permanently Democratic. The intelligent and temperate masses will stand by the Republican party if it stands by them, and has the full courage of the convictions its platforms express. Minneapolis Tribune,

THE STATE EXCHANGE TABLE. THE ONLY WAY. Middletown News: The only way t suppress anarchy in this country is to suppress it. A CLAY FEATHER. Muncie Times: The potter's clay found east of the city is another feather in Muncie's cap. IT DOES LOOK THAT WAY. Mnncie Times: It looks now mightily like Indiana men will be of some importance in the political field next year. THE ONLY SAFE COURSE. Middletown News: The supremacy of the law must be preserved at all hazzarda. Neglect to do this and the beginning of the end is at hand. A GREAT MISTAKE. Muncie News: Foreigners who are strangers to liberty, and come here to excite riot and bloodshed in the name of liberty make a fatal mistake. A SUGGESTION. Lafayette News: Some scheme should be formulated whereby the President could write two messages one for the Carlisle and the other for the Randall Democrats. IT WILL COME TO THAT. Rising Sun Recorder: Recent occurrences give greater prominence to the ides of education the children of the country only in the English language in the common schools. A HEALTHY SIGN. Lafayette Courier: The fact that a good many prominent Republicans are anxious to seenre the nomination for Governor next year is evidence that a healthy hopefulness prevails among the leaders. A POLITICAL QUANTITY. - Tipton Advocate: Gen. Ban Harrison is becoming a considerable quantity in presidential material. No odds whether he is a candidate for the nomination or not, he stands a most magnificent chance. THE DEMOCRATIC IDEA. Goshen Times: The Democratic idea of the bloody shirt is what Northern people eay About what Southern people say and do. What Southern people say and do is not that garment, but the Northern comment is. GREEN SMITH FOR GOVERNOR. Richmond Telegram: Green Smith, they say, aspires to be Governor. It would be a glad, enlivening sight to see Greon put np by the Democrats for that office. He'd be kicked through the wickets the very first dash. A TAKING COMBINATION. Shelbyville Republican: Harrison and Hawley seems to be the popular presidential ticket among the Republicans of Indiana. It is a mighty taking combination and would undoubtedly sweep the country next year. A POLITICAL STRAW. Vincennes Commercial: The general disposition manifested by the Hoosier statesmen of the Democratic faith this year to decline the race for gubernatorial honors, is a political straw that shows the way the wind is blowing. A CLEAN TICKET. Frankfort Banner: Harrison and Hawley. What a raagnifiicent ticket for Republican success. Both were, volunteer soldiers, both won honorable renown in war, both have achieved snccesB in civil life, both are old-time Republicans, both bave clean records. . PERHAPS THEY RELISH DOG. Lafayette Courier: In an editorial' reference to Lieutenant-governor Robertson, the Indianapolis Sentinel revives ancient history by dragging Huston's dog into the argument We nad supposed that the Democratic party bad been treated to an elegant sufficiency of Huston's dog in the last campaign, but the Sentinel apDears to be determined to keep him alive as a political issue. PROSPERITY OF MARION. Marion Chronicle: Every ten pots, in the vocabulary of glass manufacturers, constitutes a factory. Then, counting Stewart & Eetep as two, Marion has - secured jnst ten factories since the development of natural gas. This includes the Sheehv eigar factory, tht Hulley hams-works, the Snurr soap factory, the Marion Lumber Company, the Burk & Charles glass factory, the Crosby paper mill, the Stewart & Estep glass-works, the bottle factory and the pressed-brick-works. VETERANS PRACTICALLY A. UJflT. Tote on a Dependant Pensions Bill The President to Have Another Chance. Minneapolis Special. "The Grand Army of the Republic proposes to give President Cleveland another chnnce to nut himself on record as to the claims of the men who saved this conotry twenty-five years ago," said one of the officials at the national headquarters. The occasion of the remark was the packine of a box containing the vote of the Grand Army Posts of the country ou the new deneadant pension bill, which is to be introduced in Congress this winter. Ever since the veto of the dependent pension bill, passed by the last Congress, the Grand Army leaders have bssn at work on a neusion bill that woud meet the necessities of the case and at the same time do away, if possible, with the President's objections. The pensions committee finallv, under instructions from the National Encanmment, prepared a bill which has been submitted in detail to every post in the country. This bill is short, intelligible and to the point. The returns of the vote on the bill have been sent to the national headquarters in this city, and are nearly all in. The vote was sent to-day to General George S. Merrill, of Lawrence. Mass.. chairman of tne pensions committee. The committee will compile the vote and present the bill, together with the results of the vote, to Congress. The posts are nearly unanimous in favor of the bill. The yote has been general and the response hearty. One thing is settled beyond cavil, viz.: the Grand Array men of the country are practically unanimous in favor of a dependent pension act, embodying the above features. Whether the President will be of the same mind is another question. T e new bill is substantially the same as that ho vetoed, in its principal features. An effort wilf be made to meet as far as might be his objections without vitiating the measire; but, as some or the President's objections were vital, it is thought by some of the Grand Army of the Republic officials that he will not approve the new measure. At any rate, he will be given an opportunity to go on record, confronted with the Grand Army of the Republic's unanimous vote in favor of the bill. "I have every reason to believe that the bill submitted to Congress by the pension committee of the Grand Army of the Republic at the coming session will pass both houses without serious friction and become a law,"aid the comm nnder-in-chief, J. P. Rea. "It is needless for me to say that the organization is unanimously in favor of such a law. 1 he vote forwarded to the pension committee to-dav shows the sentiment existing in the hearts of . the old veterans. I don't see bow Congress can fail to pass it. and I don't see how President Cleveland can fail to affix bis signature approving it." The total vote taken in the various posts throughout the country was 252,274, and over 250,000 were in favor of the bill. Democratic Economy. Washington Republican. Will some mathematical expert from the Treasury Department, or elsewhere, please explain boor it is that in this year of grace and reform, at the high tide of Jeffersonian simplicity and Democratic economy, it so happens that the ordinary expenditures" of the government were $25,449,041.47 more than they were tne previous year? These ere the official figures furnished by a Democratic Treasurer, or we should have believed it to be a wicked campaign lie, conceived in iniquity and born in sin, to injure an economical Democratic administration. Bat these are the official Genres; and. since we come to remember, there was an $11,000,000 river and harbor bill and a G.O00.0uO deficiency bill thai failed for want of tiro to sign or something of that kind. How terrible it would have been had these bills passed and the increased expend itare mounted up to nearly $45,000,000. Economy shudders at the thought, Jeffersonian sim

plicity hides itself away and Republican extravagance, about which so much was formerly said in Democratic papers, sits smilingly by. COMSTOCK'S RAID. Not a War Upon Art lie Explains the KnoedIcr Affair and Cites Legal Authorities. New York World. "Some of the papers are attacking me because on my own responsibility I have begun a war upon art in this Knoedler prosecution, said Attorney Comstock to a reporter. "The fact is that before applying for a warrant I submitted, some of the photograph procured from Knoedler to District Attorney Maftine. in the presence of his assistant. Colonel Fellows, and they were both of opinion that the photographs came within the discription of articles the public sale of which is forbidden by the statute. Then I applied for and obtained a warrant. As to the result of the prosecution I am not loosing any sleep. I have obtained about twenty convictions for the sale of pictures of this kind, and I have seized thousands of them. But the retail dealers from whom I siezed them have very properly objected that the importers from whom the pictures were obtained went unwhipped of justice. The Knoedlers are the only house importing these photographs, and the fact that it is a reputedly wealthy and longestablished concern does not place it above the law." Mr. Comstock quoted from the charge of Judge Brady, and the opinions of the General Term and tho court of appeals in the Muller case, a letter written by James McCartney, Attorney-general of the State of Hlnois in 18S3. an opinion by the Chief-justice Cockburn, of England, and other high legal authorities, to show that he was fully sustained in the action he had taken. He added that it was an insult to artists to call these meretricious photographs works of art. and said that he would be perfectly willing, if the law would permit him to do 60, to submit to a jury of artists the question as to whether art or indecency was the predominating characteristic of photographs which reproduced and made prominent the vicious points, and relegated to obscurity all that was redeeming in the original work. "Moreover, some of the photographs seized from Knoedler are identical with photographs already condemned by New York courts," he added. , TheGsiubetta Monnment Puns Dispatch to London D&ily Telecraph. There is a hitch in the construction and preparation of the really splendid monument to Leon Gambetta which is to ornament the vast square of the Louvre. Visitors and Parisians can see the top of the monument, with some of its inscriptions, rising, girt with scaffolding, over th9 strong hoarding which surrounds it. It stands on the left of the square going riverward from the Rue Rivoli. and nearly faces the f anions gate of the Place ds Carrousel, which once led. into the Tuileries, and over the portals of which is placed the pompous inscription about Napoleon's rapid rush backfrom Boulogne, where he was contemplating an invasion of England, to the banks of the Danube. It appears that the delay in the work connected with the monument is caused by the fact that Barbedienne has not yet forwarded to the contractors the allegorical figures in bronze which are to ornament the pedestal. It is expected, however, that the work can be resumed about the 15th of the present month, and that the whole of the monument will be ready for inauguration about Jan. 1, 18S9, that is to say. for the fifth anniversary of the tribune's death. A Mason on Trial. Cincinnati Special. The Rev. Henry D. Moore, formerly a prominent minister of this citv, and for many years a conspicuous figure io Masonic circles, is now on trial before the local Scottish Rite body on the charee of having violated the vow of eecreey which he took when entering th order. He wae tried about a year ago bv a commission on the same charge and suspended, but he carried the case before the Grand Commandery, which decided that the commission had no anthority to try him. In Jnne. 1886, lur. Moore resigned from the Scottish Rite, but hi resiffnition has never been accepted. He now claims that he is not a member of that organization, and consequently that body has co right to try him. He is a prominent member of the "Cernean Masons, a branch tabooed by the regular Masons, and bis friends claim that the only object is to persecute hira. Mr. Moore la editor of the Masonic Review, and is at present acting as private secretary to Postmaster Riley. The trial commenced Tuesday at the Scottish Rite Cathedral on Broadway and is still iu session. Enoch Carson is the presiding officer. Under the role of the organization the defendant is not presents.

Cleveland's Gross Interference ia New York. Harper's Weekly (Mug. J Mr. "Cleveland was elected Governor by an overwhelming and unprecedented majority, which was designed as a rebuke of supposed executive interference. Yet it was never shown that President Arthur, although naturally interested in the success of his Secretary of the Treasury, took any steDS to , secure it. Had he written for Mr. Folger, a perfectly irreproachable pnblic officer and private citizen, such a letter as President Cleveland wrote just before the late election for Mr. Fellows, it would have beea justly resented as a most unbecoming and undignified interference with the electioo by the executive. President Cleveland's letter is, wa believe, the first instance of such an act in a local election, and the Democratic counselors who advised it, and the President in yielding to their advice, have greatly shaken the public confidence ia the executive good sense. The Charges Aginst Mr. Maree. W. W. Thomas, ex-United States Minister to Sweeden: I know Mr. Magee well. He is an affable, honorable gentleman, and I do not and cannot for a moment believe any story derogatory to Mr. Magee in his private character, or ia his official relations. I know farther that Mr. Magee is esteemed and respected in the best circles of Stockholm, at court and in official life. He is received in the best society there, and is everywhere a welcome guest. I know further that he stands especially high in the estimation of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sweden. I do not believe that there is the slightest ground whatever for the report, and am at a loss to know how they originated. I may say, too, that Mr. Magee has entertained American travelers at the legation with a most open-handed hospitality. Mrs. Cleveland on Her Dignity. Philadelphia Press. At one of the receptions given to Mrs. Cleveland in this city last week the wife of a wellknown citizen in - Philadelphia found herseif for a moment close beside the President's wife, and there was one of those awkward pauses which sometimes occur, even in the most polite society. Th Philadelohian broke it by saying to the mistress of the White House: "I suppose you left Mr. Cleveland at Washington!' Drawing herself up to her full height Mrs. Cleveland said with hauehty dignity: "Do you reter to the President of the United. States, madame?" Fair Warning;. Philadelphia Record. There is a store of bituminous coal under the surface of the soil in the State of Indiana, and a system of railroad lines bas been built to carry the coal to market. The Constitution of Indiana like the Constitution of this State before 1873 has no provision preventing the amalgamation of transportation and mining companies. Under these circumstances the people of Indiana will probably fall a prey to their doubleended monopolies controlling both the production of a necessary article and the means of transporting it, and having the ability to fleece the miner at one end of the rail and the consumer at the other end. Mr, Bonner's Methods. , New York Hail and Express. The newspaper and business men of the country owe to Mr. Bonner a lasting debt of gratitude for bis boldness and originality in advertising. He used to startle everybody by occupying; a whole page of the Tribune, or Herald, or Times by one of his advertisements of the Ledger, regardless of the cost of such display. He showed that this form of apparent extravagance was real economy. It arrested attention, and made people talk and ask questions, and buy the Ledger, which was always good enough to stand the scrutiny. An Echo from the Far X est. Fait Lake Tribune. The hangman has more work to do in Chicago. His next business should be upon the segregated idiot who prepared the dispatch describing the funeral of the Anarchists. His exploit has a tendency to make people who have heretofore opposed capital punishment relinquish their views. The soul of that press agent should be sect "flitting mile after mile in the gloom down to the cold, fiat e&rtb,"and if there is anything in hemp it should be utilized to give bis countenance the same pallor that Spies and Nina Van Zandt wear. A Great Mistake. ChlcKO Journal. " Tne enthusiastic political Prohibitionists make a great mistake in etyl'Lg their party ' God's party." To say nothu ? of the tinge of blasphemy implied in the phrase, no party deserving that appellation would ever have done so much for the cause of whisky as ibe Prohibitionists hare done by keeping the Democratic party is power in New York state alos-