Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 November 1887 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOUBKAV THOE3DAT, NOVEMBER 24, 1S8T.

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For the Lord is good; His mercy is everlasting, and His truth endureth to all generations. He hath not dealt so with, any nation. Praise ye the Lord. Eight eousness exalteth a nation; but sin is a reproach to any people. President Grew said he would not re sign, and then resigned. The act of changing one's mind is sometimes a mark of the highest Statesmanship. The mother-in-law will now retire from the professional humorists' jokes to make way for the son-in-law. President Grevy's experience indicates that it is the son-in-law who is fatal. In 1S35, Governor Hoadly received 34,695 votes in Hamilton county. In 18S7, General Powell, the Democratic candidate, received 23,338, a loss of 11,358. The rebel-flag campaign in Ohio did not pan out very well for the Democracy. . THE National Women's Christian Temperance Union has a membership of 200,000. It is the largest society of women ever formed, and is, perhaps, not out-numbered by any other organization formed for purely philanthropic purposes. ' DlNNA ye hear . the slogan? It sounds the knell of nonsense and frippery, and the substitution of common sense in the management of the public school system. The people will see that the public schools are kept for the education of the children of all the people in the plain, practical branches of an English or American education. . THE supporters of Governor Gray for . the Democratic vice-presidential nomination are "pointing with pride" to the fact that their candidate had a plurality of 7,302 in 1884, while Mr. Hendricks had but 6,427. This circumstance may be a just source of pride to Mr. Gray and his friends, but it signifies nothing as matters are now. The Governor will never carry Indiana again. At the conservative conference in London a Tuesday a resolution in favor of "fair trade" was carried by a large majority. Fair trade is the English name for protected trade, against the Cobden-Bright free trade. At the meeting of the Cobden Club, held last summer, President Potter said that ail indications pointed to a great contest soon between free trade and fair trade in the empire. , The Knights of Labor in some localities are demanding legislation in regard to the treatment of the insane, poor. No doubt there is room for reform in that field, but the eubject does not seem to pertain exclusively to the Knights of Labor. All classes of citizens are equally interested. This constant tendency to draw class lines and assert class interests is one of the evils of the times. EASTERN statesmen and editors who are actively engaged in nominating a presidential ticket which can "carry Indiana," would excite less derision in this portion of the Commonwealth if they were to acquaint themselves with the preferences of the people of Indiana. The favorite combination of these statesmen is a thousand miles from the one that meets the approval of the Hoosiers. The Rev. Dr. Parker ha3 given up the lecture tour he started out on, inferentially because there was no spontaneous uprising of the people to go and hear him. If he had lectured on subjects upon which it was advertised he would speak and had not taken up collections to send cablegrams to Mr. Gladatone, he might have been received better in the cities which he visited. Next trip he will be wiser. Democratic journals, which find cause for great hilarity in the assertions of Republicans that the recent election in New York does not indicate defeat of their party next year, are indulging in elaborate calculations to show that the result in NewJeVsey signifies nothing, and, that there is no doubt of Democratic success in that State in '88. Oddly enough, the journals with the keen cense of humor see nothing funny in their inconsistent position. If the able doctors have any information to give the public as to what can be done to prerent typhoid fever, or how to treat it or care for the patient after it has been contracted, ihey would be very welcome to newspaper lolumns. But we cannot imagine anything nore useless, and worse, than discussions between physicians as to the nature of the fever, and learned disquisitions upon its awful character and almost certain fatality. There has been altogether too much of that. Such lalk may be good enough for medical journals or in medical societies, but it does not add to the stock cf knowledge of the common people

and its only tendency is harmful. There is,

just now, a somewhat unusual febrile visitation in the city, but everybody who has a headache, or a pain in the baok, or other fever" symptom, is not stricken with a remediless disease, and death is not absolutely certain. An overwhelming per cent, of the real fever cases submit to prompt treatment and careful nursing; fatalities, though too frequent, are the exception. No precautions should be relaxed and no delay incurred in summoning medical advice and care; but there ia no occasion for throwing everybody into an ague of apprehension, or creating the impression that typhoid fever has entire con trol of Indianapolis, Indianapolis still continues to be among the healthiest of all the cities of the country, the alarmist doctors to the contrary notwithstanding. THE FEEHCH CRISIS. There is no disguising the fact that France is in a state of acute crisis. The present sit uation is the culmination of a series of politi cal intrigues, factional fights, dynastic con spiracies and personal scandals which, working beneath the surface for a long time, are now working their way out. Behind it all it is pretty evident that republican government in France is on trial. "Whether President Grevy resigns or not, the situation is equally grave. If he resigns, it will be because he is forced to do so before the expiration of his constitutional term of office, and that will be revolution. If he does not resign, the revolution will take some other shape. M. Grevy, near eighty, is too old to deal with the situation, or to with stand the forces combined against him. A younger President might avert the crisis by asserting his constitutional right to serve out his term, and save himself while saving the Constitution. This way of meeting the revo lution at the threshold might be made the basis of a popular appeal that would prove very effective, and enable the President to make himself master of the situation. But M. Grevy is too old for that sort of thing. A man over seventy has little ambition either to lead or resist a revolution. In fact, he seems to have lost all control of the situation. Without a Ministry or a considerable follow ing, either in the Senate or the Chamber of Deputies, he is President only in name. It is a painful situation for an old man to be placed in, and is likely to end in the humiliating close of an honored career. After his resigna tion, the deluge. The parties and factions who have been clamoring for President Grevy's resignation can never agree on a sub sequent course of action, and it is doubtful if any of them can construct a Ministry that the other will not immediately batter down. The republicans are divided among them selves, and the monarchists, opposed to any kind of a republic, are watching their oppor tunity to take advantage of the jealousies and mistakes of their opponents. . Meanwhile, the worst feature of the situation is that republican form of government is not firmly rooted among the people, and if the storm doe3 come the ship of . state is liable to drag its anchor, and drift into new seas. The Republic is only in its seventeenth year, and the record shows that in the last century France has changed its form of government about every twenty years. AMEEICAN PUBLIC SCHOOLS. The result of the school board election in St. Louis will be a surprise to some people and an eye-opener to others. To the Journal it is neither. We anticipated and hoped for it. By way pf defining the issues of the election and emphasizing the significance of the result, we reprint the platform adopted at a mass meeting of the citizens of St. Louis: "1. That State and national politics should have nothing to do with the management of the public schools. "2. That in spite of scarcity of funds, additional buildings and teachers should be provided till every child of school age asking admission may be received without overcrowding rooms or overworking teachers. "3. That rigid economy should be observed in the erection and furnishing of new buildings. "4. That no language but the English should be taught at public expense in the primary and district schools." Out of twenty-one candidates nominated on this platform seventeen were elected. The citizens' movement was successful in ten cut of fourteen school districts, and elected every one of the seven candidates at large, the majorities on the latter averaging about four thousand. - The discussion that preceded this election covered the whole ground of reform in school management. The movement was one in favor of retrenchment, economy and reform, the abolition of German in the pri mary and grammar schools being made a leading feature. There can be no mistaking the significance of this election. It means that the people of St. Louis, after full discussion, have pronounced by a large majority in favor of brincing the public schools back to something like first principles. The original idea, the constitutional idea, the true idea of American public schools is to furnish free education for every child in the common English branches so far as is necessary to lay the foundation for good citizenship. This idea may be expanded within reasonable limitations, but it must be kept constantly in view as the fundamental and ruling principle of the public school system. The tendency in recent years has been to lose 6ight of it, and to overload the system with branches of instruction entirely foreign to the original idea, tending to increase the expense and diminish the efficiency of the schools. The result has been a waste of time and money that could be belter applied Another result has been a tendency to ornamental and superficial education, a neglect of thorough instruction in the primary branches and of providing adequate school accommodations, spending in educational frivolities money that should be appropriated to the erection of new buildings. Conspicuous among these parasitic growths of recentyears, diverting the energies and revenues of the public school system, is instruction in German. It had its origin in demagogy. It is foreign to the American idea and the public school idea. It is an educational nuisance and an expensive fraud. It interferes with English education, and absorbs time and money that are needed for other matters. It has no proper place in the publio schools of our English-speaking people. We say this in the interest of the schools, and

in the kindest feeling for American citizens of

German birth. The question is not to - be considered from a class point or view. J t is a question of holding our public school system to its original idea, and of preserving not only the usefulness of the system but the system itself. St. Louis has set an example of reform in this regard that should be imitated by the people of every city in the land. THE WAY LAW IS ENF0SCEDJacob Sharps, and Buddenseiks, and crimi nals of various high degrees, may manage to escape punishment; but when, as now and then happens, New York justice , takes, the bandages off her eyes and starts in pursuit of an offender, the guilty wretch cannot hope to escape. An instance of this kind is reported in the case of Mr. James Reilly, who, on the night of the presidential election in 1S84, and doubtless while in a state of mental exal tation not uncommon at such times, took a handful of peanuts from a corner stand with. out the formality of paying for the same. The Italian merchant made complaint, Mr. Reilly was arrested, and his case set for trial. but beiore trie matter came up tne - prisoner had escaped. Having, in the course of his experience, taken note of the fact that thieves who were dignified with the name of "boodlers' usually found it entirely safe to return from foreign parts within a year or so after the commission of their crimes, Mr. Reilly, it may be supposed, not unnaturally thought that in three years the abstraction of a fistful of peanuts might be outlawed. At all events he made his appearance in New York last week, for the first time since 1884, and much to his surprise was immediately f'snatched" by the officers of the law, and put in jail on the old charge. No legal delays were per mitted to intervene on this occasion. Mr. Reillv was not allowed to engage counsel who required time for preparing a defense. No plea that he was in poor health, and con finement might be fatal, was given the least attention. The arguments of friends that he was a good fellow and meant no harm, and that his family would be greatly humiliated by his incarceration, failed to move the stern and upright . court from its course. The guilty must be punished, the law must be sustained, and outraged justice, evaded for three years, : must be propitiated. Nothing would suffice but that Mr. Reilly must go to the island for six months, and there he was sent, and there languishes. And then justice went back, put the bandage on her eyes, and forgot to take a squint at Jacob Sharp and . Herr Most, and a multitude of other scamps, to see how they enjoyed liberty. The official vote of Ohio, at the late elec tion, has been completed, and the especial point of interest is as to whether Foraker's new civil war made him any votes. He received a total of 356,937. In 18S5 he received 359,281; net loss, 2,344. The Republican candidate for Lieutenant-governor ran far ahead of him. The new civil war does not seem to have been a success before the people, but it is likely to play an import' ant part in the Republican national conven tion. Cincinnati Enquirer. Why not tell all the story? Gov. Foraker received 356,937 votes, and in 1885 359,281, a net loss of 2,344. In 1885 Hoadly, Democrat, received 341,830, and this year Powell received 333,205, a net loss of 8,625. In 1885 Governor Foraker's plurality was 17,451, and this year hi3 plurality over Powell is 23,78: --. a net gain of 6,331. The reason for the fall ing off in the Republican and Democratic vote was the large increase in the Labor vote. In 1885 the Prohibition vote was 28,0S1, this year 29,700. In 1S85 the Labor vote was z,UUi, this year Zi, rz, an increase or. over 22,000. The reason the Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor received more votes than Governor Foraker was because of a cor rupt trade between the Democrats and Labor party leaders of Hamilton county, whereby the Labor vote was to be diverted to Powell. So far as the figures show, the "new civil war, as tne inquirer calls it, aid very well, especially in comparison with the confederateJeff -Da vis-rebel-flag campaign made for General Powell. The Democrats lost 8,625 votes over their vote two years ago, and Governor Foraker increased his plurality 6,331. That will do for one year, and, as the Enquirer says, "tne Ohio idea will play an important part in the Republican national convention. The testimony of J. M. Culp before the Inter state Commerce Commission shows how the law ha3 been trifled with, and is withal a very brazen exmoition or cool mendacity. This man is the general freight agent of the Louisville & Nashville railroad, one of those charged with making special discriminating rates for the Standard Oil Trust. Confronted with the published rates of his road and with correspondence of his own office, first chang ing and then repudiating them, he attempted to break the force of the exposure by a series of misrepresentations so transparent that ho ought to have been ordered out of the room. When he had finally wound himself completely ud and could go no turtner, ce tooic reruge in tne statement that the principal man in his office is in ill health, and he, the witness, did not know much about it. At this point Judge Cooleyi suggested to him that he had better consult bis attorney. It would have been better if he had consulted his conscience at the outset. This man's testimony goes strongly to sustain the charge against the road. The commission seems to have struck a paying lead at the very start, and it is to be hoped they will push the investigation on that line. If the railroads have been violating the law and playing into the hands of the Standard Oil Trust, they should be made to smart for it, and so should the Trust, if possible. What is needed to make the inter state law respected and respectable is that its penalties shall be enforced. The present Board of Commissioners is a shame to the county. . Their smallness is contemptible, and their efforts to economize merely the cheese-paring of men who have no proper comprehension of their duties or of the necessities of the public service they assume to eontrol. - The present Board most vivedly calls to mind the late Tom Corwin'a explanation of why county commissioners were provided for in the scheme of local government. A conspicuous and yet representative instance of utter unfitness for their places

is shown in the rule whereby the Court-house was made practically untenantable on last Monday, and which is likely to be repeated throughout the winter at intervals, unless the stupid regulation is modified or repealed. But what better could be expected of a board ruled by the man Sahm? When - the late Vice-president died, a citizen met Sahm and asked h im if the commissioners would order the Court-house suitably draped. Sahm replied that there washo authority for the expenditure of money for such purpose, but he would head a private subscription with five dollars. Some man with common sense and a fit appreciation of ' the occasion got hold of this precious commissioner, and the disgrace he would have perpetrated upon the county was averted. Economy and prudence are very necessary and very praiseworthy. Cheese-paring and stupidity only bring the public service into confusion, and contempt upon those who practice them at the expense of the best interests of a community.

TCE prospect that ex-Commissioner Sparks intends to "make trouble" by remaining in Washington, either" in a private capacity or through an election to Congress, seems to have alarmed the friends of the administration and to have started a movement for getting him out of the way. It is already hinted that as the President cherishes no animosity towards Mr. Sparks, but, on the contrary, regards him as a man of ability and integrity, it is not impossible that the ex-Commissioner will be given a lucrative foreign appointment, as, for instance, the Mexican mission. Something must be done, and that quickly, to extinguish Sparks. United States Senator Gorman, of Maryland, is a man who not only downs hi3 opponents in politics, but he does the same thing in business matters. He has succeeded in removing from the directory of the Balti more & Ohio railroad Mr. John K. Cowen, who led the reformers in the recent contest in Maryland, and it is said that Gorman will further pursue him until he is compelled to resign as general counsel for the road. It would seem that Gorman comes pretty nearly owning the State of Maryland, and that he i3 a bad man to fool with. One of the rules adopted by the Civilservice Commission is calculated to make people a little careful about making recom mendations for office. They are required to answer the question "Would you, yourself, trust him with employment requiring un doubted honesty, and would you recommend him for such to your personal friends?" It would take a very reckless politician to an swer that question affirmatively in regard to a good many persons who have been appointed to office under this administration. Possibly such a campaign as is now "on" in Atlanta over the question of prohibition may be a good thing for a city, and probably not. For one we should pray to be spared such an experience, especially when the net result, even if "dry" carries at the polls, is the substitution of all sorts of deviees and the resort to all manner of deceits and subterfuges to evade and defeat the law. There are better ways in which to restrict, and regu late, and confine the public sale of intoxicants in cities than the Atlanta plan. A man who has to bo constantly reminded by a servant that he should wear his hat when on the street, and forgets the way to his office, is hardly tho man who should be placed on the Snpreme Bench. The needs of the country do not demand that a justice of this court shall be so wrapped in thought that he cannot unwind himself. Mr. Cleveland, however, seems to be determined to perpetrate another blunder by appointing Mr. Lamar. THERE were, nearly 26,000 votes cast in the school election in St. Louis, more than 15,000 being for the citizens' ticket. The St. Louis Republican, the Democratio paper, referring to the result, says: "The result of the school board election is not a defeat for 'the Germans.' It simply es tablishes what the Republican has along con tended that there is no German class in St. Louis. And thus it is a victory for every body." The Authors' Readings to be given next Mon day and Tuesday in Chickering Hall, New York, . in aid of the International Copyright fund, will be a notable event. James Russell Lowell is to preside, and such authors as Howells, Cable, Curtis, Eggleston, Clemens, Stockton and others are to read from their own works. Indiana has been specially honored by having General Lew Wallace and James Whitcomb Riley invited to represent the West, and Mr. Riley will leave to-day to be present and read some of his inimitable sketches and poems on that occasion. Mr. Riley's histrionic abilities, as well as the high grade of his literary work, will give him an opportunity to make an impression in this notable company. which should add to his already wide fame as an author and reader. Last Sunday P. T. Barnum printed in a syn dicate of news papers an article how nearly the circus had been brought up to the high moraj plane of the church, and that night hi3 "greatest show on earth" was entirely burned up. This is in the nature of a coincidence. A writer in a Boston paper endeavors to prove that it was an Irishman who discovered America. Whether this be the case or not, no one will dispute the statement that Irishmen have found the country uf. since. A little book has been issued entitled "Half Hours with the Star.3 If all the stories of his mooning about are true, the work might have been written by Secretary Lamar. ABOUT PEOPLE ASP VHINGS. Governor Ames, of Massachusetts, carries life insurance to the amount of $1.25,000. Perhaps the first ship to go through the Panama canal will be drawn by a Keeljr motor. Mrs. Celia Thaxter, the artist? and poet, has become a convert to esoteric Buddhism. Qceen Victoria has issued an order that the Jubilee medaL of which about a thousand have been given away, is to rank above all war medals, and it is always to be worn on those full-dress occasions when ordinary medals are do rigueur. Selina Dolaro is said to be arrang&ig for publication the poetry addressed to her by infatuated poem makers. No names or other means of identification will be given, and if the verses are as silly as are most addressed to popular actresses, the book will have at least the merit of being amusing, and in a way instructive. . Manuel Garcia, the illustrious teacher of singing, is about to celebrate his eighty-third birthday. He says that Jenny Land wa? one of his most satisfactory pupils because he never

had to tell her a thing twice. Her attention, intelligence, docility and strength of will were remarkable, and to those qualities her success was due. I hear that the new Sir Stafford Northcote was modestly averse to accepting the title under which his lamented father was best known, but it was the especial wish of the Queen herself, as well as of Lady Iddesleigh, that the new baronet be thus styled. Captain Mackenzie, the famous chess-player, was pitted against thirteen of the best chess experts in Boston one night last week. Thirteen was an unlucky number for the Bostonians, for they lost eight games and won but three, while two were drawn. ' 1 " An Omaha lawyer took a diamond ring as a retainer from a man accused of grand larceny. On his way to luncheon he slipped into a jewelry store to ask what the diamond was worth, and the jeweler identified the ring as one that had been stolen from him. Sara Berxhart was asked by a reporter: "Do you know, Mademoiselle, that you are reproached for having four children and no husband?" "That is absurd. Isn't it better than having, like soma women in this country, four husbands and no children?" A provincial Eng!ish paper recently informed its readers that "Mr. Marshall DePew. who has for some time been the efficient president of Central New York State, is now understood to be a prominent candidate for the presidency of all the other United States of the American government.'' . " " The parson who officiated at a funeral recently at a little Maine town mentioned particularly in his prayer various relatives of the dead man. but forgot to ask a blessing for the widow. As soon as he said "Amen," she stood up, and. in remarkably vigorous language, told him what she thought of him. The Baltimore American tells this quaint little story: Said an aged matron to me once: "When my cousin William eame home from hi3 three years' cruiso his old blue cloth suit with brass buttons looked very old-fashioned, and I said, 'Cousin William, you should buy yourself some new clothes; you can afford it.' Rut he answered. I do not worry about my clothes, cousin Mary; I have brought home four shot-bags full of gold pieces, and the girls will marry me now.' " And to my "Did anyone marry him?" she replied, while a faint tinge mantled her aged cheeks. "Yes, I married him." Following the example of Frederick Douglass, Miss Flora Batson, who is recognized as the greatest female ballad-singer tho negro race has thus far produced, will shortly many her business manager, Mr. James G. Bergen, a white man. Mr. Bergen is a handsome man

of the blonde type, and has seen about fortyfive summers. He was born in Petersburg, 111. He has been a widower about a year. He has a son about twelve years old. Miss Flora Batson was born in Washington twenty-three years ago. It is said that the profits from Miss Batson's concerts have amounted to $30,000. The venerable, but vigorous General F. E. Spinner, formerly United States Treasurer, writes from his camp at Pablo Beach, Fla., to his friends, the boys of America, to spare the birds. "I well recollect," he says, "that I once shot a robin. He flew some distance and fell in the tall grass. I went and picked him up and found that I had inflicted a fatal Wound in his breast. The poor wounded bird looked up into my face so imploringly that it caused me to shed tears, and now, to-day, at the age of eighty five years. I am haunted by the pitiful, imploring look of that poor innocent, dying bird, and feelings of deep remorse come over me whenever I see a robin. I would bo willing to make great sacrifices to be made guiltless of the wanton murder of that poor innocent bird." The General makes a special plea for that sweetest of all American songsters, the illnamed cat-bird. But as for the English ' sparrow, he says with righteous wrath, "kill him wherever you find him, in season and out of season. He has never been known to do any good, and is of no use. Give him no quarter, but go for him as you would for any other thief." The midnight serenader's come, His ballad wild to tame, And though old boots around him ham, He'll guitar j-ast the same. Clovelaud Sun. SWEET CIDER. Soul of the apple glorified! . -In a sudden flush of pride. ' . I would send this blameless beater To that mellow pleasure-seeker. Old Anacreon, with this boast: - Take some joy on Pluto's coast: "Here's a drink with more sunshine, Than e'er laughed in Levant wine!" Edith 51. Thomas. COMMENT AND OPINION. Even the most advanced thinkers at Andover will have to admit that the trade dollar is past redemption. Pittsburg Chronicle. . Jctkjino from the editorial expressions of the Indiana press, we should say that there is a fairsized Harrison breeze springing up in Hoosierdom. Well, Harrison and Hawley would 'make a good ticket for 1888, and so would Sherman and Hawley. Cleveland Leader. When a man commits an overt act against law and order then jump in quick with your club, your jury and, if. necessary, the hangman's rope. Society need have no fear of any one's gabble if it only punishes crime with merciless and relentless celerity. New York Herald. "We quarantine cholera, yellow fever and smallpox, and we ought to have a national de partment of political health, empowered to search tor pauicrs, lepers and criminals, and by summary procedure to siezo the open and blatant enemies oi' our government who are not citizens and send them home." Chancey M. Depew. There is much talk on the part of persons with feeble memories or who possess limited in formation in regard to the prodigious strides which the cause of prohibition is making in this country, ine iact is tnac rronioiuon was iar stronger thirty years ago than it is now, and was in practical operation in more States then than now. Philadelphia Record. Free trade is a fascinating political theory to discuss at champagne dinners; or in clubs of sublime theorists who knew no more about the industry of the land than a dog does about his paternal ancestor; or in whiskey ring circles where it is prontaoie to overthrow all protection but that given to whisky; or in bourbon conclaves where the maggots of the old Confederate love for menial labor still wriggle; but when it comes to applying free trade to practical politics, even free traders are compelled to skulk from their own follies and get put of the way of the procession ox tne people. 1'hiladelphia Times. New York city ought to be able to deal with the brute Most, only in his case hard work should be added to imprisonment. That is the frightful thing which that scoundrel dreads. Think of it a born blatherskite who can not remember when he performed an honest service of any kind for a living, comes from abroad and seeks to lash thoughtless people into discontent and crime, at the same time inveighing against everything decent or sacred! That is one of the specimens that ought to be treated to light food and heavy work, and confined as wild beasts are, where he could do no further harm. Salt Lake City Tribune, Mr. Cleveland and his sleepv Cabinet will find Mr. Dickinson a hustler right fromHustlerville. When he takes charge of the administration and gets his men in line it is going to be a regular Fourth-of-July from that time on. You can bet on a sure thing if you bet on that. Some think that his first move will be to turn the country upside down and spill out the mugwumps, as they don't seem to be holding on very tight, bnt doa't bet on that. He is more likely to dress the lligginses up in civil-service uniforms, and send them out to preach the gos pel of reform by day. and pack the primaries by night. Detroit in bune. Tlie Ticket for 1888. Congressman Owen's Interview. "As to our presidential candldater, the head of the ticket will come from the West. Indiana will present Senator Harrison, and ha will be i nominated. The chances are xor Hawley. of Connecticut, for second place. The three R'a wrung victory from os in 1884, but we will woo it in 1888 by the melody of the three II a. 'Hur rah for Harrison and Hawieyr will be eatchy. Harrison and Hawley remove the last vestige of question as to bow Indiana and Com.ecticut will go, and without these the Democrats ear cot elect. Harrison is as strong a man as we could nominate for New York. He is an able man. his record is without a stain, and he is alwavs safe. Senator Hawley measures his equal in every particular. They would make a ticket unchallenged for purity, remarkable for ability. commanding the confidence of all good citizens. and would be elected." Speaker Ssyre aod Green Smith. Louisville Commercial In a letter to the Indianapolis Sentinel. Speak er Sajrre of the Indiana Honse of Representa tives, punctures that Inflated bag of false pre tense, Mr. Ureen bmlth. who has been figuring amoojr the deluded Demoerais on this side of the river as a young Jackson, and that sort of thing.

Mr. Sayre makes bold to say that Green Smith is and was "a miserable, trembling coward," instead of the bold and audacious leader he baa been painted. Mr. Sayre also goes on to deny that there was any rivalry or ill-will between himself and Gov. Robertson, and says he will support that gentleman with pleasure. The Sentinel has received a strik'ng confirmation of the wisdom of that old saw which advises that well enough should be let alone.

SA3I HOUSTON'S SECRET. Tne Reason Why He Deaerted Tile Bride anal Went to Live Among the Indiana. St. Louis Special. The blank in the history of the famous Sara Houston baa at last been filled up. It will be remembered that after living for some tims among the Cherokee Indians and fighting ia the war of 1812, he settled in Tennessee, began to practice law. was twice elected to Congress, and ia 1827 was elected Governor of Tennessee, and in January, 1829, he was married totha belle of Tennessee, and in less than two months after his marriage be suddenly resigned the governorship, deserted his wife and home, and disappeared. This created "an, intense sensation throughout the country, as Houston was regarded as the most promising taan in the South. The caufe of Houston's resignation of the governorship, his desertion of his bride, and his abandonment of the path of civilization has always been a mystery. He never revealed it himself to his civilized friends. A staff correspondent of the St. Louis Republican, sent to Tablequab, L T., to write up the Indian troubles, obtained from undoubted authority fact that clear up this mystery. When Houston resigned the governorship ho rode straight from Tennessee's capital to the Arkansas river. He fell 'in with a band of Osage Indians near the present site of Fort Gibson, told them be desired to lire with the tribe, aod he was welcomed. He donned a breech clout and blanket, shaved his head to the crown, and daubed hi9 face with paint. He cut himself off entirely from civilization and lived with the Indians. For a time be was a leader, and married' an Indian girl, but afterward he became a drunkard. While undr the influence of whisky ha told the story of his flight from Tennessee to John Jorley, an Indian companion. Jorley told it to Wolff Star, and from the latter the correspondent got it. Houston's wife married htm to please her parents. She had been previously engaged to a young roan in Nashville, but. undr parental influence, broke off the engagement and accepted Houston's offer of marriage, and, in view of his prospects, it was thought she had made a brilliant match. He loved the young woman, and was made to believe that she returned . his affection. Houston had no knowledge of the previous engagement, and his wife managed to maintain outward cheerfulness for some time. He returned home one niebt about 11 o'clock, and his wife was in bed, and she was weeping. The husband was solicitous and the wife fretful. He asked what caused her tears, and she gave him no satisfactory answer. He importuned her, and at last she told him. She said she was a bad, wicked woman; that she did not love her husband, bat loved another man; that she never could love her husband or forget the other man, and that her life was miserable. She confessed that for some time before she had been encaged to marry Houston ebe bad maintained illicit relations with the other man. Houston never said a wort, but immediaeely went to bis office, wrote bis resignation as Governor, saddled a horse, and rode . into the wilderness. This is the mystery of Houston's life as revealed by himself. Houston kept a little store among the Indians, and always had a barrel of whisky on tap. Ha drank all the time. In this way he lived for a con pie of years. He finally went to Texas, where his brilliant career as a soldier ia the Texas war, as President of the Texas republic, and Senator from the State of Texas is well known. SAWS WOOD AND SATS NOTBINO. The Real Editor of the "Atlanta Con tit ation" Discovered Hemphill Is the Man. Atlanta Special to New Tork Sun. Permit me to say that in your remarks on that certainly remarkable paper, the Atlanta Constitution, you have, to a certain extent, gone astray. First, you discovered to the' world that there was a Grady. Him you gave a fame as editor. Later you announced that Capt. Evan P. Howell was the man and Grady an underling. Each time you have been in error. Tl e real editor of the Constitution is William Acquisition Hemphill. Io the sunny Southland we have a saying, applicable to the silent but deep and busy sort of man. that "be saws wcol and says nothinc. " That is Colonel Heraph:ll all over. - For him Captain Howell and DrumMajor Grady are hewers of wood and drawers of water. Colonel Hemphill is handsome an.l thrifty. All is grist that comes to his mill, including the rags out of which he makes the paper on which the Constitution is printed. I doubt if there is any newspaper proprietor who makes more money for his paper in more wars than Colonel Hemphill does. Does Joe Brown appear in print, he pays Hemphill. Does Governor Bullock have a say in type, he pays Hemphill. Do the Y. M. C. A. people want a new buildiog. they pay Hemphill to let them say so. He is the largest owner of Constitution stock. This fight between Howell and Grady on the "wet and dry" question has opened a great field for Hemphill. You can safely bet a dollar he makes both Howell and Grady pay for what they say in the paper. William Acquisition Hemphill is a man who suggests a nail-cutting machine in active opetation when he talks, whose eye 8 have a range of vision as keen as a Rosee telescope. Everybody pays tribute to Hemphill. He is the editor of the Atlanta Constitution, and you can gamble high on it. THE ATLANTA CAMPAIGN Excitement Over the Approaching Election on the Prohibitory Question. Atlanta (Ga ) Special. The election in this city, on the question of adopting, for another two years, the law prohibiting the sale of liquor, will take place Saturday, when over 11,000 votes will be cast. Tne campaign, as it stands to night, is singular and deplorable. There is a total suspension of business, and merchants as well as employes stand in groups on the street-corners, wildly gesticulating over the merits of the question. Nearly every business firm in the city is about equally divided. The women are tboroushly stirred up, and walk the streets with blue badges on their breasts. Ia fact, thf women are to-night the center of the fight, having declared their purpose of having lunch stands at the different polls where white ladies will wait upon negro men who will vote the Prohibition ticket. The old' people shake their heads at this innovation, but a prominent colored man says of it: "I see in it the greatest danger. White ladies are inviting this familiarity, and yet if one of our young men. emboldened by this invitation, should speak to one of them the next day he would stand a mighty good chance of getting lynched!" Last night a young gentleman escorting two young ladies home from the theater happened to remark that he waa "wet." At once they dropped bis arm. dismissed him and went home by themselves. The social ostracism is so pronounced that its effect will be felt long after prohibition shall have become a dead issue. Both parties have parades every night this week. On Friday each party has announced a monster meeting, which will probably last all night so that the voters may attack the polls first. ' Sham Reform. New Albany Public Press (Dem.) The Public Press is becoming tired of preaching honesty, economy, reform and deeeney in politics, while Democratio officials andthose in authority are practicing dishonesty, extravagance, corruption, indecency, incompetency and insolence. Garland and Lamar, trusted Cabinet officer of a Democratic President, cannot cure or heal up the telephone corruption in which they were connected, wih a Democratic- poultice, any more than Credit Mobilier Republicans cured their infamy by their boast of loyalty and Republicanism. The Publio Press is in the babtt of calling a thief a thief, regardless of what political party he may belong to. As long Cleveland allowed Lamar and Garland to remain in his Cabinet, after their names had been umirehed by the telephone scandal, he is as guilty as they, or, at least, he should have do claim to the reform the Democracy has been preaching so long. And now it teems that Sparks was got rid of and compelled to resign the office of Land Commissioner, that the land sharks may feed and fatten, and steal from the government at the expense of the people. W. F. Vilas, a very incompetent Postmastergeneral, is to be transferred to the Interior Department, and that he and his land-shark friends out West may not he embarrassed by the presence and honest rulings of Sparks, in the Land Office, Sparks was crowded out by very dishonorable and underhanded roethoda He was in the way of the land thieves, with a big club ia his hands, with a will r,o use it. and it required the mighty strength of such Goliabs as Lamar and Cleveland to disarm him. Sparks retires with a clean, honest record, and nobody rejoices at bis retirement but the lacd-tbieves aad their friends. StarIin? Combination, ft. touis Glol-lmocrt r Why wouldn't Roscoe Conkling, of New York, and James G. Blaine, of Maine, he a good Republican ticket far 18SS? Platform: Let us have pesci. r i

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