Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 January 1888 — Page 4

THE DAILY JOURNAL MONDAY, JANUARY 2. 1883.

WASHINGTON OFFICE 513 Fourteenth St. P. 9. Heath. Correfpondent. UBW TOEK OFFICE 104 Temple Court, Corner Beekman and Naau streets. IOE INDIANAPOLIS JOCEXAL Caabsfonndat tbe following places: LONDON American Exchange in Europe, 449 Strand. PARIS American Exchange in Paris, 35 Boulevard dea Capuci&ea. NEW YORK Gedney House and Windsor Hotels. CHICAGO ralmer Home. CINCINNATI J. P. Hawley & Co., 154 Vine street. LOUISVILLE 0. T. Deering, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. ST. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern HoteL WASHINGTON, D. G-Riggs House and Ebbitt House. Telephone Calls. Eusiness Office 238 Editorial Rooms 242 The Journal has furnished its carriers with a New Year's address, which they will offer to its patrons to-day. It is a work of art and Is worthy to be kept ia the homes of the read ers of the Journal as a beautiful reminder of this holiday season. The boys who serve the Journal are a faithful band of little fellows. who face all sorts of weather in order that people may have their papers at their breakfast-tables, and they deserve substantial remembrance for this, as well as for the intrinsic worth of the souvenir they offer. Give the carriers a lift to-day, and encourage them toward a further faithful performance of their hard task. Why should anybody leave Indianapolis for change of climate? Our climate changes often enough to suit the most exacting taste. Senator Voorhkes is going to make a tariif speech. lie is likewise going to appear for the defense in the trial of the tally-sheet forgers, and what the people would like to know is which will be the greatest effort of his life? Any person who thinks that Speaker Car lisle i3 enjoying the holidays is very much mistaken. He is sweating over the House committees. Between the necessity of fram ing certain committees to do what the Presi dent wants done and others to do nothing at all and at the same time satisfy the clamor ous crew of Democratic statesmen who want the earth, the Speaker's lot is not a happy one. YESTERDAY was a great day throughout the Catholic world, and especially .in Kome, where the ceremonies were brilliant and imposing. The ceremony of enthroning the Pope wa3 one that will take its place among great his toric pageants. The Pope was carried on the shoulders of his attendants to the nigh Papal Altar in St Peter's, where he celebrated mass. All the cardinal present and about 250 bishops in full vestments joined in the procession. Manager Locke, of the National Opera Company, tells a New York reporter that while he has not made any money on his Western tour, "we have been doing missionary work, for the "Western cities don't seem to un derstand opera. At any rate they did not seem to know anything about it while we were with them, and could not appreciate it until after we left" If Manager Locke has the true missionary spirit his financial failure is a matter of no consequence. Your true reformer finds his reward in the good he does, and not in filthy lucre. THE railroad traffic at this city during the year 1887, as indicated by the number of loaded freight cars handled here, was largely in excess of any previous year. The total number of cars received and forwarded was 874,812, an increase of 55,970 over the pre ceding year, and of 36,893 over the largest year in the history of the city. The number of freight cars transferred on the Belt road during the year was 533,830, being 97,033 more than in 188G. These figures indicate an immense tonnage of railroad traffic, and by comparison with former . rears show a 'gratifying increase of business. "We were quite sure that the report affect ing the good faith, if not the good sense, of the Republican members of , the City Council t was not well founded, or at least was exag gerated. The action of the Republican caucus in according to the Democratic minority a representation upon the Council boards indicates that the majority look upon their duty, as does everybody else who be lieves in fair play and honorable dealing, as a plain, straight-forward, businesslike admin istralion of city affairs. The new Council and Aldermen meet to-night, and after organization Mayor Denny will read his message. Michigan hps a local control and license law, and parties are aligning themselves on the issue of enforcing or repealing the law, the Republicans favoring enforcement and the Democrats, aided by the saloons and the whisky element, favoring the repeal. The chairman of the Republican State central . committee says "Our present battle is to enforce prohibition in the counties voting for it and the license law in the cities." In JUchigan, as everywhere, the Republican party favos the best practicable and attainable ' law for the regulation and suppression of the ': saloon liquor traffic. Meanwhile let it be - understood that tho saloon must and shall be A van fiAm t1 t f t a jAATVM WI-h TViIV THE leaders and managers of the Knights of Labor seem determined to leave nothing andone to hasten the disintegration and downfall of the order. On the heels of the re peated failures to get up a causeless strike on the Reading road they issue "an appeal" which for lownright asininity is without a parallel. The abuse of "hireling editors'' who refuse to indorse their foolish course would be laugh able were it not accompanied by insinuations led threats that show its authors are as full of Malice as they are devoid of sense. ' The ap peal to "Socialists, Anarchists and all other , ts who are interested in bringing about a core equitable condition of society," to join lands and pool issues with the Knights shows

Mbat th authors of the address are sot far

removed from Anarchists themselves. The

only salvation for the Knights, if indeed anything can now save them, is in disowning and repudiating all such talk as that contained in this appeal. ' TEE TARIFF AHD THE FAEMEES- , The following, clipped from a free-trade paper, is a common and favorite argument with the advocates of that policy: "In the discussion of the tariff question. 4tin A trn t ta at ft Tiirrh nrnteetiva tariff - ww.- t3 f consider only the interests of the manufacturer. . Isn't it about time that we heard some thing in the interest of the farmer, and the millions of laboring men ana tnousanas oi manufacturers who get no oenent irom a mga protective tariff? For years past agriculture has been on the decline while the value of the lands has decreased largely and rapidly. Statistics show that while the wealth of manufacturers has increased rapidly, tho wealth of the farmers has not." It is a little remarkable that each sentence of the foregoing contains a separate and distinct misstatement. First, it is not true that "the advocates of a protective tariff consider only the interests of the manufacturer." They hold that the American people are a unit, American industry an entirety, and that the protection of one important industry inures to the benefit of all. That the development of manufactures benefits the farmer is a proposition too plain to require argument, as is also the proposition that the maintenance of a high rate of wages in one branch of industry benefits wageworkers in all other branches. Free trade, carried to its logical conclusion, would close nearly every manufacturing establishment in the United States. Can any man in his senses believe this would benefit farmers? On the contrary, is it not plain that they would lose - . - ... a borne market for their products, ana oe further injured by the forcing of hundreds of thousands of laborers out of manufacturing into farming? And ia it not equally plain that the destruction of one large branch of industry would reduce the demand for labor and thereby lower wages in all other branches? But, say the free-traders, the farmer would be able to get his blankets, his clothing, his tools, etc., so much cheaper under free trade. We deny it. He never got them cheaper than he does now, and never would under free trade. Besides, if he had no mar ket for hi3 products, what would he have to buy with, and if the wages of the workingmen were reduced to the European standard, 'what'' would they have to buy with? The ultimate effect of free trade would be to make ua an exclusively agricultural people. This would be going backwards. The true development and prosperity of the country requires diversified industries, and the more numerous the industries the greater the pros perity will be. The manufacturing industries of the country to-day employ not less than 5,000,000 people, to whom $1,500, 000, 000 in wages are paid, and they produce about $7,000,000,000 worth of manufactured com modities annually. These people and all those dependent on . them are fed by the farmer and mainly constitute his home mar.ket. The free-trader says farmers would be benefitted by destroying these industries and this market. We deny it." now manufac turing benefits farmers is well illustrated by a little story attributed to Major Smith, of Atlanta, better known as "Bill Arp:" "You know I was an old-fashioned Demo crat," said Bill, "brought up to believe in free-trade and sailors' rights. I am one now; but something has happened. I own a little farm near Cartersville. I used to gather my corn and sell it in Atlanta for whatever they would give me. I had some pasture land for my stock, and I raised wheat, vegetables and fruit in a small way. What we could not consume was wasted. When the tariff went into operation old Joe Brown started some . . . . 1 1 ti i iron developments near oy, ana me cartersville station became quite a village. The day before I left home I sold seventeen loads of hay. Buyers didn't bargain for it, but came nn'A fnnV all 1 could snare at mv own price. I haven't sold a bushel of corn in several years. i t i v x i 3 Those fellows come ana Duy it oy me aozen for roastine-ears. It's so with everything that crows on my land. I cannot raise as much as they want, i m in iavor oi tne lumg that dm it, so 1 m a protectionist. This very thing occurs in thousands of com munities and to hundreds of thousands of farmers in the North. It is no use to tell these men that they would be benefited by a policy that would destroy manufactures; they know better. The further statement is made that "for years past agriculture has been on the decline, the value of lands has largely deoreased, and. statistics show that while the wealth of manu facturers has increased that of farmers has not." This is utterly and absurdly untrue. Statistics shew nothing of the kind. On the contrary, they show that the progress of agri culture and the accumulation of wealth in that branch of industry has kept even pace with others. Occasionally there is a year of short crops in which the total of agricultural products does net equal some of the preced ing years, but in any decade or in any five rears there has been a ereat increase. The total acreage of improved farms, the value of farm lands, the value of crops, the amount and value of exports, the number and value of farm animals in short, everything per taining to agriculture has enormously in creased, if not in every year, at least in every term of years. Indeed, no branch of industry has profited more by the protective tariff policy than agriculture, a fact which goes to prove that in political economy what benefits one benefits all. A man who gets nourishing food does not develop his right arm at the ex pense of his left, or his upper limbs at the expense of his lower; he nourishes and strengthens his whole body. Wise protection does the same for the body politic THE CASE OF CLARKSVILLEA curious phase of the home-rule question has sprung up in the town of Clarksville, this State. The town is situated on tha Ohio river, in the extreme southwest corner of Clark county, about midway between Jeffersonville and New Albany. The story goes that the people of Clarksville, having become dissatisfied with the encroachments of rail road companies, etc., under State laws, pro pose to revert to first principles and assert their rights as an independent government, which, they claim, the charter of their town entitles them to. The claim rests on the fact that in October, 1783, Virginia caused a town to be surveyed on the north bank of the falls of the Ohio, described as being situated in the

county of Illinois. This was to be laid off in a reservation of 150,000 acres, granted to Gen. George Rogers Clark and his men and officers, who marched with him and reduced the British poets in Kaakaskia and Vincennes. The fee simple, together with the government of the town, was vested in ten trustees. On March 1, 1784, Thomas Jefferson, Arthur Lee, James Monroe and Samuel Hardy, in behalf of Virginia, executed a deed transferring to the United States all title of Virginia to the Northwest Territory, but expressly excepting th.9 rights of settlers under the grant to Gen.

Clark, known aa the Illinois grant These are the historical facts alleged on behalf of Clarksvilla, and they may bo true as far as they go, but other facts would probably invalidate them as a basis for a legal claim. The records show that the General ; Assembly of Virginia did pass the act for laying off Clarksville in 1783, and that the grant to Clark of 150,000 acres was expressly excepted in the deed made by Jefferson and others, on the part of Vir ginia, to the United States, in 1784, of the territory northwest of the Ohio. In the doc uments at hand we do not find any evidence of the extinguishment of Clark's title, but probably it was extinguished by subsequent treaties with the Indians or by the act of Congress of May 7, 1800, creating the Terri tory of Indiana. Of course no useful purpose could be served by reviving the old grant, even if a basis exists for it, and the attempt, if seriously contemplated, can result in noth ing more than an historical discussion. v e hardly think Clarksville will succeed in establishing it3 independence, although it is said there is an intention to carry the matter be fore the courts. The Greencastle Banner, as will be seen from an extract therefrom in another column, suggests the Hon. John M. Butler as a good candidate for Govern or before the Republican State convention. The Journal heartily indorses the merits, fitness and qualifications of Mr. Butler for Governor, or for any other place within the gift of the people of Iudiana. He is an earnest, ze alous and able worker; he has never held an office, or been an avowed candidate for one, yet he has been in the front ranks battling for the success of the Republican party and Republican princi ples for many years. His reputation as a lawyer is not only State-wide, but Nation-wide, and if elected Governor he wo aid reflect credit upon the office. Whether his name goes before the convention or not, he will be found working for the success of the ticket. And Mr. Butler's candidate, like that of the Jour nal, will be the nominee of the convention, whomsoever that may be. If the Indianapolis Journal wants a prosnftrnna and exnandiner union deDot at Indiananolis. let it eo in at once for a reduction of the duty on steel rails. Louisville CourierJournal. Thanks, we don't want any finer one than we are getting, and the roads that are building it have earned the money to do it with under a policy that protects and benefits all branches of American industry. A total, eclipse of the moon will occur on ' Saturday, the 28th inst, which will be visible throughout the United States. The moon will enter the earth's sadow at 3:31 p. m. The total phase will begin an hour later, or 4:31, and end at. 6:09, while the moon will leave the shadow and the obscuration end at 7:09. The entire duration of the eclipse, therefore, will be about three hours and thirty-eight minutes, and as it will continue during the twilight and until dark, it will be a very beautiful sight, provided the weather i3 clear. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Lent begins Feb. 15. which leaves barely six weeks more of the strictly "fashionable season Somebody "unpatriotically" compares Maine sardines to pincushions soaked in bad whale oiL The Eldorado Republican thus pokes fun at two well-known New York citizens: "For Pres ident in 1838, George Francis Train, citizen-at-large; for Vice-President, Citizen George. Platform Give the cranks a chance." It was a queer coincidence that the venerable Dr. John D. Ogden, of New York, should have died "the night before Christmas." He was twice married, both or his wive3 oeing tne daughters of Clement C. Moore, the author of the poem "The Night Before Christmas." A contest over a seat in the Maryland Legis lature is going on between two men who bear the striking names, respectively, of Scaggs and Sasscer. Seaggs is said to be a man or commanding ability. He recently remarked, with a pungency wortny oi ni3 nign reputation ior intellectual brilliancy, "I won't stand any of your 0 . M 1 1 A . A f . Sasscer." Theodore Tilton is living in a remote quar ter of Paris in by no means affluent circum stances. His dress is almost shabby and with his hair hanging about his shoulders he presents a peculiar appearance as he walks about the streets of the French capital. He does a little literary work now and then out writes witn no regularity. An experiment is being made on the Califor nia coast to test the utility of ocean-wave force. At an opening in some cliffs great fans are suspended, and their movement at the ebb and flow of the waves is so geared as to work immense Tmmns which are designed to fill large reservoirs on elevations, these being used to supply water power to manufactories ot various kinds. "The difference between T. v. Powderly and Mr. Samuel Gompers, of the American Federa tion," said one who knows both very well, "is that Powderly has the big head developed to an extraordinary degree, wnue uompers is aa modest as anv man in the ranks. Powderly has the power to use the Knights of Labor as an PTrmeror uses an army, to feed his vanity or in trench himself in power; while Mr. Gompers presides over a federation oi distinct ooaies, each governing itself." Boston Herald: Anna E. Dickinson 13 re ported to be on the eve of visiting Florida for her health, which is still much brofcen. It is sain that she has become a poor woman, as well. having parted with the considerable sums of which she had made before her unfortu nate desire to be an actress oroKe m upon uer life. Miss Dickinson is a brilliant woman mteilftctnallv. and there will be general regret that her health has prevented her of late from using those powers in which is ner real strengtn. Da J. Haney Lovell, of Philadelphia, is a pronounced vegetarian, believing that eating meat is the cause of untold evils. He even thinks that veeetarianisra is the best remedy for in temperance. His theory is that nesn-eatmg men have an abnormal taste for drink, and tnat if men will cmlv confine themselves to vegetable food the desire for drinK wiu ne antagonized. 'No man." he savs. "who eats a pound or macaroni daily will become a drunkard. What we want is a temperance vegetarian resxauran where young men may be banqueted on maca roni, beans and rice." The Rev. Samuel Reynolds nole, the English Rosarian, whom the Queen has lately appointed to be Dean of Rochester, was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford, and graduated B. A- in 1844. He was ordained in the same year to the curacy of Caunton, near Newark, and has been vicar of Caunton since 1850. In 1873 he was appointed rural dean of Southwell and two years later a prebendary of Lincoln. He was select preacher to the University of Oxford m issi-'fi n,1 Kincft 18S3 has been chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury. He ia the author of "A Ldttle Tour in iremna. uiusntei t Leech. 1853: "A Book About Roses." 18G9;

"Hints to Preachers with Sermons and Ad-

dresses,- 1880; and "Nice and Her Neighbors, 18S0. F. A. Merrill, called by certain African tribes "Little Livingstone," has come to thi3 country from Bechuanaland to sell a valuable collection of elephants tusks. He says that the Queen of Tongaland. with whom England has just completed a treaty, is the original of Hagf ards "fene. . bhe is a handsome woman in eature and not very dark in complexion. Dr. Warren G. Priest, of St Louis, de nounces the idea that chewing gum is an aid to digestion. He says: "Any well-informed physiologist will deny this at once. C hewing gum. produces a flow of saliva into the stomach at a time when it is not needed by that organ. This saliva burden3 the stomach and forces it to ab normal action to get rid of -it, and at the same time the salivary glands are robbed of the secretion and obliged to do doubled work to produce the saliva necessary for mastieation and digestion.So far as the stomach is concerned, chewing gum is as injurious as chewing tobacco." Prominence having been given in several quarters to a report that Lord Lyons was re ceived into the Roman Catholic Church while in a state of unconsciousness, and therefore not of his own free will, it may be well, says Life, London, to state again, with all emphasis, that the late peer's change of faith was long premeditated, and was naturally furthered by the per suasion 01 thoss of his relatives who proiess tne older faith. To say that the Duke of Norfolk and other members of his family used their best endeavors to convert their kinsman to their own creed is merely to credit them with havine done what is regarded as the most elementary duty ot all true Catholics; but this is a very different matter from charging them, by implication, with complicity m a discreditable tricK. ana accusing them of juggling with their relative on his deathbed. Such a suggestion is so obviously the outcome of bigotry and prejudice as to be scarcely worthy of serious refutation. Everybody knows tlie poem beginning, "'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse," but very few know anything about the author or his family. " The poem is brought to mind bv the fact that Sirs. James A. Young, who died recently in Washington, was the widow of the gentleman who wrote the familiar lines. Mr. Young was born in Taural, a little town in Maryland about twenty miles from Washington, and was first a physician and then an artist. Finally he entered the Episcopal Church, and became a clergyman. He died in Washington someA-ears ago. When his widow died recently, she left all her husband's manuscripts to Dr. Noble Young, her brother-in-law, and they are being examined with the view of seeing what can be done with them. Xhere are some unpublished poems among the papers, but none of them are likely to be as famous as the story of banta ULaua. COMMENT AND OPINION. The Reading strike has illustrated the danger of this un-American organization to its members as no other of the great strikes has done, and it will doubtless accomplish - a corresponding amount of good in bringing about rebellion against such tyranny. New York Commercial Advertiser. Mr. Terence V. Powderly is right in his impulses, wrong in his views and unsuccessful in his undertakings. The Reading strike will probably end Mr. Powderly as a factor in the labor problem, and convince thousands that no wrong exists that labor centralization will not exaggerate. St. Louis Republican. Somehow the American rough does not throw snow-balls at public men, and neither do the people hoot a statesman simply because he differs with them in politics. Undoubtedly the reason of this difference is found m the fact that the English are very highly civilized while the Americana are barbarians. Denver Repub lican. The Knights of Labor as an organization have been falling off in numbers and influence for some time past, but tens Diow is xne severest they have yet felt and indicates that the workmgmen are beginning to reason ana act ior themselves and will no longer follow blindly the lead of the agitators, demagogues, ana wanting delegates. Chicago Tribune. Persistent as England always has been in ureins us to adopt her free-trade theories. he herself in many respects adopts in practice the protective tariff principle in cases wnere sne finds it necessary to protect her interest againstforeign competition. Free trade is a fine thing in theory, but never ret in any country has it "proved a fine thing in practical effect, and it never will. fjmcago journau Of the nine counties in Michigan which have held local-option elections this month, all have been carried against license. The vote cast against license is largely in excess of that given in the same counties last April in favor of the prohibitory amendment, which i3 a fresh indication that temperance men can poll their largest vote when they get into close quarters with the saloons, as they do under tne local opiion system. Boston Journal. As ail children cannot be, and do not want to be, artisans, it is ditScult to see how the btate can logically be called upon to train artisans and deny special tecnnicai training to ciertcs ana physicians. Such training is essential to enable them to earn an nonest living ai once upon leav ing school, and if this duty is fairly to be imposed on the State and not on the parents, why . 1 A A- 1 ' 1 may not tne additional auty 01 nnamg employment and keeping them at work be added? Boston Advertiser. No railway company can afford to allow its employes to dictate in regard to what persons it shall serve in carrying freight. It might just as well permit it3 employes to enjoy the privilege of excluding passengers from its trains against whom they entertained any person.il objections. The principle ior wmcn tne sinite was maae, it admitted, would warrant the employes of the road in forbidding the transportation of any passengers who do nobelongto the Labor party. Milwaukee Sentinel. Tun: crime of the suppression of the negro vote at the South by fraud and by violence is as distinctly an offense against the well-being or the country as slavery was, though not so hein ous. It must be dealt witn, sooner or later. There can be no escape from it, any more than there was from the slavery question. And the later question will never be settled until it can be said that "there is not . a precinct in this Nation where a Republican cannot cast his bal lot and have it counted as cast, no matter what the predominance of the opposing party." New lork Tribune. But there is another and all-sufficient reason against Air. Lamar. He is not an eminent law yer. He never was distinguished as a lawyer. He never was heard of as a lawyer except where he lived. For thirty years or more he has, we understand, been practically unfamiliar with the courts. The most partial friend of Mr. Lamar would not claim that he is a learned lawyer. He is a professional politician. His habits of thought and life are far from judicial. An es timable gentleman, a scnoiar 01. considerable cultivation, no doubt, but no lawyer, as we use the nhrase in connection witn the essential re quirements of this post. Albany (N. Y.) Law journal. The country is free, opportunity is free, and choice is unhindered everywhere witmn tne law. Any set of men who undertake to impair free dom of opportunity and choice in tms country will finally come to grief. There is no question about that. If a body of men may restrict the choice of men to an employer, it may in exactlv the same way, and with equal reason, compel an employer to take on superfluous hands and nav them, whether there is work for them or not. One coercive act involves the other. Such tyranny should be met on the threshold and put down, or it will destroy every delphia North American. Every man can emit work when he sees fit. And everv man who desires to take his vacant place can do so the very next minute if he sees fit. The law allows it and the courts must award it. and the Governors, and the mayors, a nd the sheriffs must see that individual rights are Drotected and tnat property is iruaruou against mobs. That is the simple answer to the nonderous 1ndustial problem that the hail Imked nhilosonhers and statesmen have been wnrrvin? ns with durin2 the past ten years This is still a free country, in spite of the alleged "crisis " and a man shall not be forced to worse at watre.s that does not suit him by any sheriff or constable in the land, and he shall not be hindered from accepting work at such wage3 as be agrees to take by any league, or union, or mob in the land. Nebraska State Journal. Hon. John M. Batler for Governor. Greencastle Banner. Since it is conceded on all hands that the contest ia to be a elose one, there is a very general feeling throughout the State that our nominee for Governor should be chosen regardless of personal relations or ambitions, and that he should be the strongest man in our ranks that can be induced to make the race. Who is that man? Many think it is John M. Butler, of Indianapolis, who comes around with each recurring campaign, whenever the fight is on, without pretention or parade, and makes a masterful speech. His arguments are strong, and he appeals to the people in a way that they can not easily resist. The Democrats have no man who could meet him on the stump. Another thing in whatever he engages he goes in to win. He would carry forward an energetic

and enthusiastic campaign, giving it the same tremendous, conquering force, and the same unerring judgment, which has placed him in such a prominent position at the bar. Mr. Butler has no entangling alliances with factions, and he has always been true to his party in every contest, giving liberally of his money and

time without expectation or hope of political preferment, for he has never sought it, and we presume will not now do so unless called by his fellow-citizens, m which case lie wouia aouoiless respond favorably as to a call to duty. The coming fight is to be no child's play. If we win, wo must not only carry the enthusiastic portion of our party; but the conservative masses, also. Can not Mr. Butler do this better than any other man in the State? And, having won, what a grand Governor he would make one of whom we could feel justly proud, ana who- would be guided in his official conduct by the highest motives and who would be stronger at the end ot his administration than wnen ne began it. " The Banner is for ' the man who knows now ana nas tne couraee 10 win victories. la not John Ai. Butler that man. and would not his nomination strengthen the party? THE TALLY-SHEET FORGERIES. t SeSenator Voorheea's Rally to the Defense verelj Criticised, by the State Press. Terrs Haute Express: Senator Voorhees has always been considered a man who stands by his friends, and to this trait of character is attributed much of his popularity, but we submit that this rushing to the rescue of the tally-sheet forgers is carrying the principle to the extreme. Anderson Herald: It strikes the Herald that M h in batter taste for Mr. Voorhees to attend to his duties in Washington, than to spend his time and talents in cheating the penitentiary of as infamous a gang of political criminals as can be found outside the four walls of a btdte s prison. Lafavette News: The announcement has ait been made that the Hon. Daniel W. Voorhees has volunteered his services in defense ot bim Coy. He will make a bitter flcht to keep his client outside of a cage, and an because ne wields a big influence as a ward politician in Indianapolis. Richmond Palladium: The fact that Senator Voorhees has volunteered his services to defend the Democrats charged with changing the tallysbeets at Indianapolis, and that several other Democratic lawyers of the State are offering to assist him, is pretty conclusive evidence that the Democratic party of the State intends to ac cept and defend tnese forgeries as legitimate party tactics. Terre Haute Exnress: It is said that Senator Voorhees has volunteered to heip the defense in the trial of the taliv-sheet forgers at Indianapo lis. There is a long array of talent engaged for the occasion. All this preparation should serve simply as a warning to the prosecution to sea that someone lands in penitentiary ror a crime whicn no one defaies was perpetrated in behalf of Democratic candidates for office. Kokomo Gazette-Tribune: The Coy gane is in desperation. The little crowd continues la abject terror. Ten great lawyers are already retained for their detense. one a unitea states Senator, who h&s the unique and extraordinary t distinction of abandoning his post of duty in Washington and surrendering to the demands of men whose business is to overthrow popular government. Voorhees is now in his element. Lafayette Call: A man whose guilty partici pation in the transaction is almost seii-con-fessed, and whose fame chiefly arises from keep ing a saloon and gambling-bouse in Indianapolis, and doing dirty political work, is indicted for the crime of "fonring" a tally-sheet; or in other words, secretly erasing and altering it for purposes of fraud; and behold! a United States Senator is the first to rush forward and volunteer for the defense of the criminal and extenuation of the crime. What a spectacle. Seymour Republican: Senator Voorhees has volunteered his services to defend the Indianapolis tally-sheet desecrators. Pending the time when bis large experience and acknowledged ability shall be brought into requisition in freeing upon community the gang of confidence men and highway robbers now languishing in our county jail, this namesake of the pure and great Daniel Webster, will devote his time and talents to the extrication from the cruel grasp of the law of a posse of the worst criminals that ever escaped the wrath of the people since our government was founded namely, the Marion county tally-sheet forgers. Columbus Republican: It seems that the Democracy of Indiana, or the leaders thereof, have decided to shoulder the responsibility for the tally-sheet forgeries, and to do It boldly. Senator Voorhees and several other prominent men have volunteered to defend the criminals, and help them out of the scrape. Of course, the old plea of persecution because they are Democrats will be urged in the trial, and lso in the campaign; and yet the fact remains that the forgeries were committed, this is not dented, they were committed in the interest of the Demoerotic party, and must have been done by the members of that party. If the persons accused did not do it, who did? One of the Best in the Country, iliddletown News. Without the attempt at display and show which certain newspapers make for the advertising they can get out of it, the Indianapolis Journal is every day ia the year one of the best newspapers in the country. Its news columns are reliable and contain all the news worth knowing, and so presented as that one does not have to go through a lot of rubbish to get what he wants the plain unvarnished facts. Its make-up is such as to commend the paper to every reader who has an eye to the beautiful as well as the useful. It is a paper ably edited and fearless in the advocacy of those principles, whether politicial or social, which it believes to be right. Indiana Republicans will nowhere find a better friend of their party or a better exponent of its principles or policies, and there is no reason why they should not give it their united support. In the Journal, Indiana has a newspaper to be proud of on that will favorably compare with, if not in many respects excel, more pretentious publications. , Not Pleased with, the Gift to the Pope. Hebrew J ournaL We are somewhat slow to understand the propriety of Mr. Cleveland's courtesy to the Pope. The report is that be will present the Pontiff with an engrossed copy of the Constitution of the United States. If, as a representative of the United States government, our executive recognizes the ruler of the Vatican as an equal, and wishes to honor him as such, it is not he, but Congress who may decide about such matters, for the actual power of government reposes in our Congress. And if Mr. Cleveland is a faith ful son of the Catholic Church, and as such he desires to pay homage to the occupant of the seat of Peter tbe Constitution of the United States, which is one of the most potential historical protests against the methods and princi ples of government by the church, is hardly the present fitting the occasion and the person re ceiving it. The Boston Tariff Dinner. -Milwaukee Sentinel. The Boston meeting had a very decided mugwump cast, although several efforts had been made to secure the presence of representative Democrats. Indeed, several leading Democratic Congressmen had agreed to join in the jubilee over the message, but when the echoes were heard it became the policy of discretion not to talk to a free-trade club. Only three unknown Southern Congressmen were lured to Boston by the nrosnect ot a good dinner. 1 he real mean ing of the lack of representative Democrats at the dinner is that there is panic in the Demo cratic air. " The Fawning Lowell. Boston J ournal. CinW an extreme free-trader, rejoicing in the President's indorsement of his views, would sneak of him as the "best representative of the bicher tvne of Americanism since Lincoln," and follow no this extrao rdinary sentence with the most fulsome praise. There are some millions of his fellow-countrymen who will not agree with Air. Lowell and accept his estimate of American ism as their own. They are man who are grateful to Grant's memory and proud of Garfield's fame, and they will look on Mr. Lowell's bold compar ison as something almost akin to sacruege. Manning's Funeral. Washington Letter. It. is rather strange that Daniel Manning, who of all public men was most opposed to public funerals, should have more elaborate mourning hoth here and at his home than most deao statesmen. The flag on tho White House, never . lf -masted except for a dead President, was liAlf masted for him: the President and all his Cabinet went 300 or 400 miles to his funeral, and the black drapery on the Treasury Department was never so heaw. But. tnen, aaeaa mannas very little to do with his funeral any way. Protection Help the Farmers. Birmingham. Ala., Herald ( Pem.) The farmers have indeed profited as much by the protective tariif as any other class. It has built ut) the country and they have come iu for their share of the general advancement. A worse state of affairs could not be imagined than if the entire population of the United States should look only to agriculture as a means of support.

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Oar Republican Contemporaries HaT8 cided Views on Current Topics. DeAN OVEB5HADOWINO ISSUE. North Manchester Journal: The right to en vote, and to have that vote counted for whom it was cast, ia the issue now before the American people. SHOULD BE BROTJGHT TO JUSTICE. . t Muncie News: No ffort should be spared to bring tbe tally-sheet forcers to justice. Some one is guilty and should suffer the penalty of the law. POCAHONTAS COULD NOT SAVE HIM. Lawrence Mail: If Green Smith pats his head on tbe political block in 1883 no Pocahontas will be able to save him from the Republican clubs of Indiana. KEADY FOR THE FRAY. Tipton Advocate: The Republican party is better prepared for a fight just now than it baa been for years befora. They know what they have to meet and they are ready to meet it. THERE IT STANDS. Lafayette Courier: The Republican party in Indiana is committed to local option and high license, and they are in dead earnest in advocating that poltey for restraining and regulating the liquor traffic THE PLAN OF CAMPAIGN. Knightstown Banner: The Democracy in Indiana will have to build breastworks next year. The Republicans are the assaulting column this time and the veterans who Know how to do inch things are with them. J THINKS THE? WILL BEAR WATCHING-. Vincennes Commercial: There are more honest than dishonest coal-dealers ia Indianapolis, as shown by a recent investigation, but still the per cent, of rogues is large enough to justify the police in being on the watch. WHERE THET BELONG. Rockville Republican: The tally-sheet forgers at Indianapolis have been re-arrested, and their trials will take place at no distant day. when, it is to be hoped, the conspirators will land in the penitentiary, where they properly belong. IS NOT POPULAR THERE. Fairmount News: We infer from the utterances of our esteemed Democratic contemporaries in Virginia that if Phil Sheridan were to run for President next year he couldn't carry an election precinct in the entire Shenandoah valley. SO SAT WE ALU Muncie Times: If there any Republicans mixed up with Coy, Sullivan and Bernhamer in election outrages at Indianapolis, let them ba made to suffer the consequences. The motto with the prosecution should be, "let no guilty man escape." THE TIME TO WORK. Frankfort Banner: The seed time for the Republican harvest is in the next few months. Republican newspapers, and sterling, stalwart documents should be fully sown. Every voter whose head and heart and conscience are enlisted Is a stayer. THEY LAUGH BEST WHO LAUGH LAST. Delphi Journal: The Democratic newspapers of the State are inclined to make light of the meeting of the Republicans at Indianapolis last week. All the fun will be taken out of these same newspapers when they bear something drop next November. MIGHT HAVE SAVED TROUBLE. Goshen Times: If President Cleveland bad added a postscript to his communication to Conpress, directing the Speaker to "Burn this message. "and had had tbe injunction carried into effect, it might have saved the Democracy some trouble and anxiety next year. A SOUND PRINCIPLE. Montieello Herald: The Republican party of this State has taken a stand in favor of local option, and declares itself ready for battle. On no other question is there more certainty of its attitude in the next State convention. It is sound principle and a winning plank. IT WORKS BOTE WAYS. Evansville Journal: Notwithstanding the tariff on wools and woolens, a workingman can buy a suit of clothes cheaper than ever before. By reason of tbe tariff, also, the workingman's wages are greater than ever before. The tariS works both ways in the interest of labor. CONCERNING COWARDS. i Lafayette Call: If there is anything in this world perfectly despicable, it is a skulker. Ths Senators who are making it convenient to be absent when the vote on the confirmation of Mr. Lamar is expected to come up. would be thought more of if they came , right out and voted for Dim. The Lord hates a coward. THE TIME TOR ARGUMENT. Shelbyville Republican: Daring the calm dis cussion of the next five months the voters canpost themselves on the me -its of the respective arguments ana tnus De ' rea 10 vote intelligently. Bat after tbe hot tisaa fight is well on, all of us know that most men pay little attention to arguments on dry questions like the tariff. THE DIFFERENCE. Pern Republican: Tf- 'erenee between the Democratic and Re) .a theories in the ' matter of reducing the a is this: The latter would reduce it wittu t injuring American industries, while the former would reduce it in the interest of British manufacturers. It is for the people of this country to choose between these two policies. A LATE DISCOVERY. nel has discovered a "kindly disposition" on tha part of the attendants of the State Insana Asylum- It is unfortunate that this disposition did not obtain earlier. It might have prevented the scalding to death of brakeman A. D. McConehv. of Andrews, a helpless inmate or tha institution some months since. AN OUTSPOKEN OPINION. New Albany Publio Press (Dem.): The in dications are that Lamar's appointment aa Judge of the Supreme Court will not be eonfirmed by the Senate. There would be a good deal of poetic justice in aeieattng in 01a reoei and incompetent in his political ambition, and even a President of the United btates mtgnt learn that he is less than a king. HOME RULE. Muncie Times: Among tbe resolutions passed at the Republican conference) was one declaring; that a law shall be passed giving to commnmties the right to control the traffic in liquors in such communities. This is "home rule, 11 ia just, and the longest step in behalf of temper ance that seems praeticaoia in toe press a staia of tha publio mind on the question. A PLAUSIBLE FALLACY. Richmond Palladium: The theory of frea trade is a plausible fallacy, which has alwaya failed wherever tested. England has elaoe to it despite the ruin it has brougat to the great Doay 01 ner peopie, umu uvn bus yeuts io u rebellion against it, and the government ia forced to promise some relief by at least a par tial abandonment 01 its taise ineoriea. POLITICAL COWARDICE. , Wabash Plain Dealer: It is impossible to prop erly characterize the poltroonery of which Republican Senators, who vote for tha confirmation of Lamar, will be guilty, and if their con stituents do their duty every man wha extenda the courtesy of his vote in confirmation or assists in elevating this malignant disunlonUt to the woolsack, will be sternly rabukad when ha seeks re-election. AS TO NEW YORK. Franklin Republican: If New York Republicans will adopt a platform imbued with tha spirit of the Indiana conference's resolutions, and invite her egotistical peacocks and dockeya to joia the procession or the enemy they may De or us to-tneir party in tne next campaign. If they continue to humor their soreheads, tha party should make its arrangements to succeed without their help. THE EXECRABLE MAIL SERVICE. Lawrenceburg Press: There is a great dual of complaint all over the country about tha railway mail service. Tbe unappeasable banger to put in Democrats and clean out Repubiieans nader a civil-service reform administration pat out hundreds of clerks who were the competent re mains after years of sorting, and put in hundreds 01 men, many ot wnom never circumstances, be efficient. can, under any SHOULD THINK HE WOULD. Lafayette Call: A Washington special says that Senator Tar pie is already tired ot tha Senate, where he feels out of place, and longs to return to bis books and his practice. We should think Mr. Turpie would feel rather uncomfortable in the Senate, sitting in a place to which ha was elevated, as he and everybody else well knows, by unconstitutional and fraudulent meaos. and in the face of nearly 4,000 adverse majority of tha vote of the people. THE TRUE DOCTRINE. Shelbyville Republican: It is a very dangerous doctrine to preach that when. a man commits a crime against tha ballot bis whole party is in duty bound to stand up for, him and pro tect him from punishment. Such a doctrina generally carried out would soon put an end to our government and our liberties. Tbe true doetrina is that when a man commits a erima ha should, ba punished, that there ia 00 polities in crime, and that offenses against tha suffrage nro the wont of all crime.