Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 March 1888 — Page 4

4

TELE IXDIAXAPOL.IS JO IT AT,, WDXJSSDAY. MAHCEt 21, 1888

THE DAILY JOURNAL. "WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 1888. iVASHINCnNoTFFICE 513 Fourteenth Sfc P. S. Heath. Correspondent. SEW TOBK OFFICE 104 Temple Court, Corner Beekman and Nassau streets. TEK3IS OF SUBSCRIPTION. DAILY. One rear, without Sunday ....$12.00 )neyear, with Sunday 14.0(1 JSix months, without Sunday ...... ...... 6.00 fix months, with Sunday ... 7.00 Three months, without Sunday 3.00 Three months, with Sunday.................. 3.50 One month, without Sunday.. ........ ........ 1.0O One mouth, with Sunday ............... 1.20 WEEKLY. Peryear $1.00 Reduced Rates to Clubs. THE INDIANAPOLIS JODRNAL Can ho found at the following places: LONDON American, Exchange in Europe, 449 Strand. PARIS American Exchange in Paris, 35 Boulevard des Capucines. f N EW YORK Gilsey House and Windsor Hotel. CHICAGO Palmer House. CINCINNATI J. P. Hawley & CO., 154 Vine street liOCltsVILIiE C. T. Deering. northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. ST. IiOUIS Union News Company, Union . Depot and Southern Hotel. WASHINGTON, D. 0 P.sggs House and Ebbit House. Telephone Calls. Business Office ...238 Editorial Rooms 224 Let us have electric lighting in Indianapolis. ' CENTRAL. Europe and the Atlantic coast Teem to in the same snow belt. WITH Mitchell and Sullivan inside of a Bixteen-foot ring there will not be mnch chance to turn the proposed encounter into a walking match. . ' Steother M. Stockslager has finally been appointed Commissioner of ! the General Land Office. The mountain has labored and brought forth a mouee. Indiana will not yet be satisfied. - The advantages of rotation in office are indicated in the case of the defaulting State Treasurer of Kentucky. At all events a man who holds an office only one term can hardly t teal as much as when he holds the place for twenty years. Philadelphia saloon-keepers are greatly disgusted because the new license law is strictly enforced. What else could they expect in a Republican city with a law passed in conformity with the opinion of the majority in a Republican State?

Among certain tribes of savages: medicine men who allow a chief to die on their hands are put to death. The friends of the German Emperor who want to lynch Dr. Mackenzie are not savages, of course, but it would hardly be correct to eall them the flower of civilization. - ' The best thing General Adam Badeau . can do is to drop his suit against the Grant estate, but in spite of that condemning letter he announses his determination to push it. When the affair is settled he will probably regret that he was not snowed under by the late blizzard. So FAR, we believe, the cost of electric lights has not been reduced to even gas limits, . . but we believe it can be done, and made to go considerably lower with the new methods of 'production and the advance of competition. Indianapolis is ready to treat for electric lie;ht and should invite competition from every quarter. The City Council got near enough the circle to talk about the trees, which it is proposed to remove from that park to the Blind Asylum cow-pasture; but they stepped gingerly over the piles of filth that decorate the public stable-yard, maintained for the benefit of the expressmen by permission of the city authorities. , The Sentinel has winged one of last year's birds. It has compelled Mr. Charles A. Munson, of Fort Wayne, who was the Democratic candidate in 1886, to say that he will not be a candidate this year for the office of Auditor of State. Thus does the Sentinel i proceed with the work of reform within the 'party. Who will be the next victim? If the Milwaukee Sentinel please, the Ke- ' publicans of Indiana will determine for themJ eel ves their choice for a presidential candidate. The Sentinel's officious nd carping attempts to lecture Indiana will not aid in the propaganda to which it is devoting itself. It is very strange that some people can't understand the first principles of political courtesy, to say nothing of political common sense. Some of the extreme virtue now manifested for cheap gf-s, even to the extent of shutting the lights entirely off from the public streets, would have been well applied when the contract with the water-works company was up for renewal. There was no special demand for cheap water then, and so the water company Vwaa avowed to fasten itself upon the city almost without remonstrance. The New York Tribune, in an editorial review of the presidential canvass made; by the Philadelphia Times, says: "Another fact of interest is that the Gresham boom is nowhere beside that of General Harrison, either in their own State or elsewhere, except in Minnesota. In the totals Harrison has double Gresham's vot?, and in Indiana nearly seven times his vote. Thesa may be straws, but they would seem to show that the wind is blowing away from Judge Gresham." George William Curtis is on the fence aj;ain, and with him roost a long line of other disconsolate and homesick mugwumps, who, like disquieted crows, simulate an innocent and unconcerned bearing, apparently with nothing to do but plume themselves; yet keenly alert, with a corner of the eye ever turned to the field in which thay were well fed, and being ready the moment opportunity o;Irs to fly back to familiar pastures green. In a late issue of Harper's Weekly Mr. Curtis intimates that in case cf Cleveland's renominatioa the independent vote will be divided, a&ny vrho supported the Democratic candi

date in 18S4 returning to their old party. ' , Mr. Curtis says: "Believing him Mr. Cleveland to have been overpowered by the spoils pressure of his party, and utterly distrusting it as a party from which any real administrative reform can bo expected, and preferring upon that subject Kepublican traditions and probabilities, they would naturally incline, in the absence of any new party, toward any personally unobjectionable Republican candidate."

THE, QUESTION OF GAS. The question of public and. private lighting is one of enough importance to be treated with decent care. It is not all one-sided, nor will it be judiciously settled by the methods of the highwayman on either side. At present it seems impossible to obtain fair consideration for it and for othar questions, for the reason that popular sentiment is inflamed by a series of circumstances, the responsibility for which is pretty well fixed, in the public mind, and those circumstances have been taken advantage of by personal malice and personal self-seeking to a degree that promises not a little future mischief to the best interests of the city, howsoever much appearances may indicate a present seeming good. The steps of the natural gas controversy need not be rehearsed; bat the fact that the same interest controls in the Indianapolis Natural-gas Company and the Gas-light and Coke Company has transferred to the latter a full share of the public discontent growing out of the numberless blunders and misteps made by the natural-gas organization. , In addition to this is the wide-spread feeling that the gaslight company has made enormous profits out of past contracts at very high prices the existing one being $1.80 per thousand for private consumption, and about $2.28 for public lighting. . Thi3 is an era of wonderful changes in agents for heating and lighting. , Coal and wood are about to be exchanged ; for natural gas, and coal gas seems likely to be superseded either by natural gas or by some combination, or by electricity. Coupled with these changes in substance, have come great advances in process of manufacture, lesseningthe cost of production, so that the public are impressed with the belief, and we think a just one, that they should presently, at once, participate in the profits resulting from the discoveries and new methods. The natural-gas matter seems to be settled for Indianapolis; but the heated discussion over that is transferred to the question of illuminant3. The Journal knows and said that the best thing the natural-gas company could have done would have been to promptly accept the ordinance, reserving the right to ask for needful changes, which would have unquestionably been granted when their necessity was shown, and then to have gone forward rapidly and cheerfully to supply the city with the cheap fuel. That another course was taken was not the fault of the public, and because of the identity of control, as we have said, there has been a transference of opposition and prejudice from the one company to the other. - , The Journal does not claim to ' know all about the cost of manufacturing illuminating gas, and would not attempt to set itself up as an oracle to determine the price at which gas and everything else 6honld be sold. There may be elements in the cost of producing and furnishing gas to the public that do not appear on the face of the published, statements, and it must be conceded that the gas-light company presented to thl Council a document the spirit of which cannot be fairly criticised, and the facts of which are entitled to candid consideration. However, the overwhelming evidence of testimony seems to prove that gas can be made and furnished at a good profit at one dollar, and it is incumbent upon the company tc demonstrate by evidence that this cannot be done. It is true that but two cities in the country, that we know of, have dollar gas, despite the wild assertion of people who have zeal not according to knowledge; but it is also true that the council of Chicago has declared for dollar gas, and that the trend of discussion in Louisville and other , cities hts been in the direction of that rate. The contracts under which gas is furnished in Chicago, Louisville, Cincinnati and other cities at $1.25 and $1.50 were entered into before the recent important discoveries and advances in methods of manufacture, and, therefore, they are not conclusive against the proposition that dollar gas can now be profitably supplied. Indianapolis should have the cheapest pos. sible gas, and to that end both the Councils and the company, ought to come together in an honest effort to reach a just basis. If dollar gas is not obtained, the public will be satisfied only with a statement of the facts that shall demonstrate that that rate is not reman erative; and if the company is sincere in its position and proposition to the Council, it will not hesitate to furnish the committee with the proof. If gaa can be profitably supplied for one dollar, then, possibly, some company can be organized that will accept the oiler of the present one to sell its factory and plant. But there is this to be remembered: there is yet a contract of $1.80 to run for some years, and unless the Councils are prepared to give the people a substitute, it will not prove much of a measure of economy to reduce the public lighting a comparatively small amount, while private consumers are laf t to pay a higher price. Not only justice-, but good sense, would suggest an agreement, if possible, that should equitably lighten the burdens of the j people as well as of the city; for, after all, the city is the people, and a saving in private bills is as much economy as the reduction of taxation. But we shall acquire a great deal of information upon the subject of both public and private lighting within the ensuing twelve months, and the Councils should not do any- : thing that will tie the hinds of the city for mora than one year. Electrio light promises to become the light of the future. How handsome Indianapolis would be lighted as Detroit or Denver is; and within one year we believe the way will open for the cheap and beautiful illumination of the city with electricity; and for private consumption noma

agent will be found, whether of enriched natural gas or a mixture of that with coal gas, at a price certainly not above one dollar, and possibly much lower.

The Prohibitionists of Iowa will be discouraged at the decision of the United States Supreme Court, 'in the case of Bowman Brothers vs. the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad Company, which involved the validity of a statute of Iowa, forbidding a railroad company to bring intoxicating liquors into that State without a certificate of the auditor of the county to which the liquor i3 consigned, showing that the consignee is legally authorized to sell it. The Supreme Court holds that the power vested in the State to regulate or forbid the sale of a commodity after it has been brought into the State, does not carry with it the right and power to prevent its introduction by transportation from another State, and declares the Iowa statute invalid. This ruling of the court of last resort tends to illustrate how difficult it is for a single State to pass anti-liquor laws which will really prohibit. Under the decision in question any private individual, club, or other association of individuals, in Iowa or other prohibition State, may order ad libitum wines and liquors froma border State, and, under the law, they must be delivered at their destination without question. Under this ruling, prohibitory stat-' utes, must prove, at least, partially abortive until every State in the Union passes uniform laws covering the liquor traffic. The same wild ass from the New York Herald that came out to Indiana and wrote a lot of dialect twaddle, supposed to be in the interest of Judge Gresham, but which could only result in injury to him, has been in Ohio looking after the presidential situation, and writes that "Sherman is a hell of a feller." The wild and woolly West is not so barbarous as this Eastern dude would suppose, and is not regarding the matter of nominating and electing a President of the United- States on the low plane that this scribbler would have the country believe. Neither Judge Gresham nor John Sherman wears rawhide boots and wool shirts, nor are their friends and supporters men who loaf about country saloons, "chaw terbacker," talk bad grammar and tell off-color stories, as the Herald represents. If we cannot buy light from one company we can from another. Better go without meat for awhile than become a slave to the butcher. Open wide the gates of competition. If we cannot get fair terms and decent treatment from the dealer whose wagon is at our door, let us tell him to drive on. Thero are plenty others not only willing but hilariously anxious to serve us. The Sentinel. ' By all means let us have the competition in illuminating gas as we have it in natural gas. The Journal hopes that the plenty of others who are hilariously anxious to serve tha city will not hesitate about coming forward nith their propositions. The Councils should give to them the most favorable and business-like consideration. Let us have cheap illuminating gas as well as cheap heating gas. Where is the company thatproposes the first? Now is its golden opportunity. The First National Bank, of Columbus, Ind., writes to the Journal, inclosing a postal card addressed to itself which was .mailed in this city on Feb. 13 and reached its destination on March 18, one month and five days later. Mr. Vilas, who announced just previous to his transfer to the Interior Department . that the postal service was in perfect condition, and Mr. Dickinson, who, after a casual glance over the field, has since confirmed the statement, will confer a favor by explaining how the banking business of the country is to be carried on in the face of such delays. WHEN the city engineer gets his assistants we hope he will be able to take his eagle-eye off the trenches of the Broad Ripple gas company long enough to look at the piles of manure in the city stable-yard on Circle street, and let him ask the street commissioner to accompany him. Up to the hour of going to press these two officials had not found time to even drive around this way and look upon the condition of the central street of the capital city of the State of Indiana. THE Haymarket riot was the direct result of a failure on the part of the Chicago authorities to interfere with Anarchist speakers and loud-mouthed advocates of incendiary doctrine. If in the light of past experience they permit crazy creatures like Currlin, the newly-fledged Anarchist orator, to utter their dangerous sentiments unchecked, they can expect to bear the entire blame of the next Haymarket episode. The parents of little Wilhelmine. the eight-year-old Princess of the Netherlands, instruct her teachers to treat her precisely as they would any child, and to punish her, If necessary. In pursuance of this command, the Princess is known to have been spanked. Wilhelmine would fare more comfortably if she were a puDil in the American public schools, where it is as much as a teacher's life is worth to lay a band on a child save in kindness; but possibly she would not come out at the close such a wellbehaved girl as she i3 likely to do under the stern system of the King and Queen. Miss Brown, of Boston, wants Congress to appropriate $50,000 to enable her, and other antiquarian Hubites, to search the libraries of Europe for proofs that Lief Ericsson discovered America in the year 1000. Miss Brown should not be avaricious and grasping; for $5 a week she could find indisputable proofs that leaf-lard was discovered in Indianapolis boarding-house butter since the year 1. Henry George told a Philadelphia audience that he was not proud of being as American, because the principles of liberty promulgated by the fathers have not been carried out. Considering that enough liberty haa still existed to enable a large number of Americans to join in abolishing Henry George's poverty, this remark sounds very ungrateful. The loss of life in the burning of a fashionable New York apartment building will cause nervous occupants cf tha skyward flats in that citv to rest uneasily upon their pillows for many a night to come. The enterprising citizens of the far Northwest, who propose to import songbirds, are booming that region in a way they had probably not anticipated. The proposition to briog songbird there and tarn them loose implies that tha

English sparrow has not yet made his destructive way to tbe territory. Happy Northwest!

The Chicago detectives are going to write stories for the Herald of that city. The title of the first one will probably be: "Chasing Tascott's Cane, or the Young Man Too Slick for Us.' After carefully considering the matter for a week. New York has reached the conclusion that the groundhog of this season is a base fraud. ' "" - - ', . . To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journali Has the President of the United States any right to advise the C, B. & Q. R II.? Please answer m Tuesdays paper. Keader. Marion, Ind. ; We presume the President has a perfect right to advise the Burlington, or any other road; but if your question implies a legal right, or infln eoce, he has no more right than any other citi zen. ECHOES FROM EXCHANGES. This is the way tha Richmond Daily Telegram puts it: "Tbe knowledge of tbe preferences of Indiana Republicans that prevails in Illinois and Missoari, is truly remarkable." The Mancie Daily Times thinks that, after General Harrison, Senator Sherman is the choice of a majority of Indiana Republicans, with New York's cele orated after-dinner man next in favor. The Hon. Wm. H. Trammel, in a telling letter to the Huntington Evening Herald of the 19th inst., compares General Harrison's candidacy with that of Lincoln, and draws favorable auguries for Harrison's nomination and election. Tbe Port Wayne Gazette is agitating the question whether or not Allen county shall buy the gravel toll-mads wtthm its limits. It is claimed not less than $100,000 will be required for the purchase, and $20,000 a year for their proper maintenance. It is estimated by the Springfield (Mass.) Republican that during the present season 60,000 Northern tourists "have been taken in of course in the biblical eense" by Floridans. and that Florida is $6,000,000 richer since the arrival of its visitors. The Warsaw Daily Times charges the Demoeratic district attorney for Indiana of-being afraid to. call the easo of General Carnahan for trial, knowing that tbe General will be acquitted, and thus spoil some Democratic campaign thunder. The establishment of a Prohibition paper in Goshen entails, according to tbe Daily News of that city, another expense upon the tax-payers, as "politicians will be showing partiality if the new paper does not get public printing to do. The News sarcastically remarks: "Encourage the 'organ' it it drains the city treasury. " The Springfield (Mass.) Republican hits the nail square on the head by saying: "Republicans who have allowed themselves to drift from old party moorines under the pressure of the false 'free-trade' cry, will do well take account of their bearings now and then. Nothing Is clearer than tbat they have foolishly allowed the Democrats to steal an old issue." In an editorial headed "Plenty of Hope for Indiana," the Cleveland (O.) Leader and Herald says: '"The corrupt and inherently dishonest Dem ocracy have been paving tbe way to their own defeat'' in this State, and cites the abuses in the Insane Asylum, the tally-sheet forgeries and the "feeble attempt to enforce civil-service reform in Indiana just feeble enough to demonstrate what a driveling farce it is under Democratic management," as being certain to insure a Repubhoan victory next fall. The Portland (Ore.) Daily News, in a long leader advocating the judicious advertising of Oregon, states the truth when it says in the East little is known of tbat State. It is older than Kansas, Nebraska, or Colorado, bas as rich, if not even more productive lands and as many resources and means for wealth, and possesses a climate unsurpassed by either of her tnree sister States above named. With immigration, capital and manufactories Oregon would compare favorably with any State in the Union. POLITICAL NOTES. BntsiiNGHAM Age (Dem.): President Cleveland is not yet the nominee of the Democratic party, and we earnestly hope he will not be. The information is definitely vouchsafed the public that William R Grace is a candidate for Governor of the State of New York. The Democratic congressional convention of the Nineteenth Illinois district was held at Waynesboro, yesterday, and Hon. A. W. Townsbend was unanimously renominated. In Oregon tbe State elections tbis year will be held on the same day as the Democratic national convention; and "Tbe San Francisco Chronicle" pleads with the voters up there not to render a verdict in favor of free trade, which will encourage Cleveland's friends at St Louis. The mugwumps are discounted in advance by the Springfield, Mass., Union thusly: "There will be no place at Chicago in June for nambypamby men who don't know whether they are going to support the nominations tbey have helped to make until afpr they get home and see what the Democratic papers say about them." Stephen B. Elkins says: "If the States of New York. New Jersey, Connecticut and Indiana could be shut up together at tbe Republican national convention at Chicago in - June, and agree upon a candidate for President, the result would be eminently satisfactory to the party. I am not sure but that would be a good way to reach a conclusion. I am sure I would be satisfied, and I think tbat the delegates and party would be." Coloneii Montgomery, of Portand, Ore., says that the best dark horse is Gen. Nelson A. Miles. He is a great soldier, and has a splendid record. His executive abilityis something wonderful. His life reads like a romance. Before the war be was a clerk in a dry goods store in Boston. He went to the war, became a second lieutenant, and by the time be was twenty five years old he was a major-general and commanded 25,000 soldiers. - An address to Virginia Republicans from John S. Wise strongly opposes ex-Senator Mahone's proposition that the "anit rule" be adopted by the delegation from the old Dominion. Tbe letter, while conciliatory in tone, and expressing personal good-will toward Mabone, gives notice that the coming State convention will be asked anew to consider a plan for reorganizing the party, so that the power will reside among the mass of voters, instead of with the chairman of the State committee, as now. The following is in the New York Sun: For President. 31. E. In galls ot Ohio. Fer Vice-president, Gen. H. W. Slocum. of New York. To tbe Editor of the Atlanta Constitution: The above are about the only two men who. if nominated by the national Democratic conven tion at St. Liouis, June o, IS98, can successfully lead the Democratic party to victory. A Hendricks Democrat. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. A Parisian genius has got out a list of plays which may be properly attended by those who are in mourning. A half-mourning list will soon follow from the same authority. Pope Leo's jubilee has turned out even a big ger cash success than was expected. He has already received gifts valued at $19,000,000 and tbe offerings are still pouring in. Marion Harland declares that it is harder for beautiful women to be good than for those who have been taught from babvhood to seek the approval which all crave in the cultivation of mental and moral traits. k It is a curious fact that while Queen Victoria speaks German in her home circle, the present German Empress disregards it in hers and uses English as much as possible, jneiieh is tne fireside tongue of the Greek, Danish and Russian royal families. Dr. Howard Crosby's youngest son, Nicho las Evartson Crosby, is a "corker. He can speak ancient Greek and modern Greek, Is a professor at Columbia College, and can play the piano, th harmonica and tne banjo. He recently got home from a year's visit to Athens. Gen. John C. Fremont and wife are traveling oq the Pacific coast, an I at last accounts were expected at San Francisco. If the General would fiiibfuiiy record his feeliugs as he

passes through the scenes of his youthful struggle ana triumphs, it would make Interesting reading. George Eliot must have bad some such thought in her mind when she said: "Old mm's ey.-. are like old mens memories they are strongest for things a long way off." A London correspondent describes Mrs. Oscar Wilde as one of the most charming of hostesses. She entertains her guests in a cream-tinted dimng-room, of which walls, furniture and ail things ar in unison. . the only color being in choice bits of glass and china, flowers ind fruit. Mr. A. Bronson A lcott was a vegetarian, and often criticised meat-eaters harshly. ' To one of them he declared one day that tbe eater of mutton becomes a sheep, the eater of pork becomes a hog, ete., "And is it also true," interposed tbe other, "that eaters of vegetables become cm ail potatoes?" Driving through a Brussels street recently the Queen of the Belgians noticed a man cruelly beating a dog which he had harnessed to too heavy a load. She at once stopped her carriage, Bent her footman tor an officer, bad the man arrested, gave him herself a severe lecture, and sent him away to the police court. M& Stephen Burke, of Minneapolis, has had a ruling ambition since his marriage, twentyfive years ago, to have thirteen children in his family, and. by a singular coincidence, the thirteenth was born on the 13th day of last month. "Happy he," says Thoreau, "whose aspirations never stray beyond the home circle." Kaiser William left a fortune of $75,000,000. He was little leas than half as rieu as Vanderbilt, and almost as rich as Jay Gould. Victoria has thirty or forty millions which she is saving for that spendthrift, the Prince of Wals. What a syndicate the monarch of Europe could form. If ever they got out of business they could corner the pork of the world. The Duke of Sparta, who is shortly going to marry a daughter of the Prince of Waies, has been provided with an estate in Morea worth 3.000 a year. He is tall, fresh complexioned. blue-eyed and well-mannred. His nose is rather short and his cheeks have not altogether lost the chubby outline of infancy. The young man bas never been free from the supervision of a governor, who lets him doyour French novels, realistic and otherwise. Mr. Cyrus Foss, son of the eloquent and learned bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was introduced to an eminent minister of tnat church at a recent reception at Minneapolis. "Ah," said the minister, "you are the son of Bishop Foss, are you? I know him very well and am glad to know you. I suppose you are going to be a minister, too?" "No. sir," replied the young man, promptly, "I am going to earn' my living!'' Then they both meandered toward the lemonade. Because Louisa M. Alcott received about $100,000 from the sales of her books many a hopeful and inexperienced writer will imagine tbat literature is the highway to fortune as well as fame. Let thm remember one of Emerson's nuggfts of wisdom. Tbat is tbat we can take whatsoever we will if we but pay the price. Miss Alcott paid the price it was a price few could pay. She began teaching school snd writing stories when about sixteen., and, although she loathed the touching, she was forced to keep on at it for fifteen years before her writings produced an income sufficient to enable her to depend entirely upon her pen for support. The women of Paraguay have but one pastime, that of dancing. They wear white robes that leave their shapely shoulders and tapering arms all bare. A gold comb of enormous size is the only bead ornament Parties are gotten up on tbe slightest pretext. The dances are in quaint, original figures, but nearly always very graceful. Sometimes the festivities will be kept up during the entire night, after which the participants will gayly return to their occupations of whatsoever nature, always contented, alwavs happy. Sometimes there will be a grand contribution picnic at some distant point, where tbe dancing will be keptuo through the round of whole twenty four hours. For: these people live but to be happy through the livelong day.

When Eve upon the first of men The apple pressed with specious cant, O what a thousand pities then That Adam was not Adamant. Town Topics. COJJMENT AND 0P1SI0N. The Democrats needn't count on California to help them out A State that grows 36,000,000 pounds of wool per year isn't going to offer up its mutton on the altar of Democracy. Detroit Tribune. Let the Republicans get at this question and reduce the surplus revenue honestly, squarely, and in such a manner that no American industry but tbe Kentucky whisky trust will be injured. Do this and the country will indorse it New York Press. General Grant had no need of any pen but his own. "All untaught of the silken phrasemakers, he strung words together with a something that will still bring to American ears, as long as America shall last, the roll of bis vanished drums and the tread of his marching hosts." Chicago News. , - No human institution is free from defects which are incident to the imperfections of the bodies and minds of men. The freetrader would destroy the institution in order to cure the defect. He would decapitate a man to cure a felon on his thumb, or a .temporary disorder of his brain. New York Press. The Republican party is more united in favor of protection, and the Democratic party less united in favor of free-trade theories than at any former time. Tbe Democrats are anxious lust now to break the line of protectionists, because they know that if they fail their own control over Southern States will ere long be broken. That is the milk In the cocoanut. New York Tribune. The effort of the Democratic newspapers to make it appear that the Republican minority in the House is responsible for the failure of the Democratic majority to agree upon a policy of revenue reduction is as comic as aoything in the recent history of the United States. . The Democrats have been intrusted with a re sponsibility which is clearly many times too big for them. Philadelphia Press. There is no Democratic margin, "small" or great, in Tennessee. Tne State is Republican in sentiment, and will give its vote for the nominee of the Chicago convention. Thousands of men who have heretofore acted with the Demo cratic party are thoroughly disgusted with the free-trade ideas of the Cieveland-Carlisle-Miils combination, and will vot for the Republican idea-of "protection to American industries" and "aid to American schools. jNatiooal Kepub lican. Inealla's Speech. Milwaukee Sentinel. The Republicans are very well satisfied with Senator Ingalls's speech. . In truth, the7 are somewhat enthusiastic over thi speech, to which justice was not done by the telegraphio reports. He told some wholesome truths in a wholesome wav truths which the people of this country should carefully consider. Tnere are no Republicans who do not feel cheered and strengthened by Ingalls s vigorous assault on the thimble rigging Democracy. So far from alienating the sympathy of Republicans. Senator Ingalls bas gained a warmer place in their esteem and increased the regret that his residence in Kansas impairs bis availability for a nomination. Ingalls is a thorongh-going Republican of the right sort, and h has the chere of all tborougb-going Republicans everywhere. Hurrah for Ingalls! Grant's Letter to Badeau. Philadelphia North American. This letter, in its directness, in its force and its simplicity, in its freedom from any affectation, literary or otherwise, in its straightforward Ancio Saxon sturdiness. is a very remarkable writing, while as a piece of self portraiture unconsciously drawn, and therefore no less faithful than vivid, it would be difficult to find anything equal to it tn the whole history of English literature. High as General Grant stands already in the esteem and admiration of the American people, this letter of his to General Badeau, which was never intended to see the light, will raise him still higher. Reform. Milwankee Sentinel. "Any postmaster who edits a Republican paper is an offensive partisan and should be removed," said Vilas in his secret circular which ' expressed the President's views." Tnere are now some hundreds of postmasters who edit Democratic papers and Mr. Cleveland has Just added another to the number Editor Northrop, of tbe Syracuse Courier, who has been made postmaster. Courage In Politics Always Pays. Providence Journal (Bep.) Our people altnire courage in national affairs, and are attracted by it: they defeat and will not support timidity and mere fault-finding obstruction. Faithful Allies. Detroit Tribune. ' The third party will make an extraordinary effort to carry indixna for tbe Democrats.

WHERE ISKENTUCKY'S CASE

Hon. James W. Tate, Treasurer of State, for More Than Twenty Years Past, Suddenly Disappears, and an Incomplete Investigation Shows a Shortage of $400,000 Prominent Man Said To Be InvolvatL LonsviiXE, Ky., March 20. -An Evening Times special from Frankfort. Ky., states that Governor Buckner this morning suspended, Treasurer of State James W. Tate. Tate is charged with defalcation in his office, and, it is said, has fled the State. The defaultiog official has been Treasurer for twenty-one years. He was considered the soul of honor, and the newe will produce a tremendous sensation throughout the State. It4 is thought Tate's shortage will amount to between $50,000 and $150,000. A later dispatch from Frankfort states that the investigation immediately instituted on tha recommendation of Governor Buckner has, up to 11 o'clock this morning, disclosed a deficit in Tate's office of $150,000, and that the irregularities seem to run back eleven yeare. The discovery of Tate's shortage is the result of the examination of his books commenced some days ago by an expert accouutant. The "Governor has placed the Treasurer's office in charge of Auditor Hewitt and Attorney-general Hardin., In his message to the Legislature Gov. Buckner says be bas reasons for believing the deficit to be large, and recommends tbat an immediate investigation be ordered. In the House a committee was at once appointed, and ordered to prosecute an investigation in connection with the officials in charge of the office. Pending tbe investigation the office, of course, will be closed. Tbe State has abundant resources at band, and all current expenses, payments, etc, will be met without interruption or delay. Treasurer Tate's bond is for $300,000 and is well covered. He was in Louisville Saturday night, when he was observed to be drinking rd, an unusual thing for him. Since that the has not been seen, and bis whereabouts inknown. James William Tate was elected State Treasurer in 1867, having been nominated by the Democrats. He bas been re-elected continuously at each election since then, makiughis tenure of office twenty years on Aug. 31, last. In the last Democratic campaign Mr. Tate had no opposition for the nominationas State Treasurer. Everybody laughed at the idea of opposing "honest old Dick Tate." He received the Democratic nomination for the tenth consecutive time. His majorities have always stood among the largest on his ticket, and honest, jolly "Dick" Tate haa been one of the most widelr known and universally liked men in Kentucky.' In addition to being State Treasurer he was a commissioner of the sinking fund, and was one of those intrusted with the management of the State penitentiary. The exact amount of Tate's shortage it is impossible, as yet, to state, but it is anywhere from $150,000 to $400,000. The following is tbe message from the Governor read to the Legislature: "Gentlemen of tbe Senate and House of Bepreseutatives: ' "It is my painful duty to announce to you the fact that, for reasons whi-h aopear in the accompanying act of the Governor, Auditor and Attorney-general, the Treasurer of the State has been suspended from the exercise of hia official duties. Tne hasty examination of bis books induces the belief that there is a large deficit in bis accounts. Tbis examination was made yesterday. The action reported to you was taken last night, as soon as the deficit appeared. The fact is communicated to you at the earliest moment for your information and action. It is believed that the bond of the Treasurer will fully cover any possible deficit that a more complete investigation will reveal. In the meantime tbe Auditor and Secretary of State have been directed to take temporary charge of the office of tbe Treasurer. "S. B. BCCKNER." Accompanying the message was one of the same import from the sinking fund commission ers. On motion, a coinmittee was immediately:, appointed to act with the State officials in pros ecuting the investigation. The first intimation of the shortage came yesterday rooming, when a comparison of the Auditor's statement of what bouid be io bank showed that such an amount was not there. This, coupled with the fact that tbe Treasurer had not been seen since Fridav morning, when he left, ostensibly for Louisville, caused an examination to be made, with tbe result that the State's money was discovered to have been squandered in large amounts. Up lo 11 a. m., the books had been examined sufficiently ta show a shortage of near $150,000. Tbe investigation was brought about by the strange conduct of Tate himself. On Thursday last Senator Wright states that he had a long talk with Tate, who questioned him closely and at great length as to the exact provisions in extradition treaties between the United States and Canada, and also made lengthy inquiries on tha treaty between the United States and Mexico. At the conclusion of the talk, which was one of great length, Tate thanked Senator Wright for the information. It began to be rumored around the streets tbat there was only a small amount in bank to tbe credit of Tate, and when the Treasurer was not seen on either Friday or .Saturday. Auditor Hewett suggested that an investigation of the circumstances should be immediately made. What has become of the money no one can telL Tate never speculated nor gambled. He is said not to have been an extravagant liver, but year by year the money has leaked out, the shortage seeming to run back a dozen years. It is said Mr. Tate set his son-in-law, Alfred Martin, up in business a few years ago. which business proved unprofitable, but this could not have cost over 310,000, The almost universal theory is that "Uncle Diek's" kindness of heart ran away with his business integrity. Mr. Herndon, cf tins' city, wno was at one time teller in a bank at Frankfort, eap-! Tate's defalcation will involve ps and State officials of high standing. He says that it was the custom cf many of tbe State officials to go to Tate and get him to cash notes for them, promising to pay as soon as their vouchers were due. When they secured their vouchers, however, they would defer payment, and the goodnatured Treasurer failing to push these claims, accumulated a mass of such securities as by this time mast be simply appalling. There is no indication thai. Mr. Tate took any amount with him. The Urget part of the shortage seems to have occurred in 1886 and 1887. Of course, the report of the investigators alone will furnish definite light as to when and to whom Mr. Tate loaned the money. It is said that memorsnda in the Treasurer's office stow a loan of $25,000 to the Yeoman Company, and another of $50,000 to a certain whisky ; trust. These statements cannot be verified or proven false until the Auditor and Secretary of State complete their work, nor can it be ascertained whether or not these amounts, if borrowed, wer ever returned. It has been Mr. Tate's custom to settle up every year, and never till now was there the least hesitation on the part of the Treasurer to square accounts with the Auditor. Tbis. time, however, there was delay and procrastination. When Auditor Hewett announced his readiness for the annual settlement. Treasurer Tate put him -off. His cash-book was not all entered uo; then other excuses were made. This thing bas been going on since January, uof I at last tbe Auditor got nreent On Thursday Mr. Tate went to Louisville, saying he would be back on Fridav. On Friday he did not return, nor on Saturday. His family grew uneay, as did also the Auditor. Telegraphio correspondence elicited the fact that Mr. Tata had paid bis bill and left the Louisville hotel on Friday morning, taking a Cincinnati train. Then Auditor Hewett ordered a balance of his vonsbers,' which was compared with the banking balance, and it was found that there was io the bank $124,000 less than the vouchers called for. Then came the conference, the revelation and the i suspension by the Governor. Toe only bonds the Secretary of State has at hand are those for 1884, 1886 and 1888. These are secured by the following names: For 1884 W. J. Chsnn, Scott Brown, W. H. Barbee, A. W. Mackltn. Isaac Wingate. J. Stod- -dard Johnston. D. C Barrett. BerUh Magoffin, sr.. John Callaghan, George W. Robb. For 1886 J. Stddard Johnston, Isaac Wingate. George W. Robb, S- Black, A. W. Mackiin, Scott Brown, H. L Collins, W. J. Chinn, W. II. Barbee, T. J. Megibben. For 1888 J. Stoddard Johnston. A. W. Macklio, T. J. Megibben. W. J. Chma, S. Bie, Scott Brown. George W. Robb. W. H. Bartee. Some sav Tate Las gone to Mexico, ethers ts Canada, others that he has not left the State. Ilia wife and dauifbter ar much prostrated. A dispatch from Frankfort to an afternoon pai er says the, experts hv not yet gone far enoutfh in th investigation to giv compiet figures, but rumor ears the defalcation has already run up as high as $iC0.OOO, and there are no sigus of a cessaiioa in the discovery of ihtee startling facts.