Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 April 1888 — Page 4

TUB IXDIASTAPOLIS JOURNAL. MONDAY, APRIL 9, 18SS.

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he fights shy of the subject, and does not commit himself. It is mentioned as remarkable that there is not a single Senator, or Representative, or party leader who says he knows Mr. Cleveland will be a candidate for renomination, while there are any nt.mber of them who admit that they are mystified about his plans, and that tbey have to tike his candidacy fov granted in all their tslk about a renomination. The result is a growing impression that he is preparing to make a positive declaration that he is not a candidate for re-election. If the politicians see anything in Mr. Cleveland's course or attitude to justify such a belief they must be very sharp-sighted. The feeling probably springs from their nervousness concerning the political future of their party. Meanwhile, tho President is smart enough to know that this uncertainty helps to make him master of tae situation.

SOUTHERN BEPUBLICAIT STATES. The signs of activity among the Republicans of the South are very cheering, especially to those of us in the North who have been insistent for years that the Southern States should not be abandoned, but that the national committee should plan for and conduct precisely the same sort of a canvass in what may be termed the "doubtful States" of the South that they do in the doubtful States of the North. What we mean by the "doubtful States" of the South are the States about whose vote there can be so possible doubt if it was allowed to be cast and counted, and which, in the present condition of both political and industrial affairs, may be wrested from Democratic control and added to the Republican column, despite the obstacles that seem to be in the way. The States of Tennessee, North Carolina, the Virginias, Louisiana, Florida and one or two others, are unquestionably Republican on" a full vote and fair count; The Republicans of the Nation should not be content to let these States be longer counted by the Democracy by reason cf murder, outrage, intimidation, suppression. The Journal has always been in favor of a campaign in these Southern States backed by all the force and influence of the national Republican committee and the Republican party of the Northern States. Gen. Harrison has kept this question steadily to the front, and it is the frott, bottom, vital question, not only of this campaign, but of all campaigns. It will remain the paramount, dominant question until it is settled that a free and equal ballot and fair, equal representation are assured in every State of the Union. We press this matter upon the attention of the Republican party. The next campaign ought to be predicated upon the idea of rescuing the Republican vote of the Southern States and of breaking the solid South of Democracy and crime. It can be done; it should be done; it must be done. EEODE IBLAKD'S ELEOTIOH. The constitutional amendment adopted at the recent election in Rhoda Island places foreign-born naturalized citiz;ens on the same, plane with native-born as to cuffrage. Under the present law naturalized citizens, in order to vote, must be possessed of real estate of the value of $134 or renting for $7 per annum. Tho new amendment abolishes this property qualification and modifies th s existing law in some other respects. It will not affect voters this year. There are about ?,400 naturalized citizens in the State, now disqualified from voting, who will be enfranchised by the amendment, and a much larger number of voting age not yet naturalized. There is considerable speculation as to where the majority of these newly mado voters will go. As the amendment is a Republican measure, proposed, supported and carried through the Legislature by Republicans, and adopted at a popular election which resulted in a Republican victory, the Republican party naturally expects to get a fair share of the new voters. The Democracy, with their usual modesty, are claiming the lion's share on the ground that the foreign vote naturally belongs to them. The probability is the new vote will divide and that neither party will ge any decided advantage from it The best result of the amendment is that It will abolish an unjust discrimination and remove a disturbing issue from'politics. Its effect on the vote of the State cannot be known before next year. THE LOUISIANA ELECTION. In a recent reference to the approaching election in Louisiana the Journal stated the outlook for Republican success to be very encouraging. This statement was based on the fact that the Republicans Lave an. excellent ticket, are making a vigorous fight, and especially on the public assurance given by Governor McEnery some time ago that there should be a free and fair election and an honest count The last condition is very important The Democrats control the State government and the election machinery of the entire State. It is probably in the power of Governor McEnery to insure at least an approximately fair election, and on the strength of his pledge of honor that there should be Republicans were justified in hoping for success. But it seems his pledge was made with "a string to it," and is practically withdrawn. He is now reported as declaring his purpose to "prevent a triumph of ignorance and vice, even if he should have to plunge Louisiana into revolution." By "a triumph of ignorance and vice" Governor McEnery means a victory of the Republican party. He is pleased to so term it because nearly all the colored voters in the State affiliate with the Republican party, although it also embraces a large number of the bett white citizens. He also sees fit to place this stigma on the Republican party, in face of the fact that his own administration has been notorious jfor political corruption and misgovernment But aside from this there is no mistaking the meaning of this later utterance of McEnery's. It is a recantation of his pknige of honor that there should be a free and fair election, and a declaration that the political machinery ot the State is to be used, as it has been in past years, to eecure the triumph of the Democratic party at whatever cot t This probably destroys all hope- of Republican success. That hope was based entirely on the prospect of a fair election and hcrest count, but as

Governor McEnery's latest utterance shows that the Democracy intend to use the power of the State the other way, the hope may as well be dismissed. Nevertheless, aa Governor Warmouth, who heads the Republican ticket, is a strong man, very popular and will fight for Ms rights, we may get interesting news from Louisiana next week. Ths election will take place on the 17th inst

"BECAUSE a man has made a mistake in one instance is no cause why he should be blacklisted. I am opposed to blacklisting, bitterly opposed to it" This sentiment of Mr. Jefferey, expressed at the railroad strikers' mass meeting in Chicago, Tuesday night, should receive the approval of every employer of labor. Blacklisting is an infamous practice which has stopped many a promising career and wrecked many a man that otherwise would have been a useful citizen. Frequently an employe is blacklisted, not because he is dishonest, incompetent or immoral in his habits, but because he believes in and acts on principles that the employer considers inimical to his interests. . Blacklisting frequently has a ten'dency to prevent the mistaken employe from adopting more correct ideas for the future by depriving him of his opportunities for employment. It destroys manliness, and engenders hatred and bitterness. It is unjust to the employe who is singled out for a victim, and unworthy as a weapon in the hands of employers. It Bbould be done away with forever. Minneapolis Tribune. The Journal most heartily indorses this, and adds to the denunciation the "blacklisting" of workmen by other workmen, under the name of "rats," "scabs," and the like. Every man in this country has the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and whatever interferes with this is not only illegal but utterly indefensible. No tyranny on earth is worse than the ''blacklisting" tyranny of so-called organized labor against free labor. It should go alongside with the cowardly tyranny of "blacklisting" by employers." Blacklisting" is scoundrelism pure and simple the tyranny of the strong against the weak. Miss Diss Debar, the. adventuress, who has victimized the New York lawyer Marsh by various "spiritual" manifestations, and the exhibition of so-called spirit portraits and paintings until he has already turned over to her a part of his large property, and is in a fair way to lose the rest, has accepted magician Hermann's challenge. Hermann said if he could not du plicate everything she did he would forfeit one thousand dollars to any local charity. Such an exposure as the test must result in if Hermann is successful, as he doubtless will be, will have little effect on the woman's dupes. The spiritualistic craze is one of the most difficult to cure, and when it takes possession of a man of strong intellect, makes him as little amenable to reason and as incapable of correct judgment as the most ignorant and superstitious. The case of Robert Dale Owen was a notable example of this peculiar insanity, but there have been many others of the same character, Marsh being the lost name on the list Such affairs should teach humility to those most proud of their mental capacity, since they go to prove that every mind, however vigorous, has its weak spot. During the year 18S7 there were.. in, tht State of New York 144 trades and callings involved in disputes with employers. The loss of wages exceeded $2,000,000. Fifty-one thousand persons were engaged in these strikes, which resulted in 8,000 strikers being refused employment after the strikes were ended. The number of establishments affected was 1,604. The successful strikes numbered 694; 190 compromised, and 3 doubtful, and 695 unsuccessful. Twenty-two are still pending. Some very peculiar reasons are given for some of the strikes, but by far the largest number were based solely on sympathy. The Bureau of Statistics and Lahor of the State give the figures, and they may be accepted as official. This is only one State, but it will serve as a basis from which to made something of a calculation of the frightful disturbance to commerce and industry, and the loss to both employers and employes occasioned by this senseless, brutal, violent method of -warfare. Do strikes pay, is not a question any longer to be answered by other than an emphatic negative. The indorsement of General Harrison by county and township conventions is a good deal like "carrying eoals to New Castle." It has been the clear understanding for months that he is Indiana's first choice at Chicago, and no sensible Republican proposes to disturb that understanding. He will have, and should have, the solid, loyal and energetic support of the delegation from this State until he is either nominated or there is no longer any reasonable hope of his nomination. More than that he cannot justly ask, and should not have. -Logansport Journal. The only advantage in the indorsements is to rebuke the assertion, raised by outsiders who are trying to disturb the harmony of the Republican party of this State, that General Harrison's candidacy is a "machine" candidacy. He is the candidate of the Republicans of Indiana, as is indicated by every form in which they can express their choice. Our Logai: eort contemporary properly states the situation. No sensible Republican asks more, and will not be content with less. It has been noted by many persons recently that Miss Susan B. Anthony has moderated the animosity of her attacKs upon the male sex, and has, in fact developed a certain geniality and a spirit of tolerance toward the once-despised man that has caused her friends to wonder. The secret is doubtless explained in a statement made to a Washington reporter by Miss Foster, the lady who accompanied her to Europe three years ai?o. On that voyage, Miss Foster says, Miss Anthony read ber first novel. It would be interesting to know just what novel it was, but, as any novel is a very different sort of literature from a suffrage essay, the effect could not have been other than sof tenine. Miss Foster does not say that ber friend contracted the novel habit as a result of that one indulgence, and perhaps she does not know. Possibly Miss Anthony reads them in secret, but there is no doubt that she does read them, and that they have produced that recent benignaney which has attracted so much attention. If romance had thus been infused into the good woman's nature at an earlier day, history might have been changed, and those two enormous volumes, labeled "The History of Woman Suffrage," never written. , A New York woma'i who lately poisoned her two children with "Rough on Bats" explained that she bought that poison because it could be purchased without difficulty, no doctor's order being necessary. The law prohibiting indiscriminate sal of poisons is probably not very, strictly observed by druggists anywhere, bat the particular variety oimtd. not being on the restricted list, U sold whenever called for, and

"no questions asked," although it is composed largely of arsenie and is known to be in demand for suicidal purposes. It should come under the same role as all other drugs of the class, and in the absence of legal regulation each dealer should exercise care and discrimination in disposing of it. : " " - '. " c This is the peroration of a lecture on William Tyndale, delivered in Brooklyn one day last week: '.'As for this Bible, book divine, the bequest of the noble martyrs who sealed their testament with tbeir blood this precious gift of God, shall we not gnard it. honor it love it still?. Oar fathers walked in its light until they passed into the glory that excelieth. We cherish the heaven-sent Shekinah as onr own sure guide to peace. We teach our children the 'old, old story, and train them to follow the bright criftamme of God. Hold it, guard it, read it, love it. It is the secret of your Nation's greatness; the talisman of her power; the tenure of her existence; the core of her laws; the hope of ber people; the strength of her citizenship, and the voice of her God." A Detroit citizen who was bunkoed out cf $10,000 last week by two sharpers is described by a local paper as eighty years of age, one of the most prominent and wealthy business men of the city, and as a resident of an elegant mansion on West Fort street "Out of consideration for himself and his family," however, bis name is withheld from the public This touch ing thoughtf ulnesa and sympathy will doubtless affect the family to tears of gratitude.

POLITICAL NOTES. The Democratic State convention will be held in New York on May 15. Hallet Kilbourn is of the opinion that Cleveland will not be a candidate for re-election. There is a strong feeling among the Democrats of Colorado to nominate Rev. Myron .Reed for Governor. A trade between the Labor and Democratic parties in Wisconsin, on the State ticket, is said to be under consideration. . Senator Aldrich is receiving much credit for the victory in Rhode Island. He worked earnestly and untiringly to secure it Some of the Eastern papers are attempting to boom Senator Hale, of Maine, for the Republican nomination for the presidency. . Philadelphia Press: The Gresham boom is largely pictorial. We are, however, reluctantly forced to conclude that it contains more ari than politics. ' Detroit Tribune: A good many farmers voted for protection Monday, and a good many Democratic towns went Republican. There will be more of them doing the same thing next November. , Omaha World (Dem. ): It begins to look as if the Democratic leaders were anxious to keen the tariff question banging fire until after the convention. If this is true it means that Mr. Cleveland's second term boom is to be shelved. Congressman Grobvenor, of Ohio, is quoted in a Washington dispatch as saying tbr.t probably neither he nor Foraker would be cbosen to present Sherman's name to the national convention, but soma third man instead, not a resident of Ohio. Boston Journal: The action of the Democratic Governor of Maryland in pardoning the seven Democratic ballot-box thieves convicted in Baltimore last year is cited as the latest illustration of what Democrats mean by "turning the rascals out." Ex governor Alger, of Michigan, is sensibl e enough not to expect a presidential boom, they say. But he lets his friends organize clubs for him, because he is willing to put up with lesser honors, such as the vice-presidential nomination or a senatorship. Trot (N. Y. ) Times: The speech which ex-Senator Thurman delivered against the Democratic tally-sheet forgers in the trial at Columbus, and which the Cincinnati Enquirer denounced on partisan grounds, would make first-class Republican literature for circulation in Ohio during the eoming campaign," Hon. W. P. Edson, of Mount Vernon, is a candidate for the nomination of Supreme Judge before the Republican State convention. Jodgs Edson has already been honored by the party in this nomination, and since the time when his came graced the ticket has added to the high regard in which he is held as a jurist. - He is one of the foremost lawyers of the State, and his addition to the Supreme Bench would be in every way fitting. Governor McEnery, of Louisiana, is accused of abandoning the pacific and judicial attitude which he assumed at the opening of the present State campaign, and of having broken forth on the stump into jbe old-style anti-negro supremacy rant, and of threatening to suspend the laws which guarantee a fair count The oddest thing about it all is that this imputation comes from a paper which prints the Nicholls ticket at the bead of its editorial columns. The Logansport Journal says: "The Chicago News assumes the championship of Judge Gresham, but it is certainly aware of the fact that its support of any Republican can have no other effect than to injure him in the estimation of the Republican party, while its abuse commends the Republican assailed by it to the favor of his party. The News evidently has no real regard for Judge Gresham wten it befouls him with its praise, while it honors General Harrison with its abuse." ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. The German Crown Priucess has a dull mind that cannot rise af?ove petty things. Senator Chandler has bought an undivided half of the Carter estate, fronting on Railroad square, at Concord, N. H. He will build a printing-house for the Republican Press Association, the stock of which he controls. "Mosey" Miller, the recently deceased Australian millionaire, had one fancy, apart from the main one of money-making, which absorbed his life. This was for Scott's novels, which he is believed to hare read through once a year, and that for a score years in succession. One hundred years ago the town of Wilton, N. H., passed the following vote: "That the town provide one barrel West India mm, five barrels New England ram, one barrel good brown sugar, half a box good lemons, two loaves of loaf sugar, for framing and raising said meeting house. The illustrious Mme. Alboni says that in all ber career she never faced an audience without being scared half out of her wits. Even now, having long retired from the public stage, though with her voice still as perfect as ever, she says she cannot stand up to sing before a dozen friends in her own parlor without a fit of nervous trembling. A business man of South Florida adopts this novel plan to keep drummers oat of bis place, and he says it works admirably. Every morning he places a plug hat and satchel on his counter. Aa soon aa a drummer comes to the door and looks in be sees the plug hat and satchel, and he goes off believing that another one of the craft has that ground already covered. M. Leconte de Lisle, the French poet, says that Shakspeare never wrote a play. "He was," says de Lisle, "an uneducated and uncultivated butcber-boy, who died young, with a great weakness for the bottle." The remarkable genius of the French writer is shown by the fact that he reached this conclusion without the aid of a cipher. What's the need of a cipher to a really great man, anywayi An English seer has discovered that the numerical value of the letters of ths name "Boclanger" in Greek is just G63, and prophesies that the melodramatic General is to play a leading part in affairs between this time and, the Second Advent of Christ which is to occur at 3 o'clock in the afternoon of March 5. 1836. That is too far off for Boulanger. He will be forgotten, and a dozen more such pinchbeck propagandists and bubble flowers, long before that date. The little town of Danville, Va, has had a sensation over some high art circus posters. Complaint was made to ?the Mayor that they were shockingly indecent, and to satisfy himself he drove around town with the president of the Academy of Music and took a look at the pictures. He concluded that tbey were not so bad, but that some of the female pictures would look better if they were covered, so he ordered that pieces cf paper be pasted over the offending parts. Mayor Barks Jale, of Danville, has a long head. , Speaking of the late German Emperor, M. Albert Wolff says .in Figaro: "Army officers were not allowed to gamble at Baden-Baden. One evening th King was visiting th tables when be noticed subordinate in civilian dress trying his luck at trenta-et-quaraote. He had placed two or three Ionia on the table and had won a nice little sum, whea he saw ths King

opposite. He turned pale, trembled, and hesitated to take possession of his money. Thereupon King William approached and whispered in his ear: 'Dou't be afraid. Take in your money, but don't do it again.'" General Grant's birthday anniversary, the 27th, haa been appointed as Arbor day by the Iowa Superintendent , of Schools. He recommends that every scholar plant a tree in the General's honor, and 1 has issnsd a Grant leaflet with a biography and selections from speeches. A novel and excellent feature has been introduced 1p the high-school at Caldwell, Kan., which keeps a file of all the leading county papers, with magazines and papers for young people, all of which are accessible to the stodwnts at unemployed moments. Every Friday afternoon a portion of the time is devoted to live tonics of the day. On a recent Friday one of

the students gave an extended account of the railroad strike, another of the death of Emperor William, and his successor, others of the life of Miss Alcott, of the Eastern blizzard, Oklahoma, etc Mrs. Alice J. Shaw, the musical whistler, speaking of her career, said recently: ' I was "a whistling girl, and my friends always told me that if I would cultivate my talent I would find a fortune in it I have not found the fortune yet, but my success has been beyond anything I ever dreamed of. My first appearance was before the Teachers' Association, in Steinway Hall, New York. If one succeeds before that critical but appreciative gathering, one's success is assured. I cucceeded, and from that time I have had all the engagements I could fill, and more, too." A coming new English magazine has been much talked about It is now announced that it will be started in May, and is to be called "The Universal Review." Though not a party organ, it will probably be liberal in its general tone, as its editor will be a journalist of wellknown home-rule proclivities. It is not to be run on the old lines of monthly reviews, bat will contain many new features. One of these wiil be eontrioutions by foreign authors and - illustrators. Altogether.it seems from the programme thus far as if a hint had been taken from America. Washington is excited over the report that Mrs. E. E. Briggs. a newspaper correspondent who writes under the name of "Olivia," has donated about 70.000 square feet of land known as "Marie Square," situated between South Carolina avenue &nd Sixth, Seventh and D streets, as a site for a women's university, to be patterned after Girard College, Philadelphia. The property is worth about $200,000. The proposed institution is to be wholly under the control of women. The instruction giveu will be in the form of lectures, so as to give the women a chanee to talk. COMMENT AND OPINION. Jay Gouxd used to be called the Sphinx," But the Sphinx never squeals. BoHton Globe. The country can forgive anything but this. Jefferson Davis is at work on a war article. Philadelphia Inquirer A devil-fish seventeen feet across, with a mouth nve feet long, has ben captured near Tampico, Mexico. How some of the Democratic shouters must envy that mouth. National Republican. Said a prominent Democrat to a Republican representative yesterday: "The theory of freetrade is absolutely perfect" The same might be said of Jules Verne's "Trip to the Moon." The trouble occurs in the application. Denver Republican. The Southern Democrats may find themselves successful in more than they wot of by means of their present filibustering tactics. They may dead-lock the paseage of the tariff bill, and a possible result of their dead-lock might bar oat Mr. Cleveland after next year, Pittsburg Dispatch. Ocr Irish fellow-citizens are beginning to realize the fact that free trade has been the curse of their country since the first Saxon invasion, and that its adoption by the United States would mean poverty a'nd misery to men who are now earning good incomes. New York Press. The melancholy mugwump where is he now! Having deserted a party he could not boss for one he cannot shame, he stands alone in the gloom of his self-sought solitude, having neither the frankness to turn back nor the courage to go forward. There is nothing left for him bat to sit on the fence and watch the procession march past Philadelphia Press. .The Rhode Island Republicans have furnished an admirable esmpl t thair brethren throughout the Union. One year of Democeatia rule ia that State has wearied the people, just as three years of Democratic national administration has prepared the citizens of this Republic for restoration of Republicanism to federal control. Brooklyn Standard-Union. Those Democratic editors who are so glibly explaining that tho Republicans carried Rhode Island by boodle, and draw doleful pictures of the purchase of Democrats in drove, do not stop to consider the idea the world will get of their party. A party whose voters can be bought up in such numbers and so easily certainly cannot be considered any better than the corruptor. As a matter of fact the use of money in elections is often exaggerated. BostonTranscript What should be done, treaty or no treaty, Is to pass an amendment to the existing law, directing that outgoing Chinamen should be positively identified and photographed, and that a copy of the picture should be sent to every port of entry in the United States. If this were don, , as it might easily and cheaply be, it would be impossible for any one but the genuine owner of the certificate to re-enter the United States on that certificate, provided the customs officers were honest men. Then, wbile it would not prevent fraud under the $1,000 elause of the treaty, it would insure us against having two perjurers instead of one. and would compel the original Hop Kee to offer his return certificate in person, no matter where be tried to land. San Francisco Chronicle. A CHAT ON DOOS1ER JPOHTICS. One of Gov. Gray's Lieutenants Discusses the Outlook in Indiana. Chicaeo Mail. Prof. T. J. Charlton, the Brobdignaeian superintendent of the Indiana Reform School for. Boys, was seen by a reporter yesterday. Prof. Charlton was in suspicious proximity to a museum, but be was not there in the character of a freak, although his 346 pounds entitle him to a front seat among the people who travel on their size. Prof. Charlton is one of the shrewdest politicians in Indiana, and as he is a recognized lieutenant of Gov. Gray, the reporter proceeded' to apply the inquisitorial pump. "Indiana is solid for Gray," he said, with ardor. , "Of course, I may speak with some bias, being a Gray man through and through, but t do not exaggerate when 1 say be will have the solid support of the Indiana delegation for the vice-presidency." . "How about the governorship?" 'Well, the race is practically narrowed down to Matson and Meyers, with the chances in favor of the latter. The Labor Signal made a terrific assault on Matson on account of his votes against- the labor interest in Congress, and so the Democrats may hesitate to put him up, when so much depends on the turn of the political tide in Indiana." "Is Cobb really a candidate?" "He says he is not. He declares that be will do nothing to secure the nomination, bat his district promises to go into the convention with a solid voto for him, in which case he may get the nomination whether be is seeking it or not." "How about the Republicans? Will they nominate Governor Porter?" . . "He will not have it He has sucked the gubernatorial orange dry. H is eight years older than when he made the other race, and he does not want the strain and worry of another long campaign, with the possibility of defeat at the end. Non-success would cloud the glory of his past, and so, as 1 have it direct from his old private eecrtary, he absolutely declines the honor that he could have for the asking." . "Will the Democrats carry tha State?" "That is hard to say," dubiously. "A hard fight lies ahead and the Republicans have a splenaid organization. Their committees are worfcing harmoniously, while ours are not yet formed, and so there is a certain definite advantage ia their favor at the beginning. Still Cleveland is popular and Govenor Gray is a powerful leader, full of resources, vigorous and untiring, and the current is running our way." Prof. Charlton was here looking after Govenor Gray's fenees, and be expressed the conviction that Illinois would support the Uoosier candidate. . .. . The Objection to Morrison. ' . Philadelphia Presn. The William It Morrison boom for Vice-president is said to be very objectionable to Mr. Cleveland, but it is hard to see why it should bn so. Colonel Morrison is a Democrat a freetrader and a man of brains and experience. May be the real objection to him is that ha is an ex-Union soldier and ia a gentleman. So Say We All of Ua. TroTidance Journal (tnd. Rep.) The general result is satisfactory, Rhode Island is aaturallv Republican, and tb Republican party in its best estate represents the better intelligence and self-governing capacity of the voting population.

INDIANA'S FAVORITE SON

Gen. Harrison, and How He Looks and Acts in His Law-OQce in Indianapolis. Story of Bw Early LifeThe White-Headed Colonal at Re6aca Going for & Gunner C A Good Politician and Speaker. Xetter In the Chicago Tribune. Opposite the government building in this city hangs a modest sigr. which announces that "B. TT . t i v: re - - .1 rm. iouut uanjcr! um ui uucs mere. iug modesty ud terseness of this 6ign are characteristic of the man whose name and. calling it denotes. No lacky stands to take your card, or to ask you to state your name or describe your business. "Is General Harrison inF "Yes," replies the clerk, pointing to the open door. Before you sits a stocky, bearded man, with a large head and a very short neck. He is five feet seven inobes tall, and weighs 190 pounds. You are not invited to taRe a seat It is presumed that if you want to sit down you will do so unasked. The weather ia not mentioned in the preliminary, conversation, unless you mention it yourself. Indeed, the stocky, bearded man does not open bis mouth until you have finished stating your business. He drops bis work, pays close attention to what you have to ay, grasps the matter readily, analyzes; it quickly, decides promptly, and in a tew terse sentences replies to your proposition or interrogatory.. General Harrison is a modest man, else be would not content himself with a simple initial "B." upon his professional shingle. . "B. Harrison" is but a cold and insufficient appellation for a man Known the country over as Benjamin, Harrison, or, more popularly still, as "Ben Harrison, with the honorable prefix of General or Senator. , Besides, Harrison is an bietoris name, going back to the days of the Dictator. The first General Harrison was one of Cr. mwell's trusted lieutenants. To be sure he was hanged, but not for a felony. So unfortunate as to receive an appointment to sit on the board of commissioners to try Charles I for treason to Parliament, he did his duty, good Presbytri in that he was, by signing the King's death-warraii For this he paid with his life, being han?i by order of Charles II on Qct. 13, 1GG0. Hi descendants emigrated to America, and have been beard from on this side the water. Benjamin Harrison, of Virginia, was a member of the House of Burgesses, aud later of the Colonial Congress. A patriot of the revolutionary period, he was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, was three times elected Governor of Virginia and was a member of the convention that ratified the Constitution. His son, William Henry Harrison, won renown as soldier and statesman, and was the ninth President of tho United States. John Scott Harrison, son of the President, was the father of this modest lawyer, a Worthy son of such sires, who is content with the initial "B." General Harrison was born Aug. 20, 1823, on the Harrison homestead near North Bend, a few miles below Cincinnati, , where his father and grandfather were tilling the farm, to which the latter had retired after a longcareer as Governor of the Northwestern Territory and in Congress. Young Benjamin was seven years old when bis grandfather was elected President in the famous log cabin and bard-cider campaign, but remembers, even more distinctly than the stirring events of that year, a visit which he made to Cincinnati under the guidance of the President elect Young Ben did not know much about cities then, and when his grandfather led him. past an apple-woman's stand the boy thought how good and kind it was of the old woinm t keep fruit for the refreshment of the weary pedestrians. Up at North Bend nobody had ever thought of charging anybody anything for fun innl.. .rH an Rn wn nn tn tha llt1 cooly filled his pockets and walked awayi f John Scott Harrison was a farmer a worthy man, who was several times elected county clerk and his eons were reared aa farmers, too. Young Ben attended the district school till he was fifteen, and then entered Miami University, Oxford, O., where, despite his youthfulness, he made rapid progress with Li studies.? At eighteen he graduated, immediately took no the study of law in the office of Ju ige B'amy Storer, of Cincinnati, nahra again manifested such unusual application that h was admitted to the bar before he had reached his txiftjoraty. Not only that, out he bad married, as well, and his twenty-first birthday found himself a man of family and practically without resource, having only $200 or $300, advanced him by his father. But, in bis unpretentious,, slf-con tainad, matter-of-fact way, th youth had always felt confidence in his ability to "tak care of himself," and that same year he made his appearance in this city to commence the practice of law. His was not an imposing figure at that time. A little, slender fellow, with a smooth face, a big. tow-white head, no neck to speak of. and only the rather incredible fact that he bad a wife saved him from being mistaken for a schoolboy. He was poor, too, and for a long time lived in three rooms in a little old house, still standing, on Vermont street, near Alabama. Yet he was successful almost from the start. Ono of his earliest employments was by the Democratic Governor, Joseph A. Wright, in a legislative investigation, wherein he displayed much ability. Then he was so fortunate as to bo selected for assistant prosecutor in the case of a Ray House a csatt which excited a great deal of public interest His success in that brought him clients, and of them he has since had, no lack. Indeed, be has for ten or fifteen yers been one of the foremost lawyers in the State, and. now that the Hendricks firm is broken no and ex Senator McDonald largely out of the law, be may be said, with the possible exception of John M. Butler, to stand at the head of his profession in Indiana. Tl-I . . L . V 1. .... . tT...!.. mmam 1'1 the wife and two 'children, who still lived in the three rooms on Delaware . street But for this he would have been among the first to shoulder a musket He was not slow in going to the front however. Governor Morton met him on the street one day and said to him: . "Ben, I want you to raise a regiment" He accepted this assignment, raised a company, was commissioned a second lieutenant, then a captain, and then colonel of the Seventeenth Indiana. With this regiment he went to the - front, and, though for some time be had little but guard cr garrison duty to perform in Kentucky and Tennessee, an opportunity to show what stuff he was made of soon occurred, and he was not found wanting. In the charge at Resaca bis regiment held the post of honor, where the bullets were thickest. "Our ; eolonel was right with us, too," bays Moses G. Mo- : Lain, who was wounded in that charge. "He ; came right up behind us when we captured the j four guns there the only guns, I believe, that were taken in the Atlanta campaign. We bad ' to withstand a murderous cross-fire, and as the gunners discharged their pieces we fell to thei ground and allowed the shot to pass over us. j Then we rushed up. scaled the works, and took ! possession of the guns. The boys tell a story of j the General which I gaees is trne. They say that when we went into the works Harrison i was with us, and that he grabbed a rebel gunner j by the hair of his beard and yanked him out exclaiming: 'Come out of here, you blank, blank ; rebel. If this story is true It is the only time I ever heard of the Geoersl uttering an oath, j but that be had strength enough to pull a lusty gunner over the works I do not doubt. In his youth General Harrison was an athlete, ar.d be was then only thirty. Though, a mere boy in appearance and slight of frame, be bad square shoulders and a powerful arm. He was au odd-looking figure at that time, slender, with a big. tow-white head, short neck, and short legs. He used to ride a large horse, too, and I can remember hearing him laughed at a good deal But be had the respect and confidence of all. He was exceedingly tenacious of his rights; or, rather, of the rights of his command. He insisted on having tor his boys the best camping-place and the best of the supplies and accoutrements. He was young and inexperienced, and knew little of the arts of war, but be hd learned what his rights were, and in his quiet way be insisted upon having them, and invariably succeeded. After the charge at Resaca General Hooker rod up to the young Colonl and said to him, in his Hookerish style: "By Ood. Bea Harrison. I ll make you a brigadier for this day'a work," and Colonel Harrison was roon afterward brevotted a brigadier-general. Later on, for his gallantry at Peach Tree Creek, where he led bis command through the enemy and back again, he was mad a brigadier in full commission. In the charge at Resaca many of llatrio" men were silled or wounded. Two of trvra. Moses G. McLain and Daniel M. Racsdel!, Uth ot Company G, and from Indianapolis, wen fighting aid by side, when e.eh lost an arm. Scarcely a second f time elapsed bHwen th wounding of one and of the other, and they were carried from the field ia the came ambulance.