Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 July 1888 — Page 4

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WASHINGTON OFFICK 513 Fourteenth SL P. ft. IIiith. Correspondent. HEW YORK OFFICE 10-4 Temple Const, loroer Beekman and Xassan streets. TERMS OF SCnSCRlPTlbN. Ore jtr, without Sunday $12.00 One year, with Sunday 14.00 Mx months, without Sunday ..- 6. GO Fix months, with Sunday 7.00 Three, months, withont Sand... 3.00 Thr month, with Suh-Iav ............... 3 .50 One month, without Sunday 1.00 One month, with Sunday 1.20 WEEKLY. IV year 51.00 Reduced Rates to Clubs. Subscribe with any of oar numerous agents, or send subscriDtlocs to THE JOURNAL NEWSPAPER COMPANY, Indianapolis, 1m. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can be found at the following places: LONDOX American Exchange in Europe, 449 Strand. PARIS American Exchange in Paris, 35 Boulevard des Capucines, NEW YORK Gileey House and Windsor Hotel. CHICAGO Pawner House. CINCINNATI J. I. Hawler & Co., 154 Vine street. LO UI S VILLF C. T. Deering. northwest corner Third and Jeflersdn streets. ET. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern Hotel. WASHINGTON, D. O Riggs House and Ebbitt House. Telephone Calls. Business Offico 233 Editorial Rooms 242 One Thousand Dollars Will be paid to anybody who will produce the proof, whether living in Indianapolis, in Marion eountj, in the State of Indiana, or in any town, city, township, county or State in the United States or Territories, that General Harrison erer said that "one dollar a day was enough for any workingmau." One Thousand Dollars Will be paid to anybody, tinder the tame conditions, who will produce the proof that General Harrison ever said of the railroad strikers, in 1877, that "if he Harrison was in power he would put men to work at the point of the bay onet, and if that would not do, he would shoot them down like dogi. The money is in Fletcher's Bank. It is time for Republicans to go to work. "WHAT do you propose to do yourself, individually, towards carrying Indiana for Hanix ifont There ought to be a well-organized Republican club in every ward in the city. . How many are thereT "Cleveland Republicans" were heard of with some frequency four years ago, but this year they axe scarcer than hen's teeth. "Ilarrison Democrats" are to the fore now. AN American workingman who votes for free trade is like a man who saws off the branch on which he sits between himself and the tree. lie will know more later on. English sparrows are raiding the wheat shocks in some parts of the State, and farmers are after them with shotguns. Why this narrow and prescriptive policy? Let us have free trade in eparrows. No one has yet applied for the Journal's $1,000. . There is good reason for believing, however, that the Democrats who go on repeating the dollar-a-day slander would find $1,000 a day acceptable if they could only get it. A RECENT article by Richard A. Proctor is headed, "Can a Man Live on Nothing!" Mr. Proctor decides in the negative. We have not read his argument, but infer that it treats of the evils of the English free trade policy as applied to the United States. The Hon. Ilenry W. Blair, Senator from the State of New Hampshire, is not a rising man he has risen. The stock in no public man has taken so sudden a turn upward as Blair stock. Mr. Blair will have plain sailing hereafter. Our voico 13 for Blair. THE New York World insists that the President "has shown great conscientiousness and courage" in the vetoes of pension bills. The country would rather a President suould find some other way of showing his conscientiousness and courage than by insulting old soldiers. Harmony and the New York Democracy lire at outs, but Hill is there with a large "H," and the administration can't get him oil tho track. It 6eeras to be a pure case of jealousy of a more popular man on the part of tho great and only G rover. He doesn't want to run behind the ticket in November. THE Hon. William II. English, in his Saturday night speech, said: "You will observe, fellow-citizens, that I say nothing against General Harrison personally. He has some traits of character I admire. He is an earnest man, true to his convictions, not afraid to speak his opinions, and in no sense a hypoj crite. THE New York Evening Post isnctlpg & Mr. Charles II. Park, "a Republican banker of Marion county,' as being this year favorable to Mr. Cleveland's election. The Journal would be pleased to be informed of tanker Park, of Marion county. We think we know of about all the bankers of this county, but the name of Mr Park has thus far escaped us. Can the Post enlighten usT AND now the Philadelphia Record thinks the labor vote of Indiana U unmistakably hostile to Harrison, because Samuel Leffingwell, of Marion county, "one of the most notable and substantial of labor agitators," is opposed to the Republican candidate and platform." The sentiment of Indianapolis Republicans in regard to the eudden eminence attained by the Hon. Mr. Leffingweli can be fully expressed by the simple remark "Gosh!" War is being made on bob-tail street cars all along the line. Since a New York driver Lt week allowed his car to run over and frightfully mutilate a woman, who had fallen

on the slippery track while he waa making change, the outcry against them has been so great thai" they will probably have to "go" from that city. Minneapolis is waging determined war against them, and complaints are frequent in other quarters. The bob-tail will probably soon be a relic of an imperfect civilization.

"Yon cannot sell any but the choicest cuts of beef, the superfine flour and the choicest coffee to a miner or mechanic. The American laborer would do well to study the policy of the Chinaman in his policy of economy aa well aa of cheap labor." INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL. "Thb simple fact is, many thing are made and sold now too cheap, for I hold it to be true that whenever the market price is so low that the man or the woman who makes it cannot get a fair Using ont of the making of it, it is too low." BENJAMIN HARRISON. IT 18 FBEK TEADEThe House of Representatives, yesterday, by a rote of 120 to 102. adopted the clause of the Mills bill repealing tho duty on wool. The Republicans voted solidly in the negative, and every Democrat in the House, except three, in the affirmative. Thus at the behest of G rover Cleveland, and under the leadership of an ex-confederate from Texas, the Democratic party has voted to strike down tho woolgrowing industry in the United States. The repeal of tho duty on wool is more significant for what it implies than for what it immediately involves. It means more than the destruction of tho wool-growing industry. It means a decided step towards free trade. It is the inauguration of a policy whose objective point is the repeal of all protective duties, and the inevitable ruin of American manufacturing industries. It is a practical recognition of the clause in the Confederate Constitution, which declared that "no duties or taxes on importations from foreign nations shall be laid to promote or foster any industry." AMERICAN AHD EUROPEAN WAGES. Attention is called to the compilation of figures, in another column, showing the comparative wages paid to the various classes of workmen in England and America. As an argument in favor of a system which protects the laboring man, by giving him living wages, this table presents Bome convincing points. In the seventy callings mentioned there is not one in which the rate of payment in America is not double that of England. In a large number it is three times as great, and in some cases is quadrupled. English carpenters -work for $7.50 a week, cabinet-makers for $7, farm, hands for $3, machinists for $3.50, masons for $8, printers for 20 cents per 1,000 ems, and so on down the list When such figures as these are presented to the free-trade theorists, who are attempting to graft the English system on the United States, and thereby reduce the wages of American workmen to a level with those of foreign paupers, any objections that naturally arise are brushed airily out of the way with the assertion that the cost of living is lowered in even a greater proportion, and that, really, the workmen under a free-trade regime, with $G a week, is better off than under a protective tariff with $12 or $18. Unfortunately for this statement, facts are against it. The same official sources which give the price of labor also show that the cost of living in the United States is but 17 per cent higher than in England. A reduction of 17 per cent in the cost of living might, under some circumstances, be very gratifying to the laboring classes of th'u or any country, but when it is accompanied by a reduction of wages varying from 50 to 75 per cent, the merits of the plan aro less distinctly visible. It is such reduction as this which the Democratic party is trying to force upon tho United States by its advocacy of free trade. But the workingmen, there is reason to believe, aro tco wide awake to their own interests to assist in such consummation. The fond Democratic hope, that the laboring classes will come up cheerfully and help to precipitate their own ruin, is likely to meet a crushing blow in November. "He the American laborer calls constantly for higher wages, and does not see that his high wage increase the cost of everything, lifting everybody higher and higher above ground, to fall farther at the crash by and by." INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL. "Thb simple fact is. many things are made and sold now too cheap, for I hold it to be true that whenever the market price is so low that the man or the woman who makes it cannot get a fair living out of the making of it, it is too low."-BENJAMIN HARRISON. SAW-MAKERS. The Sentinel boasts that a large number of saw-makers were in the Democratic procession Saturday night Just how many there were we do not know, and the statements of the Sentinel on the subject are not evidence; but we do know that every saw-maker in this city, or in the United States, who votes for Cleveland and free trade votes to cripple or close the factory in which he works and to cut off his bread and butter. The manufacture of saws is a protected industry, and could not be carried on in this country without protection. Under the present tariff the quality of American steel has ' steadily improved, the manufacture of saws has increased, and the price has been greatly reduced. But the conditions of the industry are such that it still requires protection against cheap EuroJ pean labor. The wages paid to saw-makers in this country, as to all other skilled labor, are much higher than in England or Europe, and their condition is, of course, incomparably better in every respect There are plenty of foreign saw-makers in this city who can testify to this fact and who were induced to come to the United States for these very reasons. What else induced them to come here but to better their condition, and why else do they encourage their relatives and friends to come? The protective tariff' is their best friend. It has built up the industry that gives them employment, as it has scores of other industries, and enabled employers to pay them wages far higher than the same class of workmen earn in any other country. Free trade would close every saw factory in the United States and throw every workman out of employment What would they do under such a state of things? It would not bo easy to obtain other employment, for the same policy that closed the saw factories would dose the iron mills, tho woolen mill,

etc, and there would be hundreds of thousands of unemployed men seeking work at any price. Some of these would fare better than others; bat ekilled laborers who have spent their Uvea in one lino of work, and perhaps in one particular feature of that line, would faro worst of all. The saw-maker or the skilled laborer in any factory who votes for free trade is the enemy cf his employer, of himself, of his family and of all other American workmen.

"The idea of anything cheap is repudiated by your American laborer. He looks at the style and luxury of the rich and works himself into a fory to live the same way. The American laborer would do well to study the policy of the Chinaman in his policy of economy, as well as of cheap labor." INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL. "The simple fact is, many things are made and sold now too cheap, for I hold it to be true that whenever the market price is so low that the man or the woman who makes it cannot get a fair livintr ont of the making of it, it is too low. " -BENJAMIN HARRISON. ' A CA8E 15 POIHT. Tho facts in regard to the Encaustic Tile Works, of this city, illustrates the dangers of free trade and the absolute lack of principle that characterizes the conduct of the men who are now tinkering with the tariff. The tile works are one of the most valued industries in the city. It is one of the largest establishments of tho kind in the United States, of which there are very few, and its products are in wide demand. It is owned by Messrs. Landers and Cooper, prominent Democrats. The tile business in this country has crown up under a protective tariff, and could not exist without it The present duty on encaustic tiles is 30 per cent, ad valorem, and on paving and floor tiles, 20 per cent When the Mills bill was first framed it proposed a very large reduction in tho duty on tiles, this being in accordance with the principle of the bill, which was a blow at nearly all the Northern manufacturing industries, while still leaving an enormous protective duty on the rice and sugar produced in the South. The proposed reduction of the duty on tiles would have ruined the business, and caused tho immediate suspension of the works in this city. As a matter of course, Messrs. Landers and Cooper protested against- this. They are Democrats, and in favor of free trade, but not in tiles. They aro willing to have tho duty on wool repealed, and the wool-growing, and woolen manufactures, and other industries destroyed, but not the duty on tiles. If they were engaged in woolen manufacturing, the shoe would be on the other foot; but we take things as they are. They were alarmed at the proposition to repeal the duty on tiles, just as Mr. Aquilla Jones was, a few years ago, at the proposed reduction in the duty on iron. At that time Mr. Jones was interested in the rolling-mill in this city, and employed a great many workmen, while now ho is postmaster, and does not care whether duties are reduced or not as long as he is protected in his office, and permitted to discharge faithful and efficient men to make room for ward-heelers. It makes a great difference to your free-trader whose ox is gored. Tho owners of the tile-works, finding that the Mills bill was likely to ruin their business, took instant measures to protect themselves, and wrote to Congressman Bynuni, urging him for God's sake to head off that Texas steer and prevent him from ruining their business. Perhaps this was not the exact language of their letter, but it was the substance. Unfortunately for them and for other American industries, Mr. Bynum is a freo trader, and stands in with Cleveland, Carlisle and Mills; so, instead of yielding at oncd to their appeal for aid, he informed them that as a Democratic statesman of the freetrade school he was in favor of the proposed reduction, if not the entire repeal, of the duty on tiles. Instead of helping to head off the Texas ster, his sympathies wero with tho steer. Then there followed a very vigorous correspondence between tho proprietors of tho tile works and the Congressman, in which the latter was given to understand that if he permitted any material reduction to be made in the duty on tiles, it would be made mighty hot for him in this district. He could do as he pleased in regard to other industries, but if he expected to run for Congress again in this district he must see that the duty on tiles was not repealed. Tho result was that Mr. Bynum yielded, and the proposed reduction was not made. Tho Mills bill leaves the duty on paving tiles, the principal product of the Indianapolis works, at 20 per cent ad valorem, just as it is at present, and reduces the duty on encaustic tiles 5 percent, leaving them still well protected. The incident shows the utter recklessness of the free-traders in slashing around among American industries, and the utter lack of principle that characterizes their conduct. "The Chinaman's policy is to lire on next to nothing. He outflanks the American by cheap living. The American laborer would do we'll to study the policy of the Chinaman in his policy of economy, as well as of cheap labor." INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL. "The simple fact Is, many things are made and sold now too cheap, for 1 hold it to be true that whenever the market price is so low that the man or the woman who makes it cannot get a fair living out of the making of it, it is too low.r-BENJAMIN HARRISON. DEMOCRATIC DI8A8TER3. Democratic national administrations have always been associated with commercial disasters. Andrew Jackson broke up thousands of enterprises and bankrupted still more men by his veto of the charter of the National Bank. Van Buren's election was followed by tho commercial disasters of 1S37. Walker's low-tariff bill increased importations and flooded the country with foreign goods, resulting finally in the paralysis of business and the bank panics of 1S57. Buchanan's administration .resulted in the complete stagnation of business, and by his cowardice precipitated tho war of 1SG1-5, with all the terrible consequences that followed. Cleveland's administration has reduced the values of all the railroads in the United States from 20 to 50 per cent, not excepting the Baltimoro & Ohio, which never before failed to pay its dividends. Its depreciaticn is a serious embarrassment to the Johns Hopkins University and hospital, and the many private holders of its stock all over the country, and a direct loss of $250,000 per annum to the tax-payers of Baltimore city, who are obliged to mala op the deficiency by

an increased assessment The re-election of Cleveland would further depreciate stocks and properties of every name and nature, and another financial panic would bo the certain result

'The American laborer would do well to study the policy of the Chinaman in his policy of economy as well as of cheap labor." INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL. TnE simple fact is, many things are made and sold now too cheap, for I hold it to be true that whenever the market price is so low that the man or the woman who makes it cannot get a fair li vine out of the making of it. it Is too low." BENJAMIN HARRISON. ON the night of June 2G Mr. David Nation, a worthy citizen and prominent Republican of Richmond, Tex., was attacked and badlv beaten by a gang of young ruffians belonging to a Democratic organization called the "Rosebud Club." This is a sort of a local ku-klux organization, whose mission seems to be to enforce Democratic discipline and prevent the growth of Republicanism. The attack on Mr. Naiion was undoubtedly due to politics, though an attempt ha3 been made to give it another coloring. The "Rosebuds" are extending their organization in Texas, and threaten that if Cleveland is re-elected they will make it too hot for Republicans. In this connection we may say that a gentleman of Topeka, Kan., engaged in the real estate business, says in a private letter: "In the event Cleveland is re-elected I am satisfied that not less than 500,000 colored people will pour into the Western States within tho next four years. Leading colored men write me that their people will come into the Western States by the tens of thousands if Cleveland is re-elected, even if they have to come in utter destitution." The Chicago papers of both political parties are now engaged in an ill-tempered wrangle growing out of recent reductions in sub scription price". "Brass-mouthed prints," a' term applied by the Tribune to its loathsome contemporaries, is one of the happiest appellations brought out by the quarrel, in that it fittingly describes the entire Chicago press. The wrangle is not interesting to the outside world, but perhaps there would be no objections from any quarter if all the papers engaged in it would continue to be absorbed in themselves, and to refain from meddling with politics a science of which they know little until the time is past for any danger to result from their well-meant, but clumsy and perilous championship. TnE political club formed by upper-ten Democratic ladies of Milwaukee has for its object It turns out, "the study of the important political questions of the day, to the end of a comprehensive and intelligent underStanding of the same," and "the ultimate refinement of the political world." As charity begins at home, it may be supposed that the educating and refining process will be applied at once to the Democratic party. A great missionary field exists there, but it can hardly be called a promising one. The Milwaukee ladies will soon find, it is to be feared, that they have detached more than they can conveniently masticate. The parties who are talking of starting a Portland-cement manufactory in this State should take notice that the Mills bill reduces the tariff duty on the article one-half. The present duty on imported cement is 20 per cent, ad valorem, and, the Mills bill makes it 10 per cent The Journal is not sufficiently informed as to the details of the business to know whether the proposed new industry could be carried on under the lower rate of duty on the foreign article, but the proposed reduction is an element in the case that should not be overlooked. A GOOD deal of feeling has been aroused among old soldiers in Wheeling, Va., and vicinity over the appearance of Democratic campaign badges made in close imitation of tho G. A. R. badge. Several posts have adop ted resolutions requesting dealers not to sell them, and other posts will take action in the matter. It is a mighty cheap imitation of a' Union veteran which the average Democrat will make behind a bogus badge, but genuine soldiers are so scarce in that party that perhaps it ought to be excused for getting up a counterfeit. The appearance of the Democratic transparencies on Saturday night suggests that the artists who painted them had been in attendance at the recent spelling-reform convention. It is hardly credible that a Democrat who knows how to read should not remember the customary orthography of his candidate's name, and it must, therefore, be supposed that "Clevland," "Cleaveland," "Clevelend," and the res, must have been scientific efforts at "reform." Tho variations doubtless grew out of the conviction that refoim ought to be attached to him in some shape. Before the campaign goes any further the Boston Herald wants to be told how to pronounce Senator Quay's name. In maritime vernacular the word quay is called "key," which is probably what the Herald is thinking of. Senator Quay undoubtedly holds the key to the situation and will strike the keynote, but his name very appropriately rhymes with "flay." When he gets fairly down to business, and begins to flay Democrats and lay them out the manner in which hft name is pronounced will interest them no more. The last charge brought against General Harrison is a corker. It is that he was the proprietor of Harrison's Bank, by the failure of which a large number of depositors were deprived of their money. There was a Cleveland mugwump named Harrison, who got into trouble over a little matter of forgery, or something similar. It will not be long until General Harrison will bo connected with that This is "a clean campaign." Ws copy from the Rushville (Ind.) Jacksonian the following pleasant paragraph, illustrating the amenities of politics. It will be taken as complimentary by the large comber of honorable Democrats who have called upon Gen. Harrison, to pay him their compliments end respects as a worthy and distinguished fellow-eit-izen: The rawkish crowds that new visit the home cf G astral ilarrisvn, cataaiibly te cotgratulaio

him, bat really to get into his house to see what Is in it, and to be recognized by him and Sirs. Harrison, are worthy of only , scorn and contempt bv sensible totle. The' trash of almost

every elass of citizens in Indianapolis and surrounding cities and towns have visited him since his nomination, tramped like cattle through hi house, just to gratify idle curiosity, which, of coarse, the General conld net deny them under the circumstances. If Mr. nrrisoo had not been a candidate for President they would not dare to set their feet within his door-yard. But since he can't now aay "no," these low-bred creatures have no regard for his wishes. No sooner is the rate left open than the hog rushes into your garden, and only clubs and stones win inauee it to leave; so with most oz me crowds that are now navinc their respect to General Harrison and wife.' No wonder the General talks of goioe to a more healthy place during the warm weather. He ought to ro. Probably if the General had been less stiff and frigid heretofore, this boorish tribe would have felt less desire to enter his sacred Inelosure and bother him now.'' Connecticut can boact of a unique and en during monument to "Old Tippecanoe." In a pleasant rural district abo.it ten miles from the city of Hartford, is what is known as Talcott Mountain. On the summit and closely overhanging the old Albany and Hartford turnpike, is an immense rock which, during the stirring. campaign of 1840, was named by some local gen ius and admirer of "Old Tippecanoe," "Harrison's Rock" To-day the name, deeply cut in the almost straight face of the rock, though gray and moss grown after the lapse of almost fifty years, is still visible. It may be worth while to say that the Evanstille Bulletin, a paper quite largely copied by the Democratic press just at present, because it supports Mr. Cleveland, is of the variety known to the profession as "gutter snipes." It is a little advertising sheet of no ipecUl pretention!, and was never heard of before. The Woman's Protective Association, of Chicago, came to the relief of Mrs. Meckie Rawson, the woman who shot her husband's lawjer in court, and sicned her bail bond. The exigencies of legal life in that city seem now to demand the immediate formation of a lawyers' protective association. Tothe Editor of the Indianarolls J on real: Does the American flag consist of thirteen stars and thirteen stripes at the present time, or thirteen stripes and one star for each Stat el Postmaster. Mohawk, Hancock county, InJ. Thirteen stripes, and one star for each Statenow thirty eight. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: Please inform me where R. W. Thompson's History of the Tariff can be procured, and what the price of the work ie. W. IL Wakxer. Crothebsville, Ind.. July 14, '88. R. S. Peale & Co., Chicago, are the publishers. They can give you all information. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal-. Did Bob Lincoln, when he was in the Cabinet, ever return any confederate flags! A Reader. Teere Haute, Ind., July 16. He did not. Mr. Lincoln said he never heard of such a proposition while he was at the head of the War Department POLITICAL NOTE AND COMMENT. A Tippecanoe club with six members has been started at South Bend, Ind. Of the twenty knitting-mill owners at Amsterdam, N. Y., only one is for Cleveland. - The free-traders in New York have raised a large amount of money to invest in free-trade literature. A club of Democrats, who will aunport Harrison and Morton, is soon to be formed at- Poughkeepsie, N. Y. According to the Chicsgo Tribune, the platform of ex-Governor St. John is "free whisky and free trade." The soldier who will not vote for Harrison has done most of his soldiering since the war ended. Omaha Republican. All Democrats are not free traders, but all free traders, whatever party badges they wear, work and pray for Democratic success. Chicago Inter Ocean. The new candidate for Governor of Florida, Francis P. Fleming, boasts kinship with Her nando Cortez, George Washington, Mme. Neekar and Jiine, de fetael. It may not be inappropriate to remark fight here that this is glorious growing weather, not only for corn, but for General Harrison s pros pects. Kansas City Journal. C C. Siiayne, the celebrated New York far rier, and a Democrat all his life, is in Ohio mak ing Republican speeches. He addressed a large audience at romeroy, July 14. Rev. E. D. Curtis, of Indianapolis, writes to the Congregatlonalist a very interesting account of the religious faith and church activities of the Republican candidate for President Mr. P. J. Rilxy, a prominent and influential member of the Democratic city committee of Maiden, Mass.. has announced that he will not support the Democratic ticket He objects to free trade. Wherever Matthew Stanley Quay is there is the headquarters of the National Republican committee. Excuse us for mentioning it again. but this is a Republican year. Philadelphia rress. This much can be said in favor of A. J Streeter, the Union Labor candidate for Presi dent: Although he uses a great many mules in his business he buys them in St. Louis and not in Indiana. Chicago News. Stephen W. Barker, of Troy, N. Y., apart owner of the Troy Press, of which Hon. Ed ward Murphy, chairman of the Democratic State committee, is also a stockholder, has declared for Harrison and Morton. The national Republican committee announces that Congressman Guenther, of Wis consin, will take the stump this fall In the interests of Harrison and Morton along with James (J. Blame, Governor ForakeT and others. The political campaign is getting on at a great rate. The Hon. W. EL Engiieb, tbe Hon. Isaac Gray, and the Hon. Joseph E. McDonald spoke from the same platform last Saturday in Indian apolis, and on the same day seven gas tanks ex ploded in Kentucky. Chicago News. .MR. uuay is a snort, stout, nauasome man. His face is not pretty, but its every outline in dicates strength of character. The Republican politicians are unanimous in declaring that he is one of the coming national leaders or tne party. New York Commercial Advertiser (Dem.) Third-party rroniDiuonists, wno nave no patience with high license, will be surprised. and, possibly, not well pleased, to learn that in Philadelphia, under the new law, tbe Fourth of July arrests this year were only sixty, against 200 last year, when all toe. aramanopa were in full blast The old soldiers of the eountry, with their uncles and sons and nephews, will hardly vote to make Vice-president this year the man who wrote the plank in the Democratic platform of 1SG1 pronouncing the war a failure and demanding an immediate cessation of hostilities. Washington (D. C.) Gazette. After tracing the genealogy of Gensral Har rison far back into the dry and dusty ages, the Atlanta Constitution steps down into the nine teenth century and gravely announces that "he will have to stand on bis merits and run on his record, whereupon the Grand Rapids Eagle remarks that that is juit what he it doing, and that is why he is making such good time. My boy, don't vote for a man simply because he is set down in tbe middle line of the posters as "Honest Old" somebody, says Bob Bnrdette. If he is roaliy and truly honest he won't have to nav a bill poster to make it known. Remem ber what happened to "Honest Old Dick Tate,1 the State treasurer, wnose only campaign thun der was his .title. It is well enough to make a candidate stand on the scale now and then get himself weignea. The Albany express, referring to tho recent convention at Saratoga, has this to say of exSenator Warner Sillier, who !s to be the Repubi lican candidate for Governor in New York this year. 'His presence in the conrention was one unbroken series of receptions and congratulation, and whererer he appeared crowds gathered aronnd him to cheer and shake his hand. Mr. Miller has always been popi :.w .1 . t wi: i v .... . . i V war wuu in wpuuucan prir in mil aiaie; D il latterly there has grown towards him a feelinic of affec tionate rekpert and admiration which bis manly eon duct, wise counsels and sturdy . Republicanism hare Ovwpslledfrcuimta whoused to be opposed to the

ascendency of his inftuenee in the party. There Is a umversxi recognition of the fact that he is the strongest canni.int wKftm tV. t.... v i ..-..ivi-

find for the governorship." This cheer fr Harrison. cheT boys, ,n witu th" "-'l-i-.J hai !aca. Lr ith the re.. d ,.u. Itth oivl .v..-,- r.,- protection. n i,1 w?r.SjVi '''. "f tlt- free Th IEf.uh.:e.-. ..f ; .st;ce . The emblem f 1 --. Ur (TIa Exjtm. the marr cr thinks. New York and Brooklyn republican clubs are already making arraneetnents for the reception Of Bl&ine, The Plumed Knights welcome home promises to be one of the biggest poll tieal events wu cvuuuj iwu. mi movement among tbe Irish in the two cities is especially significant A Leavenworth special to the Kansas City Journal says: "The free-trade arguments of tbe Democratic party are daily augmenting the Republican ranks. The Democrats here are sineing very low, and already admit that they have given up all hopes aa to Indiana, Conneeticnt and tho Paciao coast " Ex-Congressmen Josenh M. Warren, of Troy. N. Y., has come out for the Republican ticket He says: Our institut:ons won! J co down withont protec tion. Mr. Harrison represents protection; Mr. Cleveland certainty is in favor of free trade, and has committed hiirself to that doctrine a doctrine which I eannot uphold. , L B. Washburn, treasurer of Jasper county. Indiana, writing about tbe Republican prospects In that county, says: "All Republicans here are enthusiastically for Harrison and M orton. They will roll up an increased majority for both the national and State ticket in November. They are for American interests and American!, both native and naturalized. They don't do anything in a half-way style in Kansas City. A Tippecanoe Club has been formed, and a lot vill be secured in a prominent place and the log cabin with all its adjuncts rut into position at once. It will be large enouch for the club to entertain its Tieitors in. Two of the members are former Indianlans. T. Morgan, of Greacsburg, and J. Rogers, of Bloomington. Dr. C A. Logan, of Chicago, brother of the late General John A. Logan, and minister to Chill under President Arthur's administration. says that New York will undoubtedly give Gen. Harrison a good majority. Ho thinks the outlook all over the country is splendid for the Re publican party; that protection to American industries will be tho Republican battle-cry, and will unquestionably win. Tbe editor of tho New Orleans Pelican at tended the late Chicago convention. In the first issue of his paper after arriving home, he announced in a double leaded editorial that be hat $60) of savings to bet on the result of the convection's work, and if any "Democrat is so foolhardy as to think Cleveland is goine 'to get there and has the above amount of filthy lucre, be is invited to call at the Pelican oft'.ce at once," Mr. A. A Webster returned on Thursday from a visit of several weeks at his old home in western New York He reports a great deal of in that section. A big blast factory at Charlotte, Monroe eounty, owned and operated by Demo crats, run up a xiamson nag a lew aays ago, the proprietor not being able to stand udou the Democratio free-trade platform. South Bend Tribune. Tennessee la a Stats where the Democratic majority has been growing steadily smaller, so that Republicans there will not be greatly downcast by Jndge Reid's defection. In 1S7G it threw 89,566 votes for Hayes and mif.r, for Tilden; in 1880, 107.077 for Garfield and V2S.VA for Hancock; in 1S84, 124.078 for BlAir.eand i:&.238 for Cleveland, 92 more than it gave Tilien, whereas Blaine got 31,512 more than Hayes. Boston Transcript. Ex-Congressman Brady, of Virginia, s.iyi: I hare no doubt, if the issue is fairly laid Lcttveeri protection and free trade, that Virginia will for protection. Democrats are beconuns alarm e J tt strong feeling which exists in favor f maintiinii. the tariff, and are dodennj th Issne. They -e plain'.y that if the nsrht is zcale on that liu ignominious de feat awaits them. The Democratic organs are en deavoring to make the f ght on old eetionl iu?. but 1 am glad to ay that this feeling is rapidty disappearing in Virginia, although I believe it is still strong in the South. I have no doubt that the HepuM leans will Le united on the electoral ticket. Mayor Roche, of Chicago, said to a New Yortc interviewer last week: "We were in favor of Judge Gresham because we thought he would make a stronger candidate than any in the race. The majority of the convention thought other wise and we gracefully acquiesced. Our sup port oi Judge Uresham bad no politics in it, i.c tricks, no simulation our only desire being tc anpport him in a straightforward way. 1 novel knew less disappointment after a convention and as far as the Republicans of Chicago aro concerned, tbey are solid for Harrison. Illinois is a Republican State, and can be counted on for a large majority." The editors of the Methodist weeklies aro calling upon the editor of the Texas Christian Advocate to explain, and tbe religions press of the South to rebuke, the statement made re cently by the Texas Christian Adrocate, that the "negro will never rule tbe South again, bal lot or no ballot count or no count Put that in your pipe and smoke it." The Western Chris tian Advoeate pronounees it "pretty serious language ior a repuouc, ana me rorinwesieru Christian Advocate says it 'Ha a specimen of tbe rankest political writing we have seen for a long time. That a Methodist paper should make a threat like the above is scandalous." Hon. IL Clay Conde, a leading Democratic at torney of St. Louis, writes to a friend in the city: I hava lft th Dumocrntic rartv leause it left nearly every principle it ever Lad. There is, uader Cleveland, no Democracy lelt in it. lieu in every sense of the word an autocrat, and I larnd when I was a boy that the meanest of all kinds of government was an autocracy. I Khali vote for Harrison and Morton, and do mv level lt to see them e.ctd, and havo written the General that if tlev need any help ia Indiana I will &le the stump and help organ ize in your State for the battle in November. I do not see how any ex-soldier with any self -repct left can vote the pair of epperheads nominated by the D-:n. Democrats. I believe that Harrison end MorUL will be elected and that free trade and Cleveland will both be rebuked. I expect to pend much of my time in Nevr xork and Indiana trying to oriug about that result. Hon. E. W. Keyes, of Wisconsin, who has the local cognomen of "Moss" Keyes, has this to say of General Harrison's nomination in a letter to a friend in Indianapolis: I have to aamit to yoa that the recent Republican convention in Chicago builded much better tLan I expected. It eeems to me that the ticket nominated there, neaded by your own distinguished fellow-oltl-sen, while admitted to be the test, is proving to be one of the Rtrongeet that eouM have been nominated. General Harriftou is rapidly rising in mblie estimation, although he has always stood high. The speeches which he has been required to make since his candidacy began are very extraordinary ind eel and ae models of propriety in every sense of the word, clearly stamping him as an orator as well a a states. man. He is safe, conserratixe. patriotic and thor oughly American, and tbose elements in the r anii date are demanded by the people of th:s country. II seems to me that he is certain to bo elected; I eaneot figure out any other result. 1 hare too much con fidence in the intelligence and patriotism of the ma jority of the people to contemplate any otW resuis. A Callfornlaii u Indiana. Colonel Charles F. Crocker, delegate to tbe Chicago convention, was interviewed by a reporter of the San Francisco Chronicle, on his return home, about the situation in Indiana He said: I have always tbousht and said that the Caiifornians were the most entnusiati, whea tLeir interest ww aroused, of all communities in the country, but I must say that I never befote saw such enthusiasm or such a demonstration as I saw at Indianapolis on the aight after the convention. It was tremendous, and it waa not confined to the Republican, V.er. Harrisoa is intensely popular in Indiana, and X don t believe that tbe Democrats have a fitting chance Ivr the State. I met him. and he rede a very favorable impression on me. He is a man of brams a tl.ornuza gentleman, pleasing in his addresr, a-.d hu lif an I -v. ...... rw, mark for luuJ -;ir:":r.t;. Lvery .plaee I have been I have tnu l U- T..,minati.n received with great .'avor. and I havr ney.-r r.et a Dou.ocrat who has a-nerted tht h wi.-ud !;e the rare through any personal lauits or cnara -ifr;.u s. Mr. Croeker thought that Harmon' nomination made a contest of inuci, and upon that Hue he is confident of Republican eacce. Iu regard to his record on the Chinese question, Colonel Crocker says: "There is nothing in regard to Harrison's record on the Chinese question that will weaken him, and Democratio capital in that lioe will not amount to anything. I have heard of no Republicans on the coast who will Uec7 i 'him thair support on that crouaA."