Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 September 1888 — Page 4

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1888.

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Can be found at the following placet: LONDON American Exchange In Europe, 449 Strand. rATIIS American Exchange la Paris, 35 Boulevard des Capacities. I.TTV YORK Oilsey House and Windsor HoUL PHILADELPHIA A. I. Kemble, 3735 Lancaster avenne. CHICAGO ra-'ner House. CINCINNATI J. P. IJawIev & Co, 154 Via attest. LOUISVILLE C T. Deerng. northwest eornsr Third and Jefferson streets. ET. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot sxd Southern Hotel. WASHINGTON. D. 0 Riggs lions and Ehbitt UoueoT Telephone Calls. Business Oxnee 233 Editorial Rooms 242 Wm drmnnd tori fit reform andwe set or faos In the direction of free trade." "Th Drmacrtt who Js not a free-trader Should g; t-Uewhere. "The confHe between free trad and protection Is Irrepressible and must be fought out to the bitter en J. We spit upon compromise nnd prpoe neither to aak nor to give T-e Democrat pety, except In the person efJmbeelles hardly worth mentioning, Is not tjpen the f-nce. It Is a free-trade party or It Ss nothing. .mere can do no cnoKKi up pituuriu mu no compromitA csudidatt.. The black flax Is up. No qnarter will be aved and no qnarter given.' Extracts from vJnry Watterscu's letters and editorials in the Louisville Courier-Tourr.aI. The fool New Ycrk Herald has ceased asking "Who is Harrison!' "We are glad to get any aid we can in the frork of the campaign,' says Si Sheerin. Does Mr. Sheerin mean this as an acknowledgement that he will father the slanders against General Harrison? It is about time for the committee of one hundred to be getting itsalf in shape to look after the perpetrators of election frauds. Indieatiocs are that other Democrats are patting themselves in danger of going the way of Ccy and Bemhamer. WlLI- Mr. Chairman Jewett favor the public witli a fac-simile of the receipt given by an inexperienced country lawyer for $20,000, the amount of a retainer paid said lawyer by par ties to a suit pending before a court of which a relative of the lucky attorney happened to be the juige? There is a campaign document that would prove a sensation. "When tha New York mugwumps announced that they vould support Warner Miller for Governor as against Hill they were evidently under the impression that Mr. Miller would modify his tarili views in accordance with their own. At least, such 13 the inference to be drawn from their lamentations over his 6trocg protection speeches. The lot of the mugwump this year is, indeed, an unhappy one. Peesitist Cleveland issued a certificate ef character to John K. Fellows when the latter was candidate for district attorney, and Mr. Hill's friends are grumbling because he fails to do as much for tha candidate for Governor. They peem to forget that Mr. Fellows is an ex-rebel, for all of whom the President has a tender side, and that Mr. Hill has no such recommendation. TnE Journal desires once more to observe that Anna Dickinson has stirred up the mosslack Democrats with a red-hot poker. And the came may be said of Senators Chandler and Spooner in the Seuate of the United States yesterday. It is high time the swag gering, bullying. Democratic ex-confederates were being taught that Republicans and Northern people have some rights they are bound to respect. TnE Republicans of Indiana were never core earnest or enthusiastic than they are at present, but mere earnestness and enthusiasm do cot win victories. There must ba organi zation, co-operation, personal canvassing and hard wcrk. The committees have a great responsibility in this regard, and every Re publican in the State should bear a helping hand. Are you who read this paragraph do ing your duty individually? THE Philadelphia Press is of the opinion that "little reliance can be placed on the Statements of a paper which is partly owned and edited by an ex-whisky ring speculator. end which does not attempt to deny tho re peated charge, made conspicuous in the aditorial columns of the New York World, tat it offer to sell spaie in it's news columns t so much an inch." The paper referred to not. a3 might bo supposed, some obscure publication of the Democratic shims, but is that veil-known organ of the irntnaculates, the New York Post. It is not necessary, however, to inquire into the antecedents of its editor or the character of its management, to learn that the Post is an unscrupulous, mendacious and malignantly partisan sheet. The occasional reader of its columns soon discovers that fact without assistance. If any one thinks one thousand dollars too large a fee for the services of three lawyers like Harrison, nines & Miller, during a week of important litigation, what would he think cf a retainer of 20,C00 paid to a young and inexperience d country lawyer who performed no service at all, but who happened to have a relative on the bench cf the court in which a suit they were interested in was pending? Wheu Chairman Jewett returns, and can get a little time from the work of circulating lies or

forgeries against General Harrison, probably he will give any anxious inquirer bis opinion on the subject Tho Journal begs to suggest to him that a fac-simile of tho young lawyer's receipt for the princely feo would be a good campaign document just at this juncture.

GENERAL HARRISON. Of the many remarkable features of the present campaign there is none more remarkable' than General Harrison's growth in the public estimation since his nomination. Tho campaign is destined to he a remarkable one in many rospects. The remarkable development of American feeling, the unexpected prominence given to the national flag, the revival of the patriotic memories of the war, the enthusiasm of the old men who were votors in 1SCG and 1S10, the still greater enthusiasm of the young first voters, fully four-fifths of whom are Republican, are some of the salient features of a campaign which is without parallel in recent times. Not even in the memorable campaign of 1SG0, when the Republican party achieved its first national victory under tho leadership of the martyred Lincoln, were the evidences of individual conviction, popular enthusiasm and local activity more apparent than they are at present But none of these features, nor all of them combined, tend more to individualize the campaign and differentiate it from all others than the steady and remarkable manner in which General Harrison has continued to grow in the estimation of the public, from the day of his nomination to the present Three months ago, when the Indiana delegation and his other friends at Chicago were urging his nomination they put it on the ground of his availability, his high character and great ability, his true and tried Republicanism, and his spotless record as a soldier, citizen and statesman. To such as had not cicely observed General Harrison's career, or who were not informed as to his intellectual and moral qualities, his friends gave strong assurance that he was eminently qualified for the presi dential office, and would meet the highest ex pectations that could be formed of him as a candidate and leader. At that time it could hardly be said thr.t General Harrison had a national reputation in the sense cf being widely and almost universally known, and it was not surprising that some curiosity should exist as to what manner of man tho Hoosiers were so earnestly and enthusiastically pressing for the nomination. The Hoosiers knew their man, and were not backward about indorsing him. Knowing that if nominated he would meet every requirement of the position and every expectation of the party, they had no hesitation in giving the strongest pos sible assurances on this score. How safe they were in doin so let the record cf the last three months decide, lfow completely Gen. Harrison has justified the representations at Chicago of those who knew him best, let his present standing before the American people determine. No man ever grew more rapidly in public estimation than General Harrison has during the last three months, and no candidate ever more completely vindicated the wisdom of a convention's choice. Few men and few characters can stand the ordeal of being placed on such a pedestal, standing for months in the fierco light that beats on a presidential nominee, a target for calumny as well as .criticism, without disclosing some weakness or defect. Fewer still can pass through the far more trying ordeal of receiving thousands upon thousands of visitors and making scores of speeches to acres upon acres of people, touching more cr less directly on nearly every phase of public affairs, without making a ainglo mistake that his enemies can seize upon, or snying a single thing that hi3 friends could wish unsaid. In this respect Gea. Harrison's candidacy is unique and unparalleled. He has already made more than sixty speeches since his nomination, and not a dull one in the entire number, nor a single error. The gifted Garfield was net called upon to make so many speeches, and he cer tainly did not make better ones, and we do not forgot the great speeches of Mr. Blaine. Geceral Harrison's speeches show something more than a mere gift of oratory. They reveal the quality of his mind, the sincerity and strength of h'13 convictions, tha breadth and catholicity of his viaws, the warmth and fervor of his feelings, his fine imagination and his lofty patriotism. This is not flattery; it is in the mouth3 of millions, the common talk of the country. Thus it is that General Harrison, without any self-seeking or ostentatious effort on his part, merely by meeting, to the fullest extent, the requirements of his position and the drafts made upon him by the Republican party, has fulfilled every prediction of his friends and won the unbounded admiration of millions of his countrymen. Where he sits is the head of the table, and ho is still growing. SHAMELE33 AND SHAMEFUL. "Do not understand, however, that lam disposed to repudiate the matter. We are glad to get any aid we can in the work of the campaign, and I have no doubt the men who mako the charges believe them to be true." This is what Mr. Simon P. Sheerin, member of the Democratic national committee, and local manager for Indiana, says concerning the false and forged "dollar-a-day" lie that i3 being extensively circulated. Those who invented it know it is a lie out of tho whole cloth, and Mr. Sheerin either knows the fame, or might kno? it if ho wished to know the truth. But he says "mind, we do not repudiate tho matter, wo aro glad to get any aid we can in the work cf the campaign." We doubt if - the history of politics could show a more shameless confession than this. What difference is there, morally, between stealing and profiting by a theft, between lying and profiting by a lie? When Mr. Sheerin says: "We ar glad to get any aid we can in the campaign," he extends a cordial invitation to professional libelers, forgers, black-mailers and jail-birds generally to report for duty as volunteer aids on tho staff of the Democratic committee. We are happy to say the Republican campaign i3 not conducted on that principle. The 6arae class of men who forge these lies concerning General Harrison could be hired to mae affidavits that Cleveland beats his wife when he is drunk, or that he tried to poison his mother-

in-law to get the family fortune, or that he

left Buffalo without paying his liquor bills, and these charges would be ju3t as true as those which are printed and circulated against General Harrison. But the Republican party is not seeking that kind of "aid" in the work of the campaign. Forgers and perjurers are referred to Democratic headquarters, and Mr. Sheerin extends an open invitation to them to call and extend their "aid." COLONEL MATSON AGAIN 8T PENSIONS, Indiana is being flooded with copies of a printed 6peech by Colonel Matson on pension bills which purports to have be.n delivered in the House of Representatives on the 28th of July, 1SS3. The speech, though 'printed in the Congressional Record, and circulated as a public document under Colonel Matson's frank, was never delivered in the House. In this respect it is no more fraudulent than some other speeches, but it is not fraudulent in this respect alone. It is an attempt to prove that the Democrats in Congress and the present administration are pre-eminently the soldier's friend. In this respect the speech is in keeping with Colonel Matson's established character as a tricky politician and demagogue. It is simply a campaign document, cunningly framed to deceive the old soldiers and whitewash the record of the Democratic party on the pension question. Colonel Matson himself, as chairman of the committee on io.vf.lid pensions, has prevented pension legislation as effectually as if ho had been put there for that purpose, as, probably, bo was. It is as true now as it was in 18S0, when a Democratic member of Congress from Pennsylvania wrote to one of his old soldier constituents that "with the present Democratic House pension bills do not have much favor." The member added, with more frankness than discretion, so far as his party was concerned that "it has become almost impossiblo to got consideration of such a bill at all, and when considered, its chance of passing the House is very remote. Democratic opposition to pension legislation for years rast has been stealthy and insidious but none tho less determined and effective. The entire pension system is the work of the Republican party, and there is not a pension law on the statute books but has been passed over the open or secret opposition of the Democracy. Every pension law and every section and provision of every law favorable to pensioners is due to tho Republican party. Colonel Matson claims great credit for the present administration because the Pension Office has continued to administer the Jaw enacted by Republicans. The administration would not have dared "to do otherwise, and would have been subject to impeachment if it had. The record shows that on the dependent pension bill, passed by the Forty-ninth Congress, 114 Republicans voted for it and not one against it, while enly CG Democrats voted for it and 70 against it On the vote to pass it over the President's veto, 133 Republicans voted for and not One against it, while 37 Democrats voted for and 12a against it It was on the question of passing thie bill over the President's reto that Congressman Bragg, a Democratic member from Wisconsin, said in a speech in the House: "Who were the majority of thoe men that found themselves in the service of the United States from Dejemb?r, lSGt to February, lSt", that Congress should sit up nights - to pass pensions to provide for them? They were the scum of the earth. . Theje men referring to Union soldiers that go: to the poor-house are native there; they are drones: they have lived from hand to mou th; they have got no enterprise; they hare got no self rfs-pect; they have pot no character. They lie down and open their mouths fo a teat to suck, and it does not mke much matter what animal has the teat so locg as they cau suck anything from it." The man who uttered this libel on the old soldiers is now United States micutor to Mexico. The cemmittee on invalid pensions, of which Colonel Matson, a quasi-soldier, is chairman, has been the grave-yard of pension bills. During the present session to refer a pension bill to that committee ha3 been to consign it to the tomb of the Capulets. About one hundred and fifty general pension, service pension and arrears-of-pension bills have been referred to.that committee to be heard from no more. In thnt Democratic committee, with Colonel Matson a3 chairman, they havo been smothered, strangled and done to death. In his pretended speech, which was neverdelivercd in the House, Colonel Matson essays a defense cf tho President's vetoes of private pension bills, saying: "I challenge any of hi3 loud accusers to show any single instance in which he has animadverted unnecessarily against the claimant" Colonel Matson shows more reckless bravery in this challenge than he ever did as a 6oldier. He never defended a position during the war as stubbornly as he now defends Grover Cleveland's vetoes of pension bills. He says the President "never animadverted unnecessarily against the claimant' Has he heard of the case of Lieut. Clinton D. Smith, of Winchester, Ind., who suffered eighteen years of excruciating torture from a gun-shot wound, and whose widow's pension tho President vetoed with a brutal insinuation that the deceased soldier was addicted to morphine? Has Colonel Matson ever heard that in vetoing the pension of Alfred Denny, who swore that ho was permanently injured by being thrown forward on the pommel of his saddle, tho President said: "The number of instances in which those of our soldiers who rode horses during the war were injured by being thrown forward on their saddles indicates that those saddles were very dangerous contrivances?' Has Colonel Matson over heard that in vetoing the pension of John W. Ferris the President said: "The ingenuity developed in the constant and persistent attacks upon th public treasury by those claiming pensions, and in the increase of those already granted, is exhibited in bold relief by- this attempt to include sore eyes among tho results of diarrhea?" Has Colonel Matson ever heard that in vetoing the pension of Audrew L Wilson the President said: "Whatever else maybe said of this claimant's achievements during hi3 short military career, it must be conceded that he accumulated a great deal of disability?" Has Colonel Matson ever heard that in several instances the President, not content

with vetoing pensions to gallant soldiers, has gone out of his way to charge them with having been habitual drunkards Perhaps, however, Colonel Matson has heard of these cases and' approves of the language and spirit of the vetoes. Perhaps he thinks they do not "animadvert unnecessarily against the claimant' He has said so in the speech which he never delivered in the House, but which is being circulated in Indiana with that lie printed on its title page. - A COUPLE OF INNOCENTSMr. Thomas Taggart and Mr. Si P. Sheerin are too innocent to be allowed to run at largo without guardians. They both affect to know nothing about the lies and forgeries that are being circulated against General Harrison in tho interest, at least, of the Democratic party, of whose campaign they aro supposed to bo official and responsible managers. Mr. Sheerin is reported to say of tho "dollar-a-day" story, that "I neither assume responsibility for the charges nor repudiate them. The thing is entirely outside the Democratic organization, and I not think we have anything to do with it"

Now, Mr. Sheerin, is it true that "the thing is entirely outside tho Democratic organization?" The "thing" a very proper term has been displayed on the transparencies of every Democratic parade made in this city, for which parades "tho Democratic organization" has been directly responsible, in the person of Mr. Thomas Taggart, tho chairman of tho Democratic county central committee. This Mr. Sheerin knows, if ho knows anything. The "thing" has been, and is being circulated by irresponsible persons who have been, and are now, in the employ of "the Democratic organization and this Mr. Sheerin knows, if he knows anything. The "thing has been printed in the columns of the Indianapolis Sentinel, the recog nized organ of "the Democratic organization" in this city, county and State, and thousands of copies cf the Sentinel containing the "thing" have been circulated and paid for by "the Democratic organization," probably out of the funds in the hands of or controlled by Mr. Si P. Sheerin himself. This Mr. Sheerin knows, if he knows anything. Mr. Sheerin cannot divest himself or "tho Democratic organization" of responsibility for the "thing." "The Democratic organization" has made itself responsible for the "thing," and so soon as it had done so beyond question, the Journal put tho matter in such shape that the Democratic managers mu3t publicly assume their responsibility, or as publicly disown their bastard falsehood. Mr. Sheorin has aaid "tho Democratic organization' is ready to accept the aid of the "thin," or any other sort of lie, slander, libel, perjury or forgery that may be or can be dreamed of cr concocted. He has advertised to all grades of political criminals and scoundrels, that "tho Democratic organization," of which he is the highest local official representative, stands ready to welcome any "aid" that may come to it, and then he proposes to wash his hands rof responsibility by saying, when ho is driven to the wall, that "the thing is entirely outside of the Democratic organiza tion." The course of Pontius Pilate on a certain notable occasion feems to have suggested to Mr. SI P. Sheerin a convenient method cf easing his conscience and cleansing his hands. It will be recalled that the expedient of the Roman politician was not a remarkable success. COME TO THE IRONT. We challenge any reputable or responsible Democrat to father tho "doliar-a-day" lie that is being circulated. Theyare not do it. They prefer to act tho part of a "fence" among sneak-thieves, handling and disposing of goods stolen by others. Tha Journal has nothing to do with brainless and characterless scamps cr irresponsible liars and libelers; but if any responsible person or representative of any responsible organization, on bohalf of the Democratic party, will como to tho front and father this lie we will give them a chance to provo it very quick. But of course the responsible leaders of the party will not do it They would rather hide behind an anonymous libul which they know to be false, and put forward notorious cranks and professional liars to do the dirty work they are willing to profit by. Tho wcrk they are engaged in is morally as base as uttering forged paper cr passing counterfeit money, the only difference being that tho latter would subject them to a legal penalty. But some men regulate their moral principles by the penal code, and regard everything as honorable that is not punished by fine and imprisonment. The Journal suggested Hon. Joseph E. McDonald or the Hon. William H. English because they are reputable, responsible Democrats of national reputation. Mr. English declines to become the custodian of tho two-thousand-dollar check, and it will, therefore, be tendered to day to the Hon. Joseph IL McDonald, who was not in the city yesterday. The Journal is determined that the country shall know whether any representative Democrat or Democratic organization will back up the charges that aro being circulated for partisan purposes. Mr. Taggart and Mr. Sheerin decline to touch the unclean thing, publicly. Mr. Jewett has not been heard from. He was, possibly, out of the city, preparing a facsimile of the receipt given by a young, inexperienced country lawyer for a fee of $20,000 paid him for no service whatever, at a timo when a relative was on the bench of the court in which a cause was pending that deeply interested the very liberal clients. Now is as good a time as any to have it understood, right here in Indianapolis, that Democratic bulldozing don't go. It has been the studied purpose of the Democrats to march by Republican headquarters with insulting transparencies, and when any Democrat got uncomfortably full of bad whisky to make himself obnoxious around the Republican committee-rooms. It has become the e habit of Democratic patrolmen to impertinentJy interfere with peaceable citizens, and of the postoffic bummers to yell insulting epithets at Republican paraders. The Journal

desires to say that there has been enough of this eort of thing, and it must stop. The Republicans of Indianapolis are peaceable and law-abiding, but they do not propose to be tramped upon and run over. There is plenty of room, in Indianapolis for the peaceably disposed of all parties; there is' not room enough for the riotously-disposed of any party.

TnE Chicago Inter Ocean says: "The speeches delivered almost daily by General Harrison are short enough,' so that they are qnite generally read and are doing A great deal to set public sentiment to running in the right direction on the live political questions of the day, but he has shown himself especially competent to grasp and handle intelligently tho financial or business feature of current statesmanship." The current number of the Journalist eontains a portrait and biographical sketch of Alva Eupene Davis, the manaeer of the American Magazine. Mr. Davis is a native of Hendricks county, Indiana, and a graduate of tho Indiana University. He is not a writer, but a business man, and in addition to the care of the maeazioe has eharjre of the book-publishing department of Frank Leslie's. He was recently requested by the American Protective Tariff League to formulate a plan for placing that league on a permanent basis, and especially to take charge of their'weekly paper, anl put it on a foundation rhich would ensure its publication for years to come. His so?eations were Immediately accepted and he has charge of that, too. . Protests against the car stove have already made tbeir anneal appearance in the newspapers. They are a little in advance of the stove itself, bat the latter will soon be firtd up and ready for business at the old standi. Queer things creep into, the cewiptpers these days. Here is the Philadelphia Press referring seriously to "Samuel Lefflngwell, a workingman in Indiana. " "It is enoah to make a horse laogh." The straw hat has put on its out-of-seaaon expression and the watermelon begins to lose its charm. To the Editor cf the Indianapolis Journal ' Did I)r. Vltrhr. T-ennintn(1rt nf fh Tfi sane Hospital, who was so summarily removed from that position by the Democratic board oa the account of his omoitinn to the corrupt management of that institution, declare his intention of supporting Harrison for President? Knowing that he ts an honest man, a good man and an enemy to all corrapt doings, and knowing, as he does, the corrupt manner in which tte Democrats have managed the State institutions, including the Prison South, I should thiok he would not content himself to simply announce his intention of supporting the Republican ticket but would be acuva in niacin? bet ter men in their places. ' m. K, T.tsa Geien-, Ind. Dr. Fletcher has not onlr declared his inten tion of supporting the Republican ticket but is making strong campaign speeches and otherwise assisting in the overthrow of the corrupt Democracy. To the TMItor cf the In !iantro)ie Jsrrnau 1. What was the bonded indebtedness of the United States at tha close of Buchanan s admini trationt 2. Did citizens or foreieners hold the bonds? 3. What rate of intsrest was the government then paying? A Reader. L'LOOMriELT. Ind. The public debt ia 185G, when Buchanan was elected? was $31,0?2.I37; in 1SC0 it had Increased to 6.842.2S7, and on the 1st of January. 1S31, four months before he want out of office, it waa $00,550,573. 2. There is no means of ascertaining where or by whom the bonds were held. 3. The government paid as high as 10 and 12 per cent, interest on loans made in the last year of Buchanan's administration. To the Liltcr of the lnJJn!rolla Jonrnali Can a msrried woman, who is living with her husband, ho'd a commission and act as postmaster? Some say she can, nod some say cot, and I would like to know the truth in the matter, n. d. r.. :. p. Vandaua, InJ., Sept, 25. She can. She must, however, receive such appointment and give bond In bar Christian name, and not her husband's; as for instance, Mrs. Mary Smith, and not Mrs. John Smith. fo tte IMltor cf the IndJanapoIii Journal: Please state in the Journal (dailv) whether or cot Sherman or Sheridan sent a telegram to headquarters, or ar.ywhere else, to the effect that Hover was a coward, or that be objected to uch a man as xiovey Dung sent to the front in the army. Democrats circulate the report very industriously, and I want to know the truth. Carthaue, Ind. R. E. Clark. Neither one did so. It is a campaign lie - To the r iitor t f the Iudianacnlts Journal: Please to give nme of person and place who said: "Not another man or another dollar to carry on this unholy war. Was it Dan Voorheesf n v. Thorntown, Ind. It was reported to have been said by Daniel W. Voorhees in a speech made at Greoccastls during the war. rOUTlCAL NOTE AND COMMENT. The Gloveraville (N Y.) Daily Leader, an independent newspaper with Demoeratio tendencies, ia supporting the straight Republican ticket, national and State. The Ilarrisburg Patriot states that Chas. fc Wolfe, Prohibition candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania in 1SSG, has decided to support Cleveland andThurrcan. Ex-SEcnr-TAKY op Wau Robert T. Lincoln will stump New Hampshire for the Republicans under the auspices of the Lincoln League, which waa named after his father. Is one of Warner'Miller's eloquent pleas for tome restriction of the saloons, he said that the number of saloons itx New York State have increased until now there waa one saloon to etery 100 persons in the State. The Amsterdam (N. Y.J Democrat aayi: Ex Public Printer Clapp, the veteran political observer, has teen abroad in New Ycrk for come time, and is satisfied that Harrison's majority will not be less than 30.CG0." There is nothing that would cause such a vast shrinksge in the value of farm property of this country as free trade. The destruction of home markets would reduce farm profits and multiply farm mortgages. Iowa State Register. In speaking afNw York on the political situation, Dr. McGlynn said he would vote for Warner Miller for Governor, and for the thirtyfour Republican presidential electors, becanee they were in favor of and represented protection. Ex-Con'uressman Pocnd, of Wisconsin, who supported Cleveland four years ago, but proposes to vote for Harrison this year, ssys that of many business men in the Eat with whom hei8 acquainted, and who were for Cleveland in 1884, nearly every one this year will vote for Harrison. Chahles A- Dana says that Cleveland's majority in' the electoral college will be larger than any mjoritv there since Genoial Grant's. The comfort which Democrats mipht get out of this prophecy is lessened by the reflf ction that In 1SS4 he stediy predicted Cleveland's defeat. Boston Transcript. A i raveling salesman in Kentucky, but who lives in Indiana, writes the Journal: 'A man in Bourbon eounty. with whom I wai talking to-day, said he himself was a doabl-and-twitted. riyed-in-the-wool Democrat, but if any enterprise., vim and go-aheadativeness was found any place, it was found among Yankee Republicans, and lis believed that Harrison would near carry Kentucky this year, and he wouldn't ear a if he did. for Cleveland was no good Democrat or anything else, end he would jut. as soon see him beaten es not. I find in this Stat a great deal more interest in the corning election than I had expected, and am told that there are a ereat many Kentucky Democrats that will vote for General Harrion.: I feel very confident that the people of tha country will be surprised when they t the returns from Old Kentack' in November." The Time So Short. f LeftYeiiworth Times. It isn't worth while for a Democrat to take a Eostofiice cow even if there were one left far im. - ii

BOGER Q. MILLS REVIEWED

His Theories and Sophistries Treated by a Master in Reasoning and Debate. The Don. John M. tfatler Entertains a Lirffo and Enthusiastic Audience with a Scathing Speech cn Free-Trade Pretensions. There was frost in the air last night and no fire in Tomlinson Hall, but that did not deter 3,000 people from going to the hall and listening for two hours and a half to a political argument by Hon. John M. Butler. 'It was one of the beat political meetings that has been held in Indianapolis this year. The speech of Mr. Butler was in answer to that of Rocer Q. Mills, who occupied the hall one week ago. It was delivered in Mr. Butler's well-Known forcible style, and, by all who heard it, was pronounced at . a more than sufficient answer to the great freetrade apostle. Although devoted almost entirely to the tariff question, the large audience was interested throughout. Every person present remained until the last sentence waanttered. at 10-.30 o'clock. The audience was composed principally of laboring men, and their applause was frequent. A feature of the meeting was the excellent vocal music furnished by the gentlemen's Harrison and Morton glee club, led by Captain Richardson. George Merritt, the woolen goods manufacturer, presided. In announcing Mr. Dntler as the speaker of the evening he said he was a man who needed no introduction to an Indianapolis audience. Mr. Butler waa loudly applauded when he atspped forward to spoak. He said: Ladies and Gentlemen One week to-morrow tWtbi I Lad toe pleasure of hearing in this room Hon. Roger Q. Mills, a representative Democrat, wboclaime to represent hit party upon the great issues of the d&y. Without any preliminaries whatever, I prrpose U adJressmysslf to an answer to the prepositions advanced ry bim. In the first place, I admit with Mr. Mills that the present campaign involves gnat, and, to use his words, vital interests of trie American laborer and the American producer; that th American laborer is mightiiy interested in the issue of the present campaign; that his welfare is somehow or other to be affected for weal or for woe by the manner in which the drcision shall be regiatered at the ballot-box on the Cth of November. Mr. Mills then asks who is the friend of the laborer. The tree, he said, is to be judged by the fruit. As a representative Republican for the time being I accept the test, and am ready for the tneasurament. Mr. Mills saya from the days cf Jefferson down to the pr sent time the Democratic party pas boon the friend of the poor man and the laborer. I deny it. Applause And not one word, or letter, or bne, or syllable cf proof in support of that proposition was advanced by Mr. MillE. He seems .to have taken that for granted and proceed to ask "What h:the Republican tarty done for the laborerr I am ready to answer, much in every way. The Republican party has given dignity to labor, and has recognized the manhood of the laborer. Why, the Republican party waa born of the irrepressible conflict between right and wrong, between the laborer and nis or-rresor, between freedom and slavery, between Union and secession! Applause. Tte glory of the Republican party the very crowniojr glory of its hietory ia that at its very toncn the shackles fell from the limbs of the slave. Labor was dicnified. manhood was recognized, and development and growth took the place of stsgnatioa and decay, and proepenty and plenty toiA the place cf poverty and want, f Applause. J Mr. Mills savr. with a sneer, that the Republicans controllei tbia government for twenty-five years; end they are the brightest years ia all history. Great applansaj What has the Repub'ic-in prry done? Why. it has given to the American iaborer a country, a government, - a home, a r.rel 'r. it has given t- bim a currency, stable, fix d end valuable, that mskea his wages absolutely fr.fe and secure. It ia by the protsction that it haa given to Atneiican industries r.nd A:.eriean productions that it has so protected th: American la borer that his couDtry, by i: ;rowth and development, haa outstripped any cation named in the world; and to far outstripped all nations that it cow has A market which yreedy-eyed England looks at with envy end longing and ty the ail of the Bntish bV moeracy hopes to lay it.i hands ou. Applause. One oJ the beet conip liicents that ever I knew to be Laid to any partv, to arj" political organization, was paid to the Republican rarty recently by the London 'limetia describing the difference between Republicans ar Democrats in the United States in their meaner of government control and management, and it said: The object cf RepuMiiau fiaifsmcn itSV&t to e enro the largest amouat cf wealth for tLeir country generally, but it is br any moans possible, to le? tp tbe stAndar.l of comfort siaosg the i.lKrin;r c!itr-e-. Applauft. Now let me ask a qr:eitioa that Mr. M ills did not answer. Whs t Las the Democratic party done for the hborers of this eouctry and sines be failed ntterly to attempt to answer that question he must excese me if I answer it far him. Laughter. For nearly a century it cruebed him beneath the incubus of human slavery. It curaed him with a rotten, wort-lets currency in which his hard-earned earrings melted away and turned to ashes ia bis gat. It believed m labor without any ws?e! Jt fcrmed an aristocracy based upon human bond age and snrported by the products of slave labor. It celiehted, within the memory cf tr.en hre before me who bean', a3 1 havsherrl. Democratic orators on this soil of Iudiana, call the laborers of this country mudsills of toc ety. It looked down upon labor as ur.dirained, and upon the laborer as ienoble. In 1561 the Dem--cratio party, 't f this country waa confronted by a condition as well as a theory. Applaose The condition waa a Repnblican administration presided over by Abraham Lincoln, himself a laborer. (Appiacse. The theory was that slavery should bi confined within tha limits of the then slave States.. and that everywhere else in oar domain labor should have its jast reward, and tho manhood of the laborer thould be recognized. Ihe Dsrhoeraiio party refned to nbiae the condition and to accept thettheory. It inaugurated a treasonable rebellion, "and for four years waced a war of devastation and pillage for the exprep purpose of destroying our government end founding npon its ruins a Confederacy wheso two corner-stones should be human slavery and opposition to tariff protection. (Great applause. J On, yes, the Democratic party, no doubt, has alwaya been the laborer's friend. The tree, you know, is to be judged by the fruit; so Mills euid. Laughter and applaui-e. Mow, I wish you to bear me witness that I have not without provocation gore into a reference even to the war poriod. Mr. Mills provoked that reference and challenged an examination of the records. Mr. Mills's second proposition was that the Republican party, after the war waa over, did wrong in repealing the internal revenue taxes, saying that they ouchttohave repealed thetark tax instead. Wheu did the Democratic party become the champion of Internal-revenue taxes? Why the change of front! How waa it daring the warl Why, every man within tbe sound of my voice remembera the howl of Democratic speakers, during tho war, about the tax-gatherer being at every poor man's door, in all this country, and taking everything he bad. There was no lovo for the internal-revenue system then, and there is no love for it to-daj-. Ii is net because the Democratic party loves the internal-revenue system of taxation mrre, but because it hates tariff protection more than tt hates internal-revenue taxation. Since tbe close of the war the Democratic party and th Republican party each have been io power m the lower House in Concresa just eleven years. The Republican party paei eicht laws repenline intemal-revenu taxes, and by the laws it lifted $284,000,000 anneal taxation off tho people. Besides that it parsed four laws redn-tiue tariff revenue, and by thoew fi.ur laws it took of $78,000,000 Uriil taxation, 3(2,01)000 of annual taxation. '1 lie Democratic party in their eleven years have redoeed internal revenue taxe just $6,000,000, and they did tot reduce tariff taxes one peony. There is to doubt, though, but what they are tbe friend of the laborer. Laozhter. 1 What le we left? Just four articles paying any internal-revenue tar. liquors, tobacco, national oauks and tog us butter. Lnuchter and applanse.l Mr Miils's third complaint is I will read his words as I took them from his lips that the Republican party left two thounand million dollars of deht to be paid by tariff taxation, and this burden falls cn the poor man and the laborer. Now that is sugcestive. Who eaued tbe debt! Great applause. The Republican party didn't cause it. The debt at one time was 2. TOO million dollars, and it was eaueed by tbe Democratic party, Hotter Q. Mills being one of the chief causes." This entire debt was created by that choice friend of the laborer and the poor man, toe Democratic party. Laughter and applause.) The next complaint of Mr. Mills was that the Republican party didn't repudiate the war debt. I want to ask any Democrat, would the repudiation of the war debt have aided the laborer; would it have added anything to the comfort and credit of our countryt Tit. MillsV next complaint was that the Republican