Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 September 1888 — Page 4

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SATURDAY SEPTEJSE 29, 1838.

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G R-ggs Home and Ebbitt House. Telephone Clls. BntlnesOce 233 Editorial Roomt 242 REPIULICAX NOMINATIONS. "OR PRX-IDENT. FEN.MMIX IIAKKISOX, of Indiana. VIOE-P2SSIDEXT. LEVI P. 3IOIITON, of New York. .VCTOH-AT-LARr, R. JAilf S M. SHACKELFORD, of Vanderburj, THOilAS H. Ni.LsO", of Vigo. CONTINGENT XLTCT0R3. NICHOLAS McCARTY. of -Marion, J. I. OLIVER, of St.,Joserh. Congressional. First Dktrict-FRANK B. POSEY. Second THOMAS N. BRAXTON. Third STEPHEN D. SAYL.ES. Fourth MANLY D. WILSON. Fifth HENRY C. DUNCAN. Mxth TH03IAS M. BROWNE. Seventh THOMAS E. CHANDLER. :iskth JAMES. T. JOHNSTON. Ninth JOSEPH 13. C1IEAOLE. Teeth WILLIAM D. OWEN. Eleventh GEORGE W. STEELE. Twelfth JAMES B. WHITE. TV-jtenth-WiLLIAM HOYNES. Legislative and Judicial. STATE SFNATiR. TERDINAND WINTER, WILLIAM E. TOUSEY. JCIST SXXAT0B MARION. SHELBY AND HAKCOCK, SIDNEY CONGER, of Shell y. K rrBSSKNTATIVKS. MILLARD F. CONN KTT, GEOKGE F. McGINNIS. GEORGE U. WKBSTKR. CHARLES HECKMAN, WILLIAM W. WALDEN. lOIT BrPBtSrNTATr.T MASIOS, SHELBY AND HANWARREN R. KING, of Hancock. 2UDGZ NINETSrNTH JUDICIAL CIRCCIT, JiiHN V. HADLEY, of Hendricks. rsosicmNS ATTORNEY niniteesth judicial. CIKCIT HARRISON T. TJNCUER, cf Marion. Stata Ticket. GOVZHNOE, ALV1N P. HOVEY. of Poser. LltrT.OOVIBVOB, IRA J. CHASE, of Hendricks. jrrxii of srrasMB coubt, 1st Distnefc-SILAS D. COFFEY, of Clar. 2d District J. G. BERKSHIRE, of Jennings. 4th District-WALTER OLDS, of Whitley. S-.rRETART Or STATE. CHARLES F. GRIFFIN, of Lake. s AULITOK OF STATE, BSUCE CARR. c Orange. tkfactxh or state. J. A. LEMCKE. of Vanderbcrg. ATTO r N ET-O T.X T B al. L. T. MICHENER, of Shelby. grTTSTNTENPENT 0 PrBMC INSTRUCTION', HARVEY M. LA FOLLETTE, of Boone. BEPORTEB CV SUPREME COUBT, JOHN L. GRIFFITHS, of Marion. County Ticket. SHSRirr, LEANDEK A. FULMER. TREASURER, MAHLON H. FLOYD. con' vru, THEO. A. -ViCNER. SUT.':OB. JACOB V X)EPER. COMMISSIONERS, BENJAMIN P. OSBORN, F1ELDINO BEELER. W drmsnd tariff reform and tt set onr ftces in the direction of free trade.' 'TU Democrat vl is not a free-trader should ' elsewhere. Tb conflict between free trade and pro tection Is Irrepressible and mast be fought oat to the bttier eud. T7e spit upon comprointses and propose neither to ask nor to give quarter." "Tl.e Democrat party, except In tne person f Imbeciles hardly worth mentionlnr, Is not noon ths) fence. It la s free-trad a part or It Is noHilo;." "There can be no cooked up platform and no compromise candidate.' The black tlar la up. No quarter will be asked snd uo quarter fiireo.' Extracts from Henry Watteron's letters and editorials in the Louisville Courier-Journal. The Koductloo of the Mtl I Jill. Ills Jatiea collected from fgrtia i t.po ration s for the year er din? Jute SO. lbS7. statistical abr&ct. 1SS7, rt?e 16, was 2 12, 0" 2, 123.90 Add tional and di.Hcrim:natiEg duty 2,189.835.75 MukiDsr a total $214,222,309.03 Duty equal to unpaid internal revenue tx on loroestic spirits and tobacco brounht back but inelided in "adwlional, etc" 1.000,523.40 Loavirjr entire duties from forcisn inmortitions $212,223,7S1.1G iliils estimated reduction by bis hill, according to the effcial statement of the wajs and means committee 78,17G,051.23 Average reduction, 36 S-IO per cent. Mcrdir will out, and confidential circulars are very apt to come to liht. THE Benet circular is likely to become famous; or, to be more exact, infamous. Tee rate at which Democratic papers are scolding Anna Dickinson shors that her shots strike home. Hon. John M. Bctler is the man to put on the track of Kopjer Q Mills. The xvay he grinds up Mr. Mil!3 is a caution. Poor old Endicott; the hungry Democrats trged him, he urged Benet, and Benet issued a "confidential circular' against women and children. Colonel Harper, formerly of Cincinnati, and now of the Ohio penitentiary, will read of Colonel Hutchinson's wheat deal with a peculiar interest. How could a young and inexperienced country lawyer expect to render an honest equivalent for a $20,000 fee in a suit pending before a court cf which a relative of theyoung attorney was judge? Perhaps when the rush of the campaign is over, Chairman Jewett will favor the publio with his views on this ques tion. If he could illustrate his essay with a

fac-simile of a receipt given by the supposititious young and inexperienced attorney for the $20,000, it would Berve as an interesting object lesson.

The malls are loaded with copies of Colonel Matson's speech which was never delivered. It 13 like a great battle that never was fought or a heroic defense that never was made. THEY had a mild earthquake at Albany, N. Y., the other day. It was a forecast of the political upheaval that is to take place in that State when Harrison carries it in November. And Hon. Joseph E. McDonald, he won't touch that $2,000 check, either. The way that money goes chasing about for a reputable Democrat to hold it, is a caution to campaign liars. JCST about the time the people think this administration has touched bottom it finds a lower depth in meanness and infamy. The Benet circular against women and children is the latest descent. What a brave, manly, chivalric sentiment to come from a Secretary of War "This rule of proscription will. apply to women and children as well as to men, and will be strictly enforced." Secretary of War Endicott has not had a chance to display his martial talents in conducting military campaigns, but he has waged relentless war upon women and children. Endicott means to protect the country at all hazards. Mr. Si P. Sheerix says the Journal is "an amocsin' little cuss'' to him. Mr. Sheerin is likely to be 'amoosedv considerable before the campaign is over. For fear that he may lose any amusement, we beg to say to him that now is the time to subscribe. Who was the "one specially prominent Democrat known throughout the country'' who wa3 so persistent in urging the Secretary of War to remove Republican widows and children from the arsenals! That sounds for all the world as if it meant Senator Voorhees. A FEW days ego the Sentinel made a ccarse attack upon Mrs. J. Ellen Foster, and now devotes considerable attention of the same gortto Anna Dickinson. Your true Democratic organ is a valorous woman-fighter, but the two women mentioned are amply able to take care of thomsehe3 without outside as sistance. Mr. Oeerly, late Civil-service Commis sioner, is said to be pleased with his transfer to the Indian Bureau. This is probably bocause he i3 & man who likes something to do, and when he found his former occupation gone, turned readily to another. There is no civil-service reform, and no need for a com missioner under this administration, but the Indians are still with us. Think of it! Endicott, the immaculate the mugwump, the very embodiment of Plyn outh Rock, th Mayflower and the Pil grim fathers Endicott, of all others, responsible for the most outrageous abuse of the civil service, and disregard of law and custom occurring under the Cleveland ad ministration! What will George William Cur tis and Samuel Bowles say now? DEMOCRATS who have a little character to maintain fight mighty shy of the "dollar-a-day" lie. Even the campaign managers dare rot father it They prefer to work in the dark, 83 the receiver of stolen goods does business through a slide. While they do not wish to be known as suborners of perjury they have no objection to profiting by it. "We are glad to get all the aid we can in this camSi Siheerin, secretary of the national Dem ocratic committee, is spoken of by the Senti nel as the Honorable oi. It is this "honora ble ' gentleman who says "we are glal to get any aid we can in the work of the campaign." The Democratic definition of honor, as thus exemplified, seems to consist in an encour agement of campaign lies and other disrepu table proceedings, and an unwillinguess to be held responsible for them. Referring to a lie spawned in the slams of politics, licked into 6hape by a parcel of disreputable blatherskites and secretly nursed by the Democratic campaign managers, Mr. Simon P. Sheerin says: "Do not understand that I am disposed to repudiate the matter. We are glad to get any aid we can in the 'work of the campaign." Forgers, perjurers and black mailers, who have campaign material to dis pese of, are thus notified where they can find a market. We have lies, and forgeries, and perjuries galore now. Bqt they are as nothing com pared with what may be expected toward the close of the campaign. Desperation will drive the Democracy to extremes, and no in famy will be too infamous for them to xesort to. Already the country has an inkling of what is to come in a dastard lie about the relationships of the family of Hon. James G. Blaine. With some know! edge of what the Democracy propose, and with more knowledge of the malig nity of Democratic management, the Journal gives to Republicans and to the country fair notice that "the campaign of intellect" is only in its first stages. As the certainty of Harrison's election increases and nears, the desperation and deviltry of Democratic tactics will increase and be stimulated. THERE is evidence going to prove that certain Democrats have deliberately endeavored to provoke trouble in this city for partisan effect. Republican managers have had to appeal to visiting and local Republicans, as well, to be forbearing, so that the good name and character of the city may not suffer or be imperiled. We serve notice now on the Democratic bummers, whether official or unofficial, that their bulldozing and insults must not be repeated. Grandfather Jones's postoffice slurngullions must keep their distance and their manners; Democratic patrolmen must maintain instead of disturb the peace, and Democratic leaders and candidates, fuller of whisky than of good sense, must keep civil

tongues in their heads. Indianapolis u big enough and hospitable enough for peaceable

and honorable men of all parties; it in too small for the riotously disposed of any party. Cut this out and paste it in your hat. DON'T MOVE. To any and all Republicans in Indiana who are thinking of moving we say: "Don't" The law requires a residence within the United States of one year, in the State six months, in the township sixty days, and in the ward or precinct thirty days immediately preceding the election. It is now less than sixty days till the election, and any person moving from one county to another, or from one township to another in the same county, will lose bis vote. On Saturday, Oct C, the thirty-day limit will begin, and any person moving from one ward to another, or from one voting precinct to another, after that date, will lose his vote. If a person has been temporarily absent from the State, or from his township or ward, without the intention of changing hi3 residence, and with the purpose of returning, he does not lose his vote, and ho may travel on business during the sixty or thirty days' limit, provided it be with the intention of returning. But if he moves his family, or, being a single man, changes his own place of residence from one township to another now, or from one ward or precinct to another after Oat G, he loses bis vote. Aft ASTOUNDIXQ-DISCLOSURE. If the country can be surprised by any new revelation as to the canting hypocrisy and, partisan malignity of this administration it will experience that sensation on reading the story of the Benet circular, published In the Journal this morning. The exposure comes about in a dramatic way. The widow and daughter of a volunteer officer in tho Union army, wounded in the service and , since doceased, have for several years had employment in tho arsenal at Rock Island, 111. A few months ago the commandant of the arsenal informed them that they could have no more work from tho ordnance department Upon inquiry as to the cau30 of their discharge, the commandant stated that he had learned they were Republicans, and that in discharging them from employment he was acting in conformity with "confidential instructions from the chief of ordnance." The soldier's widow -and her daughter had to go. Deprived of employment, the widow had to call upon her relatives for assistance. A brother, who learned the cause of her removal, was so indignant that he determined to investigate the matter, and through a friend in the. arsenal obtained a copy of tho confidential circular. As tho quickest and best means of giving it wide publicity ha sent it 'to tho Journal. The extraordinary character of the circular raised a doubt 83 to its genuineness, and not desiring to imitate the Democracy by using false and forged documents, the Jourral sent the circular to its Washington correspondent with instructions to investigate ancf report. He has done so, and his report is now laid before the public All doubt as to the genuineness of the circular is removed by the admission of General Benet, its author, who also states the circumstances under which it was issued. Although signed by General Benet, the facts show that it was issued at the instance and suggestion of the Secretary of War, the Hon. William C. Endicott, of Massachusetts, and. received his personal approval. Therefore, although the circular 13 the work of a willing and obsequious subordinate, it is, to all intents and purposes, an order of the Secretary of War and the act of the administration. The authenticity and responsibility of the circular being fixed, we do not hesitate to Fav 9 w that we regard it one of the most disgraceful acts of the present or of any administration. No single incident has so completely exposed the hypocrisy and dishonesty of an administra tion which, while professing a desire to estab lish civil service reform In all departments of the government, has really been doing all in its power to destroy it In partisan meanness and malignity, the circular has no parallel. For fear that its operation might be limited by a too generous construction, it i3 made by express terms to "apply to women and children as well as to men." and to make sure that none cf the women or children should escape, it is added "the rule will be strictly enforced." This i3 : the first time in the his tory cf this government, and doubtless of any civilized government, that a proscriptive or der has, by cruel emphasis, been made to bear with crushing force on widows and orphans. General Benet tries to clear his skirts of re sponsibility for the infamous order, and at the same time get in a quasi-defense of Secretary Endicott The latter, he says, told him "he had received many urgent requests from very prominent Democrats, one especially promi nent and known throughout the country, to Lave Republicans employed in the arsenals t throughout the country dismissed and Demo crats appointed in their places." Thus the fountain-head and prime motive of the whole business is found in the clamor for places, and the only semblance of defense for issuing the circular is that the Democratic politicians demanded it The saintly Eudicott, who went into the Cabinet as the representative of New England Democratic mugwumpery, and who has been thought to have a leaning to civil-service reform, turns out a regular political butcher, refusing quarter even to women and children. 1 The circular bears date Jan. 4, 1SS6, ten month3 after Cleveland's inauguration. Its ostensible object was to "equalize the service" by replacing Republicans with Democrats. From the tremendous pressure and clamor referred to by Benet and Endicott, it is. evi dent that, up to that time not many changes had been made in the arsenals and ordnance department Yet General Benet says that,

in three or four instances, the commanding officers wrote him "that they had made care- . : j j f ul canvasses of their employes, and' found

that the majority of tliem were Democrats, and that if the object of any circular was to aji " ' equalize between the !two parties the pesiT. tions, there could be no. equalization in favor of the Democratic party." This Shows that rl already, in the first year of Cleveland's administration, the Democrats had a majority of the places . in the arsenals, and the presumption is that they hal nearly or fully half of them under Republican administration. But, notwithstanding tais state of things, the circular has continued in force from Jan1 nary, 183G, till now, the; removal of the soldier's widow at Rock Isiand, which brought the circular to light, being comparatively recent. The pretense tiat it wa3 designed to equalize the service is -a transparent fraud. It was intended to accomplish what was never attempted before viz.: to make even the military service a: Democratic partisan machine. The case calls for thorough investigation. THE LIE IB DEMOOEATIC The Sentinel hastens to join Mr. Thomas Taggart and Mr. Si P. Sheerin in the tumultnous and disorderly back -down from the "dollar-a-day" lie. The Sentinel says it is not a Democratic but a labor war upon Gen. Harrison, and the Democrats have nothing to do with it This is puerile, contemptible and utterly false. It is a "Democratic war upon General Harrison, and not a labor war. From beginning to end the lie is Democratic, and has had the encouragement and support of "the Democratic organization." Its first formal and elaborate presentation t was made by the assistant Democratic United States attorney, Mr. Leon Bailey, in a speech made by him in this city, and printed in the columns of tho Indianapolis Sentinel, the recognized Democratic party organ. Thou sands of copies of the speech have been circulated by and under the auspices of "the Dem ocratic party organization," and Mr. Si P. Sheerin perfectly well knows this to bo true. It may be added that Leon Bailey was so dis reputable among his own party friends that, by special order, he was precluded from par ticipating in the trials of Coy, Bernhamer and Sullivan and others of the Democratic gang of conspirators and tally-sheet forgers. The "dollar-a-day" lie has been carried on transparencies in every street parade made under the charge of the "Democratic party organization," and presumably paid for by Mr. Thomae Taggart, chairman of tha county central committse. The "dollar-a-day" lie was started, and has been assiduously promulgated by irresponsi ble persons in the employ and pay of "tho Democratic organization." The "dollar-a-day" lie has been repeatedly printed in the columns of the Indianapolis Sentinel in one form or other, togather with even more silly and infamous libels and slanders against General Harrison, and thou sands of copies of the papers containing it and other stories have bean bought and cir culated by "the Democratic organization." Finally, Mr. Si P. Sheerin, in a public in terview, is reported to have said: "Do not understand, however, that I am disposed to repudiate the matter. We are glad to get any aid wo can in the work of the campaign; Whereby he assumes the responsibility of the lie, so far, at least, as to be willing to accept any "aid" there may be in it to "the Democratic organization," or in any other lie, forgery, slander, libel or perjury that may be concocted by liars, forgers, perjurers, swindlers and dead-beats. The "dollar-a-day" lie, and the other lios, one and all of them, are thoroughly Democratic in their conception, their character and their dissemination. "The Democratic or ganization" cannot and shall not escape responsibility for them. Mr. Thomas Taggart, Mr. Charles L. Jewett and Mr. Si P. Sheerin are behind this special and particulcr "dollar-a-day" lie, which they have made to figure so largely thus far in their "campaign of intellect" Cone out, gentlemen, from behind your hired tools and creatures, and face tho responsibility for your work. ANOTHER DEOLINATIOff. Hon. Josep E. McDonald reached his office yesterday, and during the afternoon the Journal's certified check for $2,000, with the accompanying letter, as sent to Hon. William II. English, wai placed in Mr. McDonald's hands. The following note shows that Mr. 'McDonald decliles to become the custodian of the check: i "Sipt. 2S, 188?. "Mr. Harry New I leave for Washington on tho early train in the morning and will not be at homo1 for the next ten days, and must be excused from holding the within check. Respectfully, j. "J. E. McDonald." Inasmuch as both Mr. English and Mr. Mc4 Donald have declined to accept the duty of holding the check to await the action or nonaction of the men who are circulating the "dollar-a-day" lie, but refuse to assume responsibly for it, the Journal now proposes to hold the check for ten days from this date, and at any time within that period will place it in the hands of any reputable Democratic freeholder of Marion county, that either Mr. Thomas Taggart, Mr. Charles L. Jewett or Mr. Si P.' Sheerin will name, under the terms and stipulations of the editorial challenge of the 27th of September instant General Harrison, in his letter of acceptance says, in substance, that the policy of tariff reform advocated by the President if not in itself free trade, is the first step toward free trade. Bit this is plainly a mistake. A tariff tax of 40 or 42 per cent, instead of 47 per cent, is otjviously not free trade. Harper's Weekly, i ; It is disheartening and disgusting to see that paltry, thread tare, puerile lie in "a journal of civilization." 'There Is not a respectable man or paper anywhere that is now insulting the common Bens and intelligence of the country by that miserable evasion and untruth. . The Bostoi Globe has sent a circuiar to New England postmasters, telling them that their "obligation to the President who appointed them requires them t6 do all in their power to continue the Democratic pariy ia office." Incidentally it

is shown by the circular that the best method of demonstrating their fealty is by the circulation of the Globe, and they aro earnestly urged to be active in that service. The Globe, it will thus be seen, differs from President Cleveland, whose celebrated orders forbidding "pernicious activity" and the participation of office-holders in political matters are so well remembered.

Tue Sentinel says the Journal's animadversions on the debauched and inefficient postal service are unfounded and purely partisan. The following from the Orlando (Florida) Record, a Democratic paper, advocating the re-election of Mr. Cleveland, will show that the demoralization of the postoffice is universal, and extends from Maine to Florida, and from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Indianapolis is not peculiar, although we are, doubtless, in the belt of lowest demoralization. The Record says: "Day after day our attention is called to the abominable railway mail-service in this section. We have taken particular pains. to investigate and are satisfied that the fault does not lie with our postmasters, and particularly so with our Orlando office. Our newspaper mail is carried about the counary before final delivery at the proper office, and as a rule three, four and five papers at a time are delivered. "We were shown an important postal card to-day that was mailed from here on the 7th inst, and reached Winter Park, its destination, in seven days, arriving there on the 14th. "This thing has now reached a pass where it is time for us to make complaints."' This is almost like the cry of the Sentinel to Mr. Cleveland to stop appointing thieves and penitentiary convicts to office. Tue Chicago Times is intensely Democratic, and intensely dislikes General Harrison, and with the disposition to injure him has this to say: "Mr. Harrison is even-tempered, calm, cold, secretive and politic. An impulsive utterance is entirely foreign to his nature. A politician knowing full well the value of the labor vote and guarding carefully his own tongue and the tongues of those whom his prudence can control, a man who never speaks from impulse, and reserves his bitter arraignment for a party and not for classes of that party, is not at all likely to have made, at any time, the remark attributed to him regarding laborers, or to have uttered, even when his defeat as as a candidate for Governor of Indiana was rankling in his breast, the coarse, brutal and indefensible arraignment of Irish-Americans a3 a class, which he is said to have delivered as the result of an interruption at Bloomington twelve years ago. "In such a campaign, canards, sometimes effective but never defensible, should bo discouraged as entirely out of place," And yet Mr. Thomas Taggart, Mr. Charles L. Jewett and Mr. Si P. Sheerin, the Democratic managers of Indianapolis and Indiana will continue to circulate these ineffective "canards." TllE Philadelphia Times, Democratic, says: "When a man insists that General Harrisou is in favor of the free importation of Chinese labor into this country it's always safe to either pity him as a fool or despise him as a knave." The executive committee of the Iowa State Temperance Alliance has issned an address to the people of that State. It is signed by J. A. Ilarvey, chairman, and Mrs. A. E. MoMurray, secretary. Here are two paragraphs wa eomzuend to the consideration of sincere an5. earnest temperance people in Indiana. After a record of the temperance legislation in that State, the address ears: "We ehnllenee to this record the attention of all Prohitiocists who feel itur-slled to abandon the Republican party. You can give no reason for your proposed action that this record will cot refer to. The Republican party has redeemed very pledge and Kept faith with th people. It has moved forward with every advancing step of public sentiment, and passed statute after statute as time and experience showed them necessary, and done it over every obstruction that could be thrown in the way brother parties and a minority in its own membership. ' And yet, in the face of there facts, you propose to turn against that party and eive jour aid indirectly to the party that has always opposed prohibition both statutory and constitutional. At every stage of our progress the Democratic party has interposed everr possible obstacle to our success, all the while denouncing the law and opposing its enforcement Its leading men and jonrnals have persistently encouraged resistance to the law, maliened and traduced the character and purpose of public officers and others seeking to enforce it, and in every instance palliated, and in some boldly justified the commission of the most dastardly crimes committed by saloon men and shielded the perpetrators. The Democratic party stands as the very citadel of the saloon power, defying the sovereign will and menacing tbe peace of every community and welfare of every home. But for its persistent defense of thesaloon interest, opposition to ths law would long since have ceased and tue erime breeding business would cow be obsolete in every hamlet and city in Iowa. You can but admit these facts. And yet you propose, so far as your vote and influence can do it, to put the eontrol of this subject into tbe hands of the Democratic party! Your support of the third party certainly tends direetlv to the success of the Democratic party, and hence their interest in booming the movement Whether such be your intention or not, the Effect will be to so diminish the Republican vote as to give the control to the Democrats. That done, and the speedy repeal of prohibition is certain, and the legalized saloon all over Iowa. The saloon is an important political factor for that party a recruiting station a place to make Democratic votee, and will be re-established as sooq a that party bat the Dower to do it For a prohibitionist to aid in undoing this labor of years s nothing less, M it seems to us, than treason to tbe cause, a betrayal of his principles, utterly without justification or excuse." Here is an item which shows the prevailing wages in England. Let American workingmen of all grades look at the figures. It is taken from a recent Birmingham paper: "the strike in the gun-lock trade. 'The operatives on strike in the gun lock trade atDarlaston decided on Wednesday evening to issue an appeal to thegeneral public for support, in which they set forth that, after payinp exponses, thev were unable to earn more than Is 2d a day of fourteen or fifteen hours. They demand ' an increase of 2d yer lock, which, if granted, wonll enable tbein to earn about 10a or Hi per week." In reply to a correspondent the Journal stated that Mr. T. L. Glass lived in Greenfield. Ha lives in Hannibal, Mo., where he heard Brooks, the third-party Democratic annex candidate, say that he thanked God he had never been a Republican. This remark Brooks made ia 18S3, cot in 1SSG, as the types erroneously made it appear. ' To the Editor of tho InJlauaiolls Journal; Suppose I reside in a certain voting precinct, and my house in wh'ch I reside burns, or I more oat to repair my dwelling, and go into another precinct in the same township until my house is rebuilt or the repairs completed, intending to return so soon as tha work is complete, and I get back at a period so as to cot give me thirty days before trie election, am I a legal voter in the precinct to which I have returned, provided 1 poscees all other requisite qualifications? Inquirer. Of course; there is no change of residence. rOMTICAL NOTE AM) COMMENT. It looks like a tolid Republicrn North. -Detroit Tribune. Privately, Democrats are conceding Connecticut to Harrison. General. Harrison is to-day by far the greatest power in the Republican campaign. New York 2d ail and Express. Women are registering in Boston to vote on the school committee. The Catholic women are

outnumbering the Protestant nine to one In applying for registration, but many of the Catholics are not naturalized. LETTnRe-ARRiEKs are mnlcted in the sum of $23; clerks in the postoftices from S30 to $o0, aod railway mail -clerks from sflD to&0 forcampaiga purposes. Since General Harrison was nominated he hat made speeches eoough to fill an Evo volume of GOO pages, and, what is to the purpose, he has made converts also. Boston Transcript. Four years ago Mr. Blaine received 9S7 majority in Steuben county, New York. This year Mr. Harrison will receive not less than two thousand. So tbe most conservative politicians in Uornine and Bath estimate. The Hartford Coarant has been canvassing the manufacturers in the indestrial centers of Connecticut as to their opinion of the Mills bill, and so far as reports go the bill is emphatically and unanimously condemned. The Now York Democrat, a red-hot Cleveland and Hill organ, has these candid words for the Prohibitionists of that State: "We advise every conscientious Prohibitionist to cast his vote for the Democratic ticket and thus ronder Republican defeat a certainty." ' The Newark Journal, the ablest Democratic paper in New Jersey, says without circumlocution that something must be done or the Democratic jig is up. It declares that there is a dangeroes amount at apathy among the Democrats, that no two of them are working in harmony, and that the State will be lost unless a radical chance is made. The Republicans have not had so good a chance to carry New Jersey in twenty years at to-day. They ara united and will gain largely from tha Prohibitionists and protection Democrats, while their enemy is fatally divided. Tbe only question of success seems to bs whether they will maintain the lead they now have until' election day. Philadelphia Press. Warner Miller is receiving a large number of letters from clergymen, teachers and men of all classes, commending his courageous advocacy of high license. Several Catholic priestt -writ to him that they shall vote for him and shall exhort their flocks to do likewise. Many of tha writers say tbat they are Democrat? and shall vote for Cleveland, Thurmau and Miller. In 18S6 President Cleveland "flipped out of office a United States district attorney in Western Pennsylvania because he msde Republican speeches. This year Secretary Vilas and Assistant Postmaster-general Stevenson ara making speeches for Cleveland, but there it no Hoping out. This shows the progress of eiril-serr-ice reform in two years. Springfield Union. The following inscription is on a table now 4wned by Mr. F. P. Arnold, of Marshfield. The inscription has not lost its pertinency: "1 833. rresfnted by the mechanic ? of BafTalo to the Urn. faniel Webster. In testimony of respect for his ditinfrnisbed public service ia defense of a protective tariff and of our national governmint" Mr. Harrison has delivered several speeches a day almost continuously for thirteen weeks and cot jet made a eingle mistake. That beats the reeord of all the brilliant statesmen who have appeared ia the arena of American politics. His speech on the turplut yesterday waa simply admirable for itt aptness of illustration end Us convincing logic. To be appreciated it must !ba read and compared with the clumsy, ponderous and labored efforts of Grover Cleveland oa the same subject. Minneapolis Journal.

REDUCING THE TAXES. How Much Mare Has ISeen Accomplished by Rapnbllcans Than by Democrats. Kew York Mail and Express. The Democrats profuss to bt endeavorirg to cut down the surplus by their free-trade measure. They say that we are collecting too much money from tbe people and diverting it from the channels of trade, where it should be Cowing and bestowing blessings upon tha country. It is true that we are collecting too much money. It is cot true that we are collecting nearly so much more as the Democrats say we are. A good deal of our surplus is due to the faet that the Democrats have refused, for many years, to make adequate and ceccessary appropriations for sea-coast defenses, orduaLce and new ships. Bat, whatever may be the excess of our re re cues beyond the needs of the government, the Democrats have cot made an honest effort to reduce them, because they knew before tbey started tbat a free-trade bill could cot become a law so long as tbe Senate was Republican. In fact, ths Democrats have never been able to introduce a practical measure for reducing ths revenues. Tbey havs been in control ot the House from 1ST5 to 18S1 and from IS S3 to the present time, eleven years. For two years of this time tbey bad tht majority of both houses of Congress. In this time they reduced taxation just ?6.370,CCO. They say that tho Republican party refuses to reduce taxes. On the contrary, it is the Republican party that has made nearly all the reductions sinco the close of the war. We will compare eleven years of Republican legislation with eleven years of work done by the Democrats. The eleven years during which the Republicans were in power were frota 18C6 to 1873 and from 1831 to 18S3. In tbat time the revenues were reduced $3G2,POO,C0O, as follows: Acts of July 13, 1SCG, and March 2. 19157 $103.30.000 Acts of March. 1863. and Feb . 1SC3. 5 1,800.000 Acts of July, 1870 81,320,000 Acts of December. 1S71 14,100,000 Acts of Mav, 1672 (tta and con ea free list)...... 15.900,000 Acts of June, 1872 31,000.000 Acts of March 4, 1$13 (estiruatei).... Cl.200.000 ?3C2,000,00O This is the record: Democratic reductions, $6,370,000; Republican reductions, 562,000.000. Which, then, is the tax reducing party? Which hat done the most to relieve the people of their burdens! Harrison's Indiana Friends. Kew York Press. "From that day to this my came has never been mentioned in any convention for any office that I have cot had almost the unanimous support of tbe Republicans of Wabash county." Such were tbe words in which General Harrison referred to the mutual confidence and esteem wbieh since 1860 has existed between him and tbe people of one of the most prosperous farming counties in bis State. It is no wonder tbat both the parties to such a bond feel gratified and honored by its existence. Such alliances, creditable alike to tha citizen and the official, are exceedingly rare in fiolitics. Webster, Clsy, both tbe Adamses, and n faet nearly all the leaainc: men in the history of our public life, have at times felt tbe weight of populsr disapproval in constituencies to which they have looked for unquestioning fidelity. General Harrison ranks with Abraham Lincola in holding the affections of neighbors and companions by a life of strict integrity and in winning their admiration by conspicuous ability in every position of trust The people of Indiana long azo followed the example of the men of Wabash county. There is little doubt tbat in November the people at large will show by convincing majorities tbat Benjamin Harrison has earned an equal place in their confidence to that which he holds ia the hearts of tbe citizens cf Indiana. The 31an for the Head of Tills Nation. Haw York Inderendent. Every speech Gen. Harrison has made sine he was nominated and he has spoken almost daily every letter he has written and every public appesranca be has made, hat served to confirm the Repnnlicsn party in the belief that the Chicago convention selected the right maa to succeed Grover Cleveland. The more the peonle see of him ths more tbey feel that 'precisely such a man," as Dr. Siorrs says, "should be at the bead of this Nation." A Kentucky 8traw. Msdisou t'onrier. Mr. John R. Cravens informs us that a reliable gentleman residing at Locust, Ky., was ia hie store this forenoon wearing a Harmon badgo. Ho said that Blaine received bat three white votes in that voting precinct, and there is now a Harrison club there of eighty members out of a voting population cf one hundred and sixty. The crentlem&u 'fferrel to voted for Cleveland four year .o, but (as his badge indicated) will vote for dereral Harrison. An Egg Sample. Union City Eafile. An egg shipped out this market had written on it -How i wltics down Etiti" Tbe otber day a post j received from Hart & Bro., 191 Chamber t.et. New York, as follows: "Your egg roRrired with question, as to how politics art down East We took a vote in the store, with the fallowing result: Harrison, 11; Cleveland, 1. Wo are whooDinp hsr op fr Harrison, Morton and protection, flow is Indiana!" How Soou We Are Forgvt H ttsburg Dispatch. Says the Boston Herald: "Mr. Roger Q. Mills has made more reputation in tbe past year thsu toy Amerisan publio man." Has the Herald t soon forgotten the late Mr. Crowlejf I