Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 October 1888 — Page 4

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Congressional. rirsiDistrict-FRANK B. TOSET. 8-ond THOMAS N. BRAXTON. Third STEPHEN D. SAYLES. Fourth MANLY D. WILSON. Fifth-HENRY C. DUNCAN. Sixth TflOMAS M. BROWNE. Seventh THOMAS E. CHANDLER. Eighth JAM Es. T. JOHNSTON. Nioth-JOSEPH B. CfiEADLE. Tenth WILLIAM D. OWEN. Eleventh GEOIiGE W. STEELE. Twelfth-JAMES B WHITE. Thirteenth WILLIAM HOYNES. legislative end Judicial. STATE SSNATCB. FERDINAND WINTER, WILLIAM E. TOUSEY. SEATOB MARION, SHELBY AT HANCOCK, SIDNEY CONGER, of Shelby. BIPB JSIXTATIVES. MILLARD F. OOSNETT, GEORGE F. McGlNNlS. GEORGE C. WKBSTr'R. CHARLES t HEi'KMAN, WILLIAM W. WALDEN. CCTIT EZPBISISTATIVI MARION. SUELBT AXD HAN-ccx-k. WARREN R. KING, of Hancock. JTEGE NINETEENTH JUPICIAIj CIRCUIT, Ji HN V. HADLLY, of Hendricks, PSCSXCCTIXQ ATTORN ET NINET5ENTTI JUDICIAL CJkCCIT HARRISON T. T1NCUER, of Marion. Stat Ticket. GOVERNOR, ALYIN P. HOVEY, cf Posey. iJErT.ooviaxoit, IRA J. CHASE, of Hendriclca. jcdgx or srpHzus court, 1st District SILAS D. COFFEY, of Cay. 2d District J. G. BERKSHIRE, of Jennings 4th District- WALTER OLDS, of Whitley. 8KCF START Or TATE. CHARLES F. GRIFFIN, of Lake. AUDITOR Or STATE, BRUCE CARR, of 'Orange. TREASURE Or STATE. J. A. LEMCKE. of Vanderburg. ATTO RN ET-O KNEKAL, L. T. MICHENER, of Shelbj. SUPTKINTrNDENT OF PCBLIO INSTRUCTION, HARVEY M. LA FOUiETTE, of Boone. REPORTER Or SUPREME COUBT, JOHN L. GRIFFITHS, of Marion. County Ticket. SHERIFF,.-. LEANDER A. FULMER. TREASURER. MAHLON II. FLOYD. CORONEB, THEO. A. WAGNER. 6URVETOS, JACOB. W. LOEPER. COMMISSIONERS, BENJAMIN F. OSBORN, FIELDING BEELER. THE Southeast Indiana Conference adopted sensible and Metbodiatio resolutions on the question of temperance legislation. ALL roads 'will lead to Indianapolis, sura enough, when the drummers of the United Etates are headed this way, about the 20th of the month. General Benet says hU now notorious circular was isued in the interest of civil service. The civil service must be in a remarkable condition when women and children fcave to be "fired"' without warning in order lo improve it. Hon. James G. Blaine will mate the five speeches ia this StAte, for -which he was first announced. That matter is now definitely settled, and Indiana Republicans can be confident of hearing Mr. Blaine at the times and places heretofore published. THE newspapers of the country, generally, are paying their attention to the latest and worst exposure or the civil-service rottenness of Mr. Cleveland's administration, the BenetEndieott circular against women and children. The Boston papers are particularly distressed over the new and unexpected fall of the Plymouth Rock Endieott. We have not yet heard from Mr. Bynum in reply to the proposition of Mr. Dow, of Atlanta. Mr. Bynum is hot now engaged in denying that Piedmont Chautauqua speech, in which he vilified the industrial interests of Indianapoiis, represented our workingmm out of credit and starving four months in a year, and their wives compelled to go to the washlub to earn a living for their families. Democratic managers are hard run up in Michigan, when, in order io draw a crowd, they are obliged to advertise that Cleveland will be present, rimall towns of that State were inundated with yellow dodgers announcing that the President would be at a meeting in Detroit last week, atid faithful Democrats, eager to see the man lauded almost as a god by Don Dickinson, flocked to the citj enlf

to go home disgusted when they learned that he had not even been expected. Democratic campaign liars, it appears, do not confine their efforts to concocting tales about Republican candidates.

The campaign lie of William Condon has been rebuked by the formation . of a large Irish -American club at Bloomington, HI., which will wield its influence in the interest of the Republican cause. ilVEN tho Democratic papers of Philadelphia admit that from 20,000 to 25,000 men took part in the Republican parade in that city Saturday night. It was a big one, and was still going when the early editions of tho newspapers went to press at 1 A. M. Another constituent of Colonel Matson takes exception to the claim that the Democratic party is the only friend of the soldier, and that Mr. Matson owns the soldier vote of his district. This time it is Dr. John A. Williams, of Patricksburg, a life-long Democrat, who repudiates Cleveland and Democracy, and announces that he will support Harrison and Morton. . In 1SS5 President Cleveland sent a check to the New York State committee to help elect Hill, and with it was a personal letter containing the warmest good wishes. Colonel Lamont went down to New York last week to persuade the party managers to make this old letter do instead of a new one, but it is understood that he did not succeed. A good many things have happened since ISSo, and the Hill men will insist upon upon a fresh indorsement. A letter from you or our knife to you, is about the way they are putting it. The Endicott-Benet circular, unearthed and made public by the Journal, was up in the Senate yesterday. Senator nale introduced a resolution calling on the Secretary of War for a list of removals made since the circular was issued, and supported the resolution with a speech in which he handled the administration without gloves and denounced the black flag circular in the strongest language. Other Republican Senators desired to speak, but upon the objection of Senator Cockrell, of Missouri, the resolution went over till to-day. Senator Hale will ask for an investigation of the matter, and give the Secretary of War a chance to explain and defend his order against women and children. It is the most scandal-, ously infamous thing ever known in American politics. R. C. J. Pendleton has been in Rhode Island, and has been making speeches, in which he said a great many things that were utterly foolish and some things that wero sound and truo. Mr. Pendleton said: ;Personally General Harrison is the peer of any man in the Nation. There is nothing any one $an say against him." That i3 honorable and true. The foolish things Mr. Pendleton said were to represent that the ex-Union soldiers of Indianapolis were opposed to General Harrison in larger numbers than ever opposed f.ny other Republican candidate, and that, even amopg his personal friends, the laboring men were going to vote for Cleveland. Mr. Pendleton knows better than this, and it is not complimentary to his own or his hearers intelligence for him to utter such self-evident rot No law made by Congress is so sacred that it cannot be broken at will by members of Cleveland's Cabinet. In crder to prevent the use of the various navy-yards throughout the country for political purposes certain laws were passed prohibiting the increase of the working force in any of them sixty days before election, except in case of war preparations, when the Secretary of the Navy could issue notice to that effect. This contingency does not exist at present, but the reform Secretary will fill the yards with heelers and strikers all the same, as indicated by the following advertisement, just published: CERTIFICATE IN COMPLIANCE WITH AN act of Congress", approved Jane 30, 187G, I hereby eertify that the needs of the public erriee m&Jce it necesary to increase at this time the force at the tay-yard, Brooklyn, N. Y., for the prosecution of the work upon the Yantic, Galena, Miantonom&h ai.d Terror, and or other necessary purposes. W. C WHITNEY. Secretary of the Navy. "Other necessary purposes" is good. THE Indianapolis Sentinel through Mr. Fritz M. Stritter tries to prove by the figures of the congressional race in the First congse&sional district that General Hovey is not a popular man. The contrary is easily proved by its own figures: In 1S34 the total vote of the district was SS 770, and with three candidates in the field, Gudgel, the Republican nominee, received 18,493, or 47 per cent, of the whole vote. In 18S(3, with four candidates in the field. General Hovey received 18,2o3 out of a total vote of 37.2G3, or 49 per cent, of the whole. Or take it another way, using Mr. Stritters figures: Ia the election of 1884, Kleiner (Dem.) received 51 per cent, of the total vote, and Gudgel (Rep.) roceived47 per cent, of the total vote. Only three candidates were in the field. In the election of 188G, McCullongh (Dem.) received 43 per cent, of the total vote; Ilovey (Rep.) received 40 per cent of the total vote, and four candidates in the field. General Hovey not only cut down the Democratic vote from 51 per cent, of the total to 45 per cent, but increased the Republican vote from 47 per cent, to 49 percent, and had one more candidate to fight, thus proving his strength and popularity beyond question. . A RETIRED United States army officer has looked into the military record of General Benet, author of the recent infamous circular, as found in the official Army Register of January, 18S8. It shows that he was born in Florida; was appointed in the Military Academy, July 1, 1843; brevet Eecond lieutenant, July 1, 1849; second lieutenant, July 10, 1831; captain, Aag. 3, 1801; major, Dec 22, 1SCG; brigadier-general, chief of ordnance, June 23, 1874, which position he accepted the next day. Thus it is seen that he entered the great civil war as a captain and came out at its close still a captain, indicating that during the five years of its progress, with all the opportunities for promotion that death und meritorious service offers, he did not secure even a brevet rank. His promotion to his present position was a piece of favoritism, the record showing that he would be only a colonel

if he had passed through the regular grades of promotion, j From major he jumped over three colonels, four lieutenant-colonels and several majors, while if he had had any merit of his own he would have been a general at the close of the war. c

BEWARE OF SL AN DEBS Speaking of the Democratic managers and office-holders, the Log Cabin, of New York, says: "These men, as a body, are not distinguished for candor or; principle very far from it On the contrary, we do not doubt that if it was deemed necessary to commit perjury, forgery and all; conceivable baseness to secure the re-election of Martin Van Bnren, there are wretches by the hundred who would volunteer or be hired; to perpetrate those atrocities. We know that some who would not tell a deliberate untruth will refuse to correct one which they have ignorantly told. We know that Joseph Ritner, when running for Governor of Pennsylvania, in 1S32, was injured and probably beaten by a deliberate forgery to which his name was signed, and which was probably coined by a member of. Congress, then and now in high favor with his party. We know that in two different elections in this State, when an anti-Jackson Governor of Ohio had been chosen early in October, the Albany Argus and its echoes persisted in asserting the contrary until after the New York general election. We know that the New York Evening Post, which once expressly retracted and condemned tho slander which accuses General Harrison of having voted to "sell white men into slavery for debt" and cautioned its allies to cease their personal warfare upon the old soldier, has since reasserted and now persists in the libel it once confessed, and greedily retails every low and scandalous libel on General Harrison, which its superiors in villainy chose to manufacture. Seeing and knowing this, and much more, we exhort the freeman of 5ur misgoverned government to be prepared for any slander or forgery which desperate malice and unscrupulous atrocity can invent" We might permit the above article to go without a word of comment, and every reader could naturally and very properly suppose it was written to-day and of the present campaign. But, as a matter of fact, the article is from Horace Greeley's 'jLog Cabin" of date of June C, 1840, and doubtless was written by the matchless editorial founder of the New York Tribune. The extract is of value, not only to rebuke present slanders and slanderers, hut as proving that there is an heredity in parties and newspapers, ns there is in individuals. The Democratic party seems to have always been the party of lies', and perjuries, and forgeries, an heredity to which it is still true, while the New York Evening Pest more than sustains its ancient character and reputation. If there is one paper above another that is absolutely devoid of fairness and common decency in this campaign it is the New York Evening Post MR. BYMJM. IudiaDaroIis Sentinel. Am. 23, We shall Lave to take Mr. Bynum at his word. He defies all authority; he refuses to acccept a fair settlement; he outrages every sentiment of political decency. Up to last night the Sentinel had as much regard for the Democracy of Mr. Bynum as for that cf any man in the district Now it has none. Mr. Bynum deserves to bo thrown out cf the party. He has forfeited the respect of every Democrat who believes the party has some other mission than backing Mr. Bynum's selfish, reckless and destructive ambition. ItiManarolii Sentinel, An. K, 15. No man living in the history of the party ha aeted so contemptible a part ns. Mr. Bynum has within the past six days. r lie has disappointed his friends, gratified' his enemies, prostituted his honor as a Democrat and shown himself to be whollv unworthy the confidence of his party, lie deervef nothing better than to be seized neck an4 heels, thrown over the fence and dropped into the ditch. Six days . ago the slightest manifestation Gt fairness and solicitude for the party woufd have secured for Mr. Bynum everything he is trying to attain by his blind, insensate, pig-headed, rulo or ruin policy of self-assertion. With him it is Bynum or he damned to you." He has forfeited all right to considers ticn and all claims to respect He is a dangerous, unreliable, vindictive, ungenerous party man. He has deliberately chosen to make an Ishm&elite of himself. These touching testimonials are reprinted from the co!umnsof our esteemed Democratic contemporary for the purpose of identifying Mr. Bynum, who seems to have got lost So far as we know, the likelihood is tbat our once notorious Congressman is in the uttermost parts of the district in company with that highly estimable and honorable workingman, who tended to the babies while his wife went to the wa&b-tub to make aliving forthe family. Mr. Bynum would not travel with his "awful example" in Indianapolis. "EOT ANOTHER MAN OR. DOLLAR' A correspondent of the Journal asked the other day if it was not Senator Voorhees who said in a speech at the beginning of the civil war: "Not another man or another dollar to carry on this nnholy war." It wag, and never denied till the war was well over. But the most conspicuous utterance of this at tbat time prevalent Democratic sentiment' appeared in a petition to tho Democratic Legislature of 16G3, which tried to displace Governor Morton from tbe command cf the troops and give it to three "Sons of Liberty." The petition came from Sullivan county, where the Democrats, on the ISth of June, 1S03, murdered Capt. Fletcher Freeman for enrolling Cass township for the draft On the ICth of January, 1803, a petition was presented in the House (which a week before had refused to receive Governor Morton's message because it urged activity against the rebellion) from the Democnts of Sullivan asking that "not one man nor one dollar be voted to prosecute thie infernal abolition war" the language of Mr. Voorhees in his Greeucastle speech. This petition was respectfully received and referred. On the 21st of February, 1803, a large Democratic meeting in Greenca3tle resolved that it was "The deliberate sense of this meeting that not another soldier and not another dollar ought to be furnished for the further prosecution of this war for negro emaacipation." These eminently Democratic expressions are of record. 3 THE BRUSH-MAKERS Among the large industries of Lansingburg, N. Y., is brush-making. There are twentysix brush factories in the place. Under protection the industry has prospered, and the price of American hair and clothes brushes has been steadily lowered, with a prospect of further decrease. The present duty on foreign hair and clothes brushes is 30 per cent, and this is barely sufficient to enable American manufacturers to compete with cheap foreign labor. The Mills bill reduces the duty

to 20 per cent, which the Troy Times says would practically crush out the business so far as the manufacture of fine brushes is concerned. The manufacturers, themselves are of the same opinion for twenty-four out of twenty-six of them have signed a protest again st the passage of the Mills bilL In this protest, after reciting the treatment they received from the ways and means committeo, t the manufacturers "We see no other 4ine of action to recommend than to oppose with might and main the re-election forresident of the present incumbent, who, although from New York State, heads the hostile forces operating against our industry under the pretext of reducing tho surplus in the United States Treasury, when it-is evident thatitwoull make directly to that end, and greatly benefit the country too, by advancing instead of reducing the tariff rate upon foreign brushes 30 as to adequately protect our home industry in this branch of manufacture, and thus retain our home market for our people instead of surre ndering it to foreigners." Of the twenty-four signers of the protest, five, eays tbe Troy Times, "are life-long Democrats, and heretofore prominent and influential supporters of the Democratic, party enterprising, stanch and highly-respected citizens, namely: Owen Dennin, James O'Neill James Reed, William J. O'Brien and John Reilly." By the way, as the Mills bill reduces the duty on brushes from 30 to 20 per cent, a reduction of 33 1-3 per cent, what becomes of the claim that it only works a reduction of 5 per cent? - The New York Evening Post the able and untiring advocate of free trade, in an article on the labor question, used the following language: "It would bo better for all of them, in the, long run, to reduce waes to the famine point, so as to force all who sad sufficient strength into other employments. This at least would diminish competition, and give the remaining ones a better chance.' . Tho Post is a chief supporter of G rover Cleveland, because Mr. Cleveland more nearly represents its viewt on the subject of free trade, and the reaucing of wages "to the famine point"

Ik a speech delivered by Henry B. Payne, United Stites Senator from Ohio, in the city of Cleveland, on the 8th of January, 1S83, and reported iu the New York World of January 10, he said: "Free trade has never been accepted by the government of ony civilized nation, and is impracticable and impossible, and those words for revenue onlv.' unwisely inserted in tbe platform of 180 lost to the Democracy the presidency, and all which that loss implied, and a like fatality will assuredly follow a repetition of the folly in any future campaign." Mr. Payne may smell of coal oil, but these words are tho words of truth and soberness. The New York Sun reviews the platitudinous and sophomoric speech of Chief-justice Fuller, at the recent Chicago banquet, closing with a quotation of that amazing piece of tomfoolery where Mr. Fuller says he knows he will have "to tread the wine-press alone. " Mr. Dana remarks for the new Chief-justice's comfort and edification: "Let Mr. Fuller cheer up; he will not have to tread the winepress alone. He will have tbe assistance of eight gentlemen, every one of whom weighs, in pounds avoirdupois, from fifteen to one hundred per cent more than Chief-justice Fuller." The Journal prints this morning a very meagre outline of an able speech on the tariff, delivered by Hon. Robert S. Taylor, before the Fort Wayne Harrisou and Morton Railroad Club. Of the speech the Fort Wayne Gazette says: "The speech of Judge Taylor, which is given in full in this issue, is the strongest tariff argument that has been made in this campaign. It will compare favorably with the greatest efforts of McKinley, and is the result of careful study and thoughtful research. The Gazette predicts for this document an extensive circulation." A correspondent from Missouri sends tbe Joaroal a copy of tbe ticket which tbe Tippecanoe men voted in Icdiaoa in 1S40. It is embellished with a picture of a log cabin, above which are tbe legends: 'Democratic kimplicity." "He will reapeot the right of the log-cabin boys." Below it reads: FOB PRESIDENT, WILT JAM HENRY HARRISON. VICF-FRESTDFNT, JOHN TYLER. votixo elector. Jonathan Mccarty, joskfh g. marshall, JOHN W. PAYNE. R. W. THOMPSON. JOSEPH L. WHITE. JAMKS H. CRAVENS, CALEB B. SMITH. WILLIAM II t ROD, ,S. C. SAMPLE. These names are all familiar to old citizens, and though, we belie? e, but one on the list R. W. Thompson is living to assist in the election of "Tippecanoe V grandson, tbe descendants of others are active in bis behalf, aod show tbat the precepts "of the fathers have been well learned, and tbr example effective. t Spence's Teople's Paper, published in Covington, Ind.; quoliog from the Demoeratio platform of 1880, 'pled'cin themselves ,sanew to the docrinta and traditions of the Demoeratio party, as illustrated by the teaching aod examples cf a bog line ftf Democratic statesmen and patriote, priots a Kit of the patriots, beginning with Bichanau and Jeff Davit and ending with Wilkes Booth and Does Tweed, then civing a compreheiiive summary of the doctrines and traditions, such as slarery and secession, rebellion, treason, Andersonville, Belle Isle, Cron in's ncset Barnum'a "mules," Clereland's rebel flag eider, etc. It is a very neat piece of work. I Extfiusiasm in politics is cosimendable, especiallf waen manifested by Republicans; but there realy is such a thin; as going too far, and tbe Nebraska man who has bet his wife acainst bis neighbor's cow that Harrison will be elected, seems tobave gone there. It is said in his be half thai his enthusiasm and confidence in the result i? Pennine, and tbat he has no ulterior purposebf getting rid of his wife, and there is, of coure, no probability tbat he will lose her. but suci wagers, as Joseph Cook might eay, do not maie for elevated politics, aud ought not to be eccluraced. The betting fraternity should confineitself to loose change and head gear. The new work edited by Hon. John D. Xiong, of Massachusetts, has already been noticed lu the Journal It is entitled "The Republican Party, Its nwtory, Principles and Policies," and em brseetfehsptert on special topies by Senators Ineslli. Hswley, Frye and Chandler; Representative f)ingley, Burrows, McKinley, Batterworth and others. The book is a very valuable one, and li published for Indiana by Mr. Robert Douiass, of this city, and is now ready for distribution. Sold by subscription only. jr r Tib Boston Saturday Evening Gazette supported Grover Clereland in 1881 on the civilservice reform principle. In 18S8 it supports BejJamiA Harrison, on the same principle. It

has a record of broken promises and a debauched and degraded civil service on the one. hand, and on the other the pledge of man whose whole life and character give to his words their fullest .possible weight Tne Gazette is one consistent mugwump psper. Senator Don Cameron, of course, repudiates the foolish story set afloat by Democrats tbat he had spoken disparagingly of General Harrison. . Mr. Cameron ssys: . "3Iy relations with General Harrison when in the Senate were of tbe most friendly character. He was not a man to be carried away by sudden impulses and had no guen in his composition. Tbat style suits do. Knowing tho characteristics of the man ns 1 do, I think he will make a conservative bnt a strong President The country will br governed on a hich plane, every interest will have its share of executive attention, tbe administrative branches of the government will be conducted on a liberal scale , and tbe country will have sn end to adverse

economic agitation, and will be peaceful, pros perous and happy. Reader: Corporal Tanner's home is in Brooklyn, N. Y. He belonged to the Eightyseventh New York Infantry, and was wounded at the eecond battle of Ball Run. To the Editor cf the Indlananolls Journal: Please give President Cleveland's ordsr for tbe return of tne "rebel flags" and oblige many inquirers, also his order revoking the order. Many Democrats deny that he issued an order to return them to the rebels. Underwood, Ind. J. H. Friedlet. The circular sent out by tbe Adjutant-general of the army to the Governors of the Southern States was dated June 11, 18S7, but was under9 stood to have been issued by the President two weeke earlier, and was aa follows: "The President of the United States having approved the recommendation that all the flaps in the eastody of the War Department be returned to the authorities of the re.pective States in which the regiments which bore them were organized, for such final disposition as they may determine, 1 am instructed, by the Honorable Secretary of War, to make you (in the name of the War Department) a tender of the flags now in this office belonging to the late rolanteer organizations of your State. In discharging t his pleasant duty, I beg you, please advise me of your wishes in this matter. It is the intention in returning each fla,? to give its history, as far as it is possible to do so, stating the circumstances of its capture and recovery." On June 1G tbe President issued a letter to the Secretary of War, in which, after saying tbat he had considered the subject of tbe return of tbe Cags with more csre than when it was first presented to him, he added: "I am of the opinion that the return of these flags. In the manner thus contemplated, is not authorized by existing laws, nor justified as an executive act I request, therefore, that no further steps be taken in tbe matter, except to examine and inventory these flags, and adopt proper measures for their preservation. Any direction as to tbe final disposition cf them should originate with Congress." to the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal. Please eive a short 6ketch of Ben Harrison's father, naming dates of birth and death, manner of same and his occupation while living. Mulligan, Ind., Sept. 23. A Reader. John Scott Harrison wss born at Vmcennes, Ind., in 1604, and died May 27, 1878, at North Bend, O., where he had spent tbe greater psrt of his life. His death was marked by nounusual features. He was a farmer by occupation, and was held in great respect in tbe community. He served as a Congressman from the years 1853 to 1857, but his life was, ia the main, quiet and uneventful. POLITICAL NO I E AND C011MEXT. There are but three certainties this year: Death, taxes and Demoeratio defeat Chicago Journal. The Warsaw (111.) woolen-mills, have a Harrison and Morton streamer, 21 feet long, floating from the flagstaff on the top of the mill, placed there by their employes. The majority of the voters in this mill are in favor of protection. George C IIebeblino, the Democratic nominee in Iowa for Secretary of State, has sent a letter to tbe State committee declining to make the race, aod the vacancy oh the ticket has been filled by the selection of Walter McHenry, of Des Moines. Or the nine German daily newspapers which are supporting Harrison in Ohio six supported Cleveland in 1831. The German uaUgwumps of Ohio, if their papers are any indication, have eorae back ta their old party in a body. The "Old Roman" doesn't seem to be doing what was expected of him. Boston Journal. The Republican prospects in New Jersey were never brighter than they are now, Tbe State that voted for William Henry Harrison and Henry Clay and Abrsbam Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant will be found onca more in line with the Northern host and under the banner of protectioa. New York Mail and Express. Hon. J. B. Kcnnee, of Huntington, Ind., who has been attending the national encampment of Odd-fellows io California, addressed an immense Republican gathering in San Francisco last Tuesday evening. His remarks were confined chiefly to an eulogy of General Harrison aod a refutation of tbe Democjatic lies that have been uttered against him. Mr. J. W. Gephart, the distinguished law partner of Governor Bearer of Pennsylvania, has written a long letter prelecting his views on the tariff question and stating why he intends to support and vote for Harrison and Morton. Mr. Gephart wants it understood that he is just as good a Democrat as ever, but he is not a free-trade Cleveland Democrat "Wht," said Tom Reed, In his latest speech, "if the President and Mr. Thurman and Mr. Townshend, of Illinois, are right in their assertions about how much we lose every year by the tariff T.e have lost since 18S0 more than $22,000,000,000, more than the whole United States was listed for in 1800. According to that, then, we have lost since 1800 our whole coutry, and we must be sitting outdoors to-night." "A glimpse of one possible eause of tbe prevalent disorganization of the mail service, says the Utiea Herald, "is afforded by the affidavit of George N. Harrison, of Rochester. He makes oath that during his connection with the carrier seivice in that city, the present year, he has 'seen repeatedly employes of the post-office playiog cards during business hours. Parties playing were men recently appointed at that time.' .'Public office is a pnblie trust.' THE FREE TRADJ2 BILL. What the Free-Treders Would ilave Done If They Dared. New York Mail and Express. Tbe argument that the Demoeratio party is '.for free trade cannot be too often insisted udoq. ,The Democrats assert that tbe Mills bill as it psssed the Huus, is not a free trade measure. 'We have answered that, but we want to point out now the fact tfiat if the authors of the bill bad their way it would have been a much longer step than it is in tbe direction of free trade. Here are aome of th important changes which the House made in the bilL In the first column of figures will be fonnd the proposal of the bill, and in the second tbe duty fixed by the House: Proposed by Fixed by Mills. House. Glue Free- 20 per cent. Gelatine Free, SO per cent. Fish glue Free. 25 per cent. Essential oils Free. 25 per cent. Barks, berries, etc Free. Unchanged. China, porcelain, etc.... 45 per cent 50 per eenu Earthen and st neware.. 40 per cent. 50 per cent. Flint and lined glass bottles - 30 per cent. 4 0 per cent, Polished cylinder and crown glass, 24xSO, not exceeding 21x50. . 15c sq. ft. 20c sq. ft. Tablet an?, mulls and crinolines 25 per cent. 40 per cent. Flax, bleached, known as dressed line Free. $10 ton. Bagging for cotton J Free, 1 2c. pd. Card clothing 15c sq. ft. 30c sq. ft. Gloves 40 per cent. f0 per cent. Linen Free 10 per eent. India rubber fabrics.... 15 percent. 25 & 30 p. e. Penknives, etc.......... 35 per cent. 50 per cent. Marble, Free. 40c e. ft. There are a few of the articles in the tariff list which are placed at higher rates of daty by the House of Representatives than tbey were by the authors of the Mills bill. It will be seen from an examination of the table that the freetraders would have made a more damaging attack on the protective system if they dared. A YenerHble Toad. London Special to Pittsburg Dispatch. A very entertaining old toad has been called up this week to enliven tbe British public He was found someseore.of yards under the earth's ' surface, embedded in clay. His limbs were perfectly limp and he was stone blind. Tbe local savants could not guess its sg accurately, but reckoned its ago somewhere between 20,000 and 30.000 rears. This toad was tired of living the day before Adam got tired of living alone in Eden, aod it is just possible he beard the rain ootae down during the flood. Unfortunately

other scientists vow with the Times that the poor toad must have fallen down some ersck in the clsy soil during a dry season and became embedded when tne rain caused the soil to swell. But scientific men always take a delight in spoiling other scientists' stones.

The Vetoes of Pension Claims. New York Press. The claim that the Democrats have been favorable to the liberal pensioning of soldiers is utterly absurd. President Cleveland's attitude is given in tbe subjoined tabl. which shows the number of private pension bills passed by Congress and the action taken thereon by the several Presidents of the United States from March 4, lSG'J, to the latter part of August, 1S3& Bills passed by Ap- DlsapPresidents. Coueres. proved, proved. Grant, 8 years 5S3 575 S Hayes 4 years 307 Ii07 Arthnr. 3 yrs. 8 rocs 736 735 Cleveland, Li yrs. 6mos.l,034 CCS 410 Five bills were vetoed by President Grant because tbe beneficiaries had been pensioners under the general pension lsw& Tbe other three vetoes of pension bills by President Grant were on the ground tbat tbe records of tbe War Department showed the beneficiaries to have been deserters. The test of a President's frendlineas toward pension legislation is not on how many bills he approves. Tbe test is on his reverse action. The Free-Whisky Mills Bill. Philadelphia American. The clause of the Mills bill which would lighten tbe burden of national taxation on beer and whisky is as follows: Sec 40. That aU clanses of section 3244 of the Revised Statutes and all laws amendatory thereof, and all other lawe which impose anv epec!al taxes upon tnsnnfaeturers of stills, retail dealers in liquors, and retail dealers in malt liquors are hereby repealed. This clause is omitted from the copies cf the bill published by tbe national Democratic committee, by the New York Evenine Post and by the Philadelphia Times. The lattr has mutilated its edition of tbe bill still further by omitMng Sec. 20. That whenever ia sny statute denouncing sny violation of tbe internal revenue laws as a felony, crime, or misdemeanor, there is prescribed in such statute a minimum punishment, H than which minimum no fine, tenalty, or imprisocmeut is authorized to be imposed, every sneh minimum punishment is hereby abolished, and the court or judge in every such case shall Lava discretion to impose any fine, penalty, imprisonment, or puntshnr.nt not exceeding the limit authorized by such statute, whether such fine, penalty, imprisonment, or tunishment be less or" greater than the said minimum so prescribed. This clause leaves it to the discretion of the judge to punish illicit distillers, traders without a license, sod the line, by a merely nominal fine. Both clauses are directly in the ioterest of the liquor traffic and its worst representatives. Doth would reduce the revenue the country now derives from taxes on that traffic In some districts and under seme judges the revenue mieht disappear altogether, bat there would be no reduction of the salaried ofScials we maintain to collect it Both are the work of tbe party which is horrified at the suggestion of a repeal of the tax. Don Dickinson's Lie About New England. Washington Special. In a long tirade against New England, Postmaster-general Dickinson thus sneers at the patriotism of New England: "Tbe State of Missouri sent more troops to tho Union armies than all of New England, outside of Massachusetts. And yet they talk about patriotism and try to induce our Western fsrmerg, from whom they never boy a pound of anything, to keep on voting riches in their pockets." So far from this being true, the States be thus refers to, ssiJe from Massachusetts, which furnished 14S.730, sent nearly a quarter of a million soldiers into the field, or twice as many as he here represents. Mr. Cleveland's administration seems to blander in all its part whenever it meddles with the Union soldier. The Choice to Be Made. Temperance EvxngelUt. It is certainly very desirable to have a Christian gentleman elected to the presidency of the United States. Eight years ago the lamented Garfield, an elder in the Christian Church, was chosen. This year we have two Christian men nominated for that high office Gen. Clinton B. Fisk, a Methodist layman, and Gen. Benjamin Harrison, an elder in the Presbyterian Church. It is conceded that General Fuk has no hope cf election, leaving the choice between General Harrison, a soldier of the cress and of cur country, and the present incumbeut, who is s soldier neither of tbe cross nor of his country. lie a sou would dictate to tbe Christian and loyal voters of this Nation for which candidaie they should cast their ballots this falL Wisconsin Doesn't Want Free Trade. Milwaukee Sentinel. There are 15,000 voters in the State cf Wisconsin, exclusive of the wool-growers, who are directly affected by the change in the schedule made by tbe Mills bill. This includes 5.0 CO metal-workers of all kinds, 2,000 coopers, 8,000 saw-mill operatives; nothing being said cf the various minor industries that are toachel The farmers of Wisconsin raise nearly $2,000,000 worth of wool every year, and this is affected by tbe Mills bilL On the whole, Wisconsin is not a good State in which to urge the advantages of the Mills bill. Not a "Quack," but a Conspirator. Chicago Journal. Roger '-Quack" Mills is the nsme given by the Indianapolis Journal to the free-trade chairman. He is no "quark." He knows just what he is about in prescribing free-trade medicine for the North. He may delude people, but he is not an ignoramus and humbug himself. His cunning: and skill cannot be denied. 'He and the conspirators acting with him mean to destroy the North by free-trade specifics, while making the North believe tbat it is taking something jest at good ss protection, or better. That is not "quackery;" it is conspiracy and fraud." Increase In Cotton Manufacture. Wade's Fibre and Fabric. During the yearlSST-88, Northern vs. lis consumed 1,737,121 bales of cotton. Tbe consumption of Southern mills for the same period was 443,373 bales. This is an increase of 147.5 per cent during the last eight years for Southern manufacture. The Northern only showa an improvement of 27.4 per cent, for that period. Willing to Make Use of Any Lie. Peoria Trsnecript. About all that is left of the Condon controversy is a very badly dsmsced reputation for Mr. Condon, and the farther demonstration of a well known fact, that no lie is so base that the Demoeratio leaders. State and national, will hesitate to use it when they btlieve th;y can make a point A Nelgborhood Agreement. Washington Special. Harrison writes to a friend here that one of the pleasant features of the campaign U the agreement entered into by his neighbors for several blocks each way aronnd his borne to vote for him in November regardless of party as a personal tribute to an old friend and neighbor. They Ought To Da Detroit Tribune. Sim Coy isn't the only Indiana Democrat who ought to be in tho penitentiary. The infamous liars and perjurers who are assailing GeoerAl Harrison oueht to be tnere too. It is an outrage to permit such character assasms to come in contact with decent people anywhere. They Grow Brighter. Kansas City Journal. The Indiana "Fair Election League" has been reorganized. Its purpose is to preserve the purity of the ballot and prevent election frauds. Republican prospects in Indiana grow brighter day by day. a Six at a Time, 0 Chicsgo Inter Ocean. Gen. Harrison, in addition to his brilliant versatility as a speaker, is a stalwart in endcrane. One day last we-k six brass bands role a combined call at his residence, and concluded it with a serenade Did th Tariff Mke This Trust? Philadelphia Inquirer. An international stel rail trust hs been formed. Of course ye Democrats will sy the American tariff is responsible for it, particularly the European end of it. We Have Observed It, Detroit Tribune. You may have observed, perhaps, that the workingmen" who are talking free trade so loodly are those who work with their jaws and not w'ith their bands. Advice for Republicans Everywhere. Trey i N. T.Tims. Get out the vo'e. Have the bUots fairly cast and counted. Work till the close of the polls on Nov. 6, and the protection triumph will be certain. What Ailed IU Minneapolis Tribune. A receiver ha been asked for, the New York magazine called "Women. It might have beer successful had it been calld "The Lt&lies.''