Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 October 1888 — Page 9

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 7. 188$ TWELVE PAGES.

and Iron output reached the lowest quantity in fifteen yean, in spite of the island's constant Increase in population. The fall from 1835 was 7 per cent. In the first half of 1887 the importation of iron and iron product showed tne following percenters of increase: Ore, 33; bar and enj'.e iron, 7; crude steel, 22; girders ana and the like, Urge increase, percentage not accessible. In the same period the exports of brass and cooper roods remained nearly stationary, cutlery declined 2 per cent, plated and silt ware dropped 21 per cent, and only machinery and mill work, as I have stated, showed any marked increase eay nearly 8 per cent.

From these figures it will be teen that the revival ia trade upon which t the Britons are eongr&tulaticg themielres just at present earns none too soon. The causes of the ,rerival are not here pertinent. It is mors to my purpose to note that its benefits hare not yet been felt in anjinrrj&se of wsges. I quote from the London News (evening): The eoal-minin? trade Is agitated and disturbed ty reason of a stranee anomaly of business. The evidence of this is found notably in south Wales. Trade ia brisk and prices are going up, but, strange to uy, wss have an unmistakable downward tendency. There is talk of a general strike to enforce an advance, but as only a small part of the miners are organized, this could only result in worse suffring and in defeat, as was the case with the Northumberland and Yorkshire strikers last year. The chain-makers strike is a failure, the gunsmiths of Darlaston are out for 32 cents as day instead of 20; 5,0CO ship-builders, rvho asked for an advance, in Belfast, have been locked out. There are a few instances of advancing wages, such as the boiler-makers of Ashton-under-Lyme have received, bnt not many. Some days sgo I was talking with Mr. W. Abraham, 3L P. for the Rhondda distrist of louth Wales, the biggest coal mining, district in Great Britain, about the eom plaints of the miners. Mr. Abraham is a working miner himself, a splendid fellow physically and in every other way, and can aing a good song in either Welsh er Enzlith, as I can testify. He told ms that tbe miners' rates were fixed upon m sliding seal. changing at intervals of four months, and based npon tbe movement of prices for the full four months previous. Thus the miners are stilt at work upon rites based upon last winter's prices, and have not yet begun to reap any advantage from tbe rise in prices. Aboat how ranch caa a miner earn at tho present rateaP I asked. - "A first-class collier. 3Ir. Abraham replied, 'will earn $1.21 per day, an ordinary collier 97 sents per day, and a laborer from C6 cents to 81 -' The advance, when it comes, will not he . above 5 per cent., will itr V "Ob, no; not so muen as that. Tbe consumers of the coal have their grievance, as well as the miners. Considering tbe low coat of production, the priee to tne consumers should be lower than it is. There is only one line of railway to the Rhonddr. district, and tbe iaek of competi- . As I had not visited the mining region In the north cf England and did cot expect to do so, I asked Mr. Abraham about the wages in tbat quarter. He replied that be was not so well in- . formed about that region, but thought that the sbv bp Itiivria tava avtiV a V a w aV 1ea wam. 7 n v v ja w uiauut sm v a w siuu waa w n vta ivoo a ular, o that the weekly earnings would cot be ' larger than in Wales. Commercial reports for : the month of August confirm Mr. Abraham's statement Work at the principal collieries is less regular than it has been, but "operators : average about two-thirds' time in the case of the pits most favorably situated for railway and ;cnal communication." : As to the rate of wages ia the north of England no apology is necessary for quoting the following from tbe St. James Gazette. Speaking of the long and disastrous strike which the minsra kept np for eighteen months in Northumberland the Gazette says: Havis Buffered sevsral heavy reductions of wages during -s. preceding fourteen years, the miners of tb at eon were a nit out of tamner with the rsri talist system when they found themselves confronted lt year with a demand for a further reduction of iZh per cent. Having suffered reductions of wages for fourteen years, being confronted by a further cut of one-eighth, and making in the most favored pits .nowhere near foil time, it is no wonder that the .strike was a struggle whose grim determination was something terrible. But its success was impossible en a poor market. This year the miners might fsre better, but their strength is exhausted and their eourace Droien. Efforts are being Dde to eeure a better organization throughout the kiocdom. but no orziniz tion can effect aov very radical improvement in . trade which prin- ; il m m 1 : x 1 - Bat for iron and steel shipbuilding the advance ia prices in iron and coal would probably cot yet have materialized. The ship-building trade, which had been badly overdone in former years, and which fell off from 540,371 tons ia IS S3 to 47'J. 001 tons in 1SS6. jumped back last year to 378.202 tons sod is atiU fainy brisk. The consumption of iron in an ocean-going ship is great, -that of coat is great, so long as she runs, if she be a steamer, and the privilege 'cf carrying the -lien's share of the world's commerce helps to Aeep tbe miners and metal-workers from absolute sUrtation. Yet this mastery of the sea is .itself dependent upon and menaced by foreign oicoetiiion. In November of last year President Cleveland s consul at Liverpool reported that on British vessels ordinary seamen, cooks and stewards were paid from $12.16 to $19. 46 per mouth, and fed at an expense of from 22 to 3$ cents per day each. Low as these wsges are, .the j1 are surpassed in the competition for cheap shipping by Norway and Sweden, which pay $9.7ii to $10.94 per month, and by Germany, wh:ch pars from $9.54 to $10. 71. The tonnage of these latter powers, especially Germany, is increasing with extraordinary rapidity, and Gertntnv'l limm of nnrtl nnA ialnnrla nrt tiar voa. lute attempts at colonization indicate a determination to compete with England in tbe carrying trade that may make trouble for the latter. Tne vexations of the shipping and ship-build-leg trades are ono cause of the long depression In tbe iron and coal trade, but there are others. At the halT-yearly meeting of the Falcon Engine and Car Company, held in London toward the end of last month, the chairman said a camber of cars made for the Paris Tramway Company were returned because the Paris municipality xroold not allow cars made in England to be used on Parisian lines. Tbe ears were sold to tbe London Tram Compaoy at a reduced price. Without an important exception the nations of :he continent, while making a desperate effort , co obtain a footho-d in English markets, retain their own market fcr themselves through the imposition of duties or other similar device. And even the colonies which Great Britain has planted to feed fat British trade are provinc poor markets. "While Australia bongbt from tlogland $01 worth of goods per capita in 1865, ;b.is had sunk in 1SS6 to 31 worth per eapita. The Hong Kong end Straits Settlement trade a little more than one-tbird as great per .tapita as in 1870 or 180. tbe British South .. African trade is less than one-third what it was in IS? J. the British West Indies take about lalf the 1870 record, while Canada, under a protective tariff, ealls for only $3 worth of British manufactures car head, and the inhabitants of be United States, France, Germany, Spain, Porto pal. Italy, Turkey, and Sweden and Norway worry along with from to cents t j$i50 worth each upon an average. If Australia should, and if China eould without being punished for it as she waa in the opiom war, shut their porta to English goods, the last decent markets for England's surplus would hare vanished like tbe rest. And this is one reason whj English capital is being poured out like watr to secure a foothold on the soil of ..wlexico, Japan and Sooth America. With a population increasing steadily in spite of the constant drain of emigration, with agriculture ayiue by inches and the expenses of eovernxnent pressing the load of taxation continually on the shoulders of the people and the unemployed swarming; in the larger cities, British merchants feel that it is high time new channels of trade wero opened to them and hail with illconeaId joy any movement which holds out fclpe in that direction. All these facts and figures besr directly upon the condition of the British laborer. The market of Britain being grotesquely inadequate for him, he must look abroad, where he sees a sky stormy, indeed, at best, and promising worse to come. Without a better foreign market the treat iron trade of Britain and the great coal trade dependent upon it must go from bad to worse, and wages keep tbe downward road they hate traveled so long. Without it it will be in vain for tne 20,000 miners of Barnsley to parade aod ask for better organization, in vain for the Unemployed to gather at their twenty London meetings every Sunday, in vain for the workinemn's members of Parliament to seek to better their constituents' estate by acts impossible t enforcement, and in vain for well-iceaning charity to attaek the vrnptoms instead cf the causes of the trouble. Without new markets or less sluggish ones any revival ia trade such as

Englishmen are now expecting, must be but slight and of brief duration. John L IIeaton. Note The following table shows the fluctuations of the trade of Great Britain with her eolonien, and with other notions for the past two decades. The figures indicate the consumption of British goods of all classes per head of population. It will be seen that free-trade Belgium is about the only market of importance which is not rslatively less valuable than twenty rears ago:

Country. 1865. Australia Hon if Kong, etc ... Urn aruay.... .......... Holland The Capo and Natal.. Argentine Republic... B. . America West Indies, etc Belgium.............. Denmark....... Spanish West Indies.. Ceylon, etc........... Chili. Bratil Greece ............... United State? Sweden aud Norway.. Egypt... PortagaL... .......... France Germany............. Peru Colombia ............. Italy .Spain................. Ron mania ............ British India Spanish Philippines .. Turkey Mexico Russia Japan ................ Austro-Hnnsrarr .. 'Including Fiji since TIIE CUT'S CLEARING-HOUSE. A removal to .Vew Quarter Snests Some Thiols as to Its II is t or j and Business. During the present month the Indianapolis Clearing-house Association will romove from itt present quarters in the Ingalls Klock to new and conyenient offices specially prepared for it in Fletcher & Co.'s cow bank building, No. 02 East Washington atreet. The remoral marks an epoch in tbe history of one of the most useful and important Institutions in the city. The association was organized in January, 1871, with the lion. W. IL English as president and Mr. Jonathan Elliott as manager, it first occupied offices In the old Sentinel bnildiog, subsequently removing to English's Circle Hall, where it remained till tbe remoTtl to its present habitation in the Ingalls Block ia 1874. It tan had few changes in its officers daring that period. Sir. English was its president prior to selling out bis stock in the First National Bank, about 1S76, and Sir. F. M. Churchman, senior partner in the banking-house of Fletcher & Churchman, was elected in his stead and has filled that office ever since. Mr. W. "V. Woollen, the present manseer, succeeded Mr. Elliott, Oct 8, 1SS3, and has einee filled the office of manager, with Mr. Frederick Bagga m his 'assistant "The Indianapolis Clearing-house." said Mr. Woollen in a recent conversation with a Journal reporter, "is certainly the best thermometer of the business interests of the city. All checks deposited in .banks here go through the clearing-house, and the only cheeks given on banks in this citv which do not find their way to ns are those which are naid over the counters of the banke on which they are given. Of the relative proportion of checks which pass through the clearing-house and those which are paid over the counter of the banks on which they are given, I should think tbat fully one-half of those issued here pass throurh our hands. But little business is done here in which checks are not need. There are some few people who prsfer to make use of docks and stockings as bank of deposit, but the majority, and certainly all business men, employ the regular institutions provided for that purpose. We keen a daily record of clearingnoose transactions, and, with the exception of the failure years of 18S4 5, the business of the eity has shown but little fluctuation.'' "How do the records compare for certain periods I1 "In 1SS4, after the failure of the Fletcher & Sharpe and Harrison banks, the clearaseee ran down some ?JOO,000. and continued below the average several weeks thereafter. In February, 1830, Kitzioger s bank closed, and business ran down the first week in February aod continued to shrink until April of that year. The records . during those periods stowed the smallest business that I have ever known done in Indianapolis, the reaaon for it being that npward of fJ,000,000 were fastened up for tbe time being by these failures, the amount locked up in the FUieher & Sharpe failure aggregating some $1.700,000, and the amount by the Harrison bank failure amounting to $000,000. There have been so special fluctuations in tbe business of this city, as shown by our records, since those years. Our business for the month of September, 1SS3. shows an aggregate of checks rasaing through the clearing-house of 37.117,729; for the month of September, 1837 87,495.843; for tb? month of September, 1886. $5,904,111; and for tho month of September, 1884, $3,327,216. The aggregate business for the J ear of 1837 was ?37,149,519." "What do von think of tbe business for the current yearr "I think it wili reach f 100.000,000. which shows tbe gradual increase of our commercial and manufacturing inrerests. There are many matters of historical interest connected with tbe financial history of the city, w'uich a glance over tbe cleariog-houso records recalls, but many of them are connected with persons still living and doing business here, and it would be hardly proper to speak of them at this time. In our new quarters, which we expect to occupy shortly, we shall have additional facilities tor transacting our business. They hare been specially constructed for oor use ou the second floor of the new Safety-deposit Bank building on Washington street, and eonsist of a handsome suite of rooms, with private rooms for the meeting of the bankers connected with our institution, and, to use the language of oca of our members, 'they an offices which the Governor of the State would not be ashamed to occupy.' " CULLLXGS FK03I TIIE COURTS. Eckert Wants Heavy Damages for the Kym Lost by Ills Son In an Accident. Another damage suit has been filed against the Fairland, Franklin & Martinsville Railroad Company, growing out of the recent wreck near Morgan town. The plaintiff in this Instance ia Jacob Eckert, whose son, Charles Eekert. lost an eye by the accident, and was otherwise injured. The amount demanded is $25,000. In the complaint Mr. Eckert alleges that his son will never recover from the injuries he received. lie Let Caldwell Go. Superintendent Williams, of the County Poor Asylum, yesterday released James Caldwell, the colored man who was at first refused his release ttLUl he would give bond never again to become a ward upon the county. Friday P. C. Trusler went out to tbe asylum and agreed tbat the bond should be given. Williams then declared that Caldwell was in the insane ward, and would cot let him go. Mr. Trusler took steps to bring habeas corpus proceedings yesterday, but before the suit was filed the colored mao appeared in the eity. There is considerable evidence accumulating to show that the county farm is being run as a political machine in the interest of Democrats. County Attorney Soeneer is eald to be responsible for all the political orders that have been given to the oGcors at the poor asylum and the work -bouse. Grand Jurors' Report. The county grand jury submitted a partial report yesterday, returning indictments against Charles Jones for petit larceny, Daniel Harrison and Lyman Merrick, for burglary and grand lareeny, and Charles Waters, for grand larceny. Mrs. Johnson, tbe woman who caused tbe arre3t of Albert Eaton for the mnrder of Thomas Conaughton, Has not yet been found, and no steps have therefore been taken by the jury toward investigating the chare. Unless she appears Eaton will be releaaed Thursday. Captain Itltter to Sit as Judge. Ex-Judge Livingston Howland has declined to try the Labor Signal ease, and the parties to the suit have. now agreed upon Capt Elt F. Ritter. The esse will be taken up the first of next week. Guardian Appointed. Wm. S. Tobias has been appointed guardian of Eesiedora Friesner. Interest Reduced. Look at the Quadruple Building Association advertisement in the building and loan column. COTE D OR, The pure California Grape Juice, is for sale by P. H. Kelley. corner Mississippi and Washington ts., at on 50 ceuti per uart bottle.

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PHASES OF THE CAMPAIGN

Local Commercial Travelers Preparing for Their Great Demonstration. Thousands of the Easy Knights of the Grip Expected Here on that OccasionIncidents and Notes oi Political Talk. The commercial travelers are making exten sive preparations for Drummers' day here, en the 20th inst, and will be greatly disappointed if the affair does not prove to be one of the biggest ever known to the city. 'T will be greatly surprised," said one of them yesterday, "if we do not have from five to eight thousand com mercial men with us on that day. I think we are going to get them not only from points within s radius of five or six hundred miles, bnt also from all parte of the country." The local traveling mens' Republican club is working; energetically to complete the preparations for the demonstration, and to get traveling men at a distance interested. At the meeting ef the club, held yesterday afternoon at the Grand Hotel nearly one hundred were present, and from the enthusiasm displayed it was evident that nothing will be left undone at tnis nd of the line. 31r. Hildebrand, chairman of the committee on arrangements, reported that the last of tbe delegations on the 20th would arrive about noon, and that a grand parade would be siren in the afternoon, starting about 2 o'clock. Carriages would be furnished for ladies, as many of those who say they will come have sent word of their intention of bringing their wives with them. General Harrison is to meet the visitors at Tomlicson Hall, where the procession is to terminate. Mr. Hildebrand urged every traveling man in Indianapolis to turn out upon this occasion, although he believed such solicitation waa hardly necessary. It was announced tbat tbe Columbia Club would turn out to assist in tbe reception of visitors. There was some discussion on the subject of furnishing the visitors with free refreshments, bnt the proposition was voted down on the ground that the nnmber would be so large that such a thing would . be out ' of the question, and also because traveling men were generally not content with a lunch, but wanted to 0 to a hotel or restaurant aod secure a square meal. It was decided to hold a kind of commercial travelers' love feast in Tomlinson Ilall on the night of the 20th; also, that the loeal club would carry sunshades similar to those carried by tbe Peoria delegation, which visited tbe city some weeks since. The elnb adjourned, to meet on next Satnrday, at the same time and place. In the meantime correspondence is going rn with traveling men all over the country, soliciting their attendance. SACRED XCVTHl 1 MEMORY or GEORGE KENISKI JA natire of Poland, who serv-: fed in the Union army of his, 7lth N.Y. Vol., as a substitute; for (iKoviR Cleveland, ! Jliuffalo, N. Y.. risking his life, (upon the field of battle that tne rian for whom he served micht jl spared to contribute $10,000. f io uie uemocrauc corruption iuuu.i Oeoege Bemski was an bon fast, simple-minded sailor to whomi Groveb Cleveland w to r&Tl "WOO to face rebel lead. Bnt half of i this amount. S 150. was erer rwud. Af -l iter the war. in rreat.lv broken health, 1 'he survived for sevoral years as au in-j mate cf the poor-houses of his coun-j Iff, djing at la?t after a few months, v)journ in tbe Soldiers Home at ltath. .V. V., Aug. 18, 1837, two years five; i months aud fourteen days after the, Imsn for whom he seived became I'BK3-1 fiPEvr or ttik United Statks. This monument is erected by the Democratic ptrtv the first ever raised by tout rartv to a Union soldier in y ayment of the 10O owed by its great leader. The American Wor kinsman. A correspondent of the Philadelphia Inquirer recently talked with CoL Cbsrles S. Millard, president of the Indianapolis Car and Manufact uring tympany, uoiooei mutara saia to ci'.n "Out of M)3 voters in our works there were IjI Democrats at the last poll taken, and I am told there are even fewer now. All the rest are Re publicans. Our men are perfectly tree to vote as they please. Nothing has tens said or done by the company even constructively coercive. It ie true they know I am a Itepublicaa pad a DroteetionUt, and they know that upon this iss? will eventually depend the amount of wiew we caa afford to pay them. The American laborer is not an irnorant man, like eo many workinemen in foreign countries. He reaJs, and thinks, aod reasons. Io many countries wares are so small that not only is every penny required to pay rent and living expenses, but the children are pressed into service as laborers as soon as they are old enouch to work, and, without enjoying advantages of schooling, they prow np perpetuating the same conditions. In this country, with fair wages, a steady, industrious man can make a comfortable Urine, can have a home of his own, and can allow his children some educational advantages. Tle faet tbat our woricingmen are intelligent in of great advantage, not only to the men, but ta their employers. An intelligent man always can be reasoned with, and, on the other handi he is not so easily imposed upon by an unscrupulous enployer." Turple'a Chilly Meotlng. The speech made by Senator David Turpie at the corner of Meridian and McCarty streets, last night, was full and brimming over with freetrade ideas. There was a small crowd present, probably numbering GOO, and the enthusiasm was not up to tho expectation of the Democracy. Speaking of the Mills bill, ho claimed that the country would be greatly benefited thereby, and praised highly those who drafted tho hill, lie of all others who should have kept silent in that respect uttered the lie that General Harrison hsd said that a cheap coat mads a cheap man, and talked long and loud about tbe delegations railing on the Republican nominee, giving them the name of "Excursionary Politics." By actual count he was applauded three times, and then by only a small portion of the crowd that bad remained to hear bim through. He called Cleveland a man of purity, and said ie was the greatest man since the days or Andrew Jackson. lie said be bad net bcn elected to tbe Senate dishonestly, and claimed such a statement to he absolutely false. He nsed the braggadocia expsession: "It was I, David Turpie, that beat General Harrison." James Ryan, ever present at the Democratie meetings, concluded the feeble demonstration with a few remarks to the fewer chilling Democrats tbat remained. Hie Parade Postponed. The Republican parade, to hare been given last night, was postponed on account of the bad weather, and also in deference to the demonstration by Chicagoans. The rains of Thursday and Friday were followed by a drizzle nearly all day yesterday, and as a consequence the streets were in a horrible condition. Many elubs wero willing to come out, but the managers deemed it wise to wait for a more favorable evening. It wis impossible to get notiee of tbe poetponezrent to many cf the out-township clubs, and hundreds from the country eame in, uniformed and ready to march. All those who bad made preparations to turn out will be given an opportunity soon. Tbey will all be out Thursday on the occasion of the State rally, and after tbat a local demonstration Will be giren. A tJreat Political Event. The reports are already beginning to come in as to the number of Lincoln League elubs that propoee to be represented here on the 11th, the day for the visit of the lion. Levi P. Morton, vice-presidential candidate, the Hons. James U. Blaine and Cbanncey M. Depew, Senators Sherman and Alliaon, Governor Foraker, and others. One organization will have with it a glee club composed of fifty young ladies, besides a juvenile band of fifteen pieces. This is in a measnre what hundreds cf other clubs propose to da Tbey are eoming from all parts of the State, and the event it is thought will exeeed any political demonstration ever given in this State. llovey and Tanner's Speeches. General Hovey and Corporal Tanner will speak at the following places during the month: Oct. 8, Sooth Bend: Oct. 9,;LaPorte; Oct. 10. Goshen; Oct 11. Indianapolis; Oct 12, Spencer, Owen county. Oat. 13, Evanevlile; Oct. 15, New Albany; Oct 10, Bedford; Oct 174 Battle

ground; Oct 18, Wabash; Oct 19, Muncie; Oct. 20, Greencastle. Political Notes. It is Benjamin Franklio Osborn. of Washington township, who is the Republican candidate for eoonty commissioner, not the man of that came of Center township, who is on the Prohibition ticket for tbe same office. Hon. Eugene G. Hay, formerly of Madison, this State, but now of Minneapolis, Minn., has just completed a speaking tour of two weeks in Indiana under the direction of the Republican committee. He has met with good audiences and made excellent speeches. Perhaps the most remarkable incident in political circles yesterday was the refusal of that dainty bantam of Indiana Democracy, Charles L. Jewett, to talk. Like all Democrats of his class, he is deprived of the power of speech whenever tbe Committee of One Hundred is mentioned. Those who have beard the gentleman, say A. B. Ward, of Dakota, is the most finished orator that they have heard for many years, and that bis matter is as good as his manner. The Republican State central committee will have tbe benefit of his services from now nntil the close of the campaign. There was to have been a Democratie demonstration and speaking at Sonthport yesterday. David Gooding was announced to speak:. He waited all afternoon, and as only a half-dozen Democrats appeared in town, he did not give them a sample of bis oratory. He was greatly chagrined over the failnre, and is quoted as say inethat unless the Democrats did better Cleveland was badly beaten. GENERAL HARRISON'S NEIGI1DORS. Words of Praise from Those Who Have Known Him Longest and Best. Collated from Letters of C. M. K., in Eastern Papers. 'General Harrison," said John n. Holliday, editor of tbe Indianapolis Evening News, "is a most remarkable man. I have known hint ever since he first come to this eity. He is a man of unblemished reputation. In purity of life and in businees integrity no one stands higher. He is not a forward man he is not impulsive, he is carefnl, considerate and just. He may be depended upon to do the right thing every time, as far as he knows it and he generally knows it. No finer example eould be placed before the people than General Harrison's life here. In all the relations of life as a Christiao, aa a citizen, as a neighbor, he is a model. He if prominent in his ehurch, and has been an ofSeer in it for many years. Even among Democrats Genersl Harrison is honored, aod some of them will vote for him. Some of those who believe in tariff re-

form will sacrifice teir conviction in that di rection to the stronger conviction tbat Genersl Harrison is the man best fitted to bo our next President; that he is the man who would most honor the position. No man who knows him well will fail to respect him thoroughly. His very manner is an inspiration for good. "The Democrats are making tremendous efforts in this Stste. and the contest will likely be a close one. There is a strong impression among the Republicans, however, that Harrison will wm." The Rev, Hanford A. Kdson, of the Memorial Presbyterian Church, said to me to-day: "Have you noticed the crowds General Harrison has ben addressing almost every day lately in University Park! And what speeches he makes to them! The country at large hasn't fairly begun to know General Harrison until lately, but these speeches are showing him to be a man of the htghest Intellectual character. His great native abilities have been developed by varied exiperience and thorough culture. As to bis char acter, we Presbyterians are proud to claim him as one of us. "I have lately spent two months at my old home in New York State, near Rochester, and while there I knew of several instances in which men who had been long-time Democrats bad expressed their intention of voting for Harrison this year. I found there a growing sentiment in bis favor among nearly all classes. Many who may not vote for bim appreciate his spotless character and faithfulness to his convictions of what is right, and will not be disappointed, I think, if he is the successful candidate. It would be a great thing for America if the time would come when all the political parties would choose for their standard-bearers men of such ability, patriotism and purity." Dr. W. B. Fletcher, lately superintendent of the Insane Hospital, said: "For thirty years during my whole voting life I voted the Democratic ticket, and was elected to ofce by the Democracy, but I have had enoueh of it I abandoned the party because of its hypocrisy and because 1 became diegosted with tho widespread open and outrageous frauds which latterly have teen committed in our elections, and in the minacemont of our State benevolent and penal iotitu-Wrs fcv criminals, some of whom have been tried and hare been sent to the penitentiary, but all of whom have been indorsed and whitewashed by the Democratic psrty. I became a Republican because I beliere the party is more honest and because I have known and esteemed Denjsmin Harrison during the past thirty years and believe that , he would be such a President as tbe whole country might be proud of. He is a true Amencsn of the old-time integrity stamp. There is no kid-glove business, or whitewssb. either. About bim.' He is a man through and through. He is as mou-ist as a sir), as ripe io wisdom as a sage: be is untainted even by suspicion in personal and public life; is firm in his convictions of the richt aud brave as only a brave Christian can be. The Demoerata as wall es tbe Republicans of Indianapolis and Indiana know General Harrison; they know the purity and force of his character and his unflinching sense of justice aud right. The Democratio party is disgraced by every falsehood it publishes or countenances against him." W. A. Bell, editor of the Indiana School Journal, said to me: "I have been personally acquainted with General Harrison during tbe past twenty-five years, and I know him to be a Christiau gentleman in the truest and best sense in which that term is nsed. Socially, he is genial and affable, and while he is not the kind of a man who slaps yon on tbe back and indulges in rough familiarities, he is not at all distant or aristocratic in the sense in which tbe word is generally used. ' Twelve years ago, when he was a candidate for governor, and his opponent was an old farmer who always wore blue jeans (blue Jeans Williams), the Democrats, in order to appeal to the prejudices of the laboring classes, charged Harrison with the crime of wearing kid gloves and hence with being an aristocrat The charge bad the desired effect, then, but except in certain Democratic circles, s it is no longer considered a disgraee in Indiana to wear a clean shirt and occasionally comb' your hair. "The present efforts against General Harrison personally are simply disgusting. The alleged speeches in regard to the strikers and wages for workingmen are pure Inventions. If there is in Indianapolis a respectable Democrat who is willing to say that he believes these charges to bo true be is yet to be discovered. These aspersions are in a line with Cleveland's policy of trumping up false charges against Republicans as an excuse to turn them out of office aud give their places to Democrats. It is infamous to slander an honorable gentleman so as to bave an apology for voting the Democratie ticket General Harrison is as good and pore a man as anyone who has ever filled the presidential chair, and I believe tbat his ability is far above tho average ability of those who bave filled that exalted position heretofore." WW Judge Fabius M. Finch, one of the first settlers in Marion county, said: "In the whole State of Indiana no man stands hieher than General Harrison. He is a man of exceptional ability and unimpeachable integrity. I bave known him since a short while after bis arrival in Indianapolis, and as I was on the bsnch for some time after he began practising law here, I had a remarkably good opportunity to observe him and become acquainted with his professional characteristics. When he came here be was exceedineiy boyish in appearance, and I remember that I was greatly surprised at the depth and force of his first argument before me. I bad cot expected anything of tbe kind from a znau so young and inexperienced-looking. I afterward watched his career with great interest and it has been one in which every citizen of tbe State may take pride. "In his moral and social character, and in the estimation of all honorable men who have bad to do with bim, no man holds a higher place. He has been an elder in the Presbyterian Church ever since my membership began. As to bis fitness for the presidency of tbe United States, I tbink his recent speeches are a sufficient argument. They fairly indicate what tbe man is. They display, in remarkable degree, his caiacity to grasp a subject and intelligently and clearly express himself npon it They also give us an idea of his qualifications as a statesman. All in all, I think he has hardly an equal in intellectual equipment and moral fitness for the position. "And I believe he will be elected. The people are beginning to know bim and the better tbey know him tbe more highly wili they esteem him. This campaign seems to me very like the campaign of 1840, which, toward tbe last, became a regular stampede for William Henry Harrison. Then, as now, one of the principal questions involved was that of a protective tarifL" Speaking to a Democrat about the very great predominance of Harrison portaits in the windows of Iodianapolis, be answered: "Ob, yes, in the part of tbe city you have seen, where the well-to-do people live, yon will find Harrison's pictures in the majority; bat go down into th

South Side, where the working people live, and there yon will find President Cleveland's pictures in just as great superabundance." . To-day I happened to pass through a number of South-side streets, and I saw there t good many portraits of Cleveland, though not enough to constitute a very heavy majority. But 1 saw this, too: The Cleveland portraits, as a rule, bang in the windows of 4 . rented houses and tenements where there wss lack of care and thrift where there was no grass in the front yards and no paint on the front door, where the fences laeked pailings here and there, and the gate hung precariously on one bin re. Wherever I found-a cottage with, flowers in the front yard, the fenees in good repair and a home-like look about the place, there I almost invariably found a Harrison portrait The difference in tbe character of the workingmen supporting the different candidates, as thus indicated, is very significsnt. 1 also noticed that the liquor saloons in this portion of tbe city nearly all had Cleveland portraits in their windows. This also seemed significant ' An Iceland Winter. September Atlantic By November the winter had begun with all its rigor, and fierce storms swept over land and over the sea, which lost its blue and became dull and dark. One by one the ships left the harbor of Reykjavik; then the last mail-ship sailed, and Iceland was eut off nntil spring from communication with the outsideVorld. Although the climate of sooth leeland is cold, the winter is scarcely what one would be led to expeet from the northern situation. There is not much snow. A few inches usually lay npon the ground, crisp and bard, but not the piled-np drifts of a New England winter. Accordingly it was possible to make horse-back excursions to the farms round about, and to see the winter life of the people in the country. This season for the Icelander is a time of comparative rest As nothing can be done abroad he stays of necessity at home, but his life is no mere hibernation. He sleeps a great deal, for his house is insufficiently lighted and the nights are long, but by daylight he has occupations enough. He has boats to build and oars to shape; saddles and harness to make and to mend; or he sorts the wool which the women spin into yarn and then knit into stockings, or weave into coarse homespun or fiaunel, like wadmal. A busy onnd of whirring wheels often greets the ear when yon enter a farm-house, and you find the women all at work at one end of the long room. Another doty devolves on the heads of the household at isolated farms. There are good elementary schools in many places throughout the island, but in remote districts the children must be taught at home. In summer the time is occupied with out-of-door work, bat in the com psratively idle days of winter the father, or not infrequently the mother, teaches tbe children of either sex the common branches. Iceland is perhaps the best educated community on the face of the earth. Thronghont the length and breadth of the land there is nobody who cannot read and write, and the general knowledge of some of these obsenre fisherman-farmers is sometimes well-nigh appalling.' Ilarrison Will Carry the northern States. InterTiew with Senator Sherman. "The indications all point to Harrison carrying New York. I don't think we will lose any of the Northern States, though even if we did and bad New York we would still be safe. But everywhere the outlook is flattering. It is true that the Democrats are making strong efforts to carry Indiana and Connecticut, but I believe that they win" go Republican. I expect to make a number of speeches to Ohio, but will not likely go out of tbe State. It is only a question as to how large a Republican majority there will be tn Ohio."

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