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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 188D

THE DAILY JOURNAL FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 1889. WASHINGTON OFFICn-313 Fourteenth St. V. S. HTATH, Correspondent. NEW YORK OFFIC&-10 Temple Court. Corner Beeknian and Nassau streets.

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Business Office ; 233 Editorial Rooms 242 Republican Editorial Convention. The date of the Republican editorial convention lias been changed from Jan. 9 to Jan. 15, 1859. Hons. L. T. Michencr, John M. Butler and W. Dudley Foulko have beei Invited to speak, respectively, upon "A New Election Law," "A Fair Apportionment" and "He form In Our Stato Charities." A discussion of these topics will follow by the editors present. A full attendance 13 greatly desired, as a revised constitution will be presented for acceptance or rejection, and other Important business will bo transacted. M. C. Gakder, President. Ben R. IlYMAir, Secretary. Bailey's nomination, after being suspended some time, fell with a dull thud. Even Solomon said "there is a time to dance." Who knows hut ho meant tho inauguration? It is nothing very surprising, the story of a colored man with two hearts. Many a member of tho race has a heart big enough for two. The women have not asked for any representation in tho Cabinet yet, but they may spring their candidate after the men are all tired out. Women have a great deal of tact. If the New York World is honest in desiring ballot reform, it should use its influence with G overnor Hill not to veto the bill which will be passed by tho present Legislature. Governor Hill has gone into theoretical reform business up to his eyes, but there is a chanco for him to do something practical in that lino by exterminating tho White Caps who have appeared in tho rural districts of New York. Let us see how much nerve the Governor has when a "condition" confronts him. 1 New York indifference allowed the Grant monument question to drop out of public notice. Tho news that tho competition for designs has closed is the first reminder tho country has had for many months that such a project was under way. Nothing appears to have been done, however, in tho way of increasing tho monument fund. . The coming meeting of tho Republican editors of tho Stato promises to be more than usually interesting. Several topics of vital interest will be discussed by prominent men not members of the profession, and these will be supplemented by the views of the assembled editors. A new constitution will also bo presented for adoption or rejection. "Political necessity77 evidently brought the withdrawal of Tomtit Bailey?s nomination as United States district attorney. When the Democratic leaders came to think the matter over, they doubtless concluded that tho appointment of Sim Coy?s next friend to so important an office did not harmonize well with the party's loud advocacy of election reforms, and tho Tomtit had to bo sacrificed. Gov. David B. Hill, of New York, is the smallest man and tho worst demagogue that ever aspired to tho presidency.' That ho does cherish such aspirations his inaugural message abundantly shows. His election as Governor was secured by a combination of the vilest and worst elements of politics. His inauguration was tho deification of the liquor interest, tho apotheosis of rum and the exaltation of political crime. Before reaching a decision on the school-book question legislators and others interested will do well to await tho arguments of Stato Superintendent La Follettc. Already well informed upon the subject, ho will givo it further study and investigation, and his report before tho committee on education upon tho relative advantages of tho freebook system and that now in vogue - in Indiana can bo depended on as complete and unbiased. The Sentinel ugrees with Governor Gray in thinking that Mr. William Henderson is not a representative Democrat. Tho Journal is of the same opinion. If you talk about "representative"' Democrats, there are Coy, and Bernhamer, and Bailey, and Sullivan, and "Dr." Harrison, and oh, any number of tho same brand. There is no trouble in finding "representative'' Democrats, but those fit to servo as police commissioners aro not so numerons. Mr. William Henderson as polic j commissioner, it is believed, is entirely satisfactory to all but the Governor and the gang. Something should bo done for the relief of the Supremo Court of the United States. At present there aro 1,40.1 cases on its docket. Of this number tho court will probably bo able to dispose of VM before it adjourns in May. The average number of cases annually disposed of by the present judges is about 4."X). Tho averajo number of cases annnally

placed on tho docket is from 6o0 to TOO, and with tho progress of tho country this number will continue to increase. The cases called on the 20th of December last were docketed on tho 17th of October, ISSo, more than three years ago. In other words the court is now nearly three years behind in its regular work, with no prospect of catching up. This stato of things should not be permitted to continue. It is a delay of justice.

THE PRESIDENTIAL TEEM. When 'the Governor of a Stato goes out of his way to make recommendations to Congress or suggest changes in the National Constitution, it is a suro sign he entertains presidential aspirations and wants to advertise himself as a statesman. Gov. Hill does this by recommending the adoption of a constitutional amendment extending tho terms of President and Vice-president to six years, making the President ineligible for re-election and making exPresidents life members of tho United States Senate. The latter part of tho proposition is un-American and undemocratic. It grows out of the idea that some provision must be made for President and Vice-president, after their retirement from office, other than a retnrn to the ranks of private citizenship. To make them Senators for life would be not only to pension them, but to create life offices, both of which are opposed to the spirit of our institutions. The suggestion savors of aristocracy. There is nothing improper in an cxPresident returning to tho ranks of private citizenship. If he cannot adorn and dignify that position, ho certainly' could not the position of United States Senator for life. The suggestion relative to making the presidential term ' six years and tho President ineligible to office is an old and oft repeated one. There are two sides to the question, and something may be said in favor of both. It was considered and discussed by tho convention which framed the Constitution. Tho draft of tho instrument, as originally reported, after careful discussion and many compromises, provided for a President to be elected by Congress for a term of seven years, and to bo ineligible for a second term. This provision had been agreed to in committee of the whole by a vote of seven States to three, but when it came before the convention again it was changed. The delegates had evidently yielded to somo democratic influence, and tho term of tho presidential office was shortened to four years, and tho disqualification for re-election was struck out. This was dono by a vote of ten States to one. At the same time tho mode of electing the President was changed from Congress to a body of electors. Tho latter was Hamilton's plan, though he proposed, also, to have the President 6ervo during good behavior. When the States came to adopt tho Constitution, most of them proposed more or less amendments. Massachusetts proposed nine, South Carolina four, New Hampshire twelve, Virginia twenty, New York thirtytwo, North Carolina twenty-six. This mass of proposed amendments, confused and conflicting, went before Congress and were finally boiled down into twelve, which were submitted to the States and te.i were adopted. None of them touched the presidential term of office. The question was therefore definitely settled by the framers and fathers of the Constitution. The arguments in favor of lengthening tho term and making tho President ineligible are that it would make him more independent and remove all temptation to use the patronage of the office to secure his renomination and reelection. On the other hand it would make the President less, dfrectly responsible to tho people, and if it increased his opportunities for usefulness it would also increase his power for mischief. The change would be in the direction of aristocratic rather than republican government. The arguments for it are theoretical, and there is no apparent necessity for the change. Six years is too long for a bad President and eight none too long for a good one. We should bo very sorry to have to look forward to two years moro of G rover Cleveland, but four years hence the people may bo very glad to have a second term of Gen. Harrisou. FEES OF PENSION ATTORNEYS. The bill reducing the fees of pension agents in a certain class of cases, which passed the House on Wednesday, will probably be fouud less bene'ficial to the pensioner than appears on its face. The author of the bill says its purpose is to "protect pensioners;" but as tho gentleman is Mr. Dockcry, a Democrat and a Missourian, tho genuineness of this motive may at least bo questioned. It is understood that his secondary object is to embarrass Washington claim agents, but as Democratic Congressmen aro not accustomed to push legislation facilitating tho passago of Union soldiers' claims, is it not just possible that tho primary motive may bo other than that represented! The legal fee for securing an increase of pension has been ten dollars certainly not extortionate and this not to bo paid until the claim is allowed by tho government. Dockcry's original bill cut this oft entirely, but an amendment places it at three dollars. Tho plea is that each pensioner can secure his own increase, if desired, without expense; but, as a matter of fact, very few among them are qualified to prepare the necessary papers or are familiar with the required forms and procedures. It is hardly probablo that agents will transact tho business of their clients for nothing, as would have been necessary under tho measure just proposed, and for three dollars will scared' bo disposed to exert themselves. The consequence will bo that pensioners will be delayed and hampered in securing their rights, and tho result aimed at by a Democratic Congress attained. It may be necessary to suppress objectionable Washington agents, but it should not be done at tho expense of the soldiers. When members of Congress find themselves overwhelmed by requests from their constituents to look after their pension claims gratuitously, of course it will prob

ably dawn upon some who voted blindly for the innocent-looking measure hat they and their soldier-friends have been victimized.

In marked contrast with the White Cap and other unlawful combinations is a citizens' movement in Elkhart for the enforcement of law and the suppression of crime. The movement has taken the form and name of "League of Good Citizenship." Good citizens found that the laws were being habitually violated, that immorality and crime were on the increase and that tho ordinary machinery of the law, without vigorous moral support and active co-operation on tho part of citizens, was inadequate to the suppression of crime. Tho result was an organization which has already had a very wholesome effect in rousing public sentiment and holding officers of the law to a stricter responsibility for its enforcement. The notable feature of tho movement is that it operates entirely within the law. Every such movement for tho enforcement of law is commendable. In government by the people such movements are often necessary and always desirable when the enforcement of law becomes enervated or its officers remiss in their duty. The enforcement of law by lawful agitation and organization is one of the highest duties of citizens, and very different from the attempt to suppress crime by illegal methods. The good citizens of Elkhart have set an example that those of many other towns might well imitate. There is plenty of law in this country; what is needed is its more vigorous enforcement, and to this end there is constantly needed a bracing up of moral sentiment. In the matter of taxing dramshops the cities and towns of Indiana aro behind those of most other States, because of the State law fixing $100 as tho limit. This is contrary to every principle of good government. It is a protection to the dramshops, which, not to speak of their demoralizing influence in other respects, add largely to the expense of all municipal governments. It deprives cities and towns of a largo amount of revenue they might get by imposing a heavy tax on tho dramshops and docreasing their number. It is unjust to all other tax-payers, making their taxes heavier by just so much as those of tho dramshops are lightened. The $100 limitation'law is a relic of barbarism, utterly at war with the spirit of the ago and the cause of good government. "Big" Republicans aro coming to Indianapolis now at the rate of one or moro a day. This would seem to justify the suspicion of newspaper Cabinet-makers that a "hen is on" in President-elect Harrison's neighborhood. A series of ten "Goctho lectures" having been announced by tho St. Louis papers, the culture of that city turned out in force. They expected to have the pleasure of hearing old Mr. Goetho himself, and were much disappointed on finding that he was represented by Harris and Snyder. Crime is said to move in waves, and, if so, Indianapolis is just now at tho top of a wave. The nimble .burglar and seductive confidence man aro gathering in much wealth. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal. rieaso stato who was Secretary of War when Grant was President. Reader, VliEDERSBCEG, Ind. John A. Rawlins, from March 11, 18C9, till his death, and W. W. Belknap, of Iowa, from Oct. 13, 1SC9. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Col. Higginson says that most of the prejudice against college-bred' men which he has encountered in politcal'.lifo has proceeded from other coliego-bred men. . Mr. Mackay, tho silver kiiig, it is said, contemplates endowing a college as a perpetual memorial of hisifame, and as a thank ottering to the Providence which made him so rich. Sir James . Hansen, the presiding justice of tho Farnell commission, is a most kind and generous man. Two coachmen died in his service, aud he is maintaining their widows in comfort. Young Coningsby Disraeli, tho nephew and heir of the lato Earl of Baconsficld, has been achieving great success as the leading low-comedy man of Lady Folkestone's amateur theatrical entertainment. Mr. Fred Pr.ENnEwojjaow asking the courts to dcrjdiuIitrAiiel' owner of about $20,000,000 Worth of iprdperty in Duluth, has the distinction of having been tho first white baby born in what is now the city of Toledo. United States Minister Strauss has induced the Sultan of Turkey to allow the explorers sent out by ; tho University ,of Pennsylvania to excavate in ruins of ancient Babylon for two years. This favor has been vainly sought for: by representatives of European powers. r ( ', , ' One of Senator .fiajryerV friends told a newspaper man thntf; before the Senator went to Congress he divided $1,000,000 between his two daughters and his only son! It is his inteution to make further settlements upon his children until his estato is divided pretty evenly between them. Miss Candy, who is to marry tho Duko of Newcastle, is the daughter of an officer who once served with the Khedive's troops in Egypt. Captain Candy was familiarly known as' "Sugar," and his magnilicent uniforms made a sensation six years ago in Cairo, a city which is not easily astonished. 'Is the American Heart Wearing Out?' is tho title of a monograph by Dr. S. W. Dowling, of New York. He thinks we work too hard and livo too high in this country, and thus- misuse the muscle in question. For those who suffer from heart disease Dr. D. furnishes three golden rules, to-wit. (1) Take exercise without fatigue; (2) nutrition without stimulation, and (3) amusement without excitement. ; An -Englishmen who has been visiting Boston is surprised to find that many modern Puritans aro beginning to assume aristocratic airs, on tho ground that they are tho lineal descendants of tho old Puritans who first settled in Massachusetts. It amuses him to find that the people who aro sprung from the sturdy middle-class yeomen who left England largely because they hated the aristocracy are now trying to pose as aristocrats themselves. Tim enemies of Gambetta were wont to assert that he possessed the "evil eye," and the same thing has been said of President Carnot by an Imperialist paper. This organ declares that he possesses a "fixed, glassy und lugubrious state' which is fatal to all upon whom it is directed. In order to prove this assertion, tho Bonapartist sheet points out than when M. Carnot visited Cherbourg sonio sailors were drowned, when be went to Savoy the rivers overflowed their banks, and when at Fountainebleau several fires occurred. Col. Daniel 3IcClui:k, assistant paymaster-general of the United States army, has been retired for age. He was graduated at West Point in the class of of which the first three scholars wero Gillmore, Parko and ltenet. This class was a little too late for active pattieipation in the Mexican War, and Lieutenrnt McClure soon resigned and went into civil life. In ISVJ he returned to

the array in the pay corps, with which ho has now been associated lor thirty years, receiving two brevets and becoming the highest ranking ofiicerunder General Rochester. James Brice, whoso work on tho American Commonwealth has excited much comment both hero and abroad, is one of the busiest men of the time. He was a successful member of Parliament, and as Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs it is said that he exchanged the quality rather than the quantity of his parliamentary labors. Resides this ho has been doingfnll duty as a Frofessor at Oxford, as a lecturer at the t nns of Conrt, and as an active participant in social and philanthropic works in London, lie is of Scotch birth and lifty years of age. Mr. Gladstone's absorbing study of Homer has led him to form numerous ingenious theories. One is the belief that tho Greeks were color-blind. Otherwise it would be impossible, he contends, for Homer to have spoken of "a flock of purple sheep." Ho was stating this view one day, when a celebrated agriculturist who was present remarked: "Ah! but I know that in certain parts of England there are flocks of 'purple sheep. " Mr. Gladstone expressed surprise. Inquiries wero made, and it was fouud that these sheep were only of the ordinary brown color. Mr. Lock, the London upholsterer, was chosen by the Empress Frederick to refurnish tho Palaco of Charlottenburg, and. when Queen Victoria went to Berlin to visit her daughter they both went to see him at his office there. Ho showed them some hangings which dazzled them, a glorious, rich brocade of gold bullion and pink silk, that literally would "stand alone." "Why, Mr. Lock," said the Queen in astonishment, "for whom can you have made such a divino materialf" "For Mr. Leopold do Rothschild, your Majesty." "Ah! there you are, my dear," said tho Queen, turning to her daughter: "Such people as those can afford that sort of thing, don't you see?'' Sarah Bernhardt's tour has been a brilliant success in all respects. But she will not derive any permanent benefit from it, as her expenses are enormous.. She actually makes her son an allowance of $1,200 a week, and has herself debts to the amount of $140,000. Sarah and her company always lodge in the same hotel when she is on her tour, and she is a Monte Cristo-like hostess when things arc going well and she is in a good humor. She is still very extravagant, and wastes largo sums in buying trash of every description, and 6he carries her purchases about with her. Her bills at the Austrian, Roumanian and Turkish custom-houses amounted to an aggregate of 18,000. Harvey Ward, who drives the stage between East Eddington and Bangor, Me., is thcoldest stage-driver in the whole Eastern country. His route is only a dozen miles loug, but it takes him into a country where the v railroad and telegraph are not yet known, and where the graceful deerx and lumbering bear cross tho road every day where, in fact, a person might easily , imagine himself a thousand miles from any city. Harvey always eats his Thanksgiving dinner in Bangor, and at tho same hotel, and on last Thanksgiving day he drove up to tho Windsor for his fortieth consecuti .annual feast in the identical red ee jff which ho drew up at the same door on Thanksgiving day, 1S4S. .On ono occasion, while General Boulanger was driving in tho1 neighborhood of . Paris, a roll of paper happened to fall out of tho carriage. Two workmen were busy at a scaffolding. Ono of them ran up and "handed tho precious packet back to the General, who stood up in the carriage and shook hands heartily with the man. saving, in a loud voice, "Merci, mon ami!'' Then ho reseated himself, and tho carriage drove on. A spectator on the other side of the road approached and said to the workman, "I say, U03-011 know who has iust shaken hands with you!" "No." "Well, it is General Imulangcr." "Ah!'' "Aro you not flattered!" The workman shrutrired his shoulders, and replied sulkily, "He might have given me a franc!" vl Tf-is related that Lord Magheramorne, licst known as Sir James McGarel Hogg, soon after his elevation to the peerage went to dine at tho house of an old friend, where ho was very well known under his old name, but he announced himself to Jeames as "Lord Magheramorne." "Lord - ' what?' said the startled domestic. ."Lord Magheramorne," said he, with emphasis. Jeames shook his head. lie did not venture to make a second inquiry, but despaired of attempting to render the uncouth collection of gutturals. What was he to do? Tho visitor was advancing to tho drawing-room. Jeames hesitated a moment, then boldly flung open the door and proclaimed, to tho consternation of everyone. .".The late Sir James Hogg!" , . .

" COMMENT AND OPINION. ' Governor Hill pleading for the introduction of an aristocratic, reactionary feat'ure in tho national Constitution, affords another spectacle of the identity between ' the demagogue and the enemy of representative government. Utica (N. Y.) Herald. The free-trader who gets down upon his . knees and prays that the Lord will not permit him to make such a fool of himself this year as he did last year will show a vestige of intelligence that is not likely to become epidemic among his fellow-blunderers. Louisville Commercial. There is nothing in actual reform, nor public patience, nor even in the loving kindness of the new era, of showing moral courage by honoring one's enemies to justify the retention of such an official, Postmaster Pearsou, of New York, and the encouragement of official incompetency and personal unworthiness. Des Moines State Register. If Mr. Holman, as a leader of the Democratic party, will prepare a bill providing for the proper punishment of the crime of intimidation, by means of which more than half a million voters were deterred from expressing their preferences at tho late national election, it will receive the hearty support of all the Republicans in Congress. Omaha Republican. It may not be Democratic in the stereotyped order of things to look matters squarely in the face and tell the truth about them, but we incline to the belief that it is good sense, and that the Democratic party is not so largely overstocked with good sense but that it may absorb even from an independent newspaper a little more, to its temporal and eternal good. Washington Post (Ind.) The term of office of tho President, his eligibility for re-election and his status after retiring do not concern Mr. Hill. These are matters beyond his pettifogging 'capacity, and his pretentious reference to them is calculated to excite derision. Ho is a very astounding person in his way, but the wonder is that such a very narrow and shallow trickster should have got to his pesent elevation. New York Times. Puhlic business is private business as well in that it concerns every individual, and therefore it is no more beneath the dignity of the best to take part in politics than to stir about in the affairs of the farm, the workshop or tho count ing-rom. Every American citizen can spare some time foV politics, and every American citizen should givo that much time to his country, his State, his county, his city. Wheeling Intelligencer. May there not be, during the year which now begins, a general effort by emplo3ers and employed to agree peacefully wherever it is possible, and with that object to refrain from extravagant, harsh, unnecessary or unreasonable demands on either side? Mutual consideration and kindness will help both workers aud employers many millions in a single year, and pay larger dividends thauanyother investment. N'ew York Tribune. The catalogue of all the defects and shortcomings of the Cleveland administration would be a history of the four years of Deniocrae, and that is for the future historian. It must suffice to say that the Feople, who know all these things, were 11II3 justified in turning their incompetent and unfaithful servants out of office, and that a demand for an examination of the books may have much more joint than it had in the campaign of 184. ban Francisco Chronicle. Only when the people elect a crank to occupy the White House shall wo have a President who will attempt to carry into practice the ideas of small oodles of sectaries or reformers. If there arc good men who think dancing sinful, there are just as good men who hold the opposite opinion.

It is an amusement that has been practiced from immemorial time in nil nations, and is likely to continue to be practiced whether or not a President frowns on it. Milwaukee Sentinel. The dance is a national affair, and it is perfectly right and proper for any man or set of men to say what they think about it, and if they choose, to seek to have it abolished; but it would bo a misfortune if a social thing of tho kind became mixed up with politics and the real affairs of government. The President. in his official character, has nothing whatever to do with tho festival, ono way or the other, and in his private capacity is simply at full liberty to attend it or stay away. New York Press. For Governor Hill to now appear as the evangelist of a pure suffrage is a cheat and a mockery little short of detestable. Let him dry his affected tears over a 'corrupt ballot-box. It is the instrument by which he retains power, and without it ho would have gone into defeat with his party. That he survived the Democratic wreck is duo to the fact that ho meanly abandoned his associates in their distress and bought his way to safety and to an inglorious personal victory won through corruption and fraud at their expense. Chicago Journal.

THAT SINFUL BALL. A MethodUt Minister Protests Against the Action of the Indianapolis Brethrea. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal. As one of the more than ono hundred thousand Methodists, and of the more than five hundred Methodist ministers. of tho Methodist Episcopal Church in the State, I wish to protest against being put in a false attitude by the solons of our ministry who may chance, at present, to reside in the city of Indianapolis. Tho Discipline of the church has always been plain in its deliverances on the subject of balls and dances, but the rule is for the guidance of the church alone, in the administration of her internal affairs. The church has no power, and does not pretend to have any power, over those outsido of her pale. She has her own household regulations, which she claims in common with all other churchly households, the right to establish and maintain and right well will she do if she shall administer these infaithf ulness! But beyond this neither does "a decent respect to tho opinions of mankind," nor the common etiquette of life, nor the teachings of tho Word of Truth, allow her to go. St. Paul was a strenuous maintainerof discipline within the church, but would not allow himself nor his members to carry that discipline to those outside tho church, "For what have I to do to judge them that are without? Do ye not judge them that are within!" (I Cor. v, 12.) For one, I believe tho action of tho Methodist ministers in Indianapolis and Columbus is without sufficient warrant. If they wish to express their individual and independent opinions, they have a perfect right to do so, and no one can object; but whatever they may think of it themselves, the manner in which they are presenting it to the public eye looks like grotesque presumption and fanaticism. It places tho church in a falso and indefensible position before the country. The Methodist Discipline was not made to control an inaugural at Washington or Indianapolis. These things are wholly within tho domain of secular affairs, to which the church has a very remoterelation, and upon whiehshe shouldnot speak at all, unless flagrant improprieties and scandal mark them, which no one believes will bo the case. Recently the great temperance cause was put in stress by a few men and some daring women, who seemed to think there was a short cut to great achievements, and no appeal could arouse them from their delusion. And now come a few men who have consulted together in some little room or some coup de maitre, but who, in fact, are stabbing the church that honors them. For one, I protest against this whole business. If these good brethren will attend to the dancing that mav he going on in their own charges they will perhaps have their hands full. . B. F. Rawlins. Sf'KXCER, Ind., Jan. 2. Willing to Leave It with Harrison. To tfcc Editor of the Indianapolis Journal. Since the inaugural ball has .been very injudiciously, and, as I think, unnecessarily thrust upon the Methodist preachers' meeting of our city, I wish to say that by many it is much regretted. It may not be amiss to refer those who felt called upon to take the iniative in the matter to John viii, 7. I am not personally acquainted with the President-elect. I knew his grandfather, and in later years and during my pastorate of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Lawrenceburg, this State, I became quite well acquainted with the father of General Harrison. From all that I know of the Harrison family, from grandfather to grandson, there never has been any disposition in them to compromise the morals of state or church; but, on the other hand, to hold asa sacred trust the honor and purity of both. I am perfectly willing to trust General Harrison and his friends with the inauguration ceremonies and festivities, as I am satisfied that ho will consent to nothing that would tend in tho least to lower the standard of the people's morals. As ministers we will do well to purge from our communion all questionable amusements and festivities before striking directly at something much less injurious to the general church of God. Tho Methodist ministers, as a bod', are not in sympathy with the way this question has been thrust upon them, and do not enjoy the notoriety it has forced them to assume. As ministers of tho gospel of Christ, we aro opposed to dancing, card-playing, dramdrinking, theater-going, and all other things injurious to experimental religion, and we are all in fields not well cultivated in this regard. Let every man bestir himself at home, and let the inauguration of tho in, coming President be left to the management of men who can attend to it so much better than wo can. J. S. Tevis. Indianapolis, Jan. 3. SENATOR PALMER'S SUCCESSOR. Something About the Man Who Tfas Keen Nominated by Michigan Republicans. Washington Letter in New York Son. James McMillan, like Mr. Palmer, is a citizen of Detroit. He is one of tho wealthiest men in the State, and for many years has been on the top wave of popularity with all classes of Wolverine citizens. No whisper of the improper uso of money has been heard in connection with Mr. McMillan's selection as Senator, but tho entire united Republican party of the Stato turned to him at once upon the announcement that Mr. Palmer did not desire a second term. Mr. McMillan has never held a public office, although he has been ono of the prominent members of the Republican party in Michigan for years. Ho has given liberally of his time and money to frequent campaigns, and as chairman of the State centr.A committee he has placed the partv und'T jleep obligations to him. Mr. McMill&n is a Scotchman, his parents having come to Canada in 18&1. He was born in Hamilton, Ont., and received a common school !ucation and a partial college preparation there, removing when a young man to Detroit. After a short term in thehardwaro business ho became the purchasing agent of tho Detroit. Grand Haven & Milwaukee railroad. In 1SI3 ho was the leading spirit in tho organization of the Michigan Car Company. Out of this grew the Detroit Car-wheel Company, tho Baugh Steam-forgo Company, and the Detroit Iron-furnaco Company. Mr. McMillan is now president of all these companies, and the largest owner in each of them. Their business aggregates from $5,000,000 to $7,000,000 a year, ami they give constant employment to about three thousand men. In lHTO Mr. McMillan, with associates in New York and Detroit, built the Detroit, Mackinac &. Marquette, now the Duluth, South Shore Sc Atlantic railway, running from Sau It Ste. Marie to Duluth. a distance of six hundred miles. He is also a largo owner in the Detroit and Cleveland Steam Navigation Company, a director in the First National Bank of Detroit and tho Detroit Savings Bank, the great Ferry Seed Company, and other business concerns, from which he has a very large income. He has been a liberal contributor to all public and private charities in Michigan and Detroit, and has taken a special interest in helping young men to get well started in business. Twelve years ago Mr. McMillan entered Michigan politics as a member of tho Re

publican Stato central committee. Two j'ears he was a member of the executive committee, and was the treasurer of the State committee. Zachariah Chandler 1h ing chairman. This was tho time of tho famous hard-money campaign, in which such a signal victory was won over tho allied hosts of Democrats and Grecnbackers. After the death of Senator Chandler, Mr. McMillan was elected to the chairmanship of tho State central committee for the rest of the term after which ho dropped out of politics until the campaign of l&s, at which timo Michigan Republicans were in an extremely critical condition. With Mr. McMillan as its leader, however, the party w on an old-time victory, and the chairman's stook went up above par, and since that day ho has been almost the only man mentioned for the first vacant senatorshin. In personal appearance Mr. McMillan has some of the characteristics of ex-President Arthur. He is handsome, always fashionably dressed, andexceedingry affable, though quite dignified in manner. His home in Detroit is a social center, and he will, lio tloubt, entertain liberally in Washington. He has five children, one a son at Yale College, and another a daughter who willmako her debut in society in a year or two. Tho McMillans are true-blooded Scotch lrrsbyteiians. and the future Senator is a regular attendant at both Sunday and week-day services. HILL'S WAR ON CLEVELAND. To Further His Ends He Will Drive Every Cleveland 3Ian Out of Power in the State. Brooklyn Standard-Union. It was said before election by organs of the Cleveland Democracy that Governor Hill could not afford to be elected if tho President failed to cany this State. Of course, tho organs meant that the Cleveland Democrats would attribute the defeat of their leader to the treacherv of the Governor, and that in future political contests they would ever be found opposing David B. Hill. Well, tho fight has commenced, and from present appearances the war of the stalwarts and half-breeds, now happily ended, which drove unity out ol Kho Republican ranks, will take on tho semblance of a trifling love-spat when compared with tho fury of tho feud that has been started in tho Democratic ranks. The Governor, so far from, being frightened into suing for peace by the threats of the Clevelahditcs, has assumed tho aggressive, aud makes no secret of his intention to drive every Cleveland man ont of place ami power in the State. Nor will Le be satisfied with any divided allegiance. The Democrat who was not for Hill when Hill wanted him must go. In the ranks of organized Democracy, in 18ft2. only Hill men will be permitted, at least in this State.- The Governor thinks that if ho had the t support of the men particularly the men from Kings county whoso support he had a right to expect, in tho Stato committee and in tho different Democratic conventions during; the past two years, he and not Cleveland would have been the candidate of the Democracy for President, and that he and not Harrison would be the President-elect today. He knows, too, that he cannot be a 5ercnnial candidate for the presidency, 'he man who fails twice in the efibrt to be nominated rarely reaches tho goal. Tho Governor, therefore, has, so to speak, put all his eggs in one basket. He is determined to reach at least the Democratic nomination for tho presidency in 1S02, and that fixed purpose will inlluence his every act during tho next four years.

A Growl at Western Names. Philadelphia Press. Congressman Springer has evidently been spending much valuable timo in looking up names for the Territories that are ambitious to become States, judging from his suggestion of Winona, Montezuma and Laconica. But before any of these are adopted it would be well to have it understood and finally fixed how they are to bo pronounced The country's experience with names of places ending in "a'' has not been very encouraging. It is considerable of a vocal wrench to Eastern people on going West to discover that they are expected to pronounce Omaha "Omahaw," Wichita. "Wichitaw," and Maniioba "Manitoba w." and always with the accent cn the last syllable. It is true that Alaska, Dakota and Montana 6till remain uncornipted, but there is no surety that some future Legislature will not follow the example of tho Arkansas Legislature which decided that the right way to pronounce the name of that State is Ark an saw. Tho country has enough inflictions of this kind, and it will rise up as one man to protest against tho danger of such vocal impositions as "Winonaw," "Montezumaw" and "Laconicaw." That is a little too much "free raw material" even for Mr. Springer to advocate. A Diminishing Statesman. RushvUle Republican. Green Smith illustrates inhis own person the perils of a little fame to a little man. Before he was called into notoriety by doing the heavy villain's part inthespectacular play of "Stealing a Senator," at Indianapolis, he seemed to bo doing tolerably well asa second or third-rate country lawyer. But since ho became a "statesman" he divides his time between admiring him-, self and hunting office. n the brief interval since tho last Democratic nominating convention, he has swiftly run down tho famut from Governor to Clerk of tho louse with apparently no chance for it. Fortune knows his size, if he does not. The Colored Man Moving On. Montgomery Advertiser. "You may not know," said a man of prominence in railroad circles, yesterday even ing, "that if the present rate of emigration keeps up for a few years longer there will be no more negroes to speak of in Alabama's fertile black belt. They are going to the mineral section, to tho North, to Texas, to California and to every other place they can get money enough to carry them. Singular as it may seem, the more the negro gets of education he is filled wit'i an irresistible desire to travel, and never is satisfied until he goes somewhere outsklo the boundaries of the Stato in which bo Uvea." The Hand That Shaves the Note. Montreal Herald. When the Queen was on her recent viifi to Berlin, Mr. Lock was showing her and tho Empress somo hangings, with which ho proposed to decorate one of tho great rooms. It was a lovely rich brocade of gold bullion and pink silk that literally would "stand alone." "Why, Mr. Lock1 said the Queen, in astonishment, "for whomever can you haveinade such a divine material!'' "For Mr. Leopold de Rothschild, your Majesty." "Ah! There you are, my dear," said the Queen, turning to her daughter; "such people as those cau afford that sort of thing, don't you seeP - r What Protected Them. Boston Transcript. The remarkable immunity "rom fire of th$ eitv of Fall River, in lSbS, was probably due to the fact that tho mills there aro mostly insured under the mutual sjstcm cacried on by cotton-mill owners. No mill 7 a a -a r can come into tho system until it is furnished with every lire-prevent ins and ex tinguishing appliance ot proved worth, and then it must oe built so that a lire, if started, will not spread a brilliant illustration of the adago that prevention is six teen times as valuable as cure. Wants to Re Vindicated. Frankfort Banner. Sim Coy's stripes and seclusion have not curbed bin ambition. Ho is not content withbeinr both a Democratic councilman, and a feceral convict, but now, on the threshold of his freedom, he announces his candidacy lor ronnty honors. Since the result of tint November election in Marion county we vrill not again draw on our font of exclamation points should he break into tho best offioo in their million-dollar courthouse. -mmThe insult In the Same. Boston Herald. . The difference between a Bald-knobler and a White C.bp. appears to be that tho former kills his victim, while tho latter is coutent with torturing him. It is well to keep up with our expanding vocabulary. What App nils the Turncoat. Joe Howard, in New "York rres. Doun Piatt's in great trouble. He regard! the recent presidential election as "simply appalling to those who love their country and believe in the f.reat Republic! Also 19 those who wero whipped. n Here's Another. Little Bock rrogreM. The growing Southwest will feel much more ambitious with Col. Logan H. Koots in Mr. Harrison's Cabinet than it will if unrepresented.