Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 January 1889 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL,. FRIDAY, JANUARY 118, 1889.

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THE DAILY JOURNAL FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 18S9. WASHINGTON OFFICE 513 Fourteenth 8U P. S. Heath, Correspondent NEW YORK OFFICE 104 Temple Court. Corner Beekman and Nassau atrceta. TEH3IS OF SUBSCKITTION. DAILY. Oueyrar, without Sandaj 1200. On year, with Sunday... 14-JJO Six month!!, without fenn&ay ' fill months, with Sunday- -. ' - Three months, without Snnrtay 3.00 Three months, with Snndar - 3.50 One month, without Sunday - l.oo One month, with Sunday - l--" WEEKLT. Feryear ....$1.00 Reduced Rates to Clubs. Fnbucribe with any of our numerous agents, or send subscriptions to THE JOURNAL NEWSPAPER COMPANY, IJTDIAXAPOLIS, I5D. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can be fnnnd at the following places: LONDON American Jixchange in Europe, 413 strand. PARIS American Exchange In Paris, 35 Boulevard des Capucine. NEW YOBKGilsey ITonse sjid Windsor HoteL rniLADELPHIA A. P. Kemhle, 3735 Lancaster avenue. ' CIIICAGO-Palmcr riouse. CINCINNATI -J. P. nawley & Co., 154 Tine street. LOUISVILLE C. T. Turing, northwest corner Third and J eiTerson streets. , ST. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern IIoteL WASHINGTON, D. C.-P.Jggs House and Ebbitt Hons. - Telephone Calls. Business Office... 238 Editorial Boom 242 Every election thief in the country is hurrahing forjudge Woods. Sentinel. There are two in the Northern prison and several in the city still under indictment who are not. The Democratic Legislature is working industriously for a Republican majority in the next session of that body. Indications are already that the majority will be a lanro one. It is now confessed by certain Democratic organs that Hill, of New York, is the only hope of that party; that he is the only man with whom it is possible to win in 1802. Can it really be that the Democracy has fallen into such straits? It is a pitiful admission to make. TnE Curtis bill might properly be entitled "an act to drive away capital from Indianapolis; to prevent the establishment of manufactories and investments in real estate, and to stop the growth of the city." This is what it means, and this will result if thebill becomes a law. i Legislative and local affairs take up most of the public attention in this locality at the present time, but elsewhere Legislatures are less rampant, and editors are making uso of their time to attack the car-stove. It is something for them to do, and doesn1t interfere with the stove in the leas. Heretofore the actions of the Democratic Legislature have been more of a disgrace than a material injury to the State, but present indications are that the people are to be robbed right and left, and their rights .disregarded in every possible way. If the Curtis bill becomes a Liw, for instance, Indianapolis will be a good town to move away from. The violent opposition to a registry law displayed by Indiana Democratic organs betrays the hollowness of their pretended desire for ballot reform. The registry system is found to be a vast improvement on the ordinary methods wherever tried, and the other plans proposed are largely experimental. The truth of the matter is, as the Journal has before remarked, the Indiana Democracy is iu favor of nothing that really protects the ballot-box. Judge Woods instructed the grand jury that in order to find an indictment against Colonel Dudley on the strength of his alleged letter, it must iirst be shown that he wrote the letter and sent it. This makes the Democrats who "discovered" and printed it very angry. They cannot tell how they came by it, nor prove that Dudley wrote it, but think the jury ought to tako their hysterical charges as facts and find accordingly. It was ever thus; the Democracy and the law is in eternal conflict. The Curtis bill'provides that the members of the board of public works and affairs shall be residents of the city, but does not provide that they shall be taxpayers. They may increase the rate of taxation 75 cents on the $100. The money derived from the increased taxation shall be subject to their control, and they may expend it as they please. Some of the Republican nominees on the legislative ticket were abused and scratched by sonie truly good mugwumps, because it was said they would be extravagant and not safe legislators. It is not probable, however, that any of them would have advocated doubling the city tax levy, or that they would have proposed to allow the city affairs to bo managed by an irresponsible committee of three. ; There arc some animals which do not obtain their food or construct their .homes by their own efforts, but get them by robbing other animals whose higher instinct or superior industry enables them to provide for themselves. There is a cks.s of whites in the South who are evidently emulating the prowling and predatory beasts who livo by despoiling their fellows. Poor by inheritance, worthless by instinct, lazy by practice and Democratic by training, their solo idea of acquiring property is to kill a negro and steal his home. There have been a number of instances of this kind reported recently, sorao flourishing neighborhoods of small colored farmers having been practically depopulated and replaced by victorious whites. Many of the colored people are industrious and thrifty, and evince a capacity to get on in tho world. They seem to have a desire to become real-estate owners. This

is a very laudable desire when' honestly exercised, and au excellent badge of good citizenship, but wo cannot commend it as practiced by the class of white marauders referred to. No doubt tho idea of a negro owning land in his own name and cultivating it for his own profit is very repulsive to these representative Southern Democrats, and the temptation is very great

to enter in and possess themselves of the colored man's property, having first killed him or chased him out of the country. But somebody should kindly remind them that they cannot get a good title to land in that way, and that tho acquisition of property by such methods is attended by many dangers. Tho solid South is not going to last forever, and the protecting wing of tho Democratic party will not be over them always.

OUR REVOLUTIONIST LEGISLATURE Day by day the schemes of the Democrats to throttle tho will of tho people are being disclosed. They have lost tho presidency and its .patronage; they have lost the governorship in Indiana; they have lost the Supreme Court; they have left to them, thanks to the gerrymander the Legislature, and upon that alone depends their hope of power in Indiana, and they purpose using it for all that can be legally or illegally made out of it. The Curtis bill is intended to give them the city of . Indianapolis, and all tho offices and spoils, great or small, that can bo made out of it. They intend, by tho Legislature, to elect the managers of the benevolent and penal institutions of theState,andto secure all tho offices and profits that can be made from them. They propose . to take from tho Governor the appointments to all offices that have hitherto been vested in the executive. They propose by the creation of a Supreme Court commission, to be chosen by the Legislature, and composed exclusively of Democrats, to overbalance the legal and constitutionally elected judges of the court of last resort, in order that an illegally constituted court may sustain their unfair and unconstitutional enactments, knowing, as they do, that tho measures they have determined upon would be declared null and void by a fair and unbiased Supreme Court. To secure the fruits of their schemes, that tribunal must bo reconstructed so that it will uphold their encroachments upon the Constitution of the State. That the measures which have been introduced, and which they avow they will introduce, are contrary to the letter and spirit of the Constitution; that they are subversive of the rights of the people to self-government, weighs as nothing to these political robbers. The Democratic party is a revolutionary party, a party of nullification. Not that all Democrats are such, for they are not; but as a party they allow tho very worst element of it to control its actions. It allows tho Coy-Bernhamer-Green SmithCox crowd to dictate its policy, and the others follow. This is not a very pleasant reflection upon a party that embraces within its fold so large a minority of the people of Jbis great State of Indiana, but it is a fact. DEMOCRACY AND POPULAR RIGHTS. The publication in the Journal, yesterday, of the full text of the Curtis bill opened the eyes of a great many people to the true inwardness of the Democratic plan of campaign. This bill is part of a general plan, involving, in its other features, the gagging of the minority in both branches of the Legislature, the capture of the Supreme Court, the control of the benevolent institutions for political purposes, and the wiping out of popular government in Indianapolis. Tho latter is what the Curtis bill proposes to do. It takes all the executive departments of tho city government out of the control of the Mayor and Council, and places them in the hands of a so-called board of public works, to be selected by the Legislature. It pract ically abolishes popular government and home rule, and substitutes a legislative guardianship of the city by means of a nondescript board of semi-legislative and . semi-executive character, responsible not to the people of Indianapolis, whom it is to govern, but responsible, through a shifting Legislature, to the people of remote parts of tho State to the people of Posey and LaPorte counties, of Union and Vigo, of Wayne and Vermilliou, of Allen, Cass and Brown. This is the modern Democratic idea of republican government as practiced in Indiana. The bill, if passed, would abolish homo rule and local selfgovernment. It should be entitled "a bill to declare municipal government in Indiana a failure, to abolish home rule in tho capital of the State, to take tho power of self-government out of the hands of the people and vest it in a partisan board of regents to bo chosen by a caucus of the Democratic party and pledged to govern the city for partisan purposes only; also, creating lucrative offices for Democratic workers and empowering said board to levy an additional tax of 75 cents on the people of said city for campaign purposes." This title would exactly define the purport of the Curtis bill. It is astonishing that a party already under a cloud and in very bad repute for its many outrageous acts should dare to assume the additional burden of this bold outrage. It only shows that tho Democratic managers think nothing can hurt tho Democratic party. We believe they are mistaken. We think tho Democratic party has been weakened in the past by the outrageous conduct of its leaders, and is likely to be further weakened in the future. The masses of the people are neither fools nor knaves. SCHEME TO CAPTURE THE SUPREME COURT. In his inaugural message Governor Gray told tho Legislature in plain terms that a Supremo Court commission was unconstitutional. Ho said this of a commission appointed by tho court, and if this be true of a commission appointed by the judges themselves, it is certainly tine of a commission selected by the Legislature. The prominent lawyers of the State agreed with Governor Gray and so, it seems, did the Legislature of 1885 for tho commission was discontinued. The common sense of it is and this,-we suppose, is the law of it that only judges can exercise judicial powers and if commissioners are judges, they cannot be appointed either by the court or by the Legislature, for it is provided in Section 18 of Article 5 of tho Constitution that, "When at any time a vacancy shall have occurred in the office of judge the Governor shall fill such a vacancy by appointment." The opinion I among the best lawyers, as it comes to

us, is, that a commission cannot be created in any method except by a constitutional amendment, and it was so created in the only States where any have existed. That the Journal was right in saying that tho object of tho Democratic leaders was to make places for Democrats and not to advance the public interests is proved by the fact that they have named as commissioners three of tho former judges, two of whom disposed of only forty-nine cases each, and one of whom" disposed of only sixty-four cases during the year ending Dec. SI, 1888. They are hardly the men to bring up the docket, even if a commission were constituted. A Republican Legislature in the bill of 1881 conferred the authority to select commissioners upon a court composed of three Democrats and two Republicans, but the present revolutionary Legislature will not only not trust the court, but insists upon naming every member of the commission. This action will do no harm to any one except the promoters of the scheme to gain control of the Supreme Court, for under the Constitution no commission can bo created by any! body or by any officers.. Judges are elected by the people, or, where a vacancy occurs, appointed by the Governor.

CHEATING THE FLORIDA REPUBLICANS. On anything like a fair vote Florida is decidedly Republican. The Republican vote in that State is largely white, consisting of Northern Republicans who have settled in the State within the last few years, and a fair proportion of native Floridans. To this must be added a large colored vote. Tho Republican majority is only overcome year after year by fraud. As the State election law is framed and administered in tho interest of fraud, and as tho Democrats control the election machinery, they have been able thus far to have things pretty much their own way. There are about fifty-four white voters in tho Staoto every forty-six colored voters. Tho negroes are Republican almost to a man, and nearly 20 per cent, of tho whites are Republican. This makes a fair Republican majority, but by use of tho methods so well known to Southern Democrats it is converted year after year into a Democratic majority. It is a matter of record in the last election that in Duval county, of which Jacksonville is the county seat, eight hundred Republicans were denied tho right to vote because the supervisor of registration, a Democrat, had intentionally located them in precincts where they did not live. In another county an enumeration of tho Republicans who voted showed they had a clear majority of 808, yet the returns showed 82 majority for the Democrats. Another fraud consists in depriving colored voters of their certificates of registration, which the law, makes indispensable to voting. Tho recently-elected Democratic Governor of Florida is named Fleming. His law partner, Barrs by name, was anxious to disfranchise all the Republicans he could. One month before election he hunted up all the impecunious colored voters ho was able to reach, and loaned each from $1 to $2 on each certificate of registxation. He boasted that he meant to clirJ-J franchise a voter for every certificate he could get as collateral to each loan. Ho put out $2,000, and secured 1,000 certifiV cates, and kept them in his safe, depriving 1,000 colored Republicans of their votes. It is by such methods as this that the political existence of the grand old Democratic party is continued, and the stupendous fraud of a solid South maintained. There is a class of people, perhaps conscientious, certainly very squeamish, who are opposed to high license as a means of regulating the liquor traffic, on the ground that a license is a permit, and, ' therefore, any license is morally wrong. To the overwhelming evidence furnished by experience in many States that high license is the best method of dealing with intemperance and restricting the liquor traffic, they have nothing to reply except that license in any form is a sin. Perhaps it may help some of these over-conscientious people to reach a reasonable conclusion if they aro reminded that a license is a legal restriction instead of a permit, a check instead of a franchise. It is, in fact, a legal restraint on what is already legalized. For a long time the liquor traffice was free. A license law was one of the earliest measures of restraint., High license with local option furnishes tho best method yet devised for restricting or entirely suppressing the traffic. A good Methodist, who takes a sensible view of the question, writes: License, is a legal restraint, a tax. It restrains t99 men irom selling and taxes the one man who is permitted to sell; and it restrains him from selling to minors, from selling on Sundays, from selling during tho late hours of night. It puts on him a variety of restraints. It prompts him to join with temperance men in keeping others from selling. It makes him pay in part tho pecuniary expenses that whisKv drinking inflicts on the community. It curtails many of tho evils of tho drink habit, ami helps toward prohibition. In many places now, with existing, public sentiment, prohibition would be in fact free whisky. Better far to remove part of tho evils, such as can be removed, than to do nothing or to insi-st on doing the impracticable. The best method of accomplishing this is by high license. These are the sentiments, I believe, of a very laro majority of the niemlers of the Methodist Church. If a Democratic judge had done, in the interest of a Democratic rascal, what Judge Woods did on Tuesday in the interest of a Republican rascal, this community would be too hot to hold him. Sentinel. . ' . . Yet you have had nothing but words of approval for the Democratic judge how violated the Constitution and went out of his way to assist in consummating the Democratic usurpation in the Senate. A Washington special says hotel and lodging-house keepers have become so elated over the harvest they expect to reap on inauguration week that it is difficult to secure quarters for even so distant an event as the grand encampment of the Knights Templars, tobe held there next October. The landlords must bo excited, sure enough; but if they think the Indiana crowd is coming on tho 4th of March to stay all summer they should be undeceived. The majority of the Republicans in the State will go ou to see the President safely installed in office and may possibly leave a detachment on guard, but the greater number will return to Indiana shortly after the cere

monies and remain there to await instructions. So far as the Hoosiers aro concerned, Washington' hotel-keepers can promise nil their accommodations from the 5th of March on.

A few more sessions of the State veterinarians, and the people of Indianapolis will become vegetarians. The comments of theso doctors on the character of tho animal food served to the citizens are not of a sort to make even tho hungry man yearn for roast beef, pork chops or 'raw" milk. Of course, all these disclosures concerning congested beef, "measly" pork and tuberculosis milk were made for public benefit, but before tho public can receive the bene-' fits a State inspector of meats must be appointed, and presumably he must bo a vet-j erinarian, since none other, it seems, can detect the diseases. No doubt the Demo-, cratic Legislature, which is ready for any proposition which means a new office for ono of their party to fill, will hasten to make the appointment: but, in the meantime, what is the unfortunate public to eat? If the butchers cannot distinguish diseased meats a butcher now being thelocal inspector nothing is left for those who regard steaks, chops and cutlets in the light of the essential "daily bread," either to forego those articles of food or go on in consuming them at all risks, and in daring disregard of veterinary warnings. Those of them, at least, who have escaped tuberculosis, actinomycosis and other evils up to this time will probably continue to risk their health as heretofore in the interval, before the Legislature comes to the rescue with one or more lifesaving veterinarians. TnE Indiana bee-keepers failed to follow tho example of the State veterinarians, and urge the appointment of one of their number as Stato honey-inspector. And jet honey is sometimes very injurious to tho human system and bee-stings always so, and who so likely to teach abstemiousness in the use of ono and discretion in tho neighborhood of tho other as a bee-keeper? To the Elitor of the Indianapolis Journal: , Please state who pays United States snIervisors of election, what pay they are alowed, and how they proceed to get their pay? A Reader. Noktii Manchester, Jan. 15. They aro paid by the general government through the Department of Justice, commonly called the Attorney-general's office. They receive $5 per day while on actual duty. Their accounts should bo sent to tho clerk of the district court for certification by the United States judge. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: A note of $100 given May 25, 1888, is duo Dec. 25. 1892, and reads: "Interest 8 per cent, per annum from date." When is the interest due on the note? Subscriber. Bio Spring, ind. Unless the interest is made payable annually by express terms in the note it is not payablo till tho maturity of the note. The expression per cent, per annum" simply indicates the rate of interest, but does not require it to he paid annually. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Michael Lee, the new president of the City Council, at Omaha, Neb., was formerly a hotel porter and boothlack. Miss Maky Allen West, editor of tho Union Signal, has been re-elected president of the Illinois Woman's Press Association. Pkince Auisugawa Takeiiito, a commander in the Japanese navy, has been ordered by his government to visit Europe to obtain tho latest features in naval construc tion and armament. 7 Mrs. F. T. Frelinghuysen, widow of tho late Secretary of State Frelinghuysen, is in a feeble condition, at her house in Newark, N. J., and her family have the gravest fears about the outcome of her illness. The poor of Windsor have good reason to bless the generosity of Princess Christian. Twice a week, during tho winter months, they aro made happy by the dinners which she provides for them at the town hall. "Herbert is the only Bismarck who works decently," said the Chancellor the other day, to Dr. Chrysander. "If I had worked as much in my younger days some good might have come of me, too, at last." Mrs. Maria G. Frost, superintendent of tho Ohio Franchise Department, is preparing a history of the temperance movement during the first half of the present century. C. E. Weaver, of Washington county, Pennsylvania, is the owner of the pistol with which Colonel Johnson is supposed to have shot Tecumseh, Oct. 5, 1813. He also has a pipe smoked by Daniel Boone in 1775. The household of the Emperor of China is to consist of 500 persons, including thirty fan bearers, thirty umbrella bearers, thirty physicians and surgeons, seventy-five astrologers, seven chief cooks, and sixty priests. Poor Mr. Jameson, Stanley's bravo lieutenant, who perished in the Cougo, was especially fond of Mr. Arnold's "Light of Asia." It was his constant companion during his travels in the Dark Continent, and he found great comfort in its poetic philosophy. The late William Woolsey, of Harford county, Maryland, was a philanthropist with ideas of his own. He has left nearly $100,000 to be expended on certain designated roads in the county, provided tho county commissioners spend an equal sum on them. The Hawkinsville (Ga.) News announces that Mr. Walter J. Graco will edit its "society department" in future, and adds: "Mr. Grace will be ready and pleased to till engagements to attend weddings and social gatherings generally in town and surrounding country." Canon Haweis still retains his stall in Chichester Cathedral, and occasionally preaches with great vigor, though he is eighty-four years old. He is tho son of the Dr. Haweis who was chaplain to the famous Countess of Huntingdon, and is the father of the Kev. H. K. Haweis. the funny little man who visited this country recently and is preacher, lecturer, musical and art critic, author and newspaper man all in one. The Empress of Austria recently visited a small town where the inhabitants were so delighted that, to do her the highest honor possible, they elected her a member of tho Chamber of Deputies, an honor she was obliged to decline. In recognition of this favor she sent quite a sum of money for tho poor, but the Mayor was obliged to decline the gift, as they had not a pauper in the place. A man may pout, and a man may shout In the Senate or House all day, But he can't make a speech, that through ages wUl reach, t.ci. inH built that way. -Lecause he aln t Henrv clay ( Nebraska State Journal. COMMENT AND OPINION. The administration of President Cleveland has treated American steamship lines as though they had no rights upon the ocean when British vessels could do the same work. It is time for a change. Rochester Democrat. One hundred and sixty-eight million dollars was invested in mining and manufacturing enterprises in the Southern States during the year 1883. Thi3 fact accounts for the growth of protection seutiment iu the SouthKansas City Journal. TiiEwedgoof protection has entered the solid South, and will divide it. 1 ho industrial interests of that section demand the adoption of tho Republican policy or pro tection. 1 hey will now be heard, and two and four years hence their enormously in creased influence will voice an enective re monstrance against thy misrepresentation

they have had in Congress. Under what new or old issue the Democratic party will rally its forces in 1802 does not now appear, but it will not bo free trade. Cleveland Leader. On the whole, wo aro inclined to think that more than four years must elapse before it will be altogether safe for Repnllicanstolook upon New York as a superfluity a pretty ornament with which to decorate a triumph, but not essential to comfort or dignity. New York Tribune, The scandals and corruption of the New York custom-house have been notorious ever since the Democrats assumed control. Mr. Fairchild has been well aware of tho true state of altairs, and the personal attention of Mr. Cleveland has beeu called to the matter. Yet nothing was done till now, on the eve of the great Democratic walk-out. Minneapolis Tribune. TnE men who are going about with petitions for appointment to office, and are preparing to make life a burden to their Representatives might be far better employed. To the vast majority of them the best thing that could happen to them would bo to bo disappointed m these ambitions, forin that case they would probably settlo down to sonie useful and productive occupation ; Boston Journal. . No other evil wears a more threatening aspect in our country than the corruption of the ballot. It has proceeded downward until it has reached a stage which is alarming and almost desperate. It is certainly time something were done to check tho evil, and the prospect is that legislatures will be compelled to adopt etiectnal meagures to cure the mischief at once. New York Christian Advocate, The electoral college idea has been abundantly criticised: the fault tinders have been picking at it ever since it first existed; but after a century of trial it still works as well as ever. There can bo no better test than this, and those who worry their brains about what they conceive to be its defects will tind it no easy task to offer a system which is likely to work well forth samo length of time. New York Press. There is not tho least reason to doubt that the most of the negroes, under fair and honorable treatment, would look up to tho white men of the Southas friends and guides. With friendly interest and guidance, with an evident purpose to deal with them fairly in business and to aid in their elevation, the blacks would be no less houorable, unselfish and affectionate toward the white people of the South than they were during tho trials of war. Milwaukee Sentinel.

IS THERE A SCHOOL-BOOK TRUST? There Are Nearly 200 Firms Engaged in Supplying Books, and 19 Belong to a Syndicate. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: Is there a school-book trust or monopoly? A trust may roughly be defined as a combination of producers, or of producers and sellers, or of sellers of an article, for the sake of controlling the price at which the given article is to be sold. Amonopoly is an exclusive right to manufacture, or to manufacture and sell, or to sell a given commodity. What aro the facts that bear upon the question of monopoly? The Bowen-Merrill Company,' of Indianapolis, are by far the largest jobbers of school-books in Indiana. They sent out a catalogue for 18S8, giving tho names of each kind of school-book, its pullisher, the jobbers' wholesale price, and the estimated retail price. This trade list contains, by actual count, the names of 173 publishers who issue and sell school-books. It contains the names of seventy-six series of "English Readers," and other kinds of textbooks in proportion. These publishers aro competitors withone another for the patronage of the jobbers, the retail dealers and of boards of education who have the selection of books. Nearly all of them have traveling agents in the field, whose business it is to visit every dealer or school board that manifests a disposition or a posibility of putting in their books. Ex-State Superintendent II. C. Speer, of Kansas, in a report to a committee of tho Kansas Legislature, is authority for tho statement that in 18S1 there were published by seventy-eight different publishers 18 series of readers, 79 English grammars, 34 series of geographies, I2rt spelling books, 89 series of arithmetics, i2 series of copybooks and 77 histories. . The statement of one of tho best-known and reliable pub-' lishers in the country is authority for the fact that the plates for twenty-five series of text-books of various kinds may be bought to-day for a price a little above that of old type metal. English school books may bo imported at a duty of 23 per cent, of their actual cost in England. If, as is claimed, American school books are sold at from two to six times the price of school books in other countries, English and Scotch school books could bo imported at this duty and still be sold at a large discount under American prices. As a matter of fact, not a single American school, so far as has been reported, is using English or other foreign text-books for common school instruction. A monopoly exists in two States of tho Union Minnesota and California. The former State let an exclusive contract to a State contractor for the term of fifteen years, and bound by law all common school districts coming under the general school law to use a fixed series of books. California has created a monopoly of text-book publication by law, and compels all common school districts coming under the general school law to accept the books compiled by the Stato Board of Education, and printed by tho State printing house. This monopoly exists for an indefinite period of time. The contract of a board of education, city, town, county or district, to use a given set of books for any given period is, in a sense, a monopoly for the firm or firms furnishing the books. In this sense all contracts, of whatever nature, are monopolies. What aro the facts bearing on the socalled book trust or 83ndicatef Tho writer has seen and examined into the so-called "compact" which rules the association of publishers, popularly called the syndicate. One of its provisions reads: "Any publisher may change his prices, at will." Another provision is that "any Rublishermaychangehisdisrountsat will' ot a single sentenceor word of it fixes any price or any rate of discount. Its provisions relate solely to regulating the conduct of agents, and nave in view the prevention of rootingout oncset of books to put m another, by means of bonuses, gifts, bribes or other corrupt means of influence. It is primarily intended to protect tho publisher, but in so doing affords incidental protection to the buyer and consumer. The number of firms whose signatures are to this agreement is quoted from memory, and is given thus as nineteen. There are, then, outside of this agreement, 153 firms of textbook publishers, who are in no way bound by its provisions and who may resort to any means they pleaso to get out the books of a rival publisher, aud to put in their own. The foregoing are the principal facts bearing ou the question of monopoly and trusts as these forms of combination relate to school text-books. They indicate that school-books are subject to about the same conditions as other commodities which may be manufactured and sold bv any person or firm which has the necessary capital and is desirous of entermg into the business. b. . Tauiu Dk Pauw University, Jan. 16. The Democratic Fraud-Howler. Shelhy Republican. Sim Coy. now in the penitentiary, is the bean ideal of all that is worshipful in tho eyes of tho Hoosier Democracy. They would rather see him Governor than any man in the State, and it was his achievements as a debaucher of the ballot-box and a boodler of high degree that so greatly en-' deared him to the Democracy of the State. Ho was canonized as a saint by the Sentinel and other Damocratic leading lights who are now in such spasms of virtuous rage about Dudley. Tho Sentinel always defended Coy and damned everybody who "persecuted'' him. The same paper is now keeping still while its partisans in the State Senate are preparing to steal two seats from honestly-elected Republicans. It hasn't a word of protest against the outrage, but commends its perpetrators. a Advice to the Hrethren. CU'itanooga Times (Dem.) Our Democratic brethren in Indiana should cease lumling about the crimes of Dudley agaiijst the ballot, or set a better example of political honesty. The Democratic majority in theiudiana Senate, aided by a Democratic judge, bave by force prevented Lieutenant-governor Bobertson from taking. his neat as presiding officer of that bod;, although proof of bis election is

overwhetuing, and the Constitution of the State makes him President of the Senate by virtue of his election. A stalwart bully itplaced at the door of the chamber, instructed to prevent Colonel Robertson from entering, while the majority goe. through the fraudulent, illegal, violent farce of organizing tho body for bnsines. No greater outrage on popular rights was committed by carpet-bag governments in the South, bricked by bayonets and subservient military commanders, than this" mobocratic procedure in Indiana: and when its"prepetrutors set up a wail over Dudley's Kins and Dorsey's crimes they only proclaim and condemn their own impudence, infamy and hypocris3 Iet Him Represent Trxa. Dea Moinc3 Reenter. Tho suggestions that ex-Presidents bo made United States Senators for life lead the Milwaukee Sentinel to ask, apropos to Mr. Cleveland: "What's the matter with tho usual method of making a Senatorf There's nothing the matter in his case, and wo nominate him as the next Senator from Texas. That Stato has shown a touching fondness for Mr. Cleveland, which it has expressed by giving him several hundred thousand majority, more or less. It is believed that his views on most public questions coincide with the views of a maioritv of tho people of that State. Then his fa.it liful friend and ally. Congressman Mills who helped him to open his mouth only to put his foot iu it, is a resident of Texas, and would introduce him to the natives. So if Mr. Cleveland will make his home in soico enterprising Texas town, he may be happy vet, and be a United States Senator, too. There might be the objection raised that he had never served in the Confederate army, but it will bo generally conceded that he has done all he could to atone for the deficiency. So wLat'n the matter with Senator Cleveland, of Texas.

The New Senator from Delaware. Philadelphia Times (Pun.) Anthony lliggms is not only the leading Republican of Delaware; he is tit to bo a leader iu the progressive Republicanism of the nation. It is a public gain that he emerges from tho enforced obscurity of a. small minority in a small State to take hi dace m the foremost field of political usculness. Ho is an educated gentleman in he very prime of life: an able lawver. n brilliant speaker, and an honest man. lie is. moreover, a politician who believes in principles and who, as a Republican in Delaware from a time when Republicans there were scarce, has shown tho courage of his convictions. He is not one the Bourbons. He recognizes that the ideas and demandof 18S9 aro different from those of 1SH5, arut his aim will be not only tocomplete the dlseuthrallment of his State, but to bring hi own party everywhere abreast of the progressive spirit of the times. The Dram-Shop License. Washington Gazette. Ono matter that tho Governor seems to have overlooked is the proposition to give city and town corporations the right to assess a high license in addition to tho State license. It would be well for tho Legislature to fix the State fee at a given sum and relieve the commissioners of the responsibility of making tho price. The State or county fee should be not less than $500 and city councils and town board should be given the authority to assess a license fee of any sum not to exceed say &1.500. Then give a community the right to entirely cxeludo the liquor traffic from its confines and Indiana will have a sensible, reasonable and practical temperance law. Not Mnch Hope of Reform. Lo pan sport Journal. If Governor Hovey had a Republican General Assemblj to co-operate with him. great things might be be looked for immediately from his administration, but as the caso stands ho can do but little more than to suggest and urge his views upon an averse superior power. Within the sphere of his executive duties much may bo expected from him, but the full benetit of his ripe experience and wise counsel must be deferred until tho people in IKK) break down the usurpation and wrong of tho infamous gerrymander, but for which the legislature wonld now bo in full accord with him, and restore to their sovereignty the rule of tho majority. West Virginia Is Republican Henceforth. Philadelphia Press. The Democrats of West Virginia arc having a deservedly unhappy time in attempting to juggle the Repuhlicans out of tho governorship. With every advantage iu their favor the Democrats lost that State on the contest for the leading office,' ami the discovery was not made early enough to enable them to fix the returns by the. ordinary methods. Their present exertions are disreputable, and besides ending iu failure, they are certain to weaken tho party in the estimation of all fair-minded people. After what has occurred the Democratic chance of carrying West Virginia for many years to como will hardly bo worth much. A Bad Toiler. New York Graphic. The very few Republican papers which have been led by the Democratic 'and mugwump press into sneering allusions to Republican leaders who are mentioned for Cabinet or other federal positions, do not voice tho party sentiment. There is need of every leader, and every follower and every member of tho party to sustain the incoming administration . and make Republican domination permanent. The policy of attacking party leaders had its final disastrous results in 1$S4, and should bo dropped forever. There arc more flics caught with molasses than vinegar. Eet Go Keloctantlj. Chicago Journal. Indiana's new Governor, General Hovey, was inaugurated j-esturday, as was the new Lieutenant-governor. . The transition from Democratic to Republican rule in the State government was a smooth and peaceful process, inougn inewomier is, in view ot the revolutionary exclusion of the late Lieutenant-governor from his seat by tho Democrats of the State Senate, that tho political highbinders did not undertake to Mexicanizo Hoosierdoni by defying the will of the people. The Democrats of Indiana, "let go" very reluctantly, aud only because they can't help themselves. Hill' Recommendations an Impossibility. New York Graphic. , Judge IL P. Marvin, of Jamestown; has taken tho wind out of one of David B. 11111' sails. Tho Governor, in his message, recommends that ex-Presidents be made life members of the Senate. Judge Marvin points out in the Constitutionof the United States the provision that it cannot bo amended as to deprive any State without its consent "of its equal suffrage in the Senate." It would require a unanimous vote of tho States to get the Governor's (suggestion engrafted in the Constitution, and that would not be possible. Value of Club Organization. Brooklyn Standard-Union. The active interest in public affairs displa3ed by the united Republican clubs after the late campaign gives promise of efficient aid to the regular organization in the. coining campaign. If thejr activity and interest should result iu an increase of the active interest in the regular organization among; citizens, and a more general participation in the primaries and other work of that body, tho clubs will have accomplished something indirectly probably of even more value than tho good service it has rendered directly; and that is saying a great deal. ' . .V Compromise. t. Louis Post-PispuUh. Tho suggestion that the President's Inaugural ball be called inaugural reception is finding extensive favor. '1 his is a reasonable compromise between the fleshly and frolicsome ball and the m-date and .bolemu social. It is a dignified and appropriate name, and if somo of .the wild young things who still have untamed pulses and bubbling spirits want to dance they can wait until the inoro solemn guests have gone home. Two Great Iue. Philadelphia rra. The new Republican Governor of Indira starts in on hisorlicial career by urging ctoral reform and the restriction of the 1 ! 1!.. .... 1 . . , pior tramc oy nigu-iicense laws, ui t je.to two great issues the Republican party in Indiana, as in all tho other States, is the advocate and champion. Au American. Chlrasro Journal. General Harrison has given his tailor orders that his new clothf js shall be made ot good: of American manufacture. No Uritish cloth for him. Every thing about him U American, from his clothn to his heart.

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