Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 January 1889 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, ' SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1889.

THE DAILYJOURNAL SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1889. WASHINGTON OFFICE 513 Fourteenth SU P. 8. Heath, Correspondent. M1W YORK OFFIC&-104 Temple Court. Cornf r Beekman ant Nassau street. TEKM9 OF SUBSCRIPTION. DAILY. One year, irtthrrat Fnntoy fl'J.OO One year, with Sunday U.oo Fix month, without Sunlay .00 Six months, with f unrtay 7.00 Three months, without Sunday H.h Three month, with Sunday a.5U mt month, without Sunlay l.oo One month, with Sunday l.l'O

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Think of adding 73 cents to the present tax levy, in this city, to be disbursed by a Democratic triumvirate elected by the Legislature and responsible to nobody! Up to the beginning of this week the Teal estato market was active. Three months from now, if the Curtis bill becomes a law, there will bo no real estate market. The Curtis bill to disfranchise all cities of fifty thousand or more inhabitants, md place them under legislative control, will tend to keep down the census returns. No city will want to be rated at 50,000 or ,aiore. The property of the city is not a partisan consideration. Citizens, irrespective of party, should rise in indignant protest against the outrage upon their rights and interests proposed by the Curtis bill. Acting on the semi-official announcement that the Curtis bill is "tentative" and open to modification, the Journal, though net a member of the Legislature, moves to strike out everything following the enacting clause. The Curtis bill is a bill whose ole purpose is to rob the citizens of Indian apolis, and only a gang of thieves, such as the Democratic majority has already Ehowh itself to be, would give it a moment's serious consideration. ' Br the way, there are some reasons for believing that Col. Calvin S. Brice, late chairman of the late national Dem ocratic executive committee, has still a financial interest in Indiana politics. The Sentinel will perhaps furnish a bill of particulars if called on. TnE Democratic gang in tho Legisla ture began by an act of usurpation. They are preparing to follow this up by stealing the Supremo Court, and robbing the people of Indianapolis. The cry of an afflicted people in the next campaign will be "Down with Democratic thieves." Republicans in the Legislature must stand shoulder to shoulder like a stone -wall against Democratic encroachments on the minority and on constitutional and parliamentary law. The Republic an who yields an inch to the attacks or demands of the majority will be recreant to duty. No flunking! If city councils or other existing authorities arc not all they should be, tho remedy is in the peoplo's own hands; they can rid themselves of the obnoxious officials. Under the arrangement proposed by the legislative pirates, tho citi zens will be) at the mercy of three irresponsible non-tax-payers so long as it please the same body of thugs. This is not a pleasant prospect for those who have money invested in the town. Ex-Senator McDonald is authority for tho statement that tho Democrats had more money than they could spend in Indiana during tho late campaign. What they couldn't spend must, conse quently, have been left on hand, and would form a useful fund to draw on on occasion like the present, when Demo cratic members are inclined to pull out of tho traces unless tho cash is forth coming. Ask Brice if this isn't so. Under tho Curtis bill the citizens and tax-payers of Indianapolis will havo no more voice in the levying and spending of their own taxes. Non-tax-payers will control both. The very suggestion of 6uch possibility has already affected tho Teal estato market, and business of that class, -which has lately shown so much activity, will simply be ruined with tho passage of that bill. Capital and the high-binder system of municipal gov ernment cannot be made to agree. ' Further evideuco of tho Democratic conspiracy to overthrow popular government in this cityappears in tho fact that the IIouso committee on affair of tho city of Indianapolis consists of six Democrats and three Republicans. It is customary in legislative bodies for tho majority party to have one majority in the membership of standing committees. Thus tho standing committees of the United States Senate, as now composed, consist of five Republicans and four Democrats. But neither custom, courtesy nor law prevails with Indiana Democracy. The IIouso committee should consist of five Democrats and four Republicans instead of six Democrats and threo Republicans. The six Democratic members of the committee are all from

this county, and all under tho influence of tho Coy gang. As it is proposed to

turn tho government of tho city over to the outside counties, the latter should have had at least one representative on tho committee, though for the purpose of the conspiracy it is better as it is. An honest Democrat from some other county might havo given the schemers a great deal of trouble. JUDGE WOODS'S CHARGES. It is difficult to discuss a question of law and morals with a paper that knows notliing of one and habitually defies tho other. The nearest approach the Indianapolis Sentinel has ever made to con sidering questions of law has been to blackguard courts, and its only concep tion of the administration of justice is borrowed from convicted criminals, or framed in their interest. The most open and notorious violation of tho election laws in recent times, and the only prov able one committed in the State, was committed by Democrats in the interest of tho Democratic party, yet the Sentinel never had a word of censure for tho crime or the criminals, but teemed with abuse of tho court. So, when the Su preme Court failed to sustain another scheme of Democratic fraud it shouted "Damn their cowardly souls." The abuse of Judge Woods is consistent with its entire record. It attempts to break tho force of this record by saying that tho Sentinel is not on trial, and that "its merits or demerits do not cut tho slightest figure in tho case." Its merits do not cut much figure, but evidence of its demerits is relevant and competent to sho w the worthlessness of its opinions and the animus of its abuse. Its affected virtue springs from tho slums and tho sources of its inspiration are behind prison bars. So far as Dudley is concerned tho Journal has always been willing to leave the question of his guilt or innocence to tho courts, and let the law take its course. It has carefully abstained from uttering a word to prejudice the case or influence the action of the grand jury ono way or another. If Dudley violated the laws wo wanted to seo tho fact ascertained and established, but wo did not want to sec him and tho Republican party together tried and convicted on tho unsupported assertion of the Indi anapolis Sentinel. Wo would defend a yellow dog against such injustice as that. The assertion that this paper is "up to its eyes in the Dudley conspiracy" is an infamous falsehood. If ' there is any "Dudley conspiracy" tho Journal has never heard of it. We do not believe there is. Certainly it has never manifest ed itself as the conspiracy of Democrats to shield Coy did by dogging jurors in public and private and pursuing them with corrupt proposals. The only conspiracy wo havo ever heard of in tho case is that by which tho Sentinel camo in possession of the alleged letter, and tho subsequent attempt to make it a criminal oftenso and force tho indictment of Dudley, law or no law. If the acting district attorney had shown a tithe- of the zeal in trying to convict tho rest of the Coy gang that he has in trying to indict Dudley, there would be more Democrats in the northern prison and fewer holding office hereabouts. Republicans have as much reason to regret Judge Woods's last charge as Democrats have, for it fits the Whittaker letter as well as the alleged Dudley let ter. Whittaker, chairman of the Morgan county Democratic committee, issued the following: bTRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL. Martixsville, Ind., Sept. 7, 1833. Mr. Dear Sir I desire exact information in regard to your district. Morgan county is remarkably close, but, by proper organization and vigorous work, it can bo redeemed from tho clutches ol ring rule ami the blight of excessive taxation. Much de pends on your efforts. You should select men xo assist you, out oniy sucn as you can trust should be chosen. Therefore, I request of you to make an xact list ot an me voters in journrecmct, for your own use, and report to mo tho exact number of each on tho inclosed slip. nease report to mo not later man Jiomiay, Sept. 10, and every two weeks thereafter. Make the doubtful list as small as possible, and mark everyone who has to have money as a "float." Those who havo to be bought are not "doubtful," but are "floats." Look closely after every one. Let no one escape. Your prompt action in this matter will aid materially in the efficiency of our efforts. Re spectfully, A. A. iliTTAKKit, Chairman. This is as bad as the Dudley letter. There is evidence that it was circulated, whereas there is no evidence that the Dudley letter ever was. Tho virtuous and indignant Democracy have ignored tho Whittaker letter, and wo have not heard of tho acting district attorney working himself into a white heat over it. Judge Woods's ruling applies to that as well as to tho Dudley letter, and thero is as much ground for Republican abuso on one score as for Democratic abuse on the other. Tho gravamen of tho chargo against Judge Woods is that, after giving his first charge, ho changed his views, and that lib second ouo is inconsistent with his first. The chargo is untrue in both its branches. Mr. McDonald knows it to bo so, and so does Mr. Claypool. Neither of them will say that Judge Woods changed his views, or that he did not hold precisely the same view as to tho meaning and construction of the law when his first chargo was given that ho did when tho second was given. If ho had changed his view as to tho construction of the law it would havo been his duty to say so, but ho had not. If his second chargo was inconsistent with the first, that would imply no harm, unless the first chargo was right and tho second wrong. But there was no inconsistency. Both charges were right. Tho first stated tho law and the second interpreted it. The former instructed tho jury that while an unsuccessful attempt to commit any of the cflenses named in Section 5311, of the federal Revised Statutes, was not itself an offense, any ouo who advised such an attempt was punishable; and by way of illustration, the court said: "If A attempts to bribe B, that is no offense under the statute; but if A advises B to attempt to bribe C, then tho ono giving this advice is guilty." ' Now let us read this A, B, C proposition and tho statute 60 far as relevant, together, inserting A, B and C at the proper places. Tho statute says: "If any person A aids, counsels, procures or advises any person B by briery to prevent any voter C from

freely exercising tho right cf suffrage ho shall bo punished," etc. Thus the first chargo gave tho jury the law without explaining its legal meaning, while tho second did the latter. Tho only question is whether Judgo Woods's interpretation of the law is correct, and of that we have no doubt. Perhaps, as Justice Harlan says, "there ought to be a statute making it an offense against tho United States for one person to advise another to do any act, or to attempt to do any act, that would prevent the free exercise of tho elective franchise of an elector for a federal officer, whether such advice is acted on or not." Perhaps there ought to bo a law with that explicit purpose and meaning, but if that is not the purpose and meaning of the present law it was Judgo Woods's duty, when called upon to interpret the law, to say so. All lawyers and laymen whose minds are not blinded by passion and partisanship will see tho complete harmony between Judgo Woods's first and second charge and will honor him for giving an honest and fearless interpretation of tho law. As to the, Dudley letter itself wo have simply to repeat that it did not enter in tho Republican plan of campaign in this Skitc. Tho Republicans carried Indiana honestly and fairly, and with a fair and honest election would have carried it by a much larger plurality than they did.

It has been predicted that Pension Commissioner Black's appointment as Judgo Advocate-general of tho army will bo worked through the Senate by social and personal influence. This means that some Republican Senators may vote to confirm him. Commenting on this, the Washington Post says: In the Chicago convention there was a very strong minority opposed to tho nomination of General Harrison, but after tho nomination was mado tho minority turned in and gave earnest and enthusiastic support to the ticket. If majority rale is a good thing in deciding who snail bo tho candidates of a party it is certainly a good thing in deciding party policies. One or more Senators who enter into a dicker with an opposition President to carry through a measure to which a majority of their party colleagues are opposed put themselves on very dangerous ground. It has often been said during the past two years that tho President could get an administration measure through tho Republican Senate with more ease than ho could through tho Democratic House. There was a time when majorities could not bo broken in tho Senate and House by either tho distribution of patronage, victuals or social favors. The spade-tail coat aud tho low-cut vest cut no figure in those days. Men 6tood by their party colors when and where tho majority planted them. This sounds like Frank Hatton. IIo is a party man of Republican procliv ities, and though tho Post is not a par tisan paper his views will creep in occasionally. The views above quoted are in harmony with' Republicanism as taught and practiced in Indiana. Tho spade-tail coat and the low-cut vest aro not a ioMov in our politics. They havo their place in social life, but are entitled to no weight as against political prin ciples and convictions. Their influence argues political decadence. When so intelligent and conservative a man as Senator Allison declares that the deposits of crude tin in Dakota alono were sufficient, if utilized, to supply tho world, it is conclusive of the subject. Senator Allison does not make statements at random,4' $ he. real, question then is, whether ' this, natural "; "wealth should be developed and extensive man ufacturing industries-built up by a duty on tin-plate which would transfer the trade from British to American con trol. The Democratic policy is to keep the tin ore in the ground and import our enormous consumption of tin-plato from England. The Republican policy is, as the Senate tariff .bill proposes, to put such a duty on forejgn tin-plate as will enable American .maniifacturers to engage in tho business profitably, keeping our expenditures for1 tin-plate at homo and eventually developing our tin mines, which Senator Allison says are sufficient to supply the world.' A mere statement of the case is enough to satisfy any in telligent man as to which is the true American policy. Yesterday was a field-day for tho political burglars who form tho major ity in tho Indiana Senate. The rights conferred upon the Lieutenant-governor. by tho Constitution were taken from him and vested in Green Smith, and for all practical purposes the Secretary of tho Senate is now tho presiding - officer, and may, at the behest of. two members, discharge duties' V. that can be legally pexronneu dv no ouo except the Lioutenant-governor. Rules were also adopted to throttle free speech on tho part of tho Republican minority, and tho Democratic An archists now congratulate themselves that they are ready for "business'V-tho "business" in view being tho stealing of any re maining political rights that Republicans may be found to possess. It will not bo always thus. The people havo good memories, these outrages will not bo forgotten, and a day of reckoning will sure ly come. ' Oil, tho Curtis bill is a "tentative-" bill, is it, and Curtis does not mean it to go through without modification? If this curious statement, mado by the Evening News, has a foundation in fact, how does it happen that Mr. Curtis, "who has giv en tho subject of municipal government considerable attention," does not add these modifications himself? Otherwise tho untutored Democrats may be so en amored of the opportunity of gaining partisan control of the city, and dictat ing to tho citizens, that they may prefer to pass the measure without makin, these very desirable changes. The Sentinel has private and exclu sive information to the effect that emis saries of a school-book trust aro in town with the design of corrupt ingv members of the Legislature. As the Demo cratic majority is already as corrupt ls possible, and as it is strong enough with out other votes to carry out the purposes of the ring that wants to get control of the book business, the only conclusion is that these would-be monopolists aro afraid of being sold out by their own men. Tun official statistics of the anthracite coal trado for 1SSS show a production of moro than 83,000,000 ton?, and an increase over 1S87 of 3,500,000 tons. We people who are enjoying the blessed privilego of burn ing natural gas are apt to natter onrselves

that the change has made an appreciable

difference in the consumption of coal. It appears, however, that this is a mistake, and that a great and apparently increasing number of persons are still compelled to use coal, poor things. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. T AM glad," says Dr. Holmes, "that thero aro born controversialists and that I am .not one of them." Colonel Stewart, of Nevada City, has provided in his will that his body be cre mated, and the ashes dumped into the river . ... i a at iniunigut. A Frenchman recently remarked that every one in this world was obliged to bear his cross, but that the smart chaps bear, theirs on their lapels. Carroll Mattingly, of Louisville, only twelve years old, recently published a neat and crditable holiday book. He is the youngest publisher on record. The letter written, by Queen Victoria to tho King and Queen of the Netherlands on the death of tho Dnko of Cambridge, in 1SS0, has just been sold at Paris for 3. A SCHOOL of carpentry for women has been started in tho English University, city of Cambridge, not so much to teach the trade as to develop manual dexterity. Mrs. Vicey Chance, of Polk county, Ark ansas, is reputed to be 123 years old. She lias a son who is eighty-eight, aud considers her chance good for several years yet. Elmwood, the historic mansion in Cam bridge, Mass., is likely soon to pass out of the hands of the present owner, James Russell LowelL It is a relic of old revolutionary times. Six members of the Harvard class of 1S29 had a reunion in Boston, last week, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Samuel May, Charles S. Storrow. and tho Rev. Drs. Stickney, Devens and S. S. Smith. Blondin, of tight-rope renown, has bocomo the purchaser of a residential estato at Little Ealing, England. Tho estate, which is known as Coldhall, comprises a residence with spacious gardens and grounds. Four princesses, nieces of Francois the Second, ex-King of tho Two Sicilies, have just entered tho convent of the Sacro Cour d'Aix en Provence. They are the daughters of irineess de lrapam, and the youngest is only seventeen. The new American navy, when com pleted, will consist of 23 vessels, ranging from the armored cruiser Maine, carrying. 4-14 men, down to a first-class torpedo boat carrying 4 officers and IS men. 'JLhere will be 5,7156 men on board the 23 vessels 000 officers and 5,286 sailors and marines. The richest patient in Bloomingdalo (N. Y.) Lunatic Asylum is Howard Meyer. He is the son of tho New Brunswick millionaire and has an ' income of $70,000 a year. There isn't any difficulty in securing the highest medical service and best attention for him, but his wealth only serves to sur round him with luxuries he does not appre ciate. JoHY Wanamakeii carries $600,000 in surance on his life; Edwin Ruth, Chicago, $500,000; ChannceyM. Depcwc $500,000; Ham ilton Disston, Philadelphia, $.500,000; George K. Anderson, New York, S375.000: George K. Anderson. Titusville. Pa.. 350.000: W. H. liangley, Gallipolis, O., $300,000; Isidor Cohnfeld. New York. $290,000: P. Lorillard. New York. $255,000; Cyrus W. Field, New York, $250,000. A French physician, Dr. Felz, mentions a curious apparent cause for lefthanded- , ness. A child in a certain family was lefthanded, and the second appeared to be so at tho age of one year. It was then learned mai mo iiioiueraiwayscarneunercuiiaren on her left arm. She was advised to chance. aud. held on her other arm the infant, havin? irs ngnt nana iree to grasp objects, - . A. . A t 1 A soon oecauie rignthandcd. -Eligible women are at a premium in Jttjtch India. They are so scarce in that country that young men who wish to get married write to friends in Holland to find them wives. The friend selects a willing young lady and forwards her photograph. If all is satisfactory the would-be husband sends back a soiled left-hand glove, with power of attorney. The friend then marries the young lady as a sort of legal proxy, and the marriage is as binding as though me groom nimscii were present. A man, old, weazen-faced and shaking wuh paralysis, called at the Philadelphia mint, on Tuesday, and said that his name was A. Squires, and that on Monday, Juno 11, 1855, he placed $3,201 in the care of the Luited states government. He had a timeworn receipt with him which seems to es tablish his claim a train st the mint, if ho "can prove that he is really "A. Jr'iuires." lie was i iuii -uiutjr iu iamoraia anu nas it . a a. rt i f r ' i -i It is probable that he will obtain his $3,201. with interest, from the mint after the usual red tape has been spun out. Op the late Josephine Poe the Baltimore American says: "Her maiden name was Josephine Clemm, and 6he was a daughter of William Clemm, of Virginia. Her sister was the lovely Virginia Clemm, the wife of the poet, Edgar Allen Poe. and the Leuoro of lhc Raven," whose life and death at tho little cottage at Fordham, N. Y., was one of the most romantic and touching incidents of the poet's life. Mrs. Josephine Poe and her sister Virginia married cousins. Their father was William Clemm, who was a brother of .lames K Clemm. the father of tho Rev. W. T. D. Clemm. the well-known Methodist minister. Mrs. Josephine Poo was a member ot the Protestant Episcopal Church. Six children survive her, of whom 3Iessrs. John Prentiss and Charles Poo are among the widest-known attorneys of the JJaltimore bar." The Infanta Amelia, of Bavaria, who went out of her mind, the other night, in the royal box at the Munich Opera-house, is a sister of the grandfather of tho King of Spain, and mother of the Duchess of Genoa. She is likely to end her days in a mad house. Her sister, the Duchess do Sessa, is only kept from the lunatic asylum by her extreme poverty. Tho Infanta Amelia is a little, mercurial woman with a shriveled skin, and could never have been at all pretty. She wanted to throw chairs down into the nit of tho opera-house, and when she was prevented flew into a violent passion. Her son, Princo Louis Ferdinand, has a passion for anatomy, and wield ono of the most expert scalpels in Munich. Ho has in his rooms a chamber of horrors. which he hopes to expand in time into a great anatomical museum. COMMENT AND 0PIXI0X, If thero wero more. Blairs in the South the conditions for the solution of tho raco problem would soon bo nlaced upon an in telligent and practical basis. Chicago Trib une. f If Southern Republicans, white or colored, would assert their rights more strong ly and in large bodies on election day, it would do much toward remedying the evils t.:-i- i ii t?i x . wiiiui curso uio ooumeru otaiets. uuiaka State Journal. The true reliance of the colored man' is not in tho politicians of the one party or tnootner. uotn nave wrougut nun mischief. His reliance is in himself. His hope is iu independence of control from either side. iiostou Herald. Is it not about time for the Saints to como down to square business, and, taking the commands of the law for a starting point, so live that, after a little, neither their sincerity nor their loyalty to the United States will be questioueuf Salt Lake City Tribune. If tho tariff contest is to be renewed in 1S92, it is to be hoped that every voter and every political paper will be found on ono side or th other, aud that no man who says ho is not a protectionist -will be too cowardly to admit thathe is a free-trader. Detroit Tribune. Friends of civilization, both North and South,-should unite in urging that such lawlessness shall be put down, wherever and under whatever pretext it appears, infttead of indulging in a pot-and-kettle controversy as to which is the blackest Pittsburg Dispatch. TnE Democrats should be forced to admit openly that they robbed the mails and committed forgery to enect tho presidential election, just as they did the Morcy letter

in the Garfield campaign, or compelled to

go on with a legal investigation of . the Dudler ens. Ipr whn miv he exposed. Brooklyn Standard-Union. Mr. Cleveland never had a maioritv of the popular vote, either in this election or the last. He was never elected President, but obtained that oflice through fraud, (leneral Harrison has been elected President in spite of fraud. This is tho distinction which history will be compelled to make between tho men. New York Tribune. TlIE neflrrn i.q in finnth to fit.iv. and because it is the colored man's country, precisely as it is the white man's. Surely, in the contest for political control, tho latter need not exhibit tho weakness of oppression. If the white man would nullify or overcome iue oiuersinnuence, nemust uo u oy increasing his numbers, as the negro is increasing his. Philadelphia Inquirer. Mr. Cleveland was the leader of the Democratic nartv. bv virtue of the promi nence of his position and his candidacy. Bat to put tho entire responsibility of tho disaster that befell the Democratic parti' upon his shoulders, is wrong. The Democratic party, as a whole, is responsible for it, and will have to suffer tho consequence. And the people knowit. Burlington Hawkeye. i he statesman who is settled m his velvet-cushioned chair for two vears can af ford to be charitable. Remember that the man who comes to you seeking youriuu ufuceio procure mm a consuisnip, acierKship, or a messeugership is as much interested in himself and his f amilv as you aro m yourself and vonr familv. Deal ireutlv. Mr. Statesman, with the office-seeker. Your turn will come m two years. Was hingtou Post. The pension laws are for the benefit of crippled and disabled soldiers, and not for tho support of intriguing and rapacious attorneys, and tho people expect Congress to bear this fact in mind, anu to 6eo that tho money appropriated for pension purposes is nui. uivertea to wasteiiu anu illegitimate uses. If the pensioners must have attorneys, let tho fees be so fixed as to prevent imposition, and to compel honest service for reasonable compensation. St. Louis 1V 1-4 A HOW ELECTRICITY DUPES. The Ignorant Believe Anything Can Bo Done with Electricity, Hence Freund'a Success. New York Mail and Erpreas. The expose of Freund's electrical sugar retining process has created a panic among certain uoaiing speculators wno oiieniuuea havo moro credulitv than money. A roPrtrter asked a wealthy speculator at tho 'if th avenue Hotel, wno is opposed to all secret processes, how ho accounteu ior such blind faith on tho part of tho stockholders of Freund's humbug. Ho said: "Tho very mention of electricity to men who have no scicntilic knowledge of it is a bait to their credulity and cupidity. If Edison should say he could convert dirt into rubies or diamonds by means of elecincitv no would nnd moneyeo. men to back him. They would think it possible for electricity to do anything, because ho much has already been done with it. Freund knew tho value of. electricity to draw dupes. So many mon have made fortunes of lato through electrical inventions, he found everything pro pitious to launch his gigantic humbug. If any of the stockholders had gone to iaison. who is not a visionary, but practical in all he does, he could havo explained to them in two minutes the utter impossibility of electricity converting raw sugar into refined, clarified sugar. Tho man who is a secret, as a rule. fears the licht. A shrewd detective could havo saved these gullible stockholders their money if they had 6imply put him to fuard and report tho movements of Freund. make it a rule never to invest in any en terprise unless I know everything about it. I have kept out of electricity because I know nothini? about it." i ere you ever fcoHcited. to go into a se cret enterprise, 1 cs, several times, but I refused. Once a thin, pale man came into my olfice and said he wanted to speak to me alone. I told him I did not care if my private secretary heard him. He objected and tho secretary retired. Then I heard an extraordinary tale which I shall relate briefly. He declared that he had a process which would produce a liquid force greater than steam or any known force. lhreo drops of tho liquid would run an engino from acw i ork to San i rancisco. A bottle full would blow up Manhattan islaml. I said that ho had undoubtedly found tho lorce tliat Keely was looking for. He said Keelv's force, known as etheric molecular force, was child's play compared to his liquid. Ho wanted me to subscribe for so many thou sand shares and bo president of tho company. I asked him how ho made his liquid. That fwas to he a secret with him, and to como to me when he died. For years, ho said, ho worked in a chemical laboratory. and one time by mistake he mixed some liquids. The mixture proved, upon experiment, to be more powerful than dynamite. With one drop he shattered a large iron anvil. The last statement was enough for W A . 1 - 1 - . 1 me. l loia mm mere was too mucn iorce in the world already, and so got rid of him. 1 have had many schemes as wild as that offered to mo to go into that had no secret attached to them. Thero was Tom Aichol's bicycle railroad, invented by Boynton, of Massachusetts. Nichols used to have models made of bicycle cars and roll them back and forth inhis room. Thero was one track on the ground and one above the cars. Nichols claimed the cars would go two hundred miles per hour.. I told him the passengers would havo their breaths taken away by such rapid motion. I never took any stock in such inventions, and never shall.77 JOHN F. PLUJDIER'S VISIT. He Urged Warner Miller for the Cabinet, and Had a Good Time with the Correspondents. New York Graphic. Mr. Harrison sent for me. or I should never have visited him at Inaiananohs." said 31r. John t . Plummer this morning. "i have plenty of cheek.-7 continued Mr. Plummer. "but I haven't enouch to go out there and talk at the President-elect with out an invitation." "Are you at liberty to mention the sub ject of your conversation with Mr. Harri son in "Oh, yes; we talked about politics somo and New York Stato a little. I told Mr. Harrison that I thought the Hon. Warner JHiller Avas a very good man for a Cabinet office, and in return Mr. Harrison prom ised! no, indeed; he didn't promise, or do anything of the sort, lie simply bowed courteously, as though ho had heard my opinion and begged leave to retain his own, whatever it is. Pm sure I don't know and I'll tell you this" and here Mr. Plummer lowered his tone and tho reporter thought he was going to name the coining Cabinet in one, two, three order, when Mr. Plummer remarked: "I don't be lieve Mr. Harrison himself knows what Iris Cabinet is going to be." "There were several other gentlemen in Indianapolis to see Mr. Harrison, were there not!'' "Several!'' ejaculated Mr. Plummer, as though slightly overcome, "Why, there were nocks of them, droves of them. They swoon down -on Mr. Harrison, tell him just what to do and how to do it, and he listens naticutly and courteously to what they have to say and then bows them out aud does his own thinking. I spent Sunday i ii i evening anu ionuay morning wnn mm, and found him a charming man altogether. He asked me some questions, and I answered to the best of my ability. "Do von know what I am rather proud oil 7 asked Mr. Plummer. turning interrogator. "Well, it is in tho fact that I got away without it being known. Two weeks ago I would have laughed at the idea that I could not go from here to Indianapolis and back without newspaper comment. I hoped when I left that I would not be recognized out there by the army of correspondents, but I was soon convinced of Imy mistake. Those fellows knew all about me and went through me like gimlets. They told tho whole thing and a lot that I never knew long before I got back hero, and when I think of it now I wonder that they did not know all about my going."With reference to his political conversation with the President-elect, Mr. Plummer declined to sav more than that he had urged Hon. Warner Miller's claims upon Mr. Harrison, ami given him so much information as was asked for, and at his own command. Mr. Plummer discusses the social part of his visit pleasantly, and declares he bad a "good time generally." , The HepubUcnn Outlook. , Shelby Republican. Most of tho Southern States are increasing slowly in population. Politically, the Republicans are gaining, rapidly in all of the border States of tho South. Altogether it looks as if the Republicans were "whip-

sawing'' their antagonists in political growth. They are growing at both ends, by the falling off of Democratic strength in their strongholds and by tho incoming ot new Republican States, as also by heavy increase in such States as Kansas. Mium sota, Nebraska, Colorado and others which havo alwavs been Republican. The next census wilf put a new phase on affairs and will ring a death-knell for Pourbonisr throughout the count ry. One lllock of Five. Terre Haute Express. It is a mistake to say the Dudley letter was not acted upon. The uncontradicted testimony in this senatorial contest case in this county was that Andrew Grimes gave $50 to ono "trustworthy" man which wa for the control of a block of five. If then is no other explanation of the origin of tho letter suppose we take it for granted that its publication iu the Sentinel was a part of one of i heerinV "good 8chemesf by which the Grimeses all over the Stato received their instructions. Isiah Miller, a witness, swore that Mr. Grimes, Mr. Voorhees's home candidate for Senator, issued checks payable at the county Treasurer's. This is how one block of rive was manipulated, according to Miller, whose testimony was not eontradictexl or in any way impeached by Mr. Grimess: Q. fctate how many checks, if you know. Henry Mitchell cot in your presence, and what was lie to do with tbeint - A. Ho was to give them to five or six. Thcas checks was to be jnven to the men. Q. Do you know what men! A. Yes sir. Q. Did Mr. Grime. In your presence, Alreci him to give those checks to various men! A. "esRir. (Contcstor objects to all these Questions.)

Crohs-exauiination by Mr. Taylcr. Mr. Grimes' attorney; Q. Did yon know who was to cct tho other checks! A. The name was on them. Q. Did you know who they were! A. Ben Russell. O. Manuel. Sam Carter. Henry Mitchell and Isiah Miller. j. hat was the amount ol the checks! A. Fifty dollars. Ten dollars apiece. Complication Over a Congrrkslonal Crt iticat. Wasbiugton Post. There is a complication regarding tho certilicato of a Democratic member-elect from California, but it is not a serions oue. Major Biggs, of the Second district, a "fortyniner'' and a sheriff when it was hecesjary to string up two or three desperadoes; week on tho frontier, has beeu re-elected to tho next Congress. The law of California Sennits the collection of a fee of S5 by tho secretary of State every time the seal is nsed. It has been tho custom to charge members-elect to Congress $5 each for certi fying their election over the State seal, and before his departure to Washington tho Major deposited this amount with the Sec retary of State for his certificate when it should bo issued. He was surprised recently to receive his certificate by express with tf C. O. D. charges on it, $5 lor certificate and $1 for expressage. Ihc feecretarv of state had made out tho certificates in a lot and sent them here C. p. D., forgetful that Major Riggs had alread' settled. Without the certificate his name cannot go on tho rolls of the next Congress, and he says he will not pay tho $6 The express agent will not turn it over without the money or a notice of release from the Sacramento agent. "Ihis business of being a Congressman." says the Major, "isn't worth paying 11 for. I thought it was dear when Fruit up the $ and I'll stay out of the next Congress before I put up the other 6." The Legislative Wldte Caps. Lafayette Courier. The Courier hopes that Senator Johnson will bo expelled, and that the contests that are pending will result as the Democratic gang have ordered by expelling the legally elected Republicans and seating tho Democratic claimants who have no claims that would stand the test of an ordinary justice's court for a period of live minutes. After this proposed outrage is consummated, the few remaining Republican members may as wen go noine. ineir nanus are ilea oy arbitrary rules and their mouths healed bj tho arrogance and intolerance of the majority. Nothing like it has ever before been heard of in a civilized country. Th voice of tho minority is completely throttled, and the presiding officer has been stripped of every vestige of authority. The rule of tho Czar of Russia is mild m comparison with the high-handed usurpa tion of power by tho Democrats in the General Assembly of Indiana. The Praying Dullness. Liberty Herald. It is discreditable to the ministerial pro fession in this Stato that there is a single member of tho profession so lost to tho eternal fatness of things and tho propriety it? j. i i. i.f....: - J oi nis caning as 10 asK me messing oi vhhi on tho deliberations of a legislative body controlled by Democratic political thieves and burglars. 1 he minister who nas so lit tle regard for his calling as to do so ought to be sent to replenish the larder of tho cannibals. If this kind of monkeying witn the Divine plan by its supposed custodians keeps on it will not bo long before we shall hear of ministerial intercession for tho Divine favor in behalf of a game of draw poker, a proposition to rob a hen roost or to commit murder. . The Democratic Anarchists Union City Eagle. The Democratic Senate which assembled at Indianapolis last week gained unenviable distinction in its first official act bv inaugurating revolution. Called together to enact needed laws for tho welfare of tho Stat their very first act. is to trample the Constitution tinder their feet, and to inaugurate revolution. The usurpation is without a parallel in republican government, and ii the act is not conemned in the utter overthrow of the conspirators, representative government will noon end. Shame and disgrace hang over the State like a storm cloud, and every honest citizen feels liko hiding from tho view of his fellows. m What Carroll County Could Have Done. Delphi Journal. Had the Republicans of Carroll county known that they were to bo subjected tc the humiliation of last week; had the known that the Republicans at Indianapolis were not willing to undertake the work of giving an honorable gentleman his constitutional rights wauted to farm out the jol we could havo sent a delegation down there that would have attended to it. Tho chances are they would havo hurt somo Democratic thug's feelings; might havo stained the columns of tho new State-houso with 6ome bummer's claret, and broken down a chandelier, but they would have attended to tho business. Urave Only When There It No Danger. Buffalo Express. 'T will never take a bluff,'1 said the man with the big fists, "I prefer to fight and be licked. To tamelv endure an insult is something I never believed in," and he buttoned up his coat and proceeded homeward. At the crossing of the street a beer wagon cam thundering down upon him. "Out of tho way, vou idiot," cried the driver. 11h jumped just in time to save hinself. Did ho follow the driver and thump hinif Not he. Instead he fell upon his kneson thewalk and uttered a prayer of thankfulness. The Triunn Irate IlilL M uncle Times. There is pending in the Horse a bill to deprive the citizens of Indianapolis of the power to manage their own affairs bv tho selection of boards of control by the Legislature. Under this bill about the only right a citizen of Indianapolis will have l j to pay his taxes and kick himself every day for voting such a party into power. An Unfortunate Man. Philadelphia Press. The new Senator from Delaware is a capital orator and excellent lawyorand a first -class fallow all around, but there are rea sons for believing that ln niUMcal lucation has been sadly neglected. It is said that he can't distiuguihh the differenco lM-twion "Home, Sweet Home" and "Tit Willow." and that ho whistles even more execrably than Colonel Lijo Halford. rutting the Null on the Head. Chicago Journal. When a Democratic official, known to have been elected by fraud, gets up and demands pure elections, tho seeiio is ono calculated to elicit canine cachination. There never was ballot-box fraud but that was perpetrated iu tho interests of the Democratic party and its candidates. A Pertinent ijuery. Detroit Tribune. Tho daily list of pensions granted is not half as loug now as it was before election. Tho explanation may bo brietly iu thus I!).