Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 February 1889 — Page 4

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1889.

THE DAILY JOURNAL MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1889.

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There is no necessity for any legislation to enable county commissioners to increase the clerk's bond. They can do so already. But bonds do not make men honest Tire padlock placed on the stable door by the County Commissioners, after the horse is gone, is tho admiration of all beholders and warranted to keep out all thieves. Perhaps it was appropriate that tho Democrats in the House should fritter away valuable time discussing "groundhog day." It is a case of ground-hog with the Democracy all around. Feriiaps the "better class of Republicans who "loosened party tiesn sufficiently to permit them to vote for John E.Sullivan are proud of their course; and then, again, possibly they are not. Suggestion for tho Democrats in the Legislature: "Why not pass a joint resolution abolishing the office of Governor and vesting his duties in the Speaker of the House and Secretary of the Senate? One load, at least, is lifted off the Indianapolis mind. John Sullivan may go end take the inside of the courthouse with him, but the city will still be represented in the league. Base-ball is still with us. When Mr. William Henderson and a few other honest Democrats were helping the committee of one hundred t-v bring Sullivan and Co j to justice, they were personally abused by tho Democratic organ and read out of tho party. They are vindicated. The resolution for an investigation of the Insane Hospital accounts should be promptly passed and acted on. Under the Harrison-Sullivan regime that institution has been a nest of corruption. It will be rare good luck if its funds have not been squandered or stolen. The Republicans of Shelby and Decatur counties should re-elect Senator Carpenter by a largely increased majority, and we believe they will. That is the kind of answer for the people to give to a tyrannical majority that assumes the authority of reversing popular elections. It is characteristic of Indiana Democracy that the same bill which appropriates $17,000 to cover Warden Jack Howard's shortage in tho southern penitentiary should also appropriate money to pay Green Smith's salary as Lieutenant-governor. In one case tho money goes to pay for a Democratic steal, ad in the other for a Democratic usurpation. A reasonable curiosity as to the formation of General Harrison's Cabinet is to be expected. Tho number of people who are anxious to help him make it can haidly bo counted. Names enough have been suggested to make a new one with every full moon during his term, should he desire to change so often. It is safe to say, however, that it will be made by the President-elect after mature deliberation, and that he will neither be hurried nor influenced by street gossip or newspaper guesses. Four weeks from to-day will solve tho riddle. Sullivan was one of the prime movers in the Brown bill to oust tho old board and make a new one, that he and other rings ters might obtain cont rol of the State asylums, and be enabled to find a market for rotten butter and other worthless supplies at first-claw prices, and proflt thereby at the expense of the State. Some of the same ring are behind some of the measures now pending in the Legislature. The bill to establish a State printing-house, to publish schoolbook, U intended to provide places

for-a lot of impecunious Democrats, that they may fatten off tho people. The bill to establish a board of control for this city, tho members of this board to be elected by the Legislature, is for a like purpose. With such boards as, under these bills, the Legislature would elect, Democratic schemers and contractors would find easy access to fortune, if not to fame. In the light of the rascalities made possible by the ring that obtained control of the asylum contracts, through partisan legislation, tho public may see the danger impending from the measures now before the Legislature.

SULLIVAN'S DEMOCRACY. It will take at least $130,000 to cover the stealings of John . Sullivan, late Democratic county clerk and political boss of Marion county. Part of this will fall on the county, part on tho county treasurer, part on Sullivan's bondsmen, and the rest on various public and private creditors. It all falls on the people. Tho total loss Is quite likely to reach $150,000. This is what it has cost the people of Marion county to elect John E. Sullivan clerk. He says it cost him $10,000. It has cost the peoplo twelve or fifteen times as much. For this heavy loss, and tho public disgrace and private distress caused by it, the Democratic party is directly responsible. Wo desire to be very explicit and clearly understood when wo sny that tho Democratic party in Marion county nominated and elected Sullivan to the office ot county clerk, knowing him to be a rascal utterly unworthy of confidence and unfit for the office. Tho Sentinel attempts to plead the baby act by saying that the Democracy were deceived; that, when Sullivan was elected, thcro was every reason to believe he was an honest man and that the party cannot beheld responsible for his subsequent" crookedness. This is all bosh. Sullivan was nominated and elected clerk in the face of overwhelming evidence of his dishonesty. Ho was notorious for his rascally practices long before he was nominated. His crooked practices in the Insane Hospital date back to 18S3. As long ago as that he was furnishing oleomargarine under contract for high-priced butter. Because one of his bills that year was disallowed by the board, he had the board ousted, by means of a Democratic Legislature, and a new one' put in with his man, Dr. Harrison, for president. After that all bis bills were allowed, including those previously disallowed. When he succeed. edin having the old board ousted and Dr. Harrison installed as president, he celebrated the event with a banquet. It was notorious for years that the board was completely under Sullivan's control, and that nohody but he cculd get a contract for supplies at the hospital. The report ofacommitteo which investigated the hospital says: "In the matter of produce most of the contracts were awarded to John E. Sullivan, the Democratic candidate for county clerk. Between Mav End December, in 1S83, he was allowed $fl,i26.22; during 1884, $6,772.79; in 1685. f9,874.2: and up to Jnly 1 of the present year, 13,540.00; a total since. May, lb3, of $&,40.53.'' This report was published in the Jour.nal several months before the election, at wliich Sullivan was elected clerk. But he had been known as a rascal long before that. The fact is, he was nominated for county clerk because he was a rascal. Sim Coy was chairman of the Democratic county committee at the time, and he and the controlling element of tho party wanted just such men as Sullivan in office. They had special use for him in tho county clerk's office to manipulate juries, as he notoriously did after he was elected. Sullivan never would have been nominated for clerk if he had not been known as an unscrupulous rascal and boodler. He and Sim Coy made a money campaign, both for the nomination and election, and the Democratic party elected him with full knowledge of his antecedents and character. During the campaign of 1880 the Journal repeatedly published tho evidence of Sullivan's corrupt transactions with the Insane Hospital and of his unscrupulous political methods, and warned the people against electing him to a responsible office, whoso duties he knew nothing about, nnd for which ho did not even possess the prime requisite of common honesty. . The Sentinel denied the charges, and denounced them as campaign lies. Sim Coy justified his crooked transactions with the Insane Hospital and the Harri-son-Gapen management generally, adding: "If I had my way, Fd vote all the patients in the hospital." The party machine and tho party lash were worked for all they were worth, and Sullivan was elected. The Democratic party can not plead the baby act. John E. Sullivan was pre-eminently their man, and his methods were Democratic methods. He was nominated and elected with full knowledge of his record and character, and now tho peoplo are paying the penalty. THE SuTEEUE CQUBT COMMISSION BILL. The bill now pending in the Hoase for tho creation of a Supreme Court commission is another Democratic "good scheme." If the three judges who have just left tho bench had done the same amount of work in the past four years that tho two remaining judges did, there would have been no demand for relief and no reason for giving it. The present accumulation of work is largely tho result of tho inefficiency of two of the judges who recently left tho bench and whom it is now proposed to place on the commission. .Judge Niblack has been'twelve years on the bench nnd is now an old man, nearly incapacitated for work. The best years of his life were spent in politics and ho is not a learned man in the law. He possesses much natural ability and is a clever gentleman, but his best working days are over. During the last year he was on the bench ho decided only forty-nine cases, while some of his colleagues decided over three times that many. Judge Niblack was paid at the rate of nearly $100 per opinion. The pending bill also names Judgo Zollars as a commissioner, who showed no greater industry than Niblack, but leaves out Judgo Howk, who prepared as S any opinions during the last year as both of the others combined. . The other three commissioners named in the bill

are party favorites, for whom it is proposed to make legislative provision. Notwithstanding the arrears of work caused by the inefficiency of two of tho late judges, it is doubtful if any extraordinary measure of relief is needed. Litigation all over the State is decreasing, and the number of appeals to tho Supremo Court is materially less than in recent years. Three new judges, good lawyers in tho prime of life, and desirous of making a good record, have just been added to the court.. They will do a great deal more work than tho three just retired. Within two or three years tho court, as now organized, can have the work well in hand. But, if a commission is needed, tho Legislature has no right to appoint it It may establish a court, but it cannot appoint the judges, nor can it vest any part of the judicial power of the State in a body of its own creation. Such an exercise of legislative power is clearly unconstitutional. If it creates a court, the Governor alone has the power to appoint the judges. The Constitution says the Governor shall sign all commissions, yet tho bill says tho commissioners it proposes to appoint shall bo commissioned by the Speaker of the House. Tho whole scheme is a Democratic job.

There is a difference of opinion between tho Democrats iu the Indiana Legislature and their brethren in New Jersey. Hero they profess a desire to pass an election bill based on the Australian system, on tho ground that it is a reform measure. Tho Democratic lawmakers of New Jersey openly profess admiration of the same system, but privately intimate strong objections to it, and one of them gives the following reasons for his opposition: "It is too complicated to bo understood; and, besides, it defeats the very purpose it is intended to achieve. The ignorant voter who cannot read his ballot when it is given to him, is instructed by the act to have the election clerk mark off, on the ballot,' the names of those for whom he may wish to vote, and when it is thus marked, it is to be immediately deposited in tho box. The voter is not permitted to show it to a friend to ask whether the election clerk has deceived him. If he takes the ballot out of tho compartment in which ho stands to prepare it he forfeits his right to vote; and ho is, as you see, entirelv at the mercy of tho election officer. ISuch a scheme would enable the election officers to carry an election by the deception of ignorant voters. I have not the remotest idea that the scheme will be accepted by the Democrats of the Legislature.'' This difference between the Hoosierj and the Jerseyman may be explained by the fact that public sentiment calls upon the Indiana Democracy to do something in very decency to offset, in at least a small degree, the reputation for dishonesty and corruption which it has attained. Advocacy of the Australian system is a convenient subterfuge, since it is usually cjassed as a reform measure, but, as the Jersey Senator says, it offers ample opportunities for fraud. In New Jersey popular sentiment in that direction is somewhat less urgent, and as the Democratic majority is satisfied with tho opportunities for fraud afforded by the existing law, they prefer not to change. TriE favorable committee report on

the State Library billRepublican andrppullived his reputation.

jjemocraiic memners concurring encourages the hope that the needed improvements in that institution will not be long delayed. Tho committee recommends a change suggested by the Journal in ft recent discussion of the measure, namely, that of placing the Superintendent of Public Instruction on the purchasing board. With this amendment, tho bill seems to be entirely satisfactory to all concerned, and to represent the interests of all who will make use of the library. Tho bill should bo taken up and passed at once, even at the expense of half-an-hour's delay in pushing partisan schemes. To th Editor ot tli Indianapolis Journal: Please answer through your paper how tho niouey of the United States Is coined, beginning with gold and silver and following it through nil the processes It must undergo to become a circulating medium. Also, liovr many mints la tho United states, and where are they sltuatcdl CllAXDALL, Iud. J. B. The Bureau of the United States Mint is under the charge of an officer called Director of the Mint, appointed by tho President. There are four mints, viz., at Philadelphia, San Francisco, Carson City and Denver. Each mint has a superintendent, an assayer, a refiner and a coiner. Tho business of tho mints is to convert gold or silver bullion into coin, putting the government device and stamp on it. Bullion is received at the mints in the form of lumps, grains, bars, bricks, or plato, jewelry, foreign coin, etc. The government will convert gold or silver bullion into coin for any owner complying with the regulations, and may also purchase bullion to bo coined into money on its own account. The operations of assaying, reliuing and alloying tn metal are conducted with the greatest possible care and nicety, to make them conform to a uniform standard of fineness and value. Gold and silver coins are not molded, but stamped. The bullion is first molded into bars, about a foot long, and then rolled into thin strips by means of powerful machinery. These strips, or ribbons, are of the proper thickness for the coins to bo made. They are next subjected to the cutting process, by which a steel punch, working perpendicularly, cnts, or punches, out a smooth piece of the necessary sire for the coin. This piece, before it is stamped, is called a planchet. It is simply a round, smooth disc, without any marks on it. They are punched out with great rapidity. Each one is weighed with greatest care before it is stamped. They are then run through the milling machine, which bevels the outer edge and makes a rim around tho coin. They then go into the coining press. This is a beautiful and powerful machine of tremendous pressure. A lever with a steel die engraved to represent one side of the coin works up and down into another die. representing the other side of tho coin, and thus both sides are stamped at once. The details of these operations are very interesting, but enough has been said to indicate the process. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. John Hill, an old citiren of Fletcher, O., who died a few days ago, immortalized himself during the Yallandigham campaign of 1808, by driving a teamoi forty-eight horses to a meeting in Piqua, O. ' The bags which French ladies carry to the theater have grown to immense size, and are big enough to hold hand-glass, owder box, sugar-plum box, huge empire an, gloves and lace opera hood if necessary. Mrs. Cleveland, it is rumored, is urging her husband to take her around the world after his term of office, has expired. She is constantly reading books of travel, and has Income warmly interested in India. China, Japan, and other distant lands. Mr. Cleveland has always had a dislike lor

travel, and the most unpleasant features of his administration to him have been his long journeys to different parts of the country. Evangelist Moody is holding daily services in a mammoth pavilion in San Francisco, and. although the place accommodates 6,000 people, it can't begin to hold the crowds that com to tho revival meetings. Henry Watterson, ex-Governor Hoadly, Charley A. Dana, Simon Stern, John E. Russell, and Colonel Fellows, will deliver speeches at tho birthday anniversary of tho late Samuel J. Tilden, which occurs on Feb. 9. CiiimPoo, a wealthy and aristocratic Chinaman of Denver, has followed the Melican fashion to the extent of procuring a divorce from his wife on tho ground of infidelity. This is the first instance of the kind in the American courts. Chief-justice Fuller has to taste the bitter as well as the sweet of office, and the bitterest bitter is, he finds, to be awakened at 2 o'clock in the morning to receive, bv special messenger, a letter from a crank offering to decide all tho cases before the Supremo Court for him. The holy city of Tunis, Kairwan, can now bo entered by Christians, and its mosques can be visited. The great mosque has 5(5 columns of marble, of every conceivable color and of every variety of architecture, and is, perhaps, the next in beauty to the great mosque in Cordova. Since her escape from the ponderous and wearying etiquette of tho German court to tho perfect freedom of Windsor, not ouly has the Empress Frederick improved in health, but she has developed an independence of demeanor which it is hardly likely she will ever allow to be stilled by her son. Prince Bismarck has been a most successful dealer in wood, which his estates furnish in vast abundance, on account of the special rates granted to him by the railroads. The other German wood-cutters have at last struck against this favoritism, and the Princo will now have to compete on equal terms. A Glasgow paper says: One of the persons worst hit by the Panama canal collapse is an American girl who some years ago married a French count. Being an enthusiastic admirer of M. De Lcsseps she invested all her money in canal stock. Her handsome furs and wraps are now for salo by a well-known coiffeur in the Champs Elysee. The full name of tho biggest man in France at present is George Ernest John Maria Boulanger. He seldom makes use of any but his surname, which just now seems to be a talisman of no small powor. Boulanger was born at Eennes, a place noted for its game birds, on the 29th of April, 1837. He has. therefore, just reached tho age at which Napoleon I died. Prince Cantacuzene, who it is semi officially announced will succeed Baron D Struve as the Czar's embassador in Washington, is a nobleman of the highest rank, and in every sense a personage of distinction. He is descended from the brilliant and brave Cantacuzene, Minister of Andronicus III, who usurped the throne and made himself Emperor of Constantinople during the minority of his pupil, Jean Paleologne. The father of the Prince has more than once been put forward for one of the Carpathian throne. Mrs. Lillie Devereaux Blake said the other day: "Did you Tr think that every year we have a whole week of prayer throughout Christendom for young men, while there is never a suggestion of such a universal and prolonged plea for young women!" Whereat a gallaut Southern editor quotes to Mrs. Blake the impromptu of Burns to a young woman whom he saw weeping at a reliuious meeting Why dim, O sweet Evangeline, Those eves of matchless bluet T Is wicked men the preachers mean, Not angels tuck as you. Father Gavazzi, whose death, at the

age of eighty years, has been recorded, long He made much stir in London, some five and thirty years ago, under the auspices of the ultra Protestant party, when he first abandoned the Church of Rome. A few will remember his theatrical platform appearances, with an open Bible embroidered on his cassock. Gavazzi gained some little credit at a later Eeriod in England by calling himself Ganaldi's chaplain. The English people were not then aware that Garibaldi was no more a Protestant than he was a Catholic. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, in presenting his medical library to the Boston Medical Library Association, has parted with a colfection which has taken a lifetime to gather. The oldest book in the series was written in 1490, and the latest in 1887. Says Dr. Holmes: "These books are dear to me; a twig from some one of my nerves runs to every one of them, and they mark the prorre6S of my study and the stepping-stones of my professional life. If any of them can be to others as they have been to me, I am willing to part with them, even if they are such old and beloved companions.'' Jonathan Alexander, the old Waterloo pensioner who died in Edinburgh a week or two ago, was one of the guards of the fallen Emperor in St Helena, and used to tell a curious story of Napoleon's heart having been nearly carried off by a rat aftter the post-mortem examination. The surgeon who conducted the investigation, after placing the heart in an open glass vessel, happened to fall asleep. During the snooze the choice morsel was lighted upon by a rat, which was in the act of carrying it off when the doctor fortunately awoke, and recovered tho stolen treasure. There may be some humor in Senator Palmer's forthcoming novel. While Senator Dolph was speaking on tho Samoan question on Wednesday Senator Palmer left the Senate chamber to see a constituent from Detroit. "What's going on in the Senate!" asked the caller. " Why " replied Palmer, "they are discussing a bill relating to the affairs of your late father-in-law." "Not Mr. Owen!" exclaimed the astonished Michigander. "Yes, Mr. Owen," returned the Senator; "old Sara Owen. You can get a copy of the bill in the document-room." The surprised visitor made a dash for tho gallery. He wanted to hear what Senator Dolph had to say about father-in-law Sam Owen. Five historical swords have been left by tho old German Emperor to the Berlin arsenal. They are the long sword, with a leather sheath, which the monarch wore from 1S10 to 1834; the sword worn through the Austro-German and the Franco-German wars, on the handle of which are inscribed the names of the most famous battles of 1800 and 1870-71; the sword which the Emperor wore at parades, and which was called tho "Knmigs-sabel;" the sword he inherited from Frederick William IV, and his father's old sword, which had been through all tho wars aicaiust the first Napoleon, aud which had its place next to tho desk of William I, close to the famous corner window where the old man was daily greeted by the crowd when the guards passed tho palace. COMMENT AND OPINION. If Germany has got into a war with tho Samoan natives, but observes American rights there, we have no cause to complain. Chicago Journal. As Mr. Breckinridge's titlo rests first on fraud, and secondarily upon assassination, it would be fitting that his seat should bo "declared vacant. Boston Journal. Trust combination is a problem which the American people have had set before them and which they must solve. Some solution is imperatively demanded. New York Telegram. One of these days the professional labor organizations, Kocnesier democrat. It is an inspiring fact, and one full of hope and promise, that the fortunes aud destinies of the republic aro largely committed to the hands of a man who begins his day'a work on his knees. Now York Graphic. WnEN every man works for himself, every worker knows that there is always room at the top, and the faithful and capable man can always rise. But when organization puts up an iron barrier against any

agitator win be recognized universally as a pestilent barasite. but at present his power seems undiminished in labor organizations.

man from below, no matter how capable, it is inevitable that organization will equally put up an iron barrier above, preventing any rise to higher grades of labor. New York Tribune. It is certainly evident that there is no necessity of observing a pusillanimous diplomacy. The moment we enow ourselves possessed of a backbone even if it is not in our State Department Germany begins to adopt a much more moderate tone. Pittsburg Dispatch. The slaying of Clayton is the crime the culmination of the crimesof the Democratic party of Arkansas. But they havo gone too far. Clayton dead is stronger than lay ton alive. And we believe that down in liis grave will be buried also the Democratic party of Arkansas. Peoria Transcript. The right to delegate to others anvthing that a man wants done for him is one of the fundamental principles of civilization. Most of us can do only one thing well, and if we could not havo other things done for us by people who are better fitted to do it thau we are, progress would stop. New York Press. TnE very earth cries out against his Col. Clayton's! death, aud Arkansas will have no peace, no respect from men. no self-respect at home.no further encouragement from the North, no immigration, no more capital, until the assassin is run down and punished. This is a requisition of the solid Union on the State of Arkansas. New York Graphic. When Congress admits a State it takes into consideration, or should do so, quality of voters as well as quantity. New Mexico with a million greasers would not bo as fit for statehood as Montana with 90.000 Americans. So let us have no more of this attempt to force in a rotten borough inhabited by worthless Spanish Indians. Chicago Tribune. The United States does not want any territory in Samoa. This country is too big to care a copper cent about those far away islands and their half-savage inhabitants for tho sake of any commercial or territorial advantages. Wo do want the rights of the United States under tho existing treaty with Samoa, England and Germany, respected. Boston Globe. Notwithstanding the impression that somewhat prevails, that the officers of the navy are more efficient in the ball-room than on the quarter deck, the record of the navy shows that it has brave hearts and clear heads when danger calls. Give tho American navy an opportunity, and there is no doubt that it will compare in efficiency and gallantry with tho best. Iowa State Register. The railway mail service all over tho country is in a state of demoralization, and except in certain localities, of which Brooklyn is one, the postal service generally is in no better condition. The cause of this is to be found in tho "ottensive partisanship" of President Cleveland, exer

cised lor the sake of rewarding with public office the "pernicious activity" of iemocratic politicians iu hi3 behalt Brooklyn Standard-Union. BIG ENOUGH FOR HIS WORK. The Impressions Carried Away by Some of the Men Who Hare Visited Harrison. Washington Special to Chicago Tribui. It is noteworthy that at least eight orten of the men who have visited Harrison within the last two months make certain remarks concerning him of identical meaning, to wit: "He is big enough for the work. Ho realizes what it is to be President. He thoroughly appreciates his power, his responsibility." Some of the men who have made remarks like these have been questioned more closely as to their meaning, and one of thccgave the following explanation; "I mean that he is not underestimating the office, lie feels that he has been called upon for four years to bo one of the greatest ot living men. He is trying to rise to the level of his ideal. I do not mean to say there is any small vanitv about him, that there has been any puffing up or swelling. Not that. But he gave me the impression of a man who is readjusting himself, making ready to f ullv and reallv be that which he has been called to be. Take his manners, for instance. He is now more courtly and considerate, pays more attention to the small amenities of social and official intercourse than when he was simply Benjamin Harrison, lawyer, or even Senator. It is like this all along the line of his movements aud methods. He is in training, with himself for a monitor. He appears to remember that he is President, the grandson of a President, and in tho two hours I spent with him I judged his predominating characteristics to be earnestness, conscientiousness, and a firmness that narrowly escapes stubbornness." "Can you quote some significant remark of his?" "Yes. We were talking about the situation in New York. He said he was much pained by the factional rivalry which appeared to be developing in that State, and said: 'Some of the men up there seem to be afraid that if I should give a Cabinet place to the faction they are not in sympathy with, the power of patronage would be used to tear down ono faction and build up the other. That is something 1 will not permit. If a New York man should be called into the Cabinet, or any other high place, I will not havo him using one iota of the patronage of his office to build up the faction to which he belongs in order to make it stronger than tho other. I shall make it my business in person to seo that this be not done. I will not have as much as a piece of muslin come between me and the Republicans or any set of Republicans in New York.' I was particularly struck with the manner in which General Harrison said this. He was much in earnest, and that expression about having not as much as a piece of muslin between the administration and either of the factions iu New York he repeated twice during the conversation." "Did he say anvthing about his policy as to removals from or appointments to office!" "Yes. 1 was rather curious to hear what he would say on that subject, and brought it up. I had been told what he had said to Senators Sawyer and Plumb some weeks before my visit, and I wanted to see if his opinions had undergone any change. He had told Sawyer and Plumb that officeholders serving terms, men who had not become obnoxious in any way, would be permitted to serve out their terms. He fold me the same thing, and he said it pretty strongly. One thing he said, was this: We must at least do as well as Mr. Cleveland has done in this respect. I even hope to improve on Mr. Cleveland's policy with reference to term officials and tho best civil service spirit in generak Of course.' he added, wo will get every office during the four years, but thero is no need of being in a hurry about it.' Another thing General Harrison said to me was that he wonld not permit any of the clerks in the departments at Washington to be disturbed, and inquired what per cent, of the clerks, in my judgment, were Republicans. I told him that Don Dickinson had told mo that 75 per cent, of the men in the Postoffice Department were Republicans. General Harrison said that was good, for it would make so much the less trouble From remarks of his which followed I judged that he feels strongly that it is his fluty to do everything in his power to repress the craze for office-holding, and to discsurago the clamor for office. He said something to the effect that if each succeeding administration would pursue this policy, enlarging and broadening it a little over tho bibst mark pursued by its predecessor, the country would soon be largely rid of the national 6candalof office-seeking andplaemrveyiug. leaving our politics on a ligher plane. I certainly left General Harrison firmly believing that thia wonld be his policy from tho outset; that even those changes which ho expects to make in his own good time will be made but slowly; and that the White House for some tiumis going to bo a chilly place for place-hunters. I know ho already feels harassed by the clamor for office, is just a trill impatient with the men who ought to be making it easier for him. but wh join in the hunt and make his burdeu all the heavier. 1 predict that immcdiatelv after inauguration he will filo notice on the hordes of hungry fellows who swarm in Washington that they had better go home." Was Felony Compounded in Moore's Cae? WftMnton I'osL The Indianapolis insurance company defaulter, Moore, finally reached the conclusion that prudence was, after all, the better part of valor, and. as a result, has found his way to Canada. Ho took nearly two week) to deliberate upon his policy, so that it may fairly bo alleged on his behalf that he did nothing in haste. It seemed from the beginning that the insurance company, which was the sufferer from his peculations and speculations, had really lost all interest in the subsequent proceedings. He was subjected to an interview, and unblush mgly admitted his - crimes. He talked freely with the officers of the company and with citizens of tho town

about tho afiair, and nevcr appeared to think, even for a moment, thnt he had done anything either unusual or criminal. Iht sufferers seem to have accepted his view of tho case, and to have resolved .hat hemight go as free as the winds on their course. Mnfc it occurred to some of tho policy-holders in Indiana that they had rights an'l interests at stake, and when this was suit?estcd to Moore he took alarm, and bctoo.V himself without delay to thoo classic precincts of embezzlers found in Montreal. Looked at from this distance it has tho appexrance of a compounded felony by somebody.

Cleveland and Reform. Time. n ministration will bo marked, it is s;;id, by another brilliant example of his devotiiRi to the cause of civil-service reform. Haring disorganized the railwav mail servico about as thoroughly as possible during tho four brief years of his term, he and hi advisers have decided that the interests of the public demaud an effort to retain new and incompetent Democratic clerks iu office, under General Harrison. This information is conveyed in a Washington dispatch to the Evening Post and is, therefore, free from that prejudice which has disgraced Republican journals whenever they have discussed Mr. Cleveland's public career. That Postmaster-general Dickinson and Superintendent Bancroft of tho railway mail service have delayed extending the civil-service rules to an important branch of government until she last month of President Cleveland's administration, is a fact that has nothing to do w ith the lively interest which those gentlemen havo felt, all along, in the progress of reform. 1 hey could not have attended to this trifling detail earlier, because their time has been wholly occupied in turning out Republicans and putting Democrats in the vacanies. Now they purine completing their work hy clamping these novices upon the public service. Having toiled hard for four years in the name of reform, it is not probable that President Cleveland and hU friends desire to see the results of their work swept away by a crowd of Republican office-seekers. If their reform can lio mado lasting, they aro for any harmless little subterfuge that will injure permanence. General Harrison's Southern Friends. Baltimore American. A Baltimore merchant, and a Democrat, who goe South every winter, writes to a friend in this city from Lown.lesville, S. C.t "General Harrison has many friends down here, particularly in Georgia. He has a great opportunity to make his mark. If he is lenient towards the Southern people, ho will make' thousands of friends and strengthen his party, and. possibly, start a division of the vote. And if he can do that he will havo moved a mountain of trouble. The acceptance of the result of the election of Harrison by tho people down here is grand and wonderful. I have nover seVn anything like it before. Everyone is calm and contented, except a few professional politicians, because tho South feels that a new era is about to dawn upon them. The people are paying more attention to business than politics, having full confidfiuo in the wisdom and justice of the adminis tration of the President-elect. I havo traveled over the South for tho past twenty years, and I never before ?aw such industry, ambition, good-feeling and happiness. This applies to all classes of people," How Young 3Ir. Harrison Impresses Them. Chicago Mall. Mr. Russell Harrison, son of Presidentelect Harrison, who was at the Grand Pacific yesterday with his family, is a young man who carries himself with ease and a quiet assurance which indicates that he is able to take care of himself. There is nothing about his action or talk to attract; The newspaper paragraphers had what they consider some fun at his expense when he was down East Men like) Channcey Dcpew and Levi 1. Morton do not dine with young men who are foolish or giddy. Tney extended courtesies to young Harrison on hi father' account, it is true, but not wholly so. The son of his. father did nothing at tho Grand Pacific vesterdav that would single him out as being different from other young men. Ho did not put himself on parade as Fred Grant used to do when he came to tho front. I saw some people who talked with Mr. Harrison, and they are of the opinion that he can take care of himself and be no discredit to his father. Bo-Called Worklngmen Leaders. 2?ew York Graphic Will workingm en never learn to choosy leaders of character? Two years ago tho street-car strikers were dictated to by a desperado. Now the man who is at the head of the disturbance is an ex-convict. Ho was sent to tho penitentiary for robbing tho mails, his crime involving not only theft, but breach of trust, for he was in tho mail service. If he violated his trust to the government, of which he was himself a part, as every citizen is, tho workingmen need not be surprised if he proves recreant to any trust they put in him. Solving the Southern Problem. New York Graphic The way to deal with tho South is to know no fctoutu. no North, no East, no West, General Harrison was elected President ot the whole country and not a portion of it. If ho be iust to all, as we have no doubt he will be, the Southern "qm stiou," like a good many other difficult problems, will be 'a great de;il nearer a proper solution. There is no need of running out a lot of bristles just yeu Will Stand by the Dram-Shop. Chicago Journal. The question as to one thin that th Democrats iu tho Indiana Legislature will do is settled, according to the Indianapolis Journal "they will stand by the dramshops." This is perhaps superlions information. It is as certain that tho Democrats anywhere will "stick by the dramshops" as that the Prohibitionists will so act as to best serve Democratic interests. Western Independence. rhUaflelphU Record. Mrs. Harrison, it will bo observed, ac cepts the couvential evening dres of a lady of fashion only after certain modifications, while Mrs. Morton adheres to tho decollete standard set up by fashionable modiste the world over. Great is the independence of the breezy West, which extends even to those details of the toilet with which the. effete East never thinks of interfering. Correct Gospel for Strikers. Norwich Bulletin. It is every man's right to refuse to work if his duties orhiswagesare unsatisfactory. It is no man's risrht to prevent any other man from taking his place, if its duties and wages are satisfactory to that other man. Instead, it is the dut y of society to see that every one is protected to the last in his right to refuse to work or to work, as ho pleases. The ristol Not the Troper Arbiter. Boston Herald. The seat of Mr. Breckinridcre, of Arkansas, in the next Congress, will not be contested by his late opponent. An assassin's Eistol appears to have settled that. Perapsit might be well for Congress to examine into the merits of the case, just the same. Tho arbitrament of the ristol is not to bo accepted as final outside of Arkansaw, Which I It? Boston nera'.d. About all the legal executions we read about as taking place down South of late are those in which colored murderers figure. Either the colored men are doing most of the murdering down in that section, or else vengeance is more than ordinarily swift m its pursuit of the black man. W inch is it! Democrats Seem to lie Going Just Now. Atlanta Constitution. "Reform is necessary," says the Indianapolis Journal. Well, we should think so. That is tho reason why tho Republican party will have to go, sooner or Inter. An Improved Plan. Pitnjfcurj? Dispatch. Arkansas seems to improve on tho Mirsls sippi plan. Killing off Republican candU date is calculated to discourage iucon venie nt contests. Ilayard's Backbone. New YTk Oraphtc. Delaware angle-worms will nothohWo get her 1 png enough lobe put on a fish-hook judging from Secretary Bayard's backbone, 3fut Lead the German. Mllwsnlce Wisconsin. Public opinion demands that the authorities a A Washington must "lead the German" iu .the Samoan imbroglio.