Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 February 1889 — Page 4

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1889.

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And how does tho third party like tho attitude of its Democratic partner on the temperance question now! The way to make a decent Democrat blush is to ask him what ho thinks of the Hendricks Club and the legislative majority. TriE State of Indiana literally fell among thieves when it fell into the hands of tho Democratic majority in tho Legislature. Legislative salaries must bo forthcoming, even if the furniture of the Assembly chambers has to bo pawned to raise the money. The oldest inhabitants agree that the present Legislature is tho most rascally and vicious body which has assembled in the Stato within their recollection. The legislative majority has no time to discuss temperance measures. It is busy providing new offices for Democrats and devising new ways for tapping tho State treasury. . The General Assembly means to have its pay if it has to mortgage tho Statehouse to get it. That is what tho Democratic majority and the fifty-eight doorkeepers are there for. He is a poor carver, says the old adage, that cannot help himself to the best piece of the fowl. The ways and means committee isn't much on finance, but it can take care of itself and tho doorkeepers. The legislative minority is making a gallant fight for the rights of the majority which they represent, but their struggles avail nothing against the lawless acts of men who are bent solely upon plunder and partisan gain. London polico lost no time in arresting the wild Missourian who fired his revolver into the crowd. They wish it to bo understood that no "Hamcricau" ways will be tolerated in that peaceiul city. In the meantime, "Jack the Ripper? is still at large." ; Political outrages in the South have ceased to interest Indiana Republicans. Their attention is absorbed in contemplation of the outrages committed by the Democracy in their own State. The enormities in the one are not greater than in the other. The failure of tho chief fire engineer, ten times repeated, could not justify the overthrow of local self government. Tho people can, if they wish, reform and revolutionize tho Council, but they would be powerless under the control of legislative boards. The proposition for the State to publish school books is opposed by the friends of education and level-headed business men everywhere. It meets with no favor outside of Democratic cir cles in Indiana. As Governor Hovey said, "it has been condemned as impracticable and costly." Cortez Ewing, tho new boodle Sen ator from Shelby and Decatur, issued a circular as chairman of tho Decatur county Democratic committee, during the campaign last year, for which tho Sentinel said he ought to be in the penitentiary. Perhap3 service in this Leg islature is pnnishment enough. The school teachers of the State have not been asked to give their opinions on the probable educational worth of text books compiled by party hacks. It is the opinion of the majority that it is not the teachers' or tho parents' business how the children are served, so loupr as ways are provided for pensioning off a lot of spavined Democrats. The Democratic majority in tho Leg islature have insulted and defied the people in every possible way, but we doubt if they would daro deny the right of petition. Tho people should petition for an investigation of tho Insane Hos pital. There is reason to believe that it has been robbed by John E. Sullivan, and that its walls hide a great deal of rottenness besides. There ought to be a score of petitions started in every county in the State, asking for an investigation. Let us see if tho majority will deny the right of petition. The Insane Hospital outrages which have disgraced the State during tho Harrison-Sullivan regime would never have occurred had the institution been under non-partisan management. So far from remedying this defect, tho Democratic majority is arranging to gain party control of every other public interest. Tho prospect of financial loss

and gross abuses in tho management of tho State's charities, educational and other enterprises is simply appalling. Under such tyrannical rule the people have no recourse but to wait until they can turn the rascals out at the polls. That day of reckoning is distant, but cannot be escaped.

DEFEAT OF LOCAL OPTION. There are aomc peculiarly disgraceful features in the action of the House on the local-option bill. The measure itself is so pre-eminently just and right that its defeat under any circumstances is a public calamity. Local option is the application of the fundamental principle of popular government and home rule to tho greatest social problem and social evil of the age. It remits to the people in their primary and sovereign capacity, to tho voters of each and every municipality in the State, tho right to say whether they will permit or prohibit the existence of saloons. While it prevents the people of any city, county, township or town from imposing their own views or ideas on those of any other, it makes the people of each and every locality the sovereign arbiter of the saloon question for themselves. This is genuine democracy and the essence of popular government. It represents the best convictions of the best people on this subject, and is universally recognized by the wisest advocates of temperance reform as tho best practicable solution of the question. The defeat of such a measure under any circumstances is a public calamity. It is a denial of justice and an insult to the people. It is equivalent to telling them that they do not know what they want, and aro not fit for self-government. It is a flat repudiation of tho doctrine of home rule and a cowardly denial of tho right of the people to regulate their own affairs. In a moral aspect it is a base renunciation of manhood on tho part of those who killed the measure, and a cowardly surrender to the worst elements and influences of society. It is an attempt to rivot the chains of the liquor traffic on tho people of Indiana, and by continuing the power of tho saloon in politics to extend tho reign of drunkenness, pauperism and crime. Of all the infamous acts of the present Legislature this summary killing of h cal option is the worst. Mr. Reynolds, tho author of the bill, made a very strong speech in its favor and an earnest protest against the ty rannical action of the majority in refus ing to allow debate. He was especially severe, as he had a right to be, on those Democrats who had given him their personal promise that the bill should have full hearing and fair treatment. The fact that Mr. Reynolds relied on these promises snows tiiat he did not under stand tho worthlessness of such pledges as against tho decree of the Democratic caucus. The defeat of the measure re ceives an added element of infamy from the dishonorable courso of these Demo crats, who thus affected an attitude of fairness towards the measure until the opportune moment came when they could stab it in tho back. We regret to have to add that two Re publicans, Messrs. Nugent and Covert, of Evansville, voted with the Democrats. Their vote has placed them out of line with the Republican party, and shows that on this vital question thoy are not in harmony with the State platform or organization. ' Whatever their personal views or pledges maybe, or whatever the relations between them and their personal constituencies, wo say that Messrs. Nugent and Covert have re pudiated the platform of their party and placed themselves in opposition to its declared policy. Their vote may represent their own interests, but it does not represent tho interests of the people nor the policy of tho party. DEMOCRATIC FHTANCIERINCr. The people of Indiana may . bo sur prised to learn that tho first and only financial measure yet introduced "in the present Legislature is one authorizing the Treasurer of State to borrow $200,000 atC per cent, interest to pay the expenses of the session. This is the more surprising since the State finances have, for some timo past, been in a condition demanding prompt and effective treat ment, yet more than half the session has passed without anything having been done, or proposed or considered looking to their improvement. The finances of the State, if not in a critical condition, aro at least in very bad condition. Tho bonded debt of the State is $0, 770,000. It is paying interest at tho rate of $337,801.09 a year $70,373 on its foreign debt and $2oS,4SG.99 on its domestic debt. Tho annual interest account of tho State is about one-fourth of its entire revenue for general pur poses. On three-fourths of its debt it is paving 6 per cent, interest. During the last two years, owing to the failure of the last Legislature to make appropria tions, the State has been compelled to borrow money to meet current expenses and pay interest. Borrowing money at interest to pay interest is poor financier ing. At present tho State Treasury is practically empty. Tho rapid increase of the Stato debt and tho present bad condition of State finances are directly due to Democratic mismanagement. On the first day of the session the Journal called attention to tho bad con dition of the Stato finances. Governor Gray, in his message, recommended leg islation looking to a reduction of tho State debt and of the rate of interest, and made other important financial rec ommendations. The Legislature has now r been in session over a month, more than half its constitutional term, and has paid no attention whatever to this important matter. Tho whole timo has been spent by the majority in passing bills to take appointments out of the hands of the Governor, to create new salaried offices, to provide places for Democrats, to capture the city government of Indianapolis, and to gain other partisan ad vantages. Tho Legislature is the most expensive tho State has ever had. Tho pay-roll for door-keepers, clerks, pages and other employes is far m excess of any former Legislature. With an empty treasury and an insufficient revenue it has devoted itself to increasing salaries and piling up costs. It has even given favorable consideration to a bill

to pay Green Smith's salary as Lieutenant-governor and to pay Warden Jack Howard's shortage of $17,000.' Finally,

.with tho session more than half gone and nothing done to replenish the Stato Treasury, to reduce the debt or the interest account, with pending bills to create new offices that will cost thousands of dollars, tho ways and means committee reports a bill to authorize a loan of $200,000, at 6 per cent, interest, to pay tho expenses of tho session. What do the people of Indiana think of this sort of business? The passage by the House of the bill making eight hours a legal day's work for all classes of mechanics and laborers, excepting those engaged in agricultural and domestic labor, must necessarily arouse strong protest from the two classes discriminated against. It does not appear that a large proportion of workingmen of any class have demanded shorter hours, but if mechanics and others engaged in manual toil are to have the legal right to stop work at 4 p. 31., why should not the woman who cooks, and scrubs and scours, and the man who tills tho soil have the same privilege? Why this invidious discrimination against those bulwarks of society, tho hired girl and tho farm hand? It is not enough to argue that tho exigencies of farm life requiro that tho "hand" shall arise at dawn and labor until dark, or that a woman's work is never done. The man and the girl can reply that their rights aro equal to those of others, and that their employers aro entitled to no special privileges, but may do as other employers and hire other men and girls to make up the decrease in tho time. It is the duty of these unjustly treated classes of citizens to enter their objections promptly, and to make life a burden to the legislators who have shown such unjust favoritism. Servant girls who will "strike" at tho end of eight hours' work daily, and farm hands who decline to begin work before 8 in the morning can make matters very interesting for legislators, both of tho rural and urban varieties. A combined effort on the part of these persons will demonstrate s"omc of tho beauties of the eight-hour system, if it does nothing more. The Ohio House of Representatives has passed a bill providing for free school books under certain regulations. It provides for a commission consisting of tho State School Commissioner, tho Supervisor of Public Printing and four persons to bo appointed by tho Governor, two from each political party. Tho commission are to receive bids for furnishing the school books, after agreeing on the books to be lised. Townships have the power to say whether or not they desire their books so furnished. This leaves the final decision of the matter with tho townsliips or school districts. The Ameer of Afghanistan bounds into the world's arena with something more than tho spectacular accompaniments to his annual reappearance. Tho reported beheading of five hundred offenders daily indicates either that tho Ameer is very, very mad about some thing, or that the young gentlemen com posing tho foreign "news bureaus" aro. beginning to get their imaginations in readiness for the dull season. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. -James Wiiitcomb Riley will have a Congressional poem in tho March Century eutitieu. "uown 10 tne capital." Ex-Go vernoii Bigelow and wife, of New Haven, Conn., are soon to set out for Egypt and the far East. They will be gone some years. Countess Martinez sells stamps in the Philadelphia postoffice. Sho was a Baltimore girl, and her husband is a real German count, at present in reduced, circumstances and in a Philadelphia hospital. By tho improper use of the single word "thereof" in the will of Mrs. Anne McCullongh, who died in Pittsburg recently, the sum of 130,000 will be diverted from the object for which she intended it. Olive Logan has been looking into the domestic economy of tho French, and sho finds it to consist in doing without things. She says they make nothing go further than other people, unless it is talk. It is said that Benjamin F. Butler is noxv spending his nocturnal hours in tho study of astronomy. Ho has amassed a fine collection of treatises on the study of the stars, and takes observations nightly with a small telescope of the latest design. John Wanamaker's country place at Jenkintown, Pa., is his pride and joy. He has a tine collection of cattle, and his flowers are very valuable. His roses and orchids aro worthy of note, and his rhododendrons are famous in Pennsylvania. Since tho Hon. J. Q. A Brackett became Lieutenant-governor of Massachusetts he has only once been present at a session of the Legislature, and that was when he was showing a friend through the State-house and stumbled into the Senate chamber before adjournment by mistake. A woman receiver for a woman's bank seems about the right thing to the people of Mason City, la. Tho' Clear Lake Bank, of that Jown, owned by Mrs. L. P. Jones, closed its doors one day last week, with no capital, and the court appointed Mrs. Lizzie 1 itch as receiver lor me institution. The best point of the evening at .the Phelps dinner, in London, is thought to have been in Sir Frederic Leighton's speech, when he said: "As an artist he drank to another artist, a gentleman who had ex celled in one of the most admirable of all arts the art of making many friends." Jay Gould is said to be completely under the thumb of his son George, and to that enterprising young man is attributed the freezing out of Vice-president Hopkins, of me Missouri jaciuu luuiuiiu.- mo eiuer Gould discarded Morosini to please his son, and Hopkins was sacrificed because George was jealous of tho favor shown him by his father. More than thirty-seven thousand ueonle in five days were admitted to view Mrs. Joseph Chamberlain's wedding presents. The Puritan maiden seems to have yielded r ; . . r 1 s 1 io liriiisu cunosii, ui pi-maps sue uus the British voter. That her portraits aro on view in the Birmingham shop windows is another evidence of her acceptance of political customs. Three years ago Dr. Maria M. Dean raised her first sign as a homeopathic physician at Helena, M. T. To-day she is one of the most popular and prominent residents of the city, and her income last year is re ported to have been bi i,uw. Dr. Dean was .rrolnifpil from tho Vi4frm!ti ITritrrStt and from tho Boston medical school, and lias aiso siuuit'u iu jjcimh. one is auuui 4l.!.lv v.nniti !! nTd 13 'liil til 1a n nrnmqn llJlllj WAV.. m. .v. W . 1 of remarkable ability, and although full of It is told that one day last summer, going down to Gloucester, Dr. Holmes sat in a front scat of the car and entertained a fel low-passenger with some of his brilliant talk. A countryman, sitting in the little

corner seat before them, overheard the conversation, and finally leaned over, took the autocrat's hat, looked at the number inside, then at his own, and said, very demurely: "I read something in the paper tho other day about the size of great men's heads, and I thought I'd like to know the size of your'n. Hut what bothers me is my head's tho biggest of the two!" The way to use your cane," said a noted foreigner the other day, "is not to strike with it as if it wero a club. That is of 60 little use that it is doubtful if it would not be wrenched away from yon tho first blow you tried to strike. You can make a cane the most ugly and vicious of weapons by simply punching with it. You hold the handle in your right hand and use vour left hand merely to guide the point, 'then jab with it at your assailant's stomach, neck or face, according as you want to hurt him. He cannot get the cane away from you and cannot get within arm's reach of you." A tleasant incident, illustrative of tho tenderness and sympathy of the Princess of Wales, has just been brought to the notice of a correspondent of the Manchester Courier. A friend traveling in Norfolk, near Lynn, met in the train a woman dressed in deep mourning. In conversation sho stated that recently she had lost a daughter, through consumption. Her husband was a laborer on the Sandringham estate, and during her daughter's protracted illness the Princess of Wales was a frequent visitor, sitting by the dying girl's bed-side, talking and reading to'her on religious subjects, "and after her death," added the mother, "the Princess gave me this shawl that I am now wearing." In a certain Boston family there is an heirloom which is both interesting and, in these degenerate days, most suggestive. It is a dower chest of carved oak, not wholly unlike except that it is smaller the chests in which Venetian brides of old used to bestow their wedding outfit. This dower chest has been in the family nearly a century, and in it the oldest (laughter of the family is expected to hoard tho linen which she prepares against-the day of her marriage, much alter the fashion of German maidens. The one condition attached to the possession Of tho chest is that the girl owning it shall, with her own hands, make every article put into it. The will of tho first owner provided that the chest should descend only to daughters of the house who would, without assistance, do all the sowing on their outfit of household linen. Thus iar the condition has been scrupulously observed; and thus far, also, each owner of tho chest has, in passing it on. left in it an elaborate niece of embroidered table linen. Written for the Indianapolis Journal. THE DAY after. Not a bit of lace and perfume rare, . Not a heart with an arrow in it; Not a line to say I am more than fair. With "I love you" to begin it: I wait and hope, and fear and wait, Each long round through, while the postman stays On the square below, to give a "Fate" To a sUp of a girl who with true love plays. Tho long day done, I grieve and sigh . I've been forsaken but, can't you guess! J5t. Valentine had passed me by, But ue came himself and I said "yes.' f.m. n.

COMMENT AND OPINION. The time is evidently at hand when wo must assert our rightful place among the nations of tho earth, and the best way to maintain it peacefully is to show that we are ready ton ght for it. Philadelphia In quirer. The people of the United States look for ward to a change in tho headship of tho State Department with an interest and expectation of more than usual significance, aud indicative of their judgment as to what shoidd be our nolicv in the Sainoan afiair. -Sacramento Kecord-Union. No more fitting place can be found for tho Hag than in the public school-room. It ' should bo tho perpetual reminder of the Nation's sovereignty and honor. Tho children who are taucht to reverence the flatr trill bo tho men who will defend it should its intesrritv and honor ever bo assailed. Iowa State ltegister. Bismarck, in his dealings with the Samoans, has been acting on tho theory that ho would bo permitted by the United States the same liberty; to accomplish his purpose in his own way in Samoa that was weakly allowed him by Great Britain in East Africa. In this assumption the Chancellor is mistaken. St Louis Globe-Democrat. The South has been let alone for tho past twelve years. It has been allowed to deal with tho negro question in its own way. The only settlement it has reached has been to deprive the negro of his political rights and refuse the proffered aid of the general government to educate him, while failing to do anything adequate iii that direction herself. Minneapolis J oumaL That page of history which records the sudden emergence from obscurity, the rapid rise to exalted station, and the equally rapid downfall of President Cleveland, will, we apprehend, always stand separate and apart in our annals, and their cause will be a fruitful subject of inquiry and of controversy amongst the historians of tho future. Brooklyn Standard Union. If tho German press in America will take a tin from us, here it is. Advise the people in the fatherland that on no account can they depend upon German-American sympainy witn ine empire in ine event 01 war; that this is vour country: that nmler its flag jnore German blood has an asylum and a?home than can be settled in African colonies and Pacific islands in five hundred years. Alta California. In dealing with Irish political offenders. England knows no difference between a gSressive political opponents and criminals. 'Brien is treated as a common thief or murderer, and subjected to all sorts of bruxi:a. i. v i i j i . i granted that they believe in tho justice of coercion. .Minneapolis i ri oune. The youngest second lieutenant in the corps ISignal ServiceJ has held his commission about twice as long as General Greelv has held his. Now tho chief signal officer declares that his staff is incompetent, and wants it reorganized. It would be inter esting to hear from the stall. Perhaps they believe that the efficiency of tho service would be promoted bv tho reorganization of the chief 6ignal omcer. New lork Sun. Everybody must realize, if he considers these things candidly, that no fair or iust representation of the political convictions of the majority of the people can be secured if intense partisanship on one side is met by concession and non-partisanship in tho name of patriotism on the other. It in the duty of Kepublicans to Bee that their convictions and principles obtain their riciitf ui Buare 01 inuueuuo m xuuuc auairs. rew York Tribune. There is no surer way to accomplish the disintegration of a party than to make its principles secondary to boodle. The man with brains weighs less with those who make a business of politics than the man who is ready with his roll of bills. This iiiay.promote the pecuniary gains of tho striker, but how does it affect the party? It weakens its position in tho community. and it not only alienates its own support ers, but it anves away tne rising generation of voters. When a party has not on its rolls the young men of a commnity it is on the downward track. Boston Journal. Mets the Popular Demand. Greencastle Democrat. There is a marked improvement in the newspaper of to-day over that of former years, and we know oi no paper that meets the popular demand in that regard more fullv and satisfactorily than the Indian apolis Journal. While it is political in tone and influence, it is also a newspaper, and therein is its chief excellence to be found. Like every well-conducted journal it gives the news first and opinions afterwards. That is the secret of its influence and grow ing popularity with ita thousands of readers. It is; as it ought to be, intensely, but not offensively Kepublican. It is progressive in all things, but especially in the enter prise and excellence that characterize its general management. Colman's Short Term Philadelphia Press. After Colonel Colman, the first Secretary of Agriculture, has retired from otlice he should bo prevailed upon to write a book and call it 'The Long and Short of It; or, How I Was a Cabinet Officer for Seventeen Days." The book would go, and Colman must. "

miuy, uccauso no oujecis 10 uonmng rue prison garb. This is Salisbury's and Balfour's everlasting shame, even if it ho

FOUfi YEAES OF 'CLEVELAND

j '. The President Reviews His Administration for Edification of tho Public. Statements That Directly Contradict Topnlar Impressions Concerning Mr. Cleveland's Character and Political Ambition. He Reluctantly Accepted the Democratic Nomination for a Second Term, After a Vain Struggle to Escape It He Was Anxious to Consult the Party Leaders, and Thinks Tariff Is Yet the Great Issue. Baltimore, Feb. 14. The Sun, to-morrow, will publish tho following special dispatch from Washington, giving a review of Pres ident Cleveland's administration, based upon conversations with the President: Less than three weeks of rresUlent Cleveland's four years' occupancy of the White House re main, and the record of his administration i practically made up. A review of the salient features of the administration, of what it has accomplished and soukM to accomplish, and of j the difficulties with which it has had to contend, is therefore appropriate at this time, and not i without value to the country at large. l he Key-note of 3ir. Cleveland s iKlicy from the beginning has been the determination to pive the people a practical, business-like administration, irrespective of personal considerations. No one wuo lias talked with Mr. Cleveland, who has onserved the perfect candor and oppenness of his lanyuacc on this point, and has watched the ani mated play of his features when discussing it. as the writer has done, can fau to be convinced of the earnestness and sincerity of his purpose. nis sense or public duty, ana hi devotion to tne best interests of the people. There is probably no American In public life who has a deeper, more genuine sympathy with the people. and thero never has been a President more accessible, nor one who surrendered so much of his time to gratifr the natural curiosity and interest of the bone and sinew of tne land m their chief executive, than nasJUr. Cleveland. In conversation with the writer, today, he remarked with feeling that his attemoon receptions, or hand shakes, as he calls them, were tho pleasantest incidents of his official life. lie derives a genuine enjoyment from meeting people who come from every section of the country, not in search of office or with any favor to ask, but merely for tho sake of exchanging a pleasant word or two with the President. ine close or Mr. Cleveland s administration finds him as busv, and perhaps even busier, than when he was inducted into office. There is now a mass of work before him which will tax even his robust energies to dispose of beforo inauguration dav. lie works as hard as any department clerk, because ho is not content to take things for granted, but insists upon informing himself as to every question he is called upon to decide. The pressure of official and social duties throughout the days is so great that ne is seldom able to address himself to the documentary work and correspondence which is accumulating upon his desk during almost every hour until 9 o'clock at night, and no is seldom able to retire before 2 or 3 o'clock in the morning. Ho . is in his office again by half past 9 in the morning, and from 10 to 11 is busy receiving members of congress and their con stituents. Much of the time is consumed, unnecessarily, by the want of consideration displayed by Congressmen in introducing persons who merely call to pay their respects. The afternoon receptions were set apart for this class of visitors, but it often happens that an influential constituent bobs up at the capital, and the member from way-back, or some other district, wishing to impress his Importance or influence upon so valuable a supporter, or to tickle tho latter's vanity, says: "Oh, come along. Ill take you up to see the President," and does so dining the hours set apart ior omciai ousiness. ine President nas never complained of this inconsiderate treatment, but he was greatly gratified and impressed by the conduct of the late Representative Hurnes, of Missouri, who always presented his constituents, who merely wished to see the President, at the publio receptions. Notwithstanding his patience.under these exactions, and the fact that almost his entire time during the day has been given up to the pubuc, the President has been criticised for being "exclusive." and the com plaint has been freely made that he would not give the representative men of his party tho opportunity of consulting freely with nlm. "There has never been a time." said the Presi dent, on this point, "when I have not been willing and anxious to talk with members of Congress, and leading men in the party." It is known to his mends that the President feels acutely the charge that he has held aloof irom men whose character ana posiuon entitled their opinions to weight, and has been dispscd to take the bit between his teeth and act on hii own responsibility. He has all along been animated by a high and serious sense of his duty to the people, and this has often prompted mm to a course of action in opposition to the wishes or opinions of personal friends. It is the secret. too. of his laborious devotion to matters of routine. He expresses himself very moderately on the latter point, and shows no disposition whatever to exploit his industry. "it may be because I am awkward at it," ho said to-day, "that I have to work so hard." it may be stated that the President is thor oughly satisfied with tho practical outcome of his administration and its effect on the fortunes of tho Democratic party. He is very earnest in predicting a great future for Democracy, and in asserting his unquaimed devotion to the party. "It is a grand nartv." said he. "and was never in better shape than it is at present. When wo consider the commion it was in beiore the tariff issue was formulated, the want of unanimity, the wide divergence of views on many points, and the hearty, united support it gave me during tne campaign, wno can douut mat its status naa been improved and that it has a glorious future before iti" The President Is as firm now as he ever was in the opinion that tariff reform is the great living issue for the Democracy. lie regards it as an issue in harmony with the spirit and traditions of the party, and one involving enormous benefits to the people. Ue believes that, sooner or later. the toiling masses will be thoroughly aroused to an indignant perception of the burdens unjustly imposed upon them by the tariff laws, and of the fact that the taxing power of the Nation ia beincr recklessly used for the benefit of a favored few. He does not tolerate the Idea that the Democracy was beaten on the tariff issue last f alL "Had certain conditions been eliminated from the campaign," he said, "we would have won a decisive victory." So far as he is individually concerned ho has no regrets at laying down his trust. Ue thinks the defeat of the Democracy is to be deplored oecause ui me injury resulting to xno piiDiic interests, but, personally, he experiences a profound sense of relief at the prospect of speedy release from the ordeal to which ho has been ex posed during the past four years. The strain has been so great that no man of less robust health and rugged viri'Jty could havo withstood it. ....... One of the most trying features of hi9 position has been that in the discharge of his onicial du ties ne nas ieeii caned upon ho frequently to offend persons -whose friendship and good opinion he valued. Mr. Cleveland's sympathies are warm and easily roused. The insensibility with which he has so often been accused is a supposed trait oi character winch has no existence. He has often hesitated between Ids personal inclina tion and his sense of what was exacted of him by the dignity of his position, the interests of the public and his oath of office. He has had to tight for the right at almost every step of Ids official progress, and he is naturally tired of the continuous wear and tear of the contest. It in an open secret that he accepted the. Democratic nomination last summer wnn genuine reluctance and after earnest effort to escape it. Hi suiposed iolitical aspirations for the future do not exist. There is no rivalry on his part between himself and anybody el.e. "I am in no one s way, ." he says. "I shall be delighted to be relieved of the cares of the presidency. On the 4th of March next, on purely jtersonal grounds, there w ill bo no happier man Iu the United Htates than I." With reference to the clvil-semco system, he is as tirin and decided as in his views on the tariff question. He believes that civil-service reform has come to stay. He has treated it solely as a practical question, and has been much hampered and embarrassed by the vagaries of sentimental reformers and theorist, who havo been continually urging him to do this or that for mere seusauonai effect v men be did not regard as Judicious. He has endeavored to give tho civil-service scheme a fair trial, and expresses nimseir as miiy satisfied with the resulta. There may le differences of opinion as to details, but he thinks the examinations are, on the whole, about the best test of merit that can be devised. It is certainly referable to tho spoils S3stem, and he has no fear that it will degenerate into a mere bureaucracy. The worst type of bureaucracy was developed under the spoils system of former administrations. When Mr. Cleveland came into office he found the de partments tilled with incompetents who had found iermaneut lodgment there through favor itism. His doubt is whether sufficient cleaning out has been done to serve tne best interests of the government and to give wider scope for civilservice reform through its methods in filling places of inefficient with capable men. The President recognizes i fully the feeling or tne great mass or iemocratio omce-seckers. who expected placo and recognition, and the disappointment and irritation which resulted from his inability to satisfy them. It is a matter of deep regret to him that he could not do so. but he had a higher pubuo duty to ierform, the purification and elevation of the publio service and elimination from party politics, as far as possible, of the de grading use or "patronage," an evil which has grown to gigantic proportions and was steadily increasing. " Ho is very earnest In advocacy of the civil-service system as being a thoroughly ? radical reform, and in no een&e undemocratic. In thinks the work, of his adulnistration has fixed this reform as a permanent feature of our . . . . v .'

system of government, and that no party can afford to antagonize it openly. 8o far as his own status In the' party is affected by his attitude on tho civil-sen Ice question, it may be said that he regards himself as a better Democrat than many of nis critics. Tho President Is especially gratified at the effect of his administration on tho prosperity and happiness of th fcoutnern people, both blacks and whites. He believes in making no distinctions between any' of the sections, and ho deprecates strongly tho revival of animosities which were supposed tobe dead and buried. He is satisfied that the race, problem can be worked out by the people of that section without outside interference. He speaks in terms of grateful appreciation of the hearty and united support accorded him by the members of his Cabinet. Tho administration, it must be conceded, will po down in history a unique in tho fact that all Its members havo pulled together from beginning to end, and no personal jealousies or resentments have marred the harmony of its deliberations. Every member of it has been hard-working, energetic, and wholly devoted to the pubho interests, and every department presents an enviable record of important reforms and economies established and of substantial results in the effort to promote the publio good. No breath of scandal or taint of corruption has attached to any branch of tho publio service. In view of the jobbery and scheming that permeated every department of the publio service under former regimes, and which seemed to have to become a permanent feature of official life In Washington, no more honorable epitaph could be applied to tho administration now drawing to a close than the emphatic declration of the President to tho writer: "We have nothing to hide." TRIAL OP ALLEGED WHITE CAPS.

Some of the Defendants Thought to Hate Proved They Are Not the Guilty Persons. Special to the Indianapolis JonmaL Dloomixgtox, Ind., Feb. 14. So far as the evidence goes tho White Cap trial was, brought to a close at a late hour this evening. The interest has been increased today by the remarkable showing of the defense in making their alibi, and now, while the fact of tho White-capping of William Norman is admitted on all sides, it is freely conceded that much doubt exists as ta whether the real White Caps have been detected after all. It has been known all the time that tho accused number some of the best citizens in tho southern part of the county, and since Tuesday at noon up to ti o'clock to-da' they havo introduced evidence to show that they were innocent of tho charge. The first witness of this morning was John Carson, one of tho defendants. Ho is a leading politician in Polk township, and known throughout tho county. Three of Norman's family recognized him as assisting in the whipping. Though cross-examined with unusual care, his story was not broken or even shaken. Mr. Carson said: 'I was not at Mr. Norman's house on tho night of tho whipping, nor out of my home after 10 o'clock. Up to dark I worked in the field, and came home and found Dr. Morris Judah there, who, upon my invitation, stayed ail night. Tho Doctor slept in the same room with me, and we did not go to bed until between 11 and 12 o'clock." In corroboration of Mr. Carson-s evidence, Dr. Judah's testimony agreed in every particular. It was also proven by the blacksmith that Carson's mule, which ne is alleged to have rode the night of the whipping, was not shod as the evidence showed the one to have been that was tracked by the plaintifFs witness. Hezekiah Norman, one of the accused, is also the father of three of the defendants, is one of tho wealthiest, most respected men of the county, and is a halfbrother of the victim of the White Caps. They had become enemies over a lawsuit, ana aia not. Fpean as iney passed by. He testified that he went to bed at his home about 9 o'clock, and was not out of tho house. In this he was cor-. roborated by his wife, who 6aid she shared the same bed, and he could not possibly have left the room without her knowledge. Eli Sowders tho last of the defendants to testify, closed tho case. He was at homo May 1, retired at 9 o'clock, and did not get up till 5 tho next morning. The defense having closed the plaintiff came in with its rebuttal, which was chiefly character evidence, and whatever question might have been raised as to William Norman's good name he was ready to disprove by forty neighbors and friends, all anxious to testify in his behalf. The indge listened to half a dozent and, satisfied that the plaintiff's reputation was evidently settled, ordered that the case be closed, and court adjourned until 8 o'clock. Four arguments will be made to-morrow, when tho judge's charge will follow, eo it is evident that the case will not get to tho jury before evening. THE MINNESOTA PLAX. A BUI Practically AboHshing All Sorts of . Trusts Except the Labor Unions. St.. Paul, Feb. 14. A bill was introduced in the Legislature to-day by Representative D. O. Morgan, which possesses much interest to capitalists as well as workingmen. It is entitled "An net to suppress trust monopolies and to promote free competition in trade,'7 Tho first section makes it unlawful to enter into or maintain any combination or agreement to prevent or restrict the production of any article of commerce or to regulate or control its market price. Tho next section makes it unlawful to make or carry out any agreement not to produce any article of commerce below a common standard orfigure, or to in any way interfere with free and unrestricted competition in tho sale of such article; or to pool or combine in such a way as to affect its price. The third section is like the first two. It seeks to prevent indirect combinations through trusts, trustees or other fiduciary agents. The fourth section makes any contract in violation of the sections void in law and equity. Tho fifth section goes further, and gives the purchaser of any article whose price is affected by trusts the right to plead the act as a defense for not paying for the article. The 6ixth section declares any ofticer or agent violating tho act guilty of a felony, punishable by a ftf,000 fine, or two years imprisonment, or both. Under section 7. a corporation which violates the act forfeits its corporate rights and franchises, and tho Attorney-general, of his own motion,-must institute an action for the dissolution of its corporato existence. Section 8 seeks to prevent corporatio7is which have violated the act from doing business or maintaining suits in this State, and a 113' ofiicer who transacts business knowing his corporation to have violated the law. is to be guilty of felony. Tho last section permits associations of laboring men to take action regulating wages, and none of their rightsorprivileges arc to be forfeited under the act. Ilusine Lmbarraiimeuti. TJostox, Feb. 14. The creditors of Henry Woodson & Co., manufacturers of varnish and color, and of (Jeorgo Wood fc Co., manufacturers of cement and blacking, held meetings to-day. The total indebtedness of Henrv Woodson & Co. is $S1,V4; total assets, fcVs.WO. The total indebtedness of George W. W. Wood & Co. is $22b701. and the total asset, $52,050. Au offer of 20 cents on the dollar was made, 10 per cent, to bo paid in three months and 10 per cent in sir mouths, but no action was taien. Cincinnati, Feb. 14.-At a mcetingof stockholders of the Favorite stove-works, a concern which recently sold out to a company bearing tho same name, which has removed its plant to Pinna, O.. it was shown that there are liabilities amounting to SlOO,000 which must be met by assessment upon the stock. This will amount to 42 percent, Mr. K. A. Jioldeu is the principal creditor. A Clumsy English Lie. New York, Feb. 14.A Montreal special Rays: It appears that thero aro "fakirs" in London journalism, because a special cable dispatch from London to the Montreal Gazette, the Canadian government organ, says: Statements have reached journals here, throuch New York, that a syndicate of leading ltepublloans in the United htates controls $300,000,000, which it intends to use in an effort to secure Canada's annexation to the Ktates by a system of wholesale bribery in Canada, in event of a dissolution of the Dominion Parliament this year, and a consequent general election, A Partisan Judge. Brooklyn Btan&ard-Union. It seems that Judgo Lynch, tho favorite judicial omcer down South, is a rank partisan on tho bench; for he has never yet been known to pass sentence on a Democrat who has assassinated a Kcnublics.