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

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1889.

THE DAILY JOURNAL TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1889. i, WASHINGTON OFFICE 513 Fourteenth St. P. S. HEATH, Correspondent. Z"ETT YORK QFTIC&-204 Temple Court, Comer Beekman and Nassau Street. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. DAILY. Oat year, without Snnday flioo On year. -with Sunday 14.00 7 Fix rnonths, without funday 6.00 Six months, with Sunrtay 7.00 Three months, without Sunday. 8.00 Three mouths, with Sunday ZJto One month, without Snnday 1.00 One month, with Sunday . i.20 WEEKLY Per year. - fi-00 Reduced Rates to Clubs. Snbuerih with any of our numerous agents, or end subscriptions to THE JOURNAL NEWSPAPER COMPANY, IXDIJLXAPOLLS I5D. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can be found at the following places : LONDON American Exchange in Europe, 449 Strand. PARI' -American Exchange in Paris, 35 Boulevard des Oapuciaes. NEW TORE Oilsey House and "Windsor HoteL PHILADELPHIA A. pT Kemble, 3735 Lancaster avenua. CHICAGO Palmer noose. CINCINNATI-J. p. Hawley & Co., 1M Vine street LOUISVILLE C. T. Deering, northwest corner Third and J efferson streets. ST. LOTJIS Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern HoteL WASHINGTON, D. C Riggs riccLSO and Ebbitt House. Telephone Calls. Business Office 238 1 Editorial Rooms 242 Open the books of the Insane Hospital. SiiAsn the Democratic school-book publication ring. The principal aim of the Democrats in the Legislature seems to bo to deprive the people of self-govcrnicnt. Little Bigiiajls truck-and-dicker . bill would be incontinently thrown out of the window by an honest Legislature. The four new States in sight will, if admitted to the Union, add to the congressional list eight Senators and atleast four Representatives. President Cleveland insists that ho is thoroughly satisfied with the results of his administration on the Democratic party. Well, so are we. The idea that this is a government of the people by the people seems to be a mistake. It is government of the people by Democratic caucus. If Secretary Colman distributes any seeds during the brief remnant of his official term, it will probably be for the flowers that bloom in the spring. The Cabinet appointments will be officially announced two weeks from today. Some Cabinet disappointments have already been semi-officially disclosed. . People with rooms and offices in Chicago air-castles are now engaged in hunting industriously for quarters in three-story blocks. They want to move before the fifteenth floor falls through on them. The collapse of the fourteen-story O wings Block Trill probably cause Chicagoans to cease pointing with prido to "our" tall buildings, for as much as two weeks, and visiting strangers will experience a corresponding relief. President Cleveland has talked of the great things ho has done, and now Mr. Bayard has had his say, but the jury of the people has brought in a verdict to the effect that they are guilty of unAmerican conduct, as charged in the indictment made in the last campaign. If, as is stated in a communication Bent to the Journal, the school-teachers of Wildcat township, Tipton county, ;2iave adopted resolutions favoring tho passage of the Pleasants bill, they have simply advertised their deplorable lack of common sense and their eminent unfitness for the positions they occupy. "Yinjs truley, Thomas Markey," who snakes speeches to the "nights of laber" find is otherwise useful to tho Democratic gang, is one of tho men who must ibe provided for. If he can't be president of the State Benevolent Board, as lie desires, they might give him a nice, easy job at writing school books. There are rights and rights. Some of tho men who are most strongly opposed to granting further privileges to women Trill probably hold that the West Viriginian who brained his wife, two daughters and the hired girl with a poker, because supper was not ready when he got iome, was carrying masculine authority o little too far. CosonssiONER of Agriculture Colman and his wife are now objects of interest to Washington society, but their glories will be brief and their honors mpty. No man who holds that office during the two last weeks in February only can ever point to great agricultural achievements accomplished in the time. iJature is "agin" him. It is something new iu political history for the members of an outgoing presidential administration to explain and apologize for the pob'cy that has been pursued. If Mr. Cleveland and Mr. Bayard were fully convinced of the propriety of their course they would probably be willing to leavo it to justify itself. The explanation is a confession of doubt and weakness. Washington is laughing over tho fact, just come to light, that Indian Commissioner Oberly has appointed his daughter matron of the Haskell Indian Institute, at Lawrence, Kan., at a salary of $720 a year "and found." The point of the joke is that Oberly, when a member of the Civil-service Commission, was particularly anxious to be Commissioner of Indian Affairs in order that he might reorganize the bureau on a civil-service basis. Ho seems to have the true Democratic idea of civil-service reform.

Important letters addressed to the Journal, and showing by the stamp that they "were received in tho Indianapolis postofficc at 3 p. m. on Saturday, reached this office yesterday-; morning, forty tours late. Mail arriving by tho different trcics on Saturday night and Sunday

was duly placed in tho Journal's box, or, at least, such of it as tho employes saw fit to distribute; but these letters were held over. Turn tho rascals out, dear Mr. President-elect; turn them out just as soon as you can get down to business after tho inauguration is over, and obligo many thousands of long-suffering citizens. An emergency exists in tho case of tho Indianapolis postoffice, THE COiUNG HEW STATES. The bill for tho admission of North and South Dakota, Washington and Montana as States, makes their final admission dependent on tho proclamation of the President. As tho time is too short for them to complete tho preliminary steps, this provision will postpone their admission until tho next administration. President Cleveland will have the approval of tho bill providing for tho admission, and President Harrison will have tho issuing of tho proclamation. No doubt it will give him peculiar pleasure to proclaim the admission of Dakota, which ho advocated so ably while in tho Senate and chairman of tho committo on Territories. If no unexpected delay occurs in tho proceedings tho Territories will all bo admitted within sixty or ninety days after President Harrison's inauguration, and in ample time to enable them to be represented in the Fiftyfirst Congress. There will be eight United States Senators to elect, and several members of the lower house. At the election last fall Dakota, Montana and Washington all elected Republican delegates to Congress and Territorial legislatures. The Republican plurality in Dakota was 27,056, in Montana 4,078, and in Washington 7,371. North Dakota cast 23,200 Republican votes and 13,801 Democratic. South Dakota cast 30,320 Republican votes and 24,750 Democratic. The present Territorial Legislature in Dakota stands on joint ballot Gl Republicans, 8 Democrats and three Prohibitionists. Montana cast 17,3G0 Democratic votes and 22,480 Republican,' and the Territorial Legislature stands 27 Republicans to 9 Democrats. Washington cast 26,291 Republican votes and 18,020 Democratic, and the Legislature stands 33 Republicans to 4 Democrats. These figures show decided Republican majorities in all the Territories at present, and unless a very remarkable and unexpected change occurs within tho next few months they will elect almost sotid Republican delegations to Congress. Tho recent change of front by the Democrats on tho question of admitting the Territories was made with a view of counteracting the unpopularity of their former course of exclusion. Tho overwhelming Republican victory in the Territories last fall warned them that if they expected to save anything out of the wreck and have even a fighting chance for one or two Congressmen after the Territories became States, they must abandon their policy of opposition to admission. In finally withdrawing their opposition they simply yielded to the inevitable, and it is not likely their eleventh-hour conversion will do them much good.

A3 TO LICENSES AND SALOONS. The political Prohibitionists ask, do not license laws legalize what before had no legal sanction under the common law! In their desperation, not to say in their insane ravings against license, the few Prohibitionists who assume to bo the only protectors of the community against the saloon, aro now harping upon the dogma that license is the solo protector of tho saloonthat but for license the saloon could not exist. Nothing could be moro fallacious. The traffic in liquors has tho same common right to exist that the traffic in corn-meal has. It is only when a commonwealth conceives that its existence is harmful, and either puts it under restraint or prohibits it entirely, that it is under ban. Originally liquor was on a par with other commodities. Little by little society concluded that it was not best to allow it unrestrained liberty, and began to hedge it about by statutory conditions. None but good men were allowed to sell it. At first the fee for a license was merely nominal, the object being only to guarantee the safety of the community by tho known good character of the person licensed. The license did not create tho traffic; it only prescribed the conditions under which a given person might carry it on, and that is all that a license is to-day. If every syllable of the license laws were repealed to-day tho traffic would continue all tho same, except that the conditions and restrictions now environing it would at once disappear. There would bo no inhibited hours or days, but a grocer could sell whisky at midnight or on election days just as ho now may sell potatoes. The matter of revenue has nothing to do with the character of the permit. Whether the cost bo a thousand cents or a thousand dollars would signify nothing. A license is only a permit to do a thing in a given way, or not to do it at all. Every man has a right to sell powder, but unless he has a license and conforms to the conditions of that license he may not sell in tho city. Every man has a right to own a hack and use it for gain, and ordinarily there is no restriction upon this right, but for various reasens it is judged to be bad public policy to allow tho unrestricted use of hacks in a city; henco tho owners of public hacks aro required to take out a license and to conform to stipulated regulations. A license to sell liquors is nothing different. A license law, whether it relates to hacks, or drays) or saloons, is a prohibitory law, except as to those who comply with the conditions imposed. We are not without a practical application of this doctrine in Indiana. From the annulment of the prohibitory law of 1855, by the Supreme Court, until the enactment of tho license law of 1859, a period of about three and a half years, there was no law restricting the sale of intoxicants no license in Indiana yet the saloon went right along. It did not need license to protect it; but, falling back on the common-law right, it opened out everywhere. So it would to-day. Repeal the license law of. to-day, and it would continue in business all the same, except that it would not close at 11 o'clock, nor on election days, nor on holidays. . The experience of those three

years not only refutes tho allegation that, but for the protection of the license laws tho saloons might bo closed under common law, but it refutes another fallacy. Give us free whisky, tho Prohibitionists say, and the case will become so bad that tho peoplo will riso up in their indignation and prohibit it entirely. There was free whisky all those years, yet there was no popular uprising against it, and when, in 1850, the license law was passed, there was no perceptible improvement in tho character of tho saloons, except that they were to close at a certain hour and remain closed on certain days; neither was there any material diminution of their number. The experience of these years refutes still another fallacy. In their ravings against license the Prohibitionists assert that but for tho protection which license affords every saloon 'might bo closed under tho common law, as a nuisance. In tho first place, a saloon is not now and never was a nuisance by common Law. In some cases it has been made such by statute. It was not a want of will, but a want of power that prevented the closing of saloons those three years. A few low dives were closed, but not a half a dozen in tho whole State. Indeed, tradition perpetuates tho memory of but one, and it was a case of singular and very exceptional depravity, located near Wabash College, at Crawfordsville, and the haunt of the vilest men. It was such a plain case of nuisance under the common law that the late Henry S. Lane and tho good citizens of Crawfordsville generally proceeded against it and closed it, ' while permitting a dozen or more saloons in the town to remain unmolested. Why were they not closed! Manifestly, because they were not nuisances under tho common law, and could not bo closed. Hence we answer the question asked by tho special champions of prohibition, that license does not legalize what before had no legal existence under the common law. It is proven by the nature of the business itself, and from moro than three years' experience in Indiana.

THE INDIANAPOLIS BILLS. The citizens and tax-payers of Indianapolis are most deeply interested in at least a half dozen measures that are pending in the Legislature. The Curtis bill, to establish a Board of Public Works and Affairs, is probably the most important. This bill is a practical disfranchisement of the tax-payers of the city, and turns the affairs of the city over to the management of a board elected by the Legislature. Tho bill is a virtual abolition of every principle of selfgovernment and home rule. The board can do as it pleases in every respectj disburse the taxes collected by law and create obligations without the consent or knowledge of the people. Tho board is not the creature of tho people nor responsible to the peoplo for anything it may do. Very certainly tho peoplo do not want that sort of government for the city, and yet unless something is done, and that, too, dono quickly, these bills will jbe' passed, and tho people will then be without remedy. It has been suggested that a public meeting of citizens and taxpayers be held at the Criminal Court room, on Friday evening next, to take whatever action may be deemed best to protect their interests. If these bills are right and tho peoplo want them, let the meeting so resolve; but if the measures are wrong in principle, and if they would be hurtful and destructive of tho rights of tho citizens and tax-payers, then let them at least protest against their passage. TnE sudden collapse of a fourteenstory building, in Chicago, before its completion, should bo a warning to avaricious builders and sensational architects. If the wreck had occurred a few weeks later, after the building had been completed and occupied, the loss of life would have been frightful. ' Tho lesson seems to bo, that there is a limit beyond which building materials will not bear the strain of lofty structures. This one was fourteen stories high and fifty feet square. Such structures may do for look-out towers, but they can hardly be made safe for ordinary business purposes. Tho owner of a block of land fifty feet square ought to be satisfied with the rental from six or seven stories, without piling another structure of equal height on top of that. Meanwhile, it might bo well to have a general inspection of all city structures. There are business buildings in this city liable to collapse at any moment. A few days ago Mr. Cleveland furnished the press, through a favored channel, with a labored defense of his administration, in which he dwelt with his usual unction on the purity of his motives and the magnitude of his services to his party and tho country. Now Secretary Bayard has followed suit. If we are to have a similar statement from each member of the Cabinet, the country will be treated to tho singular spectacle of a retiring administration devoting its closing hours to apologizing for its existence. The President and his Secretary would better have left to other elegiac orators the delicate task of pronouncing the funeral oration over tho remains of his administration. Indianapolis has struggled along under adverse conditions for years, and has only recently begun to emerge from tho slough of despond, but if it is to bo loaded with a debt of unlimited extent, saddled on it at the pleasure of an irresponsible board, whose only purpose is partisan and personal gain, then tho hope of better times may be dismissed at once. Property-holders and all persons interested in the prosperity of the city should use every means in their; power to prevent such disaster. Tho legislative majority, lawless as it is, must respect the wishes of the peoplo when they are unmistakably made known. It is understood that the judiciary committee of the Senate wiU make an adverso report upon the House bill making a new Circuit "Court for Marion county. Undoubtedly there should be some means afforded to clear tho Circuit

Court docket in this county. A bill creating a probato court, with a single judge, giving it the exclusive jurisdiction of probate matters in this county, would afford tho needed relief, and at a much less expense than to make a new circuit. Such court could bo in continuous session, and would enable administrators and guardians to make reports and obtain orders and decrees at all times.

It is not creditable to tho newspaper fraternity that so many resort to disreputable means in order to obtain sensational items. Thcso often work permanent injury to innocent parties without doing good to any. A recent example of this is the case of a correspondent of one of the NewYork papers, who, in tho absence of news caricatured a sermon of Dr. Cleveland in this city, putting in the. mouth of tho Doctor words that he never used and applying them in a sense that was foreign from his thoughts. The Doctor's theme was tho "Fatherhood of God, and His indwelling in tho hearts of men," claiming that what is usually denominated conscience was but tho presence of the All Father, and ho said that this inwardmonitor should bo the rule of life for every one, from tho dweller in tho cottage to the inhabitant of the White House, meaning, as everybody knew, that from one extreme of society to the other every ono should be governed by this voice. That it was a departure from tho manuscript no one acquainted with Dr. Cleveland's stylo ever suspected; but Gen. Harrison and family were present, and this correspondent, who was probably not present himself, but heard of the sermon through others, telegraphed his paper that the preacher had the effrontery to take advantage of this accidental presence and lecture General Harrison as to his personal duty. To add further to the wrong, tho correspondent ventured to travesty the closiDg hymn so as to make it apply to General Harrison. This liberty was justly offensive to Dr. Cleveland, who is not given to such abuse of his sacred calling, and it is not creditable to the correspondent or tho paper ho represents. The president of the Philadelphia Board of Education advocates tho employment of men as teachers of boys over twelve years of age. His associates do not agree with him, but believe that women aro competent to manage Philadelphia boys, bad as they are. Another objection to the proposed innovation is that out of 2,552 teachers in that city but 100 are men, and the board would not know where to look for others competent to fill the requirements. O. B., Salem, Ind.: The Journal cannot undertake to answer long lists of questions which aro evidently sent in by students to save themselves tho trouble of investigation. The answers to your inquiries may bo readily ascertained by reference to histories or encyclopedias every where accessible. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: Who is, or was, the author of the phrase "The pen is mightier than the sword," and under what circumstances was it said! w. n. l. The expression is found in Bulwer's play of "Richelieu" and was uttered by Richelieu when, on being warned of a plot to murder him, he took up a heavy sword to show his power of self-defense, and finding. himself too feeble to wield it, dropped it and sat down to write. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: WW you please give a short biographical sketch of General Lew Wallace in weekly Journal I EOCKPORT, Ind. JNO. WYTTEJfBACH. A brief sketch of General Wallace was .given in the weekly Journal of Jan. 23. ' To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: Please give lion. Albert G. Porter's age. Knigiitsville, Feb. 18. J. P. buttie. He will be sixty-five on the 20th of April. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Statistics show that in New England seven out of ten widows under thirty-five marry within two years. Miss Redmond, tho sculptress, who has i'ustbeen commissioned to make a bust of Jr. Gladstone, is an Irish girl. In Cornell's last batch of graduates, 10 per cent, only were women, yet they won CO per cent, of the fellowships. Iowa has 29,000 school-teachers. A woman, Miss Granger, has just been elected president of the Teachers' Association. Mr. H. H. Johnston, the African explorer, is now about forty-five year old; a small, wiry man, with bright eyes and a bronzed face. The Crown Princess of Austria wore at her husband's funeral a gown with a train made from the mourning (tress worn by Maria Theresa at the funeral of Francis of Lorraine. Mr. L. P. Morton will give tho use of his Washington house to the ladies of the Garfield Memorial Hospital, for a charity art exhibition, before he takes possession of it next month. James Russell Lowell says that he receives scores of letters from the younger sons of wealthy and titled Englishmen asking about the avenues of employment in the United States. Tins late Dr. M. II. Stinson, of Norristown, Pa., took up the study of medicino for the sake of her own health. She was the first woman appointed to the head of a hospital department for her own sex. Louis Sands, who left Sweden thirty-five years ago and worked in the Manistee (Mich.) lumber camps for $16 per month, is now reputed to bo worth $2,000,000, and is still honest, manly, plain and unassuming. The Queen of Madagascar is described as a small, slender, light-brown woman, with a very sad f acer a sweet smile and no end of Paris gowns. She is twenty-three years old, has been four years a queen and is really worshiped by her people. A Boston young man says that he wrote a good story, and it was declined by several periodicals. He then rewrote it, misspelling all tho words, and it was accepted as a first-class dialect 6tory by tho periodical which had first declined it. At the festivities attending tho Emperor of China's marriage next year will be employed 40,000 horn lanterns, 12000 glass lamps and 24,000 pieces of embroidered silks, and skilled artificers are now hard at work manufacturing these articles. In sonio parts of Germany the average salary earned by men working on machinemade shoes is about $3.60 a week. For the same class of work Austrian operatives get $4.30 to 69.60, English operatives get $5.76 to $3.40 and Massachusetts operatives $12 weekly. The women of Denmark, to the number of twenty thousand, have petitioned for the right of suffrage. A "social and political" school for women has recently been opened at Copenhagen, where modern history, constitutional and moral law and psychology are taught. Princess IIouenloiie, who, since her husband has been governor of Alsace-Lorraine has bought her Paris gowns under an alias, has had her disguise penetrated, and has been informed by the patriotic modiste that German money is no longer a fair equivalent for French, art. A Madrid correspondent says that the Queen Regent received the 'news of the death of the sister of Senor Castelar while in the midst of the bustle of the birthday festivities of the little King, as she entered the reception-room where the guests were assembled for the great banquet. She immediately said to the President of tho council, ''Go and tell M. Castelar that I forget that he is the head of the Republican party; that I only see in him a national glory, a great orator, an artist who has no

peer, and that I have tho deepest sympathy with him in his loss, both as Spaniard and

ana as sovereign." Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt is to erect a monument over the grave of Gen. Francis Marion, tho revolutionary hero. She is a descendant of tho Marions, and first learned of tho neglect accorded the patriot s last resting place through a magazino article dealing with Washington's inauguration. It is said at tho White Houso that President and Mrs. Cleveland are prepared to extend every possible courtesy to their successors in relation to all tho domestic arrangements to bo made upon their entry into the executive mansion. Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland have never met General and Mrs. Harrison. The official jeweler of the Kappa Sigma Society is at work on a costly badge that is to be presented to Miss Winnie Davis, tho daughter of Jefferson Davis, in pursuance of resolutions adopted at tho last conclave of the fraternity, held in Atlanta. Tho badge will be in the form of a star and crescent, fully jeweled with diamonds and rubies. An old volume of tho Williamsburg, Va., Gazette, now in possession of Mr. H. D. Cole, of that . city, contains tho following wedding notice: "Fairfield, Aug. 29, 1773 Last evening was married, at the feat of Thaddeus Burr, efq, by the reveriend Mr. Elliot, the hon. John Hancock, efq, president of the Continental Congress, tp mifs Dorothy Quincv, daughter of Edmund Quincy, efq, of Boston." The commercial traveler who goes abroad finds himself sometimes subject to irksome and expensive regulation. In Sweden ho must pay a tax of 100 crowns for tho first three months of his stay, and 40 crowns for each subsequent month, with a fine of 100 to 500 crowns for any evasion of the tax. In the colonies travelers aro subject to a license of 12 to 20, and this tax makes no inconsiderable sum when the traveler, as is customary, visits all the colonies. Frank Hatton, of the Washington Post, comes bravely to tho rescue of Dr. Mary Walker. While denying tho rumor that that lady has become one of tho editors of that paper, he scores tho paragraphers for Eoking fun at her masculine attire, which, o says, was first put on because it was the most convenient for a nurse on the battlefield. He further says that although often in want, the Doctor has consistently refused all otters of pecuniary assistance. Secretary CoLMAN,fhead of tho Agricultural Department, is a mesmerist and ventriloquist of remarkable powers. He entertains himself and his friends with exhibitions of his curious gifts. When he was younger he was in the iiabit of using his ability as a ventriloquist in public for his own amusement, and ho tells many interesting stories of practical jokes he has played. Mr. Colman is a small man with straight gray hair. He wears eye-glasses and dresses quietly. He is a genuine farmer and runs a genuine farm in Missouri. COMMENT AND OPINION. If the Knights of Labor would rid themselves of the not-headed agitators who aro dragging the order down to ruin, their organization might acquire a new lease1 of life and power. Albany Journal. A national homo for tho disabled veterans of the confederate army has been established at Austin, Tex., and an appeal is mado to the people of the North to contribute toward its enlargement and support. When the South has done what it . can tho people of tho North should give as generously as possible Milwaukee Sentinel. The time has gone by when those who would wield an influence in public affairs in the South can with impunity oppose the most liberal line of policy for the improvement of the public schools. They occupy a warm place in the affections of the people, and wo warn those who dare get in their way that they are treading on dangerous ground.Memphis Avalanche. TnE farewell address of Grover. Cleveland is a unique contribution to political literature. Aside from its other notable proofs of egotism and self-sufficiency it is a clear bid for a return to conspicuous place in national politics. All his pretensions to the contrary, it indicates in the most demagogic manner that Mr. Cleveland believes he will bo tho necessity of his party in 1892. Chicago Tribune. Owing to its methods of suppression and crime the South enjojrs a marked advantage over the North in its congressional representation, and has an influence in national legislation to which it is in no way entitled. That Northern Republicans are determined to no longer quietly submit to this state of affairs seems quite apparent, and having ossession of the presidency and both louses of Congress, they are in a position to boldly take tho bull by tho horns. Kansas City Journal. The curse of office-seeking appears intwo ways it prevents a President, Senator or Congressman from exercising any possible statesmanship, and it leads to the election of men to those positions who have no ability for statesmanship even if they should have time for its use. The immutable law is that the supply answers tho demand. If wo ask in a President tho mere power to dispense patronage, that is tho limit of the capacity of the President we will get. Omaha republican. Kansas and Nebraska were for years excluded in order to enable tho Democratic party to retain its waning power in the Senate and iu the Electoral College, and the penalty was tho disruption and crushing defeat of that party through the very power thus secured for tho slaveholding btates. Had Kansas and Nebraska been admitted prior to 1859, as honesty required, it is probable that a conspiracy of rebels would not have ruled the Democratic party to its rnin in I860. New York Tribune. The asinine stubbornness of the Democrats in tho West Virginia Legislature in refusing to perform their constitutional duty in the matter of canvassing tho vote may lead to some very queer legal complications, and possibly the only way to get the State out of the snarl will bo for Congress to assume control of the territory within its boundaries found without a legal government, and "reconstruct" it as they did in a similar emergency when States were found to be without legal rulers after the surrender at Appomattox. A headless commonwealth cannot be allowed to cavort around in the Union like an executed hen. Nebraska State Journal. THE FRAUD OF 1884. Cleveland Was Made President by Stealing Votes from Butler. Washington Special to . Cincinnatt Commercial . Gazette. The evidence exists, and is now attainable, that Mr. Blaine, and not Mr. Cleveland, was elected President in 18Si. "It is a late hour to discover the fact, but it is none the less important or startling. The case is m a nutshell. It has been often vaguely charged that votes for General Butler were counted in large numbers for Mr. Cleveland. General Butler's friends now have the absoluto proof. They know, for instance, that in two districts in New York city from 1,500 to 1,700 Butler votes were counted for Cleveland. These alone, without going further, would have overcome the Democratic majoritv, and have given the electoral vote of New York to Mr. Blaine. It will be remembered that Cleveland's plurality in New York State was only 1,047. Tho friends of General Butler have been looking into this matter for some time. They declare that they now have absolute proof. What method they will take to make this grave matter.known is not determined, but it is not a matter which they aro likely to let sleep for any length .of time. New Hampshire's New Senator. Philadelphia Telepnrapn, . . General Marston represented one of tho districts of his State in the Thirty-ninth Congress when the question of establishing universal suffrage occupied tho attention "of the national legislature and of tho wholo.country. He was for a long time undecided m his own mind as to the wisdom of tho measure, and when discussing it in private often became greatly excited. One. day one of his colleagues from New Hampshire, who was an earnest advocate of the measure, was arguing tho question with him while Marston was walking up and down tho room, Stopping Bhort now and. then to. make a reply. Suddenly he exclaimed: , 'Til be blanked if a man who cannot read his ballot ought to have a right to vote." Then, after a pause, in which:1 he continued his excited walk, he added: VBut my -errand-father wa.v one of the smartest men. I ever knew and he could not read nor write; such a qualiiucatioa would havo prevent

ed him from voting,, whilo it wnni,i

the right of suffrago to 'Jim p:;,"' and Pll be - blanked if that woJiS?right." Tho: Patterson referred I d James W. Patterson, United States Rrai tor from New Hampshire, between and General Marston no lovo was In? i at that time, mi m. INAUGURAL ADDRESSES. Characteristics and Length of the First Or llclal Utterances of American Pretldenta. Washington Letter in Albany Journal idents who have taken up the severed 1 in v i of authority. Tho longest inaugural dress and tho shortest administration xcTil those of the grandfather of the incoming! President. The most sparing m the exhibi? tion of pronominal importance were Abriham Lincoln, while standing on the thnh ' old of his second term, and Chester AAr ! thur when he took up tho wreck of the Gir : held government. The most effusive in till presentation of his official dignity in tb first person, singular number, pronoun j was Abraham Lincoln when he entered th ' place of supreme authority. i When George Washington took the oath of office at NewYork as first President of i tho United States of America under their ! new model of constitutional government br ! the divine right of the people, one hundred years ago, he mapped out his purposes of j administration during that formative period of national existence in an inaugural! address of 1,300 words in which he appeared as I twenty times. After four years of sa-' gacious master-workmanship in laying the foundations of tho superstructure of the government, pointing out the wisdom in j fostering home industries and giving utter-! ance to that aphorism of administrative 1 foresight, in time of peace prepare for j wart" he entered upon his second term in I tho inaugural brevity of 154 words and sir 1 Ps. i Tho second President, John Adams, for- i mulated the incipient issues of liberal and strict construction of tho Constitution and I antagonisms of political parties in an open- i ing address of 2,311 words, in which he pre- i sented himself 13 times in the use of I. Thomas Jefferson, tho father of American ' partisan Democratic system of government j upon the loose system of State rights, gave ! his admiring followers a view of his plans 1 in advance in 1,526 words and 19 1's. The ' growth of anti-federalism and federalism i as tho divergent doctrines of political faith . was emanated after his second election ia j 2t123 words, in which he appeared as 1 15 S times., James Madison told his countrymen ! all about his plans of meeting French in- i trigie and British maritime arrogance in, an inaugural of 1,170 words, sustained by li ' 1's, and four years later discussed the events ' of tho war of 1812 and its successful results ! in an address of 1,142 words and 11 Ps. ' James Monroe, on March 4. 1817, discussed I the Indian question and Spanish boundary s troubles as issues of politics and administration in an inaugural of 3,322 words, with 19 1's, and made his second appearance with a grand flourish of pardonable prose in ' 4,406 words and 26 1's, over the "era of good 1 feeling" and the cession of Florida to the United States, by Spain. John Quincy 1 Adams ventilated his inaugural partisan notions of public questions in 2,944 words, i parading himself in the form of 14 pro-' nouns, hrst, singular. The hero of New Orleans, after the bitterest of political campaigns, founded. hig vigorous campaign on 1,116 words and Ill's, ' and renewed it on the basis of the most effective political methods ever known, ia i 1,167 words and 6 Ps. Martin Van Buren, tho "Magician of Kinderhook," the presidential protege of Jackson, gave his preliminary views of j pertinent public questions in 3,8S1 words and381's. 1 William Henry Harrison, the hero of Tippecanoe and the Indian border struggles of ; the third decade of the century, mapped out I an administration of efficient service the , peace and prosperity of the much-disturbed ; Union in 8,578 words and 38 Ps. John Ty- j ler used 1,643 words and 15 Ps in his inaugural. Polk used 4,964 words, intcspersed 3 with 18 Ps. Taylor used 1,096 words and IS j Kough and Heady" Ps. Fillmore's in- j au gural was of tho simplest kind. James Buchanan, the sage of Wheatland, discussed slavery conflicts, border trouble?, 1 Kansas agitations and sectional antac- ! onisms in an inaugural address of -2,772 words, in which the last of the Democratic Presidents for a quarter of a century marked his pronominal individuality by j 131'8. 1 Abraham Lincoln, the first of the Republican Presidents, outlined the administrative policy of the new regime in political control, and discussed the movements of secession, the authority and perpetuation ; of the Union, tho possibility of war, the ; raising of revenues, and strengthening of the government, in 3,688 words. The martyr ; President stood forth in the heroic attitude of 1, 43 times, which overtopped the niurter- j ically pronominal prominence of all his predecessors, and yet. ho was always known as the least obtrusive of public men. When encored by tho applauding voice of his grateful countrymen, after the noble works of an administration of means and methods I successfully turned to tho preservation of ; the Union, ho mado his second inaugural ? salutation in the brevity of 583 works, and J a single I, as applied to one of ib foremost . j statesmen and most generous, humane and j forgiving natures in the distinguished lins of American statesmen. Andrew Johnson, j self-styled Moses, but not of Decalogue ; fame, over tho slain body of Abraham Lin-; coin, told tho country of his plans of suecession in 362 words and 15 1's. Ulysses S. Grant, the great captain of tho ; war for tho preservation of tho Union, gave his soldier.notions of civic duty and administration in 1,139 words and for freedom in the use of I, ranked next to Lincoln's1 43 by . scoring S9 uses of the individualizing integer of the pronoun family. Upon his second appearance under similar circumstances, in disposing of questions of reconstruction ana international differences growing out of the war, he gave expression to his views in an address of 1.332 words, supported by 24 Ps. Rutherford B. Haves used 2,472 words andl6I's. James A. fcarficld 2,&9 words and 10 Ps, and Chester A. Arthur took up the blood-stained mantle of Garfield and formulated a non-aggressive policy man inaugural containing but 431 words ana .one I. The Democratic Presidents again came to the front in executive control in Grover Cleveland, who told about Jenersonian simplicity, civil service, one term, financial whirlpools, silver breakers and economic reform, in l.GSS words, in which ho modestly stood himself up in tho form of the pronoun I but live times. A Sensible Temperance rlatform. Boston Traveller. Two persons had been discussing the question as to whether the Rev. Dr. toward Everett Hale was a prohibitionist, and one of them made bold to write totne distinguished divine to inquire. Dr. Haw replied that when ho was hrst married co had not a wine-glass in bis house, and.dia not know that he had at tho present time; that he believed wine was sometimes neces6arv, but it never occurred to him to oner hisVisitors wino anymore than he would paregoric or opium; but if his guest felt that he needed wine he shonld hope na would tell him so, and he would endeavor to get it for him. This is the, condensed gospel of common senso regarding temperance. 4 The Annexation Boom. Boston Journal. t . . The proposed junketing trip of the Dominion Parliament through Jhe Lmtea States, next summer, is by all odds theinosi ambitious undertaking hich the annexation boomers have? vet planned. It wo i n interesting to see Vhether SirJonnMacdonald and the other Tory leaders, whos political stock in tjado appears to bo reckless abuse of the Yankee people, will weep or refuse such a layish oiler of Yankee hos pitality. . Thelrc Boston Journal. Bldent'ft Humor. 'attributed to President Sn of abumorou We have never Cleveland tne r vein, but when h the Democratic n me uemocraiic nomiuauuu -.;-, f,,r cenuine reluctande" it is just too funny xor anything. Shaky on the Doctrine of Election. xsoBura xieraia. . Y 1 1 I a .Long island latelvreiectod Pi ed President Clcfiwtt.8" h,pJ lidatk for its pulPit , I c .7. f. t i a Till I Pit. i r i . 7 i;Ta fthflKV on uiey leurcu ne was a - - i -1 . . i of Failures and roillefc A Reco; Xetrolt Tribute. i-nrine Tho Fiftieth Congress will, p out imtv a record Jot failures and. ioui rrtY.l Tt f ailVr?raud oUle for rft up with for a uult . of unfulfilled promises Li racy to A recoi lux performances.

There have been nineteen Presidents w havo favored their countrymen with verbal chart- of their administration in