Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 February 1889 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1889.

THE DAI LY JOURNAL WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 18S0.

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LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern HoteL j WASHINGTON. D. C Rigrs nouse and Ebbitt House. ' Telephone Calls. Business Office 233 1 Editorial 'Rooms 242 From and after next Monday, Postmaster Jones will please forward all mail-matter addressed to Benjamin Harrison to Washington, D. C. , TnE people have a right to know, and should be permitted to know, whether Snllivan, the fugitive Democratic boss, got away with any of the Insane Hospital funds. , The President and Secretary of State have laid their defense before the country, but we do not think anybody will attempt the defense of the Postofiice Department. The direct-tax bill is dead, so far as the Fiftieth Congress is concerned, and Indiana's empty treasury will not be replenished by the refunding of the amount due from the national government. . Attorney-general Garland should follow the example set by the President and Secretary Bayard, and iavor tho - public with a review and defense of his administration of the Department of Justice, including the Pan-Electric teleTihnne ise. , This Democratic Legislature is likely ' to make all previous ones respectable by comparison, but what future Legislature can ever perform that service for this one! . vThe river Rhine, it is well known. Doth wash the city of Cologne; But tell me, nymphs! what power divine - - - Shall henceforth wash the river Rhine!" Tnx member from Marion county who yesterday spoke in opposition to a fee-and-salary bill was for many years traveling representative of a job printing and stationery office which has' large dealings with county officers. His relations with county officers are of a "truck-and-dicker" nature. The sympathy of tho people of New Zealand and Australia with the United States in tho dispute over the Samoan islands dees not prove that they are unmindful of their obligations to the mother country. Those colonies are enterprising and progressive, and their sympathy is naturally bestowed upon a people whose liberal institutions and rapid advancement closely resemble their own, and whoso language is the same. Mr. Pleasants's bill embodies the idea of compiling and publishing schoolbooks by the State. As has been stated over and over again, this plan is not in successful operation anywhere. . It is inherently vicious, and smacks of jobbery from the start. If adopted, it will lead through a long series of scandals and abuses to ultimate failure, and will result in serious injury to the school sjrstera. If we are to have free schoolbooks, the Pleasants bill is the way not to do it. 1 . Mr. Cleveland has written another letter on "Tariff Reform." He seems determined, like a dying swan, to have a last song: . ' . "Swans sinx before they die; 'twere no bad thing Did some aspiring mortals die before they ping." Mr. Cleveland's dying song , is to the same old tune. He tells the national committee of tariff reformers that their high and solemn duty is to "guard the people against deception," and to "guard against the misleading of our countrymen by specious theories." This is tho favorite Cleveland idea that the people are to bo saved from themselves, and rescued from self-destruction by those superior beings, tho free-traders. The letter is very stupid. Congressman Butterworth has introduced a joint resolution authorizing the President to invite the several members of the Parliament of Canada, tho Premiers and Cabinets of the several provinces, to visit the United States on 3Iay 1, 1880, and be guests and partakers of the hospitality of the people of the United States, and appropriating $150,000 for expenses. Probably Mr. Butterworth's idea is to promote commercial union, but the proposition savors very much of junketing. It is all very well to be on pleasant visiting terms with your neighbors, but $150,000 is a good deal to pay for the honor of a visit from tho Canadian Parliament. Perhaps they might reciprocate by inviting Congress to visit Canada. That would be very nice for Congress, but where would tho benefit to tho people come in! Office-seekers who have been burdening the mails with their letters and petitions for weeks past will, perhaps, be interested in knowing that their documents, though unread by tho President-elect, havo been indorsed and filed by his private secretary. Mr. Halford . is an untiring worker, and has a natural talent, cultivated by long newspaper experience, for getting at the gist of manuscript. He goes through Genc-al Harrison's official correspondence with great celerity, and sorts, sizes

and classifies tho office-seeking letters and petitions with beautiful and unerring accuracy. The result is several largo wooden boxes full of this kind of matter appropriately classified and ready for reference to tho proper department as soon as the new administration takes hold. Tho fact that these letters have been unread by any human being, and that only the eagle eye of tho President's privato secretary has hastily skimmed their contents, will probably make them all. the more interesting to the department clerk who will next have tho handling of them.

EDGERT0H AND CLEVSLAHD. 3Ir. Edgerton's Jetter is that of an angry and disappointed partisan. So far as civil-service reform is concerned, it is the pot calling the kettle black. Mr. Edgerton claims to be a better Democrat than tho President because he is a better spoilsman, and in that he is probably correct. He also claims to be a bettcs civil-service reformer because he would havo turned all tho Republicans out to make places for Democrats. His charges against Cleveland, and his assumptions for himself do not consist, but then consistency is not a Democratic virtue. Edgerton thinks he is a better Democrat than Cleveland because he is an older one. This makes him worse instead of better. Young convicts work up to old ones, but prison reformers do not. Among the inmates of penitentiaries life convicts constitute the aristocracy, but outsiders do not ac; cord them that distinction. Edgerton's boast that ho is a better Democrat than Cleveland, because he is an older and more hardened one, only shows that ho is irreclaimable. His letter is pungent and personal, and he touches the President on tho raw as only one Democrat could another; but while there is much in it that is discreditable to Cleveland, there is nothing crcditablo to Edgerton. It begins and ends in tho spoils idea. It , is plain that Edgerton himself is very sore over his removal, and his hardest hits at the President relate to the tatter's removal. With tho true instinct of a Democrat, the old man evidently thinks that the tenderest spot in tho President's record is his removal by the people, and so he comes back to this point again and again. It is one Democrat smarting under removal from office trying to get even with his superior by reminding him that he is in the same plight. Finally, says Edgerton, rising to the great height of his argument, "if you can find as many reasons for removing me as the Democratic party, through an indifference which was simply retaliatory, had for removing you, I shall bo quite-willing to remain with you in tho gloom of defeat." Now if Mr. Cleveland can solace himself with the rellection that Edgerton deserved removal more than he did, they may both be happy together. In fact, we are unselfish enough not to begrudge any and all Democrats tho comfort they can derive from reflecting that they aro all in the same boat, and that the entire party deserved removal. Since the mugwump in politics has come to stay, or, rather, since, like tho poor, we always have had him with us, and always will, the world owes Judge Edgerton, late of the Civjl-servicc Commission, a debt of gratitude for his lifelike photograph of him. "Tho mugwump is," says Judge Edgerton, "a political reformer who has the spirit of reformation without the common sense and good judgment to reform." That's it exactly, and it fits t the whole mugwump family; whether it be a Beecher or a Cuyler, too good to vote for Blaine, and one voting for St. John and the other for Cleveland, or whether it be a Fisk, voting for himself, while the saloons vote to repeal the local-option law of New Jersey; it is all the same. A mugwump in politics always lias the spirit of'reformation so bad that he can't sleep o- nights, but can't do anything by day for want of common sense and good judgment. Thank you, Judge Edgerton, for this photograph of him. It shall go into history. J It goads Judge Edgerton that tho records of the Senate say: "I nominate Hugh S. Thompson, of South Carolina, to be United States Civil-service Commissioner, in tho place of Alfred P. Edgerton, removed. Grover Cleveland." Smarting under the implied stigma, he writes an open letter to this same Grover Cleveland, reminding him that tho record of tho House of Representatives is not complete. It simply says, "and Benjamin Harrison is hereby declared duly elected President," etc. It should add, says Judge Edgerton, "in tho place of Grover Cleveland, removed," and then adds that everybody knows, without the saying of it, that he was removed by the people for incompetency. Grover Cleveland removed, is good. Mr. Edgerton tells the truth about tho President's character, but he was a long time doing it. Can it be possible that he held office under Mr. Cleveland nearly four years beforo discovering that the President was positive, arrogant, opinionated, inaccessible to advice and shut in by an impenetrable atmosphere of personal assumption and self-conceit? We cannot believe it took Mr. Edgerton four years to discover that which Republicans havo been asserting about as long. He must have known it all along and kept it to himself, or only whispered it in tho bosom of the Democratic family. Tho question occurs, then, how many more Democrats havo made the same discovery, and how many will declare it after they have been removed from office. If they all follow Edgerton's example of expressing their honest convictions in regard to Mr. Cleveland, it will bo a magnificent vindication of the Republican party. As many of them will soon retire from office, wo feel like advising them, in tho language of Mr. Cleveland, to "tell tho truth." Following up his charge that the President is a positive and egotistical man, Edgerton says: "Being ono of that kind of men yourself, you have kept 6pmcmen of like character around you who are positive only in their malice and conceit. They flatter you, and have tho conceit that would magnify themselves, and tho malignity that would detract from ' others." To whom docs this refer? Mr.

Edgerton is evidently possessed of more information than he has given out. The country ought to know who theso courtiers are, "positive only in their mab'ce and conceit," who have made it their business to flatter, the President's vanity and magnify his greatness. Are they some of his Cabinet, or has he a kitchen Cabinet? Perhaps when Mr. Edgerton writes another letter, ho will let us know. Wo are in search of the real truth concerning this administration.

THE HJST0BY OF A FAMOUS 0EDEB, A Washington dispatch says the Senate committee on public buildings has been presented with the letter of John A. Dix, Secretary of tho Treasury in 18G1, to Speaker Pennington, one of tho inclosures of which was his famous order containing the words: "If any one attempts to haul down tho American flag, shoot him on the spot." The sentence is historic in itself, and had great influence in molding sentiment and shaping history. It was like an inspiration, or a carefully worded order, intended for ef fect, but it was really unpremeditated, as most famous orders and expressions are. Grant's "unconditional surrender," and'his "I propose to fight it out on this lino if it takes all summer," were equally unpremeditated and inspired. No expression ever had a more remarkable and unexpected efl'ect upon a whole people than the one above quoted. John A. Dix, a prominent Democrat of New York, became Buchanan's Secretary of tho Treasury just before the close of that disgraceful administration. Dix was thoroughly loyal, and therefore conspicuous in Buchanan's Cabinet and among the Democratic conspirators and trators who were then plotting in Wash ington the dissolution of tho Union. Tho Treasury Department was in a wretched condition, and all the departments were honeycombed with treason. Becoming apprised of a movement in some of the Southern States to seize United States property, Secretary Dix sent a special and trusty agent of his department to secure somo United States revenue cutters at Mobilo and New Orleans. . This agent was Mr. Hemphill Jones, chief clerk of tho First Comptroller's office in the Treasury Department. At Mobile ho found the secessionists had already seized the revenue cutter stationed there. At New Orleans he found the cutter in command of ono Captain Breshwood. Jones, by virtue of his authority from the Secretary of tho Treasury, gave the captain an order to sail North. Breshwood absolutely refused to obey the order. Jones telegraphed this fact and tho situation to Secretary Dix, adding that the collector at New Orleans sustained Breshwood, and asked for instructions. Dix immediately telegraphed Jones as follows: Treasury Department, Jan. 29, 1661. Tell Lieutenant Caldwell to arrest Captain Breshwood, assume command of the cutter, and obey tho order I gave through you. If Captain Breshwood. after arrest, undertakes to interfere with the command of the cutter, tell Lieutenant Caldwell to consider him as a mutineer and treat him accordingly. If any one attempts to haul down the American nag, shoot him nn f Iia itnnt .Tnnv A Htv. Secretary of the Treasury. Tho order never reached Mr. Jones. Tfye secessionists in New Orleans had possession of the telegraph and did not allow it to pass. The revenue cutter was seized and turned over to the authorities of Louisiana. But Dix's order was flashed over the land and thrilled every loyal heart with a hope that the disgraceful temporizing policy of Buchanan's administration was to ba ended. Tho hope was not realized, but Dix's order became one of the watchword of the times. It was worth a thousand revenue cutters in its efl'ect on tho patriotic impulses of the North. A year or two later a medal was struck by private hands commemorative of tho event, one side of which boro tho Union flag and the other tho last sentence of the famous order. Many years later the authorship' of tho order was claimed for different persons, and in September, 1873, General Dix wrote a letter stating that the order was written by himself without any suggestion from any one and sent without consulting the President. Probably if he had consulted Buchanan tho order would not have been sent and the ringing sentence would never have been heard of. Before being sent to the telegraph office it was copied by a jerr'and the original was kept on file. Subsequently it passed into the possession bf General Dix's son, Rev. Dr. Dix, of Now York. "TnE New South," at least as it is exemplified in Arkansas, is not so very different from tho ,pld South, with which we have been a Jong - time too well acquainted. The Vrjbeit- assassination of John M. Clayton might have served to modify and mollify almost any community, but it has not had an appreciable effect upon the editor of tho Hot Springs Journal, from whoso paper of the ICth instant we clip a few choice paragraphs. Tho reference is to the unseating of tho four members of the lower house of the State Legislature who were so well convinced of the fraudulent tenure by which they held their places that they voluntarily resigned, as the telegraph yesterday announced. But the Hot Springs paragraphs are of interest as indicating sentiment in tho "New South:" To Walter, Nickell, Granberry and Coffman hold your base. Scuttle the Democratic life-boat in Pulaski county, and by St. Aloysius, in tho soup you go! A vote to oust the Pulaski county delegation from the House is a vote for the restoration to power of the Clayton regime. Give our Pulaski county delegation their walking papers, and by the shades of Old Hickory, freedom will shriek louder than she did when Kosciusko fell. Eject from tho House Pulaski county's Democrats, and by St. Vincent dePaui. the hand of charity snail be forever closed to the member who aids in throwing them out. Expel Pulaski county's Democrats from tho House, and by St. George and the dragon, every grave-yard in Arkansas shall yawn and hell breathe contagion to tho world! Adopt tho majority report of the House committee on the Pulaski county contested election case, and by St. Joseph, long will ye eons of rustic toil receive the plaudits of your countrymen! Drive from the House Pulaski's four representatives, and by St. Sebastian, you mock the bones of tho victims of Clayton's

murderous militia that lay bleaching in every Democratic county in the State! Unseat tho fonr members that represent Pulaski county in the House, and by St. Thomas a-Becket. every Democrat who votes for their expulsion shall each seek the fabled potion of the gods and drink and be a dog! Banish Nickell, Walter, Granbcrry and Coffmanfrom the House, and by St. Thomas Aquinas thou vassal wretches ye again stretch forth your limbs to receive tho chains of tyranny forged by Clayton and his gang of plunderers!

TnE gifted actress, Miss Mary Anderson, has traveled a great deal, seen many countries, and has spent her summers in various climates, hut when it came to selecting a permanent home she chose Indiana. She has bought a valuable farm of 320 acres among the "knobs" about New Albany, where it is said she will erect a niagniticent castle, similar to one that caught her fancy during her stay in Europe. It will be built on the summit of a hill overlooking the Falls cities and the Ohio river. In making her selection Miss Anderson has paid a just tribute to Indiana's winter and summer climate. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Senator Vance is now able to walk out, with his face much bandaged. In a couple - of weeks a glass eye will be fitted in tlie vacant socket, and then he will resume his place in Congress. Mi:. George B. Cowlam, a well-known magazine statistician, says that America has a population of over 00,000,(00, and a working power of ono hundred and eighty thousand billions of foot pounds per day. It is officially announced that at tho inaugural ball introductions will not be considered indispensable, and a waltzer of tho sterner sex will have the privilege of asking any lady in the room to dance with him. Mrs. Booth, wife of tho commander-in-chief of tho Salvation Army, has been quite successful, it is reported, in securing the interest of a number of women of wealth and social position in tho work of the army. . , Concerning the report that he had given a big slice of his fortune to the Baptist university project John D. Rockefeller says: "The story is false. I have not given 20,000, or 1,000,000, or $100,000, or any sum for that purpose." During the presidential campaign a Harrison and Morton flag was hoisted over tho office of the Imprenta Americana, at Baranquilla. It has been forwarded to Presidentelect Harrison as a "souvenir of the campaign in tho tropics.77 Le Caron, the Irish informer, is guarded by five detectives. A bystander said to him the other day: "You will take a good deal of guarding." "I have carried my life in my hands for twenty-five years," was the reply. "Do you suppose I am afraid of these fellows nowf ' An efibrt is making in Tennessee to place the Hermitage General Jackson's old estateunder tho charge of an association of ladies organized upon the plan of the Mount Vernon Association, with regents in all tho States. It is thus expected to raiso the purchase money and nationalize the property. The other Sunday the German Empress appeared in a gown of whito silk, with a train several j'ards long, embroidered with cold and silver. The material cost $1,500. The embroidery required the work of twelve girls for two months. William II .prides himself on having established a regime of Spartan simplicity. Sexton WiLLiAMS,of StThomas's Church, New ."York, who has suddenly become notorious, bears a decided resemblance to .Henry. Ward . Beecher, is a great reader of jrewpapers, uoin secular, ana roiigious. tie is also Known as tno jew lorK correspondent for several out-of-town publication, and poses as something of a literary man. Dr. Barnard, president of Columbia College, says he is heartily "in favor of a law prohibiting the sale of tobacco to minors." The free use ot tobacco in all its forms, but especially in tho. form of cigarettes, is doing much to undermine th health of the rising generation, and is nearly as noxious as the giant evil of drunkenness." Meissonier's picture, "The Game Lost," was sold to C. P. Huntington at the Stebbins salo for $26,300. The next highestpriced pictnre 6old was "L'Eniinence Griae," by Gerome. It was purchased by M. B. Mason, of Boston, for 13,700. M. II. Arnot, of Elmira, paid $7,100 for Meissonier's "The Stirrup Cup," and W. A. Keeler,jr., $0,500 for Fortuny's "A Spanish Lady." Here is a new word. The New York Sun notes it as follows: "In the Asbury Park Directory occurs this name: J. R. Borden, lnotorneer.' Thus a new word has been coined for the language. A motorneer is the man who rides on tho- front of an elec tric car and handles the troilv. which runs on the wire overhead and conveys the electricity from tho wires to the motor under the car." Gladstone was invited by a Western editor to contribute an article on "Wash ington." The English statesman declined in the following words written on a post card: "I am much honored bv vour letter. But I cannot act upon it. Washington is a nooie sn meet, l studied mm iorty years ago with love and admiration. But it is not in my power now to renew the study, and I should not like to profane the themo by thin and slovenly work." Bisuop Temple, of London, relates that when he was once worshiping in an Eastend church where a hearty musical service is a distinguishing feature, he joined in tho singing to the best of his ability. He has a stentorian voice, and the effect of his ef forts on those sitting near him mav be imagined. At tho conclusion of the second verse of the hymn the patience of a workingman on his immediate left seemed fairly exhausted. Not recognizing the dignitary beside him. the noor man. m sheer desnern.tion, gave the Bishop a sharp dig in the ribs, and the latter, on turning round for an explanation was thus addressed in sub dued but distinct tones: 'T say, gub'ner. you dry up; you're spoiling tho whole show." COMMENT AND OPINION. Wiiat, hang a good Arkansas Democrat for merely shooting down a KepublicanT Whv that would be contrary to all the tra ditions of the State. No, never fear, the murderer of John M. Clayton will never be punished il pubuc- sentiment and the authorities can prevent it. Kansas City Journal. TnE Nation cannot nav a debt where no debt exists, and it would be just as reasonable to ask tho United States to redeem tho conferate money issued by the South during the war. and taken and held by Amer ican citizens, as to expect us to provide for ziAti f nlnrn . o ratArona in ITntAn cnlr. .Arc' LU.uv.U-iaiu , .i.iuu. An iiiuu ovivuvig homes. San Francisco Chronicle. It is ouite possible in fact, extremely probable, from the very nature of things that in the final make-up of the Cabinet will be found some elements that in the outside politics of the party have hitherto been more or less antagonistic to one another, but such an incongruity as this is by no means a presage of discord. -Washing ton rost. Even with the greatest desire in tho world to do it, the President of these United States cannot give an office to every deserving citizen who wants one. About nine men in every ten of those applying must, in the nature of things, be disappointed. Tho disappointed ought not to be too hard on the office distributor. Louisville Commercial. Would it not bo well for the Democrats in the House to abandon tho farce of reve nue reform and use the few remaining hours of tho present Congress for the necessary business of the countrvT They cer tainly cannot seriously believe that this ostrich business of thrusting their heads in the sand and leaving the rest-of tluir hodies exposed can deceive the country. They played the same game sir months ago with the result that Harrison and Morton were elected, and this Democratic sham

condemned. Persistence in hnmbnir

ffArr nfier it han "been once emriRer. i tli most wretched policy on earth. Baltimore American. It is nnouestionablv true that tho suc cessive reductions in the length of the working day have been won after long periods of agitation, and that in time the balance of wages and w;ork has seemed to reassert itself, nut this anorus no goon ground lor demands that are in their nature extrava gant, or which a calm consideration of the situation shows to be ill-timed. New York Tribune. In making un vour list of presidential candidates for 1803 don't omit Mr. Grover Cleveland, of New York! The difficulty has been that Mr. Cleveland was bicreer than his party. This was dangerous to him and IO Ilie party. v iuo pany iu tiuw some in the next four years, and Mr. Cleveland mav find it wise to come down the hill a bit and meet it on the leveL Atlanta Constitution. The Republican postmasters who were deemed good enough to hold-office or re ceive reappointment under Mr. Cleveland do not feel in the least comfortable now. If mucwumpery were preached on to tho massess until doomsday it would only con firm them in their convictions that a man who will suit ono party cannot suit tho other. In politics tverv bodv has to ride a side-saddle. Philadelphia Inquirer. TO have "nothincr to sav" about an elec tion with a red-handed murder at tho end of it, places Mr. Breckinridge in an extremely unfortunate position, and it would 6eem imperative for him to have a good deal to sa3 A victory that costs the good name of thousands is hardly worth having, and the victor might well declare that he could accept noplace of honor until this crime had been legally avenged. New York Herald. Let the Canadians join in the Washing ton conference if they will. Let them trav el about among the cities of the United btatcs; and let Americans travel more in Canada. rone of these things may material! v affect the destinv of Cannula, bnt tbev will all tend to spread correcu ideas, and can but put the United States and its northern neighbor on a more business-like, coruiai auu neignuoriy looting. liuuaio Express. CLAYTON'S ASSASSINS. Rumor that the Men Are Known and Will Very Shortly e Tlaced Under Arrest. MEMrnis, Tenn., Feb. 19. It is rumored here that tho arrest of the persons who planned and aided in the assassination of Hon. John M. Clayton, at Plummerville, Ark., will soon bo accomplished. One of the suspected parties belongs to a family whose reputation extends beyond thelimits of Arkansas, being well known throughout the country, and it is due to. his prominence mat me omciais, oeiore mating an arrest,, are endeavoring to establish to a certainty what, up to tho present, is only a wellgrounded suspicion of guilt. St. Louis. Feb. 19. Powell Clavtomof Arkansas, is in St. Louis, and was seen by an Associated Press reporter to-night with reference to the alleged clew to the identity of the assassins of his brother. John M. Clayton. He scouts tho reports sent ont from Little Rock and Memphis, and says there is nothing in them. Mr. Clayton is very bitter in his denunciation of the murder of his brother, and savs it was purelv a political assassination. WEST VIRGINIA. . The Democrats Hold Another Caucus, but Fall to Reach an Agreement. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Charleston, W. Va., Feb. 19. For three hours the Democrats wrestled with each other in caucus to-night upon tho sen atorial situation, arriving at no conclusion. The Kennaites still shout Kenna, while those who conscientiously believe an elec tion should be secured before the session adjourns are becoming more determined in their efforts. They argue that Goff will take the oath of office on March 4 and appoint a Senator if ono is not elected in the next two days; that Senator will bo recognized at Washington, and thus tho Democrats .will lose everything by their inability to agree. Tho caucus finally broke up in a row, many leaving in disgust and declaring they did not care a continental how the matter turned out. The Kenna . men say that if their man cannot have the plum, a Republican shall have it: but they may reconsider this in their sobermoments. 1 hero were two ballots taken to-dav for Senator. The last ballot stood: Golf, 42; Kenna, 33; Governor Wilson, 6; E. I). . Robertson, Union Laborite, 4;G. E. Price,K; H. S. Walker, Frank Ilerford 1 each. Several delegates who deserted Kenna jTesterday returned to-day and will now cast their votes for him. There remain butthree days of the session. National Republican League. Baltimore, Feb. 19. Andrew B. Hum phrey, secretary of the Republican League of the United States, arrived in Baltimore yesterday, and found tho arrangements made by tho local clubs for tho national convention, which will convene hero on the 28th of this month, quite satisfactory. Mr.' Humphrey said: "At the national convention held Dec. 15. 1887. in Chickering Hall. New York, only 300 clubs were represented, but at the convention which will assemble here; thirty States and Territories will send 300 delegates and alternates, representing l.KAKf active ciuds anu over a million voters. Each State league will send its president and four delegates, also, four alternates, making nine official members, with a voting power of five. A number of active Republicans -will be here, making in all, probably, 1,000 persons in attendance. Tho convention will be organized by President Foster and myself, and will then take matters in its own hands. Its work will bo de voted to reviewing the work of the past year, hearing the reports of Stato leagues " !. 11 -A? - 1 ana outlining a general pi an oi action to ue followed by the different leagues in harmony. It is intended to make the club feature a permanent and prominent feature in Republican politics, and to promote the social feature in order to hold the clubs together in off years. I believe the Republican majority in the next Congress is due almost entirely to the work of these clubs." , Pennsylvania Prohibitionists. Harrtsburg, Pa., Feb. 19. The State Prohibition convention was called to order at the opera-house, at 11 o'clock. Gen. Harry "White, of Indiana connty. was chosen temporary chairman. Judge White's speech ivas brief and to the point. He said that this convention was assembled to advance no individual interest nor promote the success of a mere selfish cause. Tho usual committees were appointed. Tho convention adopted a resolution indorsing Master Workman Powderly' stand on the prohibition question, and resolutions of regret were adopted onfcthe death of Samuel P. Godwin, of Philadelphia. It was moved that the temporary chairman appoint a committee of fifteen to prepare a plan of campaign, bnt tho opponents of tho third party people defeated the motion by tho close voto of 170 nays to 1C2 yeas. The committee on permanent organization reported as follows: President, Judee Harry White; first vice-president. Hon. D. L. Rhone; second vice-president, Mrs. E. L. Swift; third vice-president, Joshua L. Bailey. Tho temporary secretaries wero mado permanent. There was no opposition to the report, which was unanimously adopted. A report from Rev. Osborne Congleton, chairman of the committee on enrollment, showed that there were 774 accredited delegates present, who represented various organizations and every county in the State. Resolutions pledging the organization to support of the proposed constitutional amendment were adopted. Democrats Win in the Fourth Missouri. St. JosEril, Mo., Feb. 19. Unofficial returns from the six counties composing tho Fourth congressional district assure tho election of li. H. C. Wilson of Platte county, and Charles F. Booker, of Andrew, Democratic candidates for the long and short terms of Congress. A Gentle WaiL Auftnnta (G a.) Chronicle. ' Cotton is yet king, but his subjects still continue to bo borrowers and beggars, when they ought to be the most self-reliant, the most independent and the richest people in tho world. .

OIUOANS IN NEW YOIX

Annual Banquet of the Society Gen. Grosvenor Eulogizes the Jlodest Buckeyes. New York, Feb. 19. Covers were laid for 250 guests at the fourth annual banquet of the Ohio Society, at Delmonico's, to-night. Although no formal toasts had been arranged for the occasion, it was expected that impromptu remarks on the characteristics and greatness of the Buckcyo Stato would bo made by such well-known Ohioans as Senator John Sherman, Congressman McKinley and others. Tho dinner was delayed some time in anticpation of the arrival of the two mentioned distinguished guests from Washington, an', their failure to put in an appearance was tho occasion of general regret. President Wager Swayno occupied the seat of honor and did much by his ready delivery to fill the gap caused by the absence of Messrs. Sherman and McKinley. Prominent among those present were: Hon. M. M. Boothman, Hon. A. C. Thompson, C. N. Bliss, of tho New England Society; Hon. C. IL Grosvenor, Hon. Wm. Windoni, Preston B. Plumb, Gen. Roger A. Pryor, Hon. S. S. Yoder, Stephen W. Dorsey, Richard Smith, jr., George Rutledgo Gibson, Bernard Peters, Thomas Ewing, Gen.O. O. Howard, Dr. R. O. Doremus, John F. Plummer, John S. Jacobus, Cyrus Butler, R. C. Kimball and Cob Frank C. Loveland. Letters of regret were received from Joseph D. Taylor, W. S. Roecrans, Robert C. Schenck. Rutherford B. Hayes and Congressman S. S. Cox. The dining-rooms wero tastefully decorated with the American colors, and the coat-of-arms of the Stato of Ohio was suspended over the president's chair. In his opening address President Swayne said that it was tho purpose of tho banquet to "Strengthen tho tenderest ties that had their origin in a common home." Simon Wolf, consul-general to Egypt under General Grant's administration, said that it was predicted at the previous annual dinner of the society that Ohio would furnish tho next' President of the United States. The prophecy had been fulfilled, and tho odds were now greatly in favor of descendants of tho same State filling twothirds of the Cabinet positions. A. Minor Griswold, editor of Texas Sittings, humorously told of his early experience as a lecturerin the wilds of Ohio, and Gen. Charles H. Grosvenor, who had come from Washington expressly to attend the banquet, spoke at some length on the Buckeve State, He said that only the modest born Ohioans were left in tho State. All others had emigrated to broader fields. General Grosvenor 6aid that if the forthcoming administration hoped to make a success, it could not expect to fill the important offices within its control with Ohio-born men. Ohioans were too modest to be successful. Ho expected 1 General Harrison would recognize his own State in the distribution of prizes. After vbricf addresses by Cornelius N. Bliss and Judge Thompson, of Ohio, General Pryor, in the absence of President John C. Calhoun, of the Southern Society, paid a glowing tribute to the South. lie cpoko particularly in laudation of his own State, Virginia. There was not a man in tho South, he said, who would wish, if ha could, to re-shackle tho feet of the nero or take the State out of the) Union. "Southerners," ho added, "are here, f entlemen, to stay, and don't you forget iu f any attempt should bo made to destroy! tho Union the survivors of Antietam anil) Gettysburg would be the first to raiso their, arms in her defense. You have elected a ) great-grandson of Virginia to the presidency. I was opposed to him, because I am , a Democrat, but 1 have faith in General' Harrison; of course I believe in blood, and I feel confident he will make an eyamplary President. I know he will treat the old South with consideration." Other remarks wero made by the Hon. Wm. Windom, Homer Leo and General Howard. ' A Saloon-Keeper Turns Revivalist. Eau Claire (Wis.) Special. William Maniero had for years run a saloon at the village of Arkansaw, Pepin county. Thursday night he was persuaded to attend a Methodist revival meeting there. He said he would go just for fun, but did not take any stock in preachers. During the meeting no was worked np to a state of great emotional excitement, ' during which he wept, fell upon his knees and declared that, through the cross of Christ, he had come to see his wickedness. He went from the meeting-house to his saloon, where, assisted by the Rev. John Holt, he pulled down his "bar and billiard tables and broke them up with an axe, and poured his entire stock of beer and liquors into the street, in the presence of an . astonished crowd. Maniere then inaugurated a prayer-meeting in tho empty saloon, and. though an unlettered man, discourscd'with 6uch eloquence that seven of the worst characters in tho village professed themselves converted. Ho declares he will now spend all his spare time in preaching tho gospel among saloon-keepers. He has issued the following notice: To My FriendsHaving been led to ee the error of my p ist life I have cleared out , my saloon buMnes. I am determined br the grace of God to lead an upricht and Christian life, and have purchased a stock of flour. ,, , . Terpetual Bondage the Only Hope. Anjrusta (Ga.) Chronicle. Negro leaders should understand that Congress will not interfere with the election laws of the South. There will never bo another hell of reconstruction. The only hope of the colored man rests in tho minds and hearts of the whito men of tho South, and the negro who does not understand this is blind to the inevitable. The people of the North are not going to keep the country in dissension and strife on "account of the negro. The government has done its full dutr for him, and the verdict of the country is that the negro must take caro of himself, just like tho white man, in all the States of tho Union. Those Bad Republicans. San Francisco Chronicle, The Smalls-Elliott contested election case has developed tho remarkablo fact that many. of the negroes in Houth Carolina aro terrorized by Republicans, who compel them to voto against their inclinations. We are seriously assured by one member from the Palmetto State that the negroes generally would voto tho Democratic ticket if it w ere not for this system of terrorism. This is a bad state of affairs, and calls for federal intervention. If it is really true, as claimed, that the wicke4 Republicans in South Carolina are coercing the negroes, the infamous practice should be put a 6top to at once. Too Late to Mend a Wrong. Nebraska state JournaL Democrats in Dakota are anxious that the Territory bo admitted into the Union as two States, and are equally as anxious that the present Congress do the work so that the Democratic partv can claim the honor. It would be, or rather would have been, a good thing for that party had it not made such a grevious mistake. But the time has gone by for undoing the error And and it must always bear the stigma of this great wrong done for the purpose of political gain. It will prove to be political loss. m Where Reform Is Needed. Baltimore AmericanThere is a pressing need of a movement cither to squelch or reform tho prurient females who aro. writing vulgar novels. Tho purpose of those books, of course, is to make money, but their influence is directly and decidedly demoralizing. The fact that tho output of such volumes is increasing in quantity and offensiveness calls for a general protest. Jeffersonlan Simplicity's Expiring Blase. Cleveland Leader. If the Sago of Monticcllo could recognizo the blaze of Jefiersonian simplicity with which tho present administration is going out as kindred to anything in his time, wo believe lie must have been endowed with a great deal more penetration than has generally been accredited to him. What It Proves. Baltimore American. Secretary Colman is boasting that ho found a Republican privato secretary t the commissioner when ho took office, and has retained him ever since. This is hard on tho Democrats, but only coa to prove that Republicans make tho best oliicoholdcra after alL

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