Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 February 1889 — Page 4

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Telephone Calls. Business Oflce CSS Editorial Rooms 212 In a recent published interview, President Cleveland said lie was "thoroughly satisfied with the practical outcome of liis administration." The practical outgo will occur one week from to-day. The able correspondents will now transfer their cabinet shop to Washington. In a few short days President Harrison will take a hand and show them how to build a Cabinet "as is" a Cabinet. The Dakota Legislature has gone to Helena, M. T., to unite with the people of that city in a joint celebration of tho admission of tlo Territories. Party politics are ignored and everybody is happy. The proposition to sell tho Blind Asylum square seems to strike some crossroads statesmen as an excellent method of raising money. Why not sell the State-house and mortgage the benevolent institutions? A considerable proportion of the Indianapolis population is going to Washington this week, but the city will remain, and, it may be worth while to add, will be a good place to come back to, even if the Ku-klux Legislature is in session. A word of advice to the large Koosier contingent which will soon be moving on Washington: Remember that Indiana is only one State .Snttteg' thirtyeight, v&& that President Harrison belongs to all of tlte'm now. Therefore, if the Hoosierjs cannot head the procession and occupy all the places of honor, they must not feel hurt. flrtT i iv T)mrifTnti imiimnla n m or. posing themselves to ridicule by at tempting to claim party credit for the admission of the four new States. Everybody knows that tho Democratic members voted for the measure in order to deprive tho coming Republican majority of the privilege and credit of passing the bill; and everyone knows, too, that had the Democracy retained control those States would have remained out of the Union for four years more. Tho eleventh-hour act will hardly profit them. Why should not President Harrison's proclamation admitting tho four new States to tho Union be dated Nov. 6, 1&S9, just one year from the day of hia election? The people of the States will vote on their constitutions on the lirst Tuesday in October. That is the last act to be dono prior to the issuance of the proclamation of admission. It will take a fortnight or so to obtain the official returns of the election, and Nov. 6 will bo about the time for tho proclamation. If anything could injure tho prestige and authority of tho London Times among Englishmen one would think the ignoble collapse of the Parncll commission would do so. It is not merely a failure, but a humiliating defeat, leaving no room for the salvation of dignity. The Times will fall hard in proportion to its former assumption of infallibility, and it will bo a remarkable proof of journalistic vitality if it does not suffer in prestige and reputation. On the other hand it is a great triumph for tho Irish cause, and for Pamell as its leader. TnE free text-book law, as likely to pass, is a misnomer. Its effect will bo to deprive the people of the use of books they now have, to override the wishes of the local tchool authorities, and to force upon all parts of tho State a set of books crudely compiled, badly printed, inferior in contents and workmanship, and costing much more than they are worth. It utterly ignores the true idea of free echool books, as adopted and practiced successfully in other States. The law is wrong in theory and impracticable in its provisions. It will prove nn expensive failure and will be very unpopular. Despondent Americans, who think our civil service the worst in tho world, may find encouragement in the statement of a correspondent at St. Petersburg, Russia, who says the office-holding class in that country are the most corrupt in the world. Ho describes the condition of the civil servico as one of utter rottenness. Peculation, thievery tnd blaok-mail are open and almost universal. The whole system of public life, including even the courts, is pervaded by dishonest', and from tho highest to tho lowest it is a raco of competitive plunder. Evidently our civil-servico reformers cannot borrow anything from Russia. TnouGn nearly a year in the penitentiary, Sim Coy had influence enough with tho Democratic caucus to securo the nomination of his two candidates, Markey and Renihan, as trustees of the State institutions. As a trustee of tho Inionc HospitaL Markey will make a fit

successor of Gapen, and whether elected president or treasurer of tho board, he can bo depended on to do the dirty work of 'the gang, and cover up Sullivan's stealings. ' That's what he is there for. The people will never know the extent of the rottenness" there until there is a complete overhauling of the whole establishment. The caucus nominations for trustees insure a continuation of the ring management.

INDIANA'S HBST PRESIDENT. However indifferent the American people may be to tho character and personality of the minor officials who participate in tho management of government affairs, they cherish a presidential ideal to which every candidate must at least seem to conform, if ho would gain their support. Tho first President fixed the standard by which all others are measured. Fortunate in their first choice, tho people have since sought for men of high qualifications as his successors; nor has the ideal been lowered because in one or two instances they have been deceived in their estimates and have been betrayed by tho misrepresentations of politicians. As each quadrennial contest approaches, they look about for the ono among the millions of their fellow-citizens who is most fit to rule over them. Party leaders may look to "availability" as regards residence and other matters, but out of respect to the overwhelming sentiment of the country they are obliged to consider, as the great feature of that availability, the mental and moral fitness of tho candidate. Ho must be, or the people must believe him to be, one above suspicion of guile, a man of lolty principle, of unimpeachable integrity, of impartial judgment, of statesmanlike mind, of undoubted patriotism. A few months ago, when, in common with the rest of tho country, tho citizens of Indianapolis and Indiana began to seek for him who should be chosen by a great party for its highest honors, their decision was soon made. Why search in the far East or tho far West when the man who fulfilled all the conditions was hero? Other men might have equal qualifications and might make acceptable Presidents, but of other men they were less sure; hero was one they knew. By common consent, and without hesitation, Indianians turned to Benjamin Harrison. They had known him sinco his early manhood. They had seen him in his home; they had known him as a neighbor, a friend, a soldier and a Senator. As the head of a household ho was loved and honored; as a . neighbor he was respected and trusted; as a friend he had proved faithful. When his country called he had left home and family and fought bravely for her defense; in the Nation's councils ho had been prudent, sagacious and just. In none of tho re lations of life had he been found wanting. Had tho search been for an ideal citizen, no one could havo been found who more nearly satisfied the requirements. Then, being an ideal citizen, why not an ideal President the qualifications being identical? The people of Indiana answered their own question, and chose him as their candidate. In the btubborn contest at Chicago their allegiance never swerved, and their enthusiasm was not weakened when the struggle seemed most hopeless. They knew they had not only an "available" man, but the right man for tho place; and it was the strength of this conviction, the earnestness of this enthusiasm that finally im pressed itself on tho convention and led to his nomination. Since that time tho wisdom of their choice has been fully justified. With gratification, but without surprise, they have seen tho people of tho country come to share their own confidence. The speeches of the campaign, the more re cent silence, the intercourse with visitors, the discretion and dignity he has dis played havo all been proofs that the convention made no mistake. Tho time has come when Indiana must part with this honored son and distinguished citizen. Always he has represented his own State; henceforth he is the Nation's. With pride and rejoicing Indianians saw him chosen for the high est worldly honors; 'with pride they will see him at tho country's head, but with personal regret they see this modest, un assuming gentleman, this friend and counselor, co out from among them. They gain a President in whom they have confidence, but they lose a neigh bor and a fellow-citizen to whom they were accustomed to turn in time of need. On his part he doubtless goes, bearing a deep feeling of his responsibility and the natural sense of misgiving incident to an entrance upon national duties, but he can also carry the assurance of affec tionate regard from his old friends and associates, and can rest in the thought that many prayers will go up in his be half to the God whom he trusts. Indiana commends her beloved son to the country, confident that he will pre side over its affairs with what wisdom man may, and believing that as he has been "faithf id in that which is least," he will bo "faithful also in much." Another man goes out from Indianap olis to-day who will bo greatly missed in tho city and State. For one who has never held public office and has never come prominently before the people, Mr. E. W. Halford ha3 impressed himself in a remarkable way upon the community. As an editor of the Journal for many years he has had, of course, ample op portunity for expressing his views; and the progress of events in that time has repeatedly demonstrated tho correctness of his judgment as voiced by the paper, especially in regard to political matters. Of strong character and positive con victions, it was impossible that he should be confined to impersonal utterances. A long acquaintance with tho ins aud outs of State politics, combined with singular quickness of perception and ac curacy of judgment, Las rendered him an invaluable adviser to party managers, and liis counsel has been constantly sought and followed. Of marked indi viduality, ho has had irreat influence upon his associates, whether in profes sional, public or church life. In all these circles his absence will bo deeply felt. His associates upon the Journal

to whom he had become endeared

through a companionship of years, in particular lament his departure, al though pleased with tho distinction that has been conferred upon him. They, better than any others, are acquainted with his industry, his energy, his con scientiousness in the performance of duty. Better than any others are they able to congratulate General Harrison on securing as confidential assistant a man so highly qualified, 60 trustworthy and capable. He goes with the best wishes of all who know him. THE INSANE HOSPITAL. Tho large appropriation asked for the Insane Hospital for tho current year, coming on the heels of the recent developments of financial crookedness, is strong presumptive evidence of corrup tion. It is a notorious fact that for several years past John E. Sullivan, the absconding clerk of this county, has had very largo contracts with the hospital. He was on intimate terms with Dr. Harrison and Gapen, and had un bounded influence over them. It is now known that they both loaned him largo sums of the hospital funds. There is reason to believe that Sullivan's large contracts have covered frauds for sev eral years past, and that in addition to extensive robberies under the pretense of furnishing supplies, he has also had loans of money. Following close on these developments comes the appropriation bill asking for $297,000 for tho hospital for the current year, and the same amount lor leyi. The items are: Maintenance, $273,000; clothing, $12,000; repairs, $10,000, making a total of $297,000. Every dollar of this is lor tno hospital at tins city, tne hospitals at Logansport, Richmond and Evansville being provided for by other appropriations. A request for an appropriation of $297,000 for the Indianapolis hospital is presumptive proof of some thing wrong. It is prima-facio evidence of fraud. No such sum is needed for tho honest maintenance and management of the hospital. The figures probably cover a large shortage, the result of Sullivan's stealings, which is being-carried along from year to year, and covered up un der the pretense of -increasing expenses. In 1884 the entire appropriation for tho support of the hospital, including main tenance, clothing and repairs, was $2SO,000, and last year it was $287,000. The estimate of the State Auditor for the current year was $287,000. The pending appropriation bill calls for $297,000. This is $10,000 more than tho last appropriation and the same amount in excess of tho Auditor's estimate. Tho legitimate expenses of the hospital ought not to bo greater now than they were 1 wo years ago. They should be less, owing to the opening of tho Lo gansport hospital. The same bill which appropriates $297,000 for the Indianapo lis hospital appropriates $230,000 for the other three hospitals, making a total of $527,000 for maintenance of tho insane. Assuming that tho State Auditor's esti mate of the amount necessary for the maintenance of the hospital was approx imately correct, the appropriation calls

for 10.000 more than the. legitimate fcerc-'

nenses of the institution. Does this" $10,000 represent the shortage caused by Sullivan's stealings, which tho trustees are carrying! it iooks that way. : All the facts go to prove tho necessity for a thorough investigation of tho hos pital. The action of tho Legislature is intended to prevent, and will prevent, such an investigation. Tho Governors At 11 . 1 . message proposes tne oniy pian tnat amounts to anything, viz.: an investiga tion by a non-partisan committee of ex perts, and this is what the people should insist on having. The hospital is rotten from cellar to garret. THE CURTIS BILL. The manner in which it is sought to smuggle tho Curtis bill through tho Senate is infamous and an outrage upon the residents and tax-payers of Indianapolis. Tho bill, as it passed tho House, was read in tho Senate and referred to a committee, by which some sixteen amendments have been proposed. The manipulators of the bill have sought to conceal these amendments from the people who are to live under the law. On Saturday the parties behind the measure endeavored to have it passed, but were thwarted by tho imperative rule requiring the printing of all Houso bills that are re ferred to committees. The bill is made the special order of this morning. No one, except those interested in the measure, has been permitted to see the amendments, and the Secretary of the Senate, being compelled to give it to the printer, strictly enjoined him to allow no ono to see the original or to get a copy of the printed bill. This sort of legislation has been hitherto unheard of. That a bill can be introduced affecting one city, its people and tax-payers, and that the measure can be put through the forms of legislation and become a law without their having an opportunity to see or know what the provisions of tho measure are, is an outrage unheard of and unprecedented in tho history of civilized legislation. There is not an honest purpose in thisbill from one end of it to the other, and from the secrecy with which its provisions are guarded there must be something in it that even tho partisan manipulators of tho measure are afraid to allow the people to see until it becomes a law and it will bo too late to protest against or defeat it. Under tho bill and the amendments it is understood that new offices are created, that the board of control will have power to levy taxes, and to make contracts, and create obligations which the city and tax-payers will have to meet. Ono would think that with the recent disclosures of tho thieving and rascality of Democratic officials in this city, and tho corruption at the Insane Hospital, even Democratic legislators would hesitate to give tho Coy-Sullivan gang further power; but tho greed of tho gang is insatiable, and, having robbed the county and the asylum, they are seeking for rich pickings in tho city of Indianapolis. If a board of control is good for Indianapolis, why are not boards needed for Fort Wayne, Evansville, Terre Hauto and other cities in the State? Tho representatives of those cities will not stand such legislation. The object of

the men behind this measure is to steal and plunder from the tax-payers of Indianapolis, and tho men who will vote for 'this bill will be their aiders and abettors.

NECESSITY OF A REGISTRY LAW. In refusing to permit the pending election hill to be amended so as to provide for tho registration of voters the Democrats have, as in other matters, acted in direct violation of! the Constitution, and in opposition to the recommendations of Governor Hovey. Tho Constitution, as amended in 1881, makes it obligatory on the Legislature to pass a registry law, and makes registration according to law a qualification of voting. Pending the adoption of this . amendment by the people, Attorney-general Woollen, ti Democrat, gave an opinion as to its effect, in which he said: In the event ,of these, amendments being adopted, it would undoubtedly be the duty of the Legislature to provide for a registration of voters, but the failure to do so, in my opinion, would not operate to disfranchise the electors otherwise qualified to vote. . The registration amendment was adopted by a majority in both branches of two successive Legislatures, and twice ratified by the people by a larger majority than that given for any other of the five amendments. At the first election it was adopted by 169,483 votes against 152,251, while in the second election it received 123,736 votes against 45,975. No provision of the Constitution is clearer, and no other has received a more emphatic indorsement by the peopl Governor Hovey, in his inaugural message, dwelt very strongly on the necessity of a more stringent election law. His presentation of the subject was one of tho most forcible that has been made anywhere. As one of the necessary features of electoral reform and the first one enumerated by him, he urged the enactment of a registry law, putting it on tho ground of constitutional duty as well as public policy. He said: Iti3the duty of "the General Assembly, under the 95th section of our Constitution, to "provide for the registration of all persons entitled to vote." This amendment has been in force since March 14, 1881, but no law has yet been enacted and the Constitution has been disregarded. I recommend that provision be made for a full and fair registration of all legal voters, where the rights of each elector can be investigated before the day of election. Any person who shall hire or prevent any elector from being duly registered should bo sub jected to fine and imprisonment. Tho Governor made other recommendations in regard to the election law, some of which have been adopted, but this one, the most important of all, has been contemptuously rejected, and conspicuously omitted from tho pendingi bill. Tho struggle for tho passage and adoption of the constitutional amendments in 1881 was .one of the most protracted and memorable in the history of; the State the most so, without exception, of any in recent years. ' Yet, after all, and the fact that the registry provision has been incorporated in the Constitution now nearly "eight years, tho Democrats refuse to pay tho slightest attention to it, and treat the Governor's recommendation with undisguised contempt. It look 8 very much as if they yerc trying to get the credit of favoring f election reform while opposing the most essential and indispensable measure to that end. In the opinion of a . great many persons, among them old soldiers who had honored him as a commander, General Rosecrans forfeited his right to be restored to tho army, with its privilege of retirement on a comfortable salary, when he opposed the bill granting the same right to General Grant and outrageously vilified him. The passage of the resolution retiringhim is duo entirely to the charity of General Grant's friends in Congress, who were willing to overlook his offense for the sake of his past services and to emulate that forbearance which Grant once showed to the enemies of himself and his country.- Rosecrans,. however, can hardly enjoy his $5,500 pension with the feeling that in the opinion of all his fellow-citizens he do- . serves it. It is safe to say that no Legislature in this or any other State ever attempted to rush through as much important legislation by dark-lantern and star-chamber methods as - the ono now in session in this city has done. Bills of great importance havo been drafted in secret, approved in caucus, rushed through the various stages in violation of parliamentary rules, cut off from amendment or discussion, secreted in members' pockets, printed under 6trict orders not to allow publicity, and finally passed with locked doers and under the gag law. That most of this legislation will prove crude and mischievous there is not a particle of doubt, and that some of it will prove very expensive the people will learn to their cost. The Critic of Feb. 23 is a Lowell number. The same plan has been followed as with Holmes and Whittier last year, prominent literary people being asked to contribute congratulations on the occasion of the author's birthday. A large number of interesting responses are published. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Over in England a gas-meter has been invented whereby you drop a coin in the slot and get as much gas as you pay for. A penny buys tho light of an ordinary burner for six hours. Senor Gonzalo Esteva, a Mexican journalist, has written a book bearing the title of "Editorial Prison Life." He has been in prison various times for speaking too freely of the government, and knows his subject thoroughly. Senator Evarts is a great admirer of the flaming beauties of the circus posters and theater announcements on the billboards, which taste ho has in common with Hale, of Maine: Butler, of South Carolina, and Pasco, of Florida. The Mayor of Keokuk, la., is author of the following: "This thing I have learned: the saloon cannot be fought by prayermeetings. All the trousers m Keokuk can be worn 1 Ilmreatthe knees, and the saloon woui. I tstill exist." It is now fifty years since Mr. Sims Reeves made his lirst appearance in opera as Gipsy John, in "Guy Mannering," at Newcastle-on-Tyne. His farewell tour begins next month, and ends in December with his absolute retirement. George Conklinq, who is the oldest and ono of the most expert animal trainers in this country, is a tall, slender man, with broad shoulders and deep chest, and is all brawn and muscle. He says that animals iru like human beings, in that thevaresubI jeet to moods, and the tamest of tuexu will

at times have cranky spells and the most ferocious their peaceful and even aflectionate moods. Lord Tennyson writes as follows to the Critic: "I thank you for asking mo to bo anioug the numberless number of thoso who greet Mr. Lowell on his seventieth birthday. I wish that I had seen more of him while he was among us. Ail blessings be upon him and upon his country." The little German Crown Prince has a very scant allowance of toys. The Emperor holds that many and costly toys neither increase a child's happiness nor allow those qualities to be developed which are brought out when a child has to turn to its own resources for filling up its leisure hours. Dr. Hole, the English Dean of Rochester, protests against the addition of three commandments to the Decalogue: "Thou shalt not play cards;" "thou shalt not drink a glass of wine." and "thou 6halt not

dance." The Dean also advocates the opening of museums and galleries on fSunday. "One hears a great deal nowadays about tho difficulties between author and publisher," said an author, "but I can think of at least two women who discovered an admirable plan to avoid all trouble of this kind. I refer to Miss Braddon and Miss Mulochv both of whom married their publishers." . Rose Elizauetii Cleveland is living quietly in a cottage in Florida, surrounded by an orange-grove. She rises early in the morning, takes a short walk, breakfasts, and then devotes four hours to literary work. Her forthcoming novel will give expression, in a roundabout way, to her religious views. Senator Stanford has at last completed his Washington stable to his entire satisfaction. He has eight horses in the stalls, though his stable will accommodate twenty. A pair of magnificent blacks, valued at $20,000, are Mrs. Stanford's special pride. There are several valuable saddle-horses in the stable, ono of which has a private record of 2:15. Sorosis, tho pioneer woman's club, is to celebrate its twenty-first anniversary by a convention of woman's clubs to be held in New York the ISth, 19th and 20th of March 18S9t and a delegate is invited from all organized and distinctive woman's clubs." Mrs. II. II. Kobinson has been chosen to represent "Old and New," the woman's club of Maiden, Mass. TnE Chinese quarter of New York is excited over the arrival of the famous Baron Le Yen Pang, the richest merchant prince in China. He is said to be worth over 10,000,000, and has agencies in all parts of the world. Baron Pang is fifty-three years old, and over six feet in height, He is thoroughly familiar with European and Amer-. ican affairs, and is naturally opposed to tho Chinese restriction bill in this country, which, he 6ays, will in time bring about a general boycott upon American products in hina. A ONE-nuNDRED-DOLLAR hat was lost to Russell Harrison by W. J. Arkell, proprietor of Judge, on an election bet relative to the Republican majority in New York State. The scaffolding of this costly headgear is built out of the usual cardboard and silk Lmatcrial. What makes it so ultra-cxpen-r6ive is its 6atin lining, which is decorated with sketches by uillam, Hamilton and Frohli, together with the pictures of Harrison and Morton, the great seal of the proprietor of Judge," and divers other rare aud costly articles of virtu. Tho President's son will wear the hat on inauguration day. Frances Cleveland Lamont is tho third child and the third girl in Colonel Dan's family. One day at the White House Chiefjustice Fuller passed into the private secretary's room, and, giving him a sympathetic slap on the back, said: "Never mind. Colonel, we had eight girls before we had a boy." The Colonel gasped for-a moment, then rallied, and thanking the Chief-justice, assured him ho was fond of girls: in fact, very partial to girl babies. After the father of eight girls had gone out, however, the private secretary was heard to say in a low tone something about "drawing the line at eight." Dr. T. D. Crothers, in one of the magazines of the present month, says he has seen instances in which persons infected with an hereditary alcoholic taint, in times of excitement, exhibited all the symptoms of intoxication without having touched liquor, ono of which was that of the treasurer of a large manufactory, who, upon being accused of falsifying his books, suddenly appeared to be intoxicated, both looking and walking like one who had drunk large quantities of spirits. Tho next day he recovered, and then made a full and satisfactory explanation. His father had been a sailor and a free drinker. Mrs. Nancy Clark Marshall Winkle Smith Frisbee McGregor Rawlins, a rich and somewhat masculine woman, who owns valuable cattle and timber lands in Montana and Oregon, has lately reached the extreme scriptural limit of marrying chronicled of her sex bv taking unto herself her seventh husband. She went to San Francisco over the plains in 1849, and the uncertainties of border life have enabled her to gratify hertaste for marital change without resort to divorce. Every one of her husbands was dead before another took his place. Ono was lost iu a mountain snow-storm, another was killed by Indians, Jjtnd a bucking horse assisted another out of tho world. Husband No. 7 is twenty-eight yars old. He was raised by the muchwjdowed woman, and calls her "mamma." COMMENT AND OPINION. WJjXat the new administration will do in regard to the Samoan question is not yet announced, but the American people can rest assured that this country will sull'er no dishonor under President Harrison. Nebra&ka State Journal. The gp tatness of a country depends upon the freedom and intelligence of its people. More than half the people of Louisiana are . free in name only, and their intelligence is uneducated.. This is a dangerous state of affairs. Chicago Inter Ocean. Germany i evidently not over-anxious for war, and -we are not looking for anybody to knock the chip off our shoulder, eo negotiations will proceed with case and rapidivy, and in six months the whole Samoan squabbJo will have been forgotten. San Francisco Journal The two Dakotus, Washington and Montana enter the Uni.on by right, and not by suflerance. In population, iu intelligence. In all the attributes of civilized communities, they have reached the full stature of States, and may take their places with a just pride. New York .Tribune. There are many prominent Democrats in Congress who say th$ President will not' 6ign the direct-tax bill. It cannot become a law without his signature. The South opposes the bill; the South controls the nominating convention, aud Cleveland expects to be nominated again', Peoria Transcript The creation of a navy sufficient to guard American interests without invading the rights of others is a step dictated bv prudence. Already respect abroad for the nag of the Union isincreasing, anil, when the new navy is completed, no other national ensign will bo more honored. 'Xroy (N. Y.) Times. The sooner that millionaires are given to understand that they cannot buy their way to political preferment the better for the whole country. An investigation And agitation of the subject will lead to th3 adoption of laws which will render money powerless in controlling votes. Cleveland Leader. The Republic is still in its experimental stages. It will boa heavy and constantly increasing strain to assimilate the heterogeneous and sometimes dangerous elements which are constantly pouring in upon .us from foreign countries. The Anglo-feaxous, however, have a happy knack for self-gor-ernment, and in that lies our hope. Chicago Tribune. Real tariff reform, as distinguished from bogus tariff reform, is in the direction of protection, to apply the principles of protection to a wiaer range of American industries, to build up now enterprises of labor, and to create for tho workiugmenof tho country, for commerce and capital, new fields of employment, and new apheres of development. Chicago Journal. OrrortTUNiTV. as well as incentive for robbery aud malfeasance, was present during the first eiuhtor ten years of Republican rule to a degree never approached in

tho earlier days of tho Nation. Yet the

records show that the standard of official f rarity in the Republican regime wag much iigher even than it was during the presidency of Washington and the elder Adams. The 'Democratic party has been looking over tho books of the government for lour years past, and this is the Btory which the books tell. St. Louis Globe-Democrat." Why should tho drunkard who boats, starves, maltreats his wife and children bo permitted at once to inflict himself on some other victim? Whv should the wife who has been divorced for infidelity to her marriage vows bo allowed again to tarnish tho sancitv of matrimony by taking another husband? If it can be provided that divorced couples cannot rush at once into other marriage relations, there will be an immense falling oft' in the number of first marriages and in the applications for separations. Chicago Herald. If the Democratic party had had it in-its power to keep these Territories from tho sisterhood of States for tho next ten years, it would have used the power, bevond tho question of a doubt. But it realized that tho next Republican Congress would see that they were admitted sure, and, with the hope of wiping from the memory of tho inhabitants tho rank injustice with which the party has treated their claims, it affecta to rejoice at their admission, and will remind these people that it was under a Democratic House and President that they finally were admitted. Kansas City Journal. THE STATE PRESS. Some Pointed Ptemarks Concerning the Course , Pursued by the Legislature. Greencastlo Times: Why not investigato the Insane Asylum? If accounts are square, the Democrats have nothing to lose therebv, and if they are crooked the people should know it. Winamac Republican: "A scheme to rob tho people" would aptly apply as a title to at least half the bills introduced by Democrats into the Democratic Legislature of Indiana. Richmond Palladium: Sullivan's and Coy's friends were well taken care of by the Democratic caucus. Fat places havo been singled out for them as far as the offices go. Kokomo Gazette-Tribune: The public judgment is well settled that a great scandal is covered up in the Insane Hospital, and the people will be content with nothing short of a most thorough and searching investigation. Muncie Times: How much longer the taxpayers of the State will allow themselves to be robbed for the benefit of the political savages now in control of the Democratic party must be determined by the tax-payers themselves. They will certainly get enough after a while. Plymouth Republican: Tho revolutionary and anarchistic actions of the Indiana, Legislature are attracting attention -all over tho country. Not since the time of tho Knights of the Golden Circle has fcnythjns occurred to bring our State into so much disrepute as the doings of the present Democratic legislators. i Madison Courier: Governor Hovey'n message insisting upon an investigation ot' the Insane Hospital is timely and should bo at once carried out. The scheme of tho Democrats is to reject his suggestion of at non-partisan board of experts and have a whitewashing committee from the General. Assembly do the work. Terre Haute Express: Will our esteemed Democratic contemporaries discover thatGapen is unfit for the position he holds before he is marked absent? Or will they do as they did with Coy, Bernhanier, Sullivan, Edgerton et al., wait until the end comes to; continn all that the Republicans havo charged against him? Warsaw Times: The people should petition for an investigation of the Insane Hospital. There is reason to believe thao it has been robbed by John E. Sullivan. and that its walb hide a great deal of rottenness besides. There ought to be a scoro of petitions started in every county in tho State, asking for an investigation. Greenfield Republican: The Democratic Legislature is getting in its political work at a lively rate. Soft places are made jfor Democrats, with good salaries, and noono responsible but the Legislature. Them will be a day of reckoning, and two years from now Democracy will be snowed under and ousted from power in the Legislature, as they have been in tho Nation and State. Terre Hauto Express: There is more thaii a suspicion that John E. Sullivan hasmht! away with funds of tho State Insane Hospiiai. mere was gronnu lor suspicion that he had dono so because of his intimate relations with, in fact his control of, tho managers of that institution, but this Gapen revelation is almost 6urhcient proof thathe has been permitted to rob the fetate. Lafayette Courier: The developments that are daily coming to the surface in regard to the scoundrelly conduct of the Democratic cabal that is dominating Indiana politics are postively appalling, and the thieves cannot hope much longer to escape the wrath to come. Governor Hover owes it to the people he represents, regardless of political considerations, to take tho matterin. a mailed hand and crush the life out of the bosses who havo been robbing the State systematically and persistently. Vincennes Commercial: Gapen has stated to tho hospital legislative committee that tho funds of tho institution were all right, but it anpears now, from tho statement or the banks, that Gapen did a good deal of State business through Sullivan's checks. The custodian of these State funds is not allowed to loan this money. If Gapen has lost money through Sullivan, though ho has positively declared he never loaned him money, it will be made clear by "opening the books.7 Let the investigation proceed. Wabash Plain Dealer: Governor Hovey has deemed tho matter of an investigation of the Insane Hospital accounts of sutUcient importance to make it the subject of a communication to the Legislature. In his message the Governor directs attention to the extravagance apparent on the face of the allowances for last year. He frankly states that ho believes there is something rotten in Denmark, but the Democratic majority in each House knows it of a verity, and Republicans and tax-payers of all .political parties will clamor in vain for an investigation. The Democrac- upon this issue for it is an issue if no other, ought to be hurled from power next year. The Connecticut Mutual Life, ' . . New York Jonrnal of Commerce. Tho confidence of thoso who really know, anything about the Connecticut Mutual has not been shaken for a moment "by the Indianapolis defalcation. That los has been much exaggerated by rumors. At its worst, as reported, its effect upen the immense resources of the Connecticut Mutual would have been but trifling. Reduce to tho comparatively small amount of $S.I,527.G0, it disappears when contrasted with the substantial results of Colonel Greene's conservative policy exercised in the vast field of hU operations during the past year. His frankness and directness, as president of the company, in explaining this matter to tho policy-holders and the public iu a report we publish to-day, are worthy of high praise. Ho might fairly have reduced tho net loss by estimating the value of property restored to the company by the defaulter. But, until this shall bo realized by actual sale, no account is made of it. Marking oft' that loss as entire, there still remains the solid surplus of $5,5G3,OS0. Tho total resources of tho company are $57,500,000. Its dividend will not be affected. A company that has suffered in the forty-three years of its existence only once from the default of a financial correspondent, has reason to bo proud of its record. There aro few, if any, moneyed institutions that can justly claim so long an immunity from accidents to which all are liable, no matter how carefully they are managed. Amcng the many instructive statistics submitted by tho president is tho remarkably low ratio of the cost of doing business to the income. In 18S7 he had reduced this to 9.23 per cent. It is now 8.4 per cent. Perhaps Colonel Greene's forcible paper reaches iis culmination wheu he recalls tho fact that his company during its career has returned to policy-holders, or htill retains for Jtheir protection, no less than $190,015,SS5.0. or $.31,591,S!$.0.'5 more than the mm cf the premiums received from tkeca.