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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 1889

THE DAILY JOURNAL SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 1889. WASHINGTON OFFICE 513 Fourteenth St. r. S. Heath, Correspondent. KEW YORK OFFICE 201 Temple Court, Corner Beekman and Nassau Streets.

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Bulsness OGcc SB Editorial Rooms 242 Maurice Thompson's New Story. It is unnecessary for the Journal to say anything in praise of the writings of cue whose work is so well and favorably known to Indiana readers as that of Mr. Maurice Thompson. Some of his earliest and most artistic sketches were of Indiana scenes and characters, and much of his later work has had a local coloring that has made it of special interest to his readers in this part of the country. The "Lily of Rochon." the serial which begins in to-morrow's issue and runs through live numbers of the Sunday Journal, is a story of Louisiana, but that region, also, is one with which Mr. Thompson is thoroughly familiar, and his descriptions give the impress of reality. "The Lily of Rochon" is a story of intense dramatic interest, and will bo greatly enjoyed by all lovers of good literature and those who aro weary of the commonplaco in fiction. As for the Cleveland administration, there is nothing to do now but to let tho old cat die. Indiana is fortunate just now in having: a Governor who knows tho law and helped frame the Constitution. Even the Sentinel is ashamed of tho action of the House majority in tho Linck case, and makes a Fecksniflian apologv. IIow does the House propose to enforce tho payment of that fine against Mr. LinckT Will the Speaker enter up judgment and issue an execution? It is gradually dawning upon tho Legislature that the executive branch of tho State government has some rights which they are bound to respect, whether they will or no. The departments of government in this State at present are the legislative, the executive, the judicial, and tho Gorby department. The chief of tho Gorby department is also adjunct professor of Democratic geology. TnE Cabinet speculations sent from Washington now read for all the world like a reproduction of those sent daily from this city during the last three months. Can it be possible that tho able correspondents aio duplicating their dispatches? Dr. Harrison says that "when other things were equal" he voted to give Sullivan contracts. And when other things were not equal the board made them so. In the matter of bids it was a board of equalization, a great leveler, as it were, in favor of Sullivan. Grover Cleveland is already "mentioned" as the next candidate for Mayor of New York city. History does not repeat itself. Ho can never hope to encounter again the series of happy accidents that tookgjiim from a Mayors office to a presidential chair. Mr. Willard scented a "job" in the bill appropriating $3.,000tothe southern prison, but the bill was passed, nevertheless, his Democratic brethren evidently wanting tho gentleman from Lawrence to understand that other jobs besides those in which he was interested could go through. It seems to bo tho prevailing, though regretful, opinion that theso days aro "weather-breeders," and that Monday next will not bo all that is desired for the carrying out of the inauguration ceremonies. Nevertheless, it is believed that there will be no postponement on account of the weather. Sim Cot's regret that he is unable to bo here to look after legislative matters is undoubtedly shared by the Democratic majority, but they have tho thought to cousolo them that but little more rascality could have been accomplished with his aid than has been pushed through without him. Twenty-five dollars a week for signing Sullivan's checks, making out bills of lading and signing his drafts on New - York, was what, in tho parlance of the - street, would be called a "soft snap" for Mr. Gapcn. Lots of men would' have been willing to take half an hour a day from their regular work and do the job for $5 or $10. Whatever may be thought of Mr. Linck's impulsive assault upon a man who had insulted him, there can bo no two opinions of Mr. WillarcVs subsequent conduct. Only a sneak and a petty, vindictive coward would have refrained from protesting against tho outrageous treatment by tho House of the man who had made a manly apology for tho assault. No man ever had a liner opportunity of proving himself a magnanimous gentleman than Representative Willard had when the House was disposing of tho Linck case, and no man ever failed moro conspicuously to improve such an oppor

tunity. After tho vote of censure, which was deserved; when it was proposed to fine Mr. Linck $150 and expel him from the House, Mr. Willard was the one to have, called a halt. Ho should havo risen in his place and declared that tho offending member had been sufficiently punished, that his offense was done in tho heat of passion, that ho had offered a manly apologyboth to himself and tho House, and that, as a principal party in tho affair, he (Mr. Willard) desired that no further punishment be inflicted. That would have been the act of a manly man and gentleman.

HARBISON AND HOME RULE. The complete collapse of tho government proceeding against Paraell has given new impetus to the Irish home-rulo movement. Mr. ParnelPs vindication is a triumph for the cause he represents, and his friends are jubilant and aggressive in the same proportion that his enemies are the reverse. The event is likely to inspire the friends of homo rule with new activity and vigor in this country as well as on the other side. In this city they aro preparing to hold a public meeting on next Monday night to give expression to public opinion on the subject and to voice the sentiment of American citizens in favor of justice for Ireland. The meeting will not be partisan nor confined to any nationality. It is designed to embrace representatives of all parties and citizens of American as well as Irish birth. The expression of such a meeting, held at this time and place, would doubtless carry weight abroad. It is appropriately fixed on tho date of President Harrison's inauguration, and being held at his home, would have additional significance. In this connection, it is interesting to recall that an Irish Home-ruler and leader of tho movement was recently arrested and is now in prison for no other reason, so far as is known, than that he repeated in his public speeches some passages from a speech by General Harrison on the Irish question. Tho gentleman referred to is Mr. James L. Carew, a Nationalist member of Parliament. He was making stump speeches in Scotland for a friend who was a candidate on the Home-rule ticket. At the different meetings which he attended Mr. Carew was accustomed to read extracts from a speech raado by General Harrison at a Home-rule meeting held in this city in April, 1887. Tho principal selection was tho following: I am not hero to discuss particular measures of relief for Ireland; I am not hero to suggest that legislation should take this or that precise form; but all here will at least agree that it should be progressive in tho direction of a moro liberal government lor Ireland than she now has. Wo are not hero to suggest to Great Britain that she shall concede Irish independence. Tho disintegration of nations is seldom accomplished by legislative enactment. When that comes it comes as the fruit and result of successful revolution. Wo aro here simply to say that, in our opinion, as American citizens, what Ireland needs is not coercion, is not the constable, is not tho soldier with musket and bayonet, but liberal laws tending to emancipate her people from tho results of long centuries of misgovernment, and that when this British Ministry starts in the direction of coercion and postpones suggestions for reform until a coercion bill has been enacted by Parliament, it is traveling in a wrong direction. It is not possible in this age of tho world to govern a people as numerous and inhabiting a country of such extent as Ireland by coercion. Tho period in tho world's history when men might bo governed by force, their inclinations coerced, their aspirations for participation in government suppressed, has passed awav forever. Moro, and more tho American idea that government rests upon tho consent of tho governed is making its way in tho world. Following is another passage which Mr. Carew quoted in his speeches and circulated in a printed slip with the other. In it General Harrison says: It is gratifying to know that Irishmen can make a quiet but unyielding resistance to oppression by parliamentary methods. I would rather bo William O'Brien, in TulInmore jail, a martyr to free speech, than the Lord Lieutenant in Dublin Castle. General Harrison's election to the presidency has closed his mouth for the present on homo rule in Ireland, but these expressions, made nearly two years ago, are sufficient indication of his feelings and sympathies, and no doubt they pretty accurately express the sentiments of intelligent Americans generally. They aro not incendiary nor inflammatory, but they are true and incisive, and that is why they hurt. We think there arc very few Americans who would not rather be Mr. Carew in a Scottish jail, for repeating these remarks of General Harrison's, than tho government official who issued the order for his arrest. The Minneapolis Journal takes exception to the remark of this paper that President Cleveland deserves credit for signing the statehood bill, and that he will be remembered for this act when his other deeds are forgotten. Tho Minneapolis paper asks scornfully if tho responsibility of completing the preliminary measures of statehood for the Territories is to bo attributed to President Cleveland, and calls attention to his previous neglected opportunities and tho dilatory action ot his party in the matter. Tho Indianapolis Journal certainly had no intention of giving unjust praise. It is perfectly aware, and has said, that the Democrats in Congress deserve no thanks for their tardy recognition of tho rights of tho Northwest, but it believes in giving tho devil his due. Inasmuch as Mr. Cleveland was suspected, by both Republicans and Democrats, of an intention to veto the bill, and as it was thought that certain members of his party voted for it on 6uch understanding, his action in "rising above party" was certainly deserving of some commendation. It was not a great act, by any means, but the Journal still believes that it was one of the most notable and distinctive of his administration. With this explanation, we trust our Northwestern contemporary will bo appeased. The pretense ; that Representative Linck's severe and unusual punishment was inflicted to preserve the dignity and honor of tho House is rot. It was inflicted in a spirit of brutal vindictiveness; that and nothing more. The majority in the House have no moro conception of what is duo to its dignity than they havo of what is due among gentlemen. Their only idea of tho duty of a legislative majority is totrampleon tho rights of the minority. If they had had any idea of enforcing parliamentary decorum or doing even-handed justice they would have disciplined some of the

bulldozers of their own party long before this, and in the present case would have censured Willard for his grossly unparliamentary and provocative language. But they only cared to vindicate the dignity of tho House on a Republican, and that by a penalty so plainly vindictive that even the Sentinel advises mitigation of tho sentence. The advice is in the interest of tho majority. Tho record as it stands is far worse for them than it is for Mr. Linck, and they aro much more interested in wiping it out than he is. Ho 6tands immeasurably higher before the people and in tho estimation of all who appreciate manliness, candor and honorable conduct than any one of those who, in the spirit of cowards and assassins, sought to wreak the combined malignity of a brutal majority under tho pretense of vindicating the dignity of the House. Mr. Linck could much better aftbrd to reject the proffered grace of tho majority, if offered, than they can aftbrd to stand by their present record. They are the fellows who ought to be walking the floor.

The Democratic caucus showed baso ingratitude in not renominating Gapen for Insane Hospital trustee, and Dr. Harrison for President of the board. They are Democrats of the most approved school, and have shown their faith by their works. No two men in the State aro firmer believers in the Democratic doctrine of running the institutions as political machines, and their previous experience in this line gave them superior qualifications. Thomas Markey, it is true, represents the same idea, and will do all in his power to prolong tho political management of tho hospital, but it will necessarily take him some time to master tho points as Harrison and Gapen had done. Markey is fully as unfit by nature as either of the others, but ho lacks experience. With practie'd he may make as bad a man for tho place as Harrison or Gapen, but why exchange a certainty for an uncertainty? The caucus made a mistake. The present managers of tho naturalgas trust company are good citizens, and will, no doubt, manago the affairs of the company in tho manner they think will bo best for tho public good; but death, and many things, may occur that, in time, may change the character of tho board of managers, and the affairs of tho company may bo grossly mismanaged, or diverted from the object for which it was organized. In such an event tho stockholders ought to have some voice in tho control of the company, without beingf orced into expensive litigation,aud any law like House Bill 1H2, now pending in the Senate, which deprives them of that right, is unjust. It is for that reason alone that opposition has been mado to the bill. It will be a shallow thinker, indeed, who does not see that there is good ground for such opposition. The Senate, yesterday, under the operation of the gag law and other repressive methods, passed the Curtis bill for the appointment of a Board of Public Works, etc., in Indianapolis. The char acter and scope of tho measure have Ibeen fully discussed in the Journal, and we need only add that its enactment is an outrage on the people of this city and an unjustifiable exercise of arbitrary power by the Legislature. The bill creates a number of new offices, and will largely increase the expenses of the city government without providing for any increase of revenue. Among other things, ' it creates the new office of City Solicitor, which, it is understood, will go either to Bailey or Curtis, putative author of the bill. It can be stated as a matter of inside history that the date fixed for the taking effect of the civil-service rules in the railway mail service, March 15, was a slip of the pen or clerical error on tho part of President Cleveland. In wri ting his order, he intended to make the rules take effect Feb. 15, and thought he had done so until after it was issued and printed, when his attention was called to the fact that he had written March instead of February. This gives the new administration eleven days in which to reform the service before tho new rules take effect. If the new Postmaster-general acts promptly, a good deal can be done in eleven days. The act cutting down the perquisites of the Supreme Court Reporter is a piece of contemptible political spitework that no decent partisan or fairminded gentleman would bo guilty of. If tho emoluments of the office are unduly largo they should have been reduced from and after the beginning of the next term; but it was unjust and dishonorable to apply the reduction to tho new iucumbent. Of course, it was done because he is a Republican. It is a dirty trick, worthy only of tho Indiana Democracy. The ladies of the present administration, that is to say tho wives of tho Cabiuot members, havo held a caucus and decided not to attend the inauguration ball. In explanation of their conduct they say the ball is none of their affair, and that they prefer to leave the field dear for members of the new administration. Tho crowd, they say, will care nothing for the presence of those who have held social leadership at tho capital for the past four years, and their attendance at tho ball would simply bo a matter of form without pleasure or profit to either party. This is not according to precedent, for the families of General Arthur's Cabinet paid marked attention to President and Mrs. Cleveland and Vice-president and Mrs. Hendricks at the last inaugural bail. Besides, wo think the ladies of tho retiring administration subject themselves to the suspicion of having no attractions except official station, and of being afraid to come in competition with the ladies of the incoming administration. Their decision is not very good politics. The Curtis bill provides a berth for Tomtit Bailey, but that person's 6o-called mind is said to bo agitated by tho awful fear that the Constitution of tho iState will stand between himself and the enjoyment of its emoluments. lie is not acquainted with the Constitution himself, but somebody who is told him 60. An Iowa man has invented what he claims is a perpetual motion, and has gone to Washington to secure a patent. Ho will find thousands of perpetual motions there.

Almost every office-seeker carries one in his mouth. , W. F. G., Jeffersonville: Hie Journal' is in receipt of more contributions of tho character you mention than it can possibly use, To the Editor of the Indianapoiia Journal: 1. Was there ever a State-house at Vlncennes or Corydon! 2. Did Indiana havo a capital when it was a Territoryl 3. When was the llrst tate-houe buUt at Indianapolis? 4. What is the salary of Civil-service Commissioners! 5. Which takes the oath of oulce first. President or Vice-president? l. p. JIillsboro, Ind. 1. There was a primitive State-house at Yincennes, the Territorial capital from 1600 to 1813. 2. Corydon became tho Territorial capital in 1813, and continued to be the capital after the State was admitted, and until 1S25. There was a plain, brick State-houso there. 8. Tho old State-houso in this city was erected in 1S35. 4. Threo thousand five hundred dollars a year. 5. The Vice-president. The oath is always administered to him first in the Capitol, in tho presence of Congress, and afterward to the President, at tho east front of tho Capitol, in the presence of the multitude. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: riease answer through the columns of your paper, to settle a dispute, whether or not there is a LuildinK in St. Paul or Minneapolis, that is tweny-eignt stories high, and describe the building if so. A Reader. Paris, I1L There is no such building. You have probably gained the impression of its existence from some of tho "tall stories" emanating from that region. " To the Editor ot the Indianapolis Journal: Was Andrew Johnson Impeached! Why was the exception clause placed on the greenback doUarl t. g. Petttsville, Ind. 1. No; the impeachment proceeding failed. 2. Because it was necessary for the government to collect its customs duties and pay interests on the bonds in gold. To the Editor ot the Indianapolis Journal: Please give me tho denominations of the fractional paper currency issued during the late war. Lafayette, IU. A Constant Reader. The denominations were three, rive, ten, twenty-five and fifty cents. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: What Is tho salary of the Vice-president! Also, United States Senator! Vice-president, 8,000 a year; Senator, $5,000. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: Did the biU pensioning the army nurses (durinp the war of the rebellion) become a lawl Fort Keogii, M. T., Feb. 23. Header. No.

ABOUT PEOPLE AND TIILNGS. In" I860 the ladies of the country wore $2,401,000 worth of wire in their hoopskirts. f James Russell Lowell will devote tho remainder of his life to travel and reading. Ho says that his literary work is all done. In addition toher other accomplishments, Mrs. Levi P. Morton speaks and writes German, French and Spanish with ease and correctness. Lord Ashtown, the young Englishbaron who has just attained his majority, and the control of an enormons fortune, is about to make a tour of America. An Arkansas man who bears the name of Jerusalem John Johnson wants it changed to John the Baptist Smith, in order that he may inherit ten acres of land. A reputable author says that the skull of John Theach, known as "Blackboard," the Virginia pirate of 1718, is in the possession of a Virginia family in the form of a silver-trimmed drinking cup. Tun total expense of cultivating an acre of grapes in California is $15. The curing and packing of an acre of grapes, making a hundred boxes of raisins, is $55. And as the average price of raisins is 1.50 a box, there is a net profit of $S0 per acre in the raisin business. Among the criticisms on American girls in Knglish papers wo should be satisfied with the remarks of the London Queen: "American girls are bright, intelligent, good managers, tasteful dressers, kind, warm-hearted friends and affectionate wives and mothers." People at Washington who have thought it safe to make remarks in the Persian minister's presence about his looks, clothes and belongings are now informed that he spent years in Paris, and not only reads and speaks French -fluently, but understands English pretty well, too. Catherine I of Russia had a musical watch. In the interior was the holy sepulchre and the Roman guard. By touching a spring the 6tones moved away from tho sepulchre, the guard kneeled down, angels appeared, and the holy woman stepped into the tomb and sang the Easter song of the Russian churches. Dr. Alvan Talcott. of Guilford, Conn, who has given $25,000 to endow a professorship of Greek at Yale, is one of the oldest alumni of that university, having been graduated in 1S28. He is past eighty years oVl, still practices medicine, ami reads Homer daily with far more earnestness than ev er in his undergraduate days. The death of James C. Flood at Heidelberg leaveshis daughter, Miss Jennie Flood, who1 was with him at the time of his death, probably tho richest woman in the world. When tho bonanza mines wero at the zenith of their prosperity Mr. Flood gave his daughter $2,500,000 in United States bonds at one time as a birthday present. No men in France, probably, look upon the present dire straits of the government with more personal complacence than Marshal Mac.Mahon and M. Jules Grevy; especially tho latter, who now grimly recalls what ho said when he was turned out of the Elyseo that he left to those who turned him out thp responsibility forail that might happen thereafter. A correspondent writing from Arizona says that at the tune the law was passed making it an. offense for Indians to appear in a'city mitfiis their trousers, the red men accepted tho decree with their usual stoicism. .They would carry their pantaloons on their arms until they reached the city limits, whereupon they would don them, removing the obnoxious garments when they left tho city. 'Memory boos" are the latest fad in Kansas City. A memory hoop is about ten inches in diameter, and will hold from thiry to forty boTts or knots. And the thing for tho male friends of a young lady to do is to give her a handsome piece of colored silk, which she ties on tho hoop. The girl who covers the most hoops in this way is considered the reigiting belle. At a recent dinner given by the Crown Prince of Servia to tho officers of the battalion he commands, one of the guests asked his Royal Highness to propose a toast. The boy, who is twelve years old, without hesitation proposed the health of his dearlybeloved mother. The officers were painfully embarrassed, but aftot a shortpause they all drank the health of "Their Crown Prince's mother" without, calling her "queen." There is a maiden lady in a city not far from Elbcrton, Ga.. who is so constituted that 6he cannot live out of water but a short whilo at a time. After remaining away from a bath-tub for a conpiV of hours she commences to faint and alrtAOst suftocates, and to procure relief nmsti at once cover her entire body in cold waAer. She has in her room a pool of fresh water, and in this she spends a greater part of her time, both winter and summer. Otherwlso her health is very good. A rather mixed household is that of tho Ameer of Afghanistan. He has five legal wives. Number one is a grandniece of. his grandfather. Number two is notable chiefly for her weight three or four huudrvd pounds. Number three used to be hamluiaid to number two. and is the mother of

the designated heir to, the throne. Number fonr is a daughter of the Dost. She is queen of the harem, and rules her hnsband in all domestic affairs. Number five's biography is yet unwritten. Het Loo, the place where the king of tho Netherlands lies dying, is not at all showy in appearance and resembles a gentleman's quiet country home more than a king's palace. The building occupied by his Majesty is furnished with exquisite taste, every article of furniture naving been carefully selected by tho king himself. The dining-room contains many interesting relics, among them the pocket-knife of William the Silent, a spoon used by William III, of England, and a favorite drink-ing-glass of Stadtholder William V. A sleek and close-clipped mouse-colored mule, decorated with red, white and blno paper rosettes, and with a knot of ribbons at the end of its well-shaved tail was led into tho New York Stock Exchange at high noon Tuesday. Around the mule's neck were more ribbons, from which hung a placard giving the mule's name as "Denmark," and telling that it had been voted at the Manhattan Dispensary fair to a member of tho board. The mule behaved excellentlv amid the bulls and bears, carrying himself with a quiet dignity hitherto unknown in the exchange. Says a Washington correspondent: "To look at Judgo Cooley, of the Interstatecommerce Commission, who seems to be bound in calf and as unsentimental as his own work on the law of corporations, no one would suppose that he would ever elope with a girl; but that was the way he got his wife. Tho lady in the case was a fanner's daughter, and it happened more than thirty years ago. She now presides over his house at Ann Arbor, and has spent a good part of the winter at the Arlington Hotel. Washington. There aro 6ix children to rise up and call her blessed, and that marriago could possibly be a failure never entered her head."

COMMENT AND OPINION. Knaves alone are benefited by the present extradition laws of Canada, which, as we have already said, have no excuse but tradition and precedent; and neither precedent nor tradition ever sanctifies injustice. New York Commercial Ad vertiser. If taxes are not reduced, if the surp lus continues, if there is no relief from tariff burdens, the country knows where to place the responsibility. The professional "tariff reformers" will be the cause of the defeat of reform in the tariff and in methods of taxation. Chicago Journal. Let the railroads alone. Simply compel them to obey the laws made for all men; restrict their chartered privileges: stop public subscriptions for roads built only as speculations, and then give the regulative force of competition free course that it may run and be glorified. Louisville CourierJournal. Whatever the mugwump press has had to say against tho incoming Secretary of State it never before has charged him with being a fool of the first water. A determined effort to poison the minds of the people against Mr. Blaine is revealed in the attitude of the mugwump and the Democrati J press. Albany Journal. The breaking of the "solid South" will be effected not Dy political conventions nor party strife, but will be the natural resuli of improved industrial conditions guaranteed by an administration pledged to the" encouragement of diversified industry and the proofs which these conditions will afford of the advantages of the American policy. Los Angeles Tribune. The handwriting on the wall is so clear and legible that he who runs may read, and it proclaims with the authority of an infallible oracle that Salisbury and his crew must go. In the light of this final revelation England can see herself as others seo her, and the world will not much longer have occasion to deplore the spectacle of her shame. Brooklyn Eagle. If it should be discovered that the Monroe doctrine compels us to interfere in Venezuela's behalf, the action of our government would probably be somewhat embarrassed by the circumstance that American citizens have a claim against Venezuela for the destruction of American property, which the Venezuelan authorities have thus far stubbornly refused to pay. Boston Journal. The infamous conspiracy against the good name of the great Irish leader has een crushed largely by the efforts of American citizens, That such a dangerous blow at the cause of Ireland and the integrity of a noblo man and true patriot has been warded off is a grand triumph for truth and liberty. America's faith in Parnell has brought forth magnificent results. Chicago News. It is very pleasant for every American to see the respect which is felt abroad for the United States, about the time that the ltepubli can party with General Harrison for President and Mr. Blaine for Secretary of State, takes chartre of affairs. Mr. Bismarck is to be congratulated on the sagacity he displays and on the fact that he seems to keep well informed on the movements of American polities. Iowa Stato Register. Several Northern Democrats broke away from Southern leadership in the matter of the admission of Territories. Tho break was deliberate, because it was knwn that the South had about the same views as to the admission of new States as were held before the war. The South has been a bad master of the Democratic party, ruling and ruining it by bad example and worse teaching. Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. Oklahoma will be opened, if not now, yet at no distant' day. The Indians must get out of the way of progress and avarice. Whatever they possess belongs to the whites by right. Hovering on the borders of tho territory there is already a black array of hungry immigrants. Trey are intent upon seizing that land. Sooner or later the Indians must give it up. They may as well do it now with a good grace Chicago Herald. After all. tho Union has made some progress since the first Republican President was inaugurated. The war was not fought in vain. Notwithstanding the spasmodic outbursts of sectional feelings, it is stronger and more real to-day than it ever was before. General Harrison is presented with the magnificent opportunity of strengthening it by removing the only source of danger to its foundations, and maintaining its power and protecting its honor abroad. Minneapolis Tribune. In all future discussions of tho Southern policy, and there is going to be a good deal of it, let the South be held squarely down to the issue. It is a plain and simple one. The indictment against it is that it has 6tolen twenty-seven or more seats belonging to Republicans, that it furnishes a solid electoral vote for President by the disfranchisement of Kenublican voters, and that in violation of both the Constitution and tho law it makes this disfranchised Republican population the basis of voting power and representation. Chicago Tribune. The State Press on the Legislature. Lagrange Standard: Common sense would indicate that a Legislature should not have the power to select men for courts to pass upon their own laws. Corydon Republican: Tho present Legislature is creating one new olnce after another and filling them with Democrats, and tho people foot the bill. Not only is it doing that, but it is creating several new judicial circuits in the State, requiring additional judges and prosecuting attorneys, and the people foot the bilL Versailles Republican: Sixty days is long enough for the session of any Legislature, except undcrtho most extraordinary circumstances. Sixty minutes is too long a session for the infamous body at Indianapolis, called the Legislature, which is nothing moro in reality than a mob held together for the purpose of Democratic jobbery. Peru Republican: If the Republican reads the 6igns of the times correctly, the people will not much longer see the great Stato charities prostituted to mere political machines and the patronage connected with them doled out us a reward to ward bummers and whippers-in for any political party, but will see to it that they are run in the interest of humanity. Martinsville Republican: Gov. Hovey is firing into the Legislature some very able vetoes. He shows clearly that the partisan acts of tho Legislature are not only opposed to jpnblic interest and welfare, but are plainly unconstitutional; but the Legislature pays no attention to argument, public policy or the Constitution, aud blindly passes tho bills over the vetoes without excuse or explanation. South Bend Times: Governor Hovey, as he should have done, vetoed tho bill de

priving him of the right to appoint a Stato f:eologist; a mine and an oil inspector. Tho ill was immediately passed over the veto, almost before it was read. There is nothing short of murder the Anarchists of the Legislature will not do, and they have become so used to robbery that we may expect to hear of murder any day. Greencastle Times: The averacre Democratic farm-owner of Indiana is beginning now to scratch around for money to pay his spring taxes. Whilo enpaged in thfs cheerful and altogether essential duty there can be no more profi table subject for his contemplation than the profligate manner in which his sweat-staiucd ducats are being dissipated by tho convention of spoilsmen in session at Indianapolis as a Legislature. Frankfort Banner: There is too much intelligence and partv independence in Indiana, to permit the looting of the benevolent institutions by the Sullivan freebooters, to go unrebuked. Tho hesitating and impotent Democratic investigating committee may formulate its whitewashing report, and represent affairs as rosy a a June mornine. but the people at the next election will elect to place all theso charities where humanity dictates they should be placed on a non-partisan basis. Logansport Journal: Governor Hovey has informed the General Assembly that the deficiency in tho Staterevenue amounts to $2.fj00,000, and yet the gerrymander gang is too busy passing partisan measures for the benefit of spoilsmen bummers to give any attentian whatever to the load of debt and interest that is piling up acainst the people. At the last hours of the session possibly thcro will be some hasty temforary financial tinkeriuc, more wholesalo orrowing, and so the end. "After us the deluge" appears to bo the motto of the gang. Steuben Republican: The Democrats iu both houses of the Indiana General Assembly have put themselves on record as solidly opposed to any K gislatiou whatever in the interests of temperance reform or looking toward imposing any further restraints upon tho liquor power. The local option bill and the bill lor teaching in the public schools the effects of alcohol on tho human 83'Stein were not only killed, but killed bv cowards vi ho did not dare to allow a word to be said in support of the bills, nor in exposure of their own crooked course in tho premises. Evansvillo Journal: Why the Democrats in the Legislature wish to take away Governor Hovey ?s appointing power is a mystery. His appointments are not numerousThey have been exercised by previous Governors, including Hendricks. Williams and Gray. Why. then, should Governor Hovey be deprived of this power? ' He has not been an extreme partisan. Ho has never abused any power conferred on him in tho interest or party. In fact, he has been reasonable in all his'political actions, and there is no excuse for the Democratic majority to discriminate against him.

Rosser's Fighting Qualities. Washington Special. General Rosser, who has attained no lit tlo notoriety by his utterance at the recent confederate banquet in Baltimore, that "one Southern gentleman could always whip a puritanical Yankee," did not, according to his record, do much whipping during tho war. He commauded cavalry, and became a laughing stock in confederate and Union lines because of his facility for getting away from danger. On ono occasion, near tho close of tho war, the federal officer in command of tho forces that had been chasing Rosser 6omo time, without being able to come up with him. sent a formal notice to a mayor of a town near the Alabama and Tennessee line as follows: "You are hereby notified to immediately removo tho women and children and Kosser's cavalry, as I am preparing to shell the town.." This estimate of the non-combative qualities of Rosser and his troops was considered so good that it was used among tha confederates, and Kosser was "guyed" unmercifully. Has Not 3 Lade a Mistake. Philadelphia Pres. The long period of probationand preparation is over, and the next President enters upon theacts which decide the character of his administration. General Harrison ha now been for eight months the center of the deep interest and penetrating scrutiny which envelops alike a presidential candidate and a President-elect. Wo believo that we speak for all Americans in expressing the profound satisfaction with which the country looks back upon his conduct and record in this trying period. In it all General Harrison has not made a mistake. Speaking with a m frequency unknown in any previous presidential campai pn. every speech added to his position before the country. He has risen in its respect as he became better known. His demeanor, his restraint and his reserve during the weeks in which he has borne tho trying part of a President-elect have won admiration. The crowing knowledge of his simple life, its happy domesticity and its high Christian principle has deepened publie affection. His Wisest and Best Act. Chicago Inter Ocean. In looking over the entire four years of Grover Cleveland's administration there can be no hesitancy in saying that his wisest and best act was in petting married to a charming woman, who has atall times, and under all circumstances, honored and graced her position. The whole land, regardless of politics, will strew roses in the Bath of the departing mistress of tho Whit Louse. A Modest Acknowledgment. Boston Journal. General Harrison's brief farewell address to his Indianapolis friends and neighbors was a simple, modest and manly acknowledgment of his debt to them and his realization of the solemn nature of his new duties. Such words fitly show the trne strength of tho man whom the Nation has summoned to bo its counselor and chieftain. Slow to Learn, fit. Loots Globe-Democrat. The innocent individuals who imagined that the defeat of last November would teach the Democratic bosses wisdom will now seo that they were mistaken. Tho Presidents recent utterances on the tarifi, and the action of his party chiefs in the House prove that they havo neither learned nor forgotten anything. m t Not a Draw, but Firmly Decided. Boston Glob. The assertion of an ex-confederate general at Baltimore dinner that "a Southern gentleman can whip any puritanical Yankee." is a mooted question which was mutually decided a3 a draw nearly a quarter of a century ago. To revive it is, to say the least, bad taste. Indiana's Example. New York Graphic Indiana presents tho best example of Capitol building in the country. When the estimates were completed and contracts lctt a law was enacted making it a criminal offense to exceed th estimate of cost. There was a surplus left over froni the appropriation. . An American Administration Throughout. Philadelphia Inquirer. The dresses to he worn by Mrs. narrison. Mrs. Morton and Mrs. McKeeat the inauguration ball will bo of American material and American make, throughout- In fact, it looks as if Harrison's were going to be an American administration in every sense of the word. Defend Onr Own Illghts First. Milwaukee Wisconsin. Some ono has suggested at Washington that the United States covernment retaliate upon England for her treatment of Irish patriots. During the Cleveland administration the government has not properly defended the rights of its own citizens. Slandering George. Philadelphia Iress. The meanest thing ever said about George Wa sh i n gt on i s t h e re m a r k o f a m n gw u m n organ that if ho were alive now ho would be amuirwump. This is as much as to Kay that Washington was a Tory duing his lifetime. Shed Iloth With Ease of Conscience. Washinrton Tost. An Arkansas editor shouts in big, black tvpe that ."Blood is thicker than water." Perhaps it is, but we notico the people down in his State bhed them both with equal facility and ease of conscience. A Suggestion to lialfour. Philadelphia Inquirer. If we were Balfour we would select the darkest night that come abmg to pack our baggagu and sneak oil seei tily intearck-4 &u.niey.