Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 March 1889 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1889.

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TIIE SUNDAY JOURNAL. The Journal of Sunday, March 10. will bo a very attractive number. It will contain, among other things, the second installment of Maurice Thompson's charming story, 'The Lily of Rochon;" a letter of friendly advice to President Harrison, from the pen of Robert J. Burdette; Bill Nye will take the public into his confidence in a letter concerning his haughty "ancestors; Clara Belle will present her usual interesting and chatty gossip of the fashionable world, and the Journal's poets will contribute their share to the general entertainment, In addition, the paper will contain the customary chapter of home, social and personal gossip and the latest news from the national capital and the world at large. Some kind friend should inform the Indiana contingent at Washington that the inauguration is over and that it is time to come home. TnE general outlook gives the impressiou mux, icw uiucts ui iuu uisyvoai of the President will be allowed to go begging for some one to take them. Pennsylvania militia may be qualified to serve as a target in time of war, but in time of peace should not be allowed to go away from home, except under police guard." Inquirer: You had better send your claim to gome New York lawyer. As it seems to be a plain case, Grover Cleveland would probably attend to it for you as well as anybody. The timo of the Legislature is growing short, and it will soon adjourn permanently. Indianapolis did not welcome it as a coming guest, but in parting will gladly speed it with a kick, if necessary. TnE Sentinel thinks the legality of the Supreme Court Commission is settled because Judge Coflroth has decided in favor of the Legislature's action. Judge Coffroth can hardly be regarded as nonprejudiced. The people will prefer to take a change of venue. Indiana men should reflect that it is Impossible for them to have all tho offices, even if the President is from their State, and if each and every one of them is tho "original Harrison man.71 In the very nature of things a great many Hoosier hearts must ache when the appointments are "done made." There are now three Democrats in the Legislature who owe their seats to the overthrow of popular elections by the revolutionary majority. Theso are Grimes and Ewing in the Senate, and Peyton in the House. These men's titles to their seats are not merely tainted with fraud; they are rotten. The strike of the men in the North Holly, N. J., iron-works because the proprietor wanted them to wear boots to save their feet, and offered to-furnish the boots, was a vindication of the great North American right to go bare-footed; but there is such a thing as carrying the spirit of liberty and independence to an extreme. TnE people supplied from the family kitchen at the Insane Hospital have lived high under Dr. Galbraith's administration, according to all accounts. The amount of eggs, sugar, butter and other provender provided for them by the liberal management is enough to make economical citizens who pay for the sup plies turn cold with horror. The Journal's Washington correspond ent betrays a misunderstanding of the Indianapolis situation when he remarks that "a vacancy will probably be made very soon in the office of .the United States district attorney" in this city. The office is already vacant. Mr. Claypool makes no attempt to fill it, and where Tomtit Bailey is a vacuum always exists. Somebody calls attention to tho for gotten fact that Queen Victoria and other distinguished representatives of tho British government sent messages of con gratulation over tho inauguration of Mr. Cleveland, but have neglected to extend that courtesy to General Harrison. The omission really doesn't matter. Tho feelings of the American people are not hurt in the least, and probably General Harrison has not realised that he has been snubbed. Judge Coffroth, one of the Supreme Court Commissioner, enacted into that position by the Legislature, appears to have the same disregard for the Consti tution, as well as of the right and power of the Supreme Court to pass upon tho constitutionality of the enactments of the Legislature, as have the Democratic members of that body. Instead of mak ing his argument and . filing his brief with the court, he files his brief with the Sentinel and makes his argument to its

readers. The suit to test the validity of the act creating the commission has

been brought in the court and pet down for hearintr at a dav fixed, but the Judge peeks to change the venue to the Senti nel office and to try the case by a jury of Democrats. He manifests his contempt of the court of which ho hopes to be come a part by this course of proceed ing. The public will look with suspicion upon the merits of a case when a party to it endeavors to try it in the newspapers, instead of the courts. GIVE THEM TIME. The present rush of office-seekers in Washington is not a healthy nor a hopeful sign, nor a gratifying sight. It is not in accordance -with the better sentiment of the Republican party, and we have no doubt it is a disagreeable experience to the President and his executive assistants. He and they had a right to expect that after their first in duction into office they would be allowed a brief respite from the exciting scenes of the inauguration and time to attend to pressing matters of business and familiarize themselves with their new official duties and arrangements. No such consideration seems to have been shown them. Thus far their time and at tention, have been wholly absorbed by the crowd of office-seekers. These are presumably good Republicans, and therefore friends of ours, but we must say in all candor that wo think they aro doing themselves, the Republican party and the new administration harm by the unseemly zeal and energy with which they are pushing their claims for office. It was this sort of thing, four years ago, that gavo the Republican press a chance to ridi cule the hungry and thirsty Democracy. If the present rush continues much longer, the Democratic press will be justified in turniiig the tables on us. And it was precisely this, also, which con tributed more than anything else to em barrass and weaken Sir. Cleveland's administration, by compelling him to make hasty and bad appointments. Republicans should take care not to commit the same error. If the Republican party is to redeem its pledges of improving the ad ministration of the government, pledges which .contributed in no small degree to its success, the President and heads of departments must be given a chance to act deliberately and intelligently in making appointments. The public interests do not demand a clean sweep so much as they do a discriminating sweep. The President has a right to expect that he be allowed reasonable time in which to make needed changes, and the Journal earnestly hopes he will insist on having it. He said in his inaugural: It is entirelv creditable to seek public of fice bv rjroner methods and with. oroner motives, and all applicants will be treated with consideration. But I shall need, and tho heads of departments will need, time lor inquiry and deliberation, Persistent importunity will not, therefore, be the best support of an application for office. The President and heads of depart ments should stand firmly by this posi tion, and not be driven from it by a clamor which does not represent the best elements nor the best interests of the Republican party.THE SUPREME COURT COMMISSION. Judge Cofforth has printed a brief, ar gument and decision in the Supremo Court Commission case, sustaining tho constitutionality of the act and his own appointment. It is a poor lawyer who cannot make a plausible argument on either side of a close question. Jud.ro Coffroth is not a poor lawyer, and wo presume his argument is the best that can be made on his side of the case. That he should offer any at all illustrates the weakness of the claim that the Legislature may establish courts and appoint judges thereof, for hero we have the remarkable spectacle of a leg islative judge passing on the legality of his own appointment. We do not say that Judge Coffroth's decision was influenced by the fact that he has a largo personal interest in maintaining the con stitutionality of the commission, but wo will say that just such conditions as this are apt to lead to what the Sentinel calls 'a debased judiciary." A Supreme, Court, or five members thereof, sitting iu judgment on the constitutionality of the act creating it, or of other laws enacted by the body that created it, is apt to fall under the suspicion of. undue bias. No doubt it was this con sideration, in part at least, that induced the framers of the Constitution of 18o0 to do away entirely with tho appoint ment of judges by the Legislature, as practiced under the old Constitution, and make all judges elective by tho peo ple, except in the appointment to vacan cies by the Governor. Assuming that Judge Coffroth's argu ment is as strong as can be made on his side, we think it shows the weakness of his case and of the legislative claim to exercise executive power. A largo part of his argument is given to establishing the proposition that "the Legislature is invested with all legislative power, except such as is expressly denied to it." It is a waste of time to argue that proposition, for nobody denies it. Certainly tho Governor has not. Tho Constitu tion expressly vests alllegislative power in the Legislature. But tho same in-6ti-ument expressly vesta all executive power in tho Governor, and we challengo Judge Coffroth, as a lawyer, to say that the appointing power is not an executive power. If, as he rightly argues, all legislative power is vested in tho Legislature except such as is expressly denied to it, he must admit that all executive power is vested in the Governor, except such as is expressly taken out of his hands or conferred somewhere else. Where in the Constitution is the power conferred on the Legislature of appointing judges of tho Supreme Court? Judge Coffroth's argument is good to prove the right of the Legislature to establish courts and create ofliees, and equally good to prove that it has no right to appoint judges or fill the offices it creates. The former is a legislative, the latter au executive power. Every word in the Judge's argument would go to sustain tho right of tho Legislature to create the office of Deputy Governor and fill it bT appointment, conferring on tho Deputy Governor part of the powers now vested in

the Governor. The Constitution does not in express words prohibit such an act any more than it prohibits the Legislature from electing Supreme Judges, and Judge Coffroth says whatever the Constitution does not in express terms prohibit the Legislature from doing it may do. This is dangerous doctrine. The Constitution says the Governor "shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed." It nowhere in express terms prohibits the Legislature from assuming to execute laws; therefore, according to Judge Coffroth, it might appoint a sheriff in every county and a constabulary force throughout tho State to assist in executing the laws. Why not? The Constitution does not prohibit it from doing so in express terms. The case is in a nutshell. The Constitution vests all executive power in the Governor just as it vests all legislative power in the Legislature. The appointing power is an executive power. Tho Legislature has no more right to make an appointment to office than the Governor has to proclaim a law. Judge Coffroth has demonstrated beyond a doubt that tho Legislature possesses all legislative power under the Constitution. Let him address himself to the point at issue, viz., whether it may exercise executive authority in making appointments to office. The Judge concludes by expressing regret that he was unable to confer with his colleagues in the preparation of his opinion. If this is an intimation that some of them might have dissented it is superfluous. We feel safe in saying that tho five commissioners aro a unit in sustaining the constitutionality of the act which appoints them to an office of $4,000 a year. That branch of the court is non-partisan.

The factional fight between ex-Governor Gray and Senator Voorhees is at tho bottom of the disgraceful course of tb3 Legislature. Tho contest between these two for the United States senatorsaip two years hence isbackof the whole business. The unseating of Senator Carpenter enablcdGray to secure a holdover Senator in his place and made it necessary for Voorhees to get even. This w s done by unseating Senator Bichowski, of Vigo, and seating Grimes. There was no case against Bichowski and not even the shadow of a pretext for unseating him. It was done simply and solely to give Voorhees a vote two years hence, just as Carpenter was unseated to make a vote for Gray. In the matter of stealing scats tho two honorable aspirants aro about even. The political legislation of the session has had its origin iu the same contest, and has been forced through to benefit one or the other of the aspirants. Tho friends of both have acted tho part of political wreckers, subordinating and sacrificing every interest to the advancement of one or the other of these selfseeking demagogues. If the people have not lost their capacity for self-government they should punish both of them, in tho only way that demagogues can appreciate, by driving them out of public life. A foolish statement is published, professing to account for tho construction of President Harrison's Cabinet. It says that having decided on Mr. Blaine for Secretary of State, ho became suddenly impressed with the idea that "he must not let Blaine and his friends dominate the Cabinet, and tho result is the appointment of seven men who were and are to a certain extent antagonistic to Blaine." The story proceeds on the theory that tho Cabinet is a deliberative or, perhaps, executive body whoso conclusions are in some sort binding on the President. There is nothing of this. The President may ask the opinions or advice of his Cabinet on all questions, but is not obliged 'to follow it on any. No decision is made on any question of executive policy till the President makes it, and he may overrule those of all the Cabinet. Therefore, it was not neces-. sary for the President to appoint seven members of his Cabinet, or any other number, to counteract tho influence of Mr. Blaine. The President himself counteracts all other influences in his Cabinet. ' ' Our Washington dispatches foreshadow important action by the President in extending the time for applying the civil-service rules to the railway-mail service. The order issued by President Cleveland a few weeks before tho close of his administration made the rules take effect March 15, the effect being to tie the hands of the new administration and cJose the door against needed reforms. President Harrison will proba bly extend tho order till tho 80th of June. This will give the new Postmas ter-general time to make such changes in the service as are demanded and en able him to reinstate some of the best of the old employes without going through tho form of a civil-service examination. This will be an excellent move and clearly in tho interest of the public serv ice. We may add that it has been warm ly urged by the Journal. In approving the new election law, Governor Hovey added the following: Approved, because it may tend to purify our election laws: but I am afraid it will be found, in practice, intricate, obscure and expensive. Without tho enactment of a registration law, as demanded by our Constitution, our elections will remain open to corruption anuirauu. Time will prove tho correctness of this opinion. The Legislature ought to have passed a much better law, and might easily have done so, but the caucus and gag-law methods of the majority would not permit. The best that can be said of the new law is that it is a step in the right direction, but the chances are ten to one it will have to be retraced and made over again. The refusal of the majority to pass a registration law is a plain disregard of the Constitution, which peremptorily imposes that duty on the Legislature. Every day's developments m the Insane Hospital investigation strengthen the conviction that tho management is thoroughly corrupt. Tho witnesses have shown an evident purpose to conceal and cover up the truth, and what has been brought out hasbeen extorted from them with difficulty. But it is enough to prove wholesale favoritism and corruption,

and to justify a belief that deep probing

would reveal a great deal more. Tho investigation has been intelligent and useful, as far as it goes, but it is neces sarily superficial and incomplete, and will probably have to close at tho threshold of important discoveries. Among the gifts sent to President Har rison is a horn chair from Mr. D. M. O'Con nor, of Anaqua, Tex. On the back of the chair is a large gold plate bearing the following inscription: ............ I rRF.SKXTF.D TO : " : general benjamin harrison, : ; rREsmEXT or the uitei states, : ! BY I. M. O'CONNOR, ; : SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS. : The name of General Harrison is set entirely with diamonds, the remainder of the inscription being tastefully engraved. Be low the first plate is a second heavy gold star, with the letters T e x a s in the five points. In tho center of the 6tar is a fine engraving of the front of the Alamo. Below the star is a second plate, segmental in shape, bearing on its gold face the inscription: "Thermopyhe had her messenger of defeat, but the Alamo and Refugio had none." Between the 6tar and the second plate, on either side, are smaller plates in scribed respectively, "Tippecanoe 1811," and "San Jacinto 1SGC" Tho top of the back is protected by a gold plate and on either arm are silver plates. The plate on the right arm is inscribed, "Encouragement to home industry, 1S40," and that on the left, "Protection home industry," 1888." On the back is a silver plate with the inscription, "Manufactured and Engraved by Charles Puppe L. Rouvant, San Antonio, Tex." The work on the chair isof the finest description, and the whole matter was at Mr. O'Connor's request kept a profound secret. The chair was shipped by express to Washington on last Thursday, and was presented to General Harrison on Mondav. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. General Tracy, the new secretary of the Navy, was, to a large extent, the creator of our internal-revenue system, which has been copied by many foreign countries. Miss Stuart Mosby, daughter of tho confederate raider, is the belle of Washington society, and is now devoting herself to literary work, with fair prospects of success. The youngest college president in tho country is Kev, Do Witte Hyde, of Bowdoin. Ho was called to the presidency of the college three or four years after his graduation from Harvard. The Maryland Court of Appeals has decided that a wife's will is supreme in one emergency. A woman with a tumor gave her consent to the surgeon to remove it, and she died. The husband, who forbade tho operation, sued the surgeon, but the court decided that the wife's consent was sufficient. Charles E. West, LL. D., of Brooklyn, who, as president of Rutgers Institute, established the first collegiate course for young women in this country, who has been for sixty-two years a teacher, and fifty as an instructor of young women, is about to retire from active service, lie is eighty years of age. Editor Grady, of the Atlanta Constitution, is to write a history of the, South, from its settlement to date. The book will be a volume of about 900 pages, at least three of which will be taken up with a full description of that "New South." of which Mr. Grady was the original discoverer and is the sole proprietor. When Frances Hodgson Burnett was a girl she lived in a log house near Knoxville, Tenn. At the age of fourteen she taught a Country school. She was always writing short stories, and when sho was sixteen she sent one to Godey's Lady's Book. The editor sent her a check for $35, and requested her to continue writing. After this the girl made money rapidly. . Mrs. Nellie Brown Mitchell, the colored prima donna, has recently returned from a trip to the South, where she reports the people of her race to be making much Teater progress than at the North. Robert . Church, a colored man. owns, she savs, one of the finest hotels in Memphis, and no is the owner of sixty houses besides. His check is said to be good for 250,000. Justice Matthews is still unable to attend tho sittings of the Supreme Court. Some time ago it was announced that the Justice would probably resume his seat on the bench when the court met after its annual February recess, but he has mended very slowly, and it is not expected now that he will be able to attend to his judicial duties before next October. Mrs. William Wixdom, during her long residence iu Washington, was quite popular in the society circle of the national capital. She is a lady of high intelligence, great tact, and thoso substantial womanly qualities that commend themselves in every walk of life, lieroldest daughter, who is an accomplished young lady, will, with her mother, make a valuable addition to the social life there under General Harri60u's administration. There seems to be an evil fatality in Belgian royal matrimonial alliances with the imperial family of Austria. Twice in one generation a Belgian Princess has been married to a Hapsburg, and in each case tho husband has been torn from the wife by a sudden and horrible death. On tho 19th of June, 1So7, the Belgian Princess Charlotte lost her husband, the Emperor Maximilian, who was executed by the bullets of the Mexicans at Queretaro. and the widow has ever sinco been hopelessly insane. On the 80th of January, 1880, tho Belgian Princess Stephanie lost her husband by a fate even more terrible. One of the American girls who was presented at the Queen's drawing-room was so embarrassed that she made quite a faux pas. She wholly ignored the Queen until after she had saluted the Princess of Wales, when she suddenly turned around and astonished her Majesty by saying: "Oh, I beg your pardon, madam," grabbed her royal hand, kissed it and then hurried along the line. The Queen, who is a terrible stickler about matters of etiquette, at first looked angry, then, catching sight of tho amused smile of the Princess of Wales, she burst into a pleasant Laugh and sent the discomfited debutante away with a few kindly words. The country has now two ex-Presidents, Hayes and Cleveland, and one ex-Vice-president, Hannibal Hamlin, but there are six living queens of the Whitellouse. They aro Mrs. Tyler, who reigned as early as 1844, and is yet living in Georgetown: Mrs. Polk, who succeeded her in 1845, and still lives in the Polk mansion in Nashville; Mrs. Johnson, who, as Harriet Lane, is remembered as one of the most accomplished of our White House mistresses, and is living in Baltimore; Mrs. Grant, who is living in New York; Mrs. Garfield, who is living at Mentor, O., and Mrs. Cleveland, who will become one of Gotham's queens of social life. All the widows of ex-Presidents receive a life annuity of $5,000 from the government. It is said that Queen Victoria is so fond of fresh air that she is in the habit of sleeping with open windows even in the dead of winter, and that during the daytime her apartments at Windsor Castle are so cold that her attendants and visitors are almost frozen. The Empress Maria Theresa of Austria, was more peculiar in this respect. Her apartments were very rarely heated. She exposed herself to draughts without falling a victim to rheumatism. Her writing-table, even in winter, was close to the open window, and the falling snow often drifted into the apartment and fell on the paper on which she wrote. It frequently happened that the handsof the hair-dresser were partially frozen whilst attending to

her Majesty's coiflure, and that the ladies surrounding her august person literally trembled from cold.

COMMENT AND OPINION. It is not very creditable to the House of Representatives of the United States to say that it is necessary for the Speaker to exercise arbitrary control over debate and legislation in the closing hours of Congress in order to prevent joobery and corruption. Louisville CommerciaL The danger of the toleration of bulldozing methods in the Southern States is illustrated by the deliberate attempt, by nullifying the laws of West Virginia, to steal the governorship from the man whom the people elected. 1 he theft of the presidency itself is but a step beyond this. Albany (N. Y.) Journal. Four years ago the Bourbons wasted lots of talk about what thev would discover in "going over the books.' When the books were examined they were found to be entirely correct after twenty-four years of Republican administration. The interesting question now is. will they be found in as satisfactory condition after four years of Democratic rule? Cleveland Leader. Ark the free-trade tariff reformers, who are planning a new campaign, going to tight it out on the old line? Let them hoist a banner, "A tariff is a tax " and give it the old meaning, and they will be easily routed again. If they haul down that banner and try another they can be charged with retreat, and kept on the run. Go ahead, gentlemen, we are ready for you. Detroit Tribune. President Harrison's administration can please the Democracy by simply giving to the people good government. The Eagle believes that this administration will have more trouble with its own party, on the question of office distribution, than it will with the Democracy, to whom principle will be superior to patronage at least until the next national election. Brooklyn Eagle (Ind.) Mr. Cleveiand will be known in history as the veto President. The distinction will not be complimentary, for it will be a notice of the egotism, obstinacy and selfwill that abused a prerogative which should have been used with wisdom, mod esty and self-respect. It took a hundred years to produce the first veto President, may it take another hundred at least to find his equal. Iowa State Register. Altogether, the new Cabinet is a oneer collection of amiable nobodies. It is a very bold stroke on the part of the new President, but it will not, as the boys say, pan out. Mr. Harrison is not as big a man as General Grant was. and even General Grant's administration was nearly wrecked and disgraced by the nobodies to whom he gave uabinet positions. Let us wait and see what the result will be. Atlanta Constitution(Dem.) The attacks which have been made nnon the management of postal affairs for the last eighteen months have not had their in spiration in political partisanship, but, on the contrary, complaints have been made repeatedly by men of all parties who were forced to suffer inconvenience and loss by the negligence and incompetence of postollice employes. The degeneracy of the Postoffice Department has become a national scandal. Rochester. Democrat. With the exception of Blaine and Windom.noneof those who have been chosen to advise the chief executive as to the conduct of the all airs of the Nation have more than a local reputation. They may all be very able men, but they have given no conspicuous evidence of it, and do not give character to the new administration. It is evident that the idea has been either to emphasize Hlaineism in the Cabinet by making Blaine the only conspicuous member of it, or else to give the President an opportunity, with the aid of seven plastic members, to have and enforce a policy of his own. Time will show which view is the correct ono. Memphis Avalanche (Dein.) THE GRIMES INFAMY. There "Will Soon Be Opportunity for Securing Punishment for Bribery. Terre Haute Express. The Express believes that nine men out of ten in Vigo county will believe the act of the State Senate yesterday was an outrage. That ia to say, but one tenth will give expression to an honest expression of their opinion to tho contrary. When this contest was originated as a means of support for Mr. oorhees's reelection two years hence, the chatter of tho strikers and the Democratic organ here was that Mr. Bichowsky had received a majority of the votes found in the ballotboxes by reason of bribery of voters. That was the main relience of the contestors then, but as the testimony in the case developed the fact that no instance of bribery could be proven in behalf of Mr. Bichowsky, and plain proof was produced as against Mr. Grimes, there was a change in the programme and the talk abont distinguishing marks on the tickets was made the chief reliance of the Voorhees conspirators. Now, without proper hearing or considation, the Democratic Senate gives to Mr. Grimes, the Jekyll-Hyde of igo politics, the office which even Dribe money aid not secure for him. As one Senator said in the debate yesterday, it is "the climax of political scoundrelism." While it is true that there is no appeal from this decision it is likewise true that thfre will soon be opportunity to secure punishment for the crime of bribery. Yesterday a number of charges for violation of election laws were dismissed in the United States Court at Indianapolis because there was no basis iot prosecution. They were part of the drag-net political work of Leon Baily, the assistant district attorney, whose failure to substantiate the general charge of corruption on the part of the Republicans in this State is being exposed in this manner. The Express hopes for better and more effective prosecution and before the end is reached no doubt the act of the State Senate yesterday will be made doubly infamous by the reversal of that decision by a verdict of guilty in a criminal prosecution. WHAT DEMOCRATS CAN DO. The Indiana Breed Giving the Country a Specimen of Its Handiwork. Iowa State Register. Governor Ho vey shows the right kind of metal in refusing to approve of the revolutionary proceedings of the Indiana Legislature. Such bitter partisanship and such gross injustice to the minority as the Democratic niajoritv have exhibited are without precedent. The Democrats were barely able to control the Legislature after they had gerrymandered the State in a way to disfranchise two-thirds of the Republicans. But when they discovered that they had a majority they proceeded to abuse their power most outrageously. It looked like resentment at the fact that the State had cast its electoral vote for Harrison. Whatever the reason the Democrats in the Legislature have been, from the beginning of the session, as mean as Democrats only can be. They have attempted to take the appointing power away from the Governor because he is a Kepublican, and have tilled thirty-five offices that should have been filled by his appointment. As Governor Hovey has pointed out, such revolutionary proceedings would, on tho same theory, justify the taking away of all the political rights of the people and leave the government and control of tho State, not in tho hands of the people, but of a Democratic oligarchy that had got posession of the Legislature. It is probable that the Supreme Court of that State will have an opportunity to pass upon the constitutionality of such revolutionary proceedings, and the Democratic majority may yet find itself checkmated. Since the Democratic party has had control of that State during the last seven years, it has reduced the money in the treasury from $700,000 to barely $25,000, and has increased tho State debt from a few hundred thousand to more than two million dollars. The country has had opportunity to see how mean andhow harmful to public interests the Democratic party can be, even in a Northern State, and the sight will probably be all that Indiana can stand for a good niany years to come. What 'Tippecanoe" Would See. Philadelphia Inquirer. If old Tippecanoe could revisit us and seo his grandson in the same old White Honse, upon looking around and discerning the changed condition of the'eonntry's affairs since he took the inaugural oath, "he would be with difficulty persuaded that he stood upon the same orb he left forty-eight years ago. Among the wonders which would strike him as preternatural would be the spt-ctacle of people talking over awire many miles apart, electricity casting artificial moonlight with marvelous radiance, the net-works of telegraph interlacing the land. Instead of the few railroad 2.1S miles all told that then existed ho would find

150,000 miles of iron tracks; instead of twen-tv-six States, with a population of 17.000.-

000, he would count forty-two, containing more than 00,0000,(XX) souls. Instead of im ports valued at f $-',000,000. he would find hem now exceeding .10,000.000, with exnrtrt nvpTmatphmp. It would tmittJ nli m m v m - - v VIVA Tippecanoe to understand how a letter can be transmitted ls000 miles for one-third of what it usea to cost people lor ten miles. When his soul took 11 in lit an ocean vnr a tr eastward consumed twenty-three days, and westward thirty-four days. He would now see steamships crossing the Atlantic in a week. Where slavery then covered onehalf the Nation, he would now find nono but freemen over our vast domain. Perfecting presses, nalaco coaches, and other wonders then unknown would startle him with thir mnrvrls. Yt. wnndrfnl am been the change in the march of invention during tho past half century, is it too much lopreuic iiiat xno 1 resiueni-eiect 01 Lh rpar 19S7 will witness marvel unknown orl even unthought of by the great assemblage Indiana's Misfortunes. Chicago Journal. It should bo remembered that manv of the Democratic members of the ladiana Legislature who rnle its methods and acts are the men who were the enemies of tho countrj' in the war, the surviving Knighta of the Golden Circle, and the euemies of loyalty and union during the countrv'a perilous times. In fact, Indiana to-dav las the misiortnno to be 111 part populated v a class as bad as the worst class in Ar. iansas. while the better part of tho Stata has as good a population as that of tho best portions oi the country. The element that resembles Arkansas is now on top. aft least in ine legislature. A Genuine Mugwump View. Springfield Rtpablic&n. President Harrison's inaugural address i much longer than the average, and loses in strength as it expands 111 volume, it lacks tho ring of a lolty and definite purpose, strong convictions and forceful leadershin. The President is too vague in expressing nimscii. nat, ior example, is tone tho attitude of the administration toward tho South! Much is said on this point, but any one can draw his own conclusion. Sonm may read between the lines tho restoration of the old regime of force, and this indeed seems to be the warning purport of the paragraph on tho election Taws. Trying to Kill the State. Cleveland Leader. The Democrats of Indiana have encoun tered opposition in Governor Hovev that they were not provided for. The resolute stand taken by the Uovernor on the uucon-. stitutionality of tlie indecent partisan legislation attempted has had a depressing effect on the exuberance of their spirits. The ultimate outcome of the matter will bo that Indiana will sutler financially, and in other waj's as serious. It is a pity that the copperheads should be permitted to ruin and reuder unattractive lor residence purposes such a finely located State. A Man of the People. Chicago Inter Ocean. . President Harrison imperiled his life to defend the old flag. Ho is a lover of wife. of bigotry, he is a sincere and earnest Christian. No conditions can exist and no com. plications can arise with which he cannot be safely trusted. Urainy, honest and earnest, he is a man of the people, in full symTtatViv with AVPTvthinor that, ia ernfA ith the co-operation of the people, his administntitn will Va tnqrl-ud ltir fnw 1a4.. years in the history of the Republic. It Comes High. Boston Journal. Democratic administration "comes high" in Indiana as elsewhere. WTien a Democratic Legislature was chosen in 18S3 the State had a debt of $971,825.12, and there was $093,079.48 cash in the treasury. Now the cash in the treasury has sunk to $25,000. the aeot has mounted, np to sSbl.Kiis, and Governor llovey has just noticed the Legislature that a loan of $2,200,000 more in addition to the income from taxes, will be needed to carry the government over to 1S91. A Hard Lot of Citizens. Detroit Tribune. The Democrats of tho Indiana nouse of Representatives are a very lawless lot of law-makers. By a bare majority vote they expelled a Republican member, when tho Constitution requires a two-thirds vote for expulsion. The way they got around that was by suspending the member during tho remainder of the session, which amounts to expulsion. The bourbon legislators of Indiana are indeed a hard lot of citizens. Surprised Correspondents. Boston Transcript. The Washington correspondents seem to have thought it somewhat startling that Mr. Cleveland and General Harrison should have met, bowed and shaken hands after the manner of gentlemen. Apparentb somebody was greatly amazed that General Harrison did not glare at Mr. Cleveland with withering scorn, and that Mr. Cleveland did not say, "'S death! had I had mine own good sword, thou hadst not climbed yon marble steps!' Points from the Inaugural. Chicago Inter Ocean. President Harrison's inaugural had 4,190 words. "1" was repeated only seventeen times; "we" thirty times, and "our" thirty-six times. "The people" was mentioned twenty times, and finished the first sentence and concluded the address. A modest, concise, powerful, and patriotic plea for the people of these United States. Vainglorious Ohio. Cleveland Leader. Ohio is the mother of half the Cabinet and the President. With the neighboring State of Pennsylvania, Ohio can claim six out of the eight members of General Harrison's couuciL All parents who have a fond hope that some child of theirs may become famous in public life should move to the Buckeye State at once. Doesn't Need Whiskers. Chicago MaU. John Wanamaker is the only one of the Cabinet officers who doesn't wear whiskers on his face. For this reason Mr. Wanamaker looks youthful, even boyish, but whoever picks him up for an easy mark will be surprised. Mr. Wanamaker doesn't need a set of whiskers to help him hold his job. Wrong Ideas of Presidential Duties. Pittsburg Dispatch. The first thing that the public made the President do. after getting into office, was a job of wholesale hand-shaking. This shows that the few thofisands who flock to Washington have a different idea of the presidential duties than the millions who stay away. ' In Letters of Gold. Boston Trantrcipt This sentence in President Harrison's inaugural should be written iu letters of gold: "No political party can long pursue advantage at the expense of public honor, or by rude and indecent methods, without protest and fatal disaffection iu its own body." A Cheering Contrast. Cleveland Leader. The contrast between the cheery hopefnlnessof President Harrison's inaugural and the gloomy forebodings of ex-Prtsident Cleveland's last annual message to Congress is very Striking. It is also very natural under the circumstances. A Howling Success. Chicago Tribune. If it is the purpose of the Indiana Legislature to seo that Indianapolis shall not be forgotten or overlooked, in spite of Gen. Harrison's removal from that city, it is achieving what might be termed a howling success. Indiana Has Her Share of Each. New York Graphic Natural gas is produced in this country at the rate of fioo.ooo.ooo cubic feet per day, not counting Congress or the State Legislatures or campaign oratory. m Not a Straddler. Buffalo Commercial Advertiser. President Harrison is a man of intellectual power, that is evident. And be is not a double-dealer or straddler, that is also evident. m - Will Now Have an American Policy, Cleveland Leader. Now we will have a definite and distinctively American policy both horn cz foreign.