Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 March 1889 — Page 4

TIIE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 1889.

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NEW YORK Gilsej House and Windsor Hotel. P n I LAD ELPH I A A. P. Kemfcle, 3735 Lancaster avenue. CHICAGO Palmer House. CINCINNATI-J. P. nawley A Co., 134 Vine street LOT7 1 SVTLLE C. T. Deering, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. 6T. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern IloteL WASHINGTON, D. C.-RJsgs Hons and Ebbitt House. Telephone Calls. BuisneM Ofilce 238 Editorial Ttoovns 242 TIIE SUNDAY JOCRXAL. The Journal of Sunday, March 10, will be a very attractive number. It will contain. among other things, tne 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. Unrdette; 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. TnE more the Insane Hospital kettle is stirred the nastier the mess it contains tarns out to be. TnE appointments and disappointments of the next few weeks will touch the hearts of many thousands. Blessed are they who expect nothing. In the light of subsequent history, tho Democratic vindication of Dr. Harrison and John E. Sullivan, two years ago, reads like a grim and ghastly joke. Mr. Barrett's testimony as to how Sullivan converted rancid butter into creamery throws another side-light on the Insane Hospital business. Read it. If ever a party digged a pit in which to bury itself it is the Indiana Democracy. The obsequies will be conducted by the Republican Legislature two years arncc. The Sentinel makes a pitiful appeal lo some one to bring a bucket of whitewash for the Insane Hospital. Will fome good Democratic calciminer como to the rescue, quick? Judging from the telegraphic reports from Washington, the Indiana contingent of tho inauguration multitudes appear to have moved into the White House along with President Harrison and his family, and act as though they meant to stay. TnE Sentinel thinks the persons charged with wrong-doing by tho witnesses in the hospital investigation should have a chance for rebuttal. Why, certainly, give them a chance. There's Sullivan, for instance. Send for him and let him defend himself. Gen. Adam Badeau has developed into a public nuisance, and should be abated accordingly. As a parasite attached to General Grant ha attracted some attention, but left to himself is hardly important enough to becomo a national issue, as he evidently desires. What will the Democracy do now that thero are two cash surpluses in Washington, instead of one, and the second one an immediate result of electing a Republican President, tool Theymust regard that balance left over from the inauguration ball as a positively sinful accumulation. The organ of the corrupt legislative majority warns the party members of the hospital investigating committee that they are allowing altogether too many damaging facts to esca'pe. The warning is too late. The cover of tho cauldron is off, and cannot bo tightly screwed on again. When Grover Cleveland was engaged in vetoing pension bills the Golden Circle element of tho Indiana Democracy, and which is now rampant at the Statehouse, was filled with joy. It is a horse of another color when an honest Govrrnor interposes his protective vetoes between themselves and the Stato treasury. The illness of Justice Stanley Matthews has become so very serious as almost to exclude hope of recovery. His untimely death would cause a vacancy iu the Supreme Eench much sooner than any forecast on tho subject has reckoned. Justice Matthews is only sixty-four years of age, and ought to bo frood for several years of work. General Harrison once said in a public speech: "My brief experience at Washington has led me often to utter the wish, with an emphasis I do not often use, that I might bo forever relieved of any connection with the distribution of public patronage." We doubt if his experience of the last few days has induced him to change his mind. A strong temperance element exists in cert-in Democratic counties in New Jersey, and tho General Assembly of the State has been between two tires in tho matter of liquor legislation. The liquor-dealers demanded therepealof the local-option and high-license law secured two years ago by the Republicans, and the tcinneranco people wished it un

touched. After a great deal of wrangling and hesitation the majority has obeyed its master, to all practical purposes, by repealing the local-opt ion feature and reducing the license fee. Tho anti-whiskyites are blandly assured that the measure is a "compromise." In Indiana the legislative majority does not even acknowledge tho existence of temperance Democrats.

THE IS8ANE HOSPITAL. The world moves. Even the Sentinel is forced, at last, to admit thatjthe management of tho Insane Hospital "has been shown up in a very unfavorable light," and that "tho case, as it 6tands, has a very ugly look." It certainly has, but no uglier than it has had for years past. The present management has been in power six years, and during all that time the hospital has been managed as a Democratic political machine. Tho evidences of corruption are no more patent or convincing to honest minds now than they were three years ago when the Journal first formulated charges against tho management. At that time Coy and Sullivan were in the height of their power, and Dr. Harrison and Gapen were hand-in-hand with them. The Sentinel denounced the charges as Republican campaign lies. In 18S7 tho public demand for an investigation was so strong that both branches of tho Legislature appointed an investigating committee, tho House being Republican and the Senate Democratic. Both committees made a partial investigation of tho hospital and submitted two reports, the Republicans severely condemning the management and tho Democrats whitewashing everything from top to bottom. The evidence of gross corruption and of collusion between tho board of trustees and Sullivan was as strong then as it is now. The testimony showed the hospital to be rotten from cellar to garret, or, as Dr. Fletcher some time afterward said, "a cesspool of corruption." The majority of the House committee (Republican) reported against Dr. Harrison's moral character, and said: "There is no justification for tho longer retention of such a man as president of the boards of trustees, as indeed thero was no warrant for his original appointment." They recommended his immediate removal. They found the finances and accounts of the hospital in bad shape, and recommended "the instant dismissal of the chief book-keeper and steward, J. S. Hall, and the appointment of a competent person in his place." They recommended tho removal of the hospital from political management; and the awarding of contracts honestly instead of to political favorites. They also recommended that the books of the hospital bo so kept that tho liabilities of tho institution at anytime can be readily ascertained, as well as its resources. The report said: We find that Dr. Harrison and Mr. Sullivan, who is now the clerk of Marion county, are warm personal friends; that Dr. Harrison is in the habit of visiting at Mr. bullivan's house, though tho latter gentleman, when placed on the stand, had a conveniently forgetful memory, and could not recollect how often Harrison had visited him in the last four years, or how long he had stayed at any one time. This intimacy between Harrison and Sullivan offers a satisfactory explanation to the committee of the reason that over $20,000 was paid to Mr. Sullivan in twenty-five months when his goods were seldom up to contract. We further find that the present board of trustees, without any evidence before it, reversed the action of a former board, and paid to Sullivan nearly &XX), which amount had been deducted from one of his accepted bids, because he had furnished oleomargarine when the contract called for creamery butter. It is in evidence, also, that Sullivan went on the bonds of all tho men charged with altering the returns in Marion county in the last election; that he has loaned money to Simeon Coy, and from his manner of testifying before tho committee, we are of tho opinion that he does not regard the sanctity of an oath, and that he committed willful perjury on the witnessstand. We hud further, lrom tho evidence, that D. P. Erwin fc Co. have received a great many contracts for dry goods, and that Mr. Gapen had a son-in-law in tho employ of tho firm; also, that Krcitlein fc tfchrader were frequently successful bidders for groceries, and that Mr. Gapen was in the habit of spending a great deal of his time at this store. The majority of tho House committee reported many other damaging facts and submitted a mass of testimony in proof. This, be it remembered, was in 1887. The minority (Democratic) reported that, "taken altogether, the management of tho board has been attentive, conscientious, humane, economical and efficient. Dr. Harrison has been very attentive to his duties." They found tho charges against his moral character untrue, and sajd: "Since his accession to the party he has been an active and influential Democrat, and has been largely influential in making Boone county, which was before reliably Republican, now very uncertain politically." They found Mr. Gapen to be "a very faithful, efficient and honest official." They said: "The charge that there has been favoritism in letting contracts is not sustained, nor is it true that tho political affiliations of the bidders has anything to do with awarding the contracts." They further said: In the majority report much unwarranted and unjust comment upon tho character of the relations between Dr. Harrison and John E. Sullivan is indulged in. It is true that they aro personal and political friends. It is also true that both labored for the fassage of the Brown bill in 1883. It is ikewise true that John E. Sullivan gave a supper to a few of the members of the General Assembly and his outside political friends. It may bo true that Dr. Harrison has visited at tne residence of John E. Sullivan, but the insinuation in the majority report that these things have had any influence upon the board in awarding contracts, or that John E. Sullivan has been favored by the board, is not sustained by the facts nor by the evidencce. It is likewise charged in the majority report that said Sullivan is thoroughly unscrupulous and dishonest. Upon this we do not feel we are called to decide, but this we do decide, namely, that it is a gratuitous attack made upon a citizen whom the people of Marion county have elected by their votes as clerk of the Marion Circuit Court. Tho animus that prompted this attack is readilv aconuted for when we remember that John E. Sullivan and Dr. Harrison have been, in their respective counties, active participants in the overthrow of the Republican party. As to the char acter of Mr. Sullivan it is a matter asido from this investigation, but it may be C roper to remark that he is a person well nown to the people of Marion county, who have preferred him far above the gentleman from Marion (Mr. Griffiths who makes this gratuitous and uncalled-for attack. The minority took up all the charges against the management of the hospital and reported that none of them were sustained. They were all actuated by political malice. The report concluded: "The people of the Stato may well rest assured that this great in &titutiou is being economically, faith

fully and successfully managed." This report was signed by Mason J. Nihlack,

present Speaker of the House, John R. Gordon and Elisha Pierce. The report of tho Senate committee, composed of Democrats, whitewashed everything, and gave Harrison and Sullivan a clear bill of character. No change occurred in tho management, and things went from bad to worse till they culminated in Sullivan's flight and Gapen's confession. Now, three years after the Journal first mado charges against the management, and fully two years after the condition of the hospital had become a matter of State notoriety, tho Sentinel admits that it begins to look as if there might bo something wrong, and that "the case as it stands has an ugly look." The Sentinel has at last been forced to admit what tho Journal charged and the legislative investigation proved two'years ago. The legislative investigation of the Insane Hospital seems to have been conducted in the right spirit as far as it goes, but it is necessarily superficial and incomplete. The committee owes its existence to an effort on tho part of the Democratic majority in the House to evade the Governor's recommendation for an investigation by a non-partisan committee of experts. They could not ignore tho recommendation, but would not comply with it. The result was a committee appointed by tho Speaker, who himself joined in a report, two years ago, whitewashing the present management and eulogizing Dr. Harrison and John E. Sullivan in the strongest terms. It is a good committee, as legislative committees go, and has probably done as well as any committee could under the same circumstances and limitations. But the investigation will bo very superficial and the report necessarily incomplete. The Governor's recommendation should have been adopted. Meanwhile, the people will take notice that the present Legislature has decided to continue the samo system of political management for all the Stato institutions, and has appointed some of tho Coy-Sullivan gang as trustees. This is simply preparing tho ground and sowing tho seed for future scandals. The veto of tho Curtis bill by Governor Hovey demonstrates that the instigators of that measure will have a rugged road to travel before they can enter into the joys they anticipated in the management of the affairs of Indianapolis and tho disbursement ot the taxes levied upon the property-holders of the city. The objects of tho bill are clearly shown by the message, and its conflict with the Constitution and the principles of self-government plainly pointed out. If the Legislature may by this act abolish existing offices, and under its provisions create other offices and elect the officials, it may, by other acts, provide for tho election by tho Senators and Representatives of all officers in the State, tho manner of whoso election is not in express terms 6tated in the Constitution. Thus tho powers of the legislative branch of the government would, by its own act, bo enlarged beyond tho limit prescribed for it in the Constitutionthat of making laws general in their nature and become also the electors of all State, county and local officers. The assumption of such powers by the Legislature was certainly never contemplated by tho f ramers of the Constitution. Probaijly no Legislature in any State, certainly none in this State, ever so grossly abused the constitutional provision making each house the judge of the election and qualifications of its members. Both houses of the present Legislature have made this provision a pretext for the exercise of arbitrary power in overturning popular elections and seating members rejected by the people. Probably the possibilities of the provision for tyrannical and illegal purposes have never been shown so conspicuously before. Congressman Bynum is reported as 6aying that most of President Harrison's Cabinet "are tyros in politics and statesmanship." Some of them were prominent in public life before Bynum was ever heard of, others have been Governors in their respective States, and still others stand much higher in the legal profession than Bynum could ever hope to. In saying they are "tyros in statesmanship," ho probably means they aro not free-trade statesmen like himself. Bynum ought not to be toohard on them. The action of the House in raising the limit of tho dram-shop license in cities from $100 to $250 is a tardy and grudging concession to public sentiment. Out of fifty-seven Democrats in tho House, thirty-eight voted against the measure, while tho Republicans voted solidly for it. The bill is good as far as it goes, but does not go far enough. The limitation of $250 is much too low for the larger cities. It should be $500, but with this Legislature the people should be thankful for small favors. The Journal has had some thought of requesting an article for Sunday's issue from the pen of secretary, and ex-editor, Halford on the subject of civil-service reform and the kindred topic, "Do the Spoils Belong to the Victors!" but owing to the apparently authentic report that he is extremely busy at this time, it has refrained from doing so. His views on these matters would, no doubt, be very interestiug, not to say instructive. The Legislature is inclined to make merry with member Vandolah for having used the State Geologist's office as a sleeping room during the session; but that statesman doubtless took his cue from ex-Governor Gray, and saw no reason why he should not occupy the State-house, rent free, as well as the senatorial candidate. It is not reported that tho Democratic majority has investigated Gray's tenancy. The sympathizers with and defenders of the Harris.m-Coy-Sullivan ring are driven into the last ditch. With Coy a convict, Sullivan a fugitive and the Hanison-Gapen management of the Insane Hospital under investigation, they still plead for "fair play" for the accused. They have had too much fair play. If Harrison and Gapen had been removed

two years ago, as a Republican committee of investigation recommended, tho State would have escaped a great deal of scandal and loss. But the whitewashing report of the minority was made part of the Democratic confession of faith, and the old management was continued. Now, when the veil is lifted again, and tho samo old rottenness exposed, the Democratic organ pleads for "fair play for the accused." We think it is about time to give the peoplo fair play. President Harrison has seen a great deal of Indiana people in the last thirty or forty years, and within eight months has received many thousands of them in his own home. It may be, at least it is jnst barely possible, you know, that he would enjoy the privilege, if ho could ouly get it, of becoming acquainted with the citizens of other States of the Union. Visiting Hoosiers at Washington might think about it, at any rate, and stand back for a time to seo what the poor man would do if he had opportunity. The corset seems to play an important part in human economy, after all the warfare made against it. Hardly a week passes that it does not save some woman from injury by warding off a bullet fired by infuriated hnsband or lover. In the latest case reported two bullets were flattened out against the steels. Now, if those women had not worn corsets, they would undoubtedly have been killed, and it is not impossible that ardent champions of the corset would aver that they deserved to be. S tearing of the baby at the White House, tho Boston Transcript says that "if it shall bring babies into fashion again the change of administration will not have been in vain." This remark indicates a very curious stato of affairs in Boston. Can it be that the baby is extinct there! In the West it is still in fashion, and is found in great numbers. Tnn rost-mortem proof that Piggott was a man of brains must be highly gratifying to the English government and the London Times. It would have been mortifying to learn that they had been hoaxed by an empty-headed person. TnE ground-hog was a true prophet this year, but the time for remaining in his hole is short. A few days more, and winter may be expected to retire. To the Editor ot the Indianapolis Journal: Where is the "Station Agent published! Willow Bkaxcu, Ind. e. d. w. In Cleveland, O.

ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. TnE new Premier of France was once a humble watch-maker on the Boulevard Sebastopol, in Paris. Lord Palmerston had fifty-eight years of public life. In another year Mr. Gladstone will have tied the score. A paper read before the Historical Society of New York on Monday night states that there are 5,530 lawyers in New York. Henry M. Teller, Senator from Colorado, is now sixty, but as vigorous and hale as he was twenty years ago. Unliko most men from Colorado in public life, he is not rich. Rev. Norman La Marsh, an eloquent ; preacher in charge of the Methodist Church at Searsport, Me., is totally blind. A feature of the services at this church is the singing of the pastor. Harrison is the seventh Presbyterian elected to the presidency, that church leading all others in this regard. The others were Jackson, Harrison, Tolk, Buchanan, Lincoln and Cleveland. TiiEwif e of John Boyle O'Reilly, the Boston poet, is an invalid, and seldom appears in society. She has a graceful presence and is a brilliant talker. Mr. O'Reilly says of her that she is his best critic. Kansas City has a score of well-to-do colored men among its inhabitants. The wealthiest of them is Samuel Jordan, a barber, who has amassed a fortune of $150,000 from his trado during the past fifteen years. Tue Albany Journal says there is a striking similarity in the build, physiognomy and tone of voice of the new Attorney-general, Mr. W. II. II. Miller, of Indiana, and Dr. Van der Veer, of Albany. More than ono Albanian who has met the Indiana Secretary has made this observation. Fred L. Ames, who is worth $20,000,000, is supposed to be the richest man in Boston, ne lives in the finest house in the city, entertains gorgeously, andis rogardod as an aristocrat of the aristocrats, rfevertheless, his grandfather, old Oliver Ames the first, used to peddle shovels of his own handiwork in that town. It is said that before Mr. Chamberlain met his wife, Mr. Austen Chamberlain was introduced to her in America, and on re turning to England spoke with so much en thusiasm about her that when the member for West Birmingham went to the United States he called on the Edicotts, carrying an introduction lrom his son. The Rov. John Brown, an English cler gyman, who has been visiting in this coun try, says that American preachers are too fond of the picturesque. This tendency sometimes leads them to describe forbidden pleasures with such a literary sympathy that many unthinking people feel strongly inclined 10 inauige in mem, so mai tne 00iect of the sermon is defeated. A "King's Daughters' Ten" has been formed in Mrs. Mary B. Willard's Home School for American Girls in Berlin. Miss Katherine Willard sang, recently at the annual military reception given by the Countess Waldersee, whose husband. Count Walderseo, has succeeded Von Moltko as commander-in-chief of the German army. The Countess is an American lady and an earnest Christian. Prince Nicholas ot Montenegro has just indulged in a little state socialism by ap propriating somo lands of tho Monastery of Ostrog and distributing them among tho Montenegrins of a neighboring tribe. The lands formerly occupied by the tribesmen were barren patches of rock, on which they aud their families could barely exist. This fact does not appear to have reconciled the monks of Ostrog to the confiscation of their property, and they are complaining that the purchase money offered them bv tho Prince is a mere trifle compared with the value of the land. f Prof. Hastings, of the Sheffield Scien tific School at New Haven, who has been experimenting for some time past to find a combination of glasses which would cor rect chromatic aberration, has succeeded. it is announced, in combining two glasses the composition ot which is a secret so that the aberration has been reduced to one-twentieth of what it is in the old tel escopes. A telescope made on the principle wjuch rrou jiaaiiiiKH uas uiHcoverea win. it is said, be ironi iu 10 w per cent, more powerful than one of equal size on the old principle. Mrs. Mary C. Blair, who was married to the Duke of Sutherland at Dunediu, Fla., on Monday, is a stout, but stylish blonde, of forty-four or forty-five. She has been the Duke's traveling companion on his numerous trips to America, and was received to a limited extent in New York society by some good-natured old ladies. most of whom are now dead. Her identity is unknown. Some have it that she is a widow of one of the Duke's gamekeepers, whom he accidently shot while grouse hunt ing on his Scottish moors. Another story is to the effect that she is the widow of Colonel Blair, of tha, British army. Thomas A. Edison, the famous inventor. is only forty-two years of age. His birth day has just been celebrated by his employesninety in number who presented him with a handsome set of library f nrniti t- muiln KTnrvBcIv frtr li i rr TIim ut imn. I arises tidrtr-iiYO pieces, each with his num

ograra engraved uron it. A miniature phonogrr.pii, made of cold and silver, was one of his presents. Mr. Edison is one of the few inventors who have reaped tho reward of their labors. As a rule, the inventor gets nothing but tho glory, and that after his death, while the man who bought him out for a few dollars reaps the reward.

During the first week of Jeremiah Rusk's first term n Gnvrmnr of Wisconsin, in 1SS2, a State land grant railroad company failed. It was midwinter and terribly cola. Several thousand workmen employed on the road, near Lake Superior, became desperate. They had received no pay for two months, and could get no credit. They and their families wero freezing and starving. The)- threatened the company's otficers with violence, and did take all the provisions they could find. The company became 1 1 i , i i . T 1 aianneu, anu appeaiea to uovernor iiusk for military aid to quell the disturbance. It was then that the Governor made his now famous statement: These men need bread, not bullets." Instead of sending the militia, he raised a tram-load of provisions on his personal credit, and sent it to tho workmen.- Tho rioting stopped at once. When tho company was reorganized the Governor was reimbursed. Mat I take you to the ball! No, 'tis Lent. May I take you then to call! No, 'tis Lent. May I take you to tho tea! Pray, maiden, go with me. Hut she merely answered, No, uiy boy, 'tis LentMay I take you to the play! No, 'tis Lent. May I walk with you to-davt No, 'tis Lent. Maj' I take your heart away! Pray, maiden, say not nay. Hut she merely answered. No, my boy, 'tis lent. Bradford Era. COMMENT AND OPIMOX. Tht.iik are two noticeable thincr abont this Cabinet. Ihe hrst is that it is com bers are ex-soldiers of the Union. Hart ford Courant. Europe probably will be even less satis fied with Mr. Harrison's administration than with his inaucnral. It will preserve the American market for the products of American labor, and punish every attempt at encroachment upon American rights. Minneapolis Tribune. We are cettine alone very well with what we have of this great continent. One of theso days Canada will desire to como in. and when she tells us so we shall irive respectful consideration to her application. Till then it will be enough to be good mends. W heeling Intelligencer. With the public offices divided in about equal proportions, as the great parties are, and with the certainty that all the officers were capable, upright and courteous, there could easily be a thoroughly non-partisan service, which should likewise be practically permanent. Chailcston News and Courier. Much will depend upon the wisdom with which President Harrison's administration, is conducted, and tho manner in which his party uses its power in Congress. In the future, as in tho past, it is altogether prob able that the party that best deserves success will be likely to win it. Boston Herald. To men who know f reo government and care for it, a government by mob law or fraud is not congenial, and oilers no seenritv fnr nnir , tnvAstmont. Th ininrv done to the colored citizen is a fatal bar rier to prosperity, and. as the President justly suggests, it threatens infinite mis chief herealter. .New lork lribune. That demoralization which attended the administration of the two lawyers in charge of the postal service under Cleveland cannot exist under the thorough busi ness methods of Wanamaker. The country may rightly look, not only for a restoration of efficiency, but for a decided advance and improvement on former waj's. Phila delphia Inquirer. It will be wisdom for all boomers to re member that any attempt to enter even the fceininole lands lorfeits every right to land when the territory is legally opened. The worst features in the situation is the attempt being made to speculate on the ig norance and credulity of the people who are deceived by exaggerated statements and false promises. Kansas City Journal. It is not clear that the one-term idea commends itself to the people and that the restriction to a -single term will ever bo made. If General Harrison makes exactly the sort of President tho people want, there is no good reason why he shouldn't be reelected; if ho doesnft, all the efforts of all tho beneficiaries of his administration could not re-elect him. Nebraska State Journal. The postal system, to be adequate, must bo established on a firm business basis. Let the postal districts of the country be devided into divisions in charge of responsi ble heads, all of whom shall be account able to a chief at Washington. Such an arrangement would relieve the head office of that detail work which Mr. Vilas and later on Mr. Dickinson saw fit to master, to the neglect of the general workings. Buffalo Express. Piggottism can never do the mischief again that has been done. The fair-minded people, and they constitute a large part of every community, will not be so easily deceived another time by the charges of per jured rascals. Mr. Parnell has borne himsen like a hero during an inese years ot persecution and abuse. He comes out of the trial unscathed and enjoying a larger measure of the respect of his fellow-men than he ever had belore. Des Moines Register. The purpose of punishing a criminal is to deter others from committing a similar offense, but if we permit tho criminal to decamp to Canada and make no effort to capture anu punisii uim me example is wranting. It is better for each country to send back the scoundrels and let them be punished at home. We have some 'of Canada's black sheep and sho has a good many of ours; so let us negotiate an" ex change, even though uy so uoiug we may crowd our penitentiaries to overflowing. o n : f Why Georcria. or Tennessee, or Alabama protectionists should go on voting tho Democratic ticket year after year, sending low-tarilf or free-trade Congressman to Washington, trying to seat a Tree-trade or lnw-Taritt' President in the White House why the &outh, divided in policies, divided in opinions, should 3ret remain "solid'1 that is what no Northern voter can un derstand, and it is this fact which creates irritation in the North, and which, since 1S82, has gradually made the North almost as solid as the bouth. jNew lork Herald. Kind Words for the JournaL Shelby Republican: 'The Journal covered itself all over with glory, yesterday. and was a paper of which the Republican party of Indiana should be proud." New Castle Courier: "That most excel lent and enterprising newspaper, the Indianapolis Journal, presented to its readers with the issue of Tuesday a handsome and valuable souvenir of the inauguration." Delnhi Journal: "The Indianapolis Jour nal covered itself over with glory in its inaugural issue, a larue souvenir auainou was printed, ana circniaicu among au subscribers of the paper. It President Hamson is proud ot the distinguished position he occupies, and there is no reason he should not be. he owes a debt to the Indian apolis Journal ho can never fully pay." Logansport Journal: "The Indianapolis Daily Journal ot luesday, March K, with x ;1 T . . o - lis uenienuiai mauguruuuu ouuvenir, was fniifll to and worthv of the occasion, and a model of taste, elegance, enterprise and newspaper ability. Despite tho loss of the able services or 3ir. Jiauoru, the Journal is 'keening up its lick,' and more than holdin its own in tho front rank of the best news papers of the country. 7 Washington Gazette: "The Journal has good reason to be proud of the part it played in tho nomination and election of General Harrison to tho presidency. The Journal is a great newspaper. It commands the admiration of its friends and compels the respect of its foes. Long may it bo a shining light among the grand galaxy of bright journals that devote their best time and energy to the X'erpetuation of the never-dying principles of the Grand Old Party." . No ISettor Than IlevolutlonUts. Troy (N. Y.) Times. The Democracy of West Virginia and the Democracy of Indiana ought to be dumped into one bag. Ihe utter defiance of law and right is an amazing exhibition in either case. At present the Democratic Leirislaturc of the Housicr State is engaged in a

posed of men in the vigorous maturity of their powers, physical and intellectual. The sernnrl is that, five nf it eitrlit. mem-

crusade acainst the indomitable Governor Hovey, who is revealing sterling qualities in most trying and disagreeable circumstances. . It has deprived him of thirty-live appointments vested iu him, and is endeavoring to wrest the two remaining ones from his hands. But he continues to veto every measure aimed to place the appointing power in the charge of the Assembly. This he declares he will do, unless stopped bv a decision of the Supreme Court of 'the United States. On Monday the Democratio conspirators passed a bill "repealing the statutory appropriations and making it a penal otlenso for the Treasurer of State to pay out any money except to benevolent institutions unless it has been especially appropriated." The object of this is to deprive State officers of their salaries for two years. The Indiana legislative Democrats are no better than revolutionists. Thero ought to be no difficulty for the Republicans to carry Indiana in elections for some) time to come. Itapld Cabinet Hidldlng. , New York World. Asa Cabinet-maker Judge is entitled to the first prize. When President Harrison ollicially announced his Cabinet, yesterday, the information was telegraphed at one to New York. Thero was a plate at the printer's on which wero eight headless bodies, surrounding a portrait of the President. When the names of the Cabinet oificer were received pictures of their heads were attached to'the bodies, the plate was put on the press, and half an hour later tho news agents were receiving copies of Jndgo with the double-page Cabinet supplement. The portraits are good ones, and Judge is happy in the knowledge that it has mado in fifteen minutes a Cabinet which tho President spent several months in constructing. Criminal Partisanship. Springfield Republican (Ind. Deia.) The Indiana Legislature, which has already achieved a discreditable record, is

now engageu in a serious quarrel with Governor Hover. It voted to take thirtv-fiv of tho thirty-seven appointments vested in the uovernor, but the bills were vetoed. Governor Hovey says he will appeal to tho United States Supreme Court, if necessary, as the Legislature's action is unconstitutional and would result in an oligarchy. The Legislature now tries retaliation by making it a penal offense for tho State lrea8urer to pay out any money not in tho special appropriations, and thus cut off tho Governor's salary. The Legislature's conduct is an exhibition of reckless partisanship that is fairly criminal. An Unjust Order. Chicago Journal. It is alleged that ex-Postmaster-general Dickinson, jnst before leaving office, issued an order prohibiting postal railway trains lrom carrying outside of the mail-bags packages of correspondence. The order is aimed only at newspaper correspondence, which is often 6ent by a conductor or soma other train hand, or. possibly, by the route agent, not to avoid paying postage, but to 6ecurea service at hours when the mails cannot be used, and to save time at both ends of tho route. It will be Postmastergeneral Wanamakcrs first dutvto rescind this order, if he has not already done so. . The President's Choice. New York Mall and Express. The President has been fortunate in se curing for his official family men so true and loyal in their natures and so much in harmony with his own views. He was entirely right in adhering to his most intilnato counsellor, Mr. Miller, against all sorts ot hostile pressure and protests. The President is entitled to have just such a man in his Cabinet, and is fortunate in having a friend so thoroughly tried and faithful. - A Representative Cabinet. New York Graphic. In President Harrison's Cabinet may be found men who have made successful efforts in such varied .fields of activity as farming, commerce and trade, manufacturing, law, politics, diplomacy, statesmanship and war. They represent pretty nearly every department of human industry in some form or other. An Offensive Partisan. Chicago Herald. General Greeley proudly calls attention to the fact that he predicted a stormy inauguration day. He is entitled to all tho credit he can extract from his emphatic triumph. Ho is quite likely to be classed as an exceedingly offensive partisan by a good many Republicans of both sexes. The Indiana Democrat Defined. Chicago JournaL If there is one Democrat whose general badness exceeds that of all others, it is the Democratic member of the Indiana Legislature. In the various degrees of comparison bad, worse, worst, the Hoosier Democratic member of the Legislature is tho superlative. Ought to Slake a Choice. Brooklyn Standard Union. The logical conclusion of Cleveland's veto of the direct-tax refund bill is that the delinquent States must pay their share of the tax of 1801. . Which would they rather doconsent to the refund to those which paid or hand out their quota now f A One-Sided Lottery. Chicago Tribune. None of tho papers that offered prizes some weeks ago to the successful gnesscrs of President Harrison's Cabinet have been called upon as yet to part with any of their hard earned wealth in consequence of such oilers. Needs a f tailing Gun. CnicaKO Mail. President Harrison (looking over his new residence and its surroundings while ha thinks of the future): "Not a dogconed draw-bridge to the place; not a iortcullis; not even a moat. Truly I am in dire straits." The Poet Overmatched. Pittsburg Chronicle. Wo regret to read that Secretary Halford looks worried, savsthe Baltimore American. He doubtless fcefs that an office-seeker is even worse than the gentle contributor who insists on reading poetry to the editor. The Legislature Is Stil! with Us. Washington Tost. -'About the ouly person left in Indiana worth talking about is John Schmidt, the fourteen-year-old preacher, and even he has quit preaching for the time being because there isn't a soul there worth saving. And Something in Addition. Washington SpeciaL Representatives of Indiana Republicanism gave every indication that tney have acquired the Ohio idea, which, since Mr. Hayes's time, has made itself so aggressively prominent in American politics. Only One Sectional Question. Chicago Journal. These is but one sectional question left in this country. It is an easy one. It is: Why should the colored man who is a qualified voter not be permitted to votef A Suggestive Name. rhuadelphl North American. The begmningof S?cretarv Rrdfield Proctor's name sounds very much like war. Bismarck had better not put any chips on his 6houlder. A Victory for America. Chicago Journal. It is apparent, from what the English newspapers sa', that the election of President Harrison was a great victory for America. Randall Can Answer. Baltimore American. An echo comes rolling down the corridors of politics and ask?, in plaintive tones, What has become of Congressman Mills! Ilelievera In Predestination. Boston nerald. It will be observed that all the new Cabinet officers who have any religion to speak of are Presbyterians. A Ienten Pun. Springfield (111.) Journal. About this time look out for tho old conundrum asking why umbrellas are good ... i : - rjPlSCOIilt They Have lteturn Ticket. Baltimore American. To judge from the dispatches, ther are quite a fw Indiana people in Washiujitou till WWii