Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 March 1889 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1889.

THE DAILY JOURNAL MONDAY, MARCH 18. 1889. WASHINGTON OFFICE 513 Fourteenth St. P. S. Heath, Correspondent. !EW YORK OFFICE-204 Temple Court, Corner Beekxnan and Nassau Street. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. DAILT. One year, without Fnnfiay -fl-00 One year, with Sunday ltoo Six month., without hundar. Wx month, with Pirn day 700 Three months, -without Sunday 300 Three months, with Sunday 8-50 One month, -without Sunday ....... 1-00 One month, -with Sunday 1.3) WEEKLY. Per year tt-U Reduced Rates to Clubs. Subscribe -with any of our numerous agents, or send subscriptions to THE JOURNAL NEWSPAPER COMPANY, lMIA'APCLIS, lM. THE IDLl'APOLIS JOURNAL Can be found at the following places : IOXDOX American Exchange In Europe, 413 Strand. ARIR American Exchange In Farts. 35 Boulevard des Capucines. ' 2TE7 YORK GHacy House and Windsor HoteL pniLADELPIIIA A. P. Kemble, 8735 Lancaster arenue. CHICAGO-ralmer House. CINCINNATI J. P. nawley A Co., 154 Vine street LOTTISVTLIE C T. Beertng, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. 8T. LOUIS "Union Newa Company, Union Depot and Southern Hotel. WASHINGTON, D. C Rifgs House and Ebbltt House. Telephone Calls. Buisness Oflce 233 1 Editorial Booms 242 Now is the time to unite in a long pull, a strong pull and a pull all together for free natural gas for manufactories. This eccentric and exceptional season maintained its record by giving us a St. Patrick's day of ideal perfection and without any of the traditional accom paniments of sncw, slush, etc. As the author of the "bill prohibiting natural gas from being piped out of the State, Senator Barrett's opinions in regard to the constitutionality of other measures are entitled to no weight whatever. "Our destiny is before us," says lawyer Grover Cleveland in his speech at Delmonico's. It is gratifying to have this point settled; otherwise, some of us might Jiavo gone on thinking our destiny was behind us. Mr. Abram S. Hewitt's prediction that Chattanooga will have more than a million and a half population within a hundred years has, without doubt, made him the favorite of that community. If Mr. Hewitt wants to run for a mayor's office again, Chattanooga is the place for him. B1--The Sentinel chuckles over the fact that while a material part of the act aimed at Supreme Court Reporter Griffithshasbeen held unconstitutional, there is still room to hope that his official emoluments have been largely reduced. This reveals the animus of the act and the true Democratic spirit. At least one of the new States soon to be admitted will hold its first election under what is known as the Australian system of voting. The territorial Legislature of Montana1) has enacted that law, and the election next October will be held under it. The law in this State will take effect on the first Monday in June, 1890. These are Grover Cleveland's sentiments on March 16: "We should not bo content with veneration for those who made us a Nation, nor with the sacred and grateful remembrance of thosQ -who shed their blood and gave their lives for its perpetuation." How he has changed his mind, tobo sure, since ho went out of the veto business!

In speaking of the contest between Governor Hovey and tho Indiana Legislature the New York Evening Post is constrained to say that "the Democratic record while that party has controlled the State institutions has been distinctly worse than that of the Republicans." So truthful a statoment from this partisan paper is sufficiently noteworthy to deserve a frame. It was characteristic of the Marion county delegation in the late Legislature that while its members were caucusing day and night to securo the enactment of political legislation and measures of doubtful constitutionality, they did not even introduce tho bill providing for a vehicle tax and other special taxes imperatively demanded by the condition of the city revenues. The justice and necessity of the measure were universally conceded, and it was supposed, as a matter of course, it would bo passed. ' A bill was drafted embracing the matters referred to and was placed in tho hands of one of tho Marion county members, but it was not even introduced. The delegation was wholly intent on political legislation and office-grabbing. Look out for a real estate boom in Oklahoma. A "Washington dispatch says the Cabinet has had under discussion the opening of Oklahoma, and that the President will probably issue a proclamation on the subject soon. The Oklahoma bill, so called, did not pass, but the Indian appropriation bill appropriated $1,900,000 for the purchase by the government of over two millions acres of Seminole land, on condition of their surrendering their title. . The bill r.iso provided that the Creek lands ceded to tho government a few months ago shall be subject to entry after proclamation by tho President. Tho movement into tho Territory has already begun, and the indications aro that a great many claims will be staked out in anticipation of tho proclamation. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch excuses the delay in capturing tho murderer of Colonel Clayton by calling attention to the time and pains spent in the search for Tascott. This will hardly do. It took very little time for tho polico to discover the identity of tho Snell murderer, but in Arkansas, where thero is reason to believe that many persons could point out Clayton's assassin with reasonable certainty and that tho officials themselves aro acquainted with tho instigators of the crime, nothing has been done to bring them to justice. A great step would be. gained If . the

wretches were so ranch as identified, even if they escaped capture. The Snell and Clayton cases are not of the same class.

The Journal is authorized to say that Washington dispatches relative to tho alleged ill feeling between the President and Mr. John C. New, or on the part of the latter toward the former, growing out of the distribution of offices, or any other cause, are utterly unfounded and maliciously false. Mr. New has not been interviewed since his sojourn in Washington, and tho statements published by a few papers, purporting to have been made by him, aro authoritatively repudiated. It is inconceivable how such statements can originate in any other motive than a desire to falsify and create ill feeling where none exists. Mr. New's friendly relations with tho President have suffered no interruption and are not likely to. TWO WEEKS OF PRESIDENT HARRIS 05. . It has been just two weeks 6ince President Harrison was inaugurated. This is not a long time, but it is long enough to make a first impression. Wo think it can be asserted confidently that President Harrison has mado an excellent impression and given evidence of possessing qualities that are likely to continue and strengthen it. Tho characteristics which his fellow-statesmen in Indiana, his fellow-townsmen, friends and neighbors long 6ince discovered in him are those which ho is now displaying, viz.: Clear perception and prompt performance of duty, readiness to accept responsibility, absolute fearlessness and independence, great firmness mingled vith great courtesy, and a controlling motive of justice in every act. These are some of the ruling traits of the President's 'character. They are traits which tho American people respect and admire, and which, as time passes, they are likely to recognize as controlling influences in President Harrison's administration. Tho first few days after tho inauguration were given up almost entirely to receiving the thousands of people who had gone to Washington from great distances, and who were not content to go away without seeing and shaking hands with the President. Tho throng of office-seekers also absorbed considerable time, and continue to do so. But oven with these heavy drafts upon his attention, the President, has found timo to pick up the lines of administration, to make a number of excellent appointments, and, through his Cabinet officers, to introduce a new order of things in the departments. In his dealing with office-seekers and Congressmen he is frank and explicit. In several instances he has cut applications' short by kindly informing the applicant that tho particular place desired was already promised, or that, for public reasons, no .change would bo mado immediately. This is infinitely better than holding out false hopes. His territorial appointments have all been of citizens of the Territories, and excellent in a every respe2t. His acts, as well as his words, evince a purposo to tako all tho time necessary to enable him to make, good appointments and to satisfy his own judgment and conscience whether ho pleases the people or not. They also show that he realizes tho fact that ho alono is answerable to the people for tho manner in which tho executive responsibility devolved upon him is exercised. Perhaps the most notable result of tho change of administration thus far is the change in the official atmosphere of tho departments. In all these there is a return to business methods and a rapid disappearance of tho exclusiveness andred-tapeism that characterized tho Democratic regime. There never was in Washington so aristocratic an administration as the last one. Tho heads of departments seemed to try to atone for their inefficiency or lack of acquaintance with public affairs by surrounding themselves with tho dignity of a mock court and making it difficult to do business with thein. In their official methods they were exclusive to tho last degree. Under former Republican administrations members of Congress always had free access to the heads of departments. During tho Cleveland administration even United States Senators were required to send in their cards, and were sometimes kept cooling their heels in an anteroom till their patience was ex hausted. Democratic Congressmen protested loudly against this sort of thing, and contrasted it with their treatment under former administrations. Tho heads of departments were not men of affairs. They affected tho stylo of littlo tin gods on wheels, and this was the tone of the departments. Now thero is a sudden chango from all this, and a return to the business methods of Re publican administrations. Tho President has impressed himself on his Cabinet officers, and his personality is already felt in tho departments. Tho heads do not find it necessary to resort to extraordinary exclusiveness to prove their greatness. Heel-cooling for Senators and Representatives and those who have business with tho departments is done away with. The atmosphere of the departments has been Americanized. Tho reins of gov ernment are in tho hands of a party that know how to handle them. The man on the box knows how to drive. President Harrison is making a good impression. Even the New York Herald, which vigorously opposed his election, says editorially: It is. perhaps, a little early to speak, bccauso ho has been in office only twelve daya, but we have been watching his course with a good deal of cafe aud interest, and so far, at anv rate, we are glad to see that tho new President is actually President. Few men in that high oftice certainly not Mr. Cleveland, and scarcely his predecessors since Lincoln have been exposed to so vigorous and determined an attack from all sides as Mr. Harrison. There were manv in his own party who dolorously prophesied that he would, be the tool of Mr. Blaine, the obedient servant of tho imperious senatorial set, the prey of tho great nerd of ouice-seekers. tho victim of faction leaders. Hut w far he is none of these things. Mr. Harrison remains President, and wo may as -well tell him that in this ho has greatly pleased tho mass of his own part' and the peoplo in general. If we remember rightly the Journal assured tho country, both before tho Chicago convention and during the cam

paign, that General Harrison would prove equal to the occasion. Wo think he is doing so.

TnE farmers' institutes held in this State are, no doubt, very interesting and instructive, but as conducted they hardly carry out the idea indicated by tho name nor the purposo of tho originator of such gatherings ex-Governor Rusk, of Wisconsin, now Socretary of Agriculture. In tho Wisconsin institutes, which have proved very popular and successful, practical farmers not only form the audiences, but do the speaking and the reading of "papers," and tako part in tho discussions. It is desired that the meetings shall bo a rehearsal of practical experience, and as it has been discovered that nearly every man is better posted on some one point of agriculture than his neighbors, the interchange of opinion is found to be most valuable. In this State tho scientific agriculturists take the lead, and while their contributf ns to the stock of information are imp rtant, the reports indicate that the farmers themselves do not actively participate, being, perhaps, somewhat diffident in the presence of the editors and college professors. They could undoubtedly add to the interest of the meetings, and should bo encouraged to take part. TriERE aro indications that tho dressed-beef law passed by tho recent Legislature will bo among tho earliest acts tested in the courts, and will probably bo held unconstitutional. Tho law is aimed at outside dealers in dressed beef, and its object is to prevent the importation and sale in this State of beef slaughtered in other States, as at Chicago or St. Louis. To accomplish this it requires that all cattle must bo inspected before killing in tho place where sold, thus virtually prohibiting the importation of dressed meat. In so far as it does this, it is in conflict with the principles of interstate commerce guaranteed by the Constitution of .the United States. The States of Illinois and Missouri have good inspection laws, and cattle killed in those States aro carefully inspected before being killed. Being, therefore, a merchantable commodity and article of commerce, it is very doubtful if another State can enact discriminating disabilities against it in favor of its own live cattle. Merely as a matter of current news the Journal notices that all is not harmonious in the party which tried its best to re-elect Mr. Cleveland; and tho woman question is one of the biggest bones of contention the rock on which it is splitting, as it were. To have her or not to have her, that's tho question. They all seem to bo willing enough to have her "in her sphere," but when it comes to putting her in tho platform, there's the rub. At the Louisville "conference" sho crept in, and seems inclined! to stick, which makes such men as Mills, of Ohio; Richmond, of Wisconsin, and Olin, and Frost, and others inclined to kick, and tho Union Signal says right out that if the woman is not embraced then it (tho Signal) will have nothing more to do with tho party, or words to that effect. The Bible says it is both a good and a pleasant thing for brethren to, dwell together in unity. Why not good for sisters and brethren to do likewise! TnE president and secretary of the Iowa State W. C. T. U. have issued a circular to the subordinate unions, re quiring the officers of those unions,! hi transmitting dues to tho State union, Ito' designate what portion, if any, of tho funds so transmitted is to bo forwarded1 to tho national union. This is in'rin-.' swer to repeated appeals to these officers to at onco provide for a withdrawal of the State union from tho national union. They say that they do not wish to support a so-called temperanco organization which has instituted a political warfare upon the methods of the Iowa union, which have culminated in tho best practical results practical prohibition. Substantially the same steps are to be taken in Pennsylvania, for tho samo reason. Local unions refuse to bo taxed for tho support of a political party. Jackson, 111., is supplied with artificial gas at 40 cents per thousand for lighting purposes and 80 cents for fuel. Tho gas is made from slack coal, which, by a new process, is mado to yield an enormous increase. Tho inventors offer to supply Chicago at 25 cents per thousand, and say they could afford to give gas light to every house, office and factory in tho city for nothing if they would use fuel gas at 40 cents a thousand. It seems tho amount of gas used for lighting purposes is very small compared with that required for fuel. The evident purpose of tho State Board of Charities is to securo a secretary who will practically bo the board so far as the actual work of supervision and investigation is concerned. This is all very well, provided they get the proper person. The opinion is expressed that some of the duties are such as a lady could not well perform, "but with equal reason it might be urged that there are sonio which could not be well dono by a man. It is not at all likely, however, that the board will employ two secretaries. Mr. J. S. Clarkson, First Assistant Postmaster-general, will confor a favor on the country by announcing authoritatively whether his baptismal namo is "John" or "James." He is commonly known as "John," but certain newspapers insist that he is "James," and will have it no other way. Tho country should bo definitely informed concerning a man who has so many thousand post-offices to dispose of. ABOUT FE0FLE AND THINGS. Tire Dnko of Cambridge is said to be the enly member of the royal family who composes his own public speeches. It is whispered among the knowing ones ttat Mrs. Gladstone's best gown is still the royal blue velvet with which she celebrated her husband's accession to power. It is reported from London that Gladstone is in such perfect physical condition that ho. with Mrs. Gladstone, visited the circus a day or two ago. This is a new health test. Miss Dallas York, the fiance of the Duke of Portland, is over 6ix feet high, with a very small waist, very broad shoulder, a clear skin and an amiablo and indulgent smile. Mrs. Bishop, who wrote several books of travel when she was Mi&3 Bird, is about to start on another adventurous journey. She goes to Afghanistan in tho interest of the

Medical Missions. She is the traveler Rob

ert Louis Stevenson recently poked fun at as hopelessly provincial, because she said there was nothing fit to eat in Japan. A Montreal dispatch says that a son of the Prince of Wales will accompany Sir George Stephens to Canada next month, and make an extended tour of the Domin ion and the United States. It was considered by many women pres ent at the inaugural ball in Washington that the most graceful and beautiful toilets displayed wero those fashioned in princess dijic, wim neugreeji ara penes. The Emperor of Germany's littlo boys have a harder time of it than the average little boy, as their lessons begin at 7 o'clock every morning. What is the use of being a prince if that is tho way you are treated! Thomas Ewing Sherman, son of General Sherman, who is completing his studies at the Georgetown University, will be or dained to tne catholic priesthood by Archbishop Ryan.in the Philadelphia cathedral. next July. TnE death of Henri Tamberlik, the famous tenor who sang in this country sixteen years ago, is announced. He died in Paris. He is said to have been the only singer wno could sing the tenor scoro of Sl A ol 1 V no it- wrna nrnttan They use electricity in India to prevent the intrusion of snakes into houses. Wires are laid around the house, and, when a snake attempts t i crawl over them, he receives a shock r-hat either kills him or causes him to beat a retreat. PnixcEss Maria Theresa's two ruling passions aro an almost insane lovo of cats and an equally strong craving to be always on tho go. She is unmarried, of course, and whenever sho leaves the bavarian capital takes a small menagerie of pets with her. Notwithstanding his great age eightyeight years Count von Moltke is as de voted as ever to musioand seldom misses a court concert or any musical entertain ment of impoitance. But he rarely now A 11 .... rf .. toucnes ine piano, upon wmcn no used to be a lirst-rate performer. James Anthony Froude returns to his early literary love and has written a novel, tho scene of which is laid in Ireland in 1798. The opening chapters are Unionist in fteuiiLuem, uui me closing ones incline io homo rule, a fact which will cover many sins which the Irish have laid up to him. Count Francis Clary died a few days ago in Paris, in his eightieth year. He was the nephew of the wealthy Clary, tho Marseilles merchant, one of whose daughters married Joseph Bonaparte, ex-King of Spain, and another General Bernadotte, who became King of Sweden and Norway. Jean Ingelow has mado enough by her writings to be able to give herself many luxuries these days. She has a London house in Kensington which is beautifully fitted up, and has a fine confervatory. Miss Ingelow is so fond of ll&wcrs that she does most of her writing when in London in this conservatory. William S. Jackson, the husband of tho late Helen Hunt Jackson, better known in the literary world as "H. H.," was married to his third wife in Colorado Springs, a day or two ago. Ho is a prosperous banker in that city, and is well known as a shrewd railroad manager. The former name of his bride is not given. Miss Rose Porter, the well-known writer of religious books, is a most remarkable woman. Although an invalid, and forced to dictate from her bed, sho has already written some fifteen books, all of which have had extensive circulation. Sho lives in a pretty brick house, inNew Haven, and is much thought of in that city. r; In the October number of the Young Man, answering the question, "Shall we mokei" Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes replies, "Certainly not. Smoking is liable to injure the sight, to render the nerves un steady, to enfeeble the will and enslave the A- 1 A nature to an imperious name, HKCiy 10 stand in the way of a duty to be performed." 1 There is a curious story about Secretary Noblo and Cyrus Bussey, who has been named Assistant Secretary of the Interior. Bussey was colonel of an Iowa regiment, in which Noble was a lieutenant. Bussey promoted Noble to be a major, carrying aim right overthe heads of several captains. Noble's gratitude for Bussey's kindness has been manifested after a long lapse of time. .but generously at last. Striped and plaided materials are still arranged with great ingenuity, and all 'monotony is thus avoided. On some of the new striped bodices the darts are only taken in the lining, and by a bias adjusted of "many of the tine wool fabrics they are smoothed ana drawn over tne lining to ht the form to perfection, vithout the aid of tho usual seams and darts. Pointed waists aro in high vogue with empire and Directoire skirts adjusted to the sides and back, these falling straight and flat, or shirred or pleated, the kilts hordered with bands of very elegant passementerie. Countess Tolstoi, wo are told, is the daughter of a Moscow physician, who married the Count nearly thirty years ago when shewas very young. Sho has borno him thirteen children, and was this year nursing the youngest, as she had nursed ail its predecessors. Upon her rests the whole burden of the management of the household at Moscow and at Yasnaia Poliana. She controls, directs, manages everything. To the Count the possession of a house superior to that of a peasant is a sin. In his eyes his family lives in culpable luxury because they have servants to clean their boots and a cook to prepare their food. Ho lives in their house, as it were, under protest The Countess has done all that sho could to meet hfs views. They have simplified their existence. The Critic, of March 16, contains an article entitled "Washington's Church, 17891680," by Bishop Perry, of Iowa, historiographer of the Episoopal Church in America. The Bishop is, naturally enough, a zealous churchman, and takes pride in the fact that "the church of Washington" has taken such seven-league strides since the day, now a century past, when the first President, after taking the oath of office, walked to St. Paul's Chapel in Broadway, to attend a service conducted by the first Protestant Episcopal bishop of New York, one of the chaplains of Congress: He resents the imputation that the so-called Church of England in America was lukewarm, if not actually hostile, to tho canse of emancipation from the mother country, and finds abundant gratification in the story of its Phconix-like rebirth after the cessation of hostilities, and its vigorous growth up to tho prosent day. COMMENT AND OPISIOX. TnE Republican victory last fall meant not only a stronger protective defense for the Republic's industries, but abetterhandling of its pocket-book as well a consideration of almost equal importance. Troy (N. Y.) Times. Lkt us hear no moTe about letting the Southern question work out its own solution while murder and proscription is the penalty of an honest stand for the right as to congressional representation. Milwaukee Wisconsin. TnE distinction between genuine civilservice reform and mugwump cant and hypocrisy is broad and not easily mistaken by those who really favor the former, as Benjamin Harrison undoubtedly does. Chicago Inter Ocean. It is only through the satisfying of the just claims of Ireland that permanent conciliation can be had. Tho policy of home rule for Ireland tends not toward separaration, but toward a stronger and more en during union. Boston Journal. TnE interests of the government, as well as the honor and welfare of the Republican party, demand that the offices shall bo rilled in a prudent and conscientious way: and the country will readily grant all the tune that may be required for that purpose. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Let Canada come into , tho family of States if she so desires, but let ns not bar out of commercial intercouso with ns tho growing aud resourceful countries to tho south of us, the great bulk of whose ex changes at prescut are with Great Uritam, Franco or Germany. Washington Post. Nohody need fear that the great Republic is about to becomo a bully among nations and enter upou a career of aggression. That sort of thing ended when the slave power was. destroyed, and Benjamin Harrison's

administration is likely to bo one of tho

kindliest and most generous, though entirely self-respecting, in the history of tho Nation. Cleveland Leader. The old soldiers who wero worth anvthinir to tho country only want whatis lust, and the more they consider this serviceT 1 11 11 . I II A . pension ciaim me piaineriney win soo max it is not based on justice at all. The fighting soldiers can generally be depended on to do the right thing. Louisville Commer cial. TnE men who murdered Clayton were probably some worthless country fellows who had been taught that assassination was a legitimate political argument. Their ignorance is not an excuse, but it is a quesiT . . i Hi i1 1 t mu ii iney are anv more guuiy mau iuo Pharisaical free-traders, who eagerly accepted the fruit of their crimes and then sought to shield the perpetrators by shouting "bloody shirt." few York Press. The natural seouence of England's re fusal of reciprocity discrimination will be a tremendous annexation ground-swell in Canada. Far-seeing statesmen havo long since noted the approach of tho time when ftmln'a rnlf inf arAef will li rf-r Vta info vituuua o rvii'iiiicinb niu lUivn jaw j a i w tho United States. The Senate has merely put up a finger to indicate its still nearer approach and to pave the way for annexation without a shoefc. New York Graphic. Four vears aco the postal service had been brought to a hiah dezree of efficiency. but it will take a Ions time to uudo the mischief wrought by Cleveland in discharg ing .trained and capable clerRs, route agents, etc., and putting in their places ignorant and incompetent partisan strikers and bummers. It was easv for Cleveland to derango and demoralize the postal service, out ii wm taue time and great laoor 10 5et it back to its former standard. Chicago ribune. The voune man who desires to be an honored and respected member of society, a power in the community, and the recipient of the honors and continences bestowed by his fellow-men, must possess brains, lie must be true to himself, loyal to his friends and honest of purpose. This is alono a iar oeuer worKing capuai man wouiu uo all tho money of the United States govern ment without those qualifications. Minne apolis 1 ribune. TnE country cannot afford to encourage low-down practical politics in the navy, nor does the service desire to have it arrayed against itself in political factions. Every officer has enough to contend with in his regular line of duty, and there is already sulficient oppression practiced by seniors against their juniors. To have the word of command of disreputable politicians passed through officers of high rank wouldmake life in the navy intolerable, and entirely destroy its usefulness. San Francisco Chronicle. General Harrison docs right to trust the members of his Cabinet and the congressional Representatives it is the sensible and popular way of conducting an administrationbut at the same time he should not forget that he will be held personally responsible for the mistakes to which these gentlemen may commit him, anjJMtmight be well to let them understand very clearly in advance that ho meant precisely what he said regarding tho causes which would justify removal. Brooklyn Eagle. THE STATE PRESS. Pungent Comments on the Legislature and Other Current Political Topics. Lawrenco Mail: There is one thing tho Legislature of Indiana did which is calculated to gladden the hearts of our peopleit adjourned. Rochester Tribune: While the investigation of the Insane Asylum is incomplete, tho report of the committee fully sustains tho charges mado against its management by the Republican party. Wabash Plain Dealer: The people of Indiana will never learn the truo inwardness of the hospital management till tho protecting wing of Democratic legislators is withdrawn. Then there will be some startling developments. Morgan County Reporter: Increase of the license fee is a victory of no mean proportions forthe temperance people of tho State, and it should be taken advantage of. Let the full limit of the law be enacted against all applicants under this new regime. Kokomo Gazette-Tribune: With contractor Sullivan in Canada and Treasurer Gapen under arrest for embezzlement, the Indianapolis Journal is reasonably vindicated in its persistent and consistent assault on the management of the Insano Hospital. New Albany Tribune: First of all tho United States marshals, the official lightning has struck Ed Hawkins, of Indiana. We know a large bunch of Democrats at Ed's old home who will now respond for the nrst time to the old familiar question, "What's the matter with Harrisonf' "He's all right." Lafayette Courier: The wreck of the Indianopolis Insane Asylum gang is complete. Sullivan is an outcast, Gapen is under arrest and the rest of the crew are momentarily expecting to be indicted. Justice is a trill e slow under some circumstances, but it is certain to sooner or later overtake transgressors. Logansport Journal: The investigation of the Insano Hospital at Indianapolis was stopped just about the time it struck "pay dirt'' by the friends of the rascally managers of the institution in the Legislature. There is no doubt that a little more digging would havo shown large stealings and a general condition of rottenness that would have been fatal to tho spoils management of our State benevolences. Columbus Republican: The Democratic party of Bartholomew county will have to chango its methods of carrying elections or else it will have an opportunity of testing the efficiency of the new election laws. Its violations of the previous Jaws havo been open and willful, and wo have no expectation that it will pay any more deference to existing laws than to previous ones until it shall have been made to smart. Mlshawaka Enterprise: The hide-bound methods of our State Legislature in passing a bill restricting the importations of dressed beef into tho State by requiring State inspection of cattle before killing, is on a par with that other senseless and unconstitutional measure prohibiting the piping of natural gas out of the State. Where would this sort of thing land us if this Democratic misrepresentation of "States' rights" should bo foUowed out in all other directions and adopted by other States! Terre Haute Express: It will bo remembered that much was said about tho austerity and aristocracy of General Harrison, but since he became President we learn that no head of the family in the White House was ever more accessible than this aristocratic, cold "Ben" Harrison. He walks about town, causing the Washingtonians to open their eves in wonder, because they had coine to believe, during the reigu of the jovial, big fellow, who lived over a beer saloon in Buffalo, that the" cicupant of the White House could not show himself to tho vulgar populace. Gradually tho people will discern that Indiana's "Ben," while he may never have been a hail-fellow-well-met about town, is a self-respecting, yet very cordial gentleman. It is a distinction worth observing. There is a big lesson in it. A SIGNIFICANT AVOWAL. An Influential Democratic Paper Pronounces Against IU Party's Policy. Auguflta, Ga., Chronicle (Dem.) Some of tho newspapers that led tho Democratic party into the ditch of defeat eeexn to bo disappointed at the conservative tono and national sentiments of President Harrison's inaugural. They expected him to be bitterly partisan and sectional, and because he has been patriotic and national they are disappointed. As Democrats and Southerners, we are agreeably surpriMid and pleased with the moderate, dignified and statesmanlike address of President Harrison. The South needs protection for her development. She needs government appropriations for internal improvements to improve the navigation of tier rivers and harbors; for waterways between the lakes and tho gulf, and the Atlantic and the Mississippi; for the repair and construction of fortifications along her defenseless coast; for the construction of navy-yards in harbors of the South, where iron and timber are cheap and abundant; for subsidies to Southern steamship lines, carrying the iron and manufactures thereof, and cotton goods and merchandise to the. 60,000,000 people in the countries south of us, who have toOO.OOO.OOO to spend annually; for money to educate the ignorant masses throughout the South, and for all other honest aud legitimate purposes whore it can be expended for the benefit of tho people, and where private corporations and States

even are unable by themselves to undertake and perfect enterprises of national importance. All these are embraced in the policy of President Harrison as outlined in his address. The President says that no will not have a sectional policy, and we accept this wise, and just, and patriotic declaration. We detect nothing between the lines about tho old regime of force and repression. Tho South has reason to rejoice at the high Slane upon which the inaugural of Presient llarrisou has been pitched. With protection to our industries, internal improvements, which embrace ourwatcrwavs, rivers, and harbors and subsidies for tho development of Southern commerce to Mexico, Central and South America, tho South should develop and prosper as sho never has before. If the pessimists and th men who make a trade of politics will only give tho South a fair chance, she will ba tne richest and most prosperous section of tho Union inside of twenty years. The President and Supreme Court Judges. Washington Special to Baltimore Fun. When the judges of tho Supreme Court mado their first formal call upon Mr. Cleveland, four years ago, the interview was rather stiff, because the President was not personally acquainted with any of tho members. It was entirely ditlerent tho other day, when tho first call was mado upon the present executive. During hi service in the Senato Mr. Harrison mado tho personal acquaintance of all the members of the court, add he knew Chiefjustice Fuller before tho latter was called to the bench. After shaking hands with the justices, tho President inquired after the health of Mr. Justice Matthews, and expressed his wish for his epeedv Teturn to health. He then, bowing to all of ihein, said pleasantly be hoped they wonld all live long and prosper. "For," he said "I do not want to be called upon to make any appointments upon yonr bench during my term." "Well, you will not bo troubled m that way, if we can help in." said ono of the justices. "Here is our boy member,'' said another, as he turned to Mr. Jnstico Bradley, who wears his seventv-six year with a eprigbtliness and activity of mind which are remarkable. The President and the Judge smiled at each other, and then . was a meny twinkle in the eye of the latter as he acknowledged tho compliment. Encouraging 11 Lack-Mai L Philadelphia North American. The bill passed by the Indiana Legislature to stop election bribery should bn entitled, "A bill to encourage black-mail, for that is exactly the effect it will have.. The man who accepts an election bribo in without honor or conscience, and if he cannot make money in one disreputable way he will do it in another. What is to prevent the banding together of a number of such peoplo for tho purposo of black-mailing candidates! Ono will swear that he was offered a bribe, and tho others will act a witnesses to corroborate his testimony, and if they win the $500 damages will be divided, between them under the new law. Not only will tho law be highly favorab'o to black-mailers, but ii will fail to accomplish, the purpose of its existence. The men who will ofier bribes will not be worth $500, nor as many cents, and an action against them, would be a wasto of timo and monev. Bribery will not be stopped by any such law as tikis A Constituent's Advice to Toorhees. Washington Special to Chicago Times. The hungry Hoosier, who for a week strode the White House, has run out of rations and returned to the Wabash. A gentleman told me to-day that the President caused the word to be given out that if the Hoosier contingent didn't get off tho 6teps of the White lfouse he wouldn't "set 'em up." By which you aro to understand that ho would not make any appointments for that State. Hence tho exodus. A six-footer from the presidential Stato called on Senator Voorhees and asked for consideration. Tho Senator said: "I havo no influence. Go to your Congressman." "He's a Democrat, too,' said tho six. footer. Then you had better go home," the Senator ronlied. The six-footer giggled a chills-and-fever giggle, and rubbed his chin as he said: "I rcekon you'd better go with me; you don't seem to be much use here,"

A Society Autocrat's Manifesto. Boston Advertiser. The action of Ward McAllister in refusing to allow the veterans of the last war to participate in tho centennial parade in New York is an uncalled-for proceeding on the part of this autocratic young man. Perhaps it may occur to this rash and misf;uided youth that he has taken a very arge contract when he attempts tomanago the centennial ceremonies alone and to model them exactly after his own wishes. That the American peoplo are long sutfering is true enough, out Mr. McAllister is at present occupying the position of tho Southern gentleman whoso amusement it was to tickle the hind feet of a mule with a straw. An Order that Should De Rescinded. Albany Journal. The first order that the Socretary of War. Mr. Proctor, ought to issue is one countermanding the order , of his predecessor directing the commanding officers at arsenals not to employ Republican men, women or children who might apply for work. That order should remain on record as singularly and exclusively the expression of a bastard civil-service reform administration. Indorsing Mr. Wanamaker. Mnnsey's Weekly We believe we aro not exaggerating Mr. Wanamaker's ability a particle when wo 6ay that under his care letters mailed in New York city at C o'clock in the morning of Jan. 1, may reasonably be expected to reach Brooklyn by 3 o'clock in the afternoon of the Christmas lay following in which respect Mr. Wanuraaker will be an improvement on Mr. Don M. Dickinson, of Michigan. An Odd Thins. Philadelphia Press. It is an odd circumstance that the greatest rush for offices under a Republican administration should come from tho Democratic States. Tho Republicans in tho States which cast no electoral votes for President Harrison are heroically resolved that he shall fully understand that their hearts beat warmly for. their native land. A Heal Mean Sncak-Thlcf. Minneapolis Tribune. Tho depraved specimen of humanity who sneaketi into tho Tribune exchange room yesterday and sneaked out again shortly afterward having in his possession tho paragrapher's new hat, new pipe, and last summers tennis blazer, is mean enough to amputate a cow's tail right in themiddle of lly-timo. Should Reconcile Their Statements. Cleveland Leader. We wonld respectf nllr suggest that tho Democratic organs hold a caucus and decide what to say concemingProsident Harrison's appointments. Thus far their statements havo been so contradictory that they do not give the Republicans any tronble at alL A Many-6Ided Argument. Albany Journal. Tho free-trade argument is like a patent mopstick which cleans windows, blows out the gas and handles pie tins. If the iron barons get rich, behold tho monopoly; if bankrupt, behold how protection destroys trade! Give it another twist, gentlemen. George William Curtis rieaaed. Harper's Weekly. The tone and temper of President Harrison's inaugural address are admirable, and the impression of sincerity and moderation, yet not without clearness of view and vigor of conviction, is very agreeable . m The Slugger's Opinion. Chicago MaU. Mr. Cleveland will be grieved to read that his erstwhile admirer John- L. Sulli van has come to regard him as "osily a bum lawyer." It was an uukiud remurk on tho part of Mr. Sullivan. Ho might havo left out tho "bum." Will Not lie Called On. 2w York 3111 and Exrre a. It is doubtless truo that wo can whin Germany. Wo cau probably whip all crvation: but it is also doubtless truo that wo shall have no occasion to exercise our undoubted prowess. Iletrospective. Rochester PrnvKrat and Chronicle. Speaking of collapses, it is pleasant' to remember the result of that Democratic attempt to disrupt the Grand Army ft tho Republic.