Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 March 1889 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 1889.

THE DAILY JOURNAL FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1880. WASHINGTON OFFICE 513 Fourteenth St. P. S. TIeath, Correspondent. NEW YORK OFF1C&-204 Temple Court, Corner Beekman and Nassau Street.

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Buisness Office 2G8 Editorial Rooins 242 Electric motors or other modes of rapid transit will add greatly to the attractions of Indianapolis as a place of residence, and would do much to help build up tho town. It is objected by somo critics that there is too much politics in the presidential appointments. Well, that's as one thinks. Politics is a great game, and your Uncle Harrison does seem to be holding a handful of trumps. Ohio men are tho only ones who have formally announced themselves as candidates for tho Supreme Court justiceship. Your genuine Ohio man is not to be restrained from pursuit of office by such minor considerations as propriety and common decency. If Clerk Newkirk knows the man who transcribed the miners' act bill ho ought to name him and give him a chanco to testify to his part in or knowledge of the mutilation. Clerk Xewkirk, by the way, appears to know a number of things that might have prevented trouble had he disclosed them earlier. Indianapolis is in need of rapid transit. It has outgrown the mule and horse-car system, and wants the latest improved motors on its longest streetrailway lines. Tho Council must take good care that it legislates for the best interests of the city, but can make no mistako when it provides for the best facilities of travel from one part of town to another. Editor Henry AVatterson is a good fighter, and, being such, is ready to do justice to his opponents. Unlike the small fry of his party, ho is willing to acknowledge the shrewdness and wis dom of the new administration in the making of appointments, and to admit that the men selected for tho high oflices are well qualified for their positions and will be a credit to the country. General Harrison's rulo in the matter of removing Democratic office-holders is the right one. Each must stand upon his individual merits or demerits, and is not measured by tho rulo of the late administration, which saw an offensive partisan in every member of tho opposite party. The present administration believes in and will carry out civil-service reform of tho genuine sort. Gen. Clinton B. Fiskis the gentleman who headed the national Prohibition ticket last year and did what ho could to prevent tho election of General Harrison. Under these circumstances his request that tho present administration will retain that eminent Democrat, John H. Oberly, in the office of Indian Commissioner seems to indicate the possession of an abnormal amount of what is vulgarly known as "gall." A combination of busiuess man, railroad man, and high-grade lawyer is difficult to find, and the danger is that when he is discovered he will not bo willing to trade a good income and comparative ease for hard work, a moderato salary and the certainty of being herated by representatives of ono interest or tho other whose differences he is expected to harmonize. A man who is qualified for the place of Intcrstate-com-inercc Commissioner is apt to havo important business of his own on hand. According to an evening paper, Mnrat Halstead and Thorndyko Rico aro "not fit." Gracious! And all becauso both these gentlemen havo decided political views, and are not afraid to express them in forcible terras. It is time the timid, non-conimital, three-sides-of-a-question people were coming to realize that this administration is not afraid to recognize a man because ho has supported and worked for tho Republican party and its principles with all his might and main. Tho public generally, irrespective of party, likes to see such men recognized. The evening "organ of independent thought" would like to "mold public opinion," but, unfortunately, in such matters as this tho public obstinately persists in holding opposite views. The objections urged to tho confirmation of Murat Halstead as minister to Berlin aro not such as will meet with the approval of the party at large. Mr. Hal stead has always been a hard fighter, as Editor Watterson truly remarked in his reference to his appointment in the Courier-Journal, and has no doubt made enemies by his energetic and forci- , ble manner of expressing his likes and dislikes, but there is no good reason for tho rejection of his nomination, and it is greatly to bo hoped that he will bo promptly confirmed. It is a matter of regret that the Senators from Illinois and Kansas, iulMr. Teller, of Colorado, havo ar

rayed themselves in opposition to confirmation. The Journal has not at all times been in harmony with the political methods of Mr. Halstead in his capacity as editor and director of ono of tho most prominent and influential Republican newspaper, but it has always had a high opinion of the value of his work in that capacity. He is a thoroughly representative citizen of the Republic, and whatever may havo been his occasional departures from tho creed of strict Republicanism, he has been and always will bo an intenso American and in every sense a patriotic man.

GEffUTUE DEMOCRACY. The recent assassination of Col. John M. Clayton in Arkansas is still fresh in tho public mind. No similar occurrence in the South ever caused a more general expression of indignation and horror. It was 60 obviously a political assassination, and so clearly tho result of Democratic principles and methods as practiced in the South, that the Democratic party in Arkansas felt obliged to make a show of denouncing the act and a pretense of trying to discover the assassins. The denunciation went on record, and the pretense of trying to arrest the murderers came to nothing. Within a few days an opportunity has occurred for the Democracy of Arkansas to havo placed the seal of their condemnation on tho perpetrators of and beneficiaries of tho murder, but they conspicuously failed to do so. On tho contrary they seem to have indorsed fraudulent elections, and recognized murder in politics as established Democratic methods. A Democratic convention held at Little Rock a few days ago to nominate candidates for judges of the Supreme Court was officered and controlled by men from Pulaski county, where Clayton was murdered, and one of the three nominees was taken from tho same county, receiving more votes than any other candidate before the convention. And this was done notwithstanding tho fact that Pulaski county already has two judges on the Supreme Bench, and the present nomination will give that county three and a majority of the court. Not only this, but the nominee, Simon P. Hughes, was an open and notorious sympathizer with the ballot-box thieves in Pulaski county, who murdered Clayton, and if ho did not justify tho assassination he justified all tho preceding acts of the same gang. This man Hughes was nominated over other candidates known to bo in favor of honest elections. A statement issued by tho Republicans of Arkansas says: Smoote, of Nevada, and Dunn, of Ouachita, were candidates. In tho Churchill bond case, while acting as special judges of the Supreme Court, they held some of the bondsmen liable, and thus sealed their doom. Sanrters, of Phillips, approved the bond of a Union Labor candidate in St. Francis county, after it was shown by proof to be worth $10,000 over the penalty of tho bond, and for that reason he was not deemed a suitable person to go on tho Supreme Bench. I'ittman, of Washington, was regarded as an honest man, and being in favor of a fair election and an honest count, and for this reason he was not re garded as a proper person to go on tho Supreme Bench. Pulaski county wanted protection. It already had two members on the Supreme Bench, but it wanted a majority. . All tho ballot-box thieves and ballot-box stun'ers wanted the same thing.Hence they put on Hughes, and Pulaski county obtained a majority of the Supremo CourL Thus it appears that in order to leave no doubt as to tho position of the party the convention conspicuously defeated several honest candidates and nominated tho Pulaski county sympathizer with Colonel Clayton's murderers, although it gave that county three judges out of five. In the light of this action the pretended indignation of Arkansas Democrats at the murder of Colonel Clayton can be rated at its proper worth. Tho . action of the convention is an exhibition of genuine Democracy. LEGI3LATIVE DESPOTISM. Tho recently promulgated theory that a Legislature possessesunlimited power,. 6ave as expressly prohibited by the Constitution, was not the theory of tho fathers of the government, nor of the early expounders of the Constitution. On tho contrary, they regarded the legislative department of government as prone to usurp doubtfuj powers and mako insidious aggressions on the just powers of the other departments. Mr. Madison, in referring to tho difficulty of guarding against such invasions, said: Tho legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity, and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex. The founders of our Republic seem never to have recollected tho danger from legislative usurpations which, by assembling all power in the same hands, must lead to the same tyranny as is threatened by executive usurpations. In a representative republic, where the executive magistracy is carefully limited, both in tho extent and the duration of its power, and where the legislative power is exercised by an assembly which is inspired by a supposed influence over tho people, with an intrepid confidence in its own strength, which is sufficiently numerous to feed all the passions which actuate a multitude, yet not so numerous as to be incapable of pursuing the objects of its passions by means which reason prescribes it is against tho enterprising ambition of this department that tho people ought to indulge all their jealous3' and exhaust all their precautions. Mr. Madison saw very clearly tho natural tendency of legislative bodies to enlargo the sphere of their powers and to encroach on tho other departments of government. The tendency of all republican governments is to an aggrandizement of tho legislative at tho expense of tho other departments. Mr. Jefferson, in referring to tho early Constitution of Virginia, objected to its concentration of legislative, executive and judicial powers in the Legislature. He said: The concentrating of these in tho same hands is precisely the deiinition of despotic government. It will bo no alleviation that these powers will bo exercised by a plurality of bands and .not by a single one. One hundred and seventy-three despots would surely be as oppressive as one. An elective despotism was not the government we fought for. but ono which should not only bo founded on free principles, but in which the powors of government should be so divided and balanced among several bodies of magistracy as that no one could transcend their legal limits without being effectually checked and restrained by tho others. These expressions show that tho fathers of tho Constitution regarded a completo separation of legislative, cxecutive,.and judicial powers as of vital importance and tho legislative department as the most aggressive of any. Storeyinhis "Commentaries on thoConstitution says: "If any department of the government has unduo influence,

or absorbing power, it certainly has not been either tho executive or the judiciary;" and Kent says there is always dauj ger of the legislative department "pressing with destructive weight upon all the other parts of tho machinery of government." This tendency of legislative bodies may not have developed in any case to a dangerous extent, but it exists, and its appearance should be "nipped in the bud."

0U2 SOUTH AMERICAS NEIGHBORSIn connection with tho distressing condition of affairs in Central America there comes a suggestion showing the disposition of minor American states to recognize tho controlling influence of this country in American affairs. Tho suspension of work on tho Panama canal has thrown thousands of persons out of employment, paralyzed business, and produced a very serious financial crisis. Public meetings have been held, the Chamber of Commerce of Panama has discussed the situation, and the government authorities have been trying to discover 6ome mode of relief, but no way out of their troubles has yet been found, and a dispatch from Panama says tho people have about concluded that the only hope of aUoviation lies in tho direction of the Congress of representatives of the American republics, to be held at Washington next October, which will discuss the question of a standard currency for all tho American nations. A standard currency for all American nations would mean closer commercial relations, and the fact that Central Americans are looking to it as a means of financial relief shows they are beginning to realize the importance of closer trade relations with the Great Republic. This is one of the most important subjects that can engage the attention of our government. Somo of the states of South America are developing very rapidly, and the trade of that region is becoming more valuable and desirable every year. At present it is practically controlled by European nations which, by outwitting us in business and diplomacy, have captured a trade that naturally belongs to us, and which, other things being equal, would prefer to come to us. The time is rapidly approaching when tho augmented populations and highly developed resources of the southern continent will produce a development of commerce that the United States may well strive to attract to themselves instead of supinely permitting to bo diverted by other na-. tions. It is not pleasant to bo told that tho" Illinois Senators say the appointment of Mr. Lincoln as minister to England "is not to bo taken from the federal patronage to be given their State." Aside from the inference that they do not heartily approve tho appointment a position they would hardly care to take 4 openlythere is in the statement a suggestion of office-seeking importunity not pleasant to, contemplate.. Tho idea of United States Senators asserting tho great doctrine of State rights in relation to patronage, and insisting that tlio ofljees. mast bo dished out and passed; around like plum-pudding' among hun.gry children is not in accordanco with1 the popular estimate of siaiesmanship. In recent years, since th inauguration of civil-servico reform the people have learned to think that tho office should sometimes seek the man without regard to State boundaries. Tho idea wo are combating seems to imply, that each State must havo its quota of official places irrespective of merits or demerits. From an impartial stand-point it would seem that the Illinois Senators ought to bo proud that their State contained a citizen of 'sufficient prominence and merit to receive so honorablo an appointment without seeking it or having hi9 "claims" presented and urged in the usual huckstering way. And as for "charging it up to the State," what possible difference can it make to tho people of that great commonwealth whether it receives a little more or less official pap! Surely there is something in politics be sides the offices, something more in the science of government than a few paltry places. mmma The President's Oklahoma proclamation has caused great rejoicing, not only among tho "boomers," but throughout southern Kansas. Tho squatters who have been camped along tho line are getting ready to move, cattlemen are hurrying to remove their cattle from tho territory, and a considerable part of tho population in southern Kansas is preparing to emigrate to tho promised land. Tho lands will bo opened to en--try from and after 12 o'clock on the 22d of April, and tho race for entries is likely to bo a very exciting one. Tho section of country thus opened to settlement is one of wonderful beauty and fertility, equaling in natural attractions tho best parts of southern Kansas. The desire to enter and possess it has been increasing for a long time, and tho rush will probably bo without a parallel in the settlement of new Territories. The usual incidents of rapid development, new railroads, now towns and real estate booms, aro likely to bo repeated, and in alittlo while the new Territory will present tho appearance of an old-settled country. The Knights of the Home. The recent tragedies connected with wino-rooms and saloons were a sufficient apology for Drs. Cleveland and McLeod and Mr. Murphy, at tho meeting Wednesday night, to call for a more vigorous enforcement of tho law against them. But such laws are not enforced by denunciation or by resolutions in a promiscuous assembly, nor without tho hearty co-operation of good men. It is very cheap virtue to rail out against tho police or the courts for not enforcing 6uch laws. The courts are prompt in dealing with all casesbrought before them, but what can a mere handful of policemen do with the four hundred saloons? If there were no other violations of law to look after, these few guardiaus of tho people would still bo insufficient to look after one half of these saloons. They need not only tho moral support of those opposed to law-breaking, but they need the active co-operation of every good citizen iu detecting and bringing to punishment those who defy the law. The secret order known as The Knights of the Home has been organized for this special purpose. IU machinery is simple but ef

fective, and all good men who wish to aid

in its work will do well to examine its methods. Copies of its constitution can bo had of its president, E. G. Cornelius, or its vice-president, R. N. Lamb, or its treasurer. Samuel Sawyer, or its secretary, T. A. Goodwin, or at the Indiana, the Indianapolis or the Meridian National banks, or at the Bank of Commerce. There was probably never a more propitious moment for this work, and there has not been devised a more effective agency. Its secrecy isoneof itselementsof strength. Its business is transacted only in the pres ence of its members, who are pledged not to reveal what is done nor to proclaim the names or numbers of its membership. An effective committee is appointed quarterly to take cognizance of violations of law, and to otherwise promote tho ends of tho organization. It deserves at least a thorough investigation on the part of all law-and-order men, and their hearty support, unless they can do better v;ork in some other way. Sham on tho self-righteous man who goes about the streets whining "Why don't they enforce tho lawP Why don't you help, dear Pharisee? The stockyard sales of this week indi cate that Indianapolis may rightfully boast of being a horse center. Once it was that Kentucky raided the tine colts, but now Indiana divides that fame and furnishes, as well, a market for the Kentucky stock. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: IIow many deputies is the United States mar 6hal allowed to appoint! Reader. The number is not limited by law. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THLNGS. CnARLES Dickens's favorite Kentish home at Gad's Hill, and where he died, is for sale. The United States government, as a reward for his faithful services, has enrolled Washakie, tho head chief of the Shoshone Indians in Wyoming, as a government scout, with the pay ot a regular soldier. JosEPn Matthews, of Talbotten, Ga., says that a chicken was hatched at his home a few days since that had four lees, four wings and a head like a mouse. Ho has preserved this wonderful chicken in alcohol. Mr.. Ward McAllister, although the constant subject of slurs and bad jokes, is a genial, good-hearted sort of a fellow, who as a general thing is extremely polite and nice to newspaper men who call at his home. In return he is - made the butt of ridicule. . - Mrs. James G. Blaine has never had but one photograph taken, and that was in a group when sho and 'Mr. Blaine' were on their coaching trip in, Scotland. Members of the family haverTencatedly besought her to sit for a photograph, but sno has always steadfastly refused. , The Minnesota State University has established a school of journalism, and placed at its head a lady who has had some experience with "newspaper work. "Professor" Sanfdrd, as she is called, will edit the copy of her staff of writers, and will have it printed in somo local journal. She herself will act as managing editor. v In poinl of college seniority, the Hon. George Bancroft is said to be tho oldest living alumnus of .Harvard. -Ho was graduated in tho class of 1817. Three Jiving members of tho class of 1818; are his seniors in age, and yet at 9 o'clock in the morning Mr. Bancroft looks brighter than ninerat of ten of tho Harvard students of tho present day ExGLisn advocates of woman's public work are making much of the fact that a certain antiquarian has discovered evi dences that women held offices in the seven teenth and eighteenth centuries. According to the Derbyshire county records thcro wero at that time several women constables and church wardens, and ono woman held tho office of magistrate. Since Mrs. Cleveland's residence in Now York she has occupied a box at tho Metropolitan Opera-houso every opera night. , She is a favorite with that portion of opera-goers who do not occupy boxes, foro matter how many there may be in her party, when tho curtain , goes up sho moves to the front of the box, and from then until the close of the play no talking is allowed, not even a whisper. The news from the venerable Pope Leo XIII is not favorable to any expectation that his life Avill be greatly prolonged. He is soventy-nine years oldf was never physically a robust man, and ho has lived to this agebv practices of the strictest sobriety and by exercising constant care of his health. His fainting tits are ominous of a loss of vital power that his weakened frame cannot long endure. Tiil inventor and manufacturer of the latest popular puzzle, 'pigs in clover," lives at Waverly, N. Y., and is eo overwhelmed with orders that his profits are Raid to bo $100 a day, and they would be $1,000 if he could till tho orders. Of course ho will increase his manufacturing facilities up to tho capacity of his orders. And about tho time he has done so the craze will die out and he will be left flat again. Two hundred of tho brightest men in Chicago sat down together at the first meeting of the Sunset Club last week. The principal subject for discussion was: "What would you do if you wero tho Czar of Cook county?" Among the declaration of principles of the club are the following: o club-house, no constitution, no debt, no defalcations, no profanity, no president, no bores, no dress coats, no dudes, no dues." Owing to the limited opportunities for solemnizing marriages in Blaine county, Nebraska, the story goes, there is a great competition among the ministers and justices of the peace there when there is a prospect of a wedding. "It became known the other day that one of the best citizen farmers living near Brewster was daily expecting tho arrival of his bride-to-be from the Empire State, and the whole judicial and clerical force in the county has camped on his farm awaiting her arrival." A peculiar fact about American literary women is that many of them are domestic in their tastes and have great ability as housekeepers. Lucy Stone is a noted homemaker. Mrs. Elizabeth Cady-Stanton's domestic propensities are well known. Mrs. Annie Jenness Miller, the lecturer and advocate of dress-reform, has a husband who worships her. Mrs. Livermore, the lecturer, is another good housekeeper, and in addition to her public and private duties takes care of an invalid daughter. . The officials and leading citizens of Cork, Ireland, have addressed a communication to President Harrison, requesting tho detention at that place ef Consul J. J. Piatt. The communication is signed by Daniel Ryan. Mayor of Cork; R. A. Atkins, high sheriff of Cork city; C. S. Parnell, M. P.; Maurice Healy, M. P.; R. U. Penrose Fitzgerald, M. P.; members of tho Cork corporation, tho harbor commissioners, the secretary of tho Chamber of Commerce, and several mayors of adjoining cities, besides leading merchants and magistrates. Loud Tennyson is suffering from tho ailments incident to age. He is not alarmingly ill; but when a poet is about to celebrate his eightieth birthday, as Tennyson will do on Aug. 6, next, when ho has been feeble for very many monthstoo feeble to seek repose in warmer climes the'slightest change for tho worse in his condition gives occasion for anxiety. He is just four morths older than Mr. Gladstone, and has rone of tho elasticity which enables Mr. Gladstone to recover so rapidly from his sickness. General W. W. Belknap, Grant's Secretary of War, is now a practicing lawyer in Washington, but his massive figure and full yellow beard are a familiar eight in New York. In an interview a few days ago he said: "I have recently seen a letter written by Thomas Jellerson in 819, in which ho said: D n tho nc fcpapera! D n Ritchie! There is nothint true in tho newspapers but the advertisen 6uts.' What makes me recall it is the publication within a day or two of a report that t have bought

a house in Washington. It has caused me no end of trouble and annoyance. It was not true, and hence you see 1 am growling." The Glasgow Mail say s: At the St. James's Hall meeting Mr. Parnell appeared with his arm in a sling; he had hurt his hand testing gold found on his own estate in Wicklow, as if the old land itself wished to offer him a testimonial. Thoso who 'think of Mr. Parnell only as a politician would bo surprised to meet him when engaged as ho really is, daily with scientists and city men in discussing the development of mineral resources of Ireland. We firmly believe that if at such a time Lord Salisbury himself walked in, bringing Mr. Balfour with him. but also bringing, as tho Premier could, a valuable opinion on the subject for the First Minister is a keen student of science himself the Irish chieftain would gladly welcome both, and, laving aside ome rnlo for tho hour, talk of Irish mines as if ho had never taken off hishistoric coat to inaugurate the Land League.

COMMENT AND 0P1SI0S. CoMMERClALnecessityas well asnational pride suggests that the United States pursue a liberal policy in promoting more direct and closer relations with the South American states. Iowa State Register. All movements in aid of ex-confederates should begin in the South, and we do not believe, if they were intelligently carried on. that it would be necessary to extend the Held of operations to any other section. There is uo Southern Stato where a fund ample for the care of all the old soldiers could not bo raised. Memphis Avalanche. Closer alliance in commerce and trade with Cuba, the promotion of intimate relations with this country, which tho Cubans cannot maintain with Spain because of the greater distance, and the increase of American interests in Cuba will gradually change the situation so that bpain may be very glad to sell or part with her island. New York Graphic. Our purchase of Alaska from Russia twenty-two years ago brought with it all the rights and prerogatives which Alaska enjoj-ed. which virtually means that Behring sea is American waters. However, as our pretensions in this respect are not conceded by the rest of the world, an international discussion of the matter is undoubtedly close at hand. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Canada needs us; we do not need Canada, for we are prospering abundantly without her. We can afford 6erenely to wait the progress of events, and if the practical difficulties in the way of commercial union should prove to be entirely insurmountable, wo can remember that it is Canada and not the United States which has nothing to lose and everything to gain by such an arrangement. Boston Journal. The United States must bo a nation or it will bo nothing. We must have no South, or North, or East, or West. Western people, especially Western Republicans, understand this. If the solid South, shall be broken by the invasion of Northern capital and tho awakening of Southern people to the importance of the fostering of their in dustrial interests, the West will not mako that an excuse lor a sectional indorsement of the Democratic doctrine of free trade. Tho West is not the West it is the western portion of tho United States. It believes in nationality. Omaha Republican. The Postoffice Department under Cleveland was most active in reducing his civilservico professions to a nullity, and that work was nowhere more evident than in ,the removals in this branch of the service. The railway mail service calls for thorough experience in order to perform its work under tho peculiar conditions which its nature establishes. The displacing of men who were thoroughly acquainted with this work, in order to make room for Democrats, inevitably damaged the efficiency of the service, and was a distinct affirmation of tho .-theory that the interest of the party must be placed above the interests of the public. The new administration has restored the old men. If its actions in other respects are in the same line, it will make a good record. Pittsburg Dispatch. INDIANA AT A FliEBIIUM. Democratic Partisanship and IHnnilerlng Fails to Impair the State's Credit. Washington Po9t. The new loan which Indiana has jnst negotiated for $1,070,000 is pronounced the best tho Stato has ever made. There were two lots of bonds sold, one for $700,000, live to ten years, and the other for $370,000. two to five years, both bearing 3 percent, interest. The purchase was made by tho German Savings Bauk of New York, through Winslow, Lanier it Co., at 101.02 per hundred for the $700,000, and 100.77 for tho $370,000, there being a gain of $14,1S9 from the premiums paid, besides the saving of interest. The negotiation shows that a State can survive a good deal of bad politics and still retain the oontidence of the financiers. A stranger to the character of American ininstitutions might infer from what has been said about the situation in Indiana for somo years past, the bitter party antagonisms that have held high carnival there, tho various forms of misgovernment cropping out from time to time, and the gross electoral frauds, of which there is no cnial, that the Ifoosier State was on the high road to destruction. How far this is from being the case is obvious from the premiums commanded on her paper in the most cautious and conservative financial centers of tho country. So long as tho constitution and laws of a State continue to be observed by tho great body of tho people, and the courso of justice reaches its ends at last, however much impeded on tho wav, tho public credit stands unimpaired. Tho capitalists know where to draw tho line. They know that while citizens remain loyal to their commonwealth, contribute freely to its support, strengthening its resources by their enterprise and industry, the financial obligations of the State are a good thing to hold and are in no particular danger of going to protest. The wrangles of the politicians are after all but ripples on the surface of events. Indiana is a great State, and in no immediate dangerof being wrecked by the partisanship that now and then scandalizes her history. With her grosser offenders against the ballot she has in notablo instances dealt severely, and by her recent adoption of the Australian system, uhe has erected a new barrier to electoral frauds that there is every reason to believe will prove effective in the supEression of abuses. Besides that, Indiana as become the mother of a President, of whom great expectations are entertained and whose administration will, in all probability, add largely to her pacilication at home and good name abroad. tiie united states army. How It Is Recruited and What Its Duties Consist Of Discontent In the Hanks. Capt. Arlington, in St Louis Post-Dispatch. "It is remarkable how many men who havo served their tivo years and received their discharge drift back into tho army. Soldiers seem to become chronic grumblers, no matter what their natural disposition may havo been before? entering the army, and as soon as they havo served their time are very likely to demand their discharge. It is a nearly invariable rule that out of ten men who withdraw at the end of their live-years' service, eight will turn up at some recruiting office within six months. I served four years as a recruiting otlicer, and nearly naif the men I accepted had been in the army within a year. The men seemed to get tired of civil life after a very short experience of its delights, and hurried back into tho army. A most remarkable fact is that men who desert aro very frequently captured while trying to re-enlist. Tho fact that so mauy old soldiers are sent to tho distributing depots accounts for tho short time tho recrnits aro kept in training before being sent to their regiments. Somo of them know as much about drill as the sergeants in charge, and are sent ott as soon as possible, whilo the green hands are kept much longer. ; "The officer who gave the account of tho amount of drill the troops went through after joining must have been very fortunately situated. My experience, and that of most officers who have served much on the frontier, is that we havo scarcely any time for drill. A recruit soon finds that his duties as a soldier are entirely subordinated to those he is called upon to perform as a laborer. Fom half to two-thirds of each company are nearly always on special service, and they avo kept so steadily at work that there is little time for drill. It is a well-known fact that very ordinary militia organizations are better up in maneuvers and tho manual of arms than the best regulars, with the possible exception of a very few companies stationed at laro eastern garrisons. No body of meu in this country aro required to bo such jacks-of-all-tradea as tho men in tho army. Tho posts are binall, widely scat

tered and generally situated in remote parts of tho country. This is especially true of the cavalry stations. Few aro built by civilian employes, but the troops themselves are called upon to construct and keep in order their own quarters. It is rather disenchanting to a young fellow tilled with dreams of martial glory, instead of finding that his principal work i to handle a carbine and saber, to be given a hammer and nails and set to work on a stable, or to bo obliged to exercise his strength in digging post-holes for a new corral. A man who chances to write a good hand, and to bo reasonably quick at figures, has little chance of ever serving with his troop, as lie is taken by somo otlicer as a clerk, and kept constantly employed in this rather untnilitary avocation. It is the same with a man who shows the least aptitude at handling tools. Carpenters arc rare iu the West, and a man who knows anything about this trade finds that all lns'military dutv, beyond the merest routine, consists in mending fences and repairing roofs. Even when other labor can be obtained, the commanding officer who has a small appropriation for improving his post, tries to s end as little of it as possible for wages, iiringon!v a few master workmen, and putting a squad of soldiers at the disposal of each. Then there are roads to bo built, vegetables to be raised, wagons to be sent for supplies, and a hundred other details which must bo attended to by the soldiers. When it is considered that at all posts except a very few less than ono hundred men are stationed, it can he readily seen that the time left for drill and other military exercises amounts to little or nothing. When scouting of courso nothing of tho kind can be attempted, and when at the posts thcro is so much work of other kinds to be done that not one day in the week can bo devoted to military training. It is very discouraging to a company commander to see no more than twenty men in liue, the rest being engaged in chopping and sawing wood, driving wagons, digging cisterns or painting houses. It is a wonder that the men are as well drilled as they are. This stato of affairs goes far to account for what is tho greatest curso of tho United States arm, desertion. Men become very much discontented when they are doing f or $13 a month work that civilians engaged possibly on tho samo job are receiving $1.50 or $2 a day for. Out of a force of less than 25.000 uieu there were last year nearly 3.000 desertions, and this is below rather than above the ordinary proportion. Of course there are some men who enlist with the intention of deserting as soon as they are sent West, . their only desire being to get free transportation to the frontier. But thrt great majority arise from discontent because of the particular features of the service that I have touched on. The reason that su many return is that they tind on trial that they are better oil in tho army than anywhere else. A soldier's pay of $13 a mouth means that ho receives that amount clear of all expenses. He is clothed and fed. when sick his pay goes on the same as ever, and he receives the best of medical threatment free of cost; he is always sure of employment and his pay is certain. Besides this.be has several valuable perquisites. A careful man can save a large amount of money on his clothing account every year. For extra fatigue duty there is extra pay, and by doing work for officers' families a man can add very considerably to his earnings. Then, at tho end of his term, ho is entitled to transportation from tho place in which he may chance to be to tho place of his enlistment. As recruits are generally drawn from the East and 6cnt to the West, this is a very large item. A man who is, enlisted in New York and discharged in Idaho at somo fort remote from tho railroad, may receive $150 or S200 as traveling expenses. He can put this in his pocket and immediately re-enlist. His next station may be in Florida, and he will receive the cost of his journey across the continent on his second discharge, without being in any way required to move a foot of the way. At the end of twenty years' service he is entitled to a pension. Few laboring men can do nearly as well as this, year m and year out, and after a little experience thoso who have left the army drift back into it and seldom try civil life again." Slaking No Undue Haste. Cleveland Leader. President Harrison is displaying good jndgment and exercising great deliberation in the matter of appointments. Thero has been no undue haste. This is a wise pelicy. but it may not meet tho approbation of those who aro crying for a clean sweep. It is the only way to successfully govern a country like tho United States. Somo of ex-President Cleveland's grossest blunders were tho odious appointments ho made without investigating the character of tho beneficiaries. The peoplo may rest assured that President Harrison will not do likewise. m a Leas Syinpthy for Prohibition. New York Graphic Prohibitionists aro meeting with such defeats over the country that they may well be in despair. Their prohibition policy has never prohibited, and hence is in bad odor. No law, prohibitory or otherwise, can be enforced without the hearty sympathy of the people and the support of a majority of voters. Prohibition has less and less of this sympathy year by year, as its leaders avow their purpose of destroying the Republican party to secure their objects. The Seal Upon Seal Killing. New York Telegram. To save the Real President Harrisou has declared tho Behring sea a closed sea as far as seal killing goes. Who breaks this seal no, who kills the seal will be in danger. Foreigners have disregarded the regulations concerning the killing of tho seal in those waters, and the seal of the Executive has been placed on a proclamation relating to tho fur-bearing seal which may mako sealskin sacks somewhat dearer, but will 6ave a lew for tho generations to come. A Question of Constitutionality. Nebraska State Journal. Indiana Democrats say that it will bo an awful responsibility for the Supreme Court to undertake to declare that an act of tho Legislature is unconstitutional. But tho question is not whether the so-called act of tho Legislature are constitutional, but aro they acts of the Legislature, not having been signed and certified by the oOicers of the two houses after being passed over tho Governor's veto? That is what is required. but it was not dune. Jesting About a Misfortune. Washington Post. A coarse and brutish Democratic organ, which we decline to dignify by naming. i daily publishing low jest about Corporal Tanner's wooden legs. When an editor can find no better subject for his ribaldry than this faithful soldier's great misfortune, tho conclusion is irresistible that that editor's mind is a good deal moro wooden-legged, than Corporal Tanner. From the Frylng-ran Into the Fire. Chicago Journal. Tho colored men of North Carolina aro emigrating in great numbers to Arkansas. This is ".jumping out of the frying-pan into tho fire, ' as far as any improved civil or political rights are concerned. In fact, Arkansas is far nearer barbarism on tho race question than North Carolina. Beans, Three Beans. Washington Post. Touching Moosyeh Reid's appointment to the French mission, we have only to remark that we agree with Boston when sho says "Bien, tres bien," though we don't think Boston gets quite tho Parisian touch to her pronunciation of it. A Healthy Sign. Detroit Tribune. It is a healthful sign that all the leadinir newspapers of tho country, representing all political parties, are now in favor of building up the American navy. The growth ot national pride is hero indicated in a manner quite unmistakable. Should Go Quickly. Detroit Tribune. The sooner the old reliablo mail agents, are put back into tho frcrvico tho better for the service and tho people. Tho incompetents. 6hould go with exceeding suddenness. Getting Tired of It, Cleveland Leader. To our cotemporaries: Give "the Ohio man'' a rest, and twist tho old jokes so they will fit the man from New York and the patriot from lloosierdom. m e i Liberality, Not lustra vagal ice. Baltimore American. In tho granting of pensions this country is in favor of liberality, but not of extravt gauce.