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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1889

THE DAILY JOURNAL FRIDAY, MAY 10, 16S9. WASHINGTON OFFICE 313 Fourteenth St. I 8. Heath, Correspondent. NEW YORK OFFICE 201 Temple Court, Corner Beekman and Nassau Street. TEllMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. DAILY. Cue year, without Pnnday $12.00 One year, with Sunday 14 00 Fix months, without Monday 6.00 Fix months, with Sunday 7.00 Three months, without Hnnday 3.00 Three monthsf with Sunday aw One month, without Sunday 1.00 One month, with Sunday 1.20 WEEKLY. Per year fl-CO Reduced Rates to Clubs. Fntscribe with any of our numerous agents, or end subscriptions to THE JOURNAL NEWSPAPER COMPANY, Indianapolis. Ind. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can be fonnd at the following places: LONDON-American Kxchaue in Europe, 449 Strand. PARIS American Exchango in Parta, 35 Boulevard dea Capucinea. NEW YORK Gllsey nouse and Windsor noteL PIIILADELPniA-A.' pT Kemble, 3725 Lancaster avenue. CHICAGO Palmer nouse. CINCINNATI-. P. Hawley A Co., 154 Vine street. LOUISVILLE-C. T. Deerinp, northwest corner Third andJ efferson streets. ST. LOUIS Union Nowa Company, Union Depot and Southern HoteL WASHINGTON, D. C.-R1&K8 nouse and Ebhltt House. Telephone Calls. Ruslcess Office ZM Editorial Rooms 242 The White Cap letters and threats gent to Judge Woods show the character of the circulation and influence possessed by the paper that instigates them. What a stinging satire it is on popular government that Sim Coy, during the entiro period of his confinement in the penitentiary, should bo drawing pay as a Democratic councilman. The zeal with which Democratic organs of electoral reform insist on the constitutional right of lunatics and idiots to vote is truly remarkahle. There is nothing like standing up for great principles. There is nothing liko having a scientific weather report. Away back in Washington's day they had nothing better to depend on than the almanac, and what an uncertain time of it they must have had! Now that Public Printer Benedict has been removed, the Washington public admits that there has never been a greater failure in ofiice. None are more pronounced in this assertion than his late subordinates. TnE Tennessee Legislature is to bo convened in extra session to make necessary amendments in defective laws passed during the recent regular session. It is hardly necessary to say the Legislature is Democratic. Some of the outsido towns are having a good deal to say about their naturalgas prospects. Indianapolis can tell better what her prospects are when it is settled whether or not she is to have free natural gas for factories. Br order of the War Department Indiana get3 $14,239 of the $400,000 appropriated by the last Congress for support of the militia. This, in addition to the appropriation by our Legislature, ought to place our militia on a pretty good footing. A foolish Washington correspondent inaugurates the advent of the silly season "by starting a story that Gen. Harrison was in Chicago during the convention that nominated him and pulling wires for his nomination. Plenty of people in this city know he was here all the time, and was about the coolest man in town. Not long ago the Cincinnati Gas Company reduced the price of gas from $1.C5 per thousand feet to $1.15, and since the reduction gas 6tock has advanced from 180 to 214. The reduction of price seems to have operated somewhat like a reduction of postage, causing an increase of business and receipts. There is a hint in this for the purveyors of gas, but as a class they are not very quick to take a hint. If free gas for factories is to do Indianapolis any good it must be had this year, and not two, or three, or live years hence. Whatever helps to increase the business and population of the city will benefit every local enterprise, the existing gas companies among the rest. The few who argue to the contrary are simply Hying in the face of reason, and betray a short-sighted selfishness which should have no influence with the public. While the Republican administration declines to discriminate against Democratic ex-Union soldiers on account of their politics, the need of such associations as that organized by Mr. Koontz is not apparent, even to the members. As it was formed for the alleged purpose of protecting Democratic veterans against partisan oppression, the foundation naturally falls out when it is discovered that no such action is contemplated. The absence of delegates at Koontz's "natiouar' convention indicates that the Democratic soldiers aro satisfied with matters as they are. The objectiou .that both are freetraders is raised to tho appointment of Thompson and Roosevelt as civil-service commissioners by some unconsciously humorous critics- of the administration. "What if they are! As Thompson is a Democrat, his free-trade views aro a matter of course, and if Roosevelt thinks he thinks the same way on that question, what's the difVerence! Is there any place where free-traders can bo so harmless as on the Civil -service Commission, and is it not better to put them where they can do no mischief than to leave them at large? The proposition for a thorough investigation of the township assessor's and County Commissioners' ofiices is wise and timely. Recent events have shown tho necessity of such an investigation. These offices are so closely connected in their business relations that mismanagement or corruption in the assessor's office would argue the same in tho commissioners' office. Tho latter is almost independent oi legal check or control, and tho cour&o

of the commissioners during the last few years has not been such as to inspire confidence. Its power and influence have been constantly exerted in favor of the Coy-Sullivan gang and their successors, and thero is quite as much reason to suspect crookedness in that office as in the assessor's. Both should be thoroughly investigated and overhauled.

AH IMPORTANT FINANCIAL QUESTION. Our Washington dispatches foreshadow a situation of a very serious nature. It involves nothing less than the existence of our national bank circulation, and perhaps of the system itself. This situation and the questions it involves have been approaching for some time, but they are now so near as to demand the consideration of Congress at tho earliest possible moment. The nature of the case will bo understood when it is remembered that all national bank circulation has to bo secured by a deposit in tho Treasury Department of government bonds, and that the rapid redemption of the bonds is removing tho basis of circulation. If the redemption of bonds goes on at the present rate, it is only a question of short time when those now available as security for national bank circulation will have been redeemed, and the circulation which they now sustain canceled. In this situation one of three things must happen first, the redemption of bonds may be suspended at a point that will still leave enough for permanent security for the circulation; second, some other security may be substituted; or, third, the bond redemption may go on, and the national bank circulation bo permanently retired. These alternatives involve financial considerations of great importance. Our national banknote circulation, in connection with legal tenders, or greenbacks, makes the best paper currency that this or any other country ever had. Tho bank notes aro no better than tho greenbacks, but the system is more elastic and greatly to be preferred, because the volume of currency is regulated by the natural laws of business and trade, and is not liable to be arbitrarily increased or diminished by Congress. We presume no person will deny that the national bank circulation is a very important feature of our financial, system, and exerts a powerful influence in developing, promoting and stimulating trade. That the entiro abolition of tho national bank system would bo a tremendous national disaster admits of no doubt, and it is by no means certain that the abolition of the circulation would notbe almost as great a calamity. This is the question that is presented for early consideration, and it is one of the gravest importance. CONCEENINO NEPOTISM. The criticisms of President Harrison for appointing his brother United States marshal in Tennessee are contemptible in tone and .spirit, and utterly unreasonable and unjust. The New York Times says "the appointment is one that no man of sensitive self-respect in Mr. Harrison's place would have made." Tlie World, more untruthful, though not more unreasonable, says it is "the most pronounced act of nepotism in the history of tho government." This is political cant without the first element of truth or sincerity. Tho appointment in question does not come within tho definition of nepotism at all. The essential element of nepotism is appointment of relatives to office who aro unfit and undeserving. Webster defines it, "Bestowal of patronage in consideration of relationship to the bestowcr, rather than of merit." In this case merit and fitness were the principal considerations, and relationship was secondary. Carter B. Harrison is a gentleman of first-class ability and of the highest character. He held an important office under former Republican administrations, the duties of which he discharged to the perfect satisfaction of tho government and public. No Republican in Tennessee stands higher or enjoys the confidence and respect of the public in a more marked degree. His claims to office, to use an offensive phrase, did not rest on the fact of his relationship to the President. They rested on his personal character and merit, and on recommendations which would have secured his appointment from any Republican President. Tho Republicans of Tennessee do not see in tho appointment any of tho elements of nepotism or favoritism that mugwump and Democratic papers pretend to discover. On tho contrary, they regard it as an eminently fit and proper one. Other Presidents have appointed relatives to office, and have not been criticised for it. Mr. Cleveland appointed his brother-in-law to an important ofiice ill Toledo, 0., and his wife's relative, cousin Ben Folsom, to a good consulship. President Lincoln appointed and commissioned his son Robert a captain in tho army. When John Adams became President, in 1797, his son, John Quincy Adams, was minister to Portugal, having been appointed by Washington. President Adams asked Washington's advice as to the propriety of promoting his own 6on by sending him to Berlin. Washington recommended the promotion very strongly on the ground of merit. President Adams made it, and it was never criticised, simply because everybody saw that it was made on tho ground of merit, and not of relationship. The appointment of Carter B. Harrison justifies itself on tho same ground, and much more completely than Mr. Cleveland's appointment of his brother-in-law, or of cousin Ben Folsom. General W.S. Hauney, who died j esterday, was a veteran of several wars and a hero of many battles. He entered the army as lieutenant in 1818, and was conspicuous in tho Indian wars of that period, in the Black Hawk war of 18, in tho Florida war, the Mexican war and later Indian wars. In fact, his military career covered more than half the period of our national existence. He had been in tho army four years when Grant was bom, and his reputation as a soldier was established before Grant entered West Point. He got his promotion to Brigadier-general in tho Mexican war, whero Grant and Sherman served as lieutenants. Probably no officer of the American army ever had as long and varied

active service as General Harney. When the civil war came on ho was in command of the Department of tho' West, with headquarters at St. Louis, and in April, 1801, while on his way to Washington, he was arrested by tho confederates at Harper's Ferry and taken to Richmond, where ho was strongly urged to join the Confederacy. Being a native of tho " South, his Southern friends thought he would be easily induced to enlist under tho banner of secession, but he promptly rejected their overtures. It is related that while at Richmond on this occasion, General Harney met Gen. Lee and 6aid to him, "I am sorry to meet you in this way." Lee replied, "General Harney, I had no idea of taking any part in this matter; I wanted to stay at Arlington and raise potatoes for my family, but my friends forced me into it." Harney never had any reason to regret that he remained loyal to the flag.

The next issue of the United States Postal Guide will announce a change of name of Whitlock, Montgomery county, Indiana, to Wingate. Thereby hangs a littlo tale. Wingate is a railroad station, and that being the original name of tho village, tho postoftice was very properly called the same. But tho name was that of a leading Republican citizen, and when Mr. John Lamb went to Congress ho and Senator Voorhees agreed that it would never do to boom tho Republican party that way, and they had the name changed to Whitlock. Thus, while tho railroad station was Wingate, the postoffice was Whitlock, which, of course, was a very inconvenient arrangement. The change back to WTingato harmonizes the names and puts the Republicans on top again. The matter has been a subject of controversy in Montgomery county for several years. J ust now, when such a strenuous effort is being made to draw settlers to tho Northwest, it is a little unfortunate that the winds of heaven aro so freakish in that region. The people up there have been insisting so earnestly that tho winter blizzards are of such infrequent occurrence as to bo hardly worth minding that they had almost made outsiders believe it; but who wants to move to a country where tho May zephyrs blow wheat out by tho roots or bury it so deep it can never come up again, and where freight cars aro wafted across the tracks by the spring breeze? Try to conceal it as they may, that Northwest is the very homo of tho winds. TiiEiRthreat to burn the Rev. Schweinfurth shows the Rockford, 111., Wrhite Caps to be an uncommonly bloodthirsty variety. This is accounted for, perhaps, by tho fact that they aro engaged in effecting a religious refornr. If these Rockford fellows had been born earlier they would probably have taken an active part in the cremation of tho early Christians. They profess to fight under the Christian banner now, but are plainly out of place. And now tho chargo comes from Philadelphia that the, persons. Vho poured champagne down each other's backs and indulged in other carousals at the Xet York centennial ball, were not of the' common herd who slipped in uninvited at the eleventh hour, but were members of the elite and of the 'sacred four hundred. Will not Fish or McAllister! or - Su ' some kind friend of New York society lights please come tp tin) rescue, quick? Jonx A. Cockerill, editor of the New York World, writes to the Philadelphia Times to contradict tho report that he has political aspirations and intends to run for Congress. The matter itself is not one of great moment, nor one in which the public has any special interest, but it is worth while to quote a remark from Mr. Cockerill's letter to point a moral. After denying the possession of political ambition, ho Ba3's: "I am still anxiously striving to lit myself for the calling of journalism, which I adopted some twenty-five years ago, and which I consider to be superior to any profession that I know of politics not excepted." Ho is striving to fit himself for his calling after practicing it for twentyfive years! What do the young men who desire to "enter journalism" because, in their opinion, it requires less preparation .'than for any other profession, think of this? This man understands what newspaper work is. Ho has performed it in all its departments, from reporting a dog-fight to directing, tho course of a great journal, and he knows that, with all his experience and ability, he cannot assume to possess a perfect mastery of his calling. He knows that above all others the journalistic profession is progressive; its science is not an exact one. but is continually adapting itself to the varying and improved conditions of civilization. Better than any other can tho man who has devoted himself to newspaper work realize its demands and exactions, and the effort necessary to keep in line with the spirit of the age. Mr. Cockerill's remark is worth volumes of admonition and advice to would-be journalists. If they look upon sixmonths' experience as sufficient to qualify them for tho highest positions the3' will do well to revise their opinions or go into other and easier business. The report of tho Indiana branch of tho Woman's Board of Missions of tho Congregational Church tells us that there are forty churches of that denomination in Indiana, with 2,400 women as members and 3,200 children in the Sunday-schools. Why don't they tell ns something about tho men? Are there no men in the Congregational churches? Do the women discriminate against the sinful sex in their mission work, or don't the men count anything? If any consolation can bo drawn from tho terrible story of tho explosion of the New Redford whaling bark it is that tho cigarette-smoker whose carelessness caused tho explosion was among the killed. ABOUT PEOPLE AND T1ILNGS. The British customs authorities collected full duty on the Australian silver casket sent by the women of South Australia as a silver-wedding gift to the Prince of Wales. The ago of chivalry is past. Visitoks to the French exposition, the correspondent of the New York Times says, 'are especially struck by the appearance and intelligence of tho guard of thirty American soldiers here, who really make European troops look slouehy and stupid by comparison." The Prince of Wales, says the Loudon Star, lives the life of a regular country gentleman at Sandringhain, eating tho hugo breakfasts of tho Norfolk fanner, going in extensively for home comforts, looking after his farms and stock, and taking a keen interest in sport, lie is not a bad

landlord, as landlords go, but, as a bitter and terribly satiric pamphlet by a brilliant lady tenant of the Prince's lately informed the world, H. R. H. brooks no obstacles in his path when his rights as a land despot are in question. Three are two Mrs. Livermores prominent in the woman suffrage agitation one of Detroit and the other (the famous one) of Boston. As is well known, the Boston lady is an earnest advocate of womau suffrage, but the Detroit Mrs. Livermore just as earnestly opposes it. And now it is proposed that there shall be a joint debate between the namesakes. John W. Paine, uncle of the Duchess of Marlborough, is at Atlantic City. Mr. Paine has a princely incomo from Washington real estate. He is a very eccentric man, "always wearing," says a correspondent, "a tourist suit of light-brown check, with cap to match; carrying an almond-colored umbrella lined with green silk, and a fieldglass boxed and strapped." The runaway marriage of Bishop Hugh Miller Thompson's daughter has greatly agitated Protestant Episcopal society in Mississippi. Her husband, Mr. Howe, is a wealthy young man of Kenosha, I1L, whom she met at a summer resort last year. The young people, just before boarding the express train in their flight, sent a note to the Bishop, telling him what they were about, but before it reached him they were inany miles away. While Senator Cameron, at fifty-five, goes abroad for his health, his wonderful father, who is in his ninety-first year, remains at home in good form, mentally and physic--ally, to look after any business details that may need a big head to settle. Many strange things happen in the careers of men, and very many have happened in the Cameron family, but it would be a singular turn in the wheel of fortune if tho old General should live to be 100 years old and tho son bo broken before he is sixty. The following letter from Mr. Fitz Hugh to John Buckncr, written in 1681, and to bo found in the Virginia Register, sounds odd now, although when written it was serious enough: "I hope you will make me some abatement for the dumb negro you sent me. Had she been a new. negro (recently imported) I must have blamed my fate and not you. But ono that you had had for two years, I must conclude that you knew her qualities, which is bad at work, worse at talking, and took advantage of the softness of my messenger to quit your hands of her." A HoiiENZOLLERN, for the first time in tho existence of his house, is soon to marry a Bourbon. He is the "eldest son of the Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, who was the pretext for the war of 1870, and of the Portuguese infanta, who used to be 'often on visits at the Tuilleries before that war. The bride is the daughter of the Count do Troni and of Mathilde of Deux Ponts, in Bavaria, the sister of the Empress of Austria, and has been chiefly brought up at Cannes and Paris. She has a wonderful head of hair, as long, as rich and as rippling as that of her aunt Elizabeth, but with more gold in her ripples. There is great beauty in the Sigmaringen branch of the llohenzollerns. Kaiser William's change of the court dress back to tin fashions of 1700 leads one of the leading social organs of London to consider the influence of tho Prince of Wales on fashions, and the conclusion is that it is very small. A couple of years ago his attempt to force a "cross-lined check on a stiff-necked West End" was a complete failure. This year he has tried to make kneo breeches go, but they don't go. Ho has a very 6trong dislike to a black tie, with evening dress, but even there ho has been able to enforce his idea only upon such men as are on the guest-list of Marlborough House, from which several names have been crossed off for disregard of the host's preference for white cravats. An unpublished letter written by Horace Greeley in November, 1SG9, to Mr. Richard Eason, of New York, gives some facts relating to his school life and his teachers. "I did go to school," he wrote, "to Mr. John Vose also to a Miss Parker but not quite so long ago as 1812. It was the winter of 1818-19, if my memory serves if not, it was tho winter preceding. I remember Mr. Vose very well; also his brother Alfred (youngeT). I do not so clearly make out Miss Parker, as I attended school but little in summer, having to work on my father's farm most of the time. Still, I remember tho Parker family very well, and especially the oldest daughter, whom I presume I went to school to when I was seven years old."

C03I3IENT AND OPINION. If there is about the administration a self-poised, cool-headed man. it is the executive himself. His is the responsibility, and he ought to take his timet and ho will take it, and the people want him to do s0. Kansas City Journal. After the rascals are all turned out and the public affairs oace more intrusted to good and true meu. then it will be time enough to consider the question of tenure of ollice, which seems to give the unhappy mugwumps so much anxious concern. Iowa State Register. The "spoils system," in so far as it means that a roan will favor his friends rather than his enemies in any gift at his disposal, provided each are equally competent, is so integral an element of human nature that it will never be abolished till human nature itself is abolished. Boston Globe. The laboring man who educates himself, who dominates his body with hisbrain.who .acts upon reasonable deductions of thought, rather than upon blind impulse, is always in a position to demand and receive an honest arbitration of the differences between himself and his employer. Minneapolis Tribune. The strike and the boycott, the only weapons of force that labor can employ, are failures, and to this extent it may be maintained that organized labor, as a remedy for social evils, is already a demonstrated failure. The sooner organized labor can grasp this truth and change its tactics the sooner the industrial problem will be solved. Minneapolis Tribune. A newspaper is a great power by reason of the constituency back of it, and the journals to whieh President Harrison has looked for a few of the men to represent his administration will continue to stand for the constituencies which give them distinction. If the comic artist will put his ear to the ground he will hear from every one of them 60iind Republican argument and stirring appeals to Republican fidelity and activity. Utica Herald. The Republican party, the Republican administration, aixd a Republican Congress will see to it that the claims of soldiers are considered in a friendly spirit. There will bo no cruel sneers at the veterans in messages from the White House. Justice will be done in the Capitol and in the Pension Office. The Democratic party has voted pensions under compulsion. Tho Republican party votes pensions because it really loves to do 60. Washington Press. It is coming to pass, in the not distant future, that the industrial development of the South will insure a remarkable political advancement. There must inevitably come more freedom, more impartial enforcement of law, because labor will be in demand and can choose whero it will consent to work, and with whom. Works costing a million cannot bo allowed to stop because a mob of drunken loafers attempts to terrorize or drive away the men there working. New York Tribune. Demagogue Pentecost, nartforrt Couraut. That notorious preacher, the Rev. Hugh O. Pentecost, delivered ono of his agitational addresses at the Masonic Temple in New York on .Sunday to an audience consisting largely of labor agitators. In the course of his talk to so-called laboring men he courteouslj' remarked that "working men are ignorant and foolish." Some workingman of duck in the audience ought to have tossed am off the platform for the insult. If Gould or any other representative of the mischievous use of capital should publicly proclaim that "workiugmen are ignorant and foolish," ho would be hated all over the country for that one sentiment. But if some representative of demagogv gets up and says tho same thing he is applauded. Meanwhile tho workingman himself is at tending to his owu business and now and then dropping a little something quietly into the savings bank. For Porter to Consider. Philadelphia Press. Admiral Porter should bear 0110 thing in mind, namely, that ho can never disprove tho charges preferred against him by lien.

Butler by calling hard names. Even il General Butler were "an old imbecile" which he is not the fact would neither mitigate nor modify tho seriousness of the accusations which he has brought against the Admiral. JAY GOULD'S rilTLOSOPIIY.

The Money Magnate Talks of Work, Railroads and National Wealth. Interview in New York World. "I have made what money I possess by hard work. While it may not be the general impression, I owe all my success to unremitting labor entirely? Work is the only thing that will succeed in America. In some of the monarchies of Europe, wealth, ancestry blood,' if you like will make a man; will put him in a position of the greatest prominence; but in this country industry alone can bring men to positions of trust and financial supremacy, can make them great or rich. And besides remember that neither blood nor inherited wealth creates statesmen here." "You do not recard the accumulation of wealth itself as dangerous!" "On the contrary, so long as the money is kept in this countrv I regard its concentration in certain localities or in the hands of individuals as of the greatest benelit to the Nation. Where men accumulate fortunes and take the money out of the couutry it is a serious injury; but a corporation which creates capital that is to remain here and keep in motion our circulating medium is a benefit to the whole country. I am somewhat familiar with most 01 the railroad interests in this land. Only a few days ago a friend sent me a book published in this city in 1830. In that volume 1 lind an argument, carefully prepared, showing how useless it would be to attempt to maintain a railroad over which cars could be propelled by steam. Tho author discusses at great length, affirmatively and negatively, the question whether it will bo better policy to draw trains upon the projected railways by mules or by steam engines. The burden of the argument is certainly in favor of the mule. The writer goes further, and argues that it lniht answer to run both steam and mule trains on the same track, but I think that 1 can detect that he is rather fearful that complications might arise. They might get tangled up, you see. One complication that he speaks of is that the mules would raise n dust, and that this dust, collecting upon tho rails, wonld destroy the traction power of the locomotives. "Of course, all this is silly to us now; but when we recall that only tif ty-nine years ago such matters were seriously discussed in scientific books wo see that tho people of to-day are better prepared to do their own thinking. Wo won't allow any such a man to think for ns now. That was only lift3'-nine years ag3. Why, then, do we sigh for tho political science of a century past? Look at the locomotive, how it has grown. It is a much better, purer specimen of mechanical skill than it was when Stephenson started his engino on tho old coal road at Darlington., Look over tho entire field of science, art, labor the arena of human toil and endeavor to behold progress everywhere! Has tho science of government alone retrogressed? x Has man, as he has developed under our splendid, our glorious civilization, grown less selfrespecting, less pure, more venal. Would Bishop Potter tell us that men in public life are mostly careless, small, petty, penurious, purchasable creatures? Ah! he takes the pulpit into tho job lot, too, as special pleaders for bribery and vote vending. I am glad I cannot agree with Dr. Potter. I don-1 think so badly of my fellow-men, and I'm not called an Auou Ben Adhem. "We must also recognize the fact that the railroads have doue something for this country. isow, what is a railroadT It is a commercial enterprise created to do business in a business way. If men grow rich (for all the 'plutocrats' were ouce poor) and build railroads, and the railroads prosper, who is benefited? Are not the people at large the real gainers? It is generally idle to give money to the poor. Tho benefit is only temporary, and the reaction makes the' recipient more wretched than he was before. The noblest ambition that a man can have is to devise a successful scheme for the employment of his fellow-men whereby they "earn a living for themselves and their families. This is what at least some of the 'plutocrats' have done. This is what the creators of wealth and values have accomplished. They aro certainly of the people. Is not the held of labor widened? Every new railroad, as fast as built, needs engineers, trackmen, and conductors, and, in fact, all classes, from the lowest to the highest; for the rich not identified with the venture are benefited. .Look at the elevated railroad in this citv of New York. Only a few years ago, before the little one-logged railroad in Greenwich street began to seriously do business, nearly every man who went upon the west side of New York and invested in property became ruined thereby. The elevated railroad system on the west side of New York city changed all that. There has risen a new and beautiful city. What was the elevated railroad S3'8tein? It was a creation of capital. Am I to be told that the men who united to create this great factor in the city's improvement are dangerous to this community?" THE FIRST rOLITICAL "COMBINE." Story of the Deal by Which the Site of the National Capital was fixed. New York Commercial Advertiser. Among the centennial visitors was John M. Hughes, the proprietor of tho Alexandria house, in Prince street, Alexandria, Va., in connection with whose family tho following interesting story has been handed down, a story well supported by the history of the house: According to the tradition Mr. Hughes calls it history, and all Alexandrians consider it history the first political "combine" in the United States was arranged in the inn kept by Mr. Hughes's grandfather on the Fairfax road between Alexandria and Mount Vernon. This was the "combine" by which, tho site of the capital of the United States was chosen, and which enabled Alexander Hamilton, Washington's Secretary of tho Treasury, to push through Congress his pet scheme lor settling the public debt. It was a "combine" of greater magnitude than any that has been made since, but it appears to have had all tho elements of tho modern article. The story of Mr. Hughes is about as follows, and the traditioual part seems to dovetail perfectly with the historical part: When, alter tho inauguration of General Washington, the first Congress met. the two matters of paramount interest which came before it were the settlement of the big debt of the new Republic and the choice of a permanent site for tho national capital. Alexander Hamilton had concocted a plan for the settlement of the debt, and was very proud of it.. He was heartily supported by tho Federalists and bitterly opposed bv the anti-Federalists, under tho lead of Thomas Jefferson. After a long light in the House of Representatives, ono of the sections of Hamilton's bill failed to pass, lacking three votes of a majority. The whole measure was then dropped temporarily. But Hamilton did not give up hope, lie saw a way by which to get tho measure through, namely, a deal, tho basis of which was an appeal to State pride. While the funding bill was under discussion nearly all the representatives of the original States were working hard to secure the national capital site within the borders of their States. The New Yorkers, Virginians and Pennsylvanians were the leading competitors. Virginia was especially desirous to get the capital. The whole Virginia delegation was opposed to Hamilton's treasury bill. No arguments could change their votes, and when the first session of Congress was adjourned the members went to their homes, leaving the two great questions of the day unsettled. During the recess Hamilton formulated his scheme to gain the votes necessary to pass his bill. He determined to trade off the New York delegation, which was entirely nnder his control, for three Virginia votes, through an arrangement by which New York would support Virginia in its claims for the national capital if three of the Virginians would vote for his bilk With the details of tho carrying out of the deals begins the legendary part of the story, and Mr. Hughes earnestly vouches for its truth. At the time Mr. Hughes's grandfather kept the old Fairfax inn, it was a popular resort for travelers. Washington and his Mount Vernon visitorsoften stopped there for refreshments. During the summer following tho adjournment of Congress one of his visitors was Alexander Hamilton. Ho had not come down to beautiful Mount Vernon solely for social pur ges. He had his "combine" in view. Ho iad been corresponding with certain antir'ederalist Virginia Congressmen, whom he knew cherished a strouir State pride, and he wanted to have a talk with them. According to the story, the meeting place was at Hugh"ss inn. It was convenient to the Congressmen who weie stopping at thoBraddock House, Alexandria, and to Secretary Hamilton, who had to ride only eight niilca Limn Mount Vcruou. The ex

act date on which tho deal was consummated is not known. There Hamilton met his men, and the back porch where the discussion occurred is to this day pointed out by tho Hughes family. It overlooks tho Potomac and Washington city. The news of the meeting did not com out for many months afterward, lint its effect was perceived sooner. When Congress came together again everybody except Hamilton, the Virginia Congressmen, and probably President Washington, thought the old tight on the two questions would bo resumed. But it was not so. Hamilton's bill came up again, and three Virginia Representatives, who opposed it before, voted f05.1t, and it was passed in its entirety. This was a surprise, but the surprise became greater when the capital-site matter came up. Pennsylvania was very confident of winning the prize; in fact, the State was assured that New York's vote would eventually come over to it. But when the vote was called New York voted solidly for Virginia. That settled the matter. Virginia took the bun, and the present site of the capital was chosen. Hamilton was vigorously denounced by the anti-Federalists, but they did not lind out for a long time just how tho deal wan effected. The old tavern in which the "combine" is said to have been effected is still in a good state of preservation. It is built of bricks imported from England, which came over in the same vessel that brought the materials for tho building of old Christ Church in Alexandria, where Washington Tcgularly worshiped during the later years of Inn 1 .s

l Things that Indianapolis Republicans Should Prayerftillj Study. THE REPUBLICAN DEFEAT THE RKPUIU.ICAN VICr , IN ,:I"MOM. TOUT IX NEW ALI'ANY. Richmond Telegram. Nw Albany Tribune. ine 1 reason why the Tho election came ana Kepubliean candidate west, and left victory for Mayor could not com- for the right in tho mand tho Republican hand of the people. It vote is not hard to lind. was the iieople's e tuse. Two years aco J. v. and it 1 tho people's Moore was nominated! victorv. It so hapitncd and elected to the ollice. that tho caiwi of the because the people were people was intrusted tired of an adininifdra- to the Rei.uMlcun portion of tho onk-e with re-,ty. bat, as everylKHly canl to personal poli-j knows, the campaign tics, rather than thejwas not run upon u narpeace and prosperity of.tlan basis. From tho the city. Neither his'day the Republican ennnomination nor electionjvenlion presented its was an easy task, for.tieket, the Tribune has the"ancientregiiuo"hadj'tudiouly avoided unvinucu pugnacity aud'thiujeliko ivuti.u fiddled hard. It in part, in:, and Insisted timt rallied this spring, andltho issues vere pur ly Mr. Moore had it tumoral, involving the hoiistruggle wnn again. i;ut or and credit of New in Ms struggle witn it this spring, he lacked much of the support that was fco earnest for hiui Albany and all the city's highest interests. 'I ho abuses that had crept into the city uj a 11 a iuent had become uneuduraMe.. The people were ready to rebel, and. tho Republicans weio wie enough to present men as candidates wl.o two yers ago. Representing in his first candidacy the distrust of the community with the baser kind of personal politics in the city ad ministration, Mr. Moore could be voted for n fell into the singular fa-jmen and citizens by tho tuity of pursuing pre-jbestpe-opleof all parties, cisely the policy of hisjAn opportunity lor repreaecetisors. 110 nas form was presented, and not worked the machiu to the cix-dit of nu n of all parties.be It said, the ery of the city govern ment ior lh own hd .oiiortunitv was im. vancement as a poliii-:iroved. Tho carartalini clan as iDdustriouslv was conducted on a non-partisan basis: the victory is of that character. and audaciously as his enemies charge him with having done; but he has worked it thus more than enough to give color to all that his enemies charge, and to this, nnd this alone, he owes his defeat. Origin of a Popular Phmse. Washington Dispatch to Detroit Trihune. One night in the winter of 1803 Artemus Ward lectnred in Lincoln Hall, and when the great humorist was about half through his discourse Ho paralyzed his audience with the announcement that they would have to tako a recess of fifteen minutes so as to enable him to go across tho street to "see a man." H. R. Traeey, then editor of the Washington Republican, was in tho audience, and 6eeing an opportunity to improve upon the joke, penciled the following lines and sent them to the platform: Dear Artetuus If youAvill place yourself under my guidance I'll take jou to "see a man" without crossing the street. Artemns accepted tho invitation, and while the great audience impatiently but with much amusement awaited the reappearance of tho humorist, the latter was making tho acquaintance of Aman and luxuriating at a wcll-ladcu refreshment board. Of course everybody "caught on to" tho phrase, and men became fond of getting up between tho acts and "going out to see Aman." The restaurateur's business from this time forward boomed. Men who would ordinarily Fit quietly through an entertainment and behavo themselves allowed themselves to bo in ltuenced by tho contagion. The Queen's Drluk Was Paid For. Florence Letter. A short time ago the (Jueen of Italy, in the course of a railway journey, stopped at a certain'station and was met by the Ma3or and municipal big-wigs in all the glorv of their robes of honor. An elegant luncheon had been provided, but tho royal appetite was uncertain, and the Queen requested the obsequious deputation to get her a glass of wine, which was all that she required. This was promptly brought, bnt whilo drinking it a drop fell from the glass, nu to her traveling dress. She at once sought in her pocket lor a handkerchief to removo the stain, but the worthy Mayor, whoso daily vocation behind tho counter had possibly accustomed him to tho purposes for which ladies seek their pockets, misunderstood the motion of the Queen's hand. Ho supposed she was reaching for her purse, and murmured, humbly but earnestly: "Ah. no, your Majesty, 1 assure you it is all paid for." m Sat Down Too Hard. . Philadelphia Inqalrer. It is a wonder that the accident that bo fell Lotta from sitting down ou tho stag Hoor suddenly aud unexpectedly and verj hard is not more frequent, considering ho much tumbling about into each other't arms the-player do on tho stage. There are thousands of plays in which it is the business of the heroine to fall into a lover's arms, and there are many in which it is tho E articular business of the hero to let tho eroine drop on the lloor to create merriment. The facility with which boiiio actresses can bump down on the lloor so as to shake the houso without hurting themselves is very remarkable. Sitting down suddenly is not altogether an art, however. Part of it is physiological realism. Lotta's injury appears to be much more serious tcan it was thought at first. M10 will not be seeli on the stage again this season, and may be not for a year. iShe is going abroad for an extended pleasure tour. The SJghtlleat Place In the World. Worcester Spy. Professor Whitney says that from tho summit of Mount Hamilton, in California, more of the earth's surface can bo seen than from any other spot on the globe, though it is only about 4,.rj00 feet high. The view extends around it in every direction, and tho snow-capped range of the lofty Sierras can be plainly seen 3X) miles away, against the northern 6ky. To the south, nearly as far away, the San Bernardino range limits tho view, and between the two lies room for all the Eastern .States, with their rivers, lakes, mountains and sea coast. Tempora 31utantur.' London Punch. "Lena." produced at the Varieties, with Sarah Bernhardt in the part, that Mrs. Bernard Beere created here in "As in a Looking Glass!" Tho title suggesiH rejection. Evidently Sarah "saw herself in tho part. She is quite right to play "Lena" in French, as she could never bo Leaner in English. The Same Paper. Philadelphia Pres.. The New York Evening Post dismally proclaims that President Harrison is a failure. The political and historical value of this verdict is best estimated in tho light of the fact that the Evening Post pronounced President Cleveland a success. A Common Complaint, Eransvillo Journal, f Some satirist has said that "a few firstclass funerals" would bo necessary to give a certain city a boom. If any town ever needed funeral. Evansville does. Thero are people here mostly wealthy who ought to be under the ground. That It Mean. Pittsburg Chronicle. A Sanscritter says "Oklahoma" come from the Sanscrit "Loko-Homa." which means a placo of sacrifice. The pl well naiuotL