Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 May 1889 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, MAY 20, 1889.

THE DAILY JOURNAL MONDAY. MAY 20, 1889. WASHINGTON OFFICE 513 Fourteenth St. P. 8. Heath, Corres;bndent. NEW YORK OFFICK-204 Tempi Court, Corner Beekinan ami Nasau Streets. TEI13IS OF .subscription. DAILT. One year, without Fnnday fl2.no Odc j-f ar. with Sunday 14 on Hix month, without Minilay .() Mi months, with Sunday 7 00 Thrro month, without Sunday S.fO Thrre monthsr with Sunday 3.50 Ore month, without Sunday l.oo Udc month, villi Sunday 1.20 WESKLT. Fer year $1.00 Reduced Rates to Clubs. Fnbserib with any of oar numerous agents, or f ml subscriptions to THE JOURNAL NEWSPAPER COMPANY. INDIANAPOLIS, im THE INDIANAPOLIS JOUilNAL Can te found at the following places: LONDON American Exchange in Europe, 449 Htrand. TARIS American Exchange in Parts, 35 Boulevard o s Capncine. NEW YORK-Gilsey House and Windsor IIoteL PHILADELPHIA A. P. Kemble. 3735 Lancaater avenue. CHICAGO Palmer Ilouse. CINCINNATI-J. T. Jlawley A Co, 154 Vino street. LOUISVILLE C. T. Peering, northwest corner Third and JelTerson streets. 8T. LOUIS "Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern HoteL WASHINGTON, D. C.-Elggs nouso and EhMtt House. Telephone Calls. Business Offlce 233 Editorial Rooms 242 The announcement by Prince Bismarck, in the Reichstag, that he considers the man impudent who says "fie,w is due warning to the Samoan commissioners. They mustn't say "fie." It is to be hoped for the credit and welfare of the institution that none of the new instructors of the State University will indulge in ofiensive politics or' teach a system of political economy that is in direct opposition to the policy of the government. It was very inconsiderate of Mrs. Maybricht, niece of Jefferson Davis, to poison her husband and get into the newspapers. Not that Mr. Maybricht may not have deserved poisoning, but her course is likely to afford her undo an opportunity for writing another letter to the press to explain or deny something. - Since last November a great deal of opposition to the use of money in elections has developed. For this reason some doubt is expressed as to whether Colonel Matson will sign a petition for the pardon of Postmaster Douglass, who spent more money than belonged to him to help the Colonel to an oflice. Douglass was ordered to do it, but, so long as it did no good, true Democrats will find it hard to forgivo him. TnE Democrats are in sad straits about the new chairman of their national committee. They have plenty of men who would servo if asked to, but nobody asks them; then there are plenty who who are asked, but they will not serve. As a concession to harmony, Colonel Watterson says: "Get a good man. It is a hard place no pay and little thanks; but just what his views of the tariff are is of little importance." This reminds the New York Herald that Mr. Lincoln, in looking for a general, did not say, "Just what his views on the war are is of little importance." Postiiasteu Van Cott has been to Washington to see about getting an increased allowance for the New York office, and Democratic papers are grumbling at him because he does not follow the late Mr. Pearson's example and try to do all the work himself. Postmaster Pearson was quoted during his term as saying that the office needed many more employes, but either it did not occur to him to try to secure them or his influence with the administration was insufficient. Van Cott means to make the service efficient without killing himself, and in the opinion of fair-minded persons his m6thod of reform is far ahead of Pearson's. pEiioCRATS and mugwumps have been quoting Washington lately as though they had something in common with him, but they seem to see nothing quotable in his remark to his Secretary of War, Timothy Pickering. To that' worthy he wrote, on one occasion, as follows: "I shall not, while I have the honor to administer the government, bring a man into any office of consequence, knowingly, whose political tenets are adverse to the measures which the general government are pursuing; for this, in my opinion, would be political suicide." This being interpreted and applied, means that if Washington were alive and in tho presidential chair to-day, ho would appoint Republicans to all offices of consequence, just as Gen. Harrison is doing. On tho matter of civil-service reform Washington's head was level. The Civil-service Chronicle yowls at the President because he permits Congressmen to "distribute tho spoils," and regards this as without warrant in the Constitution. The Chronicle chooses to regard as spoils any offices that do not become vacant through death; but death comes sometimes even to office-holders, and it is the duty of tho President to fill tho vacancies. It would be interesting to know if this reform organ would have him make personal investigation of tho claims of each applicant for every such position. Apparently it would, on tho ground that it is unconstitutional to exIndite matters by taking advice from Congressmen. And still the Chronicle grumbles because tho President takes ns much time as he docs for personal investigation. Oh, paper with a hobby, thy sub-title is not consistency. "Doctor" Hakkison, of Insane Hospital infamy, and now editor of a Michigan City paper, declares that the late election in Indiana was carried for Republicans by the use of money, and that the party would have been beaten 10,000 votes in this State "if Mr. Wananiaker had not furnished 8400,000 during the last week of the campaign." In view of his connection with the Coy-Sullivan gang and tho manner in which those worthies robbed the State, Harrison's indication, over the alleged corruption

is highly edifying. In tho violence of his denunciations, however, he does not remember to explain why tho Democratic funds, of which a higher authority than tho rancid butter purveyor testified that they had more than tho Republicans, were not used to counteract the baleful Republican influence. In tho high moral rolo Harrison is hardly a success. He needs practice.

CAN AFFORD TO WAIT. Time is an element of strength in all good causes. In nothing has this been better demonstrated than in the rapid growth of true unionism in the South; and the corresponding decline of that sectionalism which has helped to govern by retaining a solid Soutll and co-operating with kindred spirits in the North. The accidental election of Mr. Cleveland by the small plurality of 1,047 in a vote of more than a million in the State of New York, was seized upon by tho sectional element as indicating the return of the Democracy to power, and the administration proceeded at once to reorganize every department of the government, as if the change in tho administration was a deliberate verdict of the American people on the questions involved in tho contest, instead of a mere accident. They seemed oblivious to the fact that, though through the methods adopted in 1882 the Democratic majority in the House was 71, it had dwindled, under the same methods, to 41 in 1884, the very year that the accident gave them a President, and, continuing in the same direction, it had dwindled to 11 in 1886, and that in 1888 it had dropped out entirely and the majority was on the other side. This steady movement in the same direction year after year is significant and very suggestive. The right can afford to wait. ' But another class of figures is worth studying, to show the direction of political public opinion. In 1880 Maryland gave ' a Democratic majority of 15,191, which was reduced to 11,233 in 1884, and in 1888 to 6,123, notwithstanding a Democratic administration. Tho Democratic maiority in Virginia in 1880 was 44,566, which was reduced to 6,141 in 1884, and to 1,5-11 in 1888. The Democratic majority in North Carolina in 18S4 was 17,884, but in 1888 it was only 13,118. West Virginia in 1880 was Democratic by 11,148, but it was only 4,222 in 1884, and only 830 in 18S8. Kentucky was Democratic in 1880 by a majority of 42,752, which ran down to 34,770 in 18&L and to 28,606 in 1888. Tennessee was Democratic by 20,514 in 1880, but it ran down to 9,180 in 1884, though it rose to 19,900 in 1888. Delaware was Democratic by 4,003 in ISM, but by only 3,564 in 1888. When it is borne in mind that these steady declines have been without any merely local or exceptional causes, and that tho general causes which have contributed to them are still at work with increasing energy, it is not difficult to see that not only is tho day of tho solid South about gone, but that that fact itself is hastening the final result. A good cause can afford to wait. It was, to some extent, the character of the men appointed to responsible positions by tho late Legislature, and not a desire to assume unusual powers, that led Governor Hovey to test the legislative authority in the courts. That he was wise in so doing, and his action beneficial to public interests, is proved by the result in the Supreme Court commission case. Tho fact that the decisions of the court are adverse to him in the cases of the trustees for tho public institutions affords no cause for regret that tho suits were brought, but tho contrary, since they afforded an opportunity for the settlement of doubtful legal points beyond further controversy. It is to be regretted that the law gives him no power to undo tho work of an unscrupulous and corrupt Legislature by appointing to the positions named men who are at once trustworthy and capable of performing their duties intelligently. As it is, these institutions will come under the control of men who have no more knowledge of their needs or personal interest in maintaining a high standard of efficiency in their management than had their immediate predecessors, which is putting the matter very strong. The only thing the public can do is to keep a sharp eye upon tho new incumbents, with tho hope that espionage may restrain them from mischief in some degree, and to look forward hopefully to a time when the institutions may be placed under nonpartisan management. Tub Charleston News and Courier wants tho centennial memorial arch made an exclusive structure by allowing no State to contribute to its erection save the original thirteen. It says: The newer States of the Union have no right to "have a share in the work." They do not belong to the aristocracy of States in fact, thej' exist only, by sufferance, or rather by permission of the mother States. It would he a violation of tho eternal fitnoss of things to allow Indiana, and Iowa, and Illinois and other parvenu commonwealths to bo represented in a monument which is designed to commemorate the centennial glory of onr country. The growth of the new States has been remarkable, but they have no right to assist in building a memorial to the first century of our federal existence. They were not horn a hundred years ago. They have been evolved from the original States, and it is not askiug too much to invito them to tarry at Jericho until their beards be grown. They have no right to lay a single stone in the centennial arch in New York. TLds is all very interesting; tho raoro soi that, so far as known, none of the newer States and none of tho original thirteen, savo South Carolina, have evinced any anxiety to assist in the building of a structure that will add mainly to the glory of New York. What New York thinks of the exclusive plan is not known, but there is reason to believe that it will not care who pays for tho arch so long as they are outsiders. The Coining Music Festival. The musicians of Indianapojjs have been at great expense of time and labor to prepare an entertainment for tho public which shall do justice to their own professional reputations and ability, and reflect credit upon tho city and State. That their efforts are to be crowned with success, so far as the character of tho music is concerned, has been a pre-ordained matter to the minds of those acquainted with tho qualifications of those actively engaged in the enterprise. The chorus of six hundred voices is in magnifiAiif irointnif tnd will ttinrfl tlinn fulfill all expectations of all lovers of choral music.

Some of the best singers of the operatio stage have been engaged as soloists, and no efforts have been spared to make the five concerts of the coming festival a treat to be remembered. The musicians are ready to do their part, and it only remains for the public to show proper appreciation to make tho event a noted one. Snch an enterprise is not a mero personal affair on the part of the managers and participants. The individual reward involved is small compared to tho credit which comes to tho city which can offer such inducements. The financial success of tho festival will insure the establishment of a permanent musical organization here that will be of great benefit to tho public, and to all musicians and students of tho art in the State. As a matter of public spirit, as well as to encourage the promoters of a worthy enterprise, tho people should do their part to make the affair a complete success. Who says hired girls are never appreciated and get no credit for what they do? Just read this eulogy from an Iowa paper over a servant who had moved to another town: Her service in this city, covering a period of many years, was confined to two families. She was master of her art in all its branches, and it is said In her praise she could manage a large house without fuss, worry, or apparent effort. By her superior talent she was able to have every department running smoothly without clash or friction, and the mistress of tho house was made to feel that ease, security and comfort which well-paid domestics should provide. For perfect neatness, austere cleanliness, and quiet dignity in her place, this young woman was a model many, even housewives, might more pattern after. Never a queen on her throne or belle in the ball-room more becomingly conducted herself, or was more perfectly master of the situation, than was this young woman, who has made the title "hired girl" to be honored and respected by all who knew her iu our city.. There, now! Did any "belle" ever get a better send-off than that iu any society column? To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal What is the best time ever made by any person running one hundred yards! Greencastle, Ind May 18. At Cleveland, O., July 31. 1886. H. M. Johnson ran the distance in 9 4-5 seconds; George Seward, an English professional, on Sept. SO, 1844, ran one hundred yards in 9 1-4 seconds. Seward had a flying start, while Johnson started from the scratch.

ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. . Mas. Frank Leslie is going to start a fashion paper in London. Several Caro, Mich., gentlemen recently saw a large rat carry a hen's egg on its back. They say that it twisted its tail around the egg and carried it safely uutil it was hit with a stone. Miss Louise Reed Stowell, teacher of microscopical botany at tho University of Michigan, has been appointed special microscopic artist of the Botanical Department at Washington. It has been found in experiments at Leipsic that skin grafted from a white to a col ored person becomes gradually black, and that black skin grafted upon a white person in time turns white. Atlanta ladies had a floral carnival the other da, a floral procession of carriages, the most striking feature of which was tho pony cart of Master Malcolm Phelan, which was covered with large butterflies made of brilliant flowers, and his pony covered with butterfly rosettes. Mr. Gladstone says that ho has had his portrait painted thirty-five times, and often by John Millais, who takes only live hours to do the work. As Millais usually receives 2.000 guineas (10,000) for a port rait, he may be considered to work, in Gladstone's case, at the rate of 2,000 per hour. The Sir John. Lawes who has just given .j00,000 for the promotion of agriculture in England is the father of the sculptor who figured conspicuously in the famous BeltLa wes lawsuit. Sir John is one of the best living authorities on fanning. Despite his vast wealth, ho is a man of plain and simple habits. . Sybil Sanderson, tho California 'girl who has made a striking success at Faris in the title role of Massenet's latest operaj has luxuriant auburn hair, a pale complexion and a magnificent' - figure, i She is fond of dressing in blaek, and the whiteness of her skin, the brilliancy- of. her eyes and the peculiar tint of her hair combine to make her a fascinating object when thus attired. The short-hand writers reporting tho proceedings of the Parnell commission are almost winded by tho speed of Irish volubility. Mr. C. Button, the official short-hand writer, says that while in cross-examination an average rapid witness will keep up an average of ISO words a minute for several minutes together, some Irishmen and Irishwomen who have testified have gone at a speed of over 200 words in CO seconds. One witness attained a speed, as accurately 1 as he could estimate, of 230 words a minute. Antonio Brecazzi. a well-known Washington Italian, and a veteran retired from the regular army, who died recently, was one of the detail of sir men ordered to carry the remains of Lincoln to tho White House from tho house on Tenth street, opposite Ford's Theater, where the martyred! President breathed his last. Mr. Bregazzi bore back to his wife as a souvenir one of the blood-stained sleeves of Lincoln's shirt. In the cuff Mrs. Bregazzi found a beautiful stud with Lincoln's monogram, which she returned. A recent French tale has the following gruesome plot: "A lover who hasjosthis mistress by death passes a night in the cemetery where she is buried, and witnesses a general resurrection, in which all the dead rectify their own epitaphs, candidly telling tho truth about themselves, however uncomplimentary it may be. The spectator of this scene has the happiness of seeing his dead love inscribe upon her own tombstone the confession that the cold of which she died was taken while deceiving her lover." ' " u " WiiileI. V.Williamson, of Pennsylvania, was alive, ho paid taxes to the State upon the small amount of $7,500 in money, which was assessed as being invested in such securities as the State levies a tax upon. Tho eyes of tho tax assessors bulged out when they read in the papers a list of the securities owned by him, of , which not less than $3,7."jO,000 were taxable This is a matter of $11,000 a year to the State, and so the assessors havo notified the executors that they must pay up hereafter over 11,200 a year, instead of th $200 paid upon the millionaire's vast personal investments during his life. Lady Florence Dixie's little house, by the Thames, at Windsor, is described as a curiosity. It is very small; in fact, the stables in which she keeps a number of little ponies are quite twice aslarge as the house, and are very beautifully built. They cost Lady Florence Dixie more than she could conveniently afford, so she 6ent round to ask her friends to help her to meet the expense. Inside the stables have just been placed two marble tablets, one black and one white. On the white one the names of tho friends who subscribed are engraved, while on the black one appear those of the friends who did not subscribe. Lady Florence keeps about fifty dogs, and is always either walking about with her dogs or galloping along tho roads on one of the little ponies. She affects being a very light weigit. COMMENT AND OPINION. The powerful newspaper everywhere is the cleanly newspaper. The people with cleanly tastes are the majority of the people. Chicago Inter Ocean. When labor is as free and well paid throughout the world as it is in America we may safely adopt tho free-trade policy of tariff for revenue only. But the adoption of that policy now would be national suicide. Cleveland Leader. If Congress prove so deficient in wisdom as to favor an augmentation of silver coinage, despite the evident absurdity of such action, we are confident that an insurmountable obstacle may fairly be expected in the form of an executive veto. There is nothing in theRepublican platform adopted at Chicago last year which imposes any obligation on tho party or the President to go beyond tho bound of prudenco in deal

ing with the silver problem, and we do not believo tho administration can be induced to do anything by way of adding to tho financial complications that must necessarily be encountered during tho next four years.-Troy (X. Y.) Times. We are not at all sure that it is altogether bad policy for the United States to annex Cuba. To spend the surplus in this way is better than to do injury by appropriating it for Southern educations lscneraos, or to keep it as an incitement to corruption in other respects at Washington. Boston Herald. The ballot could bo taken from the colored man only by another constitutional amendment repealing the fifteenth. Three-fourths of the States will never ratify such an amendment until this Nation has degenerated to so low a level that Christian persons will not care to form a part of it Denver Times. Statesmanship relies on education, but the people supplement this with a statesmanship of their own, bv which thev seek to keen in check all influences which tend to render them unfit for freedom and for larticipation in free government. It is this : eeling, vague tut strong, that renders tho borough regulation of the saloon a certainty of tho future. St. Louis Republic. The South should be flooded with protectionist literature; its farmers taught the value of home markets, its laborers the effect of competition upon the price of labor, its storekeepers the beneficial effects of high wages upon retail trade. And tho best time to teach is while party feeling is calm. A campaign of education shoiildoe in constant progress. Chicago Inter Ocean. TnE notion that public office was created to pension politicians must give way before the conviction that public oflice was created for tho purpose of securing attention to public business and for that alone. Tho President, tho Senator, and tho Congressman must rise from the task of purveying postoftices to the more necessary and better work of thinking for the Natio n. Omaha Republican. The thing to bo done, when protective duties aro. in fact, used as a means of restricting production and denying the benefits of protection to consumers, is to break down such combinations as thoroughly and speedily as possible. A repeal or reduction of duties may not always be the surest or quickest way to attain that end, for, as a rule, the duty itself docs the . smashing. New York Tribune. Instead of relying on prejudiced and unfair Southern juries to punish election frauds the federal authority should take charge of the election itself, reject all unlawful votes, see that every voter has an opportunity to cast his ballot, and then havo a fair count and honest returns. There is no doubt Congress can do this, and when it does so there will be an end of systematic fraud in national elections in the South. Chicago Tribune.

THE STATE PRESS. What the Editors of County Papers Are Saying on Topics of Current Interest. Lawrence Mail: Since the investigation of the management of the Cook county (Illinois) asylum, our Dr. Harrison feels about half-way respectable. ' Warsaw Times: Governor Hill, of New York, says that he "is a reformer," yet he vetoes every reform bill passed by the Legislature. It is evident that Governor Hill is only a Democratic reformer. Ligonrer Leaden The indications are that the. Prohibition party is losing strength everywhere. It has never accomplished any good whatever, and it would bo a good thing for temperance if it should disband entirely. Crawfordsville Journal: The Western Christian Advocate remarks that it is "better to prohibit in a town or a township than not to prohibit at all." The few Methodists who are political Prohibitionists should now send to the Advocate, "Stop my paper." Morgan County Reporter: Some people possess the happy faculty of being pleased with an article of whatsoever quality if they but know that it has cost them an extravagant amount. To all such the newlyenacted State laws will doubtless prove especially edifying. Huntington Argus: Corporal Tanner has issued an order which prohibits the postollice address of pensioners being given out for publication. This is to protect the soldiers from the army claim agents. It is a good thiug. Your home attorney, if you must have one, is the best one to employ for many reasons. Columbus Bepublican: Already can there be seen perceptible changes in tho mail service. Not only changes from Democrats to Republicans, but improvements in the efficiency of it. The incompetents are being displaced by experienced men, and they are now getting the work in hand, and in tho course of a few months the people will again have some confidence in the mails. Huntington Argus: The Civil-service Commission already has some 2,000 applications on file from persons who desire to bo examined to enter tho railway mail service.- If they understood clearly tho severity of the work, and the inadequacy of the pay, tho majority of them would devote their energies to some line of labor in which the compensation bears a juster relation to tho work demanded. New York Tribune: The competition caused by the Southern iron-producers has brought down the price of iron to a point bo low that even free-traders admit that the tariff does not affect it. and' forthwith they begin a clamor of voices demanding to know what is the use of the tariff. Its use is to prevent foreign producers from closing our mills ana then putting up prices higher than ever. Huntington Herald: A Democratic organ asks: "li the mail service was bad when clerks were dropped out gradually how is it to bo now with nearly all new men?" The bulk of the appointees in the railway mail service are tho old men that Vilas and Dickinson kicked out of office to make room for Democratic bummers. One of them knows as much in a minute about the mails as the other fellows know all day. Marion Chronicle: The discovery of what promises to prove an inoxhanstible oil territory in tho neighborhood of Terre Haute again brings the istateof Indiana into prominence. With tho largest gas fields in tho world, with enough coal just beyond the surface of the earth to supply the country for centuries, and with the richest farming lands in the Union, the Hoosier State is bound to come to the front. Terre Haute Express: Mind-reader Bishop may have been dead for a ducat, or for ail time, so to speak, but tho surgeons might have waited more than three hours to discover the peculiar brain formation of this remarkable individual. It is hardly tho proper thing to publish the news of a man's death ana the analysis of his brain in tho same issue of a morning paper when death comes in tho afternoon before. Indiana Pocket: The Democratic Philadelphia Record says that "tariff reform is going right along." Certainly it is. The Republicans are in control of the legislative as well as the executive branches of the government, and will push tariff reform right along. Experience has proven to the country that the only party having the inclination and ability to reform tho tariff is the Republican party, and that is one of the reasons why that party has been put in power. Richmond Palladium: The Atlanta Constitution is excited over the report that President Harrison will select a Pennsylvania man to fill a place on the bench in Florida, and revives one of its old editorials on carpet-bag rule in the South. The Constitution found no fault with carpetbag rule in Dakota and other sections of the West when President Cleveland sent New York men out there to act as Governors, sit on the bench as judges and hold all the other offices. Mr. Grady is always sensitive when it is his own bull that is gored. Hancock Democrat: Ten or twelvo hogs in each of the cars arriving at Indianapolis, on Wednesday of last week, were found to be, dead, but whether from heat or disease is not known. They were all taken out and, probably, made into lard, if not bacon. Fears of this kind is what operate agai.jst the sale of the product of the hog in foreign ports. Even the Greasers of Mexico have interdicted the sale of American lard in that country. State legislatures and Congress should pass severe and wholesome laws to prevent adulteration in articles of food of all kinds. How to Crush the Sugar Trust. . Boston Tlerald. If a specilic tax of, say 2 1-2 cents a pound is put upon sugar, without regard to color or sacchariuo matter, or whether raw or retined, tho sugar trust will almost immediately come to an end; at least, its objectionable features will no longer exist,

for tho trust refineries will then have to face tho competition of the world, and tho price of sugar will be brought down to a point sufficient probably to pay a reasonable profit to the refiner, but not sufficient to enable him to niako gains of 50 and 100 per cent, a year upon his business. BUILDING WAR SHIPS.

The Douhle-Turreted Monitors Whose Construction Was Bcjun Sixteen Years .Ago. Boston Journal. Tho story of tho delays in the construction of the five double-turreted monitors, the Monadnock, the Puritan, the Amphitrite, the Terror and the Miantonomoh, which were begun in 1873, furnishes sufficient evidence to entitle the people to dictate that in future war vessels shall bo built in private ship-yards, unless political bossisni can be kept on? of government yards. It is now, sixteen years since these vessels were begun at the Brooklyn navy3rard, and during the first four years three and a half millions of dollars were expended on them. At this period work was suspended, and, although board after board of naval officers recommended their immediate completion, nothing was done. Ten years after they were commenced Congress made a second appropriation of three millions of dollars, and tho vessels were brought to the point of launching, and were next to be prepared for modern guns and heavy turrets wero to be put on them. Thev ought to have been completed and ready for sea within four or five years after 1873, but in 1S83 tho construction had only reached the turrets, and now comef the statement that nono of these monitors can bo ready for sea before 1S93. By great activity the Miantonomoh may possibly be ready in 1892, but it is not probable. Now, here are six coast defenders which will have cost tho government $10,000,000 and will havo been twenty years in building. The miserable plan of appropriations in driblets, and the odious intervention of "bosses" in navy-yard "politics," are tho causes of this delay, which would never have been tolerated in any. European administration. Tho tinkering and defrauding in connection with the Miantonomoh alone must have cost the country large sums. "Political" workmen have appa-' rently been kept in their places doing nothing. Otherwise, how is it possible to account for the fact that the Miantonomoh's turret armor was brought from England in 1884, and has remained rusting on the dock for five years? It looks as if tho people of the United States are willing to make ample preparation for coast defense, but the political bosses succeed in nullifying all their efforts. What must foreign - nations think when told that it has taken the Americans who consider themselves the most rapid people in the world twenty years to build live ironclads? In much less than that time Germany has built up a very formidable navy. If it be true, as is alleged by numerous authoritative persons, that these monitors could have been built in brivate ship-yards in one-tnird the time, ana for one-half the money which has appeared necessary in tko government navy-yard, with the local bosses supervising, it is time for investigation and rofonn. THE RESIDENT'S IDEA. It Is That Offlce-Holders Should Serve Ont Their Terms. Philadelphia North American. Yesterday a representative of this paper met a citizen of Philadelphia who had lust returned from Washington, where as a personal friend of the President ho had held a free and familiar talk with General Harrison. T "What did you find out?" he was asked. "About individuals, not very much; but about the general purposes of the President, enough to worry a little the Republicans whe expect to bo on the government salary roll next month. The President stated clearly and distinctly that excent where vacancies occurred ho meant to take his own time to replace Democratic incumbents." "What did he mean by that?" "He did not leave that in doubt. General Harrison declared to mo that the change of administration involved a change of office-holders; but that it would be far better for everybody parties and individuals, including the President himself if the rule could be established and maintained as unwritten law that an appointment to oflice meant tho holding by tho individual of that office for the period of four years, Irovided he discharged the duties faithfuly and without offense." "Do you mean that all the Democrats are to serve the full term of four years?" "I mean just what I have said. The President of the United States believes that some snch understanding would be best for all time. The offices would then fall just as certainly into the hands of tho successful party and I am quoting his sentiments, mind you but instead of there being a combined rush from every direction of oar vast territory the day after inauguration for every place in his gift, 60 that the executive is overworked yet unable to decide with justice, the filling of places would come along in tolerably easy and natural sequence." "That won't satisfy the hungry placehunters, will it?" "Perhaps not this particular lot of 'outs,' but if ho carries out the idea, which you must remember President Cleveland did to 6ome extent, the people who do get tho places will feel that tho President will help them to remain in oflice for a fixed term." "Was your talk with the President all glittering generalities?" "Not altogether. We had some pleasant words about what is called the 'Senatorial influence,' in which he is a great believer, for he was one of the elect himself: though as President ho admits somo modifications, to the effect that in the large cities, where unlike in tho rural districts, in which thoy often have a hundred or more small postoftices to distribute the members of Congress have so little chance to bestow political patronage their desires should be well considered in selecting people to till the local offices. The President thinks it is far better where his own knowledge is lacking to have some recognized responsibility ior his appointments, but he proposes to understand as far as he can what commendation or objection thero may be additionally." a . INDIANA REFUGEES IN CANADA. Wherabouts of Joseph A. Mpore, John E. Sullivan and Pollard. Montreal Special to Cincinnati Enquirer. In Toronto it was that Joseph A. Moore located when he fled from Indianapolis after embezzling about 500,000 from the Mutual Insurance Company. Of that immense amount he had lett, when his shortago was discovered, about $50,000. That is the sum he succeeded in scraping together, as reported to the authorities, and with which he escaped across the borders. Moore lived in the greatest retirement in Toronto, his daughter joining him shortly after his arrival there. A few days ago he left that city as quietly as he had come, and the best information is that he has crossed the ocean for Switzerland. Fear of the passage of the Welden extradition bill is given as the chief reason for his hasty departure. Another Indianapolis man, who also made Toronto his headquarters for a time, was John E. Sullivan, the defalting"connty clerk and crooked commission merchant. With him was his former book-keeper, Tom O'Neil, or, rather, O'Neil joined him but a short time after "Johnnie" landed there. Sullivan made but few acquaintances, even among criminals of his own class. The first person he met, and about the only one with whom he associated was Chicago's crooked attorney, fitarkey His defalcation as county . clerk did not give him so much concern as .did the forged warehouse receipts, altered by himself in hisown commission house, at Indianapolis. That was a source of constant worryment. and he was fearful of the authorities closing down upon him at any moment. Of his big defalcation and business wrongdoing he managed to hold out almost $9,000, which he-brought over with him, or at least had it within easy reach. The rise and fall of Sullivan presents a strange story. Twelve years ago ho was working as a common laborer in a spoko factory at the capital city of Indiana, not even able to wnte his own name. He became a peddler, then went into the commission business, soon building up the largest produce commission business in the world. His simple word in bank was sufficient collateral with which to borrow almost any amount. Then he went into politics. Being shrewd, he went rapidly to th front. Politics killed him, however, and to-day he is a fugitive from justice. The Welden bill sent a broad, cold chill down his spinal column, and about a week ago he left Toronto, his intention being to locate in Mexico. Pollard is another Indianian who fled to Canada with a goodly sum of money, ho managing to gather in (90,000 before he left his homo at Indianapolis to becomo a resident of Canada. That was three or four

years ago, and Ids was an outright steal, without any mitigating circumstances. Ho devised in Indiana what was krown as the township trustee swindle, and. it swept over the State. Trustees wero persuaded to order fictitious supplies and then "whack up" with him. In payment warrants were drawn, without color of law. His operations were largely confined to tho southern tier of Indianacounties, more particularly Washington and contiguous territory, although ho did finally spread to the lakes. There wero two warrants drawn at Indianapolis while Ernest Kitz was township trustee, which were supposed to be "Pollardized," but their genuineness was always denied by Kitz, and nothing ever came of the investigation which was sot oa foot, but never prosecuted withanV vigor. Pollard h as since had plentv o time to repent over his steal and to regret it. Ho has also been given an object lesson in being bunkoed. Pollard when he slipped into Canada went direct to London, purchasing a farm not a great distance from that city. Living in London is an attorney named Hewitt. Among Pollard's effects were a number of bonds. Fourteen thou-" sand dollars' worth of these he turned over to Hewitt not long ago. which the attorney was to bring to America and dispose of. Hewitt did that very thing, but failed to turn over to Pollard the wealth he had realized. Pollard pleaded, then threatened, but all to no avail, as Hewitt held onto the lucre. Legal proceedings were instituted, but they were not carried far, and Hewitt still holds to tho money. Tho old man is not in Canada at present, having taken a trip to Mexico. His son. a young man, makes frequent trips to the States, where the balance of the family aro living. NEW JERSEY PROHIBITIONISTS.

Reason Why They Will Not Fraternize with the Democrats This Year. Newark (N. J.) Special. But there is a singular sequel to all this rumpus over the Fisk episode.- Certain Prohibition leaders were very loud in denouncing General Fisk when the story of what he had said came out. They said tho Prohibition party would be in tho field, as usual, next fall, and conduct a most vigorous canvass. The Republicans could not trick them into withdrawing. Thev would not "temporize" with auy party. Thiskind of talk has suddenly ceased. Oddly enough, it ceased at exactly the same 'time that leading members of the Democratic Stato committee let it quietly be known that th committee did not propose to furnish the cash this year for running the Prohibitioa campaign in the State. For five years nearly all the bills and expenses of the Prohibition campaigns in New Jersey have been taken care of by the Democratic State or some of tho county committees. It was done, to a slight extent, in 1SS3, when Leon Abbett was first chosen Governor. It was done ou a much larger scale in 1&S4, and John P. St. John owed his boom in New Jersey to Democratic money. In 1SS7, when General Fislc ran for Governor, and polled the vote that defeated the Republicans, without doubt, the Prohibitionists were absolutely kept 3oing by the Democrats. This cannot be isproven. It has been repeatedly admitted by prominent Democrats, and it has been told as a proof of the skill with which the Democratic State committee managed its recent campaigns. Last Year the same thing was done, but to a less degree, because tin liquor-dealers were running the campaign. More than one saloon-keeper's checkt however, helped to swell Prohibition coffers in one shape or another. This year the saloons are again to pay for tho Democratic canvass, and thero is no object in spending money for a foolish annex, such as the Democratic leaders believo a Prohibition campaign would be. Leon Abbett and his friends prefer to mako the, fight on tho main issue. They believe that with the saloons, the German Republicans and the old rock-bound Democrats, whe vote the ticket anyhow, on their side, tho Republicans can have what would be left of the Prohibition party and still be beaten badly. The assertion is that the Prohibition vote is largo or small, according to the amount of Democratic boodle there is back of it. Tho accuracy of this theory remains to be seen later on. But it is very certain that men who have always found employment as Prohibition boomers when Democratic cash was dispensed have collapsed since th an nouncement that the Democracy does not care enough for tho Prohibition party this year to pay its expenses. May bo General Fisk knows this, and may bo he doesn't. If ho does, ho did well to get in out of tho rain in time. If he does not, ho will find how easily enthusiasm vanishes away when tho substance that, created it is wanting. Won't Trust the Government Census. Charleston (S. C.) News and Courier. As a set-off to the purely partisan worl? of the census commissioner and his assist. ants, however, it would be well for every Southern State, at least, to provide with all possible dispatch for a complete census of its population, industries, manufactures and resources. This census should be intrusted only to the most competent and trustworthy men in the several States, and should bo conducted very much on the lines, but not after the methods, of the United States census, which will be managed by Mr. Robert Protectionist Porter. It is absolutely necessary to the South that it shall not be misrepresented by doctored returns. Which ShaU It Be? Idaho Statesman. Shall Idaho remain in tho limping condi- 1 tion of territorial vassalage or rio to tho freedom and progressive iifoof an independent State? Shall we trot along in the dust and neglect of the tail-end of the procession, or ride in the band-wagon? Shall we continue to feed on public pap, sleep in the territorial cradle or get up, learn to walk, eut our. teeth, earn our own food, be men among men, yea freemen among American freemen? These are the questions now before the people of Idaho. A Sneer at a Great Orator. Charleston (S. C.) News and Courier. An old gentleman in Washington who supplied Mr. Chauncey M. Depew with material for his speech at tho centennial celebration in New York, is suing that gifted orator for $1,.100 as payment tor his, services. Mr. Depew ought to bring a counter-suit for about $1,000 damages on account of the character of the material furnished to him. Any fair-minded jury would find a verdict in his favor, and ho would then make something out of his speech after all. Bogus British Officers. New York Evening World. The recent developments in high life, going to show that there are many bogus noblemen and officers in the British army and navy, are paralleled by the discovery that there are a scoro in less prominent circles. It seems that wo Americans will believo any thiug that is said to us, concerning himself, by any ono manifestly British, or Gcrman, or French, and the undiscovered frauds among us outnumber ten to one those who are exposed Typical Mugwump Information. Boston Journal. The New York Evening Tost says scntentiously that it has "private and trustworthy information from Connecticut" that an excellent ballot law will be passed by the Legislature. As this impressive announcement was printed the day after such a bill was reported, and the Republicans, who control both branches, had xoV-d unanimously to support it. there seems no good reason for laying so much stress on the privacy of the Post's information. Insidious Work of British Gold. Boston Transcript. British gold is insidiously mining its way under our fair fabric of a government. Its latest advance consists in buying 'up all our breweries. Suppose these all co into British hunds, what shall we do for ofir beer in case of a war with England? Tho subject is respectfully referred to the diplomatic end of onr government. A Wonderful Tlece of Mechanism. An Englishman has produced a piece of mechanism contdining four hundred figures, representing hores, cannon, artillery, infantry and a band of fifty-two men. each with an instrument. A tiny wind-mill, turned by the current from burning candles, furnish the power to move all the figures automatical Iy. Kate Field's Mission. rittsTmrg Dlsiatch. Kate Field says her lectures won tho day for the Massachusetts liquor party. These aren't the tlrst lectures that have driven mtn in drink, lvjitn is rnmintr to Pennsvlvania and the l'rolubitionisU had boi fence that t told iu.