Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 September 1889 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1889.

THE DAILY JOURNAL FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER C, 1889. WASHINGTON OFFICE 513 Fourteenth St P. 6. Heath, Correspondent. NEW YORK OFFICK 204 Temple Court, Corner Beekman and Nassau streets. Telephone Calls. Business oace 238 Editorial Room.. 217 TERMS OF SUHSCRIPTIOX. DAILT. j One yrar. without Pnnlay.. ....U f 12.00 One year, with Hamt.iT 14.00 fcjix months, without Sunday.... tt.OO tix month, with MinUy 7.00 . Three months, without tsnnday... 3.00 Three months, with Sunday 3.50 One month, without Sunday.. 1.00 One month, vritli bun day 1.-0 WXZKLT. Per year. fl.00 Reduced Rates to Clubs. Pubscribe with any of oar numerous agents, or send subscriptions to Uie JOURNAL NEWSPAPER COMPANY, Indianapolis, Imx All eommvnieationt intended for piiblleation in this paper must, in order to reeeire attention, be accom panied bg thena me and add re$s of the u rittr, THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can be found at the follow in if places: LONDON American Exchange la Europe, 449 Strand. PARIS American Exchange la Paris, 33 Boulevard deiCapucin.es. KEW TCBK Gilsey Ilouse and Windsor Hotel. PH IZJLD E LPIII A A. P. Kemble, 3733 Lancaster avenue, CHICAGO Pahuef Ilouse. CINCINNATI J. P. Ilawley A Co., 134 Vine street LOUISVILLE C. T. Deerlng, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. BT. LOUIS Union News Company, Union , Depot and Southern IIoteL WASHINGTON, D. CRiggs Hons and Zbbltt House. - Indianapolis beat New York yesterday in a great game of base-ball. Perhaps, after all, this is the best place for the world's fair of 1892. ' . The school-book law t U getting a shaking up in the United ' States Court which, whatever the result may be, will prove a public educator. Some people seem to be profoundly disgusted with the operation of universal suffrage in municipal politics. Perhaps a great white Czar would be better. Indianapolis is being given the disgraceful distinction, by the papers of the country, of being tho only city in the Union where Democrats are so brazen in their iniquity as to deliberately choose an ex-convict to represent them in the management of municipal affairs. The New York Democracy has hitherto been pointed out as an example of political and moral shamclessness, but it has done nothing like this. Senator Voorhees is expected to deliver an address to a gathering of Democrats at Miami one day next week. Warned by his experience at BloomHeld, and knowing that a Journal reporter will bo there, he will bo con7 strained to deliver tho speech he wants printed and not the one ho would like to make to his benighted admirers. Ho is understood to regard it as an outrage upon personal and political rights that Ms harangues for privato consumption

lie. He knows they are too thin to be ar such a strain. The founder of the "Log College" never dreamed that trie scene of his labors in , tho Pennsylvania wilderness would become a Mecca to which Presbyterian pilgrims by tens of thousands would turn their willing feet A man with sufficient faith in his creed and his religion to establish a theological school under such unpromising conditions must have been consoled by visions of a glorious future for his church; but it is hardlv urobable that his sniritnal av had even a prophetic glimpse of the grand result of his own labors. He buildcd better than he knew. Ir.becomes almost monotonous to say of every speech the President makes that it fully sustains his reputation as an orator, but such is the fact. The brief address delivered yesterday, at the "Old Log College celebration, in Pennsylvania, was up to tho usual standard. The occasion, yesterday, was one with which tho President could, and no doubt did, sympathize very keenly, on account of its historic interest and its relation to the planting of the Presbyterian Church in the United States. His remarks on the occasion, delivered extemporaneously, were in a happy vein of mingled humor and deep earnestness. The State Federation of Trades and Labor Unions adopted a resolution indorsing tho new school-book law as "a move In the right direction," but advocating free text-books as a better measure. The Journal heartily indorses tho latter part of the resolution. Free school-books would be a genuine reform, and this is the only logical solution of the question. But tho present law is hot a step in that direction, except in so far as its bad features may lead tho people to the right position on this subject buuuci iiuut cucjr nuuiuivuui Ifc UlAierwise. Aaalaw to compel the people to use inferior books and to pay tribute to a monopoly, it is very "decidedly a step in the wrong direction. Neither the tariff, nor any other question of national politics, will enter Into the municipal campaign. The party calling itself Republican expects to win by the excellent record it has made in the management of cjty affairs. No city in tho United States has been more honestly, economically and efficiently governed than this city has during the last few years of Republican control. All statements to the contrary are a libel on the city, calculated to injure it at home and abroad. With the smallest debt and the lowest taxes of any city in the Union, with the most economical city government of any, and as much to show for its outlay as any other, Indianapolis is more conspicuous for its good city government than for any other one thing. The News has singled out Councilman Pearson as a special object of attack and abuse." Extracts from its columns, printed on another page show that it formerly entertained very different opinions in regard to Mr. Pearson's record and services from those it , now expresses. " During tho last two years ether : members of tho Council or tho

Board Of Aldermen whom the News still

supports have cast precisely the same vote on every public question that Mr. Pearson has done, yet he is made the recipient of all its venom. By tho way, Mr. Pearson has the singular distinction of having' introduced the ordinance to tax the saloons 852 a year, the one increasing the tax to $100 a year, and.the one increasing it to $250 a year, all of which passed. A3 TO CERTAIN PENSIOH RULINGS. A correspondent at Marion asked the Journal if there had been a recent ruling of the Pension Office that a deserter or dishonorably discharged soldiermight receive a pension. Wo replied, "No such ruling ha3 been made, nor any that could possibly be construed that way." This statement is incorrect as to one of the classes referred to. Tho Sentinel, ever watchful of the interests of its friends, gets very angry at our statement, and calls attention to tho fact that the Journal recently printed a dispatch from Washington, stating that the Assistant Secretary of the Interior had made the very ruling which we said had not been made. Following is tho dispatch as printed in the Journal of Aug. 20: Assistant Secretary Bnssey has rendered an important decision on the pension claim of Daniel B. Kaufman, late of Company A, Forty-eighth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, "which was brought before him on amotion for reconsideration. In his decision the Assistant Secretary rescinds rule No. 133, made by Commissioner Black, Sept. 4, 1885, and overrnles the opinion of Assistant Secretary Hawkins, in the same case, that a dishonorable disehargo from the service operates as a "bar to pension." He . also holds that mlo No. 133 was an erroneous interpretation of the statutes granting pensions to soldiers of tho late war for disabilities incurred in the line of duty, and declares that the character of a soldier's discbarge cannot affect his claim for pension on account of such disabilities. He holds that a 'dishonorable disehargo" is a penalty for a specific offense against the service, for which the soldier may be punished, but that the penalty cannot include nor relate to a claim for pension based upon disability. The two things are held to be wholly distinct from each other, and are not governed by the samo legal consideration. The opinion fully discusses the history of the pension system and the practice of the department from the organization of that system, in support or the present ruling. The decision rendered by ex-Secretary Delano in the case of Conroy, June 9, 1875, is quoted to the effect "That there is no statute which in terms imposes upon a dishonorably discharged soldier of the late rebellion a disability to. receive a pension, provided he be disabled by disease contracted, or wounds received, while in the line of duty as a soldier. The act of July 4, 16C2, grants a pension to any ollicer or soldier of the army who, sinco July 4, 1801. had been disabled while in the service and in the line of duty. Neither this act, nor any subsequent act amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto, contains any provision whatever by which a pension is denied to a disabled soldier of the war of lbCl because he was dishonorably discharged. The allowance and payment of pension to such a soldier is conditioned alone upon proof of disabilitv incurred in tho service and line of duty.' The Assistant Secretary holds that for the department to impose upon a soldier the forfeiture of the right to even claim pension because of a dishonorable discharge which may have l-een milicted by court-martial for an offense of which tho court had jurisdiction, would be equivalent to punishing the soldier twice for the same oit'ense. In this view h is sustained by a decision of the late Judge Advocate-general Hon. Joseph Holt. The opinion re-establishes the ruling of the department which prevailed through all administrations antedating the issuance of rule No. 135 by General Black. 1 The Journal had forgotten the render ing of this decision, and as it is ono of some interest we reprint it. The gist of it is that a dishonorable discharge may have been a penalty for a specific offense on the part of the soldier, and will not necessarily debar him from receiving a pension if otherwiso entitled to one. It will be observed that, in rendering the decision, tho Assistant Secretary quotes from a former Secretary of the Interior, and also from a decision of the lato Judge Advocate-general Holt sustaining his view, which is further said to have been the ruling of the department under all administrations jrevious to that of Mr. Cleveland. At first blush it seems improper and unjust that a dishonorably discharged soldier should be allowed to receive a pension, but a little reflection will show that the opposite rule might work great injustice in some cases. For instance, take the case of a man who, after serving faithfully two or three yeaip, and being wounded or contracting disease in tho service, does some act or commits soino breach of discipline, for which he is tried, convicted and dismissed from the army. It might even bo that hostility or persecution on the part of officers had something to do with it. In such a case the man's dismissal is a punishment for a specific offense, but it is not clear that it ought to deprive him of tho credit of two or three years' faithful service, or debar him from receiving a pension, if he can show that ho had fairly earned it, or that his claim accrued before his discharge and in tho line of honorable duty. So much for dishonorably discharged soldiers. As for deserters, who are not referred to in the decision above quoted, an expert in pension law states the rule is as follows: The first duty of the Commissioner of Pensions upon receiving an application for a pension is to call on the War Department for a transcript of the soldier's military record, and when this report is received, if there appears a charge of desertion against the soldier, the application is rejected, and the claimant, or his attorney, is notified that no further action can be had in the claim until the said charge is removed in the War Department. The only cases that are passed through with such a charge against the soldier is the following: When a soldier left the service, was arrested and returned to his command, court-martialed, suffered the penalty, was again restored to duty in the ranks, served faithfully until the close of the war, and received an honorable discharge. In such cases, where wounds were received after the soldier had been restored to duty, pensions have been granted, and there is no law depriving a soldier of such rights. He is as much entitled to his pension as any one, having suffered the penalty of his desertion. The difference between this class and a deserter at large is that the former received an honorable discharge, while tho latter has never been discharged, and until a soldier is discharged there is no date from which a pension could begin, and until a discharge was granted by the War Department no action in the Pension Office could be taken. Again, many soldiers took what was called a French furlongh, and were away from their command from ten to thirty days, and, as they must b accounted for, they were marked as deserters, although they had no intention of leaving the service. In all such cases the War Department records must be amended before the Pension Department will act on tho caso. By producing to the War Department evidence tu show the true facts in the case, the war office will change the record to read, "absence without leave." Even this is required by the Pension Department before action is taken. In other words, while the chargo of "desertion," as it appears on the records of the War Department, is prima facie evidence of tho fact and of a man's un

fitness to receive a pension, this presumption may bo removed by evidence showing that ho was only technically a deserter, and that he subsequently returned to tho army and filled out his enlistment. It was unwise for the Sentinel to show so much temper in this matter, and especially to charge the Journal with trying to manipulate the news for political purposes. No doubt nearly all of the dishonorably discharged soldiers and deserters are now Democrats, but it was foolish for tho Sentinel to advertise the fact by attacking tho Journal so savagely for its alleged attempt to capture their votes. We solemnly protest that we had no idea of influencing

.a single Democratic vote. For all that we care, every- dishonorably discharged soldier and every deserter may continue to vote that ticket as long as he lives. We shall endeavor, however, to give all the news and all the facts concerning pension rulings, and if we omit anything favorable to dishonorably discharged soldiers and deserters, we will supply the omission if tho Sentinel will call our attention to it. We are in favor of giving their full measure of rights mder the law to Democratic soldiers as well as to Republicans. THE MISSISSIPPI "RACE WAEV The dispatches from the scene of the Mississippi riots are carefully worded and written, of course, from tho standpoint of the whites, but put the matter in the best light they may, it is plain that the actual situation was very different from that described. There is a great deal of talk about large gatherings of armed negroes at Minter, which place is spoken of as the "seat of war," but it will bo noticed that these armed and aggressive bands do not materialize on near approach. A company of State militia marched to Minter, and marched ,away again, reporting all quiet. : A party of citizens, bent upon quelling tho "uprising" of tho blacks, went out and shot a number of the leaders of tho "insurrection," but it is nowhere shown that these leaders or any of their followers were engaged in warlike or incendiary acts. Hearing that 1G0 negroes were encamped at a certain point, fifty whito citizens reconnoitered, but were "much surprised" at not finding thenvat the designated spot. Pursuing their investigations they came across two black men who were assumed to be leaders, and, though not leading any one at that time, and apparently showing no belligerent intentions, they were promptly, shot down. Several others Wero "brought to justice" in the same way. It is also to bo noted that after all the talk of tho "race war," of tho "uprising" and of tho terror of the whites, not only were no whito men killed, but, according to the dispatches, "the first outrage committedby negroes sinco tho beginning of tho trouble," was tho burning, of a barn three or four days after the "war" began. There is no doubt whatever that the "desperate" negroes who committed this outrage will give their lives as a penalty for the crime, and it is equally clear hdt no white man will suffer ' punishment forany part taken in the matter of administering justice with a shotgun;,nor will his conduct bo investigated by local authorities. If negroes do grow desperate under such treatment, and retaliate in kind, it can surprise no one. Such a result i3tho inevitable outconre of the shotgun system. Much as the Southern Democrats object to federal control of their elections, their present course is likely to bring about conditions when, for their own safety, they will gladly welcome such supervision. For many years they have professed to be afraid. of the colored citizens, in order thai they might havo excuse for shooting the voters. The fear may yet become real and danger actually, exist, since fire can not always be played with with impunity. The St. Louis Globe-Democrat thinks that when Mr. William ' F. Switzler, of Missouri, steps down and out from his office of Chief of tho Bureau of Statistics ho ought to admit that ho has been treated with conspicuous consideration 'by tho present administration. Less than three months after Mr. Cleveland was inaugurated, Mr. Joseph Nimmo, jr., was removed from the office referred to, and Mr. Switzler was appointed in his place. The former was a trained statistician, while the latter was simply a Democratic editor of the average type. It is but just to say that Mr; Switzler has made a fairly good officer, and has done as well as any inexperienced person, not trained to the duties of the position, could be expected to do. But the point made by the Globe-Democrat is a good one, viz.: that the present Democratic incumbent has been treated with far more consideration than his predecessor was, though possessing less claims for official retention. Yet no doubt when Mr. Switzler is asked to resign, the same Democrats who exulted over the removal of his predecessor will unite in the usual outcry against Presi dent Harrison for violating the spirit of civil-service reform. Herbert Welsh, the civil-service enthusiast, who has addressed a circular to tho ministers of, tho country, asking them to preach next Thanksgiving day on tho subject of civil-service reform, is said to be meeting with indifferent success, 6o far as may bo iudged by responses received. This disinclination of the clergy to join in Mr. AVelsh's scheme by no means indicates a lack of sympathy with the reform in question, but does indicate a belief that there are other topics of more importance demanding attention of the pulpit. To uphold civil-service reform ideas is not necessarily a proof of virtue, nor opposition to it a sin, and while so many unquestionable virtues remain to be taught, and so many sins to bo denounced, it really seems that the pulpit has enough to do without taking up matters of political policy. The teachings5 that make men honest citizens insure tho proper, conduct of the civil service without special religious instruction in that line. The Charleston News and Courier pub lishes a review of the trade of that city for the past year, which ehot? the commercial

conditions to be better than at any time in the last decade. The earthquake, instead of ruining tho place, as was once feared, seems to have given a decided impetus to business. When something happens to give it as thorough a moral and intellectual shaking up, Charleston will be a truly propressivo and promising community. The New York Commercial Advertiser has changed from four to eight pages, and with an entirely new typographical outfit, looks like a respectable newspaper. If the transformation on the editorial pago turn out to be equally marked, the Advertiser has undoubtedly entered upon a career of. usefulness. Time will tell whether or not the new cTeed of entire independence is a form of its recent mugwumpism.

ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. A man bearing the glittering name of Gold is a jeweler at Lackawanna, Pa. Miss Lincoln, daughter of the minister to England, Robert' Lincoln, has become an acknowledged belle in London. Mrs. Philip H. Sheridan and her children are living at the cottage in Nonquitt, Mass., in which the General died. Mrs. Sheridan has entirely recovered her health and strength. Dr. Brown-Sequard has been married three times. Twice to American women, both dead, and the third time to an English woman, the widow of an Irishman. She is still living. When Chief-justice Fuller, who is now on duty in Chicago, is not holding court he amuses himself by riding around town in the street cars to observe tho changes made during his absence. The Shah of Persia asserts that the Kohinoorisan unlucky jewel He points to the fact that Queen Victoria lost her husband soon after coming into possession of the famous stono. John McRak and Ella Dennison were married behind the prescription desk of a Kansas City drug store, and the newlymade husband generously setup soda-water and cigars for all the witnesses. Mrs. Delia Stewart Parnell, the mother of tho Irish parliamentary leader, is said to bo in a very feeble condition at her home in Bordentown. N. J. Mrs. Parnell is now in her seventy-fourth year. John. I. Blair, the New Jersey railroad magnate, tvho confesses to a fortune of $40,000,000, earned his first dollar by walking to 'Easton and back, a distance of twenty-five miles, to sell a lot of rabbit skins. It was a Boston school-boy who thus told the story of the first inauguration:' 'The oath of office was administered to President ashington on the balcony of Federal Hall by Robert R. Livingston, Chanticleer of the State of New York?' Kate Drexel is said to be perfectly happy in her convent homo. She has taken no vow, and it is thonght sho will ultimately return to the world. She had for a long time followed conventual rules in her daily life, hence these cannot be irksome to her. The King and Queen of Denmark will entertain a big family party at Fredensborg in September. It will include the Emperor and Empress of Russia, the King and Queen of Greece, the Prince and Princess of Wales, and the Duchess of Cumberland and her children. The King" and Queen of Greece have seven children, the youngest a year old. The Princess Alexandria is a very pretty girl of nineteen, s. The Queen is fond of American literature, takes all the magazines, and adores the works of Hawthorne. All the children speak French, English, Greek and Russian. A large number of famous men were once book agents. Among them were George Washington, Longfellow, Bret Harte, Jay Gould, ex-President Haves, Daniel Webster. General Grant, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Prince Bismarck. The latter sold a book called "Blumenbach's Aufgeschichte die Wesselgung in der Spiejgeleisen." Nobody slammed the door in his face. The house in which Oliver .Wendell Holmes was born is still standing on the common at Cambridge, Mass., and is now one of the college buildings. It is an old gambrel-roofed house, and during the sieire of Boston it was the headquarters of the American o til c era. The Rev. Abiel Holmes, the host's father, was pastor of the First Church, of Cambridge, where General Washington was a frequent worshiper. The . ashes of General Pascal do Paoli will be removed shortly from the old St, Pancras Cemetery in London, and reburied in Corsica, the native land of the distinguished patriot and soldier. M. Franceschini Pietri, the secretary of Napoleon III, and since his death attached to the exEmpress Eugenie's household, has had charge of the movement to restore the General's body to Corsica. He is himself a grandnephew of Paoli. . Dr. Buckley tells a story in the Christian Advocate about his following Tennyson years ago through the South Kensington Museum, hoping to hear him speak. For two mortal hours and a half he did this without success. "At last he made signs as if he were about to do so. Hoping to hear some criticism of a painting we listened intently, and these memorable words fell from the lips of England's poet laureate: You take care of tho children while I go and get some beer.' " J. T. Trowbridge, whose stories for hoys have made him famous, was born in 1827, in western New York. He taught himself Latin, French and German. He writes at the present time almost wholly for the Youth's Companion, and makes a handsome income. He is a talL fresh-looking man. with a very pleasant face. His hair is white, but otherwise ho does not show his years. He has never cared for society, and lives in retirement in Boston. ' He has a taste for speculation, hut has never in-' dulged it to any great extent, A distinguished citizen of America who has just returned from Europe said yesterday: "I do not suppose you will believe me, but it is a fact that I saw dozens of women in London who wore a single eyeglass or monocle in the street. The first woman that 1 saw was in Bond street, and she must have been at least forty-three years old. She was tall and slim, and her lace was lined and seamed with dissipation and care. She stared at me superciliously through a single glass which was attached to a thread, and 1 nearly fell backward off' the curb. Before I had gone a dozen paces , further I saw another woman pull her ejeglass up from the sling by which it was suspended from her dress, stick it in her eye precisely as a man might have done, and glare earnestly through it at a sporting newspaper. Then I kept my eyes open, and I counted half a dozen women with eycf lasses before I got away from Bond street., t was a whim, pure and simple, and an awful affectation." . ALL THINGS HAVE AN END. The tents are struck, the whisky Jugs and flasks are thrown away. And the boys are in the city, and at work again to-day. The russet shoes are taken off by mauler trim and neat. And they no lonjtev seem to care to show their pretty feet No longer at the hop the maid doth through the mazy dances whirl: The summer girl's no fairer now than any other ' girl. This is the course of human life; to change we all must bend. And everything that's good or bad In time comes to an end. - Boston Courier. COMMENT AND OPINION. No protectionist can consistently be a Democrat, and if all protection Democrats were to take formal leave of their party it would be a sadly dismantled old hulk. De troit Tribune. The "combines" are keeping shady just now. knowing that the e Republicans, who will control the Congress Boon to meet, are watching them. This is likely to be a bad season for trusts. St. Louis Ulobe-Denio-crat The object of all trusts is to keep tho price cf raw material low. and raie the priss cl manufactured articles. Articles in

the hands of great monopolies care for no "protection," and they flourish in free-trade England even better than in the United States. Chicago Inter Ocean. Tun sooner Southerners abandon their ideas of a whito aristocracy and a colored serfdom, the sooner will they get rid of the fear of negro supremacy, for education will remove the spirit of race clannishness on both sides. And , as for fear of harm bv national aid to education, education is cheap at any price, for it contains in itself the antidote to every poison. New York Press.

The gravity of tho London strike has its ! lesson for this country in its illustration of he principle that as corporations ore able u centralize the control of the industries and gain exclusive privileges they are certain to become oppressive to labor, simply because they have more power and less personal responsibility. Great corporations pitted against largo masses of ill-paid laborers are sure to produce dangerous strikes. Pittsburg Dispatch. "If the United States were to abolish the duty on cotton goods, we should. shut up every ono of their cotton-mills in two years," is the confident remark of the Manchester (Eng.) Examiner. We think that our contemporary is ovcrsanguine. Some of the American mills might succumb if they were forced to meet English competition unprotected, but a eood many of thent would probably be enabled to pull along by squeezmgdown the wages of their operatives. Boston Journal. SIM COY'S NOMINATION. How Democracy Insult to the People of Indianapolis Is Regarded by an Outsider. Chicago Tribune. At one period during Mr. Cleveland's administration, and before ho had completely surrendered himself to the spoils element of the Democracy for the sake of an expected second term, Grover expressed hie honest belief that the Indiana Democrats were the most corrupt and disreputable politicians in the United States. The reception which has been given to Sim Coy in Indianapolis sinco his return from the State prison overwhelmingly conlimis the correctness of Mr. Cleveland's characterization. Sim Coy was a councilman from the Eighteenth ward of .Indianapolis, and was convicted and sent to the penitentiary for forging election returns and other frauds committed against the law and purity of the ballot-box. His guilt was clearly proven. The fact that he was a convict should have disbarred him from his seat, but when the honest members of the Council moved to dismiss him the entire Democratic membership voted against it, and tho people of Indianapolis were'compelled to submit to the disgraceful spectacle of this convict retaining his seat and receiving his pay as a councilman during the entire term of his imprisonment. The disgrace does not end here. Now that his term in the Council, as well as his penitentiary term, has expired he has publicly taken his old place of local leader of tho Democrats in Indianapolis, and has been renominated for the Council. In his speech accepting the renomination, which he and his henchmen had set up. he had the effrontery publicly to declare: "Now that I am back and am your leader again, I promise you my best eGorts, and if you Will stand by me as before I promise you that when the smoke of the battle rolls away we shall again be found triumphant." . The records of political corruption in this country fail to show a parallel to the effrontery of this ex-convict on the one hand and to the lack of ordinarj" decency and self-respect which characterizes his followers on the other. Never in the history of local government in the United States has a similarly disgraceful and deliberate determination to debauch the ballot-box been fmblicly expressed. Thero have been bal-ot-box stutters and forgers in other cities as disreputable in their methods of defeating the will of the people as Sim Coy, but never before has it happened that when ono of tho scoundrels has been punished by confinement in tho penitentiary and stamped with the brand of the convict he has returned from prison to resume his place as leader, receive the plauditsof hisparty, run for the same oft ice again, publicly defy the honest portion of the community to defeat him, and menace it with a repetition of his villainy. The revelation is a disheartcningone, not only inthe sense that it is prejudicial to public morals and to ordinary honesty and decency, but that it is a bold and deliant menace that an honest election shall not be allowed in Indianapolis, and that the will of the majority of the people shall not be expressed. The corruption of politics in Indiana has been deplored by men in both parties, and Democratic leaders have expressed their willingness to join with Republicans in bringing about a reform, but what hope does such a disgraceful episode as this hold out! What chance is thero for purifying elections when a notorious forger of returns, who has served his term in the penitentiary Jl i 1 1AA J 1 tuereior, is piacea at ineir neau again uy Democrats not only without objection or protest on the part of any of them, but even with enthusiasm? If this means anything, does it not mean that the Democrats of Indiana are ready to condone election dishonesty and are determined to break down f all the barriers that guard the honesty of the sunragef llow can it bo possible that any Democrat making the slightest claim to personal honor, upright, citizenship, or political honesty can submit again to tho leadership of this man, fresh from the penitentiary, knowing his vile record, condone his past offenses, and indorse his audacious threat to repeat themf Hoyr can it be possible that they will vote to place this exconvict in power again! What hope of reform is there unless honest and reputable Democrats cast him off and, joining hands with the Republicans, defeat himT If they do not take this step then they are tarred with the same brnsh aud otandfortho same disreputable, dishonest methods which he represents and advocates. If the city politics of Indianapolis is not purged of Sim Coyism at the next election there will be an end of honest suffrage in that city, and its people might as well abandon tho farce of voting and hand the municipal administration over to the ex-convict and his disreputable followers. " mm Insolence of .Democracy. Philadelphia Press. The action of the Indianapolis Demo-' crats in renominating the notorious "Sim Coy as a candidate for the City Council is a ff a grant disregard of public opinion even for that party to exhibit. Coy is the man who committed forgery on the tally-sheets in the interest of the Democratic party. He was convicted, after two trials, and sentenced to tho penitentiary, and at the close of his term was released without tho payment of his fine. The insolence of the man, and the spirit of the party which indorses him, were well exemplihedin Coy's speech accepting the renomination. Said he: "Now, that I am back and am your leader again, I promise you my best efforts, and if you will standby me as before I promise you that when the smoke of battle rolls away we shall again be found triumphant." Comment of the State Press. Princeton Clarion:' Sim Coy is again taking a hand in Indianapolis politics. He has, in fact, never been out of it Lawrenceburg Press: There is no doubt Sim Coy will be supported largely by the Coy Democracy. Whether there is anv other kind in Indianapolis the election will determine. . Delphi Journal: The Democracy havo vindicated Sim Coy by nominating him to a scat in the City Council. Sullivan shonld forthwith return to his old home. He could doubtless secure the mayoralty bun. Rushville Republican: Simeon Coy, of Democratic taily-sheet-fraud infamy, reappears in Indianapolis politics just in season to give color aud tone to the swelling Democratic claims of virtue and devotion to the cause of reform. ' Clay County Enterprise: Immediately upon his return from a term of penal servitude for the crime of gross election frands Mr. Coy assumes the leadership of his party. Will he be elected? That just depends' on how man- Democrats there are the ward. Richmond Telegram: Sim Coy is an illustration of the truth that if you wish to make a Democratic politician the idol of his party the surest way is to convict him of unmistakable fraud and corruption and send him to the penitentiary for a brief term. Lafayette Courier: Nobody pretends to assert that Sim Coy was innocent of the charges which landed him . in the penitentiary, and yet, before the prison cut of his hair has vanished, he is received back into the open arms of the Democratic party, nominated for publio office, and accepted as a leader. ComparatlTcly Quiet for the Soutlu Pittsburg Chronicle, The contest in the Third congressional district of Louisiana was not very fatal this time Only .one Republican deputy

sheriff was shot and srrious.lv wounded. It is true that negroes wcro dogged to convince them that it would bo more comfortable for them to remain away from tho polls than to trouble themselves with politics; and that these measures were effective is seen inthe fact that the Democratic candidate was elected, although the negro voters in the district outnumber the whites by 4.4CO. - A Sonthern View of an Extra Session. Galveston News. The Washington correspondents of newspapers throughout tho country insist that there will be a special session of Congress. But Harrison has given forth no sign that he intends to call one. All reports from the capital shonld be considered in connection with tho fact that tho boarding-house keepers have spent about all the money they made at the regular session, and that the correspondents arc anxions for the day that will furnish them something to write about ' The boarding-house people and the Washington correspondents arc, perhaps, tho only nersons in tha United States that can offer a reason why there should bo a special session. s Jacob Sharp's Successor. MUwaukce Sentinel. Col. Dan La in out has bought the Broadway line of street cars in New York, acting; for ex-Secretary Whitney and others. Tho line was sold at auction, its title is clear, its profits are large, its benefit to Broadway is great, and the mahogany cars pnt on by Jake Sharp through tho aid of boodle aldermen roll along as virtuously as anv cars in the city. So out of Jake Sharp's 'bribery. tor which he went broken to his grave, out of the Doodling, for which eome aldermen are in prison and others in exile, comes a proritable line owned by respectable millionaires who were shocked at Jake Sharp's . wickedness. m Tho Chief Crime. Philadelphia Press. The surplus is being reduced under apfropriations approved by a Democratic louse. President Harrison's administration cannot spend a penny which is not given it to spend by Democratic votes, and it is raving nonsense to talk About the He pnblican extravagance of the administration. Its chief crime in the eyes of freetrade New York prints is that it has not, like tho last administration, risked a panio by tying up money in the surplus so- as to have a club handy for the tariff. The Democratic Idea In West Virginia.

CineinnaU Commercial Gazette The Democratic policy in West Virginia of inexcusable delay until enough Repub lican votes can be counted out to defeat General Goff, the honestly elected Governor, is an outrage such as the people of but few States would stand more than ono season. The Democratic idea there is. if. you cannot count out a Republican in au election by the people, count him out afterwards. " 1 1 " The Need of a National Law. Philadelphia Press. The election in . this district 1 the Third Louisiana! enforces in an emphatic man ner the need or a national law to govern the election of Congressmen. No party, should be compelled to see that it has its rights at the ballot-box. That is the duty of the government, and this responsibility cannot oo shirked any longer, no matter how the election in Louisiana may go to-day. Prohibition in Georgia. Aujrnsta Chronicle. There is a iug factory in Albanv. Ga.. and the News and Advertiser of that city says thero is no end to tho demand. We 6ee now why the Legislature of 1887 made jugpeddling tax free. Tho. Albany factory makes rlower-pots also, but wo opine that to each pot a thousand jugs are made. The dry counties need copious irrigation. Something Ominous About It Washington Post. It is not our disposition to alarm tho public, but when we Bee all the European kings, and emperors, and potentates, and potentatesses going about hugging and kissing each other we feel that war is hovering in the immediate vicinity of the present time, and that the market price of American breadstuffs is crouching for a pretty tali spring. My Reap the Whirlwind. Philadelphia Telegraph. The hovering clouds are growing thicker and darker aloug the Southern horizon. Tho situation is rapidly approaching a con. dition that must till every thought ul mind with apprehension. The ruinous seeds of raco hatred have been sown broadcast anO a terrible harvest of bloodshed and devasta ' tion may yet be reaped. Might Fine the Machines. . Nebraska State Journal. The new automatic whisky dispenser has invaded Kansas City, and the police do not know what to do about it. The saloons have been closed on Sunday, but in many public places the thirsty Missourian sees a sign "Put two nickels in the slot and get a bottle of whisky," and he is straightway comforted. Have Developed Into a Nuisance. Baltimore American. , There is another outbreak of passionate, literature worse than all the previous per formanccs. It wonld be a great gain to public decency if the vulgar women wh perpetrate this stuff could be locked up fori a year or two. From an evil they have developed into a public nuisance. A Proof of Favor. Boston Advertiser. The nomination by the Republicans of South Dakota of Gov. A. C. Mellette for the same position in tho new State is a mark of appreciation that very few Territorial Governors appointed from tho outside ever receive. Mr. Harrison has proof positive that one of his selections has met with publio favor. One Advantage in Satan's Realm. . Omaha llepubllcan. We don't believe that the Democrats of the South will be able to work their tissue ballots there to any extent, because, although there will be no Republicans to watch them, the high temperature will prevent it . What Does Tills Mean? Nebraska State Journal. The Indianapolis elixir doctors, finding the snpplv of lambs a little short, are going to substitute dogs. If the dog will answer the purpose just as well, the problem is solved. Tho supply of dogs will never run short in Indianapolis. A Model Wife, rtochester Herald. ' Mrs. John A. Logan is truer to John A. Logan dead than many wives are to their husbands living, and when he was liviug Mrs. Logan livedt moved, and had her being in her husband's interests. A Calamity Foreshadowed. Chicago News. The apple crop is going to be very short this year. It is ditncnlt to see how this country can be happy and prosperous ia case there shouldn't happen to bo enough apple pie to go round. Anarchist Voorhees. 6t Louis Globe-Deniocrat Some of the recent speeches of Daniel W. Voorhees indicate that he U trying to bo an Anarchist They also suggest that he is doing his best to maintain his reputation as a potationist m .Cans of Senator Voorhees's Eccentrlcles. Louisville Commercial. Senator Voorhees sa3's there is no middle grouud on the tariff question. 1 hat is the reason tho Senator strained himself so in jumping from one side to the other. Without Representation. Cincinnati Commercial Gazette, There are nearly eight million colored people in the Democratic Southern country, and they have but one member of Con gfess to represent them. They Only Discuss One Fldev Louisville Commercial. The. free-trade papers do not comment on the numerous coses in which the wages ox iron-workers have Wen recently increased. i Troubles of the Ullte. Louisville Time. Robert Ray Hamilton now realizes that it is a wise member of New York's rcvix Mui drcd who knows his own child.