Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 September 1889 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1889.

THE DAILY JOURNAL " TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10. 1889.

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PHILADELPHIA A. pTKemble, 3735 Lancaster aTenue. CHICAGO Palmer House CINCINNATI-J. P. Hawiey fc Ca, 154 Vine street. tOUISVIXLE C. T. Deerlng, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. BT. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern Hotel. WASHINGTON, D. O. Biggs House and Zbbltt . House. The Sentinel suggests, in a spasm of law-abiding virtue, that "perhaps it will be as well to let the courts, instead of the newspapers, try the street-railway franchise suit." It did not talk that way ' when Sim Coy was on trial. In arranging to turn his country over Into England's hands by establishing free trade if he comes into power, General Boulanger shows a disposition to : become the Grover Cleveland of France. J Before going further with his scheme tJio should pause and consider what ' struck Cleveland. , The fact that President Harrison remitted the line of a Democratic convict, because another Democrat had robbed 3iim of the means to pay it, does not, in Republican eyes, necessarily entitle Democrat No. 1 to public office at the hands of his party; but in the opinion of the News, the Sentinel and the Charleston News and Courier it does. Democrats are queer, and there is no telling where thoy will break out. The responsible editor of the News got back from Europe just in time to retract the ridiculous statement made in that paper on Saturday that Commissioner Tanner was drawing on the public treasury for pensions at the rate of $250,000,000 a year. If he undertakes to correct all the misstatements and wild assertions that have appeared in that sheet during his absence, however, it will be necessary to issue a special edition. : Now comes the organ of the schoolbook monopoly and says it is no monopoly at all. That depends on how you look at it. Perhaps the school boards, teach- . crs and people of more than half- the counties of the State, who have accepted the books under protest, and who are compelled to buy and use them, think differently. As a matter of fact it is the most complete monopoly cvor created in any part of the United States. The present syndicato has got a much bigger thing than any of the publishing houses had under the old regime, and to make it worse, the money is extorted from the people by threats of legal proceedings in exchange for worthless books which they -do not want. If the Charleston News and Courier would read the Journal, instead of the Democratic papers of Indianapolis, it would have a foundation of facts upon which to base its comments on Indiana politics, and would make 'fewer foolish statements. The same is true of the 'New York Post, and two or three other tnisguided nowspapers published at a distance. No one in Indiana thinks of depending upon either of those organs e$ven for Democratic news. Outsiders who accept them as authority make ' some very amusing blunders. The Post, in particular, should take heed of the iact that it cannot possibly continue to 'know it all71 while deriving its informa- . tion from so untrustworthy a source. The regular weekly statement of clearing-house transactions, published in tho Journal yesterday made a very favorable showing for Indianapolis. The local clearances for the week ending Sept. 7 were $2,322,6S3, which was ' an increase of 20.4 per cent, over the corresponding week last year. Fortythree cities showed an average increase over last year of 11 J2 per cent., so that tho increaso in this city was 15.2 per cent, above tho average. Fourteen cities out of forty-three exceeded the average, while twenty-nine fell below it. Only five cities showed as largo an increase as Indianapolis, viz.: Denver, Omaha, Galveston, Fort Worth and Duluth. This town isn't dead, by a good deal. The six days' celebration which began at Baltimore, yesterday, is intended to unite historic associations with commercial aims. Tho affair is really a sort of six days' exposition, but tho time is happily chosen to make it celebrate one of the stirring incidents of the war of 1812. If the defense of Fort McIIenry did not deserve commemoration for o'ther reasons, it would be worthy of celebration as having given origin to our best national song, the "Star-spangled Banner," which will doubtless be sung and played at Baltimore, this week, with all tho variations. The celebration will give Baltimore an opportunity to advertise the fact that it is one of tho most attractive, healthy and prosperous of American cities, and as far as possible from being a dead or finished town. With few of the elements that go to make so-called booms, and still less of the disposition to. create artificial prosperity, Baltimore is one of tho most solidly prosperous and steadily progressive of American cities. Though not as

well known to 'Western pcoplo generally

as the great Atlantic cities lying further north, Baltimore does not suffer by com parison with any of them in the elements of high civilization, advanced culture and commercial activity. The West should cultivate closer . relations with Baltimore. THE CEUSADE AGAINST TANNEB. The chief aim of the Democratic press at this time is to make the pension system odious and to cast discredit not only upon those who receive pensions, but upon the party which provided for the wounded soldiers and on all who have to do with the disbursements. Just now the object of attack is Commissioner Tanner. No opportunity is lost to assail him as a dishonest rogue, a plunderer of the Treasury and a man whose 6ole purpose is to distribute public funds without regard to justice. As commonly pictured he is stanHing at the Treasury throwing out money with both hands. With this idea in mind, the Indianapolis News was filled with horror on Saturday on. noting in the dispatches that Tanner's August draft amounted to $20,000,000. Immediately the able editor sat down and dashed off an indignant protest against the manner in which the Commissioner was anticipating the revenue, and concluded with the following statement: The appropriation for pensions for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 18S9, was $S0,000,000. Tanner's drafts on it for August amounted to $20,243,909. This is at the rate of nearly 50,000,000 a year. It need be no question of anything but common sense here. Manifestly Commissioner Tanner is as utterly unfit and unfitted for the office he holds as any notion of unfitness can be illustrated. By Monday somebody had inf oxmed the outraged molder of public opinion that the August draft was for the quarter, and not for the month, and that if Tanner wanted more he had no way of getting it. The result of this accession of in telligence was a meek little correction of its tremendous figures, but they are re printed here merely as an example of the sort of warfare that is being carried on. Manifestly, in the language applied to Tanner, the editor who can allow himself to be caught in 6uch a hole in the first place, "is as utterly unfit and unfitted for the office he holds as any notion of unfitness can be illustrated." ATLANTA DEMOCBAOY. Tho Atlanta postoffice incident is still working. The Bourbon Democracy of that city cannot get over the truly awful act of . General Lewis in appointing a colored clerk under the civil-service law. Not content with burning him in effigy, holding him up to public scorn in the Democratic press, and forcing him to withdraw from a business partnership in which he was an honored member, it is proposed to ostracise him socially. The following circular has come to light: Capital Crrr Club, ATLANTA, Ga., Aug. 20, 1889. ) uear air At a meeting or tne governing committee, held Tuesday, Aug. 27, a special meeting of the club was ordered in response to a constitutional call of the requisite number of members, for Tuesday evening, Sept. 3, at 8 o'clock, for tho purpose of considering the investigation of the rumors and reports, recentlv published in the daily papers, regarding the conduct of Mr. J. K. Lewis,' a member oi tho club, and the ettect that such conduct, if true, will have upon the club. Very truly, IIakvey Johnson'. Secretary. N. 15. It is requested that the members be cautious in talking of this matter where such talk would have a tendencv to eive it puDiicuy. f A 1 i - - - w - - The circular evidently relates to tho appointment of the colored clerk and to the advisability of punishing General Lewis for it, probably by expulsion from the club. On this we remark, first, that Postmaster Lewis was an offi cer in tho Union army, and is known as General Lewis. Under ordinary cir cumstances tho omission of a man's familiar title might Jiave no significance, but here it has. If "Mr." Lewis's military title had been gained in the confederate army it would not have been conspicuously omitted. Second, the circular shows the malignant character of the persecution which has been organized against General Lewis. In organizations such as we presume this club to be, where gentle men meet on a social footing irrespective of politics, a gentleman's personal char acter and conduct are his passport, and once admitted, nothing but an act in volving personal dishonor or discredit Bhould bring him under the discipline of the club, or even raise a question as to the propriety of his membership. In this case "the conduct" of a member which- it is proposed to discuss is tne periormance or an official act, in compliance with a law of the land. There is no pretense that General Lewis has done anything personally dishonorable, or that he overstepped the line of official duty to ap point a colored clerk. His offense is simply that he acted in accordance with the law. For this, after having been burned in effigy, held up to public con tumely, boycotted in his business, and placarded on the streets of Atlanta, he is now to be disciplined in the manner indicated. Tho entire proceeding is a notable illustration of the meanness and malignancy of Southern bourbonism. APTITUDE Or AMEBI0AK3. The surprise of Herr Wabner, the dis tinguished German postoffice official now in this country, over Mr. Wanamaker's familiarity with the postal sys tem of Germany, is nothing new or astonishing. The readiness with which Americans adapt themselves to official positions in which they have had no experience, the ease with which they perform their duties, and the intelligence shown in matters of detail, is a constant source of surprise to foreigners. It ia only to be accounted for by the peculiarities of the political system, which gives every man a personal interest in public affairs. Not one man in thousands expects to hold office, but all are concerned that the government service be prop erly conducted, and in the hands of proper persons, and to that end keep an eye upon its management. This watchfulness begets an acquaintance with methods of work and details of management unknown in countries where the people have no voice in the management of affairs. Mr. Wanamakerhad never been connected with the postal department in any capacity until this year, but, like ail his fellow-

citizens, he had a pretty fair, idea of its

workings. Being called on to take charge of it, he had comparatively little to learn in the local field, and therefore proceeded to inform himself concerning the systems of other countries in order that he might make comparisons-and possible improvements. Mr. Wanamaker has done well, but he is only one of many equally fitted for their work. MB. GRADY AND THE EACE FB0BLEM, Editor Grady, of the Atlanta Consti tution, is roused by the recent outrages upon the colored people in tho South, and more particularly by tho unprovoked whipping of a dozen negroes in his own State, to a realization of the fact that the "New South" which he so glowingly pictured at the celebrated New York din ner, has not yet materialized. In a twocolumn editorial in Sunday's issue of his paper he discusses tho subject again, and earnestly urges upon his fellowSoutherners, the necessity of pursuing a course which will not injure them, as these race conflicts are doing. Recognizing the futility , of appealing to sentiments of humanity, decency and justice in the Southern whites, he shrewdly touches their selfinterest and political hopes. "When a Georgian does such a thing," he says, "he strikes his friends a thousand blows where ho - strikes his victim once. The Democratic party is pledged to help us solve this probiem but such as this makes Democratic success all the more difficult. Tho amazing revelations of the . next census will direct attention to the South as the coming section but such outrages as this will, shut out capital and immigrants as with a Chinese wall. Our leaders promise that with mutual friendship and confidence between the races, all will be safe but this destroys the hope of mutal confi dence and inflames and aggravates both races." He calls attention, too, to the fact that the South is pledged by her press and speakers that she will deal with the colored race fairly, honestly and justly, and 'appeals to tho Southern honor to observe those pledges, but evidently does not hope for much from this argument. He bemoans the fall of the Cleveland administration as an injury to the South and the election of Harrison as the establishment of ax power hostile to peace, or, as he means, it to be under stood, to white supremacy in that region. White supremacy is what Mr. Grady is determined to have; there is no question about this . in his mind. The only point to consider is tho best means of accomplishing this without bloodshed or an adoption of tho policy of extermination. He counsels patience and self-control as the first steps toward gaining the desired end, and prophesies that with a wise and prudent course, and the guidance of wise leaders, who, he admits, were never more sorely needed, the whites, meaning the Democratic party, will succeed in establishing peace and tranquillity forever. Editor Grady means well; he is far in advance of the majority of his party in the South on these questions; bu he too, has much to learn before tho problem troubling the South can be solved. While he and his associates continue to teach that the "white race shall control;" that tho South must sacrifice every political or economic difference rather than divide its solid ranks, he cannot hope for peace. Peace will not come by Mr. Grady's way, but by the way of justice and equal rights to all men, white and black. . ' Nine days have been spent in trying to impanel a jury in the Cronin case, and not one juror has been obtained yet. The proceedings up to yesterday had cost Cookrcounty about $2,500, and not a juror to show for it. We doubt if this state of things could arise in any other country, and its occurrence hero shows a serious defect in our laws or their ad ministration. During the past nine days a large number of persons have been subpenaied, only to be put through the same process of examination and re jected at last. Tho result is largely due to tho tactics of counsel for tho defense, and their evident determination to pre vent a jury from being obtained, if pos sible. The Chicago Tribune says: Harrying the talesmen with befogging and cunningly contrived catch-questions, the attorneys are greatly aided in the work 5 AllJ A. At XV 1 oi Keeping intelligence out oi uie mry-uox by the desire of the citizens to shirk jury i Al 1 A. Al .L service, a laiesm&a wuo is at ursi coninelled to admit that he could trv the case fairly is quick enough, a little later on, to fall in with the suggestive questions of the attorneys for the defense and lug in some -1 1I ! A. .1 J 11 uisquaiiiying preieuueu prejmucu or oias, when, in truth, nothing of the sort exists. Other talesmen calmly affirm that they are mentally so constituted that if thev were once sworn to try the caso impartially and return a verdict according to the law and tho evidence, they could not do otherwise than violate such an oath, thus lviug outright. With the functions of the court usurped by attorneys, and untrutniul talesmen seeking to shirk jury service, and de claring themselves prejudiced to attain that end. it is not easy to predict when the discreditable proceeding in Judge McConneu s court win come to a ciose. It is probable the fault in this case lies largely with the court, in allowing too much latitude to the wrangling of law yers, and exercising too little judicial authority itself an evil which is responsible fof other defects in our administration of law besides the one hero noted. If judges knew how to assert tho rights and authority of the court, and would do it a good deal of tener and more vigorously than they do, society would be tho gainer. That is an interesting statement concern ing the claim of the heirs of Benjamin Talbott, a colored man and once a slave, to a large part of the present site of Logansport. Their claim is said to have been established and recognized by a proposition to pay them a very large sum. This proposition is said to come from two railroad companies. and to represent only part of the interests involved. The seemingly authoritative denial of tho story, however, spoils a very pretty fiction. SurrosE we waive further discussion as to whether Steve Brodie did shoot Niagara Falls, and end the matter by shooting Brodie. - , The announcement that the Woman's Club, of Decatur, 111., will build aten-thousand-doUar club-house suggests a ques tion: What has become of the "propy heum" projected by Indianapolis ladies? Has the 6chemo come to naught, or will tho propy-

l.xum suddenly ride before a dazzled com

munity some morningan Aladdin's palace built in the night! ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Kino Malietoa's salary, before he was deposed, amounted to $20 a month. Facetious Englishmen call the American minister's house in London Lincoln's Inn. Mr. Selaii Chamblrlain, of Cleveland, gave his beautiful niece $10,000 as a wed ding present, M. . Barbekiexne, the famous bronze founder, of Paris, exhibits at the Paris exposition a clock which is valued at $70,000. Amherst College has received another check for 5,000 from John IL Southworth, of Springfield. Mass. This arid his previous $5,000 were unsolicited. Marion Crawford, the novelist, is a handsome, stalwart man, who resembles no one so little as a literary man. He stands iuny six ieet men, is ruddy or lace, broadbuuuiucicu auu long-iimoeo. ana can waiK forty miles at a stretch. " An effort is being made to get Oliver Wendell Holmes to write an autobiography. He refuses on the ground that his works already tell as much of himself as he cares to have the public learn, and that he desires to spend his remaining years in compara tive idleness. Mexnonites of Lancaster county, Penn sylvania, selected a minister on Friday by drawing lots. Twenty-one Bibles, one of wnicn contained a slip or paper, were placed on a table, . and the candidates walked around and each took a book. The one drawing the slip was ordained. Dr. Briaxd. a. distinguished young French physician attached to the hospital atVillejuif, is reported to have effected 6ome wonderful cures of consumption by means of the cold-air cure, which consists mainly in gradually accustoming the patients to exposure until they are able to sleep out in tne open air, regardless of the weather. MrsJ Margaret J. Prestox, the south ern poet, is very ill at her home in Lexington, Va., and has not been able all summer to leave her, room. Her eyesight is so im paired that she never uses her pen. but dic tates her work to a stenographer. She lives in retirement in Lexington, her husband being a professor in the Washington and Lee University. Archdeacon Farrar's fervid plea for the establishment of an order of mendicant monks in the Episcopal Church in England and the United States meets with a very chilling response from the church organs. After mercilessly ridiculing the whole idea, the Churchman says that even if jsuch an order were desirable.' it could not be founded by a well-paid, well-fed archdea con. S. W. McDaniel, of Boston, has in his li brary Sir Francis Bacon's "Element of ye Common Lawes of England, Branched into a Double Tract," etc. It was printed in .London by the assigns of John More, .Lsq., in 1G39. A book 250 years old is rare enough to be quite a curiosity. It is dedicated to "Her most sacred JNlajestie" yneen Anne, and. in suite of its srreat nee. seems clearlv printed and perfectly legible. Ex-Vice-president Hannibal Hamlin is enjoying life in his quiet way at his cozy home in Bangor. He has a big garden in which he delights to work, and his orchards and llower-pots are the pride and oy of Fifth street. Although Mr. Hamlin is eighty-one years of age, he is still able to walk ten or fifteen miles a dav without much fatigue, and makes frequent trips to his old home at Paris Hill, Oxford county. Mrs. Charlotte F. Wildour, formerly president of Sorosis. who has lived in Paris for a number of years, is to be the guest of the older members of that club, at Delmonico's, New York, at a breakfast given in her honor. Mrs.-Wilbour recently returned from Europe, and wivjreraain in this country for some time. Mr. Charles Wilbour, her husband, has become somewhat famed as an Egpytologist since Jus rem ova L from New York, and he spends his winters in Cairo or Alexandria. In France, when. a patient is under chlornfnrm nn tlift ftlifrbfAqf: Rvmntnm nnnwr. ing or la l lure oi tne noart, tney turn mm nearly upside down that is, with his head downward and his heels in the air. This, they say, always restores him; and such is their faith in the efficacy of this method that the operating tables in the Fans hospitals are made so that in an instant they can be elevated with ono end in the air, so as to bring the patient into a position resembling that of standing on his head. Lord and Lady Meath had a warm wel come in Newport from those who like to do honor to philanthropists. Lord Meath has done a great deal to improve the condition of the poor of England. His published writings uuiy buow a part oi nis tauors. no has spent niucn time in securing the co operation ox other philanthropic men and women, and has personally investigated the condition of the lower classes of English society. He has been warmlv sec onded by his wife. They will remain in this country only a short time. Berezovski, the Pole who tried to avenge his country's wrongs by shooting at the Czar Alexander II, during that mon arch's' visit to the Paris exhibition of 1867, is now a white-headed old convict in the French penal settlement of New Caledonia, on tne coast ox Australia, lie is very ten derly treated by the authorities of the place, for his conduct has been unexceptionable from the very first day of his transportation. They allow him a room to himself apart from the other prisoners, and he is at liberty to roam about the island as he pleases. Being very fond of flowers, cultivating his little garden is his Role employment, and for recreation he reads the newspapers and magpzines. . Mrs. Anna Besant, of London, has be come a Theosophist and friend of Mme. Blavatsky, and has, in consequence of her course, incurred the displeasure of Mr. Bradlaugh, with whom she has worked 60 long in reform efforts. Mr. Bradlaugh de plores her course, and says he looks "to possiDie developments oi ner ineosopmc opinions with the greatest misgivings." Mrs. Besant is well nigh idolized by the poor of East London, by whom she in familiarly called Amere,77 and she is able to do a great deal of practical work for them in consequence of their affection for her. Mr. Bradlaugh continues his atheistic-socialistic teachings without the aid of his former colleague, who was for so ninny years the inspiration of the best work uone by thoir society in London. COMMEXT AND OPINION. If the Mississippi whites would give the negroes tho chance of landownership and of education, and concede 'them their po litical rights, tho race problem would soon be on tho road to settlement. Chicago Tribune. Two things that thi9 country needs are a national bankrupt law and an international copyright law. The one will advanco and protect legitimate trade; the other will foster and protect legitimate literatnre, and both are m the interests of honesty and progress. Baltimore American. This careering modern world of ours needs less of tho spirit of unrest. There aro too many foolish creatures who desire the wings of the eagle, the lins of the nsh. tho strength of the lion, or the splendor of the peacock; who long to be conspicuous at all hazards, even at the price of the world's contempt and ridicule. Chicago Times. If free-trade theories have any truth or practical value whatever, why does the leather manufacture with free hides report many and heavy f ailnres,while the iron manufacture, notwithstanding duties on ore and on pig-iron, has comparatively few disasasters, and is prospering remarkably, having increased its gross product 00 per cent, in three yearsf New ork Tribune. The balance of trade which has recently been against the country will probably soon turn in our favor. Cotton exports stand a chance of being slightly larger and wheat exports far larger in the next six or eight months than they were in the corresponding period of the last fiscal year, and this change will torn the flow of gold once more to this country. St. Louis GlobeDemocrat. An extra session of Congress was long since decided by public opinion to be unwind and unnecessary, and the decision against one yesterday will, meet with general ap

proval. Tho only strong argument for an extra session lay in tho fear that money would be locked up in the treasury by the growth of the surplus, but Mr. "Y indom's shrewd management has prevented this. Philadelphia Press. Worse men than slugger Sullivan have been elected to Congress on worse platforms than brawn. As New York made John Morrissey a Congressman, it is not impossible that cultured Boston will bestow a like honor on the conquerer of Kilrain. It may bo that the big man from Massachusetts hopes to find in Washington a refuge from that Mississippi sentence of one year's imprisonment at hard labor. A Congressman has rights that even a Mississippi court is bound to respect. Chicago News.

PRESIDENTIAL, tours. They Are Lessons In Patriotism to the Young and Beneficial to tne Executive IUmselt Philadelphia Telejrraptt. The Log College" celebration was strikingly impressive and successful. The immediate occasion was very interesting, and the bringing of President Harrison into such close communication with the farming communities of eastern Pennsylvania was gratifying tothe parties of the vicinage and instructive to the head of the government. A President who stays constantly at tho White House learns the popular temper at disadvantage; it must be 6ifted for him througn various disturbing channels he must mix with the people now and again to discover what they are really like, how they regard him, what they want, of what they are thinking. The people rejoice to welcome their President; this has been proved over and over in many widely separated sections; they never fail to show in their respectful, and even affectionate, attention to him their regard for his high office. A presidential tour is a kind of practical lesson in patriotism; it especially impresses the young with a sense of the majesty of government. We should like to seeouir Presidents do even more of this affiliating with the populace; it is a republican idea, and the further it can be carried out without neglect of executive duties the better the people will like it. The errand which drew General Harrison into Pennsylvania yesterday was, moreover, one of a peculiarly pleasant kind. The commemoration of the primitive little 'college," out of which grew the establishment at Princeton, and which was the fountain head of the great Presbyterian movement in this country, emphasized one of the most curious and notable features in our social development. This section remains tho center of Presbyterianism, and how far this is so through the first seemingly insignificant inliuenco of the "Log College" no man can tell. But what that church is now we all know, and the contrast between it and the simple beginnings commemorated yesterdaj powerfully appeals to the imagination. Everywhere will the story be told, and it will be told with appreciation of President Harrison's evidently sincere concern with the better things of life. . : Itellc-IIunten Ran Mad. Philadelphia Record. The relic-hunting mania' that inspired the crowds of visitors to the Log College celebration on Thursday was as absurd as it was universal. Hundreds of persons chipped oft pieces of the fence about the Carroll homestead, others carted home limbs of trees, and some audacious spirits went so far as to dig out scraps of mortar from the crannies of the Carroll mansion; and all this in spite of the fact that fence, trees and house are less than a generation old. The flowers that graced the table at which the President lunched were rudely seized upon and struggled for tue moment lie had hnished. The caterers raked in a pretty fortune by crying out that the ice cream they sold belonged to the same brand as that of which the President had just partaken. By this expedient they contrived to dispose of a great quantity in small portions at a good price. Some of the folks who drove in the President's wake positively refuse to brnsh their dust-stained garments, since this very dust rolled oft ,from tho4 wheels of the great chieftain's chariot. - The prize statistician of Bucks county announces that exactly 3,823 vehicles passed through the gate at tho scene of tho celebration on Thursday. There was a wide-awake Bristol girl on the grounds who was all intent on securing a lock of Presidential hair. ' She was armed with a pair of well-sharpened scissors, but failed to do any clipping with them. A Touch of Remorse. Atlanta Constitution. A blot rests on Georgia's escutcheon, until tho men who whipped the negroes, near East Point, last night, are canght and dealt with as severely as the law will allow. The Constitution has been criticised for printing the story of this outrage. We should despise ourselves had we suppressed it. To have done so would have been to become particeps criminis with the men who whirled the lash, or broke over the threshhold of sleeping bomes. It is our duty to let in t he light on this wretched spectacle, and to demand, as we now do, that every resource ' of county and State be exhausted in bringing the actors therein to suro aud speedy condign punishment. ' John Xm Wilson for Congress. Crawfordsville Journal. , The Republican convention of tho new State of Washington completed its work at Walla Walla yesterday. Hon. John L. Wilson, formerly of this city, but now of Spokane r alls, was nominated as the can didate for Congress. Tho dispatches state that the wildest enthusiasm prevailed. The friends of Mr. Wilson at the home of his birth, where he grew to mature manhood, and where he received his education in school, in college, in law and in politics. extend to him their most hearty congratula tions. Uraw fords ville is proud of her sons in the great West Getting1 Even with the Cowcatcher. New York Sun. Occasionally the cow gets even with that great American invention, the cowcatcher, and when 6he does assert her superiority to the devices of railroad science, she usually makes a thorough job of it. A Pennsylvania cow on Thursday night succeeded in wrecking a train and killing ono or two of the train hands. The habitual good nature of the cow is no indication that she can be pushed and kicked about with impunity, even by a locomotive engine. Promise and Performance. Philadelphia Press. . While the Democratic party of Pennsylvania was busily engaged at Harrisburg on Wednesday in protesting its love for the poor workingman, William L. Scott, one of Democracy's anointed leaders, was hard at work evicting his starving coal miners from their wretched and desolate homes out in Illinois. The two events illuminate the wide and bridgeless difference between Democratic promise and Democratic per formance. Krlenl-of-the-Work!ngman Hcott. Omaha Republican. Think of it! The millionaire Scott running race horses and winning GG.O00 while shutting down his mines in Illinois and turning his tenants out of, doors! Think of tho 8ull'ering women, the starving children, the stalwart men who are only too eager to work, but who are denied the privilege because this Democratic millionaire, Scott, wants coal mined at 55 cents a ton. in order that he may run race horses and win $00,000! A Significant English Statement. Kansas CHr Journal. "If the United States were to abolish tho duty on cotton goods," says the Manchester,JEn gland, Examiner, "we should shut up every one of their cotton-mills in two years." The Examiner evidently agrees with Senator Vest that the war against the protective taritt is a war of extermination to the protected industries. ' - . m Resuming Business at the Old Stand. New York Tribune. The Democratic editor, having returned from his vacation and resumed business at the old stand, whistles through the tube to the foreman of the composing-room: "John, you must not let me forget to announce two or three times a week that Blaino is on tho eve of retiring from the Cabinet." A 1'leaslng: ContrastAlbany Journal. Five thousand steel-workers in Wales are threatening to strike unless they are given an increase of 10 per cent, in wages. The iron and steel-workers throughout Pennsylvania are having their wages raised from 10 to 20 per cent, without striking. Wales has free trade; the United States protection.

NEW CEONIN DEVELOPMENTS

Which Serve Admirably to Ulustrato tho Stupidity of-tho Chicago Police. Kunze and CooneyThe Foi " Believed to Hits Been in Custody Directly After the Murder Officer Eolinsca's Story, - Chicago, Sept 9. It seems that although a great deal of matter has been published about tho Cronin murder, the true story of the discovery of evidence at the Carison cottage has never been told until now. On the night of May 7, three days after Dr. Cronin was killed, two men, now supposed to have been Kunze and Cooney, were arrested and taken to Lakeview station, and discharged in the morning by Captain Wing. Officer Isaac Robinson has been on the Lakeview force sovcral years, and has always borne a good reputation. He is an Irishman by' parentage, but is not a member of any Irish secret society. Robinson had the beat in which the cottage was located,andat different times before the murder he noticed men going in and out of tho cottage and noticed lights within it. On the night of May 6 Robinson saw a man crawling out of the basement of the cottage and accosted him. Robinson has never seen Burke, but ho believes that Burke was the man who talked with him that evening. He said that he and his brother were renting tho cottago and that he had been in the basement simply to see if there was not a good place there to store somoold furniture. Robinson was not satisfied with the explanation, but he did not think he was warranted in arresting the man. At 9 o'clock the next night. May 7, Robinson turned the corner on Roscoe street, and came upon two men who were talking together in the Bhadow of a little real estate office 100 feet south of the Carlson cottage. They had the door of the office open, and were talking about biding something under the floor. Robinson decided to make an eliort to discover who they were. and what they were doing there. One of them, who was shorter than the other, spoke in broken English, with a German accent, and said that they had lost their way and wanted to get uown town. He said they were painters, and lived on the West Side. Robinson asked them why they were standing and talking on the corner if they wanted to get down town, and why they did not ask some one in the neighborhood and find out the way. Tho tall man, with a dark mustache, and who spoke with an Irish accent, answered evasively, and Robinson determined to arrest them. Just as ho started for the patrol box a man ran across from the direction of Patrick O'Sullivan's barn, aud asked what Robinson was going to do with the men. Robinson recognized this third person as tho man he had 6eeu crawling from the basement of the Carlson cottage, and told him he was going to tho .stationhouse, and if the stranger said much would take him along. - The man said no more when he saw that the officer recognized him. Robinson went to the station with tho two men. and they were questioned by Capt. Wing. They gave their names and supposed addresses, and repeated the story they had previously told to Robinson. No charges were entered against them on the books, consequently the officer does not remember the names they gave. They were taken down-stairs, kept in custody until morning, and then released by Capt Wing's orders.' The two men thus discharged, it is now believed by officer Robinson, were Kunzo and Cooney. Their description answers that of tho two suspects very closely. At the time of their arrest it was not believed that Dr. Cronin had been murdered, it being supposed he had left the city of his own accord. Two nights later, Robinson says, he saw one of the men he had arrested coming out of tho cottage after midnight. Ho did not accost him, because ho considered that he had been rebuked bv Captain Wing when ho discharged the prisoners. Robinson talked with the neighbors About the goings on iir the cottage, and concluded that there must have been a crime committed there. Ho told Carlson of his suspicions, and young Carlson went into tho cottago aud found the blood-stains. The thought that Cronin .had probably been killed in " the place suggested itself to Robinson, and ho told Captain Wing of his snspicions. Capt. Wing listened to his story, but did nothing. Robinson learned more about tho strange occup.iuts in tho cottage, and again spoke to the Captain. Three times in succession the officer claims to have told Wing of his belief that Croniu was killed in the cottage, but nothing was done until the week after Cronin's body was found. Lieutenant Schncttler was then sent from the Larrabec-street station to Lakeview, and, while talking with Captain Wing, learned of officer Robinson's suspicions. Schuettler went to the cottage and examined the blood-stains, and satisfied himself that the murder had been committed there. Robinson has not as yet been summoned as a witness by the State. , o Cronin Jurors Yet. Chicago, Sept. 9. No Cronin jurors were secured to-dayl After the court had overruled challenges for cause in several cases, and the talesmen had been peremptorily excused, Judgo McConncll said: I want to say a word to gentlemen on both sides in reference to this lino of challenge. As I understand the law and I think I have taken It from a very high Authority, and from rules of J practice well approved In it he early impanelng of a Jury in a case which has been very much discussed, and very much published in tho newspapers, as this has, and concerning which the eherlfl's summoning officers have ftone to nearly all parts of the county and summoned nearly all classes and conditions of society, if it becomes apparent that an ideal or a perfect Jury cannot be uecured, that is, a Jury which has not formed any impressions upon the matter, then the court nnut take the next best Jury It can ceU bo long as it is a local Jury. fib, vrhllo great liberality will be permitted, such a this court has permitted in this ca&e in the early impaneling of the Jury, necessarily, as the court becomes convinced that it cannot be so liberal that if it were to continuo the courao no Jury could be impaneled that liberality must be limited. Bo, whatever miphtbo the ordinary rules of liw which govern tho impaneling of a Jury In an ordinary case, they must bend to the exigencies of the case of moro public concern, otherwise tho result would necessarily follow that in certain casea no Jury could ever be -impaneled. Now, I mean to eay by that, that where 1 lind that tboM opinions are simply founded upon newspaper readlncr, and men come hero on who.e Intelligence and character tho court is obliged to come to the conclusion that, from what they say, they can fairly and impartially try tho case on the law nnd evidence. I shall not be so liberal as I have been. We hare already consumed nine days in endeavoring to Impanel a Jury. In all about twenty-five talesmen were examined during the day, and all of them were excused, either for cause or on per emptory challenge. Seized the Inanimate Evidence. CniCAGO, Sept. 9. A sensational affair in connection with tho Cronin trial occurred, this evening in the noted Carlson cottage. About 5 o'clock Mr. Forrest, one of tho attorneys for the defendants, drove up to the cottage, accompanied by three other men, and after paying tho usual admission , fee, entered with his companions. The only inmates of the cottage at the time were Mr. and Mrs. Lingren, the son-in-law and daughter, of the old Carlson' cou pie. They showed the visitors abort the interior, giving tho customary description of the supposed incidents of the fatal night ot May 4, and pointing out the blood stains on the fioor and walls, which are inclosed by a railing to keep relic-hunters avray. Lawyer i orrest asked Lingren to show him whert O'Sullivan, the ice-man, resided, and Lingren accommodatingly took him to a window in the end of the house, and described tho locality. Whilo the pair were thus engaged, Forrost's companions jumped over tho railing, and with sharp tools rapidly cut out such portions of the llooring and walls as they wanted. Lingren turned and saw them, and alter endeavoring in vain to make them desist, shouted for aid. Old man Carlson caino rushing in with a cocked revolver, but Forrcsta companions were prepared for such contingency, and disarmed the old man. The party thru entered their carriages and drove back to the city with thr blood-stained boards. .