Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 September 1889 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1889.

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Recent developments indicate that it has been spending part of the season on the Atlantic coast. -; What is the uso of reading the law to the trustees of the Blind Asylum, Riley and Cullen? Democratic trustees of the Indiana benevolent institutions know no law, even where it is spelled out in raised letters. The Interstate-commerce Commission may be able to help tho colored Baptist ministers in the prosecution of their suit against the Georgia railroad. Jf ,the Journal does not mistake, tho commission ruled, last year, that any citizen who paid first-class fare and conducted himself properly was entitled to firstclass privileges. Republican nominations on the city ticket grind out a little slowly, but, for the most part, in good shape. By tho 'timo they aro completed, and with a first-rate man for Mayor at the head, it will be, as a whole, a ticket entirely worthy of tho support of every voter calling himself a Republican, and of every one interested in good city government. Dk. Buckley, of the New York Christian Advocate, says of President Harrison's speech at the Log College celebration, that it was a ' inagnificent illustration of his most remarkable extemporaneous power. ' Tho satisfaction in having a man at the head of the Nation who has other sources of oratori- . cal inspiration than the encyclopedia is felt by priests and laymen alike. ; That is a nice 6tato of affairs in the Putnam county schools, with teachers and pupils waiting for a supply of tho Becktold books before they can go to work. It is to be feared that they do not reflect with sufficient patience- upon the fact that it takes a long timo to put new covers and titlo pages upon the discarded Minnesota and Missouri books. Tho title-pages, in particular, where tho copyright appears, require careful pasting. The nomination of ex-Councilman Thalman for the Board of Aldermen is a deserved indorsement of one of the best men in tho city government, and one whose services during a long term of years have been of great value to tho people. The contemptible attacks which have been made on Sir. Thalman's official record and personal character mado this nomination inevitable, and will ' insure his election by a complimentary majority. . . The Philadelphia Record is not an admirer of Senator Riddleberger, but has hopesjthat his extraordinary dislike tor . Mahone may result in some good to the Democratic party. It often happens, says tho Record, that a weak man will fight moro obstinately for revenge than for principle. This is a very wise re flection, and may bo variously applied. Would it explain the fight now mado against certain councilmen because they onco voted in a way displeasing to a certain mogul? . TnE humorous feature of the city campaign is tho pathetic plaint of the two free-whisky organs that President Harrison is responsible for the nomination of Sim Coy as Democratic candidate for Council. "Yes, the Democrats did the nominating," they snivel, "but if you had not remitted his fine wo might have chosen some one else while he was walking in from the penitentiary. Of course, when he once came in sight we had to take him; an ex-convict is not to be Rnubbed in our nartv. Thft rrmiaainn - M vmivi . oi that line was an outrag on us, so it was. President Cleveland had ample evidence that Public Printer Bticsdict was not a practical printer, and was therefore disqualified for his position, but ho refused to remove him. The almost hopeless tangle in which his accounts are left show that ho was also an incompetent, if not dishonest, business man; but, if Mr. Cleveland knew this, as he doubtless did, it could have mado no difference. The late administration was not sensitivo concerning tho character and fitness of its appointees. The retention of Pan-electric Garland in tho Cabinet during tho entire four years proved this. . That tho Republicans would make a nomination against Coy, in tho Eighteenth ward, has been well understood for some time by all who were not intert&tcdin misrepresenting the situation.

Tho delay was duo to efforts to find tho best man, and one who could unite most of tho elements of opposition to tho Democratic candidate. Tho nomiuation of-Mr.'Shufelton furnishes an excellent solution of the question. He is a firstrate specimen of tho best class of workingmen, with all the qualifications for a good councilman; a manly man and a good Republican. Now let tho Republicans of the Eighteenth ward turn in and show the rest of the city how good a fight they can make with that kind of a candidate against Coy and Coyism.

E0UTHEB5 BRUTALITY'S LATEST VICTim Tho American people must be apathetic indeed if their attention is not aroused and their indignation excitedby the story printed in yesterday's Journal of Southern outrages on inoffensive colored men and women now temporarily sojourning in this city. This story differs from that of auyf other similar outrage in that it is the narrative of tho victims themselves, without any suppression or coloring by Democratic news reporters for political effect. Among the persons who stood up before a large audience and related the thrilling details of tho brutal assault upon them by an armed mob of white men were the Rev. Dr. E. K. Love, of Savannah, who had been beaten over tho head with a heavy piece of scantling; Rev. G. M. Sprattling, of Brunswick, Ga., who carried his arm in a sling from the effect of wounds; Deacon J. N. Brown, of Savannah, who had several bloody gashes on his head; Mrs. Jane Garrett, who was thrown to tho ground by tho ruffians and threatened with death if she did not stop screaming. All these aro intelligent Christian people. They were coming to this city to attend a convention of their church. They tad been asked by the officers of a certain railroad to patronize it, and had paid their fare like honest men. They were peaceable people on a peaceable mission. At a certain station in Georgia, when tho train stopped they were attacked by a mob of white men, armed with deadly weapons and missiles, and were- shamefully and cruelly beaten, and put in imminent peril of their lives. Their only offense ,was that they were honest, inoffensive, pious people and black. Tho narrative of these victims of Southern brutality, corroborated and emphasized by their wounds, stirred profoundly tho assemblage of colored Baptists to whom it was related. It ought also to stir tho American people profoundly. The comments elicited by tho narrative were full of fiery indignation and hardly suppressed wrath. They savored of retaliation and of a disposition to demand blood for blood. There was a conspicuous absence of tho humble and submissive spirit commonly attributed to tho colored people. Fire was in their eyes and blood in their speech. They talked like men who knew their rights, and who had concluded that it was about time to begin to maintain them. Some indiscreet things were said, and there might . have been ap outbreak of WTath if the cooler-headed ones had not poured oil on tho waters and given direction to tho action of the assembly by a series of strong resolutions denouncing tho outrages, . and appointing a committee to present them to the President and Attorney-general and demand protection for their race. Never before has the race problem in the. South presented a more serious aspect or been brought more directly home to the Northern people than it is by this incident. Taken in connection with other recent outrages in the South, it shows a revival of tho spirit of lawlessness that marked the Ku-klux period and a resuscitation of the race question in its most dangerous form. If such colored people as those hero referred to, educated, intelligent, pious people, cannot live unmolested in the South, what hope have tho lessfavored ones? What hope is there for tho colored race in the South at all! One of three things must happen: First, the better class of Southern whites may take the matter in hand, put a stop to these outrages, punish the perpetrators of them and give safe protection to tho negroes; second, the general government may find or mako a way to protect its citizens; or, third, the negroes must arm and defend themselves. Tho last would bo a terrible alternative, and is not to be mentioned as a remedy for existing evils, except as we speak of the inevitable outcome of events. It is no exaggeration to say that the elements of a racewar exist in the South, and that every repetition. of unprovoked outrage on tho colored people tends to precipitate such a calamity. The negroes aro not as timid as they were twenty years ago. They, know their rights better, and aro more inclined to assert and defend them. They have advanced in manhood as well as in knowledge. The reign of tho Kuklux cannot bo restored. It is dangerous even to try it. The negroes of 1880 aro not tho negroes of 1809. They havo about reached tho point where they aro ready to fight for their rights, and if they cannot have the protection of the law they ought to fight. This is about the scope and spirit of the situation as revealed by current events. It is a very serious situation. The superintendent of the Texas State Prison has not only made his prisoners selfsupporting, bat has mado them earn for tho State a clear protit of 050 a year on tho labor of each convict. Now, surelv, the labor of a free man is at least as valuable ae the labor of a jail-bird; but at the end of the year the profits of a workingman on Iris own labor, over and above bis living, are generally not more than $30. What becomes of the other $0001 Boston Globe. This is certainly a curious question for a prominent free-trade journal and selfstyled "friend of tho workingman" to ask. Nine-tenths of the free laborers have house-rent to pay, wnich the Stato of Texas has not, and those who do not pay rent pay taxes, which the Stato of Texas does not. A majority of the freo laborers havo wives and babies to care for, whom they neither clothe in prison garb nor feed on prison' faTe. " Ninetenths of the poor laborers are entitled to and do occasionally indulge in 6uch luxuries as visits to ho theater or baseball games, street-car rides or excursions out of town. Tho balance of tho

free laborer's earnings can be readily accounted for, and, thongh all of them do not earn a margin of $900 over the absolute necessities of single existence, it is made possible by the American industrial system for all of them to enjoy the common comforts of civilized life and live like self-respecting men.

No other issue involved in the approaching city election is at all comparable in importance with that of maintaining the saloon tax of $250. The ordinance imposing this tax was passed by Republican members of the Council and Board of Aldermen, over the united opposition of the Democrats in both bodies. It is distinctively a Republican issue. The Republican party in the city, aud all its candidates, will bo pledged to a continuance of the tax. The Liquor League, the saloons and the Democratic party are bent upon its repeal. . This question involves more thm $50,000 a year to the tax-payers of Indianapolis. At the old rate of $100 a year, the saloon tax yielded about $35,000. At $250 it will yield at least $85,000 a year. This increased revenue of $50,000 a year means just that much relief to other sources of taxation and other tax-payers. It means that much additional revenue to be used for needed improvements. Every man who votes for a Democratic councilman or alderman will vote to repeal the $250 ordinance and to reduce the tax to $100. A writer who discusses the Southern race problem in this week's Iridepend-. ent, advises the negroes that fighting is not the way to conquer the prejudice against them. Says tho writer: "The negro or mulatto who is thorough in his work, whatever that may be, quiet, selfrespecting, and (like most of his race) gentle and courteous, will do more to overcome that prejudice than; can a thousand vehement editors." Just so; but in the practice of this gentleness and courtesy a good many negroes are getting killed and maimed. The reverend gentlemen and the colored woman who were beaten with bars of iron at Baxley, G a., were gentle and courteous as could be wished, but how much prejudice did they overcome! A few guns well aimed would have inspired far more respect in that Southern mob of white men. The delegates to the Southern Baptist Conference who were the victims of the Baxley outrage should demand damages of tho Georgia & Tennessee railroad, and should rcccivo liberal financial aid from friends of the oppressed everywhere toward prosecuting their suit. It will hardly do for the railway officials to say that they were not responsible for the outrage. When they- solicited these delegates to travel over their road, aud when they had accepted their lure first-class, be it remembered it was their business to protect them. Knowing, as they did, that colored passengers are subject to insult and assault, it was their duty, under tho circumstances, to mako special provision for their safety. Whenever these affairs begiu to involve the paying over of heavy damages to tho victims, just so soon will the Southern negroes find travel less dangerous. - The business of carelessly mistaking some human being's head or hand for a squirrel, fox or what-not seems to have become a great fad among hunters this summer, and more than one unfortunate, victim's anatomy has been playfully filled with shot. Now, if the couits will just carelessly mistake a few of these hunters for willful criminals and playfully hang them, they would not only exercise poetic justice, but would put a stop to a practice that often proves damaging to the party selected as a target. TnE Louisville Courier-Journal seems to intimate that tho contest in Virginia is one of Republican brains against Democratic boodle when it says: "If the chink of boodlo in Virginia can be drowned by the voices of such spell-binders as McKinley and Reed, , Boss Quay and Billy Mahono may 'get there.'" .-: -. .. 1 If those tidal waves had only struck the 6 e a-shore resorts in early June, they might have been worth something as an advertisement, but, as it is, the only purpose they served was to demolish a few band stands and strew the promenades of the elite with water-logged vegetables andlioop-skirts. Jefferson Davis has declined to meet with tho ex-confederato veterans at Aberdeen and help them "write the true history of the war." His past experience in writing "true histories of the war'' has not teen so rosy as to induce him to participate in any new enterprises of the kind. If one of the lawyers in the Cronin caso will write a treatise on "How Not to Get a Jury" it will have a largo sale amongcriminal lawyers. ' Chief of Chicago Police to Chief of London Police: "Suppose you hunt Tascott a while and let me try my hand on 'Jack the Ripper.'" To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: Will you inform me who President Harrison appointed minister to Switzerland and his address. . - . 1LEADKR. Kewaxxa, Ind. John D. Washburn, of Massachusetts, is our minister resident and consul-general to Switzerland. Ho was appointed idarch 1G, 18S0. His address is Berne. :.'., To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: riease state where 3 ou obtained statistics regarding Illiteracy of whites and blacks in Kentucky recently published in the Journal, and whether the 6arue source furnishes similar statistics for all the States. f. d. . Richmond, Ind. From tho United States census report for 1880, which has similar statistics of all tho States. ' To the Editor of the, Indianapolis Journal: I know how electricity Is produced, but I wish to know how it U stored and applied to make a motor. Please answer. i. w. n. If we possessed that information in an original form we wonld get a patent on it. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Lord Tennysox asserts that his coming volume of poems will be his absolutely farewell contribution to literature. The author of the homestead law, George W. Allen, of Ohio, has no homestead of his own, and it is stated is about to die in abject poverty. Prof. William T. Habris, the new Commissioner of Education, has sailed from Europe, and his arrival in this country is expected at an early date. Ex-Queen Isabella, of Spain, is anxious to make a tour of this country. This country is not anxious to have her, however. Yet what a hit she could make as "a frightful example." Sol Smith Russkll' wife is a small, intellectual-looking woman with a Bostonese face. She is tho daughter of Mr. Adams.

known to fame as "Oliver Optic." Mr. Russell is tho owner of several lino buildings in Minneapolis besides his handsome residence. Eight hundred archbishops, bishops, patriarchs and other Spanish and AmericanSpanish dignitaries have petitioned the Pope to confer posthumous honor upon Christopher Columbus by the title "venerable." Dr. O. W. noLMF.s was once invited to deliver, without compensation, a lecture, to which he replied: "I am so weak that should you tender me $50 to lecture I think 1 should not have strength enough to decline." Arthur T. Halliday. son of Rov. S. B. Halliday, at one time assistant pastor of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, has become insane. His delusion is that he owns Long Branch, and that it is to be tho sito of tho world's fair of 1892. Sixteen years ago the Soneham, Mass., Co-operative Boot and Shoe Company was organized. It now otters its plant . and property for sale on the ground that cooperation doesn't pay. Too many shoemakers to work with one last. , Mr. Neville, the great London baker, was offered and refused $4,000,000 for his business shortly before his death. In early life he failed and had his accounts settled by the bankruptcy court. Later, when his second venture had made him rich, he paid all his old creditors the balance of their claims in full, with interest. .Mme. Patti will remain-at Craig-y-Nos, Wales, until Oct. 21, when she goes to London. She will sing . in eight concerts, two in London and six in the provinces, for which she is to receive $28,000 and all expenses paid. She will leave Liverpool for New York on Nov. 23. She is to sing in this couutry, Canada and Mexico. Maryland, not to bo outdone by Ger many, which produced Josef Hofmann, has brought to the. front a child who promises to. bo as great a marvel as that infant prodigy. He is a manly little tot of only six . years of age. His name is Guy Hoppe. He was born in Emmittsburg, and inherits his musical talent from both parents. His special instrument is the cornet, one "of tho most ditiicult instruments upon which a child can perform. , , A sudden demand for bronze-colored hair perplexes the worthy coiffeurs of Paris just now. But as the demand must produce or create the supply an enterprising merchant in capillary wares sent to China while the craze was still young, and the result is that bales of copper-colored hair,, long and short, straight and curled, have arrived at Marseilles, and the humblest grisetto can now shave and be bappv that is, invest in a bronze-colored wig of Chinese origin. , Karl Falkenstein, tho inventor f of tho smokeless powder, was a chemist at Vienna only three years ago. Ho offered his invention to the Vienna War Office, which, with true Austrian fatuity, scornfully declined negotiations, so he went off to Berlin, where, the authorities being practical men, he was soon received by Count Waldersoe, and afterwards by the Emperor, and his powder having been thoroughly tested, the invention was purchased for a sum which hasunade Herr Falkenstein a comparatively rich man. Swamee Piiaskara Nand Saraswatte is the name of an East Indian from Lahore who is now living in 'Philadelphia. Ho is in this country to acquire a practical knowledge of certain mechanical industries preparatory to introducing them in India. Ho is a prominent member of tho Arya Samaj, or Aryan society, which was founded about twelve years ago and now has over 9,000,000 adherents. The organization is opposed to idolatry and wonld restore the ancient Aryan religion as formulated .in the Vcdas. The wife of General Boulanger still lives in the deepest seclusion in Versailles. Her acquaintances aro usually carefnl not to mention her husband's namo in her presence. Recently one of her friends made a slip of the tongue and passed a slighting remark concerning Boulanger's relations

with the government. Mme. Boulanger answored: "When the General asked for a separation, I refused to have anything to do with it. for I wished to be able to shelter him in his old age. That is my feeling still. It is not for me to judge him." By tho death, in New Haven. Conn., last Saturday, of Mrs. Ellen 31. Gifibrd, daughter of the late Philip Maret, and wife of tho lato Arthur N. Giflord, a fortune of over$C00.000 will bo divided between the city of New Haven and several municipal . 1 L' A X 1 ill A.! iV 1 uuu oiaio lusuiuuons. .airs, uinoru was tho only surviving heir of Philip Maret, a wealthy Frenchman, who camo to New Haven in 18G4 from boston. Yalo College will receive about 8120,000. Mrs. Gifford's income was about S0,000 a year. The property is invested almost wholly in good mortgages. The late Privy Councilor Ludwig von Moltke, a younger brother of the famous Prussian strategist, was a man of simple and unobtrusive habits, exceedingly kindhearted and a passionate lover of music. His days were passed in relieving the poor and scraping on his violin. He was at one. time a distinguished officer in the Danish service, but resigned his commission after tho Schleswig-Holstein war. Although very proud of 'his elder brother, nothing irritated him so much as for strangers to Eay him any formal deference as "tho rother of tho great Moltke." He was in his eighty-fourth year. Dr. Brown-Sequard has issued his protest against the quacks who experiment with "elixirs," and who pretend to know something about his discovery. "I have never," he says, "made use of tho word 'elixir,' much less the words 'elixir of life.' These aro all expressions of sensational newspapers. If quacks or ignorant men in America have killed people, as stated by the New York papers, they would havo avoided these murders had they paid tho least attention to tho elementary rules for the subcutaneous injection of animal substances," He thinks his oid enemies, tho anti-vivisectionists, are at the bottom of a good deal of the depreciation of his new experiments. "Hut what annoys me most," ho remarks, "is that experiments should bo made promiscuously, as it were, without proper 6tudy or precaution." COMMENT AND OPINION. In States where the Democrats are 'n hopeless minority or in assured majority they aro coming out for freo trade tho true Democratic creed. In close States they straddle. Washington Press. The Democratic party is responsible for the pensions which it is howling about. The Democratic rebellion made all the pensioners who exist, except tho corporal's guard due to the war of 1812 and the Mexican war, and made necessary all the pensions. St. Louis Globe-Democrat Instead of aiming to reduce the circulation of fiction, librarians should endeavor to pronioto the reading of the best novels as a wholesome mental tonic for the community, and families, 6hould have their library of novels as a necessary part of household furniture. Boston Journal. After Mr. Sullivan is nominated ho should not forget to call upon Prof. William Everett and Thomas entworth Higgiuson to aid him in his canvass. The latter professed to see a sign of statesmanship in Mr. Cleveland's bulk. Perhaps John L. Sullivan's ponderosity will strike Mr. Higginson in tho same way. Philadelphia Press. . Americans have, no desire to enter upon a career of wanton interference with tho rights of weaker and less populous states. Territorial conquests have no attractions for them; but they are bent upon regaining their commercial supremacy, upon attracting Canada into political nnion and upon wielding a more direct and wholesome influence in the aflairs of the American continent. New York Tribune. It is high time that the evil of useless and unnecessary challenges of jurors should be abated. If the jury system is to endure it most be constituted in accordance with the spirit of the age. and intelligence must characterize its operations. Important functions that involve life, liberty and property must not be relegated to stolid unintelligence, and if the delay in obtaining a jury for tho Cronin trial leads to a

change of tho reprehensible practice referred to that delay will not have: been in vain. Washington Post. ; -

HIE smir nf nooocsUt. i nMCAnr the only incentive to work which an im mense number of nonni a nnftflpaQ hilt. it. iflto say the least men COll 111 1a fnvrxul 1 I.I i . Atn!n 4-n work quit as industriously as 1 tney now V ai llu iao Deed of earning a living constantly present before them.-Boston Herald. How bluff old Andy Jackson would roar Willi CVIllCfll Ttlfirrim.nf 1 rnr-n frrm the quiet of the Hermitago long enough to iatt0 in iuo ueorgia idea of thocotie. lie once subdued a bully by Pnapping a snnflboxjn the tail coat of his pocket. He might scare a Georgia duelist into meekness by cracking his knuckle joints. Chicago Inter Ocean. . It is monstrous that a federal ' judge should have to be protected while engaged in the discharge nf hi Antxr ThA nrnnr course to pursue in this caso is to appreuuuu mo miserable woman Mrs. Terry and con sum her tn a l s as insane and dangerous as a madnw., uuu Duui iu nor oe auowea to go nooui at large. Chicago Tribune. INDIANAPOLIS DEMOCRACY. J Its Leader Are Gone, and There Is Not Eren the Ghost of Greatness Left. Spence's People's Paper. The Democratic party has laid down the scepter, all its former glory has vanished and passed away; the brilliant minds that once represented tho party in the forum, on the stump, in the halls of the national Congress and legislative halls of the State are hushed, and the stillness of death casts a shadow of gloom over the scenes of their former victories and triumphs. Ghosts, there are none; else the spirit of a Hendricks, a Hannegan, a Whitcomb or a Willard would rise up and haunt the pretenders. Iho grand old party of Jefferson, Jackson, Polk, Pierce and Van Buren is now represented in Indiana by a class of demagogues and bullies, kith and kin to the late mob of rounders who stole the livery of the party to servo the devil aud the Indiana Legislature in. No better argument is wanted, nor no fact more palpable and plain is needed by the people than the nomination of Sim Coy as their champion for councilman in the Eighteenth ward of the city of Indianapolis, who has but recently been released from the Michigan City penitentiary, a tally-iheet forger, a gambler, and tho proprietor of a notorious road-house; a man whom the so-called Democracy of to-day refused to turn out of the Common 'Council of tho city, even though he was an inmate and languishing in the northern Indiana prison, paving the ponalty for crimes committed against tho citizens of the city and State. His nomination is a stain and stigma on the name of the old party, and could the honored old heroes who fought the' battles of Democracy up to 18Go arise from their narrow homes, they would spit on the disreputables who 6eek to perpetuate their name aud fame. Convict Coy. ruffiau A. Greene Smith, cowardly Barrett and bully Hamilton are lit representatives of the Democracy of to-day the Caligulas of old Democracy. Democracy's Fit Leader. x Chicago Inter Ocean. , Simeon Coy, formerly chairman of the Democratic committee of Marion cbunty, Indiana, was sentenced to an eighteen months' term of imprisonment in the Michigan City penitentiary upon a charge of fraudulent interference with certain ballotboxes in the city of Indianapolis: he also was sentenced to pay a fine. He served his eighteen months' term of imprisonment, and upon a petition representing his inability to pay the line, signed by nearly all of the Democrats and several , of the Republicans of his native city,. the President remitted itMr. Coy resumed his old trade of saloonkeeper and nis old position . of Democratic leader almost as 60on as he set foot in Indianapolis. The latter position hact been kept vacant for him by . the Democrats, who refused to expel him from membership of the City Council after his conviction, and allowed his agent to collect his salary as councilman during his term of imprisonment, and covered liis desk with flowers when he took his seat in Council at the first session of that body after his return from prison. Mr. Coy again is a candidate for election in his old ward, aud is pretty certain of success. He is also ouco more the engineer-in-chief of Democratic politics in Indianapolis. And as these patent facts are productive of disgust to respectable citizens, the Democratic press iu Indianapolis, Chicago and New York is charging that tho. President of tho United States remitted Coy's tine in order that he might get home in time to take part in politics, and to give the Republicans ground to excite indignation against the party led by the ex-convict. Thi& is all very fine; but it is too fine; fine, in fact, to the extremity of thinness. For, if tho President had not remitted the fine. Coy's term . would havo been prolonged by but thirty days, and he would have been home at least two months before tho city election; would have found the flowers on his desk; wonld have been renominated in his ward; would have man--aged the Democratic aflairs precisely as he now is doing. The thirty days' grace afforded him by the clemency of the President gave him no political advantage which he would not have exercised without executive clemency. Mr. Coy is leading the Democrats of Indianapolis this year by virtue of tho same causes which made him leader in 188-fitness for the task, possession of the admiration and esteem of tho rank of the party. The Southern Negroes. New York Independent. In short and plain language, we do not believe one-tenth of the stories that come t' us of the "insolence" and "insurrections" of the Southern negroes, of which the air has been full this past week: and we do believo that the tenth has not been told of the murders of negroes, whose chief fault is that they ask, not always in good taste, for equal rights with the whites. Negroes, are not such fools as to take the initiative in provoking a race war. As one of their best papers says: "Colored people of common Hense are not anxious to fool with a buzzsaw like this." . ' Some New York Appointments. New York Graphic ' President Harrison has done few things affecting this State and its aflairs that will so strengthen him with the people as tho nomination, first, of Edward Mitchell for district attorney, and now of Messrs. Lyon, Willis and Nathan for important public places. We have no doubt that it worries the Democratic Post to find the offices tilled with men against whom it cannot even give its usual snarl, but President Harrison is going to keep on doing it just tho same. Fast IIorse-Fower. Detroit Tribune, ' Congressman W. L. Scott, of Pennsylvania, is a labor-squeezer of the highest known horse-power. Ho refuses to pay his miners living wages refuses to give them as much as the poorest paid workmen in other mines are receiving. And this same Scott is one of the foremost leaders of the Democratic party; a shoutcr for "reform" and a hypocritical sniveler in campaign times over the poor laboring man. SU11 Smarting Under Defeat. Minneapolis Tribune. The Sti Louis Republic characterizes tho Grand Array of tho Republic as "a mere as sociation of loafers viewing the country's, treasury with greedy eyes." Majah Jones, of Florida, seems to be smarting yet from the licking those loafers gave him back in the sixties, but just tho same they will assist in giving him and his gang another one in 1802. , v . Prefers It In Moderate Doses. Anguxta Chronicle. The President has decided not to call an extra session of Congress. This is a sensible conclusion, as there was no occasion for an ' extra session. As for us, we could hardly, stand the Georgia Legislature and Congress at the same time. One at a time is enough. Democratic Ticket for 1893. Baltimore American. Pugilist Sullivan announces, proudly, that he is a Democrat. How would this ticket do for lWttf For President, John L. Sullivan, of Massachusetts ana Mississippi; for Vice-president. David B. Hill, ot ew York. Platform: We are Democrats. The Heward of Merit. Chicago Journal. . '.,..'' McLean county, Illinois, has moro marriages every week and more State patronage every day in tho year than any other county in the State,

NOTABLE SOLDIERS' REUNIONS. Governor Ilorey at Arkansas Cltj Mr. In traUi Talks About Corporal Tanner, epecaa to tl IuUnxoU JoumaX Arkansas City, Kan., Sept 12,-Tho great soldiers' reunion here to-day has been attended by thousands. At 9 o'clock Gov. , Hovey was escorted through the principal streets by two thousand veterans, and a large brigade of Knights of Pythias. Hisappearanco was the signal for long-continued cheering by the multitude lining the streets. Arriving at the camp-ground he was about crushed by the veterans who pressed forward to take him by the baud. Maj. O. M. Wilson, president of tho association, delivered an address of welcome, and Gov. Humphrey, of Kansas, in his speech, pronounced a fino eulogy upon Governor Hovey, saying that since Logan, the foremost fiiend of the Union soldier was Gov. Hovey. At tho conclusion of Governor Humphrey's address. aiauy calls were made for Governor Hovey to step forward. and as ho did so nearly 10,000 people arose and cheered him in a most enthusiastic and demonstrative manner. Ctov. Hovey was visibly affacted and as his face grew pale, his eves were plainly moistened with tears. As he is to deliver an address to-morrow he mado no speech to-day. After the presentation of Governor llovey. Senator In gal Is delivered a characteristic speech, consuming more than an hour. Ho scored President Cleveland for his vetoes, and declared that ho was heartily mfavorof service pensions. The3o sentiments were received with tumultuous applause. He regrettedthe resignation of Commissioner Tanner, and said ho was the best Commissioner of Pensions tho country ever had. This was evidently fully indorsed by his audience. To-night a band of Osage Indians from the Indian Territory called upon Governor Hovcv. wearing their native dress of gaudy color Chief Big Horse made a speech to tho Governor, in which, as translated by interpreters, he said he had been told the Governor was a great warrior, and had taken many scalps, and that he thought tho . Governor very nice loosing. This speech was received with great applauso by all present. Then a war-dance was given in tno corridor of the hotel, which' brought down tho house. The Governor and stall were-given a reception, later ou, by tho Mayor and city officers, which was followed by a grand ball. Saturday morning Governor Hovey and etaff will become the guests of tho city of Wichita, and will leave for home Saturday night. Senator lngalls was given an ovation when he was introduced and arose to speak. In tho course of his remarks ho said: "The wealth of this Nation increases 420,000,000 with every tick of tho watch, and the soldiers have earned it all. Without him there would have been no treasury, no Nation, and ho is entitled to his percentage of it." There were just three things that ought to be done, 6aid the Senator: First, the limitation ou pensions ought to bo removed; second, the disability pension bill ought to become a law, and third, every soldier who received an honorable discharge ought also to receive pensions. These iwere tho results that Commissioner Tanner had souaht to attain in his administration of the office of Commissioner of Pensions, said tho Speaker, and Mr. lngalls honored him for his high desires aud bravo efforts in behalf of tho veteran soldier. "The only fault I

have to find with Tanner," he continued, "is that ho did not have two feet while ho was in office, so that he could havo mado more rapid progress in tho attainment of his policy." ' . Fortieth Regiment at CrawfordsriUe, Special to tho Indianapolis Journal. . i CitAWFORDSviLLE, Sept. 12. The. annual reunion of tho Fortieth Regiment Indiana Volnnteers was held in this city to-day. Among tho members who are in 'attendance are the following from Indianapolis: D; M. Osburn, M. W. Perigo, JohnJIenry. J. W. Blake, W. T. Higgason, ' Michael Beston. . 1 The following officers were elected this afternoon: President, Rev. WV McKinsey, of Lobanon; vice-president, Henry Learning, Lafayette; secretary and treasurer, Jesso Neff, of Lebanon. Executive committeeCompany A, J. A. Bear, of Stockwell; Company B, YTillard Griswold, of Peru; Company C. S. A. Stilhvcll. of Crawfordsville; Company D. Jackson Castor, of Lafayette; Company E, Thco. Patty, of Kewanna; Company F, W. H. Dooley, of Northtieldj Company G, John C. Webster, of Lafayette Company H, John W. Jennings, of Lafaette; Company I, J. F. Marks, of Lafayette, Company K, W. T. Heggarson, of Indianapolis. This committee will hereafter determine where to hold the next annual reunion. The regiment visited the fair upon the invitation of the association, and this evening a banquet was held, which was attended by a large number of persons. Tho following was tho programme: Prayer by Rev. G. W. Stafford, and music by Miko Beston; "Tho United States," Col. J. W, Blake; "Indiana in tho YTar," Capt. W. DeWitt Wallace; "The Volunteer Soldier," Col. R. P. DeHart; "Our Heroic Dead," in silence; "The Loyal Women of the Republic," Mrs. Anna C. McKiusev; "The Old Flap Rev. G. W. Stafford; "Tho Fortieth Indiana Regiment." Col. W. C. Wilson. After these responses a camp-fire was held. Short talks were mado bv several. Joint Reunion of l a liiou Itejlments. Special to the Indianapolis Journal, . Monticello, 111., Sept 12. The reunion of the Forty-first Illinois, One-hundred-and-sixteenth Illinois andOne-hundred-and-scv-entecnth Illinois Volunteer Infantry occurred to-night at Decatur. These were among the heavy-losing regiments during tho war. Tho Forty-first Illinois, in the famous charge at Jackson, Miss., on July 12, 18C3, lost 73 per cent, of tho men engaged in tho battle, having fcix color-bearers shot down, four killed and two wounded. TheOne-hundred-and-sixtecnth Illinois met with a terrible loss at the assault on Vicksburg. June 22. lb(33. Their flag and that of tho Forty-first Illinois is saturated with tho blood of gallant color-bearers whose lifeblood marks tho colors. KANSAS COUNTY-SEAT WAR. The Treasurer Removes the Records from E vanna to Eminence, and a Chase fellows. TorKKA, Kan., Sept 12. Tho bitter feeling between citizens of Ravanna and Eminence over tho unsettled county-scat question was renewed yesterday by the removal by W. T. Williams, treasurer of tho county, of tho records of his office from Ravanna to Eminence. A guard of Ravanna citizens had been detailed to watch tho treasurer to prevent this removah Yesterday the guards attended tho judicial district convention and Williams loaded tho records of his of. fice into a wagon and was about to drivo off when the alarm was given. The guards hurried from the convention, and arming themselves and hastily hitching up a team, started in pursuit of tho lieeing treasurer. At a cross roads they mistook another wagod for the treasurer's and followed tho wrong traiL They were too slow for theiteam in Advance, aud, in their rage, tired neverai shots at the supposed fugitivewho finally escaped. In tho meantime. Williams Lad reached Eminence and put tho records in a place of security. The citizens of Eminence have armed themselves in anticipation of an attempt by tho Ravanna reople to capture tho records and return them to their city. - Strike of Conductors and Ilrakemen. Albuquekque. N. M., Sept. 12. Rumors of a strike of train men on tho Atlantic & Pacific railroad reached here today. Tho officials of the road say that two freight conductors wero discharged at Winslow who belong to tho Hrotherhood of Railway Conductors. The official by whom they wero discharged is Chief of the Order of Railway Conductors, between which order and tlie lirotherhood there exists no good fueling. Decauso of the discharge the Brotherhood - of Brakemen went out on a strike, demanding that the conductors bo restored, there being an affiliation between all brotherhoods. Tho- company has laid off its entire roll of cmplovcs. ex.cept 6uch as are necessary to run passenger trains. Between 200 and 00 men nro thus out of employment hero and mawri . along tho ling- '