Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 September 1889 — Page 4

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1889.

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WEDNESDAY. " SEPTEMBER 18, 1889. "WASHINGTON OFFICE 513 Fourteenth St P. S. I:iath, Correspondent. Telephone Call. Business OCce 238 Editorial Room 243 TERMS OF SU11SCRIFTION. DAILT, BT KAIL. One year, -wlttrmt Pnnday $12.00 2ne rear, with Kanday 14.00 ix month, without Sunday - .00 hix month, with Sunday 7.00 TUree worths, without nndaj 3.00 Ihrce month, with hunday 3.RO ne mouth, without tumiy.. ............ ...... 1.1X1 One month, with Sunday .". l."0 iwliTercl bj carrier in city, 25 ceata per week. WEEELT. Ter year tl 00 lleduced Kates to Club. . Subscribe with any of our nnxnerona agenta, or send labwrripttons to the JOURNAL NEWSPAPER COMPANY, ISDIAXAPOLia, I5D. All communications intended for publication in this paper must, in order to receive attention, be accompanied by the name and address of the vcriter. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can be found at the following places: Strand. PARIS American F.xcaang e in Faria, 35 Boulerard dea Capuctnes. NEW YCRK GUaey Iiouae and Windsor Hotel. PHILADELPHIA A. pTKemble, 3735 Lancaster arenuo. cniCAOO-rahner Ilouse. CINCINNATI-J. P. Hawiey Co., 151 Vine street LOUISVILLE C. T. Deering, northwest corner Third and Jefferson atreeta. fiT. LOUIS Union Newa Company, Union Depot and Southern Hotel. WASHINGTON, D. 0. Rlggs House and Ebbitt Hon. The city Democracy have a beautiful record on the question of taxing the ea-' loons. Neither Sullivan nor Norton seems altogether happy. Whichever way the cat jumped it was sure to leave one of them sore, and the wounds cannot he healed in one short day. They smile, but they dissemble. ' Councilman Pearson is honored by beinf? a special object of attack by the Democracy. He earned their enmity by introducing the ordinance to increase the saloon tax to $100 a year, and also the one increasing it to $250. No ward in the city has been better represented during the last few years than the Fifth, and no member of the Council has done more or better work for tho city than Councilman John R. Pearson. The people of the Fifth ward should see to it that he is re-elected. Iris'about time for the Arizona Indians to bob up again, and make themselves disagreeable, and it is therefore no surpriso to hear that th'ey are powwowing with warlike intent. " A rising among them will give a chance for a portion of the .United States army to take a little exercise. The appointment by Superintendent Jacobs, of the Blind Asylum, of a physician and governess in place of two named by trustees Riley and Cullen was evidently a compromise. Had it not been, why did he not reappoint the two removed by the trustees, and who, ho declared, were thoroughly competent. Is Jacobs giving in to pressure, after all? : Evert tax-payer in the city is interested in retaining the $250 saloon tax. If tho Democrats obtain control of the city government it will bo repealed as sure as fate. Burns, Coy, Ilicklin, Markcy, Clark and Reiueckc, who voted against tho tax, are candidates for reelection, and if they get back into the Council they will all vote to repeal it. So will other Democrats. Governor Lowry, of Mississippi, is not half as anxious about the reputation of his State as ho was after the Sullivan invasion; nevertheless its good name has been far more seriously injured by tho negro murders of the past month than by tho prize-fight. Northern men who would make good citizens would not hesitate to make Mississippi their home because a prize-fight had occurred there, but will decidedly "draw tho line" against a place where a ritle bullet is the favorite political argument. A Washington dispatch some weeks ago stated that a strong reason for Pres ident Harrison's preference for Judge Groff, of Omaha, as Land Commissioner, was tho fact that Groff lived in a State in which there were yet public lands. It seems likely that this consideration, in addition to GrofFs other high qualifica tions, decided the matter. It is certainly a good idea to secure for that position a man who, on entering the ofiice, is famil iar with the land laws and the needs of the settlers, as a lawyer of longresidenco in Nebraska must be. Read tho list of schools maintained and conducted in tho South by the col ored Baptists, and then say that tho Southern negroes are not being edu cated. Other religious denominations can make a showing equally good, per haps, in the same line. Southern whites are taking no such interest as the ne groes in education, and in tho natural course of human events will bo left far behind in tho race for the prizes of life. When a "superior race" refuses to learn it loses its superiority with great rapid ity. It has been frequently remarked that the higher tho court tho more readily are its arguments and decisions understood by the "plain people." Judge Sawyer's opinion in the eae of Deputy Marshal Naglo is an illustration. No technicalities obscure his meaning, which is clear, both in the exposition of law and the expression of common sense, as if it had been written for the nonlegal comprehension solely. A police magistrate might have reached tho same conclusion, but hardly by the same route, and could not have expressed it so sim ply. The public, from California to Maine, believed that Nagle ought to bo set free, ' but is glad to know that it is done with tho highest sanction of law. Tife disclosures made by the Southern ministers in attendance upon the Na tional Baptist Convention, in "this city, concerning tho condition of the colored people in the South has attracted the attention of tho press of . the country, that is to say, the Northern press; , and the comments can hardly be gratifying'

to. tho Southern Bourbons. The testimony of these colored ministers, all intelligent, if not all educated men, and representing their race as no other class of men can, goes far to destroy the slight belief that existed in the talcs told by Southern Democrats of the uprisings among the negroes. The truth about these matters cannot be concealed.

BTJLLIVAS TOB MAYOB. The nomination of Judge Sullivan for Mayor is at once an admission of Gen. Coburn's strength, and a concession by the Democracy to public opinion. In both respects it is gratifying to Republicans first as an indirect indorsement of their own nomination, and second, as a hopeful indication of political reform in a quarter where it has been sadly needed. The nomination of General Coburn compelled the Democrats to put their best foot foremost, and while oven their best foot is none too good, they deserve credit for not putting forward their worst, as they generally do. The nomination of General Coburn frightened the Democracy to such an extent as to make them spasmodically repentant and temporarily virtuous. The result is a nomination which is at least respectable. Judge Sullivan is a decided improvement over any Demo cratic candidate for Mayor in recent years, and if the party continues on this lino a few years longer it may find a man who will really deservo to be elected. The manner of the nomination also shows 6omo indications of party reform. The last Democratic candidate for May or was selected by Sim Coy, nominated in secret session, by his executive com mittee, two weeks before the convenr tion met, and was simply ratified by the convention. It was then that Coy made tho longest speech of his life, in which ho said, "The fewer men you have in this politics the better." This time it was thought best to keep Coy in the background, and let the nomination be made in tho usual way. As a concession to public opinion, this indicates progress. Under present circumstances, it was bet ter to confine Coy to his ward. In so far as Judge Sullivan represents tho Democratic germ of reform and an incipient aspiration after political decency, ho should be encouraged. Moreover, he is a good citizen, a clever gentleman, and has some nice relatives; but he will not do for Mayor. As the Senti nel said a few days ago: The nrescnt exigency in city affairs is one that calls for a clear-headed, sagacious. progressive, enterprising man at too head of the municipal government; a man of brains, and energy, and broad views; a man with practical knowledge of affairs; a man with physical vigor and large capacity for work. ' This rules Judge Sullivan out. Heia neither progressive nor enterprising; he is not devoid of brains, but his energy and broad views, if he possesses any, are undeveloped. If he has a large capacity for work, it is offset by a larger dislike for it. He has lived here a good while, but we cannot learn that he has ever been identified with any public en terprise or movement. His election as Mayor would bo a great thing for the Democracy, but a poor thing for the city. He is not constructed for tho head of a growing municipality. The Judge won't do. THE CITY SALOON TAX. The history of the municipal saloon tax shows how little the people have to thank the Democracy for this wise and wholesome measure. , Prior to 1883 there was no city tax on saloons. Surprising as this may appear, in view of the present condition of public sentiment, it is a fact that the city imposed no tax on saloons until 1882. On the 22d of May, in that year, tho Council passed an ordinance "to increase the public revenues of the city by taxing saloons, etc.," and fixing the tax at $52 a A A A A m A A year, ine law, at mat lime, permuieu a maximum tax of $100 a year, but the rcie of one dollar a week, or $52 a year, was adopted. This passed tho Council by a vote of 9 to 4, tho affirmative votes all being Republican, and tho negative votes all Democratic except one. On tho same night Alderman DeRuiter, Republican, moved to suspend the rules for the purpose of passing the ordinance. The Republican members of the board all voted for this motion, and all tho Democratic members present voted against it, and the rules were not suspended. The next night, at a special meeting of the Board of Aldermen, tho ordinance was passed by a vote of seven, all the Republicans voting for it and all tho Democrats present voting against it. This is the Democratic record against imposing any city tax whatever on saloons. The $52 tax continued till 1885, bring ing a large amount of revenuo into the city treasury. In October, 1885, an ordi nance to increase the tax to $100 a year passed the Council by 11 to 1. All tho Democrats escept one stayed away from the meeting in order to break a quorum, and of tho eleven votes in favor of the ordinance all were Republicans except one. It passed tho Board of Aldermen by 7 to 1, the Republicans all voting for it and tho Democrats all being absent, except one who voted against it. This is the Democratic record against increasing tho tax from $52 to $100 a year. June 17, 1880, tho Legislature having changed the $100 limitation to $250, tho Council passed an ordinance raising tho tax to tho latter figure. The vote was as follows: Ayes Councilmen Cnmmings, Darnell, Davis, Dunn. Elliott, Finch, Gasper, Lone. McClelland, Pearson. Smith. Swain, Thaiman, Truster; and Wilson 15. Navs Cotinciiraen Bnrns. Coy, Gaul, Ilicklin. Johnston, Kelley. Markey, O'Connor, Parkinson and Stuckuieyer 10, . All those who voted in the affirmative are Republicans, and all those voting in the negative are Democrats. June 18 a special session of the Board of Aldermen was called to act on the ordinance. The Republican-members were all present, but - all tho Democratic members having absented themselves no action could bo taken Jjeyond reading tho ordinance a first time. Tho next night another special session was held, and tho ordinanco was passed by C to 1. Those who voted for it were Aldermen Connett, Reynolds, Smith, Taylor, Tousey and President Wright, all Republicans. Alderman Laut voted against it, tho other Democratic members stay

ing away. This i the Democratic record on tho proposition to increase the tax from $100 to $250 a year. The record, therefore, shows that the Democrats in both branches of tho Common Council have solidly opposed every movement to tax the saloons from 1882 to the present time, opposing the original tax of $52 a year, the increase to $100 a year, and the increase to $250 a year. These successive ordinances have put nearly $250,000 into the city treasury, and the last one will produce a revenue of not less than $75,000 a year, not to speak of its effect in restricting the liquor traffic, yet 60 blind, besotted and abject is the slavery of the Democratic party to the .liquor interest that Democratic members in both houses of

the Council have voted solidly against the60 just and salutary measures. Rather than lay a finger on the liquor traffic, or impose even a small and reasonable tax on the saloon, they Jiavo voted to deprive the city government of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Tho position of the Democracy has not changed on this subject. They are as much the willing slaves of the Liquor League and the obedient servants of ,the saloons to-day as ever. Six members of the present Council who voted against the present ordinance are candidates for re-election, viz., Councilmen Burns, Coy, Ilicklin and Markey, and -Aldermen Clark . and Reinecke. If reelected they will all vote to repeal tho tax, and so will every other Democrat. If tho people want this righteous tax continued, and the saloons regulated and controlled, they must elect a Republican Council, Board of Aldermen and Mayor. It is a question between the city controlling the saloons and the saloons controlling tho city, with the added feature of retaining or throwing away a revenue of $75,000 a year. WHO IS 1I03T EESP0KSIBLE? No man now living who was old enough thirty-five years ago to intelligently mark the trend of the events which culminated in war, and who is honest enough to give the several influences their proper weight, will fail to say that the Democratic party in tho North, from 1854 to 18G0, was chiefly responsible for the condition of affairs which made war inevitable. There was not a step taken by tho South that did not meet the ap--proval of the party, whether it was tho repeal of tho Missouri Compromise and its kindred movements in Congress, or tho violence of border ruffianism in Kansas, or of mobs which drove schoolteachers and preachers out of the South; and pillaged the mails in search of suspected papers and letters. Individual members occasionally protested, and many a Morton left the party, butt the machinery of tho party was persistently manipulated so as to make every distinctive Southern measure a Democratic measure, and papers and men who at first rebelled were bought or bullied into acquiescence. But that the Democratic party, in the North became the apologist and defender of every outrage, tho spiritwhich culminated in tho war would have quailed before the indignation of honest men, and their schemes of blood andi re bellion would have been powerless' Tho - murders of free-stato . men in Kansas were denied or justified, and the blame laid upon the men who sought homes in that Territory, and the leader of tho Democratic party in the Indiana House of Representatives, as late as 1861, beckoned the rebels on by proclaiming in his place in the House that any attempt to coerce a sovereign State would be made over his dead body, which he subsequently essayed to make good by 'becoming a leader of the Knights of the Golden Circle. How is it now? Not a Democratic paper or politician in tho North utters a word of denunciation against the murder of tho colored people in the South, but, on the contrary, if they do not applaud, they quietly accept, with thanks, the political advantages it secures. They know that without a solid Sofith there is not the remotest possibility of again obtaining supremacy in the government, and without these murders thcJe is no possibility of such a solid South, hence they acquiesce and never rebuke. It is tho assurance of this approbation on tho part of the Northern Democrats that fires every shot into the colored population, of tho South. The murderers expect their Northern allies to defend them. Not a measure of relief will bo proposed in Congress that will receive a single Dem ocratic, vote, and the murderers know it. But will that save themf Will the rank and file stand by these partakers of crime? Tho outrage against right is not only a repetition of the outrages of the decade preceding the war, but tho signs of tho times indicate that the bet ter class of Democrats will wash their hands of blood by refusing to indorse those who indorse blood. At' present tho Democratic party in the North is more responsible for the murders in the South than the poor white trash of the South is, though these fire tho guns. The only surpriso is that intelligent Southern men place any confidence in the promises of their Democratic colaborers in the North after their ex perience twenty-five years ago. There is no doubt of their willingness, now as then, to help their Southern brethren, but can they help now any more than then! Mr. Charles A. Dana, in his recollections of Lincoln and Stanton, and how they received tho election news on the night of the second election of Mr. Lin coln, in November, 1804, says; Each dispatch that was received seemed only to add to tho apparent certainty, and by about 9 o'clock there was no longer any doubt. But without -waiting for that hour, Mr. Lincoln drew from his breast a thin yellow-covered pamphlet. "Dana," said he to me. "have you ever read anvthinut of Pe troleum V. I ashy V pronouncing J as by as thongh tho first syllable were spelled with the letter e. "No. sir." said 1. "not much: hut I know that he writes from the Confed erate Cross Roads, and prints his things in the Toieuo liiacie." Thereby hangs an interesting reminis cence. During tho campaign of 1864, Mr. D. R. Locke ("Petroleum V. Nasby") was a temporary resident of this city, and made an arrangement with the In dianapolis Journal to publish his letters, for which he paid tho Journal two dol lars each, that being about the price of the composition.. The Journal, loaued I the typo to Messrs. Asher & Adams, a

local publishing house of that day, and they published tho letters in a ycllo w-cov-ered pamphlet for the author. It was no doubt a copy of this pamphlet which Mr. Lincoln used on the 6ccasion mentioned by Mr. Dana. At that time "Naaby" had not acquired a national reputation, as might be inferred from his paying the Journal two dollars each for publishing his letters. They, had already been printed in an Ohio paper, but he wanted to give them a wider circulation and more permanent form, and adopted this method of doing it. The yellow-covered pamphlet issued in this city was his

first attempt at book -making. The city clerk's report of disburse ments during the month of August shows an aggregate of $0G,003.C1. This looks large, but of this amount $03,200.91 was to pay interest on the bonded city debt.: Deducting this leaves $32,700.70 for monthly current expenses. This is at the rate of $392,4S0 a year, which is much cheaper than most city govern ments are run. The report of the city clerk of expend itures for the year ending May 12, 1876, is before us. . The city government cost a good deal more then than it does now, though the population has increased more than 50 per cent., and the territorial limits of the city have greatly extended. In 1870 the fire department cost $113,920, about 50 per cent, more than it does now. The police department . in 1870 cost $75,501, against about $G0,000 now. Public light in 1876 cost $74,010, and it will be considerably less than that this year. Street repairs in 1876 were $70,253, against $32,216 for the same purpose last year. Water rents have in creased from $18,922 in 1876 to about $35,000 now. This item has increased out of all proportion, to any other. Has there been a water-works ring? The fact is, the city government is at present and for the past few years has been wonderfully economical. TnE London strike lasted a -week loneer than was expected, hut the men won it. It differed from the average American strike in this respect, and in the further respect that it was for better wages and not against worse. it. Louis Ke public. Most Democratic organs of free-trade proclivities have carefully avoided men tion of the London strike in their edi torial columns, but the Republic is less prudent. Tho laborers of that land, blessed of free trade, struck for an ad vance from 10 cents to 12 cents per hour for work at which they can get only in termittent employment for a few hours at a time, work which in America commands 30 cents an hour, with double pay for overtime. This is an emphatic dif ference between the London and the av erage American strike, which the Re public carefully neglected to point out. Mr. Herbert Welsh, of Philadelphia, corresponding secretary of the Indian Rights Association, writes the Journal, sa3'ing that tho proposition looking to the preachingof civil-service reform sermons on Thanksgiving day is meeting with good success. Mr. Welsh says: The rreat majority of those to whom I have so far appealed, simply for their approval of the movement, nave replied in the amrmatlve, and with such enthusiasm as would indicate the general popularity of the Idea. These responses have come from clergymen and laymen scattered over the whole country, from Mississippi to Maine, -and from Massachusetts to California, and aro over two Hundred In number. The churches represented by these responses are the Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, Congregational, Episcopal, Lutheran, Dutch Reform and . unitarian, The amount collected up to date for carrying out the plan amounts to $718. The uses to which this amount will be put are as fol lows: Printing tracts, giving a history of the reform, and a Htatement of its essential need and purpose; envelopes, postage, etc., in appealing, as our funds now permit us to do, to over 20,000 ministers in the United States. Tin: plans of the Citizens' Street-railroad Company in regard to a suburban park have been sufficiently unfolded to show that they mean business. As foreshadowed to tho visitors yesterday, they contemplate the expenditure of a large amount of money and the creation of a park which would he a permanent attraction as a suburban resort. This would bo a very desirable thing for the city, and it can well afford to meet any proposition the company may make in a liberal spirit. Just want form the project will take is not known, hut. assuming that the acquisition of a suburban resort of the kmd indicated is desirable, the city should be prepared to give a friendly hearing to the company when, it shall bo ready to make a formal proposition. W. II. Preece, the eminent electrician of the Postoffice Department of England, does not believe in electricity as a means of executing criminals. In a discussion before the British Association, the other day, he said the New York law would have to be rescinded, as it was impossible to get a current of sufficient force to kill a man with certainty. He denounced as sensational the newspaper reports about people being killed by shocks from electric wires. He had tried to kill a pig, with 'an enormous induction coil and a spark twenty inches long,' but could not. It is quite evident that Mr. Preece has not formed the acquaint ance of the "live" wires of American cities. The brutality of prize-fighting has re ceived fresh significance in the death of a young man who was fatally injured ' in a "mill," at St Louis, on Monday, night The arrest and conviction of all persons concerned in the affair will do much to disabuse the minds of certain people that tho sport is manly, because it tends to physical de velopment. No wonder the Chicago street-railway men were pleased with the location of the proposed Indianapolis park. Chicago has nothing to compare with it in point of natural advantages. The visiting gentlemen must have wished they had a spot like it in which to hold the world's fair. The Civil-service Commission has found it necessary to define the law forthe benefit of the postmaster at Minneapolis, who is charged with evading the rules by appointing clerks who had not been certified by the board of examiners. A county has been discovered in Kentucky in which only ono murder has ever been committed, but it is in such an out-of-the-way locality that there is small wonder it is entirely out of sympathy with Kentucky civilization. ' . . "Old nuTon," of Chicago grain-gambling fame, was waylaid by footpads a few nights ago. A reporter had the temerity to ask him if they got away without losing anything, but failed tq print tho broker's repb. John Burns. -the London strike leader, is suffering from a bad case of toothache, but it isn't half so bad as the - pain in the stomach he has given the dock managers. Somebody has defrauded the Louisiana State Treasury out of CC5.000 or $70,000. This is an item of very general iutcr-

est, for about every other man throughout the country occasionally contributes a dollar or so to the Louisiana State Treasury, and they are naturally curious to know where the money goes. Mexico has increased the duty on goats S5 cents. Is this an effort to break down the secret societies of the Republic?

AB0UT PEOPLE AND THINGS. WniTE lunches, white dinners and white teas, with here and there a dash of color in the shape of maiden hair ferns and brightened roses, continue a feature in tho world of fashion. . Cardinal Manning confesses to greater pride- in his work as a mediator in the troubles between tho London dock owners and their men than to any recent achievement of his in the literary or theological world. ; A statue of the late Louisa M. Alcott is to be modeled the coming winter by Frank E. Elwell, a Concord sculptor, an intimate friend of the authoress. There is a rumor that the statue may be placed in the free puWic library of Concord. Maurice Sand, the son of George Sand, the novelist, died recently at the old fam ily home in Nahant He was the Maurice who fieures so frequently in Madame Sand's delightful books of travel and many of her essays, written while she was still young and fond of wandering about with her boy for her only companion. Mr. Hugh Farrar McDermott has contributed a poem, entitled "Life Divine," to the Westbrodk (Me.) Chronicle, which has so excited the admiration of the editor of that periodical that he predicts it will shine beside the works of Milton and Dante, "not with light reflected, but with golden sunshine of its own internal luster." A Miss ChaunCY, of Columbus, O., has had a fright that will doubtless teach her a lesson. She used for her complexion a mixture of arsenic and nitrate of silver. Then she went to the White Sulphur Springs and took the baths. The sulphur decomposed the silver salts in her skin and turned her so black that she has gone into retirement and will not be seen again for a year. Pundita Ramabai writes to Lend a Hand of a "nineteenth century miracle." Contrary to all precedent and prejudice, tho orthodox Hindoos of Barsi invited this "Christian outcast" not only to enter their sacred temple, but also to speak and read therein a portion of the Hindoo scriptures. Not only men but women were present, and all received this innovation with expressions of marked approval.. Cardinal Manning is a slight, graceful, delicate, gracious, dignified man. Like all intelligent Englishmen, he is deeply interested in the United States, and regards this country as the future home of the greatest number of English-speaking people. His home is a plain brick house, tho chief attraction of which is a magnificent' liabrary. He is the most abstemious .of men, dining off of a potato and an egg. Samuel Colt, the inventor of the revolver that bears his name, was originally a blacksmith, rough, uneducated, coarse, but a genius in his way. A company was formed for the manufacture of pistols, but Colt had such a terrible temper aud was so unreasonable that no person could get along with him, so he bought out tho company for a 6ong and set up for himself. A lucrative contract from the government during the Mexican war was the foundation of a magnificent fortune. Ira Tripp, the millionaire of Scranton,. Pa., has a peculiar habit. For many years he smoked cigars until. his physician told him that he must stop smoking or die. Thereupon Tripp hired a negro to smoke all day near him and blow the smoke into his face. The neirro did this for years until he died, and his place was takehby a white man. Mr. Tripp is in perfect health. His smoker uses about twelve fine cicars a da v. Tripp seems to derive great enjoyment from this second-hand method of indulging in tobacco. One who has been strolling about the streets of Honolulu writes of the native Sandwich islanders that they have the brown skin of the Indiannot the black of the negTO bright, intelligent faces", and straight, black hair; generally with good forms, easy gait, and graceful in move ment. The men have very ' generally adopted the usual English style of dress. ine walnnes, or women, dress with the loose holoku, or, as it would be called in this country, the Mother Hubbard, but close-fitting around tho throat Colonel Bennett H. Young, of Louis-. ville, was a prisoner at CampDonglas, near Chicago, during the civil war. When he went he carried a 6mall Bible with him, and this was taken from him in prison by .lames Hickey, a soldier. He prized tho Bible very much, as it had been presented to him by his parents when he went out to light for the Confederacy. Colonel Young was standing at the Phcenex Hotel, in Lexington, the other afternoon, when private Hickey advanced, saluted, and presented the Colonel with the Bible, which he had kept for over a quarter of a century. At a dinner not long ago Wilkie Collin's related instances proving how impossible it was to introduce into a novel descriptions of places and things wholly imaginary. In one of his works he described a house which he had never soen, and which was entirely the offspring of his imagination. A few days after the publication a man called upon him to protest against the introduction of his houso into his novel. Strange to say, the pages of the novel contained a perfect description of tho man's property. At another time he used as one of his characters a man who was so exact about his eating that he weighed every morsel which entered his stomach. Mr. Collins had in reality never heard of such a man. Ho was greatly surprised, one week after the appearance of his book,-by tho visit of an utter stranger, who wished to know by what right Mr. Collins made him ridiculous in print by mentioning one of his peculiarities. C0MJ1ENT AND OPINION. A ghateful republic has put one-half of its living defenders on the pension list, and one in four of all who ever served in a war whose close is only twenty-three years distantPhiladelphia Press. Protectionists do not propose to build u' v special class at the cost of allothnra. I ho free-traders who propose that, and inej propone xo uuuu up pruuucnon eisewht re at the cost of our producers at home. rlMladelpcia Aorth American. That no TTiblic function or relation mti now shroud itself in mystery, and that. without warning given, no disastrous effect cau be contrived by lust of power or national animosity is one of the triumphs of free dom, general enlightenment and a vigorous press. V ashmgton f ost; The plain duty of the South is to accept and enforce the law. It cannot prosper as it ought to prosper until it does. The right of every man to do the best that he can for himself existed in nature before it found recognition in the Constitution of the United States. Chicago inter Ocean. Under tho able management of George O. Jones, the Greenback party suffers fewer internal quarrels than any of the other national organizations. It meet 8 somewhere once a year, and, as it gives every member a seat on tne executive committee, there is no backbiting or bad bloou. Washington Star. An elected party man is in the line of his duty when, in his official career, he carries ont the policy of his party. Of course there are bad men in all parties. We suppose there are men who sell and men who buv votes. But these are the exceptions. The masses are not knaves in polities, but honest men. Washington Press. The war was worth all it cost, and no soldier need ask a better record than to have fought for the preservation of Amer ican unity and the destruction of African Klaverv. But it is an exaggeration to it.iv that the present annual increase in na tional wealtn is wiioiiy owing to the suppression oi xne reoeuion, ana nence propl , .1 a. .. AU.. 1 1 j: i erjy onK3 iu mo uutuu Boituers. v;ni. cago Tribune. Like many other men who can talk flu ently ana pleasantly, he ITannerl is want ing in that sober, practical, good sense which is needed in an important administrative ofacu. It waa in tho interests of the

soldiers who arcentitlcdtopensiohtthathe should leave the ofiice, since, by his blunders, his recklessness and partiality, he was bringing into disrepute and distrnst the whole work of the Pension Bureau. Milwaukee Sentinel.

GE.. JOHN COBURN He Is an Honorable and Trustworthy Man, and Will .Make a First-Class Mayor. Madison Courier: Gen. John Cobnrc.tho orginal Colonel of the old Thirty-third Indiana Hegiment. has been nominated by tb Bepublicans of Indiauapolis for Mayor. If elected, as ho certainly will bc and he governs tho city as he did the boys while in command at Cumberland Gap, no person will have cause to regret his nomination and election. . Muncie Times: General John Coburn has been nominated for Mayor by the HeEublicnns of Indianapolis. The "day that e is elected will he honorable in the annals of tho city of his birth. He is a scholar and a gentleman, about whose merits a volume might be written. If tho capital city ever had the chance of honoring itself in the election of a Mayor, that chance is J resented to it by the nomination of Gen. Joburn. 4 Kpkomo Gazette-Tribune: Tho Kepubbcaus of Indianapolis have nominated Gen. John Coburn for Mayor, and in so doing they have proven themselves capable of meeting the popular demand for big men in municipal politics. He is big enough for any othce Indianapolis has to otter, and it is signal good fortune for the party and tho people of that city that such a man has been indnced to stand for tho mayoralty. There ought to be no doubt whatever about his triumphant election. Columbus Republican: The Republicans of Indianapolis have certainly hit the nail on the head in tho nomination of Gen. J ohn Coburn for Mayor. General Coburn's name will stand for all that is honorable and pure, and progressive in municipal government He has been before the people of Indiana lor many years as a citizen, soldier and an official, and in all these relations he has borne himself honorably, and inspired the confidence and respect of all who know him. If ho should be elected Mayor, as he ought to be, the people of Indianapolis will know that they will have an honest municipal arovernment sc far as the Mayor is concerned. Lafayette Courier: It is very gratifying to acknowledge the wisdom that actuated xne rtepuniicans oi tne capital city to nominate as their candidate for Mayor a gentleman of the ability and character nf Gn. John Coburn. Of all the men in Indian apolis tnere is not one better ntted to be at the head of the local irnrpnimpnt II t lif and habits are positively above reproach or criticism, uenerai uouurn s worth as a man, and his services as a Kepnblican are well understood bv the iJpnnhliran n - - - BV-J'MMW X' Indiana, and if ho is not triumphantly elected .aiayor ox, inuianapoim we snail seriously question the justice of popular elections and lose faith m tho intelligence of the people. A Change in the Colored People. Central Christian Advocate. Are the whith neonle of th Rnntli ?no pable of seeing what will be the sequel of tho course they are now pursuingf Do they sco no cause lor grave alarm m tno increasing iestiveness and tendency of the negroes Stances! They seem to forget that the col ored peome nae been gaming strength in tho last twenty-fw? years; that the day has gone by when injcs.'ice to a negro in Louisiana or Mississippi is regarded with indifference by the negroes of other Southern States, and that the world has never yet furnished an example of aeoplo as strong as vuc oouiueru negroes wno patieniiy submitted during their whole history to oppression. k Hill Knows His Tarty. Boston Journal. The Xp.w YnrVFvpnintr Pnf fTUm that Governor Hill is foolish to try to boom i. : - i i.- i i t . uiuiwu as apresiueuuaicnnuiaaie oy Hanging his portrait in New England bar-rooms. But we take it that tho Governor knows what ho is ahont. nnl linw host tn rpurh tlm eye of tho really influential Democratio leaders. Though now a Democratic organ in good standing, tho Evening Post occasionally betrays an amusing ignorance of tho Democratic party. Met In the Right Way. Philadelphia Press. This is tho first and only serious scandal which has attended President Harrison's appointments, and he has met it as it should bo, by insisting on a change. This was not President Cleveland's way with Higgins. or with Garland, or with thescoro of like scandals which beset tho appointments of tho last administration. It stood by its failures and refused to remove men whom all the land saw were unfit. The Farmer and the Tariff; Page (Ya.) Courier. In 18G1 it took iust ono bushel of corn to buy a pound of nails; now one bushel ot corn will buy ten pounds of nails. Then it required sixty-four bushels of barley to liuy ono yard of broadcloth: now the samo amount of barley will pay for twenty yards oi broaaciotn. it then required tho price of one bushel of wheat to pay for one yard of calico; now one bushel of wheat will buy twenty yards of calico. Change Wrought by Iowa Prohibition. Bioux City Times. In tho day of the saloon business men likM to tarry a moment over their wine, and rounders drank quickly and made themselves scarce. In the day of the joint, businessmen swallow a beer or two, and hasten away, leaving the loafer to his cards and oatiis. lhc saloon was a Dlaco of rec reation. The joint isthe harboring place oi iue scum oi uumamiy. - m A Illash of Shame. Memphis Avalanche. The ou trace reported this moraine from Lafayette, La., is almost too horrible for belief, lhat a mob of white men could bo so far lostto every sentiment of humanity as to murder tho old negro and his innocent daughter because he defended his house from assault is a reflection that should not be lost upon honorable, law-abiding Southerners. At Ieat One Seaworthy Cruiser. Troy Times. The naval cruiser Atlanta reached New port yesterday, having outridden the great gale and behaved, nerseit generally m splendid style. No severer test of her Reaworthiness and stanchuess could be annlietL The Atlanta is one of the vessels built by the late John Koach. Her performance effectually silences his malignant slanderers. Clerical Joke. Philadelphia Record. Tf Mr. J. Lawrence Rnllivan nhnnl1 fail in his congressional candidacy," saidaclono friend of the pugilist yesterday, he will make application for membeiship in the uosiou vyicrgyraen s uiuo on tne ground that ho is an ex-pounder." Don't Disturb Him. Washington Capital. Ilnsh down there in Mississippi. Don't wake Governor Lowry. Ho is dreaming out a plan for tho prevention of those terrible "negTO uprisings' which compel his political brethren to shoot women and brain children. . They Don't Forget It. Washington Capital. There is a good deal of needless and senseIncc folL- ilmiit ti inflimintinn nf thft ( J. A. R. at the retirement of Comrade Tanner. President Harrison is a comrade, too, and the G. A. K. men don't forget it. 'J. struck In. Philadelphia Press. It is lamentable, but not surprising, that Senator Voorhecs is ilk ISo doubt It will be found that his nauseous talk aoout anarchy and the Carnegies has set in on him. Will "Be Regarded as Natural. St. Paul Pioneer Press. Now that Riddlebergcr ha evoluted int a raw Democrat he will attract far less attention when ho gets a jag on. A Mistaken Notion. -Milwaukee Sentinel. The Democratic idea that Tanner i a bigger man than-tho administration needs reconstruction. ' , A Mugwump Acknowledgment. New York Commercial Advertiser. In the long run the removal of Tanner will doubtless piovo good party policj.