Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 September 1889 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1889,

THE DAILY JOURNAL THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 18S0. WAMIlMiTON OmCE-513 Fourteenth St P. S. Hkatii. Correspondent. Telephone Calls Business Office 23S I Editorial Kooma 343 TEUMS or suiisciurnox. - " DAILT, BY MAIL. One year, without Fumlay $12.00 One year, with Sunday- 14.00 Pix4uontha, without Sunday COO Mx month!, wan Sunday 7.00 Thre months, without Sunday 3.00 Three months, with Sunday . 3.50 One month, without Sunday 1.00 One month, with Handay l.!0 Xelivered by carrier In city, 25 cents per week. WEEKLY. rer year. $1.00 Reduced Kates to Clubs. Fabftcrlbe with any of oar naxaerous agents, or send aubacrlptiona to the JOURNAL NEWSPAPER COMPANY, IXDLAXAPOLW, IRIX. . All eommunicationt intended for publication in this paprr mutt, in urder to receive attention, be ac corn pan ied by the name and address of the writer. THE INDIANAPOLIS JODRXAL Can te found at the following places: LONDON American Exchange in Europe, 449 Strand. PARIS American Exchange in rana, 33 Boulevard cca Capucinea. 2 EW YCRK Gllaey House and Windsor IIoteL rillLADELPIilA A. pTKemble, 3735 Lancaster avenue. CHICAGO Palmer House. . . . . M L .

All J . 1 . ixawiey as ;o., v n LOUISVILLE C. T. Peering, northwest comer Third and Jefferson streets. BT. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern Hotel. WASHINGTON, D. C.-Rlggs House and Ehhitt House. ' The Democratic "Doys" win not worK with much enthusiasm for a man who doesn't speak when ho meets them on the street. The Democratic city platform was made np of generalities, but they were not "glittering;" on the contrary, they were dull and colorless. TnE absence of any reference to "Old Sumptuary" in the party platform leads the Democratic boys to look upon the document with suspicion. . A Becktold school-book is like the Democratic party: the closer it is investigated the worse it is found to be. It is also a back number, like that party. TnE Democratic "gang" and the silkstocking element never could work together in harmony. Tho silk-stockings want the gang to do all the dirty work, while they profit by it What docs an aristocrat like Sullivan kiow about the necd3 of the "workers" in the Democratic wards tho Eighteenth, for instance? lie wants their votes, but doesn't want their society. The Democratic city nominations rep resent reform, do they. May be so; but the platform means repeal of the saloon tax, and tho candidates, if elected, will bo compelled to live up to tho platform. Tnn Indianapolis Democrats denounced till they got out of breath, but s-mitfrwl fr .IntiAiinpA f Tin Tnr. v en fttnm of keeping convicts in office at the same time they aro in jail and re-nominating them after; they get out. It was a little unfortunate for the convention of denunciators that with all their elaborate 'arraignment" of the Republican city government they were not able to cite one single act of corruption, dishonesty or maladministration . It cannot bo done. . TnE Sentinel is anxious to have tho rascals turned out. Well, isn't the administration doing it as fast as it can? It has just got to the defaulting United States district attorney,- appointed by Cleveland, in Montana, but it has the others on tho list. The Democrats fiercely demand several things in tho way of city improvements that cannot be had if the saloon tax is repealed. And everybody knows that if the Democracy obtains control of the city government that tax will be the first Uiing to "go." Six Democratic members of the City Council who voted against tho $2o0 saloon tax are candidates for re-election, and they are all in favor of repealing it. These reform Democrats aro Councilmen Co3 Bums, Ilicklin and Markey, and Aldermen Clark and Reinccke. The colored people of Philadelphia will hold a meeting to-night V tiko gome action concerning the out... ires on their race in tho South. Tho time has gone by when tho perpetrators of, these wrongs can suppress tho facts, or when the injured people will bear abuse uncomplainingly and submissively. General Cobcrn has occupied somo of the highest offices in the gift of the people and of tho government, but no one has ever accused him of holding aloof from his fellow-citizens on that account. Official position does not affect him as it does men of smaller caliber who might be named. He is a man of the people, first, last and all tho time. The Democratic platform declares that "tho first concern of our citizens should bo to promote the material and commercial development of Indianapolis. Just so; therefore, elect councilmen who will voto to repeal tho saloon tax and throw away $50,000 a year. That's tho Democratic way of building cities protecting saloons and throwing away revenue. The Sentinel remarked yesterday: "Turn the rascals out." As it did not print the dispatch from Montana, announcing the arrest of tho Democratic ex-Seeretary of tho Territory on the charge of having embezzled five or six thousand dollars of United States funds, it is but fair to presume somo other rascal was meant. There aro many of them in tho Democratic party, and if tho Sentinel will only keep the paragraph standing it will find that it can bo used frequently and appropriately. The Democratic platform does a great deal of denouncing. That always was Democracy's best hold. They have been denouncing everything and everybody feince 1601. In they denounced tho war in their Chicago convention, declared it a failure and demanded a dis"aoaoiable pea.ee with tho rebels They

denounced tho abolition of slavery as a great crime, and have not quit denouncing it yet. They have denounced every measure of progress for the last twentyfive years. The gall with which they denounce the Republican city government for not spending more than tho revenue is only equaled by the eloquent silence with which they denounce tho saloon tax. They arc great denouncers.

A GEE-JAN ESTIMATE OF GENERAL C0BTJBH. The German Daily Telegraph, of this city, docs not underrate Gen. Coburn's political strength, nor attempt to disguise the fact that his candidacy makes Democratic success doubtful. In an editorial on General Coburn's nomination, published on Tuesday, the Telegraph, after remarking on the danger of underrating tho strength of one's adversary in a political contest, reminded .Democrats that Indianapolis is really a Republican city, and that they could only hope to succeed in the coming election by nominating against General Coburu a candidate who would prove stronger than his party. It said: Indianapolis has been for many years a Republican city, and, at the last presidential election, gave a Republican majority of several hundred votes, notwithstanding the surrounding county of Marion had, for some time, been Democratic. The strength of the Democratic party alone is, therefore, insufficient to elect their ticket in tho pending election; to the contrary, it will require a very considerable accession of strength from other parties to do it. - . From this the Telegraph proceeded to impress on the Democratic convention the necessity of making a strong bid for the support of intelligent Republicans, by nominating a candidate for Mayor whose name would bo a guarantee of reform. The nomination of General Coburn made this imperatively necessary. Of tho General himself it said: He belongs to one of onr oldest and most highly-respected families, served honorably four terms in Congress and in the Union army, and. while perhaps not a great genius, he is a man of sound understanding and pronounced ability as a thinker and Rpeaker. Fifteen years ago he made a political blunder, which threw him into disfavor with his party: but that false step has been forgotten. When such a man can say to a very large majority of his old and influential fellow-citizens, "We iiave known and respected each other for thirty, forty or sixty years" he is personally no weak candidate. Coburn can be regarded as weak only on the ground that he has been a partisan, and because ho does not possess the unusual degree of independence of character necessary to counteract the machinations of tho Republican leaders and to enable him to carry out the policy of reform. This must be constantly kept before our eves from now until tho 8th of October, and personal attacks on General Coburn should be very carefully avoided. Tho Telegraph is to be commended for its intelligent appreciation of General Coburn's strength. The Journal has already said that the nomination of Gen. Coburn compelled tho Democrats to put their best foot foremost, and the Telegraph evidently recognized the necessity of their doing this. The nomination of Judge Sullivan is the result, but as a bid for Republican votes it will prove a failure. - CITY FINANCES. The Sentinel of yesterday contained tho following: The tax Tate for municipal purposes in Indianapolis is 1.86 on the 8100 valuation. The tax rate in the other large towns of the State is as follows, as shown by . tho last report of the Indiana Bureau of Statistics: Evansvllle $1.00 Fort Wayne l.oo Tc-rre Haute....... '.: 1.15 Logansport 1.75 New Albany. 1.50 Lafayette 1.28 Richmond...; l.oo LaPorte 1.15 Madison . l.'jo South Bend 1.25 This showing is not at all creditable to Indianapolis, the Journal to the contrary notwithstanding. Tho statement is utterly untrue, and calculated and intended to injure tho city for tho purpose of making political capital. The city tax for municipal purposes in Indianapolis is 90 cents on tho $100, and has not been higher than that for twelve years. Tho school tax is 22 cents, making a total of city and school tax of $1.12. Indianapolis has a population several times as great as most of the Indiana cities above named, and more than double tho largest of them. It covers vastly more territory than any of them, and its necessary expenses ought to bo much greater in proportion. As a matter of fact, we doubt if ouo of them has a lower rato of city taxes. Tho Sentinel's statement is a lie out of whole cloth. In reply to the charges of corruption or extravagance in the city government implied by this statement and by tho Democratic platform, we print tho following from Dr. Loftin, late Democratic treasuter. No Democrat dare question his intelligence or honesty. Read what he saj a: To the Public: There has recently been considerable criticism concerning the failure on behalf of the Council and Board of Aldermen of tho city to make certain needed improvements. I have handled the city's money for nearly two years past, and have had occasion to watch the actfc of tho municipal authorities very closely. The city, under the present 00-eent limit law and greatly reduced valuation of taxable property, get3 but CO per cent, as much revenue as it did in 1677, when that law passed. I pay out of the S-'iOO.OOO annual income of the city over $100,000 for interest on tho bonded debt, made many years ago, and for which the present city government is not responsible. 1 know the present income is totally inadequate to carry on the affairs of the city as the people are demanding. I am f.ure the present Mayor, and councilraen and aldermen are doing all they can with tho money at their command. I have watched with interest the conduct of tho Mayor and members of the finance committee in their efforts to save the city's credit and at the same time make the taxes do the most for the people who pay them. I have never had reason to suspect, even, that a dollar of the city's money was wrongly used, or that an3 member of the city government was corrupt, or that any sum of the public money has ever been misappropriated by tho Council. Sample Loftin, County and City Treasurer. This statement of a Democratic official referring to the "00-cent limit law" gives the lie to the assertion that the city taxrate is $1.83 on tho hundred dollars. He also shows that tho present city revenue is but little more than one-half what it was twelve years ago. Moreover, he shows that the present city debt, on which it is paying a largo annual interest, was made "many years ago," and that tho present city government is not responsible for it. As a matter of fact, tho entire debt was created between the years 1609 and 1877, and has not been increased a dollar since Jan. 1, 1877. These aro facts which tax-payers have a right to know, but which they do not learn in the columns of the Sentinel. They have, also, a right to protest

against the false and damaging statement that the city tax-rate of Indianapolis is $1.83 on the $100 when, in truth, it is less than half that rate.

The Charleston News and Courier calls upon the Georgia authorities to punish the men who assaulted the delegation of colored Baptists at Baxley, and declares that tho State will bo disgraced if such acts of violence are to go unrcbuked. Tho article is very sensible and judicious, and is the moro notable as coming from an unexpected source. Indignant as it is, however, over the bodily injuries of negroes in Georgia, the Courier has nothing to say about the Carolina method of depriving the black men of their civil rights by swindling. It is moro expert in plucking tho mote out of the Georgia eye than the beam out of its own. There is a possibility, admitted even by tho Democratic press, that the Republicans may elect a successor to the lato S. S. Cox in tho Ninth New York district There is a Democratic majority in the district, but tho two wings of that party, Tammany and the County Democracy, are at deadly warfare, and will probably have rival candidates, in which case a Republican has a fair chance to win. There is also a strong protection element in tho district which will help tho Republican candidate. The position of the two parties on the saloon-tax question is shown by their platform declarations, viz.: BErUBI.ICAX. 1 DEMOCRATIC We heartily indorse the increase of the annual saloon-tax to $250, and are unalterably opposed to any reduction of the same. Tho Republican declaration means an addition of $50,000 a year to the city revenue. The Democratic silence means repeal of the tax. Two years ago, when Sim Coy named the Democratic candidate for Mayor, tho city convention made no declaration of principles. In reply to a comment on tho fact, Boss Coy said "political platforms don't count." This year his party concluded to try, their hand at a platform, but Coy's statement still holds good of that kind of platforms they don't count. The silly season seems slow to retire from Boston, as is evidenced by this sentence from tho Globe: The colored people of the South are becoming more and more exasperated with the present administration, and think Mr. Harrison largely responsible for tho present race antagonism. In the next issue of the Globe that floats out this way tho President will, 'doubtless, be held responsible for the few cases of diphtheria discovered at Paxton, 111., and another large and strangely "silent") Republican revolt started thereby. - ' ? The testimony of confidential clerk 'Woodruff in the trial of Henry S. Ives, of railway-wrecking fame, was probably the most unblushing case of perjury ever uttered on a witness-stand. Ho coolly ; admitted that his previous evidence was falso, that it was given willingly and knowingly, and that he had simply done his masters bidding. That such unprincipled schemers as this man and his employers could havo trapped old financiers seems almost incredihle. n " ; 'r ! The death of Congressman Cox brings to notice the remarkable scarcity of men of national fame left in tho Democratic party.', It has several men of national notorietyJohn L. Sullivan and 1). B. Hill, for examplebut very few whose reputation if or statesmanship extends beyond tho borders of their respective States. ' Evidently C. P. Huutington did not accumulate his millions for tho purpose of paying the debts of a princely son-in-law. When ho broke off his daughter's engagement, with tho scapegrace Hatzfeldt, he made a commendable "bear raid" on the title market. ' ?r ; Prohibition, high-license and Sundayclosing laws havo given rise to a rather varied and interesting nomenclature for the saloon which secretly violates tho law. In Kansas it is a "joint;" in Minneapolis a "blind pig," and in Pittsburg a "speaks easy." The last and most exasperating development in the way of business combination is an association which is practically a coffin trust. Must we fight the monopolistic trust all our lives only to drop into its clutches, without a murmur, at the end A Georgia man boasts of a crop of Irish potatoes live of which will fill a peck measure. They must have the same sized peck measures down there that are used by Indianapolis potato-peddlers. Those Chicago foot-pads who had. the temerity to hold ur "Old Hutch" will probably be expelled from the craft for attempting to tamper with "one of the profesh." ABOUT PEOriiE AND THINGS. Two Egyptian Trinces, eons of tho Khedive, are being educated at Vienna. . William Black, the novelist, is making a study of Mary Anderson for his next stor3. Lord Tennyson recently remarked that one of his greatest regrets was that ho had never visited this country. Lord Salisbury has such an extreme aversion to tobacco, that evon his own sons do not venture to smoke in his presence. Prof. James Russell Lowell is talked of in connection with the lectureship on poetry at Johns Hopkins University for tho coming year. Gen. Benjamin F. Butler has at last signed a contract with his Boston publishers for the publication of his long-anticipated memoirs. The Hon. Allen G. Thurman has loft tho Virginia Hot Springs and gono home to Ohio. His health is much better than it was before his visit to the Springs. Rev. Dr. W. J. Holland, of Pittsburg, is to ho tho naturalist of the government expedition which will go this fall to tho west coast of Africa to observe tho solar eclipse. M. Adolph Paques is an aged Parisian barber who was a great man years ago. He had among his clients Chateaubriand, Lamartine, victor Hugo, M'lle. Mars and Malibran. "Pilgrim's Progress" has been don into the Chinese dialect of Amoy. This is said to be the eighty-third languatre or distinctive dialect in which Bunyan's masterwork has appeared. The Emperor of Rnssia will be obliged io give the Prince of Leuchtenberg, who recently married the Princess of Montenegro, a large fortuneereho can live as his station requires. The family is decidedly poor. The Czar has a now train of cars to travel in. The cars are connected with each other by vestibules, so that he can pass from one to another without being seen from the outside, and they aro covered with iron aud cork. President Carnot is not a hard worker in the sense that hard work is 'understood in America. Ho does not bother himself

with details. He keeps a sharp eye on all that is going on about him, but ho does not consider it his duty, to perform a clerk's work. Ho would not dream of working as President Cleveland used to do, ind as President Harrison now does. L ke all Frenchman, he is a late riser. David N. Blakeiy, a graduate of Dartmonth College in the class of 'SO, has received the appointment of instructor in English of the American College at Aintah. Turkey. He will also be financial manager of the institution. A AncnDEACOX Faruar's reason for sending his son to he educated as a civil engineer in this country was that our schools are progressive. The archdeacon says that engineering in England is twenty -live years behind that of this country. Lady Macartney, wife of Sir Halliday Macartney, secretary of the Chinese embassy in London, was recently fined 25 for ill-treating her female servants. She was in the habit of tearingout handfuls of their hair wheneverthey displeased her ladyship. Herr Ludwig Pietsch, the celebrated German critic and author, has written long articles to the periodicals of his native land in praise of the exhibition of American artists in the Paris Exposition. Herr Fietsch is surprised at the general excellence of the paintings, and considers them eqnal to any in the exhibition. The noiseless powder is not a new inven tion. f In the third volume of Benvenuto Celini's autobiography tho autlior relates that when suffering from fever in Ferrara ho cured himself "by eating peacock, and that he procured himself the bird surreptitiously by shooting them with powder iuvented by him that made no noise." . Love land Munson, whom Governor Dillingham has appointed to fill the vacancy on the Vermont Supremo Court bench, occasioned by Judge Veazey's appointment to the Interstate-commerce Commission, was a member of the constitutional convention of 1870, has been in the Legislature, and is at present a probate judge for the district of Manchester. The dispute between the former collaborators, Erckmann and Chatrian, is growing keener every day. Erckmann has commenced an action for libel against M. Georgel, the friend and apologist of Chatrian, and Chatrian declares that everything said by Georgel is evangetically true. Georgel threatens that if he be sued before a French tribunal he will make matters hotter that ever for Erckmann. The New York Evening Post says of Clement Studcbaker, of Indiana, one of the delegates to the Pan-American congress, and one of tho brothers who have made the name of South Bend famous by the hugeness of their wagon factory, that he is very proud of the manner in which he has risen in the world, and in one of the stainedglass windows of his $100,000 house has placed a picture of the log cabin in which ho was born. ' . ,. Paul du Ciiaillu, the famous traveler, is having trouble with the British Association for the Advancement of Science. He has been trying to convince its members that the Vikines were the direct ancestors of the English people. He has devoted eight years to investing the subject, but the English scientists tell him he is all wrong. . Dn Chaillu finally cried out excitedly: "Patriotism is a splendid thing, but let ns have truth. I belong to the other side of the water, America, and they will not accuse me of being one-sided there." When Qnecn Victoria dies the numerous suites of rooms no closed in the royal palaces will probably be reopened for occupancy. The Queen has a strong penchant for closing rooms once used by her friends. The apartments at Clarement in which the Princess Charlotte died more than seventy years ago are rigorously closed. Prince Albert's apartments at Windsor, Osborne and Balmoral are all kept precisely as they were when he was alivo. The Duchess of Kent's rooms at Frogmore are also shut up, which renders that abode absolutely useless, as they are the best in tho house. The jQueen has also kept John Brown's rooms at Windsor entirely closed, since the death of that domestic.

COMMENT AND 0HN10X. There aro enough honest men who never saw the inside of a prison to engage all the healthy pity and wholesome sentiment that the market affords. Chicago Herald. We do not believe in introducing politics into the pulpit, but the time has come when Christian ministers and Christian men must lift np their voices in solemn and indignant protest against the rule of tho political spoilsman. -Charleston News and Courier. It is still the Republican theory, as it was in 1SG0, that the decisiou of the" people must bo respected and obeyed, because in no-other way can self-government be made a success; in no other way can the interests ,of tho people be served and tho wisdom of their wishes tested by experience. New Yorlv Tribune. A pension for service only puts out of sight the highest duty of a citizen to defend his country and makes a soldier a mere mercenary, who goes into a war for what ho can get out of it. This would bo ignoble in a. monarchy. In a republic it would be an inexcusable repudiation of the-obligations of patriotism. New York World. The Roman Church must adapt itself to tho changed condition of things in these days' of enlightened liberty. It must learn, as the Protestant churches have had to learn, that there are bounds which cannot be overstepped. And it must learn also, unwelcome though the lessou be, that it has no more right to give political orders in Italy or Rome than in America or at Washington. Chicago Tribune. In tho politics of the future there is to be a Republican party in tho South, made up of those who believe iu protection. The' solid Democratic party in that section must crack and crumble, and the sooner the bettar. That portion of it which follows the theory of Hamilton, and is convinced that a hiu tariff will assist them in the pursuit of wvJlth and give them larger profits, must drop i!ieir old-t ime allegiance to theDemocracv Zid ioin the Kermbliean ranks. Now I YorL Herald. r iiWi agitation of the race question in the South is beginning to bear its legitimate frrlit, not only in collisions between the races in this section, but in the tormation of a public eentimeut at the North adverse to the whites at tho South. As we have repeatedly stated, this agitation is not inspired by actual hostility to the colored people so much as by a wish to solidity the votes of the moro ignorant whites iu the interest of Democratic success. Petersburg tVa.) Index-Appeal. This mighty protective fabrio of ours must not bo used to enrich one section at tho cost of another. It is national, and when the greed of any one class of producers makes it otherwise it will disintegrate, and the industrial tight will be transferred from the healthful competition at home to the severe competition of our foreign rivals, with thirty million underpaid, underfed and desperate toilers living under entirely different environments to draw from for their labor. New York Press. The '01d Itoinan'a" Audible Silence. Chicago News. May we be permitted to ask why the inspiring voice of old man Thurman has not been lifted up in advocacy of the Democratic ticket m Ohio? The old gentleman might at least flutter from yon minaret that carmine wipe which, but one short year ago, his hide-bound partisaus used to hail as an infallible prognostic of sweeping success. A Friendly Tip for Scott. St. Louis Republic (Dem.) Hon. W. L. Scott, of Pennsylvania and Spring Valley, would better look after his reputation. If he doe. not he will find it revised and enlarged into that of one of the worst 11 int-skinners among the plutocrats of the country Things That Excite Democratic Glee. lllnnfapolls Tribune. Our Democratic contemporaries hail Corporal Tanner's retirement with almost as much glee as they would a general repeal of the pension laws or an appropriation for the payment of the confederate debt. Actions Are Louder than Words. KariMS City Journal. The Atlanta Constitution takes pains to condemn the whipping of unoffending negroes by night-riders ux Georgia, but wo

observe thatJ the Constitution's reporter who witnessed the whippings and wrote an account of them for the Constitution has refused to tell the grand jury who were in the party. A general condemnation amonuts to nothing. If the Constitution is siucero let it and its reporters assist in having the brutal white men punished. ' INHIANAPOLIS rOIlTICS.

General Coburn's Surpassing Merits Coy's Place In the Democratic Scheme. ChlcAgo Inter Ocean, Yesterday. The Democrats of Indianapolis mar do their best, but they cannot nominate a "better man for Mayor than Gen. John Coburn; we are pretty sure they cannot nominate as good a man. politics being left out of con sideration. General Coburn is tho Republican nominee To a brilliant war record he adds every virtue of citizenship. Ho knows the city's needs thoroughly, he has no complicity with any paving, ring, illuminating ring, street-car ring or capitalistic combination of any kind. He is a man of clean hands and pure heart, and the Democrats will make a mistake of unusual magnitude if they open tho city campaign by an attack upon his integrity or a question of his capacity. We repeat that, leaving politics on one 6ide, General Coburn is as good a man for Mayor as cau be found in Indianapolis. He was not a candidate; the nomination was forced upon him by the sense of tho convention that in a contest in which local economies would be uppermost he was tho best man that the party could present to the people. By tho time this paper is in tho hands of its readers tho Democrats will have made their choice, which appears to be restricted to Judge Norton, formerly of the Criminal Court, and to Judge Sullivan. If Mr. Norton be tho nominee he ought to left far in tho rear by the procession of voters. His record as a judge smells of ealoon domination, and his method as a candidate is fetid withCoyism. Mr. Sullivan is a cleaner man, but it would be flattery to say that he is as good as General Coburn, and falsehood to describe him as better, politics, of course, being left out. But politics cannot be left out. The nomination of General Coburn precludes the omission. WThen a man so perfect as a citizen is nominated to a civic office the canvass against him must be on the ground of his party association. And ou a political stand-point the Republican party should mako itself strong m Indianapolis. That city is the home of the Prenident. It is a city in which the manufacturing element increases rapidly. It is a city in which the negro vote plays no unimportant part. It is, in fact, a city whose general, as distinct from local, interests would be advanced by the success of the Republican and retarded hy the success of the Demo- ! cratic party in national affairs. And the Indianapolis election may be more than a straw upon tho political current. It is tho duty of every Republican and protectionist in Indianapolis to vote early and work zealously for the election of General Coburn. As to local politics. Democracy in Indianapolis is Coyism. It is that and nothing else. . "The Littlo Boss" is managing tho city campaign of 1889 as completely as he managed that in which his peculiar methods led to his imprisonment. His enforced residence at Michigan City has alienated none of his Democratic friends. He feels certain of ro-election to the Council from his old ward, and, if re-elected, he will be, as ho long has been, leader of the Democrats in the Council. He will control the convention for nomination of t Mayor. If he makes Norton the nominee it ' will be that he may have a real servant sitting in pretended superiority. If he allows Sullivan to be nominated it will be because he feels sure of "his own power to thwart the purer intents of a better man. No matter whom the Democratic convention may nominate as mayor de jure, Mr. Simeon Coy will be mayor de facto if the Democrats win. This is not a contingency which decent Democrats can contemplate with pleasure, and it is one which Republicans should mightily strive to prevent. The News's Desperate Game. Indianapolis Sun. Why does not the Follower oppose Coy? Is it within his power? Is it too cowardly? Does it have so little regard for tho reputation of tho city abroad as to desiro his election? These are questions that should be considered by all thoughtful people. The Follower is playing a desperate camo in this city campaign. It has allowed its venom to get tho better of its judgment. It has linked the names of Truster, Markey, Finch and others with that of a man wlio bears the stigma of a convict. It has made no distinction. It has grossly and shamefully libelled men who have a right to their opinions by putting them side by side with a man whom the law has punished for a most outrageous crime against the State and its people. It has gone into the gutter and burrowed in the . tilth, and spewed its foulness upon men whose only fault is that they did not do as the czar desired, and yet it poses before the people as an independent paper. Independent! Yo gods! He Simply Wanted More Free Advertising. Philadelphia Telepraph. Now it turns out that slugger Sullivan merely announced his congressional aspirations to intluenco Governor Lowry ana the Mississippi authorities. As they are all Democrats of the first water, John wants it understood that he cannot look after his political fences in a Dixey jail. Such genius is worthy of a politician, and it cannot be denied that he has in him -the making of a congressman. Amusements in the West. Denver Times. A six-mile horse-race was run south of Tucson Sunday. Two small boys were tied fast to the horses. Eight horsemen wero stationed along the line, and as the racers came along fell in behind and lashed them with whips. When the horses camo in one of them fell, out of sheer exhaustion, falling on the boy who Jvas lashed to him, breaking his collar bone. It was thought that both horses would die. She's Quite Harmless. Washington Post. Helen M. Gougar declares that "there is not a leading journal in this country today that advocates high licenso that is not bribed from the treasury of the National Liquor League." Mrs. Gougar appears to be a sort of privileged character in this country. She can say just what she pleases with full confidence that nobody cares enough about it to contradict it. And You Need It Sadly. AuRnsta Chronicle. What wo most need in the South is a healthy public sentiment to protect the negro in his personal rights as a citizen and a man. to punish the lawless white men who violate tho law, and to prevent a recurrence in tho South of the cruel aud cowardly outrages which havo recently disgraced our State. e They Promote Profanity. ' Minneapolis Tribune. The proverb "Evil communications corrupt good manners" applies particularly to communications written on both sides of the paper, or more than threo hundred words in length, or not accompanied by the real name of the writer. The manners of tho managing editor are corrupted thereby. Worthy of Imitation. Minneapolis Tribune. Patent medicine advertisements in Bulgaria are not as thrilling as they are in the United States. In the former country, if a nostrum is warranted to cure a discaso and does not do so the seller is thrown into prison. Once in a while we find something worthy of imitation a long way from home. A Dangerous Nuisance. Rochester Democrat. The swaggering young man with a pistol is a very dangerous young man, for tho temptation is ever present to put the weapon to use. Cheap literature and the cheap drama have encouraged callow youth to carry pistols, and have thus multiplied the dangers to human lifeSouthern View of a Federal Flection Law. Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle. This is the 6ame hideous monster of reconstruction in another shape. The South strangled him before, and will do so again. The only thing1 that a national election law will do is to attempt, to raise hell in every congressional district throughout the South. Sl A Theme for Temperance Orators. Chicago Tribune. It seems hardly necessary to point ont the either to his grave or into the Democratic party.

obvious warning auoniea in ino career of Mr. Riddleberger, of Virginia.. Too much rind Trliiskv Will inevital.lv lend :inr tiviti

MAURICE THOMPSONS FIRST

The Ghos, of a Youthful Literary Freak lliscsto Haunt Its Repentant Author. A narrowing Tale cf Blood Which Earned for Its Writer His First One-IIundred-Dolkr Clieck A Huntle Confession. That the follies of the young may haunt men in their maturer years was, perhaps, never moro clearly proven than it has been hy tho recent unlooked-for andpomewh.it ludicrous experience of Maurice Thompson, tho distinguished author in whose lafer writings Indiana takes especial pride, and which" the literary circles of tho Englishspeaking world read with so much pleasure. For many years Mr. Thompson has been a welcomed contributor to tho standard magazines, and his works of fiction and. poetic fantasies have been awarded high rank among contemporaneous writers of established and universally recognized merit In fact, Mr. Thompson's literary position has become so firmly established that he had forgotten that thcro was a day when " tho gaudily illuminated cover of tho old-time, yellow-backed novel of tho "Big-Foot Wallaco" and "Red-handed Mike" description had attractions for him, and when he had himself emulated the ginning examples of the producers of thisinceudiary literature. But tho ghost of a long since all-but-forgotten emanation rises from the dust-covcrcd shelves of an Eastern sensational publication to fill his soul with consternation and causo "each particular hair to 6tand on end like quills upon tho fretful porcupine." But the 6tory ofMr. Thompson's discomfiture is best told by that gentleman himself, and the following recital made ' to a Journal representative " will he read with interest by all who havo read his later writings to admire them. Said he: "In the latter part of the year 18C9, when I was a mere youth but little past my majority (having come to Indiana from tho South the year before), I found myself almost penniless and without anv visible means of support. The war had left mo a rather bewildered, and certainly a very callow bit of jetsam stranded on the shore, of poverty in a strange country, so far as acquaintances or friends ablo to aid mo were concerned. Tho thought came into my head that I might write a novel aud get money for it. Looking back now . to that time makes the thought appear both pathetic and ludicrous. Certainly no youth was ever more wanting in all the equipment for fiction-writing. Quito undaunted, however, I 'sailed into' the task ' with furious ardor, and began to grind out MS. at a rato impossible to an experienced writer. Wrhen the story of the 'League of . the (iaudaloupo' was finished I felt euro that I had made a mighty fine story; hut somehow the editors and publishers Hi.l Tint BOA itltn iter vn-nrl I -rV -VU . V IC3 MUU11V11U1 qualities. I sent it from ono to another with industrious haste, and with hungry anticipations. A year or more dragged past, and I was almost disheartened, when some good angel (or was it a demon?) directed me to offer my firstling to Messrs. Street & Smith, of the New York Weekly. Then camo my triumph. In a few days a letter reached me, bearing to my emaciated fingers a check for $100! I well remember the solid lump that leaped into my throat at sight of that bit of commercial paper. For a minute I thought I should choke. The earth appeared to havo been made a present tome, and the skv took on the hno of shimmering bank bills. I was famous and rich. I felt that Sylvanus Cobb. jr.. must bow to me, and retire at onco from the profession of sensational fiction writing. "Well, days, wcks, months, years, lustrums went by, and I never again heard of my precious MS. until last fweek, when oorao one torn me that it was appcanne as a serial in the New York Weekly. I procured a copy of that journal, and theresure enough, all dripping with gore, and. spangled with bowie-knives and pistols, andnaring with red lights, flamed my long, delayed masterpiece. Twenty years of delay had not even coagulated its blood cr tamed its murderous spirit in the least. I had forgotten its title, aud I couldnot recall the, name of a single character in it, but a glance was sufficient. The long-lost vision arose beforo my eyes, like some of thoee memories-of battle, with ail the sulphur aud powder-blaze, and circling smoke, and thunder and blood. "Yes, it's a dime dreadfnl of tHo dito dreadfulest sort, perhaps; I haven't rea(14t yet; but forgive me if 1 confess that a e-ort of tender feeling for it is, right now, asserting itself in my heart. Why, that story made it possible for me to live until I could begin life in Indiana. I took that money and did begin, and although 1 cannot lcel that I have done much, still, what I havo done roots its possibility back in tho toil of that ensanguined fiction which bore for its first fruits the welcomest remittance of cash that I have handled. I do not caro 60 much for wild, gushing 6tories of hairraising adventures as I did when I was s boj and I am not as proud of th 'League of the Gandaloupo as I was when I had just finished it, some twenty years ago, and I confess that I had waited so long that I should not havo felt like complaining if its publication had been delayed t wenty years more. Indeed. I had settled down upon the calm hope that it had been buried forever, along with other results of youthful surplus energy, when ont it leaped in all its glory to shake its knives and pistols at mo. and to remind me of tho days when Shakspearo and Ned Buntliuo. Homer and Sylvanus Cobb, jr., Scott and Emerson Bennett, and Dumas and William Henry Peck fought for the control of my imagination. I would not add one word to Holy Writ, hnt if I might I would say: 'Hemember now the awful stories of thy youth, when tho evil days como not and thou fehalt say, I have no pleasure in them!' " Helen's Did for Notoriety. Philadelphia Pre. When Mrs. Helen M. Gougar, of Indiana, declared before a Prohibition meeting in Svracnse. N. Y la?t week, that ""there in not a leading journal in this country to-day that advocates high license that is not bribed from the treasury of the National Liquor Leagne,7' she made one of those bids for notoriety for which she has made herself familiar. It is a little over a year ago that Mrs. Gougar wrote that tho Prohibition party could carry New York and Indiana lor the Democrats and elect Cleveland, and that she was going to roll up her sleeves and help do it. Her failure in that attempt does not seem to have taught her discretion. It is certainly a pity that the temperance cause should ba harmed bv advocates with moro zeal than knowledge, and actuated moro by an itching for notoriety than by a desire to do good. General risk's Position. New York Mall and Express. Theso words from (Jen. Clinton B. Fisk are sensible and manly: "I wish it understood that whilol am a Prohibitionist I am in favor of local option. As an American freeman, I resent the action of tho last Legislature, which repealed the law of 1S8. 1 know that some members of my own partv do not agree with me in my opinions onlocal option, but I shall always and everywhere bo in favor of it." It is a pity that more of the third party men are not imbued with the same ideas. If thev were they might be an aid and not a hindrance to the cause of temperance. Retrogressive rolicj. Pittsburg Dispatch. The instruction to the English consul at Zanzibar that the English missions mutt not harbor fugitives from the Arab slavepens may represent what the Tory government considers policy; but it also represents) a wof ul falling of from the principle onco announced that when any one reached a spot covered by tho Ihitisii flag he became from that day a free man. They Were the ChU'f SuUeri 1 Des Moines ItfristT. The pojdotiico at an Alabama town whem the Democratic residents were 6o mad over the appointment of a colored postmaster that they kept abusing him. and finally burned down his place of business, has been discontinued. That's business. Democrats who haven't decency enouch to treat a postmaster properly, dou't deserve toh-ivo one