Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 September 1889 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1889.

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PARIS American Exchange In Pari, 35 Boulevard (let Capudnea, f JfEW YCBK Gilaey House and Windsor Hotel. pniULDELPIIIA A. P. Xemble 3785 Lancaster avenue. CHICAGO Palmer Ilonae. CXSJCINNATI J. P. Hawley A Co, 154 Vine street. LOUISVILLE O. T. Deerlng, northwest corner Third and Jefferson street. BT. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern Hotel. WASHINGTON, D. 0.-Riggt House and Ehfcltt House. TnE News has finally crawled under the blankets with the Sentinel. It is welcome to its bcd-f ellow. Neither of the organs of the Democratic gang dares to Bay that the saloon tax will not be repealed in case of their party's success. Mr. Coy has too tight a grip on them. It is pretty tough to sec such men as Councilmcn Thalman, , Pearson anJ. Swain and Alderman Wright classed with Sim Coy and, held up to public scorn day after day. It seems to be one of the necessities of "independent" journalism. The veterans of tho Army of the Cumberland are having a good time at Chattanooga, as they deserve to have. Wilder's Brigade shows up about 500 strong, and as most of the veterans of this organization arq Hoosicrs, it would Bcem that Indiana is at tho front again. The News represents Sim Coy as superintending street improvements. At the present rate it will soon bo charging that Coy is a Republican; that his tallysheet forgeries were committed in the interest of that party, and that he was aided and abetted therein by the Republican State officers. TnE frec-whisky-Coy organs would like to have the public believe that if tho Democracy wins the city will have metropolitan improvements promptly and without stint. Just how this is to be accomplished without the aid of the saloon tax, which forms the only fund to "come and go7 on, they do not condescend to explain. According to the morning and evening free-whisky organs, success of the local Democracy means progress. The last time the local Democracy had charge of affairs the city progressed to the verge of bankruptcy. The. party's leading members, too, have a way of progressing into tho penitentiary. Progress may bo the proper word, but it is the kind that moves crab-fashion. j The President, aa might be expected, gives a prompt denial to the silly story tabout his being attended by a body guard, and adds that instead of protecting himself from members of the G. A. R., he would turn to them for a guard if he ever needed one. This is well said. ,'No President of the United States , will i i j f " n" rever do m uangcr irom an oiu eoiuier. They aro instinctively loyal. A reduction of 20 per cent, in tho school attendance for the current year is one of the pleasant results of tho compulsory school-book law. If a reduction of one-fifth in the school attendance had been caused by some contagious disease or epidemic it would be heralded throughout tho country as one fof the great calamities of recent times. 'Is it any less so when caused by a stupid, vicious, malformed law! The Southern race problem will finally bo solved by the schools. The report of tho Commissioner of Education showing that the gain in school attendance in the South in ten years is largely in excess of the increase of population is an encouraging 6ign. Tho progress of education among both blacks and whites means the improvement of social and political conditions. With intelligence on both sides the difficulties will at last adjust themselves to mutual satisfaction. The position of the two parties on the ealoon-tax question is shown by their platform declarations, viz.: REPUBLICAN. I DEMOCRATIC e Heartily indorse the Increase of the annual saloon-tax to$250, and are unalterably opposed to any redaction of the same. Tho Republican declaration means an addition of $50,000 a year to the city revenue. The Democratic silence means .repeal of tho tax. No person who has the interests of the city at heart can vote for the repeal of this tax, or for any can didate for city office who is not pledged .to sustain it. Look at the figures this year and cness . m i a m : . what tuey win ie iot me entire twelv . . jr-m ' , 0 'r7 : electric trht to date. 5n0r total, ft ft there is one-third of the year to be heard irom yet. News. Well, at that rate public lights for the whole year would bo $48,303. In 1876 the city paid for public lichts 74.010. with much less territory and fewer miles of streets to light than it has now. Thus every comparison of the present city frovernment with former ones results in the discomfiture of the lcickers. The South and Central American states need feel no alarm over the warnings that they are in danger of losing the friendship of European governments

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through tho holding of tho coming International-American Congress and the. consequent forming of commercial or political alliances. The American states may form such alliances as they please, and they will find tho European powers exerting themselves to maintain friendly relations. The fear of losing commercial advantages entirely, will prevent all warlike demonstrations. The time has gone by when the growl of any transatlantic potentate excites terror on this side of the world.

A CERTIFIED CERTIFICATE OF EEFOEU. Governor Gray hit the enemy a very hard blow in hisTomlinson Hall speech, on Tuesday night. "The best platlorm which any party can adopt," he said, "is a reierence to its record while in power." Sentinel. . Governor Gray and tho organ of the Coy Democracy are not well read in local history. The last time the Democracy had control of the city goverment was from 1874 to 1870. During those two years the city government was the worst ever known before or since. They gained control of the city government in the spring of 1874, on tho plea of "reform," and, in two years, they gave tho city a dose of extravagance, corruption, jobbery and partisan misrule that it has not recovered from yet. In the platform on which they came into power they promised to "reform abuses, reduce expenses, repress debt and restrain taxation." How were these pledges carried out! In one year they increased the expense of tho police force from $49,300 to $80,000. The expense of tho fire department was increased from $01,500 to $139,10G. The bonded debt of the city was increased $400,000, and tho city's interest charge in tho same proportion. The bills for street cleaning ran up to $1,500 a week, and the week before the, city election they were $2,000. Taxes were increased from $1.10 to $1.50. The tax levy was increased more than $450,000 a year. Expenses in every department of the city government were enormously increased, contracts were openly awarded to Democratic rings and partisans, lawlessness and crime were rampant, and it was a carnival of misrule. A few days before the spring election in 1876 tho Democrats in the Council, in order to make sure of perpetuating their power, passed an ordinance redisricting the city, so as to give them an as sured majority. A special meeting was called at 4 o'clock one afternoon, when tho ordinance was introduced, read a first time, and, at the evening meeting of the same day, was passed. It was an outrageous gerrymander, , and, being done on tho eve of election, caused an outburst of popular indignation. A Com mittee of Safety, consisting of thirtyfive citizens, was appointed, of which Gen. Thomas A. Morris was chairman. A public meeting was called in the Circle, at which speeches were made denouncing the , extravagance and corruption of the Democratic city government during the past two years, and the gerrymander by which it was proposed to prolong their power. The Committee of Safety issued an address "to the citizens and tax-payers of Indianapolis,"' in which, referring to the action of the Council in passing the gerrymander ordinance, they said: We denounce these men as public enemies. We call upon you, without regard to party, as you value your rights, as vou re spect honesty,' decency and fair play; as you- hope to see your city relieved from taxes -levied in the interest of corruDtion. .its credit saved and its prosperity assured, . to join - in this denunciation with your voices and your votes. This address was signed by the committee of thirty-five, including Gen. T. A. Morris, W. P. Fishback, Walter Q. Gresham, Byron K. Elliott, R. S. Foster, John Coburn, William Wallace, N. S, Byram, John H. Holliday, E. B. Martindale, Fred Knefler, Benjamin Harrison, George Merritt, and other prominent citizens. This was the outcome of two years of Democratic rule. In the ensuing election the Republicans carried eleven out of thirteen wards, and tho city by an aggregate majority of over four thousand. This was the city's last experience with, municipal reform as practiced by the Democracy, and now they are asked to try it again. Subsequent Democratic conventions have not been in the habit of pointing to this rccord with pride, though they continue to maKo the samo old promises and prof es -sions of reform, UNFORTUNATE C0MPABIS0H3. The Sentinel seems determined to dofeat its candidate for Mayor by making comparisons that he cannot stand. It says: "General Coburn is in no sense a progressive man," and intimates that ho has always been lacking in public enterprise. Holy Moses! and how about Judge Sullivan? Tho fact is, there is not a man in Indianapolis who has taken a greater interest in public affairs, or done more for the city, first and last, than General Coburn has. Beginning with his earliest manhood, he was an active member of tho volunteer fire department. He was the first man to urge the construction of publio cisterns for fire purposes. Years ago he assisted in organizing a shade-tree association which did much to beautify the city. He was the originator of the Soldiers' Orphans' Home at Knightstown, and drew up the bill for that institution which became a law. Ho was one of tho earliest advocates of the soldiers7 monument, and made tho lirst public speech in faver of it. He has taken a prominent part in the improvement of Garfield Park and in efforts to improve tho southern part of tho city. Ho has erected a number of excellent buildings on Washington, Delaware, Ohio and other streets. In short, ho has always been and is still a publicspirited, progressive and enterprising citizen. What has Judge Sullivan done to merit that appellation or to justify the Democratic organ in challenging comparison of his record in this regard with that of Gen. Coburn? What public enterprise, movement or improvement has he ever been identified with? What evidenco has ho given of being a progressive man? As a matter of plain truth, has ho not been a nonentity in public affairs? Can either of his organs point to anything he has done or tried to do for the city? If they will furnish tho information the Journal will print it with pleasure. If they

will send somo of Judge Sullivan's "progressive ideas and broad views" around the Journal will publish them, with an illustrative diagram.j His organs do him great harm by provoking such comparisons as this. His record as a public-spirited, progressive man cannot be discovered with the naked eye.

MB. MABTFNPALFS CANDIDACY, Young Mr. Martindale, candidate for the Council on the Republican ticket in' the Eleventh ward, is out in an interview published in the News of yesterday, in the course of which he finds ocoasion to disavow his allegiance to the party upon which he forced his candidacy, declares that he will not abide by the decision of the, party's caucus unless it suits his youthful pleasure, and says that he will vote with the Democrats in certain matters likely to arise. Since Mr. Martindale's gratuitous statement of his opinions and intentions, , he owes it to the Republicans of the Eleventh ward to resign his position on the ticket, and make way for a candidate who is no greater than the party and no wiser than its councils. As a matter of fact, Mr. Martindale was not the choice of the Republicans of the ward at the time of his nomination, a fact that will bo attested by his own personal friends, and is very well known to-him-self, but he was nominated by the assistan ce of a gang of alleged voters corraled from among the tough clement by his lieutenants for the express purpose accomplished. That some of tho citizens of the ward were his friends will not bo disputed, but they were few. Had he announced his candidacy before the day of tho nominating primary , he would have been spared the occasion for his interview. For a man who does not wish to go to Council as a Republican be displayed astonishing energy to secure a Republican nomination. Had he been unwilling to go to Conncil as a Republican ho had an undoubted right to seek election as an independent, a right he still ' possesses, and of which he should promptly avail himseif. There is no lack of good material for Councilmen among tho solid, substantial Republicans of the Eleventh ward, and it is to bo hoped that they will immediately relieve Mr. Martindale of his evident embarrassment by substituting in his place on the ticket a sound Republican, who is in full accord with the party, its candidates and its measures. C0BUBN AND SULLIVAN. The two organs bf Democratic reform have fallen on one another's necks and are repeating in unison, "Sullivan's candidacy is a certificate of reform, while Coburn's is a permit from the gang." The attempt is to prove that General Coburn represents all that is bad in local politics, while Judge Sullivan represents all that is good. In support of this preposterous idea it is asserted by the two organs that , Coburn was nominated by Republican ringsters and corrnptidnists, while Sullivan is tho free anfl untrammeled choice of the best elements 6f the Democratic party. The ringsters and corruptionists who nominated General Coburn are fairly represented by the delegates in tho convention from the Second and Eleventh wards. They were: Seco?id Ward. JohnB. Conner. William D. Cooper, John B. Elan, Hilas A. Ixse. A. J. Hay, Vinson Carter. Eleventh Charlton Eden, . Wm. II. Morrison, ' O. II. Hasselmau, J. B. Dill. W. A. Van Buren, Jesse 3cDaniel, G. F. Norwood, John Began, Ceorce F. Herriott, K. II. Keese, Wallace Donnan, J. E. Hcheidler. ; . . ... nara. ,-cM.:G. McLaio ' : David Wallace, II. S. Fraser, Frank He ynolds, Peter F. Krice, (Jeorge E. WaUace. There is enough good citizenship in those two delegations to give respectability to a score of Democratic conventions.' They voted solidly for General Coburn, and, if ever a candidate represented tho best elements of his party and of the community, as well as its best interests, General Coburn does If there is any Republican gang he is ; not its product, and it did not nominate him. Tho delegates to the convention were all chosen before it was known that he would be .a candidate, and he was the honest choice of as intelligent and honest a convention as ever met. If Judge Sullivan represents the best . element in his party, ho also represents the worst. He owes'his nomination to the Coy element of his party. The delegation from tho Eighteenth ward, selected by Coy, was instructed for Sullivan by permission of the boss himself. Coy and his henchmen and followers are all enthusiastic for Sullivan. And why shouldn't they be! Sullivan has never opposed them or their methods, so far as known. He was not one of the Democrats who acted with the Committee of One Hundred. If he ever uttered a word in condemnation of the tally-sheet forgeries it is not of record. During the long pursuit and prosecution of Coy and Bernhamer his voice was not nearu on me siue or en forcing the law and punishinir crime. Then and always, like a large majority of Democrats, he stood by his party, content to let it reap the fruit and enjoy the usufruct of fraud if it could, without any question as to methods. Judge Sullivan never could nor would have been nominated without tho support of tho Coy wing of the Democracy. Ho stands today as much the representative of that element as of any other, and without its solid support would not Btand the ghost of a chance of election. Nor is there anything in his character, career, or antecedents to justify a belief that he would rise above the dead, level of his party following or attempt to resist or control its managing spirits. He is not the stuff that reformers are made of. Dr. Moore, the new editor of tho Western Christian Advocate, in assuming his duties, this week, says, over his own signature, in tho editorial columns of that paper: Never in the past has the Western been the organ of any political party. Its course will not bo changed. It will urge the duty of Christians to uso faithfully the helps of existing laws, while seeking for stronger and better ones; aud, therefore, will "call upon our people everywhere, without distinction of party, to lend their ellbrtsfor the faithful administration of tho rcatrict-

ive, suppressive and prohibitory feature of existing liquor laws." That is the practical and ideal course in all things. Use the "restrictive" power while struggling for the other. The Doctor seems to disagree with that small class of temperance people . who prefer a free liquor traffic if they can't have prohibition. Gen. Clinton B. Fisk, of New Jersey, utters practically the samo views: I wish it understood that while I am a Prohibitionist 1 am in favorof local option. As an American freeman. I resent the action of the last Legislature, which repealed the law of 18SS. I know that some members of my own party do not agree with me in my opinions on local option, but I shall always and everywhere be in favor of it. It will be remembered that the third party brought about the election of the last New Jersey Legislature, which repealed the restrictive and local -option law of that State. The law of 18S8, to which he refers, contained the high-tax feature, and also local option. This utterance is in the general direction to which, practically, all temperance thought is now turned.

TnE morning organ of the gang has discovered that coarse abuse of General Coburn is bad policy. Somebody with more sense than the very fresh editor has evidently been laying down the law. A colored member of the Georgia Legislature, who represents the district in which a crazy negro who claimed to be Christ recentlv raised somo excitement, rieniea thA report that the lunatic wa9 accepted as a genuine Savior by the colored people. He says the pretended Savior came in a bobtail sack coat and a plug hat, and with a chew of tobacco in his month, and that only a few "no-class" negroes listened to his ravines. It does not require book education for negroes to be exacting in the matter of dress requirements, and even the most unlettered of them must have seen that a sack coat and a plug hat, to say nothing of tobacco, did not meet the proprieties of divine costuming. Mr. Maukick Thompson deserves sympathy from literary people for the unexpected 'appearance of one of his early and forgotten stories in a sensational paper. Edgar Fawcett and other prominent writers are said to contribute to twelfth-rate publications regularly and to derive large emoluments therefrom, but the blood and thunder tales do not appear over their own distinguished names. If Mr. Thompson had supposed that his veally eftort would be resurrected after twenty years and be printed to his discomfiture he would doubtless have refunded the $100 so gladly received for the work long ago. Chicago is determined not to let the public forget that the Cronin murder occurred in that city. Every few days a sensational story concerning the case is heralded to the world, only to bo denied and denounced as a falsehood in the succeeding twenty-four hours. Tho latest "sensation," in which Miss LcCaron's letters was made to figure, was hardly born before it went the way of its predecessors. There is a growing impression down this way that the windy city has free use of the press associations for advertising purposes. A distinguished English electrician as serts that it is impossible to get an electric current of sufficient intensity to kill a man, and that the reports published in the news papers about people being killed by acci .dental contact with the wires were sensational and untrue. As such reports appear every day or so, and the persons said to be killed are duly buried, the Englishman's statement is a matter of importance. If the victims of the wires are not really dead their friends onght to know it. The Kansas City Star has moved into its new building, and celebrates its tenth birthday by appearing in eight-page form. It has proven a mine of gold for its proprietor and a fountain of pleasure for iU readers. As might naturally be supposed, its founder and owner is an Indiana man. James RussfxiLowell has lately been placed by a friend in possession of the manuscript of an early and entirely forgotten poem written by himself. Maurice Thompson, whose early and forgotten blood-aud-thunder story has just got into print, probably envies Lowell his luck. To the Spiceland Astronomer: Between 5 and 6 o'clock P. M. Jupiter now occupies our meridian. What parallel of our latitude does he mark at the same time? Please answer through the Journal. Y. n. M. Brazil, InL, Sept. 18. Carnegie has just been interviewed by, a Pittsburg paper, and seemed in excellent spirits., Perhaps he has not yet heard of the rope Mr. Voorhees has in store for him. Major Warner, strangely enough, prefers a law practice and $20,000 per year to $5,000 per year and tho abuse of the combined Democratic and mugwump press. O The famous wooden nutmeg of Connecticut l as been outdone by a rubber oyster at Milwaukee. Itis claimed for it that it is in no wise dependent on the r" season. ABOUT PEOPLE AXD THINGS. Queen Victoria now weighs 193 pounds. Mr. Parker Pili.sbury, the Abolitionist and reformer, will celebrate his eightieth birthday anniversary on Sunday, lie is in vigorous physical and intellectual health. The wedding trousseau of the Empress of China filled 600 boxes, each of which took two men to carry. The Emperor's two other wives were able to pack their apparel into 200 boxes. Lord Brassey's London house is lighted I y electric lamps, enclosed in seashells of sheds a glowing refulgence over tho whole apartment. An eight-year-old daughter of William Winter, of the New York Tribune, -was recently baptized in Shakspeare's Church, Stratford-on-Avon. She was given the name of "Viola Hosaraond." The Rev. D. R. Lowrie, presiding elder of the Jersey City district of the Methodist Episcopal Church, has been made a doctor oi divinity by Graut Memorial University and by Mount Union College. Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett has bought a home in Surry, England, and is likely to spend most of her time there when not in this country. Mrs. Burnett will probably return to this country in Novem ber. F. L. Parker, of Ann Arbor, wishes to gracious he had torn that old sidewalk up himself. The man to whom he let the job of building him a new sidewalk found a $20 gold piece and some silver money under the old wane Mr. Gladstone enjoys his little joke now and then. Writing the other a ay to a Home-rule candidate at a bye-election, he said: I am very glad to hear ot your having been selected. On the next occasion I hope that the 's' may be cut oil." It is reported that a Fremont, Neb., lady, recently deceased, had become so strongly attached to her two Jersey cows, which had supplied her stock of milk for some time before her death, that she insisted that at her death they should both be killed. The death is announced in Washington ox John W. Lane, a millionaire oi rortuno,

Me. Mr. Lane was interested in the telegraph business with Thomas T. Eckert before the formation of the Western Union Telegraph Company, had interests in the Providence horse railroads, and owned fifty houses in Portland. He was seventyone years old. The young Dnc de Moray is to solace his elegant leisure by publishing his father's memoirs! This will, if the papers have not been tampered with, bring to licht the hidden machinery of the second French Empire as it has never been exposed before. The idea that ono can really love but once stands corrected in the case of John Wales, a Newburg man. He has been married seven different times, and he says he truly loved in each and every case, and he never went sparking without carrying a package of gum-drops along for his ideal Says the Philadelphia News: "Jay Cooke is once again a prominent figure in Third street, and still wears the venerable white hat that made him a familiar figure here twenty years ago. It is currently believed that be made a million dollars out of tho Horn Silver mine siuce his failure in 18T3 and that he has kept the money and added to it." One of Paris's glories, of which few people knew, has just gone. Thackeray, when in Paris, used to frequent the Cafe Vernon, and there he had put for his special use a quantity Of London porter. An evening or two ago two English journalists and a naval officer had the honor of drinking the last two pints of Thackeray's porter, drinking his health in full appreciation of his fame and of the quality of tht venerable liquid, which was pronounced to be nectar, indeed. Mr. Labouchere's London Truth thus describes Mr. Edison: "Edison, who is trying to make the world 'all ears,' is very deaf. When you speak to him he holds his hand behind liis ears, watches your face intently, and when, he catches what you say he breaks into smiles or laughter. His countenance shows the good nature and good humor of the Western,' and his blue-gray eye lights up quickly. It is otherwise all cogitation or perception. The instant he men t all v perceives something it twinkles prettily.,f Who says Ella Wheeler Wilcox is not magnetic A Menden (Conn.) newspaper says: "A large number of people assembled in front of the postoffice on Saturday to witness the public mind-reading test of Lena Loeb, the 'electric girl.' A reporter had hidden a cabinet photograph of Ella Wheeler Wilcox in a Iaw-otiice safe. At the appointed time the young lady, blindfolded, and accompanied by the reporter, started in search of the hidden picture. She at once led the reporter to the law office aud up to the safe. In a few minutes she had the picture." Henry Labouchere, editor of London Truth and M. P. for Southampton, was, for years, a rover in the wilds of the far West. Finally he settled down and through family interest managed to secure an attacheship to the British legation at Washington, . but at the end of two years he was dismissed for enlisting American citizens for the Crimean war at the same time with Crampton, tho British minister. He then turned his attention to journalism, and after serving on the editorial staff of several London papers, he started his own successful journal which now yields him an income of upwards of $50,000 per annum.

COMMENT AND OPINION. Ex-SrEAKER Carlisle is confident that Mr. Cleveland will be the Democratic nominee for President in 1892. Brother Carlisle bhould consult David B. Hill, of New York, and see how far behind time Kentucky is in her knowledge of political arrangements. Philadelphia Press. The Republican majority in Congress do not propose to have one vote in Mississippi count as much as three in Michigan in the election of President and the government of the country, and it will find a way to prevent a continuance of the present condition of affairs. Detroit Tribune. Jefferson Davis was the leader in a rebellion the follv of which has been demon strated to all the world, including his own section of country. If there are people still left in the latter region who have not re alized its wickedness, the subject is hardly worth discussing with them. Boston Her ald. Wiikn the Southern Democrats inform us that they are capable of taking care of the race 'question without interference, and that ail they ask is to be "let alone." thev make an insolent and indefensible demand to be allowed to control the national government by the aid of fraud and violence. Boston Journal. The Republican party has so much that is great in its past record that it can well rejoice to have something honorable done by its antagonists. When Democrats have some little reason to look with satisfaction upon their own performances, they will not be quite so anxious to bury m iorgetfulness the services of the Republican party. New York Tribune. In Georgia, as in every other Southern State, the Hogging of negroes is a recognized form of diversion on the part of the whites. That is one of the methods by which the colored race is disciplined to the uses of a strictly Caucasian system of gov ernment, and the glory of the Democratic party is contirmedandpromotod. St. Louis U lo be-Democrat. The new South may continue to call itself Democratic; that is a matter of little comparative import. It is coming day by aay closer to Kepuuiican theory ana prac tice: ana so that the doctrines of truth and justice bring forth their legitimate fruits of nrosnentv and hanniness it matters little by what politicai"denomination they are taught and accepted. Chicago Inter Ocean. China has no real grievance against this country of such magnitude as to constitute a casus belli. There is probably a natural irritation at the exclusion act, but it is in no sense an aggressive measure. It is purely negative in character so far as China is concerned. The only probable retaliation is the restriction of American commerce in China. Even this is too doubtful to be seriously considered. Philadelphia Inquirer. COBURN'S NOMINATION. Estimation in Which the General Is Held by the Republican Press of the State. i Rockville Republican: The Republicans of Indianapolis have nominated Gen. John Coburn for Mayor. No better selection could have been made, and he will no doubt be elected. The capital Republicans are on their mettle, and are going in to win. They mu8t,put down Coy ism and all that means. The people of the State will watch with interest the tight that is now on between Republicans and honesty and Democrats and corruption in Indianapolis. Terre Haute Express: . General Coburn, whom the Republicans at Indianopolis have nominated for Mayor, is a man without reproach, and this is undisputed, though ho has held many responsible positions. He is a gentleman, a soldier, and trained in public affairs. He is just the man needed at the head of municipal affairs at Indianapolis at this time. If the people of that city consult their own local affairs reS aidless of extraneous influences he will e elected on Oct. 8. Delphi Journal: Gen. John Coburn was nominated for Mayor by the Republicans of Indianapolis last week. He is a true, good and able man, aud tho Republicans honored themselves when they honored him. While tho Democracy of Indianapolis are sailing under the banner of Sim Coy, it is gratifying to see the Republicans follow the leadership of a man of General Coburn's worth and ability. Shall Sim Coy. the penitentiary bird, or General Coburn, the gallant soldier and distinguished citizen, rule Indianapolis for the next two years! Loganspopt Journal: The nomination of Gen. John Coburn by the Republicans of Indianapolis as their candidate for Mayor of that city was creditable to them and gratifying to the party throughout the State. General Coburn is a man whose high character, solid ability and devoted and important service to his country, his State and his homo community cannot be called in question, and whoso election as Mayor of Indianapolis would do honor to the people of that city especially, and rellect honor upon the people of the entire State. New Albany Tribune: Tho Republicans of Indianapolis have done exactly the right thing in the nomination of Gen. Jchn Coburn as their candidate for Mayor. The capital of Indiana will dishonor i tself, or at least fail to honor itself, if it due not give

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er a question as to who shall be elected. Hot is precisely me jana ot man needed lor thei Mayor of a city. He was a gallant soldiery and his moral courage in peace is as strong? as his bravery in war. On questions aflecU ing the interests of the peoplo his judgment is clear and hii intetrritv n rifr;,i n ctl ' He is a courageous, earnest, honest man. Ha sxanas iour snare to every wind that blows. He is richly gifted with hi irh-mind-ed manhood, and he will bring to the man agement of the city's affairs a broad comprehension of the public weal and ability to impress deeply, for the general good, the business affairs of tho city. He ought to be elected; he surely will be. Instructing the Children In Fraud. Washington Herald. Deception ought not to be taught in tha public school. Tho books put in the hands of the children should not bo deception. The children should not be made believa that their ceoeranhv is now. printed in In diana in l&SDbvthe Indiana School-book Company, when the facts are that it wan published in Minnesota in 1SS5. The tirao and place of publication is concealed by pasting a paper over tho back and cutting out the title-page and pasting in another, announcing the new publishers and new date. An old book with a new cover. Secretary Tracy' Courtesy. Troy Times. That was a pi-asant 6how of courtesy when Secretary Traev. nf t h nrr rcA. day sent to ex-Secretary Whitney, his predecessor, a dispatch congratulating hira upon the magniheent performance of th new war-ship Baltimore, which had been designed and contracted for under Mr. Whitney's administration. Though the two scuncuicu uuioi poiiucaur, me? can sinic partisanship in a common desire to promote. the rmblir. -welfare. . Wn wnn rr..i n and all who help to get it aro deserving of Wages of the Sin of Sensationalism. Chicago Herald. The Herald reorets thft TinMiafinn iv yesterday's issue of a sensational story serious auccuuR me management ovot. Lnke i Hospital. The story was contributed from a sniirr.A eonsiiHered reliable. 1ati infnrtn. tion proves it to be wholly without foundation in fact Of so excellent an Institution as St. Luke's has during many years proved, itself to be the Herald will not williti irlt b the detractor. The Eastern Mind in Danger. Chicago MaiL With only two points between New York and Boston in the pennant raco the Eastern base-ball crank ought to be next door to lunacy. If this sea-saw between the leading clubs continues business in Boston and New York will probably be abandoned while the people watch breathlessly the struggles of their teams. Tho suspense is awful. But Where Was Wiggins? Cleveland Leader. An anxious contemporary in search of information wants te know why the recent hurricane along the Atlantic coast was not predicted by the signal sen-ice. Perhaps it was for the reason that there is no telegraphic communication between this country and that part of the western hemisphere in which the storm originated Susan B. Anthony Should Migrate. Philadelphia Telegraph. The women are masters of the situation in Wyoming. For several years they have been vested with the ballot under tho laws of the Territory. Tho men assembled ia convention at Cheyenne are afraid to submit a constitution denying equal suffrage for fear the women will vote against the proposition for statehood. Amenities of the Capital-Site War. Pnkwana, S. D., Press. The reason the Huron street-cars were not running was because Veterinary Collins pronounced tho street-car horse sick and would not allow them to use him. Huron people claimed the horse was just as well as ho ever was and it was a put-up job to injure Huron's capital chances. The Southern Idea. Washington Press. . ; Two or threo hundred Southern Democratic editorials that have come to hand this week might be condensed into this shape without any injustice to the writers: "We get along very well with the negro as an inferior animal, but have no use for hira as a man." m i Is This Dae to the "Robber Tariff? Boston Adrertlser. Besides the great strike in London, England has at present another source of national discomfort. This is nothing less than a syndicate or trust which has formed a cor- ' ner in cotton, the effect of which has been to almost paralyze tho cotton trado in Lancashire, Contrast with, a Moral. Albany Jourail. The owner of the Antwerp cartridge-factory, where the recent explosion occurred with such fatal results, has been arrested. I Up to date all the owners of the South Fork J Fishing Club, whose broken dam destroyed thousands of lives, are at large. ' The Only Hope of Catching Tascott, Chicago Journal. Of course Hannigan came back! Didn't McGarigle do likewise! So in time will Tascott. And so will everybody who has had a taste of the glorious climate and good fellowship of Chicago. The charm of tho Garden City is irresistible. Not Entirely Forgotten. Minneapolis Tribune. They toll us that Carl Schurz and Grovcr Cleveland aro candidates for the seat in Congress made vacant by the death of S. S. Cox. Cleveland! Schurz! Those names have a familiar sound somehow. Caucasian Supremacy. New York Press. Another negro church has been burned by white "regulators" this time in Mississippi. By such impressive achievements as this does tho Southern Caucasian demonstrate his superiority over tho colored man. Can't Spoil a Bad L'gg. Kansas City Journal. Among three hundred Chicagosns who have been examined the attorneys in the Cronin case have been unable to find twelvo good men and true. The city will get a bad reputation. The Public Should Clear the Track. Baltimore American. General Butler will publish his memoirs, and Amelie Rives will collaborate a novel with a French writer. And yet Korne people think that tho literary outlook is not exciting. m m Dreadful Suggestion. New York Press. Hornbie thought: Suppose, now, that Chicago subscribes all that is necessary and gets the fair, and that then the Eas't refuses to lend the monejT! Gotham's ICuUnjr J'asslon. Balmxore American. Perhaps those New York millionaires may yet put in a bill against the city for allowing their names to be used on tho exposition committees. Atdeep Like the Rest of the Town, St. luis Fost-Diiatch. It appears that ono of the principals in a mill must be killed to convince the police authorities that a real prize-light has takt-u place. lias the Third Party "Gone Broke?" Iowa Register. Ex-Governor St. John has come out squarely against the taiiff. He is evidently trying to bleed the free-traders awhile. ClTiliiation Under Democratic Rule. Pittsburg CnroniclW'est Virginia has had six lynchings in seven week?, but the men who stole the governcrsbip are still at large. Chicago Is Herself Agalu. Chicago Journal. What with Cooney, Hannigant McGarigle and Mackiu back again. Chicago be gins to look like old times. Atom In His Meanness. WasMugton Pre. Gath" has unenvied solitude iu attempting to belittle tho late S. 5. Cox.