Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 September 1889 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1889.

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THE INDIAKAPOUS JOURNAL Cab b lond at the following places: LOTON" American r.ichange in Zuroje, 449 Baind, rABIS American Exchange La Paris, 35 Boulevard es Capudaea, 2XW TCBX Gilaey House and Windsor Hotel. PHIIADEIHIAA, SeaMa3735 Lancarter aveaue. CHICAGO Palmer Iloaae. CINCINNATI J. P. Haw ley A Co 154 Vine tree! LOITI8VILLE O. T. Deering, nortoweat corner Third and JeZeraoa street. BX. LOTJIS TJnlon News Company, Union Depot and Southern HoteL 7A8nrxaioir, d. c niggs noose ana sitm House. You would hardly know a city campaign was "on" to read tho Democratic organs. Their guns were spiked early in tho fray. New Mexico is a little premature in nnrmlation needs a little education in American principles before they aro fit to become luii-iicagea citizens. After the chapter on Indiana in the Becktold "complete geography" pre pared especially for .Indiana students has been corrected by an Indiana teacher it looks like a section of crazy quilt. P03TaSTEJJGEXERAL WANAMAKER is planning to reduce the size of the postage stamp. He will hardly get it so waall that it will not cover 4he State of t Indiana in the " 13 ccktold primary geog raphy. . ' ' " Kansas assumes to possess a rather uncommonly Itfgh order of civilization. Since its outbreak of mob-law, and the shameful treatment of the Edwards family it can take a back seat along with Georgia and Mississippi. When one has gone through the acts of the last Indiana Legislature and black-marked those which have been held unconstitutional or invalid by the courts, tho volume looks like one of the Becktold-Williams geographies that has been marked for errors. And now the Live Stock Commission, created by the last Legislature, will have to go to law to find, out whether it has a righ to its legal existence or not. The "mistakes of Moses7! were trifling in nurjber compared to the blunders of that astonishing Legislature. Tire united efforts of the New York city press are now directed against the selection of a portion of Central Park as a site for the world's fair of 1803. Mean while, Chicago is not worrying about a site, but is raising money at a Tate that New York' may find it hard to overtake. The success of an old soldier in a popular vote for postmaster at Win chester shows that the public docs not share the animosity of tho Democratic and mugwump politicians to the Union veterans. What is true in Winchester is true in other towns of tho country where such trials have been made. When Kansas people start out to make ' a man or woman confess, a confession of some sort is bound to come. When you hang a man long enough, and not too long, he is apt to bo ready to own up to " any crime. In tho Kansas case both tho 'man and tho woman owned up to a murder that was never committed. This hanging affair disgraces the State. Senator Voouuees's celebrated Bloomfield speech was evidently, from its exhausting effects, the greatest effort of his life. His present indisposition dates from that time, and by adhering to man uscriptcarefully revised he avoids any temptation to wave a metaphorical clothes-line at "the Carnegies," and thereby avoids further nervous strain. But tho Indiana public misses its enter tainment, and hopes he will hurry and get well. - Gray, with his platitudes, is not a satisfactory substitute. Arkansaxs have ' not yet had their minds disabused of tho idea that a State is an independent sovereignty. A bill is being prepared for adoption by the Leg islature which attempts to overthrow all civil-rights enactments of Congress by compelling railroad companies, under penalty of heavy fines, to provide sepa rate coaches for colored people. There is nothing objectionable in this to the race affected, except that it is a step in the direction of robbing them of all rights granted them under amendments to tho federal Constitution. As the time approaches for the inter national congress of American states interest in the event increases, as do tho indications that its importance ha not been overrated. Especially significant is tho open opposition of European gov ernments to the congress, as expressed by leading continental papers. This is natural, and, from their stand-point, legitimate. It is simply looking out for their own interests, which is tho duty of - every government and people. Euro pean governments see plainly enough that a congress of this kind, designed to ; produce closer commercial relations botween the United States and those of Central and South America, is likely to fiffect . their own commercial nrestiire. r-nd eventually injure their trade with , thc:o ctstea. Their opposition to the concreza is entirely nrtaral because entire ly cslllrh. It cnr.ct, of course, vie'vest t!:3 cc2 jrcri frcm being held, but :tt::1 l-zili eororrcr-tatives of those

governments to do all in their nowcr to

prevent the United States from reaping any advantage from it. Several of tho delegates: who arrived at New York yesterday were properly received, and boino ot them reported their people as enthusiastic over tho anticipated results of the congress. The event may prove to be one of historic interest and farreaching consequences. IKSULTIBO THE GERMANS. When Sim Coy was chairman of tho Democratic committee he said "there is no trouble about the German vote I'll bring them to camp solid." This was the boast of a boss who had no faith in honest motives or good citizenship. Coy's theory was that all Germans would vote the Democratic ticket on account of the temperance question. He and other Democratic managers have the same idea now. Judge Sullivan expects a large German support for the same rea son. I hey assume that all Germans place beer above every other considerationand that they do this to such an extent that they will vote for the repeal of the saloon tax. The assumption is an insult to the Germans. It implies that they have no other interest in politics but beer, and that, rather than have tho saloons taxed, they would vote to throw away a revenue of $75,000 a year. There may be, and doubtless are, some Germans of that kind, as there are some Americans men who have no thought above their bellies and filling thein with beer but we do not believe their number is very great. The Ger mans as a class are conservative and law-abiding, in favor of honest politics and good government. We believe most of them are in favor of the saloon-tax as a financial measure. - They know the city needs the revenue, and that it will relieve the burden of taxation in other directions. A very largo number of our German citizens are property-owners, and interested in good government and low taxes. They cannot fail to perceive that the saloon-tax conduces to these ends. They may indulge in an occasion al glass of beer that is an individual taste which is nobody's business. But it docs not follow that they are in favor of allowing tho sa loons to control our politics or of exempting them from a tax such as all other cities impose. The fact that they have their beer with their families does not necessarily argue that they are in favor of a city government by the sa loons and for tho saloons. That was tho insulting imputation of Coy when he said he would bring the German vote into camp, and it is precisely what he and other .Democratic managers expect to do now. COY'S RETENTION IN THE COUNCIL. At the last city election Sim Coy car ried the Eighteenth ward by a plurality of 179. The vote was: Republican, 153; Democratic, :32; Labor, G7. Coy was under indictment at that time, but had not yet been convicted. He was con victed a few months later, aud for near ly two years the , Eighteenth ward had the unique distinction of being repre sented in the Council by an inmate of the penitentiary. This disgrace was primarily due to those who elected Coy, but not entirely so. It was shared by Democratic members of tho Council who voted against his expulsion. The proceedings are matter of record. April 10, 1888, Councilman Darnell submitted the following: To the Mayor ami Common Council of the City of Inaianapoiij: Gentlemen The undersigned, a member of this Council from the Third ward,' charges Simeon Coy. a member of this Council from the Eighteenth ward, with conduct unbecoming a member of this bodv, and. warranting his expulsion therefrom, in this particular, to-wit: That the said Coy. at the election for State and county officers and members of Congress, held in this county and State, in the year 188ft, violated certain provisions m inn tMeciiuu lawn ui me uuuni oiiiies, for which baid violation ho was. on the USth day of January, 1SSS, in the United States District Court, for the district of Indiana, convicted: that, on the Sd day of February. 1888. by the judge of said court, acting as a court, said Coy, upon said conviction, was sentenced to imprisonment in tho State prison for a period of eighteen months, and lined in the sum ot 8100. aurt is now serving out said sentence. Therefore, the under signed asks that proper action be taken looking to the expulsion of said Coy from this liouy. Mr. Markey, Democratic councilman from the Tweuty-third ward, otiered a motion"that this matter be referred to tho judiciary committee, with instructions to report after tho decision of the Supreme Court." It would seem that Markey had some doubts as to the legality of Coy's conviction, and was of the Opinion that tho Supreme Court of the United States might reverse the rulings of tho lower court. However, his motion did not pre vail, and a committee of three, consisting of Councilmen Darnell, Dunn and Markey, was appointed to investigate the charge. At the next meeting of the Council Messrs. Darnell and Dunn submitted a report stating that they had investigated tho charge and found it to be true. Councilman Markey submitted a minority report asking that the commit tee be granted time until the next regular meeting of the Council. A motion was made to lay Markey's report on the table, which was adopted by 14 to 8, all tho Republicans voting in tho ailirmative and all the Democrats in the negative. At a special meeting, April SO, 1S88, called to take final actiou in tho matter, Markey submitted, a report reviewing the prosecution and trial of Coy at con siderable length, attacking tho court, tho Committee , of One Hundred, tho grand jury, the petit jury and the wit nesses, and concluding as follows: After niving the case a fair and impartial investigation, and lirmly believing that tho government of the United States will never allow a persecuted case., instead of a prosecuted one, like his, to stand against oue of her citizens, we, your committee, report that there is no evidence to sustain the charge against saidSimeou Coy, and recommend that the charges against him be not sustained. Among other reasons cited in Markey's report why the charges should not be sustained was, "that while still under indictment in the United States Court, lie was unanimously renominated by his party and re-elected by double the majority he over Teceived as a member of this Council." The city attorney submitted tho transcript from the court records showing Coy's indictment, trial, conviction and sentence. The Mayor stated the ouestion to be. "Has tho charge sub-

mitted by the majority of the committee been sustained P On this all the

Republicans, 15, voted in the affirmative, and all the Democrats, 9, in the negative. Tho charges having been sustained, the Mayor then put the qnestion as to the expulsion of Coy, and the vote was the same, fifteen Republicans voting aye and nine Democrats voting no. As it requires a two-thirds vote to expel a member, the motion for expulsion failed. Of the nine Democrats who voted against expulsion three are candidates ior reelection along with Coy, viz., .Burns, Hicklin and Markey. And so it came to pass, first, by the action of the Democrats of the Eighteenth ward in electing Coy while he was under indictment, and, second by the action of all the Democrats in the Council in refusing to expel him after his conviction, that he continued to serve as a member of the Council during the entire term of his imprison ment. There ought to be enough decent Dem ocrats in tho Eighteenth ward to unite with the Republicans in redeeming it by the defeat of Coy and saving the city from tho disgrace of having an exconvict in the Council. Witii all due respect to the city au thorities, it mus.t be said that the release of Hazelrigg, alias Jones, from the workhouse before the expiration of his sentence was an act of mistaken leniency. The misdemeanor of which he was guilty was that of public indecency and in sulting women. The highest legal penalty that can bo imposed for this offense is entirely inadequate, but when an original sentence of thirty days is cut down to five the result is simply to en courage depraved wretches of this class to continue their outrageous behavior. From time to time these creatures are heard of as'infesting different parts of town, but they are seldom brought to justice, owing to tho difficulty of identi fying them and the reluctance of women to appear in court against them. When women who encounter such men have their wits about them and the courage to secure the arrest and conviction of the offenders they deserve the thanks of the . community, and should have such encouragement from the authorities as would show their efforts to be worth while. In the case in question the ex cuse is made that the man was under the influence of opium. It is a poor ex cuse, and will form a convenient plea for himself and for others like him on similar occasions in future. Referring to the street commission er's report, the News says "the figures show an expenditure similar to the extravagant Democratic and Republican administrations of 1873-7G." There is fairness and truthfulness for you call ing an expenditure of $50,000 a year "similar" to tho one of nearly twice that amount, and trying to hold the Republicans responsible for the extravagant Democratic administration of 1874-70. Of the latter, tho News said,) Nov. 20, 1875: Tho police expense this year will run to $100,000, or $25,000 above the estimate. The . eixeec repairs win ue ai least jiuu,uuu, ana the estimate for them was $75,000. Here is an excess over estimates in two items alone of 50,000. The street repairs that year did not reach the figure named, but they were $90,000 at least $40,000 jnore than they will be this year, when the city covers a much greater area, has many more miles of streets, and has had to clean up after all the natural-gas companies. The fact is, the present campaign of Democratic. reform is made up entirely of lying and false pretense. It is announced that Chief -justice Ful ler intends to re-establish his family in their home at Chicago. It is said both he and they prefer that city as a place of residence because, while Washington is a pleasant place, it is so full of official life that tho domesticity of tho home is de stroyed. There is good sense in this view of the case, but it is also probable the Chief-justice., found that keeping house in Washington with a large fam ily of daughters "in society" would prove too heavy a draft on his judicial income. It takes a great deal of money to keep up with the procession in Washington. One would judge from recent exploits that "taking" unreliable news was the chief business of tho Chicago press, or rather certain members thereof. It now transpires that the bloody cotton fonind in the Carlson cottage was placed thero by 'reporters; that "Old Hutch" was not held up and despoiled of 15 cents by foot-pads, and that the recent "race war" at Lawrencoville occurred only iu the mind of an imaginary correspondent. Ere long we may exrect to hear that Cronins body was never found, that tho story of Chicago an nexing her suburbs was a "fake," and there is no movement on foot to 6ecure for Chi cago the world's fair. Tnn American Association has arbitrated tho dispute between the St. Eonis and Brooklyn base-ball clubs by giving one game to one club, the other to its opponent, and imposing a corpulent fine, which goes into the Association's treasury. Apparently it clung with great fidelity to the precedent of that famous arbitrator, whom we used to read about in our primary schooldays, who gavo to each contestant half tho shell and ate the kernel himself. In union there is strength, as we all know. and when such powerful bodies as the two national female suflrage associations join forces and charge on a State somebody has to get out of the way.' People who are onLposcdto equal suffrage in Indianauay as well get ready to view tno coming JU8h ville mcetiug with alarm. The number of persons who lost their lives at Johnstown, Pa., in the South Fork dam casualty, is now definitely put at 3,wu. mis estimate was secureu uy a com parison of the proof-sheets of the last di rectory with the new one just issued. Only six saloons cut of the ninety-six escaped destruction in the flood. George Francis Train has a penchant for getting into trouble. He was arrested in Boston yesterday, and asked to settle a judgment secured against him thirteen years ago. With true martyr instinct he declared be would go to jail rather than ry it. His eccentricities aro not lessening with his added years. r Tiik citizen of Putnam c uinty vho died at the age of eighty-three with the distinc tion of never having traveled in a railway car lived longer, perhaps, by reason of his

avoidance of rapid and sometimes dangerous transit; but a man who never leaves

Putnam county tilLdeath calls him misses lots of fun. An attempt on the life of Russia's Czar is said to have been made just as he was starting on his trip to Copenhagen. The Peterhoff station was blown up with dyna mite, but for some reason the explosion oc curred before the Czar's arrival. . ' The convention of funeral directors is a little ahead of time. If it had delayed its meeting for two weeks, it might have been on hand to take charge of the remains of the Democratic gang, literary organs and all. If there are any more prominent gentle men throughout the country who do not want to be , Pension Commissioner, now is the time for them to get in their interviews before the appointment is finally made. ' One of the leading questions of the fall Campaign is whether or not that 'E," in the name of E. IJurd Grubb, candidate for Governor of New Jersey, stands for "Early." Indiana points with pride to two federal officeholders within her borders who have actually resigned. ' It is unnecessary to add that they are Republicans. Grover Cleveland attended a clam bake last week, but it was not half so hilarious an affair as when he was baked last November. - ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Mrs. Henry S. Kimball, of West Phila delphia, is receiving tho credit of originating Memorial day. Mrs. John W. Mackay is in Paris, where she will remain for some weeks. Mrs. Mackay prefers her London home to Paris. Emieror William, of Germany, has sub scribed 10,000 francs to the fund for the re lief of the sufferers by. the recent explosion and fire at Antwerp. Senator Inoalls has purchased a new homestead in the southwestern part of At chison. Ku., to replace the house that was burned u few years ago. .The O'Gorman Mahon, friend and com rade of O'Connell. is now eighty-six years old, with snowy hair, leonine face, and .erect and stalwart frame. Senator Sherman and family are pres ently going borne, to Mansfield, but will return to Washington in time to eat their lhanksgiving-uay dinner there. Mr. Koo, of the Chinese legation at Washington, is going home to marry a Chinese girl he has never seen. Koo is a nice, domestic, atlectiouate name. ' An interesting discovery is said to hayo been made in India. This is nothing less than the lost books of Euclid, of which a Sanskrit translation is said to have been found at Jeypore. A London correspondent says that the cause of JUrs. Kives-cnaniers abandon ment of literature lies in the fact that her success gavo rise to a school of fiction which has produced a large number of fe male writers who have brought eroticism into disrepute. . One of the best records in continuous horseback riding that have ever been chron icled was made recently by Lieutenant Assif, who rode from Lubry. in southern Russia, to Paris, a distance of l.buO miles, in thirtv day's. -He rode two horses, alter nately, one English, the other Russian. Miss Mary S. Cutler, of the New York State Library, has made an inquiry into the practice of libraries having 10,000 volumes and upwards as to Sunday opening.. Out of fifty-nine college libraries heard from, as many as twelve are open on Sunday; only three out oi eicven tneoiogicai seminary libraries. ' - Maj. R. II. Partridge, of Monticello, Fla., has an old.saber, which was picked up in an old field near that town several years ago. With it, at the same time, was found a steel armor weighing eighty pounds. Both the saber and shield bear the marks of antiquity, and no one has ever been able to account for them, - At the Hotel Bristol, Paris, on his ar rival, say the French papers, Mr. Gladstone wore a gay air. After cautioning his wifo to step carefully as she left the carriage, he added, deprenatmgiy, ut course, though, you . can still jump, and so could 1 if I chose." Then, disdaining to use the elevator, he sprang nimbly up the stairs. The Afghan Ameer's method of vengeance on his rebel prisoners is pretty highly developed. One batch, numbering three hundred, were put to death three a day. One of the tno.was always hanged, dressed in yellow and green, another was dressed in biacK ana oiown irom a gun, anu ine third was dressed in red and cut up with a sword. ......... A French woman invented one of the most original methods of dealing with a re fractory child ever revealed to the public. She fastened on the hat of her eight-year-old daughter, wno naa oeen naugntv, a placard inscribed with the words, 'Mademoiselle is a thief and a liar," and walked herthrouch the streets. It took a police man to rescue tho lady from the mobbing of an indignant crowd. Mme. Pommery, of Rheims, who offered S00.000 francs for .The Angelus, with the view of presenting it to the state, has bought Millet's Glauenses, now on exhibi tion at the Paris Exposition, and will pre? sent it to the L.ouvre. me owner naa re fused an American offer of 400,000 francs. Mme Cotlier has presented to the Louvre ten hue canvases by Decamps, Trovon. Meissonier, Delacroix, Corot and Scheller. Women's rights are sometimes imagined to be acknowledged only in Christian countries. Uganda, in Central Africa, is certainly an exception to the rule, if it is a rule. Here is a passage in proof from Mr. Ashe's new book on that country: "Some-" times women hoeing near the roadside will capture a passer-by, and, on pain of a severe castigatiou or of robbiug him, will niako him take a tnrn while they have a smoke." For some months past tho following advertisement appeared daily in' tho columns of tho London Times: Miss Ethel Dickens, Type-writing office, 26 Wellington street, 8tran1, over tlie oflice of AU the Year KouuL MSd. copied. Trice list on application. There is no necessity for the daughter of tho Fiction Wizard to euter into business: but she is endowed with tho indomitable, energy and power of taking pains which characterized her illustrious father, and these qualities fiud their outlet in the typewriting room. Mrs. Plunkett. the superintendent of tho House of Mercv, a hospital on the English cottage plan, in fashionable Pittsfield. Mass., has given an example of a mother's devotion too complete to pass unnoticed. Her son, a promising young .nan, just ready to enter a mediral school, was stricken with a disease that left him blind. He was unwilling to resign himself to idleness, and his mother went into the classroom with him, making herself his eyes. The text-books on anatomy, phvsiology, chemistry and materia tnedica she went through with him, reading each day's portion over four times aloud, to be sure that it was thoroughly comprehended. Lastfspnng the young doctor graduated with honors, and will devote himself to heart and lung diseases, specialties in which1 sight ha? comparatively little play. Mrs. Plunkett is a serene-faced woman of sixty, who is an intimate friend of Miss Dawes, the daughter of the Senator. COMMENT AND OPINION. Major Merrill, now knows how a flannel shirt feels after it has boeu to the wash. Philadelphia North American. If the leading Southern newspapers con-, tinue their exposure aud denunciation of outrages on the negroes they will noon be-' come the most prominent "bloody-shirf organs." Washington Press. Not one of the fifty workingmen who went to Europe to study tho labor question

remained there to sell his eoods. All came

rlttck to the home market. They have a Jifcrge stock of labor to sell, and every dol lars worm ot it is reserved for this countryDetroit Tribune. . .New York is indeed in a bad way, so far as ine international exposition is conTerned. If the press of the great metropolis is too narrow-minded, short-sichted and bull-headed to be depended upon in this critical emergency, it is evident that the f hole scheme has hopelessly collapsed. rr r asmngion .rose "PRESIDENT Harrison i anfferincr the .itinal penalty of a public officer who has ine courage 10 acknowledge an error by removing an unfit appointee the attacks of his enemies continue, and thev are reiuffrrced by those of the friends of the rejnoved man; but in the end, and from the beginning with all candid men, nothing pays in pontics like turning a man out of an office for whose work he is not fit. Phil adelphia Press. kAfew years more of such educational progress in the South will accomplish vonaers. as enlightment advances bartJarism recedes, and once the South is equal 0 the North in the matter of education, it ;WiH be not far behind in order and civili zation. V hat the South needs more than anything else is public schools for the poor whites, as much as for the blacks, and the developments of the past year hold out prigut promise lormeiuture. miiaaeipnia riorth American. Tl V T PrmTil 1 P i Ti natinnul nivAnl!nn r9 18&S the tribunal of last resort for RepublirRllS nrnni vnllltr oliamniAnaH Vi f pierit system and condemned, the spoils ovciu. jiu au uuiuk it was iu cumpieio acfftTf1 With tflA T&nrA nf Vi A nn aa nrall a with its present spirit and tendency. , The plete triumph of the reform. Its opponents no iui me mosi pars persons wno nave ATPS to TT n f or whn JrA rriron ttlnip vtwa lof public aflairs. New York Tribune. A. 3 no LI) IN G UP THE STANDARD. No Break in the Republican PoUcy of Pro1 tectlon to American Industries. Philadelphia Press. i: The free-trade organs are much elated over the claim that the Democratic convenpons neid this year , have reaffirmed tho tariff plank of the St. Louis platform on 'which the party went to defeat last Nobeen called from his obscurity to express his satisfaction over this result. It is of lit tle consequence, however, to the country whether or not the defeated party adheres to tho revenue policy it wanted to establish. but it is important to know whether the Earty which succeeded continues to npold the principles it advocated during its victorious campaign. The resolutions adopted by the Republican State conventions will tell the story. ' Six Republican State conventions have been held 60 far this year, and every one of them .has emphatically reaffirmed the declaration of the Chicago platform of 1888 in favor of protection to Americfti industries. The. Kentucky convention was the first to meet. The 'third resolution of its platform reads as follows: That we especially indorse and pledge our beat efforts to maintain the policy of our party which inculcates tho protection of American labor and the full development of American industries, and whilst we profess belief in the rights ot man, with us those of our countrymen, native-born and adopted, are ever uppermost. - Coming from the convention of Republic1 tJ I 1 1 IX J Hi nus neiu m a nopeiessiy uemocrauc oiaie, this declaration is clear and satisfactory. The Ohio Republicans were next to meet and resolve. They stated their position in this terse manner: We reuew our adherence to all the principles Fo clearly and strongly enunciated by the Republican national convention of 1888, and especially to the principle of protection in its two-fold meaning and operation; protection to every American citizen at home and abroad; protection to American industry and labor against the industry and labor of the world. A strong deliyerence on the benefits of protection was expected from the Pennsylvadia Republicao i, and it came from t lie convention of Aug. 7, in these words: Protection is the corner-stone of our political faith. "Its greatest blessing is that in protecting the American laborer and manufacturer it strengthens and builds up all interests, resulting in the promotion of a great diversity of business enterprises and a home market. The Virginia Republicans were not behind the party in other States, as the following will show: The Republicans of " Virginia reaffirm their devotion to the national Republican party and its principles, with their earnest approval of Its policy of a protective tariff. The revenue plank in the Iowa platform was another proof of the party's unanimity on this importan t question. It reads as follows. We favor the American system of protection, and we demand of Congress the protection of American industry when it does not foster trusts or trade conspiracies, and we demand the same protection for farm products that is given to the products o2 the labor of other classes. The language of the national platform last year was: "We are uncompromisingly in favor of the American system of protection," and tho New Jersey Republicans declared this week that this resolution "meets our hearty approval and has our unqualified reaftirmance." The conventions held in the four Northwestern Territories which are soon to become States could not have been more emphatic in their declarations in favor of a protective tariff than they were. All of these utterances show that there is no sign of a break anywhere in the supiort the Republican party has given in the past to the policy of protection to American industries. - IT IS NOT TILE OLD BUREAU. A Change in the Agricultural Department that Prevents Its Use by Speculators. Milwaukee SentlneL v We suspect Mr. Watterson of having clipped from his old files to fill out a column with an attack on the Agricultural Department. What the Courier-Journal says of this department was gospel truth about the old bureau, but the world moves and that department is no more what it was last year than the administration is what it was a year ago. The change has been almost noiseless, but nevertheless prodigious. "The conduct of the Agricutlural Department," says Mr. Watterson, "has for years been a national scandal. Under Mr. Cleveland little reformation was effected. The appointment of Mr. Colman was a mistake; the retention of J. R. Dodge was without reason or excuse." He goes on to show, once again, how Statistician .Dodge blundered and was compelled time Aa a? A A V . 1 a autr time to reaujust ms estimates, wnicn had aided speculators at the exponse of the lurmers. 4- But all that has changed, along with the changes in all the divisions of the office. Mr. Dodge is no longer permitted to give the reins to his imagination and to add 10 per cent, or any other per cent, to the estimates of the correspondents. He is a dabster at collecting reports and putting them into shape, and his only fault was in Allowing his untrained fancy to suggest estimates which the reports did not justify. Under the practical regime of Secretary Rusk there is no room for fancy's flights in the realm of bureau statistics. The wings of Mr. Dodge's imagination have been clipped and he has been brought to the use of the prosaic lead pencil instead of the flighty goose-quill. In other words. Secretary Rusk limits the work of Mr. Dodge to the collection and presentation of the coldfigure estimates of the correspondents. Secretary Rusk himself compares the completed work with the reports on which it li based. vThe Agricultural Department is all right, and the tobacco and cotton crops will hereafter be known for what they are, with no advantage to speculators. TWO DISTINGUISHED EXILES. Efc-3Iayor Oakey Hall Living In London and Theodore Til ton in Paris. PaVis Letter to Philadelphia Times. Sometimes you will meet men who briug up. scenes that are of the past and are almost forgotten. They bring up old memories old ghosts of the past, as it were. 1 1 ( i s but a short time ago that I saw Oakey Hall in London, and what recollections of New York under the reign of Tweed he brought up! Those were great days for Hall, and for men who were a great deal worse .than he. What a fellow of infinite i'est he was, and what a bright spot le made the Mayor's office in Iew York some twenty years .ago. The older newspaper men, politicians and men about town will long remember its attractiveness. He wouldliave been a rash man in those days who would have attempted to prophesy the height in the temple of fame to which this brilliant and wiity roan might not climb. What prophet could foresee that this giUed and once popular mi?n was to pass tht evening of his life practically an exile in a foreign land, leaving behind him on

the field of his early triumphs nothing but shattered ambitions. Yet this was to be.

Iu a small cafe in asomewhatunfreauented part of Paris the other day I saw another man who recalled a case the famo of which was world-wide. He was sitting at a table, seemingly buried in thought of a not pleasant character and oblivious of his surroundings. He had an intelligent face, but on it there were deep lines that told of past sufferings. His long hair was graj' prematurely gray. His shoulders were bent, aud there was a moody, brooding look on his face. But he was evidently a tall man, and some years ago must have been a handsome man. as he sat at the table he looked like a strong man borne down by the memory of some great sorrow of the past. Presently he arose and waited out with out looking to the right or to the left, and then 1 recognized him, although it has been years since I saw linn oeiore. it was Theodore Tilton. the once famour editor of the New York Independent. But how changed. In the days of his popularity, tall, erect, strong and handsome; now a broken, prematurely old roan. He is doing some 6ort of literary work here, but no one seems to know inst .what it is. 1 could not but think, after seeing the man, that the scandal in which this man's life was wrecked was more than a mere scandal. It was, in fact, a tragedy. The circle of tho chief actors in it is narrowing. The greatest of them is dead: so are others, among them some of the lawyers and several of the jury. One of the' lawyers, Benjamin 1. tho united States. Airs. Tilton is more fortunately situated than herhnsband, for sho has the company and svmpathy of her children. But Theodore Tilton haunts out-of-the-way places in Paris, seeking neither friends nor friendships, a miserable and broken man. TWO EMPRESSES. The Mother and Wife of Emperor William Women "Who Do Not Agree. Olive Weston, in Philadelphia Press. The Empress Frederick, as she is called. I oniy saw after her bereavement, when. with her three ugly daughters, she visited her mother sho was very fond of shopping. and almost any day might have been seen making the tour of the more exclusive private shops in Bond street, using one of the plain royal carriages, without arms or liveries, so that few recognized her. One feature of her mourning was very strking, and has begun to bo copied extensively among the upper circle of English aristocracy; another yearit will be fashionable in allLondon, aud in about two years will get over here. It is the peculiar shape of her "widow's cap," which was fitted close to the head all over, and had a, long point in front which reached nearly to the middle of the forehead, lay flat doC Ato it. Several parallel folds of crape fonritid the border, and from the back ..fell a heavy veil of crape to the ground. This was very unective. In the house she let it hang straight down, but when sho left the room, or was about to dismiss a visitor, she would gather the veil about her till she was completely enveloped in its folds, which gave a most majestic appearance o a very homely,common-place woman, for she closely resembled her mother. The three girls all wore the same caps, only with shorter veils, and when the mother and daughters were all together they looked like weeping pig-maidens of a fairy tale. She is jnost unpopular in Prussia, where her husband was worshiped, but she made the fatal mistake of trying to meddle in politics, which in a woman the Germans detest above all things, and in one of less exalted position such an experiment is often followed by an armed escort to the boundaries of the kingdom or a timely intimation to the offender's husband that he should keep his wife more in the Tiursery or send her to a cooking-school. The young Emperor does not love his mother very warmly, recent effusive telegrams to the contrary an accident happened at his birth caused by her ignorance and false modesty, and. he has never forgiven her, but then, if he had had any other mother he might not 'have been born an emperor. It is never safe to question fate. But her worst crime in the eyes of the German nation was her disregard of popular feeling and traditiou when two years ago her mother passed through Germany. There has been preserved in the palace a room dedicated to the memory of Louise of Prussia. She was looked upon by the people as a saint. The holiest thing in German history. True Germans kuclt in reverence when they entered that chamber. Everything in it was just as the holy Louise had left it. tueeu Victoria came lor a sin gle night, lhere were plenty ot other guest chambers in the palace, but somo madness impelled the wife of Frederick to desecrate the hallowed room, and she had it newly upholstered for her mother's visit, A cry of horror rang through all Germany, aud she was hissed in her carriage. It made her the object of the deepest hatred, and she has never recovered her position. Her son inherits much of his obstinacy and love of power from his mother, only she has never had a chance to exercise it, and it boils within her and sours her expression. As a child she was snubbed by her mother, during her long married life she was controlled by the firm mildness of her husband, and just as she had really reached the throne, death placed her son-in power and she had to humble herself once .more. The present Empress is very dowdy look ing, and her mother-in-law has always tried in everv way to make her feel uncomfort able, f She had not much influence over her husband, and devoted herself entirely to her five sons in fact, she looks and acts like the tvnical German nurse. Of late, however, a complete change has come over it, whether it is because she has become a Roman Catholic, and is under the tutelage of the wily priests, or because of the conscious power ox sitting on a throne, she is gaining great influence over the Emperor, who spends several hours a day in writing to her, and is even cnaugmg in personal appearance. She is very religious, and superstitions of the oak coffin that must be always ready in the house of the H&psburgs is carried out. also in the royal house of Germany. It is to tho lonely chamber where the c iffin rests, with no other furniture than a wooden stool and a bronze crucifix, that the Empress often retires for meditation and prayer. . ; ' Although tho Empress Frederick has no more power than a countess, and is almost an exile, permitted only by courtesy to rest in her son's dominions, sho has wealth enough to keep up a court of her own did she desire it. But she does not live in much state, as she inherits the parsimony of her mother, to whom the nation allows $00,000 a year for mere spending money and who spends, perhaps, 20.000 or $:;o,000. An old duchess recently left the Empress Frederick, in a freakish way, with many strange conditions, an estate of enormous value, yielding at present about 00,000 yearly income. 1 hen tho German government allows her 8200,000 a year, and as dur ing her life as crown princess she scarcely spent anv of her liberal allowance from the British government. the has a carefully in vested fortune of colossal proportions. Her. income is now estimated at &jO0.00O a year. With such boardings as these of the peo ple s money, truly grants for royal children seem absurd. Independent Consistency. Lafayette Courier. A few months ago the Indianapolis News was one of the foremost critics of Coy and Covism. while now it is quite as ardent in apologizing for the political boss of forged laiiy-sncct lniamv ana me gang wnicu submits to his domineering. The News knows well enough that in all Indian apolis there is not a citizen superior to Gen. JohnCoburn iu tho matter of personal character, and it is quite as well aware that his ability admirably fits him for the position for which he has been nominated. With equal assurauce it is capablo of uu-. derstandiug that the men who voted for him in convention and who will vote for him at the election are those who are most directly and deeply concerned in an honest administration of municipal affairs in onposition to a gang of as unconscionable political . rascals as ever lived. The News cannot excuse itself for this palpable inconsistency and for lending itself to assist in the 'perpetua tion of Covism by asserting that the Deinox j i r r : . : - . crane cnnaiuaie iutjivur jo quite as imiru a gentleman as General Coburn. and equally competent to hold the office. Supporting them are two distinctive elements ot society. tho one supporting General Coburn being responsible ai-.d law-abiding citizens and tax-payers, while the cnampions of Judca nuuivan are lait-iy uiauo upui, auu wnoiiv a1 a r W r domineered oy, mo notorious Mm uoj-'a henchmen. A Democratic virtory achieved under such circumstances will be taken as a vindication of Covism and and Bill Bernhamerisru, and wo regret that a newspaper usually so well disposed toward honorable methods. in politics, honest men lot candi dates, and for good government, should consent to ally itself with a scheme to foist

npon the public a corrnpf cabal of political

.v wuvii.v., nuu llilD IH't'll I UUU IU i VIA U A. I , . .... .. . ine pcopie ana convicted ly the roans. The Negro Problem. Philadelphia American. The convention also appointed a delega tion to call upon Presidint Harrison to present the wrongs of their race. It represents no less than twenty States. Some of itft members are probably roing to their death. in going w w asuingtoa. i nev know what kind of treatment will await them on their return to tho South, because they thus dare to make known their wrongs to the chief magistrate of the Nation, and throngh him to the whole world. Surely no more solemn deputation ever waited on a President. It is Montun te salutant, U;par! over again. What can President Harrison do for themf What can Con pres doT This is the moot serious question before the Kepnrdiran party one which far outweighs tariffs and shipping, and every other material interest. It is the question to whose solution the Republican party is committed by the very first clause of the Chicago platform. Democratic Reform. Terre Haute Express. There conld be nothing more ridiculous than the effort to make it appear that tho Democracy in Indianapolis is the "reform" party in the present contest. The party has put in nomination for Mayor a man who is personally above reproach, but the 'party machinery is under thecontrol of Uoy. it would make but littlo dilicrence who is Mayor if the Cor neonle were in charge. Chicago is just now . having impressed upon it the futility of electing a worthy man to the office of Mavor on a Democratic "reform" platform. The News, a mugwump paper, in sheer self-defense for its support of this candidate, is forced to print his written promises made to it as a vindication of its support of his candidacy. The News finds he has fallen a victim to his party. If the alleged reform movement at Indianapolis succeeds, the same story will be told in less than fix months. Merely a Matter of Taste St. Louis Poet-Dispatch. The friends of a distinguished Mexican. editor celebrated his rcleaso from prison. under sentence for libel, by giving a bulltight. Several bulls were slaughtered in honor of tho event American sensibilities will doubtless bo shocked by this state ment, and it may furnish a text for many articles ou tho subject of the superiority of American over Mexican civilization. But we should not be too hasty 'in: our condemnation of our neighbors. They liko buU-hghts and bulls blood, and we like prize-tights and human blood. It is merely ' a difference in tastes. . Held the Corpse In Pawn. Chicago MalL A New York undertaker was .heart less enough to delay, a funeral the other day. The deceased had not paid him for his hrfc wife s burial, and once the undertaker got him in his grip he did not propose to givo him up dead or alive until the bills were all paid. The matter was settled by tbeV pall-bearers contributing enough to appease the undertaker, who then allowed the corpse to proceed on its last journey. Prefers to Change the Subject. Knoxvllle (Tean-) Sentinel. In hundreds of cities of this Nation to-. day. both North and South, the colored) race are celebrating the twenty seventh anniversary of the Emancipation Proclama tion of president Lincoln. It is not neces sary to here discuss the caases that led upt to this, or whether there wero any. Tho' school-boy is familiar with tho history ofl it, and our older citizens have not forgotten' tho occasion. The People Hold a Different View. Kansas Citr. Journal. Ex-Presideut Cleveland is reported a greatly pleased with the utterances of re cent Democratic conventions regarding the tariff. It is quite possible that iu a in 18S8, he will not be particularly pleased with the utterances of the people on that question. Iheyhave shown a most pro voking disregard for Democratic opinion on this question. The Tariff and Trusts. Boston Advertiser. The attention of Ohio Democrats is respectfullj' called to tho fact that, doubtless owing to a protective tariff! which i responsible for all "trusts in whatever form." the Eondon Dock land W harf Trust committee have resolved to ask parliament to authorize the formation of a tmt which will absorb all existing dock and wharf interests. ' That "Body-Guard" Story. Iowa State Register. That was a ridiculous story that tho; President had employed detectives to guards him against old soldiers who might baangry on account of the retirement of Mr.j Tanner. And that was a very sensible re-J ply of the President, that if he feared dan err from any 6ource he should look hrst o all to the Grand Army for protection. , Wanted 31 ore Wedding Presents. Minneapolis Tribune. Mr. J. P. llordum. oue of the exposition. bridegrooms, complains that the presents) received by his fair bride and himself wero not as costly or numerous as they had a right to expect. He rushes into print with his grievance, thus making a enow of hin self for the second time. - . One Roger Q. 91111s. 8L Louis Globe-Democrat. o ' The fact that a man called Roger O. Mills is advertised to speak in Nevada, Mo., on tariff reform, next month, will suggest the inquiry as to whether this is the Mills who did such good work for the Republicans in making Democratic speeches last year. "Old Hatch" Had the Price, Nebraska Journal. Fifteen cents is the limit of wealth that tt. prudent Chicagoan will invest himself with when ne goesnorae at nayiigutiuiue morn ing. It is just the price of the morning cocktail, and is all that he can uy any pos sibility need before breakfast. Rule of the MaJorUy. EL Louis Globe-Democrat. Jeff Davis will ask. in an article to an pear In one of the magazines, "Does the ma onty ruler' It does, dear .Jell, except in dississinpi and a few other Bourbon Stateswhere your party has suppressed it for the past ten or twelve years. Democratic Mixed Drinks. Cleveland Leader. A non-committal candidato on a freetrado platform and au anti-trust platform supporting the agent of a British brewery-buying trust is what the Ohio Bourbons offer to the people of the Stato this time. Reward Offered. Philadelphia Press. Ex-President Cleveland calls protection ist Democrats "timid souls who long for the uesh-pots of vacillating shifts and eva sions." Anybody who guesses what thas means gets one of tho t-eMh-pots referred to. Sonnds Like the w South." Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle. The white mcu who whip and othe rwUo cruelly treat negroes because of foolish threats deserve the condemnation of their fellow-citizcus and punishment for their inhumanity and violation of law. A Dangerous Combination. rhtladelpMa Press. Opinions agree that a bad woman, an evil temper and a long, sharp knife form a combination dangerous alike to its orgauizer and to society. If you don't believe it, look at Mrs. Robert Ray Hamilton. Democratic Consistency. Memphis Avalanche (Dem.) The Democrats of Iowa have nominated a tariff-reform Republican for Governor on a high-license platform. They don't expect to win, but the fun in store for them is immense. ' ' i Mntt Be a Drinking Club. Chicago Times. The Eichth ward has just incorporated a Republican club "for the political and scial education of its members." When they graduate it will be into the Democratic party. ' . , Shattering an Idol. Memr-hls ATalaoche. It is suggested, with considerable show of reason, that Henry M. Stanley is more of a bulldozing ivory tracer than an cxplcrtx.