Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 September 1889 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1889.

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SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 28. 18S9. TVASUINOTON Ol'l'ICE-513 Fourteenth St r. S. Heath. Correspondent. Telephone Call. 33uilHM Office 238 Editorial Rooms 242 TK11MS OF SUUSCIUITIOX. DAILT, BT MAIL. One jrir. wlthont PandAf il fin One year, wltfc Hondaf.-.----hix months, without bandar - Pit months, with Sunday... .. 300 Thrt month.', wlthont bandar yj' Three month, with tmnday -JOne month, without Minday - One mouth, with fcundar........... Utmrered by carrier in city. 23 cents per week. WEEKLY. Fer year . l uo Reduced Kates to Clubs. FnbMTlDe with any of oar numerous agents, or send subscriptions to the JOURNAL NEWSPAPER COMPANY, ixvixxxpous, im All communications Mended far jmUlcaUmx in this roper must, in order to w afwji. 6e eueoinpanied ly the name and address of the tenter. TIIi: I'DIAArOLIS JOCHNAL Can oefonnd at the following places: LONDON - American Exchange in Europe, 413 Btrand. PAnis-American Exchange In rails, 35 Boulevard des Capucinea. NEW YCHK Cllsey House and Windsor Hotel. PHILADELPHIA A. pTlIemWe, 3733 Lancaster avenue. CH I CAG O Palmer House, CINCINNATI-J. r. Ilawiey ft Co., 154 Vine street. LOUI8VILTX-C. T. leering, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. BT. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern Hotel. WASHINGTON, D. C.-Blggs House and Ebhitt llOURC. A list ot those "unclean' Democrats would look well in the columns of the Sentinel. - The earth is, the Lord's, but according to the funny little News the city of Indianapolis is its special property. Will the Sentinel please name those Democratic candidates of whom it has "washed its handsH There is much anxiety to know whether Coy Is included in the list. We would not advise anybody to bank heavily on private Dai-ell's private information that General Brown, of Ohio, is to be Commissioner of Pensions. Dalzell is not the custodian of administration secrets at present. The free-whisky organs affect scorn of the idea that the saloon tax will bo repealed if a Democratic majority is elected to the Council. Suppose they test the matter by exacting pledges to this cflect from the Democratic candidates. ' ' '.. It is a good thiug the election is near. The staccato shrieks of the evening freewhisky organ indicate that the awful strain of holding up the local Democracy by the tail is beginning to tell upon its constitution, not to say its circulation. If tho timo for letting go were to be postponed rabies would result. A Washington paper casually remarks: "Democratic editors have stronger sight than their professional brethren of the Republican faith. That is why they are able to see many things that don't happen." Tho editor must have been casting his eye on the evening Democratic organ of this city. ; ' Now is the time for the "good citien." to show his colors. It is not enoughfor. a man who wants Indianapolis to be well governed and free' from corrupt domination to make up his mind to vote against the Democratic free-whisky ring; ho must work against it. Every man who secures another vote than his own for tho Republican candidates does much for the prosperity and good name of the town ho lives in. Judge Doan, who said his say about the Grand Army at tho Friends7 Yearly Meeting, in Richmond, represents the peace idea in a way that all can admire. He is for peace when peace is proper, for war when tho country is to be saved by it, and for the Grand Army to the end of his days. Quakers, good as they are, may come and may go, but the country will not frown upon the reunions of the veterans, nor deprecate the decoration of soldiers' graves because it encourages tho war spirit. That resolution must have emanated from a feeble and unpatriotic mind. Captain Kellogg, of the United States navy, is so fearful of negro domination that ho requested to bo relieved of tho command of the Ossipee rather than carry Minister Frederick Douglass to Hayti in that -vessel. Many better men than Kellogg deem it an honor and a privilego to enjoy the acquaintance of Frederick Douglass, whoso fame and abilities are known wherever the English language is read. Tho Captain's action is extremely silly, but will result in placing his name prominently before tho public, and ho will acquire a little cheap notoriety and causo the judicious much grief. If the reports of his conduct bo true, ho disgraces the service and should be removed with as little delay as possible. According to that eminent Democratic authority, tho St. Louis Republic, the tariff-reform picnics held in Missouri wero not tho phenomenal freetrade triumphs fondly pictured by tho Eastern mugwumps. Tho Republic doesn't say this in so many words, but, like the Atlanta Constitution, it is in search of a party issue for 1802, and if the free-trade, or "tariff-reform", idea excited the enthusiasm of the Missouri grangers to the degree represented to the guileless down-easters, no other issue would be needed. The Atlanta paper, which would preach protection if it were not under the party whip, suggests free coinage as a substitute for free trade, but its St. Louis contemporary wants the battle" cry to be, "No more pensions; keep tho surplus intact." It is no news that the Democratic party grudges every dollar - paid to -Union veterans, but the idea of letting the surplus grow H hardly in keeping with Democratic theories or practice. There was the sainted Hendricks, for instance, than whom no more faithful exponent of Democratic principles lived, who declared that the . surplus Wight to bo divided among tho people, - and made a little, calculation , show- ' ing what was duo to each man,

woman and" child. There are Democrats in Indiana who fully expected

that division to take place under tho Cleveland administration, and feel them selves personally aggrieved because it was not done. Their strongest motive in clinging to tho Democracy is the hope that, with another opportunity, the treasury will be opened to them. They will, of course, approve of cutting off pensions to Republican veterans, be cause, by this means, the surplus will be increased; but the party war-cry will not bo satisfactory until it is made to read: "Keep the surplus for us.". THE SOUTH SIDE AND GENERAL C0BUBN. The Journal would deprecate the introduction of sectional issues into city politics for the purpose of antagonizing or prejudicing the interests of the city at large, or any portion of it, but when the interests of aparticular section can bo promoted without injury to those of any other it should be done. 1 1 is a fact that the interestsof that portionof the city lying south of Washington street, commonly called the South Side, have not received as much attention from the city government, relatively, as those of the North Side, nor as much as they really deserve. This is partly due to tho fact that the greater part of the city, geographically and numerically, . lies north of Washington street. Of twenty-fivo wards, fourteen lie north of Washington street. Considerably more than half of tho city lies on the North Sido in fact, about two-thirds. For vanous reasons tho city lias grown more rapidly on the North Side. How much the neglect of South-Ride interest mnv have had to do with this cannot bo known, but certainly, that has had some inilucnce. Residents of the South Side have'felt, for many years, that that section of the city has not received proper attention at the hands of the city government, and their complaint on this score is not without reason. A Virginia-avenue viaduct ought to have been constructed long ago, and, at present, no other improvement is so imperatively demanded. It is demanded not only for the South Side, but for tho North Sido as well. Virginia avenue is the great thoroughfare between tho two sections. The bulk of tho population and property of tho South Sido lio southeast. Of tho "wards lying south of Washington street four are east of Pennsylvania street. Virginia avenue taps that entire section, and carries most of tho trade and travel between tho North and South sides. It ia made doubly dangerous by two railroad crossings on which trains are passing and repassing constantly. No vehicle ever crosses these tracks without danger. Every trip of every street car is liable to be the occasion o a tragedy. Tho tradesman with his delivery wagon, tho head of family with his carriage, the Southside woman who comes to market, aro all exposed to hourly danger. Some lives have been lost there, and it is a wonder that more have not been. There ought to.be a safe, d arable and permanent viaduct, which would remove the danger once for all," Such an improvement would add to the value of every dollar's worth of property on tho South Side, and make that part of the city more accessible to trade and more desirable for residence. The people of the South Side should never cease to agitato until they get a viaduct. It is not for their advantage alone, but for the benefit and convenience of the en tire city. They also need a new market-house, conveniently located, for the southeastern part of tho city, and are entitled to it. With these valuable improvements gained, others would follow in due courso until, without neglecting the in terests of other parts of the city, those of the South Side would get the recog nition they deserve. The candidacy of General Coburn af fords the people of that section the best chance they have ever had to make themselves heard and felt in the city government. He is a resident and property-owner on the South Side. He is familiar with its history, and knows its wants and its claims. If elected he will be tho first Mayor ever elected from the South Side. We say this advisedly. Mayor. Caven roomed on tho south side of Washington street, but he was not a resident and representative of that sec tionintho sense that General Coburn is. As Mayor the latter would bo iu a position not only to present its claims, but to urge them. He could do more for a Virginia-avenue viaduct than half a dozen members of Council. He is known to bo strongly in favor of this measure as well as of other South-side improvements. Ho was prominent in getting Jhe appropriation for the im provement of Garfield Park, and takes a constant interest in the work. As Mayor ho could do a great deal for the South Side, and if the people of that section are wise they will do all in their power to aid in his election. ' THE PRESIDENT AND PENSIONS. The following ia from Major Warner's letter to the President, finally declining tho appointment of Commissioner of Pensions: Feeling, as I do. a deep interest in the proper and liberal administration of the pension laws, it is with the sincerest regret that 1 make this declaration, especially after the full and frank conversation I had with you and tho honorable Secretary ot the Interior on Saturday last, reassuring me, as it did. that - our comrades have no truer or warmer friends. Major Warner is an ex-commander of the G. A. R., in full sympathy with the old soldiers and in favor of a liberal administration of tho pension laws. It will be observed he qualifies this expression by adding a "proper" administration, of. the laws. After a full and frank conversation with the President and Secretary of the Interior, he is able to certify that "our comrades have no truer or warmer friends." As tho President and Secretary were soldiers themselves,., such an assuranco was hardly necessary, but it is none the less significant. 'The pension system is safe in their hands. As for the President, he is heartily in favor of a liberal pension policy, though it must be remembered that in his present position he can only execute tho laws, not make them. Rut he favors a liberal pension policy. In a

speech at Danville, Intl.. Nov. 18, 1887,

ho said: Soldiers. I believe that, the aaestion whether your fame and honor shall be ex alted above the fame of those who fougnt fttrainst the rlair. whether the rewards of yonr services shall be just and liberal, and the care or your disabled comrades nucmidcrinff anu auinle. depends unon the election of a Republican President in 1888. ror the hrst time in the history ..ox we American Nation we have had a President who. in dealing with the veto power, has used it not only to deny relief but . to im peach the reputations of the men who maue it possible for him to be a President of the United States. The veto messages of Mr. Cleveland sent in during the last Congress were, many of them, tipped with poisoned arrows. lie vetoed what is called tho de pendent pension bill. What is the principle of it? I believe the first bill introduced in Congress embodying tho principle of that bill was introduced by me. It was prepared in view of the fact that Congress was being overwhelmed with private pension bills for men now disabled and unable to maintain themselves who could not. by proof, connect their disability with. their nrmv service;- I Raid. let US make the limitations of the pension lawwider, and, instead of taking in these men one at a time, let us take the whole class in at once, and hence this bill, home men sneered at it: said I was. simply trying a Duncomue' game with the 6oiuiers. dui, gentlemen, the general principles or ina bill have come to stav. What is the principieoiitl way, it is sometning use mo old rule we had in the army; as long as a man was able ho marched and carried his own gun and knapsack, but when he cot i a k . . a . likl tired or sick and feu out we had an amimlance to nut him in. And that is the principle embodied in this bill that we, the survivors of the late war. as long as God gives us strength and health, will march in this column of civil life, making our own living and carrying our own burden. Bat here is a comrade falling by the way, sickness, casualty not his own fault and he has to fall out. We want the great national ambulance to take him up. Why, my countrymen, somebody must care for these veterans who stood up amid shot, and shell, and saber stroke. bnt cannot now trace their infirmities to their army service by anv satisfactorv nroof. .Thev have fought manfully since. They tre dependent on their work for a living, and they cannot work, Somebody must take care ot mem; the expense cannot be avoided unless yon kick the old veterans out and let them dio on tho roadside. Somebody must care for them, and the simple question is: shall they be cared for m naupers in the county - 1 - A. TJ. .1. si-w poor-nouses, or sn . . great nauuu vucjr served and saved c . 3 for them as soldiers? I prefer the latter. This was President Harrison's position on the pension question several months before his nomination, and no doubt it is his present position. It shows what his policy would bo if he made the laws, and that his interpretation of the laws mado by Congress will be as liberal as their terms, and as the pension appropriations at his command will admit of. Ho will have something to say about pensions in his annual message. The Louisville Courier-Journal pub lishes a special from Jackson, Miss., criticising tho Republican State ticket because there is only one colored man on it. The correspondent admits that .General Chalmers, nomineo for Gov ernor, possesses personal strength and popularity, but adds: As nsnal in this State, the- colored -man was left out in the cold. Three-fourths, of the delegates were colored, but only t one to Mollison, for becretary ot fetate, who for several years has been chancery clerk of Issaauena countv. lie is a hrst-rate ne gro, and the best man on tho ticket. He is as black as the ace of spades. . . If three-fourths of tho delegates were colored they, of course, controlled, the convention and the nominations, and .if they chose to put only one colored man'1 on tho ticket there does not seem; to.be much ground for Democrats to1 coW-n plain. On the contrary, it is highly creditable, to them that with a large numerical majority they wero willing to give tho whites the lion's share of the nominations.' In their selection of a colored candidate for Secretary of State. they seem to have exercised the same wisdom. The fact is, everything goes to show that where tho colored people of the South have political power, and are permitted to exercise it, they do it with a great deal of moderation and good sense. There is not a Southern State that would not be greatly benefited bv a few vears of RenubliAan trovernment. Such a change wAuld give .both white and colored Repub licans a chance to prove that tho public interests were as safe in their hands' as in those of tho confederate Democracy, and would be of inestimable service , in putting an end to the fraud and bugaboo of negro domination. , Although no questions of State poli cy are directly involved in tho city elec tion, the result may have an important influencoon State legislation. As tho city goes this year so probably will the county go next year, and tho Marion comity delegation may determine tho political complexion of the General Assembly and the character of its legisla tion; The people have had enough of the miserable work of Democratic legis latures in recent years to make them desire a change. ; ' . The Republican city convention declared in favor of "such legislation by tho General Assembly as will authorize the , Mayor to appoint a non-partisan board of public works." That is the position of the Republicans. It is in harmony with the movement of municipal reform in other cities, and with the idea of concentrating executive power and responsibility in the executive head of the city, where it belongs. Anon-partisan board of public works appointed by such a Mayor as General Coburn would bo a very important feature of municipal reform, and the pending election has a direct hearing on it. Does the construction put upon tho new election law by the judges of tho Superior Court justify candidates in holding meetings in saloons and influencing voters by the unlimited dispensa- - tion of free beer, wine, cigars and other attractive bait for votes! Of course, a canvass of this character is all right) and quito the proper thing if participated iu by a pre-eminently clean candidate on a conspicuously clean ticket, and . should not be publicly referred to. Therefore, . no allusion to such an affair can be expected by the particularly clean editors who are clamoring so lustily for a righteously clean administration. The New York newspapers are at present given up to "jawing" about the world's fair and Central Park. Tho New York Post, tme to its mugwump instincts, accuses every n-of dishonesty who does not aeree with it, and because the Independent approves of taking a part of the park , for the fair flatly charges its editor, Henry C. I Rowen, with . corruption, and says ho

always had a sneaking sympathy with

a job," and that there is a soft spot in his venerable heart for nearly every public trickster who does not get found out. Tho personalities indulged in by the "great metropolitan dailies" would dis grace an Arizona town, and are more disgusting than amusing to the world outside of New. York. Meantime, while the papers keen up their -wrangling, other cities are going on with practical and earnest preparations for securing the fair. New Yorkers may also make up their minds that if the fair is not held in Central Park, sacred as that ter ritory is, it will not be a New York fair. 1nE Caucasian learns that the probabilities are that C. C. Antoine will be appointed postmaster at Shreveport. Antoine is a coal-black statesman of very ordinary caIacity.and of an unsavorv political reccrd. resident Harrison is settling down verv cqzilytoa 6pecies of amusement that is luceiy to bring about tne killing of a few thousand negroes between this time and the day the deceived people of the United States boost him out of the great office he is working in the worst political interests. The foregoing is from a Democratic paper published in Louisiana. The Journal has no information on the sub ject, other than that above conveyed. The probability is that, if the President appoints- Mr. Antoine postmaster at Shreveport it will not be till he has assurances of the appointee's character and fitness. The extract is printed as a matter of record, and to show tho mur derous spirit of the confederate Democ racy. If they do not succeed in provok ing a race war, or compelling the gov ernment to adopt vigorous measures for the protection of its citizens, it will not be for want of insult and aggression on their part. The notorious Georgia duelists. Calhoun and Williamson., have been arrested on a requisition from the Governor of Alabama. This is a mere formality to preserve ap pearances. No Georgia dnelist could ever be justly convicted of an intention to hurt or get hurt. The only sufferers in a genu ine Georgia "meeting on the field of honah" are the newspaper men who are required to publish tho entire "official correspond ence. it The New York Commercial Advertiser declares that the people of that city, "in the interest of their better culture and sweeter life," must see to it that Central Park, is not profaned by use as a world's fair ground. Some Boston man who knows nothing about New York's arid intellectual and social condition has evidently broken into that paper. TnE Associated Press young man who wrote up the Blaine-McCormick wedding was deeply impressed by the appearance of the "rain-soaked clouds" hovering over the scene. .He seems to have thonsht thev should have been hung out to dry the day before. 4 Democratic newspapers now speak of private Dalzell as "our esteemed friend," whereas their customary appellation for him has heretofore been "blatant blathersnite." evidently uaizeil has fallen in with bad company. The opinion of a Chicago clergyman that there is no devil is, doubtless, based on the belief that it would be impossible to get up anything in that line to beat the men with whom ho comes in daily contact. : A California newspaper speaks of Kanthings like this that help us to appreciate our vastness. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: lias the census supervisor for Indiana been appointed! If not, when are they likely to be appointeai subscriber, jplainfield, Ind. Not till next spring. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Robert Louis Stevenson is anxious to become a successful playwright. The Empress of Japan is making prepa rations to come to this country in the spring. The King of Italy recently visited the tomb of Garibaldi and placed upon it i wreath. Mrs. Mona Caird, who started the "Is Marriage a Failure!" business, has been studying Buddhism. Queen Victoria always rides in an open carriage, as she dislikes to be shut up. She has even been seen in an open carriage dnr ing a snow-storm. She walks with a cane. Count Bkrtiiier, a grandson of Bonaparte's marshal, recently lost a roll of bank notes containing $100,000 on a railroad train. He offers $4,000 reward for its re turn. Tub oldest person who has died this year, according to the longevity sharps. was Gottfried Wapmarek, who passed away in Germany not many weeks ago at the undisputed age of VM years. A young woman of Southport, England. puts the most deliberate method of suicide on record. She walked into the water and sat down. After a while she lay down and the tide rose and earned her on. Wilkie Collins never abandoned the hope that ho would one day receive full renumeration from the American publishers for every copy of his noyels which they sold, lie leaves a fortune of about $50,000 or 00,000. Edward 0..Leech. who is to succeed Dr. James P. Kimball as Director of the Mints on Oct. 15, has been in the Mint Bureau since it was organized in 1873. and has held his present position as computer of bullion 6ince May 17, 1884. lie has a Grand Army recora. The proudest boast among Cuban women is the dainty smallness of their feet. They require nothing larger in the way of footgear than the No., 1 size for American women. This oeculiar endowment is per fectly natural; no pinching or pressure of any Kina is used. Beware of the "booby-trap." In other words, if you are asked toibe seated in a rocker when making a social call, don't rock. For if you do your entertainers will set yon down as a social chump, and drop you from their list if they happen to know about this test The booby-trap is doing a deadly work in Philadelphia. Pkof. Lexis, of the University of Got tingen, has published a work in which he proves by statistics that the German universities have twice as many students as can possibly hope to make a livintr by the re spective professions for which they are preparing. The consequence is, he argues, a large annual increase of the learned and most dangerous proletarian class. A remarkable fan has just been pur chased by the Princesse do Ligne at Brus sels. It was painted by Wattean for Louis XIV, who presented it to the Duchess of Burgundy, and it remained in the possession of the royal family until the revolution, when it" was stolen and conveyed to Germany, and nothing more was heard of it until the other dav. when it appeared among a collection which was offered for sale at Brussels. The Magdalen islands are called the "gems of the St, Lawrence." The popula tion, about 6,000. are chiefly French. Ec clesiastically they belong to the Roman Catholic diocese of P. E. Island. Geographically, they are, however, identified with Nova Scotia. Cane Breton is the nearest land, from which the islands are distant about forty-three miles. The land is fertile, but the people are iishermen. not farmers. They gather the harvest of the sea, iu cod,

herring, mackerel, and lobster. The whole

domain is owned by Captain Cottn. who lives abroad, on the rentals collected by a resident agent. Mr. Jaeger, of Rochester, N. V., was frequently puzzled by the absence of his dog. The animal was frequently absent half a day at a time, and last week was missing for two days. His owner adver tised for him, and on the following day he was returned by a man who had discovered his peculiar mania. It was for riding on 6treet-cars. lie will get aboard of any car he sees, and rides until he is mit oil. Mr. Jaeger proposes now to get a season ticket. goou on ait me sxreei rauroaas, ana axiacu it to the doit's collar, so that the animal may indulge his street-car propensities in a proper and legal way. Carlyle was a most eccentric man ruds, rough and almost brutal sometimes. An American, who called upon him at h;s modest house in Cheyne row, Chelsea, found the philosopher stretched at full length on an old rug, smoking a red clay' pipe with a stem a yard long. Without rising, he pointed to a chair, and asked his visitor whether he would have a pipe and a glass of whisky. Both being declined, the sago cried out in a deep Scotch voice: "What, an American, and not drink or smoke! Y hy. man, you are not true to the best productions of your country. I smoke American tobacco and drink American whisky." Miss Mary Garrett, sister of Robert Garrett, of Baltimore, is a great business woman. Says one of her acquaintances: "It seems incredible, hut it is the truth. that this young lidy has virtually handled the Garrett railroad and banking interests ever since one of her brothers was attacked with disease and the other lost his life. bhe is not yet thirty years of age. and is a handsome woman of the blonde tj'p'j. She obtained her-business training fiomber father, to whom she was a constant companion in his later years, and she turned it to good account when the Garrett family was actually deprived of a male head. She has made Robert Gar i ett a wealthier man than he was when his father died." It is related that Mr. Wilfred Clarke, son of the eminent actor John Sleeper Clarke, and himself an actor, was living at a farm house on the Hudson river last summer at the time of the Sullivan-Kilrain slugging match, and when he received his papers giving the story of the tight he thoucht it no more than courtesy to pass one of them over to the head of the household, with a casual remarK as to the event. The farmer glared at him in silence and contemptuously cast the paper aside. That evening he called Mr. Clarke into a corner of the piazza.' "What may be vour business. young man!" he asked. "lam an actor," answered Mr. Clarke, "Tut tut! Is that so? A play-actor, and perhaps an eucourager of the unlawful nghters! And we mistook you for a gentleman! Yon may sleep under this root to-night, but tomorrow yon must seek other accommodations." COMMENT AXD OPINION. Commissioner Tanner's snceessor will be a Republican There is comfort in that thought for the veterans, but not for the Democratic critics of President Harrison. New York Press. Is it not suggestive that the prohibition ists, the liquor-dealers and the opponents of pensions to veterans are united in their hatred of the Republican party, and are eairer to officiate at the party's crucifixion! -The Judge. Tanner's greatest mistake was in making his speech, at Milwaukee, in favor of continuing pensions to soldiers' widows after remarriage. No friend of the Union sol diers can indorse the sentiment or intent of that speech. Iowa State Register. Did it ever occur to the Democratic lead ers that their party might utilize its loudsmelling war record for a fertilizer a sort of artilicial guano wherewith to sprout and grow a new set of Democratic principles more in harmony with modern civilization than the old ones! WasliingtouJPress. It matters not what may be the views or rules of any ecclesiastical body touching marriage. Such organization may enforce its own rules against its own members in matters of personal discipline or member1 . j . t . snip, out it cannot cnange tno rignts ana obligations of a duly solemnized civil marriage. New York Herald. "America for the Americans" is a taking cry. Uur neighbors year after year see more and more clearly how identical their interests are with thoseof the United States. and the idea of a customs union embracing: . ii i i i . i . an tue muepenucnt peoples on mis continent is one which is certain to appeal with peculiar force to the fepanish-Amencan imagination. Boston Journal. Two-thirds of what sectional preiudice and bitterness remains in this country would be dissipated if the people of the several sections knew more of each other. It is the people who stay in the same place always, live along in the same old ruts and see little of the world and of their fellowcountrymen who are most narrow, and sectional, and prejudiced. Louisville Commercial. The election in Montana will be close. and the Democratic expectation of carrying it rests mainly on the facts that the party is abundantly supplied with money and that the Democratic mine-owners are believed to be able to control the votes of their employes. This attempt of the Democrats to corrupt the politics of a new State through "boodle" and intimidation of workingmen has not excited the hvstencal horror in the free-trade papers of the East mat it aoeswnenxneirown imagination in 1 .;a. J 1 ' . vents reports of the same tactics on the part of the Republicans. Philadelphia I'ress. The object of the congress is not con cealed. It is the alliance of the nations of America for mutual protection and profit. But this alliance is not likely to be of the revolutionary nature feared by Europe. It will undoubtedly relate to the independ ence of the nations of this hemisphere of European dictation and interference. And it may probably result in the extension and adoption of the Monroe doctrine through out the hemisphere. That, it seems to us. is xne nrst ruiug to ue uone. Alter mat A A A 1 A . 1 a A A A. mav and nrobabiv will come such commer cial regulations as will insure the control of our markets to the allied nations. Phila delphia North American. Trouble In the Democratic Camp. Philadelphia Record (Dem.) The Democrats of the four new States complain bitterly of the neglect of the national Democratic committee, of which Mr. Calvin S. Bnce is chairman. Mr. Bnce iu his tarn nays that the -whole matter has been turned over to a sub-committee' over which Senator Gorman presides. Senator Gorman is not likelv to manifest much activity and zeal in a campaign in behalf of tantt reform. Attacking Free-Trade's Stronghold, r San Frat cico Clironicle. The discussion of the tariff question has broadened very greatly in England, and t he-fair-traders seem to he pushing their free-trade opponents to the walL At least thev are comnellincr the advocates of the Cobden theory to modify their pretensions and in some cases to wholly aoandon tnem. Greatness In the Throes of lMrth Kearney (Neb.) Enterprise. The Kearney Chamber of Commerce made an effort to be somebody, last night, and appointed a committee to inquire why it had not done so before. We trust the inouirv will be nrotitable. and that the out come will be something that -lives, and breathes, and gets there. The Celgn of Shoddy. Chicago Journal. A Democratic newspaper has an article on "The Reign of Shoddy." The reign of shoddy statesmanship expired when Grover Cleveland went out of omce, March 4, 18Sl. Democratic shoddy politics, however, still amicts the country and cheats the voters. Hint to the Southern Protectionists. Troy Times. Don Dickinson. ex-Postmaster-general in Cleveland's administration, says that no man can bo a Democrat and a protection ist at the same time. A conspicuous fact. but too old to be regarded as a discovery by the Michigan ex-statesman. Did Bayard "Write the Free-Trade Message. Springfield Republican. Ex-Secretary Bayard says in an interview that "had Mr. Cleveland taken my ad vice he would have declared iu favor of tariff reform two years befor he did." The Democracy, he thinks, will agaiu.advocate the reform.

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Annual Kcport and nccomniendatioa3 of tho Utah Election Commission. If the Territory Should Re Admitted as a State the Gentiles Would Be Driven Ont-Mor-inon Immigration Condemned. Washington, Sept. 27. The annual report of the Utah Commission has Wen received by Secretary Noble. This commission, under authority of Congress, has general supervision of ail elections in tho Territory, and is especially intrusted with tho enforcement of tho Edmunds-Tucker act of .March S, 1SS7. The report , says that the commission, on Nov. 3, ps, appointed a canvassing board of five reputable citizens three of whom were Gentiles and two Mormons. This board mado returns of tho vote cast for delegate to Congress on the tith of that month, when it was found that John T. Cain, a Mormon, had received 10.VJ7 votes; R. N. Baskin, 3,24, and S. 1L Thurman, 511. Cain was therefore given a certificate of election. With but one exception the report states there was no chargo of fraud iu the conduct of the election. The commission has, continues tho report, followed in the footsteps of the first Utah Commission, which recognized the fact that Congress, iu creating it, desired to use its best endeavors to wipe out and extinguish polygamj and as far as possible all polygamous influences and tendencies. With this purpose in view, the commission, ia appoint ing registrars of election, selected, when possible, those belonging to the nou-Mor-mon element, and always appointing a majority of the judges of election, two out of three, from the Gentile class. In 6ome places, however, there were no Gentiles to lili the positions, and in these cases Mormons were, of course, appointed. This course, the report states, has bad the ctTect of decreasing the Mormon vote. Touching the question of polygamy, the report says: l'olygamy is not, at the present time, openly practiced, except in a few remote and out-of-the-way places, but the non-Mormon clement insists that plural marriages are solemnized clandestinely and practiced secretly in the larger centers, and throughout the Territory. This mav or may uot he true. Tho commission neither atlirms nor denies it in the absence of positive evidence. Doubtless many members' of tho Mormon Churrh have never practiced and never intend to practice polygamy, and perhaps many of them, per se. do not believe in the practice, but, from tho stand-point of their faith and creed, they accept it as a revelation from God, through the prophet, seer and revealer, Joseph Smith, ratified and approved by their great president. Brigham Young: and that who ever desires to do so should have the rieht to comply with this ordinance of tho church." All laws forhiddmgthe practice of polyg amy, the report continues, the Mormons pronounce unconstitutional. There aro grounds for belief, it is stated, that polygamy is still taught by the church as a saving orumance, ana mat moso wno practice it are assured of a higher exaltation in heaven than those who content themselves with one wife. Extracts aro given from Mormon papers showing that they still openly advocate polygamy. That the teachings and practice of polygamy have not been discontinued; as it is claim i bv some, is proven, the report says, by tho fact that since Sept. 1, lSStf. there have bieu in tho Territory of Utah 3.77 convictions for bigamy, adultery, fornication and unlawful cohabitation only two for bigamy. lf plural marriages are now celebrated.' says the report, "it is done in tho secret chambers of the temple. If polygamy is practiced it is with the secrecy with which the burglar guards his house-breaking, and the thief his larcenies." Thoso who are convicted of polygamy regard themselves, and are so regarded by their friends, as martyrs, and think it no dis grace to be sent to the penitentiary, iho courts are commended for their vigilance. and also for the mercy with which their mandates are tempered. 1 he commission, in view of the preseut condition of the Territory as regards poly gamy, does not think that Utah should bo admitted as a State. "Should it be." tho commission says, "it would not be long before the gentile element, with its advanced civilization, its trade and its trallic, would be driven from the Territory and the Mormon theoracy be made supreme." ine commission mates a numoer oi recommendations, among them that jurisdiction of all polygamous and sexual olleuscs, without regard to the place committed, within the Territory, be conferred on district courts: that the term of imprisonment for uulawf ul cohabitation be extended to at least two years for the first, and three for the second: that it be made a penal otlcuso for any woman to enter into tho marria;.e relation with any man, knowing him ro have a wife living, undivorced, coupled, however, with tho provision that in cast a where a polygamous wife is called as a witness against her husband, her testimony could not bo used in any future prosecution against her. and a like provision as to tho husband; that any person who refuses to take an oath that heorsbeisnotconauitin with more than one husband or wifo in tho marriage relation, as the case may be, shall bo excluded from making a location and settlement upon the public lauds; that the laws with reference to immigra tion of Chinese and the importation of contract labor, paupers and criminals be so amended as to proveut the immigration of persons claiming that their religion justifies the crime of polygamy: that the Constitution should be amended fo as to forever prohibit polygamy; that a law be enacted creating a board, to consist of tho Governor, Utah Commission aud the Secretary of tho Territory, to apportion bait Lake City into aldcrmanic and councilmanic districts. It also recommends that the commission be authorized in its discretion to cause to be made annually a new registration, m- . stead of revisions of former lists; that Congress pass laws for the government ami Conduct of the public schools in tho Territory of Utah; that as soon as the result of the eleventh census is known the Territory be redistricted for legislative purroses. Tho commission believes that the imitation on prosecutions for polygamy and bieamv should be extended and sentence to hard labor should bo added, "that their contiucmcnt may not be spent in idle pegs and gloriiication of their supposed martyrdom." liie comiuipsion lias no doubt that punishment of the woman for voluntarily entering into the polygamous relation -would do much to lesnen her zeal for the peculiar institution, and thus tend to remove one of the strongest bulwarks. In regard to prohibition or immigration. the report says: "While we, forbid tho immigration of tho non-prose Ij ting, peacelovinit. docile (:hin- oecau&e we lar :k future danger from his coming; while we forbid the landing on our shores of contract laborers because thev cheapen waes ot American-born citizens and paupers because they become a burden, there is far greater reason for closing our doors as a nation and forbidding citizenship to the hordes who are brought hero tt swell the ranks of au organized body which teaches them in advance to hate our government, denominates its executive, law-makers, judge nnd prosecutors as persecutors, aud instilli into every mind the constant teaching that their pretended revelations are more binding than the highest and best laws of the land, and that resistance to such laws is a virtue and a rendering of obedience of Uod. How far short of treason these teachiu'js arc wo leave to those who can answer.' In concluding the report tho commission says mat uongress should take no uacK ward ment report R. S. Kobertsou and Alvin Saunders. They Were Saved hy an Fnknotrn Hero. Pittsbuko, Sept. 27. The men injured in themolten metal accident at tho Edgar Thompson steel-works last night, with probably two exceptions, art outf danger. Capt. Wni. R. Jones, is Miflerlnc a preat deal from his wound, but will recover. The ileshless body of Michael King, the missing Hungarian, was found about midnight imbedded in the hot steel. It is stated that the lives of all the ni about the furnace were saved bv an unknown hero, who with wonderful presence of mind, turned the valve and shut oil tLe blast as soon as tho break occurred

or even waveriutr step In tno eniorce-

ofthe laws aeamst polygamr. Tho

is siened bv G. f. Godfrey, chairman: