Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 October 1889 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1889.

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1880. VTASIllNftTON OFFICE f13 Fourteenth st P. S. HEATH. Correspondent. ' Telephone Calls. poslgess Office 233 Editorial Room 343 terms of sunsciumox. DAIX.T. BY. MAIL. One ye ar, without FnnLy $12.00 One year, with SudVt 1fUx months, without Sunday B-OO Pit mouths, with basday .00 fTtire mouth, without .sanlay .. 3.0O Three months, with unrty One month, without bi; inlay . 1.00 One month, with Sunday L0 DenvereU by carrier in city, 25 cent per week. Per year fl.00 Reduced Hates to Club. euTucrifce with any ol our numerous agents, or lend UOMTipUVQI UI U1C JOURNAL NEWSPAPER COMPANY, IyDIJLTaTOLia, IXD. All communications intended for publicatimx in this paper must, in order w receive attention, be actontjMtnied by the name and add rest of th e vriter. TUK INDIANAPOLIS JOUIiN'AL Can he found at the follow in places: LONDON American Exchange In Europe, 449 Btrand, PARIS American Exchange In Pans, 35 Boulevard dea Capacwea. EW YCKX Gilaey liouse and "Windsor IIoteL PHILADELPHIA A. lKenifcle, 3735 Lancaater avenue. CHICAOO Palmer nouso. CINCINNATI J. P. Hawley fc Co., 154 Vine street LOUISVILLE C. T. Deerlng. northwest corner Third and Jefferson atreeu. BT. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern Hotel. WASHINGTON, D. C.KiggS Houao and Ehhltt House. Ox a full vote Indianapolis is still Republican by a considerable majority. The self-styled organ of "reform" has, apparently, bitten off more than it can chew. The Republicans will have no trouble in carrying this city when they get out their vote. In tho next election the first great obiectof the Republican committees should be to get out tho vote. The Council should require tho Reform councilman from tho Eighteenth ward to pay tor the city's stone which ho appropriated. Justice overtakes Democrats in tho long run. Allen O. Myers, of Ohio, escaped his proper deserts for a good while, but ho has to go to jail at last. Tiieke could not bo a better timo for the Republicans to lose control of the city temporarily, nor a more embarrassing time for the Democracy to take it. Tiie Sentinel's rooster was an overgrown bird for tho kind of victory it was called on to celebrate. It was probably Taised for the Cleveland election of last November that failed to come off. Your genuine Democrat employs tho "reform racket" in campaigns only, a fact that often brings confusion to confiding assistants who were too truly good to remain in the Repqblican fold. Now, that the election is over, will the Sentinel inform an anxious public .whether any of those "unfit" candidates of whom it washed its hands were chosen to positions in tho city government! Judge Scllivan does not take possession of his new ofiico until January. By that time he will have received thorough instructions from the gang as to the proper method of conducting affairs. Judge Sullivan will now proceed to cultivate Sim Coy's acquaintance. He has to do it. No Democrat in his position can perform his duties to party satisfaction without pointers from that boss. It's a pity Indianapolis could not do as well as Chattanooga, which elected a i Republican Mayor on Tuesday. Is this tcity to relapse into barbarism, whilo once-benighted Southern towns are emerging into the light? Now that it has got its monkey show tho News docs not 6eem to know exactly what to do with it. Close contemplation of tho animals it worked so hard to corral forces the conclusion upon it that they are a job lot. The News congratulates itself on having.dcfeated General Coburn, and says: "The result shows the mighty sweep and force of public opinion." It shows tho effect of persistent misrepresentation and malicious falsification of facts, figures and records. The result of tho election does not alter tho fact that city affairs never have been moro honestly, economically and judiciously managed than they havo been during the last few years, and especially during tho term of the present Council. Tho peoplo will appreciate this fact a year or two hence a good deal more keenly than they do now. . Henry Geokge belongs to that class of people who believe that the character of a political candidate is not important. "It's the idea," he says, "it's tho idea." If Mr. George wcro familiar with Indianapolis politics ho might, by way of illustrating his theory, point to tho muni-1 cipal reform idea as put forward by the local Democracy, and to Sim Coy, their representative chosen to carry out that idea. The cditorof tho Sentinel telegraphed to Democratic correspondents at Washington, on Tuesday night, that "tho ward of the President shows a Democratic gain of 2 IS." It does not show a real Democratic gain of ono vote. In tho presidential election Cleveland received in the first precinct of that ward 05 votes, in tho second precinct 171, and in the third precinct 84, making 300 in all. On Tuesday Judge Sullivan received in the first precinct 90 votes, in the second precinct 170, and in the third precinct 78, making &"0 in all. When the howling crowd of jubilant , Democrats serenaded ex-Senator McDonald, Tuesday night, ho proposed thr2o cheers for the Democratic victory, ; told them to be sure and telegraph it to j Washington, and congratulated them on the prospect it afforded of redeeming tho State and making it safely Democratic, When the same howling crowd , x?ent further up the street and serenaded

the editor of tho News, ho thanked them for the honor of their visit, and congratulated them on "the splendid victory for good government and reform in tho city we all love so much." The crowd cheered McDonald loudly, but tho editor's platitudes about good government and reform fell on listless ears. They. knew what they were celebrating, and they didn't want their straight Democratic victory marred by allusions to reform.

REPUBLICAN ABSENTEEISM. It is beyond any doubt that tho Democratic victory of Tuesday was largely due to failure to get out the Republican vote. Whether this was mainly due to individual indifference and apathy or to lack of proper organization and effort to get the vote out cannot bo known. Tho result is tho same hi either case, and perhaps fc partly due to both. To ascertain tho ex-, tent of absenteeism we compare tho vote of Tuesday with tho presidential election of last fall. Of course, a local election never calls out as large a vote as 'A national election, but the ballot is tho true criterion of tho voting population, and any falling off from it shows failure to poll tho full vote. At the presidential election General Harrison received in the city 13,326 votes, against 9,573 cast for General Coburn on Tuesday. Coburn's vote was 3,753 less than General Harrison's, without allowing for any natural increase of populaxiou. Iul8S8the Democrats cast 13,170 votes against 11,304 on Tuesday, showing falling off in their voto of 1,806. The falling off in the Republican voto was more tlmn twice as great as that in the Democratic vote, showing that the number of Republicans who failed to voto on Tuesday was twico as great as tho number of Democrats. If one-half of.the Republicans who failed to, voto on-Tuesday (1,870) had voted, General Coburn would have received 11,449 votes, instead of 9,573, and would have been elected by 85 votes. If all tho Republicans who did not vote on Tuesday had voted, Coburn would havo received 13,326 votes, and if all tho Democrats who did not vote on Tuesday had voted, Sullivan would havo received 13,170 votes, still electing Coburn by 156 majority. Comparing some of tho Republican wards, wo find the Second gave Harrison 1,027 votes and Coburn 825, a loss of 202. These Republican votes did not go to Sullivan, for ho had precisely the same number of votes in the ward that Cleveland did, viz.: 350. Tho 202 Second ward Republicans who did not vote helped to defeat Coburn. In the Eleventh ward Harrison received 045 votes and Coburn 387, a falling oft' of 258 votes. 'Iii the Third ward Harrison received 085 votes and Coburn 554, a falling off of 1 31 . In the Sixth ward Harrison received 043 votes and Coburn 453, a falling off of 190. In the First ward Harrison received 844 votes and Coburn 029, a falling off of 215. And so on through all tho Republican wards. There is no evidence nor indication that any part of the Republican vote went to Sullivan, as, of course, there was no reason why it should. They simply did not vote, and it was the stay-at-home voto that defeated Coburn. This falling off of tho Republican voto is no evidence of Gen. Coburn's unpopularity, for there is no reason to believe that any other candidate, in an oft year, and a local election, would have received a single voto more than ho did. Tho fact is, General Harrison drew out the reserve vote, receiving much tho largest Republican vote ever cast for any candidate in tho city. Two years ago, in ono of the most exciting city elections we ever had, Mayor Denny received only 9,900 votes against 13,326 for Harrison a year later. On a full vote of both parties the city is still decidedly Republican, but as a general rule the Republican party suffers a great deal more from absenteeism than tho Democracy do. The votes that are cast are tho ones that count. There are enough Republicans in tho city to-day lamenting their folly in not voting to havo elected Coburn by a safe majority. The Journal knows of five such in one railroad office. Such men are not good citizens. THE C0JIINQ EEF0EX The peoplo will havo to wait a little while for tho inauguration of the new era of Reform in city government. The new Council will not go in till Jan. 1, 1890, and the present administration will xontinue till then. Immediately upon the inauguration of the new Reform government (please spell it with a big R) there will, of course, be a great improvement in the management of city affairs. Expenses will bo largely reduced, useless offices will bo abolished, tho awful corporations, including tho "octopus," whatever that is, will bo brought to terms; miles and miles of streets will bo immediately paved, repaired and cleaned; public improvements will spring up on evry hand, tho police force will bo enlarged so as to thoroughly patrol tho entire city and suburbs, tho fire department will bo strengthened, the Virginia-avenue viaduct will bo built, Garfield Park will bo improved, and many other things will be done without any increase of taxation or revenue. Fcrhaps the Mayor's salary will bo reduced, and Democratic councilmen may even voto to contribute their own salaries to the city, and serve for nothing. The cut government will be run on strictly business principles, without any referenco to politics, and still les3 to partisan results. Appointees to office -will be selected solely with reference to their fitness, tho only inquiry being tho Jefiersonian one, "is ho honest, is ho capable, is ho faithful?" Democratic councilmen, including Coy, Burns, Markey, " Hicklin and the rest, will often remark: "Ho serves his party best who serves the city best," and will give the News frequent occasion to praiso their large knowledge of public affairs, their excellent management, their disinterested devotion to the public welfare, their wise economy, their superior intelligence, their consummate financial skill, their splendid opposition to corporations, octopuses, and such things. This will bo tho state of affairs when the new era of Reform begins, but that will bo nearly three months yet. Meanwhile

the people must try and content themselves with the present administration a little longer. They will soon havo reform with a large R.

Mr. Harrison took tho oath of office on March 4, having declared in his letter of acceptance that "only the interest of the public service should suggest removals from ofiice." Between that date and tho 1st of July 2,421 men were discharged from tho railway mail service, simply because they were Democrats. During Mr. Cleveland's administration of four years, the whole number of removal for all causes in the railway mail service was only 1J99. although when he became President the service was tilled by Republicans exclusively. St. Louis Republic. Let's see: When Mr. Cleveland went in the service was made up "exclusively of Republicans." As he only appointed 1,999 men there were, therefore, only 1,999 Democrats in the service; yet tho present administration has removed 2,434 men, "simply because they were Democrats." It would be interesting to know where those other 435 Democrats came from; but what's tho use! Democratic editors never allow a little thing like tho . truth to stand in the way of their assertions. D. L. Moodt, the well-known evangelist, says: "I believe in prohibition, but not in tho third party. I also believe that there is no use in having a law until there is a public sentiment that wBl secure an enforcement of it. If I could enact a prohibition law in Illinois tomorrow by turning over my hand, I would not turn it over, because I don't believe the State is ripe for it." It will hardly do for the third-party peoplo to declare, as they are accustomed to do of all who disagree with them, that Mr. Moody is a subsidized emissary of the Liquor League. He is one of the most earnest and practical of temperance workers in that all his teachings go to inculcate the sentiments which will eventually bring about prohibition. Philadelphia papers say that the condition of Congressman Samuel J. Randall's health is alarming. He has never fully recovered from his long illness of last year, and though he has rallied from a recent attack, a doubt exists in tho minds of his friends as to tho possibility of his surviving, tho coming session of Congress. The Democracy would suffer ajoss, greater, perhaps, than it is willing to own, in the death of Mr. Randall. The finest private residence in Indiana that of Hon. Clem Studebaker, at South Bend was destroyed by fire, yesterday, with its valuable contents, including costly furniture, works of art , etc., and all this destruction came through the spontaneous combustion of a pile of rags, saturated with coal oil, which janitors had thrown into a closet under a stairway. Such wanton carelessness is little less than criminal. ' A workman who knows the dangerof spontaneous combustion under such circumstances, yet who, in sheer recklessness or laziness, will throw rags where such a catastrophe may occur, is almost deserving of criminal prosecution. It is said that Senator Thurman, like Gladstone, reads no book until it is a year old. With due respect to these distinguished gentlemen it must be said that this plan has little to recommend it. Many a worthless book survives a year and is even praised at the end of that time, but a year is not long enough to give that interest which antiquity sometimes brings to a poor book; and if a work is worth reading it is just as well worth it while the leaves are yet damp from tho press as a year later. A rule as good as Gladstone's istoread a good book whenever you get the chance. Setii Low, Republican ex-Mayor of Brooklyn, has been chosen president of Columbia College, New York. Mr. Low is well qualified for the position, and would probably have been favorably considered by the trustees in any event, but when he went over to the college, not long ago, to lecture on athletics, and spoke enthusiastically of base-ball, thereby capturing the students, that settled it. A man does not necessarily tind the sagacity and diplomacy born of political life useless when he goes into other pursuits. The peoplo of the West may not be able to prevent the train-robber from practicing his chosen profession, but they are evidently disposed to make the pastime as expensive as possible. Since they have conceived tho idea of carrying confederate money for his benefit no road agent can consider himself thoroughly equipped without the constant services of a currency expert. Boston papers think it worth while to mention that the oldest grain-dealer in America, a Mr. Otis, of that city, is ninetyone years of ago. Is it the Boston idea that dealing in grain has a hygienic effect and conduces to longevity as well as eating grain on the vegotarian plan? ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Cockle, whose 'auti-bilious pills'7 are famous in England, has written an opera. The Princess Stephanie, widow of Prince Rudolph, is about to contract a morganatic marriage with a Hungarian nobleman. The Empress of Japan is making preparations to visit the United States in tho spring. Mr. Spurgeon is troubled more than ever with the gout, but ho has no intention of retiring from tho ministry, as has been reported. 4 Frederick Douglass expects to some day write a noveliu 1 which a colored man will bo tho hero. Many of his personal social tribulations will be woven into the narrative. The President of the Russian-Council of State is tho Czar's uncle, the Grand Duke Michael. Ho is described as a very handsome man. whoso ability does not rise above mediocrity. Miss Emma Juch and her mother left New York, Saturday, for the Pocono mountains, in eastern Pennsylvania, to join a hunting party. Miss Juch is said to bo an excellent marksmau. Salvini recalls that oh his first appearanco in this country a young girl in New York became stage struck and tried to get into his company.- Ho now finds that she is the wifeof a grocer with three red-headed children., George Sand did not write tho first name of her nom de plume Georges in French fashion, but plain George, as it is written in English. Let the ultra correct people who are always writing Georges Sand make a note of this. Menelik II. the new King of Abyssinia, is the son of a beggar woman who took his father's fancy. Ho is very friendly to Europeans and wants to introduce their arts into his country. Ho has a remarkable fondness tor machinery and implements of all sorts. Mk. Gould's grayucsshas increased very much of late. Ho was the picture of healthy and vigorous manhood two years airo. but now his gray hair is almost white. Th manner of astute self-constraint which always distinguished him has deepened

considerably, and ho is now exceedingly reticent and quiet. -This is from a casual, observation of the man as he appears in public, and it may be all on the surface, but it is certain that the change in Mr. Gould is

great. A smart Aroostook lassie of three sum mers lives at Maysville Center, relates the Augusta (Me.) Journal. She tripped and ieu wnne at play the other nay, nut, picking herself up and rubbing the hurt, 8he exclaimed: "My sakes, i I wasn't tough Pd been dead years ago!" Robert J. Buedette, known to the outsido world as a humorist, has during the rast summer acted as pastor of Lower Merion Baptist Church, at Merion Square, Pa. Last Sunday nieht he preached his farewell sermon, as he is to start upon a lecturing tour this week. I think," said he to a reporter. "I shall some day give up lecturing and settle down in a little conntry parsonage. This is mv ideal life, and if 1 had known enough of theology I might be a preacher now." Rev. Joseph Cook has bought an acre of land at the summit of Mount Defiance, Ticonderoga. The place includes the site marked by the old drill-holes where Burgoyne s block-houso stood, from which he drove out General St. Clair from Fort Ticonderoga. Mr. Cook calls the spot the "Memorial Acre." as it is his intention to have a memorial tablet erected there as a monument commemorating the soldiers of Ticonderoga who died in The civil war, and also Ethan Allen and others. Mr. Cook hopes that some day there may be a memorial park at the top of the mountain. Says W. W. Davis, of Richmond, Va.: "I have a violin which is associated with the early history of Virginia. It is one of four violins conuected with the early his tory of this section of tho country. It is marked: 'Nicolaus Amati fecit, Cremoni, lCSl.' This violin was brought to this countrv bv Robert Hollinz. the husband of Jaue Rolf e, tho granddaughter of Pocahontas, who was the daughter of the mighty Indian King Powhatan, of Virginia. The violin is of superior tone, volume and finish, and has been used by many prominent performers during the past century." At tho recent celebration at Hartford In honor of Mr3. Stowe, the following char acteristic story was related by Mrs. Mary A. Livcrmore: "Mv husband." sho said. "was pastor of a small country parish be fore the war. We hadn't any more money than wo could use. I had heard of a paper that was published in Washington called XUU JlilllUliai Xjlil, Alio B II U 5111 1JUULL was $2.50 and we hadn't the money for it. My husband went away for three weeks. U hilehowas gone I made him a pair of 1 pantaloons. I had never made a pair and I md never made a button-hole. When my husband came home I told him .that they had come and cost 2.50, and that I had paid for them. He put them on and pronounced them excellent, and it wasn't till ho had worn them a week and they had been in the pulpit, that I told him tho secret. That's how I got the National Era. I don't know whether I ought to have taken this audience into my confidence or' not. I've never told this story to any ono before, and I don't want any of you to repeat it." COMMENT AND 0PLN10X. Tun T?PTnTliTis. will nttpml f r fiA tn9.Tr of law-making for the next two years inM tne House ot Kepresentatives, ana jur. Mills will be one of the obscurest and feeblest men in that body. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The copperhead papers of the war times were engaged in a business almost as respectable as those journals of to-day that aro usins their influence against the success of the conference of American nations. Washington Bress. If George William Curtis's speech was put forth as a feeler for the mugwumps, the result must ho disappointing. The absence of an y response confirms the report current some time ago that the mugwumps are dead. Philadelphia Inquirer. The greatest misfortune of organized labor has been, in a majority of instances, in the quality of its leadership. It falls an easy prey to the demagogue, and is carried away by the selfish intriguer who makes mbstly empty promises, and advises to the rashest and extremest measures. St. Paul Woneer Press. With Eva Hamilton in jail, and Ray and the baby in retirement; Dalzell and Tanner nnmped dry; Boulanger, beaten and r,busted." and the October elections in the rew States over, the sensational newsmonger will find a shrinkage in material to work upon between this time and the meeting of Congress. Philadelphia Record. ' As the reports of tho "hold-overs'' come in the Democratic newspapers are blossoming with nice little paragraphs showing what good officers and economical the holdovers from" the last administration are. Four years ago, men and brethren, we were blossoming in tho same blithe way; but it did not keep off the chilling frost of removals. Philadelphia Press. The Tesult in Connecticut also goe9 to show the hopelessness of their cause when they appear as a third party in jolitical elections, and that they can only secure a respectable vote when they vote upon the question as a naked issue at a special election. Under any other circumstances tho most they can do is to help the Democratic party to defeat temperance. Chicago Tribune. Our greatest mistake in regard to South American trade has been that we have not tried to make suitable goods for it. Both England and Germany make special lines of goods for South American countries, while we have offered only the 6ame that wo mako for ourselves. There is u rich commercial bonanza in South America, but we cannot work it without the proper tools. Philadelphia North American. It would be folly and cruelty of the worst possible kind to induce negroes from Mississippi, Alabama or South Carolina, accusr tomed to a semi-tropical climate, to settle in largo numbers on the blizzard-swept prairies of the Northwest. And to send them out to Arizona or New Mexico would be to sentence them to perish by hundreds by starvation in a laud where there is no demand for their Labor. Boston Journal. The record for tho administration for its first seven months is that nearly $60,000,000 of the debt has been reduced nearly $1 for every iuhabitant of tho United States. This is as creditable to Secretary Windora's financiering as it is beneficial to the country at large, and fullv justifies the opinion that his financial abilities were not overestimated when he was appointed to his present position. Boston Advertiser. THE AUSTRALIAN BALLOT. How the New System Will He rut in Operation in MassachuKetts. Boston Journal. After weeks of preparation and the formulation of many plans, of which the abandonment was necessitated by new obstacles encountered as the work progressed, tho machinery for the operation of tho new ballot law is now about ready to be put in motion, the work having been done by tho de partment of the Secretary of tho Commonwealth under the immediate direction of second clerk George G. Spear. The requirements of the Australian system of voting, so called, as appliea to this State presented difficulties of a nature new to odicials in this country, familiar with ordinary elec-' tion methods, and the schemo which is now ready is entirely original. In general terms, the department has issued to the State committees of the three parties. Republican. Democrat and Prohibitory, blank nomination certificates, covering conventions for State officers. Councilors, Senators, Representatives, district attorne3's, county officers and reprefcentative caucuses, and these have in turn been forwarded to tho oilieers of local committees. They will be tilled out at the conventions' for which they were intended and then filed with the Secretary, on or before 5 p. M. on Tuesday, Oct. 22. In addition are nomination papers for candidates not presented by regular conventions, and requiring the signatures of from filty to 1.0U0 voters, according to the office, which must also he filed , with the Secretary. From these documents will be made out the official ballots, which will all bear an official indorsement on the back, and this portion of the work will be begun in a few days by the State printers. There must also be made up from these a list ot candidates to be. voted for in each district, to be posted by the registrars of voters at least five days before the date of the election. Then, in time to reach their destination at least twelve hours before the opening of the polls, there will be sent to each voting precinct in the State, of which there are 1H1, two sets of packages, each package containing official ballots to tho

number of one hundred for each fifty voters at tho last election: cards of instruction for each voting shelf, ten specimen ballots on colored paper, and other doevnnents of interest only to the odicials in charge of the voting. As these packages must be delivered within a certain time," special arrangements have been made with the leading express companies to insure prompt transportation, and representatives of each company to be employed will bo constantly at the State printers' to attend to the shipment as soon as they are ready. In addition to the papers already specified, there have been devised and printed lists of returns of registered voters by precincts of cities and towns, the number of voting shelves to each precinct, headings for lists of candidates and specimen ballots, directions relating to specimen ballots, wrappers for the lists cf candidates, labels for the different sets of ballots, cards of instruction to election officers, extracts from the laws for registrars of voters, instructions to express agents, express receipts, city and town clerks' receipts, lists of cities, towns, wards and precincts; ward book to show the destination of every ofiicial document sent out, sheets for copies of ballots, circulars to city and town officers on their duties, copies of the ballot and caucus acts, etc. These are all of different sizes and tints, to avoid confusion. The number of ballots to be printed is 818,200 in each set, or l,tt)6400in all, and the other documents will bring the number of printed pieces of paper up to about 1,700,000. Appended is a certificate of nomination for Senator, the others differing only in the name of the ofiice: COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. CONVENTION CERTIFICATE OF NOMINATION. (Delegates selceted under Caucus Act.) We certify that a convention of delegates, who were selected in caucuses called and held In accordance with Chapter 441, Acts of 18s, represenung the political party in the senatorial district, vras held at on the day of .-...18S9, and the following nomination for Senator was made, viz.: Name of candidate : Party or political principle represented Kesidence, (city or town) Presiding Officer of Convention. (Name.) (Kesidence, City or Town." e'trectand No., If any.) - .Secretary of Convention. , (Name.) (Residence, City or Town. Street and No., if any.) COMMONWEALTH oV MASSACHUSETTS. S3 ' 1889. Then personally appeared the above-named Presidium oflicer.and Secretary, and severally made oath that the foregoing certificate, by them signed, is true to the best of their knowledge and belief Before me

Justice of the Peace. The form of certificate differs only slightly in the wording for the a per cent." parties. The nomination paper is headed: COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. Nomination Taper. ; The undcrslsned, qualified voters of the (State, District, County, City or Town.) in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 43G, Acts ot 1888, as amended by Chapter 413, Acts of 1889, make the following nomination viz Ollice to be filled Name of Candidate Tarty or political principle represented! (Not more than three words.) Residence (City or town) (Print orwrite all tho above entries very plainly.) We have hot subscribed to any other nomination for this office. Signatures. I Residences. (Town or city, street and No., if any.) It contains blank spaces for fifty signatures, and closes yith the form for affidavit before a justice of the peace. On the outside are ten forms for certificates of registrars of voters in as many cities or towns in the district, as follows: We certify that of the within signatures. (Number.) are names of qualified voters both In (City or Town.) and in tho district or division for which the within nomination is made. Registrars of Voters of (City or To wn.')' 1689. (City or Town, Month and Day.) This brief sketch gives very little idea of theamouut of labor necessary to advance tha scheme to its present stage, and none at all of the immense amount of work which must be done before the completed ballots are readyfor delivery. It is not at all unlikely that the practical test at the election will develop numerous defects, and suggest improved methods, but so far as is possible now, all contingencies have been provided for. ' WORKMEN'S COMPULSORY INSURANCE. The System by "Which Laborers Are Provided For Socialistic Legislation. Prof. P. W. Taussig, of Harvard, explains in detail in the October Forum the working of tho German method of compulsory insurance of workingmen, which is the first, explicit account of this advanced socialistic legislation Jthat has been given to American readers. Working people of both sexes who are employed in factories, in building operations, in mines ' or quarries or any similar indnstry, and on railroads, are obliged to be insured, except such as are not properly working people at all, but administrative officers wlho receive a salary of more than $500 a year. The employers are compelled by law to return to the proper officer a roll of their employes, and they are bound to pay contributions or premiums to the insurance fund, a part of which they can deduct from tho wages of their employes, but a part of which they must also pay out of their own pockets. Tho insurance fund receives a contribution also from the state. Women are insured on the same conditions as men. If an employe is disabled, he receives during the period of his disability one-half his wages; if he dies he receives a sum equivalent to his wages for twenty working days. A part of this system provides for the organization of compulsory insurance associations by industries; thus, there is one for the breweis, ono for the textile manufacturers, and so on, which are all under government superintendents. These associations pay also as pensions to widows and children a sum equal to about 20 per cent, of the husband's and father's wages for a considerable period. A more recent law requires that common laborers and domestic servants also shall bo insured. This makes insurance so universally compulsory that there is no man or woman who works for wages in Germany that does not fall under its provisions in some wa3 Tho only condition is that tho employes shall have once engaged in labor, ana shall, for a certain time, have received wages as laborers. The system provides also for a pension in old age. These pensions aro paid without delay, for the government 83steiu of enrolling, and receiving, and approving reports of accidents and deaths is perfect. Throughout the whole svstem the insurance money is paid in about equal proportions by the workmen themselves, by their employers and by the government. While the people of every class are taxed to maintain this system in two wavs. first, by direct payment, and, secondly, by the payment made from the government treasury, tho benefits of this taxation, as well as its burdens, are almost universally distributed. The working of this legislation is decidedly socialistic, and it was devised by Bismarck to quiet the demands of tho German Socialists. There is no legislative parallel to it in any other European state. Singularly enough, therefore, tho very furthest advance made in socialistic legislation isnnder the government in Europe which, perhaps, more than any other, except tho Russian government, retains the tyrannical features of ancient times. M .mm I il Occurred in Chicago, of Connie. Chicago Herald. Yesterday afternoon a Cottage Groveavenue cable train was hailed at Twentytifth street by two ladies. The tram stopped. A man on the grip had turned half around to converse with a friend on the seat behind him. The two were occupying four seats. One of the ladies who hailed the car tapped the forward man on the arm and asked if he would kindly sit back with his friend and allow them to occupy his double seat. He could not do otherwise, so he complied, but ho grumbled the while about women invading the smoking car when there was plenty of room for them in the car behind. The lady who had asked the favor overhead the guttural remarks, but she paid nothing. Pretty soon she turned on the man who had made the quiet objections. There was a cigarette between her lips. "Will you kindly give me a light!" she asked, as sho reached out her little hand for his cigar. He gazed at her in amazement, but he handed over his torch. Tho lady took a light and passed

the cigar back with thanks. Then she gave her friend a light. Tho rude objector wilted. Ho will never again claim that tho smokers seats are sacred t the mem Th lady in question knocked him out. THE LATK MARIA MITCHELL. On the Principle of ICqnal Wafrcs for Men and Women She Wai Firm. Anna C. Brarkett, in the October Centorr. Nothing was moro characteristic of her than the way in which heaccepted the position and the salary ottered her. without ever thinking to inquire whether the salary was the name as that given to the other 5 professors. It was tho chance to work that she wanted, the chance for intluence in ono of the first colleges for women. 'Tho money sho was to receive was a minor consideration, and quite as characteristic washer indignation when, after being there for a considerable time, her attention was at last called to the fact that she. a mature woman, with a Enropean fame, was receiving a salary less than that paid to some of the professors who were young men. almost entirely without experience, ana quite destitute of reputation. The indignant protest, which then called for an equal salary, was not a personal affair. She llamed out m behalf of all women, and of abstract justice, with alow which forced an immediate increase in salary. The excuse for this injustice must be found first in the fact that, at the time when Vassar College was established, women had not proved what they can do in professional lines, and, second, in the very conservative infiuences which guided the policy of tho institution. In her religious belief Maria Mitchell was attached to one of the socalled most liberal sects. The children of the old Quaker families of Nantucket generally went over to the Unitarians if they departed from the strict faith of their fathers, so that in this matter also she was almost if not quite alono at Vassar. But sho was appointed on the ground of her reputation as an astronomer, and fortunate was it for the college that the question of religions belief was not raised till after her apoointmeut. Tho absolute truth which, as I havo said, was the key-note of her character, could not fail to make her teaching thorough, lor a love of truth is one and tho same, whether in the intellectual or the moral sphere. But, as with all true teachers, it was' the force of her personal character that acted most upon the young women with whom she came in contact. No ono of tlrem hut was lifted and strengthened by her strength, sincerity and singleheartedness. It was difficult for her to use diplomacy in never so small a degree, and what skill in it sho did gain was the outcome of long years of experience, and sho never employed it without a mental protest. She gave tho New England stamp 'to whatever work 6ho touched, and tho lines of inliiience sho has left on many characters are as indelible as those on tho rock surfaces of New England's granite hills. Needed Postal Improvement. Wonderful as has been tho development of tho postal service, there is necessity for continual improvement if it is to keep up with , the demands of the times. Ex-Postmaster-general James, in an article in the Forum for October, shows the advantage that would follow four improvements: (I.) Tho consolidation of contiguous small offices, whereby responsibility would be concentrated and expense paved without inconvenience to tho public, each small office being a branch of the central one; (2) a cheapening of ocean postage, so that we may be rid t the necessity of paying five cents per halfounce on a letter to London when we can send one to Alaska, nearly twice the distance from Now York, for two cents an ounce just one-fifth the trans-Atlantic rate; (3) a cheapening of tho money-order rate, which is now eight cents on 10, and 'forty-five cents on 100; and (4) tho complete organization of tho service on a business basis without any regard to party politics. Ecclesiastical Slavery of the Mormons. Philadelphia Telegraph. The conference of tho Mormon Church, recently in session in Salt Lake City, has sounded a note of alarm. There is evident anxiety felt among tho priests, and this has been in nowise diminished by tho vigorous recommendations which have just been filed by the Utah Commission. They fear nothing more than gentile supremacy in territorial affairs, for with tho loss of nolitical power thev mar well

tremble for their ecclesiastical authority. The "Saints" and "Apostles" aro especially free with their divine revelations, and threaten their people with a visitation of "God's wrath" unless they ceaso their criticism of the church authorities. Thus it is that they keep such a firm grasp upon their foolish victims, who aro degraded from the highest typo of independent American manhood to a slavery ns abiect and savage as any that ever confronted an Alabama negro. Search, the Record. Philadelphia Press. Search the record of the Democratic party and see if there is to bo found any tendency in its ranks to check tho greatest evil of modern times the sale of intoxicating liquors; or pny purpose to make more secure tho free expression of tho will of tho peoplo at the polls. If not, how can any rcilecting young man, having tho good of tho country at heart, cast in his lot with that party! Its record is that of free whisky, ballot-box frauds and free trade. They all go together, and all tend in tho same direction, the pauperizing of the people and the piling up of burdens which must ultimately threaten tho very existence of the Republic. Democratic Reform. Terre Haute Express. Democratic rule in Indianapolis has invariably been bad, and will, undoubtedly, again be bad. Tho Democracy comes into complete control of the city government through influences outside of party organization, strictly speaking, and Sim Coy is the leader. It is idle to deny that he will be the leader, and it is equally 60 to givo tho reasons for it. Time will soon vindicate the prediction. And when the worse things come about our stay-at-homo Republican friends will frankly admit that they jnmped from tho frying-pan into tho fire. Ills Home-SicknessJSuddenly Cared. Kansas City Journal. Major Burke, tho Louisiana ex-Stato Treasurer. whoso fellow-citizens aro anxious to seo him and receive explanations, set sail from Liverpool for New York the other day on tho Teutonic, but when tho vessel arrived at Queenstown ho disembarked and returned to London. Presumably at Queenstown Mr. Burko secured bomo American newspapers. Needa a Rope. Rochester Democrat. Roger Q. Mills has declared war. He does not propose that the Republican majority in Congress shall pass a single measure' without Democratic conseut. Mills may propose but Congress will dispose. Tho wild and untamed statesman from Texas will have to be nat down upon with severity if ho attempts to inaugurate a rule of the minority. The Apaches of Politics. , Boston Journal. Lord Bercsford, says a French Journal, is going to America to hunt tho Apache Indians in their native fastnesses. It is believed, adds this veracious journal, that President Harrison will grant the request for this new crusade, as the Apaches, sometimes called mugwumps, were largely instrumental in electing President Cleveland. The Rules of the llou&e. WahIu?tou Prcaa. It is nonsenso to talk about "changing the rules of the House. The House has no rules at all. 'The rules of the lat Hour are no more binding on its successor than the Niceno Creed or the by-laws of an insurance company. It will be the first duty of the incoming House to mako its rules. Now Tlear Grady IlowL Albany Journal. It is Northern money and Northern brains that aro making tho South rich, and galvanizing it into new life; and it is these same men who will before long make it Republican from tho Potomac to the Rio Gr&ude. lias the Advantage. Philadelphia Press. Ex -President Cleveland ' is growing stouter. In this respect Mr. Cleveland ha a great advantage over both his boom and his part-. Ami lie's the Man Who Knows. Hartford Courant. Bismarck says there isn't going to be any European war at present.