Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 October 1889 — Page 4

THE INDLNAPOLIS JOURNAL, TUESDAY; OCTOBER 29, 1889.

THE DAILY JOURNAL TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 18S9. WASHINGTON OFFICK 613 Fourteenth 8t p. P. ITeatii, Correspondent.

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This thing of being violently agitated every year by a political cam-, palgn must bo very trying; . though, of course, New Yorkers and Ohioans do not tako their politics as hard a the Hoosicrs. i General Goff, who was elected Governor of West Virginia, last autumn, and has thus far been kept out of the ofiice by Democratic filibustering, says of tho proceedings that "it is law, but it approaches anarchy!" This is an apt description of a proceeding which use3 tho forms of law to subvert elections and constitutions. Tho record of tho' Democracy in this State turnishes several instances of it. A Washington dispatch says that Chester R. Faulkner, of this State, lato chief of tho record division in tho Pension Office, "has been given his old position at the Senate end of the Capitol." Faulkner is a Democrat of the Indiana kind, and his appointment to a position under a Republican Senate illustrates tho mysterious working or senatorial courtesy. FaulkncT is a pet and protege of Senator Voorhees. Washington gossip says that John Chamberlin. the well-known caterer, has keptti diary for years past, in which he has recorded tho prandial and postprandial discussions which hayc taken place at his house and in his hearing. If he has kept a careful record of these banquet-hall proceedings his diary must contain a great many stato secrets worth printing and a great many others which somo statesmen would pay considerable not to have printed. The New York mugwumps are constrained to say that the Republican Stato icket is composed of fit and worthy men, and is in every respect superior to the Democratic ticket. The one objection raised is that its success might be hailed as an approval of tho Harrison administration, and rather than aid in such a result as this the truly good brethren are advised to voto neither ticket. The wear and tear of the mugwump mind in the effort to maintain an . appearance of fairness and remain loyal to their little god Cleveland at the same time, is something frightful to contemplate. -. . On retiring from government service as appointment 'cle rk of the Treasury, in which position he had helped to build up President Cleveland's civil-service record by turning out more Republicans than any other man, Eugene Higgins announced that he was permanently out of politics. People who knew Higgins doubted his ability to remain out, and recent developments indicate that they were right. Higgins is not back of his own accord, however; ho is dragged in, as it were, by tho Baltimore reform committee, and there is a possibility that the interests of reform will carry him still further and land him in jajl. The jail is the next 'step beyond tho Jliggins-Gorman-Cleveland brand of practical politics." General Raum began his administrate n of the Pension Office with a thorough housccleaning, and Secretary Noble's letter to Colonel Smith indicates that the process is to be continued. In other words, he plainly intimates that employes of the Pension Bureau who have had 'their pensions rcratcd will bo removed from office." This is right. Tho extent to which that business was carried on in tho office and tho number of persons who shared in the benefits, thows the existence of a ring which should be broken up. Tho idea of twenty or.tbirty employes of tho Pension Office conspiring to have their own pensions rerated and making tho cases pecial at the expense of outsido applicants, is little less than scandalous. A Richmond special says the Virginia Democracy are gTf atly incensed by the number of Northern Republican speakers ho w"stu raping" that State. "Virginians," we are told, "have always been sensitive about outsido interference with their local affairs, and more than ono content has been won on this issue. Of the Mahono canvassers now stumping the Statethe Democrats have made a list which gives tho following showing." Then follows quite a formidable list,

including some well-known Republican names. The Virginia Democracy have always been sensitive about the invasion of the "sacred soiP by outsiders, but they ought to have learned by this time that State lines are only imaginary. Sinc6 the war no passport is required for Northern Republicans to enter Southern States.

-T UNADULTERATED DEMOCRACY. A remarkable scene occurred at a political meeting in Baltimore, Saturday night, when two lato leaders and workers of the local Democracy made a public" confession of the part they had borne in the fraudulent and criminal acts by which Baltimore has been kept solidly Democratic. The meeting was called by Col. John K. Cowen, attorney of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, and a leader in the independent reform movement. As tho public had been led to expect something sensational there was a great crowd present. The sensation came in the introduction upon the stage of two well-known Democratic workers named Bill Harig and Charley Goodmau. They have long been known as leaders of tho Coy wing of tho Baltimore Democracy. In introducing them Colonel Cowen, addressing the audience, said: You know that the Democratic ring, like 'every other ring, has an outside and an iuside. The specific form of the outside for several vears has been an association of geutleraen calling themselves the Business Men's Association. They stand on tho outside, and are supposed to shelter thoso who arc on the inside. Tho outside being composed of business men, the inside is composed of men who do the business. We know something about this duplex organization in this city. When Harig and Goodman camo on the stage there was a shout of surprise from tho audience. , They slouched to the front, with tho professional air of Baltimore wardworkers, and, one after the other, made their statements. They sounded like the confessions of criminals, or, as the chairman of the meeting said, "a plain, unvarnished tale, the story of frauds that, have been perpetrated in our elections for years." "Both men had been ringleaders in Democratic frauds, and had received orders, money, pistols and fraudulent tickets from Gorman, Higgins and othern. They told how ballot-boxes had been stufted, repeating practiced, negroes driven away from the polls, and, in some instances, murders committed to secure Democratic majorities. Generally, they operated in Baltimore, but sometimes they were sent outside. Referring to one election in which Gorman was a candidate for United States Senator, Goodman told how , Eugene Higgins hired him and a gang of forty men to go out and carry Howard county. They were to' have $3 apiece, and each man was supplied with a pistol Their instructions were to carry the county at all hazards. The principal object was to prevent a consid erable number of negroes from voting. Goodman told the audience how he and his men rendezvoused in an old blacksmith shop. The local authorities tried to disperse them, and threatened to make arrests, but the mob defied them. Tho negroes .were employed in some neighboring miues and came to vote in a body. As they neared the polls tho Baltimore crowd began to uncover, and the negroes saw there was trouble ahead. Here we quote from Goodman's state ment: Tho negroes formed in line and I strung rayineu on eacli side of the line, twenty men on each sine, we pot up a quarrel between the two lines, and the lie was passed. We then commenced to shoot at each other. hut winging a negro every time. We shot the negroes accidentally on purpose. The negroes lied pell-mell. When you get a ne gro on the run keep him running. They will tight when penned, aud when you .scare them scare them welL W e run them toward . a big white building, and they, ran into it We thought it was a country house or mansion, and we would run them out ou the roof. I was leading the cant:, two pistols in my hands, shoot ing and yelling at the topoi my voice. Two priests came out of the door and knocked us all down by waving their hands. That was what we call a ministry.. I did not know it then, or we would not have chased the nenroes clear to the door. -We repeated twice at the polls, and elected A. P. (J or.man "to the United States Senate bv 250 ma jority over Air. Austen Adams. Nqtanecro voted that day. in those days this is what I called fair elections. YV e returned to Isaltimore county and went to the old Kelav House, and then came down homo. We all hid ourselves for a while, but nothing was said about it except so many wounded. It was two weeks before I could tret anything for my soldiers. They knew only me in tho contract, and they wanted to kill me be cause I could not pay them. My honorable friend. Eugene Higgins, .however, came up with five dollars lor eacn man. This was the way Mr. A. P. Gorman was elected to the Senate and became one of Cleveland's advisers, and these wero the services for which Mr. Eugeno Higgins was rewarded with the position of appointment clerk in tho Treasury Department. Other disclosures were made Saturday night of tho 6amo character as tho foreroiiisr. and tho audience was assured that tho Democratic bosses wero prepar ing to practico tho same mothods in tho coming election. These confessions have cause 1 a eeusation in Baltimore, and the only answer tho Democratic leaders make is that Harig and Goodman aro unworthy of belief. It is evident from their own statements that they are bad men, but as they have been acting with the Democratic party for years past, aud one of them still holds a position under the State government, it is estopped from impeaching them. The point of general interest is that the confessions show the actual working methods of the Democracy in a State which is always rated as reliably Democratic. A NOTABLE C0H7EBT TO PROTECTION. Tho Chicago Tribune, always a great nowspaper and a potent factor for Re publican principles and good govern ment, has never appeared to better advantage than in its changed attitude on tho tariff question. For 6ome time past, and especially during recent campaigus, tho Tribune was the ablest advocate of free trade in the country. That it should now be found advocating protection for American industry is a striking proof of its genuine Americanism and its politi cal sagacity. For wo take it that tho changed tone of the 'inbune on this question meansa conviction that protection is not only tho true policy for tho American people, but the policy they intend to adhere to. The recent action of tho wheat-grow ens' convention at St. Louis in adopting free-trado resolutions lends the Tribune

to remark that American farmers had better look well to the protection of tho homo market before they indorse a policy which would practically destroy it. As the inevitabe effect of free trade would be to reduce the wages of American workmen thepurchasingpowerbfthe farmer's best customer would be seriously impaired, and by the time he had succeeded in opening a foreign market for his products, ho might find he had closed the vastly larger and better one at home. The action of the St, Louis convention was mainly induced by Norman J. Colmau, Cleveland's Commis--sioner of Agriculture, and a tricky free-trader. ' The Tribune says; , What does Mr. Colman meau by pretending that in reducing prices of goods to a free-trade level fanners would get high prices for all their crops? If he has any reason for believing that a reductiou in tho pay of city and town wage-workers would not react against the fanner, let him state it, hut not uttempt to get rid of tho question bv ignoring it or misrepresenting it. Farmers want to know whether thejr can. cheapen what they without impairing the purchasing powe their city customers, who buy and consume the bulk of their farm products. In endeavoring to get better prices for food stuns in Europe, tho fanners must not overlook the home market. Nine-tenths of all they produce is consumed in tho United States. They need to consider carefufly the intluence of free trade on their home market how it will aflect the purchasing power of the city peoole and should give this matter special attention, because it is systematically ignored and glossed over by such free-trade advocates as Colman.

The necessity of preserving home markets and protecting the purchasing power of our own peoplo is one of the A ' ! f At strong argumenis in iavor or. protection, and because it cannot bo ansv.v;red it is "systematically ignored and glossed over" by tho advocates of free trade. We welcome the Tribune into full Republic an brotherhood on this question, and in tho next presidential campaign shall expect to find it supporting the Republican platform as well as the candidate. MAJORITY OR MINORITY RULE -WHICH? "Tho first duty of the American peo-' pie," said Representative Lodge, of Mas sachusetts, on the occasion of the celebration of a Puritan anniversary, "is to re-establish a representative government in this Nation which has been suspended. for years by the rules of tho House of Representatives." This is so startling a declaration that it mightbo passed with out notice as the remark of a sensationist, had it not been deliberately made by one of the most intelligent and conscien tious young men in public life. Let us examine the facts to see if Mr. Lodge was warranted in making the assertion quoted. Representative government must be one in w hich a majority of the representatives chosen by tho peoplo to act for them do so act and shape its pol icy and legislation. The rule of the ma jority is tho fundamental principle of a republican form of government, and is so recognized in the federal and every Stato constitution. Consequently, any force, rule, or .custom which permits a minority tc? rule by the exercise of the power conferred, is subversive of popular government. To prevent tbo majority under any pretext from exercising. its prerogatives according to law is nothing . if not revolutionary, ; r' .1 ' Under the Randall regime the rules of the House have been devised upon tho theory that the lending function of tho national legislature is not to legislate, and to exalt the minority and the filibuster over the majority. It was under the Randall rules that tho House of the last Congress was unable to pass the bill to refund the war tax to such States as had paid it. The bill had been reported by a committee, and two-thirds of the members were ready to pass the meas-. ure whenever they were permitted to vote upon it. Ample timehad been allowed for debate, and it was clearly the constitutional right of the majority to pass the measure. But a small minority was determined to prevent its passage, which they did by resorting to the mak ing of three motions, which can be made one after the other, and forcing tho call of the yeas and nays. The point was raised that tho motions wero made to prevent a vote on the bill,' but ; the Speaker ruled that even when it was clear that tho 'motions were made for the solo purpose of defeating the pur pose of the majority, the one-fifth mak ing them and demanding the roll-call wero sustained by the rules of the House. This was so novel a spectacle that Mr. Brice, of New York, a Demo crat, wrote an article upon tho subject which ho illustrated by repre senting the government as an inverted pyramid resting upon tho single filibuster in the House. It is a matter of his tory that the small minority, after a struggle of a week, forced the majority to surrender. A more notable case is found in the defeat of the Pacific railroads funding bill. It had been sanctioned by Mr. Cleveland's commissioners, and unani mously reported by Speaker Carlisle's committee. A decided majority of the members were known to be in favor of its enactment. Its consideration was assigned for a certain hour when tho railroad committee could call up its measures. Just before the bill was reached ono of its opponents offered a long bill, already beforo the House, and demanded that it bo read. By the rules, that was his right, but the reading con sumed the time and prevented the passage of a bill of great public impor tance. These two cases will illustrate what Mr. Lodge meant when he said that representative government had been over thrown. Do not such facte sustain his position! Tho House which will as Bern bio in December will have no rules until it makes them. Tho Re publicans are determined to make rules which will enable the majority to discharge its constitutional duty. That is, they do not propose to have the Constitution of the United States an nulled by such rules as Mr. Randall has been forcing upon Democratic houses. Several propositions have been made. Ono of these is to authorize the Speaker to rule when the motion to adjourn, etc., is dilatory; another is to authorize tho majority to extend tho "morning hour," during which bills can be passed, nslong as it desires, which was tho custom before the Randall ruling confined it to sixty minutes; a third is to authorize the maiority to designate tho bills of a nub-

lie character which shall be considered regardless of the calendar. It has been given out that Mr. Randall and his associates will resist any rules which set aside those of ; the last House, which emasculate ; the majority and put the House under the control of the filibuster. The first question, therefore, which seems likely to come up in the House is, whether that ,body will be permitted to discharge its constitutional duties by the adoption of rules designed to promote that object, or whether the rules will override the Constitution and sanction what cannot be regarded otherwise than revolutionary methods.

The American father discourses loudly on the street-cars upon the folly of marriages between American girls and titled but impecunious foreigners, ne wonders what Huntington and others mean by permitting their daughters to throw themselves away in this manner, and avers with great emphasis that in such case he, the American father, would march his girl home without ceremony, and tell the foreign prince to go to that country assigned by Anarchists to all potentates. But the American father who talks so loudlv would, when the emergency came, behave just as other American parents do. Ho might protest vociferously at the ; beginning, jmt "he woiild presently grow meek and snbmissive, and end by agreeing to all the voung woman of his house desired, including not only the acceptance of a foreign appendage to his family, but the paying of the appendage's debts. The American girl has. the American father too well trained to bo in danger from that quarter when she has once caught the coveted title in her net. The father may. chafo in his chains at times, but, after all, is not to be pitied, since ho is alono to blame for permitting the process of family training to be reversed from its natural order. Train up a young girl in the way sho should go, and when she is of legal age she will not depart from it to marry an adventurer. Bishop Fowler, in an article in the Cal ifornia Advocate regarding his travels in Europe, thus speaks of an historical occurrence which is of the deepest interest to all Americans: As American Christians we owe much to Itusia. In oaaes of arbitration she has Judged Justly and widely touching our interests. And wo t hall not soon forget Der friendfihip during the dark aays or our great civil war. The statement has been In pur press recently, and I had it confirmed by General Buttcnield, whose correspondence with Governor Curtiu, once our minister to Russia, brought out tho facta: Tho French envoy sought and obtained a special interview with the Czar, on the uuestlon of "intervention." Ho f aid England and France had united to ratso the blocsaue, ana recognize the couthern Con federacy, ana they.wauted Russia to nom with them, or at least agree to keep still. After the case was fully stated the Czar Raid: "Tell tho Emperor of the French, your master, that tho united states is my menu, ana that li either Knirland or France, or both united, interferes with the United States, every war vessel and every soldier of Russia -wiU be placed at the disposal of the Korth. That there may he no mis understanding on this matter, please say. also. that to-niht my fleets atart for the harbors of New York and Han Francisco." We wall remem ber how we welcomed the "Great Bear" into our waters. In part we' paid the bill by buying Alaska. Letu make additional payments in helping these SInvio millions to a higher spiritual life. God bless Sweden, and Finland, and Russia! Women are constantly writing to the newspapers and asking how to get rid of freckles; but if any paper would tell them to cross a high trestle in front of an express train and scare the spots oft', it would be acensed of trifling with a solemn subject. Yet, according to a Corydon story, tho trestle remedy is a good ono. Ttie shotgun raid upon tho Hebrew mer chants at Delhi. La., at 1 o'clock last Satur day morning, is not thoroughly explained by the dispatches. Have all the negroes in that part of Louisiana been exterminated, or have the "regulators" corao to the con clusion that "nigger-hunting is becoming too tame a sport? TnE accident at Irwin, Pa., in which five men were crushed, while playing cards, un der a freight car, last Snnday, should serve as a horrible example to Simday card-play ers. If any of them recover they will prob ably remember it for life, and always play , inside the car hereafter. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Tnn St Lonis barkeepers have paid a graceful compliment to Sir Edwin Arnold, by naming their latest concoction the "Light of Asia .Lye-openers." Prof. Langston. of Virginia, has in tho m -r . grounas oi nis uome near wasnmgton a tree that he prizes greatly, because it was given to him by Charles bumner. PitOFESSOR Todd, of Amherst, before sail ing for Africa to observe the solar eclipse, was thoroughly "coached" on the general subject of Africa by his accomplished wife. Silas Emerson, of Santa Clara, CaL, who died last week, was worth 10.000.000. He left his native town (Harrison, Me.,) in 1&9 Decauie a young woman juiuu mm on account of his poverty. The late Sir Charles William Sikes was tho founder of England's great system of postoftice Bavin gs banks, and it was in recognition of that important nublic service that ho was knighted. A promising start has been made with the movement to erect a monument to Gem liartranir ai rnuaueipnia, by means of dollar contributions from members and ex-inembers of the National Guard in Penn sylvania. The proposal to erect a memorial to Wilkio Collins in Westminster or St. Paul's meets with opposition from the friends of the late novelist. Wilkio Collins had a great prejudice against the prevalent fashion of raising such memorials to public men. Elizauktii Liske, a Russian eleven yeart old. already six feet six inches in height, three feet eleven inches round the waist, and three feet eleven inches round the chest, is the latest thing out in giants. The doctors say she will continue to grow in every way for some years yet. Henry Irving's views on the prospects of thoso who adopt the 6tage as a profession are not very encouriging for youthful as pirants. Of the total number of actors in England, estimated to be above 20.000. he expresses the conviction that quite half of them would be glad of an assured $1,000 a year. Ix January nest Louis Kossuth will be come a man without a country. He will on the 9th of that month complete the period of absence from Hungary, which will termi. nate and forfeit his citizenship of that couutry. His two sons have become Italian citizens, and the venerable patriot has been strongly urged to do likowise, but ho probably will not do-so. The lato Sir Dauiel Gooch was a strict disciplinarian in railroad management. It is told that two Great Western enginedrivers were going home one night along a London street, when they came to the red light of a "doctor's shop." One, who was slightly in liquor, pulled np at the frhop. aud in spite of his companion's urging, refused to go a step further. "Run by that red light, and go before DanT in tho morning! Not he!" - King Kalakaua of thcSandwich Islands, who could not borrow enough money this summer to go to. Paris, sent an interesting display to the exposition. One of the features of his exhibit was a gigantic tureen out of which he eats porridge. Kalakaua is a hraH trepcherman. and can eat and tlrink more than any individual in his domain. lie also scut to Paris a volnmo of his poems and a .portrait of himself. The

latter represents a large man dressed in a tisht-fitting European military uniform. His breasf is covered with orders. . - - A New Yop.k letter to the Boston Transcript, speaking of Mrs.' James O. Blaine, jr., and her infant son, says: 'This twen-ty-month-old baby, by the way', is the living image of his grandfather. His eyes now are as keen in their expression, and his speech is so precocious that those who hear him stand amazed. James G. Blaine III, does not talk babv talk JHe speak nsdistinctly as a chfld of six, and with much niorVs knowledge of the world than 6ome children of that age. The story that young Mrs. Blaine is very ill is .no r.ewspaper sensation. I doubt if sho ever will be well enough to go upon-the stage,"' During the recent military manoeuvres in Hanover the German Emperor washighly delighted with the honors showered upon him. While driving through a small village in the course of his journey, to his surprise, he suddenly came upon a maeniliceut triumphal arch across tho broadest street of the peasaut town. Ur-ou the side facing him as he entered were "the words: "Web come to His Imperial Majesty." He was so charmed with.the evidence of loyalty that, after passing under the arch he turned about

to admire its beauty again with his Majesty . or fcaxouy. iiut what was his surprise to read on the reverse side tho words: "Johann Bach, best brewery in the village. Beer, 8 cents a quart." They both laughed over ii long ana nara. . COMMENT AND OrTXIONV We aro coining silver enough. To coin more without retiring an equal amount of paper would endanger the standard. Therelore there is no need of a silver convention. -Chicago Times. The family is the basis of society, and there is certainly as much ground for pro tecting the home as forprotectiug our commerce. congress has the power to reguiato the latter, and it ought to have the power to provide nniform mamago and divorce laws. Philadelphia Press. No electoral law can be satisfactory which does not assure two things the right of every legal voter and none else to cast ono vote and no more, and the right to cajt that vote secretly in the fear of no one and no thing save only his judgment and nis conscience. New York Tribune. Ix the important work of tho perpetua tion of the race, sanitary science has made the least healthy part of tho community the most prominent. The result will be that from generation to generation man will continue to deteriorato physically un til ho vanishes from the earth. New York Times. The price of wheat will come down if tho fanners have it on hand in excess of de mand; and the idea of a combination which will prevent the competition of millions of producers in this country, to say nothing of tno tens of millions in Russia and India, is simply the wildest moonshine. Pittsburg Dispatch. If the anti-coolie shonters aro not con tent with the rigid laws passed by Congress, and propose to go a step further and organize a propaganda of persecution against those Chinese already here, they will develop an ugly reaction in public opinion and make the case worse for them than it is now. Springtield Republican. The free-traders ask him the farmerl to throw away this only assnranco of future gam and permanent prosperity, lie is urged to put his faith in a foreign market when the home market is tho only one that he can safely depend upon, and the only one that has ever been practically and submanually uenoucuu 10 mm. oi. juuis Globe-Democrat. ' They the people make a great deal of noise about their past mistakes and present evils. That is not because they do not realize that their achievements in a century i i. ii i a. ! . " . r uavu ueen me oesi. in numan nisxory. it, is only proof that manly vigor has not de parted and senility has not yet come, and the neoole are more interested in doing tho w ork they have m hand and in preparing ior a granaer iuiure, man in any comiorta ble retrospect. New York Tribune. 0 Ma a r Would farmers be better off with the earnings of their city customers cut down by one-third, and their ability to bur farm products lessened to that extent? Would cheaper goods fully compensate ior the in jury to the farmer's home market?. That is l AS .., . " l. me question wiiicu must ue inougiiL our. though it is studiously avoided and ignored . by free-trade doctrinaires, but which tho farmers must consider unless they aro will iug to be blind followers of reckless men like Uolman. Chicago tribune. GRAY AND THE SISTINE MADONNA. The Ex-Governor Mistook Her Portrait for That of a Relative of a Fort Wayne Man. . Washington Letter in New York Tribune. An Indiana man who was here this week told a neat story about Gov. Isaac P. Gray. It seems that the Democratic Governor of Indiana was given a dinner lately by a well-known lawyer of Fort V ayne. Half a dozen prominent citizens wero invited to I meet him. all of whom were loyal Demo crats. After dinner the guests adjourned to tho library, where the host had some fair imitations of the "old masters." The Governor strolled around the room, smok ing his cigar and looking at the paintings. Before ono he stopped, evidently pleased. He put up his eye-giaRS, and alter an ad miring inspection turned to his host: Ah-h " sneaking his host's name. tV.a ia on otniohla t1 at an n f n rA lnl Ah-h. relative of yours!" "That's the Sistme Madonna. Governor." replied the host, indulgently, as he. looked nervously at tne otner occupants or tho room. "Hegh? Sister ? I didn't onite catch the name. Now that I look at it closely,", again adjusting his glass, "it does resemble vou slightly, but I didn't, know that vour father had any daughters. May I ask, is your sister , an. your sister . didn't quite catch the name, is she still living?" The host and his other guests were con vulsed, but Isaac was so intent on the picture that ne aid not notice it, and among them they managed to let the Governor down easy without giving him any more definite information about the Madonna's relationship to the host. A truly amiable face," mused the Governor, pocketing the glass. "My friend here is blessed in having such a female relative." "After he left, the host and his guests made a compact not to let the story go beyond the library walls, but as tho hoat himself is a raconteur of tales, as well as a good Democrat, it leaked out. and now, from one end of Indiana to another, the initiated know the story of Gov. Isaac P. Gray and tho Sistine Madonna. m A CONGRESSIONAL I11UDE. The Wife of an Indiana Repreentativ Who Will Shine In Washington Society. Special In Pliialadelpbia tnaalrer. In the month of June the home of ex-Solicitor-eeneral George A. Jeuks at Rrookville. Pa-Twas the scene of marriage festivities. .During the regime of the young and beautiful Frances Folsom Cleveland at the executive mansion it was one of the congenial incidents of herconventional life amid tho surroundings of state to gather about her a select circle of the pretty daughters in official life. There was a sympathy of girlish buoyancy and innocence in this release from the rigiditv and restraint of ceremonial decorum and theanathetic attentions of dowagers and matrons, lu this group of maiden beauty and vivacity none exceeded in charms of person, grace of manner and gentleness of conversation the winsome daughter of the ex-Solici tor-general. t Miss Emma Jeuks, the bride of the Fiftyfirst Congress, made her debut under the auspices of her social patron of the White House. .She had many courtesies showered upon her, and not u few suitors followed in the train of her admirers. Few young ladies were more popular among all clasxes of official and unolhcial society. It was with much surprise that her Washington friends heard of her contemplated marriage. From a belle in the higher sphere which surrounded tho chief lady of tho J .residential household last season. Miss lenks will be the bride of the circlo of tho Representatives which will gather for the approaching season of legislation and fashionable gayeties. Benjamin F. Shivcly, who represents the Thirteenth or South Itend district, of Indiana, in December will enter his second Congress. He began life as a school-teacher in lb, I, when h was seventeen years of age. Hc wielded the rod of learning for sixteen years, when he became a journalint, and later entered the Forty-eighth Congress ior a fragmentary term, caust d hy a resignation, and, after taking a course of law, rc-embarkt-d in politics and again won a seat in the popular branch of tho national legislature. Honorable ind Mrs. B. F. Shivcly will re-

ceivethe congratulations of their friends in Washington after December, and will ba an agreeable acquisition to tho snrial activ

ity ol me season among tho Iadie-in ihm families of the Representatives. Maria Sneer Tattersoii. Cincinnati Commercial. The many relatives and friends of Mrs. Maria Speer Patterson, a venerable and extill lllr JUMJ U HI WV fa, A V f u w 7 4. Ml. death, which occurred Saturday night, at her residence in Glendale, m tho ninetieth year of her age. Mrs. Patterson, widow of the lato Kev. Dr. A. U. rattcrson, oi uxford. a well-known Presbyterian minister for many years in Pennsylvania and Ohio, was tho daughter of JJev. William Speer, an eminent Presbyterian preacher of Pennsylvania, whoso sister was the mother ot President Buchanan, and whoso wile was the daughter of Major James Ramsey, Pres ident Harrison s great-grandfather. I hreo of Mrs. Patterson's cousins married three of Gen. Win. 11. llarrisou's sous, ono oC whom, 3lrs. W. H. Harrison, jr. Miss Jano Irwin presided with rare thcance and dignity at tho White lious during Gen. Harrison 3 brief term, and uuotuer of whom. Mrs. John Scott Harrison Miss Elizabeth Irwin was tho mother of our President. The World's Fair. PhUadflphla Pre?. Tho next few weeks will nrobablv decida the fate of tho project. If the session of Congress opens with Now York still undecided ns to a site, and with a gtiarantco fund of less than. Nj.000.000 id edged, there will be little hope of that citt impressing Congress with a belief in its ability tomanage the great undertaking. The contest; will then lie between Chicago and Washington, and it will be for Congress to rttv cido which of theso two cities olfers th greatest advantages. If the same tact, en ergy and public spirit were visible in New York that Chicago is displaying thero would belittle doubt as to tho location of tho fair. The great success of the nrescun industrial exhibition in Paris has been achieved by harmonious, well-directed effort. It is about time thatthosamo feat ures characterized the preparations for tba fair of ltWJ, if it is to meet with a success commensurate with the importance of tha event it is intended to celebrate. - Col man's Free-Trade Fullacle. Iowa State ItcRister. Mr. Norman J. Colman. Cleveland's exConimissioner of Agriculture, packed tha vvheat convention at St. Louis, this weeic, in the interest of free trade. All his falla cies are fully answered when the extent -of the vast wheat country in Manitoba aud other Canadian provinces is known. .Those provinces have ten times the wheat area of tho United fctates, aud wheat, and other small grains are the only crops' thev can niatiire. Colman wishes free trade that wdl permit all tho Canadian small-grain crops, cattle and manufactures to come into the United. States free of dut3, and thus keep the prices of home-grown graid low. The Republican doctrine is to build up home manufactories, to cousumo home products and let all outride products pay duties or stay out. Mho American market is the best market in the world. Republicanism will preserve it for American la borers, manufacturers and farmers. k , Ait Attempt to explain. a m a a v Editorial in Indianapolis Sentinel. , The Democratic and mugwump papers are attributing to secretary Windom tho absurd statement that the policy of tha Cleveland administration touching the deposits in national banks has not been disturbed. The Sentinel even goes so far as to say that Secretary Windonys statement to this etlect appeared in the Journal It in hardly necessary to assure our readers that no such statement ever appeared in tho Journal as coming from Secretary Windoni, aud that, in point of fact, he never nado any such statement. It is well kuov:?; that the first ollicial act of President Harrison, was to remove all the public deposit from the national banks, where his predecessor, the horrible Cleveland, had placed them iit consideration of a cash bribe. Spirit of tlte Iowa Campaign. Iowa Register. There is sa much Democratic impudence, assurance, conceit, fraud, and utter worthlessness prominent in Iowa just now that the centuries, as they have rolled by, left us no parallel, batan has taken sides openlj. and entered into this campaign. lie has rallied his imps to attack the Republican party through its nominees as he did when they were in the death grapple with rebellion in lbtil-5, and as he did in paradise Ion J iieo. josenii u. ilutciusoms the objective .point, but if Hull or Wheeler or any othel I t. 1 person wno is a itepuoucan naa ueen nominated, the attack would have been equally as bitter, as fell, and as devilish. ' , The Field of ISuena YUta. New Mexico Correspondence of the Denver News. James 13. Fox, of Indiana, who was iu Las Vegas forty jears ago as a eoldier in tho . Mexican war, and who has been recently making a tour jof this territory and old, Mexico as far south as the City of Mexico, returned Saturday night and left this morning for his Indiana home. The old gentleman says that while he was in Mexico he visited the battle-field of liucna Vista, where tho armies of Taylor and Santa Anna met, and was shocked to eeo the ground xtbickly 6trewn with tho whitened bones of the soldiers who fell in that battle. ! Tli Democracy In Straits. Troy Times.' , Poor Mr. Thnrman! His experience of last year is being repeated. Yielding to tho solicitations of party managers, he went on the stump in support of the Democratic State ticket in Ohio. Last night at Cincinnati he attempted to make a speech, but broke down in the midst of it. just as bo did in New York city and Newark last fall. Party exigencies must bo very great indeed when this decrepit old man is forced to pass through such a cruel ordeal DUappolnted In Miller. Philadelphia Fresa. Hon. Warner Miller, of New York, has grievously hurt the mugwump and Democratic organs by his active participation in tho Republican campaign in the Empiro Ktato. They had it all arranged that ho was to suik in ms tent ana allow the Heublican ticket to tight its own battles: ut hero he is workingand making upccche for it! The ex-enator is positively cruel to our friends, tho enemy. Ul at the Wrong Time. Washington Tost. It is untortunate for tho Ohio Democrats that ex-Senator Thurman should have beea seized with illness just before he reached that portion of his speech in which ho intended to say a good word for the Democratic noniiuee for Governor. The next time the distinguished Ohio Democrat should be permitted to transmit his remarks by phonograph. A Democrat Who Will Stay Abroad. Chicago Journal. Many peoplo who know State Treasurer Burke, of Louisiana, as a man of big heart aud kindly feeling will regret to learn that instead of returning to America to face tho charges against him, he has coucluded to remain abroad. This business of "monke--iug' with other people's' money has de stroyed more good men than it ever helped. That lirokci Promise or Disaster.' Albany Journal. Some idea of tho boom which trade is having under the Republican administration can bo gained from the fact that tho Pennsylvania railroad, one of the best equipped in tho country, is unable to handle its freight. Where is that depression which was sure to follow the election ofu Republican President! One Too 31 any. Philadelphia Record. Perhaps Chauncey M. Depcw is correct ia his opinion thatGrover Cleveland has given the Democratic party its only idea for twenty-livo 5'ears. If so. it is probable that the party, considering the eilects of it, will conclude that it doesn't want another idea for twenty-live years to come. Superfluous Information. Detroit Tribnn. They Kay there is going to bo a lively scramble down in Indiaua in the election of members of the next Legislature for tht senatorial vacancy- This information is rather unnecessary. There is always a 'lively scramble" down iu Indiana when an otlico shows In sight. A Point for Republicans to Consider. IUifalo Coniwerr'al. . When did Republicans ever Fcore a poiua by helping to elect a Duaocratf