Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 November 1889 — Page 4

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9,; 1880.

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Cokporal Tanner is hardly doing a kindness to the Grand Army men when he intimates that "they did it" in Ohio and Iowa. There need be no question among Ohio Democrats who aspire to succeed Senator Payne as to which will capture the prize. The man who has the largest purse holds the winning hand. Even Kansas elected a Democratic Governor in 1882, after giving GarGeld 01,000 majority in 1880. In 1884 she swung back into line, and gave Blaine 43,438 majority. Oil years don't count. All the iron furnaces in the Mahoning valley have posted notices granting ji voluntary increase of 10 per cent, in the wages of all employes. This is done in view of the improvement in business. Free-trade papers please copy. The Iowa State Register, of Thursday, has'au editorial "After the Rattle." Jt 6ays: "The smoke is beginning to clear away, and the results of Tuesday's battle can be seen. They indicate a Democratic victory." That opinion fccems to bo growing. If the South Americans had visited this country twenty-five or thirty years ago they would have seen nothing of the great display of iron industries at Pittsburg which so impressed them. It was well they waited till we had had twentylive years of protection. . Railroad-millionaire Huntington talks sensibly about his daughter's marriago to Prince Hatzfeldt, and is evidently disposed to put the best face on the matter. The fact remains, however, that it was a marriage of convenience and of unworthy motives on both sides. Tiie latest death from electricity is one of the most tragic. This time the victim is a boy, and the death-dealing "bolt came from the machinery of an electric car. The increasing frequency of these accidents shows that great caution is necessary in dealing with electricity, in all its forms. If the metallic parts of an electric car can become charged with electricity, the public will "be apt to keep hands off. Senator Quay's eon is chairman of the Republican committee in tho county in which he resides. On Tuesday morning he was taken suddenly ill, and the Senator assumed his duties of delivering the tickets at 'the polls in the city of Beaver. Pcoplo out in the early dawn were greeted with tho unusual sight of a United States Senator making the rounds of the voting places, and were naturally cheered by tho sight. Mr. "Quay might have delegated tho task to another person, but he chose, to do it himself. Pennsylvania Republicans, Jiigh and low, are in the habit of taking an interest in all elections, and as a result, it may bo remarked, they always "get there." . A decision just rendered in New York shows how. easily trusts can bo reached and destroyed by common-law methods. The Attorney-general of New York made application for the dissolution of the charter of the North-river sugar refinery on the ground that it had been incorporated out of a private business enterprise, and then immediately had transferred all its capital to the sugar refineries. In other words, it had forfeited its charter by joining a trust. . The court granted the petition, and appointed a receiver, and this decision has just been affirmed in general term. Tho immediate result was stock in the Sugar Trust fell from 74 to 70 3-4, and all other trust Stocks fell in proportion. -4 It is natural that the Democratic press should endeavor to make the most of its victory, but it is a little surprising that an organ of such intelligence as the Philadelphia Record should ascribe the result in Iowa, Virginia and Ohio to a growth of free-trade ideas. The Record knows that dissatisfaction with tho Cleveland idea was tho cause of the very narrow Democratic margin in Virginia last year; it knows that Campbell, who has been elected Governor of Ohio, is on record as a strong protectionist, and that tho unpopularity of the prohibition law led to tho result in Iowa. Rejoice to your hearts' content, Democratic friends and brethren, "but do not Inake yourselves ridiculous in argument. Kentuckians can be depended upon to do something original when opportunity offers. The postmaster at Louisa, in that State, is a Republican. The Democrats were so overjoyed at the result in Ohio that they could not keep

the good news to themselves. Thursday night they became imbued, with tho idea that the postmaster ought to be informed of the result. He had locked up his office and gone home, so the Bourbons blew up tho building with dynamite, feeling certain that Uncle Sam's agent would learn something about the matter in the morning. The postmaster has asked the protection of the government, and fbould have it, while the perpetrators of tho outrage ought to be taught that lawful destruction of United States property in the South ended with the war.

LAW A3 LAW. It is a matter of no public importance, and very little public interest, who holds or tills the offices of State Statistician, State Geologist, Oil Inspector anil Mine Inspector. Tho temporary possession of these offices may possibly be of some partisan interest, and the enjoyment of their emoluments is a matter of some moment to the respective eontestants. These considerations, however, are small, narrow and' personal. They do not concern the public welfare or interests. The only interest the public has is that, tho constitutional questions involved should be ..decided in accordance with right principles, and that the practice of all departments of the government should be held to a strict conformity with the. Constitution. The temporary possession of a few paltry offices is of no consequence to either party; the maintenance of the Constitution in its integrity is. of immense importance to both and to all the people. So far as the Journal is concerned it has no such degree of partisan interest or pride of opinion as would have led it to denounce the decision of the court, or question its binding force if it had been eontrary to the views previously held by the Journal, and it is not consciously actuated by such motives in approving the decision rendered. In all judicial tribunals a majority of the judges constitute tho court. If it were not so judicial decisions would be impossible. The right of opinion is as sacred on. the bench as off it. as inviolate among judges as among citizens., but tho opinion of a majority of the judges of any court is the opinion and decision of the court, all dissenting opinions on or off tho bench to the contrary notwithstanding. There is no element of good citizenship in that form of criticism which would place a dissenting opinion above that of tho court. The court has decided that the offices of State Statistician and State Geologist, having been created by the Legislature, are elective by tho people. This is in accordance with tho principles of popular government, and the decision of the court shows that it is in accordance with the letter and spirit of the Constitution. The Journal believes, further, that these offices would be much more satisfactorily filled by popular election than by legislativelectionaudquite as satisfactorily as b3' executive appointment. If the people are capable of nominating and electing Governor and State officers, socalled, they are capable of nominating and electing suitable men for all State offices, even those requiring technical knowledge. They have never made a mistake in the choice of a' Superintendent of Public Instruction. The fact is, legislative appointments to office are, as a rule, the least fit and satisfactory of any. It is a poor argument against the decision of tho court to say that the people are not capable of 'filling the oflices referred to. A WRONG TO BE RIGHTED. The recent election in Virginia furnishes scandalous .proof of a state of things in tho South which should not be allowed to exist any longer. General Mahone, who is neither untruthful nor sensational, gives it as his opinion that "at least 20,000 1 Republican votes went into tho ballot-box that never were counted, and that as many more Republican voters were never given a chance to vote." This means that not less than 40,000 Republican voters in Virginia were disfranchised by fraud. This was done without open violence and under the forms of State law. It is tho result of years of practice in tho Southern States, through which, by gradual process of evolution, tho most effective methods of perpetratiug election frauds have at last been reduced to a working system. The paramount idea and controlling motive of the Democratic party in the South for many years past has been to perfect a system of qlection laws, machinery and methods which, while having the semblance of legality and fairness, would really be an organized system of fraud. The Ku-klnx Klau of years ago made too much noise and scandal. Tho shotgun plan had its objections.. Bulldozing and intimidation could not be made universally effective. The tissue-ticket plan worked 'well for awhile, but had to be abandoned. At last, all tho Southern States have settled down on a system of election laws which, instead of having to bo violated, simpb' havo to be enforced in order to prevent fair elections. Thus, republican government is at an end in tho South and Democratic rule perpetuates itself from year to year with more certainty than any dynasty in Europe. Such a thing as an honest election has not been known in any Southern State for fifteen years, and cannot occur under the laws and methods now in force there. The entire system is one of organized fraud and legalized despotism. This state of things is a disgrace to republicaa institutions, a foul blot on American citizenship, and a continuing menace to tho government. It is as dishonoring to the party which tamely submits to tt as to tho one responsible for it. It is a perpetual scandal on the government that tolerates it, and notice to tho world either that the Constitution of tho United States docs nor, grant or that Congress will not exercise tho power to protect citizens in the exercise of their political rights, and purge its own body of festering fraud. We are well aware that tho question is surrounded with difficulties, and we arc not prepared to indicate the best

method of dealing with it, but we should be loath to adinit that the Constitution is so lacking, in virility or Congress so, devoid of intelligence and manhood that some way cannot be found either to secure honest elections or to deprive the Southern States of the fruits of fraud. One or the other of these things must be done.' No government based on popular suffrage can endure long under the present state of things. The nullification of tho fifteenth amendment to the Constitution and tho universal reign of political fraud in the South cannot be ignored by a Republican President and Congress.- The government should not abdicate its power nor the administration shirk its duty. We hope to hear some strong words from the President on this subject in his forthcoming message,, and to have from Congress, somethingstronger than words. If we cannot havo honest elections in the South, at least let the basis of representation bo changed, and let Congress purge itself and the national government from par

ticipation in this monumental villainy. If the Republican party is prepared to submit tamely to the nullification of the fifteenth amendment and to tho permanent denial of a free ballot in the South, then, indeed, it is ready for disbandment. THE BPECIALISTSOF GOODNESS. Tho following paragraph is quoted from the Indiana W. C. T. U. official or gan as a sample of the silliness, unfairness and anxiety to publish anything disparaging to Republicans prevalent among third-party publications: In another column we publish the action of the Terre Haute linnor-dealers in making Vice-president Morton: nu honorary member of their association. Not wishing to publish any such statement without tho assurance of its truth, we dispatched tho corresponding secretary of tho Terre Haute W. C. f. U. upon reading it, who replied: 4,Yes, it is true." It will occur to people of sense that the proper course for persons assuming to bo exclusively representative of tho moral sentiment of the community, or, as Murat Halstead puts it, who make a specialty of goodness, would be to first ascertain if tho charge against Vicepresident Morton of obtaining a bar license were true. It it were true, then they -could mako their Criticism; if it were not, as proves to be the case, then what did the action of the Terre Haute liquor-dealers signify, except that, in common with their prohibition partners, they were ready to accept a Democratic slander against a Republican without investigation? Common decency and the interest every fair-minded citizen should have, without regard to politics, in tho good name of the administration should havo prompted an inquiry as to the truth of the original story. If it be said that this is not the custom of politics, the Journal must reply that it should not be the custom of those who profess tomovo on a moral plane high above political parties. It is true that the third-party organs did not give currency to -the tales alloat in Washington, a year or two agb, derogatory to- the head of tho late administration, but, in view of certain ties binding them to tho Democracy and their eagerness to pick flaws in tho Republican administration, it can hardly be made to appear that they were led to this course by tho exalted moral principle of which they boast. It may be added, in this connec tion, as showing the amenities of decent politics, that the Republican newspapers did not circulate these stories; but, let the two-faced "reformers" mark tho point, they did not' refrain from publication because tho tales were not authenticated, but because of shamo that tho chief magistrate should so conduct himself. It wa3 not that they cared for the man, but they were jealous of the honor of the Nation which he temporarily represented. Patriotism is non-partisan, but it is a sentiment apparently beyond the comprehension of those whoso "specialty is goodness." A correspondent of the New York Maritime Association, writing from Australia, says that government lias renewed its -subsidy to the California mail steamship line, and expresses a hope that the United States will do something in the same direction. "If tho lino should be allowed to collapse," says tho correspondent, "owing to the want of support from your side of the world, it would mean a big set-back to the trade of your merchants and manufacturers in these colonies." When Congress gets ready to give 6crious and intelligent attention to the question of extending our foreign trade it will find the encouragement and establishment of steamship lines a first necessary step. Trade follows tho flog aud transportation. It looks as if tho Democrats of Ohio will have an opportunity to elect a real Democrat to the Senate in place of Senator Payne. Rut they may a train use this opportunity to disappoint the party at large and scud another representative of plutocracy and boodle to the Senate rather than Judge Thurmau. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. This is a touching wail from a Democratic source, and tho humor of it is that tho St. Louis paper knows that boodlo will win and that Thurman has no more chanco of being sent to tho Senate than of being elected King of Timbuctoo. In tho speculations already rife in Ohio Democratic circles his name isn't so much as mentioned. Tire decision throughout is based on tho -proposition, "In ouropinionthisis tne law." Sentinel. It is generally supposed that in controverted questions the opinion of the Supreme Court makes law. Perhaps they should have ascertained the opinion of the editor of the Sentinel and declared that to be the law. Brother Clarkson's State has "g.one Democratic in spite of the vigorous swinging of the politiral ax in the Fostoffice De.partraeut. Milwaukee Sentinel. The people who are ascribing the general result to President Harrison's slowness in making removals may rind something to think about in the foregoing remark. The W. C7T. U. lest many of its best working members, some time ago, owing to the quiet withdrawal from active service of women who could not approves tho political turn tho associations man

agement was taking. It h not to be ex

pected that these earnest women will bo content to refrain permanently from temperance work, and tho formal withdrawal aud reorganization of this element from the controlling faction expected, at Chicago i3 one of the inevi tables, soon or late. Riciiari) T. Ely, secretary of the Amer ican Economic Association, has issued a circular offering prizes for the best- essays on tho subject of women-wage-earners 300 to be given as the first prize and $200 as the second. It is expected that com petitors will, deal principally with the American aspect of the subject, but they are asked to treat of the early and present condition of women workers, their growth in numbers, both absolutely and in proportion to population, the present extent of their sphere of labor, the economic and social evils connected with their various occupations as wage-earners, and remedies for these evils. The purpose aimed at, that of securing facts and views uponan industrial, problem for public consideration, is commendable, but this seems like anindirect method of getting at the matter. The facts desired are largely matters of statistical record, open to any student, but sound opinions upon the economic points suggested can hardly be looked for except from those persons who havo given close and practical investigation to the subject. These persona are few, and their names easily ascertained. It might have been better to offer them direct a reasonable recompense for the result of their observations than to expect them to take tho ehances of competing with mere theorists. A Sister of Mercy's "farewell to the world'7 is a veryjitylish and festive affair, according to s all accounts, when the postulant is a ten-million-dollar heiress. The solemn ity ordinarily supposed to be involved in this ceremony must be largely dissipated when it is made spectacular, oy ."magnificent" Worth gown a, and when a fashionable breakfast is an accessory. After all. too. Miss Drexel is .not sure to make a more devoted sister than any Brirlgot Flanagan, of Poker alley, who chooses to give up the world and its vanities. . The most humorous thing about Ohio politics just now is the frantic etiortof a Springtield manufacturer, John H. Thomas, to capture the sonatorship. He is only worth a million or so, and either Brico, Payne, McLean or Harter could buy him out two or three times and still have plenty left to buy the legislators. Upon the rare occasions that a Democratic Legislature gets control in Ohio it is not in the habit of wasting time with small fish. That young woman . at Shoais who crushed the skull of an insulting admirer with a flat-iron has vindicated her good name but ruined her matrimonial chances. Nobody would care to live in the same house with such fatal skill in handling, this homely weapon. Each delegate to tho All-American Congress must have accummulated enough bric-a-bric, during tho tour through the Uni ted States, to stock a dollar store. Life is still worth living. The Democrats have carried Ohio and Iowa, but Denny will sign. To tho Editor of the Indlanaioli4 Journal: Has there been any law enacted governing the organization of natural pns companies; if so, what is it! If not, what section should tbeybe organized under! Was there any law paed In regard to the depth that pipes should le laidt M Constant READtR. "Baker's Corker, Nov. 7. A law on the subject was parsed last winter regulating the manner of piping gas, digging trenches, acquiring real estate, etc. Gas companies may be incorporated under the general law of the Stato, but the law of last winter .regulates their operations in certain respects. For fuller information consult the Acts. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. John G. Wiiittif.k says he expects to live to the age of one hundred years, though he is not anxious to do so. Mr, Gladstone is writing a paper on 'The Impregnable Rock ot Holy Scripture," to be published next year. Over one thousand souls, mostly negroes and Indians, are on the school grounds at Hampton Institute, Virginia, teaching and being taught. . Joux Tyndall, father of the famous scientist, wa9 a carpenter by trade. Ite lived in the little town of Carlo w, fortyfour miles from Dublin, Ireland. The New York dress-makers have named a tea gown in honor of Edgar Saltus. It is described as being loose in fit, thereby resembling the morals of its namesake's heroines. Miss Gertrude Miller, tho little daughter of the Attorney-general, is quoted as expressing dislike for Washington, because "the people go out in tho streets with their babies." Mr. Isaac Pitman, stenographer and spelling reformer, writes to say that in his opinion "the prezent spelling disgeizez our langwaie, hinderz edjukashon and sujests fols etimolojiz." Tin: late John F. Smith, tho great Philadelphia type-founder, gave to various charities more than 100,000 a year during the closing years of his long and useful life. "Everything 1 have to give- awav,w ho said, "I shall give away before I die."' Professor Anderson, of Madison, Wis., who was minister to Denmark under the last administration, is very much incensed at being removed. He wanted to remain six months longcrto finish a book on which he was engaged. He is now general agent for a cod liver oil company. Mrs. Van Cott, the evangelist, thinks that Mrs. Harriott Beecher Stowe is not very courteous. Mrs. Van Cott called on the novelist and said: "Doubtless you have heard of me as an eminent Christian." Mrs. Stowe promptly replied: "No, I never have," and the interview came to an end. Kossuth for a number of years gave lessons in the English language to the young men at Turin, where he has resided for thirty years. Old as he is, these pupils are now clamorous ior mm to become a natu ralized subject in order to be elected a sPn atorof the kingdom, but he prefers to re main a llun. A. C. Carr, the apple king of Kennebec county. Maine, has raised a queer one this year. It is a medium-sized apple of gteen ish color, and from one sido yon may cut a slice of sweet apple of as line flavor as you ever ate, and from anotner part of the same apple you may cut a aiico 6our enough to make a maiden squiut. Salvixi. the tragedian, is a stalwart, eu-thusiastic-mannered man of tho robust school., with a massive bald head and droop, ing black mustache, waxed at the extremii ... ..y... n n tl.f, ......... 1 . I .IV lies. 11 u iouo Buuuniaiuc juu luuuHcmt'ail lion and six and fifty. lie studied the part of Othello while languishing in the deepest dnngeon beneath thecastle wall at Geneva. - It is announced that F. Marion Crawford, the novelist, is to become a resident of Washington, I). C. Crawford is a very handsome man, in perfect health, and is known all over Europe as an accomplished swordsman, lie is a good deal above the average height, and keeps his musclca in perfect condition. lie will form an attractive addition to Washington society. The Ameer of Afghanistan sleeps in a plain tent, cats but one substantial meal daily, with fruit as his only other refreshment, and rarely smokes more than two cigarettes in tho day. He is pas&ionately fund of field

sports, and is a first-rate shot. His riflo rarely leaves his side, and often when he is holding his durbars in the open air. he will take up his kuu and hhoot at anv bird or beast whtch conies within range. The great novelty in this year's Boston State fair, now being held in that city, is a wonderful canal which occupies the ground floor of the main halL It is 500 feet in length and tweuty-oue jn width. On its surface are seen steam launches, small side-wheel steamers of old and new models, canoes, rafts, marine bicycles, life-saving apparatus and passenger gondolas, the wholo making an interesting and novel display.

A ashixgton "society lady" predicts at "Hattie Jllaine will have everv forth ei gnerin Washington on her string" this inter. The writer iii .;n w have the swellest gowns of any girl in tho " "j v., ' "overnsesa cosmetic. he has the Blame- noso, but I dare say she j satisfied, as she pnto ni;.. is ... .... e- iuc uiaiuu bvuow with it." Tippoo Tin, the great African slave-dealer, is getting tired of JnV wandering and dangerous existence, and proposes to set1 10 oown as a solid citizen on his estate at Casmgo, three hundred miles above Stanley h alls, where he has built for himself a largo and line stone mansion. His son, however, will carrr ,m hia fTOIin in which he has already been quite successinl 'na nn Ins Ir.if i w : - . -t . V ? "w -M'euiuon ne reiurueu with forty tons of ivory, worth $;"0,000. The lassoing fever has taken Atlanta. The other day two of the larger boys in a well-known family of five boys lassoed tho youngest one and began dragging him aronnd. The slip-knot tightened on his throat and he was unable to yell, and when released was almost unable to breathe. As tho milkman was delivering milk at another house last week he was surprised to see a coil of rope gracefully slip out of an upper window and settle about his shoulders. Before he couW dislodge it it was tightened and he was a prisoner to unseen captors. Prorarly the courts do not afford amoro curious case than this: In 1859 Mme. Hardouiu, of Paris, bonght threo tickets in a lottery, the capital prize of which was 100,000 francs. By presentiment she chose the number -10,6.14. putting the ticket awav among her husband' ettects. Ho became bankrupt, and all of his books were seized. The lottery was in lb01, and 40.( won the prize, hmco then Mine. Hardouiu has been accumulating evideuco to show that she was the person who bought the ticket, and now expects the judgment in her favor every moment. ' COMMENT AND OPINION. The Australian voting system is likely to work admirably every where save in those f daces where the Democracy depends upon al lot-box st nffers for its majorities. Philadelphia Press. Governor Thomas, of Utah, declares that the Mormons are in full control of that Territory. Because of that fact Utah will continue to lindon the door of tho Union a card inscribed "No Admittance." Philadelphia Press. Th e more reasonable and consistent ground for Republican occupancy is that of regulating and restricting tho liquor traffic. That cau be accomplished, and when accomplished it will be benelicialto the public rCew York Press. They Uhe elections surely teach one lesson, which Bepublican members of Congress cannot afford, to overlook that a natibnal measure for guarding the purity of the registration and the suffrage has become a necessity. New York Tribune. To-day the spectacle it presented of Gov. Hill, the most extreme case of subserviency to the whiSky interest ever known in American politics on a State scale, persistently aided and abetted by the Prohibitionists. The same general fact, with less personality, is presented in Ohio and Iowa. Chicago Inter Ocean. The assailants of the administration search in vain for Higginses and Thomases, and Basins, and the various kinds of criminals, thugs and ex-convicts who got into office under Mr. Clevelaud, and numbered several hundred before his administration was ended. TJiere has been ..a very gTeat improvement in th3 personnel of tho service, and this will continue as President Harrison continues to exercise a wi o discrimination in his selections. Boston Journal. . Campbell has worn He stands second only to Governor Hill, if second to any, in the affections of the saloon-keepers of the country and of the National Liquor-dealers Association, .which has already subjugated New York. In their estimation, and perhaps his own. he is a great man. But his position has been achieved at such a sacrifice of decency and by such subserviency to the baser political elements of the State that no honor goes with his achievement. Cleveland Leader. New York has been termed tho "pivotal State" of this country in national elections, hecan80 the way it goes usually decides who is the next President, but it will not be so any longer if a proper aud just apportionment of the congressional districts is made in the winter of lb'JO and lbW. The population within a radius of ten miles of the City Hall in New York- city will not in that case have the weight it now possesses, and that will be a good thing for the country. Philadelphia North American. INDIANA'S GREATEST MAN. Morton Grandly Served Ills State and Country When His Sertdccs Were Needed. Chicago Inter Oceau. Whilo Republicans in many States were voting, or in many instances abstaining from voting, on Tuesday, lor the nominees of their party, a group of zealous Republicans in Indiana were honoring the memory of Oliver P. Morton, whose lamented death dated just twelve years back. On that day was unveiled the bust of Carrara marble which henceforth .is to mark his resting place in Crown Hill Cemeten', as the noble statue in bronze preserves his memory in the center of the chief city of theStato whoso fame he made so bright on the battle-fields and in the Senate of the country. The chill air of the day did not hinder hundreds of men to whom his zeal for the welfare of Indiana's troops in the held was a grateful memory, and hundreds of others to whom the firmness with which he kept the traitorous elements of the State, the Sons of Liberty, miscalled, and the Knights of the Golden Circle in awe, and to whom the rigid economy with which he'administered the finances of the State at a time when the profuscness of patriotic liberality easily might have excited extravagance, and to whom his high integritv. his scorn of bribe, his tirm. -though kindly, refusal of gift, his, unselfish, constant, and. alas, fatal devotion to the welfare of the country were imperishable memories. . . . Never was ancient propnet or ruler or marvelously strong body as a shelter to a marvelously clear mind, informed by a marvelonslv acute conscience and directed by a marvelously strong will. The miud, 'the conscience and the will remained unimpaired till well nigh the last hour of his life. But tho body had become paralyzed by almost ceaseless labors for the public weal long before he retired from active life. Indeed, he onlv retired to die. He was of that classic type to- which "virtus in aetiono -consis.it" is xnoro than a tine legend; virtue consists in action was his rule of lifeTo know. that a prmcipla ought to be reduced to action was followed by an effort to put it in action. hile others debated he moed. The troops of his State were well fed. well clothed, followed by medical and hospital appliances, while the Governors of most Mates were hearing evidence as to how such things might best bo done.. And yet he was not slow of speech nor impulsive of .method. He preferred to act first and explain afterward, but when, it was needful that the mind of the country should be convinced iii order that its will might ho stimulated to work no man could make n clearer statement , than he. His speech in refutation of the plea of the right of a State t secede was proif cii ve ue.11 vereu ju ."- . . and acte 1 through the most notable years of the Nation's history m conjunction ' wit tho best and braveat. the most capable nnrt most conscientions band of administrators and legislators that tins country, or per md legislators that tins couuiry. or, perlaps, tho orb of this car h las ever see ict ing in conjunction, and he was a m'trU'i cronage in this fiat assembly of il ac

whom it might be said more truly man ot Oliver P. Morton. "The zeal of thine house hath rnnanmpil rue " Nature gave to him a

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ma rk .' :tua gcs. To havo preserve disticrr ' t ..l3vidu.Uity in an atmopuer perv,ic l nd illuminated by tu h brilllant UidsvJdn.tlities as thr.e of Lincoln and Grant S? root of wonderful strength ami ong'nMit.r of character, and Senator Morton ftaudi unique in his methods of execution and debate. It is useless to speculate as to what he might have been had his health bf'jii restored and his life prolonged. It iser.r-h to know that he greatly crvri histfii!;:ry when great service was reqnir thwfc ho died full of honors, and tha- ; f!iiry will endure as u part of th' - !ir Oi'tle past and of the inspiration ot tl?? l'titur i cf tho Nation which he loved SO ".v h-"" -

AUSTRALIAN SYSTEM. How It Worked lu Mawachusetta Afford aa Argument for Woman Suffrage. gpriBficM Republican. The Australian ballot sy&tera is an unquestionable, success that is the verdict of nil sorts and conditions of men. except, no doubt, the vote-peddlers and other political haugers-on, whoso occupation is taken away. Notwithstanding the assurance beforehand that the system would do awar with theso repulsivo accompauiments of election, it needed the actual trial to shotr how great tho relief is. It was realized at the polls yesterday that electioneering was halted promptly with the last campaign rallies, and had no possible footing where the ballots were cast. Of what use could the most fervent appeals bo when the party "worker? can no longer thrust his party ballot into the voter's hands but that individual takes the ballot printed by the State, and without oversight, in a place by himself, makes his own ticket! Plainly none at alL This u the reason why the laboring men in th great cities want the Australian system, and will not take an envelope substitute or any imposition whu;h permits the furnishing of ballots by parties. The handling of the ballot by tho State's oflicers is just a essential as the separate voting booth, aud as rightly official as the provision and guardianship of the ballot-box. This is the conviction, wo doubt not, of every honest citizen .who beheld and took part in yesterday's election in Massachusetts. All manner of evils and discomforts of election disappear in tho use of -this svstem. There are no possible frauds of deceiving tickets, headed Republicau" aud cunningly concealing Democratic nominations, or vice versa: no "selling ont." no combines." no "deals,r none of these things is possible. The independent voter does not havo to hunt for "pasters," or cut out names from one ballot to stick upoiv another. The voting places are not lit- ' tefed with torn and trampled tickets, and tho absence of the 'workers'! contributes freedom from pools of tobacco spittle on the tloor and from rum-laden air. There is another important result from this new thing it makes the polls a place where women can vote without molestation, insult or discomfort, and so removes a serious obstacle to women's acceptation of suffrage, and to men's willingness to give it to them. Many a man, as he watched the voting yesterday in this city, at least must havo had the thought flash into bis mind that woman could now exercise the franchise without nn affront to her delicacy or self-respect. And it would not be strange if he had gone on toretiect on the absurdity of excluding the best half of thecommunity from so orderly and agreeable, as well as important, a duty. x , As tho Fire-Eater Iuterpret It, Charleston News and Courier. The victorj in Virginia is far more, however, than a mere Democratic triumph. It means that the white man shall rule in tho South as he rules everywhere else. It is a stern rerebuke to the pernicious doctrine of federal interference with the local affairs of the States. It means that, whatever the outside pressure that may he brought to bear upon the Southern States, the white people of the South will take care of themselves and of tho rich heritage committed to their keeping. Let the Issue Come. Boston Transcript. . Petitions are in circulation through 6onie sections of the Union requesting Congress to repeal the civil-service law. We are glad of it.' Let the issue come now in such shape that Congressmen must face the music Let us see how many of our national lawmakers, who sneer at civil-seryico reform, are willing to put themselves on the record as in favor of absolutely restoring the old spoils methods in all departments of tho federal government. M. Gougar on the War-rath. Fort Worth Gazette. Editor Rose water, of the Omaha Bee, was arrested tho other night for disturbing a public meeting. Mrs. Helen Gongar was delivering a temperance lecture and came down heavy on Rose water. He attempted to reply, an uproar ensued, and the doughty editor was arrested. Good for him. He should have known ho had no chance to tal against a woman. Prohibition Treachery. Evansrille Journal Tho Republican party gets no thanks from the prohibition cranks for humoring their vagaries. They repay all such intended kindness by stabbing the Republicans in the back running separate tickets in order to defeat Republican nominees. They are more bitter and vindictive toward the Republican party than tho Democratic party ie. They Prefer Political Freedom! Memphis Avalanche, Cattlemen are freezing to death on the plains of Colorado. Down South the air is so balmy that people havo not yet put ou their llannels. Come to think of it, windo people shiver out a miserable existence in the blizzard range wheu they might come down hero aud vote tho Democratic ticket and enjoy life? New York Will Kestune. Philadelphia Tress. Inasmuch as the election is over. New York will now resume tho cheerful task of dunning pooplo for subscriptions to the Grant niouumeut, tho Washington memorial arch and iho world's fair, these enterprises are like the poor, for the rea.'on that New York has them always with her. lly Way of Consolation. Baltimore American. We aro especially sorry that tho Democrats have tho Ohio Legislature, because, like everybody else, we wanted to see editor Murat Halstead sent to tho United . States Senate. But. come to think of it, ho will be a great deal more useful as a working newspaperman. In Pennsylvania. Philadelphia Inquirer. There will bo many efforts to explain the difference between the result lu Pennsylvania and other States, bnt few will give the real reason. Pennsylvania Republicans follow their own leaders, and they lead to victory. The Way of It. Philadelphia Press. Tho Republicans have held their own this year pretty much everywhere, except in places where Democrats are holding it for them. The Prospect, . Clerelanfl Leader. W presume Calvin S Brico will Succeed Henry Boodle Payne in the Senate. The Ohio Democracy grows no better fast. How About NattTe-Knrn Illiterate. Los Angeles Tribune, No man should ever be admitted to citizenship in the United ntates who cannot read and write the Kuulish language. A Little Hit Late. Mlnnea;oli TTttjune. How much better tbo Democrats would have felt if those little gains could hare been recorded about a year ago. What They Are There For. Chicago Journal. The Prohibitionists helped tho New Jersey whisky ites out of a hole, according to their usual custom. Cleveland's had Thought. Pittsburg Chroncla. A penny for Grovcr Cleveland's thoughts! Is he wondering why all this did not bappen a year ago? Decidedly. Milwaukee SenttueL Rainbow politics are a good deal mor effective in 4 offv years than in presideutUl years.