Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 November 1889 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1889.

THE DAILY JOURNAL THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1S39.

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P. Kemble, 3733 Lancaster avenue. CHICAGO- Palmer House. CINCINNATI J. P. Hawley & Co., 154 Vine street. LOUISVILLE C. T. Deering, northwest corner Third and J e O'er son streets. 6T. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern Hotel. WASHINGTON, D. C.-RigiiS Hons and Ebhltt House. A rainbow will bo Calvin Brice's trade-mark in his hunt for tho OhioSenatorship, but the magic eynibol that will lead him to success is 6$. Te3iTerance organizations, like the one at. Marion, in which everybody can take part, are needed everywhere. Now that tlie V. C. T. U. has gone into politics somebody else must promote temperance education and trne temperance interests. The "Dorsey Republicans" of JeiTersonville ought to be ashamed of themselves for their childish display of rajro because another man than Dorsey wa9 r.ppointcd postmaster. Do they wish the community to understand that they arc Republicans only for tho chance of getting ofiico or for what other personal gain there may be in it! MEXwho will put obstructions on a railroad track and risk the lives of inno-, cent people for a chance to rob a train, and men who will poison or mutilate cattle or other domestic animals out of spito against their owners, aroof too low a grade of humanity to bo lit to live. The law does not provide the death penalty for such miscreants, at least for the latter class, but they deserve "removal" by a lingering and not painless process. Offenders of the kind mentioned are becoming altogether too numerous in this State. In withdrawing from tho V. C. T. U. Mrs. J. Ellen Foster and tho women who believed with her that tho association should be non-partisan followed the only course that was consistent with self-respect. They had been brow beaten, bullied and insulted from tho beginning of tho convention, and there was an evident determination not to v permit a presentation of their case. Mrs. Foster finally succeeded in doing bo, but it was in the face of such uproar and insult as seldom meets a male speaker on the unpopular side at a political meeting in the slums. In a professedly "Chi istian" gathering 6uch unfair treatment of members who cherished an honest difference of opinion is the more noticeable. The managers of tho convention doubtless flatter themselves that they achieved a notable triumph, but as a matter of fact they have weakened their order by driving off somo of tho best members, and havo injured their cause in the mind of tho public by their fcpirit of intolerance and their resort to equivocation and trickery. No successfnl political party is to be built upon a foundation of that kind, and so these over-zealous people will find beforo many years. In the meantime, they .will continue, as heretofore, to work in harmony with tho whisky party, and the women who prefer to bo nonpartisan twill look after the work of temperance reform. Democrats are trying to work themselves into a state of virtuous indignation over tho alleged attempt at a Republican gerrymander of the city. When Indiana Democrats undertake to assume virtuous airs on the subject of gerrymanders, the world need not want for any greater exhibition of sublimated gall. The present gerrymander in this State is the most extraordinary illustration of political rascality in this regard ever placed on tho statute books. Not a single Democrat in Indiana, from exSenator McDonald to Sim Coy, or from "Goose" Eden to Governor Gray, has ever uttered a word in criticism, much less in condemnation, of that act of monumental villainy. They are estopped from talking about gerrymanders. The Journal is opposed to gerrymanders in city or State by either party. All attempts to gain unfair political advantage by such methods should bo condemned by honest men. Tho day has . passed for that sort of thing. The majority is entitled to rule, but it must bo an honest majority, and must rulo by methods that recognize the rights of tho minority. Wo should be sorry to sco the Republicans engage in a contest of fraud with the Democracy, or attempt to imitate their methods by gerrymandering the city as tho Democrats havo the State. The present ward boundaries need revising. Under tho law tho city can only have twenty-five wards, no matter how great the population. Sinco tho present wards were created tho population of the city has increased so rapidly as to call for an equalizing of tho vote. In the last presidential election tho First ward- cast 1,4T3 votes, tho Second; war 1 1,377, tho Seventeenth ward 621, the Twentieth ward 017, and so ; on. Similar inequalities run through ' all tho wards. The new election law requires an entire change, of precincts in,

the spring, and it is proper that tho wards should be readjusted before tho precincts are changed. The poiut to be observed is that tho redistricting should be done fairly and without any view of gaining party advantage, and the Journal understands that is the object of the proposed ordinance. The talk about a gerrymander is bosh. Nothing of the

kind is contemplated. The trouble with 1 Democrats is they want a chance to gerrymander the city in their own interest as they havo tho State. ELECTION 8 AND REPRESENTATION. Ono of the most important questions the next Congress will have to consider will be that ' of Southern elections and representation. Unless Congress is willing to become a party to the deliberate nullification of the Constitution, to the return of members of its own body by fraudulent majorities, and to maintaining an unrepublican form of government, it must at least make an effort to change the existing order of things in the South. A? elections me now conducted in most of the Southern States, they are a disgraco to the government. It involves not only, the denial of tho right of suffrage to Republicans, black and white, and tGo maintenance of a political oligarchy in the various Stato governments, but the continuance of a system by which the Southern people aro given a fraudulent representation in Congress and in tho Electoral College, and an unfair advantage over an equal number of Northern voters. This state of things cannot be permitted to continue, and the question for Congress to consider will be what to do about it. A really strong government would find a way to enforce its Constitution and laws in all parts of the country, and protect all its citizens in the exercise of their political rights. Rut right here tho United States government is weak. At all events, it has not yet ventured to assert and exercise the inherent right of every government to enforce its. laws and protect its citizens in this regard. Under the shield of Stato lines and State laws political schemers and revolutionists are able to nullify its Constitution and defy its power. This will not always bo so. Speaking of tho fifteenth amendment, Mr. Justice Miller, in ex parte Yarborough, 110th United States Reports, says: "It is easy toseo that under some circumstances it may operate as the immediate source of a right to vote." Continuing tlie same lino of thought, the learned Judge says: This new constitutional right was mainly designed for citizens of African descent. The principle, however, that tho protection of tho exercise of this right is within the power of Congress is as necessary to tho right of other citizens to vote as to the colored citizen, and the right to vote in general as the right to be protected against discrimination. The exercise of the right in ooth instances is guaranteed by the Constitution, and should be kept free and pure by congressional enactments whenever that is necessary. In the same opinion Mr. Justice Miller also says: In such casas this fifteenth article dos, propio vigorc. substantially confer on the negro the right to vota. and Congress has the power to protect and enforce that right. This deliverance by one of the ablest judges of the Supremo Court indicates a degree of vitality in the fifteenth amendment and of power in tho United States government that may surprise Southern bourbons and nullifiera. It goes the full length of asserting the right of Congress to control national elections by any means, and to any ex tent deemed practical and wise. If Congress is atraid to attempt to enforce honest elections in tho South for Congressmen and President it should at least change tho present basis of representation so that an ox-confederato soldier in the South may not have twice the voting power of an ex-Union soldier in the North. If South em Democrats refuse to allow negroes to vote, their representation in Congress and the Electoral College should be cut down to a strictly white voting basis. No honest man of any party could object to this, and, whilo it would bo much .better on every account to enforce tho right of tho negro to vote, tho curtailment of the political power of the Southern people in exact proportion to their violation of tho Constitution would bo in accordance with the principles of jus tice. Congress should either enact a national election law of general applica tion in all the States, and provide for its enforcement, or, if the nullification of the Constitution is to continue in the South, tho basis of representation in Congress and tho Electoral College should be changed accordingly. WOMEN AS POLITICIANS. Thero has been, for many years, a growing sentiment in favor of abolishing all distinctions of sex in every depart ment of business and privilege, until it has been considered not extravagant to predict that the word "male," as a restrictive word, would ultimately, disappear from all secular and ecclesiastical regulations; and undeniably tho trend of thought aud practice has been in that direction. But thero havo been many recent developments that call a halt for further reflection. It would hardly be extravagant to say that in tho depart ment of primary education alono havo women developed tho mental and phys ical qualities that enable them to success fully compete with the sterner sex. Hero they have not only proved themselves the equals of men, but, in the main, their superiors, so that the primary schools of the country have mostly fallen into their hands, not, as a matter of sentiment, merely, but because of their demonstrated superior qualifications for that work. At tho same time it is but just to say that in our higher educational institutions tho experiment of female professors, made in good faith and with large hopes, has so demonstrated their unfitness that in nearly all cases it has been abandoned. We do not stop to mention tho reasons why, up to a certain grade of educa tion, they aro man's superior, while in tho higher departments they aro his in ferior. They will readily suggest themselves to the thoughtful reader; but we will add that these reasons do not touch tho question of intellectual qualifica tion ..What is true of educational wort- U I equally true of other departments of

labor. In some cases they havo shown

themselves to be excellent shop-keepers, or book-keepers, or. clerks, but in the more complicated dnties of a largo busi ness, as well as in many departments of official clerkships, they havo demon strated that they are not equal to the requirements of the place. The reasons for this fact will boj easily suggested without any disparagement to intellect ual qualifications. The same may bo saul of woman in the religious world. While some have developed exceptional ability in thepulpit, as occasional help o few have proved equal to the duties of a pastorate thatin all the country there are Irardly a dozen in all tho denominations who have1 official charge of congregations. The reasons for this need not be men tioned. They readily suggest themselves; to every thinking person, und they do not disparage woman's, intellect or piety. Another phase of -woman's work in the church had a beautiful and forcefulillustration,lately,in thiscity. A large number of devoted and gifted wom en were in session a week,consideriug how they 'might, through an organization, contribute to the temporal and spiritual wants.: of the poor in their church. These -were all Methodists, and their work is to help as far as they may the agencies of that church in its benevolent departments. Their delibera tions developed the hightest typo of ability, as well as the most commendable womanly spirit. As a matter of fact, there was not a delegate present who ever figures on tho rostrum as an advocate of what is popularly known as woman's rights, and their deliberations were womanly from beginning to end. Tho contrast between their methods and those of the political meeting lately held at Chicago is very market. It has been claimed for woman suffrage that when. they enter politics the stream of politics will be so cleansed that a political millennium will .soon follow, whereas, as a, matter of fact, no political gathering sinco tho Democratic national conven tion of 1SG0, which resulted in a divided party, has equaled the Chicago meeting in disreputable methods. From tho beginning to tho end the most reprehensible rulings were made by the chair .to cir cumvent tho minority, and the minority, when the floor was obtained, was greeted by hisses and cat-calls worthy of the lowest typo of ward ' poli ticians. But this was not tho worst feature of their demonstration of the superlative fitness of woman to tho purification of tho political pool. Becoming ashamed of this exhibition of rowdyism, somo of tho better class tried to lay tho blame on the gallery, but they were disappointed. It came from the "truly good," the representative women of the body. A much more damaging feature of their deliberations was their willful perversion of tho truth not to call It by the more emphatic Saxon word, lying. With tho facts befere them, not ono of which would give color to the statement there deliberately made, if it had been men who were dealing with them, they sought to defame the Vice-president, for no other reason than that he is a Republican. And, not con tent with this, the convention dehberately passed a resolution falsifying the attitude of tho Republican party on the temperance question, without one word of disapproval of tho attitude of theirally, tho Democratic party. It is not J likely that this venomous, attack of these truly good women will seriously. harm either Mr. Morton or the Repub lican party. There is too much premed- . itated malignity in it, but it goes a great way to show what a heavenly political atmosphere wo may expect to breathe - when these pure and good women shall; be enfranchised, and when they work at politics from within instead of from' without. Suppose tho women of the National Home Missionary Society that met in1 this city last week had decided that, Whereas, It having been found, after due', investigation, that the greater part of the ' money that conies to us for the saving of ' souls is contributed by Republicans or members of Republican families; thcreforo, ue u Resolved. That all women who desire to become members of this, or auxiliary socio-1 ties, shall tirst pledge tneniselves to vote with the Republican party when the right' oi miurHKu is Bi'Luitu, uiiu buau, in tne meantime, nse every eilort to promote Republican interests. Just think of tho row such a resolution would have kicked up, and very properly, too. But tho injury resulting to the missionary cause from such action would be far less than must inevitably conic to the temperance causefrom the course of the W. C. T. U. in attach ing itself to the third party, which is an appendage of the Democracy," which is tho party of free whisky. The Journal has several inquiries from agitated persons of Republican proclivities and of both sexes in regard to the truthful ness of the statement that Vice-president Morton has become a barkeeper or assist ant barkeeper in Washington. There has been so much malicious lying oa the sub ject that it is hardly worth while to tell the truth. There are none so deaf as thos.- who will not hear, and none so hard to convince as those who want to believe a lie. The fact is tnat in the largo apartment-house built and owned by Mr. Morton, but not occupied nor conducted by him, there is no bar, and ho has not been a party to tho issuing of any retail liquor license. The' Christian ladies of the W. C. T. U. showed great anxiety to paint Mr. Morton a little blacker than tho devil, but we cannot help thinking their malice overleaped itself. Relative to the attempt to rush an elec tric-motor franchise through the Council, tho News says: Electricity, as a motor, is In Its experimental stance. All tho energies of thought ara uut tmw toward tho best motor, by whatever agency. It has inly been two or three years that there has been this use of electricity. If the changes of the next two or throe years be as rapid as tho past have been, a system adopted now will be caniDcrsome ana useless men. it is not for the city's best Interest to move rapidly m this matter. The Journal indorses these remarks, and they are as true In everf 'point of the elec tric light as they are of the electric motor. Both are in tho infantile and experimental stage. KoTniNG that the. Journal might say could add to the claims of the Charitv Organization Society to the good will or 6ttpport of the people of Indiauapolis. There could bo no abetter time than the present, the threshold of winter, to re mind the charitably disposed of what it has done and what it njms to do. Not all persons havo tho time to give to active chari-

table workjand comparatively few have tho tasta or aptitude for it. So much the more reason why all should contribute something In the Way they can contribute to the 8UcpessQf bo worthy an organization us the Clmri'ty Society. Every person should b given a chance to contribute, and thoso who are not given a chance should seek it. -Af': V 7

The value of the newspaper man in other lines of work than his specialty is well understood ' i by this administration." i The latest one to receive recognition is Marshall H. Ciishing. a young man whom Mr.AVanamakerias persuaded to become his private secretary. The truth is that when a man has learned the newspaper business he has acquired accomplishments that lit him for a variety of other callings as well. The -Lincoln. Loyal League f Knightstown, .in putting itself into active working condition at this time, is setting a good example to other Republican clubs. Thero is no election for a year, but work in behalf of the Republican cause cannot begin Ltoo early. It is tho organizations that be Kin operations now, and not ten months from now, that will do effective service. "Another mistake by tho civil service," was the remark of a disgusted citizen yes terday. Tho mistake was in regard to the cold wave, and the disgusted' citizen meant signal service instead of civil service. No wonder civil-service reform is so unpopular when it is held responsible for tho weather. To the Editor of the InllanaioTia Journal: To feettle a dispute, does tho Republican plat form iof 1 886 advocate the reduction of tariff Glt.'S.lll. A. II. Here is what the Chicago platform said on the tariff question: ' We.hre unconinroinisinfirlr In favor of the American system of protection; wo protect again&t its destruction as proposed by the Presiueut aim ms party. They serve tlie interests or Europe; we will support tbe interest of Amer ica. W e accept the Issue and coutidently appeal to the peoplo for tbeir judgment. Th protective system must be maintained. Its abandonment Las always been followed by general disaster to all interests, except tho- of the usurer and the fibtrilT. VodenouncetheJIills.bin as destruc tive to the general buMnesi. the labor, aud the fanning interest of the country, aud we heartily indorse the consistent and patriotic action of tbe Kcpuoncan itt preventatives in Congress in oppo.siiurit passage. Wo condemn tho proposition of too Democratic party to place wool on the free list, and wo insist that the duties thereon Khali be adjusted aud maintained bo as to furnish full and adequate protection to that industry. j he Republican parly would oliect all needed reduction of the national revenue by repealing the taxes upon tobacco, which are an annoyance and burden to agriculture, and the taxes uion spirits used in the arts and for mechanical purposes and by such revision of the tariff laws as will tend to check imports of such articles as are produced by our people, the production of which trives employment to our lalwr, and release from import duties those articles of foreijm production (except luxuries) the like of which cannot bo rodueed at home. If there shall still remain a arger revenue than Is requisite for the wants of the government, we favor the entire repeal of internal taxes, rather than the surrender of any part of our protective system at the Joint behest of the whisk y trusts and the acents of foreign .manufacturers. , To the Editor of the IinlIauaRlU Journal: Did the Journal ever use a cut of a rooster as an emblem of success of the Kepithlican party. ana wnicn is the emmem or tee .Republican party, the rooster or eagle? B. w. The Journal has used both, and expects to again. Thero is no monopoly in either of the birds, and Democratic papers are at liberty to use them in off years, thongh in a national sense the eagle is peculiarly emblematic of the Republican party. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Coloxel Sworn, who was killed by CoL Goodloo at Lexington, Ky., last Friday, bore a striking resemblance to Col. Robert G. IngersolL Speaking of the beautiful new edition of "Marble Faun," with illustrations of the art subjects interleaved, it is now known that Hawthorne knew and cared precious little about art, but was carefully coached inerein oy nis wne. The Russian government accuses female physicians of being addicted not merely to revolutionary opinions, but also to "senti ments and manners unworthy of their sex.'1 2io wotnau is to be allowed to practice publicly before forty years of age. It is diflicult in deep-sea fishing to land your fish after you have caught him. All this trouble will soon be obviated by the nse of the electric fishing line. A small battery at the end of the pole will respond to the slightest touch, and Mr. Irish will lioat quietly to the snrfae, very much snockeu at sucn proceeuings. Gen. F. E. Spinner will always be re membered gratefully in Washington as the public official who first suggested the advisabilitv of einnlovintr women to' do crove rumen t work in tho departments. Before his time there was not a woman in the public service. 1 here aro now more than 4,000 women working undersalary from the government in V ashmgton alone. The National W. C. T. U. pays liberal salaries. The salaries are the principal at traction to Deacon Willard and a few of the other obstreperous members. The fol lowing are the salaries paid tho olhcers: Muss YiIlard. the president. S2.o00: Mrs. Buell gets 1.500; Miss Pugh, the treasurer, Sl,Gf3(J.tX5. and Mrs. Bitten bender, superin tendent of the department of legislation and petitions, is paid 1,H5. In an address to a workingraenTs organi zation, Mr. Gladstone said, recently: Tt was not extravagant to say that, although there were but 2,000,000 people in the thir teen American colonies at the time of the American revolt, yet from among those 2,000.000 01 people thero proceeded at that epoch a group of statesmen that might defy the whole history of the world to beat them in any ono state, and at any period of time.- J?ueu were too conscouencea of a well-regulated and masculine freedom." Miss Edwards, in her lecture in Brooklyn 011 tho "Buried Citie9 of Ancient Egypt," says that the work of a galley slave is not to be compared with his or her work who undertakes to extract a guinea appears to have secured a great manv guineas to help her in her society's work of excavation, fche says that in the ruins of an ancient Egyptian house there were re cently found seven waste paper baskets full of letters, pamphlets and scrolls. And these, she declares, were alone worth the ,cost of tho expedition. , : The Hon. J. Q. A. Brackett, who has just been elected Governor of Massachusetts, has a pleasant homo at ' Arlington, near Boston. The houso stands well back from the btreet, in the midst of a beautifully kept lawn, and next to one of the Arlington churches, so that really it is surrounded with the beautiful square of lawn, and shadowed in the luxuriance of the foliage of many large trees. The house itself has an air of hospitality. It is a modern, oldfashioned house, with wide piazzas, large windows and generous doors, which swing open with the most cordial invitation to enter and say as plainly as doors may: "Lome in; you are welcome." Miss Tiieo Alice Ruggles, the sculptor. is a Boston girl, and her early education Was derived at the Hub'. Though only eighteen ears of age 'she has become famous in Europe. Her first study from life received a medal at the Paris Salon. Sh6 recently received honorable mention bythe judges of the Paris exposition. Miss liuggles is at present in Milan in company with her mother and sister, fche will spend the coming winter in traveling through the Italian cities and making a studrof the works of the old masters. Aiicv vuai Hut? will coniiniiH ner Biuuies in Paris'.' Miss Ruggles is fond of outdoor exercise, and her artistic achievements have not yet made any inroads on her robnnjieaith. The" 'German Emperor's new crown. whicli ho wears, however, only as king of Prussia,'- has a frame of solid gold. Its weight'i&three and a third pound??, and it bears euvL'ii hundred aud fifty carats of diamonds. The lower band bears twenty-four huge diamonds. Round the rim rise eight

clover leaves of gplendid effect, the parts X .1 il .11 1 1

oriiiK iuruicu oi iuh iiueai ujaiuouus. r rum these leaves rise eight hoops, adorned with seveuty-eight diamonds. Between these 11 oops rise very beautiful ornaments, each bearing a diamond iu its middle and a pearl the size of an acorn on its point. Tho whole is surmounted by the apple of the empire, ronsistingot a single large sapphire. This enormous jewel is eurmonntcd by the cross, wnicn 13 adorned with eighteen dia monds. I huted through the ancient town to see . ureal liawmorne s daily haunts, the dear old raans Bat everywhere tho line confronted me. ' do iou wear rants. New York Commercial ArtvertUcr, COMMEXT AND OPINION". The Democracy behaves better in defeat than in victory. It knows how to utilize tne former, but cannot proht Dy the latter. Washington Press. We are anions those who still believe that tbe man who was born in this country is just as good as any other man. all other things being equal, but we know there are a great many people 10 this country wuo, if they could speak the United States language, would express an entirely different opinion. Detroit Tribune. No people can atlord to encourage revolu tion, or permit inflammable material of this kind the Anarchists to collect in public places, for somo stray demagogue will apply tho match oue of these days, and the blaze will again reach the dignity of a conflagration. Philadelphia Telegraph. It will be the dutv of the Republican ma jority in Cougress to go steadily forward with that policy which it was elected to carry out. There is nothing in the recent elections to weaken its purpose, and it will not be influenced by false clamor or mis interpretation of the meaning of the late elections. rnuaaeipnia inquirer. We owo a debt to the negro, not only be cause of the generations of oppression to which he was subject at our bauds, but be cause of his loyalty to the Hag and his fearless courage in the darkest days of tne war. To disregard these obligations when he is tho helpVss victim of oppression is unworthy a generous and humane people. Uoston Journal. Tin: bullion value of the silver dollar has recently ranged between 70 and 75 cents in gold. An increase in the coinage or purchases of 6ilverto the extent which the Stewarts and Kea trans desire would inev itably bring that coin into discredit, lower its value and precipitate the evils which they pretend to be anxious to avert. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. TunuK can be no possible ouestion as to tho power of Congress to determine the times and manner of holding election of Senators, or to determine tbe times, places and manner of holding elections for Kepre6entatives. Tho exercise of that power. not deemed expedient when States did not tolerate organized aud wholesale fraud, has now become a necessity. New York .tribune. If Catholics would take part in politics. not as Catholics, but merely as American citizens, and not attempt to nse political power in the interest of their church, there would be no hesitation in treating Catholics who were candidates on their individual merits as men and citizens. But when they offer themselves as Catholic candidates it is idle to expect that they will not bo opposed as Catholic candidates. New York Times. IOWA'S REPUBLICAN VOTE. One IUustratlon of the Way It lias Reen Ite- ' duced by Prohibition. Chicago Tribune. Davenport, la. is in Scott county. It formerly was strongly Republican. Half the Republican voters were Germans. In 1880 Scott county voted for President as follows: Garfield (Rep.).... 4,22 Hancock (Dem.) 2,594 Republican majority 1,728 The rural districts insisted on the "Maine law" and applying it to the whole State. 'fl. C 1 I 1 1 li xuey lciuaeu iu worn y routine uu iuuui upnou and high licenss. They wanted prohibition applied to Davenport, where nearly every man drank beer, the same aa to tho farming districts, where few or none tasted any alcoholic-beverage. The tirst presidential election after the "dry" law was passed resulted in this way in Scott county: Cleveland......... .....................5,197 Blaino ...2,740 Democratic majority Last year the vote was: .2,437 Cleveland 5'092 Ilarrison Democratic majority 2,6G0 Tuesday the vote was: For Prohibition Hutchison (Rep.) 1,645 For high licenseBoies (Dem.) 5,824 Eigh license and Democratic majority .... 3,639 Tho change of 1,728 Republican majority in 1680 into one of .6o9 Democratic in 1889 making a loss of 5.307 in one county of 45,000 inhabitants, will help tocxplain why Iowa, which went Republican by 73,000 votes in 18S0, has gone Democratic now by several thousand. bcthcr prohibition abolishes saloons in the rural districts of Iowa or not, it has pretty nearly abolished the Republic an party in fccott county without having prevented the drinking of a glass of whisky as far as known. m DR. miLIPPE RICORD. His Numerous Decorations and His Popu larity with AH Classes of People. Xew York Tribune. Dr. Philippe Ricord. whose death in Paris was announced on Oct. 22, was tho most "decorated" man in Europe, having more than two hundred crosses, medals, insignia and other .tokens of gratitude and admiration bestowed on him by European potentates, and was buried amidst an almost national display of military and civic honors. He often said, iu a jocular way: "The eighteenth century, just beforo expiring, had one more mistake to perform; it was to push me into the world. I was born on tho 10th of December, 1800, at eleven and three-quarters at night." The event occurred at Baltimore. where his parents resided. They were French, and had taken ref utre there from the French West Indies. desolated at the time by the revolt of Sau Domingo and Unadaloupe. Dr. Ricord established himself at Paris Hoon after having obtained his diploma, and he attained there the highest honors in his profession and great popularity among the poor aud rich, not only in France, but in all Europe. He was tho hrst of those American doctors who have won wealth and fame in the old world, as, for instance. Dr. Sims, the obstetric practitioner. Dr. Thomas W. Evans, the founder and still proprietor and director of the American Register, of Paris and London. Dr. Ricord was tbe favorite specialist at the Tuilleries in Louis Philip's time and Dr. Evans was a favorite at the court of Napoleon III. It was Dr. Evans who courageously drove fallen Empre&s Engene to tliH seacoast after the revolution of fcept. 4. 1S70, and after she had spent the night under tho roof of his princely mansion in Malekoff avenue, llotb were loved bv thu French neoDle. Dr. Ricord was driving through the streets of Paris during one of the three days of fighting in Feb ruary, 1S48, and he was surprised that nobody attempted to bother him. This was explained when, on returning home, he read on tho back of his carriage this inscription written in chalk: "National property." the same inscription which was placed on public monuments, even of i monarchical origin, to preserve them from any injury on the part of a people infuriatetf against anything connected with overthrown monarchy. Dnring the war of 1S70-71 and the Commune the person of Dr. Evans was respected like that of his Eredcceswor and countryman, Eicord. for e had given 100,000 fratics to establish an American ambulance corps, placed under the management of Dr. Edward Crane, editor , of the American Register. Dr. Ricord, who had been educated in America, had the qnick and tdiarp wit of a Yankee and of a French creole, but he never used it so as to wound the feelings of any one. He was loved by all who ever approached him, and it was in the presence of an immense concourse of people. Americans and Enropeaus. that his funeral services were held. . Kentucky Aversion to Illoodthed. Ne"w York Commercial Advertiser. Elder Shonso. in his' funeral serinon. yesterday, on the late Colonel Swope. showed, by cuotiug his very words, how great was the Colonel's av eision to bloodshed, adding, by way of outside testimonj', that he had it from conndentiaUritntU of tho deceased

that he was not carrying the. pistol with which be shot Colonel Gitodloe lor that Seutleman's benefit, but for another geneman "whom ho did not consider an lion-orabla-man." This intense antipathy to deeds of violence is far more general in those regions than is commonly known, bomo years ago things we're in a ticklish state in a medical convention that was in session in Louisville so very ticklish, in fact, that a leading physician lound it necessary to eay to a friend that he deeply deplored the fact that every doctor in attendance on the convention went thero every dav deeply loaded down with revolvers. ""It is all wrong it is a shame, aft, for gentlemen who profess the healing art to go to these meeting armed with tho deadly revolver. As for myself, 1 carry nothing but the merest derringer." Not a Free-Trade Victory. Petersburg (Va.) Inrtex-Arpoal (ltd). Ex-President Cleveland, on hearing of the result of the election in this State, is reported to havo made the comment: Tt is evident that tho leaven of taril! reform has at last leavened the whole lump." If Mr. Cleveland really meant to eay what must be inferred from his words, to-wit: That the resdlt of the election in Virginia must bo interpreted as a quasi indorsement of the messago ho Kent to Congress on tho subject of tanti legislation, then ho i certainly willfully deceiving himself or else ho fails to read aright the signs of the times. If there is any tariff leaven working in Virginia it is the leaven of protection to American industries and American labor. So strong do we believe that leaven to be working, that it is our opinion that if an election could be held to-day squarely and fairly upon that issue and nothing else, a majority, a considerable majoritj-, of tho votes cast would be found to have declared for the protective taritl system. Or all tho Southern States Virginia is, we firmly believe, the most pronounced for protection, with Georgia a good second, and Alabama a poor third. Virginia will not take anv free trade in "hern." Mr.. Cleveland ought to undeceivo himself. The Democratic majority of more than 40,000 votes is a horse of an entirely dillerent color. Bat the Prohibitionists Won't Own It. Boston Tranecript We are glad to seo that a stace of enlightenment has been reached with regard to tho matter of tho liquor license given for the basement of Vice-president Mortons hotel at Washington, in which it is at least apparent, even to tho most advanced Prohibitionists, that Mr. Morton does not tend the bar himself. Indeed, it appears that his only connection with the business was his leasing of certain premises, to be used for restaurant purposes, to a man who proceeded to obtain a liquor license in order to supply his guests with wines and liquors when theso articles were ordered. As wino is an almost invariable adjunct of the restaurant business, and as Vice-president Morton is not responsible for this broad general fact, it is hard to Fee how he can bo accused of "sellinjr rum." as some of tho ladies of the Women's Christian Temperance Union havo accused him. If Mr.

Morton has committed any crime it was in building the Hotel Shorehani. The restaurant and the "rum" followed as a natural eonsequcuce. Misguided Englishmen. Philadelphia Inquirer. The free-trade press of England is rejoicing over tho alleged Democratic victories in tho recent elections in the United States. The Manchester Guardian regards the result as a sweeping condemnation of protection, and of tho proposal to establish American steamship lines to South America. The delight of tho Englishmen is onlynatural. The information 8cnt to the foreign newspapers is colored" to suit freetrade views, and the Englishmen think, no doubt, that tho result of the election is going to give them free trade rigiit awav. That would give a tremendous "boom" to .tho industries of Great Britain. But. fortunately for the people of this couutry, there is not tho least prospect of any such calamity. The verdict of the American people on protection was rendered a year ago. -o Uad Better Proceed Slowly. St. Louis Tost-DispatcU Dem.) The legislative victory in Ohio gives tho Democrats an opportunity to redistrict the State. Some rash members of tho rartv E repose to make tho next Congress relialy Democratic through chances in Ohio alone. The Democrats should go slow in this gerrymandering scheme. Thero aro undoubtedly gross wrongs in the present divisions of the Stato into congressional district?, but justice in the redistricting i all the Democrats should 6ecnre. A Republican gerrymander was sternly rebuked once by Ohio voters, and if the Democrats go too far they rn?y got a dose of the 6amo medicine. . A Good Appointment. Evansvillo Journal. The appointment of Mr. Samuel E. Kercheval, of Rockport. to a position as examiner in the Department of Justico will meet the approval of Republicans generally. He has been very elhcient as a working member of the Republican party and rightly-merit 8 this honor. Hisollicchasagood salary attached to it. Its duties aro to examine the records and acconnts of United States attorneys, marshals, clerks and commissioners. There are only six 6uch ohicors in the government employ. Mr. Kercheval will pel form his oflicial duties acceptably. Queer Politics. Ksnsss City Star. Mr. Dana in Spain will bo charmed to sea that the &un has nominated Mr. Campbell, of Ohio, for tho vice-presidency. Mr. Dana will remember that when Mr. Campbell was nominated last August the Sun in predicting the election of Foraker, said: "Tho tarid" smashers bad the upper hand in tho convention and carried everything their own wa3'. They want another educational campaign, apparently, and Democrats elsewhere can look on and sco how they coma out." The Sun's rambling may bo lively and interesting journalism, but itismighty queer politics. A "Wet OntlooK for Iowa. Sprinjrfleld Republican. Prohibition exists in Iowa only by virttto of statute laws, and it is not at all unlikely that this law may bo repealed by the Legislature next winter, in view of TueMla3's results. The Democratic Governor will recommend such action, and tho email Republican legislativomajority.it is expected, will not stand in the way. For. although the law has been championed by the Republicans, it is well known that thousands of them are weary of tho experiment, simply because prohibition iu tho large towns of the Stato has failed to prohibit. Were an Absolute Necessity. Kansas City JenrraL While regretting that the Republican in one or two of the older States should have temporarily "backslid," thero it comfort in the thought that tho four new States have bnmght great strength totha Republican ranks. Indeed the recent Dem ocratic successes were needed to keep politics interesting. A Hard Choice. Kansas City Journal. It is an open question whether the Democrats who want Cleveland renominated ia 18U2 were more anxious for Foraker's defeas in Ohio, or for the rout of Hill's forces in New York. - ; m m v Too Old for the Shock. Omaha Republican. An atred Iowa Democrat dropped dead on learning that Boies was elected Governor. The surprise was' too much for him. lie was ono hundred and eleven years of age.. Larking Indoremeut. Chicago Journal. The nomination of Hill and Campbell as the Democratic ticket in 1SU2 has not yet received the indorsement of Mr. Cleveland nor of his frieuda. That Different. j Omaha Republican. Ohio and Iowa went Democratic because the ballott is free and untrammelled in those State. But what of Virginia and Mississippi? fiipublUhcd History. Muncift Times. Sim Coy in writing a book. What Sim knows and will not tell would make mora interesting reading than anything ho will print. . A Common Interest. rhUadelyh'.. Inquirer. When the Democrats win English freetraders rejoice. Causo and cilecW