Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 May 1890 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SATURDAY, MAY 24, 1890. it- ' . - . ... . .

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Rat Mr. Bynuni is not a wit. Canada's acreage or barley has been reduced 20 per cent, in view of the increase of duty imposed by the McKinley bill, which goes to show that the im porter thinks that ho pays tho dii 7 j rather than tho consumer. In tho Seventeenth Illinois district, Hon. Edward Lane, the present Democratic member, has been renominated. He is one of tho Illinois Democrats who has tho courage of his convictions, and in his speech of acceptance, as in Congress, assailed all liberal pension legislation. There can bo somo excuse Ifor a paper like tho Charleston News to say that tho Union veteran was "a soldier for revenue only' and that tho Nashville American should call him a "beggar" and denounce the Grand Army as a "pilferer upon the public bounty," but there is no excuse for that brutality which leads Mr. Cleveland's pet organ, Puck, to caricature him as a bloated loafer. Several States have stringent regulations regarding tho sale of oleomargarine, but tho lato decision of .thc'Su-, prcmo Court nullifies them to extent that citizens of other. States can send jJaHurticle in original packages into the 4 t ! in fnef i aA in CTlf A cf tho laws. Another decision in that line by Chief -justice Fuller would quite wipo out tho boundaries of States. Queen Victoria is seventy-one years old to-day. She has been queen since June 21, 18G7, but was not crowned until & year later. That is, sho has been at the head of tho British government fiftythree years. During that period sixteen dillercnt men have been President of tho United State. Van Bnren was in tho first year of his term when Victoria ascendea the throne. Tii Republican Senate in New Jersey, feeing that a thorough secret ballot bill ,fc-ould not bo passed by tho Democm ic Assembly, passed tho Democrf cic substitute as being better than nothing. Bnt Governor Abbctt was very 6trcnuous at first for a law something like the Massachusetts law, but changed his mind when ho found that such a law would mako New Jersey Republican. It is stated that certain prominent leaders in the Mormon Church have corao to tho conclusion that the recent decision of the Supreme Court, sustaining tho Edmunds law, makes further attempts to sustain their peculiar doctrines impossible. Consequently tho Mormon church 13 no longer an institution for tho propagation of polygamous marriages, and tho doctrine, of polygamy will bo no longer taught. A court in Kansas has decided that liquor in jugs and beer in bottles aro not original packages within tho mean-, ing of tho laws of the United States, and that those only are original packages which bear tho stamps of tho internal revenue. This appears to be a eensiblo decision, and, if it is sustained, will havo a depressing influence upon those who aro counting on largo gains by retailing liqnor in small bottles in prohibitory and high-license States. A New York newspaper has published replies from a number of senior classes of colleges throughout tho land on tho tarilf question, and finds a majority of them favoring freo trade. In this connection there is ono point to bo remembered. Tho pure theories of political economy as taught in the colleges and only rudimentary teaching it is are taken from the universal point of view with regard to tho greatest good to the greatest number of tho whole world's inhabitants. Whether tho most prosperous nation on earth wants to divido up Its good things with tho rest of tho world, in order to secure this "greatest good to tho greatest number," is a question they do not go into very deeply. The decision of tho United States Supremo Court refusing a writ of habeas corjmk in the case of Kemmler, undor t entence, in New York, to be executed by electricity, is no surprise. After all tho courts of tho State ofl New York had decided that tho method V punishment b

constitutional, it having been demonstrated that execution by electricity is less painful than the usual method, thero was no warrant for tho interference of the United States Court. The application for a writ of error is also denied on tho ground that tho crime of tho convicted man was committed after the passage of tho act creating tho new method of execution. It is worth while to notice that tho court asserts that if tho punishment were unusual and cruel, like burning at the stake, it would be authorized to interfere.

THE HOST POPULAR SCHEDULE. A Washington special writer, reviewing the action of tho committee of the whole on different propositions, says that "the vote on tho sugar schedule disclosed tho unexpected' strength of tho measure;" and such was tho case. Even the bounty clause was sustained by a vote of 132 in favor to 6G against, while Mr. Breckinridge's proposition to maintain nearly the present rate of duties was defeated by a voto of 126 yeas to 84 nays, arid Mr. Coleman's motion to strike out the clause putting raw sugars on the free list was rejected by a vote of SG yeas to 127 nays. The names of thoso voting to retain very nearly the present rate of duties on sugar, the proposition of Mr. Breckinridge, of Arkansas, are not printed, but, with rare exceptions, they are Democrats who aro denouncing Republicans for taxing the necessaries of life. Consistency would be -a jewel if found in Democratic action, and one of great price because of its exceeding rarity. Bnt the point the. Journal desires to make is that, in spite of tho fact that tho sugar schedule, by which all raw sugars are put upon tho freo list, was ably and persistently assailed by Louisiana members and the beet-sugar experimenters, nearly every Republican was in favor of it, and quite a number of Democrats did not oppose it. Thero is but ono reason for this, and that is tho general demand of the country for free sugars. It will be remembered that tho ways and means committee was long divided on the sugar question, and at first a majority was not in favor of free sugar, but when its members realized that tho people were decidedly in favor of it all of tho Republicans of thocommittteo except one voted to make raw sugars free. It is the strong and popular feature of tho bill. The local press in all parts of tho country shows it, and during tho past years, when Republican leaders have spoken of abolishing tho internal revenue and letting tobacco and whisky go untaxed, the Republican rank-and-file voter has dissented, maintaining that so long as sugar is taxed whisky should not escape taxation. It is asserted that the finance committee cf tho Senate, will mako a new tariff bill rather than attempt a series of amendments to that passed by the House. The tarilf bill prepared by tho Senate finance committee and passed by that body in 18S8 cut down the sugar duty materially, and several of its members were known to be in favor of free sugar. Tho new bill, if ono is prepared as a substitute for the McKinley bill, will be prepared by tho majority of tho same committee that made the bill which tho Senate passed, and consists of Senators 'Morrill, Sherman, Jones of Nevada, Allison, Aldrich and Hiscock, Republicans, and Senators Voorhees, McPherson, Harris and Vance, Democrats. Thero can be little or no doubt that the Republicans of that committee will decide for free sugar as did tho Republican members of the ways and means committee, and that tho Republicans in the Senate, who constitute a larger majority of that body than do tho Republicans of the House, will indorse the action of their party in the lower branch. NO MORE NEW SOUTH. Now that Henry W. Grady is dead and the paper -which he conducted has passed into tho control of men who do not seem to have his progressive snirit, thero seems to bo a revolt on the part of the established Democratic press against the new South idea in that section. The Charleston News and Courier rejoices in "the old South," which it is suro will arise, one of these days, to give a deathblow to the "spurious reform" of the North, whatever that may be. Beforo tho murder of Mr. Dawson, who was the editor of that paper, it favored tho Blair bill for the purpose of educating the colored people, but of late it has changed its tune. It prefers that the negro shall leave South Carolina, assuming that tho white immigrant will take his place as a laborer, leaving his ideas, which arc not of tho old South, behind him. The Nashville American, since it has passed into tho management of the freetrade clement, declares that "the new South is a farce which is depraving and corrupting in its influence; it is a sordid, grinding and mercenary spirit, which comes to mock at our old ideas of honor and chivalry, and supplant them." And so another of the hopes which many people in the North have been called upon to believe in seems to be in danger of being shattered by tho Bourbon press of the South. TRANSPARENT .DISHONESTY. Tho News of last' evening contains a statement, purporting to corao from Mr. Peelle, to the effect that he will ask the Supreme Court for a rehearing of tho case brought against him by Mr. Worrell, the legally appointed State Statistician. Mr. Peclie is reported as saying that he "has ninety clays in which to file the petition for the rehearing, which will throw the date of its tiling so L.o that it cannot bo considered by tho court until after tho summer vacation," by which time ho will have served out his term. The Journal cannot believe that this position will bo taken by Mr. Peelle. For a man to hold on to an office after the highest court has settled every question of title and declared that he has no right thereto, and is in wrongful possession thereof is disregarding tho law. It is defying authority. Yet, if the report in tho News is correct, this is Mr. Peelle purpose, and it is put upon the ground that ho has sixty (not ninety( days within which to file a petition for a rehearing, and that by tho time this sixty days expires the Supremo

Court will havo adjourned until fall. This would bo dishonesty so glarin? that tho statement of it sufficiently reveals it. It is deliberately proposed to physically hold an office to which Mr. Peelle has no right by the utterly indefensible trick of not asking for a rehearing until too late for the court to pass upon it before fall. It is not for the purpose of getting a rehearing, but for delay, and this purpose is shamelessly avowed. An ofiico is to be retained and its usefulness destroyed by a dishonest trick. The public is to bo injured and the State's trust violated that a man who has no right to it may hold on a little longer. Wo know of no exhibition of desire for place more disgusting than this. It is thirst for office gono mad. It is a private dishonesty and a public wrong. Henco we cannot believe that Mr. Peelle intends to pursue this course. It is a course that would meet the condemnation of all honest

men. A VOICE PROM FLORIDA. Attention is called to a communication which recently appeared in the De Land Weekly News, of Florida, addressed to President Harrison. The facetious frankness of the writer strengthens rather than weakens his statements. He accords intelligence and morality to tho Democrats of Florida, and attributes their policy of persecution to their conviction that they "have a divine right to rule the State, and that to disagree with that party is a crime, to bo punished with chains, stripes and sometimes death." He calls attention to the moderate enforcement of the laws of tho United States, and asserts that only one1 man has been killed in such enforcement, and he was aUnited States officer, whose murderer is shielded by the Democratic officials of Florida. The story which he tells of the persecution of Republicans by Florida officials is one which should rouse indignation in tho hearts of all fair-minded men. Is it true? Are Republicans persecuted, sent to jail, and from jail to the penitentiary on trumped-up charges, to deprivo them of the right to vote? He makes that charge, and those against whom it is made can easily disprove it if it is not true. Somo of the writer's specifications aro known to bo. true, namely: that cities have been robbed of their charters in order to take them out of tho control of Republican majorities, and that the federal authorities ha : been interfered with in tho enforcement of tho laws. What is tho remedy? Tho administration will enforce the laws of tho United States, but what power can reach a State government which shields tho murderers of federal officers, defends those accused of ballot-box crimes, and convicts men, sends them tovilo prisons, and takes from them tho right of suffrage, simply because they are not of the ruling party and would overthrow its rule if fair elections were held? Tho Democratic leaders could stop these crimes and restoro justice and popular government to Florida by a word, but, instead, they, with all their organs, denounce the mildest attempts to enforce the laws of the United States. One thing which the state of things in Florida, as set forth by the letter, makes clear, is that Congress should pass such a law for the election of Representatives to Congress as will take tho power to stuff ballot-boxes, to drive Republicans or any other voters from the polls, from the officials of Florida. Indeed, it emphasizes that duty. - The address which Assistant Postmaster-general Clarkson delivered last evening before the Norfolk Club in Boston will commend itself to thoughtful men and women as the utterance of an earnest man who conscientiously and profoundly believes every word ho has spoken. Every sentence bears tho impress of thorough conviction. As a piece of English, it may be taken as a model of terse, concise and clear expression; but those who read lose sight of that in the deep earnestness of a man who believes in tho sacredness of human rights and the accountability of nations to God. The conscience in the speech carries ono back to the Republicanism of 18C0-18O1. As an appeal for freedom and justice it will remind older New Englanders of the voice of Garrison and tho earnestness of Sumner. What he says of tho tariff" is the judgment of an intelligent man, and while his ideas of the management of the civil service of the country will not meet with general approval, the system he favors would insure efficiency in tho publio service. He strips tho lion's skin of independence from the mugwump press and shows tho real Democratic animal that it covers. In short, it is a timely utterance, and will fan into flame the spark of Republicanism in tho hearts of the . Republican voters. Such an attempt to pry into the private affairs of the people has never been attempted before, and it should not be submitted to this time. There is no law that cau compel anyone to make public the eecrets of his household, no matter what statutes may bo passed, and it was never intended that the penalty of refusing to answer should attach in such a case as this. Tho obnoxious questions probably originated in the fertile brain of Robert P. Porter, who was selected to superintend tho census on account of the high tariff' screeds he furnished during tho last presidential election.--Memphis Avalanche (Dem.). It may relieve tho minds of some of these Democratic objectors to the "insolent census questions" to know that they originated in tho fertile brain of tho late S. S. Cox, author of the census bill of 1880. The public is informed upon such good Democratic authority as the Kansas City Times that "Vaux is known at home as a 'Bourbon of Bourbons,' which simply means that he is an uncompromising free-trader and an old-school Democrat, who does not believe that politics is a game which may bo won through tho inactivity of tho moral nature" Thero is ono good thing to be said of the Missouri Democrats. They do not take much stock in tho gauzy hypocrisy of "tariff reform," and do not care a peanut if tho world docs know that tho ultimate object of the "reform" movement is the exchange of tho American for the English policy. This declaration that "a Bourbon of Bourbons" simply means an "uncompromising freo trader" is as engagingly frank as Sena-

tor Vest's famous challenge of tho protected industries to a war of extermination.

Three colored ministers are dropped from the list of contributors of tho Baptist Teacher becauso they said warm things of their treatment by Southern ruffians on their way to Indianapolis last year. The editor who dropped them retains on the list several white ministers who said "warm" things becauso their colored brethren dared protest against outrage. But, of course, that is a very different matter down South. Just as it expected, the Journal's protest against certain features of the design chosen to crown the soldiers' monument has aroused the ire of the persons who profess to have n corner on art information cud who rashly expressed their opinion of the figure selected before they stopped to think about it. Having hastily decided that it embodied the highest possiblo conception of tho idea sought to be conveyed by the monument, they are determined to adhere to that decision at all hazards. If they had any clear understanding of the.: 1 robaning of. the design they are lauding to tho skies, their profound dissertations on tho nobility of art in general, and tho transcendent merit? of this bit of it in particular, would be more impressive. One of them says the figure selected is a symbol of an idea, and that the same is true of the torch and the sword. Just so; but wba$ ideas? Tho critic quoted thinks the woman balanced on tho globe, an eagle on her head, a sword in one hand and a torch in the other, typifies Indiana. Heretofore she has been described as 4 'Liberty," while another intimation is that she is intended to represent Victory." Is it any wonder that the Journal which, we are informed, has a low idea of art failed to recognize instantly the great and artistic thought conveyed in the design, when the self-constituted high priests of art aro still mixed on the question! It may be true, as these disciples of culture declare, that there is no art about a statuo of a soldier, but such a figure certainly conveys an idea, and a clear one. Is it because it is so clear that all who run may read that it is not artf At all events, it might be well to decide at the beginning who the woman is who is to symbolize the crowning results of the Indiana soldiers' work. And when her identity is established the high priests should assemble and consider whether tho artistic unities would not be as well preserved by the removal of the eagle from her head. The sword and the torch being supposed to represent Great Thoughts, are developments of art that probably cannot bo dispensed with, but the eagle ought to be made to loosen its clutch on her hair. If it is absolutely necessary, for art's sake, that it should remain' in the neighborhood, let it have a pole to roost on. A correspondent of the Atlanta Constitution professes to see a proof of President Harrison's unpopularity in the fact that few people turn to look at him when he walks on tho street, whereas, on the contrary, Mr. Cleveland attracts every eye. People are so constituted that they will naturally look twice ataman weighing four hundred pounds -as many a dimemuseum freak can testify when one of only 150 goes unnoticed; but this does not indicate that the people want the fat man for President. And "w hat would not the unfortunate r Mr. I Cleveland give "to be physically as inconspicuous as President Harrison? - ' . - " - An appeal comos from the colored division of - the Y. M.; C. A. of the United States for aid. in establishing a national headquarters. Louisville is chosen as the place for the building, which it is estimated will cost SoO.OOO. The enterprise is a laudable ono, and if successful will be of benefit as a central point of work in promoting the moral welfare and. prosperity of young men. Contributors are asked to address evangelist Albert Mack, of Louisville, Ky. There are independent voters and there aro "floating" voters, between which classes there is a distinction with a very largo difference. Likewise there aro independent newspapers and there aro "floating" newspapers with an eye, single to the main chance, and of tho two tho latter 6eom to form the larger clasa. If you want to go West, young man, you can go without it costing you much, but you had better buy a round-trip ticket. There is no great object in going west of Indiana, and people who do so aro apt to come back if they can. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Stephen B. Elkixs is building a ninety-nine-room residence in Randolph county, West Virginia. Senator Carlisle was a Union man during tho war and declined to be a Democratic elector in 1804. What is known in. Omaha as the Folsom property is valued aV $800,000, in which Mrs. Cleveland holds a one-sixth interest. Rodeut Louis Stephenson, tho novelist, is a Presbyterian and in favor of the singleness of purpose. Therefore he would havo revision. The secretary of the Chinese legation at Paris, General Tcheng-Ki-Tong, was married recently to a country girl at her village homo in the south of Ffauce. Du Maurier, the artist, is writing a novel to be illustrated by himself. If his works are as able as his pictures he will make a volume which will delight the people. TnE medal which has just been presented to Mr. Stanley by the . Geographical Society is the first special medal for such services that has ever been struck by that society. The Duke of Northumberland, perhaps the greatest land-owner in England, has just entered his eighty -first year. He owns more than 200,000 acres, with a rent-roll of 875,000 a year. A man has started from New York in a canoe, with tho intention of reaching the mouth of the Columbia river, a distance of 7,000 miles. He expects to arrive at his destination in October. Princess De Saqan recently appeared on the beach at Trouville, France, in a bathing costume, one side of which was white and the other blue, tho conceit beiug carried out to the details of gloves, buttons and shoes. The Princess of Wales is reported as not being charmed with tho prospect of becoming a grandmother. The distinction is too suggestive of ago. Sho will protest against tho "logic of events" by dressing more gayly than ever. Flagler, the millionaire, was the son of a poor farmer, and tho ambition of his boyhood was to be a hotel-keeper. He is now worth $30.0(K.00O, and his magnificent hotel, the Ponce de Leon, shows that he has carried out the deiire of his youth in grand style. An interesting story comes from England anent Prince Albert Victor, second son of tho Prince of Wale3. When ho was a lad at school he was, as are most boys, nearly always short of money. He would, on particularly desperate occasions, write to his angust grandmother to help him out of his dilemma. The Qneen always answered his appeals for aid with a very kind letter of advice, but no money. On such occasions

Albort Victor would go out into the campus and sell the Queen's autograph letter to the highest bidder. A large number of Encash families aro said to h&ye such letters in their possession. M. Dumas, the younger, is sixty-six, hale, vigorous and broad-shouldered, with eray hair, tho ample forehead of a thinker, and a shrewd, satrical expression about his mouth. He is very rich, and lives with his books and his grandchildren in tho Avenue de Villiers, Paris. Count Herbert Bismarck, relieved from cares of state, is now seeking rest and pleasure in England, spending his time among friends, who appreciate him, and giving confidentially those interesting details about his father's resignation or dismissal which have already becoino publio property. The sale of the interesting original manuscripts of Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins, with some autograph programmes of private theatricals in which both took part, will begin in London in June. The entire original manuscripts of "No Name," 'The Moonstone" and Tho Woman in White" of Collins, and the manuscripts of some of Dickens's poems are in this collection. Stewart William, who died in 18S2 in India, had married the daughter of a Begum, and adopted her religion. He was afterward reconverted to Christianity. His widow and son have a claim on tho Gardner peerage in England, and the London World thinks there will be an interesting suit some day to settle tho succession to the title, although it is not worth a shilling. In a letter to London Truth, Mrs. Emily Crawford, the noted Paris correspondent, prints the following, which refers to Mr. Huntington's son-in-law. Prince Hatzfeldt: "A young American lady who married, not long since, in haste, a German prince of a non-sovereign house, who was always hanging about the circus and the stables, is said to be repenting at leisure. The old passion for gambling, which was smoldering for want of means to satisfy it, has burst out again, and is indulged in from dusk to dawn, aud often later, in swell clubs to which this personage belongs. He wants his bride to go and live with him in Vienna, where he knows she would not, for want of birth, be admitted to any of the honses of the great illustrious where he would be received. Her exclusion would mean liberty to him. It is lucky for her that her interest in her fortune is closely settled upon herself, and that she is unable to dispose of it by anticipation."

The Anti-Tariff Pressure on the Senate. Philadelphia Press. v The passage by both houses of Congress of tho administrative customs bill, and now the passage of the McKinley tariff bill in tho House, will thoroughly alarm the representatives of foreign houses in this country and those who depend for their profits on tho sale of foreign goods. As a result it is likely that within the next few weeks great pressure will be brought upon the" Senate and no stone left unturned to weaken the McKinley bilL But the party is pledged to a courageous policy in regard to the tariff to a policy of unhesitatingly giving fnll protection when that protection is needed, and is just and right and in tho interest of American labor and American homes. The Press does not believe tbat one leading Republican Senator will falter in upholding this principle. The Decision Against Polygamy. Salt Lake Tribune. - , The decision of the Supreme Court in the church confiscation case will be no surprise to any one in Utah. There was no doubt about the law; to havo decided any other way would have been equivalent to saying that Congress could not in auy way pass a binding law for the government of Territories, if, in the name of a creed, a man or class of men. pleased to deride it. We are glad of the decision imply because it is a full vindication of our United States courts. It can no longer be said . they were governed by sinister influences, without including the Supreme Court of the United States also. It is most singular that in tho face of these repeated defeats.. the Mormon authorities will not, for the sake of their own peoplo, adjust their institution to tho rule of the Republic. - Injudicious Postponement. Pittsburg Chroaicle-Telegraph. Tho report on the Presbyterian Board of Publication, alleging crookedness in the management, denounced by Dr. Benjamin Agnew as criminally libelous, which came down to the present from the last General Assembly, has been postponed to the next one, although Dr. Agnew declared that it was doing n injury from which the board would not recover in a century. When like charges were made some vears ago against the Methodist Episcopal Book Concern, thoso impulsive people, in General Conference, seized the subject, head and tail, and made an end of it then and there, onco and for all, which experience has proved was the wise thing to do. Terrible to Contemplate. Chicago Tost. It would be not only a pity but a disgrace for this country to suffer professional baseball decline. With no base-ball America would have no "national game," and without a "national game" several thousands of young men who now consent to serve their country on the field for a few paltry thousands a year might be utterly lost to fame digging sewers or driving street-cars, whilo their numerous and grateful clients would be losing their money on the races. Without a "national game." moreover, thero would bo no "magnates," and what is a country without "magnates" to charm tho public eye and fill the publio ear with variegated wisdom? A Few Conundrums. Indianapolis Ram's Horn. Does your milkman know that you have got religion! Does your butcher know that you expect somo day to occupy a mansion in the sky? Does he have to keep open shop for you on Sunday? Does your newsboy know that he is dealing with a Christian? Does your washerwoman know that she is toiling for a child of God? If you had to Set into heaven on the testimony of your ress -maker, could you do it? If not, why not? Out of Ills Sphere. Minneapolis Tntmne. It is not necessarily a mark of inveterato partisanship to observe that ruffianly conduct in Congress is confined almost exclusively to the Democratic side of the House. The fact is so conspicuous that no intelligent and observant foreign critic would fail to mako a note of it Republicanism produces vory few loud-mouthed bullies and bluil'ers like Bynum. of Indiana, and it does not send such men to Congress. The Country Is Safe. Marion Chronicle. Tha aam llamnxrafi trliA a 10 npa ? rr 1 woe and calamity to follow the adoption of il. r ir : l a : A' v:ii V:j me luciYiuiey laiiu uiu juuyuusicu even worse things of resumption. The same follows, in 1S04. said the war would last forty years and that free government would bo overthrown if Lincoln defeated McClellan. Don't bo alarmed, good people. Tho government is in the hands of its friends. Would De Death to the Ticket; Kearney (Neb.) Enterprise. Congressman Bynum is said to be a Democratic vico-presidential candidate for He is starting in well. His recent censure by the national House is probably considered by him to bo a strong bid for the office. Should Mr. Bynum secure the nomination, the great American people will proceed forthwith to the ballot-boxes and indorse that censure in a most emphatic manner. Will Have to Fall Back on Our Wives. Iowa Register. The latest thing in trusts is a Biscuit Trust, which has just been completed by tho signing 01 papers in New York last week. The capital stock has been placed at 5,000,000, and all the factories In this country and Canada have been swept into it. The trust is expected to bo a big dividend-paying concern at once. A Tarty of Action. PhllartelpbiA Inquirer. Tho Republican party is a party of action and not professions merely. It is not disturbed by the threats of its enemies. Frond of past achievements, it looks to tho futuro with confidence. It is tho party of the people and it will prevail. The protection flag floats proudly in the breezo and the freetraders are undone.

PERSECUTION IN FLORIDA

How the Democrats of tbat State Exercise Their Power as Officeholders. Republicans Arrested on Tririal Charges and Confined in Dirty Trisons Power Grossly , Abused in Order to Retain Office. DeLand (Fla.) Weekly News. Mr. Harrison, Dear Sir A short timo ago, F. W. Hawthorne, editor' of tbo TimesUnion, addressed, through tho columns of his paper, an open letter toyou, so I thought I might make bold to do the same. I am, of conrse, awaro that you are not a chronic reader of tho DeLand Weekly News, and I think that should anyone mention Mr. Hawthorne's letter and paper in your presence, you would say, if you said anything, "Who in Sam Hill is F. W. Hawthorne, and what in the nation is the Times-Union?" I read the letter at the timo it was published, and did not seo anything in it, although I acknowledge thatMr. Hawthorne is a writer of marked ability and that tho Times-Union is the leading paper in the SUte. But since its publication I have noticed that it has been copied into several Florida papers, and the Times-Union sayB that it has caused deep and widespread agitation at the North. So I hunted up the letter and read it again. Then I read it some more. Then I stood on my head and tried It that way. And the only conclusion I can como at is that the letter is a weak defense of a bad cause. This conclusion may be my fault and not that of tho letter. In the world's broad field of battle I am only a nine-spot, and my opinion is not on a par with that of a justice of the United States Supreme Court; but 6uch as it is. you, tho Times-Union and the rest of the world aro welcome to it. The Times-Union strives to impress upon you that the condition of defiance to the government now existing in parts of Florida is the fault of the United States court in Jacksonville, before which it seems that good Democrats are afraid to appear. The Democrats of Florida, Mr. President, are not, on the whole, a bad set. In intelligence and morality they will comparo favorably with any people on the face of tho earth. Unfortunately, tbey have an idea that tho Democratic partyh'asadiviuo right to rule the State, and that to disagree with that party is a crime to be punished by chains and stripes, and sometimes death. In this fair and sunny State there are many communities where a Republican would bo ill-treated if he expressed his sentiments boldly, and nowhere in Florida can a man make himself prominent in opposing the Democratic party without being more or less persecuted. I have watched tho proceedings of the United States court, and have noticed that once in a while, after a long and expensive trial, a man was lint-a or imprisoned for a political offense. I have not heard of any cruel and unusual punishment being inflicted, nor of Democrats languishing for days, and weeks, and months behind tho bars of a prison waiting fori rial beforo a court, tho machinery of which had been used for pnrposes of partisan persecution. On the contrarv, Democratic offenders against tho law have been mildly dealt with. They have been sutnoned to appear before the court, rather than arrested; they have almost alway been admitted to bail, andk unless tho proof against them was absolute and conclusive, they havo been acquitted. How about the other side? Tho jury lists in this State are made up by the commissioners, and the commissioners aro appointed by the Governor. The Governor is a Democrat, he appoints Democrats as commissioners, and the commissioners generally pick out Democrats for jurymen. Tho judge on the bench is always a Democrat. and the prosecuting attorney is never anything else. It is true that political offenses are not tried in the State courts. But in tho caso of a man who has made himself prominent in politics, political considerations always enter into tho trial, and often decide it Between one Democrat and another, between one Republican and another, legal )roceedings in the State courts are probably as fair as anywhere in tho world. But )etween a Democrat and a Republican, tho '. Republican always has to work harder to got justice than the Democrat if ho gets it At all.. When it comes to criminal cases, it is no use denying that Republicans do not stand an equal chance for. justico with -Democrats. According to law, a man who has been convicted of felony loses his right to vote, and for that reason many Republicans have been sent to the penitentiary for otfenses for whicn a Democrat would nardly have been arrested; and if arrested would have either been acquitted or found guilty of only a misdemeanor. And tho Florida State penitentiary! No man that knows its horrors hut who fears it worse than he does hell; for it is a place where the avarice of contractors and the cruelty of guards, recruited from tho lowest element, combine to make prison lifo worse than death, and at least as bad as anything any reasonable person can fear on the other 6ide of deatha place where men aro not only obliged to expiate offenses against society but by overwork, stintof food and lack of protection against the elements, are compelled to earn money to mako rich tho beneficiaries of the infernal contract system, which is tho blackest blot on the escutcheon of our State. In the Stato penitentiary there are now 210 convicts, of whom at least live-sevenths are Republicans, arrestee: by Democratic ollicers, prosecuted by Democratic attorneys, tried by Democratic juries and sentenced by Democratic jud ges, and it is pretty safo to say that politics had something to do with a good many of their cases. Then our county jails. If you should investigate you would find that three-fourths of their occupants aro Republicans. Yon will also find that in nino cases out of ten the sheriff of the county has the contract to feed the prisoners, for the board of each of whom ho is allowed 40 cents a day by the State. You will nearly always find 6aid prisoners insulliciently fed on the coarsest and least nutritious viands, causing you to rather more than imagine that the sheriff is striving to make money out of the State at tho expense of the unfortnnato beings who are in his power. You will find that the sheriff is always anxious to keep the ju.il full, and for that reason is ever on the lookout for criminals of the poor and friendless variety men aud boys who have no rich friends to go their security, and who, for offenses for which a Democrat would not be molested, aro arrested and hustled oil to prison, and remain there, wallowing in filth, adding to the pecuniary receipts of their jailer by enforcod abstinence and awaiting trial, which, when it comes, means that, it possible, they will bo convicted of felony and sent to the penitentiary, to minister to more greed and to lessen tho Republican vote. It is no use to talk about the Bastile, the Castlo of Chillon, the Tower of London, tho Star Chamber and tho Inquisition. The courts and prisons of Florida can show just as much injustice and cruelty, and for far less cause. Tho men who tilled the prisons of Europe with political and religious offenders thought that the fates of souls and nations were at stake, but tho Democrats of Florida only fear to lose their oilices. 1 don't mean to say, Mr. President, that because tbo Democrats persecute us you should persecute them, for, in tho first place, two wrongs don't mako one right, and, in the second place, any man who knows you and knows the law. Knows you have neither tho inclination nor the power to be a Nero. It is true that a large majority of tho Republican voters of Florida belong to an inferior race, but I have never seen nny law, either hnman or divine, that justifies their ueing treatou wiin injustice or crneitv. The Democrats claim to have a majority in this State, but somehow they fear to have tho matter put to a test. Having the election machinery in their hands, tht3r disfranchise Republican votes by the hundred, and do not scruple to use violence where fraud is not sufficient to accomplish their ends. Republicans by tho score have been killed. Republicans by the hundred have been abused, and Republicans by tho thousand have been disfranchised for being Uepnblicans. and tho Democratic papers of tho Statehave printed hundreds of columns of mnttei ot only in denial, but defense of such practices. On tho other hand, tho United States Court has prosecuted comparatively few political offenders, has persecuted none, anil has not convicted manv. But one man has been hailed in relation to its acts, and

he was a Republican, a government officerdischarging his 'duty, and he was shot down, without a chance to defend himself, by a Democrat, who would ere now havo E aid the penalty of his crime had he not eon shielded by the Democratic ofliciais of the Stato of Florida. Tho Republicans of Florida are immensely well satisfied with your course, Mr. President, and they wih you could do more. If tho government you represent will take steps to insure free and fair elections m this State, we will put it in the Repr.Micaa column in lSlni. vy0 have got' tho votes if wo can only get them counted. It has become tho fashion for Democratic) papers to taunt us for not having our votes counted anyhow if wc, as we say, have tho majority, and they accuse us of cowardice for not so doing. Well, maybe wewilitako a leaf out of their book 6omo day, and doso them with their own mcdirine. It is true that a great many Republican voters in Florida do not know how to read, but nearby all know how to shoot, and they may make up their minds some day that Republicans havo got just as much right as Democrats to stand over ballot-boxes with rifles in their hands. Wo wouldn't mind tho Democrats holding the ottices and drawing salaries if they woulu only act fair in other things. o wouldn't care so much about their taking away our votes if they didn't also take away our privileges, sometimes our libertics and occasionally our lives. Unfortunately, political oppression goes band in hand with evory other kind of oppression. Tho Democratic party of Florida is disgusting and alarming all honorable and sensible men by its violence, rapacity, corruption and want of statesmanship. It maybe that this better element will in time become able to purify the government by peaceful means. On the other hand, tho Dcmocratio party may go on in its chosen way. defrauding, imprisoning and killing Republicans, robbing cities of their char-' tors, stuffing ballot-boxes and packing ju-: ries, defying tho government and publiot 6entiraent, until somo day its oppression! will become too grievous to bo home any longer, and then there will be an upheaval! and tho red hand of revolution will right wrongs and indict retaliation. The onhy way to avoid such an ending is to see that the law is enforced and that tbo 1 will of the people is respected. If the Dem-i oerats rise in armed resistance against tho officers of the United States Court, what can they expect from Republicans, who have such reason to fear the decrees of the State courtsf If a Republican indicted by n State court should evado and resist arrest, and tho United States jrovernmcnt was to stretch forth its hand to protect him from the Stato officers, no matter how unjust his prosecution might bo, the man and the government would be denounced by every Democrat between Turtle Harbor and Puget sound. , And yet such a course would lo just as much right as it is for the citizens of Florida to evade and resist the officers of the government, and for the Stato officers to connive at their resistance and evasion. So, Mr. President, if you will go right ahead and do your best to get the law enforced and the votes counted, tho reoplo will be with you every time. Gnonr.iA Cracker.

TnE CnTCKAMAUGA NATIONAL FARM. A Field Where the Jleraory of Noble Military Deeds Will Bo Perpetuated. Washington Post. Among the measures likely to be reached soon after the tariff bill is disposed in the House is the bill establishing the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park. Thero is scarce- a Representative) whoso soldier constituents are not personalhy interested in this bill. Its original purpose was to give tho Western armies a counterpart of the Gettysburg field, whereon, they might erect monuments to mark and perpetuate the record of some of their most brilliant fighting. Chickamauga and Chattanooga wero selected not only becauso it happened that all tho Western armies were united at Chattanooga, but Hooker's nrmy of two corps from tho Potomac also joined them gthere. Then Chickamauga was a deadly battle, one of the most stubborn on both sides of modern times, with a percentage of losses rising above the most uoted European battles, while Missionary Ridge and Lookoat Mountain, upon whose slc.pra all the armies of tho North and of tho South were represented, was the piaudet spectacular battle of the war. There Maino and tho rest of New England met troops from Texas and Louisiana. There Minnesota and Iowa faced Florida and South Carolina. And between these extremes troops from tho whole central North and the entire Confederacy joined their forces for battle. On no other field were so many of the armies on both sides operating together. Tho marking of their lines will, therefore, preserve a notable chapter illustrative of American prowess in battle. The cost is insignificant. Each Stato is to mark the lines of its own troops, as has been done at Gettysburg. This will proceed under such regulations as the Secretary of War shall prescribe and under his control. .The purpose is not to lay out great avenues at Chickamauga, but to preserve the field as it now is; and this condition, except in the growth of timber, is exactly as it wai when tho armies marched oil the field, twenty-fceven years ago. The roads about Missionary Ridge are to be coded without cost. Since they overlook every point ot the Chattanooga and Lookout Mountain, fields, they are all that will be needed to exhibit on monuments and tablets to visitors a complete history of the battles about this motintaiu stronghold. The Post has a suggestion to make which, without argument, will commend itself to thoso who niay be charged with tho work of establishing this national park, which is destined to be the most noted and remarkable military object-lewum in tho world. Let the names of ithe officers and members of tho Congress which created the park appear graven ou enduriug tablets at tho entrance. In fact, these names, by State delegations, could and should be cast upen the columns of tho arch which will span tho northern approach to the grounds. Nexttc having fought on those fields, will it bo an honor to have a name thus handed down through family generations as one whose influence and whoso voto aided in preserving an imperishable record of tho American deeds of arms which madethos'i plains, and ridges, and mountains forever famous in history. A CALL FOIt THE FACTS. A Religious Taper WUhes the Public to Be Informed of the Doings of FubUc Blen. Central Christian Advocate. The newspapers of Washington would render a great service to the country if instead of shielding our national legislators from humiliating exposnro the would hold them np to public gaze whenever their lives became an offense to morality. Tho people would like to know how the men they send to Washington to make laws are conducting themselves. They do not desire ungenerous personalities, partisan misrepresentation or fabrication or mere inferences or rumors: but they would like to havo tho unvarnished facts such facts as Rtij-carefnl and impartial observer at Washington could furnish. They are of the opinion that a Senator or Representative who indulges freely in intoxicating liquor is not a fit person to intrust with serious legislation; and they havo reason to suspect that one whoisunablo to control his appetite will be, especially opeu to the temptatiou to sacrifice principle for a money consideration. Some hint of tho information that the Washington press could furnish us along this line is civen in an Associated Press dispatch of last week. A certain policeman on the witness-stand, in testifying about a disreputable locality, said that a few days ago ho saved a Congressman who was intoxicated from beinc robbed there. Continuing, tho officer said: T hero was another Congressman down thereunder the influence of liquor, and I cared for him also. He becamo indignant because I wanted to protect him against thieve-, and he took my number to have mo dismissed." It is hardly necessary to add that tho names of thrso parties were not naked for. Or Do Without Cat. Tolerto Commercial. Whenever a gas company drill a hola from which no gas is produced: whenever it has ft broken well; whenever it gets cheated in a purchase, it costs the taxpayers nothing. But when the naturalgas trustees get their foot in it, or meet with any mishap, every man who pays taxes has to help foot up the bills. What Are the Enumerators For? Nebraska journal. The census department asks the Journal to compile and forward, free of expense, some statistics from Lincoln that could not be gathered satisfactorily without a wek of hard labor. Tho most hardened reporter in tho establishment would tako oil hi hat to this exhibition of erv

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