Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 October 1890 — Page 4

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1890.

THE DAILY JOURNAL THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1800. WASHINGTON OFFICE-513 Fourteenth St. P. a Heath. Corretpondfnt. Telephone CalL Snlsntss Office 2 Editorial Kooies... 242

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can be found at the following places: PARIS American Exchange In Paris, 38 Boulevard dea Capacities. NEW YORK Gllsey Rouse and "Windsor Hotel. PHILADELPHIA. a. p7 Kemble, 27Jf Lancaster avenue. CHICAGO Palmer House. CXKCXXXATX-J. P. Hawley A Co.. 1M Vine street. LOUISVILLE C. T. Deering. northwest corner Third and J efferson streets. BT. LOUIS Union Kewt Company. Union Depot and bouthern Hotel. WASHINGTON, D. C. Rlggs Home and BddIW House. now TO VOTE. To vote the straight ICepubllcan ticket stamp the iqawe In front of the title "Republican Ticket," and not In front or the candidate for Secretary of State. To Tote a mixed ticket stamp the square In front of each candidate for whom you wish to ToU, or you can stamp the tqaara in front of the title of your ticket, and then stamp In front of the names on an y other ticket for whom you wish to rote. Fold State and county ballots separately, and each one with the initials of the poll clerks on the outside. Do not mutilate your ballot, nor mark It with anything except the stamp. TWO PICTURES. One Drawn In the Interest of Misrule and the Other in Behalf of Truth, niGHLT ROSEATE. Sentinel of Sunday. PLAIN FACTS. From II annon's Affidavit. While they were kicking him Blount hallooed at the top of his voice two or three times, "My God, don't kill me!" Just before that, while they were choking him. he was just trylnjeto get his breath, but when they began kicking him he hallooed two or three times, "My God. don't klllme: And then he Dr. Patterson, of the Eastern Insane Hospit al is an affable and able gentleman, who listens attentively to the pa tient and gives them words of cheer, as well as medicinal potations. And thl tender sympa thy ami solicitude lor the velfare of the unfortunates under their care Is apparently a first principle of the hosquit and never Bald anything more, and wasn't conscious alterward. The Republican order: "Fix bayonets, forward, double-quick, march." TnE Democracy see the storm coming and are trying to crawl under the gerrymander. A Republican Legislature will lift the cover off of tho Isaac P. Gray system of inefficiency. The more stamping Republicans do on election day the more kicking Democrats will do afterwards. Not since the day of the election of 1888 have the Democrats of Indiana been so unhappy as they are to-day. It must bo mighty hard to be a Derao crat and have any self-respect, to say nothing of party pride, these times. The officers and trustees of the Richmond hospital seem to have acted on the adage that "dead men tell no tales." The only "blighting effect of tho McKinley bill" thus far observed in this country is its effect upon Democratic hopes. Is there a man who is not a tax-eater who does not believe that tho present system of hospital management is selfcondemned? TnE present Democratic mismanagement promises to be an effective cure for the milder cases of "the Democratic habit" in voters. The most eloquent pleader against Democratic mismanagement in Indiana this year is the murdered corpse of Thomas Jay Blount. Every trade paper that tells about tho condition of trade is looked upon by tho calamity and free-trade-howler as an ally of the Republican party. TnE special sort of statesmanship which has put tho insane hospitals under separate boards is of. tho Isaac P. Gray varietyand a wretched, variety it is. TnE Sentinel says the last Legislature did more to purify our public charities than any Legislature which ever assembled in Indiana. Tho purification was needed. Let every Republican remember that the last remaining hope of the Democratic leaders is that a large percentage of tho Republicans will not be in lino next Tuesday. A Sentinel editorial on the latest insane-asylum horror is headed "Let justice be done." We are willing to echo that sentiment to the people of Indiana, "let justice bo done." Mr. Pierre Gray seems to have a pretty good pull on the State Treasury. Fifty dollars a month from two hospitals and little or nothing to do is wnat the boys call "a soft snap." There are doubtless men of experience in some of the hospitals, physicians and employes of skill, experience and capacity, but that is in spite of the present separate board system. TnE revolting revelations of the murder in the Richmond hospital so rouse the average voter that he is deaf to tho twitter of the pearl-button editor if he ever gave it a second's attention. . The evening Apology asks that Iho law be allowed to take its course in tho Insane-asylum murder, and deprecates the trial of the case by public sentiment. The law and pubHc 'sentiment should

work hand in hand, for only by public

sentiment is the Uw upheld; and at no other placo than tho polls can this great arbiter public opinion enforce its decisions. The conviction of Jay BlountTs murderers would not prevent like crimes so long as the Democratic party is in power. Its teachings are not such as conduce good order. It has attempted to destroy tho faith of the people in the judiciary, and by doing so has kept in lino with its past record of lawlessness. DEMOCRACY'S BLACK RECORD IK THE PUBLIC IK8T1TUTI0KS. If tho latest atrocity at the Richmond Hospital for tho Insane was tho only outrage of that, or similar character, for which the Democracy of Indiana has to answer, there might bo so mo reasonable ground for the plea of the Sentinel jftid the News for a suspension of judgment until after the election, but under the circumstances tho outraged people of the State are not apt to delay forming and expressing their opinions of tho system which makes such things possible, and under wjrich they have been constantly practiced during the many years that tho Democratic party has had control of their benevolent and penal institutions. It is a scandalous truth that there is hardly an institution of cither character in Indiana in which outrages of ono description or another have not occurred, to tho disgrace of the Stato and to tho everlasting discredit of tho men in charge and the party responsible for them and their nets. It has not been many years since the Democratic managers of ono of the State's most sacred charges, tho Soldiers' Orphans' Home, at Knightstown, were convicted, come of them, of the grossest outrages thut ever blackened the history ofthisorasy other Commonwealth. The result of the investigation into the charges against tho maladorous Goar was the making of revelations that appalled even those who knew enough of the facts in advance of the inquiries to expect the worst. At the Central Hospital for the Insane the corruption of the notorious Harrison management was a stench in the nostrils of the people. Under their autocratic way of conducting the public's institutions the outrages committed were of every character, financial and otherwise. John . Sullivan, the pet of tho local Democracy, was, permitted to feed tho State's unfortunate wards on his maggotty butter, and continued to do so until his thieving at the expense of the people of this county compelled him to flee to Canada to prevent his doing the State some real service at cracking stone. All the infamy of tho Harrison management never became public, but enough was proven to establish its utter unworthiness. Dr. W. B. Fletcher, who had been a Democratic State Senator, was forced but of his position as superintendent for exposing some of these practices and refusing to become a party to them. The 'State Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb has had its scandals, hardly less nasty and revolting, and none the less true thau those of the Soldiers' Orphans' Home. At Jeffersonvillo "Jack" Howard, the able Democrat who had charge of the State Prison South, not only robbed tho State, but was expert and proficient enough to rob the very thieves who had been sent there to bo . punished for their crimes. It is not yet thirty days since Superintendent Jacobs, a Democrat, resigned because ho would not mako of himself a party to a plan to still further and more shamelessly partisanize tho Institution for the Blind. There is not a State institution of any character that is not to-day a harbor of refuge for Democratic wardworkers and heelers; where men are appointed, not for their fitness for position, but by reason of supposed political influence. This is a fact too openly notorious to admit of any contradiction. It has been so for years, and will continue so so long as the Democratic party is continued in power. The murder of poor Blount, the hopelessly insane man, who, in addition to his mental infirmities, was a physical wreck, and who was pounded to death by a brutal attendant, is but tho culminating circumstance of a story of outrage and diabolism that has, for years, been tho history of the Democratic management of tho State's institutions. The people have been asked to "suspend judgment" in matters very like this, times without number, but the judgment, as finally returned, has always been the . same Murdered or robbed under the supervision and by the tender auspices of tho Indiana Democracy! "Drag a corpse from its grave?" Who, indeed, is responsible for the fact that the corpse was there! Who but the inefficient and murderous ruffian who received his appointment under a management that was created and will bo perpetuated, if the people permit it, by the Democratic party! Tho time for suspending judgment has passed. It has been too long suspended already, but tho time for forming judgment, hanging murderers and kicking out of doom tho party under which theso outrages have been continually and" shamelessly per petrated is upon the good people of Indiana. DEMOCRATIC JOBBERY. An interesting illustration of the political methods that prevail in tho mauajremcnt ot tuo otato institutions is found in tho fact that Mr. Pierre Graj', eon of his father, draws $25 a month from two of them as attorney. Twentyfive dollars from the Richmond hospital and the same sum from tho Evansville hospital makes 00 a mouth which Mr. Gray gets for doing little or nothing. These boards have no use for a salaried attorney and no right to employ one. Whatever legal advice or counsel they need they could get from the Attorneygeneral. It addition to his $50 a month Mr. Gray spends considerable, time at theso institutions, where he and other personal and political friends of the managers are fedontht best the market attbrds. The manner of Gray's employment is as plain as tho sun at noon-day. The trustees of the hospitals, who are po litical workers, owe their appointments to Governor Gray, and in return they agreed

to employ his son at a monthly salary.

There is no law authorizing such employment and no appropriation mado for it. Every dollar thus unnecessarily, if not illegally, paid to Pierre Gray is borrowed money, on which the State is paying interest, and it goes to help swell the Democratic debt of $8,500,000. This act of political favoritism and jobbery recalls tho fact that two years ago,twhen tiio Central Hospital, in this city, was being investigated by a committee of the Legislature, tho trustees employed a Democratic attorney of this city to defend them. Ho did so, and for his services in that behalf wns paid $200 out of tho hospital's funds. In other words, this lawyer, employed by tho trustees to resist an investigation ordered by tho representatives of the people, was paid out of the public funds, the people's money being used to resist the people's will. Perhaps Mr. Pierre Gray will earn the salary ho has been drawing by helping to screen the murderers of lawyer Blount. WIS THE MURDER CONCEALED? The law providing for the organization and administration of the uew hospitals for tho insane says the board of trustees shall require the superintendent to keep a hospital register showing, among other things, The physical state of each patient on admission, mental state when determined, date and condition when discharged, date and immediate cauM of death, and the diagnosis of each patient admitted; also, a case-book, recording a history of each patient while in hospital, setting forth tho conditions, the treatment aud result, especially noting accidents and restraints of every kind. The board shall inspect the aforesaid books at each regular session. This provision is imperative in requiring the superintendent to keep a case record of each patient in the hospital, "especially noting accidents," and in requiring the . board of trustees to inspect this record at each regular session. It was on the night of Friday, Sept. 26, that T. Jay Blount was choked till he fell on the floor, and was then kicked till five ribs' were broken and his side terribly bruised. On Saturday ihis father and wife were sent for, and .thesuperintendent wrote a note directing a mat to bo put in front of Blount's door and a white spread on his bed, because he added, "I think his father and wife will be here soon; they have telegraphed for them." Tho father and wife arrived at the hospital the same day. On Sunday morning Assistant Superintendent Patterson examined Mr. Blount and bandaged his body. He undoubtedly discovered then that tho man's ribs had been broken, and- made some kind of a report of the fact to the Superintendent., The next day, Monday, Sept. 29, Mr.' Blount died. Tho hospital record and case book ought to show his rapid de-' cline, the fact of the broken ribs, and the immediate causo of his death. .If they do not, the superintendent and as-; sistant superintendent are responsible for tho omission. . ; Observe that the law says tho hospital records shall "especially note accidents," and that tho board of trustees shall inspect the record at each regular-session. Unless the record was purposely falsified it must contain some statement . in regard to Mr. Blount's death' that should have attracted tho attention of the board. The law says the regular meeting of the board shall be held on the second Tuesday after the first Monday in each month. The first Monday in October was tho 6th, and tho second Tuesday thereafter was tho 14th. ; The board met on that day. Did they or did they not inspect tho record as required by law! If they did not, they tailed to. perform their duty. If they did, thoy must have learned that there was a mystery connected with Mr. Blount's death, unless tho record was purposely ' falsified to cover up tho mystery. Meanwhile attendant Wood and assistant superintendent Patterson had both left the institution, making a chain of suspicious circumstances which ought ,to have started a searching investigation as to the circumstances of Blount's death. But nothing was done and not a word said to indicate that anything unusual had happened. Was tho board a party to the concealment of this crime as well as the superintendent? Were they afraid to do their duty lest it might "hurt the party!" Weto they willing to let the secret of Mr. Blount's death remain buried with his body, which they thought was safely under ground? ; It looks that way. DEMOCRATIC INCOMPETENCE AND RASCALITY. Every honest, fair-minded man, whatever his politics, must find it difficult to escape tho conviction that the Democratic party is unfit to have control of public affairs. It is not necessary to go back to the iniquitous proceedings of' that party's leaders that led to the civil war to reach this conclusion. It is not necessary to review the general history of the party since tho war, its systematic opposition to congressional measures intended for national benefit, its continued ignoring of constitutional rights of millions of citizens. It is not needful to go far in search of specific cases of dishonesty and lawlessness to remember that at least seven Democratic Treasurers of as many Southern States havo been defaulters within five or six years, and that murder and intimidation aro favorite political methods in tho samo States. It is only necessary to consider the scandals that variegate tho history of tho Indiana Democracy to prove its untrustworthiress. There are doubtless honest, well-meaning incorruptible men in the Democratic party in Indiana, but, with rare exceptions, it has been their unfortunate fato to be kept in the background. They have, at least, never been able to exercise an influence that has prevented corrupt practices of every sort. They could not prevent, or did not interfere with, the constant at tempts of their brethren to loot the State Treasury, nor with the saddling cf a heavy debt upon the people. If they had any influence it did not prevent tho Southern prisou steal, nor the thievish practices of the gang headed by Trustee Harrison. They could not hinder the passage of a hundred and one measures purely partisan in character, like the infamous gerrymander, and intended, as was that, for tUe injury of half tho citizens of tho

State. Their voices were not hearf in rebuke of tho lawless bullies who usurped control of a Legislature and by fraud and intimidation "elected", a United States Senator. Tho sense of decency of the "better element" was not strong enough to check tho perpetration of tally-sheet frauds by party leaders or to put officials in Marion county's lucrative offices who could bo trusted not to run away with public funds. It is but a faint and feeble chirp of indignation from the decent element of tho party over the outrage in the Richmond Insane Hospital that is permitted to be heard. The bosses and tho organs -will not allow tho natural outburst of horror concerning this affair, because they are interested in perpetuating a system under which such abuses are likely to be committed at any time. It is a fact which cannot be denied that there is no room for decency in tho Democratic party in Indiana. Its history is black from tho beginning; rascals are continually at its front and dictate its policy; fraud and corruption are its watchwords. The only hope for tho State is to throw off the Democratic yoke entirely and give intelligence and honesty a chance to rule.

CONSPIRACY TO ROB THE PEOPLE. Tho report comes from several sources, incredible as it may seem, that the Democratic congressional committee has sent out an appeal to local Democratic committees all over the country urging them to induce Democratic merchants in their localities to mark up prices. The purpose is to mark up prices during the next few days, not because thero has been any change in the condition of the market, but simply to help the chances of the Democratic bosses. Not only are Democratic dealers asked to do this, but Republicans are to be asked to join in the conspiracy where it can be safely done, under plausible appeals to their selfinterest. The purpose is self-evident to arouse hostility to the Republican tariff law. It is not expected that the advance will last longer than election day. ; The purpose accomplished, prices will drop to their normal level. This is an attempt of the Democratic plotters to unsettle general business and inflict injury on millions of people a conspiracy to induce the retail trade of the country to extort from its customers, for a week or ten days, a large profit upon a false pretext. In fact, and in plain words, it is a conspiracy to induce the retail trade in the smaller cities and the villages to rob their patrons of hundreds of thousands of dollars and for what? To help the Democratic party to obtain a victory under false pretenses.. Loudly proclaiming their devotion to the people and protesting against the protective tariff as a burden upon the masses, they enter into a conspiracy to dupe tho people and plunder them for ten days. Tho Democratic party has been guilty of many serious offenses, but this latest conspiracy, which is attributed to the Democratic congressional committee, is the most heartless and desperate of the out.rages of the Democratic managers. . AN ORGANIZED TREA8URY RAID. The people of Indiana are now beginning to get an inkling of tho purpose of the Democratic Legislature when it deprived tho Republican executive of the power to nppoiut hospital trustees and like officials, and greedily, and in defiance of usage in every State in tho Union, assumed that power. They see enough to convince them that the seizing of this power from the executive was for the purpose of in uring places to Democrats small and inefficient Democrats who are now controlling the insane hospitals men to whom those who know them best would not intrust any affair requiring ripe judgment orexecutive capacity. The same Legislature could have passed a law creating a board for the management of these institutions, to be appointed by the Governor from both parties and composed of men of high character and successful business experience.' who would be pleased to show their regard for the State by serving without pay. But this would not do. The famishing and greedy henchmen, without the means of earning their bread or eager to grasp a few dollars from the people's treasury against a rainy day, c6ild not be taken care of under such a provision. But if the midday sun of full publicity could be let in upon tho wholo transactions in these institutions, the people would be astounded by the revelations. They would see not only a few trustees drawing small salaries for duties for which they aro unfit, but their eyes would be astonished by a long list of Democrats, or Democratic favorites, quite an army who crowd the hospital service with incompetency hangers-on, like Mr. Pierro Gray, each with his straw, like boys aboiu an autumn - cider-barrel, inserted into the State treasury, and absorbing the taxes which come from farms and homes. Fitness! Qualification! Those words are never heard, for tho reason that the gerrymander Legislature, which the adroit Isaac P. Gray committed to this and other schemes, was, so far as the majority is concerned, a body of incompetents. Not a member of theso boards but knows his unfitness. Could it be expected that men whose unfitness could not debar them would set up standards for those they employed which would have banished their aspirations? Thats ich inefiicients should select such .superintendent at Richmond as tho present incumbent appears to be is but a natural result. To have done better, to have secured a physician of professional standing, experience and capacity, fitting one of the most exacting positions in the 'State, would have been in the nature of a miracle. Were tho facts known would it not appear that the superintendent was selected because .he is the relative or friend of some promineut Democrat who lias a "pull" on tho trustees orthose who mado the trustees, and whoso jumpingjacks they are? Is there not good ground to suspect, when such an unknown and apparently weak man appears in such a place, with a salary apparently far above tho grade of service he is capable of performing, that there has been a deal which inures to somebody's interest? Is

it causo for surprise that roughs and incompetents crowd the pay-rolls of tho hospitals, or that tho lists of beneficiaries aro twice as long as would bo necessary if the attendants were selected for their efficiency or disposition to bo useful! Planned iu defiance of business princi

ples and tho public welfare, the people's money is wasted in extravagant furnishings for officers; in salaries, in some instances for which no real service is rendered, and in pickings of every sort which small greed aud impecuniosity can suggest. Under such conditions tho inefficiency and barbarity which tho Richmond tragedy reveals is not cause for surprise. Tho time has not com when wheat is harvested from a seeding of thorns. Do the people of Indiana desire to havo this thing go on! If they ?o they can let another Democratic Legislature bo elected. Such a result will be regarded as an indorsement by this taxeating and incompetent regime. If the people who have a feeling of humanity, and tax-payers who are alarmed at the rapid increase of the Stato debt, desire to have this system of local trustee management exposed and destroyed they can accomplish all by electing a Republican or anti-Democratic Legislature. There is no other remedy. BYNUM'8 FALSE PROFESSIONS. The Secretary of the Indiana Millers' Association wrote Mr. Bynum, Sept. 13, asking him to support the Senate reciprocity amendment to theMcKinley bill, and received the following reply: I would have gladly given my support to this amendment had 1 been given an opportunity, but under the special rale adopted by the House, all who favored tbe adoption of the same were deprived of the opportunity. It might be well for the people to consider what mannor of legislation is carried on, under a system of rules which deprive a Representative of the right to vote for a proposition in the interests ot his constituents. At the time tho McKinley bill was under consideration in committee of the whole it would have been in order for Mr. Bynum to have presented, during the early days of consideration, a reciprocity proposition, ' and a voto could have been taken on it; but, instead, he and his associates presented a lot of trivial amendments and wasted all the time in unnecessary chatter. But the Senate scheme of reciprpcity was not considered until tho measure reached the Senate, or even much talked of. There it was perfected by Republicans, advocated by Republicans and adopted by the votes of Republicans, and was opposed by all the Democrats. When it reached the House again it was a part of the Senate bill, and to save time and to get the measure before the conference committee, all the Senate amendments were disagreed to. But Mr. Bynum was not in Washington at that time. When the conference bill came before the House, the reciprocity clause was a part of it, and by a strict party voto tho whole bill was passed. The Senate amendment, it is emphasized, was never beforo tho House as a separate proposition, and consequently thero was no special rule which kept Bynum from voting on it. So far as his attack upon the rules is concerned, it is absurd. There has never been a code of rules which permits a member to oiler amendments at any stago of a bill's consideration. After a bill like tho tariff bill has been considered in committee of tho whole, it is reported to tho House, and if the previous question is ordered, no fresh amendments can bo entertained. This is an established principle of parliamentary law. Therefore, it is not true that Mr. Bynum was prevented from voting for tho reciprocity proposition by the peculiar rules of this House. Thero is no evidence that Mr. Bynum ever favored such a measure or desired to voto for it. If ho had had the opportunity, he would have voted against it, as did all, or nearly all Democratic Senators. Therefore, every statement in his letter conveys a false impression. There was a notable occasion when the Indiana members of Congress had an opportunity to vote for a just measure, and, at the same time, confer a great benefit on tho State. This was on the proposition to refund the direct tax of 1861. The measure has been beforo the country at intervals for several years, and is well understood. It proposed to refund to the States the amounts paid by them, respectively, to the general government under tho direct tax of 1861. Indiana's share would have been $769,144. The question came up in the second session of the Fiftieth Congress, and was thoroughly discussed. The bill passed tho House by a vote of 178 yeas to 9G nays. Among the latter were Messrs. Bynum and Shively. They voted with the Southern Democrats against the measure. Although the State debt was not so large in 1888 as It is now, the State was in need of money, and tho sum of $769,144 would havo been gratefully received. Besides, the measure was just and equitable. But Messrs. Bynum and Shively stood shoulder to shoulder with the confederate brigadiers and voted against tho interests of their State. Mills, of Texas, voted tho same way, and Mr. Bynum once said in a public speech that he was so used to following Mr. Mills that he did it from force of habit. Mr. Bynum has some very bad political habits. If the force bill becomes a law the 8outh is not the only place in which it will be used to prevent democratic votes from being cat and counted. This great Democratic, city will be made to feel the wetght of federal authority, need with the cool and reckles audacity which Tom Reed has breathed into his party. New York fcun. . Nor will they stop at New York city. Every Democratic city in the country, Boston included, will be defrauded of its electoral rights under the same iniquitous bill. Remember this when you cast your vote next week. Boston Olo'bo (Dem.) Everybody knows how bribery, fraud and political corruption flourish in the slums of a great city, and, by the samo token, everybody knows why New York, Boston, Chicago and most of the great cities of tho North usually go Democratic. If the federal election bill attains its purpose by preventing all crimes of tho ballot, wo must agree with these two great Democratic authorities that it will probably rob their party of its fortresses in the slums. The Evening News wabbles painfully in its logic when it admits that tho system i;pon which tho benevolent institu-

tions of tho Stato are operated is wrong in principle, but deprecates any agitation of the matter until after election. It knows perfectly well that no change will be mado in that system except through tho Republican party, which is pledged to a reform, and that agitation after election, unless that paity is successful, will be breath- wasted. Tho trouble with the News is that this is its off year in politics, and that it would rather have tho murderous system perpetuated than havo the Republicans successful. Before tho next election it will execute its biennial flop, to the entertainment of tho populace and to the manifest advantage of tho party abandoned. The Boston Herald says of the charge of its Republican friends that the Independent press is Democratic, that "their attitude amounts to saying that no newspaper can favor tho Democratic party without first being under tho bondage of partisanship." Tho Herald is mistaken. Their attitude amounts to saying that papers Republican iu sympathy are not afraid or ashamed to avow their principles or preference, but Democratic papers are often ashamed ot their party, and hope by donuing tho independent mask to escapo recognition as part of tho machine. In short, Republicans havo tho courage of their convictions and Democratic "independents" havo not.

Tun homicide at the Kichinond Insane Hospital will not pet fair treatment from the newspapers before the election. The debasing desire to make a voto for "party" does not hesitate to use a corpse for its purpose as "a good enough Morgan' until after election. Evening News. So? And how about the debasing desire to make a vote by misrepresenting the effect of the McKinley law? a desire that seems to havo entire coutrol of tho News. Suppose it takes a little of its own medicine and stops misrepresentation until, "with tho heat and bitterness of a political campaign passed, the people can consider coolly how well or ill the law has dono its work." It is a poor rule that will not work two ways. Believing that now is tho time topush things, the Republican Stato central committee havo mado arrangements for 180 meetings throughout tho State, every day between now and election day. In addition to these stated meetings, thero will bo a large number of informal ones, eo that almost every township in the State will receive a final shaking up before tho polls open. Theso closing meetings constitute the roundup and home-stretch of tho campaign. The arrangement shows excellent judgment and management on the part of tho committee. The aggregate voto for Secretary of State in Indiana in November, 18S3, was 535,816. The State debt is $8,540,615.12. This is at tho rate of about $16 to each voter. If tho Democratic pojicy is continued ten years more, and tho debt continues at tho accelerating rate of tho past five years, the debt per voter will be more than double that amount beforo tho year 1900 rolls round. Democratio imbecility should go. The Greensboro North State,' a Tillman organ, announces with indignation and astonishment that tho straight-out Democrats of South Corolina have applied to tho federal courts for tho appointment of federal election supervisors in that State, on the ground that such a course is necessary to secure a fair congressional election. This is an interesting piece of news. As to the tragedy at Richmond, it would be just as liable to occur under Republican or mixed party management as unucr Democratic management. Sentinel. Nothing of the kind ever did occur under Republican management; but if the foregoing statement is true it only goes to prove that partisan management is inherently vicious. Let us have a system under which such horrors will not occur. The fastidious soul of the Evening News is shocked becauso tho corpse of the murdered Blount is used to mako votes. Nevertheless the News keeps right on with its nursing of the freetrade corpse. Its sensibilities aro tender on one side only. "Let justice bo done" is tho caption of an editorial in tho Sentinel concerning tho Richmond insano asylum murder. There is only ono way by which justico can bo done. Let tho people rise in their might next Tuesday and sweep from power a party that outrages tho wards of tho State by feeding them maggotty butter and killing them if they talk too much. It is estimated that when it comes to the . consumer the cost of sugar will bo more than $100,000,000 less a year after tho new sugar schedules havo gone into operation. But the anglomaniac editor who writes free-trado editorials alter the models furnished by the Cobden Club to tho alleged independent paper will never hear of it. Free-trade papers are having a hard time to mako their editorial assaults on the McKinley bill jibe with tho advertisements. While they are telling on ono page how prices aro rising, advertisers, on another, aro offering reduced rates, and somehow the advertisers seem to have tho most influenco with tho public. - Secretary Blaine said in his speech at South Bend, yesterday: "Indiana has given strength to this country in its President, and she should not go bacfc ia a einple degree on the President who sits in the presidential chair." That was a pretty compliment to both the chief executivo and tho citizens of his State, Revelation after revelation trickles out of the reservoir of dark and hidden things created by tho Stato hospital boards, the latest beinj: the fact that young Mr. Gray, whose father thinks ho is a candidate for Vice-president, gets $50 a month from the hospital funds as legal adviser to tho trustees! TnE retailer who tells a cuHtomer that he has been compelled to advance the price of any article of large domestio production becauso of tho new tariff law. is not an honest dealer, but a smdl