Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 October 1890 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1890.

THE DxULYJOURNAL FRIDAY, OCTOBER 'oij 1890;

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Can be found at the following places: PARIS American Exchange In Paris, 16 Boulevard flea Capueinea. UEW YOIiK GUaey Hcnse and "Windsor Hotel. PHILADELPniAv-A. P. Kemble, 373J Lancaster a venae. CHICAGO Palmer House. CINCINNATI j. P. Hawley A Ca. 1M Vine street LO U 2 S YI1XF. C. T. Deerlng. northwest corner Ihlrd and J efferson streets. AT. LOUIS Union News Company. Union Depot and southern Hotel. WASHINGTON, D. C Itlgf s Ilouse and Bhfcitt House. HOW TO VOTE. To Tote the stralghtltepubllcsvn ticket stamp the square la front of the title "Republican Ticket, and not In front of the candidate for Secretary of State. To rote) a mixed ticket stamp the square In front of each candidate for whom you wish to Tote, oryoa can stamp the square In front of tLo title of your ticket, and then a tamp in front of the names on any other ticket for whom yoa wish to vote. Fold State and county ballots separately, and each one with the initials of the poll clerks on te outside. Do not mutilate your ballot, nor mark It - with anything except the stamp. TWO PICTURES. One Drawn in the Interest of JUsrula and the Other in Behalf of Truth. HIGHLY nC3EATZ. . Bentlnel of Sunday. PLAIN FACTS. Frctn Hansen's Afadarlt. WM1 ther were kick Dr. Patterson, of the FjLatprn Insane Hosnlting him Blount hallooed olift an afi&ble snd able ceutleman. who listens at the top or nis voice two or three times, My nod. dont kill me:, at-tpntlvelr to the na Mont and elves them Just before that, while worusof cheer, as well they were choking; mm. he was last tiring to get as medicinal potations. And, this tender sympa his breath, but when they began kicking him ha hallooed two or three thy and solicitude lor thA wrlfara of the on forttuates under their times, -My God, don't kill mtr And then he care Is apparently a first principle of the hospital's discipline. quit and never said anything; more, and wasn't colbcious anerward. - PnosrzRiTT is fighting under the Republican banner. New industries in every State fight; ever against the free-trade Democracy. A board of trustees fit for a public institution would cot need legal advis-.'-ers paid by the State. General AcrrviTr is the leader who carries the Nation's standard, but General Apathy is a traitor. Labor fully employed at better wages 7 than the world elsewhero knows stands in line with the Republican hosts. Perhaps Mr. Bynum will kindly furnish a list, from memory, of "the 'old fossils' that nursed Hendricks's sore toe." Mr. Binum's letter was written March 16, 18S5, twelve days after the inaugura tion of Cleveland. He evidently felt that Lo had been snubbed. "Let justice be done," cries the Sen tinel; but if it should be the present Democratic management in Indiana would bo consigned to infamy. The Sentinel is very badly rattled . these day 8, but the editor can always rely upon himself to write a dispassion ate article in favor of the single-tax r theory. " -And bo Mr. Bynum's law partner is legal adviser to the trustees of the Central Hospital, and is drawing $50 a month .from tho treasury without warrant of law! Ir Mr. Hendricks were alivo what a .lift Bynum would get from that .tame 'aore toe," of which he spoke so sneerIn glyl However, Mr. Hendricks's frienda still live. - It would be worth millions of dollars to Indiana if that political monstrosity, fitly characterized Isaao P. Grayism, should go down with a dull, dead thud next Tuesday: When tho Democratic party makes political machines out of the State charitable institutions it must expect to bo held responsible for the results that such a system produces. Tns Central, the Eastern and the Evansville hospitals for insane are provid ed with attorneys, who are illegally paid from the public funds. Who is drawing pay as attorney for the Logansport in stitution! It is interesting to learn from a Dem ocratic newspaper that Bretz, Demo cratic nominee for Congress, now "thinks that he will pull through" in tho Second district, the Gibraltar of the Indiana Democracy. An English writer ask: "What has becomo of original sinf If he will come to Indiana and study the ways of the Democratic managers, ho will find not only original sin, but job lots of every other variety. In additiou to "Hendricks with his gang," Mr. Bynuui referred to "another distinguished statesman from there the same way." No doubt this was ex-Sen ator McDonald. Think of W. D. Bynum calling these men "old fossils!" It is only in case of an upheaval like that at Richmond that tho public gets a plain look at the workings of public in stitutions. Lesser outrages can bo con cealed and outsiders know of them only through rumor and vaguely. Where a murder can take place other abuses must exist, and it is, therefore, not sur amin" to learn that a buggy-whip is

used in tho same institution to discipline refractory patients. Tbo only way to prevent such outrages is to change tho system upon which the insane hospitals arc now operated and place them under a non-partisan management that will admit of careful and unprejudiced super vision. J'ho Republican party proposes to undertake such reform if given tho opportunity.

A REIGN OF SCANDAL. The Russian government has been called a despotism tempered with assassination. Democratic management of the State institutions might be described as a reign of scandal varied with occa sional intervals of decency. The fact that the scandalous disclosures are not constant and continuous does not mitigate the viciousness of the system, and the occasional intervals of decency only servo as a background for the periodical outbreaks of nastiness, corruption and crime. The scandals are chronic and the decency merely sporadic. One is a permanent condition, the other an acci dent. During the last ten years nearly every institution in the Stato that has been under Democ ratic control has been a subject of scandal and legislative investigation. Tho raid on tho institutions began years ago, when tho boards were reorganized in the interest of the Democratic party and placed under one president, who drew three salaries. Dr. Maclntire, a life-long instructor of the deaf and dumb, and a man of tho highest Chris tian character, ' was removed to make a place for a party worker devoid of ex perience, training or qualifications. Dr. Everts was removed from the Central Insane Hospital to make place for an other party pet. At the Institution for the Blind an experienced man was turned out and a new and untried man put in. These changes in superintendents wero followed by a complete change of subordinates and employes, none but Democrats and party workers being employed. In a few years the boards were reorganized again, with a view of making them more unscrupu lously partisan, and the notorious Dr. Harrison was made president. Mean while the northern and southern prisons and the Soldiers' Orphans' Home had passed under Democratic control, mak ing them masters of the field. The power, thus acquired has been shamefully abused. ' Under it the various institutions'have been used as political' machines and prostituted to the basest party purposes. Public interests have been ignored. and .betrayed, public opinion scouted and defied,- and the public welfare shamelessly sacrificed. Pilfering and peculation, favoritism and jobbery, corruption and criminality, per sonal greed and private vice have been the prevailing characteristics of this regime of Democratic nastiness. For years the insane hospital in this city was a regular robbers' roost, a spawn ing place for Democratic corruptionists of the Harrison school and rascals like John E. Sullivan. This fugitive thief had the management of the institution under his thumb and dispensed its pat ronage with one hand while he plundered its treasury with the other. The authority that he did not care to exercise himself was delegated to Simeon Coy. Tho Harrison-Gapen board accepted the or ders and obeyed the commands of this gang without question and without re morse. Under their debasing rule tho institution was thoroughly demoralized, and every part, parcel and branch of it was prostituted to political purposes. The reports of two investigating committees, in 1887 and 1889, Teveal. in part, the extent of the corruption that pre vailed there. When at last tho stench became too great and the load too heavy even for the Democratic party to bear, the board was reorganized and a new leaf was turned over. That leaf has not been smirched yet, but there is no telling when it will be. It is only a question of time when the inherent viciousness of tho present system will assert itself. Under it the prevalence of decency is entirely accidental and can only be temporary. It would take a long, chapter to relate the details of the Goar scandal in the Soldiers' Orphans' Home, a revelation that made every honest man in the State wish for a whip to lash tho rascal naked through the.worjd; of the. years of misrule in tho southern prison, ending with the enormous defalcation of Warden Jack Howard; of tho hardly suppressed scandal that marked the Baker superintendency in the Institution for the Deaf and Dumb; of the intrigues and dissensions that have crippled the usefulness of the Institution for the Blind; of the grossly immoral practices which are known to have prevailed in the county infirmary; and now, to crown the list, comes this horrible murder at Richmond. We are far from asserting that all Democrats would ha guilty of euch practices as these, or that all Democrats approve them. On the contrary, there is every reason to believe that a very large number do strongly condemn them. But there is no denyiug the fact that they have occurred under a Democratic system; that they have been done by Democratic appointees, appointed for political reasons, and that the Democratic party, by its leaders and managers, has whitewashed them time and again and defended them as long as it dared. They aro all parts of a political creed and system, and tho only hope of reform lies in substituting an entirely new order of things. PRESIDENT HARRISON WILL VOTE. It has been announced from Washington that the President of tho United States has decided that his duty as a citizen can best Ih discharged by coming to Indianapolis and casting his vote at the approaching election. What motive may have concluded tho President's mind, tho Journal, of course, has no means of knowing absolutely, but the first thought suggested is that if as busy a man as tho Preside nt can talce the time and lido 1,000 miles to cast his ballot, there is no Republican within tho State of Indiana who should not havo his ballot recorded on Tuesday next. Another suggestion that might not be far out of tho way is that tho recent horrible occurrence in tho Richmond

Hospital for Insane has had a decisive influence with the President. ISvery one in Indiana knows tho deep interest the President has taken in the efiorts to lift our benevolent institutions out of partisan control. In his memorable campaign of 1880, when Senator, he discussed no topic with raoro earnestness than the non-partisan control of our public charities and penal institutions. It may bo taken for granted that his interest remains the same now as then, and that his coming to Indianapolis as a private citizen to make one of the great throng of voters on election day is largely determined by a desire to emphasize in the minds of his fellow-citizens the sacred duty of seeing that the benevolences of the Stato be rescued from a control that has made itself infamous.

BRIGHT OMENS ALL ALONG THE LINE. Since tho Maine election, in September, the political sentiment in the North has been setting strongly in favor.of the Republicans. That event proved to the country and to political leaders that they wero mistaking silence on the part of the Republican masses either as apathy or reaction. There had been no general or particular complaint; the Republican administration had more than kept its pledges, and had fully iustified the faith of tho Republican party in General Harrison; the business of the country was generally prosperous in the expectation of a revision of the tariff along protection lines; Congress had moro than met the most ardent expectations of intelligent Republicans. Tho unprecedented Republican plurality in Main of nearly 20,000 tho largest by thousands, in an oft year, since tho days of Andrew Johnson should not havo been the surprise that it was when one takes the situation under consideration. The great mass of the Republican party is satisfied, and that is the meaning of Maine's vote. A few scattering elections last fall, before the Republicans had readjusted their lines after the grand victory in November, 1888, showed dissensions over local issues. These indications of discontent and feebleness the Democratic and freetrade press mistook for a reaction against protection and the Republican party; and so loudly did they proclaim their discovery that many people came to believe there was something in it. The Maine election showed that there was not. Wherever the pulse of the masses of the party has been touched since that time, it has been found to be beating in unison with that of Maine. ."Yhat now is tho general outlook? ; In Massachusetts reviving industries fight for the Republican ticket, and the Republicans are confident of holding their own in the congressional delegatioji. Whatever chance the Democracy thought it had three months ago was thrown away by tho nomination of two bumptious, feather-head mugwumps. At last advice the Republicans hope to gain a Congressman. In New York Republican prospects have brightened, and the managers of the canvass are confident the Republicans will elect as many members of the Ilouse as they now have. An encouraging indication is the great falling off in registration in Democratic sections of New York city and Brooklyn, and the decrease in such cities as Albany and Troy, where personal registration has prevented the registration of thousands of fictitious names in the interest of the Democracy. In New Jersey, because of the revolt of the JeiTersonian Democracy in Jersey City against the ring, which has been casting from 5,000 to 8,000 bogus votes, the prospect for the Republicans is unusually bright. Tho fight in Pennsylvania is very fierce over State officers, but this will insure the Republican Congressmen, and there is very little doubt about the election of tho Republican candidate for Governor. In Ohio the Democratic party is badly demoralized in consequence of the Campbell performance. The gerrymander may lose three or four Republican members in the next House, but the Republicans are very sanguine of carrying several of the gerrymandered districts and the State by a large plurality. .The Bize of the meetings, the vigor and enthusiasm of the Republican demonstrations, in Illinois, indicate that the Republican expectation of holding their own in the next House, and possibly gaining one member, will be verified. General Palmer's canvass for United States Senator has ceased to attract attention. All reports from Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa and other Republican States are unanimous to the 'effect that the Republican voters are coming up to the work with spirit and purpose. In short, all along tho line there is a feeling of greater confidence than there was of hopefulness before tho election was held in Maine. There is every reason to expect the result of Maine in all the Republican States. In view of these bright prospects of victory, let the Republicans of Indiana put forth every eftbrt to poll a vote which will give them a triumph and give the Stato a place in the glorious galaxy of Republican States. CONVERTED INTO A POLITICAL MACHINE. The Western Associated Press service seems to ba taking on the features of a Democratic political machine. This organization is supposed to be strictly non-partisan, and always, heretofore, it has prided itself on tho accuracy, truth fulness and impartiality of its news The. last few days havo furnished some notablo departures from this rule A few days ago it was telegraphed throughout the country, as coming from Kansas City, that tho Mexican government had laid a discriminating duty of $500 per car-load on American cattle. The dispatch grave Democratic papers a fine toxt for free-trade comments, whioh was duly improved. Now comes a dispatch from Washington saying that the State Department has no information of any such action by Mexico, and no reason to believo it true. It is un doubtedly a campaign lie, originating as a special to a Kansas City paper, an adopted by tho Associated Press. later instanco of tho same kind'is a dij patch purporting to come from Man kato, Minn., stating that certain llour-ing-mills there have been informed by ! their . Chicago correspondents "that,

owing to-thyfcKinley law, the flour merchants of Holland and Belgium will not buy any more of the second-grade bakers' flour made in this country, thus shutting out a market which has annually taken over twelve thousand barrels of this grade of flour from the Mankato mills alone." This stuff was first sent as a special to Democratic papers, and, as in the case of the alleged Mexican dispatch, then adopted by tho Associated Press. Republican papers which are members of the association, and which contribute to its support, should

protest against this attempt to convert a non-partisan news bureau into a Dem ocratic political machine. THE BYNUM LETTER. it is of record in Holy nt that "a living dog is better than a dead lion." Perhaps sorao Democrats will bo disposed to deny the statement when they read the letter of Hon. W. D. Bynum, a facsimile of which is published in the Journal this morning. Tho letter was written less than two weeks after Mr. Cleveland's inauguration to a Democrat who was applying for an appointment. It will be remembered that a bitter controversy occurred over the Indianapolis postoflice, . Vice-president Hendricks claiming tho right to namo the postmaster in'the city of his residence, and Mr. Bynum claiming it as Representative from the district. Mr. Hendricks prevailed, as was right he should. It would havo been good politics on Mr. Bynum's part, not to speak of the deference due from a young man to a much older and abler one, to have yielded tho postoflice appointment. Ho would . have made friends by it, and it' would have been no discredit to him to have given way to a man of Mr. Hendricks's character and prominence. Especially should he have done this when he found Mr. Hendricks's heart was set on making the appointment. He wanted to give it to an old personal friend and life-long Democrat, and his motives wero entirely admirable. Under these circumstances a generous man, a person of right feelings, a young man with proper respect forage and political wisdom and services .would have promptly yielded the point. Sir. Bynum did nothing of the kind., He wanted to appoint one of his personal followers and political henchmen; .a new man in politics, and, as' usual, ho was determined to have: his way. He continued the ..fight until the president decided in favor of Mr, . Hendricks,' and . then cntiqued' it by' hating and abusiug him, v The letter is characteristic of sBynum. It is false 'and hypocritical, coarse and vulgar. He was trying to make tho person ho was writing to believe that ho, Bynum, was very anxious to serve him, but could not do so on:account of "Hendricks with his old gang." He knew perfectly well that Jie 'had all the influence that properly belonged to his position. Tho reference to the Vice-prasi-dent's disease is brutal. Equally so is the reference5 to Mr.". Hendricks's personal and political friends. Tho disease, which finally proved fatal, is referred to as "Hendricks's sore toe' and his friends as "the old fossils who nursed Hendricks's sore toe;";;TheJJournal' often antagonized' MrJ-lfendrieks in politics, but it never underrated his political strength or services. Ho built up the Democratic party in this State and made it possible for 6uch men as Bynum to be elected to office. It iwas base ingratitude for tho latter to refer to Mr. Hendricks in the brutal tenns of this letter. Tho letter is a lithographed facsimile of the original,7 which is in Mr. Bynum's own handwritiug.V For personal reasons the name of the recipient of tho letter is not given at, present but it is in the possession of tho Journal. The original has-been seen by prominent Democrats, some of whom were very near Mr. Hendricks, and has been read by them with surprise and indignation, as it will be now by a much larger number. It justifies the statement of the Sentinel in an editorial of Aug. 2o, iaSG, that "Mr. Bynum outrages every sentiment of political decency," and that "he has forfeited the respect of every Democrat who bolicvcs the party has some other mission than backing Mr. Bynum's selfish, rockless and destructive ambition." THE CENTRAL INSANE HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT. Democratic managers, alarmed at the disclosures made concerning tho extravagant outlay in fitting up tho new insane hospitals and the disgraceful scandal in which the Richmond institu-. tion is involved, are very desirous of having it appear that the Central Hospital is conducted . in a manner altogether irreproachable. By insisting that this is tho case they help to maintain their position that the mismanagement of the other hospitals is unavoidably incident .to the fact that they are new; The truth is, however, that tho Indianapolis hospital has no rightful immunity, from criticism. When the present board of trustees was appointed there was a general understanding that tho methods of the Harrison gang wero to be done away with and a reform instituted . in tho internal economy of the establishment. . It was noticed at that time by careful observers that no direct promises of this kind were made by any; lending Democrats, and that the trustees themselves preserved a significant silence. Their selection of Dr. Wright as superintendent, as the first official step, served to establish public confidence, the appointment being an excellent one, and that gentleman, if allowed to exercise his own discretion, entirely competent for tho office. Friends of the Doctor, however, doubting the disposition of the trustees and party managers to keep their hands off and give the superintendent liberty of action, had their misgivings as to the wisdom of his acceptance of the appointment. The result has justified this feeling. It is a matter of . current comment nmouc persons intimately acquainted with the present workings of the institution that in many respects its condition ia little, if an', better than under tho Harrison rejhne. Tho selection of employes of all classes has been almost entirely controlled by the trustees, and appointments have been made, time aud again, over tho di

rect protest of Dr. Wright. As a proof of the truth of this statement may be mentioned the reported fact that a majority of the hundreds of attendants at. tho hospital, were appointed from Shelby county, tho home of Trustee Carson;. Bartholomew county, the home of Trustee Houser, or are men and women of Trusteo Markey's selection from Indianapolis. There is no reason to suppose that residents of the three places named might not be as well qualified for work in the hospital as if their homes were elsewhere, but there is reason to behove that the trustees did not chooso such appointees because of their fitness for the duties, but from personal and political motives. Among attendants chosen on such a basis are some who are disreputable, and more who are incompetent. Certain it is that many persons utterly unfit for association with respectable' lunatics aro drawing salaries from 'the State through that institution because they have a "pull" upon the trustees or their political bosses. Superintendent Wright may hesitate to acknowledge these truths; a natural pride will make him slow to admit that he is subordinate where he expected to be, and ought to be, chief, but in all honesty he can hardly be willing to declare that he is personally responsible for a certain class of employes over whom he is in . nominal authority. In tho event of such an "accident" as that at Richmond iu his institution, it may at least be assumed that he would put tho responsibility where it belonged. So far as is known the trustees have not yet emulated the notorious Harrison in the matter of furnishing improper food supplies for the inmates, but with the disregard of legal right and public opinion shown in employing Mr. Bynum's partner as their attorney, at an expense to tho State of $50 a. month, almost anything may be looked for.

WHY BECK DRAWS A SALARY. . When the present board of trustees of the Hospital for the Insane at Indianapolis organized itself, Mr. Carson chose the office of president and Mr. Houser that of treasurer. This left the office of secretary for Mr. Markey. Now, as it unfortunately happens, the early education of Secretary Markey, was neglected to such an extent that it is with difficulty he-can attach his signature even to a .pay-roll, and tho official duties thrust upon' him were beyond his capacity to perform. ; It was in this dilemma that a Jiappy thought, struck the board. Whether it struck as a broadside, or whether it came just to a single member, and was promptly passed on, history sayeth not. .However it may be, the thought came. It was this: tho board was under obligation to do something for Mr. Bynum. That gentleman had intimated that the only way to become "solid" with him was to allow his law partner a chance to insert his hand in the public till. It had been a foregone conclusion, therefore, that Mr. Albert Beck was to be "attorney" for the board at a salary, to be paid by the State, of $50 a month. As there was no legal business for Mr. Beck to transact, tho law of tho Stato requiring the Attorney-general to act as legal adviser to the trustees, it was resolved to utilize his talents as deputy secretary. Accordingly, attorney Beck has kept the official records of the board from the beginning, and, although he has not earned his salary, he has the. proud consciousness of being useful in a small way and of lightening the path of a benighted trustee. This is the way tho story goes, and, at all events,. Beck is drawing tho $50 with great regularity. TIME P0R A CHANGE. Tho Democratic Legislature took from the Republican executive in this State the power of control over the State in stitutions and appropriated it, or, in other words, appropriated it to be used by Isaao P. Gray. The result is well known. Democrats of small caliber and not of the best reputations have been placed over these institutions as managers as far as it was possible. The result is well known. There has been inefficiency and waste in every direc tion. Now and then a skillful physician' has been retained, and a superintendent like John G) Blake has been retained because it would not do to remove him, but so far as these boards of trustees named by the adroit Gray could follow their orders, inferior men and bad management have been tho rule. This is the result of less than ten years of this policywhat will it be when these puppets of the Democratic bosses feel that they have protection under tho aigis of another series of ger rymander Legislatures! Already the treasury and public service, like a box of cheese into which an army of mico havo found their way, is honey-combed by tax-eaters under every possible pietext. Trustees and counsel of trustees junket at the public institutions. Has the time come for a change? The State debt is $8,500,000 and it is increasing at the rate of $500,000 a vear. The annual interest charge is $275,000 a year, and is also increasing. In Septem ber, the Stato had no funds to pay its officers and employes outsido of the charitable and penal institutions. This sort of thing has been going on from bad to worse. A change is necessary. The party leaders who aro responsible for this extravagance, this increase of debt and this small pilfering from tho treasury by scores of the satellites of Isaac P. Gray, in their platform confess that they have no remedy for these great evils. They applaud the pilfering and iiieflicieucy, and look at the accumu lating debt with the indillerenco of impotency and imbecility. Even they con fess, that a change is necessary. Shall a change be mado next Tuesday? Some free-traders in Indiana are claiming that if Major McKinley is de feated in Ohio tho result will bo re garded as a condemnation of the tariff law which bears his name. Tho freetraders who are making this claim are either of the tribe of Ananias or are persons of so limited information that they ought to bo deprived of the power of speech. Major McKiuley has been gerrymandered thrco times. Tho first

time, tho authors of tho gerrymander made his district Democratic by a few hundred, but he beat them. The next time they made it over a thousand, but the Major was elected. Now they havo made it over two thousand, and feel sure that ho cannot overcome it. The present indications, incredible as it may seem, aro that he will pull through. If ho does, it will bo a personal triumph over the conspiracy to defeat him with a boodle candidate.

A few days apo the Chicago Times published an alleged interview with one of the Studebakers, at South Bend, stating that "owing to tho McKinley bill" and the increase in the cost of carriage trimmings they would have to reduce the wages of their workmen. Mr. Studebaker was away from homo when tho alleged interview was published, but as soon as ho saw it ho telegraphed the chairman of the Republican committee at South Bend: From what I know of the McKinley bill I see no just reason for a reduction of the wages of our employes, and have had uo thought or intention at this time of doing anything of the kind. The public withdrawal from tho Democratic party of the Hon. B. F. lbach, of Huntington, is an incident of moro than ordinary interest. Mr. Ibach is known as a life-long Democrat, has represented his party in the Legislature, and, at the opening of the present campaign, was a member of the Democratic county com mittee. The reasons he assigns for his present action are frankly stated, and will command the respect of honest men. They aro equivalent to saying that h could no longer act with the Democratic party without sacrificing his self-respect, and that ho was unwilling to do. Ho has taken the proper course to preserve it. The Democratic newspapers figure confidently upon a. gain of thirty Congressmen next week, based largely upon the recent partisan gerrymanders of Ohio, Maryland and Kentucky, and con cede that if they do not gain at least twenty the result may be regarded as a great Republican victory. It will bo in teresting to compare these forecasts with tho results a week hence. If the rest of tho country does as well as Indiana the great Democratic gerrymanders will have been In. vain. MicnAEL Davitt's article on "Labor Tendencies in - Great Britain," in the North American Review, would make a first-class campaign document to bo placed jn the hands of every Irish voter, or voter of any other extraction for that matter. The lot of the laborer in the land of free trade, as depicted by the Nationalist leader, is deplorable in the , extreme, a condition that the working people in America should vote in solid phalanx to avoid. A Democratic newspaper cartoons Congress as a ship at sea and asks, "Under which flag?" If the cartoon is meant to represent the present Congress there can be no doubt about the answer; it is the American flag. If the next Congress is meant, it all depends on the election as to whether it shall be tho "union jack" of Great Britain or the same stars and stripes. Democracy is a synonym for lawless: ness, not only in Indiana, but wherever the party exists. Tho postmaster at Donaldson, Ark., is its latest victim. Ho was knocked down, kicked and stamped upon, and compelled to resign, solely because he was a Republican. Kicking and stamping seem to be De mocracy's favorito method, of commit-. ting assault Word has come from Washington that the importers have raised $140,000 and turned it over to the Democratic congressional committee to expend to elect a House in favor.of foreign interests. It goes on to say that it will all be sent into a few close districts. It is probably too late now, but Mr. Bynum might have been warranted in applying. Mr. Albert Beck, illegal attorney for the trustees of the Central Hospital, was indicted for complicity in the celebrated tally-sheet forgeries. His experience in escaping from the meshes of tho law on that occasion should have taught him the folly of tranegressious in that line, and should have kept his fingers out of the public treasury. Republicans are being urged to voto for Judge Mitchell, for Supreme Judge, on non-partisan grounds. Judge Mitchell is as much of a partisan as any man on the bench, and has Lorighttoask for votes on that score. Judge McBride,' the Republican nominee, is no moro of a partisan than Mitchell, and quite as good a lawyer. The internal evidence is stiong that Aquilla Jones, ex-postmaster, was ono of the persons referred to by Mr. Bynum as "old fossils." . Aquilla may be a fossil, Mr. Bynum, but ho has a vote; likewise, he has influence not only with certain other fossils, but with the younger .workers of the Democratic party. With its peculiar views of matters and things, tho publication in last evening's News concerning tho use of tho buggy-whip on women as a means of discipline in tho Richmond Insano Hospital created some surprise. Why did it not delay mention of tho circumstance until after election? Investigations have not been mado systematical, but if they should bo would it bo found that othr Democratic moguls would havo their partners or sons drawing Bustenance illegally from the public treasury us have those of ex-Qovemor Gray and Representative Bynum? .The' conscientious magistrate, like Judge Howland, who remains at hit; post discharging necessary duties instead of closing his court and going out to work for re-election, should commend himself to every man whoholds faithfulness in esteem. When a high-toned Democratic club censures a Democratic Governor for an official act, as the Duckworth Club did Governor Campbell, and a Democratic Governor 6ends his resignation as a member, remarking that no self-respect

ing man desires to affiliate with thopo who conld perpetrate such an indignity on him, there is reason to believe relations between tho two aro somewhat strained. ,

The next Legislature, if it should ba Democratic, should Ret apart $2,000 a month each to be spent by the superintendents of the other insane hospitals, for which vouchers shall be given to tho local trustees only. Moro unnecessary expenditures could bo kept from tho public eye. A large number of those Democrats whom Bynnm has characterized as "old fossils' have hunted up their old snickersnees and aro secretly scouring off the rust to tho end that the Bynum gore, in which they propose to bathe them next Tuesday, shall give them a new color. To hear ex-Governor Gray and Bynum talk of their devotion to the interests of tho people and of their undying affection for them no one would imagine that the son of the one and the partner of the other were taking $G00 from tho people's treasury yearly without warrant of law. The two labor orators, Messrs. Thocbo and Cosner, are making things disagreeably lively for ono William D. Bynum. And workingmen are asking: "What in the world has Bynum done for us that we should vote for him a third time! Bynum cannot answer the question. If tho man who is always saying that he votes for tho best men does as ho says this year ho will vote for tho Republican legislative ticket from top to bottom, and then,, when ho looks it all over, will put one stamp opposite the eagle and deposit the ballot. TnE independent editor has no spaco in which to tell his readers that a dollar will buy a third more sugar, soon after July 1. Compared with pearl buttons,, it is of no consequence before tht judg-i ment seat of an intellect which is full of opinions, but has no facts. Dn tho trustees of the several hospitals employ attorneys at a large expense to the State to show them just how far they could safely go in mfsnianagementof the institutions? . Any other legal information could be secured of the State's attorney. Indianapolis Republicans can hear something to their advautago by calling at the Grand Opera-house to-morrow night, v It will be in tho nature of political information, and will bo commiiuicated by Messrs. Fairbanks and Kennedy. " The public would like a reliable lisft, of insane hospital physicians who are in the habit of using that peculiar method of "breaking in" the iucurablo patients There would be several doctors out of a job in ju etty short order. ' The closing meeting of tho campaignr will be field at the Grand Opera-house? to-morrow evening, and will be addressed by Mr. D. F. Kcnucdy and Hon. Charles V. Fairbanks. Gikls in New York clothing factories ar said to he earning per week, from which, they arn expected to proviso their owalodging. victual and clothing. Atthesamo timo girls for domestjc service ar commanding from $3 to 5 in Indianapolis and from 54 to JGin all the great cities of tho Missouri-river country. Oat of this they are 01113 expocted to provide their clothing. And they are well-nigh itnpo&ible to get at thoso prices. It must be a mighty sentiment that will drive a pirl to either starve to death or in in preference to living in honest comfort rather than cross the gap that divides tho working-girl from tbo servant. - ' To t!ie lMUor uf Jii!;:ai2ior.i Journal: Where can I pet copy of D. W. Vnorhee'! IHecU that lie niadi tn favor of a protective, taritt a few years f hu-e! 4. a. I:ik!.i.viu.e. Ind. He made such a speech, but wo do not know whero it conld bo obtained. BUHBLES IN THE A1U. lie Daren't at Home. Wlckwire No; I don't tliinV domestic troablti outfit to le spoken of ouUMo the family, . N. Peck (Ircat cott! Isn't a man to he al lowed to unburdeu h!i iuhidl at all) The lJro;!ilyn Hrld. -"Wonder what made incfel!ow ttand en thj bridge- at midnight r "Maybe he was afraid if be crossed over Into Brooklyn be wonU Lhj arrested.' A Shining Light. Yabsley There's one good thin? about tha red noe of yours, Mudj?e. Madge What' that? Yabsley You are lucky In not being crosseyed. If you wtie you would ga blind. Will Come Handj-. "Tommy: called Mr. Figg, "if you don't top that I'll coin after you: "What in bo doing.'" afked Mr. Flg7, Iron tba next room. "Making a clrcns of himself, trying to stand on, his bend." "Ob, well, let him lenrn It if he wants to. i will con; in haudy w hen his collar-button alipa down bis back." . "Hw's In the Asylum Now. "Oh, doctor, will you tell rxe, rray; Oh, wis and learned physician. How make you out that this man died from mere lack of nutrition! Tis not for mo to Idly jeer, nor yet much lew to feCOff, But such a verdict s cms so queer on on who bend's cut olT.' Then the great and w ic physician slowly winkel and calmly iald: "Pray tell m how the man could eat when ba nad lost M bead." AB0DT PEOPLE AND THINGS. TilK Pop is now very well. A kkviyal of pillion riding is seen in Nottinghamshire. IlMrEiioi: William's coachman receive! $100 a year nud hoie rent. Loiu Lytton has written a novel in French, aul to bo on of the very betof his worka. Edito'u Gkohc.k W. Cmi.n's book of "KerollectionY' has had already a sale of over 3)0,0U0 copies. Mis Floiiknck Skauinc.. a member of tho Now Orleans YVotnau'a Club, ia the leader of a string baud. A man who lived in a tent at leaven worth kept a sign hanging in frrut of the entrance upon which was inscribed, "Malice toward all mcu." Mns. Jeiteksox Davis, after her visit tc New York in connection with tho publication of her life of her husband, will go to Mexico for the winter with her daughter. Fiiau CiiAULOTTn Kmhdln is not only ninety years old but the sister of Hciurich Heine, 8bo has stated conclusive that all tho unpublished writiugsof her brother.