Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 December 1890 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1890.

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AH communication intended for publication in 0ti4 paper must, in order to rtceive attention, be aotomjKinied by the name and address of the writer, THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can be found at the following place: PARIS American Exchange to faxls, 3 Boulevard dea Capueinea. If EW lOBK-Gllaey House and "Windsor Hotel. PHILADELPHIA A. P. Kembla, S73t Lanoaater arenas. CIIICAOO ralmer House, CINCINN ATI-J. P. Hawley A Co.. 154 Vint street. LOU18VILLE C. T. Eeerlng, northweat comer 1 hlxd and j eCereon aTeeta. CT. LODIS-Urlon Hews Com ah 7, Union Depot and fcouthern lloteL WA8H2NGTON, D. C BJ.gs House and XibDltt Honae And now Mr. Cleveland and his partywill have to give up their favorite occupation of building castles in Spain. Spain is about to adopt a high protective tariff. Cleveland's complacent assumption of all the glory for the Democratic surprise party of November last is having its natural effect on the other leaders. Boodler Brice is tho latest to go back on him. The colored residents of Washington have organized an association to encourage the emigration of colored people to that State and to improve their condition. Here is a text for another great speech by Senator Voorhees. In tho Kilkenny contest tho Parnellites had a queer candidate to run on a platform inimical to landlordism. Vincent Scully owns 50,000 acres of land in Marion county, Kansas, and is remarkably unpopular with his tenants. When the Senate meets simply to hear a prayer by the chaplain and adjourns without transacting any 6ther business, senatorial courtesy has reached its climax. It was doubtless intended as an act of politeness to the Almighty. A correspondent of the New York Sun says it is reasonably certain that the Democrats will nominate an Eastern man for President in 1892, and, as the second place must come West, he suggests Hon. William Steele Holman, of Indiana. Prompt response from exGovernor Gray: "Where do I come inf' Now that editor Watterson has been made a member of the. Democratic national committee, some dizzy literature may be expected among the official utterances of that body. The party plat-. form of 1S92 will doubtless be marked by a flowing pathos that will bring tears to the eyes of Samuel J. Tilden's statue if he is so lucky as to have one. . As might have naturally been expected the notorious Harrison county White Caps have added robbery to their list of crimes. It surpasses belief that a civilized community will permit itself to be terrorized by a band of night-riders who have time and again demonstrated their cowardice by brutal outrages upon the old, the weak nnd the defenseless. There is a good deal in a name. No sensible person could be made to believe that there was any danger in the adoption of the previous question in the Senate, but when you come to talk about the awful "cloture" it sounds very alarming. Democratic papers are evidently determined to work "the cloture" for all it is worth, just as they have done "the force bill." It is not often that a bullet is so well billeted as that one fired by a plucky streot-car driver a few nights ago. It is evident that the man whose life was so suddenly ended while in the act of perpetrating a crime was one of the most desperate criminals in this part of the country, and one whoso crimes have terrorized other cities besides this. The community is well rid of him. A Washington paper says Representative Bynurn sat at his desk in the House, on Thursday, sending copies of the United States statutes to all the judges and prominent law firms in Indianapolis as Christmas presents. This was extremely kind in Brother Bynum, especially in view ot the fact, frequently proved by his conduct, that he has no respect for the statutes of the United States. TnERE is a great deal that looks plausible about the rumor that the antiCleveland wing of the Democracy may come west and take up William R. Morrison for its presidential candidate in 1802. Morrison's location in Illinois is a point very much in his favor, and if tho Democracy must have a free-trader at its head, why, Morrison was a "tariffreform" statesman while Cleveland was still boarding the prisoners in the Buffalo jail. The Washington correspondent of tho Louisville Courier-Journal telegraphs as follows: Every available vanlt in the treasury and public bniMings throughout the conntry is already crowded to, the point of bursting with silver dollars which Lava been coined, bat which there is no means of getting into circulation. These dollars, of course, are represented by silver certificate, and any additional coinnge of silver means that much expansion of the volum of paper currency. As Maid to-day by the Director of the Mint, just bo soon as the gove.nment goes to coining more silver, it will have to build more vaults to store it. Yet a majority of tho leaders in tho Courier-Journal's party are clamoring for free silver coinage. The Textile Record says that with the improvements in processes and machinery American manufacturers are

making underwear "equal in every respect to any similar foreign makea, from the lowest to the highest grades." It is farther stated that as a result of the McKinley bill all the knit-goods factories recently idle are running all day and part of the night to fill the orders placed with them by the great jobbing houses. But your genuine free-trader will probably continue to pay an extra price for foreign-made goods in order that he can point to the extortions of the McKinley bill.

C05CEBOTQ FINANCIAL LEGISLATION. Latest advices frc Washington indicate a growing belief among Republicans in both branches of Congress that there will be no financial legislation at the present session. No doubt, the first impulse with many persons will be to say this would be a great calamity, but that would be a very hasty conclusion. In fact, it is by no means certain that an adjournment of the present session without any financial legislation would not be the best thing that could happen for the country. There are some strong reasons for this view of the case. In the first place, it is by no means certain that any financial legislation is imperatively needed at this time. When the last session of Congress closed it was believed that tho silver bill met all present requirements, and that no further financial legislation would be needed for some time. This measure was to some extent an experimental one, but, having been thoroughly discussed and enacted Into a law, it would seem to be good business sense, as well as good politics, to give it a thorough trial before materially changing it. When Congress adjourned the prevailing sentiment through the country was that the silver law was a finality in financial legislation for some time to come. What has happened to change this view! First, the stock panic in New York, then the money stringency, and lastly the renewed clamor for free silver coinage and an increase of currency. These causes operating together have created an impression in the minds of many persons that there was urgent necessity for financial legislation. A thousand suggestions have been made as to what should be done, but they all look to an increase of the currency, and nearly all embrace freo silver coinage. Meanwhile, the situation has undergone a marked change. The stock panic is past and gone, and the money stringency is almost if not wholly cured. There is abundance of money to bo had on good security for all the legitimate wants of trade. It is true some banks and some firms are failing, but they have been in a shaky condition for some time and their failure has tended to improve the general financial condition. An external eruption Is less dangerous than an Internal disease. The failures that have taken placo only serve to emphasize the general healthy condition of business. It is evident that the worst is over, and there is nothing in the present situation to call for financial legislation. Added to this i the danger that any legislation enacted would be ill-considered and of doubtful wisdom. The demand for inflation of tho currency and free silver coinage is so strong that it would be almost sure to impress itself on any legislation that might be attempted at present, and yet there is reason to believe that either of those measures would prove disastrous. Any legislation embracing either of them would have a very disturbing effect in the financial world, and would so unsettle confidence that it would be a long time before it could be restored. In such a situation as this it is by no means certain that any financial legislation should bo attempted by the Republicans at this session of Congress. If the Democrats want to cut loose and run the finances of the country on a wide-open plan they will soon have a chance. For the present it looks as if a masterly inactivity might be the wisest policy for the Republicans to pursue. A POLITICAL AUTHOR. "General" John II. Rico, of Kansas, who is now figuring as a leader of the proposed new third party movement and candidate for the United States Senate against Mr. Ingalls, seems to have had a varied and picturesque career. His sympathy with the Farmers' Alliance, which it a Southern organization, probably grows out of the fact that he is a Southerner by birth, his residence in Kansas dating since the war. In 18C2 he lived at Atlanta, where he compiled and published a geography entitled "A System of Modern Geography, compiled from various sources and adapted to the present condition of the world, expressly for the use of schools and academies in the Confederate States of America; by John II. Rice.7' In the preface the author divides descriptive geography into five topics and says: Each of these topics is treated of concisely and fully for a work of this description, and this is the only work in existence that approximates doing justice to the country now composing the Confederate States of America; its actual conditions aud resources having been studiously concealed by every Yankee work.the only geographies in use in our schools. To avoid this evil, make us feel independent, and furnish the schools of the Confederate States with a geography compiled by a Southern niau. published upon our own soil one that would approximate justice to ourselves, our institutions and our country, induced the attempt at this compilation which is now submitted to the charitable criticisms of the public This edition is issued without maps to supply a present pressing demand for it, for with mortification we must state that suitable maps cannot be now procured in tho Confederacy. But it is believed that many teachers and pupils will prefer this without tho maps (using a wall map or globe), than continue the farther use of Northern compilations, with their many imperfections and studied omissions relative to our country. Judging from this extract it is well the author did not attempt to compile a grammar, or his style might have revealed his incapacity. Under the title "The Races of Man," he states that "the African, or black race, is found in all parts of Africa, except on the northern coast; and in America, where they have been brought and humanely reduced to their proper normal condition of slavery." If this is not geography it was, no doubt, gratifying information to confederate readers. To the question, "What is the beat example of government in the

world!" General Rice replied, in large letters, "The Confederate States of America." As this was in 16C2, before the merits of the confederate government had been fully demonstrated, this statement might be considered somewhat "brash," but thus it is printed. Under the head of manufactures the students of this work were instructed as follows: Under the influence of slavery, which is the corner-stone of her governmental fab ric, and an indomitable spirit of self-reliance in the hearts of the people, the Confederate States has just commenced a career of greatness tobe rapidly augmented by the development of her vast agricultural and mineral resources, of which the world may be envious, while the industry and genius of her citizens will soon rate her second to no nation in the extent of ber manufactures of raw material of her own production. - v The Southern States have made great progress since 1802, but it did not come about exactly in the way predicted by this able author. .When he comes to locating and bounding the Southern States he is careful to anchor them all outside of the United States. Thus, "Missouri lies south of the United States, east of the Mississippi river and north of the State of Arkansas." Kentucky "lies south of the United States, from which it is separated by the Ohio river, east of the State of Virginia and north of Tennessee," etc. Of the United States, we learn from this interesting work that the population, In 1862,-"numbers about fourteen million, and is composed of numerous European elements English, Irish, Scotch, Germans, French, Swedes, Dutch and others. The English is the prevailing element, but the great variety seems to give activity and energy to the mass. The English language is tho only chiefly spoken, but in some parts of Pennsylvania and the West German is used. The native element, or 'Yankee,' are noted as a keen, thrifty, speculating, ingenious people; money-loving and money-making, without much restraint as to means, success being the all-absorbing object." Perhaps these extracts will enffice to show the character of the work. As a geography without maps andjfull of unique political information, it was without a rival, but its author does not seem to be quite the proper person to lead a new third-party movement in the North. He seems to have crippled his usefulness.

PBOTESSOB ZOCfl'B LYMPH, It is not surprising to learn that the management of Professor Koch's lymph is causing much indignation among J medical men in Germany. Whenjt was fir6t announced that he had dirttvered a cure for consumption, it was announced at tho same time-that,; being a scientist, he would take no patent on his discovery, and that the Medical world would be given the benefit of it with as little delay as possible. ;" As ian . additional reason for this course it was stated that Professor Koch was in the pay of the German government, and, as, he was at no expense in his investigations, he could ailord to make the pub? lie welfare paramount to all other cbn siderations. Gradually, however, this view of the case was modified. The dangers attending the use of the lymph and the difficulty of supplying the qe-.. mand were given as . reasons :why its composition should be kept secret and the lymph itself ' be handled only by a select few. Then the necessity of government; su- , pervision was asserted, until finally the whole matter passed under government control. The result is that the composition of the lymph is kept secret, except so far as disclosed by analysis; its manufacture is a secret, and the lymph' itself has been supplied only to a favored few and in very small quantities. There may be good reasons for this, but it savors more of an attempt to establish a government monopoly than it. does of scientific or professional methods . The indications are that the German government, and not Professor Koch, is responsible for the management of the. matter, although the latter is reported1, as declaring in some anger to an English physician that he had a right to do as he pleased with his own discovery. leing in the pay of the German government his course in regard to the matter would, of couree, becontrolled by official authority, but, for the sake of his reputation as a scientist and medical man, it is to be hoped he is not a willing party to the secret manufacture and niggardly distribution of a remedy which was first announced as a boon for. mankind. The management of Pro.' Koch's lymph is in marked contrast with that of Jenner's vaccine virus and other great medical discoveries, and is calculated to excite the indignation of the medical profession throughout the world. ' 801IE CENSUS PIQUBE3. ' ' In the attempt to make it appear that the recent census of Indiana was inaccurate, the larger percentage of gain made by Illinois has been cited as proof that that of Indiana was not correctly stated. The report shows that from 1880 to 1890 Illinois gained 24.C2 per cent, and Indiana 10.82 per cent. The completed report for Illinois by counties throws further light on the subject. It shows that the total increase of population in Illinois was 740, G Go, against 214,103 in Indiana, and that 581,735 of the increase in Illinois was in the city of Chicago. The gain in Chicago alone was SG7,C32 more than the entire increase in Indiana, and 422,605 more than the entire increase in Illinois outside of Chicago. The increase in Illinois outside of Chicago was 158,930, against 214,103 iu Indiana. Leaving Chicago out of the case, Indiana gained 55,173 more thau Illinois, and this notwithstanding the fact that Illinois has?102 counties and Indiana onlj ninety-two. Moreover, the returns show that thirty-two counties in Illinois decreased in population between 18S0 and 1800 an average of more than one thousand each. To be exact, these thirty-two counties decreased 83,183. Again, leaving out Cook county, in which Chicago is situated, and nine other counties which made the next largest increase the ninety-two remaining counties in Illinois gained only 67,332, while the ninety-two counties of Indiana gained 214,103. By any comparison that can be made the figures show that, leaving Chicago oat, Indiana

made a larger percentage of gain than Illinois. There is not the slightest reason to doubt that the recent census of Indiana was substantially correct.

There was a good deal of complaint among the Democrats about Mr. Clevelend's dense silence during the last campaign, but he has certainly made up for lost time since the election, and everybody understands just how he did the whole business. Houskkeepers may be interested in the following retail pnees of meats in New York, taken from the Tribune of Saturday. They range from 20 to SO per cent, higher than prices in this city: Prime nb roast, 20 cents a pound; porter-bonse roast, .5 cents; porter-house steak. 25 cents; sirloin steak. 20 cents; Deltnonico steak, 25 cents round bone steak, 18 cents; flat bone steak, 20 cents; fresh rump beef, 15 cents; help roast beef, 14 cents; leg, 7 cents; filet, 6 cent; naval corned beet, 9 cents; plate corned beef, 9 cents; rump corned beef, 15 cents; ox tails, 10 cents; beef liver, 10 cents; beef ( kidneys, 15 cents: veal chops, 25 cents; ioin veal, 22 cent; leg veal, 20 cents; breast veal, 15 cents; shoulder veal, 12ht cents; veal cutlet. 25 cents; noveal, 22 cents; filet veal, 25 cents; calf's head, 60 cents; oair sliver. 70 cents: calf's feet, 10 cents; sweetbreads, 75 cents per pain hind .quarter of mutton costs 16 cents a pound; forequarter, 12 cents; rack muttou, 20 cents; English saddle, 22 cents; leg of mutton, lOoenta; rack chops, 24 cents; English chops, 2t cents; shoulder of mutton, 10 cents; mutton kidneys, 5 cents; htndquarter of latnb. 18 cents; forequarter, 14 cents; rack lamb chops, 28 cents; saddle lamb, 26 cetds; leg of lamb, 18 cents; shoulder of lamb, 129 cents; breast of lamb, r21s cents; loin chops, lamb, 28 cents; ham, 16 cents; bacon, '16 cents; smoked beef, 16 cents; smoked tongue 18 cents; loin pork, 14 cents; salt pork. 12 cents; larding pork, 14 cent; can lard, 14 cents, and sausages, 15 cents a pound. It is now pretty certain that the unfortunate depositors in S. A. Kean's Chicago bank will not get a cent. Mr. Kean seems to have had queer ideas of Biblical principles as applied to banking. ro the Editor of the Indianayoil Journals When is it lawful to shoot prairie-chickens and quailsl Can a farmer tine or have fined a man lor hunting on bis land unless he gives notice, irinted, written or verbal, that hunting Is not slowed on his premises! Where is the'residence of Mrs. 8. D. rower! A. w. c. Oxford, Ind. Quails may be shot between Oct. 15 and Dec 20, and prairie-chickens between Sept. 1 and Feb. L The owner of land may prosecute any person who hunts on his land without permission, whether notice has been given or not. We do not know the lady. To the Editor ot the Inrtlanapolia Jonroai: lias Indianapolis a board of aldermen! What is the dUtereuce between a board of aldermen and the counclimenl Has Cincinnati a board of aldermen! A Header. ItAKGKBSVILLE, Ind. This city and Cincinnati have boards of aldermen. It is one branch of the City Council, fewer in number than the conncil and commonly regarded as the higher branch. ' To the Editor ot the Indlanapolia Journal: Was It Fred Grant or John Sherman who first said, "It is easier to handle a surplus than a def iClti" IXQCl-EK. Tebre Haute, Ind. The expression was first attributed to CoL Fred Grant To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: . Are the railroads of England owned and operated by the government! n. o. a. Kockville, Ind. They are not. . BUBBLES IN TLUS A1B. ' Slated. Just slate this, said the customer to the coaldealer, and the dealer did so to the extent of v about one-third. This Weary World. This world is what we make it," says The old, of quoted text; Even so. ' The maiden makes it hearts. The barber makes it "next." -;. - She Explains. Watts Aren't jou ever going to get tired of "shopping!' You never seem to bring anything home. Where's the fascination in it, rd Uke to know! Mrs. Watts Oh, I Uke to look at the new goods, you know, and to see what lovely things I could get if I had only married rich. Unconsidered Trifles. Between the practical Joker and the savage that skins his victim alive there is only a difference of environment and education. The first thing a man doe's after marriage is to run away from his mother-in-law. This is called sometimes tho bridal tour aud sometimes the honeymoon. The Rev. W. n. XL Murray te no Anglomanias He would not drop one ot those H's for a farm. The man out of money Is not in it. It is possible to spend $2,500 for a bath-room, according to the latest models, and even at that price it is net so roomy as the river you can get for nothing. A kitten is a very good New Year's gift. It should be accompanied by some appropriate motto, such as "Take kitten keep it," for instance. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS., The Emperor William is showing many good streaks in his rule. He has given orders that in government faotories no women shall do night work. Miss Ford ham, a well-known English bicycle rider, has ridden a safety wheel 1.900 miles at the rate of seventy-six miles a day. and hopes to cover 2,000 miles before tho season closes. Francis II, the last King of Naples, whom Garibaldi overthrew, is living in exile in Paris. He is a plain-looking man of medium height, whose eyes always have a mournful look in them and who never smiles. The Countess of Caithness, leader of the Theosophists of Paris, believes herself to be the "spiritual child" of Mary Queen of Scots. It is on this account that she is about to set np a statue of Mary in the Place Wagram. Gex. Charles F. Thompson, at onetime a major under "Old Rosy," and subsequently made brevet brigadier-general for gallant conduct on the field, has become insane in California through dissipation and financial embarrassment. , New inventions and late discoveries get into Russia very slowly. The use of Prof. Koch's curative lymph will be prohibited by the Russian Medical Council until such time as the specific has been investigated under government supervision. The Chinese have progressed. This proclamation was recently circulated in Tientsin: "Chinameu, rise and slay the Emperor, who neither gives yon bread nor a fiords you protection from foreign aggression. Slay, also, the foreigners among you." There are five American ladies attached to the Italian courtall of whom have married Italian noblemen. One of these ladies, the Marchess Theodoldi, was Miss Conrad, of Philadelphia, and is now the chief lady in waiting at the court, as well as the most beautifal woman in Italy. Senator George Hearst, of California, is a very sick man. He caught a very severe cold while in New York recently. The Senator is aeventy-two years of age, and his friends fear h is breaking dowj( He has been a miner all his life and has gone through a great many hardships. Mks. Marilla M. Richer offered her ballot for the entire list of the city otilciala at the recent election in Dover, N. II., but was refused, and she proposes to make a test case of it in the courts. She claims that the right to vote for school committee gives her the right to vote for City Council. "Boss" Shepherd, formerly of Washington, is reported to be making loads of money in Mexico in mining. "His family," says gentleman who has just been down there, "reside in Chihuahua, and they are the life of the American colony there. Shepherd is hard at work at his mines in the Sierra Mad re mountains aud to-day he is worth millions. Que day he will have

money enongh to buy out all of his enemies put together. The region where his mines are located is the richest silver mining country in the world, and there is enongh ore in sight to satisfy even an ambitious man like Shepherd." Col. Riciiaed Dale, of Philadelphia, is the possessor of a sword presented by Louis XVI to John Paul Jones, and many of Jones's letters and other rdic . CoL Dale is the grandson of Commodore Dale, who was Jones's first lieutenant in the action between the lionhonirne Ki chard and the Serapis. Benjamin Constant, the French painter who is at present visiting in this country, is a tall and rather handsome man of fortyfive. He is stout, bis eyes are blue, his nose is prominent and be wears a Van Dyke beam, lie dresnes like an Englishman, aud long ago discarded the velvet jacket and soft hat that have been recognized as the badge of the artist. TnE statement that Qneen Victoria has informed the Vatican, through Cardinal Manning, that she will present no objection to the canonization of Joan cf Arc, shows how etiquette stretches over centuries. The Maid of Orleans was burned as a witch by the British, and the cardinals can't make a saint of her without politely assuring themselves that there are no British objections. Miss Sarah Orne Jewett, the magazine wnter, is the daughter of a country doctor. She was born and brought np on the seacoast of Massachusetts, aud the impressions of her childhood, obtained by contact with sea-faring persons, are the great storehouse from which she draws her stories. She is not exactly a pretty woman, but her manner is most attractive, and Boston worships her. A minister at Sanlt Ste. Marie, Mich., left his pulpit in disgust the other evening. Suddenly stopping in the midst of a sermon he said: "There is flirting, talking, note-writing, gum-chewing and visiting going on here and I will stop until you get through." He waited fifteen minutes and the festivities increased instead of diminished. He then told the janitor to lock np the temple. The new cottage built by the actor, Joseph Jefferson, at Buzzard's bay, and designed by him to be the home of his old age, is a picturesque building in the early colonial style, with wings, cupolas and gables both of wood and stone. Outside the house is a Virginia chimney of native stone and brick. The house stands on a Cape Cod sand-hank and looks toward the Plymouth woods. General Sherman's oldest son, Thomas, who was ordained to the priesthood a few years ago, is now putting the finish to his theological studies in the Isle of Jersey. When the Jesuits were driven from France they got a place in that classic isfand, bought a big hotel at St Heller and turned it iutoahouse of studies. And there is where Thomas Sherman is now, rounding his long term of studies at theMaison Saint Louis. Miu Gladstone is one of the best patrons the second-hand hood-dealers of London have.' There is no telling what he will buy, for his taste is as varied as his nurse is deep. Sbakspeareana is the best bait to try him with, though he even buys such books as Cobbett's "Advice to Young Men and Young Women." He always pays at once for what he buys, and the Pall Mall Gazette says that he insists upon "10 per cent, discount for cash." Hidden away in the New England Conservatory, according to a story told in Boston, is a rising star from the South Miss Will Allen Dromgoole, a feminine little Tennesseean, who never meant to mystify Boston and New York editors by masquerading as a man. After she had written about sixty stories, including a serial for the Youth's Companion, Mr. Hezekiah Butterworth invited her to come East and make him 'a visit, thinking her a mature bachelor like himself. She knew this editor of the Youth's Companion was a man, but inferring that he was domiciled with a wife, aecef ed his invitation. After sending np herard at the office of the Yonth's Companion' a mutual enlightment ensued, which has caused considerable diversion in literary circles.

THE WOKSLUP OF CLEVELAND. Members of the Reform Club Who Were Not Pleased with the Prophet's Ilumor. Correspondence Philadelphia Pregs. The adoration with which the Reform Club regards Cleveland and the adulation, unstinted and unrivaled, which its members constantly bestow upon him were especially conspicuous lastnight. They were revealed by mannerisms, by reverential glances, by subserviency and by an indefinable sort of self-humiliation, or prostration before the "prophet," which created an atmosphere visibly pleasing to him, and which seemed to cause the members of the club no loss of self-respect and no sense of nndue subserviency. It was a most striking illustration of that strange influence which this heavy aud unquestionably dull man has been able to exert ovor men who are otherwise clearheaded, of firm self-respect and good common sense. Of course, men breathing such an atmosphere of delusion are bound to be enraptured with anything their prophet may say. And yet to-day, talking with some of hisstauchest friends who were there, it is easy to see there. is some mental reservation behind their praises of the speech. In other words, wheu tbey came to read the speech over this morning there is some sense of disappointment They are not praising it as they have praised other addresses of the ex-l'resident One of the stanche6t Cleveland men in the city said that he and some of those near him felt something of a shock when Cleveland attempted to be humorously sarcastic. The paragraphs in his speech in which he twits certain prominent Republicans on their comments upon his tariff message were intended by him to be semi-jocular, a sort of light and airy trifling pervaded by the gentle spirit of humor; and he tried to display the humorous manner when uttering these intended pleasantries. But this seemed a lowering of the "prophet" from his pedestal. The Reform Club was not used to anything but heavy mannerisms of dignity and to loud-sounding utterances of platitudes, with the solemnity which usually accompanies genuine thought In a word, it was not a pleasant exhibition which the exPresident made when he tried to be humorously sarcastic and it left an uupleasant remembrance of his speech which all those who heard it feel, but which many of them an not able to analyze. There is a minority in the club, men who have not so far lost their wits through tha 'Clevelaud hypnotism that is there exercised as to forget the amenities and courtesies due to men in official station, who feel very keenly the insult which the club offered to Governor Hill, and it would not be surprising if this produced friction there which may cause contention to arise. The Governor's action was so di&rdfied that it caused respect to be entertained for him. The Spider to the Fly. Kansas City Times (Dem.) The Farmers' Alliance does not need a third party as much as onion of all reform forces. In Kansas the lesson of the last campaign is fresh. If the Alliance had united with the Democrats on Governor Kobinson, one of the ablest representatives of sound reform views, the man who said that the McKinley tariff seemed to him the best law ever enacted would have been defeated by an immense majority. If tariff revision, free coinage of silver, discouragement of monopolies and the suppression of class legislation is to be accomplished all the voters on the popular side must be concentrated. The Democratic party is the partv of the people, and the Alliance should effect ft junction with its friends. After-Dinner Speeches Philadelphia Inquirer. Two or three speeches, if they are good, give pleasure. All that come after them are simply a snperabundanoe of an article of which a little is a good thing, but of which there can easily be too much. Oar public dinners sutler from the same complaint which aflects the United States Senate and House of Representatives too much talk. Some Democ ratio Notions. Brooklyn Standard-Union, But when a Democrat talks about tha people he means Democrats only. As for the six millions of black folks in the country there's no people about them, and as to the Constitution, the war amendments were not in the old Constitution and are just lucre force bills dead letters at that

THE FART I PRESS.

Democratic Wisdom Ccntrastrd with Eepnb lican incoherence and Apathy. Latiyette fall. Not a stone is being left unturned to promote the circulation of Democratic newspapers especially among Republicans. This is not being do.ie by tho Democratic editors it is being done by the Democratio politicians; and their expectation is to get the mind of the great national jury so thoroughly biased before the great case is tried, in 1892; an to forestall judgment and insure a verdict in their favor. It is not to be expected that Republican papers will pursue tha same course of procedure at their own persona! expense. And what are the Republican papers and Republican committees doing to counteract this shrewd and secret workf Nothingor worse than nothing. They are either sitting supinely down and letting thing? drift without the slightest heed whither tbey are drifting, or effort to turn the tide, and then probably expect to raise a great hellabaloo in the summer of campaign year, and undertake to undo, in sixty days, in the heat of a campaign, the work of two years spnt by the enemy in craftily poisoning the public mind against their cause. No success can coma of such a course. The Democrats are wise, and begin in time. Two years of the quiet crafty circulation of falsehood, cannot bo counteracted by sixty days of campaign hurrah. The effort will result only in dismal failure. But where they are not sitting supine and idle, tho Republican politicians are spending tho time plotting against each other, or m starting new 7xU papers, to still further divide the little morsel of party support already too small to enable the existing papers to do what .tbey ought to do, and what they would like to do if they could. The Democrats stand bv and encouragetangibly their press. The Republicans, on the contrary, too often seem bent on running out the press they already have, until they force it to live on the little end of nothing, and of necessity render in consequence a crippled service. The Republican party of Indiana has in the Indianapolis Journal a paper of conspicuous ability a paper able and influential fat beyond the opportunities which the party gives it How do they encourage itt About half the wind at Republican "conferences" over at Indian npolis has been expended, according to all acoonnts. in undeserved and nngenerous criticism of the Journal. And what is true of the State at large is. in a greater or less degree, true in the localities. The Republicans need to wake up and broaden their comprehensions. They need to abandon this policy of letting everything go by default until about sixty days before an election, and then expecting to overtake and counteract in sixty days, all the lies that have been circulated steadfastly during seven hundred. They need to pursue a more generous policy towards the Republican press, which, generally speaking, serves them a great deal better than they deserve, and better tban the papers can really aflord off of the support tbey get; and, instead of encouraging the "divide and weaken" policy, as they always have, cultivate rather the "consolidate and strengthen" plan. What is needed is not more papers it is stronger and betterones. Newspaper influence is measured, not by the multiplication of the number of different issues, but by their vigor and intelligence. It is more brains, and not mom printer's ink. that is wanted. Hand-bills can be obtained by multiplied thousands very cheap; but hand-bills do not make) doctrinal converts; that takes thought and fact, and argument; and good brains cost money, and that money, in a newspaper, must come from the income of the business. The way to the widening (instead of weakening) of the influence of Republican newspapers, is a plain one; and he who has read this article to good purpose will not fall to discern bis duty as a good Republican to do all in his tower to encourage and build up the Republican press. That press may . not always have filled the measure of every man's bean ideal, bat the fault is more probably with those who ought to support it than, with those who conduct the newspapers. Give your local paper a better encourage' ment and support, and the proprietor can aflord to give you a better paper. And our word for it he will do it as soon as he can. a fiord. Our observation leads, us to tho conclusion that generally the newspaper publisher's ideas are far in advance of his pocket-book; and in his enterprise and desire to please, he is more likely to bank npon expectations and hopes of appreciation that may never be realized tban he is to do the other thing, and let his enterprise lag behind his opportunities. It Is Pretty Well Loaded Now. Albany JoumaL Calvin S. Brice, chairman of the Democratic national committee, is a railroadwrecker, a Wall-street pirate, a non-resident of Ohio, a tax-dodger and a Standard oil boodler. who bought his way into tho Senate by shameless methods of barter and sale. There is no need of detail. Tbefacti regarding Mr. Brice's senatorial election are knowu of all men. If Henry B. Payne's title should have been investigated, there are double reasons for similar action in the brice matter. The United States Senate carried a heavy load in Henry B. Psjep, It cannot aflord to "vindicate" Calvin S. Brice. The "Coach Dos n Politics. Milwaukee ttenUneL The Farmers' Alliance being in control of the North Carolina Legislature. Senator Vance has written a letter intimating that he will support the sub-treasury scheme if. re-elected. This is the theory of political leadership generally prevalent amoug Democratic politicians. It was once described by Professor Hnxley as "the coach-dog iheory" according to which "the whole duty of a political chief is to look sharp which way the coach is driviug'and then rnu in front and bark hard." It is through tho practice, of this plan that Colonel Vilas is the Democratic leader in this State. A Small Man's Revenge. Xaw Albany Tribune. Senator Farwell's silly abuse of the President irresistibly rcninds one of two birds we are told about an "eagle towering in his pride of place" whom "daws peck at" Think of Charles II. Farwell calliug Benjamin Harrison "small mentally." Take away Farwell's money and his ability as a political and general gamester, and a magnifying glass would have to be used to see the rest of him. In Self-Defenae. Kansas Civ.' tftar (Mag.) The word "mugwump" has no offensive significance in the South or West. It is held in abLorrence by a certain band of Democrats in New York who hate a "mugwump" because he opposes the grab for spoils. Anything that conflicts with the Manhattan island spoils sj-stem is cordially despised by the Democratic party bolters who think they control the politics of tho country. 1 Pleasant for Western Farmers. Augusts (Ga.) Chronicle. A Georgia Alliance man has written a letter in which he advises that tbe fiat go forth from the 'highest quarter of the Alliance iu the South to everv subordinate Alliance in the South that the acreage to be planted in cotton the coming yc ar must be cut down, as compared with ihe present 15 to 20 per cent, and the food crops correspondingly increased." l Growing Excited. Mlnnespills Tribune, Does any one believe that Germany, or Itusaia. or France would have betn treated as cavalierly by England as the United States in the Bearing sea matter! The United States is not prepared to enforce its own demands, and Lu. laud knows it. . (ireat Britain will therefore take Its own" time, and attempt to dictate its own terms of arbitration. Democratic CouimeuditUoo. Philadelphia Record. President Harrison's appointment of Mr, . Philip C. Garrett, of this citv, to member- ' ship in the Board of Indian Commissioners is a most excellent selection. Mr. Garrett's sound and experienced judgment and wellA . Jk III 1- I. . ...1 1.1 - iramru iu im win uisnn iiiui n vaiuitwi- bitqnisition to a body charged with unusually ; important duties. True fcnoogh. Barn's Horn. If it wasn't so hard for a woman to tako y care of herself, there wouldn't bo so raauy. nnhappy marriages.