Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 June 1891 — Page 4

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL. SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 1891.

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOUENAL Can fee found at the following places: XABIS American Exchange la Paris, 36 Boultvard ' ilea Capnciaes. 2rzW TOBK OUsey Souse and Windsor Hotel. j 5niLADELPniA-A, pTkcsbW STO Lancaster J arenas. . CHICAOO Palmer House. 1TLS CINNATI J. B. Ilawley A Co, 154 Vine street, XTTJISTIIXE O. T. Deerlag, northwest comer Ttira and J efferson streets. CT. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot and gouthern Hotel. T.'ASUIKOTC, ZX O nifffcs House snft Zhtntt iloaae. iWokd come from Minnesota that the Alliance papers which are not rtin by Donnelly and Fisk, his associate, have denounced their leadership and repudiate the sub-treasury and loan schemes. SI' 'The Republican party can look back ward as it can look foi ward, and that cannot be said of any other partywas one of Major McKinley's bristling sentences at Columbus, and It epitomizes years of political history. As often as Chairman Jewett sees the announcement in county papers that the valuation of real estate has been increased CO per cent, by the Democratic tax act, ho must feci that the day of retribution is at hand for the gerrymander party. If is probable that the alleged Attorney-general is anxious to establish the legal right of himself and the Secretary of State to amend the acts of the Legislature in order that they may annul any such Democratio blunder as the present tax law. According' to Commissioner Harris, who is an educator of long experience, the South has made wonderful progress in the matter of public education during the pa&fc fifteen years. The amount of money expended for public schools during that period has doubled and the nchool enrollment has increased 100 per cent., while population has increased only 20 per cent. which shows that public instruction is rapidly gaining on population. The Now York World i3 in a state of mind. Projecting its political vision into tho' future itiocesees that if a Democratic President is elected in 1892 it will bo extremely important that he should be Te-electcd in 1806. This being tho case it feara it would bo nnwise to elect Cleveland next year, lest the popular opposition ton third term would prevent his re-election in 1896. And tho World actually discusses this question as if It had a serious relation to politics! In organizing tho new United States Court of Appeals, at St. Louis, Judge lirewcr stated that it would be the supreme, court for the great majority of titses brought into that court. So it will be in this circuit. The public significance of this statement lies in tho fact that as the decisions of this court will, in a large majority of cases, be final, it , will result in greatly expediting justice. The present accumulation of business in tho Supreme Court is such that the court is three or four years behind its docket, and after an appeal is taken litigants are compelled to wait that long for a decision. In tho now court all appealed casta will be promptly decided.. Tnn Milwaukee Sentinel (Republican) 'takes exception to tho assumption of the New York Times that the increasing number of foreign-born citizens is responsible for the prevalence of absurd financial schemes like fiat money, government loais and the sub-treasury idea, and shows by figures that those States where these heresies have taken deepest root are those in which there are few foreign-born inhabitants. Tho Greenback craze has always had the most followers in States like Kansas, while in States like "Wisconsin, where the foreign-born population is largest, it had little following. To Germans, especially, are hostile to all visionary financial schemes. 'pjirsiDEXT Hall, of tho Missouri Alliance, and ono of the prominent men in the organization, has Jssued a manifesto to tho order declaring that members of the Alliance in Missouri who use the organization to promote the People's-party movement will be excommunicated. He calls attention to the fact that the Alliance obligation requires the organization to remain non-partisan; consequently any attempt, to make the Alliance an adjunct of the People's party is a violation of the laws of the order. Mr. Hall is a prominent Democrat, and the disposition to use the Alliance in that State to build up the Weaver-Peffer party la regarded with great disfavor. Such an alliance as President Hall believes in would have no charms for the farmer who farms with his jawsOx Tuesday next John Bardsley, Philadelphia's defaulting city treasurer, will be arraigned for sentence on the indictments to which ho has pleaded guilty. M that time he will present a statement of his financial transactions, which wi!l be partly a confession and partly a defense. Of course he cannot deny that he has misappropriated and lost very large sums of public money. Ho has already nleaded guilty to that. But it is under stood he will claim that his speculations were all entered into with the honest expectation of making money and secur

ing the city against loss. If this is so

he ought, under the recent instruction of a Democratic judge in the case of a defaulting Democratic State Treasurer, to go free of punishment. The instruction of the Missouri judge was that if a publio official appropriates public money to his own use with the intention of replacing it, it is no crime. But that kind of law will not go in Philadelphia. OHIO THE BATTLE-QBOUSD. The nnanimous nomination of Major McKinley for Governor by the Republicans of Ohio makes that State the battle-ground for the year 1801. There will be elections in New York, Massachusetts and Iowa, which will be im portant, but the ; campaign in Ohio will attract pnblic attention not only in this country, but in Europe and Canada. Major McKinley stands as the expo nent of the present tariff act in a State which, while it is Republican in years of active campaigns, is close. Of lale the preponderance has been with the Republicans, but from 1872 to 1883 it was nearly as often Democratic as Re publican. The Republicans are per fectly willing to have the issue fought on the merits of the present tariff act. pure and simple, in Ohio, with Major McKinley as a candidate. Indeed, in a local campaign, with a man of positive convictions and unquestioned integrity and popularity like Major McKinley for the standard-bearer. and with the harmony and enthusiasm which prevails in the Republican ranks, the conditions are favorable for success. Just now the .Democratic press in cer tain quarters are conceding the State to the Republicans on tho ground that they will have all the money that is necessary to carry it. When it comes to money, the Democratic pres9 should be silent, since the leaders of that party have not only the United States upon which to draw, but the manufacturers abroad. Thero can be no' doubt that they will contribute liberally it they can . be made to believe, as do many English papers, that tho free-trade party can be successful in the next general election and that the Ohio contest will go far to settle the battle of 1892. If the Republicans had no other hope of Ohio this fall than that of a large campaign fund they would not be as hopeful as they are. They rely upon the strength of their position and the intelligence of the people upon a full and able discus sion of the tariff issue. Just now tho Republicans are very confident. They have reason to be, but they should not make the mistake of overconfidence in their leader and the dissensions of the enemy. They must fight' the battle with relentless energy, as is the wont of Republicans in Ohio when they win. There is every reason to believe that they will do this, and that under the inspiration of Major McKinley they will achieve a triumph the influence of which will be felt all along the line in the cam paign of 1893. THE TIN-PLATE W ENGLAND. The American free-trader has been laboring to persuade the American people that tho United States can never supply its own market with tin-plates. Without explaining the process he would have us all believe that the enterprise and industrial skill of this country cannot roll iron and steel into thin plates and dip these plates into a pot of melted tin and thus make tin-plates. The advocate of British interests and the trade journals in England take a different view of the case. Twenty years ago they might have been as badly deceived as the free-trade editors in the United States now appear to be, but they have learned wisdom from sad experience. They have learned that what other people can do in the line of manufactures, the 'Americans, in whatever they have earnestly undertaken, have done quito as well, and, often a little better than Europe. British papers have no doubt regarding the ability of the capital and brains of the United States to manufacture tin-plates. For instance, the London Daily Post says: No mole would be to blind as not to discern the gravity of tho danger which lies iu the direction of doing anything at all except promptly and energetically in the way of quick redaction of makers' prices. Here U the proposition placed before you for consideration by Mr. McKinley. lie eays: "We want to keep the Welsh tinplates out of America and make tbem in America. Therefore, we raise the price about 5 shillings per box,. which will make the duty collected on plates about 815,000,000, or 3,000,000 sterling in nil. We (America) are content to pay tbis duty for a few years while we develop oar new' tin-plate industry." Now. tbis is what you have to face, you, the makers of South Wales. Do you shirk the awkward position? It looks as if you did as if you wished to hide the ugly thing. Else why are you so foolish as to aad to these $15,000,0007 You ought to try and reduce the $15,000,000, and in so doing to effect two things: (a) To keep up the consumption. (b) To render American competition difficult. America has artificially increased the price of tin-plate; you must at once reduce it in every possible way. Every move in this direction increases your prospect of saving the trade and choking oft" native mills for a year or two. when the McKinley bill may be repealed. Every move, such as the closing of mills for a month, or other unnatural and perfectly ineffectual dodge, would bringswif t retribution to the makers. That is, let the men in Wales who own the tin-plate monopoly put down prices for a year or two, so that American mills cannot bo established, and trust to the free-traders in the American Congress to put tin-plates on the free list and thus enable the Welsh manufacturers to establish their monopoly and put up the prices when competition is made impossible. In this connection the views of the London Ironmonger areinteresting: What they (the Welsh makers) should aim at is not the maintenance of prices by artificial and inefficient means, but to so cheapen the cost of production as to bid defiance to the whole world under any con ceivable conditions. . The Americans, if and when they go into the business fully, will do so on new lines, and particularly will use machinery and improved appli ances in every process. Ihe Welshmen mast do the same if they really mean to re tain command of the industry. There is no alternative. If thev stand still and rely upon the old-fashioned way of doing things they will be stranded high and dry, whereas, if they will move on and use their qnick wits and undoubted energy, all that other nations may do will not sutnee to sap their supremacy. ' The organs of the British iron-masters know all about it, in which respect they difier from their Anglomaniac allies in America, since they kuow nothing about it. They have seen the prices of iron of all kinds fall from more than 60 per

cent on steel rails to 40 per cent, on pigiron fince 1SG3, and therefrom they know what will come about if American skill and enterprise take up tin-plate-making in earnest. The Financial Times, of London, also unaerstands the situation, as may be M;en from the foil owing extract: On the one hand we hear that millions of dollars have alreaoy been invested in plant, and that tin-plate-making is about to boom In Yaukeeland; on the other, we are told that not a sheet of tin-plate has been made there, or will be made there for years. Doubtless the truth lies somewhere between these two extremes. As yet the efforts in this direction mado in the States are perhaps chiefly tentative, but few people doubt that sooner or later they will be crowned with success. Kaw materials, capital and technical skill are tdl at baud, or can be easily obtained. Time alone is wanting to build up the industry, but it is to be feared that the Welsh manufacturers are deceiving themselves if they imagine that a decade must elapse before any impression can be made on their business by rivals across the water. A year or two, however, will certainly intervene before the competition can be really dangerous. Long ere that time it is to be hoped that the American people will have torn up the McKinley law root and branch, or at least have pruned it judiciously. Signs are not wanting that this will come about -The Welsh manufacturers have some strong-

sidingchampionsin Chicago and elsewhere. This is but a repetition of the opinions of the two journals previously quoted and a further admission of American skill and enterprise. It is also a declaration that their only hope is that the next President and Congress will be free-traders and abolish tho duties on tin-plate and thus protect a British monopoly by choking off American competitors. It is an open assumption that the Democratic and free-trade party in tho United States is an ally upon which a British monopoly depends to prevent the building up of an industry which will support at least fifty thousand families. The free-trade allies of British monopolies seen not to recognize the fact that the 116th anniversary of American independence from British dictation occurs two weeks from to-day. . G0VEEN0R OBAY'8 PRESIDENTIAL B00H. In furtherance of Governor Gray's presidential boom, his literary bureau in this city continues to send out very picturesque accounts of his rare intellectual gifts, his great qualities as a statesman and his overwhelming popularity. From a letter in the Louisville Courier-Journal wo learn that the Governor's modesty and self-abnegation lead him to discourage rather than encourage eifort8 in his behalf. We are given to understand that the rule of his 'political life has been that the office should seek tho man, rather than the man the office. His modesty seems to be causing some embarrassment to his friends, for the correspondent says that "in refusing to declare his intentions he has forced some of his more zealous, and possibly less discreet, friends to say that he will be a candidate, and to urge members of the party in other States to do what they can in his imterest." When a statesman holds himself above the arts of petty politics and turns his back on the political honors which pursue him he cannot complain if his enthusiastic friends, knowing his merits and his modesty, organizo in his interest Thus it may happen that the Governor may be compelled to become a candidate even against his own wishes. The cheerfulness with which he has in past years sacrificed his private wishes to the welfare of the country justifies a belief that if nominated next year for President, or even for Vice-president, he will again put personal feelings aside and allow his party to do with him as they wish. This habit of self-abnegation, rare among professional politicians, is one of the sure signs that Governor Gray is a statesman of a superior order. Among other picturesque statements in the letter referred to is one that, when Governor Gray was elected to that office, "he came into office with a majority that exceeded that of Cleveland and Hendricks, who were voted for at tho same election, by nearly or quite a thousand votes." This statement has been made before, probably by the same correspondent, and shown to bo untrue. G o v. Gray received 245,140 votes, while Mr. Cleveland received "241,900. His majority over Cleveland therefore was 240, instead of "nearly or quite a thousand." But tho correspondent forgot to mention that Governor Gray ran behind the rest of the Democratic Stato ticket in 1884, viz., 336 votes behind General Manson, who ran for Lieutenantgovernor; C33 votes behind John J. Cooper, who ran for Treasurer of State; fifty-six votes behind James H. Rice, who ran for Auditor of State; 147 votes behind F. T. Hord, who ran for Attorney-general; 048 votes behind John W. Holcombe, who ran for Superintendent of Public Instruction, and S34 votes behind John W. Kern, who ran for Reporter of the Supreme Court. As the Governor is discouraging the efforts of his friends to bring him out as a candidate he will no doubt thank the Journal for presenting these figures as an offset to the claim of his unbounded popularity. FINANCIAL STRENGTH OF THE COUNTRY. ' The outflow of gold, which has now practically ceased, amounting to 00,000,000 in the past few weeks, has not disturbed the rather sensitive equanimity of Eastern financiers or the broader confidence of the business of the country. In any other country such an outflow of tho money of commerco would have led to serious complications. Even in England it might have produced a panic if it could not have been checked by an advance of the rates of discount by the Bank of England. A few years ago it would have produced a stringency in the money market in this country which would have seriously disturbed general business, if it did not produce a panic. But now it has occasioned nothing like distrust, and no stringency in tho money market. In fact, call loans commanded lower rates of ' discount when the outflow ceased than when it began, indicating that tho movement had not affected financial confidence. Several things conspired to give this confidence. The steady in crease of the value of the exports of American products over tho imports of foreign merchandise gave confidence. If the conditions wero similar to tho so

which existed thirty-odd years ago, when the country purchased in foreign markets the larger part of its manufactures and the total value of imports largely exceeded the value of exports, the loss of so much gold in a brief period would have resulted in a panic. With the prospect that the balance of trade would be largely in favor of the United States, and that the gold exported would eventually . come back to pay for American products, tho outflow occasioned no anxiety. Such a change is the result of the protective policy, and is one of the many evidences cf its wisdom. Cut tho special feature which gives strength to the financial position this season is not in tho vaults of banks or safe-deposits, but on the broad acres of the West upon which the wheat has been growing in a manner to justify the expectation of an abundant harvest. The crop failure abroad has led Europe to look to the growing crop of America with . solicitude. The man whose wealth is in railroad properties, stockB, bonds and merchandise saw in the wheat fields of tho West the favorable solution of the financial question. Never were crop reports so eagerly scanned, for never before was it so fully realized that they ' carried the financial fortunes of tho country. Week after week, as the reports continued to be favorable, financial men became more and more confident of a favorable outcome. The loss of ten or twelve millions of gold a week was viewed with serenity, because they knew that in a few weeks this gold would come back to purchase the newly produced wealth of the American wheat fields.

TriE value of the export of cattle during May, 1891, was but a little more than' half as great as it was during the corresponding month of 1890. The falling off is probably duo to the fact that the price cf cattle has so advanced in this country that it is not profitable to export them. When cattle were shipped to Europe in large quantities, the prices were so low here that farmers coild not afford to raise them. When the price advanced to a point where stock-raising became profitable, the demand abroad fell off because the American cattle and beef came into direct competition with those from Australia, South America and other lands. When these countries can furnish cattle cheaper, they make tho foreign price. The main market, and always tho best market for cattle and all farm staples, is the United States, because it is a constant market and competition is . confined . to American producers. It is, therefore, better than all "the markets of the world." This fact should be borne in mind when the free-trade orator, whether he appears in the importers' tract of the Tariff-reform Club in New York, heretofore furnished by the Cobden Club of London, or in the person of Grbver Cleveland or Jerry Simpson, with the old story that it would be so much better for tho farmer to depend upon the markets of the- world and load a ship with his produce, take it to England or Germany and exchange it for clothing and 6uch articles as he needs just as the farmer of fifty years ago took his wagon-load of wheat to the nearest village and exchanged it at 40 cents a bushel for cotton at twenty cents a yard and brown sugar at 12 cents a pound. The Governor of Michigan, who is a Democrat, has vetoed a bill recently passed by the Legislature to provide for the publication of school-books by the State. In his veto message, after citing tho case of California and the failure of , the State publishing scheme there, he says: "It is not so much uniformity that is needed as that satisfactory textbooks at a fair cost may be furnished to the scholars. Under the bill choice is taken away from the people, whereas now they can avail themselves of all improvements in school literature or any reduction in price from competition." The present law in Michigan provides for free school-books, leaving the choice of books optional with the local authorities.' This is the true system, and the Governor was wise in refusing to exchange it for any other. State uniformity in text-books is not desirable, and it is made still more undesirable when, as in this State, it is coupled with a system which aims at cheap books instead of gooij ones. , Attorney-general Miller is spending a few days in the city looking after some private business and greeting old friends. Later in the season he will take a vacation in New England. Those who kuow Mr. Miller's professional habits know him to bo a very hard worker, anil ho has carried his habits of industry with him to Washington. The law department of the government makes less show than any other, but it is a very important one and full of opportunities for hard work. During tho present administration it has had to deal with several very important questions, some of them entirely new. It has also given special attention to the enforcement of 'law in tho South, the result being several indictments and convictions that are likely to have a very beneficial effect in that portion of the country. There is no danger of the attorney-generalship becoming a sinecure during Mr. Miller's incumbency of the office. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Lady Brooke was a great 'catch" in her girlhood. She was then the pretty Miss Maynard, with a large fortune and a host of suitors. Goddakd Clarke, the juryman who created a sensation, by questioning the Prince of Wales, is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society. Both of Henry Irving's sons have definitely decided to go upon the stage. The younger, Lawrence, had originally intended to enter the diplomatic service. For about twenty-one years General Butler, S. M. Allen and others have been engaged in collecting subscriptions for a monument to Miles Standish4 and $35,000 has been raised. The condition of Prince George, second son of the Czar, according to late reports, is extremely discouraging. Both lungs are now said to be diseased. The young nun's return to St. Petersburg has been postponed indefinitely. The O'Gorman Mahon, whose death is announced, was a picturesque figure in Irish politics in the stormy days when the repeal of the Union was being agitated. Ho

was the beau ideal of the Irish gentleman in fiction proud, rollicking, witty, ever ready for a tight, but always on the side of the oppressed, beloved by his friends and honored by his foes. Alexander H. McGcffey, the author of the famoas spelling-book that has brought knowledge and woe to millions of children, is yet living in Cincinnati, and declares that the work brought him but $500 when published fifty-four years ago. The favorite wife of the Turkish Sultan is said to be Flora Collin, once a poor girl, and the daughter of a French eoal miner. She was placed with a famous French dressmaker, who sent her to Constantinople with dresses ordered by the Sultan's mother. Dr. Math sws, a Biblical scholar, seems to be authority for calling mosquitoes the terrors of the night In his famous "Bug Bible." 1551. La rendered "Thou shalt not be afraid of the terror by night." in the 91st Psalm, "Thou shalt not be afraid of the bugges by night" Robert Louis Stevenson, while a member of a band of art students at Barbizon, years ago, the question arose as to which one of their number could best be spared by the world, ' The vote was unanimous in favor of Stevenson. He has contradicted the wisdom of their choice somewhat emphatically. . SruRGEON's first convert was a woman. Disraeli attributed his success in life to another woman. Still another ruled England when all this was going on. and others still set the Tranby croft scandal going, uncrowned Parnell and retired Sir Charles Dilke. This is evidently woman's inning in the tight little isle. Miss Letter, of Chicago, seems to be carrying London society by storm this journey. Her presence and costumes are quoted in fashionable journals, and last week at the Ascot races she is reported to have been the belle of the "royal inolosure." Mrs. and . Miss Leiter nave been coaching through England with young Mr. and Mrs. J. J. As tor. Emin's announcement that he never expects to see Europe again will not surprise his friends. He seemed so contented with his lot years ago, as governor of the equatorial provinces, that the Stanley rescue expedition appeared not only unnecessary, but ridiculous. It is a curious irony that, after Stanley's fierce insistance on his being rescued, he should take the first opportunity of showing how little it benefited him. Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stows completed her eightieth year last Sunday, There was no special observance of the day, although Houghton, Mifflin &. Co. sent her a bouquet as they have been in the habit of doing for years. Although in mental power Mrs. Stowe is again a child she is in excellent health physically, and almost daily takes a walk of nearly a mile to see her sister, Mrs. Isabella Beecher Hooker, who also lives in Hartford. The decrease of population in Ireland shown by the last census is universal It has b jen going on as rapidly in Ulster as elsewhere. Dublin and Belfast have grown somewhat, which gives a slight increase in the counties of Dublin and Antrim, but every other county has declined, and nearly all of the other large towns. The number of inhabited bouses in the whole of Ireland is 872,669, a decrease of 41,44'J; the number of unoccupied houses is 65,717, an increase of.7,4C0. To the great regret of the friends of the late Dr. Schliemann, many ot the interesting relics dug up by the great explorer in Troy have been stolen and despoiled by the miserable inhabitants of Asia Minor. Turks ana Arabians in the neighborhood of the excavations use the valuable stones to build their huts. After Schliemann's death a man was employed to guard the rums. His salary was discontinued recently, however, and the watchman ceased to guard the excavations. The Stamboal, ot Constantinople, calls upon all scientific societies of Europe and America "to pat an end to the iconoclasm and vandalism of Hhe semi-barbarous inhabitants," and to continue the work ol the great Schliemann. I love the man who boldly lies ' About the tlelx he didn't catch. And always do my very best His most astounding yarns to ma tch. But language can't express tay scorn For the poltroon who humbly tries To make his catches emaUer seem. Lest men should take hia yarn; . for lies. New York Herald.

TOE COMING BATTLE IN OHIO. First of all, McKinley is a national charaoter. and the State pride of which he is the object will prove a potential factor in his favor. Kansas City Star. The "send off" to Major McKinley was as enthusiastic as it promised to be, and the Ohio Republicans enter the campaign with a good deal of power and fire. Springfield Republican. The Republicans of Ohio are on solid ground. They declare war upon free trade and free-silver coinage: and the national Republican party is with them in this fight Buffalo Commercial All's well in Ohio. The Republican hatohet has been buried too deep for resurrection, and all hands have turned out to tight the common enemy. Ohio has set an excellent example to the rest of the country. Minneapolis Tribune. It is absolutely and distinctively a canvass on the tariff. As such, it will be regarded by all; and all friends of protection, no matter how they difier upon any other question, will for tbis reason heartily wish for McKinley V success. Pittsburg Dispatch. Farmers who think they are not benefited by the tariff law may have their viaws changed by reading Major McKinley 's speech of acceptance. He shows clearly how the law works to the advantage of the producers of this country. Youugstown Telegram. Major McKinley has been nominated for Governor of Ohio with more enthusiasm than was ever before manifested in a like case in all the history of the State; and his majority will be large enough to vindicate this opening display of zeal and confidence. St Louis Globe-Democrat The protective tariff and a sound currency are the two achievements of Republican policy which must be maintained in their integrity against free-trade Democracy and the fanatic Alliance. Ohio Republicans have again inscribed on their banners the patriotic symbols of their histonc political faith. Detroit Tribune. With such a leader, an object not only of national . attention but of national respect and enthusiasm, the Republicans of Ohio have the eyes of the country on them this year. We all expect Ohio Republicans to win, and the only disappointment we regard aB possible is that the majority for William McKinley may be nnder 50,000. New York Press. With McKinley at their head, and standing upon a platform so sound in its every plank, the Republicans of Ohio will rid the State of Cainpbellism by a most emphatic majority, and thousands of votes cast by decent Democrats will assist in swelling that majority. The prospect in the Buckeye State is certainly brighter than it has been for years. Minneapolis Tribune. In the present exigency Mr. McKinley'a place is unquestionably at the front He more than any other man in the country represents the central and salient issue upon which the campaign is to be waged, in that he is the creative cenins of the legislation which is on trial, while upon all other points of Republican faith he occupies an advanced and aggressive position. Washington Post . The indications now are that he McKinley) will be elected. The Democrats can do no better than renominate Campbell Ohio is naturally a Republican State, and it would seem that nothing but national disaster, crop failure and bard times can give the Democrats a victory this year, backed as the Republicans will be with every influence that the country can yield, including money. New York Morning Advertiser. The anticipated has come the nomination of McKinley for Governor of Ohio without a dissenting voice. So far as the governorship is concerned the Republican party is a unit There are factions, but

they look ahead to the capture of the Legislature. Foraker is on deck with his banners flying, and bis particular' point of attaek is John Sherman. I ouldbeasad day for Ohio and for the re he country that saw Foraker take t )at of Sherman. But all that contest u .' the future. Philadelphia Inquirer. 'Jma0 In William McKiuly is embodied to an ideal extent all that is distinctly Republican. Every drop of his blood is Republican, lie is in perfect accord with all the principles of tho party. He would no more sacrifice- any one of those principles than he would desert his own child. TLtre is an element of thoroughness and conscience iu his candidacy which appeals to the sympathy of every intelligent and sincere Republican the country over. The rejoicing over his victory would extend to every nook and corn. of the country. North and South, East and West Chicago Inter Ocean. The Ohio Republicans have set an example to the party that it may well follow in every State and in the country at large. Their unanimity and enthusiasm will be a chilling surprise to the over-confident Democrats who, for seven months, have been predicting that the landslide oMast November was a proof that the Republican party is on the point of uisruption, and that Democratio victory next year is among the certainties. So fares the Republicans and the Democrats iu Ohio are concerned, the issue is free trade and protection. If McKinley can carry the State Ohio will be in the Republican column next year without a doubt Philadelphia Press.

BUBBLES IN TIIK AIR. Want to Know. When a house exhibits signs of scarlatina, should the case be put into the hands of a physician or a "housesmithf True to His Faith. "Heah about Hawoldt ' When the Gotrox girl jilted him he twied to poison hunselL 'Pawls gweenf "Of course not He took London purple." Theology and Science. "In some snakes," said the professor, "we find rudimentary limbs, which would Indicate that at one time the serpent was possessed of feet 'Oh, there is no doubt of that, responded Miss Flyppe. The Scripture shows that the serpent made his earliest appearance as a walking delegate." HIS TEMOEA heart. Old Hntchw Has a Throbbing Auricle as Big- as that of Any Ox. CMcseo MslL "'Old Hutch' is just as prominent a figure upon the Board of Trade in Boston as he was in Chicago." said a broker from tho Hub yesterday. "When he first appeared in the city he wore the ismo old familiar Prince Albert black coat and began work on te board in that garb; but a day or two later he entered the chamber dressed in a . brand-new light-colored summer suit of the latest cutaway pattern. Every one noticed the change, and the old man became a target for the messenger-boys, one of whom immediately pinned a placard to the ex-Chi-cagoan's coat-tails bearing the question: 'Where did you get that suit!' When cue of the board members kindly relieved him of this placard the old gentleman waxed wroth to think that he had thus been made the butt of the youngster's merriment Business had but fairly opened before the old man discovered that his back had been ornamented with another placard and taking ott his coat he unpinned from it a piece of pasteboard bearing the legend: 'Oh, carry me back to my old arm-chair in Chicago.' This was too much, and the old speculator immediately stepped into the Eit and demanded that all business should e suspended. It was done, too. Then he made a brief but characteristic speech in which he asked that the guilty party who had thus openly insulted him should be summarily discharged. Of course it was a very easy matter to locate the little culprit and he was incontinently bounced instanter. Then business was resumod "The old man took quite an active part in the dealing and evidently soon forgot all about this rather unusual incident Au hour later as he was leaving the building he noticed a sturdy little chap whoso cheeks were wet with crying and who seemed to be in the deepest of distress. The boy started up and attempted to run away when he saw the tall figure approaching, but "Old Hutch" brought him to anchor by a stern exclamation: 'Here! Come here! Where are yoa goinf Come here, I eay! Now, then, what's up? What's the matter V ' " Oh, sir, I n sded the money indeed ldid and now Pve lost my job forever,' sobbed the little felloe. " 'What job? Oh, come now, brace np. You can't win in this world by crying, my boy. May be matters aren't half so bad as you imagine they are.' " lt was only a joke, sir, and 1 did not intend any harm really 1 didn't; but it's too late to talk about that now my job's gone.' And the youngster began crying afresh. " Vhy don't you go to him, then, and tell him just how the matter stands? Mayfbe he will take you back again when he understands the situation.' " I don't understand you. sir.' " Why, go back to your employer and tell him all about it That's the only way to do now.' " They would never ' listen to me, sir. But if if yon if you would only tell 'em that you didn't care so very much about it after all ' " !!' " Yes, if you please, sir. Oh, if you only would! I didn't intenu any harm when I pinned that card -' "Ah! Aha! So that's it. is it? I see. So you're the young scapegrace, are you, who tacked those cards on my back? Served you just right! Thought you were smart, I suppose. Regular bov's trick. Deserved to lose your job. Just like a boy, thoughjust like a boy. Couldn't expect anything eUe of 'em-' "The old speculator turned to walk away, hesitated, stopped, remained buried in thought for a full minute, and then said quietly: 'You are out of a job now?' "A sob was the boy's only answer. " 'What have they been paying youf . "Seventy-five cents a day.' ' 'Well. 1 guess you ought to be able to earn SI a day then if you work for me. When the board opens to-morrow morning I'll give you enough to do to keep you out of mischief. Come to me then. Sfow run home and wash your face; there's a cood boy.' "And as the little fellow brightened up. brushed away his tears and rau oil to tell his companions all about his great good fortune he seemed to be not a whit happier than the old man himself." DON'T FOOL WITH HOT WEATHER. How to Avoid the Suffering and Perils ot the Summer Season. PhUadelplila Times. A large majority of all classes, conditions and sexes, intelligent and ignorant alike, greatlv multiply the suffering and perils of hot spells by systematically fooling with the excessive heat They Hurry and bother about it and put themselves into needless prostration; they begin early in the morning to gorge their stotoachsyalready xnad? sensitive by unusual heat, jUtb ice water, ice soda, ice cream, ice cold beer, and wage the fool's warfare with heat until they are prostrated by sickness. In short, they fool with the hot spell until they bring upon themselves the worst possible results from it The few wise people who have studied how to disarm hot spells and have courage enough to carry it out philosophically, face the hot sweltering morning serenely, dress comfortably, eat sparingly, drink more sparingly than they eat, and go about their necessary labors with deliberate caro. ,They never fume or fret; never fuss and waltz around to strike a temperature ten or twenty degrees above the thermometer, and they sot aside for a cooler season all oppressive labors that can be postponed. Of course, there aro many persons who must expose themselves to the severe heat Laborers, builders and others whose occupations must be conducted under the blazing sun. can greatly mitigate the serious ellects of excessive heat by temperance in allthings-in labor, in drink, in food, and above all, temperance in temper. Roofers and others working on buildings should avoid work if possiblo in severe hot spells. If they must work they should protect their heads by damp cloths or a fresh cabbage leaf, on the head under the hat, nnd they should at once stop work when they leel dizziness or nausea of the stomach, for they aro danger signals that all should respect Two-thirds of all the serious suffering from hot spells comes from people fooling with the heat. In tropical climes, where

our hottest spells would be temperate summer weather, the people setter less from heat than do the people of our generally comfortable climate. They never fool with the heat; they adjust themselves to it; they regulate their diet drink, apparel and exercise to the situation; they shut themselves up in the beat of the day and enjoy the morniDgs and the evenings, which arc devoted to labor or pleasure. But here, where excessive heat is the exception, we sutler needlessly, foolishly, simply because we persistently fool with the heat and aggravate its results. Don't fool with hot weather. FOUGHT SIXTEEN DUELS.

The Death of the O'Gorman Mahon Closes a Cnrions and Thrilling Career. Phuadeljhls TelegraphJames Patrick Mahon. known to friend and foe as tho O'Gorman Mahon, is dead in London. For some months he Las been in a dying condition, and his friends have been keeping up a subscription to provide comfort for his sick room. He was one of the most historic figures of the House of Commons, ' though his age has alwajs been eonu-thing of a mystery, his biographers giving 103 as the year of his birth. He was born in County Clare. Before the days of Catholic emancipation he was an Irish country gentleman of the hard riding, hard living, hospitable, courteous, duel-fighting type, and one of the largest property-owners of County Clare. His family was an old and noble one, and had long been held in afiection by the people. The O'Gorman Mahon iu tnose days used to dress in clothes of green and white silk, and at the Clare election, at which tho Catholios tent O'Counell to Parliament in 1828, he took a seat among the beams which supported the ceiling of tho court-house, and from that lofty station set the high sheriff of tho county at defiance. It was'.from this elevation that Denominated Daniel O'Connell for Parliament. It was at the reading of the writ in the courthouse that Sheriff Molony told "that gentleman to take oil' that badge" (the symbol of the Order of Liberators). Mahon electrified him with the reply: "This gentleman tells that gentleman that, IX that gentleman presumes to touch this gentleman, this gentleman will defend himself against that gentleman or any other gentlemanwhile he has the aim of a geutleman to protect him." The tlabbergasted sheriff sat down, and. says Shiel. quoting Curran, " 'The soul' of O Gorman Mahon 'walked forth in its own majesty.' " He was O'Connell's firm friend through all the political excitement of the ensuing period. When O'Connell appeared at the bar of the House he declined to take tho oath of allegiance, on the ground that it contained provisions which he couldnot as a Catholio conscientiously accept. A new writ was issued, and Mahon went back with his chief to tight nd tight successfully, the battle over again. Later he was elected to Parliament himself. In 1SJU his election was aunulled, as he was one of the most dangerous advocates of the repeal of the Union, the home-rule movement of forty-five years ago. He was indicted by O'Connell's side and imprisoned with him for taking part ia those immense meetings, which at that time time swept over the country from Antrim to Cork. Later, when the Liberator was dead and the unparalleled agitation had ceased, the O'Gorman Mahon entered the House of Commons as a Radical, and held his scat fiom lSi7 until l&Vi For nearly a quarter of a century he was out of Parliament, during which time he led a curious and checkered life. For awhile ho lived in France and became mixed up with journalistic, financial and Eohtical enterprises in Paris. For a season e lived in South America and rose to positions of authority both in Chili and Peru. He was a general in the Peruvian army, and at one time he held the mo?t important military oQice under the republic, and also had command of their little llect, and his hairbreadth escapes would make a 'hail a dozen exciting novels. When Parnell came to the front and the new crusade for Irish independence was on, this fine old Irish gentleman appeared in Irish politics once more. It was he who proposed against Mr. Shaw the then obscure young squire Charles fete wart ParnelL Mahon was elected to a seat in the House of Commons- agin in 1879 for Connty Clare, and has neldaseat there up totbetimof his death. He has been a firm advocateof Irish nationalism as ithas been exemplified in the policy of the Homo-rule party, and stuck closely to the Parnell phalanx until the O'Sbea affair, when he went over with McCarthy and the anti-Parnellites. The O'Gorman Mahon has been the grand old man of the Irish Parliamentary party. He was in the House of Commons before Mr. Villiers, "the father of f reo trade," Ho remembered Disraeli a stripling, and Gladstone a novice. Thackeray put him in a book, and he has fought during his lifetime as many as sixteen duels. Mahon was a type of Irishman thatiis fast dit appearing, and is now without representation in the House of Commonp. He was the last survivor of thy once multitudinous race of the Irish gentleman, as ready with his oistol as with his tongue. Tall, erect as a pine, with masses of perfectly white hair falling from his head, he has been a stately figure on the Irish side of the Houee of Commons. Personally he bore a somewhat 'close resemblance .tsf Walt Whitman. He never left the House until adjournment, and the dreary hours of tedious debate were whiled away by him in telling entertaining stories of the men fifty and sixty years ago whose lives mako up a large part of English history of the nineteenth century. He was tho man who introduced Parnell to Mrs. O'Shea. He was a man of strict and puuetihous ideas, and when the scandal came out it was reported that he wanted to light a duel with the Irish leader on account of the way in which Le had taken advantage of the introduction. Such, at any rate, was the talk at the time, although It is certain that no challenge ever passed. The birthday of the O'Gorman Mahon was known to be in March, although on the question of age .ho .was always curiously sensitive, and il was a graceful ceremony each year among his friends on the Irish , side of the House to dine with the old man and drink his health. On this occasion last year the Irish grand old man was greatly pleased to receire from the English grand old man a photograph of Mr. Gladstone, with Mr. Gladstone's autograph congrr.tulations attached. Conger's Statements IK lied. Philadelphia Tres. Col. A. L. Conger, of Ohio, who seems to have been the biggest toad in tho antiHarrison puddle that recently collected at Indianapolis, claims that seven-tenths of the Republicans in his State agree with him in his opposition to the reoomination of President Harrison. Just about tho time Mr. Conger was making this assertion the Republicans of burottiit county were voting whether they should send him as a delegate to represent them at the State convention which was in session in Columbus Thursday. He was defeated, on the ground that bis views on the presidential nomination question do not coincide with those of his Republican neighbors. It appears to be time for Mr. CoDger to reverse himself and resume hisiudement, or else stop trying to represent the Ohio Republicans. llrutal.and benieless. Phll4f!t hla KcortL Divested of all the glamour which is attempted to be thrown around it, the fight between Slavin and Kilrain wss. like all others of its kind, a brutal and penselesi exhibition. It may be said that sueh contests show how much the physical system can endure under judicious training; but as there are probably not a hundred prizefighters cut of a population of sixty-five millions, the practical lesou which might be taught would have but little value. The Gauntlet Agalu Thrown Down. Phllalelrfcla I're s. William McKinley and protection are made the watchwords of( the fight in Ohio just a year after an election which a great many hhort-sigbted people thought a final and adverse verdict on the McKinley tariff. Where's That Doom? Washington Tost. The friends of the Isaac P. Gray presidential boom are becoming quite apprehensive. Ithas not been heard from lor several weeks. sis No Hope fur Puny-Cat Gray. Phlhulalphia Press Ex-Governor Isaac P. Gray's middle name is Pusey. In spite of this fact, there are no signs that the cat will jninp this way. An Australlau fcauttroke. Philadelphia Tlmi a. Jake Kilrain now knows what an Australian sunstroke feels like.