Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 October 1891 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, . SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1891.

THE DAILY JOURNAL SATURDAY, OCTOBKK 24. 1S01. TVAsillNCiTON orriCE-513 Fourteenth st. Telephone Call. Tmtntsa Cffif Editorial Itooma Zfl ti:kus or subscription. EAILT BT MAIL. ral!y en'y. one month f .70 I'ailjr n:y, thrre mc ntli 2.00 l.ijy ni'i.iinvyrar - Isiy. iiic.mhne or.rtaj, etc rear..... lo on tctcaj only. one year - 2.00 weix ruRMenzD bt agents. I)iJT. ter wwt, ly carrier 13 eta KDM'iy. sir eleeory...-. 3c:s 1aUj and bund j, per week, by carrlt-r 2u cU WEJtKLT. rcrycar. . Itedared Kate to Club. SuWribe with anycf our numerous agents, or MTld felilAtTlblKCa to 111 JOURNAL NKWSPAPEU COMPANY, iSPUMrCLU, IMTt rri Mrrtinir the Jiurnl tliroiigh the mail In ti e 1 mt t fctatts honM pnt on an eiht-i' I-l er iot-ciMU'tfumww twelve or sixteen lce lajcr a titiist rent-? ataaip. foreign (ttielatically U.uble tl.ee ratra. All rommvmentifjtis luUnttfd for publication in thia lxiixr mutt, in order to rere ire attention, be tie(vwi nmrd by the name and addrtss of the writer. " THK IMHAXAl'OLIS JOL'ltMAL Can te fctir.d at tbe followjnir places: I'Alile American Exchange m Taria. 6 Boulevard .e tajuc'lix a. JfEW OItK Gllaey House and Windsor HoteL rilll ADELPJIIA A. P. KemDie, 37S4 Lancaster areLue. CHICAGO ra!merII(Mise. CINCINNATI J. K. Jlawley Co., 154 Vine street. LOI'isVlLIX C. T. Deering. northwest corner IDrd ai.d Jefletaun street. f T. I.OUIv-t'nion Newi Company, Union Depot at Sbiiilifrn Hotel. WAMIINUTUN, V. C-IIIkjcs House and EDbltt llli The attempts of the News to change its Democratic coloring are as futile as tjio-o of the leopard would be. The color is "sof," so to speak. tTiiE next time tho Democrats of this city want to hear Governor Gray Bpeak they should hire a hall and invito him, instead of taking him all the way to Hamilton, 0., to talk. The News is trying to create the impression that it represents some part, parcel or faction of the Republican party, or some phase of Republican sentiment. Of course this is a false pretense. SlN'CK the middle of September $'20,000,000 of gold has come from Kurope to New York, for the reason that we are

making millions of dollars' worth of poods at home which we formerly purchased iu Europe. The business of the country was never more prosperous generally than at the present time, and yot there has been no such increase of the circulating medium as the alleged statesmen of the People's party have declared to be necessary. Wokd comes from Kansas that Senator Peiier was cornered at a large meeting and compelled by his followers to engage in a joint debate with Ralph liurton, a native of Indiana, who go thoroughly thrashed him that the Alliance people admitted that their Senator was badly beaten. The threo men who are most influential in Tammany in New York are Crokcr, Stokes and Scanriell, and all have been indicted for murder. One was convicted, one let off as insane, and ouo escaped because three jurors stood out against conviction. 'What a triumvirate to sway the destinies of the Democratic party of New York! Since the-Journal published the article of the News indorsing the wholo Democratic ticket, as an answer to its denial that it did so before tho nomina tion of the Republican ticket, it has been as silent na death Upon the question. The News is a full-blown Democratic organ, and will support the Democratic ticket for President next year, Dckino the twelve months ending Aug. SI, 1890. the United States exported manufactured products to the value of $100,577,011, while during the year ending Aug. 31, 1801. eleven months of the McKinley law, the valuo of manufnetured goods exported was $170,509,311. And yet tho free-trade romancer insists that the McKinley law will close the markets of the world to our products. The extreme anxiety of the last Legislature to prevent fraud under tho Australian ballot law led to tho passage of an amendment to prevent tho perpetration of frauds against the Democracy, while leaviug the door open to tho perpetration of frauds against other parties. Tho amendment is based on the theory that Democrats aro strictly honest and only Republicans need to bo guarded against. The next Legislature should repeal the partisan amendment of the last one changing tho location of the poll-clerks' initials on tho ballot, and should restore them to their original position. This would leave all parties on the same footing, whereas under tho present arrangement tho Democrats have an advantage, as it was intended they should. "We are opposed to extending any special protection to tho rooster, especially when it amounts to a discriminating mark on Democratic ballots. There have been two elections under the Australian ballot law, one general and one municipal, and in each one a large number of ballots were rejected on account of alleged "distinguishing marks.1 Iu every instance, so far as known, the number of Republican ballots thus thrown out exceeds the number of Democratic ballots. It is not likely to bo otherwise as long as the Democrats control tho election boards by two to one. TiVir strict tense of justico will always keep tho party vote ahead. The most important action taken by tho wholesale druggists" convention at Louisville was tho adoption of the plan recommended by the American Pharmaceutical Association to prevent the cutting of prices and tho substitution of druggist preparations for standard .medicine. Puanirnous action lias now been taken on the subject by tho Proprietors' Association, the National Wholesale Druggists' Association, by representatives of t.'ie? American Phar maceutical Association, by eighteen thto pharmaceutical associations and tho lute rata to League. - A committee

has been appointed to carry out the details of the plan, and the indications aro that It will bo put in successful operation. The effect will probably bo very beneficial to the drug trade.

A 8TB0XG BPIECH KY EX-GOYEEXOft GRAY. Ex-Governor Isaac P. Gray went over to Hamilton, O., on Thursday, to deliver a Democratic speech. He was escorted by threo or four Democratic clubs of this city, several hundred strong, and invaded Ohio with considerable pomp and circumstance. As Governor Gray thinks he is a candidate for a place on the national ticket, and as his friends aro humoring the idea, it was natural that in visiting a neighboring State ho should desiro to have an impressive es- . cort. His speech at Hamilton was largely an arraignment of the policy and acts of the Republican party. No doubt his admirers would say it was a severe arraignment, but it was not as severe as the arraignments he used to make of the Democratic party. There lies before us a report of a speech delivered by Gov. Gray in Richmond, Ind., March 12, l&GG, in which he said harder things of tho Democratic party than ho is ever likely to say against the Republican party. They were harder because they represented honest convictions and not views formulated for personal aggrandizement. In 1SCG the question of the reconstruction of the Southern SUtes was up. Gov. Gray was seeking the Republican nomination for Representative in Congress against George W. Julian. The latter's views on the reconstruction question were too conservative to suit many Republicans, and Governor Gray was more radical. His speech at Richmond was largely devoted to antagonizing tho views of thoso who favored conferring tho right of suflragc on the late rebels. At the outset he said: Now that the South is defeated and lies powerless at the foet of national authority, the Democrats get up in Congress and say that tho btates are in the Union, have always been in the Union, and cannot go out of the Union, because they are now desirous of an immediate organization of the rebel states, from the fact that they think that by so doing they will mako these States a unit in support of the Democratic party. It is a notorious fact that every State you organize with rebels as voters you make of it a letter A No. 1 copperhead State. And when I use the word "copperhead" I wish to be distinctly understood as to what 1 mean by that expression. I looked into a late edition of the dictionary the other day. and 1 found the word 'copperhead." The detinition given was "a Northern man who sympathized with the Southern rebellion." Now, when 1 use the word "copperhead'1 I mean just what the dictionary says, and If any man here tonight feels offended at my using tbe wotd let him blame the man who made the dictionary, and not me. lor 1 am speaking by the book. The Governor did not say anything about "copperheads" in his speech at Hamilton the other day. Perhaps ho thought it would not be politic for one who was seeking a national nomination from a party that contains all the surviving "copperheads" in the country to do so. In his Richmond Bpeech Governor Gray went on to arguothat the Southern peoplo lately in' rebellion against tho Union had committed treason, and were therefore amenable to the law. Ho teld that by the commission of that crime "they have stripped themselves of all political rights," and that they were entitled to no political rights "except what the federal government 6ees proper to give them." He advocated punishing the leaders of the rebellion and disfranchising all who had taken part in it. As for the ex-President of tho late Con federacy, ho said: 1 believe that Jefferson Davis is a fit subject for trial by court-martial. 1 believe that it is legal, and am sorry that the government has not brongbt him to trial long ago. If 1 had it in my power I would bring him to an immediate trial before a conrtmartial. Condemned I know he would be; then, if 1 could do it, 1 would like to take him upon tho highest pinuaclc in the Nation aud let bun look to the South and seo the misery, destitutiou and desolation he ban caused. 1I might look to the North and fee the mighty prosperity that he could not harm: he might look all over thii great Nation, viewintr these temple of liberty raised up by our fathers and whose foundations they laid deep and strong, and cemented with their mood; tho glorious temples of freedom which his puny hands could not tear down. Ho might then commend his soul to Him who piles tho mountain high, after which I would turn him over to the tender mercies of a rile of negro soldiers and let them send him down to where good men do not go. Readers must not get theso speeches mixed. Governor Gray did not say this at Hamilton on Thursday, but at Richmond, Ind., on March 12, 1600. He is not criticising the course of the "rebels" now. Ho went on to say that ho would disfranchise all who had voluntarily taken up arms against the government and organize tho Southern States with loyal men, and loyal men only. "I am not willing," ho 6aid, "to put a loyal man, either black or white, upon a level with a traitor. For if I am asked to decide who has the best right to vote, tho white man who has carried his musket four years trying to destroy tho Nation, or the black man who has carried tho musket four years in defense of the Nation's life, I would unhesitatingly decide in favor of the negro." Ho insisted that no man who had borne arms against the government should bo given tho ballot, "for ho will accomplish with tho ballot what he failed to accomplish with his musket, if he can." To illustrate, his argument that only loyal men should have tho right to vote in tho reconstructed States ho said: Suppose that the Copperhead party of Indiana bad carried this Slate into rebellion, as 1 have no doubt they would have done in li-6- if they had had the Governor on their side. In that case the federal government would have sent its armies into Jndiana to put the rebels down. The Union men of Indiana would have joined the federal authorities iu their etlorts to subjugate these rebels, the same as the Union men in Tennessee. After you had suppressed this rebellion in your Ma to would not yon Union men have claimed the right to reorganize tho State and ag im restore ail proper relations with the Union! It will be observed that in lbOo" Gov. Gray had a very correct idea of tho position of a large portion of tho Democratic party of Indiana in 18G2, aud ho did not hesitate to call them "tho copperhead party." He did not make any such unpleasant references as this at Hnmilton tho other day. Referring to tho enfranchisement of the negro, Governor Gray said ho was willing to give tho colored man a fair chance, "and if he outstrips mo it is all right." So far as ho was concerned he did uot want any law against amalgamation, but ho added: I will tell you what kind of a law l am in favor of. If I were in tho Legislaturo of Indiana 1

would vote for a law that would lino and punish any negro who might bo found associating with or in the company of any copperhead." In those days Governor Giay was down on copperheads. Time has mitigated the severity of his views. Referring to tho record of tho Democratic party, ho said at Richmond, not at Hamilton: If 1 had the power I would write that record of treason and infamy upon the American heavens, so that every man and woman might read it. in letters of lire. When the rebels under Beauregard and J elf Davis were at Manassas, and Abraham Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers to defend the capital against the torch of these conspirators, these copperheads said Lincoln was a traitor and a despot. I heard Vallandigham say that "Ca-sar had his Brutus. Charles II had ?.is Cromwell, and Lincoln had better take care if he would avoid the fate that overtook them." lie met that fate, and bis blood is upon the hands of the Democratic traitors who by their teachings incited the assassin to the commission of the awful crime. The Democratic leaders and newspapers decried the currency of the conntry, and said the greenbacks never would be paid. Men who love their country are interested in its credit. These men did all that was within their power, all through the war, to weaken eonlidence in the national credit and depreciate the value of the national bonds. These men bound themselves together in secret midnight cabals to plot against the government, and exerted themselves in every poseible way to induce the Union soldiers to desert, secreted them from arrest, assassinated United states enrolling ottirers and mobbed provost mar9halsand draft officers. They did these things because they were opposed to the war in defense of tho Union. At Chicago they declared the war a failure and an unjustifiable waste of blood and treasure. Governor Gray proceeded to show up the record of tho Democratic party at length. All this, be it remembered, was at Richmond, Ind., on March 12, 1800, and not at Hamilton, 0., on Thursday last. In his speech at the latter place ex-Governor Gray arraigned the Republican party. The foregoing extracts from his Richmond speech are printed to show his versatility as an arraigncr.

BELATED INDIGNATION. Much surprise and indignation aro expressed by people who have some regard for good order and decency at tho tcmarkablo address of Judge Buskirk from tho bench to the police. They read in it a proclamation to tho keepers of vilo dens and bawdy-houses, and to sharpers who fatten upon the money filched from the inexperienced and the unwary who arc persuaded to enter theirplaces of robbery, that they can pursue their shameless vocations without fear of the law, so long as their vio-" lations of tho statutes do not become so notoriously noisy as to shock tho public and endanger life. They behold a judge elected by the votes of tho people and sworn to enforce the laws declaring these laws nullities and proclaiming to thoso for whoso repression they are specially designed, that the statutes of Indiana for the suppression of vice and ciimo shall not bo enforced against them. They see this judge, sitting in the seat of justice, admonishing tho police not to interfere with thoso who keep dens of vice and sinks of iniquity, so long as they pursue their law-breaking without disturbing the peace of the neighborhood. No wonder these good people are indignant, but they have not the least cause to be surprised not the least sinco Judge Buskirk, in his speech of acceptance and in more or less feeble utterances on the stump, intimated that he "would not bo hard on tho boys" if he were mado judge. Doubtless quite a number of excellent citizens who voted for him aro indignant now at this unprecedentedand shameless proclamation of Buskirk to the proprietors of bawdyhouses and gambling places to these kings of tho slums to go on in their infamous courses without fear of the officers of the law. It is possible that the friends of law and order may now protest and that tho pulpit may arraign the shameless judge. They may by so doing relieve their minds, but they will not disturb tho man who, as judge, has proclaimed immunity to the purveyors of crime and vice 60 long as committed quietly in their resorts. When tho fight was on, none of them thought it worth while to warn voters of the result of tho election of such a man as Judge Buskirk proclaimed himself to be. Still, every friend of decency who voted for him may now feel that ho is responsible for tho declaration which forbids policcmeu to arrest persons for quietly keeping vile bawdy-houses and other dens of iuiquity. Even the Democratic News, which labored so zealously for tho election of Buskirk, aud which formerly made such parade of its holiness, cannot feel proud of Buskirk and must let some days elapse before it can again speak of the sinfulness of other people. BILVEB-PBQDDCEB8 AGAINST FREE COINAGE. The resolution of the Transmississippi Congress declaring iu favor of the frco coinage of American silver to tho exclusion of all other is significant. The congress was made up of delegates from ! the silver States, and those near them, who may be supposed to bo in favor of free silver coinage now, as they have been in the past. Heretofore, such congresses have declared in favor of free coinage with unanimity, except tho last, held in Denver last spring, at which there. was some opposition to the pet project of the silver-producing States. But hero is a decided change. Why does the resolution confine frco coinage to Amencan silver! Have the silver people learned that tho general free coinage of silver cannot bo carried in Congress and now oiler this proposition as a compromise! Havo they practically abandoned their demand that all tho silver and gold of the world be treated as money, and do they make a new one which admits that the two precious metals cannot be put upon a general equality! Such is the fair inference. The people who aro interested in silver production are not so much in terested in tho freo coinage of all the silver of the world as they are to get 25 per cent, more than tho market price for their own silver bullion. At tho present time the government practically takes the product of the .American silver mines and pays the owners the highest market price therefor. This, however, docs not satisfy them. They want Congress to make their silver worth to them 'S per cent, more than the market price by coining 73 cents' worth of it into dollars which shall be legal-ten

ders for 100 cents. Of course, those who havo adopted tho resolution referred to do not see it in that light, but everybody else does, and consequently everybody elso regards their proposition as preposterous. Should it come into Congress, it would command tho votes of thoso only who represent diver-producing States, and no more. Those who support tho freo coinage of silver because they imagine , that it will mako cheap money cheaper for them will not listen to a proposition which causes tho government to stamp 73 cents' worth of silver bullion 100 cents for the benefit of a few persons. One good result, however, may be expected to follow this demand, and that is the discovery that the most strenuous advocates of free coinage for silver iu tho past are chiefly interested in the enhancement of tho price of their own silver, and care very little for the establishment of a double standard. The free coinage of silver by the commercial world is of lirst importance. That is tho ground upon which the Republican party stands, but, as Secretary Foster said in his speech, Thursday night, it can never bo brought .about so long as Great Britain and Germany are led, by the action of the free-silver-coinago advocates in tho United States, to hope that an American Congress will adopt free coinago for silver and thus relievo them of the necessity of uniting with tho United States to broaden the basis of money by elevating silver to full money power. When they shall be satisfied that our Congress will not assume such responsibility alone, these governments will bo ready to join the United States in an agreement to put silver and gold upon an equality .as money by the establishment of an international coinage ratio. Therefore, the policy for tho United States to pursue, to mako tho most of silver, is to declare against freo coinage? The Union Priuter is a paper published weekly under the auspices of Typographical Union No. 6, of New York, a regular edition of which was issued Oct. 17. Two days later an edition of a spurious paper, bearing that name, containing articles favoring tho election of Mr. Flower, was circulated broadcast among workingmen, giving the impression that the organ of the largest printers' union was in favor of tho Democratic ticket. Tho union at onco passed a resolution declaring that it is not responsible for tho political utterances of any labor publication in tho city, and it was discovered that - the bogus publication was the work' of the Democratic campaign managers, who expected to have it circulated outside the city so that tho fraud would not be discovered. Forgery, however, i3 a Democratic trick in New York. The defalcation of E. F. Garcia, paying teller of the Louisiana National Bank, of New Orleans, presents some singular features. Garcia is sixty-five years old, and has held the position of paying teller for twenty-five years. His defalcations, amounting to . $100,000, cover a period of ltfteen years. He had a small family and was a moderate liver, and the mystery is what he did with so much money, Tho bank is very strong, and the only effect of the defalcation will be to reduce its surplus by that amount. It has a capital of $500,000, deposits of $o',&i7,000,'and a surplus fund, deducting the amount of the defalcation, of $150,000.. When the defalcation became kiiown the bank was authorized to draw on tho clearinghouse for $3,000,000, though the bank is bo strong it is thought this will not bo necessary. ' - - Sin William Gordon Cumming, of baccarat fame, has tiled a protest with the Municipal Council of Elgin against that body appropriating money to be used in tendering a public reception to the Duke and Dnchess of Fife. . As the latter is a daughter of tho Priuco of Wales, the animus of Sir William's action is quite apparent, and not at all creditable. The daughter should not bo made to sutler on account of his grudge against the father. Louisvillk has a dog ordinance which went into effect last April, sincewhen nearly 3,800 do s have been killed. It would not detract anything from the attractions of this city if its superfluous canine population could be summarily diminished in the same proportion.

ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Daniel Doughitv, the silver-tongued orator, made his first money handling the ribbons over his father's 'bus team in Philadelphia. A woman is investigating the Patent Office at Washington to obtain models of women's inventions since the beginning of our history. Jean Ingelow makes herself useful and happy in her old age by spending a large share of the earnings from her books in giving what she pleases to name "copyright dinners" to the poor. The New York alumnus of Mount Holyoke College will build a cottage on the grounds in memory of Mary lirigham, who died before entering 'upon the duties of president, to which she had been called. Tho coat is r.l0D.-Ex-Goveuxor Housed,' of Montana, began life as a surveyor on the Missouri l'aoifio railroad. Ho emigrated to Last Chance Gulch, vhere Helena now stands, and got a job to turn the windlassof a mine hoist. Now he is a millionaire. Miss Bektp.am-Euwakds, the English novelist, is an original sort of woman. She never eats meat, she is an advocate of cremation; she bates Tolstoi and Ibsen, and thinks that The Scarlet Letter" is about the loveliest novel that was ever written. The Jewish Messenger, says that fully three-fourths of the Russian Jews who come to this country, and who have been arriving this year at the rate of ten thousand per month, "tuko to tailoring in some of its forms." It. proposes the establishment of great clothing and cloak factories in the far West. Now Annie Uesant comes to the fore vigorously and energetically, declaring that she never, no never, said that she received actual letters written from Blavatsky and documents signed in Hlavatsky's own hand. She says that she does rtceive communications from the dead high priestess, but that they are spiritual ones rather than the material kind. Tnc Teles Club of Lake Erie is composed of rich American sportsmen, most of them city men. who can alVord to pay eOO a year for one month's fishing. This reason's record is published as black bass to tweutv-iivtk rods. General tfchutitsld took General Sbenden's ptaco in the roll of members, which is very close. Marshall Field aud Gourde M. Pullman are members. The camp ana grounds of tho l'elres are at Point .Sheridan, which is ou the Canadian side of the lake, though named after the great American cavalryman, A good many

thousand dollars ere paid each year into the Canadian enstoms fund by tho Pelees, who say the water is colder and the lishiug consequently better on theCanadian shore. Tzik Cafe Procope, iu Paris, the house which still boasts of having the table at which Voltaire used to sit, 'find wherein Gambetta was freguentlv seen in the early days when he was struggling with all his skill and eloquence against the almost autocratic power of Napoleon 111, was closed not long ago. Siuce then etlorts to reopen it have been made, but without success. The recent proprietor has removed to another part of the city. Dr. Lawsox Tait, the eminent London physician, employs a woman secretary. Dr.-Tait says that he finds her in every way efficient. .She manages bis large correspondence, jogs his memory as to his appointments and keeps his desk free from that chaotic state which overtakes nearly every one burdened with many letters to write ana to answer. Dr. Tait says that, in his long experience, ho has invariably found that women do their work more faithfully and better than men. When only , a few months old no child could have seemed stronger or healthier than little Lord Arundel, heir to England's great dukedom, aud neither the father nor the mother had any idea that anything was amiss with their little son until one day a photographer who was called in to take his likeness, after carefully examining the bright, wide-open eyes of the child, exclaimed: "Surely your graces are aware that this babv is absolutely blind?' Ana 60 it was. The child conld see nothing, and yet the external appearance of the eye was so perfect that the blindness was never suspected.

P1CTUKESQUE OLD VERNON. Artists Steele and Forsyth Exhibit the Good Results of a Summer's Outing. On Talbott avenue, half a square north of Seventh street, is a plain, one-story frame building of a single room which, for the past three days, has received numerous visitors. This is the studio of the artist Theo. C Steele, who, with his colleague, W. Forsyth, is making a studio exhibit of the work thoy have done during tho past summer. The collection embraces twentythree oil paintings, eleven of which are by Mr. Steele and twelve by Mr. Forsyth, together with a dozen watercolor sketches by the latter artist. . With the exception of two portaits by Mr. Steele, one of which is that of the artist's mother, the other that of James Whitcomb Kiley, which is the property of the Indianapolis Press Club, all tho work is from subjects found near old Vernon, in Jennings county. "We were there .two months,' said Mr. Forsyth, "painting out-of-do6rs direct from nature. All we have here is taken from points along the Muscatatuck. a delightfully picturesque stream. The whole neighborhood abounds in spots beautiful to the eye of the painter, though poor for purposes agricultural." Here the artist pointed out a landscape by Mr. Steele, which upon tho catalogue bore the line from Meredith Nicholson, "Dear barren fields, we lay our hearts on thine," as nn illustration. Tho sene represented a cluster of low hills, one of which showed a scanty crop of fodder, while the horizon was skirted by woods. There was an atmosphere of autumu in the picture, with the dry, yellow tin.sof that season aud a richly clouded sky. Mr. Forsyth went on to say that Mr. Steele aud he thought the scenery about the Muscatatack the tinest, from an artistic stand-point, that they had seen in Indiana, superior, even, to Montgomery county, which they had visited and enjoyed. Mr. Steele's most ambitious effort bears the title "Monument Hill." It is not yet completed, but attracts great attention and elicits the admiration of all Visitors. "Vernon Beeches" is another of Mr. Steele's works and oue of the best, technically considered, as to the handling of color. "A Morning Study" (unfinished) displays Mr. Steele's force in light and shade effects. The foreground is not to the artist's liking, but tho distance view is admirable. The other pictures in the collection by this artist are "The Terrace Kocks," "Morning on the Muscatatuck," "Late Afternoon," "The Artist's PaTadise" and "Alter the Kain." Of the paintings by Mr. Forsyth the most pretentions is "The Farmer's Daughter," representing a buxom country maiden about to wake the echoes with the everwelcome dinner-horn. It is a charming picture, bright with sunshine and breezy with country air. Mr. Forsyth is felicitous in the introduction of the human figure into his rural scenes. "Weeds," one ot his pictures, is a fine example of this a tangle of weeds and wild flowers, with here aud there an old log, a couple of children in the midst of the tangle and quite as wild as their surroundings. "In the Garden" (So. 20 on the catalogue). Is one of the completest things that Mr. Forsyth has painted, in all that goes to make a picture. The beauty and trueness to nature in this painting brought an admirer who was quick to buy it and make it his own. "An Autumn Hillside" and "The iilue Pool" are strikingly characteristic of this artist's style as to color and treatment, and are really superior to any work that he did while abroad. His other paintings in this exhibit are. 4A Cabbage Garden." a quaint and charming bit of nature; "A Little Valley," "The Old guarry," "A Lonely Boad." "Meadow Pools," and "A Bit of Lane." Mr. Forsyth's water-colors are as clever as anything in that line that he has previously done. OLIVE BKANCfl SYNOD. Lutherans in Session at Ebenezer Church Officers Elected and Work Accomplished. The forty-fourth annual convention of Olive Branch Synod of the General Synod of the Lutheran Church, convened in Ebenezer Lutheran Church, at Howlands, Ind., yesterday. The opening sermon was delivered by Bev. J. W. Kapp, president of the synod. The roll-call which followed showed a much larger attendance of pastors and delegates than is usual at the opening session of the synod. The president's report made a very flattering showing. The treasurer's report showed that the benevolence of the churches is largely Increased, and that the people are giving freely for all of the departments. Tho synod was reorganized for the coming year bv the election of the following officers: President, Bev. S. S. Waltz, of Louisville; secretary. Her. W. H. Dolbeer. of Grandview. Ind.; treasurer, J. H. Ohr, of Indianapolis. Eev. J. S. Detweiler, D. D., was present yesterday, and delivered an address. He is secretary of the board' of education. Kov. S. B. liarnitz, D. D., Western secretary of the home mission, delivered an address on "Homo Missions." The subject of Kev. George SchoU's address was "roreign Missions." He is secretary of the board of foreign missions, and his address was full of interest, as were all the others. At the forenoon session 500 was raised to liquidate the debt of the Chicago German Lutheran Theological Seminary, and $S was raised"by private subscription to go to the beneficiary education fund. Four new1 congregations were admitted to the synod. They are St. Paul's English Evangelical Lutheran Church and Grace English Evangelical Lutheran Church of Louisville, the Second English Evangelical Lutheran Church of Indianapolis and the Lutheran Church of Bartholomew county. At 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon! the synod was addressed by Dr. G. M. Graw, general secretary, of Witteuburg College. at Springfield, O. Yesterday the names of two young men Rev. I. D. Worman. of this city, and Kev. J. M. Francis, of Louisville werH recommended for ordination and were accepted. The ordination services will take placo to-morrow evening, at 7:30 o'clock, in .Ebenezer Church. State Iluant' of EUucatlun. The State Hoard of Education closed, at noon, yesterday, a two days' session, held at the office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction. Tho most important action taken was tho adoption of a resolution rescinding au order passed in 15. requiring teachers to review certain literary works in order to procure a license.

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Isaac Pusev Grav Went Clear Over Into Ohio to Address Indiana People. The Crowd That Started So Beantifally Fonnd Nobody There to Heet Them and No Barbecue Arranged For at All. Eon. John M. Butler's View of the Political Situation in tho Two States. Thinks New York Is Surely Wen Lccal Republicans Confer on the Sabject of the Recent Ballot Frauds liere. IlEItK'S A PRETTY 31 ESS. Gov. Gray and His Etcort Left to Themselves at Hamilton. A hippodrome barbecue is something new nnder tho sun. The idea of a party of Democrats, with a blare of trumpets, leaving Indiana soil and going into another State to indulge in a love-feast is really amusing in itself. That's the reason the members of the four Democratic clubs of this city are taking turns about kicking each other. Several days ago Governor Campbell's private secretary came to this city, andm behalf of his superior invited the Democratic clubs - to participate in a monster barbecue to be given at Hamilton, 0. Sir Isaac Pusey Gray was also invited to speak on tho issues of the Ohio campaign, and for days he put his best 'foot foremost in tho preparation of a speech a yard long, and of a quality that generally gets moth-eaten while lingering on the top shelf. On Thursday morning a special train carried live hundred or six hundred Democrats to Hamilton over the C, H. & D. Arrived at that city tho natives began to wonder what had broken looso,iu Indianapolis. There was neither brass hand, nor Democratic clubs at the depot to" meet the lloosier delegation, and it' was' soon discovered that the wind had changed and the thermometer had dropped down to zero. When Isaac Pusey, who, up to this time, had been congratulating himself upon his good fortune in being selected to address Ohio Democrats, sized upi the situation, he bethought himself to recall his speech which he had sent to the Sentinel office that morning. So he straightway entered the telegraph office and sent a telegram back to that effect It was of no avail, however, as in a short time he received the follow, ing answer: "Too late. The f. tuff's already set up." The alleged barbecue took place at the fair grounds, some four miles from Hamilton, and there ex-Governor Gray talked to an audience made up exclusively of Indianapolis citizens. Late Thursday night a number of the excursionists got back, and about 1 o'clock a number of them, among whom was Johnnie Costello, entered June's restaurant. "That was one of tho chilliest receptions I ever saw," said he. "There seemed to have been no preparation to receive us, and there was only about 2.000 peo " "How's that, Johnnie?" inquired a Journal reporter whom Costello had so far not noticed. "Wh-hy. I was just saying there wee about lu.500 people there and we had a great time." Most of the department clerks in the basement of the court-house were roped in by the hippodrome, and yesterday they felt and acted pretty "sore." "Isn't it a fact," inquired a Journal reporter of Clerk ltipley, of the health board, that the barbacue was a dead failure?" "Well, it wasn't a howling success," aaid he. "How many people listened to Gray's address. "Not more than two thousand." "How many of them were Indianapolis people?' "Don't know; five . or six hundred I reckon.". Deputy Controller Perrott. whose voice sounded like a horso-rasp in the hands of a blacksmith, was asked how many Ohio people attended the barbecue, the reporter depending on Sam's well-known veracity in matters political to secure an accurate statement. 'T wBout forty thousand," said Sam, as he reluctantly lifted his eyes from a building permit on which the notarial fee it 25 cents. isthatrightr - "Well, there mast have been ten thousand people there, - anyway. 1 tell you we had a ga-lorioua old time." The reporter, spent a cood part of the afternoon, yesterday, trying to rind a member of a Democratic club who could explain why Governor Campbell absented himself from the "barbecue," after having sent a epecial invitation to ir Isaac Pusey Gray to attend, but the search was uneventful and not attended with success. The most disgusted Democrat in the whole outfit was Martin Murphy, newly-elected councilman-at-large. MV'y h Ir'iaid he last night, "none o' them fellers there knew there was anythiug goin' on till we got there. The central commit teo had canceled its engagement an' decided to have no meetin', but the railroad company went 'ahead an' took us down there." IX 'KV YORK AND OHIO. Hon. John M. Butler Thinks the Former Is Certain lirlce and His Money. Hon. Johu M. Butler has returned from an extended ' business trip to Eastern points, including New York and Washington. To a Journal reporter yesterday he gave an encouraging report of political conditions in the Empire States. "1 believe the Eepuhlicans are going to carry New York," said he. "The party is united, agresslve and enthusiastic, and un less in the improbable event of a reaction, Mr. Fassett will capture the State-house by a handsome majority." "What is the condition of the Democracy!" "The Democrats are apathetic and disorganized." "What is the cause of it?" "The principal reason is a general revolt against the impudent encroachment and the tyranny of Tammany Hall. At tbe Kochester convention Tammany gobbled everything, and nobody else nor any other organization had a ghost of a show. Asa result the County Democracy of New York returned home terribly sore, and these sore spots have made no progress toward healing. The chasm is as wide and deep to-day as it was the day after the Kochester convention, and the Democratic support that Fassett will receive in New York aud Brooklyn will be 'something tremendous. Beside this, the nomination of Flower was a weak one. He is a man of no ability. Has nothing to commend him but his barrel. You will notice that you don't bear anything more of Slower, lie made two or three speeches and each time got his foot in deeper than before, and tbe Democratic leaders pulled him off and muzzled him. Then, too. Hill got his foot into ittwo or three timet and "lately you hear nothing more of Hill. 'Altogether the condition of the Democratic party in New York State is such as to excite the utmost apprehension and commiseration of its friends, wherever one can be found." "Have the New York Eepuhlicans any special elements of weakness?" "None to speak of. There are a few extremely pood fellows over thre, most too good to live, but hardly good enough to die. who are howling about i'Jatt. but they are not seriously disturbing Piatt or the party. As I said before, 1 believe the signs point to a great Kopublican victory in New York." - "How about Ohio?" "1 have been- iu Ohio live or six times since the campaign opened, aud I'll frankly av that 1 havo grave doubts about Ohio. The ItMpublicans are talking about carryinz tho State by thirty or forty thousand, but to my mind theiuois very uncertain. This uucertainty, - to my mint!, roini'S from the Fa nn eis'. Alliance aud the nlIfged dissahvction among the Democrats in Hamilton county. I am very much afraid that there U a deal pn between the Democrats and the Farmers' Alliance, by which the vote of the latter is to be delivered to

th former. Cal Brie has been bashwnacking aroutd in Ohio for weeksand Mr. Brice is too buv a man to be spending that much time in Ohionthorforhishealta or pleasure. 1 am afraid that Brice i tampering with this Furmrra AUiam e vote, I heu there is a cl.ance that this disaffection in Hamilton county may be patched "p. 1 understand that overtures to that end are in progiess. If the defection in Hamilton county is healed, and . tl.a Alliance vote is stampeded to the Democracy, mark it, they . - will rub McKinley awful close If thev do not defeat him. My notiou of It is that McKinley will be elected bv a very narrow margin, or else it will be a Kepublican land-slide. It all depends ou the Farmers' Alliance and the Hamilton county Democracy."

REPUBLICAN CONPEBENCE. Those Fraudulent SaIliru,Atone IJ allots and Other Topics Diieutted. A conference of twenty-live or thirty prominent Eepuhlicans who were moro or less active participants in the late campaign was held last night in ex-Mayor Clrubbs's office to try and figure out how it cauie about that there were L200 odd votes for Sullivan alone at the last election. The meetiug opened with a little talk from exMayor Denny, in which he stated his theory thus: , ' According lo the newspaper tables published after the canvassing board completed Us w ork last week, tho average phiralitv of tbe lien-Horatio candidates tor city elerkpolice ludcn aud the six ceuncSliiien-nt-large was 1,400. Mayor Biilllvau received 1.2S2 more votf than the avvraire of tlit-ne ciht party associates on his ticket. Dcdte-ing this from his returned Plurality of over Mr. Herod would lesve hU plurality 1.440, or lil more thnn tlie average or Lis a!H'iatc. How are ve to account for the l.'jsj tickets that wtre can lor Mayor Sullivan aud no one . eiet It cannot be done on any honest theory, that is certain. To say that there v ere ce.iriy 1 .'.Unj voters In this city who deliberately weut to the iclls and voted for Major bulllvaa alone, wifnout 60inc preconcerted arraBgeuient fonoed iu advance, in to 6tato an absurdity, tnnjh a tiling never occurred la this city before, orlnauy other, so far as we havo any knowledge; and if there had not been toiuo corrupt methods employed to nciouiplih It. it vould not have occurred iat week, in my humble judgment. Men are not in tho habit of voting lor a blngle person on a ticket where thirty names appear. It is not natural or reasonable that they .Uould. Ius even if they were accustomed to vote th.it way, they wouldn't all. or nearly all, vote for tbe . same person. - - I have been told by a gentleman, than wboia none stands higher in this community, that he overheard a convcrtatlou between a number of Democrats, a day or twobelore the eleetiou. Indicating plainly that a seheiije had been perfected absolutely Insuring Sullivan's election. The geutleiuan referred to says that the principal spokesman In the party insured tbe others that they ned have no fear whatever about betting their money on Mayor fculli van's election, and wheu plied with questlocs as to Low he could kuow that Sullivan would be elect!, said that he had it from reliable sources tu.u the matter had been "fixed," and quoted the name of a gentleman high in police authority an oue of the persons from whom his Information had been derived. The same gentleman also overheard another conversation about the same time between two well-known Democrats to tbe same effect; that is, that hulllvan's election was au assured fact. 1 heard the same police othciAl alo e referred to, ou tho otternoou of election day,tell a party of his Democratic mends that Sullivan wculd havo ir.&CO majority. Ills manner Indicated that Le was entirely sincere In that belief, and I have no doubt he was. Yet we all know very well that without onie inside information he could not have believed any such thing. No intelligent man of his party, except the few w ho had inside Information, believed that Mayor Sullivan would get more than a few hundred malerlty, at most. The fact Is. many Democrats. well informed and usually well up in party secrets, believed that Mr. llerod would be elected for several weeks before the election. One of Mayor Sullivan's most intimate personal and political frjends, a man of excellent Judgment and Information, told a llepublicnn friend iu confluence about a week before the election that he believed Sullivan wo ild be defeated. Another Democrat, holding a high oihce in this county, also a warm irponal and political friend of Mayor Sullivan, said the same in etlect to me a few days before tLe election.- At the time theo declarations were being made bv the persons tef erred to (w hich could be multiplied iLdennitely), I think fully one-half of all the Democrat ia the city expected Mr. Jlerod would bo elected, and I doubt whether a dozen could have been found who knew nuythlng about the feeling throughout the city, who would have truthfully stated that they exiecred him to get more than five hundred majority. Up to Friday before the eleetiou a Herod victory was "in the air." as oae prominent Democrat ex5 tressed it to me. A week before the election M r. lerod was clearly ahead In the race. Bvery body felt It, and there can be little doubt that an honest vote, taken at that time, would have civen him a clear majority. But on Friday the Democratic"barrer' was opened. On Saturday the feeling everywhere changed. Democrat who had neither had money nor confidence be To re had plenty of both from that time onward. Their bets were all made on Sullivan only. Their instructions from headquarter were to bet on Sullivan; nobody but Sullivan. lie was the candidate on their ticket whoee election had been'' fixed and while only a select few knew Just how it had been done, they had the Information given to them by party friends in a-way that satisfied them It was true. And th.y were not deceived. The chance of twehe hundred Herod votes 1 to 8 Jllivnn had been arranged, which of course made the result certain. Take This 2.400 of a chause, together with the hundreds of ordinary "kickers" who were induced" to fall Into line alter the ban-el was opened, and the llerod victory of a week before was chanced to a Sullivan cne. More mouey was used by the Democratic commit te by many thousands of dollar, than was ever handled lr any party in a local contest here before, it did the work. By the frauds practiced last week the "wide-pc-n' policy of this administration. Indorsed by the News, has been continued, tbe gamblers, Fa-looo-keepers and law-breaker of all clasps have secured two mure years of protection In their various lines ot business, and the beer pyndicate, liquor league, corporations vasting extensions of their franchises and otheis who opened their pocket-books to the Democratic committee, will no doubt get back their donations, with interest, before tbe next election. Then the people will have another chance to correct the evils that now exist, and not till then. In the meantime, however. It U not Impossible that some of the fellows who debauched the ballot box last week may be run down. If each of us will constitute himself A oommittee of one to bring these scoundrels to justice we will have done a good work. Dr. Wagner visibly demonstrated how, nnder the amendment requiring the initials to go over the rooster, the inbpector could note every Democratic ticket cast. This subject was disposed of by agreeing that the Ohio committee should be notified to watch for similar frauds in the coming election in that State. The conversation then took a general turn, and 1L F. Catterson's eelf-confested Democracy came in for a 6hare of the discussion. The fact is very generally recog. nized that the Republican party now has no representative on the Board of l'ublio Safety. Another point discussed briefly was the lack of Republican organization in Indianapolis. It was recognized as one of the most important questions the party has to deal with, and it is likely that another conference may be called to deal with this subject alone. WILLAKD FOUNTAIN Placed in rosltion Yesterday Troram me of the Dedication Exercises To-Day. Tbe dedication of tbe Willard fountain at the corner of Washington street and Virginia avenue, will occur to-day at 2 p.m., nnder auspices of the Indiana Loyal Temperance Legion. The children who will assist in the programme will meet at Roberta Park Church, at I o'clock, and will march in a body to the site, Tho programme will open with a song by the children, "March of the Loyal Legion." An invocation by Hex. J. A. Kondthaler, a song. "Temperance (iirls and Boys are We," and address by Mrs. J. IL Nichols, president of the Indiana V. C. T. U.. and a song by the children again, "aloutis Must (Jo," will follow in order. Master C'onnett will make tho presentation speech, and Mayor Sullivan will respond. The children will sing, We'll Never Touch the Wine." and after tho reading of letters from prominent workers, the temperance dot olo?y and benediction will close the exercises. The fountain, a very artistic bit of work in iron, was placed in position yesterday. Out It Sio.ooo. The bone of contention that has caused the relations between the IState Board of Agriculture and the fctate Auditor's otlice to become highly strained, and which threatened to result in the severance of all diplomatic negotiations between the two, has been removed and buried imu of sight, 'ihat ten-thousand doIlarappropriHtion hi been paid. Yesterday Treaourer Sylvester Johnson presented himself at tho oiiice of the Auditor, the warrant was draw n aud receipted for. and tbe State-house is again at profound peace with itU