Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 December 1891 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1891.

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THE INDIANA ro LIS JOURNAL Can be found at tLe fonowing places: PA It I s American Exchange la I'aria. SG Boulevard do Cap'iclne. NEW YORK Gilsey Heme and Windsor Hotel. "PHILADELPHIA-A. iTxemMe, 3735 Lancaster avenue. CHICAGO raimer Houae CINCIXXATI-J. It. Hawley & Co.. 154 Vine stree L LOUISVILLE?. T. Leering, northwest corner Third and Jefferson strut. ST. LOU I Union New "torapany; Union Depot and Sum hern lio eL TAS!!I3iQTON I. C Riggs House and Ebbitt Jlouae. As the Journal announced m advance, Mr. Bynum war not in it. The last ballot iu tho Democratic caucus Saturday showed that G7 of Mr. Crisp's 91 votes were from tho Southern States, while 57 of Mr. Milla'a 01 were from tho Northern States. "While there is sadness in the editorial rooms of the niorniug and evening Democratic organs over the defeat of Mr. Cleveland's man Mills, there abides a gleam of satisfaction in the eyes of Isaac Pusey Gray. One does not run the risk of punishment for perpetrating a pun when he casually remarks, apropos tho result of tho contest for tho speakership, that this ia very, crisp weather for tho mugwumps and tho Cleveland too-goods. During the fiscal year ending June GO, 1600, wo imported 8.000.000 pounds of cotton, worth S 1,502,000. This is why the South Carolina cotton-planters are asking for protection. Tho imports of cotton are becoming largo enough to alarm them. We do not know that the new Speaker is at all deaf, but it is likely that sever 1 members from the Northern States will lind it harder to make him hear when they say "Mr. Speaker" than they would if Mills had been elected. Our Bynum will bo one of these. The Governor of Kentucky has just pardoned out of the penitentiary a boy of eleven years of age, 6cnt there for burglary. It is a shame to send children to a prison where they are compelled to associate with hardened criminals. Kentucky should have a reform school for toys. In 1SSS the Prohibition candidate for. Governor of New York received 30,215 votes. This year the candidate of the same party received S0.433. The fact that the party is making no appreciable headway should convince the owners of those votes of tho folly of throwing them away. During the liscal year which ended June SO, 1S00, tho sales of. Americanmade locomotives abroad amounted to $1,2S0,G0G. while during the last fiscal year, of which eight months were under the McKinley law, the value of locomotives exported was $2,424,350. And yet tho free-trader continues to assert that tho McKinley law is "stifling" our foreign trade. Again there comes a report to tho effect that the representativeaof tho State of Virginia and those of tho holders of tho long-dishonored bonds of that State liavo agreed upon a compromise by which the holders shall receive $19,000,000 of bonds, bearing 2 per cent, for ten years and 3 per cent, for ninety years, for their $28,000,000 of bonds. It remains to bo seen if a Virginia Legislature will ratify finch an agreement. Because General Mahone and others proposed a plan much more favorable to the bondholders, they were denounced asrepudiators. Among thoso "thoroughly wounded in every respect" in tho speakership contest is the Hon. William D. Bynum. He announced his retirement as an aspirant for the speakership in the proclamation of a great leader, and declared a purpose to march into tho Mills camp with tho Indiana delegation. When the roll was called iivo of the eleven did not respond with their would-bo leader, but turned up with Springer and Crisp. Thi3 experience ought to teach Mr. Bynum that he is not in the front rank of Democrats in tho House in the estimation of his associates. " In his speech to tho caucus thanking it for his nomination, Mr. Crisp said: "I pledge myself here and now to devote whatever of industry and ability I possess to tho Advancement of the real interests of tho Democratic party." There spoke the Democratic partisan. Suppose that President Harrison had said in his inaugural address, "I pledgo myself here and now to devote whatever of industry and ability I possess to the advancement of the real interests of tho Republican party." The country would have been shocked. Yet the Speaker of tho House of Representatives is as much the representative of all tho peoplo as ia tho President, and has no more right to be a partisan. Ho is put there to serve tho country, and not his party. Tun late order of tho President dispensing with examinations for promotion in tho classified Rervirr, while it may provoke the criticism of tho theoretical advocates of .civil service, will commend itself to practical people. The best test of a clerk's capacity and faithfulness is his record. If promotion can

bo attained by an examination which may involve study, he will be likely to spend his timo in preparation to pass such a test. If his work is made tho criterion of his fitness for promotion he will have an additional incentive to give tho dopartment in which he is employed the best service of which he is capable. In short, tho order change? promotion from a theoretical to a practical aud attested basin.

THE KI5D OF CLUE3 WE WAHT. It is now admitted that the mostpotcnt agency in the recent Republican victory in Ohio was tho Republican Leaguo clubs, of which there were nearly eight hundred in the State. These clubs were formed very early in the campaign, and as it progressed they becamo a powerful factor, bringing Republicans together, forming centers of local energy, creating and disseminating influence, distributing literature and stirring up things generally. They also did excellent work in teaching Republicans how to vote under the new law and in getting out tho vote on election day. Theso clubs worked harmoniously to a common end in Ohio, notwithstanding the fact that there was a senatorial tight involved and tho party wa3 divided into Sherman and Foraker factions. Although it was known that thero would bo a close and, perhaps, bitter contest over the senatorship after the election, that question was kept completely out of 6ight. Sherman and Foraker and their respective friends nil over tho State stood shoulder to shoulder in lighting for the common cause. Everybody knew that the senatorial fight would open after tho election, but everybody agreed in keeping it out of sight until then. There was not a singlo Sherman club or Foraker club in tho State, but thero were eight hundred Republican clubs, containing Sherman men and Foraker men, all working night and day for the success of tho party. This was good politics, the result being that they carried tho State by 21,000, and were all able to unite in glorifying over McKinley's election. The Legislature being secured by a largo majority, the senatorial fight is now on, and will continue until ended by the Republican caucus. There is a lesson in this for tho Republicans of this Stato. The first lesson is the importance of forming local Republican clubs. Beyond a doubt such organizations are of great value In a political campaign. If Ohio had eight hundred clubs 'Indiana ought to havo five hundred. This would average less than six to a county, and whilo some counties might not be ablo to support so many, others should havo more. Thero is room in this State for live hundred Republican clubs. Such nn organization as that, with a. common purpose and working under a common inspiration, would be invincible. Tho Ohio clubs wero not formed till tho beginning of tho McKinley campaign. That showed rapid and effective work, but it would havo been better if they had been formed sooner. There is more work for Republicans to do in Indiana than there was in Ohio, and therefore they should get about it sooner. The other feature of the lesson from Ohio is that our clubs should, for the present, all bo Republican clubs. In Ohio they had no Sherman clubs nor Foraker clubs. In Indiana we should have no Harrison clubs nor Blaine clubs, at least till after tho Minneapolis convention has met and spoken. No doubt Harrison and Blaino each has friends enough in this Stato to form a largo number of clubs, but it would hardly bo advisable to organize the party on that line, or rather on those two lines. Tho question of presidential preference ought not to be niado a test of membership in any Republican club. Let it be taken for granted that preferences exist, but let them be kept in tho background for the present and made subsidiary to tho larger and moro important work of party organization. The action of the Minneapolis convention is not going to be affected in tho slightest degreo by tho organization of Harrison clubs or Blaine clubs in this State, while the efficiency of the party organization may bo thereby seriously impaired. What we want is Republican clubs and plenty of them, and they should be so organized that after tho Minneapolis convention shall havo spoken they can all become enthusiastic Harrison clubs or Blaine clubs, as tho case may be, without change of front, change of principles, qj change of name. ESD OF THE SPEAKERSHIP CONTEST. Tho only man who comes out of tho speakership contest with any decided credit or gain of prestige is the successful candidate. All the rest suffered not only defeat but humiliation. Before tho caucus met Mills, McMillin, Springer and Hatch each claimed a good many moro votes oh the first ballot than ho received, and none of them at any time reached their ante-caucus mark. Mills was confident of election on tho first or second ballot, and each of tho others was sure he would bo the successful dark horse. All their claims were ridiculously wide of the mark. Mills was tho only one who developed any drawing qualities, and he could not draw enough votes to elect him. Tho others apparently were only in the race for trading purposes. Tho turn of events enabled Springer to pose as a self-sacrificing patriot, and. when he finally cast the conclusive vote for Crisp ho became tho hero of the hour. Nobody enjoys that sort of notoiiety more than he, and if he ever had any idea of being elected Speukcr his disappointment tit defeat was no doubt greatly alleviated by tho fact that ho was able to cast tho decisive vote for tho successful candidate. Mills owes his defeat to tho fact that he allowed himself to bo made so distinctively and offensively the Cleveland candidate. If he had made tho race on his record as a party man without any entangling alliances he would doubtless have been nominated. The logic of the situation pointed to that result, and it would havo worked out that way if his campaign had not been conducted in such a way as to drive oft votes that, if left alone, would havo gone to him. It was not neccssacr for him to sell out to

Cleveland, boily and soul, in order to get the support of Cleveland's friends; they wre bound to support him anyhow. It was not necessary for him to make an offensive parade of the fact that he wag distinctively tho freetrade candidate, and therefore the representative of Grover Cleveland; everybody knew that. He should havo raised the Democratic standard instead of unfurling tho Cleveland flag. When he permitted himself to bo mado a mcro figurehead for Cleveland he lost something of his personal strength, and became offensive to many because ho represented a sort of executive dictation and interference. Not only had Mills formed an alliance offensivo and defensive with Cleveland, but the ex-Prcsi-dent himself was there in the persons of his ex-Secretaries, Vilas and Dickinson, and many of his personal friends, trying to force "mo and my policy" on tho party, whether or no. Enough Democrats resented this dictation to make the success of tho Cleveland candidate impossible. Tho nomination of Mr. Crisp is ft great triumph for him personally. His opponents mado a bitter fight against him, declaring that he represented all that was bad in the Democratic party. So he does, but only because he is a typical Democrat. Tho editor of the Sentinel telegraphed from Washington to his paper that AH tho advocates of big subsidies to steainbips, led by Congressman Amos Camming, of the New York San. are for Crisp. Tho Pacific railroads are for Crisp, and their attorneys are onthu ground and sparing no effort to elect him. He is on n-cord in favor of extending their debt to the government fifty years, which would amount to canceling it. All the land-grab railroad influence is exerted in his behalf. The reactionary and bourbonish elements of the party are unuutmously for tho Georgia candidate. Senator Gorman is for him because Senator Gorman has never been entirely cured of the protection disease. Governor Hill is for him because the Governor believes that the deflator Mills would givo tariff reform a black eye. ana thereby promote his own presidential chances. Tammany Hall is for CrisD because it is not in tull sympathy with the progressive ideas represented by Mr. Mills. There wa3more of the eamo sort, and readers of tho Sentinel were assured that "the reactionary forces must bo routed in this battle, or Democratic success next year will bo seriously jeopardized." Wo are always glad to soe Democratic success endangered, but wo do not think the election of Crisp will contribute to that end any more than the election of Mr. Mills would havo done. Both are Southern Democrats of the most pronounced type, with little or no ground to choose between them politically. Crisp is as much of a free-trader as Mills, and his election does not signify any change in the policy of the Democratic party on that score. Its voice is still for war against American industries. Mr. Crisp embraced tho first opportunity, in his speech thanking tho caucus for his nomination, to declare that no man in the Demooratic party moro earnestly believed in "tariff reform" than ho did. The Republican party has nothing to expect from Mr. Crisp. Personally, he has more tact, courtesy an(l self-control than Mills, and will therefore make a better presiding officer; but, politically, ho is a typical Southern Democrat, no better and no worse than tho man from Texas. Au Englishman by birth, a soldier in the confederato army, a free-trader, nn enemy of fair elections and an ardont supporter of all tho dogmas of tho Democratic party, Republicans must not suppose that his election over Mills signifies more than tho triumph of one Democratic faction over another. The one thing that it does represent is tho defeat of Cleveland, and even that may prove only temporary. Mr. Cleveland has been knocked out in this round, but he may come up smiling when timo is called. Ho possesses a good deal of vi

tality and has a strong hold on his party. Meanwhile, it remains to bo scon if Mr. Crisp is an anti-Cleveland man. CUE LOCAL ADmSISTBATIOH OF JUSTICE. The Washington (Ind.) Democrat has a vigorous editorial concerning tho recent unsuccessful attempt at lynching in this city, tho burden of which is an arraignment of tho local authorities for not having arrested and ' punished the leaders of tho mob that attacked tho jail. The article concludes: Why waste time and energy in calling upon the Governor to suppress and bring to punishment the Wnite Cans of Crawford and Harrison counties, whose brutal lawlessness has mado tbo name of Indiana a byword and reproach throughout tho country! Why denounce lynching in Clay, Clinton and Martin counties if similar ollenses are committed within the very shadow of the Capitol, in the heart of the city of Indianapolis, aud ore passed over in silence by tho public press and condoned and excused by the public oilicers? If tho law is to be openly defied and trampled under foot at tho seat of government, at its source, where the Jaw is enacted and expounded, within sunshot of the executive olhcer in the largest city of tho State a city proud of its wealth, intelligence and refinement, and the motley mob that dclies the law and terrifies the courts is to go unpunished and its crime in such a community condoned, what can wr expect what havo ve a right to expect from the untutored native of Crawford county? Indianapolis owes it to itself, it owes it to tho good name of tho State, it owes it to. law, to peace and good order, to wipe out this disgrace by stamping out at the threshold this spirit of lawlessness and bringing tho guilty parties to justice. There has been about as much lawlessness in Daviess county, where tho Democrat is published, as there has been in either of tho other counties above Lamed, and until quite recently littlo or no attempt to check it. It is not surprising that papers published in counties which havo been scored by the Indianapolis press for tolerating mob law should seek to get even by turning the tables on the capital city, but there is a great difference between the recent abortive mob in this city and the longcontinued outrages in the White Cap counties. Ours was not a completed crime, and thero was no such defiance of law or paralysis of justice as has existed for years past in some of tho White Cap counties. Moreover, the case is not ended yet. Tho attention of tho grand jury has been called to it, and it is probable that indictments will bo returned against thoso who are known to have been participants in the affair. The Journal is of opinion that our au thorities are open to criticism in that the polico did not arrest the lenders of tho mob at tho time it occurred, and that it was undignified and cowardly to

rush Bissow's trial through and hurry j

him out of the ciwy ns if another outbreak wero feared or could not bo put down. The polico should havo routed the mob as soon as they had collected sufficient force, and should havo arrested the leaders on sight for participation in a felony. After that tho authorities should have proceeded to try Bissow In a deliberate manner and with out exhibiting any fear of an outbreak, which was not likely to occur, and which, if it had occurred, could havo been easily suppressed. There is this much ground for criticism, but these errors will bo measnrably atoned for if the leaders of tho mob are? yet arrested and punished as they ought to he. Those Democratic and Cleveland or gans which have been declaring that Mr. Crisp is tho representative of the worst elements of tho Democratic party, tho candidate of Jay Gould, the landgrabbers, the Louisiana lottery ring and what not, will spend tho holiday 6eason in a daily diet of crow. They may bo 6ilcnt, but if they are it will be to eat their crow in silence, so as to be forgot ten. If half tho things, or, indeed, any part of tho things, charged upon Speak er Crisp and his supporters are true, ho should be expelled from Congress. They are not true, but they aro just as true as tho slanders which havo been kept up against leadjng Republicans in Congress and in public life for years. They are all false; yet these editors, so soon as they find a man an opponent in national politics, set about slandering him. They and thoso only wiiom they favor are political immaculates. They havo received a castigation in tho Crisp affair which they should remember. It is highly probablo that the Presi dent's message, which will . bo sent to Congress to-day, will treat the Chilian incident in a manner that will cause a revival of public interest in tho affair. It must bo remembered that no satisfactory answer has yet been made by Chili to the demand of this government for an explanation of the attack on the sailors of tho Baltimore. Pending the settlement of the question a powerful fleet of American vessels has been made ready to sail on short notice, and it is possiblo tho President may suggest such action by Congress as will result in starting tho vessels for Chili. In other words, it is probable ho will make such a statement of facts as will leave Congress no alternative but to authorize tho President to present an ultimatum to Chili to bo enforced by the prcsenco of a strong naval force at Valparaiso. Philadelphia people have been holding a fancy fair, lor tho purpo3o of adding to a teachers' annuity fund lately established. Public-school teacherseach contribute a certain sum monthly to this fund, and are entitled, after a certain term of teaching, to draw a small annuity for tho rest of their lives. This scheme is well enough in its 'way; but a much better way wbuld bo for publicschool teachers to bo paid enough to enable them to save something out of their incomes for a timo of - need. Moro and moro is constantly demanded of teachers, but there is no corresponding increase of salaries. It'is an overworked and underpaid profession. In a recent interview Senator Carlisle, of Kentucky, predicted that the election of Mr. Crisp as Speaker would lose the Democrats many thousand votes in New York and New England. Senator Carlisle has been tarrying in New York city and vicinity the greater part of the timo the past few months, and consequently has been able to estimate the nature of the anti-silver sentiment iu that section. Republicans sincerely hopo that Mr. Carlisle is in spired with tho spirit of genuine prophecy! : ; ' TnE delight of that eminently useful Democratic newspaper, tho New York Sun, is well-nigh boundless, not so much over the success of Mr. Crisp as tho defeat of Mr. Mills, the Cleveland candidate. Tho usefulness of tho Sun as a Democratic organ is not fully appreciated by a largo section of tho party, and its ecstasy now, is one cause of tho disgust and grief of the element which can see no Democratic party which is not led by Mr. Cleveland. From timo to time, us the returns come in, tho Kansas City Journal publishes figures showing tho mortgages recorded and released in tho various counties of Kansas. A report from Graham county shows that during November the mortgages recorded amounted to $1,615 and thoso released to $30,G30. This has been a great debt-paying year. Commenting on the increasing demand for California wines in France, where they are "doctored" and sent back hero as French wines, tho Chicago Tribune says: The people of this country who consume what they believe to bo French wines, and payrornl C rices therefor, do not seem to be aware that a ig percentage of the material went lirt from our oven I'ncirJo slope, and that they could have procured the same article much tnoro cheaply by takinc it dirtM-t. it !a also true, though little known, that thu California wines are to a treat extent labeled In ban Francisco as tho product of French vineyards, nn I sold in tho United States as neh without oing ncroa the Atlantic nt nil. Still moro of it U tcit to New York, and there put up aud labeled as tho French article. The careless buyer of "French wines' in this part of the world 1 almost sure to bo imposed on with nn article that has never been In Europe, anil two-thirds of the price he pays i a premium on the rankest kind of fraud. Hut if the buyer insists on bavin "t:ie real imported nrticie" he is by no means rure of getting wine made from grapes grown in France. It is trango that thero should be such a general support of this wholesa le swindle by which perhaps more than 00 per cent, of the winc-driukers of this country are victimized. The French Chambers are about passing a measure which-requires every person intending to reside, even temporarily, in France, to make declaration to that effect, and receive, on payment of S francs, a formal permit. Persons who fail to make such application inside one week after arrival will ba punished by fines ranging from $3 to 620. It is claimed that this order has been made necessary in order to detect the spies and pretended laboring men, who are in reality Socialists, who go to France to settle to engage in agitation. France does not want the Anarchists of other countries. Any person who bas lost a head with a high forehead. Roman nose, thin set lips, gray eyes, stitf black hair and beard, can hear of something to his advantage by inquiring at the morgue, in New York. In order to avoid mussing np the furniture Mr. Staples, of Trenton, N. J., carefully spread towels over his chair and the surrounding carpet before shooting him

self through the head. The general feminine verdict on this case will probably be that so thoughtful and considerate a man person was one of the few of his kind good enough to live. A New Haven young woman is dying of typhoid fever, which her physician attributes to the eating of raw clams infected with germs of the malady. Wouldn't the eating of plain raw clams without bacilli embellishments be enough to account for almost any disease? Mr. Mills bad "nothing to say to the press" after the fatal event, but thero is reason to believe that he said some things to a private and select circle that would not look well in print. Tiickf. is something abont Mills and being "ground exceeding small," and but tho intelligent reader will grasp the idea and express it to suit himself.

lOBLES IN THE AlkV The Absent Friend. Vlckars Does Timmlns still retain hlspoetlo fire? Wickars Yes, he is still hanging Are. The Absent-Minded Man, "You did not attend Blogster's 1 anerall "No," said the absent-minded man. "I was so busy. I'll go to his next one, sure, busy or tot," Futile Malevolence. 'There were more than three hundred people at Jibson's funeral," said Watts. "I'm not surprised at hearing it." answered Fotts, who had once bought a lot from tho late Mr. Jibson. "They wanted to bo sure they had seen the last of him." Unconsidered Trifles. It was natural that man should choose the straiffhtest and most upright letter in the alphabetIto represent himself. Mrs. Henry Ahrcnds, of Brooklyn, having deserted her husband, Mr. Ahrends promptly posted in his beer saloon an offer of a reward of $100 for her return, "dead or alive." The pessimists and cynics who havo been claiming that tho nineteenth-century man Is incapable of trno and earnest love are thus refuted and the lio hurled In their false teeth and lying throats. Usually It is the man of the least importance who deems it most necessary that his valuable person be protected by a pistoL Sociability Is often tho result of Inertia. Driftwood has a tendency to collect in eddies. " ' ' In older times the woman was expected to work while the man worothe fine feathers, the very reverse of modern conditions. If one bas advanced, the other must have retrograded. But which is which? J1K. CRISP'S VICTORY. Mr. Mills's unfortunate irascibility lias repelled very many who beliove in his integrity and sincerity, and who respect his great ability. EvansviJlo Courier. The election of Crisp means the definite reiiremeut of Mr. Cleveland from the presidential race. Tho Democrats must either take Hill or a Western man. Louisville Commercial. Ix defeating Mills the Democratic Congressmen made a cowardly surrender of the most vital principle to which they wero pledged, aDd beat an ignominious retreat from the presence of the enemy. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. It widens the breach between the two factions in the Democratic party, and insures a fierce struggle between them, made more virulent by the heated struggle they have had and the tact of the strength of tho minority aud the narrow margin by which the viotory was won. Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. Mills's defeat means moro than the abandonment of free trade it means the passing of Cleveland. It is an outward and visible sign of tho revolt in the party against tho ex-President, his methods, his creed and bis men. Who is there who has watched tho game that doubts that fact! Evansville Standard. Cnisr's election represents the conviction of the majority aimed at by the party namely, the righteous revision and reduction of our tariff is more surely to be attained through methods less radical. Tho choice is significant of the dominance of a prudent spirit in the great Democratio majority. New York World. Whatever his personal feelings may bo, the fact remains that Crisp owes his election to the protection element of the Democracy, assisted by those men who, while caring or knowing nothiug as to the abstract merit of free. trane or protection, are fully convinced that an indorsement of the former by the party nextyear will beat it. Chicago Tribune. Mills has fallen at the hands of tho Philistiues. Tho ghost of the Cleveland administration may well wring its shadowy digits aud shriek like a banshee. It doted on Mills, it ha met with a rude rebutf. while exultation isrifein places not wholly given over to the advocucy of tariff reform. Still, tho victor has pledged himtdf to carry on that work. Chicago News. Tins result is a triumph for conservative forces in the Democratio party, and a kick at the mugwumps. It is a promiso of a safe and moderate course on the part of Democracy. It makes brighter tho prospect of electing a Democratio President. It will be especially welcome in this State and this city, and tho New York Congressmen who have helped bring it about deservo well of the Democratic party in New York. New York Sun. The election of Mr. Crisp, by the coalition of the demagogy of Hill, tho spoilsmongeringof Tammany, tho protectionism of Gorman and Brice, the half corrupt, half fanatical free-silver movement and the old South, must inevitably "give pause" to the men who have believed that the Democratic party would be a fit instrumentality for the accomplishment of tariff reform, and for the clean and honest administration of the government. New York Times. The two wings of the Democratic party have been fighting each other with all tho intensity of men who have rooted convictions, and whose convictions are. moreover, supplemented by personal interests of the gravest nature. It the Western and Southern policy should be adopted Mr. Cleveland would havo to stand aside for somebody else. No wonder there was intense feeling, and tho result of the decision which the caucus finally reached cannot ret be definitely anticipated. New York Tribune. All right. Tho House of Representatives will now be able to got down to work, the country will breethe moro freely, and Tammany will bo able to send in its little bill for services rendered. The object of the contestants has not been to eMt a fitting and well-equipped chairman simply, but to fusn the claims ox 3lr. Uievelaud or Mr. lillin the coming presidential campaign. The fight was waged in the interest of a favorite candidate, who stood in the background, but who hopes to corno to the front next year. New York Herald. ABOUT PEOfLE AND THINGS. Flouenxe, the actor, was near-sighted, and could never recognize any of his friends in the seats of a theater from his place on the stage. He thought b could play better for that reason. Caspar W. Whitney, the sporting editor of Harper's Weekly,' enjoyed tho privilpge of being burned in emgy the other night by the students of Cornell University, because he had dared to criticiso their foot-ball team. A novel wager is to be decided iu Belfast, Me., whero one man has bet $5 that no one can drive a pig a mile without the porker turning to seo who is driving, and another tnsu bas risked his dignity and $5 to prove the contrary. GovkrxokMcKinlky. of Ohio, has shown bis appreciation of the valuable training which is a Horded by practical newspaper work by appointing as bis private secre

tary Mr. James Boyle, who has been identified in past years with the stall of the' Commercial (Jazette. A copy of Jay Gould's maiden effort at authorship, the "History of Delaware County and Border Wars of New York," was recently sold at auction in Boston. Few copies of the work now exisLand the average price for which it sells is S2.n It is a duodecimo volume, bonnd in muslin, and printed at Koxbury in IbW. Tin: archives of the Borghese family, comprising 475 manuscripts, have been bought by the Tope for 250,000 francs. Tbey relate to the Fopes at Avignon and to Paul V, who was a Borghese. The Minister of Public Instruction, meanwhile, has warned the impoverished head of tho houro that he cannot legally send away any work of art in his collection. Old Red Cloud, who was deposed from his position as chief of tho Sioux, to make way for American Horse, a younger man, is now a pitiful spectacle, it is said. He frequently visits the Chadmu agency, and weeps aud wails about his fall from power. Ho is now rapidly toing blind, and seems to bo tiring lrotn a broken hearL His aged squaw remains faithful to him. and he is popular with the Sioux nation. Lionel Bi-rnett, the original of Mrs. Hodgson Burnett's 'LittleLord Fauntleroy," is perpetuated iu memory by a home for newsboys which has been founded by Mrs. Bnrnett It is called Lionel's Home, It is built eutirely from the proceeds of Mrs. Burnett's literary work, and is maintained by money from the same source. Mrs. Burnett proposes bestowing a large amount of money on tho home, so that it may bo sustained m its perpetuity. A Kansas editor says that the monument erected to John Brown at Ossawatomio. some years ago. when Senator Ingalls delivered the oration for tho occason, is a very ordinary shaft, not more than ten feet bigb, and disappointing to the curious vititor. Of late it has become more a monument to tho spirit of American vandalism than to the man it commemorates, for it has been chipped, and scarred, and carved by relic-hunters, and is covered with pencil-marks. Bjouxstjebxe Bjorxson has the courage of his peace-at-auy-prico principles. He has brought forward a proposal to give up to Russia a Norwegian harbor, in order to promote peace and good will with this great and powerful neighber. Russia, ho says, mu3t sooner or later have an icefree harbor on the Atlantio coast as an outlet for her trade, and Norway ought to invite her to build a railway to the most convenient harbor in 'the northern part of Norway. 1 is much better, be argues, to arrange the matter in a friendly way than to buy war ships and big guns, but his proposal finds very few supporters. Bishop OxendenJo his newly published 'Autobiography," says that Cardinal Manning, who was a schoolmate of his at Harrow, was not at that time a boy of unnsnal promise, although there was a littlo selfassertion in his composition. To illustrate this peculiarity the following incident is given: Manning went one evening to dine with the vicar, and, being asked on his return how he enjoyed himself, replied that he had spent the evening pleasantly enough, but that he had said but little, for there were two or three superior persons present, aud he added: "You know that my motto is: Aut Caesar aut nnllus'. I, therefore, held my tongue aud listened."

INDIANA CliA-V0RKRS. Tile and Brick Association Meets to Discuss Papers Relating to Their Trade. The sixteenth annual convention of the Indiana Tile. Brick and Drainage Association opened a two days session at the State-bouso yesterday. The meeting was yery slightly attended, only about twentyfive dealers being present. J. J. W. Billingsley is president. W. A. Kudaley vicepresident, J. A. Dolley secretary and M. J. Lee treasurer. President Billin gsley called the meeting to order at 10 o'clock, after which he delivered his annual address, in which he spoke of the encouraging outlook for the growth aud advancement of tho business, and urged upon tho members the importance of studying faithfully tho matters that are constantly coming up in the business so that they may keep abreast of the times, and have a better and broader understanding of their craft. In the afternoon the following papers wero read: "Artificial Drying," by J. f. Dailey: "Side Issues in ihe Tilo Business, or What Wo Can Do w hen We Don't Make Tie,'' by W. A. Kudaley; "Will it Fay to Burn Common Building Brick in Tile KilnsT" The subjects of "Farm Drainage' and "What I Have Seen in the Burning of Brick and Tile' were laid over until to-daj', it having been decided to hold no evening session. Each of the papers mad were followed by raudom discussions, aud much of profit and interest was brought out. The sessions of yesterday having been devoted almost exclusively to tile-making, that of to-day will be given to brick. TO HELP THE WORLD'S FAIR. Governor Chase Calls Upon the Pecplo of Indiana IBs First Proclamation. Governor Chase yesterday issued tho following proclamation, which explains itself: To the 1 eu' 'f Indiana: The Congress of the United Ptares, by law, has declined that the world's Colninliau exposition shall bo held in the city of Chicago, 111.. In th, year lsj:, celebrating the four hundredth nnnil av.'ii nf tile i!lt r.Vi'r gf imunrn iw i V1 ii bun. and, hereas it i9 of tho greatest liniortanco ...... .1... ..... . i .i I ments. and general pn'grcss of the btato of Indiana should be fully and creditably displayed to tho world at said exposition. Now, therefore I. Ira J. Chape. Governor of Indiana, hereby usk tho people of the fctate who desire to aid In this great work, in each and every department of the fame, by making exhibits at said exposition, to put themselves in communication with Executive Commissioner B. F. Havens, in this city, who will f uruloh all with the necessary information m relation to ull matters connected with said extositlon. Iua J. Chasl, Governor. . VISITED THE SlilMER FARM. C, n. Si 1). Making a Strong Poll to Locate the Fair Grounds at Irvington. The location of tho new fair grounds on the Shimer farm, which joins Irvingtcn on the south, is a question of much importatice to its citizens. A petition is now in circulation, pledging a bonus in money, and the arfiounts subscribed'are very liberal and will reach a respectable figure. The C, II. .V D. railway people aro not behind in mak ing liberal oilers to convince tho board that this farm is tho most desirable one. '1 bey oiler to lay a double track, put in all tho necessary switches, build a station-house and establish an agency at the grounds. A committee from the board were out viewing the grounds yesterday afternoon, and were highly pleased with them. First Suggestion of the Greenback. To the Editor of the Indiananolls Journal: I read in your Sunday's issue a dispatch from Chicago claiming that Mr. Taylor, who died Jast week, was the first to suggest the issuing of greenbacks. This claim should be mado for an Indiana man. On the 25th of July, Hon. William McKee Dunn, then a member of Congress, tuad a speech in the House on tho direct-tax bill, which he opposed. He then said ho favored the issuing of treasury notes at such arateot interf as would cause then to be taken and held by the people as a popular loan. This speech is found on page l.Tl, Congressional (ilohe of Thirt y-avei tti Centres. Mr. Dunn was the sou in-law of .f. F. D. Lanier, ut the banking firm of Winslow. Lanier & Co., and may hae received tho suggestion fmni his father-in-law. This was long before Mr. Tavlor made the proposition to Mr. Lincoln. . Lewis Jordan. ; Inpianai-olis, Dee. 8. What' tho JX-ttter with Natural Gas? Nw York Ilocrler. South Dakota has a well that spouts soft coal. What is really wanted is a well that will throw up a ready-made tiro.

MORE FARMERS IN THE CITY Tho Annual Meeting of the Indiana Fatronsof Husbandry at English's Hotel.

Grand Master Milton Trnalr'i Annual Addmi Standing Committees Appointed The Grange Will Not J&ia the Alliance. The annual session of the Indiana Fatronsof II usbandry.more commonly known as the State Grange, assembled yesterday in the club-room of the Hotel English. The delegates were called to order by Grand Matter Milton Trnsler. and the opening exercises followed the lines of the ritual. This provides for several musical selections. The Grange, it should be remembered, is essentially a social and beneficial farmers' order, in naturs much like the Masons or Odd-fellows. It has naught to do with politics, and is a prosperous and worthy organization, which has done much to promote the welfare and happiness of its members. The report of tho committee on credentials, which was made early ia the morning session, showed 125 delegates, both men and women, eutitled to seats. It is characteristic of the order that it place women on full eanality with men. With organization eflected. Grand Master Trusler made his annual address. He declares that, in spito of some adverse circumstances, the conditions for prosperity of the farmer are promising, and that the past season has leen remarkable for providential favors. He demanded tho passage of the Butterworth option bill, or soma such measure which will forever prevent gambling in the necessaries of life. Ho believes, he aid. that Congress should also pass the Conger lard bill, tho purefood bill, and should provido a more extensive circulating medium. He said such legislation would enable the farmer, with the measures already enacted into laws, to retain his fair share ot the wealth ho produces. The grand master set forth the condition of things as to the wealth of the country. It is held, he said, not by those who created it, but by the few; that more than half of tho sixty-three billions of value is in the hands of thirty thonsand families. Ho believes there is something radically wrong when men like the Astors and the Bockefellors can accumulate wealth producing a daily iucomo amounting to a fortune. Wealth and power go together. "There are two classes," continued Mr. Trusler, "that seriously antagonize that of the very rich aud that of the very poor. The very rich are aristocratic, overbearing and oppressive, from the fact that wealth gives them power, and the very poor are desperate on account of that poverty and a hungry family. These two clasefts eau never be amalgamated; they are as foreign as liberty and slavery. ' "These great financial burdens that rftst, with life-crushing weight, upon thn'Amer lean farmer, can only be raised by education, co-operation, concert of action, through systematic organization, eflort ou the part of the nine million farmers, through and by ths potent lever of State and national legislation, and it is for theso nine million farmers to say or determine how much longer they will continue to suffer, or how soon they will apply the remedy that will again restore to the toiler tho full fruits of his labor." The grand master deplored the fact that farmers show less ability to discuss matters than some men of other callings. Ho demands that farmers come to the front by force of ability and education and seek that representation in government which is their due. in regard to political action, he said: "Onr national master has truly taid the membership of the Grange cau be committed to no party, to no individual, t tin religious creed, to no political theory or policy, by any act of any ofilcial. or by any resolution adopted by subordinate, Stato or national granges. Any other position upon these propositions means disintegration and death. Let other organizations attempt to control the political action or opinion of their members if tbey will, but let the Grange stand by the principles of absolute freedom on all religious or political questions. This need not hinder discussion nor expression of opinion by members acting individually or collectively." The address indorsed the plan of Secretary Bti6k. who, by the way, is a member of the Grange, for getting American pork into Germany. It also indorsed the project to erect a National Grange temple in Washington, 1). C, and approved of the Grange's attitude for the full recognition nf women in membership. In regard to Secretary Wanamaker's plan to introduce a rural mail delivery, Mr. Trnsler said the larmers should demand this of their Kepresen tat ives and Senators. The address was received with remarkable manifestations of favor. The report of Secretary J. H. Walker showed that five new granges had been organized during the year and six had been revived. Two lodges of the Pomona degree had been established. 1 be total membership in the State is nearly eight thousand. The report of the condition of the treasury showed a balance of ?l.aro an increase over last year of $'2Z0. The report of tho auditing committee showed the accounts of the secretary and treasurer correct. Grand Master Trnsler announced the appointment of the following standing committees: Credential John Tilon, Jonatbsn Turner, William thockney, Paul Gardner. K. T. Barlmur. Finance J. Frazier. Fnicliue Gardner, Laura Kohintou. Beportsof OKlcers-B. II. Wood, W. T. Payne, N. It. Wauj;h. Good of Order R. T. Ilsrton. Nicholas Ycag( r, 11. K Crouse, J. NV. ft aid. Befolutlona-Kobt-rt Mitchell, John L. IIopkitif. t. 11. Anirlin. Co-operation William ficbrader, John McBride, Mrs. Crou:.e, ' Constitution and By-laws T. C Mooro, L. 8. Fitch, H. W. fandefer. . , m w Claim and Gnevanccs-T. X Loglish, J. B. HilliKonf.. Fotnona Decree and Kubordinats Gmnces 0. 1. Campbell, J. W. Wbiteman, Joseph Jackhon. . Salaries. Mileage, etc.-L. to. Fitch, It. I. Mc Chilian, M. L. Clowser. , . F-dueation-F. P. Atkinson, Anna Hiker. Mrs. Sandefer, G. L. Hubert, Iiaac CalduelL Needed Legislation J. W. Holmes, Jarrett Hiker, Miss Iiarber, Mrs. frandefcr. Place of Meeting- II. Whlttern, C. a Whitcomb. J. P. Godwin, Mrs. Wood. Fire Insurance C. I. Ains worth. Mrs. Crouse, K. C, Kucff. Elijah If. Miller. Publication -John T. nackley, Aaron Jones, K. II. bittern, D. F. Fllmore, 11 L. Olmtcaa, Mrs. Yeager. The nfternoon session was consumed in a call of the roll of counties for new business. A large number of resolutions were offered and were referred to the committee for consideration and report A call was then nde for reports on condition of the order. This head of business seemed to de elope into a kind of love-fcar. The dlgate reported, without exception, that the Grange is making progress. Dnnng tho day some excellent music on the violin was furnished 1. v MU I'nrrr. of Vigo comity, accom panied by Mns Olmstead. of DcPatiW, n the piano. Tbo Grange adjourned at a late hour in the afternoon, to meet again this morning at 8 o'clock. The work ot the day includes the election of oilicers, hearing of reports, and consideration of resolutions. The sixth degree is to. be couferred on twentv-four candidates tonight at Llks Hall. The ofucers to be elected are grand master, secretary-treasurer, overseer, steward, assistant steward, assistant lady stnwnrd. goddesses of Ceres. Pomona and Mora, chaplain, door-keeper and one member -of the executive committee, to succeed ir. McCallion, whose term expires. Milton 1 ma. ler will not be a candidate for re-election. He has served in thecapacity for seven years. 'Ihe rules of the order prevent electioneering, and benco there is little talk about the probable successors of the present inctim. tents. The election of oilicers occurs once in two years, though the Grango meets annually. The members were displeased with certain statements In the Journal yesterday as to thocondition of the order, lhey point to the reports of the otuceis to ihow that the Grange is growing and ia prosperous. In speaking of the Grange Mr. Aaron Joues said! Ve are sn independent order, the oldest farmers' organization in tbe I'm ted State. Our national treasury is i"ll, our Stat treasury i healthv, and wo are happy. Wt wish all other farnurV organization well. but we will lose our identity none. We will not combine with the Alliance, which . hasaneinrtv ireaury and would no doatV like to absorb ours. We have received ip invitation to send delegate to the M. Lotili mcetiug in February, and will not accept it if we do.'