Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 January 1892 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, JANUARY 18, 1892.

THE DAILY JOURNAL MONDAY, JANUARY 18, 1802. tTASIII'TON OFFICE -CIS Fourteenth st. Telephone Call, jftcslae is Cr.ce 233 1 Editorial Rooms 242 TEK2I3 OF SL'IJSCIUITIOX IUH.T LT KAIL. rJlr pcly. m montn. ...................... $ .70 1'aily onij. tl.r e rconttu 2.00 tn'y, one year 8.00 Iailj. lnciul:cx Sunday, on jear.. ...... 10. (K) fcuiiCajccij. ;tejear 2.00 ITRSISHED BT AGEXT3. rilr. ir wefc. by carrier 15 cts Monday, siocie copy ft c Lai: j tuinlaj, per week, by carrier 20 eta WEEKLY. I tricar $1.00 lied need Rate to Clubs. FnbMTibewlth aoycf our numerous agents, or send mUcripucts to the JOUKXAL NEWSPAPER COMPANY. i5LiAurus, ixn, reruns senfiinjr the Journal tbronph the mails la tLe Vnitnl Mates ahouid x ut on an eirhipage paper aoM-CK?rT rostage ataiat: u a twelve or sixteenjape ijer a two-cemt postage auunp. Foreign icalage la usuaiij double these rates. A U communication intended for publication in thi$ paper tnusf, in order to receive attention, beaetvmianitd by the name and addrctt of the writer, THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL. Can bo foncd at the following places: PART? -American Exchange La Paris, 80 BouleTard 'p Capuctnes. i;LW YOUK-GUaej Home and Windsor IIotcL PHILADELPHIA A. P. Kemble. 3783 Lancaster avenue. CHICAGO Palner Hons CLNCINNATI-J. B. LTawley & Co., 154 Vino street. XOriSYILLT! C. T. Tjerring, rtorUYvrcst corner 'lblxtl acd J eCeraon streets. 6T. LOCI? Union News COEjany, Union Depot and Southern lioieL WASHINGTON, D. O-IUgxa House and Ebbltt Ilotuo. One of tho ablest Democratic papers in tho South oilers a Bible as a premium to its subscribers, possibly as a counterirritant for the viciousness it inculcates in its columns. If Indianapolis fails to get an appropriation for a public building her citizens can attributo the failure to tho resolutions of Mr. Hoi man and the vote which Mr. Bynum gave for them. The emphatic declaration of Senator Vilas, of Wisconsin, against tho freo coinago of silver helps dispel tho fear which ha?, troubled some that such a measure could bo passed over the President's veto. Now that the excitement of the striko is over, the Indianapolis Nowa might lind space to correct the misrepresentations it made recently about tho cutdown of wages by several manufacturers. They wero' published in the Journal of Sunday, Jan. 10. Now that tho Democratic leaders in Iowa have solemnly resolved that unless Messrs. Cleveland and Hill fall into each other's arms, Governor Boies, of that State, must bo tho Democratic candidate for President, tho friends of these gentlemen owe it to the country to enforce harmony. TnE population of tho world, according to the London Times's estimate, is 1.4T9.729.40O. The United States contains considerably less than one-twentieth of tho whole, but if it should drop out of the affairs of the globe an averngo of moro than one-fifth of tho markets of the world would bo lost.

Judge Lindsay, of Kentucky, has declined the office of Inters tato-comuicrco Commissioner on the ground that ho could not afford to relinquish hh largo law practice, or to neglect his private interests. Ho called in person to thank tho President for tho honor of the appointment and stato his reasons for declining It. TnE latest attack upon tho Louisiana lottery is the letter of Cardinal Gibbons. He declares that it is a corrupter of morals and a promoter of tho misery of the poor, brands it as "tho dire enemy of manhood, of homes and of prosperity," and calls upon good Catholics to make war upon it. If ho could array the influence of his church in Louisiana n pains tit, it would doubtless be defeated in tho pending election. When ex-Governor and Senator Hill visited tho House tho other day, Mr. Dockery, of Missouri, was in the midst of a speech, but, nevertheless, his Democratic friends rushed about the New Yorker bo as to confuse the speaker, and led him to suggest that "it might bo well for his friend to hold his reception elsewhere." Tho incident is commended to tho attention of Democrats who aro throwing stones at Mr. Hill. One Smith Knapp was ono of tho Democratic supervisors in Dutchess county, New York, who voted to throw out certain votes, officially printed, bocause they showed tho mark of a printers "quad" that stuck up so as to receive tho impression. A few days after, when tho stockholders of Ovbank met to elect directors, tho name of Smith Knapp was dropped because they "did not want a man to handle their money who cannot count votes honestly." TnE Lebanon Patriot publishes a comparative statement showing the taxes paid in each township of Boono county in 1S00 and the levy for 1S01. Tho total amount ot taxes paid by the county in 1600 was 8175.217, while the levy for 1S91 i3 $207,0-12, an increase of $32,823. There is an increase in every one of tho sixteen townships. Boono is an agricultural county, and this increase falls on the farmers. No doubt pretty much tho game rate of increaso will prevail throughout tho State. When the farmers como to pay their taxes they will find out who has been lying about tho law. A bile has been introduced in tho House to prohibit tho Postoffico Department from selling stamped envelopes bearing a printed request for return to tho owner if not called for within a limited period. This is a demagogical bill. It claims to be in tho Interest of job printers and printing-houses, who, it is alleged, aro deprived of a largo amount of work by tho practice of tho government in selling printed envelopes without charge lor tho printing. This is dono by tho government to encourago tho uso of Euch envelopes, thus greatly facilitating the service, iusuring tho roturu of undelivered letters and reducing tho work of the dead-letter office. If the public had to pay for having the return message Drinted on tho envelope

it would not use them. Job printers would get littlo or no benefit from the passage of the bill referred to. Its principal effect would bo to break up the uso of return-messago envelopes, to tho detriment of the service and tho embarrassment of tho government. Under the present arrangement the entiro public is benefited, whilo under the proposed bill only iob printers would be benefited.

THE REPUBLICAN DISTRICT CONVESTIOKS. Tho work of Republican organization for 1S92 began auspiciously with the primaries held on the Oth inst for the election of members of county committees and delegates to district conventions. Throughout tho Stato these meetings were well attended, and tho best feeling was manifested. The next step in tho work of organization will be the holding of the district conventions, on the 21st inst., to elect members of tho State central committee. There i3 reason to believe that the delegates to these conventions will bo actuated by tho prevailing spirit among Indiana Republicans, and will do whatever lies in their power to promote the harmony and success of tho party. It is of special importance that the members of the State conimitteo should be selected with reference to their ability and willingness to perform tho work expected of them, and that there should bo no dead-heads or figure-heads on the committee. Every Republican in Indiana feels that tho conditions are favorablo for carrying the State noxt fall, and that with proper organization and effort it can be done. Under theso circumstances a heavy responsibility will devolve on the Stato committee, and it should bo composed of mon who are equal to the work. For the credit of Indiana Republicans it is to bo hoped tho committee will bo so constituted as to place it beyond doubt that President Harrison will receive its cordial support for renomination. As the district conventions will bo composed of delegates freshfromtho people it will bo appropriate, also, for them to give expression to tho feelingof Republicans generally in regard to tho administration. It will conduce to party harmony in this Stato and contribute materially to the respect felt for Indiana Republicans elsewhcro to let it be known that they are for Benjamin Harrison for President in 1602, ns they were in 1889. If ho is to bo slaughtered, as tho Journal does not fear ho will be, let it not be done in tho house of his Indiana friends. Let Republicans of the Hoosier Stato show themselves true to tho Hoosier President. Such an indorsement is more important to us than to him. He could get nloDg without it, but tho Republicans of Indiana would never recover from the disgrace of failing to give a cordial support to a President who has brought so much houor to tho State and so much strength to the party as has President Harrison. Wo trust the district conventions will express their opinions on this subject. ARIZONA'S COSSTITOTIUff. The people of Arizona have recently adopted, by o very small popular vote, a Constitution which they would better have rejected. The total vote on tho Constitution was 7,73?, and the majority for it 3, ICS. A comparison of this vote with the total vote of tho Territory shows that a majority of tho voters did not vote or were opposed to the Constitution as framed. The instrument submitted to them was, it is claimed, the work of scheming politicians and interested corporations. Ono section, while making gold and silver equally a legal tender, authorizes tho repudiation of contracts and would destroy tho credit of tho State. Another gives authority to the Legislature to repeal franchises. A third authorizes increases of indebtedness above the present limit of 1 per cent, in State and 2 per cent, in counties, notwithstanding the fact that the Territory and tho counties aro now in debt in excess of tho limit prescribed by Congress. Tho section in regard to water and water rights, an important subject in a Territory where irrigation is so largely used, discriminates in favor of water corporations against tho people. Another bad feature in the Constitution is that it contains no restrictive feature against Mormonism. There are already a largo number of Mormons in Arizona, and it is claimed that theyhold tho balance of political power. Their numbers can easily bo increased by colonization from Utah, and if Arizona comes into tho Union with a Constitution containing no anti-Mormon provision it will doubtless become a Mormon Stato. For these reasons it would seem to be tho duty of Congress to proceed very cautiously m regard to the admission of Arizona under tho Constitution recently adopted by so small a vote. It is not alone tho present inhabitants of Arizona who are interested in its Constitution, but those who may become citizens of the Stato hereafter. In fact, tho whole American people have something to say in tho matter, and Congress should regard their interests. It is doubtful whether Arizona ought to be admitted as a Stato at present under any circumstances, but she certainly ought not to be under tho Constitution recently adopted. FOR PURE rOOD. During the past week tho very Important pure food bill of Senator Paddock, of Nebraska, has been reported back to the Senate with the favorable recommendation of tho committee on agriculture. At first thought, any attempt on the part of Congress to legislate upon such matters as the adulteration of food seems an infringement of tho rights reserved to the States by the Constitution, but when the decision of the Supreme Court in tho liquor cases, under tho interstate-commerce provision of tho organic act, is recalled, there would 6eem to bo fow topics concerning which the Congress cannot legislate. With tho railroad as a common carrier, State lines are a good deal obliterated in trado. Tho products of factories in ono Stato are scattered all over the country. If those articles are pure, all is well, and if they are not, there is now no " effectivo remedy. Senator Paddock's bill, which has been pTcnarcd with great care.

and has been submitted to experts

in several States, provides for the brand ing of all manufactured foods which contain adulterations of any kind. Tho chief chemist of the Agricultural De partment is required to make examinations of specimens and to mako proper rules to secure the purity of products. Under this law all such articles as bak ing-powder, all compounds of fats sold as lard, tho various and unknown articles labeled coffee, must have upon the packages the names and proportions of the ingredients. If, upon examination, theso statements aro found false, the law requires the United States district attorney to bring an action against theso who are responsible for the fraud. Last year Senator Paddock presented a "pure food" bill, but tho Senate did not have timo to fully consider it. Since that time tho Senator has given much time to tho perfection of the measuro in the light of tho best information which tho experience of State officials and others can afford. Last year tho Houso succeeded, after a protracted struggle, in passing the "Conger pure lard" bill. Tho Paddock bill does not stop with lard, but embraces the wholo list of articles which can contain adulterations, not with a view to stop their sale, if harmless, but to permit the consumer to know about tho article ho purchases, to the end that something cannot be sold to him which ho does not want or a cheaper preparation palmed off for the price of a pure article. As there was opposition to the Conger bill, there doubtless will be to this, but it will bo interesting to note whence it comes. THE CLEVELAND END OF THE DEMOCRACY. At the dinner of the Reform Club, in Now York, Saturday evening, were present the representatives of tho ultra freotrad and anti-free-silver-coinage element of the Democratic party. The Reform Club is the American annex of tho Cobdcn Club in London. It is largely made up of importers and freo-trade doctrinaires. Its younger men aro of the Anglomaniac variety, who turn up their trousers when tho telegraph announces that it is raining in "Lunnon." In other words, it is the Cleveland end of tho Democratic party. To it Sir. Cleveland wrote his silver letter of 'last February, in which ho denounced freo coinage as a reckless policy. This explanation is made lest tho speeches at tho banquet be accepted as tho utterance of tho wholo Democratic party, and pooplo might como to the conclusion that there had been a face-about of tho party on tho free-coinage question.- Tho names of Senators Hill, Gorman and Brice appear not as guests. They wero not there; they wero not wanted. Not forty of tho 235 Democrats in tho House would applaud tho anti-free-coinage views of Senator Vilas, of Wisconsin, or Representative Harter, of Ohio. Chairman Springer was thero becauso ho is unable to classify himself, and nobody clso thinks it is worth while. Not over a half dozen of tho Democratic United States Senators would find themselves at home around tho board of the Reform Club. Nevertheless, the club represents the business men of the Democracy of all New England, New York, New Jersey and a faction in other States on the silver question. That element has no faith in the Hill-Gorman-Brico combine. It will fight tho proposition of free coinage and any compromise on the 'tariff issuo such as will serve the purpose of Hill and Gorman, and which the Sentinel stamps "cowardly." Another banquet is announced to tako place ere loug in New York. Governor Flower will preside, and Hill, Gorman and the other element will be ' present. There will be no ultra declamation about free trade, no positive and clearcut utterance on tho silver question. Senator Vilas will not be there, but one of tho other V?s in the Senate, possibly Voorhoes, will be. He will not denounce freo coinage, but will tako vengeance upon the baron tariff robber. Senator Brice may bo present, but Representative Harter, of Ohio, who glories in being a member of the Cobden Club, could not be hired to attend. -Free silver may not be advocated at the announced banquet, but a voto would show those attending in favor of it. Thus is tho Democratic party divided on the silver question, and, what is more, tho Reform Club people and tho Hill-Gorman-Brico element distrust and hate each other. Tho relations which exist between tho New York Times and the New York Sun fitly represent those existing between the ultra Cloveland and Hill elements in tho Eastern States. It is beautiful to contemplate. A0AIB8T FREE SILVER COINAGE. Tho press dispatches yesterday gave an outline of a speech delivered by Representative Harter, of Ohio, at tho annual dinner of the Democratic Reform Club in New York Saturday night. Mr. Harter is a Democrat, and his subject was tho silver question. He made a strong argument against free coinage and in favor of an honest currency. Before discussing tho silver question proper, ho referred briefly to tho demand for an increase of currency. After citing examples from other countries of the evils of an iuflated currency, he said: It is no task to show that if wo keep our standard of money where it should be and enforce absolute stability in it, we can never havo too little money, for then we aro able to draw as we need it from the world's groat stock, just an the thirsty people of a city are supplied with water from the everlasting sources of supply up in the mountains and among the hills. The illustration is somewhat fanciful, but it is good. As to the foolish per capita argument, Mr. Harter said: No man will find it hard to explode the per capita currency-supply theory, for ho will discover that moat of his hearers understand that the quantity of money a people requires depends, lirst, upon the volumo of its business, and. second, upon its methods. They see that England does tho largest per capita business in the world, yita less than $10 of money per head, whilo f ranco requires over f 10 to transact less than one-half as much. A self-respecting American, when he finds that we already have, when volume and method are considered, more than twice as much money as England, will not bo hard to convinoe that 18 Avtt equal of his English consin, and you will find him loath to havo the silver ring plead the baby act in his behalf. Tho speaker declared that the gist of freo silver coinage is public plunder, and its effect would be to defraud the mechanics, tho farmers, tho working

people, the depositors in savings banks, the holders of life insurance policies, tho pensioners, thoso in receipt of fixed

jucomes ana salaries, in short, a large majority of tho people Eventually tho time would come when the government would havo to mako the under-valued silver dollar worth 100 cents. The speaker asked if any one supposed that after we havo taken 300.000.000 of the eilver-minors' and speculators' bullion ana given them 400,000.000 of legal-tender dollars for it, and tho hour comes to make this money worth $400,000,000 that theso gentlemen will send in their checks for $100,000,000 to protect the ireasury (tho people) from loss! l he silver-minc-owners and free-coinage advocates of theminine States got a hard hit in the following: Take, for instance, California, where the two most eminent, distinguished and able free-coinage advocates live; or Nevada, the ;? wnicb they represent in the Senate Jf W ashington. By law and by custom tbeyhaveso provided that only gold coin AD All I.A A. fnntaf m&vrriAn tmltnmi. requires Its taxes to be paid in gold, while 5 ,v uoz Payable in gold will fail to draw a dollar OH t Of a. hnttlr Th.ia Uai nonnlA are quite determined that you shall take tueir i cents lor yoar dollar, but they have decided that they will be eternally damned before they will take or use It themselves. Was there ever such an exhibition of impudent, barefaced fraud in an Anglo-Saxon nation or among an intelligent people in any laud governed by the Caucasian racot Although Mr. Harter is a Democrat, ho made a strong speech in favor of a sound currency. His views will bo popular among Eastern Democrats, but will not suit those of the West. Certain Eastern papers which seem not to have recovered from the Blaincphobia of 1884, like tho New York Evening Post and the Springfield (Mass.) Republican, are taking tho Chilian or British side of tho controversy between Chili and this country. These and other papers in New York took the British side of the Behring-sca controversy, and there is reason to believo they wero sufficiently influential with tho British authorities to causo delay in negotiations. Doubtless, if they had been in existence during tho period of the revolution they would have been Tones and discharged their editorials at the American cause. The expression of such Democrats as Mr. Blount, of Georgia, of the committee on foreign affairs, that "wo must stand by tho President" leads to the conclusion that this taking sides with tho press of an always hostile nation against our own government is confined to a few newspapers whoso sympathies are not American. Chairman Spiiingkic, at tho Reform Club dinner, favored a treaty of reciprocity with Canada by which Canada should havo our markets for the natural products of her soil and mines in exchange for a like privilege in, Canada for our natural products. That is, he would bring all Canada, with its cheaper soil and labor, into open and equal competition with the farmers of the Northcm States. Tho hay, horses and farm products of Indiana would be brought into free competition with thoso of Canada in Chicago and. other markets which belong to farmers of tho United States. On the other hand, Canada would not buy of us" tho" products with which her markets are crowded. And that is what Mr. Springer calls reciprocity. The Atlanta (Gh.) Constitution has an article entitled "Harrison and Hard Times," in the course of which it declares that the lives of men in New York, liko Russell" Sage, are sought by men who are desperate because they havo no labor and no means of obtaining a living. Tho cranks who aro threatening the lives of such mon ns Sago aro not men who need bo idle or who havo no money, but crazed speculators and men of lop-sided intellects who want millions instead of bread or employment. The statement of tho Constitution is so absurd that sensible peoplo will doubt if its editor is a proper person to gratify with the office of Governor. " - To t!io Editor or tho lnmanauoUs Journal: riease jrfvo tho age of ex-President Cleveland's daughter. J.X.Q. She was born Oct. 3. ABOUT PEOPLE AKD THINGS. There Is a yonng woman in Minneapolis who has contrived to nuiazo her friends by hoaating tbat a New York sculptor was making a bust of her foot. Mr. Howells writes to a friend in Boston: "I have had tho grip, slightly; but the conseqnencps! What a singular disease. It is like a wrong action in its far-reaching eftect." CmswiCK Housf, where Fox and Canning died, and where tho fifth Duke of Devonshire gavo so many splendid entertainments, inclnding his famous party for the Emperor Nicholas, is to bo converted into a private lunatic asylum. Prohaoly the youngest woman evangelist in the country is Fannie Edwards, a fifteen-year-old Louisville girl, who has been preaching the gospel to Tennessee mountaineers. She is very attractive in appearance, and quite eloquent, it is said. Mr. Josiaii Crosby, of Dexter, Me., one of the ablest lawyers of the State, and seventy years of age, says be retains his robnst health by reason of his practice of taking a bath in ice-cold water every morning. Sometimes by way of variety the old gentleman rubs himself with snow. As item is current to tho effect that Dickens was a short-band writer. He was, as a matter ot fact, and he said once that the accomplishment was as hard to acquire as half a dozen modern languages, and xnach less valuable. But the stenography he knew was the primitive and complex system, devoid of modern labor-saving makeshifts. There is an attempt on the part of the Edinburgh ladies to raise money for the erection of a statue to Mary Queen of Scots. Sorno time ago tho Duchess De Pomar endeavored to give a statue of Queen Mary to the municipality of Pans, but it was declined. It is suggested that the Edinburgh ladies try to obtain the statue from the Duchess instead of having a new one, and possibly a less artistio one. There oro bounds even to French endurance of realism on the staje. Word comes from Pans that the manager of a theater i ... ml r rrnantitinni r f n extreme realist play, hi leadins actress and two of his actors have been brought to court charged with giving a performance that was a public scaudal. The manager and the ladv were sent to jail for fifteen month, and the two actors will abldo there for two months. The Epoch saya that Mrs. Calvin S. Brice, the Senator wife, has secured the services of Mra. Mary Tillinghaat, the artist, to design and execute a stained-glass window for presentation to the collego at Oxford, O where Mrs. Brice was educated. The window represents a "sweet girl graduate" inst about to leave her alma mater, and lolding in ono hand the torch of kno w lodge

and in the other a roll of parchment The face of the yonng student reproduces tbat of Miss Brice, who is said to bo very pretty and very charming. "Ik I were a young man," said John G. Whittier recently, "I should ally myself with some high and, at present, unpopular cause, and devoto inv every effort to accomplishing its success.' A hot brick covered with a piece of old blanket and placed in a child's bed at night charms away cold feet and the toothache and keeps off the shivers. It must be a seasoned bnek, though, not one jnst fresn from outdoor or cellar life. When people are the proud possessors of an oven, and own such property as llat-irons, stone bottles and the aforesaid bricks, it is surprising tbat so few of them dream of heat

ing those properties and warming their own feet at night. Savages would take more care of themselves. The late Tewfak Pasha, the Egyptian Khedive, lived in typical Oriental luxury, but even then he did not spend one hun dredth part of the money which his father, Ismail Pasha, lavished about him. Tewfik nad lour palaces, all of them very beautiful and orn atA And in faeh of tneui he was attended in true royal state. Personally he was a pleasant and agreeable man. lie always wore the European drees, a black Prince Albert coat with striped trousers, but added tha Turkish fez. On occasions of ceremony he wore the full uniform of a general of the Egyptian army, witn nis breast covered with gay decorations. "Sobbing stays" are a French addition;to a mourning outfit With his knowledge of the niceties of his profession the French dress-maker understands that when a woman sobs unrestrainedly her frame undergoes certain physical convulsions that might be detrimental to her toilet if stilt'. uuyieldiDg stays were hr support. To permit, therefore, madam's grief to expand itself naturally and still protect her costume from any danger resulting therefrom these stays are provided a triangle of elastio is set in on each side which "gives" with every violent outburst of grief and no harm is done. The art of the French manmilliner approaches sublimity. HIS rUTCKK. IIo used to talk of heroes when a boy And Western wild where lived the buffalo, lie used to plan to travel in far lauds Or noble be, and pre at and famous prow; But then, alas! how' tleetloir are our dream; How boyhood's early fancies Roon Kivo o'er lie's settled now quite happily it pectus As ribbon clerk In a big dry goods store. New Ytrk ncrald. FOILED AGAIN. To provo how great a cheat is fame, The unknown writer penned A poem, and tacked ltiley's name. Quite nicely, to the end. 'And now," quoth he, with bitter spleen, Til fool 'eui all" 'twas funny: He sent It to a magazine And Klley got the money! Atlanta Constitution. PKESIDEXT HARRISON. In 1883 the Democrats said tbat Harrieon was a weak and unknown man. From the fact that when weak and unknown, he was triumphantly eiected, how much more surely will he be elected since found strong aud well known. Tipton Advocate. The result of the recent primaries proves so uumistakably that the people of Indiana aro for Harrison, first, last and all the time, that there can be no impropriety in demanding that In the formation of the committee. State and county, the popular will, formally expressed, shall be loyally obeyed. Evansville Standard. Wk believe that a majority of the Republicans of Posey county would be immensely pleased if their ticKet this year should bo' beaded with the name of James G. Blaine, yet all would be satisfied to buckle un the lighting armor for Ben Harrison nhuuld he be named as the standard-beaier by the Minneapolis convention, it is un opinion prevailing all around that President Harrison is a safe man in the White House. Mount Vernon Sun. President Harrison's administration is growing with the people, and in the past few months has bt o me wonderfully popular. The leading Kepublicans of the country aro rapidly announcing their adhesion to" the destinies of President Harrison. His conduct of the atiairs of state, his wonderlul record os a speaker, his executive capacity aud his general ability us a statesman, mako him u ate man to pit against the best man the Democrats cau nominate. Greenfield Republican. Tin: people are becoming aroused and they are making a convincing response to the pestiferous politicians who for purely Personal reasons have been trying to antagonize as successful and excellent a national administration, and trying to annoy as good a President as this country has overseen. Indiana Republicans have rebuked the purty of 47 und from now on they will give their attention to the selection of a solid Harrisou delegation to the national convention at Minneapolis. Kokomo Gazette-Tribune. s President Harrison has done magnificent service, not only in putting his party on winning ground, but the country on the winning side iu trade. Does anybody suppose his own State, with whom he has always been frank and fair, and upon whom bo has brought honor, does not appreciate him. The man who does not seo that it is inevitable that Indiana must bo for Harrison is a man who may know how to beat his party, but ho doesn't know how to help it, or doesn't want to. If Harrison is nominated at Minneapolis he will carry Indiana. Lawrenceburg Press. New Ilauks In Indiana. Rising Sun Recorder. Some years ago a large portion of the peoplo of Indiana wasted a good deal of timo in abusiug and denouncing banks and bankers, and alleging that they were making fabulous sums of money off the people, etc. The most of this talk was nonsense, for banking was free, both under the State and national laws, and as the country was full of idle money, if it paid eo largely, why didn't the grumblers atart banksi Just now. it seems, every one is getting into the banking business sure enough in Indiana. .In Ripley county during the last few years no less than three Stato banks have opened. In Jennings county, of late years, three State banks havo opened, and two national banks are organized, which will make five banks in one poor county. Switzerland county has long had one bank, but now it has two. and another one being organized. And thus it goes all over tho State. Politicians have educated the masses to believe that banking in Indiana is a regular bonanza, and they are all going into the business! Eet them beware, and not kill the goose that lays the golden egg. Too many banks will not prove a good thing to those taking stock in them. Go a littlo slow. They Are Political Chunis. Torre Hants E Dress. Sim Coy's friend Taggart is to b in charge ot the Democratio campaign in this oiaic iuo iihuucu wur& togetner smoothly, and, it must bo said, very effectively. They played a neat political game in the recent city election at Indianapolis when Coy pretended to bolt the Democratio ticket. Taggart was chairman and filled tho Sullivan organs with his plans to circumvent the little boss. The election being over, Coy wanted a bondsman and other help in conducting his saloon and road house and Taggart was the man who became his bondsman and furnished all the help needed. Sim Coy will not be prominent about State committee headquarters, perhaps, but his will be the head that does the scheming for Mr. Taggart's committee. This Is Cruel, Ilrother. Rochester Democrat sod Chronicle. "Grover Cleveland's speeches do not need to bo referred to tho Browning clubs for elucidation," says the Memphis AppealAvalanche. Neither do Dave Hill's remarks anent Glover's efforts. Not by a Jug FulL Kansas Cltr JonrnaL Possibly the Hon. Bill Holman would find hlmcelf striking a popular chord, if, in his picayuuish policy, he would move to cut down congressional salaries. Klcht You Arts Bnahnlla Republican. One of the most prominent and active Indiana "auti-liariison" men is Colonel Conger, of Ohio.

DEMOCRACY'S DEMAGOGUES

Their Lridicron3 Efforts in Congress to Throw Dnst in the People's Ejes. 'Watch-Dog" Uolraan's "Economy" Kesola tlons Dissected and Found to Be Fere Baacombe Some heedless Expenditures. Staff Correspondence of the Indianapolis Journal. Washington. Jan. 16. "Economy." That is what Mr. Springer, in the interview, both interesting and amusing, published in New York last week, said was to be a main issue in the next presidential campaign. Mr. Springer'a prophecies as to political issues, as made in New York, do not appear to meet with much honor from his party colleagues in Washington. Mr. Springer said, in his speech at the Jackson dinner. that no silver free-coinage bill would pass the House this session, and, immediately upon his return to Washington, followed this statement by an authorized interview, in which ho declared in favor of eliminating the silver question from the next presidential campaign by authorizing the Presi dent to call an international monetary conference to consider bimetallism during the Chicago exposition. The wrath of Mr. Iiland. of Missouri, and of other advocates of compelling the government to com 73 cents into a dollar has caused Mr. Springer to exeroise more than his usual agility in retreating from this position and in declaring that he only meant that, with an advcise President and a probably adverse .Senate, it would be impossible for this Congress to eojet any tree silver legislation. Mr Springer's r.jrility upon the silver question is only equal? 1 by bis eurpriidng failure to le.id the House upon ti e question of " couomy." which belaid would cut a chief figure in tho presidential battle of this year. His dilemma is oven exceeded in intricacy by the tangle in which the Democratic majority has snarled iUelf this week over Mr. iiolinan's demagogic resolution, declaring tbat no money ouht to be appropriated, except such as was needed to run the departments of the government, and also over the distribution of committee chairmanships and oommitte expeditures, which, together, form the fattest substance of the olhcial pap of the House. The "nickel House" is most emphatically a do-nothing House. It was predicted weeks ago that th s Congress would ailord much political by-piay, but little or no legislation. That pred etion is being tulfilled every d.iy. This House has now teen in existence six weeks, at an approximate cost of $4,000 a day, and thus far it has done abitolately it o thing. The House has not even adopted a code of rules. It is only fair to say that this delay is in part due to the prolonged illness of Speaker Crisp, who has been physically unablo to perform his duty as a member of tho committee on rules, but it is also to be remarked that the Speaker niiirbt have appointed competent men to serve with himself upon that committee instead of promoting suoh a man as Catchin gs, of Mississippi, who had never shown any ability except such as was required to gut himself nominally elected as a Democrat from an overwhelmingly Kepublican district It will probably be at least a week, if not a fortnight before the House finds itself equipped with even a code of rnles under which it may proceed to conaider legislation. Avast amount of legislation has been proposed, but thus far the House has done nothing hut spend its time in fruitless debate at the daily expense of the Nation over buncombe resolutions about "economy" and over the problem of how to escape denying itself all the personal patronage and comfort allowed by precedent. HOLM AN BUNCOMBE. Of course, everybody understands hero that Mr. Holman'a resolution really means nothing. They are on their face directed against the sugar bounty, appropriations under the postal aid law, the Nicaragua canal bill and private pensions and claims, but it is not to be forgotten that these resolutions are, after all, nothing more than an expression of opinion which may be reversed in detail by a vote upon anv single bill. The resolutions are in no way binding upon the Ilonse. They have not the force of rules, and there is nothing in thera to control the action of the majority at any future time. The statement is of itself enough to make clear the purely stump-soeech nature of Mr. Holman'a resolutions, which caused the House to spend two days in empty talk, during which Democratio disunion was displayed more clearly than ever before. The com pact minority saw the breach, and charged into it with slashing vigor, as disconcerting as it was overwhelming. Asidofrom tho buncorae Homan resolutions, the Democratic majority of the House proved ita insincerity in its cry of "econoray'; by retaining all the pap and patronage within its grasp. It is interesting in this connection to note that two Democratic members of the committee on accounts, apparently innocent enough to believe that there was some sincerity in this much vaunted 'economy." bad, in the simplicity of their hearts, presented a minority Tt ort suggesting the abolition o some fourteen clerkships for committees' which they plainly showed had absolutely n need for a clerk. Mr. DicRorson. of Kentucky, the guileless irader of the little revolt gave some interesting data. He showed, for instance, that the committee on expenditures in the Stato Department and the committee on expenditures on public buildings, to each of which the majority had generously assigned a six-dollar clerk, had made uo report to the House, on any subject whatever, in the last six years, lhe committee on expenditures in the Department of Agriculture has never made a report in all its existence, but has always had a clerk, and so ho gave along list of committees that never seem to have anything ,to do. and yet have clerks. One committee, Mr. Dickerson was bound to admit, had accomplishea something. It was the committee on ventilation and acoustics, which had made four reports in six years, and two of theso reports. Mr. Dickerson gravely aaded. were "theoretical discnssions on the subject of air-ships.' The members of the committee on mileage, which, at the beginning of every Congress, approves the money allowed members for traveling expenses and then never meets again until the next Congress, were apparently conscience-stricken by Mr. Dickerson a arraignment, and, to the surprise of everybody, admitted they did not need a clerk. Mr. Dickerson, in his report, shows that SSr.tfK) a year could be saved by doing away with these purely ornamental clerks. SOME DEMOCRATIC "ECONOMY." Of course, there is not much of a partisan point in this, since both Kepublican and Democratio houses in the past hare enjoyed this superfluous patronage, which is the growth of j ears, but the prooi oi na superfluity at this time is a perfectly fair illustration of the Democratic insincerity in the cry of 'economy." This same House, which votes itself S27.0C0 in useless committee clerkship, is the House which, under the spur of Confederate revenge lor Kussian intervention at a critical moment in the rebellion, refused, on grounds or Vconomy," to allow an expenditure of 100.000 for the transportation of six million oushfls of grain to the starving peasants of the Czar. To show how non-partisan are the useless expenditures wnich Uio heiaocratw House refused to deny itself, it is only necessary to refer to some of the luxuries ot the Senate which havo accumulated by inheritance through all tho years of the continuous existence of that body under the control of ditterent political parties. The annual report of the Secretary of the Senate is always laughable. It does not lack that quality in the document Just made public ir or example, m the Senate consumed last year over six thouEand grains of quiuine. not to mention gallons !L-ii. e ith hazel, castor oil. carbolic acid, ammonia. Jamaica ginger. Day mm. cologne and on infinite variety of other drugs. The lemonade alone of the J nrn.ntn.hlr WlthoUt ft SUCK . ..w t.v.ntv.vrn boxes of lemons. thirty-eight cases of apollinans and C17 pounds of supar. Another inherited luxury, no longerof use since the death of Senator Wilson, ot Maryiano, i yue )c.nj n.,,,l,rnr f.ir n. iftf of SliUlI With WlllCfi .... .nntrimt. nn Aitnr side ol the iceprcaideut'tf desk tro icept constantly re

plenished. Thelcost of senatorial funerals last vcar is something appalling. It cost the Sation$20,45'..4l to bury Senator Hearst, of which sum S3.4CV.M was for meals lor the funeral partv. This wa the most expensive fnneralbut it cost 2,17C53 to bury Senator Wihon. although the body had only to be taken to the eastern shore of Maryland to reach its tlnal resting place. There is nodonbt tbat an earnest etiort will be made this winter to cut oir all allowances for unseemly luxuries not connected with grief. The meeting of a cotene of mugwumps at a restaurant io New York, this week, and the announcement tbat they are intending to form a new political party, has caused a great deal of quiet amusement in Washington among tho experienced leaders of both the Kepublican and Democratio organizations. The notion of organizing a national political party overs dinner table, with no issues except those of di60onteut with the platforms and candidates of the old parties, is so distinctly original that it has made the Democratic triumvirateGorman, Hill and Brice fairly gasp for breath, while leading Kepublicans are thrown almost into a state of coma. Nevertheless, the list of names published es among tho participants at this political feast includes many which must command respect everywhere. The real significance of this much-advertised dinner is thought here to be a movement, whether with or witbout bia knowledge no one pretends to say-, in tho interest of Mr. Cleveland. HODES- ILL TO CLEVELAND. Mr. Hill's frequent conferences with Mr Gorman, and his apparent intimacy with Chairman Brico, indicate an understanding between theso gentlemen which, in view of the well-known antagonism between Hill and Cleveland, would cem to bode no good to tho latter. On the other hand, tho movement in favor of nominating Mr. Gorman for the presidency m. according to insido information, gaining strength daily. Mr. Hill, while receivtd by Democrats in all public places at the national capital with noisy turbulence, has of his own accord accepted, in the pub lio eyo here. h position of a lieutenant to the Maryland leader. How long he will choose to continue that attitude is, of course, impossible to say. but that be baa assumed, it for the present is patent to everyone. The immediate result is a substantial increase in the Gorman boom. Meantime, the astute Maryland leader smiles his enigniatio emlle and says that Maryland will send a Cleveland delegation to the Democratio national convention. Just where this convention is to be held will le decided next week. The nat'onal Democratio committee meets at the Arlington net Thursday, the 21st of January, to fix the dato and place of tho nominating convention. AlieaJy the various delegates are beginning to como to Washington. Col, Henry Wattorson, the chaperon of the "Star-eyed Goddess." being among the last to arrive. For days past the city his been full of boomers tor the diflen nt cities- 8t. Paul, Oniaha, Indiauavolis. Milwaukee, all aro or will be represented by the usual crowd of hustling boomtra, promiiimr. everything. San Francisco, incredible as It may appear, is not yet line with its delegation of citizens, promising free transportation, lavish pleasure trips to the Yosemite. and everything bet skrp. X ew York will probably couie along early iu the week with ita conventinal delegation of solid men. in whoso sincerity no one has any faith, rit. Louis, it is understood, has formally withdrawn its request for tho convention, and Chicago, tho best equipped city in the country for the convention, will repeat the same game of inactivity played before the Kepublican committee. Of all the towns before the committee St. Paul is looked upon with least favor. The gloomy experiences which all delegates and intending delegations are having at Minneapolis has given St Paul such a blaok eye that it seema hardly worth while for the other twin city to even ask for the convention. There is, unfortunately, every reason to believe that the Kepublican convention at Minneapolis will be ai experience never to be remembered safe with horror by every man who will attend it. It is becoming daily more apparent that the hotel facilities are insufficient and

many delegations are making arrangements with th Pullman car company to use its cars as private hotels during the convention. The fact that Senator Gorman is eenerally credited with favoring New York, and that Senator Hill undoubtedly will work for New York, givea that city a prestige which it would not otherwise cave, Ihere are some delegates who beliove that it would be a shrewd move to nominate the next Democratic candidate at Indianapolis, the home of the Kepublican President The friends of Detroit make the same argument to the Democrats that the friends of Minneapolis made to the Kepublicans, to-wit: The necessity of encouraging the party in the Northwest Pekry . Heath. INDIANA SHOULD BE FOR KARRISOX. lion. J. B. Cheadle Declares the President Should Not Be Antagonized in His Own State, To the Editor ot the Indianapolis Journal; I trust that Indiana Kepublicans fully realize the fact that if we are to have even a chance for suocess In 1S02 we must perfect a harmonious organization, aud a most complete one, in every school district of th e State. We cannot forget tbat when thus united our State is indeed an uncertain one, deeided in nearly every great contest by a meager plurality. lhe district meetings to beheld on the 21st instant for the selection of members of the State central committee, are for that purpose and that alone. No other business can properly come before these conventions. Will it bo good policy for anyone to introduce into thoso conventions any matters tbat may possibly tend to create any factional feeling! 1 certainly think it bad policy to do it Tho only question that ire. ai Kepublicane, should consider at the district meetings should be to select for committeemen the best men that we can persuade to accept the places. We want above all things, men who are strong in the confidence of the people, men who are iu touch with the plain people." and who can, by reason of these qualifications, efiect a thorough organization of every district in the Mate. We need a committee of our best politicians, oar best organizers. Let these be the only questions considered in selecting "our committees. There are thoso who think that the first and tho last duty of every convention is to instruct, and just now they want instructions for President Harrison. Mr. Lincoln, when importuned to do or not to do acertam thing, frequently said: "I never worry about r ossmg a bridge until I reach it." Let Indiaua Kepublicans take Lincoln's advice and not worry about instructions until they meet in their various meetings' to select delegates. Then let the people instruct as they will for the candidate of their choice. At this time let us organize harmoniously and unitedly, and thus render it possiblo for our instructions, to bo hereafter given, to be made effective. I beg delegates to remember that tho road to victory liea throuh harmony and unity of action. 1 prefer the nomination of America's greatest statesman. James G. lilaine. next June,, because my judgment is that he is much the strongest man before the people, and I want Kepublican success next November if it can be secured. My judgment is not however, infallible, I may be in erron bntasthe advocate of the nomination of Mr. lllaiue 1 cannot be in error wbru 1 av that it is not wise, it is not good politics to antagonize the President in bis own State, I caunot be in error when 1 say tbat no personal Iriend of Mr. lilaine can ailord to antagonize President Harrison in his own State, because Mr. JJiaine is the Premier of his administration, and at work now with him in carrying iuto execution the legislation enacted by tholiltyfirst Cod ir re ss, tho eilect of which must be to make it so plain that a child can see that the best interests of the people deniand that the Kepatlican party be kept in control of the Nation yes. of the State, county, city and township. Permit me to express tho hope that pa the 21st in the district meeting, the delegates will do the work assigued them that is, felect the very best men for State committeemen, without regard to preferences for this or that oflice. The Kepublican party would be iu a sorry plight indeed with the friends of either the Trident or Mr. lilaine left out We need all the Kepublicans in our coming campaign. Let us proscribe none iu our organization. Let us not forget that after the Minneapolis convention w will all bo fortbe candidate named, and that if wo wonld have him wiu in November we mtt harmonize and unite. Our best efforts will bo required to aeenre that result J. B. Cucadle, F&ANia out. I&d., Jan. 13.

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