Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 March 1892 — Page 4

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THE JlvDlANAPOLIS JOURNAL, THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1892.

TH E D A 1LY JOURNAL THURSDAY, M AllCII 31. 1S02.

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL. Can 1-e found at the following places: IAr.lF American Exchange in Paris, SG Boulevard O CapiiriiiCM. . SEW YOEK-Gilsf y House and Windsor IIoteL rillLAPELPIIIA A.ITKcmble, 3733 Lancaster arcnuc . . CHICAGO-ralmcr Houre. CINCINNATI J. R. Ilawley & Co., 154 Vine street. LOUISVILLE C. T. IVorlng. northwest corner 'J bird aud Jefferson strct-td. T. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot . and Southern IIoteL . WASHINGTON, D. C. Rigs IIou?e and Ebbltt House. - Speakino of an "octopus," was ever one fastened with more of a death-grip on any community than is tho Citizens' Street-railroad Company on Indianapolis! Jcst now the existence of the Hon. Daniel Webster Voorhees as a factor in the Indiana Democracy seems to have been forgotten by the alleged 00 per cent. It remains to be seen if a few ambitious Democratic editors will bo permitted to control the Democratic party of Indiana and make it play a meek second to tho Wall-street Democracy. Tax-payers will make an extra effort to bo on time with their payments this year. Taxes aro 60 much higher that there is nn nnusual inducement to escape tho penalty attached to delayed payments. If the 90 per cent, of the Indiana Democracy hostile to Gray is made up of equal parts of the Evansville Courier, -Indianapolis Sentinel and Terre Haute Gazette, where does the Indianapolis News come in! TriE Anglomaniac papers in the East which took 6ides with Lord Salisbury ten days ago can justify themselves by following the example of the British papers in declaring that the result is a victory for the Tory government in Great Britain. In a San Francisco interview President Eliot repeats his laudation of the Mormons in even stronger terms than at Salt Lake City. Students must be at a premium at Harvard when such-toadyism is needed as a drag-net to draw them in. It should be remembered that nndcr the presont tax law, unless tho first installment of a person's taxes be paid on or before the third Monday of April, which will be tho 18th, the whole amount will become delinquent, with an added penalty of 10 per cent. About this time of year Indiana citizens are scrambling around to get money together to pay their taxes. Under tho new Democratic tax law tho ecrambling is necessarily livelier than ever, because moro money is called for. How do the people like it, anyway? It has been noted by thoso who have been looking after the green-goods circular of the free-traders that it has been sent to the names which the Tariffreform League of New York secured some tiruo since to which to address their free-trade literature. Rev. Mr. Milbuisn says tho town is full of gambling-houses. The Sentinel disputes this, and says there aro no gambling-houses here worth mentioning. When it comes to a question of veracity between theso two the public will accept Mr. Mil burn's word every time. The Democrats of Indiana aro now divided into two classes, viz., thoso who love Cleveland and admire Gray, and thoso who love Gray and admire Cleveland. Both statesmen are so fascinating that their admirers aro forced to 8a': How happy could I be with either. Were t'other dear charmer away." It is said that the proposition to have Mr. Cleveland speak in Rhode Island was met with marked disfavor by tho representatives of tho mass of the Democratic party. If, therefore, he should appear in that littlo State before next Wednesday, it will be to cnthuso the mugwumps. Confiding citizens who havo been led to believe that suburban electric lines would bo built this season in several directions and havo invested their savings in small homes far out from the business center will hear, with consternation, of the refusal of tho company to carry out such extensions. This decision means disappointment and financial loss to thousands of people. The nine People's party Congressmen are congratulating themselves over tho failure of the Democratic Ilouso to pass tho free-silver bill, which they say means that the People's party will carry six or eight States in tho next election. The claim is doubtless wild, but even if it should prove true it would simply result in throwing the election into the House, where a Democratic President would bo elected. The attempt to shelve Governor Gray as a presidential candidate is likely to test tho question whether ho is big enough man to bo Democratic boss in this State. No such attempt would ever have been made to shelve Mr. Hendricks in the Democratic party or Governor Morton in the Republican. Each of these leaders was strong enough in this State to have turned the tables on any'

outsider who attempted to capture Its support. It is evident that Gray has decided to measure swords with his opponents, at least to the extent of trying to hold the party in this State to his support. This will probably involve an attempt to secure the defeat of Shanklin fbr Governor and of Editor Morss, of the Sentinel, as a delegato to the national convention. If Gray can carry out this programme successfully he will demonstrate his claim to be regarded as boss of his party in this State, and will greatly strengthen himself politically. To do this means a hot fight and a hard struggle, but Gray seems to have enlisted for the war, and he controls the machine.

THE CLEVELAND C0XSF1HACY IN IHDIOA. The Journal is in position to know something regarding tho Democratic situation in Indiana. As between Cleveland and Gray as a Democratic candidate in Indiana it would prefer the former, because the latter, as n vote-getter, would bring out the last mossback. Just now the paiers which aro booming Mr. Cleveland contain dispatches declaring that nine-tenths of tho Democrats of Indiana are devoted to Mr. Cleveland, and will have no other candidate. In black headlines it is set forth that Cleveland is Indiana's choice. Even the Chicago Inter Ocean has been led by these loud claims to declare that "tho Democracy of Indiana has refused to send a delegation pledged to Gray." "Refusedl" When and how! The State convention has not yet been held. Of tho counties that have held conventions to elect delegates to the Stato convention twenty have instructed for Gray where one has proclaimed for Cleveland. In the end the manipulators may have things their way in tho Stato convention, but every well-informed Republican in Indiana who comes in contact with Democratic voters knows that Isaac Pusey Gray is the preference of a large majority of them for a presidential candidate. There is every reason why this should bo so. He is one of them, and has never claimed to be any better than tho average Hobaier mo?sback. He is their sort of man their size of man. Ho knows the workers, and tho workers know that, iu the event of his election, he would remember them. Moreover, they know that ablo Indiana Democrats have been mado to give way to Now York Democrats and ideas for twenty-five years, and they have something of that State pride which resents it. Therefore, this talk ot 90 per cent, of the Democracy being in favor of Cleveland is brazen falsehood unless the Democracy of Indiana that does the voting has abdicated in favor of a few editors, like Messrs. Shanklin, of the Evansville Courier; Morss, of the Sentinel; Ball, of the Terre Haute Gazette, and the more assertive Holliday, of tho Indianapolis News, with a few bankers and capitalists like Mr. Frenzel, and ambitious managers liko Mr. Taggart. If this ambitious coterie, whoso members sometimes masquerade as tho Indiana Tariff Reform League, are SO per cent, of the Democratic party, Isaac Pusey Gray is not in it in Indiana. The Journal has no idea that ex-Governor Gray will bo nominated, but when a fow ambitions'conspirators in his own Stato have caused the report to be telegraphed over the country that, in effect, 90 per cent, of tho Democrats of Indiana are opposed to him, it feels that it is called upon, as an uninterested observer, to declare that such reports arojuisleading and that the rank and filo and the local file closers of the hide-bound Democracy of Indiana are with Isaac P. Gray by a large majority. . THE STREET-CAE MONOPOLY. There has never been in Indianapolis a moro outrageous example of the insolence and oppression of monopoly than that given by the Citizens' Street-railroad Company in ita xefueal to do anything this year toward the extension of rapid transit. By its power over tho city government it has succeeded in killing toff all competition, the assurance, direct or indirect, being given to the public through theso obedient officials and equally subservient newspaper organs, that this company would, if unhindered by troublesomo rivals, give every accommodation that could reasonably bo asked, and would begin tho building of now electric lines immediately. As the Journal pointed out at tho time tho Broad Ripple franchise was applied for by the new company, tho city had no pledge from tho Citizens' company that it would extend its lines or improve its facilities in any respect, and the only certainty, of securing such extensions lay in providing for competition. The speedy result of denying a fair chance for competition proves tho soundness of this argument. Having matters so far his own way, President Frenzel and his company will do nothing for the accommodation of the public until such time as it suits their convenience. This, presumably, will bo when the City Council and other guardians of municipal interests aro ready to give them a still tighter grip on the city in tho shape of a franchise made to cover everything in sight not now controlled by tho monopoly. Meanwhile public and private ' interests will suffer, but what is that to tho Citizens' company! The city's growth will bo hindered and individuals be put to inconvenience and serious loss, but the Citizens' company has its thumb upon tho city government and tho public cannot help itself. It is a shameful condition of affairs, but is only what was to be expected when the municipal management was permitted to fall into weak, inefficient and unscrupulous hands. If an object lesson wore needed of the injury Democratic management can do for a city its course in every phase of the street-railway matter need only bo pointed out. THE ANARCHISTS IN FRANCE. If ever a government has striven to gain tho regard of the masses by liberal and progressive legislation, it is tho republic of France. Indeed, it has seemed to havo but one policy, and that to promote tho welfare of nil tho people. Public works on an extensive scale have

from time to time been carried onto afford tho people employment. The extensive loans of the government havo been so arranged that its bouds make savings banks for the people. Everything that high intelligence and experience can do to give tho people tho means of earning money has been done. Tho public-school system has been made practically the best in tho world free from all outside dictation and designed to instruct tho children of the people in the science of earning bread. Excepting this country there is none where there is less reason for organized hostility on the part of any portion of the people. Nevertheless, the Anarchists are organized to resist the laws and to destroy with dynamite the magistrates who seek to interfere with their lawless conduct. They propose to rule Paris by terror and hvo in defiance of tho laws. It is not rational liberty they seek, for that they have in France. They do not oppose the government on tho pretext that it is unmindful of their welfare, but because it is government. They aro tho foes of civilization and of all existing conditions, regardless of relation to tho peo

ple. They simply desire to destroy civilization, to blot out law and to destroy social order, to the eird that they may seize upon some of the wealth of the world. The Socialists have theories which they wish to put iu operation, but all these theories are urged upon the ground , that they will better the condition of the masses; the Anarchists havo no scheme nothing but the destruction of the existing. Much sympathy has been extended to the Russian Nihilists. Doubtless they have been cruelly treated at times, but when tho same lawless spirit is displayed by their kind in France, to whom every possible favor has been given which government can confer, and when they make war with dynamite, one has very much 'ess sympathy for Nihilists who are the Anarchists of Russia. No government can tolerate such fiends, and in view of what is going on in Paris the United States is not only warranted in refusing to receivo these people, but in banishing them. THE COUNTRY GROWS. The Now York Sun thinks that for a Congress bent on retrenchment in public expenditures a river and harbor bill carrying nearly $21,000,000 is rather astounding. "Twenty years ago." says tho Sun, "the introduction of such a bill would have brought a clamor of protest from tho whole country.". Then it points out that for the year ending Jane SO, 1871, tho sum appropriated for the improvement of rivers and harbors was 83.445,900, and that it has gradually crept up to tho present big figures. This simply goes to prove what tho 'Journal has often asserted and what every intelligent person should perceive, that this is a growing country, and the necessary and legitimate expenses of the government must bo expected to increase. They should, of course, be kept down as low as possible consistent with good and efficient government, but any economy that would impair tho efficiency of the government or retard the progress and development of the country is short-sighted and unwise. Tho American people are nol a cheap people, and they do not want cheap government. They want a government commensurate with the greatness, the resources and the progress of the country, and they are willing to pay the cost of such government. The statement of the Sun that twenty years ago tho introduction of a river and harbor bill carrying 21,000,000 "would have brought a clamor of protest from the whole country," is undoubtedly true, but what docs it signify! It is equally true that the introduction of a" river and harbor bill in 1850 carrying as much as that of 1870 would have brought a clamor of protest from the whole country. A young and progressive country like tho United States grows a great deal in twenty years. Does it follow, then, that the river and harbor bill should continue to grow, year by year, as long as tho government lasts! Not at all; but it is undoubtedly true that wo may continue to expend $23,000,000 a year in improving our rivers and harbors for the next fifty years, andevou then tho work will not bo done. We do not know the A B C of such improvements yet in this country. We are just beginning to have so"me conception of the valuo of our inland water courses and the necessity of improving them, as also our lake navigation and ocean harbors. European countries are immeasurably ahead of us in such matters. There has been a great deal more spent in improving the Danube or the Rhine than there has been in improving the Mississippi, and still tho work goes on; yet the natural traffic tributary to the Mississippi is greater than that of both the other rivers combined. This is a great country, but it is in a crude condition yet. It will require the expenditure of a great deal of money by the government to make it a fit home for the hundreds of millions of people who will inhabit it a hundred years hence. It has been claimed in defenso of the sew tax law that it would not increase taxation except in counties where Republican boards of commissioners refused to reduce the local levy in proportion to the increased taxation; in other words, that it would not increase State taxes. Of course thero is no truth in this. As the law increases the lew for State purposes Cj cents, besides increasing tho assessment, it stands to reason that it increases State taxes. The average rate of increase in the assessment of real estate throughout tho State is nearly 40 per cent., though much greater in some counties than in others, and tho average rate of increase in taxes for Stato purposes is moro than 100 per cent. Democracy is a tax. The funeral of tho late Representative Kendall, of Kentucky, cost the government 2,18C.uG. Among the items was railroad transportation for eighteen persons from Washington to Morchcad, Ky., and return, $320.20. Can anybody tell why eighteen persons should have gone! Commissary supplies furnished

by Pullman company amounted to $173.91, while the cost of carriages and Itearso across tho country was 6614. In addition to tho commissary supplies above noted there was $150 for a special train, $135 for a special car, $18 for meals on dining-car, and $9 for lunches. The wholo congressional funeral business is an nbuso and 6candal.

President Eliot repeats at San Francisco his assertion that polygamy is a thing of the past in , Utah, and was, moreover, never a general practice. If this eminent educator wero in tho habit of reading the papers he would remember that two arrests of prominent Mormons were recently made by United States authorities for infractions of the anti-polygamy law, and that ono of theso offenders had been pardoned just previously by President Harrison after a terra of imprisonment for the same crime. Tho "thing of the past" bobs up with enough frequency to keep government officers constantly on tho watch. Boss Frenzel, having seen to it that tho Broad Ripplo company was frozen out by his minions, tho city authorities, now turnshis scrows on a little tighter by calmly proclaiming that the Citizens' company will build no electric lines this year. Tho threat, implied and well understood, is that the extension of rapid transit depends upon the granting of a new franchise to Mr. Frenzel's company. Till then tho people of Indianapolis will be forced to depend on mule-power transportation, and. havincr tied their own hands by putting tho present worthless government. ;in. control, what are they going to do about it! Not much stock should be taken in the predictions of Representative Watson, the Georgia Alliance or People's party man, .regarding tho effect of the killing of the silver bill upon tho Democracy of the South. In two or three States many voters have been led to believe in tho sub-treasury and loan schemes of tho People's party, but when it comes to voting for President they will be found solid for the old Democracy. So it has been, and so it will continue for some time. Tnc lower houso of the Iowa Legislature has passed a bill making silver a legal tender for all debts contracted in that State after its passage. This is a foolish attempt to bolster up silver. If it should become, a law it would still leavo everybody free to make contracts payable in gold alone, and its ultimate effect would be to boom gold instead of silver. All legislative attempts to make a 70-cent dollar equal to a 100-cent dollar are like legislating to mako water run up hill. The American Protective Tariff League has set about collecting information upon tho effects of the McKinley tariff m causing the establishment of new industries or the extension of old ones, whether , large or small. They have printed a; series of questions on the subject and will bo glad to mail them to any person desirous of an wcring them. Address American Protective Tariff League, 133 West Twenty-third street, New York. The latest eastronomio atrocity recommended for persons in need of a "tonio food" is oat-meal cooked in ale. Misguided people eat a great many abominable and distasteful menses under tho idea that a health food must necessarily be nauseous, and it is not at all unlikely that oat-meal in ale will become a fad with dyspeptics. 'Electrocute" is bad enough, but the latest case of legal death by electricity has brought ont the word "clectrotbanized.'' If this continues, a petition will go from the country at large.' .to the New York Legislature ttfnrctnrnrto'-tho-f hanging of its murderers. The Evening Sun gives tansihle proof of its prosperity by adding a column to each of its four pages. It has evidently found its held, and this enlargement must be accepted as demonstrating conclusively that it is tilling it acceptably. It is reported that Lady Henry Somerset has lost her notes made dnring her visit and will therefore be unabje to write a book about this country, as she hadintended. Thank heaven! thank heaven. Governor Page, of Vermont, says: "President Harrison is my first choico for presidential candidate. I have no second choico, although there are plenty of men who could win, I think." The Umbrella Trust will hardly succoed. Tho opinion has becomo too well grounded that U ie safe to trust no man with your umbrella. To the Editor of th Tndianaoolis Journal: 1. Is it the law In this State that a man can deduct the amount of a mortgage from his tax appraisement and pay taxes only on what it left! 2. How can one cet the Congressional Kecordl 3. Did the Democratic representatives from Indiana vote for the disability pension bill! . Subscriber. 1. Heal estate is taxed on its appraisal, bnt in returning personal property in the form of notes, etc., the party is permitted to deduct the amount he owes from the amount he holds. 2. The Congressional Record can be obtained for 1.50 a month by addressing W. II. Collins, chier clerk, Washington, D. C. Doubtless your Representative would send you any special number wanted. 3. The Indiana Democrats voted for it, but the Southern Democrats voted solidly against it. or did not Tote "' ' i'o the Editor ot the Indianapolis Journal; 1. What la the name and address of the United Ptates minister at Klcaratrual 1. Ecuador. 3. Teni. 4. Colombia. 5. Venezuela. t. Brazil. 7. Argentine Ilpublic e! u c. 1. 1L C. Shannon, Managua. 2. Ecuador has no minister from the United States at present. Wm. B. Sorsby is consul at Guayaquil. 3. John Hicks, Lima. 4. J. T. Abbott, Bouta. 5. W.L. Scruggs. Caracas. 6. E. H. Conger, Rio tie Janeiro. 7. J.R.G. Pitkin, Buenos Ayres. To th9 Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: Is there any penalty attached to giving a check on a bank with which the Individual has never done busiuea and has no money deposited; thus: A gives B a check on a bauk for money, which B receives and gives A the money, the bank docs not honor the check and A is not worth the amount. w. e. m'ij. This would be obtaining money under false preteuseo. wMoh is a statutory crime, punishable by imprisonment in the State prison not moro than seven years nor less than two. To the Editor of the Indlanauolls Journal: la there any f tato iu which a foreigner can vote In thirty days alstr Lis arrival! j. m. No; but it bus been ehown by un investigation in New York" that in the days of Tweed men were made voters who had not been in the country much longer than that, and the District Court at St. Louis has re

cently revoked quite a number of naturalizations which were made by perjury. It is claimed that many voters were made in New York city last fall of men who had no legal right to naturalization.

POLITICAL XOfE AND COMMENT. Iowa will be the thirty-fourth State to adopt the Australian ballot system. The only cheap commodity the Democrats propose to oiler tho working man is a 70-cent dollar. Trouton (X. J.) Gazette. I NO alls says that while Cleveland is little better than a wooden man he is preferable to Hill, whom he regards as a hippodromer. The Peoria Transcript thinks ;f B. B. Hill oomes into Illinois on a speech-making tour. Mr. Palmer will denonnce his visit as an invasion of State rights." Hatch, of Missouri, has boen trying to read Grover Cleveland out of the party. He declared that all Democrats aro for free silver, and that the man who isn't ought not to clainrto be a Democrat. It is understood in Wisconsin that exSenator Spooncr will be selected by President Harrison to reoresenfi the United States in the Bobring 6ea arbitration, in which event, of course, he is not to be considered as a candidate for tho governorship. Thr Boston News genially remarks that if David B. Hill will write a letter to some friond. saying be will not accept the Democratic nomination for President unless he van get it. he and Cleveland will stand on an equal footing before the country. Mr. Hrick comes forward with the opinion that Hill is no longer a presidential possibility, and that the indications point to Cleveland's nomination. Republican voters have determined that Cleveland is not a presidential possibility, , either. Pittsburg Cbroniclo Toiegraph. D. Russell Bitowx, Republican candidate for Governor of Rhode Island, is forty-four years of age, and has been in the hardware and manufacturing business all his life. He is the founder and senior partner of the firm of Brown Brothers & Co., at Providence, dealers in mill supplies. "Ouu party seems to be wormwood and Hill," sighed an old Democrat. "You've got that quotation wrong," corrected a listener. "It should be wormwood and sail." 'What's the difference!" sighed old one. more profoundly than before. National Bulletin. Congressman Hatch, of Missouri, told George Fred Williams, of Massachusetts, dnring the silver debate, that the Democratic party wonld be clad to swap him off for"SocklcM Jerry" SiniDson, of Kansas. This was rough on Williams, for it is well known that the Democrats care very little for Simpson. It is not at all imnrobable, says the Philadelphia Press, that Prenideut Harrison's name will be the only one before the Minneapolis convention when the time comes, and that that body will, by acclamation, ratify a choice already mads bv popular sentiment. The Press adds: "The great heart of the Kepublican party is in full harmony with the present administration, has confidence in its broad-minded and honest purposes, and in its dignity and force." While Cleveland's friends are "hollering" for their candidate. Hill is doing the 'still hunting," a circumstanco that leads the Philadelphia Inquirer to remark: "Mr. Cleveland's friends are certainly moro industrious in gathering expressions of opinion tor thoir favorite than are the supporters of Senator Hill, but they seem to t so deeply engaged in this branch of tho work as to bo in danger of forgetting all about the delegates. The Senator's ettorts in the meantime are turned in the latter direction. Both of these elements have their iulluence, but wo believe that brass bands are only an incident of conventions. Mr. Cleveland's friends should stick a pin right there." AE0UT TKOPLE AND THINGS. Herbert Spexckk haa an intense dislike to eating his meals with or before other peoble. The Queen of Greece is the best royal needlewoman m Europe. She cuts out aud makes most of her own underclothing. The Prince and Princess of Wales are known as the Earl aud Countess of Chester when they travel on the continent. It was as tho Earl of Chester that the Prince mado his celebrated American tour. Lady O'Biukn, the wife of the Governor of Newfoundland, is much absorbed in the wives and children of the men engaged along tho coast in the fishing industry, aud has organized a- small society to work up material into suitable clothing for her proteges. Mi:. Paul du Chaillu, the pioneer African traveler, was born iu Louisiana; his father was a trader in the French colony of Gambia, ou the west African coast. Young Du Chaillu wont there as a child, and picked up the language and studied the birds and beasts. Feminine drummers are said to sell more goods in one day than the average masculine tourist in a week. Wholesale houses, furniture, tea and dry-goods establishments are selecting bright, energetic members from the ranks of the ttisterhood to represent them, aud, as a rule, with unquahtied success. Lillian Russell is said to be earning something like $900 a week. From tho same source comes the information that Miss Russell's stage coHtumes aro supplied her by the management, as is also her carriage. Her maid is paid by tho same generous hand, and luucbeoss are provided at the theater, should the lovely songstress desiro them. Rev. Lyman Abdott is engaged in preparing a new hymn-book, which will be the immediate successor of "Plymouth Collection," the first collection to set the fashion of congregational singing in this country from books furnishiug the musio as well as the words to the congregation. 'His object is to njake, by an eclectic process, a collection of tunes which have proved themselves adapted to congregational use, by being successfully used in congregational service. German papers say that Mark Twain was greatly distinguished by the Emperor at a recent uinner given by General Von Versen in Berlin. The Emperor sat next to tho humorist and was much interested in his conversation. He is said to have told Mr. Clemens that he Was familiar with all his writings and had read thum with pleasure. Almost all the Berlin papers have contained long interview recently with the American. The papers have also expressed the hope that Mr. Clemens would Subhsh u book giving his impressions of erlin and its people. The King and Queen of Greece have been married twenty-five years, and continue to live for each other in good, old-fashioned affection. The Queen, says a writer in Figro (Paris), although she has brought up a family of seven children, has preserved all tho grace of early yonth. Her charming smile softens her Slavonic beauty, which she inherits from her father, the Grand Duke Constantme. who was one of thn handsomest men at the Russian court. Nothing could surpass the charm of her manners. Qneen Olga has French sympathies, and while the Duke of ftparta and aud her four younger eons were educated by a German preceptor the Qneen had her two danghtersPriucesses Alexandra and Marie, brought-ap by a French governess. The youngest son of the King and Queen of Greece is only three years old. no, she gets there first. If he steals trash who steals my purse, His sex must uinke the matter worse; For iny dear wire oft ateais this 'trash, And every time gets good, hard cas.li. Now York Herald, WHICH WAS SWITCH. Her bangs were a beautiful auburn. Her curls were a rtuaet, rich; One wa true and or.e wa truant. And I woedcred whlh was switch. lfionaiolU TtnMS.

ISAAC POSEY A LIYELY CORPSE

Returns Aro Beginning to Come in and Ho Appears to Be on Top. Jay County Instruct! for Him md dalges in a Eeantifal Row Over Some Hot Resolutions. InShanklin, Who Fired tho Mine, Gives His Views on Hill and Gray. That Southern Tour Matthews Being Tressed for an Announcement HauchyiUe Republicans. GRAY IS STILL IX IT." County Conventions Still Instructing for Him Will Got Kven. The Indianapolis and Evansville Cleveland boomers appear to be pretty thin people when spread ont all over the State. Chairman 'Toni7 Taggart is already buried in griof and remorse over the misstep he made in taking a hand in stealing the Paoh convention, and. to use his own expression, "don't care to be mixed up in the racket" any further, Messrs. Shanklin aud Morss are not nearly such big people as th.'v were a few days ago, and the indications are that they will grow smaller and beautifully less as the days roll by. Gray and his friends were not in the least disconcerted by the suddenness of the attack beginning with bhanklm's speech and ending with the Paoli surprise party and the Sentinel's "clear the track" editorial Your Undo Isaao is not to be caughtnapping twice, aud the Paoli episode is not likely to be repeated. The first answer to it was the action of the Randolph county convention, on Tuesday afternoon, at Winchester, where Grav's candidacy ISAAC PUSEY SE1".MS was unanimously indorsed. The Gray poplf were up and doiii. They have strong followinas in parts of tbe State where tbe great men of Indianapolis are scarcely known by name. They followed np their advantage yesterday by making a strong fight and capturing the Jay county convention at Portland, which also instructed for Gray, in their zeal they forced tho fighting a little further by offering a resolution expressing their bitter fueling toward Shanklin, and this move developed a beautiful row. Senator Smith introduced the following: The Democracy of Jay county condemns tiie unwine aud undemocratic cour.fo of J. O. tshank Un, candidate for Governor, and tbe editor of tbe Indianapolis bentinel. In nKsuir.ing to themselves tbe sole right to speak for tbe Democruey of tbe Mate as to wLo shall te presented to the national Democratio convection as a cundidHto for the presidency, as such a course amounts to dictatorship aud boKRism. We also condemn their malevolent attack upon the character and honor of David B. Hill aud Indiana's honored son, I. P. Gray. Therefore be it Resolved, That the delegate appointed to attend the btate convention at ludianaKlls be instructed to demand that the uamo of 1. P. Gray shall be presented to the national Democratio convention as a candidate for tbe presidency, and that the Indiana delegation give him a united support. After a heated contest this resolution was declared lost, upon a viva voce vote, by the cnairmau. while the Gray adherents claimed thatit carried by a decided majority. With the row still in progress the convention adjourned. Wero there any room for donbt. after these manifestations, that tho Hon. Isaao Pusey Gray proposes to have the Indiana delegation or war. this authoritative an nonucement in John B. Stoll's paper, tbe South Bend Times, is surely euiphalio enough. Mr. Stoli says, in double leads, with a liberal use of italics: The Times has the highest authority for the statement that Isaao P. Gray 1 not In a presidential combination with auy aspirant or the residency and does not intend to be. Neither ias he been solicited to form a combination of any kind. It devolves upon the Democracy of Indiana to show that thuy are not mere puppets to be manipulated by olitlcal dreamers and schemers who have no real sympathy with the general aims and purposes of the Democratio party and who, if they had their way, would sluk the party beneath a popular rebuke of at least 50.000 votes. Isaac P. Gray is an avowed candidate for the r 'residency, without any entangling alliances, lis candidacy Is not to be a mere attachment to the coat-tail of any other aspirant. Sink or swim, he lutjuds to rely on the merits of his own oandidacy, aud not on tho merits and demerits of other. Democrat of Indiana: Will you stand by tbe man who has repeatedly led you to victorr. or will you tamely submit to the dictation of daring, reckless and unscrupulous destructiouistst Matter of similar tenor is appearing in various other rock-ribbed Democratio paEers throughout the State. Tho Cleveland oomers are not a handsome as they were. The antagonism of tne Sentinel to Gov. ernor Gray has aroused his friends to a particular right against Editor Monts'H ambitions to be a delegate at large. It would be the only occasion in his life where he could hol-nob on a level with Senators, and the Gray men will preveut it Neither will they allow him to be one of tho district delegates, if they can help it. Should be succeed over the opposition, it would signify that he is stronger than the Gray men give him credit for. SHANKLIN TALKS. Hasn't 31ncli of an Oplulon of 11111 No Complimentary Vote for Gray. Mr. J. Gilbert Shanklin, the tontlenian who so recently created such a stir in Dem ocratic circles, was seen at the Deui&on House last night by a Journal reporter. Mr. Shanklin is now known as the Cleveland candidate for Governor lu this State. When he nestlea back in tho roomy recesses of an easy-chaif he resembles in a more or less degree Robert G. lngersoll. When asked what he thought about the present situation? Mr. Shanklin said: "There ia almost a unanimous sentiment among the Democrats of Indiana for Grover Cleveland." How many counties have instructed for Gray!" I do not believe any of the counties have instructed for Gray, while several counties hoye instructed for Cleveland. There's Orange and Miami counties, while my county, while it did not exactly instruct for biro, indorsed his tariff policy." "Has tbe recent turmoil in Democratio circles not hnd tho etlect of killing oil the Hill strength!" Well. 1 don't believe Mr. Hill ever had very much strength in Indiana. As 1 said before, the Democrats of the State are almost a nuit ia favor of Cleveland. Thete la cu& community around Mitchell where

there is quite a Hill sentiment, bat that arises from tho lact that Mr. Hill, when he only had four speeehes to deliver in Indiana, addressed the peoplo of Mitchell He was a big man. and bis presence in the community impressed them with the fact that they bad been highly honored. That is the only place 1 know of in tne State where Hill has any followers. The Cleveland sentiment is growing, aud 1 don't think there will b any other candidate before the couve nlion. 'Governor Hill's Southern lour was not a success. He was received with hospitality by the Sotitbern people, the same as any great man would be the sam ns President Harrison was. although probably in not nucha marked degree but during the ti"io he was South nothing occurred that would indicate any eentiment in that locality for him. He felt it, and everybody else knows it to bo a faot. As vou perhaps know, tho Cleveland Democrats in New lork will hold a convention Mav i.t3, and I think it will he shown there that tbe popular sentiment of that Stato is for him lor President. I draw that inference from what I have seen in the newsDSDera. Th Ann tlA

J having both deserted IlilL learea fiim without any substantial support. Of course the Democrats feel grateful to Governor Hill for his success in managing to reapportion his own state. It had been held by th Republican for a period of thirty years by a gerrrmanuer that was palpably untair. Thero has always been a Democratio majority in tho State, yet, with the exception of Francis Kiernan. the Democrats never had a Senator in a period of thirty years until Hill was elected and Kiernan was elected by a fusion with tho labor representatives in the Legislature by a majority of one, Under the reapportionment made by the last LecUUtnre, New York will hereafter be permanently Democratic in the benalo and in Congress. "Governor Hill certainly deserves credit for that, but on the measures that the two great parties are divided upon he does not seem to bo in harmonj with his party. la his Elmira speech, in December, he advocated a return to the tar if! f 1SS3 as the beat thing -the party could do. It was opposition to the tantf of IS83, among other things, that elected Cleveland in the following year. I think it must be admitted that the tremendous victories of l&o, which reached from oueend of the country to theother. including some States that had before given Republican majorities, show that the maase of tho people are in sympathy with the Democratio idea of tariff reform as expressed by Cleveland in his December mesaage of lsT. "As far as Indiana is concerned I know it is for Cleveland, even as against Governor Gray. He must know it. Ho Democrat TO UK ST T', AMVK. wants toHprcud at him: indeed they wonld all like to see him President, but the fact is that, with Cleveland alive and willing to accept tho nomination, the selection of any otiser man at Chisago would be construed by the masses of the country as an evidence of insincerity on the part of Democracy."' Then tho astute Mr. Shanklin decided to pour oil on the troubled writers that are just now threatening to drench to the skin every Democrat in Indiana, and he proceeded in thin manner: "i think there are many Republicans who believe in the Cleveland theory of taritfretorm. There ia no other wy to account for the tremendoua Democratic victoriesof two years ago. They voted for Democratic candidates, believing that tho party was in accord with Cleveland's declarations. If auy ouebesitie Mr. Cleveland were nomiuated at Chicago it wonld naturally awaken the suspicion of this claaA of voters as to Democratic ciuctrity on the tariti issue. That is why thoughtful Democrats are for Cleveland even as sgainftt Governor Gray, much as they would like to seo him nominated and elected President." "D you think Gray will be given the complimentary vote of the Indiana delogaticn at Chicago!" "Well. I hardly think so; I don't seo what good that would do him. It would be but nu empty honor at beat." 'What aro your figures on the Democratic majority in this Mate! ' asked the reporter, going upon the supposition that Mr. Shanklin was suro of -Democratic success, or at least would claim to be. That is hard to say. Iam not absolotcly sun we will win. 'although I think we will. It is going to be a very hard fight. President Harrison will be renominated at Minneapolis, and Republican forces will be concentrated iu Indiana. By tbe way, I dou't see how there can be any opposition to President Harrison, either in this Mate or throughout the country ou the part of Republican. It seems tome that he haa been consistent and conscientious in everything he has undertaken, lie Las made a Very good President," Mr. Shanklin was told of the action of the Jay county Democratic convention, but on that subject he preserved a Uiguitied silence. MATTIICWVS CJUtDIDACY. He Is Ueiiiz Pushed Viy Hard, but Has Md No Announcement. Secretary of State Matthews was besieged yesterday by callers, who questioned him as to bis intentions, in the hope of having him say he would becomo a candidate for Governor. His mail contained a largo number of letters to the same effect. When seen by a Journal reporter be s,aid he had nothing to say at present dillerent from what he has hitherto said. His words permitted an intimation that something may be forthcoming. If I have anything," he said to the reporter, "which I think you wonld be interested in publishing, i will give it to you with pleabure. Possibly tbe first of next weeik there may if 1 have anything I will tell you."' If Governor Gray should manifest tbe lighting qualities of Senator Hill the situation in New Vork may be duplicated ia Indiana, Gray's lrieuds share, iu part, the aentiment ot a thorcugbred Democrat, who, lu speaUing of the Clevelaud letich. said: "1 would like to know where Cleveland is on voto btrongur this year than he was in JbS. I. for one. would like to vote for a Western man. 1 have never voted lor a prosidmtial nominee that wasn't a Mew York man, and just to see bow it would feel it makes no ditierence to me whether it is Gray, Boies or Palmeronly let two have the untubtcd pleasure of voting for a Western man for President. Here is where Ae expect to get the votes. Now, in the present temper vi the party it would not surprise me iu the loat if the convention should nominate Clevelaud without single voto from his own State." Haufhville Republicans. The Republicans of Hanghville held a rousing primary last night at the old school-house, on King street. As a usual thing the Republican primaries there are attended by bnt tilteen or twenty voters, but last night tbe school-bouo was packed and jammed, over one hundred voters b ing present. And had they hunted the suburb ovr they could not have Sound five hotter men thn tne ones nominated. William II. Orkwood presided and E. 11. Alexander was -cif tary of the meeting. The lollowing ticket wast nominated: Trustees l. Edward (. Crawford. '2. Henry C. TomliuAou. Cleik-W illiam C Kneale. Treasurer Kuuuel U. UarUd. . ilaashal Ucnry Ward.