Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 October 1892 — Page 4

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, FRIDAY, OCTOBER . 7, 1892.

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If the question of tree trail could bo passed upon as a business project, withpat involving tlio connection of the Democratic party therewith, it would be defeated five to one. If there is any alleged Republican in the East like Wayne MacVeagh whom we can exchange for another as good as General Sickles, 'the Republicans will Endeavor to find the MncYengh. If' the PeopTe's party does not make n, better showing in other States than it did in Georgia and Florida its cherished hope of throwing the presidential election into the House will vanish in thin Jr. ' - "Where one alleged Republican sorehead is announced for Cleveland ten business men who aro connected with Ihe industries of the country leavo the free-trade party to vote the Republican ticket. The New York World has fired one of its shots at General Sickles, and soon the Cleveland .press will follow with a volley. But thousands of veterans will hold the gallant leader of the .Third Army Corps in high esteem, al) the same. It appears that Mr. Bynum has reCanted, and is again a supporter of tho free coinage of silver, in spito of the fact that silver mines and silver bullion are owned by large capitalists. Such, at least, is tho statement of one who attended one of his latest meetings. ' A correspondent q the Chicago Herald is telling how ballot-boxes aro stuffed in Alabama by Democrats. But for Republican opposition they would repeat the Alabama tactics in Indiana, but in the gerrymander they do the .next best thing toward defeating popular elections. In 1880 a workingman whose taxable property was $1,000 had to contribute 8.?6 toward the payment of the interest on the bonded debt of the United States, but through tho Republican protective policy the tax was reduced to 3.84. On the other band, under Democratic management, the increased debt In Indiana has placed a burden of $10. CO on " each $1,000 of taxable property, against $5.70 a year imposed by the, debt tf 1881. This is, indeed, a contrast. . TnE fact that three gentlemen from Fort Wayne came to the city on Wednesday to attend to a matter before the federal court led a number of wild-eyed correspondents to telegraph outside papers that they were here to take part in ft Gresham conference. They attended to their business, which bad a successful outcome for them, and returned home by the next train. Fortunately for such correspondents, the Ananias penalty was abolished somo time since. A Washington dispatch states, on apparently, good authority, that the negotiations which have been pending for more than two years between the United States and the Samoan islands for tho cession of the harbor of Pago Pago to this government, for use as a coaling station, have at last been satisfactorily concluded. Tho harbor and sovcral -tracts of land adjacent thereto were, it is said, purchased for a very modcrato sum. The acquisition is regarded as of great importance, as it will afford increased protection to American commerce, which is rapidly developing in the South Sea islands, and will also prove very valuable, in case of foreign war, as a baso of naval supplies. This will be another addition to the long list of practical and valuable achievements by this administration. General Weaver will probably be permitted to make his speech to-day in Pulaski, Tenn., without beingassaultcd, but the information which comes from Southern sources relative to tho purpose of a largo class of Democrats to prevent his speaking and that his friends are rallying with arms to protect him, is a disgrace to tho Democracy of Middle Tennessee. There is every reason to believe that tho charges made against General Weaver as a federal officer during the war are groundless. At any rate, thero is said to be no complaint against him in any official record. The trouble is that he is not a Democrat. If be were a Democrat ho would bo welcomed to Pulaski. The truth is the Democrats of the present generation in nearly all of tho States south of Mason

and Dixon's line do not propose to tolerate any other political party than their own. The other day Governor Buchanan was insulted with rotten eggs. He was not a federal army officer, but was assailed because he has ceased to be a Democrat. Of course the Democratic State committee deplores the trouble, but tho leaders who have preached and practiced intolerance are those who are really responsible. Intolerance, which began with the persecution of colored Republicans, has crossed the color line.

THE ATTOEKEY-GENERAL AND THE QEERYKANDES, Attorney-general Smith has succeeded in breaking into tho gerrymander suit and is "sloshing" around at a great rate. It is hardly necessary to say that his presence in the suit will not tend to illuininato any of tho legal points involved or further the ends of justice. His opinhfn on a question of constitutional law is worthless, and his reputation as an unscrupulous partisan is such as to destroy the effect of anything he might say or do in a suit where political qnestions were involved. The Attorney-general has no business in.the gerrymander suit. It is his business to appear for the State only in suits where the State is a party or where it has interests at stake. The State, as such, is not concerned in this suit. The order of tho court admitting Smith . into the case . designates his appearanco as on behalf of the people." Yet he is no sooner admitted to the suit than he files a motion to dismiss which is filled with scurrilous, impertinent, partisan matter. It is an insult to the court for him to cumber its records with such matter as his petition for dismissal of the suit, charging that it was ."begun upon the suggestion of the Republican State central committee;" that the relator is a member of the Republican party; that tho judge before whom the suit was brought is a Republican, etc. Suppose all this is. true, what then! Have not Republicans a right to bring a suit to test the constitutionality of an apportionment act, and has not a Republican judge a right to hear and decide such a question? Since when have Republicans been 'debarred from the courts in this State or Republican judges from hearing and deciding suits! The Attorney-general does not represent the people in this suit any more than he represents tho State. He is not in tho suit to further the ends of justice or to hasten a decision of tho caso on its merits. He is in it solely and simply as a partisan. He represents nobody but Democrats, and'nothing but tho interests of the Democratic party. He is interested solely in maintaining the validity of the gerrymander for the benefit of that party. He does not want tho case decided acenrdingtolaw and precedents. Ho is in it for the purpose of preventing such a decision, and he will scruplo at nothing to accomplish his purpose. His audacity in forcing himself into the suit is only equaled by his gall in assuming to spenk for the Supreme Court, as he did in a streot-cornorspeech In this city, Tuesday night, when lie said: Politicians may and will attempt to overrun the laws of yonr State for unboly and dishonest purposes, as they Are seeking to do in the apportionment suit. Hut there is an abiding hope within me a hope springing from a love of order and good government that makes roe eav to you that the snpreme judicial power oi Indiana is at present vested in judges, though Republicans, who will not permit the people of this State to be deprived of thoir rights on the eve of a great political campaign. I believo tho Supreme Court is honest, and that it will protect the rights of the people against the assault of political bandits. The Supreme Court ought to pray to be delivered from the nauseous praise 'of this notorious political bully and partisan. The Attorney-general is an officer of that court, and he has no right to be making Democratic stumpspeeches in which ho assumes to foreshadow tho decision of the court. "The promoters of this suit," he said in the same speech, ''aro dangerous political partisans, who would, tor .unworthy political motives, prostitute the judiciary of the State, if, by so doing, they could reap a personal reward." The "dangerous political partisans11 who are thus charged with trying to prostitute the judiciary ask nothing of tho Supremo Court that the 'courts of Michigan, Now York and Wisconsin have not granted, viz., a prompt hearing and decision of tho case in accordance with the Constitution. That, however, i3 just what the Attorney-general does not want, and what ho is in tho case, if possible, to prevent. It is the first instance In the history of the State in which an Attorney-general has undertaken to defend a piece of rascally partisan. legislation under the pretense of serving the people. It is to be sincerely hoped that tho Supreme Court will provent the interposition of all technical obstacles and seo its way clear to an early decision of tho case. This seems to bo absolutely necessary to the avoidance of confusion -and to securo the people in their rights. Tho constitutionality or unconstitutionality of the present apportionment is to bo settled by the court's decision, and, whatever this may be, the law-abiding people of tho State.will bo content; but for every reason that can be-urged a decision should bo reached without tho unnecessary loss of a single hour. THIRD-PARTY COLLAPSE 15 THE BOOTH. Georgia has followed Arkansas and Florida in showing tho utter, col lapse of tho claims of the leaders of the People's party of strength in these Southern States. Whatever favorable indications there wero three months ego were crushed out in the Democratic campaign which followed. Whatever movement there might have been out of tho Democratic party was turned back by appeals for a solid South and exciting sectional prejudices. In Arkansas, although tho Republican Stato ticket was withdrawn and all Republicans who voted supported tho People's State, ticket, it mado an insignificant showing. The Alliance leaders, who wero formerly Democrats, have issued an address setting forth tho frauds perpetrated by tho Democratic managers. There is no doubt about its truth, but

the result proved that the People's party leaders are not able to cope with the Democratic managers. In Florida, on Tuesday, the People's party collapse was total. If the managers had decided to let the election go by default their showing could scarcely have been more insignificant. They were not the third party there, but the second, as the Republicans had no ticket. The result shows that the Alliance party had no votes election day in Florida, in spite of the bitter fend between the Call and anti-Call factions of the Democracy. On Wednesday Georgia followed. In that Stato the Alliance or People's party element has been stronger and betterorganized than elsewhere in the South. In lb90 tho Alliance dictated the nominations of the Democratic party, and sent tried Democratic Congressmen to the rear. A number of able men "led the People's party, and a vigorous canvass was made. Candidate Weaver was there until assailed with rotten eggs at Macon. The vote shows that, with no Republican ticket in the field, the People's party has been literally overwhelmed. The indications are, from Wednesday's, vote, that the People's leader, Watson, will bo beaten for tho House next month. In Georgia the People's party orators assailed Mr. Cleveland for discourtesy to the daughter of Jefferson Davis. Thus all the claims of the Weaver party of carrying a State in the South fall to the ground. Its leaders may cla'in that it was beaten by fraud and intimidation, yet in the North they have combined in several States with the Democrats to insure the success of the party which they charge with political crimo in the South!

A V00EHEES MISSTATEMENT. Senator Voorhees, in one of his recent speeches, declared that the Republicans in Congress made no effort to pass the private pension bills which Mr. Cleveland vetoed. Even if this were true, it would not count for anything, because, being Democratic Houses, there would be little hope of carrying those measures by tho necessary two-thirds vote. BuU it is not true. The Republicans did make efforts to pass private pension bills over the Cleveland vetoes. When the vetoes of private pension bills in the Forty-ninth Congress were sent to the House they wero referred to the pensions committee, but tho Republicans failed in all instances when the effort was made to have them reported back on a certain day. Subsequently tho pensions committee reported, favoring the passago of eleven such bills over the President's veto. Only one of these bills was passed oyer the. veto, as nearly all the Democrats voted to sustain the President. In that single case Mr. Bynum voted for the pensioner and against Mr. Cleveland. Votes wero taken in the House on five other vetoes, but the President was sustained every time. In neither of the .votes on these bills does the name of Mr. Bynum appear among those few Democrats who voted to override the ve toes. Either ho voted against them with . the bulk of his party or dodged, which is equivalent. In the Senate tho pensions committee reported in favor of passing all of its twenty-five vetoed. bills over the objections of Mr. Cleveland, but when they came to tho Senate a vote was taken on but two of them. It was a strict party vote, all the Republicans voting to pass and all tho Democrats against As the Senate was not two-thirds Republican, tho President's veto was sustained. Either Senator Voorhees voted against tho bills with his patty associates or elso he was absent, as so often happens. The facts arc that the records show that all the Democrats in the House, with a dozen exceptions, in all but one case sustained Mr. Cleveland's vetoes of privato pension bills, and that every Democratic Senator is on record with tho President in this disreputable business. Congressional hand-books and the Congressional Record are history which Senator Voorhees and Mr. Bynum cannot set aside. OUR BUILDISG AND LOAN ASSOCIATIONS Some interesting facts were brought out at tho meeting of tho State organization of the Indiana building and loan associations. The president-of the association stated in a paper on the subject that there are 350,000 people in Indiana holding membership in the associations, and of these 200.000 aro wageearners, 25,000 are children, and a large number are women. The rest are capitalists or men of wealth seeking safe investments. The actual capital stock of the associations is $70,000,000. These figures will probably be a surprise to many persons who havo not been awaro of tho number of these associations in this Stato and tho extent of their operations. They take the place largely of savings banks in the Eastern States, and in some respects they are better than savings banks. They are bettor in that they are not only an incentive to saving, but a distinct encouragement to obtaining homes. Tho stockholders in these associations are very largely peopie of moderate means who are saving to get a home, and a vast number succeed in doing so. It would bo impossible to estimate tho extent to which tho associations have contributed to building operations in this State. An interesting feature is tho large proportion of tho members who are wage-earners, viz., 209,000 out of 350,000. Hero nrq 200,000 persons who are now engaged in obtaining homes by a process entirely dependent on their daily or weekly earnings. This means that if their wages were to stop or be materially reduced the prospect of their getting homes would be greatly lessened, if not wholly destroyed. What would become of them under a system which would cause a general reduction of wages! In short, what would become of tliem under free trade? Most of them would have to stop their payments in the building associations, and would probably have to sacrifice their stock to obtain money to live on, just as a majority of the depositors in savings bunks would havo to draw on their savings for the samo purpose. Such a thing as a building and loan association was never heard of in freetrado times. They aro an outgrowth of

protection, a direct result of steady employment and good wages. It is a splendid proof of the general prosperity of the people that 350,060 persons aro making weekly deposits in these savings banks of the people.

A 'GREAT POET AND HIS WORK. When a great poet dies it is to the world ho leaves less of a separation than when another man ends his earthly career. For the poet has already given bo much of the riches of his soul that hi9 personality remains hardly less strong than when he was yet in the flesh and singing new songs. The more clearly ho has spoken, the truer his interpretations of life and its mysteries, tho stronger the sense of bis continued exi-tence, tho greater the difficulty of realizing that he has himself passed on. No poet of this century has given more of himself to tho world than has Tennyson. Other writers of verse havo published more volumes, perhaps, but none has made his work so much a part of the literature, has so incorporated it even into the daily speech of the people. It is tho poet who "looks in his heart and writes" who is quoted, because, in speaking for himself, he interprets humanity, and all men understand. Tennyson has lived an uneventful, peaceful life, but he has read the heart and run the scale of human emotion. No sweeterlove poems are in the language than he has written; joy and hope, grief and regret, jealousy and hate, wild pas sion and calm content have been expressed in lines that meet approval because of their truth. He has written verses that are great because of their philosophical thought, their spiritual insight and their tender sympathy with living and sorrowing mankind. This sympathy is not expressed for mankind iri the mass, but for the individual, thus making it the more impressive; forwhat fitted one is equally applicable to auother. He does not generalize, but is speciiic. He mourns for his friend in "In Meraoriara," but his grief, gradually mounting from bitter, unreasoning regret to the height where ho sees its lesson and chastening, elevating influence, is the grief of every rational mourner .for the dead. Rejrret is dead, but love 1 more Than in the eumtners that are flown. For I myself with thee have grown To something greater than before. The story of "Tho Princess". is simply the every-day story, told as genius and an interpreter of the heart feminine can tell it, of other women who give up personal ambition when love calls. Helms taken the time-worn tales of the Round Table and vivified them until Arthur and Launcelot, Guinevere and Elaino and the rest, with their sorrows, and loves, and temptations, ore real. Thero is tragedy in the story of Maud, "Queen rose of the rosebud garden of girls;" tragedy in Enoch Arden, a history which, in one form and another, is repeated in prosaic newspaper record almost weekly. But to chronicle his poems that live and will live is to chronicle all. No other modern poet has taken wider range. He pleases the cultured critics of form and finish, and he pleases those who care most for thought and sentiment. His characters are as well known as the personages of popular fiction. His songs are sung wherever tho English tonguo is spoken. The heart-breaking pathos of the cry But oh for the touch of a vanlsh'd hand And the sound of a voice that is still, has touched many a hearer who never knew its source beyond the singer's lips. No other poet has given more lyrics that have been set to music and have reached the multitude who read but little. The "Brook" they all know, nnd the "Farewell"Flow down, cold rivulet, to the eea Thy tribute wave deliver; No more by thee iny steps shall be Forever and forever. "Tears, Idle Tears," VThe Swallow Flying South," "Love that Hath Us in tho Net" and "There Has Fallen a Splendid Tear" have been heard on the concert stage and in village parlors the world over. Young hearts will thrill responsive to this last song when "the mossy marbles rest" on the poet's grave: My dust would hear her and beat Ilnd I lain for a centnry dead; Would start and tremble under her feet And blossom in purple and red. He spoke to others than lovers when he wrot "Tie Higher Pantheism:" Speak to Him, thou, for He hears, and spirit with spirit can meetCloser is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet. He was a great poet, whose work has become classic in his own time, and of none will it ever be more truly said that though being dead, be yet speaketh. The machinery for collecting and reporting the statistics of business failures is so complete that they furnish a reliable indication of- the condition of business and tho prosperity of the country. The statistics for nine months in the last three years show the following: Tear. Failures. Liabilities. 1890 7.578 $92,471,000 lbOl 8.MOU .l.)S,471.000 18'J2 7,378 70,071,000 Aft the population of tho country and the volume of business are steadily increasing and capital finding new investments, it might be supposed that the increase of business failures would keep pace with tho other conditions. The statistics do not bear out this supposition. On the basis of the foregoing returns for nine months, the failures for tho whole year 1892, compared with previous years, will be as follows: Tear. Failures. Liabilities. 18b8 10,(579 $1-J3,820,'973 189 10.S82 14S.7S4..37 1H0O 10,907 lH,wi56.954 1891 12.394 190.0,;3S 1892 10.628 102.62S.OOO In other words, while business is increasing failures are diminishing in number and amount. This is indisputable proof of the general prosperity of the country. Why break up the foundations of this prosperity by substituting free trade! No public official under this administration has come in lor so much Democratic abuse as Hon. Patrick Egan, minister to Chili. . This was not altogether because ho was a Republican, but because he was an Irish Republican. Tho bitter and long-continued abuse of Mr. Egan led the President to give him special commendation in his message, nnd since then ho has been fully vindicated by facts which have come to light concerning his service as. minister. Mr, Egan is cow in this country on a visit.

and will doubtless receive many kind attentions from those who wi6h to honor a good Republican, true patriot and honorable gentleman. The New York Sun publishes an interview with him, in which he says: The negotiations for this treaty and many other Chilian matters were ttrossly misrepresented by the correspondents of a New Vork paper, who repeatedly boasted in Santiago that he would drive "that Irishman," meaning me, out of toe country. It was stated by that correspondent that when the indemnity and the new treaty were being considered by the Chilian Senate and Deputies in executive session very severe strictures were made on my actions. On the contrary, Don Isidoro Erraznriz. Minister of Foreign Relations, took occasion when .proposing the new treaty in that executive session to stale that his firovernment was deeply indebted to me for the manner in which I had conducted the negotiations for my government. He subsequently thanked roe m the name of the Cabinet, and President Montt also'personally thanked me for the manner in which the Amicable settlement had been arranged. To show you, further, that 1, as the representative of the United States, was in cordial relations with Chilian officials I will add that upon my departure President Alontt's private car was offered to me for mv trip from Santiago to Valparaiso, and that I nm the bearer of a most friendly and cordial message from President Montt to President Harrison, the terms of which I cannot, of course, now give. It is the hope of all the well-wishers of Mr. Somerby that his communications with divinity may not show him the way to go4ng into the Messiah business. Tun publishers of the United States Investor, a commercial paper of Boston, oiler prizes for. the best essays respecting American towns and cities.

THE STATE PKESS. There is no bug attached to the hum of American factory wheels. Vernon Journal. Tin: facts must be suppressed if it takes all summer, is the motto of the Democracy. Shelby ville KepuMicao. . Somi: one atks what object Mr. Stevenson had in canvassing the solid South. Well, his heart was thero during the war. and may be he was looking for it. Rushville Republican. If the tariff is paid, by the consumer, why is it that numerous English manufacturing firms are abandoning their works and re-establishing them in Americaf Washinston Gazette. No honest man can vote for a party whoso principles are so reactionary and destructive that both the candidate and his leading rival find it necessary to ignore and tacitly abandon the platform. Seymour Republican. Tiif. campaign of education is being mainly carried on by the Democratic labor commissioners, whose reports show that the McKinloy law has increased the wages of workingmen and reduced the cost of living. Noblesville Ledger. IIowf.vf.k much it may be maligned and misrepresented the Republican policy of America for those who wish to be Americans, and of supremacy over the other nations of the earth, is the correct policy for the people of these United States. Logansport Journal. Judge Grf.sh am is a man of strong passions and prejudices, and never forgives an enemy or a man who has stood in the way of his ambition. The Republicans of Indiana preferred General Harrison in 1881 for United States Senator, and the Republicans of tho country expressed the same preference fr the presidency in 1658. Richmond 1'alladium. Judge Gkesiiam, the gallant soldier, voting for the man for President who sent a substitute to the war as against Gen. Den Harrison, and for Governor ttie boss gambler's tool as against private Joe Fifer, is not the man the people admired. He loses bis friends and makes none, for the Democrats know full well that it is neither love of tbein nor their principles which altogether actuate him. and they welcome him oaly as a political expedient, without feeling or respect. Terre Haute Express. Reithlicans have minds of their own, and vote from principle. They do not follow men. Tb'ey are not man-worshipers; and if General Harrison himself were to go over to the Democracyiunder the irilluence of some imaginary or real crievance. we doubt if dozen Republicans in all the United States would follow him. Jndre Gresham may have reasons that will satisfy him in leaving the Republican party, but he has not grven them to the public, and until he does his going over to the camp of the enemy will have no more weight than any other man's chancing from one party to another. Crawfordsville Journal. . RF.rriiLiCANs do their own thinking on political questions. They follow no leader not in harmony with their views. Neither 'Jndge Gresham, MacVeagh nor any other man can lead them. This idea was most forcibly put by Governor Morton in tho campaign of 1S72. Speaking of Trumbull, Chase, Julian and several other d Istingnashed men who had left the Republican party, ho paid: "They tell us that Judge Tsnmbiill has left tho Republican party. Judge Chase and George YV. Julian. These men. witiiin the Republioan ranks, are a power, without, they are nothing. I, who address you, outside of the Republicsn party can mlluence but one vote, my own. Theso desertions can haveio.eMect further 'than the loss of the single vote of the deserter. The pathway of the Republican party is strewn alone with the bones of its leaders, but the party moves on." Owen County Journal. A Sample of Deinrtie Extravagance. To tho Editor or ttia inlianaio!ia Journal: As a farther samplo of Democratic mismanagement of our Stat intttiiutions, compare the cost of maintaining our Statehouse with that of Ohio for the year 1891. Indiana State-House. For custodians, janitors, sweepers and engineers and assistants (alarie, natural k&s. water. Illuminating and repairs for custodian and engine er. . $33,014.27 Improvement of capital grounds...... 82y.s5 Total. $33.8 U. 12 Ifeee Page 29 Auditor's Report for Indiana. Ohio State-House. Far superintendent, laborers, encineer, asaiattint, nrensen, janitors, - watchmen, repair, fuel, liifbt, materials, and every kind and character of expense for the grounds and -building: TotaL Jf21.C44.2S gee pu;;ea 75,70, 77 and 7, Auditor's Report for Ohio. 1 4 Tiecapitulation. Cost of Indiana State-house and grounds for 191 .' $33,944.12 Contor Ohio State-house and grounds for 1891..... 21.614.28 Excess of cost in Indiana 12,199.81 Comment seems unnecessary. J. H. Clatool. CONNLKSVII-LE. Ind., Oft f. Wluit Grenhiun Thought la 1884. Springfield (O.) Republic-Times. Judge Gresham or any other American citizen has a right to change his political allegiance, but it is nnfortunate for him that be should have chosen the taritt question as an excuse for his political ilop. Judge Gresham is on record as favoring the platform adopted by the Minneapolis convention. While Secretary of the Treasury under Arthur he went to New Vork to speak for llialne. Standing on the steps of the Sub-treftHtiry Building, a great crowd being about htm. be said: "Honest, mduatrious, debt-payini; persons do not favor a currency ot fluctuation And uncertain valns." Again he said: ' We should legislate In tho interest of our own people, rather than iu the interest of mankind at large. Hot until we are able to control the markets of the world can we atiord to adopt free trade." That is pretty good Republican aoctrine. Has Judge Gresham changed bis opinion? They lfave Opposed It. Boston Journal No part of Mr. Cleveland's lettor La mors surprieing than nis indorsement of the Nicaragua canal. It will greatly exasperate those Democrats and mugwumps who, supposing that he was "with them." have been in the habit of bitterly attacking this great national enterprise.

MS. HARRISON'S CONDITION

Her Great Vitality and Will Tower Almost Alono Keeping Her Alive. Thfl SnlfVm's Interest in the Election icing as a nirm'ant-The President Ij orted to have Given l Hope of Her Recovery. (racial to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington. Oct. C Thers was a parade of the Order of Odd-fellows on Pennsylvania avenue, this afternoon, and in the columns from various cities were brass bands. As the latter came within a proximity of two or three blocks of the White House they ceased their tnusio, there tvat a cessation of the ollicera' directing commands, and words were spoken softly by the marching men. The steady tramp, tramp, trAmp, to mental time, was alono heard upon the usphaltum, and there was otherwise comparative silence upon tho harp October air. As the procession passed every eye turned toward the executive mansion, and every one's heart went out to the patient suMerer therein. It was an instanco which served to impressively remind all who had gathered in that vicinity to see the parade that Mrs. Harrison's condition is yet very critical. Last night Mrs. Harrison slept fairly well and to-day was disposed to rest. Dr. Gardiner's statement yesterday that he could see little or no change one way or the other since she came home, excepting the usual ups and downs of any persen surlering from consumption, about covers her case. After her spells of coughing she is naturally very weak and exhausted, ai d with these painful symptoms tho recurring periods of restlessness and nervousnebs rob her of ranch rest .that might otherwise oome to a patient in her low state. .Mrs. Harrison's, great vitality and will power appears almost alone to Je keeping her alive. The 'coming election is said to be the strongest motive and stimulant she ould have. She wants to live, and she exerts herself every way possible to do so by taking her nourishment regularly and by obeying the physician's instructions to the very letter. She understands fully how critically ill she is. and how small would be her chances lf'she could not take sufficient nourishing food. Last rreek. when she was considerably stronger than she is now, she partook lreelv of raw eggs. An Associated Vre6s dispatch says: Although critically ill and in a condition where a new complication might spoedily prove fatal, Mrs. Harrison's esse is not absolutely hopeless and instances are known where persons in a siniiUriy extremely dangerous condition have so lar recovered am . sv kni- AAmn.pntllt.lff f . I . a . t f K for years.- Such mstances are rare, however. The President's family and frieuds cling to the hope that Mrs. Harrison's case may prove one of the exceptions to the rule. The great danger to be leared is the reproduction of liuid in the chest cavity, which might gather in twenty-four hours and prove fatal, and especially if the patient could not bear the operation of - aspirating. Mrs. Harrison's right lung is entirely consolidated, so that she has no use of it whatever. The left luug is not involved. Although anxious for prolonged life, the patient does not exhibit that cheerfulness and hopefulness that is usually so apparent in the case of consumptives. This is due to the extreme nervous exhaustion from which she sutlers. Ever since the commencement of her illness she has been aoected with extreme nervous prostration, and this has doubtless had very much to do with her present condition. This extreme prostration has Deeu the one great cause which operated against her rallying. Her mind is perfectly clear, and eh takes a certain amount of nourishment every day. It consists principally of raw eggs in a little wine and pepsin. It is not from a desire to eat, KmrAnnr tht bIia ttm thtk nnnriahnteiit but merely from a sense of duty and as a medicine. Her coughing spells are not violent and do not worry the iuvalid very much except on rare occasions. Sleep during the night comes to her in periods of from one to two hours at a time, and this without the aid of opiates. She has very fair nights, being restless only at times. Two or three hoars of sleep are obtained in the daytime, but it is not of a refreshing character. Probably the mo6t noticeable result of Mrs. Harrison's illness is ber great emaciation, litr appearance last yyar was that of a strong, healthy and vigorous person who did not know what it was to be ill, and the change that has come over her is sad to he most pitiable, lie. fore she was ill Mrs. Harrison weighed 107 pounds, and it is said that she has lost between fortynve and fifty pouuds. To-day the carpet on the corridor was laid, and a greater air of coziness given the house. The carpets in the parlors will be laid next. The rest of the carpets werc aleo put down in the living rooms up-stain yesterday, and tbe library, which ths family uses as their sitting-room, haf taken on its usual winter appearance. The house has been thoroughly heated the past two or three days. A correspondent of a New York paper telegraphed os lollows last night: "A cloud of despondency has gathered about the executive mansion, for tbe President, hii family and his intimate friends now real ire that Mrs. Harrison is beyond recovery. They have fought against the belief foi many weeks past, and the physicians havt sought to hold out hope, but the truth bai at last been faced, and they are convinced now that no earthly skill can bring the sulferer back to health. The mental and physical strain upon the President during the past two months bas been very great, and has left its mark npon him. Mr. Harrison is a most domestic man. and his devotion to his family is one of the beautiful features of his life. Siuce the day he tirst realized the fact that his wife was critically ill, thePresidont has been a constant watcher at her bedside. After. her return from Loon Lake there was an apparent change for the better, but tho President was among the lirnt to discover that the improvement was only temporary. In spite of tbe encouraging reports and tho reassuring expressions of Dr. Gardiner, the devoted husband knew that the end must? come, and that at no distant day. Yesterday, at a Cabinet meeting. Mr. Harrison for tho first time spoke of the great alii i cation which 18 hanging over him. His advisers considerately withdrew, seeing that he wan to deeply moved to discuss the affairs of state under such trying circumroliowintx is tbe reply sent to Miss Clara Rartou by Mr. Halford, in response to tho letter which accompanied tbe presentation to Mrs. Harrison of the gold and silver souvenir badge by the ladies' citizens' Committee of the G. A.. It. encampme nt: My Dear Meadarae Your letter to Mr liarriton, with the accompanying souvenir of the recent encampment of the tlrand Array of tie Republic, has been rec.-.ved. 1 he very handsome and appropriate ldre w lrouebt to t!e personal attention of Mrs. Harrison, it being of the few things fchat she has ben able to look ut for some time pat. and alo the kind term in whUh you conveyed it to her. frhe was much tonched by tbe evidence of the rocard of her hsoclates on the ladies citizen..' committee, and wished tue to nvts her grateful thanks to tx;tu of you. aud through you to the other members of the committee. Very truly yours. i:.-W. IIalfoui), Private secretary. Hill Will Not Work Double. New York Irca. Gen. Dan Sickles says that if Governor Hill had not worked as he did on the stumn in 1 Cleveland would have lost this State by W.C0. Well. Hill will not work this year as he did in 1(8. He has been snubbed, abused, bolted, kicked and derided by Cleveland's followers, and he has no heart in supporting a man who bas ridden the Democratic party to death. Thu State of New York will appear in the Harritou column, as it did four years ago. Stevenson' MUtahe. New York Cocimrclal A1 ertiser. A dispatch from llloomington Announces that "General'' Stevenson has returned home "greatlj impressed" with tb enthusiasm and earnestness of the Democrats of the country for the CleveUud and Stevenson ticket. The "(General" mistakes the barbario yawp of the Southern rebel lot the voice pf pstriotiim.