Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 November 1892 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1892.

Ins that his claim In on file, aud that it will receive doe attention. This is somewhat encooraguii:, ami he waits a month, and watches every mail. and then another month and another. Then he writes to his Congressman, and lu due course he has a reply that he will look after his claim. Six mouths pass by, and other letters are sent, fcix months more ar.i another year rolls on. and the soldier and his family are pinched and sutlerinc. and losing hop, and almost is despair, and yet the application his lain in the Department at Washington nntoached; not a single stroke of work has Iteen done to forward that claim except to tile it among thousands of others. "One of the first resolutions of this new itdministration under your honored Indiana l'resicent a to overturn the entire system, and to-day prension claims ara rrornptly adjusted, and there are no such delays. True enouvh it is that we hare a smaller surplus la the treasury, but there is more in the soldiers' pockets and in their home.. It has been . the lixed policy of the administration not only to p.iv the just claims of the soldier, "but to pall down tho surplus and to pull down the interest account by paying; olf the bonds and reducing the country's indebtedness. This course bas put into circulation between two and thre bnndred million of dollars, to the great benefit of bnsioess everywhere. WORK OF THE DEPARTMENT?. "Since this administration came in, almost a new nary has been created, bo that It is not likely that any foreign country will ever again dare to treat an American sailor with indignity, or take our property in Bebring sea, which, up to four years ago, was a common hunting-ground, without saying to Uncle Sam as much as 'by your leave, sir.' I might say very much of other departments, for instance, the sturdy light that your own Attorney-general Miller' bas made in the Department of Justice acainst the enormous claims that Lave accumnlated since the war, and that have been battling to pet a hand into the treasury. 1 miuht speak for an hour upon the vast work ot the Interior Department, nnder the lead of your neighbor at St. Louis, that great soldier Secretary Noble; the operiug up of the Indiau lands for settlement; the rehabilitation of settlers who held the lands they bought and paid lor, but vere without a title. "Of all the departments, of course, I know the most of the one nnder my own particular charge. In four years we shall have handled $270,000,000. and if we get through the next four months without defalcation wo shall be able to say that not a single dollar of this public money has Leen stolen or squandered. In a single term of four years we have doubled tho number of free-delivery officer; we have doubled the number of money order offices, and the last four years have been eqnal to all the years since the system aiarted. We have added to the number fti miles traveled with the mails over twenty million miles that is to say.where mails went once a week, they are now going twice a week; where they went thr-ie times a week, they are going daily; they are going to tn thousand more othces. established in the last four years, which is one-sixth of the number which have been established since the l'ostofilce Department "was established. Wo have begun a system tf free delivery in small villages, looking toward giving farmers and rural districts the benefit, in some degree, like those of the large cities. We have established sea postotlices on the great ships, by which tte mails are assorted before they reach the ports, and mado ready for quicker delivery. We have begun a great merchant marine, whereby the American Hag will again appear upon the seas. Already a line of ships is on its way np to the Argentine Republic, having the tirst American flag that has ever gone there nnon a ship. The contracts are made for south American ports and for transatlantic service. Gradually, in the course of two or three years, nr Hag will be every where npon the sea. These contracts will involve immense (juautities of work for carpenters and ship"builders. The contract alone for the transatlantic ships requires rive new ships, at a cost of SO.OCO.COO. We have cleared the lottery from the United States mail, and practically broken it np. except for the business they do in the State of Louisiana and through the express companies. Who will say this is not a great ?ainT DEMOCRACY AND THE 60LID SOUTH. "Now, my friends, yon aro asked to fall

inlm with, the solid South, made solid by a violation of law at the ballot-box, to turn oat this efficient administration, headed ty the Indiana President, and begin all over again npon some other basis dimly foreshadowed id the platform of tho Democratic party. There is in Philadelphia a section called tho Fourth ward, conspicuously known as always solid for the Democracy. Its methods on election day were tot dissimilar to those reported in the booth, now solid for Cleveland. It is well known that in this ward pistols were as fioininon as electiou tickets, and that the Crippling or shooting of a colored man wno Wanted to vote his own way was not a thing to stop at.. 1 am glad to say that these things have passed away to a largo flegree, but it tbey remained to-day it would be the disgrace of Philadelphia. The Northern Democrats are now asked to Unite with the South again.assolidasin IStil, to accomplish tho destruction of the prosperity of America, not this time by bullets. lut by ballots, and to put out ot power an old soldier that never tlinched at sight of any loe but once, and that time was only a 'W eek ago, when he laced the death of the lride of his youth aud the mother of his children the modest womanly woman ot the White House, whom Me laid away tearfully and tenderly In the new white bonne nnder the trees amid the falling leaves ot Crown li ill Cemetery last Friday, where kindly I lands ot friends and neighbors made her oautilul grave. "You aro asked to put out the old. faithful, nnstauipedable general and put In a nan who was no general and not even a soldier; to place in power the party that. s a party, was against tho war aud against the soldier, and that to-day folds about it the mantle of economy and ssys that pennons mean the plunder of the treasury, and that you must put back the man of v bom it is reported that he used to sit up allmghtin hisahirt sleeves to veto, veto, eto soldiers' honest claims. Neither my Tote nor any other that 1 can iulluence stall belp to do that. I am listening to you to-day to shoot fco say we all of us.' Wnen It is admitted on all sides that the country Is in the midst of unprecedr ntedly solid prosperity, the national business credit Letter than ever b. fore, the United States bonds selling yesterday the fours, now jiearly at expiration at gll.oO premium on tbe hundred, and the twos at par. Isn't it ua i civu-i au Miuri luuuii iu me worm Can get money at 2 percent, interest premium; isn't it marvelous that that country Should be the same United btates which, vhea James Buchanan went out ot otlice, whs tryinji to ll ten millions ot bonds and could nut get a taker except nt a large discount! For 6 hundred-dollar f per cent. Loud only ninety-three could be gotten, and to-day the fourper-cent bond. Laving twenty-live year to run. would bring twenty-rive per cent, premium, and the 2 per cent, bond goes at par. WHY MAKE A CMANGI.T "It is admitted on all sides that tho government was never more ellicientiy administered; that its bnstnefvH was never upon so good a basis. Why not. then, in the name of the much l!aunted civil service; in the name of the groving experience of the four years ot party ship of your President leader; in the name of the much to be desired steadiness, which in the foundation of business prosperity; in the name of the principles and policies ot the Kepuhlican party that mean something why should wo Lot hold mi to a good tiling when we liaveirf Why then loosm in the least a Conemangb ritim of change and uncertainty and Lriug down tho unsound theories of the Democratic party in Hoods of destruction upon the busy and happy Johnstown of industry. "But 1 ini!v:irie 1 hear a man saying: 'Your fears are unfounded.' Well. I will ndnnt that they at if vu imagine that 1 suppose the country is to drill into utter mm. This is a great country, unit it will to forward in sjite of all obstacles; but I think that my fears are well grounded when I ay that there is every reason to heivo that a gre.it shock and bickward movement would come to the country by a change ot its i'ioeut policy. 1 uru accustomed to study business matters; for thirty years I have given ray luo largely to it. 1 Lave tried t keep my fingers on the puis of trade and understand to some sood deErse its sensitivenass. I have no question at that 'the frost that is on tbe pumpkin' will be felt upon tbe buslaesaof ths entiro country, and 'that the

corn that is in the shock will be worth lees than it is to-day. should the Democratic patty be successful. While lu Chicago ten data ago one ot the (jovernors of ibe New Kn aland States said tonm that he knew of an order for machinery that had been placed in one of tlieir industrial establishments to be tilled provided Harrison is elected, and to be countermanded it Cleveland is elected. The same condition in business applies every where,' and a hnlt is to be made if Cleveland is elected. "You see. my friends, the condition will not be the same ns wnen Cleveland was President be.' ore. Then, tee bit and bridle of a L'epublioin Congress held him in check, bnt witha Houee ot Uerresentatives already Democratic and a enato practically so, everything would sweep along according to the sweet will of a Democratic administration. If I understand tbe signs of the times tbe DfUiorratio party is pledged to rewrse the governmental engine on tlWquusuun of silver, the question if tariti'and the question of banking. I am quite willing to distu&s with you all thcje questions. "1. have just been reading a new boots of the lifnot Abraham Lincoln, written by one of his st- re taries. a sirn pie. unvarnished story of his hf from ti e day h made rails as a boy in Indiana, working hard all day, andatnicrht creeping up to a lm lire ana writing somo passages irom books that he wrote with a piece of charcosi on tbe back of a wooden shovel he bad scraped cle:iu with his knife. In this book there is a statement of his first appearance in the federal court as a lawyer. When be said to the judge and jury, 'May it please your Honors. this is the first case I have had in a federal conrt, and as you may well believe, I have given it very special care, studied it from ail points. Shave examined all the law books and have found that in every instance the decision of the court has been against my ease.' This was his straightforward way of doing things. What a sturdy, honest old fellow he was. Atone time he was postmaster at Salem, which was afterwards merged into another otlice, ind a year or two after it was closed, it was discovered that the accounts had not all been settled, and that there was due a email sum amounting to about 1S. Mr. Lincoln was t ailed upon to sottie the account. He rose from his desk and went to a little cupboard, took out a small box and an envelope which contaiued the exact sum and the exact mouey that had been paid to him as postmaster, aud that had been inadvertantly omitted in the transmission of the papers. WHAT FREE COINAGE WOULD DO. "The Democratic party, as shown by the debate in Congress, is in favor of free coinage. The last House of Kepreaentatives passed au unlimited free coinage bill and a practically Democratic Senate, under a dead-lock of business agreed to it. Afterwards the House of Kepresentati ves receded from its position, by tho dictation of their greai leaders, who were scared and who did not dare to go before the country with their desires on record. Free silver means a white dollar, not as good as a yellow dollar a bigger dollar but yet a smaller dollar when yon come to spend it. It means that gold will disappear and that short dollars will be the law of exchange, and thatyourearnings. laid awny in savings funds, will loose oue-third of their value. The government of Itussia has been trying a new system of mouey by tbe issuing ot paper money, which is at a large discount, and though agricultural workmen have to labor at YZt rents per day. there has been no advance in their wages. U would be precisely the same thing in this country with silver in circulation. Tbe workmen would have to sailer because of its diminished purchasing power, while their wages would not be increased. Capitalists and inouey-lenders will base their transactions on gold, and the only man to sutler will be tbe man that has nothing to sell except his day's work. He will feel the pinch of a poor dollar. "The Kepubliean party stands to-day for one dollar to be as good as another dollar, and each to be worth one bnudred cents, wuether it be white, yellow or green and black. This administration has stood against the free coinage oi silver by America alone. The last thing 1 did on Monday before I came here was to assist the Secretary of State to sreuro Professor Faulkner, of the University of Pennsylvania, to be the secretary of the monetary conference to meet this month in Brussels, where delegates of nil tbe great nations of the world will conler as to au international standard for a silver dollar. I am confident that tlie outcome of this and other ettorts to arrive at a Bolntionof the silver question will be successful. "The bitterest light the Deniocraticparty has made has been against the tantt. Their enmity of the tariri ut this time seems greater than ever before. It can't be for any actual faulj of the McKmley bill, for this bill is the best bill the country has ever had: the duties have been more carefully equalized and the free list has been very greatly extended. I cannot account for this persistent battling against the tsritl, excepting that the party lacks the cool, wise judgment and long head of Samuel Handall and others like him to steady and guide it from tbe rock of lolly. The white mist that rolls up from the Potomac and over the White Honse these autumn days is not thicker than the mists that steal into men's minds on the t aritt question. What the camp-tire is at uight to tho immigrant as he makes his way through the dense forests of the wild West and builds at night a cordon of flame around him to keep oil' the wolves and wild animals, so is the tan It a barrier to keep oil' from American workmen the long arms that would lake away their bread and butter and their comfortable homes, liut for the taritl we would be not a Nation of manufacturers, but a Nation of farmers. And the more men that are driven out of tbe industries will cause more men to run over tbe land and over-produce and lower tbe prices of agricultural products. The great wide sea rolling between this and foreign shores is no impediment to the transit of products. The ocean freights Are less than those on rasny a railroad oneSixth of thedistance that measures tho sea. WHY A TARIFF BENEFITS WORKMEN'. "Granted that the homes and habits are the same all the world over there would then be no occasion for a taritl, bnt there is as much di Here nee between the customs of foreign workmen aud American workmen as the difference between the moose and the mouse and ' between the bee and the butfalo. If there was uo system to stop the inflow of the products of foreign minds and lingers, in spite of everything they would overthrow our country anl crowd out of our markets aud utterly banish tbe labor ot American men. How is it possible to pay the present scale of wages and create articles at higher cost and sell them lu competition with the low wages that produce tbe foreign article? It is either a taritl in America or a poor-hoose for our workliwnien; either almshouses for our workingmen or to cme down to the same scale ot living, and dress, and food, aud homes, and amusement, and education, as those beyond the sea. All these must be sealed down to the old-world standard. Very much is said in rubiic diocussion to-day about the fact that the tariff bas not advanced wages. 1 don't know who expected that it would advance wages, except in exceptional cases. It is not so much a question of advancing wacea as it is a question of work.. Without3 taritl there is no work. It is present wages or no wages; it is royal good health or miserable fever and ague; a chronic disease ot starvation and care because of idleness whila the foreign workmen arc busy preparing articles lor America. For one 1 maintain that it any workmen are to be idle let them bo any others in any country bnt our own. Why should

we take the children bread and givoit to strangers? "I respectfully submit that a low tar i IT is an utter fallacy, and that we might as well br without nny taritl. A dam that is too low to keen the water from overflowing the land, it it bo but one inch too low, is no better than no dam. A roof that leaks aliover and letsin water is as gcod as lione. Hut there are those who claim that a t : r l M tsfor the benefit ot the mauniacturers. 1 his is true n tar as it allows an industry to be established, hut beyond this it is not true. If there m a no protection the rauit ilist woobl simply take his mouey aiidiuvist it in farming or railroading, and 1 suhmit that it would make very little dirierel.ee to lillu. " I hen is a nor ion that in some way the manufacturer wets a large slice of the duty paid to the uo rnrneiir, but 1 rtenv it. and am prepared to prove that ibis is not tbe cac. if a inxmita tnrer coufd have a pHft-nt on bis products, of rource it would to dillerrnt. but with a free country and ai open Held for everybody, and sharp competitiou, it is impossible to overcbarge tbe public. The law of supply and doin and, and competition, will regulate tho

prices. This was never more apparent than in the manufacture of carpets, for which this country at one time wan almost entirely dependant npon England. After the taritl of lbSJ Knglish carpets were practically shut out and a great boom came to Philadelphia in the carpet manufacturing district. .Mills worked all night. They built annexes; they took oti other classes of woods from their looms and put in carpets and m a year the carpet manufacturing w.hs so overdone and the overproduction was so great that carpet manufacturers did not get tbe interest of their mouey for their profit, and to-day you can buy as cheap carpets from the American manufacturer, as the people in London can buy from their own English manufacturer." FREE TRADE DOES NOT MAKE MARKETS, "lint some one says that if we had free trado we would have the markets of the world open, '1 here is no greater nonsense cr absurdity than this. If there is a demand abroad fcr American goods why are so many Knglish mills idle to-duyf Why are they not busy supplying that demand when they can proUuce (roods cbeaper than America does! Why, my friends, tho markets of tbe whole world are open to you any moment that yon make a better thing than is made abroad, or when you put down you wages to the Knglish standard, and are willing to sell your labor as cheaply as the foreign workmau. It must be plain to every one that our goods will sell everywhere the moment they can be produced as cheaply as they can be produced in England, or in Germany, or in France. The only reason they do not to-day is because we do not get down to the level of these foreign workmen, and. for one. I hope we never will. "Hut some man start up with the claim if there is no tarill all prices will be reduced, aud we can atlord to take lower wages. Please explain bow one will be better oil' if the purchasing power of tho wages only procures the same food, the same dress, the same house. It is barely possible that some may deceive themselves with the idea that wages would remain the same, amf that tho reduction would all be in the taking ott of what the government charges. Please remember that in making np the cost of an article made in America, if the wages are to remain as they are today, the cost would still be much higher than the same article produced abroad at lower wages. In other words, we would have to abandon the manufacture of any article or else manufacture it on the same scale ot wages as abroad, and even if we came down to the same scale as foreign wages, the odds would still be against this country, for real estate is higher, and interest is higher, and machinery costs more. The freights between the countries would not ollset the difference, because they are too trilling to admit of consideration. Under no taritl' or under a low tariff it is equally ruinous; the prices of everything would decline. The man who owns a house ana rents it must take lower rent. Tho workman who has scraped together enough money to join a building association to build n nous- would find that his fortune was cut down one-third or more. "I am not saying these things because 1 am a manufacturer, because I am not. While I have as large a business of its kind as there is in this country, I have nothing whatever that I want protection for, except as I enjoy the prosperity of the community in which I live. I could go out of business so could others like me and find some way to invest capital, but my employes could not. and forty-eight hundred people would be turned adrift to find something to do should I close my busiuess. Jf 1 were to go out of business aud invest my money every house or stock in which 1 put it would bring less Tent or less dividend under a no-tarlll rule. The simple fact is that the body-politic is one and individual; one man's interest is linked in and interlocked with another, and to touch one affects the other. The old lady np-stairs, who heard the cat's screeching, shouted down to her abusive son, Do not make that cat halloo any more' He shouted back, I don't make it halloo; I just stepped on its tail and the other end hallooed.' The aged colored woman in the old time days was sitting near the stove m the car when the conductor came along and said to ler, 'Aunty, the other end of this car is lor colored people and sho replied, 'Law. sir, master, don t both ends of this cur go to tho same place?' We are in one car and we roust go together. democracy's "wild-cat" scheme. "A word about the banking system. It is quite true that at the beginning of the war in order to provide funds to carry on the war the old State banks were taxed out of existence to make way for the establishing of national banks. Nothintr could have been better for the country. The system is as near perfect as anything could be. No man can stand up in any part of this land and say he ever lost a dollar by holding a national bauk note. To-day we are asked to go back again to the old spinning wheel of our mothers and tbe canal Loat of our fathers, and take np the State bank system whereby irresponsible parties can issue uotes for circulation and do a profitable business by makiug interest upon them, and put into your hands and mine money that is sunspeiuiable except close around the plnoe ot its issue. We would have trouble with such money and we would have to submit to a large discount And carry around with us a bank note detector to tell us what banks were failing. Shrewd and unscrupulous parties would buy up State bank notes at a large discount, take thm to distaut places, and palm them olf on nnwary people. Such banks are premissive under State .laws the moment that this tax' law is repealed. Yon then drift out, independent of United States authority. The United States cannot control and regulate the State bank.

My friends, there is something in this. As Ltnrolu said, it is like the old woman's stocking when she put her foot into itthere was something in it. If tbe Democratic, party saddles State banks upon us, as tiiy sutely will if they get the chance, you will find that the country has put its loot into the mouth of its prosperity. "It in-proper for roe, perhaps, to say a word as to the force bill, as it is termed. I do not know of any bill that is not as much a force bill as the elections bill introduced into tbe House in the .Fifty-first Congress. In tbelichtof the experienceof conducting the government in the South, with men crippled at the polls and prevented from votiug. and their votes, when polled, not counted, the l.'ernMicau party, in convention, declared in favor of one vote for every American citizen 'and a fair chance to deposit it. and protection in counting it. The President's position has been that some way ought to bo found to give a colored man or a wbito man. for a white man is jnst as poor in many cases, the same chance to vote, the ssme rights, as the roan in Indiana or Pennsylvania, and he proposed in his last message that the justices of the Supreme Court of the United States shall constitute a commission, non-partisan, who shall prepare some plan to meet the existing condition and report the same to Congress. There is a great deal said about the inequity of the so-called force bill, but there is very little said about the greater inequity of the disfranchised poor of a great section of our country. RFPl lU.ICANS CAN REFORM BEST. "1 admit that there may be things in our party that we do not like, but we should not go outside of it and sit upon the fence and throw stones at it. Let us stay inside and attack tbe things we do not like, and improve the thiucs that are not perfect. I do not think the taritl bill is perfect. I favor the establishment ,of a permanent tariff commission, composed of the most intelligent businexs meu in the country, who shall hunt for inequalities in bills and aajust the taritl to the ever-varying interest of the country, in the light of new discoveries and new machinery, and f.ake constant reports to Congress. The f.vct of the matter is that tho Republican party is one of progress, and aims to study the great question of improving tho public service in very direction, and not only means to do I it. but does it. I "There is to-day a wide discussion of the I subject of immigration, and 1 look forward . to the tune when there will be a new sys tem of introducing foreigners to our country; some method whereby it will be known whether the man wno comes to this country Las sufficient education to qualify him to vote. I think we should tiud a better way to avoid strikes by having some board of arbitration to act in disputes between ; labor and capital. I favor a permanent j diplomatic service when we shall find traiueo men wno win make a business of introducing American products into foreign countries. 1 believe the day is not far distant when we shall find a proper monetary basis for silver, but even if it does require funds, ths government that has m

thousand million dollars in its public buildiugs, forts, arsenals and ships is quite solid enough to be trusted for any money that it will issue for some time to come. We aro going on well enough, and do not want now to be upset by a solid South party with its Northern confeaerates. "My friend.tbe attorney of oneof the large railroads, said to me the other day that bis company had a case of damages for putting a passenger oft at the wrong station, and tbe story, as he told it. was that tbe passenger called the porter before he turned in at night and asked him if he was to be np all night and could wake him at a certain station, and if he would be sure to do it he would give him two silver dollars; that it was very important for him to attend to some busmehs at that point, and that h9 must not miss it under any circumstances. He told the porter that he was a very hard sleeper and always resisted getting Up 111 the morning, and that probably he would say to the colored man, 'Uo to thunder' when be called him, but, in auy circumstance. he must wake him up and put him oil at the station. The man waked up in tho morning and found that he was iu Chicago, two hundred miles from where be wanted to be. He sent for the colored man. who was astounded when tbe man began to curse him. lie paid: 'lioas.' Pse awful sorry; 1 woke up the wrong man. I had a hard time to get him oh1' at the station. He stuck to the platform, but I pulled him oil at 3 o'clock in the morning.' "My friends, the Democraticparty wants to put us otf the train which is on the highway to the station of universal comfort and prosperity. It wants to put ns otf at the lintish junction on a freetrade siding, or at wild-cat swamp, at Silver-hole mountain, or short-dollar hill, t am for staying on the train and taking my part. And this isthetime when every man is called upon to do his part, and not only to vote, but to see that his neighbor votes, so that each man may , count two if he will. I was once in Ueneva. on Sunday, in the garden of tbe American consul, with some friends, studying the Sunday-school lesson.. Tbe Hon. Henry P. Haven, of New London, Conn., was teaching, and a Dr. ltacon. the American minister, was sitting on the steps of his house, when suddenly we beard the sound of a gun and the shot began to fall on tho gravel around us. and Mr. Haven, good man that he was, said: I think we are all safe; it is Sunday and we are studying (iod's word.' Mr. liacon took up his hat and eaid: 'That may be, but I think the Lord wants us to help him if we are to continue safe.' We started off to find the man who fired the sbot. This is the time I think our country wants our help; each mau must rise up and do his duty." At 1 o'clock Mr.' Wanamaker left for Muncie, and this afternoon Mr. W. A. Johnson, of Franklin, and Senator HawHy addressed the people on the issues of tbe day. To-night Mr. Johnson epoko again to another large meeting at tbe Columbia Theater. The Republicans of Clinton never felt in better cheer ond expect on next Tuesday to win the most emphatic victory of their lives. One encouraging feature of to-day's meeting was the number of voters present. When Mr. Wanamaker was on his way here this morning an uged colored man came up to him while the train was standing at Colfax, and said: "Well, General. I want to shake hands with you; but may be you don't want to shako bauds with a fellow whose hair tnrns like mine does, s.ih!" The Postmaster-general reached out, shook hands with the old mau, and said: "Keep your head straight, and it don't matter how y.our hair turns." On arrival at Frankfort, in a talk with your correspondent, Mr. Wanamaker said: "1 have often heard that Indiana has more politics to the square inch than any other State, and I am surprised that there are no factories at Franktort whose owners closed down, but that this immense crowd has come here from the farms of Indiana to attend a morning tmenting at 10 o'clock. I can't unaerstand it." When the procession passed the Democratic headquarters a courteous salute was given to the Postmaster-general, and be lifted his. hat. In speaking of President Harrison the Postmaster-' general expressed - bis admiration of the President, and said: "President Harrison may be' small' 1n some small matters, but he Is great in criVt matters. I left tho funeral train at Hurrisbnrg. and went on to Philadelphia, but before leaving I went to bid tho President good-bye. 1 found him in a small compartment of the car. seated on a camp-Btool. 1 haw a tear fail on tbe carpet, and tbe entire appearance of the President was that of as heartbroken a man as I over saw." AT MAGIC MUJSCIE.

Mr. Wansuiaker litceives an Ovation In the (in licit Mr. Heath's Remarks. Special to the Ii thanapods Journal. Muncie. Ind , Nov. 2. Notwithstanding the inclemency of the weather this has been tbe banner day of the piesent campaign for Delaware county Republicans, who were accorded a double treat, with speeches from Postmaster-general John Wanamaker and Joseph Murray, tbe Irish farmer orator of Colorado. Tho surrounding country people did not come in delegations, as they had intended, but the farmers were here by the hundreds. An outdoor meeting was impossiblo, by reason of the weather, and Mr. Murray made his address this afternoon at the Waluut-street Opera-house, which was filled with a thousand 'farmers and laboringmen. Tbe Bpeech was one of the most practical and interesting of tbe campaign. The address was principally hpou tbe protective taritl', and Mr. Murray's argument showing how the farmer and laborer were alike protected was convincing. He clearly demonstrated the fact that protection is necessary on the clothes worn by tbe laborer and the farm ers' produce to make prosperity for both. The tram bearing tbe Postmaster-general from Frankfort did not arrive until 4:V,0 o'clock, but the farmers wanted to see Uncle Sam's chief postmaster, and they awaited his arrival. Mr. Perry S. Heath went to Frankfort, and, with William U. Patterson, of Indianapolis, accompanied the distinguished visitor to Muncie. En ' route to Muncie Mr. Wanamaker was given ovations at each ot the towns and villages. At Tipton tbe train was met by several hundred citizens, who cheered until Mr. Wauamaker climbed upon a More-box on the platform and mado a rive minutes' speech. At Flwood and Alexandria Mr. Wanamaker w as met by enthusiastic crowds, who were accorded brief speeches from the car platform. Major John P. Wildmats, T. F. Rose, J. C. Kiler and Mr. Heath were the Muncie reception committee, and, with the Republican drum corps and several hundred people, escorted Mr. Wanamaker in a carriage to the public square, where several hundred more were in waiting to hear the fifteen minutes' speech that bad been promised by the local committee. This meeting was wholly nnlooked for by Mr. Wanamaker, but he nave the assembly a short but very instructive talk. He spoke of the wonderful gsowth of Muncie and tho whole gas belt as a direct result of the taritl, nnd that without protection big iron and steeel and glass factories could not exist here. He said tbe prosperity of the Indiana gas belt is phenomenal, and Chicago or any other city had not equal advantages possessed here when they began to grow, and with protection it is hard to speculate what the wonderful growth of this locality will resnlt in. Then why, he said, should any loyal lioosiervote to destroy tbe prosperity of this natural condition! MANY WKRK TURNED AWAY. At the Hotel Kirby Mr. Wanamaker received thereapects of many business men, and long before the hoar of opening the meeting to-night at the Wa' jut-street Opera-house tbe building was so much crowded that many persons were turned away The stage was tilled with representative business men and mari-ifactiirers, ond Mr. Perry S. Heath, the Washington correspondent, presided over tbe meeting. In his introductory remarks Mr. Heath said: . This is not tte first time, I am proud to say, that jou have met together during tho past four years for the purpose of consMerluc the future welfare of great and rrowintr Muucie. Heretofore we have cudgeled our brain and drained our purses with a lew of enlarging old industries .iul securing the. location of new ones. Our eflorD have reaped an Immense reward far beyond the fondest expectations. During tho past year you have, by dint of euenry. enterprise and expenditure financially, added over twenty-rive new factories to your established Industries. These have Drought to you thousands

1 of workmen with an annual pay-roll of over two and a half millions of dollars, and to house them j about l,oo buildings have been completed, r while over eirht hundred more are In the course

of construction, and yet the cry sroes up for a thousand more houses. The present conditions promise at least thirty thousand population before the end of the year ISiK. Even should we secure no more industries, our great success is already secured If we out maintain the conditions nnder which we rrow. Iteal-estate values have many times doubled; the environs of Muncie are extending miles and miles, till tho entire body of Center town&hlp rroiuises soon to be occupied by factories and cottages. Our people were never so prosperous, and yet we have not enough of skilled and unskilled labor. The real growth of Muncie ha onlyjust beirun, however. It is the marvel of the natural gas belt, the wonder of the manufacturing world. If but another four years can be had of the influences which have caused this growth, no one can predict the result. We will then be beyond all perils and can successfully cone with any manufacturing or agricultural center in the universe and cau defy competition from whatever quarter. The growth of Muncie is the upbuilding of Delaware county. It is impossible to separate the prosperity of the one from that of the other. We are not here to-night to devise ways and means by which to secure new Industries or new enterprises, but to protect these we already have. All we a?k is to be let alone. We must protect our present protective tariff law In order to he protected, without protection we. nor nor any other people in the United states, cannot enjoy our present era of prosperity. You must have observed that our :reat prosperity dates rroru the enactment of the McKlnley law. We must stand by the measure which has done nnd is doing so much for us. . It is a hopeful shrnforusin Delaware county when the business men, farmers, laboring ineu of the country take pod tic in hand aud relegate the professional politicians. I am glad to announce that we are to hear toiiiuhtonoof the brainiest and most successful business men of our age, the prince of merchants; a gentleman who has demonstrated that he is indeed a business man "from the ground up," behind the counter and before It, In the commercial ot!ico and iu possession of the ere i test and n:ot popular executive branch of the federsl troverutnent; a gentleman who has stood for nearly four years and stands now high in the counsels of President Harrison's administration; a Republican business man who says by his acts that American snips are good enough to carry American mails, who lias given us extensions in every branch of tho mail services, and who will, it U to be hoped, continue in his good work another four years. Mr. Heath's eloquent remarks were fitting, nnd were received with frequent outbursts of applause. When the Postmastergeneral stepped forward he received a tremendous ovation. His speech was the same as that delivered at Frankfort in the morning. Mr. Wanamaker goes from here to Marion to-morrow morning, and between ? and ! o'clock he will make au address at Alexandria, Madison county. WRECKED IN A DENSE FOG An English Express Train Crashes Into a Freight at Sixty Miles an Hour. Ten Persons Killed or Burned and a Xrjmler Injured--Occupants of the Pullman Sleeper Escape with a Severe Shaking I p. Loxnov, Nov. 2. An npalling railway accident occurred early this morning near Thirsk, in Yorkshire, by which ten persons wttre killed and a large number injured. The express train which leaves Edinburgh every evening for London was running at full speed as it approached Thirsk, when ahead of it.appeared a heavily laden goods train. The engineer of the express train reversed bis engine and put on the brakes, but the momentum of the heavy express was too great and it dashed into the goods train, making a most terrible wreck. To add to the horror the carriages caught fire and were destroyed. A large number of persons from near-by places were soon at the scene and did everything possible to extricate the dead and injured. Tbe burning cars greatly hampered their etlorts, but bad it not been for their bravery the loss of life would have been much greater. The scene nr. the wreck was pitiable. Some of tbe bodies taken out of the debris had been burned beyond all semblance to humanity. The clothing had been destroyed and in home cases tho jewelry worn had been melted by the intense heat. The acoident is said to have been dne to a dense log, which prevented the engineer of the express train from seeing ahead of him for any distance. The express was crowded with passengers returning from the Highlands of Scotland, from Dundee and Edinburgh. Amontr the passentrers were the Marquis of Huntley and the Marquis of Tweedale. Tbey were in the Pullman car. nnd neither of the noblemen sustained serious injury, though the Marquis of Huntlev had one of bis shoulders bruised and one of his thumbs fractured. In au interview the Marquis of Tweedale said that at the time of the accident the express train was traveling at ths rate of sixty miles an hour. Tbe shock was severe, smashing the' engine and tender of the express train and the carriage next to them, but the parlor car, in which the Marquis of Tweedale and tbe Marquis of Huntley were sitting, stood the shock, although its forward end was knocked oil'. 'I he passenders ill the parlor coach were all asjeep when the collision occurred. The Marquis added that the people in the Pullman were pretty thoroughly frightened when they were awakened by the crash. When they got ont they found themselves amid a terrible wreck. The engine and tender were doubled back upon the first carriage and the Pullman car, forming one heap, which took tire from the red-hot coals from the engine furnace. The carriage behind the Pullman car was broken. The accident occurred at ten minutes to 4. and the night was pitch dark. Among the dead is Captain Duncan McLeod, of the Forty-second Highlanders, who was proceeding to Australia. Many of the injured were also bound for Australia and India. The signal man who was charted with being asleep at bis post bas been suspended from duty pending an investigation. The wheels of the Pullman were torn oft, but tbe body of the coach' stood the crr.&h with a little damage. Pinioned beneath the huge engine the rescuing party saw a woman, fhe was in great agony and screaming for help. They were powerless to help her. Uetore their eyes liames enveloped her and she was burned to death and her body reduced to ashes. The distracted husband of the poor victim piteously appealed to the would-be helpers to save his wife. The engineer of the express train, himself badly iujnred and held down by the debris, implored the rescuers to save the passengers and not mind him. IHg British War Ship' on a Ue-f. London, Nov. 2. Advices from Ferrol, a sea-port on the west coast of Spain, on tbe north arm of tbe Hay of Hetanzos, say that her Majesty's ship Howe has grounded on Pereiro reef, inside Ferrol bar. Her position is a very perilous one. The Howe is one of battle-ships of the Admiral class, be ir displacement of 10.SCO tons, 'carries ten guns, and is attached to the channel squadron. Twentv-Five Persons Trampled to Death. London, Nov. 2. A dispatch from Vienna eays that a panic occurred iu the church of the village of Vinagora. npon the raising of a false alarm that the tower was collapsing. In the mad struggle to get out twenty-five persons were trampled to death. Cable Notes. Tbe cholera continues nnabated in IludaPesth. Yesterday twenty-one new cases and nine deaths were reported. Archbishop Vaughn is making arrangements to nofonipany the pilgrimage of British Catholics to Home. This pilgrimaite, which is headed by the Duke of Norfolk, is, in point of wealth and numbers, tbe K'teatest that has left Great Britain in the cr-ntury. An Iiiflastet1 dirl's Sulei!. Columijia, Pa., Nov. 2. John K. Childs, a married man, not reciprocating the attentions of young arah lladdon. tbe latter offered bun a glass of milk in which tbe had put comldernblo strychnine at the supper table last night. Childs took two swallows, and noticing a bitter taste, refused to drink it. Miss Hnddou then took the glass, and saying she would throw the uilk out, w o another room and swallowed the i !. She died coon afterwarns. Childs i ued with the would-be "murderess's motr i. lie was made ill by drinking a portiouff te mixture, but recovered.

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AMUSKMENTS. I 1 " i Three performances only by the LILLIAN RUSSELL COMIC OPERA CO. Monday ami Tne'dav. Xot. 7 and 8, nu.g-nificent froilucti'jn of Aodran's oiera coinujue, "LA CIG-A.T-1E. 35 Exactly as glTen at the Garden Thenter, New York, with 125 peo Je in the c.st. "Wednesditvevtnlnar. Nov. l. by special repnest, Gilbert A Collier's new oiera, THE MOUNTEBANKS PRICES AU Lower Floor, $2: four front rows Balcony, $1.."U; ll.itcony. $1; Gallery, 5 Jc. se ils on sale tai morning. Owing to the enoiiuous expensof this engagement, lio passes wuM be a :ceted at the door. SrlMf-THEIffRE-j krauts MATINEE TODAY, To.r.ight and rest of week. DANIEL, A. KELLY, IN "AFTER SEVEN YEARS." PRICES 10. '20. 30c Next week Whallcn and Marteirs Specialty Co. LILTTLXAST &CHWATKA I'EAl). Foqnd on the Street of roriland. Ore., with a Hnlf-Enibtievl Lau 'a:ium Bottle at His ide. Portland, Ore.. Nov. 2. Frederick Schwatka, the explorer, died at 4:15 o'clock this morning. He was -picked up on the street in an unconscious condition. Peside him was found a laudanum bottle. When found Schwatka was lying on the sidewalk in an apparent drunken stupor. All efforts to arouse him were tutile. The twoounce vial found near him was about halffull of laudanum. He was carried to a hotel, where a further attempt to awaken bun was made, but without avail. He manifested symptoms of opium poisoning, and a physiciau was summone!, who. after a hasty examination. ordered him conveyed to the hospital, where, attt-r a few minutes, be expired. He never regained consciousness. Tbe body now lies at tbemorgue. wherean inquest will beheld to-morrow morn in tc. Dr. C H. Wheeler, the attending physician, was. this afternoon, asked tor his opinion as to the cause ol death. He stated that he would insist upon a post-mortem examination, and before that was had be could a ivo uo opinion, that, although the symptoms indicated opium poisoning, there miuht be other causes, such as apoplexy. He would rather think that Lieutenant Schwatka earn- d laudanum for some other purpose than suicide, ns be was a man well vers d in tbe use of medicine. Lieutenant chatka had jMst returned from a visit to iSalem, Ore., his former home. Lieutenaut :chwatka has of late years been troubled with a stomach complaint, and was in the habit of taking laudanum to allay the pain. Last night he was attending a meeting of the Stevenson Club, and, when there, complained that hisstomach was "killing hi in. He went to a drug store ami purchased n two-ounce bottle of laudanum, remarking to the clerk that be was a graduate of a medical college, and he was accustonu-d to taking btteen or t wenty drops of laudanum when his atomaeb was troubled. When last seen he appeared in a cheerful mood, and tave no evidence that he contemplated suicide. The theory that he committed suicide is fast giving way to one that be took an overdose of laudanum by accident. i Lieutenant Schwatka was born in Galena, 111., in 1810. He went to Salem, Ore., from Galena, with his parents in lb5'J, receiving his education at Willamette Univrity. He then learned the printer's trade, at which he worked until IMiT, when he received an appointment to West Point. Prom J one, 18, until .eptemher, lbo. bo was in command of the Franklin search party in the Arctic, which accomplished the louuest sledge journey in the world, ;'..2-"l miles in length aud occupying eleven mouths and twenty days in its duration. It experienced the3 coldest temperature ever recorded by white mea traveling in the lield, the d ot January. lSfO. a day on which tho party moved camp twelve mi lei, showing 11" below 7,eio I Fahrenheit!, or 10oJ below freezing point. This wan also the lirst expedition to travel tbrontfu tbe whole of tbe arctic winter. It buried a largo number ol Sir Johu Franklin's dead, and brought bark the remains of one olucer of that ill-late 1 expedition, which were buried m i)on Cemetery, Edinburgh, cotland, with ti e inost ' imposing funeral ceremonies ever witnessed in that city. It cleared up all that remained of tho Franklin mystery. His second and third expeditious were for the United States government to Alaska atter which be wrote several works on that wonderful but little known region, that are of intense interest. His fourth expedition was to Mexico. Judge John K. Cravens. Precis! to the Indianapolis Journal. Kansas City, Nov. 2. Judge John K. Cravens, of this city, one of tbe leading lawyers nnd most widely-known jurists of Missouri, died at 6 o'clock this evening, of a low malarial fever, after an illness of several weeks. Judge Cravens was tiftytbree years old, and had practiced law in western Missouri for over thirty years, lie was a leading Republican anil had held many important otlices. This year he was a candidate on tho Republican ticket for circuit judge of Kansas City. 0 IT11 E it N F 1 KX M MI X LSS. Sen end P-auchtcr Hanged and Another Sen Miot Uithon' a Madow of Cues-. NaTCHKZ. Miss.,Nov. 2. News has reached hereof the hanging of the son and daughter of John Hastings, the negro who was jailed here Saturday for the murder of Zip Norment. of Catahoula parish. Louisiana. Another ion was killed while lensting arrest here at tbe time that Haatings whs captured, making three ot the family who have lost their lives although none but the father was concerned in tho murder of Norment. A Kentochy Tragedy. LnirisviLLK, Ky., Nov. 2. Albert Wing killed his wife. Miriam Wing, in a room in a brothel lu this city last night, and eseapetl through a window. The woman's throat was cut and she received a fatal knife-wound in tbe heart. Poth were once members of i -eminent Kentucky families. Ctillrir'" (in Impm W.Ik, w Mis'.' John Chine, proprietor of the World's Fair, left bis horse and buggy bitched in front of his store for a few minutes yesterday evening. Willie Morgan, aged eicht. and Kaytnona Sands, aged five, came along about this tiineainl jumped into the hugcy nnd drove east on Washington street. Tbey retained possession of the tb. driving bar 1 all the time, until 9 o'clock, when they were caught in front of the police station and sent to their homes on Knglish avenue in the custody of a neighbor. Judge Baker yesterday admitted Louis J. Morgan and Joseph K. Morgan to the pr actio of law in the United States Court.

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Perm. St., Indianapolis AUOUNEY-GLNEKAL MlhU.ii. It Is His Intention t l.'etir from the Cabinet at the nd of This Administration. Attorney-general W. H. Ii. Miller arriyed in the city last night from Cincinnati, his last stopping place, and will spend tbe closing days of the campaign in making several speeches 4iu ditlerent parts ef bit native State. Mr. Miller was registered at tho Deninon, and was seen tnere by a Jonrnal reporter. In reply to a question c ncerning the rumor that he would retire from tbe Cabinet at the close of the present a lminibtration, he said: "it was not my intention at the time when 1 accepted the otlice which I now hold to retire permanently lrom tho practice ol law. I have felt ever since my aupoiutment that the loner I remained aw:iy from Indianapolis and my clientage her, tho more difficult it would be for ine to resume 1113' eld place, and more than a year az 1 determined to return hero at the end of tbe ureent administration. It is u sudden resolve on my parr. nor is it enured from any other reason than that 1 have Mated." Mr. Miller eaid that be had little to say on the political Mtuatioij other than what lie would s ty from tbe rotruui. "(If ths outlook 1 do not doubt but that yo'l who are connected with newspapers kuow morn than i do. 1 have not been vrrv ueiieially over tho country, and my knowledge Is a little limited, but trout what p rbonal information 1 have it looks Jery favorable tor the re-election of the tepnblican ticket, itisiny onuion that it will be," ho said. Mr. Milter's room at tho time whs tilled with callers and tbo conversation passed to generalities, 'lhe Attorney-general goes to E'wood to-day where in the evening b- w ill talk to the voters of tbt vicinity. The next alternoon will find him at Mouticello, and the lollowing me at Mai'ihon. He will return to Washington immediately when his work in tbe Mate is completed. . Iav.:u n';;;vs NfJi'L. The Saw-makers Union, No. 1, will give their third annual ball, at iomliuson Hall, tonight. John I'addcn lodged at the police station last flight, his naiiio appearing on the slate with a charge of assault and buttery opposite it. lio was arrested by oflicers l'op (iriOin and Alberts upon u warrant swoxn out by bis wife. William H. Addinctou was arrested yesterday afternoon, charged with grand larceny. Uo is acensed of having stolen an overcoat from his em plover. Enoch Wormnn, proprietor of a livery stable, at tho corner of Alabama and Wabash streets. Mattle Hell's Loiite, at No. Iss West Wabash atreet. was damaged .O) by hre yesterday noon. The inmates of the house were warned of the lire by a passer-by, wic aw the tlaines ahoutttw from n secondstory window. The entire upper Hour of the house was gutted. KerhrU' Iivre G. W. Everhardt said in reference to the statement in the Journal yesterday morning concerning the diibculty between him ana John Ilolttuan. that an error was made in sayinir that the divorce was not procured, but that it was. Mr. Everhardt is still of the belief that he was roduly persecuted by Mr. floltiman, and be, together with his friends, will not vote for him. w 1'i't-rpri-e Articles were tiled yesterday with the Secretary of State by the Citizens' Liht and Power Company, of Kokomo, capital stock. S."i.ctf director. K. E. now, J. W Miiettti:an. II. 11. i.oue. J. E. Holman st.d .1. N. Ecop; bv the Oakland City Cotlutid Milling Company, capital stork, 5 !.(', and by the Homo Laud Company, of Evans. ville. capital stor k," SiTU 0 . directors. J. (iilea, John A. Miller and 1. li. Keley. Ftliel to l-v. the City. Detective James yesterday arrested Charles Jones and slated him for loitering. Several weeks hj:o Jones was before Hizloner.the Uadi. charged with vagrancy, and was leleased on his promise to leave the city. When detective James saw hmi yesterday. dreed like a "dead pome port' trying to sell a lady's gold watch, be suspected something wrougaud took him into custody. ns Puro Healthful Agrooablo Rof roshing "The Queen 0! Table Waters."

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