Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 November 1892 — Page 4

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, JDONDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1892.

THE DAILY JOURNAL MONDAY. NOVEMBER 21. 1602.

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All eommunicationt intended for pubtieation in this paper muti,in crder to rtcexte attention, bearcomjtanied by the name and address of the writer' THE INDIANAPOLIS JOUWfAI Can be found at the followtnc places: TAR If American Kichanse In Parts, 36 Boulevard le Capucices. KEW YORK GlTeey IXouse and Windsor Hotel. PIIILADELPniAA.P. Kemble, 3735 Lancaster avenue. CHICAGO Palmer House. . CINCINNATI-J. R. nawley A Co, 131 Vine street LOUISVILLE C. T. DeTring, northwest corner of Third and Jefferson streets. 8T. LOUIS Union News Co., Union Depot. WASHINGTON', D. C.-RiR House and Ebbitt II mm a. One V7ill listcn'in vain to hear a Democratic organ demanding an income tax, cow that the party has a Congress and a President. Mn. Cleveland betrays in all Lia speeches his distrust of tho men of his own party who will fill Congress and will demand tho offices. Ho knows them. A Kansas dispatch states that Mrs. Lea 60 has thirty-iivo members of tho Legislature pledged to her who will not vote for any roan who is suspected of being a Democrat. The Massachusetts Reform Clnb, ivhich is made up of thoso who worship themselves as the only examples of human perfection, declares for an extra session of Congress. This should settlo it. On 7. of tho burning questions of the hour in Now York is: "Did Mr. Cleveland say, 'I will be doubly damned' to Bosses Sheehan and CrokerP That jort of swearing betrays a painful familiarity. TriE first to falter over Mr. Cleveland's election are his friends, tho importers. They fear to import as they have , been floing, and, consequently, there has been decided falling off in the receipts of the treasury. Because $20,000,000 of whisky tax is collected in Kentucky, some Kentucklans imagine that they pay that amount into the federal treasury. They doubtless do take a large quantity of the best whisky, but scarcely twenty gallons to each inhabitant. If aRepublican President-elect should be dining so frequently and so exclusively with millionaires as is Mr. Cleveland with Villard, Whitney, Grace, Fairchild and others, he would bo denounced in black type and hot expletives as a follower of plutocrats. Those who desire nil the information there is about seed potatoesshould write to C. S. Plnmb, United States Experimental Station, Purdue University, La.fayette, Ind. The pamphlet is worth all of tho literature the political alliance ever issued, unless it could be exchanged with the peddler for tin-ware. The American people will commend tho action of Minister Stubbs in pending away, without papers, an American ship from La Guayra, Venezuela, because neither he nor the captain would permit the authorities to go on board and seize a passenger taken from a neutral port who was wanted for political offenses. ' While the New York Herald, the Louisville Courier-Journal, the Philadelphia Record and other Cleveland and Democratic organs are ranting about pensions, why have they not a word to Bay regarding the thousands of bills before Congress for the payment of confederate war claims! It is said on good authority that $000,000,000 of these have been made up. The new industrial organization which Paul Vandervoort, Tauboneck, Willetts of Kansas, Washburn of Massachusetts, and others of the t same tribe, havo just organized, will be short lived. Tho only industry of the leaders is to get salaries out of those , who become their victims, and to sell their votes. They have no interest whatever in promoting an industry or the welfare of the people. ' ' No provision is made in tho Georgia State bank-note law for the coin or legal tender redemption of tho notes of the banks which issue them. It is a provision of tho national banking act that such banks shall keep a reservoof letraltender money in their own vaults, and those of the reserve banks, to redeem their notes, and 5 per cent, in the hands of the Controller of the Currency for the same purpose. All banks, to be safe, should be required to keep 40 per cent, of their circulation oa deposit in specie or other legal tender. Yesterday the Journal received from an Indiana veteran living in San Francisco the following prepaid telegram, which speaks for itself: Sax Fiuxcxsco. Nov. 20. To the Editor of the Itmianaootfs Journal; Please advise proper persons in Hen drirks and Morgan connties that 1 desire to contribute fix) to a reward fund for tho arrest and conviction of gangs of outlaws, 0 or any on of them, who desecrated the graves of our comrades as reported in today's dispatches. The war is over. Sectional feeling should be buried. No veterans, either bine or gray, countenance such vandalism. Ghouls who mock the dead who died in honor deserve the execration ot every American citizen. J. G. Edwards. Late Seventy-second Indiaua Volunteers, 420 California street, ban Francisco. There is a great deal ot this sort of burning indignation among patriotic

people, and it is not confined to veterans. The writer is undoubtedly correct regarding the sentiment of confederate veterans upon such outrages, but they should not be classed with those men in tho North whose malignity is that of the coward and who glory in a Democratic victory at the polls because to them it is a victory over the Union soldiers, whom they and their ancestors hated from 18G1 to 1SC3.

THE ALLIAKC2 QUAREEL. The breaking up of tho Farmers' Alliance at the annual meeting last week along political lines can bring nothing but good. It was devised as a political machine by a few men whom the leaders ot both parties had learned to distrust. It has been turned to the advantage ot tho Democracy because the managers of that party can carry over to it, as they did in Kansas, its entire body of voters. Macune has been secretly using the influence of tho Alliance in the South to defeat the Alliance or Populist party, while Loucks and his coterie have been using it in the North to absorb the Democracy and at the same time defeat the Republican party. Now the leaders have quarreled, the Macune element has seceded and tho Loucks element holds the organization for tho North. He and , . tho other discredited lead ers cannot much longer hold it together to mislead and swindle farmers. None but the most ignorant can be duped by the financial vagaries of Pefier, Donnelly, and the like. Sensible fanners who have belonged to it will review its career and come to the conclusion that it is the schenio of a band of adventurers to pilfer from the mass ot farmers by collecting membership fees to be paid in large salaries to officers, agmts and lecturers. They will find that the Donncllys and a few publishers of Alliance literature are deriving large Incomes from the dupes whom they have persuaded to become their patrons. In all the years that tho political Allianco has been a power it has never undertaken to do anything to develop the great science of agriculture. It has cost the farmers of Indiana a great deal of money, and all the advantage they have derived is not equal to that ofl'erefl by the discussions of a single county institute or ono circular of the Experiment Station. The managers havo enticed its members to tako stock in stores, which havo mostly failed. In other States farmers have been plundered wholesale by the leaders. A year ago the organization in one State sold itself to a speculative concern to issue circulars advising farmers to hold back their wheat when it was worth about a dollar, until it should bo worth a dollar and a half. Farmers acted upon that advice, and lost thereby. Its leaders are for the most part farmers only as they farm a revenuooutofthe tillers of the soil. The Macune end dead, the Loucks section will soon go to pieces. BRED IN THE B0HE. The desecration of the tombstones of Union soldiers in a number of cemeteries in this State as a part of Democratic glorifications discloses, the enmity which yet lives in the hearts of the sons of tho men who secretly opposed the Union cause in Indiana during the war period. In ordinary times this implacable hatred lies dormant, but when the hour of triumph comes it breaks forth in acts which are fiendish all tho more fiendish because the spirit inspiring them has been so long held in check. It may be said that these wretches were under the influence of liquor. So.be it; tho real being acts itself when restraints are thrown off. This hostility has also appeared several times in opposition to the raising of flags over schoolhouses, and traces of it can be found in communities when public exercises bring to recollection the patriotic achievements of the war for the Union. In their hearts they hate tho names of Lincoln, Grant, Sherman, Morton and tho splendid galaxy of patriots who stood with them. To-day, wherever they dare, they are raising a howl against pensions. Wherever they do not fear tho influence and votes of the Union soldier and his sons they sneerat Lincoln and his associates. In West Virginia, where Union soldiers are a small minority, they brutally beat down men at Democratic jollifications because they would not approve of cheers for Jeff Davis and the Confederacy. If they cheer the flag of tho Union it is with tho mental reservation that it has been captured from the men and. the party which, under Lincoln, saved the Nation, and, under Morton, the State of Indiana from capture or treasonable control. Had the victory of Nov. 8 been a Republican triumph it would not have been celebrated with British flags on American factories, with insults to the Union dead, or with cheers to Jeff Davis in the South. Its triumph would have been a triumph of loyalty and patriotism. MR. HULMAS'3 SCHEME. The Washington correspondent of tho Brooklyn Eagle learns that when the judiciary appropriation bill conies to the House, Judge Holman proposes to "put the Republicans on the rack" by inserting a clause repealing that portion of tho federal election law which provides for deputy marshals and supervisors of elections. The writer claims that Speaker Crisp will rule that each a clause is rmano because its object is to reduce expenditures. . Mr. Holman assumes that the Senate will pass a judiciary bill thus amended and compel tho President to sign it or leave the Department of Justico without money with which to operate. It he signs it after a Republican Senate has passed it, both Republican President and Senate will appear before the country as hnving renounced, in effect, the fe'deral election law. This, says the correspondent, will be the policy of Mr. Holman, as given by a friend who stands 'very close to him." Tho Journal ventures to predict that tho Democratic House will scarcely indorse the scheme of Mr. Holman, or that Mr. Holman himself will claim its paternity when it comes to the test. It

is not probablo that the Republican Senate would pass Mr. Holman's bill, and it may be assumed that the President would veto it. The failure to make full appropriation and the consequent veto of the Holman bill would compel Mr. Cleveland to call an extra session of Congress at nn early day to make appropriations necessary to keep the machinery of tho courts in motion. An extra session is about the last thing conservative Democrats desire, and thero is reason to believe that Mr. Holman will be suppressed, as ho has been on several occasions, by tho Democratic House.

In his speech at the Villard dinner Mr. Cleveland said: If we see nothing in oar victory bnt a license to revel in partisan spoil we shall fail at every point. If we merely profess to enter upon our work, and If 'we make apparent an endeavor to do it as a cover for seeking partisan advantage, we shall invite contempt and disgrace. This will send the cold - chills chasing each other up the backs of a half .million WAiting Democrats; still, the admonition is a timely ono to those Democratic officials who are using public positions for partisan purposes. If the Democratic tax-eaters in Indiana would take the above words to heart, they would make a great change in the management of county ofiices. The Philadelphia Record, an out-and-out free-trade Cleveland organ, now that theelection is over, f.peaks its mind as follows: The pension laws should be codified, and the pension list pnrged and cot down to reasonable proportions; and a reform administration. Democratic in all its branches, will not be excused by the people if it shall negleot or decline to undertake the task. With ix less than a year Mr. Gladstone has been ran down by two cabs, struck in the eye with a piece of ossified gingerbread and toesed by a heifer, yet he is as lively as ever. Plainly the Grand Old Man is a tough old man. Is that comet to come and go without any remarks from Lieutenant Tottenl Mrs. Lease is just now "a biger man than old PelTer. BUBBLES IN THIS AlB. Where He Got It Watts Whero did you get such a cold? Potts In the neck. All the Same. He Don't you think that co-education leads to a good many marriage si She-Well, -what is marriage itself but a species ot to education? Ill Middle Name. "What does the A in your name signify, Julius!" "Alias, Rah. Julius Alias Johnsing. Mammy got it out'n a newepapah, sah." . Had tn Look Farther. Weary Watkins Sir, are yon a philanthropist! Stranger I flatter mysolf that I am. Weary Watkins I feared so. But, perhaps you could put me on to some common, every -day bloke that'd give up a dime! Different Now. Mrs. Fltts Tou are too tired to hold me on your knee, eh! Humph! It wasn't that way when wo were engaged. Mr. Fitts-Well, I didn't have to work hard all day then to support a family. At the Foot-Kail Game. , Watts Who is that old idiot over there yelling "Give It to him!" ' 1 j Totte-Old idiot. Indeed! That is the Rev. Mr. Flim. Don't you remember what a forceful sermon he preached against the brutality of prizefighting? 31K8. LEASE'S AUDIT ON. If Mrs. Lease hopes to be Peffer's col-. league in the Senate she must block 'em out right away. Minneapolis Tribune. Just think what Mrs. Lease mightdoif she chanced to get tangled up with some of that congressional beet-tea! Detroit Tribune Mrs. Lease has enriched the literature oi slang in her announcement that she will "stand in the middle of the road This is a very telling .phrase, no doubt, bnt just what does it mean f St, Louis Post-Die-patch. Ir there are any millionaires in the United States Senate this is their chance. Tbey should form a syndicate and. bribe Mrs. Alary E. Lease not to become a member of tbeir honorable body. Milwaukee SentineL The election of Mrs. Lease to the Kansas senatorship would be both an absurdity and a reproach, of coarse, but it woold not add much to tho present political ridiculousness of that onco proud and potent Republican bt ate. lit. Louis Globe-Democrat. . Mi:s. Lease is opposing Jerry Simpson's senatorial aspirations to tho hitter end. But she cannot stay the tide of fanaticism now any more than she could in 1S91. when she. opposed Feller's election. Mary has too much sense to be appreciated by her co-workers in bleeding Kansas. Omaha Bee. If Mrs. Mary E. Lease wants to go to the Senate from Kansas there is no constitutional Bar on acconnt ot sex in her way, so far as can be discovered. To be sure the Constitution uses the prononn "he" once in peaking of tho qualifications of Senators, bnt the inadequacy of the English language tally explains that this was not necessarily intended as a discrimination in sex. Springfield Republican. It is a peculiarity of the cranks, com eouters, and third-party people generally, that they do not expect or propose to succeed in their political undertakings. All they want is to be in the field, to spout, to air their eloquence, to exploit their firm faith in their everlasting principles and their heroic devotion to the 'cause.'1 whatever that may happen to be at th moment. If they happen to get a few votes tbey are perfectly happy, and if they net none it is all right until next time. Therefore, if Mrs. Lease wants to be a candidate and to rnn for the Senate, lot her run. Philadelphia Telegraph. AlOCT PEOPLE AND TUINGS. A Kansas City farming implement house intends sending out a young woman as a drummer next year. Julian Hawthorne, who is the father of seven children, calls his home at Sag Harder Tbo House of beven Gabblers." F. Makion Crawford, the novelist, has arrived in New York, after several years' absence abroad. He will probably give a series of readings dunne the winter. A Man in New Jersey who successfully dreamed Cleveland into the presidency has had another sleeping fancy that the big fellow will die of apoplexy before March 4. Dr. Oliver Wendijll Holmes admitted the other day to a lady who wenttohiin for information on the point that he lid not know the nfiuie or subject of his first poem. Young "Jim" Garfield is said, now tbat he has grown a beard, to be the perfect image of his father. So great is the resemblance, it is declared, that if' the young man were to visit Washington unannounced and confront the people who know the President well tbey would mistake the sou for the shade ot the father. The new sticks of the New York policemen are of grenadilla wood and are 13'4 inches long, li inches thick at the outer

end, and tapering to an inch at the handle. The will probably answer every purpose of the larger clubs under ordinary circumstances, but when the extraordinary ones arrive the men will have to depend on chance and their own strength. Steele Mackaye is an absorbed student of reptile lore. At one time he kept a rattlesnake at large in his study. He would write with the creature coiled up on his table, its head close beside his hand. The theory npon which he tamed this pet was tbat a snake is charmed by rhythmical motion, and is only dangerous when angered by a movement that disturbs this symmetry of action. Among Lord Tennyson's acquirements, according to toe British Weekly, was, it seems, a knowledge of astronomy. When. the laureate paid his last visit to London he sent for Mr. Norman Lockyer, as he wished very specially to see him. Mr. Lockyer found thathis opinion was wanted with regard to the temperatnre of the sun, a subject in which Lord Tennyson was, much interested, and npon which they had a long and interesting discussion. Mr. Lockyer says the poet knew as much about astronomy as he did. Among Joaquin Miller's sweetest and most pathetio verses is a little poem called My Woods," and written in Rome in 1878. A friend of the poet, who was his traveling companion at the time, narrates the course of that fever for the wilderness. "My woods, give me my woods!" he eried, till all his acquaintances were worn out with it and him. Finally they took him off into the country and left him in a srove early one morning. They promised to return for him at night so that he should have a full day among bis trees. Long before night the Poet of the Sierras came limping into the Eternal City. He was sick of solitude.

WHAT IT MEANS. The Late Election Vast Be Taken as Indicating a Revolution in Our Revenue System. To tho Ttfitor of the InAlanapeUa Journal! This is the "year of jubilee" for the Democratic party. The rooster perches on its victorious banners, while the "bird of liberty" takes its ignominious flight to its erie in the mountains. A shout of joy from every eity and hamlet mingles with the crisp November air, and a national thanksgiving seems to have been inaugurated without the aid of a proclamation. Among those who are not drunk with joy or crushed by defeat there is question as to what is to be the outcome of this mighty upheaval, this "tidal wave" that has overwhelmed the Republican party with "a vote ot want of confidence" in its conduct of national ailairs. To properly understand the significance of this action, it will be necessary to consider what issues were determined by the contest. The principle advocated by the Republican party during the campaign "that all articles which cannot be produced in the United States, except luxuries, should be admitted free of duty, and that on all Imports coming into competition with tbo products of American labor there should be levied duties equal to the difference between wages abroad and at home," has been by tbo verdict of the people declared "a fraud' and the imposing or protective duties a violation of the Constitntion; that "the MeKinly tar ill law emu: ted by the Fifty-hrst Congress is a culminating atrocity of class legislation;" tbat under its influence "there have been ten reductions of the wages of laboring men to one increase," and tbat it fosters no inaustry so much as tbat of the sheriff." It does not seem as though there could be much room for doubt as to what judgment would be rendered on thfs verdict. Protective duties are declared a fraud, and their imposition a violation of the Constitution. This means, if it means anything, that the result will do a revolution in our revenue system: it means the imposition of duties on loreicn imports that will yield an annual revenue of about 10.000,000, without affording any protection to American industries. Those who seek to avoid this result by saying that duties will bo levied on incomes to make up deficiencies are outside of the record, for no such issue was submitted to the people for a decision, and those persons who undertake to speak for the Democratic party and say that such action will not be taken by it, speak without its authority. Who has the President-elect commissioned to say that the principles of the Chicago platform will not become the law as soon as Congress has the power to pass the necessary bills and present them to him for his odicial indorsement! It is no answer to this to say thut he failed to punctuate the platform in bis letter of acceptance, for on the 14th day of Jnly last be wrote Ralph E. Hoyt: "1 am exceedingly gratified . to learn' of your intention to support the principles and candidates of Chicago, and 1 am sure no one need fear that the context will not bo made on thelineslaiddown." Iam not disposed totry to controvert what may have been the intention of individual members of tho successful party, when tbey claim that they did not mean what they said in their platform, and tbat they have been guilty of carrying on a campaign of false pretenses, but 1 deny tho right of any man to say that Grover Cleveland, as the candidate of "his party for the highest office in the gift of tho people, held the position of a "bunco sieerer" while doing so. Jt is the part of wisdom to face the conditions which the verdict of Nov. 8 has provided for, and among the more important ones are the following: first That there will be a revision of onrrevenne system, by which protection will be eliminated and a "tariff for revenue only" impOKed. Second Tbat all federal laws intended to securo a free vote and a fair connt in the election of President and members of Congress will be repealed. Third That the prohibitory ten-per-cent. tax on State-bank issues will be repealed. These are all within the issues, and covered by the verdict, and will in due time unquestionably receive the official indorsement ot the party the people have commissioned to execute their will. 1 have neither beartrnordesire to speculate on what will be tbe result of these changes. If. as our Iriends assert, it will be the dawning of a new ear of industrial prosperity for our country. I will most heartily and gladly say amen, although it prove the theory of the party to whiob I belong, that along the line ot protected industries is the pathway of material prosperity and glory of our country, is a delnsiou; but until tbe golden froit which they promise has begun to glisten among the outspreading branches of our vast industries, I shall hope for the best and fear the worst. Joseph A. Woodhull. Asoola, Ind., Nov. 15. Ilia Task Nobly Performed. Minneapolis Tribune. Up to this day the administration of Benjamin Harrison has been remarkably successful, while his own personal part in affairs, official and semi-official, has been nnequaled in its freedom from blunders and its brilliant forensic and diplomatic achievements. He has made it a desperately bard task to be President of the United States. Not an official act of his has caused bis country to blusb. Not a word he has nttered. whether before gathered tbousands of his own countrymen, or to the diverge nationalities that assembled at a great ecumenical council, could have been better said or more fittingly timed. His pnst, at least, is secure! And he will not mar the picture by carpiug words cr peevish complaints over what is done and cannot be undone. A few more months and President Harrison will round out a term which has made him as much greater in the eyes of his countrymen as bis administration has made the country greater in the eyes of the world. It is a task nobly performed. With this record he can go into retirement greater in defeat than he would have been in viotory. The Spilt lu the Alliance. Kansas City Times. . The Fanners' Alliance war ship, which stsrted ontto grandly only a very few years ago to do tbe Monitor act to all other crafts, ban struck a perculiarly jagged po litical roetc nud bid- fair to go to tbe bottom. TheKansas officers and seamen are about tbe onlyooes who are safe, hut tbey really deserted the vessel ayear ago and set sail on their own book. Attark'tic Pensiuua. phiJa!olphla Rec nl (lo:n ) The task of reduction is a purely business affair, which must be met in a business way by a cureful purgation of the pension lists and amendment of the pension laws.

THE COMET AND ITS PATH

When the Wanderer Will Cross tho Earth's Orbit and the Danger Point. What the Effect of a Clash Mieht Possibly Ba Where to Lcok for the Comet II iscalculations by Observers and Astronomers. Frederick L. norton. In Chicago Inter Ocean. The comet now visible to telescopes, and which will soon be visible to all eyes (un aided) is presumed to be Riela's cometone of them. 13 ut the Biela comet was first discovered by Montaigne at Limoges, in 1772. It was also detected in 1S06 by Pons, of Marseilles, but not until Feb. 27, 1S26, were perfect observations ot it ob tained by Wilhelm Biela, an Austrian officer, born in Prussia in 1782. died in 1656, At the time of its observation by him he was in Bohemia, at Josephstadt. Ten daya later on, and entirely independent of Biela, it was observed by Gambart, of Marseille; and by both of these observers its elements were compared and identified witn its previous appearance in 1772 and 1806, with the result of determining tbat its period was three returns in every twenty years, or six and two-thirds years for its complete revolution around the sun. Hence, sinoe 1772 it has passed tbe earth already seventeen times. It was observed on its next return after 18J6, viz.. in 1832, Oct. 27. but was not detected in 1S39. June 27. A won derful thing, however, took place under tbo eyes of its observers in 1846. Feb. 27, when it separated into two parts or distinct comets, and when last seen at that period these twin comets were about 157.000 miles apart, proceeding in nearly the same direction. Its next appearance was Sept. 23, 1852, showing a retardation of one month and four days in its motion; but it was followed on Nov. 7. 1832 (or exactly one month later than its regular time), by a wonderful train of meteors and twenty years later, on Nov. 27, 1872, this train of meteors was carefully noted, being at this time better observed than at any previous. passage. THE TWIN COMETS. Both of the twin comets were observed on Sept. 23, 1852, but their distance apart was now 1.250,000 miles, the smaller portion slightly in advance, its period being 6.618 years; the larger 6.619 years. The passage of tbe first was exaotly Sept 23, .0443. 1852. while the second was exactly Sept. 23. .7259, 1S52. As this was tbe last careful observation had it is of interest at this time, forty years later, to note that C2 H4, a form of hydro-carbon gas was the determined larg est component of these two comets, and as aminulingof this subtle gas with our atmosphere means tire, and the production of carbonic acid and water, tbe contact of one of these terrible visitors would result in harm in more ways than fire alone could produce. Now if six and two-thirds years were exactly tbe period of this comet, knowing accurately its appearance in 1852, then it ought to have passed us May 23. 1859; Jan. 23, 18CG; Sept. 23, 187S; May 23, 1880; Jan. 23, 187, and its next visit to us ought to be Sept. 23. 104. But, behold, there is now (Nov. 17, 181:2.) in 6ight to the telescope a comet coming towards us from the same point radiant, and upon the same path through sp.ice traveled by tbe Biela comets when last observed in lb52. Hence if this be ono of the Biefo comets it has gained time or motion during its five periods of six and two-thirds 3ears each, orthe forty years since its last observation, of almost two years, and we may look for its companion comet soon to follow. As other writers ueem to think and to hope that this comet has lost time or motion by the attraction of the eartb, sun or other bodies, and hence have published their hopes, based upon this uncertain and unknown quantity in their calculation that this comet would pass eight hours behind the earth's passage along its path, or at a distance of over one million miles away Irom our atmosphere, and as they have not yet been able to measure tbe velocity at which this comet is coming toward us. it seems to be self-eyident that the pleasing hope of putting a good distance between ns and such a visitor is;more of a factor in their calculations than any other as to certainty. The point radiant of the Biela comet (ss also this comet), is little west of tar seven in the constellation of Andromeda, and its path is toward tbe constellation of the Centaur, or nearly from north to south, almost at a right angle with the earth's path around the sun; to specify more clearly, from say. Beta Andromeda to Alpha Centnnri. To find Andromeda before Nov. 24 (Tbanksgiviug day), look to zenith (exactly overhead) at 10 r. m.; then turn your eyes west- of north from zenith a 6hort distance; after that date look a little east of north. The comet will be seen, visiblo to tbe naked eye, on or before tbo 24th if the sky is clean but if it is expected to identify it by comparison with former comets seen having long tails, thrs expectation will be disappointed. uncomfo'rtauly close. 'As I have already shown the uncertain character of the calculations presented, that it would oross tbe danger point eight hours behind the earth, I may be permitted to present my calculation, which may turn out to be as accurate or as far astray as the other. I beliove this comet will pass the danger point in tbe earth's path around the sun uucomfortablv close, bnt ahead of the earth's reaching tbis danger noint (not behind it); that if there is contact with our atmosphere, tbe point of contact will be over the Pacific ' ocean between South America and Australia, near the south pole; tbat the passage, if seen by observers here, will take place in the time we occupy the position of "bod on" in the earth's forward ewing around the uo; tbat is, between 2 a. M.v Nov. 26. and 6 r. m.. Nov. 27. But 1 hope it will pass earlier than this, unless very muoh later, so as to allow the earth to pass. That it will pass so near ns as to be plain-' 1 -1 l:L. .1 t i jy seen in uayugubii aimospoeric conditions favor, and look larger than a full red moon. I now hazard the prediction that if my calculation as tbove given is right as a basis, the earth and a portion of its inhabitants will be seriously atlected by either this or its tellow-commet, and that tho daneerous period is fiora Nov. 24 to Dec. 7. If we pass by that time in safety 1 believe all occasion for alarm has psssed. Between these periods let all mariners be. ware of atmospheric disturbances ana possible tidal waves, and on land possible cyclones. Should tbis comet come in eontact with our earth and its gases mingle to any great extent with our atmosphere, there will be repeated tbe known experience of the star in the constellation of Corona in IMil. and of the star in the constellation of Cygnus. in 1S7A. The first came in contact with some meteors, or a comet, probably: at least wo know by tbe spectroscope, m both c a . that there was a sadden increase of temperature, as evidenced by tbeir spectra becoming like the chromosphere ot our sun. The first Hashed, up temporarily from the tenth to tbe first magnitude, while the second Hashed from an nnseen to the third magnitude. The first took one month to burn up, and tbe second nearly ayear. Should this comet barely graze our atmosphere over the South Pacific, while we will probably escape any such dire fate, yet. even this might be followed by atmospheric disturbance and poisonous effects should we pass through its tail vapor, as it seems now generally conceded tbat we will. But 1 cannot see how, if their calculations are correct, the earth can pas through its tail (if it has one), for cer tainly tbe tail follows the bead (and does not precede it), became this comet is on its way toward tbe sun. and crosses ortr orbit lrom without. . ow, if thy are correct. that tbe earth will have passed the danger point by eight hour ahead of the comet's crossing our path, then it must follow clearly that we cannot pass through its tail unless the head has passed across in front of us. Titer NVert hn Objrct Lenon. 2CewYork Independent Perhaps tbeconciousness of almost abso lute power may make tbe Deinocratio party cautious and timid, it is to be hoped so; and yet while tbey have the supremacy it is 'desirable that their policies

hall be fairly tried. We have no donbt what the result of tbe test will be. Tbe raasacs require an object lesson. It will hurt the country terribly, we fear, but it ia well that it should be given. The people have certainly not called upon the Democratic party to carry out Republican policies. REPUBLICAN ORGANIZATION.

Points In Wblcb tbe Present Plan Is Def ctivs, and Bow the Evil May Ee Remedied. to the TAltor of the Inaianatxnls Jonrsal: The progress of the Hepnblican party has been checked, and this necessitates the readjustment of its line of battle for 1824. Ia these times of adversity the party must seek to organize for a future victory. The Democratic party will most certainly rely for futute victories on gerrymanders North and a fraudulent count South, and the lovers of fair elections will have to lay siege to these carefully-selected and fortified positions to gain the victory. Democratic hostility toward national laws was never more pronounced than now. The old Hag is only tolerated and oheerea by them when it floats over an offieejor an appropriation. Let ns look it us for the best and surest means eoaration to meet the enemy thus ohed in the next campaign. Lotus ally examine our party tactics and se .nether we are distinctive enough to preserve discipline. Since Van Buren formulated a ritual fox the Democratio partv it. has shown great power in times of adversity. Democratio theory and practice have entirely con sisted. and herein lies the stricter discipline and power of the party. Wards in cities and towns, townships in counties, connties in States and States in the confederacy still vote as units in organization and convention under the two-thirds rale, while the word Democrat is contrasted with plutocrat and aristocrat by votan. ot foreign extraction who are used to discipline. Thus the basic thought of tho party is kept present to both ear and eye. and the confederate idea is more easily maintained as paramount in tbe minds of its members. The ltepublican party differs in this, that it is based on the voting human nnit acting directly in person or by agent on an equal, yet distinctive, basis in each district, town, city, township, county. State and nation. This idea of in dependent aotion of each citizen without being side-tracked ought to be . popular with new voters, but, unfortunately for our party. it is cot emphasized in our own party rites, and the difference is not seen and feltas if it were presented in the concrete as well as the abstract. In other words, as an organization our party maintains in theory the union principle of eqnal rights to each citizen and member of the party, while in practice we follow and copy alter the confederates. To the ear, onr party argues a difference which, if believed, would popularize the partv. while to the eye it clearly follows, the Bourbon ritual, and thus our theory stands at all lours with our practice. It is true tbat whenever a member asserts his right to act as an individual in a Kepublican convention, an innate senh of justice compels its recognition. Why not adjust our party action so as at all times to emphasize this, idea of justice. The Democratio partv studiously ignores the personal unit in its organization, platforms and conventions, and yet its name carries with it the popular idea of individual activity. The Kepublican party should, therefore,- discard the confederate ritual, and so organize and transact its pHitr business that the truo basis of union, to-wit, individual inlluence, may be heard, seen and felt, as - a strong partisan bond. The territorial confederate nnit necesftarily demonstrates the system which advocates the paramount authority of States in issuing currency and electing Congressmen. The human Republican uuit counts in nationalizing our system of internal improvements, currency and eleotions. On the confederate unit is based the confederauv of States, and ou tbe other human unit a true nnion nation of people. 1 have long observed that our partisans talk of a true nnion party, and yet our method of transacting business has a very strong confederate taint. 1 believe tbat every member of the Republican party would g.adly do something and be eoinethiug for the good of the order if such duty was made specific and easy. I believe that each would freely act if independent duty was clearly defined as equal and easy. There is in the heart of every true Kepublican a desire to help to victory what he believes is a good cause with ns much persistence as acts tbe law of gravitv. Our elective machinery must necessarily be applied in precincts, and hence our party organization should also reach, call npon and aop ly to each voter in each- separate precinct. Lach precinct bLou Id 4u considered and looked after closely lor purpose of political work. Each precinct should be divided into primary districts, ho defined that in each tho member of our partv can easily express by a majority ballot their equal part in building all party committees and tickets. This point arranged the campaign work will he done effectually and fairly. If we tako this work to the homes of the members they will each gladly do what is proper to make the party rest on the will ot the votiug units acting directly or through agents representing a majority. For several years 1 have done what 1 could for this true Kepublican system. It has been tried in town, township, connty and senatorial district, and not a candidate was ever beaten, while all took prt and the expenses were very light and wholjy voluntary. In the selection of party workers and candidates by this method thero can be no reason for cnargesof unfairness, ts every step rests on a majority ballot. Asa member of the State Senate I secured a favor ible report on a bill for an act covering tho essential points of this national system, as applied to selecting tickets. This bill is printed in tho Senate Journal of IhrD, pages U41 to 3iJ. A freo vote and fair count by pluralities are advocated by oir party for an elective syalem, and why not demand tbe same ires vote aud fair count by majorities in con strnctmg our organization and ticket. Tho whole voting atr nth of the party woold thus be enrolltd ut tbeir little primary meotings as the true basis of organization in building our conventions, and again in selecting onr ticket. Any member of our party other than be on whom other duties are laid by the suff rages of his neighbors need not miss a meal nor Ey much to perform mid have performed is whole duty well as a partisan. It will not do for ns to rely wholly on tbe mistakes of tbe confederates while their organization remains butter than ours. It is easier to correct political diseases by ballots than by bullets. If each member could have an easy yet important duty in tbe preparation nud roudr.ct of a campaign the words we, ns and our would become words of life and prosperity to the party. If onr head committeemen will appoint future days in order, with proper intervals for primary, precinct, township, county, district. Mato and national reorganization for the campaign of U'.4. the members will act. Touch the button of uniformity, and the people will do the rest. Each member is ready to do ou the same day throughout the country the initial work in the primary division of each precinct, and to select agents to carry it forward by proper steps to a prfectorganiration in every part of the Mate aim a tion. In our present Pt-itua of defeat it would be well to rr.:der what relorm la our forms is needed, and e: well to ruins our own party rtes. If uo steps are taken, and we etill continue to use confederate words and phrases in party business, we must necessarily acknowledge a satellite position in the political tie Id. 1 believe any member of the party who may be selected by the snfiruees of bin neighbors for a special political duty in a campaign will perform that duty as well and as cheaply as be can. 1 hope your readers, or some of them, will deem these suggestions worthy of due consideration. In theory wo are all. right, and why ehould not our practice completely consist with our professions, so that both abstract htii! concrete justice to each, member vould bo maiiifeht to nllf S. P. TlloMrsoK, RessskHF.R, Ind., Nov. 17. A Specimen of Democratic Method. Kew York rieAS. The reason why Connecticut went so strongly for Cleveland is explained by a lying cirrnUr almost as gross a forgery as the Morey letter. It represented President Harrison as having said to Indian Comuussiotaer Morgan that "a Catholic school in Colorado must 1 Presby tenanized." This circular wa sent to all the French Catholics in Connecticut secretly. 11 was a lie of whole cloth, bnt it served its purpose.