Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 August 1893 — Page 4

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, TUESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1893.

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HIV. INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can be fouurt at the following ilare: IAItIS American Exchange in Paris, 30 Bonlorarl rte Capnciri'h. KtAV VUHK -Glliey House and Windsor IIoteL PHILADELPHIA A. 1. Kenible, 3735 Lancaster avenufe. CHICAGO rainier House. CIXCIXNATI-J. B. llawley & Co., 154 Vine street. LOUISVILLF-C. T. Deering. northwest corner of TLlrU &Ltt Jurtrpon street. fcT. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot. WASHINGTON. D. Cw-Hliggs House and Ebbitt lit'ue. . The more people study it, the less difference they pee between Sullivanisni and Coyism. The people of Indianapolis are coming to the conclusion that they have had enough of Sullivanism. It is generally conceded that Messrs. Holninn, Springer and Bland will be given roar scnta on IIou- committees. FiiOM September, 18U2, to date the city has paid in interest 821,376 more than it would have had to pay but for tho trickery of the Sullivan crowd. Sixty-fouu dollars u day is 82.83 an hour. This represents the excess of interest which the taxpayers of Indianapolis are paying as the price of this "business administration' In those quarters where are the shoutera of the slogan "The tariff is a tax' there is now nu ominous silence except the occasional voices of Henry Wattereun and the Chicago Herald. There never were so many men in this country who know so much more than they did a year ago. Unfortunately, it is the knowledge of experience, and consequently is belated wisdom. The appointments which the President has recently made in New York indicate plainly that the administration proposes to have a machine of its own with which to fight Senator Hill and Tammany. Sucn progress has Mr. Bynum made toward statesmanship that his constituents should not be surprised' two weeks h-nce to read his opinion to the effect that the Mi Kinley law way as well stand during the next four years. Just beiore the election last November over a hundred' Democratic orators were calling to farmers to vote for Cleveland and dollnr-a-bushel wheat. They voted for Cleveland, and now they have half-dollar wheat the price of No. 2 red yesterday. Republicans who insisted, two weeks, ago, that "thero isn't a ghost of achance for a Republican municipal ticket, predicted yesterday that the Republican ticket will be elected from top to bottom. The average taxpayer has already a surfeit of the Sullivan taxeater. That S21.3G0 which must be paid this year as extra interest on the $621,000, which, because of the dictation of a Democratic boss, was not refunded at a low rate of interest a year ago, would go a long ways toward the payment of the expense of the removal of garbage by taxation. The money lenders of tho country are the depositors of savings bankn. There were 4,781,605 depositors in 1892, and tht-ir deposits aggregated $1,712,769,026. In 1600 tho number of depositors was 4,258,893 an increase of over half a million in tho two years of greatest Republican prosperity. It is announced that the leaders of the incoming House, or such of them as will be potential forces, aro in favor of the adoption of a set of rules very like those which Thomas B. Reed enforced during tho Fifty-first Congress, to the great indignation and denunciation of the Democracy of the whole country. A FfcW days ago a veteran in this city sent an invitation to a comrade in Ohio to be his guest during the National Encampment. In hi reply, among other things, he said: This beloved rebel administration is hunting the buys down with Southern detective bloodhounds. The recipient of the letter "cannot see how moro truth upon this subject can be expressed in less words," He then goes on to free his mind on the same subject at length, pitching into 'the Democratic leaders in a manner recalling the days of the war, declaring that the men who build monuments to Jeff Davis and glory in his career are the controlling element in the pension bureau. Already this administration has shown its incapacity, says this veteran, "in all things, except In the cutting off of the names of decrepit and maimed inion soldiers, a hundred thousand of -horn it would like to see in the almshouses." The Journal has receivod sevtral similar vigorous letters. There may bo room for a difference of opinion as to whether the financial situation in Indiana would be materially benefited by the payment of pensions at this point in currency instead of by drafts on New York. The Journal believes thoro is very nearly as much currency within the limits of the State now as there was when last year's wheat

crop, much larger than that of this yecr, was moved, and it does not believe that the effect on the moving of the crop or in any other channel of business would be materially different whether pensions are paid in drafts on New York or in currency. The theory that there is not money enough in Indiana, or in the. West generally, to meet the wants of trade is part and parcel of the theory that there is not money enough in tho country to transact business. The Journal does not subscribe to this theory, but it recognizes the right of otbereTto advocate it. A BCHEME THAT WON'T DO, The opinion of the Attorney-general of Colorado illustrates the tendency in some quarters too many, indeed to try new and dangerous methods of increasing the currency. It, seems impossible for many persons to divest themselyes of the idea that the present financial trouble and business depression are due to a scarcity of currency, and that an easy, simple and effective remedy lies in an increase of the currency. The advocates of this theory do not trouble themselves much as to how the increased currency is to be obtained, what it is to consist of, or what the ulterior consequence of issuing it might bo. They are like a frog, which, dazzled by the glinting of a red rag, jumps at the color and impales itself on a hook. In Colorado the demand for an increase of currency is intensified by tho necessity of providing a market and use for silver. Perhaps it is asking too much of human nature to expect that a man's financial theories should rise above his personal interests, and yet a little reflection will show that they ought to. To Colorado silver is the greatest thing in the world, and yet Colorado constitutes but a small part of the world, and the silver interest is a very small one compared with some others. Soon or late the people of Colorado will have to learn to disenss the silver question with reference to tho interests not of that State alone, but of the United States and the entire com- j mercial world. With a double view of providing for an increase of currency and a new use for silver the Attorney-general of Colorada gives it as his opinion that tho State may accumulate silver bullion and issue certificates thereon, receivable for taxes and other State dues, which might pass from hand to hand and enter into the monetary circulation of the State, thereby, as he says, "contributing to the better transaction of business and relieving the financial depression now existing in the State." Tho Attorney-general does not claim that these certificates could be made legal tender. That is forbidden by the Constitution. He also practically admits that they could not contain any promise of payment in coin,, as that would make tbem"billsof credit," which no State is permitted to issue. They would bo nothing more than certificates of deposit against silver bullion. "Representing, as they will, if issued," says tho Attorney-general, "a commodity that fluctuates in value, the certificates will fluctuate accordingly. Hence they can iii do sense be called paper intended to circulate as money. They will be sold in the market, and theso sales will be only a token of the sale of so many ounces of bullion or bars of metal. Their value will bo controlled by tho same rules and causes that control tho value of any other personal property. They are, in effect, nothing more than warehousemen's receipts, stating on their face that the holder will bo entitled to the delivery to him of so many ounce& of bullion of a certaiu fineness on presentation of the certificate to the proper officer of the government." We fail to see how such a scheme as this would afford any relief to the people, of Colorado. Suppose the State should take the entire silver product for a year, or a term of years, ana issue certificates of deposit thereon. The silver bullion, instead of being marketed, would be piled up in tho State vaults. The certificates would have only a silver bullion value. Not being legal tender, nor redeemable in gold or its equivalent, they could have no money value and no circulation outside of the Slate. If the State took tbem in payment of taxes it would simply bo piling up silver bullion with an uncertain and fluctuating market ahead. In short, there would bo nothing in the transaction for anybody. So far as practical results are concerned, it would be as futile as a man's attempting to lift himself over a fence by his bootstraps. Tho Colorado scheme won't do.

THE PRESIDENT AND THE TARIFF. Through Speaker Crisp and others who have seen the President within two months, it is intimated that he has so modified his views concerning the tariff that he will oppose any- general change, and that he and his free-trade Secretary of the Treasury "are now satisfied that tho people ought to understand that there will bo no wholesale and revolutionary treatment of the tariff." Mr. Cleveland wants no rebellion against the protective principle, no such rearrangement of schedules as would imperil manufacturing interests. In other words, the President proposes a clean back-down from the Democratic platform. All such Democrats as Governor Flower and William C. Whitney agree with th.President. It is hoped that these reports are true, and that the President will take ground in favor of letting the tariff alone. After the repeal of that portion of tho. Sherman act providing for the purchase of silver bullion, the formal declaration of tho President and Congress that there shall be no special modification of tho tariff will lay the foundation for tho early return of confidence and tho resumption of manufacturing industries. True, it would be a humiliation for tho Democratic President and his party in Congress to confess that they have been mistaken concerning tho tariff, but humiliation is preferable to being held responsible for a policy which will involve the industries of the country in ruin and fill our cities with hungry people. Let the President make it clear to the country that the tariff schedules

shall stand practically as they are during the next four years, and the gloom which is now settling over the country because of closing factories, and tho rapidly growing armies of the idle will at once begin to disappear. 81LVE& IN FRANCE. One of the favorite questions of tho advocates of free silver is: "How is it that France keeps $700,000,000 of silver on a parity with gold!" That personification of mossbackism, Senator Vest, of Missouri, was the last to ask it with a request for an answer. Tho answer is an easy one. Franco stopped the coinage of legal-tender silver about a year after we began it. All France and the commercial world knows that France will coin no rooro silver. France is not for tho free coinage of silver except for the United States. France stopped tho coinage of silver when it realized that it would lend the country to a depreciated silver basis. Let Congress do as France did in 1878 stop tho coinage of silver aud the United States can. compel the goldin this country tocarry tho silver it now has, as does the gold of Franco carry its volume of silver. Franco carries more silver than the United States now has, because tho industrial, people of France carryv much of. their savings in tho form of silver money. In France there are no small notes, so that silver takes tho place in traffic of our one, two and five-dollar bills.. If the paper of these denominations should be abolished, millions of silver dollars would take its place. Bank checks, for small transactions, are quite unknown iu France, while in this country every businessman keeps a bank account and pays the most of his bills by checks. In other words, Franco is saturated with silver money, taking tho place of all small bank bills and small checks, and being hoarded in stockings instead of being turned into the savings banks and the loan associations. Again, France has no large hostile balance of foreign trade from year to year, to drain away her supply of gold. On the other hand, year by year, the gold stock of France is augmented. If Congress would keep our store of silver on a parity with gold, let it follow France's example stop purchasing and stop coining silver. For tho rest, let the tariff alone, so that gold shall not bo sent abroad to purchase merchandise which can be produced at home. Some days since tho Journal received an auonymous letter, inclosing stamps,' in which the writer asked several questions regarding the production of tin plate in this country. Having made inquiry, the following is the result: On Dec. 81, 1801, there were in active operation twenty-fonr tin-plate mills, with an aggregate capital of about $3,OuO,000 and an aggregate capacity of about forty thousand boxes of I. C. 14x20. per week. There were, at the same time, four large works in process of construction. A hot of plates weighs about 108 pounds. On Deo. Si. 189J, there were in operation in different States thirty-two firms making tin plate. The product of these thirty-two mills was, in the three mouths ending Deo. 31, 1592, 19.750.4J1 pounds. .Tho above figures are from the offi- . - - cial reports of Colonel Ayres. His Iastf report showed a growth in the industry, but Secretary Carlisle ordered its reVision, to eliminate the black plates imported and tinned in this country. It has been demonstrated that the tinplate industry would have grown to supply tho home market for the most part in a few years had not Mr. Cleveland been elected. Hanging and burning in effigy is' a'' foolish and passionate way of express--ir? disapproval of the acts of a public man. If the people of Rome, 0., feel as strongly in regard to the pension ; policy of this administration as their, actions indicate let them curse their -wrath and vote the Republican ticket. . henceforth and forever. That is better than hanging Hoke Smitfi in effigy.

JiEBISLES IN THE Altt. Misnamed. They call love the tender passion' said the younjr man who had justlacquired another sister, but it strikes mo that it is about as tough as possible." " He Let It Go. From the Plunkvllle Buglo: ,4ln speaking of the lion. Mr. Bloro as a jailor and political word swallower, in our issue of last week, it was or intention to 8ay 'sword shallower but, in view of trie honorable gentleman's record as a retractor, wo have concluded to lot it go at that' Mtxl Ills Dates. Hungry Hlffglns Wen did Columbus come to this country I ' ; Weary Watkina 'Bout four hundred years ago. Hungry IligRins Gee! No wonder a feller nlve rno the horse laugh when I told him I was Curia's second cousin. ' Another Victim. 'I suppose tho panic hasn't struck you ; yet, Mr. Gotrosl" : "It hasn't, eh! Here I've got moro'n $40,000 that I can't get people to borrow at aU-r-theyre all afraid to go iuto business any deeper. If these times keep up a little longer I'll land in the poorhouso in sir month? THE SPOLIATION OF S1AJI. . Can it be possible that Johnny Ball is simply waiting for France to get into the trap! Washington Post. Fhanck is aisappointed. SianVs unconditional yielding to all her hoggish demands has left no semblance of excuse for war. Kansas City JonrnuL r ; No sympathy Is likely to be wasted on Siam in her extremity. Modern nations help only those powers that are willing to help themselves. Philadelphia Inquirer. Siam's acceptance of the ful terms of the French ultimatum has averted a small war for the present, at the possible cost of a larger war in the future. Philadelphia Record. France's prestige for the time being has. perhaps, increased by her triumph over Siam. but glory so cheaply and discreditably obtained vanishes quickly. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. It has been the fortune of France to found colonies only to havo England get control of tbexn as soon as they are worm having. The case of France's Asiatic possessions will hardly prove an exception. New York Tunes. Siam has yielded to France's demands, and the latter will bo not a little ahead in territory and prestige in that part of the world, while her politicians will be very much ahead at home because of the inci-' dt-nt. Chicago Tribune. Ok course, no other result was possible as between Siaru and France. The weaker nation most give way before the stronger when the latter makes its demands with uincientcmpba.sls, and there can be little tloul't that not only Simii. bat all of the remaining Oriental monarchies will eventual

ly be absorbed by the expanding European powers. Philadelphia Times. To let France grab half of Siain now will enable England presently, with better grace, to grab the other half, besides giving her a most elective reply to France's clamor againsther continued occupation of Egypt New York Tribune. In the main the bold stroke of the Frenoh government has been successful, aud a republic which is little disposed to colonize foreiun territory has acquired new rights. How long will it rest content with its new possessions? Chicago Record. The blot of the whole atfair is that it represents an act of international plunder by a nation professing to be civilized, with the correlated declaration of European polities, that the half-civilized nations have no right to justice. Pittsburg Dispatch. It 13 at least probable that had all the points in dispute between the two countries been referred to an international tribunal of arbitration the verdict would have gone against France on the major . partof tho claims involved. Chicago Inter Ocean. Irendsin a manner that involves humiliation and injury to Siam, confers no great glory upon the French republic, and leaves lire at Pntain the only party to the controversy that emerges from it with the increased respect of nations. New York Times.

THE IKUN llALL'S PLANS Change W hich Are to Ita Made in Order to Get the Receivership Dissolved. Adjourned Session of the Anti-Somerby Branch to Meet Here To-Day Petitions to Be Presented to the Court. , The adjourned session of the anti-Som-erby branch of Supreme Sitting of the Order of the Iron liall will convene at the Denison to-day. About a dozen of the delegates have arrived and are registered at that hotel, and a large number are expected to come in on the morning trims. The sitting will attempt a thorough and complete reorganization of the order. There will be some radical ohanges made in the laws which a costly experience has proven to be highly necessary. At tbo last meetina of the Supreme Sitting, held here in May, several of the minor offices were not filled, the election being postponed on account of proposed changes in the way of tilling these otUces. Under the old regime all these otlicers were elected to their positions and the order was compelled to pay mileage for thetr attendance upon the sessions of the Supreme Sitting. It is probable that this will be changed and a plan in use in the Odd Fellows and several other secret societies will be adopted by which the supreme justice will be empowered to appoint theso oliicers out of the delegates attending. W. F. Landers, of this city, who is a member of the Supreme Sitting by virtue of his being a past oftioer of the order, in speaking of the situation yesterday alternoon said that there could be little detinite action taken until the linal settlement of the suit now pending in the Superior Court, but that there would be a thorough revision of the laws along the line suggested by the Supreme Court in its ruling on the case last winter. The case will come up tor a new trial in the county court this fall. The work of the Supreme Sitting at this time will be to get a feasible plan to resent to tne court wnen tne members will e prepared to ask that the control of the order be transferred to tho members. Mr. Landers said he had considerable correspondence bearing upon the reorganization, and the membership of tbe order displayed a general interest in tbe plan and Were .confident that with some changes which snould have been made long ago the order would be able to meet all its obligations. The matter of Dreeenting to the court a suthcient showjug to have the receivership dissolved will probably be placed in the hands of a special commitfee with power to employ additional counsel and take any steps necessary to present the case to the court in proper manner. One of the proposed changes in the Jaws relates to the sick benefits to be paid members. Under the old plan the order did not pay continuous sick benefits: the' member conld only draw one half the face of his certificate in sick beuotits, and if he drew this amount during the first year he Was not allowed benefits after that time. It is proposed in the new order to limit the number of weeks in each year for which benefits shall be paid and to provide for their payment any x time daring the time tbe certificate is in force. There will be some changes in regard to the investment of the reserve fund. Mr. Landers said that he thought any special or very important investments should require the sanction of the Supreme Sitting, a special session being called for that purpose if necessary, "If this had been required before." he said, "the transfer of the money to the Philadelphia bank would never have been made." Changes will also be made to eradicate the one-man power. The responsibility will be distributed among more otlioials. Another very radical change that will be made is iu regard to the sisterhood. Under the old plan tbe woman had no representation in the Supreme Sitting. The new order will admit the women to representation in that body. There will also, in all probability, be some changes In the contract itself, but just what these changes will be it is not possible to say at this time, as the opinions of the delegates have not been obtained upon tbe proposed new features. Petitions have been sent all over the country to tbe various brauches for signatures, and will be presented to the court when the case is called. The petitions recite that the members have been proceeding with all possible diligence to etlect a reorganization, with suoh new offioers and changes in tbe laws as will insure the proper application of tho funds, aud asks for a continuance of the oausu uutil they have had a reasonable time for the perleotion of their organization. They ask au order of the court permitting an inspection and examination of the books and records of the order in the hands of the. receiver, unOr such restrictions as tho court may see proper to impose. They ask that as soon as oan be consistently done and protect the iuterest of all persons concerned the court dissolve the receivership. The petition contains an agreement by the sicners of it that the time that has elapsed since the appointment of the receiver and his discharge shall be added to the maturing time of their certificate, thus relieving tho order from the responsibility of payina ofTa large number of .certificates before it conld resume business, which it would be impossible for it to do. Mr. Landers said that the action of the county board of review in assessing the order at suoh an enormous "linn re would also receive the consideration of the Supreme Sitting. "The board." he said, "simply 'heard that the order had that amount of money in bank and assessed it at that valuation without inquiring as to what its indebtedness might be." ARSON AS AN AMUSEMENT. Three Boys Fire a Woodshed to See the lloieReel Horses Run. Ottio Hooker, of No. '5 Riddle street, George Weber, of No. SC8 North Pine etreot, aud Charlie Volmer, of No. 292 North Pine street, were arrested last night by othcers Ueecer and Dilts and locked up on a charge of arson. Tbe trio of youngsters are but ten years of age and the sons of respeotable parents. Yesterday afternoon they were playing in the alley in the rear of the Weber boy's home, when that juvenile proposed that they set tire - to his mother's woodshed, "just to see tho hose reel horses run," as he expressed it. r The Volmer boy volunteered to do the job, and a.niatcn was procured and lighted. A lew scraps of pupt-r in the shed served to start tbe llaniey, and the youths were at once rewarded by a line view of the "hose reel." '1 he tirt-m-n succeeded in saving tho adjoining. imiMius with slight loss

THE FRAUDS ARE CONFESSED

Sullivan Machine Candidates for Conncil All Withdraw from the Ticket. Desperate Scheme of tbe Democrats to Antei llaaghfills and Insane Asylam Territory to Secure a Majority This Fall TheFrightened Sullivan Gang Calls An other Convention for Friday, Tom Tstrgart Presides Over the Meeting of Candidates Springsteen's FriendsThink lie Was Also EuncoedOthrr Politic. THE CANDIDATES WITHDRAW. Democratic Nominees for Councllmen at .Large Sign a Little Pitper. The frauds perpetrated at the last Democratic city convention are beginning to give too strong an odor for further concealment from the decent members of the party. The Sullivan machine out a triile too wide a swath and has endeavored to mow away more than its capacity. The more level headed in the Sullivan gang began to see the great danger of proceeding any further with blood on their hands and concluded in desperation that something had to be done to try to save tbe little Mayor from the just indignation of Democrats who, under the circumstances, propose to defeat him and the machine. Extreme measures were adopted for this extreme case, and last night the nominees for counoilmen at large met with Tom Taggart, as presiding omoer, and withdrew from tho ticket. Every man of them signed a letter stating that clerical errors had been made at the convention and at the .time were asked to be corrected, which was not done. The letter also asked that another convention be called for next Friday night. .). F. White, of the Ninth ward, was not present, but sent in a letter to Thomas Taggart. resigning his nomination and washing his hands of the whole matter. Mr. White stated last night that tbe color of tbe whole convention was olleusive, and that he did not propose to kill himself in the Niuth ward by allowing his I name to goon tho ticket. He had been, he said, notified at ditlerent times of contem- j plated meetings snob as that of last night, j but would have nothing to do with them, lie had been dofeated by Coy, and he did not oare to shoulder auy other calumny at the hands of his party this year. Other measures for relief are being pro?osod &nd considered one after another, esterday Mayor Sullivan was closeted for three hours with Charles Polster, working with that Indiaua-avenue brave for the reconciliation of the Downing men, who aro not falling in line with roosters on their shoulders as he thinks they should. The very latest, and perhaps the most graphio conception of relief is the product of the fertile James 13. Wilson, editor of the People, who has laid the scheme before the committee, of annexing Haughville and tbe Central Hospital for Insane to the city. This would bringintoplay a Democratic majority of 600, and is favored by Sullivan, who would annex Mexico, no doubt. If he though it would eleot bim Mayor. The screen law in force in Haughville has created a hnllaballoo among the saloon men of that suburb, who control the politics over there to an alarming extent: It is said that taxes are higher in Haughville than in this city. Their police powers are almost as powerless there as here, and altogether the town . is considered ripe and will likely be anuexed if Wilson can manage it within th next thirty days. The machine sees that something must be done or the Mayor is lost. People are finding out all about the rottenuess of bisdevioen and even Democrats are openly rebellious at the manner in which votes, were counted, at the convention. Tbe task of placating those who witnessed the frauds has proven a sorry one, and tbe work of nominating counoilmen at large will have to be done over again next Friday night. If tne result is not then satis- 1 factory tbe work of annexing the suburbs and Democratic institutions will begin at once. WAS SntlNGSTEEN BUNCOED? Ills Friends Claim lie. Too, Was Counted Out by the Machine's Frauds The friends of Harry Springsteen, who worked so bard tor him in the Democratic city convention, are satisfied that their candidate was counted outby thesame sort of fraud that prevailed atthereoentcounoilmanio convention. At tin time there were rumors to this effect, but they were quickly hushed up. On tho first ballot Springsteen reoeived within a few votes of enough to nominate, and it is claimed he was counted outof that ballot. It is recalled that on tbe afternoon of the convention, at Tomlmson Hall, a meeting was held at Frenzel's bank, it is reported, and it was then decided that Springsteen must be defeated by all means. The Sullivan machine wanted Abraras continued in the otnee of city clerk. Although Lieher had promised Springsteen to vote and work for him. Lieber is given the credit of securing Abrams's nomination. A number of Springsteen's friends say that they will not vote the Sullivan maobine ticket this fall on account of the way the machine is buncoing the party. WILL FIGHT SIM COY. Prohibitionists Will. Fut a City Ticket in the Field City Commute. The city committee of the Prohibition party met last night in the office of the Indiana Phalanx. There were probably a dozen or so of the members gathered in the little back room of the Cyolorama Build. ing and thoy were presided over by Bsyless Campbell. Some time was consumed in a discussion as to whether it was advisable to place a city ticket in the field and it was finally decided to do so. M. K. Shield, .). A. Simms! Miss Mollio Hay and CoL Eli Kltter were appointed a committee to select the time and place for holding the convention, and a favorable vote was taken that the time should not bo until after the G. A. K. encampment. It was determined that tbe campaign of the party should bo prosecuted with unusual vigor in the ward in which Simeon Coy is a candidate for the Council and that all of its efforts be made to defeat him. This was all of the business that was transacted, aud tho rest of tbe time of tbe meeting was spent in conversation. Tn;f!trt Mny ll Downed. The Democratio committee will meet tonight for the purpose of electing a chairman for the city campaign, and wise ones say that there will be a tempestgreater than tbe one in tbe proverbial teapot when it is called to order. An etl'nrt will be . made to re-elect Thomas Tagzart, and it Is said that there will be a strenuous opposition to him. lieside Taggart, Jim Keach is prominently spoken o( for tho office of chairman, and it is not unlikely that he will be rushed through. Tbe meeting will occur at the Ilendrioks Club HalL Will Mk i S'xty-Diy Io'.l. The Republican city executive committee met last night in tbe rooms in tbe When Block, and decided to make a sixty-day poll of the city before the comiug election. The poll will begin on Aug. 11. There will be a general meeting of the city committee on Thursday night, and at that lime the dates will be determined upon lortheholdtngof the primaries for nominating connoilmen in the different wards and for holding tbe convention for the nomination of councilmeu at large. . lrike III- Clout's Nom. Mrs. May MoCrackoo, residing at No. 0C1 Union street, attempted to elovato a baby

carriage from the street to the sidewalk at tbe corner of Illinois and Washington streets yestorday afternoon. An infant child seated in the vehicle was thrown out and sutlered a broken nose. CONVENTION AT BETHANY

Indiana State Missionary Society Holds the First of Its Sessions Reports of ths Erangelical Work Hon. W. D. Owen's Lecture on Alxanar Campbell The Programme for To-Day. The warm weather of the past few days has had a material effect on the attendance at Bethany, aud though the grounds havo been visited by many, the usual crowds have been lacking. A cooling rain fell during the night, freshening the appearance) of the park considerably. The regular assembly lecture yesterday morning was delivered by Hon. W. D. Owen, of Logansport, Ind., on "Alexander Campbell." The speaker "reviewed the life and works of Campbell and dwelt with force on tbe essential qualities of the man which enabled him to be a teacher of religious thought. Of his boyhood ho said: "He was a composite child. His sturdy character, his inflexible will, his lofty honor, his resistless logic, that swept wave after wave over his opponents, came to him from the mountain fastnesses, gnarled forests and free air of Scotland, lfir air aud contour of land help God in making men. His erect form and dignified carriage, the Koman nose, the great forehead, the retiring manner, tbe quick and masterly percoptive powers came up from the South. These elements met and made a men fit for a throne." ' Of the teaching and influenced Campbell Mr. Owen said: "No reformer bad ever proposed to past, over the practices and teachings of the intervening ages and disregard the views of popes, synods and assemblies. Luther, Calvin and a long line of illustrious men had labored for a reformation in th church, but this effort ignored reformation, and proposed a restoration of the ancient order of things by coming at once to a simple apostolic practice. They proposed to take the Bible, and build upon the first foundation according to the plans and specifications of the divine architects, rather than to repair the crumbling walla of modern religious systems. The country was ablaze with tho reform, and each week witnessed hundreds brought into the fold. Each convert became aherald of the faith, all creeds and conferences were deserted and tbe New Testament was accepted as their standard. The plowman, stopping at the end of bis furrow to rest, pulled tbe Testament from bis pocket and took bis rest in reading. The blacksmith would prop hisTestament against his forgo and read while be worked tbe bellows. The carpenter laid it on his bench ami read while he pushed the plane. The merchant kept it beside his ledger. Tho laborer oarried it in his pocket that be might partake of it as he ate his noon meaL Every man was a Roman of old. Suon a revival , of Bible study had not been witnessed since' the apostolic age." In connection with Alex. Campbell's comprehensiveness of view and skill in disengaging of great principles of things. Mr. Owen mentioned the Campbell aud Rice debate thus: "it was a contest of two intellects entirely dissimilar iu methods, for while one sought to Establish principles, the other burrowed for exceptions and asked his opponent to reconcile them. The men were as dissimilar in their natural endowments and mental equipment as ever took the gaugo or battle on the forum and probable this debate was one of the greatest engines in behalf of the reformation. Campbell, as an orator, was never impassioned never fervent, and seldom spoke less than an hour and a half. The profoundest subjects melted into simplicity and clearness under his touoh.. Ministers lelt the meeting wondering; that they had never thought to discuss the Question in that manner, lie abounded in eloquent passages, but they seemed to cost him no ell or t. He spoke like a, master of assemblies, and while he spoke nothing could break tho charm. Momenta became seconds and hours were counted as minutes," Tho address was one of nnnsual strength and deeply interested the audience assembled in the tabernacle. - STATK MISSIONARY CONVKXTION. In the afternoon the Indiana State missionary convention held its first session, M. W. Harkins, of Frankfort, presiding. The session opened with song under the able leadership of A. J. Hackleman. after which President Harkins . made the opening address. ' He spoke confidently and enthusiastically of the work accomplished by this society In the foreign field. Reports of tho board of managers followed by Kev. L. L. Carpenter, State evangelist. The summary of the evangelist's work was as follows: Total additions to church 222, number of churches organized 7. Sunday schools 6, conventions 2L places visited 101. The financial report showed a balance of fundi on hand of S1S2.56. This morning President A. L Hobbs. of Des Moines. Ia., is expected to speak on The Secret of Oar Power," the general subject of the morning being "The Preacher and His Work." At 11:40 o'clock the regular assembly lecture will be delivered by President Scot Butler, of Irviogton. This afternoon the missionary convention will continue its session. Tbe trams have commenced to bring in a large number of familiar faces to-day. Among the late arrivals are: James W. Conner, of Clermont; Joseph. Franklin, of Bedford; L. E. Murry, of Ladoga; E. L. Lane, of Lebanon; A. (v. Hobbard, of Attio; J. V. Coombs, of Madieoct John Brazelton, of North Vernon, and many others. Some one intent on mischief broke open the park's engine house last night and moved the etcentr io valve so as to ruin the engine had it been started uuder a full head of steam. Fortunately the engineer discoverod it in time and prevented what might have been a serious accident. t Tb 1m Ml Acton. Mondav morning saw the exodus of tbo business men from Camp Acton. I)y all the early trains they took their departure for the week's work. In their place, however, many of the ministers have returned' from their Sunday's services, and will spend tbe midweek ia tho woods. Among the arrivals of the day were Mr. E. D. Moore and wife, of Law renceburg. and they will make their residence on tho ground during the remainder of tho meetinir. At f o'clock in tho morning Miss Ida Anderson led the children's service. Mi4 Anderson is an experienced kindergarten and Sunday-tchool worker, well known m Indianapolis. The number of little onesou the ground this year is much larger tbau usual. In the afternoon, as Kev. J. II. Ford did not appear on tbe ground, Kev. C. V. Lto preached on tbe words of Pharaoh. "Who is the Lord that 1 should serve Himl" He spoke in his usually earnest and pointed mauner, but, owing to the heat, cut his discourse. In the evening Kev. J. It. T. Lothrop. of Aurora, delivered a sermon. This afternoon, at 2:30. Kev. Lathrop will leoture on Prometbeus Bound aud Unbound." In tbe evening Dr. Van And will favor his many Acton admirers by his presence, nud will preach. Wednesday will be home missionary day. Mrs. James Dale.of Walnut Hills. O.. and Miss Elsie Dole, of Asheville. N. C, are to bo present and assist in the services of tho day. Looking for O.ie IMirnl. The police are looking for one Edwards, of whom complaint has been made by his employer Stokes. Tt latter has beeu selling a disinfectant called Deoderine. and claims that Edwards, who ha beeu acting as salesman for him. failed to make proper returns for goods which csme into his possession Tbo amount that Edwards li said t have tsksn is 37. Will UUe Up ana Take It. j Kn City Journal. ! A Democrat who died six montns ago baa just been appointed to a federal oilier ml Minnesota, It the salary is good ho Willi accept.