Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 October 1893 — Page 4

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7, J893.

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. All communications intended for pubticatioi in th Li ptipcr m usf, in order to rceelce attention, be accompanied by the name and address of the friter. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, Can be found at the following rlaces: PARIS American Exchange in Taris, 36 Boulevard deCapuclnes. NKW YORK nilaey House and Windsor HoteL riULADELrillA 4. P. Kemblo, 3735 Lancaster avenue. CH ICAOO ralmer IIousc. CIXCIXNATI J. B. Ilawlry fc Co., 151 Vino street. LOUISVII.I.E C. T. Dcering, northwest comer of Third and Jefferson streets. 8T. LOUIS Union News Company, "Union Depot. WASHINGTON, D. C.-itifr House and Ebbitt JIou so. How many inspectors are paid by the people's money in this city? Ten have been found on the city engineer's pay rolL There Is tax-eating all along the line, from the Mayor's office to the treasurer of the School Board. Let us have a change. If the pay roll of the police has been Increased nearly one-fifth for this year over last, why not expect a similar increase next year? Two years ago Sullivan declared against Coy. This year they are hand-ln-glove. As Coy has not changed, Sullivan must have done so. The Mayor is. when let alone, a wellmeaning little man, but he is the most pliant of clay in the hands of a potter of the Coy virility. And so the bimetallist convention In St. Loui3 concluded not to form a transmisgissippl and Southern commercial confederacy at the present time. By entering into a conspiracy with the gamblers and dive keepers the Sullivan combine has taken the municipal canvass Dut of the realm of politics. There is yet time to explain why It should cost $1.74 to pay the police and fire force salaries when $1 was sufficient In 1SS3. Who will come forward to do it? The salary list of the city government increased from $27,413 In 18S9 to $47,710 last year, and the estimates for next year call for $50,300. This Is Tammany on a. small scale. Neither Mayor Sullivan nor any of hi3 supporters has attempted to explain why the expenses of the city government have been increased from $793,872 In 1SS9 to fl,03J,R last year. ' To deliver Indianapolis from Sulllvanlsm and Coyism will be worth to every resident the two full days work he can put Into the canvass before the polls close next Tuesday evening. The Iat attacks in the New York World upon Senator Gorman are attributed to Secretary Carlisle, who regards him as a presidential competitor. But where Is Secretary Grrsham? It ought to be a slander upon the Democratic party of Marion county to confess that it is necessary to sustain the Coys, Trons and roisters behind Sullivan to preserve the party organization. When a Nebraska member of the House Introduced a resolutinon asking the Interior Department why spies had been sent into that State to look after pensioners, he was silenced by a Democratic "I object." Mr. Cleveland's friends did not make . much of a showing in the New York Democratic convention thirty-four delegates in over three hundred. Hill and Tammany thus hold their lines Intact in spite of the Cleveland patronage The Sentinel should go slow in predicting what Mayor Sullivan will (do with the street railroads. Two years ago it predicted that the success of Sullivan meant the downfall of Coyism. Nov.' Coy and SulHvan speak from the same platform. Mayor Sullivan is a mighty uncertain Quantity. Two years ago the Sentinel, day after day, accused the Journal of lying bocause it said that the new tax law and the assessment then for the first time made would increase the taxes cf the people. What home owner does not know now that his taxes have been increased from 23 to 73 per cent? "This is not a government of majorities," raid Senator Butler, a few days since, and lie went on declaring the right of the minority to decide what laws shall be repealed and what bills shall be passed. Senator Butler is from South Carolina, represents a minority, and insists that a minority shall rule that State. He is consistent in the Senate. The funny feature of the campaign is to see Mayor Sullivan speaking his piece on city finances and Improvements before crowds that do not contain 1 per cent, cf the taxpayers. His audiences are about as much interested In those subjects as they would be in a discussion of Herbert Spencer's system of philosophy. What they want is free beer. When a party forgets its responsibility to the people it should be turned out of power, and when a public official begins to show the insolence of office he should go. A party always forgets its responsibility to the people when It feels strong enough to defy public opinion. Precisely that Is what has happened to the Sullivan administration. It has felt so strong in the com

bined support of the law-breaking and lawdefying classes that it has dared to defy decent public opinion. This sentiment has permeated the entire Sullivan outfit. It has made him insensible to public criticism. It has made his Board of Public Works arrogant, insolent, arbitrary and Insulting. It has made the Board of Public Safety a law unto Itself, and added an extra layer to the thickness of Mr. Edward Hawkins's skin. It has affected the conduct of every city official from the Mayor down to the second assistant janitor of Tomllnson Hall. They all practice the insolence of office. They should be brought to the bar of public opinion, reprimanded and dismissed. WHAT CA X D I DATES REPRESENT.

An Independent voter of Demociatic proclivities, who has voted for Sullivan twice, said yesterday that he intended to vote for Denny this time, because he was satisfied he was a better man for Mayor than Sullivan. That is true, and it is a good reason why Denny should be elected. He is the better man of the two for the position, because he has a much better acquaintance with municipal affairs than Mayor Sullivan has, and because he ha3 more ability, more energy, more "sand," more force of character, and is every way a better representative of the progressive spirit of the Indianapolis of to-day. But, whlle this is a good reason why Denny should be elected, it is not the best This i3 not a contest merely of personal fitness or personal character. It is a mtest of policies. Mayor Sullivan ought to be defeated because of what he represents and stands for. We might admit, for the sale of argument, that he Is better than his party without at all weakening the case against him. He ha3 said himself in interviews or speeches that personally he is opposed to gambling, a moral man himEelf, and In favor of promoting good morals. Nobody would suspect Mayor Sullivan of gambling. So far as is known to the Journal he has none of the so-called vices. No doubt he Is In favor of good morals, in the abstract in favor of the lav, but opposed to its enforcement. But the trouble with him is he is the slave of the ring. Personally, he may be a better man than his party, but politically he 13 the willing tool and servant of its worst element. Personally, he is a moral man, but officially he Is guilty of permitting all the power and patronage of his office to be used for the protection of gambling houses and saloons, and for the encouragement of lawbreaking. This i3 a strange way of promoting good mon !s. Mayor Sullivan has sold himself to the worst political combine that has ever existed in the city. Starting out with the prestige of a clean life and with good Intentions, he has either deliberately surrendered to or has been completely captured by a gang whose policy Is death to all good Intentions. He has become, for all intents and purposes, the tool and agent. of this gang, and should therefore be defeated for what he represents. Mr. Denny should be elected not only because of his superior equipment and personal fitness for the offlce, but because of what he represents. If he Is not a reformer himself he represents reform. The influences worMr.s for his election arc very different from tho3e working for the election of Sullivan. The latter cannot give the city a clean administration because the influences that control him will not permit him to do so. Mr. Denny, if elected, could not give the city anything but a clean administration, because the influences controlling him would not permit him to do so. If Denny is elected he will not owe his election to any corrupt combine, ,and will not have to subordinate his administration to the interests of the lawbreaking and lawdefying classes. He would have every reason, and presumably every desire, to give the city the very best administration possible, and show what can be done under the new charter when honestly administered according to its letter and spirit. Mayor Sullivan Is so handicapped that he cannot do this. At all events, everybody knows he has not done it. THE DESCENT Of SULLIVAN. Thursday night Mayor Sullivan not only spoke from the same platform which Simeon Coy had occupied earlier in the evening, but that platform was in the Ninth ward, in which Coy is the Democratic candidate for Council. The Mayor, therefore, was there to Indorse the candidacy of Simeon Coy and what is known as "Coyism." Openly and unblushlngly does the Mayor proclaim his support of Coy and unite his political fortunes with those of a man whose political Infamy has been told time and again by the Sentinel. Oct. 10, 1891. the Sentinel denounced Coy as all things that decent men should avoid. The following wa3 given as the reason for his pretended hostility to Sullivan's election at that time: Because Mayor Sullivan refuses to allow Sim Coy and such as he to dlctats his policy, Sim Coy demands his defeat. If Coy's disaffection two years ago was because Mayor Sullivnn would not permit I him to dictate his (Sullivan's) policy, It Is fair to assume that Coy is now the Mayor's most active supporter because Mr. Sullivan has yielded to the Coy dictation, and that they are working together in the Ninth ward to secure votes for both because Sullivan and Coy are n accord as to the policy of running the city. How different this was two years ago. Then all the papers supporting Mr. Sullivan made it the prominent reason for voting for Sullivan that he had scourged Coy, Hicklin and Yontz out of his presence with his reform cat-o'-nine-tails. In the issue of the Sentinel of Oct. 10, ISM, the following paragraphs appear: The way to deal a death blow to Coyism is to re-elect Thomas I. Sullivan-Mayor. A vote for Sullivan for Mayor Is a vote for Sim Coy's speedy and permanent removal to Chicago. If Sullivan Is elected the town will be too warm for Sim Coy, and he will hie to ChiC2 gO. The way to down Coyism forever i3 to elect Sullivan. When the Sentinel reads its bold predletlons of two years ago, it should have the grace never to ascend the prophetic tripod again. Instead of being "a death blow to Coyism," the re-election of Sullivan has made Simeon one of the mcst prized and potential Democratic leaders in the county. Instead of it being "too warm for Sim

Coy" In Indianapolis, the Sullivan climate has been most salubrious. He Is not only able to have two saloons, but one. It Is said, with a gambling annex. The Sentinel could not get from the Board . of Public Works so much as a vapor light, but Coy, without an organ, simply by his potency as a Democratic leader, has turned the Ninth ward into a vast refulgence, and "Irish Hill" flashes in the multiplied brilliancy of gamblers shirt-front diamonds. Not much will Simeon "hie himself to Chicago" to keep a third-rate dive when the reform Democratic Mayor and his boards load him with favors and honor him by speaking from his platform for his election after he has pronounced his oration. . Nor did the Sentinel drop Coy with the re-election of Sullivan in 1SD1, but it followed him up with the following curt hint to shake the dust of Indianapolis from his feet: Mr. Sim Coy will find that Chicago has many attractions and advantages as r a place of residence. But Simeon did not take the hint; on the contrary, he remained, and now, behold his triumph. In this connection, however, it may be Interesting to learn the Sentinel's opinion of Mr. Coy at that time. Here are three expressions of many: The fact about Coy Is that he has no political principles. He is in politics for revenue only. Coy probably has no fear of going to the penitentiary for any deviltry he may do now. , The Democracy of Marion county got rid of the worst load it ever carried when-Sim Coy, sold himself. Incited by the Sentinel, the Hendricks and Cleveland clubs expelled Simeon because he was an apostate and a very bad person. About that time, an exchange said that the Sentinel had welcomed Coy back to the ranks of the party when he returned from Michigan City, whereupon it hotly retorted that When Sim Coy was pardoned out of the penitentiary the only welcome the Sentinel gave him was to advis? him to behave himself and keep out of politics. Oily a few weeks ago the Sentinel told the Mayor and all its readers what an infamous man Coy is in several paragraphs, of which the following is a sample: The decent people of the Ninth ward ought now to unite and defeat the notorious Sim Coy at the polls. The ward cannot afford the disgrace of being represented in

the City Council by such a cnaracter as Co' v And yet Mayor Sullivan goes into the ward of this "notorious Sim Coy," to whose voters the Sentinel says that they "cannot afford the disgrace of oeing represented by such a character," and addresses the same audience which Coy has addressed, and thereby declares that they are lnfull ac-) cord. Behold the descent of Sullivan! PROPOSED SILVER COMPROMISE. The essential features of the measure which is under consideration in senatorial circles as a substitute for the Sherman repeal bill embraces the following points:' First Authority to issue gold bonds to the amount of $200,000,000 to keep up the gold reserve. Second The coinage of the seigniorage of the silver bullion now in the treasury; Third The purchase of silver bullion and coinage of 2,u00,000 silver dollars per month at the present ratio. Fourth This coinage to cease when the total amount of silver In circulation, elthcri in coin, or represented by paper, shall reaehf jsnn.oeo.ooo. ' I - Fifth-The withdrawal of all gold and paper currency below the denomination" of $10 so as to force the silver dollars Into circulation. , In one respect the foregoing, if It were given the force of law, would be preferablc to the Sherman silver-purchase act now in. forceIt would limit the volume of silver money and the representatives of silver money. The fact of an administration having authority to use any part or all of $200,000,000 of gold bond3 to keep up -the gold reserve would help to float the $S90,000,000 or silver, but it would be expensive at best, and if the balance of trade should turn against us heavily, that amount of gold would not last very long, as it would be possible to get it out of the treasury even if the coin notes issued under the Sherman act should be retired. :- There are conflicting reports regarding the attitude of the Democrats in. regard to this compromise, which is one of their devices. A number of correspondents ' represent that it is received with favor, while others ara very emphatic in the declaration that it has not a shadow of a chance. There is no doubt, however, that a considerable number of Senators who would vote against the repeal bill would eagerly support soms such scheme as this compromise Involves. Their constituents are demanding more money, and this proposition holds out such a promise. It is in the - hope of agreeing upon some compromise of this nature that the Democratic free-coinage Senators are wasting time. Whenever the Democratic Senators shall have got together a vote will be taken. The Southern Democratic Senators, more than those of the silver States, prevent action. So far, there is no indication that more than one or two Republicans regard this or any similar measure with favor. NOT A PARALLEL CASE. The Indianapolis News has several' times referred to the Van Alen case and the selection of Mr. Wanamaker as presenting similar conditions, when there is nothing of the kind. Mr. Wanamaker, as a member of a committee, raised, among business men, a considerable sum of money for campaign purposes, contributing a portion himself. He had besri an active party man for years, contributing money and taking part in the work of the campaign. He was, morsover, a well-known business man of remarkable executive capacity and possessing, in th3 highest degree, those rare qualifications which arc necessary in the office of Postmaster-general, if progress is to be made in the work. When General Harrison looked the field over for a Postmaster-general, Mr. Wanamaker appeared to him to be the man best qualified for the arduous position. The result vindicated the selection. Mr. Van Al?n had never been Identified in public affairs or In any business whatever. Indeed, he lives In this country but a small part of his time. He was called to a position which has been filled by representative American citizens, while he represants nobody. There is no evidence, not the slightest, that Mr. Wanamaker wa3 promised anything. General Harrison did not, and If th editor of the News knew General Harrison ho would know that he would not carry out said bargain If it had been made by committees. On the face of

. ( the transactions, the two cases are as different as can be. Mr. Wanamaker was the best qualified man for th office to which he was called, while the best that can be said of Van Abn is that he ha3 inherited large wealth, has never shown any capacity for affairs and would never have been thought of for the place If he had not had money and been liberal with it in dealing with the Rhode Island Democracy, as Mr. Whitney says in his letter. The Denny campaign has gone on as a campaign should. Instead of nominating a ticket and leaving the canvass to him and those whom he might be able to induce to take a hand, citizens generally who desire his election have taken a part In the work. The work of the general committee has been most zealously undertaken, and every precinct committee has found a body of earnest helpers. The result is a superb organization one which could not be obtained for money. Lists have - not only been made up by precincts, but by blocks, and plans perfected by which It will be known, at every hour before the polls close, the men In each block who have not voted. Every vote has been looked up, and every one who is doubtful or unknown has been approached by a canvasser. Scores of men have taken a part in the work who never did anything of the sort before. This is because intelligent men have come to see the great importance of municipal affairs and the necessity of taking a part In them. Hundreds have come to the conclusion that the du.ti?s of Citizens in regard to municipal control are as imperative as those which lead them to look after their private affairs. Men with children growing up feel that they cannot afford to have a wide-open town, and that they must have an eye to public expenditure.

The Sentinel says that "during Denny's administration the eight-hour law was never enforced." As Denny went out of offlce the year the eight-hour law was passed he had little chance to enforce it. The Sentinel further asserts that the law has been faithfully enforced during Mayor SiHllvan's administration. In at least on"e instance it was given a false construction in order to justify a grab of about $2,000 out of the city treasury. The city election of 1891 was the first one held under the eight-hour law. When it came to paying the per diem of the election officers a Democrat made the point that they were entitled to their per diem for every eight hours they were employed, and the claim was allowed. Under this construction inspectors were allowed pay for five days work, and judges, clerks and sheriffs for three days each, making the total cost of election officers $8,025. The eight-hour law does not apply to anybody but mechanics, workingmen and laborers employed on the public works of the city, and cannot by any rule of construction be made to include election officers. The ruling two years ago gave the officers about $2,000 more than they were legally entitled to, and will doubtless be used as a precedent for the allowance in the coming election. The speech of Governor Tillman, of South Carolina, at the bimetallic convention In St. Louis was thoroughly demagogical and bitterly partisan. He denounced the "black Republican" part; in good old-fashioned Southern style, and urged the necessity of a coalition between the West and South to promote sectional interests. The following extract is of interest: Now the Republican party talk about taking away a certain part of our representation and disenfranchising the negro. When they enfranchised the negro they gave us a club that we have since used in a very scientific manner to club them with. They gave us thirty or forty additional votes in the Electoral College and the additional members cf Congress which they gave us by reason of the increased negro representation. We have used this club very skillfully to preserve our liberties up to this time. They gave us the club to use, a:ui we are going to hold on to it. This is a virtual admission that the Southern people have got the benefit of the enfranchisement of the negroes In the way of increased political power, while at the same time depriving them of the ballot. It Is a boast that the South has used this power as a club "to preserve their liberties." This club is ofuch" a nature that it makes the vote of a white Democrat in the South count nearly twice as much as the vote of a white Republican in the North. And Governor Tillman says they are going to hold on to the club. The New York Democratic convention has nominated Judge Maynard for Judge of the Court of Appeals, and a most infamous act it was, when it is remembered that it was shown by ample evidence that he was guilty of stealing from the mall, before it reached the lawful custodian, an election return which, if it had been received and counted, would have made the New York Senate Republican. Subsequently the matter was investigated by a committee of the New York Ear Association, and that committee pronounced him guilty and protested against his appointment by Governor Hill to a vacancy on the Court of Appeals. Mr. Hornblower, whom the President has just called to the United States Supreme Court, and who was at the head of the committee Investigating the charge, used the following language: If it were possible to consider Judge Maynard's action us having been taken in Ignorance of the facts, or In the heat of a violent political contest, or without opportunity for due deliberation, or in Ignorance of the law, this case would present different features. But there Is no such possibility. Judge Maynard has himself cut us off from that. The Journal has no inside information as to the reasons why the Hon. John G. Shanklin has not received official recognition at the hands of the administration, but the columns of his paper, the Kvansville Courier, suggest a very sufficient reason. No other paper in the country is more determined and aggressive in its opposition to Mr. Cleveland's financial policy.. Since Senator Voorhees became the President's spokesman in the Senate the Courier has repeatedly read him out of the party, asserting time and again that he does not represent the sentiments of the Indiana Democracy nor the Interests of the people. In short, the Courier Is about the most rabid silver organ to be found anywhere. This Is all right if editor Shanklin chooses to have it so, but he and his friends need not wonder why he Is not recognized by the administration when he is constantly

fighting it. Perhaps it is creditable to his independence that he would rather have his say on the silver question than to have an office, but certainly there 13 no need to look beyond the columns of his paper for the reason of his nonrecognltlon. In his speech in the Ninth ward Sim Coy urged his hearers to turn out and vote next Tuesday, "because that means not only a contlnua'nce of Democratic rule In Indianapolis, but in Marion county as well, with its ten representatives In the State Legislature, and that means the control of the Institutions in this grand State." Sim is very much interested In ,the welfare of the public ir.Uitutlons of this grand State. He was closely connected with one of them for a while.

Twenty-seven years ago, when a veritable federal and confederate soldier fell into each other's arms in an Andy Johnson convention, and a score of each walked down the center aisle to show that the bloody chasm of the civil war had been closed, there was a dramatic element In the performance; but when two such very ordinary persons as the Governors of South Carolina and Kansas repeat the dreary farce, sensible people are disgusted. The various exchanges and commercial bodies of Memphis have united In the adoption of a resolution condemning the courso of the two Senators from Tennessee in regard to silver repeal. The resolution says: "The Senators representing this State have, in the course they have taken, been derelict in the discharge of their duty to their constituents, and Indifferent to the interests of the whola country, and are helping to establish a precedent which will enable a minority to defeat a majority of the people in the future. In thus ignoring the wishes of their constituents they ara assuming an arrogance more becoming English lords than servants of the sovereign people." The world's fair has brought many great days to Chicago, but the greatest will be Manhattan day, when the city of New York will make Chicago's cup of rejoicing and triumph overflow by coming in great force to pay tribute to the White City. The excursion will Include New York city officials, the men who take part in the exercises, a band, invited guests, etc. After Manhattan day there will be nothing left for Chicago to conquer, for she will have conquered the city by the sea. When New York has taken off its hat to Chicago the great exposition can'close. . i BUBBLES IN THE AIR. 111 Traits. "I has noticed," says Uncle Mose, "dat de man wot won't do nuffin 'less'n he's paid fer 'it, will do anything, no matter how mean It am, pervidin he do git paid fer it." The Idiocy of Proverbs. "There is no rose without a thorn," Is a bit of pessimism silly. In favor high with those who forget The sweet and thornless violet, And the unaggressive lily. Deep Problem. The Youth You know it all, I suppose? The Sage Of course, I do. That Is my business. The Youth Well, I wanted to ask you what relation there is, if any, between this unusually windy session of the Senate and Mr. Peffer's whiskers? Conjnjral Connndrnms. Mrs. Wickwire What Is the difference between me and a chicken, dear? Mr. Wickwire About thirty-five years, I guessv r Mrs. Wickwire Oh, you hateful thing. That isn't the answer at all. The chicken is killed to drcss,.and I am dressed to kill. STATE PRESS OPINION'S. Democratic times and sales of lots for taxes go hand in hand. We are having a practical illustration of it right here In Elwood now. Klwood Leader. No man plants his corn in the first snows of winter. No manufacturer dependent on protection invests his capital in buildings and products when the free-trade snows are falling. Ligonier Banner. Democrats continue to charge the Sherman law with responsibility for all the ills , the country is suffering from. Why doesn't the Democratic majority in Comrress re peal it then? Converse Journal. The Democrats in Congress are acting as if they were not expecting to carry a single State this year, and, as a matter of fact, that Is the only safe view for them to take upon the subject. Columbus Republican. It becomes plainer every day that complete relief from existing political evils and misfortunes is not to be expected until after the restoration of the Republican party to power. Greencastle Banner-Times. There are certainly more decent and lawabiding citizens in Indianapolis than lawbreakers and boodlers. Will they do their duty or will they be held by partisanship, vote on party lines and let the boodlers win? Gresnfield Republican. Wages are declining, and so are the products of the farm, while clothing and like necessities ara no cheaper than they were this time last year. This is certainly not what the Democrats promised the voters last campaign. Frankfort News. Morality is going to be more of an issue in future campaigns, especially in local elections, than ever before. There is need enough of a reformation In this line. There is hardly a decently governed large city in the United States. Kokomo Times. , It may not occur to some who are working for small wages that there are scores of employers who would be only too glad of a reasonable excuse for closing up shop for a few weeks until they look. around to see how things are likely to go. Pendleton Republican. President Cleveland has undoubtedly a better conception of the meaning of extraordinary now than he had before calling an extraordinary session of Congress. It haK been two months trying to do the one thing he called it to have done, and there is yet no assurance of the completion of the work. Kendallville Standard. Last year, when everybody thrived, the Democrats tried to make oit that everybody was en route to the poorhouse; now, when there are a million men unemployed and thousands of . others working for reduced wages or on reduced time, the Democratic papers are trying to prove that everybody is very prosperous. Corydon Republican. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Ex-Senator Henry G. Davis, of West Virginia, has presented to the town of Elklns in that State a picturesque natural pork of nine acres. Rev. B. D. Zwelzig, a Lutheran clergyman at Reading, Pa., performed his two-thousand-three-hundredth marriage ceremony on Wednesday. When the vines on the house lately occupied by Phillips Brooks, in Boston, were trimmed the other day many passers-by ricked up leaves as mementoes. Miss Lilian Merrltt, a.i English woman, cannot only retain in her mind hundreds of complex figures, but can also mentally add, multiply, subtract and divide at the same time any combination among them. Senator Shelby . M. Cullom grows more and more like Abraham Lincoln in personal appearance. Singularly enough, Mr. Cullom was born in Kentucky, and took up the practice of law in Springfield, 111., as Lincoln did. Elder J. M. Carter, a Baptist clergyman of Ash Grove, Mo., holds that the souls of the wicked simply dissolve, ami that consequently they meet no future punishment. A majority of his congregation voted to sustain him in this view, and now the local county association has expelled for heresy not only the elder, but also the entire parish. Mrs. Lucy Stone, who has reached the age of seventy-five years with scarcely a day of severe illness, is now reported to

be suffering from the enfeebling effects c advanced y-ar?. Her mind is still clear, however, and she suffers no pain and sleeps well, but takes little nourishment. Sue married Henry P.. BSackwell nearly forty years ago. but, with consent, has always retained her own name. Mme. Comet wns a woman of a thoroughly businesslike mind. Her huband. an overseer of some engine works in France, was severely criticised by r. trade paper. Ha took the criticism to heart and committed suicide. His widow claimed that her husband's death had been caused by the articles in question, and brought a suit for $10,000 damages, which were awarded by the court. The photograph,' which tinds its way Into basket3 beribboned and befrilled. within the criss-cross, ribbon-garr.lshed screen and in a dozen other fanciful postures, has lately' been given another decorative part to play. Some bright bodv has ht upon tho plan of carrying around the room below the dado a long single oak frame in which the photos are inserted. Turn which way on may, sisters, and cousins and aunts are to bo found in all their family pride. The Bangkok (Siam) Times records the recent death at that place of Mrs. D. B. Bradley. She was a native of New England, and went to Slam as the wife of the late Rev. D. B. Bradley in 18S0. and never afterward visited her native landMrs. Bradley was a woman of market I character and of iowerful Intellect, and she performed a great deal of excellent work among the Siamese. There was a large attendance of mourners at her funeral. MISS SICKLES MISLED

Professor rntnamSaysIlerMindld Warped on the Indian Question. The Alleged Sun Dancers at the World's Fair Smeared Themselves with Red Paint Instead of Wood. WASHINGTON, Oct 6.-In a report to the Commissioner of Indian AfTalrs Professor Putnam, In charge of the ethnological exhibit at the world's fair, denounces as falsehoods the charges made by Miss Sickels, chairman of the Universal Peace Union, that brutal and cruel exhibitions of the Indian sun dance are given at the fair. The accusations are characterized as misrepresentation and false statements and the "result of her mind being warped by dwelling too much on one particular subject, shown by her continually ignoring facts and writing from her imagination." Professor Putnam speaks of the alleged sun dance as follows: "There has been no representation of the Indian sun dance and there has not been a single Indian belonging to the United States who has taken part in any exhibition under my direction, except th Navajos, who have been quietly, sitting in their hut weaving and making silver work. The Indians from Vancouver islands, who are entirely outside the jurisdiction of the United States, have, every Thursday evening, an exhibition on one of their floats, when they perform ceremonial songs and dances, as it is our wish to have these Indians appear in a manner purely native. One ceremony consists of jugglery, when tho Indians pretend to beat themselves with clubs and appear to become covered with blood. These clubs have little tubes made of kelp, filled with red paint. This paint is forced out when the tubes are pressed .against the bodv, and this gives the appearance of blood. Even this exhibition, which is purely jugglery and of the same class as the Jugglery of Hindoos and others, is in itself considered of scientific interest as illustrating a custom which has been In existence with these people from time Immemorial. It was performed once by tho wish of the Indians themselves, and without our previous knowledge, and they were directed not to give the exhibition again." World's Fnlr No ten. CHICAGO, Oct 6.-A threatening rain. scurrying clouds and high winds kept the timid people from Jackson . Park to-day. The attendance, regardless of this fact. was good.' Visitors are arriving ' now to be. here on Chicago day, and these are gradually swelling the number of sightSeers at the White City to goodly proportions. The carriage makers came to the fair to-day. The national organization has been in session several days, and this day was set aside by the fair officials for them. The crowning event of the day was a cruise through the lagoons on decorated launches. There were ten electric launches, and all were filled with the carriage makers and their friends. Frequent landings were made at the principal buildings. The companies of the Indian school at Carlisle. Pa., marched into the grounds again today, headed by their band. A dress parade was given on the terminal plaza. The Poles at the fair, in conjunction with the resident Poles of Chicago, have arranged a programme of merit for thir day, and to-morrow will see a mammoth parade through the city and park. The Washington State building, together with all the exhibits, have been donated by the State to the permanent world's fair museum. The building was constructed of huge fir trees from Washington at a cost of nearly $100,000. The California building has also been offered to the museum, and will probably be accepted. Over half a thousand bright boys and girls from the public schools of Louisville, Ivy., were at the fair to-day. They came to Chicago In a special train over the Monon road, arriving at 7:r,0 o'clock this morning. Professor Taylor and a corps of teachers, one for every twenty pupils, were In charge .of the chattering army of little folks. They left the train at Englswood. which Is the nearest station to the exposition grounds, and hurried Into the Sixty-first street elsctric cars, which quickly carried th?m to the gates of the White City. They saw the fair and the night illumination, but were disappointed because rain prevented the display of fireworks. Among the Judges appointed, to-day In the department of live stock were Prof. Samuel R. Johnson, of Michigan: I. H. Mitchell, of Indiana, and William Stockings, of Illinois. The paid admissions at the fair to-day were 143,031 A CLEVER FORGER CAUGHT. ' S. J. De Franz Tried to Pass a Bogus Indianapolis Pank Draft. A warrant has been Issued by the Governor of Michigan for the return to St Paul, Minn., of Stonewall J. De Franz, the insurance agent, who was arrested in Detroit for attempting to cash a J35.0(j0 draft at the St. Paul National Bank. This draft purported to be one drawn by the Bank of Commerce, of Indianapolis, on the United States National Bank of New York, and payable to the order of Cameron Elliott, the alias of D Franz. The draft was presented on April 11, 1S; and was deposited to Elliott's credit. Jefcrre the bank could ascertain whether the draft was a good one Elliott, as he called himself, had obtained J1.(A on it and disappeared. De Franz claimed, when arreted, that ho represented the De Franz Improvement Company, of 78 East New York street. Inquiry at that number, last night, failed to reveal any trace of De Franz's identity. No one in the block ever heard of him or his agency. "Held lp'' nnd Robbed. Special to the Indianapoli3 Journal. ST. LOUIS, Oct. C-Secretary Sinclair, of the East St. Louis Jockey Club, was held up and robbed of at 6 o'clock this evening on the third floor of the Glob?-Demo-cra't buildlne. where he lias an ofllce. The thief ran with the plunder, but was captured on Broadway. He 13 a race-traclc hanger-on with many aliases. ii" Unouglt for Vim Alen. Atlanta Constitution. Some of. the newspapers are comp!:i!nlng because Mr. Van A Ion spells his name with only one "l." But that's all right; 1k will pet ip enough before he gets through with this business. , The Democrat I Problem. Philadelphia Press. .. Beer and sugar, which shall be taxed? This 1 tha problem which confronts the Democratic party, whose majority In Congress cannot economize and dreads new taxes. Harrlnon It Now Indorsed. Chicago Dispatch. Benjamin Harrison's reference to Congress as "a team of wild horfes" was sev?rely criticised a few weeks ago. But the criticising has given place to indorse mcnt