Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 May 1894 — Page 4

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TIIE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can If lour.d at the following placet: X'A It IS American Excli&ug in Paris. 33 Boulerard ct CapuclDes. K LW Ol'.K-Gllef y House and Windsor Hotel. 21(1 LA DELPH IA a. pTKembla, 2735 Lancaster fcTtOUf. CHICAGO rainier House. Auditorium Hotel CCINNATI-J. R. Hawley & Co. 134 Vine street. MM lOVlbVILLE C. T. Deeriag; northwest corner of 'lliiid aiid Jcfiereou streets. fcT. LOCI 8 Union News Company; Union Depot Washington. x. c-Tius-gs nou ana Ebtntt liouse. In the Coxey lexicon a score of men constitutes an army and their leader 13 a general. When Chairman Wilson gets back to Washington he will be obliged to swear out a Bearch warrant to find bis bllL Senator Brice says that he las confident now that the tariff bill will pass the Sen ate. Which tariff bill? There are several. . "A trust pudding aggravated by highway robbery" Is the label which the Democratic Brooklyn Eagle writes upon the Voorhees tariff bilL The country has heard of protective and revenue tariffs, but before Voorhees. Vest and Brlce made one It had never heard of a trust tariff. A3 a matter of fact. Mr. Brookshlre's finance bill is of tha free coinage variety, but no sort of a bill can save Mr. Elijah Voorhees Brookshire. Those who are trying to make the intelligent advocates of free coinage responsible for the spread of Coxeyism seem to forget Senator Wolcott's denunciation of it. Colonel Tlchenor may not choose to become the leader of the Democratic Senate as the author of Its tariff bill. tecause he Is a Republican, but some men are not responsible for the greatness thrust upon them, The railroads owe It to themselves and to the people who pay for transportation not to be cajoled or bulldozed into furnishing It free to organized gangs of men who are trying to beat their way across the country. It is said that Wall street wants the repeal of the prohibitory tax on State banks In order that it can make money shaving depreciated State bank notes, and for this reason some of the New York members will vote for the measure. The Journal would be heartily glad to see every unemployed man In the country get work at good wages, but It is decidedly opposed to assisting any of them on to Washington. Their purpose In going there Is not legitimate, and should not be encouraged In any way whatever. One of the most effective influences In the defaat of the . Republicans in the Third Ohio district was the statement sent over the district by Senator Brice that an agreement had been reached on the tariff bill by which there would only be a slight reduction from the McKInley duties. "General" Coxey will probably conclude that the discovery of a comet simultaneously with his arrival in Washington Is new evidence that he Is a man with a mission. The comet Is three million miles from the earth and going away from it at the rate of about five thousand miles a day. Now, If Coxey were only with it! The Burlington railroad managers at Lincoln, Neb., offered the commonwealers of "General" Duff employment all summer at Jl.CO a day, with food and transportation to Montana, where the labor is needed, but onl: sixteen of ninety-five accepted. Men who refuse to accept such offers are tramps, and should be spurned by organized labor. When the flambuoyant Tom L. Johnson rose in the House to protest against the treatment of Coxey he doubtless bad in bis eye the mobs of foreigners who were ,t the same hour marching about Cleveland, the city he represents, destroying property and driving men from their labor. The very cheap demagogue often makes a mistake. The Iowa Register has put a lbt of questions to the members of Kelly's army now stranded in that city. A large part of them assert that two years ago they had all the work they wanted at from S2 to $3 a day, but that they have had very little for a year, and so they have joined the commonwealers. It was not McKInleylsm which has made them commonwealers, but Cl2velandlsm. If the Knights of Labor in Iowa wish to subscribe money to pay the fere of "General" Kelly's army to Washington they have a perfect right to do so, though sensible people would think they were acting very foolishly, but when they talk about compelling the railroads to carry the crowd free of charge they show a lawless disposition that should be met and resisted at the start. There are various ways of making an ass of onelf. Mr. Patrick Rellly, Mayor of Hammond, Ind., chose to do it by issuing a proclamation "To the people of Hammond and the State of Indiana, greeting," In which he granted what he called "the freedom of the city" to "General" Randall's commonwealers. With much introductory rsrblage and declaration of personal sym-

pathy with the movement, the Mayor proclaimed that he had given "said army the freedom of said city, so far as to permit eald arrny to pass to said old schoolhouse building, and to remain therein for one night, and freedom to depart therefrom in a peaceable manner through the public streets of said city of Hammond and out of the limits of said city of Hammond." It is gratifying to know that the Mayor who Issued this silly proclamation was defeated for re-election on Tuesday, and it is not surprising to learn from a Hammond paper that on the day of the election he was arrested and fined for assault and battery. THE REPUBLICAN REVIVAL.

There are Indications that the Republican party Is about to experience a great revival and enter on a new era of political prosperity. In a republican government it is inevitable that political parties should, have their ups and downs. The people, though level-headed In the main, are whimsical, and they sometimes follow after strange gods "for a while Just for the sake of finding their way back. They never get very far from the right path. During the last decade they have been experimenting with the Democratic party, apparently with a view of seeing If It was possible to get any good out of it. The parry begged so hard to be given a trial and made such unlimited promises of good behavior that the people, "for a change," concluded to try it. The result has been so dismally disastrous that they are now tumbling over one another to get back into the right path. There has never been a time in the history of the country when the Indications were so clear in the second year of an administration of the complete dissolution of the party In power as the' present. It Is not merely the ordinary apathy of an off year or the transient disaffection that always follows a new deal In the offices. These are expected and discounted. The present condition Is very different. Instead of a mild apathy and partial disaffection there are deep disgust and complete demoralization. The Democratic party Is not threatened with disruption; it is already disrupted. It is not in danger of being stampeded; it is already panic-stricken. It is not drifting on the rocks; it is already wrecked. It will be a miracle if it pulls itself together sufficiently to stand up in the next election and be knocked down. The measure of the popular disgust with the Democratic party is a fairly approximate measurement of the extent of the Republican revival. An unbroken record of Republican victories In all the elections of the last year. State, district- and municipal, shows how irresistibly popular sentiment 13 running the Republican way. Progress'ivists and conservatists, professional men and business men, capitalists and workingmen, old voters and young: ones all seem to have reached the common conclusion that the only hope of good government lies in the Republican party. Especially are the young men rallying under the Republican standard. The un-American and unpatriotic policy of the Democratic party, Its hostility( to American Interests at home and abroad, seems to have made a deep impression on, the minds of the young men of the country. Worklngmen who have been voting the Democratic ticket are coming into the Republican party by thousands. The contrast between the prosperity enjoyed before the Democratic party came into power and the terrible depression and uncertainty that now prevail has been a powerful object lesson to all who depend upon their dally labor for their dally bread. So has the contrast between the promises and the performances of the Democracy. As a consequence the workingmen are leaving the Democratic party In droves, and a large majority of them are joining the Republican ranks. , The net result of these various influences is an unmistakable Republican revival which promises to give the party another long lease of power. THE THIRD TARIFF BILL. Ten days ago Mr. Aldrich announced In the Senate that a compromise tariff bill was being formulated outside of the finance committee of the Senate, which would insure the support of every Democrat in that body. Thereupon Senator Harris protested, and Senator Voorhees rose before the country and declared upon his honor that he had no knowledge of anything of the sort. Then the statement of the framing of an outside bill as a compromise measure appeared In the newspapers and, when Mr. Hale called attention to it, he was asked If any Senator was so dull as to believe newspaper reports. Next came the interview of Secretary Carlisle, who seems to have parted with all discretion, in which he Innocently declared that he was taking a hand in the shaping of the features of a bill which would unite the Democrats. It was when Senator Aldrich called attention to this Interview that Senator Turple was in the "condition" to say things he would not if he had been normal. The next day the correspondents ascertained that Col. Tlchenor, general appraiser, a Republican, was engaged in a back room of the Treasury Department, formulating, under the direction of the Secretary and Senators Brice, Gorman and others, a compromise tariff bill. Yesterday, after all these denials, after the dramatic, if not solemn asseverations of Voorhees and other Senators, the Democratic caucus chairman announced that "the Democratic Senators would meet in the marble room at 4 o'clock to consider the' compromise tariff bill." Here that which had been denied , with wrath was openly admitted to be true. Senators Aldrich, Hale and others were right. The situation is Interesting If not instructive. When the House began with the Wilson bill, three Democratic Senators, led by Mills, made a tariff bill according to the free-trade theory, but it was condemned by the revenue experts as impracticable. More than three months ago the Wilson bill, which the House had passed, came to the Senate and was referred to the finance committee. It was taken into a private roora by the Democrats of that committee, and Mr. Mills was added because he was assumed to know about the matter. Three men worked on it. No man was permitted to know what changes these xntn were making, except a few Demo

cratic Senators and the representatives of two Democratic trusts. From week to week Senator Voorhees promised to report the bill, which was being' used by speculators to make fortunes. At length it was reported with the Sugar Trust and Whisky Trust clauses. It was generally denounced by the Democratic press as "the defiled bill." Then it was discussed, and. It was found that It could not be passed One set of Democratic "kickers" had been reconciled, but five or six more would not vote for the Voorhees bill. Then it was that it was turned over to the kickers to be so amended that It Is now a compromise bill. Last week the Republican Senators offered to go to a vote on the original Wilson bill, but the offer was refused. The Voorhees bill has been practically withdrawn to make room for a bill which will secure the votes of the Eastern Democratic Senators and Mr. Brice. That is, the majority of Democrats In the Senate have practically killed two tariff bills. Now what of the compromise bill?

A DRAZEX CANDIDATE. Representative Breckinridge, of Kentucky, left Washington for Lexington yesterday and will open his canvass at the latter place to-morrow. Under the circumstances his candidacy for re-election to Congress has more than local interest. It Is the first time in the history of the country that a man convicted by a Jury of his peers of conduct which should exclude him from respectable society has gone . before the people asking them to give his conduct their approval and indorsement by returning him to Congress. He' has had his trial and the result is known to the country. His candidacy puts the Seventh Kentucky district on trial. He evidently believes that he will be vindicated, and no doubt he will have a strong support for renomination, but there are indications that the moral sentiment of the district, which Is by no means weak or timid, will assert itself strongly against him. The most recent indication of this character Is the action of the Lexington Ministerial Union on Wednesday In declaring Breckinridge's candidacy "an open defiance of all personal chastity, domestic purity and religious integrity, a corrupt and corrupting misrepresentation of the social order of our community, a debauching example for youth, and in every way a peril to truth and righteousness." This is well and bravely' said, and does honor to the body that adopted it If the ministerial union represents different denominations, as it3 name would imply. Its declaration Indicates that the moral sentiment of the district is solidly arrayed against Mr. Breckinridge. He will doubtless have the party machine and the party workers, but there ought to be enough decent, self-respecting peoplo in the district to defeat him. His re-election would be a disgrace to the district and a reflection on the moral sense of the American people. The international bimetallic conference which was held at the London Mansion House on Wednesday furnished some interesting pointers as to the drift of foreign sentiment on the silver Question. The conference was held under the auspices of, the Bimetallic League, the object of which is to urge upon the British government' the adoption of an international agreement for the coinage of gold and silver at a fixed ratio. There were about four hundred delegates present, including many prominent statesmen, bankers, financiers and political economists cf Great Britain and continental countries. The principal feature of the conference was a speech by Hon. A. J. Balfour, Consevatlve leader in the House of Commons, and one of the ablest men in Parliament, In which he took strong ground in favor of International bimetallism and characterized the present attitude of England on the question as "stupid, selfish isolation." Other speeches were made on the same line, and the sentiment of the conference seemed to be unanimous that the true solution of the silver question for the entire commercial world lay in International action. Events seem to be tending steadily in that direction. From a humane standpoint Kelt's commonwealers, stranded at Des Moines, are entitled to sympathy. Men who are out of work and hungry always are. But what good would It do to ship them on to another city, or even pay their fare to Washington? They would be worse off in Washington than they are in Des Moines. The thing to do is to get them work, and thl3 ought to be possible on the farms or In the rural districts of Iowa. Even the insidious book agent Is a protege of the interstate-commerce law. ' Justice Brewer, of the United States Supreme Court, has handed down a decision bearing directly on the rights of solicitors for publishing houses. J. W. Brennan was agent for a Chicago firm, soliciting" In. Titusville, Pa., orders for pictures and picture frames. For falling to take out a license, as required by a city ordinance, he waB fined The case was carried to the Supreme Court of the State, which affirmed the judgment. Thence the case was carried to the Supreme Court of the United States, which reversed the decision. In concluding. Justice Brewer quoted from Ficklln vs. Sheiby County (113 U. S., 1): "No State can levy a tax on interstate commerce in any form, whether by way of duties laid on the trans1 portation of the subjects of that (commerce or on the receipt derived from that transportation, or on the occupation or business of carrying It on." Mrs. Emma Eames Story, who is to be one of the stars at the May Music Festival, has been singing in .Washington, and this is what the Post of that city says of her: If Mmes. Melba and Calve Intend to make a musical conquest of Washington they had better be coming soon, for their fair rival, Emma Eames Story, made her first visit here last evening, and the Capital City, presented by ore of the finest aodlenos that has filled Metzerot Hall this season, surrendered at discretion. WashIngtonlans ire now prepared to believe all the nice things that have been said about the American prima donna, for she is prettier than ever her pictures have represented; her voice is in keeping with her ftam'sume presence, and in her few. operatic numbers shy suggested dramatic talent that must make her worth seeing on the stage. She waa welcomed in the heartiest possible manner. The new money order system which goes into operation July 1 makes 3 cents the price of an order for J2.S0 and under. From 3 cents the price advances slowly until :;3 cents becomes the price of an order for 4100. A pttsr dispatch says the completion of the g tea n tic tunnel which Is to drain the valley 'n which the city of Mexico Is sltuatced has just been announced. It is an en

gineering work of broad scope and likely to have very important results in improving tha health of the Mexican capital Mis3 Lucy Langdon Williams, of Philadelphia, whose face i3 known to the world from the fact that it was used as the model of the goddess on the silver dollar, has been proving that brains exist behind those classic features. She is a teacher in the public schools of her native city, and lately made an address before the Educational Club on the science of teaching which has attracted considerable attention and shows that she Is a woman with Ylews of her own. Her opinions are in accord with those of advanced educators elsewhere, but Philadelphia is a little slow In adopting new Ideas and its schools are a little behind the times, according to all accounts.. If this were not true, the following remarks of Miss Williams would hardly have excited the surprise they seem to have done: What shall wa teach? It is hard to make outsiders believe us, but It really matters very little. It is not what, but how? The objective point Is not information, but power. Mathematics have held almost unquestioned the highest rank among those studies which are supposed best to develop the reasoning faculties of the child. I would like to throw down my gauntlet for science. Mathematics, at the best, gives only a kind of imaginative reasoning, which, with known conditions, may reach a correct conclusion. But science, properly taught, gives this and also the ability to investigate unknown conditions to change them, even. Facts may be obtained most quickly from books. If these are correct, which they seldom are, and the memory is retentive, which it often Is not. the result of the study of books is knowledge, or, more correctly, information. We may verify the facts thus obtained by experiment and observation, getting sounder information as well as valuable training; or we may rediscover these facts for ourselves. This gives information, training, inspiration. The point of all BClence teaching should be to give this training and inspiration. The acquirement of Information should be entirely secondary. It is Just; possible that there are people outside of Philadelphia, and even near to Indianapolis, whose school methods are in line with her theory, to whom it will be a new thought that the chief object of education is not to cram the mind with a conglomeration of facts. If so. Miss Lucy Williams has done them a double service by giving them something new to think about as well as something pleasing to look at. HUDDLES IN TUB AIR.

More Information. . Tommy Paw. what does vice versa mean? Mr. Flgg Why er horse and horse. Making? a Record "Sir," said the proud young soubrette, "I positively refuse to marry you." "I wasn't aware that I had ever asked you," said the plutocrat. "Of course you haven't But when I tell my friends and the press that I refused to marry you it will be so, don't you see?" Self-Sacrificing Spirit. "I notice," said the drummer from New York, "that some of your fellow-cltlzens succeeded in stealing a wagon load of the iron in the Ferris wheel a few days since." "Ah," said the drummer from Chicago, proudly, "but you should also take notice that they didn't begin stealing it until after the fair was over. I tell you, the selfsacrificing spirit and noble abstention from the" cultivation of glorious opportunities that Chicago exhibited during the fair have made her the wonder of the world." Ilovr It Happens. "See here," said the captious critic to the city functionary, "I would like to know on what grounds you based your refusal to let that play be performed?" "Well." said the city functionary, "the agent for the Society for the Prevention of Everything Preventable said that it was contrary to good morals." "And you don't know yourself whether . such was the case or not?" ' ' "Of course I don't How could you expect a man. in my business to know anything about morals?" THE INDIANA ELECTIONS. i Well, well,' well! Talk about frost 'in May! Connersville News. The victory Is satisfactorily won. Now for the future. Kokomo Tribune. Now a pull altogether, to make November as pleasant as May. Anderson Herald. The Democrats met their slaughterloo with commendable resignation. Terre Haute Express. Only four Democratic Mayors were elected in Indiana yesterday, so far as hoard from. O O my! Richmond Item. It was a great change, and the biggest victory ever known here. We swept everything slick and clean. Hammond Leader. 'The lesson of the election Js plain: The people are dissatisfied with Democratic mismanagement and failure and no promises of that party will longer be accepted, Muncie Times. The Republicans of this city made a clean sweep, gaining 743 over the vote for Cleveland on their candidate for Mayor, and 1.C23 on the vote for oouncilmen. Logansport Journal. For the first tlme the Republicans carry every ward in the city. Bedford marches at the front in the grand column which marches to Republican success In November. Bedford Mail. It was a big majority the Republicans rolled up in this city, but it was done almost without an effort, and some of the most willing workers were former Dtrao crats. Richmond Palladium. Tuesday's Republican victory In Greencastle means more than the mere election of seven candidates. It means more than a largely increased majority. It is the advance guard of success in county and State. Greencastle Banner-Times. The Democrats of Lafayette have no apology to offer, for the fight they made In the campaign which ended in defeat With all the odds against them the Democrats made a very creditable fight Lafayette Journal (Dem.) The decisive manner In which the legal voters have at their first opportunity at the ballot put their seal of condemnation on Democratic misrule, is evidence that they are fully alive to the situation and must be heard. Noblesvllle Ledger. Logansport Is not the only city In which general discontent formed an alliance with Republicans. Frrt Wayne, Hun-tington. LaPorte, Lafayette, Michigan City and Terre Haute were captured by the Republicans and their allies. Logansport Tharos (Dem ) In thl9 city the Republicans have elected the Mayor, the city clerk and six of the ten ward councilmen. This is a tremendous change since the election of 1S32. Then Mr. Cleveland carried the city by a plurality of more than 2.300. Now Col. C. B. Oakley Is elected Mayor by 472. Fort Wayne Gazette. The grand sweep of Republicanism all over the State shows that It Is not local causes alone that directed the elections of yesterday. The people took this method of rebuking the Incompetent Congress and administration that have precipitated ruin and distress all over the country. New Albany Tribune. When the polls closed there were few Republicans who dreamed of the magnitude of the victory won in the city. With the announcement of the result the crowd grew wild and cheer after cheer rent the air. A procession was formed and the principal part of the city witnessed a parade never before seen in Huntington a parade in honor of a municipal Republican victory. Huntington Herald. sswssssswBsBawB TURPIE'S TONGUE. Senator Turpie's speech on Aldrich smells as if the Indiana statesman had been investigating personally the twenty-gallon clause in the bonded period section. New York Sun. It Is altogether probable that the speech he made In the Senate Monday will not be printed In the Congressional Record, and it is to be hoped that he will be ashamed of himself. Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. If the Democratic side of the Senate does not care to purge itself of this disgusting business, then the Indiana Democracy should speak out plainly its sentiments about such blackguardism, and call upon

Turple either to reform his habits or cease to represent the State which thus for the second time has been disgraced upon the floor of the Senate. Chicago Tribune. In his attack on Senator Aldrich Senator Turple proved himself a master of Billingsgate. Whatever his rank as a statesman may be, he is certainly a beautiful blackguard. Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. It Is not likely that Senator Turple would have made his intemperate speech of Monday if he had known exactly where he was "at." It was a speech In which he showed himself as irascible as Harris and as silly as Vcorhees. Philadelphia Inquirer. Senator Turpie's gross and insulting attack upon Senator Aldrich yesterday is explainable only on the theory that the Indiana Senator was drunk. It was certainly a very, stupid and offensive performance, which can hurt no one but d;e Senator from Indiana, whom It places under strong suspicion of public Inebriety. Philadelphia Press. It Is not at all strange that Turpie. from thl3 State, once more descended to the level of the blackguard in his violent and uncalled-for attack on Senator Aldrich. of Rhode Island. In his earlier life Turpie was known in northern Indiana as "Dirty Dave." The name stuck to him for many years, and there were Democrats in the old Colfax district that then, just because his name was "Dirty Dave" there being such a decided sympathy between the name ana the party insisted on voting for him at every election. Muncie (Ind.) Times. SHREDS AND PATCHES.

It is a significant fact that there are no babies being named for Cleveland this year. St Louis Globe-Democrat It Is quite natural that a man should purse his Hps In pronouncing the word "gold." Philadelphia Record. Mrs. George Gould lost a bag of diamonds the other day. Strange how stage methods do cling. Philadelphia Press. Despite their efforts to appear brave the song of the cuckoo Is rapidly dying Into a hollow croak. Philadelphia Inquirer. Buying more goods abroad is the -Democratic plan for making . home industries prosper. Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. A Breckinridge club has been formed in the Ashland district Let Its members beware of school girls and closed carriages. New York World. We fcre quite confident that Colonel Watterson is now glad that he didn't undertake his threatened march on Washington. Washington Post It takes a man with a good deal of influence with himself to do' something he doesn't want to and doesn't have to because he ought to. Puck. "The sailor stabbed the man who had Insulted him twice in the bowels" reports the Brooklyn Eagle. The West may be less aesthetic than the East but when it wants to insult a man it does it to his face. St Louis Republic. There is no pity more contemptuous in this world than the variety which is ostentatiously Indulged In by the average mar-. ried shopping woman toward the saleslady, unless it be the pity which the saleslady freely bestows upon the average married shopping woman. Boston Transcript CLASS LEGISLATION. "U. L. See" Takes a Position, but Reserves the Right to Make a Change. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: From present indications we are upon the eve of a good degree of class legislation. True to their traditions, th Liquor League is to inquire, through its "committee on legislation," into the views of every candidate for the Legislature on personal liberty, or the right to keep a saloon without molestation. On the other hard, the Anti-liquor League, now numbsrlng tes of thousands, is to be governed in its voting by "the character, opinions, habits, associations and past record on the liquor question," and vote for only those who, if elected, "will Improv? the present laws to the extent of their opportunity." And now comes the Labor Legislative Council, which lias formulated, or Is to formulate, a bill in its special Interest, and no man, on any ticket, is to receive the support of any laboring man who does not agree in ad vance to favor that bill; neither shall any man be voted for for any oiflce, State or county, who buys, sells or uses a cigar that is manufactured by a "scab." But this Is not all; it Is not half. The colored man in the elevator 13 an issue, and a big one; while the right to tramp in a Coxey army and forage for subsistence is likely to overshadow even the elevator Issue. To these are to be added prohibition straight, and A. P. Aism. with several other isms not yet heard from. Evidently, ths candidate who talks tariff and bimetallism and Hawaii will get left. They are "not In it" this year at all. What is tariff on sugar or wool to the brand of your cigar? Who cares whether gold or silver, or both, be the measure of value so long as a colored man can ride in an elevator? There may be some danger of getting a little rattled when the candidate favors one of my crotchets and opposes another, if I happen to be so prodigal as to have two crotcnets. The only way that I see for escape Is to have only one "principle" and to stick to that. Reserving the right to change after further consideration. I to-day give preference to the man who nver buys or sells or smolcea a "scab" cigar. There is no interest in this world so sacred as the interests of the cigar makers. Indianapolis, May 2. U. L. SEE. The Cnll Is for Sound Money. Hartford Courant Please to observe that the silver dollar which Benjamin Harrison talked about on Wednesday afternoon, and which the Indiana Republican platform calls for, is a silver dollar as good as a gold dollar and readily exchangeable for it Please to observe also that Benjamin Harrison very distinctly discouraged the notion that this country can afford to resume the coining of silver dollars all alone by Itself. What he wants and tried to bring about is an international agreement as to the use of silver as money and the establishment of a common minting ratio for all the great commercial coun-. tries. All Republican platform utterances on this subject this year should be candid and explicit Run the sound money flag to the masthead, and keep it there. Our Governor nnd the Coxeyltes. New York Evening Post. The Governor of Indiana has made a humiliating exhibition of himself. Indiana has laws under which the leaders of the Coxeyltes could have been arrested on entering the State and the band could have been broken up. Yet Governor Matthews publicly announced that the proper policy was to treat the army "In a manner that will hurry it out of the State as soon as possible," and leave some other State to deal with the gang of loafers and thieves. Naturally enough, the Coxeyites grow more overbearing as the authorities grow more truckling. "General" Aubrey said to an Indianapolis reporter: "We're getting along all right. The people are giving us what we need now, some of them Just for the fun of the thing, and by and by they'll give to us because they have to." SSMSHMHMMSrMMMSMSBi Free Traders Bothered. Toledo Blade. The Lodge amendment to the Wilson bill to put a retaliatory tariff on Imports from Great Britain and her colonies until she shall Join in an international organization to remonetize silver is giving the freetraders lots of trouble. The silver men will vote for it of course. The Indiana Republicans Indorsed the plan In their platform the other day, and it seems to be favorably oonsidered all over the country. Wears Like Old Gold. Pittsburg Dispatch. Ex-President Harrison is not saying much, but his friends are watching thin;rs in a manner that must fill all rival candidates for tho Republican presidential nomination with anxiety. The ex-Ireldent wears like old gold in the midst of the strongest kind of strong candidates, and he is certain to be a strong factor In the next Republican national convention. Retaliation. Philadelphia Press. More trouble for Gresham. Sfin Francisco officials are prosecuting Chinese for bandaging their children's fe?t Next thing under the new treaty Chinese officials will be prosecuting American girls in China for tight lacing. The 4Vncclnnte.M Detroit Free Press. There Is no occasion to be frightened over smallpox. Many girls look Ju3t too sweet for anvthlng on crutches, and often a cane Is sufficient. A Discordant Note. Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. MIchener's attempt to disturb Republican harmony in Indiana was like the false voice that sounds the wrong note. It pleased nobody.

THE SILVER PROBLEM

Cleveland Thinks It May lie Solved by Adopt ins: His Views. The Administration Tieaseil with the Agitation Now Going- on in EuropeLondon's Jtimetallic Conference. WASHINGTON, May 3.-Tr.e agitation in Europe, nrul notably In England. In favor of the rehabilitation cf' silver as a money metal Is being observed with the greatest satisfaction by the administration, for it ia regarded ns a strong- confirmation ff ti e correctness of the principle to which President Cleveland has eo steadfastly ndhered through thick and thin, and sometimes at the risk of Ms own popularity with bia party. The President has contended tht the true and stable equality of gold an4 silver could be brought about and main talned only by agreement between th great financial nations of the world. With his conviction he has been obliged to resolutely oppose all attempts at Individual action by the United States, and when th extreme silver men have declared that there was and could be no hope of consummating the desired international agreement, tfc President has replied that a Ann and steadfast adherence to the line of policy initiated by the repeal of the silver purchase sections of the Sherman act must Inevitably bring about the desired result One of the purposes in view then was to relieve the Lnlted States from the loss and danger to which It was Rubjected by th efforts to maintain,, unaided by any of tla great financial powers, the integrity na m money metal of a vast silver olrc'UUui, Europe had prospered under the o'.d conditions, and was well MatlsficI to allow the United States to bear the burden. Tha President's theory was that by EUtfpoiullr.jf further efforts in that direction the l'nitI States would cause the European nation to ifeel the need of a larger circulating medium, and to share at le;it with us tha hardships of a monetary stringency. Therefore the movements now in progr in England, and Gfrmany and France are regarded by the administration pecple as evidence of the grjcceseful working of tha President's iJicy. Great importance is not attached to the attempt Initiated by Mexico to secure another conference, though it is not true that the President has refused to Join in the movement for, as a matter of fact, the Mexican government has not yet made any tangible proposition, and has confined Its efforts to Bounding other governments to learn how a formal invitation would be received. And, notwithstanding the rosy view held out by th European agitation, our government is not yet satisfied that a satisfactory interna tional agreement can be reached at present or even in the near future. The pressure has not yet become so severe aa to warrant the belief on this government's, part that such nations as Great Britain and Germany are ready to &ba.ndon their long-cherished convictions and take up tha double standard. Probably some kind of aa agreement might be reached now, but according to the view taken in financial quarters here. It probably would not realize our desire to put silver on a perfect equality with gold, and, it is thought would postpone indefinitely that restoration, Therefore, it Is probable that our government will pursue a conservative course, declining to take the initiative again In vie' of fruitless conferences already held, and bide its time until the European powers, and particularly Great Britain, are prepared to invite the United States to join in a conference which shall have before It some distinct proposition looking to tha rehabilitation of silver, and with sufficient power lodged in the members to insure n practicable outcome. BIMETALLIC CONFERENCE. European Consider the Silver Qnesi tlon A Banker's Charges. LONDON, May 3. An international bimetallic conference is being held in this city. Yesterday Mr. Balfour, leader of tha Tories in the House of Commons, made ai speech in which he favored a freer use ot silver. To-day Sir W. H. Houldsworth, who was the delegate of Great Britain at tho monetary conference at- Brussels, read a paper on "The effects upon agriculturists, manufacturers, wage earners, merchants, bankers and investors of the fall in tha general of level of prices." M. Thery, one of the French delegates, warmly urged the establishment of an international bimetallic league. The proposal was cordially supported, and It Is generally believed that it will be carried Into effect A-pamphlet upon the silver question has just been published by Sir Joseph McKenna, ex-director of the National Banlg of Ireland.' The pamphlat Is creating a sensation in financial circles and at tha bimetallic conference. It Is devoted to proving that Lord Liverpool's legislation of 1818 was simply a fraud, the object being to ch?at the public out of four shillings in each pound, troy weight of new coin. It Is added that Lord Liverpool .made that paltry gain not for himself, but for the treasury. Sir Joseph HcKenna acquits Lord Liverpool o intentional dishonesty and prefers to afTribute the fraud to hli stupidity. Sllverltes claim that when this is understood It will strongly influence public opinion In favor of the re-establisn ment of bimetallism. The conference finally adopted the proposal of Mr. II. R. Grenfell that a deputatlon of blmetallists wait upon every candidate at the next general election in order to ascertain the opinions of such candidates on the sliver question, with the vUvfc of supporting or opposing them. Indorxeil by Senator. WASHINGTON, May 3. Following Is a copy of a cable message sent to the .Lord Mayor of London, apropos of the bimetallic convention being held in that city; "We desire to express our cordial sympathy with the movement to promote tha restoration of silver by International agreement, of which we understand a meeting 13 being held under your Lordship'a presidency. We believe that free coinage of both gold and silver by international agreement at a fixed ratio would serva to maintain the blessing of a sufficient volume of metallic money and, which is hardly less Important, secure to the world of trade Immunity from violent exchange fluctuations." The document was signed only by Senators who voted for the repeal of the Sherman law, the signers being John Sherman, W. B. Allison, D. W. Voorhees, George F. Hoar. Nelson B. Aldrich. David B. Hill, Edward Murphy, A. P. Gorman, O. II. Piatt, Calvin Brice, Joseph M. Carey, William Frye, C. K. Davis, S. M. Cullora and Henry Cabot Lodge. Senator Sherman, In speaking to-day of the London bimetallic conference and tha telegram sent by himself and other Senators, expressed the hope that the eon-en-tlon wouid lead to the calling of an international monetary conference, and said: "There is no division of sentiment among conservative people as to the necessity or regaining silver as one of the moneys of the country. The only question we hava discussed in Congress Is whether wv oar have free coinage without demonetizing gold. The general opinion is that this would be the result of an itempt by tha United States alone to maintain Mxte-n ounces of silver with one ounce of gold, when in the open market we .can buy thir ty-one ounces of silver with one ounce of gold. While I have always opposed tha free coinage of silver, I have none tht less des.red that silver should be used to the utmost extent possible as a money metal, providing only that it would not place U3 G.i a single standard of silver and drive gold out of the country, the goid being the recognized standard In monetAry transactions with all the chief commercial nations. I therefore Joined in expressing the hope that the bimetallic congress about to assemble in London would recommend some plan by which all the oommervdal nations would arrange a mode of coining both metals as money. My own opinion is that It Is better to recognize at ones as a fact that is apparent that, on account of t?ie vast Increase of the production of sliver, the ratio should be based upon the iresrrt relative market value of silver and gold." Senator Teller said: "As to the effect of the telegram sent to the meeting by Senator Sherman and other Senators wio have been known as rflver men, 1 think the tele gram will encourage bimetallism in Eurv-xj by showing mat even those who oppfee the free coinage of silver have ome to rect. nize the necessity of a double standard, and that It will be seen frorn this mat while differences of opinl A may exist among Americans aa to how ve shall secura the full use of silver as standard money none exists as to the necessity of the usa of both gold and sliver on'urms of mint equality. MSaBBIBmSWVSMSaHSMMBBHS Would Hnve,IIcnieI Them Then. Chicago JnttT 'tcean. With what acclaim the Democrat would have greeted the marching nrmW of Cox ey. Kelly;, et ul. Just two years ago! Hut ;now, avaunt. ye :crters of woe, unbidden guests at the XiourUjn festival of spoils!