Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 September 1894 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOL:ENAL, SATUBDAY, SEPTEMBER 22. 1894.

THE DAILYJOU R N A L SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22. 1694. e WASHINGTON OFFICE 1410 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE

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Can 1 e found at the following (dare l'A MIS AiuerUau Exchange j Pari, 3ti Boulerard tie Cat urlren. 2EV YUUK-Gllaey lioueand Windsor lloteU 1'JIILADELI'JIIA A. pTkemble. -735 Lau-.,ter arume. . t HlCAtiO-PaJiuer Houae, Auditorium Hotel. i C13C12CXATlJ.lt. 11 aw ley L Co., 151 Viuentrect. lOUIBVILLF C T. in-tring, norUiwtat corner of Third and Jefferson treets. fcT. LOUlS-Unlon XewsConiPany, Untou Depot. Washington, d. a kicks iioae and Ebbitt What measure can be named that could be of special benefit to Indiana and Indiancpolls that William D. Bynum has not opioid? If the Democratic Congress had imagined how bad it will be it would doubtless have made an appropriation for the Improvement of the navigation of Salt river. Have we not rrillionalres enough to deBounce that labor organizations declare for the free coinage of silver, thus making a score more out of the bonanza silver mines? In making provision to give his speech t the pres3 Senator Voorhees appears to be laboring under the delusion that the public has an interest In what he has to ay. Captain Conn has proved the wisest Democrat from Indiana in the House in that he .has discovered that his business would "not permit him to be a candidate to be run down. , Jl! The actual Republican plurality In Maine at the last election was 3S.911. or thirty times as much as it was in 1SW, when it went "for Governor Kent, Tippecanoe and Tyler too." MBHaManBHRnaMBaHBBaBaM When the Louisville Courier-Journal says that Colonel Evans, the Republican candidate for Congress In that district, "is a tnan to Inspire respect," he must be very .fnuch of a Kentuckian. The free coinage of silver at the present" ratio would be a great thing for the ownvia w eu.ii puici 4iuura a o van lum uui, dollar's worth when coined for CO or 40 cent?, but It would be ruin, for all others. The Democratic party has the sympathy of the Journal when Attorney-general Smith goes about the State- posing a its Indiana Ideal while his Dockets arc stuffed ' with money that belongs in the public treasury. The case in which General Harrison expected to be engaged, next Tuesday, has teen postponed, and consequently he will be In the city and will Introduce Governor "McKlnley, at the Republican rally In Tomlinson Hall. The wretched Tillman will succeed the old School General Butler in the Senate. Tillman is the- Governor Waite of the South. tut, while Colorado will rid herself of "Waite, Tillman has made "South Carolina Boiid for misrule. In his many-column speech In the Sentinel, embracing much party history, candidate ilyers did. not find time to reiterate Mr, Cleveland's correct attitude on the pension question or to add that he "has always thought that Mr. Cleveland is the Let friend the soldier has." The emphatic re-election of Frank P. Sargent as grand master of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen in epite of the hostility of Debs, and the unanimous indorsement of his recommendation to select two officers to resist the encroachments of l he A. R. U., exposes the weakness of the head of the July insurrection. . The State fair which closed, last evening has been the most successful and the most satisfactory held under the auspices bf the State society for years. The patronage has demonstrated that when there is something to attract people in the way of entertainment at the Indiana State Fair they will be' there ani will appreciate it. The managers have given ail that they promised and they have pleased those who feave come to attend the fair. Visitors have ill so found the fair of easy access and they wlll carry to their, homes most favorable reports. As good a fair next year will be sure of a much larger attendance than that which has made this a great success. The figures published yesterday respecting the financial affairs of "Marion county houli attract the attention of every taxpayer. There is no particular reason why the expenses of the county should be materially greater in 1&9J than in ISM. Xo Important public work has been In progress. A few bridges have been built one recently iu the Interest of the County Commissioners yet the volume of taxation has been iucreased at an alarming rate. Here are ' the figures: The tax valuation of proper'.y la Marion rounty in 10 was $78,118,130. and the levy for county tax was 23 cents per JI'jO, or $2T7,S3.73. In 1S the tax valuation was and the county levy 23 cents per J10O, which took from the taxpayers tE7.04S.73. Here is an Increase of the county taxes of J73.160.02 in three years, or over 50 per cent., which proves the growth of extravagance under Inefficiency. The most conspicuous free-trader, a citizen of a republic and a subject of a crown, Mr. Andrew Carnegie, having shown that tha living of tae mass of people is cheaper In this country than In Knglan.1. the polltidr.a and demagogues who s j up and

down the country declaring 0at the necessaries of life are made higher by a protective tariff should cease making that sort of talk. A free-trader who investigates as does Mr. Carnegie is much more reliable than one who does not one who is a free-trader bcause he is in Democratic politics as a business. Mr. Carnegie emphasizes the statement that the clothing which wage-earners wear is as cheap and as good in this country as In England, thus confirming the report of Mr. Cleveland's consul, Schoenhof, now a custom house expert, that the clothing of the masses was not in 1&S7 much if any higher in New York than In London. The clothing that is ' higher . is the custom made, and that la higher because in good times the Journeyman Jailor has been getting from $2 to $2.30 a day h?re to half that amount In England" and one-third in Germany. It la the wages of the better paid hand worker and the duty imposed upon foreign cloths, which many people will have and pay the difference, which make the custom clothing in this country dearer. The reduction of the duty must either force down the wages of good tailors in this country or the orders will be taken to Europe to be filled. Consequently, those men who have voted In Congress to reduce ths tariff on fine cloths and clothing have practically voted to reduce the wages of American tailors. That Is all there is of it. '

TIIK LOUISIANA MOVKMENT. The Xew Orleans Times-Democrat of Sept. 18 has a two -column " editorial, with r s the caption, "Gone over to the Republicans," and devoted to the recent action of the sugar planters. The first paragraph is as follows: ' The sugar planters or at least a very large ' portion of them have gone over, fully and thoroughly, to the Republican party. Of that there need be no longer any doubt. Each of th hree meetings held by them has been progressively Republican; the first desired merely for protection. The second denounced the Democracy and advocated a Republican allianc. The third accepted thru alliance, adopted strong Republican resolutions and organized a new party the Xatlcna! Republicans. The Times-Democrat speaks In sorrow more than In anger. It admits that the Democrats In power have broken their pledges to the Louisiana, sugar planters, and it does not see any ground tobe!ieve that they will do the great Louisiana industry justice, nevertheless it assures the powerfQl "element who have "gone over to the Republicans" that they have made a mistake. Assuming, however, 'that these planters have gone ibr good, the TimesDemocrat "insists that the vote of these planters shall be counted as cast, no matter whether It Is for or against our candidates," as the Democratic party "has suffered too much from fraudulent registration, ballot-box stuffing and false counting." The action of the sugar planters in Louisiana is the most important political movement In the South for years. In the first place 'it shows that the business men of the State have outgrown the bugaboo of negro supremacy in a State where the colored vote is nearly equal to the white. It shows,- moreover, ,that the hostility of Intelligent men In the South to the Republican party has been dying out during the past fifteen years. Furthermore, the leading Democratic paper in Louisiana, and, indeed, in the far South, recognizes that when such men become Republicans the organization must be treated with a show of respect and that the systematic frauds which have been practiced for nearly twenty years must cease. It may be that the Times-Democrat sees the resuU of ballotbox frauds in the overwhelming ascendency of Tillmanl3m in South Carolina. If the sugar planters make a firm stand in Louisiana and elect one or two representative men toCongres3 they will have set an example .which business men in other Southern States will not be slow to follow. Thus will the solid Soum be broken. A .MISlMlKItSTOOD STATI1SMAX. The fact that several Eastern papers are criticising Senator Voorhees leads the Hoosier to infer that they know not the statesman from the Wabash. They actually accuse him of Ignorance, and even go so far as to say that he knew nothing about the Gorman bill. He Is called a "miserable failure" and an "ignorant charlatan." The Journal deems it a duty to correct the Eastern press. Senator Voorhees "has always ignored facta and has always eschewed what is known as Information, vlf. in his early years, Mr. Voorhees had given attention to the collection of facts and Information, he would now be an expert. On the "other- hand he has devoted his years to the collectiott of misinformation. Of that he has a limitless quantity. With an overtrained imagination, he is doubtless the most prolific producer of misinformation in the country, possibly in the world. t Nor can he be denounced for "falling to recognize a fact," because he has no capacity to recognize one. An Eastern paper says that Mr. Voorhees "is supposed to know something." If it is in the nature of positive information, he. knows nothing, and, alas! can learn nothing. . When Mr. Voorhees declared that the tariff law. which Mr. Cleveland has stigmatized as a measure of "party perfidy' is "an excellent measure," he' is not falsifying, but is speaking out of the abundance of his limitless stock, of 'misinformation. One exchange hauls him over the coals for saying that the Gorman law takes the tax from the necessaries of life and places it upon the luxuries. It asks him if diamonds, statuary, paintings, brandy, velvets, Jewelry, etc., upon which the duties have been reduced or the articles put upon the free list, are the necessaries of life, and If sugar, upon which a high duty has been imposed, is a luxury. Mr. Voorhees cannot answer such questions because they relate to facts. Then this same exchange takes him to task because he had declared that the one industry of Maine is the manufacture of lumber. It turns to the census and shows that of 73.7S0 persons employed in the various industries of the State only 8.332 are employed in the lumber business. Mr. Voorhees cannot comprehend a fact like that, as everybody in Indiana knows. Why do people go to hear him talk? Why do many excellent people go to minstrel ehows? Not for information, but for amusement. All the intelligent people who go to Voorhees's meetings go to be amused, an.;

those Democrats who go for instruction have. grown up in Indiana without the capacity to absorb information. If Mr. Voorhees had been able to confer his masterly use of misinformation upon the young men

in his party who imitate him, the party of M misrepresentation 'in Indiana would rule forever; but his Imitators have not his genius for the manipulation of misinformation, and, as the result, the Bynums, the Coopers and the mass of Democratic howlers, in attempting the Voorhees role, have become disgusting failures. TUB GLOWING rROSrECT-lTS DANGER. The advices, of the Republican State committee from all parts of Indiana are' of the most encouraging character. The work of redeeming the State from the Democracy goes bravely on. There are no dissensions over candidates. There is harmony and unity of purpose all along the lines. Meetings thus far have been large and the attention excellent. Speakers in this respect , are greatly encouraged compared with previous years. The careful canvasses already returned show that if the work goes on until the polls are closed Indiana will be In the Republican column by a gratifying plurality. The most glowing accounts come from counties which have hitherto been Democratic strongholds. On the other hand, the Democrats are confronted with the hard times which their policy has brought on. The most ot their meetings are not well attended. In addition to this. Democratic Congressmen who have preached all sorts of financial heresies, and who have led their followers to believe in the free coinage of silver, find themselves obliged ; to explain, and explanation is difficult. The Populists are gaining a few votes in certain quarters, but nine-tenths of tnem come from the disgruntled and disgusted Democratic rank and file. The one Republican danger is overconfidence. They may trust too much to the favorable conditions, and thus be led to rely less upon personal exertions. This must not be. Of all seasons in which individual work will tell for the future ot the party, none can be so favorable as the , present. At no time in the last thirty years have the opportunities for strengthening the party by individual effort been so great as now. Never has individual effort had such a field. If the men and the women who believe in Republicanism will make it a rule to do what they can to win converts, they can do more than speakers and canvassers. The harvest is ripe for such reaping shall the capers fall? It cannot be possible that the hundreds of Lincoln League clubs and like organizations will let such an opportunity pass. Let the promise of victory inspire all to make it emphatic and overwhelming. The action of the School Commissioners, last night, in deciding to purchase the Rickelts property on the terms heretofore made public will, the Journal believes, meet with the condemnation of taxpayers and citizens generally outside the little ring whose purposes are served by the transaction'. There is "no point of view-from" which the board's action is defensible. The additional ground is not needed, to begin with, and if it were needed the Trumbull property would have answered every purpose, while the taxpayers would have been $100,000 better off. By this action the taxpayers are burdened with an additional $120,000 of debt, for which no reasonable excuse can be . given. The matter has , been fully discussed in the press and elsewhere, and the majority of the board must be perfectly aware that its action will find little or no support among the general public. This deal, from beginning to end, through ' all its stages, has borne the marks of manipulation by skillful hands, and, because of such appearance, will be regarded as little less than a public scandal. The Pompeiian show given here this month has proved to be a very popular entertainment. It catered at once to the prevailing taste for spectacular exhibitions and to the growing fancy for outof-door amusements. The Immense crowds in attendance Indicate that it was a financial success and the local guarantors have every reason to be gratified. Encouraged by their venture, they, or other enterprising citizens, will be likely to engage in similar undertakings next season, and It may therefore be well to call their attention to the one mistake made in the management of this entertainment. The performances fulfilled the promises of the advertisements, the fireworks displays were magnificent, the transportation facilities ample, and no fault could have been found had not greed for a few more dollars overcome the discretion of those in charge and led to an overcrowding of the amphitheater at this week's performances. More tickets were sold than the space would conveniently accommodate, and this was particularly true of the reserved section, seats In which old for an extra price. All purchasers of such tickers received assurance that they would be furnished with seats from which they could obtain a good view of the spectacle. On Tuesday, 'Wednesday and Thursday nights of this week hundreds of tickets were sold which secured no such advantages. At least five hundred people with hiph-priced tickets were on these occasions crowded out of the reserved space into low grounds, off at one side, and not originally Intended for spectators, and from which no part of the exhibition except the sky rockets was visible. It was a petty imposition that caused much Indignation on the part of the victims, and one that is sure to react on the perpetrators if resorted to in the future. If Americans were as prompt to resist infringement on their personal rights as Englishmen are the injustice In question would not have been repeated after one trial. The world grows smaller. With heliograph signals .visible nearly two hundred miles, with voices heard over the telephone between points a thousand miles apart, and with a railroad train covering the distance between Chicago and Indianapolis in four hours and ten minutes, science is surely annihilating space. Tha beer at the fair remained on exhibition to the last. If the brewing company wishes to do the graceful thing it will send a slight testimonial of its esteem to the W. C. T. U. for the excellent free advertisement that organization has secured for It. From a headline in the New York Evening Sun it is learned that there is a "Xo Clothes Strike in Boston." Boston always did have the courage of her convictions, regardless of the weather or conventionalities. There were some alarmirg indications that the trouble between two Columbus ministers might result in gore, but it is gratifying to know that a duel with words

" : " : is to be the worst. A joint debate, in which each speaker's purpose is to prove the other a liar, will be something new in public discussions, and will undoubtedly draw larare and enthusiastic audiences. Ul RULES IX TIIE AIR. She Didn't Like It. "But that is another 9t.ry," remarked the young man. In the course of conversation. "How I detest that phrase!" said Gladys. "The old, old story is good enough for me, a;iy time." An Ineffective Allan. "How didt der bolice ged on to you?" asked the sympathizing friend. "I tond't know," responded Mr. Schwindellmann, sticking his nose between the bars. "I toogk.der name of Patrick Hoolihan ven I vent avay, pudt somehow It tidn't vork alretty." An Energetic "Writer. ."Isn't someone shooting off a pack of firecrackers?" asked the State fair visitor who had wandered Into the newspaper office. - . . "Xo," answered the police editor. "That is Just the railroad editor in the next room getting out his copy on the typewriter." .She AVns Reminded. "There is always room at the top," remarked the boarder who is addicted to proverbs. "That reminds me, Mr. Brown," chipped in the landlady, "that the attic is empty again.. If you know anyone down at the store who would like such a room, I wish you would send them up." TIIF i:DIAA TRESS.

The people of the Seventh congressional convention want a man in Congress who will do something for the district. Anderson . Bulletin.' Stick a pin right here: Every candidate on the Republican ticket In Daviess county will be elected by a good big majority. Washington Gazette. It will be comforting to the poor laboring man to learn that while the price of suear has been advanced by this administration the crice of diamonds has been lowered. Farmland Enterprise. The Republicans have 100.000 votes In that part of Indiana lying south of the National road and nineteen State Senators are allotted to that part of the State. Out of these nineteen Senators the Republicans on account of the infamous gerrymander, have but one Senator. Greenfield Republican. No sugar has been imported since the passage of the new tariff law, but the price has gone up all the same. The great Sugar Trust gets the benefit of the increased price -at present, and It amounts to millions of dollars. Truly, Democracy is a tax, aud the tax wrung from the people Is for the benefit of the trust. Corydon Reaublicp.n The calls made upon candidates for office to contribute to all kinds of enterprises of ?, charitable nature, and many which under other circumstances would not be presented to theni. are so annoying that men of extremely sensitive dispositions would rather decline office than to" acquire it e.t what to them seems to bo a sacrifice of .ncrsonal'; freedom and independence. Muncie. Times.-. When 1..VJ0. people sit and stand for nearly two hours in the' night air, to listen to a Republican speech, as. they did at Forest last night, It certainly indicates remarkable interest. Mr. Hanley says that he never addressed a more intelligent or attentive audience, and that the crowd was away and beyond anything he ever saw in r. village of the size of Forest under. lll:e circumstances. Frankfort News. An exchange says a farmer subscriber is feeding his wheat to hogs, further that . he has five thousand pounds of wool that he is thinking seriously of using as bedding for hH "horses. Oh.- yes, the Democratic party legislated for .the farmer gloriously. It .made his wheat gjnod for nog feed and his woof good for bending. ' He Should show his appreciation of .Democratic legislation whan he goes to the. polls in November. Hartford City Times. ; A number of farmers in the southern part of this county were much interested in shipping: baled hay to the Boston market. Since the, passage of the new tariff they have been notified of a reduction of $2 a ton In the price. The Democratic tariff reduced the duty that much, and Boston buyers say to American haymakers down with vour price or we will buy of Canadians. They pay less for labor, and with the duty reduced can bring in their hay $2 a ton cheaper. Is that "what the Democratic . farmer wanted? Lagrange Standard. A man of 'less temerity than Green Smith would hesitate before attempting to dispense political advice to the voters of a State which he has been robbing to the extent of about $40,000 a year since his accession to the attyrney-generalship of Indiana. Green did mike a speech at Logajisport last week 'however, and the Pharos ays o him: "He believes, as every' true Democrat believes, that no special nrivlleges should be granted to the faw at the expense of the many." In the language of the Indianapolis Sentinel, "we are tired of lhes: hypocrite." The spec tacle !s sickeninc. I'eru RepuDiican. A laboring man in this city who supports a wife and four children and who keeps an account of 'his earnings handed to the Republican the following: Amount earned under the , lat year of President Harrison's . administration, $133; amount earned during the last year, $300; amount sort on account, of less work and wages. $123; house rent paid each year, $84; fuel. tZo: shoes for himself and family. $16: breadstuff. $10. From the above ncrures it will be seen that this man has lost in lack of work and lower wages, enough of rroney to iay hU rent, his fuel, shoes for himself and Children and $10 toward his bread account for the year. Columbus Republican. The Democratic party Is thoroughly alarmed at the. conditions in the Fifth district, and well they may be. Every forecast made by representative Eastern papers on the political complexion of the next Indiana delegation gives the Fifth district to the Republicans, and this in itself is p. straw of no little importance. But better than all are the many proofs right here at home that the managers feel that it is a losinsr contest. In Hendricks county a fight for Cooper alone will be made. Judze Robinson was in Danville Saturday. Judge Cunning will be at Brownsbur Saturday. Whoever knewbefnra of such an effort made thus early in the canvass?-Danvllle Republican. ABOLT PEOPLE AND THINGS. A Paris society is said to have satisfactory proofs that Nicholas de Savin, of that city, is 126 years of agx, and the oldest man living. Cornell University Is a heavy loser by the forest fires in Wisconsin. It had about a million dollars invested in pine lands, which have been burned over. Professor Vlrchow, the most versatile of living savants, filled up his summer vacation by attending five great international congresses. Yet he is seventy-three years old. . It Is estimated that 10.000 men gave up comfortable homes and a certain income to make a quick fortune In the land of promise, the "Cherokee Strip." Nine thousand of them are bankrupt to-day. A school district in Grant county, Kansas, contains but one family. The father, mother and eldest son have elected each other trustees and appointed the eldest daughter, at $3'i a month, to teach the youuger children. "Some one," says Freund's Musical Weekly, "told Tachmann, the distinguished but eccentric pianist, that he was generally supposed to hi' of Hebrew descent. Non! aid he. proudly, "my father was a Cantor at Odessa, but my mother was a Turkey; 1 am a pianist." ;J' The latest reports from Hawarden state that Mr. Gladstone Is still able to see with the eye which was not operated on sufficiently to read and write. The other eye is not serviceable at 'present, but there is every hope that the sight of that one will ultimately be recovered. A correspondent writes from St. Moritz that "it is astonishing how completely Henry' M. Stanley and his wife have fallen into the background. One never sees or meets them at any of the smart gatherings. In fact, all Englishmen seem to take rather a pleasure in calling Stanley an

out-and-out fraud." Mrs.. Stanley is reported, to be as beautiful as ever and even more girlish than she was when in America a few years ago. Whenever the thunder Is loud Gottlieb Gallagher, of Jiggersville, Ga., is obliged to bandage his eyes. If he does not do this his left eye falls out of the socket on his cheek and the draught gives him a cold in the head. The popping out of his eye is not at all painful, but It is Inconvenient and frightens the children. A London coal company recently lost 3,000 tons of coal, the result of overthoughtfulness. Seventy barges loaded with .coal were floated from the dock of the company, and to secure greater safety they were stoutly lashed together, tandem fashion. One of, them sprung a leak and sunk, pulling down the other sixty-nine. An English newspaper suggests that Oliver Cromwell was not considered worthy of a statue at Westminster until the fact was recently brought out. In connection with Lord Rosebery's exploits on the turf, that the Lord Protector was also In his day a patron of horse races. People remembered Cromwell as an unfriendly person with a wart on his face, who cared no more for a Prince of Wales than . he did for a link bov: but the smell of the turf has introduced that touch of humanity which makes a monument possible. It is to be erected next year. The late Gen. N. P. Banks had failed very much before his death, as is shown by the following anecdote told by Colonel Wellington in a Worcester paper; "The last time I saw Banks I met him in the Adjutant-general's office in Boston; and, sadly enough. Banks was saying that his errand there was to find out what his rank was. He said he' remembered . he was In the war; he felt quite certain , of it. He was unable to remember with any distinctness how he was ranked, and he had come to the Adjutant-general to find out. He was dignified and courteous as usual, but for some time previous his mind had become a wreck. It was a curious way in which it failed to serve him that day." SHREDS AND PATCHES.

Lawyers help those who help themselves. Puck. It's better to waste a little money than to lose a good deal of life. Xew York Recorder. ,r! Fresh-air Boy Mister, do you have-te.-buy chewing gum for all those cows? Har !em Life. .-. , , v It seems that Kentucky whisky did not take sides and is in, no way compromised. Detroit Tribune. ; . ' The oldest fire escape mentioned is 'that of Shadrach. Meshach and Abednego. Tammany Times. If the bass drum could think. It would probably wonder why It has to keep still so much. Ram's Horn. Watch the flies these cold mornings; that is the way you will feel and act when you are old. Atchison Globe. In Berlin sheet music is sold by the pound. . In this country a good deal of it Is played by the same method. Albany Argus. If the bicycle bloomers go into general effect the woman s pocket will not be so rauch of a mystery. Washington Post, When a man gets up Into his family tree and looks clown upon the passers-by his usefulness has departed. Boston Gazette. In consequence of free eggs, few Democratic votes will hatch out alorng the Canadian border. Xew York Mail and Express. . Iet.me but construe your tariff laws, remarks Secretary Carlisle, and I care not who constructs them. Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph. ' If people would Jalk only on those subjects of which they have positive knowledse, -conversation would become a lost art. Albany Argus. The military successes of the Japanese make it possible that LI Hung Chang will be known In history as Li Chang Hung. Pittsburg Dispatch. Poor Ll Hung Chang has now lost another peacock feather. If it keeps on. his wardrobe wHl soon be reduced to a summer basis. Baltlmote American. THE STATE SCHOOL TAX: A Striking- Specimen of Democratic Ras cality and Incapacity. . To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: It is the undisputed right of every citi zen of the State of Indiana that not one single dollar more shall -be exacted from him in the way of taxation for the support of the State government than is required for an economical administration of the various departments of the State government. To tax the citizen beyond these needs is robbery. It is hard enough - for the average taxpayer at all times to meet his Just proportion of the poiblic burden, and to call upon him for more is a pure and simple outrage. That the Democratic party of Indiana Is now and has been since the year 1891 guilty of Just this kind of an outrage I propose to show in a manner that cannot be controverted. . In the year 1851 the Legislature enacted what Is called the new tax law. under which the appraisement of the real and personal property of the State was increased from $857,674,387 to $1,255, 256, 038, an increase of $397,3S1,C31. The levy for State school purposes was 16 cents In 1890, and under the old valuation -of $S57,674.3S7 produced a revenue of $1,372,279. which Auditor of $tate Henderson, in his report for 1832, says "was "adequate and highly satisfactory." The Legislature of 1891, which passed the new tax law that brought the property valuation up to 51.265.S6.038, left the school levy, through ignorance or disregard for the rights of the 'people, at 16 cents, and the result was that the State school revenue for 1S92 was $2.008,409 a sum in excess of the needs of the 6tate for school purposes by $536,130. When the Legislature of 1893 convened it was warned by Auditor Henderson that the State school levy could be safely reduced from 16 to 11 cents tin the hundred dollars but the warning went un-' heeded by the Legislature and the school tax was only reduced to 13H cents Instead, of 11 cents, as it should have been, and there was collected under this tax the sum of $1,W0,080.06 for the year 1893, at least $367,801 more money than was required for school purposes, if 'Mr. Henderson was correct in his recommendations on this subject to the Legislature, and that fact has never been disputed. The school levy for the year 1894 remaining at 13 cents, there will soon be another half million unjustly taken from the pockets of the taxpayers for school purposes. By the figures furnished, which are from the books, it is clearly shown' that In the past two years more than $1.000, (XX) have been unnecessarily, and therefore unjustly, taken from the people of Indiana for the alleged support of their public schools. That the exactions made by. our Democratic legislatures are far in excess of the needs of our schools is strongly supported by the fact that the school fund tax in Ohio for-1893 amounted to only $1,731,206.69, while in Indiana for the same year it amounted to $1,940,080.06. In other words, we collected In 189;j 1208,823.37 more State school tax in Indiana than was collected In Ohio for the same year, and that, too. notwithstanding the fact that the population of Ohio Is 1,479,912 or was in 1830 greater than tfiat of Indiana. This excessive school revenue ias been apportioned to the several counties of the Htate and Is now being brought back to the State through the instrumentality of Green Smith and his gentlemanly agents who pass around the State. This is the source from which Smith gets his rake-off, he being allowed a liberal per cent, for collecting unexpended balances of school funds in the hands of trustees. This is simply a specimen outrage of Democratic. Incompetency and mismanagement in Indiana. It is by no means the only one. J. IL CLAYPOOL. Indianapolis, Sept. 2L The Swepncy-Frascr Controversy. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: I see in your issue of to-day that Rev. Fenwick W. Fraser, pastor of the Presbyterian Church of this city, has been stirred up by your report of the Indianapolis Presbytery, before which I pref?rred charges against his character, to make a personal attack on myslf. I have no desire to make a defense before Journal readers, for I need none, but I would suggest the following as a proper settlement of the case: I challenge Mr. Fras?r to meet me in the cp?ra house before the people of our city, and I will bind myself to conv'ct him of. more falhoo.ls in connection with his dirty attempt to blacken my good name than he can count on the flng?rs cf bath his hands. I will pay all the expenses of the meeting, and we can then publish the result In your columns. I have chareed him before evrry court in Prsbyterlanlsm open to me, and h? has bitterly resistfd my attempts to bring this mattrr to trial. Z. T. 8WEEXEY. Pastor Christian Church. Columbus, Ind., Sept. ZU

ITS CROWNING SHAME

Frenzelite Ganp: in School Board Buys Kickctts Property. About S100.U00 of Debt Saddled on the Tablic Last Niffht to Foster the o Scheme of This Crowd. PROTESTS OF . X0 AVAIL 4 3IartindaI Adam, Roth; Loeper, Appel and Russe the Majority. Mr. Martindale's Feeble Effort to Defend His Position Mr. Biackledffe's Scathing Remarks. One of the interesting features of the School Board meeting last night was the purchase of the Kicketts property. The Frenzelites were out in force and President Martindale ascended his throne at 8 o'clock a happy man. His eye sparkled as he looked down upon his faithful henchmen and his coral lips took on the tiniest curve of scorn when he gazed upon the minority. The President was tenacious in his determination to "bull through' his pet scheme. He scented a close vote in the atmosphere, and this tended to make him snappy. He bit viciously right and iff t, but . did no more grievous harm than to interrupt some very pertinent remarks from Commissioners Blackledge and Hendrickson. The Kicketts "property deal was one of the first Items that came before the attention of the board. The purchase was discussed at length and the reports of the majority and minority committees were read. For an hour and a half the opposition battled against the Frenzel tide, but the report of the majority was carried and the sixty-thousand-dollar purchase at last consummated. Thus was another chapter added to the rottenness of the Frenzel-Martlndale School Hoard. The majority report recommended the purchase of the Ricketts property, after reviewing the situation at great length. It .said. thaVin conformity. With the. instructions given by the board it had investigated property on the east" of High School Xo. 1, but had decided that a suitable purchase could not be made for less than $45,000. The committee submitted letters from Adolph Scherrer, the official architect for the board, and from Louis Gibson. These gentlemen thought that the building could not be advantageously remodeled. The committee's report plainly evidenced the fact that these architects had been abruptly asked whether or not they thought the board should buy more ground. The report of the minority, by !Mr. Blackledge, contained letters from architect. Ctem and others, stating that an addition large enough to accommodate the patrons of the school for three years could be erected on the grounds of school No. 1. It showed that the Trumbull property lying immediately east of the High School, .with a frontage of thirty-five feet on Michigan street and 125 feet on Susquehanna street, embracing 23,000 square feet of ground, could be purchased for $9,000. The report deprtcated the idea of purchasing any site at present and contended that on the completion of the Industrial School a sufficient number of high school scholars could, be accommodated to relieve, the crowded condition of High School Xo. 1. Mr. Blackledge. In his minority report, explained that it was in the power of the board to submit to the court any contemplated purchase and have the property appraised at its rightful value. The majority report having recommended the purchase of tha Ricketts property, the Frenzelites were on the alert. Scarcely hil the last words of the . report passed from the lips of the reading secretary than Commissioner Roth was on his feet with his eye on the president. "1 move to adopt the report of the majority," he sang out, and at the same time Commissioner Blackledge arose. "I should like to be heard before" "Mr. Blackledge, you are out of order," exclaimed President Martindale. Commissioner Hlackledge sat down, but came up again as Commissioner Roth repeated his motion. Finally, Mr. Blackledge secured recognition and asked that the majority report be amended by he substitution of the minority. The president, put the motion on the amendment. It was promptly lost by a vote of six. to. five, the opposing body having gained the vote of Commissioner Galvln. President Martindale then prepared to put into effect hl3 coup de grace. V. THE SCHEMERS SCORED. "The question is now on the report," he blandly said, and nodded to the secretary to call the ayes and .noes. The calling of .the. roll began, only to be interrupted by .Mr: Blackledge. The commissioner demanded his right to speak and the president, for a moment, unloosed his hold on the bull's horns. "I cannot understand the mind that can resolve itself on this purchase after all that has been published about it," began Mr. Blackledge. "It certainly appears," he continued, " as if the majority of this board had. predetermined to carry the purchase through. Xo more ground is needed. If a .purchase must be made it can be found at the east of the High School, and will yield more satisfactory results. There are some questions that I would like to have answered by the president with - his bland smile." Commissioner Biackledg went on to say that by the statement of ex-Superintendent Jones regarding the i nereis of s patronage at High School No. L it could be 4eeen that it would require three more years to tax the capacity of the . building. Continuing, -the commissioner gald: "In reference to the paper. .0f this board, I should like to ask the president if he has addressed anybody" outHde of the city of Indianapolis. I say that weft an investigation as has been jnade1 is certainly not satisfactory or fair. Now. I say that if the loembws of this beard make up their minds to this purchase after reading whit has been published and said you are not amenable to reason." Ireiiem JdartirulaJ-. looking, uncomfortable, nervously toyed with a stubby pencil as Commissioner HendrickBon arose. T see that the minority has gained one vote," he remarked in a sarcastic tone, "and I think that if we had thirty years more ume xrnnx gam ine rest- I cannot understand why this board will come up here and legislate against the advice ot the pre anJ public. It looks like the board is playing to unseen fortunes. If this Is going through it is due the board that a committee be appointed to ask people to com? forward and make their charges openly. Give them a chance to tell what they know." Commissioner App:l When this proposition was first sprung it was evident that the members hid not time enrugh to investigate the matter. I am now convinced that every member has had ample time to s?e what he is doing. I concede the right of any man to differ with me, but I dny the right of any man to make my opinions for me even the gentleman from the First district. Commissioner Blackledge Let' er blow, my hearty. Commissioner App?l There has not been a dozen men in Indianapolis who have opposed this purchase. On the contrary, dozens have said It was right. Commissioner Blackledge Who were they, Mr. Appel? (This with a chuckle.) Commissioner Appel I don't care to tell you. sir. (The retort was hotly delivered.) Commissioner Blackledge Xo, I suppose you don't. (Well tinctured with irony.) The delightfully harmonious dialogue was cut off by the interruption of Mr. Vonnegut, who favored the minority, but deplored the constant indulgence in personalities between the members of the board. Mr. Vonnegut thought that the lower grades of the school required the attention of the board far more than he advanced classes, and he believed that the commissioners could afford to hold their contemplated purchase in abeyance for a time. He was opposed to spending any large sum of money on high schools at this time. As Commissioner Vonnegut concluded the president put the vote on the majority rcIort. The names of Commissioners Appel. Roth. Loeper. Uusse and Adams were I called. All voted In the affirmative. ComImissloners Scott. Hendrlckson. Vonnegut and Blackledge voted against the report

and the purchase. The secretary thea called out the president s name. MR. FREXZEL VOTES. "I vote aye." he Mid. after a moment'! hesitancy, "but . I want to explain som things to this board." Mr. Martindale devoted a half hour to an apology for his action. He declared that Commissioner Blackledge had misled the board in his statement regarding the Trumball property. He contended that it could not be utilized without the vacation of Susquehanna street, and he knew that thlt could not be done without Imposing a heavy burden on the abutting property holders. He further insisted that the capacity of High School Xo. I Is now exceeded by three hundred pupils, and claimed that many of those now .in attendance nre being housed in the cellar and exposed to an unhealthy atmosphere. This, the President thought, was brutal and Inhuman. He hoped that the school commissioners of tiie future would emulate the examples of the present board and continue to erect buildings of architectural beauty. The President did not look upon the new purchase, as an expenditure outright of $ia).m0. It was but $00,000, the balance tc be looked upon as rent or interest. He maintained that the High School building was not conducive to good health, and stated that the present principals threatened to resign if something could not be done. Commissioner William Scott, who was enjoying his first evening with the board, lamented the fact that the commissioners had acquired the habit of Indulging in personal flings during his absence. He- was not in favor of the punhase, and thought it would be unwise to burden the people with so large a debt when the additional grounds were not really needed. At this point Mr. Blackledge arose gain. The commissioner. It could be noticed, had a point to make. With exasptrating calmness and with a deadly aim he fired his arrow. "We have now voted an expenditure of $120,000," he said, looking Treasurer Adam sauare in the face. "I should like to ask the treasurer how large a bank account we have." "I believe there is $2,000 in the treasury at present." timidly replied Mr. Adam, with a glance of alarm at the president. "Yes, that is good." said Commissioner Blackledge. still standing. Then thrusting a hand into his pocket and pointing . forefinger at the treasurer, he prepared for his crownlnjr shot. "Will you kindly tell the board. Mr. Adam, where that bank account is kept?" The treasurer dodged the blow and glanced apealingly at the president. Mr. 'Martindale bit off the ends of his silken mustache. He was slightly perturbed, so his colleagues concluded. "Mr. Blackledge. you are out of order." he yelled, and brought down the gavel with a sounding-whack. Mr. Blackledge'i query was destined to remain unansewerej and the board resumed the routine affairs. The committee on finance recommended that the second Installment. $2Jc0. of the $160,000 temporary loan, be ordered by the board, and asked authority for the president and secretary to execute the board's notes for the amount. The notes were o be dated Sept 29, and made payable Jan. 31. 189G. Commissioners Hendrickson, Vonnegut and Blackledge voted against tne report. The committee further recom-. mended that $13.80 be paid on th'i Manual School contract. The gas question came up for discussion, and the committee on fuel and supplier recommended that the proposition of t:?? Consumers' Oas Trust Company be accepted. A statement from Manager Lyman, of the gas company, explained that an error had been made in Including school Xo. 13 in the contract. The manager said that his comnnny had n line In that direction and could not. supply "15." The preposition of the company to supplv fuel for the year ending Sept. nn. 1S35. for the sum of $S,493 was accepted by the usual vote. The contract include hlgn schools Xos. 1 and 2. and schools Nos. 1. 2, 3. 4. 5, 6, 7. 9. 10. 11. 13. 14. 19. 22. 23. 24. 23, 27. 28. 29 and 22. Also the Publ'c Library. The board adopted for the two high schools the "Appleton Atlas" on the suggestion of ex-Superintendent Jones and Professors Emmerich and Huflord. ' Object to Vncntlmc Street. A number of property owners on Susquehanna street yesterday filed with the Board of Works a remonstrance against the vacation of that street to the School Board. Xo petition" for the vacation has been filed. The remonstrators set opposite their names the number of feet frontage owned by them. The signers were as follows: Caroline M. Malott. 181 feet; V. T. Malott, SO feet; Shirley D. Murphy and J. D. Wood, lGlhi feet: John W. Murphy, 7i feet: J. O. Stillson. C7i feet: Mary L. Cones, 105 feet; Samuel Delzell, 40 feet; F. Stout. 10T. feet; E.. Hadley, 8o feet; M. E. Dalley, 91 feet; Louisa A. Wright. ISS's feet; A. Bo Condultt, 974 feet; Charles W. Sutton. 101 ree; John M. Wood. S3 feet; K. Manter, iOfeeL NEVER IXDOIISE AXV MORE.

Sir. Depevr Haa Forly Thousand or More Hen ion "Wliy. Xew York Sun. ' Chauncey M. Depew has been associate all his life, from the very day he left Vale College, with rich men. He was one of Commodore. Vanderbllfs "boys," and has been the Intimate of the Commodore's sons. The Garretts, the Scotts, the Morgans an 1 all the kings of the railroad and banking world for twenty years and more have been among Mr, Depew's friends. All of these gentlemen have been tackled by the fellows who are proverbially "short." There is a class of borrowers who want to exchange checks that is. the borrower wants the check of a sound man to use immediately, and in return gtves a check dated ten of more days ahead, when he expects that his own bank account will be rich enough' to meet it. There is la this fraternity a set of downright swindlers, whose checks are returned with that exasperating stamp, "no funds." As Solomon said: "My son. if thou be surety for thy irienu, u tutu nasi, mi iirivrii my iiu.u nu a stranger, thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth." Solomon evidently knew something about "hand shakers." Mr. Depew has come to some conclusions also, and here they are: "Xever Indorse an accommodation nott. If you wish to help your friend make up your mind how much you can afford to lose, and lend him that. He will consider seriously the repayment of this money, while your name on his paper will not receive a second thought. If his venture Is a failure and your money is gone, you will not be greatly disappointed, and your compensation will rw an approving conscience and the satisfaction of having done the best you could for one whose appreciation cf your effort you value. But your indorsement he regards as a mere formality. He believes in himself and has great eontemrt for your fears. At each renewal of the note he will want ti amount increased, or an additional note, on the plea of increasing business and opportunities. When you have become frightened at the sum for which he haa made you responsible, and find that you must stop or be- ruined, he will aay that unless you tld him further he will be forced Into bankiuptcy and you will be the cause. When he fails, as he Inevitably will, you find that the money raised on your notes has paid enemies and strangers who insisted on his dealing with them on business principles, and thiit you Are his largest and perhaps sole creditor. You ara crippled financially for a time, and perhaps for life, by meeting the maturing obligations which you have Indorsed. , ard your former friend, now your bitter foe. is loudly proclaiming in his own Justification that you are the author of his ruin. The result of your excursion in the careless lending of your name will be that you have lost both frind and fortune, and have uncovered, perhaps too late, that you are a fool. I have had in greater or less d?gree several such experiences." It is said on frood authority that Dr. I)eew lost $40,000 last year hv ir.lortnr notes. Ie will never do it again, he says. eat Scheme. London Truth. The simplest and most Ir.falliMe "system" for rraklnc monev on the turf is that of the tipsters who undertake to send their selections at cos't price, and rust to the client's honor for a pereentaae on the winnlnrs. This "system" it truly beautiful in its simplicity. The tipster obtains, let us ay. one hundred subscribers for his telegrams. To ten he sends on horse, to ten another, to ten another, an I so on. Out- 6? the ten horses one must win: consecuently. ten backers must send to the tipster a percentage on their winnings. It Is only a debt of honor, of course, but there Is honor even among backers of horses, enc' I am told that the Ingenious operator rarely eiperlences the slightest difficulty in recovering his money. All the telegrams being paid for by the clients, whatever he takes Is net profit, and he has nothing whatever to lose. There are some dodges for making money In contemplating which I am unable to feel any sentiment but profound admiration. This is one of them. Veterans 'lll MorcU Philadelphia Inquirer. The statement that there would be no parade of veteran, at the next encampment of trie (irand Army of the Republichas been quickly and emphatically denied bv the new commander in chief. There will bo many a parade yet. even if veterans drop out of the line from year to year. And es the line tecomrs thinner and only a few sre left to shoulder their riutch and show how fields were won as effective a leion will be taught as when rrled columns of youthful and vlRorjus tufa marched with elastic step to th. spiritstirring drum and t)e car-pit rcinj fix