Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 September 1894 — Page 4

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It is David Bennett 'J I Ill's enemies who have done this thing. It la about time for the Sentinel to assail the Governor a sain, as all the Green Smith organs have published the last attack, with comments. The Republican party is a national party, just as big as the United States, and it does not propose to impoverish the American people to try an experiment by benefiting others. Governor Matthews is personally a great deal better man, than Attorney-general Smith, and for that reason he should be a better Democrat If there is such a classification. A comparison between General Harrison and Senator Voorhees in Indiana and Gov. McKinley and Senator IJrlce In Ohio will perfectly Illustrate the difference between the Republican and Democratic parties. When the votes shall have been counted several men who are working for re-election to the House in this State will regret that they had not the prudence of Captain Conn, which led him to get in before the storm came. If it required all th$ trust's refineries to supply the people with sugar two years ago and half pf them can do it now. It glands to reason that (the people are not t so able to purchase sugar as they were at that period. The State Auditor would confer a favor upon many anxious inquirers If lie would ' publish by counties the amounts of school money which the Attorney-general has caused officers to refund and of which he has pocketed 12 per cent. It seems not to have occurred to the Commercial Club that It would be better for the city to own Its water works, to which It pays a large sum annually, than to embar.k in an extensive ornamentation of the city by Increasing Its debt and annual taxation. The figures In Governor McKlnley's speech, as printed, relative to the amount of the public debt paid during the Harrison administration are not correct, as the amount of public debt reduction during that period was $3.074,200, instead of $233,000,000, as reported. Of course, Mr. Cleveland had nothing to 4o with the matter certainly not, he being cut of politics; but It does look at this distance of some wicked anil vindictive person who remembered David's anti-Cleveland record had digged this deep hole that now yawns before him. After demonstrating so clearly In his speech that the Democrats could carry New .York without difficulty. Senator Hill, if he declines the nomination thrust upon him, will put himself in the position of throwing away an election and with it the accompanying honor of being the next Democratic nominee for the presidency. This makes matters embarrassing for David. The Philadelphia Times, an out and out Democratic paper of the Cleveland brand, is inspired to observe that "Mr. Holroan has outlived his usefulness, and the advanced enlightenment of the age calls for broader and more liberal statesmanship than he exhibits." The Philadelphia Times is correct; but why stop with the antiquated Holman? Has not every other Democrat in the Indiana delegation voted with him? True, they have not had claims for canal boats thirty years old to smuggle through the House, but that is beet use no constituent had such a claim to use 'as a eudgel. Consul-general Morss informs the State Department that the wheat crop throughout the world will be 33 per cent. In excess of the world's demand for consumption. This is evidently an error, and a very grave one. As a matter of fact, the crops of several years have been in excess of the demand, but the excess has been from fifty to a hundred million bushel3. This year the surplus is estimated at about two hundred millions, which Is not Id per cent, of the estimated crop of 2.4S7.S01.C0O bushels. This, however, is enough of a surplus to keep prices low. If the masses had as much money with which to purchase wheat bread as they had' two years ago. fifty million bushels of the surplus would be needed In this country. Such a reduction of the curplus would help prices very much. To the extent that wheat consumption is reduced by the nonemployment of labor, to that extent the Democratic party Is responsible for the low prices. The Republican candidates for Superior Court Judges meet with the hearty approval of all good citizens. It Is an excellent Judicial ticket, and In that respect Is a marked contrast to the Democratic ticket presented to the voters of Marlon county. In this connection it may b said that while tht

Democratic Judges In the Superior Court, with the exception o:! the late Judge Taylor, and of the Criminal Court have brought reproach upon the administration of Justice, Judge Winters, who wa3 appointed by Gov. Matthews to succeed Judge Taylor, has been an able and industrious magistrate. He has insisted on having the business upon hi3 docket attended to, and as the result the docket of Room No. 1 is cleared up. He has resolutely discharged his duty in regard to many important matters, which came to him from his predecessor which a less insistent Judge would have permitted to linger along to the great loss of the parties in Interest and the gain of persons holding trust funds. STILL ''THE GRAXD OLD PARTY."

The tide of Republicanism is rising throughout the North. Every election for months has borne evidence that once more the Intelligent people of the country have allied themselves to the party whose history irt this country is interwoven with the grand achievements of a third of a century. It la again In the confidence and the enthusiasm of the intelligent masses, in fact, the Grand Old Party. It has had its dismal periods. It has been slandered by its enemies and betrayed by those who should have been loyal to it. For years, in the North, it was most defamed and harmed by men who had received Its honors, but who deserted it because It would not accept their dictation. These men, by their influence and position, led away thousands of young men who should Wave been Republicans, and temporarily seduced many of them to Join the Democracy. They were the "infallibles" of 1S72 and the mugwumps of 1SS4. To-day thousands of the then, deluded young men have found their way back Into the Republican party. It 13 not claimed that Republican counsels have always been wise, or that the party's policy in all things has been the best; but these defects are unimportant compared with its series of achievements the checking of the extension of slavery, the saving of the 5 Union by the Lincoln policy, the destruction of slavery, the reconstruction of the Union, .the policy by which the national debt ceased to be a burden and specie payments were resumed, and the policy of protection, which has brought to the Republic the most marvelous growth and prosperity that a nation ever enjoyed. The leaders to-day are those who followed Lincoln as Union soldiers, or stood by him in his great work. They are animated, by the same spirit, and the nationalism for which they contend to-day is the nationalism for which Lincoln contended. The names of Its leadders are those which all men most admire and reverence: Lincoln, Grant, Morton, Sherman. To-day Its statesmen are the men to whom the Intelligent masses look for succor: Harrison, John Sherman, McKinley, Allison, Reed, and a long line of others who are in full accord. The intelligent people of the country who are nowsuffering from the same Democratic incapacity which . went out of power in March, 1SC1, look with renewed confidence to Republican leadership and policy to restore the country to the prosperity of 1651 Hundreds of .thousands of men know that they are the victims of Democratic incompetency, and they know that Republican ascendency is the only remedy. There can be no doubt of this. Every election during a year has shown that the people are turning to the Republican' party and away from the Democratic as they have not since the early days of the war. Even the local elections of Indiana last April and May showed this rejection of Democracy and 'approval of Republicanism. The turning out of manufacturing populations en masse to greet Governor McKJnley on his journey to and from this city attests the turning of the Intelligent masses to the Republican party. The tide has been rising for a year, and it will rise for months to come. In all Its splendid course, the party of Abraham Lincoln never held a higher place In the faith and regard of the American people than it does to-day. THE WAGES OF CARPENTERS. The Muncie Times learns that carpenters who in 1832 were paid from ?2.2 to $2.73 a day can be obtained for 1.73 this season. This is probably the case in most towns. And yet we have been told all thefe years that the carpenter is one of the many mechanics who receive no benefit from a protective tariff. This year carpenters in cities like Indianapolis have fared better than in most others because many people have seized upon the period of cheap material and lower wages to build houses which otherwise would not have been built. But the fall of wages in the building trades, with the fall of wages and salaries generally, is the natural effect of a natural cause. The greater part of the people who rent houses are wage earners. When the wages of those who are employed in what are known as the protected Industries fall they cannot pay so high rents. As the result the owner must either accept lower rents or the tenant must get a cheaper house. In this city it has been found that In many Instances two families crowd into a house which one occupied before "the era of Democratic prosperity" came. The result of such causes as these is that the building and improvement of houses for rental, ceases. Again, nine-tenths of the buildings occupied by merchants and those engaged In varied industries are rented. When there is a full volume of trade and these industries are prosperous there is a constant demand for Improvement and extension, but where trade drops off and orders cease these people look for smaller stores and shops and lower rents, so that another source of employment for those In the building trade ceases. Large corporations, like railroads, are the first to feel the effects of business stagnation and Industrial paralysis. The Improvements on scores of stations and depots cease, no more cars are bullded and few are repaired, and thus other builders who have had full employment are added to the Increasing number who must contend for the decreasing volume of employment. The wages of carpenters, in short, are less now than in 1SD2 because the fear of tariff revulsion has paralyzed the Industry and business of the country, causing a

falling off or an entire loss of wages In the Iron, textile, glass and a score of other industries. Whatever affects the wages of one or two millions of wage earners affects thl wages and the employment of all others. Protection has held up the high scale of wages in this country. Protection removed, all must shrink, some t more and some less, but none will be exempt. In the dispatch which gives a synopsis of Consul-general Morss's report to the State Department the following appears: It 13 mentioned that in Belgium. Holland and the United Kingdom, which admit wheat free of duty, the current prices are less than in Paris. The French duty was Increased early this year to 7 francs per hundred kilo9. This Is doubtless intended to sustain that side of the free-trader's argument which holds that a tariff on imports does not Increase the price. Why is wheat cheaper in France, with a high duty, than la Belgium and Holland, where it is on the free list? Because France this year has raised all the wheat 'needed for the sustenance of Its people. The high duty keeps foreign wheat out of the French market, and there is a competition between home producers which, if there is enough to meet the home demand, and there is this year, makes a home competition regulated by the cost of production. Belgium imports more wheat, according to its population, than any other country. The price Is the London price, augmented by the monopoly which a few importers are usually able to establish. The duty has nothing to do with the price of any article which a country produces in sufficient quantity to supply the home market. Does the boss of the Sugar Trust Imagine that the American people, are fools, and that they will believe him when he says that the present tariff law has7 been Injurious to its business? An injury? "Why, Just before the Democratic tariff law went into effect a New York commercial paper showed by the official figures that the trust had imported And put into its warehouses enough raw sugar, when it could be Imported without duty, to supply the American market for six months. As soon as the Democratic tariff came in force that stored raw sugar was worth 40 per cent. more than It cost the trust. Does the boss of the trust Imagine that there is no money t in Increasing the value of 1,500,000,000 pounds of raw sugar 40 per cent.? As well argue to the American sugar consumers that increasing $100 to $140 Is financially detrimental to the recipient. Mr. Havemeyer's attempt to help the party which has put $30,000,000 Into the treasury of the trust by saying that the new tariff has injured its prospects is a story that Democratic organs will repeat, but which no man With a glimmer of sense will believe. ' ' ' : Mothers) In. Convention. The national "mothers convention," whose coming session was mentioned in the Journal a few days ago, is now In full blast in Chicago, with seven hundred mothers in attendance. A few fathers are scattered through the audience, but their position must be rather embarrassing, since the women speakers are inclined to speak of fathers in general with a degree of scorn. "The -head of the family," said one lady, "is the man who earns the money for the family needs, who lives at the family home, and who sometimes takes a. considerable interest in the little one? the children generally associating him with a newspaper." If the thought occurred to this good lady that If women would travel across the country to "study childhood" In convention somebody must earn the money to send them, and might, therefore be exempt from other duties, she said nothing about it. Men, however, it Is only just to say, received comparatively little attention. The women talked about children and listened to the remarks of physicians, who, by reason of their skl!l as rrecialists, had acquired a knowledge of children's physical eeds which, oven though they were men, was considered -worth listening to. It was one of these physicians who greatly shocked a large number of the assembled mothers by telling them that it was wise In certain cases to givo babies alcoholic stimulants. Before they had recovered from thl3 jolt io their eettled convictions the speaker made further disturbance in nursery traditions by the assertion that fruit i not good for children, and that candy is better. "Bad candy between lmea!s is bad, of course," he sakl, "but fruit is worse." After the doctor's departure an- animated discussion followed, in which was displayed some grief and much indignation. After all the teachings of temperance text-books and the lore of the klnderjrart'.-ns that alcohol, even when ad

ministered as medicine, was dangerous, and that candy was a thing to be kept from the little ones, here they were directed to reverse their ideas. It was very discouraging, and on the whole they didn't know whether they would reverse or not. Apparently, they hadn't come there to have their most cherished Ideas upset, but rather to see how many mothers agreed with them. Then they drifted into a talk about baby clothes, and were particularly animated in the discussion concerning sleeping garments and the surest methods of keeping the youngsters from kicking the covers off. The reports of the meeting do not give the consensus of opinion on this subject, but one mother's voice was heard above the rest with the announcement, "I put my baby In a bag at night," and as no objection was made the bag may be regarded as meeting the approval of a respectable proportion of the seven hundred mothers. The convention will remain in 6e3sion for a day or so yet, and there will be plenty of opportunity for the expression of new and original views concerning the bringing up of Infants and for edifying expositions of scientific child culture. Such of the disclosures as seem to be of importance to the more than seven hundred mothers who are obliged to stay at home; and 'tend baby will be duly set forth In the Jodrnal. Meanwhile, these numerous mothers can go on in the old-fashioned way, feeding the little ones when they are hungry, petting them when they are good, spanking them when thev are naughty, and loving thsm always as mothers always have done they can do this serene In the conviction that the wav to study children is to study them at home, and that, though conventions may serve as a place to swap theories, it is at the fireside that practice makes the infant as perfect as infants may become. nrnnLEs ix tiii air. Spoiled It. "I'd hate to be as lazy as you are," said the scenic artist's friend. "Lazy? Me?" "Yes. Whenever you have any work "to do you always make a scene." "Put sometimes I make a drop curtain." I replied the painter, and the friend's little jest was spoiled. Correct. Teacher Now, remember, children, you shoula not say that two persons talked together for an hour. Just say they talked. The "together" is superfluous. Tommy But s'pose they both talk at

once, like maw and Aunt Jennie does? Don't they talk together then? Iftsacit Praise. "Hasn't Miss Warbeli a beautiful voice, though r "I should say so. Why, I verily believe she could get an encore on 'Sweet Marie. " On Parole. "So you let the prisoner off on his word . for a couple of days, did you?" asked the castaln. "I did," answered the lieutenant. "And do you think he will come back on it or go back on it?" ABOUT PKOPLE AXD THINGS.

"Honi soit qui mal y pants" is the latest comment on the woman's bicycle costume. A prominent Chicago man has written to . the Congregational 1st, taking It to task for having referred to the poet Whlttier as no longer living. Rare Ben Jonson learned the trade of a bricklayer, but tired of It, so the story goes, after a workman dropped a couple f jrlcks on his head and upset a hodful of mortar down his neck. Dr. Roux, of the Pasteur Institute, claims to have found a cure for croup. It consists in the injection of serum from the blood of a horse that has been Inoculated with the cultivated microbes of croup. There are doors in some old houses in Holland which were, in former days, never used except for weddings and funerals. After the bride and groom had passed the door was nailed up to wait the next occasion. The Compte de Paris was preparing to take up his residence in the United States In 1S70, when the Franco-Prussian war broke out and led him to abandon the notion. He expected to buy an estate in Florida, West Virginia or California, Palmer Cox, the father of al: the Brownies, has for the present given up his literary work and spends his days watching the rehearsals of the play in which his little people will figure, and which Jefferson, Klaw and Brian ser promise to produce at the Park Theater, Philadelphia, Oct. 13. The Emperor Francis Joseph has been making a tour of bis dominions, and ha been welcomed everywhere with favor and enthusiasm. Beyond doubt he is the most popular sovereign in Europe. But the question as to what will happen when he disappears from the scene is one of the black clouds on the horizon of European polltics. Mr. Jerome K. Jerome, the English editor, rectntly received the following missive from an unknown contributor: "Dear Sir I am waiting for my breakfast. To be plain, fehave been waiting for my breakfast for two days, and unless you accept the Inclosed manuscript I shall have to wait considerably longer." The man is still hungry. A writer gives these simple rules to govern the baby: "Keep the baby's bib dry if you have to make sixty changes an hour. Give him not a scrap of meat before his third birthday. Rave him from the kisses of his friends. Keep the sun out of his face and his head above the clothes. Put him on his side and train him to keep his sweet little mouth closed day and night. The air Is filled with germs, dust and dirt, elements that are not good for human lungs Little time for gropin' In the dark, dark night; Little time for hopin In the sweet, bright light! So buckle on your armor. An love an' live your best, I "Till the good Lord comes to lead you To the roses of His rest! Atlanta Constitution. 'Us here, the sweet autumnal balm; That sense secure, that restful calm, When no one cares a single Jot Whether the Ice man comes or not Washington Star. SHREDS AXD PATCHES. We would all be good If It were not too much trouble. Milwaukee Journal. The man who tells you how mean he considers himself is lying. Galveston News. Stand by your colors, but do not try to pin them on. everybody else. Galveeton NfTTS. . She It rakes two to make a bargain, you know. He Yes; but oniy one gets it BostcTi Courier. Let a. man so live to-day that he would not fear to hear his obituary to-morrow. -Ram' Horn. The boy who never wanted to throw a stone at a cat has little need of prayer. Cleveland Plain Dealer. Appointments and disappointments now emanate from Methodist conferences. Pittsburg Chronlcle-TelegTaph. One crop this year Is enormous. That's Republican enthusiasm. Farmer Cleveland cultivated it. Cincinnati Tribune. Sugar will come high to everybody this fall, but it will cost the Democratic party most dearly. Kana3 City Journal. The President's health is the only flrstclass condition of his whole administration, 'Philadelphia North American. People talk too much about sickness nowadays. No easier way to get sick than that.- Philadelphia North American. Horses are so cheap now that they are not worth stealing, and country thieves ars looking for hogs. Atchison Globe. Mr. Breckinridge makes a serious mistake when he indulges in, a joint debate with the bleaching boards. Washington Post. It is preserving time; but the best "art preservative" is that which makes jams in the stores by advertising. Philadelphia iteoord. A few more Japanese victories will leave LA Hung Chang open to negotiations from I'roprietcrw of living- picture galleries. St. louia Republic. Cleverton Hello! What are you going to do with the book of etiquette? Dashaway I've just ben invited to an informal dinner. Brooklyn, Life. . . Secretary Gresham's design seems to be to cause the American flag to be held in as little respect abroad as he himself 13 at home. Philadelphia Press. JUDGE ASSASSINATED. J. II. Combs Killed at Hf Home in Terry County, Kentucky. B ARBOU R VI LLEy Ky., Sept. 26. Letters received here this morning from Hyden and Hazard say that Judgo J. H. Combs was assassinated at his home in Hazard, Perry county, Kentucky, Suniay morning at 7 o'clock. Judge Combs is the father-in-law of J. O. Everson, who was killed by the French faction some years ago. He was shot 'from a corn patch on the opposite side of the street from his residence. Two unknown men were seen running from the spot and they Joined a third man ai the rear of the town. This Is not the first attempt on Judge Combs's life. Unknown persons shot at him twice early In May, lSi4. Both shots took effect in the door casing where he was standing. A SEliiOU i;siAUGE. - Thieving Lumber Kings Accused of Starting the Minnesota Forest Fires. CHICAGO, Sept. 26. W. J. Littlejohn, of Chicago, In delivering the annual address before the Fire Underwriters' Association of the Northwest at the Grand Pacific Hotel to-day, declared that the recent forest fires had been started by the lumber kings. They had taken that method, he said, of covering up their stealings and to them was directly due the death and destruction which followed. The speech caused a sensation among the four hundred members present. The occasion of to-day's gathering was the celebration of the silver anniversary of the association. Hopes o Serure u Xev Jnw. SEDALIA, Mo.. Sept. 20. Dr. Harry C. Smith, second house surgeon at the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Hospital, has left for New York city, taking with him fireman William Milne, who had his lower Jaw and tongue shot away In the attempted train robbery at Kelsoe, I. T. An effort will be made to secure for the inI lured man a new Jxw, and for this purpose . the most eminent surgeons oi iorn will be consulted. The railway -company i is doing everything in its power to .'lessen j the misfortune that befell its faithful em. j ploye, and is paying him full salary.

PtAHKE'S skin game

SPRINTER RYAN TELLS A NEW STORY OF THE FAMOUS RACE He Sny the Pork Chop Gamblers ' Tried to Bribe Him to Loose and Swindle Siralne. Gus Rahke, who within a short period of a few years has passed from a fair butcher to a boss gambler, with seal-skin overcoat and diamond attachment, is jubilant over the arrest of Joseph Swain, whom he charges with having been a party to a confidence game, by which Rahke and his friends lost nearly $3,000. But the friends of Swain do not propose that Rahke shall have satisfaction for his money in Swain's Imprisonment. Swain's friends have another story of that famous sprint across the river. They claim they will be able to show at the trial to-morrow that the race was an honest one, and that the confidence part of the affair was on the Rahke side of the fence. At the time of the Journal's first publication of the affair It surprised a great many sports on the levee that Rahke should invest his money in a mere even bet. While Rahke is a gambler, he Is not in the business for his health, nor to loose. In other words, he is known as a sure-thing gambler, t as his big diamonds and recently-acquired wealth evidence. James C. Ryan, the sprinter who won the race, will be at the trial on Friday. He says that Rahke andThompson came to him and told him if he would lose the race and thus "throw down" Swain, who was backing Ryan, they would give him half the money they might win from Swain. Ryanj says he told them he would do as they wanted him to do, although he mentally resolved that he would not lose the race. He says 'he told Swain of the offer of Rahke and Thompson to bribe him. Swain told Ryan to go ahead and beat Parker, the man whom the Rahke crowd had entered in the race. After . Ryan won the race Tim Sullivan, the stakenolder, gave the money to Swain. Ryan claims he can outrun any man in America, and will be glad to put up $10,000 if Mr. Rahke and his friends would care to form a pool and enter a foot-runner against him. He says a letter addressed to the Auditorium in Chicago will reach him. "I am surprised at Rahke, Thompson and the rest of these pork-Chops and tin-horn gamblers," said Mr. Ryan, confining himself to elegant language. "I see they want to punish Mr. Swain because he got the money after I won the race. Do they think I would have come to your city to be wiped up by a cheap lot of robbers? I like a first-class gamoler, who can win money on his merits and take it away from a lot of tin-horns. They put up the job to skin my friends, and it turned the wrong way." IlEV. WASHINGTON GLADDEN. He Entertains the Contemporary Club with a Lecture on Thomas Carlylc. The Contemporary Club held Jts first meeting of the season last night, in the east parlor of the Propylaeum, with the new president, Mr. W. P. Fishback, in, the chair. The room was handsomely decorated In yellow, golden rod, nasturtiums and yellow marigolds being the flowers used. There was a largre attendance of members, drawn by the opportunity of hearing Rev. Washington Gladden, the speaker of the evening. Mr. Gladden Is well known to the reading world through his writings on various social, religious and literary topics, his name being of frequent appearance in the New York Independent, of which he was formerly the editor, and In the leading magazines. Perhaps the production which first suggested itself to the majority of 4he club members on receiving the announcement of his coming was the series of arti cles on reform of municipal government which appeared in the Century Magazine last year under 4he title "Oosmopolis," and which was widely read and discussed. There .was a general expression of pleasure that the club was fortunate enough' to ' secure him for a lecture on Thomas Carlyle expressions that were even more emphatic at the close of the address. Mr. Gladden's enunciation Is very clear and distinct and his delivery pleasing. He gave a history of Carlyle's life, following him from his boyhood days, with their frugal living and stern discipline, through his university career at Edinboro. through his early literary experience, and'down through his long married life, with its struggles, trials and final triumphs, to the pathetic end. The incidents were simply told, being largely drawn from Froude's biography, but the comments and conclusions were the speaker's own. The latter half of the essay was i study of the character of the man and an estimate of Uie influence of his work. The speaker was eloquent in his tribute to the sturdy virtues of Carlyle, which, he insisted, were so great as to overshadow certain less admirable characteristics that had created a prejudice against him in many minds. Although he showed a pettiness and narrowness in his criticisms of other men of his period, his sense of eternal right and Justice was of such strength and was so forcibly expressed in all his work that their influence on the moral movements of the community was great during his lifetime, and is still felit. Future students of the great social and Industrial revolutions of, this period will, Mr. Gladden thinks, class the ethical teacher Carlyle as the maker of an epochs The address, which was listened to with closest attention, was followed by remarks from Mr. Fishback, Mr. Noble C. Butler. Mr. Snow. Mrs. Sewall and others, which were hardly less interesting, and the ope iing. session of the year was voted an entire success. TALKED TO' FA CTOKX MEN. lion, diaries I.. Henry Speaks nt Washington nud Blackford Streets. Hon. Charles L. Henry. Republican nominee for Congress from the Seventh . district, addressed a big audience of workingmen at Washington and Blackford streets la3t night. The meeting was held largely for the benefit of the factory and packinghouse men who reside in that district, and was a success in every particular. The listeners were compelled to stand, bat paid the closest attention to the remarks of the speaker. The platform erected on the point was ablaze with lanterns of various colors and a band of music contributed two or three selections before the meeting began. Prior to Mr. Henry's speech, William A. Hayes, a bright young Republican, who is connected with the Kingan packing house, talked briefly to the employes of the industrial establishments, and made some sound, praedcal points. His remarks were well received. Mr. Henry talked for an hour upon the topics of vital Interest to the mechanic and factory employe. He said that the questions at issue now were not political questions, !n reply to a man in the audience T'ho shouted that no good Democrat would work for $1.50, but were questions bearing gravely upon the protection of the American home. lie compared the condition of the Indianapolis laboring man wilh those of the workmen of England, Germany and France, and explained their manner of living. The tariff bill, he said, was noihing if not a bill of sale to the Wh.sky and Sugar Trusts. On the pension question Mr. Henry had some thing to say. and, nerore he left it, pretty thoroughly illustrated the fact that the $29,OO'.OO) which the Democratic administration claims to have saved was s;mp:y a reduction of the Pension rails. Tnrouh-Ut his speech Mr. Henry introduced Illustrations of the conditions of the workmgman at home and abroad, which appeared to in terest his hearers deeply. The meeting was presided over by Thomas E. Chandler, of the firm or Chandler & Taylor. Thinks n Mlstuke Ham Ileen Made. To the Editor of the Indfananolis Journal: I notice in the Journal of this morning an article under the title of "Two Terms of bffice." coj'ping a report made by six leading attorneys of your city. After some investigation of the subject I have reached the conclusion that there Is a mistake In such report as to the necessity of electing township trustees to fill the unexpired terms where they are held by appointees. j I believe the true construction of thw statute is that the appointees hold during the unexpired term. Section KC3, Revised Statutes, provides In what cases the board of commissioner- uay fill vacancies in

township and county offices. It excepts such lower In all cases where the statuta makes a different provision. It then provides that the successors of those appoint ed under this section phall be elected at the next general or township election. ThLs act took effect May 6, 1SC3. In J.9 the following was enacted and took efTect .eb. IS. 1Q. It is Section l'JP, R. .. 1S81: "All vacancies in the office of township trustee shall Ire filled by th board doing county bu?lnes in term time, or 3 the Auditor In vacation: and evey trustee so appcinted shall continue in office until his successor is elected and qualified." It will be noticed that the time of the election of his successor Is not flxe4 by this section of the statute. It is not fixed by the other section of the statute, fcr that section only applies to such persons as are appointed under that section, This, therefore, leaves the successor her referred to to mean the general successor at the end of the term. I do not think that any other construction can be given; to this general language. It is important that the people be set rlht on this matter, and if there is a mistake In this report It can be corrected. Hence these sucKestions. INVESTIGATOR. Shelbyvllle. Ind., Sept. 20. KUHNE U EVE IU DUE'S DIVORCE.

Her Secret Marriage rrith Charles Coghlan in This City Recalled. Kuhne Beveridge, who was last winta the heroine of a midnight marriage at th Bates House, has at last been granted tht decree of divorce from actor Charles Coghlan. Yesterday, in New York, Referee Edward Jacobs presented a report to Judgt McAdams. of the Superior Court, In which he found that young Mrs. Coghlan was entitled to the decree of divorce on the ground, of the relationship of Charles Coghlan with Louisa Thorn, known as Mrs. Coghlan No. L The case was not contested by the defendant's counsel, and the attorney for the plaintiff asked that the report be confirmed. Judge McAdapis refused to order the papers in the case closed, siylr.g that ihe interests of the law and the Republic require that every paper In a court should be a record, kept open to the public. The do- , mestic relations of the Coghlan family hav been before the public for a year. Last year, while playing "Diplomacy" with his sister in this city, Caarles Coghlaa secretly married 'Miss Kuhne Beveridge,' a pretty girl, who asSamed a small part in the cat. The marriage occurred at the Bates House on the closing night of tht company's engagement here, there being na one present except the officiating clergyman and pne or two members of the company. Mls3 Bjveridge was highly connected, and a week after the marriage, when the facts became known, the affair created a marked sensation. Tht matrimonial lift of young Mrs. Coghlan was not happy and concluded in an open rupture when, in a few months. Louisa Thorn turned up in England with the claim that she was tht first and legitimate wife of actor Coghlan. THE MUMU BOX SCHEME. Terre Haute Saloon 3Ien Fail to Head the Indianapolis Papers. Four saloon keepers of Terre Haute have Joined company with a number of salooa keepers of this city In being tricked into signing what they thought were agreements concerning the sale of music boxen but which were notes for $250. The etory from Terre Haute shows that the samJ tactics 'were used there as in this cfty. A smooth-talking young man acquainted himself with the saloon keepers and interested them In nlckl-4n-the-lot musia boxes . made by the Automatic Muic Box Company, of Cleveland, O., for which ht claimed, to be an agent. An agreement was drawn up with the supposed agent and tht saloon keeper as parties. In which it was agreed that the machines would be furnished, and that the saloon keeper would be given a certain time to decide whether he wished to buy the instrument or not., rhe saloon keeper signed a duplicate agreement, at he thought, but the agreement was really a note for J25U. The agent preeented the notes to the four saloon keepers of Terre Haute yesterday, but the latter refused to recognize them and hav employed legal aid to resist payment. CARPENTERS' CONVENTION ENDS. Hasty and III-Timed Strikes Will Not Be Countenanced. The convention of. the Carpenters and Joiners International Brotherhood adjourned yesterday morning. During tht last session the only thing done was to make a few changes in the constitution and listen to speeches from the officers and delegates. During the convention some questions important to the workingmen wert considered. It was decided to leave all political questions to the local unions. Tht convention refused to approve hasty and ill-timed strikes, ' and on the other hand. not to support any strikes for.nlne hours, but only for eight hours. Applications for membership from several organizations were received, and the prospect is that the membership roll of tht brotherhood will be largely increased within a short time. According to the statements of Secretary-treasurer McGuire there are ninety thousand members. The majority of the delegates left for their homes yesterday and all were extremely pleased with their reception in this city. The nett convention will be held in Cleveland, O. Daughter of the Revolution. The annual meeting of the Caroline Scott Harrison Chapter of the Daughters of tht Revolution was held Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. (Merrick Vinton,' on North Pennsylvania street. In the election of officers the following were chosen: State regent, Mrs.C C. Foster; chapter regent, Mrs. Merrick Vinton; vice regent. Mrs. James M. Winters; recording secretary. Mrs. J. It. Lllley; corresponding secretary, Mrs. John I Griffiths; treasurer. Mrs. Georgs B. Sloan, and historian, Mrs. F. W. Winchester. A committee was appointed tt make arrangements for an open meeting. "Mrs. Winchester was made chairman, and the others are Mrs. Edward Dean and Mrs. C. F. Sayles. The meeting will be held in November. The meeting was held on tht 23th In honor of the birthday anniversary of Mercy Warren, one of the famous revolutionary women, and it is expected to make each of the meetings an observance Of some birthday or anniversary of famous women. The association has a button of blue and white as its emblem, and they were distributed at the meeting. There ar twenty-one members of the chapter here. Any one to become a member has to furnish satisfactory documents that a direct ancestor was In the revolutionary war. Tht order is to promote patriotism and to give a wider knowledge of the history of the early period of the country. Outcome of n General Flgfit. Carl Eckert, William Shipley, James Leq and others quarreled at Court and California streets Saturday night,- Sept. 16. Shipley was slightly cut on the head with . i . . . . A..Wrtf a Kniie in me nanus ui Mucru ccinoi days afterwards Shipley an I two others were arrested on charges of assault ani battery, but were dlscharKed in Police Court next morning. Yesterday patrolman Dilts arrested Eckert and Iee. tne former on a charge of assault and battery with intent to kill. - j Tvro Minor Accidents. Frank Hall, aged nineteen years, living near the east nd of Michigan street, attempted to oard a Vandalla freight train near the river bridge yesterday afternoon .and was thrown down an embankment. The City Hospital found that his injuries were confined entirely to brulxes. ' Joseph Carter, employed at a saloon nt Meridian and McCarty streets, fell down a flight of stairs and broke a Itg. He was taken to the hospital. Killed by an Eurnged Husband. NEVADA. CaL. Sept. 2. Some time yesterday an unknown tramp attacked Mrs. innh William at her home In the old I toll house, three miles above Columbia hill. .i, t . A KK.l V t- T.r n'ti tht woman's husband learned of the outrage. He followed the tramp to Swectland. where he found him in bed this morning, and shot and killed him, l'rofenxor Serine 111. CHICAGO, Sept. 2S. Prof. David Swing, the eminent divine, who ha been critically ill with a complication of stomach disoruers. was reportea to-iiay io ua uyinx. buc the report was emphatically denied by his family. Proxeor towing had. his physicians said. pas?el a re.t.es nifcht, but was much improved to-day, and will, it i thought, recover.