Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 September 1894 — Page 4

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THE LDIA.APOLIS .lOlH.WL fun r found at the following places: 1 AIUS American Exciiaoxe in Paris, CG Douleranl t Lai uc me. L. YQUK Gilty House and Wimbor HotcL rdllliADELI'IIIA A. P. Kemble. 373i Lancaster CI1ICAUO ralm-r House, Auditorium IIote-L ClXCEsrXATI-J. li. HavTley & Co.. 154 Vine street. lOUlSVIM.I-C. T. Peering, north wet corner of Tbiid and Jtnerou itreets. fcT. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot W'ASIIIXaTOX, D. C VSgs House and Ebbitt House. George William Cooper 13 beginning to Buspect tbat he cannot fool the people of the Fifth district any longer. It Is not necessary to use "bright silver dollars" to hire Democrats in this vicinity not to attend Democratic meetings. David Dennett Hill, if he has-been playing a fair game, now realizes the objections to the "snapper" tactics which were played Upon Mr. Cleveland's friends. If the resident's New York organ, the crimes, has not bolted the nomination of 31111 It has already made it Impossible for ft to do him any good oaring the campaign. It was indiscreet of Hon. William L. "Wilson to allow himself to be feted by British business men while his party at home already has more than it can do in explaining ciway congressional .blunders. Mr. Bynum did his utmost to defeat the till which put over $700,000 into the treasury of Indiana because he always stands in with the ultra Southern Representatives against the people of Indiana. The taxing of lots for the construction of sewers by the front foot, regardless of their location, value or what is on them, is an excellent illustration of what the single land tax would be if generally adopted. Mt. Wilson told the British banqueters that the Gorman bill would injure their trade. Why, of course, and in view of this injury it was nice of them to be unselfish and forgiving and offer him a feast. Levi P. Morton does rot represent an "'uplifting in politics is the complaint of q Cleveland organ In Massachusetts which serves the Democracy under the mark of mugwumplsm. That sort of hypocrisy has Leen found out. "Our people always go to Democratic meetings," said a Randolph county Republican, "to hear what new lies the speakers bave to tell." That curiosity must be rewarded this year by the recital of a. large number of very stupid misrepresentations. M3ny Democrats have been abused by the Democratic press, but Hill has been gibbeted and placarded as a black-hearted traitor. Most of that press will now praise felm, showing that treason of the b'aefcJfcearted variety Is not so bad a thing in the Democratic party. Mr. Cleveland's New York ' organ refcurks that the American flour trade in Urazil "continues dull." Now that the Harrison reciprocity treaty will be off in three months and American flour will pay a. duty of 0 per cent., there will be little American flour trade, anyway. The Democratic Brooklyn Eagle finds an explanation for the emphatic refusal of exSecretary Whitney to be the Democratic candidate for Governor and his almost passionate insistence that Hill should be in the saying that "the best place for a boll Is on another man's back." Half the veterans in Indiana at least have Iteard before this that Secretary of State Myers is in accord with the Cleveland pent-ion regime, and believes that "President Cleveland is the best friend the old soldier has," and they are disappointed that he does not give the reasons of his belief in his speeches. The Louisville Courier-Journal calU attention to the fact that boss Haverayer E.iid to the Senate committee that the McKinley law would be more useful' to the Sugar Trut than the Senate bill, but the C.-J. forgets to add that the Senate bill makes sugar cost the consumer about 43 Ier cent, more than it did under the McKinley law. Democratic papers are talking about the nomination of Hill as the result of a won-J-f.rful popular uprising. "Popular uprising" 13 good in view of the fact that all the candidates who had been considered desirable had refused to run, and Tammany politicians In the convention laid hold of Hill in sheer desperation as the only available man left. While there are serious objections to having the School Board appointed by the Mayor, like the members of other boards, It is eminently proper that Its estimates for Xnoney and loans and purchases of property should be submitted to the City Council to be made valid, like the estimates and loans recommended by the Mayor and the boards under him. The Detroit Fre Press thinks there is no partisan capiial to be male by Republicans out of the lynching of negroes at 2icCeehee. Ark., becaue the ringleaders in the lynching were themselves negroes. Republicans ar not engaged in -making party C3t:ui cut cf such affairs. What they point cut f;-- v.rr.i M y a that the frequency

criminals hows that the people- of the regions where r-uch things are common are in a condition of barbarism and savagery. If they are also Democrats, that is an incidental matter. So- far as the participation of negroes in "lynching bees" is concerned, that Is to be expected when the offense happens to be one that rouses their wrath. If white people of Arkansas and thereabouis, who assume to be of a superior race, hang without trial men who are suspected of crim what b?Uer can be looked for from Ignorant and Imitative blacks? What Republican and other fair-minded Northern newspapers want is for Southern whites to become civilized. The improvement of the negroes will naturally follow. I'llOFK.HSCJIl WILSO.VS DCLISIOX.

The suggestion in Chairman Wilson's speech at the dinner given in his honor by the Chamber or Commerce, in London, to the effect that the Democratic tariff law and the more marked departures to free trade which Mr. Wilson advocates will injure rather than benefit Great Britain's trade, must have tickled John Bull, who is not an ex-college professor or a theorist, but a hard-headed, practical slnd grasping person. As a matter of fact, such suggestion is contradicted by many expressions of Chairman Wilson himself. In his presentation of his bill to the House he made estimates of the revenues waich would be derived from Imports under the ClevelandWilson bill. The sugar duty was light in that bill compared with the present law, and yet Mr. Wilson estimated that nearly as much revenue would be derived from imports as under the McKinley law. Th'e duties of the present tariff law, leaving sugar out, are on an average about 50 per cent, less than those of the McKinley law, yet on the same "articles the treasury expects to obtain nearly as much revenue. The expectation is well based, for if a dozen cases of a certain kind of foreignmade goods are sold in this country when the duty was, say, CO per cent, ad valorem, it stands to reason that at least double that quantity will be sold when the duty ha3 been reduced to "0 per cent. If it is the high tariff which keeps out foreign goods, then the lower the tariff the more wjll be imported. ' Professor Wilson may not believe this, but every business man understands it, and no business men more thoroughly understand it than those BritIsh merchants who listened to our freetrade theorist. Because they understood it, they had the bonded warehouses in New York. Boston, Philadelphia, and, indeed, In the interior cities, filled with goods awaitUig the passage of the Democratic tariff law which goods they hastened to take out when it had been passed, to put upon the market. Because British manufacturers and merchants knew that the throwing down of half the wall which kept them out of this country would at least double their opportunities, they sent their traveling men and circulars to American jobbers last June, July and August, offering great bargains should the Democratic tariff bill become a law. Many years ago, in the House of Commons, when that body was considering an increase of the . revenue. Burke, the greatest of British statesmen, epigrammatically said: "Halve your duties and double your revenues." That rule may not be in force now, but nearly everybody, except a selfduped American theorist, knows that to halve the McKinley duties will double the Import of foreign goods competing with our own products. HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF.' The saying, "history repeats itself," has ccme ,to have the force c-r a truism or axiom. It does repeat Itself. The same causes produce like results, and the record of these makes history. In his first message to Congress, delivered Dec. 8, 1S57, President Buchanan, a Democrat, said: 1 In the midst of unsurpassed plenty In all the production of agriculture and In all the elements of national wealth we find our manufactures suspended, our public works retarded, our private enterprises of different kinds abandoned and thousands of useful laborers thrown out of employment and reduced to- want. This was after eleven years of the Walker tariff, which was for revenue only, and when the revised Walker tariff had been In force six months. It was the result' of the best revenue tariff which could be devised, and it was devised and revised by the party to which Mr. Buchanan belonged. What a picture his words present suspended manufactures, abandoned private enterprises, thousands of useful laborers idle and reduced to want. In his message to the extra session of Congress President Cleveland paints a companion piece for the portrayal of President Buchanan, thirty-six years earlier. In that message Mr. Cleveland said: - With plenteous crops, with abundant promise of remunerative production and manufacture, with unusual invitation to safe investment, and with satisfactory assurance to business enterprise, suddenly financial distrust and fear have sprung up cn every side. The Democratic paralysis of 1S57 followed eleven years of a tariff for revenue only, but the . paralysis of 1SJ3 came when the country -learned that the Cleveland regime had determined on changing irom a protective to a revenue tariff. Mr. Buchanan attributed the stagnation to the defects of the Wclker tariff, but, less a statesman, Mr. Cleveland saw. in the Sherman silver law the cause and in its repeal a remedy. That law was repealed; timid money owners took their deposits back to the banks, but not a factory started that bad closed in the fear of another Walker tariff law or something worse. Much labor remains unemployed, and In nearly every industry,, whether of manufacture or the distribution of merchandise, wages have been but from 10 to 30 per cent. Men and women, with anxious faces, yet walk the streets of manufacturing towns ' or where employes "were discharged a year ago, seeking employment In vain, to return to homes in which there is no joy. These unemployed find In the low prices attached to clothing in the ' stores bitter mockery, when they look at their threadbare and faded garments and their 'hands find empty pockets. ; Yes, Democratic history, on the confession of Grover Cleveland, is repeating Itself with a vengeance; and It will continue to repeat Itself in reduced or no weees, in rr:-.trr rzy 'hcuzfa r.r.J rt?r' r.I . 1

cause a. Democratic Congress has given their birthright of employment to aliens in other lands. 0.E C.ltSC Or LOW-PRICED WHEAT The statistics of the Agricultural Bureau show that the American peoole, in the prosperous year of 1SD2, consumed 5.91 bushels of wheat per capita. During 1S93, he first year of Clevelandism, the per capita consumption of wheat was 4.83 bushels. On the basis of a population of 65,000.000, these figures mean that 63.K0.000 bushels less of wheat were consumed In this country In 1S33 tban in 1S32. If that amount had been taken from the surplus in this country Jan. 1, IK) I, there would have been little wheat "in sight" at that time to keep down1 prices, so that when the. bountiful crop in Indiana was assured the price was rSluced to 42 to 45 cents in Indianapolis and to less than 40 cents' at other points in this State It was this surplus in the elevators and the granaries of the farmers which' the American people, deprived of employment by the Democratic threat of tar.'ff revulsion, could not buy to eat which boat down prices. Had that 70,000.000 bushels, in round numbers, been consumed as It was during the prosperous Republican year of 1S92. wheat would not now be worth $1.25 a bushel, as promised by Representative Bynum to the farmers of this district, but there is no reason why it should pot have commanded 65 cents. Instead of 13 or 45 cents. When lue masses have the means with which to purchase, the products of the American farmer will be,in demand at fair prices. The masses will have the means to purchase only when there is general employment and the high wages which the adequate protection of the American market to the American producer can insure the -wages and the employment of 1892. The I'ittsburg Dispatch has discovered that the Iron people in that city had been building up a valuable trade with Cuba uader, the Harrison reciprocity treaty, which gave them advantages over competitors in other countries. As an Knglish trade journal said recently, our manufacturers had driven the British out of Cuba; but now that trade 13 gone, Cuban 'merchants having written to that effect. One house had a good trade In plows, which were free under the Harrison treaty, but which now are debarred by a duty of C5 per cent. This merchant concludes his letter as follows: I am afraid we shall have to go back to Spain (IJilboa) and lTngland to get . our iron in future, as duties will make your bar plates and square iron here too dear to compete with other countries. Another Pittsburg house had opened a market for boilers, but when the treaty ended and the duties were applied their Havana factor wrote: Afraid of such tremendous disbursements as are to be looked for ahead of us, I desisted from ordering any boilers, and our friend, , picked up all my friends and sold them boilers from . And yet Professor Wilson tells British merchants that, with his tariff, we shall wrest from them a large part of the commerce of the world!

Mr. Wilson assured the London Chamber of Commerce -that the protection policy of the United States had served to promote the trade of other nations, and that under free trade American commercial and industrial interests would revive and flourish as never before. This Is Mr. Wilson's crafty way of making it all right with his party for having accepted, an Invitation to a complimentary banquet given by representatives of England's commerce. Naturally in this connection he did not allude to the fact that no British Board of Trade telegraphed congratulations to McKinley or showed an anxiety to banquet him. The New York Times, whic?h has been clinging desperately and through oitter disappointment and adversity to the idea that Democracy and reform can be united, is loud in its expressions of anger and disgust over the nomination of Hill. The Post, having alluded to Hill the day before the nomination as having given a "lifetime of devotion to the most disreputable politicians and disreputable politics," could hardly be other than unhappy now. It Is unhappy, and wails loudly. As a harmonizer of discordant party elements the Democratic nominee Is not starting out well. Democratic papers, tired of trying to defend the tariff law and of making excuses for Democratic blunders, have gone to talking about the "billion-dollar Congress," meaning the Fifty-first, which was Repub4 lican. and the "profligacy" of the Harrison administration. They discreetly say nothing about the later billion-dollar Congress, which is Democratic, but then, to be sure, what was waste and extravagance under Harrison is merely the necessary running expenses of the government under Cleveland. It is due to the Republican papers in Indiana to say, that they are giving the cause most effective service in this campaign. -It is most effective because in paragraphs they bring to thousands of 'voters, every week, practical facts which are convincing. While they proclaim the great service of those who make speeches, no one Is likely to give them the credit for their silent bat potential efforts. The Democratic Philadelphia . Times . is moved to this ejaculation: "If Hill only had character to match his brains what a tremendous fellow he would be!" It is a pity, truly, that the New York Democracy can find no man in its ranks who combines brains and character. It Is a predicament so common In that party, however, that the New Yorkers will have many sympathizers. American farmers who are selling off their sheep as fast as possible since the wool business In this country was destroyed by the Gorman law will hardly agree with Secretary Morton that this country has said farewell to the protective system.. The estrangement between the farmers and the Secretary of Agriculture is becoming very wide. ' . " ; It hi:s been suggested that It would be well to can some of this superb weather for use about Christmas. The mas Fcrter. who has just been . sentrrcl c.t Lervicn to three years' rrr.al

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craze, of wbich newspapers ,a.ll over the country some time ao availed themselves to boom circulation. He has been living on his wits for years. '.i

Davy Hill. (A mournful ballad setting forth how a virtuous and defenseless statesman was . rudely wooed and forcibly espoused by a New York Democratic convention.) Aciuwdia vc;ic: icinir, n ct . Ha, ha, the wooing o't, Flower knew a tiling or tvro. Ha, ha, the wooing o't, Whitney smiled and turned asidl Gaynor, waiting for the tide. Half consented, half denied!, Ha, ha, the wooing o't. Thus their wooing prospered ill. Ha, ha, the wooing o't. Till they buncoed Divy. Hill, Ha, daa, the wooing o't. Faint of heart and sick of soul, Davy tried to shirk the role, But they shoved him in the hole, Ha, h'a , the wooing o' t. Davy has a deal to lose! Ha, ha, the wooing o't. But he dare not now refuse, Ha, ha, the. wooing o't. He must yield: but woe is me; ' 'Tis a fearful thing to see . Grover whet his snickersnee, Ha, ha, the wooing o't. j Davy, Davy, fare you well; Ha, ha, the wooing o't,- . Who this tale' of woe should tell Dear, dear, tne wewing o't. Tumbled in the dust and foam Of November's hippodrome, -This his epitaph: "Gone home!" Ah," alas! the wooing- o't. J Xemo. 1HUULES IV THE A1H. I'rofeHNlonnl Jealousy. "It Is queer you should presage disaster,'1 remarked J. Caesar. "The other augur told me that I had a sure thing." "Call him an augur? Him? W'hy, he Isn't even a respectable gimlet." The Modern PiiRillftt. "I understand that Thumretts and his manager had tan awful row the other anight." n :t "I should say they did. I saw it myself. I never saw a madder man than Thumpetts was. Why, he was .actually almost mad enough to fight." , The-' Primal Cause. "What Is the'reasonNoorlch failed to get into high society? I thought he would have a sure thing -of it, after undergoing the operation for appendicitis." "He would, if it had not been for his physician foolishly telling that It was caused by chewing toothpicks." A'.ltuMlncvM Mnu. "No." said Mr. Hal cede, "I ain't goin to pay no ten dollars fer Ithls suit. It's second-hand." "Vatr shouted Mr.'chheimer. "I. say it ; is? second-hand. Second-hand clo'es is them that has been wore, ain't they? An' didn't I "have to wear the suit when I tried iton?7.t. "Vat a pity," said .Air. Achheimer, in admiration, "vat a pity it Vas dot you vas prought up to pe a farmer. You got a pizness head dot vas simbly owit of sight." THE I.UIA.A PRESS. When Copoer: hears i from the Fifth district he will think it Is in Maine. Danville Republican. Congressman Bretz is reported to have said that the Democrats of th? Second district .had "fooled the Republicans into voting the Populist ticket before, and would do so again." Washington Gazette. Down In Bartholomew county the antiCooper men "ar turning out en masse to hear Hon. "Jessty 0vVrstreet discuss the Issues of the day: Mr. Overst.reet is making votes wherever he addresses the people. Plainfleld Progress,. Ex-President Harrison will make but four speeches during the 'campaign and these are to be In his .beloved Indiana. No President has ever retired from the White House with more respect since- the days of George Washington: Warren Review. The alleged good times which the Democratic papers are now shouting about as already here seem to have brought along a reduction of wajres in all lines of labor. It is to be hoped that wages will not continue to decrease as theso.'good times increase. Liberty Herald. ' ' Republicans who are" not at work should begin instantly and ' be in position to appreciate the victory.'' Several good Democrats in this county are helping us nv, ana quick work should be made of this revenue-tarilf fake while there s lots of help. Martinsville Republican. The old soldier who can vote with the Populist pait5;l(whqi;e platform is disregard of law and . government and contempt for our governmental institutions, has forgotten that he fought ' four years to make this the bast 'and strongest government in the world. Clay, City. Knterprlse. If you haver' n?4 enough of "Grover's clover" and want, more of it, just vote for Bynum. lie is. one- w'ho helped sow the seed from which! this luxuriant grow'th of "clover" came,' Grover says the seeding and harvesting,, as U were, have not commenced yet. H you want it stopped give Henry your-Vote. -Pendleton Republican. If the Hon. Bcb Bell wants to get ridNof his ducats by inserting the name Elkhart in place of Alien la'tlie proposition he made at Muncie th. other day, ard will come over here and. bring his check book, we will show him -haw-he can reduce his bank account as rapidly as the gold reserve is being reduced "Bob" Is a-bliffer, if anything. Klkhart Journal. The people of Clinton county will see to it that no Democratic official will enter the courthouse this all. They know that in the days gone by the gang, now thirsty and ever so hungry, not only proved Incompetent, but were "wholly corrupt. Every man on the Republican ticket will be elected by a plurality that will simply paralyze the opposition. Frankfort News. The Republican, is Informed that Stockslager said in his recent speeches at Buena Vista and Laconia that the new tariff bill would make cheaper clothing for the people, and that, later In his spoech. he said free wool would make . that, commodity higher. These statements show the usual inconsistency, of Democratic stumpers. If free wool makes higher wool how can clothing be cheaper? Corydon Republican. The Dally Press, the Democratic organ of this city. Is doing all in Its power to make a disturbance in the American tinplate factory here between the workmen and the proprietors. They are howling about a cut In wages, when no cut has been made. From goo1 authority we learn that no cut is contemplated. In an interView with some of the workmen we learned that nothing has- been announced to them regarding a cut. Elwood Call Leader. Congressman,. Taylor Is being called on for many explanations, and while he is in the explaining ? business he jnlght tell why the first removal of a postmaster in this county was that of an old, crippled, broken-down soldier, who had given eminent satisfaction to the patrons of the office, to make room for a strong, healthy Democrat. Was that a. fair specimen of his love for the soldier, of which some Democratic papers so glibly prate? Gibson County Leader. At the reunion of the Tenth Regiment held last week at Lebanon the veteran Gen. Manson was there. He told the boys: "I do not want to make a political speech. I won't do it.- I have two invitations to attend reunions in Ohio. One is the regiment commanded by Maj. William McKinley, one of th great m?n of the Nation, but I want to say 'to you, boys, that Indiana is proud of the fact that she can boast of having as her citizen the greatest living s-taCs-man Benjamin Harrison." Fcwler Republican Era. , " . ; Democratic speakers and papers la Indiana are devoting much time and space to the biggest kind of a lia relative to the number ' of "workmen employe! la Wells's window-glass factory fit Crj:r:!L And they say that t'-vD r:t I: IzttztzI. Wc hav- rorr- r - C : r - '.- cn lh in r :"i r. ' .

men employed, there are 1T0. and those at a reduction of 22-j per cent, in wages. Since the passage of the Wilson bill and reduction in wages Mr. Wells has had a standing offer of $10, payable to the person who can point out a Democrat in his employ. Prior to the passage o-f the bill there were numerous Democrats in that factory, but now they are changed. Knightstown Banner. It Is usual for a Representative to live in his district and be In touch with his people, so that he may know their warns and how best to represent their interests. Bynum had only lived in Indianapolis a few years when he was first elected - to Congress, and seven or eight years ago he moved his family to Washington, where all are practically residents. He is seldom seen in the district, except when he convs around asking for votes, and certainly knows but little of our wants or needs. Greenfield Republican. ABOUT PEOPLE AMI THINGS. Jules Verne's income, with all his tireless industry, has never averaged over 1,200 a year. Mrs. Myra Gaddings, of Liverpool, has Invented a reversible bonnet. It is so constructed that it can be changed In two minutes from a Gainsborough flaring brim to a dainty toque or widow's cap. By far the most unique silver service ever made is owned by Mrs. John W. Mackay. It is said to have cost $196,000. Mrs. Mackay furnished $75,000 In weight of pure silver, besides paying $121,000 for the work. The will of the late Edmund Yates contained a clause in whicih he expressed the desire, that his jugular vein should be opened immediately after the physician had pronounced him dead, in order to prevent the possibility of his being buried alive. N. P. Stanton has devised a scheme for the rebuilding of the Brooklyn Tabernacle by the issue tof twenty-year, nonlnterestbearing bonds of the denominations of one, twenty and one hundred dollars, on which he is confident $.100,000 could be easily obtained. Professor Rous, of Paris, at the recent hygienic congress at Buda Pesfth, asserted that in the Paris "hospitals 75 per cent, of the children inoculated with Behring's antidiphtheritine (serum taken from horses) were saved, while of those not inoculated 60 per cent, died and only 40 per cent, survived. A curious case of kleptomania is reported from Paris. A wealthy woman, noted for her wit and brilliancy, has a mania for stealing men's hats. She can create a hul laballoo at a tea party or ball that makes thinrs decidedlv unnlftisan'r. Tihe hats are

of no possible use to her or 'to any one else, i because she cuts out 'the crowns as soon as she gets them. Her malady has been called mania de chapeau. Charles R. Pope, one of the old-time American actors. Is organizing a series of musical entertainments for the big Music Hall in St. Louis, to be given monthly and beginning in November. He has secured the cervices of Seidl and his .orchestra, Walter Damrosch. who will give a Wagner festival, and other leading talent. Mr. Pope, U may be remembered, was consul-general, to Toronto under "the Harrison administration. J. H. Winner, wfro years ago, and merely as a diversion, wrote the words and music of "Little Brown Jug." took the precaution to copyright the production, which sold up In the hundred thousands and realized a tidy sum for its author. Mr. Winner's brother "Sep" is the composer of 'The Mocking Bird," which made for him a small fortune. Curiously, the author of "The Jug," one of the most popular of drir.king songs, always lias been a total abstainer. Lady Somerset thinks the bicj'de is going to bring a train of benefits to the working classes. A revolution," she says, 'is being slowly wrought that will entirely change the aspect of life for working girls. The country, with all its recreative charm3, will soon be at their doors. The privilege hitherto belonging to the rich a Saturday to Monday in the country when the sultry air makes town intolerable is fast becoming possible to them, and the new friend that brings with it these fresh hopes is none other than that swift steed of steel, the bicycle." A WAIL OF A7VGUS1I. The Proldeiit IVrsonnl Organ on the Nomination of Hill. New York Times. Where does the Hill leadership lead and what are its fruits? Last year it led to the defeat of all the Democratic candidates for State offices and to the election of a Republican Assembly. More than that, the wave of angry popular protest swept the Republicans into unexpected control in the constitutional convention. That convention has prepared and will submit at the polls an abominably unfair and partisan legislative apportionment scheme that will become a part of the Constitution if ratified, and will for the next twenty years put it out of the power of the Democrats to gain control of the State Legislature. Should the resentment of Mr. Hill's part in the stealing of the Senate prove lasting enough and stern enough to defeat him this year, his leadership would be chargeable with the practical destruction of the Democratic party in the State. This Is not' politics, it is madness. In this year, when the set of the current is distinctly away from the Democratic party, it has been the unreserved opinion that New York could be carried only bv a Democratic candidate above faction and of great strength with the people. Mr. Hill is the embodiment of faction in It3 bitterest form, and the fate that befell his agent last year awakens the gravest forebodings as to the fate of the ticket now headed by him. It is useless to seek for full approval of the convention's action among the opponents of the present State organizntion. Mr. Hill's speech in support of Mr. Cleveland and replying to Mr. Gorman, his seeming candid profession of a desire to see the party united, and the broad and in many respects admirable speech made by him on Tuesday in the convention have modified somewhat the opinions entertained of him. These things are creditable to him. but they fall far short of making him either acceptable or advisable as a candidate. The enthusiasm that he may Inspire among his own organization will not compensate for the disapproval and apprehension with which his candidacy is elsewhere regarded. The party goes into an up-hill fight weakened by the old division. Irritated by suspicion of bad faith, and in unmistakable alarm as to the result, a feeling that is by no means confined to the ranks of the anti-snappers. Disappointment at the outcome of their own convention, however, will not make Mr. Piatt's nominees any mere, attractive to Democrats. The behavior of the convention toward the contesting delegations from this citv and from Brooklyn was narrow, brutal and brainless. The delegations it excluded are fairly representative of the vital force, the intelligence and the capacity for growth of the Democratic party. The flower of the party's youth Is In this class of its membership. To shut the door in their faces i3 to restrict its organized membership to the stale old machine types, infertile and unprogressive. There is death and destruction for the party in this kind of management It Is unintelligent and unnatural. It dries up enthusfasm, , weakens party attachments and destroys the basis of party loyalty. The T'nes would not do its duty to the Democracy If It failed to denounce the work of the convention, .begun in unusual hopefulness and ending in this act of Incredible folly. The Democratic party has lost a great opportunity. A Chnplfr of Vnpnbllalied lllntory. Philadelphia Record. It is said that the difference between Senator Hill and Senator Murphy on the one hand and President Cleveland on the other might have been settlej at -the beginning of the administration had the two Senators been willing to accept the olive branch of peac-e as tendered by the administration. More than a yiar ago overtures of peace were made to the New York Senators by a gentleman directly representing the administration. They were told they should control more than the lion's share of federal patronage if they would make terms -with the administration and in ratura give the adherents of the President in New York a fair share of the State patronage. The administration did not ask for half of the State patronage, but would be satisfied with a smaller, amount. In pursuance of thi3 scheme of reconciliation Messrs. Hill and Murphy were invited to the White House to dinner, at which time it was proposed to bury the political hatchet forever. The invitation to dinner was coldly declined, as were als the overtures for peace. Since then according to ihe administration people, by whom this chapter of unpublished political history in now given out for the first time tha two New York Senators have waged unceasing war upon the administration. They have held up scores of nominations of mea who belong to the wing of the party represented by the President, and in other waysr have used their influence to embarrass the administration. Coy z Ertrc'.t Tr'.tur.s.

HOME LIFE IN RUSSIA

AN AMERICA WO MAX TELLS IIEIl EXPERIENCE IX RENTING A HOUSE. A Lnxnrloiift Exterior In Often a Whited Scpulrliek Hltlinjc l)omctIc Dry Bono' n ml MIserle. Philadelphia Inquirer. An American the circumstances of whose life compel her to live in Rusisa writes: "The housekeeping here is very e"xpress!ve of the real character of the people. When I first came all my preconceived ideas seemed to be quite upset. "The first dinner we went to was the most beautiful thing I ever; saw. " Such flowers, such gold and silver plate, such exquisite porcelains and such beautiful service. The table was a square of oak as black as ink, and as polished as marble. Very wisely they had not hid its beauty under a cloth. Rs only covering was two strips of splendid old altar lace laid along each edge under the plates. Up the middle of the table marched twelve candlesticks, two and two, and these were of that lovely Venetian glass which has the milky green of shallow sea water thickly powdered with gold dust. They were made in those fantastic dragon shapes of which the Venice glass workers are so fond, and the shades were of delicate gold filigree, hardly heavier than cobwebs, set over pale violet silk. There were thirty or forty tiny gold vases set abo'ut the table everywhere, filled with white and purple double violets Just careless little clusters with long stems, and a few leaves. At each plate stood a small forest of wine glasses, each one a gem of the Venetian factories, making a charming mass of translucent color, milky green, amethyst and gold. All the forks and spoons and knives were works of art, with handles of gold, of carved ivory, of porcelain or of the beautiful Russian enamels and. cisele work. "Everything one touched, or handled, or used in any way was a delight to the eye, and the many men who served us simply moved like shadows. ENCHANTING WOMEN. "The women were the most beautiful, high-bred creatures I ever saw such grace. such charm, such ease and the fluency with which they slipped from one tongue to another without, apparently, knowing any difference as to facility In English, German, French or Russian fairly took away one's breath. And then such gowns and jewels. I have never seen women so well dressed anywhere outside of America. The men weren't quite so nice. They had heavy faces, and brushed their hair straight up like a scrubbing brush In that odious continental fashion, but they were quite as brilliant and accomplished as the women, and the effect of the whole was of the last perfection of civilization, luxury and high breeding. "At first it was all like that everything was so picturesque, so graceful and luxurious that we congratulated ourselves on being obliged to live in Russia. We saw only the pleasant side the outside of life. Finally we grew very tired oT living in a hotel and concluded we would rent a furnished house for the season. Ther was one which had taken my fancy greatly. It was occupied by people we knew and was particularly picturesque.' "The owners were rich people and they had furnished it in a semi-Oriental f3ney, which pleased me tremendously. Since Russian influence has lecc.me . paramount In Persia the best of the Persians looms confine themselves to supplying the Russian market, aud the walls of this house wer hung throughout with the most beautiful rugs I had ever seen. It made the most rharming picture when one went In out of ;he bitter cold to have a, cup of afternoon tea there, and was ushered into this drawing room, hung with fhte gorgeous mosaics of color, wide. low divans all ro-un 1 the room, more splendid rug3 under foot, the samovar steaming on a p-earl inlaid table, low lights making a soft, rich gloom, and a taint smell cf incense mingled with the perfume cf the heaps of hothouse flowers. So that when I heard these acquaintances were going to Paris and wanted to let their house as It stood I said at once I would take it, without taking the precaution of examining it. UGLY ROTELAnONS. "The day after they left I went over from the hotel to have a look about and see if there were any little rearrangements I wanted made before moving in, and to order a thorough . house cleaning. To my amazement I found no bed chambers. "'But where did the family sleep? I asked the woman in charge. 'Oh, no place In particular,' she replied, quite as if that were a matter of course;- 'wherever they happens to be when they were sleepy. Sometime? in the drawing room, sometimes here; there are divans every where, you see.' " 'But didn't they take off their clothes?' I gasped in horror. "Generally; but one doesn't need a bed chamber for that. One just rings for a servant to bring some negligee or niRht dress, and the same servant takes away the clothes one drops off and fetches a duret to spread over one. "That, was enough. That drawing room had lost all its charms for me. Inquiry developed that when one .woke up in thei-e haphazard beds in the morning one calied a servant, who came with a breakfast tray, and one ate where one had slept. Investigation showed that in the midst of all this luxury and beauty the commonest necessities and conveniences were wanting. With a sinking heart I made out a list as long as my arm of what it would be necessary to purchase to make the house a possible abode for an American. Then I took up the subject of housecieaning and suggested that all the rugs had better come down from the walls and be thoroughly cleaned and shaken before being hung t.p again. The servant was very dubious. They had not teen taken down for years. " AU the more need for it. then said I, and lifted one corner only to drop it again with a cry of disgust. Behind- these glowing colors and rich designs were peacefully dwelling untold thousands of beetles roaches and creeping things not to be named. I gave one swift glance under the divans, and. picking up my skirts, fled for my life. Apparently, for year?, when the rooms had been swept everything had simply been puhed under the convenient hiding place of the divans, and my haty Inspection showed an indescribable collection of dust, hair, moldy crusts, dirty gloves, combs, broken glass, pins, handker-chiefs-any and everything that would ordinarily be found in an American ash can. I finally realized that the whole incident was very characteristic of Russian civilizat on. They are a people who say. "Give us the luxuries of life and we won't ask for the necessities." THE EXP OF His STRING. The Young Khedive Mn- fie Shorn of HI" Power in Eyit. Marquise De Fontenoy. From London I hear that the dayn of the yourg Khedive as ruler of Egypt are numbered and that he has at length reached the end of his tether. As soon us he learned ,,the arresf- of his relative and pet crony. All Pacha Chcrif, and of his aid de camp. acyf Pacha, cn a charge or purchasing slaves, he telegraphed from Geneva orders commanding their liberation and forbidding their being brought before the court-martial which sits en permanence for the purpose of dealing with offenses against the anti-slave trade laws. But on It being Intimated to him that the trial would take place notwithstanding his commands, he yielded with a bad grace and withdrew his opposition. Ali Pacha, whom I well remember, is quite an old man. tall, over six feet high very slim, with a wig of long, black hair and a mustache dyed the same color He is the elder brother of that Khalil Dey Qf Parisian celebrity who spent such large sums at cards during the retjrn of Napoleon III. his forty-eight-hour contest with Paul DemidofC at the Jockey Club remaining on record as one of the most memorable feats of the kind in the French capital. There was literally no end to Khalil Bey's extravagances and eccentricities, and certainly no Oriental ever played so conspicuous a part in the fashionable history of any Euiopean capital. Khalil left a widow, a cousin of th Khedive, the Princess Nasle. who lives at Cairo, and is one of the few Oriental l?dles who does not hesitate to go into society and to invite masculine' strangers of distinction to her table without deeming it necessary to veil her features. It is probably to this freedom that must be attributed in a great measure the many scandalous stories current - both there and in the various European cacltals concerning htr allerrrd Intrl-ues rIth fcrcJ-r.frs. and If every taie accut r.er n to fc3 I ::?vrd. there 'y a rcd-: n ci - i - - t s ! C

lay that the young Khedive frit !;lnvlf constrained to admonish her on the extravagance and impropriety cf her behavior. As for All Pacha Chcrif. he so Immensely wealthy that any mere r.ne would, be no punishment at - all to him. There Is no one in Egypt who i-osiees more magnificent horsts, while hi gardens in ol Cairo are one of the sights of the KUyptian capital. He must be at least vnty years of age, and I cannot .Mp feeling surprised at his having lived o long. .inc he gave me the inipreeslon nf.ern year ago of being a broken old deba.'chte. Wacyf Pacha, nis fellow criminal, li & tall, soldierly-looking man with a heavy mustache, verv quiet, and devoted to thm reigning family. Indeed, I should not at all wonder if he had not allowed himself to be put forward In order to shield tha real culprit. For, as I have had occasion to state before in these columns, tie young Khedive is a great fancier of pretty slaves, his tastes In that respect being encouraged rather than discountenanced by his terribly ambitious mother, who, notwithstanding all that has been said to th contrary, far from being eager to find him a wife. Is stronglv opied to hia marrying. She knows full well that a soon as he weds a woman of his own rank, or possibly even a daughter of the Sulrn. which would be a grand match for him. her own at present powerful influence over Jier son would have to give way to that which his wife is almost certain to wieid over him. But there Is no such danger so long as he remains single and contented with slaves both white and black. As soon as it is once brought definitely home to the English people that his prtlace at Ismallia and Koubeh are simply crowded with young slaves purchase! since the Khedive's accession to the throne there will be such an outcry on the part of the respectable middle classej of England, France and Germany, to whose voices their respective governments cannot afford to turn a deaf ear. that he will be dejvjsed, in favor of his young brother, who promises to prove more easv to manage. Young Abbas is aware of this, or at any rate has an inkling thereof, for he has not permitted his brother to return to Egypt since he ascended the throne. HICYCLINC; DOWN A MOUNTAIN.

A WheelmnnN Exciting: Ride and a' AVbeebvomnn! l'lneid Journey. Portland Dally Press. One of Portland's well-known wheelmen, Mr. Perez T. Griffin, has just had an experience on Mount Washington that will afford a lesson and warning to others who may visit that region. Mr. Griffin went to North Conway on the train and then wheeled. to Fabyans at the foot of Mount Washington. There he put his wheel onto the express car of the little railroad and rode to the Tip Top House. From tha summit a carriage road leads down the mountain eight miles toward the site where once was the Glen House. Before the burning of that hotel this carriage road was kept in good condition, and bicyclists have ridden down it. even cn the old-fashioned high wheels. Mr. Griffin was told at the summit that the road was in bad condition, washed out aud gullu'l in many places. But he is used to riding hills, and can stop his machine half way down Grove-street hill, locally famous among wheelmen for its steep descent. Therefore, thinking that to ride down would be safe, Mr. Griffin started. Those who have ridden down I this road will remember its steep descends and sharp turns, wfth rocky wall on the

upper side and the rock-clad ahss on the other. As he had been told that he was unlikely to meet any team. Mr. Griffin proceeded with greater assurance, although his siderab'.e alarm. Holding his brake so hr-1 V that his hand and arm were numb, and back-pedaling with , all his might, he yet sped downward at a speed that besrin to alarm him. But the assurance received at the Tip Top House that no teams were likely to be met was comforting the flying wheelman. Suddenly, rounding a sharp curve abou: a third of the way down, a team appeared coming up. Several alternatives presented 'themselves to Mr. Griffin, and each of them was full of penl. To pass the team was impossible. He might go over the ou;er edge of the road and fall on to the rxks below, or dash hims?lf acainsr the rocks of the inner edge, or run into the team, or make a flying leap off his machine. To sop was Impossible, for he was straining every muscle at brake and pedal without lessening the speed at all. Mr. Griffin decided to leap, at the same time keeping hold of the machine if po?.dble. It is not a difficult matter for a bicyclist to leap from his machine while riding at speed and land on his feet. But to keep the feet on a steep down grade undr such circumstances Is very hard. In this case, when the rider's feet strut.; th earth they bounded off again, and he flow several feet beside his machine, only to bound again as his feet touched the arth. But he managed to keep both himself and his machine from falling off the road, and at the very nose of the approaching hore managed to stop. It was an exceedingly narrow escape and only a perfectly trained rider cculd have accomplished It. At the Half-way Hous Mr. Griffin took the advice of the keeper and lashed his brake until he could scarcely turn the wheel. With the nid of this and by back pedaling he managed to make the rest of the way with much trouble and danger, the road being very bad. His tire was nearly torn to pieces, the outer tube being almost idclnr.ed off, leaving the inner tub

bare in several places. At ttu? foot of the mountain Mr. GriiTm , was told that a few days before a young lady had coasted down on her bicycle safely by means of a novel device. Securing a log of wood six or eight feet long, fhe attached it to her bicycle by means of a rope. This served as a drag. Then, bearlng hard on the brake and back pedaling. A she managed to reduce her spel to the limit of safety. But there are dangers to such a device, since if the lig should catca behind a rock or In a gully in the road the rider might be thrown. THE TOPEKA DRESS.

It Extend from Witint to Knee, and In IndorKeil by the I'opul lt m. New York Sun. We have a pitcure of the new Tor-eka dress for women. We recret to say that It is not a pretty dress. The cloth Irggir.gs are baggy and clumsy, and give th impression that their wearers are kn.kkneed and have swelled ankles. Th 'Turkish trousers" would le lauchel at by the gravest old Turk! in all Turkty; and if any Turk living in New York were to see a Topeka woman with thm nn. h would certainly exclaim. "Allah is great:" The Topeka skirt is the funniet ariic of the new Topeka costume for Topeka women. It may be worn either loo.-e or c!ose: but we should think th loose stv'.e might be better adapted to some shr -Vs. It is indescribable. We would rather like to see h re a Topeka woman in the Topeka dress. Sh could enjoy a very merry day by taking a. forenoon tramp up the Bowerv, an afternoon walk down Broadwav, and an evening stroll in the Tenderloin district. It mijrht be necessary to call out the whole of the police force for the preservation of th public solemnity: but we would ret cr for that, nor would the woman In leggings care a snap for it. The Populist party of Kansas is in favor of the new Topeka dress, and we must hope that a suitable plank for upholding it will be put In the Populist platform. It must needs be a big plank, cut to suit each article of wear from the Kansas bots t the Greenland leggings under the Turkish trousers, and thence to the sunflower on By the way, we cannot imagine whv th Turkish style goes only from waUt to knee. An orthodox Turkish woman, faithful to the Koran and th fashions of her country, conceals her face when she Is at large by wearing a thick veil over It, so that only her eyes are rveald. It is th privilege of her husband alone to behold her unveiled face when she is out of the world's Right. Now It Is evident that rhf laxly Turks of Topeka, who are determine! to wear the trousra while discarding the face-conecaling veil, are not of the rtal Turkish cast. They are unworthy of both Topeka and Turkey, less worthy of Turkey than Topeka. We say they oueht to wear the impenetrable veil of feminine Turkic modesty over their faces, which would thus meet the gaze of only those who hvo a right to see them. As, however, the Topeka women have begun to imitate Turkey, they may yet swathe thfir heads in a wav that would cause a Turk to wreathe h?r face In smiles. If they do not we shall look upon them as coquette. The Topeka reformers are not afraid. They have organized "relief, squad?." which, are to march over the State In Turkish trousers for the purpose, of promoting1 the use of. them. We invite any one of thee relief squads to visit New York, and we promise it a tremendous recvptlon ia City Hall square. There are here a good many real and living Turks, who will surtly enjoy the. sight of it. not less than it will 1-e enjoyed by the common run of the ropuli-t Hon. We await the first of the Turkih squads of Topeka women. We smile while thinking of it. They Typified !!nrimn. New York Mail and Express. r Ex-President Harrison and Governor McKinley walking, arm in arm. into the trcence of that great Indiana, audience vtj. fled la mute but stirrinr c-loqunce th harmony and unity of the Republican nou throughout the country. This inpirin spectacle very properly produced the roo enthusiastic applause from the great multitude. The two rpeeches dediwrcd hv thre two most coar;Ui:cus Republican Vaders prt.-rnted rcr.tir.: ::ita r. 1 arjuunK cv4r. ,Ct!

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