Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 October 1895 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1895.

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TXIC 1XDIAXAPOLIS JOURNAL Can be found at the follow In plaeee PA R 15 American F.xrhauge la ram, 36 Bouierard da t'apnrlnen. XKW TURK-Glhtej ilouee. Windsor Hotel and Astor Hodse. rillLADKU'HIA-A. Y. Kemble, cor. IancMter ara. and Bartnf t. CHICAGO rainier House, AndJtorlum liotel and T. o. NewiCo., VI Adamtutrett. CINCINNATI J. R. Haw ley it Co., IM Vina street. LOnSYILLE-C. T. PeeTtny, northwest corner of Third and Jefferson au., ana Louicvllle Book Co 6 Fourth av. tT. LOL IS Cnlon Sews Company, Union Depot Washington, d. c Figga House, Ebottt Houm, WUlrtr Hotel and theVantnrtou New Exchange, ir.a street, bet. l'enn. ate. and F" itrett. . Sneh ronilderatlonii (failure to Hopport candidate) mar bare an appropriate weight n party conventions, bat TTben any feeling of personal resentment rnu only be gratified by the saerlflee of the trne Interests of the city It ons;Bit to be suppressed. On sober second thought no man will be catl2ed with himself If he allows such InOuences to tllrect bis vote. Benjamin Harrison. The importance of nn honest, economical business administration, of lty eOeen a'jil the firm enforcement cf all the laws cannot be overstated. A city so managed attracts business and population. The Idea that a niayor or chief of police Is at liberty to permit any law r ordlnauce to be violated Is monstrous. We choose executive o facers to enforce laws and not to repeal or suspend them at their pleasure. It Is subversive of our teca and destructive . to our social order to allow our executive officers to choose what laws they will enforce. It Is not at nil n question whether I like the law or whether the of3eer likes the law. What sort of a- condition of society would we, bare If no man obeyed the law and no oQeer enforced It nnless he liked Itf Such questions are for the legislature and the council. To find fault with an oClcer for enforcing the law Is to repudiate our system of government, and to vote against a candidate becsese he Is pledged to enforce the Zawa is to associate one's self with lawbreakers. -.Benjamin Harrison. What with vegetarians and cannibals the Chinese, are in danger of running to, extremes. No doubt Mrs. Culberson meant what che raid, but she didn't, get home in time to enforce her views. Republicans In Indianapolis should not file closers to reform the Democratic lines shattered last November. Thc;s Trho desire to have scores of ri de-open rambling- places in Indianapolis con vote for Mr. T-ggart and make no mistake. y The last government ship used by members of the Cabinet a3 a house-boat has been returned to Its legitimate use. The house-boat season Is over. Battle-scarred soldiers like Schofleld end Ilika must feel inclined to smile at the patronizing praise of civilian war c?cretaries like "Dan" Lamont. The Sentinel need not fear. There will be an honest, count of the votes cast rext Tuesday. Furthermore, the voting places are In respectable localities. ' 0 As General Miles is only fifty-six years c!d, he will, barring death, be commander of -the Army eight years before he Trill.-reach the age limit of retirement. If Republicans will see that the party vote is polled In their respective precincts and devote themselves to getting it out all will be well next Tuesday niht. It la an exceptionally good day for the Democratic candidate for Governor in Kentucky, when two or three prominent Democrats neglect to write letters declaring that he should be defeated. When the Democrats have a good man at their disposal like Evans Woollen the bosses throw him down. In no city In the land does the element which manages the machine select good men. Even Hoke Smith would regard a Tagsart majority in Indianapolis as an indorsement of his policy by which the I?nf Ions of 3.500 veterans - In Indiana have been reduced or cut off without cause since Jan. 1. Nothing succeeds like sucvess. if the Texas Legislature had failed to. sustain Governor Culberson he would have been a. dead politician in that State, but his victory places him "on top" and gives him even national prominence. The Nebraska Republicans, in declaring for the maintenance of the parity of both metals and against any act which would make either the only legal-tender money of the country, put themselves in line "with the party In every prominent State in he Union. Cuckoo Democrats who are fond of quoting President Cleveland! remark that public olfice is a public trust might find earlier authority for the phrase. JefTei-yon Davis, President of the late Confederacy said in his inaugural mesApril 2S. 1861: "Ever remembering that all public offices are but public trusts," etc. The Democratic New York Sun, commenting upon the proiosed amendment to the Constitution of South Carolina by rhich Illiterate whites can vote and Illitcrcte colored men cannot, eays: "UnC.'T ruch an ingenious system of suffrage t!.5 nejrro wou'id "have little or no voice i. Ct-te affairs, and unless he were c:r.tcnt to abandon all hope of advancer::r.t he would be compelled in self-de-;:r ? to leave the State." And yet it Is 'Z t'.:t colored men In Indianapolis

do and will vote for the Fame party In Indiana which In South Carolina deprives them of the right of suffrage. It cannot be that such men exercise ordinary sense. Fortunately, the number is limited.

TUB DEMOCRATIC PARTY AMI C1TV A political party .should be Judged by Its record rather than by Its promises. A record is history, while platform promises and professions are often. If not generally, mere wind. Judged by its record the Democratic party Is not fit to be trusted with the management of the city finances. During the last twenty-five years the Democracy have had control of the city twice, viz., from 1874 to 1876 and from to 1S93, and both times the debt of the city was increased and its credit impaired. On May 13. 1874, the Republicans turned over the city to a Democratic Council and Mayor with $2S9,670 cash in the treasury, and during the year there was collected $777,307 in taxes, making a total of .$1,036,977. This should have been amply' sufficient for the government of a city of about 60,000 population, but in addition to this the Democrats Issued city bonds during the year to the amount of $700,000, on which they realized the , sum of $659,471.60 The second year of this disastrous administration was a repetition of the first, the city and the treasury both being run "on the wide-open; plan. During these two years the bonded debt of the city was Increased from $176,000 to $1,385,500, a net increase of $1,209,500. But this was not all. While the Democrats were Increasing the bonded debt of the city they were also Increasing the appraisement and . the tax levy. The following table shows the taxables of the city, rate of taxation and taxes levied under one year of Democratic rule and four succeeding years of Republican rule: Appraisement. Tax rate. Tatf levied. 1S73 .. $69,251,749 $1.W $1,038,761 1876 60,436.200 1.40 8-W.386 1S77 K.357,2i. 1.12 620,131 1878 f-0,029,973 1.08 540,323 1879 48,099,940 .93 447,319 These figures show a reduction in four years on the Democratic, appraisement of 30 per cent, and In the rate of taxation of 42 per cent Yet during two years they Increased the bonded debt $1,200,000. Triis was more than the people could stand,' and they ended the carnival of extravagance as soon as possible. When the Democrats turned the city back to the Republicans May 12, 1876. they turned over $40,431 cash in the treasury, or $219,239 less than they had received two years before. In addition . to the bonded debt which they had created they left outstanding unredeemed city orders on the treasury to the amount of $96,373 and unpaid bills and Judgments against the city to the amount of $100.292.60. The large increase of the bonded debt of the city, made during those two years has been a burden on the taxpayers ever since. Most of the bonds ran for twenty years at 7.3 pe.- cent, interest. They are still unpaid, and the. aggregate amount of Interest that has been paid upon them considerably exceeds the principal. In 18S9, when Mayor Sullivan was first elected; there was a strong demand for the refunding of the bonded debt at a lower rate of interest. The Republican . city convention had declared in favor of It, and if the Republicans had carried the city it would have been done. Mayor Sullivan in his first message to the Council threw cold water on the refunding policy. After stating that the bonded ' debt of the city amounted to $1,243,000, nearly all of which he might truthfully have said was a legacy from a former Democratic administration, he said: "None, of this bonded Indebtedness will mature during the life of' this Council,' and it is not probable that you will be able to refund any portion of it before maturity, for the reason that the Interest on all but $133,000 of the amount is between 6 and 8 per cent." Thus he discouraged in advance any attempt to refund the debt at a lower rate of Interest. Following is a list of the outstanding bonds of the city at that time, with the date of their maturity: April 1, 1893, 8 per cent $21,000 July 1, 1893, 7.3 per cent ftJO.000 Jan. 22, 1S94, 7.3 per cent 109.500 July 1. 1894. 7.3 per cent 300,000 July 1, 189R, 7.S per cent. July 1, 1895. 7.3 per cent m 2tX.C00 7.000 8,000 July 1, 1896, 7.3 per cent. $1,245,500 Acting on Mayor Sullivan's advice, no attempt was; made to refund any of these bonds during his first administration.' ' During his second administration. In July, 1892, Controller Woollen did make an attempt to refund the $621,000 of 7.3 per cent, bonds which fell due June 30, 189. The history of that attempt and its failure are still fresh in the public mind. In spite of Mr. Woollen's well-directed efforts it was defeated by a clique of Democratic bosses and bankers, and the city continued to pay the ruinous rate of interest which, thanks to Democratic mismanagement, it had been paying for years past. It was three years after Mayor Sullivan advised the Council against attempting to refund the bonds before any attempt was made in that direction", and then it was defeated . by a ring of Democratic bosses and politicians of the Taggart school. The entire record of the Democratic party in connection with city finances is one of Incompetence, mismanagement, extravagance and debt making. No matter what promises it may make it should be Judged by its record. MBBBSBMBMBSaSSSSBSBBBMSSSBSMBBBSSnSSSMnHSSSSSS A WORD WITH HEIlllICAX. Mr. Taggart has been put forward, for the mayoralty not because he will make a good Mayor, but with the impression that he can insure a Democratic victory in Indianapolis for the party In the State and In the country. If he can be elected Mayor the Democrats all over Indiana will take courage and enter the contest of 1896 with a courage they will not have if the Republican ticket shall bo elected. Such a result, whatever may be the local causes contributing to it, will be hailed by the Democracy as the precursor of a series of Democratic triumphs all over the country". In every county in Indiana a Taggart victory will be used to bring the deserters of last year back into line. In Ohio and in Kentucky Mr. Taggart's election would give courage to the Democratic workers to rally their broken lines. Are there any Republicans who cheered the returns the night after the November election until long past midnight In front of the Journal office ready to become the. file closers of the Democratic party in the November States? All over the country a. Taggart victory

would be claimed as a Democratic victory and a declaration that the voters of Indiana already repent that they rolled ,up the largest majority in the history of the State for the Republican ticket in November, 1894. Does any Republican In Indianapolis or any man who calls himself so, regret that Mr. Henryhas been chosen to succeed Mr. Bynum In Conjrress? if he votes for Mr. Tagpart he practically declares that he not only regrets the change, but that he desires to have every advantage given the Democratic party in the future which a Taggart victory can bring it. The Republican canvasses, which have been made with care, show that the Republicans have a reliable majority in Indianapolis. If they will be such Republicans as General Harrison is. and go to the polls next Tuesday and vote the Republican ticket a's he will, it will be elected. It does not seem possible that any Republican and reputable citizen of Indianapolis will vote the Taggart ticket because he longs for "a wideopen town" In violation of law, and thereby, to use the words-of General Harrison make himself a lawbreaker. The Republican ticket stands for law and order, for clean and business-like management of municipal affairs, and no Republican who can claim a right to the name can Justify himself in refusing to vote It, any more than can a soldier who drops out of the ranks when battle has been Joined. ZKALOIS, HIT VXWISE.

On Wednesday evening, after Mr. Taggart had assured some people that he would see that the liquor laws were enforced, Mr. Cox, the Democratic candidate for city Judge, contradicted him in a speech in which he declared In effect that the police and the city coffrt would hot bev used to enforce the liquor laws, ,but that all things, and particularly the Police Court, would be revolutionized. Mr. Cox is very unwise to call attention to himself, since to him as an assistant is attached a part of the oppro-' brium which made the county Criminal Court, under the regime which went out last fall, "the lawbreakers' refuge." Every man in Indianapolis who knows Mr. Cox knows that if he should be city Judge, gamblers, divekeepers and the fraternity which thrives by vice and crime would so revolutionize matters that they would have a friend in the presiding magistrate. When the Democratic city convention had the choice between Evans Woollen, a young man of high character and qualification, and Mr. Ccrx, who had a record in criminal prosecution, Mr. Cox was nominated by a large majority. Mr. Lieber and other bosses who favor the open violation of the laws of Indiana, walked 'up and down the aisles of the hall whipping their: henchhien Into the support ( of Cox. knowing that in the city court he would be their ally as was Buskirk. Therefore Cox stands before the public as the candidate of the men who are making the campaign upon the ground that the laws of the State shall be violated. The Democratic city convention which rejected Evans Woollen and took Cox was under the despotic sway of the element fighting for a wide-open town, led by the Lieber-Frenzel hing. . Mr. Duane Bowlea was a candidate for councilman at large, but; having signed a petition against havinsr a saloon in the, ward In which he lives, he was beaten out of sight and a nonentity nominated who wears the mark of the ring's branding Iron and will take his orders, If elected, from the bosses, whether the order is to pass an ordinance Increasing the debt or to authorize the introduction of gas meters. Mr. , Rj'dn, a member of the present Council, was thrown out by the gang controlling the convention because he signed a report hostile to the barefaced robbery known as the Frenzel gasmeter scheme. If the Democratic bosses Were wise they would keep Cox where he will not attract pubflc attention by his unnecessary chatter, calling attention to his subserviency to the leaders who nominated him by declaring his readiness to Ignore the laws and to protect- lawbreakers; and also to the fact that no man was nominated by the FrenzelLleber convention who has dared show the least independence. DANGER AHEAD. An "amendment, to the State Constitution, adopted in 1881, prohibits any city from incurring debt to an amount exceeding. 2 per cent, on the value of its taxable property ascertained by the. last assessment for State and county taxes previous to the incurring of ,the debt. When this amendment was adopted the bonded debt of this city had already reached the limit. The Democratic party had increased it $1,200,000 during the years 1874 to 1876, and the issue of $500.000 of Belt railroad bonds brought it up about to the constitutional limit. The issuing of the Belt railroad bonds was part bf the plan devised by Hon. John Caven, formerly Mayor, for the completion of that . valuable improvement. The city loaned its credit to the enterprise, issuing its bonds to the amount of $300,000 and taking In return first-mortgage bonds on the railroad plant for the same amount. The bonds were issued in 1877 and had twenty years to run. Both sets of bonds will mature and be taken up in 1897, thus reducing the indebtedness of the city $500,000. The present bonded debt of the city, exclusive of the Belt railroad bonds, is $1,377,500, and if not increased In the interim that is what it will bewhen those bonds are taken' up. The reduction of the city debt by the redemption of these bonds, together with the increased appraisement , of taxable property, will permit an increase in the city debt of about $750,000. These facts present a case for serious consideration by the people. As soon as the constitutional limit Is raised and the door cpened to an increase of the city debt all sorts of schemes will spring up for sending money. Do the people want the city debt increased again up to the constitutional limit? If not, they should not intrust the city government to a party which has a debt-making record. . They have had samples of Democratic financiering In the city government and the School Board, and they ought to know what kind of financiering a wide-open administration implies. Personally, Mayor Mitchell was a better man than Mr. Taggart, yet he could not restrain his party from Increasing the city debt $1,200,000 in two years. Docs anybody believe that Mr. Taggart could restrain the same party from increasing the city debt to the constitutional limit? As a matter of fact there

is, nothing in Mr. Taggart.'s political record or affiliations to Justify a belief that he would try to prevent such an Increase. Is it Wise or safe to take the risk?

The Coffin case, in which a verdict of guilty has been returned against one of the defendants, 4s-likely to become a leading one in settling' the principle that a person not connected with a bank, "an outsider," may Incur the penalty of the embezzlement clause equally with an officer of the bank. Section 5209 of the national bank law provides that: Every president, director, cashier, teller,, clerk or agent. of any bank who embezzles, abstracts or willfully misapplies any of the moneys, funds or credits of the bank, or who makes any false entry In any book, report or statement of the bank wKh Intent to defraud the bank or any individual person, or to deceive any officer of the bank or any agent appointed to examine its affairs: and every person who, with like intent, aids or abets any officer, clerk or airent in any violation of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall.Jbe imprisoned not lesa than five years nor more than ten. There have been many prosecutions and convictions uader, this section of national bank officjerfc, but this Is believed to be the flrSfcase 6f the prosecution of a person not' officially connected with a bank for complicity in the misapplication of Its funds. In order to constitute a crime .under the section quoted there must be intent to defraud on the part of the bank officer and a like Intent on the part of the person aiding and abetting him. To prove this requires a close conjunction of facts, but, these being established, a commonsense construction of the law would seem to make it applicable to a patron or customer as well as to an officer of the bank. . The Lieber-Frenzel' Ting in charge of the Democratic machine proposes to nullify the laws for the regulation of the liquor traffic. It Is upon the issue of a wide-open town that they are making their canvass. If they should win, why may the ring not .assume that it Is warranted in Ignoring other laws? For instance, members ofthe ring are very anxious to set aside what is known as the natural gas : ordinance. If a State law can be ignored a'city ordinance can be set aside with even greater propriety, if the term can be applied to any sort of lawbreaking by the same ring or a part of it. Therefore, If the people of Indianapolis ' vote to have certain laws broken with ' Impunity the gae-raeter ring can quote their approval of lawbreaking when it announces that it will adopt' the meter proposition and ignore the present ordinance. This will probably not be necessary if the Democratic candidates for, the Council should' happen to be elected. As the Democratic Council was controlled to prevent refunding the city debt, so it can be controlled by the? same bosses to vote for the gas-meter system. In the Hinshawcase " Judge Hadley instructed thejjury that the fact that he did not testify In his own behalf "cannot in any manner be referred to or considered by .you In your ' deliberations, and you are not al liberty to draw any presumption against the defendant on account of such failure." This may be good law, but' ninety-nine people' but of a hundred- wllljcofttjnue. , to regard the defendant's faijuro jtojke . the ..witness stand as at least contributory evidence of .his -guilt. The -first impulse of an Innocent man charged with crime is to demand a hearing in his , own defense. No inndcenfperson'fears a' cross-examination, and ho truthful statement was ever shaken by the most searching cross-questioning. , Hlnshaw's failure to testify in his own behalf or his lawyers' failure to put him on the stand was not evidence of a kind that the Jury could consider, but it ; was, av weighty circumstance with the ubl5cv-v The treasurer of 'the .School Board who pledged himself to 'turn the interest of the outstanding school funds into the city treasury if he. should be chosen treasurer turns up-as a zealous dispenser of beer at! a 'Taggart meeting. He is a "trusty" in the service of the money-lending, 'gas-meter Democratic ring, and thus he escapes the torture of the branding Iron. The Massachusetts , Democrats mildly suggest to the President that when he needs more money, to make up treasury deficits he. make arrangements to place a temporary loan on the home market. That Is Just the assistance he refused when Congress was In session. A Wide-Open Town.' ' The Heeler: ' -"A wide-open town is a cinch," said he: "A pull on the candidates; whisky free; I'll whoop up the . boys and we'll paint things red ' Hurrah for a wide-open town!" he said. The Tough: ; , "A wide-open town is my game," said he. "These high moral dudes are too flip for me. For raising a row or for breaking a head, A wide-open town is the cheese," he said. The Gambler: "A wide-open town Is a snap." said he. Where cops are instructed how not to see. I'll give them the' laugh if I hear 'their tread,t When we have a wide-open town," he said. The Crook: "A wide-open town is a place," said he, . "Where picking and plucking are good for me; . . . ' Where morals are shady and law Is dead I'll go for that wide-open town," he said. The Taxpayer:"' ; ' "A wide-open town Is a Job," said he, "Where industry labors and pays the fee, While honesty suffers and vice Is fed A wide-open town is a fraud," he said. The Wife: : ' . . "A wide-open town is a curse," said she, -"A husband debauched by his Sunday spree; The house unfurnished, the children unfed Away with your wide-open town!" she said. The Mother: . "A wide-open town! God forbid!" said she. "A son growing into a debauchee; A daughter to dens of the Infamous led A wide-open town it is death!" she said. The City: "A wide-open town is disgrace," said she, "A stink in the nostrils; an ulcer to see; A thing whereat decency covers its head God pity a wide-open town!" she said. Nemo, i An awful suspicion suggests itself: Can it be possible that "Gentleman Jim" Corbett has been egging Governor Culberson on to ths? Governor Culberson did not exactly kill two birds with one stone, but he knocked out two prize fighters with one proclamation. The Spanish government, through Minister Ti Lome, has appointed a press agent at New York." Ills duty, apparently, will be to color news from Cuba in the inter

est of Marshal De Campos. If he can beat the press agent at Havana he will not long remain in his present place, for some Democratic newspaper Is sure to hire him as a political correspondent at a big salary. Who says Mr. Taggart would not give the city stable government? He owns a string of race horses. nt UIlLES IN TU& AIH.

.The xt War. Soon the fiery football scrimmage Will wage athwart the frosted grass; Soon we'll see the human image , Made a mere amorphous mass. Notorious Example. Watts I am glad the living picture business is playing out. Potts I never saw any harm In them. Watts You didn't? Just look at Adam's case, for Instance. His Chance. "I have half a notion to go into politics." said the pugilistic gentleman. "I would,. if I were you," said his friend. "There is a woeful dearth of orators nowadays." . C Crushed. "Cheer "up, old man. A woman's 'no' often means yes, you know." "But she didn't say no. When I asked her if she would marry me she said. 'I will, 1 don't think.' I didn't even get treated with respect." 3IAUAZIM2 XOTKS. Prank Leslie's Pleasant Hours for Boys and Girls is a well-printed . and well-Illustrated juvenile magazine and numbers such contributors in its list as Oliver Optic, Edward S. Ellis, F. L. Oswald, Rebecca Harding Davis and Jeannette II. Walworth. One of the best things In this month's St. Nicholas is a story something on the Christian Andersen style by John Bennett. It is called "Hans the Otherwise" a youth who is really very wise indeed. The Illustrations In silhouette, also by Mr. Bennett, are delightfully spirited and expressive, and add greatly to the text. A very Interesting article on religious journalism and journalists is a feature of the Review of Reviews for October. Another is descriptive of the Carnegie libraries. A portrait of that remarkable man, Cecil Rhodes, Premier of Cape Colony and president of the British South African Company, forms the frontispiece of the number. - In the Art Amateur for October is an interest! account of a visit made by two young American painters to the Dutchartist, Joseph Issalls. who is best known to the American public through a strong picture at the world's fair representing the grief of an old man at the deathbed of hie wife. An Instructive paper is that relating to the half-tone process of engraving. - Maurice Thompson discourses in the Chap Book of the new 'woman, and. with much show of erudition rearhes the conclusion that she is not entirely new,, but appears at different points alolig the ages like a recurring decimal. He also admits that all Is not lost even if she decides to remain new. "At all events," he savs, hopefully, "she means to be decorative, as she always has been, and down the ages ahead of us she will doubtless continue to charm, amuse and marry man. proving herself to him a great luxury, but notably expensive." "The Xew Bohemian, a Modern Monthly." is the title of a new magazine emanating from Cincinnati. It Is evidently intended as a medium through which Western writers may address the public, as nearly all the contributors to this flrs?t issue are from the rather wide region, classified in Eastern periodicals as the Wcat, the line being drawn at the eastern border of Ohio. Among the writers whose names are familiar to the Journal's readers arc Alonzo Leora Rice and Herman Rave. The new venture Is an ambitious effort, but only time can tell wtiether it will successfully fill the want which itK founders believe to exist. For a first number it has few 'typographical blemishes and Is of attractive appearance. 10 cents a copy. The-Chap Book administers a deserved rebuke ' to the literary youngsters who criticise Mr. Howells In flippant styiel It says of him very truly: "His sins are apparently that he has, devoted himself exclusively to literature, that he has been a careful, conscientious workman, that he has been a courteous, dignified gentleman, and that, in European and American eyes, he has been a distinguished figure. It has counted as nothing that, in 'his attitude towards the younger men, he has been ready, appreciative, and generous, and that from year to year his work has shown less of devotion to theories and more of a deep, sweet, human sympathy. He hasnot altered with the veer of public opinion; he has not been symbolistic, nor decadent, nor fin-de siecle. Criticism of him Is, perhaps, inevitable since so many of us do not enjoy his whole work; but it should not be trivial." McClure's Magazine . for October is crowded with entertainment in variety. An article by James Creelman on the London Times tells In graphic, style the wonderful history of that great paper. Cy Warman describes an engineer's strange experience in riding over an earthquake. John Gilmer Speed has an Interesting character sketch of John Keats, the data for which he obtains from original documents in "his own family. There is the first of a series of sketches found among the unpublished papers of Robert Louis Stevenson. James R. Gil more tells the story of the part taken by the New York Tribune in the draft riots. TheeJore Roosevelt sets forth his views in regard to closing the New York saloons on Sunday, and General John M. Thayer presents some reminiscences of Grant at Pilot Knob. Short stories are by Anthony Hope, Stanley Weyman and Ian Maclaren, respectively. It is an overly exacting taste that cannot find pleasure among these pages.' Brander Matthews's paper in the October Century on "The Gift of Story Telling" is worth reading. Writers may have every other gift of a literary sorfc, but without this he holds they cannot wholly succeed either as novelists or historians. "There Is no necessity now," he says, "to attempt an analysis of this gift and a declaration of its constituent elements, even If It were possible to do so which may be doubted. What is obvious enough Is that It Is sometime accompanied by the keenest understanding of the principle of narrative art, and is sometimes . no: so accompanied. Those who possess it may ' also possess knowledge and wisdom, or they may not possess these additional qualifications. But without some small share of this native faculty no novelist can hope to attain his purpose no novelist and no historian." Of the three great British novelists of the nineteenth century Dickens, George Eliot and Thackeray Mr. Matthews holds that Dickens was the only one who was a true story teller. Du Maurier has the gift, he thinks. In a remarkable degree and wins with it in spite of literary and artistic faults In construction. GEE HOP MUST HOP BACK. Celestial Whose Passport Is Slsrned ' by Blaine ot Permitted to Land. SAX FRANCISCO. Oct. 3. Among the passengers on the last trip of the steamer Rio de Janlero was a coolie jiamed Gee Hop. who was returning from a long visit to China. Gee Hop claims to be a citizen of the United States, and produces documents to prove it, among other things a passport Issued by the Department of State bearing the signature of James G. Blaine. Collector Wise, however, says he Is the sole Judge as to the landing of Chinese, and he refuses to recognize Hop's credentials. WASHINGTON. Oct. 3. It is said at the Treasury Department that the case of the Chinaman Gee Hop, who claims admission into this country at San Francisco on the ground that he is & naturalized citizen of the I'nited States, presents no novel features. The law is very plain on that point. The act approved May 6, 1882, provides, "Th.it hereafter no State court or court of the United States shall admit Chinese to citizenship, and all laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed." As to Gee Hop's having a passport signed by the Secretary of State, the department men know nothing, nor Is it of any advantage to h'.m. The act prohibiting courts from admitting Chinese to citizenship was passed in 1S82, eight years before Hop's papers were issued, hence they are null and vjM, and were so at the time they were issued, as was also the passport. If Hop belongs to the prohibited class he will not be permitted to land.

IN THE FOURTEENTH

II Hi IlEriMJCAX JIEHTIXG I THE Ol.O nCMOlltATIC w.vnD. I Jnfttu C. . Admits, lr. Tranter and Other" Speakers -Ent h tmlit'm nt ."North Intllftnnpoll. Under the banner of freedom and Republicanism that floated :'rom a flag ftaff erected last Saturday by Mr. and Mrs. James E. Twlname on their lawn, at the south end of Barth avenue, the Republicans of the Fourteenth ward and many Democrats who could not approve the wide-open policy of the Sullivan administration and vcteJ for Mr. Denny two years ago gathered last night to hear the businrsi issues of the campaign discussed. This is a peculiar ward one that has long had the name of being a hotbed of Democracy. On the poll books It always appears to be about 600 Democratic, .but the books do not take intoconsideratlon the fact that It has such a large number of worklngmen who own homes and therefore vote for the prosperity of the city. Two years this majority was wiped out and a Republican was sent to the council. There have been some fears expressed that these Democrats, who were hauled to their voting places last year at the expense of the Democratic party and then cast their votes for Mr. Denny, would return to their party this year. Last right's meeting strongly Indicated that they have not in two short years forgotten the kind of idminlstratlon the Democratic party gives the city. They were out In large numDers and listened attentively to the speecnes and Joined heartily in the applause that was given from time to time. One man said that in the audience of about 600 he had counted nearly fifty Democrats whom he knew? or had reason tp believe had almost without exception voted the Republican ticket two years ago. There were others whom he believed had voted for Sullivan two years ajo, but had said recently that they were too well satisfied with the present to desire any change in policy, and would therefore vote to continue it. It Is such men that make the surprises 'in politics, and many are predicting with great confidence that Robert McCllntock will poll a vote In' the Fourteenth equal Jo that of two years ago. Hon. Justus C. Adams, wno needed no introduction in that community, was brought forward by Mr. Twinamo and placed in charge of the meeting. He spoke as follows : . "It will soon be two years since the people of Indianapolis rose up in their majesty and wrested the control of our'-good city from the hands of those who had mismanaged its affairs, wasted its resources, jeopardized its credits and placed it In the keeping of the party to which you and I belong. How well we have managed that trust and kept our faith with the people is a matter of public knowledge. I am one of those who believethat parties as well as individuals should be held to a strict accountability. A personal obligation pan be enforced by law and usage. The pledge and promise of a party should be held equally sacred. If they break faith with the people they should be overturned at the rolls the first opportunity the taxpayers have to express their judgment. . "We promised the people to manage the affairs of our city on business principles and conservative lines. We assured the order-loving portion of the community that decency and social order " should prevail. We entered into a compact to faithfully and impartially enforce all laws without fear or prejudice. We gave our word to the taxpayer and business man that expenses should be reduced and pledged the administration of Caleb S. Denny to a rigid policy of retrenchment. We assumed the grave responsibility of paying the overdue bonds and restoring the credit of Indlanapctis, which had become seriously impaired and called into question by reason of Democratic incapacity, while doubt and. suspicion prevailed In the. financial centers of the country as to the ability f -Indianapolis to meet her maturing obligations. "How well the pledges we made have been redeemed and promises made good is well known to all. The laws and ordinances have been impartially and fearlessly enforced; order and qutet have prevailed in everv portion" of our city and the Christian Sabbath observed. The city authorities have addressed themselves to a watchful oversight of all the departments of the city government, even to details, and the smallest matters, however-seemingly unimportant they may appear, have received the attention they deserve.- The expenditures have been kept within the limits of the appropriations and in many cases reduced when possible without impairing the efficiency of the several departments. "The wonderful exhibit of credit of $200.000, as it appears on the city's ledger, represents the amount saved the taxpayers in the .last two years over and above the expenses of the preceding Sullivan administration. This item alone is an object lesson which the people can well afford to stud v. The Democratic administration had shinned along on bare poles with expenses greater than receipts and made up the deficiency by making short loans, based on the city's credit, thereby anticipating the resources of the coming year. These obligations with a considerable floating debt and an empty treasury, were a legacy left us by our friends, the Democracy. "We row come before the people again, asking for a continuation cf their confidence and a further lease of power, with all obligations paid. .the. floating debt wiped out, tnoney to met all demands .and a surplus of nearly $50,000 in the treasury. Such a showing certainly commends itself to every thoughtful citizen and Interested taxpayer. If the people of Indianapolis desire an honest and economical government, a thorough and impartial enforcement of all laws; It they wish to see our city grow and extend its borders and improvements keep pace with the time. Us cre.iit and standing equal to the bet fcof the cities-of the land, we ask them to elect the ticket st the head of which is Mr. Preston C. Trusler. (Loud cheering.) However, should they te overcome with the desire to pee former conditions prevail and the gates of our city thrown wide open to the gambler and lawbreaker, and its officials inviting the dangerous classes to sit in the saddle ant. assume control, and the credit of Indianapolis again called in quest!on, with her good name and fair fane made a by-word and a reproach, then they should defeat the Republican ticket: ' ' "In cur friendly rivalry and earnest efforts to secure the nomination of the man of our choice we should ever remember that we are Republicans. When the nominations are made and the result announced we should yield the ticket a hearty and unconditional suoport and put forth every honorable, effort and use what Influence we possess to secure Its election. In Justice to our party and cur conscience we should ask cne question: 'Are the nominees men of integrity 2nd character, with honorable mctives. and have they the caoacity-to acceptably til the several positions which they seek? No man of either party, has be presumption to deny the affirmative cf this nropcFition. Our .candidate for Mayor, Mr. Trusler. is a man of strong individual characteristics a nd Intense personality, whose Integrity cannot be questioned, with a long and varied experience In city affairs and well qualified in every particular to make a flrst-clas .executive officer. - . "Our candidate for police iudge. Mr. Ftults. Is well known to all. In 1M his ccurt dlsrosed cf over nine thousand cases and while my standard, of a Judge who passes judgment on the liberty and prosperity of the people is" very high Iwsnt him to have h little of the milk of human kindness in his composition ana mingle plenty of mercy with the Justice he deals OUt tO thC? Who Com8 before h'm. "Our candidate for clerk. Mr. Nixon. a young man of the hlehest character, with pot a known enemy. He ha managed his rffice with - intelligence and filelity and. like his father, that stalwart Republican. t?yrus F. Nixn. whom many of us remember, has no Hot upon his name. "We are to'd by politicians that all electlrn? are important first, to the tax-payer, next to our party. But a few months will Irtervene after the election before the' national Republican party will convene and declare a'p'icy and name a man who will lead our party to success and again bring oi:r Nation to that hlRh measure of rre'crlty and . advancement It enjiyed under th mire, aide and thotvush American administration of that peerless statesman ad enirent citizen of Indiana. . n!jamln Harrison, wh Is. without question, the first citizen cf the Republic. (Prolonged cheers.) "The Republicans cf this city have ben highly honored in the past and should the wisdom and prudence of th great masses of cur rxrty manifest itself in an undeniable demand that the man who controlled the helm during the four years cf unexampled prosperity and pure, clean government, endinx March, 1J33. which will stand

as a mark for future admlnUtratlorw t strive to equal to acain a um" control and lead our ran v. the IlrpuMU an of Indiana will be only tx slad to hold up the arms nd fall In line behind ttuu man, who In the p-jst thry have so dirly l)vrl to honor." (Applause for nearly two minutes.) Mr. Trusler wan thrn introduced, although . no formality was necessary where he It known so well. He poke of the time when the old Twenty-first ward was in exlMenie, and of the time whrn be flrt went to the Council. He said he had observed on.e years ago that the people of the South Side were not getting all that was due them in the way of Rifts that could be bestowed by the city. After coneiierinc the matter a while he concluded that it was not b-cau.e there was any antipathy toward the Fouth Side on the part of the residents cf the North Side, but It vas because of the lack of energy and push in the representatives from the South Side. When he became confident of this fact he concluded to run for Council, which he did. an 1 was elected. While in the Council, he said, he tried to look out for the interests of the South Side, not simply his own ward, but the entire section of the city. That ho did s. the records of the city show. "When I made application for the position of controller," he cor.tlnut-d. "it was not to better myself financially, because. aft?r the necessary expenses of a political cilice have been paid. I would have been Utter off where I was. I hud ambition. I am a plain citizen from tne South Side, and I wanted to show the people that there ar men in the South Side who have the ability to manage the city's affairs equally as well or better than can te done by residents of the North Side. I wanted to show that I could Improve the work of my predecessor. But with all that. I do not desire to throw discredit upon the man who formerly held my position, for he was a pool one. 1 have had behind me a wise Council, which wai willing to accept advice and do as those in a lositton to better know thought best. The Council has backed me In all my doings, while In Mr. Woollen's case he had a Council that could not compare to the present one and was not willing to take any advice; a Council that could not appreciate the gravity of the situation ami refused to listen to Mr. Woollen's advice." Mr. Trusler then explained the position Mr. Stuckmeyer had taken on several questions ot great importance to the resident of th?s ward. At the. time there was a deman? for a bridpe over (Pleasant run at -Willow street, Mr. Trusler offered a rtso'utlon in Council providing foaflt. Mr. Smckmeyer opposed -It from beginning to end. and, being a member of the commute lo which it was referred, refused to report. It was finally brought up. and when bids were received, Mr. Stuckmeyer again-held back the report until he was compelled to make It. On the final report, Mr. Stuckmeyer voted against the proposition. In the matter of thi Virginia-avenue viaduct. Mr. Trusler explained how the Democrats had given away the rights of tho people by accepting one viaduct, when they had. by the court's decision, the rlfcht to two, and also to have Illinois street opened at the Union Station. By the decision of the courts. Mr. Trualer said, it had become r?a-n that the Union .Railway Company 5.ould erect at least two viaducts and shtxdd open Illinois street. Sullivan had eome-into office in the meantime. Finally the railroad company came forward with an ordinance providing for the $176,000 v'f.-lJCt at Virginia avenue as a compromise. 'The company did not expect the offer to be accepted." Mr. Trusler said, "any mor? than a man who has a horse for sale expects to accept the first offer. It expjcted. to be compelled to make other concessions, and possibly be compelled to do all the courts had decided it should do, but the Democratic Council could not so that far and surprised the company by jumping at Us first offer. The Republicans of the Council voted against the ordinance because they wanted to compel the company to do more and knew they could do so.- But as the matter stands,- the Democrats have given away the right to corned the opening of Illinois street and the building of av viaduct at Meridian street, worth $000,000 to the company, for one $176.0u0 viaduct at Virginia avenue. If a man should offer you $176,000 now or $.v000 If you would wait a year for it. what would you do? Any of you would wait the year. That is what the Ttepubltcana wanted to do." : 4 Robert McCllntock. the candidate for Council In the Fourteenth ward, made a short talk. He was followed by ex-Lieutenant Governor Hanna, who was introduced by Mr. Adams as the man who had moved out of Woodruff Place so he could vote the Republican ticket in city affairs. General Coburn. S. II. Spooner and Georgo -W. Galvin were the other. speakers. j, ' XOTtTH INDIAXAPOLIS MBCTlNCJ. Enthusiastic Republicans In the- Xevfly Annexed Territory. Greenleaf Hall, in North Indianapolis, was well filled lart right on the occasion of the Fourth ward meeting held In thelnterest of the Republican ticket. Mr. Woody, the Republican candidate for City Council, presided. The first speaker was the young colored orator, James Williams, who held the .eager attention of the audience for half an hour in a very effcctiv and entertaing speech. Among other things, interspersed with applause, he said: "We are again in the midst of a municipal campaign. Oftentimes questions of interest in a campaign are intricate and hazy, but the Issues of this one are clear and plain so simple that the least favored in the gifts of learning can understand and Interpret them. The main questions arc, Shall we have an economical and wise administration of , the : city's affairs? and Shall the best element in our city in political affairs prevail?' " - - "We Republicans can solicit votes In but two ways, that is by nddrcssing the heads and heart of our hearers; but our Democratic friends employ, three methods; they address head, heart and stomach. To th argument of what they are pleased to call facts thev add as an enforcement the ar cumtnt of beer. The very fact that the Democratic ward heeiers r.re appealing to that which is worst in the nature of the floating voters, in order to attach them to their cause. Is the bct argument that can be advanced to prove that the cause is bad. A good cause needs no ild from suci sources; Its successis not to be won by the employment of means so base. The. Republican party docs not attempt first to l!d the reason and afterward address It. V want the mlud clear and t'n,a,vf'.B,,h heart unsullied by selfish motives arising out of a ministration lo the r-P'tttes. "During the present administration th bet element has prevailed. There has been a better observance of city laws, less drunkenness and less of all irregularltleH which are at variance with the peace and order of society. The city government has been economically administered. There has ben no repetlllon of the unsafe, unw so and wasteful policy of. the Sullivan administration. Mr. Trusler has through h in wie and consclentlojs discharge of hlj duties, saved the city the enormous sum of $mo0. It Is on this record we ask the support of the loyal voter of , the city In electing the men whom we have every reason to believe will continue the present rrosperous condition of affairs. Mr Tmsler's record Is dean:, he has been the faltltfut guardian of high trusts and duties the greater portion of his active life and in every instance has shown himself to be a man who fully understands the sacredness of a puhlU duty. His pan experience, his clrcumfpectton. bis Innate honrsty, peculiarly fit him for the office of Mayor of the city of Indlanipolts. Thomas Tafigart SJffcrs by a comparison with this "Judge Stubbs needs no recommendation of mine. His official conduct, his lofty qualities of heart ani brain, re.-ommenl him more forcefully than any speech of m"Lee Nixon is a man who neds l",!lVt mentioned. to call up In your minds all that is associated with integrity and official latitude. Our council manic candMates are all sound and conscientious. plfdKd to the support of all that makes die .best government of our city. "The election is cloe at hand. Mlnd'wl of the inspiring history of th grand oH parts of the Nation hich it saved, of tbs crime's it blotted out. the aconies it ended; mindful of the learning It has disseminated and how In millions of desolate bosom It caused new hop? to bloom, and how on millions of sorrowing Up it place! the song of joy mindful of all it has don for liberty, for progress, for Justl e ani mercj', let every citizen vote for the men who stand pledged to ulve tbe city a rlcan. honot. economical in F.ne., a. Republican administration." ' $ Judge Stubbs was next called out and rev sponded briefly, disclaiming any Intention to make a political peech. but only to m.k the acqualntanY- of the vet era and to say a word commendatory of the rest of the tlckft. He fpok.i with re sct cf the Democratic candidate as a man. but advanced numerous reasons why hl Republican opponent. Mr. Trusler. should be elected. The city, he said, wants a man who can spend all this, time in - looking after the Interests of the city. . Thad Rollins spoke for twenty minutes In a practical, convincing way. showing th great Importance cf the cl:y election compared to even ratlovil elections. He showed that an error of Judgment In the conduct of national afltir would aftect tb city in a very small wnv as the r.ur."t7