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At Logansport Banker Johnson was said to be in danger of a mob. He was very safe and comfortable yesterday in his ele- ; gant quarters at a hotel in this city. If he had rifled a letter of a dollar bill he would hot have been so well treated. John R. McLean, of Washington, is the Democrat who now aspires to represent Ohio in the Senate. The last Democratic senator who answered from Ohio was Calvin S. Brice, of New York. Really, some Democrat of senatorial size must be living In Ohio. Nations, as well as individuals, must observe the amenities of life. The detail of Major General Miles to represent the United States army at the Queen’s jubilee celebration next month is no more than a fitting jecognitlou of an event of national interest to a frleidly power. The peace negotiations between Turkey And Greece will give the Sultan a fine opportunity to display his talent for making and breaking promises. Between his deceitfulness and the meddling of the powers it will probably be a long time before a basis of settlement is reached. An item in the city columns of the Journal states that the w r ell-known packing house of Kingan & Cos., of this city, has been notified by its resident manager abroad that the outlook for an increased demand for American hog products is such as to justify them in beginning immediately to pack to their full capacity. Such straws as this show the wind is blowing which will bring better times. Embassador Hay's maiden speech in England seems to have made an excellent impression. The subject, eulogy of Sir Walter Scott, was a fortunate one, and it would scarcely be possible to treat it more felicitously in the same space than Colonel Hay did. One of the best things about it was thut the speaker did not gush over the Britons, as Mr. Bayard invariably did, nor , go out of his way to declare that "blood is thicker than water,” etc. The Democrats in Congress will oppose the proposed increase of the tax on beer on the ground that it will Increase the price of "the poor man's beverage.” This is a dishonest plea. The present tax on beer its $1 per barrel, and the Senate amendment proposes to make it for the next two years, $1.44 per barrel. The proposed increase is insignificant, and would not increase the price of beer to the consumer a particle. The tax would be paid by the brewers. Senator Gorman formally announces that the Democrats in the Senate will not interpose serious objections to the passage Os the Republican tariff bill. They will

offer some amendments, but will be content with an explanation and a vote. They propose to make a point by opposing the increase of the tax on beer proposed by the Senate committee, but it is by no means certain that the Republicans in the Senate will support the proposition. Mr. Gorman makes no intimation regarding the Aldrich sugar schedule, but it is said that its defeat is a foregone conclusion. With these assurances of Mr. Gorman of the purpose of the Democratic senators regarding the tariff bill, there is good reason to expect that it may be enacted so as to go into effect July 1. THE LOG AN SHORT HANK FAILURE. In some respects the failure of the State National Bank at Logansport is the worst that has ever occurred in Indiana. There have been other bank failures in which the depositors have lost much more than they will in this case, for it looks as if they will eventually receive nearly if not quite dollar for dollar. The stockholders will lose the whole of their stock, amounting in the aggregate to $200,000, and may have to pay more besides. But the worst feature of the Logansport failure is the shameless betrayal of trust and rank dishonesty of the man who as president wreaked the bank. So far as appears, no person was associated with John F. Johnson in the operation, so he cannot say he was misled, duped or made a tool of by others. He alone organized and executed a scheme of robbery by which a seemingly prosperous bank is wrecked, hundreds of his personal and too confiding friends swindled and an entire community scandalized. In doing this he seems to have been guilty of nearly every species of dishonesty that an autocratic bank president who was implicitly trusted by his neighbors could perpetrate. In addition to violating nearly every penal provision of the national bank law, he has been guilty of embezzlement and forgery. Thir-ty-four notes have been found bearing the forged signatures of prominent business men to the amount of $201,000. In the face of such deliberate and persistent rascality as this, previous good character, or reputation, rather, counts for nothing, and the plea that he was trying to protect his deceased father’s estate and memory from dishonor is puerile. He may have used some of the stolen money in that way, but no doubt the most of it was lost in speculation. A banker is a trustee for others, and a trustee who uses a dollar of a trust fund to speculate w’ith on his own account or for his personal benefit is a rascal, and none the less a rascal w'hether he wins or loses. It is to be remarked that the failure does not argue any defect in the national-bank law or system. It simply proves that no banking law or system can protect against the dishonesty of trusted bank officials. Neither is it duo in the slightest degree, as one Democratic paper says it is, to “bad times, which were to be prosperous long ago, brought about and perpetuated by the gold craze, and of w'hich ‘bad loans’ are a necessary part.” Every person with a grain of sense will see there was nothing of this in the failure. It is simply a plain case of preach of trust and dishonesty on the part of the president.

THE WORST SORT OF GAMBLING. There seems to be no doubt that the misfortune which has come to so many people in Logansport through the dishonesty of President Johnson is traceable to speculation in margins. Mr. Johnson is not a knave. He did not start in to wreck the bank by getting its funds and making away with them. He is reported to have made money in a wheat speculation, and this led him to believe that he could make a great deal more. He used the bank's money and lost. To retrieve his fortune he took more, and lost that. Confident that a turn would come in his favor, he borrowed widely, and the money borrowed went to swell the fortunes of the few who become millionaires by such speculations. In time he became reckless and plunged. To get the money with which to plunge he forged notes and changed the records of the bank. He had well-nigh got to the end when the bank examiner fell upon him and found such evidences of fraud as led him to call the president to account, and he confessed. The forgeries were found to be such as any bank director might have detected had he been a director in fact, since the signatures to the notes were not written in a disguised hand. Every bank which has*gone to pieces during the past few months has been wrecked by oliicers who used its money for speculative purposes. Nearly all of the defalcations of men who have been trusted can be traced to gambling on margins. The warning of experienced brokers to the effect that, in the long run, 95 per cent, of all those who invest in margins lose their money and in many instances are ruined, seems to have no deterring influence. INTERFERENCE W i 11l THE PARK. COMMISSION. The Journal was opposed to undertaking a system of parks at the present time because it believed that taxpayers should have a breathing spell, but other counsels have prevailed and the money for the purchase of the land for parks has been voted. Now that the city has been committed to the project the Journal believes that the city should have all which the money can bring. It is no secret that the City Council has interfered with the designs of the Park Commission. Having the voting of the money its members, or those of them who had an interest in so doing, were in a position to “hold up” the commission. A few of them have turned their position to advantage by compelling it to purchase three isolated tracts of land which in no way constitute a part of the park system as planned by the commission. These small plots of land are well enough as breathing places, but they should not have been purchased out of the fund voted for a park system, as they have been, at a cost of $43,000. Asa result of the purchase of these detached bits of land the commission now finds itself without the means to purchase the most desirable portion originally included in the proposed system, located northeast of the city. Those who are really in earnest for such a park system ;is has been advocated believe that it would be unwise to proceed without purchasing the land northeast of the city as originally contemplated. It has been proposed that inasmuch as members of the Council have diverted sl3,(Hh) of the money voted for the* purchase of the needed land, which has been spent in purchasing land for little parks in their wards, the commission should be allowed to use the $50,000* set apart for improvement, or as much of it as Is necessary, for the purchase of the land northeast of the city, so essential to the completeness of the system. It is said that if a portion of the money should be used Repurchase the tract of land northeast of there would be nothing left for of labor

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in improving the lands purchased. When it is recalled that the land in the vicinity of the proposed park will be assessed $409,000 in benefits, it will be seen that there is no ground for the statement that there will be no fund left for the employment of labor. On the part of certain politicians who see in the appropriations for parks nothing but a fund to nourish a party organization there is great haste to begin the work. And it has made ararngements with Mr. been made. The commission has scarcely completed the purchase of the land, and yet it has made arrangements with Mr. Olmstead, the man having the largest experience and the greatest success in laying out parks, to make the plans. This he will probably do at an early day to such an extent as to permit the work to be begun. To begin work without a design of what is to be done would be a worse blunder than to begin the construction of a building like the Statehouse without the plans of an architect. Whatever money should be expended before designs are made for the improvement would be as likely to be wasted as to be of benefit. But for the approaching city election there would be no such absurd haste about beginning the work. If the commission is left to pursue the policy which it has mapped out there will be no general work done upon the park until its engineer shall have made the plans. To do otherwise will be to begin in a wastefulness which will lead to extravagance and corruption by a short and direct road. A NEW IRISH POLICY. The plan for the relief of Ireland as outlined by Mr. Balfour, government leader in the House of Commons, indicates anew departure by the Conservative party, and one which, if carried out, will go far towards settling the Irish question. Mr. Balfour said the government had decided to place both the poor law and the county administrations in Ireland on a broad, popular basis. At present the land owners are liable for half the poor rates and the tenants for the other half and the county rate. The government proposes hereafter to pay out of the imperial funds the half of the poor rates now paid by the landowners, and also the county rate now paid by the tenants. The effect of this would be to relieve both landlords and tenants of a considerable burden of taxation and place it on the imperial treasury. It is estimated that the landlords would be relieved of about $1,250,000 yearly taxation, and the tenants of about $2,000,000. Mr. Balfour admitted that the change would place a large charge upon the exchequer, but he said it was a charge which the country at large and the Unionists would not grudge if thereby they could see the way to carry out the reforms they had in mind. The minister did not state in detail what these reforms were, but he said the government hoped to be able to launch a scheme for local government which it was believed would work safely and smoothly. Although Mr. Balfour only outlined the plan in a general way it foreshadows a very important new departure by the government on the Irish question. His statement was approved by Hon. John Dillon, chairman of the Irish parliamentary party; Hon. John Redmond, the Parnellite leader, and other home-rule leaders. The London Times characterized the statement as “a remarkable and momentous disclosure of policy.” The Irish Times congratulates the government, and another home-rule organ says: “If the promise is kept in the spirit and letter it will be a concession of popular rights to Ireland which, in addition to other advantages, will have an important money advantage.” Even the Freeman’s Journal, while expressing doubt as to the sincerity of Mr. Balfour’s promises, says: “But we cannot withhold approval and encouragement of the government's new departure.” It is evident from these comments that the new plan is regarded as a very significant change of policy, and, if carried out, as there is every reason to expect it will be, it will prove an important event in British politics.

In a recent annual report the controller of the currency recommended, among other amendments to the national-bank law, “that upon a day of each year, to be designated by the controller, the directors of national banks shall be required to make an examination of the affairs of the bank and submit to the controller a report thereon upon blanks to be furnished for such purpose.” The controller said he thought such a provision advisable in order that directors of national banks might be “compelled to know, from an examination required at their hands, of the condition of tiie banks in whose management they and for which they should bear a full share of responsibility.” No doubt such a law would lead to better banking methods, less carelessness in extending loans and make less liable the long continuance of any dishonesty which might be undertaken by any officer or employe of a bank. At any rate, it would make bank directors feel more personal responsibility for the management and condition of the bank than they do now. The new ruling of the Vatican regarding the relation of Catholic children to the church is characteristic of the wisdom of the church in adapting itself to circumstances. Heretofore the rule has been that the children of Catholics in this country must' become members of the parish to which their parents belong, but as there are many parishes where the services are conducted in foreign languages this rule w’as distasteful to children who preferred the English language and perhaps did not understand the foreign one. The new rule permits them to unite with a parish in which English is used. The tendency of this will be to minimize the use of foreign languages in the Catholic churches of this country, and ultimately do away with it altogether. In other words, it recognizes the fact that this being an English-speak-ing country the church should, as far as practicable, conform to that standard. HI RULES IN THE AIR. In IliN Mind. “They tell me you are a bit of an Anarchist.” “Only in the way that you are a capitalist —theoretically.” Helping Him Out. Watts—Some are bom great, some achieve greatness, and —and Potts—And have bicycles offered to them for nothing. Woman's Insincerity. He—The trouble with womankind in general is that they won’t plainly say what they think. She-Oh! Really? "Yes. Take yourself as an example. Wh n that stepladder slipped and you fell into the tub of suds, all you said was ’darn!’ ” Heart Rebutted. Weary Watkins—Madam, you see before

you a man whose whole life is embittered with bitter recollections. The Sharp-faced Lady—Huh! I s’pos; you forgot yourself and done some work, some time or other. A comparison of various pavements has been made at Wolverhampton, England, by a local engineer. The materials being laid on a Portland cement concrete six inches thick, he finds that granite costs $3 per square yard, with a life of thirty years; Australian hardwood blocks, $4.5') per squaie yard, lasting eighteen years; creosote deal blocks, $3 per square yard, the durability being but twelve years. A 2-inch natural rock asphalt on the same bed, good for fifteen years, costs $3.35 per square yard. To maintain 7,95? square yards of pavement thirty years, including watering and scavenging, is found to cost $45,000 for granite, $37,210 for Australian hardwood, $73,300 for creosote deal and $05,175 for natural rock asphalt. VIEWS OF INDIANA EDITORS. Taken in all its bearings the concert of the powers is the most remarkable continuous show on earth.—Muncie News. Let’s see, who was it first called them the powers? The name seems to be a misfit.—lndianapolis Journal. We move to amend by calling them the pow-wovv-ers. —Richmond Item. Business is not what it ought to be and labor is not absorbed as it should be, but. thanks to .the Republican party the profit and the wage ate worth ICO cents on trio dollar.—Ft. Wayne Gazette. The theory that a laboring man can improve his condition by favoring foreign importation of manufactured goods is what good Republicans have never been able to understand.—Decatur Journal. Foreign markets are valuable, but the market that stands far above all others for the American is the American market. It is worth dollars where the others are not worth cents.—Elwood Call-Leader. If the tariff law can be put upon the statute books in time for a glorious Fourth of July ratification of- it it will give the patriotic anniversary more interest than it has had in a long time.—Kokomo Tribune. Changing the President without changing the laws which affect the importation of goods cannot lift prosperity out of the slough of despond into which the last administration hurled it.—Fort. Waye Gazette. Speech making in the United States Senate upon the tariff question is not demanded by the people. What the people want is action—and prompt action. While the Senate talks the people of the whole land suffer.—Shelbyville Republican. The people are pretty thoroughly informed on the tariff question and know what they want. Please push it along without any great oratory. Wo are willing for it to be made a matter of record that all the senators are orators. Give us action. —Fowler Republican-Era. The Congress of the United States should sit down hard on any legislation which seems to be in the interest of trusts. For this reason the House should never allow the sugar schedule as agreed upon by the Senate to become a part of the tariff law. —Middletown News. One of the first countries Mr. Bryan should visit during his coming tour is Peru. They need him there to explain why the free coinage of silver at 16 to 1 has not brought the whole currency up to the level of gold, as promised in his Madlson-square speech.—Shelbyville Republican. This government proposes to spend a great deal more money in feeding starving American citizens in Cuba and considerable less in maintaining a marine police patrol for Spain along the Atlantic coast. That is what the change from Clevelandism to McKinleyism means. Vincennes Commercial. Just at,the present time the Wilson-Gor-man bill Is quite productive of revenue, but not of protection. However, this is on account of fear of additional duties under the Dingley bill, which importers are led to fear will soon be enacted. /They are “making hay while the sun shines” and are not to be censured for it.—Parke County Journal. The Republican party has not yet had an opportunity to eriactathiLC policy which it declared was a condition precedent to prosperity. When it does so, it will redeem its pledges. Remedial legislation of such vast importance cannot be passed in a day. A physician cannot purge his patient of disease at one?; neither can a government recover in six months from four years of vicious legislation.—Vernon Journal. Taxing life insurance policies is unwise, inexpedient and unjust, because the money ii vested in them brings the investor personally no return. Other investments may earn money for the investor. Ordinary life insurance cannnot. The State should encourage life insurance, for it promotes thrift and prevents widows, mud orphans from becoming a tax upon the public. Madison Courier. j A Jeffersonville friend assures the Tribune that there are now employed in that city over a thousand nfore men than at this time last year. About a thousand are at work in the Ohio Falls car works and about four hundred at Howard’s ship yards, where several vessels are on the stocks. This is in preparation for the good times coming after the passage of a protective tariff measure.—New Albany Tribune.

Some people think good times ought to have come quickly after McKinley’s election and inauguration, because hard times came quickly after Cleveland’s election and inauguration. Do tltey not k-now that a house can be pulled down or blown up with dynamite quicker than a house can be built? Free-trade dynamite blew our prosperity house to jrieces. It takes some time to gather up the fragments and reconstruct it. —New Albany Tribune. Even with the slight steps made by the dilatory Congress in the direction of proper legislation a difference is noticed in the trend and tendency of trade. Commercial and financial -eports indicate a rising state, and capital is beginning to reach out, seekiing investments. The leaven of political reason will soon sweeten the wiioie mass, and a return to the old good and wholesome conditions may be confidently expected in due time. —Wabash Tribune. It took four years of purely partisan legislation and maladministration to reduce the business of the country to its present impoverished condition, and the wreckers cry out now, with a chuckle of delight: “Where is the prosperity you promised us?” A Democratic administration had four years in which to kill it, and it is a little too much to suppose that a Republican administration could restore it instantly. —Pendieton Republican. It will please conservative Indianians to note that their junior United States senator refused to join the jingoes in a step that threatens our peaceful relations with Spain. Senator Fairbanks has kept cool in this matter. When he saw the radical tendency ir. the Senate Thursday he did his best, by protesting and by offering a substitute resolution, to stem the tide, but it could not be done. Nevertheless Senator Fairbanks’s record on the question is what it should be. —Terre Haute Express. No development in the business world has attracted more attention than the recent announcement by a leading commercial agency that the sales of goods in April were within a small fraction of the amount ir the most prosperous business year which the country has had for a long time. That there is a genuine revival in business activity is apparent, not alone from this announcement. but from the statements of the press, irrespective of party, in every section of the country.—Goshen Times. The visit of a delegation of South American merchants and business nan to the United States this week shows that the shrewd business people of that p;irt of the world recognize the fact that a party favcrabl; to closer business relations between the American republics is in power in this country. The contrast between the methods of the Republicans and the Democrats in encouraging close trade rdatims between all Americas is so strongly marked that people of those countries found no difficulty in recognizing the Republican victory of lVJti as an assurance that their trade envoys would be welcomed and their proffers of closer business relations likewise. —Huntington Herald. THE SENATORIAL WAR DANCE. The resolution should become law when the L T nited States is ready to strike swift blows to drive the Spaniards out of Cuba. —Pittsburg Dispatch (Rep.) The jingo senators should bind cool cypress garlands around their hectic brows and get down to business. Put the government on a paying basis and restore business

confidence. That is the supreme duty of the hour.—Chicago Times-Herald. The Senate resolution is, in a sense, an impeachment of the judgment exercised by the Executive, and it is a very serious question whether that body has the right to go so far out of its way In interfering with the conduct of the government, deliberately decided on by the executive.—Philadelphia Telegraph (Ind.) The resolutions will serve as a vent for the martial fervor of the Cuban sympathizers in the Senate, and nothing else. Acquiescence by the House will hardly be forthcoming for some time at least, and it is probable that the whole question will have a rest until after the passage of the tariff bill.—Detroit Free Press, find.) We see no evidence that the people are ready for war or that they want w’ur. But they will have war if belligerency is recognized, conferring on Spanish ships the right to visit and search our ships. A President who got into a war Without intending it would have a sorry time of it with the people.—New York Times (Dem.) Apparently the eheif results of the Senate’s resolution favoring the recognition of Cuba as a belligerent will be to allay somewhat the ruffled tempers of the senators and stir up the usual teapot tempest of wrath in Madrid. That the resolutions will have any more practical bearing on the case is highly improbable.—Chicago Record (Ind.) There is no reason to be alarmed at this new exhibit of senatorial jingoism, for the vote is merely stage thunder, as the resolution has net the slightest chance of reaching the President. It will assuredly be shelved in the House. Mr. Reed’s strong hand will be used against it as firmly and as effectively as it was yesterday against the kindred Bailey resolution.—Boston Herald (Ind.) In this emergency American business men and the conservative elements of the country generally will await the assemblage of the House, on Monday, in the earnest hope that it will prove an effectual barrier against the tide of senseless and dangerous jingoism which reached its highwater mark in the Senate yesterday. The Morgan resolution ought never to come to a vote if it can be prevented—New York Commercial Advertiser (Rep.) There is no question that the House will pass the resolution by a still larger majority, unless the President shall previously issue his proclamation, rendering it unnecessary. But if the House is to wait until the President is ready to move then the people of the United States will respectfully but firmly demand that he shall expedite his movement. They are tired of waiting. They have waited nearly two years for something to be done.—Chicago Tribune (Rep.) It is an unwise step. An absolutely clear cane for belligerent rights cannot be made out, although when so conservative a man as Senator Lindsay, of Kentucky, warmly supports the opposite view we do not assume that the Senate's vote represents nothing but a passionate outburst of jingoism. This is really a question of policies, of methods, and the granting of belligerency seems an unnecessary, ineffectual, devious and possibly a mischievous step. —Springfield Republican (Rep.) The latest from Washington shows Morgan and his merry men in buckram are as intemperate and inflammable as ever. They propose to play the jingo game to the limit, the President, the $50,000 appropriation and the mission of Calhoun to the contrary notwithstanding. It fortunately happens, however, that recognition does not always recognize and that they can damage themselves much more seriously than anybody else. The mouse is not a particularly formidable animal.—Brooklyn Eagle (Dem.) The Senate might better have deferred its passage of the Morgan resolution. We do not suppose its action will do any serious harm. It will have no practical effect unless concurred in by the House, and the House is not likely to concur if the President does not desire it. The general expression of the Senate as an Indication of American feeling is unobjectionable, and the only reason for deprecating it is that it may tend to fetter or embarrass the free action of the President who must work out the problem.—Philadelphia Press (Rep.) Let the House kill it because it was designed—and the pattern of the design came out boldy when Senator Gorman took to the refuge of scoundrels and for the first time in his cynical life played “patriot”— not to aid Cuba, not to harm Spain, but to arrogate to a degenerate body the powers lodged by the Constitution in the presidential office and now wielded by an incumbent who is engaged to the satisfaction of the people in the painstaking discharge of this in common with all other duties. Let the House support the President and the people will support the House.—New York Press (Rep.)

THE NEXT SENATORSHIP. Linen on Which General Wallace’s Candidacy Will Be Conducted. Crawfordsville Journal. It Is the intention of the friends of Gen. Lew Wallace in this State to present him as a candidate for election to the United States Senate, and press his claims by all honorable means. Going out of the usual, they are resolved to seek indorsement for him by the next Republican State convention, believing such indorsement will add strength to the party and insure the success of the whole ticket, and that his standing as a Republican, his ability, his high character, his eminent fitness for the Senate and the esteem in which he is held by the people of the United States, all so universally recognized, recommend him, past venture, to the most favorable consideration. The policy of indorsement by State conventions has worked so well in Ohio and Illinois as to inspire the belief that it wifi serve quite as well in Indiana. The friends of General Wallace who have entered into this movement do not think it in the least necessary to give his biography in detail; no living Indianian is better known throughout the State, the Nation and the world; yet in this connection we may say with propriety that he is a native of Indiana, who, by liis achievements in a variety of fields, has added much to the glory of his State. The earlier years of his manhood were spent in active practice of the law. He was a solder it\ the Mexican war, and won fame as a general in the greatest of all modern wars, that for the preservation of the Union. In the latter struggle he was among the first to enlist, taking from Montgomery county a company of men who became part of the famous Eleventh Regiment, of which he was commissioned colonel. Remaining until victory was assured by the ultimate surrender, he was mustered out as a major general, the highest rank then known to our army. To him the country is indebted—and we speak upon the authority of General Grant—for the salvation of the national capital from a possible disgrace like that which befell it at .the hands of the British in 1814.

By offers from the highest source, he could have been a brigadier general in the regular army, but. preferring civil life in time of peace, he applied himself and attained a world-wide reputation in literature, and as Governor of Mexico and minister to Turkey manifested signal ability for affairs of responsibility other than military. In short, he has been a loyal American citizen, an able general, a renowned author, a diplomat of distinction, arui, if elected, will at once take rank as a stallman, being already known as gifted, patriotic, honest, eloquent, brave and true. Asa trusted representative of the people, he is of the kind to defy the baser political elements, and be depended upon to advocate such measures, as will be for the best interest of the whole' land. Stute l*re* on the Senatorahip. The Crawfordsville Daily Journal has nominated Gen. Lew Wallace for United States senator and insists the State convention next year shall indorse film. That will hardly be done, for "there are others" who will insist upon standing for that honor, should the Legislature bb Republican.—Middletown News. The friends of General Lew Wallace are already opening the campaign for his election to the United States Senate and will press his claims by all honorable means from now until after a choice is made. They will endeavor to have the next Republican State convention indorse him for election by the next State Legislature. —Michigan City News. The Crawfordsville Journal nominates Gen. Lew Wallace for United States senator in 1898. The News is unwilling to believe that Lew Wallace and Governor Mount, who has already been announced as a candidate for that position, will enter the lists to contest for the same place. These two are yfe-long friends, bound by the closest ties, and if Governor Mount is really a candidate General Wallace will not be.—Fort Wayne News. The Crawfordsville Journal editorially announces that the friends of Gen. Lew Wallace are determined to present him as a candidate for the next vacancy in the

United States Senate from Indiana. The selection of General Wallace, the talented author and diplomat, and the hero of two wars, would certainly reflect high honor and dignity upon the State and at the same time be a recognition of deserving merit. —Mishawaka Enterprise. The friends of General Lew Wallace, the Crawfordsville Journal announces, will present him as a candidate for the United States Senate to succeed. Senator Turpie and will seek an indorsement for him by the next Republican State convention. This is anew departure in Indiana politics, but the scheme has worked well in neighboring States and no doubt will do as well here. General Wallace has all the qualifications for a senator and would worthily represent the Hoosier State in that capacity. Having already made for himself a world-wide fame as soldier, author and diplomat, he would at once take high rank in the Senate. —Rockville Republican. Announcement is made from Indianapolis, which assumes authority, that Governor Mount will be a candidate for the United States senatorship to succeed David Turpie. Anything that Governor Mount wants at the hands of Indiana Republicans should be his. During his brief term in the gubernatorial chair he has shown elements of force and strength and ability that qualify him for any place in the gift of the people. Broad-minded, active, capable, never stooping to the level of demagoguism and never losing sight of his duty to his constituency, the United States Senate would be honored by his presence as a member, and there would be in him a man that could never be used by the trusts to furtft* r their interests at the expense of the people.—Bluff'ton Chronicle. The Zionsville Times just about expresses our sentiments when it says: “We are in receipt of the Crawfordsville Journal announcing the candidacy of General Lew Wallace for the next senatorship from Indiana. General Wallace is a nice old gentleman and a good story writer, but we are led to believe that Indiana has much better senatorial timber. If he should be the next senator and on some question the other members would not agree with him he would expect them to resign or he would do so himself. Let's try a man not quite so set in his ways.” More than that the Argus believes that there are many just as able men to whom the party owes more than it does General Wallace. Prior to the time when he came into political prominence at the St. Louis convention, he had not done much making or unmaking of any party in recent years.—Thorntown Argus. General Lew Wallace’s friends have decided to present his name as a candidate for United States senator two years hence, and intend following a plan which is new in Indiana—to bring his name before the State Republican convention for indorsement. This plan has been tried in other States and has proven quite successful, securing an expression from all sections. As to General Wallace himself, no better choice could be made. His ability, his integrity, his wide experience in public affairs at home and abroad, and his warm interest in the warfare of his constituency, all unite to peculiarly fit him for the. place. His many excellent personal attributes are too well known, especially in this western part of thi6 State, to need even casual mention. In [war and in peace his loyalty has been proven, and the honor contemplated .by his friends is well deserved.—Parke ' County Journal. General Lew Wallace’s friends have decided to present his name .as a candidate for United States senator two years hence, and intend following a plan which is new in Indiana—to bring his name before the State Republican convention for indorsement. This plan lias been tried in other States and has proved quite successful, securing an expression from all sections. As to General Wallace himself no better choice could be made. His ability, integrity, his wide experience in public affairs at home and abroad, and his warm interest in the welfare of his constituency, all unite to peculiarly fit him for the place. His many excellent personal attributes are too well known, especially in this western part of the State, to need even casual mention. In war and in peace his loyalty has been proven, and the honor contemplated by his friends is well deserved.—Rockville Journal.

We think it a little early to select a successor for the present Democratic member from this State in the United States Senate. This attempt to commit the press or the people several years In advance for this or that man, is just a little bit indiscreet. The News may have its preference, but it is not running any paid locals for any senatorial candidate, nor are we looking for place, position or preference which we hope to secure by bonding our freedom to Individuals years in advance. The fact that a man has done this thing or that thing years ago is no evidence that there are not others who would have done the same thing had they been old enough to. It will be time enough to look for a man suitable for senator when we have elected the Legislature that will choose Mr. Turpie’ 3 successor. The thing of most importance is to get a good Legislature and see that it is Republican. This committing the organization to a Inan and then choosing a Legislature to ratify the “boomed” is bad policy.—Muncie News. It is the intention of the friends of Gen. Lew Wallace in this State to present him as a candidate for election to the United States Senate, and press his claims by all honorable means. Going out of the usual, they are resolved to seek indorsement for him by the next Republican State convention, believing the indorsement will add strength to the whole ticket, and that his standing as a Republican, his ability, his high character, his eminent fitness for the Senate, and the esteem m which he is held by the people of the United States, all so universally recognized, recommend him past venture, to the most favorable consideration. The policy of indorsement by State convention has worked so well in Ohio and Illinois as to inspire the belief that it will serve quite us well in Indiana.—Crawfordsville Journal. As excellent a man as General Lew Wallace :s—and he is everything that is described above—it is our opinion that the preference of Republicans will be largely in favor of Hon. VV. R. McKeen, of Terre Haute. There is no more popular man in Indiana. Should It he understood that he is to be the candidate to succeed Senator Turpie, the Republican party will be greatly strengthened in next year’s contest. —Evansville Journal. The Grawfordsville Journal announces that the friends of General Wallace in the State intend to work from r.ow on until the meeting of the next Legislature in behalf of his election as United States senator. It further states that they will depart from the usual course and ask for his indorsement by the State convention. No one doubts that if elected senator General Wallace would ably and creditably represent Indiana, and he will undoubtedly be aTormidable candidate, as he has hosts of friends and admirers throughout the State. And as to the matter of going before the State convention that is a proposition that deserves attention. Os course if the Wallace people try such a move the friends of the other candidates, it would seem, must enter the race for indorsement or at least a contest for delegates to prevent General Wallace's indorsement. We like the plan. According to present laws and customs the people have too little to say in the selection of a senator. If the people cannot elect a senator directly, at least let the members of the dominant party name him. At present practically the only word the people have to say is as to what party shall elect the senator. The question of choice of senatorial candidate can be expected to enter but little into the selection of legislative candidates, and it is not desirable that it should. In a Slate convention every section, Republican and Democratic alike, is well represented, and If these delegates are called upon to name the seattor, or at least recommend him, it will be as near the choice of the people as we come In the selection of any of our candidates for uftice. And it is safe to say that a ten vent ion will be no easier to handle or subject to more bad or undesirable influences than the majority of legislatures. We believe that it would rmt be out of the way for the next Republican convention to signify Us preference for senator. If new conditions arise th-n before the meeting of the Legislature which makes it seem unwise to select the one indorsed the members are not bound to elect him.—Franklin Republican. A IIEBI UK TO EMILAM), An English Writer Condemns Hln Country’s Policy Toward Greece. Henry Norman, in Cosmopolis. Some people say that a general election would show that the people of England tire pot represented by their government. Others allege that England can no longer be moved to interest in any question of foreign affairs which is not flavored with stockjobbing. Which is right? At any rate, the memory of a man not yet of middle age seems to reach back to a time when the sympathies of England would have been on tin; other side, and when the press would not have been regaled with touching accounts of how the men who stuck Christians like pigs in Armenia, anti slit up pregnant women, and carried babies about

on bayonets, were engaged in reverently laying under the shade of trees their dead Christian enemies in Thessaly. There ara no trees, by the way, on the Thessalian frontier, but that is the least part of the fiction. Before I had been in Athens a week I knew, not as a matter of opinion, but as a matter of certainty, that unless the powers made some trifling concession to Greek national feeling war was inevitable. This fact, indeed, was patent to every observer there with good opportunities of judgment. The foregoing article shows how very small the concession might have been. At first Lord Salisbury desired to make such an one. On two occasions he had put forward proposals of conciliation. 1 attribute the breakdown of the blockade to his unwillingness. What his later course has been I do not know. But 1 do know that Germany urged Turkey to declare war weeks ago: I do know that the Sultan and King George were prevented from settling the dispute between them; I do know that Russia made an isolated proposal for the settlement of the Cretan question, and guaranteed its execution. Unhappily, too. I know, as all the world knows, that Russia alone will profit by what has happened: I know that the communique supplied by Count MouravietT to the official Journal de St. I‘etersbourg one day was copied act forty-eight hours later by the British minister in Athens, signed by him and sent to the Greek government ns the will of England, and 1 know that the Times of to-day editorially remarks that "the circular issued by Count Mouravieff on Sunday embodies the main points of the policy which may be expected to commend itself to the European concert”—a statement whose almost simple frankness Is only emphasized by the fact that it bears the unmistakable stamp of a contemporary Foreign. Office utterance. Wo all know, too, that the concert of Europe is a grotesque failure—that it has failed in Armenia, failed in Turkey, failed in Crete, failed in Greece. Its deliberations are the prime joke of the moment; its solemn promises are not worth the zinc and sulphuric acid it costs to telegraph them: its very sincerity is smiled at by every diplomatist behind his hand. Finally, we know—or ought to know—that England was never so powerful, that our fleet is the undisputed mistress of the sea, and that our word now, as at any time these months past, would settle the present Eastern difficulty in a week. The correspondents telegraph that the hillside beyond Melouna is dotted with the white figures of dead Greek soldiers. My friendship with these officers has been cut short. Prestige, with its “pitiless exigency,” has called them; patriotism, with its glorious ruth, has bidden them lie down. They have died that others might be free, that their own land might be happier and stronger, that the Turk might he withstood by the weak if not by the great. Men never gave themselves for a better cause. 1 am thankful to have been honored by a brief acquaintance with them. May the soil of their immortal country lie lightly on them!

THE FOHGORUAIXEU WINNER. Prediction that England Will Control Crete—Her Policy. New York Evening Sun. The commercial success of the Greek race has been one powerful consideration that contributed to hold together the combination of powers to aid the Turk by their active operations in Crete, by lending him officers to manage his commissary and quartermaster departments while transferring his troops from Asia Minor, by paralyzing the operations of the Greek fleet and finally giving the Turk the signal to fall on. While successful Greek commercial competition in Mediterranean and Black sea waters was more acutely felt by England than by any one of the others, it was a powerful obstruction to the expansion of the rest In the same coveted field. If the Greek traders were thus formidable with their existing limited national base, it was apparent that any extension of that base must increase their power. To cuib this competition thus became one object which appealed to the powers in common and furnished them with a unity of motive and of purpose that old-fashioned territorial and military considerations would have failed to supply. Hence, at the very outset, the intrigues at Constantinople which prevented Greece and Turkey from settling the Cretan affair between themselves. In the face of a menace to their only common interest, and that interest a sordid one, the mutual jealousies of the powers were subordinated. It must be borne in mind that the material object in issue at the initiation of this war was the possession of Crete—the object of England's undeviating policy for sixty years. If, now, the Turk declines submitting to the dictation of those whom he has served, as he has a complete political and moral right to do, a hurly-burly may ensue. In that event England will enter upon immediate possession of Crete, fully attaining the object for which she began the war with her battle ships, in whose wake the inferior naval powers followed. As to the attitude of the Turk, it suits Russian policy to have the Greek smashed to stay. It is not clear that England’s buncoed partners need distress themselves over her acquisition of Crete; they are accustomed to it—as witness Egypt, Delagoa bay, massacred Armenia and so on. And, besides, stocks are up at all of their capitals. On the other hand, the Turk, instead of standing on his rights, may be submissive. He may acquiesce in the powers' dictation. In that event the hurly-burly stands deferred for a season, but It is only deferred, and England’s acquisition of Crete later on is not less certain than her present possession of Egypt, and it must needs be brought about by influences inhering in the case working to the same and inevitable end. To understand the exact bearings of the policy of autonomy for Crete we must recall the case of Egypt. '.That country also enjoyed the same alleged autonomy. Crete will be ‘.saddled with a heavy tribute to the Turk, as Egypt was with an alleged debt to the financiers of Europe. The dent afforded a pretext, as the tribute will afford it, for taking the administration out of native hanas and treating the country in all respects as a conquered one whose resources were diverted rrom internal development ik> satisfy the creditors’ tax gatherers. A lime came when this treatment proved roo galling even for the patient •Egyptian; how much sooner must it be found intolerable by the more independent and spirited Cretans? The Egyptians rose, as the Cretans are destined to rise. The English Mediterranean squadron, always prepared, glided instantly to the spot and stuffed the patriotic Egyptians into subjection, as tney are destined to snell the Cretans —a job at which they have already had preliminary practice. Then, on the ground that “order nad been restored” at her own expense, England took possession of Egypt and Europe acquiesced. The pretext oi a temporary occupation nay recently been publicly thrown over in Parliament by Lord Salisbury’s government. 'file identical series of steps is contemplated for Crete, ;md with them England's Mediterranean policy wifi have linauy succeeded. England may bide iier time tor entering into possession, but the conclusion is a foregone one. And her total expenditure in iffe case of Crete, as in ttiat of Egypt, is a few practice shells thrown in entire security irom her battl#; ships among the helpless inhabitants. \\ hat was won nas been the quality of continuity in her policy. W hen she twice retained Crete subject to the rule of the Turk she did not do so for the sake of promoting the massaerts which followed, as she nad foreseen that they would follow; her purpose and aim was that, as a result of those massacres, and in the ensuing hurly-burly, the Island might fall to Mr possession. That lesult she has now assured by leading the concert in its attack upon the Greek liberators, and thus forcing the chain of events in which the Turk has played the part of instrument. So, too. when England withdrew the Armenians from Russian protection, it is senseless to suppose that her motive was merely to bring about the massacres that were foreseen by all. Her calculation was that, just as France under Louis Napoleon intervened with England’s moral support after the Syrian massacres, so France, either alone or with other members of the concert, would intervene to save the Armenians. In the resulting hurlyburly England wouli snatch such advantage as the situation should make most feasible.

Rut continental diplomacy had meantime been at work, and England was left singlehanded to deal with her proteges. She dealt as she had previously dealt with the Cretans; she left them to their fate, and sho leaves them there still. She knows; as all Europe knows, that fresh massacres lie in the wornb of time. If, when they come, England can sec her way to her personal gain by interfering she will interfere. It is for that purpose that she now sits down in patient acquiescence beneath the load of infamy which the infinite villainy of her policy has heaped upon her. But she has received her price, and is more than content. Neither is it apparent that anv one else need complain. For, we repeat, in every capital in Euroj>e stocks are up. It is now "Next!" as they call in the barber’s shops, and "Here!'’ answ’ers President Paul Kruger with Delagoa bay, through w hich alone succors could reach him, already in possession of the enemy. It may not bts war, but It is magnificent—policy. A <.ll llery Senator. Kansas City Journal. Senator Billy Mason is evidently going to be a great favorite with the galleries. He is almost as good as a blood and thunder novel. Th© tV hole Tiling. Phllad-lphia North American. When speaking ot Europe now the Sultan of Turkey simply says; ’Tie and the Czar."