Indianapolis Journal, Volume 49, Number 271, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 September 1899 — Page 4

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, , THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1899.

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Rejected manuscripts will not be returned unIces postage Is Inclosed for that purpose. THE IM)I AVAI'OLIS JOURNAL Can be found at th following places: NEW YORK Astor House. CHICAGO-Palmer 'House, P. O. News Co., 217 Dearborn street. Great Northern Hotel and CJrand PacMc lietel. CINCINNATI-J. Iw Ilawley & Co.. YA Vine street. lOUISVlLLE C. T. Decrlng. northwest corner cf Third and Jefferson streets, and Loul&vtlle .. EooSc Co., Fourth avenue. KT. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot. WASHINGTON. D. C Rlggs House. Ebbltt House and WllIarcTs HoteL The tide has turned against Mayor Tagear t and Taggartism. It looks' as If the political trust of Thomas Taggart Is In danger of being crocked. The feeling: that Mayor. Taggart will not Jiave a third term Is deepening into conviction. Corporations which have backed Mr. Taggart hitherto will make a great blunder If they attempt to assist him this year. After four years of zealous advocacy of Mayor Taggart. the News has made the discovery that he is not a sincere man. QIayor Taggart Is not now so delighted that Mr. Bookwalter is his orponent as ho was reported as being when he accepted a nomination for a third term. City Attorney Kern Is doing his best for the mayor, but ho can never make so good a speech as that he delivered In June. 1S36, denouncing free and unlimited coinage of silver. All the Governors of Indiana since the admission of the State Into the Union in 1515 to the present time have not drawn as much out of the public treasury In salary and emoluments as Mayor Taggart has. The mayor and his coterie are fighting for political life. In their desperation they will resort to every "device that Ingenuity can Invent. Besides, they have a barrel of money. But an aroused public can defeat them. Ex-Governor Pattlson,. of Pennsylvania, while an expansionist and all that, fears the radical element of his party, the Democratic, will control it In 1900, but after that election .conservative Influences will prevail and It " will ' again be the old Democratic party. This is not consoling. After supporting Mayor Taggart two terms with all its zeal, the News declares that It favors Mr. Bookwalter, because he is Identified with the element of the Republican party that has always been hostile to the mayor. In other words, the News has come to the conclusion that Mr. Bookwalter will be elected. The unexpected arrival at New York of Hear Admiral Howison. on the Chicago, after a long cruise, Is almost a dramatic incident In naval affairs and will contribute materially to the Interest of the Dewey celebration. It may disturb the programme somewhat, as Admiral Howison ranks all the other officers who will be at New York except Dewey. The Indications are that the receipts of the treasury have been so large during September thus far that they will be larger at the end of the month than the expenditures, despite the fact that $3,000,000 of Interest due In October has been anticipated. At this rate there will be a surplus at the close of the fiscal year la spite of the expenditures for the war. If Governor. Plngree had been carefully reading a good newspaper the past six months he would have known that Attorney General Griggs had not rendered an ! opinion to the effect that Congress cannot I deal with trusts and thus escaped an exI posure of his Ignorance of current events. Those men who devote their time to abusing newspapers do not read them. Admiral Dewey Is reported to have expressed surprise that Agulnaldo's insurrection had not been subdued long ago. Like I General Otis, he did not take into account , the value of tho aid and comfort given by '; those who have held out to Agulnaldo something like a promise that if he would hold cn until the; meeting of Congress his independence would be recognized. No one thing which Mr. Taggart has done recently has disgusted so many voters as his attempt to make them believe that he can meet an expenditure of $1,121,000 with a ! i3-cent levy this year when he declared a year ago that a 70-cent levy was absolutely necessary to obtain a revenue of $1,114,000. It Is regarded as an imputation on the part of the mayor that taxpayers can be fooled. The School Board of Cleveland has sold the public library ground and building in that city at auction for $310,000. The ground Vfzs bought by the school authorities, in lSCl. for $3,000, and vas regarded at that time as quite out ot the city. The present building la antiquated and of little value, the present value of the property being entirely In the ground. The property was offered for sale five ytars ago, the highest bid being $173,000. The School Board was not fining to accept this price, and the sale T.as postponed until now they get $310,000. The figures Illustrate not only the growth :f Cleveland, but the advance of eligible real estate everywhere. It suggests, also, the propriety of school boards in all growing cities securing desirable sites for buildings in advance of the school need and be-'i-re prices reach top figures. "What to do with Admiral Dewey will heroine a question of some Interest after his rrrption Is over." The question what to do ith our ex-rresldents has often been d!s..yscd. generally ending with letting them ''.".e. Admirals tare rarer than ex-Presl-.t3. We have had tut two before.

Admirals Farragut and Porter, the title dying with the latter. Admiral Farragut was assigned to the European squadron In 1SC7, but performed no duty beyond pleasure cruising between that time and his death in 1S70. Admiral Porter was on special duty In Washington from the time of his appointment to that rank in 1S70 till his death in February, 1801. It is probable Admiral Dewey will receive a similar assignment, lie will reach the retiring age next Dec. 26, but will probably prefer not to be retired for a few years. His services In a consulting and advisory capacity would be of great value to the government, and, if agreeable to him, he will f robably bo assigned to duty of that kind.

IIKHO WORSHIP. . The thoughts of the people of this great country are turned toward New York today because . Admiral Dewey Is there. Throngs representing every town and village in the land are there to greet him and to gaze upon him with admiring eyes. A year ago last April few among these millions knew that such a man existed. The navy as an institution had not Interested them, and its officers were unknown quantities. Then suddenly, on the 1st of May, the naval victory at Manila was won and they had a hero. That morning Dewey had sailed into Manila bay with his fchips and destroyed the Spanish fleet. Not stopped by fear of mines in the harbor, not intimidated by the guns of the forts, he boldly entered the bay and calmly carried out tho orders of his government, losing neither man nor gun in the undertaking. It was a deed that instantly appealed to the Imaginations of his fellow-Americans; its courage, its coolness, its completeness excited them to wildest enthusiasm. The man who accomplished It was set apart at once as one worthy their highest approval and praise. He realized to them an ideal of bravery, of daring, of loyal service, and the thought of him was a delight. They like to know that such men live and are in places of trust and responsibility. The knowledge gave them a better opinion of the age in which they live and of themselves. For, in these days when men's fiercest struggles are in the fields of commerce and the chief aim in life for the multitude is material gain, it sometimes seems that the nobler and more unselfish attributes of humanity are being lost during the eager quest after a wealth that Is measured by dollars and not by ideas. Individuals even doubt their own possibilities of rising above the level of the dull commonplace. But an event like Dewey's victory lifts the most stolid and unimaginative out of themselves. They see irvlt an achievement far beyond anything possible in their own lives; they suddenly realize that no greater privilege could befall a man than the opportunity for'sucb, a deed; they would have been glad, eachone of them, to be in Dewey's place, but are glad that he lives to have accomplished what he did. And they set him on a pedestal and are the better for so doing. Carlyle says soc!ety is founded on hero worship. He means, doubtless, that the hero, the man who does the act which excites admiration; serves as an inspiration to his fellow-creatures and so lifts them up. It has been well for the American people that they have admired, even "worshiped," Admiral Dewey. Into the prose and the commonplace monotony of their dally lives he brought the element of heroism in Its highest form that of a high duty nobly done and no influence could be better. Other men might , have done as welj had they been in his place, but the fact remains that the deed was his. The man who achieves is the man to whom plaudits belong. In doing him honor we are honoring ourselves. Foreign . critics call our manifestations in hl3 behalf hysterical; perhaps they are so to an extent, but genuine admiration and pleasure Inspire every expression of welcome. In time the exuberance of enthusiasm will wear away or be excited by a later hero, but Dewey's name will always have high place in the affections of his countrymen, and the service he does them Is not to be measured by the sinking of a fleet. All honor to Dewey, to-day, and always! A SPEECH OV ABRAHAM LIXCOLX. An odd book recently -published, called "The Funny Side of Politics," contains many political anecdotes and humorous extracts from speeches delivered in Congress or elsewhere. Among others is an extract from a speech delivered In Congress by Abraham Lincoln, July 27, 1S13. The speech was in reply to one delivered by Alfred Iverson, a member from Georgia, a few days before. Both were regular campaign speeches and had no peculiar bearing on any question before the House. Mr. Iverson, a Democrat, had eatirlzed the Whig party and spoken of Henry Clay as having been "ungratefully cast off, like a brokendown, wornout horse, turned out on the common to die. He had also charged the Whigs with having "skulked behind the back of a great man. and, like little children, attempted to steal into power under the great tail of his military coat." This allusion was to General Taylor, who had been nominated for President by the Whigs. The Georgian continued at some length in the same vein and in a style which, besides being very pointless, would be called very I cor wit nowadays. A few days afterwards! Mr. Lincoln replied to this speech in much the same vein. The subject before the House was the presidential question, though why It should have been there would be difficult to saj Mr. Lincoln said: The other day one of the gentlemen from Georgia, an eloquent man and a man of learning, as far as I can Judge, not being learned myself, came down upon us astonishingly. He spoke in what the Baltimore American calls the "scathing and withering style." At the end of his second severe flash I was struck blind, and found myself feeling with my lingers for an assurance of my continued physical existence. A little of the bone was left and I gradually revived. He eulogized Mr. Clay in high and beautiful terms, and then declared that we had deserted all our principles and had turned Henry Clay out. like an old horse, to root. This is terribly severe. It cannot be answered by arguments, at least I cannot so answer it. I merely wish to ask the gentleman if the Whigs are the only party he can think of who sometimes turn old horses out to root? Is not a certain Martin Van Buren an old horse which your own party have turned out to root? After treating the "old-horse" question in this vein a little while the speaker took up the charge that the Whig party had taken shelter under General Taylor's military coat tall. In reply he called attention to the fact that the Democratic party had run the last five presidential races under the ample military coat tall of General Jackson, and were now running the Flxth under tho same cover. "Yes. sir," he continued, "that coat tall was used, not only for General Jackson himself, but has been clung to with the grip of death by every Democratic candidate since. You have never ventured, and dare not now venture front under it. Like a horde of hungry ticks you havo stuck to the tall of the ITermltage Hon to the end of his life, and you are still sticking to It and drawing a loathsome sustenance from it after he Is dead. -A fellow' once advertised that he had made a dis

covery by which he could make a new man out of an old one and have enough of the

stuff left to make a little yellow dog. Just such a discovery has General Jackson's pop ularity been to you. You not only twice made President of him out of It, but you have had enough' of the stuff left to make Presidents of several comparatively small men since; and it is your chief reliance now to make still another." Thl is very Lincolnlsh, and one discerns in it something1 of his character and humor, but not much trace of the style 'that was to make hlmi famous in laier years. At the time of the delivery of this speech Mr. Lincoln was thirty-five years old. Both of the speeches' were of a kind that would scarcely be lis tened to in Congress nowadays, and that of Mr. Lincoln certainly gave no sign of the power that, less than fifteen years later. was to enable him to meet and beat Stephen A. Douglas in the greatest political debate In American history. Mr. Lincoln proceeded In a half serious and half humorous vein, concluding with a personal reference. Ile'sald: But, in my hurry, I was very near closing on the subject of military tails before I was done with It. There is one entire) I mecn the military tail you' Democrats are now cngagea in aovetaiung on io ir.e great MIchlgander. your candidate for President, .General Cass. Yes, sir, all his biographers have been on hand, tying him to a military tail, like so many mischievous boys tying a dog to a bladder of beans. True, the material they have is very limited; but they drive at it with might and main. He invaded Canada without resistance and he evaded it without pursuit. As he did both under orders I suppose there was, to him. neither credit nor discredit in them; but they are made to constitute a large part of th tall. He was not at Hull's surrender, but he was close by. ; He was volunteer aid to General Harrison. on the day of the battle of the Thames; and. as you said in mo that Harrison was picking huckleberries two miles off while the battle was fought, I suppose it is a just conclusion, with you. to say Cass was helping Harrison picW huckleberries. This is about all, except the mooted question of his broken sword. Some authors say. he broke It: some say he threw it away, and some other?, who ought to know, say ' nothing about it. Perhaps it would be a fair historical compromise to say if he did not break it ho did not do anything else with it. By the way, Mr. Speaker, did you know I'am a military hero? Yes. sir. in the days of the Black Hawk war I fought, bled and came away. Speaking of Cas9's career reminds me of my own. I was not at Stillman's defeat, but I was about as near It as Cass was to Hull's surrender; and. like him, I saw the place very soon afterwards. It is quite certain I did not break my sword, for I had none to break; but I bent a musket pretty badly on the occasion. If Cass broke his sword the idea is he broke it in desperation. I bent the musket by accident. If General Cass went in advance of me in picking huckleberries. I guess I surpassed him in charges upon the wild onions. If he saw any live, fighting Indians it was mors than I did, but I had a good many bloody struggles with the mosquitoes; and. although I never fainted from loss of blood, I can truly say I was often. very hungry. Mr. Speaker, if I should ever conclude to doff whatever our Democratic friends may suppose there Is of black-cockade federalism about me, and, thereupon, they shall take-me up as their candidate for the presidency, I protest they shall not make fun of me. as they have of General Cass, by attempting to write me into a military hero. These extracts do not appear In any biography of Lincoln, and It is believed they are now printed for the first time in any newspaper. Hay and Nlcolay's "Life of Lincoln" alludes to the speech thus: As it Is the only one of Lincoln's popular speeches of that period which has been preserved entire It should be read by those who desire to understand the manner and spirit of the politics of 1S4S. Whatever faults of taste or of method may be found in it, considering it as a speech delivered in the House of Representatives, with no more propriety or pertinence than hundreds of others under like circumstances, It is an extremely able speech. After giving a brief and imperfect outline of the speech the biographers continue: He then enters upon an analysis of the position of Cass and his party which 1? full of keen observation and political fntelliKer.ee, and his speech goes on to Its rollicking close with a constant succession of bright, witty and striking passages, in which the orator's own conviction and enjoyment of an assured success is net tho least remarkable feature. It certainly was a brilliant and humorous speech in a way, but it did not discuss any public question and was not a suitable speech to be delivered In Congress, though no less so than many others. It Is a long reach from this speech to the Immortal Gettysburg address, delivered fifteen years later." ADMIRAL. DEWEY'S WARXIXG. The admirers of Agulnaldo will not be pleased with what Admiral Dewey has said of their last edition of George Washington. In fact, the politicians who are now expecting to make an issue out of some phase of tho affair in the Philippines will not ttnd comfort in his words. He tells these worshipers of Agulnaldo that the latter is not a leader; lie is "a pretty smart fellow," but has not the brains for leadership. Luna was the "best man the Filipinos had, but he was the victim of a plot of Agulnaldo to assnsslnate him and he was stabbed to death by Agulnaldo's sentry. This statement of Admiral Dewey, who knows Agulnaldo well, makes the George Washington and Abraham Lincoln of the antl-expan-slonists an. assassin of the long-ago period when conspirators hired tools to stab or poison rulers. Admiral Dewey has given further cause for the hostility of the anti-expansionists, or, more properly, the Agulnaldists. by declaring that just now the Filipinos are not . fit for self-government not just yet. He expresses the opinion that they will be in a little while after the United States has shown them how to govern themselves. In the whole of his conversation the admiral seems to assume that the Philippines are ours and that it Is our duty to establish good government in the islands. If any one had suggested to him that the suppression of the uprising of Agulnaldo is a cruel and wicked war, it is probable that sentiments even more obnoxious to the flag-furlers would have been expressed. ' One or two statements are entitled to the careful consideration of those politicians who are hoping that a prolonged war will give them an issue in the campaign. The admiral, who has been on the ground, declares that the war will bo of short duration when the rainy season is over. Instead of the fifty years which some persons who know nothing about the situation have predicted. These opinions should be heeded by those who hope that blunders on the part of the administration will extend the war beyond the next presidential election, thus enabling them to denounce it as wicked, as Democratic conventions have begun to do. There Is nothing for an issue in the war Itself, whatever there may be In subsequent policies. Those politicians who believe there Is will repeat the blunder of the Democratic leaders of 1S64. THE nitlGHTKXIXG PROSPECT. It must be evident to anj'one who has given casuil attention to the progress oj the campaign that the prospects of ttifc Republican ticket have brightened wonder fully during the past two or three weeks. Republicans who had no hope of being able to defeat the Taggart ticket three or four weeks ago believe that the Republican ticket will be elected. This . change is due mainly to the fact that the Republicans themselves have got together and are working earnestly for the election of Mr. Bookwaiter and his associates. To this harmoni-

cus effort of the men who arc more active in politics the mass of the party cordially responds. The reports which come from scores of precinct conferences which do not get into the papers are of the most encour aging character. Heretofore, when Mr. Taggart has been 'a candidate for mayor, it was easy to find Republicans who avowed

a purpose? of either voting for him or of not voting at all. Hundreds did vote for him; in fact, both In IKS and 1S97 Mayor Taggart was elected by Republicans.. If there are now Republicans who will vote for the man who gives, a Democratic' administration, they find themselves so "scattered that they make no boast of it; Another condition which ' Inspires confi dence in the election of Mr., Bookwalter is the considerable defection 4n Mr. Taggart's own party. That it exists the mayor's friends will not deny, because a few of them are openly opposing his election. Quite a number of Democrats share the conviction that the administration has been lneftt clent as well as extravagant. Other Democrats who have political ambition know that there Is no opportunity for them so long as the mayor and his small body of active manipulators can control the primaries. Still another sentiment which is working against Mr. Taggart is the feeling that four years of tuch administration as ho l as given tho city is quite enough, and that the time has com for a change. The assurances which Mr. Bookwalter is giving to voters that ho will dc his utmost, If elected, to give a clean and efilcient administration, have been accepted by many men who are not always active .in municipal elections, so that he has" a support that Republican candidates have- not always received. It is not only the duty of Republicans but of all those opposed- to a third term of Mayor Taggart to join the 'ranks of the Republican and other workers in their immediate localities. If they will see to it that all the voters of Indianapolis who are hostile to the Mayor and his methods vote on Tuesday, Oct. 10. Mr. Taggart will be beaten. " ' v Our occupation or Cuba is furnishing some illustrations of the operation and effects of militarism as practiced" by "the American army. In the first place It has resulted in the sanitary , and hygienic. regeneration of all the large cities and towns and the introduction of municipal reforms such as the people never dreamed, of "before, and now it has caused the Issuance' of a military order prohibiting a general strike calculated to cause distress and suffering among all classes. The 'threatened strike had been worked up by self-seeking demagogues and agitators who had everything to gain and nothing to lose by social disturbance. In forbidding It and warning the working classes against engaging In it Gneral Ludlow, military governor.,of Havana, says: Let there be no misunderstanding as to the outcome. Order will be maintained. Violence and tumutt will be Crushed. Where so much is at stake there w hi be no hesitation in applying such remedial measures as may be necessary to preserve the peace and safety of the city. The true freeman Is he who rtspects the rights of others as he requires tne others shall respect his, and wno puts -the welfare of the community above personal preference and the rule of law and order above noisy haranguing and turbulent demonstrations. Such a man Is entitled to and will receive security and protection In the exercise of his industry and the enjoyment of his personal rights to the fullest degree, that the government can give them. This Is American militarism the dreadful bogie that Atkinson and others are warning the people against: rtf tm - v It Is stated that if Great Britain and the Boers should go to war and cause a suspension of gold mining in the Transvaal the output thus far during the present year lias been so great that South Africa will lead in the list of gold-producers in 1S09. Australia will be next in the list, its increase being 14 per cent, over last year, thus far. At the rate of production of the first six months of 1SPD the year's output w ill reach $'0,000,000. 'Last' year "the output of the Australian mines. w;as $65,750,000; it was $53,000,000 in 1SS7 and $i5,obb.W'in 1S96. The cause of this rapidly Increasing output in the Transvaal, Australia, Colorado and other gold-producing regions is the Improved metallurgical processes for the reduction of low-grade ores. The returns of the first six months of this year Indicate that the world's gold cutput for 1SC9 will reach $300,000,000 the greatest value in gold ever mined in a single jear...-Australia and the United States alone will produce more gold this year than tho entire world produced in any one year prior to 1836. Admiral Dewey's comment on General Otis's administration In the Philippines should attract the attention of the government. He says General Otis has had to do too much, and that he told him so. "He wants ta be general, governor, judge and everything else." says the admiral. This is r.ot so much a criticism of. General Otis as it is of the government for placing him in a position where he has - to exercise all these functions. Of course, as Admiral Dewey says, no man can-do this, but a conscientious man who Is charged with an undivided responsibility is apt to try to do it. As military governor of the Philippines, appointed by the President, General Otis's duties and powers are very extensive, and if they are too much for one man to exercise successfully they should be divided. This is a fair construction of Admiral Dewey's cemment. The Religious Society of Friends is composed of persons who are avowed and sincere lovers and advocates of peace and who are as earnestly and avowedly opposed to war in any form. However, there are times when feelings of patriotism ;out weigh every other consideration in the breast of every true American, and yesterday, at the opening of the first regular session of their Yearly Meeting at Richmond, the Friends adopted a minute to the effect that the arrival of Admiral Dewey In New York was an event worthy of recognition by that body; that Admiral Dewey was to-day the foremost figure In the world of men, and that there was cause for rejoicing In that so great and useful a man had been spared to return to bis native land once more in safety. There is only one class of so-called Americans that cannot afford to rejoice without danger of being declared Inconsistent, and that is the crowd that has labeled itself "anti-expansionists." Joy over the return of the hero means pride in his achievements; pride in his achievements means indorsement of his action; and that means that there is no sincerity in the professed faith of Aguinaldlsts. If all the towns in the United States had hit on the Elkhart plan of sending each two pretty girls as delegates to meet Dewey, the beauty show might have caused the admiral to be forgotten, and wherever those girls went would have been the head of the procession. . . Among those who maintain that Americans are not appreciative, George Dewey Is not to be counted. . Neither Great Britain nor the Transvaal (particularly the latter) is afraid of a fight.

neither wants it, both are firmly convinced

that someone ought to give up or be whipped and each thinks the other is "It. From just such conditions as these war arise. "SSSSSSSSaBSBSSSSSSBBBMBBlMfljjjjj BjBjBj, "MLss Grant doubly-wedded" says the headline in an exchange. Thus does our various language express the fact that she vas twice married to one man. not. as some Ignorant persons might suppose, that sho had taken to herself two husbands. HUDDLES IX THE AIR, Easy to Annwer. "Which would you rather be a knave or a fool?" "I'd rather be rich than poor, of course." Great Rcseiublnnce. "There is more kinship between poetry and science than one would think." "That's a fact. Both of them seem to consist mainly In piling up a let of phrases nobody can understand." " An Intense Antl. "Doesn't Kikker look a sight since he had his hair dyed? What Is he up to, any way? Going to marry again? "Naw. He discovered that his red nose, white hair and blue eyes made the national colors." Polite Vaudeville. "We are going to run polite vaudeville only," the manager told his advertising man. "What kind is that?" "Er why, when one performer kicks the other in the neck he will immediately apologize." BROOKE'S AUTOCRACY IX CUBA. Complaint that Government There la ot What It Should Be. Washington Post. Those who are Interested In an honorable and beneficent solution of the Cuban problem continue to wonder at the failure of our military authorities in the Island to introduce for the benefit of thepeoplo at least the rudimentary Ideas of personal liberty and governmental Justice. Furthermore, they have begun to ask why, if General Brooke be unwilling or unable to meet the demands cf modern civilization in this respect, the secretary of war does not remove him and put in nls place some one who will redeem the solemn pledges of the American people. General Brooke has been in supreme command in Cuba for the past eight or "nine months. There has been no one to interfere with him or to say him nay in anything. His authority is absolute. He can ordain whatever changes or amendments ha may think proper. He appoints -both civil and military officials, regulates taxation, local government and . the administrative machinery In general. He has reduced municipal taxation to such an extent that the towns cannot maintain their financial systems without applying to him for aid. and he has riveted his domination by making good at his own pleasure and discretion the deficit which ho himself created. This he does by taking from the moneys derived from customs taxation, and so becomes an autocrat more absolute than is to be found outside the realms of barbarism. And yet, despite all this concentration of power and its accompanying wealth of opportunity General Brooke has not yet touched the wcrk which our government has promised to achieve in Cuba. After long months of stolid Indifference to the complaints and pretests of American citizens he, some weeks ago, consented to extinguish the incommunicado feature of - Cuban justice. But the question of the habeas corpus the -very essence of human liberty as it is understood among the Anglo-Saxon races haa not been even broached. Today, as for centuries past, men can be arrested and thrown into Cuban prisons on charges however frivciuous and vile, and there is no power save that of Brooke himself to release them or to give them a prompt and honest hearing. For five days at least .the prisoner must lie In his dungeon, ignorant of the accusation as of the accuser, and bereft of every hope of justice. After that he may have a preliminary trial, or rather examination, and then he returns to his cell to await the Interminable processes of Spanish law. If ho be without friends, or if. having friends, he be unable to communicate witn them and tnls happens every hour of the day he "may remain in jail until he 1st forgotten: until the authorities themFflves are unable to specify the crime or the allegation of crime upon which he war imprisoned. Thousands of unhappy wretches languish in Cuban and Porto , Rican Jails to-day. and r.o one knows why, if, indeed, any one remembers them at all. Surely the country Is warranted in nursing a mora or less resentful anxiety In this matter. These tyrannical arrests and Imprisonments, these denials of justice, these monstrous insults to liberty and civilization furoiphed two years ago the material for our indignant outcry against Spain. We denounced them then as hideous barbarities which they were and we called heaven to witness the purity of our humane purpose In undertaking to banish them from the western hemisphere. Philanthropists railed, statesmen thundered, public sentiment was lashed into a fury of remonstrance. We consecrated ourselves to the task of destroying in Cuba the abominable machinery of cruelty and despotism. And upon this feverish wave of altruism the President was flung much against his Judgment, as we believe Into the abyss ot war. Now Brooke sits In the seat of Wejier. There has been a cessation of the socalled military operations which prevailed before our occupation, and we have done and are still doing much to relieve distress. But so far as regards personal liberty, so far as regards the restoration of individual rights and the establishment of civilized methods of free government, Brooke has not improved one iota upon the situation as it existed under Weyler. Justice is as slow Indeed, Inaccessible as It over was, and the autocracy is as relentless and complete! What Confronts Dewey. New York Tribune. "Admiral Dewey will want another name. and will not care to look in a mirror for a j'ear after his return." said a woman yesterday in one of the stores, as she regarded a cup and saucer bearing a sad-eyed por trait or tne ramous nero. "w ny, lr no attempts to replenish his wardrobe, he will find himself buying Dewey hats, ties and what not, and as to souvenirs will! they are enough to take the conceit out of tho vainest man. Imagine how he will feel when he sees his face decorating bread dishes, salad bowls, vases, meat platters, bureau sets and even snuff boxes, to say nothing of the pocket handkerchiefs and neckties which will confront his weary gaze on passers-by in the streets. If he visits the schools, he will find himself smiling encouragingly at the scholars from the covers of copy and notebooks. "He may eat Dewev breakfast food from dishes bearing his portrait, and perform his ablutions with Dewey soan: and. as for es caping the Drtwey buttons, pins and buckles. ne win ree them on every hand. Poor Dewev! He will lone for the land of the Fili pino." PeiinnylvanlanM "Wonder. Philadelphia Record. An official inspection of the great natural gas field in Indiana shows that, while the pressure has materially declined, it is still sufficient for manufacturing and domestic consumption within the prolific gas terri tory. Huge Industries have been built un and developed on this bounty of nature, and its withdrawal would render inevitable a curtailment of productive enterprise in tne central nest. The constancy of the gas supply during five years past has been a marvel to experts from the Pennsylvania gas fields, where exhaustion within a com paratively short space of time is the rule. Although more wells have been drilled in the Indiana district this year than in any previous twelvemonth, the state gaa in spector reports that there still remains 250 square miles of untouched territory, and that scarcely one-third of the available gas field has been thoroughly drilled over. Word from JImtnes. Havana Herald (Sept. 13.) Lieut. W. S. Wright, formerly of the Ha vana Herald, who went to San Domingo with tne Jimlnez party, returned to this city Sunday. Lieutenant Wright reports everything quiet in Santo Domingo and says tnat Jtminez win be elected President and will be able to organize a stab'e government. Only eighteen men were killed during the revolution, and they were killed in a riot rather than in a battle. Comfort for the Irapecnnloaa. Kansas City Journal. However. Count Cantacuzene and his bride are no more securely married than the loving couple who are bound together by a country justice of the peace. - Opening for Atkinson. Chicago Times-Herald. - If the stork has really been to call on Agulnaldo. there is a fine opening in the Eart for Mr. Atkinson and a hot-water bottle.

PRESC0TT SPEAKS OUT

EX-PRESIDEXT OF THE I. T. V. DEFENDS SIR. BOOKWALTER. . Resents One of Sentinel Attack on Republican Condi late Democratic Leanrue for Bookwalter. William B. Prescott. ex-president of the International Typographical Union, and a Democrat, was much Incensed at the Sentinel's unwarranted and untruthful attack on Mr. Bookwalter in yesterday's issue, and in an Interview with the Journal expressed himself as against the use of such methods to defeat any candidate. Concerning the charges that Mr. Bookwalter does not employ union garment workers in the Gem garment works, of which he is one of the owners, Mr. Prescott said the matter was "pending In the Central Labor Union," as alleged by the Sentinel, and probably will continue to pend for some time owing to the inability of the Garment Workers' Union tO'Supply union workers. At the time tho local union waited on Mr. Bookwalter and asked him to employ union people he threw open the doors of the factory and told the committee to walk in and talk to his force at any time, with a view to unionizing it, and then made the statement that he wanted to hire union people and would do so as fast as the union would furnish them The union is unable to furnish them, and meanwhile the latchstring hangs out while the matter is "pending" in the Central Labor Union. Another allegation of the Sentinel is that "Mr. Bookwalter has not, since coming to this city, thought enough of his membership in the Typographical Union, which ceased actively many years before he left Fort Wayne, to transfer his membership to the Typographical Union of this city. He has even signally failed to comply with the spirit and laws of unionism when opportunity "afforded." Concerning this Mr. Prescott Is able to speak with authority. He says Mr. Book waiter's typographical unionism has never been questioned and that the charge that he Is not a loyal member of the Typographical Union is amusing, coming, as it does, from the publication of Samuel E. Morss. Mr. Prescott is acquainted with an incident in the early lives of both men, when Mr. Morss owned the Fort Wayne Sentinel and Mr. Bookwalter was a "cub" in the office. Tht methods of Mr. Morss, in his management of the property, became so offensive to hi printers that they all struck. In his extremity Mr. Morss offered Mr. Bookwalts? a place much better, than he was holding if he would desert the union, but Mr. Bookwaiter refused to consider It and thereby won the ill will of the present chief of the Democratic organ of Indianapolis. Although lor years he has not worked at the trade, Mr. Bookwalter has maintained his membershin in his old union, and the fact thai he has hot transferred it to the Indianapolis branch is no indication, according to 2dr. Prescott, that he is not still a union roan In spirit and in truth. "Lee Nixon," said Mr. Prescott, "another retired member or the Typographical Union, is now m the civil service in Porto Rico, where he la likely to stay for several years, at least, and because he has not applied for a transfer of membership no one nas seen nt to question his unionism." , Another paragraph in the Sentinel In reference to Mr. Bookwalter says: "One of the few opportunities he has had to show his true colors occurred when he erected his fine new residence at 3210 North Illinois street in 1S91. On that occasion, as is shown by the building permit issued him. he -signed a contract with Hubbert & Rose, a firm of builders that employed only nonunion carpenters. He can hardly plead ignorance of the rules of unionism, and he therefore sanctioned the erection of his own house by nonunion men who worked more than eight hours a day in violation of the state law ond the rules of the Carpenters' Union as well. Section 1 of the Carpenters' Union rules says: 'Eight hours shall constitute a day's work, to be made between the hours of 7:30 a. m. and 4:30 p. m. " Concerning this Mr. Prescott, who is credited with knowing something of "the rules of unionism," says: "I know that Mr. Bookwalter's house was not built by nonunion men, but if it was the work was done with the full sanction of the Carpenters Union. I have talked with Mr. Bookwalter and have ascertained that the specifications for his house provided for the employ aent of union labor, and one of the conditions of the award of the contract was that none but such workmen should be employed. While it was none of his business, Mr. Bookwalter took the trouble to go out to his house during its erection to see that the work was being done according to specifications. He found that the men quit at 4 o'clock each afternoon, and when he asked the reason for it he was told that it was in accordance with the rules of the union, and went' away satisfied. If nonunion men were employed every well-posted union man will admit that it certainly was not Mr. Bookwaiter's place to hunt-them out. He had provided for union workmen, and the work of seeing that the specifications were complied with belonged to the union, and had Mr. Bookwalter's attention been directed to the fault it would have been remedied. Why, in Mr. Morss's own office the foreman does not take the trouble to find out if a man he hires belongs to the union. The union employs a man for that purpose and he sees that the union's interests are protected In that direction. If the union should fail to take advantage of the fact that Mr. Morss Intends to employ only union men Mr. Morss cannot in justice be held responsible if the union does not see that nonunion men are kept out. Mr. Morss has other things to think about. If in 1891 Mr. Bookwalter employed nonunion labor on his house while still a member of the Typographical Union it i stranee that no charges were preferred against him by the Carpenters Union, when. to my knowledge, many poor ana ooscure members In this city were placed on trial at that time by the union for doing the same thing when they built smaller homes than Mr. Bookwalter's." UNION DID NOT PROTEST. "Concerning the claim the he employed nonunion painters, It eeems strange to me that Mr. Blackburn, one of the leading fig ures in the painters' union, did not go to Mr. Bookwalter at the time and make a protest. Bookwalter was an employer of labor and no good union holds an employer retponslble for unfair conditions in his estab lishment until they are brought to his at tention and he refuses to change them. Moreover, I think It rather strange that the painters should bring up this matter at this tlmo against Mr. Bookwalter while Taggart retains Fred Mack, the head and front of the Master Painters' Association on his Board of Public Safety. Mr. Morss is. even at this time, doing his nest to connect Bookwalter with non-unionism, but is unabi to do so. in roite of the aid of some cheap labor agitators. At this minute there are two or three Indianapolis men in Fort Wayne hunting up Mr. Bookwalter's record and the worst they have learned is that he has always been a strong union man. "I doubt if as much can be said of .Taggart. He is guilty of greater wrongs against the unions of this city; than General Otis, whose appointment as secretary of War was revoked because of the opposition of the typographical union. The thm attempt to connect Mr. Bookwalter with non-unionlm is. I believe, instigated by Mr. Morss, who. after saying a few years ago that he would never employ another union man in his office In Fort Wayne, still smarts under the decisive defeat thit Mr. Bookwalter helped to administer. . Vo one who knows Mr. Bookwalter as a union man. would believe that he would employ nonunion men while opinion is very well confirmed that Taggart would betray the worklngmen whenever it was convenient to do so." . TAGGART AT MOIIS'S HALL. The Mayor Address? a Crowd on the Inane of the Cam pa I urn. A' tumultuous crowd gathered in Mohse Hall, at Fountain square, last night to hear Mayor ' Taggart and a few others of the Democratic workers talk of "the issues of the campaign." The committee on arrangements, in selecting the hall above a saloon, evidently thought that between drinks the listeners could stand to hear a few words without sitting down and chairs were conspicuous by their absence. To warm the audience up for the mayor's speech Chairman and Ward Committeeman William Mcoro read a letter from Councilman "Billy" Knight, who dealt mostly with the benefits of track elevation to Couth Dide people and lauding the wisdom. . which, . be tald. had

alwavs characterized tht nmrvrn tir d

ministration. Mayor Taggart vu Introduced while the "bouncer" was engaged in throwing a man down stairs. The stairs wero steep and the first words of the mayor were punctuated by the audible "bump made by the man as he struck about every other step on his Ti?y to the stret- This "bouncer fharedj the attention of the crowd with the mayor and every few minutes some unlucky resident of the Ninth. Thirteenth or Fourteenth wards would go thumping down the stairs ffet first, but without any effort on his part. The first of the mayor's talk was about the street-car deal." and afttr discussing It at length he wound up by aying that the city was now collecting each year from corporations t.0.000 "that was never collected by any other administration." After sizing up nis crowd the mayor made a play for "the Poor man's" friendship by first attacking the Journal in discussing the 53-ccr.t tax levy, bald he: "I have not tried to please the Journal, but the poor people and I want to say that the :.&-eent levy Is adequate to run the city, because we administer tho government economically, and. moreover, have compelled the corporations to pay over their jut portion of the money needed to run the city instead of compelling the poor-rnyperty owner to bear all the burden. He then attempted to vindicate the making of the fl gas contract with the Indianapolis Gas Company by referring to the federal, courts, which, he faid. "enjoined the city from reducing the price of gas .: To close the argument, which was becoming cn-tanglmg;-he-raid:-TVe thought you would rather have XI gas at once than run rhances of carrying the case through the courts, for twenty-five years in order to get 73-ecat He enumerated the different things such ??i.ft.rKCtweerlRR and cleaning, which he said the Taggart administration "had paid out of the general fund and former administrations had assessed againt the abutting property owners." He said when the Republicans cbargM him with extravagance he always felt wintry to stand on his record as tne rrtend of the poor man and -never regretted the expenditure of a dollar he had invested In Innovations. - SEW BOOKWALTER LEAGUE. Sotxth-Sldft Democrats Who Are Opposed to Present City Government. A still hunt In the fullest sense of the word is being carried on in the southern part of the city by a secret league, which is composed 'entirely of-Democrats who are opposed, to. the present city administration. The . league met last evening' and there werjtf 1 16& members present. Their' meetings are strictly, priv ate and no one is admitted unless the password is given. All members were formerly active and working Democrats. ' A list of doubtful Democrat has been obtained, "from the Democratic poll takers" and this list has been divided ' among the members of the league. The members-take particular pleasure in visiting the doubtful Democrats and telling them the inside information about the machine, and thefe methods and facts never fall to convince a doubting Democrat to pledge ma vote tor uooxwaiter ana gooa government. Thus far the membership Is confined to the Fourteenth and Fifteenth wards and is chlefls' composed of Germans, but th movement is rapidly spreading through the other wards in the southern part of the city. One enthusiast from the Fifteenth, ward predicted that as the result of this movement the Democratic plurality In the Fifteenth ward will.be less than S50. - Sixth Ward Booknalter Clab. Seventy of the Republicans of the first precinct. Sixth ward, met last night at John Fendergast's stable, on Muskingum street, and .formed a Bookwalter Club. Major Megrew. candidate for councilman from the Sixth ward, and others made speeches. It was an enthusiastic gathering of both white and colored voters. Outside Oplulon. The campaign in progress at Indianapolis is putting on more signs of life. The gumshoe and footpad methods are giving way to "rousing gatherings." "great enthusiasm," "harmony dripping from the rafters," etc. A hard fight Is being waged by the Republicans and the probability of King Taggart losing his crown grows more cheering every day. Goshen Times. The character of the campaign which Tom Taggart and his party associates are conducting in Indianapolis is one that reflects no credit upon the mayor or the city. Beer and boodle are strong weapons In a campaign, but they may be Uied too freely and too boldly, and thus bring about a deserved rebuke from the better citizens of all parties. Against such methods we believe the people of Indianapolis will, with their votes, record a very vigorous protest. Mlddletown News. . "If any ono believes the Democrats of Indianapolis are united In the support of Taggart, he Is misinformed," said Thomas J. Hudson, one of the active free-silver Democrats. Saturday. "We Democrats who are opposed to the re-election of Taggart have a city committee of our own. and we are holding precinct meetings every night. We are not going about with brass bands; no speeches are being made, but we are doing a great deal of work. Our meetings are held in the homes of dissatisfied members of the party. Democrats who are on the doubtful list are invited to these meetings and the situation is discussed. We. have made many converts to our cause the last ten days.' Fort Wayne News. If Tom Taggart Is re-elected mayor of Indianapolis he will have proved most conclusively that nothing brings success la politics like the "glad hand." He is a prince of smilers and handshakers. It is possible to understand that the legion of his personal friends in that city do not get a correct Idea of his fitness or ability because their personal prejudice is all in his favor. As a matter of fact the record of his administration is a bad one from an economical standpoint and from the standpoint of Justifiable action in dealing with rjubllc utilities. Tho street-car franchise, which he recently put through, will come home to plague the people of Indianapolis many years before its expiration. It was hurried through and a few days later the company made known how valuable was the gift by putting on sale a great amount of bonds. In the management of the park funds, in the gas deal and other affairs he not only has sacrificed the city's interests, but he has been In bad company whllo doing it.Tcrre Haute Tribune. IDA RUSSE MISSING. An Anxlona Father Visited Police Headquarters Lite Last X Iff lit. Christian H. Russe, living at 1525 Woodlawn avenue, went to police headquarters about 11 o'clock last night and reported that his eight-year-old daughter Ida had been missing from home since 5 o'clock yesterday evening and that all efforts of members of the family and several neighbors to find her had been unavailing. The little one had returned from school and was playing about the house. Suddenly the ran to the door and said, "Oh. here comes some one," and ran from the house. That was the last seen of her. The child U well acquainted in the neighborhood, and it was thought she had gone to see some of hr friends, but numerous calls in that vicinity showed that she had not been seen. Her mother, who was in the house and heard the child's remark, paid but little attention to it and did not see any one on the street. The family is much worried over the disappearance and think she may have been carried off by some one driving. She has dark hair, which was tied with a blue ribbon, a red' dress and was without a hat. BATHED AND BLESSED HER. 31m. Leopold Said to Hare neenTreated by Healing Medlntn. Coroner Nash Is lnTeptlfjatlng the detth of Mrs. Mry LeopoM. who died at th City Hcfrltal en Monday. An autopsy showed that death was du to typhoid fever, but stories reached tbe coroner that the woman had been "treated" by Sira. Mary Hoover, who has a fortun-telllrf ertabllfhment at No, 1515 Lee street, where appears a flgn. "Mary.A. Hoover, Htalinr. Medium." Mrs. Hoover admits having vUlttd Mr. IeoiolJ. buf claims (he did not Induce her to tioki taking medicine and did not "treat" except as tcquestet by th sick woman, ,herslf. Mrs. Cora Turpln. No. 120 IUalne avnu. that Mrs. 1 louver advised tha sick woman to frtcp taking ineJkcine, because it was too strong for her stomach, ant then "Lathed and blefrd' her. Mrs. Hoover denies this and ears fhe does net betltv In "(aith healing." Mrs. Leopold's six chlllren were left destitute and without care until Tuesday, when their father, who ha been absent (or some tlma, teturned from Ohio. Mr. Gritntha Will Go to Ohio. John L. Griffiths has accepted an Imitation to take part In the Ohio campaign and will make the first speech at Toledo some time in October. Mr. Grlraths spoke at Toledo last year in opening the campaign la that district.