Indianapolis Journal, Volume 53, Number 329, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 November 1903 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1903.

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Col Lnuthain & Jackson. Fifteenth j and Lawrence streets, and A Smith, Iui7 Chairp street. DAYTON. O.-J. V. Wiikie. 2) South Jefferson j street i COLU14BUS. O. Viaduct News Stand. 280 High Senator Morgan's attr.ck on President Roosevelt simply shows that the Alabama senator is stili normal. It has been a good while since he has done anything but attack everybody and everything except the Nicaragua canal route. The most interesting phase of the RussoJapsuhese controversy yet developed is the announcement that Japan has dispatched warships to intercept the Russian warships and prevent their Joining the squadron at Port Arthur. If the report should prove trus a naval conflict would seem inevitable. The new Pope Is said to be annoyed because decisions reached in the secret proceedings of the propaganda are telegraphed to the ("nited States even before th meetings of the cardinals have adjourned. That only ehows that the Associated Press agtnt at Rome is earning his salary. It is the American way. A collector of grewsome statistics flnds that reren teen persons have been killed this season playing football, with some of the harde.it games of the year yet to be played. jbjipQjpn ? Many more than seventeen persons have been killed this season in hunting accidents, yet nobody thinks of suggesting that hunting cease. There appears to be no reason for giving up th project of the HafirfSOB monument. Although Secretary Shaw has no authority to (rant permanent occupancy of the government Laad, be assures the people of Indiana that the statue will never be disturbed. The license he may i3suc is resaleable, but there will never be any reason f re It. i . The system at negro peonage which has been found to prevail in some parts of Ocoruia is the same as that which was Broken up a 'few months ago in Alabama. Negroes convicted of trivi.il offenses on trumped-up charges were sentenced to pay a ftni and then ?-olu into a sort of slavery. It is an odious form of p if BS cut loa, and those, engaged in it should be ma le to fa 1 the hoavy hand of the law. It appears that the police department is to ply a return enaagem. t.t of Its farceCOinedy called "Dark Secrets; or Don't Tell It to the Papers." The play has BOSS put on the boards at various periods during a number of years, information will be Withheld from the reporter?, who will not de aUowed to tide uii th. patrol wagons to the scenes of ettBBi and accident. It ts ex.remely do-ibttul whither the interests of jUstice can be served by this sort of thin&Y it there is. as is said, unusual ac tivity among criminals, th newspapers will doubtless be able to do a share toward putting an end to it. At any rate the authorities will not aid either themselves or the public by arbitrarily refusing information the newspapers. It nss beeu nearly eleven years since the worlds fair at Cfc go opened, and fh. i ouut with the sto kholicrs is not yet closed. Ntxt March they will receive a sreond and last ad. which will mak a sum total of !!!.& received back on every 5100 put in. From a money point of view it was a poor investment, but th. exposition brought some fisat seasftU and resulted in some lasting jnwotSBWUli fst Chicago, which otherwise might have beeu

long deferred In many ways it was a poor wra. on me sirengin oi inese representa-sdve-tisement for the city, but i: may be ;i"ns- made by office" ot the company who

doubted if the country at large d. ri say 'particular benefit from it. Congress has .made a large contribution to the Louis world's lair. , will probably surpass the Chicago fair as a show and com out with a bigger deficit. It is time (or Congress to stop makiug such appropria I BBSS. Judge Whallon'slecision in the Toomey poolroom case will strike the average layman as good sense, and it is probably good law. Really the only fait for the court to decide was Whether habitually PBBStVBBg naoa-jy to be piacsd as bets SB horse races mad the room where the business was carried on a gaming ro jm. The fact that the defendant did receive money for the purindicated from a great many persons I' so notorious that the court might al most havr taken Jutfj ti c of it with out any testimony. VFkSfS t li races wre run or how the money was transmitted wss Bot of the essence of the case. SenJing the money by wire to CSMBBnati was th asms as if ths dsfendaal had carried it In person to the race track. The betting was done in the room where the money was pals srsr with instructions to place It on a particular horse, and If betting on horse

races is gaming then the room where this was done was a gaming room. The acquittal of the employes of the place was in accordance with common sense, and it would have been unjust to convict bystanders who were not there for any un-

lawful purpose. Unless this decision snail be overruled by a higher court it is not perceived how the place can be reopened. THE SBATE XOT DEGK ER ATIXG. It Is not an uncommon thing nowadays i to hear or read the statement that the United States Senate is not the great body it once was. We are told that in the days of Webster. Clay and Calhoun, not to so further back, the average standard of ability and statesmanship in the Senate was much higher than it is now. A favorite j quotation of those who make the compariI son is "There were giants in those days." Yes, there were some giants, but no more in proportion than there are now. The proPortion of mediocre men in the Senate two or three generations ago was fully as large as it is at present. In 1830, when John C. Calhoun was Vice President and Daniel ! Webster was a senator, the Senate consisted fmir m,mh,r nt aassM than half - 1 1 1 1 ' w a dozen of whom found any place In history. There were two Smiths, William and Samuel, and there were John Taylor, John Kowan, John Eaton, John Branch, Georjre Troup. David Barton. David Baker and many others whose names are forgotten, while those of Webster and Calhoun SfSTftTS, The nonentities sat with Webster, Clay and Calhoun, but they were not of them. There were giants in those days, j but there were pigmies, too. 11 18 alwa3" instructive to see ourselves as others see us. Dr. Thomas Barclay, expresident of the Paris Chamber of Commerce, and member of the Mosely Educational Commission, now visiting the United States, says in a published interview: I want to say that it has been my good fortune to come in contact with all the public men of my time in France and most of the eminent men in England during the same period, and I say it as ray deliberate Judgment that the American Senate is uuniaicnaoie in in? cnuraiier ui its iiieiiim-i , as regards wine information, clear insight, genuine capacity and earnestness of purpose. The Senate Impresses me as a body of extraordinary powers, some of which m t p : u i their Inspiration outside of the onstitution. but sanction. .! by the people, !. aase of the eminent abiliti. and obvious merits of the men who constitute the Senat- . taken together with their evident ambition to do what is best for the country. The intelligent foreigner has sized up the Senate very correctly. It is not a body of great orators, though it contains many good speakers, and it must be added that mere oratory does not count for so much now as it once did. This is a practical age, and the demand is for a kind of statesmanship that can tackle and solve the great problems of twentieth century progress. There is no danger but there will always be enough lawyers and speech-makers in both branches of Congress; the demand is for men of affairs. The modern captain of industry adapts himself very readily to the duties of modern statesmanship. Senator Hauna, the recognized leader of the majority of the Senate, was engaged in business forty years before he entered politics. At a single step, and without serving any previous apprenticeship in politics, he passed from the counting-room to the Senate chamber, and to the iership of his party. He is a good speak r but not an orator. He is essentially a twentieth century statesman of the commercial school. There are other seaators of the same class, though he is easily at the head. The Senate haj not degenerated uuless society has degenerated and the national character deteriorated. This is a commercial age. we are a commercial people, and it Is right and Atting that the commercial clement, the conservative business element should be represented in the Senate. The Senate is as strong as it ever was in lawyears and orators, and stronger than ever before In the busii.eps elm. nt. A PHILANTHROPIC FRAUD. There has been no more damaging expose of the methods and purposes of those who are scheming to wreck the Consumers' Gas Trust Company than the statement of City Controller Dunn regarding the arguments used to secure exemption of the company's property from taxation. It is hardly necessary to say that inequality of taxation is one of the most odious wrongs that can occur under any government, and exemption from it one of the highest exercises of sovereignty. The only exemptions authorized by the Constitution are property used for municipal, educational, literary, scientific, religious or charitable purposes, and this I i must be specially exempted by law. The exemptions named in the law are very specif,. . asrfl the clearness with Which they are detined excludes all others. Many attempts have been made to evade them, and they have been stretched beyond the limits of equity and good government to exempt from tuxation some classes of property which had no right to exemption. From the statement of Mr. Dunn, who was connected with the transaction and is lly cognizant of the facts, exemption of the Consumers' Gas Trust Company from taxation was granted upon the representation and assurance that its stock in the hands of the people did not represent ownership; that it was organized as a people's public utility company to furnish fuel gas at cost; that there was no element of private ownership or private gain in it; in short, that it aas organised for a charitable purpose and was doing a philanthropic are now trying to convert it to their own th Consumers' Trust was assessed at only an 80-eent valuation of its capital stock, and the bulk of its property was not taxed at all. This inequitable ruling, obtained through false representations, was continued year after year until Mr. Dunn estimates that the company evaded Just I taxes to the amount of fully $800.000. Atten tion is also called to the "fact that on the same plea of having been organized for a charitable purpose and being engaged in philanthropic work the company was able to escape a tax of 3 cents per foot on its mains in Indianapolis, which the city reserved the right to impose and would have i:np BBSd ut for the representations of some of the directors that the company was engaged in a work of charity. The Journal is of opinion that the Consumers' Trut Company should have been taxed from the beginning on the basis of a full valuation and on all its property. It was u t entitled to any exemption what-i--mt. It was not municipal property, nor was it organised for charitable purposes. True, it aimed at benefiting the community, but not gratuitously. It was a public-spirited enterprise but not a philanthropic one. It served quite a large number of people at

ordinance rates and made money very rapidly. Its exemption from taxation was used effectively as a cover for the exemption of other corporations, and in the language of the street the people were left "to hold the bag." The Journal is not prepared to say that

me raxes just evaaea auring a long ierm ui i years can be recovered. Ordinarily they I could be, but perhaps the action of the au- ' thorities in weakly accepting the representations as to the character of the company :ars a recovery. But if the city is barred , from asserting its Just claims, those who, year after year, pleaded for exemption from taxation on the ground that the company was a charitable institution ought to be barred now from claiming that it is a close corporation. jii i mm I . . - A FRENCH OBJECTION. A remarkable criticism of President Roosevelt's Thanksgiving proclamation appears In a recent number of the Paris Temps. The Temps Ippetfl to be much concerned over the fact that the name of God is so frequently used. "It sounds," complains the criticism, "more like a pulpit utterance than an official proclamation." If there were such a thing as a Thanksgiving day in France It would be interesting to note how it would be officially proclaimed. To whom, or to what would the French republic suggest the offering of thanks? Americans are accustomed to think that the primary purpose of Thanksgiving is to worship the Almighty. How it could be regarded otherwise it is difficult to imagine. The French Idea of a republic involves a refusal to recognize religious ideas. As Le Temps intimates, a French President would not dare to issue a proclamation in the terms used by President Roosevelt. The revolutionary mob of the Reign of Terror j overthrew "le bon Dieu" and set up a goddess called Reason in His place. It was a good example of the Gallic idea of liberty. Democracy meant to the revolutionists a war on the established order of things, not only governmental but religious; and that feeling still appears to exist in the French mind. The Frenchman has no day of national Thanksgiving. If such a thing existed, the executive would have to be careful to exclude all allusion to the Almighty from his proclamation. Such being his limitations, how could he write of the holiday? "Let us set apart a day to rejoice over our prosperity, and to give thanks" to what? "When a man is drowning," said Myron Reed, "he docs not have time to pray to a System of Things or to an Idea. He says, 'God help me!' " And it is equally true that when one looks abroad at a full harvest, a prosperous year, a happy environment, he is likely to exclaim "Thank God!" This legacy we have from our Puritan forefathers; that regardless of creed or political belief there is one day in the year when the American people counts it no shame to praise a Divine Power for blessings received. They are not afraid that such an institution will subvert the principles of their government. If religion is inconsistent with democracy the history of our country does not show it. If it be old-fashioned, then Americans are old-fashioned enough to suspect the solidity and the sincerity of a government whose officials dare not mention the name of God. According to a Philadelphia paper, a citizen of Lancaster, Pa., testified in a divorce suit brought by his wife that he was forced to leave home because he could not any longer endure being henpecked. He said he had been henpecked for thirty years, and wished to escape from the torment. This must be the sort of man the poet had in mind when he wrote about the "unconquerable soul" "I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul." Henpecked for thirty years and still unconquered, still with courage left to run away! It is evident that Senator Morgan thought he was speaking before a medical society when he addressed the Senate on Monday. One is tempted to accept his more or less unpleasant metaphor, however, and to suggest that the laparotomy to which he alluded often becomes a humane necessity. With a wild thrashing of arms and a series of contortions that looked like the morning exercises of a physical culture enthusiast, Creatore took Indianapolis by storm. Many of his movements were eccentric and startling but he made music! Who will criticise his methods? Mme. Melba, it is said, declined an invitation to sing at the White House because she had never been introduced to Mrs. Roosevelt. It is difficult to decide which to admire the most the punctiliousness of Mme. Melba or the originality of her press ugent. During the year ending in August there were 3.991 runaway accidents in England and Wales. Four hundred and eleven persons were killed and 2,991 were injured. This must be true, for it is taken from an automobile paper. The Automobile Club of America has elected as president a man named Scarett. And yet some people think there's nothing in a name. THE HUMORISTS. Reassuring. Philadelphia Ledger. "It is usual," said the landlady, with great delicacy, "for my lodgers to pay as they go." "Oh, that's all right," replied the boarder, affably, "I'm not going for a long time." To Society Reporters. Why drag her father in, and say He "led her to the altar." The average bride wouM make her way Alone, and never falter. Philadelphia Press. Poor -1 : Miss Mary Malinda McVeagh. Who still had a sweet, girlish weagh, W pt rners when she (At fifty and three) Found out that they called her passeagh! New Orkans Times-Democrat. A Very Fat One. New York Sun. We Interrupted Harrison at this point. "How fst did you say this man was, Harri on?" we inquired. Oh. awful tat." replied Harrlaon, "He was" '.. but how many pounu?" we Insisted. "Oh, he was mcastrously fat; he" ' '"liut how" Well, now." said Harrison, shortly, "he was so fat he made believe he was spry on his feet." "Gosh! What a big one he must have been," we murmured in awed accents. And, enrapt in contemplation at the size of the hero, we allowed Harrison to go on with his story. He Agrfrd. Judge. "There, Henry," said Mrs. Penhecker. showing him a nice, new motto she had had hung In the dining room, "what do you think of that?' Mr. Penhecker studied the motto for a moment.

reading- it under his breath. It announced, j

"There is no place like home." "It Is the truth." he raid, grtvely glad of It." a- t Luckily his wife misunderstood him and she was so pleased with his remark that she let him I off for the evenln. and so he was able to find I . .,. ,ot pta. , weren't ,n U. kt Kqnnl to All Occaaio New York Weekly. GoodfeSlo Wasn't that Nicefello who Just asaea zor you 7 I Sweet Girl Yes: I told the maid to tell him I WJUJ not at home "Suppose Bf flnds out that you are?" "I'll teil han that I thought it was you." POINTS FROM COUNTY PRESS. Kar of Corn That Beats AH. Knightstown Banner. Lawrence Schilutknect exhibited at New Lisbon last week an ear of corn that had th;rtv.fr lZZZZJZZJirZr ff.."fS. thre.- grains to the row, or a total of 1.502 grains. Next! A Prolific Acre. Plymouth Tribune. On the Jamison farm In Davis township, Starke county, one acre yielded lOli bushels of corn. It has not been many years since all that land was covered with water j from the Kankakee. Five Hundred Ilnshels of Corn Daily. BloomrieM News. Dr. John Kitchen, of Indianapolis, spent a part of last week on his flue Four-mile larm. He was much pleaFcl with his corn crop. His tenant, Mr. Foster, with other farm hands, were cribbing 500 bushels of corn daily. Some Frozen Stone. Bloomington World. The Central stone quarry had some dressed stone frozen last night, which will be a complete loss. The stone had been shipped to the mill from one of the quarries ana naa been sawed ready for shipment out again. Ought to Be Happy Vou. Wolcott Enterprise. Wheat growers have been anxious for a cold snap that the fly may be killed and checked from its destructive work in the fall sowing. Considerable damage is said to have been done in places owing to warm weather. Big? Far of Corn. Knightstown Banner. E. A. Junkin, a Rush county farmer, exhibited recently an ear of corn that measured nine Inches in circumference, fourteen inches in length, weighed one pound four teen ounces and contained LfiO grains, the largest ear or many large ones exhibited this season. Wild Gosllna Captured. Versailles Republican. After the storm of a few days ago William Thielking, of Olean, noticed his dog barking near a corn shock. When he went to investigate a half-grown wild goose ran out, which he captured and now has penned In a. coop. The gosling was probably unable to make headway against the storm and sought refuge in the corn shock. Skeptical as to Profits. Peru Republican. John De Huff writes that he is no longer connected with the Hollo Times by reason of a civil-service order prohibiting teachers from engaging in any other "lucrative business." We should not think the amount of "lucre" accumulated in publishing a paper in two languages in that half-civilized quarter of the globe would make it prohibitive. Turkey ( rop In Shelby. Shelbyville Republican. Reports from different parts of the State are to the effect that the turkey crop, as usual, is short, and that turkeys will be very scarce for the Thanksgiving dinner. Contrary to the report, the crop in Shelby county is said to be plentiful, although in growth the fowls are about thirty days late, CSUSSd by the late spring of the present yaar. The price per pound will be high. A Corn Story from Shelby. Franklin Democrat. John Yarling, jr., of Shelby county, reports a yield of 1,760 bushels of corn off sixteen acres. C. R. Devol, of the same county, exhibited at Shelbyville an alleged ear of corn containing forty rows with 1,321 grains. The first report is not incredible, but the second reminds one that the author of the "Blue River Stories" lives in Shelbyville and that Shelby county also claims as a resident Uncle Jacob Medtdter, one of the best snake story tellers in the world. A BATCH OF LITTLE STORIES. The Editor's Confession. Washington Post. The most pathetic things I've come across in many days appeared in the "Answers to Correspondents" column of a Boston paper not long ago. Some subscriber had written to the editor to inquire as to what a certain piece of money he had found was worth. The editor's answer was brief and frank, and with a cold winter coming on, it roused all my tender sympathy. "The editor," said he. in naive confession, "has no knowledge of the value of coin3." Told by Secretary Shaw. New York World. "I heard of a farmer in Pennsylvania who lost his wife," said Secretary Shaw, "and who married another and took her to his house within a w.-ek after he had buried the first one. The people in the neighborhood thought he should have waited a little longer and went around on his wedding night to express their disapproval. They had a couple of horse fiddles and a lot of tin horns and made a frightful racket. When they were well under way the farmer appeared on the porch of his house with his new wife and snouted angrily: 'Get away from here! You people ought to be ashamed of yourselves to make such a disturbance outside a house where there has just been a funeral. Have you no respect for the dead?' " Philadelphia Thrift. New York Times. "New Yorkers are not so thrifty as the Philadelphinns." said a customer of Henry Clews's during a business chat on the financial situation. "Oh. I don't know." said Mr. Clews. "What is your basis of calculation?" "Well, the other day I visited the Quaker City for the first time, and was taking a walk down Chestnut street. I noticed a ben. volent-lookiug old gentleman standing on the coruei. He appeared to be a diguifled citizen who had plenty of money and a clear conscience. I said to him: " 'Can you direct me to Fairmount Park?" ' 1 suppose 1 could,' he replied, after some hesitation; 'but I would much rather sell you a map of the place.' Now that's what I call thrift. Mr. Clews. If that Quaker lamb ever came to Wall street, I bet he wouldn't leave any of his llcece there." A Leading; Question. Harper's Weekly. A certain judge, living In the upp?r part of New York, while trying a case, listened with pain and displeasure to the testimony of a colored woman who was describing how she had whipped one of her offspring. She enlarged on the harrowing details until the Judge Stopped her. "Do you mean to tell me you wer cruel enough to punish your son like that?" he demanded. "Ob co'se I did, yh hnnoh." she replied. "How dare you be so brutal?" The colored woman looked at him in fine contempt for a moment, then asked, slowly; "Look a-heah, jedge. was yoh eher de father ob a WU.th.less mulatter boy?"' The judge almost fell from the bench. ' Bf 'oh ain't," continued the neg'ess. "ther you don't know nudln' ubout tie cusel" An Institute of Literature. New York Evening Post. A learned porfessof in one of the New England colleges got an order the other

day for a piece of writing from the "Amer-

ican Institute of Literature. Science and the Arts. The institution was unknown to ' him. and he conceived the plan (so inex- j plicablv common) of let tint? his favorite i newspaper seek out the abode of literature, science and the arts, and make a private a iA 'p. Z i report on h. ine tavorue nfwwi ou OT,t g (In fhj .inr.r- xtraa miatlv lotf ..?-.,! ttC Mmf of an advertising agency. The furniture of the American Institute of Literature, etc., was confined to a cheap table and a tvi.ev.Titcr. A voung man engaged In the s, mi-literary labor of smoking a cigarette was the sole occuoant of the "Institute. "May 1 speak to some member of the faculty?" "You mean th' boss? He's out. Him and me is the only ones here." The professor's piece is unwritten. Geu. Dick Took a Chance. Washington Post. In the lottery of seats General Dick, of Ohio, has been oue of the most unfortunate members of the House, having never yet secured a desirable seat. At the bew ,w I '""T"""" . ! WSJ one of the very last Republicans called and had to take the seat in the extreme southwest corner, the alternative being a seat in the "Cherokee strip" on the Democratic tide. Later in the session he discovered that a fairly desirable seat on the Republican side was vacant, and after watching it for a week or so applied to the sergeant-at-arms. "If no one else with a prior claim wants that seat," he said, "I think I'll take it." "What, take that seat!" the sergeant-at-arms fairly shouted. "Why. man. there Isn't a member of the House would have it. Two members who occupied that seat have died within the past year." "I'll take it," promptly responded the Ohio member. "I hud a blamed sight rather be dead than sit where I am." He took the seat and survived that session and the next. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Senator Stewart, of Nevada, is the only man in the Senate who has never been shaved. His beard began to grow when he was sixteen and has been growing for sixty years. William S. Tuttle is making arrangement to raise Benedict Arnold's flagship, the Royal Savage, from Lake Champlain. where it was scuttled in the war of 1S12 In the battle of Plattsburg. Among the relics supposed to be aboard the craft are Benedict Arnold's uniform and valuablegovernment papers. Mrs. Hay, wife of the secretary of state, is suffering from rheumatism to such an extent that she will have to deny herself almost entirely to official society for the winter. She will be unable to stand in line at the White House at official functions or to observe her regular Wednesday afternoon receptions. The caper of commerce Is the pickled flower bud of a shrub that grows in waste places of southern Europe. Marseilles alone exports about $5,000 worth per year to the United States. The business of raising and preparing capers might well be taken up in California, the arid lands of the Southwest and solas of the southern States. One of the greatest joys that fell to the lot of the late Professor Mommsen was the award to him last year of a Nobel prize of 150,000 marks. "To think that I should become a rich man even in my old days!" he exclaimed. He promptly donated 5,000 to the libraries in Charlottenburg and 1,000 to the University of Leipsic for its papyrus collections. In connection with Madame Patti's present tour of this country, the English papjrs recall that the diva was actually born in the greenroom of an opera house. Her mother, a prima donna of some talent, was singing with the celebrated Slgnor Slnico when she was suddenly taken ill, and carried to the greenroom, where Adelina Pattl was born. Sinlco has related how In haste he tore up his wardrobe to find wraps for the infant, little guessing it would be the greatest singer in the world. THE DRIFT OF POLITICS. "I'm for Mark Hanna for President, by the eternal!" declared Judge Hiram Brownlee, of Marion, who was in the city yesterday on legal business. "If Senator Fairbanks, or any other Indiana man, were or would become a candidate, of course I would be for him. but I take it that Indiana will not have a candidate next year, and I would like to see Senator Hanna yield to the demands that he be a candidate. "Senator Hanna would be stronger in Indiana than any other man who could be nominated for first place on the national ticket, save, perhaps, an Indiana man. He would poll practically the entire Republican vote in this State, and it is my belief that he would receive fully ten thousand more votes than any other man. I know that a great many Republicans have taken the position that Roosevelt should be given the nomination next year without opposition, but I, for one, don't look at it that way. Roosevelt is entitled to the nomination if he can get it; so is any other Republican. As a candidate Roosevelt has the advantage of his present position and the power it gives him, but the fact that he acceded to the presidency unexpectedly does not give him a first mortgage on the White House and the Republican party. The administration has not started any great work that it should be continued for tour years in order that it might complete it. The country would not go to the demnition bow-wows if another man were nominated and elected by the Republicans, und I would feel considerably more confident of success at the polls next November with Hanna. Instead of Roosevelt, at the head of the ticket." xxx Judgo Brownlee laughed when he was asked about Republican affairs in Grant county and the Eleventh district. "I don't believe there are very many of us who know just 'where we are at.' " he said. "We have been doing a lot of talking and furnishing material for a great deal of speculation, but I think most of us are up in the air and don t Know just where well come down, or whether we'll land on our feet. Now we've been hearing a great deal

about me aisirict cnairmansnip ana tne eecretary." No one has been found who right that s to bo made by Elam Neal and , ... : ' . Adam Beck, and other interesting things I knows anything about the "McKinley Rethat are to grow out of that. Beck. I un- Publican Inion as an organization, or derstand, is an avowed candidate for chair- ! sbout its officers or promoters, but it is very man. but Neal hasn't said what he intends evident that the letters are a part of a

to do, and although his friends say he will be a candidate I have come to the conclu sion that they don t know and he doesn't know just what to do. There's so much pulling and hauling and so many interests are tangled up in the thing that it would puzzle a Philadelphia lawyer to straighten it out. One thing is certain all this wrangling isn't doing the party any good. They've been having the same thing in several other districts, and it's about time that the people who are causing the trouble should come to a realization of the possible effeots of what they have been doing. In this matter of the organization of the state committee it isn't, or shouldn't be, a question of Goodrich, or Beveridge, or Fairbanks, or Durbin, or any other one man or bet of men. It isn't going to be B garden party affair to carry Indiana next roar and the party leaders had better save their ammunition and energy for the common enemy." xxx Governor Durbln was at his desk yesterday for the first time in several days. Immediately upon his return from Washington the Governor went down into Arkansas on a duck hunting expedition with Ernest Tripp and returned Sunday morning. They visited the preserves of a club, composed principally of Chicago, Pittsburg and New York men. to which Mr. Tripp b. longs, and had fine sport for two days. The clubhouse and the club's land, which comprises some 11,000 acres, are situated just across the river from Memphis. As an evidence that their trip had not been unsuccessful the Governor and Mr. Tripp gave a little dinner at the English at noon yesterday to a few of their friends. Duck constituted the feature of the menu, although of course the du ks served were BOl those shot by the hosts, for It is against the Arkansas law to take game fron the State, but they were fair substitutes. "There is no question about Mr. Tripp's being a hunter," said the Governor, "but my claims to such distinction have been made light of in some quarters. However, I think I have now convinced a few of my friends that if 1 am not a hunter I am at

least a first-class retrievsr. And. by the ,

way, this is one little hunting trip that win ; give no one occasion to ask in what district we were looking for game." Those at the dinner were Governor and Mrs. Durbln and Kbtcher Durhin. Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Tripp, Daniel E. Storm. Nat lim m rr 1- ..... ( a i ..... . w 1 . nu., v.r., rv. a. wvwu, Huffman. C. W. Killer, lmve Walla. . VY. L. Taylor and A. A. Tripp, of North Vernon. Aside from the ladies, it was a combination .of politicians that might s SI "significant" to those on the alert for affairs of political significance. C. C. Shirley, of Kokomo. was In the city yesterday on business connected with the work oi the world's fair commission, XXX Senator John W. Parks, ot Plymouth. was in the city yesterday, and was a caller j on several State officials. The senator hails from the southern end of the Thirteenth district, the scene of recent stirring political events incidental to the three-eornered fight for the district charmauship. Frank Boss, one of the candidates for chairman. lives at Plymouth, and it would naturally be expected that Senator Parks would bo in touch with the latest developments and a veritable mine of Interesting information. but if he had such information he guarded it zealously. "1 really haven't a thing to say m politics," he declared, and adhered to that declaration. XXX Senator Parks has represented the district composed of Marshall and Kosciusko counties during the last two session of the Legislature and it is generally underStood that he is willing to assume the responsibilities for another term. However, he has not announced that he will be a candidate for renominatiou next year. Kosciusko county has the most votes In the district convention and can control the nomination, consequently if a Kosciusko man becomes a candidate and can command the solid rfupport of his county Senator Parks would be butting his head against a stone wall as a candidate from Marshall county. L. R. Stookey, of Warsaw, who has been a member of the lower branch of the Legislature for two terms, has been spoken of as a probable candidate for Parks's seat, but it is not definitelyknown that he will enter the lists. xxx A. A. Tripp, of North Vernon, who was here yesterday, Is oue of the two candidates for the Republican chairmanship in the Fourth district, io succeed Oscar H. Montgomery, of Seymour. William E. Springer, of Elizabethtowu, is his opponent. Mr. Tripp is the present chairman of the organization in Jennings county. Mr. Tripp was not inclined to discuss the light for district chairman, but expressed confidence that he will win. One of his friends last night put an end to the reports that Mr. Tripp may withdraw from the race before the convention is held. "Tripp is in the fight to stay," he Bald, "and. more than that, he will be elected. He was not anxious to be a candidate in the first place, but was persuaded to enter the race and now he will see it out. His friends are working actively for him and he has been doing a great deal of effective work himself." XXX Harry B. Smith, county auditor, last night authorized the announcement that he will be a candidate for chairman of the Republican organization in Marion county. "I am a candidate for county chairman," said Mr. Smith. "I have been considering the matter for some time, and decided today to enter the race. I do not know anything about any other candidates. My candidacy has no bearing on what any one else has done or may do as regards being a candidate." Mr. Smith is the first avowed candidate In the field for the county chairmanship. Several other men have been talked of as probable candidates, and it is known that L. G. Rothschild will be a candidate, but no definite statements have been forthcoming prior to Mr. Smith's announcement. Mr. Smith was a candidate two years ago, but withdrew before the convention was held and left C. N. Elliott a clear field. , X X X Union B. Hunt, of Winchester, who Is generally suspected of carrying a potential gubernatorial boom concealed somewhere about his person, is at the Denison. He still declines to launch the boom formally. or to state definitely that there will be no launching. xxx Mayor John W. Holtzman has confessed that he has little or no Influence with the piesent city administration. A local paper quotes him as saying to a disgruntled jobhunter: "Well, my dear fellow, I am sorry that you made such a mistake. I was the very poorest man in town to leave it to. I did not get a single appointment that I wanted I wanted just one place for a very good personal friend of mine, but there were so many men for the place and the demand for placet' was so emphatic that mv own poor candidate finally lost out entirely. " The mayor apparently made the mistake of not going to see Tora Taggart, if he had a man he really wanted appointed to a soft place under the present administration This naive admission of the mayor how ever much of a bad break it may be confirms all that has been published in the Journal to show that Taggart is in reality the administration, it also suggests the question. If Mayor Holtzman was unable to secure a job under the present admin istration for one of his close friends, how much of a chance did any of the men in dorsed by James Leroy Keach stand of getting at the public crib? XXX It was reported yesterday that a settle ment of the chairmanship fight in the Twelfth district had been reached, or would be reached within a day or two, and thai the adjustment would leave Elmer Leonard without opposition for re-election. William Geake. of Fort Wayne, and N. T. Jackman. of Waterloo, have been contesting with Leonard for the chairmanship. xxx Prominent State officials and Republican leaders of Indiana are puzzled to explain the real source and significance of letters attacking President Roosevelt and his ad ministration which have been received by ; them within the past week. The letters are nn letterheads of the "MeKinU.v hm,m. I m ii i - mm 'mv ..ft-russj can Union," are dated at Yonkers, N. Y ., I and are signed by "Royce S. B. Johnson. campuigii nosuie to me present aoministratlon. Practically all the Republican members of both houses of Congress have received the letters, it is said. The letter gets to the point in the opening paragraphs, saying: "In common fairness won't you employ your influence to secure a prompt and efficient Investigation by CongTess of th- , scandals? It is the prevailing opinion here In New York that after proclaiming abroad that the Postoffice Department is a den of thieves the President is now seeking to suppress an investigation. "It is shocking that, after all this outcry against certain public men and an- r Indictment after indictment has been i cured with reckless disregard of private rights and character, the chaig. should be hung up to await the exigencies of a political campaign. "The true facts should be promptly known. If these men are guilty the United States government should be able to showit, for this government has BSarsalously efficient machinery for the detection and punishment or crime. its omission to i frankly disclose the facts and promptly proceed with the trial of offenses r: ly be attributed to th- w akte ss of the government's case. In those brought In Brooklyn the government has been on the defensive from the beginning and has 1 n a laughing stock." The letter goes on to recite alleged conditions in New York Stat.- and further assails the President. The closing paragraph says: "We may seise Cuba and we may steal Panama, but no administration can retain the confidence of our people by proclaiming abroad that one ot the government's great departments is a den of thieves, without proving it. Let the truth COSM OVt, 1st the guilty be punished. No administration should be permitt-d to destroy private character and blast the h.s -:' hon. men whose employment may chance to bu in the postal service, even to nv-ct th- -gencles of a persidential candidate of monarchical tendencies. Such method.'- mu unsuitable for Russia; they will certainly not be tolerated long here." The letters are taken by many as evidence that some of the men under Indictment for complicity in the postal frauds

ha vi' established a press bureau, with hesd-

quarter In Yonker. as a part of their camfaign of defense. i EXPLODES A BOMB. t B (CONCLUDED FROM FIRST PAIR cars I acted as my own conductor and slh'Ij'd my nickel into the little brass slot;f I stood In that old ark of a transfer ear;f was pushed and J.tld by citizens of hjgh and low degree as we listened to the nvslcal cry of "one oa the rear Blake;' I patently and heroically suffered the torture? of being pounded and thumped over th ''ho-baek' cobble-stone i p.iwment of Washington stn.t; I groped in and oot of the lingy old railroad station, lighted only by tiie effulgence of the smile of Tom Taggirt who did his best even at that early d.iv to rum th. diiftirn of his n.1iti I foes! through the crhcieut medium of the eatif'g-house sandwich; I m th. old Bates andjthe old English pointed to as hotels of tjM flrst-dass; I saw the Circle devoid of i preseut crowning glory; I saw fourBtorj blocks pointed to as the city's sky-scraiK-rs. All these things I saw. All then things you saw. And together we h.iv witnessed the transformation. Ths couiry town has forever passed away. andthe Indianapolis, of to-day stands in the forefront of American municipalities the greatest inland city of the Western hemisphere ani the rival of cities of ths flrstl nsaaaltade. This result has not beea aeconnrdlshed by the rubbing of a magician's lamp. Aladdin, with his dark magic, has I been fnlrly outstripped by Hocsier entcm-prls and Hoosier capital. FACTORIES THE MODERN JINNS. "Tlictories have been the modern jinns whih have made the story of Cathay seer commonplace. What factories hava don-f in the past more factories can do in the .future. The work of this club has b ei cut out for it by the stern logic of eveilts. The way to future development hasjteen blazed by the pioneers of eighteen yea s ago. Factories mean labor; labor me; is ajage. wages mean prosperity; prosperity means industrial peace, munici pal "growth and development, the content mer(t and happiness of the people. " o the Commercial CI ib of Indianapolis the i people look, and have the right to looi. lor ercective work in securing thess newi industries. I do not wish to flatter or (tajole. nor do I desire to harshly criticise1 I do not wish to be understood that this organization in the past has done its fuirduty because I do not so believe, and I d.J not believe that any member of this organization is contented in all things wlta its past record. The industrial city pro.Vjct should never have been allowed to dic.i There is an old axiom that 'nothing succeeds like success, and. as one citizen deeply concerned with all things affecting the iwclfare ot Indianapolis, 1 have always fclt: that this project should have been consummated, if not upon the ground orig inal rcuu. then upon some other suiinbie site or location. "'he mission of this organization is one against which the statute of limitations doef not run. Its very articles of Incor poration, its declarations of purposes and InfcSitK its MCI nnd nrotl t r r.tiinlnn m desfand thai to-day, to-morrow and al ways it shall be the leader In every movement looking toward the development and upl-'iiMing of our city, but not necessarily the self -constituted critic of public official!;, or the dictator of municipal policies. bee J use under our plan of government the responsibility for official acts is lodged elscMrtasrs. UNITY IS NECESSARY. his very question of what part an or ganization such as this snouid take in the proper settlement of the problems of municipal government is certainly one the discussion of which should not be tabooed In meeting of this character. I recognize that other members of the organization maj1 entertain views diametrically opposed to those held by myself; therefore, while not? desiring to introduce any subject which maf detract from the harmony of this meeting. I cannot refrain from calling your attention to the self-evident fact that through the enthusiasm of certain of our mejabers for their own pet theories, there ha grown up in thi community yes, wltjiin the ranks of this club itself a sir Jug element which, apparently having losS sight of the real purposes and Intents of he organization, declare themselves to be no longer In sympathy with the organization. This is a deplorable condition of affairs. The business element of Indianapolis should be a unit on any proposition coning within the scope of the original puiibose of this ciub, such purposes as these mci understand it, and as I understand it, beivg to secure to Indianapolis those Decess ry elements of trade and manufacture which will further contribute to the city's development and gTOWth. t us not deceive ourselves into believing things have not been done which mittäte against the usefulness of this organization. They have been done. Personally, 1 disavow any such ideas or opinions, .. I do know that many members of this ornvnlzatlon in the past through the very enrViusiasm of certain members have been fort-ed to the opinion that the club had not onll been diverted from the proper channelr of usefulness, but that It was being usl to advance the political fortunes of cex'ain elements of the organization. This is Certainly to be regretted, and I appeal to J he thinking members of the organization to rally to the support of the officers of Jthe organization, who. I believe, are ju.-' as desirous as 1 possibly can be, and jut1 as jealous as you should be of the ma.ntenance of the organization along the correct lines on which It was originally forned. The motto of this club should be thj Commercial Club for Indianapolis, not for individuals; and Indianapolis for the Commercial Club, and not to exploit pet theories of Individuals.' ? NO PERSONAL APPLICATION. " must insist that what I say has no personal application. I do not believe that snjr puflic official should expect, or has ths ricjht, to be exempt from criticism of his ac ions, and if he is the right man he will no object to advice; but for the good of Tn iianapolis let me appeal to all citizens ia the. criticisms to be governed by a kindly desire to better conditions and not permlj tbemselves to be led into intemperats abvse. A story and a true story is to mf mif d apropos, and its application is apparent to all. Some few weeks ago, when ths authorities of the United Stales in this citt. in their efforts to bring to punishment pa 'ties who had used the mails to defraud, wd-c notified by the postmaster of a northern Indiana city of the address of a young SrOBSaa in Kentucky who had been on of thl victims of the fraudulent scheme, snd wlfrn this young womsn was informed by th federal authorities that her addosss hsd bein given them by the postmaster, snd th$t she would be expected to come here to glc her testimony, she wrote a letter to tht official severely criticising him for gluing her oddress, saying thst from what sh had learned and heard about Indianapolis it was an unfit and unsafe place for a yojmg woman to visit, and if she came should be under the necessity of paying the expenses of her mother In order that ahe m&ht feel safe. I ask you If conditions wlflch have prevailed in Indianapolis during the past ten years Justify such a reputation for the city, and, now that I cannot be-juccused of making a special plea for myseJ. I ask und bespeak of the members of thfs organisation, and of the citizens of Indianapolis generally, that their criticisms ofthe present city administration be chsraclerized by that kindly spirit which Ot rta'jhly was lacking in the criticisms offered usv'nst my own. 'STAND UP FOR INDIANAPOLIS." SI sincerely trust that there is no oris present this evening who will charge ms wijh an attempt to Introduce partisan politics Into a meeting of this character to 'de up, as it Is, of men of all sliades of political opinions and beliefs. Par be it fr$m me to desire to so offend, but I must reseat that remark which in recent weeks' :.-. be.-n frequently heard In Indianapolis, and again declare that in my opinion thf good of our city demands that every cil ten should adopt as his motto his shibbcV'th 'Stand up for Indianapolis.' 'A like not th word pride.' Century atj. Webster alike, in their treatment of tl.l-4 word, lay special stress upon its baser mjanings. but I believe that it should have arj applicability in its In tter sense to the w-pl ot in ii mapulis. Macau ley said. Tha pcfiplt wh. . 1. 1' no pride in the noble :t ilcvetn. n' ot r mute allceSttHS U1 n-er uchieve anything worthy t U' remf inhered with pride by remote desc. Minima-' Paraphrasing this sentence, permit in to in 't if Wc of lndl.ll..lplIlS t(d.4 til no pn.le n what h;:s I wen aci nplished in tt e past, feel no pride in w in at we are to . lay. manifesting no pride what our future promises to be, we shall that lack ol prdc lar tat in mir . -i d-ciy to our city and ourselves us to cau oi not far remote descendants to look uh n us with Mclil.tfs other lltn those of pl-.ie. CMC pride is wnat we need. Civic pride mi. in. a Aiiungnoss .n to talk Tor our cily. Civic pride means a willingness to stind up f r your city. Civic pride means willingness tu dciciid your otty. JIvbI