Indianapolis Journal, Volume 54, Number 69, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 March 1904 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 0, 1904.

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Deerlng. northwest corner of Third sad Jefferson streets, and Bluefeld Broa. 44J West Market street. HEW YORK Astor Ii i se. ST. LOUIS Unl n News Company. Union Depot. ST. JOSEPH. Mo. F. It. Carriel. Station D. WASHINGTON. D C- RiCBS House. Ebbitt II .ush. Fairfax Hotel. WIHard Hotel. "Japan lands between a hundred and a hundred and fifty thousand troops." And that means exactly wlut it says between MO and 150,0w. Take your choice. Perhaps the organization of the Mormon Church could be epitomized by saying that the leaders are all hypocrites and scoundrels and the followers all fools and dupes. Colonel Bryan gives symptoms of being yet afraid of that "dark horse" to be sprung In the Democratic convention. It is getting to be a positive nightmare with him. The real question in regard to the rurnl mail carriers is whether they should be salaried employee of the government or errand boys with authority to take pay and tips from anybody. Critics are grumbling over the expenditure of Jjo.O'Xt on the new stables at the executive mansion. This can be expected Of the clas of p. .;. v h think we ought to have a one-horse government. A prominent citizen of South Carolina made a deathbed confession of the murder of his wife. Justice has already been satisfied, however, as three negroes were lynched for the crime at the time it happened. A Texas grand Jury has returned 1.147 bills of indictment against one man. The strange, th.'ng about it is that he is a saloon keeper and not a public official, and therefore he cannot expect any great number of vindications. Russia claims that she is unable to understand the meaning of the term "administrative entity." Well, what does she think Mr. Hay invuted it for? If it were meant for Kussi i to understand, a diagram would have accompanied it. This anti-race-suiei.'e husiu ss may be carried a bit too far. Now here's his Sublime Whi.sk. s. President J Smith, who raised five larse families at one and the same time, and Prudent Koosevelt has not thrown him a single bouquet. The difference between the Russian and the Japanese warships seems to be that while the formet SM not in evidence anywhere the latter are apparently ubiquitous. What there Is left of the Russian navy is hottled up. while the Japanese squadrons are here, there and everywhere. The Senate started in to try the case of Re. d Sin.' f o jt J...- oh Smith proved so mueh more interesting- that Smoot appears to have been entirely forgotten. What the Senate wants Is entertainment, and If Smoot wanted to be popular he should have had a lot of simultaneous families. President Eliot, of Harvard, says corruption n politics Is due to the presence of the ignorant and uneducated. The public will note aa a support of his theory .that rival factious of the Harvard Dining Association resorted to illegal registration, colonization and ballot box stuffing at a recent election. NO d. fe !!; .. T - ho'lM Nattempted of the lynching affair in Springfield. O.. on Monday. It had all the features of the most of such affairs in the South, with the additional one that the culprit would undoubtedly have got speedy Justice by ,l:oda. The lynch ing was a disgrace to tha country, and will furnish a new urrum. nt to the advocates of mob law in tho South. The local authorities at Springfield must bear a large share of the burden of responsibility and disgrace in not having made any preparations to prev nt a tragedy which, for sevgral hours, they must have seen was threatening. Pending tho culmination of strategic movements In the far Eastern war and the fighting of battles, which cannot be expected to occur every few days, rumors are rife. One of these says that the Czar has made overtures to some of the European powers asking thrm to mediate for cessation of the war with Japan. This is improbable, because, although Russia has got decidedly the worst of the opening naval conflicts of the u ir, it does not follow that ahe 1 ready tu tuc lot pe-.ee. To do o at

th beginning of war with .in inferior power

would cost RussU her place as a loaning power and Impose a humiliation that she would be a long time getting rid of. It id more likely that she will make a tremendous effort to counteract her naval reverses by mobilizing her land forces. Rcom;m;i.t a mj nawsa awarw From present indications the Republican national convention, which is to meet next June l'l, will have little to do as far as nominations are concerned beyond recording the expressed will of the party. It has been evident for some time that Mr. Roosevelt would be nominated for President. This was almost assured by the unusual action of a large number of States that instructed for him last year, for while these instructions were not absolutely biucing this year they carried almost as much moral weight as if they were. The added indorsements and instructions of several States this year, either through conventions or state committees, including New York and In diana, place tho nomination of Mr. Roosevelt practically beyond doubt. While the matter was still under discussion an attempt was made by some to give importance to an alleged tradition according to which no person elected as Vice President and succeeding to the presidency through the deuth of the chief magistrate had ever been nominated for first place. Mr. Roosevelt seems destined to break this record as he has some others. The steady How and resistless course of events by which his nomination has been rendered inevitable would almost justify him and "his friends in attaching fatalistic meaning to what has been called "Roosevelt's luck." But luck has not been the dominant factor In this outcome. It is due in a much larger degree to Mr. Roosevelt's steady adherence to the policies and methods of his lamented predecessor, and to the splendid manner in which he has responded to every demand upon his executive ability snd risen to the height of every occasion. By demonstrating his fitness to succeed Mc Kinley he established his claim to succeed himself until the masses and the managers of the party are ready to give it unanimous recognition. From present appearances Mr. Roosevelt's nomination will be as spontaneous as was that of McKinley for a second term. The choice of the party for Vice President is only a little less clearly foreshadowed than that for President. The many indications and expressions in favor of Senator Fairbanks, made months before the meeting of the convention, are as unusual as were tho early pledges in favor of Mr. Roosevelt for President. The choice for that office is generally left to be determined by the course of events or decided on the floor of the convention. Four years ago the certainty of the renomination of McKinley, a Western man. made it certain that an Eastern man would be nominatd for Vice President, and Roosevelt was the unanimous choice. Now, a somewhat similar situation seems to require the nomination of a Western man for Vice President, and all sections of the country are uniting on Senator Fairbanks. Other persons have been named worthy of the position or worthy even to head the ticket, as Senator Fairbanks is, but there secerns to be a consensus of opinion that ho unites more of the elements of strength and in a higher degree than a.iy other. Tho indications ate very strong tha . he will be forced to accept the nomination. The word "forced" is used adviscdy. because Senator Fairbanks is in no stnse a candidate for the position, and if ho accepts the nomination it will be from a sense of duty to the party. , Senator Fairbanks's friends in this State would not consent to his accepting the nomination for Vice President at this time if they thought it would remove him from the ll3t of available presidential candidates four years hence. It will not. Nothing can do that but death or some grave polit ical mistake on his part. ieath may come to any person, but Senator Fairbanks does not make political mistakes. If he should Ve elected Vico President the fact that he accepted the nomination in obedience to the call of the party would be remembered four years hence Just as it is in favor of Roosevelt now. While he is not seeking the office nor authorizing his friends to seek It for him the Journal believes that if he should be drafted into tho service of tho party he would obey the call. It looks now as if he would be and as if the ticket would be Roosevelt and Fairbanks. 1IUI IlltlSTOW MVMffi Of the 200 cases cited in Mr. Bristow'a report of allowances for clerk hire, rent, etc., made on the recommendation of members of Congress, only three are censurable. These are the three cases in wlr'h members own buildings which were leased to the government as postolflces. Of the three cases cited one was in Connecticut, one in New York and one in Kansas. That kind of a transaction is cleaHy improper if not illegal, and it is surprising that a member of Congress, who ought to know the law and be scrupulously exact in obeying it in spirit as well as in letter, should be found profiting by a contract with the government for the use of his building as a postoffice. A s;d e fnm th- so three eases the only good purpose that can be served by Mr. Bristow's report is to call attention to the loose system under which allowances for salaries and clerk hire are made. The s .-tern is the growth almost of generations and has prevailed under every administra tion of both parties for scores of years. It is faulty and open to favoritism and abuse in that it places the distribution of hun dreds of thousands of dollars annually in the hands of a subordinate in the Postoffice Department, a mere head of division. who must often act on imperfect knowl edge as to the requirements of particular offices and who may be influenced by improper motives. It is a loose system, to say the least, and calls for reform. Under this system it wus inevitable that members of Congress should often be ap plied to by their constituents, postmasters. postoffice clerks and their friends for an in crease of salary and an increased allowance to meet it. From the postmasters' and clerks' point of view that is ore .f the things they ;l!t. jM Washington for. Prob ably there has not been a member of Con gress in forty years who has not presented such applications at the department Re publicans and Democrats alike. While they might sometimes be misled by ex parte representations of postmasters as to the needs of the office or of clerks as to their individual claims, they are Justified In act ing on uch applications and recommending the allowance. Congressmen ought not to be required or expected to do this sort of thing, but it established usage. The d. -pur uncut ouiiht to havu better means of

ascertaining the needs of local offices that would remove it from the suspicion of being unduly influenced by the requests of members -r 'or, gress. This also indicates a faulty ay. u m. It does not by any means follow that the members of Congress who have presented h :v applications and recommended the allowances have done any wrong. They certainly have not violated any law, as in the case of buildings leased for postoffices. Mr. Bristow himself could not have been a member of Congress from Kansas for a single term without having been asked to present sueh applications to the department, and no doubt he would have done It. It looks very mueh like spitework or a desire to exploit himself as a'reformer for Mr. Bristow to cite hundreds of instances and names of representatives and senators who have recommended Increased allowances for salaries or clerk hire. He could have called attention to a faulty and unbusinesslike ;-ystem without doing this. He only cited the names of members of

the present Congress, as if they had sinned above all others. If he had examined the files of the Postoffice Department he could have given the names of hundreds of other congressmen, including Democrats in both of Grover Cle veland's administrations, who did the same thing and without any thought Of doing wrong. Mr. Bristow has done some good work as an investigator and reformer, but in this cane he seems to have overacted the part. Incidentally, the reference of the opera-tors'-miners' controversy to the popular vote of the miners may have some effect on the progress of the referendum principle in this country. In behalf of that principle it has been claimed that the people were better able to Judge as to what laws they wanted than legislative bodies were, and that before legislative acts became laws they should be referred to the people for indorsement or rejection. The theory has a degree of plausibility, because in a republican government the people are the source of all power and authority. That they are the seat of all wisdom is not so sure, because in times of clamor the people are as apt to be wrong as their delegates, and there is no worst? tyranny than the tyranny of a majority. The referendum of the coal controversy to the miners in their local and individual capacity may furnish a precedent as to the ability of masses of men to rise above and correct the mistakes of their delegated authorities. From this point of view it may furnish an argument in favor of the referendum principle in politics. Representative Van Duzer, of Nevada, has just introduced House bill No. 13.162. entitled, "A bill to secure the free and unlimited coinage of silver." How fine it must be to be able to live in the glorious past, that way, while the storms of modern life pass unheeded o'er one's whitening head! MINOR TOPICS. Through the courtesy of Collier's Weeky, which has sent a corps of war corre spondents to the far Kast, the Journal is enabled to print the first letters received from Frederick Palmer, a noted writer who arrived at Tokio. Japan, early in February. Mr. Palmer's letters were written lust before the bombardment of Port Arthur. He describes the quick preparations for war and reports an Interview with Field Marsdrtl Yaaiagata. The letters are well written and entertaining. Collier's Week ly is to be commended for its enterprise and the Journal is glad of the opportunity to make use of'this enterprise for the ben efit of Its own readers. Collier's war correspondence will be a weekly feature. Sir Henry Irving played "Shylock" here yesterday afternoon, but the character is no longer interesting. The Chicago man who got $32,000 interest out of a $4,000 loan In four years makes Shylock look like a benevolent old philanthropist. Yalo has decided to abolish the appoint ment of valedictorian and salutatorian. This is another step forward in the evolution of the modern college; a class really needs only two officers ycllmaster and foot ball captain. The average American family, according to the latest statistics, numbers four and seven-tenths persons. Let us all resolve so to live that we may be able to add another three-tenths to that disagreeable traction. A K ntucky mother has nam d her new triplets Roosevelt, Cleveland and Bryan. That Hearst barrel Marse Henry has been sputtering so much about cannot have !) . n on tap in that section of the State. How can other institutions of learning hope to keep up with Chicago University? President Harper has been operated on twice for appendicitis, and is willing to keep it up indefinitely if need arises. "What is this game of bridge I read so much about?" asks a correspondent. "I can find nothing about it in tho dictionary." Well, vou evidently looked in an unabridged dictionary. Try again. Mr. Coon, of Cleveland, who said "I would rather be a lamp-post in New York than the mayor of Cleveland," is dead. And the poor man died with his laudable ambition ungra tilled, at that. The Supreme Court of the United States has decided that a man who rides on a free pass cannot collect damages from the iailroad if he gets hurt. After this well be more careful. An old man carried out of a burning building in New York the other day was found to have $2,000 stuffed in his stockings. His idea was probably to make his socks self-supporting. "The Japanese." says a pro-Russian p:iper. "are mere imitators." I'm yes; they are giving a fairly successful imitation of what the United States di to Spain, too. The British government Is hereby respectfully petitioned not to remove the rigid war censorship it has established on Alfred Austin. It is a first-rate neutrality measure. Flat dwellers in London complain that they have no room for their libraries. Evidently they haven't found out about these c ombination folding bed-bookcases yet. Received by the library editor, a large book entitled, "The Sports of Great Britain." So there are others besides Sir Thomas Lipton, after all. "It's a wise child that knows his own father." but it seems to be a wiser father that knows bis own child, if he happens to be a Mormon. Geniuses should never marry, gays Kate Upson Ularkc. But if this rule were a 1hered to, where would old Joe Smith be now I New York people who want to make Herr Uieharü ölrausd angry ask him it

he is the same Strauss who wrote the waltzes. They say he turns purple when any one asks him that. But why they are very pretty watzes. are they not?

A destructive fire was averted at a Boston club the other night by the prompt use of se'tzer siphons. As a nrst-class quencher, the great American highball has never yet been beat. With holy images to flaunt, the Russian hosts move on. And when the Jap asserts, "You can't!" the Russ replies "I kon." The bock beer goat saw his shadow yesterday and qua'.ihed in the harbinger class. Blossom by blossom the spring butts in. Among other cheerful things at the St. Louis exposition will be a coffin exhibit. Dear, dear! Are we coming to thi; ? THE HUMORISTS. ttem Order. "You don't mean to say you girls have started a secret society?" "Yes, it's a society whose members pledge themselves to tell all the secrets they know." Philadelphia Ledger. Only Too Willing. "What?" grumbled Mr. Ie Sember, "a marble tombstone for your pet dog? Huh! I'll wager you wouldn't provide as much for me." "O yes." replied his young wife, demurely. "I'd be glad to." Philadelphia Press. Located. "I have often wondered." said the Philosopher, backing up to the fireplace, "what become3 of all the hair the barber cuts off your head." "Wrell, I never did." replied the Nervy Boarder, helping himself to another piece of fudge; "all he cuts off mine usually goes down my neck." Cincinnati Times-Star. A Slight Mi-oippreheiiHlon. "Yes. sir. I have a horse to sell k'.nd. gntle and a very fair roadster." "How old is he?" "I beg pardon." "I say. how old is he?" "I can't answer the question, sir." "Why not?" "Because the animal's name is Ann." Cleveland Plain Dealer. lnrv's Match. Maty had a tiny watch. And swallowed it one day. Perhaps to save a little time. That's what the neijrhbors say. She would have been a happy girl, Kxcept for this bad mix. That watch could beat her little lamb, It had so many ticks. Cornell Widow. I mi si War Xcwi. At old Ping-Yang The guns went bang! And the Cossacks galloped away; And the Japs yelled "Boo! We will go Wlju." But the Cossacks wouldn't stay. Where the Yalu flows These Kassian foes In haste so merrily flee; While the Jap ho-ho To Chinnamupo Is echoed In Japanee. Cleveland Plain Dealer. INDIANA EDITORIAL NOTES. And the mystery of that dead Bedford girl's torn veat is not yet unraveled. Anderson Bulletin. Alcxleff doesn't seem to have the steam required to blow the cork out of the bottle. Marion News-Tribune. The head of the Mormon Church makes it clear that, law or no law, polygamy will last as long as the original stock of wives holds out. Fort Wayne Sentinel. Some of our exchanges speak about the "angry waters" of the Wabash. In is true they sometimes act that way. but they sre not angry. It is all on aceouut of the surplus. Newport Hoosler State. Mr. Bryan is now giving a very satisfactory imitation of a man who, having discovered his own failure as a star attraction, is capable of performing the duties of advance agent, with all the enthusiasm of a press representative of a four-ring circus. Lafayette Courier. F.ditor John B. Stoll, of the South Bend Times. is being mentioned as the Democratic nominee for Governor. Mr. Stoll is one of the best known Deqjocrats in Indiana, and his party could go farther and do worse. Starke County Republican. The Indianapolis Journal is cheered by news from the scientific world that in time the development of electricity will abolish smoke. Meanwhile the oople of Indlanaolis may rejoice in the knowledge that where there is mueh smoke there is consldetable prosperity. Logansport Journal. The Wall-street Journal says Mr. Rockefeller "Is a modest and retiring man and shuns publicity of any kind." Secretary Cortelyou discovered something of this sort when he attempted to carry out the provisions of the law relating to publicity concerning trust affairs. Kokomo Tribune. When other nations engage in war and thus add to the demand for American products, it is all rinht for us to get all the trade advantages out of It we can. but it Isn't the proper thing to become hilarious or boisterous over the matter. For, after all. nothing makes for universal prosperity like universal peace. War can never be truly considered a good thing in the broad sense of the term. South Bend Times. The Hearst movement on the Democratic nomination for the presidency has become a serf" s matter with the Democratic party. Mr. Hearst is gradually building up a machine which promises to be very disturbing if not very effective. It is hardly possible that the sober element of the Democratic party would for one moment consider his nomination, but It is not always the sober element of tho party which determines the nomination, as witness the convention of 1896 Klkhart Hcvtew. N. w York's Court of Appeals has rendered a decision which overturns the right of school boards to discharge or refuse to reappoint a woman teacher because she is married, thereby reversing a decision of the State Supreme Court. The decision rests upon the points that the power of making a rule against married teachers has not been granted by the Constitution of tho State to school boards nor the right to pronounce marriage an impediment to efficiency. Terre Haute Tribune. STORIES TEAT ARE TOLD. Thoughtful Instructor. A cavalry sergeant was out of patience with an awkward recruit. "Never approach the horses from behind without speaking." he exclaimed: "If you do they'll kick that thick head of yours, and the end of It will be thaO we shall have nothing but lame horses in the squadron:" London Telegraph. Bipaglaatw "Wanted: men to appear in 'The Pit' men with Stock Exchange experience preferred. Apply to W. A. Prady at the Lyric Theater Tuesday at 1 p. m." This advertisement startled New Yorkers this week. Three times the number applied to Mr. Brady. "Have you any Stock Exchange experience ?" asked Mr Brady fl an applicant. "Oh. yes. $00,000 worth." was the reply. Then the man said "Steel." He got a job as super. -New York Times. Always Open. At a meeting of business men a few nights ago Dr. Emil Hirsch was elated as one of the formal speakers, but expressed himself as being at a loss to know why he had been Invited. Finally, by way of possible explanation, he told the following anecdote at his own expense and to the great amusement of his listeners: "1 was billed to speak in a small town in Iowa not long ago. and when I got there I found numerous lithographs purporting to represent my face hanging in the windows of the shops. I dlln't mind that so much, for they didn't look Uke me. but there was one In the window of a

drug Rtore that cast a shadow over my spirit. It vas so placed that right across the mouth was one of those transparent signs reading. 'Open day and night ' "New York Globe.

Crafty Witness. The sensational Bechtel murder trial at Allentown. Pa., was a succession of surprises. no:ne of them tragic and horrible, many of them ludicrous. A ludicrous surprise waa in the answer that a certain witness made one morning to a question of District Attorney Idchtenwalner's. The district attorney' s question re lated to the geography of the main stairway of the Bechtel House. "Which way," he said, "do those stairs run?" Th witness, not to be tripped up. replied with a crafty look: "They run two ways." "Two ways? What do you meanr' "One way." said the witness, "they run upstairs, and the other way they run downstairs." Omaha Bee Notliina lmt Pit. "No. there is no Are in here, except In the latrobe." said the head of a family, last night, in answer to a policeman who rang the doorbell. The guardian of the peace seemed surprised, and said: "As I was passing here a rdnute ago I thought I heard a cry of 'fire;' but. as I saw no commotion in the house. I pa.e'. on. When I pet a little distance, however. I heard the cry of 'fire' again. A person who passed at the time also said he heard the cry of 'Are. fire.' " "Oh, it's all a mistake." said the pater familias, around whom, by this time, had gathered his children. ' "We are only having a quiet game of "pit. and the boy, here, wanted to make a sale and was screaming 'five, five' at the pitch of his voice. I guess you thought he said 'fire.' " Washington Times. AYuntcd a Job on I'nnamn Cannl. A weather-leaten man wearing a heavy fur cap with ear-laps wandered into the off.ee of Hear Admiral Walker. "You are io be the head of the new Panama 'anal Commission, I hear?" he said. "I believe so." replied the admiral. "I want to apply for a contract." "We're not quite ready to let contracts yet," answered the admiral, coldly. "When we are they will bt advertised." "I know," persisted the furry one, "but this is a sort of special contract that I thought you might overlook, so I came in to remind you of it." "Yes?" said the admiral. "Yes; I want the job of keeping the canal towpath clear of snowdrifts." Buffalo Express. W hy (.a oriel Doesn't Call for I nele Joe. Representative William Sulzer, of New York, was standing in the members' lobby in rapt contemplation of the oil portraits of former sh akers. Speaker Cannon come along. "Hello, William!" he said. "How are you. Uncle Joe?" Sulzer effervesced. "Uncle Joe, you are the best looking man 1 ever saw." "I am glad you think so. William." Cannon replied, without a quiver of an eyelash. "Yes, elr, you are also the smartest and the shrewdest and the kindest and most successful man I ever knew." "Well." observed Cannon, "it has taken you a long time to find that out. William; but I am glad you have seen light at last." "Furthermore. Uncle Joe." continued Sulzer. "you are the best man I ever knew. You are good, absolutely good. I often wonder, when I sit in the House and watch you. why it is the Angel Gabriel does not float down through the glass roof some morning and carry you away to the fields of everlasting bliss." "Well. William," said Cannon. "I have wondered about that myself at times, but under the rules of the House of Beprssentatlves such action would require unanimous consent, and, William, somebody would be sure to object." New York World. The Passing; of the Fire-Lug ine. The recent completion of a powerful pumpingplant and a system of Independent high-pressure fire-ma ins in the city of Philadelphia to take the place of horse or motor-driven steam fire-engines Is noteworthy as Indicating the tendency toward centralization in modem mechanical engineering practice. While P. may be too much to say that it marks the beginning of the disappearance of the tire-engine in large cities, nevertheless, It sec-ms quite clear that sueh a plant can furnish more effective protection to a given area, and that, aside from Its Initial cost, it Is les expensive to maintain. The advantage to the citizens is shown by the fact that for the district in Philadelphia protected by the new plant insurance rates have been decreased 15 cents per $100, and with the increased efficiency of the system a further decrease of 10 cents is promised. In outline the new pumping system may be described briefly as follows: It consists of a number of powerful lumps dr'.ven by gas engines and located in a single building TI by 140 feet, and using an independent and never-failing supply of water derived from the Delaware river. This is distributed under high pressure through a network of specially constructed mains, aggregating some nine miles in length, over the selected te-rritory which includes about 42Ö acres. The hose is attached directly to hydrants of a special pattern, and it is possible to rend four streams to the top of the highest skyscraper in Philadelphia. The plant is said to take the place of more than forty fire-engines, and the pressure furnished and consequent efficiency is far beyond that of ordinary fire-engines. Harper's Weekly. The Fruits of finchellsm. How deeply the bitterness of the (Joebel killing has entered Into the daily life of Kentucky no outsider can fully realize. The animosities engendered by it have brourrht about literally scores of fatal quarrels. Business partnerships have been dissolved, churches have been disrupted, lifelong friendships have ben withered, families have been split; there is no locality so remote, no clrqle so close knit, as to have escaped the evil influence. In the smaller places one discusses the Goebel killing literally at peril of his life. At the capital of the State people dare not yet talk freely of It. The spirit which, during the imprisonment of Powers in Frankfort, prompted the persecution of some ladies who sent food to the prisoner. In such petty ways as the ruining of their gardens, the poisoning of their domestic pets and the inspiring of insulting paragraphs in the local paper, is still alive. Within a few months certain prominent families of the little city were suspected of "talking too much." No specific threats were made, but their outhouses and barns began to catch fire mysteriously. They ceased from any further expression of opinion on the Powers case. Even in the small matters of social life the bitterness has persevered. Samuel Hopkins Adams, in March McClure s. Ber&ta'a laaaaltoa The Berlin police have recently turned over to the psychologist of the university for study a young woman of eighteen who seems to have had quite a career. She comes of good family and until a year ago had everything she desired. Then her father failed. She announced that she would earn her own living, and she had found a place in a d nvntown ofl'.cc. Every day she was gone from 8 until 7 o'clock, and at the end of every month she would give to her parents a very considerable sum. At the end of a year she was arrested, and it was discovered that she had commltteii a series of the boldest frauds and thefts In the history of Berlin. No fewer than seventy cases are charged against her. The theft which brought her to grief was that of a half-painted portrait of herself. Masquerading as a baroness, she went to an artist to have her portrait painted. She could not wait until it waa finished. Hence her downfall New York Globe. C hance for Hryaii to Mukr loo. Mr. Bryan lately offered to the Eagle and other papers $1JU for a Democratic platform, on condition that no Republican paper should agree to it. He only had to induce any liepublican paper to agree, or to feign to agree to it. to save his money. Mr. Bryan is a hedging economlat which is a different thing from a political economist. The Eagle will pay to Mr. Bryan $lo0 for a letter, sent here., in which he wid agree to support the Democratic platform, to be put forth by the convention at St. Louis, ptovided that platform omits to reaffirmand thereby impliedly renounces-the f,,,. a:ei fee not planks in the Chi cago platform of 1&6 and in the Kansas City pla-.form of 1900. There Is no ambiguity in this, and there Is no string to III Brooklyn Eagle

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Such Democratic stalwarts as Thomaa Taggart. of this city; W. H. O'Brien, of Lawrenceburg, chairman of the state committee; Ben F. Shively. of South Bend; J. G. McNutt. of Terre Haute. Fifth dlatrlct member of the state committee; U. 8. Jackson, of Greenfield; Adam Helmberger. of New Albany, and Joseph T. Fanning. Seventh district member of the state committee, were in close conference at the Grand Hotel yesterday afternoon and last night. As a consequence there was a general impression about the hotel, substantiated by strong circumstantial evidence, that there was "something doing" in Democratic politics. The parties to the conference all disclaimed any significance in the gathering, saying that they had met by chance, and were merely talking over some general party matters, but it Is believed that there really was but one matter under discussion, and that was the position Indiana should take on the Democratic presidential question. These party leaders, almost to a man. regard Judge Alton B. Parker, of New York, as the most available and most desirable candidate for President. Hence it is but natural to conclude that they are interested in lining up their :'oiIovrs in Indiana for the New York man. and that they hope to send a delegation to 6t. Louis which, if not definitely instructed for Parker, will vote solidly for him from the first ballot. Mr. Taggart has made- no secret of his preference for Judge Parker, but at the same time there has been no evidence that he is attempting, or will attempt, to force instructions for Parker. Mr. Taggart is not so committed to any of the prospective presidential candidates that he cannot cheerfully abide by the choice of the St. Louis convention, whatever that may be, and, along with numerous oth r party workers throughout this part of the country, he inclines to the opinion that the presidential light should not be made so lar in advance of the convention. They believe that factional alignments on the presidency should be avoided, fearing that bitterness might develop that would prove disastrous to the party when the real campaign is on. So it is that whatever is being done for Parker in Indiana Is being done most circumsjectly and very quietly. In fact, none of the leaders will admit for a moment that there is a movement to boom the New Y'orker in this State, and every man at yesterday's conferences denied strenuously that any consideration had been given to the fence-building proposition. Indiana Democrats want two things this year the chairman of the national committee and the candidate for Vice President. It is a safe proposition that this was discussed at the conference, for the party leaders do not get together without bringing up the subject. Besides, the men who are slated for these positions, if Indiana's claims are to be recognized, were both present. Mr. Taggart has his eyes on the national chairmanship, while Mr. Shively, of South Bend, is the man most Indiana. Democrats beliove should be the nominee for Vice President. Ask the average Indiana Democrat his Ideal combination for the coming campaign and he will put It Parker for President, Shively for Vice President and Taggart for national chairman. Whether thu combination can bo put through is altogether a different question, for there are Cleveland, Hearst and Brjroa to be reckoned with, and neither of this trio can see anything good in the Parker-Shive-ly-Taggart suggestion. Mr. Shively said that he came here yesterday on legal business, and, like the others, he just happened to drop into tho Grand, where the conference took place. 4State Chairman O'Brien carefully avoided topics of general political import when asked about the meeting. "We were merely talking over the suits attacking the constitutionality of the apportionment law," he said. "The cases will be argued in the Supreme Court before ve ry long, and we are more interested in that matter than in anything else at present. The transcript of the Boone county case has boen bled in the Supreme Court, and the tra.nscript of the ftipley county eise will be Hied to-morrow. Ineidentally we discussed the date of the state convention. There seems to be a sentiment in favor of a late convention, and it probably will not be held much before the first ot June." Chairman O" Prien said there probably would be no meeting of the state committee before the 1st of April. Asked his opinion of Grover Cleveland as a presidential factor this year a question that has been put to many Indiana Democrats recently Mr. O'Brien smiled genially and replied: "Mr. Cleveland? Well. I think he writes very entertaining articles for the Saturday Kvenlng Post." Adam Heimberger, of New Albany, formerly the Third district member of the Democratic state committee, who was one of the leaders here yeste-rday, has not been mixing actively in politics for the last two months, for the reason that be has been sick. This is the first trip be has made away from home since his recovery. "I'm not in touch with the more recent developments in politics because I have not been able to get about and have not talked politics with any one," he said. "The most interesting thing in our part of the State is the fight for the congressional nomination between Mr. Zenor and Judge Cox. That has been one of the hardest contests our district has ever known. I'm not prepare 1 to say which of the candidates will win. but I predict that if Judge Cox is not nominated this year he will be two years hence. He has made a remarkable campaign. I understand that to win this time he must carry Clark county, and that is looked upon as a Zenor str nighold, so he may be deieated." While the Democratic leaders were gathered here yesterday it was reported that John C. Eastman, of Chicago, the personal representative of William R. Hearst, waa in the city, and that he was here to look after Hearst's interests aa a presidential aspirant, if he was In the city he carefully avoided the haunts of the poUUdaM an 1 his work was altogether under cover. An Indianapolis man who knew Mr. Kastman in Chic ago is authority for the st;tt u.-t:t that he was in the city. This man st;it 1 that he met Eastman, but that the latter was apparently extremely desirous of concealing the fact that he was in Indianapolis. Speaking of Hearst and that has grown to be quite a common topic John V. Kern, of this city, said yesterday that the newspaper reports that VY. J. Bryan favors Hearst's nomination are responsible for the growth of the Hearst boom. "I believe these reports have done Mr. Bryan an injustice." said Mr. Kern, "but however that may h tie- llnkiiv: "f Hearst's name with Bryan's is undoubtedlv i4 Kiiurit of strength to the former. Th.it: is especially true in Indiana. The great mass of the Democrats in Indiana are fof J CONFERENCE SEEKS FISH LAW HARMONY Representatives of Fishery Departments of Ontario and Several States Meet at Detroit. DETROIT. Mureh . A conference was held to-day between S. T. Raste l ., deputy fiah commissioner of Ontario, and representatives of the fish commissions of several States that border on the great lakes, with the hope of arriving at some conclusion that will result In a uniform closed season law. At present each State rtxes its own closed seasons and it is difficult for the Canadian authorities to frame laws for th. ir fishermen that will harmonize with the variety of game and fish laws of the horch r States. Chairman Rogers, of th.- Ohio fish commission, waa among those present. The States interested in the movent. -nt are Michigan. Ohio, Indiana. Pennsylvania. Illinois, Nw York. Wisconsin and Minnesota. Whiteflsh. trout, pike and herring were chiefly discussed. Terms f 1 gislatlon to be recommended to the several State governments Were agreed on, but It s cm d -cided to maintain secrecy regarding them until the negotiations are well under u;.

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Bryan and if they become convinced that Bryan wants Hearst nominated they will be for Hearst. "I have talked with Mr. Bryan about the matter and I am satisfied that he has no p. r al choice for the nomination. He has said repeatedly that any man who supported the ticket in IKK and 1900 and who Is in sympathy with the party principles enunciated in the Chicago and Kansas City platforms will be satisfactory to him. and in his paper, the Commoner. h has named a dozen men who measure up to t!.. mark. I dctn't believe that Mr. Bryan has set himself up as the party dictator, but be is an important factor in the party, and I believe he will have more influence in the St. Louts convention than any other on" man." Mr. Kern, by the way. has an interesting task on his hand? for this week. He baa been selected as one of the judges for tho liarlham-De Pauw debate Friday night at Richmond. The question is in a measure a political one Resolved, that the fifteenth amendment has not been justified. M. Z. Stannard. of Jefferaonville, one of the Democratic leaders of Clark county, was at the English yesterday. Republican State Chairman James P. Goodrich, of 'Winchester, will be at headquarters to-day and will probably issue tha call for the state convention. The call will name the meeting places for the several district delegations, which will organize and select their memWs of the various committees. The Seve. th district delegates will meet in the Criminal Couit. room at the courthouse. The other distri. t meetings will be in the Statehous as follows: First. Rr.im 45; BaoOOd. Room 11; Third. Room 12; Fourth. Room 55; Fifth, Room M; Sixth. Room 79; Eighth, Room 102; Ninth. Room 35; Tenth. Room 64; Eleventh, Room 3; Twelfth. Room 81, Thitteenth. Room 122. Senator Eben 11. YVoU ott. of Woleott. who Is at the English, feels that an Injustice wan done a number of the Tenth district Republicans by a story published in a local paper last week at the time Representative Crumpacker was here and met several of his friends. The article stated that there was a pronounced setMment against J. Frank Hanly. the district's candidate for Governor, among those present at the meeting. "The article seemed intended to convey the impression tnat there is much dissatisfaction with Mr. Hanly In hia own district." said Senator Woleott. "It mentions me as having been present at an anti-Haulv meeting. That is all wrong. We are all for Hanly where I live, and there is no other sentiment. Judge Crumpacker never expivssed himself any other way than favorable to Mr. Hanly in his conversations with me, and Mr. Sills, our county chairman. H pronouueed in his expressions of friendliness to Mr. Hanly. ! have always been a Hanly man. as are all the Republicans u; our way. and it was an injustice to all those present at the meeting mentioned to attempt to convey the impression that they are hostile to Hanly. We firmly believe that Hanly will be nominated, and when tho state convention comes we will have enough people here to show that we mean what we say." In speaking of his personal political affairs. Senator Woleott modestly limited himsedf to a statement that he is a candidate for renomination. and that he hoped the Republ ieaus of his district would see fit to return him to the Legislature. The senator is making an active canvass, and so far has encountered no pronounced opposition. Secretary Fred Sims, of the Republican state committee, was busy at headquarters yesterday up until the middle of the afternoon, when he dropped everything and made a rush to catch au interurban car for his home in Fraukfort. "We have a city primary at home to-day." he said, in explanation of his hurried d- -parture. "and I wouldn't miss It for a bij cash bonus. Frankfort and Clinton county Republican primaries are always worth attending." John F. Mitchell, of Greenfield, editor of the Hancock County Democrat, was at the Grand last evening. "Everything is comparatively quiet among Hancock county Democrats." he said, "although wc had a little excitement Monday over the reorganisation of the county committ Harvey Barrett was elected county chairman and while there was sorm- opposition to him and a preliminary fight there was no candidate against him when the election was held." Although Mr. Mitchell carefully svolded Faying an thing about it. the truth is that the Hancock county fight he mentioned was unusually Interesting and one of more than ordinary Importance for the reason that it was a clash of the Bryan and antiBryan forces and the latter won out. Hancock county has always been a stronghold of Bryanism and to the average politician that county would be the last In whleh to look for a sueecissfu! anti-Bryan movement, but there was one there. IT. S. Jackson, former member of the Democratic state committee from th1 8ixth district, has always len the leader of tbe Bryan fore s in that county, and he has always handled Hancock Democracy alout as he pleased. But he met his Waterloo Monday. Tbe county organization was taken from him and the a.itis are celel rating their victory and declaring that Han?oek county is done with Bryan. E. M Hare, of NoblevlIle. chairman of the Hamilton county Republican central committee . was a caller at state headquarters yesterday. Mr. Hare says that Hamilton county Republicans will not nominate their candidates for the offices affected by the law extending the terms of certain county snd Judicial omVers until after the Supreme Court has passd upon the constitutionality of the Isw. The rest of the eountv ticket has been nominated. Next we.k Noblesville will entertain tho Ninth district convention that will select delegates and alternates to the Republican national convention and name the presidential elector for the district. Morey M. Dunlap. of Anderson, who waa a candidate for the Eighth district Republican congressional nomination In the recent primaries, was at the Columbia Ciuk 1 starday. 4 Judge Ephraim Marsh, of Greenfield, waa here yesterday on legal business. A dispatch to the Journal from Washington says: "The Indiana eoleny has not ceased tslking about the visit made here last night by W. L Taylor, the Indianapolis candidate for the Republican gubernatorial nomination. Mr. Taylor came here to confer with Representatives Hemenway and Watson. He sin i.t some time with Mr. Hemenway, but failed to locate Mr. Watson. There .. - .t r trt th t hi had a talk with Ju Penfield. but this is not correct. Judge I Penfield Is authority for the statement that he not only did not see Mr. Taylor and that he was not advised of hia preoenca here until this morning. Whether Mr. Taylor's visit here was fruitful cannot be learned Mr Tavlor talked to Mr. Overt i- w- M t.- Mr. Hemenway. i tte mi polls man remained in Washington only a few hours." DOM 1 SIC AX WARSHIPS WERE BADLY BEATEN Fight at San Pedro de Macoris Was a Slaughter House for the Government Forces. SAN JI AN, P. R. March 8. -A semi-official letter received here from San Pedro de Macoris, Santo Domingo, dated Feb. 23, gives details of the bombardment of 8an 1' dro de Macoris on Feb, 17 by tho Dominican wai ships Presldente and Etrella. ' The captain of the Presldente. a Spaniard, and sixty men on board of her were killed. jury, in all seveniy-iour men were ainea and twenty-five were wounded on the two ship The Insurgents lost thirty-six men kill-d or wounded. The Presldente was driven away at daybreak on Feb. JH, tho insurgents having brought up a n. hl !. during the night and unexpectedly oj fire on her. IttaaSMM Wob I Minnesota. i l (' 1 ol . 1 S. March 8 Uoonso in the State of Minnesota to-day. as was t ideneed in th- van-ais town elect! ooa that were held throughout the Stale.