Indianapolis Journal, Volume 54, Number 78, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 March 1904 — Page 4

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The report of the consul at Bogota shows that Colombia controls the Panama hat industry. And yet she wanted the Panama canal, too! Some people never know when they are well off. Colonel "Watterson says Gorman should be nominated because the party wants "a Democrat of tried, trained and proved ability." Now, what does the colonel hope to gala by such bitter sarcasm as that? Russia will try the northeast passage to get her Baltic sea fleet Into Oriental waters. It is a daring feat, and. If It Is successful, Japan will be put to a lot of extra trouble In getting the new arrivals sunk. It seems almost a shame to do it. According to the Russian Foreign Office, Secretary Hay's attitude since the beginning of the war has been "courteous, correct and conciliatory." Why. haven't the Democratic papers been tcltlng us that Hay has been getting us in trouble? , Hearst s strength in Congress is nothing less than remarkable. He has four of the 301 Democrats. Two are Jersey men, a third used to work ort Hearst's San Francisco paper, and the fourth is Jim Griggs, of Georgia. 'Rah for Willie Millions! Brazil. Chile. Bolivia and Ecuador are reported to have formed an alliance to resist the United States. It is not quite, clear what they are afraid of; somebody must have been slandering us. We will be too busy with tAe canal for a long time now to tart in taking candy from children. Somebody has proposed that none but Americans be employed on the Panama canal. If the word American Is used in its broadest sense, the Idea Is a good one; otherwise It Is foolish-. Climatic conditions cn the isthmus would be fatal to northern laborers. It will be wise to amend by substituting ."Pan-Araericans" for "Americans." Statements that are made-from time to time" regarding the progress of different Indiana .exhibit for the St. Louis world's fair indicate that they are all far from completion. As the fair is to be opened. May 1 here Is no time to be lost. At the present rate of progress the time set for the open ing will find things in a very Incomplete condition. " i The Canadian trappers last fall predicted the severest winter for two generations, and' they guessed right. Their forecast was based on the fact that the fur of lynx and fox was unusually long. This showed that additional protection was considered, necessary by nature. What is nature, and how did nature know what was coming? And yet there are people who deny there is a Wis.3om behind these things. - The Russians, seem to be laying great tress on General Kuropatkin'a arrival In the East, whither he is now spee-ding at the rate of over rive hundred miles a day. This Is not fast travel, but It is fast for the Siberian tingle-line railroad. Whether General Kuropatkin'a arrival on the scene of action will work wonders or not remains to be seen. He has shown himself to bo a man of direful threats and large promises, but his performances are yet to Come. The new ruling by the commissioner of pensions rrgardiu? ags pensions will work decidedly to the advantage of applicants for pens Ions under the act cf June 27. 1S0. Heretofore an age pension could not be drawn until the claimaut had reached the age of seventy-five years, when he became entitled to the maximum of $12 a month. Under the new ruling a veteran can draw $4 a month frm and after the age of tixtytwo years, ti frcm and 'after the age of dxtj-tivc. ID from aad after tbe age of

The scncuuie oi rates is uasea cu nie iucui; that a veteran is half disabled to perform physical labor at sixty-two years, and the disability Is progressive. VINDICATES THC REPUBLICAN PARTY AMI PRESIDENT. It 13 generally conceded that the recent decision of the Sjprcmc Court in the Northern Securities merger case was a victory for the administration and President Roosevelt personally and tends to vindicate the attitude of the Republican party toward trusts. The Sherman anti-trust law, under which the decision was rendered, was not aimed particularly at railroads or railroad mergers. It is general in its terms and aimed at prohibiting all contracts or combinations in restraint of commerce among the several States. The test whether it applies to any particular contract or combination or not Is whether the contract or combination is by its terms or in its practical operation would be restrictive of free competition. If so, it comes within the purview of the act whether it be a combination of porkpacker8, of coal operators, of manufacturers or of railroads. From tho beginning of the agitation against trusts, when It first began to be recognized that they Involved a possible menace to Industrial freedom and prosperity, the Republican party espoused the cause of the people and of unrestricted commerce. In his annual message of 1SD3 and 1900 President McKinley discussed the question and said: "It is so important and far reaching that I am sure no part of It will be lightly considered, but every phase of It will have the studied deliberation of Congress, resulting In wise and judicious action." The subject was further discussed by President Roosevelt In each of his three annual messages. It has been the fixed policy of the Republican party to regulate and control the great corporations and trusts of the country, not In a spirit of hostility to capital, but with a view of protecting industrial interests and the public against overcapitalization, the restriction of trade and other evils that might flow from uncontrolled combinations of capital. As President Roosevelt said in one of hlj annual messages: "Great corporations exist only becauso they are created and safeguarded by our Institutions, and It is therefore our right and our duty to see that they work in harmony with these institutions." President Roosevelt was the first to urge publicity as one of the best safeguards against the evils of trusts, and the creation of a department of commerce and industry whose head should be a member of the Cabinet with authority to Investigate great business corporations and see that they kept within the law. This department has been created and Is now in operation The suit to test the legality of the Northern Securities merger was brought by direction of President Roosevelt. In directing his attorney general to bring the suit he demonstrated the sincerity and consistency of his own views, as also hl3 determination to enforce the law, at least, to bring it to the test of a judicial decision. Tho suit was brought, the United States Circuit Court decided In favor of the constitutionality of tho Sherman act. and now the Supreme Court has affirmed that decision. As far as the decision of the Supreme Court on a ndnpolltical question can vindicate the position of a political party this one vindicates the attitude of the Republican party on the trust question and the course of President Roosevelt. This is so clear that the New York World makes the following statement under the heafding, "Facts:" 1. The anti-trust law was framed by a Republican, was passed by a Republican House and a Republican Senate, was signed by a Republican President. 2. The law remained a dead letter on the statute books during the entire second term of Giover Cleveland, a Democratic Presi dent. Through those four years of Democrotlp ndmlnletrnHftn oll onnails r, ,1 ti efforts of the World to have the law enforced were met with sneers, jeers and oren contempt from a Democratic attorney general. Richard Olney. who pretended that the law was unconstitutional, and who would do nothing toward prosecuting violators of it. .3. The first effort to eaforce the law was made by Theodore Roosevelt, a Republican President The first attorney general to vigorously prosecute offenders and to test the law was a Republican attorney general, Philander C. Knox. 4. The decision of the Supreme Court of th United States, given as a finality from which there is no appeal, upholding the law as perfectly constitutional and absolutely impregnable in every respect, as the World for twelve years constantly insisted, was due .to Ave judges, every one of whom is a Republican. 5. The dissenting minority of the court Included every Democratic judge of that tribunal, to wit: Chief Justice Fuller, of Illinois. Mr. Justice White, of Louisiana, and Mr. Justice Peckham, of New York. All the,?e distinguished Democrats not only voted against the constitutionality of the law, Dut denounced it ai a danger to the Republic 6. Under these circumstances it does not seem probable that the Democrats can make great capital in seeking to monopolize the anti-trust issue and charging the Republican party with the crime of being owned body and poui by the trusts. It Ia as well to record some plain truths, however unpleasant or surprising. The World has stated tlie facts fearlessly. The Journal has no desire to give the decision of the Supreme Court a political aspect. It is in r.o sense a political decision. The question before the court was as to tho constitutionality, construction and application of a statutory law relating to Industrial combinations and commerce among the states, ro doubt the court would have decided the same way If neither party had ever expressed itself on the subject of trusts." But it must be admitted that the decision tends to vindicate the course of the . Republican party on the question and is a personal triumph for the President. A SUGGESTION FOR JAPAN. The Japanese have shown themselves as adroit in diplomacy as they are brave and alert in war, but all they have accomplished by diplomacy is as nothing compared to what they would gain if they could induce somo power to take sides with Russia against Japan. At first glance this statement may seem paradoxical. In extent of empire, population and general military resources Russia so far outclasses Jpan that it seems only a question of time when the great big power must overcome the little one. Japan has gained some Important naval victories and may gain some on land, br.t with her enormous population and resources to draw upon It would seem that Russia must win in the end. How, then, could Japan be benefited by some other power coming to the assistance of Russia? Because that would compel Great Britain to come to the assistance of Japan and thereby give her a powerful ally. As matters now stand Great Britain is no more to Japan than any other neutral power

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friendly, perhaps, but still neutral. If any other power should join Russia Clreat Brit-

ain would have to aid Japan. The BritishJapanese treaty of alliance signed Jan 1P02. provides that if either party in the defense of its interests in the ISast should become Involved In war with another power the other high contracting rarty would maintain a strict neutrality and use its efforts to prevent other powers from joining in hostilities against its ally. But if any other power should join in hostilities against either ally the other rarty would come to its assistance, would conduct the war in common and would make peace by mutual agreement. Under this agreement it Is only necessary for Japan to induce some other power to join Russia to secure the active aid of Great Britain. It does not matter how small or how weak the power may be, so it is an In dependent power from France cr Germany to Honduras or Guatemala. If any other power can be induced to espouse the Russian cause then Great Britain must take up that of Japan. Here is a chance for Japanese diplomacy. They are cunning, plausible and resourceful. They should set their wits to work a3 soon as possible to pick a quarrel with some other power any old power will do and egg it on to the fighting point. Then she will get an active ally. "SOAP" IX POLITICS. A floating item without credit purports to give the origin of the use of the word "soap" for money. It says: "Th Republican national committee in the presidential campaign of 1SS0, which resulted in the election of Garfield, used 'soap' in its cipher dispatches as a synonym for 'money and It has meant money ever since." Besides being inaccurate, this does an injustice to the surviving members of the Republican national committee of 1SS0, one of whom is an honored citizen of Indianapolis. It is a reflection on the intelligence of these Republicans who bore the heat and burden of that day to suppose that they would use a cipher code in managing the financial affairs of the committee. The danger of cipher dispatches had been demonstrated in the presidential campaign of 1876, when the discovery of a number of them, which, on being translated, proved to have been sent by persons closely connected with Samuel J. Tilden, relating to corrupt agreements for the purchase of electoral votes In Florida and Oregon, led to an Investigation by a congressional committee. It was during the campaign of 1S76 also that Senator W. H. Barnum, chairman of the Democratic national committee, wired the chairman of the Indiana committee: "You may buy seven more mules." Of course, the dispatch became public, as cipher dispatches always do. Although a near relative of the mule has since become the exemplar of the Democratic party, the mule did not figure in politics at that time, and everybody knew that the dispatch meant the chairman might draw for an additional sum of money. The publication and translation of the dispatch proved very embarrassing to the Democratic managers. It is probable, though there is no documentary evidence of the fact, that the Republican managers in Indiana did use some money for campaign expenses in 1SS0, but there wa3 no cipher dispatching on the subject, Senator Stephen W. Dorsey, of Arkansas, was secretary of the national committee and Hon. John C. New was chairman of the Indiana state central committee, and also a member of the national committee. These gentlemen were men of affairs. They called a spade a spade, and when they meant money they said money, not "soap." Whatever funds the national committee may have deemed necessary for the prosecution of the campaign in Indiana, circulating literature, hiring halls, paying brass bands, getting out the vote, etc., was sent by a trusty messenger, not by cipher telegram. It is a matter of local history that when the campaign was drawing to a close Secretary Dorsey himself came here with a large sum of money in a trunk, not a soap box. Chairman New assured him that the State was already practically carried, and that he did not need the money nor desire the responsibility of handling it. At first Mr. Dorsey was inclined to doubt that tho State was already secure, but on personal Investigation he became convinced of the fact, and carried all the money back with him. It was probably used in some State where the preliminary work of educating the voters and pledging them to turn out and vote on election day had not been as thoroughly done as it had been here. A book entitled "A Dictionary of American Politics," published in 1SS8, says: "Soap, a political slang term for money; usually applied to money corruptly used." Thi3 shows that the term was in use before 1SS8, but it did not originate with the Republican national committee nor in Indiana. Still less was it used in a cipher code as a synonym for money, because the members of the committee were too worldlj'wise to use cipher dispatches. The term originated in New York, where the use of cipher dispatches in politics did. Many of the members of the national Republican committee of 1SS0 have passed away, but the Journal ia sure those who survive would resent the implied imputation on their Intelligence contained In the floating Item referred to. HIN0R TOPICS. Not to unseat Smoct, declare the Hearst papers, would be an outrage on morals, nn Insult to American womanhood and an afrront to American homes. When it comes to a defense of purity in politics, pinochle or polygamy, the yellow ones are always there with the rhetoric. A hot debate Is In progress at Yale as to whether or not smoking is demoralizing. Some is and some isn't It depends on the brand, does it not? Those Turkish atrocities are fearfully demoralizing, but there are pills that help the imagination. The report is positively denied that the New York Sun will change hands again on account of the Northern Securities decision. Equally false is the rumor that the editorship of the Sun has been offered to Attorney General Knox. Professor Baker, of Harvard, asserts that Harvard men don't think. Why should they? Deah old Hahvahd sees the results of too much thinking in Chicago University and decides to shun all such beastly vulgarity. In Philadelphia a man named Stanislaus Slemelkowsky was arrested on the charge o( running a "speak-easy." Now, what do you think of that? The census of India just taken shows a population of Z) 1,000,000 four times that of

the United States. Since only a few or thorn ever work, it Is no wonder there is

a" annual famine. Commander Peary will not start on his expedition to the north pole until the summer of 1305. On account of the rigorous weather in that region it Is thought tho polo will keep until then. The bombardment of Port Arthur on March 10 was directed by Rear Admirals Uriu and Dewa. Look out for that man Dewa he has a wicked name for an admiral. The pure-food department says that pneumonia is caused by cocktails; the red cherry 13 hand-paiRted and contains germs. Tell the man to leave the cherry out of yours. The Grand Duke of Oldenburg Is to make a long stay in this country, but nobody Is accusing him of looking for a wife. Why should he, when his income is 5200,000 a year? The Senate should not omit an inquiry Into the methods of celebrating leap year employed in Utah. Perhaps they take their tip from Isaiah, fourth chapter, first verse. Canada is about to change the name of Hudson bay to "Canadian sea," so that it will seem more as if she owned it By the way, where is "the Spanish Main?" Chief Apostle Joseph Smith, he of tho whiskers, Is returning to Utah. Homes, homes, fh;e sweet homes; be it ever so plural, there's no place like homes! An Illinois professor of botany has discovered that N-rays are emitted from onions. If that's what it is. every one will admit the power of N-rays. 'Ligo Dowie remarks that the powers of hell are united against him in Australia. He should come back to America, where he had them on his own side. In the decision In the Northern Securities case there is mention of one J. Pierpont Morgan. Morgan let's see. where have we heard that name before? The New York subway will be opened for traffic In June, and then we shall have reports of a new variety of accidents from the metropolis. It may now be taken for granted that the Russians have not abandoned Port Arthur. But that's nothing neither have the Japanese. Port Arthur may not have fallen, but even the . Russians cannot deny that it looks mighty wabbjy now and then. Russia will set her terrible Cossacks on the Japs as soon as she can find a few. First she must bag her Cossacks. "Cut out the decollette gown,' orders the dressmakers' convention. But how can you, any more than it is? The weather bureau at Port Arthur is predicting a late spring, a red-hot summer and an early fall. THE HUMORISTS. Tbey Knew Better. She Does your employer ever tell his clerk funny stories? He No. but we don't dare undeceive him. Town Topics. Fortune Fnvors Her. Mi3s Oldgirl Will I marry the man of my choice? Fortune Teller Yes! But. make no mistake; the cards say you will have but one choice. Puck. An Exceptional Cnse. Smith You -wouldn't take Rocksley for a self made man, would you? Rogers I should say not! Why, he uses good English and doesn't weigh more than one nun dred and eighty pounds. Town Topics. It Worried Ulm. "That land," said the city nephew, "is valued at $S0O a front foot." Thunderatlon!" exclaimed the old farmer. hastily moving back on to the sidewalk. "An' stood on it most five minutes! Do you reckon they'll charge me rent?" Chicago Post. A Frosty Atmosphere. "I understand that prima donna failed to give her farewell concert because she had a cold." "Yes," answered the manager. "How did she contract it?" "Well, it wasn't an ordinary cold. It Is what is technically known as a box-office chill." Washington Star. Explained. "Why do women always cry at a wedding?" asked one of the spectators. "It's to make the bridegroom feel that any woman would be throwing herself away by marrying him," responded the confirmed old bachelor. "The object Is to take some of the starch out of him." Chicago Tribune. A Just Recompense It was plain to be seen that the Japanese appreciated the silent sympathy of England and America with their cause. "Yet" they said with some show of reason, "It Is only a just recompense for the past Why, for the last twenty years English and American opera companies hv.5 been murdering 'The Mikado!' "New York Sun. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. During the month of February C1.75S packages of exhibits were received at the world's fair grounds. Six hundred exhibitors are now on the grounds Installing their exhibits. President Elliot, of Harvard, will be seventy years old on March 20. and an effort will be made at the celebration to have a portrait of Mr. Eliot painted by J. S. Sargent for the college during the summer. Give a Japanese a back yard ten feet square and he will have a Chinese garden, with any number of paths of glittering white quartz. But give a prosperous Japanese a few acres one acre round his house in the suburbs, and he will make an attractive landscape garden. The Austrian marriage laws are very revere. They prohibit rrarrlages between Christians and Jews and between Christians and infidels. A marriage between a Protestant woman and a man who said he had no particular creed has Just . been annulled by the Supreme CourtWorkmen are installing the wonderful floral clock at the world's fair. The steel framework, which was made in Milwaukee, Wis., is being placed. The flowers that will conceal the mechanism are in pots in the greenhouses and will be Installed about April 15. The dial of the clock is 112 feet acio. Wüen Mauritius was ceded to Great Britain, In 1S10, there was a gigantic turtle In a court nt the artillery barracks at Port Louis which Is still there, although almost blind. It weighs 330 pounds and stands two feet high when walking Its shell is SVi feet long, and it can carry two men on Its back with ease. Many animals have an idea of concrete numbers up to a few units and some go even farther. A dog which Is accustomed to receive only three pieces of sugar will not ask for more after he has had bis quota. In certain mines where horses are required to make thirty trips a day they walk at once to the stable after mak ing the thirtieth trip. Montaigne tells of oxen. employed in the royal gardens of Suza, that re fused to perform more than their daily task of turning the great Irrigation wheels through 100 revolutions. In his book. "Greater Russia." Mr. Wirt Gerrare tells about a secret railroad owned and managed by the Ruslans. waich runs through Manchuria to Peking. Foreigners are not al lowed to ride on it. Mr. Gerrare had to disguise himself as a Russian, cross the border In another way, and then contrive to get on the train

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iiai ii'j uiie was waicniiig. u uiucr ivinjuc ( has beea on tais road, and Its existence came to be known through. Mr. Gerrare's book. Just what tearing this branch of the Siberian Kailroad will have on the present war will probably transpire when the Japanese land forces encounter the Kussfans. THE FUNNY ' YOUNGSTERS. Beat of Ilea sou a. There was a visitor at tbe school and the children were being given an " opportunity to show off. The visitor's thoughts evidently ran in a religious turn, for he questioned the children first upon their knowledge of the Bible. "And where was the infant Jesus born?" he asked, and a chorus of voices answered Immediately: "In a' manger." "And why was he born in a manger?" was the next query. There was a moment's silence, and then a little Scotch boy In the back seat piped up. shrilly: "Because his mother was there." Conyers (Ga.) Weekly Banner. Not What She Expected. An English lord was recently dinlns with a family in New York. Tbe hostess's little girl sat opposite the lord and stared solemnly: 'Are you an English lord, really and truly. sir?" she said at last. "Yes," ha answered, .laughing, "really and truly." "I never saw an English lord before," she said. "I've always wanted to." "And now you're satisfied, aren't you?" said the young man. gaily. "No, I'm not satisfied," responded the little girl. "I'm disappointed'-Children'a Visitor. Children! Children. John D. Crimmlns. who made last month a visit to Rome, is never more delightful than when he is telling anecdotes of children. "A litle girl of seven," Mr. Cummins said one day, "came to me after church on a Sunday morning and asked: " 'Have I any children V "I dropped my newspaper and regarded her with amazement. " 'What?' I said. " 'Have I any children? she repeated. " 'Well, I should hope not,' I exclaimed. 'Why on earth do you ask me such a question as that?' " 'Why, In church this morning said the little girl, the clergyman preached about children's children, and I wondered if I had any. "New York Tribune. STORIES THAT ARE TOLD. Sound Advice. Governor Brodle, of Arizona, recently received a telegram from one of the "Rourh Riders" whose fighting blood Is still In circulation. The telegram was as follows: "Am going to the Orient Which would you advise, Russia or Japan?" The Governor, in order to head oflt a soldier of fortune, hurriedly replied: "Better stay In the united States; It's better than either." Omaha Be. Room for Donbt. Charles Francis Adams, the second, was not noted while at Harvard for athletics, or even for a good figure. In fact it was said that the calves of his legs were in front, and he was considered generally as slab-sided. At com mon one of his table companions was a Harry 1 . since a Unitarian clergyman. One day at dinner Harry was particularly piour in his conversation, so much so that Adams finally revolted. "Is it possible Harry," he began in a tone of absolute astonishment, "that you really be lieve In a Go J?" Harry looked at Adams an instant, and then answered: "Well, Charley, If you're made in his image, I don't know that I do." New York Tribune. Preferred Oad Children. The late Elizabeth Cady Stanton was fond of children, though not of bad ones. once, in Boston, she was calling on a young woman whose little son, a particularly vicious urchin, played about her while she conversed. The child would pull his mother's hair, kick and thump her, nor did he hesitate to try tow and then these tricks upon Mrs, Stanton. She said, calmly: "You rrc a bad boy, aren't you?" "He is a bad boy," his mother, In a sad, hurt tone, confessed. "I prefer bad children, though," said Mrs. Stanton. "You do!" cried the young mother. Why?" "Because," said Mrs. btanton, "they are usually sent out of the room." Rochester Herald. A Windy Day. The late William C. Whitney used to relate a conversation that he heard In his youth be tween two Connecticut farmers during his student days at Yale. 'These two old men," he would begin, "aim-ays were contradicting and deriding one another. They were friends; they liked to be together, but all their talk was made up of sneers and scoffs. One windy March day they fell into an argument on the question of high winds. They disputed bitterly as to which of them could remember the most windy day. The younger of the two said: 'Welt Josh. I mind the mornin o Aprile 4. In the year 'OS. when 'twuz so all fired windy that it took tho crows two hours to fly from the ten-acre lot to to their roosts by the green barn a fly o less'n a mile.' 'Shucks. William,' said the older farmer, 'I mind days so windy that the crows had to walk home.' "Washington Star. Old Game Worked. When W. I. Jenkins, a photographer In the Marquette building, saw an advertisement tout ing a scheme by which an investment of 11.000 would double Itself in a fraction of no time, he almost exhausted himself getting to its source. He learned, according to a later statement to the police, that a gentleman by the name of O'Donnell. at the Lexington Hotel, had direct wires from the New Orleans track, which shoved the names of the winners into his headquarters in ample time to lay a bet In a poolroom before the bookmakers learned the re sults. "That looks good to me," paid Jenkins, and. being a trifle shy himsef, he borrowed of his friends until he had a thousand to invest in the sure thing. Later on when Jenkins called around f jr his winnings he was told by O'Donnell that the wrong horse had been played through some unaccountable trror. O'Donnell suggested that Jenkins squander J300 more to get his losses back. Then the photographer saw a great light and hastened over to tell h!s trouble to the police and O'Donnell's arrest followed. Meanwhile Jenkins's $1.000 Insist on remaining in obscurity. Moral: Xever back another rr.an'a game. Chicago Journal. Ilnrtl on the Poor Man. 'Trofanlty car on the rear end of the train, sir." "Thank you, Mr. Conductor, but I was looking for the expectoration car." "First car back of the grip, sir, but It Is very crowded." The above conversation may be heard frequent ly In Chicago when the Hull House Woman's Club shall have carried out its campaign for the segregation of gentlemen street-car patrons who insist on swearing, spitting and other manifestations of freedom of action. The possibility for a crusade against the era of unrestrictedness among male travelers was begun at the Wednesday meeting at Hull House, the first gun being fired by Mrs. Sarah Jacobs. Her action and views were most heartily accepted by about 200 members present. "The time has come when a woman places herself In a position to bo Insulted by boarding a street car In Chicago during rush hours," said Mrs. Jacobs. "The cars are full of profane men, who have no respect for the women. They never think It necessary to offer a woman a seat, and the aliens prohibiting- expectoration constantly are ignored. The only remedy is separate cars for women during such hours." Patrons of the Illinois Central suburban service claim that tbe new open-faced cars, with the twenty doors and straight-back scats are especially adapted for 3 wearing-care. "I have fractured several of the commandments since leaving Thirty-sixth street." said one patron this morning, as he felt nineteen separate drafts beating against his anatomy. "This road has certainly anticipated the segregation movement." , Laugh, and the girls laugh with you; a wear, and you ride alone Chicago Journal.

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Open and aggressive war between the Hearst and Parker forces for the Indiana delegation to the Democratic national con vention is now assured. Immediately uron the return of Messrs. Taggart, O'Brien, Fanning and McNutt from New York and the announcement that they had effected a deal whereby they would deliver thirty votes to Parker at St. Louis, Messrs Eastman, Walsh and Johnson, Hearst's close lieutenants, visit Indianapolis and announce that a Hearst organization will be formed here to fight Taggart and his crowd. The Hearst challenge, which Is fouid la Mr. Walsh's statement in another column of this issue of the Journal, makes it clear that open war is on and that the fight will be one to a finish unless Taggart Is persuaded, forced or frightened into a com promise deal with Hearst. An analysis of Mr. Walsh's statement shows it to be a very artful "den." In the first place, Mr. Walsh predicates everything on the newspaper reports of Taggart's visit East and of the alleged deal with Tarker. but he shrewdly injects another phase into the situation. The Washington correspondent of the Chicago Tribune, in his account of Taggart's visit explained that the deal meant that the Indiana delegates were to be delivered to Parker, but that in event it was seen that Parker could not bo nominated there was a scheme to throw Parker's strength to David B. Hill. Walsh takes this as his cue and Insinuates that it is Taggart's real purpose to deliver the Indiana delegation to Hill as Parker's residuary legatee, Walsh's idea being, manifestly. to prejuaice Indiana Democrats, who. while favorable to Parker, have little or no use for Hill. Then he says, in substance, that. having learned that the report of Taggart's deal is correct the friends of Hearst have decided to take steps to prevent its being carried out and will effect an active organization here. As a matter of fact there Is no Hill sen timent among Indiana Democrats, and it is doubtful if there is a Democrat in tne State who regards Hill as possible or desirable as a presidential candidate. alsh evident ly realizes this and seeks to make capital of It in his. announcement of Hearst s plans of invading Indiana. 4- 4But Mr. Taggart and State Chairman O'Brien both deny vigorously . that they made a deal to deliver the Indiana delega tion to Parker. In interviews in the Democratic state organ yesterday both these leaders "denied the allegation and defied the alligator." Mr. Taggart said: "As a Democrat and as a member of the national committee, all I want is u conservative platform and conservative candidate who will harmonize all Demo cratic voters, and who will place Indiana back in the Democratic column in .No vember. "The selection of the delegation from Indiana will be left entirely to the peo ple, and I feel confident that the men who compose the delegation will represent the united voice of the Democracy of the State.. W e cannot be held responsible for tho fertile vaporlngs of enterprising Washington correspondents." Chairman O linen couched his denial in this wise: "The State committee does not take UDOn itself the right to select or control the del egates to the St. Louis convention for Parker, Hearst, Gorman, Olney, Cleveland, Bryan or any other man. Neither has any member of the committee made any promise of the delegation to any Individual. Tho and the committee cannot be held responsible for the fake stories about it All such reports are given out for the purpose of Injuring and not helping the Democracy. I have the utmost conndence-ln tne Democ racy of the State not being deceived by any such erroneous reports as that printed a few days aso." As a matter of fact, whether or not there has been a deal of this nature, the 'politi cians recosnlze that Mr. Taggart and Mr. O'Brien could do nothing else than enter vigorous denials of the story at this stage of affairs. Later, when the war between the Parker and Hearst interests Is in full swing, they may admit that they are fight ing acrainst Hearst's securing a single delgate from Indiana, although it is probable that they will still maintain that they are working in the Interest of no one candidate. 4- 4- 4The Washington correspondent of the Chicago Tribune, in further comment on the Democratic national situation and the Important part Indiana plays in the game. says: "There is no denying the fact that Mr. Hearst has opened the eyes of some of the old-time leaders of Democracy. They have suits already are apparent in the straggling been asleep while he worked, and the re delegates he has picked up all over the country. The attempt to throw the In diana delegation to Judge Parker, which was the result of a hard and fast bargain between Tom Taggart and Dave Hill, was conceived for the purpose of killing Mr. Hearst Its sponsors in the. est say it might have succeeded had it not been for the Dublicity given to It. "There is a doubt whether Tom Taggart can deliver the goods he has contracted for. The intelligence and aggressiveness of the Hearst boomers, who have organized the machine, which reaches all over the coun try, are depended upon to take advantage of the situation in Indiana, and it is tho understanding there that Tom Taggart is to be bolted by the Hearst agents in every townshiD in the State. "It is admitted that while Parker prob ably will get the New York delegation en tire, the small effect on the rest of the country will bo dissipated by the Industrious way in which the dissensions between Hill and Murphy in New York State have been SDread throughout the country by the Hearst boomers. They have let the country delegates know that Parker does not com mand the hearty support of his own State, and that at the best he will control the delegation by a small majority under the operation of the unit rule. "The premature publication of the Tag-gart-lllll barg-ain la the Tribune, it is ad mitted, has done a good deal to Injure the chances of Judge Parker, as it exposes the plans of his managers to the Hearst propaganda, which has taken prompt advantage of the new light thrown on the situation in Indiana and has gone to work at once upon the Hoosier delegates. "The steadily growing strength of Mr. Hearst and the slightly waning strength of Judge Parker have caused the more conservative Democrats here, and particularly those from the South, to believe that in the long run Parker will disappear and Hearst will come to the front as the champion of the united Bryan element in the party. "This possibility has startled the old heads to such an extent they have begun to discuss Cleveland na a serious possibili ty, and, while they still believe Roosevelt's election absolutely sure, they take the ground the nomination of Cleveland would give a tone of respectability In the party and would restore it to the confident- of the people In a large measure, so that it would be In good shape to wage a suc cessful fight for the presidency In K33. "There is one bit of cloakroom gossip which has leaked out that If Mr. Cleveland should be nominated for first place at the convention In St. Louis his possible run ning mate would be Carter H. Harrison, Cause of the Increase of Crime. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: It is refreshing to find, even occasionally, the alarming increase of crime in its worst forms attributed to something else than the saloon, as is done in the Journal of March 16. The saloon Is bad enough at its best, but in its worst features it is itself a creation of tho same force that makes lynchings and murders common the nonenforcement of the criminal laws but there is buck and underneath all this a cause which should arouse the. immediate and earnest attention of every good citizen. The Journal furnishes a key to the situation In comparing the promptness and severity of English courts with the delays and Indifferences of American courts, but it falls to eugg-est why thls difference, with substantially the same laws and the same system of jurisprudence and the same civilization. There can bo but one cause, namely, here the officers of the courts are the creatures of the criminal classes to such an extent that no man can be elected judge or sheriff who is known In advance to be determined to rigidly enforce every criminal law, by all the means within his reach; or. if elected once by accident, he cannot t be re-elected it he develops a purpose to

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of Chicago, as the mot likely man to attract the younger and Western Democrats." MaJ. G. V. Menzlea. of Mount Vernon, who Is recognized as one of the leaders of the reorganizes In the Indiana Democracy, is In the city on legal business. He is a guest at the Grand, but last evening. Irt company with Jerome Herff. of Peru, hi went up to the Claypool to see the Hearst triumvirate. Eastman. Walsh and Johnson. They met Walsh, and Major Menzies and the secretary of the Democratic national committee had a little verbal duel that would be highly edifying if it could be reproduced faithfully, with each thrust and counter and the gentle irony and sarcasm, challenge and Insinuation In each man 5 voice. "I understand you've come down to tak possession of the State," was the major's greeting. Oh no." returned Walsh. "We're Juft inquiring Into that little deal by which you are to deliver your delegation to Parker, or rather to Dave Hill, who's Par ker's residuary legatee." There's no Hill sentiment in Indiar.a," scntentiously observed Major Menzles In re ply, and the inflection of his voice carrle! the implication that there is no more Hill sentiment than there Is Hearst sentiment in the ranks of Indiana Democracy. Mr. Herff was anxious to meet Mr. East man, because they were formerly neighbors. Not many years ago Mr. Eastman wat run ning a Democratic newspaper at Wabash, while Mr. Herff lived in the adjoining county Miami. Mr. Ralston, of Lebanon, who is one of tha four men most prominently mentioned for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. was In the city yesterday. 4- 4Democratic State Chairman O'Brien will be in th city again Saturday evenirfg or Monday and a conference of several of th party leaders will be held to consider the question of the date for the state convention. A meeting ot the state committee will then be called to take tbe formal action preliminary to the Issuing of the call. 4- 4- 4A. A. Tripp, of North Vernon, one of the active Republican workers of tho Fourth district, is at the English 4Republican State Chairman James P. Goodrich was at headquarters yesterday looking after the routine business of the committee. Mr. Goodrich is not in the best of health and his friends are urging him to take a short vacation and get a good rest be fore the real campaign is on to demand all his time and energies. 4- 4- 4An interesting sidelight on the Hearst in vasion of Indiana is found in the report from Chicago that Bryan and Hearst held a Ion? conferences Wednesday night at Chicago, at which Hearst endeavored to persuade Bryan to consent to present Hearst 8 name at tho St Loui3 convention. 4- 4- 4Thomas II. Shipp, secretary to Senator Beverldgc. is expected here from Washington to-day. His vhdt is said to be on of a personal character, but It Is hinted that there may be some pontics in u. f T S. W. Cantwell. of Hartford City, and Harry C. Pettit, of Wabash, were In th cjty yesterday. Both are actively interested in the Eleventh district congressional fight, but neither would discuss the situation for publication further than to say that tho fight is exceedingly lively. They called at Republican state headquarters while In ths city. C. M. ZIon, of Lebanon, was in the city yesterday afternoon en route home from Noblesvllle. where he attended the Ninth district convention and took an active hand in the proceedings as chairman of the committee on resolutions. Mr. ZIon Is a prospective candidate for the Republican nomination for state representative from the. "shoestring" district, composed or uoone. Hamilton. Madison and Montgomery counties, provided the new apportionment law does not stand the test of the courts. I expect to be a candidate, and oeiieve L can be nominated," he said, "although under the new excess vote rule adopted by th state committee it is said that Madison county will be able to control the nomination. I do not think Madison county i entitled to the nomination and I believe that is the sentiment of a large majority or tno Republicans of the district" 4- 4 4An interesting contest is In prospect for the Republican nomination for state senator from the district composed of Hamilton and Tipton, or Hamilton and Clinton, coun ties. The decision of the Supreme Court on the constitutionality of the new apportion ment law will settle the question a to wnat counties constitute the district. Under thn old law Hamilton and Tipton counties comprise the district. In any event there aro two candidates lor tne nomination m Hamilton countr Ralph K. Kane and Milton Hanson and if the new apportionment stands there will be a candidate from Clinton countv in the person of J. C. Färber, while if the district Is left as It is now Every Mock, of Tipton.. will also go aftr the nomination. Hamilton county has sufficient votes to control the nomination, provided the vote of the county is all given to one man. 4- r 4At the district convention at NoUcsvlUa there was considerable gossip anent the Republican gubernatorial contest. Supporters of J. Frank Hanly were largely in the majority, but it has fcea generally conceded that Mr. Hanly would get more votes from the Ninth district than any of the other candidates. Most of the counties in th district were in the district that Mr. Hanly represented in Congress, and the Republicans there are his warm admirers. W. L. Taylor will, it is claimed, get a majority of the Montgomery county delegation, and wM have a scattering vote lo the other counties. Hamilton county Republicans are at a loss just what to do. Tne sentiment o the county seems to be for Hanly. but 4 movement has been started to "play politics" and divide the county's vote in th state convention letween e.ll four of the gubernatorial candidates, in order that th interests of K. E. N'-al, who will be a candidate for clerk of the Supreme Court two. years hence, may not unr. The movement meets with the support of even many warm friends of Mr. Hanly. but on the other hand it Is being vigorously combated. 4- 4"Hosea" Hawkins, former secretary of the lemocratic state committee, who was In the city from Terre Haute yesterday, iaya claim to the distinction of being the original Parker man in Indiana. It was suggested to Mr. Hawkins that in event Parker Is defeated for the nomination at St. Iouis th- "original Parker" mtn wUl be hunting their holes instead of taking credit to themselves for the discovery, but he said he was willing to take his chances. "When I'm for a mau I'm for him. win or lose," he declared. punish crime, while in England the Jf. at least, is appointed for life and hold hla office independent of the criminal clasea and their sympathizers. But we do not have to go to England to find confirmation of this theory. The same classes of men are made judges and marshals in the United States courts as are made Judges and sheriffs in the State courts, but each without first consulting; tho criminal closes and their sympathizers, the Judge holding ofhee for life. Everybody knows how much more promptly and relentlessly crime is punished in those courts than in the State courts, with the am class of men on the Juries. The saddest feature of this lamentable condition is that it Is probably beyond remedy. A slr.gle proposition to so amend the Constitution of the State as to remove) tho Judgeship from the lut of election officers and maka it a life position, or even to make it lifetime election ornce. would encounter the solid opposition of tha criminal classes and their sympathizers, together with a class of lawyers who hope to one day b Judges long enough to wear the title, if not fill the. office the balance of their days. It might fare better if it formed a part of a Constitution carefully revised by a convention with omo amendments much needed. But even then it misht fall, aa any amended Constitution would be sure to eliminate the present provision for the voting of allen. Possibly the situation may lead to an attempt, at least, to revise a Constitution which is much behind the times in many respects as its predecessor was a half -century tn T mt Inn a noli. March IS. IT 1" r""

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