Indianapolis Journal, Volume 54, Number 99, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 April 1904 — Page 4

TIIE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 1901.

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Hartford, Conn., elected a Republican mayor by a plurality of 557. And Hartford ;used to be hopelessly Democratic. There will be others. Hearst is "a convincing public speaker." (See his ad.) He never opens his mouth, but It cannot be denied that his method of talk is "convincing." King Edward uttered a warm eulogy of President Roosevelt at Copenhagen. But nothing can injure his chances for the nomination now. Mr. Gormitn, it is said, 'Views the White House with alarm." Mr. Gorman needn't be frightened nobody i3 ever going to force him to live there. The price of Ajnerican beef in Germany has been almost doubled by the prohibitory German tariff. It has gone up some here. too, but it wasn't the tariff that did it. The destruction of property by fire Is al Trays to be regretted, but If fires are scheduled to come now is a good time. The vater gallery and mains need a thorough flushing. The Rev. Borden Bowne, of Boston University. . will be tried secretly for heresy. There Is more mediaevalism to the square Inch In Boston than in any other civilized community. "Insolent parvenu" is a translation of the name applied to this country by the St. Petersburg Novoe Vremya. That i3 bad nough. but think how horrible it must sound In the original. SSSSSSSSSSBBBBBSBBBBBSWBBMSSBBBBBBSSSSBBBBBBSBBBBBSSBBS It would be thought that with all these deadly modern appliances of warfare it would be almost impossible for two armies to clash without someone's getting hurt. And yet they do it every day. To the common man unversed in the mysteries of politics it seems rather a profitless enterprise for one, however rich, to buy a presidential nomination only to get everlastingly trounced at the polls. They National Civil Liberty , party will nominate a negro candidate for President Cf the United States. Before he can get the nomination, however, he will haveto deny ever having Invited Grover Cleveland to dinner. SBBMSSBHBSSBSSSiMSaBBSSSBBBHBBSSSBBSBlSBBBSSSBiBB The Lynchehaun case is being heard again In Washington. It appears that there are Ctlll a few bigoted and Irresponsible dreamers who cannot be convinced that a brutal essault on one's landlady is "a political offense." President Smith has tesued a proclamation to the effect that any Mormon who contracts plural marriages will be excommunicated. - No more contracting expansion of plural marriages will be the Mormon itch word. Washington correspondence states that Representative Griggs, of Georgia, consumes from five to six small bags of peanuts every day. And yet he would probably rrsetit it if any one should call him that kind of a politician. Inquirer: No, it was not William R. Ilfarst who said the presidency of the United States was an office- neither to be ought nor declined. Neither was it he who aid, "I would rather be right than be President." That old-fashioned remark was made by one Henry Clay. Opeaking of the inadequate appropriation for necessary flood repairs. City Engineer Jeup says: "No effort will be made to spread or stretch tho funds by doing cheap and unsubstantial work." Good for Jeup! The work should be done In the most thor-

ough manner, and when the funds give Journal, but there seems to be some founout work should stop till more money can dation for it in the election returns. Women

be raised. CONCiltESS AM) tiii: IttUAL cah"hIEII S KU VI CK. The long contest in Congress over rural mail carriers is gradually approaching a right solution. That it should have con tinued so long when there was but one right solution of the question, and that one apparent at the beginning, is due partly to mischievous lobbying in favor of other interests than those of the public and part ly to lack of courage on the part of Congress to do the right thing regardless of outside influence. Owing to these obstructive and dilatory Influences Congress has spent a month" discussing at intervals a question that ought to have been settled In two hours. , The law establishing rural delivery fixed the salaries of carriers at J650 a year and made no provision regarding their taking other employment for pay. The salary was too small, and in the absence of any pro vision to the contrary the carriers soon be gan to try and eke out their pay by doing a sort of commission and peddling business among their patrons. Then they began to act as agents and solicitors for newspapers for pay. There was tome profit in this, but it was a gross violation of propriety and clearly detrimental to the public service. The practice soon became an abuse and threatened to develop Into a scandal in which a largo class of government employes would be the subsidized agents and stipendiaries of private individuals. The beneficiaries of the practice saw in it the pos sibilities cf large profits by securing for small pay agents and solicitors who were also in the pay of the government, and they formed a combination to have the practice protected by law. There were millions in it This was the situation when Congress met. Everybody admitted that the car riers pay was Inadequate, and the ques tion was whether it should be Increased and the right to take private employment be cut off, or whether the pay should re main at the old figure and the right to work for private employers remain undis turbed. The public interests, the welfare of the postal service and the dignity of the governm?nt clearly required the former solution of the question, but strong influ ence was brought to bear for the latter and many congressmen yielded to it, thus subordinating their duty to the public service to the hope of gaining favor with the carriers. After more than two weeks' discussion, in which the hand of the lobby was visible and the line of cleavage was clearly de fined between those who wished to rescue the rural delivery service from a practice that was sure to develop a great scandal and those who were willing to prostitute It to private gain, the House finally adopted an amendment increasing the pay of car riers to $720 a year and prohibiting them from acting as agents or solicitors for hire. When the postoffice appropriation bill with this amendment reached the Senate the lobby that had been working on the House began to work at the other end of the Capitol. It was successful to the ex tent of inducing the postoffice committee of the Senate to reject the House amendment and report one of its own. It Increased the pay Of carriers to $750 a year, and added: Said carriers shall not solicit business or receive orders of anv kind for any per son, firm, or corporation, and shall not. during their hours of employment, carry any merchandise for hire, provided, that said carriers may carry merchandise for hir and rcHv liiiWrlntfnn for and deliver newspapers, magazines and other periodicals for and upon the request of patrons residing upon their respective routes whenever the same shall not Inter fere with the . proper discharge of their official duties and under such regulations as the postmaster general may prescribe, and not otherwise: and. provided further. that no carrier shall refuse to deliver or to take orders or subscriptions for any mer chandise, newspapers, or periodicals requested by any patron on his route, subject to the laws of the United States and the regulations of the postmaster general. It would take a committee of lawyers to tell what thi3 means, and then there would be several disagreeing opinions. The phrase ology is discreditable to whoever drafted it, and no senator has undertaken to tell just what It means. The preponderance of opinion Is that it would permit the carriers to do errands for patrons, but not to act as agents for newspapers or other firms and corporations. If this Is the object it should be put in clear language. As the two houses have disagreed the question will go to a committee of con ference. As both houses have declared against allowing the carriers to act as paid agents for any person, firm or corporation the committee of conference will doubtless embody that provision in its report. The pay will probably be left as Axed by the House $720 a year. The precedent of increasing the pay, once established, it can be increased again when circumstances shall justify. The Important point is to cut off the outside agency and soliciting business, which was fastening itself on the rural carrier system like a parasite, and would eventually have crippled and corrupted it. "WOMAN SUFFRAGE AND PROHIBITION. The Prohibition state convention was stampeded in favor of woman suffrage by a woman orator. Perhaps the convention would have declared in favor of woman suffrage anyhow, but it was evidently in fluenced and swayed quite remarkably by the speech. As the speaker is In politics and has evinced a desire to stand up and be counted, with men. the Journal commits no impropriety In using her j name Mrs. Elizabeth T. Stanley, of Liberty, Ind. and saying that she talked straight to the point. The report of the committee on platform contained a plank in favor of woman suffrage, and it met with some opposition. A delegate opposed it on the ground that woman suffrage would not help prohibition, and he quoted the Prohibition state chairman of Colorado to the effect that the women in that State vote the Democratic or Republican ticket and that the cause of prohibition had not been furthered by woman's suffrage there. He concluded by saying that the South did not want woman suffrage. Perhaps it was the last statement that stirred Mrs. Stanley to the speaking point, for she is a native of the South, or, as she called it, "that beautiful Southland." and showed her sympathy by declaring that the greatest wrong the people of the North had ever done those of the South was by disfranchising Jefferson Davis, thus relegating him to the status of women. Without advancing any new arguments in favor of woman suffrage she presented the old ones in good form and made a "rattling" good speech. The point made by the delegate who spoke against the woman-suffrage plank that it would not benefit prohibition, is new to the

have voted on equal terms with men at' all

elections, including national, in Wyoming since in Colorado since In Utah since 1S35 and In Idaho since 136. Prohibition has made very little progress in either of those States. In the last presidential election the Prohibition candidate received 3,730 votes in Colorado out of a total vote of 221.3CS; in Utah he received 'Xft votes out of a total of 03,180; in Idaho he received S3 votes out of a total of 57,911, and in Wyoming he did not receive any votes. These figures do not indicate that prohibi tion has made much progress in the womansuffrage States. The last census report shows that Colorado had a female popula tion of all .ages of 244,303, of whom 123.720, including children, were single, 102.410 were married, 16,211 were widows and 1.2S2 were divorced. Yet men and women together cast only 3,730 votes for the Prohibition candidate for President. In 1000 Utah had a female population of 130,062, of whom 73,296 were single, 46.876 were married and 8,110 were widows. Idaho had 68,403 female inhabitants, of whom 3S.290 were single, 26,831 were married and 2,306 were widows. Compare the number of married women and widows in these States with the votes cast for the Prohibition candidate for President four years ago. Wyoming contained 14,036 married woman and 1,309 widows, and not a vote was cast for the Prohibition candidate. The figures seem to indicate that the women voters in these States divided, like the men, on national issues. There is noth ing to Indicate how many of them voted. but it is fair to assume that a large ma jority of the married women voted as their husbands did. It is doubtful if woman suffrage throughout the country would coutribute materially to the prohibition cause. It would nearly double the number of voters without greatly changing the relative status of parties. A much more Important question than the promotion of prohibition Is whether woman suffrage would conduce to better government and a higher standard of family life and womanly character. The woman orator who stampeded the Prohibition convention did not touch on . these points. William J. Bryan has come out flat-footed against Judge Parker. Heretofore he has been somewhat noncommittal, saying he didn't know yet how Judge Tarker stood on national issues, etc. Now he says that as the candidate of David B. Hill and of tho corporations Judge Parker is doubjy objectionable. "Mr. Hill," he says, "stands for everything bad that Mr. Cleveland stands for and lacks that brutal frankness that has given Mr. Cleveland most of his popularity. But Mr. Hill's support, dan gerous as it Is, Is not so detrimental to Judge Parker as the corporate, support which is gradually gathering about him." The indications Increase that . Mr. Bryan will try to dictate the St. Louis nomina tion, and, that failing, will bolt. The decision of the city authorities to require the Water Company to repair the bridges over the canal, within the city limits, revives an interesting question. The city attorney Is doubtless right in saying that where a canal crosses a highway H must keep the latter open by constructing a bridge. Whether that is a continuing ob ligation and binding on every successive owner of the canal may be a question for the courts to decide. It is possible, also. that th ,tv a h .1. u lnal 1X16 Clly naVe salved Its rights in the matter by not requiring the Water Company to build the bridges in the first in stance. The question will hardly be set tled without litigation. The services held in the United States Senate chamber yesterday to pay' tribute to the memory of the late Senator Hanna were marked by more than usual interest and sincerity. No other American ever made so deep an impression on the country so soon after entering public life or was more sincerely mourned on his departure. MINOR TOPICS. With regard to the Canfield bid the cam. Diers oi mis city realize mat they must hang together or hang separately. New iotk bun. One hardly looked for the recrudescence of this hoary joko during the present cen tury. When Benjamin Franklin sprung it. it is said he blushed; it would have been good for an earlier revival had it not un fortunately got 'into the school histories. But the Sun always did have a classic taste in humor. The war in the near East is becoming interesting. A furious bombardment of the Taggartese was begun by Admiral Hearstovitch yesterday, but the former, strongly intrenched on Illinois street, received the attack with derision. An effort will be made by the Yellow Peril to bottle up .Gen. Taggarto. Search lights are being used. The Humane Society in St. Louis has put a stop to the feeding of dogs to Filipinos on the ground that it involves cruelty to animals. But they wanted the dog meat, didn't they so why is it cruel to give it to them? Also, it i3 impolite to call our visitors animals. Professor Langley is moving heaven and earth for more funds for his airship ex periments. If he is successful we may expect some more of those interesting demon strations of Newton's law of gravitation. A Chicago doctor says that singing daily for six months will cure tuberculosis. But what ?hall it profit a man to escape con sumption only to die from "assault and battery? Is China in a comatose condition, or is she merely ingntened out "of her wits? The government has not taken anybody's yellow jacket away from him for months. Cleveland's latest denial is that he never invited Fred Douglass to his wedding1. Next we shall have him swearing that he never caught a blackfish at Sheepshead Bay. It has now been discovered why Dewey did not go ashore at Santo Domingo. There was no reason why he should; he had no business there and it looked like rain. Gov. Pennypacker's refusal to be a can didate for Justice of the Supreme Court 13 thought to be a direct blow aimed at Pennsylvania cartoonists. The Hearst fulminatlons remind the public of Shakspeare's sarcasm: "Very good orators: when they are out (of matter) they will spit." The old Atlantic liner Fuerst Bismarck is to be used as a collier by the Russian Baltic fleet. How are the mighty fallen! A New York woman sued a steamboat company for $5.000 and was awarded 4$ cents. Such a burcain-day reduction as

that ought to make any woman's heart happy. i A mothers club of New York has elected a married woman president.- How we are smashing precedent nowadays! Kansas City elected a Republican mayor by an. immense plurality. Missouri is evidently one of the Balkln States.

Edward and Alexandra are visiting Great Danes at Copenhagen. English royalty has gone to the dogs. A Marked Man. There was a price upon his head And yet the old man went Careless along the street; Instead Of fear he beamed content. The reason of the circumstance Was this: He'd bought a wig, And on it. patent to the glance. Remained, the cost mark big! New Orleans Tlmes-DemocraL THE HUMORISTS. The Cnnse of Delay. Mrs. Quiz I thought your mother was going to put you In long pants this week? Johnny She was; but she couldn't find any at the rummage sale. Brooklyn Life, Easily Explained. Teacher Johnny, why is it that there Is more water than land in the two hemispheres? Johnny Because the temperance ieople don't seem to be able to ttop the distilleries. Philadelphia Telegraph. Long Ranee. Stranger Can you shoot very far with that ancient-looking rifle you have? Native Shoot far? Why, half the time we have to put pepper and salt In the load to keep the game from pilln' till we can git lt. New Orleans Times-Democrat. Nothing Scrions. The Heiress And I've been introduced to quite a number of the European nobility. Her Friend Thinking of marrying any of them? The Heiress Oh, no. I don't Intend to buy a title I'm merely shopping. Puck. For the Royal Table Only. "Your predecessor," eald the Cannibal Chief, "attempted to Interfere with our ideas on health food." "Ah," exclaimed the missionary, "then he was not popular." t "Oh, no, you couldn't call him popular. There wasn't enough of him to go 'round among the people "Philadelphia Press. Japan's Plan for the Fntnre. First Japanese Sailor O Takakage, before the spring comes three times In the land of the Ris ing Sun, Russia and all Europe will be In our hands! Second Sailor And what shall we do with them, O son of the thousand-starred chrysan themum? First Sailor What do with them? Civilize them, you numbskull! Jugend (Munich.) Abating Ills Claim. Edmond Dantes swam through the stage sea to the hand-painted rock, then climbed up the wooden steps at the back of it, held his property knife aloft, and shouted in his 'deepest melodramatic voice: "The world Is mine!" Then realizing the absurdity of it, he added in a tone so low that only the prompter heard him: "But I'll hand it back to Mr. Rockefeller, of course, as soon as the play is over." Chicago Tribune. Germs Preferred. Though they affirm A deadly germ Lurks In the sweetest kiss. Let's hope the day Is far away Of antiseptic bliss. To sterilize A lady'a sighs Would simply be outrageous I'd much prefer To humor her v And let her be contagious. Atlanta Journal. STORIES THAT ARE TOLD. I antes for the Children. John Philip Soura lived in Washington for years and has many friends here. The last time he was here with his band he had a musician named Franz Hell. "Curious name that fellow has," said Frank Bennett, of the Arlington Hotel, to Sousa. "Yes," said Sousa. "I am trying to get him to New York World. Legal Advice While Yon Wait. When the late A. H. Garland was attorney general during Cleveland's first administration he brought from Arkansas an old friend named James H. Ward, who was made watchman and placed in charge cf the building at night. A telegram was . received late one night ad dressed to the "Department of Justice," which Ward opened and found that the sender of the message wanted, to know whether there was any statute that forbade the killing of a man who was a common drunkard and a public nuisance. Ward concluded that the attorney general should not be disturbed at mo late an hour with this inquiry, and as an immediate answer was requested, sent this reply: "None that I know of." Why He Smiled a Sickly Smile. A member of the London Stock Exchange was married a short time ago, and of course, the first time he appeared on 'Change after the honey moon he was subjected to many congratulations and much good-natured bantering. One of his friends, after congratulating him, suddenly reached over and took a long brown hair from his shoulder. 'Looks bad in a married man. Ticker," he ex claimed, holding it up to the light. "Oh, that's all right," replied Ticker, smiling; It's my wife's. "No, no; that won't do," responded the friend; "your wife's hair is darker than that Thjs made Ticker a trifle angry, and he ex claimed, excitedly, "I tell you It's my wife's. I fancy I know my wife's hair when I see it." "Well, you certainly ought to," said the friend. "But are you sure?" "Sure? Of course I. am. Why do you ask?" "Oh, I thought, perhaps, there might be some mistake. You see, I fcund it on Brown's shoul der, just before I saw you." Tit-Bits. Admiral I'rlu nnd the Soap. In Tokio, Admiral Uriu is regarded as a kind of Haroun al Raschid. They declare there that he investigates personally, sometimes even Jn disgulr-e. every detail of the workings of . the Japanese navy. Hence many odd adventures be fall him. Once Admiral Uriu got wind of certain com plaints that had been made against the soup served on a torpedo beat In his squadron. He hhot from his flagship in a launch one day at meal time and boarded his torpedo boat Just as the sailors came from the kitchen carrying a huge and steaming cauldron. "Halt!" the admiral shouted. "Set that caul dron down." The pallors, with wondering looks, obeyed. "Now," ho said, "brlngr me a spoon." An officer hurried forward. 'But, admiral" he began. "Never mind. sir. There's a complaint from this boat and I'm going to settle It now." said Admiral i riu. He lifted the lid from the cauldron, ladled up a ppoonful of Ita contents, and, after blowing on the liquid, he swallowed it. Then he made a wry face "You call thia oup?" he exclaimed. "Why, it is nothing but dirty water." 'Yes, fir, said one of the tailors, "we have just been scrubbing the galley floors." Denver Times. Like Knropntkin's Campaign. General Kuropatkin' announcement of Russia's Intentions in the prosecution of the war reminded a Cabinet officer cf an old anecdote. "In the flrtt place," he aald, "the general ex2cu to take Uacchuria. Then he wUl go on to

Korea, and Mill finally wind up the trouble In Japan by taking Tokio. There was once upon a time an Irishman who was proceeding along a road with a friend. They came to a point In the road opposite a stone wall, which surrounded a field in which a large, able-bodied bull was graring. As soon as he saw the bull the Irishman burst Into a hearty laugh. " 'What's the matter.' asked his friend. " I was thinkinc how fvnr.y it would be if I Jumped over that wall, caught the bull by the hornj and rubbed his noae into the turf. I believe I will ?o It.' "In about three minutes he came back over the wall assisted by the horns of the bovine. I'm thinking,' he said, as he rubbed his sore spots, 'that It wac a mighty good thing that I got In my laugh before I went over there.' " New York Tribune. The Corr nnd the Butterfly. Said the Cow to the Euttertty, "Now, why do -ou flutter by Your elders of quiet sobriety? You're too filrpant by far. And your bold manners jar On my sense of perfect propriety." "It is." said Miss Butterfly. "Beyond me quite utterly To chew wisely the cud of reflection. And. as a creature of grace. To some of your ways I really have serious objection.'.' New Orleans Times-DemocraL THE FUNNY YOUNGSTERS. Seed Corn. A Kansas City small boy was asked by his school teacher to use "seed corn" in a sentence. "When I was out In the country last summer." said the youngster, "I seed cornstalks in a field." Kansas City Time. A Child's) Ethics. Little Jimmy Reilley's ethics on the subject of robbing a banana stand was so amusingly novel that Justice Olmstead, of the Children's Court, first laughed and then let him go. "Didn't you know you were doing wrong when you stole those bananas?" the Judge asked. "But he was a dago. Jedge." the" lad explained. " 'Taint no crimo to swipe from a dago." New York Times. He Fooled Them.

It was the morning of the first of April, and Harold, the minister's son, a little lad of nve years, had been told, that he might ask the blessing ot the table. The family bowed their heads and waited for the expected blessing. The boy bowed his head reverently, clasped his hands. was sclemnly silent for a moment, and then called out jubilantly: "April fool!" April Llppincott's. No Stamps vvith This Tnrehnse. "Bobby" is a tremendously busy little fellow. He Is always doing something and gives promise of a practicability which will make him a fine business man some day. He is a great collector of things and keeps his pockets loaded heavily. One day his mother found twenty-seven different thl-.gs In his four pockets. Not long ago his father told him that he had a brand-new baby sister who had just come. Oh!" said Bobby, "that's fine. Did any trad ing stamps come with her?" Philadelphia Press. As to "Talkln Shop." The social law against "talking shop" is an indication of the very widespread opinion that the exhibition of unmitigated knowledge is un seemly outside of business hours. When we mjet for pleasure we prefer that it should be on the humanizing ground of not knowing, Nothing is bo fatal to conversation as an au thoritative utterance. When a man who is capa ble of giving it enters "All talk dies as In a grove all song Beneath the shadow of a bird of prey." Conversation about the weather would lose all Its easy charm In the presence of the chief of the weather bureau. It Is possible that the fear of exhibiting un usual information In a mixed company may be a survival of primitive conditions. Just as the domesticated dor will turn around on a rug be fore lying down, for hereditary reasons which I do not remember, so it is with civilized man. Once ignorance was universal and enforced by penalties. In the progress of the race the en vironment has been modified, but so strong Is the influence of heredity that The Man Who Knows no sooner enters the drawing room than he is seized by guilty fears. (His ancestors, for having exhibited a moiety of his Intelligence, were executed as wizards.) But, perhaps-, the ordinary working of natural selection may ac count for the facts. The law of the survival of the fittest admits of no exceptions, and the fit test to give us pleasure in conversation is the sympathetic person who appears to know very little more than we do In the commerce of Ideas there must be rec iprocity. We will not deal with one who Insists that the balance of trade shall always be in his favor. Moreover, there must be a spice of incertitude about the transaction. The real joy of the Intellectual traffic comes when we sail awar. like the old merchant adventurers. In search of a market. There must be no prosaic bills of exchange; It must be primitive barter We have a choice cargo cf beads which we are willing to exchange for frankincense and ivory if. on eome strange coast, we should meet sim pie-minded people who have only wampum, per haps, even then we might make a trade. fram uel M. Crothers, in "The Gentle Reader." COMMENDABLE ECONOMY. Mr. Hemenwar nnd Ills Committee Hnve Earned Congrntnlntlons. New York Tribune. As chairman of the appropriations com mittee of the House of Representatives Mr, Hemenway is proving a worthy successor to Mr. Cannon. The present speaker in his ten years of service at the head of this committee won an exceptional reputation as a "treasury watchdog." He fought an unending battle against waste and extrava gance in national expenditure. He was not a cheeseparing zealot, nor did he believe in practicing parsimony in and for itself. But he tried to hold and usually succeeded in holding the sum total of federal appropriations fairly within the limit of the gov ernment's actual needs. His mantle seems to have fallen on the shoulders of an economist of equal determination and equal vigi lance. If anything, the new "watchdog of the treasury" is more Argus-eyed and im placable than the old one. ror under his manipulation the government's estimates of expenditure for the fiscal year 13O4-'05 have suffered a shrinkage of over $no,0CO.0O0 nnd a prospective deficit of $43.000,000 has been converted into a prospective surplus Of $22,000,000. Mr. Hemenway signalized hLs promotion to the chairmanship of the appropriations committee last winter, by frankly warning the House that only the most exacting economy In appropriations could prevent a treasury deiicit for the next fiscal year. The Treasury Department had submitted estimates calling for an expenditure of $727,474,206. To this total $20,0-X),ooo . of sup plementary estimates nad to be added. maKUlK a, net uuiia ji 1JUT. the estimated revenues for 1H04-T5 were only r04.000.000, leaving the government to face a losing balance of $12.000,000. Mr. Hemenway did not content himself, however, with merely warning the House against Overliberal appropriations. He set to work to clip the supply bills which passed through his own committee and to scrutinize critically the expenditures authorized by other committees. Reporting the last of the great appropriation bills, that for the sundry civil expenses of the government, he was able to give a highly astonishing and gratifying account of his stewardship. By omitting to prepare any river and harbor bill, by cutting the sundry civil bill jl7.O00.CcJ0 under the government estimates and by Judicious economy with other appropriation measures the total bf the expenditures to be authorized for 1D04-O5 now a tist iV.V I A J M f m -v s-n. Stands at jbäwv,s maieau ui 9 i i ,wu,wu. I The estimated deficit has disappeared and a surplus oi " "iVL. I i , . total nrortirted rv tho troicurv exnerts. Some of the House bills have yet I to run the gantlet of amendment and expansion in the benate. wnere ess rigid views OI economy u."uuiy prevail, nui in conference committee many of the Senate additions will be stricken out, and, with a leeway of $22.000,000, the total of appropriations voted at the prerent session will scarcely outrun the treasury's expected income. Mr. Hemenway and his committee deserve the country's sincerest congratulations. The Nation is In no mood at present to welcome additional taxation, and, lacking additional sources of revenue, the only sound and patriotic policy for Con gress to pursue is to compel tne government to live within Its means and to forswear contracting debts which it haa no cash in sight to pay

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Places on the Republican legislative ticket in Marion county are being eagerly sought this year. The Meld of avowed can didates is unusually large, and there are also several prospective candidates for both the Senate and House. Sixteen men have announced their candidacies for representative. They are: Thomas Dally, Deloss Alllff. Peter Medford, Samuel K. Uuick. Oran Muir, Charles Reagan. Russell T. Bvew. John eaver, Fred W. Sheets. John W. Bowius. John Reagan. H. P. Brunaugh. II. C. Brubaker. Michael Mescal!, Harry Hubbard and Willam Bossen. C. C. Perry and Harry Bran don are being talked of as probable candi dates. The avowed candidates for senator In clude Armin Koehne. CharUs O. Boemler. Cass Conawav and C. N. Thompson and James T. Liyman. who are soekintr renomnation. William E. Englisn ar.u Linton A. Cox have been mentioned as probable candidates, and Charles Martindale is also spoken of as a prospective entry in me sen atorial race. Republican St;ite Chairman James P. Goodrich Is in the city looking after some of the arrangements for the approaching state convention. It is understood that the sergeant-at-arms for the convention win be named to-day or to-morrow. 4 Two more survivors of the first Repub lican state convention were reported at state headquarters yesterday William F. Browning, of Blooir.lngton. and Judge Thomas J. Kane, of Noblesville. 4 Capt. David E. Beem, of Spencer, one of the veteran Republicans of Owen county, who was at the English yesterday, says that Dr. B. A. Allison, of Decatur, 111., was a delegate from Indiana to the Republican national convention of 1S56, that nom inated Fremont for President. Dr. Allison will attend the state convention here thi3 month, said Captain Beem. if his health is such as to permit of his making the trip. W. H. Staley, editor of the Tipton Advo cate, was in the city yesterday and called at Republican state headquarters. "The first Republican state convention was well-attended by Shelby county people," says a dispatch to the Journal from Shelbyville. "The delegates from this county Included H. P. Johnson. E. G. Mayhcw, William Peaslee, E. B. Wingate. James B. McFadden, Joseph Lovlnson. Henry M. Endsley, James E. McGuire, H. H. Boggrss, T. S. Caughey, Solomon Alter, Nathan Earlywine and J. J. Wingate. Of this number all are dead except James B. McFadden, Henry M. Endsley, E. B. Wingate, Joseph Levinson and John J. Wingate, all of whom expect to attend the convention at Indianapolis this month." Elam H. Neal, of Jonesboro, member of the Republican state committee from the Eleventh district; Senator S. L. Stricler, of Marion; Representative John Minnick, of Converse, and Gus S. Condo, of Marion, were in the city yesterday and called at state headquarters and at several of the offices In the Statehouse. Messrs. Stricler. Minnick and Condo, with Senator Lyons, assistant secretary of the state committee, will constitute Grant county's delegation in the Legislature next winter. Senator Fremont Goodwlne, of Williamsport, was in the city yesterday cn business connected with the world's fair commission. Governor Durbin was in Chicago yesterday. Halleck Johnson, deputy state oil inspector, returned yesterday from a trip over Into Ohio, where he went to get a view at close range of Buckeye Republican politics and see how they conduct a congressional convention. His brother-in-law. Judge Greggr, of Guernsey county, was one of the candidates before the convention, which was held at Marietta. "It was as Interesting a convention as I have seen in a ions: while." said Mr. Johnson last evening. "There were five IIISTMICTIOIIS, BUT II FREE II HEARST Kansas Democratic Delegates Fourteen: to Six Against the Man with the "Bar'l." TRUST-SMASHER PRAISED Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WICHITA. Kan.. April 7. William Randolph" Hearst and his "bar'l" did not capture the Democracy of Kansas, as his followers predicted. The delegates to the St. Louis convention chosen to-day stand fourteen against Hearst to six for him. The state convention, however, gave him that dearest to his heart free advertising in the shape of commending his efforts to smash the "coal trust." An attempt was made to instruct the delegates for Hearst, but it was defeated and the twenty delegates will go to St. Louis uninstructed. The delegates are: At large, W. A. Harris, H. T. Farrclly, David Ovcrmyer, J. Q. Johnson, S. I. Hale and J. N. Haymaker; by districts from First to Seventh, inclusive, James W. Orr, Frank Fitzwilliams, T. W. Morgan, W. P. Dillard, A. M. Jackson, J. S. Kraybill, A. S. Kemper, J. M. McCown, W. 11. Pepperill, T. L. Bond, 8. C. Smith, A. A. Roth. O. P. Scarce, C. W. Oswald. The delegation, according to personal preferences, will stand six for Hearst and fourteen against him, it is said. The platform, which was unanimously adopted, indorsed the Kansas City platform of V.JQ and the Chicago platform of 1836, expressed confidence in William J. Bryan, and declared for the nomination of men for President and Vice President who supported the tickets of ISM and lwö, and who were in sympathy with the platform on which they ran, criticised the Republicans of the State for "turning down the old machine and creating another more dictatorial than th old," and charged them with building a railroad machine and with turning the State Capitol into a roundhouse. It indorsed William Randolph Hearst and his victory over the "coal trust" as an example for Democrats to follow, but did not refer to him as a candidate for President. Hearst men, however, took it as an indorsement of their candidate. The Hearst plank follows: "In Mr. Hearst, of New York, we recognize one of the foremost Democrats of the Nation. He uses his great opportunities and power in all cases in behalf of the common jeopIe without counting th cost to himself. His single-handed legal contest with the coal trust, Just successfully concluded in the Supreme Court. Is the most signal triumph of Democratic principles since the trusts seized the business of the country. We Indorse the great work he is doing in the Interest o.f his party and his country, and commend his example to good Democrats everywhere." John H. Atwood, of Leavenworth, was elected national committeeman by acclamation. Claude Duval, an anti-Hearst man, was chairman of the convention. JUDGE JOHN KALUA REMOVED FROM OFFICE WASHINGTON. April 7. John W. Kalua. United States judge of the Second Circuit, at Honolulu, to-day was removed from office by President Roosevelt. Recently an intimation was conveyed to Judge Kalua that upon the expiration of his term, on June 5 next, he would not be reappointed. A few days ago the judge practically suspended the wcjrk of his court by adjourning all pending criminal cases until June b. the day after the expiration of his term of ofnce.-Yhls action elicited a vigorous protest "from the people of Honolulu. The Protest, in formal shape, reached Attorney General Knox yesterday. He took up the n-.atter with the President and It was decided to remove Judge Kalua at once from o'dice and to appoint a successor who would Conduct the business of the court. The 'President to-day signed an order for Judge Kalua's removal. Ills successor has not been agreed upon yet, but an appointment probably will bu sent to tho Senate in a lew days.

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candidates for Concrcs and all cf them stayed in the fight to tl3 end. It rvqulred forty-one Inllots to no.nlnate and B. C. Dawes, a brother of C. G. Dawes, former controller of the currency, was the successful candidate. My brother-in-law. Judge Gregg, led on every ballot until the last, when he threw his strength to Dawe3. At one time he was within ix votes of the nomination, but he could not land tho prize." The" Eleventh district Republican convention to select delegates and alternates to the national convention and to name a presidential elector will he held April 12 at Marion. It is possible that it may prove more interesting than the Peru convention fo far as a contest is concerned, for h?veral men are being put forward as candidates for delegate to the national convention. Among: the prospective candidates are Quincy X. Myers, of Logansport; H. P Love land, of Peru: J. Wood Wilson, of Marion; Carey E. Cowgill, of Wabash, and A. L. Bodurtha, of Peru. The attorneys interested yesterday agreed upon April 10 as the day for the oral argument In the legislative apportionment case) before the Supreme Court. The argument will be opened at 9 o'clock in the morning. Attorney General Charles W. Miller and Add-on C. Harris will appear for the State, defending the law. while Alonzo G. Smith. Theodore 1. Davis. M. A. Rvan. John W. Kern. S. M. Ralston, MaJ. G. V. Monties and Dan W. Simms are the attorneys representing the Democratic state committee in its attack on the law. The appeals of all three of the apportionment cases Boone county. DearlKrn county and Ripley county will be considered at the s:.me time. The lower court in each case held the apportionment act to be unconstitutional. Alva O. Reser, of Lafayette, former member of the Legislature from Tippecanoe county, was -in the city yesterday. Democratic County Chairman Charles B. Clarke yesterday gave out the following list of voting places for the primaries today at which delegates to the state convention will be selected: First Ward 1405 Hillside avenue. Second Engine house. Sixteenth street and Ashland avenue. Third McLean-place livery- stable. Fourth Engine house. North Indianapolis. Fifth &7 Indiana avenue. Sixth 22$ North Capitol avenue. Seventh Fire headquarters. Eighth S22i North Alabama street. Ninth Little's Hall. Tenth Engine house. Prospect streeL Eleventh 644 Virvtnia avenue. Twelfth MeGettlgan's coal office, Capitol avenue and Norwood. Thirteenth Phoenix Garden. Fourteenth No. IS engine house, Harding and Morris streets. Fifteenth Town Hall. Haughville. Decatur, Township Residence of William Yeager. Franklin Acton schoolhouse. Perry South port schoolhouse Warren Township Hall. Washington Town Hall, Broad Ripple. Wayne No. 6 schoolhouse, Osterman pike. Center, Outside Howland Station, Harrison's grocery. Pike New Augusta High School building. -f The Hearst people concede that they will be able to make little showing at the primaries In this county to-day, although they say they will hafe their slates In all the wards and townships. The Taggart people hope to carry the county by such an overwhelming majority as to give the Hearst movement In Indiana a solar plexus blow that will put it down and out. There were several callers at Hearst headquarters yesterday, among them being John W. Kern. Mr. Kern and J. Oscar Henderson are warm personal friends, although they do not always agree politically. Simon P. Sheerin,of this c'ty, former secretary of the Dtmocrtic national committee, said yesterday that he favored Judge Parker as his party's standard bearer during the coming campaign. "I am certainly not for Hearst." he said. I am for Parker, although I am not as I active in politics as I used to be." DELEGATES INSTRUCTED TO VOTE FOR ROOSEVELT Tennessee Republicans Want the President Nominated at Chicago. BROWNLOW IN CONTROL NASHVILLE, Tenn., April 7.-Aftcr an all-day session, the Republican state convention, which met here to-day. Instructed for Roosevelt for President and nominated, Jesse Littleton, of Franklin county, for Governor. Delegates from the State atMarge to tho national convention were chosen as follows: W. P. Brownlow. H. Clay Evans, F. A. Raht and L. W. Dutro. Foster V. Brown and 111.. Gregory are electors for the State at large. W. F. Boston, of Crockett county, was nominated for railroad commissioner. The convention was dominated by Congressman Walter F. Brownlow, who was permanent chairman. E. T. Eanford. of Knox county, and D. A. Nunn, of Haygood county, were placed before the convention for gubernatorial honors, but Littleton was nominated on the first ballot, the vote standing: Littleton, 4JJ; Sanford. 1S1: Nunn, 6. The report of the platform committee waa adopted by nn overwhelming vote. Th platform declares for the Brownlow good roads bill and a vinorous protect is registered against unfair election laws, suppression of the ballot and the making of false returns. The platform favors the enactment of legislation requiring candidates for public ofiice to file a sworn itemize! statement of the expenses Incurred during a campaign and for what purpose. Tht temperance plank or 3. 2 was reaffirmed with the additional approval of all laws restricting and throwing safeguards around! the sale of liquor. The alternates from the State at large to the national convention are Josiah T. Settle, colored: John . Grant, colored: Dan C Swaub and William Rule. The convention adjourn d at 9:00 to-night. OKLAHOMA IV ANTS STATEHOOD BY ITSELF GUTHRIE. O. T.. April 7. The Oklahoma. Republican convention to-day nominated. B. S. McGuire for re-election as delegate to Congress, and made C. M. Cade national committeeman. The six delegates to tho national convention are instructed to vota for Theodore Roosevelt for President. Tho delegates are Seymour Foose, A. H. Jackson, W. C. Teterlck. W. D. Foasett. John H. Cotteral and Robert Lowry. A resolution eulogizing Marcus A. Hanna wa passed. The platform approve? President Roosevelt's policy concerning the Panama canal, the good roadi movement, national und territorial, and the policy of Congress for the reclamation of the rrld and srml-arld replons of the West. It declares for immediate statehood for Oklahoma, with tho Indian Territory attached. HILL'S CURRENCY BILL FAVORABLY REPORTED WASHINGTON. April 7.-The Houso committee on banking and currency to-day authorized a favorable report on the Mil introduced by Mr. Hill of Connecticut "to improve currency conditions." which does away with the limit on subsidiary coinage; permit the use of gold certificates in denominations of 110; authorizes deposits of customs receipts in national banks tho Fame as internal revenue receipts, repeals the law permitting the withdrawal of li000.000 of circulation in any one month. Tho committee recommends striking out tho clause in the bill reducing the tax oa circulation to one-half of 1 ir cenL

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