Indianapolis Leader, Volume 1, Number 23, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 January 1880 — Page 1

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He also thought Beecher was the au thor nf Pilgrim's Prorrress. This - 0 u youth contains presidential material for the twentieth century. If the pooplo of Maine will not allow Lamson quietly to become governor, he ought to pitch in and lamsome of them very severely, and he will havo a better show for his white alley. The Democracy of Maine, recently convicted of Garcclony before tbo supremo court, arc uow suffering untold misery in the spasms of a severe attack from (chill) -Blaine. Thus it is ever; misfortunes never come singly. Wtfcopy from the Logansport Jour nal the brave, manly letter of Colonel A. D. Streight, of this city, regarding 1 1 k 1 ... , rP 1-. rv 1 n ay rl flOC r((t. iiiu alike to colonel mreigms iou uu heart. If some of these unfortunate pooplo who come to our State aro paupers, who but Democratic slaveholders made them so? A stupid old iguoraraus, fho could neither rea l nor write, refused to scrri' on the library committee of the Ohio legislature, of which the lion. Geo. W. Williams, the colored meinbcr and scholarly gentleman, is ,.1,.. Mr "Williams oucrht to Vlliti i illUlta m ' f- I resent the insult of putting such an ignorant old ass on his committee. W-intosd- A Louisiana liar, who is so in-niy uccou.pui . u w Wv I 1 1 . 1 1 I , 1 Ina n hncan I profession, that he can tell a lio ) intricate, complicated, and slick, tnai no oiner jjouisiauu ou- . x , , ccsfuliy contradict, refute and deny it in detail. For such an individual there seems to bo at present a wiue field of usefulness at tho National capital. lion. iieo. n. Huimiun, uiowiuivu . . ... tt Ur.11.AMa thrt ni I rrr I member of the Ohio Legislature, 1 stopped into a restaurant the other day, in Columbus, and called for a meal. Ho was ref ised accommodation on account of his color. The matter was brought to the attention of tho Legislature and a committee appointed to investigate and report. The outrage is one of common occur: renee in many Northern cities 'and Mr. Williams will merit the'thanks of 1 ,i race ,f he bnngs these scamps ondijrn punishment. to connign p ' mmmm I The Journal has completed its interview 01 KepuDlicans as 10 ineir preferences for president. The result places the Hon. James G. Blaine tar in advance of all comüetitors. Straws indicate the bent of tho wind, and may . I this not be an indication that thePlumed Knight will distance all starters and handomely lead them to the goal of political ambition. Tho following is the result of the interviews: Total number of persons interviewed, 6;028; for Blaine; 2,142; for Grant, 1,760; for Sherman, 1,545; for nominee and scattering, 581. .. ' v. 1 " lernte a sensauon nas oeen crccu .... 1 I U ..-11!.-. nC in political circles uy wu v. tho county Republican convention for the Cth of March. . The Republi cans will carry Marion county whether tho convention be held early or late, unless an internecine war breaks out and js waged to the bitter end. If entire harmony can be secured by postponing the convention, it would probably bo beet for the central committeo to follow the example of tho State central committee by coming together and postponing the convention until a later date. I UUl WWIB H.M WlUttluVUVVU .U vv by the first issue of the "Suffragist a weekly journal published in New York city, by J. W. A. Shaw, in tho I interest of the colored people. The I A. A general make-up of tho paper is very neat, indeed, and tho mattor is firstlined is followed tho paper will, land on tho "over-green shore" beforo a 8ix month rolls around. Tho Sutfragist treats with complacont unconcern tho outrages to which our raco havo been subjected in the South. It says, "The readers of the Suffragist will a 1 - iL-1 J - i U-l! see ai a giance imu wo uu doi ueuovo the future of our raco and its prosp9rjty jn tie South contingent upon o party from whoso iron grasp DUuc sentiraent has recently liberat- - d that 80Ction; on the contrary, we regard its overthrow as the dawn ot an era full of hope.

c ass. we are 1 reo 10 say, nowevcr, . ,, . Pa,.i.m1 4 . ... V , . ' skulking in the rear of tho federal that we do not like tbo tono of the . . OAt-Äf itAnri .. .. . army, organizing secret, oatn-bouna Knliitntovv nnl our nredictinn is J . . . . .

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Voorhees eis a Statesman His Fail

ure. Notwithstanding the fact that Sen ator Daniel W. Voorhees occupies an important and exalted position in the government of this country, a position in point of honor and rcsponsibity second only to that of President yet, viewed from an impartial standpoint, and giving full weight to his natural and acquired abilities and the political policy which he has adcf cd- h mft.bo rP?rd,ed f n, of the most striking examples of fail uro in statesmanship which this nation and generation affords. If we look at his career from the vulgar standpoint of office getting, it can be said that he has been moderately successful; for he has probacy, enjoyed the honors and emoluments of officeholding to a greater extent than a -orit orthe forera08t leaders of a . . . . . . . party which, by reason oi its blun , . . h been f o power in the general government for twenty years. But office-holding is not the sum total of statesmanship. In point of fact it is only an opportu nity to display those qualifications which, combined, proclaim their pos sessor a statesman. True statesmanship consists in the justice, tho wisdom, and tho praeticability of the measures which a public man advocatos. If his measures arc unwise, he is an unsafe adviser, and, therefore, no statesman It unjust, he is a tvrant: and if impracticable, , . " . . A . . , r 7 . , Weiffhed in guch balance the blic carecr 0f Senator mHst inevitably labeled , . . , . , . and coiiHigned to that niche in 1 q misrHagesmht.have.be1ens. and consigned to that niche in the tical ages might Let us look at his political life, and see 11 bis recora aoes not jueiiiy mlinf Vna VvAAn cot1 f C Vk?m (r rr !nrf o on to the staj?e of action ehortlv be 4l . fore the Rebellion begin, when the whole country was ablaze with ex citement caused by tho repeal of the Missouri compromise, and tho attempt of the Southern rowdies, aided bv Buchanan's administration, to force slavery upon tho people of Kan sas against their will, where do we find him? Do we see him standing up nobly among the defondcrs of hu man frAfr1nm nnrl rffiiftt.imr thftfta anJ . ... . XT -.IT . , m 1U3111U11UU9. XIV. M O 111 111 Dil IIX." ing hands and joining fortunes with an lniamous mouoi ouiiaws, roDoers, murderers and kidnappers, whose avowed policy was to sell men and women like horses; and who would snatch suckling children from their mothers' breasts aud sell them to a slave-trading beast with as little compunction of conscience as they would feel in selling a calf,or a colt from its mother, and that, too, often times, when they themselves were the fathers of the very children whom they ruthlessly tore from their moth ers' arms and consigned to a hopeless life of miserv and oppression, ft is 0 WllU SUCH V1111UÜ3 13 VllvBO lurtt tJCU.v tor Voorhees cast his lot when mature manhood brought him into tho polit ical arena. Is it any wonder that his subsequent career has been what it has so full of what was really bad detrimental to the nation's welfare? But let us tro on a little further. Where do we fin i him then? Do we see him gallantly offering his services on the field of battle or elsewhere in defense of his country's honor and the integrity of her territory? No. Nnthini? of the kind. We sec him o recommending suitable Northern ren egades for servico in the rebel army. We see him denouncing Union sol dicrs as hirelings and dogs. Wo seo him standing up in the halls of Con gross and refusing to vote a man or a dollar for the suppression of tho Rebellion. We see him cowardly poso of resisting the dri ft, liberating rebel prisoners, and raising a Northern rebellion in aid of the Southorn. There is where wo find our wise, brave, noble and patriotic) Senator in the trying time of his country's peril an obstructionist, a growler, a skulkor, a socrot oath -bound traitor. Such is his record. r After tho war was over, what was his policy? Did he accept its legitipiato results as accomplished facte, as did some of the wisest rebel leaders?-No. Not he. In his opinion the constitu

tional amendments and the recono struction measures were "revolutionary and void." His speeches in Congrets encouraged the more reckless and dangerous class of the cx-rebel element to persist in their murder, robbery, and outrage of the inexperienced and unarmed colored people in their midsts. His campaign speeches have attracted public notice simply from tho amount of vituperative, villianous, and ruffianly abuse of the negro race a raco of pooplo who never did him nor his harm which they contained. No speech that Daniel W. Voorheos nas ever made drew public attention on account of any sound, practical wisdom it contained,for he never made such a speech. He has devoted the oratorial ability of his early manhood and mature years to the task of bravely abusing a race of people who were not in a position to reply to his villification, and whose only crime was that they belonged, partly, to a different race. The latest demonstrations to the gross ignorance, partisansliip,and lack of statesmanship on the part of Voorhees, arc his position on the question of finance and the negro exodus from

he South. For tho past dozen years be has howled himself hoarso in every 0 campaign for the issue of a billion or wo of irredeemable paper currency, supplementing tho demand with tho assertion that unless it were done the country would be ruined. Fortun ately, through the wisdom of real statesmanship, the country has been spared the misery, want and despair that must inevitably have followed in the wake of governmental adopion, of any such ignorant and reckess scheme. Happily, everybody can now sec the extremo foolishness and danger of such a financial policy. Last but not least among tho blun ders of this would-be statesman, is lis noisy clamor, for a congressional committeo to investigate the iraigration of negroes from North Carolina o Indiana, as if Congress had any more power to stop this movement, even if it desired to do so, than has an assemblage of Petroleum V. Nasby's cross-road Democrats at Bascom's. .It is barely possible that Voorhees knew this, and simply de sired an opportunity to discharge a arge quantity of gas, which has been accumulating ever since the success of resumption was assured, as well as to keep his hand in at abusing, villitying and misrepresenting the negro race, it 13 probable, too. that no de sired to sound the keynote that would serve as a rallying cry for the ignorant prejudiced and pig-headed portion of his party here in Indiana. Whatever may have been his intention, ho has succeeded in making himself appear thoroughly foolish ar.d contemptible in the eyes of sensible people. Every prominent feature in tho career of Senator Voorhees proclaims him an cnem'' instead of a friend to human liberty, a partisan instead of a patriot, and a quack instead of a statesman. Everything that has been said of Dennis Kearney as a states man, may of truth be said of Voor hees. They are alike in all important respccU. Daniel is a college-bred demagogue, while Dennis is one of nature's impromptu, spontaneous productions. If one is a statesman, the other is and vice versa. It is what a man advocates and does that makes him a f-tatesman? Now we ask, in all sincerity, what Daniel W. Voorhees has done, or what measuro or measures he has advocat ed that entitle him to the rank of statesman. Coming generations will bo the true judges of the statesman ship of our day. Now, by what single act or word of his will they ever hear of his claims to statesmanship? While the names of'Lincoln, Brown, Sum ner, Morton, and a host cf others, will no down to posterity laureled and wreathed with tho crown of immortality: that of Daniel Webster Voorhees must infallibly sink into that sea of forgetfulness which his political career so richly merits. One hundred years hence the student of American history will never know that such a man existed. He has not made, nor has ho helped to make anything worthy of historical record. His lifo has been a failure. His career is a WArning to young men entering political life, and wishing to do something by which they will be remembered ;.l)y posterity.

The llaine Trouble.

Since our last issue, affairs in Maine have undergone a remarkable change. On Monday evening the Republicans quietly took possession of the State House, and organized both branches of the legislature. The Democrats wero thunderstruck but powerless. Tho Republicans immediately appointed a committee to prepare questions to be submitted to the supreme court of the State in order to havo that body decide as to which is the legal legislature. These questions have been prepared and submitted to the court, and a decision may be expected at any time. There is no doubt now about the ultimate triumph of the Republicans in this affair. The court has already decided the chief pointa in dispute. In fact tue fraud attempted by the Democrats and fusionists is of such a bare-faced character that they do not themselves expect any consideration from the courts. Since Garcelon's rebuke at the hands of the court, the sole aim of these conspirators has been to keep the matter out of the courts. The Republicans, however, havo out witted the scamps and put the matter in position for speedy settlement, for armed with the decision of tho supremo court in his hands General Chamberlain will make quick work of tho rump assembly of Democrats and Fusionists General Chamberlain's management of affairs has been good. He U brave without bluster and firm without ostentation. When Lamson, president of the Fusion Senate, qualified as governor and asked if General Chamberlain would recognize him. The General promptly and politely informed him that the question was a legal one and beyond his jurisdiction. He advised the wouldbe governor to use his influence to have the qaestion brought before tho supreme court the only competent tribunal to decide. In all probability before another week rolls around Maine will have a Republican State Government and tho discomfited Democrats and Fusionists will bo a good deal wiser though probably not better men. Representative Williams of the Ohio Legislature is making himself so useful in the Ohio Legislature that we are constrained to advise Hamilton county to draw more largely upon his inexhaustible abilities, by sending him to the 47th Congress. His meeting with brigadiers in the halls of Congress will not be the first. He met them at Fort Wagner and other places where it required a good deal more courage to face a brigadier than it does now; and, then, a Negro congressman from the North and espec ially from the Buckeye State, would be incontrovertible evidence of the decay of that vile prejudice which crushes worth and merit if ornament ed by a dark hue and inflicts the sev erest of penalties upon a man who neglects to be born white. In another column may be found the announcements of the leading candidates for the various county and township offices to be filled at the next election. The Republicans have such excellent material from which to make the selections that a mistake can hardly be made. Of the candidates we shall have somewhat to say in future issues. DERBY BIRDS. Grand Reception by the Derby Club of Chicago. Complimentary to it Married Belles. Chicago polite society has been on the qui vive for quite a long while watching and waiting for the reception promised by way of comgliment to the esteemed ladies of the Derby club, who have recently leen wooed and won by three of our estemiable young men: Mrs. I. W. Dempcy, nee, Ida May Mcintosh; Mrs. J. Skinner, nee, Carrie Jenkins and Mrs. A. Anderson, nee, Maria Brown, each in turn were led to the altar and vowed perpetual allegiance to a highly favored lord of creation, and then followed a brilliant reception, compliments, presents, etc. But the Derby's felt like "throwing a shoe" at the brides and they did bo with a royal good will. About two weeks ago invitations to the number of 100 were sent to favored friends, inviting them to the reception at the residence of Mrs. William Proctor, Thursday evening, January 8, 18S0. The invitations were as fine as any ever issued here among the colored people . A handsome impression of a horse shoe was a neat ana elegant ornament, while the printers work was perfection itself. Such handsome

BOSTON STORE Great Reduction in Prices DRY GOODS

9- 4 Brown Sheelinps - 5e10- 4 Brown Sheetings 29 to 30 " Glngams - 8J Felt Skirts - 50et, worth 75 Knit Ulsters 91.50, worth 02.75 Knit Ulsters 2. 50, worth 4.00 " Large Lot of Crashes O, S and 10 " Best Pereales - r 10 Linen U'dfks 5 44 Lonsdale Cambric - - 13 44 Laee Curtains and Cretons at very low prices to reduce stock. We have an Overstock of Black Cashmeres, all we have to say is, price the goods and you will buy. Our Stock of Real Hair Goods, is the largest in tho State. Our prices the lowest. M. H. Spades, BOSTON STORE. cards evidenced a full dress reception, and straight way pocket-books began to weep, while dry goods houses and dress makers smiled in satisfaction. Promptly at 9 o'clock on the aforesaid evening the carriages began to land the reception committee and their company at the door. The gentlemen wore handsome gold horse shoe badges enameled and let tered. Carriage after carriage arrived and left, till about 45 couples were present and were making the hours pass happily by. Han i's and Freiburg's orchestra discoursed the sweetest strains and the commodious and well appointed apartments presented a scene 01 elegant animation rarely seen in this city. Frequently there were six different sets upon the floor at one time which fact shows there was room enough for all. Dancing began at 10 o'clock the grand March bt?ing led by the brides and their fortunate husband, the march changing into ths "dreamy waltz" followed the list of latest and best dances in all of which the company was pleasantly proficient The costumes were exceedingly elegant, quite a number of ladies vieicg with the brides in the elegance of their toilets. The gentlemen were attired in usual full dress. At 1 o'clock the company paid their hearty compliments to the elegant supper served by Harms. The caterer was equal to the emergency and displayed a table unsurassed by any reception yet given here. jet it be said here to the praise of the )erby club that wine was served in no brm whatever a precedent we hope will never be forgotten. Such example deserves unstinted appreciation and will win friends on every hand. After supper dancing was resumed and continued till nearly 4 o'clock and. as tbe Derby's saw the la-t guest depart a sense of supreme satisfaction must have gladdened their hearts over their unqualified success in this, the affair of the season. There were two notable absentees, Messrs D. W. Dempcy and B. L. Jenkins, both unfortunately out of the city. The reception committee, Mr. J. B. illiams, president, succeeded in meeting every requirement of the guests r.nd have their many thanks therelor, There were present Mrs. D. W. Dempcy, Mrs. J. M. Skinner, Mrs. A. Anderson, Mrs. V. Wilson, Mrs. J. G. Jones, Mrs. R. Parish, Mrs. Underwood, Mrs- R. Rush, Mrs. R. Chapman, Mrs. VV. Proctor. Mrs, W. Monroe, Mrs. IL C. Ceauford, Mrs. L Hill, Mrs. L. Taylor, Mrs. Agusta, Mrs. Toles, Mrs. J Harner, Mrs. H. G. Jackson, Mrs. J. Q Grant, Mrs. W. Terry, Mrs. G. Matthews, Mrs D. Ferguson, Mrs Röhn, Mrs. I. Bearfield, Mrs. Allen, Mrs. Stoball, Mrs. F. White, Mrs. J. Matthews, Mine A. Thompson, Miss II. Warner, Miss M. At kinson, Miss M. Ransm, Miss C. O. Brown, Miss E. Brown, Miss II. Brown. Miss Katie Bruwn, Miss J. Hudlin, Miss Mi-s V. Lewis, Miss A. Gaddis, T. Richardson, Miss G. Watson, Miss L. Poiutz, Miss Oosborne, Miss L. Cheek, Miss Garnett The following gentlemen were present: J. M. Skinner, A. Anderson, D. Ferguson, WTra. Brown, J. Gordon. J. Plummer, R. Chapman, J. Hill, Wm. Mott, S. Taylor D. Moore, J. Pointer, Wm. Beasley, S. Hudlin, G. Smith, A. B. Tolliver, B. Mc Ghee, J. Crissop. II. C. Beauford, F. Butler J. II. Diggs, W. II. Hudlin, W. Monroe, J. Watts, E. Jackson, O.Allen, J. Q Grant W.Terr II. Stoball. J. B. Williams, C. Iewis, in. Proctor, Prof. Hand v, Prof. Peterson, J-Brown, F. Barnett, M.Terry. Miss Ruth Codozoe, of Cleveland, Ohio, is in the city on a visit, stopping with her relative Mrs. T. Bush; on Butterfield street. Mr. George B. Vivion mentioned recently as graduating from our High school, has received a position as princi pal of the colored school at Paris Mo. This is a rewai d of merit, and quite worthily won. Miss Lizzie MbLinn, of New Haven, Conn., sister of Mrs. George C. Booth, arrived in the city Wednesday a. m. Miss M. came direct from Philadelphia, where she has been visiting, and will remain in Chicago till March. John D. Washington, a highly respected citizen, died Wednesday morning at 8 oclock. Deceased has beeu ailing for a long while past with tendencies towards consumption. He was an excellent cook, and was employed by one of the finest city restaurants. With wonder he kept at his work, but finally succumbed and give np his position last week, hemorrhages et in and after being confined to his bed one short week ho parsed quietly away. He enjoyed an excellent reputation for industry and integrity, and was well beloved by all who knew him. He was a a past officer of cor'nthian commandry No. 18, St. Marks chapter No. 36 and North Star LoJge No. 1. A a member of Providence church, he was a consistent Christian, and died in the faith leaving his wife ank little girl to mourn his uutimely demise.