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3htMana flails tunics Dally Except Sunday, 25-29 South Meridian Street * Telephones—Main 3500, New 28-351. MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF, CIRCULATIONS. riffle. I Chicago, Detroit, St. Lout*. G. Logan Payne Cos. Advertising Offices | b’ew ? or k t Boston, Payne. Burns & Smith, Inc. • ' ■-.'l: v. - - . ' ' ■ WOMAN PHYSICIAN says the average girl’s clothes weigh three pounds. In the winter? . \* v e_ / \ “PURSUING AUTO THIEVES NOW ALMOST PROFESSlON’’—Headline. Yes, the pursuers “almost’’ catch them. ORGANIZED BASEBALL MAGNATES surprised, not to say shocked, _ by revelations of gambling, will now give an exhibition of righteous indignation. “OVERHEAD EXPENSES’’ consume 66*per cent of State highway costs under the Goodrich administration. Were the commissioners ever in the restaurant business? • THE “SOME REASON OR OTHER” that Mr. Lemaux advances for the holding back of the street car company In Indianapolis ought not to be difficult to ascertain. x ACCORDING TO MR. ESCHBACH It is “unpatriotio" to criticise his blue sky efforts to reguHate the coal Industry, but the very heights of propriety for him to condemn the Federal regulation of coal that Governor Goodrich asked be renewed. THE ELECTION of W. A. Ketcham as national commander of the G. A. R. by unanimous votq was a pretentious honor bestowed on a worthy member of a wonderful organization for whose best Interests the recipient has worked long and faithfully.

Evans Also Wants the Fees AftQjr a long period of silence under fire, William P. Evans, deputy of our fee-grabbing proseentor and Republican candidate to succeed him, has at last attempted to respond to the charges of unfitness for the offioe he seeks that have been so well established by Paul G. Davis, Democratic candidate for prosecutor. * Mr. Evans uses the better part of a column in the News to promulgate a defense of himself and Mr. Adams, the greater part of which he knows he can not substantiate and hopes to have accepted in spite of public records to the contrary. Doubtless he selected the medium for his defense with due regard to the fact that its own statements of ownership, management and circulation could not be reconciled with public records any easier than his own. But the most interesting and important features of Mr. Evans's defense are as follows: ' 1. He approves of the fee grabbing propensities of Mr. Adams. 2. He pledges himself to grab fees wbenevfer he can. 3. He approves of compromises of judgments with such notorious bootleggers as Lorenz Leppert, to whom Mr. Adams seeks to give a present of $1,500 of the people's money. 4. He relies on the rather dubious proposition that the people of Marion County can not harbor-the thought that either he or his chief in the “goo 4 government” administration could possibly do any wrong. The rest of his statement is the usual peevish twaddle of a candidate brought to book for his shortcomings.

Exposed and Yelping The crocodile tears shed by whoever directs the policies of The Indianapolis News over the possibility that Walter Myers will become unpopular through telling the truth about the Goodrich coal commission and the loud yelps of Jesse Eschbach over the truths told indicate that Mr. Myers (tas stepped on another of the "sacred cows" of the State administration. The News has never heretofore been so solicitous of Mr. Myers and Mr. Eschbach was not nearly so sensitive when ti.3 truth was told concerning hia connivance with Auditor Fesler and others of the “good government” crowd in Marion County to suppress public reports of the misfeasance in office of Marion County officials. All of which tends to prove the theory that it is the intention of the Republican managers of the Goodrich-McCray combination to make a whirlwind plea for the the Chicago Board of Trade candidate for Governor based on the last minute "regulation” of the coal industry versatile Mr. Eschbach. The coal commission is now "gathering facts," according to Mr. Eschbach, and while he has not yet announced whether these facts are to be used for the purpose of “fixing” a maximum price on what little “free coal” there is in Indiana, it is rumored that that is „to be the public program which will cover up the private disclosure to Jim Goodrich ai\d his associates of the possibilities of making money through the squeezing of stockholders in certain coal companies much after the fashion thaT was pursued by Mr. Goodrich in Ms manipulation of Rock Oil Company stock before he had a State organization to help him. The plan of operation of the Republican State campaign managers is said to consist of the establishment, just before election of a maximum at which coal is v to be sold at retail in Indiana. Then a flood of oratory about how the Goodrich administration reduced the price of coal is to he loosened and an appeal made to the voters of tne State to elect McCray in order that he may continue the coal commission. This* is not, however, to Lie done long enough before the election to permit the people of Indiana to realize that it does no good to fix prices for coal unless there is coal on the market. After the election it will make no particular difference if the public does discover that the'commission has jurisdiction only over the price of “free coal” and that as a result of hastily made contracts the favored operators of the State have reduced the amount of “free coal" to a point where there is none worth mentioning. Naturally, the Goodrich-McCray Eschbach-News combination is annoyed. % It was not on their program to have the public know in advance how they expected to bunka the public. \

Protecting a City’s Credit The consensus of opinion among those who are not affected by partisan fervor is that Mayor Thompson- has the best of the controversy which recently resulted in the suits brought by the city of Chicago against the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago { News. ' * These suits, ordered by the Chicago mayor? ask damages in the millions from the two newspapers on the'ground that the newspapers asserted that Chicago was “broke” and seriously affected the credit of the municipality, making it difficult forVhe city to obtain needed accommodations in the money market. Os course no city like Chicago can ever be “broke" and the assertions to that effect are the veriest kincT of political bunk. The situation that confronted Chicago was merely that of many business men who at times find themselves wholly solvent but cramped for ready cash with which to meet bills. The city had bills receivable in the form of collected taxes, but a temporarily depleted treasury. The Cook County treasurer refused to provide funds in anticipation of the settlement between the county and the city and the two newspapers'made the most of the situation in an effort to show that the city was bankrupt because of inability to meet bills due. This hubbub doubtless influenced financial circles against the pity’s warrants which had heretofore been discounted ox accepted as cash and a tempoary embarrassment was created. The same thing was attempted by Republican politicians in Indianapolis during the Bell administration, the only differqpce being tha r . the newspaper which attempted it was never brought to an accounting therefor. Whatever the results of the legal action taken in the name of the city of Chicago, the filing of the suits has had a wholesome effect. They are notice all that the people of Chicago have a general land j personal interest in the credit and good name of the city, for which 4hey [propose to compel respect. Mayor Thompson is to be commended on 1 ndring a way to command Qiftt respect to wtfch the municipality Is entitldp^a

Street Car Fares People of Indianapolis whoso Interest In proper street car service appears to be the only Interest not now lbeing protected in the present gdme of “passing the buck” between city and state officials should not be confounded by the pretty byplay between the public service commission and Mr. Lemaux 6f the board of works. The truth about the situation is that the street car company Aias presented to the public service commission a plan fog* increasing its revenue which can not be reconciled with the nest interests of Indianapolis, the city administration is complaining the public service commission lacks the nerve to promulgate the plan and the commission is unable eitner to muster sufficient courage to do as the “vested interests” desire It-to do or to evolve a proper solution for a problem that calls for Immediate determination. After several years of squeezing the local street car company, at the behest of the city administration, the public service commission now finds there is no more blood to be squeezed from the company and it is confronted with the necessity of granting the company some kind of relief fr<*m the condition which Mr. Lemaux says is retarding the growth of Indianapolis and which every street: car rider admitg'Ts too serious long to continue. / v „ The only remedy so far evolved for the rehabilitation of the flnanens of the strggt car compafiy by either the company, the commission or the city, is a “service at oost” proposal whicly Is manifestly dangerous, not only to the street car service, but to all other lines of industry in the city. It is proposed as a remedy for the miserable street car service with which Indianapolis is afflicted that the people of Indianapolis guarantee tb the company all the revenue it may ever need to maintain a proper street car service, to which is to,be added such revenue as may become necessary tp pay a reasonable return on the agreed Investment. The greatest objection to this guaranty lies in the fact that it wipes out all incentive to economical of the street cars. Does any one think that the purchasing department of the company wouldfbe worrying itself as to whether coal is obtained at $4.25 a ton or $lO a ton if the street car riders of Indianapolis were bound to pay for the coal at any price? Would there bq any incentive for street car officials to oppose Unreasonable wage demands or excessive executives’ salaries if the people of Indianapolis were bound to pay the costs of both? Is it likely that bnTy such improvements as are necessary to the betterment of the service would be sorted from the improvements designed to benefit powerful individuals if the costs of all improvements were to be capitalized for rate-making purposes against the street car riders of in-* dlanapolis? Indianapolis ought to consider carefully the future possibilities of a contract with the traction company by which the street car riders are bound to pay the bills regardless of extravagance of operation or utility of improvements.

Under the law- by ( which the public service commission operates, public utility rates are presumed to be fixed at a level that will meet legitimate expenses and provide a reasonable return on a proper valuation of the property used and useful in the provision of adequate service. For some unknown reason the law appears to have been suspended Insofar as the street car company Is concerned. Although the law requires that the public service commission "shall” value 4he property ©f Indiana utilities the property of the Indianapolis Street Railway Company has never been so valued. Although the law plainly contemplates the jibing of rates at a level that will afford a reasonable return on the value of the property of this company, no such rates have ever been established inhthe history of the commission. • Although the law requires tho commission to grant “emergency relief” to such utilities as the street car company, “emergency relief’ was only obtained by the company as a result of a mandate obtained at great loss of time through the highest court of the State. The Times believes the people of Indianapolis understand thoroughly the impossibility of operating a public utility now on the same revenue that was sufficient to operate it before the war. The Times also believes that the people of Indianapolis are willing to provide the street car sufficient revenue to make adequate service possible in this city. % The Times does not believe that the street car problem will ever he satisfactorily disposd of until the people of Indiana know the extent of the company’s investment In this city. When that valuation is established, the sense of fair play that-ls so apparent in Indianapolis will compel a revenue sufficient to make the street car business remunerative to those pho have invested their money hi it. It is the mandatory duty of the public service commission to establish that valuation —a duty that the commission has shirked. The company has evaded and the city administration has viewed with apprehension every attempt on the part of the people of Indianapolis to obtain a true valuation of .this property for rate-making purposes. Instead of endeavoring to produce such a valuation and accepting \ reasonable return on such a valuation the Interested parties have resorted to every known subterfuge to establish without valuation. Among these subterfuges is the proposed “service at cost’’ plan and the recently revived "penny transfer plan.” The latter Is as vicious as the former, for It seeks to Impose a burden on the street car is compelfed by lack of adequate cross town service to transfer from one line to another, often traveling miles out of hia way to reach a destination that petty city politics and real estate speculation have decreed can be reached through po other street car service. x Obviously the street car pfoblem in Indianapolis eat| be solved only through a rate hearing resulting In the establishment of a proper evaluation of the property on which reasonable faros may be based. Obviously the present Republican State and city administrations propose to shirk their duties and avoid just such a proceeding. Obviously they are doing this with the approval of the street car company. Obviously the people of Indianapolis should tolerate no Increased street car fares until It Is proved beyond'a reasonable doubt that Increased fares are essential to adequate ser Ice and reasonable returns on the property used and useful in the provision of such service.

Profiteering Recently the Times printed the results of a careful Investigation into The prices of foods as charged at the several different types of eating places in Indianapolis. The investigation showed that profiteering was at high tide in the most of the cases and restaurants of Indianapolis. One article of food on the menu of one case might he reasonably priced, but no article of food was reasonably priced in all the cases. There is, of course, an additional charge justifiable in every first -lass eating place for “overhead" expenses such as are involved in making the eating place sanitary and attractive. But there is no reason why this overhead charge should make the ultimate charge to the consumer 1,500 per cent greater than the wholesale price of the food. Caterers in Indianapolis are profiteering, regularly and on special occasions. Competition does not appear to check the gouging. Regulation by officials Is not a success. Perhaps the “carry your own lunch” movement that has been successfully tried elsewhere would do'more than anything to curb the restaurant profiteer.

BRINGING UP FATHER.

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INDIANA DAILY TIMES, .SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25,1920.

BRIDGE MONEY GONE The state board of accounts, in Its report of May 26, 1919, says: “On ’Aug. 2, 1916, bonds in the sum of SIOO,OOO were sold to pay for the construction of a bridge at Senate avenue over Fall Creek. In 1918 there was paid on this contract on account of thisbridge $10,418.10, and for the purchase of ground for approaphes, $3,100 J _Jenvlng a balance from the bond issues for construction Dec. 31, 1918, of $8*5,480.90. ‘‘The work of building the bridge was at a standstill for some time, on recount of litigation and, in the meantime, as shown by another tabulation, the funds have dwindled away on account of the depleted condition of the treasury, until at the present time the county commissioners are in an embarrassing position of having spent the money and

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

(Any reader can get the answer to any question by writing the Indiana Daily Time* Information Bureau, Frederic .1. Haskln, Director, Washington, D. c. This offer applies strictly to information.' The bureau cannot give advice on legal, medicnl and ilnancial matters, it docs not attempt to settle domestic troubles, nor to undertake exhaustive research on any subject. Write your question plainly and briefly. Give full name and address and enclose 2 cents in Btamps for return postage. All replies are sent direct to the inquirer.) WASHINGTON NEWS. Q. How many words do the correspondents send out to the newspapers from Washington each day by wire? B. N. 8. A. The official* cf the National Pres* Club estimate that >*><fsUy average of about 300,000 words Is transmitted by telegraph and cable throughout the year. At certain times when tmportauf news in transpiring this amount will be greatly increased. These figures do ndT Include the vast amount of copy sent by mail, which is always greatly in excess of that bandied by wire., COMPLETION OF CENSES. Q, How soon will the 1920 census be completed? I- M. C. A. The Bureau of Census says that the completed report for the 1920 census will not be ready for at least two years. A MILITARY FENERAL. Q. When a corpse ts returned from Krone*, what is the proper conveyance on which to carry the bojiy to the cemetery when a military funeral is held? "J- L C. A. The usual conveyance for a mill (fry funeral is a caisson, but if this 1* not available a luytrse Is proper NEW' QEAR.TERB. Q. Are the new quarters without three star* under the eagle genuine? F. YE \Y’. A. The office of jhe director of the mint says -that there are t*4 types of these quarters in circulation, and both are the type nfiw being made. A modification of the designs was authorised t>y Congress in order to improve the artistic merits of the coin. The first arrangement of stars on each side of the eagle gave the coin a crowded ap pea ranee.

MANUFACTURE OF CIDER. Q, Can one legailj usako cider for his w„ use ? W. Jl. N. A. The Bureau of Internal Revenue says that any person may, without permit, and without giving bond, mannfs'--ture non-intoxicating elder and fruit Jnlees, and ltr~so doing he may take his apples or fruit to n custom mill •nd have them made Into elder and fruit juicea. After such rum-Intoxicating elder and fruit Juices nr* made, they must be used exclusively tn the home and when so used, the phrase “nor,ln toxlcatlng” means nonintoxicating In fact end not necessarily less than one-half of t per cent of alcohol. "lIERII BOUQUET."* Q. Os what does a “herb bouquet" consist? M- T - A. Cooks differ In the .'Ampoqjng ot this seasoning bunch, but a spray of parsley, sprig of thyme, a bay leaf and u branch of celerv constitute an acceptable herb bdUquetsand will flavor about a gallon of aoup If cooked with It for an hour. \ CIIAR/rt TER OF URIAH BEEP. Q Is It uncomplimentary to characterise n man as a sort of Uriah Keep? A. A. IV. A. Since Uriah Heep was a "cadaverous, obsequious hypocrite* portrayed In David Copperfieid. eurh a comparison could not be considered complimentary. INDIAN INGENUITY. Q. Where did tho Indians get their flint and how did they make darts out of It without tools? ' O. G. D. A. The Bureau of Ethnology says that Indiana got flint, or abort from river beds and shaped them by percussion 'with other stones, producing rude- shapes of the arrow or dart paints they intended to make. Then with hOrn they finked off the atones until the desired shapea were obtained. WAS FIRST ADMITTED. Q. Was Vermont one of the thirteen Original States? It. K. S. A. Vermont was not one of the original thirteen States, but wgs the first State afterward admitted to the Union. PROBABI/E ORIGIN OF PHRASE. Q. Jlow did the expression, “Let her ’go Ufnllagher” originate? O. <l. A. Various ideas are advanced as to the origin of this phrase. Gallagher 1*

DAVIS TALKS on DECENCY, Democratic candidate for Prosecuting Attorney tells wky and under what conditions lie selks the support of Marion County voters.

the greater portion of the cost of the bridge construction is yet to be paid.” This is one .of the many instances where the Republican county commissioners have signally'failed to do their duty. Many of their appropriations, according to thft reports of the State board of accounts, have been unlawful, but the Republican prosecuting attorney has not investigated any of the malfeasance in this office, and ia apparently unconcerned about the lavish and unlawful expenditure of money Which has been made. 4*l am elected prosecuting attorney, the county commissioners will understand that their expenditure of the public's money will be under the close scrutiny of my office, and I believe tile result mill be that there will' be fewer “oversights” costing the taxpayers thousands of dollar*. PAUL G. DAVIS.

said to have been the name of a Texas sheriff, who, having adjusted the hangman's noose, was told by a chedrv criminal to “let her go, Gallagher." Another version is to the effect that an old horseman named Gallagher rode a forlorn old plug, and cowboy* shouted at him in derision, “Let hes go, Gallagher,” THEORY OF PRAIRIES. Q. Why are there no trees on prairie lands? T. B. M. A. Some of the theories advanced, as explanation for the treglessness of prairies are insufficient moisture; constant graxing by buffaloes and'other animals; soils too compact and heavy, and repeated grass fires. * PILLARS OF HKRCELES. Q. Where were the pillars of Hercules? W. N.. A. Two blits on opposite sides j>t ttse Strait of Gibraltar were called the Pillars of Hercules, following a myth to the effect that they had been torn asunder by Hercules to admit the flow of the ocewn into the Mediterranean.

THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS t.V, INTERPRETATION .

When the covenant of the League of Nations after thb Predi dent had spent many weary months reconciling the Jealousies and ambitions of European nations, the United States so led tha world that it was written In the txrod that the league’s first session should be called by Mr. Wilson. Also, iit deference to ti* fact that the league must be an organization primarily for peace and in Has with the high principles of the fourteen points. It was provided that a unanimous vote must be bad on- decisions by the council. It-was realised that, if America did snot agree, no effective action could be taken. Now. the Republican Senate has defeated ratGflcatlon; the Republican platform has dodged the question and the Republican nominee has opposed ottr entrance iwto the league, proposing nothing but an impenetrable maze of words as a aubstllute. Contrast with this darkness the cloar provisions of Article 5t

CHATTER LXXVI. "Then you didn't get Neal's telegram’’’ I exclaimed. In reply t <l Father Andrew’s sudden question as to Neil's whereabouts. Father shook bis head. How very gray be had grown. How tired he looked. ‘•Ret me make you xcomfortabla oTer on this big coach, dear,” I cried. "Give me your bag and overcoat. And as soon r, I've hugged you once or twice more. I'm going to get in some scrumptious apple* for you as good as we get at home." Father Andrew shook his head and faced me sternly. His kind hazel eyes didn't twinkle now, but focussed on me Intently from under his bushy brows. His hands were clinched, and It seemed that he waa exerting force to keep hia voice from trembling as he demanded again: "Barbara Anne, where la my boy?" Then I knew. Tie had thought Neal a slacker. And It was agony to him. He had come across the country to plead with bis boy to be a man. He didn’t have to tell me—that I eould spare him. “Dear," I cried, glorying in the news t had to tell, “Neal started for camp yesterday. My husband was ready to help him get Into whatever branch of the service he chose. But tNeRI thought he ought to jult go along In answer to the call for hls draft number—and let lilt bounty put him where she needed him." ' Father Andrew’s lips moved, but no words came. He got to his seer, swayed for a second—and then a wonderful light came into hls eyes. “My boy's gone for' a soldier!" He said It like a prayer. “And wbiit do you think" I erlew seeking the smile tligt was needed to clear the air, “Neal’s gone to the big camp that's only a hundred miles from home.” “Back home'” exulted my dear old "step"-father- the rosiest father a girt over had—“ Barbara Anne, I calculated won't need to call on that stranger ,wl" visiting you to show me much of

WHEN A GIRL MARRIES A\New Serial of Young Married Life By Ann Lisle

PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS V. The Harrison-Van *Buren Race of 1840. By FREDERIC J. HASKIN

WASHINGTON, D. C.—A “big meeting” was in progrqes in Giles County, Virginia, in Covember, 1840. The circuitriders were assisted by earnest exhorters and there'were many professions of conversion. One old woman in the neighborhood had held out against the efforts of the church.-" She was piecing a quilt—a quilt of 10,000 pieces. At last, after two years of toil, the quiltjwas finished, and she consented to go to “meeting.” On the way to the church she heard a great piece of news. YVhen she got to the meeting she rushed to the “mourners’ bench," knelt for a space in prayer and then arose, shouting: “Glory to God! My quilt is finished; my soul Is saved; and Tippecanoe is elected!” To the YVhlgs of 1840 soul’s salvation and the election of William Henfy Harrison were matters of equal importance. The campaign was not so much a political campaign as it was a Hallelujah Chorus sung by the triumphant Whigs. It waß the most exciting political race of our history, and it ended by the overwhelming election of William Henry Harrison to be President, and John Tyler to be Vice President.' It was the first campaign in which cartoons, emblems, poputftr slogans and political songs had a Togue, and it was the first in which a candidate for President took the stump to appeal to the voters directly. “And have you heard tho news from Maine? How it went. Hell-bent, And Tippecanoe and Tyier, too. For Tippecanoe and Tyler, too!” That was one of the many great Whig songs of the campaign. It has lived because of the alliterative lilt of the refrain, “For Tippecanoe and Tyler, Too,” and because of the memory of the tornado of enthusiasm which greetted its appearance. It was' in September 8f the campaign. Harrison was well in the lead, but the’,Van Bnren administration and the old Jackson machine were straining to stem the Whig uprising. The September elections in Maine were then, as now, taken ’as straws to show the treqd of the political air currents. Horace Greeley entered the arena of national politics in this He started a campaign paper in New York called The Log Cabin. In every issue it printed from ten to twenty Whig campaign songs. On the day it presented the glorious news of the “redemption of Maine,” for Maine had been a strong Democratic state, it also published Ihe worm and music of the song, "Tippecanoa end Tyler, Too.” The campaign of 1840 is called the “Log Cabin and Hard Cider Campaign." It ail came about because of the complacent superiority of the Democrats. Van Boren had,beaten Harrison in 1836,

"Except where otherwise expressly provided in this covenant or by the terms of > the present treaty, decisions at any meeting of the assembly or of the council shall require the agreement of all the members of tbe league represented at the meeting. All matters of procedure at meetings tbe assembly or of the council, including the appointment of committees to investigate particular m tiers, shall be regulated by the assembly or by the council, and may be decided I>v a majority of tbe members of Nbe league represented at tile meeting. Tbe first meeting of the assembly and the first meeting of the council shall be summoned by tiie President of the United States of America.” Tlie only way, under this article, by which the league could embroil America In the quarrels of Europe vsXjuld be by t ongress It self easting the affirmative vote, and behind Congress would necessarily be the people of the United States.

New York, after all. I'll need my returntrip ticket pretty quick. t “You’re going to stay and visit for 'a week at least," I protested. "Why, Daddy, I’ll bet It made a great big hole lii that savings-bank account of .Vour* to come here—and now that you’re here, you’re going to see a bit of the city and get to know my-boy before I let you go bock.” "The old feed store, she pays me pretty regular, daughter,” chuckled Father Andrew. ‘My feturn ticket’s bought, and I’ve still got a few dollars of my savings left. So we’ll blow in n little on good times betore I go, and have plenty left to buy tbe boy a swell 'wrist watch, and whatever blankets and he needs—oh. by crlckety—mj -boy* gone for a s%i!ier I wanted to cry for sheer love of Father Andrew and the simple home Ufa he brought back to me. Os course, he would’u, have liked that at all, so I hugged' him Instead, atqi right In the middle of a hearty smack Jim walked in -.with Evvy on hls arm. Which of the two men wag more amazed I don’t know, but Evvy purred.—Copyright, 1920. (To Be Continued.) Y i. „ BRIDGEMEN MEET RUT. 26. ATLANTA, Ga., Sept. 25.—Approximately 000 delegates from all parts of the country and Canada will attend the annual couve'ntlon of the American Railway Bridge and Builders' Association, which meets her§ Oct. 26, 27 and 2S, according to announcement recently by O. T. Nelson, superintendent of maintenance of way of the Atlanta & West Point railroad, w.ho Is chairman of the local entertainment committee. U. S. WORKERS BUY GEMS, LOUISVILLE. Ky., Sept. 25.—Last year was the best the jewelers of the United States ever had, according to Ar- , thur A. Everts of Dallas, Texas, president of the American Jeweleers’ Association, .who, at the Jewelers’ convention. 1 attributed the prosperity of the trade to the increased power of the working clisses and the value of jewelry an investment.

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and when the Whig* turned down their great Clay, and nominated, the venerable Harrison, the Democrats could do nothing but laugh. Having beaten Harrison once, they reasoned that it was utterly Impossible for them to be beaten by Harrison. The sneers at the Whig candidate appeared in every Dqp>ocratic paper, but it remained for fee Baltimore Republican to say: / “Give h!m a barrel of hard cider and sottle a pension of $2,000 a year on him, and, my word for it, he will sit the remainder of his days in his log cabin, by the side of a sea-coal fire, and study moral philosophy.” That paragraph was not so cruel, perhaps, as the New York Evening Post’s appeal to the ladies to send in second-hand shoes and hats so that the poverty stricken Harrison might appear in decent clothing before the people, but it struck the Whigs as utterly contemptible. Therefore, they turned the tables, took up the “hard cider” and “log cabin” sneers at their candidate and proclaimed to the world that, as true Democrats, they were supporting a man who lived in a log cabin and drank hard cider—a third Cincinnatus. The Whigs and their predecessors, in, opposition to the Democrats, had had excellent opportunity to judge of the efficacy of tha hero in politics. For four presidential campaigns Andrew Jackson had been unconquerable witfi the people. In 1836 Harrison had beeq a candidate, but there was little reference to his war record. But in 1848 he .was put forth by his ardent followers as a real, true'and genuine war hero. He was the hero of the Battle of the Thames, of the Battle of Ft. Meigs, and he had overcome the mighty chieftain, Tecumseb, at the ‘ Batjle of Tippecanoe. The Democratic candidate for vice-president, Richard M. Johnson of Kentucky, had slain Tecnmseh with his own hand, and a few of the vodnger Democrats tried to retaliate with Johnson as a hero. But it didn’t go. Johnson was not popular to begin with, and 1840 was distinctly not a Democratic year. HARD TIMES THAT HELPED. The panic of 1537, brought on by overspeculation and too much confidence in the great governmental prosperity a* a rrop for individual prosperity, had reduced the nation to poverty. Men were out of work, bank, .deposits* had been lost 'in bank wrecks, and the country was in a terrible condition. Whether rightly or wrongly, the party in power was held to be responsible and the Whig landslide was inevitable. When the Whigs met at Harrisburg there were three candidates—Henry Clay, the real soul of the party; William Henry Harrison, and Winfield Scott. Thaddeus Stevens made his first entry into the realm of practical—and dirty—politics in this convention. He was an anti-Mason and he soon convinced the convention that it would be impossible to get the anti-Mason vote for Clay, who was St Royal Arch Mason. With Clay eliminated the was between Scott and Harrison, both heroes of the War of ISI2. Both were born In Virginia; as was flay, and curiously enough, it required the vote of the Virginia delegation to settle the issue. qhaddeus Stevens was for Harrison because he had a letter from Harrison promising him a cabinet position if he (Harrison) was nominated and elected. Stevens also had a lettec.Jrom General Scott written to Francis Granger in which Scott was flirting with the abolitionist sentiment in New York with a view to getting votes in the convention. Stevens, with careful carelessness, let this letter drop on the floor of the Vir' ginla headquarters rpom. It was found' and read. Instantly the Virginia delegation solidified in support of Harrison and he won the nomination. It was the firrt real fight for a nomination by a national convention.

THE FIRST ABOLITIONIST TICKET. |. Another remarkable feature of the ’ampaign of IS4O was the establishment lof the Abolition party. Its candidate for ! President, James G. Birney, received 7.059 votes, mostly In New York and \ Massachusetts, but It was the beginning of a movement which brought about the political conditions which resulted In the Civil War, fbe abolition of slavery and the reunion of the States upon a | basis of acknowledged inseparable peM manency. *. ® Another Innovation of the campaign oP IS4O was that William Henry Harrison took the stump. It was contrary to all precedent and the Democrats affected to be shocked beyond words by the indecent -spectacle of a candidate fog President actually pleading for votes on the i hustings. Bnt the tour of Ohio and Indiana enabled Harrison to offset the [ charge that he waa a mere puppet lu the hands of political schemers, and H turned the tide in hls favor. One of the greatest political gatherings this country has ever seen was the Whig gathering at the Battleground of Tippecanoe, near Lafayette, Ind., ,on May 29. IS4O. \ log cabin bad been built on the fieftl and in it General Harrison received the veterans who had fought, there under him againat Tecumseh. It was a great day and Harrison made a great speech. He then began his famous hand-shaking tournament, whieh. according to the popular belief at that time, caused hls death one month after 'ho was inaugurated President. People came in wagons for more than 300 miles to. the Tippecanoe meeting and there were 30.000 people there. The "campaign lie” reached Its height In this icontest. Thurlow Weed, editor of the Albany Journal, was accused by tj>e Albany Argus of having shaved the whiskers off a corpse to make It pass for tho body of William Morgan, said to have been slain by the Masons. General Harrison was accused of cowardice In battle and Democrats refused to believe that he was even present at tho Battle of Tippecanoe. Horacl Greeley thundered denunciations of the Democrats, who were assiduously spreading the lie that General Harrison had voted to sell white men Into slavery for debt. The great popular Interest and excitement brought out the greatest vote ever cast up to that time, the fhtal being nearly two-, and a half millions. Harrison’s majority of the popular vote wasß something less than 150,000, but he carried nineteen of the twenty-six States and received 231 electoral vijfes to sixty for Van Bttren. The result of the electjon brought joy to the hearts of the j Whigs, but it was doomed to be short-J lived. t \ .f I