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A D BADLY CR" ME. A NEIGHBOR'S MURDLR. ' AS ATROCIOUS CRIMB BT A NEGRO IN OR AST ' CO C STY TIIE DETAILS. The Marion Democrat, of Grant county, publh&es a desperat crime: On Sunday night May 24, abeut 10 o'clock, a -colored man named Abner Mackmatb, residing in Liberty township of tbis county, was murderd in cold blood by one Daniel Wet assisted by another nefTO named JaKf s Smith abas Casey. The following are the particulars as learned by the Democrat reporter: It eemsthatWest and Mackmatk were both keeping company with a good looking colored girl named Kate Jones, West bad repeatedly threatened to take the . life vl Mackmatb, but no reticular attention was paid to bis threats. On the evening question Mackmatb accompanied theeirl from -church and remained at bet Wia until about ten o'clock, when be started to return to old man Stokes' where he was orliine, by the wyof Burden road. rtwr.vhn had besri overto Slagle's after nmorn. met Dan Westen the J on es bom road, and avs West offered bim $50 to help him (nmmU the deed. To this he agreed, and they went up the &nrden road and miM nnon Mack math about a quarter of a ntf from where he left toe girL West struck hint twhrawitba knite, when he fell back against the fences thev then drew him over the rene andthot him three times. After assuring themselves that he was dead they loaded him on a horse and carried him back in Bill -Jones' a brotk-er of the girl and nrinkl.xi blood on the fence and wood pile. in nrd-r to -oreate the impression that Jones killed bim. When they went im mediately east until they came to the fjtrawtown pike, thence north towards Marion on the Jonesboro pike, to the old Kokoino road, when West shouldered the bod v and carried it into the middle of a pond inst east of the Bond school house. Sheriff Baldwin asd Deputy Fankboder were Bent for to work up Un ease, and on Monday they arrested Jim .Smith alias Casey. Dan west, Joe West and Bill West. Bill West was released without examination. Job West was found not 2uiltv after an examination be fore i:. Friend. Smith alias Casey, and Dan West waived a preliminary examina tion, and vrere placed in jail about ten o'clock Tuesday evening. G reat excitement prevailed among the colort-d peep e during Sunday. Monday and Tuesday, there being at times between five and eight hundred people present, aud tears were entertained that an attempt 3 would be made to lynch the prisoners. but fortunately batter counsel prevailed. - XLL PARTICULARS of the awful crime are given by the Chronicle. The man Smith made a confession and before a coroner's jury, he made this statement: Dan. West had talked to him about killing McMatb. Had finally offered bim to assist him (West) In the job. lie (Smith) and West had accidentally met at the cross roads a short distance south of the spot where McMath was killed. West commenced talking about kil ling McMath, and while tbey were talking saw McMath coming. West went toward him and told him he wanted to speak with him a minute, and asked him whv be bad been teliinz lies about him f West). Me Math replied that he had told no lies about bim (West), when West struck McMath ia the face with a dirk knife, when they linefeed and fell across the log, McMath. striking the fence heaviiy; West drew a revolver from his hip packet, and shot McMath three times. He then slipped a sack over his head, and threw the body across the kK and shot it again through the sack. He then threw it arrows the fence in the woods pasture, where it lay a few minutes, then tooli it back over the fence, and across the roa i and the fenee on the other side, and down to the crossroads, and over the fence and on a gray horse, and carried it a short distance west, to a fence corner near the house of Wm. Jones, from which point "West distributed the blood about Jones premises to place . the suspicion of committing the crime on Jones. Tbey then put the body on West's horte aain, timitb lifting the feet, and started to the river with it oing a mile and a quarter east to the Marion and Liberty pike, striking it at the upper toll-gate. They followed in this way something more than a mile to the old kokomo road. Then east some two or three miles, when Smith told West taat they would be Been if they went througn town, (Jonesboro) when Wt-sfrsaid be knew where heould hide the body in the swamp where it was found. They re turned the road they went, separated at the cross roads near where the murder was com mitted. West going north by the sceneof the murder, and Smith west to their respective homes near each other and about a mile to the north-west. co.iDmos or the bodt. The body found was easily recognized by several witnesses as that cf Ahab McMath, the missing man. Drs. Bates and Home, of Jonesboro, bad been called upon by the coroner to make an examination of th body. Four colored men, under direction of the coroner, waded in the slough, placed the body on a rude bier that had been constructed, and carried it out on dry ground, and nnder direction of the doctors, placed one end of the bier on an oaken log, and supported the other by some stave blocks. They immediately commenced the work of examining the body by stripping it entirely of its clothes constantly using preparations to destroy the nauseating stench which it emitted. Decomposition hd so far taken place that the cuticle readily came off with the clothing, or the dashing on of water, leaving the skin an unuaually clean white color. No wounds being discovered save bruises and cnts about the head, the scalp was split open irom ear to ear and peeled forward and backward laying the skull bare. No less than three fatal wounds on the skull wero. found a heavy cut or bruise two and a half inches longjuat over the left eye; over the right eye the Rull was crushed in: the back and lower J ort ion of the skull was crushed. Two teeth ad been knock-d out and two were loose. A cut appeared on the left cheek, but it had evidently been done by the bone within. No bullet marks or knife cnts could be discovered. The body was ttoen wrapped in a sheet and placed in a plain coffin which was inclosed in a box, and taken in a wagon to the colored settlement and buried. The testimony of a number of witnesses hiving been heard by the coroner's jury, and the report made by tue examining physicians, a verdict was soon rendered that the body was that of Ahab McMath, and that he came to his death from violence at the hands of Daniel West and Janes A. JSmltb. Tne 7 VERDICT 0 THE JTJUY was certified to by Justice Friend,aad on the following day Smith and West were arnigned before him for examination. O. W. Earvey appeared for Smith, and Steele for

West. Both waived an examinatiou, nd on that evening were brought to Marion and

placed in lad, where iney now are. i rum all the circumstances surrouodipe tbia erime.lt is evident that West anSmKhwere thAchierifnotittionlv DenetraVrs. That in stead of being shot, as Scaitn te'tißes,McMath was evidently beaten to aeatnwun -cuu or other bludgeons. To do this work, ana convey tne body-as it was, required at i-' two men. The horses of these two men were hitched on oDDOsite MfJes ot the road just south of the scene of the murder, and the sceneof the murder was at the point woere the path from the elder Jones bouse came to the road, the proper point to intercept the unfortnuiteraau. Daniel west, apparenwjr the . principal actor In tbe crime, U a stoutly built, heavy black negro, aooui nve iee. von inches high, aud ; twenty-four years ol age. lie has not been ' in the settlement but a year or so haviog bt.o. raised csmewfcere in Ohio. We mlfctft add here that be continaes to stoutly deny that he is guilty of the crime charged upon him, or that he has any knowledge ot it. James A. Smith is realty a white man. He is the step son of George Casey, who is married to hto mother hence be frequently goes by the name of Casey. His mother ia a white woman, who was formerly married to a nmlatto in a a named Smith, ua died mony years since, but we learn that she has stated to her eon, now charged with tbis crime, that his father was a white man. S'mitU is a married man, 2j years of age, .rather lithe in build, round shouldered, and on the day of the iixjuest a slouched bat and bis pauts banging on bis boot tops, gave him the appear auce of a rough. The murdered man was apparently black, and. stoutly built. He was a good, religious, man, and at the meeting, an hour before he was murdered made an excellent prayer. We learn that he has one or two brothers, or half brothers, living in the settlement. One of them w a working, making staves, we believe, in the woods where Ahao lay for a week in the pond. THE YOUN MOKEATJ. HOW YOl'NO MOREAU WAS K STIC ED INTO THIBVIStt THB CUNXIXO PLOT AND ITS RESl'LT: IUK PROB AHL B OCIL.T OF ACCKSJSORIES. From au Oce.ifilonal Correspondent ot tbe Sentinel. Kokomo, In p., June 4, 1874. Will C. Moreau, tbe young man who has been confined in the jail of Howard county for grand larceny, since bis arrest, which was on the night ot the 3d of Ma?, has had his trial and was acquitted Tuesday afternoon. At about 4 o'clock the case was called for trial, Elliott, the prosecuting attorney, appearing for the State and Messrs. Kern and Hackney and Jude N. 11. Linsday, under an appointment of court, appeared for the defendant. The eviddnce developed the following state of facts: That Moreau came here some three or four days prior to the commission of tbe offense; hornet one of tbe witnesses and recognized him as "Toby" who he was quite certain he knew in the Madison connty jail. The witness, who was one of the police force, related the circumstance to the mar shal and his deputy, by whom he was advised to play "Toby " and set up a "job" on the strange boy. This was no sooner suggested than steps were taken for the '"job." Tbe policeman p.ayed "Toby" to perfection, gained tbu confidence .of the boy who stated his destitute and penniless condition and asked Toby for assistance, it was then suggested by " Toby "that Davis A Co. 's store would be a good place to "'go through," and theeasiestplice that be Toby knew of. Thus tbe plot to rob begun. The next day the officer, "Toby," took Will to the store where it had been previously arranged with tbe proprietors, and where he ordered a suit ot clothes, while they took a general survey of the premises, after which it was arranged tbey should "go through" the house that night. Tbe officers and the proprietors of the store held a "council, of war," and when night came, "Toby" had his dark lantern in readiness. Tbey watched the marshal and deputy borne, came back and prepared for business. Meanwhile the marshal, deputy and proprietor entered tbe store and stationed themselves to make the ar rest. Soon "Toby" and Moreau come to the scene of action, Moreau raised the window which had been prepared by the proprietors to make easy. . access ana "Toby" held the ' window while Moreau went in. - lie got a board and propped up the window, "Tobv" acting as guard while Will went in and took four coats; and when he 'came out he was arrested by all the parties, except hia friend "Toby," who deserted bim. The evidence further de ve'.oped tbe fact that "Toby" actually boarded and lodged Moreau, while he was working upon him to accomplish his inhuman design. The court instructed the jury that to constitute larceny there must bo a taking, with the intent to appropriate to his own nse, and against the will of tbe owner, which was not the case here evidently. By tbe injudicious acts of tne otacer, ioy, in pusning and leading tbe boy into the theft he has laid the foundation for a strong case ot accessory before the fact. Moreau asserts his intention to remain here and lead an honest and straightforward life among that portion of our citizens who manifested such an interest in his behalf. Tbe ladies of tbe ci'y, a great number of whom were in attendance on tbe trial, lent their sympathy in favor of the wronged boy, so far from home, parents or friends. Ami. TIIE SALEM TRAGEDY. HOW THE QUARREL COMMENCED THE FATAL KNCOCNTKB WHERE THE BLAMB RESTS. . From an Occasional Correspondent of the Sentinel. Salem, Ind , June 4, 1874. This unfortunate town has been visited with another tragedy. On Monday evening, one Frank Pitts, a person long a resident of tbis place and an habitual drunkard, while on a spree was killed on South Main street, in front of the McUindley house. Pitts had been going about tbe streets and public square during the afcernoon in a drunken condition, and being of a rather quarrelsome disposition while drinking, he bad attracted the attention of tbe boys about the streets. At 11 events, he had attacked one Newland Tyler, a boy about twenty years old, at tbe depot a short distance from the above hotel, snd had -thrown Tyler down and choked him. Tyler got up. and said he was going to have Pitts . arrested aud started up Mam street. It is a matter of doubtT whether Pitts really followed him with any intention ot renewing the difficulty, but they came together .at tbe McGiudley bouse, and Pitts,it is said, shoved Tyler off the pavement, when Tyler . PICKED CP A KOCK. .' . No one seems to have seen him strike or throw, but several beard the sound of the blow and saw Pitts stagger and fall on the avement, where he died in a few minutes. He bad a rock in bis band, which was removed from his grasp after his death. His skull was fractured at the base. Tyler admitted he had hit Pitts in the back of i the head. The verdict 'Of the Coroner's jury was, that he came to his death by a blow with a rock in the bands ot Newland Tyler, Tyler was thereupon ar

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, . JUNE 9, 1874

raigned on a charge of - manslaughter. The f reliminary examination was waived , and be bail was fixed at f 1,500 for bis appearance at the circuit court. ' Wbile be is known as an indolent, trifling boy, he succeeded in giving bail, and is at liberty. The transaction is regarded here as a strong temperance lesson, and the temperance people will exert all their Influence to suppress the sale of liquors in this community. ' ". i, 1" , '! Observanpa. . L R A IIOOSIER CELEBRITY. A SKETCH OF A NOTABLE HOME PERSONAGE MISS REAM AND HER PEN. The Southside oi, Saturday last, in its journalist series, contained the. following brief but not unappreciatlve sketch of very remarkable Iady,wbose pen and tongue are alike gifted with graceful utterance. All that the sketch shows and a hundred fold more .can be said in Miss Ream's praise by tbe innumerable circle oi iriends and admirers who delight to do her honor, Laura Ream, though disclaiming the title of journalist, deserves most honorable men tion along with' "Men of the Indianapolis Press." fShe claims Indianapolis as ber home, having lived there the greater part of her lite, and having here acquired her dis tinction as a wrl'er. She was born at Som crset. Perry county, Ohio, February 22, 1S2S, and consequently has an annual sharing ot honors with the late father of his country. At the sge of ten she came to Indianapolis and was an attendant at the school of the late Miss Axtell, but afterward went to Nzireth. a Roman catbolio scoool near BardMown, Ky., where she graduated in 1X44. Upon returning from school she wrote several newspaper articles, receiving some encouragement from Mr. Chapman aud Mr. Deireos. But at that time her aspirations were somewhat checked by the fact that a writing woman was looked upon generally as a presumption, and it was not until about six years ago that she entered actively upon the life journalistic. In tbe meantime her varied accomplishments and social position bad brought her into contact with the society of tbe capital city, and made ber acquainted with tbe politics and the politicians of the state, while her travel and extensive reading bad also tended to qualify her eminently for the admirable work that she has tor the past six j ears been doing. In 186S she commenced writing for the press, corresponding from Portland, Maine, tor the Courier-Journal and for tbe Indianapolis SentiDel and Journal. From that time she became a regular contributor, for about a year, to the Sentinel, during which time she wrote ber first, last, and only romance . - -PH07.BE DOTLE." - ' -; The frank, but rather severe criticism of this story by Eerry R. Sulgrove, in a private letter to her, teems to have completely cured her oi story writing and turned her attention exclusively to the field for ' which her honest and able critic thought ber so admirably fitted. The following extracts from that letter are better than anything we can say, which is our own apology for printing them: February 21, 18C9. Miss 'Lath a: I have read your story carefully. I think it indicates abilities of even a higher order than your warmest ad mlrers have suspected, but I think too that it betrays a lack of constructive talent, or a carelessness in the arrangement and management of details, that points to another field of exertion than the novel. Tbe description of your heroine and her father and mother are admirable. Tbey are full of character, and that of a kind so far outside of the commonplace delineations of popular stories as to create a most decided interest and a degree of expectation which tbe filling up of the vigorous and striking outline does not fulfill. "In this story, while you are proceeding with it, you move with an unassured step, as if you were upon unfamiliar ground. But the moment you strike one of those admirable little breathing places oi 'moralizing,' you step off with the ease and confidence of one who kuows the situation. It reminds me of one walking over a bridge .on the sills, stepping slowly, not always gracefully or easily, but steadily, till the ground is reached, and then moving off with tl.e grace and rapidity of a swan in tbe water. There is a weal-h of shrewd observation, of clear sound sense, of womanly feeling, of pure and generous impulse apparent all through tbe story; but while it makes the 'preachments,' the little essays dropp d in here and there, admirable, it doesn't help the story much. Some of Mrs. Stowe's finest displays of genius are in these sermons or lectures upon incidents of her stories, and yours may stand beside hers in every essential of excellence. If they could have made your story perfect it would be the best of the year by all odds. I don't think your story will greatly increase your reputation, tnougn niucn or it, in a form which I think yon can by and by handle with better effect may take a place beside the oest saeicnes ana social essays in American literature. . i ours most truly," ' B. R. Sülgbove." At the time of the murder of Mr. and Mrs. Young, (tbe Clem affair) Miss Ream commenced corresponding with the Cincincinnati Commercial, for which paper sbe still continues to write news letters regularly. from one to two a week. When the Evoniug Journal was started she became an associate editor of that paper along with Mr. George C, Harding, and remained in that position until June, 1872. This Is her only actual experience in the editorial chair. Ater . STRENGTH AS A JOURNALIST lies mainly in her ability to gather news that interests tho people and to put it into me most reaaaDie snape. Without any disparagement tp the style ol women writers, it may be truthfully said that her letters do not read like those of a woman. Her political letters esnArlnllv l reader as having been indited by the shrewdtfc practical politician, mere is nothini; iiuuciiiiau awuit ucr. xj. er reneciions and criticisms often cut keenly, but never-offend. She can be Intensely, interesting without, being sensational, a result no doubt ; of her indefatigable labor in making herself fully acquainted with the matter of which aha writm. Ifer Inno- oi..i ing as a regular correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial is of itself sufficient to attest .her worth. as a news correspondent. In personal appearance she is stately, dignined, yet modest aud unassuming. A well developed head, with eves that see and that listen, render her at .o7.ce in teresting, if not attractive, in eonvrS3tion. Once- engaged, her' practical knowledge shows to rally as good advantage as her knowledge of baoks. Not a vistige of "strongmindedness" crops out to repel her listener and detract from her dignity, the dignity of a true womanhood. In short, Miss Ream is a practical demonstration of the fact that a woman can do as well as yfij. man what many a man cannot do aa well as she can. She is the only ladv news writer in. the stato, . but if Indiana rd scores of them, Indianapolis might lastly boast one who bad no superior.

THE CONVENTION.

SENDING. IN WORD. NEW TrmES ON AW OLD ORGAN. I' i n . From the Lafayette Journal. ,r :f 1 1 It may be well enough to prate continually about tbe sacred mission ot party. .,It is shrewd in the partisan sense to draft the inhnenceof exhausted issues into tbe army of election just so long as that influence can serve a purpose, but when the vail of pretense becomes so thin that the - dullest eye can see through it, the hypocrisy is unbearable. Great ' questions may. be 1 at stake under certain circumstances. The election of this or that man as the .'representative of principle may be important, but it depends altogether upon the bearing that tbe office has upon tbe disposition of. that principle. Any man who would undertake to canvass a road district for the choice ot a supervis&ron tbe grounds tint on that! choice depended the fate of the Union, would most likely be regarded as a fool." And yet this is what the loyal adherents of party are constantly doing. It is all right enough to! save tbe Union j by the election of a certain person as lust ice of the peace, but tbe Union has got too far along lor anybody to be fooled by such a clamor. If tbe great 'republican party has no other mission to fulfill than to mk this favorite of some accidental congressman a postmaster, or that busy wire-worker a successful aspirant for office, then the great republican party is no better than any other kind of broker, and has no more claim upon the patronage of the people. Tbe republican party has ignored the very idea that principle Is involved in the forthcoming election, and the democracy only profess it in order to gain tbe spoil-. At the pnmary election ye-wrday this was fill I v AvorirtnhAft A nAiit. half thft vntaa rvitt were cast by democrats,and tbis was so plain that it became the subject of common jocular remark, bat as the foreign injection suited the diseases oftbering i he dosewas swallowed with an amiable grimace. We can imagine no severer comment on the present political condition than the broad farce ot yesterday's primary, and when tbe fore-erdatned pets of ring influence appeal to tbe October decision tbey will perhaps learn that reversals as well aa confirmations are liable to occur. , MASS MEETING AT OOS POUT. ' ' From the Gosport Tribune. ', The movement of the. people, in a new party organization in Indiana, as indiccted in a call published in the last issue ct the Tribune, for a mass meeting to be held here on tbe 6th inst., and by posters circulated, more particularly setting forth the object of this meeting, is assuming astonishing importance. This meeting is called, for the purpose" of appointing -'delesater' to-' attend the great farmers' and workingmens' convention, to be held at Indianapolis on tbe 10th inst. tor the purpose of making a new declaration of political principles and placing upon them, of new material, a full field of candidates for county and state v VAV-a uvit Mwtiav vuv v v vav offices. The indications' from all parts of the stare are that- this convention will be the largest and most important ever held at the capital. Every foarure in the movement is at variance' with old party rulesdemocrats and republicans heartily uni-ing in the call. Aud the unanimity of impulse which has prompted it, augurs well for results which must follow, and we hope will be signalized by a decided advance step in political reformation. ADAMS COUNTY ACTION, (ltewlations at Peatur.) The friends of reform of. Adams county; having met in convention at Odd Fellows' Hall, in Decatur, May 14, 1S74, would pre sent the following as a sense ot the meeting: Resolved. That I this convention, consti tuted of men of different antecedents in .politics, now.-, ignore all previous party prededctious aud invite the coworking of all reformers Ina joint act!onvand thereunto we pledge ooreelves to distribute tbe! offices as nearly as convenient between men j who have been acting in the two old political parties. Kesoivea, mat we are in iavor or witnnoiaiig our satrrage, wnetner in convention or at the1 polls from every man who shows, hlrrne.f In Kvmnathv with official ' corruotlon. barTiiin and sale in anyway whatever. Other resolu tions to follow. -..'. - On motion tbe following named gentlemen were appointed delegates to thelOih ot June convention: A. Eicber, Dr. B. B. Snow, Wm. W. Smith, Sylvester Campbell, Lewis Mattox, Daniel Weldy, John McConnell, John Abnet, Vincent D. Bell, Peter Hoffman, John Archbold and Mark Aspy. A WORD OP COUNSEL. From the Newcastle Times. If the lOte of June convention should represent the wisdom and integrity of the toiling and thinking men of Indiana, it will present such a platform of principles as shall command the respect of all parties and in sure tbe support of all who earnestly desire to reform the abuses under which the coun try is groaning. There must be no com prom lie with the decayed democratic party; as, of course, it a new party is established, there can be none with tbe republican organization. If the movemsnt is to succeed, it must take no backward step in the great forward march of reform and education. A new party could only hope lor success by adopting a clean platform of righteous prin ciples, that shall so strongly appeal to the better Judgments of the good men of tbe old parties that they will be attracted to its standard by its apparent virtues and excellencies. COMB AND SEE. From tb North Vernon Sun. Amass state convention is to be held at Indianapolis on the 10th of June, by, those who are opposed to the present administra tion, and are in favor of reform. It is not definitely known what tbe purposes of the meeting are whether . they ; propose ! to nominate a ticket or unite their ., fortunes with the democratic party, but in all probably, it will be the latter, as the obiects which they . seek are in accordance' with the .views, of thai gran and glorious organization. There ist no room for a third party, nor is there anv ne cessity for one. .The object sought to be brought about by those opposed to tnn rrPt , ent administration re but the sentiments of the reform which will, follow a democrtllc victory. No delegates Lave been chosen, but every one is requested in ttnrt rh has sympathy with the mo-ment. It will be a kind of h miscc-llaner .n iitira1 mat ing composed of men of ,an parties. THE ORAF.jj CHANCE. Frcra tbe -ATi-ganGaxette, - The Convention hin hnfnra ufatWt will: be held ir, the expcsitionuildings'. Ample arran-mgßta have been made for necessary r'irresuQMnt8j reasonable prices. fMtWI,'u,P or county 661111?8 will be St tn5s oo111 40 appoint delegates, -p Veare assured,by the industrial classes, nf-t our country will be well represented, -o fact, the 10th of June convention is now ore of the great 'topics , of hourly conversation, and the people are looking, to it aa the means ot political purification and regeneration. All that is needed to ensure

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me complete success of the movement, is entire harmony on tbe part of all those vnaiiy interested, and the selection 'of a number one ticket composed -' entirely bf wen n uuuj ireo irom tne ieat taint or suspicion. The people of Indiana have how in their own bauds a grand chance to wipe out and obliterate all old party lines, and to start tbe conduct of our public affairs to run in such a channel as will reflect credit on tne state and inure to the benefit of all classes in eqnai proportion to their just deserts. Party, as a means of reforming great and glaring, abuses, has proved lailure, and it is now plainly evident that we idusi tnrow aside and bury party, and act in concert, governed by a common sym pathy ana naving in vie w a common ooject - ALL THE LABORERS. Prom tbe dark Conntr Beon). ' , Whatever may have been the origin of the call, there is no longer any doubt that thou sands of the best men In tbe state, of both political parties, now approve of holding the convention, and are moving .in the matter with hope and earnestness, and who hon estly believo the only way to purify the country and protect tbe just rights of the laboring and producing classes, is through an organization of the people which favors rerorm ana a lust aa ministration of the gov ermeni, mat win nq longer be perverted to ravonng monpolie and capital to the detriment of labor. It can not justly be denominated "the farmers movement," for while it embraces a largo number of farmers, the labor unions, and nearly every other indus try, nave, tnrougn tneir representatives, sic nihed their approval and intention of join ing tneir ionunes wiin tne farmers., Let 1 be understood that it Is not a movement of j people without regard tformer parties. i - . r"'o the farmers alone, but an upriiflr of the COMING TO CAMP MEETING, r Report of n. 8. Chase. Secretary. At the last meeting of the executive com mittee of the Monroe . county farmers' club, I was ordered to furnish the iollowing for publication: Pursuant to adjournment the executive committee of the Monroe county farmers' club, together with delegates irom tueaistrict clubs, met at tbe tenter school bouse, in Bloomington, on Saturday, May 16, , 1874, to . appoint delegates to the state conventions to be held at Indianapolis on the 9tb and 10th days of June next, tor toe purpose of rorming a state tanners' association and also to attend the great political camp meeting. The following resolution was unanimously adopted: I Resolved, That the Monroe county far men e.lub will nominate a ticket to be voted or this fall. ' , - - ' ORANGER BARNRSSTOWN. " : .-; ; From the kokomo Tribune. J The independent convention w. llnieeiat Indianapolis next .Wednesday. Although there was a great bungle about the first call, for tbis convention, a bungle that has never been fully explained, the . indications now are that it. will bo more largely attended than even its best friends expected. Arrangements have been made to bold it at the Exposition building, on the state fair grounds. Tents haye been secured and refreshments will be served on the grounds. It is expected that persons will begin to arrive by Tuesday morning, and that the convention will not close until Thursday night. All who want to do so can camp out and thus save the large expense of taking rooms at the hotel. COMING IN FORCE. From tbe Terre Haute Oaaette. .- The farmers of Sullivan county will attend tbe 10th ot June Indianapolis convention, in force. At a recent meeting a set of resolu tions were adopted, which have the true sound about them. They declare their oppo sition to land grants to railroads, insist that salaries given to public officers be reduced to ' something - like .a lust recompense for the actual labor performed, as ascertained' by the salaries received' for similar work in business.-' favor free trade, demand equal rights for tbe farmers, and denounce all monopolies. ' Vigo should not let her sister counties outrun her in the race for the re-adjustment of governmental affairs. 'Iheiothof Jure convention will in all probability be the largest convention of tbe state. All the signs ot tbe times point unmistakably to that result. Vigo snouiu ie representea mere. CONJECTURES. From tbe Laporte Argus. . The independent political convention, which is to meet at Indianapolis on tbe 10th of June, now promises to be well attended by delegates from nearly all the counties in tbe state. The action of tho convention will probably have considerable to do with the results of the fall elections, and candidates who are seeking state offices are decidedly uneasy. There are various conjectures about tbe probable action of tbe convention, but we think that if the attendance is large from all parts of the state, and the proceedings create any degree of enthusiasm, a full , ticket will be nouil nated.but there are some reasons for believ ing that an adjournment will be made sfter a platform is adopted, and then tbe .convention will assemble again, after the democrats and republicans bold their conventions, for tbe purpose or considering the qnestion of making nominations. . . . CARRY IT THROUGH. Frcin tbe Andenon Democrat. The convention to be held by tbe grangers on the 6th of June should take some steps looking to calling a convention for tbe purpose of nominating a candidate for congress in this (the Cth) district. If reform is to be secured at all, it can be done through legislation, and in no - other way. Securing tbe county efbefs is of small consequence as compared with the benefits to be derived from wholesome and economic legislation. The people are readv and anxious to carry out to the fullest e. tent the movement, now bf gun for . refo'm and there should be no halfway work -, ' ' ROOM FOB ALL. ' i ..''"' v 5 ' From tbe Indiana Granger. ' ' It must not be supposed by 9'aj one that tbe farmers' movement, as it r3 called, means that none but farmers are to take part in it. The call for the reform convention originated with the farmers, it Is true, but all citizens who desire reform are cordially invited to take part, be ' they, farmers, mechanics, merchants, etc. Every man who thinks the time has come te take a new departure in politics will naturally gravitate to this reform movement and do all be can for It. Step right into the ranks. ; ; Mf .,"" HOWARD COUNTY. . ' ! ' ' From the Kokomo Democrat. ).'.' The farmers of Indiana meet in state convention at Indianapolis June 10th. Arrange-; ments will be made with the railroads to carry delegates at half the regular rates. Howard county should be well represented. Her farmers are as intelligent and as capable oi manipulating the reins of this new organization as can be found anywhere in tbe state,

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A BUNCH OF INACCURACIES. tZlJ AN HOW MISSTATEMENTS MAY CrtEKP OCTA HOLE PLUOGKP. To the Editor of the Smtmel : This morning's Sentinel and Journal contain a garbled and misrepresented account of a conversation in relation to the iudepenuent movement, held by me with I) s Alexander, a correspondent of tbeCncini nati Gazette.' This Is the second time that he nas .misrepresented. me in connection with thi movement. In his anxietv to retard and break the force of the reformatory noI1aa?t',ßWieOUt of the wakenS of t he people he has given misstatements m1 ''hi o opinion, PS2ed hy me There is an evident desire on h:s part to disparage the men who are enSJln his movement, as witness the foliowin! language: '"Bat when this nniän .undisciplined andD unIdT of men get here what are" thev going to dor This reminds one of tho 'Inpage used by one on thesouthsrn chivalry SlSüHESZ? of I In reference to tbe questions as published in the Journai-"WLat fault havE vou io find with your county officers?" -. Mo auch question was asked, but in st eakfngof county officers my. languaae wi many counties in this state have ert rurl by rings for years and the people arettintired Ol lt. I n thia cm w . . V10" 7 r . , never ueen entertained for a momeut by mycelf or any one connected with the movement, to my knowJrte S Wildman.asa man worthy of our support My reply was, I believe, our people iavor the one term principle. Nor, y do yOU character 0f the dSSrite state ticket will be? uemtcrauc it was teTu ' WelJ' We tho"ebt at K. There is not tho ißif ,in..n i ... . the preent republkau state oilicera will Im renominated on the 17th of June in? you have already admitted that you know nothing against them, and never heard any rnSl lKhing rogatory W thefr clfic vof or tS fcharHCters- Then, why should IZ ÄS?eH 'convention, oppase them rv.j uw tueir vote sufficiently to elact the democratic tieket-a ticket which may be Intensely edious to you and vour convention. - Mr. C. Well. w mQv,... s . , . . - - --. o Usui) a mistake. .Perhaps we nnvht k .., until after thoothpr : :" , . . I. - v- .uuicutiuua were neui. . have never, for a moment, faltered or been , In doubt as to the necessity 'or succs cfihe ' movement, nor have I ever thought that 1 lit i . " ,e .vention was premature. LiGl me advisA him in t, .... . trust too much to his memory and iinacinanon. I be cnrrparmmtimf "But he imnrMwM r With the feehm? that ha .-. . o uui auiiLitr. in an respects as his own sense ot duty wordd prompt him to act. And that there is a . Tvuki-uni, nromer uomstock is executinir.c&nnnt r t . V1 . - vu.u. Aucre are men concealed who are aaer "the spoils." Mr. T . not M "ware of it. If rSii k"6'- 1 must itbera knave or a tool, eithnr in tia . i . Tl.' ' nuuiu lj a crime. mere are so nunv .-.- .di t t.. ... j vuuiiAuiviiuua ii tue communication referred to, it seems a waste T . , . J . n.o.vI I BU. iC'li. w.w.v ,u 1)1 1 ft I. i Ii m 1 ti m n. .....:-. ., . "uiu iMuieuce. ana wait the result of the lOib, and see what thii uaeiTjanized,. undisciplined and unwieldy mas of men will do. James Co J Ureenfield, June 5. 1874. ' ' I . t A RINGING CALL, , BREEZE FROM IJLACKFOBD COUNTY. ,The Hartford City News of last week published tbe following unmistakable call with hree hundred and eighty-nine names ap pended to it: 7b the People of Blackford County: ;We, the undersigned citizens of Blackford county, Ind., irrespective of past party ties, invite all who are opposed to partv ring and party corruption in either of the great political parties of the country and all who are ' In favor of economy and retrenchment in tbe expenditure of the people's money in-all the departments of government, to meet in mass convention at the aourt house in Hartford Ind., Friday, June 5, 1874, at 1 o'clock p. m ' for tbe purpose of nominating candidates for the county offices of Blackford county (to be voted for on the second Tuesday in October next), and to select delegates to the reform state convention to be held at Indianapolis on Wednesday, June 10th. Being convinced that the jead issues of the past have nothing to do with the living present; and that they are no questions which ought to ditide the peopleat tbis time, either locally or nationally; and believing that both of the old political organizations have become corrupt and cannot be trusted, and that thetime has come for the people to unite in selecting public servants who will look to their wishes and interests, instead ot looking to the interests of party; wetherefore invite all tbe industrial inter-' e8ts of Blackford county to meet together '' at the time and place namedf and take part in selecting candidates who will ciny out these view?. All who are opposed to reinstating either of the old corrupt party organizations, and are in favor of a new deal in politics, are invited tn rir,. tbis convention. Come, citizens, let us meet together and take steps to inaugurate reform and free our state from the heavy burdnn brought mi us . by the misrule of the party spirit: , , : David B..t7ürk,V. H. Clark, Aaron Allmon, Brauel Allmon, and 385 others. SWEEPS EVERYTHING. From the Decatur Haggle. Jvrom the proceedings of the medic at this place, which were published in our last issue, it will be seen that arrangements were made that will secure a .representation, from this county In the 10th of June convention. Quite a large and respectablenumbei of our citizens, including men.' of Influence in both political parties, favor tbe move, and should that convention place good men in nomination it will receive respectable support. If we can judgeanything from the signs of the times, party . lines are hardly broken down, and political parties, sadly demoralized, and we should, not le surprised to see the new movementsweep everything before it. ' ' JENNINGS WILL JOIN, . . '. .- From the North Vernon Son J Delegates were appointed to attend the 10th of June convention at Indianapolis. It , was decided to appoint one delegate and one ' alternate from each township.' About half the townships were supplied, when it seemed . that no one could be found to attend on. behalf of tbe - remaining townships, but finally a full delegation was secured except for one township. It is not known yet what. . action the state convention will take,

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