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THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY, JULY 18, 1853.

rlection than they are no ia the support of Cleveland anl Thurir.au. Rut ilie democrats are goin to have a desperate light. They should uot overrate iheir own strength nor underrate the strength of the republicans. 1 da ri-t know my shrewder political workers than home the republicans have in Indiana, inil'i lii:- John C New and his editor llalforJ, v!i-, through their newspaper, the Joun-Jt and otherwise, very adroitly managed the Ilarrion boom and rtatly secured his nomination. They will all exert themselves to the. Tory utmost to clod hiin. TIiv are zealous, kiUiul, unscrupulous, and vili huv lots of money from ''the manufacturers and Vil-st." but lor all that yon must not Jot them carry Indiana next November. I ilon't believe they can do it, and now, in confltiNi.i'.i. I will briefly tell yon why I thin so. 3l is pretty certain, I think, th.it all the per kons n tl i htata Who have heretofore been republicans will not Miiport tht vpubjieanlieket this fail, but even if thfy do that will not rive it tho state by n long ways. It is doubtful vhcther th republicans luve even a plurality, they certainly bave not a majority, or ithin Tt-iy many thousands of it, The prohibitionists er?:ibck.firs and labor organizations un louV-teJly hold a heavy balance of power ia Ib l.nntv. Harrison end Morton have not the ghost of a rhancv of drawni:; buy considerable support iroiu thche sources. On the contrary it is as well known a anything in politic can be lci:ov:i, that tley will be heavy losers on account of thcra" The prohibitionists would iiKike their. "! yes the laughn:g stock of the country tu favor the men, htouuin as they do, mi the Chicago "cheap whisky' pltft.orm. " h;U nrohiLitionüL Ür.j.k about it is very torrihly expressed in a recent interview villi one r,f them 'in this city, the Rev. IL V. Hunter, a v.til known and iidluctitial prcsbyierian preacher of rep-iVJean antecedents. Jle is lr.l!ihed bs spying: The republicn! platform is illogical and cowardly and by it tic pnrty goes back on all its pronirfes. Gen. HarrNon 1 believe to be a roni is:i!i. but t.'se p..rty deserves to be de-lr.-ite 1 on account of its miserable botch of a platform. 1 am confident that it will drive thousands of Christum voters from the rcpubliran party, as 1 know of a great many right here that think as i do about it," "What is your opinion of President Clevetndf "He has made a much better president than any one thought he would. No one can honestly criticise Iiis administration, and upon the tariff question 1 don't know but he is just about li'hi. Of eouv5V ths cry oi protection to industry will serve as a so. 1 of catch far tlx repi'Mirans, but I think tlure is precious little in it." A':d as to the rrcenhackers. and men in, or aHiiinting with the labor organizations, it is veil known they are irtnsly hostile to Harrison fin I Mot tou and will all, or nearly all, vote the democratic ti-kct. They understand perfectly well that the democratic cauvi in this tight is their cause, and nnar.s tor tho people u nd ngair.st monopolies whenever there is a conflict between them. 1 conclude therefore that the republicans cannot possibly tarry Indiana, even with that promised aid from "the manufacturers and Y jll-st." referred to in that remarkable letter from the Kansas senator, but it behoves every man who does not want that ticket elected to exert himself every day from this uutil election to defeat it. At the conclusion of Li-? ppocch, Mr. Knglisli announced that the next speaker ttoiThl he iov. Gray. The governor was protted with tremendous cheers. His fh'ort was a very happy one and elicited almost continuous applause. ;ov. cr.AY'.s a dim: ess. Is this what you call a little local affair? The republicans say that they are ir'ing to inaugurate a campaign of 1 10. That'a too old. The democrats arc going to inaugurate a campaign like I"s4. We remember that. My ieüow democrats, I urn glad to see nn-h au o'U-iK'iiring of the democrats flu.lianapolisi.nd am specially gratiiied beai.se we are ratii'yin:: the work ot the demoerattc national convention. That convention re-nominated, by acclamation, Grover Cleveland, and 1 am willing to risk my reputation l v e-.aying 1 ere to-tii'ht. that he wul be reelected. Great applause. The convention nominated for thv second place on the ticket a rv.n whose rune is a synonria of s'Htsman.. rl.,p and po'iiieal iuii -,'rity. AnpiuuSc If the democrats fiunct elect that ticket, upon the platform udopud at s;. Louis, they can never elect any ticket. The old democratic party never occupied a prouder place than it 1.'" to-day. It is the national party in the lullest sense of the word. It marches under the same banners and proclaims the tame principles in every state. The St. Xuis convention adopted a platform favor-

JIl lUtt iu.:uiii, i.tiii a-iunu arm uuwin; uifr v iih good will toward the people. And with those principles confronting the republican party, with its corporations, syndicates and jTionopolies, we will overthrow them horse, foot and dragoon. We will work out on this platform blesslups to every laboring man, -heiip homes, cheap blankets and cheap -ithes, and th? repuollcau party tan take free Mhiskyand tobacco. The republican party declared in its platform of IS I that it was in favor of correcting the ineOjUahticd of the turitt'. In 1SS it says there are no inc-nal'tics in the tariff. Why is it? "Why in LvTJ the republicans made a feeble sttempt to separate themselves from the syndicates ami pools that ever since the inception of the party hae bten part and parcel of it. Bein ilcfea.cj in the :ittcmpf, the republican part' at Chicago in Is-- oound itself body and ml to the corporations of the country proini-öng that if restored to rower that that party wo.iia i ..t h in? the tarid' in any partietiLir. 'J hey say they wiii make tobacco free, and if that is not encuali, whisky also. This at'itudc rcmirds me of an old story about a luuster in the tlavery d .ns, who asked a slave if he could have three wishes what they would be. Well, the obi t How replied immediately that his tirst v .h would be to have all the Mhisky Le could drink. "And what nest?" itsked th master. '"Well, I would like to have all the tobacco 1 eocl I hew," he rt plied. "And your third hh?'' sdd the master. Tim dirkey scratch' d his !:el fr a JV v moments in perplexi'y. liut f:ii;tlly said slowly, "Well, I'll tell you, masvi, 1 'licve that 1 would take a little more whiky." Iiu-hfer. Iuit, my fellow democrat.", 1 have enough judgment to know tin t this is neither the time Jior the place to iiiseus in detail the Usues betwetn the two preat political parties. When that tiuiK has eofno, the rctuibHean party ill have nominated its full Mate ticket, and I will then try to do my fullest d.tty. And 1 promise you lit re to-uiuht, thouvh my voice le feeble none shall be more earnest to call on tße people of Indiana to listen to the people's voie;. Uiit the democrats must not underestiluate the ctri'irIe that is lr fore us. 1 ay to you to-r.iiht that never before have questions o irauht with importnnce been presented to the people. It is the old light that has existed rver since the povcrnrucut was instituted. It is the. democratic' party with the people in its Land oa the otic side and the republican party led by monopoly on the other, and if the republican party Miceeds and the jrineiplts enunciated in its plat form be put into el.'rct, you may rest assured thut the hundreds of millions of surplus wiii uot be disturbed within the next lour years. Therefore I say to the democrat! : party, let us organize as ve did four years ngo. ce that no vote is dared in the balloMioX that is not entitled to e cast. All e Mik for is a Uir and honest Wtion, and on the sixth day of November i xt Indiana will be where the properly beocg, in the column or ueinocrauc suites. 1 hank you, feilow-rju.eus, for you kindly rceung, and wilt but you goou-mgut. ex -sun a Ton m'donai.ii. The next speaker, cx-ftenator McDonald, vas given ft mor-t cntliUKuustic greeting, 'heer after cheer was given oa he btepped urward. Heeatd: I.LLOW CtTI.KNS AND rn.LOW pKJIOKATts I came here to-nit:ht expecting to adrcss you at some leiigli and, if possible, b pive you tnne iuiruction in rejjani to tiie truths of democracy Cries of '"Go on."j, but I fii'l you i.'istructing rue. Applause. I find this v.xtt audience mtieh more expressive than anything tht I could suy. Our repub-li'-au frcndn hav congratnhited themselves that flow at le.iit, hntin selected for their t;iiJ,ir'!-l :ircr a citi.t ri ot In'liana nn 1 a man (tii icf w 'bom, of course, no rmr w ill cxprei my oi ;'Ji except m 1j Iiis jtolitics, that thy nr- L'oia.: to curry itate. f.voiet:"We vill yan-y it l.y 10.00." They b. id their ratification ni-vtiii mid there was plenty of iioiü there; 'ho tiichorn w:u on hau 1, but th? men rio carried the tin-buckets wi n; not there. A ppl.iuie.l The yoiun; clerk .from onr stores aid the Mill younger fied-'-i; pi our v-hooli in many iuitanrcs were Uier-, ml they were made to piny a umher ot rtiarartrn. Our rrptiblitnn frieni ire linit-rte actor. If tb-.y had a shov to fircM'iit- aU tli-y irl b vVr.i wovUi! !e railed i) th thutn a ufheieni nuibi r of"snp .." Applaus atuJ laujitcr.) And tlicn thf-y Iren tliPtiJ up for the iliflerrnt scents. On cne occasion tliy will come out in citicu' ticss (Mid atticc: then aaia tucy will appear as

soldiers, and then you may find them perhaps dressed iu the ermine of a senator it is the same fellow ajl the time. (Applause. But, fellow citizens, the demonstration to-night, if any person had any suspicion as to how ludiaua was goinr, ought to be satisfactory. It is evident that the people are with tie democratic party and the democratic party are with the people. Applnuse. On tue jrreat Issues that enter into tnis campaigu. and that I may tvieJly allude to. the democratic party is found on the tide of the people. Those issues grow out of the fact that when the republican party went out o power three years ago they left upon the statute books taxin? laws that raised a revenue from the people of orer iliXJ,(X),UUiJ more than the necessities ot the ffovernmeut required. That is the legacy they left the democratic party and the people of this country. It atands confessed on all bauds that this ought to be reduced. There can be no question but what money taken from the pockets of the people in the form of taxation that is not needed for the honest and economical administration of the Eovernment is robbery, under whatever name it may be called. Cheers. Ami when J tell you that the people -of this country paid into the treasury" last ycatr in the tiscal year closing the 30th day of Juno last $S79,0jo,i0o you can hardly credit it. And when 1 tell you that all the expenses of the government, including the reduction of the national debt by the purchase of. bonds not yet due to the amount of SlOtl.OeO.OOO

amounted to $2öP,00O,0üÜ, leaving a balance still uncalled for, and for which .here was no use, ot ?110,000,UOO, you will understand the magnitude of the outrage that the republican party committed upon the people of this country by those revenue laws applause and cries of "1 hat's the talk." It is admitted now cn all hau ls that this revenue ought to be cut down. The republican party admits it. The democratic party has been laboring for it ever since they got possession of the house of repre scntativis and an executive in the chair, but there are two ways by which that can be done. Our revenues are drawn mainly from two sources, customs duties, as they are termed, by which, according to last year's revenue, there was received into the treasury of the people's money $-'p.,(ioo,('U. The other is the internal revenue system, levied mainly upon whisky, malt liquor and tobacco, by which there was raised last year $124,1X0,000. Now, fellow citizens, you would suppose that persons who admitted that there should be a reduction of revenue would propose to reduce t'ae bcriiens of the people, reducing taxation as well. That is the proposition which the democratic party are endeavoring to make out and w hich t!iy have embraced in their platform. Following the wise recommendations of PresiJ dent Cleveiani. made to the present congress, the deniorratic party proposes to make this reduction chiefly by cutting down customs duties, by tirt placing upon the free list the prime articles of necessity and raw material; such articles as wood, iron ore.wool and other articles of thst kind, and then to reduce the different schedules by bringing down the tariff on woolen fabrics, 40 per cent.; on cotton fabrics, from 25 to 150 per cent,; on iron and steel and their manufactures, from '25 to 35 per cent, j on sugar, '-'u per cent., and so on; and then in order to aid still further the reduction the democratic party proposes to take otf the tax upon unmanufactured tobacco and to leave it upon cigars and igarettes. The purpose, therefore, you see, of this reform is to lighten the burden of taxation whil you at the same time reduce the revenue. On the other hand, what is the republican plan? I will state it fairly and candidly as it is drawn from their own platform. They propose in the first place to repeal not only the tax on tobacco, including cigars and cigarettes these young men that belong to the republican party want to get cheap cigarettes to smoke around the corners of our streets, Laughter and applause. but to put whisky, used as they say for mechanical purposes and in the arts, on the free list also; and then they propose to increase the tariff upon articles produced in this country for the avowed purpose as stated in their platform of rutting on' importations and consequently raising the price of the article by excluding foreign competition. Apnlause and cries of "That's their old doctrine. And they say if the revenue Ls still not sufficiently reduced they profose to repeal the tax upon whisky and malt iquor and give us free whisky, and as Gov. Gray said, dear blankets and dear clothing. That is their proposition. Now, fellow-citizens do you suppose that any party in a country of intelligent people can hope to succeed on auch a platform as that? Cries ot "never." "They can not do iL" They say it is protecting American labor. I say to you that it protects American capital at the expense of American labor. Great applausej The system that we propose Is to Lring into this country any articles and all articles to which labor can add value free of any tax or burden whatever, and thereby "ive labor something to do. Increase the sphere of labor. Increase the fit'dj into which its product will go. Get it outside of this power of monojwdy. They propose, they say, to look tu the home market. 1 want to cover the foreign market as well as the home market. Cries of "JItar, Hear." They propose to manufacture for bO,mO.(MX) of people. We propose to manufacture for o"J0,000.0OU of people, l Applause. j liut they say that it gives protection to labor. Fellow-citizens, I will tell you wheu labor in this country is protected under what we csdl a protective system; when they have glutted the market and cannot send their products abroad because they cost too much under their system to be sent into other markets anil they have to shut down and turn their laborers out, aud then they are protected by I'inkcrton's detectives. Great applause. Hut, fellow-citizens, I shall not talk longer upon those questions to-night. I want to say a few words to you about our candidates first our candidates, and afterwards theirs. Four years sgo Grover Cleveland was nominated at Chicago us an experiment, and ho has turned out to be oue of the best experiments we have ever made. Cheers. He went iuto the presidential otiice an unmarried man, but be felt the responsibilities of that high trust, and when he stood up before the American people on tho e;:st iteps of the cnpitol and said "I take this otiice as a sacred trust," 1 felt that there was confidence to be reposed In him. lie has devoted himself to that office in a manner that has cittabliahcd the fact that no wiser, no abler, no stronger executive has been in that chair within the present peneratian ApC planst-. He has some of tu qualities of Jac on 1 1 uniuiuio.is applause j. lie is able to say "No," and he Ins a profound respect for the people because he knows that he is expressing their Kciitiintntu ; and wheu republican leaders have tried to hound hiin down because he bits stood between them and the. treasury, for the people, and pro tcted it nuaint robbery (A voice "Great God, wasn't that riirht" he hn felt all the tia.e that he could nljr witli confidence on the peurde. When they bring to him pension acts ji:t.ctl that er linse! cn no jroper arviee, where th'! evidence shows that there has been fraud end nil that sort of thinjr, and be waj conxt mined to ye to it, he said what ought to be remembered by every soldier in tili country Hid cherished by him, that the peni nion roll ought to he regarded Ma roll of honor ft.'roit applauae aji1 cric I that Is true." rod ought to b protected against dishonett claims; that upon it should bo inscribed every honest one that sny one wan fairly aud honestly entitled to. Fellow citizen, there was nominated w ith him Allen U. Thurinan of Ohio. nd thes;: two men combine the eirenjth and widoiaot ths democratic party, Great

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clieering. Cleveland personifies its strength; Allen G. Thurm an its wisdom. In President Cleveland's earnest discharge of his duty he has reminded me often of one of those grand propellers that may be seen upon the lakes of your country, taking in their train immense convoys of other vessels that possess no power except that which the propeller gives, aud takes them safe into port;" Applanse while Allen G. Thurman is the best living illustration of the true Jeflersonian doctrine that is near to every democratic heart. Applause and cries of "amen. Now, fellow-citizens, with auch a ticket as that is there any doubt about our success? Cries of "No, note." Does not every democratic heart throb at the mention of these names? And is not every democratic. hand ready to be uplifted in defense of that ticket with the determination of depositing In the ballotbox next November a ticket in favor of tho electors who represent it? Applause and cries of "They arc all ready. On the other hand, what have the republicans presented? They have nominated Gen. llenjamin llanison of Indiana and Levi P. Morton of Xevr York. The tail of that ticket will only be known to posterity by the amount of the expenditure that he is expected to make to secure his election. Applause and laughter. As to Gen. llarriaou, 1 Lave no hard worda to Bay of him. Personally. I respect him; he is "my neighbor. Hut, fellow citizens, he is a republican with all that that term implies applause ; he ia neither better nor worse than his party laughter; he believes in all its dogmas, religiously believes them ; he believes in that platform framed at Chicago because he was careful to say when the announcement was made to him of his nomination in his personal response that he had carefully read it and approved iL He began his political career with the republican party. His first canvass was made ia IS5C for the first republican candidate for the presidency, Col. John C. Fremont, and he will end his political career in November with his own defeat great crplausc. and will thereby prove to be the Alpha and Omega of the republican party. If you want to know what his record ia simply look to the record of his party and there you will find iu On the Chinese question, when his party was opposed to the restriction of Chinese immigration he voted w ith his party on that subject. When they proposed to extend to the Chinese the right of naturalization, and consequently the elective franchise, he voted with thcra upon that; and then again when his party took the other tack thinking they had gone a little too far and it might be unpopular and unprofitable, he voted with them mere. t Applause. As to the labor question, on that c uaa no record at alL Laughter. He is not even as well oft as poor Dridgct, who started to this country with a good character, but lost it on the way applause and laughter; and the reason that he has no record on that subject is that he has simply stood with his party. The republican party have no record on it- It has been the policy of the republican party since it organization to legislate on the principle that if you take care of the rich, the rich will take care of the poor a voice, "they won't do it; and they have continued to legislate on that principle until they have built up the most collossal fortunes alongside of the most abject poverty to be found anyw here. Applause. And, my fellow-citizens, it is just as difficult now for them to make a character for Gen. Harrison on the subject of the labor question as it is to make for some of us a character on the war question laughter after the war is over. For instance, there is Gov. Porter and myself. Laughter. We were both able bodied men when the war was on. but neither of us went to it. Continued laughter. In fact, so far as I am able to know, I do not think either of us was ever within, range of the longest range gun that the. rebels fired during the war: and as for my friend, Gen. Harrison, he ought to ' be a little modest on this subject also, for he suflcred sixty-five regiments from Indiana to march by his door before he put on the uniform. Cheers and a voice "He ought to bo modest." He was colonel of the Seventieth Indiana. Therefore, he ought to be a little tender and not step on Gov. Porter's toes or on mine any too hard. I have no doubt he made a very good soldier, but hecame very near missing his opportunity. Laughter and applause. And the reason why Porter and I did not go has never been made known to the world. A voice: What, was it? If I were to undertake to give you the reason for it I would s-y that we had pr-i haps some regard for the rebels and did nat, want to destroy them all. Great applause and laughter. And yet, fellow-citizens, they expect to nominate Porter because they claim that he has a record on the snbiect of the labor question, and that he can help Harrison out there laughter, and thatJIIarrison is to help him out on the war question. They will be very much like Jack Spratt and his wife. "Jack f'pratt could eat no fat, His wife could eat no lean; betwixt them both They wept the cloth And licked the platter clean." And if they do nominate Porter I have very little doubt before the election that they will

prove that he, and notMcl'herson was killed at Atlanta, and they will have his life-sized likeness down here in the cyclorama. Great applause and merriment We don't know what a republican can do. But, fellow-citizens, one word more In reference to the candidates themselves and the campaign. In their platform a Chicago they have a number of ' resolves" that are very curious when we come to consider them. One is they resolve in favor of silver currency and denonnce the administration of the democratic party for trying to destroy it w hen they themselves in 1S73 demonetized silver, and when it bad to be restored in 1878 over the veto of their president. I was there in the senate myself and know about ' it. Applause, Tbey talk about the public land. After they nave voted away to the mammoth corporations of this country all of the public lands that were of any value, leaving nothing but the mountain side and the sage brush, they now talk about reserving the balance of them for the settlers. Laughter. And then they resolve in favor of an honest election and a fair count, and then go right away and el;ct Dorsey No, I am mistaken about that, worse than that Dudley as chairman of their executive committee. "Straw Bail" Dudley! Great applause. There are on the records of the federal court to-day five indictments against republican repeaters who were here and repeated in and were arrested and bound over for whom Dudley's deputies he being too cowardly to be there himself in persontook straw bail, and the men have gone away. Laughter. Now do you suppose they intend an honest election with that kind of an organization? Cries of "no, they don'tM The next thing you will . see, they wOl have Dorsey in there some way. But, fellow citizens, I want to say this o you, it matters very little what they do. The man that is now at the helm of public affairs will be continued there four years longer. Wild apS lause and cries of "lie will'.") He has emonstrated to the people of this conntry thst he Is possessed of the Jeflersonian qualities of honesty and ripacity Cheers, and that he is administering the government for the people at the least possible expense. Let me say to you, fellow citizens, that the last public report of the treasury, published on the 2nd day of this month shows that the ordinary expenses of the government have been brought down to $145,OUO,UOO, $10.000,000 less than last year, or more than forty millions less than the average of the lost republican administration. F.uthuslastlc cheering.) Do you want any better illustration of the wisdom of his ail ministration than that? Cries of "No, no." You do not find now any federal officer or office holder with a commission in Ids pocket with Crover Cleveland's name on it who has not something to do. Applause. He is not sta-.ding nround idle, nor is lie engaged cither in tho tricks and trades of electioneering purposes. Applause. He must first discharge his duty as an officer, and mere political servieo counts lor nothing on that roll, and it oujji. not to. Applause and cries of "Light you are". Therefore, fcllow-citirens, I feel a Perfect and absolute assurance that next Novemucr will see Grover Cleveland and Allen G. Thurman placed as the representatives of tho democratic party in the first and second places that arc to le fill'! for the next four years. (Applause.) I Join with Gov. Gray in saying that whilo this fight is on I shall do my part of it. I began the battle of the democratic party in 1SH for that patriot and statesman, James K. l'olk, and I hare been fighting along that line ever since applause; and I shall continue to do so whilst strength Is left to me. I know that ia upholding the banner of the democratic party in Indiana I nra standing for the noblest democracy that there is to be found in any part of our great country. Great applause. UK. BIlOWX's VIGOROUS SPEECH. Th Hon. Jason Erown of Seymour, candidato for conjeres from the Third district, was the next speaker, and ho is always a vfcoronft ond. Mr. Crown is -a firm advocate ol democratic tariff principles to say the least, and administered boiao filede-hnaanicr blows to tho opbi

tical arguments of the high protectionists, lie said in his introductory remarks that the democrats of Indianapolis had met not only to ratify the nominations made at St. Louis for president and vice president, but also for the purpose of rejoicing in the well founded hopes of democratic success in November. The democratic party would then triumph as it deserved to triumph. The partv laid it down four years ago as the law of 'the party, that it would reduce taxation and not in a manner to interfere w ith the manufacturing interests, but rather to promote them. It promised them to reduce tho expenses and also the revenue of the povernnjcnt. It fcaid the 6ame thing in St Louis a few , day3 a?o. The republican party was in the habit of making a new platform every four years, bu. they had now changed. They now only swapied skirts every time they crossed a stream. The republican party said four years apro that it desired to correct the inequalities of the tarifE. It confessed that there were inequalities. Who built tho tariff that way? Why the architects of tho republican party. This party now says that the tariff needs no correction. After the next election, however, there would not be enough republicans left to make trouble for the democratic party. Laughter. The republican party said it had reduced the tariff. Hut how? After the war there was from 73 to 104 per cent, duty on clothing, and on banks, railroads and insurance, companies about 3 per cent They have taken off the tax on the banks and corporations and left it on the clothing. That is the way they had reduced thc tariff. The democratic party is not in favor of destroying the American manufacturers, but rather in enlarging the field for them. Instead of limiting the scopo to the boundaries of this country it wished to givo them the entire world "for a market. Mr. Hrowu also spoke ccnjparatively of the European countries in tho way of wages paid to workingm A, showing why England was enabled to pay wages equally as large in propoition as are paid in America, while its sister countries were literally poverty-stricken. Mr. ilrown's speech concluded the programme, and the meet ing then adjourned. CHINESc VOTERS IN INDIANA.

Why Ben Ilarrlsou Voted for tbe Naturalization of Chinese. . Alia California. It is perfectly easy for Mr. Harrison and the republican leaders to be "right" now on the Chinese questioa. But they were wrong and withheld their help when it was needed to make an effective settlement. It is useless to argue now that this was done through ignorance of the question for there had been abundant enlightenment. Senators Bayard and Thurman and their democratio colleagues and the party leaders in the house were satisfied by trie information which this coast furnished. They did not question the t uthfulness of the reprecentations made by honorable republicans like Senator Miller, or by leading democrats like Senator Farley. F'arley did not have to sit up nights with Voorhees, the democratic senator from Indiana. But Miller found himself unable to satisfy Harrison, though they were brother Hoosiers, had campaigned on the same fields and taken ague in the same marshes, and belonged to the same party. Lven the republican senator from Wisconsin admitted, while visiting California, that he was converted to the anti-Chinese side by Farley. But Mr. Harrison was obdurate, and carried his stubbornness to the extent, as we have shown, of voting to leave the door open to Chinese naturalization. F'or him the apology has been made here that he believed the Isw already excluded Chinese from citizenship. But there must have been a deeper reason than this, for it was shown to him by senators of tim own party that naturalization had been granted to Chinese, that the courts dilFnd; HpoQrb Niatter of law involved, end theretore itVas 'ieccssar7 ti guide them all by the exercise of the undoubted right of conpress to say who shall not be naturalized, as well as who may be. We are in possession of certain facts which we wish to impress upon the people of this state. They show that Mr. Harrison must have been grossly ignorant of important political events occunng within a stone's throw of his house, or he must have known of them and desired to avoid antagonizing his personal and political friends and associates who were responsible, ait I who had defiantly and offensively taken a position that would have been very unpleasant if not disastrous for them if Mr. Harrison had seemed to rebuke them. The Indiana October election of 1SS0 placed Mr. Harrison in the federal senate. It was a hotly contested battle, and the issue hung in doubt down to the last hour. L'lkins and Horsey exhausted every expedient, worked every intrigue, and it is not too much to say. committed every crime that is possible under our election system. There were not many Chinese in Indianapolis, but the laundrymen who were there had been granted first papers, and that year they were taken by a republican lawyer, a personal friend of Mr. Harrison, and their final naturalization papers were issued to them. They were then marched by this same republican lawyer to the polling place in the Eleventh ward on Massachusett.v ave., within a square and a half of Mr. Harrison's law office, and there these Chinese latindrymen voted the republican ticket, over the protests of the democratio challengers. We can furnish the name of the gentleman who challenged one of them, and was told by the republican politicians present to miud his own business. He retorted that they were doing something they would live to regret; whereupon they jeered and insulted him. The atlair was the political sensation of the day, and it was hardly possible that any one in Indianapolis who kept posted in current events could have been nrnorant of it. Mr. Harrison's personal and political friends boldly asserted the right of Chinese naturalization and acted np to their convictious, and so far as we know, Mr. Harrison is the only mam who ever sat in the federal senate having behind him, in part, a Chinese constituency. This incident goes far to account for his instant and enduring and energetic opposition to the restriction act of lSS-'. ludeea.an unprejudiced survey of his senatorial record discloses the somewhat remarkable fact that the only hearty exertion made during his six years' service was upon that occosion and against that bill. In the phnme of the day he stood in with his Indianapolis friends, who would have been put in a hole if he had rebuked them in the matter of Chinese naturalization. The Snake ami the Jug. Kansa City Times. While at a neighbor's a few days ago Mr. George W. Fisher of Independence, Kas., heard a racket out iu the kitchen, and going out to investigate the cause found that k large rattlesnake hart crawled into the kitchen and was fastened into tho handle of a jug in the following manner: There were some eggs and a jug on the floor hen the snake crawled into tho house, and it swallowed one of the eggs, and us the jug was lying on its side had crawled through the handle as far as the egg he had swallowed would admit, and finding another e?g convenient, as he crawled through the handle of tho jug, swallowed that ci( also, and ns the cgj whs to large to pass through the handio of the jug Mr. Saokc was fastened so he could neither move forward nor backward, thero being an r?g insido of him on cither sido of the jug handle. Unpleasant KeUectlon. Jones baa jnst been getting married. As they were leaving tho church he began to cry. "Whatever can be the matter with you, Samuel?" asked the bride anxiously "My darling," exclaimed Jones, between his sobs, "you behold ia inc the wretched victim of Auperstition?" "A victim?" "Yes, mylifctyouraustknowthatlwasonce o foolish as to have my fortune told by a gypsy. The old liair told me that I ahould marry a second time, and oh I darling, it wrings my heart to think of losing; you." T'ot DiBafTectl. Washington Critic.) A republican was talking to a democratio oHiial yesterday at the treasury department and the new ticket waa up for dincus&ion. "What do you think of it?" asked the official. . . . "It's very pood ticket," replied the republican, "a very pood ticket, indeed." "Will it go?" "Of course it will o," was the enthusiastic reply; "I've been taikiQjj all around among our eople and I haven't seen a uninfected repubcau yet." A

It is fitting that the pioneer-of iow-pr:ced journalism in the West should lead in placing the American newspaper of to-day upon tife basis of the lowest unit of American coinage. Twelve years ago that unit was the nickel in Chicago and throughout the Northwest. The founding of The Daily News at a lower price was regarded by the journalistic profession as inviting certain failure. But they were wrong. To-day there is not a nickel paper in Chicago, and the circulation of The Daily News averages, as shown by its published sworn statements, 175,000 copies a day with a single exception the largest daily circulation in America, and greater than the circulations of all other CJucago dailies combined. ) The Daily News has prospered beyond the most sanguine hopes of its founders. For this it has more than once made its grateful acknowledgments to an appreciative public It believes, however, that the time has now come when, acting entirely within the limits of a wise commercial progression, it can give its thanks more practical expression. It proposes henceforth to "divide" as to its friends and to multiply as to its circulation. To-day it reduces its price to One Cent and expects to double its circulation. And anticipating the questionings of the doubtful let it be briefly said that the thing can be done. The Daily News all that it has been in

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it in the future as a leader in progressive American journalism can be produced and sold for one cent a day, and this by reason of those common principles of trade which rnako possible lower prices just in proportion as the aggregate volume of sales increases. The Daily News now sells over a million papers a zaeeh, as shown by its published sworn statements of circulation, and it can afford to sell at a smaller profit per paper than other Chicago dailies, no one of which has as much as one-third the average daily circulation

look like miracles. Some People Who Hare Had Mnrvelous Kscnpes. Nashville American. The remarkable and almost miraculous escape from instant death of Charles Evans, w ho fell a distance of over City feet from the fourth story w indow of the fit. Nicholas hotel Saturday night, attracted considerable comment. Evans did not break a bone and next morning was walking about his room, Iiis onlv complaint bein that he felt "a trifle sore.' In tlte establishment of P. L. Hedrick, contractor, an American reporter listened yesterday afternoon to three veteran carpenters as they recounted Bomc reminiscences about hairbreadth escapes. "In ISSo," paid one of them, "w hen J. F. Bowers & Dro.. of this city, w ere workinc on the court-house at I,.ebannon, one of "th'e carpenters, n w hito man of about thirty, who was putting on tin rooiinjr on tb? gahlo end next the Urown building, fell off to the ground a distance of nearly fifty feet, striking and breakiug in his descent a piece of ecantlinjr two by four inches. He was laid up for some time, but was soon as spry as ever. "When I was working on the house of Mr. Ewing, on Stevenson-ave., a few years ago, a workman named Bud McCarthy fell from the extreme top of the tall house to the crouud. He was disfigured about the face, but was not dangerously hurt He recovered entirely except for the fbars." "In 1SÖ9," said another, "I was working on one of the largest buildings then in Nashville, not far from the square. The house was four stories tall and was beinz covered. A fellow-workman missed his footing and fell fully fifty feet. The joists but not the floor had been laid. In the basement dirt and rain had formed a good deal of mud. This fellow missed the loists and stuck in the mud nearly up to his kuees, so he had to he pulled out. His ca.e looked doubtful for a time, but be got through all right." "When the front wall of "Wesley hall, at Vanderbilt, had been built just about the second floor one of the bricklayers hail hold of a rope drawing up a load of brick. The rope had been exposed to the weather and had become rotten. It broke and precipitated the fellow w ho had hold of the rope backwards from the wall into a brick-pile about thirty feet below. Ho was considerably bruised, but uot seriously hurt." Another instance was advanced of where a railroad mechanic on the Louisville & Nashville railroad, a f-hort distadco south of Nashville, was balancing himself on top a em;ill iron bridge during its construction, tightening a bolt. His wrench slipped and threw him nearly thirty feet, face downward, on tho rocky bed beneath. lie was terribly scarred, but recovered in a short time. One of the speakers mentioned an incident which he had witnessed in Cincinnati last fall, whero a workman was ascending by a long ladder to the top of a three-story house to do some repairing on tho roof. Tho man, whoso name was James Brown, in climbing over the edge of tho roof came in contact with an electric light wire which so stunned him that ho lost his footing and fell to the pavement, breaking a rib or two and sustaining serious but not fatal injuries. And so the remarkable tales ran. Many will, doubtless, remember the escapo of Allen Carter, a Vanderbilt student, fioni what seemed certain death. late one night about a year ago he left his room on tho fourth floor of W'eslev hall and walked into tho hall. He had a headache from long 6tudy and took a seat on tho banisters in tho draught from tho windows, that lie might col oil a little. But he was overcame with a sudden dizziness and fell backward. He dropped sixty feet, striking at each floor, and crashed against tho foot of tho steps near tho front door. "When picked up ho was uneoncious, and no one dreamed that he could recover. Doctors were hastily summoned, and to their amazement it was discovered that the only injuries which had resulted were a broken big toe, nn insignificant cut on the head and a shock to tho nervous system. Tho young man was in a few weeks hard at work on his studies, as sound as ever. It is one of tho carious things people observo hut cannot wholly account lor that a fall which kill one man leaves scarcely a scar on another. It has bceorue almost a truism that a drunken man is about ten times as hard to kill as a sober oue. 'otrled. Tho Idea. "Don't you think, love, we had better put a fireescapoonourhou.se?" asked a Brooklyn vornan of her liusbaud. "Hot much," be replied; "the fire goc out too oitca una - t

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rightly expected of THE BIRTHDAY OF A BOOK. The Two Hundredth Anniversary of a Noted Volume. Youth's Companion. The 200th anniversary of the publication of a book was celebrated at Cambridge university in England. The book, which is written in Latin, is commonly called Newton's "Principia," though the full title is"Philosophi;e Natural PrincipiaMathetnatica," which means in English "The Mathematical Trincpiles of Natural Philosophy." It was becoming in tho university of Cambridge to commemorate the publication of the "Principia." The author of it was Isaac Newton, professor of mathematics in that institution, afterward Sir Isaac New ton, master of the mint. The rooms which he inhabited when he wrote the work still exist, and are visited every year by many Americans.. The manuscript of the vo'ume belongs to the royal society, of which Sir Isaac Newton was a member, to which ho sent the work for approval, tmd under the auspices of which it was published. The same society possesses also tho small telescope used by the great astronomer, parts of which were made by his own hands. Probably very few of our readers, young or old, have ever seen a copy of this illustrious quarto. There is something strango in the fact that a volume which has instructed the educated mind of the whole human race should be seldom met with even in large libraries. One gentleman, a manufacturer in Rhode Island, who knows nothing of Latin and very little of mathematics, baa a copy among his book.Sj just to look at and revere. He takes it down from its shelf tenderly, and shows it to his guests as the greatest product of the mind of man. Through other books and smaller men he has learned the substance of what the "Principia" contains, and he loves to look upon the very leather of the mighty volume which he can not read. Probably the whole of Europe and America does not require fifty new copies a year of this work. Nor did any one ever make money by dealing with it, beyond a modest bookseller's profit on a few copies. Nevertheless, thero it is, at the summit of literature, among the greatest of the triumphs of the human mind. It was 222 years ago this 6ummer that Isaac Newton sat in his garden and 6aw some fruit fall from a tree, and fell to musing upon the reason of its fall. Why did it not fall up, or planting, or eidewiso? Why docs everything fall toward the center of the earth? Nineteen years later he was able to demonstrate to the world that precisely the same cause that made the fruit fall to the earth holds the moon in her orbit and keeps all the heavenly bodies in their places. This principle, which he named the attraction of gravitation, retains the revolving stars and prevents the universe from rushing into chaos. This was not a mere guess on the part of Prof Newton. He proved itmathematically. lie showed that, the earth weighing so much and the moon so much, the earth holds the moon by the law that makes an apple fall from a tree. Other philosophers, from Aristotle to Descartes, had made ingenious guesses concerning the principles, or the principia, of the universe. New ton's merit was that he substituted for all their theories one great truth capable of mathematical demonstration, leaving it to posterity to continue the w ork by discovering the momentous consequences of thc truth. DEADLY GAS TANKS. Four ?ten Injured Totally and Eleyen Oth. era Seriously by an i:xiloilon. Cincinnati, July 14.- A battery of eight gas tanks in Ludlow, Ky., exploded this afternoon, injuring fifteen men, four of them fatally. The gas is generated from naphtha for lighting the railroad shops, and for uso in the Mann boudoir cars. Tho escape of a small quantity from one tank caused an explosion w hich exploded the other seven. The stockroom-of tho Mann boudoir company was wrecked. The fatally injured are: Frank Collins, railroad fire department. Michael "Welch, foreman ysrd laborers. (I eofge Madison, blacksmith. David II a bris, yard laborer. Tin1! others injured were : James Scllivan. PliTER LlCHENTRLD. Charles Goi-ld, ex-bae ball player. Richard Ccrran. George Goodwix. Griffin and two others. The statue of Josiah Bartlett, the first plgner of the Declaration of Independence, has been cnt in bronze nnd act up nt Ameshnry, Mtv., vherc it was dcdioitei ou tho Fourth, ol Julj.

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.of its price from Two copy.1 DISGRACEFUL JOURNALISM. An Old Soldier Keteut an Indecent Attack Upon the Deiuoeracy, Thre Is nothing in the present organization or attitinle of the di'iuuciatic party to challenge the iip port o I intelligent and patriotic A uiericai.s. The party W c iiiirf ! of tV politic::! remains of the feouthem Conieiicracy, roinior'ed by what is left of cupperheadisiu and JoiiL'hiarvini in the North and by evvry hade of hostility to American law and "ordrr and American labor and industry. Under the red bandaua which tlu'y have adopted as their tronfalou are ranged tha representative of every shade of disloyalty, from tue aneieM i-d retx'l ol the South to the cowardly copperhead of the North, and every phase of democrat icon tratre, from tho retonn -d kiitlm leaders of Louisiana and the heroes of the tissue-ticket Iraudi iu South e.irolina to tho tally-sheet lorgcrs of Indiana aud Ohio. To tue Editor Sir: The paper that wculJ allow, or the mar. that would write the foregoinj; article taken from the Indianapolis lloumaf, is a coward, au instigator of btnfe, a man who should be an outcast of all thst ia honorable. Plea.e print it one more, for I think the more it is reua the belter the effect. I served three years ami tit; lit months in the late wur UVee years ia the army of the Potomac in infantry service and eujraed in every battle that was Utiht up to the battla of the Willernes i which 1 was wounded a few days beiore the expiration of the time of enlistment. I re-enlisted and served eiq;ht months or until the war was closed, and there are thousands of others and democrats who did the same. Yet there is nothing in that to challenge the support of intelliL'ent and patr'otic Americans! That makes us Copperheads" and doutfh-fiH-es." We arehouleto American law and order, labor and industry. We are the represenUitives of every Khade of disloyalty. And why? Heeause we are democrats. If there is auv man that u not entitled to the support of intelligent and patriotic Americans it is the one who will write fauch articles as that in the Journal. That man never was a soldier; if he ever enlisted he deserted; if not, he belonged to the cowardly cotlee brigade, or followed the ambulance corps and robbed the dead and wounded soldier. No honorable soldier would speak of another in that strain even if he ditlered from him politically. Mr. Journal, v;v are not guilty as charged, !., U J .! ... I ii" vi 1 1 i. t I v uj. . . -i .iu-. 1 11 . ' t . V. . t- i land and Thurmau. God bless Cleveland, who respected the soldier enough to say by his veto, "while I am president a soldier, a pensioner, shall have what is due him without coming to the atrents of this government which he haa so noblv defended, hhakinj and quivering, sayincr,'5 I "am dependent. Again; God bless hiin for not branding me a pauper and a begf;.ir. For Iiis kiudness we will promise to lonor that llapr, the glorious stars and stripes, which every nation honors and respects. We will never, no never, use it for a nose rag. A SOLDIER. Richmond, Ind., July 14. OPPOSING THE POPE. Great Dlssatisfartio.i With a Decree Bead in Irish Churches Sunday. Dcr.LIN, July 15. A papal encyclical letter was read to-day in all the catholic churches in the diocese of Dublin. In it the pope says he has heard with regret that excited meeting" have been held at which inconsiderate and dangerous opinions regarding the recent papal decree have been uttered, and even the an thority of the decree itself being unspared. II has m-n with pain forced interpretations put on the decree and statements made that it wai Crcparcd without a ruflicicnt inquiry having een made. The pope, Mionely denying the this assumption, nntes that the decree waa based upon the most complete information; that previous to its issuance be held interviews with Irish blshope on the cnbject and sent a tried and trusted delegate to Ireland to inquire into and report upon the condition of aflairs. Ilia holiness reiterates his afiec'ion for the Irish people, and savs he has always urged them to keep within the bounds of justice and right. He refers to a communication to Cardinal Mc Cate? in 1 ? " I . adding: "As the people were led on with gradually increasing vehemence in the pursuit of their desires, and as there were nol wanting those who daily fanred the names, the decrees became a necessity' The bishops, be says, must remove all misconception and leave no room for doubt as to the force of the decree. The whole plan of campaign aud boycotting is condemned as unlawful. A letter from Archbishop Walsh of Dublin, which accompanied the pope's letter, was also read. The archbishop say: "The agitation referred to is now ended under the resolutions recently adopted by the bishops. The hope has arisen within the past few days that before the close of the scsm-mi parliament will provide for the more urvent needs of the hour. The people may await in peace fuller legislation at the next session." Tho encyclical letter is dated June 24. It causes intense dissatisfaction. At Hray people left the church during the reading of the letter. ICbenf er Man yard Hanged. COLOIBIR, O., July 11. Ebenezer Stanyard, the Younsfstown murderer, who killed Lia weetheart, Alice Hancock, early in 1SS7, was hanged in the enitentiary annex at 1 o'clock this morning. He fhyc his aceordeon before goin? on the scaffold and appeared tö be at his ease," talking a great dcul and meeting Ida fate with more nerve than many supposed he would. The crime for which he nilered was a brutal one, the pretty young girl being khot from behind and all on account of jealousy. Stanyard had had two trials and his ease had pone throueh all the hiphcr court, lie claimed to be temporary insane at the time of the thootui.