Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 34, Number 37, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 October 1888 — Page 4

THE DTDIAIYA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER IT, 1885.

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lEnUitd at the Pwtofflc at Indianapolis u HconlclaM mutter.) TERMS TEU TEAR I Pincle cpT ..-..1 00 W a.-k democrats to bear In mind and select their wo state paper when they come to take subscriptiont and make up clubs. Agents muting up clubs ond for any Information desired. AiWcfcs INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL, Indianapolis, Ind. "WEDNESDAY, OCT. 17. FOR IHESIDBNT, CROTER CLEVELAND of New York. For Vice-President. ALLEN G. Tlll'KMAN o Ohl. DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET. OoTeroor Conen-Asr Mit. lJrutensnt-,o'ernr WnUA K. MTIM. txrreUrj of Mate RoBKHT W. Ml ERA. Auditor oCuw-CHiRLinA. Mi'. Tremnurer of flat Thoa H. Rvawaa. R-porter Supreme CVrtJoH"i W. KxrX. Atumey-jn-ral Jon K WawiK. t-u priu undent Fublio Instruction EUIEB E. ORirriTH. JnAp of Fupnme CourtIlm Iitrlrt William E. NlfltACK. fvsxmil Pmtrict IlKOKOB V. I low I. luurth Dl'triet Auk Zoll. rSEDXNTUL ELECTORS. At Larc Tuoiias It. Corn and Jon K. Lri. lrt dutrict, bAMvei. 1. Vas a; fuoond diatriot, ClTtEE S. Ioiiiii.n; Thirl district. ('eorik 1U I. ( .in. ; Fou rib Jistrlrt, ' icholas Co. : Fifth district, joim lt. Kamt; Hxth district. Tuomas J. trcpr; K-Tenth di:n , 1avhS. doowno; Kwhlh diftn.t, Kamill 1'. 1'vett; Ninth district, Jons T. Mclut.ii; Tenth dlsul- Iavh L. Dtkehai-; Elttecth dictrirt, Jon N. Tirnkk; Twelfth district, Jons II. Hash; Thirteenth district, AfDBEf t. Wool. Cleveland's Plurality In Indiana, How largo will it bo? If you can predict correctly, reader, or can come nearer doing bo than any other person who makes the attempt, The Sentinel will pay you $50 in cash. If you make the second best prediction, The Sentinel will pay you ?25 in cash. If you make the third best prediction, TnE Szntixel will pay you ?15 in cash. If you make the fourth best prediction, The Sentinel will pay you ?10 in cash. This competition is open to everybody now Oil earth, the only conditions being that the contestants for those premiums Ehall each send in with hi predictions a subscription for Tins Indiana State Fentinel weekly for one year, together with the regular subscription price, 51. If he is already a subscriber to The Indiana State Sentinel, he will be credited on the book with payment for one year from the date his present subscription expire. Or ho may order it Bent to any friend or relative in any part Dl the United States. The name of the person remitting the money will Le recorded, with the figures of his prediction. The receipt for the money, as well as his estimate of Cleveland an I Thikman's plurality over Har-ri-ox and Morton in Indiana, will be bent him by return mail, and f-hould be preserved by him, as it will 1)0 a voucher for a premium, in the event that ho is entitled to one. All the estimates received will be published in these columns from tiino to time. All estimates received at this ollice before the close of the pull, Nov. C, will bo considered in making the awards, provided the conditions have been complied with. The originals will be preserved and will be open to public inspection at any time. We thiuk that this contest will prove interesting and exciting. It will show w ho possess the pi it of political prophecy, and who are deficient in it. The man who wins first prize will pain a national reputation as a political prophet. It bhould be understood that by "plurality," we mean the excess of votes which the Cleveland and Thurman electoral ticket receives over the Harrison and Jlorton electoral ticket. The word is often incorrectly used. "What wo want the people to guess at is Cleveland and Thurm is's plurality ia Indiana not their Majority. The latter term, as applied to elections, properly means the excess of votes received by the leading candidate orjtitket, over all opposing candidates or tickets combined. Eeinember, yoa are guessing on the number of votes given the Cleveland ticket over the number of votes given the Harrison ticket. We have leen thus particular about explaining this matter, to avoid the possibility of confusion or misunderstanding. Head the display announcement eleewhere, and then put on your thinkingcaps and send us your guess, with a year's subscription to The Indiana State Sentinel. It should bo remembered that it costa you nothing to compete for these prizes. The Indiana State Sentinel is one of the largest, cheapest and best weekly papers published in the United States of America. All its departments are well conducted. It contains the best fiction, the best household and firm department, the best poetry, the best short stories, the best selected miscellany, the fullest reports of Indiana news, the most complete market reports, and the roundest democratic doctine. So that the dollar invested will bring more than "value received" in the way of good reading, even if you do not win the prize. Now let the guessing begin ! niaine's Homo Market Hum buggery. Blaine tried to work the home market racket in his speech Thursday evening, lie declared that wheat had fallen in value because American farmers had to sell their turpi ns in Europe at prices fixed by competition with the whole world a statement that is entirely true. But he tried to make it appear that, in spite of the fact that the farmer has to sell his grain at free trade pricee, the high tariff has been a great thing for him, because it has built up a "home market" for him. This ia all humbug, ss Mr. Blaine inowB. Twenty years ago (1SC7) we exyiork'd 1cm than 17,000,000 bushels of wheat, or 12.C9 per cent.' of our production. Iast year we exported over 154,000-, 000 bushels of wheat, or 33.70 per cent, of ' xur production, la other words, twenty

years ago our farmers had to find a market abroad for only twelve out of every 100 bushels of their wheat! Last year they had to rind a market abroad for almost thirty-four out of every 100 bushels of their wheat! They are about three times as dependent upon Europe for a market for their wheat, after these twenty years of high protection, as they were ia 157. In 1S07 American farmers sold 1.03 per cent, of their corn abroad. Last year they sold 2.4 s per cent, abroad. The farmer is the chief victim of the monopoly tariff. "When he buys he pays high tariff prices. When ho sells he gets free trade prices, lie is robbed both ways If we were to have absolute freo trade tomorrow, he would not eet a penny less for his products than Ii? receives at present. The high tariff has done nothing for him except to planter his land with mortgages.

Harrison and the Indiana Democrats. A systematic effort is being made by personal solicitation, and by all kinds of social, business and even, we regret to say, church pressure to induce democrats in this city and täte to voto for Gen. Harrison for president. We do not blame the general's supporters for using every legitimate means to get him all the democratic votes possible here in Indiana. They are especially anxious that ho should make as good a showing as jiossible in Indiana, even if he is defeated in the country, which is quite natural. In so far as they confine their cifurts in this direction to proper personal appeal and solicitation, we take no exceptions. In bo far as they try to influence democrats by threats, or intimidation, or social inducements, or by misusing the opportunities presented by the relations of employer and employe, or of creditor ami debtor, or by the intercourse of religious societies, they are open to the gravest censure. It is not right to try to coerce a man's judgment, or control his political action by such means. Gen. Harrison deserves no favor, in a political sense, from any democrat in Indiana or elsewhere. A narrower, more fanatical or more intolerant partisan never existed on the lace of the earth than ho is and always has been. lie never, in all his life, voted for a democrat for any ollice, high or low. He never had a good word to say for a democrat, as such. He never commended a democratic official or a democratic measure, however much he or it may have commanded the approval of his conscience. He never had a word to say in reprobation of the mistakes or misdeedsof a republican official, but has on all occasions been ready to apologize for them, and to ecreen the offender. In the faco of the frightful corruption which was rampant during ( kam's two administrations, when many lending republicans refused to remain silent, but gave vent, to their honest indignation at the appalling condition of the public service, Hen Harrison 'never flinched. The whisky ring found in him n champion, lie apologized for the other rings which waxed plentiful and powerful during those days of governmental profligacy. When Tiiom vs A. Hendricks, a neighbor, a personal friend, a fellow lawyer and a pure and good man, was nominated for the vice-presidency in lS7t', Hen Harrison's "state priil.:" did not induce him to say a good word for him. After Mr. Hendricks had been elected, the republican returning boards by a series of frauds unparalleled in our history defrauded him of the ollice, and Bznivmin Harrison applauded the outrage. When his neighbor, Mr. John J. Cooper, known to this entire community as an upright official and an honest man, was treasurer of state, Gen. Harrison helped to give currency to slanderous stories regarding his handling of the public funds. The many republican outrages on the ballot-box in this country, and the repeated malfeasances in office of republicans, never moved Bex Harrison to a word of criticis.n or condemnation. As a senator of the United States he was known chiefly for his narrow and intolerant partisanship. Ho never while he held a seat in the senate rose above party on a single occasion. Like Sir Jocph ' Porkr, A". C. II always Tot" at his party's rail, Au l .ill no tliiukiug for himself at all. "For his party, right or wrong," has Ben Harrison always been. When its platforms called for tariff reform, as they did in Indiana for twenty years, he was a tariff reformer. Now that the platform calls for a prohibitory tariff and free whisky, Harrison is for both. "Everything goes," with this great exemplar of "high-toned politics," provided it is labeled republican. All these things may commend him to the favor of thick-and-thin republicans, of party idolaters who have no minds of their own, and are ready to throw up their hats for any man, however unworthy, and any measure, however improper, that bears the party trade-mark. But they afford conclusive reasons why no person, who believes in democratic principles, or who calls himself a democrat, should give Benjamin Harrison their support for the presidency, or any other office. (len. Harrison's boomers are going up and down the state saying "it will be a great thing for Indiana if Harrison is elected president." Now Gen. Harrison as president would have no power to do anything more for Indiana than for other states; and if he had the power, he would not be justified in exercising it. The president can do nothing for any state exitopt to see that the laws are faithfully executed and the government honestly and wisely administered; and the benefits of such a course accrue to all tho Ftates alike. It is true that if Gen. Harrison were president, John New and Mr. Dcnlet and Mr. Huston and some other Indiana politicians of that class would probably be quartered on the national treasury, but v.e don't think there is anything in thi3 probability to induce democratic support of Harrison in Indiana. If Gen. Harrison really expects to get votes from Indiana democrats he is going to be b-idly disappointed. The senate tariff bill repeals the tax on 'alcohol US'-1 in tho arts." A correspondent of the New York Herald makes tho pertinent inquiry whether this will include lirjuors used in mixed drin!:s. The compounding of 'cocktails," -'mashes," "fizzes'," "toddies," etc., is generally conreded to b.) an "art" a "line art," indeed and the inference is quite natural that the republican senators intend liquor

thus used to be free of tax. This is certainly in the spirit of tho Chicago platform, although it doesn't go so far as the platform, which makes no discrimination against those who take their whisky "straight." The platform calls for freo whisky, rather than thesurrender of "any jxirt of our protective System." The senate tariff bill surrenders part of our protective pj-stem, and only makes whisky free when it is used in "tho arts." But, no doubt, the law in practice would make whisky free for all purposes. That is the avowed object of the republican party. Rome of niaine's Tariff Idc. Mr. Blaine's speech at Tomlinson hall Thursday evening was a characteristic performance characteristic in its disregard of facts, its juggling with figures, its shallow sophistry, its monstrous perversions of the relations of cause and effect, and its unblushing appeals to ignorance and credulity. There was nothing new in the ppeech. Mr. Blaine pimply traveled over the same ground he covered, in his Indiana ppecches four years agof and advertise! the weakness of Iiis cause and tho poverty of his resources by rehashing the threadbare fallacies and transparent sophisms that have done duty for him in bo many campaigns. Mr. Blaine's argument if the terra may bo applied to tho array of false assumptions and preposterous deductions with which he tried to bolster up the freo whisky cause ran thus: Tho western ftates have increased in population and wealth more rapidly since lSdO than tho eastern states have; wo have had a high tariff since lSCl ; therefore tho West has been made great by protection, and it ought to oppose the policy of making raw materials free, and of reducing the taxes on the necessaries of life. A bare statement of Mr. Blaine's proposition is enough to condemn it in tho mind of any intelligent man whoso judgment is not blinded by partisan prejudices. His figures showing the increase of wealth and population Rinco ISoO prove absolutely nothing so far as the tariffqucstion is concerned. The development of the great West did not begin with the high tariff system, but had been in progress long before it was adopted, as Mr. Blaine knows perfectly well, and as he te.stiiies in very strong language in his book, "Twenty Years in Congress." Let us tako Indiana for illustration. The increase 4n population in this stato between 1SK) and 1SÖ0 (six years low tariff and four years high tariff) was 44.1 per cent.; from 1850 to 18'JO (low tariff) it was 3o.f per cent. ; from 1800 to 1870 (high tariff) it was 24.4 per cent.; from lS70to 18.S0 (high tariff) it was but 17.7 per cent. What does Mr. Blaine pay to these figures? Do they prove that the high tariff had anything to do with tho growth of Indianapolis from 18,000 in 1S"0 to 12ö,00 'n 1? Don't they prove, on the contrary, that if it has had any effect it has leen to check rath r than to stimulate this growth ? The figures aro official. They will be found on p. (, vol. 1, of the "Compendium of tho Tenth Census." And they dispose completely of Mr. Blaine's absurd and utterly dishonest claim that the war tariff has built up the West. It is astonishing that any Bane person of ordinary intelligence, can swallow, even in the heat of a political campaign, such ridiculous assertions as Mr. Blaine makes upon this subject. Every person who knows anything at all about the history of Indiana knows that tho greatest progreas the state has ever ma le was under the socalled free trade tariff of IS l'Mil a tariff averaging less than half the rates proposed by the Mills bill. Between lS-V) and ISO') the numlier of manufacturing establishments in Indiana increased from 4,3v)2 to ."),323; the amount of capital invested from $7,750,402 to 401,121 ; average number of hands employed, from 14,440 to 21,858; average amount of wages paid annually, from ?3,72S,.S14 to $-',318,3:15 ; average value of material used annually, from S10,:00,700 to $27,142,507; average annual value of products, from $1S,725,423 to $42,803,400. It will be observed that during theso ten years of "freo trade," the amount of capital invested in manufactures in Indiana increased about 150 per cent. ; the number of hands employed in manufacturing increased about 50 per cent ; the average amount of wages paid, almost 100 per cent. ; tho value of materials used, alout 175 per cent., and the value of the annual product about 133 per cent. This record of growth cannot be equaled or approximated by that of any decade since tho high protective policy was established. During the decade from 1870 to 18-80, under high tariff, the number ot manufacturing establishments in Indiana actually decreased. And how about the agricultural interests of the state? The value of Indiana farms increased from $130,383,173 in 1S50 to $3-50,712,175 in I860, or more than 150 per cent. During the same period the value of farming implements and machinery in the state increased from $-,704,441 to $10,457,307. The farmers of Indiana grew rich in the fifties because their earnings were not contscated by the government to the use of the manufacturers of the East. In the face of these historical facts what subli mo effrontery does it take for James G. Blaine to stand before an Indiana audienco and say that this state ha3 been built up by the war tariff! Out of Their Own Mouths. There is pcarcely a republican of any past or present prominence in the country who is not on record in favor of large reductions of the tariff. Only a littlo more than two years ago (May 10, 188ß) Mr. Frank IIiscock, one .of the present republican senators from the state of New York, made a speech in which he said: He who has watched the progress ot our manufacturing industries for the last twenty yenrs knows this to he a fact : that in nearly all which they consume in South America, in the Central American states and in Mexico, and which is produced in this country und in Europe, we tol.iy NKKD NO I'KOTKCTIVK TARIFF TO PJ tO T K( TOl'HIIOM K M A R KETS AO AINST THE FOREIGN l'llODLX'ElL Again, in the same speech, he said : Aa to all fabrics, iron, Mrel, wool ami leatJirr goo'it Inrgrly made by machinery, and in which nmnii.il )nlor is comparatively a small element we NKKD NO PROTKCTION WHATEVER!" We can make and sell them on equal terms with the rest of the world. That is pretty strong "free "trade" doctrine, but not much stronger than I xg alls, H. vwlev, Grimes, Kasson, and Allison of Iowa, John Sherman, Eigenr IIai.k, iTfeiJcnla GitA.NT, Gamilld and Aniuui

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Secy's McCvli.och and Foloer, Henry Wilson, Oliver P. Morton, William M. Evarts, Senator Dawks, Levi V. Morton, John A. Loo an, Benjamin Bctteiiwokth, Senator l'trMnof Kansas, and many other republican leader, living and dead, have repeatedly enunciated. Tho republican party, on its present platform of free whisky and lr'gh protection for monopolies, stands condemned by nearly all its leaders from the birth of tho party until this moment. Fry Ihr Out the .Sheep li.tron's Fat. Mr. John C. New has returned from tho West, lie Vent to Colorado in the interest of the national republican committee to "fry the fat out" of the wool-growers of that stato. As ho did not visit New Mexico, that territory has no doubt been Assigned to Dorse y and Steve Elkixs, who will conduct the "fat frying" process among the "greasers." For the benefit of Dudley, New and Qtay, we give a list of the sheep barons, together with their holdings and addresses, as corrected by Am ado Chaves, secretary of the New Mexico wool-growers' association, as follows: The Hon. M. S. Otero, Bernalillo, owns 120,. 000 head of sheep improved. T. Lr.NA of Is bunas, J. M. Ll'NA nnl Sol. I.t'N a, fame place. The three together o-vn ) h,r I, incluiling some sheep hclonsr to their mother, Mrs. Isabel Lina. Mrs. Ei.nis.v Lt'NA pk llEROE-s f Las Limas owi.s ."iVO head. Tei.KsKoko .Iaramili.o, 1m Limas has 40,(XH) head. jAOrtto YasakkI of HiTualillo has head. I'EPKO I'EKKA, ltrrnalillo, lets lo.ooO. Makiano Perka has .T",OT)0; J. Placido Bomkro, PeraHa, ..", o; John ('. Clancy, Puerto de Luna, üofixi; Bo.MAN Ii. Baca, Sau Mateo, .W'JO; Bl.Yl.s Gonzales, Almiuiti, .Wx; Remalpo MARTINEZ, I Alamos, 12kni; Seriitso Baca, Las Ves-us. 12.UM; J). T. Berns, 'iierro Amarillo, 2O.0.H; Pkdiio Y. Jakamu.i.o, Kl Kit, 20; William 1 i-v-certon. Wagon Moutnl, fine merino .hce;, (i.ti-'u; Ank eto Raca, 1-is Vepns, 1"; .Insu Rafael Maktinez, Los Alamos, 10,tM; N estop. Ap.mijo, has Chices; lö.oOO; Cahi.os II. AllMI.ro, Lis Cinees, 2.".0o0; Jests M. JaramiI.I.o, El Rito. Pm; Pedro Castilo, lljirnalillo, Ki.uoo; Jests M. Castii.o, Rernalillo, öd.ikk; Frank F. Chaves, Alii'in, lo.ooo; J. I Berka, Rernalillo, 2.".000; A.mado Chaves, San Mateo. 7,M; R. Ij. Haca, Nu Mateo, lü.uuo, and tho Navajo Indians, NktyXM. These are old families who traco their ancestry J'tack to Castilma and have acquired ÜJ-ge estates through grants from tho Spanish and Mexican governments. Some of these grants contain more than a million acres. The boundaries of many have been extendedby the surveyors-general of the territory, under republican administration. Surveyor-Gen. .Tci.Ian, in a report to congress two years ago, showed that an original permit of the Mexican government to piant and cultivate a "patch of corn" iK-tween two bmall streams, had been enlarged to 120,0X) acres, and confirmed by congress upon the recommendation of the republican purveyor-general. Theso rich Mexicans are very aristocratic and exclusive. They live in palaces in Las Vegas, and in towns on the Bio Grande. The herding is done by degraded and degenerated "greasers," or half-breeds, who live in dug-outs on the plains, for $10 to $15 a month. One greaser and a dog will tako care of 5,000 to 10,000 shoep. Sheep will shear on an avera.ro five pounds each. Mr. Otero, who is tho republican candidate for delegato to congress, has an income from?sO,000 to $100,000 a year from his flock. The additional bounty which tho republicans offer him will extract, for Dudley, a large amount of "fat." The largest wool-grower of Colorado, Mr. F. W. Dwight, and Mr. Otero, were delegates to the Chicago convention, and promised to raise $100,000 among the sheep men of Colorado and New Mexico alone, if the party would come out for an increase of duty on wool. The party redeemed its pledge by reporting the senate bill. Boss New did not forget the promises of the wool-growers and was in Denver on the very day that the senate reported the tariff bill. Mr. New came home with a broad smile, and we have no doubt that the wool-growers will raiso the promised sum to defray the legitimate expenses of the campaign import negroes and hiring men to work on Nov. G. Will the working people continue to wear shoddy and pay tribute to these tariir robbers of the plains? The XationaJ is a republican paier printed at Atlanta, Ga. It flies the Harrison-Morton flag from its mast-head, and fills its columns with hysterical rot about "British free trade," the "pauper labor of Europe," etc., etc., after tho fashion of the monopoly organs of the North. In a recent issue it says: Somebody, nnd that somebody is Cleveland, is seeking to write the dcath-wnrrant of our factories, mills nnd mines; and when we protest against such industrial disaster, ami declare we will vote for our interests and our welfare, we place alongside that protest our eternal hostility to nejro dominnt ion, and declare our solemn conviction that this dread specter is merely conjured up to aflright protectionist democrat.. Now we venture to suggest to Mr. Huston the propriety of circulating copies of the Xational containing the above among the colored voters of Indiana who aro becoming so restless under tha republican yoke. No doubt the perusal of a Harrison uraa which dcclurcü ita " cicnml hvaiuit

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to wyro domination would have a tendency to rcvivo their waning fondness for tho g- o. p. Chickens Coming Home to Rooit, Most of Judge Grksiiam's friends in Indiana are holding studiously aloof from tho republican campaign. They told the delegates at Chicago in June that Ben Harrion could not carry his own state if he were nominated, and they are not disposed to make very desperate efforts to provo themselves false prophets. Besides they have not forgotten nor forgiven Ben Harrison and his immediate friends for the unmanly and disreputable methods they employed against Judge Gresham during tho contest for the nomination. Michener, Huston, New, Cark, Griffin and the rest of that crowd are intensely obnoxious to the Gresham republicans of Indiana and their name is legion. The prominence of these gentlemen in the management of tho campaign is an element of great weakness. Maj. Calkins and Bill Holloway, who were as fierce against Harrison at Chicago as anyoody have, it is true, been reconciled (nominally) by a scent of tho spoils, but the other leaders of tho Gresham faction, and the rank and file, pre still "sulking in their tents." They will not lift a finger to help Boss New au.d the "Slick Six" carry Indiana for Harrison. It could hardly be otherwise, in view of the extraordinary acrimony and bitterness that characterized the (iresham-IIarrison contest lie fore the Chicago convention. The temper with which that contest was carried on, and the methods resorted to by the Harrison machine to discredit Judge Gresham with the people of Indiana are shown by tho following extract from an editorial article that appeared in tho Terre Haute Express a few days before tho eonvention met: Thine have come to a pretty pass when Indiana republicans liud it necessary to scatter lies broadcast to the end that a distinguished republican of this state Judge Ukesham, now so universally commended by the people of all other state, may not eclipse a candidate in whose ejindi lacy these slanders are inlisteJ Benjamin Harrison. Among other things charged is that Judge (iRksham was a know-nothing, a charge brought against him in lsii. when he was running ior congress against Michael C. Kkrr, and which the latter said publicly was not true; that he had investigated it and did not believe it. It is now revamped by republicans and only yesterday Jay Ctmminus, the secretary of the Vigo county republican committee, took pains to call the attention of the editor of the (ierman paper to t he publication volunteering the information that he, ("I MMINGS, knew the charge to be true. What do republicans think of this kind of work, especially by such hs Cum MlNos, who live oil' of campaign funds contributed by men who ire equally as friendly to (iiiEsiiAM as to Harrison? The story as published in the Commercial Cnzrtte yesterday makes a point that Gen. (iKEsHAM can not carry Indiana. The senior proprietor of the Indianapolis Journal says the same thing. As we said above, this sort of thing wil not tend to help Oen. Harrison's cause. It will be remembered that not only the Terre Haute Erprc, but the Fort Wayne Hazrttr, the Evansville Journal and other leading republican papers of Indiana, were filled with articles of a similar tenor to tho alove for weeks before the convention. Their provocation was certainly great. These journals aro now giving a very lukewarm support to Ben Harrison. Apparently, they are not particularly anxious that he should carry Indiana. It is quito plain that most of Judge Grksiiam's friends throughout the fctate are equally indifferent. One or Hlaine's Campaign Iii es. Jim Blaine, in his Grand Rapids speech, declared that if any republican secretary of the treasury had deposited the government funds in banks, as Secy. Fairchild has done, the democrats would have demanded his impeachment. This is on a par with most of Mr. Blaine's campaign utterances, which have never been equalled in mendacity and recklessness by the utterances of any other politician of similar pretensions in this country. The New York Evening rost quotes from a report made to the Forty-sixth congress by John Sherman as secretary of the treasury, which contains a statement of the assets of the U. 8. treasury, including tho following items carried through several successive months: deposits held nr katiosal bask depositories. Fob. 1, 1?79 . Sinr.,Vi7.1U 2(5 March 1, 1X79 - 24'..SSrt,sttt g. April 1, l:a 2J.;,f,M,8'y 01 May 1, 179 '.'i'i,7C MOT June 1, 1S79 27fi.442.471 31 Julr I,l7.t iUI.4r,MM 97 Ail)?. 1, l37: 97,073,837 2ti It appears from comparison of these figures with recent treasury statistics that the smallest amount held between Feb. 1 and Aug. 1, 1870, by the national bank depositories was larger than tho largest amount so deposited by Secy. Fairchild. Ami j-ct tho democrats never proposed the impeachment of John Sherman. It is perfectly well known to Blaine, Harrison and the rest of the republican slangwhangers that tho deposits by Secy. Fairchild in the banks were made in order to securo the country against a financial panic ; that they were ma.de under the authority of a law passed by a republican cx-.rtbSj approved liy a republican irsi-

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oJnj Sfofa dent, and acted upon by more than one republican secretary of the treasury ; that this law gives the treasury no power to charge interest, and that such a practice would bo very improper and dangerous ; and finally, Hakkison, BLAiE,and the monopoly organs know that President Cleveland and his secretaries of the treasury have repeatedly expressed themselves against the policy of depositing the public funds in the banks, and have urged upon congress the importance of reducing te-xation so that no necessity should arise for adopting such a policy. The administration has put a part of the surplus into the' banks under protest, and because there was no other alternative to a sharp contraction of tho circulating medium, except, indeed, to pay it over to the bond-holders' ring, as advised by Ben Harrison. In making these deposits no particular institution has been favored, as in John Sherman's time ; but tho money has been distributed among many banks in all sections of the country. There is nothing in theso transactions which does not reflect innnite credit upon the administration ; und thero is nothing in Blaine's false and venomous statements regarding them which does not illustrate his capacity for scandalou? misrepresentation of his political opponents. Harrison Insults to Democrats. Ben Harrison and his organ nro begging Indiana democrats to voto for him on account of "state pride." Yet Ben Harrison is to-day too same narrow, bigoted, intolerant, proscriptive, vicious democrathater that he always has been. Witness these extracts from Saturday's issue of his inspired organ : "The democratic party has a most unpatriotic record. The democratic party became infamous by its disloyalty during the war. As a party it has done nothing to contribute to tho honor of the flag or the glory and prosperity of the country." What do you think of this, democrats of Indiana? What do you think of it, young men, whose fathers, who perhaps have gone to their final reward, voted with and worked for nnd loved tho democratic party? What do you who honor and cherish tho memories of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, of Andrew Jackson and Stephen A. Douglas, of Samuel J. Tilden anu Thomas A. Hendricks and, Horatio Seymour of tho long line of illustrious patriots and statesmen who have led tho democratic party from its birth to the present moment what do you think of it? Tho democratic party is tho party of the constitution. Its founder wrote the declaration of independence. His great contemporary, James Madison, wastheprineipal framer of the constitution. Its grandest military hero, Andrew Jackson, served the Union by his courage and patriotism in the days of nullification, and crushed tho greatest monopoly that tho country had then ever seen. The democratic party gave the United States every foot of territory that it has acquired since it attained independence. It wrested vast empires from Mexico and Great Britain, from France and Spain, which are to-day the seats of populous, powerful and prosperous states. It carried American commerce to the uttermost parts of the earth and made the American flag respected and honored of all nations. From tho moment of its birth it has stood for the dignity and rights of American citizenship. It is a lie that the democratic party was disloyal during the late war. The bones of democratic soldiers, which are bleaching on every southern battle-field, proclaim it a lie. Maimed and scarred democratic veterans in every city, town and hamlet in lue North are living witnesses that it is a lie. The names ot Hancock and McClellan, of Thomas and Meade, of Bosecrans and Blair, of S locum and Franklin, and scores and hundreds and thousands of gallant democratic soldiers of the Union, living and dead, proclaim it a lie. It is the coinago of a depraved partisan imagination, the bastard child of malice and mendacity, the base invention of slanderers, cowards and poltroons. Democrats who glory in the grand traditions of their splendid party ; sons of democrats who honor their fathers living, or cherish their memories if dead, will bo quick to resent the wanton and deliberate insult conveyed by Ben Harrison's personal organ in this brutal tirade against the democratic party. If there is a democrat, or tho son of a democrat, in all Indiana who has ever for ono moment thought of voting for Ben Harrison on account of "state pride," or for any other reason, he cannot do so in tho faco of this insult except aX tho sacrifice of his self respect, and of tho respect of all others whose resect is worth having. The reDublicans claim that protective taxes aro cn'ircly and chiefly for the benefit of the la ior engaged in the production of the protei ted commodities. They also claim to be the only friends of the colored men. And, Vet the republican tariff bill cuU the dulyy ou tuar 50 per cent, and

on rice CI j per cent., although the laboi engaged in the production of these commodities is exclusively colored. If th new fangled republican theory that pro tectivo duties are for the benefit ot labor, and not of capital, is correct, the passagf of the senate tariff bill would be th severest blow ever dealt at the colored men of this country since they becamt free. Either the republicans do not be lieve in their own contention that th tariff is for tho benefit of labor, or their representatives in the senate have been guilty of the rankest treachery toward the colored men. Which view does our Chinese contemporary, the Journal, take of the matter?

An Outrage on Decency. The most indecent, scandalous and infamous campaign article printed this year, so far as we have observed, appeared aa an editorial in Saturday's Journal under the caption of "Cleveland's Gift to the Banks." From the bottom of our heart, we pity tho man who wrote it. Wo pity him because any man who, for political advantage, can get down into the mire of deliaction and calumny and deliberately pea such villainous slanders as that article contained must have a bad heart and a foul imagination and such crcatureg should bo pitied. With all the facts before him, this man accuses President Cleveland of personally profiting by thfl deposit of the public funds in banks aa accusation so base, so malicious, so utterly unfounded, that we do not hesitate to say thrt no person not utterly devoid of conscience would make it. The writer deliberately lieg when he says that the sums now ou deposit ia Lanks are nearly five times aslnuch as they were under a republican administration. The reverse is true. They wero four times as largo under President Hayes' administration as they are to-day, as we showed from the official records Saturday. The writer of this falsehood knows that the deposits were made by tho administration under prot?st, and in order to save tho country from a financial panic ; that both the president and secretary of tho treasury have repeatedly expressed their disapproval of this policy, and only adopted it, ?nd with great reluctance, as a choice of evils ; that no discrimination was shown in placing the deposits, but that all the banks and a'i the sections had precisely the eame opportunities in the matter. Knowing all this, this unspeakable blackguard says: A president who has shown himself to b thoroughly unscrupulous and untrustworthy in politics has no right to complain if, under suspicious circumstances, his personal honesty is questioned. If the prenident is directly or indinctly a party to the transaction by which favored banks are profiting to the extent of jjo.ooo.otio a year by the enormous deposits of, government funds, he is personally dishonest, A lean of his habits and loose principles ho has brought himself to believe that his reelection is neccs.-Hry to the welfare of the country, could very easily co a step fur. her and justify himself in accepting a campaign donalion of jlO.oon, to be made in his name, by banks that wer profiting by his generosity with the public money. And this appears in the columns of Bem Harrison's personal organ. It reads very much as if it were written by Ben Harrison himself, and perhaps it was. Pe that as it may, it is an outrage on decency. . President Cleveland's absolute integrity has never, to our knowledge, been questioned before, even by his bitterest opponent. His name, indeed, is a synonym for rugged honesty. Tho people of Buffalo, without regard to party, made him mayor oi that city to break up a corrupt republican ring that had fastened itself upon the municipality. He brpkc it up. The people of New York state then made him governor for a like purpose. He fulfilled all their expectations. Then the people of the United States made him president, and for threo years and a hall ho has fought from the white house tho rings, combines, trusts and monopolies, the land grabbers, the thieving contractors, the subsidy mongers and the great army of public plunderers of high and low degree. And after all thesvi years of vigorous warfare upon corruption and profligacy the personal organ of Benjamin Harrison accuses him of venality. There could be no lower depth of organic degradation than Ben Harrison's newspaper touched when it printed thi infamous article. The republicans are actually frightened about Kansas. The Kansas City Timrt prints a letter written by Henry Booth, chairman of the republican state committee of Kansas, to a leading republican of that state, in which he says: The labor union vote, Martin's popularity and the heavy men the democrats have nominated for coigress are playing havoc with us. Everything seems to be at sea, aud heaven only knows where the revolt will end. We cau'l talk high protection to the farmers, for they not only give us the laugh, but won't even nttend our meetings. We have worn th blooJy shirt threa loare. There is absolutely nothing left for us to do but pitch into our adversaries. Zl advise you, then, in the presenl emergency to give the labor union men nnd speak on local i,nes only. At all event! we must not allow the labor union to carry Pawnee, as you say they wilL Rather than consent to that I M ould withdraw and have mj friends elect the democratic nominee, as I hava no sympathy for these beggars. Our own opinion is that Booth is worse frightened than hurt, and that Kansas is safe for the republicans. But the majority will be greatly decreased, and the democrats are likely to capture one or two congressmen. Dear 'lumber, salt and clothing and free whisky are not in favor with the republican farmers of Kausas. The republican tarifl commission of 1S2 in its unanimous report to the house of representatives very truly said: No rates of defensive duties, except for the establishment of new industries, which more than equalize the conditions of labor and capital with those of foreign competitors, can be justified. Excessive duties, or those above standard equalization, are positively injurious to the interest which they are supposed to benefit They encourage the investment of capital in manufacturing enterprise, by rash and unskilled speculators, to be followed by disaster to the adventurers and their employes, and a plethora of commodities which derauges the operations of skilled and prudent enterprise. Hovey, in his circular letter to the old nuo contemplated by tho Mills bill w il leave iio money ior nie payment, oi pel (dons. And yet the republican sennt have agreed upon a tariff bill which, rJ i i ii . . claimed, will effect a greater rcductior the revenues than is proposed by the bill. Hadn't Hovky better write an letter? Blaine is the same reckless am dacious demagogue that he alwat His speeches abound in fab by sophistry, showing that he puts tl low c&ÜLuatc upon the iatellitace

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