Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 34, Number 48, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 January 1889 — Page 4

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.Entered at the PostoSce mt Indianapolis as aecoudclas matter.) TERMS PER YEAR I Single copy....... .........Sl oo We ask democrats to bear ia mini and select their own state raper when they com to take subscriptions and make up dabs. Agents making up clubs send for any information desired. Adders INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL, Indianapolis, ind. WEDNESDAY, JAN. 2. ANOTHER MONTH. "The Sentinel's" Guessing Contest Will Kfmaia Open Until Feb. 1. At the request of numerous readers, the contest forTiiE Sentinel's fifty-dollar prize for the best "guess" on Harrison's cabinet will be kept open until the 1st of February. The names of the cabinet will certainly not be known before j that time, and probably not for thirty days longer. Fifty dollars in cash will be paid the person wbo tends to The Sentinel office, before Feb. 1, the best guess on the cabinet. Each guess must be accompanied by the sum of one dollar, for which Tue Scnday Sentinel will be mai'.ed (postage prepaid) to any address, or delivered in the city, for the term f six months; or The Indiana State Sentinel (weekly) will be mailed (postage prepaid) to any address for the term ct one year. The "guess"' should give the names and positions of the seven cabinet officers, thus: Petition. Sam, S'ate.................-.. ........... Treasury - Interior "War- - Navy - rVftoGce Justice ( Atty.-Gen.) - The premium will be awarded immediately after the cabinet nominations have been confirmed by the senate, and the award will be based upon the cabinet, as confirmed. This offer is open to the whole world, and affords an excellent opportunity for shrewd political guessing. The guesser will receive in auy event the full value of his money in The Scnday Slntinel or The Indiana State Sentinel; and if he makes the best guess will get .0 ia ccsh, and establish his reputation -s a keen political observer and a clever student of the signs of the times. Now send in j our guesses, ladies and gentlemen democrats, republicans, prohibitionists, greenbackers, mugwumps and political nondescripts. You all have a chance. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. With this issue all subscriptions to The Weekly Sentinel that have expired before cr with January 1, IS??, will be cut off. It is hoped that every person who has taken the paper during the past year will do so during The Indiana State Sentinel has no superior and few equal.. Its subscription price is exceedingly low and within the reach of all. Scud us $1 by return mail and receive the paper for another year. The Indiana White Caps. "We print this morning a letter from the White Cap district cf Indiana, which contains an interview with a "prominent citizen" of that f-ection who, if not himself a White Cap, is at least in sympathy with the objects and practices of the White Caps. It will be read with interest as aiTording aa insight into the curiou3 mental processes by which men who call themEelvc3 respectable, and are considered respectable by their neighbors, soek to justify to themselves and to the world the practice of lawlessness The burden of this "respectable citizen's" song is that no one ha3 been punished by the White Caps who did not deserve it. Their victims have been, without exception, he says, vicious and worthless characters, such as wife-beaters, idlers, chronic loafers, etc., etc. In every case where the facts were known the verdict of the community was 'Vrved them right." 3Iany of the persons beaten have thembelves admitted the justice of their punishment, and in wme cases it has had a rno-t wholesome effect, resulting in the complete reformation of the offenders, who have become industrious, sober, thrifty citizens, instead of lazy, shiftless, drunken dead-beats. We have no doubt that the past condition of public sentiment in the White Cap counties is faithfully reilected by this apologist and defender of the White Caps. Their very existence would, indeed, have been impossible but for just such a lax and demoralized public sentiment as his remarks indicate. Happily there has been a marked change in the local eentiDient upon this subject during the last year. This is evidenced by the election of Jerky L. Scdiurth as prosecuting attorney. Mr. Suddarth was the republican nominee for that office. lie made his campaign upon the issue of the enforcement of the law against the White Caps, and upon that issue was triumphantly elected, receiving a majority of GO), although the majority forthe rest of the democratic ticked averaged one thousand in the district. Mr. Si ijdarth, therefore, owes his election to the law-abiding citizens of both parties a fact which is auspicious of a new and better era in the White Cap counties. The postponement of the trial of the indicted White Caps is, however, unfortunate, The longer their trial ia delayed the less likely is justice to be done. It is a fitting commentary upon the professions cf these men that, being in peril of the law, they are quick to avail themselves of the very privilege whose abuse in the interest of other law-breakers they have made the pretext for many of their own crimes. But the really encouraging thing is that these men have been indicted; that their ea.-os have been set for trial; that the prosecution is in charge of a man with the cbility and the courage to conduct it effectively, and that the preponderance of public sentiment is with him in his euorLs to suppress mob rule. Of course it is unnecessary to point out the wretched sophistries by which the White Caps and their friends endeavor to justify their crimes. They will not have a feather's weight with any intelligent person who is Ct to live in a civilized community. It is superfluous to tell euch a person that when a body of citizens assume to regulate the morals and habits of their neighbors by force, organized society is in peril, and anarchy is in eight. If these midnight marauders had been anxious io cp-

hold the law and protect the morals of the community, they would have, obeyed the iawä' themselves. However worthless and vicious and dangerous the victims. oftheir outrages may have been, they were, we make bold to say, harmless and even useful citizens as compared with their self-constituted judges, who have brought disgrace upon the state of Indiana by tbeir lawless proceedings. Wife-beaters are miserable wretches, and ought to be severely punished. But there is a law for their offense; and if the White Caps had made half as much eflbrt to have this law enforced as they have to break down all law and order in their communities, wholesome justice would long ago have leen done to these brutes. Thero is also a law against vagrancy, and a law against drunkenness and a law against theft and a law against prostitution. The White Caps had it in their power to see that these laws were enforced. They had it in their power to secure the election of officers with the ability, the courage and the zeal to enforce them, and to create a public sentiment which would sustain .such oflicers in so doing. But the- chose rather to put themselves in the same category as the offenders of whom they complained; to make criminals of themselves in order to punish other wrong-doers; to inaugurate a reign of violence and terrorism, and to bring their counties, and, in a degree, their state, into disrepute before tbe world by a prolonged series of outrages which will le a lasting reproach to Indiana unless the perpetrators are brought to justice. The people of Indiana demand that the prosecution of these miscreants be pushed to the bitter end, and that the campaign against organized lawlessness in Indiana be continued until the last vestige of it has vanU-hed, and the law is again supreme on every foot of its soil. The Sentinel's fftj dollar prize-gutting contest on Harrison's cabinet trill remain open until Feb. 1.

Statute .Against Overwork. A Pennsylvania law forbids passenger railway companies to suffer their employes to work more than twelve hours a day. The law declares that twelve hours is the limit, beyond which work must be paid tor as overwork; prohibits the company's oiiicials from suffering or permitting such overwork; makes the performance of the excess of work prima facie evidence of permission ; allows them to plead ignorance, in fact, as a defense, and adds a penalty of imprisonment of not less than thirty days nor more than six months. Although this law h3s been on the statute book nearly two years, the first indictment under it has just been returned. The defendants are Thomas C. Barr, president, and J. II. Fresh, superintendent of a street railway company in Philadelphia. The trial of this case will present some intere.-ting and novel questions to the Pennsylvania courts. It is quite probable that they will deny the power of the legislature to deprive citizens of the freedom of contract, which is what the statute in question really seeks to do. For it says, in effect, that no person can contract with a street railway company to perform more than twelve hours' labor a day; and if a legislature can say this, and enforce it, it can also prohibit a lawyer, a doctor, a clergyman, a journalist, a clerk or any other person contracting to perform, more than twelve, or ten, or eight, or fix hours a day, as it pleases. Every right-minded and humane person of course sympathizes with tho overworked and underpaid employes of street railway companies in our largo towns and cities. Most of these corporations earn very large dividends, and yet they have been in the habit of compellinr their employes to work from twelve to sixteen hours a day, seven days in the week, for the barest pittance. During the past three or four years the hour3 of work have been somewhat reduced in many cities, and the wages materially increased. This has not been accomplished by legislation, however, but by organization among the men, and by the pressure of public opinion, which has demanded that they receive at least us good treatment as was accorded the negro slaves in the South. Our own opinion is that the street-car drivers and conductors, considering the exposure and hardships they are compelled to undergo, ought to be able to earn a decent living by working not more than eight hours out of the twenty-four. But we have no faith in the potency of euch a law as that we have referred to. We do not believe it is constitutional, and we are sure it is not wise or practicable. A greater evil even than overwork and poor pay is the denial by the state to the individual of ths right to control his own labor and time. The assumption of such a power is a manifestation of paternalism in its worst form, and a paternal government would rather magnify than remedy our social and industrial evils. These can only be cured by arousing the popular conscience and creating a public opinion that will compel justice and fair play between man and man. The decision of tho courts on the Pennsylvania statuto will bo awaited with much interest. Forged or Genuine? The Journal prints a couple of letters alleged to have been sent out by two democratic county chairmen during the recent campaign. The Journal does not profess to know whether the letters are genuine or not. If they are genuine we have no hesitation in saying that the writers belong iu the penitentiary, although neither of the letters is nearly so bad as Dudley's infamous manual for vote-buyers, which the Journal professes to recard as entirely proper. We have no doubt, however, that the le tters printed in the Journal are forgeries. They bear all tho ear-marks of forgery, and their appearanco in tho Journal of itself renders it very probable that they are forgeries. It will bo remembered that the Journal, during the campaign, printed in its editorial columns a base forgery on the Importe county democratic committee. The forgery was promptly exposed, but the Journal never made retraction, correctio'n or apology. Indeed, it never referred to the matter again, although republican papers all over the state and country were reproducing the forged letter from its columns and using it as a text for preachments about democratic depravity. The Journal dealt in forgeries very ex

tensively throughout the campaign. In fact, they were for weeks the chief features of its editorial page. So it seems pretty safe to assume, in the absence of positive evidence to the contrary, that the letters it printed yesterday were forged. Send in your gurus on Harrison' cabinet. Fifty dollars cash for the best guess. A "Wicked Campaign Fraud. A short time before the recent election some of the coal mines in Clay cmnty were shut down, and the operatives were notified that it was because of the tariff agitation, and the fears of Mr. Cleveland's re-election and the passage of the Mills bill. As the Mills bill did not alter the duty on coal, it was deemed necessary to explain that many manufacturing institutions which would be injuriously affected by tho enactment of that measure had either closed down entirely or begun running on short time, and thus stopped or largely reduced their consumption of coal. The miners were given to understanel that if Harrison was elected these concerns would resume operations at once, which would restore the old demand for coal, and thus insure the men's re-employment. Well, Harrison wa3 elected, but there has been no change for the better in the Clay county situation. Not only have the men who were suspended before election not been re-employed, but many others have been dismissed, or put on short time. There are more idle men in Clay county to-day than at the corresponding season for many years past. The prospects for the future are very dismal indeed. The demand for coal is diminishing, and it is the general opinion that the "hard times" will continue indefinitely, and that they will be worse before they are better. We printed yesterday an interview with the editor of the Brazil A'iov, in which the situation was faithfully described. If Cleveland had been re-elected the Clay county troubles would have been attributed to that fact. But he was not re-elected; there is no possibility of tariff reduction for several years to come; the monopolies will have everything their own way in the next congress: and the short demand for coal, the idle miuers and the great depression and dismal prospects in the coal region cannot be laid to the account of the tariff reformers. The fact of the matter is that the reduced demand for Clay county coal is fully explained by the new and extensive use of natural gas and crude oil for fuel. The Sentinel made this explanation at the time of the partial suspension of operations in the Brazil mines during the campaign; and it was a truthful and entirely adequate explanation. But it suited the purposes of the monopolists who operate the mines to lie to their employes, and they did so in a most outrageous and unblushing way. They deeply played, or attempted to play, a gigantic confidence game upon them. They knew that the tariff agitation had no more to to do with the substitution of natural gas for coal by some of their customers, and of crude oil for coal by others, than the last eclipse of the sun. The loss of these customers was what caused the diminished demand for coal, just as The Sentinel said at the time. But the coal barons thought to practice upon the ignorance and credulity of the miners, and by appeals to their fears to induce them to vote against their own interests and in the interest of tho monopolists and the trusts. Happily many of the miners were not so ignorant or so credulous as the nabobs supposed, and the action of the latter did not have the desired effect. But their conduct was none the less despicable for all that, and shouhl expose them to the contempt of all who believe in honesty and truth. By the way, the legislature should this winter pass a law which will crush out the "pluck-rae" stores conducted by these same monopolists, and put a etop to the systematic robbery of the men in their service by the crooked system of weighing coal now in vogue. The exi tiug law against the "pluck-uie" stores has not proved effectual, and must be strengthened. As to the weighing robbery, it is simply infamous, and ought to be stopped. It is bad euough that these wealthy miscreants should practice deception on their employes as they did during the campaign. But no law can prevent that. A law can be passed, however, that will prevent them from robbing the men as well as lying to them. Tho legislature must pass such a law. Send in your guess on Harrison's cabinet. Fißy dollars cash for the best guess. The State and Township Libraries. It is said by persons who have watched the course of public affairs in Indiana that no measure for public education has ever failed to meet the approval of the people. If this be true, and it certainly ought to be, there are few things to which our legislators can devote their attention that will be more popular than reasonable and adequate provision forthe rehabilitation of the state and township libraries. The first is a thing of importance to every man who desire'S to make thorough investigation of any subject. The best authorities in every branch of learning arc expensive, so much so that they are usually out of reach of the mail of limited means. The state should place them within the reach of her citizens at some point within her boundaries. Every civilized country has recognize ! the policy of such provision. The state has need of learned men in all the fields of knowledge. Are you a scientist desirous of investigating any problem of nature, are you a mechanic desirous of inventing a piece of machinery or preparing yourself for a higher grade of employment, are you an agriculturist desirous of knowing the secrets of the soil and of plant . life, arc you a stock-raiser desirous of knowing the pedigree of fine animals and the best modes of caring for them, ' are you a politician desirous of examining questions of political economy, are you a citizen who desiren to know anything that will directly or indirectly benefit the community ? The state owes it to you to give you opportunity of access to the best works on the subject you wish to examine. Say so to your representatives. Do not be backward about it. They are sent here to provide for public wants. The township libraries cannot be made so complete, but they can, at a moderate expense, bo made blessings to thousands of families. There are many people in Indiana who are too old or too busy to go to school, who would gladly improve their mind? at home, if books were within their

reach. The township libraries were established under democratic rule and while kept up were ; of great benefit. Half of the books then, provided are still in existence, and with a little care a good working library cpuld Be made accessible in every township in the state. There are men in every section of the state who can testify to the usefulness of these libraries thirty years ago, and it wouid be a lasting credit to the democratic party to make them, equally useful now. The fundamental tenet of democracy is care for the good of the masses; and next to the purification of the ballot, no better thing can be done for the people than to put good reading matter within their reach.

The Journal pays that "Col. Dudley has not lived in this state for the past seven or eight years.'' Then Col Dudley ought to be sent to the penitentiary for illegal voting. He voted in the Third precinct of Richmond in 1SS4, and again in 188(3. On the latter occasion his vote was challenged and was sworn in by John L. Rite. At the last election, accoreling to common report, Dudley was paired with R. J. Bright. If he hasn't lived in Indiana for seven or eight years .he has been guilty of several violations of the election law that he had not been accused of. We print this morning another batch of letters from representative democrats in various parts of Indiana, making suggestions for a new election law. Democratic sentiment upon this subject is thoroughly aroused all over the state, and demands from the legislature about to assemble a strong, well-considered and effective measure for the protection of the ballot against bribery and corruption in every lorm. The legislature, we feel assured, will meet the expectations of the honest men of Indiana upon this question. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. I P. Walser, Domestic, Ind. The city government of Chicago is controlled by the republicans. A Reader, Bargersville, Ind. There is a U. S. custom-house in Indianapolis with a full complement of officials. Reaper, Grec-neastle, Ind. The fifty-dollar prize offer will remain ojxm until Feb. 1, as per announcement elsewhere. J.XN, Lafayette: The official vote of Texas at the recent election was: Cleveland, 234.M3; Harrison, SS,4-g; Streeter, :.H.i,4."!; Fisk, 4,741. Democrat, Liberty, Ind. We are not aware that Gen. Harrison said d'iring the last campaign or ct auy other time that the South needed more lead, lie may have done so without our knowledge." It sounds like him. Subscriber, City. To "gerrymander" is to divide a state into legislative or congressional districts in an unfair or unnatural manner for the benefit of a political party. When Elbridge T. Gerry, fifth vice president of the United States, was governor of Massachusetts, that state was thus districted, hence the origin of the word. It is now claimed that Mr.Gerry was really opposed to the measure. A Reaper, Yeedersburg, Ind.: Buy Gen. Lieb's book on the tiriff for sale by The Sentinel and write to G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, for a list of publications on the subject. Also write the Tariff reform league, New York City, tor documents. The tariff on wheat is 20 cents per bushel, but it doesn't atlord the tlightcst protection to the farmer, because wheat is not imported, the United States producing a larec Mirplu for export. The price of wheat iu this country is regulated by the price which the surplus brings iu the Liverpool market, in open competition with the wheat of Russia, India and the whole world. Hogs, cattle and horses pay a tltityof 2') per of nt., unless imported for breeding purposes. The tariit'on woolen goods in very complicated. It averages about GO per cent. The SENTINEL' fijly dxl'nr prize-guess in a COitdtt on ILirrifoa'j cabinet will remain open until Feb. 1. GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPLE. Tennyson refuses to write his memoirs. The fund for Matthew Arnold is now $40.000. King George of the Mosquito Islands is dead, of delirium tremens. No man living to-day has had so many pleasant death notices as Henry M. Stanley. SARA BERNHARDT' earnings in Constantinople are South American in size. She is having enormous success there. ' CUACNCEY M. Depeiv, Joseph II. Choate am! their friends have organized an athletic club which has spent S"-W..Cn 0 on its headquarters, gymnasium nnd runuing track. GEN. LONGSTKEET begins to feel the weight of his years. Alluding to some political attacks lipon his record the other day he remarked pathetically: "1 begin to feel like a very old rebel indeed." Joseph Jefferson has sent a card to the New York Sun in which he says that "by some accident" his name was quoted in the list of those indorsing the movement for the exclusion of foreign actors. Marshal pe MacMahon doesn't intend to waste his "Memoirs" on the public They are to be published immediately, but they are intended for the delectation of his owa family and a few intimate friends. A NEW phrae was invented by Lord Compton, a radical peer, who was recently a parliamentary candidate in London. "Three rooms and a cat," was. he said, the existing standard of coiufort for the working classes. Congressman Roswell P. Flower has added immensely to his fortune in the past two or three years. His money has been made largely by promoting railroad enterprises and iu big stock and bond sales. Mr. Flower is worth $0,000,000 or .S7,000,lrXl. He is of medium hight and stout build. Lady Grizel Baillie of Dryburgh abbey has been formally admitted to the ofhee of deaconess by the presbytery ot Selkirk She is said to be the first woman who has applied for admission to this office in the church of Scotland. It is reported that the emperor of Germany owes the recurrence of his car malady solely to his own obstinacy in living in the marble palace at Potsdam in defiauce of the advice of his physicians. He is now going to, buy a villa at Reichenhall. The lace for the wedding-dress of Princess Sophia of Prussia, who is to be married to the crown prince c Greece early in May at Athens, is being made at the famous Silesian schools, from a beautiful design in the royal museum of industry at Berlin, and the crowns, crests nnd monograms are to be worked from a design drawn" by the Fmpress Frederick. The Rev. Dr. A. E. Dunning of Boston tells this story: He was visiting his home in Maine, nnd an old fellow-townsman began a theological discussion with him. "Parson," said he, "the bible says that the Lord made the world in six days. Do you believe it?" "Yes." ".Now, do vou think that he finished the hole thing up in that time?" "Yes." "Weil, all I can say is that he could have put in one more day to mighty good advantage right here in this town." The poet Whither has given the following opinion about the publication of private letters in a letter to a friend: "Some years ago. I destroyed a large collection of letters I had received, not from any regard to my own reputation, but from the fear that to leave them liable to publicity might be injurious or unpleasant to the writers or their friends. They covered much of the anti-da very period and tbe war of the rebellion, and many of them I know Mere strictly private and confidential. I was not able at the time to look over the MSS.. and thought it safest to make a bonfire of all. I have always regarded a private and confidential letter as sacred, and its publicity in any shape a shameful breach of trust, unless authorized by the writer. I only wish my own letters to thousands of correspondents may be as carefully disposed of."

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) ffäC7ER0ü5 Ur l3A. fool Rcxfö j Send in your -"c." cn Harritoits cabinet. Fifty dollars eath for the best guess. Demanded by All Honest Men. fLogu import rbnros. The next legislature of Iudiana will unquestionably provide a better election law for the state. This is one of the reforms demanded by the honest men of both parties. Ia the perforuance of this duty the legislators can have for guidance the experience of other states in providing laws to secure fre. fair and pure elections. The work should be done carefully and deliberately. Xo election law can, perhaps, be enacted that will prevent bribery and intimidation, but one may be passed that will tend to lessen the number of o.Ienses and make the occupation of the bribegiver a perilous one. Driberyand intimidation have gone unpuuished so long in Indiana that they are now practiced boldly and definantly by men who, in the ordinary walks of life, are called respectable. It is now estimated that the purchasable vote of the state reaches 23,000. This vote has increased from year to year because the opportunity to 6ell has increased as the bribe-givers have become more numerous. Every good, loyal citizen of Indiana would rejoice to see the purchasable voter deprived ot the right of suffrage, but this cannot be done. There is one thing that the good, loyal citizens of Indiana can do. They can unite to prevent bribery and intimidation at elections. This will be necessary even after the passage of a good election law, because the successful enforcement of any law deueuds u;on the strength of public sentiment to back it up. A "Non-I'artisan" Affair. Paavil'.j (111.) Press. Ever siuce the disposition among democratic veterans has been evinced to form a separate soldiers' organization, the charge that the G. A. R. was not a political organization has been strenuously denied by the republican press, and the promoters of the new organization have been referred to in terms that even impugn their loyalty. It may be true that politics is never discussed with'n G. A. R. halls, but can some of our republican friends tell us how a non-partisan organization could consistently pass a set of resolutions buch us the following: Resolved, That we do most heartily congratulate Oen. Uenjamin Harrison in his election to tbe hichet office within the gilt of the American people. The sentiments he has so often expressed of the ration's duty to the loys in Mue we know were the expressions of an honest and loval heart, aud as such tliey are commended to our hearts with feelinsn of the leejcst gratitude. The slight consideration fur the veteran I'nion eoldicrs nhown hy the presidential incumbent can receive but etuaU" credit when compared to tho nohle position exhibited to the world by the loyal citizen, the brave soldier and wise statesman, (Jeu. Benjamin Harrison. Resolved, That Frank M. Thomas post, No. 01, so far as its authority w reach, extends to Gen. Harrison its most cordial invitation to attend the annual reunion of the G. A. R. organization of the Uuited States, to be held at Milwaukee, Wis., in lSO. assuring him ot the highest welcome possible i'or the loyal Uniou soldiers of this nation to give their most honored comrade. The- llejistration Ouestion. Ku.-hvill(! Jaeksonian. 'We are not certain whether a registration law would tend to the purification or corruption of elections. Very few men votetwice at au election, perhaps not one such vote in a thousand has been cast in Rush county for some years. Republicans resorted to that trick during and after the war for some years, but they don't do it much now. Democrats are too vigilant for them to do it with safety now. A registration law places a burden on the voters. It does take some time to register more time than to vote. A registry law gives the rich employer an opportunity to lay traps to prevent his emplove Irom registering; gives hint a chance to hire his man not to register, and if he does register to cause him to remove from his precinct and lose his vote. If he can do none of these things he stili lias a chauce to buy or get some oue to buy the j oo r man's vote. We have never seen this registration question discussed and therefore we can't say positively that a register law is more in the interest of corrupt than honest elections, but that is the way it now teems to us. Perhaps such a law has advantages to which our attention has not been called. We trust the legislature will not pass such a law without good reasons for it. We believe a law that would require a man to reside a year in the state and county before voting would be a good law. - Don't Forget the Workinguien. To the F.ditor Sir: I find in perusing The DAILY" Sentinel that there are a great number of plans and demands for legislation in this state. A great many interests are stepping to tbe front. There is the supreme court whose overworked judges demand relief. Several circuit judges consider that they have not sufficient leisure to spend their salary. In short, every interest conceivable presents its claim. But the curious part of it all is there lias as yet no champion presented the claims of the workingmau the man who has nothing to sell but muscle. You will remember that the last general assembly passed a law which provided lor bi-weekly payments, but failed to attach any penalty for ron-compliance, and the result is the law is a dead letter. Now I for one claim that the majority in the legislature is under obligations to the iaboringman to correct this wrong. A. Groll. Waldron, Dec. '29. The Dudley C'rime. To the Editor Sir: I wish to say a few words through The Sentinel, which is the best democratic paper iu the West. I hope the democrats of the country will stand with The Sentinel in the prosecution of the Dudley fraud, and the democrats of the committee of one hundred who are too weak-kneed to btand for what is right, should stand aside altogether. If Judge Woods and others who prosecuted, and even persecuted the Coy and Bernhamer fraud, are too partisan to assist in the prosecution of present frauds, let them give it over to fair-minded mea who will, and if there are any democrats who stand under the trap let them stand from under. I don't believe that the democrats will gain anything by fckulking or dodging this prosecution. W. Domestic, Ind., Dee. 30. Make Bribery Impossible. Columbia City Post. Let us have an election law which will make vote-selling and vote-buying impossible. Then, if the democratic party cannot win, you will hear no word of. complaint from democratic lips. What makes democrats fetl sore is the positive assurance that this state was bought up by money furnished by the eastern millionaires, whose hopes of future gain through the systematic robbing of the poor depended on republican success. As long as the democratic party is compelled to combat an insane prejudice and the eastern monopolists' millions, there will be no possibility of the face of the returns expressing the will of a majority of the electors. A Crying cd. Evan'rillo Journal rcp.J There is a crying need for the reformation of the election laws. The democrats are clamorous for this action, and if they show their earnestness by their works they will find the republicans not only willing but anxious to cooperate. Governor-elect Hovey has already expressed himself warmly n favor of such legislation. There is no obstacle whatever in the way, and if the state is not relieved this winter of the stigma of illegal voting and alleged bribery at the polh?, il will be disgraceful to our people.

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THE GUILLOTINE APPLIED TO PRADO. One of the Greatest or Parisian Sensation Ends With the Beheading of the Principal Flistory of tk k' Startling Crime. PARIS, Dec. 2. Prado, the murderer of Marie Aguetant, his mistress, was guillotined this morniug in the Place de la Roquette. He preserved a firm demeanor to the last. He refused to make a confcEsiou an J also declined the services of the chaplain. An immense crowd collected outside the prison last night aud remained until Prado had been executed. The rabble spent the time in singing comic songs and amusing themselves in other boisterous ways. Trado slept well until 6 o'clock this morning. He protested his innocence of the murder of Marie Aguetant to the last, and declared against the injustice of this world. lie refused to disclose his real name. When the jailer came to pinion his limbs he offered no resistance, and while they were engaged in the operation he shed one tear. The sight of the guillotine appeared to hypnotize him. The death was witnessed by 200 artist;, newspaper men, actors, lawyers and politicians w ho possessed influence sutiicient to obtain admission within the se-ntry lines to the Plate de la Itoquette. He died with much the same bravado as Pranziui, his former chum and counterpart 'Ihe scene was much more orderly, and not the slightest mishap occurred in the work of M. Deibler. In titty seconds from his appearance at the prison gate his bleeding head lay in the basket. In front of the gates of the prison where the execution took place were a group of men, among whom were seen several of the most distinguished men in France. Near the line of trees on the upper side of the path stood Mounet-Sully of the Comedy Franchise; near hir.i Armand Silvestre anil Henri llochefort. Alphonse Daudet was said to be present, Prado, in walking from the prison to the guillotine, showed no signs of fear. His arms were tightly pinioned behind his back, so tightly, indeed, that his head was drawn far beyond perpendicularity. His heavy locks, seen to such advantage in the court-room when he confronted and shook them at M. Guillot, the judge d'instruction, were gone. His apparel, seemingly, consisted of a heavy woolen undershirt and dark trousers. The shirt had been roughtly cut away from about the neck and shoulders. In front of the guillotine a board stood upright toahightoi five feet. In the top of "it was a lunette. As Prado neared this board a most dreadful series of incidents followed each other with the rapidity of lightning. The trembling abbe stepped apart. Four burly men, dressed in blouses of blue and white striped ticking, who had not been seen before, sprang forward, seized the condemned man, hurled him onward against the upright board, tiung themselves upon hira, and by their weight lore the struggling victim, fa;-e downward, to the top of the low platform. That board worked on a swivel aud ran on rollers. In an instant it had been wheeled forward until the neck was under the glistening knife, upon which the morning light had begun to gleam. M. Deibler, who had stood like a man of stone at the right of the guillotine during all this terrible scene, now reached forward and fixed a wooden collar over the back of the prisoner's neck. The knife was sprung, and the keen steel struck the neck as it might have collided with a rubber car spring. It went through and the head of Prado lay among the shavings beyond. The surgeon placed his hand on the trunk and said: "II est mort." PRADO'S CRIME. The Mystery of His Life Now an Insoluble Kntgma. Paris, Dec 2S. Throe years ago one of the most successful of the demi-iuondeines of Paris was a woman named Marie Aguetant. She was not of the highest cla3S of the demi-monde but she had her suite of rooms in a fashionable quarter and an indulgent lover. . In her room she kept a considerable sura iu the form of bonds, jewels and ready money. She was beautiful, clever aud ambitious. In publie resorts her face was familiar. She was known as "La Dame Aux Diamants" from the spleuder of her diamond necklace. On the evening of Jan. 14, ISS'j. Marie was oneof the crowd which filled the promenoir of the Fden theater. A small, dark man of inconspicuous appearance, a man not known to the frequenters of the place, approached her and after a few words they left the theater together. They went at once to Marie's apartments. It f-eemed to Marie's muid that the man tried to keep his face hidden and to disguise his voiee while she was present. At midnight the maid left Marie alone with her unknown visitor and went to sheD in the kitchen. At 1 o'clock t.he knocked at her mistress' door but got no response. The concierge said he had let no one out At - o'clock came M. Hies, Marie's recognized lover. Hi was furious when he heard from the maid that his mistress had brought home a strange man. He bent at her door and receiving no answer to his calls hurst the door in. Marie Aguetant was lying before the fireplace dead, with her throat cut. The leather bag in which she had kept her treasures had been slit as dexterously as had been the murdered woman's throat. No trace could at first be found of Marie's companion, and the best ellbrts of the detectives of Paris were in vain. Some time later a man Mas surprised while attemptitiL' to make off' with a casket of jewels from a private house. He was pursued by a policeman. Seeing himself overtaken, the man turned and sent a pistol ball througli the policeman's jaw. The policeman did not give up his hold- The man was caught, and when arraigned for trial he gave the name of Prado. About the same time Eugenie Forestier, a demi-wondaiue of Paris, and Maurice '.te Courenneau, a young married woman of Bordeaux, were arrested on the charge of receiving stolen goods. The thief was Prado. Eugenie was his mistress and Mauricette was the woman whom he had promised to make his wife. Eugenie finally consented to tell what she had learned from Prado of his origin and Hie. He was horn in Mexico, he said, and when a youth discovered some fearful secret about his birth. He became a wanderer over the earth, and in time made his way to Mozambique, to China, to Hayti aud to New York. Many strauge stories, impossible of verification, he told about himself. An English woman of noble birth, a sister of a religious order, nursed him when he was a wounded soldier in a Spanish hospital. They fled to Jerusalem, where she gave up her vows and married the adventurer She died in Italy soon afterward, and he returned to his life of adventure. When he met Eugenie Forestier Prado called himself Count Linska De Castillon. The woman was sincerely attached to him and spent upon him the money she received from other and richer lovers. On the morning of Jan. 15. ISSd, Prado came to her in a state of great exciteaient. She saw him burn his shirt and boots. He told her he had killed Marie Aguetant. He was often cruel, and by no means faithful, but Eugenie kept his secret. One day, not long after the murder of Marie, Eugenie was summoned to join Prado iu Bordeaux. They had not been there long together before she discovered that he was living with Mauricette Courenneau as his wife. Still she kept his secret. Prado made a rich haul of jewelrv in Spain and divided a part of his spoils lbctween his mistresses. The jewels were traced and . all three were arrested. Eugenie told Mauricette of Prado's crime. Mauricette, a girl of twenty, who had become a mother, told her confessor. The priest insisted that Eugenie should make her statemcut public. At last she consented. Prado was arrested and the mystery of Marie Aguetant's murder was solved. The trial was the talk of all Paris. Anew victim of the adventurer then appeared. It was his legal wife, Dolores Cartes of Marcilla, with when he had at one time lived in luxury in Madrid. She still retained her affection for Prado. As for the criminal he was less excited than the men aud women who thronged the court-room. He questioned the women he had wronged as coolly as if he had been a paid advocate. He was insolent toward the judge, and at no time seemed to be moved by fear or remorse. Within an hour and a half the jury returned a verdict of guilty without any extenuating circumstances. Prado still deuied his guilt. The case has raised Eugenie Forestier to the pinnacle of puccess in the world iu which she lives. Mauricette Couronneau, though she is the mother of Prado's illegitimate child, has received a score of oflers of marriage, but has been kept in seclusion by her mother. Prado s Spanish wife was to obtain a divorce and move to Paris. The mystery of Pmdo' birth

and of his adventures before the fateful ni;ht when Marie Aguctante was mv-rdtrcd, wa never unraveled during his life, fin J now the guillotine has raade it an insoluble enigma.

Sixteen Soldiers Killed. Rome, Pec. 2S. A shell burst in a powdei magazine at Messina, Sicily, this morning, killing sixteen soldiers, and injuring ruaay oihcrs. Send in' your guese on llarrieon cabinet. Fifty dollars cosh for the best grs. GUITEAU'S CURSE ACAIN. One of the Insattty Experts Himself Become Mad. ICew Yokk, Dec 2?. An evening paper tays: Notwithstanding the carefully studied efforts to keep the fact from public knowledge, it has leaked out that Dr. Alexander K. McDonald, general superintendent of the insane asylum on Ward's Island, has become insane. It is hoped that the affliction is only teinporarand that the once brilliant mind of the great specialist w ill be restored ta its normal condition, but the prospect at the present time is not encouraging. Dr. McDonald has for many years becu one of the universally recognized authorities in this country on the subject of insanity and its treatment. It ecems like a true exposition of the irony of fate that he himself should have been visited with an ailiiction that no oue was suppose.! to know better than he how to cure. Dr. McDonald was one of the experts whose testimony convicted Guiteau, the assassin of President Garfield, find it is noteworthy that he is another of those t ho participated in that trial ami who have apparently fallen under the ban cf the assasin'" curse. A Ticket for IS'SZ. Cnu'ier-Jourual. J "For my part," said Maj. W. II. Thomas, as he bit oil the end of a cigar and went r imblicg through his pockets for a match, "for my part I lavor a western mrn for president next time, and I have my mind's eye at present on Congressman l'.ynum of the Indianapolis district. 1 have been watching him for some time, and be strikes me as being one of the coming men. He is young, has brair.s and energy, and is a democrat lor all there is in it." "Who is your choice for second place?' "Hugh Grant, above all others. He is another yout'g man, true blood and a slashing lighter. The race he m.idi for mayor iu New York City, his w ilhngness to sacrit.ee iK-rsonal ambition to party advancement, showed us that lie is full of good qualities anl combines the essentials lor a successful national contest."' "Then you abandon Hid?" "Yes; but I do not condemn him. I have cause to know from iny New York correspondence that the liquor men, irrespective of party, ycu might say, cliqued to elect Hill governor because their business interests were considered safe iu his bauds. This element raised us much as $":M' to aid Hill. When it was turned over to him he very patriotically took it to Mr. Bryce and aked that it be applied by the national committee for the whole democratic ticket. To have done otherwise vjuid have rueent political death for him." "As a business man, major, what do you think of the proposition to elect a president every six years?" "With safe restrictions and modifications of of the veto power I should fnvor such a movement as a business man, but as a citizen I should not. Elections arTord me a great deal of interest" An Apostle of ltenublicanlsm. CoUnihus HeraM.) A gentleman who resides in or near Hart ville. who is an apostle of g.-dy good republicanism aud a preacher of the gospel, v. as in town on Saturday last. In one of our dry goods stores he had collected around him a number of ladies sisters of the ehurch--and t these he was dircctiug with much c aruesuiess, and with a religious unction beautiful to contemplate, upon the immorality of the democratic party, and the proueness of its members to indulge to excess in the intoxicating bowl. He grew more earnest in his condemnation of democratic immorality, and congratulated tho country on its escape from the whiskytippling party, and in the ascendency ot the sober, whuky-hating friend of tin; prohibitionist iarty to power. In one nioro than usual emphatic gesture he knocked his coat tail aga:nt an obstruction, which broke a thin f!ak of forty-rod tamarack, the contents of which were strained through the pocket material aud ran upon the floor in a stream. This episode cut the moral temperance lecture ofi suddenly, and the speaker made a bee-line for the door, leaving Iiis female auditors to wonder ii the tamarack itself was what s-:t the religious ton?ue upon such a wondrous wagging. Mora! The gentleman of the whit choker in tist hereafter buy a bottle of heavier glass, or what would be still betler and much morti safer, a cast-iron bottle, packed in saw-dust and inclosed ia an oyster c.".n. The apo-tle of temperance and. republicanism must look after this matter a little. Five Years Imprisonment. Knichtstown, Dec. -f'. SpeciJ. In the case ot the fctate aeainst Lizzie Archibald, charged with murdering "Big" Dik ,S.0u, colored, in this city, Nov. "J., and which was being tried at New Castle this week by Jude Martin of .ireeutie!d, a decision was reached this afternoon. .viie goes to the reformatory, for live years. Milt MeCray, who Scott charged in his aiiti-uiorn iu statement Milii firing one of the two shots, the one th:it. really caused Lis deatb, will be tried at the February tcra. (iolDS to 111 V It. Ouialia WoiM. Teiy Dealer "Ali, sonay, after Chris.tm.aj presents, are you?'' Omaha Hoy "They is for myself. Pop pave me the money and Era going to buy anything I want. Gimme a drum and a big horn and a fiddle." "Vou must have been a very good boy to be given so much money to spend on yourself." "I was. I ain't made any noise around the house for two months." The Sentinel's fjt dollar priic-gwiny contest on Harrisons cabinet rri'l remain epen until Ftb.. The Kay-Carpenter Contest. EansTille Courier. Certainly the senate, being the judge of the eligibility of its own members, will not conve.it to "the seating of Carpenter, whether it be shown that he corrupted enough voters to give him his majority or unless he can produce testimony to overthrow completely that which we reproduce this morning. No man who has been proven guilty of even one case of bribery should be 'permitted to pollute with his presence either house of general assembly. On the evidence given, Mr. Carpenter's proper place is not in the senate, but in the penitentiary. Dismissed the Hill. Chattanooga, Tenn.. Dec. 31. A dispatch from Nashville shvs: Chancellor Allison has dismissed the bill of Creed F. Bates (dem.) who sought to obtain the certificate of election as congressman from the Third district over IL C. Evans (rep). Bates temporarily eujoiaei Gov. Taylor from issuing the certificate to Evans. The matter has been appealed to the supreme court. Harrison's Oath. ICbia'po Times. The oith of ofhee which the presideiit-el-ct of the United States takes on the 4th of March will be amended eoas to read: "1 do lemnly swear to support the constitution of the United States and of the state of Indiana." They Will lie Like Othello. Crausvi'lc Courier. The coming legislature will pass an election law that will deprive such men as Quay aui Dudley of their occupation. Shut Out the Toddler. Fountain Cotiuty IViatxrat.J Any election law that permits the peddling of election tickets attbrds an opportunity to buy votes. Complimentary Notice. To those wishing roses, hardy plan ts, bulb j an J seed for home planting we cordially recommend the old. reliable house of the Dinge A Conard Co., West Grove, Pa. They re admittc! to re the largest rose growers in America, and their roses and plants are well and favorably known all over the Unitel States and Canada. Their "New (iuidc," 110 pages, handsomely illustrated, describes and teils how to grow more than two thousaad varieties of the newest and choicest roses, hardy plants, bulbs and teeds, and is sent free to nil Mho write for it. See advertisement in this paper, and address The Dingee fc Conard Co., est Grove, Pa. Scrofulous humors, erysipelas, canker, and catarrh, can be curel by taking Ayer's Sarsnpariila. "I have used this medicine in my lamilr, for scrofula, and know, if it istaken persistently, it will eradicate this terrible iisease." IF. Fouler, JJ. 1)., Gnsniile, fenn.