Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 34, Number 49, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 January 1889 — Page 4

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THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. WEDNESDAY, JANU AllV.9, 18S9.

INDIANA STATE SENTINEL

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Each guess ninst be accompanied by the um r( one dollar, for which TlIE SUNDAY SENTI NEL will be mailed (postage prepaid) to any address, or delivered in the city, for the term of six months; or Til Indiana State Sentiytl. (weekly) will be mailed (postage prepaid) to any address for the term of one year. The "guess" should give the names and posi tions of the seven cabinet officers, thus: ptMttvm. Samt. TrMiry .- Interior - "Wir Vary ............. ............... l'r-Moffioe - .... 1 Justice (AttyMten.) - The premium will be awarded immediately after the cabinet nominations have been confirmed by the senate, and the award will be b?sed upon the cabinet, as confirmed. This offer is open to the whole world, and aßördsau excellent opportunity for shrewd political guessing. The guesser will receive in any event the full value of his money in The Stnday Sentinel or The Indiana State Sentinel; and if he makes the best guess will Zft SSO in cash, and establish bis reputation as a keen political observer and a clever student of the signs of the times. Now send in your guesses, ladies and gentlemen democrat', republicans, prohibitionists, greenbackers, mugwumps and political nondeeeripts. You all have a chance. Perverting History. The advocates of monopoly tariff are either very ignorant of the history of tbeir country, or not at all scrupulous about Tververtinc it. For instance, the Journal, a day or two ago, in an article upon President Cleveland's letter to the Tariff Reform club of Boston, said : Nothing in the entire ranee of Cleveland's ignorance is more remarkable than his assumption that the constitution was framed and the early administration of the government conducted in the interest of free trade. He is forever prating about "the sentiments in which mir institutions had their origin," about our departure trom the "purity of purpose" which oharactened the father?, and that sort of thin. The jeople whose ignorance he laments are not yet so besotted but they can read, and history tells them that Mr. Cleveland's assumption in this regard is utterly untrue. One f the main objects of the trainers f the constitution, and one of the strongest r 'urnents in favor of its adoption, was to ee-Mi-e a policy of national protection and development. The lathers all favored a protective tariir. One of the first acts of the tirst congress was "an act lor laying a duty on roods, wares and merchandise imported into the United States." All the early history of the government was identified with the protection of American industry. The departure from the spirit of the constitution begnn when th southern wing of the democratic party bcran to agitate and advocate free trade, and H continued to depart till it brought on the war. The republican party, by re-establishing the protective tariff policy on a lirm basis, has restored the constitution to its original intent and purpose. These are facts known to most people, but evidently not to Mr. Cleveland. When he goes out of office, if he has time, he sho'dd read the history of the United States. We don't know whether this is ten or snce or dishonesty or a mixture of both. YVe do know that it is not true. It is essentially false that '"one of the main objects of the trainers of the constitution and one of the strongest arguments in favor of its adoption was to secure a policy of national protection' The constitution adopted in 178!, and in that very year, James Madison, "the father of the constitution," maintained the principle of fret? exchange. All of his prominent colaborer.s in the work of framing the constitution were in harmony with him upon this subject except Alexander Hamilton. It is quite true that one of the first measures passed by the first congress was an act imposing duties on imports. But this rvas a revenue bill, passed to meet the immediate nece&oities of the government, and protective considerations had little to do with it. They were so little regardedindeed, that Madison's letters to Jefkeksov, then in 1'ari.s, in which he describes the debates on this tariff act, contain no illusion whatever to the question of protection. This enactment of "the fathers," to which the Journal appeals, fixed the general level of duties at only 5 jer cent, ad valorem, a fact which clearly shows that revenue, not protection, was the chief object of the act. On certain articles of luxury somewhat higher duties were levied, but the hizhest was 15 per cent., on carriages. Thero was doubtless an element of protection in the specific duties im-P0-ed upon such commodities as hemp, cordage, nails, manufactured iron and gla-s, but ft was very slight. In this act, a in all the revenue legislation prior to 110, the protection idea was almost entirely ignored. It is now one hundred years since the constitution was adopted. The new repnblie, exhausted by its long etrngzle for independence, with little capital and no credit, and with very few manufactures (ar.dtb.cwe in their infancy), was certainly more in need of "protection" against the industrial nations of Europe than it etr has been since. Yet Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Franklin, Adams and their associates deemed a ncbeJule of duties averaging but 8 per cent, adequate both for revenue and protection. From 17S9 until since the late war no American etatcsraan of distinction, unless it was Hamilton, rver advocated a high protnctive t.iriff a permanent national policy. The system of tariff taxation, now upheld by the republican party, is a violent departure from the principles a3 well as practices of the founders of the rc-

( public, and of their successors, down to the present era of monopoly government. A tariff schedule embracing nearly, every I commodity in daily use, and averaging 47 per cent, with the heaviest burdens resting: upon the necessities of the masses, and the lightest upon the luxuries of the rich, is a prostitution of the taxing power of tho government to the service of private interest whioh can find no precedent in the early history of the republic, and no sanction in the teachings of its creators. It is a gross insult to their memory to invoke their authority in support of such a flagrant departure from the great principles of justice and equality which they enforced by precept and example. President Cleveland is thoroughly familiar with the history of his country, and comprehends terfectly the "tsctitimenU in which our institutions had their origin." His partisan critics appear to be as ignorant of the one as they are incapable of understanding the other. Compulsory IMucation. Among tho questions that will engage the attention of the legislature is that of compulsory education. In the last legislature Senator Thompson of this county introduced a bill to compel the attendance

at school not less than sixteen weeks tn every eonsecutivo twelve months of all children between the ages of seven and fourteen, except such as were physically or mentally incapacitated. The bill required parents and guardians to cause all children, within the ages specified and with the exceptions noted, to attend school, or receive instruction elsewhero in reading, writing, English grammar, geography and arithmetic during the hours and term when tho public schools arc in session, excepting such as are projierly employed to labor at home or elsewhere. It also provided that no child under the age of fourteen years should be employed to labor unless such child had attended a public or private school regularly for sixteen weeks during the twelve months next preceding any month in which such child was so employed. Suitable penalties were imposed for violations of the bill, and school trustees and other otlieials were charged with its enforcement The bill was quite favorably received, the senate coaimittee on education, to which it was referred, reeommending its passage with some amendments; but the measure failed, in common with nearly all other pending project? of legislation, owing to the 'Mead lock." Senator Thompson will re-introduec this bill in the coming legislature. It is a measure of the gravest importance, and is entitled to and will doubtless receive the most serious consideration. In every government resting upon tho popular will, illiteracy is an evil pregnant with serioii3 dangers to the body politic. An ignorant electorate means inefficient and corrupt government. A high standard of popular intelligence is the best safeguard for our institutions. In Indiana, at the last census, the per centage of illiterates was 7.-". That is to say fifteen persons in every two hundred over ten years of age were unable to write. There were 70,003 persons above this age returned as unable to read and 110,7"l as unable to write. The per ceytugo of illiteracy was greater than in Maine, Dakota, New Hampshire, Michigan, Montana. New York, Ohio, Kansas, Connecticut, Oregon, Wisconsin, Vermont, Minnesota, New Jersey, Illinois, Massachusetts, Colorado, Washington territory, Idaho and Pennsylvania. This is not a pleasant condition of affairs to contemplate. Education is by common consent one of the most important functions of the several states in our scheme of government. Every state in the Union maintains a system of free instruction. This system costs the people vast sums every year. Its existence is dxs to the universal recognition of the fact that popular government cannot be maintained except upon a basis of popular intelligence. The argument in favor of compulsory education is that of self-preservation. The question it presents is whether the state is not justified, in order to perpetuate itself, in asserting the pwer to compel the instruction of j-outh in those rudiments of knowledge, at least, without which no adequate discharge of the duties of citizenship can be expected. Education is compulsory in Germany and several other European countries. A number of American ßtates have also made education compulsory. The results of the experiment have not been, in all cases, up to the expectations of its advocates, but w e know of no s'.ate in which- the repeal of the law is advocated. The Key to Election Reform. It cannot be too strongly impressed upon the public mind that no election law can be adopted which will put a stop to the traffic in votes and other evils that have grown up under our present system, which does not provide for the printing and distribution of the tickets by the state. It might be putting it a little too strongly to say that no law which does not so provide would be worth the paper it was written on ; but it would be entirely within IwuRds to say that no such law would be worth the time and trouble involved in securing its passage. In point of fact the printing and distribution of tickets by partisan committees and candidates affords at once the temptation to, and the opportunity for, much of the corruption now practiced at our elections. The simplest, easiest and most generally practiced form of bribery is that which takes the guise of pa3rnent for the peddling and distribution of tickets. This assertion will hardly be challenged by anyone familiar with the practical workings of our elections. It is the paid "ticket-peddlers" who march the floaters to the polls in "blocks of five," and "see that none get away." It is tbey who fix up the tickets for these cattle, and see that they are deposited in the ballot-box Iefore they pay the price agreed upon for their delivery. It is they who take advantage of the ignorant and the careless to foist upon thetn spurious, split, counterfeit and "doctored" tickets. In fact, the "ticket-peddler" is the chief agent in tho debauchment of our electors, and until he finds his occupation gone, boodle will continue to be the controlling power in our politics, and a pure ballot-box will be only a dream of honest men. A moment's rellection will convince any intelligent person that state-printed and distributed tickets constitute the key to any real reform in our election system. It will avail little to shield the citizen from observation whiio in the act of voting if, before he

enters the room provided for that purpose, he may get his ticket from an irresponsible "peddler" on the outside. It needs no argument to establish this proposition. . "or should . it require much argument to convince intelligent men that the printing and distribution of tickets is as much the legitimate function of tho btate as any of the offices that it now performs in connection with elections. The state provides all tho other machinery necessary to the exercise of the suifragp. "It appoints and pays election boards; it provides polling places; it furnishes the ballot-box; and there is no logical reason why it should not supply the most important part of the machinery namely, the ticket. No election could It? held without tickets; and yet the printing of tickets is left entirely in private hands, and a premium is thus placed upon corruption, trickery and fraud. It would bo just as logical to leave the provision of polling places to candidates and party committees as to depend upon them for the printing and distribution of tickets. The impropriety and unwisdom of the present arrangement are so clear that they would be instantly jerceived by all were it now proposed to bo adopted for the first time. It is only because the people are accustomed to it, that any fail to realize the fact that it is an assumption by individuals and extralegal organizations of a function that belongs peculiarly and exclusively to the state. It has worked evil and only evil, and its perpetuation can only result to the detriment of good government. That able democratic journal, the Chicago (IhiU, put the caso very strongly when it says: In all parts of the republic voting is done by ballot, so-called; that ts, by means of a votingpaper on which the names of the persons voted lor are printed. This voting-paper is the most essential part of the whole election machinery. It is by ujeanaof this voting-paper that the w ill of every elector, and of the collective electorate, is determined. All parts of the election machinery are under the control of sworn officers of the law, with the single exception of this most important part The law carefully guards every other paper, process, aud proceeding; but this most essential part, this voting paper, to fcccure the proper delivery of which, as an act of the free will of the elector, all the rest of the machinery exists, hus been deliberately left to individual initiation and manipulation, unprotected by any legal safeguard whatever. A better plan to facilitate an I purchase votes, the forgery of voting papers, the defrauding of voters, the "stuffing'' of the boxes, the falsification of returns, the ingenuity of villainy surely could not have devised. It is by means of this nngarded voting-paper, which every rogue may deliver to the voter with the price of his vote, and keep in his sight until it is placed in the urn, that votes are bought, and that all other known modes of falsifying and corrputing elections are practiced. Right here is the remedy and the practical meaus of reform which the appalliug corruption of cur electoral system imperatively deuiauds. The law must take the voting-paper into its own hands exclusively. The law must initiate it, print it, hold it, guard it, protect it against the touch of any person not its own authorized agent, aud deliver it to the voter es he approaches t vote, out of the reach of all other persons. The law must so construct it by placing the names ot all candidates on the same paper, that the voter may, nay must, make his own election among them. In this consists the office of an elector, whh-h the. law intends and the elective system requires, every elector frhall exercise by and for himself, and not by or through ary manipulation or conirol of others. With the adoption of this legalized aud lawguarded voting-paper the Globe believes that vote-buying and most if not all the other corrupt practices that vitiate our elections aud reduce popular su'Jrage to a hideous farce, would cenv?, because they no longer would avail the corrupt Purposes of those who practice them. "If He Is Proven Guilty." The yens says "thero is no sentiment here that is going to shield Dudley if he m proren guilty." We do not recall that the AVirs talked in this strain when certain democrats were charged with a petty election fraud a year or two ago. The AVw did not wait until they were "proven guilty" until it condemned them. It filled its columns with denunciations of them long before their trial, and did everything in its power to bring about their conviction. In this matter of tho Dudley letter, no person familiar with the facts, who is capable of adding two and two, has any doubts. Mr. Di dlev has publicly admitted tho authorship of the letter, and the AV has voiced the opinion of all hone.-t men that it is "the letter of a scoundrel." And yet at this late day it is saying that there is no public seutiment here that will shield him "if he is proven guilty." "Is there no public sentiment here that is trying to prevent him from leing proven guilty? Is there no public sentiment that is trying to prevent him from being put in jeopardy for his crime? Are there no republican politicians who are boasting on the streets and in other public places that "we have enough votes on the grand jury to prevent an indictment?" Are there no newspapers here that are using their columns, directly or indirectly, to break down the investigation? Are there any republican lawyers, preachers, doctors, roerchants or editors who are doing anything to promote the ends of justice in this business? Is there a federal judge who is insisting upon an indictment as there was when democrats were charged with forging tally sheets? Is there a committee of one hundred offering rewards for evidence agaiust him? Everybody in Indianapolis knows how these Questions must be answered. And everybody also knows what kind of commentary the answers will afford upon the yens1 assertion that "there is no public sentiment here that will shield Dcdley if he is proven guilty." The State Library. We regret to note in the Terre Haute Garrtt a pre-adamic article on the state library, advocating the abolition of that institution. Ita central thought is that "keeping a library is not one of the legitimate functions of a state." This will be interesting Information to the civilized states of the world, all of which maintain libraries, and, it may be added, very much better libraries than Indiana has or can have for some time. If a state cannot keep a library, of course a city, township or county cannot. Therefore let us destroy all public libraries and leave the money "in the pockets of the people who earned it." Tho same sort of logic will apply equally well to public schools. If thero is any party that ought to favor public libraries, tho democratic party ought, or else it should quit talking of being the friend of the people. If there has ever been a democratic leader who was not a friend of public libraries, wo have never heard of him. We repeat that the condition of the state and township libraries is a disgrace to Indiana, and add that the abolition of cither would be a worse disgrace. If the democratic pa-ty has not euough common feenso and public fpirit to improve their

condition, it should at least leave them to struggle on until more liberal and progressive ideas gain the ascendancy. To abolish the stato" library would be a good century's 6tep toward barbarism, and just about as lengthy a step to the burial of the political party that was responsible. . 1 How to Suppress 1 licet Ion Bribery. There are some simple-uiindcd persons who suppose that bribery at elections can be suppressed merely by the enactment of stringent laws against it. This is a delusion, as all experience shows. Nearly every state has a stringent law against bribery at elections, yet a successful prosecution under such I?w is seldom or never heard of. Bribery is practiced extensively in New York, New Jersey, and some of the New England states, as well as in Indiana, but bribe-takers . as well as bribe-givers are never punished. Evidence in such cases is hard to obtain ; public sentiment iswofullylax on tho subject; and the difficulty of securing a conviction, owing to the political considerations that arc always involved, is, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, insurmountable. The following provisions have been on the statute book of New York since 1S42, and, according to the Knai.ig iW, have been practically n dead letter since the hour of their enactment; . It bhall not be lawful for any candidate for any elective office, with intent to promote his election, or for any other person, with the intent to promote the elcctioti of any 6tich candidate, either 1. To provide or furnish entertainment at his expense to any meeting o electors, previous to or during the election at whioh he hall be a candidate; or 2. To pay for, procure, or engage to pay for any such entertainment; or 3. To furnish anr money or other property to any person for the purpose of being expended in procuring the attendance of voter at the polls; or 4. To engage to nay any money, or deliver any property, or otherwise compensate any person for procuring the attendance of voters at the polls; or 5. To contribute money tor any other purpose intended to promote the election of any particular person or ticket, except for defraying the expenses of printing and the circulation of votes, handbills and other papers previous to any such election, or for conveying sick, poor or infirm electors to the poll. There arc, however, effective methods of dealing with this evil of bribery. The best is preventive in its character the adoption of a system which will destroy, so far as possible, the inducements and opportunities for bribery by a secret ballot and the printing and distribution of tickets by the state. An additional safeguard would be aO'orded by a law imposing penalties only upon the vote-buyer, and offering the vote seller-inducements to inform upon him, such as has been advocated by Judge Mt Ca f.e and others in these columns. Tut there is other legislation which may be had whose potency in purifying elections has been fully demonstrated in Greet Britain. Tho capital defect of Judge Holman's bill, recently introduced in congress, is, as already pointed out by The Sentinel, its failure to define what shall constitute the "legitimate" and "necessary" election excnses which it authorizes, and to require' a sworn account of all campaign expenditures to be published after every election. Without such provisions it is improbable . that much good would follow the enactment of Judge Holman's bill. Tho .York Eirixbvj Pot, in discussing this subject, says: The Fnglish corrupt practices act is an excellent guide to follow on this point, for it has worked most snecefully from the moment of going into operation. After defining and forbidding and fixing the penalty for every form of bribery, undue intluenee, treating, etc., the act goes on to f.ptciiy what are necessary expenses of election, and to fix the limit to which they can be carried. The maximum amount of expenditure whu-h each candidate chu make is named, proportionate to the size of his constituency. This sum mustcover all expenses, printiug. postage, room-reut, clerk-hire everything. All disbursements must be made by one person, cither the candidate himself or bis agenL If he employ an agent t disburse the money, he cannot disburse a farthing himself, but must leave it all to the agent. An account with vouchers must be kept of all expenditures and returned under oath to the proper officers after election. Any person fouud guilty of an "illegal practice" is liable to a fine of 100 and five years' incapacity for voting, while a candidate guilty by himself or his agent losen his seat and is disqualified for sitting for the same constituency, in the former case for seven years, in the later during the existing parliament Minor ottenses of illetral payment, etc., are liable to a fine of JCUX. Any candidate whose expenditures exceed the maximum limit loses his seat. When this law went into effect it was the general belief that the maximum ot" expenditures w hich hud been set w as too low and would have to he raised. In the lait election which had been held lefore the law went into eflect, the total expenditures were, about $15,000,000. At the first electiou held under the law the total dropped to :LMO0,O00. At that election it was discovered that in the English constituencies the total of expenditures had been over one and a half million dollars less than the maximum allowed by law. At the same time all charges of bribery had disappeared, and there have never been any heard since. The requirement of publication of expenditures had done what the most stringent prohibitory measures against bribery could not do and never can do abolished the corrupt use of money immediately. The secret ballot had, of course, aided greatly in the work; but the deadly blow was given by the requirement of sworn public accounting for all the money spent. If congress would pass such law a.s the English corrupt practices act to regulate national elections, and if the several states would pass similar laws touching all other elections, in addition to laws providing for a secret ballot and the printing and distribution of tickets by the state, the power ot boodle in American politics would be permanently destroyed.

A Meritorious Measure. Col. Matson rendered a very important servico to pensioners Wednesday, when he secured the passage by the house of a bill prohibiting any agent or attorney from receiving a fee for securing an increase of pension on account of an increase of tho disability for which a pension was originally allowed, and further prohibiting pension agents from accepting a fee for getting a jension through congress by siecial legislation in cases where the pension might be obtained under the general pension laws. The bill was introduced by Mr. Dockeuy of Missouri, and its object is to protect pensioners against extortion and robbery at the hands of the. rapacious and unscrupulous creatures who infest Washington and are called "pension attorneys" or "ensiou agents." The bill .was amended so as to permit the applicant to contract with any person iu the btate in which both parties reside to pay not to exceed three dollars for services rendered in such case, should the increase be allowed. The amount was incorrectly stated at eight dollars in The Sentinel yesterday. The bill uow sees to the senate, and the Washington pension sharks will make desperate efforts to prevent its passage in that body. It is estimated that the enactment oi this measure would

cost these cormorants about fifty millions annually, benefiting pensioners, of course, in a like degree. It remains to be seen whether the pension ring will be as successful in its efforts to kill this meritorious bill as it usually is in securing the passage of improper pension bills through the senate. Dudley and Hi letter. Tur Indianapolis Sentinel nsserts that Col. PrPLEY admits the genuineness of the "Dudley letter." Is The SENTINEL sure of that? We have a tolerably good memory and we distinctly remember that Col. DrpLLY declared the letter a published a forgery. Hut why is he not indicted if the case is so clear as The Slntinll asserts? What's, the matter with tho "chain of evidence?" Has it no links? Ihlroit Trib'inr. If the Tribvn wants to know why Dudley has not been indicted it will have to ask the grand jury. The investigation has not been finished, and we have no means of knowing whether he will be indicted, although it is acommon republican boast that "wc have enough memlters of the grand jury to defeat an indictment." The Sentinel is very sure that Col. Dudley has admitted the genuineness of his letter, and has every reason to believe that evidence of that fact has been laid before the grand jury. Col. Dcdley has never pronounced the letter as published in Tin; Sentinel a forgerj-, and we have offered him one thousand dollars in cash to come to Indianapolis and swear that it is a forgery. Wc trust the Ti-ii,e will find these answers to its questions satisfactory. In a letter to the Hon. I. 1). (J. Nelson, Mr. John Balnlk of Frankfort, Ind., Mho voted for Andrew Jackson for president in 1S;I2, proposes that a celebration of Old Hickory's birthday be at Indianapolis on the lth of next March. He projoses that all the surviving Jackson veterans in Indiana be invited to participate, and that their sons also bo aked to attend. Such a celebration would be both pleasant and profitable, and we hope it may be held. Tho principles and policies advocated by Andrew Jackson are as applicable to-day to the wants of tho people as they were fifty years ago. He was the champion of honest government; he insisted that taxation be levied for public purposes only, and he was the uncompromising foe of monopoly in every form and guise. It is a fitting time to do honor to his memory, and to reassert the principles he so bravely maintained. We print clsewhere Mr. I'.akneh's letter to Mr, Nelson proposing the celebration, and a note from the latter indorsing Mr. Barxer's suggestion. We should be glad to hear from other "Jackson veterans" on the eubject, ' Speaking of Gen. Harrison's recent remarks at a grand army jost about a free and honest ballot, the New York Emuoj Pit pertinently Kays: Unhappily, if we may judge from the experience of the past, loud republican talk about the electoral abuses in the fouth usually means a determination not to reform abuses nearer home, w hich are completely w ithin our reach. If anybody has a plan for securing free and pure voting at the South, let us see it and discuss it. If he has not, let him give his time and attention to tcver.tl plans for securing free aud pure elections at the North which arc now before the public. If Gen. Harrison is so deeply in earnest about a "free and honest ballot," ho will suggest to his political friends in the senate the importance of promptly confirming Judge Clay pool's nomination as U.S. district attorney, so that the, men who interfered with a "free and honest ballot" in Indiana at the recent election may be brought to justice. Reform, like charity, should begin at home. SrE VKiNu of the proposed new election law Senator Mclunix is reported as saying: "When the last ballot is counted and tallied, all ballots should be at once burned. Saving them serves no good purjkdsc. They are stored away and used only in a re-count, which is never satisfactory except to the person who wins." The senator is right ; and we hope the bill passed by the legislature this winter will provide for the destruction of the ballots as soon as tbey have been counted and tallied. This is the law in New York ; and since it was adopted ballot-box stuffing has been practically impossible in that state. We may add that this law was drafted by that grand old democrat Samuel J. Tildin; and the 63-btem it provides for counting and recording the votes is the most perfect ever devised, as experience has demonstrated. The Philadelphia 7'ihyram, an able and honest republican journal, which supported Harrison earnestly, says: Of course the ultra republican partisan journals denounce the selection of a successor to U. S. I)ist.-Atty. Sellers at Indianapolis made by the president, and partisan senators will only be too quick, doubtless, to oppose its confirmation; but it is to be hoped, lor the good repute of the republican party outride of Indiana, that Mr. Dudley's friends w ill not kick too high or too hard over th'u little matter. Mr. Bailey may have been a very "offensive partisan" a little while ago, and he may be even more "offensive" in the near future; but as the representative of the federal government he has a hi;h duty to perforin, and no amount of tluFter and bulldozing is likely to deter him from it. He is the one man who is supposed to know all about the bribery scandal, and w ith ability and fidelity to aid him, 1 therefore is just the man for the work which another has so strangely turned his back upon. Let this vile business in Indiana be probed to the bottom, bet no guilty man escape. The interesting information comes to the Journal from Washington that the republican senators regard Judge Claypool's nomination as a "bitter partisan one," and that there is no possibility of his confirmation. This ought to open the eves of the people who supposed that Mr. Bailey was objected to because he dared make a speech in the recent campaign that offended his highness, BenjaminHarrison. As The Sentinel said when Mr. Bailey was nominated, he was opposed because he was a democrat and was in earnest in his efforts to bring Dudlet. and his confederates to justice. Judge Clay pool is opposed for the same reasons. None of the clergymen who have proJested against Gen. Harrison's attendance upon the inauguration ball, have had a word to say against the proposition j to reward v ith high office sonic of the men who furnished, the money to buy votes with at tho late electiou. These worthy divines seem to have no sense of moral proportion. The highly humorous announcement is made that Atty.-Gcn. Michener will address the republican editors of Indiana at their approaching convention in this city on tho subject of "Election Be form." Nothing could be funnier unless it would be an announcement that William Wade I

Dcdley would be present and speak on the topic TnEJvurunl says that Judge Claypool's nomination should not bo confirmed. William Wade Dudley says the same thing. The idea is, you know, to have a district attorney, after March 4, who will see to it that every guilty republican escapes. Benjamin Harrison can, of course, be depended upon to provide such a district attorney in the interest of his friend Dcdley. Should indictments be returned against the election thieves during Judge Clayi-ool's ad interim servico as district attorney, they cannot be brought to trial before March 4, and then it will be smooth sailing for Dudley and his gang. This is the program of these precious rascals, and their organ which is also the inspired organ of the president-elect makes no effort to disguise it. Gov. Moor.Liiorsi: of Missouri, in his last annual message, recommends the adoption of the Australian system of elections in that state. The prospect is that within the next to years a large number of states will adopt this system, or, at least, its controlling features. Indiana will be one of them. According to a New Hampshire correspondent of the New York Iavh'ihj 7W vote-buying is an old established industry in the granite state. It is predicted that a ballot reform bill will Iks passed by the approaching legislature as such a measure is demanded by honest men of all parties. The Jo(risuggost3 that "before reaching a decision on the school-book question, the legislators and others will do well to await the arguments of State Supt. LaFoli ette." Every member of the school-book trust will heartily indorse this suggestion. The Journal takes up the cudgels in behalf of the corrupt pension agents' ring at Washington. Is there any ring ot public or private plunderers in this broad republic that the Jotn-ont is not in sympathy with? Will Gen. Hakkison dance or will be not dance, March I? This is the question that is absorbing the interest of a considerable portion of the population of this great republic at the present moment. Election "B 'form" which leaves the printing and distribution of tickets to private agencies will not tonch the vital defect in our present system. Smash the school-book trust. TALK A80UT PEOPLE. Senator Beck and his son are going to the Bermudas. Humors thicken that Secy. Bayard will live in Europe after next March. The sultan nerer ues a plate, but takes his food usually with a ypoon or his fingers directly from the little kettles in w hich it is cooked. HARRIET Bekciicr Stowe has largely regained her health. She is able to walk out every fine day, and writes letters to her friends in a firm, strong hand. The Garüeld monument at Cleveland will not be dedicated before Decoration Day. It is said that an admission fee will be charged, permanently, to all visitors. l'ltor. E. A. Park of Andovcr who led the action against Prof. Smyth for heresy, is now on old man, with a smooth face and long gray hair. In cold weather he wears a heavy shawl about his shoulders over his overcoat. Jim Givens, the bnsve negro who recently reproduced "Jim Bludso's" heroic deed on a burning steamer on the Mississippi, bore a name which will not be forgotten. English newspapers are telling the story of bis glorious death. Here is a chance for George B. Sims to pay the tribute of ver-e to a noble fellow. A land is beiug raised at New Orleans tor his family. Mis Helen Hamlin, daughter of A. C. Hamlin of Bangor, and grand-niece of Hannibal Hamlin, was married at Bangor Monday evening to Edward Hamlin of Boston, a distant relative of the bride. The bride is the young lady to whom Longfellow referred in his poem of "The Iron Pen" as "the beautiful Helen of Maine." she is a beautiful and highly accomplished lady. King Kalakua of the Sandwich Islands, has become a prey to the cigarette habit. He awakens in the night to puff his paper-covered weed, he 6uiokcs between courses at meals and is, in fact, during h'.s waking hours, always surrounded by a tlo id of ili-smelling smoke. The influence of his example has affected Queen Kapiolani. and she rollsai igarrette with the skill of a Spauish seuorita. The Madronc vineyard, the finest property of the kind in California, has been bought by Senator Hearst, who proposes to raise a qnaulity of grapes to be used in making native wines. The vineyard is a historical one, as the mansion on it was built by Cien. Sherman and afterward was the home of "Fighting Joe". Hooker and of teu. Stone, who, after his courtmartial, took service under the khedive. Tins year's Florida orange crop is described as "unprecedented." DeLand alone, it is said, will ship over 73,000 boxes. The other day ti Mr. Houston brought into Sanford an orange ("Washington naval") which measured 14 by 142 inches ia circumfereuce and weighed one and three-quarter pounds. He has shipped a great many boxes of this variety from Belair at n per box, running mostly ninety-six to the box. It is not generally known that the lit. Itev. William L. McLarm, bishop of Illinois, was for seven years a reporter on the Pittsburg Gaztiie and Chronicle aud the Clevelaud Plain- ftfftln; daring which time he had Whitclaw Heid and other now distinguished newspaper men as rompanions. To a Milwaukee Journal reporter he stated that a rtewypa1cr office was "a very good place in which to earn to be a bishop, it being a liberal education in itself." The most prominent brigand in China, Ho Ta Lao-hu, has been captured and killed. He was a giant, being seven feet two inches in hight and broad in projortion. He has been concerned in a great many robberies and a large number of murders. Li Hung Chang, viceroy of China, made up his mind that the burly ruffian must be checked in his career. Ho Ta Lao-hu made a bold light against the troops sent out to arrest him, but was fatally wounded during the skirmish. The Princlss Mathilde, who Las gathered around her all the Bonapartist and literary notabilities of Paris at her Sunday evening receptions for many years past, is debarred by failing health from resuming them on their wonted brilliant footing this winter. She will open her salons as usual; but her invitations will be limited to old and intimate friends, belonging for the most part to the world of art and letters. The doctors disapprove of ber stirring out of doors iu the evening, but she means to make an exception in favor of M. Ldruond do Goncourt, who is a particularly valued friend. The pope has received nearly eight hundred requests from French eeelesiastics for one of the jubilee offerings which he announced his intention of giving away. In most cases the choice of the article was left to himself; the object of the applicants being merely to secure a memento of the jublilee, however trifling. The pope will probably present the costly ivory tabernacle tent him by the American catholics to the Church of Our Lady at Lourdf s. Over a thousand demands came from (Jerniany, mostly from the priests of the poorer classes, and nearly all asking for one or another of the objects used in catholic worship. Children Cry for

Jnfcufijcnf (RcAfccr, We cry you mercy! Ere you fare forth to smile at others' favours, prithee, stay your eyes. By your leave wc would prate of Organs, and e'en to be more beholden to you, of the Organs of Estey, from Brattleboro, Vt. In that if fate occasion you to the purchase of . an organ, -'twere well you go no farther, but tarry at the shop of Estey. You else can nowhere buy that fair purity of tone which Estey doth command from lifeless blocks. Revolve this with some care and so, being again o'ertakenf we shall have further words with you. Anon !

the articles have been signed. Sullivan and Kilrain Will Tight ar Orlean, July 8. Toronto, Ont, Jan. 7. John L. Sollivat tothiy met Kilrain'a representative. W. II Harding of New York and "Parson" Davies of Chicago. Threats of police interference frightened the parties into a refusal to sign articles, but the following arrangements were made: The Kilrain-Sullivau fight shall be for S?), Ofj aud the championship belt held by Kilrain. It is to take place July", near New Orleans. The next deposit of jsV is to be made w ith the New York Clipptr on April 1 j, whr-n the fiual stakeholder will be chosen. The refere is to be chosen r.t the ringside. I-ater The articles were signed iu blank by Kilrain and, after being filled up to suit Sullivan, w ere signed by him. The tight is to tak place on the Sth of July instead of the 7th, as at first announced. The following is the agreement between Sullivan aud Kilrain : Artii-!f of tirr?enif ot entered into thi Tlh it of January, tsv. between Jake kilrain of HalMmo.-e jtn.J John L. Msllivao ut Hosiou: the airi Kilraio sni uiiivan hrroiir airrco to Hslit a fair Mml-p fight, acf-irding t- the no ruh et th I-ond.n piie rin, hr ubirh the Kilrain an.1 Jvil.iT.m apree to he bound. I lie sanl i:i.!it shall le for SIO.OOO a Mde and the ViV-e lia'sttt diamond b.Mt, r-ir-,ntirig the charoioii!liip ol : tiie world, und hall take .hire on Jul S. tn iliu !-la.e ol Louisiana, v iihin lOO 101I0- of New Orleans, the man winning the ti to cive the o)p--sit. party ten days' uorre of t lie p'.a-e. Th mid Kilrain and Sullivan to right l cat' h eii;ht!s and to 1-e in the rinse !eteen the hours of 8 and Vi a. tu., the man aient to fort ii the. loiile oioner; tbe exp-no$ of the rojes and Ukes to he borne r.r -aoh party, bare and fhare alike; Jj.in'J a iie is now U i"-ittvi it b the farting alitor e.t the N York lipi'.r. Th f. aal cpo-ii of $V'0 each to h made by the 15th of April in New York t ity, when a tinul !tnlehol1er shall be chosen if nut acree.l on before. Tbe referee a!l be cuovn at the rii'g-M'i. The tuss lor choice of battle ground u taA p!ae. on June , between the hours ef 8 anl l'J p. ru., at Charles Johnston in Brooklyn, by th n'incipals or their reprtentativt-s. The party' failin; to mate the final dex.it to forfeit tbe niony iown. In case of ma:i5t?ri.tl interference, tb" stakeholder phall ti the time and place for the tight, if possihle, on the fame day of the nsst wifk. Th money not to be gircn cp, unless by nmtiul consent, until lost in a fair fi.'ht. .Iomn I Sritivjiv. Jake Kh.Bai, per 1V. F.. Harfi-OK. tVitnp: I.ris R. Ali r.N. John V. I! a k n r.T r. Want Them To Fiht in El rao, rOsTON", Jan. 7. This morning Ca pt. Cook, received a letter signed by four prominent men of El Pao, who offered big inducements to havehe Sullivan-Kilrain fight take place there. They offer to deposit $10,000 to have the fight to a finish take place there, asking gate privileges, and guaranteeing imniuuity from molestation and intimating tha: the railroads will make special rates. The offer of the Tens men will be brought to the notice of the pugilists. WORK OF AN ITALIAN FIEND. lie Blows l'p Hi Enemy's Home, Killing Three Persons Th Murderer Lynche!. SEATTLE, W. T Jan. 7. This morning at 4:00 o'clock Oilman, a little coal-mininc: village forty-five miles distant, was the scene of a dastardly dynamite explosion, perpetrated by an Italian find v.ith the assumed name of Albert Schaeflcr. Three persons were blown to pieces. Their names are: JOHN SClIl'llVK II. MlCHAKL SCHIT1VICH. BO DA LYE, nine-year old daughter of George Bodalyc, a Bohemiap. IJodalye himself bad his left leg torn from his body. The explosion created a terrible commotion in the village, and brought every inhabitant to the spoL An armed posse of miners went to the Italian's cabiu, where he and a mate lived. The angry miners seized both men aud took them before the justice. Sheriff Cochrane arrived from the scene of tbe Lit 4 Newcastle riot, and when the justice's court adjourned for dinner took the men in charge. The Liieriß" also went to dinner, Kat ing the. two men iu the K. of L. hall, intending to bring them to Seattle on the train. A body of armed miners came and broke into the hall and tool; Schneller and lynched hirn, banging hiui to a tree near by. All ellbrw to make him confess failed. He died in ten minutes. isehaefleVs deed was actuated by revenee. Last March he asraulted Bodalye's w ife, iutending to outrage her. Bodalye had him arrested, and Sehaefier served a term in the penitentiary, beinc liberated July 1. He freonently tried to kill Bodalye and family for revenge, and when freed went straight to Oilmsm to fulfill his threat. Christmas night he made an unsuccessful attempt to blow up Bodulye. Bolalnyc then asked Nchurvich's brother to sleep down stairs in his house to guard hjm, and sold his property preparatory to leaving (iiltuan and get away trom Schaefler. The fiend started out at midnight and awaited his opportunity until eariy this morning, when he threw the bomb und?r Bodalye's house. He then went home, and was pretending to Ik- asleei when discovered. Bodalye lies in the hospital here and may die any moment. Bodalye wife will not recover. A little eighteen-months-oM b.ib w-.s not injured. George and Mike Schurvich were blown twenty-live feet, nnd their heads and limbs were torn from their bodies. KILLED BY A GOAT. A Itrakernnn Knocked From a Train anil lias Hin Neck Broken. Laramie City, Wyo. T., Jan. 7. The over land fast freight train on the Union Pacific roai yesterday brought iu the mangled body of James Sumner, a brakeman, who bad beer thrown from the top of the train by a goat while the train was at a high rate of frpeed. The animal belonged to a theatricil compan, and pot on the train at Cheyenne, it is supposed, from a low shed adjoining the watertank. After the tram left Cheyenne the goat chewed the bell-cord awhile, and then drove two of the brakemen to the caboose, where they remained in mortal terror, believing the r.nimal was a wild one. Sumner was on tbe front of the train and had not seen the goat nut il the latter rushed at him full tilt. In the darkness be staggered, lost his balance, au 1 fell from the train. Iiis companions, peering over the top of the car, taw bis lamp co out- The train was stopped as soon as possible and run back. Sumner's body was found lying Inside the track. His neck had been broken. A cowboy laoid the goat w hen the train arrived here, and the coroner ordered him to the pound, pending the inquest. Always at at Discount, l( hh ag-) 'e J "Jacob," said the friend, "how foolich of you to talk of dying? Why, 1 never saw you looking so well In all my life before. Crace op you'll live to be 10 years oi l." "Mine friend," answered the invalid, impressively, "you make a mishtakes ven you tings I live so long. Der Lord isu't going der dake me at luO veu he can get me st 7." Pitcher's Castorlar