Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 35, Number 1, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 February 1889 — Page 4

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THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1689.

INDIANA STATE SENTINEL lE&tered at the Postotüee at Indianapolis as secondda matter.)

TERMS PKK YEAR: Single oopr OO We ask democrats to bear ia mind and select their wo state paper when they come to take subscriptions and make op clubs. Agents making up clubs send for any information desired. Addess INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL, Indianapolis, ind. WEDNESDAY, FEB. 6. The Democratic Press of Indiana. The Indiana democratic editorial assocition held its annual meeting in this city Thursday. The attendance was gratifyingly large and the proceedings were interesting and entirely harmonious. Mr. J.O. Henderson, the brilliant young editor of the Kokomo Dpa!eh, was chosen president for the ensuing year. The assembling of so many democratic editors from all parts of the state made a pleasant occasion. Democratic journalism in Indiana is, we are glad to say, on the up grade. "With very few exceptions the democratic newspapers of the sitate are nov conducted with ability and are a credit to the party and the state. Our democrat!:: editors are a body of sincere, earnest, faithful men, thoroughly devoted to the great principles which they advocate with so much intelligence ar-d vigor, and fnlly abreast nf the times. There has been a libtiuet and very gratifying advance in 'the tone and general character of the democratic newspapers of the state during the last few j-ears, and a a rule they are now conducted with more dignity, enterprise and ability than their republican competitors. They 6how a progressive spirit; they are quick to take up any movement or measure iu the interest of clean. polities and honest government ; they are growing in independence and in courage, and, better than all, in the self-respect and faith in the people which inspires them to disregard the dictates of corrupt politicians and party bosses, and do their own thinking. Our democratic papers are unquestionRbly more prosperous than ever before, as a rule. This is partly the cause, and partly the result, of their improved character. Their prosperity will continue to increase if they continue to advance along the; lines of clear and progressive journalism, and if, at the same time, sound business methods are practiced. A newspaper is a business enterprise, and its ''business end" should be conducted on strict business principles. For instance, the cash in advance system ought to be adopted by every publisher, and rigidly adhered to. o paper should be sent out of the publicationoffice to any subscriber who is in arrears for f-o much as a .single copy. This is the only safe and legitimate plan. The sentinel carries no delinquent subscribers on its mailing list for a single day, and it earnestly advises its country contemporaries to adopt the same rule, and ftick to it. A number of them have done so, and, according to statements made at yesterday's meeting, with highly satisfactory remits. The Sentinel is more than pleased with the growth and prosperity of the democratic press of the state. It will continue io grow anil prosper if it continues to deserve such good fortune. It is by far the most effective azency available for the propagation of democratic principles, and '.t ought to be liberally supported by ail vho are interested in their success. It ;hould be the pleasure, as it is ths duty, if every democrat in Indiana to take bis home paper, and to pay in advance therefor. And the publishers should make it their first business to see that their patrons get full value received, especially in the way of complete, accurate and fresh local intelligence. The most fcueeecsful county papers, as Mr. Stoll and others pointed out yesterday, are those which pay the most attention to local matters. The general news of the world, excepting a. to matters of overfhadowing importnnce of which brief mention may be made to advantage FhouM be left to the city dailies. The average reader, in small cities or in the country, looks to his local paper for local nevs, and to some metropolitan paper for general news. The former cannot compete with the latter in presenting the news rf the world; but no more can the latter compete with the former in its peculiar field. The Harrison Cabinet. There seems to be no doubt that President-elect Harrison haa filled at least four places in his cabinet, Blaine takes the Ftate department, Allison the treasury, Wasamakeb the rost-otTiec and Alger either the war or the navy piobably the former. A department not second ia real importance to any the interior ha? not yet been assigned so far as has transpired. It is presumably reserved for some w estern politician, who will be acceptable to the cattle and land rings of the territories, which furnished so much money to the Harrison campaign fund. The constitution of the cabinet will surprise no intelligent observer of any party. It has been obvious from the beginning that Elaine would be the real head of the c Iministration. He was the choice of a majority of delegates to the Chicago convention for the nomination; he was the actual leaderof the republican campaign itiscentral fignreand dominating force from first to last; he is far and away the trankest man, in point of personal following, in the republican party. Gen. Ha rei "ox could not have ignored him if he had desired io; to have done so would have been to wreck hiä administration at the outlet. Mr. Blaine's selection fixes its character in advance. He is notoriously the most corrupt man who has reached a commanding position in American politics Bince the days of Aaron Birr; and we may expect a carnival of extravagance and jobbery so long as he is in control at Washington. Mr. Allison is a man of fair ability and is personally respectable. He is chosen nominally aa a representative of the West, although the eastern money power has no more obsequious or serviceable tool in the senate of the United States than he. lie had the largest part in the preparation of the senate tarilf bill the "second tarilT of abominations," an it will be known in history and the tariff rings and Wall-st. tharpers will, of course, dictate the policy of the treasury department while it ia under his administration, Mr. Wasamakeb raised $400,000 for IvvDiET and Quay to buyvo-es with, and

his appointment to the head of the postoffice department is his reward. Under the circumstances his selection for this or any other office is a great scandal, but withal a fitting sequel to the boodle campaign conducted by Qcat and Ditdley. Alger also bought his cabinet office with money, just as he bought Sherman delegates to Chicago last June. The cabinet will doubtless be completed with an agent of the naval contractors for secretary of the navy, and a representative of some republican state for attorneygeneral. Ijc-t Justice Ie Done. The revelations in the Sullivan case are appalling. John E. Sullivan turns out to be a colossal thief, the victims of his rascality being numbered by the ecore, and some of thera having been reduced to absolute beggary through their dealings with him. His operations appear to have leen conducted, for some months at least, in utter disregard of the first principles of decency or business honor. An attempt will be made, of course, to hold the democratic party responsible for his misdeeds. But the democratic party, like the individuals who have Biillered at his hands, is simply a victim of misplaced confidence. When it nominated John Sullivan for county clerk he was a business man in good standing and a cimsn of excellent repute. He was known to tiie public as a man of industry, sobriety and capacity. lie was popular ly considered ;i man of integrity, and his credit was of the very highest. Atter he became county clerk he was indicted as an accessory to the tally-sheet forgeries, but notwithstanding the desperate efforts of Judge Wonps to bring about his conviction, juries twice disagreed as to his guilt, and very few fair-minded persons who examined the evidence believed him guilty. Sullivan was bitterly attacked by the republican press, but no more, bitterly than the same press is in tbe habit of attacking democrats whoso public and private characters arc above reproacn. The democrats of Marion county, therefore, had no reason to doubt that Suliivan would prove a faithful and efficient public otlicer. That he has turned out a sorry rogue, " 'tis true, tis pity, and pity 'tis, 'tis true ;" but the party which elected him to office is sinned against, and not sinning. John E. Sullivan would not have been nominated by the democrats for county clerk, nor elected by the people, if he had not been regarded as an honest man. Now that his villainy is known of all men, it only remains for justice to do its work. In the name of the honcrt men of the democratic party, and of all parties. The Sentinel insists that no elTort be spared to bring this man to punishment. Last spring when Mr. Sullivan aspired to be a delecrate to the democratic national convention, The Sentinel protested against that honr or any otber being conferred upon him, because of the fact that he was under indictment for a felony. The Sentinel did not pronounce him guilty indeed, it did not believe him to be guilty of the offense with which he stood charged ; but it held that the democratic party could not afford to choose any man over whom such a charge was hanging to help nominate its candidates for president and vice-president. The Sentinel appealed to the moral sense of the democratic party of this district, and the appeal met with a prompt response. Mr. Sullivan was not a delegate to the St. Louis convention. Nov. that he is shown to have betrayed the official trust that was reposed in him, and to have been guilty of fraud and forgery and other flagrant crimes, we can only express the earnest hope that ho will not escape the penalty of his misdeeds. He should be made an example of. The law should be vindicated in his person. It should be demonstrated that stealing on a large scale is not always safe. The conviction of Joseph A. Mooke and his accomplices, and of John E. Sullivan, and his accomplices, if he have any, would go far to counteract the evil results of their offending to the community, because it would demonstrate that the law in Indiana is strong enough sometimes to reach big thieves as well as little thieves, and would serve for rears as a wholesome warning to those who may be tempted to follow in the footsteps of these rascals if, unhappily, they should co scot free.

The School Book Question. Gov. 1 Iovey seems to be pla3'ing into the hands of the school-book trust, although we are charitable enough to presume that he is doing 60 innocently. In an interview printed in an evening paper he declares himself in favor of the stato purchasing books from the publishing houses and furnishing them for the use of the public school pupils free of cost. Why. bless your soul, Gov. Hovky, don't you know that this is just what the school-book trust wants? Nothing would please the trust better than a chance to seil school books to the state in job-lets. More money can bo made in this way than in selling the books at retail, as at present, because under the existing system a goodly share of the profits ha3 to bo divided with school officials, trustees and other.", and expended in the salaries and commissions of agents, in subsidies for newspapers, wine-suppers, presents for county superintendents and other dignitaries, traveling expenses, etc., etc. If the state goes into the market as a purchaser of school-books it wiil find itself at th mercy of a ring of pnblishing houses the same ring that has extorted po many millions of dollars from tho people of Indiana, and that is now maintaining a strong lobby at Indianapolis in order to prevent legislation that will deprive it of its opportunities for extortion. There is just one way to protect the people against the school book trust, and that is for the state to take this school book business into its own hands. Uy this we do not mean that the state should Ret up a printing establishment. This is not necessary and not desirable. Let the legislature create some competent agency to feelect text books. Let this agency have authority to purchase copyrights, or the right to print and use particular books in Indiana, or to buy the manuscript of new books, or to have them compiled by experts. Books before they are adopted should be passed upon by the stato board of education, or some other capable body of trained instructors.

The contract for printing and binding these books should be awarded to the beet and lowest bidder, after open competition. And the books should be supplied to the pupils at net cost, or loaned to them, without expense, as may be preferred. We know ot no serious objections to this plan. It has been urged that it would result in the imposition of "Cheap John" text books upon the pupils. But there ia no reason why it should do so, if the selection of the books is lodged in the proper hands. Of course this point would have to be properly guarded. We understand that the system we have outlined is in successful operation in the state of California, and if this is true, there is certainlj- no reason why it cannot bo successfully operated in Indiana. But there is not a school-book trust lobbyist who will not throw up his hands in holy horror at the bare propo sition, and the newspapers and public officials and legislators that have been subsidized by the trust will all tell you that it ' is not to be thought of for a moment, because it means "Cheap John text books." If Gov. Hovey is in earnest in his hostility to the school-book ring he will cease to advocate the very policy that the ring wants adopted if there is to be any legislation at all on this subject.

AVe llise To Remark. The Sentinel is not much given to "blowing its own bugle," but there are occasions when it is eminently proper that the said bugle should be blown, and this is one ot them. Within a little more than a week The Sentinel has achieved a eeries of news triumphs over its high-priced morning contemporary which have attracted much attention among the people of Indianapolis, and created a decided commotion in newspaper circles. Triumph No. 1 was the publication of a fuli, comprehensive and accurate account of the Moore defalcation on the morning of Jan. 21. The same morning the Journal had a very meager and imperfect account of the matter. Triumph No. 2 was The Sentinel's exclusive announcement ot Moore's flight to Canada. Triumph No. ." was the exclusive report of the mill at Broad Ripple Tuesday night, an event of prime importance in sporting circles. Triumphs Nos. 4 and ö were the exclusive reports iu yesterday's issue of John E. Sullivan's departure and the sensational developments which hastened it, and of Moore's arrival at Montreal. All of these things were matters of surpassing public interest. The Sentinel's superior enterprise in collecting and giving to the world the essential facts relating to them, in advance of its high-priced and pretentious morning contemporary, is the theme of admiring comment all over the city. The events of the past few days have demonstrated The Sentinel's immense superiority to every other Indianapolis publication as a local newspaper. The Sentinel prints all the news of the city and its vicinity, and it prints it while it is news, and not after it has become a "a twice told tale." And The Sentinel costs but ten cents a week. We really do not see how any well regulated family in this metropolis can manage to exist without it. A Few Conundrums. If JosErn A. Moore has robbed the Connecticut mutual company of half a million dollars, why has not the company caused his arrest? Is not the fact that it has failed to do so, and that he has been allowed to leave this city for "parts unknown," highly suspicious? Is it true, or is it not true, that the profits of Moore's agency, said to be about twenty thousand dollars a year, were divided with any of the chief officers of the com pan-? How does it happen, in view of the fact that Moore had no power of attorney from the company, and that all releases had to be sent to the home office for signature, that he could achieve such a tremendous deficit? These are questions which everybody is asking, and which nobody seems able to answer. They are questions of vital interest to policy-holders in tho Connecticut mutual life insurance company in particular, and to the whole body ot the people in general. A Superfluous Institution. "John Bull" is still unrepresented at Washington, and yet "the even flow of life moves calmly on." And so it would be if every diplomatic establishment in Washington were to suddenly vanish. As the Philadelphia Timet says: Steamships and telegraphs have made resident ministers entirely unnecessary. AVhen there is anything of importance to be done, a pecia! envoy is always sent, as Mr. Chamuerlain was sent here on the fisheries business; everything else can be managed by mail or telegraph. Ixrd Sackville never did a thing here except to get into a mess, and Mr. I'HELPS has never had anything to do, except in the Sackville matter, and then he did not do it. "Envoys extraordinary" and "ministers plenipotentiary" are relics of a by-gone ge. They have no place in our modern pystems of government. The diplomatic service of the United States answers no purpose except to afford an asylum for played-out or troublesome politicians, while it costs the people millions of dollars annually. It ought to be abolished. The legislature ought to tako some action for the appointment of an officer to look after the natural-gas interests of the state. This is properly work belonging to the geological department, but the geologist has much other work to attend to and cannot devote the attention to this special department that is needed. A deputy, working under hin supervision, who should devote his entire time to this one thing, would perhaps be able to do what is necessary. Already many persons are contemplating the possibility of an exhaustion of the gas supply, and means for stopping avasto have been proposed. An officer who gave special attention to the subject could see to the enforcement of these measures and from time to time suggest others which might bo deemed advisable. He could also tsee that none of this great fuel supply was allowed to be piped out of the state for use in other commonwealths. Perhaps even more important would be a close and careful study of the nature of the gas supply as manifested in the increase or decrease of pressure in wells, their failure, the causes of failure, and all other points of interest connected with the subject. The information so collected, with btatistics of the use

of gas and manufacturing, and the capital

invested, would be of great value to all who are interested in the advancement of the state. Let us have no more soldier vote foolishness in tho legislature. The members of that body were sent here to make laws for the people, and not to talk politics, or fight over the issues of a quarter of a century ago. Sensible people of all parties aro becoming heartily sick of this perpetual truckling and wheedling to the "soldier vote." There is . certainly no occasion for democrats to play the demagogue in this matter. Everybody knows that the democratic party is in favor of treating the old soldiers fairly, and even generously; that it has always dono so and will continue to do so. There is no room for argument upon this point and no occasion for protestation by democratic politicians that their party is the friend of tho old soldier. Democratic soldiers know that their part' will never do them any injustice, and republican soldiers would not vote a democratic ticket if every man on it was a crippled Union veteran and every man on the opposing republican ticket was an ex-Confederate of the Mosby-Longstreet stamp. As for the "professional old soldier" the man who is forever posing as an object of public sympathy or charity, on the strength, perhaps, of ninety days' service guarding prisoners or a campaign or two asi sutler's clerk. He is a pestiferous humbug and a chronic nuisance, and the democratic party cannot afford to be forever courting his favor. We trust that the next time any member of either bouse, whether ho is a republican or a democrat, attempts to work this "old soldier racket," lie will be promptly squelched. The time that is frittered away in this disgusting nonsense belongs to the state, and should be devoted to its service. Let the previous question be promptly called on the next statesman who attempts to advertise himself or his party as the original and only "soldier's friend." The republicans of Decatur and Shelby counties actually propose to renominate S. J. Carpenter for the senate. The Columbus Republican urges such action, and tho Indianapolis Jom-vnl seconds the motion. Carpenter has just been unseated by the senate for bribery. The evidence of his guilt was overwhelming, no attempt being made to refute it. He is constitutionally disqualified from sitting in the senate during the next four years. His nomination, which appears to be assured, will be another evidence of the moral rottenness of the republican pariy of Indiana. But nothing better is to be expected of the party which boasts among its leaders a William Wade Dupley and a William A. Woods. If the people of Shelby and Decatur counties are willing to be represented in the Indiana senate by a man who has been proved guilty of bribery, and who is under indictment for that crime, it is their disgrace and not the disgrace of the state at large. The senate, however, owes it to its own self respect, and to the good name of the state, to deny Carpenter a seat if he should be fleeted. Bribery must be made odious jrj Indiana, and one way to make it ,oUourfj3 to deprive those who practice it of 'thSf profits' of their crime. If the republicans of Shelby and Decatur insist upon nominating Carpenter, the people of those counties should see to it that he is defeated. But if they have too little regard for their own interests and reputation to do this, the senate should protect its own honor by declining to admit him to a scat. Why has not Joseph A. Moore been prosecuted for his crime? Why have the officials of the Connecticut Mutual insurance company permitted him to quietly leave for parts unknown? What has Secy. AnnoTT been about during his sojourn in Indianapolis? . These questions are in everybody's mouth, and very naturally. It looks very much as if the insurance officials were only too glad to havo Moore take his departure, for reasons best known to themselves, and that, instead of putting any obstacles in the way of his exit, they had facilitated it. The theory that the "true inwardness1' of this affair has not yet been revealed is gaining ground every hour. Certain it is that the developments of the past three or four days have made it impossible to doubt that Moore's irregularities could not have been committed without the knowledge of his official superiors, unless tbe grossest recklessness and inefficiency have characterized the management of the head office. That Mooke is not the only nor the chief sinner in this business is the conclusion to which the local publie is rapidly coming. The republican members of the general assembly, who have been doing everything in their power to prevent the passage of an election bill, or any other measure in the interest of the people, have, it is said, decided to present an election bill of their own, with which to antagonize the democratic bill. The republican bill, of which a synopsis is printed, contains some good features, but they are taken bodily from the Andrew bill. It contains at least one very bad provision that establishing a system ot voluntary registration. Under nuch a system, as we haye pointed out, the practice of Dudley ism would be greatly simplified. "Floaters" could 1)0 paid in "blocks of five," if preferred not to register. The republican bill is very much inferior to the democratic bill, but such as it is, it is of course not offered in good faith, its only purpose being to afford the republicans a pretext for voting against the senate bill. William B. Allison has, it is reported, declined the treasury portfolio tendered him by G.en. Harrison. If the report be true, William B. Allison is a very sensible man. With all his faults, and they are not a few, Mr. Allison is entirely too respectable to be mixed up with the crowd of political adventurers that will surround the next president. By the way, it is very likely that Mr. Allison will lead the republican forlorn hope in 1802, provided, of course, he does not become too closely identified with tho Harrison administration. Thk defeat of Judg Parkett in the First district was foreshadowed by The Sentinel several days ago. It is to be regretted, of course, but it is only another illustration of the fact that "a houso divided against itself cannot stand." If the democrats of the First district would only behave thcuisslves and expend

against the common enemy the energies

they waste in fighting each other, they j would not be dancing to republican music i so much of the time. ! The Applegate bill for the rehabilita tion of the state library has been reported back to the house with an unanimous recommendation that it receive two minor amendments and then pass. One amendment puts the superintendent of public instruction on the purchasing board in place of a member to be appointed by the supremo court. The original provision was probably unconstitutional, as it required a duty not judicial of the court; and it is eminently proper that the school interests of the state should have recognition. The other amendment leaves the distribution of the acts of the legislature with the secretary of state, where it now is. The amendments were at once concurred in, on motion of Mr. Appi.eoate, and the bill should now be passed by an unanimous vote. It is a most judicious measure, and will effectually remove one disgrace under which Indiana has remained passive for many years a defective, neglected, and scandalous-looking state library. "The solution of the school-book problem," says the Jovnml" is in the purchase of the best books in tho market at wholesale rates from the lowest bidders and then furnishing them at cost or free to pupils." Just so. And this is precisely the "solution" that the school-book trust lobbj' is spending time and money to bring about. The trust couldn't ask for a softer "snap" than this. The trust would a little rather sell its books to the state than to individuals. The expense of carrying on the business would be greatly reduced under this arrangement, and the combination could continue to get its own prices. Let us hope, for the sake of the people of Indiana, who have been so long robbed by tho trust that the legislatuie will be able to find j some other solution of the problem than the one proposed by the subsidized organ of the trust. The opposition of the republicans in the senate to Senator Barrett's night-school bill is as discreditable as it is characteristic. The bill is distinctly in the interest of the working people of the state. It is designed to afford an opportunity to give the rudiments of an education to those who have no wich opportunity under the present system. The measure ought to commend itself to all friends of our common schools, and to all who have any interest in the welfare of wage-workers. Yet the entire republican force iu the senate is fighting it with as much vigor as it it were a vicious and dangerous proposition. This is a very remarkable attitude for representatives of a party w hich calls itself the party of progress and enlightenment. The assassination of Judge Clayton in Arkansas was a dastardly crime, and it is to be hoped the perpetrators may be discovered and punished. The motive of the deed is supposed to have been political, but this is merely a supposition, as there is no clew whatever to the guilty parties. Of course the assassination is made the text of violent and incendiary articles in the republican press, in which the people of the South are held up to execration as a race of cutthroat?, and the bloody shirt is waved very vigorously. But in point of fact the killing of Clayton affords no more ground for stigmatizing the people of Arkansas as murderers than the stealings of Mooke and Sullivan afford for branding the people of Indiana as thieves. This week should witness the enactment of the senate election bill. It has received the careful consideration of the judiciary committee of the senate and is unquestionably in accord with the popular demand. The democratic press of the state is a unit in its support, and its passage, substantially as reported, is demanded alike by the highest considerations of the public interests and the wisest party policy. Let every democrat in the legislature sustain this most timely and righteous measure of reform. The school book trust lobby is very active, and will probably succeed In defeating any legislation in tho interest of the people w ith reference to school books unless the statesmen who came here a few weeks ago so full of zeal against the trust bestir themselves. The trust lobby is not making much noise, but it is getting in a good deal of very fine work just the same. Mr, Burroughs, the democratic nominee for judge of the Third judicial circuit of Illinois, was elected on the 2l'th inst. by a majority largely increased over that of the November election. The Illinois democrats seem to be made of the right material Defeat does not paralyze them. Dudle v is said to be an applicant for the commissionership of patents. Dudley is too modest by half. Ho is entitled to something much better than this at Harrison's hands. The "democratic idea" is to smash tho school-book trust. This, also, is Gov. Hovey's idea or was when he delivered his inaugural addre. The most pressing daty of the legislature is to pass an election law. The democratic party of Indiana is solid for election reform. Sm ash the school book trust. PERSONAL GOSSIP. Susan R. Anthony greatly Admires Mrs. Potter's Cleopatra. Ella Whveler Wilcox contemplates a trip to Nova Scotia. IJunlay, the newly crowned king of Annam, is only ten years of age. A critic speaks of the novels of Edgar Sal. tns as "sugar-coated arsenic wafers." Gen. Greely recently remarked that an open winter was one which is open to criticism. S. L. CLEMENS is keeping the fact very quiet at this crisis that the names of Bismarck and Mark Twain are synonymous. SlRltORERT MORI er is to be sent to Washington as British minister, according to recent rcForts from London, 'ihis is not a promotion, n St Petersburg Sir Itobert receives $40,uo0 per year and ranks as embassador; in Washington he will have $30,000 and rank as minister plenipotentiary THE Rev. Roheit Collier has presented Cornell college with an old factory bell which has an interesting history. It was tho bell that rang him to work every rooming in his young days and fixed the time the day's toil was over. The bell will be used at Cornell for summoning the students to their classes. A severe operation has just been performed for a cataract upon the eye of Richard Henry Stoddard, the poet and critic, by Dr. B. St. Johu Kooia of the ilaubattaa ej nad e&r hos

pital in New York. Since the operation Mr. Sloddard has been obliged to remain in total darkness, but his physician believes that he will soon be able to be out and that his eyesight will be as good as ever. M. EiFrEL, the famous engineer, who is building the great tower for the coming exposition at Paris, has had a good deal of trouble with his workmen. They objected to laboring at so high an altitude as 600 or 700 feet unless the scale of wages was raised in proportion. All difficulties have, however, been amicably adjusted and thework now goes rapidly forward, not even Sunday being a holiday. "January 7 the tower had attained the "OMoot level and was expected to be completed by the mildie of if arch. WRECKS ON THE RAIL.

Three Men Killed nnd Three Other Fatally Wounded Live Mock Killed. St. Louis, Feb. .".By an accident on the St. Louis & San Francisco railway near Springfield this evening three men were instantly killed and five injured, four of them fatally. A switch engine moving live stock cars jumped the track and went down an embankment, carryin? ten men with it. The injured were taken to Springfield mid a number of physicians called to care for them. The dead were taken to a Springfield undertaker's establishment. Thev arc: WILLIAM MILLLR, yardman, aged thirty. GFOKGF LOWUY, brakeman, aged thirtv. CHARLES MARION, switchman, aged twenty-eight. The injured arc: . E. A. Browning, both legs cut ofl". En M'Lane. engineer, terribly scalded and both legs broken. Frank Crawkord, yardmaster, both logs broken and mangled. John King, switchman, had his head cut and both les broken. John Kevnolps, slightly injured. All are in a critical condition and the physicians say there is but little hop of their recover?-. A live stock train, when within thirty feet of a bridge forty miles cast of Slater, Mo., on the Chieaco Alton road, jumped tbe track, and was almost wholly wrecked. Six cars went over the bridge and twelve wrre thrown down an embankment twenty feet high. About halt of the live stock in the ear was killed. The loss will be fully 1.3,0'". The caboose, which contained six stockmen, was the only car that remained on the track. A MOTOR LINE ACCIDENT. Several 1'eople Injured by a Kuunwny Car oti an Inclined I'lane. Denver. Feb. 3. A serious accident occurred in North Denver this afternoon on the Berkley motor line. The car started down the long and high grade, but before going any distance became unmanageable and dashed down the hill at the rate of forty miles an hour. When noar the bottom the car jumped tlao track and was smashed to atoms. The car was nearly filled with people, all of whom were more or less wounded. The most serious are: John Rover, thigh eruhed and internally injured; cannot live. William Greknman, conductor, back broken and recovery doubtful. Otto Drohm, jr., thigh and arm broken. Mks. J. It. Thomas, head cut and shoulder dislocated. An unknown w oman had her arm broken. THE BEAVER LAKE LANDSA Correspondent Who Say the State is Entit teil to Them. To THE FntTon Sir: The Jnunnt of last Saturday, thronen a contributor who signs himself "Fair I'lay," called public attention to the efl'ort being made to draw from the state, throngh lesiMative enactment, ?-0,'K0 to be used in cutting down or remoTing the ledtrc of rrw-k exte ndinj aero-s the Kankakee river mar the state line, the ohjeot Wins to drain the wtt lands bordering on the river wiibin this state, the cill-et of which would I to greatly improve the health of the country, and increase t he productiveness and vatua of the land. "Fair Flay" does not object so much to the enterprise s to ihcmoilc of meeting the cost, he ureint that the expense nullit t- be paid, not by the state but by the people, who ill derive the benefit. There seem to lie good sense in this. This innrninK another contributor. !ijTnin7 himself 'I air I'lay, No. 2.'' presents himself through the JmiraaV coiittus, referring to the f'regi.itn; enterprise, an l agreeing with his predecessor as to the injustice of any vueh use of the state's money, and in the same connection calling attenliou to tbe pending bills in the senate and hon so for the alleged relief of claimants to lands in the bed of Ii; aver lake in Newton county. While the proposed improvement of the Kankakee at the slate' exoerise. aptly illustrates its own adsunlity, as well as the necessity of economy of the strictest kind in the us1 of the public money, it is not of tlie magnitude of the proposed "relief,"' as it is called, to the Beaver lake claimants. What are the faets of thi cae? I do not personally know them, but I am ee,naintej with gentlemen wiio know and are familiar with them, and will vouch for their truths as 1 shall state them : 'i'hesj lands consist of about S.cf 0 aer -s, worth JMl.iiOfl. The title of th state i derived from two several tT.:itS from tho l"nited States; oi.e in 1O0 and the r.iher in 187.1. The title in the state is absolutely perfect. As to this there is no question. The pretended title of the claimants has no foundation in law or equity. Some nine years ago t lie state authorities, upon a thorough examination, c.iine to the conclusion on the subject and caused st;it to bp brought to establish the st:ite"s cl iinis. One of these rases, I nig tried, was appealed to the supreme court, whore tbe derision wns broad nud comprehensive, settling the o iiot ion as to th strut's title in her favor as to every point and as to every foot of the land. (See 10, Ind.; p. 4f."0 The leal, moral and equitable title of thestate is settled beyond dispute, the court holding the claimants to hsva been mere trespassers and wrong loers on the lands, tiie title to which they now modestly ask the legislature to vest in them. Wrongdoers ami trespassers on the land', as they have been held to be by the supreme court, their demand that the state should yield her tiile to the same, worth Jsiimv her legal'and moral claim lieing timjiiestioncd, is a remarkable piece of impudence. Viewed in this light only it is an admirable performance. Kverything being settled by tho courts against them, the claimants now, for the third time, come into the legislature to get what the courts denied them. This is modest, too. The legitimate triluiual for the settlement of all such questions having settled it all airainst the. claimants in the state's favor, and the legislature, on two occasions, turned its back on the claimants, Iheyare here again begging for the stale's laud. They want it literally given t them. They want a resent of the eighty thousand dollars' worth of land, and the legislature ia asked to give it to them. Will the legislature comply with their request? What explanation of such a wanton waste of tha pnhlie projiertr tan He given'.' Will some kind hearted, beneTolently-disposed member explain? How can it be justified? Don't j.lay with the people's money and lose it, if you don t want to hear from them. In behalf ot the legislature I desire to ay thee is no danger of the pa-sage of this bill. Indianapolis, Jan. Ti. Fair Flay No. S. INVENTORS AND PATENTEES. A Blatter Within the Sole Jurisdiction of the National Government. To THE Editor -5iV. I have read the article ot F. M. Huff of HartforJ City on the above sbjeet, which seems to me to be a very plain statement of the case, and there is no question but that the statute quoted is unconstitutional; but a few lawyers and even prosecutors throughout Indiana scent to think that because the state or the supreme court thereof has not decided this statute unconstitutional, it still stands oil the statute liooks to-day as the law in the eas?. If these lawyers and prosecutors will turn to the constitution of the United States, there they will learn, if they do not already know, that such laws as the statute in question never had an txistence, it was u'j im.'in without force or cticct. So that it is not necessary for the supreme court o our state to pass upon its constitutionality. It is to te hoped, though, that attorneys and prosecutors throughout the state will not do like the nid bull who stood on the track facing the approaching locomotive. States have rights, we all admit, and wo believe iu her citizens upholding th- ri;;hts of a state and supporting her law.', but the U. S. constitution provides that no state shall make certain kinds of laws, ich, for example, as the coining i money and tho "securing to inventors for limited periods the exclusive rights to the use of their inventions etc. If any one will read the wording of a patent right, be will there see that "the exclusive right to make, use and rend (sell) the said invention throughout the Fnited States and the territories thereof " is granted unto him. Nor is the st'ile of liul'ana excepted. So that it se?ms to tue that these lawyers and prosecutors are verv much like the bull. Ii.it thai these may know that other judges besides the Hon. David Davis have held to tho same rule, I quot from Judze Shcplcy, of the U. S. circuit court of Massachusetts, October, ls73: ' frhoiild the legislature of a state pass an act (interfering with patent riirhts, there can be no reasonable doubt that such a statute would be unconstitutional and void. "Tho policy of the government to provide a uniform Bvsteiu of rights aud remedies throughout the United States upon tho wholo subject matter of patents for new and useful invrnthus and discoveries, by placing it tinder control of congress and th federal courts, would be frustrated if such state legislation could directly or indirectly limit, restrict, or take away the remedy." It therefore follows, as a natural conclusion, that all state laws that require the taking out of licenses, in order to sell products, or that require, under penalties, the tiling of copies of patents with state or county officials, as a condition precedent to selling patent rights within the luiudry of any slater would he absolutely unconstitutional. C'cntrcville, Ind., Jau. Si. I'hil T, Soctu.

TIIE DEMOCRATIC EDITOR EVER IN FAVOR OF BALLOT REFORM. Tbe Andrew Election Rill Heartily In. dorsed by the State Association of democratic Kditors Discussions On Otlier Topics.

The democratic 6tate editorial association hell its annual business session Thursday at the Hendricks club room. The meeting was a modest one, so far as numbers were concerued, and everything wa conducted on Jttlersouian principles. But there was an abundance of brains, and deep earnestness marked all the proceedings. The learned papers that usually characterize such associations were "conspicuous by their absence," and the entire session was occupied w ith business-. The thirty editors in attendance had tonic, not to listen to weighty oratorical efforts, but to seek a t-hort respite from arduous labors, to take a critical glance at the legislature and examine other points of interest about the city Mr. J. O. Henderson of the Kokomo ptich presided at, the meeting in the absence of President Dan McDonald. The most important resolution passed by the association va probably, the following, introduced by (ieorge Y. Tipton of the F.ockvillc Enrjlr, relating to the pending election bill: Whereas, It is well known that there is a necessity for a radical change of the election laws of thi's state; therefore, be it ltesolve l, I!y the democratic editors of Indiana in convention assembled, that we urgently re -oniincn the en;:. tmenl of a law cmbracintr the vital features ol tue election bill reported by the senate committal n judiciarv, and we csll upon our represrntatiTps in tbe legislature to pres the passage ot such a bill al the earliest practicable moment. The discussion on this resolution was spirited. Mr. Morss of The Sentinel made some ex pl.;t:ati.n of the bill. Mr. 11. J. Strickland of the Hancock Jaßr. tntiin.i said he was in favor of tbe bill ia its entirety, and hoped that the Rssociation would take nction indorsing it. Messrs. J. 1J. Stoll of the South Dend Tin, Georeo Tipton of the F.ockville l '.oi!r, and others fcpi ke in favor oi indorsiug tbe bid and the resolution was passed. About the nextmost important matter before tb? association was tiie question of what to do arid where to -jo at the summer meeting. As the rules call for a trip, it was decided Unally to take a lake journey from Chicago to Detroit, and have the executive committee attend to the details. Messrs. Jstoll, Lovithain, Arnold, .Short and (iwin, who were appointed a committee to nominate officers for the ensuing year, repotted as follows: President. J. O. Henderson of tho Kukotr.o ; -, n(rl) ; vice-presidents. Ii. F. lvoutliiiin and M. ". Ileiihaiu: recording secretary, F. A. Arnold; corresponding secretary, Fulher Short; treuurr. W. K. Sheöer; executive committee, J. 15. Stoll, Koval K. Purcdl, S. F. Morss, Dr. D. W. II. Hunter and V. A. Foane. Mr. H.J. Felt us opened a short discussion on tho subject of public printing. Mr. John 15. Stoll moved that it the sens of tbe convention that the law he so changed as to secure ihe publication of the public advertisements in more than one paper in a county. There Wits some dilierenee of oninion nn thi matter but the resolution passed. There is no doubt but that there is room tor reform in the matter of allotting tlie public printing. The Publishing association, which consists of newspaper men of both parties, meets to-day for the purpose of etrecting legislation to its interest, and Messrs. Short. Strickland, Holt man and Feltnt were made a committee to confer with it. After adjournment the majority of the members of the association held a 6h-rt informal meeting nnd diseuss,! the business interests of the press. Mr. Stoll thought that not enough, interest was paid to local news by county ne wspapers. Too rauch siace is given to trenernl news and political clippings. The effect of this is that the paper loses ground. The countv paper is peculiarly a local paier. If it is taken by anyone outside the county that pen-on take it because he wants to read the local news of the place that he canic from, or in which h" takes great interest. A small dose, of democratic gossip can do more good than a lanre l.-iA Ti iura mucf Tint Ka tutinli w-kli ort,! AlAX.av lllUsl IV. 'SKi - Vr lliutil I -SI IV - AIJIA foreign matter, and the pautr will obtain a firmer hold on the community and thus cltimately eii'ect a revolution in public sentiment, for the simple reason that it w ill have more readers. Aiuninr those present were the following: E. AV, Pickhnrdt of the Huntington .t., J'cniamin F. Fouthain of the Loganport Pharos, 1. M. Wallace of tbe Marion Ifrmrwrot, Josiab. Given of the New Albany P"h'ic J'rrs, William D. H. Hunter of the LawreneeHunj licijiter, F. A. Arnold of the Greencastle .V'.i- , Clement I.. Doane of tbe Jasper Conner, J. 15. iNoil of the South Rend Tixi'f, I.mher Short of the Franlin Drmoreut, M. C. lidiliam of the lliehmond Dsmocrrrf, Ixui S. I'oltraan of the Frazil Pemorrat, .1. O. Henderson of the Kokomo DiW" h, S. F. Morss of The Inpianapolis Sentinel, Charles Kellison of the Plymouth JJrhiorra, Christian Iosekcr of the Fort Wayne Jnurvn', V. H. iioswell of the Noblesville TJe nine rat, Dale .1. Crittenberg-er of the Anderson Dnnorrvf, F. A. Ilaimbitugh of the Speueer Jh morrct, II. J. Fokus of the Floomincton Saturday Cotii-i'-r, K. W. Callis of ' the Martinsville 0'itzXi", Georse V. Tipton of the Poekyille J.'aj'r, R. J. Strickland of the Jin in o.l: Jrfl'eroiiiiii of Greenfield, Andrew A. Adams of the Columbia City I'ost. Charles A. Drr.pier of the Liberty Jn'rw, Thomas McKiliy of the Muncie lieral 1, I). O. Spencer of the Bloomingto. Courier, John M. Higgs of the Connersville Jjta miner, and Jonathan Peters of the New Albany Ledger. HE, TOO, WROTE A LETTER. Mr. .Joseph Kl.-irk, I'. S. Connnl to Biirlfk I'esth, Hungary. Recalled. Cleveland, O., Jan. 2f. An Associated Press dispatch this afternoon from Puda Pesth, Hungary, announced that Mr. Joseph T.lack, F. S. oousul to that city, had been recalled by the V. S. government and that Vice-Consul Louis Gerster would succeed him. Mr. Black is a resident of Cleveland, and, although a republican, was appointed consul by the present administration. It appears that he wrote a letter to a New York H ungariau paper in which he advocated a protective tan if and argued against free-trade. I his letter came to the ears and eyes of Edmund Jussen, American consul-general at Vienna, who wrote l'.lack a very severe letter, censuring him for his action. In bis newspaper article, Mr. Black said: In ca-e the cable should tiring the news that Mr. tirover Cleveland is re-elected, all industrial regions of Furope will he jubilant. You sec, therefore, that numerous pet. pie will lie made happy if the American jMsirdc decide in favor of tariff reiorni ou the tilh of November, etc. Black made a cool reply to Jusscn's letter, and sent a statement to Secy, of S,Ute Bayard, ia which lie taid: In order to urove that the personal insinuations of Mr. Jussen are unwarranted by the facts, I desire to inform yo:t that on the 14th day of NoveraVr, being several days after I knew of Gen. Harrison's lection, 1 gave the legally required six mouths notice to quit my appointments, and it was then and ia now my linn intention to resign my office at the cipiralioii of toy lea.se. In conclusion, I beg to say lliut I desire no favors shown toe, but am assure 1 that justice wiil le done In my case. Mr. Black is a wealthy cloak manufacturer. What They Say of "Tue Sentinel." To the Epitok Sir: I like The SENTINEL very much. It has the right ring about it It is bold, courageous and fearless. It stands for the poor against the rich. It is for tbe people under all circumstances. It ought to be in every household in Indiana. I inclose $1 for renewal of my subscription. loyd Thompson. Petersburg, Ind., Jan. 23. To THE Editor S r: Your paper I couldn't do without as long as it upholds democracy. I was a reader of the Kuquirer for forty years and when they straddled the fence I left them. wa a republican until I sent him your paper. lie is now a strong democrat. ' was always a republican, but voted with us this time. I will t-en 1 him your paper for one year und 1 think be will stay with the party of the people. Inclosed please find?' for which send Thk Wlexly sentinel to the addresses given. t F. BlTEMAN. Cicero, Ind., Jan. 2S. Majority of Nine Vote. Sax Francisco, C&L, Jan. 30. The PhelpaClunic recount in the Fifth cougresrional district was closed to-day, with the result of gi ing the election to Clunie, democrat, by a majority of uiue rotes.