Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 35, Number 3, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 February 1889 — Page 2

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THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 20. 1883.

BECOBD OF FOUR YEARS.

MR. CLEVELAND'S ADMINISTRATION. 'A. Btvliw et Its Salient Festare, ef "What It IIa Accomplished and Sought to AecompIUh, and the lMfflcoltle. It lias FI ad to Contend With. BALTIMORE, Feb. 14. The Sun to-morrow will publish the following special dispatch from Washington, pivinga review of President Cleveland's administration based upon conversations with the president: Less than three weeks of President Cleveland's four years' occupancy of the white tonte remain and the record of his administration is practically made up. A review of the salient features of the administration; of what it has accomplished and sought to accomjjish, and of the dificulties with which it has had to contend, is therefore appropriate at this time and not without value to the country at larjre. The key-note of Mr. Cleveland's policy from the beginning has been to give the people a practical, business-like administration, irrespective of personal considerations. No one who has talked with Mr. Cleveland; who has berved the perfect candor and openness of Us language on this point and has watched the animated play of his features when discussing ft, as the writer has done, can fail to be convinced of the earnestness and sincerity of his purpose, his high sense of public duty and his devotion to the best interests of the people. There is probably no American in public lifa who has a deeper, more genuine sympathy with the people, and there never has been a president more accessible or one who surrendered so much of his time to gratify the natural curiosity and interest of the bone and sinew f the land in their chief executive as Mr. Cleveland. In conversation with the writer to-day, he remarked villi feelinz that his afternoon receptions, or hand-shakes as he calls them, were the pleasantcst incidents of his life. He derives a genuine enjo-ment from meeting people who come from every section of the country, not in search of office, or with any favor to ask, but merely for the sake of exchancinir a pleasant word or two with the president. The close of Mr. Cleveland's administration f n is him as busy and, perhaps, even busier than when he was inducted into office. There is now a mass of work before him which will tax even his robust energies to dispose of before inauguration dar. He works as hard as ny department clerk, because he is not content to take things for eranted, but insists upon informing himself as to every question he is called upon to decide. The pressure of official and social duties throughout the day is o great that he is seldom able to address birtielf to the documentary work an ! correspondence which is accntnnlatin upon his desk during almost every hour until 0 o'clock at night, and he is seldom able to retire before 2 or 3 o'clock in this mornin?. He is in the ofiica again by 0:30 in the rnorcinc and from 10 to 11 is busy receiving members of congress and their constituents. Much of the time is consumed, unnecessarily, j the want cf consideration displayed by coneressraeu in introducing persons who call merely to pay their respects. The afternoon receptions were eet apart for this class of visitors, but it ft'-n happens that an influential conr tit'.ent bobs up at the capitol, and the member from way-back or some other district, wishing to impress his importance or influence upon so Yaluiible a- supporter, or to tickle the latter' s Tanity. Rays: "Oh, come alone, I'll take joa to se the president," and does so during the hours set apart for official business. The president has never complained of this inconsiderate treatment, but he was greatly cratitjed and impressed by the conduct of the late Kepresentativ Burnes of Missouri, who always presented his constituents, who merely wished to see the president, at the public reception. Notwithstanding his patience under these Tactions, and the fact that almost his entire time during the day ha been given np to the public, the president has been criticised for tcing "exclusive," and the complaint has been freely made that he would not cive the representative men of hi party the opportunity of consulting freely with him. "There has never bef-n a time,"' said the president on this point, when I have not been willing and anxious to tajk with members of congress and leading men in the rarty." It is known to bis friends that the president feels acutely the charge that he has held aloof fro,n nen whoe character and position tntitl :d their opinions to weicht, and has been disposed to take the bit between his teelh and oc? on his own responsibility. lie has all a!on bt-f.a aiii'nated by a high and serious senso of bis duty to te people, and th'n has often prompted him to a eoure of action in opposition to the wi'hes or opinions of personal frie-.id.s. It is the secret, too, of his laborious devotion to matters of routine. He expresses bims!: very moderately on th.i latter jm iut and shows no disposition whatever to eiploit hi- industry. "It may be because I am awkward at it." be said to-day, "that I have to work so hard.1' It way be stated that the president is thoroughly satisfied with the practical outcome f his administration and its etlerts on the fortunes of the democratic party. He is Tery earnest in predicting a great femrc f ir democracy and in asserting bi firvjualifif-d devotion to the party, "it is a grand party." said he, "and was r -ver in Vtter shape than it is at present. V.'bcn to consider the condition it was in before th- tariit issue wa formulated, the want of niiaiiiniinity, the wide divergence of views on rnai'.y point", and the hearty united support it ysve ine during the campaign, who can doubt tr.at its status has been improved and that it hn a glorious tuture before it." The president is as firm now as he ever w as in the opinion that tariff reform is the preat living isue for the democracy. He regards it a an iaiie in harmony with the spirit r.nd traditions of the party, and one involving enormous lienefits to the people. He believes that sooner or later the toiling rnssses will be thoroughly aroused to an indignant perception of the burdens unjustly iapos4;d upon them by the tariff laws, and of the fact fl at the taxin? power of the nation is b:irig reckle.ly used for the benefit of a favored class. He does not tolerate the idea that the democracy was beaten on the tanif issue last fall. '"Had certain conditions been eliminated from the campaign," he said, "we would Lave won a decisive victory." far as he is individually concerned, he las no resrrets at laying down his trust. He thinks the defeat of the democracy is to be deplored because of the injury resulting to the public interests, but personally he experience t a profound tene of relief at the prospect of peedy release from the ordeal to which he has been exposed during the past four years. The strain has been so great that no man of less robust health and rutred irilhy could have withstood it. One of the most trying features of his position has been that, in the discharge of his official duties, he hn.9 been called upon o frequently tooliend persons whose friendship and good opinion he valued. Mr. Cleveland's sympathies are warm and easily roused. The insensibility with which he bas so often been accused is a supposed trait of character which has no existence. He has ften heitated between his personal inclinations and bis sense of what was exacted of him by the dignity of his position, the interest of the pnblic and his oath of office. He has had to fight for the rizht at almost every step of his official progress, and be is naturally tired f the continuous wear and tear of the contest. It is an open secret that he accepted the democratic nomination last summer with genuine reluctance, and after earnest eftort to eape it. His supposed political aspirations for the future do not exist. There is no rivalry on bis part between himself and anybody else. "I atn in no one's way," he says. "I shall be delishted to be relieved of the cares of the presidency. On the 4th of March next, n purely personal grpund. there will be no happier man in the United Estates," . With reference to the civil service system he is aa firm and decided as in his view on the tariff question. He believes that civil service reform has come to itay. He has treated It olely as a practical question and has been much hampered and embarrassed ty the Tagarif s of feentimental reformers and theorists s ho have been continual! urging him to do this or that for mere sensational e fleet which he did to regard as judicious. lie has en

deavoredto give the civil service scheme & fair trial and expresses himself as fully satisfied with the results. There may be differences of opinion as to details, but he thinks the examinations are.on the whole, about the best test of merit that can be devised. It is certainly far preferable to the spoils Eystem, and he has no fear that it will degenerate into a mere bureaucracy. The worst type of bureaucracy was developed nuder the spoils System of former administrations. When Mr. Cleveland came into office he found the departments tilled with incompetents, who had found permanent lodgment there through favoritism. His doubt is whether sufficient cleaning out has been done to subserve the best interests of the government and to give wider scope for civil service reform through its methods in filling the places of inefficient with capable men. The president recoeni.es fully the feeling of the great mass of democratic office-seekers who expected place and recognition, nnd the disappointment and irritation which resulted from his inability to satisfy them. It is a matter of deep regret to him that he could not do so, but he had a higher public duty to perform, the purification and elevation of the public service and elimination from party politics, as far as possible, of the degrading use of "patronage," an evil that has grown to gigantic proportions and was steadily increasing. He is very earnest in advocacy of civil service as being a thoroughly practical reform, and in no sense undemocratic. He thinks the work of his administration has fixed this reform as a permanent feature of our system of government, and that no party can afford to antagonize it openly. So far as his own status in the party, as affected by his attitude on the civil service question is concerned, it may be said that he regards himself as a better democrat than many of his critics. The president is especially gratified at the effect ot his administration on the prosperity and happiness of the southern people, both black and white, lie believes in making no distinctions between any of the sections, and he deprecates strongly the revival of animosities which were supposed to be dead and buried. He is satisfied that the race problem can be worked out by the people of that section without outside interference. He spoke in terms of grateful appreciation of the hearty and united support accorded him by the members of his cabiuet. The administration, it must be concded, will go down in history as unique, in the fact that all its members have pulled together, from beginning to end, and no personal jealousies or resentments hav- marred the harmony of its deliberations. Every member of it Las been hardworking, energetic, and wholly devoted to the public interests, and every department presents an enviable record of important reforms and economies accomplished, and of substantial results in the eßort to promote the public good. No breath of scandal or taint of corruption has attached to any branch of the public service. In view of the jobbery and scheming that permeated every department under former regimes, and which seemed to have become a permanent feature in official life in Washington, no more honorable epitaph could be applied to the administration now drawing to "a

close than th; empnatic declaration of the E m-sident to the writer: "We have nothing to lide." A TRUE AMERICAN POLICY. Secy. IJayrrd Thinks a. Martini Spirit Out of Place In a Republic. Baltimore, Feb. 17. A Washington special to the Sun, based on conversation with Mr. Bayard, gives an outline of the policy which has controlled the department of state during the past four years, and says: "It has been frequently asserted that Mr. Fayard has had no policy, whereas be has all along had a very definite and a peculiarly American policy. lie believes that the American people have a higher and a nobler destiny than that of swaggering about among the nations of the earth 'daring' somebody, to use a homely expression, 'to knock a chip off their fchoulder. He thinks it is their mission to take the lead among nations in substituting pacific methods for force in settling international disputes. Mr. Bayard's theory of statesmanship is that nothing should be done to disturb or imperil our peaceful conditions, but that on the contrary the highest duty of the patriot is to go as far as he can to their development. His idea is that the military spirit is to be discouraged in a republic, except so far as it is necessary for purposes of defense. 'Encourage the military spirit in this country,' says Mr. Bayard, 'and you would hoon have a war. War necessarily means an army and if once the military spirit got thorough possesion of the people this army woull become a permanent establishment." Mr. PayarJ, commenting upon the clamor in certain quarters over tho ?araoan episode, said: "What is it they want mo to do to provoke a war? I don't believe the people want me to plunge them into war. If they want war they must get another secretary of state." .Another favorite idea of Mr. Bayard is the neutralization of certain territories which are useful to all the powers and incapable of defence, without, disproportionate cost, by any one of the'u. Hj instances the naturalization of the Suez canal by th? common consent of the Kurojcaii powers as an example of the benefits to be secured by the application of this principle. Some similar arrangement would have to be entered into to protect the interests of this country if a ship canal across the isthmus of Panama be built. It would not be sufficient protection for the I'nited States to have control of such a canal. Ttie only adequate protection is to be secured by neutralization of the canal by consent of all the powers. Mr. Bayard sought to apply this principle of neutralization by international agreement to the Samoan islands. A proposition that the United States should guarantee the independence of these islands seems to him to be unwise, for the reason that to guarantee the neutrality of an independent sovereignty, especially one as weak as taraoa, would be to expose this country to the con-tant risk of embroilment of relations of Samoa with other powers. We would become responsible for whatever Samoa might choose t do without the power to regulate her conduct. It would be the cheap way to annex the island at once, for in assuming the responsibility of guaranteeing their independence would be to assume that of governing their actions toward other nations. To do this would require great forts in Fago-Pago and a lartre tleet, in the Pacific ocean, of American men-of-war, and then Kamoa would not be as safe as by the neutralization policy." The secretary looks upon the rejection of the fisheries, Chinese, and other treaties as unfortunate to the country. He does not regard the action of the senate in these matters as involving any discredit upon his action, A SENSATION IN COURT. White Cap Defendants Charged With Tampering With the Jury. Bi.noMixTO.T. Ind., Fei. l.V Special. Tbe argument in tbe White Cap ca wan opened by John R. Kat for the prosecution, followed by William Rogers tor the defense, and Moses y. Iup.n closed for the defense. Judge R. W. M U rs closed for tbe prosecution. The arguments occupied the eolire day and Judge Pearson charged tbe Jury to-night. The cbarjje is regarded as rather favorable to the prosecution. A tensation was created during the argument of Judge Micrs whn he oiienly charged that one of the jurors had lem tampered with, having been acen with one of the defendants la.st niht, nnd two hud entered a saloon anl the juror Lad been treated by the defondant. He used no names, but when the jury en tered the box to rerrlve the eharge of the jude tonight, JurjDian Terry 'X r.utrher arose to his feet and said, "I want t explain," when Judge Pearson topped him and titid: "This is nil the prcpr tlmo to explain. Vonr duty now is to d a o ol this case, and the matter will 1 investigated In n after." The jtirjuisn took his seat and the )nli;e proceeded with tho chare, it is said by the attorneys - fr the jiroseeutinu Hint the defendant referred t'. by Judce Miers li Johnnie 'aron, the "block-of-five" b"-s in folk township, who has been indicted by the IT. S. grand Jurr tr I);idley tsetli-s at the last election, and that another juryman was seen with him at lio'clixk one n Mit stuce the trial commented. Johnnie t aron ia an innocent kind of a young man and hia attendance tifx.n trie Juryman was no doubt a neighborly demonstration, but he will have to explain ittojurio lVsrvm as soon as the jury is through with the rse. Mr. ISotcher will then haTe an opportunity to rininh Lis explanation. He t erred to Librarian Kpangler. To THE Editor Sir: Why is it that The SrsnKf.h is so freqnently missing from tbe library ia tho State nniersitr? This was the rcse rery often diirtiiit th campaign and the fcrlt-vauce still exists. Many ef in do not like to mis a single iasne of Tm husnxtu The Journal is always on the library Ubl. fcrVD5T. Üloominztoo. Feb. 16.

TI1E ROBBIXG "PLUCK-ME."

ANOTHER CHAPTER ON ITS INIQUITIES Mine-Owner I.awreuce MaVea a Poor Defense of the IScheme by Which Miners Are Pillaged Big Lobbies Working to Defeat Propoted Reforms. Before the election the coal operators of Indiana were begging the miners to save themselves from pauperism by votinir for Gen. Harrison and protection to American labor. Today these same coal monopolists fill the lobby of the legislative halls, begging democratic members to protect their "pluck-me" stores and robbing coal screens. The miners sent here practical miners to point out to the committees the abuses practiced by the operators. There is no law now on the statute books fixing a uniform coal screen, and the operators construct screens to Buit themselves. Under the present system of coal mining in this state the miners are paid 80 and 00 cents per ton for digging coaL Before it is weighed, it is dumped over a long inclined screen made of long diamond-shaped iron bars. One or two 6tays are placed across the bars to arrest the coal which causes about 30 per cent, to fall through, between the bars, and into the operator's car. The coal digger receives nothing for this. He receives the scale price for the big chunks which cannot fall between the bars. In reality the miners only get 60 cents for the coal they dig. The miners have nade a fair proposition to the operators in regard to a standard screen, but the operators object to any legal screen and are keeping a big lobby here to prevent any legislation upon the matter. In the lobby the miners are at preat disadvantage. They crtnnot send lobbyists to hang around the principal hotels and ths state-house, as the coal operators are now doing. The "pluck me" stores are also in trreat dancer, ami the coal lobby has a very difficult task in defending them. The Sentinel has already exposed the "pluek-me" system of the coal operators of Clay county. The Brazil block coal company, controlled by a few of Chicago's bloated monopolists, as will be seen by the following communication from K. K. Lawrence, the "life-long democrat," who tried to deliver the miners' vote of Clay county in one block to Gen. Harrison, makes a weak defense in favor of the "pluck-mes." Here Mr. Lawrence admits that a "pin ckme" list was sent out to the bank bosses. But "it was the only letter of the kind ever sent to all of the bosses." Mr. Lawrence's company owns thirteen mines and thirteen bosses. It may be that "pluck-me" lists have net been sent to "all of them:" To the Kditor .Sir.- In an nrticle in The InPIamapolis K"T!XKl.of the t'.ih int., headed, "Tbe Robbing 'Pluck Me,' " the Frazil block coal company is uinde a tarsret for aim-1 and misstatements. Among other things it said that "twice a month a list is made out oi the miners who do not deal with the Mercantile company (totalling the Indiana merenntiie company i. and sent to the mine loses, wbo-e duty it Is to notify those men (tuoaninc the minor) tlu.t they must deal with the compauy stores, or sutler tbe consequences." Then follows a copy of a Ictt.r issued by II. W. Perry, the superintendent of all tbe mines, bearing date March 24, lsss, containing tho nun es ot seventy-six miners mho are reported as not patroniriDg the Indiana Mercantile company stores. Ailhii4th? on'y tetter ri th kiiul rvrr tfnt to nil of th t"..M. the statement that a list is mr.de "twice a month" is an error. The inference drawn that the names were taken fur the purpose of compelling the miners to punrba.'-e poods or the Mercantile company is also wrong, the fa'.' bein that the Mercantile -orapany was desirous f knowing the names of those who were purchasing elstwhere, and took this method of finding out, in order that their trade might be solicited. The article referred to in The ?exti5el carrier the idea that thiscoiap.iiiy tyrannizes over its uieu by discriminating aeainst those who do not patronise the Mcrcaniile's company's stores. This company denies the statement, and defies any one to prove that any of its miuers have b"en discharpel or assigned for work in rooms containing d ricient coal, by reason of giving their patronage to other stores, as never has coercion ben practiced by this company. Of tbe oventT-six names published, more than one-half are working for the company t-day, and most of them patronUo other stores; and we leHeve they will corroborate the statement that none of them have been disrharged or assigned to rooms containing deficient coal. Anion; them are many of o-ir best miners, who draw more money each and every two weeks than the average, some of whom have been working stcadilv for the company during the past six oroiuht years. The truth is that before this company started its stores many of the merchants of brazil "plucked" the miner working for it, and pnidf per cnt. onmiMon to this company fortho privileee of doinc so. The miners employed by this company, whu are patror.s of the Indiana Mercantile company's stores, recognize the bene tits derived by them therefrom, and in several instances the company bas been requested by them to establish atorea iu certain l.aliX'ws convenient to their places of employment. These bei us the facts, it is fair 1) assume that the oppodtion and complaint ro ue more from the merchants of Brazil than from the miners who purchase from the stores. Itespectfully. PitAZiiKi.onc Coal Co. K. F. Lawbesce, Preident. Chirazo, Feb. 11, IS-s?. The lists may be sent twice a month to ten of or twelve of, the bank-bosses. Will Mr. Law-, rence, or his superintendent, make ailidavit that no other list was sent but the one referred to, bearing date March '21, 1$? That was the oniy one sent to "all of the bosses." says Mr. I-awrenee. Why is it. then, that the Mercantile coinpnny ordered 1,2X blank forms of these "pluck-me" lists? As late as last October "pluck-me"' orders were issued to the bosses. "The Mercantile company was desirous of knowing the names of those who were purchasing elsewhere, and took this method of finding out, in order that their trade might be solicited." AVhrtt business had Mr. Lawrence finding out where the miners traded'.' Has a coal operater a better ri'ht to find out where his employes buy their groceries than a mill operator or a railroad company? This was done that the "miners' tr.tde might be solicited." This is just what miners object to. They do not want to bo reminded every month by the bank boss that it is to their interest to trade in the"pluckme" stores, and when they still refuse, they object to beine put to work on a "hor.e-back." The "horse-bnek" is the solicitor employed by Mr. Lawrence's company a fact which can be substantiated by hundreds of miners if the committees on mines will hold a session ia the mining district, where the miners can tell their stories of woe without being intimidated by the coal operators. Mr. Law rence would have people believe that the "pluck-mes" are kept for the accommodation of the miners. A representative of THE ?EXT1NEI. spent a week among the miners of Clay county, and found a universal condemnation of the "Dluck-me" stores. The unanimous verdict of these poor men is that tbe "pluckme" stores are the curse of the miners. Mr. Lawrence thinks that the opposition and complaint conies more from the merchants of Brazil than from the miners who purchase from the 6tores. It is true that in this fight for "free trade" the miners have the support of the merchants. The latter have reason to complain. Not only are the merchants and miners complaining, but the farmers and in fact every tax-payer of the county. It would be better for Clay county if the rich mineral wealth had never been discovered. The profit from the coal and the "pluck me" all goes to Chicago. In a quarter of a century Clay county w ill be like a deserted mining camp the block coal will be exhausted, the farms caved in and nearly every dollar made out of the business will be in Chicago. The bona tide merchants, the men who pay the taxes, who keep np the improvements of Ilrazil, have a right to complain. More than $.00.(MX) of paidup capital has been invested in Claycounty, yet not a cent of taxes docs the state of Indiana or Clny county receive from this enormous capital. The Brazil block coal company pays taxes on office furniture mid a few mules. T he farmer from whom the coal company leases the lands pays taxes on his farm and the capital stock escapes taxation, because the owners are non-residents. The Block coal company, which transfers a million of wealth from Clay county to Chicago, annually, pays less than $."U of taxes. The operatives have been telling the legislators that the anti-store check law was complied with. The following copies of store checks now in use may help thou out on this point. These checks are in possession of The SetiNEL and can be seen by any one calling: I'ue the lVarer M cts. In Merchandise at the More of Iudisna Mercantile t o.. KnightSTille. Iixl. 0 IIHIIIH... ...... ...... . . . ............... ....... ... ........ .... ...... Iue the Bearer : 2" ets. : : In Merchandise at the Store of j : Indiana Mercantile Co., : Kniffhtxnll, Ind. These store clerks are issued hj the Brazil block coal company, whoss "pluck mc" store

do business under the incorporated name of "The Indiana Mercantile Company. The headquarters of the "pfuck-me" system of the Brazil block coal company is located at Knightsviile but these checks are good in any branch company store. The Block coal company is not alone in the pluck-me business. There is only one mine in Clay county not connected with a store. The Brazil block coal company's checks resemble beer checks but the Island coal company issue more elaborate ones which are lithographed like banknotes. Here is a copy of one of these "pluck-me" orders:

5 : storekeeper of 1 ISLAND COAL COMPANY, j : Pay to Bearer j ji: FIVE CENTS t ill! In Merchandise. -j; I No. 1022. Island City, Ind., Sept 1 ls$s. j I A. M. OGLE, j Secretarv. : : 5 3 : v These checks run from five cents to $-). The good customer who does not work on a "horse-back" receives at the end of every two weeks his wages in a pay-envelope, of which the following is a copy of one received by a miner two weeks agoj Mr. , Rnnm So. fi?, IN ACCrST WITH - - Coal Co. Fur tvo tcceijr rndinn Jan, '26, 1S9.

CREDIT. Dollar. Cents S 15-20 Uhs coiil at 0.U0 . 3; 43 Uhu Uilior at y i Tiro yard entry at Sl.fr) 3 6J " 03 DEDUCT. Dollars' Cent i 1 Oj tiers I $ 6 72 Von I i j

Smiihiiig , Ju-dcr ( nal J'OH'iiont . rmt Orr Vir ... Gm4 .(.... 03 B i!ite' iiu-toi ..50.00 Ad-IUiniuil JeihirtiißiThere was still due- the 3d cents after the "pluck-me" man had taken his share of the miner's earnings, so the company put 11 cents for sharpening the hitter's tools and 23 cents for the privilege of riding ou a coal-car to his work. The miner who drew the pay envelope, of which the following is a copy, is undoubtedly workine on a "horse-back" now, as he only took one-half of his pay in store goods and received fs,U to pay his house reut: Xo. 31. ALEXANDER GRIMES, IX ACCOl'ST WITH Kniehtsville Block Coal Co., For tiro tree!. eidinf 1'eh. 2, CREDIT. Pollars Cents 12.12 ton mat at SO. DO.. Sir yarri ill 8).y'Yard at Yard at Jay (it Day at 11 5 as 40 DEDUCT. Dollars Cents Smithing.. Potrder ........... .S7w? t'nal S u hfcript ion S Hi ll h! Total dedwtmn. 5 8 M Balance 14 It will be seen that ' he was charred $1.00 for coal. Here it niny be weil to remark that the operators sell coal to their miners at Chicago retail rates. The majority of the miner use the screenings which the operators sell to them, notwithstanding that it does not cost them a cent to mine and ought, by right, to belong to the miners. b'tore checks are given to the farmers for their butter, ccps, etc. This great curse of truck business has driven many legitimate business men of Clay county to the wall. It is not strange that the miners, business men and farmers should raise a hand asainst the system that Mr. Lawrence defends. If the relief measures now leforc the legislature were submitted to the peopie of Clay county they would be carried by 91) per cent, of the entire vote. JUDGE CLAYOOL SPEAKS. Dudley Probaldy Would Ilavn Iteen Indicted Had ot Woods Interfered. After the adjournment of the crand inry, Jud.ve Claypool was asked his views of the jury's work, llepljing to an interrogatory he said : My connection with the praud jury is at an end and my Memi-otEcial connection witii the court will very soon be ovrr, and therefore I am now not unwilling to talkatoiit election c:ises The (.'rand jury has returner! very numerous in-tietments tor ofle uses neainst the election laws. What u ill leth.' outcome ot these tases I cannot say. In such cas?s there is always much 01 political bias, and in tbo present caes there is likely to be niucii more thin usual, as thnjr re-oilt from a very heateil political contest. My impression is that iu every contested case, however ftrunit the evidence, it will le difficult to 3t a jury to aereeon a verdict, nnlcss political bias can somewhat lie eliminated from the trial. This run b done only by the incoming administration pivin? the same co-operation to the prosecution of these election cases that Atty. Gen. (iarland and President Cleveland's administration pave to the prosecution of Coy and others. Nothing that I did or could have dne or anybody could have done would have brought a conviction in those caes, but for the fact that Mr. Cleveland's administration by its conduct said to the country and to the jury, "if these inen are guilty do not let them escape localise they are democrats." If republiacn district attorney assisted by a republican, aiiointe as I was in. the cases against Cy and others', for its moral etfect, could stand before a ju:y with the fame moral sureport, tbe end would be better for tho people and worse for the otl'onders. The prosecutiou of the tally-sheet cases against Coy and others had the support of the better cla-,s of democrats, ia tho city and elsewhere. Is there any doubt that numerous serious crimes have been recently committed against the election laws? And is it true that the hetter class of republicans and others have been giving their co-operation and sympathy to the prosecution of such cases. Where is the committee of one hundred? Against which I would say notbinc. Of it I was one. Is it dead or asleep, or savin? and gathering thunder for some other Coy and HernhamerT Iead indignation or accumulating thunder? Whioti? 1 have daily and some days received two or three letters calling attention to election cases. Many have not been submitted to the Jury at all. The jury might have Rone on for weeks yet as it has been, but I have felt and yet feel that there are enough of indictments against tbe victims of chief criminals. Two or three of the latter are more than all others. The Judge instructed the jury that to atwere not ofTcr.ses against the United States. Hut for this instruction it can he rea-sonaMv concluded thnt very many more indictments would have been returned, l'cr-ous who were otfored bribes and who did not accept them are always willing to tell. Cm the other hand, rarely and with great difficulty can tbo truth I jrotten from those who havo accepted bribes. To illustrate, it might be mentioned that there was one case where four w itnesses each denied all knowledge cf bri!crr, in the must earnest and sincere manner, but a kev to tho truth was found, and in the end, l"ing again called, each confessed the truth and testilied to bribery. Knough has Inen laid to give a general view of the situation in relation to crimes aninit the election Jaws. IkV at the picture. It i a picture of shame against the state. If others have been indulging in the tame crimes and to the tame extent. It is to be hoped that the uext district-attorney will brins their crimes to light, and that sentiment in favor of tbe exchange of prisoners, as it is sometimes called, will never take poRvwion of the public mind. Ou the subject of the judge's instruction that it was not an otiense to attempt to vote illegally or to bril voters, 1 submit that if either is criminal both are. for the o,tietioti ot the criminality of both depends upon the same provisions of tho statute, l int to attempt to vote illegally Is a crime is clear, bevond everv doubt, as will p'ar br reference to aec's. JC, 2.023 and Ä..SU of the C. t." revised statUtes, it hcing borne in mind that these sections and sees. 5.M1 'd tWisrc parts of the same acts an art of May 30, W0. and of Feh. US. 1S7I, and that all these sections must le construed together. The latter act amended asectiouof the former act and ad-ied supt.lenif ntnl sections. That advising bribery is not a crime ia no less untenable. Knot in. To TlIK Emtor Sir: I see in THE PtNTlxrii a statement that the only kaolin to be found in this country is in Lawrence county, this state. The w iter ia in error, as several extensive kaolin mines ire to be found ia southern Illinois, one near Cobden, I'tilon county, and another near Equality. febelbjrville. Ind.,- Keb. 16. R. Children Cry for

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NARROW ESCAPE OF MANY WORKMEN. The Floors of a Fourteen-Story Building, Without a Moment's Warning, Drop Into the Basement Speculation As To the Cause of the Accident. Chicago, Feb. 17. One of the tallest office buildings in America collapsed this morning. A number of workmen rushed out just in time to escape beinsr crushed under the mountain of wreckage. The Owinss block is the ruin. It was a beautiful trot hie structure, fourteen stories high, situated at the corner of Dearborn and Adams-ats., just opposite the postoffice, in the center of the business district. The ten lower stories fell in, leaving the wallS and four upper floors and roof standing in a decidedly shakj condition. In the tenth story he tile flooring was defective or was damaged by the natural settling of the building. Without the slightest warning, the great mass of tiles aud girding forming the injured floors crashed to the story below, carrying that with it, and the two together, acting like a huge pile-driver, pounded away for themselves to the bottom. About one hundred and twenty-five workmen have been steadily engaged in the building, but to-day Jbeing Sunday less than & dozen were on hand. All were m the basement, at 8:50 an ominous cracking, and a tremendous crash was heard. No one stopped to inquire the cause, but all rushed pell-mell into the street. They were not a moment too soon. A succession of thunderous reports, then one prolonged mighty din and each scurrying, trembling workman was enveloped in a great uprising cloud of dust and broken plaster. Gradually the air cleared, and a few of the hardier spirits ventured back inside. Where before story rose above story east of the central skylight in mathematical precision and with every appearance of colossal strength and durability, was mounted a fantastic heap of debris, while the space a hundred and thirty feet above was empty save for bent and distorted iron beams that here and there projected from the walis. The superintendent and contractors were summoned aud took a survey of the wrect. Neither seemed to have any idea of the cause of the accident, or if he had he certainly kept iis opinions to himself and joined in the selfcongratulations of the workmen that the accident did not happen the preceding day, when scores of men were at work. Chief Sweeney of the fire department visited the scene, and after looking over tLe structure decided that it would not be necessary to pull down the walls at once as, though they seemed to be out of plumb, there was no immediate danger of their falling in. The building, which was rapidly approaching completion, was considered one of the finest in the city from the standpoints of convenience, strength and agricultural masrniticence. Its upper stories were of pressed brick, the three lower of etone. The roof was completed about three weeks ago. The interior was entirely of tile, supported in place by massive iron girders. Work has been pushed as rapidly as possible and the contractors have at times literally filled the structure with workmen. Yesterday three iron tanks, intended to hold water for the elevator power, arrived at the building. One of these, weighing 2,'20Ö pounds, was hoisted to the twelfth story, while another, Ö00 pounds lighter, was placed in position to be elevated to-morrow. To the east of the shaft, extending; through the center of the building, the walls and floors of tile had been completed and work had been begun on the iron staircase. The immediate cause of the collapse was undoubtedly the giving way of the tile flooring in the tenth story. This, the ruins show, fell to the floor helow, knocking out more tiling which fell through, the mass thus gaining in weight until the fifth story; was reached, when the whole tore away the iron beams on this and the floors below, bending them out of shape and t-haking the walls of the foundation. It is presumed that the settling of the building caused the first break. The tiles of which the floors are made fit together like keystones and depend on each other other for support. Any extension of the spnee confining them would tend to allow the entire mass to drop out. Its displacement from plumb is not particularly noticeable to the inexperienced eye, but great cracks run o!t from the center like strands in & gimntic spider web. There was much comment among the business men and others who conerenated after the wreck. The very fact that the accident was entirely unforeseen seemed to be generally considered the most serious phase of it. '"Suppose," said one spectator, "that it bad uot happened for a month or two, when the building was fully occupied." Notwithstanding the great hitjht of the building, the land on which it stands is not more than fifty feet square. The design was to utilize every inch. Seven stories has, until lately, been about the average in that neighborhood, and the tapering, sky-piercing cable and graceful towers of the Owings building were a most impressive nnd picturesque sight, towering over the surrounding roofs. The exterior still looks as beautiful and commanding as ever, the shell showing absolutely nothing to indicate that within is a jagged hole twenty-five feet square, reaching tip through story after story. F. It. Owings, a IJoston capitalist, is the owner. SLEW HIS WHOLE FAMILY. A Michigan llorse-ltreeder Shoots Ills Fnniily and tlimaelf. Tecoieh, Mich., Feb. 17. A shocking tragedy occurred in this village last night, by which a whole lanii'y has been wiped out of existence Frank L. Silvers, a well-known horse-breeder ßhot his wife and two daughters, Edith and Ada. aged eleven and nine respectively, and then ended his awful act by shooting himself. Silvers bought the revolver with which the crime was committed yesterday. The bodies were found this morning by neighbors, who, noticing that the curtains, were down and failing to arouse any one, forced open a door. In the parlor lay the body of Mrs. Silvers, fully dressed. The bodies of the children were found in bed up-stairs, and in the same room, on the floor, lay Silvers weltering in blood and still breathing. Every one of the victims had been shot through the temple, nnd with the exception of Silvers himself, death probably was instantaneous. He is still alive, but unconscious and cannot recover. There is no known cause for the deed. Silvers was apparently in prosperous circumstances, and his relations with his family were pleasant. THE ELECTRIC SUGAR REFINERS. Mrs. Friend and the Whole Party Arrested A Sensation Promised. Ans Akbor, Mich., Feb. 17. All the parties interested in the Electric sugar refining company frauds were arrested at Milan last night The sheriff returned to this city about midnight with Mrs. Olive Friend, William Howard, Emily Howard, Gus Halstcad and (leorge Halstead, and placed them in the county jail, where they were confined. They were arrested for obtaining money under false pretenses, three indictments having been found against them by a grand jury of New York last January. One is issued for fraud against the sugar company end two on complaint by Lawson Fuller of New York. The governor of Michigan issued warrants for their arrest Feb. 1. The" trouble has been to get all the parties in the state at the same time. Mrs. Friend was in concealment and Howard was in Windsor. Yea terday morning they returned to Milan, feeling sure that no criminal action was to be brought, but they were arrested, as above stated. As it was late, no bail could be obtained and they remained in jail. Howard threatened that when they go to New York there will be a greater sensation than has ever stirred that city before. Onr Magnificent State House. To the Editor Sir: I am this day, through tho courtesy of a gentleman In the state-house buildins, in receipt of the final report of the board of state-house coinmisaioners. Desiring to acknowledge the receipt of the same, and forgetting hia name, I would in this way congratulate your city upon the completion and piaession of such a magnificent strueturc, a rut my thanks to hiin for the report received, treasuring It as a souvenir of my re cent visit to vourelty. Franklin, Vt.. Feb. li Kev. Vt. L. Stobt. Pitcher's Caotorla.

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EXCITEMENT IX FftAXCE. M. FLOQUET'S MINISTRY RESIGN Because Their I'lan For the Kevlsion of the Constitution Is Kejected by the Chamber of Deputies Parnell Commission foreign News. Taws, Feb. 14. When the question of the revision of the constitution ' came up in the chamber of deputies to-day, Count Duval XIaillefeu moved that the debate on the subject be adjourned. Notwithstanding the opposition of tbe government the motion was adopted by a vote of 307 to ,21S. Premier Floquet thereupon announced that the ministry vould immediately resign. Tbe chamber was crowded. The Prince of Wales and Lord I.ytton, the Drith-h embassador, occupied seats in tbe diplomatic gallery. Baron Macken, president of the right, moved to adjourn the debate on the revision question for one week. He declared that the right desired a complete revision as well as tbe dissolution of the chamber. A delay of one week would enable the government to decide in regard to dissolution. Premier Floquet refused to entertain the motion, 6tating that the government could not consent to dissolve the chamber. Baron Macken's motion was rejected 375 to 173. Count De Douville-Maillefen, in movin? tLe indefinite postponement of the revision debate, said: "The electoral period virtually begins to-day. Let us leave to the people the duty of indicatin? what kind of revision they desire. Iet us not lose time in discussing a question that is in no wise definite. Instead of pursuing a policy of egotism, let ns return to a policy of common sense." Premier Floquet, replying, reminded the house that the eovernnient was pledeed to make the revision proposal the immediate order of the day after the scrutin D'Arrondissement bill. At the conclusion of M. Floquet's remarks a division was taken with result Ftated. The resignation of the ministry was a complete surprise to the chamber. M. Floquet had said nothing implying an intention to make a motion to adjourn a cabinet question. Ioth the left and right were unaware how the ministry would repard the vote. The majority included the members of the right and a number of opportunists. After the adjournment the radical left and the extreme left held a meeting and sent delepates to M. Floquet to express recret at the fall of the cabinet and congratulate tbe retirint; fremierupon the firmncüof the position that e hd assumed. President Carnot, after the ministers had tendered their resignations, sent for M. Milue, the president of the chamber of deputies, and subsequently had a conference with M. Leroyer, president of the senate. A rumor was current this afternoon that M. Miline had been aked ;o form a cabinet, but to-night it is stated that K-esident Carnot has as yet intrusted no one ont with the task. THE SCHOOL-BOOK QUESTION. An ÜT.Teacher Speaks Her Minrl Freely ou the Subject. To the Editor Sir: I have no doubt in your personal sincerity in what you so bravely declare on all questions, yet journalists, as a c'av-., are very cartful not to say things diMaMrful to their readers. Your correspondents are independent. As such a one Ißhould like to 1 heard a littloofT the beaten track of the now all-absorbing topic. Force U daily being added in newspaper articles to "smash the school-book trust." To the mass a very pleasant so'.ind, and It certainly would t a gd thing to do; but bow many have looked carefully over tho matter and are able to comprehend the difficulties into which we are liable to fall when the state attempts to furnish school-books free or at cost. The question is a very broad one, aad it therefore accras quite necessary to make baste siowly in this matter. The Sk.ntisel has said there is no middle ground in this matter; but there certainly is, aud the thinking man ill surely take this middle ground, and insist on placing this subject in a position to bj coolly and calmly investigated in order to find out the lest way in which to smash this gigantic trust and what we are to receive in return. We all agree that we pay entirely too tntich for our school books, but the time Is so short and the work of the present assembly so prosing in other important measures that they certainly cannot give this subject the thought it demands. The people are so well pleased with the idea of pelting cheaiter books that, with little thought on the matter, they nry out out, "Sinai-h the school book trust," and go on turrahinj, little dreaming of the thousand things that must cirae up bciore the proper way to do it can be reached. It Is a question with very many sides, and all sides must be can-fully guarded before a wise measure can b finally adopted. It Is little wonder tbe educators of the state, county superintendents, protessors, etc., are in a measure quiet on the subject, aud wc have no right to impeach their sincerity, because thev are so. As a thinking class they cannot yet see the best way out of this (litticulty. and until they can hdp devise ttonie plan, it is to be hoped they will not Join the clamor, district teachers will be very plad of some plan by which they may with less trouble fit out their schools with prJer working material, the need of which often .-etards their work, but the fear of bad material should make them hold their peace until we can have some assurance as to just what we cau do without interfering with present progress. We cannot go backward, but we must go forward intelligently in such an expensive undertaking. Your recent clipping from the Ku.hville Jucltoniau srows the breadth of mind many of these clamorers have. Such a proposition (were it for a moment seriously considered! would be an insult to ourab:e-and ethcient corps cf teachers. All this Mutt and nonsense about legislators and newspapers being boiuht, op by the trusts is unworthy of coiuineiu. The man that can be scared Into an unwia measure in that way is unworthy the coufiilonce of his people, and deserves "retiring to privato lifo on tho first opportunity." Newspaer threats don't always win, and I sometimes thiuk that if our legislators could only do something to purify journalism tln-y would conu r a lasting benefit on mankind. Kc.fd Indianapolis daily papers carefully and if it were not for parly prejudice would we not couclude they were all a set of s But to return to the subject, '.can the proceedings of tbe legislature closely on this question" nnd Ohsen the man who does not rush luto expensive measure until plan are more fully developed and you will see tbe iiiao that does not nei-esrilv retire to private life. Tbe middle ground of careful investigation is tho only safe measure at present. Mauy of our ablest peoid'c now so express themselves. A few words alx u: county supcriuie iJents. Hash county, with so many able'iuen to prepare a act of school books for the great state of Indiana, is represented by a renn that a ants to abolish the odice of county sup-rintendent. We understand Fayetto county bas iu private life a fiur such people. As to Kush county, 1 cannot knowingly sav, but as for layette, her district schon'. are about twenty-ÖTe years behind the times, all on account of the rule of one man -for gen a inossback-and yet Fayette county belongs, almost body and soul, to the "progressite party," llie :',iarty of cultural" I'emocratic f ranklin county is anion tbe best in district general school work in the state. Our town school is up to the standard. All are Interested In cheaper hooks, hut people capable of judging prefer kiiowtng something as to what this experiment will cost and hat kind of books they are likely to recede In exchange for the very r xrellcnt ones now in the bands of the children. If Bush county bas a half dozen men capable of compiling a et of school baOks Franklin ouniy vUt iuruUU a dozen wr.

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Santa Claus. yet none are so egotistic as to dare propose auch s ill v thing. liow ninny have for a moment thought ot the magnitude of such an undertaking? Kather than be cumbered w ith inferior lMKks we would prefer remaining for a little longer in the power of the trust; Franklin county is deeply interested in this matter. We have gitod schools", an excellent corps of voting, progressive teachers, aud a faithful, hard-workingcounty superintendent now in training to do for the täte (when the lime is rip-) what he is so faithfully doing fur our county place it in the front rauk in educational mauer. Your, lAc. FltAKLIN CO I' NTT Ex-Teac:ier. Frookville. Ind., leb. 1". The above communication is written by lady who, it is feared, bas not looked on all sides of the question. However, fche admits that the prices of school books are too high, and that the trust ou-ht to be broken dowoj if it can be done, without involving a greater evil. .Vo far, so pood. Now, TlIK SENTINEL submits that her arruruent that the time is too short for anything to be done bas no force. This argument will have just as much weiyht when the next lepi.dature meets, and the next one after that, and if it is good at ail, it is good against lesjislation for all time, not only against the book trust, but against other great public evils. And finally when the lady says that the talk about the trust buying legislators and newspapers is "stuff and nonsense," she is greatly mistaken. If there are any newspapers and legislators for sale in thii part of the country the trust has got them; of that the lady may rest assured. This, of course, is not saying that there are not honest men in the legislature who are helning the trust, not from improper motives, but because they have not been able to convince themselves of the propriety of any arti-trutt measure that has vet Wen proposed. TlIK M stinkl hopes and lelieves a bill will yet be framed that will meet their approval. Editor SextiseiJ A PREACHER'S HORRIBLE CRIME. Heraus Ilia Snpier Wasn't Keady lie llrained Four Women With i Pnkar. PAKKERSBrRG, W. Va., Feb. 17. News has reached here from El:.zabeth, in Wirt county, that a most terrible crime was committed near there Friday nicht. John Flsmer, a properous farmer, and formerly a local preacher, went home drunk and beat his wife because his supper was not ready. He then worked himself into a frenzy of raee, auJ, seizing a heavy poker, brained his wile and two daughters, aged respectively twelve and seventeen, and also killed the hired girl. He then set tire to the house and burned their bodie. He is in jail t;t Wirt court-house, and the sherirThas a r-tron? guard to prevent lynching, if possible. Elsmer claims that thieves did tbe terrible work. Ayer's Hair Vigor improves the beauty of the hair and promotes its growth. It prevents the accumulation of dandrui, cleanses the pcitlp, and restores a natural color to gray hair. Have you received Aycr's Almanac for the new year? Consumption ureiy Cured. T the Fditok riease inform your readers that I have a positive remedy for thea!ove I named disease. I;y its timely n;e thousands J of hopeless cacs have been penuanentlr j cured. I shall be clad to send two bottles of my retnedv FKi:k to ai.v of your readers who " i -ti j .i have consumption li mey win senu me mcir express and P. O. address. .Respectfully. T. A. SsLOCt'M, M. C, LSI Pearl-st., New Y ork. When Caby rsi tick, re pave her CeVriv When ehe waa a Child, ahe cried f or Caatoria, When she became X iss, she clung to Castorf YThn aba h4 Chiiirea, she gave tLem CaetorU, I I HUMPHREYS Clcth &Cc!d Eindins lit ragrt, wiili Slrvl tsgrauf, a tu rn rnrc iMr. r. o. iu i sio. r. v. lirr ot rsu.ciri.L kos. cvats rains. 1 I Fevers, t'onaestion. Inflammations... .2! it I ormi. Worm Forcr. V orm t ohc 5 5 fryinc Colic, or Tecih:ne of Irf&nta. .2 diarrhea, of Children or Adult 2 Oysctiierv, tJnice. 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