Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 35, Number 3, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 February 1889 — Page 4

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THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1889,

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TERMS FF.U TEAR: tingle opy 91 oo We ask democrats to bear in mind and select their (ws etat paper when they coin to take subscription and make up dub. Agents making op clubs send for sot- information desired. Addess INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL Indianapolis, ind. WEDNESDAY. FEB. 20. The School Book Question. State Supt. La Follette is oat in an interview in the Xeus explaining why he is opposed to the state publication of school-books. We are quite certain he doesn't give the correct explanation, but the one he gives is w orthy of a little attention. In the first place he says "there are a great many things to be taken into consideration." And so there are. There are a great many things to be taken into consideration which Supt. La Follette ignores, but which the people are considering very carefully. One is that under the present arrangement it seems impossible to get a state superintendent of chools, and almost impossible to get a county superintendent, a town ship trustee or a school official of any kind to remember that he is a servant of the people, and that his first duty is to them and not to the ethool-book trust. This is certainly a very eeriona condition of affairs, and we don't wonder that the people are concerned about it. Among the things that Supt. La Foli.ette has taken into consideration are "for instance" that ' a school-book cannot be compiled so as to be a success at the start. Experience," he says, "has hown this to be true always." lias Supt. La Follette examined the text books compiled and printed by the state of California, or read the last report of the superintendent of public instruction in that state? We opine not, albeit he declares that he "has made a careful study of various sides of the question." The California textlooks were compiled by educators of wide attainments and large practical experi-f-nce. They are, we think, equal both in literary and mechanical execution to any of the books furnished by Van Antwerp, Bragg Co. to the school children of Indiana. The superintendent of public instruction of California declares that they have given excellent satisfaction, and that they are. furnished the people at a very large reduction from the prices charged tinder the old system. So experience has not always shown what Supt. La Follette say3 it has shown. Another thing that he thinks should be taken into consideration is that a state can not compete, either in economy or quality of material, with the big private publishing establishments which have grown tip year after year in exact accordance with the observed needs of business," This may bo true, and probably is. But it is no argument against the printing of text-books by private firms under contract with the state, after free and full competition. Under such an arrangement the state would have all the advantages which Supt. La Foixette claims for the publishing houses, and this is precisely the arrangement proposed in the bill which Supt. La Foixette and all the lobbyists for the school-book trust are antagonizing. A head-line over his interview says Supt. La Foixette "denounces the trust," but we have been unable to discover a pingle word against the trust in the body of the article. In fact, there is no reference to it no recognition of its existence that we can detect. Mr. La Foixette is pood enough to admit, however, that there is plenty of room for improvement" in the present sv6tem. He is satisfied that "children in many instances are compelled to pay very large prices for books," and he declares that "the wholesale dealers make enormous profits." To remedy all thin he proposes that the state purchase text books of publishing houses (that is to Ray of the trut that is to say, acain, of Van Antwerp, Bragg & Co.) and furnish them free to all pupils. This might reduce the cost of echool books to the people somewhat, but it would greatly increase the proats of the trust, by reducing the expenses of carrying on its business. All the representatives of the trust that are on the ground are, singularly enough, in avorofthis very scheme, and if people draw their own inferences we cannot see that any one is to blame but Supt. La Foixette himself, notwithstanding his "desire not to do anything which may be thought out of harmony with hia official position." Iabor Legislation. The conspiracy law, passed by a republican legislature at the dictation of railway corporations, is a blot upon the statute-books of the ßtate, and ought to bo repealed. Mr. Nolan's bill for its repeal was ordered engrossed by the house Monday, and we have no doubt it will become a law. Aa Mr. Nolan said in his very forcible and effective speech, the conspiracy law is class legislation, and, he might have added, class legislation of the worst kind, because it is in the interest of car ital, which is abundantly able to take care of itself, and acainstthe interest of labor, which is entitled to and should receive the protection of the state in ita right of organization and combination. There is othei legislation pending in the interest of labor which ought to be adopted. Fills have been introduced forbidding the employment of "private police" or "detectives" to perform the functions of the state in the preservation ot public order and the protection of property. These measures are intended to prevent the hiring by capitalists of bands of trained mercenaries, such aa the Finkerton detectives, to take the place of the police or the militia in the event of riot or disorder. Such irresponsible organizations are un-Ameri-can, and should not be tolerated in a free government. The workinsrmen of Indiana insist, and with perfect justice, that the täte is abundantly able to protect all her citizens, capitalists as well as laborers, in their persons and property, without the assistance of organizations maintained for private gain and controlled by irresponsible private citizens of another etate. The legislature ought to pass a ftrong law upon this subject. Another duty of the legislature is to xcake a stringent law against the pluck-

me stores carried on by the mining companies in defiance of the present law, and which are an outrage and a fraud upon the miners. A law should aho be made which would put a stop to the impositions practiced by these same corporations upon their miners in the weighing of coal. The present system is robbery rather less respectable than the 6ort committed by the sandbaggcrs and highwaymen who are sent to the penitentiary from time to time, while the robbing mine-operators are posing as honored members of society. The laboring men of Indiana have a right to expect fair treatment at the hands of a democratic legislature. They have demanded nothing from the general assembly, so far as we have observed, that isnotjnsi, reasonable and proper. The legislative tools of corporations may pronounce every effort that is made in their behalf "buncombe," but it is not "buncombe," it is simple justice, to remove the brand of conspirators from workingmen who combine for pelf-protection. Nor is it "buncombo" to say that capitalists shall not import companies of disciplined ruffians to shoot them down when they do not so conduct themselves as to please the said capitalists, nor, again, to deny corporations the privilege of robbing their employes of their earnings through the agency of "pluck-me stores," and such scoundrelly devices as are employed in weighing coal in Clay county. The democratic party, which is composed mainly of laboring men, must stand by them in their contest with monopoly öfter election yut the, tame as before election.

Hook-Trust Ammunition. The latest accession to the artillery with which the school-book trust is bombarding the legislature is a pamphlet by S. S. Tarr, dean of the normal school at PePauw, which has just been placed on the desks of the members. It is a rather formidable-looking document of forty-seven pages, abounding in alleged statistical tables, and braced up by authorities in foot notes. On examination, it will be observed that the authorities have an unduly intimate connection with the trust, itself thus: "Van Antwerp, Bkagg iy. Co., Cincinnati, in personal interview," p. 13. "From facts furnished Ohio legislative committee of lc-l, by Van Antwerp, Bragg & Co., Cincinnati; verified by them as current now," p. C4; "Report of the Ohio Committee," pp. 13, IS 20, 21,22; "State School Books in Minnesota a Failure," pp. 6-44. Aside from these trust authorities it will be. found that the authorities cited are generally in support of immaterial points. The argument of this brochure is startling. The first proposition established is that uniformity in school-books is an injury, because it destroys free competition, which is the most certain means of securing cheapness. The second proposition established is that there is no school-book trust. The third proposition established is that the school-book trust has been a blessing because it put a stop to free competition, and thereby prevented frequent changes of school-books. The fourth proposition established is that trust prices are less than those of any other system. The fifth proposition established is that the trust people make smaller profits than any other class of publishers. The ßixth proposition established is that all systems, except supply by the trust, abound in serious evils. It is not necessary to answer all of these propositions, as Mr. Parr has answered most of them himself. His showing of the workings of the business, which is confessedly made on information from the trust and is probably as favorable to it a any statement could be, is sufficient to call for an immediate abandonment of the present system. On pp. 14-13 he shows the anuual expenditure for schoolbooks in the United States to be from $4,800,000 to S'ö.SOO.OOO. We may therefore take the average, .$, 300,000, as fair, and of this amount he shows on p. 30 that the publisher has a net profit of 1 1.8 per cent., or $C2.,400. In reality the profit is much more; and it must be remembered that in addition to it the consumer pays all the expense of compiling, publishing and transporting, together with the profits of the wholesale dealer (10 to 15 percent., p. 20) and the retailer (25 per cent., p. 20.) In other words, the users of school books in this country pay annually ?2,5."5,000 for the actual expense of school books and $2,745,000 of profits to publishers and dealers. Still this gentleman insists that this is the cheapest and best system that can be found. No parallel for this extraordinary argument can be found outside of the demonstrations that "protection to American labor" is a benefit to the people. As to Indiana, Mr. Parr maintains (pp. 35-37) -that although the annual expense for books to the pupil who buys new all tb.9 books needed is $2.42J per year, yet, owing to the use of old books, and the fact that one-third of our children of school age do not attend school, the actual annual cost for the entire school enumeration is only 52.17 cents each. That is to say, Indiana pays annually for books for her 500,000 school children $200,850, of which, according to his figures, ?125,731. 10 is actual expense, $104,340 is profit to dealers, and $30,779.00 is net profit to the publishers. As Van Antwerp, Bragg fc Co. have about 80 per cent, of the Indiana business, their annual net profit from this state would be $24,000, according to this showing. The amount paid for profits alone is equivalent to a poll tax of 25 cents on every voter in Indiana. Still, if we may believe the supporters of the trust, there is no way of escaping this grievous burden.' Again, Mr. Parr's figures are not only delusive but absolutely unreliable. For example, in his comparison of trust books with other books (pp. 30-33) he says that 1,400 pages (5 vols.) of new national readers retail at $2.G3 and wholesale at 51.05', while 1.500 pages (3 vols.) of the American Commonwealth series retail at $4..V) and wholesale at $3.00. In fact, as any one may see by consulting the price list, the latter retail at 3.75; they wholesale at 40 per cent, off, or $2.25. The more important difference, however, is in the market An ordinary school book used throughout Indiana, at the lowest estimate, making allowance for use of old books and for non-attendance of schoolchildren, would have a sale of 100,000 volumes. One' of Van Antwerp, Bragg fc Co. 'a books would have a sale of 80,000 volumes. Estimating such a book at the low average of 50 cents retail, the total sale would be $10,000, and according to

Mr. Parr, the publishers profit would be $4,720. On the other hand, one of the Commonwealth aeries does remarkably well if it reach a sale of 5,000 volumes. It is wholesaled at 75 cents and 10 cents of this goes as royalty to the author. If half of the remainder (32J cents) were proGt to the publishers, the total profit to the publishers would be $1,623, or about one-third of that on the reader. This estimate is much more favorable to the trust than the exact truth would be. The trust has a large forced market; the independent publisher depends on the merits of his book and the desires of the people. In this lies the fallacy of such a compairson. We shall examine Mr. Parr's books further hereafter. It ought to make the passage of the Pleasants bill or some measure to the same end certain.

Doodle in I'oUfics. We have received the following communication from a leading democrat of Crawfordsville: To the Epitor Sir: I do not see any clause in the election bill, as amended by the senate, that provides for the detection and punishment of persons who will try to bribe voters to refrain from votinir. Be assured that this dodge will be resorted to by corruptionists. The attempt to bribe in this way thould be punished, the penalty to be the same as in case of ordinary bribery. The voter thus bribed should be disfranchised for a number of years; the repetition of the net should make his disfranchisement perpetual. J. II. T. Crawfordsville, Feb. 12. The suggestions made by our correspondent are worthy of attention from the legislature. The election bill does not impose penalties for hiring voters to stay away from the polls. As our correspondent says, this tbdge will no doubt be resorted to by the corruptionists when the new law goes into effect. Indeed, it is quite extensively practiced under the present system. The reason no provision was made in the election bill for the punishment of this offence, is. we understand, that other bills are pending intended to prevent, so far as possible, the illegitimate use of money in any way to influence votes. Senator Byrd has introduced a bill which, if it should become a law, would, we think, practically put an end to election bribery of all kinds. The three republican members of the senate committee on elections Messrs. Sears Croik and Bozf.man have reported in fa, -or of the indefinite postponement of the bill. Senator Cox, from the same committee, has recommended its passage. The other members of the committee, Messrs. Francis, Griffith and Fol et, do not appear to have been present when the bill was considered. Several other bills are pending in the legislature relating to the use of boodle in political campaigns, which ought to receive careful consideration. One, introduced by Senator Barrett, prohibits, under heavy penalties, the expenditure of money for the purpose of influencing votes at primary meetings or in nominating conventions. Another forbids the levying of assessments upon candidates by campaign committees. Other measures have been introduced aimed at like evils. In the New York assembly the following bill, which is taken in substance from Gov. Hill's recent message, has been introduced, and will, it is said, become a law at the present session: Section 1. Every candidate for any public oflire in this state, or in any county or municipality thereof, which office is to be filled by popular election, shall within ten days after such election, file in the office of the secretary of state an itemized statement of all moneys contributed or expended by him, and all debts incurred by him in aid of his election; and whenever any part of said moneys was paid or promised to be paid to any agent, committee, organization, person or persons, then said statement shall contain in detail a statement of the manner in w hich such moneys were expended or debts incurred by such agent, committee, organization, person or persons. Sec. 2. Any person failing to comply with the provisions of the first section of this act shall be liable to a fine not exceeding J1.000, to be recovered in an action brought by the attor-ney-g neral, the amount of said fine to be fixed within the above limit by the jury, and to be paid into the treasury of the state. Sec. 3. No person shall enter upon the duties of any election office until he shall hate tiled the statement provided for in sec. 1, nor shall he receive anv salary or emolument for any period prior to the filing of the same. Sec. 4. This act hall take eficct on Sept. 1, 15. We think that out cf these several bills a measure could be framed which, if enacted, would close the doors as effectually against the improper use of money in elections, and put poor men as nearly on an equality with rich men in the contest for official honors, as it is in the potency of legislation to do. Laws cannot make honest men out of knaves or revolutionize human nature. But they can remove, to a great extent, the opportunities for the. practice of knavery, and the temptations to it. The election bill is a wise, honest and timely measure which, we have no doubt, will do very much toward purifying our elections. Iut we think it ought to be supplemented by stringent legislation of the character indicated. We must eliminate the influence of boodle from our politics so far as possible. As Montesquieu gays: "The perpetuity of the American republic is conditioned on the preservation of the purity of the ballot," and our statesmen and legislators have no higher or more pressing duty than to surround it with ail the safeguards which wisdom and experience may suggest To Indiana Tariff Reformers. The American tariff reform league will hold a national convention in Chicago, beginning next Tuesday, the 20th inst The objects of the convention are : 1. To widen the scope of the league's work and its means of usefulness, by drawing into its councils representative men from all lections. 2. To secure branch leagues for active work, under whatever name may be locälly preferred, in every county and, so far as possible, in every township in the various states. 3. To organize a systematic campaign, that shall be continuous embracing literary bureau, lecture bureau, supplemented by corresponding bureaus ia every state, and such other means for furthering the work as may be thought expedient. This convention will be really the first step toward systematic organization of the tariff reform sentiment of the country, and its importance cannot be overestimated. Indiana ought to be fully represented. Delegates have been chosen by the tariff reform clubs in several Indiana cities, and we should like to see tho capital city properly represented. The leading tariff reformers of the country will bo present, and measures will be taken looking to the organization of tariff reform clubs in all the states, as auxiliary to state leagues, which 6hall in turn be auxiliary to tho American league. Calls are being circulated and numer

ously signed, for a conference of Indiana tariff reformers in this city on the 4th and 5th of March with a view to organizing a 6tate league. We shall be glad if as many as possible of those who are interested in this movement attend the meeting at Chicago next week, as they will be better prepared to proceed intelligently and effectively with the work in hand in this state after conferring with those who are engaged in similar work in other states. A score or more of wide awake tariff reformers from this county should be present at the Chicago convention. Let those who are interested in this great cause make an effort to go to Chicago during tho convention, if for but one day, even if it does involve some personal inconvenience. We urge tariff reformers all over the state to be on hand in force at Chicago. A cause is not worth much that can not command from its advocates such a trifling sacrifice as is involved in the tttendance of any citizen of Indiana upon the Chicago convention.

Wood s-I) ud ley liogic. He (Judge Woods) told them (the jury) that advising an "attempt" at bribery was a "crime; and it is precisely what constitutes an "attempt" to do a thin? that the democratic orpins are trying to dodge, and make it appear that Judge Woods is a corrupt judje. Air km. We submit that this statement of the evening Dudley organ is false. There has been no question as to what constituted an attempt, and, so far as we know, no difference of opinion. There was a question as to whether an attempt to bribe was a crime, and also as to whether advising an attempt to bribe was a crime. As to these questions Judge Woods originally said: While it is not a crime to make the attempt, it is a crime to advise another to make the attempt. If A attempts to bribe B that is no oCense, under this statute; but if A advises B to bribe C. then the one who commends or gives this advice is an offender under this law. There is no intimation in these words, or anywhere else in the original opinion, that the advising an attempt to bribe was not a crime unless the attempt were actually made in pursuance of the advice. That was an after-thought, made necessary by the peril of Dudley. We do not agree with Judge Woons that the attempt to bribe is not a crime, under the statute; but, accepting his theory on that point, there could be nothing more anomalous than his revised ruling that the crime of advising is not complete until the "bribing or attempting to bribe" is shown. The examples of "aiding, abetting or conniving at" crimes of various kinds, which have been used as illustrations in attempted defenses of Judge Woods, have no similarity to this case, for in them the result is the important thing, and the "overt act" to which the law looks; and, what is more important, tho words themselves imply commission, for a crime cannot bo aided, abetted or connived at except it exist, while any action may be advised and yet never occur. In this case the result is wholly immaterial, for,"t:ndcr Judge Woods' ruling, it would bo .awful whatever it might be. His ruling was that it is unlawful to advise the doing of a certain lawful thing. He now says that when all the criminal portion of this, offense (the advising) is completed, the crlmeis not complete until a lawful action (attempting to bribe) is done also. There is the same logical basis for saying that the crime of murder is not complete until the murderer buries his victim's body. . There was never a more flagrant and infamous perversion of justice than this second ruling, or a more transparent excuse o"ered for a moral crime than has been offered for it Still partisans will defend it, or at least pretend to do so. We wish them joy in their undertaking. We have the satisfaction of a certainty that every honest man of ordinary intelligence says in the depths of his heart Judge Woods made a mistake his action is indefensible he had better have let Dudley go than sacrifice himself to save him. A Kightooiis "Gag Ijatv." The consumption of over half of yesterday's session of the senate in an alleged discussion of the geological bureau bill is conclusive evidence that the republican members have adopted the plan of consuming the session by political har angues and thereby driving the democracy to the people with no legislation accomplished. The bill in question is as nearly beyond criticism as any measure could be. .No republican senators objected to it except because the members of the bureau were not to be appointed by the governor and were not subject to removal by him. They all conceded it to be a measure which would promote efficiency of the service. And yet because the majority did not donate the appointments to the republican governor, and give him a power ot removal which he does not possess as to any other state officer, they deliberately wasted half a day of the session in a discussion, not one-tenth of which had any conceivable reference to the question before the senate. There was only one way to stop this outrageous line of action and the senate wisely adopted it. An amendment of the rules was maie limiting all speeches to five minutes hereafter. It is a pity that his action was not taken earlier. The people never intended to hire a senator at $6 a day to make campaign stump speeches, or to hircan audience for these wind-bags at an additional expense of some $300 a day. If any senator has ideas on any proposed legislation which he cannot express in five minutes, let him print them on a postal card and maij copies to his colleagues. "Will Never Ho Repealed. The election bill passed the senate yesterday. We are glad to say that only one democrat Senator Bcfke conceived it to be his duty to vote against it. Eleven republicans voted apainst the bill Alford, Boyd, Bichouski, Cauvek, Caster, Ckoxk, DeMotte, Grose, Kennedy, Shockney and Thompson of Jasper. It is pretty safe to say that these eleven statesmen would have voted against any measure of election reform that might havo been proposed. The present system, which leaves the doors wide open for bribery, corruption and fraud of all .kinds, is evidently to their liking. The bill now goes to tho house, and that body ought to waste no time in passing it. Wo predict that this measure, once on the statute books, will never le repealed. We have to doubt it will bo amended from time to time, as experience reveals its weak point1, and indicates where and

how it may be strengthened and improved. But Indiana will never return to the present wretched system. The president has approved the act creating an executive department of agriculture, and hereafter the cabinet will consist cf eight, instead of seven, as at present. We fancy that the secretary of agriculture will prove to be neither a useful nor an ornamental part of the official machine. He will be literally a fifth, wheel to the government wagon. We can see no more reason for creating an executive department of agriculture than there is for creating an executive department ot mining, or one of commerce, or of manufacturing. We do not anticipate that the great agricultural interests of the country will derive the slightest benefit from the creation of this new establishment of officialism. The law was evidently made under the impression that the farmers of the country were yearning for it, but we think this was a mistake. What the farmers really need is relief from taxation and a better market for their products. The establishment of another highsalaried office, with a large corps of wellpaid assistants, will do the men who till the soil no good. The legislature is showing a disposition to make liberal provision for the wants of the various state institutions. The full amount asked for has been given the asylum tor feeble minded being erected at Fort "Wayne. This is one of the worthiest charities in the state, and being tinder the control of a non-partisan and very effcient board, its claims have met with full recognition from both sides in the legislature. The other state institutions will be fairly dealt with, and the people will, we have no doubt, approve the policy of the legislature toward them. Indiana is rich enough to give an adequate support to her various institutions, and will not be deceived by the cry of extravagance and recklessness based upon fair appropriations for their maintenance. Of course the legislature should exercise careful discrimination in votes of money for these purposes, and refuse to give a dollar more than is necessary. The coat must be cut according to the cloth, but happily extreme parsimony is not required. Judge Claypool hits the nail on the head when he says: If Judge Woods' second instructions to the grand jury are sound in law it would .not be unlawful for any one to hire a hall, openly proclaim and advise bribery; shake th money before the voters, invite them out in blocks of five, or any other way, to a secret place, and there transact the business. So long as the payment for votes v. as done in secret, or no one could prove that money had actually been paid, or the advice received had been acted on, there would be no indictable ollense, no matter how flagrant, public and notorious the advice and profler to buy votes had been. Judire Woods' second instructions are not the law, and nobody knows it better than Judge Woods himself. They are a wicked perversion of the law in the interest of a political scoundrel, and everybody with intelligence enough to understand the force of language knows it. President Cleveland reviews his four years' administration with just pride in the results it has accomplished. It has been a clean, honest, practical, and withal vigorous and able administration, and it will leave every department of the public service in better condition than it found it. If it had been less aggressively honest, less independent of special interests and class influences, less jealous of the rights of the people, it would no doubt have been continued four years longer. President Cleveland will rank in history as one of the wisest and most patriotic of our chief magistrates and it is by no means so certain, as he seems to believe, that after the 4th of March he will be "in no man's way." The result of the special election in Shelby and Decatur counties is exceedingly gratifying. Mr. Carpenter's nomination for state senator, after the developments in the Ray contest, and in spite of the fact that he was under indictment for bribery, was scandalous in the last degree. His election, under the circumstances, would have been a disgrace to the state. His defeat is a wholesome rebuke to boodlers and corruptionists, and an encouraging evidence that vote-buying after all is not regarded as a venial offense in this latitude. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. Henry County, Newcastle: The house has passed the bill creating a state board of charities, to serve without compensation and to have general supervision of the benevolent institutions. The bill will doubtless pass the senate. D. Smith, M. P., Noblesville, Ind.: The bill granting pensions to army nurses during the war passed the senat Feb. 9, and is now pending in the house. It will no doubt pass that body if it can be reached, but it is now so late in the session that there is danger it will fail for lack of time. Harry C. Anderson, Peru: Gen. Henry B. Carrington was chief muster officer for Indiana in 1S62, and afterward for a few months commanded the military district of Indiana. We do not know who his orderlies were, nor his present postofiice address. He is on the retired list of the regular army and resides somewhere in New England. CORRESPONDENCE BOILED DOWN.

"Ignoramus" writes from Seymour that if the legislature passes t lie Andrew bill (raakini it apply to all elections) and sniashe the chool-hook trust, we may vet be happy, even if we hare to wear co'ton breeches these cold days. He says rotes hare sold for from $10 to 525 at township elections in his county. Dr. Lv Pike of Terrs Unite writes that he is ranch pleswd with Tiik Sftinei., and especially with its criticisms of Judge Woods for bis outrageous action in the Dudley case. He says: "The mj that ran approve of such criminality will soon see the handwriting on the wall. Already thousands bitterly regret the part they took iu the pat presidential camjaign, and will, in the future, show their derotinn to country rather than party. God speed the right and oTcrthrow the machinations of traitors." "Franklin" writes from BrookTlIie-denouncIn? the Cincinnati .f't'rtr and urginuall democrats to stop readin? It. The vicious republican tiraIos of "iath" and Mae Bride, and the dirty attack upon President Cleveland, eißned S. IC. J. (houi "Franklin" takes to I John It. McLean himself), move him to earnestly beseech all democrats to leave the Eiifuirrr severely alone, and read The Sent sel in preference to the Cincinnati organ of monopoly and gutter politics. This is good advice aud it ought to be heeded by every democrat in Indiaui. John II. Brown of Dadair, Hendricks county, democrat seventy one years old who is in favor ot a tariff for revenue only, writes urging an amendment to the election law requiring that every voter shall write or came to be written his name on the back of bis ticket, and that if an? illegal vote is Cat in any precinct, the entire vote of the party in hose interest the vote is piven in that precinct shall be excluded. He thinks with such a law there would be no more fraud at elections, as each party would see to it that no fraud waa committed by its own tuemlers. (eoree L. Jenkins of Carlisle. Ind., In renewing his subscription to The Sf.ntiski., says he alwavs appreciated this pa)er, but regards It "more highly now th.in ever before, because of the bold stand it takes on all ouvtions atleetins the people's interest. A few day ago Mr. Jenkins called a negro to account for invilunt; his wife and daughter. An altercation endued, tho negro drrwinir. a knife on Jenkin, and he lired twice at him without serious resnlis. The affair was reported in the Terre Haute J-Jjpifst and other papers a an outrage growing not of politics. Mr. Jenkins declares that politics had notaitig whatever to do with it. Children Cry for

V UNEQUALED For Ilouse, Barn. and all out-buildings. Anybody can put it on. PRICE LOW. Write fr Simple und Hook. At 8. "Pnn Vi vnrua St. INDIANA PAINT & ROOFING CO. THE WEEK'S NEWS. Proceedings of Congress Tor the Week Ending Feb. 16 Miscellaneous News. Monday, Feb. 11. In the senate Mr. Coke's credentials as senator from Texas were presented and filed. A secret session was ordered and lasted until 3:25 p. m. The naval appropriation bill Mas considered, when the senate adjourned. In the house the house amendments to the direct tas bill were insisted on an l a conference ordered. The tinallsd'.lliott election case was called up ami antagonized by the poatoilice appropriation bill, but finally won the floor on a vote of yeas l."U, nays Crisp of Georgia opened the case for Elliott, the sitting member. Kowell of Illinois followed for Emails. Tuesday, r'eb. 12. In the senate several unimportant bouse bills were passed. An executive session was ordered, after which the naval appropriation bill was considered and passed. A message from the president on the Alaska seal fisheries was read and referred. Ily a party vote of 22 yeas, 19 nays, the resolution directing a revision of the laws regulating the election of tiienilers of congress was taken up. In the house the senate Panama protection bill was referred to the committee on foreign affairs. The contested election case of J-malis vs. Elliott was taken up. Speeches were made by Messrs. O'Ferral (VaA Cooper (O.), Johnson (Ind.), McComas (Md.), Outhwaite (O.), and Smalls. Wednesday, Feb. 1". In the senate the conference report on the diplomatic appropriation bill was agreed to. A bill was introduced granting a pension of $100 a month to the widow of Gen. Hunt. The senate proceeded in a body to the house to count the electoral vote. After their returu the district militia bill was passed. The congressional election resolution was considered. In the house three .pension veto messages ere read. UiUs were reported from committees. At 1 p. m. the seuate arrived, and Senator Ingalls presided over the joint assembly. The certificates were opened and read, aud the election of Harrison and Morton, as president and vice-president, respectively, announced by a vote of 23o to lliS. After the count the Smalls-Elliott election case was considered, and Elliott declared elected yeas, 143; nays, 126. Thursday, Feb. 14 In the senate two pension vetoes were presented and referred. After morning hour business a speech was made by Wilson (Ia.) on Frye's bill relating to imported liquors from neighboriiifr states. The Texas outrage resolution was taken up. Mr. Coke replied to Mr. Evarta' arraignment, in the house the senate bill was passed providing for writs of error to the supreme court in ail cases involving the question of jurisdiction of courts below. A bill was passed to divide a portion of the Sioux reservation in Dakota. The conference report on the senate bill tor the adinissioti of the state of South Jakota was considered. A resolution was agreed to providing for the admission of two lakotas, Montana and Washington. Friday, Feb. 15. Iu the senate a pension veto was read and referred. Several bills were reported, including a bill authorizing the commissioners to condemn land for a Kock Creek pnrk. The credentials of Mr. Washburn from Minnesota were presented. Several bills were passed, and Mr. Coke continued his Fpeech on the Texas outrage. Eulogies were delivered on the late Representative Robertson, and, as a further mark of respect, the senate adjourned. In the house the ways and means committee reported back the Mills bill and amendment. The senate bill was passed, appropriatinij (KK) to proteet American interests in Panama. By a vote of 101 to 10'J the house finally passed instructions to its confreres to agree to the admission of the North aud South Dakotas, Montana and Washington. Saturday, Feb. lt. In the senate bills were passed for a lighthouse and fog signal at Old Orchard Shore, N. V., and for the retirement of Maj. Joseph Belger as colonel on the retired list. The Texas outrage resolution was further discussed by Mr. Coke. Mcssr.s. HJair and Edmunds made speeches in opposition to the direct tax bill. In the house the conference report on the diplomatic appropriation bill was agreed to. Messrs. McMilhn and Hreckenridge reported their respective tariff bills and they were placed on the calendar, giving them priority over the Cowles tobacco tax bill, re ported later. Miscellaneous News Items. The jury in the White Caps case at Bloomington, Ind., disagreed. Leon Leopold, a Jewish rabbi, dropped dead at Vincennes, Ind., Friday. Two editors at Akron, O., have been arrested on a charge of malicious libel. Bertha Aloes, aged sixteen, has been missing from her home iif Cincinnati since Feb. 1. McAulilTe and Myer fought sixty-four rounds to a draw, at North Judson, lud., Feb. 7. A railroad will be built from Chattanooga, Tenn., to the battle-field of Chickamauga. John Lee was hanged Friday at Alexandria, Minn., for the murdtrr of Charles Cheline. A deaf mute named Andrew Bott was instantly killed by cars near Kent, O., Saturday. Frof. S. F. Emmons and Miss Sophia Dallas Markoe were married at Washington yesterday. W. W. Ilnssong. a merchant of St. Louis, was warned by White Caps Thursday to leave the city. Bishop Holland N-. McTyeire, founder of the Vauderbilt university, died at Nashville, Tenn., Feb. 15. George W.Spurr, agent of the American soap company of Marion,Ind., is charged with embezzlement. W. L. Porter, ex-treasurer of Vermillion county, Ind., is said to be 12,000 short. He is a republican. Mike Keegan of Cincinnati slipped into a vat of boiling water in a slaughter-house and was terribly scalded. Paul Hill of Greencastle, Ind., is charged with embezzling $400 which a woman gave him to deposit in bank. Albert and George Avery of Yonngfown, O., were trampled to death by cattle in Wyoming territory recently. Joe Aidt has been sentenced at Bucyrus. O., to twenty years' imprisonment in the peuitentiary for murder. Kate Claxton says that she w ill permanently retire from the stage iu about two weeks on account of ill health. Ruth Goschen, the Egyptian giant, for many years one of Barnuur chief attractions, died at Clyde, N. J., Feb. 12. The case of the commonwealth vs. the sureties of the late state Treasurer Tate is progressing at Frankfort, Ky. Dr. J. W. Cox, a prominent citizen of Pine Blurt", Ark., last week was shot and instantly killed by Ed Harrell. Saloons in Badger, Duncomb. Lehigh and Barnums, Ia.. were raided by in dignant citizens and the liquors spilled. William II. Worth, clerk in a jewelry store at Chicago, was arrested Friday on a charge of robbing his employers. Henry Worley, charged, with ten other persons, with the murder of Lee Troxtilc, at Somset, Ky., has been arrested. An illicit still for the production of cornwhisky, run by Russians, lias been seized in Chicago by revenue officers. A child, left shut up in a room while its mother was from home Friday, was burned to death near Ilopkinsville, Ky. A sleigh was struck by an engine af a railroad crossing near Hueyrus, O., Thursday, and two men were instantly killed. Pavid Bevin, a young farmer, whose home is in Brookville, Ind., blew out the gas in a Cincinnati hotel. He will recover. The recent meeting between Myer and McAnlifle near Judson, Ind., is denounced by "6Port"' as simply a skin game. Will B. Palie, aged fifteen, a bell-boy in a hotel at Springfield, O., attempted to commit suicide Saturday. He was love-sick. John Hitginbottom, John Oliver and Minnie llartlett, were arrested at Charleston, W. Va., for arson and murder last Thursday. John tRge, who urged a woman to drown her illegitimate child, was convicted of murder in the first degree at Marion, Ind., Thursday. At Fort Wayne, Ind., a brakeman named Sears cot a judgment for $j,0UD against the Pennsylvania company for the loss of a leg. White people ia North Carolina, it is said, will not permit colored laborers to leave that state in order to get employment eise' here. The electoral vote was counted by both houses of congress last Wednesday aud Beniamin Harrison and Levi P. Morton were de Pitcher's Castoria.

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clared elected president and vice-president of the United States for four years from March 4, IM. Cien. Nble of St. Louis, an old colletre mate of Gen. Harrison, it is said, has accepted th secretary of the interior of the new cabinet. Mrs. "Doc" Callaway of Raleigh county, W. Va.les.rted her family aud went west w ith two of her husband's employes last Saturday. The Rev. J. W. Shreeve, a minister living at Conroy, O., has been arrested on a charge of bastardy, preferred by a girl of unsound mind. Pat Hawks, charged with thooting a man named Weston near Ilopkinsville. Ky.. a year ago, was arrested at Garrettsburg, Ky., l eb. 14. The Enterprise manufacturing company has i reorganized at Birmingham. Ala., with a capital , oi ami win build a cotton-mill at once. Sbeon Harter got a twelve-Lundred-aolIar verdict against the city ot" Franklin, Ind., for injuries sustained by falling into an open cellar way. An organization known as the "Personal Rights league" has been formed at Chicago. Its object is to resist the prohibition, movement. W. K. Given was arrested at Charleston, W. Va., on the charge of being one of the alleged murderers of Mrs. Hüchel Vallace aud her sou last August. Senator Windotu visited Indianapolis Saturday and had another talk, with President Harrison. He will probably be the next secretary of the treasury. Judge Devens of Mt. Vernon, O., has rereived a letter from Senator Windom stating that he bad been oflered and has accepted the treasury portfolio. At Greenville, Miss., a young man named Schuiclke, w hile under the influence of liquor, murdered thr-e women, Saturday, and then committed suicide. John Lismer. residing iu Wirt county, West Virginia, went home drunk: Friday, aud killed his wire, two children and a servant girl, and bi t tire to Iiis house. Mrs. Wilhelmina Hiebelscbauser, a wealthy widow of Crestline, O., who was despondent on account of her husband's death, committed suicide at Louisville, Ky. Arrangements have been perfected for the journey of President Harrison from Philadelphia to New York, to attend the centtnnial of Washington's inauguration. Owing to the report from Washington that his appointment would give general satisfaction to Ohio republic :ns, ex-Gov. Foster's cabinet chances are improving. Mark Stene of Newark, O., deserted his family and Middenly disappeared last Friday. He is said to have taken money belonging to the linu of which he was a member. It is reported at Indianapolis that Senator Teller of Colorado is slated tor the interior department. Oilier rumor? give the same department to Gen. Noble of St. Louis. A. J. Ooldsby, alias "Captaia Jack." who escaped from jail in Fayette county, W. Va.. list October, has been recaptured. He is charged with killing a man named Bibb. A man whose racket is to stop young girls in the street, whip out a pair of shears and clip oil' their hair, is now working Cincinnati. Two cases have been reported to the police. A number of leaders of the promiuent labor organizations of the country met iu Philadelphia Feb. 14 to encourage harmony between the national and international organizations now in existence. A funeral procession in Brooklyn was delayed nearly an hour by the refusal of members of a cab-drivers' union to proceed while one of the coaches in line was driven by a conunion man. Police Inspector John BonfielJ of Chica-zo, under suspension pending investigation of hia malfeasance in ofliee, has resigned, lie accuses Mayor Roche of being actuated by political considerations. A joint meeting of Union and Confederate veterans w ho were engaged at Chickamauga was held at Washington to rlevi.se a plan for of all forces that participated iu the fight. The Grand lake coal company, the largest coal firm in Pittsburg, has collapsed, lliey lost 140 loaded boats and barges by the storm at New Orleans last summe rt and more recently they became involved in an unfortunat railroad investment. The overthrow ot the Floquet government at Paris is credited to the opportunists, and it in thought the new cabinet will have an oportunist complexion. M. Meline offers to head a new government. An Italian cabinet crisis exists. Floods have occurred throughout France. A revolutionary plot was discovered at Belgrade. The Hungarian diet was the scene of most furious acclaims against the gov eminent Friday. The local money market gave some evidence of life at the close of the week, but the stimulus was due to the transactions incidental to the closing day of the week, and therefore temporary; discount rates are low and money abundant Local securities were not active, aud government bonds dull, hut steady. The New York banks have gained over three million dollars during the week. The produce markets were again dull and heavy, with price tending downward. The movement in general merchandise was slow. The Italian deputies voted confidence in Premier Crispi, 247 to l"d. The reports of the intended retirement of Bismarck ate said to have been a scheme of the chancellor to strengthen his hand. It is believed that the emperor will exert no pressure nnon him to give up his office, though it is stated that when he sees fit to do so the emperor will himeif assume the chancellorship, with Count Waldcrsee as his chief adviser. As might naturally be expected, the latter and Bismarck ar rot in accord. The Germans regard the French situation as ominous. THE CABINET. Latest Guesses nt Gen. Harrison's Chief Advisers. Guesses on the cabinet are now being mude wiih greater frequency and boldness thin ever before. Kveryl'odv, personally interested, is on the qui vive. and within a few days'at the most the ag'-uy must be over. Kvervbody guesses on F.laine. The magnetic statesman from Maine will have to go in. Mx-eul-i-tion as to the secretary-hip of the treasury alo mostly agree upon William Windoiu as the man fur that place. 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