Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 35, Number 12, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 May 1889 — Page 4

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1889

; INDIANA STATE SENTINEL i . , lEatered at the Postoffice at Iodlanapoha h eeoondclaa matter.

TERMS PF.R VEABi tilg! crpy ... .-- .......... 81 oo We ask democrats to bear in mind and select their cto Ute paper when they come to take subscriptiors and make tip clubs. A gents making np clubs send for bot information desired. Addess INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL, Indianapolis, ind. WEDNESDAY. MAY 1. Judicial Knavery in Indiana. "With the trial of Bingiiam, the great Fountain county boodier, the judicial farce in the federal court is at an end, for the present, at least. A 9 the record stands, the only man convicted, out of over one hundred and fifty defendants, was a democrat who voted for Cleveland in the forenoon and, having been paid money and made drunk by republican "Pharisees," was voted in the afternoon for Harrison. Juries in two cases disagreed; ten or twelve defendants were acquitted under the instructions of the court, and over one hundred and thirty alleged offenders evaded trial through the most disgraceful partisan rulings ever promulgated by any court in this country. Beginning with the time when there was a fair prospect of the U. S. grand jury indicting William "Wade Dudley, treasurer of the national republican committee, and the intimate personal friend of Benjamin Harrison, for organizing a wholesale system of bribery in his interest, the whole machinery of this court has been employed, with the most reckless disregard of propriety, precedent, law, justice and decency, to protect him from the consequences of his crime, and to save from punishment the scoundrels who carried out his infamous instructions in nearly every voting precinct in the ftato at the November election. That election was the most corrupt ever witnessed in Indiana ; but flagrant as was the villainy which made it an everlasting reproach to the pood name of Indiana, it has been surpassed by trie villainy which has been employed to cover up the rottenness and keep from the world a knowledge of the methods by which the electoral vote of Indiana was obtained for Harrison and Morton. "We measure our words carefully, and keep entirely within bounds, when we fay that a more wicked and damnable conspiracy was never formed than that which has culminated in the wholesale jail delivery of perjured scoundrels "our best citizens," as Mr. Chambfks terms them tbrouch the monstrous perversions of the instrumentalities of justice that have just been witnessed in this town. The shame and the scandal of it all is the toleration which is accorded by the public, or a large portion thereof, to the chief offenders. Corrupt elections mean corrupt administration, and betoken a deadened public conscience. We will never have honest elec tions nor good government in Indiana so long as party organs and ministers of the gospel and the leading representatives of the professional and business class defend knaves of their own sect who are detected in the commission of crimes against the ballot box. Judge Woods and the officials of his court have put a premium upon bribery and fraud at elections; but the evil they have wrought would have been but temporary if there had been virtue and manliness and decency enough in the republican party to have rebuked, as they deserved, their outrageous offenses' againt good morals and the public safety. But with the whole republican party standing at their back they have been enabled to deal such blows at our institutions as they will not soon recover from. They have all but destroyed popular confidence in the integrity of the judiciary, and have sown seeds from which this commonwealth will reap a harvest of corruption and mi?government, of shame and dishonor, in the years that are to come. The democratic party of Indiana is practically a unit in denouncing the outrages in the federal court. All over the state a deep feeling of indignation exists which we think ought to find expression in some suitable manner. The democracy of the etate should put on record, while the hour is new, an emphatic condemnation of the proceedings which have made Indiana justice a laughing stock and a by-word throughout the republic. The Evansville Courier and other leading papers have tirged the holdins of a mass meeting of Indiana democrats in this city to take proper action in this matter. Has not the time arrived for such a demonstration? Dudley and "Brother Ben." Dcpley's letter to "Dear old Sam," printed thi3 morning, is exceedincly interesting. Dtdlev himself vouches for its genuineness, so we presume the Journal and Sem will concede that it is not a "democratic forgery," or "two democratic forgeries," as the Xeu pronounced the 'blocks-of-five' epistle. The "dear old Sam" letter suggests some very curious reflections. It says: Perhaps there is no one in the country who tag done so much for Gen. Harrison daring the last twenty years a I (Uculey) have, bat because our democratic friends down in Indianapolis have started the hue and cry on me, Urother Be." does not seem to feel that he can artord to recoenize roe as an acquaintance, and consequently I don't take dinner at the white house a.s rnijeht be expected. I have not been in the white house since Mr. Cleveland's inauguration, a little over four years ago. Here'a a state of things, indeed! Isn't Dudley an "honest and much maligned man?" We have the word of the Indianapolis Xtux for it. Isn't he a "respectablo and reputable gentleman ?" The inspired Journal has' told us eo within the week. Isn't be a great stickler for pure elections ? Brother Bex's near and dear friend, the first assistant postmaster general, Mr. Clalkson. has so assured the country. Isn't he treasurer of the republican national committee? For many years the intimate personal and political friend of President Harrison? The man for whom the "William Wade Dudley club" ot Aurora, Ind., was named? The person who, according to the Inter Ocean and other republican prints, passed through the ordeal of democratic calumny without bo much as a emell of firo upon his trarmenta? The very anie whom Judge Woods stretched forth his judicial arm (with the assistance of Partner Milleb), to save? And thi3 "honest and much maligned man," thL "respectable and reputablo

gentleman," thia treasurer of the national republican committee, thia bosom friend of the president, of twenty years standingis not recognized by Brother Ben, and does not dine at the white house, "as might be expected !" Indeed, 'tis passing strange. We cannot attempt to explain this shabby treatment of a Christian gentleman and an old friend, withal, by Brother Ben. Perhaps our esteemed contemporaries, the Journal and yews, can do so. Perhaps they can reconcile it with the president's spotless epotlessness and Dudley's innocent innocence, of which they have told us many a time and oft. But to our benighted democratic mind the thing is utterly inexplicable. We can't make it out at all. The Future of Prohibition. The overwhelming defeat of the prohibition amendment in Massachusetts following so closely upon a like result in New Hampshire, indicates pretty conclusively that the prohibition movement in this country has passed its climax, and is beginning to recede. In no section could it be expected to show more strength than in New England, in which every state has, at one time or another, experimented with either constitutional or statutory prohibition.. Puritanical traditions are still strong in New Ensrland, and the population is more homogeneous, at least in the great cities, than in any other part of the republic. Yet New IIamt6hire, Massachusetts and Rhode Island all declare, with emphasis, against the policy of prohibition. Evidently the peopla of these states are thoroughly convinced that there are other and better ways of dealing with the liquor evil than the method of constitutional prohibition. It is an interesting circumstance that both in New Hampshire and Massachusetts the prohibitionists proved to be almost as weak in the rural districts as in the towns. In New Hampshire cider was excluded from the proposed amendment ; in Massachusetts it was expressly included; yet in both states the farmers failed to rally to the prohibition standard. It is pretty safe to conclude that the cider issue cut little figure in either state ; and that the fanners voted against prohibition because they did not believe it a wise policy. In Pennsylvania a proposed prohibition amendment will be voted on June IS. The campaign has been a sharply contested one, but the results in Massachusetts and New Hampshire have had a depressing effect on the "prohis," and their defeat is fully assured. The only question is as to the dimensions of the majority against them. s,It will not be small," says the Philadelphia Times; "it may be 50,000; it is likely to be more than 50,X0, and it is quite probable that it may exceed 100,000. The same journal, however, predicts that the agitation will bo maintained with undiminished energy, notwithstanding the adverse verdicts of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Pennsylvania. The Times says: Prohibition is defeated in Pennsylvania on the issue of ensraftine it info the fundamental law of the state, but there is no probability that prohibition eflbrt will be in, any degree relaxed because thia particular movement is certain to fail. On the contrary, it 'need not surprise any to see increased enertry and enthusiasm in the prohibition ranks. They are not dealing with the issue . as a mere shifting expedient, as the politician have dealt with it. They believe in ' it; they' accept its battle as a sacred duty; they have no thought of surrendering the cause on one or even on a dozen defeats, and they will charge in solid column on the lSth of June in the face of certain disaster, and will be ready to re-form their lines and renew the charge whenever the cause ehall be immediately or remotely involved. The support of prohibition comes from sincere eonviction, and, like the anti-slavery battle of old that beiran with cranks and defeat and ended with statnicn and success, the prohibition conflict is likely to gather new energy and new strength by defeat. We believe the predictions of the Time will be verified. The prohibitionists will keep up their fight, although defeat after defeat is encountered. But they will never tucceed in imposing their policy upon any considerable number of states. The best way to render their agitation harmless is to faithfully enforce all existing laws for the regulation of the liquor traffic, and to strengthen these laws whenever and wherever practicable in such a way as to afford the greatest protection to society without trenching in the least upon the individual rights of the citizen. If men who have their means invested in the liquor traffic could be made to see the wisdom of such a policy they would soon detach from the support of prohibition the great body of public sentiment which has made it formidable. It is the liquor - extremists the saloon fanatics (for there arc fanatics on both sides) who have, by their unreasoning opposition to just and moderate measures for the regulation and restraint of the liquor traffic, given to the prohibition movement the bulk of its strength. When the liquor interest everywhere Ehows a disposition to be content with the same rights and privileges it enjoys in other countries, the prohibition movement will very quickly go to pieces.

A Very Bad Appointment. The appointment of Robert P. Porter to be superintendent of the census is one of the very worst yet made by President Harrison, and nothing more severe could be said of it. Porter has dabbled somewhat in statistics, but only for the purpose of distorting them in the interest of the monopolies which hire him by the year, and which eustaln his paper, the New York Vf., as an agency for misleading the working people. He is well described by the New York Evening I'ot as "a renegade Englishman, a renegade free trader, a renegade member of the tariff commission of 1KS2-3, and a man of indifferent repute in other respects. The contrast between him and Gen. Francis A. Walker, superintendent of the tenth census, is," continues the Enning Port, "so glaring in every way that the two would never be mentioned in th same breath by any person of scientific training or possessing technical knowledge of the work that the census involves." Mr. Porter was appointed, as the Philadelphia Timrs remarks, on "the principle that public office is a private reward." The place was given to him (1) because he could be depended upon to juggle the census returns in the interest of the tariff rings, and (2) as compensation for campaign services. The public interests were entirely lost sight of in making the appointment. It is pointed out that Mr. Carroll I). Wright, chief of the bureau of labor, was pre-eminently the person for this responsible position. Ha established, and ior

Beveral years conducted, the Massachusetts bureau of labor statistics, and the reports of that bureau are of the very highest authority. Although a republican, President Cleveland made him chief of the national labor bureau, for which position he was urged by the labor oreanizations of the country, lie is a protectionist, but he is also a conscientious and efficient man, who is incapable of doctorinz facts to support his pet theories. It is not hard to guess why Mr. Wright was not chosen. The census of 1S90 is discredited in advanced, by the appointment of Mr. Porter as its superintendent. Hard on Republican Office-Brokers. The Philadelphia Isdqer, which supported Harrison for president, says: It has been discovered since the inauguration of President Harrison that President Cleveland was a rood deal of a civil service reformer. For four year3 the charge was continuously made that he was daily engaged in sweeping from their places old, efficient, ex?erienctd and faithful republican oflice holders or no other reason than that their posts were wanted as rewards for democratic politician. Lonij before the close of Mr. Cleveland's administration it was (riven out. as if it were an indisputable truth, that the sweep had been thorough. that throughout the departments of the national capital there were not enough republican officials holding over to make a corporal's guard. The statement was made bo frequently, with such bold asseverations of its absolute correctness, as to be generally accepted as true, and jrreat was the disappointment which it excited in the minds of Mr. Cleveland's countrymen who had remembered his civil service reform pledges. Jiow, however, when the fabrication can be of no further use to create resentment and prejudice against Mr. Cleveland, it is frankly declared to have been a pure invention of the enemy an invention most conspicuously inexact. The Washington correspondent of the Philadelphia rress, the principal republican organ of Pennsylvania, quotes Gen. Bingham, a republican congressman from that state, as saying, in reply to an inquiry regarding the present unexampled pressure for office: This is due to the fact that it is generally believed that the last administration made a clean sweep in the departments, and that there are a great many places to fill. .Now, this is not the fact. A lan;e proportion of those holding office in the departments were there when President Akthi k went out of office. The same correspondent shows that, in the treasury department, for instance, of those who receive salaries of $1,000 or more, and who do not hold presidential offices, or are not embraced in the classified service, there were, on the day of President Harrison's inauguration, sixty-five republicans receiving salaries to the aggregate amount of $152,800, and 6ixty-six democrats receiving salaries to the aggregate amount of $143,000. Further, it appears that in the other classes of offices the republicans that President Cleveland found in office when he was inaugurated were treated with like favorable discrimination, some of them being promoted for their efficiency and fidelity. The same correspondent adds: "'The devil,' thereby meaning Mr. Cleveland, 'should be given his due,' in the words of the old proverb, and it is worth while for otfice-scckers to look over these changes in the treasury department. They uill find that thrre are conta rat inly few democrat holding goo'l oßiecs." Which moves the ledger to remark: What the truth at this late day determines is that President Cleveland was a much better civil service reformer than he received credit for being, and that the more curiously and carefully his administration is considered, in every respect, the more honorable and useful it appears. The Philadelphia Evening Telegraph, a republican newspaper with a habit of telling the truth, says: It is evident that a trood many surprises are in store for the irmy of place-seekers under the new national administration. The public mind is very forgetful, and most people now overlook the fact that four years ago one (iEOVEii Cleveland set himself like a rock against the furioi?3 tide that threatened to clean ont every federal office in the country within niaety days. Further, the president resolutely maintained this attitude during the whole time he occupied the executive chair. He never once let down the bars and invited the crowd to come in and help themselvesMany of the leading officers in the service were not disturbed, the great army of clerks in the departments remained at their desks, while some of the chief appointees, like Postmasters Pearson of New York, and Corse of Boston, persistently refused to ullow their oitices to be turned inside out. And now the discovery is made that very many of the mout desirable consulates are still filled by appointees of former republican administrations. All this revelation shows the difference between the fictitious stories emanating from campaign bureaus ai.d the facts as told by the ofiicial records. The simple truth is, President Harrison will have hard work to eclipse the real record of his predecessor for fidelity to pmctical civil service reform. A flood of partisan misrepresentation swept over the country six months atro; the truth is now coming out, to the ureat discomfiture of very many men who were the most industrious in circulating political falsehood. The victims of the campaign boomerang will strew the land from Cape Cod to .an Diego. President Cleveland was harshly criticized during his administration by many democrats because of his fidelity to his civil service reform pledges. These same democrats will doubtless admit now that, regardless of the merits or demerits of the civil service reform theory, the precedents established by President Cleveland make it impossible for Iiis successor, without covering his administration with dissrrace, to sweep the democrats out of the departments and other branches of the public service. The office-seekers and office-brokers of the republican party are beginning to perceive this, and they find it very embarrassing. Democrats who felt that it was an outrage, after twentyfour years of virtual ostracism from the government service, that so many of their opponents should be kept in place to the exclusion of democrats, have at least the satisfaction now of knowing that the republican administration does not dare to make wholesale removals of democrats in the departments in order to find places for republicans. If a good many republicans were retained by President Cleveland, in the government service, his successor will find it necessary to retain a good many democrats or expose himself to popular contempt, and thus accounts are in a fair way to be partially balanced, at least.

The Ijoan Act. The supreme court, the full bench concurring, holds the loan act constitutional. We think the decision will be a eurpriso to the majority of the lawyers of the state, among wbotn the anticipation of an opposite decision was quite general. The immediate effect of the decision will be to relieve the state officers and the institutions from an embarrassing predicament, but its ultimate results, we fear, will not lo so agreeable. We ehall not question its soundness, but we feel constrained to say that if tho constitution does not prohibit the borrowing of money by the legislature to meet appropriations made for carryiDg on tho etato govern-

ment, it ought to be so amended, if possible, as to do so. The only safe rule for states, as for individuals, is to pay as they go. The present legislature ought to have increased the tax levy to meet the increased expenses of the state for new institutions and other improvements. In failing to do so, it followed a republican precedent that would have been more honored in the breach than in the observance. But as to the phraseology of the act, it was the same as that of previous loan acts which had never been questioned, and in the lieht of the decision of the supreme court the accusations of carelessness, ignorance and blundering brought against the legislature by the Journal and other sheets because of the wording of the loan act become quite absurd, the legislature waa not ignorant nor careless in this business; it is censurable only for its failure to "take the bull by the horns" and increase ths tax levy in order to meet extraordinary appropriations whose propriety was universally conceded. It is true that such action would have been made the pretext for violent denunciations of the legislature and the democratic party by the republican press ; but being right, it would have justified itself to the people. The Insane Hospital. The new trustees of the insane hospital assumed charge of that institution Friday. They enter upon the discharge of their duties with the full confidence of the community, and in a spirit that gives assurance of a clean and efficient administration of their very important trust Dr. Galbraith, who has been superin tendent of the hospital tor the past two years, notified the new trustees yesterday that' he would resign his position at an early day. The board last evening advised Dr. Charles E. Wright of this city that he would be chosen superintendent upon the taking effect of Dr. Galukaith's resignation. Dr. Wright agreed to accept the position. His selection will give universal satisfaction. As a physician he stands in the very first rank of his profession; his integrity as a man is beyond cavil ; and his democracy is of the genuine type. We congratulate the board upon the wisdom of its choice, and we congratulate the people of Indiana upon their good fortune in securing the services of Dr. Wright in this important capacity. Dr. G albraith, the retiring superintendent, is a gentleman of rare professional attainments, and there is no reason to doubt that if he had not been handicapped in the choice of his subordinates, and in other respects by tho old board, his administration would have been entirely satisfactory. His integrity no one questions, and his f-kill as a physician is conceded by everybody. Dr. Wright has very properly insisted upon being allowed full authority in the selection and removal of all employes at the hospital when he becomes superintendent, and the new board has cheerfully assented to this arrangement. The fact is that in no other way can a successful management of any public institution, or of any business enterprise, be assured. There ,tust be a head a controlling spirit in every undertaking, whatever its character. Power and responsibility should always go together. The new regime at the hospital begins well. There is every reason to believe that the institution, under the new management, will fulfill its mission better than ever before. The Treasury Surplus. The readers of The Sentinel of course remember the vicious attacks made upon President Cleveland and Secy. FuRf hild last fall by Mr. Blaine and Mr. Harrison for depositing a part of the treasury surplus in national banks throughout tho country. Mr. Blaine even went o far as to charge that, in making these deposit :, banks were favored which were controlled by members of the national democratic committer, or by large contributors to the democratic campaign fund a charge which was no sooner made than it was completely refuted. The Indianapolis Journal also, a day or two after Blaine had been here in conference with Gen. Harrison, printed a villainous "leader," supposed to have been inspired, intimating that President Cleveland was profiting, corruptly, by the placing of these funds. The Sentinel at the time showed that these insinuations were utterly w ithout foundation; that no favors were shown to anybody in the placing of the deposits; and that the policy of the administration in this matter was a choice of the least of three evils. The Sentinel also predicted that if Harrison was elected he would not change this policy, because he would not dare to. The prediction is fulfilled. Harrison has been president about eight weeks, and the dejosits of public funds in the national banks are larger than when he was inaugurated; larger, too, than when he and Blaine and the inspired organ were attacking the president and Secy. FAiRCnii.D last fall. Furthermore, Washington telegrams to republican newspaners say that "Secy. Wisdom will not make any radical change in the system of national bank deposits adopted by his predecessor." How strikingly this illustrates the dishonesty and demagogism of the great campaign for Harrison, Morton and protection to home industry ! A Specimen Republican Statesman. The New York World sent a member of its staff to Rutland, Vt., to find out what manner of a man IiEijrj ield Proctor, the new secretary of war, is. He finds that Proctor i.s the wealthiest man in Vermont; that he has made all his money in fourteen years; that he was originally a lawyer, which led to his appointment in 1S75 as receiver of Meyers & Dorr, who then ran the Sunderland Falls quarries, and, bavins: had a disagreement, had their affairs wound up in the courts; that when the receivership ended Proctor was found to be the owner of the quarries; that the protective taritT gave him a chance to operate them w ith immense profits, which he improved to the utmost; that by paying the lowest possible wages, running "pluck me" stores where two prices were charged for everything, and compelling his employes to live in his tenements at fancy rentals, he kept them all so poor that they were never able to leave his service, lest starvation overtake them beioro they could get out of town ; that he organised a Li taai blu truit which, however,

expired by limitation last year; and that, as matters stand he comes pretty nearly owning Vermont, and is in a fair way to get the whole state before he dies. This enterprising statesman went to the Chicago convention last June at the head of the Vermont delegation ; and on every ballot, from the first to the last, when his state was called he responded "Vermont casts her eight votes for Benjamin Harrison of Indiana." During the campaign he gave the national republican committee a great big check. And now he is secretary of war. It is thus that "statesmen" are evolved in this republic in these latter days. The Farmers and Protection. The Chicago Tribune, a republican organ which tells the truth about the tariff between campaigns says, with great force, to the farmers who are now organizing to fight the twine trust: Why is it that in all their indignation the farmers have nothing to say about the tariff duty on sisal and manilla hemp? These are the materials used in the manufacture of binder twine, and as they are not produced in this country the duty is unquestionably added to the cost. Then, too, it is solely because of the tarriff barrier in the way of free importation that the trust is able to corner the market and arbitrarily fix prices. If binder twine materials were on the free list competition would How in from abroad without restraint, and stop any attempt of home monopolists to force prices above a fair leveL The present tariff adds 21 per cent, to the cost of manilla hemp and 14 to sisal grass. Since these materials are not and cannot be produced in the United States, a duty on them cannot possibly protect any home interest, unless the twine trust is thought to belong to that class. It certainly gets protection from the duty, but no one else possibly can. Tho duty does not protect any American producing or manufacturing industry, but only the monopolists who corner the market and levy on the farmers. Why don't the latter demand its repeal, and so secure complete, certain and lasting relief from the twine trust monopoly? The great majority of the farmers of the Northwest voted last November in favor of the twine and all other trusts. They are not entitled to much sympathy now that the twine trust is making it warm for them. But it is too bad that the farmers who had sense enough to vote against the trusts should have to suffer for their folly. The Mills bill, it should not be forgotten, put binding twine on the free list, and if it had become a law there would have been no twine trust.

The more that Durham-Davenport matter is stirred up, the worse it smells. Judge Durham resigned as comptroller of the trea-ury, but the resignation was not accepted. It was held over his head, and meantime Atty.-Gen. Miller tried to get him to approve Davenport's ecandalous bill for $03,000 for "election expenses" in New York city. Tho expenses were, of course, incurred in the interest of the republican ticket, and the Harrison-Miller theory seemed to be that Judge Durham would approve the account in the hope that by so doing he would be able to hold on to his position. But Judge Durham was not the kind of a man H arrison and Miller took him to le. He refused to approve the bill, and his resignation was promptly accepted by Secy. Windom. The attorney-general evidently thought it would be a grand ßtroke to get the approval of a democratic comptroller to this outrageous account, and so it would have been, from the boodle standpoint. Of course the steal will be carried out, but it will have to be under strictly republican auspices. As for Judge DrRUAM, he would rather be right than comptroller. Do nn Piatt tells how John Sherman got into the senate the first time: I made one of the Ohio legislature in which was decided the contest between the Hon. Sherman and den. Horert E. Schenck. I had been returned from Logan county as a Schenck member. I found on my arrival at Columbus that the Schenck men had a decided majority. Hen. Schenck was regarded by the people not only as the fitter man, but as a gallant soldier who had come out of the war crippled for Iii. All went merry as a marriage bell until the Hon. John appeared on the field, accompanied by his confidential and confidence man, Kl'SH Sloan, and our majority melted away. Ul'SH told me long afterward that Sherman's little campaign cost $.".0,000, and that $00,i00 was paid by J ay Cooke & Co. in the three days preceding the caucus. Gen. Schenck holds to this day proof of how this corruption fund was used. Senator Martin, forexamole, madeofters for a moneyed consideration to Gen. Schexck, and being snubbed by that eminent gentleman went over to Sherman. Martin held a resposible position in the treasury at Washington for years after. At the date of this transaction the purchase of seats in the senate was not so common ns now. Sherman was a pioneer and Schenck's friends hesitated about uncovering the corruption. John Sherman, you know, represents the "better element" of the republican party. Senator Stew vht of Nevada, one of the republican leaders in the senate, says "civil service is a fraud," that "rotation is a natural law, and there must be a rotation and change in office if the present form of government is to be preserved," and that "our presidents should be elected every two years and then made eligible for another term." As the views of a man who represents a rotten borough in the U. S. senate by virtue of a purchase at public auction, Mr. Stewart's opinions are not important. But he is to be admired for his frankness and candor. Mr. Stewart believes "civil service is u fraud," and says bo; President Harrison believes the same thing and acts accordingly, all the while protesting that he is enamored of civil service reform. It is the hypocrisy of the president that is disgusting. Oct of a few more than two hundred democrats who were employed in the League Island navy yard a month ago, only about thirty remain. The others have been removed and their places given to republican "hustlers." Under the democratic reign about three hundred men were considered sufficient to perform all the work required. "It is common talk among the old employes," cays the New York Herald, "that before summer the force in the navy yard will be at least 2,000 strong." And there are people who supported Harrison "in the interest of civil service reform!" Under Cleveland's administration all the pension examining boards were composed of two democrats and one republican. Harrison is filling the boards up with republicans exclusively. Only one of many things going to show that he is the smallest and narrowest partisan that ever got to the white house. Gov. Hovev seems to have been guilty of a contemptible breach of faith in refusing to issue commissions to the trustees of the deaf and dumb, and the. blind asylums, notwithstanding the decision in the Carson case. It was agreed that the result of this caeo ehould be accepted by both

.UNEOUALED For House. Barn. and all out-buildinxre. Anybody can. put it on. PRICE LOW. Write f"r Smmtl nd Koolr. 43 8. Fennsvlfuri St. ircniANA PAINT &. ROOFING CO. ITOW tri Fare ratlin tri Int. ttAn IaiV. .fTw. . 1 1 n . itculars free if you mention this paper. IX PIAS A r sides as conclusive as to the three boards, but our Napoleonic governor squarely repudiated the agreement when the Careon decision went against him. The governor of Indiana ought to be a man of his word. In an interview printed in the Detroit Free I'resn, the Hon. E. Lamh of Sydney, New South Wales, for many years prominent in public aflairs in Australia, aid of the Australian voting system: "We find it to be most satisfactory in its results. Bribery and political c orruption are practically unknown with us." And he added : The voting is nndtr cover. When a citizen arrives to deposit his ballot he is admitted to a room, the only occupants of which are the officers in charge, and one or two friends of ench candidate to see that fair play prevails. The names of all the candidates are printed upon a single ticket, the voter being required to detonate those for whom he desires to vote by openly markin? them after he enters the room. He then folds the ticket himself and places it in the box. Tampering with the tickets is an utter impossibility. The ticket all of them being numbered is obtained from a sworn officer after entering the room. There can be no peddl injf, no confusion. Everything in connection with the matter is conducted in a straightforward, busines-like manner. The system has been thoroughly successful in Australia. It is greatly to be hoped that the Australian system will produce the like results in Indiana. When the time comes that we in Indiana can truthfully say "bribery and political corruption are practically unknown with us," there will be a new source of pride in proclaiming one self a "Hoosier." Some of the mugwump papers of the East are discussing I.rcii s B. Swikt and William Drm.EY Fot i.ki: in connection with the civil service commission. We violate no confidence in assuring the e pflpers that neither Mr. Swikt nor Mr. Foulke will be put on the commission. Mr. Swift has been speaking quite plainly in his Civil fieri ire (Chronicle about the president's surrender to the spoilsmen, and that shuts him out. Mr. Foulke is a crank, who said in an address at Baltimore on tho 23d of February that "when onco Mr. Harrison's word is out, the last jot and tittle will be performed. When he tells us that fitness will be the test and that he will advance the reform we may feel sure that worthy men will fill tiio offices and that the reform will move ahead." The "reform' has been going backw ard ever since March 4 at a terrific gait, but Mr. Foci.ke has said nothing. Still, as a professional reformer, he might prove a troublesome customer on the commission, and the president will not appoint him. From present indications, indeed, he intends to leave the commission permanently in its existing condition of "innocuous desuetude." Some years ago Sweden substituted a high tariff for a low tariff. The results have not been satisfactory. The Hon. Rcfcs Magee, late minister to Sweden, reports that the cost of living has greatly increased, while there has been no corresponding increase in the rate of wages or the demand for labor. The only persons who have derived any benefit from the change of policy are the big manufacturers. Protection always works the same way it takes from the poor and gives to the rich. It is recalled that when Benjamin Harrison was in the senate he expressed the hope that we would never have a president who w ould take middle ground on the civil service question. He wanted in the white house either an out and out reformer or one who would take that "other frank and bold, if brutal method, of turning men and women out simply for political opinions." When Harrison used the latter expression, he cviden had himself in mind. Jcdce Woods is a strong protectionist. He believes in protecting the republican honte industries of bribery, perjury and illegal voting. A Tariff For Revenue Only. Hvausville Gmrkr. As long as the people of this country prefer protective robbery they will keep the republican party in power because that party Unholds protection as the corner-stone of its creed. The democratic party is committed to the opposite policy of a taritt which shall produce revenues Kuflicient for the needs of the government without affording subsidies to monopolies. A majority of 1h),o0o of the people of the United States and of more than a million of the white people approved the democratic policy in the last presidential election. The revolt of the farmers against the binding twine trust will undoubtedly result in a democratic tidal wave in the western aud northwestern states two years hence, to be followed in iS!2 by the restoration of the tariff-reform democracy to power in the national povernrnent. But whether our victory is to come so soon, or is it to be still further postponed, the democratic party will continue to fight for a tariff for revenue only until the people are ready for it. A democratic protectionist is a republican, in fact, just as a tariff-reform republican is a democrat in fact, and both will be . forced to take their rightful places by the new party alignments which the issue 60 clearly joined must compel. Jlovry "A Ctinmp." Washington Spe ial.l Gov. Hovey of Indiana, who is on his way to the centennial, called on the president and had a long talk. The governor says he thinks the president is doing well to make haste slowly, and sees no reason why the office-seekers should howl because their wants are not all instantaneously attended to. He also expresses anxiety that the president shall be careful of his health, and says he feels sure Mr. Harrison is avoiding overwork. Gov. Hovey was looked upon as a man of ability, but since he has got to be Governor of Indiana he talks something like a "chump." It is very easy for Gov. Hovey. who is nugly fixed for four years himself, and who has no responsibility or annoyance in connection with the distribution of the presidential patronage, to speak disparagingly of other republicans who want in. losey Comity on Top. Alta California. Indiana is slowly risin? like a flood around the office-seekers from other states and drowning them out. Siie has secured a foreicrn mission, a cabinet place, the best consul-geoeral-hip in the list, and now pets treasurer of the United States. 1'osey county is on top and a-whoopin'. Ke-mblio.m Cnndor. B'.ooiniuRton Telephon' rep. Tho Telephone hopes that Mr. Chambers, the new republican U. S. attorney for Indiana, will dismiss the lat one of the election indictments now pending. Kd Maranda, a brakeuian on the Jeffersonville, Madison & Indianapolis railroad, fell under the wheels of a car at Kdinburg Thursday nicht and had one of his arms run over near the shoulder.

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chfRplj In rwh of all k'nds. or 1t new roof. PsrAIXT AND UOOFINÜ CO., Indianipoli, Ind. FLEECING THE COAL MINERS. Why Should Thay Ite the Only Ones to SnflTer From Unfavorable Competition ? To the EniToa Sir: The reiners and operators are made to carry it all, while the railways hold to their rates as carriers of coal. This is the appearanc of the Mtuation of this section's most vital interest just now. That there is cause for an adjustment of prices in tlie coal trade, forced by the aggrcssioa of natural gaä and coal oil, there is no doubt, but must this settlement of wages and coal be always borne by the operators and miners, fir.-t, lr.t and all the t'tim, and the railroads keep up their usual taritt? It i well known that the coal carriers are all interested, "more or le," in the collieries of this district, and that in the many changes in co6t of minim; the operators and miners bor the brunt of it all. The C. fc I. C. railway company and the D. fc K. I. rai'road under one combination and management, and who also htve a controlling interest in the syndicate of Brazil, look on the strike with perfect indifference, but their emissaries are here in force and unre the reduction of the miners' wares. These coal roads I have carried coal to Chicago from the Brazil j district to certain interests there for 7.i cents i per ton, while all shippers outside of that J special interest were compelled arbitrarily to I'ny i-i per ivn ; ami mis discrimination wen I on for years during lsj, Is?" and before and after the interstate commerce law took eSect. If it paid the carrier at 75 cents per ton, whv charce the 1? This dirterence divided between the operators and miners would in a great measure revive the present embarrassment, and perhaps destroy strikes and bad feelings, and brinz competition nearer to the incursions that Lave been made by natural gas and coal oil in coal consuming fields. It is truly the underlying principle now with combines that the first struck is the laborer. If any economical reductions are to be made, it is the poorest laborers who first sutler; and that principle is the foundation of lalor coinbints which are looked upon as disorderly societio, and the M holc power of the state is brought out to defend the cormor.mt who gfi,i tho people to lawlessness through their oppressive measures. The soMtluru section of the county i thrifty ami booming. It in the imrthern section that now stii?Vrs, and its condition is due l inrely to the railroad taril!'s and tue discrimination process. IJ. ti. Terre Haute, April 25. Robert 1. I'orter'a Appoiutment. X. Y. Evening IVt How great this tnisfortume is can be iafcrre J from the fact that all discussions of an economi- ' cal character, all which have to do with tha mate rial well-being of the nation, are based upon the decennial census. Originally the census was merely an enumeration of the people as a basis of political representation. It has grown to be the s'atistieal hoc k of the uation'n industries, relijion, education, taxation, and social organization ui general, it is the universal almat'HC mid encyclopedia to which our own people and foreigners turn as to the au thority of last resort, either to decide questions of dispute, or tr sustain theories, or to pair Iiht in new investigations of social and industrial phenomena. To throw do.ibt upon studi a work before it is begun, to discredit it in tb minds of thosr who are most competent to extract the truth from cer.sns-tables, and commend it to less discerning readers, is a serious misfortune, and one which the senate ought not to give its sanction to. There are protectionists in plenty who can take charge of thia work without putting a bad stamp on it in the beginning. Give ns McKinley, or Butterworth, or anybody, rather than a turn-coat and apolitical adventurer. Fraud In Registration. New Albany Ledger. Chicago voters complain loudly of their registration law. 'With proper flection laws regi tration Is useless. In a majority of cities wher it Is in vogue it is used as an elemrut to facilitate fraud in elections, as in New York, Phil delphia and other cities. A Soldier of Fortune. X. Y. EvTDin Post. The superintendent of the census holds quasi-judicial position, and it is of the first importance that he should have gained a reputation for judicial qualities of mind and charater. Mr. Porter's reputation is that simply ot a soldier of fortune. Ilorsfonl's Acid 1'hcspliate MAKES AX IXVIGORATIXO pr.IXK With water and sugar only. Delicious. Our columns carry the advertisement of product called "Kxpanded Metal," which on account of the uuique mode of manufacture is attracting a great deal of attention. It is produced from heavy sheet steel in machinery v hieb first cuts it in alternate slits, and thea pushes it out into diamond shaped meslits, resembling woven wire in shape but vastly stronger end more riid. With its use a fenc can be made three feet high in panel rieht fet long, combining great strength with a very handsome appearance. Made in difN-reot sire meshes it is equally adapted for window and skylight guards, tree boxes, trellises, door mats, etc. It enables every carpenter to be his own wire worker, for with a stock of metal in sheet he is equal to any job likely to come up. We advise readers to tend for a price list. When Baby sra si-1c, w her CaoHa, When abe waa a Ctuld, aho cried for Ccfevia, VTheo she became Iff las, she clung to CasVoria Vbae ab bad C1.iV.roa. ab far tUem CMtotis To Iilodge the F,neruy, When it takes the form of d!seae of the kidneys or Madier, is a task well Eigh iiiipoeit1 of accomplishment. Renal and recieml maladies are more obstinate than any others. Counteract, therefore, the earliest indications ol inactifity of the many organs with Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, which powsse, amoup other excellent qualities, those of an efficient diuretic. The degree of stimulation apparent from its use reaches, but never goes beyond the bounds of safety. It inTiortes always, never irritates. Trent's disease, diabetes, catarrh of the bladder, are diseases successfully combated la tbetr inciplency with this benirn medical Btiniu'ant and tonic TSo- ! sides reinforcin? aed regulating the kidneys and bladder, the bitters is a specific for fever and ague, constipation and dyspeitia. (gcrifg Ö3 CcmcÖ experience through the land the traffick in cheap Organs must eftsoons die. The ' froward dealer will die hard e'en as he will lie hard. Naught can affright his zeal. He doth to one protest his Organ is as good as Estey but the customer, nothing lacking in wisdom, straightway assureth him he is not purchasing pretests; 'tis only an Organ that he seeks. The wary dealer doth e'en bestow himself away. 'Tis madness to compare. Tlie world knoweth there is no Organ like to an Estey from Urattleboro, Yt.