Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 September 1889 — Page 4

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER lö. 188D.

INDIANA STATE SENTINEL

(Littered at the I'ostotnce at IndlanapoM u second claas natter.) TEUMS l'KR YKARi Fing copy (Invariably in A4aoc.).....81 OO Wf ak de mocrats to hear In mind anl select their tin state paper when they come to t ike subscriptions and make up cIiiIm. Agents making up club send for an Information desired. Addess THE IN LIANA 10 LH SKNTINEL Indiar apolls, ind. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18. IIarrion, TAnner and the 'Vets.' The St. Louis Republic, which has made a vigorous and effective war upon Tanner and Tannerism, says of the late commissioner: Now that he has bee n dislodged, and, consequently, is no longer responsible for the infamies involved in the raid on the treasury, it is but just to Corporal Tanner to say that he waa less a malefactor than a dupe and victim. Ilia primary mistake wan in taking seriously the republican pledges made before the election in order to pain the "soldier vote." His claim that be has been doing only what Mr. IIaHRIHOS promised while a candidate, was, no doubt, made in sincerity arid Is unquestionably, true. Not only did Mr. Harrison make the pledges which Commissioner Tanner thoight himself bound to fulfill, but there is not the slightest reason to believe that, as president, he lias at any time disapproved of TANNKR'H "liberal policy," until lie win) ma.le to percieve that in squandering the surplus in order to hold the "soldier rote," be was rnnning the risk ot alienating that lare number of "civilians" who are not yet quite prepared to surrender the treasury and the taxing power of the government to the organized rapacity of the (i. A. 1U Here is the whole philosophy of the situnticn in n nutshell. It is the lepitiruato and inevitable sequel of the campaign of fraud and false pretenses made by the republican party last year. The party made a ppecial effort to capture the Holdier vote, and, in order to secure it, made the most extravagant promifCM promises which II. IIkkion and the other leaders of tho party knew could not be carried out without bankrupting the national treasury, impairing the public credit, crippling the buwncM inU rtPls of the countr',and precipitating social disorganization and financial chaos throughout the body politic. In the face of payments to pensioners azureratine th" rnormous rum of S7'., 1, 1 4.:?7 duringthe tiseal year then just ended,and of an increase in the number of names on the pension-roll during tho tame period of 4,55 the republican "spellbinders" and newspaper organs denounced the democratic party and the administration of 1'resident Cleveland as hostile to .the "Union Foluiers. It. Harrison, in an implied condemnation of Mr. Cleveland for his efforts to keep the pension-roll a roll of honor by preventing, frauds, deadbeats, bounty-jumpers, denerters, malingerers, shirks, cowards and camp-followers from gi ttin their names inscribed upon it, declared that he was not in favor of using an apothecary's scale in meting out rewards to the men who saved the T'nion. The cry was taken up all along the line. "Tensions for everybody" who woro the blue alternated with "Steady work and high waires for labor" and "Down with Itritish free trade" as the republican shibboleth. The wealthy pension sharks of Washington who divide their energies between plucking the old soldiers and plundering the treasury, rallied to the charge, under the leadership of tho notorious Lemon and "Blocks of Five" Dcdeey. A "house-to-house canvass" was made of the veterans end all were promised a wheok at the surplus should Harrison be tdected. Those already drawing pensions were promised an increase; those who had been unable to get on the rolls were assured that Harrison would have their names put down directly after he reached the white house; arrears, reratings, service pensions and increased pensions for widows and orphans were pledged as glibly as if the money to nay them grew on lushes, instead of being taken out of the earnings of the producers of the country. To redeem all these promises would require many hundreds of millions of dollars every year; and Harrison" and his campaign managers had no more intention of redeeming them than they had of paying the national tiebt out of their own pockets. Tanneu, however, seems to have supposed that these promises were made to be kept, and that they could be kept. In his simplicity and ignorance he Fcemed to have an idea that the treasury contained an inexhaustible store of money, and that all that was necessary to be done was to f.tten the vaults and tell the . A. Ii. boys b help themselves. He was actively on the ftump throughout the canvass teüing the vet of the glorious good tiine9 that were coming when the wicked traitor Cleveland stepped out of the white house, aud the liberal patriot Harrison stepped in. The vets enough of them todeterminetheres. lit swallowed the bait. They voted Harrison into the white house with the understanding that they were to have the run of tho treasury. When the new president made Tanner commissioner of pensions, they felt that .he good time coining, so long hoped for tnd prayed for.was finally at hand. Tanner tarted in with a will to carry out the campaign promises. He proceeded at once to have all the boys in the pension bureau rerated, and after dividing ?02,00 among them began on tho outsiders. The wealthy Senator Manderson of Nebraska came iirst. It didn't take more than a minute to rerate him and Hign a check for $4.000 to his order. A few ether hiirh-toned and wealthy patriots were taken care of in like manner, and just as Tanner was about to give the "boys in the trenches" the privates and non-conimissioned officers their turn, the ax fell, Tanner's head dropped into the basket, and the "vets" found that they were "in the soup." No wonder they are disgusted mad, swearing mad rowing vengeance upon It. Harrison and all his tribe, and proclaiming that they will put Tanner himself into the white house in If. 01!. They are the rict'mn of misplaced confidence. Their rotes were gotten from them under false pretenses. Like the farmers who voted for "Harrison and a home market" and the workingmen who votod f or "IIa krison and high wages," they have been duped shamelessly duped. The extravagant promises made them last fall by the republicans will never be carried out by any party. A hundred millions a year is about the limit of what the American people feel that they can afford to pay or that they ought to pay in pensions. The demagogues were lying to the old soldiers last year when they led them to erpect much more than this. Eu t the old soldiers still have the

ballot, and if they cannot use it to get more pensions, they can employ it very effectively in punishing the knaves who have traded so shamelessly upon their credulity. , Kxlt Tanner. Corporal Tanner made speeches for It. Harrison and protection to home industry in this and several other states last year, lie usually began his speeches about this way: "Fellow-citizens I have lately been in Minnesota. It has a cool climate and I found that a great majority of the people were republicans. In Indiana the climate is warmer, and there are not so many republicans. It is a curious fact that republicanism nourishes in cool climates and democracy in warm ones. Tennessee has a warmer climate than Indiana and it has more democrats. Texas is warmer than Tennessee and is overwhelmingly democratic. Hell is still hotter than Texas and they are all democrats there." This profaue ribaldry was usually greeted with "ereat applause." Tanner's regular exordium was repeatedly printed in the newspapers, was generali)' commented upon, and the godly 15. Harrixov could hardly have failed to hear of it. It showed that Tanner was a foul-mouthed blackguard, unfit to associate with centlemen, and a grossly improper person to be intrusted with any odice of responsibility or power. Nevertheless, one of the tirst things It. Harrison did after he became president was to make him commissioner of pensions, although this is one of tho most imiortaiit offices under the government a good deal more so than some of the cabinet ofiices. The fellow has made a disgraceful record, -lie has brought scandal and reproach upon the administration, (ross favoritism, shameful extra vaganco and flagrant corruption have characterized his management of pension af lairs. He has shown an utter disregard of the proprieties and the decencies of his position anil a grotesque inability to comprehend tho obligations it imposes upon its incumbent. Tanner has finally gone. His resignation was sent to the president .Thursday and promptly accepted. Tanner fays that he resigns because "the differences w hich exist between the secretary of the interior and myself as to tlr policy to be pursued in tho administration of tho pension bureau have reached a stage which threatens to embarrass you to an extent which 1 feel you should not be called upon to sutler." The president, in his reply, Fays he does "not think it necessary to discuss, in this correspondence, the causes which have led to the present attitude of affairs in the pension office." Tan net, he says, has been kindly and fully advised of his views upon most of these matters. The president adds that it gives him pleasure to say that so far as he is advised Tanner's personal honesty has not been called in question, and to renew the expression of his personal good will. Tanner's resignation was not, of course, voluntary. He resigned becauso it was the only alternative to dismissal. His retirement, under the circumstances, does not, in the slightest degree, relieve the administration ot tho disgrace of hia appointment, which was made with full knowledge of his gross ignorance and utter incapacity. It does not mitigate, in the least, the scandal of the revolting frauds, or of the open and ehainelesg prostitution of the machinery of the pension bureau to the service of Di di.ev, Lemon and other disreputable pension brokers. I!. Harrison appointed Tanner with his eyes wide open; ho retained him in office long after his reckless and criminal methods of administration had been exposed to Iho country; and ho finally dismissed him for that's what the enforced resignation amounts to only when popular indignation at his conduct had reached such a pitch that his further retention was simply impossible. The ftigma of Tannerism will cling to the administration until the end, although Tanner hirneelf has been sacrificed.

'The Fatal Gift of Wit." The death of S. S. Cox suggests to the filnhr-Democrat some apt rellections upon the "fatal gift of wit" The (.-A remarks that "by one of those strange paradoxes which present themselves from time to time to illustrate the feebleness of human vision and the blindness of human judgment, the qualities which made Mr. Cox personally popular with the leaders and masses of all parties were the very qualities which barred for him tho path to political promotion." Mr. Cox had long aspired to the speakership of the house. He was respected, honored and ' admired by hia own party, and was a favorite with all. When the democrats regained control of the house, in IN?-"), Mr. Cox by length of service, purity of character, and solid abilities as n statesman, was richly entitled to the highest honor in their gift, ltut he was set aside for Mr. Kerr; a year later Mr. Randall was preferred to him, and again in ISs;;, Mr. Carlisle was chosen in preference to him. The great ability and worth of all these gentlemen are universally conceded ; but Mr. Cox was . tlie superior of any of them in scholarship, experience in public affairs and knowledge of the science of government, ltut, as the GU, be-Democrat says, "he was handicapped in the race for public preferment by the possession of the rare combination of intellectual faculties and imagination whose manifestations are variously called humor and wit." The world voted him shallow and frivolous, and men of less ability were placed ahead of him in the race for political honors. And yet, "although life appealed to him in its sunnier expressions, his record of more than a quarter of a century of active and honorable political work proved that he was at least as sensible as any of his colleagues to its graver and more serious aspects. Indeed, the vividness of imagination and exuberance of fancy which he possessed gave him, from the very necessities of the case, an insight into questions and a grasp of the more complex and intricate phases of problems which men less happily constituted never hope to attain." How grievously the world oft misjudges its greatest men ! Secy. Wisdom explains that the increase in the public debt during July and August was only apparent. The impression that the debt had actually increased, he says, "arose doubtless from the peculiar form of the monthly statement of the public debt issued by this department, in

which the amount of the debt is given Mess cash in the treasury.' Ity this form any increase of the cash in the treasury shows an apparent decrease of the debt, and disbursements for any purpose other than the purchase of bonds at par value show an increase of the public debt to the amount of such disbursements." This is an attempt to deceive tho public, and not a clever one by any means. If tho government had a debt of $1,000,000,000, and had $ 1,000,000,000 of clean cash in the treasury, its assets would balance its liabilities, and it would be practically out of debt. If half of the $1,000,000,000

Lwns squandered, or stolen, or lost, it would have a - net debt of $:00,000,000. The public debt is really the amount of government obligations less the net cash in the treasury, i. e., the cash not held or appropriated for some specific purpose. The 7,000,000 "apparent" increase in the debt during .luly and August is a real increase that is to say the debt increased 57,000,000 as compared with the cash resources of the treasury. No juggHne with figures or plays upon words will rub out this ugly fact. How Tanner Was Forced Out. The manner in which the president handled the Tanner business reflects little credit upon him. It appears from the report in the republican (i'!ofc-Dentocrat, of St. Louis, that he literally tried to bribe Tanner into resigning. The Globe-Demo-cntt is Secy. Norle's home organ, and is undoubtedly well informed. According to its account, when tho president found that he was forced to chooso between Xom.E and Tanner, he authorized Senator Hiscock to offer Tanneu the marshalship of the eastern district of New York as an inducement to resign. Tanner laid tho proposition before his wife, and that lady, with a sense of propriety infinitely to her credit, "resented it in the most spirited manner." Thereupon Tanner "destroyed the resignation he had prepared." Dan Ransdi:i.i., of the Slick Six, was then called in. He was sent to Tanner to offer him "thirty days leave of absence, with full pay, if he would resign before tho UUh inst., with the alternative of a dismissal." Uansdell succeeded in his mission, and Tanner accepted the terms imposed upon him. "That Mr. Tanner will be given another office there is no doubt," says the ( Hohr-Democrat. As to which the St. Louis Republic pertinently remarks: It would be well for the dignity of the presidency if this statement were incredible, but unfortunately it is not. It Is only a few weeks since when Tanner's private secretary waseiposed in conspiring with the claim agents' ring, which has DrPLKV ami Lemon at its head. The president actually bribed him to leave the department of the interior by giving him an olhce in another department. In so doing he plainly showed that, though a man might be too corrupt and unreliable for NOBLE, he was not so for Harrison. Kvery attack made upon the new text books is an attack upon the board of education. This board is composed of the leading educators of the state; the presidents of the three most important colleges, and the superintendents of schools in the three largest cities. They are men of the highest standing in the educational world, and their integrity has never been questioned except by the swindling school book trust and its newspaper hirelings. iov. Hovey is also a member of this board, and 60 is State Supt. LaFollette. The members of the board devoted ten days to a thorough examination of the lKxks composing this series. Then, by an aye and nay vote, which is of record, the loard unanimously decided that the arithmetics of this series were equal in every respect to those specified in tho law as a standard, being Kay's arithmetics, published by Van Antwerp, rRAf;o & Co. And with only one dissenting voice that of La Follette the board rendered the same verdict as to the Indiana geographies and readers. If these gentlemen are not competent to pass upon the merits of school books, we don't know where qualified judges are to be found in Indiana. And if they are not competent to do so, the educational interests of the state are certainly in poor hands. Tin: announcement of S. S. Cox's death will be received with profound sorrow all over the country. A brighter, brainier, or more brilliant man never sat in tho American congress, and a more lovable and attractive personality never was on earth. His fund of humor was Inexhaustible, and it made him a universal favorite ; but he was more than a joke-maker. He was a man of rare intellect and solid attainments. His scholarship was profound and varied. He was a broad statesman, an eloquent orator, and a charming writer. He never touched any subject that he did not adorn. He was clever in the realm of poetry and humor, but equally so in the domain of political economy and the science of government. His versatility was phenomenal, and his industry prodigious. He was always a democrat, and no man in the party had deserved better of it and of his country. He will be missed from the councils of the nation, in which he had long been such an honorable and commanding figure, as few public men of the day would be missed, and his memory will be cherished, not only as that of an honest man, a patriotic legislator and a wise statesman, but as recalling the ideal of the scholar and the gentleman in politics. The St. Louis Republic shows from the census reports that during the high tariff decade of 1S70-80 the number of factories in Missouri decreased from 11,871 to 8,502; the capital invested in manufacturing from $$0,207,000 to $72,507,000; the value of product from f20t,213,OOOto$l(iö,31S,000, and the amount of wages paid from 31.a3,000 to J4,:i00,000. Here is a partial list of factories closed during the same decade : Connecticut......... ........ Itolaware Florida (eorgls Indiana Kentucky .... uiiana Main Missouri 40 v4 - 2 . 243 641) . 60 1,04 l.or.9 ..... 3. 2 4 9 In the face of such figures as these, tho country is actually asked to believe that a war against protection is a w4r against our industries!' The school book trust is literally flooding the mails of Indiana with postal cards, circulars, etc., containing bitter and untruthful attacks upon the new text books. We have had a quantity of this scurrilous literature forwarded to us and find it to be a compound, in about equal parts, of falsehood and inanity. What, with its liberal

use of the mails and the printing press, its high priced lobby at tho legislature last winter, its heavy payments to venal newspapers, its disbursements among politicians and such school officials as were in the market, the rotten old trust must have expended a vast sum of money in Indiana during the past nine months. Then there aro the immense profits which it has lost by the displacement of its readers, geographies, copy-books and arithmetics throughout tho state to be considered! After all, it would have leen money in the pockets of the school book pirates if they had dealt honestly and fairly by the people of Indiana in times past, charging only honest prices for their publications, and making theso prices uniform throughout the state. The American Tribune, the soldiers' organ published in this city, in speaking of the Manderson pension steal, says: In the face of the aged.'decrepit and brokendown soldiers, of the hollow faces of children, whose widowed mothers strueirle for their

scanty fare, snd whose claims have been pending for years, the fact that Corporal Tanner can make up a case without any application whateverj and allow a man who is already in aflluent circumstances and drawing a salary of f.r,OOOas U. 8. senator, an additional Sd.oU, no matter how worthy, is so preposterous that it will cause a Iocs of contideuce in him by the veterans everywhere, With effrontery that would do credit to tho most hardened school book agent, the local organ of the trust remarks that tho state board of education has "never indorsed the new lnioks except in comparison with those named, in the law." When it is considered that the books named in the law aro those published by the trust, for which it has been charging the people of Indiana two and three prices fqrmany years past, the Journal's gall will be appreciated. Grand juries meet at Augusta, Mo., three times a year and indict the druggists and hotel-keepers of the town for selling liquor unlawfully. The druggists and hotel-keepers pay a fine of 100 and costs each, and continue their business at the old stands. That's the way prohibition does not prohibit in Maine. The republicans are making a boodle campaign in the new states. They boast that the have plenty of money for theso states, and for Virginia as well, and that the democrats are hhort of funds. This is probably true. If boodle will win tho new states and Virginia, tho g. o. p. will get them. Tiir attention of the monopoly press is respectfully invited to tho fact that tho great strike in free-trade England has resulted in a complete victory for the men. When the "protected" workingmen of America strike, they generally get tho worst of it. A Texas republican bought a stiff bill of goods of the Wanamaker house at I'hila delphia. Then ho applied for a postofiice. He got it. "Jiusiness is business." The only set-back the democratic state ticket of Virginia has received was when RiDDLEREitriER took the stump for it. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. I'eaper, eityr SeeV'j of an act'approred March 11, 18S!, provides that "any person who has held the office of township trustee of any township in this state two terms consecutively at the date of the next township election in April, 1S10, shall not be eligible to said oflice for the next ensuing term; ami thereafter no person shall be eligible to the office of township trustee more than four years in any period of eiiiht years." ('. V. C, Fowler, Ind.: We regret to say that there is a sood deal of truth in what the )- (Jcean says about Mr. Scott. Mr. Scott is a very able and a very wealthy man, and has been a prominent democrat Hut he has, according to all accounts, treated the Illinois coal miners very badly. His love of money seems to have gotten the belter of his democracy. Hut the democratic press does not defend his conduct, as the republican press does similar conduct by republican monopolists. J. D. Turner, Sailor Springs, 111: For prices of old coins write to the editor of the Coin Collecfort' Journal, published at 721 Broadway, New York. PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS Joaquin Millrr contemplates purchasing a yacht and leaving San Francisco for a cruise in the South seas. Charles A. Dana of the New York Sun will sail from New York the latter part of September to spend a month in Sp un. There is said to be little doubt in England that Sir Kdwin Arnold will be the next laureate. When Gen. Grant was in Japan the Japanese premier, desiring to compliment the general by telling him he was born to command, tried in English, with the result: "Mire, brave general, you va made to order." Miss Sanger, who toys with a typewriter in the interests of President Harrison, is one of the successes of the administration. It is said that she has been of more assistance to the president than any clerk in his employ. She is a rapid worker and can copy on her machine 120 letters a day. We have a reminder that slavery once existed in Pennsylvania in a notice in the Monongahela Republican of the recent death of an aged colored woman, Mr. Elizabeth Jones, whose parents as well as herself were the property of the Patterson family. She was born in Mitllin township, Allegheny county. The gradual emancipation iuw of Pennsylvania went into e.!ect in 17sA W. 1L Smith, the leader of the conservative party in the English house of commons, is extremely fond of flowers, and has a consignment sent to him from his country house, Greenlands, every morning while he is jn town. His gardens are a pretty picture, and in them and in his hot-houses he finds employment for thirty persons, while his expenditure upon this particular fancy amounts to several thousand pounds a year. One of the members of the finance committee of the world's fair and a man of prominence in New York business circles says: "Although I have been actively interested in business here for a great many years I never saw Jay Gould In my life until yesterday. I was surprised in the first place to see that he was gray both in beard and hair; and in the second place that his health seemed delicate to a pronounced degree. But what surprised me more than anything else was the very small part that Mr. Gould played in the operations of the finance committee. It was not that he did not act in any capacity at all but he was not consulted in the least and his name was not so much as mentioned by the men who took the management of the finances of the fair in charge." Jcles Verse, the "scientific" novelist, is a lawyer by profession, although he never practiced. Before making a hit with "Five Weeks in a Balloon" he had scored some suocesa as a dramatist in Paris. When his book made a hit Verne determined that he would cram up science, and attended lectures at the Paris school of mines. It is doubtful whether he is really well posted up in science, and it is practically certain that he consults professional authorities on all moot points. He is, however, a brillian methematician and knows something of chemistry. He is very rich, thanks to the enormous sale of his books, which have been translated into every language under the sun. He has a charming house at Issy, and has latterly become religious, though in his earlier years he was a skeptic. "It is a fact," that Hood's Sarsaparilla does cure scrofeia, salt rheum, and other diseases or affections arising from impure state or low condition of the blood, overcomes that tired feeling, creates a good appetite, and gives strength to every part of the system. Try it '

WITH A JOKE OX IIIS LIPS.

DEATH OF SAMUEL SULLIVAN COX. Almost With Ills Last Breath II Cracks a Joke at Ills Physician's Kxpense Clos of an Honorable and I'sefnl LifeWhy lie Was Dnbbed "Sunset." New York, Sept 10. Conirrcssman "Sunset" Cox died at S:33 o'clock thil evening. The end was quiet, and the dying man breathed his last as peacefully as if falling into a light sleep. Mrs. Cox, who had been scarcely away from her husband's bedside for the past two days and nights, held his left hand, while his old friend, Dougla.! Taylor, held the other. He had been conscious all day, until about a quarter of an hour before the end. Dr. Lockwood was in attendance at the time. Nichols Keaney, William Ilirschlield, two nurses, and two servants were in the room. All knelt about the bed. Mr. Cox's last conversation was about the four territories whose statehood he hoped to father. He mentioned New Mexico and Ari 'Hit . ' -V'' i 'i zona, and said something about making a great effort in their behalf at the coming session. Two hours before he died his colored servant, who had just come on from Washington, went to the bed and Mrs. Cox asked her hutdmnd if he recognized him. He looked at him and patted him on the shoulder. The colored man's eyes filled with tears, while all were deeply aflectcd. In the afternoon while Dr. Lock, wood was talking to him, Mr. Cox made some witty remark that completely upset the doctor's dignity. Late in the afternoon telegrams were sent to Mr. Cox's sisters, two of whom live in Zanesville, O., and the other in St Louis. Mr. Cox's nephew, who is the superintendent of the Smithsonian institution, was also telegraphed for. Dr. Lockwood said that the immediate cause of death was heart failure and the cause peritonitis. Telegrams were sent to Sergt-at-Arms of the House of Ileprescntatives J. P. Leedom and to Speaker Carlisle. Samuel Sullivan Cox was born in Zanesville, O., !Sept. ."(, 124, and was the son of Ezekiel Cox, a membor of the Ohio senate in lrt.'lL'-'.l. He went to the Ohio university at Athens, and afterward graduated at Brown, winning many literary prizes during his college course, lie adopted the law as his profession, but soon abandoned it for journalism, becoming editor of the Columbus StHt'xman. It was his "gorgeous" editorial writing and sophomoric descriptions that earned him the soubriquet of "Sunset." The following sketch, in the Statrsman of May 11), 1S.j3, is generally regarded as having furnished the occasion for bupplying "Sunset" to liiui: What a Rlorlons sunset was that of lat night! How Klorious the storm, and how splendid the settin? of the sun ! We do not retuemher ever to hsve seen the like on our round globe. The scene opened in the wt with a whole horizon full of golden, interjienrtra'inK luster, which colored tho foliao and bri'ht nt d every object into its own hues. Tho colors grew deeper and richer until the gulden lucter transfud info a form r'.oud, lull of finest ük'htnin, bich leaped in dazzling tigzxc all over and around the city. The wind roe with fury; the slender shruhn and giant trees niad ol-;.i'ce to his majesty. Some even snapped before its force. The strawberry Iteds and grass plats turned to see Zrphym march by. An the rain came and the pools and the gutters hurried away, thunder roared grandlr, and the tire-bells raupht the excitement and rang with hearty chorus. The south and ea.it received the copious showers and the we-t all at once brightened up in a long, polished belt of azure worthy of a Sicilian sky. Presently a cloud appeared in the azure belt of the form of a cartclUted city. It liecntne more vivid, revealing strange forms of peerless fanes ard alabaster temples and glories rare aud grand in this mundane sphere. It reminded us of Wordsworth's splendid verse in his "Excursion:" Tho appearance instantaneously disclosed Was of a mighty city, boldly say A wilderness oi buildings, sinking far And self withdrawn into a wondrous dertta, far sinking into splendor with ut end. Hut the city vanished only to give place to another isle, where the most beautiful forms of foliage appeared, imaging a paradise in the distant and purified air. Tho sun, wearied of the elemental commotion, sank behind the green plains of the West. The "great eye in heaven," however, went not down without a dark brow hanging over its departing; light. The rieh flush of unearthly light had passed and the rain had ceased, w hen the solemn church bells pealed, tho laughter of the children out and joyous after tho storm is heard with the carol of birds, while the dark and purple weapon of the sties still darted illiiminiaf iitn irnnnil the Starling cottage, trying to rival its angles and leap into its j dark windows. j In he served for a time as secretary of the American legation in Lima, Peru. On his return he was elected to congress and served four terms from 1V7 to lSVi. In lNW he located in New York City. During the war he was a Union democrat. In IStiS he was elected a coneressman from New York City and has served most of the time since. His aggregate service in congress amounted to nearly thirty years. Several times he had been a prominent candidate for the speakership nod was recognized as an able parliamentarian. He was the introducer and champion for many years of the bill concerning the lifesaving service, which was finally passed. It was through Mr. Cox's e Horts that the salaries of the letter-carriers were raised and a vacation was allowed them without loss of pay. This latter measure involved an appropriation of fcHi.lXiO. He was on the committee to investigate federal elections in cities, kuklui troubles and the New York postoflice. In 1S72 he was defeated as candidate at large for the state, but his successful opponent afterward died, and he was returned to his seat. He was re-elected in 1S74-7G aud '78, a total congressional service of twenty years. In he was ap pointed a minister to Turkey, but returned a year afterward and 'was sent back to congress. He has always had the reputation ai a humorous and effective speaker, writer and lecturer. In addition to much newspaper and magazine work he has published the following books: 'The Buckeye Abroad" (1831) "Puritanism in Politics" (1So3): "Eight Years in Congress" (ISO."); "A Search For Winter Sunbeams" (1S70); "Why We Iugk" (1876); "Free Land and Free Grade" 1 187b); "Arctio Sunbeams" (1882); "Orient Sunbeams" (1882); and "The Three Decades of Federal I gislation." . Mr. Cox was the best-informed man and the most accomplished scholar in the lower house of congress, says O. O. Staley in the Courierjournal. He was elected a member of the Thirty-fifth congress from Columbus, O., and after serving three terms from that state removed to Near York City and engaged in' the practice of law. The democracy of that state, recognizing his worth, elected him to the fortyfirst congress, and, with the exception of two terms, he has been a member of congress ever since. His actual term of service as a congressman is twenty-three years. During this time he had been four times elected speaker pro tern, and discharged the duties of that high office with signal ability. He was a man of great integrity. There were no da:k corners in his character to be hid from sight His life was an open book of rare worth, without defect. His politics, like his religion, was born of genuine conviction. He had convictions, and they pierced and possessed his soul. He was an indefatigable worker, often touching the extreme limit of Ehysioal possibilities. Those who were me tilers of the last congress will remember with what fcrce of logic, comprehensiveness of information and patent mastery of details he supported bis matured and enthusiastic con-

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Tictions in favor of the admission of the four territories as states. This speech was his last and, in some respects, his besL Mr. Cox was one of the best friends the South ever had. He was one of the few democrats in congress after the close of the war to oppose the revolutionary and outraeeous tactics of the republicans to subjugate and humiliate a brave people who had lost their all, and were gasping for breath, and many of them dying of hunger. His speech acwinst the passage of the force bill was a strong and masterly one, and his appeal for fair play and justice to Americans made a deep impression upon the house and upon the public mind. In private and social life he was a charming companion. He was the pride and admirutioti of every circle of friends. His finely cultured mind, his brilliant (lashes of wit and humor, the warmth and frankness of his genial, sunny nature and his pleasing manners gave him a cordial greeting and a hearty welcome wherever he went. Indeed, in every element that ennobles human nature, none excelled him, and of all the men I ever knew he seemed to jwjssess in a more remarkable decree all of those qualities of head and heart that makes human nature lovable. His mind was incisive, analytical, keen and thorough. The lightninglike quickness of his repartee on the floor of the boue was simply amazing to the listener. He never hesitated an instnnt in replyiu:; to an attack. He shot out his words like a volley of guns in battle. I. have seen his little, wiry, ficrure standing on the floor many and many a time, fneine half of the republican side of the house. He never flinched in a debate, and always stood by his guns. It was exceedingly rare when he did not get the best of his adversary in a discussion, and few cared to tackle him, unless they were thoroughly equipped and well prepare!. Ho was fond of teasing republicans, "just for the fun of the thing." as he used to say, and would frequently snatch up and throw a firebrand on on the republican side, for the purpose of seeing them squirm and dance. After he got them riled up, he would say some smart, clever thing that would set the whole house in a roar, and good humor would immediately prevail. A better, braver and truer democrat than Samuel Sullivan Cox never lived. He never deserted a principle of the party, and, in or out of congress, was one of its best and allest defenders. He was an ardent tariiT reformer, and some of his speeches in lavor of a tariff' lor revenue only are the best ou record. The death of such a man at this time, when good, true and fearless men, of principles born of convictions, are so scarce, is a public calamity, and will be deeply deplored by all good democrats in the land. Search the records of coneress for the last thirty years, and the record of no publio man will thine brighter in advocacy of the rights and interests of the whole people than the record of Samuel S. Cox. That his life's sun should set is a pity and an irreparable loss to democracy, and democracy is the people. LAID AT REST. Many Beautiful Tributes Favid to the Memory of the Late Congressman Cox. New York, Sept, 13. Long before 10 o'clock this morning, the hour set for the funeral of the late Samuel Sullivan Cox, the First presbyterian church, corner of Fifth-ave.and Twelftheu, began to fill with illustrious mourners and admirers of the dead statesman from the humbler walk of life. The rain poured in torrents the whole morning and a nasty wind prevailed, but did not keep the crowds away. Before the services began the church was filled and it was necessary to close the doors, leaving many penDle on fhe outside. The floral tributes to the departed were unusually magnificent, covering the entire length of the altar with fragrance and beauty, and concealing the choir and transept. Among the most noticeable pieces was a cross six feet high of nephitos, rosebuds, tube-rces, white car&a-

Vat DONHEUR. tions, orchids and lilies, inscribed "Our Friend" the ciit of the Hoston letter-carriers' association. The order of elks sent an uro composed of red and white roses and pinka. The largest piece came from the letter-carriera of New York. It was in the form of a hng envelope, superscribed "Our Champion." The lT. S. lite savin? service sent a large wreath. The Philadelphia letter-carriers 6ent a large floral pillow. At lorJO a. m. the funeral cortege arrived. The line was: Grover t 'leveland and VicePresident Morton, tien. W. T. Sherman and ludiic Haley, M. H. Northrup and John T. Atnew, George Hoadly and Douglas Taylor, S. J. Kimball ami George Francis Train. Immediately behind came the bier, borne by John I. O'Connor, Mr. HersehfieU, M. II. Whalen, John Hnry McCarthy, J. J. Morris, J. H. Hess, ling, N. J. Kearney any Henry l'.ischotT. Close to the co Hin walked the bereaved wife, leaning heavily upon the arm of bcr brother-in-law. As the funeral cortege entered the chnrch, the loft notes of the organ whispered the beginning of the "Voluntary." Alter everyone win seated the choir sang "The Lord Is My Shepherd," and then Dr. Deems read from the scripture. The Key. lr. YV. H. Milburn, the blind chaplain of the houre of representatives, fcdlowed and delivered a short address. The P.ev. T. DeWitt Talmage spoke very beautifully of Mr. Cox's character as a typical American. After that the choir sang "Adeste Fidi lis" and Dr. Milburn pronounced the benediction. The interment was at Greenwood. A LECHEROUS PRIEST Who Narrowly Escapes Lynching at the Hands of Ills I'.Trtahtoners. Milwavkfk, Sept, 12. The congregation of the little catholic church in Granville are in a state of ferment over a series of events which resulted in the abrupt dismissal of their pastor, the Itev. Father Seelcy, two weeks ago. He very narrowly escaped a coat of tar and feathers. Nothing but the reverence felt for his culling and patriarchal appearance stayed the hands of his angry parishioners. It seems that for the past few months the pastor has been mistreating a number of girl pupils who attended the parochial school, and the parents of the children becoming aware of it. the elders of the church were informed and an indignation meeting was held, Father Seeley being dismissed. He admitted the truth of the story to the elders and left at once. Father Seeley came to the parish three years ago. At that time he said he had been sick in Milwaukee for a long time. After the scandal came oat he admitted coming from Detroit. He is a French Canadian by birth, and is in his seventieth year. Where he has gone is not known. A Window to the Sole. Terr Haute Express. Wibble "Did you know that there was a hole in the bottom of your shoe?" Waddle "Oh, yes. But you shouldn't call II a hole ; call it an eve." Wihble-"Why?" Wabble "Because it is a sort of window to the sole." Ilea son Dethroned. New York Weekly. Judce "Did you ever notice any signs of insanity in the deceased?" Witness (a member of the legis' at ure)" Well, once, when he was a member of the legislature, he introduced a bill that wasn't a particle of interest to anybody except tax-payers." With a feeble appetite and iiape rfect digestion, it is impossible for the body to secure the requisite amount of nonrishment. Ayer's Sarsaparilla not only simulates the desire for food, but aids the assimilative organs in the formation of cood blood aud souud tisaue.