Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 November 1889 — Page 4

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1859.

INDIANA STATE SENTINEL

iHstcied at the Postoffice at Indianapolis a second claoi matter.) TERMS PEE TEAR: FiBg copy (Invariably in Advance.)... Jt OO We ik democrats to bear in mind and select their wn täte paper when they come to take subscrlpticDsand make up club. A pect making op ein send for nv Information desired. Addesa THE INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL Indianapolis, ind. WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 20. Telling the Truth Between Campaigns. Jadcre P.t Baldwin of Loinsport, ex-ttorney-general and one of the oM republican "war horse?," tells the Xeus that rongreps ouplit to rut down the war tariff at leat one half, and that "if we don't do this G rover Cleveland and a democratic congress will do it for us in ISO"." Judjro Ualpavin Fays that the war tariff is wrong aad that it is working untold harm to the republican part'. We qunte: "I do not believe that the farmers of the United States will ever acrain be in favor of the present war tarilF. My notion is that, without a radical change, the farmers, in lWJ, will po against ns. The inequalities of the present t.irid are very hard on the agricultural interests. The farmer is provided with a spoon, while the manufacturers receive the protection by the eaovelfuli. Why should the farmer be compelled to sell his wheat at the price fixed in XiverpooL in the markets of the world, and to iny il his necessities from manufacturers protected fromlSO to 75 per cent.? While the latter class is becoming enormously wealthy, the former is pulling tbe devil around by the tail ana just making. living. The tariff should treat all classes as near alike as possible." "This sounds very much like democratic talk?" "Well, if it does I can't help it. I am no democrat. T don't want to see the republican party go down upon the tariff abuses when they hold all the cards in their own hands." "But is it not believed that the new states nd the proposed federal election supervision Lave made everything solid?" , "Don't yon believe it There are 20,000 republicans in the state and a million in the limited States who think as 1 do about tariff (reform, and if the present abuses are not eliminated w:)l rebel. If congress dodges and hutiles and cuts oil the tobacco tax and tinkers a little here and there, but makes no radical tariff reiorra, we shall certainly Co to the wall." Of course all that Judsr Baldwin says about thetariffand its ruinous efforts upon the farmers is true. Nobody knows that it is true better than such miserable demagogues as Blaine, Harrison, Allison and JIcKinlev, w ho told the fanners last year that the tariff was a great bles.-ing, to them. Judge Baldwin took mighty good pains then not to tell them to the contrary, but rtually loaned himself to the miserable fraud that was practiced upon them. However, it is reirvshiujr to find him telling the truth between campaigns. He will probably be on hand before the next lecMon, telling the farmers how Sherman marched through "-ieoreia and Lincoln freed the .slave., and begging them to etand by the g. o. p. while it helps the manufacturers pick their porkets. But he will talk in vain. The "farmers of the United Hates will never be in favor of the war tariff Again." G rover Cleveland and a rlemooratie congress will, in 1S03, give the war tariff its finishing blow, while Dan Baldwin and Ins like weep bitter tears over the sad fate of the republic. The Marriage ami. Divorce Question. The current number of the Xorth Amfrican Jteritir contains a triangular discussion of the perennial marriage and divorce question. The disputants are Cardinal Gibbons of tbe catholic church, Bishop 3'ottes of the episcopal church, and Tope Bob Inc-frsoll of thechurch at large. This discussion, following closely upon the rerent meetinz of the National reform association at Philadelphia, at which tho divorce question was exhaustively discussed, l;as naturally brought this subject again into prominence in the press. As was to be expected, Cardinal Gibtons, Bishop Potter and Col. Inoersoll take radically diverse views of the marriage Question. The great cardinal is against 'divorces, whatever be the ground. He Iholds that the scripture forbids divorce and, that this being so, there is no room for argument upon the subject. The catholic doctjrine is that marriage once entered upon is Jindissolnble. Wh n the cardinal is asked Vhy, he answers : "Thus saith the Lokd," md that for him is enough. Bishop PotTek explains that the episcopal church inHfcrprets the scriptural law as jiermittin? divorces in some cases and as allowing reluarriage in the case of the innocent party ;o a divorce for adultery. Col. Ingersoll throws scripture and all authority to the uicds and argues the question from the j.oint of view o social utility. He holds that liberal divorce laws, laws which permit an easy escape from marriages which have proved intolerable, are rather conducive to public virtue and Ahe well-being of society, than a rigid system of once married always married. The Philadelphia reformers beieve that the evils resulting from our present marriage and divorce system, or rather from our multiplicity of marriage and divorce systems each commonwealth in the republic having a distinct one are of the gravest character, and that the only remedy is a federal divorce law. They vould have congress take jurisdiction of the whole question of marriage and divorce, to the end that absolute uniformity 'in tbe laws and practices may prevail throughout the country. Of course this divorce question is an important one and worthy of serious consideration from statesmen and moral teachers. The statistics show that during the twenty years from 1S07 to 18f, 328,716 divorces " were granted in the United States. Tho increase in the number of divorces during that period was more than double the increase of the population. As will be ecen, divorces are steadily increasing, and in the not distant future, if the present ratio of increase is maintained, we shall all of us he divorced. But we should take care, in peeking remedies for the divorce evil, that we do not gt one that is worse than the disease. jOivorce laws which are too rigid, which are not srvtained by public sentiment, defeat their own purpose and tend only to aggravate the evils they are designed to remedy. As Col. Ingersoi.l shows in his Half? paper, in those counties in which divorce is forbidden there is a lower tone of public morality and more lax relations between the sexes than ia countries having what are known as "free and easy" divorce systems, f-o we should take care in reforming our divcrce laws that we do not go too far. We should rea.ove so far as practicable the f'pportunities for hasty and ill-considered marriavs, and tbe temptations to them.

We 6hould provide all possible safeguards against fraud and collusion. "For the rest," as a contemporary well says, "some refuge from marital misery is demanded by the good sense of the community, and Bimple justice cannot refuse the right to marry under proper restrictions." But the talk about a federal marriage and divorce law is both nonsensical and mischievous. There is no possibility of securing such a law, in the first place, and such a law is most emphatically not wanted, in the second place. Tbe constitution gives the people of the several states full control of such domestic affairs as marriage and divorce. They cannot le deprived of this control except by their own act iu adopting a constitutional amendment devolving it upon the national congress. This would require an affirmative vote of two-thirds of both houses of congress and threefourths of the state legislatures. Such a vote cannot be obtained, and those who are agitating for the assumption of federal control of this subject are wasting their energies. Such an amendment would be a radical departure from the theory of our government, and a long and very dangerous stride toward centralization. Happily its adoption is. not within the range of possil 'ility. The rhief excellence of our American institutions lies in their flexibility. In our federal system the different states may regulate their domestic tic affairs in such a manner as is agreeable to the custom, the habits, the tastes and the necessities of their respective communities. Herein is the safety of our republic. When the time comes, if it ever does come, that we attempt to regulate such delicate and sensitive questions as those of marriage and divorce from Washington for the whole country the beginning of the end of the American experiment will be at bund. It is only by the action of the states that the abuses of our existing divorce systems can be remedied. It cannot be expected, nor i it desirable, that there should be entire uniformity even in the state laws touching divorce and marriage. Laws which would be suited to the people of South Car, Una or Virginia, and would w ork well in those states, might, and very probably would, prove failures in Illinois or California. Our marriage reformers woul'l accomplish more good if they w ould devote themselves to such educational work as will tend to increase the number of well assorted and happy marriages, rather than expend their energies in attempts to accomplish the impossible by act of congress. Sam Kerchcval's Appointment. A telegram from Kock port, Ind., to The Sentinel of Tuesday morning, said that the Hon. Sam A. Kerciieval had been appointed an examiner in the department of justice at Washington with a good fat salary. Tbe duty of this official is to examine the records of the U. S. attorneys, marshals, clerks and commissioners. There are only six similar officials in the government service. Sam Kerciieval earned his appointment, lie was one of the men who were chieily instrumental in carrying Indiana for Hakui'son, on the "blocks-of-five" plan. Immediately after the election a year ago, he came to this city, and in the bar-room of the New-Denison hotel, had the unblushing impudence to tell a largo crowd how the voters of his county had been debauched. A correspondent of a Chicago newspaper described him as reclining his arms upon the bar aud discoursing, as follows : "Ofcourse.it was an expensive campaign the most expensive the state has ever known. The prices of votes averaged over $20 each, and in some cases we had to pity aa high as $40 and Hut we got them and we carried the state. In Spencer county we had a great many 'floaters,' and it was an open question whether we or the democrats could buy them. We got most of them." "How could you be sure," the correspondent asked, "that a vote which you had paid for would be really delivered?" "Nothing simpler," said the chairman of the Spencer county committee. "If you buy dry good you get the package when you Rive the money. We went on the same principle. We had one mac stationed at the polling places who was able to see the ballot from the time it left bis hands until the time it went into the box. Now, suppose a floater is secured by a worker. Say you are a worker and this gentleman is the voter, and this gentleman here is tbe guard at tho poll?. Now, you airree with this man to pay him 20 for a trüizht republican vote. You steer him up to the guard at the polls and call bis attention to him. The guard gives him a ballot folded and ready to put into the judge's bands. The voter takes it. and if he votes as he has contracted to do, without looking at it or 'monkeying with it in any way and the tuard caa see whether he docs or not, for he is never more than three feet away from the ballot-box then he (the guard) signals back to you that the man is all right, and you take him oft aud give him his money. He has to trust you that far, although 1 have seen cases in this election when the 'floater' would not trust the worker, but insisted on having one hand on the money while he put in the ballot." "How is the money paid afterward." "Well, down in our part of the country we took a room which had been used as a gambling bell. The door had one of those little openings to it in the center from which yon could see out, but yon could not see in. When a worker had got a vote, he wrote on a little piece cf blue paper tbe amount of money to which the voter win entitled, and the voter poked his hand through the hole with that bit ofcard-board in it. The paper was taken off Ij a young man inside, examined and verified.rd, if it was all right, the money f 10, i-0 ore-"'), as the case mk'ht be was placed in the still open hand. The man outside saw nothing; neither did the man inside. It was all done quietly and effectually, and nobody was the wiser." We think that no one will question that Kerciieval is a fit companion for Hornaday, McFarland, Johnson, Hamlin, Bag by, Moore, "Billy" Patterson, Marshall Woods, and other characters of this port, whom the president of many prayers Las introduced into the public service. Hurrah for civil service reform!

Mr. Peelle's Title to Office. Now the court has held the legislative appointment of I'eelle and Hyde unconstitutional and illegal, yet those defeated claimants are justified by the democratic organ in their attempt to hold the offices. Journal, Who knows what tho court has held? We have read tbe opinion of Judge Olds, two or three times, with much care and with increasing uncertainty as to what the eminent jurist from Whitley is actually driving at. We gather, indeed, that he holds that the chief of the bureau of statistics ought to be elected by the people. He says, indeed, that there can be no question that the people have the right to elect this official at the general etatc ejections. But he also pays "the appointee of the governor would hold until his sucessor is elected at the next general election and until his successor be qualified." According to this decision or dictum, if you please the legislature had no power to elect Mr. Peelle chief of the bureau of statistics, and he must show some other title to that office. It so happens, however, that Mr. Tcelle holds a coiaiaisdoa

and appointment from Gov. Torter, which, if Judge Olps' decision means anything at all, makes him chief of the bureau until he abandons the office or the people elect his successor. Sec 144 of the constitution says: When, daring a recess of the general assembly, a vacancy shall happen in any office, the appointment to which ia vested iu tbe general assembly; or, when, at any time, a vacancy shall have occurred in any other state office, or in the office cf judge of any court, the governor shall fill such vacancy by appointment, which shall expire when a successor shall hare been elected and qualified. Sec. '-2Ö of the constitution says: Whenever it is provided in this constitution, or in any law which may be hereafter passed, that any officer, other than a member of the general assembly, shall hold his office for any given time, the same shall be construed to meau that such officer shall hold his office for such term and until his successor shall have been elected and qualified. Sec. 1)2 of the constitution says: In all cases in which it is provided that an office shall not be filled by the tame person more than a certain number of years continuously, an appointment pro tempore shall not be reckoned a part of that term. It will be seen that under the only possible interpretation of Judge Olds' decision, in the light ot the constitutional provisions above cited, Mr. Peellb is not only justifiable in retaining his office but it is his duty, his sworn duty, to do so. If his election by the legislature was invalid, his appointment by Gov. Porter was clearly valid, and holds until his successor is duly elected and qualilied. We feel authorized to state that Mr. Peelle will continue to dispense a large variety of first-class statistics at tbe old stand for an indefinite period. The Vice Presidential Dar. The Voice has made a thorough and exhaustive investigation into the vice presidential liquor license matter. In its last issue it presents the results of this investigation, in extenso, and they show that not only is Vice President Morton engaged in the retail liquor business, by proxy, but that he has been lying about the matter, also by proxy. The facts are, brietly, that, on the 10th of October, application was made for a bar-room license for Mr. Morton's family hotel, and at the same time, the required deposit of $100 was made. The original papers embraced: (1) an application for license, signed by a majority of the property owners and residents of both pities of the block where "The Shoreham'' is located; (2) a petition for license, made by tbe would-be licensee, and (3) a receipt, certifying that the deposit of $100 had been paid. These original papers were afterward withdrawn, and, therefore, though they are said to have lorne Mr. Morton's name, the evidence of the fact cannot be produced. Of course there was an object in withdrawing the papers. If they had not contained evidence against Mr. Morton, they would, have been left on file. On the 20th of October the first public statement about the proposed vice presidential saloon wa.s made in the New York Time. On the same day the original papers were withdrawn and the first application for license cancelled. The application, however, was renewed Oct. 31, just six days later, on Nov. ( the district commissioners granted the license, and on the 7th, it was delivered to Mr. Morton's manager. It is now conspicuously displayed as required by law, in the cafe of the "Shoreham," and on the very day that Mr. Morton's private secretary, Chilton, sent a denial to the Chicago In-er-Ocean, the new application for license was lying in the office of the district commissioners. The Voice, prints the papers in full. On the outside of the envelope containing the application was printed in bold type the following description of the contents: "Application for a license to keep a "BAR OK SAMPLE-ROOM, Oct. 3i, is?r. "By J am el It. Keen an. "SCO Fifteenth-st, N. W." Ttelow this appeared the following significant comment: "A new place; no other saloons in the neighborhood." At the lower end of the envelope were the following indorsements: "Allowed. "J. W. I). (J. W. Douglass.) "I. G. II. (1- O. Hine.) "C. W. Ii. (C. W. Raymond.) "W. Tinpall. "Issued Nov. 7." Within the envelope were three documents, with titles as follows: "Petition for bar-room license." "Application for bar or am pie-room." "Keceijd" for $1U0 license fee. Then follows a copy of the petition. Among other things, this document contains the following: "I furthermore solemnly swear that the owner of the premises where the proposed bar-room is located is L. P. Morton." The application is indorsed, among others, by John R. McLean, Washington McLean, John W. Chamberlain and James Wormley's sons. Tire Voice prints a copy of tho license as it appears in tho glass ehow-case near the cashier's desk in the Shoreham cafe. The Voire also prints &fac simile of tho Shoreham wine list, and announces that it has on exhibition at its office a quart bottle of champagne, "Pommery Sec," which its representative purchased at the Shoreham in the presence of witnesses, and for which be paid 3.50. There does not seem to be any further room for controversy as to the facts of this business. If the supreme court would decide that Superintendent of Public Instruction La Foli.ette wa3 unconstitutional much might be forgiven them. They have quite as much authority to do this as they had to make their recent decisions concerning the statistician and the oil inspector, and it might result in our getting a superintendent who could distinguish between the interests of the schools and the interests of Van Antwerp, Braog & Co. Oct in Indiana, says the Philadelphia Timet, "there is an epidemic of hog cholera, and some of the farmers have lost every hog on their farm. But the question is whether the epidemic works as well on the street cars." It doesn't. The street car hog is as numerous in Indiana as ever. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Reaper, New Augusta, Ind.': Women are denied the suSrage in all the old states, except that in a number of them, including Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, New Jersey, Nebraska, Minnesota, Michigan and Kansas, they may vote at school district elections, and, in some of these states, at municipal elections. Women have the suffrage in Wyoming and perhaps other territories. They have also had it for several years in Washington, and we believe the new state constitution gives it to them. Archbishop Lebast has heretofore exeommnnicated Mexican editors who criticised priest and 'Archbishop Ryan's attitude at Baitimor has caused a sensation.

TARIFF REFORM LEAGUE.

APPEAL TO FRIENDS OF THE CAUSE. What the Leas tie la Doing In Indiana and What it Hopes to Accomplish A Movement Which Should Re Supported lty All Revenue Ileformrrs. The theory of our government is that all men are created free and equal. This fact was affirmed by our Declaration of Independence, and has been stoutly maintained ever since. While this is true, our revenue laws make the masses hewers of wood and drawers of water for a favored few. This has been going on since the close of the war, and the result is our rich are growing richer and the pec'ple are growing poorer, till we are fast becoming a nation of millionaires and tramps. Thomas G. Sherman, the New York etatistician, and an eminent lawyer, has prepared a calculation, showing the enormous concentration of wealth in a fewhands. Ordinarily, the wealth of an old country like England, with the law of primogeniture firmly established, will be more unequally distributed than in a country like ours, in which the law of descent enforces a just and equitable division of estates. This calculation, however, shows that in our young country, with its free institutions, there is a greater concentration of wealth than in Old England, with all its privileged classes. Let us see. Here we have seventy persons, with fortunes ranging from 150,000,000 to $20,000,000 each, whose aggregate wealth reaches $2,700,000,000. Mr. Sherman says that the average annual income of the richest 100 Englishmen is ?450,00O, while the average annual income of the richest 100 Americans cannot be less than $1,200,000, and probably exceeds $l,öo0,000. Before the war wealth was more equally distributed. You could count upon the fingers of one hand all our millionaires, but now, ccording to Mr. Sherman's estimate, 25,000 people own one-half of the wealth of the country, and 250,000 own practically all the wealth of the United States, and under present conditions 50,000 people will own nearly all the wealth of the country within thirty years. What has brought about this change? Why w ithin thirty years do we find such an unequal distribution of wealth? There is a law upon the statute books of our national government directing how our revenues Khali be collected which is largely responsible for this great change. Our constitution gives congress power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States. When the war broke out, duties, both customs and internal, were raised to the highest notch for the purpose of raising money to preserve the integrity of our Union. No one could olject while the revenue was to be used for such a purpose. Our manufacturing anil mining interests grew apace and colossal fortunes were made in these industries. When the war closed the questions growing out of it required Settlement, Several years passed and few thought of the unjust tariff, maintained in peace on a war footing. Finally it was seen that we could not honestly spend all the money accumulated under these laws referred to, and the friends of this wonderful American system, so called, loath to kill the goose that laid for them the golden egg daily, worked up a sentiment to let go the internal excise law on everything but whisky and tobacco, and so skillfully did they manage it that few thought of relieving themselves of the taxes which bore heavily upon the consumer, but gladly relieved the wealthy from the tax upon their incomes 'ami luxuries. Plans were devised to spend the money ill raised by this great system. Pensions were steadily increased; rivers and harbors never heard of were improved at great cost, but still the surplus grew. We began to see and see plainly that there was a greater drain upon the masses of the people than the surplus in the treasury. The tariil" had been placed so hiirh on many of the necessaries of life avirtually to prohibit their importation and our man ufact urers, iron an 1 coal mi ners and others in whose interest these prohibitorytaxes were levied, were annually withdrawing from the masses a large sum, estimated at ?l,-'0O,OiX),0O0, not one cent of which found its way into the treasury vaults, hut all of which was divided out among these patriotic gentlemen engaged in manufacturing and mining interests. When vc bejyin to complain at this injustice thej' told us this beautiful system was necessary to sustain our infant industries and protect our laboring classes from the pauper labor of Europe. They told the farmer that they were building up a home market for him, without which he would become bankrupt. Tbey induced us to give them another lease of power on these pleas, and immediately after they were thoroughly intrenched they imported thousands of these same pauper laborers from Europe and put them in direct competition with our laborers, who had voted to be protected from them. The farmers also found out that under protection they bought everything in the dearest market, and that this wonderful home market was fixed, rs to price, by the Liverpool market, w here all the world competed. The friends of protection then seeing that Eome other device must be worked, proposed a commission to revise the inequalities of the tariff. As usual, the friends of the system captured the commission, and alter making a great show of what they were going to do for the people, they made a report and it was adopted by congress by which they actually raised the tariff upon the necessaries of life and reduced it upon luxuries, used onlv by the rich. In 1SS7, when Cleveland came out for the right and proclaimed himself the champion of tbe people's cause, and asserted what we all know when it is once stated, that unnecessary taxation is unjust taxation, he was selected our standardbearer, and then tbe friends of this beautiful system, driven to show their hand, boldly proclaimed that while they recognized that the surplus must be reduced, still, rather than forego any part of the grand protective system, they favored the entire removal of the tax from whisky an 1 tobacco. They went before the people on a platform of dear blankets and cheap whisky and won. Whät is the condition of affairs to-day? After the election of Mr. Harrison on this monopoly platform, the friends of protection boldly asserted that the tariff question was settled for the next twenty-five years at least. They acted accordingly. The wall they , had erected around the United States, limited their market and as competition had become brisk, they felt that they were not getting the full benefit of the system. They immediately proceeded to form trusts and combinations, which control the output of a given industry, and put up the price to the limit allowed by the duty levied upon the article. In our own citv, alout a year a.-o, we had three establishments manufacturing a certain line of goods. To-day we have only one. What havo become of the other two? They

have gone out of business, throwing a large number of men out of employment. While the plants are idle, they draw larger dividends than thev did before. There is no competition, and the price of the product is greatly enhanced. The concern in operation earns larger dividends for itself than it did lefore the combination was formed, and pays the same dividends to the two concerns which have ceased to compete with it. This industry is highly protected. Does any one believe that if we had commercial freedom with all the nations of tbe earth such a combination could stand for one month? Every day we read of this or that combination being formed until nearly every industry is under the blighting influence of the accursed system. The accumulation of these favored few is taken from the masses, from the ultimate consumer. We see the laborers in many industries combining to enforce living wages from their employers. The light is one-sided, unless they are supported during their enforced idleness, and we find the organs of protection declaring that S5 a week to support a laborer and his family is a long ways from pauper labor. We find these protection organs everywhere, especially those which have been muzzled by our fellow-townsman, now in the White house, discouragingthe giving of assistance to these men fighting for living wages. What has been the ellert of this wonderful system upon the farming communities? New England has always been clamorous for protection, and has its home market clubs which circulate ton-loads of forged extracts from English papers. To-day in Vermont and New Hampshire there are thousands of acres of improved farms which have been abandoned, growing up into thickets, and which are on the market for from $1 to?10 per acre, improvements and all. Before the war, under the Walker tariff, which was a tariff for revenue only, practical free trade, these same farms were readilv ßold at from S10 to S"0 an acre. If the home market, as fostered by protection, is a blessing, it ought to have blessed these localities. Has it? What is true of these states Js equally true right here in Indiana, the only difference being in degree; we are a newer state, with more fertile soil, and the system has not yet completely driven our farmers to the wall. Where is the farm in Indiana which to-d;iy will bring the price it would right after the war, on a gold coin basis? Continually buying in the highest market and selling in the lowest will bring the same results here they have brought upon our eastern farmers. What can we do? Ix?t us organize, agitate and educate. On the 4th day of last March we organized the Indiana tariff reform league. The plan of the organization is as follows: The officers are a president, secretary and treasurer, with thirteen vice-presidents, one from each district. The vice-president for a given district is president of the district league, and has charge of the organization of clubs throughout his jurisdiction. County organizations are effected in the various districts, and the presidents of the county leagues are vice-presidents for the district league. The county leagues organize the precinct leagues, with a vicepresident for each township or precinct, ns thought prac ticable, which vice-presidents are presidents of the precinct or township leagues. Every precinct as well as every county league should have a secretary and treasurer. The precinct leagues should be officered by capable and enthusiastic men, and when so ollicered they should be put in direct communication with the secretary of the league at Indianapolis. The officers of the state league are: President, Edgar A. Brown, Indianapolis; secretary. M. W. Lee, Blufiton; treasurer, John P. Frenzel, Indianapolis. The vice presidents are: First District John G. Shnnklin, Evansville. Second District Cyrus E. Davis, Bloomfield. Third District Eli J. Menaugh, Salem. Fourth District Richard Greg, Aurora. Fifth District William J. Buckingham, Franklin. Sixth District Austin Ready, Connersville. Seventh District Henry Rawie, Anderson. Liphth District Robert Geddes, Terre Haute. Ninth District Samuel M. Ralston, Lebanon. Tenth District Sidney R. Moon, Rochester. Eleventh District A. T. Wright. Marion. Twelfth District C. II. Worden,' Fort Wayne. Thirteenth District C. II. Keeves, Plymouth. The executive committee is as follows: Edgar A. Brown, Indianapolis. Samuel C Morss, Indianapolis. James Smith, jr., Indianapolis. Thomas J. Hudson, Indianapolis. Samuel M. Foster, Fort Wayne. W. A. l'ickens, Spencer. William C Ball, Terre llauta. J. A. Cravens, Hardensburg, Mr. Lee has been into a large portion of the state organizing, and is still at work. We are particularly anxious to have a complete organization of the state by Jan. 1, 18",0. The first annual meeting of the league will be held in this city on the third Tuesday' in January next, and we wish as full a representation at that meeting from tho precinct leagues as possible. Mr. Lee will be unable to vl-it a large number of the counties, and I sugp.t that in those counties where no organization has been effected, you corresjKnd w ith the vice-president for the district, asking that arrangements be made at once to organize your county. Have your meeting well advertised and select your county officers and precinct vice-presidents, and get to work. I will furnish constitutions for the precinct clubs on demand. As soon as the state league is put into communication with the precinct leagues, we will advise the several leagues of the detail work we have undertaken. It will require considerable money to perfect our plans. We can fry no fat "out of protected industries, or öut of iron or coal barons, 60 we must look to the people to sustain us. We suggest that some friend of tariff reform in each city, town or hamlet where this is read circulate a subscription for this work. Remit to John i Frenzel, the treasurer, at Indianapolis. His name is a warrant to every ore t hatknows him that the financial affairs will be'honestly and economically administered. He will send you a receipt for your remittance. We ought to have $-vX) a year till after '02. The only salaried officer is the secretary. He devotes his whole time to the work. Take hold of the work at once where no organizations have been effected and get your clubs in operation. You who cannot work, but have the means to keep others at work, can do your share by sending contributions to Mr. FrenzcL We are fighting for commercial freedom and our foe employs euch agents as Dudley, Quay and Ciarkson. It will be no easy battle to win. We must reach the hearts of the people. We must revive their patriotism, and when this is done the occupations of these huckstering politicians will be gone. Edgar A. Brown, ' President Indiana Tariff Reform League. lie IIa tip nlnxl. I Detroit Tree Press. "My wife, Mr. Perkins," said the husband across the aifde of a street car. "Ah! Glad to see you, Mrs. Winters. Why, how you have changed in two weeks!" "Changed? No one else has spoken of it," she blankly replied. - "Why, when I saw you with your husband at the theater two weeks ao to-niht, you seemed to be a girl of eighteen." "At the theater! You you you !" Her husband had been winking and winking, but near sighted Mr. Perkins had seen nothing. The wife settled back, figured it out that she was home alone with the toothache that night, and the frozen stare she turned on her husband as they got off covered the platform with a glare of ice. She has asked for an explanation ere this. Children Cryfor

TALKS ABOUT PEOPLE.

Senator William M. Evarts will soon be home, and his eyesight is still a little weak. Senator Jcstin S. Morrill of Vermont is seventy-nine years old. He was elected to congress in 1SÖ4, and has been in the senate twenty years. Senator Edmunds of Vermont fays his daughter is about as skilled in the law as he is. She acts as his amanuensis and advises with him when doubtful legal points arise. J. R. Btrton of Abilene, Kas., who aspires to succeed Ingalls in the senate, ia eaid to be the best-dressed man in his state. He is in most respects just the antithesis of Ingal's, and looks more like a club man than a western politician. The Rev. Dr. Bartol, who has just retired from the pulpit he has made famous in Boston, is one of the richest divines in the country. He made bis fortune by lucky investments iu land along the Massachusetts coast at points now popular as summer resorts. Rose Elizabeth Cleveland will spend the winter in Florida. She has purchased a home at Paola, Orange county, at the southern extremity of the state. Miss Cleveland has been living at Holland Tatent, N. Y of late. She will not return there until next April. Mr. Randall's health is said to cause considerable apprehension among his friends. He is still unable to leave his bed, and when he desires to sit up it is necessary to bolster him with pillows. It is very doubtful if he will be able to be present ut the opening of congress. Miss Rachel Cameron, the youngest of Senator Cameron's five daughters, will make her debut in Washington society this winter. She is very pretty, and as bright and accomplished a girl as can be found in Washington. Especial care has been bestowed on her education and her manners are very engaging. It seems strange to 6ay that anyone who remembers Col. William Trescott, ot Bunker Hill fame, is still living, but such is the case. Mrs. Sarah Chaplin Rockwood, a daughter of Col. Prescott's niece, is livinc in Portland, N. Y., where i-he la?t week celebrated her one hundred and fourth birthday. Ishe says the remembers the Bunker Hill hero very well. M. S. Langley, who was Thackeray's privite secretary, kept a diary in IsoO, which has been offered for sale. The record of daily events is a full one. N"tes of the great author's conversation and remarks hare been jotted down day by day, and his opinions on all Forts and conditions ot men and events are in the chronicle, and his personal peculiarities have aUo been noted. Mrs. LorisA Rector died in Chicago last week. To Mrs. Rector's life a very va'uable historical incident is attached. It was in her room and in her own bed that Trc-idcnt Lincoln breathed his last. She was the last to occupy the bed before the wounded martyr was placed in it, and she was the first to use it alter the great emancipator's death. One ot the interesting relics owned by Mrs. Rector was the pillow upon which he died. How One Vote Was Turned. f Washington Special. J Ieedom tolls a good story of how a young republican was induced to vote for Campbell. A certain democrat, who was a great admirer of Campbell, had a pretty servant girl. A young man was visiting her who was in every way what he should be except that he was a very ardent republican. The gentleman of the house tried very hard to get hira to vote for Campbell, but nothing would induce him to go back on Foraker. Finally the pretty servant girl was induced to tnke hold of the missionary work. The young mp.n wns much in love with her and had been long begging for a kiss. "I'll tell you what," she said to him one night, "if you will vote for Campbell I'll give you five kisses." He looked at her for a moment. Her rosy cheeks and red lina looked tempting, and her eyes burned into his heart. "Done," he said. "I'll agree." He got his five kisses perhaps more than five and voted the democratic ticket. "That man loves you," the gentleman of the house said to the girl afterward. "If he asks you to marry him you should do it. He'll make you a trood husband. You should marry him." The girl blushed. "I think I will, sir." Tablo Attraction. . Omaha World. Neighbor's Girl "We're going to have watermelon and green corn for dinner." Our Girl "That's nothing; we're going to have my aunt and cousin for dinner." There is more experience, time and brain work represented in the preparation of Hood's Sarsaparilla than in any other medicine. It is this which makes Hood's trsaparilla peculiar iu its curative power, and in the remarkable cures it etleets. Give h& trial. CATAKK11, Ily Fever, Catarrhal Deafness. A XEW HOME TREATMENT. Sufferers are not generally aware that these diseases are contagious, or that they are due to the presence of living parasites in the lining membranne of the nose and eustachian tubes. Misroscopio research, however, has proved this to be a fact, and the result is that a simple remedy has been formulated whereby these distressing diseases are rapidly and permanently cured in from one to three simple applications made at home by the patient once in two weeks. A pamphlet explaining this new treatment is sent free on application by A. II. Dixon & Son, 337 and 3.'Ii W. King-sL, Toronto, Canada. ücicutific American. Beecham's Pills cure bilious and nervous ills. Some Foolish People Allow a coueh to run until it gets beyond the reach of medicine. They often say, "Oh, it will wear away," hut in most cases it wears them away. Could they be induced to try the succesafui medicine called Kemp's Balsam, which is sold on a positive guarantee to cure, they would immediately seethe excellent effect after taking the first dose. Price 50 cents and $1. Trial size free. At all druggists'. Catarrh Cured. A clergyman, after years of su"ering from the loathsome disease of catarrh, and vainly trying every known remedy, at Jast found a prescription w hich completely cured and saved him from death. Any suffeter from this dreadful disease sending a self-addressed stamped envelops to Prof. J. A. Lawrence, 83 Warren at, New York, will receive a receipt free o charge. We take pleasure in asking the attention of our readers to the advertisement of the Ohio Farmer in this issue. It is perfectly reliable every way. BUULINGTON KOUTE, Thronch Sleepers Daily to Texas Point. The C, B. Ji: Q. R. R. is now running, in connection with the Missouri, Kansas fc Texas railway from Hannibal, a sleeping car from Chicago to Sedalia, Ft. Scott, Parsons, Denison, Ft. Worth, Waco, Austin, Houston, Galveston and other points in Missouri, Kansas, Indian Territory and Texas. Train leaves Chicago at 5:4. p. in. daily, Peoria at 8:20 p. m. daily except Sunday, and reaches Texas points many hours quicker than any other route. Through tickets and further information can be obtained of ticket agents and P. S. Eustis, Gen. Pass, and Tkt. Agt. C, B. & Q. R. R., Chicago. All humors of the scidp, tetter sores and dandruff cured, and falling hair checked; hence, baldness prevented by using Hall's Vegetable Sicilian Hair Renewer. Short Hand. Hero is a good chance for any boy or girl to et a good lesson-book without cash. You will e expected to distribute some cards among our fr. ends, lhe exercises you prepare wid e corrected free. Send for information to the Moran Short-hand company, St. Louis, Mo. The bestand surest dye to color the beard brown or black, as may be desired, is Buckingham's dye for the whiskers. It never fails. For a disordered liver try Beecham's rills. Impure water, the cause of so much illhealth, ninde harmless by adding a little Angostura Bitter. Manufactured by Dr. J. G. B. Sifgert & Sons. Look Here, Friend, Are Ion Sick. Do you suffer from dyspepsia, indigestion, sour ftomaoh, liver complaint, nervousness, lost appetite, biliousness, exhaustion or tired feeling, pains in chest or lungs, dry conyh, nightsweats or any form of consumption? If so send to Prof. Hart, 88 Warren-st., New York, who will send you free, by mail, a bottle of Floraplexion, which is a sure cure. Send to-day. Pitcher's Castoria.

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Excurs:cca daily, with Choic of Koutoa to and from Bait Iake. Portland. Los Argelea and Baa Francisco. The Direct Line to nr.d from Piko'8 Peak, tlaaitou. Garden of tbe Gee's, tbe Banitartun.. and Scenic Grandeurs of Colorado, Via The Albert Lea Route. Bolld Exprpaa Trains daily between Chicago and Minneapolis and Su Paul, wiln TUÄOUGU Hciimcs Clinir Car (FEXE) to and Iron tBOM rointa ind Kansas City. Throuph Chair Cer and Bicrrcr bctwena Peoria. 8pirU Lake and Sioux Fn.il via Bock Island. The Favorite Line to VTatertown, 6:oux Falls, the 6umrnerItporta and Hunting a&d Fisniiis Grounds of the North'xest. The Short Line vi Seneca, and Kankakee offer facilities to travel to and from Indianapolis, Cincinnati and other Southern point. ForTkcts, Maps. Folders, or desired Information, apply at an7 Coupoa Ticket OlSce, oraddrea E.ST.JOHN, JOHN SEBASTIAN, Osnl Kunager. Oa-'l TK. fit Peas. AgV CHICAGO. ILL. CMILKIFF'S SALL. Hr virtuo of a certified copy of a decre tt mn dir ti-d from th? C'lort of the Superior fonrt of Marion c-Minty, Indiana! ia can- No. V1 2, wherein Pfrkhire Lite Irsuranr t'ompmy is pl.nniiil and .lohn W. l. ta et at. are deffDdants. r"i wiring me t ruake the mm rd e!ev-n thousand four hundred and ninc-tr dollars and seventeen cents Sil. 4i.17i. with interf-n and costs, I willtxpov? at public sale, to the hi,;liet bidder, on SATURDAY, TIIK 3rth DAY OF NOVEMBER A. between the hour of 10 o'clock a. m. and 4 o'clock n. m. of said day, at the dxirot the court bou of Marion count r, Indiana, the rr-nts and r-rofit for a term not exceeding scvea years, of the following real estate t'-wit: Th northeast quarter and northwest quarter of section eleven (11 ), township sixteen (inj north, of rau-re three (:: cast. Irin? west of White rirer, and roiiuininu fiity-tiTe and eishty-fevt-n hundredth (." i ceres, more or kss; also iw nty-si-ven and twenty-live hundredths (J7 -"l'-o acre offtieeast end i a tract of f. ft y-ev-n C7) acres of land, described as follows: Commencing at the southwest corner ff the eat half ot the t orthwet quarter of of et ion two 2i, township sixU-en C) north, of rnnee three i3- et : thenoo north a'.oriff the west line of said e.i-t half of sai l quarter section nine hundred and eighty-one Cj1 feet ; thence ca?t and para. lei with the south line of said east half of oaid j uarter section twenty-two hundred (2'""') feet; th-'iiee south live hundred ant thiity-eight (S:W) feet to a point; thence eat and parallel with the south line of the north-a-t quarter of said section seven hundredi 7 irli feet to a point ; thence south to the south line of said northatt quarter; thence west alons the south line of said northeast quarter ind the south line of said eat half northwest quarter to th plac of betinning, rontaiuinj; tilty-sevrn (.17) acren, more or les-; also a)l that part o: the southeast quarter of section two cJ, township sixteen (ltii north, of ranee three (:t) east, w hirh lie west of Whit river, containing nineiy-eiht and seventy-four hundredths C.'S 74-loM acres, more or less, situate in Marion county, Indiana. If such rents and prcnts will not sll for a sufficient su:n to sati:y said decree, interest and costs, I will, at t he saire lime and place, expoe to public sale t h lee simple of said real estate, or so much (hereof a may be sufficient u discharge said decree, interest and e ist, f'atd sale ili be ma le without any relief whatever from valuation or appraisement laws. ISAAC KING. Sheriff of Marioa County. Noveroher G, ls3. Wm. Henderson. Attorney for Plaintiff. 6-St V(1TfVc OF MEETING FOR EXAMINATION j for accordance or rejection, or amendment of bnal reporton Station street sewer improvement in the town of Briclitwood. To whom it may concern : Notice i hereby piven that on i he 14th dä of October, 1S'., at the town hall of Kriehtwood, at 7:.1'.i p. in., the Kosrineerand Board of Trutees of the town of Uriifhtwood w.ll meet to consider the final report of the Ereineer and B'-ard of Trustees of said town upon the Mation street sewer improvement in said town, at which time finil action will be taken on said imtimvrmrnt. JOHN H. WINN FOW, Clerk of the Town of Brightwood. "aOTICF The subscriber hereby notifies the voter Xs of Wayne township that be v.-ill rpl? to the Board of CommisMoners of Marion connty, at their December term. 1SSJ, for a license to sell intoxicating, vinous, malt and spirituous liquors in less qnantit ei than a quart at a time, with the privilege to allow th f-H me to be drank on the premise. My place of busl Bess and prenties whereon said liquors are to be sold and drank is located on lot No. 6, in the town of MU Jackson, in Wayne township, Mcrion county, Ind'aaa. 4-3 DENNIS Cl'LUIV. X OTICE OF AITOIXTMF.NT. Notice Is hereby given that the nnderxijmed tas duly qualified as admini-trator of the estate of Tarbara inrvicher, late of Marion couDtr, Indians, deceased. taid estata is F-ip;ose.i to lie solvent. K. W. FLI.DKAMP, Admr. Herod A Uerod, Attorneys. 6-3t JoriCE OF AITOINTMENT. Notice is hereby jriven that the unders1cod has duly qualified as adminitratrix of the etate of Henry C Daniels, late of Marion county, Iudiana, deceased. Said estate is supposed to be sol vent. -MAIiY M. DANIELS, Aiimi. Harding 4 llorer, Attorneys. 6-St JOTICE OF APPOINTMENT. Notice Is hereby given that the undersigned has duly qtialitfei as administrator of the estate of Jacob Mreicher, late of Marion county, Indiana, deceased. Said estate is snppoed to be solvent. It. V. FELDKAMP. Adinr. Herod & Herod, Attorneys. 6-3t N NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NO. 1,313. ' IV Notice 1 hereby given that las undersigned has duly qualified as administrator of the estate: ot lmiiiel MeGrath, who died Intestate in Marion county, Indiana, Juue 5, 1HS7, and that 1 was appointed to said trust by the Marirn Circuit Court October 31, lkV9. Said estate is supposed to be solfent. JAMES III NIHAN. Admr. Will F. A. Pernhanier, Attorney, 94 Eat Court- Ur Indianapolis. . 13-3t N OTICE OF API-OINTMENT. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has duly qualified as administratrix of the täte of Dpuiel McKride. lato of Marion county, Indiana, do-censed. Said estate is supposed to be solvent. 6-at ALK E McBKlDE, Admx. JT OTICE OF APIXHNTMENT. Notice Is hereby given tbat the nnderslgned has duly qualilied as administrator, w ith w ill annexed, of the estate of Dennis Kane, late of Marion county, Indiana, deceased, fcaid estate is supposed to bo solvent. JAMES R. KOUT1I, Admr. Robert Denny, Attorney. 6-3t NOTICE. Notice Is hereby riren that at the next repnlsr meeting of the Buaid of County Commissioners a petition will be presented to said bosrl tor the vacation of the following described alley, to-wit: Commencing at the Indianapolis, Decatur A Western railway's right of wsy, thence south 2 8 feet in llaugb, Ketcham A- Co.'a subdivision of a r-art of ee. 4. in tp. 15, N. R. 3, E., to the intersection of a 2"-foot cast and est alley south of said subdivision, beir 27 feet in width and situate between Holmes and Wannan avenues, in the Town of lianzhville. Novl-3twJt A. 11. CAVELAOE et al. Wm. E. McLean, la'e First Deptitv Commissioner and actin? Commissioner of Pensions. Jos. W. Nicbol, late law Clerk, postotTjee lVpartm't. Wm. S. Meli, Claim Attorney. McI.EAN A NICHOL, Attornrva at lav, Booms 31, ft-' and 34, Atlantic Building, Washington. D. C. Attention to Pensions Patents an 1 Claims before the Postollice Department aud In the Executive Departments. 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