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

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INDIANA STATE SENTINEL

lEstered at the Postotflce at Indlanapc Us u second class matter. TERMS PER TEAR: Fing!e copy (Invariably in Advance.).. ,91 OO We asc democrats to bear in mind and select their wn slate paper when they com to take suDscripliens and make op clubs. Agents making up clubs send for any Information iesired. Addess THE IXDIANArOLIS SENTINEL Indianapolis, ind. WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 13. The Dudley Disgrace. The phase now taken on by the Dudley ca."e is the most shameful and humiliating that has yet been known. The officers of the national courts at this place now openly and defiantly stop the usual processes of law in order to prevent the arrest and trial of this infamous scoundrel. A warrant is issued for his arrest, on a proper affidavit, and the U. P. commissioner refuses to deliver it to the marshal for service because, forsooth, Dist. Atty. Smiley N. Chambers instructed him net to do bo. Mr. Dudley's "pull" with the administration must be strong, indeed, to indace a resort to such desperate remedies as these. There is no ßhadow of legal authority for such action by a district attorney before the arrest and hearing of an offender. The chief purpose of the legal provision for arrest on affidavit is to insure the arrest of a criminal when the district attorney, from corrupt motives, fails to perform his duty. There is no shadow of legal authority for euch action by a U. S. commissioner. His duty is plainly laid down by the law and the district attorney has no control over its performance. The action in both instances is a wanton and unjustifiable abuse of power to shield a criminal from prosecution. Smiley N. Chambers and William Van Bcbes are not controlling factors in this matter. They are merely the puppets who move as the strings attached to them are pulled. This last effort of the republican boodle administration to protect its maker and accomplice comes through them merely as the retained agents of the party, and it is a fitting climax to the long roll of infamies that have been perpetuated to cave the head boodler. William W. Dudley was made treasurer of the national republican central committee through the direct influence of Benjamin Harrison. He was Harrison's man from the start, and this notwithstanding the devout candidate knew him to be a professional political trickster, to have been kicked out of the U. S. marshal's office at Indianapolis by Jadge Gresham on account of fraudulently releasing, republican repeaters on straw bail, and to have used the national pension office, while commissioner of pensions, as a party machine, in defiance of law, honesty and decency. To a prominent republican who protested against Mr. Dudley having any connection with Indiana politics in the last election, Mr. Harrison replied, "I do not want i Sunday-school teacher to run my campaign." The campaign proceeded and Mr. Dudley did the work that he was appointed to do. Toward its close a copy of his noted letter, disclosing the outrageous plan by which Indiana was to be carried for Harrison was intercepted and made public The Indiana politicians, under the immidiate eye of the immaculate prayer-meeting leader, at once denied its authenticity. Mr. Dudley admitted its authenticity and Baid he thought it was "a very strong letter." A little later Mr. Dudley became more cautious. Criminal proceedings were instituted against him here, and the New York papers, against which he had brought libel suits, pressed for atrial. The Sentinel offered him $1,000 to come within this state and make affidavit that he did not write the letter, and the offer is still untaken. When forced to an examination in the Jibel suit3 he excused himself from answering whether or not he wrote the letter by the plea that either an affirmative or a negative answer would criminate him. If he had answered affirmatively, he would st once have been arrested for conspiracy to bribe voters. If he had answered negatively, he would at once have been arrested for perjury. Meanwhile the case was pushed in the TJ. 8. court. Judge Woons, at the outset, having, with a crmt flourish of trumpets, directed the grand jury to investigate the Iudley matter, found that the evidence was much stronger than was anticipated. The administration was in danger and made itself felt in the court. In his first instruction as to bribery he had said, While it is not a crime to make the attempt (to bribe) it is a crime to advise another to make the attempt." He now faced about and interpreted the same section to mean that it was not a crime to make the attempt unless the bribery was actually committed and proven. He did this although he had expliHty stated his position, in the former instruction, as follows: "If A attempts to bribe B, that is no offense under this statute ; but if A advises B to attempt to bribe C, then the one who commands or gives the advice is an offender under this law; and I will say that I consider there is gome wisdom in this provision." This covered Dudley's rase exactly, but under the revised decision the difficulty of convicting was so increased that the case was virtually thrown out of court by the new ruling. In due time the case was thrown out formally, and since then the officials of the TJ.S. courts here have been constant, in seaeon and out of season, in their efforts to relieve Mr. Dudley of any odium. Deputy Prosecutor Cockrcm has stated in an interview that there was nothing in the evidence against him, and Mr. Chamber is now out with a warm indorsement of this confessed rascal as a "reputable citizen." The administration has been hand in glove with him from the start. Public opinion prevented his appointment to office, but his recommendation to office was good as gold. Mr. Tanner was his man, and when his open robbery of the treasury made his removal necessary he formed a convenient partnership with Dudley in the pension business, while Miss Tanner was given a good job under our own Huston. If there were any question of Dudley's continuing power with the Harrison administration, or any additional wreath of hame that could be laid on the leading r-Viliran politicians of Indiana, the one

was answered and the other offered to the public raze by Dudley's reception here on this visit. DLt. Atty. Chambers and Atty. Gen. Miciie.veb were closeted with him giving him advice and counsel, while the attempt wag made to secure his arrest on Wednesday night. Thursday morning he went to the U. S. court-room and held a public reception. Judge Woods came down from the bench to shake hands with the distinguished criminal, and smaller fry politicians loaded him with congratulations and expressions of friendship. All that the national administration and the federal courts here can do to protect, justify and praise this confessed villain has been done. There are courts in Indiana, however, where justice can still be had, and if Mr. Dudley will only make affidavit that he did not write the letter published by The Sentinel we wili pay him $1,000, and guarantee to have him taken care of by the 6tate for several years. The Gushing; Chambers. Of all the literature that has been produced by the crime of W. .W. Dudley and the republican effort to shield him from punishment, we know of nothing more highly edifying than the Journals interview of Friday with Smiley N. Cham ee rs. This Dudley beneficiary, not satisfied with using his official power to protect the head boodler, has assumed the colossal task of vindicating the confessed scoundrel, on the theory, we presume, of timilia rimilibug ciirantur. We invite attention to the following extract: ' I wish, also, to state that I nave read the. letters printed in the press, purportin? to be written by the colonel, and, in ray opinion, unattended by any extraneous evidence, they do not advise bribery, as appertaining to the election of lsS. The letters, construed in the liht of the knowledge that we all possess of how elections in Indiana are eonducted by both parties, bare nothing in them of a criminal character, but upon the other hand, when so construedj are honorable, and indicate simply a patriotic interest in the election-." "What is your knowledge of the conduct of elections, as snggeated by the letters?" "I know how the elections were conducted in our part of the country. In stead of dividing the voters who were counted a doubtful, either from inability to get to the polls on account of sickness or from indifference, or by reason of occupation that would keep them away, we, as far as possible, divided them into blocks of one. We assigned to every such voter a responsible, honest and honorable citizen, whose duty it was (and who agreed to do ao) to look after such voter and see that be attended at the polls and enst his rote. I know that the men o selected by us would have resented with indignation any suggestion that, in accepting such duty, they were, in the least, violating any law or doing anything taat was, in any sense, wrong or dishonorable. In many instances where carriages were necessary to haul the sick, or to procure labor as a substitute for men whose employment made it necessary for a substitute to be supplied, we gare assurance that the expenses incurred in such matters would be met by our committee." The almost universal knowledge of the manner in which money has been used in Indiana e'ections gives the lie to this statement so completely that comment is practically superfluous, but we would suggest to Mr. Chambers that in carrying his explanation into detail it will be necessary to construe the following admonition in the Dudley letter: Diride the floaters into blocks of fire and put a trusted man with the necessary funds in charge of these five, and make Lira responsible that none get away and that all rote our ticket. In translating this, Mr. Chambers will be obliged to state that a "floater" is a man who will sell his vote ; that "a trusted man with thb necessary funds" is a professional vote-buyer supplied with money by the republican committee; that seeing that "none get away" means not allowing the opposition vote-buyers to outbid him; and that seeing that "all vote our ticket" means that the votes of the floaters must not only be purchased, but certainly delivered. It may be somewhat humiliating to make these explanations, but Mr. Ch a misers cannot afford to dispute the meaning of terms which, unfortunately, are thoroughly understood throughout Indiana. It will not do for Mr. Dudley?s champion to claim that a floater is a sick man who has to be conveyed to the polls in a CiHage. If he does, men may admire the magnificent impudence of his prevarication, but they will not have any higher opinion of Mr. Dudley. Apparently realizing that this portion of his explanation does not explain, Mr. Chambers proceeds as follows: While CoL Dudley's letters were not written with that circumspection which a more wily and less honorable mau would hare employed, knowing what I do of the method of conducting elections, and of the character of the colonel and the many honorable offices which he has faithfully and honorably filled, they did not advise a crime to be done. Mindful of bis record as a brare soldier, of his patriotic interest and of his services to the soldiers since the war; of his generous, honorable and manly character, I do not believe it would be possible to find a jury of twelve fair and upright men who would find him guilty of any wron?. They would not do it, I think, even if the evidence could be had to show either that he wrote the letters as alleged, and that men acted upon the advice contained in them. Intelligent persons, of ordinary integrity, will not dispute Mr. Chambers' statement that D cd ley wrote the letters charged to him, and that they were not "circumspect." Neither will they, in the glare of this luminous statement, deny that Mr. Chamber knows that Dudley wrote and pent the letters as charged. Neither will they longer question that evidence can be had to show that "he wrote the letter as alleged, and that men acted upon the advice contained in them," Mr. Cockkum to the contrary notwithstanding. But interesting as these confessions are, a more interesting jtortion of the statement is Mr. CiiAMncits' reason why the letters "did not advise a crime to be done." This is in two parts: (1) "Knowing what I do of the method of conducting elections." (2) "Knowing what I do of the character of the Colonel old chum, you know, and the many honorable offices which he has faithfully and ably filled." This legal argument is unioue. It adds an entirely novel factor to our jurisprudence. To make the penal laws certain it will now bo necessary for congress to add the following proviso to each enactment: " 1'rovUM, howei er, that the acts enumerated in this section shall not consist of a criminal offense in casts Smiley N. Chamber 'knows what he does." Interest reaches its climax in Mr. Chamber' explanation why a jury would not convict DuDi.EY'evenif he were proven guilty, which is because of "lus record as a brave soldier, of his patriotic interest and of his services to the soldiers since the war; of his generous, honorable and manly character!" We trust that this will not create the impression that old soldiers may commit crime without fear of punishment, for, strange as it may appear to .Smiley, some old soldiers actually havo been convicted and punished for crimes. It is quite possible that if Mr. Chambers could select iurvmen "knowing what I do"

before they heard the evidence, the result would be as he forecasts. We are sure that he is fully informed as to the methods of the last election, for no person not j versed in the theory and practice has been J recognized by Mr. Habrikx; but there is a possibility of getting an honest jury, even with the present U. 8. court officials, and slight as that possibility is these men dare not risk it. If Mr. Chambers wishes to risk a trial on Dudley's previous character, we will undertake to furnish evidence that he never "faithfully and ably filled" any office ; that he laid himself liable to criminal indictment in every office he has filled, and that he has not had any character for twenty years. The worst blot on Judge Gresham's record is that he did not send him to the penitentiary when he had the chance. But it is idle to tell Dudley's character to the men who now volunteer to defend him, and seek to relieve him of odium by giving him full and cordial social recognition. No one knows his character better than they. No one better understands that they must all stand or fall together. The Boodlers' mutual protection league is in full operation. Mr. Dudley's bond is good, and he will exact the full payment of it, no matter how distasteful it may be to the obligors. A Few Differences. In a desperate endeavor to ehow a distinction between the Dudley case and the Coy and Bernhamer cases, the only difference the Journal can find is stated thus: In might be well enough to remember that in one case the strong arm reached out with an indictment, while in the other the matter had been thoroughly investigated, and no indiotmeiit found. How can anyone remember something that did not occur? The grand jury investigated the tally-sheet cases at great length and returned no indictment. According to the Journal's present position, the investigation should have stopped there, but at the time, the Journal clammored for further investigation. As a matter of accommodation, we will pqint out several distinctions between the cases for the JournaVg benefit. When the first grand jury failed to indict in the tally-sheet cases, Judge Woods rebuked them from the bench. When the Dudley grand jury failed to indict, he said nothing. In the tally-sheet cases, he recommitted the subject to a new grand jury, and himself selected the foreman of that jury a thing never done before or since in any case. In the Dudley case he did nothing. In the tally-sheet cases, when the indictment Mas found to be defective, Judge Woods dictated a new indictment. In the Dudley eise, after numerous consultations with Mr. Harrison's law partners, Judge Woods altered his construction of the law so that Dudley's convictiou was made as difficult as possible. In the tally-sheet cases the committee of one hundred worked night and day for conviction. In the Dudley case they retired into their inner consciousness and locked the door. In the tally-sheet cases a democratic district-attorney labored to secure a conviction, and a jury of ßeven democrats convicted. In the Dudley case a republican district-attorney dismissed proceedings, prevented the service of a new warrant for arrest, held private consultations with the accused, and declares that a jury would not convict him, ! even if he were proven guilty. In the tally-sheet cases no central committeeman aided and abetted the defendants. In the Dudley case the chairman of the republican state centrrd committee takes the defendant to his residence to escape arrest, and gives him aid and counsel throughout. In the tally-sheet causes Judge Woods neglected to come down from the bench and shake hands with Coy and Bernhamer. In the Dudley case he rushed to greet the criminal, and showed him every possible distinction. This last difference will doubtless prove affecting to the judge when he remembers that one of the tallysheet defendants (Mr. Sullivan) has now parsed away, and he will probably never have an opportunity to grasp his hand again. Shut the Trust Books Out. The Jasper Courier, commenting upon the recent decision of a local judge against the school book law, and the . methods by which it was obtained, says: Under any circumstances, the unfair and despicable conrse of the school book trust, in trying by underhanded means to prevent the children of Indiana obtaining school books at reasonable prices, and compel them to pay its firms three and four times the value of the books, should re-act npon each of the firms beloncine to the. trust, in such a way as to prevent either of them ever obtaining another contract from any school corporation in the state, and it will if all the school trustees are honest, and above being bribed. Any trustee purchasing from a member of the trust hereafter will justly rest under a suspicion of taking a bribe. The Courier's suggestion is an excellent one. The school-book trust, by its disreputable and scandalous methods, has, forfeited any right to consideration at the hands of the people of Indiana. For many years it plundered our people, realizing, according to Gov. Hovey, from 300 to 000 per cent, profit on its publications. Finally the people determined to submit no longer to this extortion. They made a law, the purpose of which was to destroy the system of robbery and jobbery built np by the trust, and secure good schoolbooks at reasonable prices. Under this law proposals were invited from the whole world for supplying text-books for the public schools. The trust firms had an opportunity tobid. They refused to do so. They sought, by threats and bribery, to prevent others from bidding. By these tactics they succeeded in keeping all fori eign houses out of the competition, and if a home company had not been organized for the purpose, no bids would have leen received and no contract awarded. The trust tried hard to induce the state board not to award a contract. After the contract had been made, the trust employed every expedient that greed and long practice in roguery could suggest, to prevent it from being carried out. The trust corrupted every school official in the stiit c that was corruptible and purchased every newspaper in the state that was purchasable. Jt even went so far as to attempt to bribe printers and binders who had engaged to supply books to the contractors, to abandon the work. It endeavored in every possible way to embarrass the contractors. It filled its hired newspaper organs with attacks upon them, upon their books, upon the law, and upon the state board of education. It loaded the mails with scurrilous and libelous publications, for none' of which it dared to assume the responsibility. It trumped

up false charges against the books which led to an investigation that completely vindicated the contractors. Baffled at every point, having exhausted all its reuources of bribery, intimidation, falsehood, slander and trickery of every kind, the trust began to juggle with the courts. It is now playing its last card. The combination which has thus attempted to sandbag the people of Indiana should be shown no mercy. The firms composing it and chiefly Van Antwerp, Bragg & Co. are now selling in Indiana vast numbers of school books which are not covered by the 6tate contract nor erabraced in the law. Not another school book bearing their imprint should ever be used in Indiana if a substitute at all acceptable can be found. Honest school officials all over the state men who believe in obeying the law and protecting the people against insult and robbery should take the trust books out of their schools at the first opportunity and keep them out. The octopus should be shut completely out of the 6tate. If there are any unoccupied spaces for historical paintings in the rotunda of the capitol at Washington, we hope that congress will at once order one of them filled with a picture of Judge Woods coming down from the bench to greet W. W. Dudley. The scene deserves perpetual preservation. Of course the man who elected Harrison will be the central figure, standing erect, with a smile of complacent approval as the judge and other political dependents come meekly forward and pay their homage. Nothing could give a more impressive idea of the dignity of the federal judiciary under the administration of many prayers. Smiley N. Chambers should be placed on one side with hand extended toward "the Colonel" and a look of profound respect on his face, as if saying to the spectators, "Behold a reputable citizen, an honorable man, and a puie patriot." Cockrum should stand on the other side, holding up a court docket opened to the case of the United States vs. Dudley, with lines drawn across it showing that "there is nothing acainst Col. Dudley in the U. S. court." Van Burex should have a place by him holding up the warrant for Dudley's arrest, with the indorsement "Not found in my bailiwick, by order of S. N. Chambers." Atty. Gen, Michener, Stanton J. Peei.le, Barney Conroy, William Wallace, Sammy Perkins, Ross Hawkins, Bruce Carr, Derk De Ruiter, John Leonard, Ed Isgrigg, Tom Quill, Noble Butler, W. P. Fishback, and other republican leaders would fill in the backgrounds A most commendable enterprise, and one which should receive the generous support of m patriotic Americans, is that undertaken, oy the Ladies hermitage association. This association has been organized for the purpose of restoring the hermitage, the home of Andrew Jackson, in Tennessee, and preserving the valuable relics now stored there. The state of Tennessee has purchased the home and turned it over to- the association, which will endeavor to save for the ' nation this interesting spot, making it, like Mt. Vernon, a "Mecca" for Americans. The association makes an earnest appeal, for contributions in aid of this work. There ought to be a liberal response from the admirers and followers of "Old Hickory" in all parts of the country. We trust our Indiana Jacksonians will not be backward in responding to this appeal. Contributions may be sent to Mrs. C. P. Wright, secretary of the association, at 409 South Spruce-et., Nashville, Tenn. The delusion of protection to woolgrowers is rapidly going to pieces. The returns of the last election in Ohio show that in twenty-seven counties, which produce about three-fourths of the woo! grown in the state, Campbell's net gain was 4,022, although Foraker polled 1,073 votes more than he did two years ago in the same counties. Mr. Delano's fear of the "imminent danger of free trade" is not wholly joined in by the farmers who have seen, wool steadily decreasing in price asthe tariff on it steadily increased. As Mr. Lincoln remarked, you may fool all the people part of the time, or part of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time. TnE postmaster general in his annual report advises legislation which would debar from the privileges of second-class matter the various popular libraries which are now so widely circulated. It is anticipated that congress will pass a bill this winter in line with Mr. Waxmaker's recommendation. The publishers of the popular libraries are organizing to defeat the measure and will doubtless succeed. There really seems to be no sufficient argument in support of the proposition, although it would probably be no great misfortune to the country if the majority of the "popular libraries" were to be suppressed. The Indianapolis Sentinel company will fiay William, W. Dudley one thousand dolsrs if be will come to Indianapolis and swear that the letter bearing hin signature, and published in these columns this morning, and of which the original is in the possession of the editor of The Sentinel, is a forgery. This oiler is made in entire Rood faith. itentinet, A or . 2, 1SS8. Mr. Dudley was in town Wednesday, but he didn't try to gather in that $1,000. Mr. Dudley may Dot be afraid of the U. S. election laws, but be doesn't like to "buck against" local laws regarding perjury. Wk trust that the "blocks-of-five" along Mr. Dudley's line of travel will turn cut and give a warm reception to their cashier. The "floaters" of Indiana are under great obligations to this distinguished friend of Mr. Harrison. By careful attention to business, he has increased the price of votes in Indiana from 50 cents to $)5. Such a benefactor deserves more than ordinary thanks from this great class of beneficiaries. A valued subscriber, in renewing his subscription to The Sentinel, says: "I don't think there is a democrat in the state of Indiana, or outside of it, either, for that matter, who can afford to do without The Sentinel." We take pleasure in announcing that our offer of $1,000 to William Wade Dudley for an affidavit denying that he wrote the "blocks-of-five" letter, m published in The Sentinel, is still open, and the money can be had at any time. The wat to make money is to save it. Hood's Sarsaparilla is the most economical nirdiciue to buy, as it is the only medicine of which can truly be said, 'l(x) doses f P." Do nt r.ke any other preparation if you have decided to buy Jlomi's HjvrsaDarilla,

A SHAME AND DISGRACE.

Chambers' Incumbency of a Fa olio Office Properly Clmiarterrtk. Indianapolis News. The letter that CoLDudley stands charged with writing, and which neither invocation of law nor the temptation of reward can induce him to deny, said among other things: Divide the floaters into blocks of five and put a trusted man wilh necessary fund in charge of these fire, and make him responsible that none get away and that all vote our ticket This, Mr. Chambers declares, he thinks is not advice of bribery. This is amazing. If there is no bribery intended, why are the recipients of the letter warned to Bt.e that the "necessary assistance" is "husbanded and made to produce results?" If this does not mean the debauching of the ballot-box, the highest crime in our civilization, what does it mean ? Will Mr. Chambers tell us? And what does he mean by further declaring that the letter, "construed in the light of knowledge we all possess of how our elections are carried in Indiana" is not only not criminal, but honorable? We do not know the men nor the associations that hohl a standard of morals which reckons such advice as "honorable" and as "indicating simply a patriotic interest in the elections," and it certainly is in order to put Mr. Chambers on the witness stand and compel him to impart pome of the "knowledge" which 'we all possess as to how elections in Indiana are conducted by both parties." What does Mr. Chambers know; who are his associates? Certainly this standard of public morals makes his incumbency of a public office a shame and disgrace. President Harrison owes it no less to himself than to the public service and to this community to promptly relieve Mr. Chambers. The knobs of Crawford county might approve as "honorable" and as "indicating a patriotic interest in elections," advice to "divide? floaters into blocks of five" and to ?ut a "trusted man" with the "necessary unds" in charge of each block and make him "responsible" that "none gets away," but civilized societv dosn't. This whole Dudley episode seems to have left its slimy track on all the precincts dedicated to the United States here. The impotence of its machinery to ferret out this scoundrelly attempt to debauch a state particularly after it showed what it could do with Coy has weakened public respect. To see Col. Dudley swagger in and swagger out, decorated w ith congratulations like a hero, has aroused public contempt; To hear the federal prosecutor praising his infamy as "honorable" and "patriotic," calls tor public scorn and invites the repudiation of this community and this state. PROMINENT PEOPLE. The king of Siam has just married twenty new wives. The prince of Wales has not rallied from his condition of low spirits. The postmaster general is telling at his Philadelphia store a carpet-sweeper called "The Wanamaker." Senator Quay is troubled with insomnia and he can find no relief. lie intends to go to Florida after New Years. J cles Millet, a nephew of the great painter of "The Angelus," is a maker of brierwood pipes in New York, it is said. Amelia Bloomer rises to remark that she didn't invent the "Bloomer" costume, and hasn't worn it for thirty years. Representative Bullock informs the readers of the "Congressional Directory" that he is the fattier of thirteen children. The republicans of Delaware have declared war against U. 8. Senator Anthony Iliggins. Of course, their grievances relate to spoils. Prof. Volckmann, the famous surgeon, who recently died at Halle, Germany, introduced the antiseptic system of treating wounds. Gov. Joseph C. Yates of New York was buried in 1837 at Schenectady. The other day the body, when taken up for rebunal in New York City, was found to be petrified. Emperor William of Germany who is fond of hunting is obliged to use a short gun made especially for him, as he has the use of only one hand. lie uses his rifle as he would a pistol. Andrew Bee, of Martin, Micb., insists that he is the genuine captor of JelTerson Davis. lie also claims to have received $2SK5 for his services, which was the amount received by each private who had a hand in the capture. ItrFrs Thompson of West Swanzey, N. II., the father of the actor, Denman Thompson, was married a few days ago to Mrs. Sarah A. Walker of Westminister West, Vt Mr. Thompson is eighty-three years of age, and the bride is eight years hia junior. When Dom Fedro of Brazii lay sick unto death in Italy, not very long ago, he told his nurse one morning that he had had a dream. "An old man eame to me," said Dom Pedro, "and in a most earnest way informed me that I should lose my crown before I lost my life." v Lord Tennyson is very hospitable in his old age and likes to entertain young people. Mary Anderson is a great favorite with him, and he prefers a handsome woman as a guest to one who has no claims to beauty. In fact, he is very sensitive to beauty in man or woman, and ha j a poet's love for symmetry of form and feature. The crarowitz greatly enjoyed his visit to Athens, and the somewhat democratio life of the royal family of Greece was a source of constant astonishment and surprise to him, accustomed as he is to the thraldom of Russian court etiquette. To see King George walk about the streets of Athens unattended, or t jump ioto a surface car when late for breakiast and in a hurry to get home, was an extraordinary novelty in his eyes. JrLES Verse says, in a recent interview, that he regretted not being alle to call on Mr. Edison when the latter was in Paris. "1 am au invalid," said he. "I was 6hot at four years ago by a nephew of mine a capital fellow, who used to be very fond of me, and to whom 1 was devoted. Tea minutes after we had met one day he drew a revolver and, without a word of warning, fired at me twice. He had gone stark mad, and is now in an asylum." Senator David Tckpie of Indiana is, in appearance, atypical Iloosier. Disdaining fine apparel, the senator wears an old-fashioned roomy coat and a big broad-brimmed stiff hat, which sets well back upon h'e head. His vest is partially unbuttoned and he keeps up a constant chewing on a comfortable quid of tobacco. Senator Turpie's face is a strong one, with big black eyes set very deep, looking out from nmler overhanging brows. He wears a short, full beard, crisp and grizzly gray. He is credited by the other members of the party with being a great story-teller and a very entertaining conversationist. Chicago lltrall. The septuagenarian Duchess of Montrose and her youthful husband, Mr. Milner, have recently undergone a most disagreeable experience on the shores of Lake Lucerne in Switzerland. They hired a villa for a certain time. When ttieydei-ired toleare.theownerdemanded far more reut than they had agreed to pay, and he detained their luggage till a legal arrangement had been made, and bonds given for the trial of the case. As roon as this worry had been temporarily settled, all the servants of the villa demanded higher wages than those for which they had been hired, and upon being denied the full extent of their claims, refused to help in the packing up or carrying out of the trunks. Then the local livery-stable keeper refused to undertake the carriage of the lupjage to the pier except at a most exorbitant rate, and a cart had to be sought. Finally, at the last moment, when the ill-fated boxes were at length conveyed to the bteamer, a tradesman's demand for some small payment incurred by Mr. Milner was Vended in, and the trunks seized once more, acting its settlement. The duchess, in order 1 get enough cash to silence the demands, sent a check to the local bank, where she had no account, and the people there refused to honor it without having previously communicated with London. Had not the proprietor of the fcchweizerhof hotel at Lucerne come to the resecue and cAshed the check, the party could not have got away. The best physicians assure us that Dr. Bull's Coueh Syrup is a reliable aud never failing remedv.

INDIANA'S LITERATURE. THE STKTE THE REPUBLIC OF LETTERS!

SECOND pater. We continue the subject of Indiana literature by sketching the lives of a few early Iloosier poets in addition to those mentioned in the first paper. The names of some of these poets are household words, and a few of their poems are still read and admired. The names of others are only remembered by the older literati of the state, and their writings are to Le found only in dust-covered volumes now seldom read. But we have reason to believe that most of our early poets have been totally forgotten, and their writings are as if they never had existed. "But poets," it is said, "are extremely mortal." So were these. These forgotten heroes (for such they were) uttered a few sweet, plaintive notes that sounded a moment and then died away into silence. But they lived and sang, and the world is all the better for their music. Of our early poets Sarah T. Bolton is doubtless the most renowned. She was born in Newport, Ky., in 1S14, but at an early age removed with her parents to Indiana. She was educated at Madison, Ind., where she was married. There is but little romance in her history other than her struggle with poverty during middle life. But her soul was only softened and made better by this conflict. Her muse sang sweeter after having been imprisoned for a time. But prosperity finally came and she was permitted to devote her time to writing and travel. In 1S57 she accompanied her husband to Lurope, where fdie spent several years in studying the institutions and customs of the people. She admired foreign lands, yet her admiration for her own country was far greater. This is clearly shown in her exquisite poem, "Lake Leman." After paying a very beautiful and appropriate tribute to Swiss 6cenery and the Swiss people, ehe savs : Cut my pilgrim feet re weary, And mr spirit dim with tlreainin. Where the Ion dead past bu written Misty hi roeljrphicljre; In alan 1 wine pulsrt (dumber, r oniy bear in seeming, Where the pathway of iho C:esars Is a ruin eTTtnore. Besr me baek, O mighty ocean. From the old world, pray snd gory, To the furesta and rairies Far beyond the stormy wares ; To a lan 1 that f re dorn' fotred, To Kigantio Mrength and g-lorjr. To my homeland with its loved ones And its unforgottrn graves. But her love for her native state is still better expressed in that splendid, I was about to say matchless, poem "Indiana." This is undoubtedly the finest tribute ever paid to Indiana by any of her authors. Would that this and poems of a kindred nature mijht be printed in our ßchool books. Few thincs would do more to make our children love and respect their native state. I can give but two stanzas of this exquisite poem, but I hope the readers of this sketch may have an opportunity to read the entire poem. It is worth your while : Thonfrn many land ItaliVs clime, And call Helvetia's land sublime. Tell (J alias' praise la prose and rhyme, And worihip old ilispania; The winds of heaven ncrer fanned. The circling sunlight never spanned The borders of a better land Than oar own Indiana.. Her gentle mothers, pure snd Rood, In stately homes or cabins rude. Are nob'.e types of womanhood; Her girls are sweet a .d canuie, Her sons among the brvet brave, Call no man master, no man slave Holding in heritji?eGod gave In tee to Indiana. "Mrs. Bolton is a true Iloosier in sentiment. She has spent her life among our people, and she not only loves them, but understands their cenius and peculiarities. She knows that they appreciate and respect all virtues, but that self-reliance and perseverance are especially esteemed. She has given expression to these Iloosier sentiments in her exquisite and most popular poem "Paddle Your Own Canoe." Thoush familiar to all, we pive a few lines as repBentativeof the entire poem: Voyager npon life's sea, To yourself be true. And wher'er your lot may be Paddle your own canoe. Never, though the winds may rave. Falter nor look back; But upon the darkest wave, Leave a shining track. Nothing great is highly won; Nothing won is lot; ' Evry pood deed nobly done Will repay the cost. Leave to he aven in bumble trust All you will to do, But if you succeed you must Paddle your own canoe. While Mrs. Bolton loves Indiana much, she loves her country more. She was a firm unionist before and during the war. Her devotion to the Union is finely expressed in the patriotic poem, "The Union." This poem is a fiery invective a poetic philippic. It well expresses the patriot feeling during the war of the loyal women of the North : Disaolve tha Union ! Let the blush of rhame Hide with iu crimxon glow the cheek Of him who dares avow the traitorous aim. 'Tis not the truo, the wise, the (food who speak Words of such fearful import ; but the weak. Drunk with faaaticinm's poisonoua wine, And reckless of the future, madly seek To hold their saturnalia at the shrine. Sacred to human freedom, human rights divine. Mrs. Bolton's poetry is chaste and beautifulthe heart-songs of a noble, gifted woman. I Ier poems have been collected and published in a finely illustrated volume. This book is well worth reading. Mrs. Bolton now resides at Beech ürove, near Indianapolis, where 6he is spending the evening of life happily. Although iu the seventy-sixth year of her ajce, she is in full possession of her mental powers and is said to write yet with as much ease and vijior as when she wrote the beautiful description of Inke Leman, or penned the ode to Mt. Blanc. She devotes most of her time to the education and care of her grandchildren in making those happy around her. How plea.sant old age is to those who really live! "When called upon to define the word poet, a wag once said: ,"A poet is one whose imagination dwells among the clouds, but who never pays casli to the groceryman." lie 6aid this not because wngs are generally noted for the amount of ready cash on hands, but because there is a general notion among some people that poets are shiftless, impractical, dreamy, harmless souls, who are to be pitied "for a weakness rather than censured for a ff.ult. But in Indiana, at least, this opinion is not well founded. Some of our most practical and brainiest professional and business men are our lest poets Major Gordon, the celebrated criminal lawyer; Clarence A. Buskirk, ex-attorney-general of the state; Benj. S. Barker, a noted journalist and politician; Maurice Thompson, naturalist and ex-state geologist; aud a letter from the Kankakee says that the inimical l'fritnmer is a real live insurance ajrent as wt-11 as county superintendent. No, the true poet is not an idle dreamer, but one who sees the ipirit of things and is able to portray beauty no difference where it is found. ' That all poets are not impractical person is also demonstrated by the life of Judge Biddle. Mr. B. was born in Ohio in 1S14. aud was educated in the common.

schools of his native ftato. But in early manhood he removed to Logansport, Ind., and c-ngajwd in the practice of law. By hard work and perseverance he achieved success as a lawyer, politician, eck ntist and poet. As a politician he has lx?en a prominent figure for many vears. lie ha$ held several important ofiices, the last being that of jui. of the 6upretre court of the state. lie has written a treatise on the musical scale, and also a review of Mr. Tyndall's treatise on "Sound." Both of these works are said to possess much merit. Notwithstanding the fact that Mr. .Biddle has been a very busy man, yet he has found time to write much excellent veise. One of his most beautiful poeirn is 1HS Bir.TU or CVPID. A tear-drop fell from an ai cel s eye. And lodtrel iu a cup of a ttower; While trembling there '1113 embraced by a sigh. And Cup:d was born in the bower. Thus prang fr .ra embraces to sweetly expressed. The chila of a inh and a tear. And reared on the sweets of a flower's breat. Why murvtl he-g wayward, aweet, tender and dear. Another of Mr. Biddle's poems that seems to me to le more leautiiul than the one just quoted is entitled "The An'-el and the Child" I saw a child a lovely flower, i'prin? to tbe mir dip r's breath. I looke d a?in; 'twas but an hour And lo, 'twas laid in deith.. I a'-ked an anpei why i: 4, Why such to earth wa Jreri. Tbe ani;el said, Ttiey spring below Hut hrtve thiir bloom in heaven." Mr. B. resides in a beautiful home on an island in the Wabash river near Louansport. After a life of busy cares, old age finds him honored and loved by his friends, whose number is legion. Such a life is worthy of imitation. "E Pluribus Unum" is one of the most noted American poems, ranking in popularity with "The Star Spangled Banner" and "Home, .weet Home." The author of this patriotic poem, George W. Cutter, is an Indianhn, not by birth, but by adoption. He was born in Kentucky in 1 Sil. und was educate'd in his native state. lie did not receive a college education, but his native genius made up for his lack of classical learning. He was a lawyer, soldier and statesman by turns. At one time he was a member of the Indiana legislature. But his ability as a lawyer, valor as a soldier and success as a statesman have long since been forgotten he is remembered as a poet. Next to "K riuribus Unum" his most popular poem is "Song of Steam," a potn that will live as long as steam is used as a motor. Another poem of almost equal merit is "Song of Lightning," from which we quote the following lines: Away: away! tbroiuh the si:ht-s air, J?tr tch forth your iron thread, For I would not dim my sandals fair With thedu-a y tamely tread. I canuot toil, lika the groaning slave You have fettered with iron skill. To ferry you over tbe boundless nave. Or grind in the noisy mill. Ho! no: I'm the spirit of light and love To my unseen hand 'lis given To pencil the aml ricnt clouds above. And polish the stars of bcaTea; To scatter the golden rays of fire. On the horizon farbeiow. To dock the cloudi where storms expire With my red and dazzling glow. Amanda L. Kuter Dufour is a native Iloosier. She was born in Jetfersonyille in 1822, and was educated in the 6choolsol that city, which has always been hei home. She began to write at an early age and has probably written as much verse as any other Indiana writer. Her poems are remarkable for their grace ol expression and purity of thought. Although none of her twems have become general favorites, yet they attracted much attention at the time of publication and are Etill excellent readinc. Her poem entitled "Beveries" is very beautiful beautiful fn thought, sentiment and diction. The following will give some idea of the poem: In the twilight I am sitting, l'reamily. O'er my soul are phantoms flitting Mournfully; And the winds without are si;hin(r, And within dark shadows lyini;. And my rertless heart keeps throbbing To the nignt wind sobbing, sobbing, i'iaintivfcly. Siren songs of davs departed Fill the air. Ere I grew so weary heated, Iark wi;h care. Ere the glorious wings of trnst Had trailed earthward to tbe dust; ' And the halcyon days were gob 0 er which love's summer shone", Warm and lair. There are several other writers thai should be mentioned here, but space wif permit us to notice only a few more. Peter Fish Heed, author of "Four Degrees of Love," "Picture on the Wall" and "Dollars and Dimes" was a native ol Boston, but lived for several years in Indianapolis. The history of his life is rather romantic. He played the role ol doctor, farmer, shoemaker, editor, house and sign painter, photographer, music teacher, artist and poet. Although 'melancholy locked anna with him many years ago, he still rinds many joys which make the burdens of life pleasant" Such if the poet's life at least the life of ont poet. Mary E. Neely, the author of "The Little Shoe," was born and educated in Louisville, Ky., but spent most of her life in Indiana. She lived for some years in the southern part of the state but afterward moved to Indianapolis. She had her share of the misfortunes of life, bat in spite of them all, her life was successful. She is remembered as the author of "The Little Shoe." We give one btanza of this popular poem: 1 found It here a worn out shoe, All mildewed with time aud wet with dew; 'Tis a little thing you would pas it by With never a thought, nor word nor sigh; Tat it stirs in my spirit a Luiden welt. The following should also ho included in the roster of early Indiana poets Frances S. Lock, author of "The Par's Burial ;" Or plieus Kverta author of "Onawcquah"," ai Inlian tale; Mrs. Hetty A. Morrison, author of a look entitled "A Su ?"T " Kitchen," and also of much fl;, ""V Jy. George York Welborn, a student of Asbury university and author of "Voices of Other Days;" James Pumrnil. author ot "A Summer morning;" Isaac II. Julian, author of "Boone in thr Wilderness" and "The Genius of the West;" Sydney Dwycr, the army drummer boy, who" afterward lecame a baptist minister, author of "Song of the Sun Beam" and several hymns. All these were writers of considerable merit, and deserve a much more extended notice than we have given them here. But the readei will find a fuller account of these writers in "Poets and Poetry of Indiana," soon tc be published, by Benjamin S. Parker oi New Castle. J. W. Carr. Muncie, Dec. 12. ote I desire to make these sketches of Indiana authors as reliable and accurate as possible and r.s full as the limited space will permit, 1 find it very difiicult to obtain reliable data except from the authors themselves or their friends. I hope that any Indiana author will feel free to address me, whether I have written him or her a personal letter or not. J. W. Carr.

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