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TIIE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. WEDNESDAY JIOItMNG. MAY 13. 1891 TWELVE PAGES.

INDIANA STATE SENTINEL

BY THE INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL CO. S. E. MORSS. President. IZaUxsdatUiePostofflcsatlQdUaapolU M second clans matter. j TKRMS FETt YKARi flrple rep t (InTiritbfy In AdTnce.)-.....Sl 00 Wask democrat to bear in mind and select their (td state paper when they come to take subscrljw tioci and make up clubs. Agents cakine np clubs send for anv Information ieiid- Adcuss THE LNP1A1 A ID US SENTINEL Indianapolis, tnd. ' WEDNFSDAY, MAY 13, 181)1. TWELVE PAGES. Ihe Republican Party and mushing. In a recent Fpeecb Maj. McKixley d elared that tho republican party could "look into the future without fear and into the past without blushing." This was neat and epigrammatic and has eerved as a text for numerous editorials in the republican pres9 upon the past glories of the g. o. p. Bat tho fact is that if the republican party can recall the past without blushing it is because it has lost the capacity for blushing. The party was organized under a noble inspiration and came into power only to confront a great emergency, -which it met successfully because it was eustained in all essential matters by all the people, without regard to party. There was much in its history, even during its best years, of which it is not possible for its most devoted partisan to be proud. But it was not until the war closed that the republican party became a mere instrument of personal ambition and cor, orate greed, and its record since that time contains plenty of material for blushing purposes. From 1865, when Lincoln died, to 1S09, when Grant became president, the republican party committed almost every abase of powe r that has ever been laid at the door of kingly tyrant or brutal autocrat. It flooded the South with an army of sneak thieves, pickpockets and cutthroats, known in history as "carpetbaggers," who plundered the unfortunate people of that section in a most shameless manner, usurped their governments, trampled on all their rights as freemen, set over them the meet ignorant and degraded elements of their population, and carried on such a carnival of fraud, jobbery, peculation and general cussednese, es no civilized country has witnessed in modern times. The carpet-bag blight rested upon the South for almost a decade. Can the republican party recall this chapter of its history without blushing? During these earae years the republican party, as an organization, illustrated the extremes to which partisanship can fro, and put the republic in needles-s jeopardy by inipeachinj? Andrew Johnson, president of the United States, of high crimes and misdemeanors. Andrew Johnson was impeached because he refused to lend himself to the wicked schemes of personal ambition and party aggrandizement of the republican leaders and because he stood for the constitution and the rights of the people and the states against the revolutionary and lawless plottinga of a band of political desperadoes. He was not deposed from office because of the patriotism, the courage and the manhood of seven republican senators, who were visited with every form of obloquy by their pajty, and some of thm persecuted into their graves by republican fanatics. Can the republican party look back upon the impeachment of Andrew JoiiNsoNwithout blushing? Tho republican party, regardless of all the teachings of history and experience, regardless of the dictates of reason anJ patriotism, regardless of the welfare of the people, and with a view only to the perpetuation of itself in power, conferred tho luffrage upon nearly a million black men when they were not ready to receive it. "When the republican party did this it committed a crimo again-st tho republic and an outrago upon the black men. No patriotic or just man believes that the negroes should have been permanently disfranchised, but no one can view the results of negro suffrage without realizing that, in the time and manner of its establishment, it was a crime for which the republican party ought to blush if it doesn't. In 18t)0 the republican party passed the law known as the public credit act, which changed a contract with the bondholders by which the people were defrauded of hundreds of millions of dollars. In 1S73 it raised the standard of values to the profit of every money lender in this country and Europe, and to the impoverishment of the people, by demonetizing ailver. From 1SWJ to 1S77 under Grant it carried on the government with an extravagance and a wastefulness and a corruption which in any other country on earth would have precipitated a bloody revolution. These were the days of Belknap and Babcock and Secor Robeson and Landaulet "Williams and the whisky ring and the moiety frauds and the credit xnobilier and the salary grab. The ecandalsandexcessesof Grantiam were patiently endured by the peoplo for nearly eight years, but in lS7ti there was a great popular uprising, and the republican party was voted out of power. Then it was that the leaders of this organization the Chandlers. John Sherman, Morton, LoGAN,etc. plotted and carried out the greatest political crime in our history the stealing of the presidency. Four years later the grand old party, having passed under the control of the organized capital of the country, secured ' another lease of power by a shameless and unprecedented debauchery of the electorate. At this atage of its career Dorset and Dudley, whose names have become eynonymous with all that is venal and degrading in politic?, came to the front, the former being at the time the head of the Star route riDg, a republican gang of public plunderers which, under the protection of the powers at Washington, car. ried things with a high hand for years. Can the republican party review the years from ISM to ISSo without blushing? From 1385 to 1839 it capacity for evil was limited. In 18S8, however, it repeated the crimes of ISSO, and by the brazen employment of the most corrupt methods ltied the popular will, and restored the

government to the hands of monopoly and greed. Since 1SSS we have had Tom Reed's billion dollar congress, which bankrupted the treasury and loaded the people with new taxes for the benefit of millionaires and jobbers; we have had the infamous McKinley law; we have seen the money collected from all the people turned over to a favored few in the form of pub.sidiea and bounties; we have seen the Fen ate packed with republican partisans from rotten boroughs; we have narrowly escaped a subversion of our form of government by the p;;jsago of the iniquitous measure known as the force bill all of which is to be laid to the account of the republican party. A train we say that if the grand old party can "look imo the pat without blushincr ' as Maj. M Kim.ky says it can it must be because it has lost the capacity to blush. The Report of tho New Orleans Grand Jury. The New York Tribune observes that "it is occasion ally necessary to remind police detectives that the general undesirability of a human being docs not furnish a valid reason for making him suffer for a crime that he did not commit." A good many people besides police officers need to be similarly reminded. There are too many preachers, editors and other public teachers who go on the theory that the extermination of bad men on general principles, whether by observing the forms of law or by mob violence, is commendable. The New Orleans maesacre has been indorsed by ministers of- the gospel in this city because the victims were wicked men. The Chicago anarchists were legally strangled, not on the strength of the evidence against them, but because they were considered dangerous persous, whom it would be well to put out of the way. It cannot be too strongly impressed upon the public mind that, as the New York Trihuiw forcibly puts it, "the general undesirability of a human being does not furnish a valid reason formating him suffer for a crime that he did not commit." The only way, in an organized society, to ascertain whether a man did commit a crime or not i through the agencies created by the law for that purpose. Any other method in certain to prove disastrous. Guilty persons are frequently acquitted in toe courts owing to tho absence of conclusive proof, or the fallibility of human judgment, or tho agencies of corruption. Hut the remedy for there m'scirriaes of justice, in so far as there is a remety, does not consist in an appeal from the courts to the mob, but by reforming the instrumentalities of justice. Such reforms can

only be made whvn a sound and atrgrtssive public sentiment exifts. When the people are demoralized crime i.- certain to go unpunished to a creator or less extent. Nothing is to be gained, while every interest of society is put in peril, by meeting crime with crime; by committing a dozen murders in retribution for one murder; by arousing the wild passions of the multitude When the emergency cal's for the calm, sober judgment of the public, based upon evidence, and expressed through the channels which have ben provided by the organic law for that purpose. The report of the New Orleans grand jury, which wa. published in thou columns yesterday, makes these reflections especially pertinent. The report is a voluminous document, and might, with advantage, have been condensed into one-half, or perhaps one-quarter, of the space it occupies. It is an elaborate expose of the methods which have been employed to subvert the administration of justice in New Orleans. Trom this report it appears that these methods have been systematically and notoriously practiced for many years, and it does not appear that any organized effort has been made to suppress them, or to punish tho guilty persons, although they were well known to the community. Officials charged with the administration of justice have, it seems, lx?en known to be in collusion with these miscreants to prevent the punishment of crime, and yet they have been tolerated in ollic by the people. They have not been impeached; the press has not held them up to public scorn ; they have been permitted to continue in their scoundrelly courses, without protest or interference from any considerable number of citizens. They might have been long ago turned out of office and riv placed with decent men had the public conscience asserted itself. The natural result of this shameful lethargy an 1 indifference to the duties of good citizenship was the mistrial in the Hennesay case, which was brought about by the most shameless subornation of pierjury, bribery and intimidation. Then the people, in their wrath, wreaked summary vengeance upon the eleven men who had been acquitted by the agencies provided by these same people for the execution of justice. They sought to atone for theirown criminal neglect of duty by the perpetration of a crime so cowardly and cold blooded and infamous that it caused a shudder throughout the civilized world. The men who inspired and participated in the massacre of March 14 were .the "first citizens of New Orleans." . None o; them are indicted by the grand jury. It was not expected that they would be. Bckke said it was not possible to indict a nation. Neither is it possible to indict a city. Six men have been indicted for bribing, or attempting to bribe, the jurors in the Ilennessy case. So far, so good! It is to be hoped they may be punished as they deserve to be. It i even more to be hoped that the peop'e of New Orleans will awake to a realization of the fact that they themselves are alone to blame ' for the evils which have befallen them. If they had uphe'd the dignity and majesty of the law, if they had been alive to the evils of corruption in politics and jobbery in public afiairs, if their moral sense had not been blunted by such debasing influences as the Iuisiana lottery, the Mafia would not have taken root among them, jury fixing would not have flourished, their hal's of justice would not have degenerated into dens of thieves, mob murder would not have bccom.j the pastime of their "leading citizens." The massacre of March was simply an outgrowth of the same moral disease of which the events which precipitated it were symptoms. Communities which enjoy reasonable moral health don't mob their criminals, and don't have any occasion to. Lynch law is a manifestation of barbarism. It ha3 no place

among civilized people, and no community which tolerates it can fairly claim to ba civilized. Decline In Indiana Farm Population. The New- York Evening Post analyzes the census figures and finds that the decline of the rura'i population of the country is by no means confined to New England. In considerable sections of every statfl (West Virginia excepted), north of the southern boundaries of Virginia and Tennessee and east of the Mississippi, and in tho states of Iowa and Minnesota west of that river, f there are more or less extensive tracts which have fewer inhabitants, outside of the corporate limits of cities having in lS'.iOa population of 10,000 or upwards, than they had a decade ago. Of the eighty-eight counties In ..Ohio, th'rty-six outside of the cities have lost population. Almost as large a proportion of the area of Indiana shows a diminishing population. Says the Evening Post, speaking of this state: Of the ninety-two counties, however, twenty-seven have, outride of the cities, a smaller population than in ISSO. More than four-filths, or twenty-two of these counties lie in the southern half of the state and principally in its southeastern corner, w here only Hamilton county separates them from "the Ohio group of diminishing counties. Of the eighteen Indiana counties south of fhe fortieth parallel and east of the eighty-sixth meridian, thirteen have lost population in the decade; and the eighteen taken together have, if their cities be excluded, fifteen thousand less inhabitants than w hen the tenth census was taken. For some reason the majority of the Ohio river counties, in both Ohio and Indiana, show a diminished population. Out o! the twenty-seven counties of Ohio and Indiana lying along the Ohio river thirteen have decreased in rural population. A similar, though less marked tendency, manifests itself on the southern or Kentucky side of the river, in which, out of twenty-one counties lying opposite Ohio or Indiana, ten have less population than they had ten years ago. Twentyseven out of the Hi) counties of Kentucky are less populous than they were a decade since. We do not believe the rural population of Indiana has declined as much aa indicated by the census reports. The state has probably from 150,000 to 200,000 more people than Porter's political enumerators were able to fine'.' But. making all due allowances for the inaccuracy of the census of this state, it is clear that there has been a considerable falling off in our rural population. There are not so many farmers in Indiana as there were ten years ago. Farming has not been profitable in this state for a number of years. The growth of "home markets" has not made our agriculture prosperous. Indianapolis, Evansville, Fort Wayne, Terre Haute,

South Bend, Anderson, Muncie, Kokomo, Marion and other manufacturing centers have show n a handsome percentage of increase. But this has not helped the farmers to make both ends meet. They have been emigrating to the far West, where, as a rule, no better fortune awaited them, or have been selling their farms, or letting the sheriff take them and moving to the towns and cities to try their hand at other parsuits. The boys, too, have been leaving the farms abandoning tho most dignified and honorable of avocations to seek their livelihood in mills and factories as laborers, mechanics, railway employes, clerks, sal- smen, etc. They have deserted the farms principally because farming did not pay. There is much food for serious reflection in the decline of our rural population. Home Indian Nulliflom. Sixty years ago the people of the whole United States were greatly excited over the course taken by the nullifiers of South Carolina. Today a band of nullifies is seeking to ect at naught the laws oi Indiana, and the people of this stata are giving this matter almost no attention. These modern nullifiers are the block coal operators of the Clay county district, and the real cause of their anxiety to break down the statutes is to continue a ystem of human slavery the identical motive which inspired the South Carolina nullifiers of sixty years ago. For many years the Clay county operators have held their employes in bondage, every whit a servilo as that which held the negroes south of Mason and Dixon's line, but far less merciful and considerate of the bondman's welfare. The southern slave owner kept his chattels well fed, clothed and housed. The Clay county operator keeps his on the verge of starvation, ragged, houseless and constantly in debt. Two years ago the legislature began to investigate the condition of the Clay county miners. It found that they were working under a system of veritable peonage. It found that the miner digged in the earth and brought to tho surface . quantities of coal in lumps, and quantities of it broken into fine particles termed "slack." It found that the miner was paid for his work by the ton in this wise: The whole product of the miner's work was passed over a coarse screen ; that portion which did not pass through the screen was weighed and the miner credited with its weight. For that portion of hia product which passed through the screen the miner received no pay whatever. But he was not permitted to take it away. If he wished to do 60 ' he was charged a good round sura for everj pound of it. That "slack" which the miner digged was valu able to the operator, though lie taid notb ing for securing it; so valuable that he even begrudged the miner what little be carried aw ay on his grimy hands. The legislature found, further, that the robbery of the miner by the operator did not cease here. It found that the opera tor held back the wages of the miner. sometimes for many months at a time. It found further that, in lieu of money, the operator gave to the miner, in pay for that part of his work which the operator credited him with, an order on the "com pany etoro for family supplies. At this store the miner was charged double or triple what he would have been charged at any other store for similar articles. Against tnis robbery me miner wag utterly defenseless. If he refused to ac cep the screening of his coal ho could not work.' He had no money with which to buy elsewhere, and if he hud had, he would have lost his job by refusing to patronize the "company store." When the legislature found this condi tion of affair- it took immediate action looking toward its reform. Two years ago it enacted a law abolishing the "pluck me store system. This law was evaded, and at its late cession two mure laws

were enacted for the protection of the

miner from the avarice of the operator. One of thee looked to the prevention of the primary robbery whereby the miner was deprived of pay for a large share of his work by abolishing the screen, or compelling operators to weigh coal mined before screening. Thesecondlaw enacted sought to prevent the robbery of the miner by withholding hia wages, and thus forcing him to pat ronize the company store, with its extortionate prices on everything cold. This second law requires the operator to pay the miner at least once in two weeks in law ful money no store orders, or cer tificates, or anything hut the lawful money of the land, good for its face anywhere. There can be no doubt that if these laws were faithfully observed the con dition of the miners would be greatly improved. But the operators do not propose that they shall be ob served. They will not openlv violate these laws, for the penalties are costly, and they know full well that an outraged public sentiment would cause their speedy enforcement. Afraid to violata the laws the opera tors set about working their nullification. They notified the miners that no man could work for them who would not sell his birthright sign a waiver of all his rights under these laws. This would again put him in the clutch of the opera tor. He would once more be compelled to dig twice as much coal as he would be paid for; he would be forced to purchaso all his suppl es from the company store at whatover inflated prices the operator might see fit to put upon them. This is the situation in Clay county today. The operators are simply seeking to nullify the laws of the state. They set up defiance to the will of the people as expressediby their representatives and boldly seek to break down the statutes of the commonwealth. They do this that they may further starve and enslave, and oppress their fellow human beings. They are fighting for the maintenance of slavery just as much as were the South Carolina nullifiers in 15'E!. What a pity that the governor's chair is not occupied by a Jackson to crush out the sedition! If the clay county operators accomplish their purpose it will establish a most dangerous precedent. If they can nullify these laws why cannot any other class of men do the same with other laws? Why cannot the murderers and rapists and horse thieves get together and nullify the penal code? Why not not the bankers nullify the usury laws, or the saloonkeepers the license laws? Governor Hovey ought immediately to call the legislature together to take action in this matter. It is a grave crisis in the state's history which should bo met promptly and vigorously. Nullification should forever be made both odious and dangerous in Indiana. How Labor I-'arra In Protected Germany. The American Economist, the official organ of the American protective league, declares that "the most satisfactory test of the merits of an industrial policy is furnished by statistical reports, where carefully and intelligently made." It then proceeds to quote freely from a recent report by our commercial agent at Moyence (James II. Smith) relating chiefly to "house industry" in Germany in contradistinction to factory work. "The former," says the Economist, "consists in the employment, at their homes, of many thousands of people, in the production of special classes of articles, and is carried on largely in small villages and in mountainous regions, where agricultural pursuits cannot be made to meet even limited requirements of life. In some cases simple machinery is employed, but hand labor is the main reliance. The production of this work, as a rule, is for middlemen, and not for consumers." It appears from this report that about 350,000 persons were thus employed in Germany when the latest census was taken (18S2). A large proportion of these were women and children. The hours of labor were, and are, very severo. Wood engravers work all day and late at night; hand weavers, fifteen hours per dsy; slate makers, eighteen hours; basket makers, in summer from 4:30 a. m., and in winter from earliest dawn until late at night by lamplight; workers in meerschaum, fifteen to sixteen hours in summer and eleven in winter; at net work (women) from G a. m. until 10 p. m. with short respite for a scanty dinner. The following table shows the returns male these German house workers for six days' hard toil of twelve to 'eighteen hours each : WEEKLY WAGES IN GERMAN HOTSK IIPrSTRY. Weavers.- $2.14 to $2fi Sword makers 3.10 to 3.3j Embosser (aided by wife and children) 2.85 to 3.57 Turners 1.GG to 2.04 Female workers on doll-baby hair 80 to .90 Slate maker - 1.42 Paper-box n. a Iters .71 best maker of meerschaum pipes 4.23 to 5.00 Ordinary workmen on tame 2.P5 Poor workmeu on same 1.00 to 2.14 Family of firs wood engravers... 3.57 to 3.M) Cork cutters (whole family). 1.1 to . l.flO Makers of willowware...; 2.85 to 3.57 Makers of violins 2.38 to 4.2i Hand weavers of fine mall l.oO to 2.00 CurUin weavers.... l.flJ to 2.14 Other wearers : LXO to 3.(9 Average of all per week (2.24 The Economist tells us that, of course, "the living of these people roust correspond w ith their incomes." It says : In some cases a single room is made to serve for all purposes of living, working and sleeping, with a table, a bench, chairs and two beds of straw, with no sheets; with these they have a kitchen, with smallclothes press and plain bureau. Two and often three and four persons occupy a ingle t ed. Matchmakers cook their food on stoves on which phosphorous and sulphur are prepared. - The food of these people is correspondingly meager, consisting chiefly of potatoes morning, ' noon and night. Other foods include chicory coffee, coffee water, bread, cheese, vegetables, sauerkra-it,. beans, rice, beer and sometimes milk. In Saxcn Voigtland the average yearly consumption of meat for 1875 was placed at 40.4 pfennigs (11 J cents) per head of population, w hile for the entire kingdom of Saxony the year's meat averaged Cti.l pfennigs 15 J cents). The effect of this state of things upon the health of the population is seen in the fact that only to 5 per cent, of the men are fit for. military service. As to morals, the result is seen in the returns, showing 11.5 per cent, of the entire population ot ( iermany from 1805 to 1S70 wero illegitimate, while the rate in some sections stood as high as 22.2 per cent. This is certai.ily a sad picture, and, no doubt, a faithful one. - But Gadder even

than the picture is the depravity which can move the Economist to say : In contrast with this showing of the condition of things among the industrial classes of Germany, let us briefly refer to the situation of the same urnlcr the protective pJicy of the United States, Following this the Economist gives some figures purporting to show the wages of labor in Michigan. Now. when it is borne in mind that the very same protective policy which 13 in force in the United States is also in force in Germany, and has been for fifteen or eighteen years; that the workingmen whose sad lot is described in the forego

ing are "protected" workingmen, and that the editor of the Economist is fully aware of these facts, the assurance which moves him to the publication of such an article as we .have quoted must be pronounced sublime. But most protection editors are endowed with the 6ame quality. It is a favorite trick of theirs to publish heart-rending descriptions of the woes and wrongs of labor in other protectionist countries, and point to them as the results of free trade. For instance, take a recent "tariff picture" in the New York Prat: Average Daily Wages, Jewelers. Germany, 90c per day, " England, $1.50. United States (New Vortt ftatei. These figures show that in two old countries, similar in character and population, there is a wide difference in the wages of jewelers. The jewelers in the protected country Germany get only 90 cents a day; the jewelers in the free trade countryEnglandget $1.50 a day. What do these figures show? Better evidence of the fact that protec tion does not increase wages than is given V. by the .liertccm Economist and the New York Press as above could not be desired. The astounding thing is that these papers should lay such evidence before their readers. They evidently consider the latter very low very low, indeed in the scale of intelligence. The Fort Wayne Gazette, the leading republican paper of northern Indiana, in commenting upon a recent Harrison boom article in the Indianapolis Journal, gays: The personal friends of President Harbison who are working for his renomination were greatly disconcerted by the feeling of indifference manifested toward their favorite at Cincinnati. There is abundant reason for believing that it was the deliberate purpose of the leaders of that convention to ignore the president altogether. Had it not been for the unfortunate chance utterance of Governor Fckaker they would probably have carried out their plan. This may have been a w ise course to pursue and it may not. Eepublicans have a right to choose their own loader. If the members of the league did not des;re to boom Mr. H akkison" it was no violation of the constitution nor oi lealty to their party, or of any law of ethics, for them to do as they intended doiug. Probably they reasoned jn this way: President Harbison is now out on an electioneering tour. He is taking in the southern states, not because they can give a single electoral ote, but because they will have votes in the republican national convention that he would like to have. He is doing all be can to get a renomination, and as we do not wish him success, and do : ot wish to attack him, we will simply be silent. Jhis was probably the feeling of a majority of the delegates to that convention, and who bhall say that it did not correctly represent the masses from whom those delegates received their appointment ? The Gazette continues infthis strain, and concludes its article as follows: The simple fact, and all there is that is entitled to be stated as fact, is that the party in the North has not yet made up its mind to renominate Gen. Harrison. It may do eo, but if it does it will be because after full consideration it believes that such a course is desirable, and not because the president himself desires it, nor because his mouthpiece threatens them with political perdition if they don't doit. A memorable event was celebrated at Chickering hall, New York, a few evenings ago with appropriate exercises. "Two thousand insane persons reocused from the poorhouses of the stato and placed under state care, the county system, with all its barbarity, abolished and the humane treatment of the state institutions extended to these poor unfortunates" this, says the Hemfd, "was the achievement to which the State charities aid association calle 1 public attention and for which it invited popular congratulation." This association has been in existence nineteen years, during which it has accomplished a great work for the cause of humanity. It would be well if, in every state, the insane and idotic could be removed from the almshouses, where their condition, as a rule, is deplorable, and placed in state institutions erected especially for their care. When the additional hospitals for the insane were erected in Indiana, it was believed that they would afford adequate accommodations for all the insane of the state. But the alarming increase in insanity has prevented this. All the hospitals are well filled. and yet nearly every county infirmacy in the state still shelters the hopelessly insane. What Indiana needs is an asylum especially for this class, in addition to the hospitals already existing for the treatment of persons whose insanity has not been pronounced permanent. But the prospect is that it will be some years before such an institution can' be provided. It is said that a railroad company is holding a number of Bohemians in slavery in Virginia, and that the government of Austria-Hungary w ill make a row over the matter. It is a good thing for these wretched Bohemians that.' they have a government which takes some interest in them. There are several thousand A mbrican citizens held in slavery in Pennsylvania by Carnegie & Co., and a large number who are held in bondage in Clay county, in this state. But unfortunately there is no government to which they can look for succor. The first democratic governor ever elected in Nebraska has been turned out of office by republican judges on a very gauzy technicality. Governor Boyd is a native of Ireland. He came to this country with Lis father when a small boy. After he became of age his father was naturalized. The governor himself never took out naturalization papers. The court holds that if his father had been naturalized before lie became of age it would have made him a citizen, but that, as the liidttfcr stands, he ia an alien, and in-

eligible to the governorship. The governor has been voting for many years and has held a number of offices. The decision gainst him may doubtless 1e set down to the account of partisanship, which republican judges usua'ly carry with them on to the bench, i iovtrnor IVyi promptly surrendered his office, w ben the decision was announced, into tho hands of the farmer governor Thayer who was not a candidate at the last election. The case, it is eaidv will be carried to the supreme court of the United Slates, by which, it is believed, the Nebraska decision will be reversed. The Pittsburg Dispatch, a republican paper of very wide circulation, in discussing the efforts of the Harrison boomers to force Mr. Blaine off the presidential track declares that "President Harrison's secOlid term is an impossibility." It insists that Mr. Blaine is the choieo of the republican rank and file, and warns the republican managers that the farmers' alliance is liable to nominate Jude Gremtam next year, in which event it w ill be necessary to ''put the strongest republican in the field." We republish this article elsewhere. Our political readers, and especially those of II arrisonian proclivities, will find it very interesting.

The president of the latest failed Philadelphia bank is reported bv the dispatches to be a gentleman whose strict integrity is not to be questioned, yet he admits that he has been speculating and that he has piled up in the bank's vaults a large amount of securities so worthless that he cannot raise money on them. It is a pity that so many men with an oversupply of the "highest integrity" and a deficiency of good business sense should drift into the banking business. The republican Globe-Democrat is candid enough to say : There has been extravagance and recklessness in the matter of appropriations, and every reasonable republican will regret this. Republicans both reasonable and otherwise will certainly "regret this" a good deal more in Ib'.vz. ANSWErtS TO CORRESPONDENTS. John Sthraro, Blackford. Ind: The new tax law repealed tho provision requiring assessors to collect farm statistics. J. W. M., Peru, Ind: If by the Latta creek marsh. Green county, is meant the marsh land in sections 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10 and 11 in town 7 n, range G w and through which Iitta creek runs, then it belongs to individuals. James T. Hood, Point Isabel, Ind.: (1) Fxaminations for life state licenses were held by the county superintendents on the third Friday or Saturday of February, March and April. The manuscript.- were distributed among the various members of tho state board of education for examination. The board will meet May 15 to announce the result. (2) Tho board of education advertised on April 4 for bids to supply the remainder of ttie school text books. Bids will be opened May 7, at 4 o'clock p. m. ET CETERA. TitEemperor of China is very fond I of oysters. The bishop of London has drafted a bill to reduce the cost of church weddings in England. Prof. Eissenwei.ler of Geissen claims to have discovered the bacteria, which produces baldness by destroying the roots of the hair. Gen. Ben Butler is seventy-three years of age. This fact can be set up as a statute of limitations when Anna Dickinson publishes those alleged love letters. John BvLi.ouc.ir,the Scottish millionaire who died recently, was the husband of Sheila, the heroine of William Black's novel, "A Princess of Thule." She was tho daughter of a Stornaway broker. Mus. Henry K. Updegrave of Tower City, Pa., is but forty-eight years of ago and is a great grandmother. She was married at fourteen, her daughter at fifteen and her granddaughter at sixteen. The credit is in some quarters given to Whistler for inducing O-scar Wilde to make his first visit to America. It is said that the famous impressionist planned every detail of that tour, even to the amusing item of that long hair with which Oscar won half the battle among us. When Bishop Brooks was asked to prepare a history of his life he gave it in these words: "I have had no wife, no children, no particular honors, no serious misfortune and no adventures worth speaking of. It is shameful at such times as the.-o not to have a history, but I have not got one." Father Michael Moras of Boston went to Europe expecting to return permanently blind, but after a five months' absence he has been welcomed back by the children of his parish with eyes as good as ever, except that at time" he could not see at all for the tears of happy gratitude that filled them. According to the Copitan Frncassa, the pope lost recently 1,500,000 lire by speculation in 6tocks. The report, however, is to be taken with several grains of salt. It is known that when Leo discovered last vear that his treasurer had risked money in speculation, he ordered him not to appear in hi3 presence again. M. Vacareo, son of the Roumanian minister to Vienna, who was expelled a few weeks ago from a reception at the palace of Princess Reuss, was married on March 28 to Mdlle. de Casotti. The young man's father, it will be remembered, handed his resignation to King Charles in order to fight a duel with Prince Reuss, the German ambassador. King Charles declined toSaccept the resignation. It is still uncertain as to the end of the unfortunate affair. Frank Vincent, the traveler and author, has received the diploma and decoration of officer of the otderof the Bust of Bolivar from the president of the republic of Venezuela, in recognition of bis services to the sciences of geography and ethnology, and more especially of bis recent elaborate work on Soutfi America. The latter has resched its fourth edition here and its second in London within a period of fourteen months. -. - Of the late Admiral De Rohan a Dahlgren by birth it is related that he did gallant ' Bcrvice in the Mexican war as a member of the Third U. S. artillery. Among the trophies of that regiment was a beautiful little brass cannon. This was turned into the ordnance department, also quartered in the Citadel of Mexico, but it was afecertained that it was to be surrendered to the Mexicans after the departure of the Americans. This, it was determined, should be prevented. De Rohan, in the silence and darkness of the night, scaled the w alls of the oidnanco vard, hoisted the coveied bronze over the wall, and bore it o3 in triumph to find a resting place with the Third artillery at For t Adams.

MILES OHIAD FLAMES Threaten Several Cities in Michigan.

Oscoda and Au Sable 'Are in Imminent Danger. All Lake Superior Is Blackwith the Smoke. Immense D.imnge Doneto Rail road Property. One Town Relieved to Have Been Wiped Out Already. Detroit, Slich., May 9. Reports from Mar. auette, M'ch.. say that forest fires are burning all over the upper country. At the Osceola stamp-mills several cords of wood and a railroad trest e were burned. At Chasell seteral farm houses aud barns went up io smoke and a bridge was consumed. The Sturgeon river, Thomas Nester and Tate and Diamond match company lose heavily. Lake Superior, from Marquette to Keweenaw Point, ii fairly Mac! witli 6inoke, and all the fog v histles aie kept blowing constantly. The loss will be very heavy. At Tawas, on the east shore, for two days past the air has been thick with su-oke front the immense forest fires which are raging io the woods back of the town, and which are said to ei'end clear to the county line. The village of Taft in Iteuo township is said to be surrounded by fire, but no word can be ob tained from there. Ihtemii:g is surrounded by fire, but there it no danger to the town. There is mile after mile of Sre along the roaJtd of the Chicago . Northwestern railroad south of Isfipeming and neariy to Lscanaba. Telegraph poles and rail rood tiea are being destroyed, and communication is likely to be cut oil at any time. Noth ine but a drr netting rain of to days duration can prevent tremendous damage. Keporls from nil nlonvr the lino of the Dolutli, South hore k Atlant c railroad show great lires and lurie property damages. One of the railroad briJis burned aud traihe will be auaj'cnded until it eta be repaired. Ihe tires are beius driven d:r-et y towards Oscoda by 1 alf a Vrale from the Wert. Jt'ucli uneasiness is fell aud urd tho wind chances no one can tell what the resuit ill b as the twin cities of Oscoda aod Au Sable ire direi-tly iuthe path of the wind whic h sweeps over ihe tremenriout fire end blows its hot brea'.h over ti.e cities. The air is tti;linjlj hot nrd thick with smoke, Tlie bis lunil-er yards oi II. M. Loud A. Co.. ul Osi-oda, cnut'ht fire hint uiht and burned so fiercely that help was mn'moned from Alpena. The fire was not checked until about jlW.tOJ wrrtii of lmulier burned a..d over one hundred rods of trams destroyed. Fire is racing iu tiie upper central counties of the lower pvuiiisular today, the like of which has never been known. The line of llames mcliei almost with out a bieak from Mason county on Lake Michigan to Toco county on Iake Huron, with the lorests ot Lake, Oscelola, Clare, Ci!a lin, Ojemaw aud Alcorn, where Gen. Aler ow ni ltire interests, bra all aldxze. Another rire of scuro. lv less tnai'minde exitts n the tipper peninsula. The incline of the Duluth, S'jutli ignore At'amic railroad through Mariuette, Houghton, Karat- an 1 Ontaoa counties is in the fatli of the. tliiine. Fein are eittrtuintd that the fire will reach the town of Meredith in C lay county. Tail township, in Iosco county, is also in t!aDer, Millions of acres of pine are burning. Addi tional reports cow c ming in show that a wide spread district is devastated. Grand Harms, Mich., May 9. Reports from the north woods indicate the forest fires now racing will eij:ial. If cot exceed, the irreut visitation of flame which, desolated Michigan in lsTL Wires are reuer. ally down but in-coming passengers from tlie North say that the whole couutry is blue wi:tk smoke. The Chies-co & West Michisan station, at Shields, near Whit Cloud, burned this afternoon and delayed trains for an hour. highteen C. W. M. freight cars werj burned at Lilly June. ion. mi of these were loaded with logs belong. ng to Haney fc MoCracken of Muskegon. At Biiihtly, ou the C W, A M. this afternooa two null on feet of loirs owned by I'uoahora, lfoinder ii Co., of Muskeeon, were destroyed. Deer Lake, near Heed City, 1U0 miles north of here, has telephoned to this city for aid suA a steamer has cone. The forests are ablaze, and Oterhout ii Fox's immense lumberyard, with '.i.OOu worth of lumber, is surroundei by flames. Fires In Wisconsin. Milwatkek, Wis., May 9. Reports front northern Wisconsin &r that heavy rains last night have checked the forest fires in many localities. The principal damage has been to standing timber. Three miles from Florence the logcring tuifits ronly Luddington. Van halieck & Co. were burned. The Ashlaud iron and steel company lost 0,000 cords of wood atlliLrli Ilride. The Wisconsin Central was stopped in the (Jocebic rane by th burn, ing of the bridsje. Dispatches from Bayfield say tlint trains ou the Omaha are delayed at Drummon 1 by burniiig hrid. s. JStven thousand paving blocks and 1,0 KJ cedar posts were destroyed at Ashland. The smoke from the fon sts hangs like a dense fog over the towns and adds to the apprehensions of the inhabit ants. Fierce tires are burniug iu Shawnea county. FOKTY-FIVE MINUTE3 Is the Length of Time t're!dnt Harrison Will Stop In Inttino'l. The joint committee of the board ol trade and Commercial club on the reception ot President Harrison next Thursday afternoon met Friday and appointed the following committees: On carriages, W. C. Griffith, YV. II. Armstrong, and W. M. Ix-vcy. On state house and grounds, Tim GrifTin, E. II. Fddridge, Edward Dean, C. E. Hall. Military, Gen. X. IL Kuckle, Col. W. J. McKee, Capt. J. R. Curtis. Music, IL Lieber, O. E. CoCin, J. P. Frenzel. Finance, H. C. Adams, Alexander C. Ayres, W. II. Schmidt, Tho tias Taggart, W. H. Eastman, Philip Ilildebrand, Y. I Dunlap. Transportation. U. B. F. Pierce, Albert Eieher, W. D. Holton. Press, "William Fortune, S. E. Morss, W. A. Wilkins, H. O. Thudicun, Morris lioss, F. I Purdy, Jacob W. Smith, Line of inarch, Gen. Fred Kneller, lrvin Kobbins. J. It. Carnahan. Speakers. A. J. Deveridge, I. S. Gordon, A. W. ConduitL Decorations, S. K. . Fletcher, G. K. Sullivan, V. F. C. Golt, Edward Hawkins, Otto Stechan. J. A. "Wildman, Ferdinand Mayer, S. IL Holt, II. llatnberger. Clubs and societies, Myron D. Kios, Stanton J. Peeile, S. V. Pe'rrott, T. M. Gruelle, Philip Ueichwein. Selecting delegation to meet President Harrison at Montezuma (the I. D. fc W. road, through the courtesy of its officers, having tendered a train for that purpose), Gov. A. P. Hovev, Mavor Thomas I Sullivan, FrodFahnlev, 1L. M. Smok, D. P. Erwin, Dr. J. L. Thompson, Nathan Morris, J. W. Carev, C. W. Fairbanks, Fd P. Thompi-on, Cel. Eli Lilly, JohnIL Wilson, Theodore P. Hanghey, Leon Kahn, A. A. llarnes. Gen. Fred Kneller will act as grand marshal of the procession. The follow ing telegram w as received by the board of trade yesterday: Black 11:vku Jcxction, Wash.. Msy 6. Gkokue O. Tanner Please accept the president's thanks for your kind invitation. The railroad schedule allows him but forty, five minutes at Indianapolis, and eneacementa made at Washington make it impossible to pro long his stay. (Signed.) P. M. RansUELL, Ililv Wasn't M tt. W belling TiMcr. At Cincinnati poor little Mr. Harrison wasn't "in it,"