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TIIE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY 'MORNING, JANUARY 6, 1892 TWELYE PAGES.

INDIANA STATE SENTINEL

BY THE INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL OC. S. E. MORSS, President. Ilnttrtd t the Poitoffice at Ind'.fcoapoIU as acond ejus matter. TEIIM3 FEU YEAKi Eiajtle copy (InTariat!y in Advance.) .. 1 00 V. cak dernrcrats to Vr.r in mind and iclect thMr ute rapcr when they coma to tako eubscrint.cn and make up clubs. Afents nuiir up cluVs tvni for anr Ir'onr.atlnn trtirtd. AddtksTliE INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL Indianapolis, incL "WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 6. 1S02. TWELVE PAGES. Columbus, Ind., Nov. 1, 1S01. Dear Sil.6 I received tbc watch in good ghape and am highly pleased with it. It is a correct time-keeper and a finelooking -watch. Yours truly, "Will Bi.ackketter. To the Editor Sir: The -watch which 1 received from The Sentinel is just as represented. It has Riven perfect satisfaction in every respect C. N. Fickett. Noble. II!., Oct. 18. The Sentinel wishes every one of its lens of thousands of readers a happy Kew Year. Judge John T. Scott, who died Wednesday at Terre Haute, was a man of ability and force, who had perved with distinction cn tho supreme bench of the state. He wa3 an eminent lawyer, a sound democrat and a pood citizen. His sudden death will be sincerely deplored throughout the state. In 1S8S tho democratic national ticket, on a platform of radical tariff reform, carried the country on the popular vote by a majority exceeding 100,1-00. In 1SC!0, oa the pame platform, it swept the country. If the democracy stands by its colors this fear there need be no fear that it will meet with any "misadventure" in November. The executive committee of the Indiana tariff reform league "Wednesday adopted a resolution demanding that the ireat work of tarilF reform shall bo vigoröusly prosecuted by congress. The tariff retorm league represents a great body of conscientious and intellicent voters in Indiana, and the resolution adopted yesterday voices a sentiment which the Louse cf representatives will do well to heed. Governor Hill insists that the democratic party 6hall offer the country this year "nothing less and nothing else" than lomts cheese paring in appropriations and in abortive and insincere attempt, to repeal a couple of obnoxious republican laws. If the democratic party follows Governor Hill's advice it is pretty certain that the country will administer to it "nothing less and nothing else" than a erioua thrashing, more or less deeerved, next November. Governor Hill is very fond of dwelling upon the democratic party's "misadventure" in 1SSS. This "misadventure" was the result of a corrupt deal between certain trading politicians of the two parties in New York and of the blocks-of-five deviltry in Indiana. Governor Hill knows this to be true, yet he tries to make it appear that the democratic defeat in 'S3 -was because the party took a bold Etand against the protective tariff infamy. It w on't do, governor. The Philadelphia Lcljcr wants a general agreement to light the tariff question out this year, and let the popular decision next fall settle the matter for a frw years. But this is not a matter that can be settied Ly an agreement among a few poli ticians. The movement e:aiut the pro tective iniquity is a great popular movement, and it will keep on moving until it triumphs in spite of all that politicians can say or do to the contrary. The tariff question will b "settled" when it is settled right, and not be'ore. The apprehensions of tho republican organs that the democrats may gerry mander New York are born of a guilty conscience. For many years New York has been saddled with one of the most outrageous gerrymanders ever made, which has been maintained since 1 Vv by a plain violation of the constitution. This was a republican gerrymander, and no republican orgnn has ever even mildly reproved it. The New York democrats may cr iray not take a notion to give the re publicans of that state "a dope of their own medicine," but if they do no repub lican organ will have a riecht to complain i.iiErew lorK .Mm is oi the opinion that the only important duty before the present congrees is to reduce expenditures as far below the billion dollar limit reached by the Tom Heed congress as pos sible. The Xun's droll theory is tiiat the only Issue between the two great parties is as to the number of dollars to be expended in carrying on the government. This won't do. Tho democratic party is, by tradition and practice, the party of economy and honesty, and will not indulge 5n prodigal expenditures. Hut it 6tands for something else and something a good deal more important than economy, and that is equality of taxation. The euprome duty of this congress the duty which it was elected to discharge is to reform our revenue system. A few million dollars, more or less, in the annual appropriations will matter littlo to the people bo long as a system of taxation is maintained which diverts the earn intra of tho many into the pockets of a few. The Jmrn.il announces that all the republican senators and a number of democratic senatora will vote for Judze Woods' confirmation. All of the senators, democrats and republicans alike, are under oath to act upon the president's nominations according to their merits. It is to be presumed that no senator will determine Sow he will act on- the nomination of Judge Woods until he has carefully investigated the ' charges against him. It h a'so to be presumed that no senator hat taken the Journal into his confidence touching this matter. The Sentinel doas not believe that any democratic senator will, after hearing the case against Judge Wood?, vote to confirm him. Neither does it believe that all th rtoublican senators are so careless

of the purity and good name of

the federal judiciary as the Journal assumes. We may have overestimated the amount of virtue and patriotism ex isting among the republican senators, but unless we have done so Judge Woods will not be confirmed. Shall tho Democratic Party Tlay l'ubsum ? Ex-Governor Hill of New York has been making another speech, in which he has again outlined the policy which, in his judgment, the democratic house of representatives ought to pursue. The governor is not a member of the house, and is charged with no special responsibility for its action. However, he is a member of the democratic party who, by the exercise of his rare skill as a political manipulator and his exceptional executive capacity, has attained a position of influence and power in the party councils, and as such his recommendations as to the policy of the party are entitled to a respectful hearing. But because they come from a man who has apparently mastered the science of New York "politics" they are not to be accepted as commands which the party is bound to obey, or even as counsel which it is under any obligation to follow. Ex-Governor Hill's "plan of campaicn" must be judzed solely on its merits if it has any. It must be measured by the etandards of democratic principles and professions, ana by the maxims of enlightened statesmanship and broad-gauge patriotism. If it fails to sustain these testa it must be, and will be, rejected by the democratic party if that splendid organization is to remain true to itself and to the country and not be sacrificed to the ambition of blind and selfish leaders. What Governor Hill proposes, stripped of all disguises and stated in plain terms, is that the democratic party, through its representatives in congress, shall violate the pledges it solemnly made to the country in 1883 and again in lS'.K), repudiate the leadership under which it won the only national victories it has achieved during a generation and go before the American people this year with nothing to point to in the way oi legislative achievement, nothing in the way of redeemed pledges, except a few millions, cut oil from the national appropriations. He would have tho house of representatives, democratic by a majority unprecedented ia our annals and made such by a great uprising against a wicked and unjust tariff system, respond to the revolution which created it by cutting down appropriations! He would have this irreat political organization, whose history dates almost from the foundation of the government, go before the people in the approaching national contest oa a platform indorsing Vie infamous economic eyiteni which it denounced in 1888 and again in lS'.K)! He would have this party ask the country to restore it to power upon the strength of mere noisy denunciation of tho excesses committed by the opposition several years azo. He would have this party go beiore the people with no record upon which to base an appeal for their confidence and support except a little cheese paring and a futile and manifestly insincere attempt to replace one republican tariff law with an other scarcely less outrageous, and to sub stitute for one illogical and absurd coinage act another scarcely lea3 illogical and absurd. There is no use of mincing: words about this program which Governor Hill has laid down with such an air of authority. It is a program of cowardice, dishonesty and partisan imbecility. It is a program of trickery and false pretense. It contemplates a shameless violation of solemn pledges and a deliberate abandonment of sacred principles There is nothing in it to appeal to the pride, the patriotism, the manhood of a single democratic voter in all this land. It is-a program bora cf an unbridled am bition which would ruin where it cannot rule. It represents no respectable body of public opinion and voices nothing but the wishes of a little coterio of political adventurers and mercenaries who would make the democratic party as. much like the republican party in its motives and actions as one sneak-thief is like another. The Sentinel, speaking, as it fully be lieves, and has good reason to believe, tho sentiments of ) per cent, of the dem ocrats of Indiana, declines to sanction the proposed policy of demagoism and poltroonery and warns the gentlemen who appear to be in charge of democratic nterests at Washington that, if it is adopted, there are not likely to be any electoral votes in Indiana for the democratic national ticket this year. This Btate can be carried by the democratio party this year if the hour's of representatives does its duty, but not otherwise. Indiana ij democratic because a majority of her people believe in fair and equal taxation and do not believe in class government. If democratic ascendency means no re lief for tho people except the little that would bo afforded by a restoration of the infamous tariff of 1S-J, and no change in existing conditions except eorae slight reductions in appropriations, and a little "rotation in office," . then it is not worth etriving for by men whose interest in jolitics ia inspired by anything else than motives of personal aggrandizement or mercenary greed. No man ever led a great party to any thing but disaster upon such a meager, and paltry, and pitilul issue if it may be dignified by the name as the do-nothing, say-nothing, dare-nothing, accomplishnothing, mean-nothing program which Governor Hill asks the democratic party to adopt. Indianapolis. Locking back over the field of commer cial and industrial effort iu this great, bustling capital city of tho Iloosier com monwealth during the past twelve months, every citizen of Indianapolis and the state at large may reasonably feel gratified at the present healthful con dition of business in general and the substantial progress which has been made in almost every avenue of elTort where the hand of enterprise has been at work. One has only to refer to the reports of the commercial aarencies to learn that the business operations here have been gen era ly attended daring the year 18'Jl with results which, in the light of companeon, with those of the twelve months preceding show a most satisfactory increase, the same being true of the returns from invested capital in every direction. During the cast rear the eres,) gr.ilroad eya-

tems affording outlets to Indianapolis

have largely extended their connections, and thus rendered many new fields of rade accessible to the wholesale business of this city, which has correspondingly increased in bulk and grcs3 profits to our merchants. One of the most easily discerned indica tions of increased prosperity in this rap idly growing community is the evident enlargement of the general distribution of wealth, as shown in the increased activity in building operations during the year ust parsed. While few if any great com mercial structures have been erected there has been noticeable an increase of not less th;in 33 per cent, in the construction of dwelling houses, generally of neat architectural design and desirable situation in those quarters of the city where they have been located. Another very marked evidence of this general distribution of wealth is seen in the fact that while the number of deeds passed to record in 1891 has larirelv exceeded that of 1890, tho total of moneyed consid eration for the past year is considerably over .$:,000,000 less than the figures for 1890. Property valuations have become largely enhanced and public improvements, which have been steadily in progress during the year, have manifestly contributed to this very satisfactory condition. Standing on the threshhold of the new year, and turning in re trospective view along the course of the year just gone there is but little to be found that is unpropitious; much that affords occasion for general and earnest congratulation. Stop nnil Rennet. The New York Sun, which, like some other newspapers, objects to the criticism of prominent men in the party, is now engaged in reviling Governor IUssell of Massachusetts. The immediate cause of this ebullition on the part of Mr. Blaine's organ is Mr. Kcssell's recent speech be fore the Young Men's democratic club of Massachusetts, in which he said: Yet out of that past one lesson certainly can be learned, aud that is that the democratic party need have no fear ot resolute leadership and of a fight for principles. I bedeve its only danger is if it forgets that lesson. It was euch leadership that in 1884 restored our party to power in the nation. It was such leadership which in 18SS, even in defeat, laid the foundation for the great victories which have since carried democracy triumphant throughout the nation, lor one, with hope and with confidence, I look forward to the privilege of enrolling myself undor the same leadership in 1X92, and in joining with the club in another fight for tariff reform. Of course it was to be expected that the ivm would object to anything that savored of progress. It has never got past the reconstruction era, and never will unless there is an eiuption ia its "think-tank," but it would be an exceedingly beneficial thing if some of the politicians who are so busily engaged in president-making would stop for a few moments to consider the work of electing a president after you have him nominated. The nomination is made by the part', but under existing circumstances it takes something more than the party to elect him. Under the oid system much reliance was placed on the use of money, but now in most of the states bal.ot-reforni legislation has sent that argument to the rear. Now, if ever, the political battles are to be won by argument, by appeal to the judgment of the voter. There is certainly good reason to believe that Governor IU ssell understands the situation in New England. His own success is guaranty for that, and the most intelligent observers support his ideas. In a recent editorial the Boston Jlera'd saya: For eight years past the democracy has been growing in an astonishingly rapid, but none the less healthy, manner. This growth has been chiefly due to tho fact that party policy and party action have been such as to win public approval and public confidence. While mistakes have been made we are speaking now of tho national party they have Leen upon unimportant and unessential matter:, lor, on the srreat issues to whic h the party has definitely committed itself, its course has commanded respect when compared with that of its great political rival. It is this that in the lat few years has drawn to the democracy hundreds of thousands cf men who were cradled in republican traditions and brought up under republican influences. It has been the belief that a regenerated democracy represented the highest aspirations in politics that has made so many young men of conscience, intelligence and social Btanding willing to enthusiastically devote themselves to party service. It is bv steadfast adhesion to these same principles of action that the democracy can carry the country with it at the next election and place itself in a position to control the national administration for years to come. And what is hero observed as to New England is true as to the greater part of the country. That shrewd political ob server, ex-Fostmatter-General Clarkson, saw that the drift of young and progress ive men was toward the democratic party and attributed it to the demcratie news papers. But why to them? Does any one imagine that democratic editors have some special power to make tho Morse appear the better side? Does anyone suppose that they have greater literary or rhetorical powers than their brethren of the re publican prets? If so, such person is laboring under a most absurd delusion. The principles advocated by democratic papers have won adherents, and the prin ciples forced on the republican press by their party leaders have driven thought lul men and earnest men from tneir party. There was nothing more remark able in the alliance revolution in Iowa and neighboring states than the gladness with which the newspapers that followed the tide threw off the ridiculous pretenses of protectionism and plainly told their readers that it was a fraud and a sham There can be no doubt that the situation throughout nearly all the Mississippi val ley is as the Ilera'd pictures it. Unquos tionably it is to in Indiana, where the party has not only grown eteaiily, but has grown by additions from the best elements of other parties on account of Its progressive spirit. Shall we throw away tho advantage we have gained? Shall we try to etop the tide of reform we have created? The idea is preposterous. Do the gentlemen who are undertaking to kill off a presidential quantity by stopping the reform with I which he is eo prominently identified imagine that the people can be unedu cated at their demand? If so, they are very short of political wisdom. If the American people, educated as they have been in the past few years to the injustice

and oppression of existing tariff legislation, could be made to lay aside their firm convictions, their sense of justice and their personal interests at the beck and nod of men who claim to be leaders, they would demonstrate themselves tobe incapable of self-government. Such a thing was never done in any civilized country, and most of all it was never done in this country and never will bo. The path in which tho democratic party undertook to guide the people lies etraight forward. If democratic leaders abandon that pal-h they will put themselves in a position where they will have a good view of the people marching by them on the path in which they started. The fttato Fair. The selection of the Voss farm for state

fair purposes seems to give pretty general satisfaction, although some criticism is made upon it because of the distance of the farm from the citv. Grounds nearer the city, and more accessible, would have been preferable if they could have been obtained at a reasonable price. But the Voss farm has numerous advantages, and if the right policy is pursued by the state board it will, no doubt, be the scene of many successful exhibitions. With two important railroads connecting these grounds with the city, and two electric lines in operation, as promised, the transportation facilities ought to prove adequate. The thing to do is to make the fair what it ought to be not merely a display of big pumpkins and fat hogs and a conzress of fakirs and an exhibition of "plug trotters, but a comprehensive exposition of the manufacturing, mineral and com mercial interests as well as of the agricultural and live stock interests of the state. Special and novel features 6hould be introduced. Particular attention should be paid to the speed department. If a first-class mile track is; constructed and ample accommodations provided for horses we shall not only have some creditable races at the fairs, but two great meetines can be held every year, which will attract the fastest horses from all parts of the country and prove of substantial benefit to the citv. We think the project, suggested some time azo, of having street pageants in the city, on two or three evenincrs of fair week, is an ex cellent one. If this is to be done next year the matter should be taken up at once. The Commercial club is the proper body to take action. No fair will be held in Indiana in 1S93 on account of the great Columbian exhibi tion in Chicago. But the fair next year can be made an unprecedented eucccss if proper efforts are exerted to that end. It remains to be seen whether the etate board of agriculture will prove equal to the occa sion. We have our doubts on the subject, but shall be rejoiced if they prove groundless. The system under which the state board is allowed to perpetuate itself indefinitely is an absurdity, but the courts have held that it is not in the power of the people of Indiana to change this system. It is, we suppose, fastened upon the state for all time to come and nothing remains but to make the best of it. If the existing board has the intelligence, the enterprise and the capacity to organize a fair and. exposition which shall be to this city and state what the great St. Louis fair is to that city and to the state of Missouri, The Senti nel will be more than delighted. Such an undertaking must be conceived and car ried out on a large scale. First-class at tractions must be secured, even if they do cost money, and they must be liberally advertised. Then the merchants and manufacturers and business men cenerally of Indianapolis must lend thjir hearty co-operation. The Sentinel is for Indian apoiisand Indiana first, last and all the time, and if thero is to be an honest and intelligent effort to make the annual etate fair a credit and a benefit to both of them, instead of the cheap John affairithas been for years past, this journal will lend Euch effort all tho support in its power. The Silver Question. The esteemed Frankfort Crescent indig nantly denies our insinuation that its view of the silver question was not clear, and says: The Crescent is for th money of the constitution sold and silver a bimetallio currency ; the coinage of both metals free and equal now as they were from 1793 to 18 3, when a corrupt congress demonet ized the white metal in the interest oi monev chancers. Now where does Tub Sentinel stand? Wiil it answer? It will ; and as a preliminary thereto it will call attention to the fact that the Crescent'! articles of faith will cover any imaginable view of the silver question. "Money of the constitution" a very wideopen phrase, and covers everything from gold monometalisin to fiat paper currency, according to the definitions of various people. The remainder of the statement is almost equally indefinite. The coinage act of 1792 made the relative value of gold and silver in weight as fifteen to one, and put 41G grairs of etandard silver (a little less than nine-tenths pure) in the dollar. The next acts were those of 1834 and 1837, which changed the ratio to ID to 1 and put 412 grains of standard silver, nine tenths fine, in the dollar. The next act was in 18Ö3 and reduced the silver in the dollar to 381 grains, nine-tenths fine. Then followed the legislation of 1S73. The fluctuation in the bullion value o the gold and eilver dollars through these periods was comparatively slight, though it sufficed to tako most of the silver out of the country at one time. At present the difference in bullion value a about 100 to 75 and the silver question presents two branches: (1) Shall an equality of bullion value be restored? (2) How shall it be restored? There are at least five distinct solutions offered by various classes of per sons, which may be brietly summed up as follows: 1. The free and unlimited coinage of the silver dollar of present weight and fineness, coupled with tho provision that any holder of bullion may have it coined into do lars on payment of a seigniorage proportionate to the seigniorage on gold coinage. The argument for this theory 13 that it will brine eilver bullion back to its former value and at the same time furnish an abundant currency. This is the position ot The Sentinel. 2. The free and unlimited c linage of the silver dollar of present weight and fineness from bullion purchased by the government at market rates. The anrament for this is that it will give the government the advantage of the increase in ballioa value land will be equally effica

cious for restoring equality. The adherents of this and the preceding theory are com- j

monly denominated "free silver cranks.' Their ideas are apparently advocated ia ; that part of Governor Hill's speech which J rlniin thof fr a rninro rill rtnr th ' equality of bullion values. 3. The free and unlimited coinage of silver dollars containing eilver bullion worth one dollar in gold at present market rates. The argument for this is "honest : money," and its advocates are called "gold monometalists," "Wall-st. money changers," "champions of honest money," etc. Their ideas are advocated in that part of Governor Hill's speech which de mands "a melting-pot standard" and ob jects to "a 75-cent dollar." 4. Non-interference with the coinage until an international azreement can bo obtained by which the civilized nations shall fix a permanent ratio between gold and silver and maintain it in their re spective currencies. The argument for this is that no one nation can fix and maintain a ratio without injury to itself unless other nations agree to it, and there is some force in this, but it is a project that has been tried for a number of years and without aflect. Governor Hill dis tinctly favors this proposition. 5. The present system of issuing silver notes on bullion security, which is championed by the republican party, and to which, if we understand him. Governor Hill is opposed. We do not desire to do him any injustice, however, and are willing to concede that he may possibly be in favor of this also. While Ths Sentinel has decided views on silver coinage, as above mentioned, it realizes that other democrats are equally decided in their views, and we do not see how the party could be brought into harmony, or anything like it, on any imaginable platform that is clear and explicit. We do not believe in evasive platforms. If we had both branches of congress and the president, we should favor the passage of a silver bill, but with the certainty that any bill bo vetoed, even if it passes the senate, we do not see any wisdom in forcing a position on the subject. If the democrats in the house do so, the national convention will either have to indorse them or repudiate them, and either action will split tho party. For these reasons we believe that the silver question should not be made a party question at present, but left as a matter of individual opinion, while the party prosecutes its fight for tariff reform. We believe that the great mass of the party are of this opinion, and that the people who insist on forcing the silver issue for the purpose of destroying the tariil issue will simply read themselves out of the party. Kight-Hour Work. A very interesting paper has been delivered before the National liberal cl ub of London by Prof. Mcnro of Owens college on the cilects of the eight-hour system in coal mining. According to his showing of the facts the predictions of raising prices to the consumer and decreasing wages have not come to pass, but on the other hand, more and better work has been done in eight hours than in ten under the old system. This result is one that has always been claimed by the friends of the former and derided by its opponents, but Prof. Munro's statistics certainly tend to prove his assertion. He gives the following as the average output for the year 1SS7 in various mines: Ouipu I pr Airage wtJergmund hourt of m orktK hewert ir Tout. trrrk. Ptaflordihln, S Mi 41.1.8 Durham. N 4') 3.'.4 I'urhani, S .. 4'. 40.3 Yorkiliiro 3T2 41.0 Lancashire, W 40 Ulaaioriacshire 3J7 6L7 Of course this is not conclusive, for the quantity and character of the coal in various mines may easily causa euch a difference, but it would be a remarkable coincidence if all the hardest mining should occur in tho mines when long hours were the rule. He also shows an increase in the ioreign trade and a satisfactory condition of wages. In 1890 the product of coal in England was 1S0,000,0C0 tons, of which 30,000,000 tons were exported. The wages of English miners are higher than those of miners on the continent, though the averago hours of work in England are less than fifty, while in France and Germany the average is from fifty-four to fifty-six hours. Altogether the facts warrant renewed confidence in the claims of the advocates of the eighthour day. When Judge Woods delivered his first charge in the Dudley case the republican Chicago Tribune was so delighted that it said: It is a healthy sign that the U. S. dis trict judzo at Indianapolis has determined to do Ins duty and break up this array of "floaters" and the corrupt schemes of the boodlers by making them face the law. He will have the sympathy, applause and help of every honest man in clearing out this Auirean political etable. No matter how many republicans or democrats are disgraced or get into the penitentiary a stop must be put to buying and selling votes. Let the investigation be thorough lk)th parties are besmirched. Time alone can tell which is the worse, but every man who has been engaged in the dirty busines, be he a republican or be he a democrat, oucht to be started lor the pen itentiary with all dispatch. The Tribune believed that Judge Woods meaut what he said, and that he really wanted the blocks-of-five scoundrels punished, regardless of partisan considera tiona. But Judgo Woods afterward re versed his charge, thus saving Dudley from indictment, and now the Tribune tolls its readers that he laid down "good law" in the Dudley case. No doubt, however, thej venerable Joseph Medill is dingueted with the president for raising such an issue for the republican organs to meet. Democrats and all lovers of fair play throughout the country will rejoice at the intelligence that the New York court of appeals has decided the legislative contests in favor of the democratic candidates. This gives the democrats control of both houses of the legislature and practically settles New York's politi cal status for years to come. New York is a democratic state, but by means cf a wicked gerrj'mander, and by violating a plain injunction of the constitu tion, the republicans have for near ly a generation controlled the legislature and monopolized the representation of the state in the U. S. eenate. The magnificent majority by which they carried the state at the recent

election, however, enabled them to overcome even the gerrymander, and the righteous decision just rendered by the court of appeals makes their triumph eecure. They now have control of the executive, the legislative and the judicial departments of the government. They will now proceed to take the enumeration of inhabitants and reapportion tho state in accordance with the constitutional provisions. The majority of the people of New York again rule after a IriTK nuri rt virtnnl A iaf ran rK i apniAn t

They will not soon permit themselves, we may be sure, to be again deprived of their rights. If Mr. Turtle's principles had been in I practice in his state in 18-o he woull not now be sitting in the senate. In the elec tion ior members of the legislature that year the republicans had between 9,000 and 10.CKX) plurality, and as Benjamin Haküison canvassed the state for re-election to the senate he, and not Mr. Turpie, would have been elected had the choice been by popular vote. Phihirhlhia Pirn. A contemporary makes the happy retort to the above that ''if the president and senators were elected by a direct vote of the people Mr. Harrison would have gained the senatorship and lost the presi dency as Mr. Cleveland bad a plurality of nearly one hundred thousand on the popular vote." To which it might have added that if U. S. senators were elected by the people, as they ought to be, the republicans would not have controlled the 6enate for the last dozen years or more. ET CETERA. Capt. N. B. Giddings, the firt congress man from Nebraska, is now a justice of the peace at Savannah, Mo. Bubinstein, the pianist, is to give fifty concerts in the United States in 1893 at the snug sum of $2,000 for each perform ance. Busts of le brav' Gen. Boulanger, lately the hero of Baris, now go begging in the French pawnshops and are sold as old bronze to make chandeliers of. Senator Sherman, Senator Hoar and exSenator Evarts are all cousins and they trace their lineaze back to linear Sherman, the grim Fuiitan of revolutionary times. Dr. Heller of Yienna has made a dis covery worthy of his name. It is that sauerkraut will cure dyspepsia. In the raw and gamy etate it"would vanquish almost anything. Edward M. Field, the "young Napoleon of finance," now reposing in Ludlow-sh jail, has eaten only two oysters in four days. Some of his victims can't get even two ovsters to eat. The absence from the present eenate of Mr. Edmunds removes another pictur esque figure from the hal s of congress, where for nearly a quarter of a century he had been a prominent personage. Though he retires on the plea of age, he is thirteen years younger than Cien. Palmer, who has just begun his senatorial career. ABOUT VATCHES. What tlie State Sentinel Can Do for You and Where the Header Can Save Money. Everybody knows that there is a socalled watch trust for the purpose of keeping up prices, also to keep newspapers from handling them. The Sentinel, however, has been able to get ahead of the trust, and is enabled to furnish fine filled gold watches at wholesale prices. A filled case for all practical purposes is just as good as a solid gold watch. It will wear a life-time, and in case of its being stolen the loss is not so great. some of our bakoains. No. 5. Size No. 18 Liberty (engineturned) case, New York rtaudard movement, will wear ten years, $12.2"). No. 8. Sue o. (. Liberty (ot American) eDgraved case, Doret movement (Swiss), seven jewels, ?12. No. 14. Size No. 1. P.ox case, Ixniis 1 stvie, Walthamor hlgin movement seven jewels, $19.75. The-e watche are sold by retail dealers at from $30 to s-:'..5. No. 10. Size No. 18. Wakham or Ligin movement, seven jewels I engineturned),' Montauk case, $18. This watch would cost from $28 to $33 at jewelry stores. No. 17. Size No. IS. Waltham or Elgin movement, seven jewels, beautifully engraved Montauk case, $18. This watch would cost from $28 to $35 at jewelry stores. No. IS. Size No. IS. Monarch case, twenty-one years' guarantee, 14 carat, Waltham movemeut eng.ue-turned), $20.25. No. 19. Size No. IS. Monarch case, fancy landscape engraved, Elgin movement, $21.50. No. 20. Size No. 18. Monarch case, with wide) Yermicelli border and engraved center, Waltham movement, peven jewels, $23. This is the finest watch we ot!er and is well worth $10, according to the prices charged in jewelry stores. The cases are warranted for twenty-one years. No. 21. Size No. O. Monarch case. Vermicelli border, fancy Elgin movement, seven jewels, $19.50. No. 28. Sizo No. IS. Montauk case (engine-turned ). New York standard movement, peven jewels, $1o.l'5. The Sentinel loes not keep the watches on hand neither do we furnish any other make or kind. Just tho watches advertised are all that v e can sell. The rtaders oi The Sentinel never had an opportunity to get first-class watches at any such prices as the above, and after this stock is eold they will probably not soou have such a chance again. This offer is open only to subscribers to The Indiana State Sentinel. , One of these watches will make a handsome birthday present for your wife, your sister, your daughter, or your sweetheart; for your husband, your father, your brother or your son. In order to avoid confusion and mistakes tho watches should be ordered only by their numbers, thus it is only necessary to say: "Sond watch No. 8 (cr whatever number is desired) to the following address." Write the name, town, county and state very plainly. The cash must accompany every order. We should prefer to have our subscribers use the following coupon, which can be cut out, filled up and nent to Tiif. INDIANA State Sentinel with a draft on Chicago, New York, Indianapolis or Cincinnati or a poetoffice money order for the amount. All orders and cash should be sent to State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Ind. ..... 1891 to the folIndianapolis Sentinel Co. Please aecd one watch No. .. lowing addresa: Nsrne Poatoflict County StateEnclosed find $.... ...... ...MM.

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"THE SENTINEL'S" GREAT PREMIUM FOR 1892. What r.x-Priklnt Cleveland and Senator! VoorUea and Turpi bay or Iu Sl' MAPTer.jf.AVE.. ) New Yoke, K it. 3, l.'L ) My Dear Miu Mokss Fleaee accept my thanks for the "History of Indiana" which you kindly sent me. The examination I have been able tj give it is sufficient to justify me in expressing the opinion that it contains 1 great amount cf historical informatioi presented to the reader in a most pleaean way. I do not see why it should not prov itself a very useful book. Yours truly. What Snrtrr VoorhMi Saya. United States Senate. ) Washington, 1. C, Oct. 31 Iadianapolia Sentinel Company: Gentlemen I am just in receipt of the "History of Indiana" which has just been given to the public by Mrs. Thomas A. Hendricks. I have looked through it with some care, and pay sincerely that I am delighted with it. It ought to go in the hands of all our people. The young will receive instrue tion from it, and those advanced in life will be plea-ed by the recollections it awakens. The people ot Indiana I think are not sufficiently aware of the real growth and greatness of their etate. It requires, in fact, but little study to ascertain, and not much effort to ehow, that Indiana according to area is the greatest and most productive etate in the Union, and possessed of greater an! more extensive educational advantages than any othei commonwealth of equal population in the world. These facts ehould be taught everywhere among our people. I fully believe in the doctrine of state pride, especially when there is a eoiid foundation for it. Such a publication as the one now before me is well calculated to inspire the young and old alike of Indiana with just and laudable sentiments of pride and gratitude. It is indeed a most charming book. The likenesses, taken altogether, are the best I have ever seen in engravings of their character. Please accept my sincere thanks and believe me always very faithfully yours, What Senator Törpt Sitya. Indianapolis, Nov. 7. S. E. Morss, Esq., Indianapolis, In I : My Dear Sir I have carefully read "The Popular History of Indiana," and have verified its data by comparison with older and larger works. It is an excellent abridgement of our state annals, elegant, accurate, in style admirably adapted to the character of the book. The table of contents and list of illustrations make a very complete index, adding to its practical use for ready reference. Yours truly, W!it El.GwTfriior flrf Say. Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 11, 1S31. Tb; Sentinel Crai'ny, Ind'unapolls, Injiaaa; Gentlemen I have examined a copy of your illustrated "Popular History of Indiana." It is ia my judgment an admira-. ble epitome of leading events and mention of personages in both territorial and 6tate history. It aapears to have been carefully and intelligently compiled, and certainly will be Inspiring and instructive to the young reader, as well as favorably received by all who feel a patriotic interest in the subject to which it pertains. I trust it may obtain a wide circular tion. Yery respectfully, Traasun to th Democratic Party. Naitm.l American. So far as the question of who shill bs the democratic nominee for 1892 is concerned the American is tied to no man, and the democratic party is tied to none; but the e ort to side track a great issue either to defeat or to nominate any particular candidate is the worst prostitution of party machinery to base uses ever exhibited in the history of American politics. Has the democratic party reached the point where issues must be made to order to fit the personal ambitions of candidates? It is often the case that a particular issue calls for the nomination of a particular candidate ; it is quite a diiierent thing when issues are made and unmade to gratify the ambition of one candidate and wreak malignant vengeance upon another. -The American could see G rover Cleveland thrust aside without a sigh, it could under proper conditions to;erat th leaderaip and support the candidacy of David B. Hih ; but when taritl reform is stricken down in order to remove an obstacle from the path of one man's ambition and in order to crush another in its fall, it becomes treason to the democratio party, and as euch it mubt be met. Sloat Drop Cleveland and Orar. Ranger Terry Co Ind Dec 23 9i to the Sentinel Co Sir, you must drop Clevland and gray from your ticket it you want me to take eney subcrptoa for they are not the men to rule this nation and the Shal not G S Morris No Fiu lloart Abnnt II Im. ICbrhtroas Tuck Jennie (reprovingly) "But we're not under the mistletoe now, Jack!" Jack (unabashed) "So much the nicer Do not despair of curing your sick headache when you fan so easily obtain Carter's Little Liver Pills. They will effect a prompt and permanent cure. Their action is mild and natural.