Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 November 1893 — Page 9

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GREAT LOVE FEAST

Hundreds of Prominent Democrats Were Here, And Their Expressions Were Rich in Vigor. Speeches by Senator Voorhees and Many Others. AN ABLE ADDRESS ISSUED As the Expression of the State Central Committee. It Strikes Out from the Shoulder in a Manly Way. fha Dates for District Conventions Are Fixed. Tbe Icetinjs f Hi Dcraorrnltf Stme Outrnl Com in It Ice UriiiftN i This '!!' liot n( Tint h iihi a sl ie Drniocr:il. Many of Whom V rc r Slate :md National I'Mimiufiico-Speech-Delivered by Srnattirs Voorlii-c nml Turpie, (iovrrncr Mattliev nml Mil ny Ol hern A i Able Add re 1neil tt On lii Itli Hales for t oilmen! ion liCl. It was a givat lve feast. The dem. crais of Indiana show by their ithusia.m that they wort- never In better fighting trim. Prominent democrats of the state sec:i-d ti have all turned cut Thursday to attend the mooting of the state central committee anrt the general conference held in connection therewith. Headquarters had been secured at the Grand hotel, and although a gorily numbcT of arrivals had leer noted the evening previous, they were but a few as tunifiiu-i'ij with the enthusiastic crowds that poured in on the morning trains. Those reaching here on the might trains were mostly from distant parts of the stab whose numbers would naturally be fewer than those living in adjacent counties who could run in on th morning trains. By 10 o'clock the Indiana democracy was well represented. Among the first arrivals wa3 John Johnson, editor or the Bedford Democrat. He has for twenty-one years feVi publishing a democratic paper in that hot-bod of republicanism, but Las come from the fire untarnished, and today his democracy is as unsullied as It was In years past. He i3 of the opinion that the party need have no fears of any losses in his action of the state. "While there are few democrats there they look uion any defection as a sort of sacrilege, and can always be depended upon, to walk up on election day and do their duty. Hugh Daugnerty of BluJTton was also a conspicuous person about the lobby in the, early morning. He comes down from "Wells county with democracy thouroughly instilled in his make-up. He can't understand what they all mean by democratic disaffection. Such a thing baa never been heard of. in his county. "Why." he said, "if there should be an election tomorrow we would not loss a vote. "We are democrats from principle up there, and don't get sore on account of personalities. William Spencer of Ft. Wayne, formerly editor and proprietor of the Journal of that city, was mingling with his fellow democrats at an tarly hour. He said he came down to the city as an interested democrat for the purpose of meeting other such persons and talking over the situation, and he believed In the personal" method. He thought It a ridlculoua question to ask how democrats In Ft- Wayne were feeling. "Why, confident and hopeful, as usual," he 6aid. "They are always that way. They can afford to feel so. If there are any dissatisfied ones they will soon get over it." Judge Samuel 21. Ilench was also present from Ft. Wayne. He represented Allen county in the last general assembly and was a prominent candidate for the position on the supreme court bench, vacated by the resignation of Judge Olds. He said that there was some disappointment from the lack of patronage in Ft. Wayne, but that was confined to a few leaders who were too zealous in the cause of democracy to let the fact be known or to allow it to Interfere with any work for their cause. In coming" elections. Judge Zollars thought the northern part of the state should feel complimented at the small amount of patronage received. It is customary to bolster up the weak and to let the strong take care of themselves. The fact that the north had not received any bolstering in the way of official patronage was evidence of the great faith which the national leaders have in its democratic strength. SfBklOF X'oorhee Arrives. Shortly after 10 o'clock Senator Voorhees, acompanied by John E. Lamb and Judge D. N. Taylor, arrived. Immediately all conversation ceased and all eyes were turned upon the "Tall Sycamore" as he entered the door. Friends gathered around him. The memorable struggle in the senate was fresh in the minds of all and congratulatory remarks came from all Bides. Ever and anon a person more bohl than the majority, who simply wished to shake hands with the senator, would attempt to draw him to one side for a friendly -"button-holing," but he was not inveigled into any such trap, and in a short time had registered In hia bold hand, "L. W. Voorhees," and was shown to a room. He was accompanied to his room by a few of his friends and a Sentinel reporter. When asked to give an expression on some questions of interest he dimply said that he would bet on this country coming out all right in the .end. He Informed the reporter that he would speak before the gathering in . the par lors and that he would say in that speech all that he cared to say at present. In the course of conversation, however, he denied the report that he wou'd znkm any la tha tut ßniya-

ing the policy of Secretary Hoke S'.iith in regard to pensions. "I stand where I have always stood on the pension question, and do not propose to deviate from it. I am for the old soldier. Death is decreasing tlieeir ranks by about forty thousand a year, and I believe in allowing old Father Time to do all the dropping of pensioners. He can do it fast enough. I may have something to say on the subject when the senate convenes, but it is not true that I am preparing a speech for the purpose of attacking Secretary Smith 01 for any other purpose relative to the pension question." The senator thought that the republican postmaster at Indianapolis ought to be removed at once ought to have been removed long ago. Regarding the Hawaiian affair, he said that if newspaper accounts of the government's Information were true the position of the administration was well taken; that the queen had been wrongly deposed through trie instrumentality of the United States; that in so doing the government had made a mistake which it ought to rectify and which it appeared was the policy of the administration to do. While talking in a general way on various subjects he was waited upon by a committee, who requested him to attend the general meeting in the parlors. He did so and was seen no more in private. The Alleluia nee. "Meanwhile the crowd in the lobby was attempting to reach the parlor, but only a few of them secured admission on aecuunt of the limited capacity of the rooms, which were crowded with about a hundred persons. The arrivals kept coming right along until at noon, when Congressman Cooper arrived. It was estimated that somewhere in the neighborhood of three hundred persons were present from out of the city besides the hundreds of prominent local democrats. Among those present who have not heretofore been mentioned were the followin g: S. p. Fisher. Cambridge City; John K. Lamb. 1 . X. Tavlor, Terre Haute; J. M. Hopkins. Itrazil; Williard New. Vernon; J. A. Hedgecek. 1 J. S nilh. KU W. P.rown. William Monis, L'lwood Avery. J. R Marvin. X. J. C.akiil. P. V. Allen. W. It. Mines and It. C. Houston, Frankfort; Amos W. Woods, P. A. Woe-Is. K. Sweeney, Kokomo; John L. Forkner, II. Allen. John It. Page. J. J. Nitterville and Alva C. Moore. Anderson; W. 11. O'Brien. R. I'. Slater, Lawrr-nccburg; Jerome Herff. Peru; William M. Moss. I loom field; Kb Henderson. Martinsville; William Merrill, Connersville; Th'ir.as McKillip. Muntie; J. M. Kenney. jr.. Will H. Johnson, J. M. Seller, Crawfordsville; John W. Huesdale, T. J. Cole, J. C. Valentine, jr., Franklin; G H Steckclmann. Will E errixxi. W. M. Si"edt-r, Columbus; Patrick Farley. Liberty: W. I!. Wilson, Lafavette; C. O. Hudson. Xoblesville; 1 1. M. Marvin. Rosstown; Willis Hickman, W. S. Johnson. P. M. Martin, Spencer; J. K. McDonald. Ligonier: R. M. Rennet t, John W. Cravens, Bloomingb-n ; J. h. Häuser, Columbus; John G. Schwegman, I j. C. Abbey, Richmond; R. T. Pi unci I, J. R. Tyre, Lebanon; J. W. Wilding, Ft. Wayne; A. M. P.ooe. Vedersburgh; John Sweeney, Tell City; W. A. Kinn. Danville; William A. Stuck, Vernon; J. S. Riddle, Terre Haute; H. Morris, Legrange. xyorrs of cheer.

Senator Yoorhrm a ml Turpie. Governor Mutthews mid Other Talk.. As early as 11 o'clock a part of the crowds in the lobby and private parlor3 of the hotel gathered in the large double parlor on the second floor. It was not generally understood that the meeting was to be called until during the afternoon and as a consequence it would have taken a close observer to have distinguished any material decrease In the number of persons who all day long thronged the lobby. But the capacity of the parlors was taxed to its utmost as It was and senators and lawyers elbowed judges and state officials for positions near the door where the speaking inside could be heard. Chairman Taggart of the state central committee called the meeting to order, after which Charles J. Jewett of New Albany was selected to preside. During the proceedings, however, he was called away and John R, Wilson of this city occupied the chair. Senator Turpie and Governor Matthews were among the early arrivals. When the organization had been perfected and it was discovered that Senator Voorhees was mt present the governor acted as a committee to inform him that the democrats of the state were assembled and would be pleased to hear from him. Governor Matthews found him surrounded by a bunch of newspaper men and office-seekers, but with the greatest courtesy toward those seeking interviews with the senator, simply passed the compliments of the day with Mr. Voorhees, ami not until a new flood of office-seekers began to pour la did he Inform the senator that the meeting was waiting for him. Senator Voorhees immediately excused himself and went to the parlors, where he found over a hundred of Indiana's most prominent public men already gathered. He was received with a burst of applause and was immediately called upon for a speech and responded in substance as follows : Senator Voorhees Talk. "These are trying times for the democracy in Indiana, not because of any misdeeds of their own but because the democratic party has to reap the harvest of discontent sown by the republicans. Every law which has caused hardship to the people at large has been a republican measure. The country Is now suffering from the effects of the so-called Sherman law. This was a republican measure and its evils are so well recognized that there was no one who worked harder for its repeal than the very man whose name it bears and his republican colleagues in congress. The fight for the repeal of this odious measure was not made on party lines. Its passage was, however, on the line of republican policy and yet we, the democracy, as the party in power, must new bear the blame for the evils it worked. "My position on the silver question Is well known. I went Into the senate with my views expressed and came out with the same views. I am a bimetallist. I believe In silver as a subsidiary coin and that we ought to have more of it. I would like to see the two metals, gold and silver, placed on a parity so that if a man has a piece of paper mcney bearing the fiat of the government upon it and is foolish enough to want to exchange it for hard money he can do ho and receive an equal value in either silver or gold. "One trouble in this country is that we have not enough silver in circulation. If we could coin our silver and stop Issuing paper and gold in denomination of less than $10 we would be on an easier basis. In France, where the gold standard is used exclusively in, trade with foreign nations, there is in circulation for domestic use the sum of seven hundred millions of silver. We have a population nearly twice as great a France and yet have but SGIS.OOO.OOO of silver, and much of that is held in great money centers for the profit which can be made out of it. According to Mr. Carlisle's statement we couW incrua&a ILL amount L3 tUiut tCTS.COU.OOj

by coining the silver now available. That is what I want to see done. I think we could stand much more than this a thousand millions would not be too niuch. "Regarding the tariff, I believe the ways and means committee wiil report on the bill by the holidays, and I think that It will have passed both houses before the last of January. There Is no

j question about the house, and I see no reason for its being delayed in the senate. I do not anticipate any attempt at lilibustering on the part of the republican members. Tariff Ilevlalon. "I have not seen the bill and do not know its provisions, but I am safe in saying that the tariff will be thoroughly revised without, I may say, greatly reducing the revenue so derived. The necessities of life will certainly be admitted free or at a great reduction, while a corresponding increase will be made in the duty on luxuries. "The pension question is an important one just now. Under the rulings of the republican administration a number of pensioners have been dropped from the oils during the democratic administration. The fact that they were really dropped by the republicans was not apparently known and much dissatisfaction has resulted. I find now, however, that these persons are again being put on the rolls. I want to say right here that it is not my policy, nor is it democratic policy to desert the old soldier. I am his friend and will do my part to see him ret his dues. It nay be true that there have been frauds practiced and there are unworthy persons drawing government money through th jx-n-sion department, but when we take in consideration the hardships entailed by such a policy as that apparently pursue ! by til" present administration the policy is to be condemned. I think that before ions' pensioners will have been reinstated; if not by the department then by legislation." Federal I'leelion l.nvr. Senator Voorhe -s was about to resume his seat when he was asked what the senate would do with the federal election law. He assured the assemblage that the scntte would follow the house in this matter. ThK he said, notwithstanding the doubt that some ha.I about bringing the matter to a vote. He closed by giving the much-hooted senatorial courtesy a slight rap. He said it was the presumption by our forefathers who framed the constitution that no one would ever reach to high a place in the estimation of the poopK- as to be sent to the senate who would abuse the great privilege that was accorded each senat. -r. Rut h thought that in this respect at least our forefathers had been a little shortsighted. However, he said that it had been eighty-seven years since there had been a previous question in the senate and he hoped that the record would continue, lie did not anticipate any serious opposition to the repeal of the federal election law. Regarding the next year's election in this state Senator Voorhees said that he did not see any reason for the democrats t feel discouraged over the outcome. The recent republican victories in other states did not necessarily mean the same in this state. National questions, so far as they figured in those elections, were misunderstood or purposely misconstrued. By the time Indiana's election conies on some matters which may have caused disaft'ectlon in the democratic ranks will have lassed away and the party will be awake arain to duty. Indiana democrats' were workers and would never let the state go by default even if defeat were certain. All the party had to do now was to carry out the pledKes made in the Chicago platform and success was sure. Senator Voorheos's remarks were greeted with enthusiastic applause. Part of his statements were made in response to questions put to him from different persons. In every instance his replies were clear and concis? and bore the stamp of sincerity and honesty. Senator Tnrple'a Hfninrt. Following him came Senator David Turpie. He said: "I have been for the past ten days visiting in three or four counties of the northern part of the state, where I am personally acquainted with many voters, and I must say the outlook there is encouraging. There seems to be no question there alout our success in the next state election, and every one is confident of the result of the next general election. The fact that several other states went republican is no reason for us to become discouraged. We have often carried Indiana triumphantly when these same states went republican. The only assurance we had In the national elections of 1S72 was that we would carry the states south of the Mason and Dixon line, and yet Indiana went democratic, and again in 1S76 by a larger majority. "Roth parties were divided on the repeal of the Sherman act, but it is not so on the work remaining to le done. What congress does in the coming regular session will be pure democratic legislation. We intend to revise the tariff on clean lines. We will put on the free list many raw materials and reduce the tax on all necessities and will increase the duty on luxuries and commodities of refinement. The present tariff is legalized robbery and must go. Do you think it an act of justice to take a laboring man's wages and give him no return? Should a man be required to work for another man, or should one class be required to work for another class and receive nothing- in return? This is what the republican tariff law does and requires. This is what the democratic congress proposes to remedy and this is what it will remedy. (Applause.) "We 'hold that the free ballot Is a fundamental principle of free government. When you leave the people to vote and give them control as they would have with a free ballot, we have all the many needed reforms, free coinape, free tariff, reform in every department of government. But without free ballot not a prospect of them as long as the elections are controlled by influences other than the individual conscience. Millions of money are used every year to influence votes. This is not a democratic method and the democratic party it Is which is trying to remedy the evil. I place free ballot above all principles of liberty.. It is a democratic policy, and from the beginning of our government until 1830, a period of over ninety years, the party demonstrated that free ballot was at the very foundation of democratic policy and reform." Governor Matthew' Adilrem. Governor Matthews approved all that had been said by the two speakers preceding him. He said he had always admired Senator Voorhees, but that his admiration was greater now than ever, and he thought that it-, had done him good to hear the remarks which the senator had made. He had long known him as a good senator, but he now found him a good fighter and a good general. And he believed he would prove a good Bailor, and, if followed, would land his followers In a safe harbor. The coming campaign, he said, would j be a battle for democracy. He hoped . that by the time the campaign opened any. misunderstanding might La tx

plained away, but if not the party ought to make the most of it and go in boldly and courageously rather than to take a backward step. The light was for principles and he would rather go down in defeat fighting for a principle he knew to be right than to succeed on a false Issue. Ollier Speaker. John Overmyer of North Vernon was the next speaker called upon. He was some years ago a republican, but at the time that party began to take such a decided stand on the Increase of the tariff on lines so obnoxious to the masses he deserted the old love and became as earnest and sincere a democrat as he had been a republican. While a republican he was at one time speaker of the house of representatives in the Indiana legislature. He said that there was no trouble about the democratic party. It Is the only one that has any fundamental and lasting principles growing out of the government and the nation's history. "That alone." he continued, "would cany us through the adverse circumstances which seem to encompass us. It 13 not only the only party founded on principles but it is the liberal party on all lines of general concern or legislation. In regard to the financial policy of the party In so far as Indiana is responsible I wish to say that we believe that that question is perfectly safe in the hands ot our senator, Mr. Voorhees, as chairman of the finance committee of the senate. It must be a sound policy to meet his approval and a liberal policy." In regard to the tariff question Mr. Overmyer said that he had confidence enough in the present congress to believe that it would enact a tariff law that would finally become as firmly imbedded in the hearts of the people as was the tariff law of ist, known us the Walker law. "When that is done th-? opposition to the democratic party will fight as shy of it as they did of the law of 14!, which they never dared assail until the war times made it necessary." With a few words on the necessity of a perfect organization in the state Mr. Overmyer gave way to John W. Kern of this city. Mr. Kern claimed that the republican party was responsible fr the "hard times" anil he charged those present, ns leaders of the opposing1 party, to see that the responsibility should rest where it belongs. He said some way: and Means must be devised for the relief of the people and thrit no better way could there be than by carrying out the Chicago platform, and ho had faith that eonirres-s would do so. Re admitted that the party was nt a littl disadvantage just now. The recent tity election here showed that, a did the state elections, but the reasons were easily explained. "When hard times oppresses ar fellow," lie sai l, "he is going to ;tiike back at some one. an l the hard limes coming as they did with deinocratie ascendency was apparently a result of that ascendency and consequently the party received the blow." H advoca te ! such a civil service reform as would make everv officer In every de

partment in full sympathy with his chief and every chief in full sympathy with the head of the department. Much, he said, depended upon congress. Re urged that all promises be redeemed and then the party could go into the fight with as much confidence ns in 1S?2. Capt. W. R. Myers said that there was a good deal of apprehension In seme localities that. President Cleveland was a monometaliist. He did not think that Mr. Cleveland had done anything that showed him to be other than a good democrat. He said he would lik to see civil service reform administerec" Just as our republican friends administered it, but he thought the democrats were too modest. ITe thought the republicans bad exercised an "appalling gall" to go Into a court of Justice to attempt to overthrow a democratic apportionment. Adjournment for Dinner. The noon hour having arrived the meeting adjourned for dinner. During the hour the already large crowd was augmented by fresh arrivals from all the midday trains. It was 2:30 o'clock before Chairman Jewett again called the meeting to order and asked Governor Matthews to preside during his absence with the committee. Senators Turpie and Voorhees were again present, but were soon requested to meet w ith the committee in an adjoining room and departed to be seen no more, Senator Turpie going to his home and Senator Voorhees leaving on an afternoon train for Terre Haute. During the recess Congressman George Cooper, who is just returning from Washington to his home In Columbus, arrived, and was present at the afternoon gathering. In response to calls for a speech he took the floor. He said his party in congress would come forward with a solid front on the tariff question. He thought coal would be put on the free list. He said It was customary for vessels coming from coalproduclng England to the southern states for cargoes of cotton to carry on the western voyage sand for ballast, thus compelling the United States to pay freight both ways. He thought this and other such necessities might be free as the sunlight. He thought the new tariff bill would greatly simplify the method of raising revenue. He said there was no occasion for Indiana congressmen to make any apologies for their position on the subject of pensions. They had always been as active and as generous on this line as the republicans. And there was no occasion to allow the people to become stampeded on account of actual or threatened suspension of pensions. Ity his actions on this subject. Secretary Hoke Smith is simply carrying out tho rulings of his republican predecessors. Every pensioner, he thought, who had, been dropped would be restored to the rolls. He showed that much of the dissatisfaction, the cause of which is credited to the department, was due to the republican examining boards. Other speakers were heard, among whom were Mason E. Niblack of Vincennes, Judge Allen Zollers of Ft. Wayne, Senator Kopelke of Crown Point, Dan Wood of Kokomov and ex-Senator Ell Rrown of Frankfort. The speeches were all well received and it was easily seen that the speakers voiced the sentiment of every man present. AS ABLE AI1DRESS. It la Promulgated, by the Democratic State Central Committee. The state committee was in session but a short time during the afternoon, during which time the time and places for holding the conventions for the selection of new committemen were chosen. The following address was also prepared for tho public: "The democratic party of the state appeals to the people of Indiana, with unshaken confidence in Its policy and principles, for continued support. Every department of the state government, un'der the administration of Governor Matthews and the other state officers, is now and has been for many months in the hands cf our political friends. No complaint, either as to Its integrity or efficiency, can be successfully laid to our charge. The administration of the affairs of the general government has also been committed, by a very large majority of the popular vote, to our hands, and we are Just abouA to commence the new legislation which .ccumaa&laa a change, vi maa and iueaa-

ure3 as a result of the last presidential election. A commencement has already been made. We repealed the law compelling the government to buy silver bullion. We have not disturbed or demonetized the six hundred millions of silver today in circulation either in, specie or by its paper representative. We hold to the old and well-known financial principle of the democratic party that silver and gold coin shall be the basis of the money of the people, and we think that upon such basis, bimetallic in its use and process, money may be furnished in ample quantities for the successful transaction of all the business of the country. We have made no limitation upon the coinage of either silver or gold, and we Intend to make none for the future, except such as may be necessary to maintain a parity of the two metals and to make every dollar equal in value in the market. Federal Taxation. "We purpose further a thorough revision of the system of federal taxation, insisting that the burdens of the government shall be laid upon those most able to bear them and that land and labor, wages and agricultural products shall be finally released from the excessive exactions to which they have been subject for the last thirty years. We intend no reduction of the revenue, and an increase of the revenue will be the result of the revision of the tariff upon these lines. We purpose further to provide that a certain class of appropriations, those in relation to the exUnion soldiers of the late war, shall be provided for and preferred and that the amounts due those already settled, and those yet to be adjusted, shall be paid to every soldier justly entitled, promptly, without delay, in money of the utmost currency and the highest class. "We denounce, as hitherto, all interference by the federal government, its agents or officers, in the elections held by the ieople of the state. We believe that the present republican policy in force since 1S70. under what are called federal election laws, is constantly attended with danger of a collision between the states and the general government; that the system of bribery in the shape of appointments and that the needless expenditures of millions of money paid out at congressional and presidential elections have no purpose except to secure the continuance in power of nn administuition willing to use such means for its success. We favor, therefore, and shall enforce the prompt payment of all pension dues, the immediate repeal of all Iounties and subsidies, and especially the election bounties and subsidies paid to partisans as rewards for their labor. We favor also such reconstruction of shipping and navigation acts as shall liberate commerce from the burdens imposed upon it by such laws, and an administration of the public lands and the questions delating thereto which shall reserve the domain to actual settlers, and which shall deny to corporations the Immense monopoly which they have enjoyed in that behalf. AuininiMtintion Foreign Policy. "We have the fullest confidence in the wisdom, integrity and patriotism of drover Cleveland and Walter Q. Cresham. We know that they will stand by all the best and hightest democratic traditions in respect to the foreign policy of the government, and we believe that no step will be taken which will endanger the honor or character of the United States, the Monroe doctrine or any other principle which has heretofore controlled our foreign relations, anil especially those with the Hawaiian people. "During the last campaign the republican party made a very harsh attack upon the present system of state taxation. We appeal to the actual oix-niti'-n of the law and the 'revenue collected under it as the best answer to the many charges of the injustice and Inequality which were mat?e against it. The revenue lias been largely increased, it has been wisely expended and the state debt has been gradually reduced, so that the sums to be hereafter collected from the people will grow lighter and easier. "We have witnessed with profound regret the many financial disasters and business distresses which have befallen the people, of the country and we denounce ti e statement, so often made and repeated, that these things are the result of democratic policies, as not only untrue, but dishonest. The democratic party inherited from the last administration an empty treasury, very large engagements for the payment ot subsidies and bounties and a financial measure, commonly known as the Sherman act, which aggravated all these evils, an act so flagitious in its character that its own author and his political associates felt compelled to join in the effort for its repeal, and we congratulate the country upon the result of the policy of the present administration, developed in the recent extraordinary' session of congress, which has sensibly decreased the danger to the national credit and will, in time, gradually restore the public credit and business confidence and will lead to the renewed employment of labor, the increase of wages and the rise in the value of farm produce. We are proud of the bearing and acts of our senators, Daniel W. Voorhees and David Turpie, and of our representatives in congress upon this question and the controlling Influence they exercised upon its determination. riedge Will Be Redeemed. "We rely upon the Judgment of the American people that the policy of the administration so recently chosen shall not be condemned without trial, and we have the utmost faith that every pledge made to the voters of the republic by the convention last held at Chicago will be redeemed, that every promise made will be kept and that the result will be relief to the whole country, not only from the evils which it now suffers, but from the causes of those evils which are not fancied, but real, and which have been engendered by thirty years of unbroken misrule."

DATE OF COSVEXTIOXS. They Are Fixed br Ihe Committee The Representation. By direction of tho democratic state central committee mass conventions will be held at the county seats of the different counties of the state on Saturday, Dec. SO, at 2 o'clock p. m., for the purpose of electing delegates to district conventions to be held Jan. 8, 1S94, to "elect a member of the state committee for the ensuing two years. These district conventions will be held at the following places : First District Evansville. Second District Mitchell. Third District North Vernon. Fourth District Lawrenceburg Fifth District Martinsville. Sixth District Richmond. Seventh District Indianapolis. Eighth District Terre Haute, Ninth District Lafayette. Tenth District Logansport. Eleventh District Peru. Twelfth District Ft. Wayne Thirteenth District South Bend. The basis of representation in this con vention as fixed at the meeting of the 1 state committee at the Grand hotel yesterday is one delegat for each 200 votes or fraction of 100 or over cast for the j lion. Clauda Matthews for governor la I

1S92. The different counties are therefore entitled to the following representation: Vote for Number County. Matthews, 1S?2. Delegates. Adams 2,8M 11 Allen 9,17 r.') Jiartholomew 3.15 K Pen ton 1,371 7 Blackford 7 Hoone 3,o.7 " Rrown i.wa 7 Carroll 2.347 J2 Cass 3,2 i' l Clarke 3.9:9 2') Clay 3.-U7 IX Clinton 2.S71 1" Crawford 1,4'9 T Daviess 2,471 12 Dearborn 3,37 17 Decatur 2.:'.V) 12 Dekalb 2.7t: It Delaware ',x,i it Dubois 2J1 1 1 Elkhart 3.511 1 Fayette l.w 7 Floyd 4.11-9 21 Fountain 2.3J3 12 Franklin 2 Ml 1 4 Fulton 2.242 It Gibson 2.V.7 12 Grant S.r.Tl H Greene 2.47$ 12 Hamilton 2.4s 12 Hancock 2.313 12 Harrison 2.4 12 Hendricks 2.d'.0 1 Henry l.Kl 9 Howard 2.3')') 12 Huntington S.441 17 Jackson 17 Jasper iO 5 Jay 2.3'il 12 Jefferson '7 13 Jennings 1,32 7 Johnson 2.."'.s 13 Knox 3.372 17 Kosciusko 3,KK 1" Lagrange 1.4-7 7 liUKO 2.5."1 1". Raporfje 4,T,4 21 Lawrence 2.114 11 Madison r.,fi;r2 JS Marion 20.22S I'd Marshall 3. I'd lt Martin 1,:s0 7 Miami 17

I Monroe 1.M4 1') Montgomery 3.cw i: Morgan 2,fC 10 Newton K7S 4 Noble 2..; 1 Ohio :. .3 Orange l.t.JJ 8 Owen 1.72S :t Parke .t)2 1) Perry 2.o:. io Pike 1.9H jo Porter l.ier. t 10 Posey 2.: 13 Pulaski 1.:; 7 Putnam 2,7:W 14 Randolph J,X4 10 Flfpl?y 2,417 1 1 Hush 2.2'q H Scott J.et.. .". Shelby S.4'.: 17 Spencer 2.1.'S 32 Starke '.:" 5 Steuben 1.2'. t ö St Joseph fi.it.O r.' Sullivan 3.142 P. Switzerland 1.577 S Tippecanoe 22 Tipton l.Wt 10 Union K'.0 4 Vanderburg fi.frro .",0 Vermillion l.trJ 7 Vigo r..r.73 .",3 Walash 2,W 12 Warren 971 ." VTitrrick 2.1.".J 11 Washington 2.ra 12 Wavne "673 IS Wells 2.tfS 13 White 1.SS7 9 Whitley 2.222 11 The above is authorized by Thomas Taggart. chairman, and Joseph Reiley, secretary, of the state central committee. LYNCHED BY DAYLIGHT. HEM) IIANfiUD II Y A MOn IV THK MAIN STREET OF OTTl.MWA, IA. The Victim Guilty of Criminal Assault on a Four-Year-Old Girl Tlie Mother nt tlie Little One FamUhrs the Hope for Ihe Tragedy. OTTUMWA, la.. Nov. 21. Frederick Gustavson. a laborer, aged thirtytwo, who recently came to this city, was hanged by a mob on the main street of Ott um wa at 2:30 p. m. today. Last night he enticed the four-year-old daughter of Jonas Sax into the room of a boarding house and criminally assaulted her. The child, although horribly maltreated was able to drag herself home, but now lies at the point of death. This afternoon Gustavson was brought to Justice Truitt's office for preliminary examination. In the office a fight ensued between the father, grandfather and other relatives of the child and the officers. The culprit was finally wrrested from the hands of the officers and dragged out of the office door. Here the mother of the child stood with the rope and gave it to the mob. It was Immediately placed about the wretch's neck and he was hanged to the banister of the outside stairway leading to the office. A great crowd had by this time collected. No effort was made to cut the villain down. After hanging twelve minutes the rope broke and the body fell to the pavement with a sickening thud. It was then seized by the officers and hurried to the jail. The mob, fearing life was not yet extinct, followed and demanded the body. Mayor Laforce assured them that the fellow was dead and ordered them to disperse. Still they refused to do so. Finally a committee from the crowd was selected to view the remains, which they did. Upon a report from the committee that life was extinct the mob dispersed. For a time It looked as if the mob would not be satisfied until it had taken another life. The trial of Edward Walton, for the murder of a young girl by malpractice, began this morning in Judge Babb's court When the mob made a break for the Jail some one yelled. "Let's get Walton." but he had been spirited away by tho officers, and no further trouble ensued. POAVDERLY RE-ELECTED. Result of the Rallodnjr by the KnlgbtN of Labor. PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 22. At- today's session of the - general assembly. Knights of Labor, all the offices were declared vacant and a new election ordered. Then T. V. Powderly, Labor Commissioner Saverlng of Iowa and T. B. Maguire of this city were the nominees for crand master workman. The result of the balloting was: Powderly, 23; Saverlng, 19; Maguire, 1. The election will be continued tomorrow, when It is expected that a new secretary-treasurer and executive board will be elected. HIT THE riPE AXD JJIICIJ. Fatal Renult from n. Visit to an Opium Den. DENVER, Nov. 21. This morning Mrs. Hallie Caldwell, aged twenty, and Annie Jones, aged eighteen, with a party of male companions, visited an opium den on Wazee-Rt. and indulged in many pipes of "hope." Mrs. Caldwell became unconscious from the effects of the drug at 7 o clock and died an hour later. 1 Miss Jones was found unconscious also and cannot live. The Chinaman who kept the deu disappeared through a trap door into a sub-cellar when the police t raided the den. and escaped. j

EX-SECRETARY RUSK DEAD.

THE KM) COMES I'XEXrnCTEDLT AT HIS WISCOXSI.Y HOME. Although Ailing for Some Tine Ills Condition AV Xot Such as 1o ('! Alarm His Death a Miuck (u Ills Family and friend. VIROQUA, Wis., Nov. 21. Jeremiah M. Rusk, ex-secretary of agriculture, died at 8 o'clock this morning. The death of Gen. Rusk came like a bolt of lightning from the sky. There was not the slightest indication of the approaching end. Col. Henry Casson, his former private secretary, left his bedside at 9 o'clock last night and gave to an assemj bled crowd of the general's friends the t most positive assurance that the crisia was surely passed. Gen, Rusk himself said to his physicians during the evening: "Boys. I'm better." Dr. Gott and Mrs. Craig, the general's eldest daughter, remained with him during the night. He tock an unusual amount of milk and other nourishment and slept a good portion of the night. He had talked freely and appeared the most reconciled to his condition than at any lime since his sickness. Yesterday was the first time he admitted his apparent improved condition. Gen. Rusk's death was due to a complication of disorders, the origin of which dates back several years. Nearly ten years ago, while governor of the state. Gen. Rusk had a f.rtt attack similar to that which prostrated him on Iiis last bed of sickness. The physician then decided that the trouble was due to disorder of the stomach. The treatment at that time was successful in removing tho more severe symptoms and for Borna time the general considered himself cured. Of recent years, however, there have been slight recurrences of the attack, and while not of such severity as to seriously impair the general's health, they have been a warning of what must come In time. Last year, while at tha national encampment of the G. A. R. at Indianapolis, Gen. Rusk met Surgeon Gen. Hamllton and explained his symptoms to him and the physician made a diagnosis oi the case. He decided that Gen. Rusk was suffering from enlargment of the prostrate gland. Within two months this enlargment of the glands caused the formation of an abcess near the bladder, and the abcess gradually involved the gland. Seven week3 ago Gen. Rusk's condition became so serious that he was obliged to take to his bed, still no alarm was felt for his life. On Nov. 10 Dr. Hamilton was summoned from Chicago and consultation was held. It was declared that ai operation was necessary. Chloroform was administered and the abcess was opened, a drainage tube being inserted. The frequent reinsertion of thi tube caused the general intense suffering, and yesterday he stated to friends ttat he could not endure ' having the tube again inserted. It was not thought, however, that death was so near at hand and the end was a chock to his friends. A post mortem will be held to determine the cause of the general's death. The house where Gen. Rusk died baa been the family residence for many years. Blue books, congressional directories and biographical dictionaries give Gen. Rusk's occupation as that of a farmer, and rightfully. He owned one of the finest farina In Verner county. It lies north of the village of Viroqua and ia In a high state of cultivation. The i dwelling is a plain frame structure, a story and a half in hight and is painted a weather worn yellow. Tall locust trees surround the building. At one side are large barns, granaries and a tool house. The rooms of the dwelling are eight in number and are not larg nor roomy and neither are they handsomely furnished. Exterior and interior it has a plain, home-like look, however, and carries a look of solid comfort. The apartment in which he died is on the second lloor and at the front of tha building. Tho walLs are low and the furnishings are in keeping with those of other rooms in the modest home. The bed on which the general lay as he breathed his last IA of some dark, richlooking wood, and around it are the low chairs, the nurse table and other familiar surroundings cf a sick-room. Jeremiah McLaln Kusk was born In Morgan county, Ohio, June 17, l;O0. He received a common school education, anl was engaged in farming till the outbreak of the civil war. He enlisted, aj la 10was made major of the Twenty-nfth Wisconsin. He served with Sherman from thl date till the close of the war, attaining the rank of lieutenant-colonel. In lys he was brevet ted brigadier-general of volunteers. After the war he held a number of civil offices In Wisconsin, and in lfcTO ha was sent to congresn, ant served three terms. He declined the cilices of minister to Paraguay and Uruguay, and of chief of the bureau of printing anl engraving, Jn 1SS2 he was elected governor of Wisconsin an-1 erved thrv-e successive ttrmn. Since March 4, he had txen a. cabinet ofneer, with the title of secretary of agriculture, the f .rmcr office of commissioner having been ehangfI to a secretaryship, anl Mr. Kusk being the first lucumknt. POIND Gl'ILTV AT ROANOKE. Lender In tlie Riot of Sept. SO Im Itrisoned nml Pined. ROANOKE, Va., Nov. 22. Three cf the persons under indictment for par ticipating in the riot of Sept- 20 were, found guilty in the Hustings countycourt today. Jamed G. Richardson was sentenced to thirty days in Jail and a fine of $100. D. K. Kennedy and S. W. Fuqua were sentenced to t n days imprisonment and Jl fine. Ihe trial of Chief of Police Terry and Sergt Griffin, under indictment as accessories, wa begun today. THREE YOIXG LADIES KILLED. Struck by a Pan-Handle Train at Xenln, O. XENIA. O., Nov. 22. Three young ladies of the city. Miss Sallie and Sophia Kelsoe, daughters of S. M. Kelso?, teller in the Xenia national bank, and Misai LeSlla McDill, daughter ol Dr. David JIcDlll. professor in the W. P. seminar-, were killed this afternoon by a westbound Pan-Handle train at the edge ot this city while on their way home from a visit to a sick girl whom they visited in a missionary way. MIRDERED FOR .MONEY. AnsAftnlnation of XV. A. Blacker to Ob tain 10,0OO Life Innurnnce. WOOSTER, O.. Nov. 21. Last tilgh W. A, Mackey, a well-known agricultural implement agent, was called to his doorand shot in the head by an unknown man and mortally woundec. Mackey had his life insured for S1U.O00 and tha report is in circulation that the crimq was committed to obtain the insurance