Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 December 1894 — Page 2

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER L2, 18SU.

and brought to the surface and we see In it substances the farm and pressure of a time ages before our own we realize that th3e dead and burled forms of life, extinct flora and fauna of the remote past, even If they could be resuscitated, are not fitted for this era. Even if they could live under present conditions they wou'.d add neither value nor utility to the natural resources of our world. Theli further aprearance would be a mere tax and burden rron the forces of life now extant. So thove fossil sections of our oreanie law

touching the migration or importation of j certain persons; touching the delivery of p-5:.s o3 held to service or labor by the laws of the states; touching the choice of senators of the states by the legislatures thereof are seen at a s'.ance to belong to and t ) inhere In conditions lone since Overpassed, to) useless In and alien tv the f : 3 and larger requirements of today' and l the morrow of our future. Gxtenttpn of the Franchise. "The election of senators by the legislature was ordained when the people had little or no power In the states governors, Jjdges, administrative officers, both local and general, were all appointed. Popular eCectlcma only availed for two purposes, one of choosing the legislatures, which chose everything e:e, the other of electing membt-rs of thi housa of representatives In congrss. Since those days there has been a very large extension of the franchise, and a still larger extension of the use and application of the franchise. "OrHsers. executive and Judicial, of the longest terms and of the highest powers, and of the very gravest responsibilities, have been since elected by popular ballot; the appointing power has fallen into general disuse, except to fill temporary vacancies. That feature of British polity which males the lord chancellor the presiding officer in the upper house of parliament, thus imposing upon the same man double duties of tri most onerous character, has been Justly and severely criticised. But it wouid be extremely difficult in our time to give a valid reason f?r imposing upon the legislature of a state necessarily charged with the duty of devising ways and means for the support of the state government, and with the lawmaking power of the people thereof, the additional duty of choosing senators. There is not the slightest natural connection between these two duties. Indeed they are often discrdar.t and inconsistant with each other. Often have we seen in our past history, and in reent times we have especially noted legislatures, to th neglect the total neglect of their functions, as lawgivers. wholly unmindful of tho particular and pressing interest? of the state, Fpand the wholi term of their Fusion in the attempt to choose senators, and yet fail in th? endeavor. This wan tor, waste and dissipati on cf IrgL-lative functions ousrht to be prevented, ought to be altogether forbiJjen. "And when we recall the harsh criminations anl recriminations, th gnw charges of pecuniary corruption and of fraudulent combination or intrigue, disgraceful and dUh' noraM to the whole body, with whi -h a prolonged senatorial contest is accnmpanieJ. whether in party conference or in the ops.i assembly, the removal of such a pnerant evil should he deemed a prime political nacsFity. Even if such things ha a occurred but once in our hi.-'tury their repetition oug'ot t b'j mail'? im possible. All Ju.it men, aspirants to srats here; all senators, all legislature, the wh'.l io ide of the state would rejoice in b'irg reirised from conditions so fraught with peril ana" disaster. Ailrunlaeti of Ihe 'ew Method. "It may be said. Indeed, that the new method of choos'np senators, proposed In the amendment, w-u!d rmlt that function In some degree to conventions instead of legislative conferences. That is true, but conventions could only mik nominations tentative, experimental. They would be j''.acel "under tnnci to malu the bst so'.eetl ins. The j-er.-m nominated would have 1 pass the oi ileal of every billjt in the ma?.- T voters in his state. Th? pxKIcii dominance of a party would be in such :.-' r guaranty of uzi elect! n. unlt-aa Uie candid ite were otherwise worthy of funj'ort. .NnLhing 1? more ummon even h ttatea of tho most stable partisan character, such a.- pjniwylv.in'a, .Mx'Jiehu.-set:s or Ohio. than the defeat of a candMite for peVi.rnjr or Julg? cr olhv high position. although he may have obtained the nomination, of the dominant party. The direct v: fe of the p? ple op-rate to d?s:roy the action, of party, either la account of the ;nworthlr.es of the candidate as a person or the unsjtlsfictory manner of his nomination, (n th other hand, the nomination for senator made by a legislative caucus or conference U usually a finality. It is not subject to revlsiou or review, to approval or rrjeetlon by the people of the träte. The diffusion of the elective power and function must inevitably tend to juriiy, probity and integrity la Its exercise. Ilurke said he knew not how to indict a whole people; there la the am impossibility In the proposition to purchase the lectors of a state. "If is said tliat the present mode of ronatoria! elections was adopted by the f:miors of -his government upon full confederation and rtfter the mist careful de. liberatl n iui to the different n-iys in which the choice ini;-ht be made. This Is doubtless true. Tivy adopted that nut'iod of election test suked to their ag and generation, to their condition and surroundings. "With e(U.il care an 1 deliberation they provided that this method, might be changed, and provided the manner of onnnging it. Ipde-d, thy left the wliele subject rf "senator! il reir(25-ntatIon open to f'iture amendment, except the ratio, concerning whi-m It enacted the.t no state shall ever be deprived of Its equal suffrage in the penate. This makes it v ry manifest that the fr.mvr.j .r' the constitution did nt regard change in the m.e of election cf senators as In themselves evil. They provided expressly for such changes; they expeted. rh-y anticipated the.e; but they, for that re3on. secured the ratio of rep-r-rentati. n here by a r'-rpeiual limitation. They did not make the same limitation or any limitation upon the mode cf choosing Benators. flenpect to Hour, "The ho.-iraM:; and learned s-:nlr senator f.-or.i Mnssa hustts (Mr. Hour), in discussing this subject in the senate, took the poitiin that ti.e rl.ciion of United 6tates senators by Die people would be the submitting of th" choice of them 'to the brute f--rw of numbers, applying that phrase as descriptive of a result reached by the count of a majority of the votes ca.t. I concede that tho will of the majority, sinniflod by ballot, i.s a force, a very eflicient force, but It Is not brute force; for the very origin of the whole system of voting as applied to governments whether we consult that which is written of the ancients or the tradition orally band-'-d down to us was In this way. When f jr n long time the people of a certain country had been harassed and decimated by the internecine strifes of factions concerning ths .upr'-macy of per9'ra or policies in some breathing-spell of peace or truce they concluded that as the brute or main force of the greater number nearly always prevailed In such ontert. they would thereafter let each man in tho community in some way peaceably make known his will or wish or preferenc-e, count these votes, and let the grentt-r num'er thereof settle the matter in difference. "The ballot was an invention or contrivance to do away with the necessity of ree irting to arm. and violence: it i.s n substitute for physical force; it stands in the v r. and stead thereof; it t.ikey the place of the mere brute force of numbers and k :; lints it. A the use of the vote In the r . st instance was the result of long deboeiation, forbearance and fr-e discussion, r the u.e and force of the ballot Ls now i f the same character. The force of numb r?, expressed by the vote pure nnd un- '..'. led, is not brute or brutal; It is the acti n of free nvoral agents engaged in the bighest sphere of duty as sovereigns nn l eitiens. ";ln, it is said that th senitor In a p'.! '.. u!ar manner represents the stite, and ili-r th; proposed change will Impugn or In - : )? way endanger th s:v-re;gnty or o '.ity of the states. If auch could be tli- tf.-ct thereof I ehould be very far fi a ; fndering any support to this policy. J: jt the change propose! would n t In the fil.q;0t-st de(rr-e disturb the .pc-tU relation? heretofore or now existing between th? member of thb body and tho stat whih they represent. The senator chosen rould yt be In a special sense the representative of his state; the only effect of the new method, of election would bo that

he would be choaen by the suffrages of the whole people of the state instead of those of a very small minority. Would Increane the Dignity The augmented body of electors would Increase the importance of the office and would enlarge, not diminish, the importance of those peculiar relations existing between the state and it3 senator. The legislatures of the states formerly chose the governrrs, who in turn appointed, by and with tae advice of the state senate, all the other principal officers. Gradually this has been changed and the people da now elct where thi chief executive before appointed. Wh would now deplor; this vast growtn of the democritlc sentiment, or would wish to restore either to the legislature or to th? executive those greater powers which they formerly enjoyed. It is one of the things best kn"wn and universally conceded by u that the sovereignty of the states. In their respective spheres, the separate and equal existence of the states, th; character and dignity of their governments, have bn vfry materially. immüBurably, improved and promoted by this transfer of pjwer to the people. "It may be Justly thought that our present territorial governments approach as near as anything else to the ancient systems of state government once prevalent. Yet how anxious are the people of the territories for a change of condition. Statehood, the very name of itate, Is sought, eagerly desired at the earliest opportunity as a shield against and a refuge from those manifold Ills which always .accompany an appointive government. The extended area of popular elections has even more than the personal extension of the franchise added to the authority of state laws and politics. A United Sates senator chosen by the people of his state would be the highest exponent of this advanced type of civil liberty, while at the sam time this change in our system of federal polity would do more than anything else now projected to assuage that disnulet, that uneasy spirit of multitudinous dissent which In the laat decade has with equal hand Imposed the ban of Its displeasure upon all policies and all administrations. Afff of Corporations. "Many appellations or epithets have been given to this time of ours. Perhap'one, as appropriate as any other, at least In our own countr', would be the age of incorporations. Almost every man we meet now Is a member of some corporation. The Jurisdiction and province of these institutions is no" longer confined to great enterprises, the construction of public works, the distant transportation of freight and passengers, the opening of mines or uuairi's. Gainful pursuits1 of any kind are seldom now undertaken by p -rsons as such. We have companies duly chartered and orgtnizel for the manufacture of almost every article, uten.-i!. Implement or ommodity sold in the market. Not only the carrier, the wagoner, the brazier, the scio-. -maker, and the smith have disappeared the workmen In every art and mystery hive vanished. The ompmy has ta!" a th ir room and place; thy are forgotten or wholly merged in Hoe corporate life and service. Nr Is this strange transformation limited to matters of gain or profit. This universal hunger for Incorporation, this world-wide riddance of personality, this negation of private action. li:vis num-r.iua objects f.r Its exercise elsewhere. For the redress of overy 1. rong th t Is done under ti..; sua there is) some yoekty formed and duly char!vd. F.rr the cure cf every ill to which eur raee is subj- ct. there Is a body corporate with Its presihnt, vice-president, and l).ird of directors, duly appointed according to the statute in such i.i.e made and provided. "Is a pervading ser.e of separate weakness th? secret of tills rushing movement touatd collective effort an. I strength? If So. the m?n of our penera tion must have been marvelous'.y ton -hed by their n infirmity. Whatever may b tho nv.tive or t he rr.is-iu for this te.odeney or condition, it obtains. This rT-lnire of in-eorporatR'n.s 1 at not only reioi'vd but cover-d every tie' l. valley and bight of hum in entr-l-.'-ise. l.i the old antediluvian era, th; world before this fltod, there may hive been nie sect -jiiiio.ed of nvri-ly nun and women; but all lb sh lias long siru-e b-en transmuted into b 'dit-s c irporate I arsons natura., individuals as stich, luve perished In the mundati in. Una llxerled nu Influence. "This astounding incorporated condition, "thoroughly permeating teae mass of our people and their affairs, his not been without its inrluenc-j upon this VJy and ita membership. It has be-n widely bruited, much to our disparagement, that the legislative electors, who under the present system create senators, have been In many instances singularly p.i-int in the hands of the powers corporate theso cilia rtered principles. It has therefore hr-n said that the Grand Centril rai'wiy has chosen a itor in a certain state; that the Grind Central bank has chosen anotlvr elsewhere, and that the Central assoi i.ition of mir.ir.g and manufacturers has defeated or elected a third. Nothing is intended to !;; assumed here concerning the truth or falsity cf the assertions or accusation. Itut these malffieent charges have an existence. They ore disseminated braodcast; they have boer. for many years in vigue. Thir mer existence is a grave 1 -ischief ar.d menace, very Inlm'-val to our le; itimate Influence in the national councils, cry destructive of that purpose which the senate? was therein app linted to sub-serve. "It may be a.-kfd, woul 1 you then have a great deliberative rhambf.r di -solved r d -strove 1 ut.Oii grounds of ne-re rum r ar.d suspicion? Not ;tt all. Hut I would have such an assembly nv dify the law of i-g f irmaii n so as t be ri 1 u tlic.sj p-Tiii. i iis a: I destructive ineulpiti i.s. ti-se very sfrinis hir.dran es to its ptil lie service on j ptility. And when this riddance d.--nds up. ti f'Ur own action, ar:J i;iis action is delayed or frustrated, this a No aggravates every charge and affords aMiti oral wcig'tt to that buijen of reproach and obloquy which, however unjust, threat ns to rncompa.ss us. Th- way or t'iis riddance is facile, plain, clear. If the choice of the constituent m-ru'HT.s of t'iis b )dy were left to themes of voters in the ,tue th'-se p-.-iib-us tiia:iuatr ns would be ir.fini.f ly ltss--nl. Thpy would altogether disapte e.r. N reasonabl grotinda coul i be given for their su;p rt. In that rvcnt advent and invasion of corporate powers and t?ndenci-s of which I have spoken (ne person has at lea. t survived. It is the citizen voter. The uncrowned soverign in the booth at the pills, wnatvermay be his artificial memberanin elsewhere, feels that he is there a natural member of the commonwealth in which he resides. "If he there recollects his artificial relations or surroundings it Is only to discard them. lie is for the nonce di.-incorporated. In this one act he would be and is free, enfranchised, and he votes accordingly. This

That Tired Feeling So common at this seasoti, is a serious condition, liable to leai to disastrous results. It is a sure si.;n of declining health tone, and that the blood is 1mpovcri?hed and impure. The best and moat successful remedy is found iu HOOD'S Sarsaparilla Which makes rich, healthy blood, and thus gives strength to the nerves. Plasticity to the muscles, rigor to the brain and health to the whole body. Is truth, Hood's Sarsaparilla Makes the Weak Strong Be sure to get Hood's and only Ilood's Hood'8 Pills are purely testable, rcract! barmlcss. always reliable aud beneflcUk

BEOINS1NO EARLY J Is half the battle. Don't wait

y for your cough to run into ConX ger of it. The germs or seeds of V this disease are all around vou. All that they want is an inactive liver and the scrofulous condition that follows it, to develop them. You need Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, note, to thoroughly purify your blood. If 1 build up sound, firm, honert 4? fc Cesh, and make every weak siiot I strong. It's a certain remedy for the earlier stages of Consumption. . OTTrtffxH, Ohio. Dr. R. V. Picrcs: Ikar Sir Two of our best doctors pronounced my case consumption. I spent nearlr $000. and was no better. I concluded to try tbo "(Jolden Medical .Discovery." I bought eight bottles, and I ceu now sar with truth that I feci Just as well todar as t did nt twonty-tlvo, and enn do iurt as ftood day's work on the farm, although I had cot done any work for several years. I gie jom all the thanks. Truly, your friend. 7 purpose, this growing purpose cf independence in the voter will be. beyond measure, aided by the additional privilege provided for in this proposed amendment. I say privilege, and it is thus ppoken of advisedly. "The function of voting for United States senator. is, under present conditions, a privilege a privy law, a privy right enJoyed now only by the few. from which the many are debarred. Does the senator ch isen represent the few? Hp would himself disclaim ?ucli partial function. Does he represent the many? Why should not the many then elect their representative? Now, If any one say the pipl themselves do not wish to exercise this privilege, the answer is, lpt them at least decide whether or no they desire it. If it be said the j eopl? ought not to have this privilege, let him who says that find, if he can, a reason for so saying. Let he People Decide. "Now. If this amendment be submitted by our action, as It should be. and upon submission it be rejected, no harm follows; it will come to mught. But let us not defeat submission. Let U3 not stand for privilege or prerogative; let us stand and abide with tho p?3pl?, well knowing that their action In either event will Justify our hlghes-t trust and confidence. "Often all of us have spoken of the grandeur, the civic grandeur conferred by the elective franchise; of the noble etatus and condition of a free man In a free state. "Yet when we consider carefully the present law concerning the formation of this bxly, we .see plainly that this high condition may still be enmbld and enl irped. and that, to , with th? happiest effect both vy m the senate and the people. "In a speech nude here upon th? 17th diy of Deeemb r, 15-lH. I used the fallowing linguige and I am still content with these wru- would change iune of them: " 'That centripetal fönt indigenous to all forms of government so alien to the spirit of a free democracy, has always leen unfitly favored by modes of communication such as those now existing between xhe senate and the people modes somewhat devious. Indistinct, indefinite. To make the path of this communication straight to make it. a public highway, an open course, unbroken and uninterrupted from the polls to the senate chamlxr, is to inflict a irrievous wound upon central ism, and v.i!'. h lp to drive monopoly from lt-i noxious In;-. To grant to the whole body of i-livtio-s in a stiit this penatorial franchise, if you will allow me the use of Mich expressim, must induce and awaken t:n interest much enlorjred, a sense of roei.isdMl:ty very much hierriu-iied. in the h ".art avA mir.:! of every t ili?'n. " 'Acgrandizeme; t of the units in a fretstate i: not that of th tederul head, but ereates nn.J sul'vervn ihe condition of distinct, itide;en,lent, pors.T.nl tljjiuht, feeling nnd action, the unusailable bulwarks hoin nil" and Nx-al sovereignty. Tbo mlled infle-nce, imp irtancr nn l power of each indtviilut'l voter tit his home must dlmlnb-h the rrean as it would b-s.en the opportunity f'T federal aggression. Whatever aggrandizes the rirht.s of tho citizen elevates the Male.' "The greater the citizen the greater boo -nvs the state of which be is a member, and the greater the state the greater and itronyer lieeomes the union of the Kt.it es of which the nati ;i Is formed. Ity rea-on of the multitude of our people and the wide di.cveision of their habitations, oven in clonial days, as a!l could not nsrr.hlÄ at the fame time T.d place, the s. heme cf rop-esentat'"" gv. mnu-nt was very t irly :i ptttl. And befon- the revolution the plan of two leßislative chambers, c.Mbracing two kinds of representa-tiv-f, answering rc-pa-ctively to the senat3 nnd the hous-. had largely obtained acceptance. Although some of the states, at the time of the formation of the present go-vernment had only one legislative chamIh't, yet the dual system soon became genera I. The Sntr Lealnlatnres. "Hoth the lecislative chambers in the states nro chosen by a direct vote of the p-i.T'I-", anl the constituti-uis of the several t tt"s do expressly provide for this method cf chf-iee. and no other. Doubtless it would have b.cen competent t have p-ovided in any Ft t that the senate branch of the general assembly sojuM nave been chosen, otherwise. "Itut no fu-'h poli.y ha? ben approved, ar.d I il o n it think that any c on."i; jra!le nutnb t of persons could be fmn 1 wh woul a ;ulvo;Mte th- ilejtion of either branch of th - state l--2islature in any other mole than by a lirr t vote of the people. Su h a radical r tr.gre.-.-i ,n and departure from the prin-ipl of free pipular govt-rn-rnei.i w ;:1.1 n t now be t.d- rated by the citizens of any st.it-, even the. newest and lab 1 in its 1" rm iti n. "Tor a century t.iLs system of two I pislative botiies, both chosen by the popular vote, in tne p-iverninent of tlie states has been in force and practl e. Tha stability cf th iostituti ii:s oi the state, its continuity f p Ii y. the capacity to check carelc;, h iMy. fir in -onsiderate action in one branch by deliberati ms in th? othr. have been fuccivi.sfL.lly d nio: stratdl. Th? longer term, the latg'-r experience, and that conservatism which may be calhd th? vis imrtice of political life have ben found equally effective in the senates of the states as here, anl have proven conclusively that the iiscful purposes of a second branch in legislative avemblies ds not at all require the disfranchisement of the people in their eleciicn. Nor does it den nd upon the peculiar methad of the election of their members, but upoa the tenure of their service, the requirements of greater average age. and the con-enuent wider experience and more extended observation and knowledge of public affiirs among the membership of the senate branch. And th?e senates of the several stat shtve r.ot only existed and acted in Delaware, Rhode island and New Jersey, but in th? great states of Georgia. Pennsylvania. Ohij in New York, a state containing today more papulation than the whole country at the time the union was formed. These Ftate) senates, chosen by di-eet popular vote, and the assemblies of which they consti- ' tuted a part, have abundantly shown their I capacity to deal wiih the highest questions ; cf statemanship, have fostered the increase ) of wealth and population, have enlarged th" ! scope of public education, have punl-hed 1 crime, have conserved publie peace and crdr and have perserved, withal, thus far in each of our commonweal tha a very vital form of liberty.' Xot Xott am of Yore. "In quite early tlmo3 In some of our states to vote for a member of the state senate wis a special franchise. It required qualifications of property, age, or residence r.ot required In voting fjr tha more nu- . merous branch of the legislature. Tha right to vote for a state senator was exercised by a body of tlctors quite numer- j ou, but it by no mnans included the whil number of voters. Supposing n w that by nome Hpse, some omission of the hind of ref rm. this antique provision hid been somewhere retained, what leader of opinion In any state would now justify Its further retention? Tne general voic? would demand Its repeal and that the Suit? should conform with others in Its legislative ftindard3. No man would anywhere venture upon the inane and imbecile assertion that tha state senate would lose its wisdom.

dignity or usefulness in being chosen by i th? whole body of electors Instead of by a small number thereof. "The method of election of senators of the United States ought to conform to j th? policy of the several stites. The ex- j cellence and wisdom of that practice as a j model is enforced by the experience now ; of three generations. In the oldest existing republic, approaching a nearly pure de- ;

mocracy, the initiative and the referendum are sometimes both used la the e reise of th? law-making power. Switzerland, however, 13 territorially a smill country, with a comparatively Fmsll population, all parts of which are contiguous and none very remits from the seat of its federal gavernment. Small as that republic may be in some, respects, it is lirg r, exceedingly larger it looms lnta magnificent proportions when w? consider the great example which it his for renturies set be fore the world in the wisdom, vabr, patri- j otism, and fidelity of its liberty-loving people. "Therein legislative bodies similar to cur own are chosen by the people. Th-ir action Is not at all final. Many of the statutes are, after legislative sanction, submitted to the people, or to the local governing bodies of the several cantons, for adoption, and tho bill, so to Fpeak, after its passage, remains yet a bill, ar.d becomes not a law until it receives the popular approval. This is the referendum. Ip.it there has been at times also a certain clis3 of laws, not ordinary, ipaite rare, which can only originate with the people, with the electors as ?ucn, by petition or application accompanying the draft of th-j law proposed. The legislature, although chosen by the people, has no original Jurisdiction In such subjects. Action therein must begin with the constituencies. Thi3 is the initiative. The framers of our federal constitution did not ignore these political instrumentalities; they recognized both. Ianlancp of the llrfrrt-nilum, "When the congress submits to the legislatures of the several states, as is proposed In this case, the approval or rejec tion of a pending amendment, this is an j instance of the referendum a referendum of magnificent proportions and of the most Imposing character, on? in which the whole number of electors in all the states may, through their own local legislatures, nuke the law cf the republic without the approval of the president, subject to no review or revision save their own future action. And when, as H expressly provided, a convention of the states is called, which without the action or intervention of congress may propose amendments to the constitution, this Is the initiative. We invoka the referendum In asking the submission of th" amendment providing for th-3 election of Unkl States senators by the peop because there is no other mmnr in which the present m le of choosing Ihem can be changed. It is no: either urgrd er contended that these extra rdinary methods of l -gislatlo-i should b -come usual or frequent. It is to d away with the ntces.-ity of resorting t- them, of appealing to them, that the submis-ion already provided for In the Joint resolution of th? honorable house should be. favored In this b..dy. "Without m"ntion in dtall of the otrer krge provinces of legislation to which the initiative of a convention of the states might relate. It Is quite certain that su h a measure might provide absolutely for tin Ir.cr ase In thi number of members here: It mipht shor.en the senatorial term; !: might moke members Ineligible for reelection, or a bolls. n this branch of congress altogether. It Is tru such a proposed amerodini; rnii;ht fail of approval, but even the agfatlon and discussion of such changes must work an Injury to this boSy. whleh. nel'her the history 'f its achievements nor the tradition of Its fi rmer gr:atr?? co-ill countervail. The great, responsive, or. if I may use the term, e irn-sp tidTt functions of iCoe people. th initiative and referendum of our constitutional artkb, are for the most part dormant; they .ire not dead. They are p-irt.s of th fundamental l.iw of the land. They may b c.Uled into neiton and energy whenever those who conjure up the spirits of that vasty defp will ehonse to abide the consequences. I'-udence has very Kreut r.or.iinion over tii use of any power as to the occasion of Its exercise. Yet we s.e prudence and the conformity to present needs and clreumsian?es wholly set at naoeht. tre.iicl an if they were of all things the most unneecssiry and lira Mona!. l'opn'.nr Verdict In Souglit. "This proposal for constitutional reform Is seiiously answtrod by snjlng that the founders of our government, although they provided for all amendments, did not Include this. And It Is also in cffivt reriously urgvl that the people have by som frightful lap-o lost or forefdted their capacity for self-government upon this subject, and that they otigot not to be permitted even to pass upon tho question whether they des lr this change. AH institutions of long-established rre.tig" and authority arc prime to d! of dignity. They are unwilling a any lim" tio.it the most necessary amendments should be mi.le In the lr order or composition. "They resist ref --rm at ever stace until something very nearly akin to revolution overtiAcs tnem. In this proposed amendment lurks the ld qu-stkn. I lew shall p wi r pass fr .m tae f-w v.h li i l it to th.: many h'!-etofore deprlv d of it? Shall the right to cho..se Utdted States senators still lie retain -d by the f.w v ters who happen to be el-.cte.l to the g-noral assembly of toe ?ite. or sliall it bj given to the whole lo'ly cf electors? Shall this pver b now conc'ded to the pe ip'e r .shall we tarry until it be in some nn:inr seized and token by Ihem? "in-er 'gitive. pr md of Its precedents, soys, stay. Privilege, entreneh'-d in the f orms and ltter f the law, says, hold a while. Fir my part, I favor the p d.cy -f giving of jrrant iiur thLs rlgot n w, without grudging, without d diy. Thi franchise sliaild be grimed to the pe yi of Iii- several .tat -3 not as an oct ot fav r. but of ju-tice. This would be such on approval and confirmation of the principles of free government as his never bef ire beea published to the w rl l. It w mid be a Judgment, after generations of trill, in favor of populir liberty, never to4 be gainsaid or annulled. It would be a witness te. all men of th? internal, social, subjective grjwth of free institutions among us; an irreversible Fanetlor of th? pa?t with all Its glory and beneficence; an omen of the future rife with ever-increasiny progress, excellence, and power." At the close of Mr. Turpie's speech Mr. Morgan gave notice that en Mor.diy next he would call up the Ni-aragua canal bill with a view to explaining it anl miking some remarks. At 1 :S0 p. m. the senate went into executive session, and at 1:55 p. m. adjourned until Monday. Inrleretl 1- Wlilte-Cnpn. SPRIXOFIKLD. Ky., Dec. 7. Two masked men forced an entrance Into the housa of Thomas Kdglngton between 12 and 1 o'clock this morning and, in the presence of his wife and five children, shot him dead. Kdglngton Jumped out of bed when he discovered the men in the room and was grabbfd by one of thtm while the other put a bullet in. h'.s brain. IMglngton had been anonymously warned several tim?3 about abusing his family. It is thought that the white raps' intention was to give Ed Kington a severe thrashing, but upon meeting with resistance- they killed him for fear of beings recognized. There in no clew whatever tj the perpetrator f the deed. Officers are making every effort to apprehend the guilty parlies. A Unii Act of Crurlty. Why should we bo crud to ourselves? It Is a piece of sen?tlo9 Inhumanity, for instance, for ar.y one of us to lnfiict upon his bowels and stomach the convulsive, griping, violent action of a nst!c cathartic. Many people enanaorel of pills, fwowdera and potions are continually doing this. They are only "keeping up the ngony," perpetuating the dlfturance by this foolish course. Why don't they take Hostetter's Stomach Hitters and get thoroughly and promptly set right? This supreme laxative ni-vpr Rrijies, never prixluoi' violent effects of any nrt. Yet It Is very effective anj brings about permanent restIts. For liver complaint, dyspepsia, nerv-ou.-ne.s, lack of vitality, rheumutlc and kidney complaints, It la eminently serviceable. In old age and to accelerate convalescence it is strongly to be oomm ended. Use It for malaria.

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Self-Constituted Governor Completes His Message, Which Is Revolutionary in Its Tone. CIL TO THE POPULISTS To Refuse to Pay Their Tax Assessments. Good Prospect for Trouble If They Obey. The Aliened rroentn of the Knlbltrn Trlnl of Col. Fell own Municipal Mlrcllon In Miiftnuchiisetto Xcw I la veil Itrpntillcan by u Lnre Majori tyTillnmn (ihm AVny to Ilvau In outh Carolina. PIRMINGIIAM. Ala.. Dec. 4. It. F. Kolb, who claims to be governor of Alabama, today completed a mess ige to the legislature, which he signs as governor and which will be transmitted to that body tomorrow. The message is also addressed to Xhi people of Alabama and Is a long, and In many respects, a revolutionary document, a3 it recommends thai hi.s followers do not pay their taxes for a while. He further says: "I advise those tax collectors who value the cauie I represent, and which will assuredly prevail in the end, to delay all payments of state taxe3 into the state treasury until an impartial hearing is had of our complaint under a fair and honest contest law." When it is remembered that the tax collectors In thirty-eight out of sixty-six counties in the stab- are Kclbitcs, it will be seen that if they tike his advice the K ilb poveriiiiii-nt 111 lind strong support and Alabama will be threatened with an-an-hy. In his message Kolb says further: "The n-voluti mary conditions nf our state g tvcrnni. tu must become the subject of y.iiir eo.oünui'd and most anxious cont :-!!iplatl ci. The plans of usurpers, so ahrm.ng to you, are abating in nothing to n-duce you to an abjeo and linil submissi n to their unbridhd will and passions. Vmi hive seen your just demands, f r the full exercise of the ballot secured to you by sacred constitutional Ruarantees, deliberately set adde by the legislature, itself only a creaiuie of the constitution. I declare ti you without fear of contradiction that if tii? presL-nt party in cmtrol of j our government be not. arrested in Its mid career no elections cm be held Ira Alabima undr the law and constitution. In ihi name of the jjrf-at iKody of the white men of Alabami I'hiv? s:-t in motion their s o'.em.i jirolesi. I have taken th? oith of governor and I intend to prosecute in your ü.iiiie my riRht to tint ottlce, solely up-n tlic claim that by your bdlots, ca?t in tho legitimate and ordetly way pr -scribed by the f. rms of law. I was appointed to it on Aug. 6, lsya." He tiien reviews the rrovisbns of the constituti n and says: 'lie: aus? the kidsliturp of 1S92-P3 did ex pies sly revoke thi; taction.-? of the civil code, h iwevcr unperfected. which seemed t a!l-v a contest on governor and other stite otficers, refusing on demand to ret ore them or t substantiate other3 of a reasonable and practlcil natun you are perfectly justifird la declaring there can be ni elfcti-n of governor or other state oihcrs mdvr the constitution of Alabama binding on you which is tainted with fraud at Ihe billot-box." He urges the legislature toenict contest liws and advisea his friends to organize clubs t assist in th general object of his appeil. The message c includes: "If Col. Cites and his faction fear not the truth: if they court equity and are reidy to abide by Justice, they will hesitate at nothing to remove the color of di.sh n r from his title to th? oifloe he has seized by arm-t. Again I sy my contention 4s al e.e for the execution of guarantees orfet"d by the constitution of my state of l.O'ity for all, 1 demand of th? leglsliture thit iictim which every member on oath has bound hims-lf solemnly to take in tho obsorva.acc of the constitution." Knill' AIIKel l'riiKrnm. MONTGOMERY. Ala.. Dec. 4 J. C. Manning, a member of the legislature, one of the most prominent populists in the state, and one of Kolb's advisers, today gave out a portion of Kolb's program. Manning raid Kolb will issue certificates .f election as governor de jure to Ooodwln, lioward, the two Aldrichs anl Itobiüson. as congressmen from this state. Howard will also have one fnom O-.tes. His seat I si disputed. The program is to have the republican house first decline to seat either set of representatives, on the ground that both are provided with credentials signed by a governor of Al ibam.t. The only way that either con be seated then 1.- by means of a resolution. JON TOOMEIiY. Ala.. Dec. 5. The bill of Itropresentutive Knight to punish usurpers of state offices c me up In the house today and was ptissed by a strictly party vote. Representative Manning, the well known populist leader, in explaining his vote, seid: "I warn memlers on the other side of the houfc that it is a long lane that has no turn and I warn them not to longer dash the red Hag of insult, added to it. jury, in the face of a new outraged public opinion of the common people. We cannot provide punishment for usurpers with consistency till we have a fair election law and an honest contest law by which we can determine who the usurper is." Kolb's manifesto issued yesterday afternoon, in which he advised his followers not to pay their taxes, jind tax officers friendly to him not o pay to the Oates administration any moneys collected by them, which would cause the state to default in payment on its bonds and otherwise embarrass it, hastened the passage of the Kniirht bill. Governor Oates transmitted a voluminous nie?ragft to the legislature today. He recand all mothers who arc nursing babies tler've great benefit from Scott's Emulsion. This preparation serves two purposes It gives vital strength to mothers and also enriches their milk and thus makes their babies thrive. is a constructive food that promotes the making of healthy tissue and bone. It is a wonderful remedy for Emaciation, Ceneral Debility, Throat and Lung Complaints, Coughs, Colds, Anaemia, Scrofula and Wasting Diseases of Children. StnJ for Pamfhtft tn Ssotfi Emulsion. Ere. Scott Bowne, N.Y. All Druggists. 60c and $1,

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ommends an increase of half a mill in the rate of taxation, improved methods for the assefyment of taxe.. a higher liquor an i gaming table license, an appropriation f or a state exhibit at the Atlanta exposition, favors farming university lands with convicts on account of the state, but for the benefit of the university; recommends a contest law and the election of state and national officers on the same day and suggests a contest law in the election of state officers and the giving of a ticket marker for each political party, and urges a state banking system based on a deposit with the state treasurer of lawful money of the Ur.it-1 States or solvent bonds of United States cr state, count v or municipal corporation.

He alludes to the powers of the railroal I commi.io.-i ils being only those of police regulation and impotent to remedy many complaints brought before it. COL. FCLLOWS'S TKIAL. Viirlou Caf In Which the Hall I'nniUhed W'nn Queer." NEW YORK, Dec. 4. The hearing of the charges againpt District Attorney John R. Fellows was continued today, loepxs McCurdy, Col. Kellows's lawyer, was assisted today by Lawyer John Yard. Lawyer I'hillipa. for the (Jerm.an-Amer-lcansi, announced that he would put his Charge of yesterday in more definite form. Lawyer Phillips showed that Charles Lj. Jaehne, brother of the boxlN-r alderman, had gone on the bonds of thirteen persons for sums aggregating almost $1,000. The case of Lawyer V. R. Sehooley, who was released on fraudulent ball furnished by one Eva Rapp. was next taken up. Mr. Phillip, reverting to the record made yesterday, claimed that the same proj-erty was offered a-s surety a short time after by a man named Alfred Raker, cr Rasket, and that no such person could be found by the detectives attached to the district attorney's office. "Too vou know Peter DoLacey?" asked Mr. Phillips. "I do," replied Mr. Unger. "Has he- ever offered bond at the district attorney's omee?" "I believe he has." "Do you know DeLacey'n business?" "I understand he Is a b-ookmaker and keeper of a pool-room. The newspapers pay he Is a man of svme wealth." "Oh, never m.nd the newspapers," Bald Lawyer McCurdy, testily. "I think," said Commissioner Llnson, "that a man's wealth may be established by repute." Mr. Phillips took up a number of cases In which indictments had binrn found, but in none of whinh the defendants had leen brought to trial. He included the rx of "The" Allen, pool -room keeper and John C. Eno, the Flfth-ave. bank embezzler. Lawyer McCurdy objected to Mr. Phillips's line of Inquiry, and it was so modified as to permit of a general reply which, in substance, was that th failure of the district attorney to bring the cases to trial was due b no private reasons or motives. The recess was taken earlier than usual to permit Lawyers McCurdy and rhlllips to make a comparison of the order of specifications and charges, nude against the district attorney. XKW YORK. Dec. 5 In the Fellows Investigation today Furrier Hoffman told of his unsuccessful efforts- to have a pickpocket indicted and prosecuted, and Henry J. Schloss, a member of the firm of N. J. Schloss & Co., clothing' manufacturer who assigned a year ago, gave a brief account of the larceny of jl2.ö,ooo by their bookkeeper and cashier Joseph H. Louis. In 1S'.3. The man wa3 indicted last March and the case has never been brought to the court. He had sent two lawyers to the district attorney's office to have the case porsecuted and had been unsuccessful. The witness admitted. In eross-exam'.na-tion. that the case involved the examination of many intricate accounts. Unjfr orders from Cot. Fellows, Chief Clerk UnpoT refused to prepare a dVi of indictments pending and untried on Dee. 1. The commissioner ordered the witness to prepare the list. Mnnlc-ipal Kleotlon in Miiiinrhnarll. SPRIXG FIELD. Mass., Dec, 4. The republicans today elected Charles T. Long for mayor over Samuel D. Sherwood, democrat, by 808 majority. The democrats gain one alderman. A. P. A. candidates were defeated. Municipal elections were held throughout Massachusetts today. Democrats were successful in Lawrence, Pittsfield, Chicopee, Northampton and Quiocy. The republicans elected in Fall River, Somerville. Gloucester, Marlboro, YValthani, Holyeke, Fitchhurg and Auburn. Independents carried the day in New Bedford. Brockton. Haverhill and Maiden. The proposition to license carried in the majority of towns. Oftlrlnl Vote of Illinois. S PR I NCI FI E LD, HI., Dee. 5. The official vote of Illinois i.s aa follows: State treasurer, Wulff, rep., 445.8S6; Clnggett. dem., 3"2,4Ü9; Puterbaugh, pro., 19.4S7; Randolph, pop., 59,793; Mann, ind., l.fi."0. Su-lH-rintendent of public schools, Inglis, rep.. 44S.OÜ7; Raab, dem., 320,074. Trustee of university. Flower, rep., 4S7.S41; Smith, dem.. 207.21. Wulffs plurality, 133,427; Inglis's plurality, 123.ÜD3. Reform Democrat Win. BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Dee. 4. After the bitterest camapign in Birmingham's history, the election c-eourrod today and resulted in a sweeping victory for the reform democrats, headed by J. A. Vanhoose, a prominent wholesale grocer, for mayor, over the "machine" democrats, b-d by Robert Warnock, former city tax collector. Ileiinbllrnn Ylelory In Xevr Haven. NEW HAVEN, Conn.. Dec. 4. The election in thb? city today resulted In even a more complete overthrow of the democratic party th:in of last month. Frank G. Anthony, for tax collector, was the mly democratic candidate on the ticket elected. Mayor Sargent, the present Inumbent, was defeated by 2,700 majority. Tlllmnn Out find It vnnn In. COLUMBIA, S. C. Dec. 4. Banjamin Ryan Tillman is no longer governor f Fouth Carolina. At 1:30 p. m. today he was succeeded by his chief lieutenant, John Gary Evans. Sulcrlle ovr. By subscribing now for The Indianapolis Ptat? Sentinel for on? year you ar;? entitled to the benefits of our great offer on page 5. Read It carefully. PARAMORE COMES TO GRIEF. He Wn the Spirit nf the Modern l'ren AbkooIi t ion. CHICAGO. D?c. 5. Special. H. Howard Paramore, the Chicago man calling himr?lf th? "Modern pres association," and who recently had printed In Indianapolis a primer called a directory of n?vspap3r correspondents, ha been knocked out by the postmaster-genera'., wh o t day ordered thai) no more mall be delivered to the smooth financier. I-Mramore's victims, wha were numbered by htmJreils a'.l over the country, paid him $2 apiece to have their names printed In his alleged directory and then waited vain'.y for orders from managing editors of big newspapers. Subscribers, Attention! Before renewing your subscription r?ad ! our offer on page 5. Read every word of It. lr. I. en we Will Co to FurmliiR. SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 5. Mrs. Mary Ellen Bease of Kansas is In the city. Sao says that she has come to California ta purchase a pmsall farm In the San Joaquin valley. She will reside on the prc-perty, removing hither upon the expiration of her term as memlx-r of the Kansas loard of charities, one y ar henoe. "I'm tire-1 of the barren plains of Kansas," she said In explanation of her desertion of that slate. Sec Pane 5. Subscribers to The Weekly Sentinel would do well to read our great offer on page 5. Be sure you read iL

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It has jriven satisfaction tc millions and met with the approval ol the medical profession, leeaue it acts on the Kid nrys, Liver and Dowels without weakening them aud it is perfectly free from every objectionable bub-tanee. tryiup of Fir is for Kale by all drugtricts in V and $1 bottles, but it is manufactured by the California Fip byrup Co. only, whose name is printed on every pat ke.pc, also the name. Syrup of Fip. nu 1 being well informed, you will not ;cebt r.nv substitute if ciltred. GRATErUL COHFOr.TlNO. EPPS'S COCOA BREAKFAST SUrPKR. "Ey a il.niuueh lnolJ of the natural laws w 1 1 k'li uith the i j-i at ions of iPKesllori and nut: it tun. ai.l ly a careful aiilit.tiun of the fine i r.ii-rtie f eil-B'lwt-1 Cocoa. Mr. -l Li. ;.ii v.ileJ f..r our br'kf.it Awi tup. j rr a l-l'.-ito'y-tlovoureil tw vra; wl.n h mf fjvc is in.ii-.y litavy d.'tr t-li's. It Is bf the Ju.l kI.i'ih U!9 of ul!i artic'.eit f riit lliaf a ciTist 11 tt I. .n nny be rH.iuuliy l-uia u; uioOl viror.ft -x- utLti to rfftit eery tena.'ri.-y to tl!twt.K. Hur.lri'.! cf il.tl tuaia li' r- fl..t. Ins nro.;-, 1 l io!.1y t ntta k wherever th"r Is a e;k i .int. We may eiK-arx? many a fatmal rt.Htt l.y k'-plrn nuru'lvn W.-1I f rtlel xv. th pire II....1 hi.J a jr;r!y nourHeJ frnme ' -vll Benl'-e GRiftte. Mal. Finn-iy -Ith bilüni? water er rnl'k. F'.lf i.r.ly In half-pound tins. t- Urooert. la.ello,1 t-.ii!: JAMHS EPPS ft CO.Ltl Homopth!c Chtnlit. lon ion, England. County Canvassers Wanted! For tli D.iKv anl Weekly Sentinel anl other iilil lkvat)on. No e xiirlt-rice or cai lt.il ' n.-.-l-l- tmly t trili"ra a. iay oll clear you J 10 p-r niv.nth. We V;int a live, i n t ei ! 1 tr- nt worker In every county of lh- I'lutvl State, lo canvas fur the Iail- an! kly Sntln-I. an 1 otli.-r iiIj1k;i ii.n. I.:.li-.s enn ,1,, the work as weil as men. No experience r capital needed. 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CHAIjI.KN'GK to any medium or fortune teller who can excel hr in her w nl rful revelations of the past, present and future events of persons livof. A'.l cha.Il.nves aeetptej. and m r-turn r 1 1 AI.I.KN ; KS THK V)KI.I). liu'iiess riir.et'y private and confidential. Madame JjUVr will n'w.ays stand aa fiijrh above the common mediums in this e. untry a the president alwve the raepicker, while her chartres f.r the tnua are the same as what the other mediums charge fcr falsehood. Skeptical pep!e who. on account of the many misrepresentations in the papers, have lost faith in newspaper ndverti.sin-; should write anl ti. convinced that all advertisement are not frauds. It i well known throtiKhout the world that mediums ire the only reliable seers, ani ther charms cause love, spe.vly marriages and Micress In Lus'ness. YtH'H fi rru: hkvkalhd in a dead THAXt'H. . t'nltts the separate! nnd causes fpeoJy and happy mrnasre with the one you love; cin-e.a pood lurk In ah th'.nir bv proper a 1v ee. 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