Ligonier Banner., Volume 14, Number 33, Ligonier, Noble County, 4 December 1879 — Page 4

: : taa B : The Ligowier Banner. 7. B. STOLL, Editor and Proprietor. ILIGONIER, IND., DEC. 4, 1879.

JOHN SHERMAN wants to cancel the greenbacks and stop the coinage of gilver. Will the people permit him to doit? e

Tom EwiNa thinks ex-Gov. Joel Parker, of New Jersey, would make a splendid candidate for the Presidency, Tom’s head is level. Joel can carry New York, New Jersey and Indiana. He ought to be drafted.

Messrs. Linn & Collins, of the Wabash €ourier, have purchased an interest in the Logansport Pharos.. If these gentlemen will do as well by the Pharos as they have done by the Courier, the Logansporters will have the pleasure of reading a better paper than they ever had before. . ;

Ir the Hon. Wm. H. English will go to work in good earnest and make up for lost time by giving strength and power to the Democracy, he may stand a chance of occupying a seat in the next Cabinet. Having répted ‘a good many years, he ought to be in good trim for active service. = .

CoNaRESs convened last Monday. It is to be hoped that members of that body will realize the fact that the people expect them to perform their duty in a statesmianlike manner, and not waste precious time in delivering buncombe speeches and trying to make political ‘ capital. A short session is generally prayed for. - »

For some unaccountable reason the talented gentlemen who preside over the democratic “hard money” press of this State have neglected to “point with pride” to the result of the late elections in Wisconsin and Minnesota. That “honest money” phantom did its work handsomely. 1t swelled the republican majorities to majestic preportions.

J. E. FRANKLIN, attorney and assignee of R. R. Rouse, and as such interested in the collection of royalty on driven wells, will bring suit for damages against the Shelbyville Democrat for republishing an article original with the Plymouth Democrat, reflecting upon his action in some suits bro’t in the northern part of the State. He will also sue the Plymouth Democrat.

Tk PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE will be found in full in another part of today’s BANNER. The document is chiefly remarkable for its unnecessary length and its utter commonplaceness. It contains nothing to elevate 1t above the level of the commouest mediocrity. It falls as flat as a cold buckwheat cake. Mr. Hayes makes the most .of the improved condition of trade and its effect ~"on the credit of the.country. He wants the further coinage of silver stopped, at least during the pendency of the proposition between the United States and the principal commercial nations of Europe to re-adjust the relations of gold and silver in the coinage. lis recommendations will not be heeded, neither will the American people countenance his effort to wipe out the greenbacks. They regard the greenbacks a good currency and will not consent ts its destruction. The people -are not prepared for contraction. The improyement in business is due very largely, as we have repeatedly shown, to the increase of money, which is the indispensable mechanism of trade.— And the people will beslow toincrease the power of over two thousand na- ‘ tional banks by putting the whole currency .of the country under their control. A monetary monopoly, With a capital of hundreds of millions of dollars, would be a source of national peril. Mr. Hayes wants Congress to take rigid measures to suppress poly- - gamy, and to provide for falr elections --a recommendation which is certain~ly timely, considering the wholesale fraud and bribery of the ‘Republicans in Maine and Massachugetts. He is specially urgent in regard to the civil service reform. On that subject he expatiates at great length. His arguments and suggestions would have much greater force had he not violated every principle he recommends by appointing notorious ;partisans to office without' proper qualificatiors; solely ~ because they had helped to defraud the people of Louisiana and Florida of their electoral votes and to count him into an office to which Mr. Tilden was fairly elected. ‘He wants to prohibit Federal officers from taking part in political affairs, when he himselfand sev- . eral members of his Cabinet took the stump in Ohio, or Maine,or New York! - Itis time that such preténses and buncombe should be stopped, - Let'us have ~the civil service reformed by all means : but begls the retorn in the Cabinet - and White Eouse, and deliver the ~ Country from hypoeritical cant and m%:iwmw«nmd ..r'«.fl.” “lYotFmal m Al

HoORATIO SEYMOUR will be 70 years of age next May. Rather well along in years to stand the brunt of a presidential campaign. o -

Do TneE REPUBLICANS of Noble county favor the proposition of Hayes and Sherman to gradually retire and cancel the greenbacks ? " )

PERHAPS Mr. Tilden mightbe induced to accept the chairmanship of the democratic national committee. He enjoys the reputation of being a capital organizer. :

- THE REPUBLICANS in Congress are cursing Hayes and Sherman for their indiscretion in recommending the retirement of greenbacks. They pronounce it an *awful blunder.”

So FAR as votes are concerned, the Ohio Democracy made the best record this year of any State in the Union,— Credit for this should not be withheld from our much-abused Ohio brethren.

TuEe editor of the Connersville Hxaminer offers to * wager a nickel that “the game of poker is indulged in to a “ greater extent in this place,than any “other town of the same size in the “ State.” ; ‘

“STARVING THE GOVERNMENT.” The charge constantly made by the Republicans is that the Democrats have tried to starve the government. The latter reduced the ‘appropriations geveral millions. They applied the pruning-knife remorselessly. - They lopped off scores of republican extravagances. And of course there was a terrible outery. But now, down on the top of it comes the report from Washington that Secretary Thompson has saved out of the $13,000,000 appropriated for the Navy Department $1,500,000, which he has turned over to the Treasury! This,the New York Express remarks, does not look much like starvation, certainly. The simple fact is that Secretary Thompson has attended to the business of his department,and been honest. He doesn’t belong to the Robeson family of officials. He was not trained in the Grant school of politics. And he isn’t popular with the stalwarts of the party, either. But the fact that he has saved a million and a half out of the sum appropriated by Congress disposes forever of the charge that the Democrats have tried to starve the governmert by their needed refrenchments.

THE GRANT MOVEMENT IN THE SOUTH. It seems to be pretty generally understood that Gen. Grant will ere long make a somewhat extended tour thro’ the South. The object of the proposed visit is regarded as having some political significance, whether truly so or mere conjecture we sha}l not undertake to detérmine. It does not seem improbable that his mission may have for its object the reorganization of the republican party in the Southern States and an effort to identify the conservative and property-holding white citizens with it, with a view to gaining the electoral votes of several States of that part of the Union, in the event that he should be made a candidate for the Presidency. In order that our readers may gather some information with reference to the Grant flovement recently inaugurated in the Seuth, we herewith present totheir consideration an extract from the Springfield (Mass.) Republican, which presents the views of the anti-Grant portion of the republican party in language as follows:

“The Grant boom is receiving a boost from the ex-Confederates of the South, with whom the phantom of a strong government, with ifis opportunities formoney-making, is strangely fascinating. Colonel Robert A. Crawford, of Georgia, a life-long Democrat, who formerly owned two hundred and for-ty-one slaves and saw.active service in the ‘late unpleasantness,” openly proclaims for Grant through the ¢olumns of the Atlanta Constitution, and wants ex-Chief Justice Lochrane, of Georgia, a strong Southern man of commanding ability, given the second place on the ticket. Colonel Crawford thinks that the democratic party has blundered from ditch to ditch since the war, and could not put its men in their seats if the doors of the White House were opened for them. He wants Grant on a broad platform of national issues to heal the wounds of the war, and considers the General ‘able, noble and great’ because he threatened to resign his sword if Lee was indicted by a grand ,Lury soon after Appomattox. Grant, more than any other, has elevated the dignity of American citizenship abroad, and ‘has expanded into:such proportions of statesmanship that he would be President of the whole people.’ Great in his influence and in his claim upon the c¢onfidence of the American people, Grant looms up before the Georgia colonel as a Presidential candidate who, if he ran on his own platform, would sweep the country like a tornado. The Colonel is not alone among exrebels in admiring Grant, when such men as ‘Boly Toombs and Aleck Stephens prefer him to Tilden. But it is one of the strangest anomalies in recent politics that Northern stalwarts are howling for Grant as the strong man needed to stamp out a new rebellion and ex-rebels are applauding his name to the echo as the one most ‘certain to heal the remaining discords of | vsiar, ,an‘d bind us together again as one people, : 5 i ' The conservative and conciliatory ‘utterances of Gen. Grant point strongly in the direction of a purpose to placate a certain class of southern leaders who-have hitherto -acted with the Democrats for the sole reason that the Fdj@fif the republican party made it

impossible for them to act with it. We shall not be surprised to see. this class of politicians.“push” the Grant movement in the South, and we can hardly say that we regret it. Some good may grow out of it. .

Pror. MicoAEL has instituted a $lO,OOO libel suit against the Valparaiso Messenger. That paper now eurses the Grubb libel law. -

HoN. FRANKLIN LANDERS has raised the weekly wages of his laborers one dollar. He employs quite anumber of men in various branches of industey. * - L

BERRY, the democratic eongressman from California, was interviewed by a Chicago Tribune reporter one day last week. Mr. Berry says the Democrats and Workingmen of California will unite and carry the State next year. That’s just what they ought to do.

TnoEe Indianapolis Journal-is in a dilemma. Ou the spur of the moment it committed itself to the recommendation by Hayes and Sherman of the rctirement of greenbacks, and now, since the more discreet managers of the party have discoveired that a rumpus would inevitably ensue if this policy were insisted upon, it would like to back out of its hastily chosen position. The Journal thus demonstrates an utter lack of principle and the most abject subserviency to party dictation.

IT MAY NOT come amiss to call attention to the fact that there is not now a solitary colored representative in the lower house of Congress. This simple statement is in a certain sense an arraignment of the republican party. In all the South last year that party only put up colored men as candidates in four districts, if we remember rightly. One district they had no chance of carrying, in two in South Carolina their candidates were weak, and in the Second North Carolina District, conceded to them in -advance by the Democrats, they ran a bolter aguainst the regular negro nominee and defeated him. Ifthe Republicans wish to elect colored men to office they must do as the Democrats of Texas, Mississippi, South Carolina and other States have done—select those whose character is unimpeachable and give them a hearty support.

THE DRIVEN WELL ROYALTY. James E. Franklin, an Indianapolis attorney representing himself as agent for the American Driven Well Co., has mailed to many of the citizens of Noble county circulars wherein he says: Having been assured by the leading citizens of several counties, that they never have seen any published notice of our claims for royalties, or of our offer to make a discount of 50 per cent. from the royalty of ten dollars each on domestic and farm wells, and being urged to give a more extended notice and a longer time for settlement at the discount, we have, after consultation with our principais, obtained their consent to extend tne time during which infringers of the driven well patent in your county will be allowed the discount for thiruy days from November 1, 1879. After ‘the repeated decisions sustaining Green’s natent their.can be no excuse for further deiay in settlements, and after this liberal extension, infringers will haye no reason to complain, if, without further notice th_e?r are made to pay, not only full royalties, with heavy costs and damages, but be restrained from using the wells. Payments to be made to the undersigned at Indianavolis. : ~ JAMES K. FRANKLIN. Last week Mr. Andrew Engle, of Perry’s Prairie, received a postal card from Mr. Vanfleet who has given this subject considerable attention, being % the attorney of an organization which | resisted the payment of this royalty. Mr. Vanfleet says: ELKHART, Ind., Nov. 28, 1879. DEAR Sir:—The drive well folks got a judgment against us ai Indiana ,olis, but we appealed it to the Supreme Court of t.e United States wheire it is undec’decd., We do no. think they will sue any o .e else. J. M. VANFLEET. The Crown Point Register publishes the card of James E. Franklin and then comments thereon as follows: “Those owning these wells are offered the option of paying $5 royalty withia the present month, or $lO atter that ti.ne. We hardly know what to advise in this matter. In Marshall county the people have organized to resist the royalty demanded, and have pledged themselves to fight the matter until a decision ¢can be promulgated by the U. S Supreme Court, to which court we understand the case has been appealed. It is claimed that all the driven wells are an infringement on Green’s. patent and Judge Greshall, of the U. 8. Circuit Court for the District of Indiana, recently decided in favor of this pateii.. From this decision. we understand an appeal has been waken tothe ‘ U. 8. Supreme Court. This court may or may not g%;m the decision of the court below. It affirmed, there can be ne escape from paying the royalty. The question then assumes this shape: ‘As a prudent, man, is it best for me to pay the $5 now demanded, or wait awhile and run the chance of having to pay $lO or nothing? Every owner of a driven well must answer this question for himself. The senior editor of this paper owns one of these wells, and he concluded that it will be cheaper for him to pay the $5, let the decision of the court of last resort be what it may. He does not ‘praopose to be worried into paying the $lO and heavy costs and also take the risk of being restrained from using the well after paying that sum, when $5 will settle the matter at once and forever. As to the course others should pursue, we have no advice to give, only this: Do just exactly that which prudence dictates. There are probably from two to three hundred of these wells ilDuck & Whipple and other patents) in this county, and the sum demanded as royalty, it will be seen, amounts in the fafix;legute to a considerable sum of money, and now to demand a royalty for their use seems, and is, a hardship which the owners never expected w‘oultg»be de¥lan49d. If it had been supgqsefl?‘th‘at Mr. homas and others who have been selling these wells had not a clear title to do so, not one of them could have been sold.”

~ Like the editorof the Register, we too concluded it was best to avoid pos--Bible annoyance and prosecution, and ’»accordingly procured a $lO license of Mr. Franklin for $5. We understand }that ‘the $5 offer will be held open during the present month, or solong as the ‘people continue to respond at the pres'ent'rafo; » et E ;En%uah farmers seem to prefer Texaa. They do not take stack in Bputlican blood and thunder literature,

THE REPUBLICANS AI‘ARMED. The Greenback Destruction Scheme ( Creates a Rumpus. : (Special Correspondence Indianapoiis Journal,) WASHINGTON, December 2.—The opposition to thefinancial recommendations of the President and Secretary Sherman has begun to develop, and it will probably gather sufficient strength to prevent any action in that direction this season. * . » Western Republicans are unreservedly and ‘bitterly condemning the course of the President and Seeretary Sherman. They say that the party never was in better shape for a presidential contest. The success of resumption had given it immense prestige. The extra session had put the Democrats on the defensive, and had robbeed them of the confidence of the people. Confidence was returning to our merchants, and capitalists and the people were beginning to thank God that at last we were done with the anxieties and the uneasiness of unset;tled finances; that we had reached the fi‘nancial safe harbor. Now the President and Secretary Sherman have thrown an element of discord into the camp; have recommended @ measure that will unsettle finances again and disturb éoinmerce. They have resuscitated the Greenback party and thrown the Republicdans into a conflict. -Most of them are as favorable to the policy of retiring greenbacks some time as the President and Seeretary Sherman. Many of them would even have consented to limiting the coinage of silver somewhat, but they think there was never a more inopportune time for the policy suggested than now, and they curse its projectors bitterly. An Indiana member said to-day: - “There is one consolation about the matter—John Sherman has knocked his chances of a nomination for the Presidency higher than Gilderoy’s kite.” The Nationals claim to be more united and stronger than ever before. They claim to have several new members, and think they hold the balance of power. A caucus will be held in a few days:

Infamous Scheme. (Wabash Courier.) The Indianapolis Journal wants 200 negroes sent into every county in the State, assuming this to be the number required to overcome the democratic majority and “redeem Indiana.” We address ourselves to the judgment of the laboring men who read.the Courier: Suppose 200 negroes were imported into Wabash county at this time, what think you would be the effect on your interests ? Would not every imported darkey for whom the Republican committee finds employment displace a laboring white man? ILook at the matver in this light and you will see the infamy of the Republican scheme to flood Indiana with negroes. The whole purpose of this viliainous project is to get imported voters enough to overcome the democratic majority in this State. Can the honest laboring men of Indiana, whatever their. party affiliations may be, give their consent to such an outrage? !

The Long and Short of Lt. ~ (LaPorte Argus.) ' The truth is that a certain set of politicians, having their own ends in view, are determined to put General Grant forward for the Presidency. To overcome the deepseated and just prejudice of the people to throwing down the barriers to a third term, they have started the cry that the country is in danger from the South, and that it is unsafe to trust anyone with the reins of government but Grant—a strong hand. That this is a dishonest device, born of a purpose to excite the fears of the North and make possible a political step that would not otherwise be entertained for a moment, we are fully convinced. The talk about the necessity of a strong hand,—a hand stronger than that of Hayes, or a dozen other good and capable Republicans. -who would be elected if nominated—is a trick, a subterfuge, a rascally pretense.

Ventilate the Churches. . . (Goshen Times.) Please, O, Sexton, to start a fire early on Sunday morning, ventilate the audience room throughout by opening every door and window for a longer or shorter time according to the weather. Close them up again at the proper time, and then warm up the room. Give the room a similar treatment before the evening service, and remember that fresh air is furnished free of all expense. Remember, too, that cold air is not necessarily fresh air. The air in a room may be very cold, and yet be laden with deadly poison. By fresh air we mean the air outside of the building, be the same warm or cold.

Tom Scott’s Opinion. Colonel Thomas A. Scott, who was in Lousville, Ky., on Saturday night, was interviewed by a correspondent of the Chicago T'ribume. Colonel Scott takes a cheery view of things, saying that he “now looks for a general and lasting improvement in all American railroads.” He is now of the belief that the Democrats have but one man to nominate, and that is Tilden, for he alone can carry New York., For VicePresident he think®s that Indiana could furnish the best man— English, of Indianapolis, or whoever is her strongest son. e

. . Correct! " (Wabash Courier.) : Ex-Gayernor Joel Parker, of New Jersey, is most favorably mentioned in connection with the Democratic nomination for the Presidency. There are a great many “prominent candidates” who are less likely to be harmed by lightning than Mr. Parker, ——-—-:——-—-"0’-————?——-—- . The auditor of Starke county, Ohio, has resigned, after largely overdrawing his salary.. We hardly ever knew a man who was not resigned: under sueh circumstances. G

- Twenty-two million pounds is a good deal of wool for the State of Texas to pull over the eyes of this great people 1n one year. But she has done it. bl Ao * L Evansville has given to the various railroad projects $2,100,000,and contem'plates large returns from-her investments, Ly bR Pl . English capitalists are investing in American cattle-raising :

HKANSAS LETTER. - , McPHERSON, Kansas, Nov. 24, *79, ‘EDp. BANNER :—Perhaps some of The Banner readers would like to hear something about the gréat State called Kansas, or in other words the land that flows with milk and honey. Some people think that the sun never shines here; that the people all live in caves or dug-outs; that the birds of the air have no place to roostbut in the vprairie grass; that the people live upon herbs and small fishes, with a wind-pudding for a dessert. But this is not so. Kansasisone of the most beautiful States in the great West. Its lands are the most productive, covered with a rich cream of soil which yields abundant harvest. The county in which I live (McPherson) is one oithe most beautiful and fruitful in central Kansas. It has raised more wheat and corn than any other county in the State, area considered, and even now the green fields of wheat foreshadow an abundant harvest next year. | The- county is overwhelmingly Republican in politics. It is healthy and people live to a grcat age. Ihave heard of two men who got too old to die and so turned into a lime-kiln. The town in which I live (McPherson)’ has a branch road to the ALT. & S. F. R. R. and a second line from the K. P. will soon be built, when we will have one of theliveliest towns in the west. : v - Last Saturday our town was thrown into a state of excitement by J. R. Dean shooting Henry Blakesly. Blakesly died yesterday morning at half-past three o’clock. Dean has made. his escape and no clue to -his whereabouts. Those parties live about three miles in the country. The cause of ‘the trouble is as yet unknown. - Now I will not weary your patience by writing more. May the historic command of “Go. West, young man, go West!” con‘tinue to ring in the ears of your young men until they shall be induced to come hither and grow up with the country, I remain, } very respectfully, " E.D. PANCAKE.

Debating Ciubs. - (Connersville Examlner:) : One evening in the week can be very profitably spent by the young men and young lads in attending a debating club; and for that matter the men, middle aged and old, could attend with equal advantage. There should be in every country school district a debating club or soeciety, to meet once a week throughout the winter. This is a free country, and every man has the privilege of publicly expressing his thoughts, ideas and opinions, so long as they work no injury to the public good; and the men, or class of men cai: most readily express end maintain by word of mouth their opinions; those who are the most ready speakers, will have the mostinfluence in society, and will be the one oftenest found in the legislative halls, and positions of prominence. The lawyer is sent tothe Assembly, or to Coungress, not so much for any peculiar or proper qualifications he may possess, but more from the fact that he can talk, he can make a speech. Farmers will never have that representative weight in the government to which they are entitled, until they can talk their way into these positions. They must qualify themselves to speak for themselves, otherwise lawyers and others, taught to speak in public, will speak for them, while the farmers can have the privilege of voting them into office. Depend upon it, farmers, until you can become public speakers, public debators; until you can maintain your rights and the justice of your cause upon the stump, in the forum and legislative halls uf your country, you will always have a minority representation disproportioned to your numbers, and to the great interests you represent. Your heads may be filled with wisdom; you may be as wise as Solomon of old, yet without the faculty of communicating that wisdom to others, you would be but little more effective in a legislative body than so many magnificent statGes. There is a witching, mighty power in oratory. With a bad cause, the orators’ power is mighty; but 1n a good cause, his power is irresistable. Teach, then, your children oratory; the faculty of communicating their knowledge to others in a manaer that shall carry conviction. And for the initial step to accomplish this, encourage them to form debating societies. -

The Case of Congressman Voorhis. (Philadelphia Times.) The case of Congressman Voorhis, of Hackensack, New Jersey, is a painful illustration of the flitting of summer friends when adversity comes. He was esteemed wealthy, was liberal without being extravagant, and friends clustered about him like bees upon the honeyed flower., He was chosenr to congress in an adverse district, and all classes paid him homage as a wor-, thy citizen. It is not charged that he deliberately defrauded any one; but be borrowed from his own bank without lawful authority, confidently ‘expecting to pay, and embarrassments so accumulated about him that he was $5,000 short in restoring the money. He was arrested, and the man who had thousands of summer flatterers could not command $lO,OOO security. After a day of surveillance in his house under the care of a United States marshal, the amount of bail was reduced $6,000, and his father and brother were then able to save him from the ignominy of a prison. - Such is life! : '

The Soldier Line. oy (Piitsburg Post.) . e Of the seven candidates: voted for on the State ticket by the Ohio Republicans, Hickenlooper, for Lieutenant~ Governor, received the smallest vote. 'He happened to be a Union soldier. Of ‘the seven candidates voted for on the State ticket by the Ohio Democrats, Ewing and Rice received the largest vote. They. happened to be Union goldiers. Somehow or other these two facts don’t seem to bear out the theories of our esteemed republican contemporaries concerning the overpowering love of the Republicans for the Union soldier and the unquenchable animosity of the Democrats toward . Even the oyster crop in America for 1879 is larger than ever before. 8

Good Reading for Stalwarts. me a Speechb by Ex-Gov. Chamberlai_nnt Maine. “There are some who will not have it that the war is over till they have their way. From much of the talk of late one would think that all the toil and trial of the war was in vainj; that these soldiers and sailors of yours did nothing of lasting value, and that that glorious war and God-given victory must count for naught, and that the real way tosave the country is to kee% certain politicians in office, and tha servile following of them is the only test of loyalty to the Union. For one I resent this perversion of our motives and this belittling of our achievements. I awm indignant at tuis insult to the memory of that great company of noble souls who are martyrs in a sacred cause ard a triumphant cause. Do not mistake the issue. Yoursons will not I ave died in vain because the rebellious States are brought back into the Union, and send their best men to represent them in Congress, even though they had the courage to wield the sword instead of the pen in the time of moral struggle. Men who freely poured out their heart’s blood for their convictions, though wrong, are less to ba feared than they who skulk in the rear and ‘gloat over the strife so long as they can fill their pockets with plunder, ‘snfatched alike from foe or friend.”

Some Plain Talk by one of the Family. [Rockville Tribune, Republican.] The boomers ‘have all found Tilden guilty, because his nephew, secretary, and friend were guilty; but they all acquit Grant, though his brother, broth-er-in-law, private secretary, secretary of war, mess-mate and a dozen other inmates were proved guilty. They admit that Grant took the party in a majority of 400,000 and left it in a minority of 200,000, while Hayes took it in a minority and has raised it to a majority; and argue therefrom that Grant'is the “saviour” and Hayes is—well, they hesitate to say. They are down on Bristow because he “aspired” to the Presidency, but seém to think Grant has a natural right to it. They rather think Grant abolished the whisky ring, though he removed every man who helped to do that job, and pardoned "every convicted ringster. They are justly:indignant over some political murders in the South under Hayes, but are, at perfect ease about the 3,000 murders of that sort under Grant. For 20 years they indignantly denied the democratic charge that the party had imperial tepdencies, and now propose a semi-military government to proye that the Democrats were right. . A

L What a Pity! : (Delphi Times.) The Chicago T'imes says the death of Zach. Chandler is a good thing for the country, and adds that the death of Logan, Hendricks, Dawes, Tilden, and a large number of other prominent statesmen, would be a great blessing to the country, which line of thought brings to mind that the Democracy ot Chicago and the North-west made a great mistake in not permitting the howling mob of infuriated radicals that, at one time surrounded the. Z'¢mes. building in the early part of the war, to scatter the material of that concern through the streets of Chicago and hang the old renegade, Wilbur F. Story, to. a lamp-post for his treasonable utterances through the columns of his paper. If at that time the plans of the mob had not-been frustrated the Democracy would have avoided the chagrin of seeing the Chicago 7'imes quoted by the stalwart press as a democratic paper and the humiliation of building up by their influence and patronage a paper from driveling idiocy to vigorous manhood only to have it, like an ungrateful cur, turn and bite the hand that fed it. S

.- Good Solid Talk. i [Rockyille Tribune, (Rep.)] We are not ready to admit that this country is flat.on its back and in danger of another rebellion; and we do not propose to be scared into voting for a military director on any such grounds. On thecontrary we do steadfastly believe that eighteen years of republican rule -have brought this country into a position where it is the envy of nations and the light of the world. America is in a better fix today than at any time since Columbus landed. The old South will have after 1880, not more than one-fourth of 'the votas. - Who caresa continental whether they “repent of treason” ornot! ILet them growl while we grow. Tliere are more able-bodied men west of the Missouri and north of Texas. than in all the old southern confederacy. There is more good land in Kansas and Nebraska than in all the South east of the Mississippi. What we want now, and all we want, is to keep the ship of state headed right in its present course. Let us have a statesman and financier for president instead of asoldier, and our future is assured.

Only an Attormey. [Fort Wayne Democrat.] The Plymouth Republican, Warsaw Indianian and other radical journals are trying to create a prejudice against Senator McDonald on the ground that he is attorney for the collection of royalty on driven wells. A more ridiculous attempt to manufacture. political capital against a public man was never made. According to recognized usage an attorney cannot be held responsible for a client’s operations. And the re‘publican papers- which are attacking Senator McDonald on this ground must remember that his partner, John M. Butler, is one of the leading republicans in the State and he also is attorney for the drive well gentlemen. This is a. remarkably poor case of political roerbacg. . god, e ~ One Experience from Many, “I had’ been sick and miserable so long and had caused my husband so much trouble’ and expense, no one seemed to know i dled may st mapepAtal s of mind I got a bottle %op“flihters and used them.unknowg‘,»tg%mfyv mily. I soon began to improve and gained so fast that my husband and family 'th@fifigfiange and unnatural, but when I told:them what hnd helped me; they snid “furvah for Hop Biken ear mal iher ey o v