Pike County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 8, Petersburg, Pike County, 3 July 1884 — Page 1

VOLUME XV PETERSBURG, INDIANA, THURSDAY, JULY 3, 1884 'V * Office in OSBOM BSCS Hew Building, Main street NUMBER 8.

3 J n* VARIABLY IVAIICE. the amendment ef Kir. Ingalls, died, and appealed tothesym.OPPOf AW fetlo wOiif Republican Senators whaacted with the Democrats: Aldrich. Edmunds, Hawley* Morrill, Riddle berger,, Sewell and Sherman. Subsequently an amendment was adopted ,«adting a pension to invtifidisaiiors and aoM-.emof the war of the ret«AUdn who UUprovdiiw^for the funding hf the entire bonded debt of the United States in two per Bent, fifty year bonds. Referred. When the appropriation bill was taken up-Mr. Morrison, ovlllinois, offered an amendment directing that any surplus OTer HOU.OOO.OOO in theTreastiry should tie appropriated to the redemption of United States bonds. Av resolution was introduced providing that United States Marshals and District Attorneys he paid stated

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. On the 2tth the obsequies of the late Bishop Simpson took place at Philadelphia, Pa. General Ward B. Burkett, a veteran of five wars, died at Washington, D. C., on the 24th. The resignation of Judge Drummond, of the United States Circuit Court, Chicago, has been forwarded to Washington. Moody, the evangelist, after a most successful revival in London, will sail for Hew Tork with his family July 12. At Faoia, Kas., on the 24 b, the Congressional Convention nominated E. H. Funstoo for re-election. The Fourth North Carolina District Democrats nominated Wm. K. Cox for Congress. Is the Eleventh Indiana District the Republicans nominated George W. Steele for re-election to Congress. J. W. Burnham, of the firm of Hotch-. k'.ss, Burnham & Co., New York, Committed suicide at Yonkers on the 24th. Morgan’s Sons, bankers, New York, suspended on the 24th. Wm. H. Vanderbilt says the statement that since his return from Euroj* he has been “bearing” the market is qnt rue. On the 24th Chairman Hendei-son and $he committee called on General Logan at Washington and formally apprised him of the fact that he had been nominated for Vice-President. ; Among the delegates-at-large from Indiana to the National Democratic Convention, Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks and Senator D. W. Voorhees are agreed upon. { Secretary Frelinohuyben has telegraphed the United States Consul at Toulon, France, in reference to .the cholera epidemic there. j A committee of Independent Republicans, with Carl Schnr* as chairinhu, will issue a document to the country giving the reasons why the nomination of Blaine and Logan ougbfeto be opposed. It is reported that Jno. W. Norton, of St. Louis, Mo., has leased the new Operahouse to be created in Chicago at a cost of $»a\noo D. Henderson, jourpaliut, and a Mr. Meader, are said to be interested with Mr. Norton. ; lr --irs Tfs celehrated artist, Adrian.Lewis Richter, died at Dresden on the Ay its recent commencement Yale. College conferred the degree of LIf. D. upon Governor Hoadly Of Ohio, i ( The. Tammany chief, John Kelly, personally favors Bayard few President. ,, f The failure of Thos. JrWatson, one of the heaviest dealers in the Oil Exchange at Pittsburgh, Pi., ,|» announced. The Republican National Committee have secured headquarters in New York. 8. B. Eliiins is to become the Secretary. [ On the 25th the Indiana Democratic State Convention nominate Isaac P. Gray for Governor, and instructed fbr McDonald for . J. L Cas4, the owner il-iay-Eje-See has put up $4,000 and trill trot his ni g against any horse for $10,000 aside, either at Chior Providence. Minister Sargent was ban by Henry Gillig. Mr. to sail for Nett' York on 8m S'iATfORD Nobthcoti kit# notice is the British House of Commons on the 25th of his intention to move a Ti to of cen"ls Egypt! >n policy. Democratic State General r, and elected Distrust, the ReD. Owen for Con

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,• 1WIOOVU1 » KTVttKV . .^lllLVVIMVtV VTVU * lion ob the 25th elected as deleeates-at-large to Chicago, John OUlay, «f Spring-, field; Chas. H. Mansur, of Chillicothe; Th* Prohibitionists of Indiana will hold a State Convention at Ind iauSpcMs -Nly IT. J, ' On the 26th the National—ilepoUiea , - - B- F. Jones, of Pittsburgh, Chairman, and ex-Senator Fessenden, Seeretdfy.' ted | J. ft WsJLEtlKLB Congress by the Bipi Minnesota District. Georgs H. Killer, of Hartford, Conn., has been awarded first priiiefoiulesigos foj the Garfield Monument. ;i STP. Rccmis, the present Attorney-Gen-Arkansas, has been nom inated for inndaf . GdWnor'-toy the Democrats^ O _ _ General A. J. WarnIh was nominated ‘or re-electi on to 'Congress by the Democrats of the Seventeenth Ohio District. On the 26th Minister Ferry stated in the Chamber of Deputl«rttrat Franca w<mld,a!i once demand satisfaction for the Chinese violation of the-treaty at Dangsan. President Cro<3KEr of the Xientr® Pacific Railroad denies that the road is embarrassed, and says the ipaidas usual this.month. . • The Republicans of the Thirteenth Indiana District nominated JiT. W. Williams, present Minister to Paraguay, to succeed Gidkins In Congress. -') . - Wx. H. Vanderbilt declines to match Maud S. against Jay-Eye-See. While talking on this'subject he branched off on money matters, and regrwtte^that people were putting their money in strong boxes instead of investing jn^stoeps while prices are so low.

-pXHa&ATEMKG pjaqards h a ve been posted against' the life of Ubm Doaeraile, of (Jounty Cork, Ireland. ^It is Reported thafcJames Russell Lowell, United States Minister to England, is suffering with gout in nis feet. Ox the 27th Lieutenant Tbeo. Smith, of the Fifteenth United States Infantry, dropped deed at the Slu rfe va,nt House, New York. Austria will be represented by Count Karolyi and Baron Vatsera at the' Egyptian conference which meets in London. The Republicans of the Second Indiana District nominated Captain Geo. G. Riley, of Vincennes, Ind., for Congress. Mrs. Mart H. Drake, of New York, recently deceased, bequeathed $10,00!) to the Theological Seminary at Alexandria, Va. The French physician, Dr. L. Gired,who has been experimenting with the yellow fever germ at Panama for three years, is ready to make his report. Prince Victor, of France, declares that he had to leave the paternal roof for political reasons, but says he has the profoundest respect for his father, Prince Jerome. On the 27th the Independent Republican Committee met in New York. Letters an d reports were read showing that the antiBlaine feeling was growing, and that the call for a general conference is receiving a greater number of signers than- anticipated. CRIMES AND CASUALTIES. Parker, who aided Berner in the killing of ffm. Kirk, was found guilty on the 23*1 of murder In the first degree by a Cincinnati jury. The failure to find a similar verdict in Berner’s case was what pro-, voked the direful riots in that city last Spring and the burning of the Courthouse. / DiSASTROU^forest fires were raging iin two counties, of New Hampshire on the 24th. On the 24th a derrick fell from the tower of Grace Church, New York, severely injuring two men and damaging the church 45,000. . ' 7 A ROSS of $100,000 has been caused by the recent forest fires in Maine. On the 25th a mob seised Andrew Long, a wife murderer at Muir, Mich.., but after a desperate struggle the officers rescued him. A company of militia was ordered m themscene-. On the 25th a terrific thunder-storm passed ever Western Pennsylvania ' and Eastern Ohio, doing great damage to property and causing loss of life. A kan calling himself E. R. Marshall was arrested.at Milwaukee on the 20th charged with an attempt to pass a counterfeit £50 note of the Bank of England. He is Wanted in Chicago and Sit. Louis tor similar transactions. ' • v ,j J . On the 27th Frank Brown and Edward Fillmore, of Mottticello, la., fell seventyfive feet from a freight train at Denmark, O., and were killed. On the 27th a number of di-charged workmen at Pittsburg, Pa., attacked a party of new employes, and in a general fight four of the latter were injured, one, it was thought, fatally. M1SCKRRA N EOUS. The Sanitary Council at Vienna has t>een summoned on account of cholera in France. The Western window-glass factories decided to close mi the 28th for the usual Summer repairs._' _ The conflict reported between Christians and Jews in Novgorod, Russia, is confirmed. The King of $byssiaia is placing trpopw so that in Hie event of Hie fall of Kassala hewan.uome it.- - English detectives are said to have been cisco report the breaking out of cholera at Pe^in, China. Those attacked die in a few boors. "• •• " ' Ah understanding respecting North Africa has been arrived at between Italy and Spain. For eleven months of the fiscal year the total collections of internal revenue' amounted tof*fltt£80,0$p, against $134,683,548 for the corresponding period of last year; a decrease of $22;40BA*The Secretary of the Treasury has Issued another call, fer ten millions, of dollars of bonds. f The Chinese Governor of Kashgar has

ordered mission residents to quit certain stations. The national Association of Master Plumbers met in annual convention at Baltimore* Md., on th* »^. 'rj > , One month's credit is asked by the On* trot Pacific Road of its employes in order to pay pressing demands. The iimder Governor of Dongola, who recently arrived at Cairo, does not believe Awnhl False Prophet has burned up at Kankubau, and is at the held of the revolt in Yemen Arabia. The chateau at MaiseiUce formerly owaad by Rcepress Eugenie has been transformed into a cholera hospital. At Toulon, Stance, additional deaths from cholera were reported on the 85i,h. Ok the SBth the Canard Company launched a naw steamer of 8,'J00 tonnage. Her engine is the most powerful in the world, being 12^00-borae power. Tunas r will have representatives at the coming Egyptian conference in London, bat. desires Joint Turkish military ocenpation of that country. On the Mth six deaths from cholera wore reported at Taolcn, Franc*.

uuc.i ut nr imr*" elusive right to play “Parsifal” 1ms been ■(“ftwl of Richard Wagner. Ik many portions of Pennsylvania dirace at New London, Conn., the Yale creiar lengths. j It is proposed to form a pool of all tie Wfd Os the C •ttCfnl London, with 8ir- Stafford Nortoeete os advices frotn Bordeaux are favorable to an abundant wine crop of excellent quality for 1884. Tup dynamite question is agitating file Viennese, a loaded ^bomb having been found near vpvUip budding on the 36thl The Western dirtillors, at the Chicago meqtjng, wilL endqsvor to reorganise the whisky pOoh * *'**’ ' ’ At Bradford, Eingland*on the 86tb, an infernal machine was placed on a. streetcar track, but it failed to explode. Ok the 2<i4h4hftlrish Nationalists at Dublin adopted, a resolution providing a fund :to for paying Nationalist members of Parlia ment a regal# £»Vtr.l -"*v-**- ! The American Lacrosse team sailed from Liverpool on the 28th for New York. Investigation shows that the valud of the assets of thi Penn Bank'of Httsburfeh, Pa., are not more than 1150,000, while the liabilities areSLHUO.OOO. i • * liabilities aretl^OO.OOO. Promise is made by the freight agents of the various railways in Iowa not to receive consignments of lofuor for unauthorized dealers after July a, the date) on which the llesnlaw takes iff qct. The cdloiital policytoas discussed in a lively manner in the German Reichstag on the- 26th. Bismarck’s indisposition ‘ prevented his defense of the Government as he T 7 v fy In a loiig speech to the French Chamber of Dejftibies.M. De La Fosse; attacked the Anglo-French' agreement in reference to Egypt. Prime Minister Ferry defended the agreement. 1m the House of Commons on the 26th Mr. Gladstone moved that the franchise bill be ordered to a third-reading. Should a conflict come with the House of Lords, bo said he had no doubt as to the issue. AT.Cincinnati on the evening' of the 27th Ross won a wrestling match with! Muldoon. The Bel videre Iron Company, of Easton, Pa., has suspended operations. On the 27th J. G. Hill, seventv years of age, a retired clothing merchant of Great Falls, N. H., kilted bis wife. Ok the 27th the Spanish Cabinet ordered .that two officers, found guilty of desertion, be shot immediately. At their session at Chicago, on the 27th, the Western distillers decided upona basis for the new whisky pool. THE Master Plumbers’ National Association decided to hold the next convention in St. Louis.

For the week ended the 27th the failures in the United States numbered 171; in Canada, 2S: total, 199; against 205 the preceding week. The miners’ convention at Straitsvitle, CL, on the 27th, decided to suspend all operations in the Hocking Valiev of Ohio. The Chinese Generals, VuonGly and No Ny, who attacked the French, are said to have 10,000 regular troops- between Bak Le and Langson. A dispatch was received by the Sur-geon-General of the Marine service at Washington on the 27th reporting nine deaths from cholera at Toulon, France, and assurances that the disease is epidemic. A Valparaso (Mexico) dispatch reports that in Congress tho Radical party unanimously voted on tho 27th for a separation of church and State. France will demand both an apology and a money indemnity of China for the violation of the treaty at Langs on, or else will bombard Chinese cities. «Qx the 37th the fifteenth annual reunion of Hood’s Texas Brigade Association was held at Dallas, Tex. Several thousand ex-soldiers were present, and ex- Federal* and Mexican veterans were invited to participate. , Europe is terribly excited over the cholera. A military cordon has been established along the Spanish frontier; and passengers from Toulon, who arrived at an Italian port with symptoms of the disease, were sent to the lazaretto. AU the roads and mountain passes of France are daref^ly guarded and Turkey has quarantine against Hie French. LATE NEWS ITEMS. Ix the Senate on the 28th the House bill was reported favorably granting a pension to the widow of the late General J. B. Steadman. The general deficiency bill was then taken up and amendments and items were added, one of the items being a motion of Mr. Sherman’s to enable the Secretary of the Treasury to reimburse the amount paid for expenses 41 the .commission appointed to go to Louisiana -in 1877. The bill finallr passed. Altar discussing the river and harbor bill the Senate adjourned......In. the House the Senate amendments to the legislative bill were non-concdrred in. The Logan matter in reference to the 81,,000 acres of land,.and that speecsi of Mr. .McAdoo’s came np again; and on motion of Mr.jCox, of New York, the resolution of Mr. Cannon to strike the allegation from the record was tabled without a division. The bill in reference tothe eight and ten hour system of labor for Government employes was discussed at considerable length, and two amendments were agreed to before the House adjourned. Bost wick’s button factory at Milford, Ct., burned on the 23th. Loss 170,000. IN a cricket match at London on the 28th the Australians defeated the English. Parnell has written that he cannot attend the Irish National Convention at Fanenif Hall, Boston, August 13. The Egyptiah conference met at London on the 28th.

Owing to the depression in the icon business in Pennsylvania, Hungarians are rapidly returning to Europe. Juts spinners of Dundee, Scotland, have reduced wages ftre per cent. Eighteen States have already elected delegates to the National Prohibition Convention which meets in Pittsburgh, Pa., in inly. nix anti-monopoly organisation will be represented at Chicago during timDeifioeratic Convention’s session by one hundred members. Tub two Spanish officers found guilty of desertion in April were shot on the 28th. Span has quarantined against English vessels on account of the cholera in France. * - •- - TJr to noon on the 20th four deaths had occurred from cholera at Toulon. There were no deaths at Marseilles. Mks. Langtry left Ban Francisco on the S*h for the East. . * . %■ a C. Barrows, el Bristol, JL 1., is a defaulter for $6,000 by his own, confession. Fairbanks & Dcxnwio's distillery burned at Terra Route, I»d„ on the 29th. Loss, over (100,000; insurance, $65,000. A train on the L, B. 6t W. Road at Moreland, O., was st oned on the 29th, and a three-year-old child of one of the lady passengers killed. A freight train was also stoned

*«US IUA KIIci nilili XUlilJ. Eewnidjof Mrs. Cook's Body at Illinois*, Bnuriif JMdenee of a Horrible «dV*rMinooK, IUh, Jones. After forty honirs’ working of the steam pnmpftheabaudoued well supposed 'to con,Vii5wDwfli Mrs. .pQdk iy« drained to the bottom, when "pref Irt fo'sospifcions were proved correct, Mw C—h i weighted down with about 100 pounds of, iron. Examination showed her throat cut from ear to ear and a heavy bruise on the head. Her, clotheii were torn and body scratched by grappling hooks. Fully 1,000 people followed the body to the City HaH, where the ipcpest is now being held.-, The. jail containing the alleged, murderer is In the same jard. There is some talk of lynching, but the officers are confident that they can control the crowd. The well

is to be searched lor farther bodies. Some think that the well has been used for a, biding (dace, lor Other crimes than I this. . A man named. Frank Mahone disappeared mysteriously irorn Gay’s, sla mfies west of '' here abont • three Weeks ago, and his friends are. afraid he has be-eu foully dealt with, as there Is no explanation why he should go away. * There was no trouble in his business affairs-oir at his home. The Coroner’s .Fury rendered a-verdict charging DanielCook with the murder ol his wile, Sarah Cook. Up to this hour there 'lave been no demonstrations of mob law, although the police report that’ this afternoon the colored' mineib, before comihg np from the coat, mine, took an oath to taice Cook out of the jail before morning, not to lynch him, but to rescue him from the clutches of the law. He Has been turned over to the County Sheriff and will be taken to Charleston jiil :at one o’clock, where he will keep company with Winkieblack, the alleged murderer of the fleet woods. WHAT WE EAT. Besnllts of Investigation by n Chicago Citlzei’s Committee of tho Subject of Food Adulteratio n—Fraud Everywhere. Chicago, III. June 21. A committee of the Citizens’ Association appointed make an exhaustive investigation of food adulteration, published iis report to-day. The committee says: “It may be too rnneh, but it is not greatly too mncli, to say that nearly every manufactured article of food and drink now in use, and many of the drugs and compounds used as medicines, are adulterated or sophisticated in greater or less degree, and although in most, bnt not all cases, the foreign ingredient Is innoxious in its chaiacter, the product is & fraud, because designed to supply the place of a better article without the knowledge of the purchaser.” Further on the report savs: “So far has the manipulation of certain articles been carried that in the butter trade, for instance, the genuine article cannot be procured from the ordinary merchants in the commodity nor fro* private manufacturers except at a price far above its proper value. The committee enumerates a long list of articles found to lie adulterated, among them tlie folio win;;: Dairy products are adnltered by the introduction of animal fat;, tallow, neutral oils, lard, water and sal e. Coffee is frequently adulterated with chicory, beans, dandelion or rye, and when green is often treated with coloring material known to be deleteroas. An imitation being made of dough is the latest fraud in Ibis commodity. The essences we well know to be in many cases frightful compounds. Lard is adulterated by the introduction of terra alba, vegetable oils, and water. The report closes with the recommendation of the committee favoring a National law, and advising the preparation of a State law to be submitted to the Legislature in 18S5. TRAIN WRECKING. An Engineer's Brilliant Doable Play, Whereby He Saves His Own Life and Captures tbs Wreckers. Tyiar. Tfcx., June S. An at tempt was made to wreck the westbound passenger train on the Texas & St. Louis liaiiroad at a point a mile west of Winona. - Several large ties were securely fastened to the rails. The train approached just at twilight, and the engineer i»w the obstruction jnst in time to shntthe throttle and jump. The train was tlirown from the track, but no serious damage vras done. As the engineer jumped, he saw a negro running to tire bushes ; hi! gave chase and captured him. The negro was taken on board end brought to this city. Indignation among the citizens runs high. The negro is' jailed and an extra guard watching over him. There is danger of )yn«h

General Hood’it Children. DauiAS, Tax., June 28. The fifteenth annual reunion of Hood’s Texas Brigade was held in this city yesterday. Several thousand ex-soldiers pnrtiicii Kited. The President in an opening addaeas invited all soldiers of the Mexican wars and Federal army to particijiate. Mrs- Winkler, widow of Cokme C. M. Winkler, read a history of the brljtade. Presi den t Martin announced that; Ge nerat Hood’s children were getting along til right. The two eldest sons are at school in Germany. The other children are in goad hands in the North, but in an address to the association, after vacating the: chair, Major Martin ^demanded that Hood’s children, who were committed to the care of the brigade, be educated, not in llurope or in the Nor^k, bnt in Texas. This sentiment was heartily applauded. Judge Aldridge, speaker of the day, delivered an address. "Tried to Poison Her Mistress. Newuuro. N. Y., June 28. ‘ ■ Aunlj Stewart, colored, aged sixteen, years, poisoned Mrs. John H. Jackson, at Washingtonville, by putting Paris green into beef tea taken by that lady, who ’ is an invalid. It was discovered shortly afterward that she had taken poison and her life was saved by prompt use of anlddotes. The girl confessed; the deed and said she did it because she had been sodded. She has also trrd to burn the house. The girl is said to be weak-minded. She was placed in jail. --a* - ■ Inhuman Treatment of a Child. imi.Aniau'HiA, Pa- June 28. John White, a negro, and his wife, tel <860 Willard street, Frankford, were today arraigned, charged with cruelly treating an eight-year-old girl. The child, who is sn illegitimate offspring of the father, recently took a lump of sugar without permission, and the woman punished her by placing her right hand on abet stove and holding it there until it was covered, With blisters. Her screams were heard by neighbors, who dressed her wounds. The couple were discharged, and the girl was gi ven to the Society for the Prevention o I Cruelty to Children, who w«| care fpr her,

C isubstftiitial Claims. There is at this time much speculation as to the pjeference.of voters of for’eSgnTrirtlv h-thc apj»r6a(9»i» Presidential election. The Republican press and orators are making broad claims to much support from Jrish-Americaijs. notnppgjr tote any stf> Ma#wS;igro90%^M^^sfiSBrclaims an. Mr. Blaine is a Kepnoliean of Republicans. We know.orrna act of bis af BMiai'SBDi.Jihat.he has advocated which entitles him to more'favor amon£ Irishmen or Irish-Americans than his party has. That the Republican party has done n,.thing to entitle it to the spetral love of foreign born citizens, Irish or others, need scarcely be asserted. Never in the history of this Union has the Government of the United btates been in so helpless a condition as respects foreign powers as it is now. Neves has it wen so utterly unable to assert any doctrine or right which another Government feel inclined to dispute as it is right mow. Repub

Mean rule has tameu the National spirit w,th respect, to ail beyond our borders and.created a feeling of timidity in all our ports and coast cities which few Americans can fail to regard with other than a sense of. humiliation. Helplessness begets dependence of spirit, and the assertion of broad and distinctly, American-princi-ples and Republican doctrines among the Nations would alarm and, almost paralyze business and drive capital i«t once into hiding. This low National status is the inevitable fruit of the •commercial policy which prevails in this country, arid of which Mr. James G. Blaine is the most conspicuous advocate who has been in American public lifer Talt^yesolutions and boasts are puerile. Facts, a navy, a foreign commerce carried in American ships manned by American sailors under the American flag—these are tangible, influential, powerful things. We ean never have them under the rale of the Republican party, and least of ail under that party with Mr. Blaine at its head. American influence in the family of Nations can never be restored under the party which has called our flag from the seas and put even our great seaports at the mercy of any one of a score?, of Governments whose hostility we could not afford to, would not dare to provoke. It would be the very licentiousness of folly to attempt to play the role of a great Nation beyond the seas with such means of offensive and defensive aetion as we how possess. Irishmen, like others, are fully informed of these facts. Is it likely that they will be led to abandon the Democratic party, the only narty which promises with the least show of reason to lift the American people from their helpless and humiliating condition in the family of Nations? Cheap talk and sounding resolves in National platforms —what do they weigh against the realized traits of twenty years of experience under the restrictive, dwarfing commercial policy of the Republican party, which has left ns without ships of commerce or war, and worse than this, without sailors to man them until we can train and educate them? No Nation of mediaeval or modern times was ever great or respected beyond its own borders which had not a commerce and a navy. Our own is, and will be*, no exception. The election of Mr. Blaine and the prolongation of the power of the Republican party will but prolong the day of our weakness and timidity in all that concerns the United States in their relation with other people.—Exchange. HOI K*S Support the Ticket. The Independent will not support the ticket nominated at Chicago. It commands neither our enthusiasm nor our convictions. Ou r con victions were not transferred by Powell Clayton, with his drove of Arkansas delegates. Our enthusiasm is Biot kindled by gush and : dash and “magnetism.” The level head and downright conscience of the : Republican party demand devotion flo principle. Devotion to party is not enough We love the Republican party and are proud of its history. It has saved the Nation. It has liberated the slave. It has paid a third of the National debt. It has restored our currency. It has reformed our civil service. It has recovered harmony between North and South. But a party must, stand on its present reconi and not on its past history. The Republican party is worth nothing to ns except as it continues to represent principles and reform. If it ceases to'do this the quiet,, earnest patriots to whom we speak can not be coaxed to keep swinging its banners. When it is dead they will bujy it That is what must be done with corpses.

Blaine anu Logan are tit comrades. Thev were the two most objectionable candidates' before the convention, and it was natural that they Should combine and conquer. They represent the selfseeking demagogical dementi which uses a party for personal preferment. No one suspects them of an earnest desire for a single reform. They are not kno\Vn as advocates of a pure civil-serv-ice, of frugal expenditures of the public funds, or of the purification of npliticai methods.. On the other hand, they have the reputation of being shrewd and unscrupulous party dictators. Their chosen, eager friends, who have engineered their success, have been the Star-routers of the West and the bummers of the East, whom Mr. Arthur flung away when he became President We have no heart to go into Mr. Blaine's personal record, but we regard it as not that of a man who is tit to be the candidate of the Republican party. We can advise no vote for men who "represent not the conscience of onr party but the profits or the prejudices of its camp followers.—IV. T. Independent (Sep*) The Alleged Need of a New Party." The remark is occasionally heard now, and generally made Kjr Republicans who are disgusted with their own party and deterred by force of association from going squarely into the Democratic camp, that there is need of a new party. But when they go farther and outline principles upon which a new party with any hope of life would have to establish itself, they do bat little more and not any better than to reformulate the Democratic creed. That the Republican party has long been living upon its past is a fact that a very large portion of its most prominent me mbers are now ready to acknowledge. That under such circumstances it was fated to betray, in time, the only surviving purposes of those who control it, the result of the recent Chicago Convention abundantly demonstrates. But, it may be chained, has not the Democm,tie party shown weakness, blindness, selfishness and venality on occasions without number? That, in the name of Democracy, it has done many things contrary to the spi rit of Democracy, we are ready to admit. It has done those things which R ought not to have done and left un

done those things •which it - should have scrupulously attended' to more often than it is pleasant to enumerate. But unlike the Republican party* thee purposes and principles upon which t£e Democratic party was founded have weathered the strain, because their existence and more or less active operation must be co-existent with the1 prosperity and even the very existence of the Republic. We can never outgrow those principles. .We ciin neyer.ssrreDtler tl>em ;upl live. Rut of what account are principles, iga’n1 if' ‘may* be asked, if a party does ftot liVe' np tb" them? We have said that the Republican party has precipitated an emergency which makes it desirable and a duty for good men to combine. There are plenty of men in the Democratic party who represent those principles. We beli^ye we, are warranted in saying' that- Die. majority of the Democratic

leauers n piiDirc me to-uay represent: those principles.:* They understand them, they deetare. then* and they defend them ably. There are plenty of men nominally opposed to them in'politics, who deeply sympathize with their efforts to ' enforce those principles. Why, then, should they not come into their organization, stay their hands, and give vitality and power to the noblest canons of political action that made a Nation great. The ■ Post has not .been hack ward ahout, acknowledging the faults of its party, but it has been inspired with a steady hopefulness, an unyielding faith that this great party wotrKf survive its burdens and abases and emerge from its trials to occupy a more exalted ^level of usefulness and honor than ever before. We see the signs multiplying that otir hopes have not been vaiu hopes, and all who long Jot the purification of public administration can not find a shorter road to the goal of their desires than by a hearty co-operation with that noble band of Democrats who are working for the same end. The preservation of Democratic principles in government in their purity is deserving of the devotion of all good men.—Bouton Post. Its Final and Fatal Blonder. The Republican party has made its fatal blunder at last.' It has nominated | a candidate for President who can not poll its full vote by many thousands. While Mr. Blaine has many enthusiastic supporters, he has, also, many implacable enemies within his party. The thoughtful, conservative Republicans are against him, because of the meddlesome and dangerous foreign policy he solicit to establish when at the head of the Garfield Cabinet For the same reason, the commercial and business interests oppose him. Nor will conscientious ana scrupulous voters fail to be impressed by the terrible picture drawn of his character as a public man by tbe journals of his own party. A parallel is sometimes drawn between Clay and Blaine. This can be done with fair fidelity to the truth of history except in one particular. While the lamented Kentucky statesman was the idol of the Whigs, as Blaine i3 now the unquestioned favorite of the majority of the Republicans, the former was a statesman wno naa proposed ’ great measures of legislation and had figured in public life for forty years prior to his nomination for the Presidency without a breath of suspicion against his personal integrity. It will not be pretended that the parallel ■ holds good to this extent. Clay was a : dashing leader and an honest man; | Blaine is a dashing leader, but, according to the most pronounced Republican journals, he is as bad as he is bold. If the.brilliant and upright Clay failed of election, will the brilliant but bad Blaine fare any better? * The answer to the conundrum can be worked into the parallel at the reader’s leisure. It will not he necessary for Democratic journals to dwell upon the points of weakness presented in the personal character of the Republican nominee for the Presidency. The leading Republican journals have already performed that service. The battle for the Presidency will be fought on questions of principle so far as the Democracy are concerned. Mr. Blaine is peculiarly the representative of the high' tax wing of his party, and has always appeared as the advocate of lavish appropriations, of subsidies to great corporations, of land grants to railroad companies, of paternalism winch robs nineteeatwentieths of the people of their hard earnings to enrich the other twentieth. The present system of Federal taxation grew np while Blaine was at the head of his party in Congress. The era of snbsidr and the lob

by began when he took up the Speaker’s gaTel. He was the thus ex maehina in all the great jobs that were put through Congress from 1869 until nis retirement from public life. In order that the seheHtes of plunder which he either engineered or encouraged might be successful he desired above all things a plethoric treasury. Hence his advocacy of the unnecessary and oppressive taxes which now wring annually one hundred millions of dollars front the people in excess of the actual requirements of the Government. Such a candidate can never receive the approving ballots of a majority of the American people.—Harrisburg Patriot. A Warrior Only in Debate. Hon. Ebcn F. Pillsbury, formerly of Maine, told at the meeting of the bay jState Club the following story of the distinguished military service of the “White-plumed .Navarre of Debate,”, and of debate only. “I would like to know what he did during the war, although he was foremost m support of the party and the policy that led to the war. When the ’war came he didn’t volunteer, but he was drafted—the first name drawn from the box. Prior to that time he put some money in a pool gotten tip for the purpose, and with the money derived from that pool he hired a substitute. His name was Bradford, and a place was provided for him at Augusta instead of going to the front. Afterwards be was detected in selling for money forged certificates of exemption papers, and was arrested and confined in jail until the close of the war. Then, gentlemen, after the war had closed, the men who had pooled and put up their money to furnish substitutes clamored because the cities and towns did not pay their expenses- Then the cities and towns issued bonds foe every man who hired a substitute. Blaine got his bond of $200. Afterward a resolution was put into the Common Council of the city of Angusta to pay Blaine S20i>i and it was voted and passed, apd he got his pay twice. Now, gentlemen, that is a true story of Blaine’s service in putting down the rebellion. One would suppose from the manner in which he breathed defiance to the men of the South after the war that be feasted «n rebel meat morning, noon and night.” Herald,

A 8haaetas Felitieal Bargain. The nomination of Blaine and Logan i is clearly the result of a shameless poiit* ; ical bargain anH"repfeseuf» the triumph of the mercenaries aud worst elements of tho Republican party.. The vote of Logan decided Blaine’s nomination. , The vote of Blaine nominated Logan in , return. _In presenting this extraordinary combination of corruulion and denuvjio'fiam the Re|«TWteS»re3feeBtimi act^ w|h wnttsutil audacity and honesty. 4udacrty- bemuse if there fa anything the He- , public sadly needs, and the public' conscience demands, it is reform'in high places and the purification of the Government. Honesty, because Republican candidates have generally worn masks of hypocrisy, and in nominating Mr. Blaine the mercenaries have for the first time thrown away all masks, flagrantly defied all claims to principles or reform and put up an out-and-out ticket for spoils only.

in thus presenting the distinct issue 1 of perpetuating Republican machine rule and corruption for the sole benefit of the hungry spoilsmen who have been kept out by Arthur, the Convention is entitled to some credit- It might have nominated some obscure uonenity like Hayes, and continued the false pretense of patriotism,pietv and reform masquerade. As it is, no one outside of a lunatic asylum will claim Blaine or Logan to be civil-service reformers, of anything else except grand marshals of the »i«chine. It is now a clear issue: Corruption vs. Reform! The demand for change at Washington is answered by the Republican Convention thus: Yes, a change for the worse. That Mr. Blaine is an able man, of great talents and daring, and still greater popularity with his party, and that he is beyond doubt a true representative of modern Republicanism, if not its idol, make the issue thus presented all the more pregnant. For before the canvass is fully opened it will be clear to the plainest understanding that James G. Blaine represents not oniy the machine of the Republican parri’ but the demoralizing and cofrupting power of Wall street, the money interests, the monopolies, corporations, and all protected, privileged, special d! asses. All that is reprehensible .and base in our demoralized political system will naturally rally to his support. Will he be defeated? That is clearly in the hand of Democrats. If the Democratic candidate for the Presidency should be precisely what Mr. Blaine is not—a man of the highest judicial mind, the most elevated character and purposes—he would doubtless attract the support of many self-respecting Independent Republicans, carry New York and other doubtful States and be elected. Wbat the country wants is Reform. To this yearning the Republicans respond by putting forward a man who stands arraigned by his own party as the embodiment of corruption in legislation, demagogueism in polities and cupidity in affairs. But Democrats muafc UUt KTrXfX votiuiaK: fcltw **o>-*»!otOtt 111 the ranks of the Republican party at this time, Five months will elapse before the election, and in that time much will be done to smooth the existing asperities. It must be borne in mind that the Republican party twice elected Gr.ujt, counted in Hayes by fraud, and | elected Garfield. And, however bad ; Blaine’s reputation actually is, his char- | acter is really better than that of either ! Grant, Hayes or Garfield. Democratic prudence and unity will i lead to Mr. Blaine’s defeat.—Brooklyn Evidences of Revelation. The red flag of revolt has been raised in the Republican camp by the Independents, and Republicans of all grades are either rallying around the standard or muttering their discontent in a manner which indicates that they will jots the insurgents at the first show of active operations. The few who remain in the regular ranks are but half-hearted in their loyalty to the machine. The Massachusetts delegation returns from Chicago 'shrouded in gloom and disgust, and in no mood to put forth any strenuous efforts to stem the tide of revolt which they encounter at home. • reorge William Curtis issues orders to have the record of Mr. Blaine worked up for Harper's Weekly, and Nast is sharpening his pencil to puncture every joint in the armor of the Plumed Knight.

ihe influential Republican and Independent press of New York and Massachusetts has bolted en masse from the Republican camp and burned the bridges behind it. The .business men bare taken the alarm and are- stampeding from Blaine as from a plague, the New England Straw Paper Dealers’ Association, composed entirely of Republicans, taking the lead with a unanimous vote to work for his defeat. Colonel McClure, the veteran jour-nalist-politician of Philadelphia, prophesies the annihilation of the Republican party. Charles Francis Adams, Jr., declares that he will either support the Democratic candidate or take to the Woods, and calls upon the Reform Club to take hold and defeat Blaine and Logan anyway. i TYoung Roosevelt has already taken to the woods or the prairies, and his playmate Lodge will probably seek the seclusion of Nahant to study up the rudiments of the game of politics. Colonel Higginson offers to enlist under any flag to beat Blaine, and is ready to lead the colored troops in the assault. In the New York theaters the audiences hiss the mention oi Blaine’s name clubs and bolting Republicans of Massachusetts and New York are calling for conferences, and appealing to the Democrats to save the country from the spoilsmen. The red flag is waving, and the days of the corrupt machine are numbered.. —Boatm Ghbc. ^ , Truly Representative. Wc hare never bad * .Republican o&mlklitte so fit a representhtWe el his party as Blaine, and it is well that the political domination which has so oppressed and plundered the country, is at last put fairly and squarely qu trial. Grant was not such a representative candidate, for he embodied the loyal spirit which throttled the rebhllioe, and it was for that, and in despite of the faults of the Republican party which he fairly personated in his second campaign, that be won the favor of the Northern States. Hayes, in a striking degree, and Garfield also, to a somewhat less extent, stood before the country as tokens of repentance mid pledges of reform. The country Bad been threatened with Republican cap

iidates so much worse in personal character than Hares or Garfield that many honest-intending. people fancied ’that in these candidates they had assurances that the party Wuolit sbegin with them a new era of political parity and qjoral cleanliness. That it has »d signally failed to redeem the fl&dges of reform if the* hast gawa -eighL^qprs ago when Hayes w^npajinalttl^rpuld have made many sober* ttimStg* Republicans (wsitata this ■year to support any eanijidapi nominated ,lw their uarty. The nomination of Biaitof Vdl change those ftpm bestfoUngumiertainty to unequivocal opposmttn. *%iia brief masquerade as a reformer in GarBeld’s Cabinet will not efface rdsoHecMion of the fact that he was the parent »f alt the Stshtails, The eoufltty does not merely suspect him nftpersonal dishonesty as it <IW Garliehl, but suspicion is replaced by firm eonvietien, and be stands before.'the people a good .exemplar, in the incidents p£ his own personal career, of the r sodality. shamelessness and corruption of the party which has made him its nominee. We shall not say that w6 are glad that the Republican party has given evidence, in the selection of Blame as its standard bearer, that if has' the courage of its convictions, fpr the: Republican party has no convkfcbns; but we do say that we welcome -the faefc that it has at length the impudence tp tight under its true cojhrs* as assuring, evidence that its characteristic 'audacity ltas at last passed the limit of the country’s endurance,—Sf. Louis Jiepvtilicum

Glittering Generalities. of The Republican platform is a “mass professions the people can place the lamentable facts of Republican practices. JTiie, promise of a settled protective tariff with full rights to the laboring man is offset by the reality of a con-stantly-changing protective tariff for twenty-four years, marked by favoritism towards special classes and monopolies and injustice to the masses. Against a pledge to “ promptly and effectively suppress the system of polygamy within the Territories” stands the fact that for twenty-four years, uuder a party which claims almost autocratic power for the Central Government the system of polygamy has flourished and increased. Tim sentiment that the rtSerepd rights of States should bo guarded, with jealous care stanils in juxtapoStkin to years of efforts to wteate an overshadowing central iemCpower nfcW ashington. A platform which declares for restrictions oir the abuse of power by railroad corporations is met; by twenty* fow years of corrupt favoritism of railroad corporations at the expense of the rights of the people. A canting claim of good work performed ami yet to be performed in the cause of Civil-Service Reform by the Republican party, adopted by a body a clear majority of which are officeholders and notorious office-seekers, stands confronted with the attempt of two-thirds of the party to turn out an Administration pronounced “wise, conpatriotic and. suucosafuLL’ and to put a tainted or nntnea Administration in its place. The declaration that “the ' public lands are a heritage of the people of the United States” is met in the face of the gift or the eorrupt sale of hnndveds d millions of acres of the public lands to grasping railroad corporations. The demand for the restoration of tho Navy to its old-time strength and efficiency comes from a party which koeps Bill Chandler and Roach at the head of the Navy Department and squanders or steals the naval appropriations. Finalljr, the desperate bifl for Ohio conies from a party which fofvftvt entyfour years has had the poorer to legislate as it pleased for that Sidle, and which has too long pulled ^e wool over the eyes d the sheep-raisers of the country. ’*# 1 i We advise the people to *saiL the Republican platform of to-day by the light of the Republican practice for' twentyfour years.—jiY. f. Stat\, , > POLITICAL ITEMS. —Each of the special performances in. Munich before the King of Bavaria, as sole auditor, cost over $8,0001. -Mr. Blaine’s nexkbook will probably be: “What .1 J(ftH>w about Bolts, Bolters, and Being* Bolted,” says tho Philadelphia Telegraph (Rep.). -John A. Logan is a Methodist, and of him a Methodist clergyman"in Boston said last "Saturday that ha joined the Church’by telegraph and was bapt&ed by photograph. -The New York 2’fotes claims that its aftitude towant the Republican party this year- will be as s pnysiciSu and friend. The 'l'rtbum has already said that the Times is a quack; but Whether quack or regular, Mr. Blaine will not Itkethe pTtfs the Times will ask him to swaHovii.^-Aasetaa^br " ^ , ——Mr. Blaine’s friends have been contending in a “ halcyon ,and vociferous way,” foe aomo time back that Mr. Roseee Colliding was, pi^jng to have the “ plumed night ”, nonunated. Perhaps he was, but their eff*rts*to iuduee Mr. Cdnkling to say be foil support MP'BISfoerhlKl'TWF'hp to last accounts been particularly succeSfut.—N. Y. Commercial -The American people believe, that suicide is due of the inalienable rights of every political organisation, and that they who furnish the corpse, should be allowed to boss the fuueral. Precisely how the Republldhtf managers "are going to rally the Independents to Mri Blaine’s standard, or to carry the! election with them, is a matter which concerns them alone —them, and tho candidate, and the party. --Jtochester Post-Express {Pep,). -—Much of tie enthusiasm for the* work of the Republican Contention at Chicago was manufactured. There 5 a large artificial and employed ete•menst in it, and the noiie hr iff only be faint echo by the time of' the meeting oi the Democrats in J.uly.. We have no doubt Blaine was the choice of a majority of the Republicans of the country”, bnt the shouting at Chicago was not entirely representative. The “ hollering * is usually doughy a small portion of the American,, people.— iHmnnati Enquirer.

* -j—There never «w a time when victory was easier to the Democrats party than now. ”It is not a matter of Republican strength t— they have ao strength. It is a qoeetWbWrhether the Democratic party has a, sufficient • amount of that old-fashioned commodity known as common sense, *to take the right course, when the right course is the only oWTSWessary to pursue in order to win an houordble and cornptato.victory. a victory on honest and sound political principle, and a victory which will insure the Democratic party control of the administration of public affairs tor at least a genera, tion to come.— Wosbmgton Fwt,