Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1888 — Page 2

She gqmMtare. Q«o. E. Marshall, Publisher. R«N«RELAER, - *■ INDIANA

Tbs maharajah of Mysore has placed his military resources at the disposal of the vioeroy, declaring that he will share in the defense of India. Along with this information comes the tidings that Sikkim is being invaded by Thibetans As disinterested spectators we suppose it is proper to ‘'Bikkim!” The following from a dispatch from Koatpelier, Ind., in the Indianapolis Journal is aboffPtfce fishiest fish story that has been promulgated since the lakes froae up: “Fishing through the ice in the numerous small lakes in northern Irdiana is indulged in by many for pleasure and profit, but the residents at “The Lakes,’ five miles west of here in the “Lost township," have dropped on to a plan that makes the building of a fish shanty unnecessary. The muskrat, which is a numerous quantity in the largest of the two lakes, has honeycombed the peaty soil on its margin with dens, from each of which he has dug a small canal, a little its level into the lake. One of % party, the other day, on breaking into a muskrat den, discovered it to be full of lake bass. A basket was filled from the hole with the finest of fish. The report set the country agog, and further search has been prosecuted vigorously, with great success, one hole yielding over two hundred fine fish. Opinions vary as to the cause. Some hold that nature teaches the bass to hole up in this way; others claim that it is a fish-trap made by the amphibious, rat, who closes up the canal when the trap is foil of fish and uses them for food during the winter. In either case the residents at “The Lake" have a fat take on the gamiest and beßt fish that swims in Indiana waters." The story is only excelled by the Crawfordsville I—r who killed a fourfoot hoop-snake, which was rolling •round on the ice and snow. The campaign of 1888 is on.

INDIANA DEMOCRATS.

Ttaer Meet at Indianapolis and' Itesolute for Gray. In response to a call issued by the Hendricks Club, of Indianapolis, the Democracy of Indiana, or at least representatives of it from every county, assembled in the Capital City on the 11th to prepare to meet the Q. 0. P. in what is destined to be one of the warmest campaigns in manyvears. The convention in numbers and enthusiasm would well compare with the ordinary State convention and was representative in all respects. The meeting was held at Masonic Hall, which was crowded almost to suffocation. A. W. Conduit, —president of the Hendricks-club,—ealled the meeting to order. When Governor Gray entered he was warmly welcomed. The usual committees ‘were appointed. Governor Gray was made chairman of theconference and R. O. Johnson secretary, with several vice presidents. A plan was adopted for the organization of clubs. The resolutions read as follows: We hail witti enthusiasm tne grand and able leadership of Grover Cleveland, President of the United States,and lieartily endorse his administration of national s flairs. We welcome the President’s message as a couragous step towards the administration of the Government in harmony with the requirements of the masses of the people, and we #ge upon Congress to cany out its recommendations. We declare that the so-called doctrine of “Protection to American Labor," as Illustrated in our present tariff laws, is a fraud upon the laboring men of the country, especially, placing them largely in the power of their employers and making them victims of the oppressive power of coliossal aggregations of capital, exerted in the interests of monopoly, and against the interests of labor. Resolved,- That we appreciate and highly commend the administration of our State affairs by Governor Isaac P. Gray, for its ability, its honesty and his hearty and earnest efforts to improve the State government in allitß branches; and we heartily commend him to the Democracy of the State of Indiana and the Nation for nomination for the VicePresidency of the United States. Resolved, That we heartily indorse the election of David Turpie to the United States Senate by the Democratic majority of the lastfLegislature,and their manly and determined resistance made against the organized conspiracy of a Republican minority to overturn constitutional government and by fraud elect a United States Senator against the will of the people as expressed at the ballot box. We denounce the partisan, inexcusable and revolutionary action of the Republican majority of the House in obstructing legislation, and thereby preventing the passage of appropriation bills and" other necessary legislation, thereby crippling the administration of the State’s affairs and preventing the proper maintenance cf her various benevolent institutions. The Democratic,‘party is conscious of the great benefit conferred upon the country by the influx of intelligent heads and strong arms from abroad. --It has always warmly greeted and promoted the emigration of honest, " respectable and industrious aliens, and is yet in favor of welcoming and kindlv receiving these valuable elements of oi{r population, which have so largely contributed to the building up and develop mentof our resources, and of excluding Olriv notoriously dishonest, disreputable and dangerous characters from the privilege* of the American soil and citizpngpr.-. Not- a Good Example. There is a young fellow named Ives, " . Who, somehow, adroitly contrives, i. ;; . I Like the daughter, to thrive in dark a ater, ~ And who hangs MWrrirflaeghniveir ~

MORAL WORTH.

Character Should be Weighed When Marriage is Proposed, Aa A gain itt the Show of Jewel* and Honan* and Bank Aononnt*—-Wnalth t* Mot Always the Guarantee es Happiness at Boms. Rev. Dr. Talmage preached at the Brooklyn Tabernacle last Sunday. Subject: “Marriage for Worldly Success Without Regard to Moril Character.” Text I. Samuel xxv,, 2. “And there was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very great, and he had three thousand sheep end a thousand goats." Dr. Talmage said: My text introduces us to a drunken bloat of large property. Before the day of safety deposits and government bonds and nationaf banka people had their investment* in flocks and herds, and this man, Nabal, of the text, had much of his possessions in live stock. He came, also, of a distinguished family, and had glorious Caleb for an ancestor. But thus descendant was a sneak, a churl, a sot, and a fool. Now,that was the man whom Abigail, the lovely and gracious and good woman, married—a tube roee planted beside a thistle, a palm branch twined into a wreath of deadly nightshade. Surely that was not one of the matches made* in heaven. We throw up our hands in horror at that wedding. How did she ever consent to link her destinies with such a creature? Well, she no doubt thought that it would be an honor to be associated with an aristocratic family, and no one can despise a great name. Besides this, wealth would come and with it chains of gold and mansions lighted with swinging lamps of aromatic oil and resounding with the cheers of banqueters seated at tables laden with wines from the richest vineyards and fruits from the ripest orchards, and nuts threshed from foreign woods andjneata smoking in platters of gold set on by slaves in bright uniforms. Before she plighted her troth with this dissipated man she sometimes said to herself: “How can I endure him? To be associated for life with such a debauchee I can not and will not!” But then, again, she said to herself: “It is time I was married, and this is a cold world to depend on,and perhaps I might do worse, and may be I will make a sober man out of him, and marriage is a lottery anyhow.” And when one day this representative of a great house presented himself in a parenthesis of sobriety, and with an assumed geniality and gallantry of manner, and with promises of kindness and fidelity and self-abnega-tion, a June morning smiled on a March squall, and the great souled woman surrendered her happkffess to the keeping of this infamous son of fortune whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very great, and he had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats.

Good and genial character in aman,is the very first requisite for woman’s happy marriage. Mistake me not as deprecative of worldly prosperites. There is a religious cant that would seem to represent poverty as a virtue and wealth as a crime. I can take you through a thousand mansions where God is as much' worshiped as He ever waa in. a cabin. The Gospel ineuteates the virtues which tend toward wealth. In the millenium we will all dwell in palaces and ride in chariots and Bit at sumptuous banquets and sleep nnder rich embroideries and live four or five hundred years, for, if according to the Bible in those times a child shall diea hundred years old, the average of human life will be at least five centuries. The whole tendency of sin is toward poverty, and the whole tendency of righteousness is toward wealth. Godliness is profitable for the life that now is as well as for that which is to come. No inventory can be made of the picture galleries consecrated to God,and sculpture and of libraries and pillared magnificence, and of park and fountains and gardens in the ownership of good men and women. The two most lordly residences in which I was ever a guest had morning and evening prayers, all the employes present, and all day long there was an air of cheerful piety in the conversation and behavior. Lordßadstock carried the gospel to the Russian nobility, Lord Cavan and Lord Cairns spent their vacation in evangelistic services. Lord Congleton became missionary to Bagdad. And the Christ who was born in an Eastern caravansary has again and again lived in a palace. ' It is a grand thing to have plenty of money and horses that don’t compel yon to fake the dust of every lumbering and lazy vehicle; and books of history that give you a glimpse of all the past; and shelves of poetry to which you may go and ask Milton or Tennyson or Spencer or Tom Moore or Robert Burns to step down and spend an evening with yon; and other shelves to which you may go while you feel disgusted with the shams of the' world, and ask Thackeray to express your chagrin, jor Charles Dickens to expose the Pecksniffianism, or Thomas Carlyle to thunder your indignation; or the other shelves, where the old Gospel writers stand ready to warn and cheer us, while ; they open doors into that city, which is : so bright the noonday sun is abolished. ; There is no virtue in ownieg a horse that takes four minutes to go a mile if I yon can own one that can go in a little over two minutes and a naif; no virtue; in running into the teeth of a northeast wind with thin apparelif you can afford | furs; no virtue in being noor when tmi I can honestly be rich. There are names of men and women that I have only to mention and they suggest not only wealth, but religion and generosity and philanthropy, such as Amos Lawrence, James Lennox. Peter Cooper, William E. Dodge, Shaftesbury, • Miss Wolfe and Mrs. Astor. A recent writer says that of fifty leading business men in one 'of our Eastern cities, and of the fifty leading business men of one of our western cities, three-fourths of them are Christians. The fact is that about ail the brain and business genius is on the side of religion. Infidelity is incipient insanity. All infidels are cranks. Manv of them talk brightly, but you scon find that in their mental machinery their is a perew loose. Wheri they are not lecturing against Christianity hey are fitting in the b?r-rooms squirting tobacco juice, and w hen they getmad- swear feul -»W place is sulphurous. They only talk to

keep their courage up, and at the best will feel like tbe infidel who begged to be bnrie4 with his Christian wife and daughter, and when asked why he wanted such burial replied; “If there be a resurrection of (he good.a* some folks say there will be, mv Christian wite and daughter will somehow get me op and take me along wih them." Men may pretend to despise religion, but they are rank hypocrites. The Bea captain was right when he came up to the village on the seacoast and insisted in paying $lO to the church, although he did not attend himself. Whenaaked his reason, he said that he had been in the habit of carrying cargoes of oysters and clams from that place, and he found since that church was built the people were more honest than they used to be, for before the church was built he often found the load wheti he came to count it a thousand clams short. Yes. Godliness is profitable for both worlds. Moat of the great, honest, permanent worldly successes are by those who rev erence God and the Bible. But what Ido say is that if a man have nothing but social position and financial resources, a puts her happiness by marriage in his hand re-enacts the folly of Abigail when she accepted disagreeable Nabal, “whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very great, and he had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats.” If there be a good moral character accompanied by affluent circumstances I congratulate you. If not, let the morning lark fly clear of the rocky mountain eagle. The sacrifice of a woman on the altar of social and financial expectation is cruel and stupendous. I sketch you a scene you have more than once witnessed. A comfortable home with nothing more than ordinary surroundings, but an attractive daughter carefully and From the outside world comes in a man with nothing but money, unless you count profanity and selfishness and fondnesss for champagne and general recklessness as a part of his possession. He has his coat-collar turned up when there is no chill in the a ; r but because it gives him an air of abandon, and eye-glasp, not because he is near-sighted, but because it give a classical appearance, and with an attire somewhat loud, a cane thick enough to be the club of Hercules, and clutched at the middle, his conversation interlarded with French phrases inaccurateiy pronounced and a sweep of manner indicating that he was not horn like most folks, but terrestrially landed. By arts learned of the devil *he insinuates himself into thd affections of the daughter of that Christian nome. Ail the kindred congratulate her on the almost supernatural prospects. Reports come in that the young man is fast in his habits; that he has broken several young hearts, and that he is mean and selfish and cruel. But all this is covered up with the fact that he has several houses in his own name and has large deposits at the bank, and, more than all, has a father worth many hundren thousand dollars, and very feeble in health and may any day drop off, and this the only son, and a round dollar held close to one’s eye is large enough to shut out a great desert, and how much more will several bushe’s of dollars shut out.—: X.

The marriage day comes and goe3. The wedding ring was costly enough and the orange blossoms fragrant enough and the benediction solemn enough and the wedding march stirring enQugh. And the audience shed tears of sympathetic gladness, supposing that the craft containing the two has sailed off on a placid lake, although God Tcnbws that they are launched on a Dead Sea, its waters brackish wit! i tears and ghastly faces of despair floating to the surface and then going down. There they are, the newly-married pair, in their new home. He turns out to be a tyrant. Her will is nothing; his will is every thing. Lavish of money for his own pleasure, ho begrudges her the pennies he pinches out into her trembling palm. Instead of the kind words she left behind in her former home, now there are complaints and fault-findings and curses. He is the master and she the slave. The worst villain on earth is the man who, having captured a woman from her father s house, and after the oath of the marriage alter has been pronounced says, by his manner if not in word?: “I have you now in my power. What can you do? My arm is stronger than yours. My voice is louder than yours. My fortune is greater4han yours. My name is might.W than vonrs Now crouch before me like a dog. Now crawl away "from me like a reptile. You are nothing but a woman, anyhow. Down, you miser able wretch!’ Can halls of mosaic, can long lines of Etruscan bronze, or statuary by Palmer and Powers and Crawford and Chantry and Canova, can gal If ries rich from the pencil of Blerstadt and Church and Kenset and Cole and Cropsev, could flutes played on by an Ole Bull or pianos fingered by a Gottscbalk, or solos warbled by a Sontage, could wardrobes like that of a Marie Antoinette, could jewels like those of a Eugenie make a wife in euch a companionship happy? Imprisoned iu a caatU! H«r gold bracelets are tha chains of a rife long servitude. There is a sword over her every leas', i not like i hat of'Damocles, staying suspended, but dropping through her lacerated heart. Her wardrobe is lull of shrouds for deaths which she dies daily, and she is buried alive, though buried under goraeous unholstery. 'There is* one word tuat t-ounds under the arches and id'Vs along the corridors, and weeps in the falling fountains and echoes in the (.hatting of 'every door and troans in every note of stringed and wind instrument: “Wot! woeT’ The oxenandsheep in olden times brought, *o the Temple of Jupiter to he sacrificed used to be covered with ribbons and flowers—ribbons on the horns and flowers on the neck. But the floral and ribboned decoration did not make the stab of the butcher’s knife less deathful, and all the chandeliers you hang over such a woman, and all the robes with which yon enwrap her, and all the ribbons with which you adorn her, and ail the bewitching charms with which you embank her footsteps, are;the ribbons and flowers of a horrible butchery. ;Ref®.e things are right in this world genteel villains are to be expurged. Instead of being welcomed into genteel society because of the amount of stars and garters, and medals and estates they represent, they ought to be fumigated two or-three years before they are allowed without peril to themselves to put their hand on the door-knob of a moral honse. The time most come wbena masculine eßtraywittbe as repugnant to good society as a feminine

astray, and no coat of arms or family Siblaaunry or epaulet can pass a Loario unchallenged ampog the sanctities of home life. By what law of God or common aenue is an Absalom better than a Delilah, a Don Juan better than a Mesaalina? The brush that painte the one black moat paint the other black. But what a epetacie it was when last summer much of “watering place” society went wild with entnusiasm over an unclean foreign dignitary whose name in both hemispheres is* a avnouj m for profligacy, ana princesses of American society from all parts of the land had him ride in their carriages and sit at their tables, though they knew* him to be a portable lazaretto, a charnel-house of moral putrefaction, his breath a typhoid, his foot that of a satyr and his touch death. Here is an evil that men can not stop, bnt women may. Steep all such out of your parlors; have no recognition for them in the street,,and no more think of allying your life and destiny with theirs than “gales from Araby” would consent to pass the honeymoon with an Egyptian plague. All that money or social position a bad man brings to a woman in marriage is a splendid dispair, a glided horror, a brilliant agony, a prolonged death, and the longer the material union lasts tbe more evident will be the fact that she might better never have been horn. Yet you and I- have been at brilliant weddings where before the feast was over the bridegroom’s tongue was thick and his eyes glassy and his step a stagger aa he clicked glasses with jolly comrades, all going with lightning limited express rate to the fatal crash over the embankment of a ruined life and a lost eternity. Woman, join not your right band with such a right hand. Accept from a one no jewel for finger or ear least that sparkle of precious stone turn out to be the eye of a basilisk, and let not the ring come on the finger of your right hand least that ring turn out to be one link of a chain that will bind you in never-end-ing captivity. In the name of God and heaven and home, in the name of all time and all eternity I forbid the bannsl Consent not to join one of the many regiments of women who have married for worldly success without regard to moral character. If you are ambitious, 0 woman, for noble affiancing, why not marry a King? And to that honor you are invited by the Monarch of heaven and earth, and this day a voice from the skies sounds forth. “As the bridegroom' rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee.” Let Him put upon thee the ring of this royal marriage. Here is an honor worth reaching after. By repentance and faith you may come into a marriage vyith the Emperor of univesral dominion, and you may be an empress unto God forever, and reign with him in palaces that the centuries can not crumble or cannonades demolish. High worldly marriage is not necessary for woman, or marriage of any kind in order to your happiness. Celibacy has been honored by the best being that ever lived and his greatest apostle, Christ and Paul. What higher honor could single life on earth have? But whai you need, O woman, is to be affianced forever and forever, and the bans of that marriage I am this moment here and now ready to publish. Let the angels of heaved bend from thei* gal leries of light to witness while I pronounce you one—a loving God and a forgiven soul.

America is Not Russia.

The Century. We do not see how anything could more clearly demonstrate the folly and crime of an anarchical movement in America than the papers by Mr. Kennan on the condition of affairs in the Russian Empire, now being published in the Century. These criticisms proceed from a country whose relations with Russia are particularly cordial. They are printed in a periodical where “The Life of Peter the Great,” published as a two years’ serial, did much to increase the amicable i-'ter : est of Americans in the affairs of Russia, and they are from a hand that has shown conspicuously its friendliness toward the Russian government. Without favoring or defending the methods of the Russian revolutionists, Mr. Kennan shows that the violence which individuals, or groups of individuals, are guilty of in Russia is a natural result of the absence of civil liberty. The Russian Liberals (not revolutionists) demand—what? The readers of the November Century have seen the moderation of their demand: they desire freedom of speech, freedom of the press, security for personal rights, and a constitutional form of government. America, above all nations of the world, means these very things. Anarchy, and the dastardly methods of the anarchist, • Slav* no slightest color of excuse to exist in a free country. And, thank Heaven, America is continually making it evident that a free country is abundantly adapted to the defense of its own freedom; that is to say, es its own existence.

A Fisherman’s Telephone.

Science Gossip. On some parts of the coast of Sumatra aud the neighboring islands the fishermen test the depth of the sea and ; also the nature of the sea bottom by the noises they heaf on applying the ear to one end of an oar of which the other end is plunged in the water. At a depth of twenty feet and less the sound is a crepitation Similar to that when salt is thrown on burning charcoal; at fifty feet it is like the ticking of a watch, the ticking being more or lees rapid according to whether the bottom is entirely of coral or alternately of coral and mud or of sand. If the bottom is entirely of sand the sound is clear; if of mud it resembles the humming of a swarm of bees. On dark nights the fishermen select their fishing grounds according to these indications. Leap till the last armed nude expires; Leap tor your husbands and for sires; leap for a chance to build; the. fires, Fair ones throughout the land!

THOSE TALLY SHEETS.

Second Trial of tbe Alleged Forger* at Indianapolis. A Jar; Impaneled nod the Trial Began— The Defendant* all Enter a Plea of Nut Qnllt;. The second trial of the Marion county tally sheet cases was begun at Indianapolis on the Kl.ii before U. S. District Judge Wood The Government is represented by District Attorney Sellers and Judge E. F. Claypool, and the defendants by Judge G. F. MpNutt, John W. Kern, A. G. Smith and John H. Boskirk, of Bloomington, and H. N. Spann, who appears in his own behalf. Mr. Spann was granted a separate trial, and consequently the only defendants at this trial are Sim Coy, W. F. A. Bernhamer and Stephen Matler. The securing of a jury gave trouble. It is composed of the following: James B. Oiirtis, farmer, Jennings county. Wm. H. BcDger, farmer, North Landing. Ohio county* Robert Dunlap, farmer, Madison, Jefferson sonntv.- ■- ■;X»James T*ter--, farmer, Don Juan, Perry county. Jacob Carbfner, lumberman, Bremen, Marshall eounty. Albert Messick, farmer, Messlck, Henry eounty Frederick Berkey, farmer, Salem, Washington county. Simon Dickinson, engineer, Waterloo, DeK&lb eounty. John S. Sehroeder, farmer, Rising Sun, Ohio county. John L. Davis, farmer, @rawfordsville, Montgomery county. Jessie Brurabach, farmer Counna, DeKaib eounty. Robert Denton, farmer, Hymen, Sullivan county. It is understood that the. political complexion of the j urv is seven Republicans and five Democrats. Mr. Sellers made the opening statement for the Government and Mr. McNutt for the defendants. Mr. Sellers said, after reading the indictments and several statutes being in the case, that by these laws it is made the duty of the inspector* of elections to retain the custody and returns of the election, and it is an offense not oqly against the Stati, but also against the United States, for them to fail, neglect or omit to perform this duty. It is likewise made an offense for any two or more persons to conspire, to influence or induce such election officers to fail, neglect or omit to perform the duty thus imposed, and it is of this latter offense that these defendants are accused. “If any act or acts is done by any* of these conspirators to ward accomplishing thß purpose of tho conspiracy, then all are guilty.” There was no doubt, Mr. Sellers added, of the law in the case, all the legal propositions were well established, and he would be able to show, equally well, that there was even less doubt that a crime had been committed, and that there had been a conspiracy, which resulted in that crime. He proceeded to give a careful review of the events pertaining to the meeting of the canvassing hoard in November, 1886. He said that at that election there were various inspectors, whose duty it was to retain the custody of the tally-sheets of their respective precincts. Among these were Inspectors Hisey, of the Thirteenth ward; CouDselman, of the Fourteenth; Mattlee, sos the Thirteenth; Schmidt, of the Twenty-third, Becker, of the Eleveutfc; Edwards, of the Eighteenth; Baker,.of Union township, and others. When Mr. Becker was on his way to the Court House, to deposit the sealed bags with the Clerk, he was intercepted by a man, sent out by Mr. Coy, who attempted to induce him to surrender the papers to him instead of to the lawful custodian. On the next day the Board of Canvas sersmet, nearly all of them political., friends of Mr. Coy, and he was very active therein trying to get Mr. Bernhamer elected chairman. He succeeded. As some of the inspectors did not have their papers, Inspector Landers, at the instigation of Mr. Perkins, offered a motion that, where the papers were absent, the sealed bags be brought from the Clerk’s office and opened, and that the vote might be counted in this way. One of the defendants then came to Perkins and said: “What arc you doing that for? If the bags are seat for, how are we to use' the changed tally sheets?” Afterward a. resolution, drawn up by Mr. Spaan, was adopted,' deciding not to resort to the bags further to corroborate the returns. One of the inspectors took sick, and his papers, which were afterward f jund to be changed; were left in the possession of Mr. Coy. About noon, Mr. Ssllera said the evidence would Bhow, Mr. Coy came to Perkins and said: “Our candidate for Criminal Judge is behind. Coaid you get Hisey’s papers and help us out?” “It was right here,” said Mr. Sellers, “that the conspiracy filst mad e its appearance.” Continuing, he said that Perkins went to Hisey, got his papers, took them to room 59 of the Court House with Mr. Coy, and there changed the vote, making the erasures with a knife which he borrowed from Coy, and working under the latter’s directions, While they were there Mattler came in and Perkins took his papers and changed them as he had the others. When Hisey’s papers were presented tolheßoarff of Canvassers the ink was not yet dry where the changes had been made. Everybody knew at once what had been done, and that the returns had been tampered with, bnt in spite of this fact, Ch firman Bernhamer refused to take any Btfeps to correct the retufns hrto find out who had committed the crime.

There was an exciting anil excited debate and Mattler got scared, and either changed his returns back or had them changed. Afterward Ljrenz Schmidt, another inspector, left his papers either with John E. Sullivan or George Budd, and when he got them again, the changes had been made. Schmidt, insisted that Jiey were wrong, and that the bag should be sent for, but Bernhammer refused to ailow it. Afterward the papers from Inspector Counselman’s precinct were changed but by whom or where the changes were made the Government would not be able to show. “The result of thjg conspiracy,” concluded Mr. Sellers, was that one mao was declared elected Criminal Judge and another Coroner who were not elected in fact, as was afterward clearly proven by a count of the votes. A crime had been committed—au infamous crime for an infamous purpose; a crime that undertook to undermine the very foundations of the Government. It was not only a crime against the State, bnt a crime against the Government as well. I have simply undertaken to give you a brief o utline of the history of this great conspiracy, and I leave it to you to determine, after you have considered the evidence, whether or not these defendants here are guilty men. It seems to me that after you have heard the evidence that there can be no doubt left in the mind of any jurors; that in returning indictments against these men, the Government has made no mistake.” ? -;f Before the opening statement for the defense was made, Mr. Buskirk. in behalf of defendants, Matter and Bumhamer, entered a plea in bar of further proEeeution.ontiregronndßofformer jeopardy, and that they were not present and did not agree to the discharge of the Mother jury. He asked that the Court might designate a time at whMi this question might be considered, and Judge Woods said he would do so. Judge McNutt spoke an hour and a half, in the opening statement to the jury, in behalf of the defendants. He said there were only two questions for them to consider, and they were whether or not a crime had been committed, and if it had, who committed it. No such crime as mutilating these tally-sheets, he said, was charged against these defendants. They were not even accused, as one would infer from the statements of the Government, with conspiracy to change the tally-sheets, and the only thing that was charged against them was a conspiracy to induce certain inspectors to neglect or omit to perform their duty, in retaining possession of the tally-sheets. He wished these distinctions to be clearly made in the mind* of the jurors. The Government placed all their hopes of certviotioU' - upon’ the * evidence of one Samuel E. PerkiUs. -Thftt-manr-PerkinyMffi‘’m'a:de~Rtr*Spee^ ment with Captain Ritter, who had been Deputy State Prosecutor for these cases, and if he were given immunity from punishment he would give such testimony as would convict Mr. Coy, and Mr. Coy alone. Perkins admitted that he had changed the tallysheets. The State of Indiana had a positive case against him, and yet it let him off, hira the principal, so that an alleged accomplice, Mr. Coy, chairman of the Democratic Committee, might be convicted. In addition to this,. Perkins had tried to induce old man Hisey to comrhit perjury,but had failed. Here was a bright tnaa,” said Mr'. McNutt, “who had the advantages of education and example, and who was the most fitting man to make an ex~amplg“sf, bufTthe State ol TadmnaTet him go. After Perkins had made this sworn statement to Ritter and to the county grand jury, iinDlicating only Coy, besides himself, h-i had come before the Federal grand jury and in the Federal Court, and had changed his statement so as to implicate eight or ten others. He had either sworn to a lie at one time or the other, and probably both. The Prosecutor” said the speaker, “did not have the manliness and courage to tell you that he expected to make out his case by the evidence of a man with such a record as this. You are asked to condemn these ipen to prison and to stripes, on the evidence of a man who is a self-confessed forger.” Mr. McNutt briefly discussed possible motives that might actuate men to commit such a crime as this, and endeavored to show that Perkins was more interested than was any of the defendants in getting a Democrat, whom he qxpected to manipulate in’ his own interests, in the matter of a bond on which he was a surety for a large amount, elected Judge of the Criminal Cqurt. He closed with the statement that every one of the defendants could show a better character than Perkins. • ,-V %-. •

A Matter of Time.

’ Omaha World. -— —-—-- r : Omaha Merchant—See here. I gave you a Waterburv watch for a Christmas present, and told you never to be late at your post again. Tardy Cash Boy—Yessir. ' - “Do you wind it every morning when yon get up as I told yon?” “Yerir- 1 * . “Then what made you so Jate this morning?” “Winding it.” Wise men hesitate; only fools are certain. V