Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1889 — Page 2

. She Htcpublicati. Geo. E. Marshall, Publisher. RENSSELAER, - INDIANA

THE U. S. TREASURY.

A Remarkab!** Tear in the Financial His tor s of the Rep ah lie. In his report for the year ended June »• last, made public Monday, Treasurer Huston says: The year was a remarkable one in the history of the public finances, both the revenue and the expenditures having been exceeded but few times since the foundation of the government. The former amounted to $387,050,058 and the latter to $299,288,978, inclusive of $17,292,362 paid in premiums on bonds purchased. The Surplus revenues June 30 were $87,761,060, a decrease of $23,580,193, as compared with the year before, counting premiums on bonds as an ordinary expenditure. Oh June 30,1858, there was in the Treasurer's custody in cash and effective bonds the sum of $764,729,335, and a year later the sum of $760,643,571. The current liabilities decreased in the interval from $148,291,347 to $127,931.850 and the reserve from $229,805,600 and $193,097,047. The gold in the treasury in excoss of the certificates outstanding was $193,619,183 in 188 S and $156,257,490 in 1889. Notwithstanding the loss of gold, both in the aggregate and in the amount not covered by certificates, amounting,tonearly 4 per cent., the position of the treasury was strengthened in every respect save in the amount of reserve. The total assets, the liabilities and the reserve all fell off about 14 per cent. At the beginning of the year the free gold was $45,000,000, and at the close $58,000,000 in excess of demand liabilities. The unavailable funds, exclusive of upward of $28,000,000 on deposit with the States under the law of 1536, amounted at the end of the year to $1,415,433, having been decreased by an appropriation of $24,016 to cover losses m the New York sub-treasury, aud increased by a loss of SIO,OOO at San Francisco, reported by the Assistant Treasurer there in 1886. The Treasurer suggests that the present methods of keeping the aepount by which he is charged with funds that do not exist* should be changed so that the books at all times would show the true state of the treasury without real or apparent discrepancies. The changes that took place in the currency were an increase of about $34,000,000 in the stock of silver, a contraction of $41,000,000 in the national bank circulation and a loss of $25,750,000 of gold. The report shows that in the period of four years the public ownership of silver was nearly doubled, while the volume of notes was diminished from $647,386,147 to $530,989,478. The increase of the circulation of silver certificates was about $56, 000,000, having kept pace with the rate fer the two previous years. The new issues es small denominations appear to have fully supplied the needs of the country. The coinage of the standard silverdollars has proceeded without any incident worthy of remark. Without much change in the amount in circulation there is a tendency toward a decrease. During the year the national banks withdrew $66,340,900 of their bonds held hy the treasury as security for circulating notes of public moneys. The deposits amounted to $25,243,700. There remained, at the close of the year, $148,121,450, belonging to 3,262 banks, as security for circulation, and $45,222,000, belonging to 270 banks, as securities for deposits. The report shows the minimum limit of bonds for the present capital of the banks were only about $50,000,000 or $60,000,000 below the amount on deposit. The aSnouD tof public money held by depository banks ran down from $55,712,5U to $47,259,714, the results mainly of voluntary acts of the banks in surrendering the deposits and withdrawing their bonds. The semi-annual tax on circulation amounted to $1,410,331 ior the year. The net deposits during the year amounted to $32,484,415 of which sums $29,553,580 was for the reduction of the circulation of active banks. ~

A DESPERATE FIGHT.

Col. Goodloe and Col. Swope Engage in a Murderous Encounter. Two prominent Republican politicians of Lexington, Ky., Col. W. C. Goodloe, at present a member of the National Repub lican Committee, and Col. A. M. Swope, at one time an Internal Revenue Collector, and who was regarded as an able man, met at the postofilce of their city, where each had gone to take his mail, and after a few words were spoken Swope drew his pistol and Goodloe a clasp knife, and each began simultaneously an attack upon the ether. Swope’s first shot was leveled at Goodloe’s head, but his pistol was knocked asideandthe bullet entered Goodloe’s abdomen. Goodloe’s knifo, however, did quick work, and after firing one more shot Swope sank to the floor and died instantly, having received thirteen wounds by nis opponent’s knife. GOodloe was assisted home and hopes for his recovery are entertained. The quarrel which led to the tight was a political one and was supposed to have been amicably settled. Later. —Col. Goodloe lingered until 10 •’clock Sunday when he died from the effects of the wound received from Col. Swope. He died peacefully and painlessly, surrounded by his family. He was baptized in the Episcopal church Sunday morning. Goodloe's statement of the difficulty, after he was told that he could not livo, makes Swope tbe aggressor, as he drew and shot Goodloe just as the latter £ot his knife open , Goodloe said that feeling he had received a death wound he cut until he fell. Hundreds of telegrams of sympathy have been received by the family. Among them from W. W. Dudley, J. S. Clarkson and M. S. Quay. The city of Lexington is in deepest mourning. a Wicked National Waste. The prairie chicken will follow the buffalo and the Indian and disappear forever from the face of the earth. The eager sportsman has decreed it, and the game laws are of no avail. We have got to be content with beef aud •anned oyster#.— N. Y. World.

TALMAGE IN ROME.

c The Brooklyn Divine Preaches Under the Very Shadows of St. Peters. “I must Also See Borne," Was the Theme of Footsteps of the Apostle Paul—A Full Beport _____ Ten days after writing his letter onboard the steamer city pf Paris, announcing his departure for the Holy Land, Rev. T. De Witt Talmage spoke to a large congregation in the city of Rome, from the text, Acts 49*21: *T must also sec Rome," 1 A full report of the sermon follows: Here is Paul’s itinerary. He was a traveling or circuit preacher. He had been mobbed and insulted, and the more good ho did the worse the world treated him. Btit ho went right on. Now he proposes to go to Jerusalem and says: “After that I must also see Rome." Why did he want to visit this wonderful city in which I am today permitted to stand i “To preach ■the Gospel,” you answer. No doubt ofit, hut. there-were other reason* why he - wanted to see Rome. A man of Paul's intelligence and classic taste had fifty other reasons for wanting to see it., Your Colosseum was at that time in process of erection, and ho wanted to see it. The Forum was even then an old structure, and the eloquent apostle wanted to see that building in which eloquence had so often thundered and wept. Over the Appian \\ ay the triumphal processions had already marched for hundreds of years, and he wanted to see that. The Temple of Saturn was already an antiquity, and he wanted to see that. The architecture of the world renowned city, be wanted to see that. The places associated with the triumphs, the cruelties, the disasters. the wars, the military genius, the poetic' and the rhetorical fame of this great city, he wanted to see them. A man like Paul, so many sided, so sympathetic, so emotional, so full of analogy, could not have been indiffereut to the antiquities and the splendors which move every rightly organized | human being, And with what thrill of inI terest he walked these streets, those only [ who for the first timo like ourselves enter I Rome can imagine. If the inhabitants of I all Christendom were gathered into one plain, and it were put to them which tjyo cities they wouid a >ove all others wish to see, the: vast majority of them would- votoJerusaleni and Rome. So we can understand something of the record of my text and its surroundin cs when it says, Paul purposed in the spirit when he liai passed through Macedonia and Achaia to go to Jerusalem, saying: “After that I must also see Rome." As sorno of | you are aware, with my family and only lor the purpose of what we can learn, and for the good 'we can get, 1 am on the way to Palestine. Since leaving Brooklyn. N. Y., this is the first place wo have stopped. Intermediate citios are attractive, bufc we have visited them in other years, and we hastened on, for 1 said before starting that l while 1 was going to see Jerusalem I must also see Rome, v, hy do 1 want to see it! Because I want, by visiting regions associated with the gre t apostle to the Gentiles, to have iffy faith in Christianity confirmed. There are those who will go through large expenditure to have their faith weakened, in my native land I have known persons of very limited means to pay fifty cents or a dollar to hear a lecturer prove that our Christian religion is a myth, a dream, a cheat, a lie. On the contrary, I will give all the thousands of dollars that this journey of my family will cost to have additional evidence that our Christian relieion is an authenticated crandeur, a solemn, a joyous, a rapturous, a stupendous, a magn.fi ent fact. So I want to see Rome. I want you to show me the places connected with Apostolic min stry. I have heard that, in your city and amla its surroundings, apostles suffered and died for Christ’s sake. My common sense tells me that people do not die for the sake of a falsehood. They may practice a deception for purposes of gain but put the sword to their heart, or arrange the halter aro .nd their neck, or kindle the fire around their feet, aud they would say my life is wo. th more than anything I can gain by losing it f near you have in this city, Paul s dungeon. Show it to mt. I must see Homo also. While lam interested in this city because of ter rulers or her citi eus who are m ighty in history for virtue or vice or talents, Romulus, and Cuiiguli, and Cin. innatus, and Vespasian and Oor.olanus, and Brutus, and a hundred others whose names are brigot with an exceed.nar brightness, or black with the deepest dye, most of all am I interested in this city hecause the preacher of Mars hill, and the defier of Agrippa, and the hero of the shipwrecked vessel in the breakers of Melita, and- the man who held higher than any one that tho world ever saw the torch of Resurlaction, lived,and preached, and was massacred hero. Show me every place connected with his memory. 1 must also see Rome. But my text suggests that in Paul there was the inquisitive and curious spirit. Had my text only meant that he wanted to \ preach here he would have said so. Indeed, in another place, he de dared: “I am ready to preach tho Gospel to you who are at Rome also.” But. my text suggests a sight ' seeing. This man who had been under Dr. J Gamaliel had no Jack of phraseology, and j was used to sa.\ ing exactly what he meant, and he said: “I must ' also see Rome.” There is such a thing as Christian curiosity. Paul | had it and some of us have it. About other people’s business I have no curiosity, j About ail th it can confirm my faith in the Christian religion and the world’s salvation and the soul s future happiness, l am full j of an nil absorbing, all compelling curiosity.-f Paul bad a great curiosity about the next ; world, and so have we. 1 hope somo day, | by the grace of God, to go over and soe for I myself; but not now. No well man, no i prospered man, I think, wants to go now. j But the time will c une, I think, when I shall go over. 1 want, to seo what they do I there, and 1 want to see how they do it. I j do not, want to be looking through tho gates ! ajar forever. I want them to sw.ng wide ■ open. There are ten thoasan i tnings I want ex plained -übout you, about myse f, about the government of th s world, about God, j about everything. We st irt in a plain path of what we know, nnd in a mluute come up against a higi wall of what we do not know. I wonder how it looks over there. Somebody tells me it is like a paved city—Davea with god; and another m n tells me it is like a fountain, and it is Tike a tree, and it is Hire a triumphal proc ssioa; and the next min I mtet tells me it is all figurative. Ire illy waiit to know, after the body is resurrected,What they wear and vvliat they cat; and I li ive an imin asurablo curio itjr to know what it is' and how it is, and where it is. Columbus risked his life to fiud the American continent, and sh 11 wo shudder to go out on a voyage of discovery-which »h;i 11 reveal a vaster and more brilliant John Franklin risked his life to find a passage between lueb rgs, and shall we dread to fi id a pass ge to eternal summer t Xen in Switzerland travel up lo the heights of the Matterhorn, with alpefinoek, ant guides, and rockets, and rones, and, getting half way up, stumble and full down in a horrible massacre. They just wanted to say they had been on tbe tops of those high peaks. And shall we fear

to go out for the ascent of the eternal hills which start a thousand miles beyond where stop the highest peaks of the Alps, and when in that ascent there is no peril! A man doomed to die stepped on the scaffold, and said in jqy: “Now, in ten minutes I will know the great secret.” One minute after the vital functions ceased, the little child that died last night knew more than EauL hlmself" before he died: Friends, the exit from this world, or death, if you please to call it, to the Christian is glorious explanation. It is demonstration. It is illumination. It is Sunburst. It is the opening of all the, windows. It is shutting lip the catechism of doubt, and the unrolling of all the scrolls' of positive and accurate information. Instead of standing at the foot of tho ladder and looking up, it is standing atthe top of the ladder and looking down. It is the last mystery taken out of botany and geology and astronomy and theology. Oh, will it not be grand to Have all quertions answered? The perpetually recurring interrogation point changed for tho mark of exclamation. All riddles solved. Who will fear to go out on that discovery, when all the questions are to be decided which we havo been discussing ail our lives? Who shall not clap Uis hands in the 'anticipation of that blessed country, if it be no better than through curiosity? As this Paul of my text did not suppress his' curiosity, we need not suppress ours. Yes, I have an unlimited curiosity about all religious things, ami as this city of Romo was so intimately connected with apostolic times, the incidents of which emphasize and explain and augment the Christian religion, you will not take it as an evidence of a prying spirit, but as theoutbursting of a Christian curiosity when I say I must also see Rome. Our desire to visit this city is also intensified by the fact that wa want to be confirmed in the fealin g that human life is brief, but its work lasts for centuries, indeed forever. Therefore show us the antiquities of old Rome, about which we have been reading for a lifetime, but never seen. In our beloved America, wo have no antiquities. A church eighty years old overawes us with its age. We have in America some cathedrals hundreds and thousands of years old, but they are in Yellowstone park, or Californian canon, and their architecture and masonry wore by the omnipotent God. We want to sea-the buildings, or ruins of oid buildings, that were erected hundreds and thousands of years ago by human hands; They lived forty or seventy years, but the arches they lifted, the puintiazs they penciled, the sculpture they chiseled, the roads they laid out, 1 understand, are yet to bo seen, and wo want you to show them to us. I cam hardly wait until Monday morning. I must also seo Rome. Wo want to bo impressed with the fact that w.iat men do on a small scale or large scale lasts a thousand years, lasts I forever, that we build for eternity and- that L we do so in a very short sp ice of time. God is the only old living presence. But it is ; an old age without any of the infirmities or ; liniitatious of old age. There is a passage of Scripture which speak 3of the birth of ' the mount lias, for there was a time when the Andes were born, and the Pyrenees were borne, and the Sierra Nevada 3 were I born, but before tbe biftil of those moun- j tains the Bible tells us, God was born, aye j was never bom at all, because he always 1 existed. Psalm xc, 2: “Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and tho world, even from everlasting; to everlasting, thou art God.” How short is human life, what antiquity attaches to its worth! How ever- i lasting is God! Show us the antiquities,-], the things that Were old When America i was discovered, old when Paul went up and down these streets sight seeing, old ! when Christ was born. I must, I must also see Rome!

Another reason for our visit t,o this city is that we want to see the places where the mightiest intellects aa! the greatest natures wrought lor our Christian religion. We have been told in America by some people of swollen heaas that the Christian religion is a pusillanimous thing, good for children under 7 years of age and small brained people, but not for the intelligent and swarthy minded. We have haard of your Constantine the mighty, who pointel his army to the cro3s, saying: “By this conquer,” If there be anything here connected with his reign or his military history, show it to us. The mightiest intellect of the ages was the author of my text, and, if for the Christian religion he was willing to labor and suffer and die, there must bo something exalted and sublime aud tremendous in it; and show me every place he visited, and show me if you can where he was tried, and which of your roads leads out to Ostia, that I may see where he went out to die. We expect before we finish this journey to see Lake Galilee and the pla :os where Simon Peter aud Andrew fished, and perhaps wo may drop a net or a hook and line into those waters ourselves, but when following the track of those lesser apostles I will iearn quite another lesson. I want while in this city of Rome to study the religion of the brainiest of the apostles. 1 want to follow, as far as we can trace it, the tra3k of this great intellect of my text who wanted to see Roue also. He was a logician, he was a metaphisician, he was an all conquering orattr, he w.is a poet of the highest type. Ho hid a nature that could swamp the leading men of his own day, and, hurled against the Sanhedrim, he made it tremble. He learned all he could get in the school of his native village, then he had gone to a higher school, and there had mastered the Greek and the Hebrew and perfected himself iu belles lettres, until, in after years, ho astounded the Cretaus, and the Corint liaus, and the Athenians, by quotations from their own authors. I have never found anything in Carlyle or Goethe, or Herbert Spencer that could compare in strength or beauty wth Paul’s epistles. I do not think thero is anything In the writings of Sir William Hamilton that shows such mental discipline as you find in Paul’s argument about justication ana resurrection. I have not found anything in Milton finer in the way of imagination than I can find in Paul’s illustrations drawn from the amphitheatre. There was nothing in Robert Emmet pleading for his life, <sr in Edmund Burke arraigning Warren Hastings in Westminster Hall, that compared with tho scene in the court room when; before robea officials, Paul bowed and began his speech, saying; “I think myself happy, King Agrippa, becauso 1 shall answer for myself this day.” I repeat, that a religion that eati nantm-a a man like that must have some power in it. It is time our wiseacres stooped talking as though all the brain of tho world were opposed to Christianity. \\hcre Paul leads, we can afford to follow. lam glad to know that Christ has, In the different ages of the world, had in h s disciploship a Mo,:art and a Handel in Music.; a Raphael and a Reynolds in painting; an Angelo and a Canova in sculpt ure: a Rush and a Harvey in medicine; a Grotius and a Washington in statesmanship ; a Blackstone, a Marshall and a Kent in the law; and the time will cumewben the religion of Christ will conquor all tho observatories and universities, and p illosophy, will, through her tele-s<-oi>e, behold the morning st.nr of Jesus, and in her laboratory see that "all things work together for good,” and with her geological hauimor discern tho “Rock-of Ages." Oh, instead of cowering and shiv-

ering when tbe skeptic stands before ns* and t Iks of religion as though it were a pusillanimous thing—instead of that, let us take out our sew testament and read the story of Paul at Rome, or come and see this city for ourselves, and learn that it could have been no Weak Gospel that actuated such a man, but that it is an all conquering Gospel. Ayed for all ages the power of"God~andTteß~ wisdom of God unto salvation. Men, brethren and fat hers! I thank you for this opportunity of preaching the gospel to you that are at Rome also. The churches of America salute you. Upon you who are like us, strangers in Rome, I pray the protecting and journeying care of God. grace mercy and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. After tarrying bere a few days we resume our journey for Palestine, and we shall never meet again, either in Italy, or America, or what is called the holy Land, but there is a holier land, and there we may meet, saved by the grace that in the same way saves Italian and American, and there in that supernai clime, after embracing him who, by his sufferings on the hill back of Jerusalem, made our heaven possible, and given salution to our own kindred whose departure broke our hearts on earth, we shall, I think, seek out the traveling preacher and mighty hero of the t xt who marked out his journey through Macedonia ana Achaia to Jerusalem, saying: “After I have been there, I must also see Rome."

WHEN TO TRUST A HORSE.

If It Is Intelligent It Will Hurt Nobody. Unless a horse has brains you can’t teach him. See that tall bay there, a fine looking' animal, fifteen hands high. You can’t teach that horse anything. Why? Welt I’ll Show you a difference in heads, but have a care of his heels. Look at the brute’s head, that rounding nose, that tapering forehead, that broad, full place below the eyes. You can’t trust him. That’s an awful good m re, as true as the sun. You can see breadth and fullness between the e rs and eyes. You couldn’t hire that mare to act mean or hurt anybody, The eye should be full and hazel is a good color. I like a small, thin ear, and want a horse to throw its years well forward. Look out for the ioruto that wants to listen to all the conversation going on behind him. The horse, that turns back his ears till they almost meet at the points, take my word for it, is sure to do something wrong. See that straight, elegant- face. A horse with a dishing face is cowardly, and a cowardly brute is usually vicious. Then I like a square muzzle with large nostriis, to iet in plenty of air to the lungs. For the under side of the head a good horse should lie well cut under the jowl, with jawbones broad and wide apart under the throttle, The next thing to consider is the build of the animal. Never buy a long legged, stilty horse. Let him havo a short, straight back an# a straight rump, and you ve got a gentleman’s horse. The withers should be high and the shoulders well: set back and broad, but don’t get them too deep in the chest. The fore leg should be short. Give me a pretty straight hind leg, with the hock low down, short postern joints and a round, mulish foot. There are all kinds of horses, but the animal that has these points is almost sure to be siuhtly, graceful, good natured and serviceable. ---Medical Classics.

Farming in China.

A farmer in China may- be hired by the year for from $8 to sl4, with food, clothing, head shaving and tobacco. Those who work by the day receive JpfHfrßc to 10c, with a noonday meal. At the planting and harvesting of rice wages are from 10c to 20c a day, with five meals, or 30c a day without food. Few land owners hire hands, except a few days during the planting and harvesting of rice. Those who have more land than they and their sons can till lease it to their neighbors. Much laud is held on teases given by ancient proprietors to clansmen whose descendants now till it, paying from $7 to sl4 worth of rice annually for its use. Food averages little more than $1 a month for each member of a farmer’s family. One who buys, cooks and eats his meals alone spends from $1.50 to $2 a month upon the raw material and fuel. Two pounds of rice, costing 3jc, with relishes of salt fish, pickled cabbage, cheap vegetables and fruits, costing l.}c, is tbe ordinary allowance to each laborer for each day. Abernethy’s advice to a luxurious patient, “Live on sixpence a day and earn it,” is followed by nearly every Chinaman. One or two dependent relatives frequently share with him the sixpence.

Customs in Other Climes.

It is common in Arabia to put cheek to cheek’. The Hindoo falls in the dust before his superior. The Chinaman dismounts when a great man goes by. A Japanese removes his sandals, crosses his hands and cries out “Spare me!” The Burmese pretend to smell of a person’s face, pronounce it sweet and then ask for a “smell.” The Australian natives practice the singular custom when meeting, of sticking out their tongues at each other. A striking salutation of tho South Sea Islands is to fling a jar of water over the head of a friend. The Arabs hug and kiss each othor, making simultaneously a host of inquiries about each other’s health and prospects. The Turk crosses his hands upon his breast and mv'kes a profoundobeisaffee, thus manifesting his regard without comiug in personal contact with its object.—New York Mail-Express.

Just What He Feared.

A Cincinnati lady who found herself forty-two calls behind hand, and being in despair of ever being able to pay Them up, took laudanum and died. We feared this sort of thing long ago. la this case she should have had her husband die and invited all her creditors to the funeral That would, according to etiquette, have squared all accounts. —Freo Press. What is called by the Stoics apathy, oi dtspasslon, is called-by the Sceptics indisturbance, by the Molinists quietism, by common men peace of conscience. —Sir W. Temple.

HOW THEY REGARD IT.

THE DEMOCRATIC VICTORIES AS VIEWED IN SEVERAL WAYS. Wiwhiirgton onkeiais Think it l)u« to 1,0-? d« ?d« auseg—Extract- from tlie Pr»«s and Interviews with Prom.nent Mew. DON'T SBE ANY HANDWRITING ON THE WALL. Wf> shingion special. In official circles the result of the election* yesterday is not regarded as nationally important. The issues in every State were local. General Mahone has simply demonstrated that the Bourbons have sufficient hatred for the negro and himself to lead them to the most outrageous suppression of votes, intimidation—and- fraud. XM. .issueforced by the old line-party there was Mahone or anti-Mahone; not a single national question was involved,, and not a man in Virginia who worked for the defeat of the Republican leader Mould listen to any other issue than the personal one. The lesson which the result teaches is national, it is true, involving, as it does, the franchise of the black man; but the battle which brought it about s was fought upon personal and loca-i grounds.

Governor Foraker. his administration, and the question of a third term for a chief magistrate in that State were the issues in Ohio. The tariff, civil-service reform and many other planks of the Republican national platform were not in sight during the heat of the battle, which waged for a month or more. In addition,” especially in Cincinnati, the liquor men threw their business, and their many, and efforts on the side of Democracy, with characteristic arrogance and malignance. The result, in lowa creates piore surprise here than in any other State.- for the reason that the questions before the people there were not fully understood here, and tho further reason that lojvii is regarded as a Republican stronghold that cannot be broken into by the enemy under any conditions or circumstances. The extension of the laws controlling the liquor trafll.: 16 a point beyond the endurance of the majority. aud a Republican candidate for Governor who did not meet the approval of the granger element, conspired to bring about a Democratic victory. To talk of Ohio and lowa being Democratic on the fundamental issues that divide parties is to talk arrant nonsense. In Massachusetts, New York and all States where there were elections held yesterday, local, and especially personal issues controlled the voting. Had everything gone Republican, no attempt would have been made to call it a Republican victory beyond State lines. In ouly one instance has only the most rabid Democrat made an effort to connect the election with President Harrison’s administration. Now that the work is over, some Democrats claim that General- Mahone was the “administration’s candidate.” It is said by them that Mahone was assisted by President Harrison and his friends to secure the nomination and helped bji all possible means in the campaign. To the extent of a hearty indorsement of a good Republican, this is true. President Harrison doubtless indorsed General Mahone’s candidacy in this sense, and hoped for his election. He would have done this had any one of the thousands of good Republicans in ihe Old Dominion been at tho head of the ticket. But it is as absurd, even for the purposes of this clain, to term tho leader of the Virginia Republican campaign • ‘the - administration's candidate,” as it would be to give tbe same title to the candidates in lowa, Massachusetts x>r any of the other States. MR. CLAUKSOn‘B OPINIONS. Interview with Mr. Clarkson. There are many surprises in the Republican defeats, but they come from lo,cal causes in every State except Virginia, and there the results were gained by the usual methods of fraud, suppression and false counting. A Democratic State election board, elected by a Democratic Legislature appoints all tho judges of election, and the law clothes these election judges with polico-court powers, and they order any voter they ploase to jail for tho day, and reign absolute in arbitrary power. The Republicans of Virginia did not have the election of a single, judge of election in tho whole State. With such machinery the Democratic majority might easily have been 100,000 instead of 80,004. The negro is disfranchised. In Virginia the black men gave up their right to hold the offices, and now the Democrats demand that they shall not exercise any choice, even as botweon the ’white men who are to hold the offices. Gen. Mahone and tho Republicans made a vigorous and splendid fight, and had an nonest majority of the voters of tho State with them on tho tariff and Stato debt questions; but nothing can win against a complete and skillful system of fraud. The attempt to eouplo the national administration conspicuously with this defeat is undeserved, as the President simply showed the Bame friendly interest in Mahone that ho did in tho Republican candidates in other States: “Tho causes operating in Ohio and lowa were largely tho same, ovidently, and mainly a reaction against radical temperance and Sunday legislation. The Sunday law and the enforcement of it. changed Hamilten county and its Germans against the Republican party, and Governor Foraker, despite his splendid record and his almost matchless popularity in tho party aiiil the Nation, went down with it. •* "*ln 'lowa the main cause of the

change is due to prohibition. The State has been very close on State issues ever since prohibition was made a law. The Republicans elected their Governor four years ago by only 1,500 plurality, and two years ago by* 6,000 plurality. . -The counties bordering nn the Mississippi river having large cities, such as Duouque, Davenport, anJ' Burlington, all of them with a European or foreign-born population, hold ing a majority of the votes, are intensely anti-prohibition, and- they have voted overwhelmingly against the Republican party because it stood in that State for the law and its enforcement. There was. algo, some Republican dissatisfaction and alienation on account of tho present Governor's extreme views on the railroad question and his irritating enforcement of the railroad laws. - But lowa has been gradually losing its Republican majority foxyears. Over thirty thousand Republicans have left the State, going into the Dakotas, Kansas and the Southwestern country, while the later immigration to the State ha§ been largely Democratic. This year’s results are, in the main, simply increased evidences of the indisposition of a majority of the American people to accept prohibition and too radical legislation on questions that are moral and social rather than political. SECRETARY HALFORD SAYS. Sec’y Halford does not seem to have been at all disturbed by the general Democi-atic success. • -Those who exult over the result of yesterday’s elections,” said he, ‘-have simply proven how easily they forget the political history of the country. At least once -in four • years the people must- vent their feelings, and they generally select an off year when they will not inj ure their party, whether Rep üblioan or Democratic. During a Presidential election there are sins of omission and commission, and when party princi pies are not at stake the voters consult only their own feelings; they go out into the back lot, as it were, and kick themselves for what they have done in the past. The elections are not evidence of additional Democratic strength; on the contrary, the Democratic vote has been cut dowu considerably in many important places notably in New York. The principles aifitfee Republican party were not at stake yesterday.”

AN * ‘INDEPENDENT 11 VIEW. Ibfliannpolis News The general gains of the Democrats undoubtedly indicate an undercurrent unfavorable to the administration,due, in a measure, to political disappointments, but more largely.it may reasonably be believed, to failure to fulfill campaign promises and the enlightenment of the people on questions which have not been clearly and correctly understood. While the tariff was not a conspicuous issue in any of the States, it undoubtedly had force, as an irrepressible question of great political importance, in influencing political sympatbies.The failure of the administration to meet expectations in the enforcement of the civil service law, has also alienated from the Republican party many of those adherents of civil service principles who voted with the party last year. The loss may . not have been large, but it was something. Tho administration has undoubtedly been a disappointment to all who hoped for and expected something more than a change of politicians in the offices. The distribution of spoils and the waste of public money stand out most conspicuously as the distinguishing characteristics of the new administration in its brief reign. It is not a record that the people could bo expected to indorse, and they have not availed themselves of the small opportunity afforded them for giving what if there had been a sweeping Republican victory, would have boon construed as an indorsement. The general result, we believe, indicates that the trend of sentiment is against the kind of politics exemplified in Republican management of public affairs. All this is, of course, the undercurrent of the election. The great change in the vote of Ohio is the result of a combination of causes, among which, asido from those that have been referred to, are disgust of the voters of his own party with the flashy, insincere, and heedlessly ambitious political methods which have characterized the career of Governor Foraker; rovengefulness and mistrust of him by the friends of Sherman, who believed Foraker was disloyal to the Ohio statesman in his cuudidacy forth o Republican nomination for President; and opposition to the third term idea which Foraker’s candidacy represented; while back of this the saloon element quietly threw its influence against the Republicans because a recent spasmodic attempt was made to enforce the saloon law in Cincinnati. d veland Leader. Governor Foraker has been defeated in a good cause - There were certain minor factors of opposition that contributed somewhat to the magnitude of his defeat.'but these .were of slight moment compared with the assaults of the liquor traffic against him. Because of his brave utterances in behalf of Sunday observances, and because he appointed a police board in Cincinnati that fesolutely undertook to enforce the law, a conspiracy of saloon-keepers endeavored to override the liquor in-* terests not only of the State, but of the Nation, and combined to overthrow him. They poured out money by the barrel and whisky ad libitum, and in the vote in the cities in this State alone, where the traffic Is most powerful, more than wiped out Governor Foraker’s great majority of two years ago. .