Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1889 — Page 2

610. E. Mana hall, Publisher. RENSSELAER, ■ - INDIANA

• The steward of a New York club has invented a new sandwich. It is feared that it is an infringement on the Goodyear patents. In nearly all the European countries the government has either an entire Enopoly of the tobacco business or 3 raise large sums by way of excess 1 customs duties. The influence of a good caricature, whether for good or evil, is only fully appreciated by those who have been its victims. They only are familiar with its oorroding bitterness. A successful dairyman for many years gives it as his conclusion that a well-fed cow that does not earn her entire value in a single year is not worth keeping in the dairy. < There has been so much smuggling into New York of late by vessels coming through Hell Gate and along the sound that Uncle Sam is going to patrol the sound with two revenue cutters. Heil Gate has long needed a patrol. Stanley discovered an extension of a lake, a range of mountains, an t almost impenetrable forest, numerous tribes of hostile Africans, and tons of elephant tusks in the heart of the dark continent. The tusks are valuable. » =========== . Ar is probable that all other causes put together are not so prolific of diworce among the class in which it commonly takes place, as the fact that Mb women are brought up on novels of * tow grade as their habitual and aknoat only reading. Ar would seem impossible for any candid mind to discover in a service of Ive years in our army, sufficient cause lor the discontent that would account for the numerous desertions constantly taking place, and, in truth, it does not he with the army, but rather with the men.

Fortune hunting is not confined to the male branch of humanity. It is equally a failure with the gentler sex. And it must be confessed, if the observer of the drift of society is to record the truth, that women carry fortune and title hunting to a greater extreme than their brethren. Russia, although in many respects a semi-barbarous nation,is making steady progress in civilization. The announcement is made that the infliction of corporal punishment on peasants is to bo abolished in the Baltic provinces. It has been the custom to employ the lash for petty offenses or as a means of extracting rent or taxes. Tr is undeniable that, outside of a certain limited class of scholarly and thoughtful people, the great majority of all who read anything except the newspapers, read books of this description. The statistics of popular and circulating libraries show that seventyfive per cent of all the books taken out are novels of recent production. The popular but highly erroneous notion that nut trees are very difficult to transplant has been the bugbear that has kept back many from planting nuts. Nut trees may be transplanted as safely and as readily as any other tree with ordinary care but it is better to grow your own trees in the nursery than to transplant wild trees from the woods. -—The Chinamen in New York are threatening to depart utterly out of the great Babel and to form a new community just on the outskirts, because their landlords in Mott stree t- are raising their rents. They are quite capable of carrying out their threat and. establishing a town ol several thousand persons, “heathen Chinee” in everything. Americans are far behind the Europeans in the matter of selection, planting and caring for street trees in our large cities and rural districts. Greater interest has been taken in this work, however, during the past few years, and there is every hopeful sign that our roadsides will in time be as beautiful as some of the famous streets and avenues of the older countries ol Europe. . The time was when every cultivated man needed to have the gift of learning. The Egyptian of the hieroglyphic era who could not trace on papyrus or the walls of a tomb, the pictured story of his race was as clearly illiterate as is the man who to-day cannot read. Yet this art, as a matter of daily use, is as clearly among thoss lost, as is that Jot swathing mummies and preserving them for ail times. There has been a great deal of mystery thrown around the culture of the filbert and one has been led to believe that much skill and knowledged is required in the matter of training and pruning the bush to attain any degree es fruitfulness. It is true that the successful cultivation of this nut does largely depend upon its pruning and training but it is certainly not beyond the skill of any ordinary gardener or Indeed of anyone who has intelligence enough to properly prune and train a grape vine.

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

DOMESTIC. Randall is much better. There were two legal hangings in Loui ; siana, Friday. General Israel Vodges, U. S. A., retired died at New York, Tuesday. Diptheria is almost epidemic at Marl boro, Mass. The scnools are closed. t Oliver Johnson, the noted editor and abolitionist, died at Brooklyn, Tuesday. Mrs. Scott-Lord, sister of Mrs. Benj. Harrison, died at Washington, Tuesday. A band of faith healers near Tuscola, 111., were severely • beaten and driven away. Whitney & Cd., dry goods commission merchants, of New York, failed for $500,000 Monday. At New Haven, Ky., Tuesday, Wm. Johnson, aged 12J shot and killed Tommie Ford, aged 14. . , It is charged that a plot was in operation to kill one of the Cronin jury that the case might be delayed. The postoffice at Salisbury, Mo., was blown to pieces Tuesday night, it is believed by burglars. The U. S. commission has failed in its negotiations with the Cherokees for the sale of the Cherokee outlet. A gang of eleven river pirates was cap tured at Cairo, 111. They were guilty of robbing stores and residences. The Louisville Board of Trade refuses to endorse subsidies for a steamship line between Tampa and Aspinwall. One thousand Lynn workmen have registered as out of work. Thirty-seven thousand dollars has been contributed to relieve sufferers. _. T. R, Adams, manager of the ranch of the Milwaukee & Wyoming Co., at Chey • enne, stole 115,000 of his firm’s money and, Friday, disappeared with his newly-made bride. Dennis Donahue, a character at Madi son, Wis., is dead. Denny used to amuse pebple by swallowing live reptiles, knives and other indigestible substances for the price of a drink. A post-mortem was made and in his stomach was fbund five jack-knives, one with the blades open. The Butler (Pa.) Torpedo Company’s glycerine magazine exploded, Tuesday, and shook the town from center to circumference. Two men and a team were blown to atoms. Apart of one of the men was taken from the top of a tree. The factory building was totally demolished. The two men killed were loading glycerine, and it is believed one of them let a can fall.

The steamship Ems arrived at New York Tuesday, after a very stormy voyage across. Terrific waves washed the deck from bow to stern, and the sailors found It almost impossible to perform their duties. T 1 e passengers were required to re main below. Not however, until two of them were caught by a big wave, dashed egainst the deck fixtures, one receiving a fractured leg, and the other an arm. Two children were born on the passage. The storm raged forty-two hours, during a large part of which time the vessel was engulfed in successive waves. Considerable damage was done. FOREIGN. Emin Pasha is improving. Cholera has revived at Bagdad. Dom Pedro will go tojvladrid Dec. 21. Germany has been having a heavy snow Itorm. Influenza is spreading throughout Ger ftiany. Emperor 'William has been visiting at Frankfort. Robert Browning, the poet, died at Venice, Thursday. Dom Pedro refuses to be pensioned by the Brazilian Republic. Printers throughout German Switztrlatd are on a strike. Fifteen hundred Saxon dyers are on a »trike for higher wages. English insurance companies lost £l6O, WO by the recent Boston fire. All Zanzibar is engaged in feting Mr. Stanley and the members of his expedition In view of the possible intervention of France, which could but result in serious International complications between tbai Republic and Great Britain, Lord Salis bury has requested to be furnished with full information setting forth the ques tious in dispute between Dominion Govern me nt and the French-Canadian people; the equity of such demands as may have been set up and what measures may have been taken to adjust them. The political atmosphere in Canada is anything but . reassuring just now, and an open rupture between the two nationalities is not beyond the range of possibility.

WASHINGTON AFFAIRS.

A federal election bill, introduced by Senator Chandler Tuesday, provides that whenever, in any congressional district, ten voters from each county, or ten voters from each voting precinct where the congressional district is one county or less, snail make affidavit that they believe the election will be unfair if held by the state officers, and shall petition the U. 8. circuit judge to have the registration of voters and the election conducted by U. S. officials, the court shall be opened, as now provideu by the law, for the appointment of U. S. supervisors of elections, and the court shall appoint all necessary officers to carry out the prayers of the petitioners Publication shall be made for four weeks of the fact that the congressional election is to by held by U. S. officials and one comaissioner from each political party shall ir appointed oh the recommendation oi the candidates for Congress, the court, however, to have power to require that another person .shall be recommend ed in place of any person deemed unsuitable. The commissioners shall take out registration books of the voters in each precinct and each of them shall also recommend to the court for appointment one inspector or judge of election and one clerk for each voting precinct. The in specters and clerks may select two bailiffs to keep the peace, both not to be of the same political party, and they shall also hold ths election, publicly announce the result, and make a return thereof, before

- ——— - . rvy ■ h - any adjournment, to the commissioners of election, and the commissioners shall canvass the returns, declare the result, and make a consolidated return to the clerk of the circuit court.' In casq the State law prescribed no educational qualification for voters, voters who cannot read or write may call on the inspector to assist them in voting. In no case shall there be any re moval of the ballot box or adjournment until the votes are counted and the returns certified. The clerk of the court shall publicly canvass the returns within thirty days after election, and, when the result is ascertained, two certificates shall be made out and signed by the judge and at tested by the clerk—one to be given to the person elected and the other sent to the House of Representatives. Congressman Mills advises Democratic Congressmen not to vote themselves the money lost by the Silcott defalcation, but to sustain the losses themselves. He says it would cost the part thirty or forty members of Congress. Congressman Brown proposes to reduce the tax on sugar from 78 to 25 per cent, ad valorem, and to allow a bounty of ono cent per pound on home made sugar. A number of Sioux chiefs are in Wash) ington to close the treaty ceding their territory in Dakota to the government. Senator Butler introduced a bill to pro vide for the emigration of persons of color from the Southern Stete® °f the United States. It provides that the head of any family, or for himself if not married, may make application to the nearest U. S. Commissioner under oath, setting forth* the fact that he-desires to emigrate to a foreign country for permanent residence and citizenship, and that he is too poor to pay the cost of transportation; a certificate of this statement shall be forwarded by the Commissioner to the Quartermaster-Gen, oral of the Army, who Shall thereupon furnish to said applicant the necessary transportation by the cheapest route. Fori this purpose the bill appropriates the sum of $5,000,000.

NATIONAL CONGRESS.

In the Senate Tuesday, the bill to incorporate national banks of a capital of less than $50,000, was indefinitely postponed. Several bills were introduced. Mr. Turpie addressed the Senate on his resolution as to trusts. He said that trusts were tho gigantic sin of this age and generation. They were an iniquitious system that honey-combed the whole world of domestic commerce with fraud, falsehood, suspicion, distrust and impurity. The trust was a nuisance, open and notorious; but it could not be grappled with and suppressed as. other nuisances. A reform in the printing of useless docu-| meats was discussed by the Senators,! Thursday. Senator Call introduced a joint' resolution authorizing the President to begin negotiations with the Government of Spair for the establishment of a Republic) on the Island of Cuba. In connection with[ tnis, Mr. Call presented a petition ffom; natives of Cuba (now citizens of the United States) and stated that it had been represented to him that nearly all such persons were in favor of the resolution. In the Houses Thursday, Mr. 1 Butterworth offered a series of resolutions providingfor an investigation of the ballot box contract forgery in Ohio. They were adopted. The committee to investigate the Silcot defalcation made their report, Tne report of the Silcott .Select Committee gives a detailed statement of the assets and liabilities of the office on De cember 5. Tne shortage is stated at »70,708.96. It states that the committee has not yet made sufficient investigation of the matter of discounts and notes. Many notes, the committee believe, were forged to cover defalcation already exist ing. It also says that the committee oan not too severely condemn the manner in which the Sergeant-at arms conducted the affairs of his office. Mr, Payson offered a resolution continuing the committee and giving it enlarged powers, In which a long debate sprung up, after which a resolution was adopted extending the powers of the select committee so that it may report to tho House its conclusions as to tne effect of any deficiency of oash in the office of the Sergeant-at arms. Adjourned until Monday,

THE FIRST CENTURY.

The ceremonies of Congress in commemoration of tue centennial of tue inauguration of George Washington were held Wednesday, in the had of the House of itepresentatives. The hall had been especially arranged for tue occasion, its usual seating capacity being Creeled by the introduction of additional chairs. The galleries were tilled with iamiliesj>£Gougressinen and Caoiuet officers anu Government officials, and presented u brilliant spectacle. Chief J dstice Fuller delivered the oration, and closed as follows: “And so the new century may be entered upon in tue spirit of optimism, the natural result, pernaps, of a self-couddeuce wnich has lost uouuug in trie suostance by ex perieuce, inougn it has gained in the moderation of its impetuosity; yetan optimism essential to the accomplishment of great ends; not blind to penis, but bold in the fearlessness of faith, whose every coiiscioasness of the limitations of the present asserts the attainability of the untrave'ed world of a still grander future. Mo ehip can sail forever over summer seas. The storms it has weathered test and demonstrate its ability to survive the storms to come, storms there must ue until there snail be no more sea. But as amid the tempests in which our ship of state was launched and in the times succeeding. so in the times to come. With every exigency constellations of illustrious meu will rise upon tue augry skies to control tue wuirlwmd and dispel the ciouds by tneir potent iuliueuees, while from thd “clear upper sky”, the steady light of ths great planet marks out the course the vessei must pursue and sit* shining on th* ails a* it comes grandly into haves wiare it would bo.”

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

South Bend claims 25,000. Clay county has 657 pensioners. Diphtheria is subsiding at Michigan City. An epidemic of measles prevails at Cannelsburg, and the schools have been closed. George Nelson, of Logansport, stole wagon whip and was, Tuesday, sentenced to the penitentiary for one year. S. C. Grubb, a brakeman who was in lured on the Fort Wayne, Cincinnati & Louisville road, was given $3,166 damages, Wednesday. A ci izen of New Market, Clark county, drank some of a patent cordial as medicine. He has since become insane, and the cordial receives the blame for it. While John Reizer and Benjamin Ruez, near Evansville, Wednesday, were scuffling for posession of a revolver, the weap on was discharged and the bullet pene trated Keizer’s abdom en, inflicting fatal injury. While Charles H. Fithian and others were coon hunting, near Hazleton, Wednesday night, and were engaged in cutting down s tree on which a coon had sheltered itself, a falling limb struck Fithian, killing him almost instantly. He leaves a large family. , •

There was a sale of-Clydesdale draught horses on the Adams & Co., stock farm, near Muncie, Wednesday, and good prices prevailed. B. L. Perry, of Cable, 0., purchased a three-year-old stallion for $550; a six year-old went to Fred Ice, of Mt. Summit, for $400; William Cray, of Modoc, bought one of similar age for $1;300, and John Barrett, of Randolph county, paid $540 for a three-year-old. Indiana was admitted into the Union 73 years ago Wednesday last. Indiana is the. sixth,State in the -Union in-size, population and natural wealth; the first in public school facilities; the first in amount of wheat produced; the first in natural gas area; fifth in the production of bituminous coal, and it has the best building stone in the world, and produces more than any of the other fdrty-twe States except four. Patents were issued to Indiana inventors, Wednesday, as follows: J. C. Alexander, Fisher s Station, gate; S. C. Campbell, Thorntown, incubator; D. A. Foster and T. L. Barker, Westfield, carpet stretch sr; P. D. Graham, Corunna, hand plow; W. O. Gunckel, Terre Haute, machine for 'utting square holes; W. E. Murbarger, Indianapolis, anti-rattler spring for thill jouplings; W. P. Myer, Indianapolis, signal lantern; W. M. Pearce, Rushville, tenoning machine; M. A. Swing, Washington, feed regulator; G. W. Warren, Evansville, protector for piano fortes. The annual report of the Northern Prison was placed in the hands of jhe Governor Thursday. We extract She following details: Receipts and earnings of the prison dm ing the year ending Oct. 31, 1889, were $113,601.95; expenditures, $99,976.97; balance of receipts over jxpenditures, $13,624.88. The Fort Wayne feuney Company put in an incandescent flectric-light plant costing $9,400, and the lhe improvement over candles is narked. Crude petroleum has been subitituted for coal as fuel. It is clean, odor less and reduces the annual cost of fuel 15 per cent. The sewer for which the Legis lature appropriated SIO,OOO will be done by i ring The school established a year ago bas proven so popular that a doubling of Its capacity is recoinn_ ended. There were ji the prison on October 31, 748 convicts, in increase of forty-six over a year before. During the year 314 prisoners were discharged by expiration of sentence, 15 were pardoned or p n-oled, I escaped and was not captured. 7 lied. Each prisoner costs the State J,29 per year; each receives clothing cost jigs 7. 68 per annum and food costing 12 Sents per day. Tuere are in the prison 5 broken down consumptives who will Boon ire. There are seventy-seven murderers onflned intheprison. Of the 746 prisoners. 5(10 are put down as intemperate, and 1.9 temperate. There’s a whole temperance library in a few words. The clerk who made the report said: “Ninety-two prisoners can neither read nor wright.” He d not say whether they can spell. Only eighty-nine are foreign born. Col. W. W. Dadley Was in India napo.is Thursday. A warrant was sworn out by Leon Bailey for his arrest, but was not f«*rved. After issuing the warrant at his office Mr. Van Buren- called on United Stales District Attorney Chambers and notified him of the issuing of the warrant Mr. Chambers at once said that he would not countenance the warrant. He said to Mr. Van Buren that Bailey’s Grand Jury which had indicted 150 Republicans, only a few of whom could be convicted, had tlioroughl;, investigated the charge against Dudley, and had refused to find any indictment. . For that reason, he said, he would not renew the case. With such instructions from the District Attorney, Mr. Van Buren held that he could do nothing more. He put tne warrant in his pocket,and there it remains. Mr. Chambers takes the responsibility of bringing about the status quo. Colonel Dudley seemed to be court lug arrest. A little after 9 o’clock he went to the Federal building, and remained there an hour, visiting the United States Marshal's office, the Clerk’s office, the postoffice and the District Court room He was cordially received everywhere. The United States Marshal escorted him about the building, and Judge Woods came down off the bench to shake hands with him. Tne Colonel during his stay in the building made many joculag. remarks about the efforts of his enemies to have him placed under arrest. A current opinion is that Dudley came to Indianapolis solely for the purpose of testing the disposition to prosecute him. It is also believed by Democrats that before coining he had assurances that he would not be prosecuted. The State Grange in session at 'lndianapolis Thursday, declared the new schoolbook law to be a step in the right direction. The liquor license system was de clared to be wrong; the tobacco and liquor license should be retained, the Grangers decided; a committee was Instructed to bring measures of agricultural importance before the Legislature. No detnite aottM was taken upon the union

°f the Grange with the Knights of Labor, They resolved in favor of holding the World’s fair at Chicago, that United States Senators should be elected by di rect vote of the people; that if graduated income tax would be a good thing; that aliens should not be allowed to own property in the United States; that property shoula be assessed for taxation at its full cash value; that elements of agriculture should be tanght in the public schools; that the census should give farm mortgage statistics; that county commissioners should not have the right to call for elections to vote railroad tax; that there should be a free coinage of silver and a circulation of paper currency, independent of the National banks, in sufficient volume tp prevent further contraction. They alsofavor a reduction of the salaries of State and many county officers, and decry the great and unjust inequalities in distribution of the rewards of labor and the burdens of government, in that the property of farmers and laboring men generally, never escape assessment for taxes, while notes, mortgages and bonds of money-lenders and corporations are largely hid away, thereby escaping assess ment and taxation. Trusts and combines were mercilessl v condemned.

JEFF DAVIS LAID TO REST.

His funeral the Most Imposing Evir Witnessed in the Soutti. The funeral of Jefferson Davis, which took place in the Metaire Cemetery, where his body is temporarily placed in the tomb of the Army of Northern Virginia, at New Orleans, Wednesday, was one of the most imposing, and the most memorable in many respects, that has ever been witnessed in the South. It recalled to the minds of many of the older people who were present the grand outpouring of -the Southern people and the universal signs of genuine Sorrow and affection displayed on hat other notable occasion more than thirty-five years ago, when all that was mortal of another greatly beloved Southern leader, John C. Calhoun, was consigned to the grave.—On Monday morning and up to a late hour on Tuesday night the trains on every railroad leading into the city, as well as Xv teamboats plying on the river for hundreds of miles, passed out into the depots and river landings a constant stream of men, women and children, military and civic organizations and members of the Confederate Veterans’ Associations from every State in the South. The Cotton Exchange, the banks and all the city buildings were closed, and all were heavily draped, with emblems of mourning. The preliminary funeral services were held on the large portico of the City Hall, and there conducted by Bishop Galleher, of the Episcopal Diocese ofNew Orleans who was assisted by Bishop Thompson, of Mississippi; Dr. Markham, of the Presbyterian Church; Father Hubert, of the Catholic Church, and Drs. Bakewell and Martin. After the reading of the service for the dead oy Bishop Gallaher and some short eulogistic remarks from other di vines, a surpliced choir, selected especially for the occasion, sang Sullivan’s anthem, “though I walk Through the Valleyof the Shadow of Death.” Every available inch of space in the square ttnd about the buildings was densely packed with human beings, and the streets centering at the hall were impass able, though the police arrangements for the preservation of order was so complete that confusion was avoided. The City Hall itself was covered with a profusion of flags at half-mast, gracefully draped with black, whilst over the doors of the main entrance were suspended immense billows of crape. The procession was composed as follows: First Division—A detachment of city police, military escort of all uniformed organizations, the clergy in carriages, followed by the body of Mr. Davjs, which was placed on a caisson drawn by six horses, richly caparisoned. Second Division—Veterans’ Associations. Third Division—Officials of the State of Louisiana, and officials of this and other cities. Fourth Division—Masonic Order, Knights of Pythias, and other civil organizations. Sixth Division Fire Department. Seventh Division—Other organizations. Eighth Division—Colored associations. A notable feature was to be seen in that portion of the procession in which marched the detachment of veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic, a touching tribute which was cordially appreciated by all who were present. General John B. Gordon was Grand Marshal of the Day, and was assisted by a staff composed of some of the distinguished friends and associates of Mr. Davis. Upon its arrival at the cemetery the final services of the Episcopal Church were read, and several eloquent tributes were paid by the officiating clergy, after which the choir chanted “Rock of Ages.” At the close.of the ceremonies the coffin, upon which was placed the sword presented to Mr. Davis for meritorious service in the Black Hawk War, was placed in the tomb, a salute was fired by a detachment of the Washington Artillery and the door of the tomb closed upon the body of a man into whose life had been woven the black woof of tragedy.

BURIED ALIVE.

About a month ago diphtheria' appeared in the home of a prominent family at Madison, Wisconsin. A young domestic was terribly frightened. A young child died of the dread disease, and this,, with- the horror of disease, caused the girl to take to her bed. She apparently died in a few hours, and was at once buried by the authorities. A few days ago her parents obtained permission to remove the body to the country, and upon opening the grave they were horrified to discover the body lying on its face, the hair wrenched from the head and the flesh literally torn from her face and hands. Frasciielo, the Spanish torero, has retired, with a fortune estimated at 1600,000. Although ranking among the greatest he was freely oritioised by many great experts for being unusually liable to accident*.

CLEVELAND ON POLITICS.

iHa Addresses a MarchaaVs Meet lag al Boston. I The Boston Merchant’s Association ban queted 400 prominent merchants and others at the Hotel Vendome Thursday night. Ex-President Cleveland, Hon. H. W. Grady and Hon. Andrew Carnegie made the speeches. ’ I Mr. Cleveland was greeted with longcontinued applause, shouts anil cheers, the i entire assembly rising and waving handkerchiefs and cheering enthusiastically. Mr. Cleveland spoke in a strong, wellmodulated voice and was easily heard by all. He began his address with a tribute to the integrity of Boston merchants, whose commercial honor in the early days of the Commonwealth had laid the foundation for the great success which their descendants had attained. Switching off into politics, he said: Political selfishness cheapens in the minds of the people their apprehension of the character and functions of the governIment; it distorts every conception of the [duty of good, citizenship, and creates an [atmosphere in which iniquitous purposes and designs lose their odious features. It ■begin when a perverted judgment is won ,to the theory that political action may be used solely for private gain and advantage, and when a tender conscience is qui eted by the ingenious argument that such gain and advantage are identical with the public welfare. This stage having been reached and self-interest being now fully aroused, agencies are used and practices permitted in the accomplishment of its purposes which,’Seen in the pure light of disinterested patriotism, are viewed, with tear and hatred. The independent thought and free political preference of those whom fate has made dependent upon daily toil for hard -earned bread, are strangled and destroyed by intimidation and the fear of .loss of employment. Vile, unsavory lorms rise to the surface of our agitated political waters, and gleefully anticipate in the anxiety of selfish interest, their opportunity to fatten upon corrupted and debauched suffrage. This train of thought leads us to consider the imminent danger which threatens us from the intimidation and corruption of our voters. It is too late to temporize with these evils or to speak of them oth erwlse than in the plainest terms. We are spared the labor of proving their existence, for all admit it. That they are terribly on the increase, all must * concede. Manifestly, if the motives of all our citizens were unselfish and patriotic, and if they sought in political action only their share of the advantage accruing from the advance of our country at all points towards her grand destiny, there would be _no.place or occasion for the perversion of our suffrage. Thus the inauguration of the intimidation and corruption of our voters may be justly charged to selfish schemes seeking success through political action. But these evils have been neglected by honest men disgusted with all political endeavor; they have been tolerated by respectable men who, in weakness of patriotic sentiment, have regarded them as only phases of shrewd political management, and they have been actually encouraged by the honors which have been bestowed upon those who boast of their use of such agencies in aid of party supremacy. Many of us, therefore, may take to ourselves a share of blame, when we find confronting us these perils which threaten the existence of our free institutions, the preservation of our national honor and the perpetuity of our country . 'The condition annexed to the founding of our government upon the suffrage of the people was that the suffrage should be free and pure. We consented to abide by the honest preponderance of political opinion, but we did not consent that a free vote, expressing the intelligent and thoughtful sentiment of the voter, should be balanced by a vote of intimidation and fear, or by an unclean, corrupt vote disgracefully bought anu treacherously sold. • Let us look with a degree of pity and charity on those whs yield to fear and intimidation in the exercise of the right of their suffrage. Though they ought not thus to yield, we cannot forget that as against their free ballot, they see m the scale, their continued employment, the comforts of their homes and the maintenance of their families. We need not stifle our scorn and contempt for the wretch who basely sells his vote, and who for a bribe betrays his trust of citizenship. And yet the thought will intrude itself that he but follows in a low and vulgar fashion the example of those who proceed upon one theory that political action may be turned to private gain. But whether we pity orwhether we hate, our betrayal is none the less complete; nor will either pity or hate restore our birth-right. But we know that when political selfishness is destroyed our dangers will disappear; and though the way to its stronghold may be long and weary, we will follow it—fighting as we go. There will bqno surrender, nor will there be desertions from our ranks. Selfishness and corruption has not yet achieved a lasting triumph and their bold defiance will but hasten the day of their destruction. As we struggle on and confidently invite a direct conflict with these entrenched foes of our political safety, we have not failed to see another hope which has manifested itself to all the honest of the land. It teaches them that though they may not immediately stop at their sourcejthe evils which afflict them, they may check their malign,influence and guard themselves against their baneful results. It assures them that if political virtue and rectitude cannot at once be thoroughly restored to the Republic, the activity of baser elements may be discouraged. It inspires them with vigilant watchfulness and a determination to prevent, as far as possible, their treacherous betrayal by those who aT6TalsoTo their obligation of citizenship. This hope, risen like the star in the East, has fixed the gaze of our patriotic fellowcountrymen; and everywhere, in our busy marts of trade and on our farms, in our cities and in our villages, in the dwellings of the rich and in the homes of the poor, in our universities and in our work shops, in our banking houses and in the ranks of inexorable toil, they greet with enthusiastic acclaim the advent of ballot reform. In conclusion let me say that good men ‘have no cause for discouragement Though [there are dangers which tureaten our welfare and safety, the virtue and patriotism of the American people are not lost, and wu shall find them sufficient for us. If in too great confidence they slumber, they will not always sleep. Let them but be ■aroused from lethargy and indifference by I the consciousness of peril, and they will burst the bonds of political selfishness, revive their political freedom and restore the purity of their suffrage. Thus will they dwouargetbe sacred trust committed to their keeping; tint* will they still proudly present to the world proof of the value of free institutions; thus will they demonstrate the strength and perpetuity of a government by the people; thus will they establish American patriotism throughout the length and [breadth of our land; and thus will they I preserve for themselves and for posterity their God-given inheritance of freedom, and justice, and psace, and happiness. I Mr. Cleveland’s address aroused greatenthusiasm, and his points were frequently greeted with cries of “Good” and applause Only one woman in France Ins thii year taken out a 1 Loan for shsntfaif, Lwt HMM there vers ftva.