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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL. ESTABLISHED 1823. WHEN INDICATIONS. Monday.— Local rains and slight fall in temperature . As yet (unless, of course, the weather should change before this meets the reader's eye) we have Scarcely had as much as a foretaste of autumn. Na ture appeal’s to have been making up—and with inter est. too—in September and the early days of October the thermal deficiencies of previous months. Sultry days and a brazen big iuflamed-looking moon creeping languidly across the sky at night, are not. we must adinft. conducive to thoughts of Fall and Winter vest ures, and therefore, out of regard for the sensibilities ©f the public, we defer, until a more congenial time, extended observations upon this subject'. Os course a change of weather cannot be far in the future. The eun, as wc all know, is oft making his annual tour in the Southern hemisphere, and Boreas will hardly neglect the opportunity to make a sudden descent upon us one of these days. In any event, mankind must be clothed: nature and civilization unite in this requirement; and experience has taught most readers hereof that the surest, best and cheapest way. at all times, to satisfy their wants and suit their tastes in the matter of Men’s, Youths’, Bovs’ ami Children's Clothing, and Furnishings, is to visit the WHEN CLOTHING STORE. SIGLER’S Pullman Palace Car Excursions Will leave Chicago for City of Mexico, California and Honolulu, Via Kansas City, by special trains, October 14, 1884. December 0, 1884. November I**, 1884. January 6, 1885. ROUND TRIP TICKETS good for six months from date —Chicago to City of Mexico or San Francisco sll7 San Francisco to Honolulu 110 Persons desiring to join any of these parties should advise AT ONCE the time they prefer, and for any in formation •vldress H. C. SIGLER, Care Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, No. 54 Clark street, Chicago, 111. RIDING THE GOAT. Initiatory Ceremonies of Odd-Fellowship De scribed in Court. Toronto (Ont.) Special. A unique case was tried to-day before Mr. Jus tice Galt at Whitby, a small village twenty miles east of this city. Richard Kinvor, a chair maker, brought suit against the Phoenix Lodge of Odd-fellows, ofj Whitby, for injuries received at the hands of the members of the lodge while he was being initiated into tho mysteries of the order. The case is the first of the kind ever brought before a court of justice in this coun try, and has excited a great deal of interest. The court room to-day was crowded with mem bers of the Phoenix Lodge and curious outsiders, anxious to learn something of the secrets of the brotherhood. The plaintiff .appeared in court leaning on crutches. He was badly bruised about the face and body, and appeared to be suffering severe pain. On the witness stand ho told tlve story of events on the night of his initiation. He was met, he said, by a committee of the Odd fellows’ lodge, who first blindfolded him by drawing a black cap down over his face, so that ho could not see the slightest thing, and then led him into tho lodge room. His entry was the signal for shouts of derision from the members pres ent He had hardly got inside the room when he was forcibly seized from either side and whirled round till he had become so dizzy that he had lost all idea of his surroundings. Then a chain was fastened about his body and he was dragged roughly about the room, the cap being still down over his head. When the brethren had tired of yanking him about at the end of the chain ho was brought up standing, while a mys v terious jargon was gone through with. Sud k denly the candidate received a rough push from someone behind, which threw him over some thing and he fell headlong on the floor, striking in falling upon a stool, which cut a deep gash in his head. lie was partly stunned by the fall. He was just conscious enough to hear someone ask in a deep voice, “Brethren, shall we have mercy?” and someone else replied, “Have mercy.” Then he was lifted up off tho floor by tho chain, and was led about the room for awhile, with tho cap still on, until he had somewhat recovered from the effects of the fall. His initiation was not concluded, owing to his inability to endure more. Since then the witness testified that he had been sick, so that he had been unable to support his family by working at his trade. Physicians whom he had consulted said that his injuries would trouble him for several years, and that he might never get over them. The defendant Odd fellows admit the truth of KinvePs testimony regarding experience in tho lodge-room. They said it was the custom of the lodge to lead candidates for initiation around with a view of bewildering or befogging them, so that when the cap is re moved, they cannot find the door by which they entered the room. There is no intention of harming the candidates, and the initiation is not rougher than a healthy man could stand. The constitution of the order remiires that candidates shall be of sound health. Plaintiff knew this, and procured his initiation by fraudulent rep resentations and concealment regarding his health. Medical men testified that Kinver had received internal injuries from which he might die. The ct.se was adjourned to a high court n .t. Toronto. Train-Wrecking in Kansas. Topeka, Kan., Oct. s. —When the passenger train which left Kansas City at 10 p. m., Satur day, on the Santa Pe railroad, reached a point >ne mile east of Emporia, the engine struck an obstruction in the shape of a cross tie, which had been placed on the track. It pushed it be tween the guard rail and the outside rail on a ’bridge over a small stream, and passed on safely, but a freight train following was thrown from the track, and the engine and nine cars wrecked. The fireman, named Scott, was killed, and the engineer slightly wounded. It is supposed the cross tie was put on the track for the purpose of wrecking the passenger train. The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fo company will to-morrow offer a reward of SI,OOO for tho apprehension and conviction of the guilty par ties. The Governor will also be asked to offer a reward of SSOO in addition. Fatal Flglit Between Preachers. Arkansas City, Ark., Oct. 4.—Meager partic ulars have been received of the killing,yesterday, near Winchester Station, of Rev. John Allen by Rev. W. J. Jackson. It appears that Rev. Allen had been intimate with Rev. Jackson’s wife, and when remonstrated with about his criminal rouduct, abused Jackson and threatened his life, laying he would continue to do with the sister is he saw fit Jackson then shot him dead with i double-barreled gun. Both parties were col ored. The killing has created considerable ex wtement- in the neighborhood. Distress Caused by Drought. Petersburg, Va., Oefc. s.—The closing of all Iho cotton factories of this city and vicinit}', in consequence of scarcity of water, throws out of jnmloyinent a largo number of men, women and children, nearly ail of whom are actually suf ering for the necessaries of life. BLAINE WRITES A LETTER In Which Three Large Campaign Lies Are Exposed and Controverted. He Never Advocated Twenty-One Years’ Residence for Foreigners, He Never Vot ed to Tax Individual Coal Miners, And He Hoes Not Now and Never Hid Own Hocking Valley Coal Lauds. How Thomas A. Hendricks Unlawfully With held Lands from the People for Ben efit of Railway Corporations. LETTER FROM MR. BLAINE. Three Full-Grown Campaign Lies Tersely and Flatly Contradicted. Wheeling, Oct. s.—Mr. Blaine has written the following letter to Hon. Win. McKinley, of Ohio: “Bbllatre, Oct. 4. “Hon. Win. MeKinley, HI. 0., Canton, Ohio: “My Dear Sir —I have your favor stat ing certain charges against me, which you wish to be able to contradict authoritatively. I an swer you promptly, and decisively, “First —It is utterly untrue that I ever advo cated a residence of twenty-one years as a re quirement of naturalization. On the contrary, I always opposed the party that suggested it. I think the only chamre in the naturalization laws for which I ever voted in Congress was to admit those foreigners who had honorably served in the Union army to citizenship without the delay re quired of others. “Second—l never voted to impose a tax of $lO per annum on miners. By the internal revenue laws, framed to raise money for the expenses of the war, proprietors of mines were taxed $lO per annum, just as lawyers, physicians, build ers and other callings were, but the individual miner—the man who actually worked in the mine—was not affected by the tax. I voted tor the tax on the proprietors of mines, as I did for every other tax needed for tho support of the Union army. The tax was repealed fifteen years ago. “Third—l do notown, and never did own. an acre of coal land, or any other kind of land in the Hocking valley, or in any other part of Ohio. My letter to the Hon. Hezekiali Bundy, in July last, on this same subject, was accurately true. Very Truly Yours, “Jas. G. Blaine.” MR. BLAINE’S TOUR. Another Tariff* Speech at Bellaire—Future Movements of the Party. Wheeling, W. Va., Oct. s. —At Bellaire, late Saturday night, after the procession, and after others had spoken, Mr. Blaine made the follow ing speech: “The question of tariff for protection is pri marily of interest to laborers. The original material that enters into any fabric constitutes a small element in the cost of that fabric. If you take a steamship that cost $500,- 000 when she is launched, the ma terial in her costs $.3,000, the labor $495,000. If you take a ton of pig-iron that soils in your market to-day for s*2o, the material that goes into it does not cost originally ninety cents; $19.10 are labor. If tariff for protection is primarily or especially of interest to any one, it is to the laboring man, and if tho laboring man will not protect himself with his vote, how can he ask others to do it? [Cries, ‘That’s it,’ and cheers.] The effect of a tariff for protection is not a question of speculation; it is a ques tion of fact. a question on which you can appeal to figures. You are citizens of tho State of Ohio. You have now a city which has grown up here within the last fifteen years; you are one of the evidences of the great growth of the State. Ohio is the third State in the Union in population and in wealth, and I have had occassion to say at other meetings to-day what I now say to you, and which I beg to im press upon your minds. I want you to take two epochs in the history of Ohio. Take first the year 1860. Your State was then about sixty years old. and it had been seventy-three years since Ohio was organized as part of the Northwest Territory. In those seveuty threo years of Territorial and State existence the citizens of Ohio had accumulated wealth to the amount of $1,100,000,000. The United Statee census of 1800 shows that tho total wealth of Ohio was alittle over $1,100,000,000 —a very large sum of moooy. In 1861 tho industrial and financial policy of the United States was changed by the incoming of the Republican party, and, in consequence of that change, a protective tariff was enacted, which has been ever since in force. [A voice, ‘Thank God!’ Laughter and cheers.] In 1880, twenty years after the census of which I have first spoken, another census was taken, and it was found that in those twenty years the aggregate wealth of the Stato of Ohio bad increased from $1,100,000,000 to $5,200,000,000. You had added to your wealth in those twenty years doublo as much as had been created in the seventy-three years preceding. You had added, upon an average, $100,000,000 per year to the permanent capitalized wealth of your State, and that was done largely by virtue and in pursuance of the effect of a protect ive tariff upon the labor and industries of your State. Do you want that to continue? I>o you want to have auy experiments tried upon* it? [Cries of *No. J Do you want Congress to be convulsed with the question, so as to unsettle values and check enterprise and frighten capital, and generally to produce a condition of uncer tainty throughout all the financial and business interests of the United States? Why, look at what has been the effect simply of the Morrison tariff hill. They did not get it through the House ol Representa tives, but they kept the country in a turmoil of agination and thus affected injuriously the inter ests of every laboring man and every capitalist, in the United States. [Cries, ‘That’s true,’ •that’s it.*] Do you want to organize not merely a change in the tariff—for that might bo done—but do you want to organize perpetual congressional agitation of that ques tion? If you do not, the matter is in your own hands. [Great cheering. ] Ohio has the power to command that it shall not be. You have the power to join in that command, and the oppor tunity will be given you on the 14th day of Octo ber through your individual ballots.” [Pro longed cheering. ] Mr. Blaine remained at Bellaire till this af ternoon, and then, with his son and members of the local committee, drove by a cir cuitous road through a region long familiar to him, to Wheeling. It was after dark when he reached the hotel here. During his stay the. senior class of Washington and Jefferson College came by special train from Washington, Penn., to call on him. Mr. Blaine received them in his parlor, and the meetin g was a very pleasant one. Each member of the olass was personally introduced, and, as most of them were natives of western Pennsylvania. Mr. Blaine, in many instances, knew their families. Several of them were sons of his old collego mates. Although the usual differences in poli tics exist in the class, all the members seemed to be strong Blaine men. Mr. Blaine and his uncle, lion. John O. Ewing, of Washington, Pa., also met. Mr. Ewing is a venerable and well-preserved old gentleman of eighty eight. He formerly represented his district in tho Pennsylvania Legislature and in Congress, and is said to be the oldest living graduate of Washington and Jefferson College. On Monday Mr. Blaine will go to Grafton, W. Va., from whence he will return to Wheeling, INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 0, 1884. vin Parkersburg, and will cross into Ohio to keep appointments already made in that State. MR. HENDRICKS’S BOOKS. His Unlawful Withdrawal of Public Lands for Benefit of Corporations. Washington Special to hew York Tribune. Democratic speakers, especially in Indiana, are devoting much time and energy of deuncia tions of the Republican party, which they at tempt to hold responsible for every acre of pub lic land granted to aid in the building of rail roads, when, as they know, tens of millions of acres were thus granted before the Republican party came into powei; and since that time the land-grant policy lias been sustained by the votes of Democrats and Republicans alike. Democratic orators in Indiana and other States, taking their cue from tlio speeches of Mr. Hen dricks are clamoring for a “change,” in order that “the people may see the books,” when the fact is that the records of tho governmeq,t are open to the inspection of any respectable citizen. A few days ago the Democratic newspapers were horrified by a report that the books of the Gen eral Land office wore being examined in the hope of unearthing something to the disadvant age in tho official record of Mr. Hendricks as Commissioner. His friends made so loud an out cry as to arouse a suspicion that Mr. Hendricks’s official career would scarcely bear a rigid inves tigation. This suspicion was to some extent confirmed by certain passages in the published reports of the General Land-office during the period of his tenure as Commissioner. The pas sages referred to relate to the lands granted in May, June and August, 1856, to and in the con struction of nearly forty different railroads. In his annual report for that year Commissioner Hendricks said: “As usual, under similar laws, the lands falling within the probable limits of the grants were promptly withdrawn from sale and location. The sudden withdrawal from market of such important bodies of land almost simultaneously in seven different States, had a tendency to produce great public and private in conveniences.” That the lands were “promptly withdrawn” there can be no question. Just *at that time Michigan. lowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota were rapidly filling up with settlers, and the public lands were in brisk demand. The corporations for whoso benefit the grants had been made were not idle. They were all represented in Wash ington, and they did not lack influence with Commissioner Hendricks. On May 15, 1856, an act was approved granting a quantity of public lands, estimated at 4,320,000 acres, to five railroad corporations in the State of lowa. On May 10. five days before the bill became a law, Commissioner Hendricks issued a telegraphic order withdrawing from sale, loca tion or entry all the public lands “within the probable limits of the grants,” thus shutting out from a large area not only persons who desired to pay cash for public lands, but also actual set tlers, who desired to secure homes under the pre-emption laws, and soldiers of the war of 1812 and the Mexican war, who had received land warrants under the authority of Congress. No survey of the railroads had been made, and, of course, no maps of location had been filed; and, therefore, the premature and unauthorized order of withdrawal for the benefit of the five lowa corporations covered a much greater quan tity of land than they were entitled to by the act afterward approved. The arbitrary and un lawful order of Commissioner Hendricks seems to have aroused a storm of opposition among tho pioneer settlers of lowa, and. on June 16, he modified it so far as to allow preemption entries to bo made pending the filing of maps of definite location. Soldiers, however, were not to be permitted to use their military land war rants to obtain homes on the public lands with drawn; and subsequently, upon representation by some of the corporations which received land under the several acts of 1856, to the effect that the preemption privilege was abused by specu lators, all intending settlers, including those acting in good faith, were deprived of it. On Juno 3, 1856, an act was approved grant ing 2,150.000 acres of land, according to Mr. Hendricks's estimate, for the benefit of four railroad corporations in Wisconsin, and on May 20, five days before the bill became a law, Com missioner Hendricks issued an order withdraw ing from sale and location for their benefit sev eral million acres of the public domain. The act granting 4,128,000 acres of public land for the benefit of five railroad corporations in Michi gan became a law on Juno 3, 1856, and on the 30th of May preceding Commissioner Hendricks made an order locking up several million acres more of the public domain for their benefit. His report dated Nov. 29,1856, does not show that any steps had been taken by the corporation to determine the actual boundaries of their grants. Commissioner Hendricks on May 31 withdrew lands for the benefit of two railroad corporations in Louisiana, al though the granting act was not approved until June 3. This order of withdrawal covered nearly 2.000,000 acres. On Aug. 9. 1856, two days before the approval of the granting act, Commissioner Hendricks withdrew for the bene fit of a railroad corporation in Mississippi more than 1,000,000 acres of the public lands in that State. In view of the facts above given, it is not sur prising that Commissioner Hendricks, in his re port dated Nov. 29, should remark that tho “sud den” withdrawal of so much land “almost simul taneously” should have produced “great public and private inconvenience.” That “inconven ience,” not to say injustice, must have been greatly aggravated by his flagrant disregard of law in his haste to serve the railroad corpora tions. At the present time, and for many years past, under Republican administrations no lands have been withdrawn from the market for the benefit of railroad corporations, under grants made by Congress, until after they have filed definite maps of survey and location’ BEER AND POLITICS. The Blindness of the Brewers In Rushing the Liquor Ouestion on the Country. “Gath’s” New York Letter. The simple fact about the beer question, con sidered from an American stand point, is that it has long refused to consider any general or out side opinion. It had a good thing, a fat thing, a profitable thing, and it found that American pol itics, being bottomed on votes, was afraid of it. lam an old beer-drinker. Nothing suits me bet ter when my stomach is in good condition than to go to a saloon and get some fresh beer, pro provided I know it to be pure, anu have some sausage or sardines, and take a cheap cigar, and hear my friends or declaim to them. But I nev er expected that institution would sit down on me and mine in the great controversies which keep nations afloat and make them tremendous to their foreign enemies. The time may come when the United States, which has cost several generations to bring into existence and maintain it, will bo thrown away by some brewer infusing to consider anything but his lot of swash. Re member that both the Gerinaus and the Amer icans began in revolutionary and free conditions, and no tyranny has ever been found which can suppress either. The brewer may have a clear head, but I suspect him of being a little mud dled through what ho deals in. Ho has como to the conclusion that he is big enough to defy the United States. Ho has tho superstition that some prohibitory liquor law overhangs him, and be must stick everything around him with the idea that he is killing that question. I draw a strong distinction between the brewers’ monopoly and tho respectable saloon keeper and the German. It may bo that in tho providence of God wo will bo called upon this autumn to forget all past differences in the American race, and ask which is the next tyrant seeking to enthrall us The quarrel is not of our picking. When it is picked there is but one solution of it. The simple fact about the liquor and beer question is this: Had there not been a Republican party to labor on the line of the national obligations, the pub'ie debt, the cur rency, the tariff, etc., matters of moral reform would have been prominent in this country long ago. There is no security for any business in America which does not obey the law. If it dis obeys tho law and is still carried on there is a certain degradation and sense of social obligation attending it. The saloon may keep open all night and pay the policeman, but what i.*s to be expected of the influence of that saloon or of the children and family of that proprietor? What the liquor ques tion wants in our country is, above all things, regularity, legality. There should be no good reason why a man who sells beer is not well con sidered, except from the fact that he is dodging i the law, living beyond the law, living like mistress and man, without an ordinance, j That certainly is not the social aspiration of the respectable man who keeps a house of entertainment. The Puritan spirit would never have been aroused on the liquor question but for the indifference of tho law which sometimes marks the publican. Everybody sees that, in this country, unless there is some regular precise regulation of the liquor question, there will presently be a tre mendous revolution against it, and all tho money the brewers can put together will not amount to enought to affect tho matter two weeks when the political passions are deeply engaged. The idea of a brewer or brewers making a President of the United States is repulsive to every inborn sentiment of this race. The brewer should make beer, not Presidents. He highly exaggerates the few millions he has acquired if he supposes that this race, which has driven tyrants from our shores and suppressed a million men in re volt within its will ever submit to deceit, treach ery and betrayal for the sake of selling kegs of beer. Indeed, the brewers have got to that idea represented by I>r. Johnson, who made the dic tionary, when he sold out Mrs. Thrall’s brewery, and said: “We are not here to sell a parcel of vats and barrels, but with the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice.” They must get down to their vats and barrels speedily and drop the potentiality business. But the brewer has got a vote: lie can make as many of his hands vote as will. I doubt very much whether he can compel the intelligent saloon keeper who very well knows that thousands of respectable Americans go in to take their little glass of beer, behave themselves well and do not expect to vote for the glass of beer. A vote is far more sacred than the fermentation in the beer-cask. Indeed, prohibition or anti liquor has risen to great proportions in the United States because of dishonorable, uncontrollable men in the saloons. Some thief gets a little place in a town and uses it to make men vilely drunk on poisons, and then ho raises a great howl because somebody is murdered there. Have we got down to that condition when the taking of a life will not arouse the respectable instincts of a man? On the other hand, the professional temper ance voter in presidential years is a fool. Sup pose while you are talking about your cold wa ter or your beer the foreign enemy comes up to our shores and makes a foothold and plants his batteries and puts up a big fort somewhere, and keeps your railroads from get ting to the sea shore, and keeps his cruisers on your coasts. You say: “Oh, no, that can never happen,” and again you are a fool. The richer a country is and the more it is engaged in miser able intestinal strifes between beer and cold water the quicker advance the foreign enemy makes upon your works. All that can be ex pected of this liquor question is regulation. Pro hibition will never last any considerable time. It will always be evaded and make the observ ance of the law ridiculous. 1 have no desire to pursue this subject., except to say that if it is ev©r thrown in the face of the American people—-these great mixed races, German, frisli, Scotch. French, Hungarian, Sclavonic, Portugese, etc.—that they must be governed from the brew-houses, God help the brew houses. We have seen slavery vaunt itself and go down on the battle-field. The fight against the brew house will hardly be a street riot There are some men, however, who have accumulate 1 half a million or a million in this kind of business, who think it will control a country which numbers its productions by the tens of thousands of millions. I hardly recollect an experience where the Germans in America have been maltreated in the Northern States. HOW FREE TRADE WORKS. Testimony from the Lips of Belgian Work men and Manufacturers. Open Letter to lion. Frank Hurd. I see by the American newspr that you, as a Democrat, are urging the blessings of free trade in your district If you could be here iu Belgium one day, you would see your error. I will try to show how sadly you aro misleading your constituents. The other day I went into the iron works hero. The owner employs 200 men making steel wagon springs. They are shipped to France, England, and America. When I asked the splendid workmen what they were getting a day for skilled labor at tho forge, they said: “Seventy cents (3.V francs) a day, sir.” “But how can you live on that,” I asked, “for I see you eat American Hour and American ba con, which costs more here in Belgium than in America?” “Well, wc don’t eat so much as they do in America,” they said. “We never think of hav ing meat oftener than twice a week. We live on soups and vegetables. Wo live about as badly as the Chinese. We wear cotton clothes only. Our stomachs are accustomed to famine. Dry, black bread tastes good to us. They say you had a I>r. Tanner in America who lived forty days on water. We do a good deal as Dr. Tan ner did.” What the man said was true, for this seventy cents would not buy so much food in Belgium as it will in Cleveland. From the workmen I went to tho mill owner. He lived in a nice house and kept a carriage. He was a nice Christian man, who loved bis men. He had been a forge man himself once. “Why do you not pay your men highei wages?” I asked. “Such men get $2.50 in Cleve land, O. “Tho reason is this,” he said. “I ship my wagon springs to America. 1 have to pay S4O on every SIOO worth of springs sent there. That $lO comes off of my men’s wages. If it came off of me I would bo ruined in a day.” “But they pay $2.50 a4fay m America,” I sug gested. “Yes, but they are protected there. The manufacturer gets S4O more for every SIOO worth of his springs than I do. That S4O enables him to pay these high wages. His men got every cent of it." “But suppose they should reduce that tariff in America, as Congressman Frank Hurd amt the Democratic party generally want them to?" 1 asked. “Well, the price of wagon springs would fall 40 per cent. Wo would ship our springs there if springs were higher than in Belgium and fill tho market. You do not think the Yankees could pay $2.50 per day for labor and make spriugs as cheaply as we can and pay men 70 cents, do you?” “Would a reduction of the tariff in America break up their iron works?” 1 asked. “No,” said the Belgian, “it wouldn’t break them up, but they would have to shut down for a while.” “Well, how long?” “Why, until tho American workman was starved down into working for 70 cents a day. Then they’d start up again. Then Belgium and the United States would be alike. Both would have tho same priced labor. America is now the only nation on tho globe that pays $2.50 a day for labor. JBh© does it because she lias a tariff.” “Then why don’t yon go over there and start a manufactory ?” I asked. “Because l would be no better off than here. My men would get almost four tunes as much wages as here; buts. as a mill owner, would make no more money. I make as much money here as I could in America. You see I live in a nice house. I could do no more in America. It is tho laboring man in America Phat is benefited by the tariff not the mill owner.” “But there is u congressman iu Ohio, Frank Hurd,'' I said, “who advocates taking off this tariff!” “There is?" “Yes. he advocates it publicly.” “Ami laboring men listen to him?” “Yes.” “And don't know that this Hurd would take the bread out of their children’s mouths, yes, starve them down to seventy cents a day?” “Oh,” 1 said, “I suppose ho fools some of them." “Well,” he said, “I am an old man. I’ve worked at the forge for fifty cents a day myself, and I say feelingly that a man so ignorant and wicked as to injure the workmen of America -why the workmen ought to rise up in their indigna tion. and sweep him from tho earth. Ho isn’t fit to receive the votes of a free people.” This is what the honest old Belgian said. lam no politician. Mr. Hurd, but light lias broken in upon me. and l must let it shine. 1 beg of you to heed this letter. If you cannot see yourself how a low tariff would ruin the la boring man you are to be pitied. But from this time on, if you go on misleading your constitu ents it will be your fault. Eli Perkins. Brussels, Belgium. Sept. 15, 1884. THE CHARGES AGAINST BLAINE. Prof. G. F. Wright, of Oberlin College De clares They Are Not Proven. Lrttor in Cleveland Leader. The conclusions to which my investigations have led me arc briefly these: The charges against Mr. Blaine are far from being proved. Many of them we can clearly show to be erroneous, and tho worst of them admit of an explanation, unless we go upon tho principal that with public men the worst possi ble construction should always be put upon their actions and woids. But, in our opinion, tho position of Mr. Blaine is such—he has been so long open to public criti cism, he is confided in so largely by the best of men of the Republican party, who have had am ple opportunities to know him, among others by President Garfield —that his dubious actions are entitled to a generous construction. It is as serted, I know, that Edmunds distrusts Mr. Blaine, and that ho “has repeatedly said in pub lic that Blaine in the Senate was the tool of Jay Gould.” But Mr. Edmunds has presided at a Blaine meeting since the nomination, and now states that lie never said any such thing as that Blaino was the tool of Gould iu the Senate, and that he could not have said it, because ho never thought it If there is one discouraging thing in the present political campaign it is that the Demo crats and the independent Republicans are both so ready to hold in abeyance their political prin ciples, under the hopes of sailing into office on the strength of the personal prejudices they hope to rouse against Mr. Blaine by their own misrepresentations. Misrepresentation is all the stock they have in trade. I have had this consideration forced upon me during the exten sive trip made this summer through Missouri, southern Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, and western Pennsylvania. In the guise of a geolo gist I have been permitted incidentally to ascer tain the sentiment prevailing: in the saloons and kindred places, where tho rank and file of Democracy spend their leisure hours. So far as I bavo read this public sentiment, the main reasons urged for the triumph of the Democratic party are two: First, to get the Republicans out of office: second, to rebuke the tem perance sentiment which so manifestly prevails among the Republicans. The opposition of the Democratic party to sumptu ary laws tells the whole story. Tho Democratic party is opposed to all positive legislation in favor of morality. They are opposed to temper ance laws and to Sunday legislation, and for this reason I canuot believe that the Prohibi tionists will thoughtlessly throw the power into their hands. And how the civil-service reform ers should hope to promote their cause by inau gurating a party whose first move, logically and necessarily, will be to make a clean sweep of all the officers, from the clerk at Washington to the light-housekeeper at Alaska, is more than I can comprehend. INDIGNANT REPUBLICANS. The Cincinnati Commercial Gazcite Sells Its Columns to the Enemies of Mr. Blaine. Cincinnati special. The Republicans of Cincinnati are very much torn up to-day about the Commercial Gazette selling one of its columns on tho fifth page at advertising rates to tho independent Republi cans to attack Blaine. Mr. Blaiuo himself left here feeling very sore over the matter. It is said numerous telegrams were sent by leading Republicans to Halstead in Ncsv York to day protesting against this. It appears that the column is sold as an advertising column with reading matter. It nas not been announced who furnished the money to the so-called inde pendent for this enterprise, but it has been intimated that they aro included in the list of names signed to the call to Carl Scliurz purporting to come from independent Republi cans. Lawrence Maxwell, a disappointed as pirant for a nomination by the Republicans, is supposed to bo the prime mover in this enter prise. There is but a very small handful of in dependent Republicans here, and the fact that none of them are overstocked with money gives ground for tho inference that they have re ceived financial help from the outside, probably from New York. POLITICAL NOTES. Methodist Ministers Have No Votes to Fool Away on St. John. Philadelphia, Oct. 4. —The Rev. J. D. Mnr tin, a prominent Methodist Episcopal clergyman of this city, writes to tho Press: “Your corre spondent from Pittsburg, in the issue of last Sat urday, gives tho political complexion of the Pittsburg Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The majority for Blaine is very large. ’ He then adds: “This is an indication ot tho prohibition movement in the Methodist Church, where it is claimed to be tho strongest. This is calculated to create an impression which I, as a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, do not wish to prevail. Being personally acquainted with tho majority of the ministers of the Pitts burg Conference, I can say nine out of ten of them would bo glad to cast their votes for pro hibition if they thought it would prevail. But they are not ready to cast their votes for St. John ami by so doing injure the chances of Mr. Blaine.” The Drummers’ Candidate. Louisville, Ky., Oct. s. —The committee ap pointed by the drummers’ national convention waited on Hon. Joseph Mulhatton last evening, and notified him officially of his nomination for President of the United States. Mr. Mulhat ton’s letter of acceptance appeal's in tho Courier- Journal to-morrow. The principal points of in terest in it are that the uprising of the drum mer fraternity means a now era, when business men shall prevent professional politicians and the lower classes from ruling tho business interests of the country; it favors pro hibition because no drummer or business man can drink liquors and bo successful; it opposes convict labor because it is a system of slavery, is unconstitutional, and interferes with honest workingmen, is brutal and cruel, ami a relic of barbarism; the letter favors retrenchment and reform, abolition of war taxes, tho surplus iu flic treasury to be applied at once to liquidating the public debt and for public improvements. Ex-Governor Hendricks. Wheeling, W. Va., Oct. s.—Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks spent Sunday very quietly at the Stamm House, receiving few callers. H • at tended church thh morning and left at i . \j on the B. A: O. luilivad for Columbus. PRICE ELV r E CENTS. THE LATEST FOREIGN NEWS. Admiral Courbet Occupies tho Forts at Itching Without Resistance. Belief that the United States Government is Trying to Settle the Franco-Chi nese Imbroglio by Mediation. Germany's Movements in Africa Caus ing Alarm Among Englishmen. German Admiration of Gordon's Defense ol Khartoum—A Serious ltiot on the Lougeliatnps Bare Course, Paris. FRANCE AND CHINA. Admiral Courbet Completes tho Occupation of Keliing Without Resistance. London, Dot. s. —Admiral Courbet telegraph!, as follows: “Wo completed the occupation of Kolung without resistance. The batteries at dam -u i were dismantled. It will be necessary, before proceeding to the coal-mines, to fortify The principal positions, so as to enable a small force to hold them. Tho sunken junks and torpedoes are being removed. Col. Negrier is massing his troops to march against the Chinese in Tonquin, and an engagement is soon expected.” Admiral Courbet has ordered Lespes to act very cautiously at Tatnsui, and not to land forces unless able to hold his position, Inan interview with M I’randin, interpreter of the French legation at Pekin, Li Hung Chang vio lently attacked the French. Frandin believes Li Hung favors peace. Prime Minister Ferry informed his Colleagues, at a Cabinet council yesterday, that further re inforcements were required for Tonquin, in con sequence of the increased preparations for war being made by China. The London Telegraph's Paris correspondent says lie has reason to believe that the United States government is continuing its generous efforts for mediation in ttie difficulty between France and China, which Minister Ferry may probably find the only means of exit from the imbroglio in which France is entangled. The correspondent adds that the United States, not Germany, will have tho last word in the Chinese question. The London Times Pekin dispatch of Satur day, says: “Your correspondent is assured on high authority that China is ready to submit to arbitration, and will abide by its consequences. The foreign community at Kelung is safe. No casualties to the men-of-war before Tamsui have yet been reported. COLONIZING AFRICA. Germany’s Movements Exciting: Apprehen sion Among English Merchants. London, Get. 4. —The activity of the German movements for colonizing the west coast of Africa is exciting grave alarm among English merchants. Several influential chambers of commerce have sent strongly worded petitions to Lord Granville, tiro Foreign Secretary, de claring that the interests of British shippers and traders doing business in Africa are seriously menaced by the German invasion, and praying the government to take energetic measures to protect this important trade. The petitioners take the ground that tho Germans, if allowed to establish themselves firmly in tho Comerooons district and tho other places they seek to occupy, would bo certain to levy differential duties, dis criminating against British and in favor of Ger man products, and thus crushing ont fair com petition. It is known, however, that Lord Granville is disposed to favor German coloniza tion, as a counterpoise to that of France. He lias recently expressed the belief that the Ger mans would prove more kindly neighbors than the French, and would do less than the latter to hamper British trade. The eminent African explorer, Herr Hegel, is expected to arrive in Hamburg shortly. It is said that Prince Bismar.-k lias expressed a de sire to meet and confer with him relative to Lite position recently taken by Germany in connec tion with her annexations of territory on the west coast of Africa. AFFAIRS IN EGYPT. Troops Stranded in One of Nile Cata racts—Gen. Gordon’s Khartoum Medals. Cairo, Oct. s.—Major Kitchener reports that Col. Stewart, with troops from Khartoum, is stranded on the rocks in the cataract, and asks that the mudii* of Donogola’s troops be sent to his assistance. Are mount of camels ami horses is being formed at Wady-Halfa. Sir Charles Wilson has started for Dongola by camel. A messenger re ports that Gordon has returned to Khartoum. Wolsely is at Wadv Haifa, where he is expected to remain some time. Gordon has had medals struck off to commem orate the siege of Khartoum. They have been bestowed upon the troops and also upon women and children who shared in the hardships f the siege They were given the latter because mer ited by their sufferings. Garrere, the Frem-h diplomatic agent at Cairo, is openly bostilo to the English. 110 has raised new disputes in connection with the judgship of the mixed tribunal at Alexandria, by the transfer of a French judge. Belief, to the Court of Appeals. Barriere insisted that another Frenchman bo appointed for the tribunal, ana tho English refuse. German and Austrian newspapers speak with enthusiasm of Gordon’s recapture of Berber. The Vienna Tagblatt says: “The story of the defense of Khartoum will live in history. It proves that British energy and genius are not dead.” RIOTING ON A RACK COt USE. An I'.ngiisli Jockey Severely Beaten hy a Mob of Enraged Frenchmen. Paris, Oct. s. —At the Longchamps races, to day, a mob. dissatisfied with the riding of an English jockey named Sharpe, pulled him off Lis horse and brutally kicked him. The horse was also injured by blows from sticks, stones and umbrellas. Sharpe was carried into the weigh ing inclosure in a critical condition. A violent riot followed, the mob breaking into tho inclosure. Soldiers wvre compelled to guard tho place against the infuriated crowd, one of whom was seized by three jockeys, and only escaped lynching bv the intervention of the police. The jockeys bad already stripped the fellow’s clothes off. and were about to hang him. The weighing room was hosiegrd by rioters for half an hour. Another English jockey was also maltreated. A FAMILY OF ASSASSINS. Shocking Tragedy—A Girl Murdered, ami Her Body Dissected. London. Oct. I. -The Austrian and Hungari an papers are full of a .shocking tragedy in Aus trian Gnllicia. The trial of tho culprits began last Tuesday, and is .still in progress, tln ro being no less than seventy two wiMes.-cs to be