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The statement has been repeatedly made ia
Democratic newspapers that General Harrison
ones said that "one dollar a day was enough for
any worklngman." This particularly idiotlo lie
lias been repeated in a number of forms, the last
one of which that we hare beard of, is in the
shape of a postal card addressed to workmen in
certain large towns and cities. The issuance of
such a story, in any shape, is entirely worthy
the corrupt scoundrels of the Democratio party
who forged the Morey letter in 18S0 for thepur
posa of injuring General Garfield's eandidacy.
The Journal is not a sporting paper, and does
cot, as a rule, believe in the force of wagers.
But there are CNE THOUSAND DOLLARS
the Journal has placed on deposit in Fletcher's
Bank, which will be paid to any man, woman or
child producing the proof that General Harrison
ever uttered any such sentiment as the Demo
cratic liars and forgers are charging him with.
This offer is unlimited, either as to time or
place. It will be paid to anybody who will pro
duce the proof, whether Urine in Indianapolis,
in Marion county, in the State of Indiana, or
in any town, city, township, county or State in
tha United States or Territories, and at any
time.
3Ir. Cleveland's pension mill is still
grinding.
THE conference of colored Democrats, called
for Indianapolis, on the 25th instant, will not
Heed Tomlinson Flail for their deliberations.
Brothec Mahorney, and possibly Brother
Harrison, may "confer' with the three or four
other negro Democrats who have called a
convention in this city on the 25th instant.
Query for the Sentinel: Did Thomas A.
Hendricks ever vote for a Republican? Did
not a good many Republicans vote for Thomas
A- Hendricks when he was a candidate on tha
national ticket? ,
The New York Sun says: "The whole De
mocracy, East, "West and South, will do well
to get into fighting trim, and that of the first
order, if they hope to confirm their grip upon
the government of the United States."
The Sentinel says General Harrison is "the
candidate of the Pennsylvania coal barons."
Since when did Congressman and millionaire
W. L. Scott, the Pennsylvania boss and big
gest coal baron of them all, become a sup
porter of Harrison."
The secretary of the New York Socialistic)
Labor party is reported as saying that the So
cialists will oppose the election of Harrison.
Why, certainly; this was to be expected. The
party which flies the red flag naturally affili
ates with the party whose banner is a red
handkerchief.
A Boston dispatch to the New York Even
ing Post says the mugwump organization in
Slassachusetts will doubtless be abandoned,
and its members will merge in the other par
ties. The object of the organization was to
oppose Mr. Blaine, and the nomination of
Harrison removes the reason of its existence.
A "PROMINENT Democrat' of Indiana, is
quoted as giving the probable figures of the
November election, in this State, dividing
BOO, 000 votes among the parties 240,000 to
the Democrats, 235,000 to the Republicans,
and 25,000 assigned to the three minor organ
izations, and then adds: "How is Harrison
oing to carry Indiana!" We can answer that
question. He is going to carry it because the
Republican ticket will receive the most votes.
Ask a harder one.
AFTER considering Senator Harrison's vari
ous offenses, the opposition has practically
reached the conclusion that his most heinous
crime is the possession of ancestors. They
can excuse his labor record and his Chinese
record especially slnco both have hit them
like a boomerang but they sternly refuse to
forgive him for having a grandfather who was
President of the United States, and a great
grandfather who signed the Declaration of
Independence. Upon this point they are
immovable. .
The Northwestern Christian Advocate says
the contest is between the Republican and
Democratic paties. While it has new aspects,
the issues are as old as the question itself.
The simplest statement will be, "Harrison
and protection," and "Cleveland and tariff for
revenue only." Political economy will be
read as it has not been for many years, but
we suspect that the solution of the main
question will not be hastened. When the
world ia finished and perfected free trade will
be univenal, but protection Kill be tie popu
lar American policy for many years to come.
Dr. John A. Brooks, the third party can
didate for Vice-president, opened his cam
paign in Kansas City the other night. The
report says that his speech consisted chiefly
ia the arraignment of the Republican party
for Its alleged neglect of duty. The- Demo
crats were not abused, because, as the orator
confessed, he was a Democrat once himself,
and, besides, tfce Democrats never promised
to do anything for the cause of temperance or
prohibition. That is to say, because the
Democratic party is an avowed free whisky
party the Prohibition candidate had nothing
to say against it. while the Republican party,
the only party that has ever done anything to
restrict the liquor traffic, calls forth his most
earnest denunciation. This is true third
party logic and decency.
'He Ithe American laborerl calls constantly
for hirher wages, and does not see that his high
wage increase the cost of every tb'ag, lifting
everybody higher and higher above ground, to
fall farther at the crash by and by." INDLVN
APOL1S SENTINEL.
"The simple fact is. many things are made
and sold now too cheap, for I hold it to be true
that whenever the market price is so low that
the man or the woman who makes it cannot get
a fair living out of the. making of it, it is too
low. BENJAMIN HARRISON.
ME- CLEVELAND OH THE BUff.
Grorer Cleveland's letter to tb.e Tammany
Society is the letter of a political coward. He
fairly shrieks that the Democracy is not in fa
vor of free-trade, yet cannot frame many sen
tences until he attacks the "system" under
which the present tariff laws are framed. That
"system" is the system of protection. When
he denounces the "system," he denounces
protection. There are but two "systems"
protection and free trade. Why cannot the
Democracy be honest and brave enough to
face the issue they have made? Ever since
Rhode Island answered Cleveland's message,
intensified since Oregon responded to the
Mills bill, the Democracy, headed by Clove
land, have been on the dead run from the
issue so bumptiously thrust forward in De
cember last.
The most pitiable and puerile nonsense is the
effort the Democrats are now making to im
press the country with the idea that the
whole issue between the two parties is one of
5 per cent.; that the Republicans are in favor
of a 47 per cent tariff, while the Democrats
only want to reduce it to 42 per cent
What a set of poltroons and cowards! A
"system" is not to be denounced on the narrow
margin of five per cent. Laws are not to be
denominated as "vicious, inequitable and il
logical," because of a paltry difference of five
per cent. What statesmanship! Do Mr.
Cleveland and the Mills Democracy take the
American people for a set of ninnies?
"The idea of anything cheap is repudiat ed by
your American laborer. He looks at the 6tyle
and luxury of the neb and works himself i nto a
fury to live the same way. The
American laborer would do well to study the
policy of the Chinaman in his policy of economy,
as well as of cheap labor." INDIANAPOLIS
SENTINEL.
"The simple fact is, many thiogs are made
and sold now too cheap, for I hold it to be tru3
that whenever the market prise is so low that
the man or the woman who makes it cannot get a
fair living out of the making of it, it is too low."
BENJAMIN HARRISON.
ME- CLEVELAND'S FBEE-TBADE LETTER
The President's letter to the Tammany So
ciety was a partisan plea for free trade, and an
attempt to fortify the arguments of his mes
sage and mold public opinion in favor of the
policy to which he and his party are wedded.
We thus have tbe spectacle of a President of
the United States, whose duties under the
Constitution are purely executive, making
himself the open champion of a policy in
volving an entire change of our governmental
practice and a complete overthrow of our
present commercial system. Properly speak
ing, the President of the United States has no
right to have a policy beyond seeing that the
laws are faithfully and honestly enforced, and
performing such other duties as the Constitu
tion devolves upon him. Mr. Cleveland is
the first President who has ever assumed to
be the popular champion of a particular
economio policy, and used the vast power and
influence of his office to force his views on
Congress and the people. His course in this
regard is little short of malfeasance in office.
Other Presidents have confined themselves to
the exercise of the constitutional prerogative
and duty of recommending to Congress such
legislation as they may have judged necessary
and expedient, and thoy have never done this
in a spirit of antagonism and coercion, much
less coming before the people as the advocate
of a pet policy, tad virtually characterizing
those who differed with them as either fools
or knaves, unpatriotic or dishonest. Mr.
Cleveland's ignorance of the science of gov
ernment and of the constitutional restrictions
and proprieties o;! his position is only equaled
by the indecent zal with which he champions
free trade and the coarse partisanship with
which he impugns the honesty or the intelli
gence of those who differ with him.
His Tammany letter is on the same line
and in the same spirit with his free-trade mes
sage of last December, the only difference be
ing that one was addressed to the Democratio
majority in Congress, while the other is ad
dressed to the most bitterly partisan and no
toriously corrupt political organization in the
country. As the St. Louis convention said,
the President's message was an interpretation
of the platform of 1S34, so it may be said the
Tammany letter is an interpretation of the
message. Construed together they reveal
very clearly the attitude of the Democracy
on the tariff question. In his free-trade mes
sage the President characterized our present
tariff system as "the vicious, inequitable and
illogical source of unnecessary taxation He
said every duty laid for tbe protection of
American industry raised the price of such
articles to consumers by precisely the amount
of the duty, the plain inference being that all
protective duties should be repealed. He rec
ommended and urged the immediate repeal of
the duty on wooL The Mills bill does repeal
that duty, and its supporters cling to this as
the most important feature of the bill.
In his Tammany letter the President
refers to the protection of American industry
as "a system that benefits certain classes of
our citizens at the expense of every house
holder in the land," and again as "extortion
on the part of the government," and "a sys
tem which breeds discontent." It will be ob
served that his attack is against the principle
and the system of protection; not against
moderate protection, but against any protec
tion. Therefore we say the Tammany letter
interprets and elucidates his message, and
makes clearer than ever the position and pol-
icy of the Democratic party on this question.
It is not tariff reform nor revenue reduction, but
free trade. The Mills bill, framed by a star
chamber committee of ex-confederate officers,
in a spirit of narrow partisan malignity and
hostility to manufactures, is the first step in
that direction. If successful, and if the
Democratic party is continued in power, this
measure will be followed by others, until the
last vestige of protection to American indus
try shall be abolished. This is the unpatriotic
programme set forth in the gospel of Tam
many as taught by Grover Cleveland.
'The American laborer would do well to
study the policy of the Chinaman in his policy
of economy as well as of cheap labor." INDI
ANAPOLIS SENTINEL.
"The simple faet is. many things are made
and rold no- too cheap, for I hold it to be true
that whenever tbe market price is so low that
the man or the woman who makes it cannot get
a fair living out of the making of it, it is too
low." BENJAMIN HARRISON.
COLOBED DEHOCBATS
A circular letter has been issued to colored
voters, which, after briefly reviewing the
political situation, and propounding the ques-
tion, "What part are we to act in the great
drama of 1SSS?" concludes with the following
call:
"Acting under the conviction that it would
be wisdom on the part of the great body of
negro American voters to be an independent
and unknown quantity in the present contest,
and that 'in the multitude of council there is
wisdom we, therefore, take the liberty of
hereby inviting you to attend a conference of
colored men to be held at the city of Indian
apolis, Ind., on Wednesday, July 25, 1888, for
tbe purpose of considering .what recommen
dations may be decided upon as best to pro
mulgate to the colored electors of the coun
try."
The Philadelphia Record regards this as an
indication cf the growing independence of
colored vo ters, and of their unwillingness to
be counted as an assured factor in the Re
publican party. Inasmuch "as Jas. M. Trot
ter, appointed by President Cleveland as Re
corder of Deeds at Washington, E. G. Walker,
who received appointments at the hands of
Governor Ben Butler and Mayor O'Brien, of
Boston, but was not confirmed by Republican
Councils, and two or three editors of Demo
cratic papers are among the dozen colored
men who have signed-, the call,
it seems probable th"at the;? Record is not
correct, and that at least a part of the
leaders in the movement are animated by
a different purpose. Indianapolis, which wel
comes all conventions, will give every facility
for conference to the visiting gentlemen; but
the Journal deems it proper to warn them that
the atmosphere of Indianapolis this year is
not conducive to the hatching of any schemes
for alienating the negroes from the party to
which they are attached by ties of gratitude
and the dictates of common sene, and the
knowledge that it is the only one which
favors their entire enfranchisement in a
political and industrial way. On the con
trary, the sentiment of the colored people
here is so strong in favor of Harrison and pro
tection that they are not only not to be
swayed by any conference, but are likely to
impart their enthusiasm to visiting delega
tions to an extent very distressing to "inde
pendents'' of Democratic proclivities. There
is every reason to believe that this is not the
year, nor Indianapolis the place, for the or
ganization of an independent negro party.
"The Chinaman's policy is to lire on next to
nothing. He outflanks the American by cheap
living. The American laborer would
do well to study the policy of the Chinaman in
his policy of economy, as well asof cheap labor."
INDlANArULilS SENTINEL).
"The simple fact is, many thine s are made
and sold now too cheap, for 1 hold it to be true
that whenever the market price is so low that
the man or the woman who makes it cannot get
a fair living out of the making of it, it is too
low." BENJAMIN 11AKUISON.
THE RAILWAY MAIL SERVICE.
Now that Postmaster-general Dickinson has
formally protested against the Civil-service
Commissioners' proposition to include the rail
way postal service in the classified list of gov
ernment employes, let us see what the Presi
dent will do about it He has recently set
his mugwump admirers into fresh ecstacies
of admiration over his "reform" principles, by
extending the rules to include all persons in
the Washington departments, some unskilled
.laborers and those whose appointments are
confirmed by the Senate. As all places in
these intermediate grades of service, not
hitherto under authority of the commission
ers, had long since been filled by Democrats,
the evidences of progress in reform by this
move are less evident than could be wished.
If there is any part of the civil service which
requires special qualifications of its employes,
it is in the railway mail department. Under
Republican administrations, a system of ex
aminations existed which tested the fitness of ap
plicants for position at once, and so strict were
the requirements that only those well adapted
to the work could remain in the service for any
length of time. This was a practical civil-service
system, such as the Cleveland regime has not
known, and under it the postal service of the
country had reached a degree of perfection
which was properly a source of pride to all
American citizens. Since Mr. Cleveland came
into power the postal department has degen
erated into a purely political machine, the
service is defective in every part, and in its
demoralized condition has caused incalculable
loss and annoyance to its patron;. This ma
chine is needed, howevei, in the coming cam
paign to assist in the desperate struggle of
the Democracy for the maintenance of its su
premacy, and Postmaster-general Dickinson,
as its manipulator, is quick to take alarm at
the prospect of lessening its utility. ' It is al
together probable that Mr. Cleveland will
coincide with Mr. Dickinson's views.
DAGO LABOR.
A measure recently introduced in the Ital
ian Paxliment will probably result in break
ing up the practice of shipping labor to this
country under contract, which has become an
evil of rerioas magnitude. Starting in a
small way, it has grown and extended by
degrees until all of the principal Eastern
cities, and somo in the West, have contractors
who make a business of furnishing Italian
laborers, which they in turn obtain by con
tract from agents fn Italy. The practice is
in every point of view a vicious one. It's
influence on American labor baa been demor
alizing, and it's practical operation is not
much better than temporary slavery. Our
own government has legislated on the subject
with some effect, but now the Italian govern
ment has taken the matter in hand. It is
claimed that some parts of Italy are being de
populated of laborers, and that self-preservation
requires that the business be broken up.
The bill referred to punishes with a fine
ranging from $100 to $1,000 anybody acting
as a negotiator between steamship companies
and emigrants without a license, and the
license fee is so heavy as to be almost pro
hibitory. Besides, the contract between agent
and emigrant is carefully guarded. It must
give the date when the emigrant was released
from military duties, the place of departure
and the port of destination, the day of sailing,
the name of the vessel, the exact fare, and
the quantity of baggage permitted. Hitherto
the agent's profit has Iain in the emigrant's
ignorance of the fare. The agent has paid
$26, and the emigrant contracts to repay G0.
The new bill makes all such contracts of re
payment null and void. Its passage will put
a stop to a practice equally deprecated by the
governments of both countries.
"You cannot sell aoy but the choicest cuts of
beef, the superfine flour and the choicest coffee
to a miner or mechanic The
American laborer would do well to study the
policy of the Chinaman in his poliey of economy
as well as of cheap labor." INDIANAPOLIS
SENTINEL.
"The simple fact is, many things are made
and sold now too cheap, for I hold it to be true
that whenever the market price is so low that
the man or tbe woman who makes it cannot get
a fair living out of the making of it, it is too
low." BENJAMIN HARRISON.
BISMARCK AND CLEVELAND.
Prince Bismarck is generally credited with
being a wise and sagacious statesman. In a
speech before the German Reichstag, recom
mending the adoption of a protective tariff,
he said: ,.
"Tne success of the United States in ma
terial development is the most illustrious of
modern time. The American Nation has not
only successfully borne and suppressed the
most gigantic and expensive war of all history,
but immediately afterward disbanded its
army, found work for all its soldiers and ma
rines, paid off most of its debt, given labor
and homes to all the unemployed of Europe
as fast as they could arrive within its terri
tory, and still by a system of taxation so in
direct as not to be perceived, much less felt.
Because it is my deliberate judgment that
the prosperity of America is mainly due to its
system of protective laws, I urge that Ger
many has now reached that point where it is
necessary to imitate the tariff system of the
United States."
Bismarck is probably as well posted in po
litical economy and the science of govern
ment as Grover Cleveland, and the German
Statesman does not hesitate to attribute the
wonderful prosperity and material develop
ment of the United States, in a large degree,
to the protective tariff policy. Mr. Cleveland
characterizes it as "the vicious, inequitable
and illogical source of unnecessary taxation."
Bismarck says "it is my deliberate judgment
that the prosperity of America is mainly due
to its system of protective laws." In this
case the foreigner is right and the American
is wrong.
, It would be an insult to the intelligence of
' American laborers for the Journal to spend
any time refuting the statement that General
Harrison once said that one dollar a day was
enough for workingmen. Since General Har
rison has become of age he has been more or
less of a public man; he has necessarily been
a candidate for public office, and, presumably,
has entertained the honest ambition any
capable man may properly conceive of
filling public station. We have never heard
anybody charge him with being an idiot,
which must be presupposed before any one
could believe he would say such a thing. As a
matter of fact, however, the sentiment is for
eign to the bent of General Harrison's
thought. He has always been a protection
ist, and in arguing for the protective
system has invariably argued for
high wages for workingmen. That has been
the warp and woof of his speeches for the Re
publican idea of the tariff. The sentiment is
expressed in everyone of his speeches through
out the whole course of his political career.
It is without deviation. Scarcely a speech can
be quoted from him in which he has not de
nounced the idea of "cheapness" as the ulti
mate good to be attained, although it is the
foundation stone of free trade and Democracy,
"I CANNOT find myself in full sympathy,"
said Senator Harrison on one occasion, "with
this demand for cheaper coats, which seems
to me, necessarily, to involve a cheaper man
and woman under the coat." The degree of
cheapness which msy be attained, not only by
the wearer of the coat but by the man or
woman who makes it, is shown by the report
of one who has investigated the condition of
the London working classes. He says:
"I have seen heavy workmen's trousers
made, lined, finished and hot-pressed, with
two pockets and seventeen large buttons, for
2 l-4d (4 1-2 cents) a pair, while painters'
-jackets, l ade of Holland, with pockets and
buttons, complete, are eagerly competed for
by starving women (London), who make
them for 4 3-4d (9 1-2 cents). The utmost a
woman can do at this work is to make three
in two days."
Sewing women in America, however low
their wages, have known nothing to compare
with these starvation figures; but at just
such rates thoy will have to work, and with
just such "cheapness" will they be called
upon to compete, when the Democratic free-
trade doctrines are put in force, and the
American laborer put on a level with the
European pauper.
THE President says in his Tammany let
ter that the protection of American industry
is "a system which breeds discontent."
Among whom? Not among American
workingmen, whose wages are better than
those of any other in the world. . Not among
the millions of factory hands and operatives,
whose bread and butter depend on their daily
earnings. Not among tbe families of these
bread-winners. Not among the tradesmen and
mechanics, who supply them with the necessa
ries of life, the butcher, the baker, the grocer,
the milkman, the hatter, the tailor, and all
the others who have dealings with Wage-
workers. Not among the farmers and gard
eners, who depend on a home market for their
products. Not among patriotic Americans, of
any calling or profession, who believe that the
way to make a country great, strong, prosper
ous and wealthy is to protect its industries,
and develop its resources. Where then is the
discontent that Mr. Cleveland says is caused
by the protection of American industry? It
is among the leader J of the Democratic party,
and British manufacturers.
A CALL for a conference of colored men, to
be held in Indianapolis in July, for the pur
pose of considering the political situation,
asks: "Are we to stand up and be counted by
this party or that, like so many dumb driven
cattle?" It is hardly necessary to meet in con
ference to answer that question. If yon live
in South Carolina, or Mississippi, cr Georgia,
or Louisiana, dear brethren, yon will not be
counted by either party, for the simple reason
that the Democracy will throw out such votes
as you are permitted to deposit and will shoot
those of your number who insist upon fair
play. Why go to the expense and trouble of
a conference to find this out?
Justice Miller, of the United States Su
preme Court, says in a published interview
that, while he did not care to talk politics, he
would say he thought the Republicans were
going to succeed this year. Asked why he
thought so, he said:
"Its candidates. I think, are the better men.
I have known Mr. Harrison and Mr. Morton
well for a long time. Mr. Harrison has prac
ticed in the Supreme Court before me a num
ber of times. lie is a good lawyer a thor
ough lawyer. His character is unimpeach
able. He is a strong, modest gentleman, and
has done well in every place in which he has
been put Another reason why I think the
Republican party will succeed is that the pro
tection issue is stronger than the other issue.
Tiie New York Post, which at one time
prided itself on being published for gentlemen
and edited by gentlemen, detaches from their
context in General Harrison's Chicago speech
the words, "I cannot find myself in full sym-
pathy with this demand for cheaper coats,"
and predicts that they will become permanent
political literature of the period.. The desper
ate need of the Democracy for campaign am
munition, and the depths to which its organs
will descend, could not be more clearly shown
than in this contemptible proceeding of a once
high-toned journal It is an act of which the
Indianapolis Sentinel, at its worst estate,
would hardly have been guilty.
General Harrison has no claim upon the
support of a single Indiana Democrat in this
campaign. He never voted for a Democrat
in his life. bentmei.
We suspect this dreadful charge is true.
Editor Henry Watterson tells his readers
that though William Henry Harrison may have
lived in a log cabin, his grandson, Benjamin,
lives in a palace. Visiting delegations, whose
expectations have been aroused by this romance,
are likely to bear a grudge against Henry. It is
only to the truly-gifted and soaring imagination
that Mr. Harrison's plain, though comfortable,
residence is made to assume the likeness of a
"palace," and unfortunately the average visitor
is dot so gifted.
"This is inspiration! this is inspiration!"
shouted an exultant Democrat while flaunting
his red bandanna in the face of a Republican in
Albany, Mo., the other day. "Yes," replied the
Republican, "inspiration to a bull, a Communist,
a turkey-gobbler and a Democrat Tbe crowd
enjoyed the thrust, while the Republican ex
plained that it was inspiration to "John Bull,"
as well as his namesake in the fields.
The newspapers neglected to remind the small
boys not to invest in the deadly Fourth of July
toy pistol this year, but, curiously enough, no
casualties from that source have been reported.
Can it be that the little rascals, missing the
usual warnings, forgot to buy the pistols?
POLITICAL NOTE AND COMMENT.
No intelligent Democrat entertains the least
hope that Cleveland will carry Indiana. Mil-
watyree Sentinel.
"Ae Mills closing bill" is what the Troy
Times aptly styles the free-trade measure now
pending in the House of Redresentatives.
Concerning Mr. P. Ford, the Boston Tran
script unkindly observes that he has taken to
the woods politically, and everybody is to be
congratulated except the woods.
"We will wave that shirt" said Mr. W. F.
Gurley at the Grand Island ratification meeting
the other night "just so long as the Southern
Democracy shall put blood on It! And every
body cheered.
The London Spectator, foremost among free
trad advocates, lately said that "Grover Cleve
land has done more to advance the cause of free
trade than any Prime Minister of England has
ever done.
Ben Harrison is to be envied. Gen. Lew
Wallace will prepare a sketch of his career. It
would be worth dying if one could come baek
and read one's obituary written by the pen that
gave Ben-Hur to posterity. Louisville Com
mercial. The Portland Oregonian says that "all the
Republican Senators and Representatives from
the Pacific coast are entirely satisfied with Gen
eral Harrison's record on the matter of anti-
Chinese legislation, including even Senator
Mitchell."
William H. Grace, a prominent real estate
dealer in Brooklyn and an active member of the
First ward Democratio association of that city,
has resigned from that body on account of the
declarations of the Democratic platform in favor
of free trade.
Over one of the largest silk mills in Paterson,
N. J., floats a flag inscribed, "Protection, Har
rison and Morton." Tbe flag shows which way
tbe wind blows in Paterson. a thriving commu
nity built up by protection against foreign silk.
Boston Transcript
If ex-Governor St. John, as reported in the
Herald, considers tbe whisky plank of the Re
publican platform which, by the way, is not
there as a "bid tor tne liquor vote," what
would he call the out-and-out free-whiskv plank
of the Prohibitory platform! Boston Journal.
The demand for protection literature is very
great from all sections. The Home Market Club
will furnish such documents to all who. apply.
Officials of Republican clubs, Republican com
mittees and others desiring such, should address
Herbert Radclyffe, secretary, 56 Bedford street
Boston.
Here is another powerful stimulant to man's
ambition to run for the presidency. When
the news reached General Harrison that he
had been nominated bis lady type-writer
rushed up and kissed bim right on the mouth.
The female style of ratifying a nomination is
not very slow. Detroit Tribune.
Grover Cleveland's substitute, if he were
alive, would vote for Oeneral Harrison, but
Cleveland let him die in the poor-house and has
never expressed any regrets over bis brutal
treatment of htm either. He still owes his sub
stitute $150. according to the latter's statement
just before he died. Detroit Tribune.
A Democratio paper asks: "What do the
workingmen of the United States think of the
fact that Harrison is the friend of the Chinese!"
The question aa it is put is cot true; but it sug
gests one that is true: What do the working
men of the United States think of a party whose
success at the polls is eagerly desired by tbe
manufacturers of Eoglaud. New York Tribune.
The St. Louis Globe-Democrat says: "The
declaration of the Republican platform in favor
of one cent postage Is a sound and timely one.
Cheap postage is a direet saving, to all classes of
people; and experience has proved that all losses
of revenue eacsed by reduction in the letter-rate
are soon made good by increased correspond
ence, which is also a gain in intellectual prog
ress." The Hon. Levi J. Del and, of Fairport, N. Y.,
member of tue Assembly and of the Democratio
State committee, is said to have announced his
Jntintion to vote for Harrison and Morton. He
is a large manufacturer, and wants no Cleve
land free trade in his politics. Assemblyman
Defendorf, of Monroe county, is also said to en
jI5in intentions similar to those of Mr. Delanl
"The woods are full of them."
ABOUT. PEOPLE AXD THINGS.
Mrs. Marshall O. Roberts, of New York,
has completed her matrimonial negotiations with
the Earl of Arrae, and the widow and the noble
man will be mated this fall. Mrs. Roberts' in
come is $ 5, 000 a year.
IT is rumored in Russia that proceedings in
lunacy art about to be begun against Tolstoi,
the novelist If Tolstoi is crazy he has certainly
made it pay. He has a world-wide fame and a
good income from his books.
The youngest justice of the Supreme Bench
of Tennessee is Judge Snodgrass, of Chattanoo
ga. He is thirty-seven years of age, and was
nominated for the office when only a few montns
over thirty-five, the age at whiea he became eli
gible. Private Secretarv Lamont will not take a
vacation this summer. His wife and children
have gone to Cortland, N. Y., and will soon gc
to the Maine coast for the remainder of the sea
son. Colonel Lamont's duties have become un
usually burdensome since the Chicago conven
tion adjourned.
Longfellow, the poet, waa'oncea member of
the old Portland (Me.) Rifles, and is said to
have been greatly perked up over the brilliant
green uniform in which he used to parade, and
which lent to his carriage a certain distinctive
-air that never entirely disappeared.
Mr. Hosea H Lincoln, for forty-two years
principal of the Lyman school, East Boston, has
just entered the ministry of the Unitarian
Church, neis sixty sevea years old, but in
. u v. uvut.u. nuu caisuauj liver's iu V c
form many years' service in his new field.
The insane asylum forjnegroes at Goldsboro,
N. C, has just been enlarged on account of the
rapid increase of insanity among the cplored -people.
Thirty years ago madness was almost
unknown among the Southern negroes, but now
the number of those affected in North Carolina
alone is estimated at 1.000.
Edward B. Uxdemiilt a IrnVpf. w r.
fused membership in the New York Stock Ex
change. He blamed Goodsell Buckingham, jr.,
alsc a broker, for the black-balling. After think
ing the matter over for four hours and a half
Mr. Underhill has concluded that be has grounds
for action at law. He has accordingly sued Mr.
Buckingham for $100,000 damages for slander.
The campaign egg for 18SS is a new and clever
toy which will mightly amuse old folks as well
as children. It is about the size of a turkey's
egg, and is finely enameled. Blowing into a
little hole on the side produces the sound like
the crowing of a rooster, and on touching a
spring out flies a little brass rooster which
bears the legend, "I crow for Cleveland an
Thurman," or "for Harrison and Morton."
Mr. Robert Louis Stevenson, with his wife,
his mother, and Mr. Lloyd Osborne, have sailed
from San Francisco in Dr. Merritt's Caseo, the
largest yacht in those waters. The voyage will
last seven months, and will include visits to the
Marquesas islands, Otah6ite, and Honolulu.
Mr. Stevenson will continue his literary work
during the cruise, and will seek new sources of
inspiration in the lands and seas he visits.
Governor Ames, of Massachusetts, lies crit
ically ill with acute bronchitis at his Common
wealth-avenue mansion in Boston. There , is
danger of apoplexy, and his family are deeply
concerned. Already a number of consultations
have been held. Governor Ames attended the
Harvard commencement last week in his offi
cial capacity, and, although he was not feeling
well, he remained throughout tbe exercises.
The next day he called in his physician.
A peculiar use for the phonograph has been
devised by Clara Morris, who, being convinced
that no speaker hears his own voice exactly as
others hear it theorized that by speaking into a
.phonograph and then turning a crank she would
have a correct idea of the effect of her declama
tions. Her experiments have not been entirely
successful, as the repeated tones lack the vol n me
of the original utterances, but there is said to b
a precise mimicry of, emphasis, inflection and
color.
The first volume of the "Correspondence '.
Peter the Great," which is about to appear, will
contain 402 letters and documents referring to
the period of 16SS-1701, and will consist of more
than 1,000 pages. Tnere are two portraits.
: : l - i . . i. j i i i
iac-iiuiies ui loiicra, acu pians ana urawings
made by Peter himself. The work has been
brought out under the supervision of a commit
tee of savants, of whom Professor Bytchtoff,
director of the Imperial Pubho Library, is the
chief. In 1877, 10,000 documents had been col
lected. Prince Bismarck is shaved every day by his
valet After a light breakfast Bismarck sub
mits himself to'the razor. He is not very pa
tient under the operation, but has refused to
wear a beard. His valet who is generally very
reticent regarding Lis master, recently made
public a curious fact Bismarck's beard, unlike
that of most men, grows more rapidly in winter
than in summer. Just why this is the case is
bard to explain. The valet is inclined to think
that nature hat so ordained it that he may have
an easier time in not weather.
Is Is a feather in the Episcopalian cap, how
ever, that the "Duchess, " Miss Hammersley,
who professed tbat faith, and the Duke of
Marlborough, who as a church and state man
must have nominally held to it, could get no
clergyman of that faith to "bless them," and
after Mayor Hewitt's legal performance sought
color of sanetity to their union by calling in tn
aid of a Baptist clergyman. Altogether, indeed,
for an American woman to be made a duebess
at such a price is a highly instructive, if not an
edifying spectacle.
WW .. .
uenikal uarrison is pleasantly remembered
by Hartford people as one of the Piscatorins
Club excursion of 1S72. The club was an or
ganization of Hartford gentlemen who were in
terested in tbe sport of fishing, and made an
nual excursions down the river into tbe bound
' in a chartered vesseL In 1S72 General Harri
son was an invited guest of tbe club, and was
.made an honorary member. There were about
aixty persons on board the schooner that vear,
and General Harrison, with bis son, then four
teen years of arfe, made himself popular with the
party by his genial manner and good fellow
ship. Hartford Courant
A novel party was lately given by tome Phil
adelphians at a summer resort. Invitations
were issued for a "ghost party," and tha evening
was devoted to the recitation of weird and grue
some talet of horror, and to the recounting of
personal experiences that were in every war
calculated to make the hair of the assembled
company stand on end. When the blood of all
the guests was beginning to curdle tbe witching
hour of midnight was rung cut by the clock.
This proved to be the signal for sunner, and im
mediately lights were brought, and tbe ghostly
seance was over.
One of the recently-organized "trusts" has
come to grief. Certcin varieties of stamped
envelopes issued by the government had been,
for one reason or another, withdrawn from sale
at tbo nostofiees. and a avndicate. bavin? rH-
tained possession of all the available supply, has
been reaping a rich harvest from atamn-eollect-or
a. Now tbe Third Assistant Postmaster
general has ordered tbe postmaster at New York
to keep on tale, at 1 cent abov the face-value of
the atamp, quantities of all irrsguiar issues" of
tamoed envelopes. Specimens for which the
tpeeulators have been receiving $5 each can
hereafter bo bought for C cents.
Many anecdotes are current of the Prince of
Wales's reeent visit to Cambridgo University.
master of St. John's, sent for the college cook a
few days before the great function was to come
off, and told him to prepare the beat menu bis
genius would enable bim to drr.w up The cook
tent in a card with eighthen courses, which was
sent to the Prince's secretarv with the request
tbat he would show it to tha Prince. The story
runs that tbe menu was sent back with tbe re
mark that it was all very well so far as it went,
but that It would be all tbe better if two special
dishtt, the recipe for which were inclosed, were
added to it Dr. Sandys, the public orator, de
scribed Prince Albert Victor a xmplar iu
Tentnis." He declared that Mr. Raiket might
with great propriety he created a Doetor of Let
ter. Kim'l thA udercraduates receive 31.
Goiehen with a general howl of "Good 014
Wheels."
Crowding Hie Muuroers.
Indiana ChrUtUn AdTocste.
The press is commenting on the marriage of a
Mr. Jiaseom. of Scott county, on the day that
his'fonner wife's funeral was preac&ed. That
is nothing. We once preached the funeral of a
dear departed wife two weeks after the seeond
raarrlatre of the bereaved husband. Wife num
ber ope had then ben dead foil four weeks.
W ife number two was present and did Ler fad
share of the mourning on the cccaaiea.