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THE INDIAHAPOUS JOURNAL, SAT lK DA Y OCTOBER 20, 1388.
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COSTISOIST ILICTORS,
NICHOLAS McCAKTY. cf Marion,
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PISTBICT ELECTORS.
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Second TUOMAS. J. BROOKS, t Martin.
Third DAVID W. VOYLFS. of Hrrion.
Fourth JOHN O. CRAVENS, of Iiioley.
Fifth-D.WID E. BEEM. of Owen.
Sixth LEANDER P. MITCHELL of Henry.
Seventh WINFIELD T. DUKBIN, of Madison.
Eighth-JOIIN a CHASE Y. of SulliTan.
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Tenth FRANK NWIOAP.T, f Cass.
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Thirteenth HIRAM S. BIGGS, of Koselusko.
Congressional.
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Third STEPHEN D. SAYLKS.
Fourth MANLY D. WILSON.
Fifth HENRY C. DUNCAN..
Sixth THOMAS M. BROWNE.
Seventh THOMAS E. CHANDLER.
Eizbth-JAMES. T. JOHNSTON.
Ninth JOSEPH B. CHEADLE.
Tenth WILLIAM D. OWEN.
Eleventh GEORGE W. STEELE.
Twelfth-JAMES B. WHITE.
THrteenth-WlLLIAM IIOYNES.
Legislative and Judicial.
STATE SrNATOBS.
FERDINAND WINTER,
WILLIAM E. TOUSEY.
JOINT SrSATOH MARIOX, SHELBY ANT HANCOCK, .
SIDNEY CONG Eli, of Shelby.
EIPRESEXTATIVr?,
Ml LLA RD F. CONNETT,
GEORGE F. McGINNIS.
G EORG E C. WE BST E R,
CHARLES r. HECKMAN,
WILLIAM W. WALDEN.
J0I2TT KrFRISINTATXVX MASIOX, SHELBT AXD HAN
COCK.
WARREN R. KING, of Hancock.
JITK3Z NINETEENTH JUDICIAL CIBCCTT,
JoIIN V. HADLEY, of Hendricks, .
FEOSXCUTINO ATTORNEY NINETEENTH JTDICIAL
C1F.CCIT,
HARRISON T. TIN CHER, of Marion.
State Ticker.
GOYERKOS,
ALVIN P. HOVEY. of Posey.
LIETT.-OOVIBNOB.
IRA J. CHASE, of Hendricks.
JCPGH Ot" .SCPEXM COURT.
1st District SIL.S D. COFFEY, of Cay.
21 D;trict-J. O. LEF.KSHIKE, of Jenning.
4th District WALTER OLIS, cf Whitley.
8?CKETAKV OV ST ATI.
CHARLES t URIFFIN, of Lake.
AUDITOR OF STATE,
ERUl E CARR, of OranSe.
TREAT FX It OF STATS.
JULIUS A. LEMCKE. of Vanderburg.
ATTOaSSY-GENERAL,
LOUIS T. 3IICIIENER, oZ Shelby.
srrx2iNTT.yrxNT or public instructio.v,
HARVEY M. LA FOLLETTE, o2 Boone.
EirORTEB OT SUPREME COCBT,
JOHN L. GRIFFITHS, of Marion.
County Ticket
LEANDER A. FCLMER.
TliEAMTEZR,
3IAHLON H. FLOYD.
CO BO NX a,
THEO. A. WAGNER.
SURVEYOR,
JACOB W.LOEPER.
commissioners,
BENJAMIN P. OSBORN,
FIELDING BEELER.
The 6-o'clock Coy reform will kick ia the
breech. We give the Democratic fraud man
agers fair notice now to that effect
THE Harrison and Morton Veteran Regi
ment will make guardians cf the polls on
election day who will guard. The old sol
ders will neither be bluffed nor bulldozed by
Democratic bullies and heelers.
Grover Cleveland will find that vetoing
is a same that two can play at The old sol
diers will have their innings on the Gth of No
vember. There will be more vetoes that day
than Cleveland ha3 been able to send in
throughout his whole term.
It may have been a fine stroke of economy
for Mr. Cleveland's Commissioner of Indian
Affairs to contract for eight hundred wagons
xuanuf actured by convict labor in the Tennes
see penitentiary, but it was hardly consist tnt
for an administration that makes such loud
professions of friendship for workingmen.
The Commissioner of Indian Affair who made
this contract was from Tennessee.
TriE Republicans of those Democratic wards
where Coy has arranged to have the polls open
at 6 o'clock in the morning, so a3 to commit
frauds early in the day, will be reinforced by
committees of vigilance and safety from Re
publican wards, where the polls do not open
until 8 o'clock. These extra two hours will
be put to good purpose by .Republicans who
can be e pared from their own precincts. The
Coy scheme for fraud through the 6-b'clock
dodge will not bring forth the fruit expected
ef it
TnE power of the Pension Office ia being
used in this State to make votes for Cleveland
in a way that ougrht to disgust honest men.
Pension agents and persons representing them-
selves as clerks of the Pension Office are cir
culating among the old soldiers and quietly
telling them, as if by authority, that it ia
very unwise for them to oppose' the Demo
cratic administration. Hints are dropped to
those receiving a pension that if they vote for
Cleveland they may expect an increase, and
to those who are not drawing a pension that
voting against Cleveland is a very poor way to
get one. By thus playing on their hopes and
fears it is sought to dragoon the old soldiers
into voting the Democratic ticket . It is a
contemptible style of electioneering, but no
worse than many other things that are being
done by the same party.
TEE INFAMOUS POSTOFHCE.
Those organs of political purity which sup
ported Cleveland four years ago because he
was about to reorganize and reform the civil
service to a degree that would leave nothing to
be desired, either preserve a cowardly silence
in regard to the charges made against the
mall service, or refer to them slightingly as
campaign attacks which deserve no notice.
The truth is that the half has not been told
concerning the condition of the service in In
diana. Whatever it may be in other sections
of the country and complaints in 'the Jour
nal's exchanges show it to be far from satis
factoryin this State and city it is outra
geously inefficient, and is prostituted to polit
ical purposes to an intolerable degree. The
testimony offered by Mr. Swift before Senator
Hale's committee showed Postmaster Jones's
disregard of the civil-service law in the em
ployment of incompetent Democrats in place
of discharged soldiers, but his report did not
cover the results of this course, nor describe
the effect of the dismissal by those in author
ity of experienced postal clerks. These re
sults are felt by all classes of citi
zens who receive mail in any quantities.
Business men long since found that no de
pendence could be placed upon the prompt
ness and regularity of delivery, and many
now decline to submit important communica
tions requiring swift transmission to the post
office, or do so with misgivings. Letters
plainly addressed to towns in the next county
wander over the United States, and are
finally returned to the writer; let ters to well
known citizens in the next block return
eventually through the dead-letter office; let
ters are mixed in distribution to private
boxes; they are mixed by carriers in de
livery; they are mailed by anxious jvriters
and heard of no more. As for newspapers
distributed through the Indianapolis office,
subscribers who receive one in three on
proper time consider themselves lucky. This
inefficiency is the more exasperating when
the former perfection of the service and its
capabilities are considered. , The public has,
however, been charitable through all the
losses and annoyances, and has hoped for
improvement and that the new employes
would, in time, become proficient in the per
formance of their duties. Since the depart
ment has been turned into a political ma
chine, private mail tampered with, lost and
destroyed, ana" absolutely dishonest and
swindling methods boldly resorted to, this
hope proves to be without foundation. The
example set by postmasters will be followed
by their subordinates. 'What the former do
for political purposes the latter will do for
their own profit, and no mail will be safe.
The only remedy is to turn the rascals out
A NATIONAL OUTRAGE.
The Democratio treatment of Dakota con
stitutes one of the most infamous passages in
our recent history. The long-continued ex
clusion of this magnificent Territory, with its
700,000 population, from the benefits and
blessings of the Union is a political outrage
which for rank injustice and violation of pop
ular rights can only find a parallel in the pre
vious record of the same party. The attempt
to force slavery on the Territory of Kansas
was not a greater outrage on the principles of
popular government than the forcible exclu
sion of Dakota from the Union. And in the
present case, as in the former one, the motivo
is basely partisan. The exclusion of Dakota
is a part of the Democratic conspiracy of which
the suppression of the colored vote in the
South, the maintenance of a solid South by
force and fraud and the election frauds in
New York, Ohio, Indiana and other Northern
States are also parts. The object is to keep
the Democratio party in power. The same
party that kept Kansas out of the Union long
after she was entitled to come in, and that
made it a field of bloody war in the attempt
to establish slavery there, has for years past
been keeping the doors of the Union closed
against Dakota for partisan reasons alone.
Dakota has an area of 140,100 square miles,
being more tharf four times as large as Indi
ana. It was organized as a Territory in
March, 1861. Its population in 18S0 was 135,-
477. In 18S5 it was 415,263, and it is now
700,000. The gain during the last year was
72,340. Thousands of Hoosiers have removed
thither with their families and are contribut
ing to the rapid gro.vth and development of
the Territory. The present population is
moie than four times that of Oregon or Dela
ware, and more than twice that of Rhodo
Island or Vermont. Indiana was admitted to
the Union in 1S1C, and did not have as large
a population as Dakota now has till after 1840.
Illinois was admitted to the Union in ISIS,
and did not have a population of 700,000 until
nearly 1850. Iowa did not have a population
equal to the present population of Dakota un
til twenty years after her admission as a
State. Kansas was admitted in 1SG1, and did
cot have 700,000 population until 1878. In
diana was admitted to the Union when she
had less than 110,000 inhabitants, Illinois
when she had less than 55,000 inhabitants,
Iowa when she had less than 100,000. Da
kota has 700,000, and is still kept out The
white population of Dakota at present is near
ly douole that of South Carolina, which has
two Senators and seven Representatives in
Congress; it ij 50 per cent, greater than that
of Mississippi, which has two Senators and
seven Representatives; 50 per cent greater
than that of Louisiana, which has two Sena
tors and six Representatives, and is nearly
equal to that of Georgia, which has two Sen
ators and ten Representatives. Of the Qeor
gia Representatives, all Democrats, one re
ceived only 2,001 votes; another only 2,411
votes; another, 1,704 votes; another, 2,009
votes; another, 2.099 votes; another, 1,722
votes; another, 2.377 votes; another, 2,355
votes; another, 1,044 votes. Here are ten
Democratic Representatives elected by 20,482
votes. Dakota has more than six times that
many voters, and is still kept out of the
Union.
Dakota is kept out of the Union by the
Democratic party. The exclusion of the
Territory is part of a conspiracy to prolong
the power of the Democracy until the South
becomes firmly seated in the saddle. If Da
kota had been peopled by New York toughs,
Baltimore shoulder-hitters, and men of the
Coy and Bernhamer stripe, the Democrats
would have dragged it into the Union by head
and shoulders years ago. Because it has been
populated by an honest intelligent, enterpris
ing class of men from the Middle and West
ern States, a majority of whom are Republic
ans, the doors of the Union are kept closed
against the Territory, and its 700,000 people.
are permitted to beg in vain for admission.
Great Britain never treatod one of her colo
nies as bad as this, and Russia herself would
hardly venture upon such an exercise of arbi
trary power. The American people should
drive from power and into disgrace a party
which thus habitually and systematically
tramples on the principles of popular govern
ment The exclusion of Dakota is a national
outrage.
THE INSANE ASYLUM HORROR
Dr. W. B. Fletcher was for several years
cuperintendent of the Insane Hospital under
the present corrupt and infamous manage
ment, until forced to resign to preserve his
self-respect In an official report to the Leg
islature of 18S7 a Democratic committee said:
"Dr. Fletcher i3 a man well fitted by nature
for the responsible position. He is kin liieart-
ed, benevolent and humane. To those nat
ural endowments ho has added, by assiduous
study, a thorough medical education. More
over, he has made the treatment of the insane
a specialty, and has acquired, by a wide and
vand observation, both in this country and
in Europe, and unremitting study, a know
ledge of the subject suspassed by few of the
many eminent men engaged in this noblest
work."
With this indorsement, even Democrats are
estopped from denying that Dr. Fletcher is a
good witnesses to the management of the
hospital. His long service as superintendent
gave him ample opportunity to observe the
inside working of things. Since his resigna
tion, in a public speech in this city he said:
"The whole institution is a festering mass
of political corruption, wherein the innocent
are made to suffer, and the only alleviation
for those suffering will be to carry the next
Legislature, with each member pledged to
support the State civil-service plank in the
Republican platform.
"The hospital has been a continuous poht-
cal pest-house, and a place, too, of refuge for
special political work of visiting and other
statesmen, who found the law-offices of the
city and private rooms in hotels were too pub
lic for their work."
In support of this statement Dr. Fletcher
produced an overwhelming array of facts,
showing cruel and inhuman treatment of the
insane, and fraud, corruption, favoritism,
jobbery and peculation in the management
Every county in Indiana has its representa
tives in the hospital. Almost every neigh
borhood has had an inmate there. Any fami
ly is liable any day to be obliged to commit
one of its members to the institution for
treatment The highest considerations of
humanity and of personal sympathy alike re
quire that the hospital should be managed
with a tender and supreme regard for the in
terest the welfare, the comfort and the hap
piness of Vis unfortunate inmates. Instead of '
that they have bsen beaten, bruised, mal
treated, fed on maggoty butter and diseased
meat, and the public money, stolen from the
State's insane. Las been squandered on pet
contractors and divided among thieves. All
this has been done in the name of party and
to establish and maintain a corrupt school of
partisan politics.
Turn the rascals out
INSULTING VISITORS.
The Sentinel yesterday made an insulting
and abusive attack on a party of prominent
railroad officials who took occasion to stop
here on their way East from St Louis, to call
on General Harrison. Citizens of Indianap
olis who have some local pride and hospitable
regard for visitors, have a right to feel cut-
raged at the course of the Sentinel. The fact
that the party referred to contained Mr. Cor
nelius Vanderbilt and Mr. Chauncey M.
Depew, prominent officials of the New York
t
Central railroad, was no reason why, upon
their arrival in the city, they should be treat
ed to a bucket of the Sentinel's filth. The
party consisted of four Republicans, two
Democrats, one mugwump, and one undecid
ed. They were railroad men, on railroad bus
iness. They had 'been as far west as St.
Louis, and, being on their way home, stopped
here to pay their respects to General Harri- -
eon. No doubt they would have done the
same thing if the Democratic candidate were
residing here. Even if their call had related
to politics there would have been no harm in
it, and no occasion for attacking them. This
is a free country, and citizens unconvicted of
crime can go and come as they please. But
these gentlemen simply" stopped to make a
polite call on the Republican candidate and
to take a look at the town he lives in. For
presuming to do this they were greeted with
a volley of billingsgate from the SentineL
That kind of treatment of strangers is a
mighty oot advertisement of the city.
MR- F0WDERLY HEARD FROM.
General Master Workman Powderly has is
sued a general order to the Knights of Labor
repudiating the Gould circular relative to the
dollar-a-day lie, on the ground that.it is of a
political character, and Gould had no authori
ty nor right to use the seal of the order for
such a purpose. The General Master Work
man adds that "the action of Local Assembly
203 and of Brother Gould will be investigat
ed." This is in keeping with Mr. Powderly's
character and record as an honest and honora-
ble man, wholly devoted to the cause of labor
and to the order of which he is chief officer.
He is not a politician, and is evidently not
disposed to allow the Knights of Labor to be
made a political machine or prostituted to the
accomplishment of anybody's dirty work. So
far as politics are concerned, the Journal does
not know whether Mr. Powderly is a Demo
crat or a Republican. In his official capacity
he has no right to be either, and he owes it to
the Knights of Labor to insist on the enforce
ment of their constitution against making the
order a political machine.
The Gould circular which JMr. Powderly
thus repudiates, and the issuing of which, un
der the seal of an Indianapolis assembly, he
says "will be investigated," is the one printed
on the type and press of the Indianapolis Sen
tinel and fraudulently circulated at publish
ers' rates as a pretended supplement to the
Labor Signal. Its invention, preparation
and circulation have been marked by fraud at
every step. The circular itself is an elabo
rate compilation of unmitigated lie3. Its
printing on the type and press of the Senti
nel as a supplement to the Labor Signal, with
out number, date or publisher's name, was a
swindle. Its circulation in the mails at a
cent a pound was a fraud on the government
and now General Master Workman Powderly
denounces it as a fraud on the Knights of
Labor, and cays "assemblies receiving these
circulars should pay no attention to them."
It looks very much as if the rascals who have
been working this fraud had overreached
themselves.
DEMOCRATIO CORRUPTION,
The report comes, with good evidence of its
truth, that the Democratic State central com
mittee received, this week, one hundred and
forty thousand dollars, the first installment of
the colossal corruption fund sent out by the
Cleveland-Barn um "mule-buyers'' to buy the
State of Indiana. The Democratic commit
tee and all the "heelers" are in high feather,
of course, reveling in the possession of this
immense boodle, and indulging anticipation
of more before election day.
People of Indiana, every honest man in the
State knows, as well as he knows anvthin?
that the sole reliance of fhe Democratic man
agers in this Stato is falsehood and fraud, ly
ing and corruption. This one hundred and
forty thousand dollars is part of the price put
up by the Democracy for the suffrage of Indi
ana. The question for Republicans and hon
est citizens to answer is, whether the shamo-
less, unblushing, open and notorious plans of
the corruption managers is to be permitted to
ucceed. Let Republicans increase their
activity and vigilance, and on the day of elec
tion see to it that everv effort at fraud is
m
peremptorily defeated.
The very latest development of this Demo
cratic "campaign of intellect" is the scheme to
play tho "Burchard" on General Harrison. In
the absolute hopelessness of finding any flaw in
his record or speeches it was proposed to send
here a Democrat inl disguise to play the
"Burchard" on him. A New York special
says:
"Their plan was to have a Democratic
speaker visit General Harrison. He was to
pretend to be a Republican from some far
away section of the country. While in the
General s presence he was to make a speech
containing remarks that would prejudice the
Republican candidate. These utterances were
to be mumbled in such a way as not to attract
the attention of General Harrison or ahv one
else, except the representatives of a .Demo
cratic paper, who would be on hand for the
purpose. He would telegraph it all over the
country late that night and as no contradic
tion could bo made until the next day, the ef
fect would be as great, it was thought as the
remarks of Dr. Burchard."
It is said the man has actually left New York
for this city, with instructions, but as the
scheme has become known it will, of course,
fail. It is only of interest row as an evidence
of the desperation of the Democratio mana
gers And the contemptible tricks they are re
sorting to.
The Sentinel has sot a trap for its readers
in offering a prize for the nearest guess to
Cleveland's plurality in Indiana. As Cleve
land will not get a plurality at all, any guess
vfould be wide of the mark. But there is an
easy way by which gueesers can beat the Senti
nel at its own game. Let them put the minus
mark - before the figures, and that will
indicate how much Cleveland will fall below
any plurality at all. Thus a guess of S.000
or 10,000 would mean that Cleveland
would be beaten by those figures. In that
way 6omo guesser may claim the reward.
But don't forget the minus mark. It all de
pends on the .
Some timei?o the Louisiana Legislature
levied a tax of $20 a barge on all Pittsburg coal
in traniiton the Mississippi river, and as this was
the same as a tariff imposed npon it the moment
it entered Louisiana jurisdiction, the Pittsburg
& Southern Coal Company refused to pay it
The matter wa3 brought into court by the
seizure of a barge by one of the sheriffs, and the
caso was fought by eminent attorneys until a
decision was rendered by the Supreme Court
sutaiaiog the right of the State authorities to
collect the t&x- The company has now appealed
to the Supreme Conrt of the United States, and
the case promiies to brine up the old question
of State richts in a new form. The Pittsburgers
are strong in denouncing the Louisiana law, and
say that the State is Inciting on something that
the United States Constitution saya mast not he
done when it provides for absolute free trade
and commerce between the States. The money
involved is about $20,000 a year.
The Journal is asked by telegraph to publieh
the vote on the Blair educational bill. It was
passed in the Senate of the Forty-eighth Con
gress by yeas 33, nays 11, as follows:
Yeas Blair, Brown, Call, Cameron of Wis
consin, Colquitt Con per. Cullom, Dawes, Doluh,
Edmunds, Frye, Garland, George. Hampton,
Harrison, iloar, Jaclcton. Jones, Jones of Flor
ida, Kenna, Lo?an, McMillan. Maoderson, Mill
er of New York. Morrill, Pike, Plait, Poeh,
Ransoms. Riddleberger, Sawyer, Williams and
W ilson 33.
Naya Rayard, Butler, Coke, Groome, Ilarris,
Rawley, Maxey, Miller of California, Morgan,
Pendleton and Saulsbury 11.
The bill was not considered in the House, and
in the Senate of the Forty-ninth Coneress it was
again passed yeas 35, nays 12. In the House
the bill was referred to the committee on labor.
To tne Editcr of tne mdiana&olli Journal:
To settla a dispute please etatn bow many
quinine factories tbere wore in the United States
before the doty on quinine was repealed, and how
many there are now, with names of arms.
Westfield, 111. w. o. vr.
We will state the facts once more: In 1S79,
when the free-quinine bill passed, there were
four manufacturers of the article in this coun
try. There are now but three, viz.. Powers &
Wightman, of Philadelphia; Rosengarten &
Sons, and the New York Quinine and Medical
Company. In a recent letter to tbe Journal,
Powers & Wightman say: "There are but three
manufacturers of quinine at present, Keasby &
Mattison having gone ont of business." In a
letter of Aug. 18, 1838, Keasby & Mattison say,
"Messrs. Powers & Wightman are about the
only manufacturers of quinine In the United
States, though two others besides ourselves
have plants that could be turned over to tbe
manufacture, if quinine could be manufactured
In this oountry at such rate as to compete with
theforeien."
To tbe Editor of tli Indianapolis Journal
Does the Mills bill put stone on the free listt
Or, if tbere is a tariff duty on tt, pleas say how
mUCO. faUSCBIBKR.
The Mills bill places oa the free list "stone.
unmanufactured or undressed, free-stone.
granite, sand stone, and all building or monu
mental stone."
To the Editor of th Indianapolis Journal:
Will yon kindly state in your next issue how
much of the sixty millions loaoed by Secretary
Fairchild is in banks controlled by Democrats?
J. J. B.
There is no means of ascertaining. The
loans were placed by the Western National
Bank, of New Yoric, of which the late Daniel
Manning was an officer, and ex-United States
Treasurer Jordan, an Intimate friend of the
President, is still an officer, and that bank has
over $1,000,000 of the loan;
X0TU JCsD COMMENT.
In a double-leaded editorial the Charleston
Newt and Courier warns the Democrats of South
Carolina that tbey must be up aud doing, and
then repeats Senator Voorhees's recent utter
ance, when he maligned General Harrison's
character. It says:
How is it in the, Sontht Tot the South there is little
hope of tranquillity and prosperity, under the just ad
ministration of equal laws, save in the continued dom.
ination of the Democratic party. In South Carolina
the consequences of a change of administration would
be momentous. Mr. Harrison is narrow, vindictive
and saturated with unreasoning hatred of the white
Jeople of the South. This .State, with Harrison as
'resident and the Congress in Republican hands,
would be In worse case than it was under Grant, or '
Haves or Arthur. Thee bad their alleviations. With
Harrison there would be nones. The News
and Courier is no alarmist. It has no desire to dis
tress or disquiet the people. What it has said is the
simple truth, and it would he worse than tony to
hide it, or ignore it.
The administration likes free trade so well
that it is still purchasing and importing English
blankets to keep the soldiers warm, at tbe same
time slapping in the face American wool-grow
ers and manufacturers. Last Sunday ten bales
of blankets arrived in New York by tbe steamer
Aurania, consigned to J. B. Hamilton, Surgeon-
general, U. S. A., Marine Hospital bervice.
Washington. D. C, U. S. M. IL 5., (United
States Marine Hospital Service), port of New
York. They were consigned to Oscar E. Mor
ton, care of the medical officer in charge. Tbe
saving on these blankets is 30 cents apiece, the
government, of course, paying no duty.
Hon. Rcswell G. Horr, who is making speeches
in the State, and has addressed nearly fifty
meetings in the East and West since the cam
paign opened, has written a letter to friends in
Minneapolis, in which be predicts that Harrison.
and Morten will carry every Northern State.
He estimates Harrison's majority over Cleveland
in Indiana at 10.000, in Michigan at 15.000, in ,1
Aiiconsin at 2j,090. in Connecticut at 5,000, and
in New York at 20,000. New Jersey he regards
ss about even, with good chances for a email
KepaMican majority.
Ther never wm a residential candidate of a treat
rarty so little known as Benjamin Harrison, of Indi
anapolis. Boston Globe.
The Globe, in its great desire to belittle Gen.
Harrison, evidently forgets that such a man as
Grover Cleveland ver existed. Gen. Harrison
was a brilliant officer in the army, one of the
leading lawyers of the country, a renowned de
bater, and a member of the tuned btates ben-
ate long before the people outside of New York
and Erie county even heard of the Buffalo sheriff.
All the Democratio papers throughout the
country contain frantic appeals for money by
the natiocal Democratio committee, when it is
a well-known fact the committee has more
money this campaign than it ever had before.
Tbe appeal is regarded as simply a cover for
what it intends to do on election day in tne way
of purchasing- votes. If it succeeds in its de
signs is will recite its demands for lands as
deuce that it couldn't hare dene what il really
did do.
Political Notes.
At a fair in Rondout Governor Hill polled
1,011 votes to 770 for Cleveland, in a contest for
a present.
A correspondent of the Baltimore American
savs that General Goff, of West Virginia, will
poll tbe largest Republican vote ever cast in tne
State.
The Governors of Dakota, New Mexico and
Idaho, in their annual reports to the lnterior
Department, recommend speedy admissioa to
the Union.
Eugene Iiiggins, the notorious manipulator
and ire-puller, of Baltimore, is being used by
the Democratic committee as an "election pun
ter' in New York.
The silence of the Randalls and Eatons in this
canvass has been a thousand times loader than
the loudest oratory of the Millies and Watter
sons. Hartford Conrant.
Hon. William D. Kelley has accepted a renom-
ination for Congress from the Fourth district of
Pennsylvania. He has represented this district
for nearly a third of a century.
The Belgian colony in New York declares for
Harrison and 3Iorton. Belgians know tbe bur-
decs cf free trsde at home and wish to perpetu
ate the blessings of protection here.
Dr. Hauehton, a prominent United Labor man,
who has been at the bead of the labor movement
in Cincinnati, is in New York, and is going to
stirt a paper with Dr. McGlynn. He claims a
vote for tbe Isbor candidate for Mayor of 100,000
out of the 2jO,000 votes that will be east. He is
workine against Hill and Hewitt, and thinks
most of the United Labor vote will go to the
Republicans on tbe National and State tickets.
ABOUT PEQPI AND THINGS.
The estate of the late Marshall Jewell, at
Hartford, baa just been sold for $30,000.
Mr. Henry Villakd says he attributes his
success is a railroad man to his knowledge of
human nature, gained by newspaper work.
Richard Ashe King, the author of "The
Wearing of the Greeo," is a kind of Robert Els-
mere in real life. He was a Yorkshire viear, but
he resigned his comfortable living for the un
certain profits ot literature. He is now writing
a new novel a sequel to "The N earing of the
Green."
Mrs. Adah M. Bittexbender, of Lincoln,
Neb., has been admitted to practice before the
United States Supreme Court. She is in part
nership with her husband m tne practice cr law
in Lincoln. She is the third wemtn to be thus
admitted, the others beine Mrs. Belva A. Lock-
wood and Mn. Laura do 1 ores Gordon, of Cali
fornia. The death of the Countesse Batthyani, who
died, aged eevcutr-two, on O.t 2, recalls a most
ingenious method which she adopted in 1S49 to
prevent her husband frombeioe hanged. He
was the Hungarian rremier, ana naa neon sen
tenced to death. Sho smnegled a dagger into
his cell, with which he wounded his throat, and
had to be shot instead of hanged.
Canon Liddon was particularly popular with
the undergraduates at Oxford. His gentle, sym
pathetic nature, bright wit, and keen, powerful
intellect made him equally beloved and re
spected. A few years ago a large gray cat was
a frequent visitor in the common room at Christ
Church after hall, and when the dons were sit-
tine before the table discussing their port, it
would always creep up on Canon Liddon's knee
and remain there qmetlv for the whole of tbe
evening; the quiet, satisfied pnrnne of the eat
forming a quiet accompaniment to the bright,
witty conversation or tbe Canon. They formed
a picturesque pair, the cat with its lone, band-
gome fur, and the Canon with his pale, refined
face, and large expressive eyes, now gleamine
with tnrrtb, now flashing with enthusiasm, and
at timers softly glowing with pity as ha related
some sympathetic story. .
Mayor Hewitt is just as bluff in showing
kindness end extending charity ss he is in his
business and political life. One of the Mayor's
beneficiaries, speaking of this, remarked that he
had been employed by the Mayor twenty years
ago, but left to enter in business enterprises of
his own. Things didn't go right with him at all,
and a couple of years back he asked the Mayor
to lend him (23. "No, sir," Mr. Hewitt, replied
with his accustomed emphasis, "I won t lend
you a cent. I don't believe in it." But pulling
out bis wallet he handed the distressed one the
$2.1, and as he handed it to him said: 'Von are
very welcome to the money as a gift Take it
and please con t thank me." ine same man
soon after got a .lob in a corporation, some of
whose managers Mr. Hewitt knew. The re
muneration was not particularly fat, and the
old employee applied to Mr. liewitt in the
Mayor's office to use bis influence to better tb6
man's condition iu the corporation. "No, sir,
snapped tho Mayor; "this is not an intelligence
office, but any time you want to refer to me do
so and welcome.
THE KENT VCKY VEBSION.
'You'll neYd' miss the water -
Till the well runs dry."
And ton won' t miss it then
With a oX eld rye.
. Wathinctoa Post:
THE AGENT OF DEMOCRACY
A Political Fraud Sent Oat from the East
Who Is Under Close Surveillance.
Ilis Mission Shows the Desperate Straits in
Which His Employers Are Placed End
cf Gould and the Dollar-a-Daj Lie.
Tha trickery of the Democrats In this cam
paign is only surpassed by the lies they have .
been circulating against General Harrison. Bui
the latest scheme is as miserable in its inven
tion as party managers fighting against hope
can devise. There is no doubt but that the in-
formation contained in the following quotation
from a latter received by & gentleman yester
day points to a fraud who is already here. Th
letter is dated New York, Oct 17, and iU
writer, who is in every way reliable, says:
I am absolutely certain that a man left this city,
either by late train last night or the 9:50 Chicago
limited this morning, who is to 'Burchardire' Gen.
Harrison. He is a fine-loolring English gentleman.
and the plan is "to ring him in" on some semblae
of citizens who visit General Harrison, .hen he will
make a speech, which will be immediately telegraphed
all over the United States. As near as 1 eonld rather.
it is the intention that General Harrison shall not
hear what is said (the objectionable part of it.) The
plan is vulgar, in that it is a base copy of the 1884
fraud. I may be able to get more details to-night,
but I am absolutely certain that I am right.
It is thought this mrn's purpose is to pass
himself off as a commercial traveler to-day.
Cowards aa Well as Liars.
There was to hare bsen a regular meeting ol
the district ass3tably No. 106, K. of L., last
night, at which the Democratic hirelings who
have been misusing the order were expected to
further disgrace themselves by attempting to
give Ed Gould the sanction of the assembly In
his scandalous work as a peddler of lies. They
did not appear at the meeting, though, and those
present were unable to go on in the absence ot
the officers. Why the latter remained away can
be judged from the following action:
Hall of Disteict Assembly, 106.
Whereas, We, the delegates to District Assembly
10G, having met at the specified hour and date for
holding regular meeting of said district assembly anJ
being left without ofHeers and secret work or any '
notice or excuse from said officers, therefore, be it
Resolved, That we protest against such culpable
negligence on the part of our officers and condemn
their action as unjust to us aa delegates and the as
semblies we represent Be it further
Resolved, That we believe the absence of the above
ofScers is part of the plan to defeat action being
talten on the misconduct of our secretary, Edwin F.
Gould, ther being aware that that matter must come
before this assembly at this meeting.
31. Crosley, Chairman.
Wm. Prosses, JR., Secretary.
In this conneccion, the following taken from
the Philadelphia Ledger, an order issued by
General Master Workman Powderly, carries
with it its own comment:
Local Assembly, 2G3, of Canisteo, N. Y., has issued
a printed circular over seal of local, in which a letter
from Edwin F. Gould, of District Assembly 106, is
reproduced. The letter is of a political tature. The
use of the seal is illegal. Neither the assembly nor
Brother Gould has the right to make use of this order
to circulate campaign documents. Asf.mblies receiv-
ing these circulars soould pay no attention to them.
The action of Local Assembly 263, and of Brother
Gould will be investigated.
The Journal's correspondent at Philadelphia
was wired, last night, to ceo Mr. Powderly, but
the latter declined to talk, spying that the order
in the Ledger was sufficient for present purposes.
Senator Spooner's Views.
Senator John C Spooner. of Wisconsin, was
at the New Denison yesterday, coming direct
from Washington, where he has been closely
held by his senatorial duties. "I have spent
most of my time at Washington since the cam
paign opened," he mid, "and only know the po
litical situation by tbe reports received by my
self and others; but judging from these, Repub
lican prospects are all that could be hoped for
or expected at this time. We believe New York
to be all rip nt to the extent that we do not col
the aid of Democratic dissensions to carry it,
and if there is any benefit to be obtained
from a lively and persistent row among
our opponents, we shall get the benefit of it
there.
"How about Connecticut," the reporter asked.
"From both Senator Hawley and Senatoi
Piatt, of Connecticut, I have assurances that
the Republicans will carry the State in Novem
ber, and my information is that we have a good,
fighting chance in New Jersey. Of eourse all
eyes in Washington are turned toward Indiana,
and I am clad that I am able to send back an
encouraging report from this city.' We count a
good deal there on tbe pride which every man
feels in having the candidate for the highest of
fice in the gift of the people selected from his
own vicinage, and the fact that when a
candidate of good standing and reputation
is not confronted in his own State or county by
a candidate who lives in the same subdivision of
the Nation or State, his vote in that locality is
usually largely increased. If this be true, under
ordinary circumstances, it ought certainly to be
true of General Harrison, whose exemplary life
and brilliant service as a soldier and statesman
have ranked him among the firs; citizens of his
own community, as they have built up his repu
tation abroad."
"Aside from partisan considerations, Stat
pride is a forcible element is it notT
"Yes. And that suggests another view of the
case that commends itself to ths consideration
of the active politicians of both parties in your
State, and the more aspiring and ambitious tbe
party man is, the stronger it will appeal to bitn.
That is, that if General Harrison be beaten, In
diana is not likely to be looked to again for a
presidential candidate. The Republicans will
be apt to reason that, if a Republican of his
standing at home cannot carry Indiana, it is
hardly worth while to coma here for presiden
tial timber, and future Democratic national
conventions will be likely to conclude that, if
the Indiana Democracy can carry the State
against a man like General Harrison, it is a sure
Democratio Stateanybow, and will not require
a candidate to be taken from it in order to lift
it out of the doubtful column of States."! do
riot anticipate, however, that any such
calamity will happen. General Harrison
was a string candidate when he was
nominated. He is a good deal stronger one to
day, and I told him this afternoon that be bad
done more to elect himeelf by bis little epeechrs
to his friends and neighbors here at horns than
any of us could do for him. I expect to be ia
this State during the remainder of the cam
paign, with the exception of ths last week,
which I exprct to spend at borne. We have a
good big Republican majority in Wisconsin, and
it is likely to be bigger than ever this year by
reason ot the free-trade and anti-soloter attitude
of Democratic leaders, but we do r.ot propose to
jeopardize anything there by inactivity or in-'
attention."
An Enthusiastic Meeting.
Tbere was a large Republican meeting at the
corner, of Maryland and West streets, last
night, to hear the addresses made by N. O.
Henderson, of Texas; the non. John L. Urif
fifths, and P. H. Kelleher. Tha larger portion
of the crowd were Ir'jhtcen, and they paid the
closest attention to the speeches, especially that of
Mr. Kelleher, who spent his boyhood days in
the Fifteenth ward, where the meeting oc
curred, and is known to almost every man,
woman and child in that part of tbe city. In
bis introductory remarks Mr. Kelleher said that
be was pleased to have tbe opportunity to mat
his first speech In the locality where the most of
his life had been spent. In this ward ha had
been newsboy and boot-black, and as be bad io
sTears worked in the cotton-mills he thetc
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