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TnE weather or something seems to have
had a depressing effect on journalistic Cabinet-makers.
They have not built a new Cab
inet for as much as two days. .
A MAN who requires two columns of a
newspaper in which to decline a prospective
nomination to ofiice will, evidently, not re
fuse to listen to argument Editor Grady
may be a Senator yet.
TnE Barry incident audits result does not
remove the trouble from the Knights of La
bor. It only accentuates more sharply the
fact than Mr. Powderly and his men have
bitten off more than they can masticate.
C LEVULAND's plurality in Missouri was
only 25,032. Four years ago he had 30,90G.
Blaine's vote in Missouri was 202, 029, and
Harrison's wa3 236,325. In the city of St.
Louis Harrison received 33, GDI Totes and
Cleveland 27,401.
Inventor Keeley has "worked" his motor
to extract cash from the pockets of credulous
Philadelphians with groat success for many
years, bat the machine has evidently run
down at last. His incarceration in jail indi
cates that the combination is lost.
Democrats are charging Mrs. Geveland
now with having persuaded her husband to
jgnora hi3 early utterances concerning a sec
ond term, and to ran a second time. Next
thing, they will blame her for his defeat,
which will be hard after all the adulation she
has received.
The Atlanta Constitution thinks the Demo
te. crats will have to abandon the plan of dividing
np Texas into four or five States, and thus in
euxing Democratic control of the Senate, be
cause the people of Texas axe too prond of
their magnificent "empire" to consent to its
dismemberment.
Lawyer Billy Patterson evidently
thinks he knows who struck him, or, in other
words, who was to blame for interfering wfth
leis pastirce of disturbing meetings; but there
is a probability that he will be unable to con
vince the public that he was damaged fifteen
thousand dollars' worth by the proceeding.
The Prohibition vote in Missouri was
5,054; and before election innocent third
partyites who were not up to the tricks of
their party leaders, actually talked about
carrying the State. The fact was that
Brooks, St. John and the rest did not think
the Missouri Democracy needed any aid, and
therefore devoted themselves to lowering
the Republican vote in the doubtful States.
TlIE President-elect will have several im
portant army appointments to make to vacan
cies created by retirements. Among these
will bo the Adjutant-general of the army, who
will retire May 28, 1SS0, the Paymaster
general, the Qaartermaster-general, the Commissary-general
and the Surgeon-general.
These vacancies will occur during the next
two years and will probably involve along
line of army promotions. Quite as many va
cancies will occur in important naval offices.
TlIE meeting of the National Educational
Association in the South for the first time
iaco 1SG0 is significant of tho long-delayed
renewal of interest in educational matters in
that region. Had the Southern people been
alive to their own interests they would have
agitated the educational question and en
couraged the meeting among them of such
bodies as tho association mentioned as soon
a3 the war was fairly over. Had they done
this, the deadly 6olidity of the South would
have been destroyed long ago, and that part
of the country as surely on tho road to pros
perity as the "West and Northwest.
TnZRE is some discussion and friendly
rivalry as to which is the banner Republican
county in Indiana in tho recent election.
Nearly all ti e counties did well, and many
made large iains, but we are inducod to think
Posey county Leads the list. The Repub
licans cf Tossy reduced a Democratic ma
jority of GIG, in 1SS1, to 315. Without hav
'.ngmade a careful 'companion, we are in
riined to think this the largest per cent, of
KeDullicangain of any county in the State.
This is as much a compliment to General,
Hover, whose home is in Posey, as it is to
the gallant Republicans of that county.
It is hardly necessary to call tho attention
of the public to the u?efulness and impor
tance of the Flower Mission. The nature of
its work is well understood, though its extent
is hardly realized, save by those who are
themselves actively engaged in charitable la
lor and see its benefits. It is one of the in
stitutions whose services are of inestimable
value, and which the city cannot afford to lose
from among its charities. The women who
do the work among the poor also take upon
themselves the task of raising the money to
be expended, and for this purpose the annual
fair, which opens to-morrow, is held. Their
efforts should meet with generous response.
The duty of providing for the sick, of the
aged and helpless, is recognized by everyone
who possesses charitable impulses, and no
cause should appeal more strongly to the
heart. The mission should bo encouraged
and aided by good attendance and liberal
financial patronage at the fair.
THE REPUBLICAN FUTURE.
The remark is made quite frequently now
that "the Republican party is in for twenty
years longer," and it is made almost as con
fidently as if that question had been distinctly
involved and definitely settled by the late
election. It is a mistake to say or to think
so. It does not follow, as a matter of course,
from anything in the circumstances of the
recent election or in the present situation
that the Republican party is certain of twenty
years more of continuous power. The mast
that can be said is that it may have, and that
it has, at present, a very fair prospect of it;
but all depends on the party's action and how
it improves the opportunity. The history of
politics shows that it is not political advant
ages that place or keep parties in power, but
political conduct. The history of the govern
ment is one of changing parties and adminis
trations. Only to cite recent instances, the
Democrats were turned out of power in 1SG0,
the Republicans in 1831, and now the Demo
crats again in IS5S. The same power that
turned the Democratic party out this year can
restore them in 1S02. We do not think it
will, and certainly hope it will not; but it
may. The people make and unmake parties
and administrations. Where parties are as
nearly equally divided as the Republican and
Democratic parties it does not take much to
turn the scale either way. A comparatively
slight drift will do it, an almost imperceptible
change of public opinion. It is simply the
difference between popular approval and dis
approval It follows that the party in power
must be, as it were, on its good behavior all
the time. It must endeavor, by an honest
and faithful administration of the govern
ment, to meet every reasonable expectation of
the people. In short, it must be prepared to
give such an account of its stewardship at
each recurring election as will challenge the
approval of a majority of intelligent, thinking
people. For this class are still a majority,
and it is they who decide the fate of adminis
trations and parties. The floating vote and
the irresponsible classes are, indeed, a factor,
and too large a factor, in our politics; but
they are not a controlling factor. The party
that bids for their approval will generally lose,
while the one that strives to win the approval
of honest, intelligent, thinking men will gen
erally win, and always deserves to.
The Republican party has not won twenty .
years of power. It ha3 won just four years
and no more. Whether it shall have more
depends upon itself and its conduct It has,
indeed, great opportunities and great pros
pective advantages. The Democratic party
ha3 made it easy to improve the civil service
and the administration of affairs. It is an ex
cellent party to follow. It is impossible for
the Republican party to do so badly that it
will not be an improvement on the Democra
cy. One of the greatest advantages the Re
publicans have will be that of contrast. But
even that will not relieve the party from do
ing the best it can. It must do, not merely
comparatively, but positively well, and if su
perlatively, so much the better.
We do not underrate the points of advantage
in the present situation and immediate future
of the Republican party. The revival of Re
publican sentiment throughout the North,
the evident weakening and disintegration of
the solid South and the prospect of the early
admission of three or four new Republican
States are signs very favorable to the continu
ance of Republican power for more than four
years longer. They offer opportunities which,
if rightly and wisely used, ought to enable
the party to retain control of the government
during several administrations, with the
hearty approval of a majority of the people
and to the great benefit and blessing of the
country. But tho greatest opportunities are
worthless unless improved, and the best ad
vantages may be thrown away. After all, ev
erything depends on how the party conducts
itself in power. Under the wise, conservative
and patriotic leadership of General Harrison,
we expect the best results and new victories,
but it is not safe to assume that they are al
ready secure.
THE SOUTHERN WAT.
If the South is permitted to manage its own
affairs, free from all fear of federal interfer
ence, it may be expected to take part in the
discussion and settlement of purely economic
questions. It will then gladly join hands
with the Republicans in any measure for the
general welfare. Memphis Avalanche.
What does the Avalanche meant What
federal interference has there been with the
South in recent years, or what refusal to let
them manage their own affairs? Surely they
have managed their elections in their own
way, the Constitution and laws to the con
trary notwithstanding. The trouble is, the
South has had its own way too much, and has
fallen into a very bad way. As to "federal
interference," the laws for the South are the
same as those for the North. It is not
the laws that hurt, it is the con
stant ignoring and violation of them.
The people of the North do not find
the national laws burdensome, and are not
haunted by the bugaboo of "federal inter
ference." Why should tho South be? The
fact is, tu Southern people ever since the
war have been nursing the idea that the Re
publican party and the government, under
Republican control, were their worst ene
mies instead of their best friends, and in
pursuance of this vicious error they have
been standing in their own light They
might have been much further advanced in
the race of prosperity and internal develop
ment if they had cut loose years ago from the
corpso of bourbonism and aligned themselves
with the party of progress. The sooner they
do this tho bettor it wil! bo for them, and
one of the first steps should be to exorcise the
spook of "federal interference," and get rid of
the false and mischievous idea that the Re
publican party is unfii endly to the South.
GENERAL HARRISOIi'8 ADMINISTRATION.
Present indications are that General Harri
son's administration will be exceptional and
historic in a marked degree. To begin with, it
will be tho first administration in the second
century of the Republic. His inauguration
will occur on the one-hundreth anniversary
of the going into effect of the Constitution.
This date, by the way, was arbitrary. After
the Constitution had been duly ratified by the
States, Congress passed an act, in September,
1783, fixing the first Wednesday in March of
the ensuing year a3 the time for putting in
operation the new government it created.
This day happened to be the 4th of March,
which thereby became the beginning of the
presidential term and of the congressional
year. The first year of tho new administra
tion will, therefore, be a year of centennial
anniversaries. Arrangements are already on
foot for the celebration of the adoption of the
Constitution on a scale of dignity and
grandeur befitting the event There will be
something of historic fitness in the fact that
a great-grandson of a signer of the Declara
tion of Independence and a member of the
Virginia convention that ratified the Consti
tution, will be President when the one-hundredth
anniversary is celebrated.
His administration is also likely to be made
historic by the admission of new States. It
is reasonably certain that the two Dakotas,
Washington and Montana will be admitted,
and probably Idaho and New Mexico. There
have been as many as four new States admit
ted during one administration before, but
never five or six. The States of Indiana,
Mississippi, Illinois and Alabama were admit
ted during Monroe's first administration, from
1816 to 1820, and the States of Florida, Iowa,
Texas and Wisconsin during Polk's adminis
tration, from 1S43 to 1849. These are the
only two instances in which four new States
have been admitted during one administra
tion, and if there should be five or six admit
ted during President Harrison's, it would
break the record. Since the Republican party
came into power six States have been ad
mitted, viz.: Kansas, in 1861; West Virginia,
in 1SG2; Nevada, in 1SC4; Nebraska, in 1867,
and Colorado, in 1876. General Harrison
will, undoubtedly, sign more acts of admis
sion than any other Republican President.
Another important event fixed by law will
fall during his administration, viz.: the decen
nial census and consequent reapportionment
for Congress. It is impossible accurately to
forecast the political consequences attaching
to this event, but they are likely to be very
important and far-reaching. The census will
give the United States a new rating among
the nations as to population and wealth, will
readjust the relative rank of the States, fix
the center of population for the next ten
years, and furnish a mass of valuable statis
tics as to tho material progress and develop
ment of the country. Altogether, General
Harrison's administration is likely to be full
of great events and great opportunities.' We
predict that it will also be prolific of great
results.
Senator Quay, chairman of the national
Republican committee, 6ays: "We have the
House of Representatives by a majority of
five, certainly, and possibly by nine on the of
ficial count.' We regard this as conclusive
on the question of the control of the House.
Senator Quay is a man of few words, careful
as to what he says, and the opposite of sensa
tional. We have no doubt the above state
ment is made on trustworthy information,
and is absolutely correct. As additional evi
dence that Senator Quay knows what he is
talking about, he says: "As to the Demo
cratic threats that Democratic Governors of
States will refuse to certify the election of Re
publicans to the Clerk of the House, and the
latter will refuse to place our people on the
roll, we do not care what the Democratic Gov
ernors or the Clerk of the House may do.
They are not dealing with children and old
women." This means that the Republicans
know their rights and will maintain them.
We do not apprehend any serious trouble in
the organization of the House, for the indica
tions are that the Democratic schemes to
capture it have been abandoned as a hopeless
undertaking. Ho wover that may be, it will
not succeed.
It is to be hoped that there will bo a large
attendance at the First Baptist Church during
the sessions of the National Youths' Home
and Employment Association. They will
be held at the First Baptist Church,
commencing this morning, at 0:30
o'clock. What to do with the
waifs of the country is a question
that should press upon the thoughtful atten
tion of every citizen, and this movement is in
the line of a practical solution of that prob
lem. The association is comparatively a new
one, but its record is already such as to indi
cate that it has taken up a practical idea and
is working it in a practical direction. All
persons interested aro cordially invited to be
present and give the convention the strength
of their presence and participation.
The Louisville Commercial very truly re
marks that there are some figures connected
with the recent election which Kentucky pol
iticians will do well to consider. Blaine's
vote four years ago was little over US, 000.
Harrison's vote was over 155,000. Cleve
land's vote four years ago was about
153,000, and that was the largest Democratic
vote ever cast in the State until this month.
Harrison'; vote was 2,000 more than the
largest Democratic vote ever cast until this
yer. These figures show the healthy growth
of Republicanism in Kentucky and sustain
the repeated prediction of the Journal, that
General Harrison would receive a larger vote
in the South than any Republican candidate
for President ever received.
THE Democrats seem to have let go their
claims on the House of Representatives. The
correspondent of the Baltimore Sun says:
"Tbeyst fighting hope of tho Democrats
for pes V-a&ioa of the next House of Repre
sent rfes to-day apparently vanished en
tirebV The most enthusiastic of the Demo
cratic lightning calculators puzzled their
brains in vain to figure up even a majority of
one. The Republicans insist that they have
five to seven majority. But it may bo more
satisfactory to wait until the official returns
are in and certificates issued before final ac
quiescence.
To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal:
Please inform me how a soldier is to obtain a
voucher or his discharce papers which were
given to a lawyer shortly after the war, sent
away and never returned. I served in the Fifty
third Indiana Regiment. William Brown.
DiLASir. Ark., Nov. 15.
A "duplicate discharge certificate'' can be ob
tained from the Adjutant-general United States
army, or a certificate of service can be obtained
from the Adjutant-ceneral of Indiana. If you
make application for either without the inter
vention of an attorney there is no charge. The
usual attorney fee for procuring duplicate dis
charge is 1
ABOUT FEOPLE AND THINGS.
Fanny Macaulay, the historian's sister, has
died at Brighton, aged eighty years.
Father Grafton, of Boston, has been elect
ed bisboD of Fond dn Lao. Ue was an intimate
Iriend of th late Bishop Brown, of that diocese.
Harvard has graduated three Presidents,
two Yiee-presidents, eighteen Cabinet officers,
three Speakers of the House of Representatives,
and four Supreme Court judges.
Edwin Booth does not eat the hearty late sup
per that he used to. A cracker, apieee or cheese
and one class of beer insures to him a sound
and restful sleep.
The Emperor of Germany sleeps, as did bis
grandfather, on an iron camp-bed. Ha is sub
ject to insomnia, and often walks his room
nearly tho entire night.
Isaac S. Dement, of Chicago, is the fastest
stenographer in the country. He recently took
down 1.337 words in live minutes. The Rev.
Dr. Phillips Brooks has no terrors for Mr. De
ment The Empress of Austria and the Empress of
Japan will be in this country about the same
time. The former has the more beauty and is
the better horseback rider, but the Mikado's
wife will possess the greater charms as a nov
elty. Chief-justice George W. Stone, of the Su
preme Court of Alabama, celebrated his birth
day a few days ago, and was surrounded byover
toventy children, grandchildren and great
grandchildren. He danced a jig with one of Lis
great grandsons.
Mrs. Crawshav, of Brecon, England, has
placed in the hands of William Rosetti the sum
of $12,500, the income from which is to be used
annually as a prize to the woman who shall pass
the best examination on tho writings of Byron,
Keats and Shelley.
Margaket Doland, the author of "John
Ward, Preacher," is an American lady about
thirty years of acre. She was born in Pitts
burg, and is the wife of a Boston gentleman.
Her first appearance as an author was in 18S4,
when she contributed a few poems to the lead
ing magazines.
Rev. Newman Hall, the distinguished Eng
lish divine, writes to a friend in Toronto: "I
suppose at seventy-two 1 ought to be old, but I
feel as young as ever, and preach about five
times a week. I can walk ten miles without
fatigue. My voice is as good as ever and preach
ing an increased delight"
Bishop Vincent, of the Methodist Church,
has recently received from London a fine life
size oil painting of John Potter, LL. D., Bishop
of Oxford, who ordained John Wesley deacon
and priest and who was afterward mads Arch
bishop of Canterbury. The portrait was painted
by John Vanderbank in 1737.
Miss Mary Butteuwortii, daughter of Hon.
Beujamin Butterworth, is at the Burnet House
in Cincinnati, for a short stay with her parents.
Miss Butterworth. who will add yet one more
to the atttactlve debutantes of the coming sea
son, has been the recipient of marked attention
daring her stay. Washington Post.
Rev. Anthony Atwood, long known to the
Methodists of Philadelphia, and th oldest mem
ber of the Philadelphia Conference, died last
week. He was born in 1801, and has taken an
active interest in church work since 1813. Be
sides his contributions to church periodicals, he
wrote the following works: '"The Abiding Com
forter," "The Pastor's Legacy," Young Mtn's
Way to Honor," and 'The Causes of the Mar
velous Suecesa of Methodism in this Country
Within its First Ceutury."
Anent Mr. Chamberlain's marriage, the Pall
Mall Gazttte has this to saj: "The advent of
an American girl into English society, at first,
was a curiosity, It soon became a portent. It
is now assuming the dimensions of a menace.
Before long it will be recognized as a calamity.
Of all the forms of competition there is none so
deadly as this. We can stand our farmers be
ing ruined by American corn. We can listen
unmoved to the wails of graziers made bank
rupt by the influx of American beef. But the
American girl is too much. Already we hear
the murmur and the drawing-room growl of the
despairing Belgravian mother, who sees, season
after season, American girls swoop down upon
the most eligible partners, and cut our native
girls out before the very eyes of their distracted
parents."
COMMENT AND OPINION.
' Tun hope of Republican success in sundering
the solid South lies in building up, in many of
the Stales from the beginning, a new Republic
an organization. Boston Advertiser.
It was not Mr. Brice's fault that General
Harrison's record was unassailable it was a
Democratic misfortune. He made all he could
out of the campaign. Minneapolis Tribune.
The country is filled with gentlemen who
claim to be able to present drafts upon Benia
min Harrison which will be honored. From in
dications Mr. Harrison is a rather obstinate
man. He likes to do things out of his own
head. A large cumber cf gentlemen are about
to be disappointed. New York World.
The order of the Knights of Labor has been a
great power for good. It has disseminated use
ful information among the workingroen and
taught them a lesson in organization. But it is
a question whether the days of its usefulness
are not past. As an educator it cannot com
pete with the newspapers. Minneapolis Trib
une. There is likely to be a very interesting fight
in the Democratic party growing out of Mr.
Cleveland's defeat. The free-trade organs of
the party declare that they lost the election be
cause the free-trade issue was not made radical
enough, and the protection organs attribute the
defeat to the raising of the free-trade issue.
Cleveland Leader and Herald.
It pleases our Democratic friends to hint mys
teriously of the power behind in the administra
tion of President Harrison, bnt they need have
no apprehensions. General Harrison is quite
capable of writing his own letters, constructing
his own speeches and running the government.
He is not, nor will he ever be, a figurehead.
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.
There is little doubt that a part of the fall-ing-off
in the Knights of Labor has been bene
ficial, because it has rid the order of Anarchists
and other noxions elements. It will be a ques
tion whether the Knights can ever regsin their
former commanding position, but, at all eTents,
they can avoid in the future the blunders that
have brought them low. New York Tribune.
There is no doubt that had the Democratic
party been returned to power either tho Mills
bill would have been passed or another placed
upon the statute books far more sweeping and
far more dangerous in its provisions. Bat the
voters of this country took the alarm and gave
the Democratic party such a vigorous rebate as
has not been eiven a party for thirty years.
Nebraska State Journal.
One Augustus II. Garland, who 13 said to be
the Attorney-general of the United States, rises
from Arkansas obscurity to remark that he
fears the coming Republican regime means the
restoration of earpet-baggiam in the South. Mr.
Garland would have come nearer the facts if he
had said that Harrison's election meant the
cleaning out of the pan-electric scandal which
has flourished like pigweed in the political hot
boose of the Capitol. Minneapolis Journal.
The Republican party is fortunate in this one
thine. It has elected a President who is shrewd
and careful, and who will make no unconsidered
move that would jeopardize the prestige of the
party, whiehit will retain, under wise adminis
trations, for perhaps a generation to come. The
great opportunity for Democratic supremacy in
this country has come and gone, perhaps for
ever, and, viewed in the light of recent events,
it is perhaps well that it is sa Las Vegas
Optic.
Two years ago tho Dakota Legislators passed
a local-option law, and under it 80 per cent,
of the counties adopted prohibition. After one
year's trial more than half of the counties car
ried high license at the recent election. -The
explanation is simple. Prohibition did not
prohibit. In all the cities and largo town, liquor
was sold in spite of the law, and the revenue
formerly derived from license had to be raised
by direct taxation. It didn't take the people
very long to conclude that such a law was un
wise. Omaha Republican.
Coercion is a bad word. We coerced the
South into the Union; we have cot them physic
ally, bnt mentally they aro against us. We
might force a union with our northern neigh
bors, but we have had enough experience of
that kind. "In union there is strength;" but
not when a policemen handcuffs himself to a
prisoner. To get strength out of union it must
be not only voluntary but a unit; a majority is
not sufficient. Those of our people who have
an eye to Canada should bear this faet in mind
and wait until the project is ripe. Fibre and
Fabric.
It is an evidence of extreme unwisdom on the
part of a young man to relinquish even a
moderately remunerative employment to ac
cept any ordinary position in government em
ploy. By doing so" he gives up the prospect of a
career of independence and self-respect, and
makes himself subject to the caprices of poli
ticians. Some day, in ono of the vicissitudes of
party supremacy, 'he is likely to be removed at
short notice. Thrown upon his own resources,
he discovers to his chagrin that he is unfitted
for business or professional vocations in propor
tion to the length of time he has been an office
holder. Albany Journal.
WILLIAM IIENRY IIAKEISON.
Incidents and Circumstances Connected wltlx
Ills Death Warning for Ills Grandson.
Gath's New York Letter.
The next administration has bat one visible
apprehension among its well-wishers, and that is
the death of Benjamin Harrison, like his presiden
tial grandfather. Harrison's health has been
sadly worn ia the late campaign, and the vice
presidential candidate is past sixty-four years of
age, and somewhat in need of retirement and
rest Whatever may be said of Mr. Morton, he
has not been in the strong center of affairs like
General Harrison, and the influences which
might direct him from about this financial cen
ter are not such as will affect the President
elect, who has been brought up in the heart of
the West, and looks to the public opinion of
men more than to any particular city opinion or
set opinion. In the event of the President and
the Vice-president dying, by the existing law the
Secretary of State would hold over. This makes
the appointment of a Secretary of State of high
emphasis.
In looking over the circumstances of the death
cf General Harrison, in Niles's Register, I find
reason for the friends of his grandson to give
him some peace, if they expect him to live.
Niles's Register was published at Baltimore,
adjacent to Washington, and these are the par
ticulars to be found in its cumber of April 10,
1S41:
"From the moment General Harrison was
elected President to the day of his illness his
heart has been filled with gratitude to the peo
ple, to whom, indeed, be has always been affec
tionately devoted. In the generosity of that
heart he has invariably opened his doors wide to
the reception of his friends, and his house has
been the abode of hospitality and kindness. He
has indulged his friends, alas, to his own de
struction. From sunrise in the morning until
nearly midnight in the evening be has incessantly
devoted himself to his fellow-citizens who visit
ed him, with the exception of the hour each day
spent in Cabinet council. It was his habit after
arising, first to peruse his Bible, then to take a
walk before breakfast. Frequently ho would
bring in with him persons he bad met in his
walk, to breakfast with him; and afterward tho
whole day would be spent in receiving company
and transacting business.
"On Thursday morning week the porter, who
found him reading tho Bible, and even then
complaining of indisposition, suggested to him
the propriety of excluding visitors until 10
o'clock in the morning. No, no,' said the kind
hearted President. iet them come in. Many of
them have come from distant States to see me,
and they wish to get home; I will not refuse
them.'
"On Saturday morning week we saw him,
and he was at that time complaining of a head
ache, and expressed his regret that he had so
littlo time to attend to important business be
fore him, alluding to a map of Florida, which he
desired to exemine, as he wished to bring the
war in that Territory to a close. We believe
the last letter he wrote was on tbe subject of
that war. The same afternoon h was taken
with a chill, and retired to that bed which has
in eight days proved his hit.
"We vera not without hope of hi recovery
until the afternoon of last Saturday, when a
serious diarrhoea came on, under which he soon
sank.
"Religious services were performed by the
Rev. Mr. Hall Saturday evening, and he did not
seem to become insensible until 10 o'clock. At a
quarter before 10 o'clock the President give ut
terance to his last wish. It was taken down at
the instant by Dr.Wortbington, and deserves to
bo remembered as reflecting cloryupon his
death. It was in the following words, and it
may be supposed to be addressed to Governor
Tyler, who becomes General Harriion's successor
nnder the Constitution: Sir, I wish you to un
derstand the true principles of the government.
I wish them earned out I ask nothing more.'
- "At about 10 o'clock the General raised par
tially from his pillow and conghed. Afterward
there was not the slightest indication of sensi
bility, he gradually failing until the pulse first
departed from the left arm, and immediately
after, at half-past 12 o'clock, the circulation en
tirely stopped, and General Harrison, without a
struggle, went into the eternal sleep.
"There were present, at the closing scene, in
addition to the medical attendants, such of the
relatives of the family as were in the city, and
several members of the Cabinet, Colonels Todd
and Chambers, who were the aids of the Gen
eral at the battle of tbe Thames, and a number
of other personal friends."
From the above account it seems manifest
that General Harrison went through a most ex
citing campaign, and in the interval of his vic
tory, and after he became President, he con
tinued to permit himself to be bullied, palavered
and crowded upon by all manner of time and
fiesh-devourers. There is not the least necessity
of his grandson conceding his whole time to this
class of people. In fact, the President-elect is
in receipt of no salary, and is not a man of
means; aud he should have his whole time to
pot bis affairs in order between now and the
time of his presidency.
WESTERN INFLUENCE.
It Will Dominate the New Administration
Speakership of the House.
Wanhinzton Special to N'w York Sun.
Western ideas and sentiments will dominate
under the next administration. General Harri
son is a Western man by birth and affiliation.
He has Western Republicsn ideas on questions
of finance and taxation. He is not so ultra a
protectionist as Thos. B. Roed or Wn. McKin
ley, and if he is able to control his party in the
House of Representatives there ia sure to be
some concession to the tariff views of Indiana,
Illinois, Iowa and Minnesota. This policy
means a Western man for Speaker of the House
of Representatives in the Fifty-first Congress,
and of all the men who will sit in that body
none is more available for the presiding officer's
chair than Jos. G. Cannon, just elected for bis
ninth consecutive term.
Mr. Cannon is a warm personal friend of the
President-elect, probably as close to him as any
man in either branch of Congress. They hare
been in close accord on all public questions, and
if the new administration is to frame a tariff
policy there is no doubt Harrison would rather
have bis friend, Joe Cannon, in the Speaker's
chair than any other man who could be named.
It was Cannon's delegation, Robeson and Hitch,
in the Chicsgo convention that disregarded in
structions for Gresham and led the Illinois
break to Harrison. Cannon was held responsi
ble for this by tho Gresham men, and General
Harrison is the 6ort of man to stand by his old
friend now. Mr. Cannon's chief service in the
Hons has been on the appropriations commit
tee, and since Garfield left that body he has
been the most potent Republican on that im
portant committee. He is a very thor
oughly equipped legislator, and probably
as well informed on all pnblic questions
as any man now in the House. Mr. Cannon is a
North Carolinian by birth, fifty-two years old,
and has lived in Illinois since his boyhood. He
is a florid blonde, with hair the color of General
Harrison's, but a ruddier complexion. He looks
a little like the late President Garfield, only
smaller ail around. He is a lawyer, farmer and
banker, and a hustler on the stamp. He i3 plain
in dress and unassuming in manners. II:s ac
complishments as a dancer were described in
The San not long agcC If President Harrison
succeeds in molding th new llouse to his will,
keep your eye on your Uncle Joseph. Ilis elec
tion would mean tbe complete predominance of
the West io the new administration a Western
man for President, a Western man to preside
over the Senate, a Western man for Speaker of
the House. In addition to this, should William
Boyd Allison become Secretary of the Treasury,
as is cot improbable, and a Western xnau Secre
tary of the Interior, as seems almost certain,
the Republican party would seem to have a
pretty strong grip on the section it must hold if
it would retain power.
Colonel Lament's Future.
Washltstou t oit.
It is stated that an enterprising New Yerk
daily has offered to Colonel Lamont tho position
of chief of its Washington bureau, at a salary of
$o,C00 a year. The statement could not be ver
ified, last night, but upon Newspaper Row it
was given considerable credence, Colonel La
mont, being an adept newspaper man, and hav
ing gained, by h'.a four yearV experience in the
White House, a familiarity with public men
and methods that would make him invaluable
as a correspondent
SOCIAL OSTRACISM.
Tbe Trice John S. Wise Tars for Adhering
to Republicanism.
Hew York World. w ,
Ex-Congressman John S. Wise has returned
to New York from his former home in Virginia,
which he visited probably for the last time to
order to es-tt his vote for the nsrrison electors.
In a few days he will be joined here by his wife
and seven children, and thenceforth he will be a
citizen of New York. Tbe bitterness which he
now feels towards his native State was empha
sised by the fact that during his last visit home
Page McCarty.theeditorof the Richmond State,
publicly advocated his hanging. Wise's change
of position, social and otherwise, in Virginia, ia
one of the romances of polities. It was his father,
neory A. Wise, who, as Governor of the Old
Dominion Commonwealth, ordered the execu
tion of John Brown. He himself was a young?
lieutenant ia tbe confederate army, leaving tbe
Virginia Military Institute, where he was a stu
dent, to join the rebel host. He was wounded
in the war and he it was who acted &3 courier ta
carry to Jefferson Davis the news of Lee's sur
render. Yet he was one of the first 'to recognize
that Virginia's reconstruction would never be
brought about by mosstack Democrats, and
when he cut adrift from them Richmond soci-ty
shut its doors upon him and his. The first NeW
Year's day following, the only person who at
tending his reception was old Dr. Beale, famous
throughout the South, and when tbe eminent
physician returned to his own crowded home
and admitted that he had called "upon
Johnny Wise" his guests sarcastically said:
"Then. Doctor, you should fumigate
yourself." People crossed the street lather
than step on the pavement of the Wise mansion
and children were forbidden t j play with the
little Wises. This social ostracism atill contin
ues, but in recent years the Wises have shone
in a circle of their own. made up largelv of peo
ple from the North who have settled in Virginia.
Wise's father married a daughter of tbe distin
guished John Sargennt, of Philadelphia, ia
whose veins ran the bluest blood cf the Quaker
City, and when the ex-confederate lieutenant
abandoned the Democratic party his former
friends said by way of explsnation: "The Wise
blood has run it course in Johnnys veins and
now that Yankee Sargeint blood has got him
under control and ruined him forever." Small
wonder that the eloquent ex-Congressman has
little love for the State of his birth.
Mrs. Wise will be a rare addition to New York
society. She comes of a distinguished Southern
family and is highly accomplished and endowed
with exceptional physical charms. She is prob
ably tho most daring and graceful horsewoman
in the South. Those who have seen her lithe
figure- atoD a hunter find it difficult to believe
that she is the mother of seven children. It is
only a few weeks since Buffalo Bill, who accom
panied Wise on his journey home, organized a
chase in a wild part of Virginia, and Mrs. Wise
was the only member of the party who could
keep alongside him. In jumping a deep ditch
her horse stumbled and turned a somorsanlt in
the air. he and his mistress tumbled tocether
into the waterway. Mrs. Wife extricated herself
quickly, but it required Buffalo Bill's lasso and
the strencth of his own horse to get th fallen
hunter to dry land and his feet again. Then, In
an instant, the fair Diana was mounted again,
and, despito her alarmed husband's pretest, was
away like the wind.
A CHANGE OF HEART,
Another Southern Editor Who Ioesnt Ds
licvetn Crying Until He Is Hut t.
Memphis Avalanche.
One or two of our esteemed contemporaries;
are engaged in an attempt to convince the peo
pie of the South that their day of doom is at
hand. Copious quotations are made from cer
tain narrow partisan journals m support of theis
position, and day after day their readers are as
sored that there is no escape from it Tbev are
told that Harrison is Puritanical in his ideas,
and that he entertains no friendly spirit toward
this section; that his policy has been already
outlined in his speeches during the campaign,
and it will be one antagonistic to tbe prosperity
of the South This line of argument was perhaps
admissible duriog the campaign and im
mediately succeeding defeat, but it is surprising
that when tbe time has been given for a calm,
deliberate surrey of the situation, a few we
are glad to say a few, only continue to speak
and write in that strain.
Suppose, for th sake of argument, that the
people of this section could be convinced that
when the Republican party steps into power the
South must say tts prayers and lay it devoted
bead upon the block to be chopped off mack,
smooth and clean at a single stroke by High Ex
ecutive Harrison. Or that the South will be
bound hand and foot to a stake, i nrronnded by
faggots and slowly tortured to death by fire. Sup
pose It could be proven beyond perad venture
that the wheels of commerce will be
turned backward, trad and manufacturers
paralyzed in every branch, the fertile soil sown
with salt, the rivers dried up and the forests
burned away. What good could coma of ill
How would the South be benefited by posie is-
ing the knowledge before band? What can the
South do? Fly to arms! Well, we should say
not; and those who are endeavoring to persuade
the people of the South that the future has
nothing in store for thm would doubtless re
pudiate the idea with a lofty scorn. Yet it is in
this ridiculous attitude that they are placing
themselves. The fact is that our fire-alarm
contemporaries are floundering. They don't
Iinow what they want. They hare not the
courage to accept defeat philosophically, and to
make the most of it. Instead of bettering the
situation they are increasing its difficulties.
A Remarkable ISishop.
Waihirtgton Post.
Another very remarkable man among the
throng of potable clergymen at th Ebbitt, is
13i3hop Howe, of Central Pennsylvania. He is
the oldest bishop of the Episcopal Church in
America not the oldest in his term of service
as bishop, but the oldest man who is a bishop,
being now eighty-two years of age. Much sur
prise" is expressed at the power Mr. Gladstone
shows at almost eighty in his public addresses,
but so far as his physical vigor and alertness of
mind are concerned bo does not surpass our owe,
Bishop Howe. It was only yesterday that hi
made a vigorous speech in the council, and a
year ago he delivered, without cotes, an address
at the funeral of Bishop Lee, at Wilmington,
Del., that excited tbe wonder and admiration of
everybody present. He was created a bishop
when he' was past sixty-five, and when most
men are supposed to have reached the limit o
great usefulness, but he is vet a hale and vig
orous preacher, and looks ss though there might
be spared him many more days of usefulness.
II are a Pinch f SnufT.
Cincinnati CommrrUl Gazette.
Askod General Noyes: "General, do you ex
pert to go into the Cabinet?" "Have a pinch of
snuff." "Do you desire to return to your posi
tion as Minister to Frsncer "Have a pinch of
snuff." "Is there any truth that the Supreme
Court is to be enlarged, and that you will b ap
pointed one of the judges!" "Have a pinch of
snuff." ''General, honor bright, have not some
communications of a confidential eharrctcr
passed between yourself and General Harrison
aicce the electionP "Hare a piceh of enoff."
"How are those Petin ducks on your Ports
mouth farm doing?" "Admirably, my dear boy;
finest ducks in tbe world. Come see me again.
Take all the snuff you want. Good morning.
A Lift Insurance Decision:
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The Supreme Court of the United States has
decided tbat a life insurance policy is not a part
of the estate oi an insolvent debtor, and cannot
be claimed by his creditors. In other words, it
is held that a nan has a legal right to provlee
for bis familj by insuring his life, regardless of
his obligations t other people. Such a view is
certainly in harmony with sound ideas of justice
sndfaimesr, though , in special instances the
rule may work an apparent wrong to third par
ties. Powderly riea, for Powderly.
New York TlniM.
Mr. Powderly's plea is a plea for Powderly,
and that be is willing and anxious to b th dic
tator which he expects tho covention to create.
Mr. Powderly is largely responsible for the dis
asters which have overtaken the order of which
he was once the actual and is now the nominal
head, and the members are not likely to pl
the organization nnder his absolute control
again, whatever they my do to neutra-'lze thi
effect of the dissensions in th executive board.
Reckless in Victory.
The solid Sotth is brcaiir.;?
Let 'er brake
The Democrats &re quatins
Let 'eia qua.' ;
This is the yt ar jubilate.
MDCCCLXXXVIIL
-St. 1'sul fiocssr Tress.
Love's noeer Eccentricities.
New York Grar-nic.
A contemporary speakingof the Lhambtrlaln
Endicott weddirg says "love spans the seas.0
That is very pretty, iodsed. and what a nice girl
th lady is to lev a man who has already heea
twice married and has eght interesting children.
A Itevolutlonlat's Advice.
New York Grartic (Dem.)
If any Democrat stars in oDce after March 4,
he is a copperhead, and ought to be shot on the
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