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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 1890.
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House.
The death of Walker Blaine proves
hat a man must die in order to get the
credit to which he is entitled.
The question of what shall be done
with the Indians? does not trouble the
people down in Arkansas. They hang
'em there, six at a time.
The DemocrSts promised the liquor
interest in Ohio that if they got into
power they would repeal the temperance
laws, but it is predicted that they dare
not do it.
It is the New York Sun which remarks
that "Brother Brice must learn to sit
still in his chair in the Senate when 'the
Senator from New York' is called."
Timely caution.
The average man would decline the
job of Czar of Russia if the working of
it caused him to feel that everybody,
even his own brother, is watching to add
a dose of poison to his coffee.
Mr. Cleveland has not written a let
ter calling for ballot reform since the
election in Jackson, Mis3., last week.
His attention is respectfully called to
the need of reform in that town.
The Louisville Courier-Journal wants
to know what a tax is for. It might re
call the fact that $150,000 of Kentucky's
taxes went to enrich the friends of hon
est Uncle Dick Tate when Democratic
State Treasurer.
The ilouisville Courier-Journal re
calls the fact ttiat Texas, by the terms
of its admission to the Union, has a right
to be divided into four States, and now
that Democratic Senators are wanted
urges such a division.
The Democratic editors went home
wishing that they could have slugged
the brother who offered the Brice reso
lution in their meeting; but the previous
fellow with flint-lock sense and a hair
trigger pencil is always on duty.
Judge Bookstaveu, of New York city,
has been condemned by the Bar Associa
tion and indicted by the grand jury for
complicity in the fraudulent divorce of
Sheriff Flack, and yet ho serenely holds
his place. But ho is a Tammany judge.
"If Burr had been an honest man ho
would have defeated Jefferson for Pres
ident," says the Washington correspond
ent of the Courier-Journal. Let Demo
crats bear it in mind on election days.
Such a change of conduct may turn therr
luck.
The colored convention at Chicago
was much more liberal than the Demo
cratic Senators. They ask Congress to
give $10,000,000 to 10,000 whites in the
South to induce them to leave. But it
would be a good use to which to put tho
money. mmmmmmmmmmm
In spite of the fact that the city of
Frankfort, Ky., has prohibited the smok
ing of cigarettes, a Kentucky paper says
they will continue to be smoked in that
burg, since it is tho right of the Amer
ican citizen to make himself disagree
able. But how about the right of the
American boy to kill himself?
There is no more reason why tho
government should assist the emigration
of blacks than of whites, and if it should
undertake to assist in tho migration of
every man who is dissatisfied with his
location it would have a job on haud so
expensive that tho pension list would be
but a drop in the bucket in comparison.
The Philadelphia Record apologizes
for General Jackson's belief in a pro
tective tariff, and says his views were
the result of his environment. The
Record thinks he would bo a free-trader
now, but offers no good reason for its
, supposition. The logical conclusion is
that if General Jackson were alive ho
would bo training in the Republican
camp.
Someuodv writes to tho New York
Post that pulverized alfalfa is tho recog
nized specific for la grippe out in Colo
rado. As eacli region it supposed to
produce its own remedy for any given
disease, and as alfalfa is a Colorado fod
der, the Hoosier sufferer may be able to
find his panacea in a decoction of blue
grass or clover hay. There is nothing like
experimenting if you don't care for
your life.
The natuial man and the regenerate
man are coming to think alike on tho
negro question. After considering -tho
recent outrages in the South, the New
York Herald hnyn the negroes must hit
back. The Northwestern Christian Ad
vocate, discussing tho same subject,
urges the negroes to use their muscle.
The theory in the one case is that the
colored men will bo treated with due re
spect when they show that they can de
fend themselves; tho advice of the Ad
vocate is presumably based on the opin
ion that Providence helps them who first
help themselves. In any case the ad
vice is practical, and the resulting
bloodshed will probably be no greater
than where a policy of non-resistance is
followed.
THE PENSION BUREAU.
Those who knew General Ranm when
he was made Commissioner of Pensions
were satisfied that the President had
found a man who had tho rare adminis
trative capacity to put the then demoral
ized Pension Bureau upon a business
and equitable basis. Since General
Raum took tho office, Oct. 23, every
expectation has been realized. Since
he has held tho office 33,093 pension
certificates have been issued, tho largest
number ever issued in the same length
of time. In this connection a com
parison of tho issue of certificates
for tho month of November for
several years will be of inter
est to veterans and their friends. Tho
number issued in November, 188G, was
7,385; 1887, 8,052; 18S8, 10,587; 1889, 14,189.
But this is not all tho work that General
Raum has been directing. A general
reorganization of the bureau is being
steadily but persistently carried on.
The making of cases "special" through
outside influence, which enabled favored
men to be served before the soldier who
has no friends in Washington, has been
stopped, and every applicant is put upon
a basis of equality. The medical divis
ion, which has always been the weakest
of the bureau, has been reorganized,
and generally the service of the bureau
has been made to feel the influence of
an able and earnest head. In short, this
important branch of the public service
was never more efficient than at tho
present time.
PE0MINENT MEN IN CONGRESS.
"Judging from the reports of the pro
ceedings of the House at Washington,
there are only about twenty-five able
men in that body," was the remark of
a young man a few days since. The con
clusion is far from correct. There are
very many more than twenty-five able
men in tho House, but twenty-five, or
fifty at most, direct its action and shape
its legislation; but this is not because
they have more ability than fifty others,
but because they have years of experi
ence and the reputation which that ex
perience brings. Many men have an
aptness for legislative work, but a man
of good ability can become prominent
and influential in thollouso by attention
and experience. He is a very bright
man, like Speaker Reed, w ho can obtain
recognition in the House during
his first term, and Reed would not
have done so had he not been
put upon the special committee to in
vestigate tiie Hayes-Tilden election.
Judge Kelley, who has just died, Ran
dall of Pennsylvania, McKiuley of Ohio,
Cannon, Carlisle and a score of others,
would never have attained a national
reputation had they been dropped by
their constituents after four years'
service, in order that some other party
man might have his turn. General
Browne, of this State, and even Holman,
have power in the House, because they
have experience and know the methods
of business. The South has always been
strong in Congress, because many of the
members have owned their districts, or
their constituents have had the good
sense to continue to re-elect them.
Maine, with tut four members, has
more influence in the House to-day than
has Massachusetts with twelve, because
tho 2nino members have been there from
three to six terms. There is one State
which always chooses able men, but be
cause it is the unwritten law that a mem
ber shall not be a candidate beyond a
second term they never have prominence,
and the State is never heard of in the
House. The State whose people desire
to have power in Congress must keep its
Representatives there several terms,
particularly when they show, at tho end
of a second term, a growing capacity for
legislative service. To do this, con
stituencies must cease to believe that B
has a claim to go to Congress after A
has been there four years, because he
has rendered his party some service, or
has been conspicuous in some way.
They must also cease to regard the send
ing of a man to Congress as being a fa
vor conferred upon him. If he is
good for anything, a Representative
is conferring a favor upon a constituen
cy by going to Congress, since the serv
ice is arduous, and the remuneration is
no return for a competent man's time in
the prime of life. There is but on) man
who has claims on a constituency, and
he is the one who has shown the capac
ity to servo it with conspicuous ability,
and he has claiais simply because his
constituents have a right to the best
service any man can give them. But
these considerations do not count in tho
case of Democrats. New men should be
put in their places at the earliest possible
date, and the new men should be Repub
licans. THE LYING SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.
Column upon column has been tele
graphed to mugwump and Democratic
papers from Iowa to the effect that Re
publicans in tho Legislature-elect would
not support Senator Allison. Candidate
after candidate has been named whom
tho farmers, or the railroaders, or this
or that iuterest wanted, but every long
story ended with the declaration that
much dissatisfaction existed in regard to
Senator Allison, and his defeat was pre
dicted. Yarns of political combinations,
gossip about secret plottiDgs by sore
heads and tho expressions of independ
ents who would not go to the caucus
have been published and republished.
Tho Republican caucus of the Iowa
Legislature has been held. Republicans
who wero unable to walk were carried
Into tho hall, and three absentees sent
proxies with instructions. The roll was
called, and every Republican's namo
was answered to, and every answer was
"Senator Allison" for re-election.
Tho same class of correspondents are
sending specials from this city to tho
Democratic, and particularly to tho
mugwump papers, setting forth the al
leged dissatisfaction with President
Harrison in Indiana. It is not a good
week for tho New York Times's repre
sentative when ho does not have
a column of this dreary gossip,
or, rather, stupid fabrication; and
it is the same with other papers hostile
to tho Republican party. If the roll
were called it would be found that these
stories are as groundless as the columns
of rot which have been telegraphed or
sent by mail regarding Senator Allison.
It is all baseless and senseless drivel;
but then the correspondents are paid for
the 6tuffby the column, which accounts
for tho most of it. '
SAMPLE MISREPRESENTATION. t
The Chicago Times, under the caption,
"A Scalp Dance," gives what it claims
to be a correct account of the treatment
which Mrs. Chamberlain, a soldier's
widow, who was made postmaster of
Big Bend, Wis., by the Cleveland ad
ministration, has received at the hands
of tho present administration. By the
version of the Times the lady was re
moved by the present administration to
make room for a Republican. The Chi
cago Journal, noting the Times's ver
sion, proceeds to give a correct history
of the case. Mrs. Chamberlain is an es
timable woman, whose husband was a
soldier. She was made postmaster sev
eral years ago, and kept the office in her.
father's tavern, which has been one of
the institutions of the town for years,'
during which the real village of Big
Bend has grown up at quite a distance
from the Martin tavern." The people of
the village remonstrated against the lo
cation of the postoffice, naturally de
siring a place easy of access, but in vain.
When the present administration came .
into power a strong effort was made to
procure Mrs. Chamberlain's removal,
principally on tho ground that she kept
the office at a distance from the place
where it ought to be. While the fight
was going on it was well understood that
no further efforts would be made for her ,
removal if she would change the loca
tion of tho office to the village, but she
rejected the proposition. The Postmaster-general,
instead of removing
Mrs. Chamberlain, as he would have
been warranted in doing, created a new.
office in the village and appointed a resi
dent to be postmaster, while Mrs. Cham
berlain is still holding the old office at
Martin's tavern. 1
This is the case as it stands; and it is
difficult to see where the scalp-dance
comes in. Under tho circumstances, the
Postmaster-general would have been
justified in removing Mrs. Chamberlain,
in order to establish the office where tho
public would be more conveniently
served. Instead of so doing, he respects
tho soldier's widow by permitting her to
hold the office at Martin's tavern, and
tried to satisfy the people by creating a
new one, conveniently located. . But the
Democratic editor, even if misled, will
not correct his misstatement, while the
case will be referred to by the opposition
press as an outrage upon the widow of
a soldier. Cases of similar misrepresen
tation are numerous.
A 7AR BETWEEN SCIENTISTS.
The preliminary skirmish has already
taken place among those scientists who
devote themselves to fossil-hunting and
the like, which indicates heavy fighting
all along the line very soon. The battle
field is the geological survey, and the
assailed are Major Powell, director of
the survey, and Professor Marsh, of
Yale College, president of the National
Academy of Sciences. . The chief as
sailant thus far is Professor Cope the
Philadelphia paleontologist and a mem
ber of the faculty of tho University, of
Pennsylvania, who is supported by Prof.
Williston, of Yale; Professor Scott, of
Princeton, and Dr. Frazier, of . the
Franklin Institute of Philadelphia.
Professor Cope', with some of his asso
ciates, is .dissatisfied with the manage
ment of the survey by Director Powell
aud" Professor Marsh. Professor Cope
charges that Major Powell has turned
the survey into a politico-scientific mo
nopoly; that he has plagiarized the re
ports of State geologists and past sur
veys; that, to obtain'appropriations for
the survey, he has appointed Congress
men's sons to positions for which they
are unfit, and has provided sinecures for
journalists in order to disarm criticism;
that he has doled out money among
college professors to secure their good
will toward tit) survey.
It is charged against Professor Marsh
that ho schemed with Major Powell to
secure the presidency of the National
Academy of Sciences so as to use that
institution for their mutual purposes;
that, through connivance with Powell,
he has stored large numbers of collec
tions (fossils) with Yale; that ho has
passed off as his own. tho scientific
works of his assistants; ' that he
has improperly used $00,000 a year
which Major Powell has allowed him,
and that ho has resorted to questionable
methods in prosecuting scientific work.
The bitterness displayed by the parties
to this controversy must bo a surprise .to
those 'who, from a distance, have con
templated the vast learning and scien
tific, mysteries which remove geologists,
palentologists and kindred ologists from
the common herd, but the frightful man
ner in which they apply epithets would
indicate a familiarity with the Democrat
ic primary rather than withthe fossils of
a pre-historic age.
Major Powell replies that these men
have been applicants for position in the
survey, which they desire to reorganize
by putting themselves in charge of it.
He denies all of tho charges, one by one,
and closes with a scorching characteri
zation of Professor Cope, who is jealous
and has an "hysterical temper." Prof.
Marsh is said to be preparing abroad
side for his foes, one of whom is a fellow-professor
in Yale, who applies to
him (Marsh) the Anglo-Saxon word
"liar." It is said that before the battle
is over all of the scientific men of the
country who study fossils will take one
side or tho other, neglecting for the time
pre-historic studies to tako a hand in a
warfare of modern words. It seems
very much like a light between the "ins"
and the "outs," or, rather, the "outs"
and tho "ins."
The Charleston News aud Courier has
another protest against the wanton
murder of negroes in its State. In view
of tho indifference of the authorities
and the utter improbability that the
Barnwell county murderers will ever be
brought to justice, these protests have
an insincere sound, but arc, perhaps, to
be accepted as an expression of genuine
feeling. It is at least something ' to
know that tho leading newspaper of the
State recognizes the Barnwell slaughter
as a disgraco to the entire community.
It says:
It seems incredible that this crime was
perpetrated in South Carolina. It is in
credible that it will be permitted to go un
punished. The murderer and companions
are known. It is unnecessary to multiply
worus aoout this truly horrible atlair. I no
time has folly come for South Carolina to
prove to th world and to itself that mur
der is not one of the recognized institu-
lions oi mis ctato ana acceptable to us
people. ' Let us not mock ourselves longer
with pretenses and assertions of a law
abiding and God-fearing spirit. We must
rid the community of tho brutes and fiends
who dwell among us, or divide theresponsi
bility for their crimes with them, and be
ranked with them.
Such words as these, if really meant,
must make an impression, after a time,
even upon South Carolina "chivalry,"
but at present the negroes of that State
have little chance for their lives when
the blue-blooded members of tho "rul
ing race" go on the war-path.
The Superior Court of Wilmington,
Del., has decided that citizens must pay
their taxes in person, and expresses the
opinion that the custom of paying by
proxy must lead to bribery and intimi
dation. This question was brought be
fore the court at the instance of Senator
Higgius in order to overcome the diffi
culties that were thrown in the way of
Republican tax-payers. A tax receipt
is required to be exhibited by each
voter before he can cast his ballot at an
election; but Democratic collectors, by
absence from their offices and delays,
have systematically interfered with tho
payment of taxes by Republicans upon
the approach of an election, with the re
sult of lessening the Republican vote.
Senator Higgins is a shrewd and ener
getic man, and ho will probably try
other measures for protecting citizens
from wrong and outrage. It is not nec
essary to go far. South to find that Re
publicans must fight for their rights.
Ex-Representative Scott, and Mr.
Payne, of the Senate and Standard Oil
Company, interfered seriously with the
eloquence of the Indiana Democratic
editors when they took up their favorite
topic and proceeded to rail against the
millionaire in politics. Still, as they
had not personally indorsed the election
of these gentlemen, they ignored them,
and wero left comparative freedom in
which to howl, But they have in
dorsed Brice and Brico's election, when
they knew it was accomplished by the
contents of his barrel, and. will have to
sing small on plutocracy now.
Ballot reform in Mississippi means five
hundred dollars' worth of property aud the
ability to read and write. That's what
mightbe called simple solution. Wash
ington 1'ost.
Is it, indeed? Possibly the editor of
the Post has seen the time when he did
not have five hundred dollars to his
name, but would yet have regarded it
as an outrage to be deprived of his vote
for that reason. It is a very "simple so
lution" in Jackson, Miss., so long as the
black men who can read and own prop
erty can be kept from voting and the
votes of the poor, illiterate whites be
deposited as heretofore.
It. is astonishing what a missionary
spirit is developing among Southern
statesmen. No one would have sus
peered Senator Butler of a burning
anxiety to evangelize and civilize cen
tral Africa before he made that speech
recommending the removal of the South
ern negroes to that far-off country. It
is to bo noticed, however, that this
missionary spirit does not affect the
Senator's pocket, but that the good
work is to be done at government ex
pense. '
The Democratic editors should be
warned by their experience in the Brice
case not to commit themselves to any
principle that party exigencies may
cause them to swallow just as they have
become its enthusiastic advocates. As
the Democratic party has no fixed
principles, the only safe course for tho
unhappy editors is to follow Senator
Turpie's example, and go down to Brazil
and other distant regions for ammuni
tion to hurl at the Republicans.
It is one of the unlovely traits of
many newspapers to kick a man who is
supposed to be down. Consequently
Governor Foraker is getting a largo
share of that treatment. But Governor
Foraker gave Ohio four years of excel
lent service, and as the result left every
branch of tho State service in good con
dition and money in the treasury.
What do those correspondents havo
to say who have been writing that Sen
ator Allison could not command the vote
of all tho Republicans in the Iowa Leg
islature? Not a word. They can proba
bly show orders from the managers of
tho papers employing them to furnish
the stuff they have been sending.
The demand of the New York Star
that tho Ohio Legislature investigate
tho charge of tho World that sixty-six
of its members were bribed by Brice is
as sensible as it would be to make the
man indicted for murder the sole jurj,
to near ine case ana rentier xne decision.
The Washington correspondent of the
New York Independent, writing some days
before the fatal illness and death of Walker
Blaine, spoke of him in the following com
plimentary terms:
Walker Blaine la disappointing people tho
"croakers," who feared he would not "amount
to anvthlnK" In the Mate Department. He is the
niot improved younjr roan I know not In drew,
for he does not dre half as well as formerly; hut
he attends to hisdutles faithfully, performs them
intelligently, and disposes of scores of people
who require skillful handling. His is by no
moans nn easy position. His duties alone as
Solicitor for the Department of Mate would le
"steady employment." But all corts of people
fiud In lilm a refuse of advice aud bureau of in
formation. That he deals Mith them m cleverly
a to cive atiiaction on the one hand, and no
offense on the other, proves bin to be clever and
a pretty good J ude of men.
Mr. Amos J. Cummings was a good edi
tor, and may make a Congressniap of fair
quality wheu he learns that the House of
Representatives is no place for the perpe
tration of silly jokes. If Mr. Cummiugs
wants to equal the reputation of bis prede
cessor, Sunset Cox, as a funny man, he
must evolve something more humorous
than a resolution appropriating $50,000 to
erect a bronze statue to SamuelJ. Tilden.
Cox would have known beforehand that
such a resolution was not witty, but Cum
xnings has to learn this by the painfnl pro
cess of watching the fiat failure of his joke.
and finding himself berated by the press.
Next time he will know better.
Scarcely a day passes that the telegraph
does not bring a story of some group of
dreamers who are preparing to prove their
rights to some fortune, varying anywhere
from $1,000,000 to $50,000,000, in California,
England, "Java, Japan or Jupiter." Other
things being equal, most people would pre
fer the earnings of a laborer at a dollar a
day to all the financial results the"fortune-in-En
gland" dreamer is ever likely to ob
tain.
A tremendous load of anxiety must
have been taken off Senator Brice's mind
when the Democratic editors of Indiana,
after much hesitation, finally decided to
congratulate him. It is small wonder that
they hesitated, for it was hard to cive up
forever the old stock lie that tho Repub
lican party is the party of plutocracy.
As has been strongly suspected all along.
the alleged Republican opposition to Sena
tor Allison existed entirely within the col
umns of the Democratio and mugwump
newspapers.
That Toronto bank clerk who has "got
away with $40,000 of the bank's money
must have been associating with exiles
from the United States in his leisure hours. 1
ABOUT PEOPLE ASP THINGS.
Not many Americans become legal citi
zens of England. Last year only tnree
took out naturalization papers in England.
King Humbert, of Italy, has been
obliged to have all his teeth pulled. This
misfortune is the outcome of chronio dys
pepsia.
Mr. Gladstone has had sir private sec;-
retaric8, each of whom now holds a polit
ical post. Their salaries aggregate $50,000
annually.
Mr. Edison has just imported a beauti
ful marble statue called "The Genius of
Light," which he bought at the Paris exhi
bition. The duties on it were 800.
Pasteur says, speaking of the prevailing
influenza: "Let men and women both quit
smoking tobacco and smoke camphor in
stead, and they will probably escape the
pest."
At a recent auction sale in London a copy
of the first folio of Shakspeare's plays,
printed in 1G23, was sold for $1,550 to an
American collector. An imperfect copy
brought fc'COO.
Frank Hatton is a typical American.
He commenced lifo as a newsboy, and was
Postmaster-general under the administra
tion of President Arthur. He has been
everything on a newspaper, from newsboy
to editor, and would rather be the editor of
a live newspaper than President of tho
United States.
Louise M. Alcott received $5 for her
first story, which was written when she
was sixteen. She lived to receive $3,000 for
one story. She worked long and hard be
fore 8 ho made much money, lu lbb4. after
twelve years of literary labor, she made
only $470. Miss Alcott was a devoted sister
and daughter, but never knew the joy or
sorrow of love.
Old Marshal MacMahon, ex-President of
France, has completed his memoirs, but
they will not be given to the public. He
intends to have only six copies printed
one for himself, one for his wife, one for
each of his threo sons and one for his
daughter. Ho has received fiattering offers
from publishers, but refuses to allow his
work to receive general circulation.
Paul White, a prosperous Colorado
ranchman, about a month ago advertised
for a wife, giving an accurate description
of himself and his snrroundincs. etc. His
mail has been so heavy ever since that it
has been necessary to put it in barrels at
the postoffice, and Mr. White was com-
Eelled to bring his farm-wagon to town to
aulithome. He has nottyet made a se
lection. ; ,'
Thk ten great schools of England were
founded as follows: Eton, 1440; Westmin
ster. 1500; Winchester. 13S0; St. Paul's. 1500;
Merchant's Tailor's, 1560; Charter House,
1611; Harrow, 1571; Rugby, 15C7: Shrews
bury. 1549; Christ's, 1552. Oxford and Cam
bridge have stood through the struggles of
Hanover, Stuart. Tudor, York. Lancaster
and Plantagenet. 1 These grand old piles
are land-marks of civilization, and stepping-stones
to universal liberty.
Emperor William of Germany has a
man servant who comes in for his master's
cast-off clothes. Recently the valet ven
tured to suggest that a certain coat which
was still in active service belonged to him
by reason of its age. "What is its market
value!" asked the Emperor. "Three dol
lars' replied the valet. "1 like the coat,"
remarked the Emperor. "Here, take three
dollars and leave me the garment."
Miss Caelotte Fiske Bates has re
ceived many warm expressions of regard
since the rumor from New York that her
severe illness had ended fatally. She is
now slowly recovering, and will by-and-by
be ablo to resume her work in the school
where she has held a position as teacher of
literature for two years. There has been a
very lively demand for her volume of poems
Binco the renewal of interest in her person
ality which came with the belief that this
talented woman had written her last poem.
William Morris, the Socfalist poet, is
fifty-six years old, of medium height, with
broad shoulders, crowned by a fine head.
His eyes are large, dark and penetrating.
He is a man of undoubted honesty of pur
pose, aud with a stroug personality. Be
sides being a poet, he is also a scientist, an
essayist, an antiquarian, a lecturer, a mer
chant, a manufacturer, a workman, the
editor of the Commonweal, and, in fact,
one of the busiest men iu London. He re
serves Saturday and Sunday for writing
poetry.
Prof. EP. TnwiNO, M. D., of Brooklyn,
is making a tour of Japan, China and India,
with reference to medical and scientific in
vestigations. His efforts at Canton are di
rected toward the establishment of an in
sane asylum for the Chinese. He, with Dr.
Kerr, the oldest medical missionary there,
has had an interview with influential na
tives, whose aid it is expected will be se
cured for this humane project. He writes
that Thanksgiving week was observed in
an enthusiastic manner, the French and
British consulates taking part in the gath
ering at the Canton Hospital.
A lawsuit has just been finished in Pesth
which began in 1708, 121 years ago. The
B ishop of Neutra, in northern Hungary,
died leaving his estate to his family. They
were unable to take possession owing to
the Turkish invasion at that time. After
the invasion it was found that there wero
one thousand persons entitled to a share.
Thev being unable to agree, appealed to
th.law, and as a result the expenses of the
law and administration have swallowed up
the fortune almost entirely, and the heirs
have increased to more than two thousand.
Now that the case is settled the heirs will
gat about $5 apiece.
COMMENT AND OPINION.
TnE Mormon Church is simply a malig
nant cancer pleading to be let alone that it
may do its perfect work; Cut it out De
troit Tribuue.
The negro is a cilizen of the United
States and of the State in which he resides.
The Indians aud Chinese were not citizens.
Citizens cannot bo dealt within the same
way that aliens and denizens are. Louis
ville Commercial.
The senatorial auction in Ohio and the
election of a Wall-street stock-gambler to
represent that State in the upper house of
Congress will emphasize the dangers of the
present method of selecting Senators and
greatly strengthen the position of the ad
vocates of a direct popular vote. Chicago
Tribune.
Our ancestors lived decently and com
fortably, but the wages they earned d
not average more that 90 cents in 1650 und
$1 in 1$V. for $1.40 now. Yet tho dollar will
buy at this timo at hast a fifth more than
it would buy in 1SC0, 60 that as respects
tho cost of living the earning power of the
worker has about doubled. New York
Tribune.
. Whether the raw material dnty be re
moved or not the duty on manufactures
will not bo increased. The tim when in
creases in imposts were possible for the
long-established industrieshas gone by for
ever in this country, and the men imme
diately concerned would do well to keep
this important fact in mind. St, Louis
Globe-Democrat.
Crimes against commerce merit heavy
punishment. The time has gone by when
they can be regarded lichtly. Overissues
of stock, convenient failures, chicane of
any Kind ought to bo drastically treated.
The commnnitv will be tho better for the
experience. There will be fewer failures
and more honesty in commercial inter
course. Chicago 1 imes.
The history of Mrs. James Brown Potter
should be a warning to women whose dower
of beauty and high social station tempt
them to seek for greater praise and fame
than their circle of society supplies. The
stage is only too likely to be the tomb of
the society beauty. It is unfair, also, that
the public should be invited to witness
the funeral. It is dismal; it elevates noth
ing and nobody, and it is no longer profit
able. Pittsburg Dispatch.
We venture no prediction as to tho future
of the negro race; it may prove itself to be
inferior to the white race, or it may prove
itself far otherwise; but wo make this con
fident assertion: a race which in barely a
quarter of a century of freedom has pro
duced such men as Pledger andFortuue.
Bruce and Matthews in politics, which has
given Harvard its class orator of the vear,
and has given to art so respectable a land
scape painter as Duncanson. is not deficient
in the useful qualities of citizenship. Chi
cago Inter Ocean.
The future of Brazil looks very unprom
ising. In throwing overboard their Em
peror they have sown the dragon's teeth
which promise to spring up in crops of an
archy, riots and bloodshed. A republic is a
good thing, provided the people are tit for
that form of government and for periodical
changes of rulers. Otherwise an econom
ical monarch', with a king for a permanent
figurehead, and without any long lists of
public pensioners, seems to excite less tba
primitive ambitions of ignorant masses.
Philadelphia Inquirer.
INDIANA TOLITICS.
Enthusiastic Spirit Shown in the Proceedings
of the Keccnt Conventions.
Brazil Register: Republican mass-meetings
in the various townships of tho State,
Saturday, generally indorsed President
Harrison's administration, and betrayed a
spirit of harmony as well as a fighting con
dition. Rockville Republican: Reports from all
over the State show a most gratifying feel
ing among Republicans. They are getting
into line early, and will worry the Demo
crats, as is their wont, from now on till the
campaign is closed.
Vernon Banner: Tho mass convention
showed the Republicans to be wide awako
to the situation, and if a Republican vic
tory is not scored at the State election in
November it will be no fault of tho Repub
licans of old Jennings.
nendricks County Republican: Repub
licans in every county held mass-meetings
last Saturday. The ringing and sincere in
dorsementsof President Harrison andhisad
ministration from each county gives a num
ber of papers nothing on which to base
their falsehoods.
Fairmonnt News: Why does the Phalanx
and its misguided adherents persist in de
nouncing and misrepresenting a party
which has done all for the temperance
cause that has ever been accomplished in
Indiana, and advise Prohibitionists to throw
away Jtheir ballots upou the Democratio
party, a party openly opposed to temper
ance? Who does not know that every Pro
hibition vote cast counts only for tho
Democratic party!
Vincennes Commercial: There is good
feeling and enthusiasm iu every county, as
the large meetings all over the State havo
testified. The Republican party in this
State, as elsewhere in the Union, is alive to
the importance of the work in hand, and it
will do it wisely and well, depend upon
that. Do not be deceived by the shouts of
your enemy of disaffection, for an enemy
never means you welL There is harmony
every where in the State.
Vincennes Republican: The "DbMocrat
io veterans of Indiana" are called upon to
organize camps where politics shall be tho
central ligament of adhesion. This is ask
ing all Democrats of this State who belong
to the Grand Army to leave that and go
into a political organization. Or, in other
words, it is the Jett Davis spirit of seces
sion from what is known as a benevolent
and charitable organization. Has the
spirit of the Sons of Liberty assumed this
new garb of "Democratic Veterans!." How
many true soldiers will be hoodwinked by
this political movement!
Brookville American: The mass conven
tion reflected great credit upon the polit
ical party which it represented. The de
liberations were order!', careful and digni
fied. There was perfect unity of sentiment
and purpose. There was no wrangling, di
vision or bitterness. Harmony and good
feeling prevailed throughout, and wo be
lieve the work of the convention willprovo
eminently satisfactory to the great body of
the Republican party of the county. We
congratulate the party, both of our own
county of Franklin and throughout tho
State, on the auspicious beginning of our
organization for the next contest.
Nobody's Business but Ills Own.
Kansas City Star.
Mr. Wanamakor favored a negro Baptist
Sunday-school with his presence last Sun
day morning, and is, therefore, made a tar
get for the wits. Yet Mr. Wanamaker be
haved modestly and decoronsly and in all
ways conserved the proprieties. The inci
dent is purely a matter between him and
the negro congregation, and has no publio
bearing. '
Good Democrats at Outs.
Washington Test.
Now that Mr. Carter H. Harrison has ex
pressed the opinion that Mr. Cleveland was
a failure in the White House, it would be a
good idea to obtain Mr. Cleveland's opinion
of Mr. Harrison's administration as Mayor
of Chicago. It is barely possible that tho
ex-President might return the compliment
of the ex-Mayor.
News from the Outsldo.
Phuadelpaia Record.
In Indiana a bitter faction fight has
broken out between the respective ad
herents of President Harrison and of Gov.
Hovey, who has announced himself as a
candidate for Vice-president in 1SU2. I5y
latest accounts neither faction is making
much headway among the people. 1
Take Things One at a Time.
Washington Press.
All attempts to open the Republican prcslr
dential campaign of b"J2 during 1K0 are
premature and should be discouraged. Tho
work of carrying the next Congress is the
business for this year.
The Warmest of AIL
Philadelphia Press.
Senator Brice, of Ohio, has received no
heartier congratulations upon his election
than those which have come to him from
Hon. Calvin S. Brice, of New York.
Robbed of the "Plutocracy' Thunder.
Troy Times.
The election of Calvin S. Brice to the
United States Senate spikes a great many
Democratic guns planted on the heights of
demagogy.
It Has Occurred.
Philadelphia Inanlrer.
It will perhaps occur to the observer that
the Presbyterian brethren are confessing a
good deal of doubt as to the Confession of
Faith.
Hint to Hase-HaU Champions.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
If base-ball champions continue to fight
nil winter they should resolvo "to play
ball" all summer and not to do it half way.
Allison Is Wanted.
Omaha Republican.
Neither the Mato of Iowa nor the Nation
is ready to dispense with the services of
Iowa's senior Senator.
890.
Anroita Chronicle. ,
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