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louse.
D. C Biggs House and Ebhitt
Now that Deputy Commissioner of
Pensions Smith lias resigned, what new
charge will mugwump papers trump up
against Secretary Noble!
We hope the Democrats in Congress
will like the new House rules. We are
quite sure the country will. They are
in the interest of business, and not of
filibustering.
Those Democrats who were voting
Mr. Randall out of the party and de
nouncing him as a traitor, a few months
since, for not supporting the Mills tariff
bill, ave now very sweet on him.
The New York Herald is mistaken.
Speaker Reed does not think debate a
waste of time. lie allowed all the de
bate on appeals and the election case
that were demanded. Filibustering he
regards a waste of time.
Salt Lake Cur is having a red-hot
political campaign, which will end with
a municipal election next Monday. The
contest is between the Mormons and
gentiles, and the future prosperity of
the city is largely involved.
TnE New York San, which does not
approve of Speaker Reed's course, re
proves those Democrats who have been
applying epithets to him, and particu
larly Senator Blackburn of Kentucky.
It says that Mr. Reed ia not a dirty
despot, but a clean man.
It was hardly necessary for Mr. Car
lisle to inform the country that the
Democrats "would never go so far as to
leave Congress in a body." Your averago
Democrat is not famous for leaving oflico
until he has to, particularly when the
office has a $3,000-a-year attachment.
Now that the Agricultural Depart
ment is ready to distribute seeds under
the direction of members of Congress,
Representative Bynum will do well to
make requisition for all the grass-seed
in stock. It will be needed to make
green the burnt districts left in his wake.
TnE Democrats of the rank and file
are not bothering their heads much over
the signal defeat of the filibusters. In
common with the majority of plain, or
dinary citizens, they entertain the old
fashioned idea that Congressmen are
elected to transact business, not to de
lay it.
. At the suggestion of Mr. Cleveland a
Republican resigned the Boston col
lectorship to make room for Mr. Salton
8 tall, but now, when it has been inti
mated to him that his resignation would
be desirable, he blandly refuses to do so
because ho does not desire to open the
way for spoilsmen.
A Minneapolis contemporary speaks
of Mr. Cleveland's gTeat indefatigabil
ity in booming himself as a presidential
candidate, as "industrious persistency."
As a Clevelandism this phrase docs fairly
well, but the old "pernicious activity" is
sufficiently expressive to 6uit Governor
Hill's view of the case.
Governor Tiiater, of Nebraska, has
written a letter to Chairman McKinley,
of the ways and means committee,
deprecating any reduction of the duty
on . sugar. lie says Nebraska farmers
are investing largely in beet-sugar
plants, and if the industry is protected
it will result in creating a home market
for their farm products which they
greatly need.
Of course, Mr. Lampson, Lieutenant
governor of Ohio, who was nnseated by
the Democratic Legislature, will not ap
peal to the Supreme Court. The Su
premo Court has nothing to do with the
case. His court of final resort. is the
people of Ohio, and in November of next
year they will seat him as Lieutenant
governor by such a decisive majority as
will prove an emphatic lesson on the
folly of usurpation.
The coroner's verdict iu the caso of
the Carmel railroad accident states the
cause and locates the responsibility cor
rectly, but draws it very mild in saying,
"the persons who are responsible for
this defective track deserve criticism
and censure." If tho facts are as they
.have been stated to bo the management
deserves something more than criticism
and censure. The difficulty is that, with
poor laws, weakly administered, such
cases are hard to reach.
The time has not yet arrived when
negroes can feel that keen sense of grat
itude which lends to tho ofTerincr of
thanks to the Southern press for its
'favorable attitude toward black citi-
rens in decrying tho outrages perpe-
trated upon them. Several Southern
papers have, it is true, called for the
punishment of the persons committing
such crimes, but, before the violence of
their apparent indignation has waned,
have managed to intimate a probability
that the murdered negroes were really
to blame for their own taking ofT, and ,
the mobs were proceeding in self-defense.
And, so far as yet appears, no
white man has ever been apprehended
or punished for such crimes on the
strength of Southern newspaper ap
peals. It will be time enough for col
ored conventions to offer thanks when
any favorable results from the attitude
of the Southern press have been shown.
THE PE0P0SED RULES.
The rules which the Republican mem
bers of the committee on rules have pro
posed for the guidance of tho House are
intended to enable that body to perform
its constitutional duties, and to clothe
the majority with the power which is an
imperative necessity to popular govern
ment. They are based upon the theory
that it is the duty of Congress to legis
late and not prevent action. They se-k
cure to the minority every right a mi
nority can claim in a government based
upon tho theory that the majority must
rule. The debate and amendment of
measures, and the right to have a roll
call on every important feature of any
bill under consideration and upon tho
bill itself before its final disposition aro
secured. This is all a minority can
claim. But they take from filibusters
tho power to defeat legislation by de
manding a roll-call upon a series of mo
tions designed to prevent tho ma
jority from ' proceeding to the busi
ness ot legislation. They destroy
tho fiction that a member can bo pres
ent at a session in tho body and
by silence not be counted to make the
number necessary to do business. The
new rules give the Speaker the power
to decide when motions are made sim
ply to defeat, by wasting time, that
which they cannot defeat with votes.
With these rules one-fifth of the House
will no longer bo able to keep four
fifths answering roll-calls on motions
which every member knows to be dila
tory, and, iu the end, compel tho four
fifths to compromise or to lose their
measure because no more time can be
consumed in trying to get to a vote on
it. In short, the rules are designed to
sweep away the system of minority con
trol which Mr. Randall has been build
ing up in the House for twelve years,
because he did not dare trust his own
party to legislate. They are designed
to restore to the House the rights and
responsibilities conferred by tho Con
stitution, which the Randall-Carlisle
system has nullified. In short, the Re
publican rules supplement the Consti
tution and the laws affecting the House,
while the Randall-Carlisle code nulli
fied both. The Republican rules ineau
business, action, legislation.
THE FILIBUSTERS' STRENGTH.
It is the complaint of the Southern
Democrats that the colored voters of the
South adhere to the Republican party
and, with few exceptions, will not vote
when they cannot vote the Republican
ticket. Moreover, it has been the aim
of the Democratic managers to raise the
cry of negro domination and attachment
to the Republican party in order to hold
the dissatisfied white voters from par
ticipating in political combinations hos
tile to the Democratic reaimc. Assura-
ig that this claim of the Democratic
party relative to the attachment of the
negroes to tho Republican party is true,
what can bo said in behalf of the Demo
crats who represent districts in which
tho colored voters constitute a decided
majority? There are twenty-eight of
these districts, according to the census
of 1880, in which the colored voters are
in a majority, and at the present time
twenty-6even of them are represented
by Democrats. That the extent to which
tho crime of overthrowing free suffrage
has been carried may be understood.
these districts, with the colored majority
in each, according to the census of 1S80,
arc given as follows:
Democratic Hep- Xegro
Alabama reseniatice. Zlajorih.
First District l.IL JI. Clarke 'J.ft,H
Second Ulstnct ii. A. Herbert
Third District Wm. C. Oates
Fourth District Louis W. Turpin
...... O.itJ
Qiin
..26.612
Ueoraut
Fccond District, DT. G. Turner ........ 3,703
Third District, Charles F.Crisp 2.431
Fourth District. Thoa. M. Urlmes .... 2,!M7
Hixth District Jos. n. Blount 8,229
Eighth District 11. II. Carlton 4.180
Tenth District ii. T. Darned 6,115
Louisiana
Fourth District N. C. Blanchard ..... 5,752
Fifth District C. J. lloatnt-r 22.154
Sixth District . M.KobeiUon 4,545
Fecond District :J. B. Morgan 2.4fiS
Third District. T.C. Catchlngs 14,7i:0
Fourth District. .....Clarke Lewis 5,773
Firth District C. U Anderson 1,570
Fixth District T. K, Htockdale 1.327
Seventh District C. E. Hooker 0,410
South Carolina
First District Bamuel Dibble 2,23
Second District i. D.Tillman ,G43
Third District J. D. Cot h ran l,2lo
Fourth District W. II. Perry i.:90
Fifth District J.J. Hemphill IMilO
Sixth District a. W. Dnrjfan 3,290
Beventh District Wm. Elliott
Tennessee
Tenth District James Phelan 3,673
It will he noticed that in nono of the
above districts, except three, was the
preponderance of colored voters in I860
less than 1,500, and in only ono was it
less than 1,000. This means that with
such voting and counting of votes as is
the practice-in the States of the Xorth,
at least twenty-four of the districts
above given would have elected Repub
licans to tho present House in 1888. At
this time none but tho most i.npudent
cross-roads Democratic organ in the
Xcrth will pretend to deny that the
colored vote in all of the above districts
has been suppressed by intimidation or
fraud of eonio sort on the part of Demo
cratic election officers. To deny that
such has been the practice for more than
a decado would be to impeach the
veracity of leading Democrats in tho
South, of which Hon. Henry Watterson,
of the Louisville Courier-Journal, is a
notable example. Not long since the
Birmingham (Ala.) Age-Herald signifi
cantly remarked:
There are no places where the negro is not
Allowed the unrestricted right of the bal
lot, unions it he in those regions rnere he
constitutes a majority.
Hon. James Phelan, who represents one
of these colored districts, theTenthTeu-
nessee. is the editor and publisher of the
Me in phis Avalanche, which recently ex
pressed the following sentiments:
The colored people should he let alone.
They have uo business with the franchise.
j We should prefer to have the most con-
outh in ofliee than the most intelligent
negro.
A Mr. Edgington, a member of Mr.
Phelan's campaign committee, declared
in a public speech, which the Avalanche
vociferously applauded, that
Any Republican who favors negro suf
frage is the misguided victim of maudlin
philanthropy. Any Democrat who favors
it favors a Tho the stealing of the ballot
when it is deposited.
Wo repeat, in view of the current
facts of history and such declarations as
the above, that at least twenty-four Re
publicans would be in the seats in the
present House now occupied by filibus
tering and obstructive Democrats if tho
principle of free elections had prevail
ed. These men are "physically present
in the House, but constructively absent,"
because the Constitution has been tram
pled under foot and the most sacred
right of citizenship, suffrage, has been
taken from more than a million voters.
They are in the House by virtue of crim
inal conspiracy to nullify the Constitu
tion and the laws of the land. Honora
ble men as they may be accounted, each
of them was guilty of perjury when he
took the oath of office to support tho Con
stitution and the laws of the land. In
the House by virtue of law-breaking
and political crime, they may be ex
pected to report to any species of law
lessness to defeat a majority to which
they are opposed. If these twenty-four
districts had had constitutional elec
tions, there would be twenty-four more
Republicans in the present House and
twenty-four less Democrats, reducing
the number to a figure where they could
do no damage unless Mr. Carlisle were
Speaker to again rule that one-fifth of
the members have aright to demand tho
roll-call upon three or four motions, day
after day, for the sole purpose of delay
and to prevent the majority f rom legis-
lating.
"TWO" AND "TWE."
A Democratic exchange complains of
the alacrity with which the Republican,
members of the House voted to eject
Jackson, of West Virginia, when, as it
plaintively observes, not ono in ten had
ever investigated tho evidence in the
caso. Investigation was hardly neces
sary in a case concerning which so much
has been said in tho newspapers, and in
which the facts on which the contest
was based were officially admitted by
the Democrats. Tho election in the
Fourth West Virginia district was very
close, and tho result -depended upon
whether the returns of one county read
802 or 813 votes. In the returns the
number was written out, and not given
in figures. In that State tho returns are
sent to the Governor, who issues ccrtiti
catesof election. The announcement had
been made, and was not disputed by the
Governor, that the vote from that county
was 802. Presently it was f ouud that these
figures elected the Republican candi
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date, whereupon the ingenious, if not
ingenuous, Democratic Governor de
clared that the word which had hitherto
been counted as "two" was not two, but
"twe," and therefore was to be regarded
as an abbreviation for twelve or twenty.
No one had ever heard of such an nb"
breviation, but as the number 812 would
give the Democratic candidate a majority
of three, which was as good as a majority
of eleven, the Governor decided that
twelve it should be, and issued the cer
tificate accordingly. Even the party or
gans that grumble over the unseating
of Jackson do not undertake to offer
proof that he is entitled to tho seat.
A THREATENED OUTRAGE.
There is danger that the new State of
North Dakota may be disgraced in its
very infancy by a piece of legislation
which, if consummated, will darken its
whole future history. The Louisiana
lottery has invaded the State, and is
trying to secure from the Legislature an
extension of its charter in such form as'
will enable it to continue its infamous
operations throughout the country.
The present charter of the lottery will
expire by limitation in 1S93, and the
Legislature of Louisiana is forbidden
by the Constitution from renewing it.
In this situation it is casting about for a
new location, and has concluded to try
North Dakota. The impoverished con
dition and embarrassed finances of that.
State probably suggested the attempt.
The lottery people offer to pay the
State a. license of siou.uuo a year
during the contiuuauce of their charter.
This is a tempting bribe to a new and
poor State. Tho lottery intluenco has
already proved strong enough to secure
the passage of their bill by the Senate,
and, unless the friends of good govern
ment and good morals take swift ac
tion, the hill will be rushed through the
other house. Wo havo said the offer of
$100,000 a year was a tempting bribe to
a new State with an empty treasury,
but it would be better for North Dakota
to struggle along for twenty years with
an empty treasury than sell itself to this
infamous concern. Tho Louisiana
lottery is, beyond comparison, the
most demoralizing institution in the
United States. It is a legalized
school of corruption and aprolific source
of demoralization, fraud and crime.
With headquarters in Louisiana, which
it has dominated and debauched for
many years in every department of life,
its corruptingagencies extend into every
State and its vicious intluenco is felt
throughout the length and breadth of
the land. It violates laws, defies public
opinion, prostitutes the mails, corrupts
courts and legislatures, and offers a
standing inducement for tho perpetua
tion of crime. Hundreds of its victims
are now grovelling in poverty or serving
time in prisons, where its managers and
officers ought to be. It is this
legalized embodiment of infamy
that is trying xo get a new
lease of life from the Legislature of
North Dakota, thereby fastening it
self on the State and the country for
a prolonged ' career of social and po
litical debauchery. The best people of
the State are alarmed at the prospect;
public meetings aro being held and pro
tests sent to the Legislature.., There is
great danger that the measure will pass.
The State-poverty argument is being
effectively used, and no doubt the lot
tery people are bribing members right
and left. The shadow of the lottery 13
already over North Dakota politics, aud
it is openly declared at the capital that
no man who opposes it will have any
political future. Tho Governor will veto
tho bill if it passes, but there is danger
it will be passed over his veto.
Those who have knofn President
Harrison personally for any length of
time, especially his old friends and
neighbors, will not be surprised by the
statement of our Washington corre
spondent that his conduct during the
affliction of tho Tracy family was a rev
elation of tenderness and deep feeling
unsuspected by the Washington public.
There never was a greater slander con
cerning the private and personal char
acter of a public man than that which
represents President Harrison as cold
blooded, unsympathetic and supremely
selfish. Because he does not carry his
heart on his sleeve and is too
self-respecting to be' hale fellow well
met with every person ho meets, pro
fessional peddlers of personal spite have
found a pretext for representing him as
devoid of human sympathy and feeling.
The reverse is true. He is a man of
large heart and deep, tender feeling, as
any one who has known him long or
well can testify. In 6uch an affliction
as that which came to Secretary Tracy
no man could have a tenderer friend or
one more capable of drawiug from tho
highest sources of consolation than
President Harrison.
Referring to a statement to the ef
fect that a boom for a Republican had
broken out in Arkansas, a mugwump
paper remarks that "it will not take
very deep root, as 'Arkansas may al
ways bo reckoned solid for the other
side." Yes; so long as patent ballot-
boxes aro used by which Republican
votes are thrown out and Republican
candidates contesting frauds are mur
dered, as was Clayton.
The Democratic organs are moderat
ing the lerocity or their attacks upon
Speaker Reed for his "despotic course"
rn brushing asido a threadbare and ob-
structive precedent. It has apparently
just occurred to them that they may bo
glad to expedite legislation themselves,
sometime, by using that same "tyran
nous method" of counting as present
members who do not choose to answer
to their names.
Editor Jones, of the St. Loui3 Re
public, is in Washington, and is quoted
by the New York Sun correspondent as
saying: "It was through the influence of
mv nnnpr in INNS that lirnv. ot lnaiana.
,rn, iinfporpd Wfilinvn n. irrpnt infprpt
was ueieaieu. n e nave a great interest
n r-n i i a1 I
in lampoeii, ami look upon mm as tne
coming man oi tho Democratic party."
Here's a bid. Campbell, what aro you
willing to put up!
The Methodists excuse the use of that
awkward term, "book concern," as applied
to their church publishing-house, on the
ground that it is too well established by
ace and custom to chance. Hut this is no
reason why the Baptists, in starting a new
printing-house, should adopt the same out
landish name.
The increase of 177,000 in the deposits of
the Provincial Bank of Ireland is cited as
an evidence of an improvement in Ireland's
industries. It is also an indication that at
least a part of the American money sent
over there by Irish-Americans and their
friends is being profitably employed by the
recipients.
To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal:
Pleae trive the names of the generals that had
supreme command of the federal army in the
civil war. A kf.aier.
RlIXY&BURQ.Ind.
Lieut-Gen. Winfield Scott up to Nov. 1,
1SC1; Maj.-Gen. Geo. B. McClellanfrom Nov.
1. 18C1, to March 11, 18C2; Maj.-Gen. H. W.
Halleck from July 11, 1SC2, to March 12, 1864;
Lieut-Gen. U. S. Grant from March 12,1804,
to the end of the war. Of course, all these
otlicers were subject to orders from the
President as constitutional commander-in-
chief.
Fnmm et Pneterea NIL
In suffocating dreams, In tossing sleep,
I fttruecled through the midnight, and awoke
Amid a settling sultriness, a deep
And subtle darkness, and a stifling smpke!
Across the trembling floor I reeled, and broke
Through bolted entrances: but hi the street
The air crew thicker, and the startled folk,
Pell-mell in multitudes, with hurried feet.
Went by In "wild bewilderment and blind retreat
Gasping for breath, I Joined the rushing crowd:
And through the stinging ashes, hanging o er
The f trlcken city like a swirling cloud,
Against the smiting gusts of wind that tore
The gathered drifts of hot debris and bore
Them everywhere, amid the clank and clink
Of cIuda and lamp-posts -whose gas-torches
wore
The garb of blackness on, with searching blink
And staggering feet, I sought the blessed riTer's
brink.
Long did I wonder why no lurid flames
Were leaping from the lofty buUdings why
o fiery tongues were darting from the frames
Of murky windows till I heard a cry
PJse from the river to the smoky sky.
Ringing across the Btinfng ashy mass.
Echoing o'er aiphaltum, shrieking by
Tall marble, bladders bricks, and gloomy glass
A piercing, walling cry, "It's Bynum burning
grass'."
Tuckrr Woodson Taylor.
Gbkexcastle, Feb. 4.
Congressional Couplets.
If Call were deaf and Tlumh were dumb,
Twould help the Senate manners some.
Philadelphia Iiecord.
Fhould Vest from public life withdraw.
The Benate would lose half its jaw.
Chicago Tribune.
With Ingalls off the field of action,
l'he Senate would lose its sole attraction.
MlnnoaiKtlis Tribune.
If Springer would from sieht recede,
The public business would proceed.
.-Omaha Republican.
If Bynum ever burns the grass
He'll starve like every other (of his kind).
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.
Pope Leo XIII has a great charge for a
man of his &g. On March 2 he will be
eighty years old.
Susan B. Anthony's attainment of three
score j ears and ten is soon to be celebrated
at Washington by an elaborate dinner.
The papal stables, which used to have
forty horses in Pius IX's day, have been
cut down to eight horses, and instead of a
dozen carriages they have four.
The proposition to erect a monument to
Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg recalls the
fact that there is yet on that illustrious
Held no memorial of George Gordon Meade.
Stanlkv has announced that he will not
bo able to lecture this season at least Ho
will not leave Cairo until the hulk of bis
voluminous notes are ready for the printer.
M. ELISEE Keclus, who has been living
quietly iu Switzerland for yearn, devoting
himself to his scientific works, has decided
on going back to Paris with the intention
of taking up the labor unestion to the ex.
elusion of every other Trudy. ElUce Bee-
In, who played an active part in the Com
munist movement in 1S71, was condemned
to death, the Denaltv beintr afterward com
muted to exile.
Thk Bishop of Chester recently confessed
before a gathering of working people that
his two greatest ambitions in life havo
always been to write acoodnovel and to
run a public house "on the best principles."
Nellie Arthur, the daughter of the late
President Arthur, Las grown into a tall
young girl who possesses the attractions of
a one rosy skiu ana urigut orown eyes, ue
looks wouderfullv well in a Directory go Tn.
At the Yale dinner in Boston, last week.
Judge Howland told the story of the Rugby
foot-hall player who exclaimed as he siw
Phillips Brooks walk up the aisle in West
minster Abbey, "Great heavens, what a man
for a center-rush!''
Hexrik Ibsen's name is not pronounced
"Byebsen." as Bostonians insist. It can be
stated on the authority of a Norwegian gen
tleman now in Philadelphia, an intimate
friend of the dramatist, that the "V is pro
nounced short, as in "it."
Ix 1789 tho eleventh Earl of Caithness
died without issue, and the title passed to
Sir James Sinclair. In 1&S0 the fifteenth
Earl of Caithness died without issue, and
it has just been determined that the title
passes to Mr. James A. Sinclair.
The Emperor of China had to choose be
tween depriving his sheep and coats of
their past u race on the lawns around the
Temple of Heaven and having an open
quarrel with his mother, the Dowager Em
press, lie preferred the latter.
It is understood at Waterville. Me., that
Mrs. Catherine L. Wording, widow of the
lateJudce Wordinir. of Racine. Wis., who
died recently in Boston, has bequeathed
825,000 or $20,000 for the erection of a build
ing for young ladies at Colby University.
Mrs. Walker, late of Kiugston, Ontario,
has been appointed matron of an Enslish
school at Cocanda. Madras Presidency, In
dia, in place of Mrs. Folsoni, aunt of Mrs.
urover Cleveland, who, after nine years'
service, returns to the United States on a
visit.
It is stated in the English press that Jim
Smith, the ex-champion of the British
prize-ring, is reading for the church, and
that, immediately after his ordination, he
will be presented with one of the livings of
which his friend, the Marquis of Ailesbury,
possesses the patronage.
At Kumamoto. Japan, the scene of the
recent disastrous earthquake, while a well
digger was excavating for water at a depth
of about eighteen fathoms, the bane fell
through and he was only saved from a da
scent, now lar it is not known, ov a rope
which connected him with the top of tho
piti Examination has shown that a very
large cavity, depth and width unknown.
exists, and this was probably caused by a
recent earthquake.
A Philadelphia paper in telling that
Henry M. Stanley, when he lived in
Omaha in 1SG7, fell in love with an actress.
who jilted him, remarks that now Stanley
is a woman hater. Thin statement the great
explorer's friends indignantly deny. Al
though Stanley is not a married man, be
cives no evidence of hatred for the other
sex. in fact, ono of the best friends be Las
is a well-known Philadelphia woman, to
ward whom he entertains feelings of the
greatest respect, if not of positive ahection.
19fc Defore he plunged into the jungle in
hi(J search for j.fmin B the laHt 'nieM
A . . . im v i
he sent to any ono in the civilized world
was to this loyal friend, and she was anions
the first to receive word from him when,
not long ago, ho reappeared, with bis
knowledge of the mysteries of tho crreat
African continent augmented by his recent
discoveries.
COMMENT AND OPINION.
TifK most deadly enemy of the republic
an institutions of this country is the dis
position to place party advantage above
the public interest Pittsburg Dispatch.
We in this country have had enough of
legal tender. If a dollar is worth a dollar
it need not be made a legal tender. If it is
not, it ought not to be. New York Herald.
TnE "one-man power" which cansea the
Democratic cheek to blanch is swung by
1G0 men, a majority of the House of Repre
sentatives, standing for a majority of nearly
a million of free electors. Milwaukee Sen
tinel.
Independence: is the manifest destinvof
Australia, and Canada must, in the end,
unite her fortunes with those of the trreat
republic which overshadows the Dominion
and lures away much of its bono and sinew.
Cleveland Leader.
For six years the Democratic nartv in
Ohio was under a cloud aud its Senator was
discredited because it refused to investigate
a charge oi corruption in the election. Can
the party aflord to repeat the blunder that
was worse than a crime. New York World
(Dem.)
The strength of the Bennblican nartv is
in the coantry towns and the clean wards
of the cities, and the strength of Democracy
is ;u tne jowest wards and slum holes ot
tub cities. Which party offers the best in
ducement to the young man just entering
political life? Detroit Tribune.
The bondsmen of persons in places of
trust have a right to demand that reasona
ble precautions against fraud shall be
maintained. But no conceivable system
of checks can obviate the necessity oi put
ting faith in employes. Otherwise tnere
would be no need of bondsmen. New York
Tribune. . . .
The Southern States will never consent
to ratify what Mississippi demands (repeal
of the lifteenth amendment unless they
are prepared to yield to the North three
fourths of the House of Representatives.
That the North will not give its consent to
disfranchise the colored people follows as a
matter of course. Chicago Tribune. -
Everybody can see that if the Canadian
provinces were States in the Union they
-would get along together a great deal bet
ter than some of them aro able to do now:
and. moreover, every sensible American on
either side of tho line would prefer to be
long to a nation whose territory should ex
tend from the Hlo Grande to the Arctic &ea
rather than belong to any divided and
lesser power. Isew lork Sun.
The sentiment of the country demands
not merely, that the civil-service reform law
shall be kept on the statute books, bntthat
ample means and machinery shall be pro
vided for' its thorough enforcement and
Fadnal extension. Ihero will be scarcely
less impatience wnn muse uoiryxore
tard the woik ov inadequate appropria
tions than with those who make a direct
assault upon the reform. Boston Journal.
James Whitcomh Riley.
Now look here, Jim! I'm not no saint.
An hev my nat'ral failiu's;
Upon my soul there's many a taint
wner ftin hes left its trallin's;
But yet there's suthin lives in me
That's loved ye, Ulley, mightily.
I've read yer tender, home like verse
Wheu nuthln else ud ketch me;
An' when all earth I'd wauter curse
tome sentiment ud fetch me,
An make me as I uteter be
Afore the world had rullled me.
You tuk me back to old sweet days
Wheu love, an truth, an virter
Responded siullin to my gaze
Au blessed me with their nurtur,
An somehow, Jim, you seemed to be
A fcecond Moses come ter me.
An' many another heart ye've filled
With wine from manhood's presefc;
An' many a fctonuy soul ye've stilled
With memory's caresses.
Ye've bt-en to others ez ter me,
A sorter priest o chanty.
I aint no paint, I said afore,
Hut. Jim, I've felt the blessiu
Of gettin nearer to the shore
From sorrr's waves disireKSln,
An' your's the band that steadied me
When other help I couldn't see.
I can't abide ter see ye, Jim,
Let go your hold on glory,
An slip into the shadders dim,
Kepentin of the story
Thet sad-voiced ghosts hev walled to me
From reaches of eternity.
' Then fer the sakes o them ye've won
Htill hold yerself from fallin';
Run out the race c-r orter run
An keep wher Fame's a callin.
You are not free to hush yer pongs
The poet to mankind belong.
E. A n., In Chicago Intrr Ocean.
Can Ite lloticlit iltli m Irlnk.
Louisville Courier Journal.
l.abonrhere recommends that title bo
sold hv the ltritish irovernuieiit. Perhaps
Kentucky colonelcies, properly disposed of.
would relieve our own tax-payers.
On'RESSED COLORED men
Address to tho People Issued bj the Con
vention in Session at Washington.
Recital of Wn ngs Inflicted Tron Their Kace ia
the South They Will Serve Only Those
Who Serve Them Alabama Negroes.
Washington, Feb. 0. The colored men's
convention to-day elected ex-Senator
Pinchback president of the national organ
izatiou and issued an address to the people
of the United States. It expresses regret
that it is necessary for the colored Amer
ican citizens to meet in a separate body for
the consideration of questions national in
their character, but says they are com
pelled to do so because they have been
made special objects of attack and oppres
sion. Attention is called to tho fact that
popular elections, federal and local, in
many States of the South are mero formal
ities, where the votes of the colored
men are suppressed by violence or neutral
ized by frand, their rights denied, and
themselves, their wives, daughters, moth
ers aud sisters are made the special objects
of unfriendly State legislation and com
pelled to travel in filthy and insecure cars.
Colored American citizens who may be con
victed of petty o flenses through unfriendly
courts aro subjected, while undergoing
sentence of said courts, to such cruel aud
inhuman treatment as to make their condi
tion worse than abject slavery. In addition
to this, colored American citizens, when
suspected of having committed certain
offenses, and while in the custody of the
so-called ofiicers of tho law, are, in many
instances, and, as wo believe, with tho
knowledge and throuch the conuivance of
said oflicers, cowardly lynched and mur
dered without a hearing and with
out even a semblance of a trial.
Our children, in iuauy of said States, are
not a Horded the school facilities to which
they are entitled, aud which is essential to
the future prosperity, not only of our race,
but of both races in the localities in which
they live. The labor system in most of the
Southern States is unjust aud unfair to the
colored Americans, and they ueldom, if
ever, enjoy a fair or reasonable portion , of
the fruits of their labor. They are taxed
without representation, and compelled to
obey laws they have no voice in making.
Tho address continues:
Political parties are the instruments through
which the will of the people it executed. Our
purpose is to eo impress ujMn the publio mind
tue justness ana fairness or our claims last no
political party can safely afford to ignore them.
If it be true that all our friends are iu one party
and our encir.les in another, which we do not as
sert, that Is a'mtsforti-ne ?or which wo are not re
sponsible and the existence of which we sincere
ly regret.
We think it our duty to applaud the acts and
indorse the utterances of our friends, It matters
not where they are or to what party they belong.
v e tnerefore urire upon tne colored- American
voters of the United frtates. especlallr in
localities the public sentiment of which secures
to tnem tne cmcaey ana potency ot uictr
votes, to support in the future onlr such candi
dates for public office as are known to be in favor
of justice to the colored American citizens. To
us tms should be tne paramount consideration.
Questions relating to governmental adminis
trative iolicy, as, for instance, the tftritT. civil
service reform aud the financial policy of tho
government, we should make secondary and
subordinate. Without reirard to the attitude ot
tmrtief- uvon such nuetionft. and without recard
to our own views upon them, we feel that it is our
dutv to support only that party and onlr such.
candidntes lor ott.ee as are known to be friendly
to our cause, until all political parties will accord,
to the rights and privileges to which we are
entitled under the Constitution and the laws of
the land.
The address favors the Blair bill: thn
rdaciniz of federal elections under federal
control, and emphatically denounces tho
bill for the deportation of colored men.
"All we ask," says the address, in conclu
sion, "is justice, equal rights and fair
play." It was resolved that a copy of the
address be presented to the President and
that he be thanked in the name of the con
vention for his kind allusions to the colored
Americans in his message to Congress.
Negroes Who Want to Go to Africa.
Birmingham, Ala., Feb. 6. For several
days the negroes of Bessemer, Ala., have
been holding meetingsand discussing Sena
tor Butler's bill. The meetings have been
largely attended by the best and most in
telligent element of the colored people of
tho town. Yesterday they gave to the press
the following address which will also be
forwarded to the Senate and House of Kep-
reseutatives at Washington:
We. the negroes here, have been holding meet
ings favoring the separation of tho races and the
emigration of the colored people to the Congo
Free Ktata in Africa, aud we nope tnat senator
Butler's bill will pass Conjrress.
W o want to go back to our own country where
wo Deloncr. we know tnat it will be better for '
the colored people, and we hope that It will bene
fit the white people.
e know that we aro a great political trouble-
here. We are sorry, but cannot help It. Time
has brought this on us. Let knowledge now bar
her way, and knowledge says "Go," and we will .
golf the government will pass the Mil. -In
our meetings seme have objected that tho
government will want Us money back and take '
bonus on the state that we would round, and It
would take us seventy-five or a hundred years to .
pay it. Other members say that this is not tho
object of the bill, but there will be a donation of :
TnnnAV tn lh rnlnnlMitlnn clTW i f t V
Many negroes in this section are enthnsi
astic in their support of Butlers emigra
tion scheme. '.--'
raid Sl.piO for an Old Hook.
New York. Feb. C. There is no apparent
lack of interest in tho 6aleof theBailow
collection of books. On the fourth day of:
the sale the, rare volumes a cam commanded
high prices. A folio of Peter Martyr, pub
lished in Spain in 1511, aud containing a
map of the American coast and islands,
went to Mr. Ives, of Boston, for 1.010.
Ainone the other expensive books tecu red
ti.r . Vi a inn linpov wac tha f.ATipral I.aira
HIIII I . I I If r I I I'M 111 llltl JlUUJLilUDriLS LiUl
out." priutea at tamunuse in 104, ior
which g-70 was paid, lue ooston 1'tibiio
Library purchased tho "Massachusetts
rsalter," printed in ooston iu pay-
ina 51T- ior it. anu, aiso, jionus
Journal of the English Plantation at Ply
mouth." published in Londou in 1G22, for
which it paid t-o. Among tne works se
cured by the Lenox Library was Mathers's
epistle to the Christian Indians, in the In
dian text, published in Boston in 1700, tha
price paid being i00.
Canada Will Disfranchise Mormons.
Ottawa. Ont.. Feb. C Senator .Mae-
Donald, of British Columbia, last night
gave notice of his intention to introduce a
bill to amend the act respecting offenses re
lating to laws of marriage. It is designed
more particularly to prevent the practice
of polvuamy by the Mormons of carustou.
and other places in the territories. The
penalty provided for polygamy r for assist
ing in a poiypamous marriage is imyunvu-
meut for a term not exceeding two years.
or a line not exceeding $''). or both. I ho
bill also proposes to disqualify any person
for any oriense under tho act for voting at
any election in the Northwest Territories,
or for being a candidate for any public po
sition. m
- Generous Offer from Audrew Carnegie.
Pittsiiuiio, Feb. C Andrew Carnegie,
the st?el king, has offered to spend not
less than 1,()U).000 for a central free library
and branches for tho city of Pittsburg pro
vided the city will maintain them. The
otter will bo laid before tho Council on
Monday, and it is believed that it will be
promptly and enthusiastically accepted.
The free library for Allegheny City, on
which Mr. Carnegie has expended over
feXJO.OOO, will be opened by President Har
rison next week. The expected presence of
the chief executive has created consider
able excitement, and ho will be accorded
an enthusiastic reception.
Two Workmen Fall Eighty. Five Feet.
Waterloo, la., Feb. C A terriblo ae
cideut. resulting in the death of one man
and serious injury of another, ocenrred
here this afternoon by the Riving way of
a scaffold of tho new steel stand-pipe. John
Long, of Hamilton, Out., rtud Willard
JUrdeeu. of this city, were precipitated to
the bottom, a distance of eighty-live feet.
Long's neck wai broken, and he expired
immediately. Hnrdeen bad several ribs
fractured, and is terribly bruised from
striking timbers in his descent, but the
nlii'iici ini I ti i nlf tlint Iih will recover.
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