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THE DAILY JOURNAL
FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 1891.
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Democratic reform is like the milk
sickness, always in the next county.
Judging from the number of Demo
cratic office-seekers who infest the State
house there would be no trouble in till
ing all the places at half the ordinary
wages.
It is not a theory which confronts the
Democratic Legislature but a condition,
a condition of spending $3 as often as
It raises $1.50, and it cannot safely con
tinue Ion ficjv
If the investigation into the alleged
silver pool in Congress should be pressed
upon the Senate side it ought not to be
difficult to pick out at least a few of the
men most likely to be interested in it.
Tiiere is compensation in all things.
The large Democratic majority in our
Legislature saved the public from the
infliction of spread-eagle speeches in
nominating candidates for Speaker, etc.
So long as Secretary Tracy remains at
the head of the navy it may be taken
for granted heceefoith that commanders
of American war ships will not go to
sleep while tho nag is being insulted
under their noses.
If the British government refuses to
submit to arbitration all the disputed
points in the Behring sea controversy,
as proposed by Secretary Blaine, it will
be tantamount to a concession that the
British government knows it has no case.
General Jackson, whose name was
praised by. many a Democratic orator,
last night, was a patriotic and honest
man, but that fact did not hinder his
administration from being the most cor
rupt in tho history of the government,
measured by the volume of defalcation.
Several scores of Democratic wcrkers
who came here, on Monday, with light
haversacks, expecting to be asked to
serve tho State, are not so hopeful as
they were, and will be less hopeful later
on. They should not stand on the order
of their going, as the traveling is not
always good this season of the year.
A Republican in the House had the
temerity, yesterday, to ofler a resolu
tion creating a committee to consider
the subject of fees and salaries. The
clerk had hardly finished reading the
paper when an able-bodied Democrat
shouted: "Mr. Speaker, I move to lay
the resolution on the table;'7 and it was
laid.
The aggregate money in circulation
Jan. 1, 18Q1, is placed at $1,528,000,000,
compared with $1,430,000,000 Jan.'l, 1800
a gain in circulation, during the year,
of $98,000,000. The surplus in the treas
ury has been expended in the redemp
tion of bonds, thereby allowing the
millions to go into circulation. This
gain has been made in spite of the re
duction of the bank circulation to the
amount of $19,000,000.
Tin: case of the bank cashier who is
thought to have been hypnotized into
paying out $150,000 to a man who had no
money on deposit may suggest a loop
hole to the eight Republican Senators
who lack an excuse for their " party
treachery on Monday. A glittering ob
ject passed before tho eyes is used by
hypnotizers, and some designing person
may have overcome them by holding up
a silver mine before their faces.
In attempting to comment on the
break of the silver men in the Senate
the mugwump journals of the East find
themselves in a serious predicament. Of
course, they would like to applaud any
thing that looks like a bolt from the
Republican party, but when they come
to reflect that the bolt is a long stride
toward free silver they find it impossi
ble to be so hilarious about it as they
might be were it a step ,toward free
trade.
The reporter of the Chicago Tribune
who was arrested and imprisoned in Mis
sissippi and subsequently chased out of
the State for telling the truth about tho
Carrollton murder has paid $90 for the
old plug of a horse which he was charged
with having killed. The man who killed
Postmaster Matthews has not had to pay
a cent. Thus it appears that it costs
much moro to kill a horse in Mississippi
than it does to kill a man. This is one
of the peculiarities of the sacred "home
rule' in the South that we sometimes
hear about.
We have now about $050,000,000 of
gold coin in this country. Free silver
coinage would undoubtedly drive this
out of circulation and out of the country.
Here would bo a contraction of the cur
rency which our mints probably could
not replace in ten years' coinage of
silver. Id the meantime the effects on
our paper currency, on prices, etc., could
not fail to be very serious. Under pres
entconditions, and without international
agreement, free silver coinage would be
a leap in the dark with almost a cer
tainty, financially speaking, of landing
in the mire.
E0BE0WIKQ K01JEY TO PAY TEE LEGISLA
TURE. The last Legislature cost $125,000, and
the present one will cost as much. There
is not a dollar in the treasury to pay it.
The small sum now in the treasury is
billeted and practically appropriated
for other purposes, and no part of it can
go toward paying the expenses of the
Legislature. The entire sum for this
purpose will have to be borrowed. It is
a stinging commentary on tho Demo
cratic financiering of the last few years
that the first thing the Legislature has
to do on assembling is to borrow money
to pay its own expenses. A statement
published in another part of the Journal
shows more in detail the demoralized
condition of the State finances.
The Governor will recommend in his
message an increase of the tax levy
to 25 cents on the $100. Demo
crats should have learned by this
time to respect the recommendations of
Governor Hovey, and; however they may
differ with him in other respects, they
cannot deny that he is a good financier.
He believes in the old-fashioned policy
of paying debts and stopping .interest.
His recommendation for an increase of
the tax levy is the only way out of the
present situation. Democrats may as
well face the music. The State debt
cannot be paid with wind. Its present
'revenues are inadequate to pay current
expenses, and it is running deeper in
debt every year. The revenue may be
somewhat increased from new sources
of taxation, but the main relief must
come from an increased levy. The peo
ple of Indiana are honest and able to pay
their debts, and they expect the Legis
lature to provide a way for them to do so.
Meanwhile the members cannot re
ceive a dollar of their pay until the
money has been borrowed.
WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN.
Tho Republicans in the Senate, those
of them, at least, who believe in Re
publican principles and measures, are
now in a position to contemplate the
consequences of neglecting duty and
shirking responsibility. If they had
changed the rules of the Senate at the
beginning of the last session so as to en
able the majority to exercise the power
that rightfully belongs to them, the
political situation at present might and
probably would have been very different.
To begin with, the McKlnley bill could
have been passed t?o months sooner
than it was, and this would have made
an entire change in the conditions of the
last election. . It is universally admitted
that the passage of the, bill in the last
days of the session, leaving only a month
between its taking effect and the elec
tion, not only opened the way, but sug
gested the plan of the Democratic cam
paign of lying and misrepresentation
which resulted eo disastrously to the
Republicans. With three months in
which to have discussed the measure,
enabling the people to sift the argu
ments pro and con, the result might have
been very different. In addition to this
the elections bill could have been passed
either during the last session or at the
beginning of the present one, and the
party would havo been saved the humil
iation of the recent treachery of several
Republican Senators. With this bill
out of the way other measures could
'have been taken up, and the important
legislation of the present session could
have been by this time well advanced.
But all these and other advantages have
been lost by the failure of the Repub
licans to make a change in the rules of
the Senate which is imperatively de
manded by the publie interests, and.
which is absolutely certain to be made
at no distant day. If senatorial courtesy
ever permits Senators to go out and kick
themselves, the Republicans ought to
feel like performing this operation to
punish themselves for the manner in
which.they have dilly-dallied with this
important duty.
REVAMPING AS OLD LIE.
Lawyer Brush's foolish speech in the
Republican conference, in which ho
voiced nobody's sentiments but his, and
very unworthy ones at that, has given
the Sentinel ?. chance to revamp the
threadbare lie that the Republicans car
ried Indiana in 1888 by money and fraud.
This overworked lie has not a leg to
stand on. Invented just after the elec
tion to break tho fall and perhaps com
fort the hearts of the defeated Democ
racy, it has long since ceased to have
even a remote resemblance to truth.
The Republican victory in this State
in 18S8 was duo to the fact that tho party
was harmonious, united and enthusi
astic, every member of it being a leader,
an organizer and a'workeron his own
account. Never in the history of the
State did any party show as magnificent
spirit or make as splendid a fight as the
Republicans did in 1SS8. They never
equaled it, before, and certainly tho
Democrats never did. It was a win
ning fight from the beginning, aim
ply because nothing could withstand
a tidal wave of such proportions.
From the day Gfeneral Harrison
veas nominated victory was in the air
and his carrying of Indiana was a fore
gone conclusion It was the people's
fight and their victory. In such a con
test leaders on either side play a minor
part. When the people are roused and
fate has decreed a victory, it is only nec
essary to let the people have their way.
The Republican victory of 1888 was won
in spite of tremendous difficulties, in
cluding the unscrupulous efforts of a
Democratic administration and an al
most unlimited amount of money. The
Democrats had so much money that they
hardly knew how to spend it. They
wasted thousands of dollars in fancy
uniforms and expensive outfits that were
furnished free to all who would use
them. For every dollar spent by tho
Republicans the Democrats spent ten.
They had been taught to believe that
government patronage was a most po
tent factor in politics, and when to this
was added much the largest campaign
fund ever brought into' the State, they
were entirely confident of success. They
did not harbor a thought of failure. It
never entered their minds that popular
enthusiasm, backed by party organiza
tion and individual effort, could over
come the combined influence of federal
patronage and money drawn from a
score of States. They were intrenched
in office, and felt invincible in corrup
tion. If they had had ten times as much
patronage and money they would have
been beaten all the same, because the
people were against them. No man
now living and old enough to vote will
live to see another such popular up
rising in Indiana as that of 1888, or an
other political victory as clearly due to
the enthusiasm of the people, unaided
by trickery or fraud. The stale lie
about Republican money and "blocks of
five7' will, of course, be served up at
intervals, and those who do. not know or
care to know the truth may believe it,
but its proper place is along with the
dollar-a-day lie, the farm-mortgage lie,
the tin-plate lie, and other putrid remi
niscences of Democratic campaigns.'
Mr. Ader, of Putnam, is a Democrat,
and one who appears to have the ca
pacity to distinguish himself if he has
the courage of his convictions. Yester
day, during the .morning session, he
oflered a resolution fixing tho pay of
door-keepers, of which there were fifty
eight in the two houses of the last Leg
islature, at $3 per diem. This is a fair
compensation, considering that there is
nothing in the world for. more than
eight or ten men to do. As a gratuity
to an ambitious Democrat who desires
to be about the Legislature $3 a day is
generous, especially when the money to
pay his wages has to bo borrowed.
Anywhere else the same men, working
hard ten hours a day, cannot earn above
$2 a day. Heretofore this army of door
keepers have been paid $5 a day, and
then voted a dollar a day extra at the
close of the session. If the House, which
is nearly three-fourths Democratic,
had had any idea of keeping its pledges
to be economical, every one of the mem
bers of the majority party would have
sustained Mr. Ader's resolution. But
they did not do it The Speaker put tho
vote on the resolution and declared it
lost. A Republican asked for a division,
but the Speaker refused to grant such
request, and therefore the first attempt
in the House to save the larger part of
the $20,000 which tho last Legislature
squandered upon door-keepers ended in
failure. It seems that in order to save
this array of petty spoilsmen the Speaker
violated a plain parliamentary rule to
make a vote certain. Mr. Ader has the
reputation of being a man of pluck, and
his friends predict that he will renew his
resolution at an early day.
. TnE Journal acknowledges the. re
ceipt, by mail, of a printed. document
superscribed in large letters:
For Use Friday Morninq, Jan. 9, 1891.
Speech of ex-President Grover Cleveland,
at the banquet of the Young Men's Demo
cratic Association, given at the Academy
of Mnsic. in Philadelphia, on Thursday
evening. Jan. 8, 1S91, in response I? ithe
toast: 'The Principles of Trne Democracy;
they are enduring because they are right,
and invincible becauso they are just.'
A competent commission, organized in
this office, to sit on the document' and
report whether it is worth printing, finds
that it is worth sitting on but not worth
printing. For further report in this be
half the commission finds that the said
document consists of a pot-pourri of
platitudes concerning the noble aims'
and objects of the Democratic' party, 'its
unswerving dovotion to a free ballot
and its utter abhorrence of crooked poli
tics, and as the said Cleveland .has re
peated said platitudes on divers , and
sundry occasions heretofore, the com
mission recommends that the document
aforesaid be fed to the office cat." And
it is so ordered. ,
If any branch of the government is
responsible for. the Indians being al
lowed to purchase or be in the posses
sion of arms it is Congress. In 1884 the
Commissioner of Indian Affairs, in his
annual report, said:
I again call attention to the faot that no
law exists to prevent the sale of arms aud
ammunition to Indians. This office can,
and does, prevent persons licensed and un
der bonds as Indian traders from furnish
ing either anus or ammunition to Indians,
bnt outside parties furnish both arms and
ammunition because there is no law to pun
ish them for so doing. Tbktpractice places
the Indians in a eemi-inrtependent position
to the government, which has been pro
ductive of mnch trouble, and in some in
stances loss of life. 1 hope, therefore, that
Congress may see tho necessity of passing
a stringent prohibitory law on this sub
ject, so that the personal liberty of both
whites and Indians may be interfered with
in this particular. j
This recommendation, like scores of
others made from time to time in regard
to important matters, went unheeded.
Congress is too much occupied with pol
itics to attend to public business.
The Sheffield (Ala.) Enterprise justi
fies the killing of Postmaster Matthews'
as follows: -
The killing of Postmaster Matthews, of
Carrollton, Miss., by William McBride gives
emphasis to the fact that even a govern
ment official may go too far. Bayonets be
hind. a man do not stop bullets in front of
him. The average appointmentin the South
of the Harrison administration sofcros to
have been made with the one purpose to
get all the unfit men tbatj were possible to
e had. These men are covering the ad
ministration with slime that disgusts the
olfactories.
There were no bayonets behind the
postmaster. If there had been he would
not have been assassinated. The
"Southern home-rulers", are like the
Sioux in their respect for force and
that is about the only thing they do re
spect. .
It is premature to talk of a world's
fair appropriation by the Indiana Legis
lature until that body has provided for
its own salaries. As there is no money
in the treasury, thanks to Democratic
extravagance in the past, it docs not yet
appear where the salaries are to come
from, but as no Democrat will servo his
State unless he sees the remuneration in
sight, it is safe to say that no business
of any consequence will be done until an
emissary has been sent out to "borry"of
accommodating neighbors.
Fnb3t a Washington telegram to tho
New York Tribune, reprinted in the
Journal, it appears that some friends of
the elections bill still think it may como
up again, after the silver question is out
of the way, and even receive the votes
of some of the Republican Senators who
jumped the track a few days ago. In
so far as these expectations are built on
representations of the silver Senators,
they probably cannot be depended upon,
and unless the closure rule is adopted it
will be useless to bring up the elections
bill again.
France is the European country to which
we must look for the most liberal display at
the Columbian Exposition, and yet it is
probable that a great deal of work will
have to be done in the way of enlightening
and interesting French exhibitors. Mr. T.
C. Crawford, who has spent considerable
time abroad, says:
There are few people in France who know any
thing about America, and the number is still
smaller who care anything about it. The aver
age Frenchman confounds North and South
America. He is not clear what language is
spoken in this country. The Spanish of South
America leads many of them to believe it may
be the language of this country. There is a large
South American eolony in Paris, and these peo
ple are classed as Americans in the came way as
are the people from the United States. I thin
the average Frenchman regards the United
States as one of the inferior divisions of the
Spanish American states. This impression was
deepened by the character of the American ex
hibits at the Paris Exposition. Every South
American conntry built for itself an eleant
building modeled upon the Hnes of the1 most ar
tistlo architecture. These beautiful buildings
were filled throughout with wonderful exhibits
of the best productions of these countries. The
United States, governed br tho cross-roads
statesmanship in Congress, by the men who be
lieve in the principles of shabby economy,' was
not given enough money to build a building of
its own. It occupied restricted quarters fur
nished it by the charity of the French govern
ment. The Rum of money appropriated for the
exhibit and the interest taken in it by our gov
ernment were so small that few American ex
hibited sent anything.. Judged by all of the
standards of mere appearance, the United States
was the poorest and the shabbiest In Its repre
sentation at the Paris exhibition.
For unique and brilliant advertising
schemes commend cs to the able gentlemen
who are manipulating Elwood's flourishing
boom. Sunday morning last the newspa
pers of the land made public the startling
fact that El wood had been , rocked by au
earthquake. A couple of days later a sec
ond story came over the wires to the eilect
that people in that vicinity feared a gen
eral upheaval of natural gas, and were
ready at any moment to flee for their lives.
Public curiosity having been wqrked up to
the proper pitch, now comes the explana
tion to the effect that the "earthquake" was
but the announcement that "the biggest
gusher yet'' had been struok, and thus the
world is informed that Elwood has gas,
and lots of it. .
The contents of the Journal's exchanges
from other States are not of a thrilling
character this week to outside-readers. It
is as much as the average citizen can do to
maintain an active interest' in the finances
and other interests of his own State, and it
is altogether too much to expect that he
should care to read other Governors' mes
sages. The American man is a politician,
but there is a limit to the amount of politi
cal lore he can absorb. .
While Mrs. Anna M. Longshore-Potts,
M. D., is in the city will she kindly relieve
au anxious public by settling that compli
cated and delicate question as to whether
the "Dr." should precede the "Mrs." or
"Miss," or vice versa, in the title of fem
inine physicians? s
A Washington paper speaks of Justice
Brown's remarkable resemblance to Con
gressman McKinley, Senator Carlisle, the
late Samuel J. Randall and Edwin Booth.
According to this the new judge must be
something like a composite photograph.
When young Mr. Rose, of Illinois, was
told by his sweetheart that she was willing
to die for him, he took her at her word and
killed her. This was most unaccountable
folly. When that sort of a girl is discov
ered she is a rarity worth preserving.
Tn the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal
Who is President Harrison's minister to the
court of St James! G. n. T.
Andkrsox, Ind.
Robert T. Lin col n
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.
Sitting Bull had some knowledge of En
glish, and could read and write in tuat lan
guage. A Chinaman at Portland, Ore., has been
a money-maker. When he died recently
his estate was found to be worth $200,000.
Aunt Patty Richardson, of Bethel, Vt
ninetyvone years of age, is said to be the
last snrvivor of revolutionary widows and
soldiers. '
J. J. Westlake. of Wheeling, has in his
possession a land grant made out Feb. 6,
1807, containing the signatures of Thomas
Jefferson and James Madison.
Tin widow of Dr. Schliemann. the Gre
cian srcha'ologist, is described as a beanti
ful and remarkably educated woman. She
is thirty years younger than her husband
was, being hardly more than a girl in years
TnE Empress Haruko of Japan is short in
stature and slender. Her hair is blue-black,
and she is endowed with the creamy skin,
the long, oval face and delicate features
of the ideal aristocratic type of Japanese
beauty.
Miss Florenxe Wisdom, the daughter
of the Secretary, is more than an amateur
artist. She has been studying in Boston
for some time, and has done work which
critical judges have pronounced more than
ordinary.
Two Strike, the Indian chief who is
causing much of the trouble in the West,
is a traveled man, having been to Europe
with the Wild West show. He is sixty-two
years old, but lithe and active as a back of
twenty-five. ,
Dr. Lyman Abbott, editor of the Chris
tian Union and pastor of Plymouth
Church, Brooklyn, wrote a novel when
much younger than he is now. It was a
work of collaboration, he having for assist
ants two of his brothers.
It is not generally known that Parnell is
something of a playwright. - He is the
author of a play known as "Shamrock
Green," which for five years has enjoyed
great favor in Australia, and which has
netted its proprietor nearly 5,000.
The poet Swinburne has a liking for out
door exercise in all weathers. Even when
the roads are rivers of mud he goes out for
a walk and visit to his favorite candy shop.
On such occasions he wears a short gray
coat, very short trousers and thin, elastic
gaiters.
Grant Allen, a Canadian by birth, has
won tha prize of 1,000 for the best novel
in the competition recently announced by
a member of Parliament. George Newnes.
Several hundred novels were in competi
tion. Mr. Allen's "What's Bred in the
Bone" won.
Mrs. Mack ay's stay in Charles street is
to be brief, for her husband has just pur
chased the splendid house in Carlton House
Terrace, on which Mr. Sandford expended
a little over 100.000. There is nothing
more u&latial in London, for the marble
staircC. only just completed, alone cost
20,000, and all the rooms have been fitted
up in the most magnificent manner.
Tennyson possesses th- poet's true fond
ness for old wine. His cellar contains a
choice stock of ancient vintages, bis fav
orite among them being a Waterloo sherry
a wine just seventy-fivo years of age.
Another wonderful sherry that the poet
prizes was sent to him by. an admiring
wine merchant years ago. and the poet has
said that it "was made to be drank by
Cleopatra or Catharine of Russia."
Some hae meat, and canna eat.
, And some hae nane that want it;
But we hae meat, and we can cat.
And sae the Lord be than kit.
Barns.
FATE OF THE ELECTIONS BILL
v
Some Indications Which Give Dope that
tho Measure May Finally Succeed.
Contingencies That Stand in the Way of the
Passage of the Financial Bill Indignatioa
of Prominent House Republicans.
Washington Special to New York Tribune.
The side-tracking of the elections bill
yesterday afternoon in the Senate is not
taken by experienced observers of legis
lative methods here to mean in any sense
its abandonment as a party measure, or its
actual defeat The bill remains on the
calendar undisposed of; and may be taken
up again at any moment when a majority
of the Senate can be marshaled to its sup
port. For the present, while the financial
bill is pending, no effort to, return to tho
consideration of the elections bill is likely'
to succeed, but as 60on as a vote is reached
on tho financial committee's measure and
it is converted out of hand into a proclama-s
tionofvthe Senate's willingness to accept
the silver standard, pure and simple, the
ostensible purpose of the coalition will
have disappeared and both sides in the
chamber will be brougnt baek directly to
the question of passing or dropping the
elections bill solely on its own merits.
There are some indications that if a free
coinage bill passes the Senate promptly sev
eral of the Republicans who were found
yesterday helping Mr. Gorman in his des
perate fight agaiust honest congressional
elections will return to the party ranks and
assist in tho passage of the Lodge measure.'
The programme of the Republican man
agers will, therefore, be to encourage an
early vote on the financial bill and then at
tempt to rally their forces in strength suffi
cient to get the elections bill once more off
the calendar. Thursday has already been
set by order of last night's conference for
the vote on the free-coinage question, and
if the Democrats, who are now masking as
"friends of silver,'' scent danger in the air
and show a disposition to delay action on a
measure in which they profess a vital in
terest a continuous session will be resorted
to to force a prompt decision. The support
ers of the elections bill would be highly
gratified if, in the attempt to reach a vote
by tho continuous-session method, the sil
ver extremists, now in open alliance with
the opposition, reached the point of joining
with the anti-coalition Republicans in
cramming the Aid rich resolution to close
debate down the throats of their present
Democratic allies.
Mr. Gorman's present position involves,
in fact, either his yielding to the demand of
the eight Republican deserters now in the
Democratic camp and allowing an imme
diate vote on the financial bill, or his re
sisting any action at all while the elections
bill is still in sight, thus forcing them to
unite with their own colleagues again to
secure a means of ending dilatory debate.
Mr. Gorman is not out of the woods yet in
his fight to maintain the present political
supremacy ot his party in the South, won
by bloodshed and intimidation, and held
now by systematic fraud. He has gained a
respite for a few days, but he may oon rind
himself plunged in as perplexing difficulties
as ever. . .
The talk at the Republican caucus last
evening developed the fact that but. two or
three of the eight free-coinage Senators
who bad voted to lay aside the elections bill
were willing to admit that they were in
flnenced by anything but the desire to . for
ward silver legislation in response to what
they professed to deem the overwhelming
sentiment of their States. Three of the
eight, it will be remembered. Messrs. Teller,
Jones and Stanford, are candidates for re
election to tho Senate, and they have been
especially anxious to put themselves on
record afresh as the most radical and ener
getic of free-coinage workers, so that no
more zealous local patriots might get any
advantage over them in the race for re- t
nomination on that account. Having helped
to pass a sweeping act for free coinage, they
will be in a position to defy the etiorts of
all competitors to pose as. better or more
persistent "friends of silver."
THE IDAHO AND OTHER SENATORS.
As to the two Idaho Senators, they are in
oculated with the idea that the free coinage
of silver is the only thing the unimproved
far West needs now to lump -at once -into
wealth and civilization, and they defend
their vote of yesterday not as one of hostil
ity to the elections bill, but of deference to
the paramount importance to their section
'of immediate silver, legislation. . Mr. Mc-
Council, who attended the first caucus last
night, created a sensation there by deliver
ing as rapturous a free-t:oiuage speech as
Republicans ever heard inflicted upon them
in the Senate by John Warwick Daniel of
Virginia, or any other eqnally mellifluous
Democratic orator. Mr. McConnell told the
venerable leaders on the Republican side
that he himself had helped to rock the
party's cradle, and that he must not be mis
understood as to the color of his Republic
anism. Silver out of the way, he said, he
and his colleague would turn in to aid in
the passage of the elections bill, the Aldrich
resolution to close debate, or any other
rnatter. With "silver out of the way," in
deed, Mr. Stanford, and possibly Mr. Jones.l
of Nevada, will return to the Republican
rarfks 'aud support the Lodge measure."
That would thiu down the list of Repub
licans likely to oppose the elections bill on
its own merits to these four, who have
already declared their hostility to it
Messrs. Stewart, Teller. Wolcott and Wash
burn. There may be other defections, of
course, but it will take seven Republican
votes to defeat the measure outright.
The members of the elections committee,
and other Republican Senators who have
been consistent advocates of the bill, have
'certainly not accepted yesterday's action
as final. They are willing to acknowledge
that they have met a reverse.but they con
fidently expect to be able to renew the
tight with better success as socn
as the fin an uncial bill is dis
posed of. There are, indeed, sev
eral considerations which might naturally
induce the friends of silver" now in al
liance with Mr. Gorman to break the
coalitiou presently and uive tl.o
elections bill another chance. To
refuse to let the Lodge measure
come to a vote in the Senate would simply
insure the failure of any additional silver
legislation at this session. The House
would decline to take any action on finan
cial subjects if the Senate smothered the
elections bill, and the only possible way,
apparently, to the passage of a silver meas
ure into law lies through action by the
Senate at the same time on both the elec
tions and financial bills. By pitting one
against the other and aveepting a compro
mise in the end. the friends of silver might
be able to get the legislation they profess
to long for on the statute-books. Bnt to
kill one measure at the outset for the bene
fit of the other, is simply to invite a gen
craT failure of legislation. No silver bill,
in short, can become a law at this session
unless the elections bill becomes a law also.
The action of the Senate yesterday in sub
stituting for a party measure a bill which
can be in no sense regarded as a party
measure has excited great indignation
among Republican. Representatives, who
feel that they, at least, were entitled to
some consideration at the bands of the
"House of Lords." In a group of Repub
lican Representatives, who were discussing
the matter to-day, one indignant member
referred by name to one Republican Sena
tor after another who voted with the Dem
ocrats yesterday a "a Judas." and seemed
to derive some comfort from the epithet,
until another equally indignant Repre
sentative said: "Oh. don't say that. You
ought to remember that Judas sold himself
for silver, but be received cash on the nail;
while Senator has sold himself for
silver 'on tick and doesn't know when he
will get the pieces."
"Yes," chimed in another angry Congress
man, whose parents in his early youth had
hoped to see him enter the ministry, "yes,
and you ought to remember also that Judas
had the conscience to go out and hang
himself after the pecuniary transaction al
luded to which is more than Senator
will do."
A voice from the west.
In speaking of the matter to-day, one ot
the ablest and most influential Republicans
in the Home, a Western man who bns gym
pathized to a considerable degree -with tbs
demand for free silver coiunge.and nho with
holds his name only because he refrains, on.
principle, from criticising tho co-ordinate)
branch of Congress, said:
For my part I will exert all the influence I pos
sess in a legitimate way to prevent even the
consideration of a lueuiura which might iu any
manner tend to beneiit the fcenators who call
themselves Republicans and who entered Into
tho unholy alliance of yesterday. By their act
they showed that all their professions of a desire
to relieve tho financial situation" and benefit
the country are a sham; that they care more for
their own selfish interest than tley do about
garty principles or anything el?c. There has
een no complaint whatever of a dearth or in
sufficiency of money in aiiy of the State repre
sented by the eeuutor who joined hand wita
the Democrat teterday: not one of those States
has felt any of the financial stringency which
has boeu experienced in this country since last
August. They cannot plead local necessity for
their action, and they turcly will not have the
Impudence to attempt to ieak, against
their party, for ttcr Mates which
are fully and ably represented in the Senate. A
oargain in politics is perils pi more dithcult to
rove than a conspiracy, in a legal sene, and so
wiU content mrsclt br aviEir that tfcl was a
i coincidence a remarkable coincidence which '
resulted in tho joining of the votes of the Sen
ators lrom xnqnt of the silver-producing States
with the vote of the Democrats. .It was a most
striking coincidence, aud strongly implies a
determination to forco free and unlimited silver
coinage upon the country. Hut there is another
aspect of the question, and one which is of great
Importance, from a practical stand point. The
Senate has foolishly invited an iue which it is
lil-prepared to meet. For years that body has
been growing in disfavor ntnong the people, le
cause of a supposed lack of sympathy with th
popular will. It is a feeling which I have not
shared. leraue I have leliered that a eon
hervaUve force in legislation 4was needed. The
action of yesterday has done much to shatter
thnt belief.
Just consider what the SenaU.a Republican
Senate, has done. Here is a measure to inmre
fair elections and honest returns of Representa
tives in Congresa; it is a measure which the Ke-
Sublican party in national conventions a sse in
led has repeatedly declared to be necesary.
and has solemnly pledged luelf, over and over
again, to enact as soon as it obtained tho power
to do so;, the declaration has been emphasized by
the party In State conventions in almost every
tftate, and the bill now pending has been ap
proved by every Republican State oonvenUun
which has been held since the measure passed
the fiouse; it is a bill in which he House of
Representatives is primarily interested becauso
it relates to the integrity of the membership of
thrft body, which derives its power directly
from the people. Now, what has the Senato
donel It has undertaken to p'ace itself between
the people and their representatives, and to say:
You do not know what you want What you
need is not fair elections and honest returns, but
free silver coinacre. It is true that the Repub
lican party has solemnly pledged itself to the
former and not at all to the Latter, but the for
mer you cannot have, and the latter you must
take whether you want it ot.not"
Stripped of all disguise and verbiage that Is the
ultimatum of the Senate as expressed by yester
day's vote. Of eoucse, I do not wish to hold the
Republican Senators as a body wholly responsi
ble for this condition of allairs; the bushwhackers
who fired from ambush yesterday are mainly re
sponsible, but the result is the same. I hope
they have fair notice that they cannot surprise
the Republican majority in the House. If neces
sary, they will be met with their own weapons,
and the bargain, or coincidence, never shall pre
vail If Republicans can prevent It.
The comments of this Republican Are
given in full, because they represent the
views and sentiments of a largo number of
Western Republicans with whom the Trib
une correspondent conversed to-day. With
out exception, men who sympathize with
free coinage, as well as men who do not, de
nounced the action of the "silver Senators"
in nnmeased terms, and declared that tho
Republican party should not Bell its birth-,
right if they could prevent it.
VVby 'ibis Onslaught?
Chicago Post (Dem.) x
Col. Henri Watterson, ot Touisville, Kv.,
eah, was in the city yesterday, sah. He
reckons, sah, that the Republican party,
sah. is to be buried very far undah ground,
sab, in the year of ouah Lord, sah, 1K& He
also declares, sab, that the "niggah" must
work out his own destiny, eah. as the gov
ernment cannot afford, sah; to send a sol
dier to the polls with every black, salu
Coldnel Watterson also reasons, sah, that
snch leaders as In galls, 11 oaf. Reed and
Lodge are obsolete, sah. aud he treats the
McKinley bilfwith the silent contempt it
rleserves, sah. He deplores the payment of
$140,000,000 annually in pensions, sah, and
declares that many of the beneficiaries of
this vast sum neverhandled a gun, sah. In
conclusion. Colonel Watterscn says, sah,
that Mr. Cleveland is the Moses of the
Democratic Dahty, sah, and will lead it on
to victory in triumph, eah. k
More Spine IS"e't.
Minneapolis Tribune.
This must all be reme Republican!
must have the courage o .r convictions
aud combat the enemy ; old, whether
in the newspaper, in coajoa w alks of lif,
in Congress or on the forum. Let our lead
ers not shrink from being called "bitter
partisans," or sectional, eo long as their
opponents rejoice at such epithets as ap
plied to them, -and let every Republican
show his colors on all occasions.
.Mast He the McKluley BlR's Influence.
Rochester Democrat
A solar disturbance consisting of a vast
field of Tery bright faculai was seen yester
day in the sun's eastern quadrant advanced
about a day lrom the sun's limb. This is
doubtless the disturbance which follows
that duo on the Slst of December by five or
six days.' The magnetic 'needle was con
siderably disturbed yesterday, the motion
being slow and steady.
It Looks Like Nothing.
Detroit Tribune.
' Ndwhere on earth, at least in no civil
ized country, are to be found a more cow
ardly gang of cut-throats than those polit
ical assassins in Mississippi who are con
stantly hunting down Republican federal
officials. The piiserable devils are not fit
to live in any civilized country. And to
the. federal government th Democratic
party of the Soothsays: "What are you
going to do about it?"
mam 11
An Echo of Spies and Parsons.
Southern Alliance Farmer.
The people have determined to change
the laws governing our financial system,
and to do so by the power of the ballot, but
if the money power continues to thwart
the purposes of the people they will bo
compelled to resort to brute force, which is
the "negation of all hope," and which will
destroy the power which oppresses.
. Another Southern Friend for flilL
Augusta (Oa.) Chronicle.
Governor David B. Hill is the most pop
ular Democrat iu New York. There srciiig
to be no doubt among well-informed Dem
ocrats of his ability t scarry New York,
New Jersey and Connecticut jn the next
F residential election. Ho could also carry
ndiana, with Governor Gray on the ticket
as Vice-president '
First Catch Your Sioux.
Chicago Journal.
Stop hunting the Sionx and enlist them,
into four or five regiments, well oJhcered.'
They are natural soldiers and nothing else,
and the army, now little more than a skel
eton, needs them. Their bones can no
longer be picked by Indian agents, eo that
even" the ''good ' people, might consent to
this arrangement.
Another Horrible Example.
Toledo Blade. .
That Memphis paper which waved the
Moody banner and said that "the response
of the South tothecloture resolution should
be an appeal to arms'' has laid itself open vo
the charge of intemperance in the use of
led liquor in holiday time.
I In liehair of Daniel.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
It may be true, as Shirely Dare asserts,
that Daniel ate baked beans; but there is
no record to prove that he ever went about
among the Assyrians, boasting that he had
been born in Boston.
f
Reason of IU lleiug.
Atlanta Contitutlm (Iem.)
Secretary Windom thinks that the Alli
ance will collapse in W.l. Mr. Windom is
a little too previous. The Alliance will not
collapse until it has helped the Democrats
to smash the Republican party in lblfJ.
irThey Had Their Way.
Phi'adelpala Inquirer.
If the Democratic papers could have their
way they would haug every Republican
soldier who shoots a hostile Indian, and
pension every Democratic Southerner who
shoots a peaceable negro.
I irice's Only Way Out.
Toledo Blade.
Calvin Brice should gerrymander tho
United States so that Ohio aud New Yorlr
would be one.