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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 1891.
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apolis, on Friday, Feb. 27. Questions of unusual
interest to the Republican press and party will
be discussed and acted upon, and every effort
will be made to render the meeting interesting
and profitable. The programme of exercises
"will be announced later.
Those Republican Senators who Joined
the Democrats to defeat the elections
bill, a party measure, may be referred
to for the time being as silver-plated Re
publicans. So far as the figures have been com-:
pared, the census of 1800 does not bear
out the assumption that the colored
population in the South is increasing
faster than the white.
TnE legislative boycott is a new ex
pression of State's rights. As a means
of coercing federal legislation it will
doubtless be resorted to quite of ten here
after by the Democracy.
1 he utter recklessness displayed Dy,
Democratic legislatures in their threats
against the world's fair is no new
characteristic The Democracy haB al
ways been & party of rule or ruin.
Tnr otafomont thif tht Ttrrtrinf rf fTm I
silver mines last year was worth $415,- I
ooo.ooo. which h inat nnneftrad in thn ?
Chicago Tribune, is preposterous. The
figures, 845,000,000, are nearer the fact.
It is said that the three members of
the Michigan House who were elected
as farmers will vote with the Republic
ans, and thus defeat the proposition to
have presidential electors chosen by
congressional districts.
The Journal renews its offer to send
the Dally Journal, for one year, to any
Democrat in the Legislature who will
say, on his honor, that he has ever seen
a copy of the so-called "force bill," or
that he has any personal knowledge of
its provisions.
If it were possible to pass the so-called
"force bill" it should be done, even if it
killed the Columbian World's Exposition
dead. The country could easily stand
the loss of the exposition, but it will
suffer much and long by the betrayal of,
justice and right.
We aro still waiting for the name of
any Democratic member of the Legisla
ture who has ever read a single section
of the so-called "force bill." Mr. Beas
ley, who introduced the fiery and un
tamed resolutions concerning the bill,
never even saw it.
It is evident from their speeches that
the Democrats in the Legislature think
the national elections bill interferes
with State and local elections. They
get this impression from false state
ments in the Sentinel and News. None
of them have read the bill.
Br what authority can a physician
who is employed and paid by the State
for services rendered in a hospital for
insane demand a fee of $10 from the
widow of a deceased patient for furnish
ing a certificate of the causo of death,
said certificate being necessary to the
collection of an insurance policy!.
There is no sense in the New York
Sun asserting that the world's fair is a
Republican affair, any more than there
would be for Republicans to claim the
successful centennial exhibition was a
Republican institution. Both parties in
Congress voted for it, agreed on its loca
tion, and half the representatives of
States on its board of management are
Democrats.
The list of Republican traitors on the
national elections bill includes Senators
Wolcott, Stewart, Washburn, Teller,
Jones, Cameron, Stanford and Ingalls.
These aro all free-silver-coinage men.
This Rhows exactly the scope and plan
of the political bargain and sale by
which the free-coinage bill was passed
in the Senate and the elections bill de
feated. It was a silver deal.
Senator Gilbert Pierce, of North
Dakota, fell a victim to the disappoint
ment of office-seekers, as many a good
man has fallen before him. Gradually
and by hard experience Congressmen
are learning that the patronage at their
disposal makes half a dozen enemies to
one friend. When this fact becomes
generally understood the civil-service
reform movement will have an easy road
to travel.
The Illinois Legislature is considering
a timely bill to protect depositors in pri
vate banks against fraud. No one can
keep a bank without a State license un
der heavy penalty, and no license shall
be granted for a less capital than $2-1,000,
and such only in towns of 5,000 inhab-
'ltants, while in citie3 of less than IQ.000
and more than 5,000 the capital must bo
SSO.COO, and over. 10,000 and less than
50,000 the capital must be S100,000, and
so on. The capital must be cash or
bankable funds, and banks must keep
25 per cent, of their deposits on hand.
The bill provides that the State Auditor
shall see that such banks comply with
the requirements of the law. The meas
ure is a timely one. Irresponsible and
swindling banks are found in almost
every State.
HISTORY REPEATING ITSELF.
History repeats itself. The political
conditions at present bear, in some re
spects, a close resemblance to those
which preceded the great civil war.
Then, as now, the Southern Democrats
were arrogant and aggiessive in assert
ing the rights of their section in defi
ance of the Constitution and laws. Their
demand then was for constitutional pro
tection and extension of slavery, and
their alternative was secession. Their
present demand is for the recognition of
their right to suppress the colored vote
and to maintain the rule of minorities
and fraud. They have not yet formu
lated their alternative or said what they
will do if this demand is not admitted
and acquiesced in. '
Now, an then, the Southern Democrats
are sustained in their demands by those
of the North. The latter are as united
now in opposition to negro suffrage and
fair elections as they were thirty years
ago in favor of the maintenance and ex
tension of slavery. In short, they stand
ready to indorse, and do indorse in
blank, every demand the Southern lead
ers may make.
Nearly all the Southern Senators and
most of the Southern Representatives'
served in the confederate array or under
the confederate government. Senators
Morgan and Pugh of Alabama, Jones
and Berry of Arkansas, Pasco of Flori
da,. Brown and Colquitt of Georgia,
Blackburn of Kentucky, Gibson and
Enstis of Louisiana, George and Wal
thall of Mississippi, Cockrell and Vest
of .Missouri, Vance and Ransom of North
Carolina, Hampton and Butler of South
Carolina, Bate and Harris of Tennessee,
Reagan and Coke of Texas, Daniel of
Virginia, and Faulkner of West Vir
ginia, all served either in the confeder
ate army or the Confederate Congress,
most of them in the former. Nearly all
the Democratic Representatives from
these States are in the same category.
Thus it appears that the Confederacy is
in the saddle. These men feel that their
day has come and the hour of their tri
umph is near at band. They arc in a
position to say that time at last makes
all things even. Just what terms thoy
will demand or grant in token of this
victory remains to be seen. It also re-
mains to be seen whether thev will con-
tinue to have everything their own
way as they dow threaten to do. rer-
haps the spirit of the North may be
aroused as it was in 1800. Now, as then,
there is a base, mercenary spirit preva
lent In the North, a spirit that is hostile
to patriotism, that laughs at the folly of
weighing' abstract sentiments against
traffic and trade; that ignores the de
mands and even the existence of moral
ideas in politics. This spirit would let
the South have its own way in every
thing rather thaiV object and injure bus
iness. It refuses to see anything practi
cal or important in the idea of enforcing
equal suffrage or honest elections. It
says the present system is good enough
for us, and let the future take care of
itself. After us the deluge.
Thus the conditions at present closely
resemble those which existed before the
war. The outcome, however, will be
different. There will be no war, at
least not during this generation. One
civil war does not tread so closely on the
heels of another. It will take a long
time for the memories and the lessons
of the last war to be forgotten. But
this is what will happen: There will
either be a great awakening and moral
uprising of the North that will result in
the establishment and supremacy of the
principles which tho war was fought to
vindicate, or there will be a steady
decadence of patriotism and of political
virtue, leading by degrees to a complete
change in our form of government.
RECKLESS DIS0RQAKIZER8.
The course of the leaders of the Peo
ple's or Alliance party in Kansas is at
tracting much attention. And well it
may, since it is something unique in
American politics. Before the Legisla
ture assembled the leaders, most of
whom are not members of that body,
and some of whom are not residents of
the State, met and in secret conclave
outlined the policy to be pursued. In
such a secret conclave it was decided to
unseat several Republican members of
the House who had a clear majority of
votes and for whose scats there would
have been no contest but for these out
side intriguers, who are not farmers in
any literal sense. That House has
obeyed tho dictates of the star chamber.
All the offices have been farmed out by
the same outside influence. Before the
Legislature assembled trie leaders, who
are mainly the accumulation of come
outers from both parties for. years, the
fiat-money, repudiationists. and other
reformers with lop-sided or rickety
intellects, feared that they could not
trust the men elected to tho Legis
lature because they did not trust
each other, so they made arrange
ments to have three men take charge
of each member, be with him every hour,
watch over him while asleep, and pre
vent him from speaking with any person
whom they might suspect. The like of
that has never before been seen in this
country, and there is reason to believe
that it will not occur again, because such
a system of espionage upon legislators
is not in harmony with the American
idea. It is fortunate for Kansas that the
Senate and executive are Republican,
for if such were not the case such radi
cal measures would become laws as
would ruin private credit in that Stato
and result in the practical destruction of
millions of dollars' worth of property
invested by non-Tesidents. Following
the dictates of the Southern leadership
of the Alliance, the Kansas political
Alliance indorses all its schemes, such
ns tKe sub-treasury " and government
loans on real estate. The leaders are
playing a reckless game in Kansas, but
this is all the better, since the abuses
and monstrosities which they would
force upon the people will bring them
to see tho folly of the nw South
ern regime sooner than they would if
the manipulators were less rash in tho
exercise of their power. The people
of Kansas will hurl these conscienceless
leaders, these advocates of repudiation,
socialism and ill-concealed anarchy, from
power when they discover their baseness
and their autocratic methods. In Ne
braska the same disregard for law is
observable! But for the courage of a
few men, the Supreme Court and the
union of the members of the Legislature
of the two old parties, the majority of
the so-called independents in the House
would have set aside the officers chosen
by the people and installed their own,
who received not over one-third of the
popular vote. These reckless men would
have trodden Constitution and law under
their feet and established themselves in
power had they not been overmatched
by the courage and skill of their oppo
nents in both parties. The friends of
good government will not find anything
in the management of the leaders in
these two S tates to commend thus far,
and there is no reason to believe that
they will do so hereafter.
There is one member of Congress
trom Missouri who has the courage of
his convictions. The Legislature of
that State having passed resolutions re
questing its Representatives to vote for
free silver coinage, Congressman Frank,
of the Ninth district, addressed a letter
to the Legislature characterizing the
free-silver-coinage bill as "vicious class
legislation." He said:
Silver is like wheat, cotton or lead, bits
its market value in the marts of the world,
and is worth so much per ounce; at present
about $1.05 per ounce. The bill now pend
ing in Congress would require the govern
ment to buy this bullion at f L29 per ounce,
or 24 cents per ounce more than its actual
value, which would amount each year to
$14,400,000 to the ailver-mine-owners. What,
the government pays is really what yon
pay. The government is the agent of the
people. To put this in a ditlereut lorm,
free eoinage means that at $1.05 per ounce
the silver in a silver dollar is worth 80
cents; the mine-owners would get at the
mint a silver legal-tender dollar for 80
cents of silver, thus giving the "favored
few" 20 cents profit on each dollar. Now, if
you will substitute in your reasoningprocess
wheat, cotton or lead, for silver, the wheat
grower, cotton-planter and the lead-miner
have just as much right to this favoritism,
and you readily see where we would land
iu this species of legislation Von seem to
think it would increase the volume of the
currency. What do you suppose would be
come of the goldt It would be driven out
of circulation, thereby decreasing the cir
culating medium several hundreds of .mill
ions of dollars, and you would not, have
achieved the result you long for. It is not
improbable that we need more currency,
but it is not to be obtained by a --silver
standard, which free coiuage of ' silver
means.
It is hardly necessary to say that Mr.
Frank is a Republican, and that Ljo re
spectfully declines to comply with the
request of the Legislature.
r.
The attempt on the part of Democrats
to deny the responsibility of their party
for the State debt is a piece of charac
teristic impudence. There has been no
time for fifteen years past wheu every
person familiar with the origin andt his
tory of the debt has not known where
the responsibility rests. General Harri
son, in his opening speech of the guber
natorial campaign of 1876, deliverejlat
Danville, Aug. 18 of that year, saidr i
You will recollect that in 1871 the .De
mocracy in this State reduced t he State tax
to 5 cents on the $1(0. What did they do it
for! They knew perfectly well that that
tax would be inadequate to defray the or
dinary expeuses of the State, and before
tho year was out. aa the result of their ac
tion, the State was borrowing money to
meet her current expenses, just as we had
tuld them beforehand. They did that
thing on the eve of au election, and they
did it simply that they might go before toe
country with the shallow pretense of re
form. The whole revenue of the State at
that rate of taxation was not more than
f 43,000 above the amount required to de
fray the current expenses of the benevo
lent institutions alone, to say nothing of
the other expenses of thoState government.
That was the beginning of the policy
of borrowing and debt-making, making
appropriations from an empty treasury
and borrowing money to pay current ex
penses. It had its origin in Democratic
demagogy and incompetence, and to
these the entire debt of Indiana is owing
to-day. .
The Stanford proposition is for the
government to lend paper dollars on real
estate, but as many thousands who want
money have no real estate, it was advo
cated that the government loan money
on any "imperishable" property. This
concession left out a large class who
want money but haye neither real estate,
imperishable property nor any other
semblance of security. They want money
the worst kind; so the tatest suggestion
is that the government loan money to
those who have no security whatever.
A yet better plan is for the government
to furnish to every man who will apply
a small printing press, a set of plates
for notes, a can of ink and a ream of
paper, to the end that every one may
turn out currency as he needs. Then
the volume of currency will adjust itself
to the wants of the community. Then
when a man goes to market he can take
his printing establishment and then and
there print, offhand, whatever bills are
necessary to pay for what he gets.
Latest statistics show that the pro
duction of pig-iron in this country in
1890 was 21 per cent, greater than in
1889, which in turn was 17 per cent,
greater than that of 1888. The joint in
crease iu the last two years has there
fore been S8 per cent. Our production
in 1890 was about 1,200,000 tons larger
than that of Great Britain in the same
year, and it was about 600,000 tons
larger than that of Great Britain in 1882,
which was its year of greatest produc
tion. This is the first time we havo
ever surpassed Great Britain in our an
nual product of pig-iron. Such facts as
these are calculated to make free-traders
very sick.
For all practical purposes Kansas
will have but one Senator for the next
six years. "Judge" Peffer will flock by
himself, and, so far as shaping legisla
tion is concerned, will not amount to a
bump on a log. Senator Ingalls had his
faults, but he was, and is, a scholarly
man, of clear-cut, incisive intellect, and
one of the ornaments of the Senate. His
loss in that body, however, would not
be so serious if he was to be succeeded
by a man of intellect attainments, or
real . merit of any kind. Long before
Senator Peffer's term shall have expired
the people of Kansas will admit to them
selves that they made a great mistake in
exchanging a man of brains for one of
whims.
TnE new plan of legislative boycotting
is a great scheme, and eminently worthy
of the Democratic party. All tho Dem
ocratic legislatures should now pass res
olutions refusing to make appropria
tions for the world's fair unless tho
McKinley tariff law, the civil rights law
and the fourteenth and fifteenth amend
ments to the Constitution are repealed,
the cotton tax refunded, the war debts
of the Southern States assumed by Con
gress, and an appropriation made to pay
all kinds of Southern war claims. No
doubt if the Southern States will lead
off the Indiana Legislature will follow,
and the Sentinel will give it "a hearty
and unreserved indorsement!"
The Forum for February allows Sen
ator Carlisle to discourse about the van
ishing surplus. No one disputes it.
Within a brief period $100,000,000 of it
has been used to redeem outstanding
bonds drawing interest. About $35,
000,000 of it has been called for to pay
additional pensions under old laws and
the disability act of this Congress.
About $50,000,000 a year which has been
extorted to pay the sugar tax will van
ish . from the treasury each year into
the pockets of the millions of people
who buy sugar. The surplus has van
ished from the treasury to bo made
a better use of.
TnE argument of the evening Demo
cratic organ against the federal elec
tions bill is that it should not pass, be
cause it will incite hostility in tho South.
That is the same talk that wo heard no
end of before the war. If the Repub
lican party attempted to stop the spread
of slavery into the Territories, the South
would be hostile. It was cowardly talk
then, and it is not much different now.
The e. d. o. does not regard the over
throw of the suffrage of the Constitu
tion as a matter of any consequence.
Women of New York and other East
ern cities have labored long and earn
estly, but in vain, to secure female rep
resentation on their respective boards
of health, but, as usual, they are com
pelled to see such progressive stops taken
first by the people of the West. Mnncie,
Ind., now has a woman on its health
board, and thereby sets a good examplo
to other towns. If Muncie does not
supply its sanitary needs henceforth it
will probably not be from lack of being
told what they are.
The Nw York Sun says the "thanks
of every Democrat are due to the Hon.
William M. Stewart, Senator in Con
gress fr;m Nevada, and to the Hon.
Henry M. Teller and the Hon.' Edward
Oliver Wolcott, Senators in Congress
from Colorado, for their manly and
spirited opposition to the gag rule." Of
course; but why make such a display of
Democratic gratitude when these free-silver-coinnge
Senators simply carried
out their part of a secret compact?
The question of the ownership of medi
cal prescriptions, discussed by the Marion
county doctors Tuesday night, is one in
which the general public has something of
an interest, although the professional
gentlemen appear to have a contrary im
pression. If the prescriptions belong to the
druggists the people who pay the doctors
for them and then pay for having them
filled may at least be pardoned the humble
suggestion that the fellow who finally
claims ownership in the recipes ought to
share the expense.
'the influence of relationship between
first cousins is apt to be attennated, and
when it conies to cousins of the second and
third degree the bond is so thin as hardly
to count. This being true, the effect upon
a juryman in the Blount case of the fact
that his grandfather's brother's wife was
a, sister to the murdered man's paternal
grandfather is not likely to be held good
cause for granting a new trial
Constant Reader, Peru: He is still
alive, but was reported seriously ill a few
days ago.
BUBBLES IN THE AIR.
Future Speculations.
'So you imagine the next world will be much
like this one?"
Why, yes. There will be lots of red-hot poli
ticians there, I imagine."
A Young Alan's Estimate.
Old Vickars Oh, of course, you think you know
ever so much rcore than your father.
Young Vickars Oh, no, I don't; indeed. I don't.
It is, no doubt, true that your age and experience
more than counterbalance my superior intel
lectual ability, pa.
A Wedding Gift.
Watts Wasn't Timinins rather cut up when
MIhs Willete married Simmons?
Fotta Guess not. At least he made the bride
a $125 present.
Watts What was it?
Potts fiimmons's I. O. TJ.
The Way of the World.
My dear." paid youn Mrs. Fltts at the play,
"it is & humiliating confession for me to make,
but I am positively nervous for want of a piece
of gum."
Til go get you some as soon as the curtain
falls," said Mr. Fltts.
And various of their acquaintances, as they
saw him disappear, said what a pity it was that
so sweet a young woman should be bound for
life to such a slave of the Demon Drink that he
could not even wait until the play was over to
satisfy his depraved appetite.
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.
Bisnor Spalding, of Peoria, III, is about
to deliver a course of lectures in San Francis
co, by special invitation of Bishop Riordan.
Dr. Karl Peters, the German explorer
of Africa, has accepted the invitations of
the geographical societies of Edinburgh,
Dundee. Glasgow and Aberdeen to lecture
before their members next month.
A beautiful picture of gentle innocence
and charity is that presented by an elderly
lloston lady who has a painting of Cleo
patra and Antony which she calls "the
meeting of Cleopatra and Saint Anthony."
Queen Victoria's favorite dish for din
ner is well-done beef, with which she usual
ly takes a glass of champagne. Her ordina
ry breakfast consists of coffee or cocoa and
muffins, ol which she is very fond. With
her luncheon she drinks a glass of ale.
The finest specimen of physical man
hood ou a European throne is King Oscar
of Sweden, in whose royal veins there runs
very good red plebeian blood, with but lit
tle of the real blue article mixed in it. His
ancestor was Napoleon's marshal. Berna
dotte. John McMahon. one of the original part
ners of Flood. Fair and Mackey in San
Francisco, and a roan who has run through
half a dozen fortunes, is now making an
other one in an Idaho coal field. His career
has been an adventurous one. There have
been occasions when he stood in pressing
need of a quarter, while at other times he
donld draw his check for a .million.
Gen. O. O. Howard lost nearly $4,000 in
the failure of the Kean bank, at Chicago,
$2,200 of which was money raised on sub
scription by him for the establishment of a
mission church iu one of .the New York
tenement districts. The General will make
good this loss out of his own pocket
The University of Geneva has just made
an M. D. out of the young Polish Countess
Wanda Ton Szcawmski. Her graduation
thesis was a remarkably learned paper con
cerning the eyes of crnstaceousanimals and
the eliect of light and darkness upon them.
The Countess Wanda will practice in Po
land. J K REM I AH (SOCKLESS) SIMPSON is not &
product of the American soil, but was born
in V room field, a hamlet five miles below
Sarnia, OnL Along the river Jeremiah is
still known as Captain Simpson, for he
sailed a schooner until be had got together
the $5,000 that gave him the impetus to go
Weat.
Prince Baudouin's death makes his
brother. Prince Albert, the seoond son of
the Count of Flanders, the heir apparent
to the Belgium throne. The succession
thus diverged into the King's brother's
family when Leopold's only son, the Duke
of Brabant, died ic ltf&. According to the
Belgian law the successton runs in the mala
line alone.
President Moffatt, of the Denver &,
Rio Grande road, travels about the country
in a private car which cost $45,000, which is
more than he paid for his home in Denver.
But he says, jokingly, that his wife makes
it so uncomfortable for him every time he
comes back from a trip in this palatial
coach that he wants to give the blessed
thing away.
Rose Cociilan and Lydia Thompson
met by chance at a hotel table in Albany
the other week and, to the surprise of some
obsorvors, fell to exchanging reminiscences
in a very sociable way. During their talk
the fact was developed to an interested
few that Miss Coghlan first came to this
country from England when a girl, with
Miss Thompson, playing a subordinate part
in a company under the management of the
latter.
Cardinal Manning, the great English
prelate, is eighty-two years old one year
older than Gladstone. His face is thin and
bloodless, his eves sunken, and the wrinkled
skin is colorless. His kindly blue eyes
twinkle merrily, and a pleasant smile oc
casionally relieves the ascetic look of his
counteuanco. He i more. than ordinarily
tall, and now that bis years are upon him
his head and shoulders stoop, and he is
somewhat deaf. He receives visitors in a
plain black silk cassock, with a red silk
cap on his venerable head.
Sitting Bull always disliked to be
prayed for, and in that respect he was not
unlike many of his brother heathen of pure
Caucaslon blood. Once at a dinner party
given by the wife of an army officer the
young clergyman present prayed eo Ion g
and fervently for Bull's sou) that the old
warrior thought it some sort of incantation
and refused to eat anything until the
others had partaken liberally of the food.
At the end of the dinner the minister again
began to pray. But the savage could en
dure no more. Jumping up be shouted: "No.
no! Once heap enough; no more call down
Great Spirit to crush chief." Then he
strode from the room.
THE SOUTHERN VICTORY.
The old dough-face breed of politicians
is becoming numerous again. Louisville
Commercial (Ind.l " .
The Senators of the new West and new
South thought onco that they had killed
the force bill snake, but they had only
scotched it. Now they have not only
broken its back,but crushed its cloture head
out of all shape. Kansas City Timen (Dem.)
The Republican party must stand by its
pledges and by its principles, regardless of
temporary reverses. Let consequences rest
with traitors to the party and demagogues
who would profit in a partisan way by the
conduct of those who would sell a solemn
undertaking for a mess of silver. Cincin
nati Commercial Gazette (Rep.)
The Democrats of the House and Senate
cheered lustily at the news and one of their
lenders proclaimed it a "Kepublicau Bull
Kull." Ihey must remember, however,
that after the Republican Bull Run of his
tory came Vicksburg and Richmond. The
elections bill was a righteous measure; a
closure rule is needed in the Senate now
aud will be again. Minneapolis Tribune
tRep.)
So far as any of the five recalcitrants,
except two. have expressed themselves, it
cannot bo said that their motives for vot
ing with the Democratic minority rise
above the level of party expediency. The
exceptions are Mr. Teller and Mr. Wolcott,
each of whom has put himself on record in
a truly noble fashion against lawlessness
and ou behalf of the Constitution. Chicago
Post (Dem.) v
To fail, through any weakening on the
part of Republicans, to pass the amended
aud equitable federal elections bill now
pending would be to abase the party before
a triumphant Democracy, to establish
wrong iu the ascendant, and to sacrifice
the opportunity of years. It would be
hardly less contemptible, and certainly
more disastrous than a surrender in 1800.
New York Press (Rep.)
If the vote in favor of taking np the ap
portionment bill includes all who are op
posed to the force bill the inarzin is too
narrow to be comfortable. Senator Hearst
is said to be dying, and should he piss
away before the final teat the Republican
Bourbons will gain a vote aud tho Demo
crats lose one, so that if the vote to side
track is representative there is still danger
that tho bill will become a law. Atlanta
Constitution (Dem.)
"Another Hull Run!" shouted an' enthu
siastic Southern Democrat in Congress
when the defeat of the elections bill in the
Senate was announced for doubtless the
vote taken was equivalent to its defeat.
The result could not have been more cor
rectly characterized. It was a victory of
the South, aided by Northern syjipathv and
votes, over the principles for which the
loyal men of the country fought the bat
tles of the war, and which loyal victories
on the battle-held were supposed to have
secured. Chicago Journal (Kep.)
The bill seems to have more lives than a
cat. and its final and complete arrival upon
the Stygian shore is even now by no means
certain, and probably will not be until the
end of the Congress shall leave it slumber
ing. But tho chances of its full recovery
are greatly lessened by this other blow. It
may kick again in the Senate and even
crawl through that body by some means or
other, but it must then run the gauntlet of
the House, where the ltepablicaus have
been without a quorum throughout the ses
sion and less than live weeks remain, with
none of the appropriation bills acted upon.
An extraordinary stroke will, therefore,
.now be needed to galvanize it into a living
reality. Springfield Republican (Mug.)
Indiana's Bourbons.
Terre Haute Express.
The people of Indiana have no idea that
the Legislature will deprive them of the
fnll benetit of tho fullest representation at
the world's fair, and look upon this Beasley
resolution as a party use of their State law
making body at tho behest of the Gorman
wire-pullers at Washington. Excepting Il
linois there is no State into whose coutines
more persons will be attraeted by the
world's fair thau Indiana. Any extreme
action by which the State may be prevented
from receiving the fnll material benetit of
the occasion for the sake of a political
party will be repudiated by the people of all
Earties. There is a great deal of the hour
on element in the Democracy of Indiana
which in akin to Southern bourbonism, but
all the Democrats in the State are not will
ing to indorse the action authorized by the
bourbon majority at Washington. '
Trlfli ne; with Public Interests.
Lafsyetts Courier.
The Democratio majority in the Indiana
Legislature appears to be determined to
dawdle away its time with the consider
ation, or rather trilling with, frivolous mo
tions and irrelevant resolutions. The
Ilonse devoted an entire day recently to
the discussion of Cleveland anjl Hill as
presidential possibilities and to clap-trap
speech-making on the subject of the Mc
Kinley bill. The people of Indiana are not
particularly concerned as to whether Gov.
Ilill orGrover Cleveland is the Democrats
candidate in lifJi They are more inter
ested in having some means devised by
which a chock may be put on the rapidly
accumulating Stats- debt, for the reform of
the benevolent and penal institutions, a
more equitable system of taxation, the re
lief of the burdens now imposed upon tho
Supreme Court, a common-sense revision of
the so-called Australian election law, and a
hundred other matters of minor importance)
that will, in the natural course of events,
consume all the time of the session.
WTIITE DEMOCRATIC SLAVES.
They Are Members of the Indiana Legisla
ture, and Are Disgustingly Subservient.
Chicago Tribune.
Tjhe slavery of Southern blacks has ended
forever. When that of Northern whites
will cease and the dough-face will be ob
literated from the shackles no man know
etb. That the day of release has not coma
yet is shown by the recent action of the
Democrats in the Indiana Legislators
concerning tho world's fair. Tht
white Democratic slaves who control the
Legislature aud who receive their in
structions from Montgomery, or Atlanta,
or Austin, and not from their own
constituents, choose to disregard tha
wishes of their people and to say that Indi
ana shall not be represented officially at
the world's exposition unless Congress al
lows itself to be bulldozed and coerced into
abandoning just and constitutional
measure, which has no more to do with tha
fair than the laws for the suppression of
moonshiuing or illicit distilling in the.
Sooth.
If this dictation is submitted to ones
where will it euaf Will the next step m
the programme be to insist that no Stato
ruled by Democrats will do anything for
the fair nnless President Harrison, and
Secretary Blaine, and other Bepnblicans
resigu and allow their places to be rilled by
persons satisfactory to the Southern De
mocracy! SIS
As to Statesman iseasley.
Terre nsute Express.
It is eminently proper that the repre
sentative from Sullivan county should in
troduce the resolution against the world's
fair at the behest of the Democracy of the
South. Sullivan county was largely
counted upon for help as a contingent by
the rebels in the war for slavery and dis
union. It was in Mr. Beasley's comity that
the rebels found enough sympathy to in
stigate, the attempted assassination of
Governor Morton. In his county officers in
the Union army were assassinated. From
out of the rebeidoni of southeast Sullivan
1.500 men started on a march to Indianapo
lis to rescue the Bowles-Milligan conspir
ators. It was in Sullivan county that Mr.
Voorhees made his notorious speech about
the "Lincoln collars." Mr. Beasley is the)
proper person to represent the new South
ern rebellion, and bis Democratic con
stituency will rejoice in being able to send
a man to the Legislature whom the bonrbon
brigadiers can Jook upon aa a dough-face)
and mudsill.
Republican Leadership. '
ehelbyrine Repnolirsn.
The Republican party is suffering to-day
fearfully for a lack of leadership and nerve
in the Senate to cope with the bold and
aggressive spirit of the Southern fire-eaters.
We witness the humiliating spectacle of
the proud Senate of the United States and
a Republican majority held firmly under
the iron foot of the solid South, while
fraud, crime and Southern outrages hold
untrammeled sway in all the confederate
States. But to the honor of the Republican
party it has a man at the White House in
whom there is no betrayal and who is as
sold as the Rock of Gibraltar in favor of
the eternal right and the freedom acd
equal rights of all citizens, black or white,
under the law. There is no traitorism in.
President Harrison. He is as pure as gold
when it comes to upholding the banner of
true Republicanism. He is a leader that
the Senate should do well to pattern after
and follow.
They Must Go.
BhelbyrlUe Republican.
The conviction of Wood demonstrates to
the world that Blount did not die of as
phyxia or pneumonia, ns reported
by Dr. Wells, and eo recorded
at the insane asylum. Shame
upon an institution that retains
doctors who have no more conception of
their duties than to make such a report
when tho facts were 60 entirely
ditierent. The best thing Wells and
the whole outfit can do is to
resign and get out, as the public is con
vinced that they displayed the grossest
stupidity if nothing more. The physicians
ought to be glad tc get out with a
resignation and the sooner it is presented
the better it will be not only for their own
reputation but for the publio good. Give
us the resignations and fill their places
with ccmpeieut men.
But the 'Wicked liave AU the Fan.
Kansas City Journal
When the good Indians who remained at
the agency and took no part in the recent
war see the delegation of bad Indiana
start on that trip to Washington to see the
(jreat Father, and be coddled by the Indian
Rights Association, they will endeavor to
comfort themselves with the white man's
assurance that virtue is its own reward.
The Fight Must Go Ou.
Koromo Gazette-Tribune.
The Republican party must continue its
patriotic fight for lair and honest elections
until in every electoral precinct in this
land the humblest citizen is permitted to
cast one honest ballot, and have it counted
as cast, and have it correctly returned as
counted. This is the battle the Bepublican
party must tight out and win or republican
institutions must perish. Henceforth with,
more purpose and greater zeal Republicans
must battle for this great principle and ac
cept no peace until victory is won.
A Word to the Legislature.
Elkhart Review.
If the present Legislature will pass a few
nnpartisan bills, such as free text-books,
compelling the appointment of inspectors
for building and loan associations, modify
ing the school law so that presidents of
city school boards participate in the elec
tion of county superintendents, reduction
of the expenses of the State, provision for
payment of the State debt, etc, it will
prove itself of public use. But its present
wrangling is a curse to the commonwealth.
He Wants to He Speaker.
Lafayette Courier.
Mr. Bynnra. the celebrated grass-burning
Congressman from Indiana, is on record as
saying that he is in fnll sympathy with
the Southern members in their opposition
to the passage of any sort of federal elec
tions bilL The statement is not at all sur
prising. Mr. Bynnm represents a party in
the Xor.tb that has always truckled to the
Southern section and meekly followed tho
leadership of the Bourbons.
A Dough-Face Party.
Columbus Republican.
It is fitting that the Democracy of In
diana, the moet ditdoyal of all the North
ern States, should be the first to join with
the South ic the effort to prevent the pas
sace of law to secure honest elections. And
it is true to its history, trne to its creed,
truo to its party. Always subservient to
the South and resdy to do its bidding, the
Ind'ana Democracy has done just what the
South expected it to do.
News at a Distance.
Eprtngfield Republican.
The farmer members of the Indiana Leg
islature intend, if they can, to reduce the
salaries of every couuty official in the State
to $1,000 or less, and the big lobby of office
holders and politicians expecting to be
come so, gathered at the State capital to
resist the move, testifies to the possibility
of its success. '
A Joa lu War.
Richmond FailaiUam,
It the government had been anxious to
teach the Indians what real war was like
they should have brought them East and
let them gaze on Con gress when Kogor Q.
Mills was performing one of his ghost
dances.
mam
Only a Question of Time.
Evansrllle Jonrual.
The "force bill," so-called, has been lost
for the time being, bnt the time will come
wh-in a measure even more stringent will
be demanded by the respectable element of
the voting class.
Trying to ItaUe a Hreeze.
Seymour Republican.
Indiana's Stato treasury Is filled with
nothing but wind, and the Legislature is
trying to pee if it can't create a cyclone out
fit.