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DEMOCRATIC MEETINGS
DiinaSitttirday fvrnin;, Si-p. 20. Siicn
litrs, Jus. W. Duncan, 51. T. Moloney, (ico.
V. W. Blake.
Dkh Moines Iihh recflvd a loud of iw.w
roi corn, which was dry awl nound, ami
brought 75 CK.ntN per bushel.
Southern 'Ixas, which hurl been ulTer
Jog fur iifte.n weeks nt from drought
and where h iD illlon.s' worth of stin k was on
the vergn of ji rishing for WHter, was visit
il on "Wednesday with copious and drench
ing rsdns.
The 'Chicago Time biilievfs that the
Moriee.t8 to 51 r. Blaine's withdrawal from
1be candidacy hae not u word of truth in
thwn, uu.l ure mt-rely started to frighten
the democracy.
Wht-a IiLiino soh'innly pledged himself
to Jfeal Dour to vot for prohiliition and
then dodged, it to but a repetition of the
na iind of Holeiaii pledge he made to
Muillgan to wrfurn those letters if be would
let Blaine just look at them, but when tin
Mere handed vr lilalne jammed them in
to Ida xx:ket uuJ they ure there yet.
The cholera hat again measurably abated
in France, but Is raging with great viru
lence In Italy, efij ially iu "dirty Naples."
During the 24 hour from Sept. 10th to 1 1th
there ere 721 frvsh cases of cholera in
Naples with 250 deaths, and In other cities
of Italy for the suine space !)5 fresh caws
snd CO deaths.
By the death of Mr. A. F. Iioseubcrg,
Leo LefTmun, of StreaVir, inherit property
worth from $ 10,000 to f0,000. Juite a
little lift.
It Is estimated that an appropriation of
t least $ 15,000 w ili lw reijuired for munlc
llal purjxises In Streator for unother year.
The taxes will not be reduced.
The Otter Creek shaft is now down to
BOlid soapstone, and the contractor now en
tertain the most sanguine unites for U sue
cessful completion. It can now lie riihhed
through Xtt tap the firt vein f mil w ith
out any more serious trouble. This shaft
pens the richest body of coal in tlii-t v.
clnity, If any rell ance can lie placed in the
Wing tests. Some f 50,0n) bus Ix-en sj)ent
In vainly attempting to get through the
(iiicksand heretofore, and the present suc
cess, If permanent, Is u matter for .congrat
illation. On 5Ionday afterutsin u young German
working in a field near Dana was the vie
tim of an unfortunate occurrence, which
will probably result in his death. lie was
plowing with three horses, and left his
team to get a drink at a stack near by,
when the horses who were greatly troubled
by the Hies started to run. He saw them
and headed them off, but could not stop
them. The three horses trampled him
down and the point of the plow struck him
iu the stomach, indicting horrible injuries
and making a great wound.
ROW IN THE CAMP.
There was something approaching a
"h 1 of a row" at the llrpulilieau head
(iiarters in Chicago last 5Ionduy. It seems
that the managers of the state campaign,
frightened tit the headway (.'niter Harrison
is making, sent Joe Medill of the Tribune
to New York to sec the National Commit
tee and implore them fur aid. Joe, on hi"
arrival there, told the committee the hoiient
truth. He said the Heptililican campaign
in Illinois was growing more nopejess
eyerv day; that there was no money to be
had though sorely needed, ami unless plen
tiful aid was given the state would inevit
ably go against Blaine, lie exhibited a
convincing array of figures to show the re
lation of the German vote uud of the Pro
hibition party to the canvass, and demon
strated that unless something was done to
recover the German vote and counteract
the Prohibitionists, the state was inevitably
lost. If the election were to take place
to-day, lie said "there was no doubt the
Democrats would carry Illinois by a con
siderable plurality, and the only hope the
Republicans had was in the rotes they
could gain (buy) between now and Novem
ber." And what made tilings worse was,
that "the state committee was so divided in
sentiment and split up by family iiarrels
that it was powerless for good."
The national committee heard Joe w ith
impatience not uniningled with disgust.
They said such a representation from a
state in whichhe candidate for vice pres
ident was the acknowledged leader wasdis-
grai eful. Why was Logan fooling awav
his time running around the country when
a vigorousc.anvass was so much needed in
his own state V The committee put a tie
t ided damper on Joe and sent him home
with a Ilea in ids ear by tellling him they
had calls enough from doubtful states
which it was absolutely necessary to meet,
and could not pay the expenses of a can
vass of so wealthy and jxiwerful an organi
zation as the Republican party of Illinois."
What kicked up the row in Chicago was
not that Joe had made such pitiful repre
sentations to the national committee, for
those he wax sent there to mane and all
admitted them to be the simple, unvarn
ished truth ; but it was that an Idiotic
newspaper understrapper who had been al
lowed tube present at Joe's Interview with
the committee, should give the w hole thing
away by a lengthy special in Monday's
IulerOemn, and that the managers of the
I J), should be damphools enough to pub
lish it. It is said the atmosphere around
the Republican headquarters In Chicago
has been blue with Long Jones's profanity
ever since Monday's Inter-Ocean made its
appearance ; that the state committee is on
the jKiint of violent disruption, and that un
less liogan himself shall ;speedily come to
the rescue the campaign on the Republican
side in Illinois w ill be virtually abandoned.
MAINE ELECTION.
The result of the state election in Maine
on Monday was, that "the Dutch have ta
ken Holland." Robie, the republican can
didate has been elected by from 12,000 to
15,000. This is nlwut the same majority
by which 51aine was carried at tlie Septem
ber election In 1H70, and for Hayes in No-
vemberol the same year, and about 3,000
less than the average Republican majority
for the preceding fifteen years. In 1HS0,
by a combination between the Democrats
and Greenbackers, the Republican vote
was tied at the September election, though
iu November the state went for Garfield
by 8,000 majority. At the election on 5Ion
day every element in the state opKised to
Democracy was united on Robie, the Blaine
candidate. The Republicans supported him
as a unit, the Greenbackers, headed by So
lon Chase and "them steers," supported
him in a isnly, and the Prohibitionists re
frained from nominating a candidate of
their own nnil supported Robie. That the
Democrats escaped defeat by less than
25,000 against such a combination is a won
der. Besides the Republican National
Committee, in response to Blaine's earnest
appeals, had sent 51 stumpers from abroad
fhto the state, and all the money they could
raise; while the Democrats had but five
speakers on the stump, not one of them
from outside of the state, and hail Pot a
dollar of money to aid them from abroad.
The shabbiest Incident connected with
the election was the vote of Blaine and ids
son on the Prohibition question. A rigid
prohibition constitutional amendment was
voted upon, the ballots, for or against which
were dexsited in a separate Imx. The
women had been hard at work all day so.
liciting votes for the prohibition amend
incut, and as there was no prohibition
candidate in the field. Incidentally for
Robie, the Blaine candidate. Of course
they expected Blaine, whom Neal Dow had
i strongly endorsed as a good prohibition
ist, to vote for the amendment. Blaine,
however, waited until within fifteen min
utes af the closing of the hi11s, when all
the women had lieen driven away by a
rain, and then he and his son voted oen
tickets for state officers, but cast no vote on
the prohiliition amendment in other
wonls, dodged Ihe question! It was a dis
reputable and cowardly procedure. The
women had worked hard for him
at the polls all day amid rain and
mud, because Neal Dow had assured
them Blulne was with them, as no
doubt In all his feelings and sympa
thies he was; yet because be feared an
honest and manly vote for prohibition
might offend "the Germans out west," he
sneakingly dodged. Does he Imagine the
"Germans out AVest " are fools enough to
entrust the question of their personal liber
ty to the hands of such a sneak t
The National Crop Report up to Sept.
1st, prepared by the Bureau of Agriculture
at Washington, is thus briefly summarized:
Cotton the average for the whole field is
S'J'j against W last year, the lower figures
being mainly attributable to the drought in
Texas. The wheat average is liM against s:
last year, or ' bushels to the acre, which
Is the highest yield since l7i. The total
crop is placed at 5(10,000,000 bushels. Corn
is in better condition than in any Septem
her since ls0, and the general average i
placed at III. The entire yield promises to
be about I ,S()0,0 10,000 bushel-., which will
be the largest vie. I by 200,0(10,000 bll-hes
in the history of the crop. Oats average is
!i5, a trille below last year. Potatoes !'l
against Hi last year, loliacco is hiy
than at any time since 1S77, averaging
against so last year.
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MR. IIALEY AND THE TARIFF.
The Ottawa lltntbif,tn thinks Mr. Haley
should define his position on the tariff ques
tion. "The Nth Congressional district," it
says, "is a manufacturing district, and her
people are interested in whatever affects
the weal of factories, shops and works of
all kinds. Naturally they favor a protec
tive tariff not only Republicans, but Dem
ocrats as well. Mr. P. C. Haley wants to
go to congress, lie is the Democratic can
didate, and will take the stump for his
party and for himself. Now we believe
.Mr. Haley to be a fair, square-toed man,
w ho will not dissemble for the sake of ob
taining votes under false pretenses. If he
is he w ill define his position on the tariff
question."
Mr. Haley will have no trouble on that
score, lie win simply turn to the Demo
cratic platform, adopted in July at Chicago,
which lie has already fully endorsed, and
w ill read :
The Democratic party is pledged to re
vise the tariff in a spirit of fairness to all
interests. But in makingreduction of taxes
it is not proposed to injure any domestic
industries, but rattier to promote
their
healthy growth, r rom the
foundation of
Ibis Government, taxes collected at the Cus
tom House have been the chief source of
Federal revenue. Such they must continue
to be. Moreover, many industries have
come to rely upon legislation for successful
continuance, so that any change of law
must be at every step regardful of the labor
and capital thus involved, the process of
reform must be subject in the execution to
this plain dictate of justice. e
therefore denounce the abuses of the exist
ing tariff, and, subject to the preceding lim
itations, we demand that Federal taxation
shall be exclusively for public purposes,
and shall not exceed the needs of the Gov
ernment economically administered.
There you have it in the plainest possi
ble English. The present republican war
tariff, with its mountainous abuses, Is de
nounced and the party pledged to a revision
tif it, but in such revision, care must be
taken "to injure no domestic industries,"
Ax. How a vote in favor of a man stand
ing m such a platform is "a vote in ap
proval of English free trade," as the Ile
puttlit'ttn allows, is another of those queer
lingustic muddles so common to our es
teemed cotemporary but which he never
attempts to explain.
As opposed to such a tariff, the Republi
can party Insist on maintaining the present
war tariff, with all its abominations, Intact,
except wherever it may hereafter be found
weak in its protective features, to strengthen
it. Under this beautiful tariff just now 77
cotton mills in New England have shut
down for a season to curtail production. In
other words, about (10,000 operatives are cut
off from the means of making a living for
an indefinite period that the mill owners
may be able to work off their surplus stock
without loss, such surplus stock being tiie
result of the monopoly excessive tariff
levies gave them.
Under this tariff, a Tuesday's associated
press dispatch from Pittsburg says: "The
iron trade, Pittsburg's greatest industry, Is
in a most unhealthy condition. 5Iany man
ufacturers who succeeded In avoiding a
stoppage during the great panic are now
running tfieir works half the time only
Today the Edgar Thompson Steel Com
pany notified its employes that unless they
grant a concession in the matter of wages
the works will be shut down on the 1st of
November. This company employs five
thousand men, and It would be a death blow
to the borough of Braddock, just outside
the city limits, in which the works are sit
tinted."
Under this same tariff, the same dispatch
says: "All the coal mines along the
Youghiogheny and 5Ionongahela rivers
have now been Idle for three mouths, and
there Is not the slightest prospect of a re
sumption to-day. The eight thousand strik
ers stand no lietter chance of winning in
in their bitter fight for the price demanded
than they did the day when they first
dropped the pick and shovel."
Under this same "war tariff" S.IKHt miners
have for three mouths been on a strike iu
the Hocking Valley, Ohio, and what Ispre
clsely"the matter in that quarter may be
gathered from a letter In Tuesday's New
York Knnintj lt from William H Mar
vel, a large iron dealer in New York city,
w ho has just visited the mines. W give
an extract :
"If you will turn to the New York Tri
bune tf August III. issi, you will find an
item setting forth the enormous moao;olv
of 'nearly all the coal and iron Interests in
the Hocking valley iu Ohio,' giviqg the
names ef the persons who provided the
colossal capital fortliemonoHIi.ittionaiiil
joperution of 'alsmt 140 square miles,rl0,-
000 acres' of land. Among the names will
l found Gov. Foster of Ohio, 5Ir. Wil.
Ham Walter Phelps, of New Jersey; Mr.
Secretary James G. Blaine and Gen. Jus.
A. Hall, of Maine
"When the fund" question was before
congress, Mr. Blaine came forward as n
special lobbyist of the coal and iron inter
ests for a big duty on bituminous coal and
iron ore. The dutv on iron ore is 75 cents
per ton. I he duty on bituminous coal n
75 cents per ton. ,-
tr ,., t lll furl, tn tin, rim fit tlio I mil.
the Coin-
mt irt'i'il Ailrt rti.n r, you will find on the Mth
of July, iss-i, a dispatch irom uiiumuus,
Ohio, stating that a large number of im
ported laborers had been sent dow n to the
Hocking valley mines, guarded by 1:10 of
I'inkerton's special police, armed w ith car
bines anil revolvers.
"In the t'timint rriiil Attn ot the 15th
of .July, 11, vou will Iind another dis.
natch 'stating that the operators (owners)
av they will have Ij.OOO more foreigners to
gii into'the mines iu a few days. The dis
pat 'hesof yesterday and to-day from that
region portray the condition of things there
now.
"Now, what are the facts'? A great mon
opoly has a protective tariff of seventy live
cent's per ton on bituminous coal, ostensibly
for the benefit of the poor W O! kitlgllieu to
protect them against w hat is called pauper
labor. Now. those miners onlv struck
against having their wages reduced below
,0 cents per ton. i nus uiey oniv asseu as,
w ages live cents less
less than me enure amount
of the protective tariff, and they are treated
with carbines and revolvers. This is a fine
showing upon which to ask the laboring
muu to vote for .Mr. Blaine."
Yes Yes Mr. Haley will have no trou
ble to define his position on the tariff ques
tion. While lie is in favor of any moderate
tariff exactions that tend honestly to protect
labor, be is opposed to at least so much of
the present war tariff that produces results
as indicated above and the destructive fea
ture of which appears to be that while the
interests of the coal and iron monopolists
are protected by exorbitant tariff exactions,
they enjoy to the fullest extent free trade
in labor, so that any "fractious" demand
for fair wages on the part of the work peo
ple can always be met by an importation
of "pauper labor" from Europe, with a well
paid guard of "Pinkerton Police" to keep
the expelled miners from interfering with
the arrangements of the monopolists. Col
Plumb is one of the monopolists protected
by exactly the same tariff that protects the
Hocking Valley monopolists, and his
"company" no doubt would show as little
hesitation as the lilalne company did in
Ohio, to "beat" the home laborers in any
contest for fair wages, by a like importa
tion of 5.0(H) Bohemians or Hungarian
A TERRIBLE REBUKE.
The severest tiling on Blaine that has oc
curred during the campaign thus far is the
rebuke administered to him by the widow
of the late Lot 51. Morrill, of Maine, who
died about 18 months ago. Mr. Morrill
had been three times elected Governor of
5Iaine, was senator in congress from that
state 10 years, and resigned his seat in the
senate to become Graut's last Secretary of
the Treasury.
A few weeks ago the managers of the
Republican campaign in Ohio, In their ex
tremity The news of 5Ir. Morrill's death
not having reached that benighted region
through their chairman, sent to Mr. 5Ior-
rill the following earnest appeal to come to
their aid :
Sfiittttir IM M. Morrill DeahSiii: The
situation In Ohio Is a critical one. The
party is in trouble on account of the attacks
on IUr. isiaine as the candidate of the party.
Your well known character as a pure, up
right statesman, ami coming from Blaine's
own state, you could refute the charges as
no one else can. We hope you will come
to us in this emergency and make as many
speeches as possible.
The letter, of course, was opened by 5Ir.
Morrill's widow. Naturally she was
amazed, and no doubt a little indignant,
that men claiming sufficient intelligence to
conduct a political campaign iu the great
state of Ohio in behalf of a party Mr. 5Ior
rill had borne so conspicuous u part in cre
ating, should be ignorant of his death, and
she sat down and penned the following let
ter in reply:
To Brown, Vlttiirman, Cohtmbux, 0.: I am
surprised and shocked to receive such a
communication. I thought every citizen
of this country knew my husband was at
rest. I am in mourning for him, but, much
as I mourn his death, I thank my Father
in heaven that he called him home before
the party he loved so well and did so much
for had so disgraced itself as to nominate
so wicked ami corrupt a man for the high
est office within the gilt of the American
people as 1 ktiow and my husband knew
James G. Blaine to be. If he were alive
he would not sup tort M r. Blaine or any
such man, even at the bidding of his party.
ClIAULOTTK 5IOKKII.I..
Mr. Morrill, it may be added, was In pol
itics exactly Blaine's antithesis, represent
ing the purest and best methods, while
Blaine represents the worst. When he re
signed his seat In the senate to accept the
treasury portfolio, it was understood that
ex-Governor Chamberlain was to succeed
him In the senate; but as Blaine about
that time was In the midst of his trouble
with the 5Iulligan letters he had Governor
Conner apoint him to the senate, so that
he could escajte the fire of the InTestl-
gatlon in the house and be saved from ex
pulsion and disgrace. Of course Lot Mor
rill knew Blaine thoroughly and detested
his methods lu ltolitics. His widow shared
his sentiments, and correctly interprets
them in saying: "If my husband were
alive to day he would not supjtort Blaine,
or any such man, at the bidding of his
party."
The assault made by Steve Elklns, a
month or two ago, on West Virginia, cook
Ing up a coalition betw een the Republicans
and Greenbackers and promising to sjiend
barrels of money If necessary to carry the
state for Blaine, has so worked up the
Democrats that FJklns Is said to have aban
doned the field as hopeless and moved w ith
Ids orators and money bags Into hlo. The
largest political demonstration ever held
In West Virginia was the Democratic gath
ering at Parkersburg on Wednesday even
Inc. one of its features lieing a torchlight
j procession one mile In length. Joseph E.
McDonald, General Sam Cary, and Senator
Gorman were among the shakers.
On account of the stormy evening last
Wednesday evening, the Democratic Rally
at Dayton was postponed until next "Wed
nesday evening, Sept. 17th. It will bean
out-door meeting on O. W. Trumbo's lawn.
i All the neighboring Cleveland clubs are
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invited.
lion. Carter II. Harrison, candidate for
governor of Illinois, and Hon. P. C. Haley,
candidate for congress, will deliver ad
dresses on the political issues of the times
at La Salle, 111., on Tuesday, Sept. Hi, at S
o'clock r. M. Grand torchlight procession.
Delegations from all over the state. Every
body invited to come and hear the next gov
ernor of Illinois and our brilliant candidate
for congress. Every Democratic club in
the state invited to attend, with torches
uniforms and music.
Tin-: " IIkatf.ii Tkiim." which had been
raging since about the 1st of September,
extended over the " middle belt" of the U.
J S. from Maine to the Rockv
Mountains,
r,..,,.),;,,,, ifs (.imax on
dnesdav, when
the thermometer reached !2 in Boston,!:!
in New York, Dl in Philadelphia and
W a.-hington, 'J'.Mn rittsljurg, and ranging
from 02 to 100 West as fur as St. Paul. The
term wa"( apparently brought to a close by
the heavy storms on Yednesday, which
were followed by north and northwest
winds, bringing the thermometer in this re.
gion down into the sixties. It was the
hottest September spell the country had
seen in ten years, but with all its numerous
sunstrokes and other discomforts, was
not without its attendant blessing it was
the making of the com crop.
Scahko. "Roaring Dick" Oglesby, ac
companied by a committee of political
"workers" from Lincoln, Decatur, &.,
waited on the Republican State Committee
at Chichago a week ago with a proposition
that Oglesby should announce himself in
favor of submitting a prohibitory amend
ment to the constitution to a vote of the
people of the state. The German Repub
licans are leaving the party so rapidly that
"Roaring Dick" and bis friends are getting
scared. The state committee is understood
to have reserved its decision, but was
rather inclined to the opinion that it was
too late in the day for Dick to take the pro
hibitory shoot.
And the plumed Knight, in his fearless
and dashing way, gallantly advanced to the
polls and dodged the question.
The Wisconsin Democrats held a rousing
state convention at Madison on Wednesday
and nominated a strong ticket, headed by
Nicholas D. Pratt for Governor, with Gen.
A. C. Parkman for Lieut. Governor, Frank
Kalk fur State Treasurer, &c. The fullest
onfidence was expressed by every delegate
present m the ability of the Democrats to
elect the ticket and carry the state for Clevc
land and Hendricks.
Episcopal Ciiuncn. Rev. A. V. Gorrell,
of Chicago, will hold services at the Epis
copal church to-morrow (Sept. 14th), at the
usual hours morning and evening. Sun
day school at 12 o'clock.
The Gossiper.
JAMES 0. BLAINE'S DKEAM.
By Mark roo'ifoi, Marsi iUtSylll.
Somewhere on this earthly planet,
In the dust of flowers to lie,
In the dew-drop, in the sunshine,
Sleeps a solemn day for me.
At this wakeful hour of midnight,
I behold it dawn in mist,
And I hear the men a-counting
Through the darknes, hist! oh, hist!
Iu the old and only White House,
They are. counting very fast;
Some one clears awny the entrance,
And I see them near the last.
As they stand with hats uplifted,
Thinking nothing; of their heft,
There's a cheer for Cleveland near nic,
And a whisper, "Blaine is left."
What can poets do,
With the thermometer at ninety-two
(irandeur in shirt sleeves, (inice with no
cravat.
Sublimity beneath a pulin lcaf hat?
Love with no dickey! Beauty in a sweat!
Truth at the pump with hands and forehead
wet.
Fame drinking soda! Glory with a fan,
Passion asleep upon a cool divan;
And Faith and Hope in wrappers throwing
dice.
To close the quarrel o'er a chunk of ice!
tl. Y. ilotmes.
About the funniest Indeed, the funniest
statement we have seen made during the
campaign Is tills made by the Peru Xetrif,
postmaster Corwin's paper:
In the speech made by G. D. Ladd, nom
inating 51r. Haley, much stress was laid
upon the statement that the Republican
nominee had "liought" the nomination.
Mr. Haley also, In his speech accepting the
nomination, enlarged eloquently on the
barrel" of his opponent. We are certain
these gentlemen will feel sorry and hasten
to aKilogize when we tell them, on the au
thority of one of 5Ir. Plumb's intimate
friends and most active managers, that the
entire canvass did not cost the Colonel one
cent I After hearing the many rumors
adoat regarding the purchase of voters and
delegates, we would hardly dare to publish
this denial did we have a less reliable au
thority; but coming direct from the man
who would have handled a goodly share of
the money, had these rumors been true
we are certain he knows w hereof he speaks.
We presume, of course, this w ill settle the
question, anil the columns of this paer
are freely offered to 51essrs. Ladd and Ha
ley for the purpose of ajKilogizing.
Tills is quite fine. Indeed, we had no
Idea that Hib. had so delicate a smell for
the humorous or the facility for saying
funny things so double enderlike. Half
his readers, we imagine, w ould not even
suspect he intended to be funny. But he
is, and so intended to be.of course. He would
not have gall to attempt such wit In all se
riousness even to the marines. Not cost
Plumb a cent Well, Plumb and his
friends must think his would-be constit
uents area pack of damphools if they hope
In all seriousness to have them believe that
sort of a breeze.
Billy Taylor tells a good one on himself
at Mendota on Friday last. He was stand
ing alongside of Carter Haralson review
ing the grand torchlight procession when
one of his old miner friends from La Salle
caught sight of him, and cried out: "Three
cheers for Billy Taylor and Curter Har
rison I" They were given with a will, you
bet. It w as suggested to Harrison that if
lie behaved, Taylor would pall him
through ih this county.
Four years ago it was suggested by the
curious as a coincidence that as Jas. A. Gar
field had 20 letters in his name It indicated
that he would be the 20th president of the
U. S. It proved an omen, and he was
elected 20th president of the U. S. Ches
ter A. Arthur does not happen to have 21
letters in his name but be only by accident
became president. It does happen how
ever if Cleveland goes by the name of Ste
phen (.rover Cleveland that his name is
composed of 22 letters, and if the omen In
Garfield's case is a precedent Stephen G ro
ver Cleveland's name indicates that he w ill
be the 22d president of the I'. S. ; and the
omen is intensified in that it appears thaj
Thomas Andrews Hendricks' name also
contains 22 letters.
The Princeton IltjiubHcan tells this on
Judge Stipp this week: "At the present
term of the circuit court Judge Stipp, who
is noted both for his love of humor and his
love of justice, was called upon to sentence
a young man to the penitentiary, whom a
jury bad found guilty of burglarizing a
store. In doing so, the Judge gave the
prisoner the usual goixl advice, saying that
he hoped the young man, upon his liber
ation from the penitentiary, would not be
cast down and feel himself forever dis
graced ; that he would avoid evil associ
ates and ways and go back to his home
and earn his bread by the sweat of his
brow; that if he conducted himself well
while in confinement be might be par
doned out and restored to all his civil rights
and that if he followed this advice he might
become an honored and respected citizen.
As the Judge concluded his remarks the
prisoner replied: 'Your honor's advice is
good, but not worth a dam for present use;'
and retired it) custody of the sheriff amid
tlio roar of laughter which followed the
witty retort."
The Journal will hereafter represent the
Plumb faction in this county. 5Ir. Gentle
man having pulled out, an editor will be ap
pointed no doubt who will see that Plutnb is
defended in good shape, and other candidates
endorsed according to their means!
Has the Board of Supervisors "got onto it"
at last? "We want to know!" It would
seem that they had; and after eight years
they now announce that wdien the recorder,
in making abstracts, (the fees for which art
part of his emoluments,) employs a clerk
paid by the county of La Salle, the moneys
so earned shall be paid into the county treas
ury! There is no objection to his making
abstracts. His facilities for doing it are
indeed considered in fixing his salary, which
is lower than any of the other officers. The
Board recognizes the fact that half the peo
ple have in some mysterious way become
fixed in the idea tbat an abstract signed and
sealed by the recorder is a little better than
that. made by a good lawyer or abstracter.
It is not a whit better; sometimes is not so
good as a careful lawyer's, but to good, inno
cent people by the hundred it is better.
So the recorder is expected to make a fat
thing out of abstracts. In point of fact he
does. lie has kept for years one man busy
all the time and another man about half hit
time making abstracts. Of course it's a
good thing. Its a picnic, in fact. Half the
poor devils of the legal fraternity in the
county spend their spare time walking up
and down Court street gazing at those busy
abstractors aforesaid as a hungry tramp de
vours a roast pig in the restauranter's win
dow. Yum! Y um! And the beauty of it
is, the county has paid and is to-day paying
for the time of those men who are grinding
out the silver cart-wheels for the recorder.
The recorder should have "tumbled to him
self" and paid that halt a man at least for
appearance sake.
Tam many kok Cleveland ! Friday eve
ning of this week was fixed upon over a
month ago as the date at which the Gener
al Committee of Tammany Htdl should for
mally announce to the world the position
of that organization on the presidential
question whether it would support Cleve
land, Blaine, Butler, Belva Lockwood or
somebody else or nobody. As preliminary
to that meeting a meeting of the "rank and
file" of the organization was called on 51 on
day evening to instruct the " General Com
mittee " in regard to the character of the
" announcement " to be put forth on Friday
evening. At this meeting John KeUy, Sen
ator Grady, Cockran and tdl the leaders
were present, Kelly occupping the chair.
In spite of the intense heat the haU was
crowded. Gen. Spinola ojened the busi
ness at once by offering a resolution for
the apoiutment of a committee to prepare
an address to be issued by the General
Committee on Friday evening announcing
that Tammany would support Cleveland
and Hendricks. Senator Grady and Cock
ran were patiently heard in opposition to
the reolutiou. John Kelly said nothing,
and then put the resolution- to a vote when
it was carried by a stentorian "Aye!" not
three voices lieing heard in the "negative
A committee consisting of pronounced
Cleveland men were apjtolnted to prepare
the address, John Kelly lieing added as one
of its members. And thus ended the "Re
volt of Tammany." The truth is, the
Democracy of New York city ere united
as onet man for Cleveland, and with the
mighty accessions the party can safely
count on from the Independent Republi
cans and the Germans and Scandinavians,
the Democrats talk of no smaller a figure