Morning journal and courier., 1880-02-07

In some respects this is consoling to tn,
 friends of American production, as the com
 pstition referred to is chiefly ours
 There is much difference of opinion con corning the action of the convention at Harris
 burg and its political effect, but this difference
 of opinion does not alter the fact that the
 Grant men were victorious, nor will it bs
 likely to seriously interfere with their efforts
 to carry other conventions for their candi-
 date.
 When an alarm was struck last evening from the box located at the "Police entrance
 of the City Hall some timorous persons were fearful that the conflict between town and
 city had proved irrepressible, and that the police of the city had been overpowered by the henehmen of the town and wanted help. Fortunately, the alarm was struck for moth ing but small fire.
 'Nepotism" does not excite the wrath oi Democratic journals as it did once. Perhaps they are restrained by such facts as that among the clerks of Senate committees, at salaries of $2,O00 to $2,500 a year, are Senator Eaton's son, Senator Morgans son, Senator Vance's SOD, Senator Johnston's son, Senator Withers' son, Senator Wallace's SOD, Senator McDonald's son. -in-law, Senator Salisbury s nephew, Senator Voorhee' son, (two commit tees, and Senator Voorhees, law partners son.
 A canvass of Republican leaders in Colorado shows Blaine slightly in the lead, with Grant & good second, and Sherman a poor third Bayard and Tilden are the principal Demo- cratic favorites in the State. Interviews with 133 of Wisconsin's State officers and members of the Legislature show 42 for Blaine, 27 for Grant and 10 for Sherman Seymour leading among Democrats. with 19 supporters, to for Tilden and 3 for Bayard A canvass of Nebraska papers by the Omaha News shows IT for Blaine, for Grant and for Sherman, and of11O Omaha business men 5s were for Blaine, 34 for Grant and for Sherman.
 Another story of ill-assorted love and it's sad results: Eighteen years ago James Buchanan Evans was one of the head clerks in the Treas. ury department, and great favorite in Wash ington society. He was a noted wit, grace full dancer and free thinker. A Miss Harvey was Washington belle. She belonged to a wealthy Norfolk family, and had been care fully reared. This couple caused social aut- ter by eloping and getting married. They did not return, and were soon forgotten in the circles in which they had moved. Even their relatives lost sight of them. A few days ago, while woman was singing and dancing on 1I. ,Ao 4e she was told that her husband was lying un- conscious in barroom. It was common for him to get drunk, aud she attached little i'm portance to the message; but her daughter, also performer, went to see her father, and found him dying from 8 fractured skull He was the once courted James Buchanan Evans, and had become a sot. The woman was the former belle, Miss Harvey, and had turned her Accomplishments to account in a low form of the show business.
 The letter of 'H. H. accusing the Secretary of the Interior of purposely withholding the supplies of the White River Utes, on account of which they are now said to be in a starving condition, has drawn an explanation from the Secretary. He says the simple facts are that the annual supplies were sent to the White River Utes, which they destroyed, some at the agency, and others in the wagons that were burned when Thornburghs command was at- tackled. Seventeen hundred cattle that were at the agency were killed driven off or suf- fered to stray away. The White River Utes having thus destroyed their supplies, for which the appropriations are exhausted, have gone down to the neighborhood of the Los Pinos agency. The supplies at the Los Pinos agency are barely sufficient for the sustenance of the friendly Indians dependent upon them If divided between them and the White River Utes, both will suffer at best. Owing to the snow in the mountains it is impossible to transport to the Los Pinos agency any addi- tional supplies. The question, then, is simply whether the Government will deprive the friendly Indians of food to feed hostiles that are suffering by their own fault. The Secre- tary does not see the justice of such policy. Ouray, who is in Washington, is reported as saying that the White River Utes need not starve, but can live on game which the deep snows on the mountains have driven into the valleys, where it can be killed in sufficient quantities to prevent starvation.
 Our esteemed and persistent contemporary the Hartford Courant continues to call for Tax Commission as vigorously as if it had not called so long in vain. The Courant's | cause is just and it only tells the plain truth when it says: The taxes are not fairly laid l Nobody rests easy under an injustice, and it l is poor defense for one to explain that it is | an old one. Old injustices bring with them | the aggrayation of years and are worse than | the new. Rich men, holders of various | can smile at the easy way they get | of from real estate assessment, but the pleas | ure fades when their personal property is con- sidered. People of small means, needing | every possible dollar of income, see their | stock investments fade away, and explain | that they could not buy bonds because the law taxes those, or else they did buy those | bonds that the law especially exempted Qhe | Connecticut Western and Connecticut Valley) | and having bought those have ceased to have | any incomes at all. Men who have nothing | in the way of property but their small home | steads find these taxed for 100 per cent. or more of their market valne, ,whilelarg houses | are assessed for only fraction of their mar ket-value. A man living in one town, stock | holder in bank or insurance company, sees a fellow stockholder, who lives in another | town, paying only half the tax that he pays On just the same interest in @ common busi- ness. Corporations doing a competitive bus mess all over the country find Connecticut | loading taxes upon them beyond all limits of equity while their rivals in other States are entirely exempt. And so it goes.
 DOUBTFUL.
 tsSay, where's that milk ?" the old man cried,
 To his sable servant Fatipitza;
 She. with g grimace, soft replied