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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-01
A BULLDozER,s HowI.

The Wrath Provoked by Attempt to
Make Democrats Answer for Their Crimes.
Aiken Is. c. Recorder (Dem.)
Again is the disgraceful attempt to be made
to convert an American court OF justice into
and engine of OPPRESSION as infamous as any
ever utilized by the Spanish Inquisitors or
the brutal Jeffreys. Brewster, the moral
monstrosity and dandifed baboon who dis
graces the Nation by the position which he
occupies at the head of the Department of
Justice is determined that batch of South
Carolina Democrats must be convicted and
sent to the Albany Penitentary at the April
term of the United States Circuit Court
which will be held in Charleston. Quiet ana
respectable. citizens are to be dragged from
the bosom OF their families TO the neglect of
their daily avocations, at most critical per-
iod of the year, and made to confront an ar
ray of periured witnesses who, with malice
in their hearts and red hot lies on their tongue,
would swear away the life of an angel in
their lustful greed for the thirty pieces.
The handouts must be riveted on the inno-
cent Democratic victims, and the doors of
the Albany Penitentary must close upon their
hopes and liberties. The last turn OF the
thumbscrew is to be made, and nothing that
diabolical ingenuity can devise is to be left
undone. Brewster has employed this time,
in the place of the brainless but brassy San
ders an attorney by the euphonious name
of Snyder to oversee Melton and keep him
well up to his dirty work. Besides this, an
array of detectives are now at work manufac-
turing testimony and spottlng suitable wit
nesses to perform the hellish work of perju-
ry The juries will be made as black as Ere
bus if it lies in the power of the District At
torney. In other words, justice IS to be bur
lesqued by handicappng the political pre-
JUDGES of the ignorant and irresponsible me-
gro against the honor and liberties of the
white man. This is a woeful but truthful
picture of the work carved out for the next
term of the United States Circuit Court. We
therefore urge our Democratic fellow-citizens
to be forewarned and forearmed. Innocence
is no protection when we have to grapple
with villainy and tyranny.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-01

the bill proposed by General John Coburn
two years since for board of inspection of
all the State benevolent penal and reforma-
tory stitutions-inspectors with power to
inspect, and with power to apply the need
full remedies for such abuses or mismanage-
ment as might be discovered. Some
such system must be adopted in Indiana.
Some system must be inaugurated and main
tanned which will lift the charities and the
prisons of the State out OF the control of
partisan politics Asylums and prisons
must not be left the spoil of political free
hooters. Bummers and scalawags must not
be permitted to speculate upon either the
crime or the misery of the State. Now, just
as the great Democratic crime against these
institutions is about to be made effective for
its perpetrators, is the very time to begin
the agitation, which must be kept up until
public sentiment shall be so aroused that in
1885 the infamy will be effectively rebuked
and sentiment developed that will forever
make repetition of it impossible.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-01

percentage of intelligence among them; they ca
better food, wear better clothes, read better
newspapers, enjoy better schools, and greater
number of them become this blOated capitalists
which the agitators affect SO much to abhor.-5ts
Louis Globe-Democrat.
THE cause (civil-serviee rerorm) can never go
backward. The sanction now given to itis as
uon IL has many stages yet to pass through,
many transformatlO to undergo before it final
ly emerges from the chrysalis state. Butt 1T is
IL goou hanos, and whether its immediate for
tunes be good or i'll, the country will not forget
or desert it.-SI. Paul Pioneer Press.
EVEN accepting all that the nformer has stated
ABOUT Mr. Sheridan as correct, public sentiment
In this country would not stamp him as a MUIR
uerer or as guilty OF treason IL must be remem-
Dered that it is different in England, and that
nasty words to which no regard would be paid
Dy tne Jaw IN THIS country constitute p treasOn-
said about him, he is guilty OF political Offense.
Chicago Tribune.
The games of thimble-rig, three-card monte
and brace faro are fair and even in comparison
with the "heads win and tails you fose'' future
dealing by small operators. Every young man,
and old one, TOO, for that matter, should avoid
these sink holes of so-called speculation as they
with pleasure the reports that there is a dearth
OF this sort of Cuisines" in the great trade CEN
ters.-5t. Lo uis Republican.
OUR doctrine that one man is as good as an
othet, save IN respect to purely natural endow-
ments. excltes smile of contempt among our
European friends. But we have the satisfaction
OF Knowing that 1t does not divide our free So
ciety into naughty, pretentIous and absurd aris-
tocrats; cringing, toadying middle GLASS; who
avenge their sights from above upon those be-
low them, and an unknown, uncared-for mass of
struggling wretches at the Dottom.-New York
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-01

the Journal, The present proprietors of the
Journal found the law on the statute book
and applied for the business under its terms,
and have received it because this paper has
"the largest general circulation OF any daily
paper in the State" If there is any steal"
in it, or if there was "a tunnel between the
Journal and the Sentinel in the passage of
the act, the ''steal" and the tunnel were
projected and carried through while the
Journal was owned and managed by a
gentleman who is understood to be now The
largest and most interested stockholder of
the esteemed contemporary referred to. We
suggest that there is no trouble whatever in
that paper learning the truth and the whole
truth, Our disappointed friend has all the
evidence within its own control.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-01
REPUTATION ACCOMPLISHED

The statute authorized the provisional
board for the construction of the Insane
Hospital to contract in the name of the State
for the brick work on the asylum building.
The board advertised, and out of fifteen bids
received let the work to John Martin at 50
per thousand, less than Fletcher S57Sharpe
paid for the brick in their building, erected
the same year and under the same kind of
management. The work was we'll done and
highly complimented by the States superin-
tendent of construction. The provisional
board made three careful measurements of
the work, and under their direction their
measures gave the State the benefit of every
doubt and their architects and
experts certified under oath to
the balance due from tfe State
to the contractor, The statute authorized
the board to give the contractor warrant
for the balance found due him. The board
did give a warrant, but refused to include
interest for the three years during which
they had kept the contractor out of his
money. The members of the board were all
Democrats except one, the Governor, and
they. sent the contractor to the Legislature
for an appropriation to pay his warrant.
Five different committees of the Legislature,
and all which ever Investigated the claim,
reported to that body that the debt was an
honest one, and recommended payment.
There is not a man in the State who
knows anything about the matter who does
not know that the claim is a just and honest
one If it had been due from an honest
man it would have been paid at the COM
pletion of the work If it had been due from
dishonest but solvent man the money
would have long since been collected. The
sovereignty of the State, which cannot be sued
in the hands of dishonest men has brought
the contractor to grief. Twenty-Five thousand
dollars more money than John Martin
received from the State is in the walls of the
asylum, and the bank from which he has it
borrowed is abused by the honorable mem
bers and the contractor denounced as hav-
ing presented "thieviDg claim" an honest
laborng man is laughed at and his claim
stricken out of the appropriation bill, and the
action of The provisional board and the war
rant of the State repudiated. This action
has cast a stigma upon the State, and is an
outrage upon every honorable workingman
of Indiana. 1t is another disgrace of this
most disgraceful Legislature.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-01

THE Richmond Palladium has a word to
offer with respect to the Indianapolis street
railway and the proposed new Metropolitan
company. 1t says:
company that runs them on the Dixie plan,
which is designed to squeeze all the money
possible out OF them, regardless of the COM
fort and convenience of the public. There is
nothing like competition to bring monopo-
lists and old fogy common carriers to their
re-colecting boxes, skeleton mules, and
consolidated conductor and driver, are not
up to the demands of our progressive CAPT
tai Ii the northern Ohio Yankees commence
the business, they will paralyze the Southern
syndicate"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-01

AN esteemed contemporary has had some
what to say about the insurance steal'-
the title by which the publication of the
semi-annual statements of foreign insurance
companies is denominated by those papers
which have tailed, because OF their limited
have to say to this particular disgruntled,
which now and then refers to "a tunnel
between the Journal and the Sentinel upon
this subject, is, that the law for the publica-
ton of these insurance statements was
passed before the existing proprietorship of
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-01

THE metropolitan police bill again occu-
pied the attention of the Senate yesterday,
and caused another protracted night session.
According TO agreement, vote was taken at
o'clock, and the bill received twenty-seven
votes, Senator Youche voting with the ma
jority for the purpose of moving a reconsid-
Grafton, which he at once did, and the debate
again commenced. Notwithstanding the
fact that a motion to reconsider had been
entered. the secret ary of the Senate made up
a message to the House, hurried of
with the bill to the Speaker and had it
signed by that officer. This is q sample OF
the tactics pursued by the Democratic ma
jority and their servants to fost this meas
ure upon the citizens of Indianapolis, a
measure the outrageous nature and purpose
of which we have attempted to expose, and
which are we'll understood by the people Of
the city and State. Senator Fletcher once
more stated that the people of indianapolis,
with whom he is acquainted desired the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-01

A SPECIAL to the Journal from Elkhart
gives the particulars of the recently reported
''faith cure" at that place 1t seems that the
procuring cause" was a deyout person in
Boston, who fixed upon o'clock of certain
day when prayer was to be offered, and that
1t was precisely" O'Clock at Elkhart
on the day named when the cure was
effected There is difference in time between
Boston and Elkhart of about sixty-fve min
ates, so it would seem that the faith cure"
is limited as it were, by human circum-
stances and conditions We do not quite
grasp the matter, but it would appear as If a
cog were out of this miracle somewhere.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-01

THE disgraceful and revolutionary attempt
of the Democracy, last night, under the lead
their own in the presiding chair of the SEN
ate caused scene the like of which has not
been known since the double-headed Senate
OF the days of Jesse d. Bright The con-
spirators were foiled by the GOODNESS and
courage of Senator Spann and Lieutenant
governor Hanna The Democrats may find
themselves playing with edge tools that are
very dangerous. The Republicans are ac-
customed to facing rebels and revolutionists.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-01

SPEAKER BYNUM, with the aid of the
clerk of the House, is trifling with his
constitutional duty with respect to the
general appropriation bill. When asked
why it was not yet signed, the Speaker
said it would be so soon as it was enrolled
and laid before him. When asked why it
was not en- rolled, DR.. Edwins said there were
so many amendments it had not yet been
possible to do it. The clerk has had two days
and q half in which to enroll this measure,
and if the work is not yet completed it is
evidence of Incompetence or worse in the
clerks department. The truth is that the
purblind Democrats imagine they can bull
doze the Republican minority into allowing
the passage of all partisan legislation by the
threat that they will force a special session
by Withholding Authorization from the gen.
eral appropriation bill. The suggestion
shows the revolutionary character of the
Democratic majority, but we apprehend no
court would be found to uphold the PROPOSE
ton that malignant or corrupt officer OF
the Legislature could defeat completed legs-
lation in the manner proposed. But this is
only another incident in the daily history OF
the most infamous legislative body the State
of Indiana was ever cursed with, except
probably the disloyal Legislature of 1868.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-01

REFERRING to the attitude of the liquor
league Democracy of Illinois in obstructing
legislation in the General Assembly of that
Journal of yesterday-the Chicago Inter
Ocean says:
THE Republicans must fight it out on this
line if it takes the entire session. They can
not afford to do anything else. The motto of
the mouse of Orange, 4 will maintain should
be adopted by the Republicans at Spring
field. The State will sustain them in it and
place the responsibility for the blockade
where it really belongs. The people demand
hgn-license law, and even very many who
do not sympathize with that demand repudi-
ate the attempt to defeat it by resort to dis
reputable, underhand, and contemplate tao
ties -
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-01
Paper Domes and How They Are Made.

New York Special.
The special feature of the new observatory
at Columbia college will be a paper dome.
This will be the fourth paper dome in the
world" said Professor Rees. They have all
been made by Waters & Sons, of Troy, N. Y.
the manufacturers of paper boats-and are
all in this country, The first one made is at
the Troy Polytechnic Institute, the second
at West Point and the third at Beloit Col
lege. While that az West Point is the
largest ours is the best in construction and
arrangement. The method used in the man
ufacture of the paper is kept secret, the
makers using a private patented process.
The dome is made in sections-semi-lunes
as they are technically called. There are
twenty-four of these sections. They are bent
over toward the inside at the edges, and
bolted to ribs of wood. The thickness of the
shell is only 1882 of an inch, but it is as stiff
as sheet-iron. On one side of the dome is
the oblong opening for the telescope and
over this is a shutter likewise of paper but
stiffened with wood lining) which slides
around on the outside of the dome. The
whole dome is so light that the hand can
turn it. The side diameter is twenty feet
and the height is eleven feet. The floor of
the observatory is one hundred feet above
the ground we were obliged to build it so
high because of the tall buildings around it.
The building is rapidly approaching COM
pletion, and the dome is already in place."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-01
Vicious Legislation.

Logansport Journal. 81 .
Business men and the legal fraternity are
paraiyzed by the passage of bill in the
House of the Legislature which repeats the
negotiative features of notes, bills of ex-
change, bonds, or other instruments in writ
ing, signed by any person who promises to
pay The purpose of the measure is to give
protection to the foolish persons who give
notes to swindlers AZ t-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-01

"A YOUNG married lady, of previous good stand
ing in Buffalo society, has created sensation by
surrendering to the police and accusing herself
of having killed her baby with chlOrOform
weighted 1t with an ak head ana thrown it into
Niagara river. The woman's friends are agreed
that her troubles are caused by aggravated
of mother-in-law, but are divided in opinion
to the truth of her story. Some believe that
the poor creature was driven to insanity
through persecution and fear of having her
child taken away from her, and killed it, while
others think that the baby is alive, and that the
mother has hidden it away under the impression
that she can get it again without restriction
from her husbands people.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-01

ELECTRIC tricycles. running at the rate of
seven or eight miles an hour on smooth road,
are now in use in London. The power is stored
in an accumulation of capacity which allows
ten-mlle stretch Unless a dynamo machine can
be found at either end of the route the traveller
is under the necessity of carrying his vehicle
nome should lie not count the miles correctly,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-01
Senator Beck's Linguistic Accomplishments.

in Congress. 1t is possible that he is not
"up' in so many of the modern languages
as Representative Hit, of Illinois, who is an
accomplished lingust but it is play for the
sturdy Kentuckian to translate the ancient
classics from the original Greek and Latin
into English, and then for rest translate
English into Greek. His biographer does
not state whether he can read Sanscrit back
ward, but he leaves it to be inferred that he
could have given the gentleman who cut
hieroglyphics into the pyramids points and
discount him in discussion on derivation OF
words and roots and signs.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-01

EASTERN politicians are discussing General
sohn F. Miller, United States senator from
California, as probable Republican candi-,
date for President. 1t is thought that he
could carry the Pacific States and also Indi-
ana, which these gentlemen regard as doubt
FL
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-01

THE judiciary committee of the lower
house of the Pennsylvania Legislature has
favorably reported a bill providing that if
the authorities of Philadelphia will furnish,
without cost 10 the State, suitable accommo-
cations for the executive business and for
Che sessions of the Legislature, that city shall
be made the capital OF the State.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-01

IT may as we'll be determined now as at any
other time whether the Speaker of the
House of Representatives has an absolute
veto power, a power over which there is no
possible reconsideration. We shall be very
willing to meet the Democratic party on this
Issue
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-01

THE calling of an occupant of the chair of
she Senate ian underling' betrays the gen.
tlemanly character and breeding of the per-
son who uses the language
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-01

THERE was a rumor flying about the Legis
lature, last night, of an attempted impeach-
ment of Lieutenant-governor Hanna and a
superserviceable representative was running
around among the senators to find out their
desires. Such proceeding as that would
be hailed with pleasure by both Governor
Hanna and the Republican party By all
means impeach.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-01

WIDOW, "about to remarry," writes to an
exchange begging to be informed as to the prop
CIR finger on which TO wear her second wedding
ring, all the space on the regulation finger being
occupied by the broad circlet placed there by
number one. It is only through such little incl
dents as this that a cold unfeeliug world knows
anything about the trials and tribulations of
relicta,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-01
The 1884 Candidate Settled.

Michigan City Dispatch, (Dem.)
General Winfield Scott Hancock, the hero
of Gettysburg, will be the Democratic nomi-
nee for President in 1884, and all proprietors
of incipient booms might Just as we'll retire
from business at once, and make an assign
ment in favor of the superb"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-01

THE Democracy held that corrupt or care
less clerk can defeat the constitutional right
of the people, and they now advance the
proposition that a Speaker of the House can
nullify the solemn action of the two branches
Of tho General Assembly ql7o
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-01

UP to the present time the Republican
minority in the State Senate has not been
intimidated. Will the Democratic bulldozers
make note of this fact?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-01

JOINT committee of the Arkansas Cen
e-al Assembly has reported that the late State
Treasurer and Governor, Thomas J. Church
Ill, is short in his accounts to the amount of
1924, O0O A resolution was passed instruct
ing the Attorney general to bring suit against
Churchill and his bondsmen
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-01

OF the thirty-six Annapolis cadets who took
part in the naval academy disturbance thirty
one have apologized for their conduct, but the
remaining five still stiffnecked and refuse to
repent Birch switches were probably spared by
the parents in the early training of these five
youths
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-01

SENATOR HILMeAss, who voluntarily as
sumed the role of defender-in- chief to Lieu
tenant-general Heffren, c. S. A., was a con-
spicuous figure in Tuesday nights disgrace
in the State Senate
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-01

The statement is made that a motion to
reconsider the vote on the general appropri-
alton bill has been made in the House,
This is not true. No motion was made
either on the day of the passage or on the
day following, and no such motion or notice
of motion can be found on the journal I'M
less it is interpolated by fraud.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-01

THE scenes in the State Senate on Tuesday
eight were disgraceful beyond description,
'1ut thoroughly in harmony with body the
majority of whose members place them
selves under the leadership they have. Like
master like man.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-01

WHAT authority had Mr'John r. Wilson,
Of the House of Representatives, to say in the
Senate that unless the metropolitan police
bill is passed no State institution shall get
cent of money? Mr.. Wilson may find that
he is not the sole arbiter of the destinies of
the people and the government of the State of
Indiana
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-01
In Search of the Lost Boom.

Philadelphia Press.
Hendricks, of Indiana, has gone to
Florida to fan his carbuncle in the shade o
an orange grove, and dig up the boom which
got swamped in the Everglades during ths
hard winter of 1861
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-01

GILBERT and Sullivan intimate that their next
comic opera will treat of the theme of Socialism.
They say, however, that if "Iolanthe" runs
another season in London no new opera will be
needed there, and it would not pay to issue one
exclusively for the American market. The
American public will hope that "Iolanthe" will
hold oYar.