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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-10

WE call the attention of the Democratic free
traders to the following paragraphs from the
columns of the st. Louis Post-Dispatch, paper
edited and controlled by Mr.. Joseph Pulitzer,
who is the editor and controller of the leading
and most powerful Democratic paper in the
country the New York World. The st. Louis
organ says:
"Any sudden and violent change which would
substitute the importation OF cheap foreign man
ufactures for the protected manufactures of this
country would not only wipe out the whole val
ne of the millions of Investment which the set
tied policy of this country has created and has
guaranteed.
at would infiict more serious injury on the
general prosperity.
honest, Woodworking tOilers who have had no
choice about the occupation which they would
follow, but who have shaped their lives and
buded up their homes and based their happi
ness and the welfare of their families upon n
continuance of the system on which their livel
hood depends.
''Any attempt at violent substitution Of free
trade for our present tariff would be defeated
by the good sense of the country, which recog
niZes its responsibilities in the system which
has grown up out of its legislation"
This is effort to call halt upon the red-hot
and radical tariff tinkerers who have secured
control of the Democratic party, and have just
~ alarmed the business and industrial interests
of the country over the possibilities of the next
session of Congress.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-10

indianapolis Saturday Herald.
Either Postmaster-general Gresham is a
very discourteous man and officer or letters
written to him and marked personal do not
reach him. We know that he is courteous.
From the number of letters written to him
to which no answers have been returned, we
are therefore compelled to infer that many
of these letters directed to him, never find
their way to him. Are these letters inter-
cepted? If so, who does it? These are ques-
tions for the Postofice Department to an
swer. We find that Judge Gresham is
severely censured for the discourtesy of not
replying to letters, when the probabilities
are that he never saw the letters
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-10

Mr.. SAMUEL ], RANDALL, of Pennsylvania,
ex-Speaker of the House of Representatives,
and the leading candidate of his party for
reelection to that position has been assist
ing Judge Hoadly and the Democratic ticket
in Ohio We call the attemt!c: CO NJ. Nc
Donald and the free-trade Democrats of In
diana to the appended report of Mr.. Ran
dall's remarks in Cleveland:
"Ae Democrat favor the total abolition
of internal revenue. There is no occasion
for existing internal taxation; we do not need
the money. The surplus each year about
equals the amount collected that way. The
government has no right to collect more
money than is necessary for its effective
economical administration. Internal taxa
ton fosters monopolies like those of matches
and whisky. 1t is machine which reaches
the ballot-boX and threatens to o~erturn our
institutions. l would remit the support of
the government to the old mode of levying
tax on imports, so that it would at least in
cidentally protect American manufacturers
and American labor, so as not to have to COM
pete with European pauper labor. The
Ohio platform proclaims the true business
policy of the tariff; various States have
adopted it; the national convention Will
adopt it, and the Democrats will elect a
President on it. Free trade and prohibi-
ton tariff are utter fallacies. If you want
an illustration of English free trade look at
poor Ireland Free-traders would reduce
America to the distressed condition of Ire
land. We never can have free trade Even
after the debt is paid the government will re-
quire enough money to fill the gap between
European pauper labor and American digni~
fled labor"
Put that by the side of one of Mr.. McDon-
AIDS tariff speeches, and then let US have the
eternal principles of the Democratic party
formulated.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-10

the bashfu young congressman never sp, It a
more delightful half hour than that which fol
lowed. Senator CullOm is wiser as we'll as older
now. He has one word of advice for young
men. He wants to warn them to keep out of
politics. he had a small fortune when he went
into politics. Now he has nothing but his
salary.
BROTHER Of the late Mr.. Brown, of her
Majesty Queen Viotoria's household, was re-
called from New Zealand, whittier he had emil
grated, and installed in an important position at
the Balmoral Home Farm. But he soon made
emphatic remarks about what lie called the
sneaking and funkyism of the place, and went
went back to the independence of his colonial
home. He was the only one Of the brothers who
was not permanently il the royal service.
LORD BISHOP THoRoLD, of Rochester. Eng
land, now in attendance on the Episcopal con-
vention, at Philadelphia, has iron gray hair, a
high forehead of good breadth, and genuine
British nose, OF benignant proportions. just
the faintest trace of white ~side- whiskers are
visible. extending from the ears, in the shape of
a half-moon around under the heavy-set jaw
bones. The general expression of the features,
when in repose, is agreeable and attractive.
high collar and long overcoa6 of dark English
cloth complete the picture.
LORD ODo Russell while calling upon Prince
Bismarck, a short time ago, asked him how he
managed to rid himself of that class of unfortu-
nate visitors whom he could not well refuse TO
see, but whose room he found preferable to their
company. "Oh," replied the Chancellor, 81 have
very simple method. My wife knows them
pretty well, and when she secs they are with me
she generally contrives to come in ana call me
away upon some pretext or another" He had
scarcely ceased speaking when the Princess put
her head in at the door and said: "Otto, you must
come and take you medicine. You ought to have
had it ten minutes ago.
THE Hon, John Locke King, M. P. for the city
of London, is one of the most careless of men
as regards dress, generally wearing a suit of
clothes OF which his valet would be ashamed
One day MIR. King called upon the Duchess of
-. At the door he was confronted by mag
niticent turnkey, SIS her Grace at hOme?" asked
the distinguished visitor. "My good man." re-
piled the hunkey, after surveying Mr.. King for
while through his single eye-glass, do you
think that her Grace would like TO see person
of your appearance2' "Don't know. pll see,"
replied Mr. King, and pushing by the Mortified
turnkey, went upstairs, seized upon servant
in the hallway, and sent his card to the
Duchess.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-10

Now this is something like. The people of Gulf
Mills, a Pennsylvania village, have been giving
a practical rendition Of the prodigal son story
with some variations. The son in this case is a
woman, named Mrs. Wolfgang, fory-six years
old, with children and grandchildren. A month
ago she took SD of her husbands hardearned
substance and elOped with young man of
twenty-five, who had been o boarder in the
house. The bereaved husband followed them to
Philadelphia, but falling to find them returned
home, confident that it would not be long before
his wife would come back to her first love. His
faith was justified. AS the $l5 and the
young mans small change had all been spent in
riotOus living, Mrs. Wolfgang returned in a peni-
tent frame of mind to her sisters house, few
miles from Gulf Mills. The husband heard of it,
hired the best carriage he could find, and brought
her home in triumph. The family and neighbors
united in giving her a cheerful welcome. the
young men serenaded her, and altogether Mrs.
Wolfgang feels almost asif it was worth while to
elope and have the fatted calf killed for her ben
eft on coming back.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-10

A Contemplate and infamous trick was
resorted to in yesterdays election in this
city to defraud colored voters out of their
rights as citizens. In the several wards
where the colored population is large in
numbers these schemers had men stationed
at'the polls with the party "poll-books,"
such as are usually prepared for the convent
ence of those who are directly interested in
getting out the full vote of their respective
parties AS the voters names are called they
are checked off, and an intelligent idea is
thus had of how the election is
going. But yesterday Democratic ward
bummers were at the polls with formidable
books thus prepared, and whenever a man
with dark skin presented his vote, the
fellow in charge of the book would look
serious, scan the page, and declare that the
man could not legally vote. and would there
upon challenge him. In many instances the
colored man was even better qualified
to vote than was the challenger, but
the requirements of the law are such
that it is sometimes matter of difficulty to
establish ones right to vote. A freeholder
of the precinct is not always 10
be had, and the colored man, usually la
borer, cannot afford to spend the time neces-
sary to prove his identity. This was espe-
cially the case when the men came from their
work to the polls late in the day. In this
manner many an honest colored man was
disfranchised as fully as though held back
from the ballot-box by a bayonet. The
methods pursued in South Carolina by Red
shrters and in Louisiana by bulldozers
were only more violent, and not particle
less dishonorable and effective. The fraud is
all the more mean and contemplate because
done under the cover OF conforming
to legal requirements. That voter should
be peremptorily challenged and defrauded
out of his political rights simply because he
is clothed with black skin, would never &C.
cur to any but a Democrat. The game is
thoroughly Democratic in every feature.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-10

THE Philadelphia Times says quite bluntly
what has been the opinion of careful readers
and competent critics for some time. 1t
says: "In spite of the revolution in the
secular press in the last twenty years, relig-
ious journalism has not only not advanced,
but has deteriorated. When commercial
methods have not proved their ruin weakness
and inanity have ruled, until the mental
pabuum furnished has scarcely been above
the requirements of milk-sops and prudes
Strong, vigorous writers have found their
way into the secular press and the church
newspapers have, as rule, been compelled to
take the cuttings, the mere commonplace of
current literary work" There is good reason
for this, which is not difficult to name, if it
were necessary; but the fact is the really inn
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-10

In the Episcopal convention at Philadel-
phia, Bishop Wilmer, of Alabama, de-
nounced religious revivals as wild orgies
which possess a deadly fascination for the
negroes" The Bishops words, taken in their
length and breadth, may be objected to by
some; but the principle they inculcate is
sound, and was never more needed than i'll
the present day of salvation armies" and
like religious mountebankery. There is a
deep responsibility upon the church and
the ministry to preach gospel which, while
converting the heart, will not turn the head.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-10
formulated.

Mr.. MCDONALD seems not to be in prosper
Gus lines. The Philadelphia Times, an able
and influential Democratic paper, says
'Advices from Iowa are to the effect that
Senator Mcdonald made very slight impress
sion upon his party friends in that State
during his recent canvass. A prominent
gentleman says that the Indiana candidate
would have had a much better chance of
securing delegates from other States if he
had staid at home. He showed that he had
no personal magnetism, and that ne was not
far removed from the commonplace order of
politicians. The canvass in Iowa is too in
tense for such a negative man to make any
great impression, and no surprise can be
manifested at his failure to improve his pros
poets. But the loss of a few more votes can
make little difference with Mr. Mcdonald
His boom has so declined that whether he
has fifty votes, as he might have had by not
going to Iowa, or ten or fifteen less after his
visit, will be no serious concern to him or
his friends
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-10

Lo here and 10 there. W. H. H, Murray
fAdirondack) is out with lecture urging
more liberal divorce laws. The marriage
contract, he claims, is civil one and the
be dissolved. Cardinal McCloskey thinks
otherwise. But it is a question why Mr..
Murray should now feel the restraints OF the
present statutes binding. They didn't seem
to interfere with his plans to any appreciable
degree
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-10

THE relatives of Aggie Hill who claims to
be Mrs. Senator Sharon, live at Cape Girard-
ing directly descended from tine Mayflower
and the Declaration of Independence. They
profess to believe Miss Hills claims, but are
nrprised that she should demean herself by
IN alliance with man so greatly herinferior.
At the same time, this does not prove that
;he Senator is really married.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-10

OUR special advices from Ohio do not in
dictate Republican success in that State.
While it is difficult to make anything like a
fair estimate, the probabilities are that the
Democrats have elected Hoadly by a
largely reduced majority The complexion
of the Legislature depends on Cleveland and
Cincinnati the returns from which places
are greatly mixed.
The prohibition amendment has polled a
large vote, but not so large as its advocates
claimed, and not enough to carry it. The
first amendment, permitting the Legislature
to regulate the traffic, received but a very
small vote.
From Iowa the few scattering returns in
dictate the probability of a decided Repub-
lican victory.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-10

NUMBER of prominent educators of New
York have-erganized what they call a "corre-
spondence university" The object of the organ
lzation Is to enable persons in every walk of life
engaged in pursuits which do not permit them
to attend schools or colleges, to receive iustruc-
ton by correspondence at their homes. 1t will
aim more especially to benefit persons preparing
for any of.the cvil-service examinations, or for
admission to college, the military or naval acad-
emies, or the law schools.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-10

THE subjects to be discussed at the confer
ence of American Archbishops and their rep
resentatives, called for next month at Rome,
are: 1. The training and government of the
clergy. 2 The education of Catholic youth
8. The tenure of church property. 4. The
erection of church buildings and their liza
bility. 1t would have been well if the call
had embraced the topic suggested by Priest
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-10

MoNsIGNoR CApEL, judging from his in
terviews, is a good deal of a prig, sort of
religious and intellectual dude. Mr.. Capel
should not imbibe the idea that the hem-
sphere has tipped because he has changed
places. There are greater men than Capel,
who would scarcely have been heard of but
for Mr.. Disraeli's volume
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-10
What the Country Needs.

National Republican,
A bank president has been arrested in
Illinois on charge of embezzement, his
specific offense being that he received depos-
its after he knew his bank would fail. If all
the bank officers who do the same thing were
held for ENFORCEMENT every Jail in the coun-
try would be so full the inmates would have
to stand up. What the country needs is
men who are not fools enough to do business
with banks that are not known to be solvent.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-10

WHAT keeps France in hot water is its re-
publican form of government. 1t is stand
ing menace to all the monarchies of Europe,
and none does it affect more than the one
built up by the Iron Prince in the person Of
the Emperor of Germany.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-10

THE case before the Supreme Court of the
United States involving the legality of the
reissue of greenbacks has been postponed,
and it is thought will never be heard, the
necessity for decision no longer existing as
a practical question of much importance.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-10

YOUNG woman over in Newcomerstown,
Ohio, died suddenly the other night after eating
ice cream and oysters. Had this happened
at the beginning of the summer sea-
son there would be no doubt that
the ice cream was the fatal dish, but
coming now, as it does, death must be ascribed
to the deadly oyster. Thoughtful young men
whose girls are addicted to the expensive and
dangerous bivalve will call their attention to
this case.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-10


When two such execrable institutions as
railroad crossing at grade and 'bob-tailed"
car come together they are sure to breed
trouble. Both should be abolished the
easiest to be made go is the bob-tailed car.
which the public may Danish by re; using to
ride in it,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-10

WRITER In the Boston Advertiser discusses
Mr.. Howes's new novel, "a WOman's Reason"
aud is graoiously inclined toward the bsa,R but
is hardly satisfied that the author has done the
square thing by the Bdb. Tie critic asks discon-
tentedly: "Ts it Bostonl Very nearly. no doubt
but is it quite2" Aud in answer to himself
says: at viii be observed he always calls Bev-
eny Beverley; natural mistake, very tritiing
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-10

MONDAY night was the twelfth anniversary
of the beginning of the great Chicago fire.
The people of that city face the rigors of win
ter now under vastly more cheering circum-
stances than they did when half the city was
smouldering in ruins.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-10

IT was Mr.. Bundle who, on occasion, re-
marked that TIE law was an ass. If it is law
that has played the fool in the matter of the
Banking Company receivership, a great
many people, particularly depositors whose
money is taken to pay the bills, will indorse
the distinguished beadle's judgment
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-10

A MAN by the name of John Goode has
demolished Senator Malone in a violent
card, which is published in the Virginia
newspapers. Malone may be ali and more
than Goode says he is, but there is no ques-
ton of the fact that Goode is blackguard.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-10

portant thing. 1t is to be said, however, that
there are a notable few religious papers
which are first class in almost all respects,
a credit to the newspaper profession no less
than to the churches they severally represent.
But as a class, the religious press is about as
valueless as can be, without vigor, character,
or appreciable influence.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-10

FATHER BURTsEII, of New York, contradicts
the statement of Bishop Wilbur, in the Episcopal
convention, that colored priests are not
wanted in the Catholic Church. In the Col
lege of the Propaganda, at Rome, there are
always coored students preparing for the priest
hood. There are no colored priests in the United
States, although colored man from this coun-
try ID being educated at Rome He will be the
first colored Catholic priest in America.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-10

THERE are three prelates OF the Catholic
Church in America who bear the title of Mon
signor. They are MonsignOr Doane, of Newark
q OF the late p. Z. Bishop Duane, of New
Jersey; Monsignor Preston, of st. AIMS Church,
New York, and Monsignor Quinn, of the new ST.
Patrck's Cathedral.-Brookyn Eagle
And there is a fourth in the person of Monsig-
nor Benolt of Fort Wayne.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-10

IT is the money OF the depositors which
will be taken to pay the expenses of the ut
terly absurd and inconsequent legal proceed
ings il the Indiana Banking Company re-
ownership. This is sample of the manner
in which estates are eaten up by what is
called law
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-10

LuMBERMEN may yet right matters by stop
ping for time the indiscriminate destruc-
ton of forests. They claim that the business
of understanding is overdone and the mar
ket glutted, and propose to stop work for a
HDln
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-10

ENGLISH papers are pointing sadly to the low
mental status of a heather people who can be
made to believe any sort Of lies about them A
war document is being circulated on the Chinese
frontier, which begins by asserting that"Euro-
peans do not belong to the human race They
are the offspring of monkeys crossed with
geese" The English are described as "a little
tribe cOoped up in a corner of the sea. in coun-
try as big as ones hand Their king may be in
differently male or female. The subjects are
half men, half animals" This lack of apprecia-
ton of the truly great is painful to contemplate,
even in the heather mind.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-10

THE city election yesterday resulted in a
small majorities Mr.. McMaster's majority
is $50, while Mr. Breunig and Mr.. Saulcy
will have about 500 and Mr.. Pattison
has % for treasurer. The Council stands
twelve Republicans and twelve Democrats,
and the vote in the Fourth ward tie, which
will necessitate either recount or a new
and should be adopted. The Board Of Alder
men will stand seven Republicans and three
Democrats.
Under the circumstances the victory
is a notable one. The Republicans
were forced to meet combi-
nation of personal preiudices, selfish
interest, arrogant and outrageous interior
ence with the suffrage, and the chilling
influence of some VIGOROUSLY weak nomina-
nations for councilmen. 1t seemed during
the day that the Democrats had carried the
city, and that was the impression during the
earlier hours of the night. Under the
impulse of this belief a number of
jubilant Democrats proceeded to make night
hideous; but later returns quoted the dem
onstrations and sent them to their homes
The defeat of the Democratic ticket, headed
by Gabriel Schmuck, is triumph for salu-
tary influences in politics, the real value of
which cannot we'll be overestimated.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-10
A Useful Cut.
Atlanta Constitution

Atlanta CONSTITUTION
Lord Colebridge has pronounced one OF
the newspaper cuts of his features the best
portrait he has seen. 1t need hardly be said
here that the cut in question has served as
the portrait of Sir John Franklin, Frank
James and Aunt Jane Swizzehim.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-10

PRESIDENT ARTHUR confesses-to an ambi-
ton in earlier life to have been appointed
Judge Advocate general. He made par
ticular study of, and is an expert IN, military
In
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-10

ARTHUR PADLEFoRD, of Philadelphia, in
herited an estate worth half million. He
sized himself ~ and came to the popular con-
clusion that he was a dude, and not capable of
managing 80 vast a sum. He put 1t in trust.
The other day he asked the court for $4,000 to
build yacht. This was refused. The youth
claimed that his doctor had ordered air, and
he thought he could get adequate supply
only on the deck of his own yacht. The cost of
Keeping yacht is So, 900 per annum.