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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-25

THERE is a frightening in the prospects for
"the boys" Under the structures Of the Gin
cinnati Enquirer Senator Pendeton hastens to
announce that his odious civil-servicelaw only
applies to about Ia, 900 Offices out of more than
OO,000, and that, of course, Mr.. Cleve-
land will give the country "a Democratic
administration" Carter Harrison, who has
been to see Mr.. Cleveland, sends half-col-
umn letter to the Washington Capital, in
which he predicts that Cleveland will be a
low-tariff man, and that his policy as to the
public service will be that the Democrats are
as honest, and capable, and more deserving
than the Republicans When Mr.. Hendricks
is reported to have told Mr., Cleveland that the
Democratic party believed in the Indiana idea
of civil-service reform rather than in the New
York idea, he told the solemn, unauthorized
truth, and truth that Mr.. Cleveland will oe
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-25

Mr.. HENDRICKS repeated five times the tariff
plank of the Democratic platform in his Brook
Ign speech. Mr.. Hendricks has reason to be
pleased with that ambiguous declaration, for
he owes his election to the success with which
the platform makers concealed their real pur-
pose, and misled thousands of Democratic
workingmen and manufacturers into suppos-
ing that the party will respect the interests of
home industry when its leaders undertake to
revise the tariff.
Like the thimble-rigger who entraps the
unwary youth, Mr.. Hendricks says; "Look for
YOURSELF it is very simple" but instead of his
needless iteration, the old gentleman would
have done better to explain how himself and
other party leaders interpret the declaration in
question "Taxation," he declares, quot
ing from the platform ''shall only
be for public purposes, and not
for private gain and speculation" Republic
ans consider it a ''public purpose to encour-
age home industry and maintain high wages
but the Democratic party regards this as
fostering monopolies" and promoting "pri-
vate gain" Care shall be taken not to hurt
bricks; but when deluded workingmen call on
the Democratic party to fulfill its promises
they will be told that this plausible pledge
applies only to 'labor' in its collective
form, and that the best way to benefit
labor is to reduce the tariff. In
like manner will the Democratic leaders
tell enterprising men who have invested
money in factories that they do not intend to
harm capital collectively, when they ex-
pose some industries to ruinous foreign com
petition. Mr.. Hendricks knows that his party
is avowedly mistrusted by Republicans when
it processes mot to hurt labor nor to harm
capital" and that many Democrats share in
that mistrust. Instead of taking refuge in
the "glittering generalities" of the platform
he should, as party leader, define clearly his
position on the tariff, and state whether he
considers that protection to home industry
should be guiding principle when the import
duties come up for readjustment. Mr. Hen
bricks does not lack the ability to make his
purpose clear if he and his party intend to
stand firmly by the interests of home indus
try, but as he and his party have no such in
tention, we believe that he lacks the candor
to declare openly what they do mean.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-25

THE Atlanta Constitution politely invites
Governor Cleveland to take couple of weeks
''off" before March, and spend the time in the
South, where he is guaranteed great time
This preferred hospitality is not only kind,
but thoughtful and judicious move, A good
many patriots in the South are debarred by
financial and other reasons from besieging Al
bany, but if the President-elect will only
make tour among them they may enjoy
equal opport unittes of reaching his ear with
their Northern ofice-seeking brethren
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-25
A STRANGE SUPERSTITION.
A COlored WOmans objection to Grave Dug
'CrOsswiSe of the World"

LEAvENwoRTH, Kan, Nov. A-That section
of the northern part of the city which is popu-
lated by colored people is in a ferment over
curious case of superstition. A little child
named Mary Carter died from injuries received
from being scalded, and her mother being very
poor, several ladies took hold of the case,
watched over the child, and raised money to de-
fray all expenses including those of the burial.
Enough money having been collected, coffin
was provided, with a plate marked Our
Baby" and the remains were placed
in 1t, ready for burial When the
time came for burial the sun
was shining brightly on mother earth, and every
thing seemed to point to quiet and respectable
burial. A grave had been dug in pleasant and
beautiful part of Mount Muncie cemetery and
a few friends gathered around it. As the coffin
was lowered into the ground the minister step
ped forward and after a few remarks was about
to perform the ceremony Of throwing the hand
full of earth on the coffin, when, with bound,
the mother. who had until this time stood silent
ly by, sprang forward. and with Don't you
throw no earth on my child! That grave is dug
crossways of the world" made the sexton stop
the burial She had the coffin raised, and
brought the body back to the city. Immediately
the entire population of the north part of town
was in a Juror, and hundred tongues were wag
ging, many saying curse would surely fall on
the inhabitants, apropos of the i'll omen.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-25
Lord Garmoxle,s Fiances.

W. A. Crofrutt in New York World.
Miss Fortescue is coming-and she came 50
near being Lady with a capital l.! 1t seems
likely, now that the ointment of $50, 900 which
the young fool, Lord Garmoyle, offers her for
wounded heart will be accepted by the court as
financial equivalent. 1 saw letter from the
young lady yesterday to friend here telling Of
her successful tour Of Scotland, and ending lin \
broad, bold handl from your ever faithful and
loving May Photographs show that she "a
beautiful woman-ine eyes, a lovely mouth,
piquant nose and great stock of brown hair
Notwithstanding the fact that the tickle
young lords father is Cairnes, the Lord Chancel-
lor, the Queen has treatedH the affair as true
mother should. She sent one of her ladies to
ascertain the truth and when she found il out do
clared it shame to the whole family of Cairnes,
and especially to the youth who had allowed his
mothers preposterous pride to cause him to dis
card his fancee AS Cairnes himself was once
the penniless son of an Irish butcher, the alb
surdity of the claim of blood" becomes ap-
parent. If he had been only the grandson Of
the butcher, it would make an immense diff
ference-any New York aristocrat will tell
you so.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-25
What One Vote Did.
JeffersonviIle News.


Hon. Dan Blotcher of Holman, Scott county,
says that the narrow margin by which Cleve-
land was elected illustrates favorably the i'm
portance of everybody voting and recalls a re-
markable instance of the fuence of the voter
1t was in 1846 when Ham Davis was the Demo-
cratic candidate for the Legislature in that
county. Just before the polls closed VIM. H
English asked Mr. Blotcher if he knew any
voters who had not voted. He said yes there
was Wash Owens, but the darned bugger
wouldn't come because he had no
boots" Mr.. English insisted that Blotcher
should get Owens, so he started for
him Owens refused to come to the
deal of persuasion, got Owens to start on the
promise that he would lend him his boots Ac-
cordingly, when the pair got within half mile
of Lexington, Blotcher pulled off his boots and
loaned them to Owens. In those days it was
universally the custom to treat voters. and
Owens received his dram and so cents and, leav-
ing Blotcher standing barefooted in the cornield
started for the polls. He voted, and then pro-
ceeded to invest his 80 cents in Jersey lightning
The consequence was that Owens got gloriously
drunk, and forgot all about Botcher's boots
This was modification of Daniel il tie lions
den. 1t was Daniel, barefoot, in the corn
field and he at length grew lonely, and started
after Owens with red vengeance in his eyes, OF
course it was using mild language to say that
Blotcher was mad. But wnen the ballots were
counted and Hiram Davis was found to be
elected by majority of one, then Uncle Daniels
wrath was changed to rejoicing But this was
not the only good result In the contest for
United States Senator, Edward c. Hannegan
was elected by one majority, and Hannegan's
vote annexed Texas, bringing on the Mexican
war We doubt if ever a bootless Democrat be-
fore or afterwards exercised such an important
influence over the destinies of his country 1t
should teach every man that his vote is i'm
portant
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-25
Woman Beaten to Death by a spiritualIstio
OuaCk.

CLEVELAND, o., Nov PA Herald special
from Gambler reports that Mrs. Welker, living
two miles from that town, lay i'll, and being a
suaded to submit to treatment by man named
Burrows, who, he said, was medium under the
influence of the spirit of an Indian chief. Bur
rows said the woman was afflicted by devils,
which he proceeded to drive out
by beating her about the head
and shoulders and otherwise maltreating
her, in consequence of which she died last
Wednesday, after coming to life once, as he
claims, after he had vanquished the devils, He
then insisted that the evil spirits entered his
wife and he beat her savagely, but without fatal
effect The house where Mrs. Welker died was
locked, and nobody permitted to enter it until
Saturday, when her cousin, DR.. Welker forced
his way in and found the corpse stretched on
bed in g state of nudity. Unless Burrows proves
to be insane, he will be tried for manslaughter
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-25

CLEVELAND has PIG electoral votes, and
it is recalled rs coincidence that 219 is ex-
actly the number that General Jackson had
in 1882"
Possibly it was this coincidence that sug-
gested to Mr.. Hendricks the idea that it was
Jacksonian civil-service reform that would be
introduced by the new administration. On
be in harmony with the Democratic head.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-25

Mr.. KIDD will contest Major Steeles seat
in the next Congress. Of course; the House
is Democratic, and Mr.. Steele's plurality is
only fifty-four No matter what the evidence
may be, Mr.. Kidd relies upon his party friends
to give him his seat or at least to pay him for
The expense" of spending the best part of the
next two years in Washington, where he will
have all the pleasure and none of the re-
EpOnsibility of member of Congress. The
presidency of the United States has just
seen decided by plurality of less than l, 100,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-25

WHILE Mr.. Cleveland says the Democratic
administration will imperil no business in
terest, Mr.. William r. Morrison does not
talk so encouragngly. When asked in St
Louis a few days ago if he intended to ''let
up on his free trade IDEAS" according
10 the Globe Democrat, he replied: "Not
by BANKED sight" Here are two
able statesmen at as great loggerhesds as Mr..
Cleveland and Mr.. Hendricks The Demo
cratic leaders will have to call council Of
war, and possibly submit their differences to
arbitration.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-25
Woman Crazed Over Politics.

PETTsBURa, NOV. 24-Mrs. Moran, keeper of
q boarding house at Mansfield, six miles from
the city, last night became suddenly insane over
politics. She took great interest in the presi-
Dental contest, and frequently engaged in Bit
election it was noticed that she acted strangely
at times, but it was not thought that her mind
was affected. Last night she arose from her
bed and left her house, and the most diligent
Search has failed to reveal her whereabouts. 1t
is believed, from remarks made at various
times, that she has committed suicide by
drowning in a well, and the wells in the neigh
borhood are being dragged in the hope of finding
her body.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-25
Fatal Railway Collision.

MOBILE. Nov. PA north-bound passenger
train on the Mobile q Montgomery road, which
left here at l o'clock this morning ran into a
south bound freight train at siding at Perdido,
the switch being open. The engines were tele-
scoped and some turpentine on the station plat
form caught fire. A rosin warehouse in the
vicinity was partially destroyed, also the two
engines and the baggage, mail and
smoking cars of the passenger train. James
Duffy, of the passenger train. was killed and his
body burned beyond recognition; Morgan Ash
engineer of the freight train, had an arm broken;
Walter Dawson, fireman of the freight engine,
had leg crushed and it was amputated. Three
other railroad men were injured slightly.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-25

THE New York Post is devoting so much
attention to Mr. Blaine and to Messrs
Jones and Elkins that it has no time to
give to Mr.. Hendrickss Jacksonian theory
of civil-service reform. The Post is right in
its evident belief that Mr.. Blaine is bigger
man than the candidates it has helped to elect,
and deserves more notice, but it should not
forget that it is itself great reformer and
that the independent party looks humbly
toward it for wisdom in great emergencies
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-25

No doubt few Democrats here and there
regard the election of Mr. Cleveland to the
presidency as the inaug uration of an era of
fat picking for hungry citizens who have
been wandering in the wilderness for twenty
four years-the turning out of one set of
cormorants to let in fresh lot. Mr.. Cleve-
land is the gentleman who will disappoint
these lofty patriots. He seems to have been
ordained for that sort Of business. New York
World.
This kind of an announcement will send
CONSERVATION among the mast-fed statesmen
of Indiana, who are prepared to walk barefoot
to Washington, if need be, for a Change"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-25

THE St Louis Giobe-D Democrat says: '"The
Democrats of Illinois seem determined to steal
a United States senatorship, but they will not
be allowed to realize on the theft The high
handed proceedings at Chicago are watched
and noted, and if senator is sent to Wash
ington under them he will not be allowed to
take his seat We believe John A Logan
will be his own successor in the Senate of the
United States"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-25
DR.. Rurchard AenIn.

NEW YORK, Nov 24-"Two Yoked Cows
was the title of DR.. B1rchard's morning dis
course in the Murray hill Presbyterian Church,
yesterday Half way through his discourse DR..
Burchard woke his congregation with a fresh
allusion to Romanism. when things appear
to be in the utmost peril" Dr. Burchard said in
stance will intervene to save" Then, as his
Pensioners looked at each other significantly,
he added: IA mistake may sometimes do a
great deal of seeming damage, but the hand Of
God is in il all y
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-25
Exodus from Beecher's Church.

chicago Tribune.
Since the election there has been a steady
exodus from Beecher's church The feeling
against him has become intense. His congrega-
ton is ebbing away, leaving only residuum Of
mugwumps and Democrats, who believe with
Beecher that adultery is only a venial offense and
no stain on a candidate; but Beecher can hold ne
higher position without condemning himself.
See the confessions of Elizabeth Tilton.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-25

compelled to acknowledge in practice before
he has been President very long however
strong his notions to the contrary may be
when he assumes the Office 1t will be found
that the party is stronger than any man, even
though he have neck as thick as Mr.. Voor-
hnas's thirh
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-25

THE sudden withdrawal from downtown
window of the exhibition of tides, lamp-mats
and other fancy work" made at the Institute
for Feeble minded, is supposed to have been due
to threatened uprising of the entire female
population outside of asylums Tho feeble
minded handiwork bore such close resemblance
to that made by the most intellectual of women
that a comparison of the respective makers was
inevitable and hateful.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-25

THE canvass of the presidential vote of this
State has commenced, but anumber of irregu-
larities must be corrected before it can be CON
cluded. A few wild-eyed, excited Bourbons
have started the story of "a hellish scheme to
steal the vote of the State away from Cleve-
land and Hendricks" That sort of practice
is left exclusively to Democrats
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-25

A NEW York exchange has an elaborate
article upon the fashions of the dead One
of the Inducements which lead tired worldlings
to look wishfully to an abode in heaven is the
supposition that fashions there never change.
If new and improved styles of wings and robes
are to come in every now and then, one at
traction of the place is gone.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-25
General Too,nbs,s Vote.

Macon (Ga.) Telegraph.
A private letter received in this city yesterday
conveyed the intelligence that General Toombs
cast last Tuesday his first ballot since the war
Shortly afterward, as indications pointed to Re-
publican success, he regretted the fact that he
had thrown away his ballot but later when the
news came that victory had perched upon the
Democratic standard, it is said the heart of the
old tribune leaped for joy, and he was hardly
able to contain himself. AT last accounts he was
still jublant, enjoying to its fullest the essence
of newborn triumph.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-25

and there is not a rumor on any side of a
contest or protest But a seat in Congress
nowadays cannot be considered permanent
unless the plurality or majority goes into the
hundreds and thousands. A small margin has
come to be of no value, by reason of the per
nicious and corrupt practice of Contrasting"
that has developed within the past few years.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-25
Cold Comfort for the "Boys."

Brooklyn Eagle tDem.)
The President of the United States is elected
to execute the laws Therefore, Grover Cleve.
land will see that the civil service law is exc
cuted He cannot do otherwise We beg the
"boys to remember this. If any one of them
has garden patch of his own we advise him to
cultivate it. There is more real comfort moro
true satisfaction in twelve months of such self.
exertion than in twenty years of tide waiting
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-25

In the latest encounter between the church
and the state-the state represented by a
Journals" church seems to have got
the best of it. Some able editor will have to
lick preacher, or else the profession will fall
into disrepute.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-25
Very Like Blasphemy.

Illinois State Journal.
"Pecksniff' Hendricks, in his speech at Brook
Ign. Thursday night, SAID: ut was God that
gave us the power to set this great lesson" The
attempt to represent the Almighty as taking
part in stufing ballot boxes is something very
like blasphemy.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-25

If General Mcclellan should be made Sec
rotary of War he would find his way to Wash
ington much more rapidly than he got ''on to
Richmond" Not many months would be
spent in throwing up earthworks between
New Jersey and the capital
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-25

THE ladies Of the Orphans Home who will be
at the When store to-day to receive donations
for Thanksgiving Day at that institution should
be met with bountiful gifts Thanksgiving and
its home feasts will be all the sweeter when you
have done your share toward providing dinner
for the homeless and dependent.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-25
Objects to Payne.


FIIIsUUT8 DIBpAlVH'
For tho sake of Cleveland's administration as
well as of the Nation at large it is earnestly to
be hoped that the President will not place him
self under the influence of the political combina-
ton of which Senator Payne is the fgurehead.
John r. Mclean the engineer, and the Standard
Oil Company the financial backing
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-25

SIMULTANEOUSLY with the announcement
that Joseph Cook, the expoundcr of the I'M
movable, has started upon his winter raid with
four new lectures comes tho story that one
Joseph Cook has been hanged by mob out in
Kansas The sad wisdom gained by recent
painful experience suggests the propriety of
postponing celebrations until the full returns
prove whether the Kansas man is or is. not our
.Joseph
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-25
OF No Use.


NUW
1t is rather amusing to notice the remarkable
change of opinion among certain Southern Office
holders since Cleveland's election Before cleo
ton they could see nothing in it but disaster;
now they are beginning to think that it is the
best thing for the South that could have hap
pened. 1t is of no use, dear friends. There are
too many real genuine, Simon pure original coa-
Tolerate aspirants.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-25

THE Rev. Mr. Loucks, Presbyterian min
lister of Logansport undoubtedly belongs to
the church militant and with editor Louthain
sprawling on the other side of the street, it is
no exaggeration to say that he is an exponent
Of the church triumphant
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-25

NEW YORK, Nov. 24-Argument was heard
in the case of Becky Jones'" the witness who
refused to answer questions in the Hamersly
will contest and was sent to Jail by the surrogate
Ferdinand Ward, the fnancer, has interested
himself in Becky, and employed counsel to OBJ
tain her release The court intimated that 1t
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-25

To the Editor of tho indianapolis journal:
1. Who was the author of what is commonly
known the salary grab blll 2. Did Hendricks
and Voorhees,, or either of them vote for the
bill and fob the money. ROBERT BELL.
SHERIDAN, Ill.
General Butler is credited with engineering
the salary grab" Mr. Voorhees, took his share
of the money. Mr.. Hendricks was not in Con-
gress at the passage of the last increase ofsal-
airy act but he took the increased pay voted by
a former act, when he was member.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-25

would deny the motion, but took the papers
surrogate, she's that she would remain in
jail till resurrection day" rather than disclose
family secrets obtained in her capacity as house
hold servant
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-25
emf Office

THE Atlanta Constitution expresses a will
ingness to see George William Curtis made
minister to England. When George William
hears of this concession he will be more con-
WINGED than ever that he is great re-
former
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-25

MINISTER LOWELL denies the report that
he intends to take up his permanent residence
in England after ne may relinquish his pres
ent Office