The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1884-10-25


pointed. To-day the inquiry for news
was as eager as the two or three days
previous. Republicans were hoping to
increase the vote Of their party and
Democrats were hoping to reduce the
Republican majority. AS o matter of
Democratic consolation, the fact was
pointed out that last year on Wednesday
the day after the election the Republicans
claimed Ohio and said that Foraker was
elected Governor. Democrats generally
expressed the hope of getting more fav-
orable news for their party tonight.
They hope 10 keep the Republican ma
jority down In Ohio to $4,000 or 13.00O
The feeling is decidedly panicky in
political circles here to-day. The prob
able fact of the Republican majority from
an estimate of 10000 to 80, 600 to 10, 600
has dumbfounded everybody, All the
anxiety and alarm of The day before the
elec ton Is manifeBted,
10 perpetuate the memory Of tie worst
defeated candidate for political honors,
the late Secretary Charles J. Folger,
President Arthur Las ordered the park
between 2ud and 3rd streets east aud in
tersected by North Carolina avenue. now
known as Providence Hospital Square,
will hereafter be designated as "Folger
Park"
The delegates to the international
Meridian conference proceeded in body
from the State Department to the White
House to-day att II o'clock and were pre-
sented by the Secretary of the State to
the President in q short speech, des-
scribing the purpose of the conference,
and expressing his strong hope in the
favorable results of the action. The
president of the conference, Admiral
Rodgers, replied briefly, thanking the
President and stating that 'although not
absolutely unanimous in our opinions,
the conference has been governed by
the most friendly spirit and by the COM
mon desire to secure the greatest good
with the least possible Inconvenience to
the world at large" Admiral Rodgers
then presented each of the delegates and
the Secretary, Mr.. PeddIick to the Eresl-
dent. Mr., Morton, the American min
lister to France, and the Assistant Secre-
tary of the State, Mr.. Adee, were present
during the presentation. After remain
ing in the Blue Room while the Presi.
dent accompanied the guests into the
East Room. The delegates were photo.
graphed later in the day on the North
portico of the State Department Build
ing.
A strong pressure will be brought to
bear upon the approaching session OF
Congress to do something toward tie
amelioration of the present condition OF
our Indians, What terrible story
comes to us of the famishing Piegans
who are being deeimented by disease
brought on for want of proper food! And
the stories are true, because they come
from official sources dispatched by the
Government for the express purpose OF
investigating them. In this Indian bust.
ness We have held q most unhappy posi-
ton from the time that we have under.
taken an Indian policy, The solution o.
the aboriginal problem has been tried by
| every President from Washington to Ar
thur, and Mr.. Jefferson whose Quaker
policy was FIRST inaugurated made more
dismal failure of it than Grant did hall
century later. owe should govern
them by love and kindness" said Mr..
Jefferson, and The sincerely en- deavored
to do, but the contractor was abroad in
the land MS be has eyer been since, and
the Indian Bible of Eliot has been trans
formed into euchre-deck, and the
principal English that the Indian first
acquaints himself with is that used for
the choicest of profanity. Though the
maintenance of an army of school teach
ers may be cheaper than that of soldiers,
and school books less expensive than
cannon, tDore is still enGment among
a large portion of the American people
that civilization has got to be crammed
down the throat of the red man, as tur-
keys are stuffed for Christmas.
From official data furnished by the di.
rector of the mint, We find that the whole
circulation Of money in the country on
October lst was 81 SOC, 423, O54, or thirty
three dollars per capita, were it not for
the fact that more than one.quarter of
this vast sum is lying idle in the Treas.
ury vault! OF the SSl4 600, 600 in gold
and silver coin in existence here, $780,
200, 600 or nearly one-half lies rusting in
rotten canvass bags, not only earning
nothing but deprivng the business iu-
teresis of the country of the means to
contribute to the prosperity of the peo-
| pie, Aud the useless taxation of the
people continues on. Instead then, of
having thirty-three dollars per capita Of
circulation, we only have little more
than tweDty-four per capita, which is less
than that OF France, Germany, England,
or even Italy with all her paupers.
What kind of statesmanship is it that
thus boards mp in the Government eof-
fers the money that is absolutely robbed
from the people in The way Of taxation
when there is no earthly occasion for in