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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-13

that righte Tho Republican party. Millions Of
colored people have been enancipated and set
free By what party was this done2 BY the
Republican party.
CHAIRMAN WARREN, of the New York Repub-
lican State committee, is informed that Cleve-
land men are travelling about the western part
of that State in the guise of Prohibitionists urg
ing Republicans to vote for st. John They are
doubtless paid from the contributions Of the
liquor interest.
KALAMAZOO Telegraph; The cavalry general
who is brought forward every campaign as q
prominent instance of leading Ger1nan who is
a Democrat is again active in that cause. Gen
eral Sigels great specially is in handling a re-
treat, in which he serves the Democratic armies
very acceptably every four years
The Leavenworth Times has trustworthy ad-
vices from all sections of Kansas that many Of
those Republicans who have been "hating be-
tween two opinions" as between the mixed and
the Republican tickets, are beginning to see
that their line of duty continues to run in the
direction of the grand old party"
MILWAUKEE Sentinel: The game of bluff in
regard to Ohio is ended-the Democrats have
quit claiming the State But they are spending
money freely, and are making the best fight
they have ever made in that State. The Ohio
election is full of portent, so far the Demo
cratic party is concerned If they fail to carry
the State tomorrow, then there is no hope of
Cleveland's election, and he will be withdrawn if
good man can be found to take his place.
HARTFORD Courant: The frequent statements
that Mr.. Tilden has broken down. not only phys
ically but mentally, are confirmed by the publ
cation of letter over his signature which could
never have emanated from his mind or pen,
dozen years ago. 1t is charitable to Mr.. Tilden
to assume that, being too weak and too indiffer
ent to public affairs to endeavor to reply person
ally to the ''taffy" resolutions of the Democratic
national convention, he has allowed some tyro
to put forth reply over his name
A REPUBLICAN brewer thus writes to the New
York Tribune 'The chances for the success OF
the Republican party are at least as good as
those of the Democratic party. Let our asso-
citation espouse the cause of Cleveland as pro-
posed and what kind of treatment may we ex-
pect in the event of Republican SUGGEST Again.
can the brewers afford to have the people Of this
country understand that the organization is a
tender TO the Democratic partyl AS one in in
terest, protest against the brewers being placed
III such dangerous position"
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THE New York Evening Post printed a let
ter purporting to be one written to Frank A.
Flower, of Madison, by Senator Edmunds, as
follows:
BURLINGTON, VT, Sept 10, 1884.
'Dear Sir Private: II have yours of the
18th. As | am not in the letter-writing bust
ness, | mark this as | have some similar ones,
private 1 am sure that l never wrote or
said that the gentleman you refer to acts as
the attorney Of Jay Gould, for l am not con-
scious of ever having thought so. l presume
it is true, although l can find no copy OF the
letter, that in 1880 l did write to some con
stituent adversely to the nomination OF the
gentleman named, and believe it to be true
that he was on the side of the railroads in the
struggle of 1878, and it is my belief that
said So
Gas have publicly stated expect to vote
the Republican ticket Yours,
GEORGE +. EDMUNDs
Crank A. Flower, ESQ., Madison, Wis"
MIR. Flower writes the Chicago News:
"MADIsoN, Wis, Oct 6.
ITO the Chicago News:
"The letter published by you to-day as
pretended copy of one written by the Hon.
George +. Edmunds, of Vermont, to myself is
not copy of any letter ever received by me
from that gentleman.
CRANK A. FLOWER
This is the second fraud and forgery brought
home to the New York Post, the first one be-
ing the Green B. Raum letter. But the Post
prints another letter claiming it to be from
Mr.. Edmunds as follows:
BURLINGTON, Sept. 20.
m. H. Cook, Casteton:
eCVourc Of +ba 10Th raoai1-ad Tn rap1v would
say 1 am out of politics this year. l hope the
G. O. P will pull through. Yours, ETC.
&c. F. EDMUNDS."
No man with brains enough to keep out of
an idiot asylum would suppose Mr. Edmunds
could or did write such letter. Imagine the
Vermont Senator writing the slang of the
last sentence! The New York Evening Post
is the organ of the Independent" Perfection
| lists
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A CALIFORNIA correspondent of the New
York Post complains that the partisan papers
of that far Western State keep their readers
in ignorance of the extent of the movement
known as independent. Says the writer
plaintively: eff 1 did not have the New York
papers should hardly know that there was
such thing as an independent" Lots of
people this side of California are in the same
appalling state of darkness. If it was not for
an occasional sight of one of those truly be-
nevolent New York papers the whole indie
pendent party might die and be buried before
the country could find it out.
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POLITICAL NOTE AND GOSSIP.

Mr. CLEVELAND, it is said, keeps his collars
in cheese box
A POLL of New York State by counties gives
Butler vote of $4,000.
THE Buffalo Times reports that Roscoe Conk-
ling will make speech this week against the
election of Mr.. Blaine.
WHEN two Democratic candidates for Con
gross in Massachusetts decline in one day, the
Democratic situation does not appear SO CHEEKY
as 1t might be.
In letter to prominent lawyer in Boston, a
Democratic official in Florida writes: 1T is pos
sble that Blaine will carry Florida, y So and
am afraid that Blaine will be elected
ga SEA of upturned faces" is conveaionally
correct, but "acres of people" is inexcusable
hyperbole. twenty-five thousand men packed
as in political meetings fill just about one acre.
LOWELL Citizen: A young woman has been
found in New York who can sing baritone, tenor,
soprano and contralto. To add to the horrors of
of the presidential campaign, it is announced
that she will soon appear IN public.
THE Cincinnati correspondent of the Boston
Herald telegraphs that there is something re-
freshing in finding fact even if it is antagonis-
tic and adds There is no doubt that the Ger
mans are returning to the Republican party"
SOME of his party friends wanted to run Gen
eral Nathaniel P Banks for Congress this fall,
but he said to them: Il have had all of Con.
gress want. have once been leader there
and if should go back what would it amount to
for mel'
ONE-fourth of the voters who will cast ballots
in November have come of age since General
John F. Farnsworth, of Illinois, left the Repub-
lican party, but that does not deter the Demo
cratic papers from parading him as a Cleveland
Republican.
THE removal of the tax on matches has not, as
predicted, started many new factories. but has
brought into the American market the manufact-
ures of England, Sweden, France, and Italy
These are sold so cheap that further competition
seems impossible.
New YORK Tribune: 1t is curious, to say
the least of it, how journals and men who con
temptuously refused to believe Mr.. Beechers
sworn statements a few years ago, now rejoice
to put implicit confidence in his recollection of
the talk at q dinner table in 1877
WASHINGTON Critic Secretary Kitchener, of
the Republican State central committee of In
diana, writes that that State is more safely Re-
publican now than at this stage of the canvass
in 1880. He says the organization was never so
perfect nor the enthusiasm so Yearly boundless.
THIS is Fred Douglasss message to colored
men: go home, colored men, and learn this
political catechism: You are under the American
flag to-day Who put you there4 The Repub
lican party. You are in the United States Con
stitution to-day Who put you thereG The Re
publican party. You are American citizens to-
day Who made you suchl The Republican
party You are eligible to any Office of honor or
profit in the gift of the Nation. Who made you
SO? The Republican party. You have the cou-
stitutional right to vote today. Who gave you
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DEMOCRATIC INSULT OF IR1sHMBN.

One of the means employed by Democratic
spouters to still the universal revolt of intelli
gent Irish citizens against their party is to go
back to Know nothing times and trump up
expressions that an orator of that day may
have used against the Celtic nationality. But
for real demagogism recommend US to Dem
ocratic politician when he gets out in the back
woods where he thinks his remarks will not
see the light of print.
Thomas R. Cobb, the Democratic candidate
for Congress in the Second district, the other
day spoke at a school-house in remote part
of his district, and the Mitchell Commercial
thus quotes his language ''In explaining
why Grover Cleveland hung two men while
sheriff, Hon. Thomas R. Cobb used the follow
ing language at the Lee schoolhouse on Fri
day last 1t became necessary to hang
two men, therefore, instead of get
ting a low-down Irishman to do the
work, he took hold and did the work
himself" Cobb was an original Know-noth-
ing, and unlike Gray he has the manliness not
to deny it. But the old feeling will crop out
when he Is where he thinks the world will not
hear of it. 1t must be pleasure to the Irish
citizens thus spoken of by Cobb as '1ow-down
Irishmen" to walk up and vote for that indi-
vidual. This remark of Cobb's is fair sam
pie of the treachery the Irish race has always
met at the hands Of the Democratic party. Is
it not about time that Independent citizens
whom Democrats call Glow down Irishmen"
should make the Democratic party fully I'M
derstand that they don't propose to calmly
bear abuse any longer from party which has
never done anything for them9
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THE farmers of New York know Mr.. Cleve-
land as thoroughly, perhaps, as anybody out
side of the Buffalo preachers. The State Farm
ers Alliance of that State has issued "a COM
munication to the farmers of the State of
New York." in which they say; '1t be-
comes our painful duty to denounce
Mr. Cleveland's candidacy as unworthy the
support of the farmers and of the great body
of independent voters who elected him two
years ago" With the farmer and dairymen
against him and Tammany alienated, his
chances of carrying his own State are not
good.
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If Ohio keeps down the Republican ma
jority next Tuesday to the Garfield figures we
shall have strong hopes of seeing her electoral
vote recorded with that of New York for Gro
yer Cleveland; for the Prohibition vote in
November will assuredly wipe out any 10000
Republican majority that may be given next
week.-New York World
The absurdity Of such logic is its best
answer If Ohio goes Republican tomorrow
it will increase the Republican majority by
half in November, and the World knows that
it will. Hedging is wise thing, but can not
be successfully done in the way the World
undertakes it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-13

THE Chicago News is publishing the twad-
die that General Logan is contemplating
withdrawing from the Republican ticket in a
certain contingency. The wish is father to
the thought. General John A. Logan is not
the sort of man to withdrawal retire in
the face of the enemy. Did anybody hear of
John Logan running from the field of battle9
enemy. That is what he is doing now. The
Democracy would be very glad if Logan would
withdraw. But Logan is not only fighter;
he is stioker. The Chicago News knows its
publications are the veriest and silliest 'rot. 3"
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WHAT good will come to temperance men
or the country at large by casting votes for
st. John, and thus mourning the danger of
putting the country into the hands of its an
Gent enemy The New Y ork State Temper
ance Assembly was wise in recommending the
withdrawal of st. John. His candidacy is
worse than a farce-it is crime; for, while he
stands no earthly chance of receiving even a
single electoral vote, his constituency by
their blindness, may give the country Dem
ocratic administration. It is impracticable at
this time to secure anything like prohibitory
laws that will be effective on the Nation at
large. The liquor traffic must be regulated
by the police power of States. So, while the
temperance people are chasing chimera, a
real danger threatens the people, the magni-
tude of which can scarcely be estimated. If
those who believe in good government should
unite, the danger would be averted and the
country assured of continuation of the bless
ings afforded by Republican national con-
troll
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-13

AN incident illustrating the general feeling
upon the paramount issue of the day-protec-
ton to American labor-occurred at the meet
ing of the American Board of Foreign
Missions, in Columbus, last week, and has
thus far escaped notice in the public press.
DR.. Green, missionary to Constantinople, one
of the most cultured and able men in the field,
was speaking to the point of self-support by
mission churches. He spoke of the extreme
and, to the American people, the almost in
comprehensive poverty of the Turkish Chris
tians. "This condition" he said 'has been
aggravated by the Porte adopting the policy of
free trade. Every Turk wears red fez cap.
This has always been made at home, giving
employment to large number of people; but,
under the operation of free trade, the Aus
TRANS have come in with fez little better
than the Turks can make with their meager
mechanical appliances and sold little cheap
er, and the natives have been compelled to
give up that industry. SO with the manufact-
ure of the Bruson towel, the use of which is
general throughout the Sultans dominions.
The British have usurped the trade in this
article completely paralyzing the industry at
home. The classes employed in these two
manufactures, for example, have been added
to the number who must be supported by the
agricultural element, Or become dependent
upon charity"
AT this point the several thousand people in
the hall, comprising all classes of men-min-
listers, lawyers, merchants, manufacturers and
what not-broke out in applause. For
moment the good Doctor was nonplused, and
could not account for the demonstration
When the light broke in upon him he ex-
claimed; 'Bless mel didn't intend to make
any political reference in my remarks but the
facts are responsible for it. Free trade has
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-13

THE Journal expects favorable news from
Ohio tomorrow night The Democrats have
become so desperate that they have dragooned
Indiana to prove by the evidence of brewers
that Hendricks never favored restrictive tenn
perance or sumptuary laws This, despite
the fact that it was Thomas A. Hendricks who
favored and signed the Baxter bill, shows to
what desperate resort the party of "refor1n"
is driven
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are led to infer that the Democratic candidate
is outside of decent society in his own State.
Well, isn't heR Even his friends have not had
the audacity TO say that he is received into
the households Of the best citizens on terms
of social equality. He is Governor of the
State, but this fact does not cause respecta-
BILE parents to desire to introduce him to their
dauphters
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-13

THE fourth and last of the joint debates be-
tween Messrs. Cal1ins and Gray will be had
this afternoon, at Lafayette. The Democrats
have prepared to plaster the town with the
Widow Duncan lie and the school-fund mort
gage lie, as they did at Terre Haute. Such
tactics will only result in helping Major
Callins in his canvass. The desperation and
dishonor of the Democratic party will defeat
themselves.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-13

Col. ISAAC P. GRAY denies that he was a
member of the Know nothing" order. Col.
Eray seeks to shelter himself behind petty
technicaity. The order was not known as
the know nothing" order but Col. Gray will
not deny that he was a member of the Amer
lean order. win Col Gray say that he never
"hunted Sam in the lodge room of the
American order, the order commonly called
the Knownothings?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-13

Dr.. F. J. DEvLIN, of New York, is the
man Mr.. Hendricks is looking for. In return
for small consideration he makes appoint
ments to places in the Bellevue Hospital
The authorities of that Institution do not rec
ognize the appointments thus made, but Mr.
Hendricks might utilize him to help get rid
promised Jobs.
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In this branch Of our bust
ness, as in all others, our prices
are way below that of all COM
petition. The Socks we sell at
5 cents a pair are sold else
where at 10 cents, our 1O-cent
Socks for Is cents, and other
goods in proportion. In the
finer grades we carry a large
assortment of Wooden, Cash
mere, Lisle Thread, Balbrig-
gan and Silk Hose.
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To the Editor of tho indianapolis Journal.

Was there an amendment to the Mexican
pension bill to pension only those soldiers
over sixty-two years of age. If so, give full
detail of the bill with amendments2
NORTH SALEM Ind. w. P. STEVENS.
The Senate amendment on this point limited
pensions to Mexican soldiers to those who had
attained the age of sixty-two years, or who
were now disabled or dependent.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-13

WILLIAM H. RH1NE1ANDER, the son of
aristocratic, snobbish parents, is still kept in
jail as an insane man because he dared love
and marry the woman of his choice. 1t is out
rageous that public indignation does not com
pei his immediate release.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-13

THE Prohibitionists talk much about voting
for principle, and that vote for princi-
pie was never thrown away. But prohibition
is not principle; it is only method If, by
voting the Prohibition ticket you fail to have
the influence of your ballot count to promote
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-13

temperance, then your vote is worse than lost,
for you vote against the principle you seek.
A vote therefore, cast for third ticket, if it
defeats temperance Republican and elects a
no-sumptuary-law Democrat, is worse than
thrown away.
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To the EDITOR of the Indianapolis Journal:

To the EDITOR of the indianapolis journal:
Please state to your patrons of this district
how John L. Lamb did vote on the Mexican
pension bill. NJ z. DENNIS
CRAwFORDSvII4LE.
Mr. Lamb voted for the bill as it passed the
House He voted twice in favor of its consider
alton after its return from the Senate. The
third time he did not vote
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-13

THE Journal reproduces this morning the
correspondence between Mr. Haskell, repre-
sentng the Grand Army of the Republic, and
Mr. B. F. Jones, chairman of the Republican
national committee, concerning pensions for
ton of soldiers and sailors, to be held in this
.ity on the oath of October 1t is requesti
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-13

JACOB SHRIvER, his own brother-in law,
and dozen other witnesses, under oath, say
that Col Isaac P. Gray was member of the
American order, commonly called Know
nothings, and that they met him in the lodge
room, and some of them were initiated by him
One of the last to make oath to these facts is a
T, ,,,oaro4
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-13

THE brewers of the country-the brewers of
Indiana and Ohio-should hesitate a long
while before they turn over their business to
the Democratic party. The Democratic party
has not always been able to take care Of bust
ness interests that have committed themselves
to its political care. The brewers should think
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-13

WHEN Mr.. Hendricks signed the Baxter
local-option temperance bill, the most strin-
gent liquor law Indiana ever passed, except
that signed by Governor Wright, another
Democrat, he hardly thought he would one
day be Endorsed by the liquor leaguers of In
diana as the answering friend of the liquor
traffic
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-13
To the Editor of the indianapolis Journal.


Please state the date of the introduction of the
Brown constitutional convention BILL and the
date of final action thereon. Also the date of
the introduction of the prohibition amendments.
NoBLEsvILLE, Oct 7, 'S4. INQUIRER.
The Brown bill was introduced on Jan. II,
1881, and the first action was on Feb. II, 1881.
The prohibition amendments we're introduced
by Mr. Huston on March Is, 1851.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-13

NEW YORK independent Republicans, who
insist that this campaign is to be conducted
on moral issues, will be pleased to learn that
the saloon-keepers of Indiana indorse Mr..
Hendricks as their champion.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-13

CHARLES E. FERGUSON, who is talking on
the tariff, is an out and out free-trader-one
who believes in reduction of wages, and is
hand-in-glove with Mr. Lindley Vinton, who
thinks oat meal and hominy good enough for
pznrkinr1ner
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made it moro difficult not only for our mis-
sion churches to support themselves, but for
the people of Turkey to exc out livelihood"
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AN indianapolis contributor to the New
York Post is greatly shocked by the attitude
of the Republican press of this city towards
Cleveland, and says readers of these papers
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-13

that the county papers Of Indiana give this
correspondence and the accompanying call as
wide circulation as possible.
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REV. j. c. FLETCHER, writing from Naples

Rev. j. G. FLETCHER, writing from Naples,
Italy, under date of September %, says
1.-THE number of persons attacked is 1O,12l.
Our commerce is party zed, our small merchants
are failing by the hundred, and the larger bust
ness men will soon feel it Great commercial
distress is beginning to be felt throughout the
whole country, for all Italy has spent millions
in guarantees on the seacoast and on the land
frontier which has spoiled business and has not
kept out the cholera Still, we are looking for
ward hopefully, when the deaths have fallen
from 500 per diem to 1877 per diem-which last is
from yesterdays bulletin. We are thankful that
our part of the city has been spared.