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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-09-24
NHuNaRY FOR sPoILs. 4

The editor Of Harper's Weekly claims to
have received Several letters like the fol
lowing:
81 am clerk in one of the departments at
Washington, ID. G. 1 endeayor to do the work
assigned me faithfully, and, having been re-
Gently promoted, think it must be done salts
factorily. desire to retain my place. whether
Blaine or Cleveland is elected. But am be-
tween two fires. If I do not give to Raum
and Clapp | am distrusted, am liable to be
removed Ia cause can always be found). If
do give, fear exists that shall be spotted,
and, in the event of Cleveland's election, shall
be decapitated. What shall l dog Is the
civil-seryice act mere farce9 Is there no
safety for government clerk9 Ishould be
greatly obliged if you would answer this
letter."
Without questioning the truth of Mr.. Cur
tiss statement, and admitting the genuine
ness of the letter quoted, we are left to con-
clude that the writer is not only very "con-
scientious" in the matter Of contributing to
meet the necessary expenses Of the campaign,
but, if his utterances may be accepted as sin
cere, he is likewise deplorably ignorant of the
eA0O4 VI OAAO pAIuollOLs LIS uduScE lies uOIS III
a Republican defeat than in refusal to help
the party under which he is "a clerk in one
Of the departments" No less prominent a
Democrat than Thomas A. Hendricks has
emphatically declared that mot less than so,
600 federal officers must Immediately be dis
missed to make room for like number Of
Democrats. If this clerk, who hesitates to
aid the Republican party, witnesses its defeat
in November next he will not long be troub-
led concerning the retention of his place
he will, in all probability, be one of the So
600 to go, and to go quickly. Seriously
speaking, it is confession Of imbecility to
admit that one expects an honest civil service
reform from the Democratic party. The
service would be reformed indeed, and in
manner never witnessed before Mr..
Hendricks, in predicting the looting
Of the departments, did more to
encourage the canaille.of his party to stir up
the latent energies of the Democratic ward
bummers and tricksters, than all other men
combined Palm, he cries; there is GO
ing to be grand rush, and if we but capture
the citadel not less than $4,000 places will be
made for the benefit of the faithful 1t is
Mohammedism and barbarism run mad The
Democratic campaign is based on official
plumber The onset was ordered, and the
ragged and dispirited columns set in motion
and inspirited blythe promisethatin thesack-
ing of the departments not less than $4,000
Democrats would at once be provided for.
Sneering at the encouraging effects of com
petitive examination, and giving new courage
to the ignorant and vicious he assures his fol-
lowers that the ''sehoolrnaster will have no
hand in making appointments then A
pretty picture, truly.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-09-24

ions he has expressed and that those who do not
like them had better vote for another man. He
says he believes the country will accept tariff
for revenue only within ten years.
MARTIN A. FoRAN the Democratic nominee
for Congress in the Cleveland CO., district,
claims to be the special champion of working
men, and this is the way he talks: 1--WE are
living now in an age of nitro-glycerine and dyna-
mite few pounds of nitro glycerine and
dynamite placed under the gas mains and water
mains would plunge the city into water famine
and total darkness in moment Such things
can be done; we only hope that such things
never will be DONE But vast armies standing
armies, and vast numbers of metropolitan pos
lice are not nearly as effective to prevent such
condition of things as is condition of society
in which every man has all that he desires.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-09-24

THE Sentinel says the Journal is trying to
incite mob violence by what we have said Of
Its libel on Mrs. Blaine, and informs the world
in italics that the Sentinel doesn't scare
worth cent. The fear Of the Sentinel is
born Of its moral cowardice. cts conscience
doth make towards Of US all. The Journal
has not said Of the Sentinel anything like
what papers Of its own political faith have
said in denunciation of its infamous brutality.
We have expressed ourselves within bounds,
and have voiced only the common Judgment
The extracts from other papers we have re-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-09-24

produced show what the country generally
thinks of it. The extracts have been printed
without special selection, and we have not
used 1.-THE of what has come to our exchange
table The Louisville Courier Journal, lead
ing Democratic paper, says "the real object Of
the libel was Mrs. Blaine, and it calls the
Sentinel "a blackguard." 1t will not help the
Sentinel to add to its characteristics that Of q
bully. swagger does not count with intelli-
gent people, except to add to their contempt
for the swaggerer
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-09-24
DEMOCRATIC HARMONY IN INDIANA


The harmony Of the Democratic party in
the State is something lovely to contemplate.
The shock of the national convention left
the countenance Of the Democracy in Indiana
serene and undisfgured as the visage of Paddy
Ryan after his fight with Sullivan. There is
blood on the moon, and no mistake. The
State convention instructed the delegates to
Chicago to use all honorable efforts to secure
the nomination of Joseph E. Mcdonald fol
President; but the districts sent Hendricks
delegation, and, to make assurance doubly
sure, Hendricks went as delegate at large to
by the howlers, and he always took care to
come in late in order to promote the racket.
Oh it was pretty, the game played at Chicago.
Hendricks confined to his room a. SO
he could not work for Mcdonald;
Voorhees, hiding himself in a remote
corner of the Grand Pacific Hotel,
far away from headquarters, inaccessible, and
whispering Hendricks" when he dared; Hord
declaring in every delegation that Hendricks
was the real choice Of Indiana; Menzies play
ing the coy part insinuating that Hendricks
was not a candidate, but being discreetly silent
when asked if he would accept the non1ina-
tion Gray posing as a candidate for Governor,
and yelling himself hoarse every time Hem
bricks entered the convention, and all the
while big hearted, honest-souled Joe McDon-
aid, relying on such pretended friends was
But the Hendricks boom Enclosed his eyes.
He had the humiliation of seeing himself
struck down in the house of his friends, both
as candidate for President and Vice-presi-
dent, to make holiday for the spites Of
/ Hendricks and Gray. He saw Voorhees, OBJ
tain his revenge for his senatorial defeat of
i 1873. He can now see the duplicity Of
Menzies playing for his government appoint
ment at some time in the far distant future
Out Of all this, one thing is sure to come
the days of Voorhees, as a political boss ar,
over, and he feels it himself. The youn,
Democracy of the State are devoted friend
of Mcdonald, and they will hold Voorhee
responsible for the treachery at Chicago w
believe the next Legislature will be Repub
lican, but whether it is or not we now max
the prediction that Daniel W. Voorhees, vii
never again be returned to the United State
Senate, and we say this knowing Of what W
speak The knife which he has applied t
other Democrats is even now being sharpene'
at the Democratic grindstone for his owl
execution, to restore in some degree that Thar
mony' which is so sweet to the brethren.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-09-24

eral Land-ofice from 1856 to 1859, and now
that an investigation Of these old records is in
progress, a howl goes up from Democratic
throats over the gross abuse of public trust
that is being perpetrated by taking the peo-
pies servants from their legitimate duty for
the purpose Of compiling facts for campaign
purposes. It makes all the difference in the
world whose OK is gored, and in this case it
promises to be the Democratic off OK
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-09-24

EDITOR MCLEAN, Of Cincinnati, has been
interviewed, in New York, upon the situation
in Ohio, and says:
'The fight viii be close one We shall
endeavor to keep the majority in October
within the limit Of that obtained by Hayes in
1876. That would bring it down to 5000
You know that since 1856 Ohio has never been
carried by the Democrats in a presidential
year. OF course. if we form our ideas from
precedent, a hard fight must be made to take
Ohio out Of the Republican column in presi-
Dental campaign. That is all care to say
That is quite enough for all practical pur-
poses, Mr. Mclean. If you have nothing of a
less frigid character to communicate to your
Democratic brethren they win prefer silence,
even though silence is not half SO golden as
they would like to have it in campaign times
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-09-24

A CORRESPONDENT Of the New York Post
has discovered that Cleveland is the 'embodi-
ment Of everything that is best in the reform
movement" This is the meanest thing that
has been said about the Performers" yet.
Curtis, Schurz ct al, believe they are the
embodiment Of all that is best, and have no
idea Of putting themselves on level with
their candidate. Their greatest hope is that
he may, in time, learn to live up to them.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-09-24

De Voc, the New Jersey weather prophet,
predicts long, warm autumn and postpone
meut of the equinoctial storm until Novem-
Der. There is no doubt that there will be a
November storm, which viii snow under sew
sral misguided citizens, among them one from
Buffalo. But perhaps prophet De Voc is get
ting his weather and his politics a little mixed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-09-24

did not veto it. This year the Middletown
Asylum asked for Sc, 600 for the systematic
and protective fencing Of the exercise grounds.
The money was voted the Governor vetoed
the appropriation. The Buffalo Asylum Gallo
pathic) asked $500 for fencing in part of
the asylum, and the Governor did not veto it.
The Hahnemannian shows that the Middle
town asylum has larger number of patients
than any other asylum but one in the State,
and that its record of treatment and recovery
is, to say the least, as good as any. It does
not believe these steady and continued dis
ordinations against it by Grover Cleveland
are without motive and design. It thinks
that there is design in the Governors action,
and it concludes; "Again we say, home
opathic voters, take notice. To petition
for our equal rights, while we are voting for
men whom we know will ignore those rights,
is to attain to the sublimest height of folly"
We are indebted to DR. Moses T. Runnels for
copy of the magazine from which we have
collated the facts here given. They show
the nairowness and dogmatism of the mind of
a man who is aspiring to become the chief
magistrate of a nation of fifty-fve millions of
people of diverse beliefs and interests.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-09-24
A New Feature in the Chinese Restriction
Law


SAN FRANCISCO Sept. % Justice Field, at
the hearing Of the Chinese habeas corpus cases,
to-day ruled that wife could not enter on her
husbands certificate. She must have one Of
her own, issued by the Chinese government
A new and extraordinary feature, relating to
Chinese of the exempt class, under the
amended Chinese restriction act, has been de-
veloped Collector of the Port Lears held, and
his Interpretation was confirmed to day by
Deputy Collector Jerome, that Chinese merchants
resident in the United States who purpose
visiting any foreign country must first
go to China and procure certificate from the
Chinese government or they will not be
permitted to re-enter the United States. Under
the old act the Chinese consul issued these cer-
tifcates of Identification by authority Of the
Chinese government. Under the amended act
as interpreted BY the collector of the port Of
Ssh Francisco, 1 Chinese merchant who wanted
to 20 to British Columbia to see about the bust
meas Of his branch house would first have to go
10 China and procure a certificate from the
Chinese government before he would be permit
ted to come back home to San Francisco; and as
the certificate would be taken up on landing he
would have to repeat his trip to China every
time he had occasion to visit any point on tho
coast outside OF United States territory
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-09-24

A HANDSOME Ohio girl, eighteen years Of age,
who dressed herself in mems clothing and ran
away from home because it was not pleasant
place. has been caughtin Cincinnati and returned
toner parents. There was mo man in the case;T
but such is life in civilized community, that
that CIR, will probably find the neighborhoOd
Jordan harder road to travel henceforth than
if she had run away with a coachmaIl or mar.
ried man.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-09-24

Do the Democratic managers imagine they
ore deceiving the American people by SANDER
ing Mr.. Blaine and his wife and publishing
the Mulligan lettersi It is desperate and
disreputable trick to push out of sight the
question Of protecting American industries,
the only hope for the success Of which is
based on the presumed ignorance of the people.
It will not succeed
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-09-24

The Columbus Evening Dispatch, the Dem
ocratic newspaper of the capital of Ohio, in
closes one Of the Sentinel circulars, in which
it announces that it will make merchandise Of
its libel on Mrs. Blaine The Dispatch evi-
IDENTIFY does not care to give the leprous sup
plement "a friendly notice.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-09-24
WILL Mr.. Hendricks deny that in his speec

WILL MI. hendricks deny Inat IN MS speech
at Seymour, in February, 1868, he said:
Gentlemen, what is the effect upon you at
home when you see the purpose Of this war
changed from contest for the Union and the
Constitution to contest to free the negroesg
What is the effect upon your manly pride?
What is the effect upon the army in the fieldR
think / can comprehend something Of the
honor, something Of the pride, the soldier
feels as he stands upon the field and the mis-
siles of death are flying around him. =
But when the proclamation Of Jan. /, 1868, is
issued, and he is told that he shall make it his
business to fight to free the negroes where has
the pride of the soldier comet Can he fghtsuch
a battle as that's"
Will Mr.. Hendricks deny that, when discuss
ing the bill to arm $4,000 colored people, he
said: every man who votedfor that bill, and
the President when he shall have signed
it. will have offered direct insult to every
white man and woman in the United States
Ian insult which every proud man will re-
sent"
Will Mr.. Hendricks deny that he advised
the Northwestern States to form confed-
eracy, saying that, if the war was continued,
81 advise the Northwest to look out for
itself?'
This is the kind Of a '1oyal1 man Mr.. Hen
bricks was.
This is the kind Of ian earnest support
Mr.. Hendricks gave to the war for the sup
preston of the rebellion.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-09-24

WITHOUT discussing its application to other
portions Of the country, the tariff is the SUI
preme question in Indiana. Every man,
woman and child in the State is personally in
terested in maintaining decent measure Of
protection to our growing manufactures.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-09-24

THERE is a vague impression abroad that
the State fair will be held somewhere some
time this fall. The State board are evidently
trying to keep the time and place secret,
and they are succeeding very we'll There
have been numerous inquiries sent to people
of this city in regard to the date of holding
it, and whether or not it will be worth the
time Of exhibitors and visitors to attend. The
journal confesses its entire ignorance on the
subject. No advertisements have appeared in
any of the city papers, and, so far as the pub
lie has been advised by the State board
through the newspapers, the usual means of
reaching it, the fair is not announced A
three-line notice appeared by authority of the
State board some three weeks since soliciting
bids for music; beyond that the board has kept
the matter profoundly quiet No doubt there
would be a limited attendance, if the people
only knew the attractions to be exhibited and
the time and place Of its being held, and if
any special arrangements were made for their
coming
As the people Of the State have some in
terest in the fair having been taxed for its
support more than once, and as it is not the
peculiar and private property of the State
board or its officers, the Journal ventures
to call attention to the fact that the fair will
probably be held sometime before Christmas
and at some place in the State. There is a
suspicion that Secretary Heron has the thing
concealed about his person somewhere.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-09-24

THE Democratic national committee has
issued an address to the country. 1t speaks
incidentally of protection, and Democratic
orators are wondering what protection means.
Cleveland and Hendricks never said anything
about If.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-09-24

STATE SENATOR GRADY, of New York, says
$3.50, 900 was paid to one of Clevelands law
partners for his services-the partners serv-
ices of course-in the matter of the Scent
fare bill just what the partner did is moi
apparent but Mr. Cleveland vetoed the bill,
which answered every purpose.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-09-24

THE examination of the books of the Gen
eral Land-office develops features similar to
the child's game of ''hot and cold" The
nearer the experts come to Commissioner
Hendricks record the louder the Democrats
ho1Ior
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-09-24

A TUESDAY vacation makes a very bad and
needless break in the school week. Give the
pupils Thursday and Friday so they can at
tend the fair with their parents.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-09-24

A PROMINENT physician in Bedford county,
Pa, sought the Democratic nomination for sher-
if, but missed it because his habit of using pro
fame language at all times and occasions had
created prejudice against him. Evidently pro
family is not one of the sacred sins even in
the Democratic code Of morals.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-09-24

ONE of Cleveland's partners, Senator Gardy
says, received single fee of $3.50, 900. And
yet they insist that Cleveland is poor
man. If so, his partner couldn't have played
fair with him.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-09-24

WHEN Mr.. Hendricks calls for an examine
ton Of the books Of the government in order
that alleged frauds may be detected, he doesn't
mean the old books Of the General Land Office
Mr.. Hendricks was Commissioner Of the Gen
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-09-24

try begging votes. Governor Cleveland sensi-
lively wishes to avoid even the suspicion Of
such undignifed conduct Louisville Courier
Journal.
Seymour for instance, in 1868, and Greeley
in 1872.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-09-24

IT cost $50, 100000 to pick last years cotton
crop. What the country needs is a variety of
cotton that will pick itself or grow in bales.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-09-24

Ed. Stokes, who, like Beecher, knows how
it is himself, could probably be prevailed
upon to indorse Cleveland.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-09-24
CINCINNATI R Hawley 3 Co., 154 Vine St

CLEvELAND's friends say he is poor man.
Poor sort of man, too, isn't he2
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-09-24
ro tha Editor ~ the 1ndianannlia Mammal.

To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal:
State in to-morrow's journal whether the Gin
cinnati Enquirer speaks more in favor of the
Democrats or the Republicans, and oblige
INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. %. A READER.
Ask the Enquirer.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-09-24

BEEcHER stands by Cleveland. A fellow
failing makes one wondrous kind.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-09-24
THE DAILY JOURNAL.
THE INDIANAPoLIs JOURNAL

Can be found at the following places;
LoNDoN-American Exchange in Europe, 449
strand
PARIS American Exchanged Paris, So Boulevard
des Capucines
NEW YoRK-st Nicholas and Windsor Hotels
CHIoAGo-Palmer House.
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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-09-24

A GEORGIA woman recently bore triplets-all
boys. The event evidently unsettled her mind,
and in fit of insanity she named one Of them
after Grover Cleveland The great reform
Governor, who hasn't the heart to let up from
his duties to the people long enough to say that
he is free-trader, thereupon wrote the lady a
letter, in which the following occurs:
II am quite proud of this mark Of your
esteem; and the faith in and attachment to the
Democratic cause which you thus evince add to
my confidence in our success. am constrained
purchase something for the boy, by means Of
which he will, in after years, remember the man
whose name he bears.
The same special dispatch which bore this i'm
portant intelligence conveys the sad news that
the letter was received 'just as the babe died
No selfrespecting babe could survive such q
calamity
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-09-24

was on the ground that the theater which had
been engaged was unsafe. Then another hall
was secured and the license issued but after
part of the audience had taken their seats, it
was discovered that this building was also I'M
safe on account of having too few places Of exit.
After some talk and parleyine with the police
men, the orators friends made another door with
an ak and saw, and the lecture was delivered
This is all there was of the affair and the gifted
Colonel is very much surprised at the exagger-
ated accounts which have crept into print
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-09-24

YoRK-st. Nieholas and windsor tiotela.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-11-27

THE reward of the fool is often a
terrible one, and the man who is in
the habit of carrying pistol is the
biggest fool and is the most fearfully
rewarded. In Baltimore the other
evening a young fool named Leopold
proposed to and was accepted by
Miss Winterbauer, the most beautiful
young woman in the city. He knew
Of no way to vent his triumphant joy
but by hauling out his pistol and
whirling it about. 1t exploded and
fatally wounded the girl who had just
promised to be his wife.-Topics.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-11-27
"BLAcK EYES," says physiological

"BLAcK EYES" says physiological
journal, "show lively, passionate
temperament That may be true, as
an abstract proposition of the ology,
butin the concrete form ofwild west
ern civilization, in these post-election
times, a lively, passionate tempera-
ment is very likely to show black
eyes.-Topics.