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Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1884-06-13

One of the sights in connection with the
panic was the way in which the sandwiches,
stacked on Delmonico's counters, disappeared
The walters were in a fainting condition by
the time the exchange closed.
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The report was unanimously adopted. The
remaining hours of the session were taken up
bv discussing the methods for a united action
in the pending national political canvass in
making the power of the wool-growing industry
felt.
Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1884-06-13

Texas is to have the space Of 10000 square
feet at the New Orleans exposition for her ex-
hibit.
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SHEEP HUSBANDRY.
Platform Adopted at the Wool-Gr0wers'
Convention at Chicago.

Their Industry Must be Protected-An Address
Demanding Protection for the Staple
Issued.
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was in that month that Joseph W Harper
wrote his eulogy Of Blaine, and now it appears
that on the 18th Of that self-same month
Puck; now so assiduous in its defense Of
Cleveland, had this to say Of him:
"Governor Cleveland is man incapable of a
broad, just view of affairs"
And again, on the same date, this same
humorous weekly said:
'sGovernor Cleveland is a man who will
not be the Governor Of the State again-aS State
that wants a Governor who knows the law, but
not a lawyer one who viii be the champion
not the creature of monopolists.0
That versatile publication is now ENGAGED
in the business of proving that Mr.. Cleveland
has ever been hostile to m~onopolies and the
champion of labor.
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WHAT DOES THE SOUTH VANITY

Why is it, it may well be asked, that the
South should insist, by argument, by threats
and by violence, on being and remaining solid
for the Democratic party and its candidates.
What good thing can that section hope for
from a Democratic victory, not already real
lied or as fully guaranteed by a continuance
of the party now in power2 Under Republican
rule the South has prospered as never before,
and is as free to-day IN all that pertains to
elections as is any part Of the Union. What,
then, compels a solid South any more than
a solid Northf The people of Maine, Massa-
chusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio,
Michigan and Kansas, while evidently strong
~ in favor of Republican principles, do not let
prejudice blind them to their needs, and all
quickly resent any apparent imposition that
may be attempted by the party of their choice.
Not 50 in the South; there the Democratic
party must be supported, all the States must
be carried, the South must be "solld.1 Can it
be possible that the South expects
something at the hands of that party that it
can never hope to receive from the Repub-
icanf If so, what can it be but that either
the cotton tax will be refunded, the freed
slaves paid for, the State debt assumed, or the
Southern soldiers placed on the pension rollY
No Democrat South, who has suffered in
either of these directions, viii confess that
the idea of monetary remuneration is not
most reasonable. 1t must be that some such
thing is regarded as at least remotely possible.
in the event of Democratic accession to power.
This view is sustained by the ambiguous
utterance of the Democratic platform on the
point of pensioning Hall soldiers disabled in
the wars of the Republic" Sustaining their
proportionate share Of the burden Of taxation,
which goes to pension Union soldiers, there
are literally hundreds of thousands Of people
in the South who sincerely believe that the
veterans of their own armies deserve the same
consideration. This sentiment Is so strong
that the Democratic party dares not cross it
and give utterance to a square declaration
that would not admit Of a construction favor
able to the wishes Of talp' soldiers disabled
in the late rebellion.
That such a hope is fatuous does not argue
it out Of existence nor rob it Of its power in
the politics Of the country. There can be no
question that, in event Of Democratic success
in November next, a fearful pressure win be
brought upon the party to keep its half
pledged promises. That such 4 thing as PEN
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POLITICAL NOTE AND GOSSIP.

A w-oRKINGMEN's State convention was held
in Utica. N. Y, on Monday, and the president,
George Blair, declared that Cleveland must be
defeated
Mr.. WALKER BLAINE emphatically denies
that there was a political conference at Bar
Harbor, Sunday. Those who called on his
father called out of courtesy and not on political
business.
New York Tribune: And now the Democratic
press, which has championed and lauded GEN
eral Butler for years, is telling what a spiteful,
vain, treacherous, impudent fellow he is, any
how. And the Democratic countenance comforts
into a yengeful grimace.
CINcINNATI Commercial Gazette: Editor
William Purcell declined to support Cleveland
because he believed him to be "a moral leper.n
Now he wished to retract the epithet. Possibly
he would prefer it to be understood that he
thinks Cleveland to be an immoral leper.
NATIONAL Republican: Cleveland has been vim
dicated. To be sure tho charges that were pre-
ferred against him have been proved to be true.
but then all his apoligistS hold him innocent Of
wrong doing. 1t is not clear where the vindica-
lions come in, but, then, we are assured that he
is indicated.
AN effort il being made to bring about a com.
bination between the Republicans, Greenbackers
and anti Cleveland Democrats in Missouri
against the Bourbons. If the combination can
be effected there is a good chance Of defeating
Cleveland in the State, and also the ex-rebel
candidate for Governor, who is quite unpopular.
New YoRK Tribune; 1t is amusing to see how
quickly the Democrats have discovered that
General Butler is a real bad man, now that he
is doing a little running himself. They are also
trying to hide away the aureole which they
were fixing up for him in case he had decided to
support Cleveland, but with rather poor success.
THE Washington Capital, a Democratic organ,
advises clevelandt to get married. BY doing SO
he will satisfy q large section of the party, and
will do much to put an end to some Of the scan
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sioning Southern soldiers may be regarded
as possibility is absurd enough. A million
majority would resent it to the uttermost.
But the Democratic party has half consented;
not that it expects to keep its promise, but
that it is hungry for place at any price, and
dares not offend the fssolid South If
there be any other good reason why the entire
South should be kept in-unbroken line for the
Democratic party, the Journal would be glad
to have it pointed out. The South owes its
present prosperity and its unparalleled future
prospects to the policy pursued by the Repub-
lican party. Stimulated by the aid afforded
by a protective tariff, the South is making
greater progress, pr~oportionately, than is the
North. It were, therefore, supremely foolish
to abandon this sure thing for a delusive hope
impossible of fulfllment, and thereby invite
the overthrow Of that policy which has en-
riched the South in spite of herself. That the
Democratic party would pension confederate
soldiers if it could, we do not doubt; that it
would dare to, we do not believe; but the
object Of this deception is being realized in
the supreme folly of maintaining a solid
South in defiance Of the logic of past events.
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daious stories told about hin The Capital does
not advise Cleveland to marry any particular
woman, and makes no allusion to the Widow
Halpin.
MR. John BOYLE OREnLy, Of the Boston
Pilot, thinks that General Buffers candidacy is
a very serious matter and "a calamity for the
Democratic party, AS to changes in the
strength of the other candidates since their nom
%ination, Mr.. OReilly is quoted as saying. And
no matter what may be said about the indecency
of raking over Governor G eyeland's private
life. the result of the raking is ponderable mat
ter, and will affect many conscientious ~voters.p
Boston Herald lind We have told the
people Of Observation-Disclosures and Dem
ocrats alike -all these years that General Butler
was a dishonest self-seeker, utterly without
principle or convictions. We knew him when he
was a Democrat before the war, when he was a
stalwart Republican after the war, when he was
q Greenbacker and when he called himself q
Democrat again. He has been one and the same
thing through his whole career-a demagogue of
the most INSCRIPTIONS character, caring for
nothing but money and power for himself.
The Catholic Herald, of Boston, gives Gen.
p. A Collins a piece Of its mind. The new
chairman Of the Massachusetts Democratic State
committee has been b~elittIing the Irish. move
ment i'll behalf of Blaine in New York. 1t
quotes him as saying. The Irish Democratic
vote will be all right. never fear, and denounces
his presumption. 1T is really too bad, it says,
"that any man should speak of them as if he
held a mortgage on their votes, : and such an as
sertion amounts simply to an insult to the free
dom and intelligence of the Irish Democratic
voters" Cleveland, it adds, lis despised and
hated by those Democrats who best know him.
and his chances of carrying New York are about
equal to his chances of carrying Massachusetts
or Maine
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stare lIckots
GovERNoR-WLLIAM H CALKINS, of La Porte
county.
LIEuTESANT-GovERNoR-EUGENEH H. BUNDY. Of
Henry county.
SECRETARY OF sTATE-RoBERT MITCHELL, Of
Gibson county.
AUDITOR OF sTArE-BRUCE CARR, of Orange
county.
TREASURER OF sTArE-RoGER R. SHELL, Of
Marion county.
ArroRNEY-eENrRAI-wmLIAM @. WILSON. Of
Tippecanoee county.
JUDGE OF THE SUPREME CoURT. FIFTH DISTRICT
EDWIN 2. HAMMOND, of Jasper county.
REPORTER SUPREME CoURT-WILLIAM NJ.
HOGGATT, of Warrick county.
SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION
BARNABAS G. HOBBS, of Parke county.
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS.
State at large-Milo S. Hascall, of Elkhart; John NJ.
Butler. of Marion.
First Observation-Disclosures G. Veatch. of Spencer.
Second-William B. Roberts, of Sullivan.
Third-John G. Berkshire of Jennings.
Fourth-Wiliam D. Ward. of Switzerland.
Hacker. of Bartholomew.
Sixth-Josiah e. Mellette, of Delaware.
S~eventh-Thad. S. Rollins, of Marion.
Eighth-Elias S. Holiday. of Clay.
NinthJames NJ. Reynolds, of Tppecanoe.
Tenth-Truman F. Palmer. of White.
Eleventh-James F. Elliott. of Howard.
~Twelfth-Joseph D. Terrell, of Lagrange.
Thirteenth-John Reynolds. Of st. Joseph.
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DELPHIo DEMoORAOY,

Platforms of principles, adroitly drawn and
formally adopted in convention, are, only too
often, intended as a mask rather than an
honest exposition Of the intent of the party.
In the utterances of no political organization
the world over, perhaps, has this studied in
tention to win through deceitful promises
and hypocritical professions been more
noticeable than in the written plat
forms Of the Democratic party.
And never, in the history Of that party, has it
put forth a more thoro sghly dishonest plat
form than the one now before the people. The
significance Of the paragraph on the tariff
question must be interpreted according to the
bias Of the reader, and no one looking to it for
guidance can, by any possibility, feel certain
that he understands its ambiguous utterance.
That this is true, may easily be demonstrated
by the interpretations put on its
meaning by Democrats themselves,
not one of whom, whatever may
be his views on this greatest of all questions
VI POlAVnStsA OSOAOthJ Jul A1uJt Il AO n1cAOct
find his own sentiments exactly reflected
therein. If proof of this assertion be needed
it may be found in the way Democratic papers
understand that plank. The Louisville
Courier-Journal, probably the greatest ex-
ponent of free-trade ideas in the country, re-
joices over it because it re-echoes the tariff
idea of the Democratic platforms Of 1876 and
1880, in the latter of which the
fatal phrase "a tariff for revenue only
was used. Mr.. Watterson exultantly turns to
the platform of 1884, and, quoting the words
"a tariff for public purposes exclusively"
1stoutly maintains that the two phrases are of
exactly the same meaning, and it must be
conceded that he has common sense on his
side. The New York World, an organ Of
some greater prominence in the Democratic
party, emitting this dangerous ut
~terance, quotes the remainder Of the
paragraph and shows. apparently
to it's own satisfaction, that there
is absolutely no suggestion of free trade. The
manifest purpose of this political rascality-
for it is nothing less-is so apparent that, as
in 1880, when the issue was squarely made on
the same question, the Democratic party will
again receive the condemnation Of the people,
who, as a mass, ave no more charity for po-
litical lying than for the same foible in indi-
yiduals.
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oLEyEI,AND,g LAST DEPENsB

The report of the independent" committee,
self-constituted investigators of the Cleveland
scandal, make report that he is not a drunk
ard, though it does not appear that he has
been charged with anything in that line, be-
yond an occasional spree with sthe boys and
hence was in no sense a drunkard as generally
understood. This part of the report is
padded" and paraded for all it is worth. As
to the principal and more serious charge, the
committee see fit to iuggle, as all of
Mr.. Cleyeland's friends have from
the outset. It is wholly irrelevant
whether the woman in the case was widow or
maid, whether sixteen or sixty years Of age,
and it is almost of as little Importance whether
she was of good or bad repute. Yet each and
all of these points are fingered over. The re-
port then says:
t'The circumstances out of which this story
was fabricated occurred eight years ago. The
woman IN question was at that time a widow
between thirty and forty years of age, with
two children, the younger of whom was ten
years old The facts of the case show that
she was not wronged, and that the allegations
respecting her abduction and ill-treatment are
wholly false. We deem these the only feat
ures of the charge in connection with this
matter which constitute a public question re-
curing any declaration on our part"
This is the entire defense made on this most
serious charge that can possibly be made
against the chastity of man. What are the
ssfoo+sp of +ha oaso 4ba4 eho,r 4h.k L. - no4
'8wrongedY" And what of the main charge that
an illegitimate issue followed their intimacyG
This is a very nasty thing to descend to; but
now that a committee has seen fit to go into
the matter, why not go to the bottom of it,
lay bare the truth and all the truth, and have
done with it,
The committee, following the example Of
party organs, have sought to palliate the Of
Tense by abusing the editors and ministers
who have dared speak Of this thing. The
public will not readily believe that a half
dozen ministers of the gospel have
conspired to defame anybody, nor
that they would give u~tterance
to a story ike that told of Mr.. Cleveland
without the very best of evidence. To get at
the kernel Of the question, let this committee
unequivocally say whether there is or is not
such a boy as is said TO exist in Buffalo, and
if Governor Cleveland is his father. Allow
ing the possibility that the editor Of the Buff
falo Telegraph and the ministers of that city
NOT Rev. Ball alone-are mistaken, their
criminal carelessness-for it would be nothing
less-Ought to be legally punished The
committees report does not attempt to dis
prove the main charge, nor successfully i'm
peach the witnesses, who have invited the
fullest investigation and challenged prosecu-
ton for libel. The independent" committee,
in triding with this question, lave done Mr..
Cleveland more harm than good.
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THEfailure Of Bohringer, the largest quinine
manufacturer in Europe, is not a conclusive
proof that free trade in that drug is Of a nature
to enrich foreign capitalists. If Powers &
Wightman had failed instead Of Bohringer,
every tariff organ in the land would have in
sisted that it was due to the abolition of the
duty.-Louisville Courier-Journal.
The logic Of protectionists is vindicated in
this very case. The removal of the tariff on
q%uinine allowed Powers 8 Wightman to have
their q~uinine manufactured abroad, and there
it is now made. The removal Of tn tariff
means one Of two things: Foreign workrnen
viii do our manufacturing, or American
workmen must compete IN "esapting a reduc-
ton Of wages to a level II those paid the
pauper labor Of Europe. Free-traders would
do well to fight shy Of the quinine illustration.
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We are confronted with the Democratic
party, very hungry, and, as you may well be-
lieve, very thirsty; a party without a single
definite principle; a party without any dis
tinct national policy which it dares present to
the country; a party which fell from power as
q conspiracy against human rights, and now
attempts to sneak back to power as a con-
spiracy for plumber and spoils.-GEo. WIN.
CURTIs, June 5, 1884.
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THE summary and bloody manner in which
Mormonism is dealt with in Tennessee, as in
Dictated in our news columns, may be very
e~tfectual, but will hardly be Endorsed by the
world at large. The unprovoked murder Of
Mormon elders provokes the inquiry whether
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Rev. 7. DEWITT TALMAeE preached last
Sunday upon STRAY Straws,' but for some
unexplained reason he neglected to poll the
congregation, and the country is left in ig-
norance as to whether the straws drift toward
Blaine or Butler-Cleveland being out Of the
race 50 far as pious people are concerned.
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70 the Editor Of the IndIanapoIIs Journal:

To the Editor of the indianapolis journal:
Is there any state in the Union that requires a
voter to have certain educational or property
qualifications to entitle him to vote, and, if so,
what one or onesl A READER.
WOODBURY., I'M.
Rhode Island has a property qualification re-
quiring a voter to possess property to the value
Of 1874, or a rental Of 81 a year before he cap
vote on questions affecting taxation. Massachu-
sets requires the payment of the poll tax and
the ability to read. Virginia and other Southern
States have laws compelling the prepaymen of
polltaxes. You can find the requirements made by
other States by consulting an encyclopedia.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-08-13

In making comments on the character and
record Of Mr.. Blaine it is the part of wisdom
to reflect how they viii sound when he be-
comes President A great many people said
foolish and wicked things about Garfield that
they we're heartily ashamed Of afterward. Mr..
Blaine is going to be elected, and it is well
enough not to forget it in the heat Of con-
f,ovo,Su
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-08-13

MR. LISTEN, Of Chicago. is well-named it ap.
pears. He listened the other night and caught
a burglar IN his room, whom he proceeded to
choke into submission, after which he handed
him over to an officer. This is better than the
revolving barbarities p~racticed by former gem
erations, who held captured burglars while the
girls played a duet on the piano.
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others, will keep up their war upon the Irish,
and viii also be kind enough to Republicans
to fasten upon the Democratic party the ap-
pellation that it is no more moi less than an
organized appetite, and that its highest idea
Of civil-sergice reform is to turn Republicans
out indiscriminately to make room for un-
numbered Democratic Goths and Vandals.
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THE election of Colonel Holt to an appellate
judgeship, in Kentucky, by Republicans, is
not much in itself, but if the party can only
maintain this Holt it may be enabled to do
better next time.
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sI killed Print Matthews. I told him not
to vote, and he voted and ] killed him. 1t was
not me that killed him-it was the party If I
had not been a Democrat I would not have
killed him. 1t was not me, but the Democratic
party; and now If the party is a mind to throw
me off, DIN such a ~party.-E. B. WHEELER Of
Hazlehurst. Miss. afterwards elected Marshal by the
Democratic party.
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Now that Maria Halpin has disappeared,
Democratic politicians Of New York are busily
engaged in denying that they have that inter
esting person concealed anywhere about their
respective premises. Like the elder Weller,
and unlike their indiscreet presidential candi-
date, they show a disposition to 'bevare Of
v;ddersU
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THE price Of wheat is very low. Free
traders would remedy the matter by having
our manufacturing done abroad, and turning
our mechanics into farmers, to compete with
those already in the field. A brilliant idea.
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1have carefully observed the attitude and
movements Ofthe Democratic party for twenty
years. acknowledgements has learned nothing
a~ndforgotten nothing. So far as lean perceive,
II Is not only swayed by the same principles,
but, to q large extent, guided by the same
men.-PREsIDENT CAPEN, of Tufts College, Mass.
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their murderers were much better than their
victims. But for the cir~cumstantiality Of the
details one might be excused in refusing to
credit the bloody story.
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IT'S there any good reason why Hendricks
shouId be selected from forty-five millions of
people to be the possible head of q Govern
ment which he did his best to destroy?"-GEo
w. CURTIS IN 1876.
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As before remarked, the ides Of March,
1883, brought no good to independent reform
ers. It was in that fatal month that GOV.
Cleveland vetoed the 6ve-cent-fare bill. It
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FOREIGN demand may fix the price Of
wheat, but let the home market be seriously
impaired and it will be discovered that the
home demand has some influence on the price
Of cereals.
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WE appeal from Puck Of to-day to Puck Of
March "A, 1883, when that very patriotic and
conscientious Journal referred to Governor
Cleveland as s4he creature of -monopolists.a
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THE Boston independent Republicans
have issued "a scathing Indictment of Blaine.
il is said that all six Of them signed it.
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III ixedness of habit is shown in the case of
the widow Allen, a widow of fifty summers,
who eloped with Mr.. ~Stringfellow, this week,
and routed out the preacher in the nearest Geor-
gia town. at IS o'clock in the morning, y with
a request to marry them. h old lady explained
that there was really no necessity for the elope
ment, but she was married that way to her first
and second husbands, and liked it best.