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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-07-01

IT is stated upon what appears to be good
authority that the veto Of the Fitz John Por-
ter bill will be sent to Congress to-day. The
ten days for consideration expires to-day, and
if the bill is neither signed nor vetoed it be-
comes law without further action. The
statement is that the message was written last
week, but the President has held it over to
give the matter the most careful consideration.
Five members of the Cabinet are reported to
be in favor of veto, and two in favor
of the bill, the latter supposed to be
Secretaries Frelinghuysen and Folger. #
President Arthur had been fortunate enough
to have had the opportunity to veto this bill
before the Chicago convention that act might
have exerted no little influence favorable to
his nomination It is certain that no act of
his administration would be more just and
popular than for him to write Il forbid" upon
the bill that gives a premium to military indif-
ference and disobedience. =
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-07-01
Mr.. Watterson's Dish Of Crow.

Louisville Courier-Jonrnal.
Circumstances of the present have thrown Mr.
Hendricks and ourselves once more in the Same
boat, and we are glad Of it. The original dis.N
agreement was painful to us. 1t was surely not
to our interest. But we thought, and still think,
Mr.. Hendricks was pursuing course which
was jeopardizing great public interests, and we
made our structures sufficiently positive and
voluminous. If, however, we at any time let
our temper get the better of our courtesy and
used unbecomlngly harsh language of Mr.. Hem
bricks, we were at fault and in the wrong. The
amiability of Mr.. Hendricks character, and the
times, shield him against indecorous structures
and assaults
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-07-01

The Democratic idea at Washington just
now is to nominate Bayard, or some other
good Democrat that is, a Democrat who was a
Democrat during the warand to sugar-coat
this BY naming "a prominent man, formerly
. Republican for second place. The Indi-
ana Democratic idea is the reverse Of this.
The late ex- Republican heads the ticket while
- honest Democrat follows, to give it ballast
IN Democratic localities. The drawing quail
ties pf such an arrangement are to be de-
fsrmined.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-07-01

THE Madison Courier fittingly alludes to
the low tone and disgraceful pitch of Colonel
Gray's speech Of acceptance Some papers
which think it smart to hold the scales SO
even between the parties that no one may
surely know which way their judgments lean
(if they have any judgment) have talked Of
Colonel Grays ability as speaker and de-
batter. If his acceptance speech can be taken
as a gauge, he showed himself to be a man Of
the narrowest mind and meanest soul. The
principal thing he arraigned the Republican
party for, or, at Leaf, one of the principal
things in his Indictment was, that the Repub-
lican party had paid the physicians who at
tended upon the late President Garfield, and
who could not tell pus cavity from the
track Of pistol ball. The allusion shows
Colonel Gray to be man capable Of coarse
ness and brutality in politics. We had not SO
judged Colonel Gray, for he had the benefit Of
sufficiently long training in the Republican
party to be greatly above so pitiable and mean
thought and expression. The Courier says:
"a man who could refer to this matter in the
manner and for the reason Gray did exposes q
low and small nature, utterly unfit for the
discharge Of any high and honorable duties1
AS another Of our exchanges says, such a re-
mark is "about the heft Of Bill Myers but
is inexcusable and outrageous in one who
aspires to the position Of chief executive Of a
great State. It is well, perhaps, that Colonel
Gray has pitched his canvass on SO low a key.
It will be found that majority Of the people
Of Indiana are very far above that level.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-07-01

it traverses the opinions Of its guber-
material candidate; it tells two Of its
senators that they had no right to a
different Judgment four years ago; and it
goes further than that, and further than it
has ever before dared to go. Heretofore the
Democratic party has satisfied itself with
declaring against a prohibitory amend
ment but in the plank Of the present
platform we have quoted, it says in SO many
words: 1--WE are opposed to any constitutional
amendment relating to the subject Of the
manufacture and sale of intoxicating and
malt liquors" Nowhere in political history
can such pitiable and disgraceful words be
found Any other interest or thing or mat
ter whatever, may be properly the subject of
constitutional regulation; but the Democracy
of Indiana announces in advance so the world
may know it, that they are opposed to any
constitutional amendment relating to the sub
ject of the manufacture and sale Of intoxi-
eating and malt liquors." We commend this
declaration to the attention of the few men
who are not satisfied with the Republican
party because it adhered to its position Of two
years ago, and, in the absence Of any pending
amendment upon the question, declined to
make prohibition Il question Of partisan poll
tics, and who may be led, either by their
prejudice or by the wiles Of those in the inter
est Of the Democratic party, to think Of
taking action the natural and logical result Of
which, if it can have any at all, will be to adj
vance the success Of this whisky soaked plat
form.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-07-01

The objections urged against Mr.. Blaine are
very curious to consider They show the YER
satility, if not the consistent principle, 81 his
opponents and they also reveal the utter lack
of sincerity and earnestness in the enemies
of the Republican party The great staple
argument against Mr. Blaine has been that he
is too tsbumptious;" he is too aggressive; he
would involve the country in war; he was a
lingo" statesman; he lacked breadth and con
seryatism; he had no repose of thought or
character, but would rush in where angels
might fear to tread. But it was discovered
that the American people, who are
"a little tired of non-assertive
policy, and who entertain somewhat
decided notions about American positivisrn,
were likely to be rather. attracted than re-
PEELED by this characteristic Of Mr.. Blaine.
His intense Americanism" was found to be
an element of strength rather than Of weak
ness with the people. And SO the word has
gone out to about face on this question, and to
assert that Mr.. Blaine is a coward, dare not
assert the rights of this country at all, but
when Secretary Of State, actually abased
himself and the people before the effete gov
ernments of the old world. This was the
burden of Senator Voorhees, address
before the Democratic editors, last
week, when he dolefully and drearily
rehearsed the McSweeney case, Mr. Yoor-
hees is reinforced by the New York Times,
who discovers that, in the case Of the dis
puted boundary line between Mexico and
Guatemala, Mr.. Blaine, having occasion to
writea dispatch to Mexico, that government
thrust the document into pigeon-hole,
and danced in derision before. the United
States. We are not particular as to which
offense Mr.. Blaine is to be charged with
whether he is to be represented as a plu1ned
jingo with war-paint on, as tattoo OF
whether he is to be dressed III drab, with a
broad -brimmed hat, as a paralyzed Quaker,
turning his other cheek to all the second and
third-rate powers Of the earth. We say it
will make no special difference which of these
characters Mr.. Blaine is made to assume; but
there will be more prophecy Of effectiveness
if his enemies can agree upon only one, and
direct their energies thitherward. As it is,
there is too violent a strain.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-07-01

UNDER the influence Of protective tariff
the carpet weaving business in this country
has1ncreased from nothing until, in 1880, at
he end Of twenty years, there were 10 steam
arpet factories in Philadelphia alone, en-
ploying 1856 men, 2,37s women and 759
children, Or grand total Of 1903 persons
le capital invested was 50, 1914, OOo and the
1uet Of The looms yielded the handsome
# 81, 263, $40 Besides these there are
light rag carpet factories. It is esti5
b from reliable data that the business has
esed 50 per cent. during the past four
America now makes some Of the best
Of carpets in the world
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-07-01

j. D. MIToHEfI., Of Terre Haute, asks
journal how the temperance people are to
that the new constitutional convention
Seed in the Republican platform sis for
pose Of formulating prohibition arti-
The purpose Of formulating an arti-
yer excluding prohibition from the
We confess we cannot answer Mr.
itchelps question; neither can we tell, from
he language, whether it is intended that the
lew Constitution shall declare that two and
shall hereafter make Ave But we pre-
Pc the language Of the plank is clear
ash to convey the idea that the proposed
e1tion q for the purpose Of framing
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-07-01
sgt4rpt q cons;daraI,la fall, in tha na,,a,.

THERE is considerable talk in the papers
ebout "a successor to the late Bishop simp-
Bpng There is no vacancy caused BY The
Heath Of the Bishop, nor win there be Or can
there be q successor It is probable that
one Of the surviving bishops will make his
residence in Philadelphia, as that city isa very
Important and influential church center.
bp John +. Hurst now located at Des
loines Iowa Is very likely to be the
one who win remove to Philadelphia.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-07-01

Herald however, exhausts itself in praising
the lofty motives, the exalted and unselfsh
patriotism which it believes to animate the
breasts Of the Republicans who cannot vote
for Blaine, but who will take Cleveland, Or al
most any Democrat, even, perchance, Butler
himself. If the Independents feel as truly
good as they are described, they must pray
nightly that their days may be long, lest,
when they die all virtue shall go with them.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-07-01

Those Massachusetts, Republicans who as
sumed to call themselves independents and
voted for Ben Butler for Governor are referred
to with contempt by the Boston Herald. Il
calls them Ssdupes Of demagogue, and says
they were animated by selfish motives. The
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-07-01
Republican state Ticket.

Republican State Ticket.
GovERSoR- H CALKINS of La Porte
|unty.
|hEurEs vERNoR-EUGENE BUNDY, Of
nry county.
soRrrAnr or STATE ROBERT MITCHELL, Of
Jon county.
prior OF STATE BRUCE CARR, of Orange
".
EAsuRER OF srATE-RoGER R. SHELL, Of
bn county.
ToRNE1 GKNERA1.--WLIIAM d. WILSON, Of
ecanoe county.
fDGE OF THE SUPREME Court, FIFTH DISTRICT
OWN p HAMM0NDs of Jasper county.
lEPoRrKR SUPREME CouRr- WILLIAM NJ
EGGATT, Of WarIick county.
UPERNTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION.
RNABASe G, HOBBS, Of Parke county.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-07-01

THE Philadelphia Record has a leading and
xious editorial on The Preservation Of Our
eger Came If it will specify which one
the Democratic candidates it means, per
fps the country viii kindly refrain from MAX
8 game Of him. But who would have ex
&eted the Record to howl for protection SO
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-07-01
The Revolt Against Mr.. Blaine.

Washington Special to Cincinnati Enquirer
The revolt against the nomination Of James
G. Blaine in Massachusetts is confined priIci-
given Blaine because of a memorable attack he
made upon the State in the United States Sem
ate in July, 1879.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-07-01

Madison Courier.
Colonel Gray did not become Democrat until
1872 By curious coincidence this was the
year he failed to get the nomination for Lieuten-
antgovernor from the Republican convention.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-07-01
a Good Judge Of Rot.

Yincennes Sun (Dem.)
The repetition by the Evansville Courier that
inference that the Courier is good Judge Of
rot.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-07-01
The Brutal Punster.


Chicago Times
Mr. Blaines magnetism is a big element in tho
campaign. tbs expected to draw every voter,
like the needle to the poll
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-07-01

Chicago News =
This man Gray. who has beee set up in Indi-
ana against Bill CallSins who is he, and what
is he there tori
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-07-01

hundred news stands where it says Truth can be
found on sale. This sounds like falsehood on
its face, but if truth can be found in New York
it is doubtless for sale
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-07-01

a MICHIGAN editor is making good deal Of
fuss because he has been frozen OUT by his
wicked partners. Editors are seldom happy,
but in such weather as the present little cool
ness Of the kind mentioned hardly seems worth
complaining about.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-07-01

THE Emperor William is said to have cured
himself Of freckles when youth by rubbing his
face with bacon rind and then lying on the grass
in the sun Ladies' who wish to rival the daz-
cling Newport beauty, who sleeps with her face
between two raw beefsteaks, will probably pre-
fer the Emperor's plan.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-07-01

STRIKES have their uses sometimes House
painters in San Francisco had difference with
their BOSSES and in the quarrel which ensued
the public had an access of information in re-
gard to the substances which are used in color
ing their dwellings Cheap leads clays, fish oil,
and all sorts of grease, are used in adulterating
paints, but the house owner pays the same
price for the poor mixture daubed on mis- build
ings as if the materials used were good. The
painter, however, pockets an extra profit of
from 10 to so per cent, according to
the elasticity of his conscience and the
corresponding amount Of adulteration. The
house looks as well when the work is done as
that of the next-door neighbor, which is coated
with honest paints, but it fades, peels off, and
needs to be done over again inside Of year
The painter tells him the reason is that the wood
is more porous in his house, absorbs oil quicker,
and the walls are more exposed than those next
door, and gets job to repaint San Francisco
is a long way of, but the same peculiarities of
paints have been noticed by unhappy house own
ers in places much nearer home, and it is not
impossible that the same causes may explain
them
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-07-01
To the Editor Of the indianapolis Journal


AS there is no provision in the Constitution
for calling convention to change that instru-
ment, some of us want to know if there is an I'M
written law, higher or outside of the Constitu-
tuition, which gives the Legislature that power
If constitutional convention shall be called by
the next Legislature, will not the Constitution
framed by it have to be concurred in by two
Legislatures, and then submitted to vote Of the
people, in order to make its adoption constitu-
tionall JOHN M. Mills.
ZIoNsvILLE, June 81
Well, here we are again There are always
people in the world who imagine the people can
do nothing, and that they have ordained Consti-
tutions not to assist them in the work Of govern
ment but to hamper and restrict and defeat
everything they might want to do. If the Legis,
lature calls constitutional convention, the peo-
pie elect delegates, the delegates meet and
frame instrument, and the people adopt it at
popular election, we have no fear Of the re-
suit.
To the Editor Of the indianapolis Journal
When will the next civilservice examination
be held at Indianapolis2 D. j. MENDENHALI
WEsTFIELD, Ind, June 49,
No date has been definitely fixed but in about
six months
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-07-01

PAsToRs Of the mission churches in New York
are each given a short vacation every summer,
their absence. The churches Of the rich are
usually closed entirely during the summer
months. Its not to be inferred from this that
the gospel dispensed at the costly edifces has
better lasting qualities than the lower priced
variety
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-07-01

THE St Louis critic has figured out that the
best paid base ball clubs the poorest players,
and viceeversa The explanation is that the
high salaried mines are occupied with spending
their time in riotous living when they ought to
be in training for play. This opinion will go far
to confirm what many observant persons have
long thought namely that it would be an act of
true charity to cut off all base ball salaries and
let the athletes go to work
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-07-01

AN anti-pie society has been formed in Cali
fornia, and the Legislature has been petitioned
to prohibit the manufacture and sale of pies as
unhealthy
# pie is prohibited the illicit bakery will i'm,
mediately spring up in every dark corner. and
where one man formerly INDUCED in the seduc-
tive but dyspepsia breeding wedges countless
thousands will gorge themselves on pie. Pro
hibition cannot prohibit pie
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-09

8E
CHICAGO, April S.-The Drovers, journal re,
ports. Hogs-Receipts, 10000; shipments, 1000.
The market was steady; rough packing 5&ogs, $1409i
$50; heavy packing and shipping. So 6.33j
ket closed weak.
Cattle-Receipts, $780,; shipments, 2,1OO. The
market was brisk and 10c higher; exports, $6.250
6.65; good to choice shipping steers; S.. 1906. 10;
common to medium, So 40Q5i7Qi corn-fed Texans,
Sheep-Receipts, 1900; shipments, 5000. The
market oy ya ass steady and unchanged inferior TO fair far
5,75; choice to extra, $5.9006.30.
ST. LOUIS, April Seattle - Receipts, 500;
shipments, $50. The supply was scaqt, the demand
good and prices. firm export steers, $6!25W6.65i
to medium $5@5,50i %spoekers, ana feeders, $A750
5.25j cern-fed Texas steers, $~4.75Q5.50.
sheeg, and Lambs Receipts, !, 800; shipments,
extremes we're s. .5005.S5 Texans, $304,75
Hogs Receipts, $500; shipments. | 600. The
hogs, $5.7506i heavy hogs, SIS, 4O05.65
BUFFALO, April Seattle Receipts to-day,
81; receipts consigned through, I591 carloads.
Nothing doing, and feeling steady.
Sheep and Lambs-Reeeipts. to-day, 1,400, receipts
consigned through, 7 carloads. Nothing doing, and
feeling weaker; only two carloads here.
~Hogs-Receipts to-day. 905i receipts consigned
through, 81 carloads. The market was dull weak
and lower; nc. Eastern tradea good.to choice. Workers.
$5.9506.10; light mixed, $ ,5Q95,SQ; good medium
weights, IS: 1o16 20; pigs, $~4,9o95'13i several car
NEW YORK, April s.-BeeYes-Reeeipts, $50,
including 40 for expectation and, $50 for the city
trade and slaughterers direct, No trade in live cattle;
Beefifrtni city dressed, $~9.75@11 Pc@t. Shipments,
So live cattle.
Sheep and L~ambs-Receipts, 2,1O0. The market
was firm but slow; sheep, $6.2507.2 % o. cwt.; year
ling lambs, $70S,50 per head; all unshorn.
Hogs-ReceiPts, A 1850; all to. slaughterers direct,
EXCEPT 200. The, market was dull; fair to, goodnight
pigs, $6.2506.5O y cwt.; rough hogs, 1876.
KANSAS CITY, April 9.-The Live Stock Indi,
Gator reports: Cattle-Receipts, 1000. The market
was firm; native steers of 945 to 1,40s lbs average
sold at $4.9O86.10: stockers and feeders, $40
+, as; native COWS, SO. 6004.50.
Hogs-Receipts, 5000. The market was, steady
sales were made of lots. of OBS. &c. $50 10 sewerage
at SIS. So06.10 with the bulk of the sales at S.. o
&c.
S~heep-Receipts, 1926. The market was quiet and
unchanged.
EAST LIBERTY, April 9.-Cattle-Active. firm
and unchanged. Receipts, 440; shipments, ], 539.
Hogs-Slow. Receipts, 1,150; Shipments, $40
Philadelphias, $6.4o66.5o; good Workers, $500
6.25.
S~heep-Active, firm and unchanged. Receipts,
l 600; shipments, 1900.
{ CINCINNATI, April 9.-Hogs firm; common and
light, $4.9006i packing and butchers, $5.7006.4O.
Receipts, 500; shipments. l 500.
MILWAUKEE. April S,-Hogs, steady at $500
{. GO.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-09
TRADE, AND
Business. Fair-The Weak Grain Markets
Attracting Much Attention.

INDIANAPOLIS, ApriiS.
While trade shows no great activity in any
one branch, sales aggregate fairly with a ten
dency to gradual Improvement as a result. of the
advancing season, and the. more general develop
ment of spring requirements in the various lines
of trade. The volume of business in most de-
partments is slowly increasing, but individual
operations as a general thing are characterized
by extreme caution. There is not much trading
in advance of well assured requirements in any
line. The general drift of values has been about
the same as for several weeks past-downward
on breadstuffs and provisions; upward on cotton
and some of its manufactures, and without de,
cided change either way on other textiles. The
weakness of the grain markets attracts much at
,~tention. An unusually well-informed writer in
the East, who processes to have no axes to grind,
estimates that not less than IS. ST, 1856
bushels was. carried over, from, the croR
of 1882. The yield of 1888 is officially
given at 400, 154, 800 bushels, making a total sup
ply of 4S6, OBI, $50 bushels. Deducting 80, 000.-
600 bushels of seed, and there remained for con-
sumption and export 434, 000, 600. The consump-
ton is estimated as 247,S71, 800 bushels for the
crop year. Two-thirds of the year have passed.
the consumption to March l is put at 166, 900, 000,
bushels. That would leave 26S, 900, 900. The
exports from July l to March l were equivalent
to rs, 263, 26O bushels, so that substantially 190,-
900, 900 bushels remained on. hand on March L.
OF this 50, 900, 900 will be consumed during the
remaining four months of the crop year, and
los, 200, 900 bushels will remain for export, or'to
be carried over to next year. If the low prices
now prevailing stimulate exports so that they
will reach the average of one year ago the sur
plus to Be added to the crop Of next year will
not exceed So 0O, 600 bushels, The losses. rep
resented by the fall in prices G4nount to mill
ions, but the chief sufferers will be the spetula-
tors.
The dry goods market is Ouite active. Onr
merchants are carrying large stocks to select
from, and offering them at prices which cannot
but command favorable attention.
Trade in grocery circles keeps up remarkably
well, all things considered, although all goods in
this category are being sold very close. No
change in prices. Coffee continues +.,oa
and weak at the sea69Trr, and jobbers are buy
ing sparihgly in CONSEQUENCE. Sugars weak but
unchanged. Canned goods dull
notwithstanding the demoralized condition