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charges now I have nothing to say IT, as
seems probable, he is the Presdentelect. he
has received the forgiveness of the people for
the admitted wrong and the verdict of mot
proven concerning the darker charges, No
longer the candidate Of party, but the elected
ruler of a nation he goes into the White House
with the past blotted ont from the conscious
ness of the people, with a new career of still
higher honors green before him in which to
prove himself worthy OF the forgiveness of
nation If my feeble voice might reach his
ear it would pray to MIN to prove himself
worthy of this magnificent vindicaion. Let
him not take counsel of his lower nature and
say MY private life is naught to this people, if
| serve them well in public trusts " The suspi-
cion that he was low and vile has well nigh
cost him the grandest throne of earth. Let
him not think that he can indulge anew in any
private vices of the past. constituting a forgive
ness into a sanction Let him not shame
the people, who have honOred his public service
while grieving over the suspicion Of what his
private life may be. Let him see to it as the
ruler of a God-fearng people that the White
House be as white as It's snowy surface, place
where virgin need to blush or good wife feel
out of place,
That which troubles me about this matter is
not the truth or falsity Of the charges against
the man. but the mode in which these charges
have been met by many. The presidential
Office is a public II Tst, which demands first Of
all qualities mental and moral fitting a man to
administer well that trust Eminenty desirable
spotless private life, it is by means necessary
that he should be free from repIoach / have
been astonshed and saddened unspcakably by
some utterances from the press and pulpit,
practically refusing forgiveness to a man
who is believed to have turned from evil If |
satisfied that man has broken loose
from his evil habits and repented of his
wrong, l count him as though he had not
sinned. The tone adopted by many teachers Of
morality seems to be thoroughly unchristian. !
have been appalled, at the severity of Judgment
shown by many who profess to believe in Jesus,
the Master, who evidently recognized the sins of
passion as less fatal to character than other
sins; not that He failed to loathe and abkor it,
but yet He knew whereof men were made-os
what rebellious flesh and blood, chorded with
what vast forces of transmitted appetite from
the days of savage men When Christ prevailed
on a man to forsake evil, He did not push him
to a back seat labeled reformed criminals, but
extended to him the hand of helpfulness. So
we, if we believe that a man has left vicious
life behind him, even accept him for a high of
ice-under protest. protest has surely been
made in the small plurality by which the Presi-
dent-elect creeps into the White House. The
once anticipated majority of well nigh 2O0,OO
dwindled down to a patiable 1000 plurality,
through the reluctance of our people to place
reformed lbertine in office.
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Peter Willard, blacksmith, at Elgin, was
sand -bagged and robbed of $240 by footpads, on
Sunday night
At the Democratic ratification meeting at
Edgewood, last Saturday evening. young man
by the name of O'Donnell got his right hand
blown off by cannon
Peter Lanner aged twentyone years. son of
Mr. G. Lanner, of Olney, employed as messen-
ger for the Adams Express Company on the D.,
o. G. 0. railroad, was killed at Casey, while off
duty and engaged in making running switch
in the yards.
At Clinton, VIM. Ellsworth attempted suicide
by taking hydrate of chloral. He was found ly-
ing insensible on the highway, near the city. He
partially recovered, and gave his name together
with his home, which is Ashtabula, o. He is
victim of epileptic fits.
At Charleston the Circuit Court has opened,
with four murderers to be tried. They are Jas.
Winkleback, charged with killing the Fleet
goods; T. j, Chapman, for killing Nick Hub
bard; negro named Cook for killing his wife
and throwing the body in a well, at Mattoon,
and John Dean, for killing George Dean.
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WHAT A BUTLER ELEcroR SAYS
He Expresses Belief in tine Innate Ras-
cality of the Democrats.


cality of the Democrats.
ALBANY, N. Y, Nov. 1l.-John f. Henry. of
New York. who was one of the Butler electors
the late electoral ticket of this State, stopped
over Sunday on his way home from an election
eering tour extended to San Francisco
THE published returns from the election he
said "cannot be trusted to decide who is elected
The Republicans are wholly justified in insist
ing that tho official announcements of counties
alone shall be considered as in the first instance
conclusive In so close vote, with so many
chances for errors and fraudulent manipula-
tion of the returns, it is not unlikely that
trouble viii follow the process of determining
the result all the way to the State returning
board and to the electoral count itself | have
read enough about the returns while on my way
East to satisfy mo that numerous Irregularities
and not few cases of deliberate fraud exist on
the face of the returning papers. The case of
the Queens county irregularity is probably
not exaggerated at all. The Democrats are al
ways doing that sort of work there. / have
known hundred votes in the town of New Lots
to be carried over from one candidate to another
for dollar vote. Seven years ago when / ran
for mayor of Brooklyn the Republican
ticket the canvass for mayor neld back by
colluson till 1t was known that was selected by
l30O, and then the count was altered that
when it was made public / was beaten by 2 300
When a close vote in this State occurs, it is prae-
tically certain that the count III New York or
Brooklyn, or in both, will be falsfed so as to
enable the Democratic candidates to squeeze in.
AS long ago when Henry Clay ran for Presi-
dent the contingent trick was in vogue in New
York city. Clay was in that city counted out Of
the presidency as sweepingly as Hoffman was
counted into the goyernorsmp, and that
fraud was notorious The Republican
State and national committees will be re-
miss in their duty if they do not put up
every legitimate barrier in the way of Cleveland
being wrongfully' declared elected. l am salts
fed that Butler votes in New York were counted
for Cleveland | am going to New York tonor-
row and shall do what l can to help uncover the
election frauds, if any exist"
What will be the probable effect on business
if Cleveland is elected"
For the next two years everything will, 1
predict. be done from hand to mouth. If Ceve-
land was broad minded man, capable of pro
tectng the public interests from the encroach-
ments of the politicians, people would look on
his ascendency as merely the outs getting in,
but, heing a weak man, he will be pulled this
way and that. to the distraction and unsettling
of all large business plans The South and W est
will take him at his word as a revenue ref1riner,
and will insist on their free trade demands This
is likely to 20 for two years. at the end Of
which we shall elect decided Republican House
of Representatives. after which the illelrect
of Clereland's election will be largely counter.
acted
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Rev. II. Heber Newton Discusses the Ques-
tiOns in CIevelands Candidacy.

Rev. II. Heber Newton Discusses the Oues-
tions in Clevelands Candidacy.
Sermon Last Sunday,
confess to utter surprise at thelancuage used
by the leading evening paper of the country, the
paper which sets itself up as the special teacher
of morals, and as for some of the platform talk
If the first preacher in the land language fails
me- when if reports be true, he says such things
as to becloud the consciences and drag down the
moral aspirations of all young men. So complex
and subtle have been the considerations at issue
that most men have extenuated that which they
would have condemned, almost denying the
gravity of faults which they had been wont to
consider deadly sins. Well for this land if it
comes forth from this ordeal without hearing
the echoes of that most awful of woes-"Woe to
him that calleth good evil and light darkness
and darkness light" have waited till the lul
after the storm to say my word concerning this
becouding of the moral IDEAS One of the dis
tinguished men for whom the suifraSes of this
people have been solicited has practically con
fessed one sin against the law of chastity while
he has been charged with more and worse
offenses OF the truth or talsity of these
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Banker Weddell,s nness.

CLEVELAND Nov. 1l.-Horace P Weddell, of
the banking firm of Everett g. Weddell which
recently failed for 81 900 000 called last evening
at the residence of S. T. Everett, vce-president
Of the Union National Bank, one of the Everett
Brothers. and until about year ago connected
with the firm. While discussing business
affairs at the door Weddell suddenly
drew revolver and aimed at Everett with
murderous intent. Everett wrestled the pistol
away and called assistance. Weddel was taken
to his home on Euclid avenue and physician
called, who pronounced him laboring under tenn
porary alteration of mind Brain fever ensued.
and although Weddell is easier to-day, is critic
ally i'll. 1t is supposed that brooding over his
heavy financial losses brought on mental trouble.
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"Gath's" New York Special.
Blaire's loss is due to combination between
the old stalwarts and the new schismatics aid
ed by fiatness in business enterprise. The
small band of men who under Conkling and Ar
thur quarreled with Garfelds administration
this time reinforced by their natural enc
mics. the civil-service reformers and kickers of
the old President Hayes stripe. The common
antphathy of these was Blaine and his recog
nized party. Many of the people who contend
ed for Hayes against COnkling, Arthur Il Co.,
formed silent coalition with a few thousand
opponents of Blaine, Cornell Warren Miller,
and others, and as the balance is very close
here, the scale is probably turned. You must
add to these the business situation, which
is not so bad as it is destitute of those
hopeful and vigorous enterprises which
compel large numbers of men to
postpone any general political change. For eX
ample, there are no railroads to speak of being
now built in the United States. When Garfield
was running for President the boom of enter
prise was yet strong. Rai=oads were then be
ing pointed toward MExico. being extended
through Canada with American capital and
many big schemes of credit like the West Shore
railroad and the Erie in Chicago were about
being negotiated with banks at home and
abroad. People suppressed their party differ
ences in the fear that a change at Washington
would stop the borrowing of money and the
driving of enterprises But this year the
railroads generally speaking are finished. Such
enterprises as are proceeding are going on in
very angud way, as they would lief not be
driven hard. That is the condition of things on
the new Vanderbilt road in Pennsylvania. The
Pennsylvania railroad Itself has suspended
taking advantage of an injunction to stop right
off
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CABINET spEcuLATIoNs.


Suggestions for the Personnel of Mr. CIcve-
lands Administration, if
Washington Special
1t is understood here that Gen. George b. Nc
Clellan prefers the Secretaryship of the Navy to
thatof War. Anoll lclass mate ofhi at West Point
a brigadier general of the United States Army,
who has maintained intimate relations with Gen
Mcclellan since they We're young men, said:
Mcclellan prefers the Navy Department, be-
cause there Is come out in the navy and it offers
a field for him to distinguish himself He be-
leves the time has come when our navy should
be rebuilt, and that Democratic House Of Rep
resentatves, under a Democratic administra-
tion, will vote all the money necessary for that
purpose. He would like to be the man who
shall figure in history as the rebuilder OF our
navy"
1t is commonly said that Gen Eppa Huntou
will have the unanimous support of NIginia tor
"A Cabinet position, and that other Southern
States will Join the Old Dominion in his behalf
1t seems a settled belief that Senator Nc
Donald, of Indiana, will be Attorney general.
Mr. Hendricks will he Vice president. Mr. Noor-
hees has secured his reelection To the Senate,
and of the trio OF big Indiana Democrats Mr.
Mcdonald IS the only one not provided for. 1t
is asserted that lndlanas position as leading
Democratic State entities her to IL Cabinet place,
and that Mcdonald is the man to fill it. Public
opinion is also settled upon cX Senator Thurman
and eX Speaker Randall as members of the Cab
met Tho latter is mentioned for the Treasury,
but many think that New York viii claim that
place,
Hon Daniel Manning chairman Of the Demo
cratic State committee of New York is talked
of as the head of the Treasury Several of Mr.
Thurmans friends here say they do not balicve
he would accept Cabinet position. They say
that age is telling upon him and he prefers
quiet ana rest to the labors of any pnb.ic posi-
ton. Intimate friends of senator iiayard say
that he would not leave thy senate foi the Cab
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WHEN
CLOTHING STORE.
INDIANA AND ILLINOIS NEWS NOTES.
Fires at Philo.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
A CHAMPAIGN, NoY. 1L-At Philo near here,
swo disastrous fires occurred last night. A. d.
'Dorrough's elevator and mill, with machinery
nd contents, including 1000 bushels of corn,
tvned by Van.Vleck Brothers & Hazen, were
olly destroyed, causing loss of Sc, 900. Mr..
Grovess large barn was also burned, probably
by tramp who had made threats One hun
dred tons of hay and 1000 bushels of corn were
also DESTROYED with much valuable farm ma
ehinery. Insurance, So 000
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The Hog Cholera.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
BLOOMINGTON, Nov 1.-THE hog cholera
which some months ago broke out in the eastern
part of this county, is spreading rapidly, and
playing havoc with the swine Reports from
the eastern, northern and western parts of the
county are that large droves of hogs have died
with this desease, and are still dying. Farmers
are shipping their half fattened hogs, and are
giving away and killing their young pigs in
fected with the desease.
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Mysterious Disappearauces.

SCHENECTADY, N. Y, Nov. 11-Alfred Chap
man, well known and respected, aged thirty
threesyeaps4 disappeared at Schenectady Oct 10.
Jacob Mohey. a farmer, is suspected to have
been drowned at Hoffmans Ferry Nov. Z. In
the search for Moneys body in the Mohawk,
Chapman's body has been found. The case is
mysterious. Chapman had S., 500 Thirty-nine
dollars were found on the body, but nothing can
be discovered of the balance. Moneys case is
mysterious The explosion of dynamite car
fridge brought the body of Chapman to the sur
facA
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Special to the indianapolis Journal.
VINCENNEs, Nov 11.-Captain S, W. Short,
one of the leading and best known as well as
eldest attorneys of this city, died this morning
at o'clock, aged sixty years. He was gallant
soldier in the late war, and held several offices
in this county since that time His remains
will be taken to Bedford for interment
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county of this State is now in process. The
work will be very thorough. Neither party
yields an inch. Every figure will be closely
scrutinized. In the counties of the State week
is usually consumed in the work; in this city and
Kings county less time is required Four years
ago the official canvass of the State was not
completed till Nov 20, over week Prominent
lawyers on both sides will watch the count"
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Prize for Scientific Men.

IoUIQUE, Mex, Nov 1.-The committee of
the combination of salitre elaborators has voted
a prize of G5, 600 for practical essays upon the
application of nitrate in the United States and
Europe, naming five North American and Eu-
ropean professors to form jury to award prize
of f1,0O0 for the best pamphlet on the practical
application of salitre.
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Fire at New Castle.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
New CASTLE Nov ia row of four small
wooden buildings, on Mill street including two
dwellings, one shop and one stable, was burned
about 1 o'clock this morning Loss probably
81, 200 to 81, 800, with small insurance.
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Died on a Train,

QUlNcY, Ill, Nov. 1l-Rev. James Johnson,
aged seventy, of Valparaiso Ind, died on a
Hannibal & St Joe train, this morning at
O'Clock, of hemorrhage of the lungs. The body
was brought here and an inquest held. His
wife and children accompanied him.
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Rpecial to the indianapolis Journal
DEcATUR, ILL.,, Nov. 11.-Wm. B. Kenard, of
this place, was killed in a wreck on the Wabash
road this morning. The wreck, collision, in
EOlYed loss of 81, 900.
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has received plurality in this State, but owing
to the peculiar election laws it will be extremely
difficult to prove it.
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If you would avoid disappointment and save
time and money take DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup
md none other
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which courage or fidelity can summon up should
be left undone to defeat the uuholy combination
while yet there is chance to do it.
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1t WIN Require a Week or More.9

New York, Nov. 1.-THE Mail and Express
says: 1.-THE official count Of ballots in every
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TELEGRAPHIC BREEITIES.

The imports of dry good at the port of New
York for the week ending yesterday were ST.
362, 900; amount marketed, 81, ,000
Twenty-four thousand bushels of No red
wheat were posted on the New York Produce
Exchange, at noon yesterday, as out of condition
On Commercial wharf.
The extensive lumber firm of Woods, Perry
& Co, of Cleveland, burned out during the
great conf1agration, last September, has re
sumed business Oh as large a scale as ever.
AtSyracuse, N. Y, Peter G. eriswold, Charles
McCord, Joseph Watson, and Thomas Benson
Skaters by the giving way of scaffold, fellfrom
the roof Of the new St Paul's Church. GrisEold
will die.
On Thursday evening Norris Eaton, farmer,
residing near the town of Manlius, n. Y, who
has been annoyed by skunks stealing chickens,
shot at black spot in a straw stack and killed
an unknown man hidden there.
William Barss of Chester Warren county
New York, farmer, was called to his door,
Wednesday night by a person who said he
had been sent to notify him that his relatives
were sick. As the door opened two men bound
him, placing revolver at his head, and COM
PEELED him to give up gold watch and 81 500.
The Princeton and Yale football teams played
a match game on the polo grounds at New York,
on Thursday, in the presence of 1900 peopla-
Hardly had the rushers of Yale made kick at
the wind bag when both sides became angry,
and more or less of a free fight was mingled with
the game which IN the end was declared q
draw. Every one of the twenty-five players was
a sorry sight of mud and blood at the fEish.
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THE cIvIL-sERvICE RULES.
Senator Edmunds Points Out Serious De
feet in the Law.

Senator Edmunds Points Out Serious De-
feet in the Law.
Washington Special.
Senator Edrnunds it is said, has pointed out
serious defect in the civil-serriee rules, which
in his opinion, is plain violation of the civil
service law The rule referred to exempts from
examination and puts outside the provisions reg
ulating entry into the civil service, among
others the chiefs Of divisions and chief clerks of
departments or Office. The question is, by what
authority are they exempted All of these Off
GERS may be now discharged without cause, and
their places filed directly from civil life, as be
fore the law was passed
As all, or nearly all, now in the service have
been gradually promoted to their present grade
on account of experience and fitness for higher
trust, they are, under this Interpretation Of the
law now enforced, placed in the anomalous posi-
ton of being subject to, and inviting as it were,
immediate dismissal for having deserved promo
ton. This, Senator Edmunds says, attacks the
very object of the law to improve the civil serv-
ice Of the United States.
The commissioners contend that under Pro-
vision 8 of Section 2, they are empow-
cred, with the approval of the President to make
any necessary exceptions from the eight funda-
mental provisions of the rules which put it in
their power to nullify the intent of the net, and
all they are required by the law to do is to give
the reasons therefor in the next annual report
If one class of employees whose experience and
fitness ought to protect them from removal, eK-
cept for cause, can be exempted from the intent
IS the law, another and still another class may
he included in the rule and thus Senator Ed
rnunds is quoted as saying the object Of tho law
will have been defeated With an administra-
ton favorable to the letter and spirit Of the rules
which have the force Of law. it is urged that
there is nothing to be feared; with one which
might find the lOopholes convenient, there is. it
Is said. every promise for evading them. This,
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AN AMBITIOUS DUDE.
A Retired Business Man of Chicago Homes for
Diplomatic HonOrs.

A Retired Business Man of Chicago Homes for
Diplomatic HonOrs.
speuin to New York World.
L. e. Letter the Chicago millionaire, who came
to Washington to get rid of the shop-keeping So
ciety of Chicago, where he made all his money,
is now a candidate for diplomatic appointment.
he has cut business entirely, and has set him
self to perform the arduous task of filing the
role of very fine native article of gentleman,
one who neither tolls nor spins. He classes
himself under a Democratic label and hopes
great things from the Cleveland administration
He has found some drawbacks in his social am
billions here He has millions of money and has
entertained very lavishly, but all the time he
has been almost daily confronted with the dis
NAL fact of being obliged to yield precedence to
some penniless Official with a title. Mr.. Letter
has coat-of- arms, as was shown IN the pub
LEGATION of its beautiful device in the World of
last year. Now he seeks an official title to
adern his name. He would prefer seat in the
Cabinet but win be satisfied with diplomatic
appointment He will throw open his house
this year, and entertain more lavishly than ever
in the carrying out of the idea of advancing his
claim to real, genuine Official title fit to match
his splendid coat-of arms Mr.. Letter would
probably be better pleased with foreign service
He dresses in what he believes to be the foreign
fashion, and is extremely fond of entertaining
the half-starved attaches of the diplomatic corps
Occasionally, when he catches live minister
his happiness is complete He has startled
Washington recently by appearing in a yellow
and black check coat and trousers, worn as ad-
iunets to Sarge dull red and brown plaided
waisteoat of an entirel- different pattern. Mr.
Letter, in this complicated arrangement of plaids
and checks believes that he looks like a real
Englishman. Certainly he does not look like an
American