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The Indianapolis journal., 1884-04-07
POLITICAL NOTE AND GOSSIP.

THE Young Mems Republican Club of Rush
vile is booming, with a membership of 265.
Clubs are being organized in all the out town
ships with good results.
Ex- SENATOR DORSEY: Logan, as 1 have
stated, would be my first choice. He is not a
little man-but 1 will say no more" l should do
him more harm than good by praising him.
THE Evansville journal nominates Gen.
James c. Veatch as one of the delegates at large
to the National Republican convention. The
southwestern portion of the State could not pre-
sent man more worthy of such an honor.
New YORK Tribune: ''Most of u.s." says
Matthew Arnold, ''are what we must be- not
what we ought to be-not even what we know
we ought to be-" Why wouldn't that make a
good platform for the national Democratic con-
ventionl
SENATOR CoLQUITT, of Georgia. admits that
the Democratic outlook is not so promising as it
was and that there is danger from dissensions in
the party's ranks. He is looking, however,
for some fractures in the Republican organiza-
ton which will Offset the differences in his own
party.
PLYMOUTH Republican: "Hon. John H. Baker,
of Goshen ought to be one of the delegates from
the State at large to the Republican convention
at Chicago. The State is entitled to four dele
gates. Northern Indiana is entitled to one of
these, and the State has no ADLER man than John
H. Baker"
THE Lebanon Patriot names Gen. Benjamin
Harrison and Hon. R. W. Thompson as two of
the persons to represent the Republicans of the
State at large in the Chicago convention and
adds. ''Their names would add such weight
and force to the delegation as to insure it de-
cided influence in shaping the policy and in
naming the nominees of the convention"
A BASIS for harmonious action has been
reached, it is rumored, between the Louisiana
Republicans and the sugar-planters of that
State. The result will be a united support of
the Republican State ticket on the second Mon
day in May next and the selection of fusion
electoral ticket in the fall which may give one
half of the electoral vote of the State to the Re
publican presidential candidate.
Mr.. A. G. DAILY, of Lebanon, is being favor
ably considered as one of the delegates from the
Ninth congressional district to the national Re-
publican convention at Chicago He is gentle
man of mature years, a staunch Republican, a
safe, conservative and successful business man.
He is president of the Lebanon National Bank,
and enjoys the confidence and respect of all
classes of people wherever he is known.
AMONG other resolutions, the Henry county
Republican central committee adopted the fol
lowing:
'That any candidate who shall succeed in procuring
his nomination by buying, paying money goods for
votes the use of Intoxicating liquors the hiring of
to electioneer for him during the canvass. shall
be deemed ineligible to such nomination, and the
county central committee satisfactory proof made
them of it, it shall be their duty to call a new conven
ton to fill the place declared vacant"
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-04-07

is completed can the law-abiding classes al
low their courts and officers of justice to re-
lax their vigilance OF be derelict in their du-
ties.
The people have a duty as well as the
courts. They must not wink at the minor
infractions of justice and by ill-timed meet
ings after great outrages incite the reckless
and communistic classes. Wrong is wrong
in all courts; the little foxes destroy the
vines. We not only want judges who
can so charge a jury and construe the law and
testimony as to sweep away all the cobwebs
and sophistfies by which eloquent attorneys
shield their clients, but we want self-made
men, good and true, who respect law, life,
women and property, to sit on juries.
Let each keep bright the links in the short
chain of his own life, proving true in that
which is least in both law and conscience.
Then, and not till then shall we find no break
in the chain that holds us to the ideal con-
science and the eternal law.
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-04-07

THE township elections to-day should arrest
the attention of Republicans in every portion
of Indiana. The Democrats are making every
effort to poll the largest possible vote, and Sc
cure the election of every possible trustee.
Ex-senator Mcdonald, chairman of the Demo
cratic State central committee, has flooded the
State with circular letters setting forth the
great Importance of the trustees in their rela-
ton to the State and national election, as well
as emphasizing the influence a Democratic
victory in April will necessarily have in No
vember. Shall Republicans be less vigilant
and alert and aggressive9 The Journal calls
upon every Republican in Indiana to go to the
polls to-day to vote for their candidates; not
less in the interest of good local administra-
ton than in the interest of Tie great cam
paign into the heat of which we shall soon be
plunged
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-04-07

UNDER the management of free-trade Eng
land, not only have the mechanical industries
of Ireland been paralyzed, but the agricultural
interests as well have been well nigh killed.
Of the 80, 900 square miles of that island but
5000, or barely one-fourth, are cultivated to
raise crops. At this time, 1000 square miles
are given up to grass, and 5000 are waste.
Absenteeism, rack-rent and free trade are do
ing the work of depopulating the country, and
each year finds the people poorer and more
distressed
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-04-07
SOCIALISM IN NEW YORK.
A Large and Tulmultuous Meeting, Which
AdjOurns in Confusion.

New YORK. April 5-The Socialistic labor
partys demonstration at Cooper Institute to-
night was an imposing gathering in point of
numbers and enthusiasm. il was called main
ly to give expression to the opinion of the
Socialists of New York on the recent riot in Gin
cinnati. An anonymous circular predicting
troubles as the outcome of the meeting had
been sent to the police department during the
day. In consequence large force of police,
both in uniform and civilian dress, was de-
tailed to attend the meeting. The police head
quarters after nightfal resembled an armed
camp. An hour before meeting detachments of
police began to arrive and were quartered in the
courtroom upstairs and in the basement, until
nearly three hundred men were there. Re-
serves were also stationed at the precincts near
est elevated railroads. whence men could be sent
quickly to any threatened point The men at
headquarters were dismissed at 10:30. There
has been no sign or apprehension whatever of
any disturbance.
The meeting was a very large one, and the
chairman said its object was to show the
people of New York that something must be
doEe to prevent the possibility of such calam-
ity as the recent riots in Cincinnati The Social
istic labor party did not believe in riots or vo-
lence in this country, where the people, if they
their own hands and therefore have power to
reform abuses. A man named King made an
address in which he said the danger in large
communities is not from Socialism, but from
grasping monopolists and from corrupt poll
ticians and political heelers. Police Inspector
Thorne had alleged that 30, 600 Socialists of this
city were among the dangerous classes, whereas
the present investigating committee had shown
there were 10000 gamblers and law breakers,
with whose illegal business the police seemed to
be in sympathy
Alexander Jones. editor of the volks Zeitung,
made an address in German, which was much
applauded by large number of Germans at the
meeting.
A series of resolutions were passed declaring
that the Cincinnati riots were the outcome of
political corruption which extended to the
courts and judiciary, and that neither the Social
istic labor party their doctrines had anything
whatever to do with producing the riots. Just
before the conclusion of the meeting there were
loud cries for Most. Chairman J. P. Mcclure
replied that Herr Most could not speak at that
meeting, and he would not be allowed upon tho
platform. A tumult arising, the meeting was
peremptorily adjourned.
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-04-07
CONSEQUENCE AND LAW.

Lynch law and vigilance committees be-
long to the frontier, where society is not Or
ganized. They are foreign to Indiana and
Ohio They have been forced upon the peo
pie and are not sought by them. The security
of life, of property, and the home are the three
points about which the sanctions of conscience
arrange themselves. Men have stood for
these principles until the moral sense has be-
come strong enough to guard men
against assassination, until fine sense of
honesty has grown up in the race, until the
security of family relations has been assured.
Woe to the community, to the city, to the
judge, attorney or jury that does not uphold
them. The puplic conscience is a terrible
thing to trife with.
The significant fact in the Cincinnati troub-
les is that ten thousand law-abiding and
peaceful citizens were compelled
to assemble and denounce the
processes of their criminal courts. That the
temple of justice, with its musty library, the
cardinal teachings of which had been ignored
or warped in the interests of thieves, murder
ers and corrupters of homes, was destroyed, is
a secondary matter. Cincinnati is a typical
American city. There are no more or other
elements of corruption there nor in greater
proportion, than in a score of American cities.
The conditions for discord and riot were pres
ent and have matured, as they may in other
cities which do not take warning by her ex
ample. Whatsoever men SOW that shall they
reap, and if we sow iniquity we shall reap
vanity These sayings report the results of
the worlds moral economy, and are as true
to-day as in the days of Paul and Solomon.
In spite of all precept and teaching, the moral
sense is still in the rough, and conscience,
which is growth, not fully de-
veloped. There are all kinds in Gin
cinnati as in Indianapolis as
in London, as in every community, as in the
human heart. There is no homogeneity, no
perfection; but there is an ideal, moral ten
dency in society, surging toward the right,
as with armies in battle.
In every community are men who are lead
ers, wise and considerate, having all at heart.
Then there are the masses who, under tie in
fuence of superior will and ideas, keep their
places and do their duty in homes and as citi-
zens, like the soldiers in an army These con-
sttute the element in Cincinnati whose moral
sense has been offended and to whom we look
in this democratic nation for redress of in
juries from whatever quarter Beside these,
we have the wolves and hyenas, the element
of the commune, who have, in most cases. no
homes, no property, no strong hold on life,
and, therefore, little respect for these things.
This is the class that, not having moral sense,
must be restrained by the law-indeed for
them the law is made and administered
These classes are not well Defined
yet they exist in every city, and
not until the education OF conscience
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-04-07

Thursday night ten-yearold boy was arrest
ed at Chicago in possession of glass-cutter
and burglars disguise cap He had been
frequently arrested before. Another lad, aged
twelve, was caught burglarizing a barn, and
third, of the same age, was found lying drunk
in the street, and was sent for the second time
to prison. There is enough in these recur-
ring instances to call the serious attention of
the public to them There must be some
thing radically wrong in the training Of youth
that makes them prematurely vicious and
desperate beyond their years.
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-04-07

THERE will be no better local government
until there shall be such interest in local cleo
tions as to call out as full vote as is given
when a President, OF Governor, or congress
man is to be chosen. If taxpayers are not
satisfied with the quality of their local ad-
ministration, we know of no way to better it
than by the polling of such vote in the
choice of local offices as will let these officers
know that the eye of every voter and tax
payer is upon them. The only corrective
of bad local government is
to be found in the largest
attendance upon the primaries, the largest
assertion of influence upon nominating con-
ventions, and the largest possible vote at cleo
tiors. If any citizen knows of better way
it has escaped our attention Staying at home
does not only do no good, but positive harm.
It breeds a habit of neglect upon which evil
minded men rely and this makes their way
clearer at each succeeding election. A full
vote at every election is the only panacea in a
republican form of government for whatever
ills the body-politic may suffer
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-04-07

THE story of Mr.. Brodhead the army pay
master who died in Boston on Friday, is a
sad one. Fifteen years ago he went to a
small camp in the Southwest to pay the troops.
Arriving in the night he took the iron box
containing So, 500 into the tent with him. In
the morning he found the little safe open and
empty and with no sign to indicate the thief.
A vague impression was on his mind that i'll
occupied the quarters with him, stoop over
the box, candle in hand, but he could prove
nothing and assumed the loss himself. He
paid it back in two years out of a small salary;
but the occurrence had disturbed his equani-
nifty and he constantly worried for fear of an
other loss. Eight or nine years later he ship
ped $25, 900 at Leavenworth to be carried by
express to Wichita, the nearest
railway station to Ft Sill, where the
money was to be paid out.
At Wichita he noticed that the wax seals over
the key-hole of the box seemed to have been
disturbed, and called attention to them; but
the agent thought this was through the acci-
dental rough handling it had received. With
out opening the package he surrendered his
receipt, put the box in wagon and made his
way to Fort Sill, one hundred miles distant.
There he found that the contents consisted of
brown paper every dollar Of the money having
disappeared. Brodhead was at that time sixty
years old, and the shock was a terrible one;
but he returned to Wichita and sued the ex-
press company. The case dragged through
the courts for several years, an effort being
made by the defendants to fasten the robbery
upon him. Finally, however, he won the
suit, and the express company paid the money
to the government but the long delay had
been too much for the paymaster's mind. He
felt that the charge of dishonesty, though un-
proved, had cast a stigma upon him, and that
his associates and superior officers regarded
him with distrust. His brain yielded to the
strain, and he left Tucson an insane man, to
die in a Boston asylum few days after his
arrival
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-04-07

IT has been stated that some parties propose
to have ballot-boxes at the various precincts to-
day for an expression of choice as to President
and Governor. No one but an idiot would
propose any such scheme on notice of one
day. unless it be trick The scheme savors
of the back room and the ''ring." No man
who has the interest of the Republican party
at heart will engage in any such an effort.
Should it be done, seeds of discord will be
sown that will tend to disrupt the Republican
party of this city. No honest, square Repub-
ican will allow any such trap to be set, and
no one with thimbleful of brains would
have thought of it for a moment, except as
piece of fthimble-rigging
indianapolis happens to be the residence of
three gentlemen prominently spoken Of for
places on the presidential ticket in the
Republican party. This ballot-box scheme
can have no otherpossible result than to breed
dissensiens and aggravate troubles where
none do or should exist and where there will
be none if the regular processes of the party
are permitted to have untrammeled action.
If all Republicans come out and vote for their
township ticket to-day they will do well, and
if they refrain from any such ill-timed, un-
wise and dangerous scheme as this ballot-box
stuhing for presidential and gubernatorial can
didates they will do better. The parties who
got up this patent explosive should be "hoist
by their own petard." Those who desire In
dianapolis and Marion county to go Demo
cratic this fall, will adhere to the dynamite
ballot box Those who are honest in their
Republican sentiments, caring more for party
than for men, will refuse to allow its being
set up in their precincts.
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-04-07
Debasing Political Methods.

Lebanon Patriot.
Nothing is more degrading, more demoralizing
and more deplorable than the corrupt use of
either whisky money in procuring either
nominations or votes. The man who will do so
is not fit for any Office of public trust. There
are men in all the parties who abhor such
methods and they will yet make it impossible
for men to obtain Office by such debasing
methods. Perfect honesty and fair dealing is
yet to be the rule in conventions and elections,
or the same cannot be expected from these men
when they are elected.
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-04-07

THE students of the Wisconsin State Univer-
sity have united to indorse President Bascom
against the attacks of certain newspapers.
The Endorsement of subordinates is an in
dorsement worth having They, as much as
any, know the worth of their superiors. On
the contrary, the distrust and condemnation
of employees is one of the worst criticisms that
can be made, and seldom will be made, except
under greatest provocation, since so much
danger exists of superiors making it unpleas-
ant if not absolutely intolerable to those who
dare find fault. 1t does not take ''commis-
sion" to discover this fact.
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-04-07
POINTS FROM THE STATE PRESS.
Words That Burn as to the Enforcement of
Law-POlitical Paragraphs,
Where Disregard of Law Is Born.


Much is said of the escape of murderers from
justice in that city, but there is an evil beyond
that to be corrected. The open violations of the
mer element have bred fearless disregard for
law and an open disrespect for courts So long
as the policeman walks his beat within the
sound of poker chips and the dice box, and amid
finger against such wickedness and crime, so
long will justice be spit upon and law trampeled
under foot In these accursed beds of iniquity
and sin is murder born, and here is taught that
shameless disregard of law that has Inundated
the proud city on the Ohio.
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-04-07
Tug Explosion.

CLEVELAND, April 6-The tug Peter Smith
left here Saturday night for Toledo with two
lighters in tow, about 8 o'clock this morning
off Vermillion she exploded her boiler, killing
John Perew and John Cado, engineers, and
Captain Smith of the schooner Sherman, who
was making trip for pleasure. Thos Dwyer
was badly burned about the face Dennis and
John Sullivan, slightly injured; John Hobson
the captain of the tug was unhurt. All are of
Cleveland, except Smith. who lives at Buffalo
The tug Amadus has been sent to Vermillion to
bring back the bodies and the survivors of the
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-04-07
How Dishonest Men Obtain Power.

Everywhere many of the best and most intelli-
gent men fail to do their duty as citizens. They
get off from jury service, fail to attend or have
anything to do with political matters till such
characters and licentious dissipated, dishonest
men in every legislature and in Congress, on
the bench, on school boards, everywhere mis-
represent the best people on the face of the
globe
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-04-07

THE unequal division of labor in this coun-
try is something very distressing In some
portions Of the broad land a rock heaved into
a crowd will scarcely fail of hitting a 'judge, I"
while up in Dakota large part of the popu-
lation threatens to leave because there are not
enough 'judges" to go around the courts
There is litigation in plenty and plain lawyers
galore, but only four judges to 2OO, 600 people,
scattered over $50, 600 square miles.
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-04-07
Demand for Common school Education.


The Times would confne the operations of the
public school system to a common school educa
tion 1t would say to the people of this county,
let your children be taught reading spelling,
writing, simple arithmetic, geography and gram
mar at the public expense; but if you wish them
to go beyond this, do it at your own expense.
Don't, in other words, demand luxuries at the
public expense when it is a burden to provide
even the necessities.
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-04-07
The senseIess Jury System.

Rushville Graphic.
Deep, black corruption in our system of civil
procedure is that which feeds the spirit of mod
violence now so prevalent. And the one vital
thing which supports this corruption is the mis-
cradle, senseess jury system that almost
universally obtains. For hundreds Of years the
chief object has been as demonstrated in this
system to throw every possible protection
around murderers, thieves, and human brutes OF
every description and the deepest dye.
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-04-07

THE election to-day is for township officers,
not for President or Governor Any scheme
looking toward the selection of candidates by
the vote cast to-day for these places will be no
index of public opinion, but without doubt
would generate dissensions that would imperil
the success of the party in November. No
reputable or respectable Republican will have
anything to do with the worse than nonsense
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-04-07

have it.espouse-the corpse of free trade in
order to secure the benefit of what votes such
an alliance might bring. Yet, after all, there
is an eternal fitness in this, for it were hard
to say which were more thoroughly dead than
the other-Democracy or free trade.
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-04-07
Responsibility of Business Men.


The business men of the country are respon-
sible for two of greatest evils They permit the
worst elements in society to get control of i'm
and do their duty to themselves, their business
and society by voting. They permit murderers
and other criminals to go unpunished or to get
off with light sentences, by shirking jury duty
and leaving it to a class which is in sympathy
with crime, or are easily influenced by the soph-
istry and eloquenee of criminal lawyers. No
business man ought to shirk his duty as voter
or Juror
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-04-07
Charges against an Ex-Concressman

FIT. SMITH Ark, April 5.-The investiga ton
of the charges against ex-Congressman Phil
lips, of Kansas, resulted in a complete exonera-
ton of him. r. M. Wolf, Cherokee delegate to
Washington, and D. W. Lipe, late treasurer of
the Cherokee nation testified that the S22, 900
paid by the Cherokee Nation to secure the $500
ington They would not give the names, but
declared Phillips did not receive any part of it.
Attorneys for plaintiff in the suit of Boudinot
against Phillips have announced their intention
of withdrawing from the case
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-04-07
Meaning of a Republican Ballot.

Terre Haute Courier
Every Republican ticket deposited in the bal
lot-box speaks in no uncertain tone in favor of
guarding domestic capital, home labor and
American workingmen of all classes against the
unjust competition of the unproductive capital
of the old world and the pauper labor of all
Europe Let every voter go to the polls with
all seriousness and deliberation, and cast his
ballot, Democratic or Republican, as he may wish
to indorse the policy Of free trade Or protection
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-04-07
Speedy and Exact Justice.


GaHette
Murderers must not be shielded by mere legal
quibbles. Mere techncalities must not throttle
the courts the course of justice. Criminal
trials must not be delayed on bubbles, but upon
absolute legal grounds. Juries of men who read,
know of the case, who are law abiding, inteli-
gent men, must render the verdicts No inno-
cent man need be afraid of an intelligent jury.
Reforms are needed in many respects and public
opinion should demand it. If not, mobs will de-
mand it,