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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-15

AND now they talk of Mr.. Tilden as a prob
able Secretary Of State. Prominent Demo
cratic leaders go to Greystone to consult with
the sage, to the neglect of their new chief,
Mr.. Cleveland, and it is shrewdly suspected
that the conferences are for the purpose of
laying the framework of the Democratic ad-
ministration. No one will deny that Mr.. Til
den has more ability than the Governor, but
if the cipherer is to act as the mind and Mr..
Cleveland the body of the coming executive
department, it might be wise to get the latter
trained into working order as soon as possible.
Cleveland, and not Tilden, will be President
in name-unless that New York count counts
him out-and if he should be balky, and ap.
point another than Mr.. Hendricks old part
ner as Secretary, plans might gang agley.
The leaders should begin to coach him now.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-15

THE day of the technical" error is passing
away, even in the Supreme Courts. Augustus
Schrieber, a s~aloon-keeper of Columbus, was
indicted for violation Of the liquor law, the in
dictment setting forth that the said Schrieber
did, in Bartholomew county, sell ETC., etc.
Judge N. 4. Carr, Democrat, in the lower
court held the Indictment defective because
of bad grammar, holding that the averment
should be 'did sell in Bartholomew county"
On this absurd ruling the case came to the
Supreme Court, where the judgment was re-
reversed, the court holding that the language
of the indictment was plain, even if not strict
ly grammatical, and that it set forth the Of
Tense with sufficient explicitness. Common
sense is spreading.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-15

to get The government or somebody else to do
something to ameliorate the condition of the
Piegans and other tribes. About four months
ago they heard that these Indians were just
on the point of starvation, with half rations
for only a few days longer and no appropri-
ations. 1t really seems to the friends Of the
red man as if something ought to be done,
because if the poor creatures do not get a
supply of provender before next spring they
may suffer, you know. A recent report from
the reservations is to the effect that they are
in the same state as four months ago, which
leads to the supposition that their barrel of
meal is of like character with the widows
celebrated one. Certainly no aid society has
filled it for them.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-15

THE Kansas Anti M~onopolist has an edi-
torial upon the appointment of Hon. Hugh
McCulloch as Secretary of the Treasury, in
which it says:
'McCulloch was originally president of a
wildcat bank in Indiana, which failed the first
year of the war, and not paying a cent on the
dollar. He was Secretary of the Treasury
under Grant, and as such made the treason
of Jeff Davis and Benedict Arnold respect
able in comparison with his own His admin
i~stration of the office was marked by the
demonstration of silver, the changing of over
one billion of currency into interest bearing
bonds, the great and rapid contraction of the
currency, which brought on the panic of rs
y n McCulloch went into the office poor
as a church mouse and retired a millionaire"
And so on, for quantity. Mr.. McCulloch
was the president Of the Bank of the State of
Indiana, and of the State Bank of Indiana,
both of which institutions paid in gold
every dollar of their obligations. Mr..
McCulloch was appointed Secretary of
the Treasury by Andrew johnson.
He was not in office under General Grant.
Silver was not demonetized under his admin
istration. He went out of office in 1869. He
took Office under Secretary Chase as Comp
troller of the Currency, in comfort
able financial circumstances, and retired
from office poorer than when he went in.
He is not and never has been a millionaire.
Indeed, his straitened financial condition
was urged as a reason for his acceptance of
the appointment just made by President Ar
thur. While we may not agree with
all the past and present opinions
entertained by Mr.. McCulloch, it is yet a
duty and pleasure to say that Hugh McCul-
loch is a thoroughly honest and hon-
orable man, a capable and distin-
guished fnancier, and one whose in
cumbency of the treasury Office has been
creditable to himself, to the State of which he
was formerly a prominent citizen, and to the
country at large. The Anti onopolist's ar
ticle is equally ignorant, mendacious and
slanderous.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-15

as Secretary of the Interior, wouldbe expected
to review his own acts in connection with
railroad land grants under a former admins
tration. The carrying out of this programme,
it is agreed, might not be of an altogether
pleasant nature, and out of tender regard for
their esteemed ally's feelings, it is thought
best to keep him out of the Cabinet. There
are certain disadvantages connected with the
role of renegade for revenue only, which the
actor who attempts such a part is sure to re-
alize sadly when it is, alas, too late.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-15

THE tyrant man seems to be getting in his
work pretty effectually, much to the chagrin
and discontinue of womankind. There's John
E. Quinn, of New Rochelle, N. Y, went and ar
ranged an elopement with Miss Perie Sickles,
second daughter of the venerable millionaire,
George G. Sickles. The escapade was arranged
for Wednesday night of last week, but what did
the inhuman wretch do but turn around and
elope, that self-same night, with pretty Hattie
Marshall, a demure little miss living with her
pa in one of Mr.. Sickles's tenant houses, leaving
Perie to hold the sack and nurse her wrath.
And now the query is, how did the secret get
out that John and Perie had intended eloplngl
Perhaps Perie kept her secret on the woman
plan-got some other woman to help her keep it,
We want to remark in this connection that John
E. Quinn is a fool. Her father a venerable
millionaire. Perie must be awful pretty. And
then her name-Perie!-isn't it too SWEET The
base wretch
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-15

THE trustees of the Indiana Institution for
the Education of the Deaf and Dumb have
reached a lower deep of maladministration if
it were possible, than when they displaced an
accomplished officer and put in a dentist, DR..
Glenn, of Muncie, who knew nothing what
ever of the duties of the position, and could
hold no communication with the unfortunate
inmates except through a third party. Now
they have displaced DR.. Glenn and elected
one Baker, formerly deputy warden of the
Northern Prison, a man whose only fitness
for the place seems to consist in
his ability to WELD the ''cat" upon
refractory c~onvicts and to speculate
in the State garbage. A pretty spectacle, IN
deed, is thisl The administration of all the
benevolent institutions of the State is a dis
grace, but the Deaf and Dumb Institution
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-15

Rev. Mr.. CLARKE will accomplish nothing
but his W discontinue by aping the wis
dom of the bird which sticks its head in the
SAM and thinks its entire anatomy is hidden
from the public gaze. Baptist" returns to
the subject of his former letter again this
morning, and puts the matter upon precisely
the basis the journal did in its notice ap-
pended to Mr.. Clarke's "blufing' card. Mr..
Clarke is not his own man now; he has been
elected to and accepted a position in which, to
a certain extent, he becomes, representative of
a great and honorable denomination of Chris
tain people. It has been asserted of him that
he has uttered sentiments which will render
him far from acceptable to a large per cent.
of the people and of the public. and, in so far,
impair his usefulness to the church he serves.
but there has been enough publicly said
to leave the impression that som explanation
is necessary. Mr.. Clarke's conduct thus far
has only deepened this feeling. He is
the only one who can relieve that impression,
and a frank, open statement, if he can truth
fully make it, will clear away all doubts and
leave him unhampered for his future work.
But that must come, or, as we have said, he
cannot prove SO acceptable and useful in his
new work as he otherwise would. No man
can fly in the face of the public with impu-
nifty, or act upon the now celebrated phrase of
Indifference used by W. FL. Vanderbilt. This,
in effect, Mr.. Clarke does. No one will be in
jured but Mr.. Clarke himself by persistence
in this course.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-15

THE next House of Representatives, dating
from March q, 1885, will consist of 1872 Dem
ocrats, 141 Republicans, l Greenbacker and
l Fusionist. The present Democratic House
has a majority of rs votes, so that the Dem
ocratic party has lost 81 members by the
late election. The Senate will stand Al Re-
publicans, "a Democrats and l independent,
counting the two Readjusters as Repub-
lican and the Independent the successor to
Senator Logan, from Illinois, where the Leg
islature is a tie on a joint ballot.
The Republicans nave gained senators in Cali
fornia and Oregon, whose retiring senators,
Farley and Slater, are Democrats. In 1888
the terms of twenty-five Senators, sixteen Re
publicans and nine Democrats, expire, and
were the Republicans successful in the same
States that they have been this year, they would
gain one in the successor to Fair, of Nevada,
and lose in the successors of Harrison, of
Indiana, and Malone, of Virginia, but they
would still nave a majority of four in the
chamber. If Indiana elects a Republican to
succeed Senator Harrison, the Republicans
would have six majority. Under no probable
circumstances can the Democrats obtain con-
troll of the Senate during the administration
of Mr.. Cleveland.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-15


THE Charleston News and Courier coolly
proposes that the members of the Republican
national committee, who have dared to say
that they will not concede the election of
Cleveland until after the official count has de-
cided it, shall be murdered. This is the way
it puts it:
"The people of New York will put a stop to
the performance in a summary way, if the
smirched and tattooed knaves continue it
much longer. Why mott They who cOolly
set to work to Mexicanize this country will
have no reason to complain if they are ia
vored with a touch Of Mexican methods
themselves"
Go ahead, gentlemen. 'The South is in
the saddle" Ride while you may, for the
time comes when the horse and his rider will
be overthrown.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-15

seems to be the one in which the worst in
stincts of the degraded cabal which has charge
of them, are permitted to run riot. However,
there seems to be no remedy for the shame
and scandal. The people of the State have
just given a plurality of their votes in indorse-
ment of the party under which such practices
are possible. The Democratic rape of the
benevolent institutions causes Indiana to hang
its head in shame and sorrow.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-15

iarly known as Shylocks. are said to be in a
state of mind" over the prospect of losing
many of their outstanding debts, by reason of
the probable removal of government employees.
Some of them have thousands of dollars worth
of claims, many Of which are of small amounts,
and on which usurious rates of interest have
been paid by borrowers until the total has far
exceeded the original loan. Not unnaturally,
these brokers fear that the clerks and officials,
in view of the fact that, in many instances, they
have repaid the principal twice over, will repudi-
ate the debts on the eve of their departure. 1t
may be remarked that the tears that are being
shed by employees at Washington are not on ac-
count of grief at parting from their accommo-
dating financial friends.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-15

IT is now claimed that the Independents
made a bargain with Cleveland to the effect
that, in the event of his election by their val
liable aid, they were to be recognized by one
position in the Cabinet; that their views as to
civil service were to be enforced, and that
Cleveland would commit himself to their free
trade policy. 1t is safe to prophesy that the
Independents are doomed to disappointment
in at least one of the directions named, and
Cleveland not proved to be a liar, either. Be-
fore receiving their reward they will have to
make it clear that the independents did elect
Cleveland, which may not be easy. st. John,
now, would be at no trouble; but it is under
stood that he took his pay in advance, and is
enjoyiag great peace of mind in consequence.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-15
"PRocIAIM LIBERTY TO THE LAND"

JULIA "a ~ 49, 1ANOa
The proposition to send the old Independ-
ence bell to the Worlds Exposition at New
Orleans is a good one, and, with due precau-
tions for its safe transportation there and back,
should be adopted. Starting from the Re-
publican city of Philadelphia and the great
Republican State of Pennsylvania, let it tell
to all the South the liberality of the Repub-
lican North that, in the interests of comfy
and good fellowship, has allowed a coterie of
votes to seat a President who has not
been elected. Let it tell to them that the
generous and patriotic North consents to
the rape of two-score seats in Congress, APP
portioned to the South because of a population
that is not allowed to vote and have it's votes
counted. Let it tell to the South that the
Union-loving North, while not forgetting that
on a fair vote and honest count, North and
South Carolina, Alabama and Louisiana, and
possibly Mississippi and Florida, are Repub-
lican, allows them to be credited to the Dem
ocratic candidates. Let the old bell go, and
may its ringing re-awaken the spirit Of 76,
and all the noble impulses that a hundred
years ago animated the people of Revo-
lutionary fame. May the echoes of its
ringing arouse a feeling of patriotic justice
and the determination that the majority shall
rule. Animated as is the North by the great
principle of popular government, we would in
truth have a united, harmonious, progressive
and prosperous people. Let the Independ-
ence bill signal the deliverance Of the South
ern people, white and black, from the thral-
dom of partisan leaders whose hands are still
crimsoned with the blood of innocent men.
Let it ring in the new, the dawn OF
nobler patriotism, and ring out the old,
the regime of Ku-kluxism, the reign of
needs patriots, not partisans; needs less pro
s~cription and more freedom. If the North,
with its vast industrial enterprises, can forego
its rights in the vital matter of electing a
President, surely the South can bring itself
to similar concessions. The North consents
to palpable injustice in the hope that good
will result, in that the eyes of all the people
may be opened to the fact that the American
people are so closely allied in all their
material interests that no party can
long afford to enjoy the benefits of fraud,
nor can any party long go forward in
any course inimical to the welfare of the
people. Though maintaining the injustice of
seating Cleveland by virtue of votes to which
he is not entitled, the Republican party, rep
resenting the generous North, consents to it,
and trusts that the new administration may
be so conducted as to afford every guaranty
that moderation shall prevail in the matters Of
national legislation, and that a broader patri-
otism may hereafter underlie elections in the
now solid South.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-15

THERE are people who think that to be mar
ried by a justice of the peace is scarcely respect
able and there are Others who have no such no
tons. A young couple of the latter class went
into a Cincinnati Justices Office this week, intent
on matrimony. The squire performed the cere-
mony in his usual graceful manner, and
had barely got the concluding formula,
pronounce y man nd wife-two dollars" when
a drunken, filthy, ragged hummer, who was
among the spectators, made a dash at the pretty,
trim little bride and administered the kiss com
mon to such occasions when friends and rela-
tives are present. A scream, a fainting fit,
a pause of horror, and the spectacle of a loafer
propelled through a door by a boot completed
the scense. 1t is safe to assert that the next
time that young woman gets married she will
insist upon having the wedding in church.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-15

A GIRL has been born in New York city desti-
tuteof arms and legs, a documentary formation
like a toe being the only evidence of even an en-
bryotic limb. This, we believe, is the first in
stance of the kind known, though babes have
been born and grown to maturity that had no
hands or no feet, but not deficient in both. It is
thought that when this child grows up she will
quietly accept her fate-at any rate she won't
put up a kick about il.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-15

IT would be worth a great deal to the future
of honorable politics if the Democrats of New
York persist in their scheme to reward
Roscoe Conkling with the United States SEN
atorship. To accomplish this there would
have to be at least fifteen Republican mem
bers of the Legislature vote with the Demo
Gratis and against their party candidate. We
should like to see the experiment tried.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-15

HAVING contributed solid Democratic dele
fraud and bloodshed, and having likewise
opened its purse and given money literally and
effectively to carry Northern States for Cleve-
land, is there any one foolish enough to i'm
agine that the solid South will be backward
about asking for whatit wantsi
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-15

A VERY mad Republican organ says that
Cleveland has a neck like a mans thigh and
ahead like a bull" 1t is not believed, how
ever, that this will materially change the vote
of the State of New York.-Chicago Times.
1t was our own Hon. Daniel W. Voorhees,
who thanked God" for these physical pecu-
~liarities of the Democratic presidential candi-
Jo+o
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-15

FRIVOLOUS society people at the national cap
ital are already agitated over the coming in
augural ball. There will be a ball, of course,
for some man will be inaugurated on the 4th of
March. These giddy people do not much care
who the coming man is, but when the conviction
strikes them that there is no suitable place in
the city for holding the ball, then are their
minds stirred to the depths with anxiety.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-15

REV. DR.. TIFFANY, OF New York, speaking
Thursday evening to the Methodist ministers
at Philadelphia, said that DR.. Burchard's
"Rum, Romanism and Rebellion" had don in
jury to religion and the Republican party be-
vond calculation.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-15

Poor Carl Schurz, after g~yrating around
Che country at a dizzy rate, and posing as the
great modern refOrmer, seems likely to fall
into a hole which he has digged for himself.
Leading Democrats are quoted as saying that
they do not want Mr.. Schurz in the Cabinet,
because every department of the government
Eil be oYeghSuled, and the eccentric German,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-15

INCREDIBLE as it may seem, it is reported, on
what seems good authority, that a major
has died in New York city. No affidavit accom-
panies the announcement but we see no reason
to discredit the not unwelcome news. The ira
dition that drum majors are immortal is thus
effectually dispelled.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-15

A WASHINGTON telegram to the New York
Herald says: ''The absence of Mr.. W. III.
Calkins. of Indiana, among the Republicans
of the next House, will be regretted, for he
was one of the few members of his party
whose popularity commended him to all of his
colleagues in Congress-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-15

IT is pretty safe to say that George II.
Pendleton and Joseph E.. Mcdonald, two of
the ablest and best men of their party, will
have little voice in shaping its affairs.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-15

THE Rev. DR.. Worthington, Of Detroit,
will accept the Episcopal bishopric of Ne
braska, as the successor of Bishop Clarkson,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-15

TT is said that this years crop of figs has been
very large, but that a great portion of the cured
portion has soured in transit. This is to be de-
plored; but then we have the succulent date to
fall back on, with all its concomitants of dirt
and other foreign but Characteristic ingredients.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-15
To the Editor of the indianapolis Journal:

Who were the candidates for Governor of the
State since 1860, and the majorities obtained
This will decide a bet. r. L. FARMER.
EVANSVILLE, Wabash county, Nov. II.
1S6O-Henry S. Lane and Thomas A. Hen
bricks. Lanes majority, 9,759.
1861 Oliver P. Morton and Joseph +. Nc
Donald. Morton's majority, 20, $50.
1~868-Conrad Baker and Thomas A. Hen.
bricks. Bakers majority, 961.
~1872-Thomas M. Browne and Thomas A.
Hendricks. Hendricks majority, 1,14S.
1876-Benjamin Harrison and James D. Will
Jams. Williams's plurality, 5,084.
18S0-Albert G. Porter and Franklin Landers.
Porter's plurality, 6,952.
1sS4-William H.. Calkins and Isaac P. Gray.
Gray's plurality 1882.
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TWELVE PAGES.
The Sunday n

The issue of the Sunday Journal tomorrow
should command the attention of readers and
patrons 1t will have many attractive features
The Sunday Journal, sold for three cents, has
the largest and best constituency of any Sunday
paper in the State. 1t is the peoples paper.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-15

A NEW YoRKER was recently arrested, hand
cuffed and thrown into prison for asking a police
man his number. The proper way to ascertain
a New York policeman's number is to knock him
down and take it away from him.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-15

Now that the election excitementhas cleared
away, d little knot of philanthropists who love
the Indians, are rushing around wildly trying
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-15

THE weather prophet that predicts warm
weather for the next four years is the kind to
have.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-15

SAY what you please, there is not a little sat
i~sfaction for Americans that the Washington
monument is the highest structure in the world.
twenty-five more working days will see it COM
Melted.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-15

To the Editor of the indianapolis Journals:
/ had a dispute with a friend whether JEFF
Davis was ever DISTINGUISHED, or a legal voter III
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-15

1884, and he agreed to let the Journal settle the
dispute. Please answer. SUBSCRIBER.
JAMESTOWN, Nov. IA.
Jefferson Davis does not vote.