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New-York tribune., 1885-09-18
Miscellaneous.

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New-York tribune., 1885-09-18

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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-26
CURRENT PRESS COM MENT.

Do President Cleveland and his chosen associates
in the administration of the federal government mean
to keep on earning their living only by shooting littlo
birdss" Do they mean to dodge their responsibilities
to the country as its representative magistrates and
to their party as it's representative leaders, by con-
silver kings" for a compromise, when they wela
know that nothing short of the absolute repeal of the
Bland act will meet the real necessities of the hour?
Is the Democratic State convention of New York TO
follow the cowardly example set in Pennsylvania,
Virginia. Iowa and Ohios-New York Herald.
WHAT good is it if the President means well under
such conditions9 Why should as be credited with
badlya In administration there is nothing to Judge
from but the results. If it is civil-service reform that
this administration is giving us, then civil service re-
form is q g~littering fraud, an unmitigated swindle.
But 1T is not civil-service reform. 1t is q now system
of spoliation vastly more sweeping and unspeakably
more corrupting than that which permitted members
Of Congress to dictate appointments. and held them
responsible for them. Under the administrations
method of reforming the civil service, only a system
of indeterminate sentences that will keep criminals
housed up will protect the service from this class.
Milwaukee Sentinel.
BETWEEN 1870 and 1880 the white population Of
the United States increased from 33 500, 245 to 49,
ton from 4,866.3S7 to $3.50, 1913, or 34.67 per
cent. Yet the colored people gained nothing from inn
migration, while something like three millions were
added to the white population from that source. The
contemplation of these suggestive figures has caused
the subject of what is to be the future of the colored
race here to be discussed in a new light, and in a tenn
per very different from that with which it used to DO
treated. Will the whites be swamped by the blacks.
in certain parts of the Union es ecially, or must We
look for a~malgamation in the future' These are ques-
tons which are very seriously asked by men who have
given careful study to the facts of the situation.-New
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-26

For ways that are dark and tricks that are
vain commend Us to the hungry horde now
besieging the administration for place.
Horse-thieves, confessed bribers, burglars and
rogues Of all degrees have been found among
them, and the end is not yet. And now a
new swindle is discovered among the faithful.
1t has been found that one young man who
got a favorable paper in competitive examina.
ton got it by proxy, his brother having under
gone the ordeal and used his name Alas,
and an era of reform!
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-26

THE Boston minds who projected a Grant
memorial day had a moment of alteration, in
which they forgot the traditions of the city
long enough to name ex-senator Conkling as
first choice for orator of the day, with Henry
Ward Beecher as second. They were brought
to their senses speedily enough after their ac-
ton was made known, by the wall of disgust
which arose from loyal citizens because home
talent was neglected. Now it is proposed to
substitute native orators for the aliens pro-
posed, and to withdraw the invitations to the
latter. Some regrets are expressed over the
consequent modification to Conkling and
Beecher, but these gentlemen will doubtless
survive the slight.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-26

JUDGE LooHRANE, Of Georgia, in the New
York World, denies with great vehemence
the statements of Lieutenant Isgrigg respect
Ing the arrest of Jefferson Davis. Mr.. Loeb
rane says that Mr.. Davis represents in his
person the true type of all that is bold and
chivalrous" in the Southern race. This is the
sort of stuff that makes it almost hopeless to
expect a homogeneous country on any other
basis than an exaltation Of rebelism and a
consequent abasement of the principles. upon
which the war of the Rebellion was conducted
by the national government.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-26

THE New York Times, with great truth and
rare candor, says: '1n the Democratic party
the spirit of reform is only beginning to assert
itself. In the Republican party we may count
it fully established, partly by the severe les
sons of adversely, but in the main because the
well-grounded, honest convictions of the great
mass of the party have asserted themselves,
and have compelled The reluctant leaders to
accept a pledge of fidelity to reform in the
civil service as a conspicuous part Of every
declaration of party principles"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-26

Hon. JOHN SHERMAN opens the campaign
in Ohio to-day with a speech at Mt. Gilead,
Morrow county. The New York Evening Post
has a lengthy editorial upon tho Ohio CAM
paign, in which it argues strongly for Repub-
lican success, 80 as to insure the return of MIR.
Sherman to the Senate. Of tbs Senator's
public service and character it says:
"Mr. Sherman has been in public life "a
congressman, senator or Cabinet minister more
than thirty years, and has rendered very great
services to the country. He is one of the
foremost Of American statesmen, possessing
store of experience beyond any other man
now in public life, and with all his faculties
unimpaired. He is q politician, but a pol-
itician of the useful type. He has not stood
absolutely perpendicular in all the financial
gales that have swept the State of Ohio in his
time, but his average line has been true. and
his personality has been at times the decid-
ing influence which guided the policy of
the Nation. The restoration of specie pay
ments is inseparably coupled with his name.
Whether this great achievement was due more
to himself or to the f~avoring circumstances
of the time is immaterial. A less skillful and
less experienced hand would probably have
made a botch of it. The public relied upon
him to enforce a law which, when passed. very
few expected to see carried into execution,
and they did not rely in vain.
''The elevation of the national credit is not
Mr.. Skrman's sole claim to public confidence.
He has shown remarkable fertility of resource
in all the emergencies of politics during the
past quarter of a century. He is a partisan
of the unfinching type, but withal a states
man of keen discernment and high usefulness.
III 80 ~ &c xLo nloeo C 4,,oJ o~l --l 80
of ability and leaders Of parties whom any
State ought to be proud to keep as her repre-
sentative in the highest councils of the Nation.
We shall be surprised if the people of Ohio do
not find means, even in the existing tangle,
to return him to the Senate"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-26
THE New York World saws:

'The merchants of this city, and, in fact,
business men throughout the country, are to
be congratulated upon the substantial i'm
provement in general trade, which has grown
more and more apparent with the approach of
the fall season. Only a short time ago this
improvement was confined to one or two
branches, but the change for the better now
includes most of the leading industries of the
country. Cotton and wooden goods, iron,
groceries, etc, are all in better demand, and
are bringing better prices than for a long time
past. The American people seem to have at
last thrown off the lethargy which has been
the main characteristic Of the commercial
world since the reaction set in after the
boom of 1679-1881, and, having regained
confidence, are preparing, with their proverb-
ial energy, to build up American commerce
and manufactures"
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THE National Republican saws:

ut is a welcome truth that at this time
some fifteen or sixteen months after the
killing of the Morrison monstrosity by the
Republican party and protection Democrats,
and fourteen months after the PRONUNCIATION
OF the last Democratic platform-we are en-
tering upon a business revival. We do not
charge that all the depression of the past two
years has been occasioned by fears of Demo
cratic legislation and administration. Other
causes have had some share in producing in
dustrial disturbance. But it is a self-evident
fact-a fact known of all men-that
our great industries are in mortal
dread of the free-trade Democracy. And
any sensible man who will read the speeches
made by Mr.. Randall and his associates
against the Morrison bill will find the reasons
for this dread. 1t was those speeches, quite as
much as anything else, that created alarm, for
they were accepted as reluctant confessions of
Democrats, while Republican speeches were
credited to partisan zeal.
"There is no danger of anya4fee-trade legis-
lation while the Republicans have a safe ma
jority in the Senate. 1t is hoped that the
conservatism of the President and his Secre-
tary of the Treasury may have a tendency to
restrain the zeal Of the free-traders in Con
gress. Should this hope be realized, the
present business revival will last for some
time"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-26

CARMEL N. Y, has a postmistresseditor who
succeeded to both these offices of honor and
em~olument after the death of her husband. Not
only is she a competent official and satisfactory
editor. but she is likewise a widow to which any
masculine shade might point with pride as Il
truly loyal relict. Having been criticised by
some Democratic citizens, she replies through
her paper as follows:
''Those whom our predecessor [meanine her
husband, the late editorl had helped, and even
put in office in times gone by. were the first to
abuse his memory. But we raised his motto as
our guiding star, and have consclentiousiy ana
carefully adhered to the right, and to-day our
books are open to those who are interested to
know that the widows God has not forsaken us"
And then she goes on to say that she shall
continue to keep the Office in the building which
had held it when her lamented predecessor and
husband was alive. and, as a clincher, she points
out that she is obliged to rent of a Re publican
landlord, inasmuch as no Democrat in the town
owns a room suitable for the office. If a Repub-
lican postmaster and editor must leave this
world, as sometimes, unfortunately. happens, he
may count himself favored of Providence in
being so ably represented and defended after his
departure.
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That secured, and the circus performance will
with no postponement on account of

That secured, and the circus performance will
begin, with no postponement on account of
weather.
That the above-quoted sentence was not an
accidental misstep, another from the same
number of the Sun may be cited in a like
vein. Speaking of Mr.. McDonald's remark,
II will frankly say that I would not have
voted for the civii-service law" the Sun says:
''Mr. Mcdonald has long been known as a de-
voted Hoosier, but We doubt if he ever emit
ted a sentence which more truthfully repre-
scented Indiana sentiment. There are true
Democrats in Indiana" This is the Suns es-
innate of Indiana Democracy, of that party to
the aid of which some very estimable but mis-
guided gentlemen went last year. Mr.. Nc
Donald, hostile to the enactment of such a
law, represents Indiana sentiment" The
shame Of such fellowship, the humiliation
of being made the victim Of
such an unconscionable confidence game,
should seal the mouth Of the mugwump, if
not send him back to the better paths from
which he strayed. Democratic professions of
honesty and reform are the same to-day, yes
terday and forever. For years the act has be-
lied the promise. Having sneaked into power
this time by the n%arrowest of pluralities, and
the most stupendous system of false promises,
the representative Democratic papers. with
Hl-concealed impatience, now spit upon the
mugwump, and laugh his ideas to scorn. No
one man can hope to stand out against the
rank and file Of the Democratic party.
Its sympathy is with Hendricks
more than with Cleveland. The latter dare
not interfere with the Vice-president's small
slice of the spells. He awarded him little,
but that little must not be molested. The
issue has been skillfullv avoided by the aid of
an accommodating civil-service commission,
and the way for the Presidents breakdown has
been made easy. At this j~uncture he dare
not lock horns with the Indiana sentiment"
What he will do after the election in New
York and Ohio remains to be developed.
Meanwhile the Democratic press is making a
f%oot-wiper of the mugwumps.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-26
Sp0TTS TN

If the m%ugwumps are not sick Of their bar
gain and ashamed of the company they are
in, Republicans are ashamed for them, and
ashamed Of having produced men simple
enough to put their trust in Democratic prom
ises Of reform. Not a day passes but the
recreant Republicans who helped pull the
Democratic chestnuts out Of the fire are in
suited for their pains. The last Democratic
paper to take a whack at them is the New
York Sun. The Sun, apparently, has no con-
ception Of the absurdity of it reading mug
wumps out of the Democratic party, and pro-
ceeds to the work with all the seriousness of a
deacon in good standing. A snub from the
Sun ought to be too much, but it appears that
nothing is too much for the meek and lowly
mugwumpst to submit to. In its Sunday issue
the Sun says:
'For once, every true Democrat hopes that
the m~ugwumpian speaking-tube, the Evening
Post, is right when it says that the President
is soon to stop making changes The time to
stop making changes will be when the Repub-
licans have been turned out, and the govern
ment is in Democratic hands. The sooner
that is done the better"
The spectacle of a disloyal, fa!tering Dem
ocratic paper like the Sun rebuking the phar-
isees with more than pharisaical self-com-
placency, is one of the richest of the season.
How much of this can the mugwumps standf
How do the sanity editors of Harper's
Weekly, the Post, the Times, and papers of
that class, like the idea of being with a crowd
actuated by such sentiments And how do
these sentiments compare with the Miss
Nancy promises made by the sly deceiver
onlya year agos The Democratic AK is grounded
for the present; but the fall elections will
be past in a few weeks, and then business will
begin in earnest, if the indications of Demo
cratic sentiment are worth anything. What
the administration wants is an Endorsement.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-26

THE Journal can have no possible contro.
versy with the papers of Jacksonville over
the fitness of that place for the southern
penitentiary. We merely published the naked
fact that Warden Howard said Jeffersonville
was not a fit place for the prison, without
commencing or indorsing the opinion. The
quarrel of the Jacksonville people and papers
is with the warden, and not with the journals
that have simply reproduced Colonel How
ards remark.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-26

THE suicide of William Carleton, the play
writer, has brought out a number of touch
ing obituaries of Will Carleton, the author of
'Betsy and I Are Out" Good, sympathetic
people are mourning because of the SUPPOSE
ton that tbs writer of the pathetic ballad,
'Over the Hill to the Poor house. was driven
by impecuniosity to a choice between the
poor-house and death. Lots of them will
never learn their mistake, and will continue
to cherish a belief in the irony of fate as
instanced in this f~avorite verse writer's case,
unconscious hat he is all the time enjoying
prosperity and afiuence.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-26
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

NINE monuments to General Grant are at present
| projected in this country.
THE foundation Of three-fourths of all cases of con.
sumption is laid before the age Of twenty-five years;
in women, during their teens.
THOSE who fear lest the humor has gone out of the
Western frontier may be treasured. A newspaper
just started in Kansas is named the Thomas County
Cat.
NINE. PATTI was asked to appear in "l Barbiere"
and La Traviata', at Munich, with King Louis of
Bavaria constituting the entire audience, but she
fatty refused.
NOT many persons know that on the middle stem
underneath a cotton leaf, is a small cell or cavity that
contains a drop of blood, which can be seen by press.
ing between the thumb nails.
No one can possibly sink if the heads thrust entire
ly under water, and in this position a novice can swim
as easily as walk, and get to shore readily by lifting
the head at intervals for breath.
DURING eight centuries ones direct ancestors would
amount to 16, 600 600. taking three generations to
the century, though, rs a matter of course, the figures
would be immensely reduced by intermarriage.
A MAN became bankrupt with liabilities of 500, 900.
and in the settlement Of the estate, which yielded 70
per cent. to the creditors, the costs of the admiuistra-
ton amounted to less than 50. This happened away
off in Smaland, Sweden.
AAH NOhVo "a now o " ISSluX
and it consists in rubbing cheeks. The maidens meet.
The nose of one is slid back about to the ear of the
other, and the conjunctive cheeks, held hard, are slow
ly rubbed together until they part at the corners of
the mouths.
AMONG the most beautiful women at the Pequot
House, New London, this summer, Mrs. George In
graham, wife of Judge Ingrahan. Of New York, ranks
foremost. Mrs. 1ngrahan is Of that indsscribable
type having dark.brown hair, large gray eyes and
brilliant color.
JACOB KEIFER. of Bridgeport. Conn, has growing
in the open air q quantity of fine ripe figs. He has a
peculiar method of cultivation, which brings the figs
along at an early date and in fine condition. He says
it is easy enough to have fine figs in this climate and
to have them early, also.
A TOURIST in New Mexico writes that he started
back in horror ON first seeing one Of those black-eyed
beauties whom he had heard described as character.
istic of the native people. She was ginger colored,
hard featured, barefooted, half naked and very untidy.
and she proved TO be a type. too.
Now it is said that what is left of the Washington
of the administration. One Washington scion is to
be appointed government storekeeper at an Alexan.
dria distillery, and another one, who is more nearly re-
lated to the original George, is to have a consulate.
ROSCOE CoNKLING Is q man much sought by the
interviewer. but he declines emphstically and
promptly. and with all the frigidity at his command,
to be interviewed. Yet he will talk with the utmost
freedom and express his feelings in the fullest degree
when he thinks they are not going to be reproduced
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-26

THE New York Republican committee took
wise action in inviting the participation of all
voters "who adhere to the principles of the
Republican party, and whose general intention
Is to act with the party, and promote it's sue
cess by their votes and influence at the next
general election without regard to any So
called fundamental test" This action opens
the door to all those members Of the party
who felt themselves unable to vote
for Mr.. Blaine last November. Deeply
as it may be regretted that
there were such, and blind as we
may believe those to be who relied upon the
Democratic party to do more for civil-service
reform than the Republican administration
would have done under Mr.. Blaine's presi-
dency, it must be remembered that very many
of them are still adherents of Republican
principles, and will be glad to renew their al
legiance to the party. In the contest this fall in
New York, and in Ohio, and in all other places,
the Republican party should invite the CO.
operation of all who believe in its general
policy, and who will unite for it's future sue
cess, without respect to the personal differ
ences that temporarily estranged them last
vaar
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-26

In London recently a wagon load of young
girls was hauled through the streets bearing a
banner reading, "Shall the Innocents Be
SlainP' This is absurd to a degree; but how
much more ridiculous was the ambiguous
Democratic motto of the sixties: ''White
Husbands or None!" The simple folk of Lon
don have almost as much to learn as the Re-
publican party has taught American Democ-
racv.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-26

annum. 1t cost Mr.. Davis just $3.50 to trans
port himself, wife and child there. After
their arrival they took African fever, which
attacks all newcomers to that coast, and were
i'll a long time. BY the aid of friends and the
sale of their personal effects they were enabled
to get away, and now Mr.. Davis finds himself
81, 900 out of pocket as a result of one years
diplomatic service. He will not apply for an
other position Of the kind.
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viper of the mugwumps.

THE administration is doing one thing, at
least, that is commendable. 1t is looking into
the presidents of those clerks and department
attaches in Washington who claim that they
ing Democrats, though holding positions
under Republican administrations. The new
Commissioner Of Patents came across one of
these fellows recently, and promptly and
properly dismissed him. The man put up a
pitiful howl Of indignation that a true
Democrat should be so despitefully used. Mr..
Montgomery looked him over and then called
for the letters Of recommendation upon which
he was originally appointed. "You are a
Democrat, are your Eyes, sir" replied the
man. "And always have been7" "Always."
''Ihen you are discharged for falsehood and
for obtaining an office under false pretenses.
In this application for appointment, filed five
years ago, you state that you are a Republican,
no one but Republicans Endorsed you, and
every one of Thorn commends you as a faith
full and useful member of that party. You
can CO." A man of that description ought to
go, for be is worthy only of the contempt of
honest men. And exactly the same thing
may be said of Capt. P. Ell. Bowling, of Tole-
do, who never dreamed of being anything but
q Republican until he found that his lease of
Office might depend upon currying favor with
the Democratic party. Their he comes out
strong, and is a better Democrat than any
body. He is plainly on the make, and if his
contemplate action does not win for him the
treatment he deserves, the President will be
lacking in Judgment and in gratitude to men
who have been Democrats from principle. The
Toledo Bowling seems a fair match for the In
dianapolis Bowling. They are a fine pair.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-26

THE sudden death of Hon. Reuben E. Fen.
ton removes a man who was once quite a
prominent figure in New York and national
politics. In later years, however, he has
lived a comparatively retired life, but always
setaine6 an active interest in public affairs.
He was q man of fair abilities and of good
character, and has lone very considerable
service to his State and country.