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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-16

GEORGIA couple give points to Mr..
Howells the settlement of little family
affair like that of the Laphams. Before he
really knew his own mind young man of
Macon became engaged to the beautiful daughter
of one of the first families. Presently he dis
covered that the being his soul really yearned
for, and who alone could make him happy, was
his fair fiancee's plain and peck marked sister.
A brief interview disclosed the fact that the
pitted one reciprocated his affection. Instead of
holding family consultation over the matter
and calling upon the minister and other outsiders
for advice, the two no sooner discovered their
affinity than they eloped and were married. The
shock to the deserted beauty was. of course,
severe; but, after ALL it must be considered an
Improvement upon the Lapham plan of prolong-
Ing the misery of three people for two years,
knowing, as all of them did, how it would finally
end.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-16
REPUBLICAN CITY TICKET.
For MAYoR-CALEB s. DENNY.
For CLERK-GEORGE T. BREUNIG.
The Platform.

The Republicans of Indianapolis accept the issue
made in the platform and nominations of the Demo
cratic city convention and in the pending and
approaching election invite the cooperation and sup
port, not only Of the members of their own party,
but of all citizens of whatever political affiliations.
who favor
First-The enforcement of law in the interest of
public order and for the of private rights
Second-The strctest economy in the administration
of the affairs of the city within the revenue
raised from the present rate of taxation, and of the
refundng of the existing city debt at lower rate Of
interest
Third-The levy of tax of 800 per year upon
each saloon in the city, the proceeds whereof shall be
placed in the general fund of the city treasury.
Fourth-The overthrow of the arrogant domination
of the Liquor League in the politics of the city and
State.
Fifth-A rebuke to the Democratic officers of State
who have prostituted the metropolitan police system
30 the basest partisan ends whereby the ctys good
name has been scandalized it's peace and good order
inperiled and the efforts of honorable public officers
20 vindicate the law paralyzed.
sT want to say, in the first place. that
plant myself squarey, fat-fOoted, with both
feet upon the platform you have adopted
Mr.. DENNY's ACCEPTANCE SPEECH
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-16

THE Rev. Henry Ward Beecher sends the
following to the Rochester Post-Express from
Peekskill, N. Y: 81 am decidedly in favor
of the insertion of high-hcense plank in the
platform of the Republican State convention,
because absolute prohibition is an absolute
impossibility. High license is feasible and
equitable. The moral sense of the community
will sustain the demand. The result will be
greater protection of society from the evil
of liquor selling than by any other method
that can be enforced"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-16

has been at the mercy of his ex MASTER hun
dreds Of negroes have been murdered, thou
sands beaten and logged, and through vio-
lence, and murder, and fraud free elections
have been unknown. 1t is bad enough that
in their own affairs the Southern States can
not be honest and free. The North. how
ever, can stand that if the South can. But
there is one thing that the men Of the North,
in common with the free and fair men of all
sections of the Nation, cannot stand, and that
is to allow the people of any State or coterie
of States to cast two votes when they are en-
titled to but one. The South may conduct her
internal affairs to suit herself, but when
it comes to selecting men for the electoral
college, field is entered in which all the peo-
pie are interested. The people of Ohio and
of Indiana want as much to say in national
affairs, man for man, as the people of South
Carolina If a few murderers were to attempt
to override Democratic majority in this
State, no one would be sooner to denounce it
than the News and Courier IT, by threats,
or violence, or fraud, enough votes could be
suppressed to change the result of the national
election in this State, and it would be appar-
ent in the returns, the South would ring with
the outrage The News and Courier errs in
getting unduly excited. The revolution" it
bloviates about can be accomplished by the
change of LOCO votes in one State If the
Republican party undertakes to remedy this
matter it will do it with justice and equity to
all men and to all States. There will be no
revolution nor bloodshed. The solid South
may stay solid if it will, but the Southern man
will hardly be allowed to continue welding
twice as much power in the electoral college
and in congressional representation as does
his fellow-citizen of the North.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-16

Liquor Leaguers three years ago, in the State
election, and their threats produced an impress
sion upon some timid people. This is as foul
an attack upon the fairness and freedom of the
suffrage as that practiced upon the black Re-
publicans of the South by DULLES and bulldoz-
ers there Mr. Waterman should be given to
understand that his cowardly tactics will not
be tolerated in the North, and with men who
know their rights and are not afraid to main
tain them.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-16

THE Democratic press doesn't consist. Be-
tween trying to shake off and discourage the
mugwumps and to claim all the political vir
tues afoat, the various Democratic organs are
badly at sea. In the New York Sun of Satur-
day, It was declared that
''The Republican party got into power by
fighting for fundamental principles of popular
self government. They got out of power after
they had adopted the anti-popular principle of
competitive examinations and permanent ten
ure of Office. Then the people bounced them"
This means that the mugwumps not only were
not responsible for the success of the Demo
cratic party, but that 'the people elected the
Democratic ticket despite the disadvantage Of
mugwump support The New York World
improves on this, and disposes of the mug
wumps at the same time, combination for
which the Democratic party has been seeking
for the past six months. The World says:
''The fact that the Democratic party had
evidently determined to make Mr.. Tilden
again its standard-bearer is sufficient to dis
prove the assertion that civil-service reform
was nOC an issue III the campaign honestly
maintained by the Democracy. Mr.. Tilden
stood as the representative of practical civil
service reform, and Mr.. Cleveland was the
second choice of the Democratic convention
because he was tine first choice of Mr.. Tilden,
and had the active and united support of all
of Mr.. Tilden's trained and tried political
managerial of them. by the way, thorough
machine politicians"
From this it appears that civil-service re-
form was not forced upon the party by the
mugwumps nor was it put on as a disguise to
fool them. According to the World, this hon
orable garment has been as religiously worn
by the Democratic party as a cowl is by the
strictest of monks. For nine years, now, or
ever since the nomination and election" of
the great and only Samuel j. Tilden, the
party has fought bled and scrambled for
civil-service reform. Without the people
would consent to accept reform, the Demo
cratic party had no desire to assume the cares
of state-no wish to leave its religious niche,
so virtuously and beautifully filed by it. In
deed it didn't. The World deserves monu-
ment an even thousand feet high.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-16

'1T is appropriate to say that the Star has
no association whatever with either the
national, State or city administrations No
gentleman connected with any department of
those governments is related to it."
The above is paragraph from the saluta-
tory of the new Democratic organ in New
York city, the Star. And yet its editor and
proprietor is William Dorsheimer, United
States attorney for the Southern district of New
York. The Star. under its new management,
is not only an "organ," but it does not even
affect to tell the truth. BY both these tokens
its days are numbered. To succeed in this
age newspaper must not be an sorgan" of
any man or of any party, in the old and mar
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-16

The present reform" administration will
not tolerate Offensive partisans" in Office
The editor of the Marshalltown Qa) States
man was recently appointed an internal reve-
nue. collector. He continues to be editor, and
last week his paper contained an editorial of
which the following is an extract:
Scarcely month ago we read in the New
York Tribune quavering wall, all because a
copperhead President of the United States
was appointing copperheads to Office. Yes,
gentlemen. loyalists, you patriotic members
of the home guards whose thirst for blood
grows greater as the years make war
still more and more memory, the
'copperhead' party is on top in this country.
1t holds the House of Congress by big ma
jority. Its chosen leader and his 'copperhead'
| advisers are daily ousting from office and DO
sition the possessors of tongues whose idea of
politics is to hiss copperhead as their polit-
ical masters go by. The sting of the taunt is
killed by the salve Of success. Hiss away you
little creaturesp
Of course, Republican Senate must obei-
sanity consent to the removal of faithful
and efficient officer on the grounds that he is
an offensive partisan" and advise and con-
sent to the appointment of man who writes
and prints such editorials as the above, even
after he has entered upon his official duties.
Possibly the Senate will do So and possibly il
will not
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-16

WATERMAN, the Democratic candidate for
councilman in the Ninth ward, threatened a
young business man with 'boycotting" and
commercial ruin il he did not support him.
This infamous style of bulldozing should be
emphatically rebuked by the voters of the
ward. The same thing was attempted by the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-16

The new administration has already had
the Republicans had in twenty-five years
Under the circumstances, however, criticism
is unkind. The great unwashed should be
allowed time in which to get accustomed to
their new surroundings and the appurtenances
of civilized life.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-16

DISCRIMINATION, or the Corporation Devil
fish," st. Louis DRAMA is running as serial
in the papers of that city. 1t is very thrill
ing, and, though it may not receive the ap-
proval of managers, seems likely to be heard
Of on the roads
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-16
He is probably IAN offensive partisan"

MR.. KELLEY has now received and resigned
two honorable and desirable positions. He
has been deprived of them through no fault
of his and by reason of no offense against his
country or his principles Washington Post.
What is the use of uttering such stuff?
Mr.. Kelley declared this government to be "a
gross and bloody violation of natural rights. "
Is not this an 'offense against his countryg"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-16

THE saloon men of Waukesha, Wis, threat
en- to boycott every man who dares to vote
for $500 license. Just such a movement as
that will bring prohibition to Waukesha with
in ten years. or less, according to the stub
bornness of the saloonists.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-16

mind of contemporary that they are ad-
vancing in the arts of civilization, with all
that the word implies in the way of stock
syndicates, determinations, pools, rate wars,
ticket scalping, etc. Would it not be more
correct and equally comprehensive to say that
they are becoming Americanized?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-16

THE Baltimore grand jury reports that the
introduction of the whipping post to punish
wife beaters has had a salutary effect Brutal
men don't care to take their own medicine.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-16

JOHN SHERMAN demands free ballot and
honest count in the elections Of the future,
and with one accord the mugwump and Dem
ocratic press decry ''the reopening of the
issues of the war" A great many honest peo-
pie thought that one Of the settled issues of
the war was just what Senator Sherman de-
mands.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-16

Andromeda is ''the star of Bethlehem"
which appears periodically about every 314
years Certain it is that it is not the star Of
civil-service reform. That went down on the
4th of March, last
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-16

WASHINGTON reporters credit Vice-presi-
dent Hendricks with an attempt to have DIR.
Matthews, of Kentucky, made supervising
Surgeon general of the. Marine Hospital Serv-
ice in place of DR.. Hamilton, while ex-
Governor English, of Indianapolis wants this
office for son-n- law, DIR. Walling While
the fight is going OH, the public would like to
know what's the matter with DR.. Hamil-
ton, who is faithful and pekent official.
Milwaukee Sentinel.
He is probably "an offensive partisan"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-16

If the saloon business justifes the contri-
button of 800 to the corruption fund it GER
4ainly can pay 800 for the privilege of con-
tinuing in the business according to law.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-16

IN the death of Judge Stanfeld the State Of
Indiana has lost a jurist of eminent ability
and high distinction, and citizen of exem-
plary character and worth. He was mem
Der of the constitutional convention, and for
more than third of century has been a
prominent and useful man.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-16

THE Democratic papers who are indiscreet
enough to admit that the South is prosperous,
will please accept the thanks of the Repub-
lican party, under whose policy this happy
state of affairs has been attained.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-16

JOHN E. LAMB, the brawler and bully, is
the United States attorney for the district OF
Indiana His appointment was scandalous;
his retention in office is indefensible.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-16

WIND and weather favoring, the Genesta
will again try the Puritan to-day. 1t would
make things all the more interesting to have
the former win this cheat"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-16

SUPPOSE each grocer in Indianapolis should
entail direct expense of over 800 year on
the city, and should the grocers form league
to resist the payment of more than 1922 Then
WHAT
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-16

If Senator Malone had begun practice with
the horsewhip some years ago, ana upon the
person of his now unpromising son. it is more
than possible that he would not have been led
to make spectacle of himself by chastising
that young mans companions. Too much
sparing of the rod seems to have caused the
degeneracy of a good many distinguished mems
sons
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-16

ACCORDING to the head lines in Philadelphia
paper there are four places in that city where
women are trained to be angels. On investiga
ton these prove not to be diehouses. as might
be supposed, but training schools for nurses.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-16

SOMEBODY has made the discovery that two of
the cherubim on the frescoed walls of one of
the Senate committee rooms at the Capitol have
the faces of jeff Daviss two children. Well,
what of ito If jeff Daviss children were ever
able to pose as cherubs so much the better for
Them but they certainly bore no resemblance to
their pa at that period of their lives.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-16

MR. WHITTIER is credited with singular
error in his poem the occasion Of the reunion
of the class of 1897. He speaks of the interven-
ing time as "a gulf of seven and fifty years"
whereas. in truth, fty-eight years have elapsed
since the commencement of 1927
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-16

THE saloonists will individually contribute
500 to keep from paying $1oO as taxes. Any
thing to compel the people to foot the bills of
the whisky business
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-16

EVERY man who pays dollars tax in the
city is interested in the effort to require the
saloonists to bear their just proportion Of the
public burden
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-16

WHAT is the politics of the Indiana town
ship treasurers any wayg-Chicago Inter
Ocean.
Never mind; they will hardly take part in
Indiana politics again.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-16

IT may be only question of time when the
snon- partisan police of this city will allow
footpads to do murder Assaults are of night
1v occurrance
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-16

REL has been respited, but no insurance
company cares to issue policy on his life.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-16

A PITTsBURa man complains because the
latest style of collar is so high that the wearer
looks as if his neck were encased in a section of
whitewashed stove pipe. 1t is an objection
easily remedied. just let the Pittsburg man
wear his new collar out in the air for a few min
utes and it will look like the OLD familiar style
"a section of stove pipe without any whtewash
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-16

In the fact that the Chinese have lately
borrowed forty million dollars for the con-
struction Of a new railway is proof to the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-16

''TURN the rascals out" Sentinel copy one
silne, and charge the administration.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-16

" occurrence
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-08-12
Strnck hY q Wafer Spout.

ST.. PAUL, Mimi, August 12.-Advices
from Deadwood say water spout struck
Lone Tree creek, near Chodron, Oak, last
Thursday, flooding the valley, drowning
four men, two children and number OF
horses, besides washing away several hun
dred yards in length of newly finished rail
road grade. A family of immigrants, con-
sistiDg Of man, his wife and three children,
were camped on the creek when the water
struck them. The man attempted 10 save
two of tho children, but was drowned with
them. The woman caught hold OF u wagon
boy as it was floating away and climbed
into it. The box was carried down TO
White river, where it struck against bank
and the woman succeeded in catching hold
of some willows and drawing herself aut.
She was dressed in nothing Int her night
clothes. The third child. as-i about four
years, was carried down by the food, but
was found alive clinging TO some debris the
next morning in White river, near the town.
The track of the food was found strewn
with dead horses, harness and grading tools,
while here and there was found the body Of
some unfortunate grader.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-08-12

NEGRO AND ArRICAN-It is a Comma,
mistake to regard the term negro .,
synonymous with African. The word peo-o
does not denote nation, but an ideal ,yn.
constituted by the assemblage Of c.r;, re-
physical characteristics exempllied in ,Sa
natives of certain portions of Africa a '''1
their descendants in America and the W..
Indies.
In Africa the area. occupied by the osr
uine negro, men with black skin, thick lin,
depressed nose, aud woolly hair, is cyrenr,;.
ingly small compared with the rcmainderof
the continent. As rule the prevarn,
color in Africa is that Of The Arab, the In.
dian, and the Australian. The true ucro
districts are the Senegal, the Gambia, fhn
Niger, and the intermediate rivers nf ~.
coast, parts of Su.!:.nia, SEMINAR ku:,;,f,r
and Darfnr. People who are ceria!nI> ,oi
negroes inhabit the whole coast Of The Mri
iterranean, the desert, the Kalr, and u,t.
tentot areas south ofthe line, Abyssinia. ara
the middle and lower Nile. This does MT
leave much territory for the typical necro-
atlanta Constitutions
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-08-12

A nobleman had favorite monkey, a
largo orang outang, which you know is the
largest species of monkey, except the 60
+ila. This monkey was very much attach
ed to his master, and to the baby boy who
was the pet of the whole family. One day
suddenly q fire broke out in the house, and
everybody WAS running mere and there to
put it out, while the little boy in his nursery
was almost forgotten and, when they
thought of him, the stair. case was all in
flames. What could be done? As they
were looking up and wondering, a large,
hairy hand and arm opened the window,
and presently the monkey appeared with
the baby in his arms, and carefully climbed
down over the porch, and brought the child
safely to his nurse. Nobody else could have
done it; for man cannot climb like a
monkey, and is not nearly so strong. YOU
NAV imagine how the faithful creature was
praised and pelted after that. This isatr
story, and the child who was saved was the
young Marquis of Kildare.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-08-12

WEIGHT OF THE SUN.-An astronomer
gives us an idea of the relative weight of
the sun and earth as follows: "Let us to
start with, weigh the sun. Suppose We
have balance gigantic enough for the pur-
pose, and the sun is resting on one of the
scales. Now put the earth in the opposite
scale. You might as we'll weigh your head
against one of the towers of East river
bridge. Pile hundred thousand earlhs
into the balance and the sun does not stir
There lies the COLOSSUS immovable. But
get together another hundred thousand and
stack them up in the pan against the sun.
Three hundred thousand worlds piled up
on one side of the balance and still the sun
keeps them up. 1t would take 3d. 600 more,
or $50 600 earlhs,to move the beam even
against a single sun, and sextillions is the
number representing the weight of the earth
in tons-a mass which is shooting through
space at the rate of eighteen miles in a
second.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-08-12

had very considerable difficulty in securing a city
treasurer, owing to the fact that boud Of sos.
600 is required. V. g. Huntington was rc-ele''-
ed nearly three months ago, but failed to g:tt
bond. u. Z. Dunn. republican, was then appoint !
cd by Judge Latham, and it was announced that
Senator Malone would furnish his bond. Dunrt
changed his mind and declined to qualify ~
terday John w. Hughes WAS appointed and .,,rc
the necessary bond. but ten minutes Thereafter
he was found to be ineligible, not residing WITHIN
the corporate limits. Judge Lath,m then A.
pointed John w. Brausford, prominent to'ac-
conist, who gave bond and will take charge OF t"o
office at once. Bransford is democrat.