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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-15
A MANS RIGHT OF NAME.

It is claimed, as defense for those who
were guilty of the rascally trick of putting
out an election ticket bearing the names of
men who had Indignantly denied the use of
them for such purpose, that people have the
right to vote for whom they please Tech
nically, this may be correct, but it is the pal
triest sophistry when employed to explain
away the contemplate trickery which the
Journal exposed Tuesday morning. Honor
able men do not arbitrarily use the names of
other men for the advocacy of any cause or
scheme without first obtaining the owners con-
sent; much less do they persist in the use of
such names when their owners fatty refuse to
permit it. If Christian, or "prohibitionist,
in the supposed interest of moral reform"
can use the name Of John Smith
in its advocacy or furtherance without
or against Mr.. Smiths consent then the
vender Of any swindle can use the same name
in the same way. The moral quality of the
two actions is precisely the same; it does not
change it in the slightest because in the one
case the person who makes the unauthorized use
thinks his cause or scheme a good one. A
man has the exclusive right to the control of
his own name. He may lend it or not, as
suits him, for the furtherance of any object;
take and use the name of another man in the
advocacy of any object or scheme, without
consent, and indeed, in the face of denial, is
to break down every safeguard which common
honesty has decreed for the protection of what
20 many men is dearer and more valuable than
their material wealth. AS matter of morals,
it is less criminal to pick a mans pocket than
to use his name without authorization.
There is no political party in ex
istence, hitherto which has not
proceeded upon the assumption of the individ-
ual right of property in name and character,
and up to this time no party has attempted to
use any mans name without his consent; to
say nothing of using it in direct opposition to
his expressed desire. That such an innovation
is for the first time made in the interests of
presumed great moral reform leads the Jour
nal to say again: God help the reform and
God pity such ''reformers." Reforms are not
conducted to success by methods of this char
acter. AS well might the Liquor League
make free use of the names of some of the
honored and honorable men who heartily
despise it. What would be infamous in the
Liquor League cannot be justified even in
'Prohibitionist."
In these structures the journal desires to be
understood as applying them only to those
who are actually responsible for the impro-
priety alluded to. We know that the great
bulk Of those who believe in prohibition are
above and beyond meanness of any kind.
They are sincere and honorable in the propa-
cation of their principles. The criticism ap-
plies only to those whose infamed egotism or
spiteful malice leads them to the commission
of acts in the name of reform at which
angels might, and doubtless do, weep.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-15

WHEN the Republicans of New York I'M
earthed the fact that Governor Hill had been
engaged in shoddy business transactions with
the late William NJ. Tweed, and got the bet
ter of him, they would have been wise not to
have published their discoveries. A man who
could cheat Tweed is at once raised in the
estimation of the average Democratic ere
former" of New York city
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-15

THE victory of Judge Foraker and John
Sherman in Ohio will prove veritable tonic
to lot of political invertebrates, who have
attempted to emasculate the Republican party.
We especially call the attention of those emf
ment gentlemen, who were going to reform
the Republican party on new lines, to the re-
suit in the Buckeye State.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-15

The latest kilograms from Ohio report that
the Democratic State committee is claiming
the Legislature on joint ballot by majority
of three. This claim is evidently made for
the purpose of covering colossal scheme of
fraud, which the developments at Cincinnati
indicate was carefully arranged in advance for
the purpose of capturing the Legislature in
the interest of the Democrats.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-15

The Louisville Courier-J Journal thinks
Chattanooga should be ashamed" for having
returned Republican majority. Too true
Chattanooga should have remembered Cou-
shatfa, Ellenton, Hazelhurst and Danville,
and kept the city ''solid" for Democracy and
reform. Chattanooga doesn't live up to her
privileges as Southern city. Chattanooga
should be boycotted forthwith.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-15

If the fees Of the eighty Prohibition speak
ers, who were imported into Ohio to aid in the
election of the Democratic ticket, were con-
tingent on the success of that ticket, it will
be small pile of winter fuel which those
misguided men will lay in when they get
home as a result of their campaign labors.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-15

THE result of the Ohio election is not
changed, except for the better, by the later
returns. Judge Forakers plurality will be in
fhe neighborhood of $4,000, and there is no
doubt of good safe Republican majority in
the Legislature on joint ballot.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-15

A PATHETIC incident was revealed in Chi
cago divorce court Tuesday. Mrs. Frieda
hartmann was suing her husband for divorce on
grounds Of cruel treatment, when her husband
whispered something to his counsel The lawyer
frightened, and bruskly asked the complainant:
Your husband says that upon one occasion you
came home at 10 o'clock at night with torn
dress and disheveled hair; that you told him
upon that occasion that you had been at the
cemetery. How about thatl How about that"
The woman burst into tears at the question, and
could not answer for few moments 'How
about thatg" again demanded the lawyer. She
then proceeded to explain "My boy, the only
one we ever had, had been dead year that day.
1t was late in the evening when he died. re-
member it well-and when that hour came
was at his grave in Graceland, kneeling. He
was my only son, Judge, and fingered longer
than thought, arranging the flowers. When
S,ot up the big gate was closed shouted, but
one could hear. / suppose, for no one came.
saw passing expressman through the wicket
and hailed him. With his help I clambered
over the wall. That is how my dress came to be
torn" and she looked at the Judge through her
tears. The incident discounted the defendant
and his lawyer, and the case was adjourned a
dav.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-15

WE violate no confidence in saying that it
was not the rain on Tuesday which made the
Prohibition vote of Ohio so much smaller
than any one expected. The brethren are
not afraid of water, but they were afraid of a
candidate who drinks beer on the sly and
then prevaricates about it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-15

REPUBLICANS can afford to shake hands
around once more, and then get ready for the
New York plum. Everything points to Re-
publican victory there. The very desperation
of Democracy in dragging an unwilling in
dorsement of Hill from the President con-
firms It
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-15

THE Democracy of Ohio feel confident of
winning in the State election tomorrow. A
rousing majority there would make it all the
more certain that Governor Robinson can be
beaten here in Massachusetts, Globe
Well, have you heard the news; and, if So
what do you think will be the effect in the
old Bay State now?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-15

THE New York Graphic, with Delphic So
lemnity says: eve don't know who the next
President win be, but we confidently venture
the prediction that it won't be Sherman or
Malone" We are not half so sure of that.
Sherman has grown by several degrees this
waak
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-15

WHEN Foraker recovered consciousness af-
ter his joint debate with Hoadly his first
words were the old theatrical chestnut:
Where am I9'-Chicago Times.
And when Foraker got up off Hoadly, on
Tuesday evening, to count the votes, the lat
ter din't say word-not word.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-15

HAD few more Republicans been persuad
ed to follow the third-party "Prohibitionists,
1.-The city would now be turned over to ssSim'
Coy and the gang.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-15

THE emotional nature of the colored man,
and his Characteristic timidty in all matters
not thoroughly comprehended by him, was
illustrated at Livingston, Ala, last Saturday
night. During the early part of the night a
man shot and fatally wounded his wife, mis-
taking her for burglar. and the sheriff shot
and wounded his deputy in mistake fora noted
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-15

had an issue worthy of them. and were not
afraid of it. All honor to the sturdy Repub-
licans of that old State of Giddings and Ben
Wade, led by John Sherman and Judge For
aker
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-15

THE Journal still believes that Nation of
sixty millions of people cannot be excited
over the question of the tariff on dried bugs,
or who shall be the tide waiter at Podunk.
Something more than these living questions
is needed for campaign with national bear
ings Vide the Ohio election.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-15

If any doubt remained that Miss Anderson
was a great artist. it should be dispelled by the
pronuncamento of the New York dramatic
critics. These gentry, having carefully OBJ
served Mary in tho character of ''Rosalind,"
hasten to assure the public that while her arms
are 'oratorical and executive" the contour
and action of her legs altogether womanly.
This is gratifying. of course, and altogether
within the scope of dramatic criticism, as it is
understood in New York; but it may be we'll to
remind the gifted writers that Step-pa Griffin
wears an executive leg, finished at the extrem-
ty by No Ii boot
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-15

ABOUT this time DR.. Leonard, of Ohio, is
probably asking himself in confidence whether,
nfter all, it is not more profitable to serve the
Lord than the Democratic party
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-15
Self-Evident Truths.

New York Commercial Advertiser.
Elk Senator Thurman is quoted this morning
by special correspondent of our enterprising
contemporary, the World, as saying. at Toledo.
that the mugwumps cannot be trusted The
venerable statesman of the red bandana will DO
discovering one of these days that water is wet
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-15

JOHN SHERMAN, it seems, has quite a grasp
on politics yet. for a man who the kinde-
gartners determined was a valetudinarian,
and Lived in the past"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-15

THE Democrats have an uphill fight in the
State all the time, and it is only by convinc-
ing the people that Republican rule is antag-
onistc to their interests and subvelsive of
popular rights that they can hope to snatch a
victory-New York World
1t doesn't appear that the work of econ
vincing' the people of Ohio was a success this
time
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-15

desperate. These unhappy accidents and the
sound of the shooting SO worked upon the ne
groes Of the place that they could not stand
it, but rang their church bell, and held prayer
meeting services at half past 2 in the morning,
1t shows how easy it would be for designing
scoundrels to terrorize them out of voting or
into voting as ordered.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-15

A CHANGE has already come over the spirit
of Democratic dreams. Only few brief days
ago esteemed exchanges of that political per-
suasion were urging their Ohio brethren to re-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-15

WHATEVER doubts. he may have had con-
corning the matter, the New York Democratic
politician is now thoroughly convinced that
October elections in other States are objection
able and demoralizing.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-15

newed efforts, on the ground that victory Of
their party would have an inspiring effect
upon the workers in Virginia and New York.
With great unanimity, they are mes, declaring
that no national question was involved in the
Ohio election, and that the result will have no
influence worth mentioning upon the coming
elections in other States.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-15

PROBABLY there will be cessation of the
lessons volunteered to be taught to John
Sherman and Judge Foraker by those eminent
political kindergartners, who, if an extra hair
should happen to fall on the one side or the
other of their heads, would feel theirintellects
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-15

house. and who dashed themselves into fury
because John Sherman and Judge Foraker
knew nothing of living questions and living
politics, should study the Ohio election re-
turns with becoming and prayerfui considera-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-15

WHO knowsg Republicans may yet enjoy
Thanksgiving in the good old-fashioned regu-
ration method. Ohio said turkey" in way
chat could not be misunderstood
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-15

THE Enquirer says something to the effect
that he laughs best who laughs last. The
Enquirer is in position to watch others do the
laughing this time
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-15

WE respectfully prescribe dose of Dr.
Bherman's balm of Mt. Gilead to those debili-
tated statesmen who thought the Republican
party would have to be. reformed"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-15

The four-bY-six statesmen, whose gigantic
intellects are entirely absorbed in the great
question Of the duty on cochineal and the
weighership in the Passamaquoddy custom
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-15

FROM all the indications it appears that
Brother Leonard, of Ohio, does not carry the
Methodist Church in his pocket.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-15

POSSIBLY the kids and the kindergartners
will still imagine they have divine call to
teach John Sherman politics"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-15

JUDGE HoADLY's attention is respectfully
directed to the two sermons on the Mount,
particularly the one lately preached from Mt.
Gilead
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-15

THE Ohio Republicans answered at roll-call
and stood up to be counted.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-15

CINCINNATI refused to be terrorized by tn
threat to "boycott.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-15

We call the attention of the unco guild, and
of the fabby jelly to the result of the
Ohio election
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-15

THE day is approaching when the demand
for free elections will not be denounced as the
s'bloody shirt"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-15

Two years ago it took "Danvlle' to save
Virginia. 1t looks now as though something
equally desperate will be required.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-15

1T will yet begin to dawn on Democracy
that it does not carry the Irish and German
vote in its pocket
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-15

THE deadest man in Ohio, at the present
writing, is one Rev. A. B. Leonard, D. d.
He is not only dead, but stinketh.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-15

JOHN SHERMAN's future does not all seem
% be behind him.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-15

IT was a close call on mayor but, after all,
Mr. Denny beat Cottrell like sixty
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-15

THERE seems to have been good deal Of
power in John Sherman's balm of Mt. Gilead.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-15
He WIN.

St Louis Republican fDem
Will John Sherman take the bloody SHIRT ihN
the United States Senate with himi
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-15

Mr. JAMES A. WILDMAN has taken service
with the Journal and will be recognized as the
business manager of the daily and weekly issues.
Mr.. George c. Hit remains, as he has been for
gears, the financial manager.
JNo c. NEW g. Son.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-15
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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-01-23
FALSE ECCENTRICS.
Doors whose rudeness passes for
Originality.

Half the people called eccentric,
says the Atlantic Monthly, deserve to
have a much worse epithet applied
to them. Here and there man or
woman is found whose oddities of
opinion and cratic conduct are gen.
uine and the outcome of some in
born twist in their mental and NOR
al dispositions. Such persons are
generally intolerable, and sometimes
very likable, their idiosyncracies
serving as gentle entertainment
rather than as an annoyance to us.
We feel that they are quite I'M
unaware of their own queerness,
which is the result of native inca
pacity to comprehend the ordinary
conventions of society. But there
are other people whose eccentrici.
ties are not, or ought not, to be en-.
dured. They are not innocently
ignorant, but willfully disregardful
of reign of law in the social world
The worlds judgments are no doubt
superficial, and, therefore, very com:
monty defective or false but the
worlds conventions--that is. rules
tacitly agreed on for the preserva
ton of the order and decency of so
cial intercourSe--are, on the whole
respectable and to be observed
But the uncomfortable eccentric
prides himself upon being q law t.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-01-23
THE BLAIR EDUCATIONAL BILL

The perpetuity of republic rests
in the intelligence of the masses.
Illiteracy is the foe Of popular gov
eminent. An ignorant voting pop
ulation is like a mob-powerful but
irresponsible. 1t is liable to become
the prey of demagogues. The edu-
cation of the people is the ark of
safety. 1t is sure defense against
the great danger of popular gov
ernment-the ignorance of the vot-
ers. The ratio of illiteracy in this
country is always too large, and it
is evident that it is increasing.
The sixteen Southern states con-
tain the great bulk of the illiterate
voting population of the United
States. The ratio for each state is
herewith given-that is, the proper
ton of males, 81 years old, and up
wards, unable to read or to write
Alabama, 46.7 per cent; Arkansas,
30.4; Delaware, 17.6; Florida, 3s.6;
Georgia, 45.1; Kentucky, 800
Louisiana, 47.4; Maryland, 1874;
Mississippi, 46.7; North Carolina,
42.S; South Carolina, 5l.9; Tennes'
see, $40; Virginia, 1913; West Vir.
ginia, 1914; Missouri, lilo: Texas
24.3.
Of course the great majority oil
these ignorant voters in the states
named are negroes. Their igno
rance is the plea the Bourbons ust
to justify their methods of intiml
dation and bull-dozing, by which
the colored vote of the South i
practically rendered valueless. TIL,
claim is that Ignorant, low-dowl
niggers shall not be allowed to rul
white men.
But the day is coming fast whe,
she blacks will rule eight of thos
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-01-23

ting better. 1t was feared at one
time that he would die. High living
is said to be the real cause of his
physical trouble.
In all probability a bill which will
enable the President to restore Gen.
Grant to his position as General of
the Army, and at once place him on
the retired list, will shortly be pass
ed by Congress. The sentiment of
the country is so strongly in favor
of such a measure that even the
Bourbons cannot afford to oppose it.
Carl Schurz is in Washington
looking for the spoils for which he
fought in the late election, and
which he won, or thinks he won. If
Mr.. Cleveland doesn't give Carl a
place in his Cabinet, or an equiva-
lent position, he will be sure to dis
cover before long that the man he
labored to elect President is unfit
for the position.
The river and harbor bill has beer
made up, and the sum it squander
on the South is simply startling. Fo
the so called Improvement of thu
Mississippi river nearly four million
dollars are given, and upon creek
and rivers that the biographies hav
never mentioned, hundreds of thou.
sands are thrown away. Maybe will
all the offices, entire liberty to "kiI
niggers," and the United State
Treasury, the Solid South would b
satisfied. Certain it is that she will
be satisfied with nothing less.
| The House sorely misses from it
membership the Hon. w. H. Cal
kins, of Indiana. There is no on
in that body that measures up"
Calkins in ability, shrewdness an
popularity. c. U.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-01-23
ESTATE OFF SAMUEL BELL.

STATE oFvERMoNT, In Probate Court
ESSEX DISTRICT. IS. III Ai'''o O'"i
held ut GuildhalI, in and for said District, on
the 18th " of January, A. D., 1885, L. A. Mich.
OILS, Administrator of the estate of Samuel Bell
late of Lunenburgh, in SAID district, de-
ceased, makes application TO said Court for
license to sell all of the real estate OF said de-
ceased, subject to all legal exceptions, repre-
senting that the sale is necessary to pay the
debts and costs of administration.
Whereupon, ii is ordered by said Court that
SAID application be referred TO a session there.
of, to be held at the Probate ONCE, In said
Guildhall on the 10th day OF February A. D. 1888,
for hearing and decision thereon; and 1t Is
further ordered, that all persons interested
be notified hereof, by publication of notice OF
SAID application and order thereon, three
weeks excessively in the Essex County Her
aid, newspaper published at Island Pond.
and which circulates in the neighborhood of
those interested, before said time OF hearing
that they may appear ut said time and place
and, II they see cause, object thereto.
BY the Court, Attest
CHAs, e. BENTON, Register,