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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-05
COMMENT AND OPINION.

PROBABLY Dakota had better get in before
dividing herself into pocket boroughs. -Phila.
delphia Times.
THE next time Mr. Cleveland wants to write a
letter on the venalty Of journalism he should
hire boy to restrain him.-Phiadelphia Press.
AS TO ''the new navy" we may..as we'll wait till
something is done toward building the ships or
dered by the last Congress before making pro-
vision for others.-Nauonal Republican.
A DEMOCRATIC contemporary reminds us that
this has been the first Democratic holiday season
in twenty five years. We were laboring under
the impression that the long holiday of the
Democracy closed the 4th of March last
Minneapolis Tribune
GENERAL RosEcRANs seems to have finally
settled down to the conclusion that "Grant was
not a military man." The conclusion is undoubt-
edlv correct from Rosecranss point Of view
Grant was not military man of the Rosecrans
variety. Dispatch.
So long as politicians of the class Of Morris
Thomas of Maryland, are deemed fit men for
Indian inspectors, and agencies are treated as
prizes OF partisan service the Indian will be
cheated and abused. and will get little aid in lis
progress to civilization. Boston Advertiser
1T is because an Irish legislature is the in
dispensable safeguard Of national unity. and be-
cause it only can be buttressed with impregna-
Bile guarantees, that Irishmen are certain to
reject all offers, however specious, which ex-
clude this ornamental feature.-New York Sun.
THE Senate, it is to be hoped, will wisely exer-
else its discretion by rejecting the name of Mr.
Thomas Indian inspectorI. but that such an ap-
pointment should be made and persisted in
shows how idle it would be for Republican
senator's to waste their time 10 expounding to the
President in private the Objectionable points in
the record of his appointees. Boston Journal.
Tothose Indians who are not yet far enough ad-
vanced to discard tho use of blankets for cloth
ing. the plan Of giving them their land in sever
atty would prove ruinous. They would be in
capable of taking care Of their property, and
they would soon fall prey to tho wolves In HUI
man form who 60 abont from place to place
seeking whom they may devour.-Denver Trib
une.
The real interests of the working classes will
be served. not by wild and revolutionary
schemes to check the sources of enterprise and
progress, but by wise measures Of cooperation
to increase the productive power of labor and the
purchasing power Of wages; to cut off waste and
give the laborer greater share In the product
Of his toll But the right to acquire and enjoy
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-05

'THERE is no Republican editor who would
care to expose himself by denying that the
segment of the people Of Dakota represented
by Campbell have violated the laws and prec-
edents by their procedure"
This is dreadful challenge; but probably
the Courier-Journal will do well were it ia
state what the Dakota people represented by
Campbell have done. If we can have bill OF
particulars we may then be able to enlighten
the CD. upon the claws and precedents."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-05

one in which il can travel Il psaoA happiness
and social well-being are to be maintained"
The Herald, which in this utterance voices
the sentiment of multitude Of people, doubt
less believes in its own sincerity; bullet a pol
itician show his head above the level Of medi-
ocrity in an endeavor to enforce his opinions
and to '1ead," and no one will show more
haste than the Boston organ of reform in its
denunciation Of him as 'fboss' and in the
endeavor to destroy him.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-05

In replying to the complaint that the civil.
service rules do not provide method of get
ting rid of incompetent employees, the Boston
Herald explains that they can be dropped at
any time, as the ''back door to the public serv-
ice is not barred" The Herald is right; and
if all the stories are true about the clerks who
have slipped in during this reform administra-
ton without the formality of examination,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-05
Retaliation by Liquor-sellers.

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, Jan 4.-This city has
been thrown into considerable excitement by
the announcement that the saloon-keepers,
against whom the Sunday law is being rigidiy.
enforced. had sworn out nearly a hundred war
rants against those engaged in nearly all the
trades and professions who do business on Sun-
day. The whisky men say that they have been
Disseminated against and propose to test the
law to it's full scope. The warrants include
newspaper publishers. iverymen and streetcar
companies.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-05

The big strike at Pittsburg is at an end,
and work is resumed at reduced rates It is
to be regretted that the strikers lost so much
IN wages, it being estimated that it amounts
to nearly 100000. A corresponding loss
must have been sustained by the operators. It
may be set down as an axiom that nothing is
over gained by anybody by a strike.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-05

Two hundred fraudulent votes in vote of
over 40, 600 is not enough to make an election
piquant and to excite interest to future cam
paigns.- Cincinnati Enquirer.
No, if the facts were not known, this might
be regarded as approaching fair standard Of
honesty. But fortunately for the truth, the
facts are known in regard to the 200 fraudu-
lent votes. In the precinct referred to, at the
closing of the polls and counting Of the vote
on Tuesday night, the totals given out were
fo11ouo.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-05

THE Ohio Legislature met yesterday. The
House elected Hon. John c. Etrekin. Repub-
lican, Speaker, and the Senate elected Senator
O'Neil. Democrat, President pro tenn. On
Tuesday or Wednesday of next week Hon.
John Sherman will be reelected United States
senator, and then the country will have rest
from the idiocy rampant in the Cincinnati
nanAra
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-05

A PHILADELPHIA paper gravely proposes
the organization of a mock congress by the
citizens of every considerable village or town
In the country. When it is considered how
the people of the country suffer from the out
pourings of intellect and eloquence of the
real Congress, this suggestion seems little less
than fiendish.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-05

In debate between 'Prohibitionists" and
practical temperance people of New York, Mr.
w. G. Beeoher stated that IA government
licenses had been taken out for saloons in
Bangor, Me. Bangor has 10000 inhabitants,
and IA saloons for that city would. in the
same proportion. mean more than 700 for In
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-05

dianapolis. Il is larger proportion Of saloons
to population than in such cities as New York
and Chicago. Maine has State prohibition.
What better off is Bangor under such law
than with one that would put such tax upon
them az to reduce the number of saloons to
fftvR
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-05

IT would lift load off the minds of great
many great editors-principally those Of New
York aud other Eastern cities-if Senator
Evarts would make himself little clearer on
the silver question. They would like to have
him say again what he said on the subject,
and say it slow.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-05
know.

TT must have been in the nature of an eve
opener to read that the temperature of the
month of December just passed was one de-
gree colder than the average for fourteen
years. The impression had been that Decem-
Der was very nearly as pleasant as May.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-05

A BIOGRAPHICAL sketch of editor Medill, OF
the Chicago Tribune. states that he gets out of a
good minstrel show, once or twice year. all the
recreation he needs This habit of the editor
will 60 far to account for the ancient chestnut
flavor Of the Jokes in the Tribune
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-05

SPEAKER CARLISLE is said not to have had
q real good time during the holidays, on ac-
count of the worry incident to making up his
committees. The trouble that is likely to
come upon him when the committees are an
nounced, may, however, cause him to look
back to the preceding weeks as a season of
sweet peace and repose.
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papers

A CORRESPONDENT Of the Boston Herald tells
a story of how woman in Paris bought Ger
tain famous parrot, and to that added a monkey
but no sooner had they been brought together
than the monkey seized and killed the parrot. A
gentleman present struck at the monkey to
drive it of. the blow killing it and upsetting q
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-05

UNsoPHIsTIcATED newspapers in various
parts of the country are describing the alarm
Of the dealers over the failure of the ice CROP
Hereabouts the dealers are shedding no tears;
all the alarm Is felt by consumers, who expect
to pay for ice that is left over from the three
preceding cold winters
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-05
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL.

Can be found at the following places:
IONDON-American Exchange in Europe. 40
Strand.
PARIs-American Exchange in Paris 35 Boulevard
des Capucnes-
NEW YORK-St Nicholas and Windsor Hotels.
CHICAGO-Pamer House.
CINCINNATI. r. Hawley s. Co.. 154 Vine street
LOUISVILIE-C T. bearing. northwest corner
Third and Jefferson streets.
ST. LOUIS-Union News Company Union Depot
and Southern Hotel
Telephone C&sls.
Business Office .238 Editorial Rooms .....242
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-05

WHEN the President made the sweeping
charge that all newspaper mon were liars he
meant only those that were not truthful On
this question, and the tariff and silver ques-
tion, he doesn't appear to know what he does
know
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-05

OK Christmas day, 1884, Mr.. Cleveland
wrote letter unqualifedly pledging himself
30 enforce the civil-service reform rules. A
sopy of that letter does not hang above the
Presidents desk.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-05

The convicts of the Albany penitentiary are
reported to be dying off like sheep from an
epidemic of that filth disease" typhus fever.
AS this has been proudly described as one OF
the model penal institutions Of the cou nv,
> wonder will naturally arise as to whs sort
of sanitary condition the other and less high
ly-favored prisons may be in.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-05

IF the President has any popular views that
he is willing to put into practice it is about
time he began to do it. He has talked pretty
long enough. 1t is time to do something.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-05

A SPECIAL cable conveys the important
formation that the Newark children ret,
berths Nos. H. Is, II, 10 and o. This is very i'm
portant and the country will most earnestly
hope that the steward may not thoughtlessly
change the arrangement on the way over.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-05

IT is said that the big diamond pendant which
dropped from 1.-THE little pink ear" of Mrs. Moro
sini-Schilling has been found. The one in her
big red ear was not lost.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-05

leaving door open behind him. This should
teach the perpetrators Of this species of crime
that there is limit to human endurance. The
part Of safety is to close the door.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-05

These figures were noted down by A. Y.
Reed, Prohibition candidate present at the
canvass. When the counting out was finished
that night the Democrats claimed that the
head Of their ticket had received ZIG votes.
Between that time and when the vote was Of
Totally handed in the Democrats had increased
it to $685. a gain in some mysterious manner,
without corresponding number of votes re-
ceived, of 210. Of these 200 were ssgained"
by changing 81" to a 49," making the
total read 926 instead of 726, as
it had been made at first, and
as even the doctored count had added. The
Enquirer's complacency over so small a meas
ure Of fraudulent voting is hypocritical, be-
cause these two hundred have nothing what
ever to do with the fraudulent voting, the
total of which might have been 1900. These
200 "votes' were never voted. They are the
work of some Democratic schemer, after the
fact had become known to Democrats that
200 more votes were needed to s'elect'
the Democratic legislative candidates in Ham
ilton county The significance of this fraud,
50 lightly dismissed by the Enquirer, becomes
apparent The intention was to make this
steal elect Democratic United States SEN
ator from Ohio. The trick of fellow who
should be in the penitentiary was to vitiate
the election in which 7OO votes were cast
and through that the election of
the entire State. When backed up, as
it has been, by a partisan Supreme
Court, itself held intact by trick of Demo
cratic county official, it must stagger the con-
fdence of honest men all over the country.
It becomes matter that affects the political
interests and rights of all. The 21O "votes',
returned from this one precinct elected" no
less than eleven Democratic candidates. A
curious thing for an honest newspaper to
felicitate over.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-05

LOUISVILLE clerks are very, very funny. The
other day. when trade was little duller than
usual, they amused themselves by connecting an
electric-light wire with the iron doorstep. The
fun had to stop when they nearly killed boy.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-05

table holding . >luabls China tsaset The
writer suggests this1B the origin Of the phrase.
"a monkey and parrot time" This may satisfy
culchad Boston. but the people at large are too
well satisfied with the old version to think Of
giving IL nm
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-05

GRANITE pavements in St Louis cost at tn
rate of $94, 900 mile At this rate. to pave al
the streets of that city would cost about $40, 000
900.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-05
CONGRESS reconvenes to-day.

PHILADELPHIA editors are altogether too
trusting. They don't know what kind Of a
reformer the Indianapolis postmaster is.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-05

BoYooTTING is double edged weapon.
Nobody can fool with it without getting cut.
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THE INDIANA STATE JOURNAL.
(wEEELY HDrrrow.)

One year 90
Less than one year and over three months, loo per
menth. No subscription taken for less than three
months. In clubs Of Eve over. agents will take
yearly subscriptions at ST. and retain 10 per cent for
JNO. G. NEW & SON,
Publishers The Journal
Indianapolis, Ind.
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RATES OF SUBSCRIPTIONS.

FERNS INVARIABLY IN ADvANcE-PosTAGE PREPAID
BY THE PUBLISHERS
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THE DAILY JOURNAL.

THE DAILY JOURNAL.
One year. by mail. $1,000
One year by mail including Sunday - Ia. 90
Six months by mail Observation-Disclosures. 600
Six months by mail including Sunday.... 700
Three months, by mail. observation-disclosures. 800
Three months, by mail including Sunday. $50
One month by mail. LOO
One month"; by mail including Sunday. 1.2O
Per week, by carrier Gin Indianapolis). .25
THE SUNDAY JOURNAL.
E0C copy y ccns8
0ne year. By mall 500
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1886-04-14
"What "a Farmer Has to Say"

Apropos Of the Farmers Convcn-
ton which has been called to meet in
Columbia, the last of April, we make
no excuse for taking up so much Of
the space on our first page to day.
with "What a Farmer Has TO Say"
about the said Convention, in the
Columbia Register Of March the 10Th.
The letter though somewhat
lengthy, is "mighty interesting read
ing" for it is chock full Of facts and
unanswerable argument; and makes
the fur fly at every lick.
1t goes for the Tillman craze with
. vengeance and cuts going and
coming.'
The letter is worthy Of ali the
more consideration, because the Beg
lister assures its readers that it is
written by farmer who is farmer,
and not manufacturer Of facts.
Read it. and see now it :merciless-
" dissects the call to the unconyerted.
and shows it up as Ilumbug Of the
first water" ."-SHmter 1drance. -4pyil
81.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1886-04-14
Baltimore Hard Pine for the State
House.

70 tie Editor oftAe Columbia Register:
It is with much surprise that /
learn through the Register Of the 6th
inst. Of the giving of the contract to
II. James & Co., of Baltimore for
furnishing $4,000 feet OF lumber for
the State House roof. It is all the
more surprising, in view of the fact
o. the recent exhibition of the States
lumber resources at New Orleans,
which led one to believe we had the
best pine il tie world. And, too,
the price is astonishingly high,
twenty. eight dollars per thousand.
7 do not know a mill in Soeth Caro-
lima which has had such a price in
ten years for its most difficult pro-
duct. Charleston is not: by any
means the only place in the State to
look for such bill Of lumber. There
are mills located along the lines OF
the Wilmington, Columbia and Au-
gusta Railroad, South Carolina Rail
road and Charlotte, Columbia and
Augaata Railroad, which are turning
out the very hest lumber in the
State, and uhicA are n5er shipping to
Baltimore, Philadelphia and Neao
Torz: a large quantity Ct just such
lumber as Messrs. Il. James & Co.
will supply the architect of the State
House.
J. do not know OF any publication
in the State calling for bids and Civ
ing specifications Of the lumber. It
should by all means have been done.
Sending from South Carolina to Bal.
timore, Maryland, for lumber. is like
'ssendipg coal to New Castle" The
State House Commission had better.
undo this thing, or give good reasons
why it was the correct tLing to do.
SIGMA.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1886-04-14
TABLE A.
TABLE 3.

This $G22, ,423 taxes raised in South
Carolina covered the expenses Of
State government, including all State
educational institutions, and the in
terest on the State debt. funded and
unfunded.
1t is evident that the taxes raised
by Tennessee and North Carolina can
not possibly meet the interest on their
respective debts. as it would require
s levy of SD mills to the dollar for
Tennessee to meet the interest on her
debt, and 5.5 mills to the dollar for
North Carolina to meet her interest,
the debt of each State drawing 5 per
cent.
We find, then, exclusive Of interest
charges, the following rate Of State
taxation:
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1886-04-14
Firearms at Fort Worth.

Whilst earnestly sympatizing with
the wrongs of labor, we can see no
good likely to arise from resort to
Winchester rifles for relief.
It cannot be questioned that the
strikers at Fort Worth put them
selves in the attitude of aggressors.
It cannot be questioned that they
held the train about to move out uu-
der hostile surveillance, and it can
not be questioned that they rose from
their ambush with arms in their
hands. It is useless to comment on
all this. It has but one meaning,
and that meaning is that the strikers
claim the right to make private war
soainst the authorities. This the
people cannot, dare not permit. In
this case it requires no prophet to
tell where the striker will find him
self at the end of the conflict. He
NAV glut his vengeance, but he will
surelv feel the omnipotent arm of
society, too strong to be resisted by
any class.
The flashing of the fire arms at
Fort Worth was fatal-fatal to the
honest cause of labor, an6 a source
of unmingledregret to all who recog-
nize peaceful society as the first
necessity Of all men of all classes.
-Columbia Register, April 9Th.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1886-04-14
How Does South Carolina Compare?

! distinguished friend from the
eastern pait Of tue State writes to
ask the rates Of tax levics Of the va.
rious States of the Union so as to
show how South Carolina stands in
comparison with her neighbors in the
matter of taxation. He wishes The
people to see, along with the recent
complaints touching the taxation OF
tie people of the State, exactly where
they stand in comparison with their
neighbocs.
It is very difficult 10 make salts
factory comparison with a different
basis Of assessment. We will en-,
dcavor, with the facts furnished by
Spofford's American Almanac, page
105, to collate such statement for
the ten cotton States as shall make
the fairest comparison possible. The
statement of the Almanac claims 10
have been derived from the officers
of the State themselves. As there
is manifest error in the last column
of the tabulated statement purport-
ing to>give the tax rate or the hun
dred dollars, either occurring from
misprint OF otherwise, we have car
Gied the actual amount raised in each
State to its total assessed property,
and calculated for ourselves the rate
of tax taken expressed in mills on the
dollar.
Table A shows each State. in pop.
ulation, its total assessed property,
its assessed property per head Of
population.
Table B shows the debt Of the
State, the amount of tax raised, the
mills on the dollar of assessed values
necessary to make the same, and the
mills on the dollar requisite to meet
the interest on the debt at 6 per cent.
per annum.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1886-04-14
ROTATION IN STATE OFFICES.
A Few Explanations for the Attention
of the seNew Deal" kicS1erS.

COLUMBIA, S. c.. April i.-Possi'
bly, some of our friends who wsnted
q new deal have not thought ho~
many new deals we have had since
1876. 1t may interest them to know
that we have had FIVE Governors,
which makes an average new deal
every two years; we have had three
Lieutenant Governors, three Attor-
ney-Generals and three Adjutant and
Inspector-Generals, or an average
change every three and 8 third years;
we have had four Comptroller-Gen.
erals, equivalent to change every
TWO and a half years, two Treasurers,
two Secretaries Of State, and two
Superintendents of Education, an
average change every FIVE years. 1t
las been said by some who favor
new deal, that the State Offices
since 1876 have been filed by nearly
the same men. That is, that they
assshave been promoted from one Office
to4another. The only instances of
this kind are the following: Gov
-erners Simpson and Jeter succeeded
Governor Hampton and filed the
Office for a few months; Governor
Hagood was promoted from the
Comptroller's Office, and Governor
Thompson from the position of Su-
perintendent Of Education; Comp
troller General Stoney was a book
keeper in the Office be now holds,
and was promoted solely on account
of his well known ability and eff
cheney. In all, therefore, the eight
State Offices have been flied, since
1876, by twenty-one different men,
and only FIVE promotions have oc-
cured within that time, and exclud-
ing Governors Simpson and Jeter,
there have been only three such pro-
motions. It is we'll to bear these
facts in mind in connection with the
discussion concerning the new deal.
-Richzand in the augusta Chronicle.