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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-26
JOHN w. FOSTER ON BAYARp.

The Ex-N1inister Thinks the Secretary Wrong
in the Cutting Case, and Defends Himself
Saratoga IN. W Special.
Ex-Minister John w Foster arrived here, to-
day, from sojourn in the White mountains.
His attention was called by the Herald CORE
spondent to the statements published by the
Baltimore Sun and other journals, claiming to
be inspired by the State Department. TO the ef
feet that there a concerted effort on the part
of certain Republicans to misstate the position
of Secretary Bayard or the Cutting case, and to
create public sentiment against him, and that
Mexican gold was being used to that end.
So far as he himself was concerned Mr. Fos-
ter said he had been in collision with no Re-
publican politician or anyone else to prejudice
the public, or to aid or influence the Mexican
government in the Cutting case. In fact lie
began his summer vacation before the troubles
in that case arose, and he had only spent two
DAYS in Washington since, during which visit,
at the solicitation of the Herald correspondent
he gave his views briefly the question. Ger
tainly partisan motives did not enter his mind in
expressing his opinion.
He differed radically from the Secretary of
State on that question: but in other matters he
has entertained much more favorable views of
Mr. Bayard's conduct of the department thap
many Republicans He had publicly recognized
his internal administration of the State Depart
ment as less partisan and moro in accord with
cvl-servce reform than that of any other Cabi.
net officer
Mr. FOSTER SAID re nad personal opportunity OF
knowing that in the Spanish matter the Secre-
tary had accomplished reforms in the Cuban
trade of Importance TO our commerce. On the
Chinese question he had shown fully as much re-
gard for the national power as could have been
expected of the average Republican. In respect
to the fisheries it was too soon to crit;cise him
till the full correspondence was published and
the negotiations were further advanced. But il
thesCutting case. through incorrect reports, he
had been led into an untenable position and it
no treason to say so publicly.
Mr. Foster said of himself that it was well
known at the State Department that he was the
counsel of the Mexican government in certain
matters growing out of the late claims com
mission and on other questions involving
American law. But in the Cutting
case and on all questions Of internal
law Mexico had no need of the services
of any American lawyer or diplomatist. Hence
he had no occasion to expose himself TO the PEN
alties of the statute cited by certain newspaper
correspondents. and they need eiva themselves
no concern on that score He claimed that AM
American citizen might differ from the Score
tary Of State without being uupatriotic. and he
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-26

THE editor of the Louisville Courier-Jou our
somewhere in Switzerland, has sent back to
his paper very tiresome and fulsome article
on the late lamented Samuel Jones Tilden,
who, it will be recalled, died some time ago.
Notwithstanding the lateness of the issue OF
the tribute, Mr.. Watterson feels that it would
not do to let the world off without one more
offering to the memory of the deceased, which
he proceeds to give at length of some eight
or ten columns. After spending an hour or
two glancing over its principal points, we are
led to believe it to be a very temperate article,
and in the main, harmless. There is no refer
ence to the cipher dispatches in it, though he
was one of the men chosen to do the visiting
statesman act in behalf of Mr.. Tilden in the
city of New Orleans at the time there was an
attempt making to negotiate for the purchase
of electors in Oregon, South Carolina and
Florida. Mr.. Watterson declares he knew the
electors chosen in Louisiana were for sale, but
that he did not acquaint Mr.. Tilden with the
fact lest he should be suspected of having lost
his senses. If he had it to do over he would
doubtless do better. Who knows2 Had Mr.
Watterson told his principal, it may be that
it would have been found that the needed
votes could have been secured through him,
and without the cruel suspicion that he had
lost his senses.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-26
COMMENT AND OPINION.

If figures did not lie, bank directors might
know when cashier is short-New Orleans
Picayune.
In the Democratic Revised Version Harmony
is spelled with an H just as before. Washing
ton Critic.
THE prevailing sentiment of Massachusetts
Democratic politicians is in favor of reform back
wards. Boston Advertiser.
THE Chicago Anarchists are to form new DO
litical party. The Democracy is threatened with
another serious detection. Albany Express.
Mr.. CUTTING finds that the most serious feat
ure of his case is the necessity of again paving
his own board bills-St Louis Post Dispatch.
In the case of the Chicago Anarchists the mo-
ton for new trial might be argued after the
original sentence has been carried into effect
Philadelphia Times
ASocIALIsTi is simply milk and water Anarch-
ist Give him a few drinks of whisky or eriev-
ance and he is as bad Parsons, or Spies, or
Fielden. Atlanta Constitution.
Mr. CLEVELAND was not elected in anv honest
sense of the word and there is not an Intelligent
citizen of any State in the Union who supposes
that he was.-NationaN Republican.
THE assertion that the Democracy is now
trucking to the rum power, just as 1t used to be
trucking to the slave power, cannot be success
fully attacked. All that party's talk about OPP
position TO sumptuary legislation is bid for the
rum vote writ large. New York Tribune.
THERE can be trifing in so plain and
urgent case THAT of the Anarchists. The ex
ecution of seven men now will save the execu-
tions of seven times seven later on. It would be
mistaken mercy to swerve hairs breadth from
the decree of the court The louder the threats
of vengeance. the more certain should be the
doom.--New York World
Our people have fought and bled TO make
this country what it is-the best country for the
workingman the world ever saw. 1t would cease
TO be such country if we had FREQ anarchy--if
ignorant and wicked men are suffered that is to
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-26

THERE came near being lynching in one
of the suburbs of the city of Buffalo on Sun
day. the victim being negro who had at
tempted to ravish the daughter of his en-
ployer. The intentions of the mob were
thwarted at the last moment by the opportune
arrival Of an officer of the law, who took the
negro into custody and conveyed him to the
city prison, where he was turned over to the
care of the keeper Of the jail. This official at
once released the man, for the reason that he
had committed the offense outside the corpo-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-26

SECRETARY LAMAR tells Washington cor
respondent that he fully agrees with General
Miles that the Apaches should be removed
from Arizona, and says the question that
troubles him is where they shall be sent,
Under the peculiar circumstances it might be
thought that the question which would most
trouble himself and General Miles is how shall
the Apaches be caught9 Before you move
your Indian it is necessary to catch him.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-26

SOME superserviceable gentlemen, of the
Baileyite persuasion, are endeavoring to in
duce Hon. Joseph E. Mcdonald to take the
congressional race for this district If he
should do it it would be rather paralyzer on
our Uncle Joseph if it should turn out that he
was handsomely defeated. Mr.. McDonald's
name may be good one to juggle with, but
that gentleman will hardly tumble to Mr..
English's racket"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-26

LET the Republicans of Indiana take look
ut the beautiful new State house, now nearing
completion, and determine that Republican
Legislature shall be elected to occupy it for
the first time. This is all the more desirable
as the infamous gerrymander should be re-
buked. This crime should be kept in view
from now until the last vote is polled and
counted in November next
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-26

THE Chicago theater managers are pleased
with the result of the experiment made in
doing away with the expensive window litho-
graphs which have so long been feature Of
theatrical advertising and the source of I'M
numbered schemes for dead heading. The
houses were crowded on the opening night.
The dead-head and dead heading advertise
ments must go.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-26

IT looks as though Willie Sells, the sixteen
year-old lad charged with the murder Of his
father, mother, sister and brother, at Usage
Mission, Kan, will be sentenced to DEATH
having been found guilty and his appeal for a
new trial refused. There will be a great
many who will refuse to believe that one of
his years could have accomplished such bloody
work so successfully.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-26

AWIsooNsIN farmer, going down hill with a
load of hay, locked one Of the wheels Of his
wagon The friction of the wheel upon the
ground struck a spark which ignited the hay and
started "a fire that required eleven men to ex
tinguishD The question now is how many
wheels would the farmer have to lock to strike a
spark that would cause fire that would require
twenty seven men to extinguish2 Or how great
would the friction have to be to start fire that
would take six men and thirteen boys to extin
gush? This is one of the most interesting prob
lens that has come under our observation for
months.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-26

A PREACHER has been found in Chicago who
has made the original discovery that all this dis
fact that Bob Ingersoll has been making infdel
speeches, and that these have melted other inf
dels to the commission of crime. 1t does not
spoil the theory that these men are hardly able
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-26

THE hanging of the wife-murderer Bates,
at Richmond to-day will be wise and just
enforcement of the law against one Of the
most hardened wretches that ever deserved
death. A decent respect for the law and its
impartial enforcement are needed to remove
all excuse for the brutal and cowardly lynch
Ings that have brought the State of Indiana
into disrennte.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-26

THE New York World isungenerous enough
to intimate without much circumlocution that
the bond calls now being made are in some
kind of connivance with the powers of Wall
street. It's declaration that the calls were ''in
the interest of Wall street spectators" pro-
voked contradiction from the more loyal
Democratic press, but the World comes back
at them and repeats the charge, even going so
far as to maliciously quote the word "unex-
pected' used in connection with the CALL The
World further says:
when such a call, unexpectedly, in antag-
onism with recent avowals by the Treasury
Department and of the President and with
out any apparent reason, treads closely upon
the heels of previous SIC, 900, 900 call, at the
very moment the Walls street spectators are
dreading heavy losses through money strin-
gencv it is in the interest of the spectators
whether designed to be so or not. The close
relationship between the Treasury and Wall
street, in which Treasurer Jordan is the con-
Meeting link, leads to the belief that the re-
lief of the spectators was not accidental
This is very grave accusation, much more
serious than any ventured by the opposition
press, and can but provoke surprise that it
should be uttered by paper of the standing
of the World Il is evident that the Demo
cratic press do not regard this administration
as perfect. On that platform the mitgwumps
stand alone
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-26

gain votes7 1t would be interesting to have
the transcripts explanation as to what the
tariff question is if not matter Of dollars;
but while waiting for this valuable bit OF in
formation, it may not be improper to remark
that Senator Frye knew the power of the al
mighty dollar as an argument because he
knew his Yankee constituents.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-26

In the intervals between fishing excursions
President Cleveland is said to occupy himself
with killing time Lots of people regard
this as more commendable occupation than
that which engages his attention when at
home, namely. the killing of the Democratic
party. These persons would willingly con-
tribute to fund to keep him in the Adiron-
dacks all winter.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-26

Mr.. BYgUM may feel, after a little while,
that altogether too much is being asked of
him while he is being so outrageously pelted
by all the Democratic penny-a liners. If he is
forced down now he may as we'll make his ar
rangements to leave the State. He would not
be worth the price of guano as a political
quantity hereafter.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-26

THE new letter-sheet envelopes are said to
expedite letter writing. If they will expedite
the movements of the persons engaged in
handling United States mail under Demo
cratic administration they will be sweet
boon to a suffering people.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-26

ration lines of the city, and he was permitted
to depart, since which time nothing has been
learned Of his whereabouts, and it is alto
gether likely that he will never be brought to
justice. 1t is just such quibbling as this that
defeats the processes of the courts and breeds
lynching mobs. The prisoner should have
l>oo,, ba1d
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-26

AN article is going the rounds which tells
show to protect your letters" People here
abouts would undertake to protect their let
tiers without the use of any special recipe If
they could only be got out of the Indianapolis
postoffice before they were time stained.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-26

WE call the attention OF the able "harmon-
izersp to the state Of affairs in the Tenth
congressionaldistrict A trick was played upon
the Hon. Thomas Jefferson Wood, and he has
gone into the thickets with his war paint on,
knife in hand. The Sentinel should leap into
the imminent and deadly breach at once.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-26

PiTTsBURG reporters have custom of way
laying travellers at the Union Depot in that city
and extracting interviews" from them No
citizen of the country who is at all prominent"
from any cause can escape the ordeal unless he
passes through in disguise just at present the
genial interviewer occupies himself with accost-
ing hapless passengers of Western trains who
chance to have a wild eyed. foreign air and
pleasantly insinuating that they are Chicago
Anarchists trying to escape arrest. Chicago
citizens who contemplate going East by the
Pittsburg route will do well TO wash their faces
and don clean shirts before reaching that city.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-26
Important Decision.
Chicago Tribune.

n
Girls will please take notice that Kentucky
court has decided that when girl refuses ia
marry her lover she must return all his pres
ents, on the theory that they we're only keep.
sakes' in case he had the girl for keeps OF
course kisses and peanuts and such perishabla
goods are not affected by the decision.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-26

CUTTINGS release and Secretary Bayard's
Rlaerity in dropping Mexico without demand
ing redress for the Arrasures murder, should
suggest to the fiery and untamed citizens of
the South and along the Texas border the pro-
priety of taking in the Strong war feeling, .
of which SO much has been heard, and putting
e on ice.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-26

l. the condemned Anarchists at Chicago
are basing any hope on the alleged fact that
tramp in indianapolis predicted the Hay
market massacre, they might as well abandon
IL. They will hang.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-26

did not believe Mr.. Bayard had given expression
to the utterances attributed to him. He further
asserted his conviction that the American peo-
PIE wonld never again allow the government to
precipitate them into another unjust and unholy
war against Mexico, as General Grant termed the
last one When We second time array cur
selves against our weaker sister republic 1t will
be when we have ''our quarrel inst : and moi fos
such an unimLortant affair as the Cutting case.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-26

OBITUARY writer's in New England papers al
Jude to the late Professor Stowe as the hus
band of his wife, Harriet Beecher. The most
enthusiastic advocate of woman's rights will find
no fault with this recognition of their demand
that wifes individuality shall be recognized,
but it might be little irritating to the Professor
had he not escaped to region where the New
England papers do not circulate.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-26
Crippled Veteran who walked the Plank

Washington Special.
The fact that man lost an arm a leg whiia
fighting the rebels appears to GO q long way with
the administration in supporting the charge OF
offensive partisanship. Such was the case with
Thomas. j. Stalev of Missouri, one-armed
clerk, and for several years chief clerk on Indian
depreciation claims in the Office OF Indian Affairs.
who has been discharged. He has the reputation
of being one of the most efficient men in the
service in that class of work
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-26
Cold Comfort Better than Mono.

Boston Herald.
1t is curious to observe how much comfort the
presidential organs seem to derive from the s'ins
dorsements" of the President by Democratic cous
yentions, even when the Endorsements are made
in the most chilling and perfunctory manner.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-26

GALLANT Phil Thompson, of Kentucky,
who has 'killed his man" is authority for the
statement that it is the intention of the Pres
ident to be candidate for a second term
Thompson is just the man the President
would confde with such secret at this
time
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-26

THE Washington Post will not be satisfied
until Mondragon is safely deliveredinto "our'
hands, for punishment for crime he COM
mitted in Mexico. This is just the point the
United States has made against courts of
Chihuahua, that man must be tried in the
country in which the offense is committed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-26

Ohio State Journal
1t is among the probabilities that the liquoE
traffic. it now exists, will be suppressed at nc
distant day. But it will never be suppressed by
the political Prohibitonsts. The leaders OF
that alleged party. as rule, are as cranky as
the Greenbackers. For that reason the people
cannot afford to trust them with power
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-26

IT is reported that Sarah Bernhardt was re
called more than two hundred times during her
engagement at Rio, Brazil This is explained
by the fact that she is so thin that one has tc
look twice at her to see her.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-26

IF Secretary Bayard should suddenly resolve
to aim his aggressive foreign policy at Canada,
Sir Charles Dixie and Mother Maudebaum
should be warned to move towards the North
pole before the provinces are annexed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-26

IT is suspected that the brother of Congress
man Jim Belford of Colorado, who was sent as
consul to the Fiji Islands, has been eaten by can
nibals. If ne is anything like his brother, sthe
red-headed rooster of the Rockies" it is quite
likely the natives who iunched off him thought
he had been seasoned with cayenne pepper
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-26
On the Downward Path.

Milwaukee Sentinel.
Now that some of the Anarchists begin to sec
that they cannot secure the triumph of theii
principles Ia this country by the employment Of
dynamite bombs. they are talking of trying the
ballot and voting for the Democratic party.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-26

THE mother of Henry E. Dixey, the actor.
takes the trouble to correct the report that he
was the hind legs-of the heifer in "Evangeline, I"
declaring that he was the front" legs Of that
wonderful creation. Most actors, because of
their kicking Qualities, resemble the hind legs.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-26
Unreasonable Cnicacoans.

Pittsburg Chronicle.
A Chicago paper is complaining because
twenty-sixegged animal. about TWO inches long.
has made its appearance in the drinking water Of
that city Some people never satisfied
Perhaps they expect to find Holsters.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-26
Next sundays Story.

Tho Journal of next Sunday will contain an
original story by Mr. Maurice Thompson, entitled
"Loup Garou," tale of the Gulf swamps. The
story is copyrighted, and printed exclusively in
the Journal for the State of Indiana
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-26

A TRAVELLING man has been arrested in Kan
sas, for singing Nearer, My God, to Thee" and
woman in Chicago, for playing the piano. The
future is bright with promise.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-26
The Innocent Voice.

Atlanta Constitution.
The New York Voice has discovered that The
manufacturers salt beer to increase thirst in
those who drink. The Voice should become ace
quainted with the modest pretzel
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-26
Cause for Alarm.
Brooklyn Eagle.

Brooklyn Eagle
The report that the Rev. Montgomery FL,
Throop had a narrow escape from being Shot az
a bear within a short distance of the President'&
camp in the Adirondacks, will create feeling
of uneasiness throughout the country Mr..
Cleveland might very easily be taken for beal
after dark
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-26

Chicago Times.

%
A New York paper speaks of the question al
to who will succeed Mr.. Tilden as the head OF the
Democratic party" Mr.. Tilden had not been
the head of the Democratic party since 1876. NOS
any very considerable force in it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-26
Cincinnati Editors Meant.

bouisYitIe Courier-Journal-
Mexcans if they crave war with the United
States, are foolishly confident Why. in ten
days we could raise two million men, place al
their head the Chicago editors, and in fort
night we should be camped in the halls of the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-26

THE New York Sun objects to the word mug
wumpitude,r as it is not allowable to attach the
termination ''ituder to nouns. The Sun defines
"mugwump' as noun. We thought 1t was a
THING
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-26
A Cataclysm Needed.

Now York Tribune.
1t ralnsd Saturday in Belfast and there was no
fighting. What is apparently needed TO restore
tranquility there upon a solid foundation is q
fne substantial flood.