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Connecticut western news., 1888-08-22
HUMOROUS

All's fair in base ball even foul.
 We like hot weather best whom it l uts on aira
 Song of tho bookworm - Sweet, sweet tome."
 An Arabs favorite musical instru- meut-The loot.
 How to get even with some men--Pay them what you owe them.
 Tho shipwrecked sailor generally ha' raft of things to look after.
 Evidence is the only thing stingy man can give without repiuing.
 The word pantaloouings is coming into use among pan ntaloon atics.
 What the wheel said to the black. smith: ''You make me tired"
 None but man who is well loaded will attempt to shoot the R,piis.
 Talk is cheap, unless you have just eaten a philopeua with young lady friend.
 It is said that the lawn order society is responsible for the ''Kcep off tho grass" cdict
 While re,ping machines have robbed the cradle, they have contributed com siderable to the grave.
 It is quite consistent and proper for the seaside bellies to como off tn, bath ing beach wringing wet.
 The man who went into m artificial limb factory and askel for twelve inches, wanted foot, but why didn't he say sol
 'tMiss Lucy, zephyr is moving your lovely curls." "Dsar me, MT. Snob' berly, please knock it off,"
 "Hurrahl Hurrah l" cried the Boston girl as tho ball player slid to third. "He has reached the tertiary period.
 Tho Boston Globe has an article oa ''The Decline of tho Drummer" But whom did the drummer d,cline any thing2 r.
 Il notice you never try to shine i1 conversation, Bromley7" ''Well, no. Fact is, Darlington, it keeps me busy trying to conceal my ignorance" The bulldog sits at the garden gate,
 His tail is short but his teeth are long; And soon those molars will grind and grate
 When the limbs of the peddler come along.
 'Ts John doing we'll in the west3' "Oh, myl yes. He's been there only six months, and he's got a million now." "Dollarsi" 'No; grasshop- rcrs."
 There is a strange partiality shown in giving tho elephant, which has fy- proof hide, tail at both ends, while tho thin skinned horse has fly brush at only one end.
 Miss DcSmith-What made you and Augustus Popinjly look so sheepish and glum, this afternoon whom l calleda Had you had falling out9 Miss Travis -Ycs-out of the hammock.
 An old >adage says that ''courtesy opens many doors" Yes, and lack of courtesy leaves thcm open. Won't somebody invent a new adago that will tell what will shut many doors7
 Passenger-Whats wrongG Brake man-The train behind us can't slow up. There'll bc m awful collision. Passenger-And I'll be killed. That's just my luck. was foolish enough to buy a return ticket.
 As they do 1t in Boston-Eldcrly lady to platform guard. at Boston and AL bany station) (Which car do I want to take2' Polite railroad man---'You will pardon me, madam, for answering your question with another. but the so- lution of tho proposition depends, to . somewhat broad extent, on where you want to go."
Connecticut western news., 1888-08-22
London, with population of over 5000, 900, complains of death-rato of 15. per 1000 inhabitants.

There are Tn England and Wales IA, 662 voluntary or religious schools, with an average attendancs of 2211, 920 pu. pills, and 4, 492 board schools, with an average of i, 315, 461 scholars
Connecticut western news., 1888-08-22

Henry Price, ''tho father of Masonry in America" died in Townsend, Mass, in 17SO. Now, rather tardily, monu- ment has been erected over his grave. The location is prominent aud overlooks the farm where Price spent his last
Connecticut western news., 1888-08-22

High life is barred against actors and actresses in France. It is everywhere understood that no actress enters a fashionable front door in Paris save in her professional quality. She comes to act or to recitc; says her say, and then departs; mingle, never with the audi ence who have applauded her to the ol
Connecticut western news., 1888-08-22

The butter which Senator Palmer, of Michigan, uses on his table is mado from the milk of his own hig- bred Jer- sey cows and costs him s Q pound. But the senator is millionaire many times over and can afford such luxur-
Connecticut western news., 1888-08-22

There is something dazzling, says the New York Post, about the way big merchants do business. Claus Spreckle' the California sugar refner, recently bought 100, 900, 900 pounds ot raw sug- ar. His profits On the investment will be $2, 900, 900.
Connecticut western news., 1888-08-22

Professor Proctor, in recent article, argues that the less a man eats the bet ter are his chances for reaching good old age. The Professor says that it will hurt hardly any man to fast for forty days at time, provided he drinks plenty of water.
Connecticut western news., 1888-08-22

Tho St. Louis Globe Democrat Is will ing to wager a years subscription that there are more bald-headed women than men in the country to-day, but tho great trouble is to secure the proofs.
Connecticut western news., 1888-08-22
The Song of the Heart. Yes, I will sing you a song tonight,

 Yes, will sing you a song tonight, Since the theme you leave to me, The sweetest and best, my hearts delight, For the burden, dear, is of thee; And though short the song, The story is long As a human life can be- For love is the best of all refrains, The dearest the heart may hear, And welcome as ever summer rains, Descending the earth to cheer; And the love sing
 Is the love bring, For my life, to thee, my dearl This is the song of my heart tonight, Its chambers with joy resound, And warm and free is the mellow light That falleth on all around.
 Let thy blessing be,
 Dearest heart, on me And the love that we have found.
 --[Mercury.
Connecticut western news., 1888-08-22
What Allied Him.

Little Boy-Have you got we'll againi Why, haven't been sick.
 'Havcn'tyou7 Why l heard pa say you wore suffering from swelled head"
Connecticut western news., 1888-08-22
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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-02-02

WE call attention to letter from Mr.. E. c..
Atkins, the manufacturer who advocates the
passage Of the amendments to the gas ordi-
nance asked for by the Indianapolis company
Mr. Atkins will hardly be denounced as an
OCTOPUS" or as the paid advocate" of any
interest lot in harmony with the best good of
the whole city. But MIR. Atkins talks like a
gentleman, and in advocating his views does
not assume the air of a bully or use the
words of a drab, which cannot be said of
many of those who are so fierce in their oppo-
sition to the changes, assailing all who favor
them as purchased or purchasabie scoundrels,
deliberately and Intentionally working against
the best interests of the city. This is the
amiable mood of the self-assumed philanthro-
pists who have kindly taken charge of Indian
amelia
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-02-02
COMMENT AND OPINION.

LET the national Democratic convention be
held at Montgomery, Ala, the capital of the
Southern Confederacy. if you want Democracy
to enthuss.-Detroit Tribune.
ANARCHIST" is the gentlemanly and convinc-
ing epithet which the Baltimore 81 Ohio officials
comsanY's relief association. This sort OF ty-
rannical abuse makes Anarchists. York
Press.
IT is absurd to say the party will not adopt
the Kentucky idea of tariff reform. 1t has repu-
dated all other ideas, and in Congress by the
election of Mr.. Carlisle, at the polls by the de-
feat of Blaine and Butler, the country has de-
Kentucky idea.-Louisville Courier-Journal.
AND now the gallant Harry Watterson is get
ting scared. The timid managers have laid hands
him. He now says the Democratic party is
not free-trade party. Yet it WAS only in the
last election that he declared: 1.-THE Democratic
party Is q free trade party it 10 nothing"
The panic is Observation-Disclosures Sentinel
THE Democratic papers are again rushing to
the defense of forgery at Columbus with all their
old time zeal. And so sacred do they consider
forgery when perpetrated to manufacture Demo
cratic maiorities that they never forgive Al
len g. Thurman for assisting the prosecution.
The Ohio Democracy is the skunk of politics
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
THE Hon. Frank Hurd has evidently been
reading the Chicago Tribune and Des Moines
Register. and boldly asserts that on free,tr
issue the Democrats can carry Indiana, Iowa.
Michigan, land several other Western States"
this year All the Republicans ask Is that
Democrats will make free trade square issue
before the peopie.-Chicago Inter Ocan.
THE average price OF coal per ton at the pits
mouth in West Virginia in 1886 was 81 per ton;
the average price per ton in England at the pits
mouth, same year. was s1.1S Yet the poor
people of the region supplied by the taxridden
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-02-02

TEE Journal has not word to say against
the Trust We have no word to utter against
anybody connected with it, but does it no.
strike the gentlemen themselves that it is
getting trife tiresome to have them con-
stantly assume monopoly Of the virtue of
the city; to constantly assert that everything
they do is dictated by the most exalted and
sublimated philanthropy, while whatever
anybody else does is the result of sordid and
grinding. if not criminal, selfshnessf Does
it not strike some of these good gentlemen
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-02-02

has over six thousand contracts with those
who will become its patrons SO soon as it has
gas to sell. No matter what other companies
may or can do, it has already ''gobbled up
the cream" What has it to fear9 What can
it, or the city, lose by allowing other COM
ponies to take share of the skinned milk
left by its brigade of solicitors2
We have gone over this ground simply to
show the fiimsiness of the objections to the
two amendments asked to the gas ordinance.
The question is with the Councils and they
should act at once. Delays are dangerous,
especially in view of Judge Lambs statement
about the condition of Indianapolis. Is the
city to have any benefit from natural gas, or
are we to continue haggling and higgling,
while the tide of prosperity sweeps entirely
by us?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-02-02

bituminous coal of West Virginia pay war
tax" of IS cents per ton their coal and Eng
land reioices in free coai.-New York Press.
THE labor vote has been lost to the Democracy
by the shameful treatment of the wage worker
the wood-carver Toebe. against the conscience
of the members of the House of botn parties.
but under the whip and spur of the administra-
ton and Speaker Carlisle. Carlisle himself.
wounded in health and sick in body. as retired
from the contest recuperate. but his power
as a leader has been reduced to thrd-class.
tional Republican.
THE man who FORCES q tallysheet is wo-se
than the man who FORCES a note; for while the
latter breaks one law, and possibly Injuries q
few individuals, tho tally sheet foreer wrongs
the majority, and undermines the whole fabric
of government The fact that the guilty par
ties have stood high IN the community. and
have been OF great political prominence and
power should not screen them. Let no guilty
man esoape.-Western Christian Advocate.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-02-02
LOCAL EXPENSES,

The Huntington Herald does good work
for economy in local government by compar-
ing the..expenses of Huntington county during
1885, the last year Of Democratic rule. with
those of 1887, the first year of Republican
rule. The Herald remarks that %'the local
issue between the two parties in Huntington
county is the comparative intelligence, bust
ness talent, honesty and economy shown by
their respective management of the county's
business affairs" This is an excellent issue
to make in local politics everywhere. The
comparison referred 10 shows that the county
expenses in 1885 exceeded those of 1887 by
$10.471 Some of the items are remarkable.
Thus, in 1885, the Democratic County Com
missioners drew for their services 81, OOO. so,
while in 1887 the Republican Commissioners
drew $648, saving of 1852. The difference
in the cost of stationery in the two
years was $1,620; difference in cost of
county infrmary $516, in county printing
81, 372, and each one of the county offices
helped to make up the balance of the aggre-
gate named above. The Herald proposes in
anotner cnapter 20 compare the expenditures
for free gravel roads, bridges paupers, inter-
est on public debt, ETC., and to show from the
records that the Republican Commissioners
in 1887, on a levy of only 40 cents upon the
800 valuation, expended several thousand
dollars more for public improvements than
did their Democratic predecessors in 1885,
with levy of 60 cents on the 800 valuation.
Such showing this is an unanswerable
argument A saving of more than $40, 900 a
year in county expenses is something every
body can understand. There are other coun-
ties in the State that could save thousands of
dollars year by turning out Democratic
rings and putting in honest intelligent men,
who would transact the countys business on
business principles.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-02-02

Mr.. THALMAN talks like man of sense,
and a councilman who has an honorable con-
ception Of his responsibilities. 1t will be a
bad piece Of work for indianapolis if a timid
and hating Council decline to make amend
object, simply because they are bulldozed by a
sentiment that expresses itself in denuncia-
ton Of men, and in assertions that if certain
companies do not want to come in under the
ordinance as it is, let them stay out That is
the reasonableness ~ of the opponents to the
proposed amendments.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-02-02

protected article has been exploded thousand
times. Whatever the duty of seventy-fve
cents ton on bituminous coal may do, and it
is very doubtful if it does any practical good,
it certainly does not not enhance the price
either of anthracite or bituminous coal. The
principal cost of both is in transportation.
The average price Of bituminous coal at the
pits mouth in this country in 1886 averaged
ST. per ton, while in England it was 81. IA per
&nr
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-02-02
THE TALLY-SHEET FORGERS
In the Expressions of the Press of the State
Upon Their Righteous Conviction.

Lafayette News: Coyism has ruled TO an
alarming extent, and the people should give
thanks because the perpetrators of election
frauds are being brought to justice.
Loeansport Journal 1t is a triumph of law
and justice, and rebuke of partisan crime that
will be very gratifying to honest men without
distinction of party. in this State and through
out the Nation.
every section of the State for the law take it's
course, and that those who have by their own
free acts violated the election laws, and by SO
doing sought to rob the people OF tho fruits OF
the ballot, shall be made to suffer the conse-
ouences.
Vincennes Commercial The Righteousness
OF the verdict in the tally-sheet cases meets
with general appreciation Good people almost
universally have awakened to the insamy at
taching to those who doctor election figures
for the purpose of counting in their favorItes
The conviction of Coy and Bernhamer Is re-
garded as a step toward the correction OF the
outraees against free ballot and fair count
Kokomo Gazette-Tribune: The conviction of
Gov and Bernhsmer. conspirAtors against
popular government, Will count muen Tor honest
elections in Indiana The moral effect OF tho
verdict can not be overestimated. but its full
force for good will never be felt except by
nrompt sentence of the feions and their speedy
incarceration. Two acts are yet essential TO tho
greatest good, the conviction OF the remaining
consprators and the imprisonment OF the whole
gang.
qualification to every good citizen OF the State.
It is rot merely that criminals to receive the
Just dues for their crimes; it removes from In
diana politics notorious boss, whose nachina-
tions have been a disgrace to the State IL
elbows that the buldozing methods which have
been aptly called .Coyism and which have been
used to keep Indiana Democratic. are not to be
upheld in courts, but will meet she punish
ment due to such crimes
Madison Courier: The Democracy of the
State have q chance to rise or fall by the result
OF the trial. II, as an organization, they indorse
and sustain those Democrats who figured ia is
they will add to the name OF Democracy q char
acter and strength IL DOES not now possess. II,
on the other hand, they fail To support those
honest and honorable within their own
ranks, but abandon them for the men con vict-d
Of the highest crims against free people, the
party organization will have to bear the
odium and suffer tho disgrace which attach
81 to Coy, Bernhamer, ct al.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-02-02

connected with the Trust that there NAV be
too much of phylactery- broadening, and of
praying on the street corners, and of thanking
God that they are not like other men-not
even these poor publlcans, the other gas
companiesf We merely drop the suggestion
out of the purest personal kindness
So far asthe work of the Trust is concerned,
the Journal has gone as far as anybody could,
in giving to it the greatest credit for the good
it has done. 1t has saved the city from high
price in gas; it has dictated the rates, and is
in a position to continue the absolute regula-
tor of the question of price. Started with
the purpose of supplying competition, so
that gas should be furnished at the
lowest possible rate, let not its good
work or record be spoiled now by a
supremely selfish effort to monopolize the
entire supply of gas. or to hold the city back
from supply until it is ready for business,
by blind and unreasoning opposition to
changes in the ordinance, against the reason
abieness of which not one valid objection has
yet been made. Let the Trust continue to be
the friend of tb public. But it should not
unduly puff itself up as the only, or the
peculiar, guardian of the "plain people"
There has been something too much of this
alreadv
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-02-02

THE Broad Ripple company does not join
in tho effort 70 secure the changes in the ordi-
nance asked for by other companies, though
admitting that they are desirable. If all its
customers should suddenly take it into their
heads to try meters, which must be supplied
Mt the company's expense and should order
the same taken out after a brief test, probably
the stockholders would conclude that certain
changes are not only desirable, but highly es-
aarfiaI
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-02-02

If there is much more epithet and innuendo
on the part of those who assume to be the
special mouthpieces of the Trust against
everybody who favors the amendment of the
gas ordinance it may become necessary to
f'tell the truth" about the virtue of some of
the loudest of the gentlemen. In that event a
good deal Of philanthropy" will appear very
poor pinchbeck. Tolerance with denuncia-
ton on the part of some individuals has
almost ceased to be q virtue.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-02-02
DEMOCRACY AND THE TALLY-sHEEr FoRe-


The Democratic State organ continues to
denounce everybody connected with the prose-
cution and conviction of the tally sheet forg-
ers. Its understanding wrath is directed
equally against all Republicans; the commit
tee of one hundred, composed, in part, of
Democrats; the district attorney and his
assistant, both Democrats; Samuel E. Perkins,
a lifelong member of the party, and the
Democratic jurymen, who, like Mr.. Messick,
would not uphold fraud. All come in for a
share of the Sentineps abuse. 1t is an extra
ordinary conception of political tactics or
partisan duty that suggests such course. It
would seem to imply belief that majority
of the people are either fools or knaves-that
rascality, or can be made to believe
that black is white. We do not
share in that opinion. We believe the masses
of both parties and all parties reasonably
enough to know that altering election returns
is crime, and honesty enough to condemn
such methods. In the present case, from the
very beginning there have been but two
questions-frst, was fraud perpetrated, and
second, who did itg There has been no doubt
at all On the first point, and very little on the
second. Granting that a fraud was commit
ted, the question was whether it should be
and punished, or whether it should be passed
over and forgottenf If the latter course had
been adopted the expectations of those who
perpetrated the fraud would have been
have attached to their crime, and the matter
would have been soon forgotten. This would
have emboldened them and others to attempt
similar frauds in the future, and things would
have gone from bad to worse. This would
have been the inevitable result of ignoring the
matter. Every honest man m ust have dep
recated such course. The other one was to
investigate the fraud, to discover the perpe-
have them indicted, prosecuted tried, and, if
guilty, convicted. This has been done. To
call it persecution" is dwelling nonsense.
In the same sense and to the same degree,
every prosecution of crime is persecution.
The very use of the word argues sympathy
with crime. The attempt to give it partisan
aspect is an insult to every honest Democrat
in the State. We have the testimony of
Democratic members of the jury that the
efforts of defendants counsel in that direction
actually hurt their case, and the effect on the
public mind will be the same. So will the
attacks on the court, counsel witnesses and
jury. The number of persons who approve
that sort of business is just equal to the COM
bined number of those who approve the crime
itself, who believe that no crime was COM
mitted, and who believe the defendants are
innocent. The aggregate number of these is
not very large. The fools and knaves
together are not majority.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-02-02

THE claim that the price of anthracite coal
10 increased by the tariff, made by some of
the ultra free-trade organs. is absurd. There
is no duty on anthracite coal, and the duty
ton. 1t is claimed that the latter not only
increases the price on bituminous, but on an
thracits. 1t does neither. The theory that a
tariff duty il always added TO the price of the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-02-02

LEON BAILEY seems to have fallen between
two fires. He was not permitted to assist in
the prosecution Of the gang because he was
yregarded as being in sympathy with them,
but with all his evident inclination to stand
by his friends he has incurred their dis.
pleasure. The way of deputy district-at-
torneY il not always happy one.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-02-02

THE Sentinel says the jury did not believe
Perkins, and threw his testimony out alto
gether. The Sentinel is not good authority
on anything relating to the tally-sheet forgers;
but IL this statement be true it only shows
that the evidence against Coy and Bernhamer
was strong enough to convict without Per-
kins's testimony.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-02-02

THE theory advanced by Mr. Coy and his
friends that federal judge is too independ-
emily situated to dispense the sort of justice
that he and his kind demand. leaves the in
ference to be drawn that he and the gang are
not afraid of judge elected by popular vote.
AL of which is hardly likely to create q
sentiment in their favor in the minds of Ger.
tain judges before whom their cases may yet