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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-04-17
POLITICAL NOTES.

COLUMBUS tO.l Dispatch: The outlook Is IA
vorable for Harrison and Phelps. to catch Indi-
ana aud New Jersey.
ATLANTA Constitution: Tt is now pretty we'll
understood that the tariff controversy in Con-
gress will not be settled until after the Demo-
cratic convention meets
A RESOLUTION indorsing Gen, Ben. Harrison
for President was adopted unanimously and
with great enthusiasm at the ST. Joseph county
tIndiana) Republican convention.
EVANSVILLE Recorder: Congressman Hudd
is said to be in danger of getting left out next
time. and then Wisconsin would have nine Re-
publlcans and no Democrats in the House.
GEs GEORGE A. GIsTy. a prominent candi-
date for Governor Of Wisconsin, wants the Re-
publicans Of that State to adopt high-lieense
plank in their platform this year. He does
not believe that il viii repel the Germans.
Boston Journal Tho fact that Maryland,
despite the tremendous amount Of Zine work"
put in there by Higgins and German. has al
ready organized . hundred Republican clubs
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ought 20 encourage the friends of honest gov
erument in that State TO another earnest strng-
gle next November.
New YoRK Mail and Express: Great interest
Is taken by Republicans all over the country 10
the national anti-saloon conference that is to be
held in this city on the I'd Of May. One illus
tration of this fact is to be found in the state
meDts made 10 q letter just received from
General Nettleton, of Minneapolis. which gives
tbs names of forty-eight prominent citizens Of
Minnesota who expect 10 attend the conference.
Among them is Bishop Ireland. who is expected
TO deliver an important address before the con-
ference. It will be the most impressive and in
fiuentiaI temperance demonstration that has
been made for q good many years.
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THE fact is that the State of Rhode Island
does not enjoy a republican form of govern
ment, in anything but he name. The essence
of republicanism is lacking.
Gone, perhaps. to take up its abode in South
Carolina, where $4,000 white Democrats regu-
larry outvote $3.50 colored Republicans; or
in Georgia. where, ont of a colored voting
population of 145. All, only 1850 votes were
cast and counted in the last election for Con-
gressmen. Talk about Rhode Island not en-
ioying a republican form of government
There has been no such thing known in any
of the Southern States for the last dozen years.
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mt allow His operatives the aforesaid eranEsrs,
to control His property. the sun and the show
ers. and therefore will not hermit q bucoic
trust or corner In farm products. --Chicago
Times.
THIS failure Of prohibition in Maine ought to
Arye as a warning TO the real friends Of tenn per-
nee in other States, but it will not affect potl-
clans who prohibition for political ends.
Chicago Times
TIE Democracy takes its orders from it's
Southern section, il did In the old DAYS The
abiect surrender of the Northern Democrats on
the direct-tax matter is but a repetition, under
hanged circu instances and slightly altered con-
ditions, of their surrender on the slavery and
tariff questions a generation two ago.-St.
Louis Globe Democrat.
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COMMENT AND OPINION.

THE heroism OF the striking brewers is fully
appreciated only by those who remember that
while they on strike they pay fo- their own
beer.-ChicAgo News.
THE Grand Army men of Brooklyn can hard
" expect that President Cleveland will accept
the invitation to review their parade Decoration
DAY. That is one of the days which the Presi-
den: always sets aside for trout-fshing. -Phila-
delphia Press.
THE Rhode Island mugwumps are like the
mule that kicked clear over The traces only to
find that the inside OF his leg was much more
tender than the outside. Kicking in the traces
is fun, but when the kicker gets clear over it is
neither funny nor effective.-Chicago Inter
Ocean.
THE proposed army of women who. accord
ing TO Lillie Blake. will fight - we'll as men.
will not make their campaigns in the summer.
The astuts enemy would be Certain TO arm
themselves with boughs covered with caterpill-
ars, and a panic would DO inevitable. Louis.
Vile Courier-JournaL
If there be genuine home rulers in America
men who desire home rule for IreIand-to be
consistent and juet they ought 20 favor the
10 honor and in duty bound to cast their lot
with the Republican party. which favors 1niver-
sal liberty.-New York Press
THERE is needed q return to the apprentice
ship system. Nobody is an apprentice nova
days. In order to strengthen themselves, the
trade-unlons take in masters all who apply.
The question of pay-how much the people can
be forced 10 pay-comes IN ahead of the ques-
ton of work to be dona.-Chicago Herald.
THE dearest goods the Nation can possibly buy
are those for which it pays the keep OF idle
men and women who would gladly work. The
foreigner who wants to send goods here TO tak6
the independent manhood from an American
ought 20 be required at least to contribute what
il costs to feed and clothe him.-New York
Tribune.
1T is very suggestive circumstance that
those Democrats who are especially devoted tn
Mr. Cleveland are hoping that Blaine will be
the Republican candidate. while. at the same
time the Blaine Republicans are resolved that
he must have Cleveland TO against him.
The Democrats think that Blaine is the easiest
of Republicans To defeat. and the Republicans
think the same of Cleveland New YORK sun
Con will not permit agriculturists. Ills junior
partners In the business of producing food Tor
the human family. deliberately. with malice
aforethoueht. to make bread end meat scafeer
for the purpose Of making IL dearer. God will
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PHILADELPHIA candidates for Office find
that the new high-license law works to their
advantage in way they had not anticipated.
Heretofore they have had, or thought they
had, to gain the good will of the saloon keep
ers, who were supposed to have influence, and
there was only one way in which they could
be secured as allies, namely, by the liberal
expenditure of cash either in treating the fire.
quenters of the places or in direct brides. The
lower the saloon the more exorbitant and
peremptory were the demands, and the office
seeker of small means stood no show and was
apt to find himself bankrupt at the end of the
campaign. Nine-tenths of the low saloons hav-
ing been weeded out, candidates now breathe
more freely. A result of the situation, also,
probably not anticipated, may be the election
of a class of candidates which would not in any
case cater to the saloon element. The re-
moval of the liquor interest from local politics
will give the higher element Of the community
better chance to express its preferences.
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SPIRITUALISTIC FRAUDS.
The Bangs Sisters Charged with Obtaining
Money Under False Pretenses,

CHICAGO, April l6.-Lizzie and May Bangs,
under the name of the Bangs sisters. conduct
the leading spiritualistic establishments in Chi
cago and in their capacity cater TO large ele-
ment In the community. Their elegant par
lors have been crowded by day well as by
night, and money flowed into their coffess in
large streams. Several weeks ago Blue
Island avenue photographer was found, inno-
cent of all raiment, on South Water street. He
was locked up. and it was ascertained that he
was regular patron of the seances conducted
mirer of the Anarchist, August Spies, who WAS
hanged Nov. IL. last. The sisters furnished the
photographer, ameng other things usually fur
nished by professional mediums, the slate writ-s
ing of the dead Anarchists, and the
suit was that the camera was relegated TO q
place in the corner of his gallery and all his
time and money given to his sisters. Now the
photographer is In the insane asylum and the
sisters are out on bail to answer charges of OBJ
tanning money under false pratenses and operat-
ing place OF amusement minus the requisite
license. The arrest made while seanca
was in fnsl bloom. and the paraphernalia condss
Gated which STAMPED these women as frauds OF
the FIRST water. Since the arrest ard expose
spiritualistic circles have heen in uproar.
On Friday the seven-year-old daughter of Lizzie
Bangs died. and yesterday the funeral took
place. Mrs. Cora L. V. Richmond conducted
the services and they were OF an entirely
spiTitualistic nature. Mrs. Richmond has for Z
number of years posed In public as trance
speaker and as such gives scien-
tiic. philosophical and spiritual addresses
while under the controlling influence. she
claims. of some long departed scientist or phios-
opher At the funeral service yesterday she
went into a trance condition and preached, or
rather delivered DISCOURSE lasting nearly an
hour In the course of which she recired i'm
promptu poem. Lizzie Bangs spoke bitterly or
the injustice done her by the iItimation the
part of her prosecutors that she made her childs
sickness excuse to postpone the hearing, and
that little Mand was not sick at all lit WAS all
on account of the persecution I've received that
she died. she said; Il caught severe cold by
being taken - the police station. and Maudie
caught her cold which developed into diphtheria,
from me. and passed away in less than n weeks
A large crowd was present during the sad,
though somewhat novel ceremonies.
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Democratic ticket unless paid TO do so. and il
any of the Rhode Island negroes were paid to
vote the Republican ticket it was because they
were receiving offers of money from the other
side. Two wrongs do not ma ke right, and
the fact that Democrats were trying to buy
colored voters did not justify Republicans in
outbidding them, but having been beaten at
their own game the Democracy are not in
position to start the cry of "open and shame
less bribery The Republicans would not
have been obliged to buy negro voters unless
the Democrats had been trying to do so. This
does not palliate the crime of bribery, but it
should stop Democrats from bowling about it.
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THE ALLEGED FRAUDS IN RHODE ISLAND.

THE ALLEGEU FRAUDS In kAUDE Island
The Sentinel INDUCES in fit of virtuous
indignation over the alleged use of money by
the Republicans in the recent Rhode Island
election. It is charged that they practiced
open bribery. paying S. to $40 apiece for
votes, according to the ruling market price.
If they did it was an outrage, and somebody
should suffer for it. Bribery az elections is
penal offense in all the States, and if the
Republicans in Rhode Island practiced it
"openly and shamelessly," as is charged, there
must be plenty of witnesses to the fact, and
the guilty parties should be brought to
justice, as the Coy-Bernhamer crowd were
here. Street-corner and newspaper charges
of election frauds do not count for much.
That kind of talk is cheap. The thing to do
is toferret out the frauds, discover the per-
petrators, drag them to the light and punish
them. Suppose the Republicans of this city
had contented themselves with merely charg-
ing fraud and forgery by the Democrats in the
election of 1886. what would it have amounted
tog Practically nothing. No matter how
strong and specific the charges had been made,
or how plain and convincing the proof, the
entire Democratic Press of the State would
have denounced them as Republican campaign
lies, and the Coy gang would have remained
masters of the situation. But the appoint
ment of the committee of one hundred, the
Institution of legal proceedings, the pur-
suit of the guilty parties from
one cover and one hiding place
to another, the battering down of their vari-
Gus defenses. the persistent presentation of
the case to one grand jury after another. the
finding of new indictments, the untiring pros
ecution and final conviction OF two of the
leaders of the gang-al this put very diff
ferent phase on the matter. Long before the
end was reached the guilty parties began to
realize that it was something very different
from street-corner or newspaper talk. No
matter how true the charges might have been,
they would not have cared fig for that kind
of publicity, but when they began to hear the
prison doors creaking and to see a suit of
striped clothes dangling before their eyes,
they realized that the case had a serious
pect. If Rhode Island Republicans have
practiced ''open and shameless bribery" to
anything like the extent charged, or to any
extent whatever. they should DO treated as
the Coy Bernhamer gang were here. Unless
the Democrats do that and back up their
Wholesale charges with legal proceedings, peo-
pie viii conclude that they are talking at
random.
There is another feature of Tie case worth
a passing notice 1t is charged that large
number of negroes were bIibed to vote the
Republican ticket. If this is true Ii shows
that the Democrats were in the oribing bust
ness themselves. 1t isl notorious fact that black
men when left TO themselves always and in
yariably vote the Republican tisket With
rare individual exceptions they laevsr vote the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-04-17

HON W. S. GRoEsBEcK. of Cincinnati,
does not visit Washington often. and his
presence there now is thought by some to be
connected with the enthusiastically. A
year or 50 ago the President wrote saying to
Mr.. Groesbeck that he would like to offer him
prominent Office. but At that time Mr..
GrOesbeck did not care to enter public life.
Il is not known that he would care to now.
but his appointment as Chief-iustics would
be an excellent one.
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The Chicago Times, in discussing the In
diana situation, doubts If the Republican
convention will consider Judge Gresham an
available candidate in the face of solid Har-
rison delegation from Indiana. The State, it
says, is doubtful els it, it asks, calculated
to dispel doubt If the convention repudiate
the formal candidate of Indiana, snub the
delegation sent up in his behalf, set up anoth-
er Indianian as worthier and more popular,
and bid assembled Hoosiers go home and elect
himf True, the outcome in 1880 may be
cited, but the circumstances differ. Garfield
was not creating antagonisms by any preas-
serted candidacy. and Ohio was not then and
has not been in any presidential election
doubtful State On the question of Gresh-
ANS availa bility in Indiana the convention
is likely to hearken to the voice of the author
lied Harrison delegate, and to agree with him
that if Indiana wanted Gresham it would
have made its choice known by the usual
methods" The situation being thus, the
Times argues that the proper way to carry In
diana is to nominate Chauncey Depew, which
conclusion, after its demonstration of Harri-
sons popularity, is most remarkable case of
non sequitur. The Chicago mind has curl
Gus bias, and no man can tell to-day what
sort of twist it will take tomorrow, but to
readers with average powers of reasoning the
Times article will serve as a convincing argu-
ment in favor of Harrison's nomination.
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S. S. Cox has introduced in Congress bill
to divide railway postal clerks into six classes,
with salaries ranging from 5000 to S., 8 90 per
year. The largest sum named is none too
much il the clerk is competent to do his work,
and perhaps the increase viii of itself draw
out Democratic applicants who can read writ
ing without putting their tongues out
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THE Endorsement of General Harrison by
town, and township. and county, one after an
other, makes something Of sameness in Re
publican politics of the State; but it is truly
beautiful and soothing mOnotOny to 900 out
of every l, 600 Republican voters.
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GREEN SMITH is getting to be an old man of
the sea to the Indiana Democracy. They
don't want to give him anything--all the
Offices could be portioned out to much bet
ter advantage-but there he is, and he must
be provided for. 1t is an unhappy predica-
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The Philadelphia Record, which does not
seem to know what humorous paper it is,
says the Republicans might go further and
fare worse than to nominate James Russell
Lowell as their candidate for the presidency.
How the Democrats and mugwumps who
mean to vote for Cleveland would like to
name the Republican candidate. to be surel
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THERE is very little variety in Republican
politics in Indiana just now, while the dele
gates to the State convention are being in
structed for Harrison; but there is enough
heterogeneousness, so to speak, on the Demo-
cratic side to suit the taste of Bowery boy.
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IT is a matter Of congratulation with people
who are contemplating European tours that
the American Exchange failure occurred be-
fore the season of travel had fairly begun.
Had the. crash been delayed month many
tourists would have found themselves stranded
in foreign land. Comparatively few letters
of credit are issued before May.
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vERMoNTERs say that Minister Phelps's
sixty-six years should not be bar to his APP
pointment to the Supreme Bench since,
owing to his long life in that climate, he Is
more vigorous in mind and body than many a
man of fifty. This opinion is doubtless
based on the theory that frOst-bitten youth
is conducive Of late and stalwart maturity.
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Dr.. McGLYNN says there will be a third
party ticket in the field, pledged to the single
tax. Unless McGlynn has joined the Prohi-
bitionists, of which move there has been no
announcement, he is off in his count and
means the fourth party.
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republic across the seas. The hope Of coming
generations is conferred here, and It is not
singular that our condition and future should
excite steadily-increasing speculative in
terest.
Mr.. Arnold will be remem bered in his
poetry, which was statuesque in the purity of
its diction, but as critic he had the defects
common to his class-an easy-howing pen
that ran before the thought and not after,
and habit of generalization not based on
scientific investigation. a word, super
fciality.
He has posed before his generation as the
apostle of culture or estheticism, not SO RI
diculously as Oscar Wilde. and, we fear, not
more effectively. He finds the English up
per class materialized, the middle vulgarized,
and the lower class brutalized. he has in
sisted that the crying need of civilization is
sweetness and light" more of the poetry
and less of the prose of life. If he has not
pointed out the way of attaining this ideal.
he has at least stated it, and in stating it has
enriched the literature of the language.
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THE community is waiting to hear the
names Of the eight agriculturists TO be APP
pointed by Governor Gray as delegates to the
farmers trust convention at Topeka. next
month. Eight good workers might help his
little vice-presidential boom along consider
ably on that Occasion-that is, if the as
senbled delegates happened to be that kind
of farmers.
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Our Washington special gives an interest
Ing account Of the opening Of the argument
10 the Coy -Bernhamer case, before the su-
prems Court, yesterday. Senator voorhees,,
ezyCosgrssaman Lamb and other friends Of
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THE Marion county Democratic ring is pre-
pairing to ''run" the State convention, as
usual. Out counties will please prepare
themselves to drop meekly into line.
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Mr.. IGNArIUs DoNNELLY, now in London, is
to be rendered public reception to-day by the
Bacon Society, an organization composed OF
persons who believe that Lord Bacon wrote
Shakespeare and that Mr. Donnelly can prove
it Il is rather gratifying TO know that the
crauks are not all this side of the water
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THE able Democratic statesmen who have
undertaken to switch Mr.. Bynum off the con-
gressional track are in danger of being run
over again. They had better look out for the
1oconaotive
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THE farmers trust will operate just like
any sort Of trust. When it works itself out
the other fellows will be holding the mort
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MATTHEW ARNOLD wrote an article abusive
OF America, and then death took him. The
moral to literary Englishmeu is obvious.
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If Queen Victoria succeeds in passing into
history as matchmaker, Prince Bismarck
may figure in the same pages as match
breaker
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ONE of the most remarkable cases of hal
Inclination on record is Leon Baiiey's imagin-
ing that he is q candidate for Congress
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Deserted M. vic and Children.

OLgAN \. 7, April l6 IT c. Lewis. Mayor
of the city, and superintendent of the Eclipse
oil refinery here, has eloped with Katherine
Hodges, an adopted daughter OF one OF Oiaansa
two children. They have been trseed 70 Boston-
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IT may be assumed as a certainty that the
removal of Commander Harmony, OF the Nor ;
folk navy-yard. will result in q lack of harmony.
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Telephone Calls.
Business Office. 23s Editorial Rooms --.-224
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A MAN can master the freelunch route,
And man carry the banner.
But he can't sew the rip In his Sunday coat,
For he isn't built in that manner.
Lincoln Journal.
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breaker.