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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-11

THE first General Assembly of the Presby-
terrain Church was held at Philadelphia one
hundred years ago this month, and centennial
celebrations of the event will be held by the
churches all over the country on the last Sun
day in January. 1t is proposed to make the cell
ebration memorable by the accomplishment of
some good work, and in pursuance of this end
an effort will be made to raise the million-dol-
lar fund for the relief of ministers who need
assistance, which has already been called for
bv the church.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-11

COLORADO has a new town, or, as the
advertising circular has it, a ''city," of 400
or 500 inhabitants, and its name is Indianap-
oils. It is not railroad center like its name
sake, but railway survey has passed through
there, and it hopes eventually to enjoy that
privilege According to the account it pos
sesses good many advantages, not the least
of which is the fact that the poor can get a
start there and the rich can make large
investments Some of the attractions
enumerated are of the same character
those which distinguish the Hoosier capital,
and the Journal cannot, therefore, advise an
exodus to the Colorado town, but for those
who for any reason cannot have the privilege
of living here, the little Indianapolis seems
good place to go.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-11
The Salaries of Judges.
Chicago News


In the reason assigned for the resignation o.
Judge A. G. Ayres, of the Circuit Court, at In
dianapolis, the public may learn how it comes
that the bench both in Indiana and Illinois DOES
not command the services of the best lawyers.
Judge Ayres resigned because he lean do better
at the practice of law than on the bench" If he
is good lawyer. fit to occupy the position he
has voluntarily left. we have no doubt of it. A
lawyer qualified to be a circuit judge COM
mand better pay than any salary paid to judges
in Indiana or Illinois.
But il this circuit judge found the pay of a
Judge inadequate or below what he could make
In his profession, what of the magnificent
stipend paid TO the supreme judges of Illinos2
The members of our court of last resort receive
tho princely sum of $1,000 year. They have
to abandon all the pleasures of settled horne life.
Can n be expected that the State Will command
the services of its best lawyers in the highest
court when judges of inferior courts receive
higher pay2 And yet the decisions of the lower
courts passed upon, reversed or affirmed by
the upper court, whose members receive the
lesser pay.
The whole situation is shamefuly anomalous.
Nothing about the position of Supreme Court
judge is calculated to tempt frstrate lawyerl
ito aspire thereto. The salary should be doubled
and the location of the court made permanens
if the court is to command the services of sound
lawyers and the respect of the public.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-11

Is it impossible for mugwumps to candidly
state Republican propositions We do not
expect candor from Democrats; but from
those who assume to be better than other peo-
pie and to compass within themselves all the
virtues, we have right to expect honesty of
statement. And yet we have never seen an
honest and candid statement made by these
people of the position of those who oppose
Mr. Lamar's confirmation. Cannot an argu-
deliberately misstating the attitude of the
Republican party toward him9
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-11
A CHANGE OF SPIRIT.

The apparent sudden abandonment of the
tally-sheet forgers to their fate by the
party they forged to serve needs some
explanation. Only little while ago
they were rated as noble band
of martyrs, their prosecution in the courts was
termed persecution, money was contributed
for their defense and at least one United States
Senator volunteered to appear in their behalf.
Within brief time change has come over
the spirit of the party leaders. who had taken
up the cause of the gang as if it were their
own They seem to manifest an Indifference
to the outcome of the trial, they decline to
contribute further funds, Senator Voorhees,,
once enthusiastic in behalf of the conspira-
tors, discovers that he is too busy to take up
the case Jason Brown deserts them at the
eleventh hour, Judge McNutt is pressed with
other business, and they are left to take care
of themselves. There is no newly discovered
evidence known against the gang to account
for this abandonment. The case is practically
the same now as at the beginning. If
Coy ct al. were prosecuted inno-
cents at the former trial they
are so now, and if Senator Voorhees, really be-
lieves that they are guiltless of aught but
commendable party work" he should not
restrain his generous emotions nor permit
aught to interfere with his original purpose
but should hasten to their defense. They
are truly loyal Democratic brethren, and a
failure to come to their assistance may weigh
heavily on his soul after the trial is over.
However, this desertion will avail nothing
in other directions. 1t is altogether too late
for the party in Indiana to assume virtue
and profess righteous indignation over the
acts of men whose cause the leaders have
championed. Whether the conspirators are
convicted or not. whether they are defended
at the coming trial by volunteer legal talent
or are deserted by their former friends and
allies, the result will be the same to the Dem
ocratic party in the State. The outcome of
the trial will make no difference in popular
opinion. The public has made up its mind
as to the guilt of the men, and of the relation
they bore to the party. The party is smirched,
and the smirch cannot be wiped away either
by disagreement of jury or by the offering
up of the gang as sacrifice.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-11

OUR Washington correspondent furnishes
additional information concerning the true
inwardness of the Carlisle Thoebe contest. 1t
is evident that the case contains the materials
for great sensation if the bottom facts
be brought out. Thus far Mr.. Carlisle and
friends have been pretty successful in sup
pressing the truth, but the smoke has
increased to such an extent that the public
will conclude there is considerable fire. Our
correspondent is anything but sensational
and what he states in regard to the recent
Developments in the case and the impression
they have produced in Washington can be
relied upon. There is very little doubt that
Mr.. Carlisle was defeated on election day by
considerable majority, and was only saved
by midnight rally of his friends and a ma
nipulation of the returns during the four fol-
lowing days. The case has all the ear-marks
of big fraud, and while Mr.. Carlisle is not
yet personally implicated or smirched, mat
tiers have assumed phase that must be very
embarrassing to an honorable man. Mr..
Carlisle has hitherto been accorded that
title, but our correspondent hints that he may
soon have to defend if he would retain it.
Altogether the case has very ugly aspect.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-11

THE sudden and perhaps fatal attack which
yesterday overlook ths Hon. Oscar B. Hord,
at his Office, reminds the public how COM
firms has been broken up by the sudden
death, in rapid succession, Of its honored
members. AS Baker, Hendricks, Hord &
Hendricks, then as Hendricks, Hord & Hen
bricks, this firm enjoyed deservedly high
reputation. Now three of them are dead by
sudden attacks, and the fourth is at deaths
door. In the presence of such events one
feels the force of Burkes remark: what
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-11

Mr. LAMAR has said that despite the re-
suits of the war he could not regard the re-
cent amendments to the Constitution "as hav.
ing equal force with the original articles"
This can not be evaded His vote against
Mr.. Edmunds's resolution only emphasizes
the speech made il the House wherein he
drew distinction between the original Con-
stitution and the war amendments. The
South loves allegiance" to the former, the
latter they keep" on parole" Does man
feel toward that which he is "paroled" to
keep as be does toward that to which he loves
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-11

WE think Mr.. Cloudy is unduiy excited
over the power of the press. We have never
noticed that the press had much power except
when it was in harmony with the thought of
the people. Mr.. Cloudy should recall the
effort made by the celebrated "quadrilaterap'
to run things in 1872, and the disastrous fail
ure that resulted. Certainly the signing of
names to articles, editorial, letter and news,
would not aid much. In disreputable news
papers the names would be of no value, and
in all reputable newspapers nothing is admit
ted of hurtful or ibelous nature for which
the paper itself, which has an individuality, is
no responsible.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-11
PROTECTION AND FREE LABOR.

Protection and free labor are natural allies.
Protection makes free labor and free labor
demands protection, each being the correla-
tive force of the other. Protection has always
been the policy of the North, the natural
home of free labor. Free trade was always
the policy of the South. It continued to be
during the Confederacy. The confederate
Constitu ton contained the following pro-
vision
"Section g. The Congress shall have power,
l. to lay and collect taxes, duties, imports
and excuses for revenue necessary to pay the
debts and provide for the common defense,
and carry on the government of the Confeder-
ate States but no bounties shall be granted
from the Treasury, nor shall any duties or
taxes on importations from foreign nations be
laid to promote or foster any branch of in
dustry and all duties, imports and excuses
shall be uniform throughout the Confederate
States"
This constitutional provision was expressly
prohibitory of any legislation to promote or
foster any branch of Southern industry. The
idea was to found a government on slavery
and cotton, and these did not need protection.
For the rest, they did not want manufactures.
They were vulgar and incendiary, because
they savored of free labor. General Richard
Taylor, q confederate officer writing after the
war, says the South made great mistake in
.that we did not substantially destroy the
protective features of the tariff in the winter
session of 1878 by an act which provided
rapid sliding scale to free trade. AS Demo
cratic measure, we could have passed such
law, and held it tight on you until it closed
the furnaces workshops, woollen and cotton
mills and steel and bar iron works of the
whole North and West, and scattered your
workmen over the prairies and Territories.
When the war was ready for you, you would
not have been ready for the war. You could
not have armed and equipped, and put in the
field large army nor built navy. You
would have been without supplies,
machinery and workmen, ar1 you would
have been without money and credit"
Perhaps things might not have
turned out that way, but this is an interesting
expose of free-trade inwardness from an old
Southern standpoint But the abolition of
slavery and the introduction of free labor in
the South have brought change. Free labor
and the influx of Northern capital are building
up manufactures in the South and opening
the peoples eyes to their true interests. Slav-
cry and cotton are no longer king. Free labor
is king, and free labor demands protection.
A dispatch from Tuscaloosa. Ala, of the 9th
inst, says: ''The Gazette viii to- morrow print
a petition signed by large majority of the
business men of Tuscaloosa asking the Sen
ators and Representatives in Congress from
Alabama to use every effort to prevent the re-
moval or reduction of the duties upon coal,
iron ores and their products" So it is in ev-
cry manufacturing and trade center of the
South. The new South is as strongly for pro-
lection as the old South was for free trade.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-11
GENERAL SHERMAN'S RESOLUTION
He VIII Dine Out Only Three Times Week
During the Current Year.

New York Special
General William T. Sherman occupies two
bedrooms ana parlor, adjoining on the second
floor of the Fifth-avenue Hotel. Only eff
the bedrooms is reserved for his own The
other is occupied by one of his daughters, Miss
Rachael or Miss Lizzie. Mrs. Sherman is pof
in good health just now. and she finds that the
atmosphere of Morristown, \. j.. is more agrees
able to her than New York and spends most of
her time there. The daughters divide their
time between New York and Morristown,
to be in tnrn with their father and mother.
General Sherman finds that constant dining out
has affected even his ostrch-like DIGESTION. aud
he begins the year with good resolution.
namely, that he will accept only three dining
out engagements per week. He has resolved
keep to this rule reliciously. He is very scru-
pulous on the point OF returning calls par ticu-
larly those made by old comrades in arms
While second lieutenapts in obscure foot reg
iments spread their names. usually parted in
the middle, all over highly glazed card, leav-
ing just space enough for their military rink
and the regiment to which they belong. Genrral
Sherman the simplest possible visiting
card. 1t is thus inscribed ''William I. Sher-
man. General
The superb diamond necklace that the hhe-
dive of Egypt presented to General Sherman's
married daughter, Mrs. ThacEara, has not only
suficed to decorate Mrs. Thackara like a
countess, but has also furnished earrings and
other articles of jewery to her unmarried sisters
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-11

THE House committee on banking and cur
rency has agreed to report favorably bill
to permit national banks TO issue circulation
to the par value of their bonds, instead of 80
per cent, as now. This if it becomes law,
Will add about IL per cent. to the volume of
national bank circulation, thereby increasing
the currency about $40, 900. OO0 AS the
bonds deposited blythe banks to secure their
circulation are away above par, there is no
risk in permitting them TO issue notes to the
par value, and the resulting increase of cur
rency will, doubtless, prove beneficial to busi
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-11

quantities, at the cheapest rates and under
the most stringent regulations for safety and
security. Whether we have all been wise in
the advocacy of methods to obtain this result
is Of little value now. The question for the
present and future is, shall we have the gas
from any and ell sources obtainable9 The gas
is at the gates of the city, and we want to see
il inside and in use
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-11

MANY man was ''paroled" during the war,
and he ''kept" his parole" In the case of a
Southern prisoner, did that 'parole" make
him feel allegiance" toward the government
whose parole" he assumedY Mr.. Lamar says
the people of the South keep the war amend
ments on their parole" Do they, therefore,
feel allegiance" to them7 If Mr.. Lamar
pictured his own feelings in his speech, he
simply keeps the amendments on parole
Is q man under parole the sort of man to
be put upon the Supreme Bench to interpret
these amendmentsR Did the government put
a "paroled" prisoner in charge of the campi
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-11

If the President of the United States is to
recognize" the Pope why not recognize"
any and all other heads of churches? Would
the President recognize" the senior bishop
of the Episcopal or Methodist churchesf Who
and what is the Pope but the head of a church
organization Is the United States govern
ment to "recognize' the phantom of the papal
temporal power2
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-11

SENATOR VEST managed to drag John C.
Calhoun into the debate on the Blair educa-
tional bill, and wondered what the spirit of
such a centralizing measure. If Mr.. Lamar
gets on the Supreme Bench and the bill,
enacted into law, ever comes before that tri-
bunal, we shall probably learn what the spirit
Of Calhoun thinks Of it
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-11

FAVORABLE and unfavorable reports on the
Lamar case were presented to the Senate, and
favorable reports in the cases of Villas and
Mr. Dickinson. The two latter will probably
be confirmed to-day, and the changes in the
Cabinet at once occur.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-11
allegiancef" The question is answered In the
asking; and this is the attitude of Mr.. Lamar
on the war amendments to the Constitution. Is
he the man for Supreme Judge7 3. I'll
SENATOR STEWART closes his

SENATOR STEWART closes his apology for
voting for Mr.. Lamar by saying:
eThe public press has so framed the issue
that the rejection of Mr.. Lamar will be con-
strued, both in the North and in the South,
as declaration that his participation in the
war disqualifes him and all others occupying
the same position for place on the Supreme
Bench 1t is unreasonable to expect that the
people of eleven States of the Union shall,
during all the present generation, be- excluded
from participation in the judicial determine
lions of the highest court in the United
States"
This is the special pleading of an advocate
and not the statement of judge. Everybody
who cares to be candid knows that the issue
has not been presented in any such way The
issue is whether political appointment, made
and urged upon other grounds than fitness for
the office, these grounds being that the ap-
pointee is representative Of -bellum
theories of constitutional construction, should
be confirmed. Mr.. Lamar says, and that is
the best thing quoted in favor of his loyalty
to the Constitution, that the people of the
South "owe allegiance" to the Constitution
it came from the fathers, but that as to the
thirteenth fourteenth and fifteenth amend
ments they will keep" them on ''their parole
of honor" Why this distinction in words un
less there was a distinction in his mind9
Shall man with such distinction in his
mind and heart be put upon the Supreme
Bench2 That is the issue, not his participa
ton in the war.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-11

Boston dramatic critics susceptible One
of them who called on Mrs. James Brown Pot
ter the othe other day confesses that when she
said, plaintively, Il wonder if my acting really
deserves such wide condemnation" he felt "a
strong inclination to comfort her, as one would
a child. she looked so sweet, and winsome, and
helpless as she spoke" Where is Mr. James
Brown POtterR
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-11

GENERAL BRAGG is peculiarly fitted for the
Mexican mission. if he will consent to take it.
He has brains, industry high character and
an intimate knowledge of the needs of the two
republics. His selection would keep up the
standard of eminence the administration has
thus far maintained in the selection of our
agents abroad. New York Star.
This must be joke.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-11

THE lesson Of the Campbell -Arouckle breach
of-prornise suit is not so much that it is I'M
safe to write love letters, that it is better
not to write what you don't mean to abide by.
The burden of this and other legal decisions
in like cases is that if a man will make fool
of himself on paper he must be prepared to
live ND to the record.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-11
COMMENT AND OPINION.

Mr. CARLISLE is not above the law. He is
not privileged No honest man in the House.
be he Democrat Republican, Independent or
Laboring man. can vote TO refuse the investiga-
ton of this election. National Republican.
HIaH 1icanse gives the same satisfaction in
Minnesota that it has everywhere 1T has been
tried Il is the true solution of the liquor prob
lem so long as public sentiment does not sup
port prohibition. Il will not he great while
before tho taxes now paid TO the general govern
menr on malt and spirituous liquors will be
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-11

THE Cleveland Calling gun battery, which
figured so prominently in Governor Foraker's
inauguration ceremonies, was not, as some
may have supposed, a Grover Cleveland bat
terry. Grover was not represented on the &C.
casion, nor did he send congratulations.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-11

Mr.. LAMAR has the reputation OF being
extremely absent-minded; but according to
indications his mind is right at home now,
and attending to his prospects before the
Senate just like that of any common Demo
cratic Office. seeker.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-11

ALL accounts agree that Monday was
great day for Joseph Benson Foraker. The
enthusiasm displayed at the Inauguration in
dicates that Ohio is ready to give her young
est son pretty much anything he wants.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-11

If there is an immediate rise in coffee the
public will suspect "Baby" Arbuckle of hav-
ing got corner on it. That $45, 900 will
have to be raised somehow.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-11
THE death. at the age of ninety years,

THE death. at the age of ninety nine years, of
a woman reported to have been James Buchan-
ans sweetheart calls to mind that biographies
of that bachelor President represent his sweet
heart az having died in her youth. There seems
to be discrepancy somewhere, but-happy
thought.-perhaps he had two sweethearts.
More than one President is on record as having
fixed his affections on : series of fair women
before finding one who reciprocated, and why
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-11

THE spontaneous meeting of the Democ-
racy TO day will represent several weeks of
laborious preparation. Nothing has been left
undone to make it truly impulsive uprising
The enthusiasm has been prepared in advance
and the boys win probably be full of the
Governor Gray, who is noted for his direct
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-11

AN undertaker's advertisement of cut rates on
collins sounds little queer; but then it is in
Buffalo paper, and it Is not unlikely that natives
of that place who can find no other means of
getting out of town may look with favor upon
the possibilities opened up by cheap holiday
collins.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-11

DR.. McGLYNN is protestant" that would
make old Martin Luther's eyes bug out if
that sturdy old reformer were here now to
listen to the unfrocked priest.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-11
He Has Height.

Minneapolis Tribune.
The New York World has promoted Senator
Voorhees, While people have thought all along
that he rnodestly pired to the vice presidency,
the World saws he candidate for President.
He has something to recommend him besides
pirth at any rate.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-11

THE proper thing for Mr.. Lamar to do is to
ask the President to withdraw mis- nomination
to the Supreme Bench; but Mr.. Lamar is not
that kind of man.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-11
Congressional sons of the Soil.

Manchester Union.
There are seventeen farmers in the Fiftieth
Congress- and, despite all that has been said
about indifference TO agricultural interests.
those seventeen men attract more attention
questions that affect their rural constituents
than all the 2l6 lawyers of the House.