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MuHIoTPAL CORRUPTION.

The decision of Justice Harlan in the Coy
Bernhamer case Is important far beyond it's
bearing on the present case. OF course, the
nor to anything except the legal points directly
before it for decision, but it is none the less
true that tie decision, if not overruled. may
have far-reaching consequences.
One of the greatest evils and dangers of the
present time is municipal corruption. How
to secure honest elections in cities is problem
that is engaging the attention of our best
minds. Nearly all large cities are cursed with
corrupt rings and political bosses of the worst
class, whose business it is to cultivate cor
ruption in politics. Other cities besides
Chicago and Indianapolis have their Mackins
and their Coys. Such men and the rings
they rule are indigenous to large cities They
and their methods are the curse of modern
politics They aim to make municipal cor
ruption fine art. They play politics just as
men play cards or run horses-to win. They
believe everything is fair in politics. They
have scruples as to methods and no regard
for law, except not to get caught. Mackin
and Coy have been caught but other Mackins
and other Coys viii develop in the future
The municipal corruption thus fostered h.
this class of political bosses and fine workers
is full of danger to our government, and as
yet no way has been found to prevent it.
These fellows defy State laws and State courts
If they can get control Of few local Offices
they can fix iuries and influence local courts
so as to escape punishment. Thus, they have
been saying what are you going to do
about it?"
The decision of Justice Harlan shows what
can be done. 1t points way for restraining
the tide of municipal corruption by the strong
arm of the United States. The decision is to
the effect that certain frauds committed at
any election in which Congressman are to be
elected, are crime against the United States
and cognizable in the federal courts. Many
local elections are held simultaneously
with the elections for Congressman,
and if Justice Harlan's decision stands,
as we hope and believe it will, and as
it certainly ought, it will provide way for
furnishing frauds in municipal elections that
will set the Mackins and Coys thinking. Once
let it be understood that municipal corruption
in elections can be reached in the United
States courts and there will soon be an end of it
In this regard Justice Harlans decision has
far-reachinO imnorfanca
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Poems Bonnd to the Soil.

National Republican.
The following is from the New York Sun of
Sunday:
COLUMBIA, 8. c., Feb. 25.-During the past few
weeks several parties of colored people left Hampton
and Newberry for Arkansas. Last night r. A. Will
Jams. travelling agent for the Memphis Little Rock
railroad, and O. A. Rideout (colored). railroad emil
grant agent for this State, in Eewberry drum
ming up colored emigrants. The people became in
censed at having their Iaborers enticed away and
notified Williams and Rideout to leave town or risk
harsh treatment. Williams took the next train and
Rideout took to the woods.
There is but one meaning to this. The ne
groes of South Carolina not free men, to
come and go as their interests may dictate or
inclination determine They are the slaves of
owners. Any one offering them better advant-
ages. be he white or black, IS driven from the
country by threats of violence, as Williams and
Rideout were
'Their laborers." must not be "enticed away
say the South Carolina land owners Who
made these negroes their Iaborers7" Not the
Constitution of the United States, for it declares
them free men-as free the land owners.
Not the Constitution of South Carolina, for il de-
clares them free men-free in every respect.
What power or force is it that makes servile
laborers of these free men-these mon from
whose limbs the shackles fell under the apple
tree of Appomattox2 What binds them to the
soil of South Carolina and renders it an offense
worthy of death to offer them an opportunity to
better their condition.
The Senators and Representatives. from South
Carolina who pirate about freedom in that State
may answer this question in the national Re-
publican
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-03-02
The Sound, Sensible Position.

Richmond Palladium
The effort of the Democrats and few mug
wumps to get up a contest between the friends
of General Harrison and Judge Gresham must
end IN failure 1t cannot be done because there
is nothing TO contend about. These gentlemen
are good friends and both receive the united re-
spect of the entire Republican party IN Indiana.
There Is no reason why either should quarrel
with the other and there is danger of it being
done The Republicans sof Indiana, with the
full consent of Jude Gresham. will present the
name of General Harrison TO the national con-
vention as the first ana united choice of the Re-
publicans of the State for the presidency. If
Harrison should be nominated Gresham will
give him the heartiest possible support, just
every true Republican should. But if it should
be found after Harrison is presented by the In
diana delegation that he cannot be nominated
and that Judge Gresham can be, then the In
diana delegates will give the Judge a united
and hearty support. The trouble is they cannot
present both these men at the same time with
out making tho defeat of both certain. They
must present one first and they have united on
Harrison for the first trial and every true Re-
publican of the State will support his nomina-
ton as long as there is any hope of success.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-03-02
COMMENT AND OPINION.

PowDERLYs idea of the scriptural method OF
heaping Goals OF fire on the heads of Chief Ar
thur and the Brotherhood is to do il with
icle
He is, indeed, short sights. American who,
having seen the cities and societies of the old
world, does not realize the fact that the devel-
opment of his highest manhood depends upon
his return to his native land.-New York
World
No wonder the Republican party, the party of
positive principles, freely and fearlesssy dis
cussed and sustained with pregnant truth, is
growing The American people are intelligent,
and like to have reasons for the faith that is in
them.-Ncw York Press.
IT is not surprising that under the painful
conditions the Democrats try to rise their
hearts" with delusive hopes of some Northwest
ern State. They have no sincere hoDes of New
York, and they know that Indiana, New Jersey
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are as manifold for the purposes
of Sundayschool headquarters as for any
other enterprise, industry or undertaking, and
we want to have DR.. Gilbert and his depart
ment here. 1t viii be worth much to Indian
apolis to have all helitersture connected with
this important educational work bear the inn
print of Indianapolis. This is one of the
many material features, in addition to the
moral and religious advantages to accrue.
Chicago, Cincinnati and Milwaukee have
all made offers for the location Indi-
annapolis should be able to outbid
them all, for its situation is better than any
Of them, and surely it can prove as deep an
interest in the Sunday-school work. This is
interdenominational and international; it
embraces every evangelical branch of the
church. The matter will come up at the
Sunday-school Teachers Union meeting, at
Y. NJ. G. A. Han, tomorrow noon, and there
ought to be very large and representative
attendance. It is an important matter.
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they do so.

IN his Augusta speech, on the 18th of No
vember, 1854, after the election of Grover
Cleveland had been reasonably well settled,
Mr.. Blaine said to his neighbors and friends:
Gentlemen, there cannot be political in
equality among the citizens of a free republic;
there cannot be minority of white men in
the South ruling majority of white men in
the North. Patriotism, self-respect, pride
protection for person and safety for country.
all cry out against it. The very thought of
equality from the pilgrims who first stood
on Plymouth Rock, and from the liberty-lov-
ing patriots who came to the Delaware with
William Penn. 1t becomes the primal cues
ton of American manhood. It demands a
hearing and a settlement, and that settlement
will vindicate the equality of American citi-
zens in all personal and civil rights; it will.
at least, establish equality of white men un-
der the national government, and will give
to the Northern man who fought to preserve
the Union as large voice in its government
may be exercised by the Southern man
who fought to destroy the Union"
This is the part of the speech which the
whole Republican party said, with united voice,
would have determined the election other
wise, had it been made before rather than
after the day of balloting. Let not the Re-
publican party repeat the blunder of putting
the mark before this vital and fundamental
principle of free and representative govern
ment Let the platform and the canvass for
1888 be made and maintained with Republic
an principles in proper relation, the one to the
other
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ONE STEP MORE.


Another stage in the Coy-Bernhamer case
has been passed, and still the penitentiarv
confronts them. Judge Gresham's refusal to
grant the writ of habeas corpus virtually de-
stroya their last hope. They had no right to base
any hope this application. All the points
Gresham had been passed upon by Judges
Harlan and Woods, and there was no reason
to suppose that Judge Gresham would take a
different view, much less seek for ground of
difference. On the contrary, there was every
reason in the nature Of the case to suppose he
would agree with the other judges The as
sumption of defendants counsel that he
would not was purely gratuitous on their part
No doubt if they had had good case, or
could have shown that the law was on their
side, Judge Gresham would have so decided,
without regard to public opinion or public
clamor, but so would the other judges, and
in that case the defendants would not
have had occasion to go BEFORE Judge
Gresham. The fact is, the case at every
stage has been tried and decided accord.
ing to law. and that is what
hurts. Judge Woods declared the cold law,
and the defendants appealed to Justice Har-
Ian. He gave them the cold law, and they
appealed to Judge Gresham. Now they have
got the cold law again. A year ago they said
all they wanted justice. But justice is
what they have been trying to escape. They
have been hunting for judge who would con-
strue the law contrary to law. Happily such
judges are not to be found in the federal judi
ciary. The decision of Judge Gresham is
simply an af6rmance on his part of the previ-
Gus decisions of Judges Wood and Harlan,
and a refusal to reopen the case. From this
decision the defendants may appeal to the full
bench of the Supreme Court, though, in view
Of the extreme improbability of their gaining
ing anything by that step, it is doubtful if
they do so.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-03-02
New Version of the Powderly Letter.


To the Knights and the Brotherhood Not
outstanding the meanness and treachery of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers who
have so often stabbed the Knights of Labor ia
the back, and to their eternal shame made in
famous scabs of themselves, yet, in the interests
of united labor and to demonstrate the broad
principles of fraternity justice and equal rights
trust no justly outraged and indignant Knight
will take advantage of the opportunity
favorably afforded for ample revenge upon the
dastardly skunks. Lost to honor and decency
as the cowardy and pusilIanImous wretches
who stepped into the places OF striking Knights
and took tho bread out of their children's
mouths, let us not forget that these craven
scoundrels are our brethren and that the hosts
of labor must stand together firm and united
knights of Labor, from Oshkosh to Skednnk,
hands off Let the miserable poltroons, the base
ruffiaus, the vile reptiles who have gone on this
strike win it if they PowDERLY.
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hourly health bulletins giving that distinguished
but ailing Democrats temperature and respira-

IN the Indiana Advocate, edited By Rev. 7.
A. Goodwin. is the following paragraph, the
bearings of which lies in its application:
'sAn editor always measures the mental and
moral character OF his readers, and writes to
please them: hence, when writing for saIoon
bummers he selects some Christian whom they
have reason to despise aud calls him rogue liar,
hypocrite, stupid, corrupt. scoundrel, abomina-
BILE, dirty, disgrace to the church. disreputa-
BILE, and the like He knows how to please his
patrons. An editor who writes for reputable
families, about reputable Christian gentlemen,
treats them with common decency, even though
he may not agree with them in politics; hence,
it is not dificuls to take the editors measure of
the moral tone of his readers, and decent people
must feel Inundated when the paper that
comes into their families was evidently gotten
ont for the siums"
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From

quarters came cries Of $50 it DOCTOR From
others eame low mutterings and curses
s'It is the most disgraceful scene,1 said repus
table gentleman III the front row, ''that ever
furnished the name OF place OF worship II is
most discreditahle that tho church should have
beer leased for such lecture as this
There then lull Tho speaker being
encouraged by some of his friends. went
He referred to DR.. Michigan q deer chased
by the hounds. He demanded that all conyents
should be inspected. He deplored the fact that
read an anathema that he said was published in
Catholic prayer books He told many stories of
kind that were probably never spoken from .
accompanied BY q running fire OF such comments
as ''You lie;" You're a frand:" 'tWhy don't you
prove itl' and 'Ill bet $500 you can't prove it,
The usher started 90 put man out. The man
drew a pistol and the usher dropped him.
The tumult swelled to point where nothing
could be heard, and calls we're made for the po-
lice. In the midst of the confusion Mr.. Fulton
asked his hearers to receive the benediction.
What are You giving us}D cried the gallery.
Mr.. Fulton gave them the benediction. They
leaped on the platform and insisted on refutng
what he called s'those accursed lies" Some of
the lecturers friends hustled him away A
number of free fights ensued in the corridors
Mr.. Fulton sank back languid and exhausted.
did expect this scenel' he said. mo, not
quite so bad as this"
What will be the effect of it,"
Twice as many Catholics will come to-mor-
row"
.'.Do YOU think there will be hghtingir
Perhaps Who knows
And who hires this churchl'
My manager
Then your mission is private speculationls
ENTIRELY"
''How viii it profit your
81 have q book to sell"
"And you feel confident that you will be al.
lowed to use this church,
why not2 This fight will DO us good The
place will be crowded for fortnight. Lively
lecture, was it not2 just so. Good evening"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-03-02

THE New York Post bewails the lack Of
great Republican leaders such as there were
in the past, and says, sourly, eff one of the
old-time leaders were to appear now, he would
instantly be declared unavailable, and be Sc
lected for the knife, if for no other reason,
because the mugwumps spoke well of him."
Praise from that source would give rise to
suspicions-no doubt of that; but what rea-
son has the Post for thinking the mugwumps
would speak well of him2
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-03-02

ran down into Alabama last week, and de-
stroyed six Illicit dstilleries, eleven thousand
gallons of beer, and more than one hundred
sermenting tubs and watts. The natives of
that region want the internal revenue tax re-
moved in order that they can engage in the
unrestricted manufacture of whisky, but,
according to such showings as this, they
manage to do pretty fair business as it is.
The indications are that with the removal of
the tax every man in the community would
set up still.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-03-02
There win BE No Contest.

Frankfort Banner
There will be no Acrimony, or ucwise things
said, between the friends of Gen. Har and
Judge Gresham. The conventions elect
stalwart friends of the former az d. to
Chicago, and commission them TO De pru-
dent aud aggressive. This is the tenn IAN al
most unanimous Republican sentimsat It is
natural that able and deserving Republican
as Judge Gresham should have friends, but hero
and there the few who would prefer SEQ him
honored as Indianas choice is only wee droc
in comparison with the overwhelming number
who believe in the ability, services aud character
of Gen Harrison. Morton never had q frmer
Republican strength than does our gallant ex-
Senator.
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all of those appointments filed out with the
names Senator Voorhees, will give you." says
the President. The secretary bows and re-
tires. The President reaches for the ocean
ter, and the curtain falls with mugwumps in
the distance cheering.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-03-02

Our city columns give the details. so far
as can now be made public, of the new and
important work in connection with the Sun
day-school Union, to which Rev. DR.. Gilbert
has been called. The point of special interest
now is the one named by the Journal when
this matter was first noted. and that is the
location of the headquarters of the de-
partment in Indianapolis We shall
not have to offer free gas to secure
this. The advantages Of indianapolis
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-03-02

WHAT were the Republican members of the
ways and means committee appointed forf
They have been as rigidly excluded from all
participation in tie preparation of the tariff
bill and from all knowledge of its probable
character as if they were not even members
of the House. The course of the Democratic
majority has been unparalleled and indecent.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-03-02

The Boston Herald favors Senator Allison
Republican presidential candidate because
he once made speech in favor of lower tar
iff.' So has John Sherman; but for some
reason the same rule does not work in all
cases, and the Herald does not approve of
him. However, the mugwumps have enough
to do to attend to the nomination of their own
Democratic candidate.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-03-02

Hon. JOSEPH E. MCDONALD has been men.
] toned for the vice-presidency. The Journal
owes an apology to Mr.. Mcdonald for not hav-
ing attended to this matter itself. 1t is q
mere form, of course, the ex-senator being
gentleman who is often men toned but never
is one to which he has been so long ac-
customed that its omission would doubtless
he felt
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To the Editor Of the Indianapolis journal.

TO the Editor of the INDIANAPOLIS Journal:
In order to settle dispute, please state in what
year rebel prisoners were first quartered in the
city Of Indianapolis, and st what camp and IN
what month. OLD SOLDIER
INDIANAPOLIS Feb. %.
The first company OF rebel prisoners were
brought to this city in February. 1862, after the
captures at Fort Donelson, and were placed in
Camp Morton They arrived in the city about
Eah
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-03-02

WHEN Commissioner Edgerton compares
Indiana's vice-presidential candidates to
young robins standing with eyes shut and
mouths wide open, ready to take in anything
that comes, he draws a picture that will APP
peal to the sympathetic emotions of every
Hoosier. Governor Gray, Senator Voorhees,
and ex-senator Mcdonald do, indeed, make a
hungry nestful
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-03-02

THE opposition press is concentrating its
attacks upon Sherman and Harrison. Know
ing the weakness of their own candidate, the
Democratic organs are quick to recognize his
strongest opponents.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-03-02

THE Louisville Courier-Journa discussing
candidates for the presidency, says: "Medioc-
rity is the soul of that availability which, in
turn, is the condition precedent and indispen-
sable to the uses of national campaign The
Democratic second-term candidate possesses
that qualification in very large degree.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-03-02

THE tallysheet forging was not done in the
interest Of the Democratic party, says the
Sentinel; but somehow or other it happens
that the forgers are being held up to the par
tvs admiration as Democratic martyrs
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-03-02

WASHINGTON gossip says Secretary Bayard
is going to marry Mrs. Folsom, the Presi-
dents motherin-law. This would cause
terrible complication in political and social
affairs at the capital
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-03-02

IF the building boom at Kansas City is to
continue architects and contractors there
should try and erect structures that will not
collapse before they are completed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-03-02

If the dampness of Mr.. Coy's apartments
at the Jail, as the Sentinel has it. is injurious
TO that persons health, haste rather than
delay is desirable in removing him to safer
quarters. Michigan City is understood to be
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-03-02

THE tally-sheet forgers, at large and in Gus
tody, are now considering a great truth; and
the truth is that you can't monkey with the
federal courts
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-03-02
CAMILLE was fair

Beyond compare.
And sun kissed was her golden hair
Which glistened like a nimbus bright
A coronet of radiant light.
And yet Camille
Would often feel
Like she would very gladly steal
From earth away to some bright star
To dwelI-where no white horses are.
-Danyille Press.
A MODEST WISH.
am not covetous, not I,
And never was since birth;
Fer thing only do I sigh,
And that is lot the earth.
would not sit upon q throne.
A scspter would not sway;
a cosl mine would ike to own,
In Pennsylvania.
Boston Canfiar
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Tha,.s the Question.

Atlanta Constitution Dem
Can the Democratic party cary either New
York or Connecticut with the Presidents Eaes-
sage as PLATFORM
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milwaukee sentibei.
.'Tha, letter that he longed for never came !"
1t is still wandering about tho country, owing
to the partisan changes In the postal service.
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AFTER reading the Sentinel yesterday. Mr..
Coys admirers were justified in looking fer
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Telephone Calls.
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