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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-05-23

A QUESTION OF BUsINEss.

The proposition of the new Citizens Street
railroad Company should receive careful and
friendly consideration from the Council. We
are not prepared to say that it offers absolute
ly the best terms in all respects that the city
can or should make for the use Of its streets,
but it offers a basis of fair negotiation. and to
that extent is a step in the right direction.
1t is made in a business spirit, and should be
received and considered on it's merits The
situation is just this: The new owners of the
street railway are men of enterprise and
wealth. They have already invested a large
sum of money here, and if fairly treated may
be induced to make other investments. The
present street-failroad charter has thirteen
years to run. The new management hays in
Dictated their purpose to extend, enlarge and
greatly improve the plant, and give
the city a far better street-railroad serv-
ice than it has ever had. This means
a larger outlay than the life of the present
charter would Justify. If the charter is to
cos ~ AhO ~ - SoA - a. NC
renewal is to be kept in doubt, they cannot
afford to begin and carry out the permanent
improvements which they have in contem-
plation. 1t requires very little business sense
to understand their reasons for desiring an
extension of the charter. In return for such
extension they agree to pave or improve eight
feet in width every street carrying a single
track and sixteen feet of those carrying double
tracks, and to pay a sliding scale tax of $l5 a
year on each car for ten years from Jan. 1,
1893, and increasing $40 every ten years till
it reaches $50. This, of course, would be in
addition to the regular assessment on real and
personal property. Under the proposition
submitted to the Counnil the payment of the
special tax would begin eight years before the
expiration of the pres sent charter, and during
that time the tax would yield at least So, 600
q year, making an aggregate Of $l6, 600
for a period during which, under its
present charter, the company is not obliged to
pay anything. After the first ten years the
income from the special tax would be doubled
and largely increased each decade thereafter,
until it reached the maximum of $50 per car,
which is the sum now paid in Chicago, a city
| of 200, 900 inhabitants. This isthe substance
of the company's proposition. The terms are
vastly better than have ever been offered the
| city before, but at all events they furnish a
basis of negotiation. 1t will be worth some
thing to the city to secure the new owners of
the street railway as permanent investors here
and to secure the improved facilities and
service at once, which they will furnish If
| granted an extension Of their charter on fair
| and reasonable terms. The Council should
| consider the subject in a spirit of business
| sense and fairness, and not in the bulldozing
spirit that attempts to take by the throat
everybody and everything that proposes to
benefit the city.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-05-23

(4uC1undtl
Whether General Gresham would have been
. candidate If Blaine had remained in the field
IL is hardly possible 10 say. for the mind of
Joseph Medill, editor of the Chicago Tribune, is
moved by hidden springs from influences that
are occult, but, upon the whole, we presume
Gresham would have been . candidate. Allison,
Alger, Stanford. Harrison. Phelps, Hoar and
Dspew certainly would not have been pre-
sented to the public attention. Or. at least
they would not have appeared upon the track
with colors displayed.
Why have Mr.. Blains's friends been 90 demon.
s~trative lately. and what is to happen At Chi
oagol As to Mr.. Blaineis friends. considered as
. mass, it should be remembered that they have
been . sympathetic and compact and, in q
sense, an organized body for twelve years.
bound by the same ties. filed with
the same hopes. animated BY the same
AMBITION. consulting. striving together 10 a
common end The habit of mind and com
muuion is a power. They are comrades OF q
grand army. In three successive national Re-
publican conventions they represented two
thirds OF the Republican congressional districts
and States, and at least the same proportion Of
voters.
These men do not dissolve as . vapor-why
should thsy2 They. the Republican majority,
are not called upon to stand back in the several
States and see factions win. because the leader
so long followed has made his bow and is taking
q walk. and does not want TO be followed Mr..
BlAineis retirement did not involve the retire
ment of bis ffiendaI
On the contrary, it asserted their supremacy.
His desire was that his declinatior should be tho
declaration OF their freedom and Independence.
II Mr.. Blaine had for a moment supposed that
his Florence letter would deprive his friends Of
their influence. he never would have written il.
What more natural than that they should keep
elbow-touch with each other. and march TO the
old tunes. and seek inspiration in the name that
has not lost its maeic2
At Chicago, the friends Of Blaine, with the
power and responsibility in their hands, will
have before them the same questions that were
In the mind or Mr.. Blaine when he looked be-
yond the mountains of Italy, and put the great
questions of duty to \ himself. and saw his path
way in q line of light; and they will not reverse
his decision. but honor him by accepting it In
the spirit that he gave il; and whosoever may be
| President, Blaine will be the 'leader of leaders
and wear the highest of all titles-Ths First
| Citizen Of the Republic
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-05-23

WHETHER against the Trust, or anybody
else. firm or corporation, the boycott is the
weapon of q scoundrel and a public enemy.
indianapolis Journal.
This is rough on the indianapolis Gas Com
pany. For it is the boycott" which some in
terested in that company have invoked against
some who decline to ~patronize il. How do
the stockholders of that company like the
language9-The News.
Well, we don't care a continental whether
anybody likes the language or not. 1t is 'the
Gods truth about the whole business" no
matter by whom practiced. The man or men,
or the interest, that seeks to intimidate or con-
troll another's opinion or damage his business
by an organized effort to prevent patronage
from going where it likes, uses the weapon of
q scoundrel and a public enemy.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-05-23

were free and frequent. Now, however, has
come a sudden change of tone. 1t is explained
that Dir. Cleveland &as really anxious that
Hill should lead the delegation to st. Louis,
and was not at all responsible for the action
Of the convention in leaving him out entirely.
The discovery that the Governor is inclined
to r~etaliate for the slight has apparently been
made simultaneously with the reflection that
he exercises . powerful influence in certain
circles whose support Is indispensable to the
Democratic candidate. Perhaps Mr.. Hill viii
bs conciliated, and perhaps he will not; but in
the meantime it may be imagined that the
subject of harmony in the New York Democ-
racy is not one upon which the President
loves to dwell in general conversation.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-05-23
NJ AND OPINION.

THE Grants want to pay Badeau all he
claims but Badeau claims that all he wants y
his honor. The Grants should put 1t in . pill
box and send it back to him. Atlanta Coustitu-
ton.
WHAT the North wants L. = tariff that viii
protect the industries OF the whole country,
North, South, East, West and middle; what
the South wants, il Wattereou speaks for IL. is .
tariff that will protect the South, with It's cheap
negro labor, and ruin the North.-Brooklyn
Standard Union.
THE 'bloody shirt ;s now purelya Dem ocrat-
10 garment. and it will see service 60 long as 1t
can probably affect a single vote, but we submit
that the danger has become slight indeed that
any one in the North will be misled when
Dir. Henry Watterson poses as the chief expon-
emit Of sectional love.-Boston Advertise or.
THE terrible effect of alcohol upon the stall
wart Indian shows that it contains . principle
antaeonistic to human life in this country. Il
is the cause of most of the crime and . large
part OF the i'll health. because it deadens the
moral sense and awakens instincts which de-
grade into disease and crime. New York Her
aid.
serious subject before il than the want of young
clergymen and the lack of support for the
older ones. The two facts may 60 together.
The sense of duty must be strong with any
young man who enters a calling the support Of
whose older members is deficient Philadelphia
Press.
The debate on the Mills bill has had the for
tunate result to draw party lines distinctly on
tho question OF the tariff. The Issue
cannot be dodeed- The Democracy is
committed to free trade. and upon this issue the
Republicans will meet them and fight it ont 10
the coming presidential campaign.-Cieveland
Leader.
IT is always well for the Democrats to rsmem-
Der also that primarily the Republicans are full
as likely to command the confidence of the
country as themselves. The Democrats may
have an easy road to the election Of their candi-
dates, and they may have one that is not easy.
1t will be we'll for them to remember that it is
not yet decided which it shall be.-Bostcn Her.
aid.
INTELLIGENT Prohibitionists have but to stop
and reflect to be able to see the folly OF attempt
ing to make the third party take the place of
either Of the two great parties. 1t is a logical
impossibility. The third party can never rise
above its present position. Temperance reforms
are to come through the Republican party, and
they are coming, gradually and surely. The
third Iarty now retards them. If it would dis.
band 1t would hasten them. Detroit Tribune
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-05-23


On the third ballot, yesterday, the Method
list General Conference elected two Of the
five proposed new bishops. These were elected
under the two-thirds rule, and nearly a full
vote was cast, there being 495 ballots counted.
DR.. John Heyl Vincent received 311 votes,
and DR.. James N. Fitzgerald $40. DR.. Vim
cent and DR.. Fitzgerald both live in New Jer-
sey. though the former is a member of the
Rock River Conference. DR.. Vincent is now
the secretary Of the Sunday-school Union,
and the ~well-known head of the Chautauquan
movement. Doctas Fitzgerald is in the pas
torate. and has for the past twenty years been
the recording secretary Of the General Mis-
sionary Society. The election of these two
has been conceded for some time. Doctor
Joyce received the next highest vore, 260. A
fourth ballot was taken, the result of which
will be announced this morning. A stubborn
struggle is not unlikely over the three yet TO
be elected. The General Conference has ex-
tended the pastoral limit from three to five
wears.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-05-23

THE Supreme Court of the United States
has decided that q soldier who has lost q hand
and a foot is entitled to the total disability
pension Of $50 per month. The Commissioner
Of Pensions had refused to allow more than
$50 q month. on the ground that the loss of a
hand and foot did not constitute total disa-
hility. The court overrules him. AS Black
himself draws a pension Of 500 per month
he ought not to begrudge 800 to a soldier who
Lost w limbs-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-05-23

The working World, Atlanta
The Illinois Republicans. with fatal blindness,
played into the hands of the Union Labor party
and Democrats by setting down. on Senator
Cullom, who, next to Mr.. Streeter, lie the idol OF
the Rraugers and farmers. Judge Gresham, OF
another State. was indorsed. wnen Cullom or
Lincoln from State pride. il nothing else, should
b iudorsed. This has produced discomfort, ana
the 'kuifing" process will soon be 10 order.
Then Gresham's organ. ike . blind rattlssnake.
strikes at everybody bat It's pet Joe Medill, OF
the Chicago Tribune. denounees Sherman and
Harrlson because Of their votes, years ago. on
the Chinese treaty. and slasnes at Gen. Joe
Hawley because . bank, Of which he was presi-
dent, failed, and in brief. goes trampine around
regardless Of the sensitive feelings Of the other
candidates From New York. Pat Ford, Of tie
Irish World, raises q shrilI cry of warning that
Gresham with his free-trade views aud mug
wump contingent means for Gresham and @.
Bill Curtis ct al, to ride into power over Jim
Blaine's PROSTATE form, and the Irishman de-
family says Gresham and the muewumps shall
not triumph over Blaine and bis friends, a. that
would mean a confirmation and ratification OF
the charges made against the "Plumsd knight
in 1884, which Ford says. "by the eternal shall
not be done.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-05-23

ACCORDING to the report of the pr oceedings
on theWoodrow case. in the Baltimore assembly.
it seems to be the opinion of several eminent
and reverend Presbyterians that the doctrine
of evolution is not especially harmful when
preached to sinners of the outside world, but
is extremely dangerous and incendiary when
enunciated in the theological seminary. This
reflection upon the strength Of the youthful
theological mind may have the effect of rous-
ing the students of the Georgia school to
deep, though Of course, righteous wrath.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-05-23

THE experiment of placing women on school
boards will not commend itself to the public
if such unpleasant scandals are to follow as
that which now agitates school circles in New
York city. Miss Dodge, one of the commits
sioners of education. opposes the reelection
of Mr.. Jasper, the superintendent of schools,
because of his refusal to investigate the charges
made by an anonymous letter writer against
a young and hitherto reputable teacher. MIR.
Jasper not finding such work within the scope
of his duties fatty refused to have anything
to do with ii, and Miss Dodge then took the
matter up and engaged a private detective at
her own expense to watch the accused young
lady. According to the evidence as reported
by herself the case is weak, but she evidently
regards it as convincing, and without giving
notifying her of the charges, makes them pub
lie and demands her dismissal on the ground
of immortality. and the defeat of the superin-
tendent because Of neglect of the schools in
terests. Such offenses when proved should,
of course, be unsparingly condemned, but the
manner in which this affair has been handled
suggests that the feminine disposition to ac-
cept suspicious as facts, when the character of
other women is concerned, may influence
even one SO highly intellectual and accom-
plished as the New York commissioner, and
has led to injury to an estimable woman. At
all events, if the regulations Of teachers are
to be at the mercy of malicious and anony-
nous scribblers as the result of having women
on the board Of directors they will be a unit
in opposing such elections or appointments.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-05-23

The City Council of Chicago has invoked .
storm of public eensure from decent people
by rejecting an ordinance to exclue saloons
from the immediate vicinity Of churches and
schools. They even received with jests and
sneers q petition for the passage Of the ordi-
nance signed by more than ten thousand cit
liens. The result of their action has been to
define the issue more sharply than ever. and
to develop q strong determination among
respectable people that the saloon must 60.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-05-23

Two important acts of the Turner's conven-
ton, namely. the decision that all members of
the societies must become citizens of the
United States, and the sustaining of editor
Bnppe's course on the anarchist question,
haps the majority who voted in favor of
Beppe did not reflect that citizens of the
United States are interested in the protection
of American institutions and have no sympa-
thy with those who wish to tear them down.
They will learn this by practical experience
in the course of time. and a few years later
no one suspected of anarchist tendencies will
receive from them the least encouragement
or support.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-05-23

THE Journal has said, repeatedly, that the
men who have had q monopoly Of the street
sprinkling bushes did not want it to pass into
the control of the city, and would make their
bids so high that they could not be accepted.
1t would be well now for some one who has no
Interior purpose to serve to make an estimate
of the work. There is reason to believe that
the figures will differ s~tartlingly from those
presented to the Council on Monday night.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-05-23

where they come in competition with home
products. It makes no concealment of its
position and no attempt to koodwink or de-
ceive the people. It is for protection TO
American industry with all the words imply.
Now, if the Democracy are not in favor of
free trade what are they talking about.
what are they fighting and what are
they in favor of They certainly are
not in in favor of protection. President
Cleveland, in the message which is the pres
emit platform Of the party, says protection is
"vicious, illogical and inequitable." And
this not of high protection nor of low protec-
ton, but Of any protection whatever. His at
tack is delivered against the principle Of pro-
lection. This is Mr.. Clevelands keynote,
which sounded the call to arms and marked
ont the line of battle. The Democratic party
under his lead is fighting against any and all
protection to American industries, as advo-
Gated By the Republican party and enforced
by Republican legislation, and if it is not in
favor Of free trade, we ask again, what is it in
favor of The people will not be deceived in
this matter, and the Democracy will not be
permitted to fight behind cover. 1t is a bat
tie between protection and free-trade, and
there is no middle ground. Let the Democ-
racy be honest for once. and have the courage
of their convictions.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-05-23

The Sentinel processes a desire to take the
State institutions out Of politics. A strong
sfort was made to do so at the last meeting Of
the Legislature, but was prevented by the
Democratic majority that whitewashed Harri-
son and covered up the Insane Asylum infa-
mics In due time the State institutions will
be taken out Of politics. but, pending the ac-
conplishment of that result. how would it do
to take politics out Of the institutions
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-05-23
Cleveland. Bad Faith on the Second Term.

CIeveland's Bad Faith on the Second Term.
Interview with q Randall Democrat.
You rather insiuuate that Substantially q
promise was made by Cleveland not 20 enter the
field for . denomination IL elected"
THAT 10 90 beyond question So anxious
was he for the nomination in 1884. that he not
only pledged himself to certain leaders thar he
would not seek or accept . denomination. but
that he would SO state il In his letter of accept
ance, IL nominated. But, to the astonishment
Of the men 20 whom he was inhabited for his
nomination. his letter did not state ia positive
terms what he promised. From that moment
he lost the confidence of many of his hitherto
most intimate political friends and associates,
and from that time down it has really seemed 40
il he had lost no occasion 20 ignore and insu ls
them
Then you are not one OF those who bslisve.
or feign to. that the President does not want .
denomination, aud that ss the proper time be
will say sofs
mot muchi l have never been accused Of
idiocy! he knows that If he we're TO write . let
ter Withdrawing from the field as . csndidats
the party would be only too glad 70 take him -
his word
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-05-23

THE usually astute ltr. Matson seems to
have dug a large and yawning hole into
which be and his Democratic friends are in
imminent danger of falling. The effort to
conduct a political campaign and legislatefor
the country spontaneously is likely to addle
any but the strongest brain; and candidate
Matson would have been far wiser to leave
the interests of the soldiers, whom he so loves,
in other hands.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-05-23

The Democratic State convention of Penn
sylvania, which Congressman Scott has been
carrying around in his pocket for some time,
will be let out at Harrisburg to-day.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-05-23

SUPPOSE Congress had taken Mr.. Cleveland
ct his word and amended the Constitution so
% to disqualify a President for reelection.
he would have been kicking himself now in
stead Of other people.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-05-23

PROHIBITION, it appears. according to the
report Of those who want to prove the con-
srary, does not prohibit in Maine. And if
not in Maine, where the trial has been made
for forty years, where, in the name of COM
mon sense, can it prohibit
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-05-23

A~sHEvILLE, n. c., gets a public building
by the appropriation bill becoming a law by
lapse of time through the Presidents failure
to sign it. AS he neither signed nor vetoed
it, Asheville gets the building and he gets the
credit. This sfor Buncombe, of which coun-
ty Asheville is the capital.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-05-23

The New York World joins in the attempt
to misrspresent the issue on the tariff ques-
ton, by saying eft is a contest for freer trade
against overproduction." 1t is nothing of the
kind. 1t is free trade against any protection
-1.levor
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-05-23

SIMPLY because the professional street
sprinklers make extortionate demands Of the
city for the work of laying the dust, is the
public to be deprived of any relief from the
plague which makes life in Indianapolis a
burden for SO large a part of the year,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-05-23

A days ago the administration papers
were boasting loudly Of the way in which
Cleveland controlled the Democratic eonven-
tion in New York, and expressions Of triumph
svsr the snub administered to Governor Hin
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-05-23

settS IL to l; Rhode Island, z to l; Connect
cut, Z to /, and New York, 8 to i. When it
comes to q show of hands it will be found
that the farmers of this country are not
fooled to any great extent by the free-trads
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-05-23

1T has again been decided, and it is to be
hoped ''for good and al" that when the cows
como home in Indianapolis they viii stay
there, and not be allowed to roam at their
pleasure in other grounds than those of their
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-05-23

The bill making eight hours . days work
for letter-carriers has passed both houses Of
Congress and awaits the Presidents signature.
Il viii materially tighten the labors of the let
Ser-carriers in the larger cities.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-05-23

The New England Homestead, q farmers
paper, has taken q vote on the Mills bill among
the farmers Of that section which shows that
out of 2.s32 returns from legal voters. $3.50
were against the bill, and only 242 registered
in its favor. Maine went 4 to 1; New Hamp-
sLirss 30 to I; Vermont 20 tel; Massashu-