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SOME QUESTIONS ANSWERED.

To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journals:
l.. How many e~x-convicts were appointed to
office by the Cleveland administration, and
what was the range of crime for which they
were convictedl
A list of persons appointed to office by Presi-
dent Cleveland, made Up in July last. includes
two murderers and the tools of two others,
five notorious duelists and three rioters-one
to be judge of the very court by which he
had been imprisoned six weeks. 1t includes
FIVE persons who had been indicted or con-
victed for frauds against the revenue, appoint
ed to be officers of the revenue service. It in
cludes a jury-fxer, q deadbeat, a lawyer
guilty Of defrauding clients and an attorney
who had cleared notorious bandits by c~ontriv-
ing a defeat of justice, all appointed to be
judges. Persons were appointed pension
agents who had been indicted for violating
pension laws. Persons guilty.of robbing the
mails were appointed postmasters or mail
agents-one, when appointed, was in Jail for
robbing the very Office to which he was APP
pointed. Liquor sellers, their sons or attor-
neys we're appointed internal revenue officials.
An impeached State Treasurer, defrauding
county or town treasurers, seven forgers, and
men guilty of robbery, embezzlement, theft,
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THE following pointed remarks by Mr..
Thurman do not indicate that calm and ju-
dicial frame of mind which one of his mature
years should possess. He was talking about
an alleged interference Of the Catholic clergy
in Ohio politics. To a suggestion that it
would probably cause the loss of the State to
the Democracy, he replied emphatically:
YES, we shall close the State. The id
priests have overdone the thing by sticking
their noses into our politics; and they deserve
to be beaten to teach them their place. The
Democracy only have themselves to blame in
submitting to the demands of the priests in
the way they did. 1t was unfortunate, indeed,
that the Catholic question was lugged into the
campaign. The Democracy was the only par
ty that ever did anything for the Catholics,
and it would seem that the more that is done
for them the moresthey will demand. Their
arrogance is insufferable, and, as we shall be
defeated anyway. / hope it will hereafter
teach these meddlesome priests a lesson that
they will understand-that is, to let politics
alone. /. for one, don't propose to stand any
further nonsense from these fellows"
Mr.. Thurman may be a very temperate
man-we say he may be, but this was very in
temperate talk.
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THE recent yeliow-fever exodus from
Florida has caused a serious reduction Of the
Democratic vote in some localities, and the
managers are preparing to make it good. A
gentleman who recently conyerssd with a
Democratic politician of Florida informs the
Journal that this patriot made no hesitation
of saying they would have no trouble in doing
so. 'We1l do it," said the Floridian, "by
buying the niggers' certificates of registra-
ton and keep them from voting" The regis
try law in Florida makes a certificate of regis
try proof that the voter has complied with the
law and a guaranty of his right to vote. The
Democratic plan in Florida is, under some
false p~retense, to buy the negroes registry cer-
tifcates, and thus deprive them of the right to
vote. This is quite as e~ffectual as ballot-bo
stufing or bribery, and has the advantage of
not coming under the law. If Florida Repub-
licans think it worth while to try and have a
fair election, they should try and thwart this
scheme.
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REPUBLICANS, do not let the pace of the
campaign falter. 1t is simply tremendous
now. All over the State the people are awake
and moving. No such enthusiasm and deter
mination were ever seen. Il is the peoples
campaign. They are ahead of machinery and
committees. The important thing is that the
machinery should not hamper the people, and
the committees be really in the way.
Let the people loose. Let them take
care Of themselves. Organize so as to call
into power every force the people are willing
to use. The best committee work is that
which harnesses the most Of the popular en-
thusiasm and makes it possible for the people
to do the most effective work. Indiana will
be carried by the hearty, earnest, enthusiastic
work of the people. Let the committees di-
rect their work intelligently, and call into
action every local resource.
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THE CAMPAIGN OF CORRUPTION.

The Democratic campaign of lying has
about spent its force in Indiana, and the
campaign of fraud will soon begin. From
present indications, the latter will be as des.
perate and inscriptions as the former has
been. We have information that the Demo-
Gratis are raising an enormou corruption fund,
and that they expect to buy the entire "hoat-
ing vote of the State on election day. By
this means and by colonizing illegal voters
where they can, they hope to accomplish
what they cannot possibly do in a fair and
honest election, viz, capture the electoral
vote of Indiana for Cleveland. It is for no
honest or legitimate purpose hat the Demo-
cratic managers at this stage of the cam
paign are raising such large sums of money.
The indications all go to corroborate our
information from other sources, that
the Democrats are engaged in raising
an III corruption fund, and
that the campaign which began
with lying is to end in fraud. The exposure
ought to alarm Republicans throughout the
State and induce immediate measures to pre-
vent it. This can only be done by local or
ganization and work, which means, in turn,
the utmost activity and untiring vigilance on
the part of every Republican, whether mem
Der of a committee or not. Republicans have
no corruption fund. They could not compete
with the Democracy in fraud if they wanted
to, and they would not if they could. Their
only recourse and their only safety is in the
safeguards and penalties of the law. Let
these be applied to the fullest extent. Local
committees and working Republicans should
lose no time in completing the poll
by precincts, so that every legal voter may
be known and illegal ones spotted. There is
a heavy penalty for buying votes. and there
are penalties for all manner Of frauds. As
this election comes under the national cleo
ton law, its penalties can be enforced in the
United States court. The fate of Coy and
Bernhamer shows what. can be done by an
honest application and fearless enforcement of
this law. Let every Republican committee
in the State hold these election c~onvicts up
as an object lesson for other fine workers, and
let it be understood that We are determined
to have a fair election. The law is adequate
to secure thisi if properly applied, but it will
not execute itself. If Republicans want
to prevent the Democracy from carrying out
their plan of buying the State they must be
up and doing.
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The Sentinel and workipgmen.

Indianapolis Sentinel, May 81, 1873
High wages, high prices and a constant
effort to make them all higher, 10 the mistake
of the times. A rebellion against Chinese labor
is impending in California, because the China
man can learn the trade and make shoes, or
anything else, at half price, and get rich into
the bargain. What Is the secret OF thisi The
Chinaman's policy is to live on rext to nothing.
He outlanKs the American by cheap living.
But the idea of anything cheap is rspudiated BY
your American laborer. He looks at the style
and luxury of the rich and works himself into
q fury to live the same way. You cannot sell
any but the choicest of beef. the superfne -four
and the choicest coffee to a miner or mechanic.
He will have not the best In reality, but the
most costly. He calls constantly for higher
wages, and does not see that his high wages
increases the cost Of everything, lifting every
body higher and higher above ground to fall
further at the crash, by and by. The
American laborsr wo1ld do we'll to study the
policy OF the Chinamsn in his policy of economy
as well as of cheap labor.
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THE Democratic frauds by which the solid
South is maintained are no worse in principle
than those by which the same party has en-
deavorsd to make itself solid in Indiana.
They differ only in degree, not in kind. They
are only worse because practiced on a larger
scale, if indeed the mere magnitude of a crime
can affect its moral quality. The suppression
of the colored vote in the South by intimida-
ton and by every species of fraud is no worse
than the disfranchisement of thousands upon
thousands Of Republican voters in Indiana, as
is done by the existing Democratic gerryman-
der. The tissue-ticket frauds in South Caro-
lima were no worse than the ta~lly-sheet forger-
les in Marion county, and tho blacklist page
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Insulting Language to soldiers.

Extracts from Clevelapd's Veto Messace-Dspendent
Pension Sill, Feb IL. 1857.
81 cannot believe that tee vast army Of Union
soldiers, who have contsutedly resumed their
places IN the ordinary avoeations of life, justly re-
gard the present pension roll on which their
appear, as = roll of honor. desire at this time
with those who through such q bill IS this are
willing 10 be objects OK simple charity, and TO
give q place upon the pension roll through al
legged dependence. In the execution of this pro-
posed law under any Interpretation, a wide field
OF inquiry would be opened for the establish
ment of facts largely within the knowledge OF
the claimants alone, aud there can be doubt
that the race after the pensions offered By this
bill would not only stimulate weakness and
pretended incapacity for labor, but put a further
uranium on dishonastY and mendacltY.n
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in the history of Southern barbarism could
not surpass in infamy the management of the
Insane Hospital under the present regime.
We are decidedly in favor of correcting the
great political abuses that exist in the South.
but we believe that reform, like charity,
should begin at home. The first thing for the
people of Indiana to do is to reform their own
State, and then, with a Republican President,
a Republican Congress and a well-considered,
we'll established protective tariff we may hope
to reform the South.
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Telephone Calls.
Business Odice-------23S Editorial Rooms-----242
Bloody" Shirt.

In the gubernatorial canvass OF 1876 General
Harrison. in a speech delivered at Greehsburg,
said:
For one I~.accept the banner Of the bloody
shirt. / am willing to take as our ensign the
tattered, worn out Ole gray shirt, worn by some
gallant Union hero, stained with his blood as be
gave up his life for his country, and shoulder to
shoulder, elbow TO elbow, stepping to the music
Of the old drum taps, we will move forward,
eyes front aud our faces to the foe, to victory
again under the hallowed banner of the bloody
shirt Let those who desire march under
the black flag of treason or the
white flag OF cowardiee; for me-. /
accept with pride the bloody shirt Not by
shis do / mean that we desire to perpstuats the
bitterness of the war; but 80 long ss the Demo
cratic party prefers to honor those whose only
claim Is their record or hostility to the Union.
and so long as they continue to taunt Us for
fidelity to the country, just o long We will march
under tie bloody shirt When they purge
their party of the leprosy Of secession, and pre-
sent candidates whose records are FAR during
the times when the country needed Lae1 to main
tain Its honor, then we will bury tie bloody
shirt in the grave with the henored corpse who
wore II, and not before"
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THE BANDANNA SIGNAL FOR FREE TRADE.

THE BANDANNA SIGNAL FOR FREE TRADE.
During the administration of President
Polk, the controversy concerning the North
western boundary line between the United
States and the British Possessions became so
heated that there was some talk of war. The
war talk was really not more serious than Mr..
Cleveland's retaliation talk at present, but it
furnished the Democratic party of that day
with a campaign cry ~'6fty-four forty or
fight" This meant the boundary line must
be ffty-four degrees and forty minutes or We
would fight. There was no fight, and the
boundary line was fixed at forty-nine degrees.
While this controversy was in progress, Mr..
Fox, an English statesman and member Of
Parliament, of that day, delivered a speech at
Covent Garden Theater, London, April o.
1916, in which he said:
Quarrel about thisi Why, we might just
as well be invited by Peel and Polk to fight
about mountains in the moon.
"But let men have something to do with it;
let those who have found no preferable home
90 there, and see what effect they can produce
upon the best portions of the soil; as their
numbers increase and their exertions tell, it
will soon become more valuable. And when
man has occupied it, when industry has driven
its car of peaceful conquest around the borders
of that vast land, when towns have arisen and
cities appeared with their thronging numbers;
when the Rocky mountains are tunneled, and
rail and canal have united the Atlantic
and Pacific; when the waters of the Columbia
swarm with steamboats--why. then will be
the time to talk of the Oregon Territory.
Then, without a regiment or line-of battle
ship, without bombarding any town whatever,
free trade will conquer the Oregon Territory
for us, or will conquer the United States for
us also, as far as it is desirable either for US
or for them that there should be any conquest
whatever in the case. Free trade will estab-
lish there all the insignia of conquest. When
their products come here, and those of our
industry return, there will be scarcely a la
borer upon the pine forest that he is clearing
but will wear upon his back, to his very shirt,
I the livery of Manchester. The knife with
which he carves his game will have the mark
of Sheffield upon it's blade as a testimony OF
our supremacy. Every handkerchief waved
upon the banks of the Missouri will be the
waving of an English banner from Spital-
fields"
Mr.. Fox was evidently a good talker and q
| firm believer in free trade-for Great Britain.
His scheme of conquest was simple and peace
full. and some of his sentences are still
prophetic of the results Of free trade. The
last sentence is peculiarly fitting to a cam
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paign in which the Democratic party have
substituted a bandanna handkerchief for the
American flag. Mr.. Fox, with the e.e of .
prophet, foresaw 1883.
COL. MATsON AND PENSIONS.

Colonel Matson had an appointment to
speak at Terre Haute Tuesday evening. and
prior to his meeting an old soldier handed him
the following:
questions in your address this evening, for
the information of the Union soldiers of this
county:
81. Why have you not urged the passage
Of the bill presented you, repeating the arrears
act of pensions?
80. Why nave you not urged the passage
of the dependent pension till2
"3. Why have you not urged the passage
OF the service pension bill2
-. Why have you not urged the passage
of the bill Ieimbursing the soldiers the 40 per
cent. on account of deprecated currency with
which they were paid while serving the coun-
tryf
80. Do you now believe as you did when
you made your report on the dependent PEN
sion bill9
Sc. Did you ever present or report favor
ably a bill for the repeal of the limitation on
the arrears of pension act before you were
nominated for Governor"
Colonel Matson noticed only the second
question, and ignored the rest. Replying to
the second, he said he did urge the passage Of
the dependent pension bill over the Presi-
dents veto, but that when the Senate passed
the same bill and sent it to the House he did
not favor its passage, because it was exactly
the same as the one already vetoed by the
President, and would undoubtedly have been
vetoed like the other. This looks very much
like an attempt on Col. Matson's part to make
the President responsible for his own neglect
of the soldiers interests. In the name of
justice and fair play, we protest. The Presi-
dent has loads enough to carry without being
made a scapegoat for Colonel Matson's sins.
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malfeasance, tapping a church till, grand lar
ceny, bribery, obtaining money under false
pretenses, of a printing steal, a mileage steal
and a patent fraud, of keeping gambling
houses and houses of resort for the vile of
both sexes, of assault and battery, ~fst-fghting
and insulting women, of assaulting a lady
temperance lecturer with a club, of wife
beating, and of matchmaking.
The list of criminals embraces 1877, not in
GLIDING twenty-five persons guilty of political
vcrimes, and ffty-nine other persons directly
connected with the criminal classes.
9. What member of Cleveland's Cabinet had
the United States fegs over his department
lowered to half mast when an ex-confederate
officer diedf Who and what was the ex-con-
federate officer, and where is the Cabinet min
lister now who had the flags lowered in honor
of his memoryf
Mr.. Lamar, when Secretary of the Interior,
lowered the flag on the Interior Department
building half-mast in honor of Jacob Thomp-
son, an ex-confederate, and the man who, as
James Buchanan's Secretary Of the Interior,
played into the hands Of the secessionists and
connived at the stealing of $3.50, 600 worth of
bonds held in trust by the Interior Depart
ment. He afterwards became an agent Of the
Confederacy. Mr.. Lamar is now Judge of
the Supreme Court.
3. What became of Cleveland's army substi-
tutef Did Cleveland promise him $3.50 to 60
in his place and pay him only 5000, re-
fusing to pay the BALANCED
Mr.. Cleveland's substitute, George Brinski.
died in a hospital a year or two ago. Before
his death he stated that he had never been
paid the full amount promised him.
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The Mills Bin in Germany.

Vevay ReveiIIe.
From 3 letter received bv j. A. VsnOsdol. OF
this city, from James K. Peasants. jr., now ia
Berlin. Germany. and dated at that place Aug.
%, we take the following political pointer
"As to the Mills bill, their views here are
rather misty. The Information furnished by the
German papers regarding the bill and its discus
sions in Congress has not been very extensive.
Already they consider it as a fixed fact. A friend
of mine, who does considerable in the way of
English translation for German merchants. in
forms me that within the last two weeks be hss
written numerous circulars for Berlin WOOL
merchants Offering to undersell American wool
raisers in the American markets on account OF
wool being on the free list, as they suppose"
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Points for -Free-Tradera.

Los Angeles Tribune.
Cleveland Ito wool Observation-Disclosures need
free raw wool, TO prosper"
Cleveland Ito wool grower)-"Vote for me aud
wool will become dearer."
Why is it that. with free raw material ~(cottonl,
we cannot compete with England in the mar
kets Of the worldl Why2 Because wages are
only one-half in England what they are here.
Free trade means low wages and cheapness gem
orally. The Democrats mean free trade.
The Democrats are strangely inconsistent.
LET us make low prices to consumers of farm
produce. for instance. they say: aud almost in
the same breath they tell the farmer that pro-
lection is the cause Of low prices for his farm
produce, and therefore he should vote for free
trade.
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Secretary Endicotts Order Against Women
and Children.
ORDNANCE OFFICE, WAR DEPARTMENT,
WAsEISGTnN Ian 4 19a6

ORDNANCE OFFICE, WAR DEPARTMENT,
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4, 1856.
To the Commanding Officers of the National Armor-
les at Springfield and Rock Island, and of the
United States Arssnals at New York, West Troy,
Philadelphia, Boston and Benicia;
While srsenals ard armories are not intended
to be converted into political machines, two po-
ftical parties in this country are recognized. It
is therefore ordered that hereafter in employing
or dlschsrging employees of any and all grades.
other things being equal and qualifications salts
factory. Democrats will De favored. the object
being 70 divide the force in the different grades
gradually between Democrats and Republicans.
This rule will apply TO women and children as
well as to men, ana will be strictly enforced.
s. V. BENET.
Brigadier- general, Chief of Ordnance, q. S. A.
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TO the Editor OF the ,sdianapolis Journal:
Is there a law in the statutes Of Indiana which
allows students, attending college away from
home. the privilege of voting where they are at
tending colleges SUBSCRIBER
LEXINGTON, Oct. 20.
The law in regard to students Is tho same Is
that in regard to other citizens. If Of legal age
and otherwise qualified a student is entitled to
vote at his legal residence. If he has . home
and lives with his parents he must vote there,
but If he has DO other homo or residence than
the college town that is his voting place.
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Democratic Trihnte.

When General Harrison was nominated for
Governor in 1876 the Chicago Times, Democratic
then and now. said: General Benjamin Harrison
is in every sense an admirable man. He is worthy
OF any station in the gift of the people. His
record IS the politicians say. is clear as
crystal. The nomination ia, I'M
doubtedly, one OF the best that could be made.
Mr.. Harrison is in no sense . typs OF the pro-
f~essional politician, but be is one of the ablest
and most upright men in Indiana: this Is ad-
mitred by those who will vote against him as
well as by those who will vote for him."
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dency7

THE fields are white to the harvest. There
is always a call for laborers. Every Republic
an in Indiana can do some personal thing to
assist in carrying the State for the Repub-
lican ticket. Fill up the next two weeks
with untirinp work.
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Volunteers, and also in Company B. One-hun-
dred Indiana He removed
to Avondale, Ala. fifteen years ago.
Dennis Kearney, the ssnd-lotter of California,
lie being paid By the Democrats to drag the
Chinese question into politics. but has met With
so many rebuffs that ne has become disguised.
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AMERICANS, native and foreign-born alike.
citizens who love the institutions of the
country-win vote to keep America for Amer
leans. They will not vote to let England rule
this country through free trade.
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To the Editor of the Indianapolis ssnrnal.

To the Editor Of the Indianapolis Scnrnal;
A minor arrives in this State three months
ago, intending to make this his home, having no
other. and attains his majority one week before
the election next month. Has he q right to
vote Nov. 62 He has been advised that, ipae-
much as he was q minor before his arrival here,
he, consequently, was no citizen, ard had no
legal residence. and his coming of age here en-
titles him to vote here. Please answer in your
columns, and oblige many readers.
DUNKIkK, Oct. 10.
A man must have resided in the State six
months to entitle him to q vote.
To the Editor OF the indianapolis Journal:
Will a stamp cut from a stamped envelope
carry q letter. NEBo.
ALFoRDsvILLE, Ind.