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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-25

The school authorities andpeOple OF In
diana should not be alarmed by the threat
of the ring organ to invoke the penalty OF
the law if they refuse to adopt, use OF
buy the obsolete school books attempted
to be forced upon them by the ring
There is no penalty for such refusal, and
no power in this law. or any other, to
prevent local school boards from using
any books they please, and buying them
where they please. The st. Louis pub
fishing house which engineered the law
through the Legislature probably intend
edto make itcompulsory, and their organ
would evidently like to make the people
believe it is, but it is not. The people
still have some rights which the monOp-
oily cannot override.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-25

HARDLY a week has passed since the
4th of last March that the New York pa
pers have not announced ex-Presl-
dent Cleveland's departure on fishing
trip. He may go to Florida or the Ad-
irondacks, or he may 60 for day only
to point on Long island, but 60 fishing
he dOes6sontinually. Just now he is re-
ported to be welding his rod and line on
Buzzard's bay, in company with Joseph
Jefferson. 1t is harmless pursuit, not
being known to lead to crime, even Ii
followed immoderately, but as the con-
slant occupation of a former chief mag
istrate it does become little tiresOme
to the public if not to the fisherman
himself. People will begin to fear
presently, that the immense law Dusl-
ness which he was reported to have
stepped into will suffer through his abb
Sence
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-25

NOTHING has done more to establish
habits of thrift and to encourage proper
personal pride and confidence among
the colored people than the formation of
benevolent orders among them. They
have been quick to recognize the bene-
fits of mutual aid societies, and have
made much of them, both in financial
and social way. Comparatively few
men or women i'm this city but belong to
some order which is pledged to care for
them in sickness, and to provide for de-
cent burial. However improvident the
members may be, dues are paid
promptly, as a rule, and great comfort is
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-25
INVESTIGATING THE PENSION OFFICE.

The appointment by the Secretary of
the Interior of a commission to investi-
gate the Pension Office is wise act. 1t
should be understood at the outset that
there is no charge of fraud or violation
of law. The most that has been charged
is that Commissioner Tanner has exer-
cised too great liberality in re-ratingpen-
siOns, and has made some rulings which
a stricter cOnstructiOnist of the law
would not have made. 1t is simply a
question whether he has wisely exer-
cised his discretionary power. The
Commissioner himself asked for the in
vestigation. 1t will cover the entire
period of the re-rating business, running
back into the last year of the Cleveland
administration and embracing cases re-
opened and readjudicated by Commits
sioner Black. This is right. Commissioner
Black inaugurated the re-rating business,
and the investigation should show
whether Commissioner Tanner has ma
terially departed from the precedents
established by his predecessor or has
exercised undue liberality towards pen
sioners. This is the gravamen of the
charge against him and the gist of all
the Democratic bowling. The investi-
eating committee consists of two MEM
beers of the appeal board and an official
of the generals Office. 1t is
creditable to the administration and to
the Secretary of the Interior that one of
its own appointees is to be investigated,
and those who have been bounding him
cannot object if the investigation goes
back into the administration of his pre-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-25

HENRY CLAY SMITH, the cOlOred DEM
Ocrat who proposes to make test case
of his removal from department clerk
ship, informs a correspondent that he is
a tariff refOrmer, and says if the colored
men could stop long enough to listen
and think they would all be with him.
He says: "The Republican party repre-
sents the manufacturers, and the Demo-
Gratis the consumers" The young man
seems to possess the germs of Demo-
cratic craftsmanship. He ought not to
be willing to bury himself in depart
ment clerkshiD.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-25

Louis papers should interview the presi-
dent of the Standard Publishing Com
pany, who is also president of de-
tective agency, and have him tell what
he knows about Democratic members of
the Legislature being Swallowed by de-
tectives, invited to the Sentinel office by
private note, and bulldOzed into voting
for the present law by threats of attack
in the editorial columns of that paper if
they did not.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-25

Yankton in 1864, and has been in the Terri
tory ever since. At the recent Fourth of
July celebration, which was also South Da-
kota's birthday celebration. there were
read to the assembled people the Declare
tion of independence and the Statehood
memorial of 1885. 1t was. difficult to tell
ton. Judge Moody was the author of the
memorial.
The Judge is the attorney of the famous
HOmestake mine of the Black Hills. and is
one of the large owners of the mine. He is
spoken of as well kxed" by those who
know something of his circumstances but
will hardly class with the millonaires of
the Senate
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-25

Can be found at the following places:
LONDON - American Exchange IN Europe 44s
Strand.
pARJs-Americap Exchange in PARIS 80 Boulevard
des Capuclnes.
NEW YORK-Gilsey House and Windsor Hote-
PHILADELPHIA-A. p. Kemble, 373o Lancaster
avenue.
CHICAGO-Palmer House
cINcINNATI-J. p. Hawley d Co, l54 Vine street.
LOUIsVIILE-C. T. Deering northwest corner
Third and Jefferson streets.
ST LOUIs-Union News Company, Union Depot
and Southern Hotel
WASHINGTON, d. C.-Riggs House and Ebbitt
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-25
A HoOsier in Dakota.

1t goes undisputed that Gideon C. Moody.
of Deadwood, will be one of the South Da-
kota Senators. He is phlegmatic man,
savage when aroused, big framed and big
Drained. There is very little that is polite
about Judge Moody. If he does't like q
misunderstood. He is to-day the best
known of all the Dakotans about Washing
ton because of his frequent visits there and
aggressive fight for statehood.
The Judge is New Yorker by birth, an
Indiana man by virtue OF four years war
service, during which he rose from private
to colonel in Hoosier regiment. and Da-
kotan by final. mature choice. He came to
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-25
Few Politics This Year.

There are few State elections of impor-
tance this year. which in some measure
explains the lack of popular interest in the
subject. But the satisfaction the people
feel with the administration is another
reason. OF course, it has not been long in
much, but what it has done meets with
popular approval. The first election will
be that of Kentucky, Oh Aug. s. but as the
State is hopelessly Democratic no one is
concerned much about the result The
elections In the new States win come next,
and these will be of greater interest If
they do not all GO Republican there will be-
cause for surprise.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-25

THE organ of the school book ring is
losing its temper and its head. 1t should
take warning from Becktold, one of the
st. Louis ringsters, and not talk too
much. 1t leaks out that Becktold has
made them very sick by telling how he
came here and registered under false
name while he was organizing the In
diana ring. His boast of the big profits
they expect to make and his revelation
of the methods by which future legisla-
ton is to be secured at the further ex-
pense of the people and the schools was
a regular bombshell to the ring, and
probably accounts, in part, for the rage
of its organ. BY the way. while they are
In the interviewing business, the st.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-25

IT is within the limits of possibility
that Mr.. Edward Hawkins, as he says,
never saw Buffers geography nor any
of the schoOl-books proposed to be fur
nished by the Standard company. The
Indianapolis company not having been
formed until five minutes before the bid
was opened, must, at any rate, have rem
dered examination of the books by the
members very hasty affair.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-25

raj. When thus detected. theyswould, az
pistol point, make those in possession of
the evidence against them scurry. Within
two months they have stolen hundreds of
CATTLE selling many to men who came in
the night and hurried the plumber across
the line into Utah. They intended making
big shipment to the Eastern market this
fall.
no thought of death, only desiring to curse
the lynchers. She referred to her mother
without feeling, and spoke of no other rela-
tives. The nephew says Mrs. Maxwell was
born in Kentucky, but that her parents
have left that State, and that he does not
know their whereabouts.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-25
Roasting" the Metropolitan Police.
To- I'm

Marshal Cox received letter, last Fri
day, from detective Thornton, tcolored) of
Indianapolis, stating that gang of crooks
were coming down here to work" the
knew them would come down and point
them out to the officers, who could then
make them leave town. He wanted S1.50
a day and feed for his services. His offer
was not accepted, as it was thought that if
the police of indianapolis could not put a
stop to the stealing. sand-bagging, ETC., at
home, they wouldn't be of any service here.
where there hasn't been a burglary for six
months. Probably indianapolis had better
send down here and get some pointers from
orr officers
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-25

SOONER" the word invented in Okla
homa to designate a man who laid claim
TO land in that Territory before the time
legally fixed, is doubtless destined to
wider uses, its applicability to other
cases being evident. 1t may even be
found useful in politics, the risk of en-
tering the field too early for his own
good being nowhere greater than in the
case of political candidate. Grover
Cleveland, for example, is a prominent
''sOoner," his claim to the Democratic
nomination of 1892 having been filed too
early. His best friends are already be-
ginning to acknowledge that his title
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-25

Mr.. EDWARD HAWKINS, member
of the Indiana SchOol-bOOk Com
pany," which was formed five minutes
before the st. Louis Standard Company's
bid was opened, rises to defend the
books furnished through the benevolent
aid of Mr.. Becktold, alias Williams; but,
curiously enough, he does not explain
his interest in the contract, since, as has
been shown by Mr.. BecktOld, the Stand
ard company is the one to which it is
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-25
awarded

A WASHINGTON special to the Balti-
more Sun reports the President as say
ing: at is my intention to remain at Bar
Harbor for week or ten days, and then
return here in time to go to Indianapolis
Aug. % to attend the dedication of
the State soldiers monument there"
The Journal does not wish to encourage
false hopes in this regard, but if the
President is correctly reported by the
Sun correspondent, there would seem to
be strong probability of his coming.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-25
The Attacks Upon Tanner.

IOgansport Journal
Taking advantage of the liberality of
Commissioner Tanner to old soldiers, GER
tain hold-over Cleveland officials in the
medical division of the Pension Office
helped themselves and their friends liber-
ally by re-rating their pensions. Discover
lug tits abuse of their power, Commission
er Tanner promptly dismissed these Cleve-
land rascals, and reOrganized the medical
The literary bureau organized for the def
amatiOn an destruction of Commissioner
Tanner boldly assails him for these acts of
Cleveland Democratic officials, and avenges
their dismissal by him in brazenly false
charges and insinuations against him. The
partisan warfare waged upon Corporal Tan
ner is to the last degree dlsreputable, but it
is making him new and more friends every
dav
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-25
An Actors Presence of Mind.

Boston Transcript
Lemaitre, intrusted with tragic part.
was so behindhand in reaching the theater
that the stage manager was nearly dis
tracted. When he appeared. the stage
manager. who had part in the piece, went
on the stage wearing his spectacles. which
In his excitement he had forgotten to re-
move. Lemaitre noticed the singular look
of his companion, and to warn him changed
his lines and said:
''What. are thine eyes with watching and de-
spair
So weakened that these wonders you must wearl"
This so tickled the prOmpter that he fell
Off his seat with a great racket. There was
confusion all over the house. but the quick
witted Lemaitre prevented q disturbance
by shouting:
Hearst thou that noisel 'Twere wise in my
belief
To seek within for shelter and relief"
And he disappeared. dragging the astounded
manager along with him.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-25
"The Logic of the Situation"

Under the head of "Ihe Logic of the
Situation" an esteemed contemporary tells
us that thousands of striking miners in
Indiana are starving" because they could
panies" before the strike. In view Of the
fact that they did live on those wages,
scant though they no doubt were, and in
view of the fact that they are now starving
because they do not get those wages, it APP
pears that the logic of the situation sticks
up like a hole in the ground.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-25
The Sale of Circassian Girls.

The trade would probably cease entirely
were it not that it is the highest ambition
Of many fair Circassian to become an in
mate of some luxurious harem far away
from her own land. There is among the
Circassians an unwritten law that no girl
fact is that many of them are eager TO be
sold, and SO their fathers do not hesitate
long to accept any tempting offer which
the agents from the slave marts may make.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-25
Republicans Not Caught Mapping.

Louis Il. Kitchener who has been chosen
chairman of the Indiana Republican State
committee, to succeed Treasurer Huston,
has been Attorney general of the State.
and is an able and successful politician. If
the Indiana Democrats expected to catch
ping. they are fated to disappointment, for
the committee, with true appreciation of
its responsibilities, has already begun to
prepare for the campaign of 1890
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-25

THE Secretary of the Interior has rem
dered decision granting $4,000 to j..
Milton Turner, the colored attorney of
the Cherokee freedmen, One-half cash,
and one-half in one year, subject to the
decision of the claim of f. G.. BOudinot.
Turner is the patriot who called con-
vention of colored Democrats in this
city during the last CAMPAIGN.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-25

In the matter of school the best
are none too good for Indiana children.
Those published by BecktOld, alias
Williams, re-soId to the Standard COM
pany, and by that corporation supplied
to HaMkins ct al. are not the best.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-25
Women and Machinery.

One of the most serious defects in the
feminine mind is the inability to deal with
machinery. 1t is q rare thing to find wom-
an who really grasps the idea OF a mechan-
ical continuance SO as to set it to rights if it
goes wrong. A sad result of this defect
was the dreadful death of Emma de Groat
was caught in the machinery and whirled
round line of shafting. None of the girls
with her had instant brains enough to stop
the machine. One tainted and the others
shrieked and ran down stairs for man.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-25
PAYS No Attention to Gnats.

Albany Journal.
The latest mugwump charge against Cor
p0ral Tanner is that he is not sensitive"
man. Inasmuch the Corporal has main
tanned his position under the concentrated
fire of the mugwnmp batteries. and gives
no evidence of preparing to retreat, we are
truth in the conclusion at which the mug
gies have arrived.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-25

The Sentinel is very mad; almost mad
enough to apply its Supreme Court adj
.jective to the Journal. Possibly, too, ii
it were to free its mind, as it would like,
the indiscreet Mr.. Becktold might come
In for some ObiurgatiOns.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-25

IT may be legal for BecktOld's agents
to bulldOze county boards of education
into accepting the st. Louis school
books before the company's bond has
been filed or the Governors prOclama-
ton issued; but it doesn't look that way
to the lay mind.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-25

SIRIPPED of all DISCUSSES, the lndi-
ana School-book Company proposes to
debauch the schools aud wreck the
school system of Indiana for money.
That is all there is to it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-25

THE British House of Commons in voting
S3OOO,O 900 for the construction of railroads
for Ireland, has made great step toward
establishing peace in the troublous isle. 1t
might go much further on this line without
fo,-,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-25

The rainfall in the East has been tremen-
dous this season, but it is little queer that
the more water they have the more the people
complain about the water supply. In Pitts
burg and Philadelphia the citizens are loud
in complaints that the water obtainable in
their respective cities is not fit to drink.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-25

washington ffess.
capital to this country to find investments
here. Money is good thing, no matter
where it comes from. All the capital in
the United States is under the control of
hurts us.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-25

AFTER mind reader Bishop died his
mother and the wife whom he had lately
married engaged in a wrangle over his
effects, and the question as to their re-
spective rights is still unsettled by the
courts. Just at this juncture, wife No. l,
from whom he had procured divorce, APP
pears and produces will which was made
in London, in due form, before their mar
riage, and which leaves everything to her.
She is instructed by her lawyers that sub
sequent marriages cannot invalidate the
document, and proposes to assert her
claims. 1t need not take mind-reader of
any special skill to tell with accuracy just
what each of those three women thinks of
the others.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-25
A Thoughtful Remark.
6omerville Journal,

S0merville Journal
1t is a great deal easier To write vivid
love-letter of sixteen pages than il is TO
hear il read two years afterward in court.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-25

THE decision of the Cincinnati Judge that
ice-cream can no longer be regarded as a
luxury, but has become necessity of life,
will be hailed with JOY by the funny men as
affording room for variations on the peren-
NAL ice-cream joke. Hereafter, when a
young man is out with his sweetheart, he
will feel in duty Misunderstanding to the
save her life
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-25
An Erroneous Report,

St Louis Post Dispatch.
The report that the Indiana Republicans
are dissatisfied with the administration is
beyond belief. What on earth do the IN
diana Republicans wantf
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-25
Nothing Wrong I'm Democratic Trusts.

Washington Press.
So far as We are able to gather the opin-
ions of Democratic and mugwump editors
on the question of trusts. those combina-
tons are inimical to the public good only
when Republicans are in them. Trusts or
gained and maintained by Democrats are
beneficent arrangements.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-25
Dropping Out.
Iowa State Register

Iowa State Register.
Ii becomes painfully apparent every day
that Mr.. Cleveland presidential candi-
niscence And that too when Republicans
are doing the best they can TO keep him
going.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-25
Flies In Winter Time.
Cleveland Lead

Cleveland Leader.
When the Republican tariff bill is passed
next winter we predict there viii be tlies
On the Sugar Trust.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-25

To the Editor OF the indianapolis Journal:
Who has the appointment of inspectors of in
ternal revenuel L.
MARCO, Ind.
You probably mean revenue agents. They
are appointed by the President or by the
Secretary of the Treasury, under his au-
thority.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-25

The Atlanta Constitution labors
through quarter of a column of editorial
to say that it doesn't care continental
cookie what Mrs. Garfield or anybody else
thinks of the social features of the South.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-25

On the recommendation of w. ID. How
ellis, Boston has taken up Tolstoi's novels,
and pretends to like them. Maurice Thomp.
son having ventured some objections to
Tolstoi and some criticisms upon HOwells
for eulogizing his works. writer in the
Boston Transcript takes up the cudgels and
proceeds to annihilate Mr.. Thompson, his
most weighty weapon being sarcastic refer.
ences to the gentleman's residence, Craw.
louisville, Ind. Evidently, the Boston
writer doesn't know that Charlottesville is
Literary center; but, even if it were not
why should not as great men come from il
as from Martinsville, o., in whose OBSCURE
ty Mr.. Howells was born and reareds
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-25

THE Pittsburg Law and Order League,
which is trying to stop the sale of Sunday
cigars. is confronted with an automatic
machine which shells one out to every man
who drops nickel in the slot. The multi
plication of these machines and their adap-
tation to SO many uses suggests that the time
may come when a merchant can manage all
his traffic by machinery, and after the ma
chimes are set can go fishing any day. Sc
cure that there will be no loafing or neglect
of customers during his absence, as under
the old system. The possibilities of that
continuance are, as yet, but dlmly per-
ceived.