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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-06-11

Proceeds of children's fair
given at 1901 Q street north
west. by Edith Grimes, Rosa
lie Camalier, Katie Monroe,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-15
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, JULY Is, 1885,

the members of the Grand Army permit
this blunder of the railroad managers to
injure in any ~perceptible degree the en-
campment at Milwaukee they will make q
mistake themselves.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
THE tenure of power of no man or set of
men under our government IS perpetual. If,
therefore, as the Democrats pretend, Re-
publican policy would be obnoxious to the
people. the Democrats can, by offering no
factious obstruction to this policy, gain a
quick and ready restoration to Office.-St.
Louis Globe-Democrat.
OPPOSITION to the use of machinery is,
in fact, opposition to the advance of civil
zation. 1t is j impossible to accomplish any,
thing effectual III it without civilization is
set back. and if this altogether unlikely
would suffer most from it would be the
men who do the manual work of the
wOrld.-BOstOn Herald.
WHEN Congress assemblies Mr.. Randall
will be the one Democratic lighting leader
and chief, and if the Democratic party
at all. 1t would not be at all surprising to
see more than half the Democratic men,
bers supporting him in 2 direct issue
against Mr.. Carlisle or Mr.. Mills. If moth
ing succeeds like success, 1T is equally true
that nothing fails like failrre.-New York
Tribune.
WE do not want free raw material, but
we must continue the present policy of
protection. Let the West and South di-
versify their interests. The "taSseled beauty
and the golden grain" should not be culti-
waited to the neglect of other industries.
King Cotton will be never so much q king
as when his feecy staple Is woven. into
fabrics at home. Corn is never so valuable
as when transformed into meat and stock
on the farms of the West and South.-Au-
gusta (Ga.) Chronicle.
THE best thing for Governor Lowry to do
is TO interest himself in purifying MlSS1S-
citizens may be able to vote without being
shot down. Some good might come of it if
he should turn his energies in this direc-
ton. No good can come of advertising the
ally telegraphing to the Governors of the
several States through which the pugilists
are passing TO perform an act which any
lawyer of reputation knows to be illegal.
New York Press.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-15
COMMENT AND OPINION.

If Mr.. Wanamaker will make the tele.
graph people promise not to raise rates, in
any way, to customers other thar the gov
eminent, we think he can afford TO fill out
the government blank at a higher price
than one mill a word.-Chicago Inter
Ocean.
1T is proposed to beat down Tanner and
then go for the next conspicuous parapet
in the outworks of the administration, but
we do not believe that the President will
be the instrument if the Democratic con-
spirators. and their scheme will. W. hope.
meet the fate it Decentralization Adver-
tiser.
IN discouraging it or taking action that
may be construed into discrimination
against the soldiers. the railroad managers
have made an i~nexcusable blunder, but il
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-15

eral courts for cruelties practiced upon
the prisoners. Some time ago the keeper
of the Macon prison chained a negro by
the neck to the top of his cell, SO that
he could remain only in an erect posi-
ton for two or three hours. He was
properly punished by the court for this
inhumanity, and now the Georgia Leg
islature proposes that, if a Georgia jailer
has to be responsible to a federal court
for such pastimes, they will take no
more federal prisoners. What the
United States will do about it remains
to be seen. AS the United States pays
well for the care of its prisoners, we
tender the use of Indiana jails for their
accommodation.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-15
THE sENTINEL,S I E

The following is from an editorial in
the indianapolis Sentinel:
Let everybody understand that the
school-book articles in the Journal are paid
for at so much per line by the infamous
ring which has been plundering the people
of Indiana for many years past. h re-
fers to the editorial as well As the local az.
the Journal is, it would not devote its col
umns to attacks upon leading citizens of
Indiana of Its own political household un-
less it were well paid for it. y Boo
crusade against cheap textbooks. Doodle
always dictates the course OF the Journal.
The Journal is prominently a
Doodle organ. Its columns are VIGOROUSLY
for sale to the highest bidder. Its support
can be obtained for any ring. however ras-
cally; for any job, however brazen; for any
scheme of public plumber, however fragrant;
either C. o. d. or for a share of the booty:
every question. 1t has as keen a scent for
Doodle as the crow for carriOn.
The Journal does not often notice the
attacks of opponents, but the unusual
mendacity and malignance of the fore
going seem to challenge attention. So
false and foul a charge could only en-
anate from a corrupt source. Its author
and publisher is a common liar and falsi-
fer. If the Sentinel could be sold at
public auction to the highest bidder it
would not bring enough to purchase n
line of the editorial or news columns of
this paper. Neither the old school book
ring mol the new school book monopoly
could raise money enough to do that. 1t
is not to be supposed hat the Sentinel
can appreciate that kind of journalistic
independence and commercial integrity,
but we have every reason to believe that
the public appreciate it. If the Sentinel
ever succeeds in getting rid of its past
reputation for venality and corrup-
ton it will take it a long time to
establish one for honesty that will JUS
tify it in attacking any other paper. In
all its disgraceful career it never printed
a bigger lie than that above quoted.
The Journal is not to be frightened,
nor will the people be deceived by the
Sentinel's attempt to bolster up a vicious
scheme by the honOred names of prOmi-
nent Republicans. The Journal has
made no attack on those gentlemen,
personally or politically. 1t has at
tackled, and will continue to attack, the
vicious outcome of q laundering law.
Without regard to personal or partisan
considerations, it has exposed, and will
continue to expose, the false pretenses
of a scheme which is sure to infict Sc
rious and lasting injury on the schools
of Indiana, ard which has already Gre
ated monopoly whose evil influence
will be felt in legislation for years to
come. 1t is in the interest of the schools
and the people that the Journal favOrs
free school books and no monopoly.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-15
The SchOol-Book Terror.
Philadelphia Record (Dem.)

The public schools III Indiana are threat
ened with a new terror. Under the pretext
of furnishing the pupils in the schools with
free textbooks, the business of supplying
the books will probably fall into the hands
of a ''school-bOok ring" a combination
formed to cheat the State out of its money
and the children out Of the benefit of an
unrestricted choice of elementary knowI-
edge. The school-book experiment in In
diana will turn out like the soldiers or
phans' schools experiment in Pennsylvania.
There will be money in it for the school
book syndicate, loss for the State and scan
dalous mismanagement in the schools. A
meddling p~aternalism in affairs that are
best managed by home n local authority
promises to do permanentinjury to our free
public schools.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-15

AS there is considerable discussion
just now concerning the e%xtradition law
between the States, Section 527S of the
Revised Statutes of the United States,
covering the subject, is of interest. 1t
is as follows:
Whenever the executive authority of any
State or Territory demands any person as a
fugitive from Justice, of the executive au-
thOrity of any State or Territory to which
such person has fled, and produce a copy of
an Indictment found or an affidavit made
before a magistrate of any State or Terri
tory, charging the person demanded with
having committed treason, felony or other
crime, certified as authentic by the Gov
ernOr or chief magistrate of the State or
Territory from whence the person so charged
has fed. it shall be the duty of the execu-
tive authority Of the State or Territory to
which such person has fed to cause him to
be arrested and secured, and to cause notice
of the arrest to be given to the executive
authority making such demand, or to the
agent of such authority appointed to re-
ceive the fugitive, and to cause the fugitive
to be delivered to such agent when he shall
appear If no such agent appears within
six months from the time of the arrest the
prisoner may be discharged.
1t is plain that under this law a legal
requisition for the arrest of a fugitive
cannot be sent by telegraph.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-15

THE moral character, or rather the
lack of moral character, of the Sentinel
is to be taken into account in consider
ing its attacks upon reputable contem-
poraries. 1t being naturally impossible
for hat interesting paper to formulate
an opinion upon any public question
without first fixing price on it in dol
lars and cents, it is perhaps not to be
wondered at that it is unable to ascribe
other than corrupt and mercenary mo-
tives to any paper expressing decided
views. The Sentinel is not altogether
to blame because it has no moral sense
and no sense of decency. 1t was born
and brought up so.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-15

New Haven PALLADIUM (Rep-)
The New York Evening Post came to the
front recently with a powerful sight of
sniveling when President Harrison saw fit
to remove the Democratic postmaster at
Vineland, n. j., giving the place TO a Re-
publican. The immaculate organ of mug
wumpery roundly denounced the President
for making a wanton and unjustifiable re-
moval upon mere partisan grounds, alleging
that even the Republican newspaper at
Vineland rebuked the Presi dent for thisin-
excusable change of officials. Ii now comes
out that Chief Inspector Edgarton, who is
a Democrat, had made an examination of
the Vineland Office, and had discovered the
Democratic postmaster to be short In his
accounts. and that the Office had been sadly
mismanaged. Numerous complaints came
to the department of money stolen from let
tiers to or from Vineland. Both public and
private interests of the town demanded n
change. The local paper which criticised
the removal turns ont to be of the same
political stripe as the delinquent official.
Since these developments the Evening Post
has drawn it's head within It's she'll, leaving
its Democratic friends at Vineland TO extri-
cate themselves from the mire the best way
they can. But, of course, it has no apology
to make to President Harrison for its nasty
attack upon him.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-15


THE warm, rainy weather of the past
few weeks has caused a rank growth of
vegetation, and trees, bushes and un-
dergrOwth are more dense than usual.
The indications point to continued wet
weather and to increasing d~enseness
and rankness of vegetable growth.
These conditions are apt to produce dis
ease. The prevention of surface venti-
lation is q well-esta blished cause of ma
laria, and n not unfrequently due to
the unwillingness of prOperty-owners to
cut and trim their trees. Its important
to maintain a sufficient degree of surface
drainage and ventilation to prevent the
formation of disease germs, and in a
damp season like the present there
is special need of watchfulness ON this
point.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-15

A MOST significant scene was wit
messed at Atlanta last Thursday. 1t
was DR.. BOggs, the chancellor of the
Georgia University, pleading with the
Georgia Legislature to make provision
for the white young men of Georgia, at
least equal to the provision that North
ern philanthropy is making for the COL
ored children. The Atlanta Constitu-
ton says: THE applause was loudest
when he said hat the whites proposed
to forever rule this country. but hardly
less when he compared the Northern
philanthropists spending millions on
negro education to the old woman who
kissed the COW, saying it was all a mat
ter of taste; but it behooves us to see
that the white boys and girls have at
least as good a chance for an education
as the children of the colored race
The good Chancellor is right. After all,
brains will win, and educated brains are
always foremost in the fight. Give the
white boys and girls fair chance. The
Journal believes in white equality,
hence in the education of white chill
dren.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-15
The Way 1t Is Working Out.

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And now it is reported that the cry Of
starvation as to the miners at Brazil.
started first by politicians in an attempt to
make capital for the Democratic party, is
being kept up largely by operators and
miners that are competing with Indiana
block coal in the principal markets. A cir
cular has been issued to the Hooking valley
miners asking them to contribute to the re-
lief of Indiana miners to the end that tho
Hooking valley coal may not be driven out
of the market. A large contract for Hook
ing valley coal was let In Chicago a few
days ago that for years has been given In
diana coal. Other contracts are pending.
If the Indiana miners can be kept on a
strike a few weeks longer these compete
tiors Will have captured their trade. The
miners ave already lost enough by nine or
ten weeks of idleness, and should at once
go to work at the best possible terms they
can get, before their trade is diverted into
other channels and their places taken by
machinery, and they left without work fof
at least a year, and may be longer.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-15

THE indications are that ex-senator
Malone will be nominated by the Re-
publicans of Virginia for Governor. The
convention will meet on Aug. 90, and,
unless the present drift changes, Malone
will be the nominee. He is a fighting
Republican and a great organizer, and if
he consents to make the race he will
make it hot for the Virginia Democracy.
Malone is in full accord with the Presi-
dents idea of forming a Southern pro-
tective tariff party, and if he is NOM
mated the fight will be on that line.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-15
A Story to Catch Summer Tourists.

BOsrOn IIaDSC1IpI-
From Helena, NJ. T.. comes the report Of
a discovery of the relics of a prehistoric
man, unless they were only the property OK
an aboriginal dime museum. A gold hunter,
the story runs, struck on q cave where Law a
human skeleton measuring nine feet six
inches long. The skull was a few inches
away from the trunk and between the
severed portions were twenty-seven mug
gets of gold, from one to ten ounces in
weight and strung on a gold wire. Other
strings of nuggets of varying shapes and
shin bones. Besides this interesting find
there was revealed a great room, cut from
the solid granite and containing many won-
derful things. In view of the difficulty
which would attend the shipment of a sea-
serpent to Montana, this story is a very
clever conceit to attract the attention Of
SIMMER tourists.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-15

A SPECIAL election for sheriff will
take place in st. Francis county, Arkan-
sas, to-day, and. in anticipation of
trouble, the Governor has issued a spe-
cial order disbanding all military COM
panies organized in the county during
the last four months. The Democrats
will hardly know how to hold an cleo
ton without military companies.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-15
the Editor of tine I"ndiannpoli, journal:

1U Ut Ldutur OF Ue IhuanapoHS JUurnHs
To settle a nefghborhood dispute will you in
form us: 1. Will IL be necessary for each Of us
living In Center township. outside the city, to go
TO indianapolis ard climb those narrow stairs to
the trustees office whenever We want q copy
hook or first readerl 2. Suppose when we get
there with our old first reader the trustee says it
Is not worth one cent, will we have to pay the
full ten cents and take the old book home with
usi 8. III, at our school meeting, we should vote
not TO change our textbooks, Will we have tot
CENTER TOWNSHIP OUTSIDE.
These questions relate to the construc-
ton of the law, and those interested are re-
%spectfully referred to the State Superin-
fendent.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-15
Prof. t. C. Mendenhau.

Terro Haute MAIL
The appointment of President T. G.. Men,
denial to be superintendent of the Coast
and Geodetic Survey will prove disastrous
not only to the Rose Polytechnic Institute,
but to the city. For the institute, il will
amount to robbery. In the brief time that
DR.. Mendenhall has had the management
of the school. advancement has been known
in every department. and it seems a shame
that the government should now insist on
taking him away. As an instructor in all
the.details of polytechnic work. DIR. Men,
denhall has few equals. and no superiors.
and as a president he has displayed execu-
tive ability of the highest type. Under
his guidance the Dame of the school has
gone into every State, and faith in his abiii-
ty has brought students from every direc-
ton. With the impetus he has impaired
it is possible that the school will continue
in it's prosperity until a competent success
or is found, but nevertheless. the iustitute
is unfortunate in losing him. In his selec-
tion for the geodetic and coast survey, it
must be acknowledged that President
Harrison and his advisers have dieplayed
great wisdom, for he is prominently fit
ted for the work.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-15

A BILL has been introduced into the
Georgia Legislature which is to author
ize county and State j%ailers to refuse to
admit prisoners from the United States
courts. The immediate occasion of this
is the decision of Judge Spear, of the
United States Court, that in their treat
mdnt of prisoners sent by the federal
COURTS the keepers become United States
officers, aud are punishable in the fed
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-15

experience in. any branch of scientific
work; that he was a sort of half lawyer
and half journalist in Buffalo, where Nh.
Cleveland lived; that he was an active
politician, Rand served many years as
county supervisor; that soon after Mr..
Cleveland's Inauguration he vas ap-
pointed chief clerk of the Internal Rev
enue Bureau Ia business helknew nothing
about, and a few weeks later was made
Superintendent of the Coast Survey-a
business about which he knew still less
succeeding one of the foremost scientists
in the world. If there ever was a scan
dalously unfit appointment, this was
one. Did the New York Times criticise
it? Not a bit of it-no more than it did
other appointments by Cleveland, equal
ly scandalous and unfit. On the face of
Mr.. Thorn's biographical record it is
apparent that he did not possess the
slightest educational equipment, nor a
single qualification of any kind, for the
position to which he was assigned. Yet,
in criticising the appointment of Prof.
Mendenhan, the Times has the audacity
to talk about the demonstrated fitness of
'the retiring head of the survey" as if
four years in a position for which he
had no qualification could make a
scientist out of a local politician.
The Times further ~insinuates that
Professor Mendenhall was appointed
purely for political reasons, and
says there is no partisan politics in sci
ence.n We reply there is precious little
science in partisan politics. Thorn was
appointed because he was a Democratic
partisan, not because a scientist. He
was removed, not because he is a Demo-
crat, but because he is not, and never
was a scientist. Mr.. Thorn has been
holding an important Office four years
under false pretenses. He should be
summarily removed from the service.
The New York Times dares not print
his record and claim that he has or aver
had any qualifications for S~uperintend-
ent of the Coast Survey.
As for Professor Mendenhalrs qualif-
cations, it is doubtful if any other man
in the country possesses superior. He is
a scientist by education, training and
experience. He was known in scientific
circles of Europe when Mr.. Thorn was
practicing ward politics in Buffalo and
establishing his claims on the gratitude
of Grover Cleveland. Everywhere in
scientific circles Professor Mendenhalls
appointment is conceded to be an excel
lent n Yet a mugwump paper, which
in 1885 approved of the appointment to
the same position of a sm~all-potato
Democratic politician of Buffalo, who
was absolutely devoid of scientific edu-
cation, criticises the appointment of
Professor Mendenhall! Such are the
motives and animus of all the Times's
criticisms.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-15

CARDINAL GIBBONS, in an article on
the labor question, says whoever tries
to SOW discord between capitalist and
labor is an enemy of social order" This
is profoundly true; but there are a great
many such enemies of social order, and
they are very busy.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-15

SOME very interesting addresses bearing
on different phases of Christian work were
made before the national convention of
the Christian Endeavor societies at Phila-
delphia last week, addresses that must
carry influence wherever the $500 delegates
present may engage in their efforts at moral
reform. The exact character of these So
cieties is not well understood by the world
at large. inasmuch as the membership is
made up from the church people, and it
might be supposed that a church associa-
ton or any religious body was in itself q
christian endeavor society that would make
other formal organization by the same per-
sons superfluous. 1t seems, however, that
they have found no lack of work to do,
and as the churches are certainly in need
of an enlivening, no fault can Justly be
found if the means employed come from
within their own circles and are in fact
their own tools taken into young and
earnest hands The main thing is that the
enlivenment shall be accomplished.
NEW YORK officials and scientists have
not yet settled the question as to how much
electrical power is required to kill a man,
and whether the killing is painful to the
victim. They want to settle the matter be-
fore the day set for the execution of a
criminal soon to come under the operation
of the new law, but the great difficulty is
that neither scientist nor official can be
found willing to give himself up fully and
freely to unlimited experiment. They
argue, not unreasonably, that while the ex-
act strength of the electric current neces-
sary for killing may be determined by such
experiment, the probability is that the per-
son operated upon would be estopped from
returning to describe his sensations. 1t
looks very much as if the question, Does
it hurt to be struck by lightningf" will go
into the unanswered list along with that
relating to the sufferings of the hanged.
Mr.. GLADSTONE is said to nave increased
his allowance of wine for dinner, drinking
now a pint instead of half a pint of port, as
formerly, and saying that the larger GUAM
tity affects him less than the smaller meas
ure did twenty-five years ago. This is the
way wine-drinkers on whom the habit is
growing always talk. If Mr.. Gladstone
isn't careful he may fall into bad habits.
If the British w. c.. I. u. is half as enter
prising as the American society, it will
rally around the noble statesman and save
him.