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

C,HANCERY SALE OF yALUABLE CITY AND
UNIMPKoVED BUSINESS AND DWELLING
HOUSES. FARM LANDS SUMMER kEs0kr
KNOWN AS CITY VIEW" AND OTHER
TRACTS IN "GIESBORO MANORn AND
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-11-06

eFTHE ABOVE SALES ARE POsTPoNED IN
TIL THURSDAY AND FRIDAY, NOVEMBER z
AND s. SANE HOURS AND PLACE. oc3l -dGds
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-19
THE COMING CAMPAIGN.

The reorganization of the Republican
State central committee to-day will be
the first step preliminary to reorganiza-
ton of the party throughout the State
and preparation for next years election.
1t is time for such action. Although it
is too soon for active campaign labor,
there is room for quiet and effective
have not been idle since the election.
Without making much noise about it,
they have quietly strengthened their
lines, forming local clubs, disseminating
free literature, etc. Though defeated last
fall, they are at least in as good fighting
trim to-day as the Republicans. The
latter have rested on their laurels long
enough, and must prepare to fight for
their retention. With a recognized
committee we should be able to get
things in such shape that we can start
off with full head of steam early next
season.
One of the things that can and ought
to be done during the interim is to ex-
tend the circulation of Republican news
papers. The farmers and masses do
most of their newspaper reading during
the winter. That is the time when
impressions are made and opinions
formed, not during the heat of cam
paign. The best field of labor during
the next year is in putting some good
Republican weekly paper into the hands
of as many Democratic or doubtful
voters as possible. Twenty thousand
copies of good paper so distributed
during the next year would make sew
eral thousand votes. This is legitimate
electiOneering of the most effective kind.
Besides, it is honest, and converts made
in that way will stick. If the committee
can devise any way of carrying out this
suggestion they will be doing most
excellent work.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-19
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

PROFESSOR BELL, of telephone fame, has
built floating palace for himself. on which
he will this week entertain 800 invited
guests. 1t is said to be veritable palace.
IT is rumored that on his marriage with
Princess Louise of Wales the Earl of Fife
will be made Duke of Inverness. That
title was borne by the Queens uncle. the
Duke of Sussex, and thus has semi-royal
dignity.
THE flag used to drape the casket of Pres
ident Lincoln is incased and hangs in the
private Office of the Secretary of War.
General Drum took care of the flag after
the rites had been conducted and took it to
Washington.
The late Crown Prince Rudolph, though
he had S75OOOO year to spend. besides a
couple of palaces maintained for him at
public cost, yet died 81, 000, 900 in debt. So
Mr.. Labouchere says, and repeats that
princes must go.
IT came out that most of the exhibits of
Tunis. Algiers and Morocco in the Paris ex-
hibition were not African products at ALL
but manufactured in Paris. They were at
once thrust out, and with them vanished
the major part of the department of the
Barbary States.
A PRIZE offered to stenographers for the
largest number of words written on q
postal card has been won b. Sylvanus
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-19
LET Ms HEAR FROM THE MuewuMps.

The New York Post, Harper's Weekly
and other Democratic papers which have
boosted so much about the enforcement
of the civil law under President
Cleveland should give their undivided
attention to the Milwaukee postOffice
case for few moments. 1t is shown in
the reports of the commission that il
Irregularities in the Office came to the at
tention of the Washington authorities
in the spring of 1888; that the secretary
of the commission then existing was
sent to make inquiries, and that his re-
port disclosed such state of affairs that
the chief examiner was sent, in Septem-
Der, to make an exhaustive investigation.
This investigation and the examiners
account showed gross and repeated
violations Of the law. Now the report of
Messrs. Lyman, Roosevelt and Thomp-
son, just issued, does not explain why
no action was taken on this report, but
it is hardly to be supposed that the COM
mission, after taking so much pains to
get at the truth, made no statement of
the matter to the President at that time.
The board had no authority to remove
offenders from Office, but its duty was
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-19

The secret ballot law, or, as it is pop
ularly known, the Australian system,
will have it's first practical test on large
scale in Connecticut. Some half-dozen
States, Indiana among the number, en-
acted substantially the same law last
winter, but Connecticut will hold the
first election under it. The law becomes
August, and will apply to all State, city
and town elections thereafter. Town
elections will be held throughout the
State in October, and will be regulated
by the new law. Its main provisions are
substantially like the Indiana law. Bal
lots are to be printed and furnished by
the State, the names of all the candi-
dates on the same ballot, booths or poll
ing-places to be secluded, all persons
except voters to be kept at distance
from the polls, etc. Two features differ
from the Indiana law. In Con-
necticut every voter must procure
his ballot at least five days before
the election, and every ballot must
be inclosed and deposited in a sealed
envelope bearing the seal of the State.
A person who fails to obtain his ballot
from the legal authorities five days be-
fore the election will lose his vote, and
it cannot be deposited except in sealed
envelope, also furnished by the authori-
ties. This looks like carrying the re-
strictive provisions of an election to an
extreme. 1t is the Australian system,
run to seed.
Massachusetts will be the next State
to test the practical working of the la W,
town elections occurring in that State
about month after those in Connecti-
cut. In this State the law will apply to
all elections held after the first Monday
in June, 1890, and it will behoove those
who are charged with duties under it to
study its provisions carefully in advance
of that time. Under any construction
of the law it will largely increase the
expense of a general election, and local
boards and election officers should try
and make the increase as little as posi-
BILE. Another effect will undoubtedly
be to diminish the aggregate vote at the
first election held under it, and this will
continue until the people become
thoroughly acquainted with the pro-
visions and operation of the law. The
whole system is experimental in this
country, and experience alone can
demonstrate whether it possesses the
merits claimed for it and is adapted to
American ideas and methods.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-19

The process of admitting State to
the Union is two-sided, involving COM
plete acquiescence on the part of the
new State and the United States. In
the case of those soon to be admitted
their statehood will date from the Pres
ident's proclamation recognizing them
as such. All the new States will hold
an election for Governor, State officers
and members of Congress on the 1st of
October, and the Presidents prOclama-
ton viii be issued as soon as the returns
of the election are canvassed and off,
cially declared. This will probably be
within a week or ten days after the
election. The lastformal act in the pro-
cess of admission, viz, the proclama-
tion, will probably occur about the 18th
of October. This will be a little in ad-
vance of the extra session of Congress,
and will enable the members-elect from
the new States to sit in that body.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-19
THE EIGHT-HOUR MOVEMENT.

The eight-hour movement is growing
in dignity and influence, and there are
indications that it possesses staying
qualities. The strongest social move
ments are those which spring from nat
ural conditions, which appeal to reason
instead of passion, and which, small
and circumscribed at first, extend their
scope and influence by natural and grad
ual growth. 1t looks very much as if
the eight-hOur movement might be one
of these.
The proposed reduction of the hours
of labor involves no novel principle or
new departure. They have been re-
duced before 1t has not been a great
while since the legal days labor in Great
Britain and the United States was twelve
and thirteen hours. The first reduction
was to eleven, and this was followed,
after long agitation and discussion, to
ten. The arguments and conditions
that brought about q reduction from
twelve to ten hours are now working in
favor of reduction to eight hours, and
it remains to be seen if they will not
have like result.
The important feature of the agita-
ton, and one that all honest and intelli-
gent men must recognize, is that social
conditions and economic laws have
undergone a great change during the
last generation, and are still in
transition state. The laws of production
have changed very greatly and are like
ly to undergo further change. The in
crease of labor-saving machinery and
the progress of applied science have
multiplied the productive power of labor
to an enormous degree. 1t has worked
radical change in the labor world and
in the condition of all labor problems.
The world can produce more in eight
hours now than it could in ten hours
twenty years ago. 1t can produce more
in ten hours than it can consume in the
other fourteen with Sunday thrown in.
Is it worth while to keep up that rate of
production? The inventive power can
not be restrained and there is no reason
why it should be, but it should be made
to conduce to the comfort and welfare
of mankind rather than to the mere in
crease of production and wealth. If,
with the aid of machinery and science,
the world can produce all it needs
in eight hours of daily toll,
why should it labor more? 1t cannot
safely be asserted that the change would
materially disturb the industrial world
or imperil any interest, since the expert
ence of the reduction from twelve to ten
hours proves the contrary. On the other
hand, the decided improvement in the
condition of wage-workers that has
taken place since the reduction to ten
hours, might follow a reduction to eight.
These arguments, advanced with great
earnestness by the supporters of the
movement, are fortified by economic as
well as sentimental reasons which COM
mend them to candid and thoughtful
consideration.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-19

washington Post
Only eleven States elect State officers
this year: Kentucky will hold general
election for State Treasurer on Aug. 5. Elec-
lions In ten other States will take place on
Nov. D. On that day Iowa will elect Gov
ernor and acknowledgements; Maryland
will eject Comptroller and Attorney-gen
eral; Massachusetts will elect Governor
and State officers; Mississippi will elect
Governor and State officers; Nebraska will
elect supreme Court judge aud two Re-
gents; New Jersey Will elect Governor and
State officers; New York wilt elect State
officers, except Governor and Lieutenant
governor; Ohio will elect Governor and
State officers; Pennsylvania will elect
State Treasurer: Virginia will elect Governor
and State officers.
The terms of no United States Senators
expire next year. so the election of mem
bers Of the Legislature this year is of inter-
est as bearing on national politics only in
cases where members of the Legislature
chosen this year hold Office for two years.
The Senate elected in New York State will
vote for United States Senator in 1891 to
succeed the Hon. William NJ. Evarts.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-19

to recommend the removal or punish
ment of persons whom it found guilty
of disregarding the civil-service law. 1t
it did its duty the fact is very clear that
Mr.. Cleveland disregarded the law and
the evidence and all his pretensions as
reformer by refraining from calling
for the resignation of Postmaster Paul.
A change of officials in Milwaukee at
that time was not desirable. Mr.. Paul
could be useful to him by pursu-
ing just such tactics as the commission
complained of, and, besides, there was
no capital to be gained for his party or
himself in that direction by playing the
role of reformer. He worked the "civil-
service racket as it was contemptuous-
ly called by his plain speaking Demo-
cratic friends, with some success among
New York and New England suckers,
but in the West he found few persons
outside his party gullible enough to be-
lieve in the honesty of his professions,
and still fewer in that party in sympathy
with them. AS consequence, there
was little attempt at an enforcement OF
the civil-service law west of Washing
ton under his administration. Near tie
beginning of his term the violations of
law by the Indianapolis postmaster were
slurred over, and Mr.. Jones given prac-
tically clear field for the remainder of
his time The offenses of the Milwaukee
official, like those of many others, were
ignored simply because Grover Cleve-
land was refOrmer for personal profit
| only, and enforced the law only in
regions where to do SO might inure to
his political benefit. AS the light is
thrown upon the course of the late ad-
ministration, the trail of hypocrisy over
it all becomes visible even to the most
reluctant observer.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-19

hands while he gathers up all his muscular
powers. he Is really studying tho man at
tne pat and endeavoring to discover aud
take advantage of any of his weak points.
And not only the pitcher, but the catcher
inu every man at base and In the field
mnst have the whole situation in his minds
eye and be ready TO recognize a signal and
assist promptly at all points and with good
judgment. All this encourages alertness of
mind. enforces the need of good habits in
order to keep in prime, physical condition.
and demands discipline almost military
In its exactions.
That the popularity of the game is
steadily on the increase is shown by the at
tendance on the games played May so. On
that day there were twenty-four games
played by the eighteen clubs composing the
two leading leagues and two associations.
The attendance on the games aggregated
is, AGA, or an average of about 1000 at each
game. The attendance in BROOKLYN was
the greatest, where 80, 4l6 people were pres
ent. Philadelphia came next. with an at
tendance of 2, 400, and Boston third. with
an attendance of 20, 155. The 5000 600 in
vested in grounds and other paraphernalia
is another proof of the interest in the sport,
as money to such an amount would never
be risked if a profit were not reasonably as
sured. On the whole baseball seems GER
tain to hold its own as the most attractive
out-of-door sport for many years to come,
and likely to grow in popularity the moro
mind and morals rule In its conduct.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-19

Philadelphia North American.

Philadelphia North American.
The suggestion of Colonel Wilson. of the
District of Columbia, that Congress erect
separate building for the executive Offices
and convert the White House into a private
and either that OF some similar plan should
be adopted. Under the present arrange
ment there is no privacy for the President
and his family, and he may be, said to be
living over his shop like. the humblest
tradesmen, with not half the opportunity
for retirement that the latter has. There
will be enough of the glare of publicity
about the President under any arrangement
that may be proposed, and he should at
least have the liberty that every other citi-
zen has to retire with his family from the
gaze of the public after business hours.
This subject has been frequently agitated
without effect, but now that it will be Of
ficially placed before Congress there is some
hope that something will be done.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-19
COMMENT AND OPINION,

So long as force is tolerated in any form
IN the settlement OF disputed questions,
either among men or among nations, pugll
ism is by no means the worst preparation
that men can receive for what may be the
duties of ife.-BOstOn Herald.
II is easy to persuade the tariff re-
formers" and free-traders to get together,
but how reconcile the practical politicians
to free-trade campaigni. Before Mr..
Brice undertakestO convert the country to
free trade he should get in his work with
the practical politicians of his party.
Milwaukee Sentinel.
CoMMUNIsTIC PR ncipies may find a GER
tain scope and application within the
general framework of society, as, for ex-
ample, in the establishment of compul-
sorry public school system. But COM
social method-affords no guarantee of
permanent Observation-Disclosures Post.
WHEN we grant the Canadian Pacific
railway the right to enter our territory
and compete on equal terms for certain por-
tions of our vast internal commerce, we
cOncede it an important and exceptional
privilege. 1t certainly is not warranted in
asking special favors, or refusing to be
bound by the common terms and regula-
tions.-Boston Journal.
THE absolute certainty that the United
States will remain Republic. and laws
has as many rights as another, form the at
traction irresistible by Europeans. For
such reasons they come here, and will con-
tinue to come, though other countries may
offer equal advantages of soil and climate.
Louisville Courier-J ournal.
THE duty of the church is to educate in
the spiritual graces. The teaching of the
public schools facilitates the labor of the
teachers of the church; the teachings of the
church elevate and embellish the learning
of the schools But it is essential that the
public schools should remain absolutely
free and absolutely untainted by the dog
mas of any church.-ChicagO Inter Ocean.
NOTHING in our political history is more
disgraceful than the former prostitution of
the public service to machine politics by
the compulsory bulldOzing assessment of
Office holders by office-holders for Office
holders: and when Congress made it a penal
offense it was doing everlastingly right,
and doing it because an overwhelming ma
jority of thoughtful citizens insisted that
this great wrong should be broken up.
New York Press.
WHEN men organize in any part of any
State to defy the law and prevent it's en-
forcement it is the plain duty of the State
to bring all its power to bear in support of
law and in the enforcement of legal pro-
cesses. In Arkansas this has not been
done. The good people of the State have
wished for Law and order, but have sub
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-19
THE AMERICAN AMUSEMENT.
Approval of DR.. Cleveland's Baseball Sen
mon-Value of the Game.

Approval of DR.. Cleveland's Baseball Ser
mon-value of the Game.
Philadelphia Press.
The Indianapolis minister who stood up
in his pulpit last Sunday and defended
base ball as a rational, healthful amuse-
ment gave only one illustration of the
change that has taken place in public opin-
ball has passed beyond that stage where it
needed any defense. whether it be from the
bar, the pulpit the social autocrat. 1t
has made good its claim to be considered
the American amusement par excellence,
and the Governor of one iOf the leading
States in the Union APPLY summed mp the
secret of Its success when he said: "Base-
ball has, like the avera ge American, more
dash, more enterprise, more vim, more git
up and git to it in minute than any
thing else OF it's kind in any other nation
on earth ever attained in llfetime.o
The reason for this change of public opin-
ion in respect to base ball is easily ac-
clubs in the various leagues and associa-
tons for supremacy has compelled larger
and larger mingling of brains with muscle
in the conduct of the game; The old days
mOnd" have gone by. Mind now governs
in the base ball world as well as in every
other sphere. There has been a steady and
severe wedding out OF the untrustwOrthy,
and bringing in Of men as, Of good morals h
game, instead of being simply an exhibition
of brute force and endurance, has come to
be an illustration of science as applied to
the human machine, and consequently
source from which the intelligent and re-
fined can derive amusement and recreation.
Say what we WILL there is nothing that
excites more admiration than a symmetri-
ally-mOlded man who has his physical
forces we'll under the control of his mental
powers. 1t is doubtful if this appreciation
will ever be eliminated from the human
mind 1t was q prominent characteristic
of all the great nations of the past. The
poet Virgil tells how Eneas stopped in his
Journey from divine Troy to Italy to or
tests. The Olympic games were the great
gladiatoriai struggles were the delight of
the Romans. In modern times no game
has taken so national a character as has
developed manhood can be seen anywhere
to-day than on the baseball arena.
Look at the pitcher. for instance. as he
stands ready to project the ball towards
the man at the bat. He is the picture of
health and muscular development and the
attitudes into which he throws himself
give vivid illustration of how all the
vital forces of the human frame can be
concentrated into one supreme effort. Nor
| is he an exhibition of mere muscular force
either A. good pitcher always strives
| to know the man before him. A curve"
that will strike out" one bats
man may be wholly Intellectual with an
other one. So, while the pitcher is APP
] parently turning his ball istlessly in his
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-19

IDAHO is taking steps to secure state
hood, and is now preparing a bill of
rights which it is proposed to lay before
the next Congress. Property qualifica-
tons for voting are held unconstitu-
tional, and the Legislature is to consist
of a Senate and House of Representa-
tives, each county being allowed one
Senator and two Representatives. There
is also to be provision restricting rail-
road pooling or discrimination and the
consolidation of parallel railroad lines.
These provisions are likely to cause a
breach between theagricultural element
and the railroad influence. Idaho was
not included in the omnibus admission
bill passed by the last Congress.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-19
Polygamy and Democracy.

Some interesting problems in government
are being faced by the Territories which are
framing constitutions. In Idaho the dis
aurothhe ede,neIt Is ntotmon ia DIX years
tory in the passage of test-oath bill, de-
signed to prevent polygamists from voting
or sitting on juries. There was territorial
Supreme Court with Republican Chief
justice who sustained the law and punished
violatOrs of it. Under President Cleveland
he was removed, and replaced by a man
who was satisfactory TO the Mormons. The
change in the administration has revived
hope in the friends of law and decency.
the alliance between their party and the
Mormon Church. Combining with the Re-
publicans. they are trying to put the prin-
ciple of the test-oath law in the State Con-
stitution, beyond the reach of future bad
courts and Legislatures
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-19

CDR" HARRISON, notorious for his
corrupt management of Insane Asylum
affairs, has struck his level at Michigan
City. 1t might be inferred from this
statement that he has become an inmate
of thepenitentiary, but, though he would
adorn that institution, such is not the
case. He is printing a Democratic paper
which he calls newspaper, but which,
more accurately speaking, is an organ of
the Michigan City saloons and of the
whisky element generally. The latter
fact, to be sure, is implied in the state
ment that the sheet is Democratic. Just
at present the redoubtable doctor" is
wsging war upon Mrs. Leeds. the lady
who is engaged in legal fight with the