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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-10-02

STRANGE he found the Commissioner &C
pulled up in his own conceit that he
was lnsubordinate. That was stu.
alton he would not endure and re-
main Secretary of the Interior. The
President would have avoided the
issue. He himself in his time has
done not little of the Tanner kind
of talking. Tanner was his own
selection. But he could not we'll af.
ford to disrupt his Cabinet for the
sake OF the corporal's continued Off
clal existence, and the corporal goes
to the wall. The head of the Grand
Army, General Alger, telegraphed
Tanner: Don't resign; stand firm"
But the corporal, the commander, the
Grand Army, and the gathering hosts
OF greedy pension claimants are
routed by a Secretary of the Interior
who preferred self-respect to continu.
ance in Office.
Whatever of party embarrassment,
there is in this situation the President
has brought upon it. He selected for
Commissioner of Pensions a man no.
toriously unfit for any executive place.
Tacitly at least he encouraged his
fragrant exhibitions of INSTRUMENTATION
and his constant appearance before
the country as a surplus cluster"
And but for the manly stand of Score.
sary Noble the President would still be
found giving countenance to this mis-.
chievous fellow. The irrepressible
Private Dalzell, scouting the sugges-
ton OF the corporal's removal, cried
out: mo, sir; he will not be removed.
Ii he were removed Foraker would
decline to remain on the tick.
ct in Ohio. His doom would be
sealed from that hour. The sol.
diers are swearing mad; bowling,
cursing. damning mad, at the malice
and jealousy of the aristocrats who
are bounding our comrade to his
death. Woe, woe to them if thew
down Tanner, for, by the God that
rules and reigns, if they touch hair
OF his head we will scalp every man oil
them
Tanner is downed. The Presiden,
seeks to make his fall easy by throw
ing him into a soft place, but he is
down. The earth will not be con.
vulsed, though Dalzell SO declares,
but an ugly situation is created for the
Presidents party by the President him.
self. Foraker, who babe Tanner "Stay
with em, Jim, :" will have bad half
hour, but he will go on with his can,
vass just the same.-Chicago Times.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-10-02
THE LOUISIANA VICTORY,
Failure OF the First Republican Attemp
to Corrupt tho New South

Failure of the First Republic IN Attempt
to Corrupt tho New South.
1t is very fortunate for the flannel
mouthed Republican campaign orators
who have been stumping the Third
Congressional district of Louisiana
that negro named Jacobs was grazed
by bullet in a personal quarrel al
the polls in Franklin. For this is all
that is left them to talk about. The
district, which they have tried SO hard
to proselyte, has gone Democratic by
good majority, thousands of negroes
voting the Democratic ticket. The
election was entirely peaceful, and the
only marked feature of it was the
large vote polled for an off election.
lie seems probable that greater num-
Der of white voters cast their lot with
the Republicans than before, but this
was because Minop. the Republican
candidate. made distinctively- white
mans campaign, solicited white votes
III his speeches and carried out lit
orally the Harrisonian policy of neg
lecting the colored electors and doing
all that was possible to divide the
white vote.
The Republican interest in the cleo
ton was aroused by desire to in
crease the narrow majority of three,
by which they hold the Fifty-first
Congress. The success of Mr.. Price.
the Democratic candidate, reduces
the Republican majority to two, the
Laird vacancy being still untitled.
The Third district was formerly Re-
publican, and was one of the last
spots in the South that the carpet
baggers surrendered. 1t used to repose
snugly in the vest pocket of the no.
sorious William Pitt Kellogg, and he
represented it in Congress as recently
IS 1885.
The first Republican attempt to
smash the solid South having failed,
the Administration and its lackeys
will now be free to turn their undivid-
ed attention to Virginia, where all
Republican campaign meetings open
to the martial strains of 'Dixie, and
where the Republican candidate for
Governor favors pensions for Confed-
crate soldiers.
But until the Republican party South
becomes something besides a make
shift and fraud, simply useful as
factor in the elections in Iowa and
Kansas, the solid South will remain
unbroken. Detroit Free Press.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-10-02
TANNERS DOWNFALL.
Tho Boss Surplus Busters Omcial Caree,
Cut Short.

The Boss Surplus Busters Omcial Career
Cut Short.
There is good radiance Of bad rub
Dish. Thanks to Secretary Noble
who left the President the alternative
OF accepting his resignation or COM
polling Tanners, the bloviant Com
missioner of Pensions, who had no
just comprehension of the duties of his
Office and no respect for the law
which he was supposed to administer,
is functus officio. It was the Secre-
tary of the Interior, not the President,
who discovered frmness in this mat
ter. He found the Commissioner, the
residents personal appointment,
surrounding himself by lusty lot of
beggars. who Immediately commenced
the re-rating of their stipends. He saw
him cheek by jowl with the great pen
sion attorneys who are piling up fort
unes by assisting pension raids upon
the Treasury, He heard the ceaseless
jabber about his policy, his purpose, his
plans, and when hs aade remou-
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-10-02
CURRENT COMMENT.

-Raising corruption fund t,
bride voters is now known as stWana
makering" an election. Albany Ar
gus.
! The Democratic policy is to en-
force frugality in public expense ant
abolish unnecessary taxation.-Cleve
land Plain Dealer.
Corporal Tanner loses a frieni
every time he opens his mouth, ant
Tanner has no friends to spare. BUT
falo Express (Rep.).
The Republican party is exhib.
iting signs of unwonted activity in
Marshall, Mo. During the last month
numerous memories have been raided
and about five hundred chickens stolen.
ST. Louis Republic.
-Mahone's resolutions in Virginia
pledge the Republican party's sym.
pathy and succor to the disabled ex-
Confederates or the widows and
orphans of dead Confederate soldiers. :"
Break it gently to Foraker! Tell it
softly to the bloody-shirt shakers!-
n Y. World.
General William Mahone's pre-
diction that he will be elected Cover.
nor of Virginia by majority of 49,
900 votes seems to excite more enthu-
siasm than confidence in the Repub-
lican party. Yet we have never
doubted that Mahone's word was as
good as his oath. - Chicago News
(Ind.).
The Republican party is fast
pushing its great men to the front,
With Fort Pillow Chalmers as its can.
didate tor Governor of Mississippi.
and Malone leading tho Republican
hosts of West Virginia, the g. O. D.
has placed two of it's choicest repre-
sentatives in the front rank. -Ionia
(Mich. Standard.
The platform of the North Da.
kota Republicans can not be consid-
cred as an Endorsement of the wide
open policy OF Corporal Tanner re-
speeding pensions. 1t favors the
granting equitable and liberal pen
sions to all honorably discharged
soldiers and sailors" This, although
too sweeping, is a very different thing
from granting pensions irrespective
OF honorable or dishonorable dis.
charge. Chicago America Qnd.).
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-10-02
THE DEBT STATEMENT.
Harrison's Waste of Revenues In order TO
Keep Up Taxation.

The form of public-debt statemen,
Issued under President Cleveland was
such as to show at a glance the actua
finances OF the country. The Repub
llcan Administration is beginning tc
find tho extremely inconvenient. ANY
form OF statement which shows actual
conditions shows that the debt is be.
ing Increased by the great increase oil
expenses under Mr.. Harrison. His
policy, announced in his party plat.
form and i'll his own inaugural, is to
spend the revenues in order to keen
the taxes. The constant tendency in
departments managed on this policy
is to exceed appropriations and create
deficit. In the second month of the
fiscal year the Administration has
managed to increase the debt Sc, OOO,-
O0o The record of debt management
for July and August, 1889, is $1s, OOO,-
0Oo to the disadvantage of the Admin
lstration when compared with the rec
ORD OF the same months last year.
When these facts appear from the
debt statement made September 1, the
Globe-Democrat declares that the
form of the statement should be
changed. Treasurer Huston" it
pays, lis thinking seriously of return
Ing to the old style again." on the
ground that such a change twill be a
great relief to many people interested
In the financial condition of the United
States"
No doubt it will. 1t will relieve Mr..
Harrison and Corporal Tanner, as we'll
IS all who find high taxes blessing;
Ill who believe deficit or debt an
evidence of prosperity, and all who
are In any way interested in first hum
ougging the people in order to swindle
hem afterwards.
But this is not q consistent attitude
for Mr.. Harrison. He has boldly as
'umed that it is advisable to spend at
once all surplus money in tho Treas
airy. He has not promised to increase
the debt, but If it is good thing to
waste money already in hand, it is
even better thing to create deficit,
and to go deeper In debt If he is sin
cere, he ought to give the widest pos
sible publicity to every deficit. and
every increase of debt he creates.
Should he attempt concea!ment by
jugglery in the debt statement, he will
convict himself OF full knowledge of
the wrong of wasteful and extravaganza
administration OF his public trust
St Louis Republic.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-10-02
OBSOLETE WORDS.
Many OF Them May. at n Pinch, Help TIL,
Authors of Our Day.

| u
Authors of Our Day.
would, however. conjure my BROTH
ers and sisters of the writing fraternity,
if they can cope with the proof-reader,
not to fear these dreadful letters Obs,
with which the dictionary makers seek
to bury out of good company many
noble words with which Shakespeare
and Spenser made mirth and spoke
wisdom. What was fit for those authors
to use may still, at pinch, help us in
the nineteenth century. I would in
deed go further, if / might, and plead
with the dictionssry-makers themselves
that they should in future omit those
condemnatory letters from their COL.
umns. Let them still tell US what
great masters have employed GER
tain words, that we may be slim
ulated thereby to emulate the knowl-
edge possessed by these writer's
as to the essential significance of
syllables, and that we may recognize
the skill with which those syllables
have been in former days subordinated
to the highest purposes of thought and
art in literature; but let them spare us
the sight of those discouraging italics,
Obs., just as we begin to glow with
sort of intellectual passion for a word,
and would fain seize upon it for our
use. The sight of those three con-
demnatory letters-the very abbrevia-
ton has something of contempt in it
makes US think of stupid fashions in
speechi it makes us doubt, and while
we doubt inspiration flies away and
fancy grows pale. Language then be-
comes a question of times, of mode, OF
manners, and not what it should be, a
question OF power and fitness of use-
fulness and beaut, Atlantic.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-10-02
PIrA AND POINT.
knowledge directs practice, yet
practice increases knowledge.

knowledge directs practice, yet
practice increases knowledge.
1t is as hard to keep your mind OF
OF trouble as it is to keep your
fingers off of tooth that is loose.
1t is the sins of other people that
self-appointed reformers make the
most fuss about.-N. o. Picayune.
AS empty vessels make the loudest
sound, SO they that have the least wit
are the greatest babblers.
AS man gets older he knows more,
but he does not get any more attractive
in learning it.-Atchison Globe.
A man always feels ready to re-.
turn the compliment when you speak
In praise of his good judgment
Somerville Journal.
The man who in time of peace
deems himself capable of beating an
army, in time of war thinks himself
lucky If he succeeds in beating re.
treat.-Baltimore American.
We all know that worry kills. I'm
fortunately it only kills the worried.
The worrier thrives; like symbolic
Jeshurun he wakes fat and kicks in
lively fashion. Here is a case of the
survival of the unfittest. Christian at
Work.
The polite of every country seem
to have but one character. A gentle.
man OF Sweden differs but little, except
In trifies, from one of any other coun.
try. 1t is among the vulgar we are to
lind those distinctions which charac-
terize country.-Goldsmith.
Genius is dazzling thing, but It
won'tplod. Talent is forced to plod or
get left, and so with the instinct Of self.
preservation-it generally plods. Ge-
MUS starts out a petted darling, and
ends by lodging the bailiffs, and dying
in the poor house, while talent raises
a monument in its honor, and pays the
bill out of its well-flled pockets.-Joel
Chandler Harris.
There are many shining qualities
IN the mind of man, but none SO useful
as discretion. 1t is this, indeed, which
gives a value to all the rest, and sets
them at work in their proper places.
and turns them to the advantage OF
their possessor. Without it, learning
is pedantry; wit, impertinence; and
virtue itself looks like weakness, and
the best parts only qualify man to
be more sprightly in errors and active
to his own prejudice. Addison.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-10-02
A WIZARDS JOKE.
how Hermann Once Upon Time Fooled
Greedy Chtnamun.

now Hermann Once Upon Time Foole
Greedy Chtnaman.
Talking of the Chinese play here,
'aid well-known lawyer, II neve
had more fun than did at a Chimes
performance in San Francisco severa
years ago. went there with Herr
mann, the magician, and several Sal
Francisco journalists. 1t was in tn,
Chinese quarter and the performance,
was the adjourned act of a play tina
had been started a month before. /,
the lobby were a lot of Chimes Sc ped
dlers selling sweetmeats. oranges anG
other fruits. Hermann made dead
set at the orange man, a thin-faced,
Notwithstanding fellow, who wore a
queue about five feet long. Hermann
bought an orange and cut it open.
With an exclamation of delighted sur.
prise. his eyes sparkling and his face
lit up with smiles, he drew a five-dol
lar gold piece out of the pulp and
held it up so that the China.
man could see it. The latter's
eyes bulged from their sock.
cts and panied look of dis.
appointment crossed his expressionless
face. Herman bought three more
oranges, and from each he drew a
shining flyer. By this time the per.
SEPARATION rolled in beads down the
Chinaman's face, and he looked so sicl,
felt sorry for him. He gathered up
his stock, muttering to himself, and
when Hermann wanted to buy another
half-Gozen the Chinaman refused to
sell them.
"'pll give you one dollar for them. ,
said Hermann.
"The price was only ten cents, but
the Chinaman was tired of giving
away gold pieces.
me no wantee sellee,' he said
shrilly.
IA few minutes later he retired in.
to a corner and with the air of a con.
spirator began to cut up his oranges.
One after another they went, and his
look of disappointment became darker
and darker as the magic gold pieces
failed TO appear It was actually tragic
when the last one was gone, and Herr
mann gave him one dollar to prevent
his committing suicide. IN. Y. Sun.
Haunted houses in China must be
desirable places of residence. The
Tien-Tsin Shihpao reports that not long
ago man named Yang moved into a
haunted house which nobody dared
live in, he being ignorant of its char
acter During the first two weeks a
ghost, terrible in appearance. made
himself visible in the night Yang, be-
ing young man of bravery and hav-
ing learned the professional ways Of
tanning devils, did not care for it. One
night, when he saw the spirit anysual-
~ rampant. and he undertook to drive
1t out. the devil suddenly became a ray
ofred light and entered into the ground.
Yang was greatly surprised at this,
and, digging into the ground, found
moro than ten thousand taels of silver
in the place where the spirit had en-.
tered.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-10-02
POOR JIMMiE'S MINE,

Jennie Might Have Had It, But Spoiled
Her Chances.
mo, 1t isn't much OF story, but
I'll tell it if you don't use my name. !"
So spoke miner just from the East.
though better known in the San Juan.
lie is bronzed and about forty. There
are wrinkles in his face and spots on
the palms of his hands as hard as thu
sole of a boot
"You understand" he continued, al
have acquired the reputation OF
stretching the truth little because |
blow about the riches OF the mines In
our section, but I don't want to be
taken for no liar, out and out. Seep"
The reporter saw, and the miner
squared himself for tho delivery OF
his yarn, which was as follows:
about year ago was out pros
pecting over in the southwestern part
OF the State. One day when walking
just ahead of my partner fell down
an old shaft. about twenty feet, Iguesss.
1t wasn't much of fall, and got of
lucky. But didn't like the place and
wanted to get out, so I yelled to Bob 10
let down rope and he done it. By this
time could see little, and by gosh,
there was skeleton in one corner. Il
had been there good while. / saw
that it had broken leg, and had rolled
up It's pants as If to doctor itself and
never rolled them down again. It's
clothes wasn't much good, but went
through them and took out some let
ters. The direction on the letters
couldn't be read, but the contents were
intact Some were TO Dear Jimmie
and signed Jennie I got interested
in Jimmie and Jennie. and sized It up
this way: Here's Jimmie come West
to make raise; here's Jennie staid to
home to wait till he makes it. Here's
Jimmie dead in hole just as he had
made the raise; and here's Jennie won
dering why Jimmie didn't drop her q
line. by gosh. That's the way l sized
it up, and ! says to Bob after he had
pulled me out and we had looked over
the letters. Bob says ]. that's
darned hard luck for Jennie, and nut
the letters in my pocket.
When got time went through
the whole batch. There was picture
OF Jennie. Say, boy! Well, lost nv
head. made up my mind that instid
of writin' I'd go back and just break
the news myself and tell her Jimmie
had left her mine. She was hand
some as any flower that ever bloomed.
And-well, ] went back. l expected
that Jennie would cry and there'd bea
scene and she'd flop into my arms,
faintlike, and all that She looked so
gentle, too, with lip all a-quiverin'
in the picture, and big eyes with tsars
like little lakes.
Did she flop? Not much. went
back to that pesky little town in Illi-
nois and hunted her up. Jennie /
says tender, Jimmie's gone over the
range;
/" What's thatr says she.
g 'Jimmies gone over the range,
played out. dead; he's skeleton, BY
gosh.
Dead, ehP" says she. well,
that's 100 bad. ] liked Jim. but he
quit writin'. end so / married about a
year and half ago. Dead! I'll 90
tell nav. She'll be awful put out
"Well, left TIM here, and when
the effete East catches me again It's q
dandy"
"And what do you expect to do"
do! I'll go jump Jimmie's Minis
b gosh Denver RaDahllcan
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-10-02

Aim at perfection in every thing,
though in most things it is unattain.
able; however, they who aim at it, and
persevere, will come much nearer to il
than those whose laziness and des.
pondency make them give it as ND
attainab!e.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-10-02

tore it to pieces before l could rescue
1t and submit it to scientific investiga-
ton, that might have gone a great
way toward clearing up the mystery
OF the mesmeric powers of the serpent
family.-N. Y. Sun,
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-10-02

When you are advised to take
the bull BY the horns" don't That's
no way to seize the animal safely.
Get a nose hold Or noRo..-Oil City
Derrick.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-11-20
BURNED HIM IN EFFIGY.
HOW REPUBLICANS TREAT HARRISON.
lincoln Leaguers Insult the President-Ify-
drophobia in Fayette - Wooden Mills
Burned-soidiers' Reunicn-A Cave
Discovered in owen County.

JEFFERsoSvILLE, Nov. 13.-lSpecial. RE
publicans here are disguised with Harrison
and the character of his appointments. They
have been heating up for long time. This
state OF things resulted last night in the hasty
preparation of ea efigy of Harrison, which,
with all the campaign outfit of the league, was
burned, much to the delight of republicans
generally. The immediate cause of this as
founding demonstration was the resppoint-
ment of Maj A. N. Luke who was removed by
Cleveland from the position of postmaster. A
movement has been started, and is taking
shape, for forming anti-Harrison clubs among
the republicans, and the thing seems to take like
vildfre A host of prominent young repub-
icans here and at various points in the district
are swearing they will vote with the demo
Gratis rather than again support Harrison.
The working republicans have for months
been kicking high and unanimously against the
president, but the leaders until last night
kept their condemnation within bounds. Now,
however. hardly member of the party can be
found TO speak good word for him whom they
cheered so Justify a year ago. The workers
have hungered and thirsted for the reward of
labor. but failed to get it. At the great quar-
termasters depot in this city not a man active
IN the party has been appointed. Invariably
men who were removed by Cleveland are being
Teinstated. Most of them have held positions
for twenty years, some of them being chiefly
distinguished for the whisky they consume.
At New Albany the postOfice created much
feeling, and the appointment of Troop of
Paoli as collector. when Gen. Packard thought
he and his faction had 'cinch" on the place,
caused a renewed 0utburst
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-11-20
III Winds

That blow ''nsebody any good are plenty on the
storm-vexed Atlantic to say nothing Of the occs-
sionally typhoon-swept Pacific. The hspless voy-
ager, when shaken up by the heavings of the
"briny, should take that peasantest and most salu-
tary of doses, wineglsssful Of Hostetter's Stomach
Bitters. the finest stomachic and tonic that ever
warmed. regulated and quieted the human interior.
Raroad-jolted and steamship-shsken travellers will
exercise wise provision by supplying themselves
with suiciency of this Incompatible medicine Tor
the journey. So will mariners, emigrants 10 the
West. and others about to seek fresh fields 7na
pastures new" Malaria, the scourge Of newly
cleared and mining districts, is completely con-
quered and surely averted ~ the Bitters. Liver,
bowel and kidney complaint and ineipient rheuUa-
tism it snnihilates.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-11-20
Fort waxne Waking In.

FORT WAYNE, Nov. 1s.-ISpecial. THE
people of Fort Wayne Of all political parties
making exertions to secure for this city
some of the state conventions which Indian
apolis has hitherto exclusively enjoyed. At q
largely-attended meeting of the business mems
exchange tonight the matter was discussed at
length and a resolution adopted for the ap-
pointment of four separate committees, con-
sisting Of ten democrats, ten republicans, ten
prohibitionists and ten members of the G. A.
K, who will labor to bring about the desired
results. 1t was stated that with the four new
hotels ample accommodation could be pro-
vided. A resolution was also adopted favoring
Chicago as the place of holding the worlds
fair