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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-15
THE AUTHOR OF "KIsMET."
Something About Miss Fletcher and the
Books She Has Written.
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Something About Miss Fletcher and the
Books She Has Written.
Newport Letter 10 the Hartford Courant
L see that your Boston correspondents
notes the forthcoming book of Miss
Fletcher, which she has most unfortunately
named '.The Truth About Clement Kerrn
Miss Fletcher is not in the least an imitatOr
of Mr.. Saltus, and it is slip that she should
so chrlsten her new book that 1t Is as
sOciated with his. Of all young writers it
seems to me that her book, "Kismet,"
written when she was eighteen and pub
lished by Roberts Brothers in 1876 was as
remarkable as that of any young girl author
that America has produced: She was
name of George Fleming" that did
not in the least veil the charming femininity
of her work. "Julia" Il thinks she signs
herself Constance Fletcher nowadays. both
names being hers, is the daughter of
James Cody Fletcher, a man who began as
Presbyterian clergyman, became mis-
siOnary to Hayti, then Sunday-school
book agent, then naturalist, then an
agent of the Brazilian government to
establish line of steamships between New
York and Rio JaneriO, then consul to
Naples in 1881, and now is living some
where out West, indianapolis, if / am
not mistaken. His wife was divorced
from him shortly after his return to this
country country and Radson subsequently, married
art critic on the New York Post, Tor was it
the Times?) who is very well known here.
Constance remained with her mother in
Rome, and has not since returned to this
country. In 1876 she took a journey up the
Nile, and afterward in Syria with that
most charming of hosts and travelling COM
panions Mr.. Thomas Appleton, of Boston,
and "Kismet' and Mirage were the result
of these experiences. Then she wrote ''The
Head of Medusa," falling off from her
previous work, and ''Andromeda" and
'Vestiga," both of which are disappointing;
that this is the day when first books are
best books especially when we remember
that not only Miss Fletcher, but that
once charming writer, Thomas Hardy,
has ceased to work his mine; that h. III.
Howe began and ended his remarkable
career with "The Story of a Country
Town." and the author of an African
Farm" has done that and nothing else.
However, on the other hand, she has be-
come charming essayist, and has written
life of Leopard that Canon Liddon was
happy to have dedicated to him. Year be-
fore last she removed with her mother and
step-father to Venice, and was devOting her.
self in 1887 to translating and editing
Italian authors. Miss Fletcher is about
thirty-ive years old. has heavy flaxen hair,
plexion. Her friendship with Robert
the last few years he has been her near
neighbor during his long-cOntinued visits
to Venice. am rather curious to see this
last work. If it attempts to be American
fancy it will miss the true ring. That is the
price exileS from the land of the stars and
stripes pay for their eXpatriatiOn. They
fail of their atmosphere.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-15
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

CAPTAIN ERICSSON died ON the anniver-
sary of the famous battle between the Mon
itOr and the Merrimac.
Mrs. HARRIET BEECHER STOWE is so
feeble that she is unable to see anybody but
the nurse and physician.
EX-SENATOR TABOR, of Colorado began
life under Secretary Proctor, working for
some time in his marble quarries in Yer
mont.
NEW YORK has a prodigy in the form of a
fve-year-old boy who speaks Greek and
Latin with the precision of gray-haired
professor of languages.
OF the S7O,s22 immigrants who landed at
Castle Garden last year only S:,797 were
over forty years of age, while nearly twice
that number were under fifteen. That is
one good feature of the immigration.
SECRETARY PROCTOR shaves his upper
lip; Secretary WINDOWS rotund face is
flanked by demi- burnsides, and Postmas-
ter-general Wanamaker appears wholly
beardless, while the President and the rest
wear full boards
SOME of the Western cities pension their
public school teachers after certain years
of service. In Wisconsin twenty ne years
of faithful work entitlesa teacher to PEN
sion, and Cleveland is considering a propo-
sitiOn towards The same end.
MRS. EATON, one of President Harrison's
sisters, wore at the inaugural ball lace
shawl which belonged to her grandmother,
the first President Harrison's wife, and a
locket once the property of Mrs. Benjamin
Harrison, of revolutionary fame.
AYOUNG woman, of Ridgeway, Canada.
has had the banns of matrimony between
herself and two of her lovers read in the
parish church. the clergyman having de-
cided that she is free to choose between
them at the altar. This is new and start
ling departure in weddings.
Mrs. CHARLES OSBORNE, a dashing yonng
widow of Parkersburg, Md, was put on
trial on Monday for attempting the life of
James Campbell. who is q middle-aged man
with family. While out riding he passed
the house of the widow rs she stood on the
doorstep. He took from his pocket hand
kerchief to blow his nose. The young
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-15
MAINTAINING THE Law.

When the FIVE Supreme Court Com
missiOners made formal request or de-
mand on Governor HOvey to issue their
commissions in accordance with the al
legged law under which they are acting,
he declined to do it, thus refusing to
recognize the alleged law until it had
been passed upon by the Supreme Court.
The Commissioners then provided them
selves with certificates signed by the
Speaker of the House and Clerk of the
Senate, in accordance with the alleged
law, and presented themselves to the
Supreme Court with a written statement
that they were now ready to enter upon
their official duties. The alleged law
under which they were acting was just
as much a law then as the Curtis and
Bigham bills are now. Did the Supreme
Court recognize it as the law? Not at
all. The Chief-justice respectfully de-
clined to recognize their right to act un-
der the alleged law or to file their GER
tifcates in accordance Herewith. In his
note thus declining to recognize the
Commissioners the Chief Justice said:
If an Office is created by the General AS
sembly, is not the only evidence of a title a
commission signed by the Governor, sealed
by the State seal and attested by the Secre-
tary of State, as provided in Section of
Article XVI of the Constitution If the
General Assembly has authority to empower
any other person than the Governor to issue
a commission upon the refusal of the Gov
ernor to issue it, is there any evidence be-
fore me upon which can officially act on a
- III xxx.1 II - -
possession of the certificates be taken by
the clerk, that he present them, with copy
of your letter and this communication, to
the court at the earliest opportunity, SO
that they may be considered and acted upon
by the full bench.
The claim of the commissioners rested
on the same grounds as that of the new
Board of Public Works and police COM
missioners, and in declining to recognize
their claim until it had been judicially
passed upon Governor Hovey and Chief
justice Elliott took precisely the grounds
now occupied by the city authorities to-
ward the claimants under the Curtis and
Bigham bills. These claimants, like the
Supreme Court Commissioners, have no
commission from the Governor; but, I'M
like the commissioners, they have not
even certificate of election signed by
the Speaker of the House and Secretary
of the Senate. If they had, their title to
Office would be precisely the same as
that of the commissioners, whom the
Governor and Chief-justice declined to
recognize.
The old board and the city authorities
are right in declining to recognize the
title of the claimants under law whose
constitutionality is in litigation. The ex-
ecutive and judicial departments of the
State government have both done the
same thing. The Governor did not
issue commissions to the judges ap-
pointed by the Legislature, and say,
Gentlemen, doubt the constitutional
ity of this law, but will issue your COM
missions and test the law afterwards"
The Chief-justice did not say, Gentle
men, the court has doubts concerning
the validity of your title, but you may
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-15

One good story of Ericsson is missed from
the hundreds that are now going about.
1t was told many years ago that the ia
nous inventor was invited to hear Ole Bull
had no time for such frivolity. as he had
been taught to regard music that he never
had an ear for it anyhow. that it would be-
a mere waste of his valuable time and q
breach upon his staid daily habits But
somehow his friend managed to bring the
two great genuises together The meeting
was said to have occurred in the inventor
shop. A. violin was produced and Bull be-
gan to play while the inventor worked.
Pretty soon Ericsson paused in has work.
then he dropped his tools and listened
spellbound to the magical tones of the mu-
stefan. He said, so the story ran, he had
always felt that something had been want
ing In his life, that he had never known
what it was until that day
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-15

THE New York World of Wednesday
quotes the law relative to the duty of
the Commissioner of Public Works in
that city, and says:
Of what use is the Department of Public
Works to the people when the streets are
filed with abominabie distractions, to the
Injury of business and the inconvenience
and annoyance of the people?
So it seems even Board of Public
Works does not always insure clean
sfroafS
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-15
PRESIDENT HARRIsoN's POLICY.

President Harrison has given notice of
his intention to follow the Chicago plat
form in making territorial appointments.
The platform, after urging the admis-
sion of the Territories as soon as they
were ripe for admission, said: Pending
the preparation for statehood all officers
thereof should be selected from the
bona fide residents and citizens of the
Territory where they are to serve"
There is obvious reason and justice in
this. 1t is difficult to conceive of any
good argument in favor of appointing
Territorial Governors from non-resi-
dents of the Territories, while the argu-
ments in favor of the opposite policy are
numerous and strong. The rule, how
ever, has not always been observed by
former administrations, and was con-
spicuously ignored by the last one. The
territorial appointments thus far made
by President Harrison are prominent
residents of the respective Territories,
and those to follow will be on the same
line.
The country may find in this key to
the Presidents character and in some
degree to his policy. He will take the
Republican party at its word, and en-
deavor as far as may be to shape the adj
ministration according to the promises
and pledges contained in the plat
form on which he was elected.
This is the honest course, and
fboraforo oh IF ha Draci-
dent. The vicious idea which
to some extent prevails in our politics
that platforms are made merely to catch
votes, to be used during campaign and
ignored afterwards, will not be enter
tanned by President Harrison. He is
pre-eminently an honest man in politics,
as in all other respects. The idea of say
ing one thing and meaning another, or
of making a public pledge for political
effect with no purpose of carrying it
out, is entirely foreign to his nature. He
did not make the Chicago platform, but
the party that nominated and elected
him did, and his acceptance of it, and
election on it, will doubtless be construed
by him as a continuing compact on his
part to put it in practice. In endeavOr-
ing to carry out these pledges he may go
further in some directions than some
Republicans approve, but they can rest
assured he will never go further than
/ the platform justifes, and his in
depreciation of it will never
be open to any other criti-
cism than that of being too
honest. We think it will be found that
President Harrison will not treat any
part of the Chicago platform as surplus
age or construe any of its declarations
i'm Pickwickian sense. The prompt
ness with which he has begun to carry
out its declaration in regard to territorial
appointments indicates his probable
line of action in other respects. If any
Republican is ever tempted to criticise
President HarrisOn's administration, we
advise him, first, carefully to read the
Chicago platform and see if it does not
sustain the President.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-15

San Francisco Bulletin.
Some years ago it is said that citizen
imported from the East the seed of the old
fashioned dandelion. He wanted something
to remind him of his early home. Like the
man who imported the sparrow, he did
worse than he knew. The sparrow is every
where, so is the dandelion. The seed drifts
in the wind like that of the thistle the down
seed which gets Judgment on n lawn or a
grass plot will, in due time, produce IA mill
ion more. Now the solitary dandelion is
very attractive in bloom. and hardly less so
when. after the blossom, the gauze globe
appears aud few days afterward goes sail
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-15

x-POsTMAsTER-GENER DICKINSON
explains the appointments in the rail-
way mail service made just before the
close of his term of Office, by saying that
he had for some time intended such
changes throughout the service. No
doubt he had. No doubt he resolved
Immediately after the 9Th of November
to provide permanently for as many
Democrats as possible before he went
out of the Cabinet. No one questions
Dickinson's intentions.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-15

go to work and we will consider the
question of cOnstitutionality later
Nothing of the kind. They declined to
recognize the validity of the cOntrO-
verted law until the controversy should
be settled. That is the position of the
city authorities and the old board, and it
is right. 1t is their duty to maintain the
existing law and protect city property
until the question of the constitutional
ity of the new law is decided. If it is
decided against them, they will of course
surrender promptly and peaceably, but
they should not otherwise.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-15
Crawled When 1t Should Have Run
afor Daynoora opd ChranfeIa

Germany and England push their ships
wherever a line can be established, and
failure to support British ships would be-
Great Britain. When we come face to fac
with vigorous European nation, as we
have done in Samoa, we begin to perceive
how weak and poor this country is under
the suicidalpolicy of the free traders and the
Democratic party. Our government has
crawled when it should have walked with
giant strides.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-15

No time has been lost in taking steps
to bring the doubtful acts of the late
Legislature before the courts and to the
test OF judicial construction. This is
right. The questions involved are i'm
portant and the interests large, ard the
sooner all the cases are decided the bet
ter. We see no reason why they should
not all be embraced by the decision of
the Supreme Court in the Commission
ease. which is set for hearing on the 26th
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-15

THE Presidents Indiana appointments
continue to be thoroughly first-class in
every respect. Those sent in yesterday
certainly do not lower the average. Mr..
William Wallace, who is named for post
master in this city, is a gentleman of the
highest character and standing, of very
superior business qualifications, and an
active Republican since the organization
of the party. No better or more popular
appointment could have been made.
Mr.. w. l.. Dunlap, nominated for mar
shall, stands equally well in his own COM
munity, and will make an excellent
officer
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-15

THE Indianapolis Sentinel attacks the
appointment of Mr.. Batcheller, of New
York, as assistant Secretary of the
Treasury, over Mr.. Coon, as a recogni
ton of political influence instead of
merit. The New York Times says:
For the POLITICAL motives that may
actuate the supporters of Mr.. Batcheller or
those of Mr.. Coon in the matter
of appointment as Assistant Sec
rotary of the Treasury we have
small respect but it is our very decided
opinion that Mr.. Batcheller is likely to be
the more efficient man in the place. He is
an ardent and sometimes bitter partisan
but he is man of unusual ability, of
sound instincts, and mature knowledge of
affairs.
Mr.. Batcheller's business qualifications
are first-class. and the fact that he is a
Republican will not hurt HIM under this
administration.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-15

inst. That case can be decided on tech
nical grounds, or the decision can be
widened in its scope and made to en-
brace the principle which underlies all
the cases, viz: The constitutional right
of the Legislature to create an Office and
appoint its incumbent. AS tending to
the earliest possible settlement of the
controversy, we should think the latter
the better course.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-15

the Nation. If the President is wrong to-
ward his party, how can he be right toward
the Nationf If he is chosen President as a
Republican. and because he is representa-
tive Republican, he is also charged by that
party, confirming and vIvifying its ideas,
extending its policy and strengthening its
organization. This is his logical, natural,
imperative duty.-Minneapolis Tribune.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-15

THE contest between Carr and Wilson
over the governorship of West Virginia
is very edifying spectacle when it is
considered that each one knows beyond
doubt that Golf was legally elected and
should be the undisturbed occupant of
IL
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-15

THE late Captain Dawson has long been
a prominent party leader in the South, but
first became personally known to many
Northern Democrats at the ST. Louis con-
ventiOn, last June, through his position as
head of his State delegation.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-15

THE beautiful regularity with which
Simeon Coy continues to draw his salary
as councilman from the Eighteenth ward
is a striking instance of the Roman firm
ness with which the Democratic party
expels and Furnishes its rascals.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-15
A Prophet of Evil.

1t is a great state of affairs at present OBJ
tanning down in indianapolis. The new
municipal board, though unable to take the
old board by the collar and throw it down
stairs, has organized a police force of its
own and is proceeding to business When
the rival policemen come into collision and
the fight spreads to the people Indianapolis
will be a town which our National ex-
ecutive will be glad to disown.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-15

TIL chief cause of the defeat of the
New Hampshire prohibition amendment
was the belief that the Legislature
should be left free to deal with the
liquor question. New Hampshire peo-
pie have confidence in their Legislature.
1t has had Republican majority for
many years and also for many years has
had prohibitory law. Things, I'M
fortunately, are very different in In
diana
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-15

AT latest accounts West Virginia had
three Governors. Indiana has but one,
and in the opinion of the late Demo-
cratic Legislature, life would not be
worth living with two of the same kind.
One was too many for them.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-15

SCOTs-that is to say, Indianapolis Re-
publicans-wha haze wiz Wallace bled in
the old-time struggles with the Democracy,
will rejoice at his good fortune in being
made postmaster.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-15
Plant Of a DIugwump.

ST. Louis G1Obe-Dem0crat
President Andrews of Cornell UNIVERSE
ty complains that President Harrison con-
dennis election abuses at the South, but
says nothing about purifying the ballot at
the North. If Mr.. Andrews will read the
inaugural address a little more carefully
he will discover that it advocates honest
elections as general principle, and not as
q mere local doctrine.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-15

WHATS the matter with Ohio, any
way9 1t can hardly be pure and unself-
ish love of country that leads nine thou
sand citizens to attempt to get out of
the State by way of the diplomatic
service. Something must be wrong
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-15
A Frank AyOwal.
Boston Herald.

The ''tariff REFORM league which has lust
been formed in Indiana is less hypocrifical
than similar organizations in the East, and
openly avows that its tariff reform stands
for free trade, pure and simple. This is
bit of political honesty which every good
the Democ :atic party thousands of votes
in Indiana
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-15
Democracy and Home Rule.

BCSUOu He1dIu-
The Democrats can hardly twit the Re-
publicans on ignoring home rule in cities
now that the Democratic, Legislature of
partments of every city in the State under
commission appointed by the Legislature.
This puts all previous efforts in this di-
rection quite in the shade.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-15
RAISE the saloon license to the two
hundred and fifty dollar limit.

Mr.. GEORGE G. TICHENOR, the new
assistant Secretary of the Treasury,
lived in Terre Haute when lad, and was
educated in the public schools there.
Thus all roads still lead to Indiana.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-15

PEOPLE so situated that they can look
down on the tomb-like foundation of the
soldiers monument rejoice to learn that
work on the structure is soon to be re-
sumed. The present appearance of the
Circle Park inclosure is unpleasantly sug-
gestive of graveyard out of repair.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-15
Twaddling Correspondence.

If the feminine members of President
Harrison's household were compelled read
one-tenth part of the insipid twaddle
written about them by the Washington
correspondents there would be nausea
enough in the White House to discount an
ocean steamer with four hundred cases of
seasickness aboard. Mrs. Mckee and her
defenseless baby are entitled to espacial
commiseratiou
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-15

THE Constitution says no person shall
hold more than one lucrative Office at the
same time, and we do not find any ex-
ceptiOn made in favor of Democrats, nor
any provision that person may hold
the office of prosecuting attorney and
trustee of the State University at the
same time. Perhaps our copy of the
Constitution is imperfect.