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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-10-26
COMMENT AND OPINION.

III surest way. to prevent the growth of
societies which aim to overthrow the gov
eminent is TO remove the cause Of discon-
satisfaction n disquietude so quickly as
a feeling that there is corruption in the
courts and among public otficials.-Phila-
delphia Press.
IT does not matter what the circum-
stances may be. so long as a debt has been
fairly Contracted, there is only one right
way to cancel a financial obligation, and
that is to pay it, dollar for dollar. The
South has everything to gain and nothing
to lose by carefully observing this most
important fact.-St. Louis Globe Democrat.
THERE is really more danger that the
Mormon Church may intrench itself behind
ritories than in Utah. Public sentiment
will be alert as 20 Utah. but might fail to
recognize the contingency, in the case of
other Territories in which the cunning
policy OF the Mormon Church has been COW
ertly develeped.-Boston Journal.
THE farmers of this country cannot fix
the price of wheat for the whole world any
more than M. Secretan's great syndicate
could fix the prlce Of copper for the whole
world. Europeans will not pay any price
the board OF directors of the federation
may demand. If wheat costs more than
they can afford to pay they Will eat other
kinds of food. That is not theory, but
fact.-Chlcago Times.
THE free-traders deny that England paws
any subsidy to steamship lines. OF course
not; but she pays steamship lines 50, 800. 600
a year for carrying the mails" Great
Britain has less than 10000, 900 people. and
on the same basis the United States would
pay over three millions a year for carrying
the mails, which is more than anybody has
suggested as a subsidy to steamship lines.
Milwaukee Sentinel.
KILLING is usually done in the heat of
passion, and without regard to the penalty.
The thought of that comes later: and even
where the murder is coOlly premeditated
the chance of escape because of the re-
~luctance to administer the penalty, the un-
certainty of conviction, increased because
of the prevailing sentiment, serve as an
incentive TO the crime rather than as a
WHILE it continues on the destructive
highway toward free trade. the Democratic
party will hardly be able to allure any part
willing TO be deceived. There is not much
that is open to misleading. The working
men OF Pennsylvania have exercised a
ready and accurate Judgment that has pro-
duced q profound disgust on the part of
the esteemed DemOcracy.-Philadelphia
Inquirer.
IT seems the Mormons nave adopted the
| plan of sending colonies from Utah into sur
rounding Territories in sufficient numbers
to form the balance of power between the
political parties. They are then ready to
ton that the laws against ~pOlygamy shall
he repealed. These terms were quickly &C.
copied in Arizona. with the result that the
Mormon fusion carried the Ter.
ritory and repealed the anti-polygam
statute.-Chicago Tribune.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-10-26
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

JoE HOwARD's latest saying fits. He re-
fers to George William Curtis as an under
study for an angel"
AFAMILY from Terra del Fuego, a man,
his three wives and three children. said to
be the lowest type of humanity. are now
on exhibition in London.
PROFESSOR UPTON, of Brown University,
is so busy making plans for his new OBJ
~servatory that he had to decline going on
the eclipse expedition to Africa.
THE Hon. /. 9. Lewis. of Meriden, Conn.,,
has given q fine new block of buildings i'm
that city, valued at $4,000, TO the Local
City Mission Society. Thus he celebrated
his seventy-seventy birthday anniversary.
WHILE the world is wondering where
Henry NJ Stanley is, and whether he will
/, ever escape from the heart of Africa With
his life, he is being advertised for a series
of lectures to be delivered In the season of
1S90-91.
DIR. HOLMES has an admirable form of ex-
preston for the ceremonial observance of
thanking an author for his book. my
dear friend" be writes. II do not even wait
to read your book before thanking Won for
it." This is ingenious. and avoids many
obvious embarrassment.
Mrs. GLEN STUDEBAKER's injuries, re-
ceived while heroically rescuing her grand
child from the burning home in South
Bend. q short time ago. will probably re-
suit in permanent distigurement of the
face. She suffers greatly. having been
badly burned about the face. neck and
arms.
Miss LIZZIE BANKS. of st. Paul, Mimi.
who will 60 abroad as private secretary to
Mr.. Hicks. minister to Peru, is a COURAGEOUS
little woman. who made n hit as n news
paper writer in the Northwest. Miss Bauks
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-10-26
PENSION BUREAU REFORMS
General Raum Determined to Carefully
Supervise the Work Of His Office.
Certificates Will Not Be Issued Without His
Personal Examination and Signature-vir-
ginia Republicans-Registered Letters.
REFORM IN H PENSION BUREAU.

|
Gen.. Raum VIII Personally Examine and
Sign All Certifcates--A Woman's Claim.
6ecial 20 the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, Oct. 25.-''I am going to
carefully examine every pension certificate
before l attach my name to it." said Conn
missioner of Pensions Raum to-day, as he
drew mp before him a huge pile of c~ertifi-
Gates and began writing his autograph up
on the first one. II cannot be too careful
still 1 learn thoroughly the routine of af-
fairs here. 1t has been customary for the
Commissioners to slgn his name or have a
clerk do it, by the use of q rubber-stamp,
but l think that is a delegation of too
much power, and it should be
attended to personally by the
Commissioner If l can insrust a clerk to
the use of a rubber stamp 1 cannot see why
i should alone be empowered to do this
work and be held exclusively repOnsible
for it,"
The Commissioner had four or five hum
dred certificates presented to him for sig
nature during the day. Among.th cases
he made special wasthat of q lady Who was
born during President Washington's adj
ministration. She is ninety-three years
old, and is the widow Of q soldier of the
war of 1872. She has been entitled to
for one until recently. That was why her
case was made special. General Raum
himself is entitled to a pension, being a
wounded soldier. but he has never filed an
application, md he has no idea of seeking
q pension while he is Commissioner
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-10-26

THE SHOTGUN IN POLITICS.

The white people of Virginia cannot COM
pete with Malone and his hackers in the
auction of votes, but If the worst comes to
the worst they have one weapon which
they can use. and which they ought to use.
to save their State from the control of the
knaves and renegades who are. plotting
for her overthrow. If it should become
necessary, the white people should unhesi-
tatingly oppose fraud with force.
they have to expect if he should he
elected. They are not able to bid against
him for. They are able, however, TO
employ a policy which will be more
than a match for General Mahone's money.
charleston News and Courier.
with forcenis somewhat more eupho-
NOUS, and looks better in print than
with murder by the shotgun and Win
chester" but it means the same thing,
and is so understood by every Democratic
ruffian in the South. For advising the
use of just such s'force," August Spies,
Albert r. Parsons and their companions
were hanged in Chicago, and the country
commended the execution. Just as the
News and Courier assumes that Malone
proposes to practice ''fraud," % they
assumed that they and their class were
"defrauded" of their rights by the
upper classes The sentiments of
those Anarchists had just as much
mitigation, and were not one whit
worse han the sentiment of the
South Carolina Anarchist who con-
ducts the News and Courier and
advises his followers in Virginia, eff the
worst comes to the worst" to carry
the election at the muZzle of the
zone weapon" which they know SO well
how to employ. Were he speaking for
himself alone, he would scarcely merit
attention, but he speaks for the DOM
jnant political party of a number of
States. The method he advises has
been employed for years, not in South
Carolina alone, but in almost every one
of the reconstructed States. 1t is more
than strange that a people whose love OF
law often amounts to ferceness, as in
the breaking up Of the Chicago Hay
market conspiracy, a look with com
placence upon the open and avowed
rule of murder and anarchy now exist
ing throughout a large section of the
country under the name of Caucasian
supremacy"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-10-26
THE USES OF STRAWS.

"Straws are very useful said the
rustic boy in his first school compost
ton; "they furnish good bedding for
horses, and when put into a tick not bad
bedding for people. Women make hats
ont of straws, and cattle and horses that
cannot get hay will eat straw rather
than starve, and straw makes good
wrapping paper. If you want to know
which way the wind blows, throw up a
handful of straw and the straws will
show you; and if you want to break a
camel's back keep putting straw on it,
and the last straw will break it. But
sometimes a. straw is a delusion and a
fraud. Whenever a drowning man
catches at a straw he gets left. The
straw can't save him."
The boy was very right, especially in
his last proposition. A straw is a de-
fusion and a fraud whenever drowning
man seizes it in the hope that it will
save him, and it is a pitiable sight to see
one go down after such n fruitless eff
fort. Just now f~ree-traders are
clutchlng after a straw, and not
q big straw, either. President
Eliot, who has sought a political
home in the Democratic party, promises
to help the party whom the people have
repudiated. But he cannot. 1t is just
such weakness outside of books that is
turning the attention of college
trustees TO another type of quail
iications for the management of
the complicated affairs of a college OF
university. In the infancy of a college
one man may teach, and preach, and
manage, but when the institution ac-
quires the magnitude that many Ameri-
can colleges have the demand is for a
man of affairs more than for a book
worm. 1t is proverbial that many of the
profound scholars who dig for roots of
verbs, and who apply mathematics to
everything, are soprofoundly ignorant of
common affairs that their wives never
trust them to buy a beefsteak or even q
pound of butter. One of these profound
scholars, one of the most successful pres
idents of one of the foremost universe
ties in the West, at the breakfast table
at an Indianapolis hotel, some years ago,
after looking oyer the bill Of fare
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-10-26
VIRGINIA REPUBLICANS.
Mr.. Burrows Says the Party in that State L.
Largely CoEaposed of White Men.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal

MIR. Burrows Says the Party In that State L.
Largely Composed of White Men.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, Oct. 25.- Congressman
Burrows, of Michigan, who is one of the
Republican members of the House who
have been down in Virginia to help out the
Republican ticket there, has returned to
Washington. Like the others, Mr.. Burrows
processes to have been greatly encouraged
with what he saw, but, unlike them, he
has some new information to impart con-
corning the Republican party in the Old
Dominion. Mr.. Burrows says that he
crossed the line with the impression firmly
fixed in his mind that the Republicans Of
the State were nearly all colored men. He
found, he says that his idea was errone-
Ous. and, instead of colored audiences
wherever he spoke, the crowds which
listened to hear him were largely COM
posed of white men. In fact, from what
he could see, MIR. Burrows is convinced that
the majority of the working members of
the Republican party in the State, at least,
are white men. If this is a correct state
ment of the situation there is, doubtless,
more hope for the Malone ticket than has
generally been supposed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-10-26

in perfect bewilderment, looking at the
breakfast just furnished a fellow-guest,
said to a waiter: Bring me some-some
coffee-O just duplicate the order of that
man." pointing to his neighbor. We
mean no disparagement to President
Eliot's book learning when we say that
the free-traders in the Democratic
party are clutching at a straw when
they hope to find a buoy in such a con-
vert to their theory of political economy.
Free trade may be a good thing so far as
teachers and preachers are concerned.
Let them come without stint or him
drance, but while so many half-paid
European laborers are coming TO this
country because wages are higher and
living lower than at home, it will take
many Eliots to turn them away from
protection.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-10-26

Chicago journal
The picturesque affray at Harlan Court
unique institution known as q Kentucky
feud still hourishes with all its pristine
beauty, though the lapse of days may some
times cloak its prominence for q season.
This time there ware forty men on zach
side; the battle was fought with Winches-
tiers, and. as the best part of a dozen war;
riors fell in the fray, everybody must have
had a lovely time. At last accounts IN
other battle was momentarily looked for,
and it is possible that by this time all the
belligerents have swallowed enough lead
to put them beyond the power of doing
further mischief.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-10-26

THE extraordinary demand for such
immense quantities of our books, needed
so shortly after our contract was con-
summated," says Edward Hawkins, Sec
rotary of the Indiana School-book Com
pany. ''made it quite impossible for us
TO ship out the books as they were
needed" This does not explain why
the contract was made to supply the
books on demand, when the company
knew they would not be ready. The
s'tiding along" by accommodating Dem
ocratic trustees, to which he refers, has
been a direct damage to the schools SO
r~n~uor.d
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-10-26

amble and resolution was adopted. setting
forth that women were entirely ignored al
the recent meeting of the National Board az
1romotion TO influence the selection. of
the worlds fair in 1892; and that our pres
ent civilization is, In a great measure. ow-
ing TO the faith and courage of a woman.
No anniversary of the discovery of America,
the resolution declares. can be appropriats
that fails to render Justice to woman. It
was decided to present n memorial TO Con-
gress and an address TO the women of
America. protesting against this Injustice.
The league desires that the worlds fair
shall be made representative of the whole
peonle. and not OF a selecf few.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-10-26
N MATTERS.
Charge OF. Ramon Azouque Against Consul
Lewis Not Upheld by the Records.

Charge OF. Ramon Azouque Against Consul
Lewis Not Upheld by the Records.
WASHINGTON. Oct. 25.-Mr. Walker
Blaine stated this morning that. so far as
the records of the State Department show.
the charge of Ramon Azouque, ex-interpre-
ter at the United States consulate IN Tan
giers. against Consul Lewis, of withhold
ing his pay as interpreter, is ~unfounded.
The evidence adduced in the case. Mr..
Blaine says, is that when Mr.. Lewis was
appointed consul, in 1856. he employed
Azouque, who is a naturaIized Moor, as in
terpreter at a salary of $50 a month. prom
ising him employment for a year. AzouQue
was attached to the consulate until Sept.
80, 1888. when he was discharged by Lewis.
The vouchers on file show that Azouque re-
ceipted for his money up to hat time. He
remained about the consulate seven months
longer. but Mr.. Lewis asserts that he did so
with the distinct understanding that he
would not be paid. Any claim that he may
have against Lewis on account of salary,
Mr.. Blaine says, is a purely private one.
III other charge made by AzOuque
against the Consul. viz: That be gave the
interpreter blank certificates of protection
telling him TO sell them and pocket the pro-
ceeds, has not yet been brought to the at
tention Of Mr.. Lewis, Mr.. Blaine SAYS. and
of course there has been no explanation
of 1T.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-10-26

THE Cronin trial having fairly COM
menced, it is to be hoped the course of
Justice may move on steadily to the end.
That counsel for defense will interpose
every obstacle and practice all the arts
of obstruction and delay known to the
criminal practice, is a matter of course.
But, with the impaneling of a jury the
main difficulty is past, and the court can
do much, if it will, toward depressing
legal ilibustering and securing a fair
trial. The whole proceeding thus far,
from the original crime to its present
stage, has been such as to cast discredlt
on the ADMINISTRATION of law in Chicago.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-10-26

THAT is a curious story told by Charles
Smith, a whilOm business man in Gibson
county, now a prisoner at Jacksonville, of
how he was arrested as a horse-thief. in
1887. while on q prolonged spree, and sent
to prison for a crime of which he was innO-
cent; and the strangest part of it is. that he
did not tell it before. 1t is hardly possible
that he has just sobered up from the effects
of that 1887 spree. The whisky produced
in southern Indiana has a record, it's true,
but it will hardly be claimed for it that it
will enable a man to carry a Tag" without
replenishment, for over two years.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-10-26
THE leading Democratic paper in Ala

THE leading Democratic paper in Ala
bama passes u sharp criticism on Gov
ernor Hill for referring to Georgia as
the Empire State Of the South, aud in
Inmates that he is rusty in his gcogra-
ply. II admits that Georgia is "A great
watermelon State. but says il is mot
first in populations, railway mileage, cot
ton production, corn production, iron
manufacture, coal output, cotton manu-
facture. or even in raising peanuts.
Therefore it is not the Empire State of
the South Perhaps, after all, Gov.
Hill would have lone well TO consult a
new encyclopedia.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-10-26

in al of them. This idea will commend
itself to all who have ever felt the in
convenience of being unable to inclose
postage to a foreign correspondent, pos
sibly a stranger, of whom a reply is
asked. The business, social and literary
relations between this and European
nations are so close that the lack of a
stamp that will pass current in other
countries is a constant annoyance to
many classes of people. There are diff
fculties in the way of securing the con-
%venience, but, in view of the long-felt
want it would fill, a special effort. should
be made to overcome them.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-10-26
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL

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House.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-10-26

WHEN a mans wife sends him to get the
clothes ready for washing he should not
pour benzine into a tub full of hot water by
way of preparation. A Baltimore man who
did this produced an explosion which
wrecked the kitchen and startled the neigh
borhood. The explosion resulted from the
fact that the vapor given of by the benzine
was much lighter than the p of the hot
water, and the quick expansion of the ben
zine vapOr caused the explosion. The man
was badly injured.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-10-26

CLAUS SPREcKELs has the opportunity
to win the good will of the people of the
United States by Fastening the dissolu-
ton of the Sugar Trust, which he has
the ability to do. If he will carry out
his scheme to introduce the beet-sugar
industry in the United States, his fellow
citizens may build a monument to his
memory. They cannot make him Pres
ident because, not having the ordering
of the affair, he was not born in this
couptrx-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-10-26

GENERAL BUTLER, of Massachusetts,
it is announced, is going TO publish his
memoirs Immediately. That is just like
that old man, because he desires to read
the comments and see the sqnirming of
the hapless fellows whom he harpoons,
and he is not certain that he will be in a
condition to laugh at these things if the
book is not printed until after he is
dead. The old gentleman was not much
of a success as a soldier, but was pict-
uresque as a statesman, and by and
large he has a heap of good qualities, and
never fails to attractattention. Indeed.
there is no more entertaining man i'm
America, and no man can say aught
against his personal character.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-10-26

THERE has been remarkable mortality
among political parties within the past
two years. In 1887 there were no less
than ten separate and distinct organi-
cations in the field in various parts of
the country: The Prohibitionists will
soon join the procession of the Union
Labor, United Labor, Greenback,
American and other side-issue par
ties, toward the political graveyard.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-10-26
Hills Insult Was Prem editated.

clopRdia Joke i'm his Southern tour shows
that he had determined TO rub the affront
to ex-President Cleveland into the quick.
That the Insult was Intentional is shown
by the fact that it was in the printed
vance TO the press. 1t is not likely Mr..
Cleveland's friends will forget this fact
when the time for nominating presidential
candidates comes ound.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-10-26

YES, son; David Bennett Hill, of New
York, is the Original DR.. Townsend's
S~arsaparilla" Democrat, and if you do
not want to vote for him in 1892 for
President, you should hurry into the
Republican tabernacle before all the
seats are taken.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-10-26

DURING the last campaign one of the
~favorite compliments paid by Repub-
licans to General Harrison was that, if
elected, he would be President, and that
no person could run him. Now, about
the only ground of complaint is that he
is President and that no person does run
him. Funny world, this.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-10-26

SINCE the all-American tourists have be-
come surfeited with factory inspections
and %banquets. Kansas City and st. Louis
are in a quandary as to how they shall en-
terrain the visitors. 1t is occasions like
this that bring home sorely to Missouri the
loss of the James boys, the Younger boys.
Maxwell and others of her past celebrities.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-10-26

Mr.. GEORGE NAL, recently appointed
United States district attorney for the
of Hamilton county, Indiana. His father
served in an Indiana regiment, and was
killed in battle. The son drifted West,
and has grown up with the country.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-10-26

Mr.. ISAAC 2. GRAY is respectfully adj
vised to keep his eye on Candidate
Campbell, of Ohio. Mr.. Campbell is
making up" to Governor Hill in a way
that suggests schemes In direct conflict
with Gray's.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-10-26

A PHILADELPHIA paper suggests to
Postmaster,general Wanamaker that a
desirable improvement in postal affairs
would be the issuing of In international
stamp, good in any country and for sale