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THE PILIBUsTERs, STRENGTH.

1t is the complaint of the Southern
Democrats that the colored voters of the
South adhere to the Republican party
and, with few exceptions, will not vote
when they cannot vote the Republican
ticket. Moreover, it has been the aim
of the Democratic managers to raise the
cry of negro domination and attachment
to the Republican party in order to hold
the dissatisfied white voters from par
ticipating in political combinations hos
tile to the Democratic regime. Assum-
ing that this claim of the Democratic
party relative to the attachment of the
negroes to the Republican party is true,
what can be said i'm behalf of the Demo-
Gratis who represent districts in which
the colOred voters constitute a decided
majority9 There are twenty-eight of
these districts, according to the census
of 1880, in which the colored voters are
in a majority, and at the present time
twenty-seven of them are represented
by Democrats. That the extent to which
the crime of overthrowing free suffrage
has been carried may be understood,
these districts, with the cOlored majority
in each, according tn the census of 1880,
arc given IA follows.
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THE PROPOSED L

The rules which the Republican men,
bers of the committee on rules have pro-
posed for the guidance of the House are
intended to enable that body to perform
its constitutional duties, and to clOthe
the majority with the power which is an
imperative necessity to popular govern
ment. They are based upon the theory
that it is the duty of Congress to legis-
late and not prevent action. They se-
cure to the minority every right a mi
nority can claim in a government based
upon the theory that the majority must
rule. The debate and amendment of
measures, and the right to have a roll
call on every important feature of any
bill under consideration and upon the
bill itself before its final disposition are
secured. This is all a minority a
claim. But they take from filibusters
the power to defeat legislation by de-
handing a roll call upon q series of mo-
tions designed to prevent the ma
jOrity from proceeding to the bust
ness of legislation. They destroy
the fiction that a member can be pres
ent at a session in the body and
by silence not be counted to make the
number necessary to do business. The
new rules give the Speaker the power
to decide when motions are made SIM
ply to defeat, by wasting time, that
which they cannot defeat with votes.
With these rules one-fifth of the House
will no longer be able to keep four
fifths answering roll-calls on motions
which every member knows to be dila-
tory, and, in the end, compel the four
tifths to compromise or to lose their
measure because no more time can be
consumed in trying to get to a vote or
it. In short, the rules are designed to
sweep away the system of minority con-
troll which Mr.. Randall has been build
ing up in the House for twelve years,
because he did not dare trust his own
party to legislate. They are designed
to restore to the House the rights and
responsibilities conferred by the Con-
stitution, which the Randall Carlisle
system has nullified. In short, the Re-
publican rules supplement- the Consti-
tuition and the laws affecting the House,
while the Randall Carlisle code multi
fled both. The Republican rules mean
business, action, legislation.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1890-02-07

THOSE who have known President
Harrison personally for any length of
time, especially his old friends and
neighbors, will not be surprised by the
statement of our Washington corre-
spondent that his conduct during the
affection of the Tracy family was a rev.
citation of tenderness and deep feeling
unsupported by the Washington public.
There never was a greater SANDER con-
corning the private and personal char
acter of a public man than that which
represents President Harrison as cold
blooded, unsympathetic and supremely
selfish. Because he does not carry his
heart on his sleeve and is too
self-respecting to be hale fellow well
met with every person he meets, pro-
fessional peddlers of personal spite have
found a pretext for representing him as
devoid of human sympathy and feeling.
The reverse is true. He is a man Of
large heart and deep, tender feeling, as
any n who has known him long or
well can testify. IN such an affection
as that which came to Secretary Tracy
no man could have a tenderer friend or
one more capable of drawing from the
highest sources of consolation than
President Harrison.
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We should prefer to have the most con-
temptible white pot-house politician in the
South In Office than the most Intelligent
negro.
A Mr.. E~dgington, a member of Mr..
Phelan's campaign committee, declared
in a public speech. which the Avalanche
vociferously %applauded, that
Any Republican who avor negro suf-
frage is the misguided victim of maudlin
philanthropy. Any Democrat who tavors
1t favors also the stealing OF the ballot
when it is deposited.
We repeat, i'm view of the current
facts of history and such declarations as
the above, that at least twenty-four Re-
publicans would be in the seats in the
present House now occupied by flibus-
tering and obstructive Democrats if the
principle of free elections had prevail
ed. These men are physically present
in the House, but c~Onstructively absent"
because the Constitution has been tram
pied under foot and the most sacred
right of citizenship, suffrage, has been
taken from more than a million voters.
They are in the House by virtue of GRIM
inal conspiracy to nullify the Constitu-
ton and the laws of the land. Honora-
BILE men as they may be accounted, each
of them was guilty of perjury when he
took the OathO OF office to support the Con
stitution and the laws of the land. In
the House by virtue of law-breaking
and political crime, they may be ex-
pected to resort to any species of law
lessness to defeat a majority to which
they are opposed. If these twenty-fOur
districts had had constitutional cleo
tions, there would be twenty-four more
Republicans in the present House and
twenty-four less Democrats, reducing
the number to a figure where they could
do 10 damage unless Mr.. Carlisle were
Speaker to again rule that One-tifth of
the members have a right to demand the
rOll-call upon three or four motions, day
after day, for the sole purpose OF delay
and to prevent the majority from legis-
lating.
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A THREATENED OUTRAGE.

There is danger that the new State of
North Dakota may be disgraced in its
very infancy by a piece of legislation
which, if cOnsummated, will darken its
whole future history. The Louisiana
lottery has invaded the State, and is
trying to secure from the Legislature an
extension of its charter in such form as
will enable it to continue its infamous
operations throughout the country.
The present charter of the lottery will
expire by limitation in 1895, and the
Legislature of Louisiana is forbidden
by the Constitution from renewing it.
In this situation it is casting about for a
new location, and has concluded to try
North Dakota. The. impoverished con-
dition and embarrassed finances of that
State probably suggested the attempt.
The lottery people offer to pay the
State a license of 100000 n year
during the continuance of their charter.
This is a tempting bride to a new and
poor State. The lottery influence has
already proved strong enough to secure
the passage of their bill by the Senate,
and, unless the friends of good govern
ment and good morals take swift ac-
ton, the bill will be rushed through the
other house. We have said the offer of
$780, 600 a year was q tempting bride to
a new State with an empty treasury,
but it would be better for North Dakota
to struggle along for twenty years with
an empty treasury than sell itself to this
Infamous concern. The Louisiana
lottery is, beyond comparison, the
most demoralizing institution in the
United States. 1t is a legalized
school of corruption and aprol ific source
of generalization, fraud and crime.
With headquarters In Louisiana, which
it has dominated and debauched for
many years in every department of life,
it's cOrrupting agencies extend into every
State and its vicious influence is felt
throughout the length and breadth of
opinion, prostitutes the mails, corrupts
courts and legislatures, and offers a
standing inducement for the perpetual
ton of crime. Hundreds of its victims
are now grovelling in poverty or serving
time in prisons, where its managers and
officers ought to be. 1t is this
legalized embodiment of infamy
that is trying TO get a new
lease of life from the Legislature of
North Dakota, thereby fastening it
self on the State and the country for
a prolonged career of social and po-
litical debauchery. The best people of
the State are alarmed at the prospect;
public meetings are being held and pro-
tests sent to the Legislature. There is
great danger that the measure will pass.
The State-poverty argument is being
effectively used, and no doubt the lot
terry people are bribing members right
and left. The shadow of the lottery is
! already over North Dakota politics, and
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COMMENT AND OPINION.

THE most deadly enemy of the republic
an institutions of this country is the dis
position to place party advantage above
the public MISUNDERSTANDING Dispatch.
We in this country have had enough of
legal tender. If a dollar is worth a dollar
it need not be made a legal tender If it is
not, it ought not TO be.-New York Herald.
THE .'One-man power which causes the
Democratic cheek to blanch is swung by
1865 men, a majority of the House of Repre-
sentatives. standing for a majority of nearly
a million of free Observation-Disclosures Sem
tinel.
INDEPENDENCE is the manifest destiny of
Australia, and Canada must, in the end,
unite her fortunes with those of the great
republic which overshadows the Dominion
and lures away much of its bone and 6inew.
Cleveland Leader.
OHIO was under a cloud and its Senator was
discredited because it refused to investigate
a charge of corruption in the election. Can
the party afford to repeat the blunder that
was worse than q crime. New York World
DEM
THE strength of the Republican party IS
IN the country towns and the clean wards
of the cities, and the strength of Democracy
is ;u the lowest wards and slum holes of
the cities. Which party offers the best in
dueement to the young man just entering
political life!-Detroit Tribune.
1hE DoluSuneu OF PERSONS In places OIL
trust have a right to demand that reasona-
BILE precautions against fraud shall be
maintained. But no conceivable system
of checks can obviate the necessity of put
ting. faith in employees. Otherwise there
would be no need of bondsmen.-New York
Tribune.
THE Southern States will v consent
to ratify what Mississippi demands repeal
of the fifteenth amendment unless they
are prepared to yield to the North three
fourfhs of the House of Representatives.
That the North will not give it's consent to
| disfranchise the colored people follows as a
matter of course.-Chicago Tribune
EVERYBODY can see that if the Canadian
provinces were States In the Union they
would get along together a great deal bet
ter thar some of them are able to do now;
and, moreover. every sensible American on
either side of the line would prefer to be-
long to a nation whose territory should ex-
tend from the Rio Grande to the Arctic sea
rather than belong to any divided and
lesser pOwer.-New York Sun.
THE sentiment of the country demands
not merely hat the civil-service reform law
shall be kept on the statute books. but that
| ample means and machinery shall be pro
vided for its thorough enforcement and
| gradual extension. There will be scarcely
| less Impotence with those who try to re.
tard the work by inadequate appropria.
lions than with those who make a direc,
assault upon the eform.-Bosto Journal
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Emma eft PrRterea MI.

In suffocating dreams, In tossing sleep,
I struggled through the midnight, and awoke
Amid q settling sultriness, q deep
And subtle darkness, and a sitting smoke!
Across the trembling floor / reeled, and broke
Through bolted entrances: but In the street
The air grew thicker, and the startled folk,
Pell-mell in multitudes, with hurried feet,
Went by in wild bewilderment and blind retreat.
Gasping for breath, I joined the rushing crowd;
And through the stinging ashes, hanging DER
The stricken city like a swirling cloud,
Against the shifting gusts of wind that tore
The gathered drifts of hot debris and bore
Them everywhere, amid the clank and clink
OF CLUBS and ~,amp-posts whose gas-torches
wore
The garb of blackness-on, with searching blink
And staggering feet, 1 sought the blessed rivers
brink.
Long did 1 wonder why no lurid flames
Were leapiAg from the lofty buildings-why
No fiery tongues were darling from the frames
or murky windows-till l heard a cry
Rise from the river to the smoky sky,
Ringing across the sitting ashy mass,
Echoing DER asphaltum, shrieking by
Tall marble, bladeless bricks, and gloomy glass
A piercing, wailiDg cry, "It's Bynum burning
grass"
Tucker woodson Taylor.
GREENCAsTLE, Feb. 4.
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trated upon them. Several Southern
papers have, it is true, called for the
punishment of the persons committing
such crimes, but, before the violence of
their apparent Indignation has waned,
have managed to intimate q probability
that the murdered negroes were really
to blame for their own taking of, and
the mobs were proceeding in self-de-
Tense. And, SO far as yet appears, no
white man has ever been apprehended
or punished for such crimes on the
strength of Southern newspaper ap-
peals. 1t will be time enough for col
orcd conventions to offer thanks when
any favorable results from the attitude
of the Southern press have been shown.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1890-02-07
Paid s1.o1o for AN Old Book.

NEW YORK. Feb. 6.-There is no apparent
lack of interest in the sale of the Barlow
collection of books. On the fourth day of
the sale the rare volumes again commanded
high prices. A folio of Peter Martyr. pub
i mae d II Spain a am m isln' c ana c ond stands =
went to Mr.. Ives, of Boston. for 81 loo.
Among the other expensive books secured
by the same buyer was the General Laws
and Liberties of the Massachusetts, Col
ony.v printed at Cambridge in 1872, for
which S27O was paid. The Boston Public
Library purchased the Massachusetts,
Psalter." printed in Boston in 1903. pay
ing Sis for it. and. also. Months
Journal of the English Plantation at Ply
mouth, published in London in 1922, for
which it paid $3.50. Among the works Sc
cured by the Lenox Library was Mathers's
epistle to the Christian Indians, in the In
dian text, published in Boston in 100. the
price paid being $500.
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c.n.,ou. oner from Andrew Carnegie.

P%ITTsBURG, Feb. 6.-Andrew Carnegie.
the steel king. has offered To spend not
less than 81 100000 for a central free library
and branches for the city of Pittsburg pro-
yided the city will maintain them. The
offer will be laid before the Council on
Monday, and it is believed that 1T will be
promptly and enthusiastically accepted.
The tree library for Allegheny City. ON
which Mr.. Carnegie has expended over
5000, 600. will be opened by President Har-
rjson next week. The expected presence Of
the chief executive has created consider.
able excitement, and he will be accorded
an enthusiastic reception.
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Canada wiz Disfranchl,e Mormon..

OTTAWA, Ont. Feb. e.-Senator Mac
Donald, of British Columbia, last night
bill to amend the act respecting offenses re-
lating to laws of marriage. 1t is designed
more particularly to prevent the practice
of polyeamy by the Mormons of Cardston,
and other places in the territories. The
ing i'm q polygamous marriage is imprison-
ment for a term not exceeding two years.
or a fine not exceeding $500. or both. The
bill also proposes TO disqualify any person
for any ofiense under the act for voting at
any election i'm the Northwest Territories,
or for being a candidate for any public po-
sition.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1890-02-07

TIE Democratic organs are moderat-
ing the ferocity of their attacks upon
Speaker Reed for his ''despotic course
in brushing aside a threadbare and OBJ
structive precedent. 1t has apparently
just occurred to them that they may be
glad to expedite legislation themselves,
sometime, by using that same "tyran-
nOu method" of counting as present
members who do not choose to answer
to their James
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1890-02-07

The ~coroner's verdict in the case of
the Carmel railroad accident states the
cause and locates the responsibility cor
rectly, but draws it very mild in saying,
''the persons who are responsible for
this defective track deserve criticism
and c~ensure.n IL the facts are as they
have been stated to be the management
deserves something more than criticism
and censure. The difficulty is that, with
poor laws, weakly administered, such
cases are hard to reach.
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James Whitcomb Riley.

Now look here, Jim, I'm not no saint.
An hev my nat'ral failin's;
Upon my soul there's many q faint
Wher' sin hes left it's trailin's;
But yet there's suthin lives in Inc
That's loved ye, Riley, nightly.
I've read yer tender, home-like verse
When nuthin else nd ketch me;
An when all earth I'd wanter curse
Some sentiment nd fetch me,
An make NE as / useter be
Afore the world had ruffled me.
You TUX me back to old sweet days
When love, an truth, an writer
Responded smilin' to my gaze
An blessed me with their nurtur',-
An somehow, Jim. you seemed to be
A second Moses come ter me.
An many another heart we've filed
With wine from manhOod's presses;
An many a stormy soul ye've stilled
With memory's caresses.
Ye've been TO Others ez ter me,
A sorter priest o. charity.
I Amt no saint, I said afore,-
But. Jim. I've felt the blessin'
OF xettin' nearer to the shore
From sorrer's waves disiressin',-
An yours the hand that steadied me
When other help / couldn't see.
1 can't abide ter see We, Jim,
Let go your hold on glory,
An slip into the shadders dim,
Repeatin' of the story
Thet sad-voiced ghosts hev walled to me
From reaches of eternity.
Then fer the sakes o. them ye've won
Still hold yerself from fallin';
Run out the race Yer orter run
An keep whcr' Fame's "A calm.
You are not free TO hush yer songs
The poet 10 mankind belongs
-E. A g., in Chicago Inter Ocean
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recipients.
To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal.

To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal:
Plese give the names of the generals that had
supreme command OF the federal army in the
civil war. AREADER.
RILEYsBURG, Ind.
Lieut. Gen. Winfield Scott up to Nov. 1,
1861; Maj.-Gen. Geo. b. Mcclellan from Nov.
1. 1861, to March IL. 1862; Maj.-Gen. III. w.
Halleck from July II, 1862, to March IL, 1864;
Lieut.-Gen. u. s. Grant from March IL. 1864,
to the end Of the war. Of course, all these
officers were subject to orders from the
President as constitutional commander-in-
chief
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1890-02-07

REFERRING to a statement to the eff
feet that a boom for a Republican had
broken out in Arkansas. a mugwump
paper remarks that sit will not take
very deep root, as Arkansas may al
ways be reckoned solid for the other
side" Yes; SO long as patent ballot
boxes are used by which Republican
votes are thrown out and Republican
candidates contesting frauds are
dered, as was CLAYTON.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1890-02-07

EDITOR JONES, of the st. Louis Re-
public. is in Washington, and is quoted
by the New York Sun correspondent as
saying: 1T was through the influence of
my paper in 1888 hat Gray, of Indiana,
vas defeated. W. have a great interest
in Campbell, and look upon him as the
coming man Of the Democratic party"
Here's a bid. Campbell, what are you
willing to put uni
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Or course, Mr.. Lampson. Lieutena

OF course. Mr.. Lampson, Lieutenant-
governor of Ohio, who was unseated by
the Democratic Legislature. will not ap-
peal to the Supreme Court. The Su-
preme Court has nothing to do with the
case. His court of final resort is the
people of Ohio, and in November of next
year they will seat him as Lieutenant
governor by such a decisive majority as
will prove an emphatic lesson on the
folly of usurpation.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1890-02-07

1T was hardly necessary for Mr.. Car
Isle to inform the country that the
Democrats 'would never 60 so far as to
leave Congress in a body" Your average
Democrat is not famous for leaving office
until he has to, particularly when the
Office has a So, OOO-a-year attachment.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1890-02-07

THE Democrats of the rank and file
are not bothering their heads much over
the signal defeat of the filibusters. In
common with the majority of plain, or
binary citizens, they entertain the old
fashioned idea that Congressman are
elected to transact business, not to de-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1890-02-07

AT the suggestion Of Mr.. Cleveland a
Republican resigned the Boston col
lectorship to make Don for Mr.. Salton-
stall, but now, when it has been init
mated to him that his resignation would
be desirable, he blandly refuses to do so
because he does not desire to open the
way for spOilsmen.
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Now that the Agricultural Depart
ment is ready to distribute seeds under
the direction of members of Congress,
Representative Bynum will do well to
make requisition for all the grass-seed
in stock. 1t will be needed to make
green the burnt districts eftinh his wake.
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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL

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GOVERNOR THAYER, of Nebraska, has
written a letter to Chairman Mckinley,
of the ways and means committee,
deprecating any reduction of the duty
on sugar. He says Nebraska farmers
are investing largely in beet-sugar
plants, and if the industry is protected
it will result in creating a home market
for their farm products which they
greatly need.
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THE increase of EFT 900 in the deposits of
the Provincial Bank of Ireland Is cited ms
an evidence of an improvement in Ireland's
industries. 1t is also an indication that at
least a part of the American money sent
over there by Irish-Americans and their
friends Is being protitably employed by the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1890-02-07

THE New York Sun, which does not
approve of Speaker Reeds course, re-
proves those Democrats who have been
applying epithets to him, and particu-
larly Senator Blackburn of Kentucky.
1t says that Mr.. Reed is not a dirty
despot, but a clean man.