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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-05-11
B1sMARCK's POLITICAL INFLUENCE.

Prince Bismarck is not exactly "the
man on horseback but he seems to rep
resent something which makes the Ger
man government very neasy What
course he will pursue in the Reichstag is
a matter of universal conjecture and ev-
identity of serious apprehension to the
government. 1t is safe to predict that
he will be true to Germany and what he
regards the best interests of the en-
pire, but it does not follow that he will
support the Emperor's policy. How far
he will go in his opposition and how far
he can make it effective remains to be
seen, and it is this uncertainty which is
causing the government anxiety.
In this connection it may be remarked
that the recent utterance of the Emperor
at Dusseldorf is likely to cut a large
figure in German politics, and perhaps
become memorable in history. In a
speech delivered at that place in whichhe
took strong grounds against opposition
to the government, he said: "One alone
is master in this country. 1t is. None
other shall / suffer near me-" There has
already been considerable discussion as
to the exact language used by the EN-
peror, and an attempt has been made to
tone it down, but it is o conceded on
all hands that he used the language
above quoted. These are remarkable
words to come from a young and mex
perienced ruler of a great nation. The
greatest of his ancestors never showed
more stubborn devotion to the dogma Of
divine right or more determined adher-
ence to absolutism and personal govern
ment. They are not modest words to
come from ayoung man who has yet to
prove his capacity to rule, or, as we
should say in this country, his fitness for
Office. They will be often quoted by op-
ponents of his policy, and will undoubt-
eddy prove to be an irritating factor in
German politics.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-05-11

New York Correspondence In Philadelphia Press.
James 8. Clarkson has sailed for Europe.
but before he went away he perfected a
scheme for the organization of the Repub-
lican League Clubs throughout the country
so they will be in admirable shape to aid
the campaign of next year. Mr.. Clarkson
said to a friend before sailing that be had
been ~misquoted.in some of the interviews
purporting to have been held with HIM. and
has never permitted himself TO say or do
expression of his opinion regarding candi-
dates. He says that the question of candi-
dates must not be permitted to arise. In
his opinion the party is rapidly recovering
from the action of last fall, and, as a whole,
Is less interested in the question of who
shall be the candidate than it is in the con-
victlon the party should 90 into the can
yass united. and upon the platform laid
down by the present administration and
the Republican party.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-05-11
AN ASININE CITY COUNCIL.

It is fortunate that there is no law in
this country against people making fools
of themselves, or the City Council of
Omaha would have been prevented from
advertising itself as composed of cham
pion asses. Their action declaring that
lone John Nj. Thayer" is ga usurper" Of
the Office of Governor of Nebraska, and
shall be treated as ga private citizen" at
the reception to be given the President
on Wednesday, is about the silliest ex-
hibition of pot-house politics on record.
As Governor Thayer holds the office by
the decision of the Supreme Court, he
will probably continue to discharge it's
duties, the Omaha City Council to the
contrary Notwithstanding. The Con-
stitution and the law are on his side,
and the decision of the Supreme Court
makes it not only his right, but his duty,
to act as Governor until a successor
eligible to the Office shall be duly elected
and qualified. Under these circum-
stances the action of the Omaha Council
is not only supremacy ridiculous, but is
in plain contravention of the Constitu-
ton and laws of the State as declared
by the Supreme Court.
This is the first instance since the be-
ginning of the Presidents trip in which
an attempt has been made to drag poll
tics into any of his receptions, and in
this case it can only result in bad feei-
ing and in marring what ought to be a
pleasant and non-partisan occasion.
The Republicans of Omaha will. OF
course, insist on treating Governor
Thayer as the Governor of the State de-
serves to be treated, and if Democrats
hold aloof it will result in making the
Presidents reception in that city ex-
clusively a Republican affair. 1t is pos
sible that sensible Democrats may re-
pudiate the action of the Omaha Coun-
Gil. which is probably composed of
statesmen of the Coy-Hicklln stripe,
and may join in extending proper recog-
milton to the only legal Governor of the
State. However the incident may end,
the Council has done what it could to
bring ridicule and disgrace upon the city.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-05-11
How Riley Does IL

Edward w. Box In Boston Journal
Two we'll known authors. who are also
very successful lecturers, were talking to-
gether q few days ago over their expert
ences ON the platform. One of the twain
was James WhItconb Riley. the Hoosier
poet. They were discussing ON the ques-
ton of the best way of handling audiences.
when one of them said:
What or you do. Riley. when you find
you have q cold audiencei How do you
warm them upf"
Don't try said the poet. You know l
am near-sighted, and without my glasses 1
amt worth a cuss. Well. when / see I
have q cold and critical audience / Just
take OF my glasses n lay them on the
desk. Then, the house can be Just as
uneasy as they like, for L amt see a thing.
The whole house might get up and leave,
and I'd never know it. Don't pay for an
audience of mine to be cold. for L let them
do ell the freezing"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-05-11
A DEMOCRATIC DIFFERENCE.

The interview of President Polk, of
the National Farmers Alliance, in which
he declared that the members of that
organization cannot support Mr.. Cleve-
land because of his well-known views
OF the currency question, leads the Au-
gusta (Ga.) Chronicle, an intelligent
Democratic paper, to utter the following
warning:
In the next presidential election the Dem
ocratic party must look for it's most certain
success to q close alliance between the
South and the Middle and the Eastern
States. There is but one State in the West
that can be relied upon, and that is lndl-
nonin aaS then for only thy IN 1i tas sxsas oJ 'o os
Governor Gray, Senator Voorhees, or
some other popular Indisnian. The
Democratic party will lean upon
Q broken reed if it looks TO the West.22The
tight must be made upon the platform of
1884 and 1885. We must look to the same
States that went Democratic in 1884 to
elect our candidate, whoever he may be.
Free silver and the sub-treasury scheme
may do for the party slogan Of President
party, unless it wants to commit political
suicide forever and q day. q
All of the Eastern Democratic papers,
whether for Mr.. Cleveland or some
other candidate, and the Chicago Herald
and News, and the Indianapolis News,
and other Democratic and Cleveland
organs declare that the Democratic
candidate must not be put upon a free
silver-coinage platform. On the other
hand, the st. Louis Republic, the Kan
sas City Times, the Atlanta Constitu-
tion, and other Southern and Western
Democratic papers declare as positively
that the Democracy has no hope in 1899
unless the platform declares for free
silver. Here is a wide difference of
opinion between two classes of Demo-
cratic papers as to the course which the
party must adopt. AS it now stands it
is committed to the free coinage of
silver.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-05-11
THE FISHERIES CORRESPONDENCE.

Mr.. BLAINE's letter is an able presenta-
ton of the case, and will contribute toward
q settlement by arbitration pom o satisfac-
tory basis.-Boston Journal
BLAINE-we trust we may be pardoned
for blowing his trumpet in the face of the
B%ritish-has caught Salisbury hard, and
has him fast in this.-Brooklyn Standard
Union.
Mr.. BLAINE thinks that Salisbury is OBJ
fuse or worse because he implies that the
United States has abandoned the claim
according to Mr.. Blaine, the United states
has never made such q claim.-Springield
Republican tMass)
If the arbitration propositions are not &C.
cepted. and the Canadian poachers are not
ordered to keep of pending q settlement,
the country will stand by the ADMINISTERS
tion if 1t will adopt strict measures and as
sert In practice the rights it claims and let
consequences a care OF themselves.
There will not be any important conse-
Quences-Loulsvllle Commercial.
SECRETARY BLAINE's important conces-
sions make possible arbitration. The
award was given long before the
Sayward case was decided, there
fore 1t Is necessary TO discuss his
last arguments. In the meantime. the
question of the close time tor the SO ais is
most pressing and Mr.. BlaIne's delay causes
increased s-urprise.-London Times.
AS a matter of fact. the United States has
been the real loser to the amount of MILL
ions, and nothing but the seizure. under
Secretary Manning's instructions, of British
vessels on the high seas has clouded the
case of the United States. With singular
and successful skill Secretary Blaine has
extricated the United States from the con-
sequences of this Observation-Disclosures
Press.
WHEN the Behring sea matter is once
submitted to arbitration there cannot
nightly be any seal catching beyond the
three-mile limit. except by international
agreement. Whether the right to catch on
the high sea belongs exclusively to the
United States or is open to British sealers
Is the issue left to arbitration. and until
the decision is announced neither govern
ment can Justly exercise the right IL claims.
New York Herald.
Our government has submitted q fair
statement of the issues of the case for arbi-
tration. and it has offered . modus vivendi
pending the outcome of the arbitration by
Offering to make . close season, even 1t the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-05-11

experiences of places widely separated,
thus eliminating local peculiarities-
These records are not public but pri-
vate. and can be used only for the sacred
purposes of beneficence. The money
saved by refusing the unfit, by direct
ing the helpless to employment, and by
making the partial earning powers of
the poor effective, covers the cost of the
agency many times over in the commu-
nifty. Its preventive work helps to stop
the food of crime which is so costly. and
the certainty that a ticket to a person
asking relief will secure il in the best
way more than the cost in the
peace of mind which all sympathetic
people value so highly.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-05-11

New York Recorder.
1t is said that Professor Totten, possibly
that the world is to come TO an end in the
year 1899. and a good many t~heologians arc
also of that opinion. The world has been
coming to an end at certain definitely fixed
times for the last eighteen hundred years
and more, and still it keeps on Its course
around the sun and buzzing through space
like all the rest of the universe. Probably
1T will survive prediction. just as patients
often survive PROGRESSES. 1t is not so easy
as some people think to look at the tongue
and feel the pulse of this great world Of
ours and then to draw valid conclusions as
to its ply steal condition and the time at
which it will all go to the dogs. And even
If it were. 1T would be a great comfort TO
know that the Totten~ prophecy would still
leave ample time for everybody to 20 TO the
worlds fair at Chicago.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-05-11

To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal
Is there a specified time for the road super
visor to order the people to work the roadsl If SO
when is the timei READER
There is now no such officer as supervisor
of highways, it having been changed in
1881 to superin tendent of roads. The law
requires that the ordinary" work. which
means general repairs, on roads shall be
done in the months of April. May. june and
July. and all extraordinary work, like
d~itching, draining and grading shall be
done before Nov. Is. The law further pro-
vides that all persons desiring to work ont
their road tax shall apply to the superin-
tendent and shall do the same at the time
and place that officer may direct.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-05-11

SEVERAL days the New York Times
published an article in which 1t was
vaguely charged that Secretary Blaine
had broken faith with the British gov
eminent in regard to a closed season for
seal fishery in the Behring sea-that
after making such an arrangement with
Lord Salisbury, upon the solicitation of
Mr.. s. b. Elkins. a personal friend. who
is interested with the lessee of the seal
fisheries, the North American CONNER
cial Company, the agreement had been
repudiated. Several Democratic papers
have snapped the matter up, and are
making all sorts of reckless charges
about the matter. The facts in the case
are as follows: More than two months
ago Mr.. Blaine, acting. of course, with
the full understanding of the President,
proposed a closed season, but no reply
came from Lord Salisbury. Meantime
the seal poachers from Canada were de-
parting for the seal fisheries in larger
numbers than ever before. At last,
after all of the Canadian sealers were
and could not be stopped. Lord Sails
bury's answer was received, in which
he announced himself ready to make the
agreement which Mr.. Blaine had pro-
posed Seeing that it was too late, and
that nothing could be Gone before the
Canadian sealers had secured a large
part of their plumber. the Secretary re-
moved the restriction upon the CONNER
cial company. which was willing to OBJ
serve q closed season If the Victoria. or
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-05-11

British, sealers had been compelled to
do the same thing. As for Mr.. Elkins,
he has had no communication with the
President. as iDtimated. Indeed, he is
not a member of the company, and is in
no way interested in it, and, so far from
interfering in its behalf, has not at
tended to his ordinary business for a
month, because of the dangerous illness
of a member of his family. These are
the facts about the matter. 1t was not
proposed to keep the United States seal
ers, who had paid for the privilege, from
doing what Canada's sealers are already
doing.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-05-11

THE Brooklyn Eagle (Democratic),
after stating the points which were
made in Nh. Blaine's last letter to Lord
Salisbury in regard to the Behring sea
controversy and commencing their force
and cl~earness. expressed the hope that
''the British champions, the New York
Evening Post and Lord Salisbury. will
allow the case to go to trial on the broad
issue as it now stands" The Post is a
British champion by virtue of being
the oldest advocate of free trade in the
country.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-05-11
Subject for Discipline.

There is q man who pre- tends TO be a Turk,
and who may be for all we know. in this
city advertising Turkish rugs for sale, but
he adds that this will be his last visit. be-
cause the Mckinley bill has made 1t impOs-
sible for him to import any more Turkish
rugs. Tho old schedule was a little IN
one out. and when this foreigner comes here.
and holds out as a half threat over this
people that they must buy his rugs now or
never, because a certain law of the United
States will prevent his coming again. he
ought to be taught a lesson that will
make it impossible hereafter for him TO go
about the United States. and through the
hope of gaining a little trade from the
ignorant. put out his public criticism of a
law passed by the Congress of the United
States and signed by the President.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-05-11

INDIANAPOLIS is to be congratulated
upon the success of the movement to
hold a military encampment here this
summer. The necessary amount of
money having been raised and efficient
management being assured, nothing but
the elements of nature can prevent the
encampment from being a great success.
That it will draw a very large concourse
of people and be a novel, attractive and
memorable event there can be no doubt.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-05-11
10 the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal:

10 the Editor OF the Indianapolis Journal:
Please state what you know about 1.-The Order
of the World" at Boston. Mass. Since you spoke
about the swindles, in your last paper. it has ex-
cited an interest among people TO know some
thing about the orders. OLD SUBSCRIBER.
The Journalcannot give particulars about
these orders. There is q large number of
them.-15O in Massachusetts, of various
kinds.-an benevolent in their professions.
and their language about charity is beauti-
full; but all of them are swindles. The
Legislature of Massachusetts, is about to
deal summsrily with them. Already the
managers of two or three have been ar
rested for s~wiDdling. The Boston Journal
recently declared that the Louisiana lot
sery is highly respectable compared with
tie whole brood of these orders with high
sounding names. The best thing to do
about them 10 to caution everybody to let
them alone.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-05-11

DIR. GRAVES, of Providence, now admits
that he sent Mrs. Barnaby, of Denver. the
bottle of whisky, the use of which caused
her death and hat the bottle was mailed
ct Providence. He asserts. however. that
the bottle contained pure whisky when he
mailed it. and that if it caused Mrs.
Barnaby's death the poison was introduced
after the package left his possession. This
is possible, but it is intimsted that the
authorities have other evidence tending to
incriminate DR.. Graves. The case would
have looked much better for him If he had
admitted sending the bottle at first instead
of concesling the fact nearly two weeks
and only admitting il when the proof Of 1T
was practically conclusive.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-05-11

'"Hear about Bickels experience with q
trampf"
"No. How WAS itr'
"You know how badly Bicxel stammers7
Well. the fellow struck him for a quarter, and
Bickel undertook to refer him to the Society for
the Relief of Deserving and Industrious Mechan-
les Temporarily Declared from Employment,
but the tramp starved to death before Bickel
could tell him."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-05-11

WHEN the New York World demands
that greater care should be taken in the
methods of naturalization, there is every
reason to believe that it is high time
that a radical change should be made in
regard to that important matter.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-05-11

The President paid an eloquent tribute
to the American flag at Boise City.
Every man should take off his hat
when the starry flag move by" he said.
cit symbolizes a free republic; it SYM
bolizes a nation, not an aggregation of
States, but m compact. solid govern
ment in all its relations to the nations of
the earth.n
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-05-11

Orleans Delta regards tho papers contain
ing the courts decision % . lottery adver-
tisement, for the reason that it indorses the
lottery IS q moral concern. and caustically
remarks that the use of the decision by the
comp any practically puts the sign "Adver-
tising Department of the Louisiana State
Lottery on the Supreme Court building.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-05-11
A Two-Edged Sword.

Augusta tGa.) Chronicle (Dem)
The Democrats of Michigan are playing
with q two-edged sword. Gerrymandering
electoral districts is q dangerous practice.
Better leave the presider tial electors 10 be
chosen on the general ticket than Co break
them up and elect, like congressman, on
the district plan. 1t is perfectly competent
for q State to leave its choice of electors TO
the State or to the people; but the general
ticket has always been observed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-05-11

THERE was not a Democratic paper in
the country, except the New York Sun,
which did not declare that the McKin-
ley bill, if it should become alaw, would
cut off our foreign trade. The fact that
the value of agricultural implements
exported last March was S621, 721, against
$685. 55 in March, 1890, does not sustain
the Democratic claim. But facts never
sustain free-tIade claims.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-05-11

THE first regularly chosen delegation
Il the convention of m~alcontents and
discarded ofice-seekers, in Cincinnati,
is composed of Anarchists; three of that
persuasion are in the committee on ar
rangements, and they object to decorat-
ing the hall where the convention will
meet with the stars and stripes.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-05-11

THE President and party spent yester-
day at Glenwood Springs, Col. Leaving
there at 3 o'clock this morning, they will
visit Leadvilie and some other points
during the day, spending the night at
Colorado Springs, and reaching Denver
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-05-11
BUBBLES In THE AIR
Avn Immortal Work.

y"Millet with his potato-d iggers is all right
enough, but he is not in it alongside of me" said
the quiet looking stranger who had been listen
ing to an impromptu art discussion.
"And who are you. prayr'
"Mea I'm the man that designed the picture
of Lydia Pinkham."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-05-11
Vice Versa.

vice versa.
Just now up looms the summer girl.
Her campaigns just begun;
She'll fiirt, and fiirt, and fiirt, and fiirt-
- To her all men are one.
And yet it often comes to pass
That ere the frosts of fall
h falls in love herself. and then
To her one man is all.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-05-11

The statement that as a direct result of
the wicked Mckinley tariff. q tin-plate
factory to employ five hundred lands is 20
be shortly erected at Elwood, Ind., will
throw the free-trade press. which insists
that Americans can't make tin-piate, into
spasms of virtuous indignation. This. how
ever, won't hinder the building of the fact
DRY, which is TO be ready fer operation
Ian 4 1909
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-05-11

THOSE papers in the East which are
saying that the city elections in Indiana
last week were generally carried by the
Democrats accepted the Associated
Press dispatch from this city as reliable,
not knowing that it was a Democratic
p~roductiOn.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-05-11
10 the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal

Is Cyrus Field alivel If 80, where does he re-
sidel 2. Give postoffice address of VIM. f. Cody,
Thomas Edison, Lew p. Morton, Lilly Langtry,
Booth. the tragedian. j.. {. NJ.
1. Yes. He lives in New York city. 2. A
letter addressed to Hon. VIM. F. Cody at
Lincoln. Neb.. will reach him. Thomas A.
Edison lives at Menlo Park, N. j. Address
Hon. Levi p. Morton at Washington, ID. G.
Lilly Langtry lives in London, England.
Edwin Booth IN Boston, Mass.
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A Pleasant Trim.

Philadelphia Record CDem)
President Harrison has turned his back
TO the setting sun and Is now j0urneying
homeward. His trip has undoubtedly been
q pleasant one, and no one but a confirmed
cynic will begrudge him the benefit which
he must have gained from il. nor fail to re-
jolce in the sp~ontaneity OF his welcome
EVERYWHERE.