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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-04-01
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

w. n. j., Mulberry, Ind.-Frank G. Car
penter, the correspondent of the Indian
apolls NelCs, Is a republican.
EASTER, Hagerstown, Ind.-The earliest
date on which Easter can fall is March % :;
the latest April %.
T. H. Lucas, Freedom, Ind.-Only r
limited number OF house journals are
printed. These are distributed among the
different county clerks, from whom they
would have to be obtained. No charge is
made for the copies distributed.
Z. E. NJ, Avoca, Ind.-The facts about
the direct tax, which is being refunded
to the states by the general government,
have been repeatedly set forth in the
newspapers. The tax was levied upon
the states by congress during the war.
The northern states paid it and the states
in rebellion did not. Now it is being paid
back to the states which did pay it, under
an act OF congress passed a few weeks
ago. Indiana receives SOS, 144.03.
JAMES K. PARKEY, Bowers, Ind.-(D
All special taxes upon dealers in leaf
tobacco, retail dealers in leaf to-
bacco, dealers in tobacco, manufact-
urers OF tobacco, manufacturers of
cigars and peddlers OF tobacco" have been
repealed. The stamp taxes are retained.
o. Samuel Brown married Nathan STAN
ley's sister. They had five children. Mrs.
Brown died and Mr. Brown afterward
married another sister of Nathan stanley.
They had three children and Mrs. Brown
No. died. Then Mr.. Brown married
Nathan SANKEY'S daughter, who bore
him two children. What relations wers
the three sets of children to each other ?'
The children of the first Mrs Brown were
half brothers and sisters of the children
of The two other Mrs. Browns. The chill
dren of Mrs Brown No. We're also sec
ond cousins" OF the children of Mrs.
Brown No. l and Mrs. Brown No. 2.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-04-01

source of their troubles is the tariff. They
are taxed, not on what they own, nor on
what they produce, but on what they
consume. This tax is levied upon
them, not for the support of the govern
ment, but for the profit of
mill-owners, steamboat jobbers, railroad
corporations, ETC. No tax, however, is
levied for the farmers benefit. The gov
eminent does not take money from the
people and pay it over to the farmers
(unless they raise sugar cane in Louisiana
or boil sap in Vermont). The govern
ment does not force other people 70 pay
them tonus of 80 per cent. on their
products. The tariff is a continual drain
upon them. 1t takes toll from them on
nearly every article they purchase, from
the cradles in which their babes are rocked
to the collins in which they themselves
are finally laid away at the end of the I'M
equal struggle. They are at the mercy OF
combines, trusts and monOpolies when
they sell as well as when they, buy. A
very conservative estimate is that the Nc
Kinley tariff costs the people of In
diana tgenty-One millions OF dollars euery
year. The farmers constitute more than
one-half the population of Indiana.
If McKinleyism were wiped out their net
annual revenue would be increased by
about eleven millions of dollars. If all
other class legislation were repealed their
net revenue would be still farther in
creased. They would soon be able 10 pay
off their mortgages, to accumulate neat
balances in bank, to surround themselves
and their families with the comforts, re-
fnements and luxuries now monopoiized
by the favorites of the government. The
farmers who expend their energies upon
any other scheme of relief than that of
radical tariff reform are cruelty deceived,
and are doing themselves and their fami-
lies a gross Injustice.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-04-01

side the door on the day before turtle
soup is served up, and create a run next
day for the soup. Instead OF being in it
they are playing an engagement at
another restaurants LOUIS Globe Demo
crdt.
THE story is told of an old-time Bangor
merchant who had propensity for pick
ing I'D all the stray buttons that came in
his way, that during his long life he filed
a barrel in his store with them. After
his death some one had the curiosity and
patience to go through the lot. but failed
to find two buttons of the same pattern.
A COMMERCIAL traveller coming from the
Michigan Central depot on a Cass and
Third avenue car recently gave away the
secrets OF the profession in conversation
with a friend, saws the Detroit Free Press.
"Most travelling men," he said, "have lit
tie schemes of their own that they work
to defray incidental expenses. My strong
point is dealing in Canadian coins. Ny
territory is in Ohio, and in all Ohio cities
and towns Canadian coins are discounted
% cents on the dollar. Twenty five cent
pieces pass for 20 cents and half dollars
for 10 cents. l have so worth OF quar-
tiers and halves in my sachel now that
bought in Toledo for SIG. In Detroit [
use them to paw hotel and cigar bills and
realize their face value"
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-04-01

If Senator VOORHEES, is correctly re-
ported, he is in favor OF DAVID B. HILL of
New York for the democratic nomination
for president next year. The senator, in
this matter, is ont of touch with the dem
ocratic party of his state. 1t is safe to say
that not over five democrats out of every
hundred in Indiana favor the nomination
OF Governor HILL. OF the one hundred
and ten democrats in the legislature who
voted for Mr.. VOORHEES, for L. :. senator
a few weeks ago, there were not to exceed
a dozen for HILL. OF the hundred demo-
cratic newspapers in the state, not more
than half dozen have expressed prefer
ence for HILL. Senator VOORHEES, has
been away from Indiana for several
months, and is probably not very familiar
with the present condition of democratic
sentiment in the state regarding this mat
ter. 1t is opposed to HIS nomination
for president-by a very large majority.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-04-01
Looks Like q Fraud.

Considerable dissatisfaction is being
manifested in Randolph county over an
act passed by the last legislature to reim-
burse County Treasurer l. V. D. R. JoHN-
SON for $1,000 lost by him through the
failure OF the C. L. Lewis bank. Speaking
of this measure the Winchester Democrat
saws:
This is a rank steal from the taxpayers,
and no amount of attempted explanation
will make anything e!se out of it. JONI
SON put that money in the Lewis bank
with his eyes opener If they were
not open it was not the fault of the tax
PAYERS. He lost il, aud that was not the
fault OF the taxpayers. Now, through a
little scheme OF cOnniving that ought 10
have been far beneath the men who per-
petrated it, he is to be reimbursed-by the
taxpayers.
The bill was passed in the furry caused
by the rush of business during the last
days of the legislature. Senator SHOCK
SEY, who fathered it, waited until near
ly the last moment, and then railroaded it
through under a suspension OF the rules
before the members could realize or un-
derstand its effect. The tactics adopted
by Senator SHoCKNEY were clever from q
strategic point of view, but were not very
commendable in public servant. The
ind gnation in Randolph county is not
confined to the democrats. The Farmland
Enterprise (rep.) says:
After the Enterprise called public atten-
ton to the utter injustice that Mr.. JoHN-
SON was trying to perpetrate, he publicly
Withdrew his petition asking the people
TO paw his private losses. The withdrawal
of his petition rested upon his honor as a
man and expounder OF the gospel. As
the. facts have proved, it was only in
tended 10 delude the tax-ridden people of
this county, for all the while, through the
medium OF Senator SHoCKNEY, Mr.. JOHN
SON has been secretly working his scheme
in the legislature.
1t is greatly to be deplored that the leg
islators who voted for this act should have
allowed themselves to be duped by Senator
SHocKNEY. But that willy politician chose
a moment when he knew that their minds
were occupied in securing the passage of
measures which they felt to be of great
Importance, and induced them to blindly
vote for bill of the merits of which they
knew nothing. The passage OF this bill,
under these circumstances, affords another
illustration OF the importance OF carefully
scrutinizing every measure proposed in a
legislative body. and especially those
which are brought forward in the last
DAYS of a session.
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spring
New York Herald

New York Herald.
HERR GUSTAV FREYTAG, the we.l-known
German author. who is now about sew
enty-five years OF age, was married at
Vienna Tuesday last to Nine. Strakosch,
who is separated from her other hus
band.
The death of the late Duke Nicholas of
Leuchtemberg was due TO a throat disease
brought on by excessive cigarette smok-
ing The duke led an eccentric life, sell
dom rising before o'clock in the after
noon. He spent the whole night smoking
cigarettes.
GEN. LEW WALLACE and Secretary Eos
ter are said to be almost doubles in per-
sonal appearance, their resent lance being
so striking that they are frequently mis-
taken for each other Each is man OF
medium hight. weighing about one hun
dred and seventy pounds.
THE czarowitz of Russia, who is making
a tour of the world, is expected to reach
San Francisco in about week. Russia's
treatment of the Jews leads that class of
people in California to regard with indig-
nation any scheme for official honors TO
the grand duke upon his arrival.
ACCORDING to the official report $3.50
babies were born in New York City last
year, and there were 40,l03 deaths. In
other words, death got the better of us by
S53, so that whatever increase in popula-
ton there was came by immigration.
That's rather an interesting idea.-Aelc
York Press.
A MAN in Milwaukee saw a woman fall
down, and he helped her up and spoke
words of consolation, and she sent
him deed to 5000 house. A man in
Peoria did the very same thing, and the
woman yelled for her husband, who was
near by, and be came running up and
broke the CONSIDERS nose.
ALEXANDER YOUNG, fifty-three years o
age, member of the staff of the Boston
Post, known by his writings over the nom
de plume of "Taverner," died recently at
the Massachusetts, general hospital, after
a long illness. He was contributor 10
the Century, Harper's Weekly, Independent,
Christian Union and the Golden Age.
THERE is man down on Safest. who
makes good living by renting his turtles
to restaurants for advertising purposes.
He has four, and they are "whoppers."
He receives g per day for each, and they
are always in demand. They are left out
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-04-01
A Piece of Monumental Assurance.

1t is more than two weeks since Gov
ernor HovEY distinguished himself by
vetoing the fee and salary bill on the
ground that it did not apply to present
incumbents, upon the very same day that
he signed bill reducing the emoluments
of the reporter of the supreme court,
from the provisions OF which the present
incumbent of that Office Ia republican,
was excepted. Yet the Journal waited
until Monday before saying a word in
defense of that extraordinary per orm-
ance. in Mondays issue the Journal
printed an article, written for it in the
state house, in which an apology is sought
20 be made for the governors amazing
inconsistency. The apology is, necessarily,
q very feeble one, but it is undoubtedly
the best that can be offered. 1t is claimed
that different rule ought to be applied
TO officers elected in 1888 than to those
elected in 1890; that it is all right to allow
the former 10 20 on to the end of their
terms bleeding the people at every PORE"
TO borrow some picturesque language from
Governor HovEY's veto message, but dead
wrong to allow the latter to do the same
thing. This BILL" said the governor in
his veto message, "gives full liberty for
such officers county and state) to Cypress
the people for two and four years more"
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-04-01

tea and coffee when imported from any
country that refuses reciprocal trade with
the United States. This provision APP
plies solely to countries which export
these commodities, to none of which the
United States sells largely or can until her
manufacturers are allowed to secure their
materials on the same terms as their
European competitors. Reciprocity, as
preached by BLAINE and applied by Nc
kINLEY, is. by long odds. the most trans
parent fraud ever attempted in'American
nolitics
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-04-01

THE Winchester Herald, which adver-
tises itself as ''the leading republican
paper" OF Randolph county, in speaking
of the johnson bill, which Senator SHOCK
NEY got through the last legislature in its
closing days, says:
There is no doubt that Mr.. SHocKNEY
did wrong from the beginning to the end
OF this affair, but it is equally certain thar
the democratic legislature helped to per-
pctra.e the fraud of which THE SENTINEL
speaks.
The Herald says that the people OF Ran
dolph county are holding Senator SHocKNEY
responsible for his action in the matter.
The Johnson bill fell within the category
of private measures" 1t is, of course.
quite impossible for fifty senators and
hundred representatives to know, of their
own knowledge, the facts upon which
such measures are based. When the
amount involved is not excessive it is the
practice to trust to the integrity and good
fifth of the senator or member introdu-
cling the bill. In the Johnson matter the
legislature trusted TO Senator SHocKNEY's
representations and was evidently the
victim of misplaced confidence, judging
from the unanimity with which It's action
is repudiated in Randolph county, where
all the facts are known. The thing ap-
pears to be a nasty republican job, and it
is to be regretted that a democratic lezis-
lature was so scandalously imposed upon
in the business.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-04-01
What "The Sentinel" Did For the womsa

Gov. Hovey has appointed four women
to serve on the Indiana worlds fair CON-
mission. THE INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL
claims the credit OF having talked the
governor into this action. otherwise the
women would not have been repre-
scented on the commission. 1t is a COM
mendable piece of work. no doubt, as
nothing can be considered in proper shape
in these latter DAYS unless a woman has s.
hand in il. And in matters OF this kind.
fairs of any sort, they have q knack Of
making themselves specially useful.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-04-01

THE New York Sun makes some in
structive comparisons between the ap-
preparations at the last session OF TON
REEDS billion-dolar business congress"
and at the last session OF the Forty-fourth
congress when SAMUEL ]. RANDALL was
speaker and Judge HOLMAN OF Indiana
was chairman of the committee on APP
preparations. Thus:
Forty-fourth ongress............. 1926, SOC, 69l
tltty-nrst OnQresS...........-.... Oh, 81, 9O4
The increase is really even greater than
appears on the surface. OF the sos, $685.
694 charged to the Forty-fourth congress,
Sl51, 414,544 belonged to the permanent
annual appropriations, for such purposes
as interest on the pub ic debt and sinking
fund. OF the $54l, 1927 ,96l charged to the
billion-dollar congress, only Sl22, 4S6. sos
goes for interest and sinking fund. The
comparison between the totals voted by
the TWO bodies, respectively, in the regu-
lar annual appropriations over which they
had control, is this:
Forty-iourth cOngrsss............... $144 1872 149
Fiity-frst 4l9 341, 153
This is an increase of more than 1S3 per
cent.
A defense is sought to be made of the
enormous increase Of appropriations since
1877 on the ground OF the increase of pop
ulation in the meantime. But the in
crease in popu alton has been only 80 per
cent, while the appropriations have in
creased 1SS per cent. So the comparison
stands:
Fer cent.
Increase in tion....................~... 80
Increase In appropriations............ 1873
If the regular annual appropriations had
increased proportionately with the coun-
try's growth-and there is no good reason
why they should've total at the late ses-
sion would have been 5000, 704, $50 In
stead of that. they amount to 9,34l, 153
These enormous apr ropriations mean a
great increase in federal taxation, and the
only theory upon which they can be justi-
fed to the people is that pet one of the
protectionists-that the way to make them
prosperous is to tax them as heavily as
possible.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-04-01

MIR. WILLIAM d. BYNUN, the able and
popular representative in congress from
this district, arrived home from Washing
ton Tuesday. In an interview, pub
lished elsewhere, Mr.. BYNUM recitesla few
OF the many partisan iniquities and devil
tries perpetrated by the Fitty-first congress,
which he Justly pronounces the most reck-
less and prohigate congress in our history.
Especially interesting are the facts he
gives which illustrate the fragrant offense
congress committed when it admitted
Wyoming and Idaho as states. These
two rotten boroughs have together less
population and wealth than this congress
sional district, yet they have four votes in
the U. S. senate, two in the house of rep
Iesentatives and six in the electoral COL
lege. Their admission as states was gross
outrage, And vet, alter all, it did the re-
publlcans no good. Instead OF intrench-
ing the grand old party in power this
thing, with some other acts of cussedness,
has lost that party the house of representa-
tives. has practically wiped out its majority
in the senate, and has destroyed whatever
chances 1t had OF electlng the next presi-
dent. The lesson OF which should not be
lost upon all of every party who believe
that sharp practice and fraud are "good
politics." Mr.. BYNUM shows us the way
in which Ton REEDS mob did what he
was pleased to call business" and makes
some pointed remarks about the repub-
lican party, ell Of which have the merit OF
truth. When Mr.. BYNUM talks he always
says something
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-04-01
ct GET TERRA.

ANNA DICKINSON, it is said, is not insane.
She Is suffering from great nervous pros
tration.
SENATOR PALMER lacks one qualification
of the western statesman. He can't play
poker. and is probably too old to learn.
st. Paul Globe.
Mrs. ELEANOR BAKERS large requests to
educational and benevolent institutions,
amounting to 81, 100000, represent money
made in chocolate.
YOU take last seasons light spring coat
From the nail behind the door
Wondering 81 you cannot wear IL
Just for one
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-04-01
A Pledge Faithfully Redeemed
rTaoranua nennorrat

By far the most difficult task before the
recent legislature was the abolition of the
fee system in the payment OF county
officers. In this feature of the old law
was the county officials SNAP" and
even now every officer, every candidate,
and every tax-sustained newspaper in the
state is condemning the new law solely on
this account 1t was at this reform that the
democratic platform was aimed and Its
nledge has been faithfully redeemed.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-04-01
Tourists,

Whether on pleasure bent or business
should take on every trip bottle OF
Syrup of Figs, as it acts most pleasantly
and effectuaily on the kidneys, liver aud
bowels, preventing fevers, headaches and
other forms of sickness. For sale in so
cent and 81 bottles by all leading drug
gists.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-04-01
More Than n New Yorker.
fSL Louis Republic.

Though Mr.. Cleveland is by education
as we'll as by birth a New Yorker in the
full sense oil the word, he is far more capa-
bic of leadership and far more sterling in
his qualities than any other New Yorker
who has figured prominently in national
politics from the beginning of our ma
tional history.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-04-01
SAYS the New York Times:

SAYS the New Ork uIleS:
An examination of those duties in the
Mckinley tariff which affect materials
used in the manufacture of pianos reveals
more than one job.
Is there a single provision in the Nc
Kinley bill of which an examination
would not reveal at least one Job?
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-04-01

THE selection of President JORDAN of
the Indiana state university as head of
the great Stanford university in Califor-
mia is an honor worthily bestowed. Presi-
dent JORDAN is an educator OF the highest
rank and a man of rare executive ability.
He has made fine record at the Indiana
university, and in the new and larger
field of labor to which he has been called,
we have no doubt he will prove equal to
every requirement and rise to the full
level of his great opportunities.
His removal from the state is severe loss
to the cause of higher education in In
diana His place in the state university
will not be easily filed. But the regret
of the people of Indiana at parting with
him will be tempered with qualification
at ais elevation to 30 responsible and hon.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-04-01
Hov.y booming "Jim" rIardOok.
lake County News.l

Governor Hovey, it is said. will have
Warden Murdoch prosecuted for the man
ner in which he conducted the financial
affairs of the northern prison. Hovey is
last making "Jim Murdoch" one of the
most popular men in Indiana.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-04-01

THE Globe Democrat thinks that if the
president takes his contemplated western
trip he ought to learn something. Itsays:
individuals pretending to be in his con-
fidence have SAID that he will, in 1892, if
he be renominated, put the federal election
scheme again forward and make this one
OF the chief issues of the canvass. If he
makes good use of his time while in the
West he will find that the sentiment
of the masses of his party in this
section is overwhelming against
any such policy. He will discover.
indeed. that republican opposition to this
project last year was one of the principal
reasons leading to the party's defeat in the
congressional elections. 1t is understood
also that he is opp 'sed to any reduction OF
existing duti.s next year He will be able
TO obtain little needed light on this ques-
ton, too, and. while so doing, will learn
that moderate and discriminating cut in
customs would be exceedingly pleasing to
the great majority of the republicans in
this locality.
The Globe Democrats confidence in the
presidents learning capacity is, we fear,
misplaced. He is Bourbon of the Bour-
bons. He belongs to the large class who
never learn anything and never forget
anything. He will probably return from
his western junket no wiser than when he
starts
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-04-01

In a speech at Boston the other day
"JERRY" SIMPSON inquired of his anxious
audience why pro- ection had not built up
a home market for the Massachusetts
farmer. He understood that that was one of
the boosted objects OF the system, and yet
he observed that New England agricuIt-
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-04-01
Mob Rule Is Anarchy.

The government can only exist by law.
Society. civilization, live by law. Mob rule
is anarchy. Sober second thought must
condemn all mobs.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-04-01

ure was declining in about the same
proportion that the tariff was raised. At
last accounts nobody in New England had
answered Mr.. S1NPsoN's Question.
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orable and distinguished post as has
been assigned him. We predict for him
a career in California of the largest useful
ness and the highest distinction.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-04-01

The organs of McKinleyism are talking
about the reciprocity provisions Of the Nc
Kinley law. The fact is there are no such
provisions in that law. There is pro-
vision, of very questionable constitution
atty, authorizing the president to impose
by proclamation duties on sugar, hides,