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The Indianapolis journal., 1891-02-20
THE ATTACKS ON THE PRESIDENT.
The following is from, the st. Louis
Republic:

The following is from the st. Louis
Republic:
Mr.. Harrison Is in danger of making an
long as ne stays in the District of Columbia
his friends aJ WaybacK Station may still
try to keep mp the delusion of his greatness,
put after people have once seen and heard
him 1T is impossible to convince them that
he 10 more than i've feet two.
The writer OF the foregoing probably
never saw the President or heard him
speak. He belongs to the class of parti-
san editors who, getting their informa-
tion concerning the President at second
or third hand from his personal and
political enemies, seem to think they
are rendering party service by defaming
him in that fashion. 1t is curious trait
of American patriotism, if that quality
really exists, that seeks to elevate the
government by vilifying its head.
1t is singular proof of President Har-
rison's invulnerability of character that
his political defamers attack him in the
very point where ne is strong
est. In the utter absence of
any ground on which to attack
his patriotism, his devotion to duty, his
loyalty to principle, the purity of his
private life and character. the disinter-
estedness of his public acts or the
strength and dignity of his administra-
tion, they are driven to the expedient of
trying to represent him as a man of in
ferior ability and meager intellectual
endowments. The mistake is so palpa-
BILE and absurd as hardly to rise to the
dignity of libel. There are few Amer
leans living of broader mind or greater
intellectual grasp than President Harri-
son. There is not in public life bet
ter lawyer or a man of firmer mental
grip. There are not half a dozen men
living on either side of the ocean
who are his peers in oratOry.
He is better lawyer than any man who
ever filed the presidential chair, and
incomparably a better speaker. His
state papers Compare favorably with
tho best ever issued, and his proclama-
tions are models of clear thought and
forcible expression. 1t is one of the
anomalies of politics that such man
should be attacked by his adversaries
as man of inferior ability. That they
should attack him in his strongest point
goes far to prove that he has no weak
ones.
President Harrison is not unpopular
with the masses. That is just where he
is strong. He is not held in slight es-
TEEN by those who have seen and heard
him. 1t is precisely these who hold him
in highest esteem. No person who
has heard the President speak
five minutes ever afterwards
underestimates the. size of his brain or
doubts the fullness of his mental equip
ment. For the rest, the thousands and
hundreds of thousands who have neither
seen the President nor heard him speak
are more and more. every day, Impressed
by his character as it is stamped on his
administration, than which the country
never had cleaner, abler or more thor
oughly American one.
The Indianapolis journal., 1891-02-20
in Indiana

THE death of General Sherman removes
one of the chief obstacles in the way of
perfect reconciliation between the North
and the South. AS long as Sherman lived
he was q continual reminder to this section
of what they consider the most unwar-
ranted outrages of the late war, while his
utterances served to keep alive the sentl-
ment of prejudice In the Northern breast.
Now that he is gone, let us forget the part
he played in our history. Let us even say
peace to his ashes, and. unmindful of his
personality, let US extend Oul sympathy to
the brethren across Mason and Dixon's
line who grieve for man they esteemed q
hero.
The above is taken from the Memphis
Sunday Times. 1t claims to De the senti-
ment of the South. Is it'll If it is not,
will some of those papers Of the South
likesthe Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, which
have been declaring that sectionalism is
a thing exclusively peculiar to the North,
come out and denounce it?
The Indianapolis journal., 1891-02-20
GEN. sHERMAN's RELATIONS WITH his MEN.

A gentleman of this city who, during
the war. commanded brigade under
Generals Grant, Sherman and Thomas.
and knew them all personally, mentions
a striking point of difference in their
relations to the armies they command
ed. 81 have seen Grant," says this
gentleman, "ride from rear to front of a
moving column, or from right to left of
the army, receiving salutes all the time,
but making none in return. He was
never cheered and never a word passed
between him and the lines. He always
a cigar held firmly between his teeth he
looked straight ahead, as if at some OBJ
jective point that nobody else could see.
He was too absorbed to return the
salutes, and the men never attempted
to break in on his reserve. Gen.
Thomas was good deal the same way,
only sterner looking than Grant. When
he rode past column it was always
with some definite object in view, and
he seemed too full of that to notice
else. The men had the
greatest confidence i'll him and
respect for him, but there was
never any familiarity or demonstration
of affection. With Sherman it was en-
tirely different. / have seen him ride
from front to rear Of column, and it
would be a continuous cheer the whole
way. Not only this, but continuous
exchange Of salutations and remarks.
Between their cheers the men would
shout good-natured remarks at Uncle
Billy and he would talk to them in re-
turn, passing remarks about his plans.
what we were going to do next, etc. 1t
seemed to me sometimes as if he would
speak to almost every man in the col
umn while he was passing. No matter
what he had on his mind he never
seemed abstracted, and was always
ready to chaff the hoys. On horseback
he was the least soldierly- looking of the
three, and he had slouchy way of rid
ing that used to tickle the boys. But
what pleased them most was his free
and-easy manner and his way of talking
to every body as he rode along the lines.
He got more cheering than military
salutes." 5.a.s,....
This difference of manner and of treat
ment by the men indicates to some ex-
tent difference of temperament and
characteristics in the three generals.
Sherman had more of what is called
personal magnetism than either of the
others. His own feelings were more
impulsive, and he possessed in higher
degree the faculty of stirring the feel
ings and exciting the enthusiasm of 9TH
ers. He was nearer to his men than
either of the other generals, and more
in sympathy with vol Lnteer soldiers.
The men had no more confidence In him
than they had in Grant or Thomas, but
they loved him more. He could unbend
more gracefully than the others. and en-
joyed doing it. The result was Pc
culiar feeling of comradeship between
Sherman and his soldiers W hich seemed
to strengthen as the wears passed by.
The Indianapolis journal., 1891-02-20

THE census item which relates that Of
the 756 convicts In the Michigan City
penitentiary 456 are natives is likely to
mislead the unwary. 1t means, of
course, not that the 456 are native
Hoosiers, but native Americans-which
is bad enough, but not quite so bad as
it might be. Investigation will prob
ably disclose that q majority drifted to
Indiana from the crime centers, or, as
they are more commonly known, the
Democratic centers Of the Eastern
States.
The Indianapolis journal., 1891-02-20

No question is of greater public i'm
portance than that relating to street and
road improvements. The subject has at
tractad so much interest of late as to have
caused the offering of a series of prizes for
information bearing upon it. The latest of
these is by Col. Albert A. Pope, of Boston,
Mass, who has already contributed much
toward the movement in the past and now
offers $500 in two amounts of $500 and $500
respectively for the first and second best
essays on country roads and city streets.
Competition is open to all. Particulars
can be obtained of the American Economic
Association at Baltimore, through which
the offer is made.
The Indianapolis journal., 1891-02-20
Electric Light and Eyesight

=
A correspondents of q London medical
journal, q member of q club the rooms OF
which are lighted by incandescent lamps
merely covered with plain glass. found his
eyes affected. An eminent oculist was con-
suited. He informed me-" says the writer,
that his consulting g-rooms were crammed
with people suffering irritation of the
retina. inflammation of the optic nerve and
electro-opthalmia. in consequences of hav-
There is. of course no special harm in the
electricity; any light of equal intensity
would cause the same retinal irritation.
The London oculist added that the electric
light, to be harmless, must be guarded
either with frosted white glass or with an
opal-tinted shade. or surmounted with col
ored fringe, so that the eye can never see it;
he added that cut or efflorescent glass
covers are most Objectionable and danger
none who work or read by electric light
can afford to safelydisregard.
The Indianapolis journal., 1891-02-20

HERE is an extract from letter writ
ten by General Sherman from near At
lanta, in August, 1854. There was a
draft pending:
The copperheads at the North are vot-
ing people, who, simpletons as they are;
think that upon their votes enemies will
lay down their arms. Why, these fellows
in Atlanta have a moro supreme contempt
for the sneaksi in Indiana and New York who
claim to be the Friends of Peace than they
do for this army that is pounding away for
their destruction. The time is not yet for
reaching these fellows, but when the army
begins to make itself felt at the North. and
tell these sneaks, who are trying to control
the policy of the country in the absence of
the army, that there is no such thing as
property without government, and that IT
they don't behave themselves they shall
have no vote, they will change their tune,
for their money and property will go and
they be left-mere sojourners in land they
would not fight for in its hour of danger.
] believe the draft will be made and en-
forced. that our armies then having an un-
failing supply of recruits to take the place
of the dead wounded and sick, we can go
on making swaths through the South
that cannot be patched up.
The old warrior had very just appre-
citation of the Northern copperhead. but
''the sneaks" have been coming to the
front in late years.
The Indianapolis journal., 1891-02-20

THE New York Post rejoices because
it thinks Cleveland's letter has saved
the Democratic party from drifting into
the presidential campaign as the cham
pion of free coinage, and $50 giving
the Republicans a chance to Gerry the
country with honest money as the chief
ISSUE" Evidently the Post is of the
opinion that Cleveland is the Democratic
party, but if it will take the trouble to
read the Atlanta Constitution and other
representative Southern and Western
Democratic papers it will acquire diff
ferent brand of information.
The Indianapolis journal., 1891-02-20

AT meeting of the F. M. B. A. at
Savoy, ILL.,, few days since, which was
attended by two hundred members, en-
phatic action was taken against the
proposition in favor of the free coinage
of silver. A leading speaker declared
that the farmers were being misrepre-
sented on this subject. He said that,
after full investigation of the subject,
he was prepared to say that "the poll
ticians who thought the farmers wanted
the government to boom the bu siness of
the silver barons by making dollar out
of so cents worth of silver were merely
fooling themselves This is an en-
couraging indication.
The Indianapolis journal., 1891-02-20

THE organs of the Cleveland wing of
the Democratic party are frantically de-
claring that the tariff is the first issue to
be settled, and that attention should not
be diverted from this question by con-
flict over such a measure as the free
coinage of cheap silver dollars. Un-
fortunately for the organs the tariff
issue has been settled to the growing
satisfaction of a majority of the people,
by the passage of the Mckinley bill, and
can hardly be galvanized into a suffi-
GENTLY strong semblance of life to serve
in another Democratic campaign. Sill
yer is the issue, and Cleveland has al
ready put himself on the Republican
side.
The Indianapolis journal., 1891-02-20
The Dead soldier and Patriot.
From President Harrisons Proclamation Announ
ing the Death OF General Sherman

From President Harrfeon's PROCLAMATION Anu0unc-
inc the Death OF General Sherman
No living American was so loved and
venerated as he. To look upon his face, to
hear his name, was to have ones love Of
country intensified. He served his country,
not for fame. not out Of sense of profession
al duty, but for love of the flag and of the
beneficent civil institutions of which it was
the emblem. He was an ideal soldier, and
shared to the fullest the esprit de corps of
the army. but he cherished the civil instltu-
fions organized under the Constitution.
and wes only soldier that these might be
perpetuated in undiminished usefulness
and honor He was In nothing an imitator.
Al profound student of military science and
precedent, he drew from them principles
and suggestions, and so adapted them to
novel conditions that his campaigns will
continne to be the profitable study of the
military, profession throughout the world.
His genial nature made him comrade to
every soldier of the great Union army. No
presence was 50 welcome and inspiring &C
the campfire or commandery as his. HIS
career was complete; his honors were full
lie had received from the government the
highest rank known to our military estab-
Ishment and from the people unstinted
gratitude and love.
The Indianapolis journal., 1891-02-20

MAN in Vermont so persistently and
industriously violated the prohibitory law
that when the day of Judgment finally
came he had sixty years to serve in Jail,
being convicted of 715 violations of the
law by the officers of Dartmouth College.
which is just across the State line in New
Hampshire. He made his place q resort for
students. And yet there are those who
regard the man in the light of q martyr.
The Indianapolis journal., 1891-02-20
AT Last.

els the mere asking for your daughters hand
such crime that you should treat me in this
brutal mannerl" asked the young man as he
picked himself up from the sidewalk.
perhaps not. But thirty years ago your
grandfather served me the same way. 1 swore
to be revenged. To-day has been my opportun-
ity. Ha, ha," And slamming the carven portal
of his magnificent mansion, the father strode
back to his palatial apartments.
The Indianapolis journal., 1891-02-20

Memphis Appeal.

Memphis Appeal
General Sherman is 6ead and q lot Of
sentimental slush has been written about
the grim old soldier, both in the North and
South. He was nothing but a soldier. and
his creed was war meant fighting and fight
ing meant killing. And yet the Tennessee
Senate did right in refusing to adopt a
resolution redolent with maudiin senti-
ment over his demise. Living or dead. the
people of this section have no reason to
love him
The Indianapolis journal., 1891-02-20

THE Manchester (Eng.) Guardian as
serts that the eloquence of Mr.. Cleve-
land has brought large number of Re-
publican papers over to the trade
side. This is in the nature of news; but
the great popularity of Mr.. Cleveland
with the British free-traders leads them
TO attribute to him powers and influences
(which are not recognized in him by his
FELLOW -citizens.
The Indianapolis journal., 1891-02-20

Some useful lesson every day experience surely
teaches:
Here's Grover Cleveland, who refrafned from
making silver speeches.
Convinced that golden silence on the silver bin
was better.
letter.
And In dozen lines or 10 opinions he advances
Which In the South and West destroy his presi-
dental chances-
We see in this strange weakness exhibited by
Grover
That the wisest politicians arc not safe from
slopping over.
The Indianapolis journal., 1891-02-20

In 1888 the vote for President, in West
Virginia, was: Harrison. 1911; Cleve-
land, 1857; Labor and Prohibition, 1900.
But, despite the fact that the Demo-
cratic party cast only small plurality
of the vote, the Democratic Legislature
has SO gerrymandered the congressional
districts that but one of the four is Re-
publican. and that one Is very Repub-
lcan. The same body has so districted
The Indianapolis journal., 1891-02-20
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL

Can be found st the following places:
pARIs-American Exchange In Paris. % Boulevard
6es Capuc1nes
NEW YoRK-Gnsey House and Windsor Hotel
pHrI.ApELPHIA-A p Kemble. s7s5 Lancaster
avenue.
CHICAGo-Palner House.
cINcINNATI-J. r. HswIey q Co, 1A Vine street
IouIsvILLE--C. T. Deering. northwest corner
Third and Jefferson streets
ST. LoUIs-union News Company Union Depot
aud southern Hotel
WASHINGTON. d. C.-Riegs House. and Ebbitt
Houoe
The Indianapolis journal., 1891-02-20

NEwsPArERs throughout the South
are already beginning to "hedge" on the
free-coinage question, and by a year
hence we may expect to see the solid
South In line with the New York De-
mocracy. The silver Senators of the
West, by their famous deal. killed the
elections bill and got nothing in return.
The Indianapolis journal., 1891-02-20

Chicago News.

Captain O'Shea. the gentleman now con-
spicuous among PsrnelPs enemies, refers 10
his ex-wife as "the divorced lady, There
is a singular beauty in that nice etiquette
which prompts q man TO call q spade q
utensil for cleaving and excavating the
homogeneous component parts of the al
luyial globe
The Indianapolis journal., 1891-02-20

WHO. has asked the Legislature to
amend the existing law concerning home
building and loan associations? What
interest do the contemplated amend
ments represent, and why is it proposed
to meddle with a well-established and
prosperous businessf
The Indianapolis journal., 1891-02-20

THE first fruits of the assault upon
credit, in Kansas, are the suspension of
one or two large private banking houses,
due to the refusal of Eastern creditors
to extend paper under the present state
of feelin1
The Indianapolis journal., 1891-02-20
The wildcat scheme Yet

Kansas City Journal.
This Stanford proposition is far more
money schemes adopted In France and in
this country during it's colonial days.
Those schemes involved the government
alone while Stanford's scheme would mean
the bankruptcy of the government ana the
rowers alike.
The Indianapolis journal., 1891-02-20
Quite Evident.

Augusta (Ga) Chronicle.
1t is now very evident that the Demo-
cratic party is not united upon the question
of free silver. Mr.. Cleveland's letter has
developed conflicting views, and il H. as
clear now as it was when Mr.. Tilden was
nominated in 1876 that no departure must
be made from the basis of q sound currency.
The Indianapolis journal., 1891-02-20

THE Republican candidate for Mayor
in Philadelphia, Mr.. Stuart, was elected,
Tuesday, by 10000 majority, which is a
fair showing for party which has been
nroclaimed to be dead
The Indianapolis journal., 1891-02-20
party.

In the death of Judge John G. Berk-
shire the Supreme Bench loses jurist
of exceptional industry and capacity.
and one whose place will not be easily
filed. He was an honorable and up
right citizen, and enjoyed the respect
and esteem of all who were fortunate
enough to know him intimately.
The Indianapolis journal., 1891-02-20
A Very Recent Departure.

The Rochester Union sneers at Colonel
Watterson military man whose flame
was n aUrefsS et IA .ne army @ 6I sen laws as
best to destroy the Union.n Since when
hayo Northern Democratic journals begun
to ley il up against a man that he fought
with the Southern Confederacyf
The Indianapolis journal., 1891-02-20

as an independent personality and the
best possible thing when he remembers
that he is Democrat. But if they fail
to explain the mystery they will con-
vince many people that the habit of
Democracy, like some other habits, is a
bad one to which to be addicted.
The Indianapolis journal., 1891-02-20

BOStOn HtfhIu-
There is something more than two years
left for this mania about the free coinage
of silver to subside. In the meantime Mr..
candidate for the next presidency. and he is
a stronger man in at least three out of the
four doubtful States of the Union for his
lat laffer
The Indianapolis journal., 1891-02-20

In the procedure in criminal practice
should be changed to comply with what
the New York World and other accusers
of Senator Quay demand, the accused
will be compelled to prove their inno-
cence instead of the accusers being re-
quired to prove their guilt.
The Indianapolis journal., 1891-02-20

THERE is not much use investigating
the Richmond hospital. That has already
been done by a court and jury. and they
did not whitewash the management,
The Indianapolis journal., 1891-02-20

CONGRESSMAN BLAND has written q
letter in reference to Mr.. Cleveland's
anti-silver-coinage letter, in which he
says: al do not see how the Democratic
party can indorse free coinage and at
the same tune indorse Mr.. Cleveland"
AIr. Bland does not know the Democratic
The Indianapolis journal., 1891-02-20

The Democratic brethren had q lively
time in the House last evening. In the
Language of the street, it might be
called "a monkey and parrot timer 1t
grew out of the controversy over the
taking effect Of the fee and salary bill.
The Indianapolis journal., 1891-02-20
How Fame Is Made.

Watts-Did you ever notice what a lot of de-
tective work. exploration and the like is done by
newspaper menl
Potts-No. 1 have noticed. though, that when
a newspaper man does anything OF that kind it
is pretty well published.
The Indianapolis journal., 1891-02-20

Free silver coinage cannot become q law
at this session of Congress, but the danger
from this heresy will not be over until the
Democratic party, which urges it In every
State in the Union and votes for it In Con-
gress has been beaten in the next presi-
Dental election.
The Indianapolis journal., 1891-02-20

the State that three-fourths of future
legislatures will be Democratic. That
is doing very well, but the Indiana
Democracy still wears the frst-premium
ribbon as a gerrymanderer.
The Indianapolis journal., 1891-02-20

PARTISAN management of the State
institutions is condemned by the utterly
demoralized condition of the Richmond
hosnital for the insane.
The Indianapolis journal., 1891-02-20

THE late Indian war sinks into in
significance when compared with the
noise of words which the newly declared
baseball war threatens to inflict upon
patient and innocent public through the
The Indianapolis journal., 1891-02-20

Chicago News.

The literary element" in Boston has fa-
ken to attending Chinese dramas, per-
formed in the native tongue. The liter
ary elements experience with Browning
has given it practice enough to understand
Chinese at first hearing.
The Indianapolis journal., 1891-02-20

ONE of the most important things for
legislative body to learn is to keep
hands off. 1t is not necessary to meddle
with everything.
The Indianapolis journal., 1891-02-20

SPEAKER NIBLACK tried his hand at
the autocrat business yesterday. In all
candor, he makes pretty good tyrant.
The Indianapolis journal., 1891-02-20
BUBBLES IN THE AIR.
Hopeless.

Mr.. Figg-Tommy, my son, do you know that
it gives me as much pain as it does you when 1
punish yous
Tommy-well, there's some satisfaction "a
that anyhow
The Indianapolis journal., 1891-02-20

THE mild-mannered Speaker of the
Indiana House of Representatives knows
when to put the screws to his party
friends.
The Indianapolis journal., 1891-02-20

THE county officers have a stanch
friend in Speaker Niblack.
The Indianapolis journal., 1891-02-20

WILL superintendent Wells, of the
Richmond hospital, be whitewashedf
The Indianapolis journal., 1891-02-20

AwoRD to the Legislature: The world
is governed too much.
The Indianapolis journal., 1891-02-20

Chicago Inter Ocean
That Watterson letter may be regarded
as a bomb by Senator Hill, and boom by
Grover Cleveland. There are two sides to
every manuscript like this when read be-
tween the lines.