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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1892-02-17
FOR AND AGAINST.
Further Hearings in Regard to the Anti
Option Bill.

Mr.. Forbes of the Duluth board of trade
appeared before the house committee on
agriculture today with an argument
against the passage of the proposed anti
options bill. Its passage, he cOntended,
would demoralize the grain trade of the
whole country, and especially that por-
ton of it which was dependent upon
water navigation to transport products to
market. 1t was claimed by the friends of
the measure that the fact that price Of
wheat was smaller than it was fifteen or
twenty years ago was attributable to what
they denominated gambling in the prod
uct. This was not correct. Fifteen or
twenty years ago Dakota and Minnesota
raised but little wheat today thew raised
one-quarter of the entire crop of the coun-
try. In the meantime the wheat fields of
Australia and India had been largely ex-
tended ami competition had become very
great. The fall in wheat was attributable
TO this fact and not to speculation In the
article, which on the contrary had ten
dency to strengthen prices.
Mr.. Howard of st. Louis favored the
bill, declaring that dealing in futures
was the most subtle kind of gambling that
had ever emanated from the brain OF
man. 1t was the greatest curse that had
ever struck the great nation of America.
The hog products of the United States for
the past ten years had not paid the cost of
the hog, and yet the hog packers of
Chicago had become millIonaires. They
had become so in gambling in futures.
The grain ring was the strongest ring in
existence in the country, and was i'm
poverishing the nation. This question
rose above the question of politics or re-
ligion, for any politics or re-
ligion which permitted poor
man to be deprived of the fruit of
his toll did not deserve to be sustained.
He did not want to cripple commerce IN
any way; he desired to prevent gambling
II he sold man thousand bushels of
wheat he wanted it to be wheat and not q
thousand bushels of wind II this vilest
system of gambling was not stopped 1t
would lead to revolution. There was no
difference between board of trade and a
bucket shop. except that one sold bushel
and the other bucketful. The bucket
shop was only an ofishoot of the board of
trade. Throughout the country there
were bank failures and defalcations and
nine-tenths of the money stolen went into
this pot of futures Adjourned.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1892-02-17
Cleveland and the D.mocracr.
columbia City Post.l


In the democratic party it is not posi-
bic to tell where presidential lightning is
going to strike. Some months ago it
seemed that the question was absolutely
settled, and that no name but that OF
Grover Cleveland would be presented to
the convention. But for some uneccount-
able reason, public sentiment has taken
turn and it now seems that the nomina-
ton of Mr.. Cleveland is only possibility.
But still the rank and file among the
people are as enthusiastic supporters OF Mr..
Cleveland as ever, but the politicians who
control nominations largely, are appre-
hensiye that he cannot carry the state OF
New York, and with the politicians, a
mans principles are not as important as
his ability to win.
Mr.. Cleveland may be defeated and
another man entirely acceptable to the
party placed at the head of the ticket.
Yet there will be thousands eff democrats
in all parts of the country who will feel
personal disappointment at not having an
opportunity to vote and work for the
former chief. No man today has the en-
tire confidence of the great body of his
own party to the extent that Mr.. Cleve-
land has. 1t is not that the people think
him man of dazzling genius or that he is
a great political leader, for he is not
politician in the sense that the term is
generally understood. Nor is he a man OF
surprising genius in any line. The
people admire and respect him for his
rugged, homely honesty and sincerity OF
purpose. While others meet and discuss
the details of q winning campaign, Mr..
Cleveland never speaks of victory in any
other way than a triumph of principle:
not an end, but as a means of inaugural
ing a wise and safe policy for the better
ment of the people. He is not skilled in
employing words to conceal ideas. All of
his public expressions are noble in their
simplicity. and impressive in their
honesty.
The great mass OF the people are not in
triguing politicians and a point hes been
reached in our affairs polite when states
narship and political integrity are vastly
more respected than political expedients.
The true principles of popular govern
ment are imperishable, and have no con-
nection with those surface eruptions which
flourish for a day and are then forgotten.
OF such substantial ideas and of this sub
stantial class, Mr.. Cleveland is the ideal
representative, and his election again to
the presidency upon platform made by
himself would find its greatest glory in the
results that would flow from it.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1892-02-17

mend to the house for passage.
The changes to be made in the
bill, as introduced by Mr.. Springer,
have not yet been formally drafted
and ii will be some days before the bill is
put in shape. Very substantial reductions
have been made in the duties on wooden
manufactures proposed by the bill as in
troduced by Mr.. Springer. The sd valorem
duties on wooden manufactures of all
kinds, including cloths, dress goods, car
pets and all other wooden articles imposed
under the Mckinley law. and which
rates were LETT unchanged by the Springer
bill, have been cut down wherever in ex-
cess of 40 per cent, and the aver
age rate OF duty proposed by the new
bill on wooden manufactures is about
D per cent. below the uniform rate of 40
per cent fixed by the Mills bill. Under
the agreement reached wool is made free,
as proposed by the Springer bill; all
duties on wooden manufactures which
were 40 per cent, or less, under the pres
ent law are left unchanged; where more
than 40 per cent, they are reduced to
that rate, so that no WOODEN duties will
be higher than the Mills rate, and those
on the cheaper grades will be less. Under
the Mckinley law duties range from 80 to
90 per cent, so that there is a reduction of
% per cent. made from the highest rate
now imposed, and the average rate
Is brought down to about 80 per cent.
On shoddies and waste the agreement
adopts the Springer rate of so per cent.
against present rate of 80 cents per pound.
All compensatory duties, of course, are
taken off. as raw wool is made free so that
the present per pound and per yard duties
will be abolished If the bill becomes a law,
and only advalOrem duties retained.
Members of the committee say that the
wool bill will be the principal measure re-
ported from the committee and that an
examination of its provisions, when form
ally announced, will show that not only
has mo backward step" been taken in
the direction of tariff reform, but that
step IN advance has been taken of consid-
cradle importance and that of the wool
schedule regarded by all tariff reformers
as the key to the protective tariff system;
reductions are made greater than those
proposed by the democrats two years ago.
a careful consideration of the bill, they
believe, Will show that it is proposed to
make a substantial attack On the tariff
and at the same time one which may have
fair show of passage through the senate
and OF becoming law.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1892-02-17
BIG FIRE AT CINCINNATI.
Three Hundred Thousand Dollars
Damage Done.

CINCINNATI, o., 10.-A fire, which in its
destructiveness was the most far-reaching
of any ever before in Cincinnati, started
early this evening in the four-story
building occupied by Messrs. Ezekiel
& Bernheim, actioneers and stor-
age commission dealers. The fire
pretty thoroughly destroyed the building
and badly wrecked the building occupied
by the American oak leather company.
On Main-st., next south of Ezekiel q
Bernheim, is the Commercial national
bank. Also next south of the same build
ing on Hammond-st- is the Hammond-st.
police station. The roof of the CONNER
ciaI bank was crushed in and the building
totally destroyed. The roof and walls of
the Hammond-st. police station were also
badly crushed in the same manner.
A rough estimate of the loss IN the auc-
ton and storage building is $4,000; on
the American oak leather company's
stock is $4,000; on the two buildings,
100000; on the Commercial bank build
ing, $4,000. Simon Fletcher, dealer in
government goods, occupied the first story
of the bank building. His loss by the de-
struction of the building will be $4,000.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1892-02-17

serves and should have the states sup
port for the high Office he seeks. And
he will have it. But only in the event
that he stands for the welfare of the party
first and himself last. He can't coquet
with democratic principles and the Tam
many siren and succeed with both. The
democrats are heartily tired of New York's
domination and treachery.
The democrats of Indiana can indorse
and work willingly for Isaac z. Gray for
the first place on the ticket, but cannot,
and will not. countenance or abide by any
deals by him or his lieutenants, with Hill,
whereby the West is again to be given q
back seat.
The democrats of Indiana, taken as a
whole, are not insanely enthusiastic over
Grsy-in truth, he is not considered q
Hendricks by any means-and can fight
him with the same vim and vigor that
they can support him as long as he stands
for his party, his state and himself, and
not for Hill.
Indiana is for Gray, but that feslty for
him and genuine democratic ideas cannot
be bartered or transferred to Hill, and the
quicker this is thoroughly understood by
all concerned the better it will be for the
democratic party.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1892-02-17
THE PRESIDENCY.
Hill and GrRy-No.
TRichmond Independent.l

Hill and GRAY is the combination that
is to be forced on the democrats. Under
ordinary circumstances this would be gen.
orally satisfactory to Indiana democrats,
but the circumstances under which this
combine is being arranged are not ordi-
nary.
Hill, which is synonymous with Tam
many, may yell from the housetops till
he's hoarse: "Pm democrat" but the
people know equally as well that he is a
politician, who holds himself first, party
next, and then his God and country come
in for what consideration he may have
left. He already has one of the Tam
many tigers paws on the city of New
York. and the other on the state capitol,
and the beast now wants Indiana to get
under its belly and support il, so it can
stretch itself out and place its forepaws on
the national capitol without lifting its
hind paws. These are the facts boldly
stated.
81 am democrat" Well there are
million and half more of them in this
country, and that declaration from Mr..
Hill carries no argument with it why he
should boss the whole business. Take
this declaration with his declaration of is
sues for the coming campaign, and he is
not that bold and daring warrior OF de-
mocracy that he would have people imply
from his II am a Democrat"
We are democrats, Just as sincere and
bold as MIR. Hill, and there are thousands
upon thousands of them right here in In
diana, not one of whom willingly will
show the faintest glimmer of the white
feather on the tariff issue or any other
true democratic principle to further
any mans INSCRIPTIONS political
ambition. We are democrats and are not
ready to surrender anything in the line of
principle for the benefit OF Mr.. Hill or any
other man, but can at any time bring our
selves to surrendering any man to main
tain the principles we believe in and have
fought for.
Gray is an IndianiaD, man of ability,
and standing in the presidential line. do
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1892-02-17
The Wrong of Asylum.
tTerre Haute Gazette

Is il possible that the American people
comprehend the nature of Minister Egan's
conduct in converting the American
legation into an asylum for offenders
against the laws OF Chilli? Chill has a
legation building, owned or rented as the
case may be, in Washington. she prob
ably had such legation at Washington dur
ing our war of the rebellion. Suppose
John Wilkes Booth and his fellow con-
spirators had taken refuge in that build
ing and Chill had contended for the right
of converting her legation building into
an asylum for them? Would we have
stood it for a minute?
Suppose Jefferson Davis or any other
leader or member of the rebellion had
managed to elude the vigilance of our SOL
diers and had fed to and gotten into the
CHILEAN legation or the legation building
at Washington of any other country, does
any one suppose that we would have re-
spected such absurd claim and that We
would have admitted that any government
could sequester piece OF our territory
and annul our right of sovereignty over it
and prevent US from taking Davis or any
other rebel thence and trying them for
their offences against our laws?
This is precisely what Egan has done
and il is this that President Harrison up
holds him in declaring that be has
done right, and adding that we only de-
mand of Chill what, the cases being re-
versed, we would cheerfully grant, and
then, as a sort of doxology, declaring that
we want to live in peace with our neigh
hOra
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1892-02-17
The Road TO Success.
Jacksonville News. /

The fight in New York between the
Cleveland and Hill men would seem to
indicate with the present light, that New
York is entirely out of the race for presi-
Dental honor. In this event il is the
proper time to push the candidacy of the
Hon. Isaac p. Gray. There are many
democrats who believe that the best policy
to pursue is to go West for a candidate.
Certainly when we consider the record Of
Isaac Gray as governor, and the large
vote which he invariably gets upon cleo
ton day, and that Indiana is an essential
factor in the race, as we'll the further
fact that the republican nominee will be
from this state, the nomination of Isaac
Gray for president seems highly probable.
Certainly it would be the road to success.
There is little doubt that good democrat
from the West will more easily carry New
York than any man who lives within the
borders of that state.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1892-02-17

ATLANTA, Ga. Feb. 10.-[Special Pres
ident Harrison wants no negroes st the
Minneapolis convention, and he draws the
line at office holders of whatever descrip-
ton. That is the announcement his con-
fidential friend and adviser Rhody Shiel
of Indianapolis brought to the republic
ans Of Georgia, and the result Is Harrison
and friend are being much cussed and
discussed here in Atlanta and through the
state.
Today Ex-Governor Porter of Indiana,
now minister to Italy, and Il. r. Shiel, the
republican leader of Indianapolis, left At
lanta after days stay here. They came
ostensi5ly on social trip, but it devel-
opes that a side issue was the bearing of
a message from the president and the
national committee to the effect that
there must be no federal ofice-holders in
the Minneapolis convention. The dele
gates must be business men and moreover
must be white men, according to the presi-
dents wishes in this respect. Mr.. Shiel is
quoted as saving: "He does not want a
single man appointed as a delegate that
holds any government position or that is
in any way under obligations to the adj
ministration. OF course, the president ex-
poets his appointees to see to it that a
solid Harrison delegation is sent to the
convention, but he wants them selected
from among white business men. This
same request will be made In other south
ern states. If Mr.. Harrison gets the nomi-
nation, which he undoubtedly will, he
wants TO be able to say in the campaign
that he was nominated by the people and
not his office-holders."
All of which was very sad to the Office
holders, and especially sad was it to the
brothers in black. 1t knocks them out
completely. 1t means that the negro
workers will have no chance at all. But
thev were not alone in their disapDoint-
ment. The delegation had already prac-
tically been made up. 1t had been fixed
that Marshal Buck and the other office
holders should be the men 70 go to Indi-
annapolis. Buck was to have headed the
delegation at large. The other three
slated candidates were office-holders, and
all the candidates from the districts were
government office-holders.
Whatever the effect of this new order
of things may be 1t is anything but pleas
ant, to the negroes especially, who con-
slider it a snub on their race. In the past
the majority of the Georgia delegates have
been colored republicans and the Office
holders have considered the trip to the
national convention one of their perquis-
ties. But it is the negroes that are mad
and are doing large amount of cursinR-
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1892-02-17
The Negro Vote and the G. o. p.
fIogansport Pharos1

1t is well to note, too, that every state
bordering the Ohio river on the north has
democratic majority of the white vot-
ers. Ohio, Indiana and Illinois would
be reliably democratic if it were not for
that reliable republican ally, the negro
vote. The colored voters are as true to
the republican party as vassal to king.
1t is their vote that made possible the
election OF republican president and
gavethe country taste of McKinleyism.
What have they gained by their stead
fast devotion to the republican. party2
They have helped impose burdens not
only on themselves, but on millions OF
the white race as we'll.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1892-02-17
ga Peer Among Peers"
frankfort Crescent

L
The Crescent has earnestly urged in the
past that it was the duty of Indiana demo-
Gratis to give the Hon. Isaac 2. Gray an
earnest and cordial support for the presi-
dency. The conditions arising in New
York are just those which We thought
would confront the democracy, and they
emphasize the demand for western can
didate. The availability of Ex-Governor
Gray cannot be questioned. In fitness for
the high position of President he stands
peer among peers. He has no antagonisms
and would command the full support of
the party in every section of the republic.
Indiana is the battle ground. Her stall
wart democracy must carry the banner to
victory. Governor Gray can carry Indiana.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1892-02-17
NO BACKWARD STEP.

Substantial Reduction of Duties on Woo
and Its Manufactures.
There has been a substantial agreement
reached by the wool and wooden special
committee of the democratic majority OF
the house committee on ways and means
on the provisions of the wool bill. As
this committee numbers five out of the
ten democratic members Of the ways and
means committee il is believed that the
agreement reached embodies the provis-
ions of the free wool bill which the ways
and means committee will recon-
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1892-02-17
WI Snpport Cleveland.

New York, Feb. 10.-A meeting OF
prominent New jersey democrats has
been held here. 1t was resolved that tariff
reform as advocated by the democratic
party and approved by an immense ma
iority of the people, should be the issue
upon which that party will 90 before the
convention at the coming presidential
election, and that the unlimited free
coinage of legal tender silver would, if
adopted, bring distress and ruin TO
the country and its advocacy, and win
insure the defeat of any party making it
an issue in the presidential election. The
meeting pledged itself to support Grover
Cleveland under all circumstances.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1892-02-17
Gray or Cleveland.
[Laporte August

If the New York schemers and trick
sters succeed in preventing the nomina-
ton of Cleveland, the choice is not at all
likely to go to Hill, but some western man
will be selected, and in that event Gov
ernor Gray will stand an excellent chance.
1t will be surprising however. with the
overwhelming sentiment in favor of
Cleveland, if the people do not demand
his nomination in such unmistakable
language as to compel the manipulating
politicians and cunning tricksters who are
seeking his defeat to take back seats or
get run over and crushed out OF existence.
The people plainly have the power TO Sc
lect delegates to carry out their own
wishes, and all it needs is determination
to put men to the front who will represent
their wishes.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1892-02-17
IUHoa Observer

1t is significant fact that nearly every
democrat outside OF New York who has
been named as possible candidate for the
presidency favors the candidacy of Cleve-
land. Among these may be named Cow
ernor Robert f. Pattison of Pennsylvania;
Governor William +. Russell Of Massa-
chusetts; Governor Horace Boies of Iowa,
and Senator John M. Palmer of Illinois,
all democrats of pronounced individuality
and conceded popularity.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1892-02-17
TO EXPOSE RAUM,
Investigation Of the Pen
sion Bureau Ordered
With a Broader Scope than
Previous Inquiries.
NO WHITEWASH THIS TIME.
Cooper and Enloe Will Con-
duet the Fight
Action Expected on the Bland
Bill in Sixty Days.

The Senate Will Have an Oppor-
tunity to Act Upon IL Before Either
of the Great National Conventions
Mr.. Bland Will Push the Bill
Through as Rapidly as Possible
Arguments for and Against the
Anti-Option BiII-Other Washington
News.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1892-02-17
Better Let Him Alone.
TRookville Tribunal

It would be we'll enough for the few
politicians who are back of the Hill move
ment in Indiana to know that they had
better let that trickster alone. Demo-
Gratis. not to mention the people. don't
want the New York boss for president of
the United States.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1892-02-17
HONOR TO TILDEN,
Grand Banquet of the Dem
yer Greystone Club.
Celebration of the Great
Leaders Natal Day.
Eulogies Full Of Eloquence
and Logic.
Mr.. CLEVELAND'S TRIBUTE
To the Noble Life OF a Grand
Statesman,
Whose Every Effort Was for
the Good Of His Country.
Several Letters Of Regret from
Prominent Democrats.

The Political Situation Reviewed by
Senator Vest and the Line of Victory
Pointed Out Stirring Address by
Governor BOies on the Tariff and
What Is to Be AccOmpIished-GO
gresham Breckinridge-The Whole
Affair Most Brilliant Success.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1892-02-17

DENVER. Col, Feb. 9.-The eloquence
and logic of western democracy gushed
forth in an ample and brilliant tide at the
banquet rendered by the Greystone club
In honor of Samuel ]. Tilden's birthday.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1892-02-17
AS Delegates from the
Southern States.
THE PRESIDENTS ORDERS
Conveyed to the South by
Rhody Shiel.
No Office Holders Need Apply
Either.

a Move by the President to Forestau
Any Embarrassing Claims for Re-
ward in Case of Success-The Col
ored Brother Very WrOth-He Cons
siders 1t Direct Snub and Expresses
Himself Accordingly.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1892-02-17
Inexcusable Homicide.
[Terre Haute Gazette. ]

A stanch democrat writing to the
Gazette from the southern part of the state
says of the absurd talk about David b.
Hills nomination for the presidency /:
"The nomination of this man Hill would
be inexcusable homicide" He is right !;
it would be. But the democratic party is
not going to nominate David B. Hill. The
ticket will be Grover Cleveland of the
United States and Isaac p. Gray of In
diana
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1892-02-17
THE TILDEN CLUB BANQUET.
A Pleasant Occasion Mt south Bend-CIauds
Matthews, Response.

SOUTH BEND. Feb. 9.-[Special. l-As is
the custom, the annual banquet of the
Tilden club was held at Turner hall this
evening. All day the spacious and beau
tIful headquarters Of the organization
were kept open and 0 Roodly number OF