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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-26
mate that element from the Democratic
rarty in this State and it would be in q
hopeless minority.

A sTATIsTICIAN of Cleveland. O.. who
has been collecting information relative
o deaths and casualties among Demo-
Gratis, caused By Publications over the
result of the recent election. finds that
no fewer than seventy EIGHT have been
killed by the bursting of cannon, the
explosion of powder-kegs and similar
accidents. Twenty-Five have received
wounds which will prove fatal and 125
have been crippled to such an extent as
to destroy their usefulness-if they were
useful before. These cases comprise
the casualties. Then it is said that 265
deaths have resulted from pneumonia.
acute bronchitis, congestion of the lungs
and other diseases caused by exposure
in jollifying. and it is estimated that
before November, 1896. no fewer than
1.437 Democrats will die of consump-
ton, the seeds of which were sown in
the Same way. In over six thousand
cases the habit of using alcoholic liquors
to excess dates from the election, and
it is estimated that nearly ten Thousand
Democrats will die during the next four
years from restitution. lack of ambition
and general collapse caused by failure
to get Office. This is the seamy side of
the Democratic victory.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-26

A STATEMENT was publicly made on
Thanksgiving day to the effect that
Jefferson, as President, refused to APP
point a day of public thanksgiving and
praise, but none since his time has re-
fused. Upon the suggestion of Con-
gress, for what were regarded special
favors, Washington issued two thanks
giving proclamations, but no. other was
issued until the close of the war of 1919.
From that time until Abraham Lincoln
issued the proclamation of 1863 no ma
tional proclamation was issued. 1t was
then taken up as a national observance,
and has since been continued. Graft
tude for the victories of Vicksburg and
Gettysburg doubtless largely inspired
Lincoln to proclaim a day of thanksgiv-
ing In 1868, but the idea of nationality
was not without it's influence. Thomas
Jefferson may have refused. as charged,
but as a national annual custom it was
not taken up until 1868.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-26
Protective Imitation.
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

THE ex-Chief Geronimo, who. with other
s~ubjugated Apache Indians, is living near
Mobile, has been made o gardener at the
military station whore he Is q captive. and
Is also q justice of the peace for his tribe.
THE Empress Eugene devotes two or
three hours of each day to writing her
memoirs, but so sensitive 10 she about her
work that she allows no one to look at her
manuscript, and has made special arrange
ments that her book shall not be published
until she has been dead twenty-five years.
Mrs. RALPH WALDO EMERsON's death
draws attention to two facts: Her unmar-
ried daughters beautiful devotion to her
blind parent these many years, and the un-
disturbed condition of Mr.. Emerson's study
since his death. In fact, the whole house
and lte furnishings have undergone little
change in o decade.
THE man who taught Joel Chandler Har-
ris to set typ in the Office of a Georgia
country weekly says that the two most
noticeable characteristics of the young
Uncle Remus" were his fondness for COM
muning with rabbits and the attentiveness
with which he listened to the stories told
BY old plantation negroes.
Mr.. +. MARION CRAWFORD, the novelist.
said recently: Il think there is q richer
field for the novelist IN the United States
than in Europe. There are more original
characters to be found here, and they are
in greater variety. You have the richest
field In the world for the novelist to work
in right here in the United States, and
when properly handled and developed it
will make the United States the great arena
for the novelist, as IL is already the center
of almost everything else"
THE impression in the East that Miss
Ella Knowles, the Populist candidate, has
been elected Attorney-general of Montana
lie wrong. Until . few days ago the Popu-
lists claimed, and others were disposed to
concede, her election. She carried several
Democratic counties and ran well in Re-
publican ~strongh0lds whore tho mining
vote was large. In the stock-growing
counties, however, che developed no
strength whatever. and tho election of the
Republican candidate is now conceded By
one thousand plurality.
NINE. CHRISTINE NILSSON has given e.
600 toward founding q hospital in France
especially intended for the cure of diseases
of the throat. Such munificence on the
part of the famous singer Is the result OF
an early VOW. Mime. Nilsson, whose parents
were very poor, had often to shiver under
the cold blast OF wintry Sweden. When
she Was about saven years of age she was
attacked with Group, and had TO be con.
veyed to O small hospital at Chrisma. Such
attention was paid to her that she was able
to escape tho danger which at ono time
threatened her. Hence the VOW and iii
ful6limenf
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-26

THE Cincinnati Enquirer reminds the
leaders of the Democratic party that
the Chicago platform declares for free
trade, free silver coinage, repeal of the
United States election law and repeal
of the 10-per-cent. tax on State bank
issues, and demands that these pledges
be carried out as soon as possible. The
Enquirer says:
There 10 no need of talk. The verdict Is
made M. There are volumes of speeches
on all the topics treated in the Chicago
platform, but the platform itself stops the
flow of language. 1t 10 the contract which
the Democratic party has made with the
people, and q violation of it will result in
disaster.
Just SO; and because it is the contract
which the Democratic party has made
with the people is the reason why no.
body expects it to be carried out.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-26
PROPOSED CONCESSION TO POPULAR sENTI.
MRNT,

The Indianapolis correspondent of
the Chicago Herald, who is supposed to
be in the confidence of the Democratic
party managers, says it is the intention
of the next Legislature to effect a rad
ical change in the organization of the
boards of the State institutions by trans
ferring their appointment from the
Legislature to the Governor. The
change is said to be the result of a per-
sistent demand on the part of the peo-
pie and e growing feeling that it is a
necessary reform. This demand, it is
said, has been continuous and incessant
for the past ten years. "The Legis-
lature has itself recognized" says the
correspondent. "that its selection Of
such officers was not the best method,
but party feeling and party ~exigencies
have been such that the body would not
voluntarily relinquish a right when the
REIMBURSEMENT placed the vast patron
age of the institutions in the hands of
political enemies. The masses of the
party have respected the sympathies
which continued n system open to so
many abuses, but the time has now
come when party exigencies do not OBJ
tain, and when it is expected that the
benevolent and penal institutions will
pass from the control of the Legislature
and be forever divorced from politics"
This il an admission that the Repub-
lican party has been right on this ques-
ton for ten years past, and that the
Democratic party has been wrong. Fur
ther, il Is an admission that the Demo-
cratic party has been knowingly wrong,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-26

and that it has persisted in its wrong
course for purely partisan reasons
But the change thus fo~reshadowed
will not necessarily be a reform. What
is needed, and what the people demand.
is a removal of the State institutions
from political control. This can only be
done by the appointment of ~non-partisan
boards or boards divided in politics.
Merely transferring the appointing
power from a partisan Legislature to q
partisan Governor will not work any re-
form unless 1t is provided that the men,
bers of the boards shall be of different
politics. This would, indeed, be the be-
ginning of q great and substantial re-
form.
1t is quite evident, however, that the
Democrats do not expect to loosen their
grip on the patronage of the institutions
by this change in the n of appoint
ing members of the board. The corre-
spondent from whom we have quoted
says:
Some Of the Democrats would be loath to
take from the Legislature this patronage
when IL has been uniformly Democratic and
the Governor not always in sympathy with
that party. But the recent election has
demonstrated that the Australian ballot
system ie certain to keep the Democrats in
power and the party will stand an sven
show to elect both Governor and Legisla-
ture in all future political contests.
So the proposed change does not spring
from any desire to divorce the institu-
tions from politics or to comply honestly
with b demand of the people for re-
form in this regard, but is simply to be
a tub to q whale-a change in the nan
Ter of appointing the boards without at
all ~detracting from their partisan char
acter. This is the quality of Democratic
reform in general. Very likely it will
all end in talk.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-26

On the surface the railroad managers
who asked the Chicago business men if
they were going to sell goods for half
price during the fair, as they asked the
railroads to sell tickets, seemed to have
the C~hicagoans at a disadvantage. A
moments consideration shows that
there is no analogy between selling
goods at half price and selling railroad
tickets at q reduced rate. 1t is well
known that goods in general cannot be
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-26

As both the Republican and Populist
conventions in Kansas declared that
woman suffrage, which now covers mu-
nicipal elections in that State, shall be
extended to national and State elections,
and as both parties are partly in power,
a demand will be made upon them that
they keep their pledges. If they do.
next presidential election if the men,
when the proposition is submitted to
them as an amendment to the Constitu-
ton, adopt it. But the "ifn involves
great doubt.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-26

THE Democratic committee of Morgan
county has adopted q resolution con-
demning the action of the vandals who
recently desecrated the graves and
tombstones of Union soldiers in that
county, and urging the County Commits
sioners TO offer a reward for their detec-
ton and punishment. This means that,
personally. the members of the commit
tee 30 o approve of the outrage and
that they do not wish their party to rest
under the suspicion of doing so. But
this does not alter the fact that the put
rage was perpetrated by jubilant DEM
ocrats rejoicing over the recent victory.
and that there are thousands of Demo-
Gratis in Indiana who, in their hearts.
fully sympathize with the Dissertation
and the spirit that prompted it. Elm
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-26

THE Springfield. Mass, Republican,
mugwump, in telling what it has heard
about the fifteen thousand or more
voters who disfranchised themselves in
using the Australian ballot, remarks
the mistake affects "the legality of the
election of Governor Russell" OF
course not; but there should be some
means by which the intent of the voter
should be taken into consideration in
counting ballots if this is not to become
q government of the minority.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-26
A DEFECTIVE Law.

The suit brought by q blind man In
California to test the constitutionality
Of the Australian ballot law in that
State raises q new point. Ii is averred
by the plaintiff that, being blind and
therefore unable to prepare his ballot,
he was obliged to have it prepared for
him by n of the election officers,
thereby depriving him Of the constitu-
tional right Of a secret ballot. We do
not think there is anything in this
point. Certainly there would not be in
this State. Our law provides that any
person "who declares that, by reason Of
physical disability or inability to read
the English language, he is unable to
mark his ballot, may declare his choice
OF candidates to the poll clerks, who, in
the presence of the elector and in the
presence of each other, shall prepare the
ballots, and, on request, shall read over
to such elector the names of the candi-
dates as marked" 1t is made a penal
offense to deceive q voter who asks to
have his ballot prepared for him
or to disclose to any person how
he voted. Under this provision the Sc
crecy of the ballot would not be sacri-
feed any more than if the blind or IL
literate voter took his ballot from an
other person or took it home to be
prepared for him in advance. In fact,
no system could be devised under which
such voters would not either be depend
ent on other persons for the preparation
or have to reveal how they voted.
This point is not as weiehty as others
that have been made against the law,
some of which certainly call for amend
ment. The main features of the law,
viz. the printing and distribution of
ballots by the State. the secrecy and in
dependence of the ballot and the ex-
clusion of ~bystanders and electioneerers
from the vicinity of the polls are excel
lent. and should by all means be re-
tanned. But either the law is defective
in some of its details or it is too easily
perverted and prostituted by partisan
election boards. No law can be held
satisfactory that gives partisan election
boards power to throw out ten thousand
ballots, as vas done in the recent cleo
ton in this State. for technical and triv-
ial defects-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-26

his money for bic daily use. The note of q
failed national bank IL a. good as that of
ANY bank IN the system. The restoration
of state bank circulation portends disaster
to that class of our citizens who m ost need
and have most right TO ask protection from
the government The State bank circnla-
tion loses its money power in q crisis. IL 10
q source of weakness and adds TO the dam
ger. Instead of paying debts IL comes for
ward itself TO be paid"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-26

GOVERNOR RUSSELL, of Massachu-
sets, might be rightly termed his Acct
dency. He owes his election to about
twenty thousand mistakes. A sensitive
man would hesitate to take Office to
which he was plainly not entitled by
the will of the people.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-26

THERE is a field for art in the illustra-
tions of oot-ball games which able art
lists are quick to appreciate. 1t is per-
missible in these illustrations to put the
Ditions it could never take under any
other circumstances. But that is foot
Ill
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-26
Editor of the Indianapolis Journal:

To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal:
What arc the leading sugar-grow1ng counties
In louisiana q. What per cent. of the sugar
consumed in the United states do they growf
W. w.
]. The parishes Of Ascension, Assump-
ton. Iberville, L~afourche. PIaquemine. st.
James. st. Mary. Terrebonne. 2. The whole
country produces about s per cent of the
sugar consumed. and probably Louisiana
grows half of it. This is simply an esti-
mate.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-26

THE only reason why public conf
dence has not been shaken and business
disturbed by the Democratic victory is
because of the general belief that the
party will ~repudiate it's platform and it's
campaign pledges. In other words.
there is n general belief that the coun-
try is safe because the party is dishon-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-26

New York Tribune.
Arkansas man was asked the other day
why he was In favor OF sending Mira. Lesse
to the United States Senate. We'll" he
replied, I'VE sent q beard TO the Senate.
and we have about concluded that we
didn't send anything else. Now We would
Ike to send some one there who couldn's
possibly raise a beard If she trled.D The
speaker calls himself an "anti-Peffer pro-
Lease Populist.n
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-26

The difficulty with Ex-Governor Gray
and his admirers is that they cannot see
the intellectual gulf that separates him
from such men as Hendricks and Nc
Dcnald, and his misfortune is that Mr..
Cleveland's advisers can.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-26

NOTHING makes a Democrat madden
now than to remind him that his party
is pledged to abolish protection and re-
peal the prohibitory tax on Stated bank
notes. He resents as an insult the i'm
plication that his party meant what it
aid
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-26

few York Commercial Advetfiser.

In how many Southern States to-day is
the State credit u~nimpairedi There are
not above three or four whose credit is
rood for 100 cents on the dollar. Repudia-
ton. readjustment and similar purely
Southern methods of finance have brought
State credit down to a low point. Never
theless. If the example of Georgia il to be
foliowed-as IL surely will-the country Will
be flooded with illimitable issues of State
Lank notes of various degrees OF worthless
maze
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-26

Thus early fears begin to steal into
the Democratic intelligence that the i'm
portant parsonage who is now the her.
nit of Hog island may become the
despot of the White House.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-26

IT is due to the good sense of the Hunt
lngton Herald to explain that it did not
predict that Ex-Governor Gray would be
Secretary of the Interior. but Secretary Of
the Exterior In the Cleveland Cabinet.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-26

SPECIAL dispatches from Washington
state that Mr.. Blaine is much more seri-
ously i'll than the regular dispatches in
dictate, and there Is reason to believe
his condition is critical.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-26

81 Louis Post Dlspatch tDem1
Any extension of the civil-service rules
made by President Harrison will be heart
lily approved by the people and will no
dou5t be a great comfort TO Mr.. Cleveland.
Only the spoilsmen will object. bnt their
opposition Is reason enough for such action.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-26

The wickedness of the baron manu-
facturer and the tariff robber seems to
have been lost sight of by the recent
free-trade organs.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-26
Troupe Ahead.


If millionaire Murphy is chosen a COL
league of Senator Hill Cleveland will have
some unpleasant with the prin-
cipie of Senatorial courtesy" Hence tie
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-26

10 the Editor OF the Indianapolis Journal,
Did the Prohibitionists double their vote this
year over 1888. as some of them claimf
@. g. N.
Prohibition vote for Governor: 1888, 1851;
1890, 2.106; 1892. H. 700.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-26
Eamfn1amA-

you. deari
Miss Rosie Hugh-No. Dol look it,
Miss Della Casey-Yes. You are so pale thai
you are almost pretty.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-26
A Common Complaint.

watts-Whats the matter with Braggsl He
walks around with his nose away up in the air
and won't look at any one.
Potts-He sprained his neck looking for the
comet.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-26

Csn be found at the following places:
~PARIS-American Exchange In Paris, 80 Boulcvard
de Capucines-
NEW YORK-Grsey House and windsor Hotel
PHILADELPHIA. P. Kemble. s7s5 Lancaster
avenue.
CHICAGO-Palmer House.
CINcINNATIJ. r. Hawley& Co, ls4 vino street.
L~OUIsvILLE-C. 7. Deering, northwest corner Of
Third and Jefferson streets.
OF. LOUIS-UnionN News Co, Union Depot.
WASHINGTON, d. C.-Riggs House and Ebbits
Housa
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-26

The struggle between the exclusively
mercenary element in the Democratic party
and those who believe that principles and
policies should be its guide has got to
come, and the Republicans can stand aside
and watch with interest, and not without
amusement lts e~ver-varylng aspects.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-26

DR.. SCoTT, father of the late Mrs.
Harrison. is i'll at the White House, and,
in view Of his great age,h his recovery is
doubtful.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-26
Grover and the whanrdoodle.

New York Advertiser.
If the ofice-seekers bother their great
Buddha-like prototype at Lakewood. he
may lice To the mountains of Hepisdam. IN
northern New Jersey. and keep company
with the mourning -whangdoodle.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-26

Satfnted.

MISUNDERSTANDING. supposed
Hungry Higgins-You said FER. But, for
heavens and humanity's sake, don't gimme no
cold turkey!
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-26

Virginia, and the distinguished occu-
pant cannot tread writing"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-26
The Gobsisr the Bird of Freedom

Now YORK Hecordtr-
These be sad days for the American
turkey. Old Ben Franklin believed that
the gobbie and not the eagle should be the
bird of freedom. because the homely barn.
yard fowl hated a redcoat and was strictly
hOueet.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-26
Wonderful Bird.

Watts-I have O. parrot out home that will an
swer intelligently any question I put TO him.
Potts-I have often read of such birds, but I
never believed the stories.
Watts-It Is simple enough. I always ask him,
"what does Polly wantl" and the intelligent
creature naturally says, "Polly wants o cracker"
Protective Imitation.
,Tuf Muegs-Gee! Here comes do cop, an it's
too late to run!
Baryl Howes-Hor on; I'll fix i'm. By gosh!
Hog washI Some slosh! Ham fat! Ding bat.
Raw! Hoo! Raw!
And the innocent policeman merely muir
INJURED: Them Is about the toughest lookins
stngents I ever see," and passed on.
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