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Daily Texarkana Democrat., 1892-10-22
job ting.

The DEMOCRAT Job Office in connection, full and COM
pete and every description of Job Printing done IN the
best style and at reasonable prices.
p Office at the old stand next door to the Pacific Ex-
press office, 11S State Line Avenue
j. w. GARDNER, Proprietor.
Daily Texarkana Democrat., 1892-10-22
BEST PRINTED PAPER
BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM
LARGEST CIRCULATION

With bran new type ana Improvements made, the
DEMOCRAT is now second TO daily outside of the large
ciues 1t is the newsiest local papern the city
Daily Texarkana Democrat., 1892-10-22
THE WORLDS FAIR.

Sec. Is. Recognizing the Worlds Col
umbisn Exposition as national undertak,
ing of vast Importance in which the general
government has invited the cooperation. OF
all the powers Of the world, and appreciat-
ing the acceptance by many OF such powers
of The invitation &c extended and the broad
and liberal efforts being made by them to
contribute to the gr, ndeur of the undertake
inc. we are of the opinion that Congress
should make such necessary financial pro-
vision as nhall be requisite to the mainten-
ance of he national honor and public faith.
Daily Texarkana Democrat., 1892-10-22
THE SCHOOL QUESTION.

Sec. II. Popular education being the on
,v safe basis of popular suffrage, we recon-
mend N to the several States most liberal ap-
preparation for the public schools; Free Free
common schools are the nursery of good
government, and they have always. received
the fostering rc oftho Democratic party.
tellirence. Freedom of education being an
essential of civil and religious liberty as well
a. NJ a necessity for the development of intel
iigence, must not be interfered with under
anv preteyt whatever. W. are opposed to
Sta State interference with parental rights or
RIGHTS of conacleuco in the education OF
children as an infringement OF the tunda-.
mental Democratic doctrine that the largest
Individual liberty consistent with the rights
If others insures the highest type OF Ameri-
can citizenship and the best government
Daily Texarkana Democrat., 1892-10-22
ADMISSION OF THE TERRITORIES.

soc 1s. Weapprove the action of the
,,rosont House of Representatives in passing
b;,Is admitting into the Union as States the
Torr;tories of New Mexico and Arizona, and
.,,o f,vor the early admission OF all the Ter
ritores having the necessary popuiauon ane
resources to entite them to otatehoo1' anu
while they remain Territories we hoid lhat
the officials appointed to administer inc GOV.
ernment of any Territory, together WIN the
District of Columbia ana Alaska, shoulu pe
bona flde residents Of the Territory or uls-
triot in which heir duties are 10 DC per-
formed. The Democratic party believes IN
home rule the control OF their own III
iairs by the peopl9 oftne vlcinage'
PROTECTION OF RAILWAY Employees
Soc. 10. We favor legislation by Con-
oross and State legislatures TO protect the
tivas and limbs Of railway employees ana
,hoso of other hazardous transportation
'nos ,,anio. and donOunco the inactivity OF
ou ,hn Renubucan rty, and particularly the
ponnblioan Senate, for causing the deteat
a,ep lS measures bened ial and protective TO
this class Of wage-goere'
TUE SWEATING SYSTEM DENOUNCED
w. ara IN layor Of the enactment by
,, States oflaws tor abolishing tho noto-
VIZ S'ss swootinp system for nboishing con
ot .lou convict labor and prohibiting the
trSgI SI'lovmeut vv in factories of children under
10 years I age
suMPTUAR" LAws.
Wa ave opposed ty all sumptuary laws a. y,
| w. ,aronpc 1v with The individual rights Of
the citizen
Daily Texarkana Democrat., 1892-10-22
IMMIGRATION.

ec 10. THIS convention hereby repews
! e expression Of preclation of the atri-
otis j.. OF the sol1i rs and sailors cf the I'm
ion in the war Of its pr seTvet on, and we
fWor iu.t and liberal pension, to all disa-
oled Uni IN soldiers, their widows and de-
Dendents but we demand that the wo k
of tn. Pensl Office shall be done industrl-
ously, impartially and honestly. We de-
nounce the pre;ent administration of that
office incompetent, corrupt, diTgr Aceful
and dishonest
Daily Texarkana Democrat., 1892-10-22
for Infants and Children.

"Castoria lsso well adapted to children that
recommend 1t as superior to any prescription
known to me-" H. A. ARcHEP NJ. D.,
Ill So. oxford St., Bro )klyn, N. Y.
Daily Texarkana Democrat., 1892-10-22
WATERWAY IMPROVEMENTS.

Sec IA. The Federal Government should
care TO" and improve the Mississippi River,
and other great waterways Of the Republic,
SO rs to secure tor the interior States easy
and chenp transportation to dewa er.
When any waterway of the Republic is of
suffic Mt importance to demand aid of the
Government, such aid should be extended
upon definite plan of continuous work uD-
I'll permanent improvement is secured.
Daily Texarkana Democrat., 1892-10-22

Soc. 7 We denouncc the Hepu6llcaann an
legislation known as the .Shermf act OF io9o
as ~ cowardly makeshiit, tight with pos-
sbl,ltics OF danger In tls iuturc, wnien
should make NIL of It's suppor,ers. as we ! ~
u, author, anxious for It's speedy repeal.
We hold 10 tho use Of both gold and silver
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-10
HENSEL'S WAY OUT.

Attorney General Hensel undoubtedly
finds the way out of the ballot muddle by
saying that the size of the ballot is not
fixed by the Secretary of the Common
wealth. 1t is rather small hole for the
State administration to creep through, but
it will permit the County Commissioners
of each county to make the ballots of such
size as to permit the election to be held
1t is indsputable that there has been an
effort in the office of the Secretary of the
Commonwealth to make the function of
that Office in transmitting the form of the
ballots include their size. Ii is also evil
dent that the effort comprised announcing
the size. which was extravagantly large,
and which would make it impossible for
all the ballots to be printed and handled
In the prescribed time. If the announce
ment from Harrisburg with regard to the
size of the ballots were not proof enough,
the letter of William Hayes Grier on the
subject furnishes the necessary corrobora-
ton. Mr.. Eensel's assertion that the size
is not fixed by the authority of the Secre-
tary of the Commonwealth showed that
this attempt was unauthorized, and it per-
mits county authorities to print ballots of
rec sonable size.
There is trife of disingenuousness in
Mr. Hensel's assertion that if the ticket
has to be extended in some counties be-
yond the size of so inches sit is the fault
of the law and not within the regulation
of the Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Beyond the fact that there has been an
attempt to set up such regulation there
is the further point that the law sets up
no requirements which will make ticket
of that size. The law requires the names
to be printed in BREWER, to be not less than
four inches by six, and to have space for
the cross mark opposite each name. In
length of 30 inches there is space for $50
lines of brewer, and in a width of %
inches the space Will permit six columns
of 32s inches in width. Allowing thirty
per cent of the space to be taken up by
the head lines and spaces, ticket of the
size talked of could be made to contain
l ,372 names 1t is wildly improbable that
any county will have more than sixty Of
fcers to vote on. That would require a
ticket having 800 names and a blank
column, or about one-fourth the size of
the ticket which has been announced as
required by Mr.. Harrity's subordinates.
The County Commissioners everywhere
should take Mr.. Hensel's view of it and
prepare tickets of such size as can be fur
nished promptly and voted conveniently.
Ii this is done with intelligence and judg-
ment it is safe 10 predict that there will
not be anywhere within the State an Off
cial ticket much over half the cumbrous
and irnpossible 22y52 inches. ---
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-10
NOT MORE THAN SENTIMENTAL.

Students of natural history who have
been examining into the evidences of the
birds and beasts existing at the discovery
of America by Columbus, find that many
have become extinct by the destruction of
reckless hunters. This evokes from the
Boston Globe some justifable Indignation
over the melancholy rapacity persisted in
under the name of sport" But when the
Globe goes on to assert that there has been
a material loss to the nation in the de-
struction of these animals, it gives the
subject too much Importance.
1t may be taken as general law that
animals which fiourished in wild state
and are extinguished by civilization would
have little actual value in civilized line.
The buffalo is the most notorious example
of the sort, and while his commercial
value stimulated the wanton slaughter, it
is an obvious fact that he could not have
been made available in a country brought
under tillage. The herds of cattle that
have taken his place on the plains have
something like ten times the value, head
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-10
PLUMBER AS A FINE ART.

A striking example of the morals of
corporate manipulation is afforded by that
famous Hooking Valley case which has
for the third time been decided in favor OF
the defendant Judge Stevenson Burke.
The syllabus of the three decisions might
be paraphrased to lay down the legal
principles that corporate managers are
entitled to divert the property of the cor
porations to their own pockets without
redress for any one who has been injured
thereby.
The question has been tried in various
forms, but the last judicial ruling by
Judge Ingraham, of the New York Su-
preme Court, is most frank in recognizing
the fact that the proceeds of the sale of
securities of the Hooking Valley Railroad
Company were diverted to the private ben
eft of the defendant. The judicial view
is set forth in the following words:
The bonds or their proceeds were appro-
priated by the officers of the company to
their own use in violation of the covenant.
No sum of money was therefore ever real
lied by the company or came into its pos
session. which could be said to be property
as to be covered by the mortgage,
Consequently the bondholder who was
the plaintiff in this suit has no claim on
the money. The fact has already been
stated by the Court that the stockholders
have no claim because they were not
stockholders when the money was diverted.
When that very sleek transaction was
effected the parties to it were their own
stockholders; and the courts have asserted
that they had a perfect right as officers to
plunder themselves as shareholders, with
the reserved privilege of unloading their
shares on coniding public before the
diversion is discovered. Neither sharehold-
ers nor bondhoders having any remedy,
it is indisputable that Judge Stevenson
Burke is entitled to credit as the inventor
Of successful plan for railroad managers
to put the money of their corporations in
their own pockets with impunity.
1t is only left to say that if this is law
it is very bad law. With a view to pre-
venting exactly such delusions as this
the law makes it impossible to distribute
the funds of the corporation to sharehold-
ers without the formality and publicity of
dividend There having been no such
formal declaration in this case, and the
money having been taken by private
means, every one whose rights are preju-
diced thereby should have his remedy at
law,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-10
THE NEW PIPE LINES.

The value of the policy which The DIS
PATCH has always urged, of stimulating
competition in the refining and transpor-
tation of petroleum, appears in the nego-
tiations reported elsewhere between the
Oil City Exchange and the Independent
pipe lines for the issue of certificates and
the provision Of tankage by those lines
The progress which has been made in
building up new competition is evidenced
by the fact that five new lines are pre-
pared to offer transportation and storage
facilities and issue certificates as proposed
The Oil City Exchange shows proper
appreciation Of the Importance of the new
lines by the proposition to establish rate
for tankage in excess of that now charged
by the Standard lines. 1t might be doubtd
whether this advanced rate would attract
much business to the new lines if it was
not accompanied by improved facilities
for delivery and private tankage But the
offer of the Oil City Exchange, indicating
asit does close relations between the crude
oil interests and the competing lines,
argues solid foundation for the indepen-
dent enterprise
The movement at Oil City is based on
the belief that it will result in an increase
of speculative holdings. We are less con-
cerned for such an outcome although it
appears more than probable-than for the
announcement and maintenance of new
methods Of communication between pro-
ducCrs and consumers. The burden of
the petroleum trade for nearly twenty
years has been the more or less stringent
monopoly Of all means of communication.
The negotiation referred to gives tangible
ground to the hope that the monopoly is
terminated. f-..
The opening and maintenance of inde-
PENDENT lines is what The DISPATCH has
always urged Persisted in, 1t will open
new era for the petroleum interests of
Western Pennsylvania.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-10

We can sum up the totals in hundreds of
milians of population and thousands of
millions Of production; but, when the mind
tries to form the picture of the vast areas of
industry and civilization which by that
discovery have taken the place of wilder
ness and savagery, it is obliged to confess
its inability to grasp the whole
With the simple statement that Colum-
bus called into existence a new world on
both hemispheres, the magnitude of the
commemoration is most adequately recog-
nized. This nation as the leader and
representative of the New World cannot
be too enthusiastic in celebrating the
event and in honoring the memory OF the
seaman who disclosed its existence four
centuries ago. In devoting the next
twelve months to the varied and compre-
hensive recognition of Columbus services
to mankind the nation will reflect credit
on itself as well as do honor to the dis
cOyerer
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-10
RHYNKLETS AND RHYMELETS.

The Maiden-Then you find married life
-The Wifr-Yes; but then 1 seldom see my hus-
band. you know.-iSHafth. Gray d co., AOathly.
"His eyes are as bright
As the stars at night
The girl to her friend did relate.
..And their brilliant light
EnraptureS me quite
In them can see if my hats on straight
Chicago Ae,cs.
"William," said she, severely, "how
you!'
Clara. said he, II can't answer that question,
but think I'll not bother you much longer. One
of the other three girls I'm proposing to shows
signs of weakening. .''-TsEus Syiia9S.
The chill of the autumn is in the air,
The meadows are growing sere,
And the galluses worn by the maiden fair
Are furied until next year.
-Neso Tork Press.
He-I am not worthy of you, darling.
Shell know 1t. Henry. hut other man is either,
50 will accept you -Nsao lors HerIh.
When he starts in to tell his love,
He thinks has it pat
But soon he hnds to his disnay,
He's mixed the thing. and hIs to say:
My love, where was at?''
-Brooslyn Ea9le.
Young Wiie-Darling, / made these cum
ming little bread sticks just 10 show You how
COOK
Husband (breaking one)-Yes. pet, and they are
made of natural wood. too / see. Pretty e1-
penslve. eh ?-Caicuoo Inter Oce1n-
The small boy taunts the teacher new
And she in vain may fret.
She knows, whatever he may do,
He's ''mommer's little pet "
Detroit Free Pfess.
New Arrival (in the spirit world)-And
this is the great Christopher Columbus! Why, You
do not resemble in the slightest degree the pictures
they are printing of you on eartn,
Christopher Columbus = No, thank heavsal-
Chicago zfitual,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-10
TEE BLANKET BALLOT.

THERE is no sense in providing ballot
more than four feet in length when a sheet
of paper l5 inches long will contain all that
is required in fairly good sized print
Scranton r publican.
IT is q sorry condition of affairs that Penn.
sylvania's ballot law is so full of snares and
pitfalls, so full OF barriers and Instructions
that large percentage of her vote will be
lost-Rarrtsbur0 Telegraph.
The ballot reform law is inadequate in
stilianother respect. 1t does not provide
an ambulance i'll which to send voters home
after the labor of voting the blanket ballot
has knocked them phta IN
Qtsirer.
IF there are opportunities in this big blan-
ket ballot to give the electoral vote OF Penn
sylvania to Cleveland or TO prevent it from
being counted for either party, the Demo
Gratis may be trusted to take advantage OF
them.-Cqeuetand L ader.
THE Baker ballot law, il Colonel Grier,
State Superin, endent OF Printing, has not
made mistake, is likely to prove itself not
''an unqualified success" 1t is prettylate
in the day to have the discovery made that
the ticket cannot be printed by the ordinary
appliances OF the printers art.-Erte Times.
1T is beginning to appear as though the
Democratic officials at HARRISBURG, by inter-
preting the Baker ballot law in way its
trainers and supporters could nos have In
tended. desire TO gain two ends-the discour-
agement of ballot reform legislation and the
invalidation OF the vote OF the State this
fall.-Aloona G1zste.
The people will submit to this wanton dis
comfort for one year, but there will be such
q demand Tor honest ballot reform when the
next Legislature meets that even the ma
chine leaders will bend 20 honest amend
mcnt rather than be broken. Ballot reform
has come to stay and don't forget it.-Phtia-
delph,d Ttmrs.
NorHtaG would suit the enemies of the
new system any better tnan to have tis
apprehension justified. 1t need not be ana
will not be unless those who have been de-
termined to bring into dsrepute in Penn
syivanin the system now in operation in
three-fourths of tho States have been more
successful I'm. .encumbering the act than was
supposed Philadelphia Press
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-10

We are inclined to regard Mr.. Pomeroy's s
disclosure of Democratic plot to use the
cumbrOuS ballot to purlOin the vote of the
State as sayoring considerably OF tine ante
election roorback. But Mr. Grier's reply
to Mr.. Pomeroy, and especially his letter
to the Democratic State Chairman on the
subject, published in self-defense, records
an attitude on the part of the State officials
at Harrisburg which is little if any better
than what is charged by Mr.. Pomeroy.
Grier'S letter giving the benefit of his
official knowledge to the Democratic man.
ayers disclcses several interesting facts.
FIRST, it shows that the State officials un-
dertook to fix the size OF the ballot, which
Attorney General Hensnl now says they
had 10 power to do. "The change in the
size of the ticket is what Mr. Grer
wrote about 1--WE are now preparing a
form" says he, and goes on to detail the
dimensions which that form will entail.
Next, it shows that this attempt to fix the
size was made with the full knowledge
that it would defeat. a fair and full cleo
ton. 1t will prevent some counties in
the State from holding an election, writes
Mr.. Grier in one place; in another, 'but
very few printing offices in the State have
perforatlng macnine;" and in third
''there is not enough paper in the country
OF sufficient size to print the ticket"
Third, Mr.. Grier shows himself in his own
letter as using his official knowledge of
the matter to advise the Democratic
Chairman how it can be used to the Dem
ocratic advantage, by making early con-
tracts to supply their strong Democratic
counties with tickets. These are the i'm
portant points OF Grier's course in the
matter as set forth in his own letter
There may be a difference of opinion
about terms We are willing to let every
one find name for the thing to suit him
self But when we have set before us the
joint action of the Democratic officials to
illegally prescribe a cumbrous and i'm
possible ticket; their foreknowledge and
ayowal of the fact that the tickets cannot
be printed: and the use of this official
knowledge to warn the Democratic Chair
man to supply the strong Democratic cell
tiers with ballots, it is difficult to see
wherein the facts of the case differ mate
rally from those as set forth by Mr.. Pom
erav.
Ii Governor Pattison desires to main
tain the former high reputation of his ad-
ministration for freedom from scandal he
should take an early opportunity to clear
the Harrisburg offices of all the officials
and subordinates who have been engaged
In this very shady transaction.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-10
PERTINENT PERSONALITIES,

MoNTAGU WILLIAMS, @. c., the we'll.
known London barrister, is believed to be
dying.
NINE. HYACINTHE LOYSoN advocates
opening the Worlds Fair 10 the public ON
Sundays. but only ior observation, not fol
barter.
MINISTER EGAN expects to visit Mr..
Blaine before proceeding to his home in
Lincoln, Neb. He has been informed that
Mr.. Blaine intends to take an active part in
the campaign.
JOHN JOY EDISON, chairman, and B. q.
Warner treasurer of the Washington Citi.
zens' Executive Committee, have presented
to President Harrison handsome souvenir
medal of the late G. A. r. encampment.
Mr. ROBERT NJ. LANE, ex-Minister to
France under President Cleveland, who
went abroad early IN the summer in feeble
health caused by an attack Of pneumonia,
has returned to Baltimore entirely recov.
cred.
ONE brother and two sisters of the two
poets Longfellow still lfve-Alexander, of
Portland, Me. long connected with the
United States Coast Survey; Mrs. Mary
Greenleaf, of Cambridge, Mass, and Mrs.
Ann Longfellow Pierce, of Portland.
THE daughter of the late Bishop Colenso,
of South Africa, has continued much of the
benevolent work among the Zulus begun by
her father. She has taught q number Of
chiefs to speak English. and has tran nslated
into their tongue large portions of the
Bible.
M PATENoTRE, the French Minister,
who is at home for the purpose of being
married, has presented to his Government
for consideration the question OF purchasing
the residence Of Vice President Morton, ON
Scott Circle, Washington, for the French
Legation.
MINISTER LINCOLN left London Satur-
day to embark on the Etruria for New York.
Secretaries White and Post and all the other
members of the Legation staff, together
with many ladies, gathered at the Euston
station to wish him pleasant voyage. Mr..
Lincoln will return in about two months.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-10
THE COLUMBIAN CELEBRATION

The preliminary celebration of Colum-
bus great discovery which opens this
week in New York will fifty commemorate
the estimation of that event by the people
of this country. New York as the great
seaport of the northern continent leads in
the commemoration, while Chicago by the
dedication of her Worlds Fair buildings
takes the first step in her function of pro-
longing and enlarging the celebration by
a detailed exhibition of the progress of
civilization since that achievement.
Words will be exhausted this week in
the attempt to fifty state the service to
mankind rendered by the great discoverer.
The fact is that the results are SO great
that even to-day finite conception can
hardly grasp them. Mr.. Chauncey NJ
Depew has said that Columbus most
sanguine dream could not have been even
faint conception of the results flowing
from his work. But so far is
that from indicating the magnitude
OF the subject that it can be improved
upon by saying that the modern mind,
with all the advantage of nineteenth CEN
tury training, can hardly take tail in.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-10

for head, that; could be realized out of pre-
serving that shaggy, surly and tough
specimen.
The point IS of course well taken that
the thinning out of birds has permitted
the growth of insect enemies of vegeta-
ton. But it is to be questioned whether the
extinction of entire species of birds which
would live in settled country has any
such existence in the records of natural
history as the wiping out of animals who
must inevitably vanish before the march
of population.