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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-05-18

eminent. Politicians of the Voorhees, and
Lamb school may sheer at the law regu.
lating the civil service. yet the Law has
come TO stsy.-CrawfordsvilieJ Journal
Ii Mr.. D0nham in his ''tumultuous do
bauch" of the Terre Haute Office is sus-
tanned by the authorities. then it will be
known that the "spoils carnival is not TO
be Uninterrupted by any enforcement OF the
civil-service law and OWL service reform
will henceforth he regarded as q failure.
Richmond Palladium.
As the postal laws and regulations and
the civil-service laws were 90 grossly vio-
lated by Donham. il is expected by the
civil-service reformers that the President
will remove him from the position he has
80 foully disgraced. but 1t remains to be
seen w whether this radical. but Just and inn
peratively demanded. step will be taken
over the protest of Senator Voorhees, whose
protege Donham is.-Madison Courier.
IT is to be hoped. for the sake of clean
politics and business-like civil service,
that the President will dismiss Donham at
once. Such action would do more for real
for-sure civil-service reform than all the
tnik and resolutions from now till the end
of his administration. If that law 10 to
command the respect of the public IL must
not be worked 20 as to miss IL IL it Is q
deer AMI hit If it Is q calf. according to the
programme of Voorhees,. Lamb ~ ca.
Richmond Item.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-05-18
TERRE HAUTEs PosTOFPICE WAR.

DOMAIN. the Terre Haute postmaster
appointed by President Cleveland. has be-
gun his official career iDgioriously. and
that with a promise of it's not continuing
long If the administration does It's duty.
BRAZIL Enterprise.
HERE'S a fine opportunity for the Swift
Schurz-Foulke crowd to cross swords with
Voorhees, and Lamb. Mr.. Cleveland is in
position TO demonstrate how much truth
there 10 in his pretense that he Is civil
service Recommendations Tribune.
IL that fellow Donham. who seems to
have been little more than jumping-iack
IN the hands of John Lamb. the political
cadaver of the Eighth district. meets with
the fate that overlook the fresh postm aster
of Columbus. Ga, decent people will ap-
plaud the powers at Washington.-Evans-
willie Standard.
THE disgraceful proceedings attending
the change In the Terre Haute postoffice.
brought about. precipitated and carried on
by gang Of Democratic politicians. will
do much to create q stronger public senti-
ment in favor of the principles of civil
service reform. Such proceedings are cal
culated To disgust the respectable portion
OF every community whose only interest in
politics 10 tho administration Of good gov.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-05-18

The latest action of the worlds fair
directors in regard to Sunday opening
removes all ground of criticism on the
score OF violating the act of Congress or
breaking faith with the government.
BY pledging themselves to return the
full amount of the appropriation made
by Congress the directors relieve them
selves of al obligation to observe the
Sunday closing law. The portion of the
congressional appropriation ready re-
ceived by the directors is 81. 1920. 100. and
this is the sum they obligate themselves
10 repay. In order to remove all just
cause of criticism, this is made pre-
ferred debt as soon as the absolute ex-
penses of the fair are paid, taking pre-
cedence of bondholders and stockhold-
ere. This action will doubtless stand
as a final settlement of the vexed ques-
ton.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-05-18

PHILIP j. HoFFBAUER. president of
the Shovelers' Union in this city. is a
saloon keeper. Most men have used q
shovel more or less at times, and in this
sense Hoffbauer is shoveler, but in no
other. The fact that his saloon, like all
others, profits by the idleness of large
crowds of men, may account for his zeal
in bringing on the present strike. 1t is
fine commentary on the ethics of labor
unions and strikes that this saloon
keeper is recognized by the shovelers as
an autocrat whose order is sufficient to
make them stop work, regardless of all
other considerations. Hoffbauer prob
ably favors an eight-hour day in order
that the shovelers may have time for
recreation in his saloon.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-05-18

DRESS reform has had its day in the
Women's Congress, at Chicago, but it
remains to be seen what the result will
be. A few brave women here and there
who have the courage of their convic-
tons may become practical exemplars of
the reform. but il will be long time be-
fore the great mass of women will break
away from the traditions of the sex in
the matter of dress. 1t is not enough
for the reformers to devise a dress that
shall be more convenient, more comfort
able and more in accordance with the
laws of nature and hygiene than the
present one. That they can do easily
enough. But they must offer something
that will be more graceful. more becom-
ing and moro attractive. When they
can do that the success of dress reform
will be assured.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-05-18

advices give us all confidence that we
are making no mistake in saying that
the President will appoint our men,
This article concludes with the follow
ing eloquent sentence:
Already the dawning of brighter day
for Alaska suffuses the east with golden
light: our sun of progress is rising. and
though some of our officials are so buried
IN the shadows of the mountains OF Re-
publican misrule that they have not yet
caught glimpse of its bright rays. il will
soon find them out and send its searching
lances OF light into all their hiding places.
and its warmth, too. until, blinded by ito
brightness and blistered by it's heat. the
last of them will crawl away to the green
pastures of Oregon and Indiana, where
they may lind the cooling balm of sympa-
thy which the Journal has not in stock TO
offer them.
This is rather figurative and some
what obscure, but one can gather the
meaning. The able editor is on the
scent and after the spoils. Democracy
is the same everywhere, from Maine to
Alask0
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-05-18
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

IT Is SAID that the yonng Earl Of Dudley
holds the largest life insurance ever
effected, the amount being Sl,200.0OO.
So valuable are her Jewels that Mrs.
Potter Palmer never attends n ball or party
of any kind to which she wears them with
ont q private detective To form part or
her escort.
BILL NyE's income is probably the largest
Of any humorist alive, for. besides tho inn.
mense amount he realizes from his annual
tours. he has yearly income from his
books of over $50. 000-hIs full income being
estimated at S5O,O00.
THE King and Queen of Greece live in
very simple STYLE cheerfnily adapting their
expenses to the impecunious plight Of the
country, and his Majesty often boards the
tram" tstreet carr when he wants TO run
down TO the port 1.-THE famous Pir9us) at
Athens.
CARDINAL ZIGLARIA, who has Just died
at Rome. was personna gratissima at tho
Quirinal. and besides being great favorite
of the present pontiff. he was generally
regarded by the Catholic clergy throughout
the world as destined to become the success
sor of Leo XIII.
KAISER WILHELM, is now said TO pass a
good deal of time wandering about
Berlin In disguise. He is reported To have
gone through the Hebrew quarter of the
city recently in the guise of Hebrew ped
der and TO have discussed the condition of
the Hebrews with great number OF the
working GLASS of the race.
Col. Bob INGERsoLL once visited the
stoke hole of an Atlantic liner. After See
Ing all that was to be seen he drew q
sovereign from his pocket and said: Boys.
] don't believe in hell, but guess you DO.
"a - a
fellowship. 80 here's quid to drink my
health with" And then he went into his
cabin and wrung out his clothes.
The plume of the Prince of Wales worn
on state occasions is said to lie worth $780,
600. The feathers, an English writer says,
are pulled from the tail of the feriwsh. one
OF the rarest and most beautiful birds of
India. Great expense and trouble are
necessary TO capture the bird. which Is
found only in the widest jungles. The
feathers nre taken from the 1--we cock.
PARIS journal pays an enthusiastic
tribute to the accomplishments Of q young
American girl named Klumphe. who. with
in few years. has gained an enviable
name for herself as an astronomer. She il
eaid TO be one of the most indefatigable
end successful observers In France, and is
really youthful Maria Mitchell. Miss
Klumphe Is q California girl. tall. slender,
suburD-haired and tweDty-four years old.
JOSEPH FRANCIS, who died few days
ago at Usage Lake. \. ". has been buried
beside his wife OF Minneapolis. The tablet
over his body bears this inscription: 'Jo-
seph Francis. the father and founder of the
United States hfe-saving service. 1912.
Founder of the American Sbipwreck So
cioty. 1912. Inventor of tho corrugated me-
rallic life-ear. life-boat. etc Received the
thanks of the Forty ninth Congress. Hon.
ored by the Fiftieth Congress fer services
to humanity. Honored. decorated. reward
ed and knighted by the crowned heads of
Europe. Born March IL. 1901; died May 10,
1S93.O
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-05-18

THE Journal has received letter
from James l.. Dillman, justice of the
peace at Bedford, Ind, in which he says
that it was a Mitchell and not Bedford
justice Of the peace who fixed the bail
of Conductor Prices murderer at'S2. 500,
and who was only scared into refusing
bail by threats of the bystanders that if
the murderer was released on that bail
they would hang him. In view of this
statement the Journal withdraws its
censure from the Bedford justice of the
peace and transfers it to the one at
Mitchell. 1t is but fair to add TINT the
people of Bedford were in no way re-
sponsible for the lynching which took
place there, as the mob came from Sey-
mOur.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-05-18

The last man whom John l.. Sullivan as
saulted is a one-armed lawyer. whose
offense was reaching IN front of the bully
to shake hands with q man the same
scat in the car. Not only did Sullivan
kick him across the oar. but friend of
SuIlivsn's struck him in the face, after
which Sullivan choked him. leaving finger
marks on his throat When will oven or
binary people cease TO patronizo this cow
ardly bully who should have been out by
all decent people years ago for hurting .
plate of food at waitress in Boston res
taursnti There Is not q more disgusting
creature In the country than John l.. Sulli-
van
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-05-18

THE eyes of the Nation are on Indiana.
Who has not heard of Terre Hautef Who
hos not been thrilled by the lynchings that
have transpired in our midst. so to speak:
Il has been bat q few days that the sea
serpent. who appears to have started for
the worlds fair on his own hook. after hav-
ing escaped those of the hardy fishermen Of
Provincetown, Mass, was seen to rear his
horrid head from the peaceful waters of
Cedar Bass lake. in the northern part of
the State. All these freaks of Democracy,
rioters and snakes there must be- some
thing in the astrological or meteorological
conditions 10 bring TO the front in such
profusion go great macs of allied ele-
ments) have been q fruitful source OF
wealth to the special correspondence"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-05-18
TIE NEW IMMIGRATION LAW.
Senators Say More Money Is Needed to Suc-
cessfuIly Carry IL Out

New YORK. May 17.-The Senate investr-
eating committee on immigration matters
went to Ellis island to-day. They were
met on the island by DIR. Senner Commits
sioner Of Immigration. Surgeon-aeneral
Wyman. of the Marine Hospital Service. ex-
planned to the committee what preparations
had been made by the federal authorities
TO prevent the entrance OF cholera. The
Senators spent the entire morning IN
watching the working of the new immigra-
ton law. While they were at the island
sbout five thousand Immigrants were
landed and registered. There are five reg
istry clerks. and beside each one stood q
Senator. IL was the unanimous opinion
that the new law 10 81 provoment on the
old one and Will be q success.
The Senators returned 20 DR.. Senner'a
Otioe and began it's examination. James
A. Wright. second vice president OF the In
ternational Navigation Company. said that
1t was probable that the number of immi-
grants during the year 1893 would be un-
usually large. He said that he was not
aware that there was All organized eifor.
on the part of steamship companies TO en-
courage immigration 10 this country. lie
considered the new immigration law n good
one. and practicable. TO put the new law
In 10 operation would require more employees
and necessarily more nonry. Dir. Wright
considered the Russian Jews the least de-
sirabIe class of immigrants
Senator Chandler then said that, as q re-
suit of the investigation 80 far. he was sat-
isfied that Commissioner Scnner and all on
the island were doing all IN their power To
carry out the new law. But. be said. that
il seems more help IS needed, and, there
fore. more money. He. for one. wonid
recommend n more liberal appropriation of
money. Senator Faulkner said he in
dorsed what Senator Chandler had said.
'.In other words" said Senator Hull the
new law should have a chance 20 be tried
without being handicapped for want OF
funds." The meeting then adjourned to
convene again Junol.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-05-18

IT is reported that q combination of
the Jones and Kolb Democrats and
Populists has been made in Alabama
by which any white man may be eligi-
BILE as q candidate at joint primary,
provided he promises that he will
pledge himself to fight any project re-
stricting suffrage that involves the dis
franchisement of whites. This is be-
cause any educational test such as has
been adopted in Mississippi would shut
out thousands of illiterate whites in
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-05-18

The president of the Cattle feeding
Company, which is the official name Of
the whisky ring, admitted in court at
Springfield, H., last week that there is
q trust fund which he is permitted to
check against personally without hav-
ing the checks signed by the treasurer
and without accounting to the company.
When the president was asked If that
fund WAS used to influence legislation
be refused to answer, saying that the
amount and the object of the fund sis
On entirely private matter" But he
could not have made an explanation
more damaging than that refusal.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-05-18

COPIES of the Alaska Journal of re-
cent date. viz, nearly q month old,
have been received at this office, and
they show that the principles OF. the
grand old Democratic party are being
ably advocated in that PARKWAY land.
Being Democratic paper, it follows, of
course, that the Alaska Journal is more
interested in the sp0ils question than
anything else. The issue of April %
contains a leading editorial with the
caption, "a Hint to Impatient Readers"
which opens in this fine style:
The next breeze that sweeps from the
south may bring TO our ears the sound of
the death knell to the hopes of some of our
will they together fall as when the hurri-
cane In its msddened fury sweeps a clean
path through the forest, bat one by one
meath the sure and steady blows of the
Democratic ak Will they be lard low and
1.-THE places which knew them once shall
know them no more"
Although it comes all the way from
Alaska there Is fine Democratic aroma
in that, and it must have been very COM
forting To "the impatient" The article
goes on to designate who ought to be
appointed to the different territorial
offices. But at last accounts the breeze
that was TO sweep from the south and
bring to our ears. etc., had not yet
reached Alaska. The next issue of the
paper informed its readers that mo un-
easiness is felt among the prominent
Democrats of Alaska regarding the ac-
ton OF President Cleveland when the
Alaska appointments are reached" add
ing with evident earnestness: I'VE want
those places. every one of them. for our
own men, and are going to have them.
too" Then the able editor repeated
his slate with the assurance that --latest
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-05-18

Quincy found number of pertinent
paragraphs and took them to the Presi-
dent. When the Speaker called again
To see about the case of his editor, the
President said ficrceIy: 81 shallnot ap-
point Mr.. Myrick because he is person.
ally offensive To me. He has referred to
me In his paper as a mugwump." and 80
on. The Journal sustains the President
The offense of the Crisp californian
justifies his action. Evidently the Presi-
dent has seen SO much of the mugwump
that he regards it as an insult to be
called one.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-05-18
CANDIDATES. FOR THE GALLONS.
Anarchists Who Wanted TO Repeat the Hay
market Massacre. but on 2 Larger Scsle.

NEW YORK. May 1Z.-Otto Eckholdt made
O confession to Justice Schumacher. in
Middle Village. L. l.. yesterday. that shows
the Anarchists hercabouts are O blood
thirsty set. Eckholdt is one of q gang of
reds recently discovered in Maspeth. lie
was arrested several weeks ago on the
charge of setting tire to l.. V. Crandslps
whiting factory In that place. where the
Anarchists were employed and where. as
subsequent Developments showed, they
spent all their spare time. manufacturing
dynamite bombs from odds and
ends of pipe. with which the fac
tory is plentifully supplied. With q
view to shielding himself. Eckholdt made
u confession. In which he said that he had
seen ON Anarchist named Rupprecht man
ufacturing dynamite bombs In the fac
tory. After Eckholdts confession n search
was made through the factory. Two loaded
bombs were found under the floor. and q
TIN box containing about twenty five
pOunds of dynamite was taken from @ &C.
cret recess under tho floor of the engine
room by EckhoIdt, who had been taken
there by the police TO aid in the search. In
his testimony yesterday Eckholdt swore
that this dy Mantle was manufactured by
Rupprecht. He said he had watched him
while at work, and had accom- panied him
outside to aid testing the explosive.
Rupprecht, he said. made the bombs. and
the witness had often seen hun fill them.
illuminate of mercury caps were used as
detonstors.
EckhoIdt was unable to tell how many
bombs had been manufactured there; but
about year ago. he said, when there was
o big meeting of Reds in Union Square.
thirty live Anarchists attended in q body
and all went TO do terrible work in case the
police attempted TO interfere with the
meeting. Eckhoidt said that Ruppreekt
carried satchel full OF bombs. and that he
[Eckholdtl had one in each of the two side
pockets of his overcoat These had been
given him by Rupprecht. They were
PINNED at both ends and ready for instant
use. One of she bombs Rupprecht carried
in his satcbel. Eckholdtsaid, was made OF
big piece of steam pipe about so long as a
mans forearm. Then there was one made
of IN elbow, and one from another piece OF
pipe. Any one of these were powerful
enough TO have killed = thousand people.
Eckholdt did not know why the signal 10
throw the bombs was not given.
Charles Ssyres. a driver em ployed at the
works. corroborates Eckholdt's story sbout
the trip To New York and dynamite. After
the meeting he went with Others TO a saloon
in burst of bravsdo. opened his satchel
ana displayed the bombs. When asked
what they were to be used for. Sayres said
Rupprecht replied: "Why. TO blow ND the
cops if they had interfered with our meet
ing. We would have opened hell under
their feet II they had interfered with u.s."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-05-18

DR.. JENKINS is Tammany's health Off
Ger at the port of New York. He is the
same official who came so near letting
the cholera into the country last year
because he would not cooperate with
the federal authorities in establishing a
quarantine. He wanted to do the whole
thing himself, and he made bad mess
of it. He has just been interviewed.
He is happy because he "now has un-
hampered and supreme power over SAN
itary matters within the port of New
York." The only problem he has not
yet solved is how to muzzle the news
papers. or, to put it in his own words,
'all that is lacking to make every thing
20 of smoothly 10 the control Of the
freedom of the press to create panics."
DIR. Jenkins is not the first man who
has been lacking" in power to control
the press. The press did say some
unkind things about the Jenkins man.
agement, and they were true. The
Tammany doctor is sure that the fed
eral government ''is not in it" when it
'COucS " hccpiuk pcsliicuce OuC Oh Tic
country. 1t is, in his judgment, q right
of the State, and cannot be abrogated."
This is very we'll from the Jenkins OF
Tammany point of view, which is to
make the greatest number of places to
be filled by Tammanyitos regardless of
the cost. There are doubtless persons
in every State who hold the same
views for the same reasons. They want
employment, or rather spoils. Outside
of these parasites. every body believes
that national quarantine is by far the
cheapest and by far the most effective.
A federal quarantine could prevent in
lection by quarantining every seaport
and stopping every Canadian train or
steamboat at the border; whereas, if
the Jenkins system is adopted every
State must, in the event of danger. stop
oil trains at its borders and repeat for
itself what all other States must under
take and which the federal government
could do once for all much more effectu-
ally. Great is State rights; but greater
is the organization whose members live
by tax-eating.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-05-18

The Panama Star and Herald of re-
cent date comments at some length on
the removal of Mr.. Thomas Adamson,
consul-general at Panama, and the APP
pointment of Gen. Victor Vifquain in
his place. Mr.. Adamson had been in
the consular service continuously nearly
thirty-two years, having been first ap-
pointed by President Lincoln. He had
served successfully at Honolulu, Mel
bourne, Rio de Janeiro and Panama,
being transferred and promoted each
time for faithful service. The Panama
Star and Herald concludes its article as
follows:
Mr.. Adamson's official course here needs
no special chronicle on our part 10 being
sufficient to say that he preserved
throughout the confidence and approval
OF his own government and won the
esteem and regard of the agents
of the state, departmental ana nation al
governments here. His intercourse
with public officials. whether in the
treatment of vexed and difficult questions.
claims, protests. etc.. or IN the amenities
of Official life. has been marked by courtesy
and dignity. Retained through the first
Cleveland administration, no rendered it
efficient service particularly during the
troublous days Of 80. reversing the errors
and partially redeemIng the consequences
of hasty and ILL jud ged military operations.
a service which shonld never be forgotten
by Cleveland Cabinet. But the civil
service reform had not yet reached tho
consular and diplomatic branches of the
government, and until that happy day
changes OF party rule will always he
marked by the decapitation of employ ca
not in sympathy with the dominant party.
whatever their character or length of
service.
This is a good illustration of the kind
of reform which the present aGministra-
ton is introducing into the consular
service. 1t has been noisily proclaimed
that this branch of the public service
was to be placed on strictly business
basis. The Panama case shows how the
work is being done.