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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-14
TEXAN In MUCH TROUBLE
G.. D. Miller, Said 10 BE a Large Ranch
Owner, Arrested on a Telegram.
Says lie Has No Idea OF the Cause Of the Diff.
Guilty, but Rather Suspects q Plot Of Pop
ulists at His Home.

A stalwart son of Texas. standing six
feet four in his boots. and wearing tho
ty plcaI belt. minus a gun. is restlessly pac-
ing the narrow precincts of a cell at the
police station. The prisoner gives HE name
a. w. ID. Miller. of Comanche county,
Texas. and owes his incarceration to an APP
parently strange chain of circumstances.
Late Sunday night a telegram arrived at
police headquarters, from Comsnche.
lex, stating that a letter would arrive at
the Indianapolis postofice yesterday.
directed To G.. ID. Miller, alias A. j. Coffey.
The message described the man as over SIX
feet IN height. with blue eyes and q
hoarse voice. and urged that be be arrested
and held until the arrival of a letter of ex-
PLANTATION from the Texas officials.
Detective McGuf was detailed TO look
after the case, which ne did by taking q
station at the general delivery of the post
Office at Z O'Clock yesterday morning.
Throughout the entire morning the de.
tective kept an eye and ear out for Col.
TO call for his mail. At 4 o'clock IN the
afternoon the Texan put In an appearance.
StridiDg up TO the window he brusquely
demanded letters for Miller, OF Texas"
The missive was there and Miller, alias
Cofiey. carelessiy showed il into his pocket.
He turned away, but the delaying hand OF
the detective vas laid on his shoulder and
ne was told to consider himself under ar
rest. The prisoner was decidedly cool, and.
contrary to the usual custom of his coun-
try, made no attempt 10 Kill his man. AZ
the stationhouse he was searched aud, hid
den in his belt. over $500 was found by the
turnkey. lie explained to the officials that
he and his son, {. q. Miller. had come here
for the purpose of stocking uD their ranch,
and that the letter bore the address OF has
son.
At the stationhouse last night Miller
talked to a reporter. but could offer no exc
PLANTATION as TO his presence behind the
bars. He is a typical ranchmap. fairly q
respectable appearing person. and Is over
thing strange to me" he said. II never was
In jail before: never sued a man and have
never been in court. L have got the
biggest ranch in Comanche county.
Texas. and came North two months ago
with my son to buy brood mares for my
farm. My son is in Illinois and
| ! have been here two weeks at the SpenceI
House. / have no alias. but one of my
~neighbors Is named Coffey, and Pm sure l
did not adopt his name. Back there in
Texas I've a wife and three grown mp sons,
and you'll pardon the conceit OF a gentles
man If | remark that they are eminently
respectable"
The prisoner stated that his high prin.
clples of Democracy have never vet been
questioned. Last campaign e was chair
man of the central committee of his county,
making a vigorous tight against the Popui
lists. which party is now in power in tho
all knowledge as to the cause of his diff.
: Guilty. Miller ventures the belief that some
OF his enemies, the Popnlists. are at the
bottom of it oil.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-14
WHITE AND BLACK CRIMINALS.

The miscarriage of justice in regard
to the punishment of murderers in the
South is presented in a new light by a
dispatch from Charleston, s. c., stating
that a months respite had been granted
one Lavelle. a white man. under sem
tence of death for killing his wife's
brother. Lavelle has been four times
sentenced to death for this crime, three
times has escaped on a technicality, and
this respite gives indications that he
may escape punishment entirely.
Public opinion has been SO reused by
the abuse of the technicalities of law i'm
his case that the suggestion was
made that his lawyers should be
hanged In his place. The secret of
the difficulty in administering to this
criminal his dues is that he is white.
Had he been black he would probably
nave been hanged without the prelim-
mary of even one trial, to say nothing
of four; nor would it in that case have
mattered whether or not he were guilty
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-14

Caught Just as He Was About to Commit Sui
c~ide-Peculiar Hallucination.

John Shsughnessy. aged forty years, was
arrested by Police Sergeant Barlow yester-
day afternoon, while suffering from q Sc
we're attack of dementia- ~Shaughnessy is
unmarried, and boards at No. Y South
West street. where he has been under treat.
ment by the D%ispensary ply sioians for
some time. HIS mind was found to be bad
ly unbalanced. and Q close watch was kept
on his movements until yesterday after
noon, when he escaped from the house.
Ala O'Clock he was discovered By Ser
geant Barlow apparently about to throw
himself under q passenger train ct the Big
Four crossing on West street. The de-
mented man was locked up until to-day.
when q sanity inquest will be conducted.
His mental disturbance takes q peculiar
turn. and he constantly complains that he
has no blood. stomach or heart. Four hun
dred dollars In cash was taken from him nc
the ~statIOnhonse. and Will be retained I'M
til his relatives call for 1t. Sh%aughnescy is
o cooper by trade.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-14

A WASHINGTON physician, who has
been keeping a record of the deaths
caused by exposure during the recent
Inauguration exercises, has q list that
foots up over forty. He does not think
this embraces all that have occurred. and
more may follow. 1t is hardly fair to
attribute all these deaths to the
weather. From all accounts there was
a great deal of drinking in Washington
on Inauguration day, and it is probable
that had much to do with making the
exposure fatal.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-14

In announcing the result of the oratoricaI
contest. last week, this paper was guilty,
it seems. of o profound error In the state
ment that Wabash College was given last
place. Hanover College was in the ex-
treme rear when the results were an.
nounced. f. q. Davis. Wabash's repre-
sentative, was awarded the honors of fifth
place. and that so great an injustice was
done the young man in these columns, the
Journal is much grieved. 1t would also
appear that. in the grading. the points
credited to Mr.. Fairbanks. of BLOOMINGTON
were those made by Rev.. Mr.. Milburn, 1t
being stated vice versa. A member of the
Bloomington college writes that since the
admission of Earlham to the contests il
has been found that Plymouth Church is
not large enough to accommodate the audi
encee. and next year q moro commodious
building will be secured.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-14

THE first removal made in the War
Department by Secretary Lamont was
that of a clerk named Potter. who has
been prominent as an organizer and
leader in G.. A. r. movements. The
Washington correspondent of the st.
Louis Republic, commenting on this,
says:
1t can be stated now a. the certain de-
termined policy of the present administra-
ton that the Grand Army of the Republic
or any other secret political society will
not be encouraged In influencing either
acts of legislation or the executive. On
the contrary. there is good reason to be-
lieye that Mr.. Cleveland'sLp policy is to make
the Grand Army of the Republic odious az
q secret political society.
1t will probably be news to members
of the G.. A. r. that it is a secret politi-
cal society.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-14

The building committee of the worlds
fair board will meet with the COMMITTEES
on furnishings at Chicago. on Thursday,
and will transact important business. The
building will be given the finishing
touches. Executive Commissioner Ravens
has received information that "a per
cent. of the applications for space from
Indiana manufacturer of machinery have
been accepted. This is the same per cent.
awarded to tho State of Illinois, and The
chief of the department points out that In
diana cannot complain when Illinois fares
DO better. There are hundreds of applica.
lions in excess of the number that can be
assigned space.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-14

WITH the appointment of Senator
VOORHEES, as chairman of the committee
on finance comes a report that Chester
Il. Faulkner, of this State. will be ap-
pointed secretary of the committee.
This would be a conspicuously unfit ap-
pointment. The clerk of the Senate
committee on finance should be and al
ways has been an expert in figures.
thoroughly familiar with government
finances and tariff literature, capable of
drafting a bill or writing a report on
either subject. Faulkner is an igno-
ramus. He knows very little indeed on
any subject, nothing of the subjects
above indicated. and cannot put on pa
per the little he does know. He has
been O useful understrapper of Senator
Voorhees, for many years. and it may
be creditable TO the Senator's kind heart
TO stand by him, but it would be a
shame to appoint him clerk of the SEN
ate committee on finance.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-14

A LITTLE while ago there appeared to
be some dangerthat several well-known
citizens of Indiana would leave the State
to reside for a term of years in Wash
ington. Among these were Col. John s.
Williams, of Lafayette; the Hon. Eb
Henderson, of Martinsville, and Col.
William E. Mclean, of Terre Haute. As
all these gentlemen possess personal and
social qualities which would make their
prolonged absence from the State a mat
ter of regret the Journal is pleased to
announce that they have changed their
plans and will remain with us.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-14

PRIVATE SECRETARY THURBER is still
explaining how he came to be called"
to that position. He tells reporters con-
fidentially that the Office sought him.
not he the Office. He says his appoint
ment came to MIN like a clap of thunder
from a clear sky. He hesitated about
accepting because he feared he was not
fit for it. His sole ambition is to serve
the great Grover well and have him cay
she was not mistaken in placing his
confidence in me-" and so on. Mr..
Thurber seems to be homesick. He
should buckle down to work and stop
talking.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-14
The average man cannot see why

The average man cannot see why
scores of men are soliciting the appoint
ment of police commissioner from Gov.
Matthews. The salary is but 800 or
$3.50; therefore. if the salary is the OBJ
ject, it stands to reason that the appli.
cant is unfit. If he seeks it because the
Office will give him a "pull" upon any
class, or make him a little political cor
poral, he is certainly unfit. 1t may be
that the craze for ofice-holding has
reached the stage when, for the honor
of it, good men will mass their influence
upon the Governor to get a one
hundred-dollar office. If this is the case,
the Governor might sell the commits
sionerships at auction and put the pro-
ceeds in the treasury.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-14

CHICAGO at present is an object lesson
OF the failure of municipal government
in large American cities. The situation
there is hat of the better elements of
all parties trying to combine and seek
ing to free themselves from the rule of
the worst elements with a prospect that
they will not succeed. The indications
are that no candidate can be found who
will SO far unite the elements of oppo-
sition to Carter Harrison as to bring
about the defeat of that notorious dem.
agogue. If elected, as there is great
danger that he will be, he will owe his
election to the same influences that nom-
mated him, and will go into office as the
representative of the slums, and all the
enemies of law and order. The triumph
of the mob he represents will be a bad
advertisement of Chicago in the worlds
fair year, and will emphasize the neces-
sity for a complete change in its form
of government.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-14
MR.. CLEVELAND AND PARTY MORALS.

The demand of the mugwump rgans
that the present leaders of the Demo-
cratic party must be relegated to pri-
vate life and that new men, In full SYM
patty with the high aims of Mr.. Cleve-
land, must be called to lead, must be
very amusing to the average Demo-
cratic manager. He has heard this sort
of thing for years. and yet he finds him.
self and his friends in control of the
same tactics and wed to the same ideas.
Years ago the warnings of the Harper's
Weekly class of newspapers made him
uncomfortable. but now, knowing that
their talk is the chatter of editorial
writers who represent at best a handful
of voters, the Democratic manager
sneers as he reads, if he reads at all.
The leadership of the Democratic party
is what the controlling element makes
it and desires it to be. That leadership
was no better after Mr.. Cleveland had
been President four years than it was
while he was the sheriff of Erie county,
New York. True, he has expressed
oOAlO hhC-oOuuuluk cCutIluC1tS aOOuO
civil-service reform, and he possesses a
rugged integrity, but he made terms
with the worst political rings before his
election, and will probably recognize
them with official appointments. He
has done nothing to show that he has
higher party aims than the bulk of the
leaders. In this State, he honoTs q man
who stands as the godfather of all the
little schemes of tax eating which have
multiplied in Indiana since he came to
the fore, and to whom politics has no
other purpose than the spoils of Office.
After such an appointment, the Democ-
racy of Indiana will smile when arper's
Weekly speaks of Mr.. Cleveland's efforts
to elevate the standard Of party morals
and practice.
Again, for more than eight years the
Democratic party has had the benefit OF
whatever inspiration there can be in
Mr.. Cleveland's much-talked-of higher
political ideals. Has the Demo-
cratic standard been elevated there
by9 New Jersey has been a
Cleveland State from the first, and yet
all the decent people within it's borders
are de%nOuncing it's infamies. Here
in Indiana Mr.. Cleveland has had a
powerful following, but the Legislature
which hasjust adjourned is admitted by
prominent Democrats to have been any
thing but reputable. Indeed, whom a
House Democratic caucus broke up with
each faction charging upon the other
cheating in a count it confesses lack of
ordinary honesty. The danger which
threatens to destroy popular confidence
in our institutions to-day is fraud in
elections and gerrymanders. Has Mr..
Cleveland ever declared against either
of these crimes against popular govern
ment in any positive mannerq If so,
when and where? The fact that ballot
box frauds attend Democratic control.
that Democratic legislatures refuse to
legislate In favor of the fair and open
conduct of elections, and that every
Democratic Legislature in a Northern
State during the past ten years has re-
sorted to unconstitutional gerrymanders
to perpetuate party power prove that
either Mr.. Cleveland's party morals are
not above the practices of his party or
that he has no influence overt the leaders.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-14
. Editor Of fine Indianapo,is Jourpal:

10 the Editor OF the Indianapolis Journal:
Did or did not the State Legislature Two years
ago create an Office called state Gas Inspector.
to be consolidated with the State Biologists
office! And does not the law require the said Of
ficial to make a report to the Legislaturel Did
this official make a report! SUBSCRIBER.
The Office of Natural Gas INSPECTOR was
created March 1. 1891. and the Off was
appointed by the State Geologist immedi-
ately artery ards. His first annual report
to the State Geologist is embraced in that
officers last annual report.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-14
'-and-thirty.

A NEW fad of fashionable ladies IN Eng
lish country life is to have q border or bod
in their gardens composed entirely of flow
ers and plants mentioned By famous poets
and notelists in their works. Only one
author is thus celebrated by each lady. one
taking Shakespeare. another Burns, an
other Dickens. or Scott. or Byron, and so
on. AS the most. if not all. of these writer's
make illusions only to the of
flowers which grew in their time and still
flourish in highway and byway. and at the
doorstep of every humble cottage, the
trouble Will be for these fine ladies to dis
tinguIsh their borders from those of the
common herd. Only by placards and
labels will even the well-read wayfarer be
able TO recognize them as being IN any way
different from the blossoms in the illiterate
cottager's little garden. Fine sentiment
loses q flavor when it needs to be adver-
tised as such. and this fad will probably
die an early death.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-14
talking.

EITHER the Democratic Senators in
tend to defy Mr.. Cleveland by filling
the finance committee with ultra free
silver coinage men, with a single ex-
ception, or they have punched them to
facilitate Mr.. CIoveland's efforts to con-
vert them. Mr.. Cleveland seems very
gracious toward Senator Voorhees,; is it
not possible that he can influence our
senior Senator SO that he a see the
necessity of opposing the scheme of the
bonanza mine owners7 Such q change
would not be a more abrupt face-about
than Mr.. Voorhees, made when he turned
from protection to free trade.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-14
Driving Club Must Paw Them

The executive board of the State Board
of Agriculture Will meet to-day. A trip to
the fair grounds will be taken. The board
will arrange to vest the title of the 214
acres purchased in itself under the new law.
Under it's five-year contract with the In
d%ianapolis Driving Club. the club obligated
itself to pay the taxes. and If there are any
to pay. as il was the intention of the DEM
ocratic leaders in pique. to impose. they
will have to be borne by the driving club.
of which Democratic leaders are the NOV
ing spirits.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-14

central part of the city that has been
clean since il was land. The fault seems
to be in too ~copious sprinkling before
sweeping. IL the pavement should be
~sprinkled at all before sweeping it should
be done sparingIy or long enough before
the sweeper comes to permit Of partial
drying. As the work Is now done. the only
effect of sweeping is to spread the dirt in q
muddy mass. which grows thicker and
thicker, a permanent crust. Our down.
town asphalt streets are abominably dirty.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-14
Benefit Entertainment.

A benefit entertainment will be given at
the Y. Nj. c. A. Hall tomorrow evening for
the benefit of the sufferers of the gas ex-
p~losion at the corner of Illinois and Twen-
ty-sixth streets, which occurred Feb. Ia.
A splendid programme has been arran ged.
and some of.the finest musical and literary
talent of the city will take part. Mr.. Will
Purcell will render selections. and also
Jake part IN the burlesQue operotta.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-14

system in the courts and of pushing the
attack to an ultimate conclusion should
be embraced by Republicans with
alacrity and prosecuted with zeal. 1t is
a duty they owe to the people and to
the cause of popular government.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-14

SUPPOSE President Harrison had ap-
pointed a Republican politician of the
Isaac p. Gray calibre and type to a first
class foreign mission. What a wild
chorus of protests there would have
been from the independent" and "mug-
wump" press. Now there is not O chirp.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-14

ONE of the mugwump charges against
Senator Murphy was that he had made
his money as a brewer, but now that
Mr.. Cleveland has selected brewer for
the fact of his being a maltster is over
looked in haste to applaud an anti-Hill
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-14

IL it is true. as stated. that Post mas
ter-general Bissell has said that he will
iourth-class postoffice, and that all
fourth-class postmasters must devote
their entire time to the duties of the
Office, he will soon discover the necessity
of revoking the order. 1t may be a
good rule az to presidential postoffices,
the salaries of which range from 81. 900
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-14

THOMAS DUNN ENGLISH has brought out
another short poem. Dunn English Is all
right. 1t lis the raw English of the ordl-
nary poet of commerce that people are OBJ
iecting to.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-14

"a PLUCKY, patriotic American, what
ever your mistakes" says the Irish and
Democratic Boston Pilot to General
Harrison.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-14
TnE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL

Can be found at the following places:
PARIs-American Exchange in Paris, 80 Boulevard
de Capucines-
NEW XORK-Gilsey House and Windsor Hotel
PHILADELPHIA P Kemble, 1885 Lancaster
avenue.
CHICAGO-Palmer House.
CINCINNATI-J. r. Hawley & Co.. 154 Vine street.
LoUIsvILLE-C. T. Deering, northwest corner Of
Third and Jefferson streets.
ST. LoUIs-Union News Co., Union Depot
WASHINGTON, d. C-Riggs House and Ebbitt
H0uaa
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-14

Now that Encouragement Smith has
denounced the Legislature, the decent
people who have been expressing their
indignation about it would do well to
ofan
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-14

or innocent, it being the well-known
custom all over the South for the first
Suspect" to be summarily strung up to
a limb after the commission of a crime
by a negro. In Texas. burning alive
and torturing with hot irons is substi-
tuted for hanging in such instances.
But the inequality of justice in South
Carolina Is still further emphasized by
the statement that if this Lavelle is
hanged, it will be the first execution of
a white man in Charleston for over thir-
ty years, and that within that time the
number of white murderers in that city
who have escaped the law is over
n hundred. Judge Garrison, of the
Supreme Court of New Jersey. last
week refused to recommend commuta-
ton of sentence in case of q seventeen
year-Old colored boy who had shot and
killed a youth of his own age in a
drunken row., basing his refusal on the
ground, not that there were no extenu-
ating circumstances, but that the peo-
pie OF this race were daily becoming
more and more vindictive and must be
held in check from the commission of
heinous crimes by the certainty of ex-
treme punishment. This opinion is
not in harmony with what is
known of the colored population
in this region, and is the more remark
able when the unpublished and particu-
larly atrocious crimes in New Jersey.
and which were not committed by me-
groes, are considered. 1t would be in
teresting to know what position Judge
Garrison would take if he were trans
ferred to South Carolina and asked to
pass upon the case of Lavelle, his at
tention being first called to the long list
of UNPUBLISHED white murderers in the
background. Would he hold that the
v~indictlveness and general evil tenden-
cies of the white man called for the
check of swift and certain retributionq