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The Indianapolis journal., 1893-09-30
WHO BEAR THE BURDENS7

Those who rent houses nre apt TO as
sumo that because they are not taxed on
the assessors books for the property
which they occupy they do not pay any
tax. and therefore it is of little conse-
quence TO them whe ether taxes are high
or low. Such men could not be more
mistaken than about this matter. They
property. but high taxation is made the
ground for refusing TO reduce the rent
ais. During the prosperous ears of 1890,
1891 and 1892 the tendency of rents was
upward because the taxes on the prop
critics rented for DWELLINGS were largely
increased from 1890 to 1891, and in many
instances doubled. A year ago renters
who are wage-earners did not heed
the upward tendency of rents. because
wages were high and employment full.
But there has been n change. Employ
ment has fallen off all over the country at
least % per cent; and while Indianapo-
lis has not felt it as have some cities, it
is felthere. Many people renting houses
find themselves with reduced incomes.
They go to the owners or agents of the
properties they occupy and ask for a re-
duction of rent on the ground that re-
duced wages makes it necessary. The
owners thereupon show them tina. they
will be unable to reduce their rents be-
cause taxes are higher and higher every
year, eating up what would be profits
under reasonable rate of taxation.
| If there were prospect of
reduction of taxation. owners might
make lower rents, but under the
Sullivan regime there is no such pros
pect. On the contrary, unless there is
change. taxes will continue to increase.
| for the sufficient reason that. in spite of
The Indianapolis journal., 1893-09-30
BARGAIN AND SALE IN POLITICS.

Jimmie" Van Aliens friends of the
New York and Newport four hundred
are saying that even if he did subscribe
$4,000 to the Democratic campaign
fund with the understanding that he
was to have an office in return, his case
is no worse than that of Olney or
Gresham. They point, with more
shrewdness and accuracy than might be
expected of them. to the strong proba-
bility that Mr.. Olney's appointment was
the cOnsummation of q bargain betw cen
certain trusts and the national CAM
paign committee. Mr.. Olney; be-
ing then attorney for these trusts,
and still retaining that office,
according to the general belief.
One of Van Alen's friends asks with
more abruDtness than is accepted as
good form in polite society: How
about Gresham; does anybody pretend
that he is not in the Cabinet as result
of prediction arrangements involving
coalition with the POpulists in the far
Westf'' The plain fact is that when it
comes to bargain and sale in the matter
of Offices, precedents for the Van Allen
appointment are numerous under this
administration, and unless the Senate
concludes that this latest is trifle more
scandalOus than the others, it will hardly
wish to prove itself inconsistent by re-
fusinG to confirm the Newport dude.
The affectation of high -mindedness and
sympathy with reform ideas which dis
tingushed the first Cleveland reGime
was abandoned by this, and the spoils
system in it's worst estate has been al
lowed to rule openly. At the present
rate of procedure this administration
will number more scandals in its history
than can be counted up in a long series
of wears before.
The Indianapolis journal., 1893-09-30
SHREDS AND PATCHES.


The engineer of a switch train has his
drawbacks in life-Toledo Commercial
The repeating rifle will continue TO be the
favorite voting machine in South America
this winter.-Detroit Tribune.
If we are to try compulsory voting in
this country let us begin the experiment in
the Senate-Milwaukee Sentinel.
The lunatic who emptied his revolver in
to the wheat pit of the Chicago Board of
Trade was evidently loaded for bear.-Pitts-
burg Post.
That team Of wild horses is proving even
more difficult 10 manage than General Har-
rison anticipated few weeks ago.-New
York Tribune
1t is suggested that the gas well discov-
cred in the United States Senate should be
piped We do not agree with that. We
think 1t should be plugged.-Cincinnati Com
mercial Gazette.
We are told that the United States Sem
ate is very sensitive body. Very well.
That is all the more reason why it should
not wantonly put itself in the way of the
public boot.-Louisville Courier-Journal.
Public sentiment in the Breca.nridge case
is summed up very accurately in the words
of Mrs. Parsons, of Kentucky: 'I believe
Mr.. Breckenridge is guilty and 1 am not
sure that Miss Pollard is innocent."-Chi-
cago Despatch.
A highwayman attempted to hold up a
horse in st. Louis on Saturday night.
This is the first incident that has occurred
for some time tending to establish the pop
ularity of the trolley car. The boldest train
robber in the world would hesitate before
taking liberties with the American jugger-
naut-New York World
An important matter Of domestic econo-
my has been settled by Cincinnati judge.
He held that when a young man calls on a
girl twice day the father of the girl is
justified in forcibly ejecting him during the
second call That may be Cincinnati law,
but it is not good in Louisville if the young
man lives next door.-Louisville CONNER
cial.
1t is hard to imagine a man could be
rendered more uncomfortable than being
confined in the same family or in the same
house with a woman possessed Of sense
of justice. Such q woman would size him
UP as he really is would detect all his
false pretenses; would have patience
with his humbugs; would utterly refuse TO
think of him as the greatest and best man
in the world His life would thus become
utterly intolerable to him. He could not
possibly stand it. for he would have no one
TO back him in deceiving himself into the
belief that If all men were like him this
would be a better world.-St. Louis Repub-
lie
The Indianapolis journal., 1893-09-30

the heavy taxation. the city is not pay
increased $4,000, upon which from 6
to s per cent. interest is being paid. The
pay roll of the fire department has been
increased for this year more than 13
per cent. overiast, and that OF the police
over IS per cent. The property owners
are paying an unnecessary $4,000 of in
terest because of the greed OF Demo-
cratic boss banker. Thousands of dol
lars of interest on school funds and
other city funds go into the pockets of
officials, while the city pays from G to s
per cent. ,on every dollar it borrows
temporarily.
A ring as greedy and as corrupt as
Tammany in the days of Tweed has the
city by tho throat. 1t will have its money
in taxes if. to use the phrase OF. one of the
Mayors appOintees. "the property will
sell for enough to pay them." Hard
times will force rentals down in time,
but the owners will not keep their
properties in repair. while the wage
earning tenants Will unu lL yet more
difficult to pay. But the gang will
prosper.
There is remedy in the hands of
wage-earners and property owners.
They can rally to the polls Oct. 10.
and defeat Sullivanism and the gang.
The motley mob which the dives can
enlist and the gamblers money can
purchase is yet minority in Indianapo-
l.
The Indianapolis journal., 1893-09-30
AN AMERICANS CLAIM.
Assignees of a Former Cuban Filibus-
ter Seeking to Recover S5,0O0,O00.

MADRID, Sept 29.-The State Depart
ment here is now investigating a, most in
teresting claim for indemnity to an Ameri-
can citizen, which was presented recently
to Senior Mora, the Minister of State, by
Mr.. Hannis Taylor, the United States min
lister to Spain. The memorandum present
ed by Mr.. Taylor contains the following:
"A Cuban filibuster called Maximo Anto-
MO Mora, who took prominent part in
the Separati rebellion during the time of
the Spanish republic and reign of King
Amadeus had to fly from Cuba and take
refuge in the United States when the
mother country crushed the rebels. Mora
acquired American citizenship. He declared
hlmself an American, and sold all his
rights and claims for damages against
Spain to. an American syndicate Mora,
being under sentence of death as a rebel
and his property being declared forfeited,
Spain made slight account of his claim,
bought Mora's claim secured diplomatic
help, and in 1871 the Minister OF State in
Spain actually admitted the claim as SUBJ
Ject to diplomatic discussion The original
claim was for 50, 600, coo. Nobody here, how
ever. believes that Mora ever got this
amount from the syndicate. In 1876, after
a passionate debate, Mora's claim was rec
ognized to the extent of $1,5o0,000, and that
1t is alleged on behalf of Senor Mora that
he only admitted the claim on diplomatic
grounds, subject to diplomatic arrange
ments, and that Spain considered this re-
duced claim of Mora, in his new quality
as an American citizen on the understand
ing that the United States would consider
claims OF Spanish citizens for damages in
the secession wars and also in the Next
can war with the United States, wherein
Spanish subjects had sustained losses. The
United States now again opens up Mora's
case, and Spain will probably employ the
set-of OF the Florida claim. The matter
is causing uneaslness at this moment.
politlcal and commercial crisis.
The Indianapolis journal., 1893-09-30

The spectacle of the Mayor conduct
ing free beer picnics in the interest of
his own candidacy for reelection is a
particularly edifying one. but it is be-
ing presented every night now by
Thomas l.. Sullivan. On Thursday his
Honor had six kegs of Sullivan
beer tapped on Kingan's hill,
following his canvass of that es-
tablishment. and last night the
thirsty crowd that listened to him
and Judge Buskirk were treated to beer
ad Hbitum at John Barnes's saloon. at
Blackford and Washington streets. A
fine appreciation of the dignity of his
Office has Thomas L. Sullivan. Nobody
expects anything of Buskirk. Such are
the campaign methods resorted to by
the Mayor in his efforts to secure re-
election. And yet Mr.. Sullivan Is the
man who has three times run for the Of
fee of Mayor on the plea that he ls bet
ter than his partyw
The Indianapolis journal., 1893-09-30
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Prof. David Swing hnds recreation in
working like a laborer on his farm.
Forty years ago mulatto boy of Chat
ham county, North Carolina, was sold into
slavery. and was taken to Georgia. A few
DAYS ago he returned Notwithstanding
man. and worth more than $50O,OOo. His
name is Nathan.
The Chinese doctors lot is not wholly
happy one. Four members of the imperial
College of Physicians at Pekin failed re-
Gently to make proper diagnosis OF the
Fmperor's indisposition, and were punished
by being fined years salary
One reason why the Russian Czarowitz
can never marry the Princess Victoria, of
Wales, with whose name gossip has con-
nected his, is that they are first cousins.
and the marriage of first cousins is strictly
prohibited by the canons of the Greek
Church.
q Professor Swing tells a story about hav-
ing attended meeting of the Salvation
Army not long ago, and being very much
shocked during the exercises when one of
the army went to the telephone, rang the
bell and said: us God in? Yes. Well, you
tell him from US that there's one more
soul saved!
While the Comte de Paris. the head of the
house of France and his eldest son. are,
by the degree of expulsion. debarred from
setting foot on the territory of the French
republic no such restrictions are imposed
upon her Royal Hghness, the Comtesse
De Paris and she cannot always resist
the pleasure of revisiting the fatherland.
AS to the healthfulness of going without
shoes or stockings there can. says the Lon
don Hospital, be no question. Some of the
healthiest children of the world are to be
found in the Scottish highlands. where shoes
are seldom worn at an earlier age than
twelve or thirteen. The negro and COO
lie laborers, who work barefooted, are usu-
ally in robust health.
German authors who use Hohenzollern
characters in their dramatic works are
obliged to submit their efforts to the Ger
man Emperor for inspection and revision
before ofe-ing them TO theatrical directors.
For this reason Ernst Wichert's last work
Aus Ei,;nem Recht," was recently sent to
bis Maje.,ty, one of the chief characters
in the play is the Great Elector. The En-
peror found nothing TO critcise in the work,
and gave permission for it's production in
one of the court theaters.
1t is an American women who is the mist
ress of Bulwer Lytton's old home Kneb-
worth House. She is Mrs John Cleveland
Osgood. formerly Miss Belote. of Virginia,
Like many other Virginians, she is of En-
giish descent. and her English blood shows
itself in an ardent love OF sport, which is
said to be her chief reason for living In
England Her husband is an American,
with large interests In the West, but he
spends a good deal of time in England.
She has recently become known to novel
readers as Irene Osgood."
1t seems to be a fact that twenty of
the fifty-three members OF the Damrosch
The Indianapolis journal., 1893-09-30

orchestra have been dropped. leaving
only thirty-three of those who played in it
last year. OF those who are dropped sew
en- are violins. one viola, four 'cellos. one
basso one oboe. one flute, one clarinet, one
bassoon. two horns and one tuba. SO large
a part of the changes being among the
wind instruments, the orchestra Will be
changed in character, whether for the bet
ter or worse remains TO be seen. Among
the discharged musicians are Anton HEX
king, Cello and Carl Wehner, flute.
When John Howard Payne, the author
of Home Sweet Home" died in Tunis
in 1852. the government owed him S2O5.92
salary as consul at that place. 1t has been
owing it ever since. Pcyne's heirs are now
trying to get Congress TO make an appro-
priation TO discharge the obligation. IL
compound interest should be reckoned on
the sum for the forty-one years that have
elapsed the heirs of the poet would receive
comfortable sum. However, the bill that
has been introduced for their relief only ap-
propriates the amount of the original
claim, Sc0592 which is not enough TO fight
over. The government does not allow in
terest on unclaimed money left in it's pos
session.
She does not read the daily news;
She skips the editorial views;
She pins her faith. with prospects glad
Unto the bargain-counter "ad."
Washington Star.
The Indianapolis journal., 1893-09-30

LEE NIXON, tho Republican candidate
for city clerk. is an intelligent and capa-
hands every dollar he has and spends.
His character is above reproach. and he
enjoys the respect of the people who
know him best. He is q member of the
Indianapolis Typographical Union. He
will make model city clerk. Randall
j. Abrams is one of the too numerous
class VINO have started out 70 live by
politics. In Office, he is uncivil TO those
whom he docs not like, and obsequious
TO the bosses. whose bidding he does in
return for the Office he holds. Abrams
is good man not to vote for. while
Nixon is one of the best.
The Indianapolis journal., 1893-09-30
a STRIKING CONTRAST.


The difference between the two
tickets in the municipal contest can no
better be shown than In tho nomina-
tions for councilmen at large. Here is
the Republican ticket as it will be
printed in the official ballot:
For CounciImen at Large. e
LUCIUS ". DREW.
CHARLES KRAUSS.
GEORGE MERRITT
THEODORE STEIN.
HENRY RAUH.
EDWARD G. STOTT.
The above is generally conceded to be
q well-nlgh ideal ticket for councilmen.
All of them are men who have regular
vocations. and who stand woll in the
communities where they live, and enjoy
the respect of all men who know them.
If elected, as now seems probable, they
will stand for clean and economical gov.
eminent.
The Democratic ticket for councilmen
at large is as follows:
MARTIN J. MURPHY.
DANIEL MONNINGER-
HENRY SCHROEDER.
CHARLES REAGAN.
HENRY HABENY.
NJ. GOEBEL.
One or two of the above candidates
are known To the public; three of them
are members OF the present Council,
which is notorious for it's incapacity. The
Journal does not propose to compare the
candidates name by name. but if any
intelligent voter desires TO discover the
most marked contrast that can be made,
let him make inquiry himself.
The Indianapolis journal., 1893-09-30

ing the life of this Council, and 1t is not
probable that you will be able tn refund
any portion of il before maturity; con-
sesuently, the chief duty in regard to
the bonded indebtedness of the city will
be to provide for the payment of the
interest thereon" The Council fol-
lowed this advice. and from that time
to the present the city has been paying
S42, ,33S year in interest more than it
would have paid if the bonds had been
refunded at per cent, as they could
have been at that time.
The Indianapolis journal., 1893-09-30
DIR. BRIGGS'S DAUGHTER.
She Will Enter all Episcopal Training
School for DeacOnesses.

NEW YORK, Sept. pa daughter of
Professor Briggs, of Union Theological
Seminary, has resolved to enter the New
York Training School for Deaconesses. At
least, such is the report in religious circles,
and Professor Briggs makes no denial.
This institution belongs TO the Protestant
Episcopal faith. 1t was founded two years
ago, when ii was called Grace House Train
Ing School for Deaconesses, and IL is under
Huntington, rector of Grace Church 1t
grew so rapidly that DR.. Huntington
thought ii should be something other than
a parochial institution. The school was
then chartered as corporation and its
name changed. but ii still has its location
in Grace House. The school will open Oc-
tober T. and the name of Miss Briggs ap-
pears upon the list of juniors. The course
involves practical work in the hospitals
so its graduates will be properly trained TO
be ''set apart by the bishops TO engage in
work among the poor.
The Indianapolis journal., 1893-09-30
PAY ROLL OF HEELERS
Board of Works Has 1t Doubled
for the Doodle Campaign.
More of the Rotten City Engineering
Sim Coy Trick Again Tried by the
Board-COmplaints Plentiful.

The shameless prostitution of the street
of the Democratic committee is growing
deeper and deeper as the election day APP
proaches. The pay roll has been doubled in
the last week, and yet il is impossible for
any one but heeler to get a job under
Commissioner McGettigan. An examination
of his pay roll submitted 10 the Board Of
Works at the meeting yesterday morning
shows that almost % per cent Of the men
on the roll are of the same brand Of ineffi-
cheney. This percentage is maintained
even in the doubling of the rolls. Whenever
a heeler applies TO Chairman Taggart for a
little money for his -influence and vote
Taggart sends him around to MeGettigan
McGettigan even discriminates against
q German Catholic. although very few
German Catholics ever apply for work on
the streets. The pay roll Of the street re-
pairs gang yesterday was $2,46S.64. A
week ago it was 8, S95 Yet there have been
extremely few unemployed laborers put
to work on the streets The money given
to Barney McGettigan goes to idle heelers,
who seldom work if given the opportunity,
but rather loaf around the Democratic dives.
They make a pretense OF working on the
streets, idle and talking most of the time,
and skipping off To neighboring saloons.
This department of the Board of Works
has furnished the greatest scandal con-
nected with the management OF affairs by
that board. The pay roll OF the bridge gang
yesterday was S14.35. and of the sewer
gang $7S62
The Indianapolis journal., 1893-09-30

THE judicial burlesque and political
mendicant" who sits as police judge
and is asking for reelection to that DO
probation of the dignity of his Office by
alluding in public speech to "the
B'Jesus fellers." and telling what he
does with offenders of that class when
brought before him. Buskirk is nOtori-
ously unfit for the position he occupies.
He is buffoon and burlesque. and the
remark above quoted. which was made
In public speech, indicates the charac-
ter and calibcr of the man.
The Indianapolis journal., 1893-09-30
The Sim COY Trick.

Another political trick OF the board came
to light in the regular proceedings Of the
board. On numerous occasions the board
has told people who applied for extension
of water mains that they could not get the
mains because the company would not lay
them even if the board should give the nee
.essary orders. The board claimed that IL
could compel the company to only lay
certain number Of feet each year. How
ever, Sim Coy came along and the board
smilingly agreed to give him water mains
down in his ward, and the necessary order
was made out, although the board knew.
according to its own claims, that it could
not get the mains extended. The board
did not intend that the mains should be
laid; in fact, ii did not care whether the
mains were laid or not. All it wanted to
do was TO furnish Sim Coy with ammunition
for his campaign as councilman in the Ninth
ward Sim could go TO the voters and tell
them that he got the board to order the
mains extended. and that the mains would
go down. Immediately after the election.
This would be a club to be held over the
heads OF the voters. If they elected Sim
they might get the mains; If they did not
they would never get them Sim found the
scheme q pretty good one, as he thought.
The board decided to try the scheme IN
another part of the city. and yesterday or
dered an extension of mains on Prospect
street from Pleasant avenue to Auburn
street. The board knows that, according
to its own confession to numerous people
who have applied for water mains, that the
company will not lay them, but the board
expects to get few votes In that part or
the city by making the people think they
are going to get the mains. This is one or
the baldest tricks TO which the board has
resorted in its efforts to continue the Sui
livan machine and itself in power.
The Indianapolis journal., 1893-09-30
TRAGEDY IN HORSE LIFE.
Two Vicious Stations Fight Duel to
the Death in New Jersey.

PHILADELPHIA. Sept. 2e.-Two valu-
able stations. owned by DR., c. l.. Thudi-
cum. of Haddonfield. n. j. fought a duel to
the death yesterday. They were known TO
be vicious. and had been kept in separate
fields. Yesterday they got into the same
field by accident, and at once went at each
and the horses bit as effectively as zebraS.
Finally, the more valuable stallion, worth
1000 fell. The other soon trampled over
him Then, 10 make sure of a finish, the
victor seized his rival by the throat and
dragged him about the field.
The Indianapolis journal., 1893-09-30

MAYOR SULLIVAN has said publicly in
az least two speeches, delivered within
the week. that he did not know of a
single Republican city treasurer who
did not go out of office defaulter. Of
course he know that this statement was
grossly and scandalously false. Mayor
Sullivan is not so young but that he re-
members James M. Jamison. Gen. r. S.
Foster, Joseph X. English, w. G. Was
son, Col. William Wiles. w. Fl. Craft.
John w. Coons and Henry Tutewiler.
What do these gentlemen-those who
are living-and their friends think of
such statementsH
The Indianapolis journal., 1893-09-30

THE Sentinel, referring TO the city's
loss in interest by the failure to refund
the city bonds. says: ''No one questions
that il would have been very beneficial
to the city if the bonds had been refund
ed as proposed" Yet Mayor Sulli-
van. in his first annual message, threw
cold water on the propos tion. and told
the Council it was not worth while to
attempt ii. 'None of this bonded in
debtedness," he said, will mature dur
The Indianapolis journal., 1893-09-30

THE fact that twice as many voters
have been put in Republican precincts
as In Democratic by the INSCRIPTIONS
Sullivan officials. is thing that Repub-
licans should remember, rs it may cover
some piece of scoundrelism which Dem
ocratic inspectors. judges and clerks
were assembled in the Democratic
rooms on South New Jersey street last
night TO carry ont.
The Indianapolis journal., 1893-09-30

TO-DAY the Sentinel and Simeon Coy
are at loggerheads, bat if the gang
which is running the Sullivan campaign
had to choose between Coy's support
and that of the Sentinel, they would
chnnaa COY