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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-06-29
FRANCES NEW PRESIDENT.

The frmness displayed by NJ. Casimir-
Perier in dealing with the disorderly politi-
cal elements of France while Prime Minis
ter of the republic recommends him
the man for the emergency.-Philadelphia
Record.
France is to be congratulated upon having
chosen so excellent a man as NJ. Casimir-
Perier to succeed her assassinated chief
magistrate. and upon the peace and dib-
nifed soemnity which attended his cleo
tion.-Chicago Times
Conservative. experienced and loyal. he
seems to be the man best fitted to take up
the work laid down by Carnot and carry it
forward on the lines which made Carrots
administration success and did so much
TO insure the stability of the French gov
ernment. Chicago Record.
He is strong in all the principles that
constitute high-minded. high-spirited. reso-
lutte manhood and France may look to him
for one of the very best of the admirable
administrations that have kept the third
republic from the dangers that wrecked its
redecessors.-Chicago Inter ocean.
No citizen who could attain the presi-
dency of that country in these days would
have either the disposition or the power to
restore the empire, and hence ii may be
will suffer no backward step in the devel-
opment of it's republicanism through the
election of Perier.-St. Louis Republic
While less moderate than Carnot, he is
unquestionably a more energetic man. a
more astute politician and a statesman Of
broader views and more positive character.
He is the uncompromising foe of socialism
as well of anarchy. and believes that
republicanism is the only form of govern
ment that can save France.-Chicago Tri-
bune.
France is TO be congratulated upon the
choice that has been made, and all persons
who are interested in preserving the peace
of Europe and in advancing the civilization
of the human race will rejoice with our
mir-Perier to the exalted position made va
cant by the sad, untimely death of NJ. Car
not.-Cincinnati Tribune.
the head of the government, appears TO
be an admirable choice. While a lifelong,
thorough and consistent republican, he has
steered clear of the extremists and imprac-
ticables of his party, whose doctrines lead
TO socialism the one hand and make
dangerously close approach to anarchism
on the other.-St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
He is the man possessing the largest
share Of public confidence, and the one TO
whom the best sentiment of the country
has been most apt to turn in time of
doubt He has many Of Carnot's qualities
with some added intellectual activity. apd
even had Carnot survived his present term,
which was nearly at an end Casimir-Perier
has seemed his most probable successor.
Philadelphia Times.
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SCHOOL BOARD ORGANIZATION.
Miss RidenOur to Be Displaced by the
NOnpartisan bud" Swift.

To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal:
/ hear from what l consider a reliable
source that the reformers and Democrats
have made up their slate for the election
of officers of the Board of School Commits
sioners next Monday night. Mr.. Charles
Martindale is to be made president and
Charles Adam treasurer. Mr. Adam will
be supported by Russo and Roth, both OF
whom pledged themselves. before their cleo
ton, to use their efforts to get interest on
the balance in the hands of the treasurer,
and, since they have been members of the
board. have on all occasions voted against
every motion made in the direction of COL
lecting interest. Mr. ADAM the treasurer
for two years past, was under a similar
pledge. made in a card in a newspaper
before his election. If he has collected any
interest on the school funds he has failed
He gives bond for 100000 He told the
writer that he did not know either of his
bondsmen; had never spoken TO them. He
did not say VINO fixed his bond for him, but
ii would not be a difficult matter to de-
ter-nine who his friend at court was
l understand the programme is. also, to
put Bud Swift in as assistant secretary
in place of Miss Ridenour. If this is done
it will not fall far short of an outrage.
Miss Ridenour is competent, and is so ia
miliar with all the transactions of the
board for many years past that her place
would be hard to satisfactorily fill. Swift
is out of a job, and there is no Immediate
prospect of his getting one by election IN
this city or county, so he must be provided
for at the expense of the public schools and
a worthy, competent woman must give place
to this man for no reason except his pull
on his Democratic friends, assisted by the
mugwumps on the board. 1t is to be hoped
there will be a majority of the board with
good sense and manhood enough to pre-
vent the displacement of a worthy and COM
petent assistant secretary. The Office of
assistant secretary is the most important
of any connected with the board. The ac-
counts of every name and nature are in
charge of that person. The pay roll of all
employees and teachers and all the financial
affairs of the board are directly in charge
of the person holding that office; hence the
necessity of having one worthy and we'll
qualified Such person is Miss Emma B.
Ridenour. JOHN SMITH.
Indianan olis June
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THE ASPIRATIONS Of THE ATTOR-
NEY-GENERAL.

1t should cause no surprise that Attor-
ney-General Smith appeared at the Demo-
cratic conference. Wednesday. as the cham
pion Of lawlessness. when 1t is remembered
that his first Statewide reputation was
made by violent assumption of power
which the Supreme Court had declared was
lodged in the officer whose place he usurped.
From that day to this Green Smith has
been a noisy swaggerer and bulldozer-
meddling with affairs not his own, when
sion TO squelch him, and neglecting duties
which should have belonged to him in con-
nection with the Roby affair. Mingling with
men who are accustomed to the amenities
OF life, he is laughed at as a coarse buff
foon, as he was in the Supreme Court. AS
Attorney general he has been notorious for
his vulgar and Unsuitable greed for fees.
And now he sets himself up to break
down the Governor because the latter
simply did his duty by obeying the laws.
The man who has been denounced by reso-
and county school officers because of his
greed sets himself up as the leader of the
wing of the Democracy which he believes
will pander to lawlessness. 1t is said that
he aspires to the governorship or TO be
the successor of Senator Voorhees,. 1t is
said that II was in that capacity that he
was present at Wednesdays conference TO
denounce Governor Matthews and to array
himself and his followers against the ele-
ment in the party which believes in law and
order--that he is so stupid as To believe
that a majority OF the men who shape the
policy of the Democratic party are waiting
TO raise him, with his tens of thousands
OF dollars plundered from the taxpayers. 10
the governorship or the senatorship. or
whatever position immeasurable self-esteem
and coyetousness may lead him to reach
out after.
The Journal does not hold the Democratic
party In Indiana in very high esteem. Its
leadership has been tainted with demagogy
and baseness. but the Journal has never
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was once joyous platform; in Chicago
/ was made.
The people laughed and holered and the
bands all came and played.
My planks were joined so neatly that tile
carpenters declared
Twas q case of clear perfection, ard
they'd lick the man who dared
Insinuate that 1 was anything but stanch
and good;
And now there amt enough of me for
campaign kindling wood
Where are now. those vocal efforts and
those sentiments sublime?
Those tunes played gladly out OF key and
mostly out of time?
Gone into deep oblivion; laid high upon
the shelf
Dear. patriotic speeches. you're back num-
bers. like myself.
They said they made me strong enough to
cope with any fate.
And yet / proved fragile as chunk of
armor plate:
To patriotic fires I'd give some splinters
If / could,
But now there amt enough Of me for
campaign kindling wood.
WASHINGTON Star.
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The Pullman Car Company is not worry
ing itself over the strike, as. indeed. why
should il, since il is put TO no inconveni-
ence or cost? Gen. Horace Porter first
vice president of the company, says: 'It
is the railroad companies that after ALL
will have TO bear the brunt of the attack.
We lease our cars for term of twenty -five
years. During that period have moth
ing 10 do but repair them. They are under
contract, and. whether in use or not, must
be paid for according 10 the terms of the
lease. The only point which will be
affected is in present leasing, of which there
is little now. owing to dullness in business,
and in repairing. Consequently, boycott
of the cars will. in a large measure, fail to
effect it's purpose"
General Porter is not quite right. 1t is
the travelling public which must bear the
greater share OF the Inconvenience caused.
The Pullman car employees, also paid by
the public. and deprived of their in
comes, are also sufferers What grudge
does statesman Debs bear 10 the women
and children who travel in Pullman sleep
ers? Or is his animosity chiefly directed 10
Pullman porters who have held him up
in times past?
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THE WAR on LANDS.
Absurdity of the Charges Brought
Against Him by His Enemies.

To the Editor of the India polls Journal:
The publication in the Chicago Inter
Ocean and the Journal of the personal at
tack Charles B. Lands, editor of the
Delphi Journal and Republican candidate
for Congress in this district, by three men
claiming to represent Judge Johnston and
his friends has called forth a universal ex-
preston of indignant condemnation in this
city. A number of those strongest in their
disapproval were supporters of Judge John
ston before the Hammond convention. The
charge that Mr.. Landis is morally unfit
TO represent this district is dastardly and
slanderous charge that Democrats we'll
Republicans of this city Indignantly re-
sent Mr. Lands lived in Logansport for
fifteen years. He graduated from our public
schools. and for four years edited the
Logansport Daily Journal Until the appear
ance of the card this morning his honor
or his moral fitness to fill any office were
never questioned. While such a charge is
extremely stupid il is none the less an
outrage. Its utter absurdity can be seen
when it is recalled that Mr.. Lands was,
a few months ago, unanimously elected
president of the Republican State Editorial
trustee of Wabash College over such mel.
as Judge w. A. Woods of the United
States Appellate Court. and John NJ. But
Ter. prominent attorney of indianapolis.
No young man ever sought an office In
this part of the State who called to his
support a more loyal or enthusiastic follow
ing than Charles b. Lands. 1t was largely
a personal following. representing the
friends he made when he stumped the dis
trict two years ago for Judge Johnston,
who at that time defeated Mr.. Lands In
the convention by vote. Had Mr.. Ian
dis faltered a moment in his support of
Judge Johnston that gentleman would have
been overwhelmingly defeated. Mr.. Lands
is man of clean character, of ability, of
honor, and few more attacks like the one
made, where the animus is so plainly un-
covered, will send him to Congress from
this district by the largest majority since
the days of Colfax. FRIEND.
I,oeansport Ind. June 81
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of the counties the depreciation runs into
the hundreds OF thousands OF dollars. Dem
ocracy Is blight.-Shelbyville Republican.
Senator Quay's testimony on sugar spec
nlation proves one thing. and that Is that
Vernon Journal
The Sugar Trust and the Southern plan
tations are the only infant industries that
the Democratic party regards as entitled 10
protection.-Goshen Times.
The question of the need Of new White
House at Washington has been revived
The need of a new President is far more
pressing at this time.--Columbia City Com
mercial.
A few years ago Oscar Wilde. when he
came to this country to lecture. complained
that we had no ruins. But that was before
the Democratic party came into power.
-Paoli Republican.
Senator German testifies that he doesn't
know where the Democratic campaign
funds came from. Probably nobody ever
was really as innocent as this old cam
paigner looks.--Shelby Republican.
Col. A. l.. Conger no doubt means well.
but he is not inspiring admiration Of him.
self by stalking about with a long pole
trying to knock Reed persimmons in Nc
kirley's Observation-Disclosures Courier.
One of the happiest decisions of the
American people heretofore has been that
the election or q man TO Congress was
proof that he was a statesman 1t is a
delusion no longer.-Brookville American.
While things political coming the
Republican way this year, it will not do
for the party TO sit down and do nothing.
Overconfidence is what played havoc with
the Republicans in Ohio in lS92.-Bluffton
Chronicle.
Jason Browns name will not be present
ed for denomination before the New AL
bany district congressional convention.
Stockslager will have no opposition, the
primaries having settled the matter.-Wash-
ington Democrat.
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The First Assistant Postmaster-genera
is reported as saying in regard to the pres
ent strike that 1.-The stringent regulations
governing interference with the mails will
undoubtedly prevent any delays occurring
TO the mail-carrying trains" He is right.
These regulations are well understood, and
the strikers will not knowingly interfere
with or delay for a single moment any
train carrying the mails.
But a great many people are asking. and
repeated strikes are forcing it on the public
mind, if stringent regulations and rigid en-
forcement of law can prevent interference
with mail trains, why cannot they do so
for passenger trains? Mail matter is no
more sacred than human beings. Letters
relating to business or domestic affairs are
not more important than men and women
thousand dollars worth of goods or a let
ter announcing the sickness of a husband
or child is not entitled 20 greater protec-
ton than a merchant on a business trip
VI d NOILldH OH d journey VI HE VI Ocdlil-
In short, the affairs of the people are not
more sacred than the people themselves,
and if the government can warn strikers
not to interfere with mail trains, why can
It not throw the same protection around
passenger trains? 1t certainly can so far
as trains on interstate railroads are con-
cerned. 1t is clearly competent for Con-
gress to enact law making it felony fer
any unauthorized person to hinder, delay
or interfere with the movement of any rail-
road train conveying passengers across the
country or from one State to another. This
would be much better than for the gov
eminent to take control of the railroads,
hut anything is better than government by
Debs The time seems to have come when
some way must be found to circumvent that
high and mighty functionary 1t seems to
be a question whether government of the
people by the people and for the people
shall perish from the earth or Debsism be
put down.
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n is not often that a plank in political
platform has funnier codiciI than the
one passed by the Illinois Democrats In
dorsing the administration 1t began by
saying. I'VE indorse the action of President
Cleveland and the public services of all
Democrats in executive and legislative sta
TORS" then followed the codicil-"in all
things that they have done to give force
and effect to the principles of the party as
laid down by the Chicago convention OF
1892" This was an Endorsement with a
string TO II. In effect it is a condemnation
OF Congress and the administration for
their failure TO pass a tariff for revenue
only. to repeal the ten-per-cent. prohibitory
tax on State bank issues. and TO do sew
eral other things demanded by the Chicago
platform. Such an Endorsement equals two
plus two minus four.
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THE INDIANA PRESS.

Grover Cleveland has fallen further and
lit harder than any man since Sam Patch.
-Muncie Times.
Congress and the Senate are not stand
ing upon the Democratic platform; they'e
sitting down on it.-Tell City Journal.
Senator Hill is not popular with his party
now but his party is unpopular and he is
more respected than any one in it.-Muncie
News.
What does IL profit the country IL $4,000
0O) be saved in pensions and s34 100000 be
given 10 the Sugar Trust?-Elwood Call
Leader.
There isn't county in Indiana where
the assessed valuation Of personal property
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Pittsburg wants to borrow the liberty
bell for the national G.. A. r. encampment.
The moving about of this revolutionary
relic does not commend itself to
the general public. 1t was we'll enough
perhaps to take it to the Columbian Ex-
position, but this is the sort of event that
occurs only once in century or so. Even
that removal was open to criticism, but
the objections to risking its safety by car
rying 1T about the country on occasions
even Of such Importance as a G.. A. r..
reunion are many and obvious. The vet
Grams would prefer not to see the bell than
to have 1t endangered.
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The announcement that the bill of sale
tariff bill is in jeopardy and that it may be
defeated is too good news TO be true con-
sdering the makeup OF the Democratic
majority. The prediction is based upon the
report that the two Populist Senators who
are alleged TO have sold their votes to the
Sugar Trust for free lumber and free
barbed wire will go back on their pledges
and vote against the sugar schedule. The
trimm-rs have heard from their States. and
what they have heard has led them to be-
Heve that even Populists will not sustain
Senators who sustain the worst OF trusts.
II the sugar schedule should be knocked out
there is reason 10 believe that the whole
bill would fail but 1t is very doubtful IL
enough votes can be mustered against the
Democrats who are 90 nearly solid. IL
PETER. Allen. Kyle and Stewart PopuIis's,
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and Irby and Hill, Democrats. should vote
against the sugar schedule. and all the Re-
forty-three votes would be against to forty
two in favor. But Allen and Kyle are not
TO be counted on to change unless thor
oughy frightened, while Senator Hill
would scarcely vote against the sugar sched-
ule unless he was certain that its rejection
would kill the bill.
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One of the complaints of the original
strikers at Pullman was that the foremen
were not competent Yet they were menu
bers of the union, and if the company had
G;;SssSTssd them on tie gTounG of incoIn-
petence, and had employed competent nom
strike. IL is fundamental error of organ
lied labor that it places membership In the
union above competence. 1t has "a shield
and sword or stiletto for the best one
outside. This ignores the idea OF personal
rights and liberty, which is the basic prin-
ciple OF free government
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thought so badly of the Democratic lead
that 1t will rally under his gonfalon if
Green Smith should demand the senatorship
or to be further recognized as a party
some Of its deeds in the past, 1t is not
possible that the forces which control the
party action and dictate its policy to-day
will hail Green Smith as chief
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The rejection by the Secretary of the
Treasury of Mr.. st. Gaudens's second de
sign for the reverse side of the Columbian
Exposition medal, in favor of one submit
ted by an engraver in the Philadelphia
mint, will probably cause great outcry
in some quarters and especially from Mr..
st. Gaudens. The Secretary of the Treas
ury is not above the suspicion of being
actuated by small prejudice. and yet it is
quite possible there are good reasons for
his decision. From a strictly artistic point
of view, Mr. ST. Gaudens's design is doubt
less far superior to that of the engraver,
yet coin engravers are not devoid of ar
tistic sense. and their practical knowledge
and experience give them special qualifica-
tons in a certain line CT work. The prob
ability is that while st. Gaudens's design
may have been the best ideally and on
paper, that of the engraver is the best
for medal work.
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1t must be a rare occasion when some
thing of the dramatic and spectacular does
not appear in a proceeding in which
Frenchmen and women are actors. No
doubt NJ. Casimir-Perier is an able and ex-
dent of the French republic, but he could
not consent to become a candidate till his
mother invoked the shade of his grand
duty. and when informed of his election
he burst into tears. These incidents are
very Frenchy, and yet they seem natural
In their surroundings and do not detract
from the dignity and impressiveness of the
other proceedings.
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deprive the schools OF interest on public
funds and to dismiss Miss Ridenour to
make room for that eminent nonpartisan,
Bud Swift who is out of job and must
be provided for. 1t seems hardly. possible
that the members Of the board who know
how faithful and efficient the assistant
secretary has been will lend themselves to
the carrying out of this contemplate
scheme. but if they do it will simply show
how far partisanism has been pushed by
the Democratic and the mugwump menu
bers. who act as obedient Democratic
tools. 1t is plain to be seen that private
and not public interests are to be the first
object with the newly organized board
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The Republican League convention should
either have been silent upon the silver oues-
ton or contented itself with resffirmation
of the expression of the Republican
tional convention. To assert that there can
not be good times until the full use and
highest position of silver shall be restored.
and declaring in favor of Legislation TO
that end" is unwarranted by history. From
1889 until after the election of 1892 there
were the best times. There. is as much
money now as then, and when labor Is
employed and industries start UP under a
protective policy the country will enjoy
prosperity. The Republican party stands
pledged to-a bimetallisrn in whiehs
dollar of one metal shall be intrinsically
equal in value to the dollar of another,
The League convention, however. does not
speak for the Republican party on any
subject Its declaration in favor of wom-
an suffrage, as we'll silver. is its
own, and binds no one.
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1t is said that everybody in the Demo-
cratic conference, Wednesday, took a
whack at the Senators who have betrayed
the Democratic party" Who are these
Senator'S? All who call themselves. regular
Democratic Senator'S signed around robin
to stand by the compromise tariff bill, ex.
Mr.. Voorhees, reported the first sugar sched-
ule. and is the parent of the Whisky
Trust feature consequently he must be one
Of the Senators who betrayed the party"
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prosecuted

Mr.. MacVeagh was nominated Senator
Cock county or Chicago, after having
adopted unit rule. Under that arrange
ment Mr.. MacVesgh got 362 of his SIC
votes. Hereafter by adopting the unit
rule. the Hopkins Tammany can control all
the nominations in Illinois as the Tweed
Croker Tammany has for years in New
York