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The Indianapolis journal., 1894-11-07
1T IS NOT HISTORY.

In his grafton on the occasion of the
unveiling of the Mcclellan monument,
General Franklin declared that McClel-
lans mishaps were due to neglect.
sights, insults and lack of proper sup
port on the part of President Lincoln
and his Cabinet. 1t would have been
wiser for General Franklin to have
omitted that assertion. because ii is not
history-that most authoritative his
tory. the correspondence and reports
which Congress has wisely printed. So
thoroughly do those public records dis.
prove the charge of General Franklin
that the wonder is thai he made il. No
man was ever more heartily seconded
by Lincoln so long as Mcclellan gave
promise OF good results. That he might
have all the troops he wanted. the
Union cause in other sections was neg
lected. He had the best Of everything
that the government could command.
The Indianapolis journal., 1894-11-07

The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has
just rendered decision of interest to a
large class of railroad employees. 1t holds
that an employe of railroad who is a
member of relief association auxiliary to
the road has no claim against the road for
damages on account of an injury received
while in the discharge of his duties If he
has accepted the benefits of the associa-
ton. The case was that of an employe of
the Pennsylvania railroad who was injured
and accepted the benefits of an association
of employees of which he was a member
Afterwards he sued the company for dam
ages and got a verdict. The case was APP
pealed to the Supreme Court, which re-
versed the decision of the lower court on a
point of law. The Supreme Court says:
The essential principle is that a contract
between employer and employee, which pre-
serves to the latter all his rights of action
in case of negligence until after the facts
have occurred and are known to him, is
not against public policy. There is no waiy-
er of any right of action that the person
injured may thereafter be entitled to. 1t is
not the signing of the contract, but the
acceptance of benefits after the accident
that constitutes the release. The injured
party Is not stipulating for the future but
settling for the past. The acceptance of
benefits, of course, after the accident oper-
ated as a release. The acceptance of bene-
fits is the substance of the release.
The Indianapolis journal., 1894-11-07

The political campaign in Pennsyl-
vania closed with the unique spectacle
of two opposing candidates for Govern
or exchanging rostrums and addressing
each others audiences. Both audiences
were very large, and by arrangement
between the party managers and candi-
dates. General Hastings, Republican
candidate for Governor. addressed the
Democratic meeting, while Colonel
Singerly, the Democratic candidate, ad-
dressed the Republican audience. The
paign in Pennsylvania, which was re-
markably free from personalities and
conducted on a higher plane than is
usual in American politics. Among the
effective points made by General Hast
ings was when he said: Il ain protec-
ZIONIST, and will give you some rea-
sons for the faith that is in me. Our
Old, outshines by comparison every 9TH
er land with their many centuries of
commercial existence. They have been
outstripped by America in one century.
One-third of the manufactures of the
world are produced by the United
States, and believe that this is due to
the benefits of protection AT this
point the speaker paused and there was
dead silence for a few moments. when
he added: eff If1ad said those words to
a Republican, audience they would have
been greeted with deafening applause"
This was a fair hit and hard one.
The Indianapolis journal., 1894-11-07
NO .oFF YEARS, IN POLITICS.

1t has at last dawneG upon the coun-
try that the elections of so-called "off
years are not matters of minor impor-
tance. In times past it has been diff
cult to arouse public interest in the
congressional elections occurring be-
tween presidential periods to a degree
sufficient to prevent evil results. Candi-
dates have been put forward who did
not fairly represent Republican policy,
or negligence of Republican voters has
permitted the election of Democrats or
Populistsl where proper energy might
have prevented it. While times were
prosperous this Indifference was easily
accounted for. The people were so ac-
customed to prosperity that they re-
fused to believe that danger threatened
their business interests from any source.
They preferred to have a Republican
head to the national government and
every four years worked earnestly and
enthusiastically to bring this about. for
the most part with success. Mean
while, by their carelessness in the off
years Democratic power was growing in
Congress. and at last that party's su-
premacy came about, and with it disas-
ter to the country. 1t was not the Dem,
ocratic President who wrought the ill;
with Congress in favor of safe Amer
lean commercial policy, the President,
unsound in his views, was practically
powerless. 1t was the legislative de-
partment of the government which
made the mischief The people realize
this now. and Ii is the very disagreeable
object lesson of the last two years that
has created the unusual political inter-
est and excitement all over the United
States during this campaign. The peo-
pie have learned that the Democratic
party cannot he trusted to legislate for
their benefit. and everywhere they have
worked with the single aim and de-
termination of turning it out The fig
ures this morning encourage the belief
that their purpose has been fulfilled. At
all events, the important truth that
there should be no off years in politics
has been firmly impressed on the public
mind
The Indianapolis journal., 1894-11-07

Every, pension payment day makes it
clearer that no pensioner should be paid
over the counter but by check sent to
his address. nhsuch event, those upon
whom he is dependent and to whom his
money should go will get possession of
him before he has fallen into the hands
of sharoers ~or has been enticed into
dives where he loses his money. or at
best goes back to his friends worse than
he left them. This remark applies to
only few compared with the whole,
but there are enough such cases to make
it imperative that the law shall be
changed. At the present time only those
in the vicinity are paid over the coun-
ter, and those are paid by check. The
pension agent has the postoffice address
of all these, and their vouchers can just
as well be executed outside the agency,
as are the greater part Of them now.
The Grand Army has declared in favor
of paying through the mails, and there
is no possible reason why it should not
be done A further reason is that many
of the pensioners who come here to be
paid are now so old and helpless that
they become bewildered, and some of
them, in the excitement of the crowd,
lose their money. Possibly all that is
der Of the Pension Bureau, but what
ever is necessary should be done with
the least possible delay.
The Indianapolis journal., 1894-11-07
sAvANNAH,s COTTON FIRES.
Phosphorus Used by Incendiaries In
the Holds of Ten Steamers.

SAVANNAH. Ga, Nov. 6.-The eighth
fire among the cotton shipping broke out
at 2 o'clock this morning, on the steamship
Whitefield, but the flames were quickly sub
dued. Nearly all the tugs and lighters on
the river were kept busy during the night.
The chiefs of the fire department and police
spent the night on the river watching for
fire. Everything is quiet to-day. The watch
men on all the ships where the fires oc-
CURED were arrested to-day and held with
out bond. waiting investigation.
At o'clock this morning, the steamer
County Down caught fire. but the flames
were quickly extinguished. Ten out of thir-
teen ships now loading have been on fire.
S. f. Harmon, stevedore in charge of the
nonunion men received a threatening letter
this morning, which said he would be
killed. Investigation shows traces Of phos-
phorus everywhere on the burned cotton
Ships. In some instances cotton ties took
on a phosphorescent glow last night 1t is
said that some of the 'longshoremen who
went On strike spread the phosphorus.
Union men deny this Indignantly The
matter will be thoroughly Investigated.
Loss, $4,000
The Indianapolis journal., 1894-11-07
cHINA,s HUMILIATION.

The Fact that China has requested the
European governments to mediate with
Japan for peace is a practical confess
sion that the rulers of the greatest and
Oldest nationality in the world are beat
en-. 1t is also a confession that ma
ton of 4O,OOO,0OO is able to defeat one
having a population of over $4,000. 600.
A few months ago anyone who would
have made such a prediction would
have been regarded as an unreasoning
person. Even when Japan achieved its
first victories. the current opinion was
that when China really got into the
conflict Japan would speedily be van
uuished. There was cause for such con-
clusion. China has been represented as
a nation of such resources and power as
would enable its rulers TO put into the
field armies which, because of numerical
superiority, by mere preponderance of
battalions, would annihilate Japan.
which has population only little
more than one-tenth that of China. 1t
shows that even those who have knowl-
edge of the resources and numbers OF
the two contending nations have not
accurately estimated their respective
power as nations. They have been de-
ceived because they have made popula-
The Indianapolis journal., 1894-11-07

ton the measure of national power,
just as some of the newspapers in one
or two of our larger cities make popula-
ton the measure of municipal great
ness. China has been beaten by Japan
because it is an effete civilization. or.
rather. civilization whicn has worn
out the people who inherited it. Astute
in diplomacy and skillful in maintaining
itself, the despotism of China for
thousand years has pursued policy
that has had no idea of elevating the
masses. That government has been a
system of repression, and what the gov
ernment has not done to deteriorate the
race. tire limited sustenance Of the mil
lions has accomplished. Great cum
ming characterizes the Chinese. but
it is the cunning of the unrea-
soning imitator of the mind which does
not rise above petty things. For hun
dreds of years the masses of China have
been as ignorant of that national spirit
which is called patriotism as if they
were so many cattle.
Under such conditions it was but nat
ural that such beings. when mustered
dS armies. cOuI0 not De IldQe eHectlVe,
even with modern arms. against any
disciplined force of men inspired with
the spirit of nationalism and led by men
who are masters of modern military
science. 1t might have been expected
that they would fly like sheep when at
tackled. as they have in nearly every
instance. AS a people the Chinese are
not moved by any moral power. while
they are mentally as well as physically
stunted. They can only be dangerous
when they go in thousands to other
countries and put the labor of their
cheap living against that Of a bounti-
fully-fed people.
But the important lesson which the
spectacle of China affords to other ma
tions is that numbers alone cannot make
a powerful nation; that Japan with one
tenth the population of China is the
greater nation to-day. We may learn
that something beside mere numbers is
required to make cities great and pow
erful-that an Indifferent population is
a source of weakness
The Indianapolis journal., 1894-11-07

The only State that the people of In
diana could not hear from last night
was Indiana. Before o'clock the Jour-
nal had bulletins from New York city
giving the actual vote of more than hah
the city and indicating the overthrow
of Tammany and the defeat of Hill. If
Indiana had the same system of voting
and counting. the vote Of every precinct
in Indianapolis. West Indianapolis and
other localities having telep phones, on the
head of the ticket would have been an
nounced. Instead, it is probable that
not a hundred ballots had been counted
in any precinct. New York and other
Eastern States, and, indeed, most of the
Western States, have a registration law,
so that no man can vote who has not
registered. The names are checked by
two clerks as the votes are cast The
votes are first counted to see If the
whole number corresponds with the
number of names checked on the voting
list Then the votes are counted, first
the straight tickets and then the scat
tering There are no tally sheets-none
of the tedious calling off of names to be
marked on tally sheets-a process which
is much more liable to result in mis-
takes than a double counting by two
sets of men representing both parties.
Why cannot the cumbersome system be
moderniZed?
The Indianapolis journal., 1894-11-07
THE DIFFICULTIES OF VOTING.

Yesterdays election developed ten
dency of recent election laws which de-
mands attention. The object of all the
legislation of late years has been to Sc
cure fair and honest elections, and no
one will deny that this 'esult is worth
securing at any reasonable cost. In a
republican form of government this is
matter of fundamental Importance. and
the people cannot be too well educated
in it or too constantly reminded of it.
But another point that should not be
lost sight of is that the process of vot-
ing should be made as simple and con-
venient as is possible consistent with
honest and fair elections. Whenever
legislators in their supposed wisdom
hedge the act or process of voting
around with so many details as to make
it difficult for the comprehension Of the
common, average mind they err griev-
ously. The theory of republican, or, If
one prefers the term. of democratic gov
ernment. is that every mans will shall
have free and full expression. This Inn
plies that the election machinery shall
not offer any impediment to such ex-
preston. A great wrong is done If any
legal voter is kept away from the polls
by fear that he may not be able to
comply with the requirements of the
law in regard to voting, or If his ballot
is rejected for informality.
Dispatches from New York say that
not more than IS per cent. of the regis
tered vote was deposited on account of
trouble in handling the various ballots
and complying with the details of the
law. This means loss of a great many
thousands of legal votes. There is rea-
son to believe that in this State from
eight thousand to ten thousand ballots
deposited yesterday by legal voters in
good faith were rejected and lost for
similar reasons. This is not right. No
polls with any doubt in his mind as to
the regularity of his ballot, and no le-
gal ballot ought to be rejected for mere
defects of form.
Perhaps 1T may not be amiss to say
In this connection that the facilities and
conveniences for voting as provided
yesterday were in no way creditable to
those charged with the duty. Speaking
for this city, and no doubt the state
ment applies to other cities throughout
the State, it can be said that the COM
pliance with the law was very niggard-
ly and the conveniences for voters very
poor 1t is not calculated to impress a
citizen with the dignity or Importance
of the act of voting to have him squeeze
himself into narrow, dark little com.
partment where, without light or elbow
room, and with dirty curtain SCREEN
ing half his back, he is required with
rubber stamp, which half the time does
not make any mark, to indicate his
choice of candidates. A government Of
the people and for the people should
give the people better facilities for vot-
ing Some person or some firm makes a
pile of money every year out of the con-
tract for furnishing the mechanical APP
pliances and conveniences for voting,
and yet they are scarcely better than a
parcel of tribal Indians might expect in
an annual census.
The Indianapolis journal., 1894-11-07
A MEAsURELEss TRIUMPH.

No party in this country was ever
overtaken by SO general and over
whelming disaster as was the Democ-
racy in the North yesterday Not a
Northern State stands in the Demo-
cratic column. Tammany in New York
city. the citadel of the Democratic party
in the North, was shattered. The Re-
publicans have carried the State of New
York by the unprecedented majority Of
125.000. electing twenty-three Represen-
tatives to Congress. New Jersey has
fallen into line. Ohio gives Republic
an plurality of 125,000 and elects seven-
teen Congressman. Illinois breaks out
Of the Democratic column and gives
$4,000 Republican majority. This record
of unprecedented majorities extends
from New Hampshire to California.
The next national House is likely to be
Republican by majority the party has
not had since 1872. In fact, the Repub-
licans never elected so many Represent
ativesA in Northern States. In truth,
never before have the people of this
country made such protest against
the party in power and its policy as
they did yesterday. AS a victory it
could not be more complete and more
emphatic. Free trade and all legisla-
ton in that direction is doomed for the
next generation.
The Indianapolis journal., 1894-11-07

In no Northern State was the Re-
publican triumph yesterday more COM
plete or more surprising The most SAN
guine Republicans did not claim over
night indicate possible plurality of
$4,000 for the Republican State ticket
and it may exceed it. But $4,000 would
be surprising result in a State oftener
publicans have. it is believed. elected
both branches of the Legislature, in
spite of the gerrymander. and not less.
but probably more, than nine members
OF the national House. Counties have
been swept into the Republican column
which have always been Democratic.
In fact, the most astounding gains have
been made in Democratic strongholds.
This victory is more significant because
in no other State has the Democracy
fought SO desperately or been so well
organized. Not only the Democratic
but the mugwump press has claimed
that the Democrats would carry the
State. In the capital county, where the
contest was hottest and where money
was freely spent. the Republican vic
tory has been most crushing.
All Hail. Indiana!
The Indianapolis journal., 1894-11-07

and with 1t he organized the largest and
best-equipped army of the war. Even
when his views were counter to those
of the President and his advisers Nc
Clellan was sustained. 1t was not until
he had shown his incapacity in his PEN
insular campaign that he lost the conf
dence of President Lincoln. Even after
that wretched failure, Lincoln put him
at the head of the Eastern armies for
the Maryland campaign, and the inde-
cisive battle of Antietam was fought by
corps and division commanders Final
ly he was relieved, but not until Mr..
Lincoln was convinced that he was un-
fit for the command Of a great army in
the field.
The truth is (and most people outside
of Mcclellan clique of which General
Franklin is the head know iD that Gen.
Mcclellan was not man enough for the
high position he occupied. He was un-
surpassed as an organizer. His knowl-
edge of the preparatory military neces-
sites was unsurpassed. He was an ex-
cellent drill master. a scientific con-
structor of defenses and a careful ac-
cuIuuldtOr OF SuppIleS, Dut ne seemed 10
lack the greater capacity to make sue
cessful campaigns and fight great bat
ties to decisive victory. Such is the
judgment of intelligent people who read
the records of his period and deduce
conclusions therefrom.
Perhaps those who carefully read
General McClellan's book and the letters
which he wrote to his wife during his
period of the command of the Army of
the Potomac have been able to form
better estimate of the true measure
of the man than from any other
source. Coming so suddenly to the
highest position in the army upon the
reputation of victories won by Rose
Grams in West Virginia. General McClel-
Ian regarded himself as the humble in
strument of Providence to save his
country; he early came to the conclu-
sion that he was clothed with the in
fallibility coveted by rulers by divine
right, and also to regard all those who
did not accept his views as foes to him.
self and enemies to the country. His
memoirs and private letters disclose the
honest but ordinary man consumed OF
egotism. Such is the current opinion of
the intelligent people of the country to-
day, and the remnant of the Mcclellan
clique will simply provoke an express
sion of that estimate of their idol as
often as they charge his failure upon
Abraham Lincoln
The Indianapolis journal., 1894-11-07

The progress of science carries with n
the differentiation of pursuits and division
OF labor. The latest illustration is in the
evolution of electricity lawyers We have
become familiar with corporation lawyers.
insurance lawyers, patent lawyers etc.,
and from these one may infer that electric
ity lawyers are those who make speciality
Of that branch of knowledge. There is not
much law as yet on the subject of cleo
trlcity, but 1T is likely to be made pretty
rapidly during the next few years. 1t is
estimated that at the beginning of the pres
in electrical light and power companies
O0,OO0,O00; in electric railroad companies,
500, 100000; in telegraph companies, $780, Co.,
600; in electrical supply companies, $l5OOOO,-
600. and in telephone companies. s1OO 600, 900,
making a grand total of $1,000, ,OOO, ,OOO This
enormous investment covers numerous
patents and embraces many competing and
conflicting interests. Moreover, as the
electrical business is yet in it's infancy the
investment in its various branches will be
constantly increasing. 1t is evident, there
fore, that a new branch of law will gradual
ly arise and a new class of lawyers be re-
quired who are more or less experts in elec-
trical science as we'll as electrical law.
This is already foreshadowed by the intro
duction in New York of the term electricity
lawyers to designate those who are deemed
experts in cases wherein electricity figures
The Indianapolis journal., 1894-11-07

Inasmuch as the Constitution Of the
State of Indiana distinctly specifies as
qualification for voters that they must
be male citizens. it is difficult to under
stand what the women who demanded
ballots at various points in the State
yesterday hope to accomplish by the
proceeding. 1t is folly to talk of test
ing the law" when 1t is obvious that
change in the Constitution is necessary
before they can enjoy the right OF suf-
frage here. Possibly their object is
merely to keep up an agitation OF the
subject in order to draw public atten.
tion to it. but II is not unlikely that an
agitation based on the useless theory of
The Indianapolis journal., 1894-11-07
A case of hypnotic anaesthesia is report,

case of hypnotic anaesthesia is reported
from Chicago which has some remarkable
features surgical ope eration was per-
formed on hypnotized patient which re-
quired laying back the flesh from the root
Of a finger nail and cutting the membrane.
The operation, though not serious, would,
under ordinary circumstances, have been
very painful. yet the patient did not finch
nor show by his expression any sign of
feeling 1t is even asserted that the flow
Of blood from the wound was stopped at
the hypnotizer's word of command. This
latter statement would detract from the
credibility of the whole were it not au-
thenticated by apparently trustworthy evil
derice.
The Indianapolis journal., 1894-11-07
The Grand Old Party Elects at Least
200 Members and Possibly Twen-
~ More.
SECRETARY M'KEES FIGURES
IN CLAIMING 2Is HE COUNTS ONLY
EIGHT FROM INDIANA.
Senator Faulkner Refuses to Concede
Democracy's Defeat, but Says Re-
pubIicans May Have Won.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.

WASHINGTON. Nov. cit became evil
dent at the Republican headquarters as
early as s o'clock that the next House
would be Republican Returns from the
congressional districts came IN very Slow
iy, but as the evening wore away the
probable Republican strength increased un-
til at IL o'clock the committee placed the
number at 200. Significant kilograms were
received from Murray, the colored candi-
date in South Carolina. and from Cheat
ham, the colored candidate from North
Carolina, announcing their election. but
intimating that efforts would be made to
count them out. At midnight the follow
ing list of Congressman elected is be-
lieved TO be substantially accurate: