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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-10-10

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ern nv sanlDla GIn6Gr; grade. b-n"prt Stock
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ssc: do yellow 3oglOc stock l16 i~ bush; sileS .'o"
hush oats firm: fairly active. No white Western
2siIa2sc: No mixed DO 24a2i',c; stock :8oSo bush
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stock "a O93 bush Hay firm. sl3Hsl5 % Grain heighis
AMI and steady: steam Liverpool. ID October Cork
Sor orders ss October. Cotton quiet mldilings, 9isc
Eggs firm i7isalsc. Other articles unchanged
p,s,on oct p-Flour dull Corn-Llsht supply oats
,e, short. quiet, Provisions quiet Butter firm: Nurfh-
ern creamery. 22d23c Western 2lr22c. Cheese firm
<r,bern sis1qc: Western snsisc. Eggs quiet; Eastern
ION a0c. Western and Michigan iIni9c
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-12-14
HISTORY REPEATING ITSELF.

Hon. Galusha A. Grow. Of Pennsyl-
venia, in his criticism of Mr.. Cleveland's
money borrowing. debt-making policy.
said: THE present administration seems
to have begun where the Buchanan adj
ministration left off," The statement Is
historically true as we'll as neatly put.
During the administration Of Bu-
chanan, the last Democratic President
before Cleveland. the public debt in
creased from sS1. 972. 900 in 1856 to ss4.-
$40. 900 in 1860. and this in time OF peace.
During the last year of the administra-
ton money was borrowed at a ruinous
rate Of interest to meet the necessary
expenses OF the government Or the
18th OF December. 1859. Congress passed
a law authorizing the issue of $40, 0O0, 600
in treasury notes. payable in one year,
at the lowest rates offered. The Secre-
tary Of the Treasury offered 5000, 900 Of
the notes. bids to be opened Dec. 2s.
and when the time came only $500, 900
had been offered as low as II per cent.
There were some offers at "a per cent.
and some as high as SO per cent. The
Secretary rejected all over II per cent.
As the government needed money at
once. 1t borrowed 81, SOC. 900 of the banks
at IL per cent. A month later II offered
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-12-14

$1,000 600 more of treasury notes. payable
in n year. and they were taken at an
average rate OF 1O% per cent. This
shows the condition Of the national
finances in the last year of Buchanan's
administration. Thanks to the Repub-
lican party, the public credit Is a great
deal better now. but owing to Demo-
cratic legislation the revenues of the
government are not equal to it's expendi-
lures. and the deficit has to be made up
by borrowing money. Thus Ii may be
fairly said that 1.-The present admins
tration seems to have begun where the
Buchanan administration left off"
There was a sort of historic propriety
in this statement coming from Mr.. Grow.
He was a member of Congress from 1851
to 1863. and personally cognizant OF the
disgraceful events during Buchanan's
administration. Now, after more than
thirty years, he is in Congress again and
able to testify from personal knowledge
that this administration seems to have
begun where that of Buchanan left off.
Mr.. Grow is a very ~wide-awake man,
but If he a been asleep thirty odd
years and had Weakened up in the Treas
ury Department he would be justified
in thinking that 1t was still the admin
istration of James Buchanan.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-12-14
A CIVIL PENSION LIST.

In his report the COMMISSIONS of
Pensions recommends that clerks in that
bureau who have become unable to rem
p~ensioned. In an address before the Ma
tiona Civil Service Association, Mr..
Foulke recommended that a fund be
raised for the maintenance Of SUPER
animated clerks and other employees by
an assessment upon their salaries while
Is to be done in the way of providing
for clerks in the departments and pre-
venting their retention on the pay rolls
when they are unable to render any
service, Mr.. Foulke's suggestion is the
best that can be made But why make
these clerks special beneficiaries? They
receive as much compensation, as a rule,
as do men and women performing a
service requiring Is much intelligence
as one must possess to get a clerkship.
For the work they actually perform
they receive higher compensation than
clerks in private employment, yet there
has not as yet in this country been any
AAoaC ~ OaAC " DCIS OHS III
private employment after they are un-
able to labor. Why discriminate? And
fthis leads to an inquiry as to the neces-
sity of retaining men and women in
government clerkships until they be-
come old. Unless they become so ex-
pert rs to be more useful than ordi-
nary clerks, would it not be better to
limit their years of service to eight or
twelve? In that time, II they are pru-
dent. they could find employment which
would be better for them thar a life in
the routine work of a department. An
exception should be made in favor of
railway postal clerks, who cannot be
said to be clerks in the ordinary sense
of the word, but officials who's duties
require efficiency and alertness. The
higher skill and the risk which their
work involves should lead Congress to
either increase their compensation or
provide a fund for their support when
they are disabled. 1t requires three
times as mucn capacity. If the phrase is
allowable, to make a competent postal
clerk as to discharge the routine duties
required OF a $1,000 department clerk;
yet, all things considered, the compen-
sation of the clerk is higher than that
OF the postal railway official.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-12-14

The County Commissioners have done the
proper thing in the manner OF their adver-
Using for bids for county printing in that
they have reserved the right to reject any
and all bids. in whole or in part. This will
tend to prevent bidders from following the
too prevalent custom of making low prices
on the class Of goods Of which but little
is bought. and making UP the loss and a
large profit by putting high prices on such
items as are used in large quantities The
so-called cute bid will not avail under
such a rule. The State officers recently
effected a large saving to the State by fol-
lowing this plan, but under the rule adopted
by the commissioners they will be able to
do relatively as well with much less labor
in carrying out the figures.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-12-14
DEADLOCK OF THE STATE BOARD
OF

If the State Board of Health is of any
practical use to the people OF Indiana ii
should be efficiently organized. When
the first attempt was made last spring
to elect a secretary qualified for the
position. it is aid that DR.. Hurry would
have been elected had not the Governor
called in the two Democratic members
of the board and insisted that they
should vote for a Democrat. This state
ment was made at the time. and it has
never been denied. AS a result the
matter has dragged along from March,
and now there is no adequate organiza-
ton. The present secretary is said to
be untitled for the position That the
other four members of the board, two
Republicans and two Democrats, do not
vote for him indicates that they believe
he is not the man for the position. So
the usefulness Of this board. if it has
any, is destroyed by continuing as its
executive officer a man for whom 10
member Of 1t will vote. I'M who cannot
be expected to do as we'll as he might
under men who have expressed a lack
VI III III AC
arises over me question whether the
secretary shall be a Republican or a
Democrat. not over the vastly more i'm
portant question of the man best quail
fed for the position. Now, If this board
Is Of any consequence whatever. its use
fulness is being destroyed by this child
ish contention as to whether the secre-
tary shall be a Republican or a Demo-
crat. He holds an office which cannot
affect a public question upon which par
ties divide. Consequently, If he is a
skillful and energetic man it matters
not whether he is a Republican or Dem
ocrat. An inefficient Republican could
smallpox or other epidemics than an
inefficient Democrat.
1t may be that the State Board of
Health is not needed. The course pur-
sued by it's is certainly cal
culated to give that impression. The
alleged action of the Governor in advis-
ing Democratic members of the board
to refuse to vote for any man for secre-
tary, even so able a man as DR.. Hurry,
indicates that he cannot believe that its
mission is an important one. If he does.
If such a board is necessary in his judg-
ment to look after the sanitary condi-
tons of the State, and he prevents its
organization until a member of his staff
can be elected secretary. he shows how
UNNECESSARILY more important he re-
CARDS the appointment Of a Democrat
for a nonpartisan position than the
efficient management of a board which
deals with the public health.
If this board cannot be organized at
a very early day with an efficient secre-
tary, the Legislature SHOULD abolish it
when it meets or so change the law
creating 1t that it's executive officer shall
not continue to be a bone of contention
between spoils
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-12-14

The President Criticized by
for His ~InactiOn.

The President Criticized by BANKERS
for His InactiOn.
New York Letter in Philadelphia Press.
Since Saturday many expressions of sur
local bankers and 1nanciers because Of
the delay in sending TO Congress the re-
port of the Secretary OF the Treasury.
been presumed that Mr.. Carlisle would in
detail report upon those subjects which
the President treated in a general way in
his message. The anxiety Is due to the
fear that Mr.. Carlisle may have held back
his report so long that he might elaborate
certain recommendations not suggested by
II am very anxious about Mr.. Carlisle's
report. said an ex-Controller Of the Cur
rency this morning. IF l could be sure
President did, then / should have no APP
prehensions," and this omment suggests
what many other bankers have been say
The wonder has been whether Mr.. Car
Isle would suggest. as he has before, that
the law requiring national banks to keep
notice here that the President. while recon-
mending the cancellation Of the legal tend
ers. said nothing about the embarrass-
ment such action would cause the banks.
unless some other provision was made
for the reserve. Mr.. Cleveland did
not mention this has caused the impression
to become general that he agrees with Mr..
Carlisle and would favor the adjustment
of the reserve feature OF the national
banking system.
Aside from the fact that II the green
backs were to be retired without also
repeating the bank reserve law complica-
tons would arise. bankers speak OF an
other and greater objection. Not one OF
them with whom the Press correspondent
has spoken has failed to express the
opinion that TO abolish the reserve would
be a very dangerous step. Mr.. Hepburn
says that 1t should not be for an instant
thought OF, unless the banking laws are
so changed as to permit the national banks
to establish branches. as Is done IN Scot
land.
Another thing is being more and more
talked OF here, n that Is the inacuracy,
not to say disin-genuousness, of that part
of the Presidents message which intimates
that the sale Of bonds was not made neces-
sary In order TO get funds to meet the
treasury obligations Every clearing house
banker in this city remembers that in the
first twelve months Of Mr.. Cleveland's
administration S75.0o0. 900 I'm gold was paid
into the New York clearing house by the
subtreasury here because the government
had nothing but gold with which to meet
these obligations upon 1T.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-12-14

Every prominent public man has
among his followers and supporters
some who possess zeal without knowl-
recklessness. are apt to do him more
harm than good. They belong to the
class of people who didn't know it was
loaded" In common parlance. they are
styled fool friends"
AS Governor Matthews has reached
the dignity OF being a presidential can
didate. or aspirant. 1t would be strange
If he did not have fool friends. In fact,
they are a necessary adjunct of any
presidential boom. a sort of badge of
~genuineness and guaranty of good faith.
All the same they require watching.
Just now the Governors fool friends are
pointing the silver gun at him without
knowing 1T is loaded. OF course, they
do not mean to hurt him. and they will
not believe it possible for him to receive
any injury from an unloaded weapon
until Ii shall go off and kill him. Then
they will be very sorry, and wonder how
they could ever have been so foolish.
The conference OF Wednesday showed
beyond any doubt that the free silver
Democrats of Indiana intend to press
the issue and insist on a free silver
plank in the next State platform. In
the rough-and-tumble discussion Of the
question which was accidentally precipi-
tated IN the conference they showed q
numerical majority and decided ag-
gressiveness. They talked like men who
had knives In their boots and would
use them IL necessary. Unless some
thing is done to head them off they will
capture the next State convention and
adopt a free silver platform.
All these free silver Democrats are In
favor OF Governor Matthews for Presi-
dent. as they ought to be. AS a Demo-
crat in good standing and the only possi-
bic Democratic candidate in Indiana, he
should, Of course. have the united sup
port of his party in this State. There is
no reason TO doubt the sincerity Of these
free silver Democrats I'm their friendship
for Governor Matthews. but there is
much reason to doubt their wisdom.
They forget that Indiana alone cannot
nominate a candidate for President, and
that the Democracy of the Eastern
States will have nothing to do with a
free silver candidate. They could not
do Governor Matthews a greater dis
service than to have 1t go out that the
Indiana Democracy are for free silver.
The adoption Of a free silver plank in
the State platform would kill him.; not
merely embarrass or injure him, but
Kill him. Politically speaking, the Gov
ernor's fool friends might as well pre-
sent him with a loving cup of Rough on
Rats as identify the Democracy of his
State with free silver. They should
learn wisdom from the Governor him
self. He discovered some time ago tina
the free silver gun was loaded. n he
promptly laid it down. His fool friends
should do the same if they wish to
avoid a fatal accident.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-12-14
THUNDER FROM BELIxNAr.
The Admiral Would Protect 0ur
Fronticr at Any Cost.

Detroit Special.
Admiral George r. Belknap has written
a letter TO Richard +. Joy. OF this city.
commencing an article written by the lat
ter and published in the Marine Review,
of Cleveland. advocating the abrogation OF
the building OF war ships on the great
lakes; mira Beiknap says. IN part: 1T
i hne sh caDnos Re al ai,o o%r PG To- co ON sne with With
the shipbuilders In other parts OF the
country I'm the building OF vessels for our
Britain, IL is high time that such treaty
We're amended. that our ship-buiiding
plants wherever located, may have an
equal chance in the matter Of government
Independently of what Canada may be
doing in the construction OF steam vessels
into effective gunboats. Great Britain relies
upon the facility OF the Welland canal for
s smaT nea sryis ssrem in Ise OF sr nsa s iaRee in a sha
event of war with the United States.
With a well-digested policy, indomitable
towards future contingencies and the ex-
pansion Of the empire, British statesmen.
when they 90 not play the part 81 a ou,ay
make their designs under cover OF a vel
v~et-handed diplomacy as seductive as II u
other powers. and especially the too trust
full United States, into a blind and some-
times fatal sense OF security
THE siren song OF Britannia is con-
tinually sounded in our ears. In notes ex-
alting the ties OF kindred blood and tongue.
but when We look about Us and note the
fact that three-quarters of our diplomatic
contentious OF any note are with Great
Britain and her SUPERFICIAL colony. the
Dominion of Canada. We may well look
askance at their professions OF fair deal
ing and sincerity. . Insatiate Britain
MIA. indeed. never relaxes her vigilance
in any direction. and whenever she detects
a crack of opportunity in any quarter. she
inserts on the instant a wedge OF claim
and demand, and at the propitious moment
for herself, drives IL home with dogged
purpose and resistlcss blows. regardless OF
the sensibilities or the rights OF other
powers save, perhaps. Russia, France and
Germany. At this time. In fact. every
mail from Alaska brings tidinss OF her
alleged efforts TO appropriate valuable
points and islands along the coast line
of that territory, just as she laid claim
TO the island of san Yuan In Puget sound.
after the conclusion OF the treaty of 1886
defining our northwest boundary. Tho
British NAV, indeed, never gets its
is the handmade OF civiliza-
ton and every nation has the indubitable
right to protect It's ships. wherever, they
may be. Therefore. our great tonnage on
the lakes should have the protection that
forts and war ships alone can give. -
What right has England TO insist that the
United States shall not keep a naval force
of whatever strength they choose on the
great lakes. Let the people OF the North
west demand protection ashore and afoat
and where England or her medclesome
province, Canada. mans or floats one gun
let us meet each one with two"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-12-14
London Letter.


I met Fanny Yrough. the leading actress
at the Drury Lane, the other night. She
is a bright, thin. wiry little body. with
keen. intelligent eyes. and a hne comedy
nose. The nostrils seem TO scent fun. The
possessor OF the nostrils simply brfstlee
with anecdote. "Oh. Mary Rourke." said
she. Yes, one Of the cleverest actresses
on our stage. Clever on, you know, but
prim, precise and most proper OF. One
night after the curtain was down. think
she told me she was In a hurry that night:
she had to go on to the suburbs: living
there, I believe. Well, that night she mad
been playing remarkably well: word came
to her that the Prince Of Wales had seen
her, and asked the privilege of being intro
duced TO her. Rourke fiared up Immediate.
~. That ~pronigate' she shouted, That
libertine. Neverr Then she rushed out OF
her dressing room. almost into the arms OF
H. r. H, who was in the hallway and had
heard every word OF her TRADE. and was
bent double with laughter. AS soon
as his royal highness saw the fair author
of these highly reasonable remarks he So
bered immediately. took on his hat. and.
owing low. allowed the confused actress
to pass rapidly by him and vanish through
the stage door into the street"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-12-14
p~hnadelnhia INQUIRER.

Philadelphia inquirer.
The letter of Senator Cameron to State
Senator McCarrell, declaring that under no
circumstance would he be a candidate for
ra-eiection. will be accepted In good faith.
once before Senator Cameron caused 1t TO
be announced that he was not a candidate.
This was in 1894. when. the Independent
movement was at its height. He went TO
E,srope. and returned not only to be a can
didate. but TO be elected. But there is no
hidden motive in this letter. 1t Is plain.
atra irhtforward and TO the point. He is
not and will not be a candidate. he says,
and ne makes his position known. so that
his friends who have offered him their sup
mort may have exact Information
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-12-14

This Is q Democratic party sweep at an
election where national politics should not
nave intruded. II has beer won Uy a parry
shin in local affairs. but believes in divid-
Ing all the offices among the active work.
srs We shall see in due time with what
suo.ees Vr Ouinc meets the pressure
which he is certain to encounter, 1t. how
ever. can be said with considerable conn.,
dsnce and without awaiting the results OF
Mr. 0uincy's struggles with the spoilsmen
Of his own party. that the result Of placing
this years municipal election on the party
lines Of national politics has set back the
caTsa or nonpartisanship In Boston local
affairs many years. If this election is any
test. it will only be necessary to raise the
uarfv warwhoop hereafter to overwhelm
ali attempts at electing municipal officers
on any other than political, grounds. It can
not be regarded in any other light thar a
retrograde step towards unalloyed partisan
shin in municipal concerns.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-12-14
And Peter.

Tell His disciples and Peter" The same
One who forsook Him; the same who de-
MED
times cried
Must have burned with an ever-growins
flame
Each day he how Wanted
pride.
And much-boasted loyalty leaned aside
When the mno fr fealty came.
And we who deny Him with coward soul.
Who daily for pardon must humbiy sue.
Oft losing sight of the heavenly goal.
Yet faltering courage and hope renew
AS the beautiful words on the air still roll.
Go tell His disciples and Peter. too"
May w. DOMAIN.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-12-14

Salisbury's letter may go to grass,
Monroe may go to shuckS;
Doctrines come and doctrines pass,
While / go hunting ducks.
Waller may in prison rot,
And curse ten thousand lucks;
But / must not-nay1 VIII not
Cut short my hunt for ducks.
Venezuela may be annexed
To England's chariot trucks;
But / must not be cloyed and vexed
While hunting Tar Heel ducks.
Let Congress plan, and work, and talk.
Like loyal laddie bucks;
My message shows them how to walk
Till I'm through hunting ducks.
New York Evening Sun.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-12-14

He defended himself on the ground that
II he signed the pledge he would be put
ting himself In the attitude of an indorser
on 100000 or unscrutinized papers, which
most rnbusiness-like proceeding. 1t was a
risk he did not feel like assuming. This
view was not wholly complimentary to the
Allerton was a free agent and of legal age.
When he quit the delegation had nothing
to do but throw up it's hands and stand
pat on a guarantee OF some $50, 900, which
the richest man among them had stamped
'tupdOuhff ilD
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-12-14
whftelnw Reds Whereabouts.
p~hi1adelphia Times.

whitelaw Reid. owner and editor OF the
New York Tribune, is spending the winter
quietly with his family at Phoenix, A T.,
where he had rented a house and found
the climate unexpectedly agreeable. In a
iona region, he says: Eastern folks Will
have TO form new IDEAS of AFizon ana II I Is
and cactus. / am keeping house here with
great comfort, in a well-built brick resi-
dence. with hot and old water; electric ic
light and telephone, and the climate Is
friends of Mr.. Reid will be g~ratifed to
learn that his health has greatly Improved
since his visit to the South.