Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-04-13
IN HOTEL CORRIDORS

Indiana politicians of the democratic
faith are considerably stirred up over the
opening of the long-expected fight for the
party leadership in the state that has
broken out between Senator Voorhees, and
Gov. Matthew'S said G. H. Winslow of
Indianapolis in the Riggs House this morn
ing. Ever since ex-Gov. Gray died the
two big bugs have been cycling each other,
and it Is well known that Matthews looks
envfously toward the seat now occupied
by the Tall Sycamore in the Senate. Open
war was not expected, however, for some
time but it was brought on by the gov
ernor signing the Nicholson temperance
bill. which caused the Senator to declare
that he would come home and fight the law
before the people Matthews thereupon as
| serted that the democratic party in In
diana had been known as the whisky
| party long enough, and that he. for one
| proposed to do everything in his power to
| rid it of the obnoxious title. Then there is
| another difference between the two men.
| Gov. Matthews does not believe In partisan
| management of the benevolent and penal
| institutions of the state, and says he Will
| make all the boards that govern them non
| partisan. Senator voorhees, Is mad as a
| hornet at this. because he believes that TO
| the victors belong the spoils, wherever
| they can be found. These are the leading
| issues in the controversy between the two
men. and rs each has large and loyal
| following. ycu may expect to see some
| lively diminishing in democratic politics
| in Indiana from now on
| "Woman's suffrage was put to a pretty
| severe test out in Ohio on Tuesday" said
| A. G. Stockton of Cincinnati at Wizards
last night: land from what 1 have read
| since my departure from home l find the
weaker sex has done nobly in the crisis
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vote for school officers. and they showed an
| Independence In casting their ballots for
| good candidates regardless of party hat
| may lead to a more favorable regard in the
| future of their demand to have a voice in
| the selection of municipal. if not state Of
| ficers. l feel pretty confident that there
| need he no more anxiety on account of the
| way our educational affairs are to be man
| aged hereafter. because the mothers and
| sisters and auntS Of the children Will see
| to it that only the best persons are select
| ed to direct them. That Is the lesson
| taught by the recent election. anyhow. and
| 1t is splendid one for Ohio to know"
| Reputable lawyers and pettifoggers are
| arranged on two sides of important
| question chat is being considered by the
| Illinois legislature said P. f. Atwood a
| Chicago attorney, at the National yester-
| day. "A bill has been introduced to re-
| store to the judges of all courts of record
| In the state their common law powers. and
| providing that they shall have the power
| to examine and pass upon the competency
! Of jurors, and to limit the number of wit
| nesses that may be called to prove any
particular fact. Such a reform would be
| welcomed by every lawyer of principle in
the state. and would increase the ability Of
the courts to administer justice properly.
| Under the present system in both civil and
! criminal CO SEES 1t Is possible for attorneys
for the defense to challenge and put aside
| every intelligent man a panel or a
dozen panels. for the matter of that and
| then take a jury of ignorant corrupt
persons who can be handled as the de-
| Tense sees fit. 1t would save an immense
lot of time, too, because jury could be Sc
cured in a few hours. instead of weeks be
| ing spent in the process, as was the case
! in the Coughin trial some time ago. The
| shysterS however. moving heaven and
| earth to prevent the passage of the meas
| ure. and there are good many such in
| dividuals IN the legal profession out in
Illinois, and their pull is pretty powerful"
| Il am not engaged in The business of
booming Colorado" said Albert F. Thomp-
son of Pueblo at the Metropolitan yester-
day, bat / can truthfully say that the re-
peal of the Sherman law has turned ont
to be the greatest blessing the state could
lave possb!, received. Two Years ago it
was regarded a curse from which We
could never recover. The change has been
brought about by the forcing of capitalists
to find ether methods of investment than
silver mining for their money. OF course
they We're bound to put 1t in mineral de-
velopment " hen man gets mixed up
with any kind OF quartz it is sure thing
that all his future effort will he devoted to
the same line OF business. SO the miners in
Colorado left silver when ii became un-
profitable and began looking for the yellow
stuff. Every day rews is published of valu-
able gold finds IL. various sections of the
state. They are rot startling honanzas, but
fine commercial opportunities that will need
| steady work and will return good profits
| on the money invested. All Colorado is
| feeling the good effect of the rev that
| is being DEVELOPED. and the croakers about
hard times are becoming fewer and fewer.
| The people of Florida are just beginning
to realize the vast extent of the disaster
they have suffered from the intense and
unheard-of cold of the past winter" said
| Maj. H. Z. Iowery, quartermaster of the
marine corps. who recently returned from
an inspection visit to Pensacola, to some
friends in the Raleigh. The orange crop
was ruined. every one knows, and I was
| told that the successive freezes killed all
| the younger trees, well most of the
old ones. The nurseries were all ruined
| also. and this makes the condition of the
orange growers all the worse, because they
cannot set out new groves from native
| slips. They will have to send TO California
| Tor them ana De at great expense. linen
the gardeners. who raised early vegetables
| for the northern markets, lost three plant
| ingS in succession. while the costly plants
and shrubbery with which so many of the
| Florida houses We're beautied in their
surroundings were entirely killed. 1 was
told that conservative estimate of the
| loss sustained in the state from the freezes
would exceed s10,RHoUO and would proba-
| bly, reach S1J.UUOtD
| NO matter how many safeguards in
vented TO secure protection to property.
the dishonest who wish to gain possession
| of it are sure to discover means to get at
| it," said Albert X. Elmer of Chicago at
the Riggs House last night. There are
| burglars who can open any safe six
me nths after it is invented, matter how
| intricate may be the mechanism of its
| locks how complicated its covering may
he. And the minds of the sharpers keep
| pace with those that try to Illustrate their