The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-31

are worth nearly $17S0O0.0O0 this year,
while her mortgage indebtedness is only
SIS, 100000. Thus she has a grub stake
surplus of almost sl2S 100000. According, TO
Bryan's laws of "feenance." the prices of
wheat and silver move along together-each
worth about dollar bushel.
Governor Leedy finds great difficulty in
working up sentiment in favor of an cx-
ira session of the Legislature. The other
day, when irritated by a reporter concern
ing the matter, he declared that, if he was
sure the maximum freight bill could 5e
passed, he would make the call regardless
of the sentiment of the people. The Gov
ernor is unhappy in many respects. He has
been supreme dictator of the Board Of Par
dons so much that it is currently reported,
all the members of the board handed in
designations, but the Governor promised
to do better, and they repented. The story
seems mproba BILE, because Populist officers
seldom die and never resign. Recently
villain in the penitentiary buncoed the Gov
ernOr out of a pardon that was never con-
sidered by the board. He caused to be ex-
hibited to the Governor a very pathetic
letter purporting to be from the young lady
to whom he had been married according to
the common law; she was anxious TO marry
vided he could be pardoned. The appeal
struck a very tender portion of the Gov
ernor's rugged frame, and forthwith par
don was granted without consultation with
any members of the board. A marriage
ceremony was performed. Lora Havely.
the betrayed girl, was not present but was
personated by some other person, probably
the scoundrePs former mistress from Mis-
souri,. AS soon as the Governor learned of
the shameful manner in which his sympa-
thies had been outraged, he purchased
rev kicking machine, because his old one
was too badly worn to do the scientific and
effective execution demanded by this ex-
tIaordinary occurrence. But now the Gov
ernor's heart is turned to stone Pity has
no place in his nature. He says Kansas
laws are wrong; that when men are con-
demned to death by courts they should be
executed, and not permitted to live and en-
Joy an existence Of reasonable happiness in
the penitentiary. He does not know that
he will order the execution OF any of the
forty-seven convicts awaiting the Gov
errors action, but if the man who preceded
him had had the nerve to order executions
he would have followed the example read
lily. He thinks, as matters stand, he could
not order hanged the criminals who have
been sentenced since his inauguration and
permit those with prior sentences to remain
in prison. If our Governor should be again
worked by a confidence game, or become
too much exasperated by the follies of Pop
ulism or by the ridicule of Republicans, he
is liable to prepare forty-seven death war
rants, appoint a gigantic hanging bee"
under one pavilion for one admission price,
and send Kansas, Leedy and the Populist
administration rollicking down the corri-
doris of time as more bloodthirsty than Ne
70 and other celebrated tyrants Of history.
And now comes Clements the Anarchist,
and, metaphorically speaking, hops with
both feet upon the Governor for expressing
sentiments in favor of the barbarous idea
of capital punishment, He admonishes him
not to go back to the days of Herod, Nero
or Elizabeth; not to place himself in po
sition where it will be impossible for polit-
ical friends to support him for another
term Clements thinks that Popuism does
rot harmonic with capital punishment,
and that the expression of such belief
prior to the last election would have left
Mr. Leedy where he could not be buncoed
by convicts addicted to matrimonial habits.
Clements thinks it would be an unwar-
ranted act of cruelty for the Governor to
heng forty-seven men because one convict
was smart enough to deceive his Excellency
and marry himself out of prison. Very
harsh are the criticisms that are promis-
cuously hurled at each other by the men,
bers of the aggregation that can agree only
upon the sentiment of OPPOSITION to Repub-
licaniSm. A. G.