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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-21

crowd and relieved Rathbone of his charge
Then explanations were made. and when
the train come In the detectives were per-
mitted to take the prisoner to indianapolis
without further struggling
a Few months later Levi was tried before
Judge Walter g. Gresham and sentenced
to tAe penitentiary for two years
A REMARKABLE TRIAL.
Now comes the second story, with which
the lynched burglar really had nothing to
do personally, but still In which he was the
contributing cause. Because. if McGovern
had not made name for himself he would
not have been sent down in Egypt" to
work UP a conspiracy case in connection
with congressional election. and If he had
not secured his evidence by a particularly
sharp trick the case never would have come
to trial.
However that may be. the case did come
to trial. and it is safe to say that seldom
before has there been trial in which four
men took part who were then compare
lively unknown and who within fifteen
short years had secured international fame.
OF course 1t was political trial. 1t was
charged with conspiracy and the Repub-
leans were the prosecutors So when the
case came before Judge Gresham. who was
then only United States district judge, un-
known outside of his own State, the Re-
publican leaders induced General Harrison,
West, TO undertake the prosecution.
The Democrats, no less solicitous, called
in Ex-Governor Thomas a.. Hendricks and
David A. Turpie, now United States sena-
tor from Indiana, to defend the prisoner.
Judge Gresham, who was particularly sem
Sitive as to public opinion, was afraid that
he might be accused OF bias owing to his
Republican proclvities. Tile was a Repub-
lican at that time) He therefore ordered
a struck jury. That is, jury composed
of six Democrats and six Republicans.
1t was a long drawn-0ut trial, wholly de-
void of sensational incidents. Mr.. Turpie
and Governor Hendricks cross-examined for
their side, and General Harrison conducted
the investigation for his side with great
partisan zeal and much earnestness. All
three of the distinguished counsel made elo-
quent speeches, which did not attract a
1.-THE of the attention they would have
done could the illustrious future of the adj
vocates have been foretold, and the case
went to the jury who acquitted the al
legged conSpiratorS chiefly on account of Nc
Governs testimony.
Several of the jurors refused to credit the
unsupported word of a detective. Had he
have been convincing, so the dissenting
jurors afterward admitted.
But to return to the dead Levi. There is
something peculiarly consistent in his tragic
death. All his life he shone, if shine he
ever did, in a reflected light. 1t was not
what Levi did himself that makes him re-
n1embered, but what the men did would
do who were associated with him.
He was notorious Pete McCartney's tool.
He was arrested by a to-be great detective.
His other accuser brought together the
four greatest men Indiana has known for
a generation, and he probably would never
have been lynched had it not been for the
oners. 1t was surely a case Of poor dog
TraY-Iyle Lewis
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If Mr.. Taggart shall be reelected it will
be by the votes of Republicans who may
vote for him or fail to vote at all, since
there are hundreds of Democrats who will
not vote for him. Under the city charter,
while extensive improvements are going on,
any mayor will not be a popular candi-
date. Besides. with all his liberality in pro-
viding for party friends at the city's ex-
pense, there are hundreds sulky because
their claims have not been recognized. The
ultra silverites have no love for the mayor
They suspect that he is against them in
spite of his protestations and they know
that they have nothing to hope from him.
The pencil in the secret stall in the voting
place can be used with greater freedom
than could the displaced stamp.
Yet the reelection of Mr.. Taggart by Re-
publican votes will be hailed as Demo-
cratic victory. as popular Endorsement of
the Chicago platform and the reputation
of the national administration and the first
declaration of the people against the Re-
publican tariff. Such was the claim made
when Mr.. Taggart was elected in 1895. The
result was held to be an evidence of reac-
ton against the verdict of 1894 which van
pushed the Democracy. We were told by
the Democratic organ that the emphatic
plurality of Mr. Taggart made it certain
that Indiana would go Democratic in 1885,
Mr.. Taggart's plurality two years ago
was due to the fact that hundreds of Re-
publicans voted for him and hundreds did
not go to the polls. He was elected by
Repubicans-by men who, in 1894, before
the municipal elections, voted the Repub-
hcan ticket, and by those who, since the
election, voted and worked for the straight
Republican ticket There was no good rea-
son two years ago for Republicans voting
for~Mr Taggart, and there is less now
that it has been demonstrated that at best
Mr.. Taggart has given the city an ordinary
administration. He has been very prompt
in turning Republicans out of places to
which some of them had been assigned by
the civil-service system.
Furthermore, Mr.. Harding is better quail
fled than Mr.. Taggart for the office of
mayor. He has more time that he can de-
vote to its duties than has Mayor Taggart,
who really has very little judging from his
notable absence from the mayors office
The opponents of Mr. Harding have yet to
OF mayor, or that there is any good reason
why every Republican in the city should
not vote for him.
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PhiladeIphia Telegraph.


Mrs. Kate Chase-Sprague, who is said to
have succeeded finally in raising the money
necessary to save the old Chase house at
washington from sale under a mortgage,
spent several months in New York two
years ago trying to accomplish this result.
1t was believed then that certain members
of the Ohio Society might subscribe money
enough to secure the house from sale, but
for one reason or another that plan fell
through Just when 1t looked most like COM
ing to a successful ending. Mrs. Sprague
was st that time indefatgable in her efforts
to secure the necessary subscriptions, and
she spent the greater part Of every day
down in the business portion of the city
going from one office to another in the hope
Of bringing the various schemes for her
relief to final issue. The old Chase coun-
try place is situated the outskirts OF
washington, and it is said that the prop
ertv will be very valuable within a few
wears as Washington is growing rapidly In
its direction Then Mrs. Sprague believes
that IT will not only make a comfortable
estate for her and her daughters, but will
also repay whatever advances have been
made TO secure the property from fore
closure Mrs. Spragues means are at pres
emf very limited, and she has an Invalid
daughter One of her daughters, who acted
for awhile in Richard Mansfeds company,
soon gave up the stage. and is now mar
RED Mrs Sprague. who. by the way, calls
herself Mrs Chase-Sprague. is still slight
and Youthful in figure, and her style of
dress rather emphasizes the unusually
youthful appearance OF a woman VINO Is no
longer Young.
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Suggestion that Pension Cases should
BE Tried Openly.
National Tribune.

National ITlDuIe.
In the reply of certain officials to the
G. A. n. national committee on pensions
which we publish this week, we tnlnk iildt
the former lay entirely too mucn stress
uDon the necessity of protecunS the VIII
nesses for the government rms was POI
If the odious policy of Hoke Smith ana
Iochren They encouraged all SoIlS u
sneaking and anonymous ATTACKS upon tlS
pensioners. No reasonable man can ul.isl-
Stand why the proceedings In pension
case should be made any more secret anu
inouisitorial than those in civil OF cII lihl-
nal lawsuit Thsre is no reason "hy tn9y
should be as mucn So 80, eo,,,,+ ~,
seem to demand that secret testimony pe
taken and the witnesses protector dSaiiuSSl
the vengeance of those whose llVes ot ~ ~
c1,isit0rfal methods are always regarded as
Exceedingly hostile TO the genius OF our IN, III
stitutions and unworthy or Tree, oulsPonen men
,oan THE very fundamental law OF our
1oyarnment insists that every accused man
Shall have the right or haVihs. ever list 81
- hos ANYTHING to say against Ll1n De
brought face to face with hiIii, aIlu We
bis allegations met on the instant. why
~ not the pensioner have precisely the
same rights in defense or MS pension liial
Every other American citizen enjoys with
'sNe.ayd m any accusation that may be MADE
t4cShis iniurv? There is absolutely no red-
con why he should not. A man VINO -
ofraid to make a charge openly is allnost
certainly a liar. and with equdi Ge, IN,
is actuated by the lhed'i09e CIV
worthy motives. ..- +;7 T.;
I ,et us have all pension matters tlleu ~
onen court. with every material TACT OF
allegation spread upon the ae s,;o,,s FOR tha
f,,iiesf publicity the government shoulu no I
- ,.alnctant The charge against pension
ers heretofore has been that tnell cis ,s
e. not hear full investigation. Now we
to,1a the accusers of the pensioners lrylIS
nc aaiS around in the dark. with the pen
sjoners demanding the full light Oh cay
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Judge McCabe has written the Chicago
Times-Herald to the effect that he does not
believe in the use of the injunction to pre-
vent one party of men from driving another
party from their work. He would permit
them to commit the offense, arrest them on
warrants and try them by jury He would
permit one party to interfere with the
others and drive them from their employ
ment and perhaps take their lives, simply
to insure the constitutional right of trial
Dy jury. Thus those whom the strikers
proposed to drive from their employment
have no right to protection, under the law,
in life and the pursuit of happiness so i'm
portant as the right of trying those by jury
who have compelled peaceful men to leave
their labor
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-21

The people Of Indianapolis are made
city by the foreigners who own the street.
railroad by the display of cards in the cars
upon which are printed the sentiments of
General Harrison and Admiral Brown.
This is very nice; but the president of the
Citizens Company who so recently went out
of his way to denounce the people of In
dianapolis should not imagine that by such
little devices they viii cause the people to
-orget that he and his associates are
seheming TO compel them 10 pay fares
which viii make 100000 of fraudulent
capitalization valuable revenue-earning
property.
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Greensburg. Ind, Sept. 20.


To the Editor of the indianapolis Journal:
There are one or two items in the express
sions concerning the layman's movement
ascribed to me in this mornings journal
which desire to correct. Your excellent
and gentlemanly reporter called on me last
evening for specific information concerning
the session of our approaching annual con-
ference, and as / gave it to him he made
careful notes. This completed he laid ASIDE
his pencil and paper and began to talk OF
the layman's movement. Had l thought
he intended to report this after-conyersa-
ton / would have been more explicit anu
definite in my statements, and he would
have been less liable to mlSapprenenu me
at any point. His report or our CONVERSE
ton is in the main correct, as am sure ne
meant it should all be. a.,
Permit me now to state my views on the
subject in question, which l would not
think of doing except to correct poSslple
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of my position. pc
lieve the present provision for voting by
orders gives the laymen equal power WIN
the ministers in final legislation. l thlnk
the General Conference is already too large
and that it's numbers should be diminished,
not increased. / favor making the numper
of ministers and laymen equal by reducing
the number of ministerial delegates 90
not believe this lay movement has aWak-
ened any deep and widespread interest IN
the church. or that there is any general
dissatisfaction with our present church
ECONOMY | would be the farthest possible
movement to a desire for q Quadrennial
pleasure excursion at the expense OF the
church. Y. N. olMo.
indianapolis, Sept. 20.
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Even if President Andrews has put an
end to the Cosmopolitan University scheme
Of j. Brisben Walker by deciding to remain
with Brown University. the same idea is Sc
cured in Gunton's School of Social Econom-
les in New York city. All one has to do
to become q student is to purchase the
books, study them at home and keep up
a correspondence with the officers of the
institute. Reports of lectures will be
furnished students, who, at the close of the
last year, will be required to write theses
upon the topics chosen by the faculty
Gunton's Institute has a long list of coun-
selors, including such men as Vice Presi-
dent Hobart, Speaker Reed, Secretary
Roosevelt, Mrs. Livermore, Labor Commits
sioner Wright, Rev. Heber Newton and
Senator Lodge. During the past few years
Professor Gunton has become an authori-
ty in the field of national economics in con-
srast with the simply theoretical. In the
broadest sense the philosophy which Pro-
fessor Gunton has been teaching is protec-
tive
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rhe senntorial Candidacy.

OONInBIOH ItpuUIIUetII.
The coming race for United states senator
interest to this part of Indiana. as Il Is
likely to have several prominent candtdates,
and the friends of several have already done
no little log rolling. Prominent among
these candidates the name OF General Lew
Wallace has been sprung. ana ne VIII
doubtless have a strong. following Tor he
has already received strong recognition ana
shown years of service. Prominent, now
ever, among the array of good men VIII he,
If his many friends can persuade him 10
enter the race. the name Of ex-Congress-
man Hon. j. Frank Hanly, His friends are
legion. his ability al once makes MIN
peer. while none surpass him in effective
ness. No young man ever went into Con-
gress and made in SO short time the
for his party and accomplished as much.
This paper is one which can strongly and
conscientiouslN urge the game of Hon. j..
Frank Hanly for United States senator. to
succeed Mr.. Turpie. because it knows the
metal of which he Is made.
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More Profit in Beer.
London Letter.

It is a curious commentary on the healthy lltil.y
sums lately realized by popuiiaa;r noVt thst
b 10 1i1iu and gifted author who wrote the
AIRY ballads in Punch, and who hsd s d,,l
:, as 10 the management and policy or
mat weird sheet. died so poor that his per-
sonality has just been sworn 70 as pelns
nader gro Yet Miliken's work was known
aud annreciated and eagerly looked for
Wherever Punch is read. Clearly heavy peer
IS more paying than light literature, lot
declared OF Blake and Kidd, brewers OF
Gosport and Brighton, who leave over
e396ON sterling between them, WINE %, %
present year those Of TattersalL Fulford,
cameron and Worthington reach the very
decent total Of a million and q hail sterling.
There is still power in British beet
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-21

Speaking of the proposed Morton statue
for the State Capitol grounds. which it has
apparently just heard of. the Irons acad-
emy-beg pardon, universlry-organ bursts
forth excitedly: IF there has been COM
petition, if the best minds of the time have
devoted thought to this subject and made
designs for this statue, we do not know it."
Why will people forget that we" the
best minds" are right there in a conven-
lent alley ready to think great thoughts
about things? 1t was very inconsiderate
of the statue committee to go about its
business without asking permission from
us Perhaps we" could have furnished
suitable design also, for a concern that
keeps professors in stock could doubtless
supply a sculptor when needed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-21

Those colored Republicans who are re-
ported as following Mr.. Taggart should
read Of the numbering and mistreating of
colored postmasters in some Southern To-
calities and then ask themselves who are
guilty of such offenses. They will find that
thev call themselves Democrats every time,
and as such will be delighted TO hear of the
election of a Democratic mayor. Indeed.
they may regard it as an approval of the
shooting of colored postmasters.
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- -
Saved His Life.

"Once worked in a soap factory" began
the militant Anarchist
An ominous growl arose from the assem-
blage.
From midnight until o'clock, trying to
open the safe
With the fckleness Of men they changed
their curses to cheers.
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ence, but some of them do not, and IL Is
possible to so pack a quarterly conference
with an unlimited number of class leaders
as to give the pastor entire mastery of the
situation. as was done in one church in In
dianapolis only two years ago, and may be
done at any time or in any place. To plead,
therefore, that our laymen have a voice in
local church government is to presume
upon the ignorance or gullibility of our
laity; and DR.. Sims is too wise a man to
thresh that old straw. Only ministerial
bigots any longer mention il.
DR.. Sims is right when he says the Ins
diana Conference, about to convene, VIII
have nothing to do or say about the doings
of the late "So-called laymen's convention.
The conference has no more to do with it or
about it than with or about the late state
fair. The Indiana Conference has no need
to blush over it's record in this matter.
When the question was up last year official
ly it gave the handsome vote OF I35 to Al,
and it was understood that most of these
cause the question was complicated, in their
minds with another. The Indiana Confer
ence is nearly right on the equal repre-
sentation question, a change of one vote
only being necessary to give the required
three-fourths, and some of her leading
members are most earnest advocates of the
objective point, the acknowledgements of the
laity in its broadcast sense. Only the preach
ers that preach the sermon they preached
forty or fifty years ago rehash the old apoi-
ogy for the present order of things Up-to-
date preachers are anxious to bring their
church up to date. 1t is only a question of
time and of very short time at that.
T. A GOODWIN.
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revolution" said Secretary Morton. land
the next he denounces us and excommuni-
Gates our organization for following his in
structions." And so the Anarchists went
on until the meeting was ended This is a
disruption of the Social Democracy which
was to seize a now state as an arena for
cooperation on a broad scale
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-21

Mr.. E. Voluble Debs seems to have
thought of something since he preached
Anarchist doctrine a few weeks ago. He
now tells his Social Democracy in a
scared sort of way that violence and an
archy must have no part in the organiza-
ton, and that the members must be good
boys. Perhaps he has had a timely recol-
lection of the weeks he spent in Jail.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-21

If the makers of the Taggart platform
should be reconvened to-day they would
doubtless refer to the closing of factories
and the languishing of industry as the re-
suit of Republican policy. That may do for
silverites, Popocrats and free-traders, but
how can Republican indorse such belated
idiocv by voting the Taggart ticket?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-21

ment he cites the stately ceremonial po-
likeness to women" displayed by Thomas
Carlyle. This is an unfortunate illustration.
Americans have heard of Jane Carlyle, and
will have trouble in remembering that
Thomas displayed any stately ceremonial
politeness toward her. At all events, they
are likely tc prefer the sort they get from
the common and less stately" American
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-21

1t is reported that Mr.. Bryan has advised
his friends in New York city to put q silver
ticket IN nomination for the municipal cleo
ton in opposition to Tammany. II this is
true Mr.. Bryan is likely to find out how
few real silverites there are in New York
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-21

The Populist bank commissioner in Kan
sas reports that the state banks have SO
much money that they are seeking author
ity to refuse deposits.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-21

Business failures have not been SO small
in the history of the country as during the
past two weeks Last week the number
was 40. against 800 last September, and an
average of 200 week in the Septembers of
the past four years
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-21

1t was to be expected that the President
would take steps to vindicate the right of a
coIored citizen to be postmaster in the town
in Georgia where one has been shot. He
may be expected to use the federal power
to seek out and punish the assassins.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-21

OF course, the chemists and other scien-
tific experts for the defense in the Luet-
CERT case will testify to a state of things
exactly opposite to that which was sworn
to by the experts for the prosecution. That
is why we have experts
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-21
BUBBLES IN THE AIR.
Too Weak to Hold 1t.

Charles-Uncle, 1 want you to try this
Limberger 1t was imported all the way
from Germany, each pound carefully
wrapped in tinfoil.
Uncle Josh-Gosh! Air you sure they
didn't have to do it UP in biler iron2
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-21

Somebody who has been to visit Jules
Verne describes that writer of romances as
most abstemious for a Frenchman. drink
ing cider in preference to wine. The abb
stemiousness depends. Cider, if of the
hard variety, is commonly thought to be
much more conducive to romance than
rrirna
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-21

Mr.. w. T. Stead. editor of the Review of
Reviews. has been giving his views on
American women. and advances the opin-
ion. among others, that English women are
treated with greater respect by men than
American vsomen. In support OF his state
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-21

In an article published in several papers
Chairman Dingley points out that the loss
of revenues by the wool which had been
brought into the country free prior to the
present tariff, and the loss on sugar inn
ported to save duties prior to the passage
of the law was S5,50OOOO in August. When
the stocks of these goods in the country are
exhausted Mr.. Dingley holds that the reve-
sn1es. will be ample
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-21

The art poster whose weird designs and
startling colors have puzzled an unartistic
public for several seasons is now said to be
on the wane for the cold commercial reason
that it doesn't pay. In short, as the Jour
nal ventured to suggest when it first burst
upon an unaccustomed world, it doesn't
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-21

When Mr.. Bryan declared that the search
ty of wheat in Europe is the cause of the
advance of the price, he practically admits
that silvA" has nnlhing to do with wheat,
but axes the price,