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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-19

PORT SAID, Feb. 1S.-The British battle
ship Victorius. which went ashore outside
the bar here on Feb. H. has been hoated.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-19

IttIUlt IIluuHts
The government has forwarded the De
LONE letter 10 Sensr canalejas presaira-
ably With one OF those crisp rubber-stamp
messages opened by mistake on the en-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-19

lie had been infatuated with the woman
for several months. He leaves wife and
two grown children
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-19

From generation to generation
the faint of impure blood is trans
mitted. and in the same way the
beneficial blood-purifying effects of
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-19

240 of the Crew of $50 Perished-Oth-
e.. Naval Disasters.

WASHINGTON. Feb. 1S-The Navy De-
partment has compiled the following sum-
mary showing the total results of the Maine
disaster from all available official in
formation up to the close of the department
Tonight.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-19
Russia Has Now am Ambassadors here.

ST. PETERSBURG, Feb 1S.-The APP
pointment of Count Cassfni as ambassador
to the United States instead of minister is
| gaZetted.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-19
For Coughs ANA Thront TronhIes IL

Browns Bronchial Troches They relieve
all Throat irritations caused by Cold or use
OF the voice.
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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-02-23
FIGHTER, NOT A WEEPER
Respecting the Saxe's Appearance at
the Recent State POpulist
Committee,
(St. Paul Dispatch, Feb. 1877


Ignatius Donnelly, seen at the Ryan
| today, denounced as an absolute lie the
| statement which, he said, probably orig
| mated with one Lynch, that 'he begged
! on his knees and with tears in his eyes,"
! or in any other way, for the privilege
| of acting as w. P. Seberger's proxy in
| the state populist committee at it's recent
| meeting. Said he:
"The statement is absurd and no sensi-
| BILE person will believe it. l am fighter
not a weeper. Mr.. Lynch has no more
| conscience than a rat. held in my pock-
| ct Mr.. Seberger's resignation from the
| committee to be presented if his proxy
was rejected"
Mr. Donnelly says he told the commit
tee that the party was perilously near
! an explosion that the flash of a match
in the interest Of peace and harmony.
He did not want two conventions in
, Minnesota. The fusiOnists were beaten
at every point. They wanted late con-
upon with the Democrats Nothing was
done to secure a united action; not
word was said for fusion and the con-
vention was called at the earliest date
at which the farmers would be through
their seeding.
The fusionists wanted the represen-
tation in the convention based upon the
fusion vote of 1896; it was based instead
upon the populist vote of 1894.
The fusionists worked hard to throw
MIR. Donnelly out Of the committee
Lynch got three votes for his
motion out Of twenty. The pop
ulists of Minnesota to the ex-
tent of SO per cent are opposed to fus-
ion, and the next convention will stamp
out the men who support it. Mr.. DON
nelly said:
If the democrats pack the June Is
convention, there will be two tickets in
the field. The peoples party must live
as separate and distinct party, and
not be tail end Of the democracy, or any
thing else"
Mr.. Donnelly says Lynch is not a pop
ulist or anything else. He is democratic
oftice-hclder, and he is trying to des-
troy the peoples party to pay for his
bread and butter He got up the fusion
demonstration and it fell fiat. Butler
was forced to advocate Independent
populist action and an early state con-
ventIon. The state central committee was
not affected by the imported uproar.
The mountain in labor brought forth
sick mouse"
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-02-23

soul and swearing that he was innocent
of what everybody knew him to be
guilty; there is the perjury which James
P. Heverin once said was characteristic
in particular of female witnesses, COM
ing primarily from the feminine sense Of
loyalty, mingled with perhaps a low
er sense of responsibility; but the per-
jury which is now most current and
most detestable is the perjury of Illicit
gain, the perjury which claims $1,000
for 500 of loss; the perjury which aims
to rob the city four or five times the
honest valuation of piece Of land; the
perjury which holsters up any trick by
which jury may be humbugged and
corporation plundered by blackmailers
and their boOdling lawyers.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-02-23
A Word Personal.

To Our Readers: By the time this
reaches our large family of subscribers
your editor-in-chief will have relinuuish-
ed his solitary existence and taken into
his life one Of the BEST truest, nohlest
and most amiable women in the world
a lady he has known for years, and in
whom he has never yet been able to de-
test fault Of temper or character.
The pastor Of the church with which
she has been associated since childhood
said to me the other day: There Is
not a soul in the whole congregation
that does not love ner. l do cot know
that she has an enemy in the world >"
1t was pleasant to hear such high
praise from one who knew her SO well.
1t is nothing fer the rich and great to
be amlable. The world is a continual
garden of dainties and delights spread
before their feet. But for young lady to
preserve spotless purity and mistaken
goodness amid the cruel temptations
OF grinding poverty, is something to
bring smiles to the faces of the angels
in heaven.
God has been very good to ne. He
has denied me worldly success, it IS true,
but he has always made my nome a
temple of light and beauty and love, il
Illuminated by one of the noblest and
grandest women that ever blessed The
heart of man. And when at last, for
His own wise purposes, he took her
home to his kingdom Of bliss ne brought
into my house a poor girl, working for
an insignificant stipend, a foreigner, a
stranger in strange land, a sweet and
gentle woman, wrapped up in v.hom
there were qualities that princes cannot
buy with all the sheen and glitter of
their crowns
l picked up pebble from the beach
and 10! it was a diamond of incalculable
value-for the bible tells us that the
price OF good woman is beyond rubies.
There is nothing real in this world but
goodness. Wealth takes to itself wings
and flies away; genius is a glittering
light that fades while we admire it.;
beauty is but a flower vanishing while
yet its perfume fingers on the air. But
goodness. It's feet are upon the earth
but its arms are locked around the
throne Of God. 1t adornes time, but it
perishes not in eternity. 1t is an ef-
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-02-23

court. under which the right to regu-
late fares and charges was reserved to
the state. He concluded that the Mich1-
gan Central is still under police power,
reserved to the state and that the
company cannot fix rates by bylaws
repugnant to the laws of the state"
1T is clearly. settled by law that the
company's whole system is under law
and the state control. 1t cannot escape
state statutes by it's bylaws, which
conflict with the constitutional require
ments.
"The company cannot even tender to
the state what it purchased in 1916, and
which the state could buy back in 1867.
The holdings are so vast that eventu-
ally either the company will control
the state railway system or that func-
ton must remain in the state. In
case of doubt the state is entitled to-
the doubt.
The mandamus will ISSUE"
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-02-23
ILLITERACY AMONG IMMIGRANTS.

The salient point of the Lodge immi-
grafton bill is the educational test which
it applies to the immigrant.
If carried into effect it would exclude
about 20 per cent of those who come
to our shores from Europe. OF the $685.
600 who came over from all parts of Eu-
rope in 1896, about 100000 would have
been admitted and $4,000 excluded. OF
some 21G,000 who came over in 1897
10000 would have been admitted and
$1,000 excluded.
Is it, after all, great matter to keep
out these few thousands we Ieo
pie Of seventy millions!
1t is interesting to observe that the
Swiss, the Danes, the Swede, and the
NorWegians are the least illiterary Of
our immigrants, about one per cent be-
ing unable to read. The illiteracy Ct
tho other principal immigrants is as
follows:
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-02-23
WOMEN LIKE ESQUIMAUX.
Nearly Everything WearabIe Carries
Fur This Year.

Tho fashionable woman this winter must
be taking patterns from the Esqumaux
housed among US at present. for SHE GER
tanly is wrapped in fur just as they are.
Her hat is trimmed with it. her pretty face
peeps out from a 1aring fur collar her coat
is edged with it, revers of it protects her
chest her hands are warmed in it, the bot
tom Of the gown is edged with it and even
her evening gown has fallen victim to the
fad for fur of some kind and in every con-
ceivable style.
Never has fur been so much worn as IT is
this winter, and surely no prettier back
ground for a young fresh face can be
found than the soft, rich fur of the otter
mink sable and silver fox and other fash
ionable skins
We all know that the journals have been
filled with accounts Of the wholesale slaugh.
ter OF baby lambs to make the new modsh
Persian lamb jacket.
The cry is that the species will become
extinct. but the Persian lamb does not
touch us as closely the seal question ]
am afraid The slaughter of lambs, like the
killing Of the birds, will go on and lovely
woman will wear her Persian lamb jacket
and her feathered headgear until another
turn Of fashions wheel brings some other
fad into existence
And fur is used on everything, from the
thinnest gauze to the heaviest broadcloth,
on the ball gown of the debutante and the
tailor made costume of the chaperone. One
and all wear fur of some kind or descrip-
ton.
Then there are long bOas Of silver fox and
immense muffs of the same such as our
grandmother carried. The latest extrava-
gance has been entire costumes Of the
glossy, pliable breitschwang. which has
been so very popular this year. This fad
does not warrant so warm a gown.-New
York Herald.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-02-23
Indirect Bribery.

By Gov rPingree, of Michigan.
A party which does not rid itself OF
men who make themselves prominent in
it with the sole purpose Of exploiting
the people and perpetuating the reign Of
the dollar will lose it's influence with the
masses, and like a church which accepts
robbers 1.-THE from wealthy and influ-
entail pewhOlders, who wish to ease
their conscience, it will soon be all such
and none others.
that the enactment of a law fOrbidding
any church or institution to accept be-
quests or gifts from men of great wealth
and making them keep all they have
would tend to make men less greedy.
you, perhaps, remember how before
the war many Of the clergy urged for
human slavery as divine institution,
and told what a great advantage It was
for the poor negro to be rescued from his
African surroundings and brought here
to this Christian land under the benign
influences of the Gospel.
The question is today Do half fares
on railroads and contributions to
churches and institutions influence the
clergy to deal gently with great wrongs?
franchises, grants and special priv
ileges are obtained by main force Of
money and the money wrongfully OBJ
tanned in legally swindling the people
out of their own is then used to bride
their servants.
Money is taken each year out of the
pockets OF the producers and goes to
swell the corruption fund of the privl-
eyed few more than enough to keep in
comfort and happiness every struggling
poor family in the land
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-02-23
Will BE Free Silver.

recent Washington dispatch says:
By common consent of all who are
watching the currents here the CEN
trail plank of the Democratic platform
for 1900 is to be free silver. Beyond
that, two questions are unsettled The
first is, how much of the last platform
can or should be kept out of sight, and
the next concerns the possibility Of
eliminating Mr.. Bryan. The question OF
suppressing some of the pOpulistic fea-
lures of 1896 is seen to involve the fur
Their inquiry how far this can be car
ried and still retain enough support from
the Populists and their allies to Offset
Democrats. Senator Teller's recent
declaration in open senate that hencA-
forth his lot would be cast outside the
Republican party and with those who
sought it's overthrow is not regarded as
light matter among his associates
His recognized ability, his aggressive
powers, his high party standing for a
long term of years, and his fitness from
earnest devotion to silver interests to
lead the silver party; all enter into the
consideration which his present position
Is receiving from party leaders. Many
are already asking If it may result in re-
placing Mr.. Bryan in the leadership.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-02-23
FAMILY MILEAGE:
MtcEfGan Court Renders n Far
reaching Decision Upon the Rights
of Railroads to Regulate Their
Own Charges.

Detroit, Mich, Feb. 5-Judge Dono-
van, OF the circuit court, today ordered
the issuance Of a mandamus against
THE Michigan Central Railway in the
suit brought by Gov. Pingree to compel
the railway company to sell him a
LOCO mileage book, good, not only for
himself, but for any member of his
family, for $40.
In his opinion, rendered, Judge Dom
ovan reviewed the railroad company's
contention, viz. that under it's special
charter the company was granted the
privilege of fixing its own rates of fares,
which privilege, however, was claimed
by the state to be indefinite as the
roads charter merely gave the company
power to fix fares by bylaws and if so,
under police power, only reasonable
rates could be affixed under such power,
all rules touching the welfare and duty
of citizens, this property, comfort and
being true OF hackmen, millers, toll
roads, common carriers, liquor dealers,
and all others doing public business.
ut is ALSO" said the court, claimed
for the state that the Michigan Central
secured control Of various holdings
with these roads, amounting, in fact,
to a consolidation with some six or
eight lesser lines. That these branch
lines were built by the Michigan Cen
tTal or are used by stock or mortgages
in various ways by the company is
quite clearly designated in their state
report"
Judge Donovan recited a recent New
Jersey case, in which it was held that
similar acts mean a consolidation and
pointed out the fact that the federal
courts have held in case from Georgia
bearing on exclusive rights by charter
to charge a five cent fare that the leg
islature still has power to govern the
rate. He also quoted Chief Justice
Waite as having said that when one
devotes property to a public use he
Abiding to a section of the COM
pany's charter under which the state
reserves the right to buy the road after
thirty years, the court said counsel for
defendant had not shown way out of
situation whereby vastly enlarged
holdings in other roads, the Michigan
Central, had placed the state in a pow
erless condition to alter it's bargain by
way of a purchase of the defendant
company and to pay damages therefor.
Counsel for defense had not ex-
planned the impossible part of now re-
vising the charter, which Is urged to be
perpetual, made SO by the very condi-
lions it has brought about by new
franchises and changed relations with
the state
Judge Donovan quoted several de-
cisions Of the United States supreme
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-02-23
SURSC RIPTION RATES.

One Year OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
SIX Months NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 30
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1he beg. IN watch senl your sub
or by registered letter. One oI the oti'i
can he obtained at every postOi!cv ia tiIs
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also cheap and COW enient from 'A1 az . =
places. Bank bills s-ut IN o!diialy iettS'-'
"ilie cominonly sa4e enough axe So
ally Iost, hence subscribers so SeAHlH5
remember mat they at Their own I!S".
IL TO be mailed. il Is absolutely i'eN
.hat the subscriber should eNe MS o'H 90
vel as the lew address. Othe4 "tSe "
Change cannot be made.
Inc receipt OF subscription I..oHsy - az
ways acknowledged oy the change OF eN-
pration cate the address label no ot.iet
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&c not made within two weens IRON 'I!e '-'s
me money wss sent inquiry should tAeh -
STOPPING THE PAPER-The pubhsner
must be notified in writing when tIe SUI
'crlDer wishes the paper stopped. h+tCi u
ns paper on refusing :clelse IL itO.A
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The Law is that every newspaper subscrlper
held responsible until all arreaiaseS are
pald, and then The paper may Ue ordered olscoh-
:inued.
In order to reduce complaints to the mini
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II not notify US and will rectify matters
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-02-23

That ten cent list is our trump card.
months reading of the greatest weekly
reform paper Of the West is indeed a
temptation. Republicans and Demo-
Gratis alike have curiosity to know
what cranks Will say and in the Repre-
sentative they get the most advanced
political thought OF the times.
Hundreds of POpuiists subscribe for
their old party neighbors and write us
that this is the only way they can force
them to take their medicine.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-02-23
fluence of divinity, and as immortal as
the great architect himself.

the great architect himself.
If man dwelt alone upon this earth
without the companionship Of the other
sex, and an angel came down and de-
picted to him in glowing terms all that
a good woman is, the enraptured listen
ers would give the whole world, yea a
universal world. to possess such :om
posite and perfect creature.
intend to prove my gratitude 10 God
for all his countless blessings, by work
ing diligently during such portion Of life
as is left me, for the good Of His poor,
suffering, struggling, oppressed children;
and I am sure that the noble woman
who is to share my destiny is filed
with kindred purposes. She has drained
the bitter cut Of poverty to the very
dregs, and her heart goes out therefore
in pity and sympathy to all the unfor
tunate of the whole world. l. D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-02-23
THE LEASE FUND.

You see how it is growing, friends. 1t
is now up to nearly S275. Can't you take
hold this week and make. it $500? See
the noble example of Mr.. w. M. Smith,
Of Madison Lake, who sent us the other
day, SIG III one bunch! A few such
workers as that would soon put house
over Mrs. Lease and her family; and you
would never miss what you gave. AS
Robert Burns said to the field mouse,
who was eating Of his wheat:
"a taimen iscker in a thieves
A sma request;
He got a blessing wi the lave
And never MIST.
Pity the world was not crammed full
of Robert Burnses! What grand
world it would be! Id.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-02-23
BRAVE ACTION IN INDIANA.

The Representative sends it's hearty
congratulations to the brave Populists
of Indiana, who have stood by their
guns, their cause and their country. A
full account Of their action will be found
be found in the same line on the 18th
OF June next. e. A. T.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-02-23
THE COMMONEST FELONY.
Committed Daily in Almost Every
Court in the Land.

Court in the Land.
Philadelphia Bulletin: Disregard for
the sancitity and obligations of oaths
is so common in our courts of Justice
that hardly day passes when the judges
Of the quarter sessions do not note
some instance of what they know to be
perjury. The Bibles on the witness stand
are polluted by the lips Of the multitude
OF perJUrers in the course Of every term.
Some judges believe that the evil is a
that the longer he remained on the
bench the more he saw Of the difficulty
of enforcing respect for an oath. In
deed, it is certain that for every person
convicted of the deliberate perjury which
is a crime, and which is susceptible Of
legal proof, there are a hundred who
escape because of the trouble Of prov
ing the offence to the satisfaction OF
the law. Not few cross examiners
conduct their examinations on the as
sumption that no witness ever tells the
exact truth If he can avoid it, and the
assumption is believed to hold good In
one out CT every three instances.
There are many witnesses, too, who
swear falsely without intending to- In
exactness Of memory, confused ideas
as to the meaning of words or the tim
ldity into which the DULLES and brow
beaters OF the bar throw them will often
account for conflicting testimony when
apparently perjury had entered it some
where.
When the prince of Wales was young
and ''perjured himself like a gentleman"
IN the Mordaunt case, he gave to one
species of deliberate perjury something
OF the semblance Of honor. 1t is now, as
1T has long been, the fashion to regard
with contempt any man who goes into
court and swear against the chastity Of
woman whose favor he has enjoyed. In
such cases perjury is looked upon as
venial, If not, indeed creditable. and ia
rarely punished
The Beecher-Tilton case was probablv
one of the greatest exhibitions of per-
jury that has ever occupied the attention
OF the American people in a court Of
justice. Such a mass of unreconcila-
BILE testimony under the solemnity of
an oath has seldom been sent to a iurv
That trial had many injurious effects
on the public mind, but none, perhaps.
was so serious as the disregard Of truth
on the part of persons who, it might
have been supposed, could not bring
themselves to the act Of perjury. Relig-
lon, character and confidence in yeracity
all suffered cruel blows as the long pro-
cession of liars and moral lepers passed
In review. The country was divided. as
the jury was, In picking out the per-
jurers. Yet many of those who believed
that Mr.. Beecher had perjured himself
contended that, aside from any penal
consequences which might have resulted
to himself, 1t was his duty to shield
Mrs. Tilton at all hazards. Whoever
the perjurers were, there is no room to
doubt that the perjury which was COM
mitted and the half-approving or flip
pant manner In which 1t was treated
set an example for an immense amount
Of false swearing In American courts
IN after years.
There IL also another form Of perjury
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-02-23

Some of our delinquent subscribers are
being reached by the collectors In
most cases they manage to dig up the
cash. 1t probably never occurs to these
people who force us each year to resort
to a collection agency that We have to
pay the collection agency all the profit
On their subscription and more but
then perhaps they prefer the collectors
before u.s.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-02-23

There are two ways IN which true re-
formers can spend money and get full
equivalent in return. Send us 10 cents
for a three months subscription to be
sent to some benighted neighbor or start
q subscription for neighborhood circu-
lating reform library.
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