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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-10
REPUBLICAN LEAGUE.
Date of the National Meeting at
Omaha Changed to July 1915.

CHICAGO, Feb 9.-The executive COM
mittee Of the National Republican League
met here to-day. Fourteen members of the
committee were present. The report of the
finance committee showed that the league
had balance in the treasury and that the
financial condition was good. Secretary
Bowling was ordered to have the manual
for 1898 published as soon as possible. This
manual will contain an outline of the plans
of the league for the ensuing year, q list
of the county, state and congressional
leagues throughout the country and much
general information communication
from the Central Passenger Association re-
questing the committee to indorse the anti
scalping bill that is now before Congress
was laid on the table 1t was decided no
action could be taken in the matter. Maj.
Melville Hays. of Kentucky, introduced
resolutions, which were adopted by the COM
mittee, congratuating the state Republican
league of Ohio for the success it had at
tair ed and the people .of the United States
the election of Nj. A. Hanna to the
United States Senate. The time for the ma
tional convention at Omaha was. changed
from June 14-16 to July 1875. This was in
order that it might not interfere with the
state conventions.
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LADY soMERsErs CONVERSION.

The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union will no doubt rejoice greatly over
the recent thorough conversion of Lady
Henry Somerset to temperance For a long
time the members of that organization were
deceived in Lady Henry and thought she
was already one of themselves in spirit as
she was in official form. For years they
looked upon her as second only to Frances
Willard in all that pertained to the sacred
principles represented by the white ribbon
of purity and the blue ribbon of temper
ance, to say nothing of the yellow one of
equal suffrage. But few months ago she
indiscreetly wrote a letter to the govern
ment of India which the dull men compos-
ing that body interpreted to mean an APP
prevail of licensing certain forms of vice
They lacked the intuition, as well as the
experience which should have informed
them that a woman's letter is extremely
apt to mean something quite different from
what it says. In consequence of their
stupidity Lady Somerset at once lost caste
with the w C. II. u. which accepted the
official reading of the epistle without ques-
ton and felt that it had cherished a viper in
its bosom. After waiting in vain for the
error to be corrected by it's perpetrators,
Lady Somerset writes again to the Indian
government, and, expressing a dignified
grief at the thought that she should have
been interpreted literally and her moral eff
forts misunderstood, withdraws the letter
and closes the incident. She will, of course
be at once restored to her old standing in
he ~ he o;o;,,
two-fold when the news of her further
progress is disseminated This is nothing
more nor less than a resolve TO discontinue
the serving of wine in her own house. The
fact that she has been in the habit, up to
this time. of setting this soul-destroy.ng
beverage before her family and guests will
cause the good ladies of the union almost
great a shock as if Frances Willard her
self should suddenly announce ut this late
day that she had resolved TO abandon the
use Of Intoxicating drinks. But her de-
termination TO have no more wine about the
premises will be less surprising to these
ladies than her reason for doing so at this
iuncture. She tells her British constituency
that now that her son is no longer with her
but has a home of his own. she is ready
to take a more definite stand in the mat
ter than she has seen her way clear to do
before, and has decided that for the future
she win provide no alcoholic drinks here
or elsewhere" The common attitude of
women on this subject is that if total alb
stinence is to be practced at all it is while
men are in sight, the firm feminine cen
ylction being that the male of the human
species needs no more than a single d'ank
of intoxicating liquor TO have an unquencn-
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ON A LONELY REEF.
Theodore Gussman NaroOns Himself
in His Employers Interest.

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 9.Alone on a
coral reef in the Pacific hundreds of miles
from any other land and out of the course
of vessels, Theodore Gussman Is waiting to
be rescued. A letter to friend here, Capt.
Charles A. Baettge, which he sent by
French man-of-war that CHANGED to cruise
in his locality, describes the awful solitude
in which he has been isolated for months.
Gussman might have left his Imprisonment
by the vessel which brought his letter, but
to have done so would have been deserving
his post of duty. He is one of three men
sent down to Clpperton island last July
by the Oceanic Phosphate Company to keep
possession of the cOmpany's property and
of the island. His companions deserted him
at the time the Mexican man-of-war Demo-
crata hauled down the American flag and
hoisted the Mexican standard. Gussman
refused to leave then. although an effort
was made to shanghai him by the Next
can captain In order to remain at his post
of duty Gussman practically marooned him
self, swimming ashore from the war ship
with evidences of his employers titles to
the island concealed in one of his shoes.
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NEW POLITICAL PARTY.
Debs and BeIIamy to Combine Their
sociaIistic Theories Under One Name.

DENVER, Col, Feb. edward Rellamy,
author of Looking Backward" and Eu-
gene V. Debs, late head of the American
Railway Union and leader of the Social De-
mocracy, have united TO launch new po-
liticaI party. The Social Democracy will
be taken as the nucleus of the party. This
was decided upon at a meeting held last
night in Mr. Debss room in the New Mark
ham Hotel. Among those present were Bel
lamy. Debs, James Hogan, once leader III
the American Railway Union, and NUM-
her of local radicals. 1t was decided 10
form a central body for the organization
Of the new party. $. p. Leep was chosen
chairman of board of five TO have control
here. J. D. Kleckner Is the secretary of
this new board, G. Passover. treasurer; g.
T. Davis and J. King the other two MEM
hers Suborganizations will be formed in
every ward in Denver. Whether the new
party would support Bryan in 1900 Debs
is not as vet prepared 10 say. The organi-
cation proposes the amelioration of social
ills on the lines laid down by Bellamy,
George and others It. advocates commu-
nitv Of property interests-pure socialism in
its broadcast sense. IL is believed Mr. Bel
lamy will accord ii his approval. In April
the organization in each State viii elect
representatives to attend a state conven-
ton i'm May and this convention viii choose
delegates TO the first national convention OF
Social Democracy in Chicago in June fol-
lowing.
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The alleged letter of the Spanish minister
Dupuy De LONE furnishes an interesting
diversion in Cuban affairs and, if genuine.
is an important incident The fun text of
the letter shows that it was of considerable
length and its general tone was such as
might have been expected in a confidential
communication from the minister to an in
innate friend, high in the confidence of the
Spanish government. Those who have pos
session of the document say it was inter
cepted or stolen in Cuba. The body of the
letter treats of the situation in Cuba, the
only offensive phrases occurring in one
paragraph, as follows:
The Presidents message has undeceived
the insurgents. who expected something
else and has paralyZed the action of Con-
gress. but / consider it bad Besides the
natural and inevitable coarsenesS (groSeria)
with which he repeats all that the press
and public opinion of Spain has said against
Weyler shows once more that Mckinley
is weak and catering to the rabble. and be-
sides is a low politician who desires to
leave door open to me and to stand well
with the jingoes of his party.
If the letter is a forgery it is an adroit
one. as these expressions seem quite Incl
dental to the main body of the letter. Pho
Geographic copies of it have been given out,
and 1t is said that persons familiar with
the minister's handwriting pronounce it I'M
doubtedly genuine 1t was stated at first
that the minister had declared the letter
to be forgery, but later dispatches leave
the matter in doubt. If it's genuineness is
established it would undoubtedly cause a
change of Spanish ministers at Washing
ton. Ordinarily this would not necessarily
involve any strain on the relations between
the two countries, but under present cir
dent. If the letter is genuine Mr.. Dupuy
de LONE will have to go, while if it is a
forgery somebody has been guilty of dirty
trick. Present indications are that it is gem
uine and that Mr.. De LONE has made a
dreadful bad break.
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administration factions of the party. and
that the election of Mr.. HernIy as chairman
is "a slap at the administration This is
all rubbish, and Republicans in and out of
the State viii understand it, 1t is an old
trick of politics which attempts to substi-
tute discord for harmony and warning fac
tions for united party. There are no fac
tons in the party in this State and no dis
cord among Indiana Republicans. They are
all for Mckinley because he is the honored
head of the party, and they are all for Har-
rison because he is one of its honored lead
ers. Whoever attempts to foment jealousy
between these distinguished statesmen or TO
draw an imaginary fractional line between
their friends in Indiana is no true friend
of the party and is ignorant of the spirit of
Indiana Republicans
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ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Mrs. Louisa Jackson Arnold, the only
surviving sister of ''Stonewall" Jackson. is
living in sanitarium near Columbus, O.
Representative Dingley is not an orator.
His voice is too nasal TO be pleasant and
too weak 10 be heard This is true even
when he speaks with extemporaneous free
dom, but when he reads a speech the mem
bers have to gather close around him 10
hear his words.
The defense of Captain Dreyfus seems TO
devolve upon the literary men. In England
the novelist David Christie Murray is Civ
ing a free illustrated lecture with magic
lantern and highly magnified reproductions
of Dreyfuss handwriting and of the docu~
ment attributed TO him.
After his retirement from the operate
stage signor Nicoini invariably dressed in
fancy costume when his wife was entertain
ing at Craig-y-nos. and many amusing
stories are told Of mistakes made b. the
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able appetite for more excited in him. To
offer him a glass Of wine is equivalent in
point of danger to touching "a match to
powder magazine. though the process of de-
struction is slower. AT all cost he should be
prevented from having the first fatal taste
of the seductive liquid AS for the effect
upon women, that is quite a different thing
1t is another article of common feminine be-
lief that an occasional glass of wine or dose
of "bitters" for medicinal purposes" is a
very useful thing when consumed by
women; the dear souls feel that it does
them good and know that they are not in
the least danger of forming a habit" but
1t IS far from them to believe in equal self
control in their husbands and sons. Hence
they frown upon the very suggestion of
things spirituous when those worthless are
about. And Lady Somerset has proceeded
upon the opposite plan of serving wine
while her son was in the family and adopt
ing total abstinence when he went out 1t
is course the average temperance woman
will not comprehend, but though she will
expect Lady Somerset's son to turn out a
topper through his mothers mistaken in
diligence she will at least rejoice that the
English lady is a brand snatched from the
burning while there is yet time.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-10
THE PARK MIDDLE.

Park affairs have reached the stage to
which the term muddle fifty applies. If the
Pogue run tract shall be purchased, with
the other land accepted, there will not be
a dollar for improvements If the Pogue
run tract is not purchased there Will be
$63 coo or such matter for expenditure in
construction, an altogether inadequate
amount to expend without the certainty of
several other quite as large amounts to fol-
low To leave out the Pogue run section
and use the money TO improve other Sec
tions will supply the mayor and mis- board
with more trouble than they are needing
fo- the reason that the mayor mas pledged
himself to the people of that section that
his influence should be directed 10 securing
the purchase of the territory in the north
eastern part of the city.
1t is possible for the Council Ia vote 10
issue more bonds but just now The neces-
sary two-thirds required TO make a loan
cannot be counted 1t may be that the
mayor may win the two-thirds To his
scheme, but it is reported that some of the
Democratic members are afraid TO signalize
a Democratic administration by pushing
the city debt 10 the constitutional limit.
The mayors conference did not inspir, in
the members of the Council the mayors
confidence in his proposition for a further
loan. The Council would have been GLAD
dened if more people had oeen represented
as acquiescing.
1t may be added that the situation is as
IL is because the mayor. after causing an
assessment to be made Tor the Improvement
of the park lands. was frightened cut CT il
now that his low-bond scheme Is discussed
he seems to lack the nerve TO orier it
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passed by his Council unless ar assured
him that they will support him. Mr. Tag
CART seems to lack the first elements of
resourceful leadership in this matter.
Sooner or later the people of Indianapolis
will learn that system of parks such as
the park law contemplates calls for the ex-
penditure of a large amount of money. all
of which must be raised by taxation. A
part of it can be borrowed for a time. but
beyond the borrowing capacity OF the city
a large amount must be raised by annual
levy if the system of parks which has been
proposed shall be furnished and kept in
proper condition.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-10
COOLER, CLOUDY WEATHER,
With Occasional showers, Predicted
by FOrecaster Nappenhans.

Forecast for indianapolis and vicinity for
the twenty-four hours ending IL p. m. Feb.
1O-Cooler; cloudy weather and occasional
showers on Thursday.
General Conditions Yesterday = The low
barometric area, extending from Mexico
northeastward to Lake Superior and central
over Oklahoma, is moving very slowly
northeastward. The temperature fell west
and rose east of the Mississippi. Snow fell
in the Missouri valley and rain in the Mis-
sissippi valley and near the lower lakes.
FORECAST FOR THREE STATES.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.-1for Ohio-LocaI
showers; light to fresh southefly winds.
For Indiana and Illinois-Showers; east
to southeast winds
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X-RAY EXPERIMENT.
Murderer Merry's Head to BE Exam
ined Before He Is Hanged.

CHICAGO Feb. 9.-Before mounting the
gallows Chris Merry, the peddler, under
sentence of death for wife murder, is to
undergo an X-ray examination of his brain.
Several years ago Merry was struck on the
head with brick which left a pronounced
indentation Merry's attorneys believe this
to be responsible in great part for the vio-
lent outbursts of temper which the. con-
demned man shows and it is to learn the
exact extent of the injury that the X-ray
experiment is to be made, in hope of OBJ
tanning clemency from the Governor.
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Prot =. J. James Honored.

CHICAGO Feb 9.-Prof. Edmund g.
James OF the University of Chicago. has
neen nominated by the Bureau of Education
10 represent the United States at the inter-
national congress of commercial instruction
to be held at Antwerp next April. Prof.
lanes has become widely known i'm connec-
tion with the movement of the foundation
OF the schools of commerce and industry
and in connection with colleges and uni
xersities which has resulted so Tar in the
establishment OF such schools In the Uni
Versity OF Chicago and the University OF
California. He was for some years at the
head OF the Wharton School of Finance and
Economy. University OF Pennsylvania the
first of this kind organized In the United
States
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-10
THROWN INTO A COAL BIN.
Rev. c. o. Browns Picture Taken from
a Church Wall in Dubuque.

DUBUQUE, Ia, Feb. 9-Rev Dr. c. O..
Browns portrait was taken from among the
pictures of former pastors at the First Con-
gregational Church and thrown into the coal
bin. This was done by Colonel Lyon, who
was his attorney at two conferences of the
Dubuque association, which restored Brown
to fellowship after the Bay Conference had
suspended him. At a meeting of the trus-
tees Lyon was unanimously sustained, but
some one wrote in the vacant place, Let
him who is without sin cast the first stone -
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-10

There has been no bolder break in politics
in recent years than the attempt of the
Sentinel to defend the free trade policy of
the Democratic party, and the Wilson bill
as an exponent of it. 1t argues that the
Wilson bill, if it had not been interfered
with, would have proved a national bless
ing, and declares that the Democratic
party has no need TO apologize for it's tariff
record, and would be standing on it to-day
but that the distress caused by the gold
standard and the danger of the honest
money steal outweigh all other issues" So
far as remembered, the Democratic party
has never apologized for any of its blum
ders, and perhaps it would be standing on
it's tariff record to-day but for the fact that
the American people have jumped onto it
with both feet, and there is no room for its
supporters
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NEW YORK, Feb. Mrs. Herman Del
richs is being overwhelmed with congratulate
tions because she has almost entirely recOv-
cred from her painful accident, which at one
time threatened the loss OF one of her eyes.
1t is nearly three months since Mrs. Gel
richs in experimenting the hanging of cur
tains in her residence at Fifty-seventh street
and Fifth avenue, met the accident. 4
tack fell into her eye. penetrating the retina
and producing a very ugly wound, which,
it was feared might render her blind. Mrs.
Oelrichs was Miss Theresa Fair. daughter
of the late Senator Fair of California.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-10

The Orange Judd Farmer says that the
country is again ON the upgrade in regard
to live stock. The shrinkage in it's value,
which began in 1898, was reversed in 1897,
the total value Jan. l. 1898, being $2,O37,O dr.
co., against S,SS5,959,OOO a year earlier. In
spite of the talk of a horseless age, the
average price advanced from 1886 Jan. l.
1897. to 1856 Jan. /, 1885, The only item in
the whole list that can afford the calamity
lite morsel of comfort is the fact that
the average price of mules per head is a
few cents less now than year ago.
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NEW YORK. Feb 9.-To-day's clearing
house statement shows a subtreasury bal
aEce OF $685. 100. instead of the usual debit
balance. This reversal of figures is caused
by the payment os the third instalment of
Union Pacific purchase moneys 10 the gov
eminent Only 81 2i3.00o was paid into the
clearing house by the repositories to-day.
The balance of the nstallment was sent
direct 20 Gashir&ton
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-10

Yielding to the wishes Of the Bar Associa-
ton, Mr.. O'Bryan has withdrawn his resig-
nation as probate commissioner and will
serve the. remainder of his term. The ac-
ton of the Bar Association is strong evil
dence of the opinion held by the legal fra
ternity as to the value of Mr.. O'Bryan's
services as commissioner. and both that
body and the public is to be congratulated
on the fact that the resignation has been
Withdrawn
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''This," said the bystander, must be the
proudest moment of your life"
Nit" sadly answered the owner of the
winning horse. 1T was a great race and
I've won fortune but from now on, see
that L shall be known only as owner of
the horse that won it,
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my friend" asked the go-as-you-please
missionary, ARE you travelling the straight
and narrow path to the best of your humble
ability?p
The man in the neutrality-suspicious.
in suit said nothing, but handed over his
card. The missionary read:
SIGNOR BALLANC1O,
Champion Tightrope Walker.
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Judging the British people by the opinions
of the London press, they are about as
tickle as are the French. y few days stree
the government was denounced for an al
legged back-down on the China occupation.
Yesterday the ministry was applauded for
It's bold stand
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For man who is confined in an iron cage
on a desert island in a deadly climate. with
military guard around him. Captain Drey-
fus seems to be giving the French govern
ment considerable trouble.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-10

All patriotic Americans will agree that
HE representative of foreign government
who insults the President of the United
states, either publicly privately. be-
comes Immediately persona non grata, and
should leave the country. This is not a
question OF party. but of national honor.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-10

Stephen Crane was in a. shipwreck or the
Florida coast; Robert Barr was captured
by the Turks and held for twenty -four
hours; Mark Twain was in the Reichsrath
racket-but oh, how they all turn green
with envy at the lot of Zola No doubt
they would willingly take Emile's chances
of being used as a Parisfans' spittoon if
they could have his opportunity for gath
ering literary material
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Germany has recovered from her dried
apple fright and has begun to worry about
American beet sugar. May they be given
cause for their advance installment OF
fright on that subject is the prayer of the
American farmer II s4-
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Gunton's Magazine opposes the postal
savings bank on the ground that those who
win manage the investing of the funds will
in ali probability be men of little expert
result
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The New York Financial Chronicle says
that tie only way to settle the currency
question IS to get it out OF politics. That
IS what the monetary conventions of bust
less men desired, but. unfortunately, the
Democratic party objects TO its settlement
lpon any basis which does not embrace sill
yer luonometsfllisna.
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coon ROADS MEETING.
Papers Read ON Highway Improve
ments-POtter's Friends Confident.

ST LOUIS Feb. 9-The delegates to the
national assembly of the League. OF Ameri-
can Wheemen devoted to-day TO the ques-
ton Of roads
A number of papers on the various
branches of highway improvements We're
read by delegates prominently engaged in
the furtherancc Of the work ard the meet