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GEN.H^RRISON'StETTER .,ni Honim OF THK uptmuwr num voskaixt Acemi. . ;-vV.. 11 1 •to DIMmni Public Qttestton* with Dlj- •Ity aad Oeunew--Tho Interests of the Warktaganaa Mast Be looked After-- TtmU of the Chinese Qae>thu>, eta. - ' i [Indianapolis special.] Gen. Harrison's letter accepting the Domination to the presidency by the Chi­ cago convention is as follows: Indiaxapoi.is, Sept. 11,1888. "Hox. M.M. Estee and others.Commit- tfts--Gentlemew: "When your aommitteo visited me on the Fourth of July last, and presented the official announcement of my : nomination for the Presidency of the United States by the Republican National conven­ tion I promised as soon as practicable to communicate to you a more formal accept­ ance of the nomination. Since that time the work of receiving and addressing, al­ most daily, large delegations of my fellow- citizens, has not only occupied all my time, but has in some measure rendered it un­ necessary for me to nso this letter as a medium of communicating to the public fay views upon the question* involved in the campaign. I appreciate very highly the confidence anil respect manifested by the convention, and accept the nomination with a feeling of gratitude, and a full sense of the responsi­ bilities which accompany it. "It is a matter of congratulation that the tiet-larations of the Chicago convention upon the questions that now attract the interest of our people are so clear and emphatic. There is further cause for congratulation in the fact that the convention utterances of tlw Democratic party, if in any degree un­ certain or contradictory, can now be judged and interpreted by executive acts and mes­ sages and by definite propositions in legisla­ tion. This is especially time of what is pop­ ularly known as the tariff question. The issue cannot now be obscured. It is not a contest between schedules, but between wiffe-apart principles. The foreign compet­ itors of our market have, with quick in-» stinct. seen hew one issue of this contest; may bring them advantage, and our owiv people are not so dull as to miss or neglect; the grave interests that are involved fo# them. The assault upon our protective system is open and defiant. Protection is assailed as unconstitutional in the law Or as vicious in principle, and those who hold such views sincerely cannot stop short of an absolute elimination from our tariff laws of the principle of protection. The Mills bill is only a step, but it is toward ah object that the leaders of Democratic thought and legislation have clearly in mind. The important questiou is not so much the length of the step as the direction of it. Judged by the executive message of December lust, by the Mills bill, by the de­ bates in Congress and by the St? Louis plat­ form the Democratic party will, if supported by the coiuitry. lay the tariff laws upon a purely revenue basis. Is this practical free • trade--free trade in the English sense? The legend upon the banner may not be 'free trade'; it may be the more obscure motto 'tariff reform,' but neither the banner nor tlje inscription is conclusive, or, in­ deed, very important. The assault itself is the important fact. Those who teach that the import duty upon foreign goods sold in our market is paid by the consumer, and that the ]»art of the domestic competing article is enhanced to the amount of the duty on imported articles--that every million of dollars col­ lected for customs duties represents many millions more which do not i«ach the treas­ ury, but are paid by our citizens as the in­ creased cost of domestic productions result­ ing from the tariff laws may not intend to discredit in tne minds of others our system of levying duties on foreign products, but it is clearly already discredited in their owu. We can not doubt, without impugning their Integrity, that if free to act upon then- con­ victions they would so revise our laws as to lay the burden of the customs revenues upon articles that are not produced in this eoun- tpr, and to place upon the five list aU jwting foreign products. The Hepublican Faith. "I do not stop to refute this theory as ito the effect of our tariff duties. Those who advance it are students of maxims feud not of the markets. They may be safely al­ lowed to call their project 'tariff reform,' if the people understand that in the end the argument compels free trade in all compet­ ing products. This end may not be reached abruptly, and its approach may be accom­ panied with some expressions of sympathy for our protected industries and our work­ ing people, but it will certainly come if these early steps do not arouse the people to effective resistance. The Republican party holds that a protective tariff is constitu­ tional, wholesome, and necessary. We do not offer a mixed schedule but a principle. We will revise the schedule, modify rates, but always with an intelligent provisiou as to the effect upon domestic production and the wages of our working people. We be- . lieve it to be one of the worthy objects of tariff legislation to preserve the Ameri­ can market for American producers, and to maintain the American scale of wages by adequate, discrimin­ ating duties upon foreign competing ~ products. The effect of lower rates and larger importations upon the public: revenue is contingent and doubtful, but not so the effect upon American production and . American 'wages. Less work and lower wages must be accoptcd as the inevitable result of the increased offering of foreign goods in our market. By way of recom­ pense for this reduction in his wages and the loss of the American market it is. suggested that the diminished wages of the working- man will havo an undiminished purchasing power, aud that he will be able to make up for the loss of the home market by an en­ larged foreign market. Our workingmen have the settlement of the question in their own hands. They now obtain higher wages and live more comfortably than those of any other country. They will make choice between the substantial advantages they have in hand and the deceptive promises and forecasts of those theorizing reformers. They will decide for themselves and the oountry whether the protective system shall „ be continued or destroyed. How to Use the Surplus. "The foot of a treasury surplus, the amount of which is variously stated, has di­ rected public attention to a consideration of the methods by which the national income may best be reduced to the level of a wise and necessary expenditure. This condition has been Seized upon by those who are hos­ tile to protective custom duties as an ad­ vantageous base of attack upon our tariff laws. They have magnified and nursed the surplus which they affect to depreciate, seemingly for the purpose of exaggerating the evil in order to reconcile the people to i the extreme remedy they propose. A proper reduction of' the revenue does not necessitate and should not suggest the abandonment or impairment of the protect­ ive system. The methods suggested by our convention will not need to l>e exhausted in order to effect the neceissary reduction. We are not likely to be called upon, I think, to make a present choice between the surren­ der of our protectivo system and the entire repeal of the internal taxes, Such a con­ tingency, in view of the present relation of expenditures to * revenues, is remote. The Inspection and regulation of the manufac­ ture and sale of oleomargarine is import­ ant, and the revenue derived from it Ls not so great that the repeal of the law need en­ ter into any plan of revenue reduction. The surplus now in the treasury should be used in the purchase of bonds. The law author­ izes this use of it, and if it is not needed for sorrent or deficiency appropriations the people, and not the banks in which it has -been deposited, should have the advantage af its use by stopping interest upon the pub­ lic debt. At least those who needlessly hoard it should not be allowed to use the to coerce public Mutftmenfc apoa other questions. " Importation mt CoitrMt labor, "Closely connected with the subject of the tariff is that of the importation of foreign laborers under contracts of service to be per­ formed here. The law now in force pro­ hibiting such contracts received my cordial support in the Senate, and such amendments as may be found necessary effectively to de­ liver our workingmen and women from this most inequitable form of competition will have my sincere advocacy. Legislation pro­ hibiting the importation of laborers under contracts to serve here will, however, afford very inadequate relief to our working people if the system of the protective duties is broken down. . If the products of Ameri­ can shops must compete in the Americau market without favoring duties with the products of cheap foreign labor the effect will he different, if at all. only in degree, whether the cheap laborer is across the street or over the sea. Such competition will soon reduce wages here to the level of those abroad, and when that condition. is reached we will not need any laws forbid­ ding the importation of laborers under con­ tract--they will havQno inducement to come and the employer no inducement to send for them. j Exclusion of the Chinese. "In the earlier years of our history pub­ lic agencies to promote immigration were common. The pioneer wanted a neighbor with more friendly instincts than the In­ dian. Labor was scarce and fully em­ ployed. But the day of the immigration bureau has gone by. While our doors will continue opened to proper immigration we do not need to issue special invitations to the inhabitants of other countries to come to our shores or to share our citizenship. Indeed, the necessity of some inspection aud limitation is obvious. Wc should resolute­ ly refuse to' permit foreign governments to send their paupers and criminals to our doors. We are also clearly under a duty to defend our civil position by excluding alien races whose ultimate assimilation with our people is neither possible nor desirable. The family lias been the nucleus of our best im­ migration and the home the most potent as­ similating force in our civilization. The objections to Chinese immigration are dis­ tinctive and conclusive, and are now so generally accepted as such that the ques­ tion has passed entirely around tho stage of argument. The laws relating to this sub­ ject would, if I should be charged with their enforcement, be faithfully executed. Such amendments or further legislation as may bo necessary and proper to prevent evasions of the laws and to stop further Chinese immigration would also meet iny approval. The expression of the conven­ tion upon this subject is in entire harmony with my views. Parity of the Ballot* "Our civil compact is a government by majorities; and the law loses its sanction and the magistrate our respect when this compact is broken. The evil results of election frauds do not expend themselves upon the voters who are robbed of their rightful influence in public affairs. The in­ dividual or community or party that prac­ tices or connives at election frauds has suf­ fered irreparable injury and will sooner or later realize that to exchange the American system of majority rule for minority con­ trol is not only unlawful and unpatriotic but very unsafe for those who promote it. The disfranchisement of -a single legal elector by fraud or intimidation is a crime too grave to be regarded lightly. The right of every qualified elector to cast one free ballot and to have it honestly counted must not be questioned. Every constitutional power should be used to make this right se­ cure and punish frauds upon the ballot. Our colored people do not ask special legis­ lation in their interest, hut only to be made secure in the common rights of American citizenship. They will, however, naturally mistrust the sincerity of those party leaders who appeal to their race for support only in those localities where the suffrage is free and election results doubtful, and compass their disfranchisement where their votes would be controlling and their fphoice can­ not be coerced. Schooli ami Territories "The nation, not less than the States, is dependent for prosperity aud security upon the intelligence and morality of the people. This common interest very early suggested national aid in the establishment and endow­ ment of school:i and colleges in the new States. There is, I believe, a present exi­ gency that calls for still more liberal and direct appropriations in aid of common school education in the States. "Tho territorial form of government is a temjMjrury expedient, not a permanent civil condition. It is adapted to the exigency that suggested it, but becomes inadequate and even oppressive when applied to fixed and i>opulous eonununities. Several terri­ tories arc well able to l>ear the burdens and discharge the duties of five commonwealths in the American union. To exclude them is to deny the just rights of their people and may well excite their indignant protest. No question of the political preference of the people of a territory should close against them the hospitable door which has opened to two-thirds of the existing States. But admission should be resolutely refused any Territory, a majority of whose people cher­ ish institutions that arc repugnant to our civilization or inconsistent with a repub- icuu form of government. Trusts and Pensions. "The declaration of the convention against 'all combinations of capital organ­ ized in trusts or otherwise to control arbi­ trary the condition of trade among our citi­ zens' is in harmony with the views enter­ tained and publidy expressed by me long before the assembling of the convention. Ordinarily capital shares the losses of idle­ ness with labor, but under the operation of the trust, in some of its foiTns, the wage- worker alone suffers loss, while idle capital receives its dividends from a trust fund. Producers who refuse to join the combina­ tion are destroyed, and competition, as an element of prices, is eliminated. It cannot be doubted that the legislative authority should and will find a method of dealing fairly and effectively with these and other abuses connected with the subject. "It can hardly be necessary for me to say that I am heartily in sympathy with the de­ claration of the convention upon the subject of pensions to our soldiers and sailors. What they gave and what they suffered I had some opportunity to observe, and in a small measure, to experience. They gave ungrudgingly; it was not a trade, but an offering. The measure was heaped up, run­ ning over. What they achieved only a dis­ tant generation can adequately tell. With­ out attempting to discuss particular proposi­ tions I may add that measures in behalf of the surviving veterans of the war and of the families of their dead comrades should be conceived-ami executed in a spirit of justice and ok the most grateful liberality, and honorable military service shoold b!** ap­ propriate leeagaitfen. ' Tfce CtvIl Servtn* ::v »- "The law regelating appointments to the classified dvfl service received ray support in the Senate, in the belief that it opened the way to a much- needed reform. I still think so, and, therefore cordially approve the clear and forcible expression of the con­ vention upon this subject. The law should have the aid of a friendly interpretation and be faithfully and vigorously enforced. All appointments under it should be absolutely free from partisan considerations and influ­ ence. Some extensions of the classified list are practicable and desirable, and further legis­ lation extending the reform to other branches of the service, to which it is applicable, would receive my approval. In appointments to every grade and depart­ ment fitness, and not party service, should be the essential and discriminating test, and fidelity and efficieucy,the only sure tenure of office. Only the interests of the public ser­ vice should suggest removal from office. I know the practical difficulties attending the aitelnntto apply the spirit of the civil ser­ vice rjflea to all appointments and removals, -ft-witi/ however, be my sincere purpose, if elected, to advance the reform.* - ff ' I notice with pleasure that the conven­ tion did not omit to express its solicitude for the promotion of virtue and temperance among our people. The Republican party has always been friend^' to everything that tended to make the home life of our i>cople free, pure and prosjierous, and will in the future be true to its history in this respect. Our Foreign Relation*. "Olir relations with foreign powers sfcould be characterized by friendliness and respect. The right of our people and of our ships to hospitable treatment should be insisted upon with dignity and firmness. Our nation is too great, l»oth in material strength and in moral power, to indulge in bluster or to be suspected of timorousueess. Vacillation- and inconsistency are as incompatible with successful diplomacy as they arc with the national dignity. We should -especially cultivate and extend our diplomatic and commercial relations with the Central ami South American States. Our fisheries should be fostered and protected. The hardships and risks that are the necessary incidents ofc^the business should not be increased by an in­ hospitable exclusion from tho near lying ports. Tho resources of a firm, dignified and consistent diplomacy are undoubtedly equal to the prompt and peaceful solution of the difficulties that now exist. Our neighbors will surely not expect in our ports a commercial hospitality they deny to us in theirs. "I cannot extend this letter by a special reference to other subjects upon which the convention gave an expression. In respect to them as well as to those I have noticed, I am in entire agreement with the declarations of the convention. The resolutions relating to the coinage, to the rebuilding of tho navy, to toast defenses and to public lands express conclusions to all of which I gave my support in the Senate. "Inviting a calm and thoughtful consid­ eration of these public questions, wo submit them to the people. Their intelligent patri­ otism and the good Providence that made and has kept us a nation will lead them to wise and safe conclusions. Very respectful- ly, your obedient servant, "Benjamix Harrison." Tlie Story of Many a Weinan. There are hundreds of women in New York to-day who can easily recog­ nize themselves in the story which is tohj by one woman in LippincolVs Maqazhie. It is the old, old story of the straggle to keep up appear­ ances. Sometimes, says the writer, I go to a party or bull. Then surely it would wring any other * than an adventuring heart * to know to what straits I am put. It is no uncom­ mon occurrence for me to wash out my one lace-trimmed and trained petticoat in the Latin with running water in my dressing-closet, and to wear it without ironing, rough-dried in my tiny room. My faded slippers are refreshed by polish, mv gloves chalked or inked, my dress is the concrete fusion of a dozen abstract remnants, my ruches and rib- bins the price of more anxious thought than a review of Posnett's "Compara­ tive Literature." I often wonder when I am dressed and said to present a stylish appearance what the feminine verdict would be upon me were I to die in that very rig. Would my mi­ raculously darned stockings, mv patch­ work dress, and my ragbag lrfces gain me the praise of a suifering, toiling saint, or would I be flouted, as a dead fraud ? Once upon a time I was bidden to a marriage feast. I had no wed­ ding garments only my ubiqui­ tous black silk with its pro­ tean changes of lace, velvet, and nun's veiling. Besides, the invitation reached ipe tardily and gave me no time for my usual preparatory struggle. I had no dress, no gloves, no fichu, no trained petticoat, no anything. I had even no money, Ift the morning my prospects of going to that marriage feast looked very like the schoolmaster's definition of nothing--a footless stock­ ing without a leg! Only an adventuress under my then conditions could advent­ ure to be a wedding gnest, and I wore an elegant white silk trimmed with fleecv tulle. My petticoat Mas Chi­ nese lv laundered, my gloves cmaculate. How did I do it K There was the family silver, of which a fifth came to my share. Jf wore that. The way I wore it was to send it by one of my brothers to a certain safe place. This safe place is distinguished bv a sign of three golden balls. « When my brother came home I found myself in sudden funds. I took a por­ tion of mv funds to a costumer on Fifth avenue. There I saw a white silk, fleecy with tulle. I conquered the scowling fate that strove to prevent my presence at the bridal. > Amenities. Scene, parlor (enter old naval officer invited to dinner). O. N. O.--Ah, Bobby, where's your parents ? Bob--They'll be down. I knew yon was coming. O. N. O.--How so? Bbb--I heard ma say to pa: "We are out of salt; buy some new stock." And hej said: "Bah! we're going to have old salt for dinner." Lend me ten cents. Eggsactiy. Officer--Look'r here, you! What are yo doin' 'round here this time o' niorin' ? iStranger (boldly)--I'm tendiu' to me bisness ! What yer s'pose ? Officer--Ob, ye are! Where did that chicken come from? Strangerf with more under his coat, savagely--It come from a neg, av corse! What'n* blazes did yer tink fi| pome from, a sody-fountin' ? In* a German chart, publishedin 1870 by Dr. Gleuns, a line dividing places keeping Sunday and Monday respec­ tively, passes through Beliring Straits, leaving the Aleutian Isles on the east, curves sharply in between tho Philip­ pines on the west and the Carolines on the east, then curves again sharply, sweeping north of New Guinea, a^d leaving the Chatham Isles on the west. At all places West of the line it is Mon- da| ̂ hile iti3 Suuiiaj ou the east. WISCONSIN POLITICS. >YXR?lOR-ltU*\ llii'ltfpnMlrM Xomin<>« a I»uirvman. S>'Nrm«r and Kdltor--Th«- Demovratic Can- iliilx e a Itarlielor Mcrehant--Congress- •M BamlaU Improving. [Milwaukee special.) . . W. D. Hoard, the Republican candidate for Governor of Wisconsin, came to this State in 1857, locating at Oak Grove, Dodge County, on Oct. 4th. In Decembei he began teaching vosal music in Lowell, at Benedict's Corners, and also in Elba, and the next summer ho remained in Lowell, after which ho went to lire in "Wanpun. He smuggled- hard ia those days, working ou the farm in summer and teiching singiug in winter. Altorward he became a dairyman and nn editor, his publication being known throughout the OCR NATIONAL GAME. MAJ. WAIiNEK HONORED. 8A8K-BAU u rnoGKKssrea, -i i'-'i i W. I>. HOARD, ^afg KfiiyfeftytT# Dairyman. His present home is at Fort Atkinson, where ho lives on a small farm. From childhood to man­ hood his life was upon a farm. He is a native of New York State and 52 years old. Since 1S57 ho has been a resident of the State, with the exception of the war period. He was the first man to volunteer in Lake Mills, Jefferson County, where he then lived, and enlisted in the Fourth Regiment May 21, 1861. He was discharged for disability from sickness in 1862. and went to his old home in New York, where, after a few months' rest, he re-enlisted in a New York artillery company and remained in the army till 1865. After the war he re­ turned to Wisconsin, and in 1870 he started the Jefferson County Union as a local pa­ per at Lake Mills. From the start he sought to awaken an interest in the dairy business, and largely to his efforts is to be credited the development of the dairy interests of Wisconsin. He has ever been an uncompromising Republican in prin­ ciple, and at times an effective speaker on the political platform. The only remuner­ ative office he ever held was Sergeant-at- Arms of the Senate some years ago. but he has held numerous honorable positions at his horns. His popularity with the farmers is largelv due to his personal ac­ quaintance, which he had acquirod at the meetings of farmers' institutes. James Morgan, the Democratic nominee for G overnor of Wisconsin, was born in Crieff, Perthshire, Scotland, in 1841, and was one of a family of nine Bturdy boys and one girl. His father was a millwright and manufacturer of improved machinery. To this he added the business of a lumber or timber dealer, and in the People's Jour­ nal of Perthshire, of Aug. 18,1S8S, a pict­ ure of the senior Morgan and a lengthy sketch of his life and value as a citizen are published. Soon after reaching New York, young James went to Peru, 111., and engaged as a clerk in a dry-goods store. For four JAMES MORGAN. years he was thus engaged at Peru and Ottawa, and, while in Ottawa, he de­ clared his intention of becoming a citizen of his adopted country, and took out his final papers at Freeport three vears later, or a-i soon as he could do so. He came to Milwaukee in 18/4, nud established him­ self in tlie dry-goo Is business. Mr. Mor­ gan is a bachelor, worth half a million, and occupies rooms over his store, where he has a lino library. He is not a politi­ cian, and doesn't know much about prac­ tical politics. RANDALL GKTTIXG WELL He Is Slowly Convate-tcliig'froni >11* Uecent Terrible IHncsii. [Washington telopraxn.] Enoouratring reports reach this city fr6m the quiet Pennsylvania town where Con­ gressman Samuel J. Randall is slowly con­ v a l e s c i n g f r o m t h e terx-ible illness which prostrated him three months ago. He is still confined to his loom, but his strength is gradually returning and no doubt is felt that he will be able to resume4ii? legislative duties in December. H e c o m m u n i c a t e s regularly from bis j) sick chamber with members of his C0111- saitcei, j. ;tA.NDAix. ruitteo on Appropria­ tions, and is practically as familiar with their work ns if he were back at the old quarters at the Capitol directing their movements again. RlTriOUS ^S.UILTEtt , Exciting Scenes at Atlanta, lia.--A Dticl "t K J'robablo. f Atlanta (Ga.i opec'aL] , Tom Cable Jackson, grandson of Gen. Henry 11. Jackson, formerly Minister to Austria, assaulted Mr. Campbell, associate editor of tho Avalanche, of this city, and beat him almost to death. A short time after this Capt. Henry Jack­ son, tho young man's father, at­ tacked George Martin, editor of the Avalanche, and gave him a sound drubbing, leaving him in a fainting condition. The trouble came about from charges which Martin and Campbell had made in the Avalanche, the rnti-Prohibition ofgan qf tpis c|ty, against Capt. Henfy Jackson, who is running for the Legislature and who ift known to"favOr local option. Campbell swears vengeance, and tbere may be a duel. Further Preparations for Introilncing th« Popular Game In Australia Daring th« Winter--Diamond News and Gossip. (CHICAGO CORRESPONDENCE.} The recent good work of Captain Anson's young men against the Boston team has infused with new hope many admirers of the Chicago team who had long ago given up all hope of tho team's being able to pull out of the rut Into which it had apparently fallen. Chicago has got a good man in John Tener. tho new pitcher Anson secured in Pittsburgh. His skillful, self-contldent work in the box has seemed to put new liTe into the boys, and the Chicago team ha-< now really waked up to a realization of the fact that if it plays its old-time game from this date out, it may yet carry the pennant to Australia this fall. Speaking of Australia, arrangements for the great trip of the Chicago and All-Ameri­ can teams are now beginning to assume definite and satisfactory shnpo. Mr. Spalding has chartered from the Pullman Palaco Oar Company a special sleeping car and the Hotel' car "International." both together contain­ ing accommodations for seventy-five peo­ ple. In this car tho party will travel from Chicago to San Francisco, stopping at Kan­ sas City. Omaha, Denver. 8t. Paul, Salt* Lake City, and other points for games. The party will use tho ear as its hotel in each city' it visits, it being luxuriously appointed anil provided with every accommodation a trav­ eling athlete or epicure could wish for. It will be appropriately lettered and decorated lor the trip. Last Sunday Business Manager Leigh Lynch departed for St. Paul. Minneapolis, Des Moines, Davenport, Omaha, and other cities with which negotiations have been pending for games, to conclude arrange­ ments at each point. He will sail lor Aus­ tralia Sept. 17 and will arrange for the re­ ception of the teams at Honolulu, Tut lit la. Auk!,and. Sydney and Melbourne. The advertising matter being gotten out for the tour is of a most elaborate character, anil the posters will exceed in riehness of design and beauty of coloring anything of the kind ever gotten out in connection with the national game. Anson has de^idod to uniform his men in the adopted black and stray of the Chicago team. Upon President Spalding's sugres- tion and at his roquest, Mrs. John M. Ward is designing a uniform for the players of the All- American team. The veteran Henry Chadwiek. in speaking of the expedition the other day. said: "The Australian tour is going to be the grandest affair of the kind known in the history of the national game, and I look for great re­ sults from the trip in the extension of the popularity of the game. Truly ho will be a fortunate player who forms one of the two teams selected for the tour. It will be the event of every man's lifo who iroes. Just think of what advantageous circumstances the trip will possess for seeing one of the great countries of the worid. There is a prestige and eelat about a tour made under like circumstauees which even a wealthy pnrty of travelers cannot secure. It will be a representative gathering of characteristic American sport-loving travelers. A sort of grand and novel six months' base-ball pic­ nic party. Mr. Spalding is going through with the venture with the same enterprising and liberal spirit with which he conducts all his business affairs, dnd my word for it, it will yield him the same creditable success all his other business undertakings have. "This is not to be a trip ensealed in like that of the Boston and Athletic Clubs' visit to England. That was a mere gate-money, speculative affair. This is to be an alto­ gether different undertaking. The touring party will be on a completely independent footing, the visiting party pa> ing their own expenses, regardless of gate-money returns or not. It is to be a sort of combination of business with pleasure, in which Mr. Spalding pays all the bills and stands treat, whether ho gets a dollar bask In return or not. I have not the slightest doubt that the base-ball bread he will cast upon Australian waters will bo returned to him ten-fold ia due time. "I read a copy of tho contract each player of the party has to sign, and it is one very liberally as well as carefully worded, and so as to provide against all Oontlngencies such trips are liable to in the way of any failure ou the part of the players "to carry out tho letter of their contracts, while at the same time it fully insures tho comfort and welfare of each individual player. Each man has all his expenses paid, traveling outlays as well as hotel bills, besides which he will be entitled to a specified sum at the close of the trip, which begins Oct. 15. 188a, aud ends six months afterward, on April IS, 1889. In tho interim each player engages to play base-ball, cricket, foot-ball, etc.. to the best of his ability, to keep temperate in his habits, avoid gambling or any other form of dissi­ pation, and to subject himself to such dis­ cipline as the exigencies of the game re­ quire. Just think of traveling from Chicago to San Francisco in a palaeo car, engaged by the party only, and then going on board a specially chartered steamer for a journey to the Antipodes, with tho certainty of a re­ ception as a representative party of the great Republic's sport-loving citizens, such as Jay Gould in his yacht could not begin to obtain, and then to visit the principal olties of the Australian continent, and be entertained at public dinners, made much of by tho Australian authorities, and enjoy all tho excitement of a scries of attractive contests onthe base-ball and cricket fields." So soon as the pennant race is ended, public interest will doubtless turn to the Australian venture, and tho movements of the teams will be daily recorded in the press of the country from the time they Icavo Chicago until they return here next March. Just now. however, the pennant race is the magnet around which public interest cen­ ters. Verily, in nothing else are the changes so complete and unexpected as are those in a pennant race. At the time Boston w;is tumbling fastest. Chicago was still playing winning ball, and when Chicago seemed un­ able to shake off the cancerous growth of ill-luck that stuck like "an old man of the sea" to its back, Boston was approaching the flank of tho leaders in the race with strides that threatened to place it comfort­ ably in second place, unless some unlooked- for event should interfere. Then Chi­ cago takes a spurt the very llrst crack it gets at Boston, and now promises to not only leave Boston and Detroit in the rear, but make things very interesting for the Giants themselves. While it would be possible for Chicago to overtake New York, however, it seems scarcely probable at this date, unless, of cqurse. the Giants should become crippled through the disabling of one or two of their b«ist men. That the Phillies will pass Detroit may bo anticipated. The Wolverines are in no condition to play ball, with no less than five ,o£: their old guard disabled, and what games thiey win from now up to the close of the selason will bo won either by luck or the very bad playing of their opponents. The Wolverines themselves are incapable of putting up a perfect game of ball. As to the other teams, Pittsburg. Wash­ ington, and Indianapolis will probably bring up the end of the pi ocession this year as they did last. Such a result must be very discouraging to the Smoky City Club. They have got a good ball team in every sense of tho word, but it does not, for some reason, sofem to "get there" in its games. That team should certainly be playing ball with Boston and Chicago to-day for second place, but in­ stead it is hopelessly consigned to sixth. With the uceession of Shoencck. Indian­ apolis undoubteely took unto itself the much-needed quantity in its infleid's com- position. The giaut has done some remark­ ably fine work for tiie Hoosiers. as it was predicted he would, and has thereby hung himself upon a permanent hook among League players. Glasscock, Denny, and Bdssett, as the remaining members of the Hposier infield, are all that the Indianapolis management could secure if they were to scour the country from New England to California in an attempt to improve it. In bakery strength and in team work, how­ ever, the Hoosiers are weak, and until the team ts improved in those particulars it can scarcely be other than u tail-ender among League competitors. Hakky Palaiei:. Pretzels. Optic-ally speaking, tlie optician lias an eye to business. iPrayer must of a knee-cessity be a joint movement. A question of privilege: Ma^iswy. bustle on straight ? Drowning men catcli at straws. So do girls when they visit tlie milliner's. play--where the hens do alL the laying, hatching, and scratching for a family, and the rooster does all the ctowmg^-Sunday Xatianal. KVENT8 AHB INCIDENTS THAT LATELY OCCURRED. CHOMEW COMMA>DKlt-lX-CH»|Mr O* . tHK GRUiD ARMY. : , A for Service Pension*--Terrible Destruction of Property by the Hurricane In Cuba--I>ocree of tlie Holy Offtoa-- OtkerSswi Notes, [Columbus (Ohio) spacialj The Grand Army of the RepubUe, in na-. tional encampment in this eity. elected Major William Warner, of Kansas City. Mo.. Commander-in-Chief on the first ballot though several other, names .were pre-, seated. The new Commander-in-Chief is a resi­ dent of Kansas City, and represents the Fifth Missouri District in Congress. He W;u brought up in Wisconsin, gettiue his educa­ tion at Lawrence University. Appleton. He £ An Interesting Summary of tb« Wiwii »ti. portant Doings of Oar Mei(hbar*-W«i> ding* and I>«s»th* --• Crimes, CiuaaHt(% and General News Kotea. --James Clark, late Assistant Poetaiaa- ter at Bloomington, ia dc&4. He left a wife and several children. --An attempt wa? mide to Maasamat* W. S. Winchester, a wealthy faimer living five miles north of Vienna. He was sleeping aloce in his room, with the doer open, when some one entered It about 10 o'clock nt night, and struck the old man, with an ax, across his forehead, inflicting a wound about four inches long and one inch deep. The case is wrapped in mys­ tery, as Winchester was a quiet man aai •?not known to have any enemies. * --At the regular meeting of the City Coun­ cil of Joliet, John D. Paige, Mayor, was | appointed superintendent of the water­ works, at a salary of $1,200 per year. He *h»3 tendered his resignation as Mayor. Who his successor will be is not yet known," ifPbut rnmor states that. Alderman Haley will " be chosen. --It took the Sheriff, three police office*** ' and a physieian of Deeatar "to overpower MTesley Saner, who, dressed ia the garb an Indian, and armed with a revolver, |loaded cane, shotgun and razor, had been left by his frightened family in sole pos­ session of his home. He drew the revolver s?. si" ™ 1 >«" fiT "W-"- h. moved to Kansas City, where he practiced j has been adjudged insane in the County law. Here he held various offices, was i Court. Two years ago Saner became sud­ denly insane at a Decatur mill, and drov® MAJOH WILLIAM WAEXEB. elected to the XLIXth and re-elected to the , Lth Congress. Col. Moses Noil, of Columbus, was chosen | Senior and Joseph Hatlleld. of New York, j Junior Vice Commander. Tho Rev. S. G. I Updyke. or Dakota, was chosen Cliaplain-in- j Chief, and R. M. I)e Witt, of Iowa, was 1 elected Surgeon-General. Tho Committee | on Resolutions submitted its report; the ! part of which referring to pensions is as | follow everybody out at the point of a gun, look­ ing himself in. It was in tlie night, and six hours passed before he was captured, lie spent several months at the Jackson­ ville Asylum, but was permitted to return home at tho solicitation of his friends. Resolved, That ii is the sense of this encamp- j For some months he has been regarded : ment that thetime . as come when the soldiers &Q un8afe man to be at large. and sailors of the war for the preservation of the Union shouid rccoive the substantial and merited recognition of this government by granting them service pensions ; aud, farther, "Resolved, That this encampment favors the presentation to Congress of a biU which shall give to every soldier or sailor who served the United States l>etween April 1, 1801, and July, 18t'>5, for a period of sixty days or more, a service pension of #8 a month, and to those whose ser­ vice exceeded eight hundred days, an additional pension of 1 cent per day per month for the ser­ vice in excess of lhat period. "Your committee also earnestly recommends the preparation of a bill niacins "the widows of Uulon soldiers, sailors and marines on the pen­ sion lif-t- without regard to the time of service or the caune of the soldiers death. " Other resolutions recognize the Sons of Veterans as an organization. A special res­ olution was oiTcrcd and adopted unani­ mously. appropriating $500 for immediate use in relieving the necessities of members of the organization who are suffering from the yellow fever epidemic in Florida. Tho Nntlonnl Treasurer of the Woman's Relief Corps, Mrs. Elizabeth A. Turner, of Boston, reported over $10,000 in the treas­ ury. They adopted a resolution asking the sanction of tho Grand Army to tlie plan adopted by the Relief Corps to establish a home for tho shelter and support of sol­ diers' widows, mothers, and army nursea. The Army of West Virginia elected Gen. George Crook President. EIGHT HUNDRED LIVES LOST. The Damage by the Hurricane In Cab* ' " Will Keacb Millions, a : (New Orleans (Ia.) telegram.] Havana advices say that during the rt- cent hurricane entire Ashing villages along the "oast wero swept away. At Sagua 100 corpses have been discovered which were washed from graves, and it Is believed that as many more are iu the mangrove bushes. Between Carapachos and Carahatas eightuen coasting schooners are high and dry in the woods, damuged to such an extent that they will be a total loss. Fish were killed in vast numbers. Hundreds of cattle were drowned in the river and their carcasses now en­ danger the health of the city. At Santo Domingo City the dead exceed fifty and the Injured over aeventy-flvo. At Cave Francis the lighthouse was blown down and the inmates were drowned, and two large unknown vessels were wrecked. Of tho forty-six natives known to have per­ ished at Caribarrian, the bodies of but five have been recovered. Iu tho Vuelta Arriba and Vuelta Abajo districts the ruin is com­ plete. The cane fields were laid flat. It is estimated that tho sugar crop will fall short of last year's yield over 80 per cent. Iu Vuelta Abajo tho number of dwellings, huts, and outhouses blown down in tho district is estimated at i!,300 and the loss at $1,500,- 000. Tho entire fruit and vegetable crop is completely lost. The total number of deaths throughout the island is placed at 800. The bodies of seven of tho crew, including that of the commander, lost in the gunboat Lealtad at liatabano, have been recovered. FAVORABLET0T1IK KNIGHTS. The Pope Decrees that Catliollcs May Be* long to the Order. [Now York dispatch.] A special cable dispatch from Rome, which has official sanction, has been received by the Catholic yews, announcing the decree of the holy office on the Kuights of Labor question, favorable to that organization, has been forwarded to Cardinal Gibbons. It will Ik? remembered that in April, 1887. his Holiness, concurring in the ideas set forth in the letter of Cardinal Gibbons in favor of the Knights, decided that there was no cause for action. The Pope nlso decided that in Canada, where a mandament had boon issued against Knights, members of the order could receive absolution on promise of obedience to future decisions of the Holy See. The matter having been placed before the holy office, this decree is the result. It sattles for good the question, as far as Rome is concerned, provided, ot course, the constitution and alms of the or­ der remain the same. P0WDERLY T0T1U-. KNIGHTS. The Ol der Was Not Founded to Serve Aajr l'olitieal Party. General Master Workman Powderly in an address to the Knights of Labor says: "Now, of all times in tho history of tho order, should the command (and it goes out with all the force of a command) 'Steady along the line" be effective. Whenever one steps from his post let a man take his place. When an officer goes over to a political party let him go and stay there, but none neoii follow. The order was not founded to minister to the wants of parties when votes were required, nor to be used as a foot-ball to be kicked by every disgruntled member who could not work ills own points against the wishes of the majority, nor to serve the wants of men who would destroy the last vestige of-civil government. It, was founded to teach them to look for nnd secure the very best fruits of civil government. an^ ̂ restrain rather than foment the passions pf men." _ A. 0. lT. W. Thejr W.ll Meet IS'«timlally Hereafter -- Eiect'ov of Officers. The Select Knights Ancient Order of United Workmen, in annual conclave at Madison, Wis., decided to meet biennially j hereafter nnd elected the following officers. all of Ohieacro: President. George _W. Linn; ! Vice President, M. H. McQuirk; Treasurer. ! ** E. P. Haven: Secretary. I>. T. Liliard. The flrst. second, third and fourth prizes in the legion drill were won bv l>e Molay. Star of the West. Anchor and tTpehurch Legions, all of Chieago. respectively, and Union Le­ gion, the remaining Chicago body present, won a gold badge for having the largest le­ gion. ' A lioastful llospcradu Killed. " Information from Cheyenne, Wyoming. is to the effect that Sum Brown, a desperado who boasted or having killed four men, was shot and killed at Harlville mining camp by Frank Williams, if cow bo v. A quarrelhad been brewing between the men for some day*'. They met in a saloon tunl at once commenced firing. Brown was hit twice in the body, and died within half rat hour. Williams, who was uninjured, mounted hi* horse and left town immediately. --Major Sylvester W. Munn, an old real- dent of Joliet, was stricken with apoplexy, and suddenly breathed his last. Major Munn was one of the best-known men la Will County, having settled there some forty years ago, coming from Ohio, and first locating at Wilmington. During the war he was Major of the Yates Phalanx, of which Gen. Tom Osborne was Colonel and Gen. Mann, of Chicago, Lientenant Colonel.. After the war, Major Munn was for a time State's Attorney, and was then elected State Senator to the Thirty-first and Thirty-second General Assemblies. Be- eently he had practiced law in Joliet, and was made President of the Joliet Citizens*' Associatioii lately. He was nearly 70 yews of age. --Mrs. Sarah McNeill, widow of the late H. McNeill, a pioneer citizen and for many years a merchant of Galena, died, aged' about seventy-three years. She was the mother of T. McNeill, druggist, nnd Mal­ colm McNeill, professor of astronomy at Lake Forrest University, and formerly of Princeton College. --The crop correspondents of the SftNha Department of Agriculture, in their week­ ly reports concerning the condition of growing crops, say that the weather baa been favorable for ripening corn, which is maturing rapidly and is safe from season­ able frosts. The light frosts have not in­ jured the late corn much, which promisee to make an average yield per acre. 1b many sections of the State the average yield per acre of corn will be the largest on record. The crop of apples, peaches* etc., considering the number of bearing trfees, is unusually large and of superior quality. The condition of farm animala is up to an average, and live stock in healthy, with the exception of some cases of Texas fever among the cattle. The number of head of live stock in the State is as follows: Horses, 998,031; cattle, 8,* 423,484; mules and asses, 100,613; sheep* 554,910; and hogs, 1,966,700. There is aa increase of 15,994 in the number of horaes as compared with 1387, and a decrease aa noted, viz.: cattle, 20,214; mules and asses, 3,961; sheep, 71,3(5; and hogs, 161,044. The calves, colts, pigs, and lambs of the past spring (1888) are not included in t$e above figures. f --There is an alarming epidemic of hog cholera in the western part of Macon Coun­ ty, where nearly 800 hogs have died. Dr. J. L. Connelly lost twenty head, A. Eyman twenty-five, J. G. Willard 100, George W. Landy two, J. W. Thorahill six, Henxy G. Allen over 200, Bascom Allen 100, Join Hohnes forty, Bruce McGregor 100, John Childs fifty, with other losses not reported. There are hundreds of hogs still sick, but not until recently has any medicine been foond that would come anywhere near saving the hogs. A man from Arkansas went among the frightened farmers -with a liquid cure, aud offered to pay for every hog that took the medicine and was not cured. This prop­ osition was accepted by Thomhill and oth­ ers, and their hogs are getting well and eat­ ing heartily. The epidemic is prevalent Ia Harris town and Illini Townships. Them are cases in the eastern put of Mount ZifNa Township. --Reuben McMuny, a well-known cittern of Whiteheath, died at Champaign fromth* effect of falling over an iron railing. The fall of twelve feet broke his neck. < --The grand jury at Monticallo bm Wmi-: turned indictments against the following) persons: Williazu Settles, abduction;, William Day, burglary; Eugene William ̂ grand larceny; I. A. Richbark, Jr., tm threatening the life of William Murphy, Clerk of Sangamon Township, by writing him a letter to leave the county or Im would be killed. --Negotiations have been closed Book Island between C. B. Holmss* President of the South Side Railway of, Chicago, representing a syndicate of Chi-, capitalists, and the Moline and Rock Island Horse Railway, by which, the Chicago men come into possession of. the rood. The consideration was if SO,-- 4 000, aud the deal is only the first of •. number of transactions in which the syn-' dicate is interested, aud which involves^; all the principal linos in Davenport,^ Rock Island, and Moline. The syndicate has deposited §2j0,0t)D ia a Rock Islawfc bank to invest in the enterprise. The in-, tention is to consolidate the Hae* operate them aa one system. --Fred Taylor, of Clinton, a nephew afc? Col. Abner Taylor, of Chicago, died off i ' f . i ' • . heart disease.