The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-11-01
SPIRIT OF THE STATE PRESS.


columns in size. What i'll II do IN Sovem-
Der?
Bartholomew Democrat: There were
showers OF graSshoppers in many parts of
Southern Indiana and Ohio on Sunday last
Evansville Courier: When they go out
"still-hunting" do they take a few OF the
fruits of the worm with them is rstill-
hunt also q dry one
Decatur Democrat: Wonder If Ortn. who
was rs hot as a lime kiln before be came
home from Berlin, has had time TO cool off
any, since kid g loved Harrison's discomfeit-
ure?
Lafayette Dispatch: If the assertion that
God hater ingersoll is true, that All thieves
want Tilden and Hendricks elected. 4 ma
jority of Republicans viii vote the Demo
cratic ticket
South Bend Herald: Don't bet your
moneyon New York, ~ is the best advice
ever given by the Republican State Commit
tee 10 professionals. They are not doing it
oany great extent.
Terre Haute Journal: Morton will come
East. from his Chinese Investigation and sit
around on platforms charging Samuel j.
Illden with being the real author OF the
Chinese troubles in California.
Lafayette Dispatch: Our foreign born
citizens should remember that II. b. HAYES.
the Republican candidate for president is a
member of the Alliance, and has taken an
oath that he will not support any foreigner
for office.
! Fort Wayne Sentinel: There is danger Of
| Indiana. If Tilden should be defeated
through the loss of this state. Indiana Dem
ocrats would feel justly chagrined. LEI
them be up and doiag if they would save
| the state.
| Cambridge City Review: Chambers clerks
are becoming unruly, and. are vigorously
kicking against the levies made OF their
salaries for campaign purposes. They see
the handwriting on the wall. and don't pro
pose contributing to lost cause.
Clay County Herald The independents
should remember that the Republicans have
made the canvass in the state of Indiana on
the principle that the Independents were
| for sale-could be bought with money and
turned over at any time to the Republican
party.
Goshen Democrat: The Republican stu
dents OF Earlham College, Richmond burn
! ed Governor Williams efiigy on their col
! lego grounds one day last week out OF con
| tempt for the choice of the people OF the
state. Respectable people ought To beware
how they pOtronize such a Quaker institu-
| ton that
Terre Haute Gazette: 4 rumor was atioat
yesterday that 81 Chicago man was In town
who was willing to make three joint bets
that Hayes would carry New York, Indiana.
and be elected. One hundred and seven
! Democrats loaded up their pockets with
stamps anc started in pursuit Of him, hut
| he had fed
Lebanon Democrat: There is weeping,
and wailing. and gnaShing of teeth among
the leaders of the Republican party. Major
! Gordon, in speech delivered in Indianapo-
lis, since the election, said that the campaign
was conducted on wrong principles; that il
was more of personal than political fight
| OF course il was.
The Lafayette Journal can't help acknowl-
edging the fact even in its most artistic lies
| See: The Democrats generally, and Mr.. Nor-
hees especially, are very greatly elated that
they have recruited to their party nnm-
| Der of broken-winded political hacks who
left the Republican party because they could
get no more offices at its hands.
Peru Republican,. The Republicans Of
/ Indiana are disappointed deeply disap
| pointed, over the result of the gubernatorial
contest in this state. Indeed, if soae stronger
word expressing very great pain and keen
ness OF disappointment could be found in
the language they would promptly avail
| themselves OF ii TO express tseir present
4 feelings.
Ripley County Journal The fact is. the
Democracy are a little too strong in the pop
/ ular branch of the present Congress. Their
| majority of seventy-fye Is 20 large rs TO be
unwieldy. 1t would be a great deal better
/ for the party. If in the next Congress ii
should not be more than twenty-five. We
can spare few Democratic representatives
! from the Western and Southern states.
Jacksonville Democrat: The American
Alliance in Jacksonville viii DE II work
! for the next two weeks instead of public
! speakers. Every member who can talk at
Ill will busy himself in talking down the
Catholics and depicting the horrors which
4 are 10 occur TO the American people when
the Pope comes. As the bloody shirt and
money did not save Indiana. they hope the
Pope's big toe will
Brownstown Banner in the next issue
the Seymour Times will desert Peter Coo
per. Greenbacker. and advocate the election
of Rutherford B. Hayes, cOntractionist aud
resumptionist The vacillating course OF the
Times during the present campaign has III
vOked for it the contempt of men of all par
| ties This change on the part of Monroe
will be an increase of one vote for Hayes in
this county-Monroe's own-and 900 for
Tilden.
The Richmond Palladium fails to perceive
the strongest reason for thankfulness on the
| 3oth. but il will be wiser after the election
1t says: The presidents thanksgiving pro-
clamation has a double significance this
| year. 1t calls not only for thankfulness for
| the blessings of the past year, but for q cen
/ tury of progress and prosperity which has
placed our country among the leading
| nations of the world 1t ought to receive
more than the usual observance.
New Albany Ledger-Stansard: Indianap-
| oils Tuesday voted against appropriation
for the indianapolis and Sullivan Coal road.
| The people up there know which side OF
their bread is buttered. They'll just wait
until the Sullivan people build road, and
| then they will take advantage of il. In
] dianapolis people don't spend their money
! for roads They depend on their neighbors
for that kind of help, and then call all the
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