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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-19

which the town may be divided. Mr.. DEEMS
bill applies to the elections to be held next
month. 1t provides "that in town elections
there shall be but one place of voting, which
shall be centrally located in the town and
given by the town clerk; provided, that the
trustees of any town may, if public conve-
nience and public good require, establish by
ordinance precinct in each ward of such
town" 1t will be we'll to have general atten-
ton called to this important change, else
confusion is likely to occur.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-19

SERvANTGIRLIsM is assuming new terrors
to the householder. A maid-of all-work in
Philadelphia has cut her throat with a
carving knife because the family refused to
take her with them on their summer Eu-
ropean tour. Such catastrophes are I'M
pleasant, but the Philadelphia family did
we'll to be firm, regardless of consequences
To have weakened, even with a previous
knowledge that she would cut her throat
if she could not go, would have established
a precedent disastrous to all domestic peace
The servant girl can entertain an army of
cousins at our expense; she can have seven
nights and five afternoons out during the
week; she can practice on our piano and see
her beau in the parlor; but when we flee
across the ocean to escape her she cannot go
along. A line must be drawn somewhere
and let it be drawn at Europe.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-19

THERE is deadlock in the Illinois House
of Representatives, the subject of dispute
being the Bradwell- McNally contest Mr.
Owen, Republican member, has been alb
sent from his seat by reason of severe illness
His presence being necessary in order to Sc
cure vote Pullman car was fitted up for
his accommodation, and he was brought to
Springfield on Tuesday. Mr.. McNaly, the
Democrat whose seat is contested, was at the
depot when the car arrived, and after look
ing through a window at the pale and suffer
ing representative, gave voice to his high
sense of decency and honor in these words:
"The games not up yet; the old dnffer may
croak before 10 o'clock tomorrow" The
whole contest, with this and other concomi-
tants, is eminently and essentially Demo-
cratic.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-19

THE Montreal Star of recent date has an
allusion to the speech of Lord Salisbury,
at Birmingham, in which the noble Lord
talked about free trade Salisbury avowed
himself to be a free-trader, and ac-
knowledged the doctrine to be the wisest
policy for the world as matter of expedi
ency. But he claimed that if the present
state of things could have been foreseen
England would never have adopted free
trade In the present state of affairs ''free
trade" he says, is Synonymous with mo
trade" because just as the English seem to
increase their fervor for free trade foreign
nations seem to increase their fervor for
protection. Will the freetraders of America
be pleased to observe these views of man
like Lord Salisbury upon the present ten
dcncy Of the world? AT present England
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-19

THE Chicago Times, in reviewing the COM
ment caused by Carter Harrison's speech
says:
1.-THE uproar he has produced is practical
proof of the verify of the Timess positive
assertion that there is no such thing as po-
litical party having the name of Democrat
party. There are election machines of that
name-mere articles for officegetting, con-
trolled and manipulated by office-hunters
There is an organized appetite of that name
an eager covetous desire to hold Office as an
easy mode of living and getting money with
out earning it. There is also an irrational
senseless and rather paganish force of habit
of that name which impels multitudes Of
electors to arm themselves with voting papers
having that word printed on them, and to
obey the orders of self-seeking humbugs who
say their prayers to that word without being
able to give reason for doing so. But that
there is a Democrat party, in the sense of a
body of citizens formed around a political
question to effect political object by united
action to that political end, is not true, and
has not been true since there was a Demo-
crat party organized to uphold and enlarge
the area of slavery"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-19

PoLITIcAL parties have leaders who may or
may not lead, they have prominent men,
factors which go to make up such parties;
but, SO far as known, only one has. as yet, the
distinguished honor to possess a "head chem
ist." The Irish dynamite party, which claims
to be political power, has head chemist
His name is Professor Mezzarof and he has
just arrived in this country.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-19

IT is devoutly to be hoped that the New
York Republicans may succeed in harmonic
ing themselves upon a platform and in a
manner that will insure a united front in
1884. The senseless divisions in New York
have already cost very much more than the
party should have been called upon to pay.
There was no principle involved in the
squabble on either side; it was an egotistical
question of selfhood all the time and, as the
Journal has told the New Workers repeatedly,
and Republicans everywhere and under all
circumstances, the party is greater and vastly
more important than any man, whoever he
may be. Let us clear the decks of all posi-
BILE personal complications, and grid up the
loins for tussle with the common enemy
There has been enough fighting in the party
to develop the muscle and energy of the Or
garization to high degree of effectiveness
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-19
THE NEW CODE.


Indications are that resort to the deadly
sword or revolver rs a means of settling dis
putes between Southern gentlemen will soon
be abandoned for safer method. Not that
'honor' is thing OF the past down there.
Bless us, no. Honor of very sensitive
character still swells in the bosom of the
chivalrous Southron, but if he can heal the
wounds it occasionally receives without max
ing of himself dem cold, unpleasant body,
there is no reason why this should not be
done. And he has discovered that it can be
done in a neat and satisfactory manner if he
have access to the columns of a newspaper.
Should be be proprietor of a paper, nothing
more is needed. This mode of annihilating
an antagonist has long been in vogue in the
North, but its full capabilities as paralyzer
have awaited demonstration by the pens of
more tropical region. The Northern editor
is cold man, and is usually contented to
impale his opponent as a horse thief and
liar, or, in cases of extreme proyocstion, to
allude to a contemporary as ''pole-cat
among journalists" (For particulars, see
Philadelphia Press and New York CONNER
cial Advertiser of recent dates.)
The imprisoned nature of the Southern
gentleman finds no balm in such mild Ian
guage as this, but bursts forth into words
that not only burn but must fairly scorch
and shrivel the unhappy offender. The
n1l@ NIL
graph has bad the misfortune to incur the
displeasure of the Colonel-editor of the At
lanta Post by some personal reflections upon
the latter gentleman. The Atlanta Colonel
rises in his might and in a half-column arti-
Gle discloses to wondering constituency
some idea of the power that language may
have The article, with all its fiery rhetoric,
is too long for reprod uction here but few
of its salient features will show that the
friends of the Macon Colonel can have
nothing left to do but to sadly lay in
the tomb his withered remains. "a
miserable beast" eur" Creature"
coward" is what the Atlanta editor says
the editor of the Telegraph is. He is lob
liyous of decency," "a vile encroacher upon
the domain of public morals, " "a scavenger
of partisanism," "a poltroon, "a craven"
He is an 'excresence upon decent jouI nal
ism" "a hyena;" he is 'insolent and malig
nant, stigma upon his party" He is ''un-
principled, " wiper with envenomed fangs,"
miserable reprobate," degraded inebri-
ate," 'vulturous ghoul," and being all
these is finally dismissed to share his own
acquired contumely," which must be- as,
climax to the rest, something terrible to con,
template. A study of this mode of settling
insults will convince any reasonable South
ern gentleman that it is far more effective
than pistols and coffee for two,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-19

is one of the most effective educators In the
State, as the great success of the academy under
his management testifes. He is not only at
home in the textbooks of the schools, but he
keeps himself abreast the thought of the age in
all current literature and science. We congrat-
ulate the academy and the Friends in Central
Indiana on be able to retain a man of such
qualifieatiens In so imporsant a school.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-19

BECAUSE Mr. George NJ Pullman. of Chi
public library, Washington editor is moved
to remark that there is one corporation with
a soul. 1t has evidently been some time since
ilege of studying entomology for twelve
hours in the musty berth of palace" car.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-19

ONE of the most humiliating spectacles
presented by the Democratic raid upon
everything that looks like an Office of trust
or profit is the application and urgent
solicitation OF Rev. Leander Cain, of Orleans,
for the chaplaincy of the Southern prison.
Mr. Cain is yoWg man. not far from
twenty-five years OF age He came from
Ohio few years ago, attended the State
University short time but for reasons not
necessary to make public never graduated.
Eighteen months ago he was received on
trial in the Indiana Conference of the NJ. E.
Church. and is at present the pastor on
Orleans circuit, with moderate accept
ability. After learning that the Democracy
had taken possession of the prison, he
fastened to get up petition to be APP
pointed chaplain in the place of Rev.
alleging, as the only distinctive qualification,
that he had been lifelong Democrat! Think
of man who has been voter not over four
years. if so long, demanding place of such
importance as the chaplaincy of prison on
the sole ground that he has been "a life
long Democrat" and at the expense of the
removal of such man as DIR. Beharrel a
man of nearly forty years experience in the
ministry and man of acknowledged ability
and culture, to say nothing of those peculiar
traits which so admirably adapt him to his
present calling. 1t is to the credit of the board
of directors that they refused to make them
selves a party to such an outrage, and it is
now probable that Mr. Cain wi. be permit
ted to return to the East without the in
dorsement of having been chaplain of a
lifelong Democrat.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-19

THE bill of Representative Deem. of Henry
county, passed by the last Legislature, makes
All important change in the manner of con-
Quoting town elections, to which the atten-
ton OF town officers should be called. It
puts into practice again the custom in vogue
previous to 1877, whereby all the voters of
the town voted for the entire ticket of trus-
tees, and not, as in the interval, elect their
officers from and by the several wards into
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-19

On Tuesday the passengers train from
Laurinburg to Charlotte, N. c., a distance OF
forty miles, had a remarkable experience. Ten
miles from Laurinburg, at Monroe, a party of
young ladies' under escort of Mr.. L. C. Edge
worth, had assembled. One of the young women,
Miss West, possessed of pistol sup
posed to be unloaded, which discharged,
the ball killing Edgeworth almost Instantly.
Twenty miles further on it was learned that
James Price, a lad OF ten years, had accidentally
shot Henry Purcer, colored man, in the thigh.
Thirty miles further the passengers found
every body talking about ARRAY between
Charles Mcdonald and james Marriage The
former had his abdomen cut open, making a
wound from which the entrails protruded. The
man was dying when the train left. At Wades
boro the train hands were paid off, and ball
was in progress before the train arrived. Two
men, Agernon Mobjack and Silas Selyin, quar-
relied as to whom the next set with pretty girl
belonged to- Selyin was shot by his rival through
the thigh, and was lying on the grass when the
train arrived doctor was on board the train,
but his services were not available except in the
case of Purcer.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-19
THE IRIsH-AMERICAN.


In view of the many wild and reckless sug-
gestlon that are going the rounds touching
the part taken by the so-called Irish Ameri-
can in unlawful acts in Great Britain, the
In the strict legal sense we have no such
class as Irish-American. Citizens of the
United States and aliens make up our pop
ulation. There is no middle ground. A
man cannot be an Irishman in America and
by simple shift of the scenes turn up as
an American in Ireland. This dodge has
been attempted recently, under the i'll
founded notion that the assumption
OF this double relation would be q
shield against crimes committed in places
under English Jurisdiction. When the laws
concern is to find the offenders The only
figure that can be cut, by the fact of the &C.
cused being an alien, would be to secure for
him the intercession of his government to
the end that he may have a speedy and
impartial trial. The same methods and legal
machinery are employed upon his
trial and punishment, if found guilty, as
though he were native born. So with any
one going from this country into foreign
lands. Ii crime be committed the offender
is amenable to the laws of the land in which
the deed is done If citizen of the United
States engages in plots for murder in Great
Britain he takes his chances of arrest and
punishment under the laws of that country
The hand of his home government could
sure him a fair and speedy trial. If found
guilty all the power behind the American
flag must be held IN allegiance while the
criminal is undergoing his sentence. This
rule is not only founded upon necessity, but
OF itself it appears to be right. There could
be no adequate self-protection of separate ma
tons without it. If desperate band from
London should come and with dynamite
and torch blow up and burn this city, would
the bowling of mob in London secure the
release of the guilty? Certainly not. Then,
upon the other hand, rampant proceed
ings here would avail nothing by way of re-
| lease or mitigation of sentence OF one of our
fellow-citizens held for crime abroad.
But we have often heard the suggestion of
late that the part played by the Irish-Amer-
lean in the turbulent affairs of Ireland will
involve this country with Great Britain.
There is no danger in this direction unless
we desire to be involved. If a case should be
made against any one in this country, prop
erly bringing him within the operation of
extradition laws, all that our government
could do would be to rightly and promptly
surrender him on proper claim. That is
what we would demand of other nations, and
we cannot expect successfully to demand
more than we are ready to yield, But talk
and fuss and public meetings do not consti-
tute an extraditable crime There is freedom
of speech In this country, and England un-
derstands it. 1t is only when talk crystal
Lies into action that laws are broken and
amenability ensues. The wind, however
| explosive and ill-smelling, of such men as
! ODynamite Rosa cannot involve America
in trouble with Great Britain.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-19

EVEN the New York Times casts contumely
upon the effort made by Senator Bayard be-
fore the Iroquois Club. That free-trade
paper says that the Delaware states man
made mistake in going to Chicago to
stand upon the highlands Of vision He APP
pears to better advantage at a distance and in
the semi-obscurity of the Senate chamber.
As specimen of political responsibility and
personal dignity for his party to point to
with pride when accused of producing only a
low order of leaders he has rendered and can
render appreciable service. AS a statesman
challenging the confidence of the country by
his utterances on great matters he is fail
ure. The desire of the merican people for
character and capacity in the candidates for
the presidency next year is very strong. 1t
which Mr. Bayard furnishes" The Iroquois
banquet will be long remembered 1t was as
Hateful to the Democratic party as the cele-
brated tariff letter of General Hancock was
in 1880, when he remarked that the tariff
was local issue settled once upon time by
a vote of the town council of his native viii
lage. Whatever promise and hope the Dem
ocratic party entertained of success before
the event, surely no sane man can, for a mo-
ment, hug the delusion since the awful row
among the Iroquois
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-19

ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GENERAL HAzEN is
partment will be seriously affected by the re-
duction of postage, which takes effect in
October. In which Mr.. Hazen shows a level
head and good sense. Nothing done by the
last Congress was wiser and more popular
than the reduction all around in postal mat
tiers. A postal service for the people is what
10 uanfad
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has the absolute monopoly in free trade,
and, according to the great conservative
leader there does not seem to be any press
ing desire on the part of other nations to
dispute the possession with her. Certainly,
with the world generally committed against
free trade there is little likelihood of the
United States walking into the English par
lor, no matter how seductively the great
spider may sing its beauties and comforts.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-19

Cincinnati News denny.
Your rude, clumsy public person gives
himself away in his rudeness; but Mr., Hem
bricks looks wise, talks blandly, and appears
to be saying something to that extent that
the reporter never knows until he sits down
to write up what he has got that he has
nothing. Serves him right The interview
is humbug at its best 1t is a pleasure to
find it now and then demonstrated by
master in the art OF being interviewed,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-19

POSTMASTER GENERAL GRESHAM has already
seen the necessity of preservation from the
lickspittles, who have made up and printed
all sorts of ridiculous announcements as to
what he had already done and was intending
to do in the administration of the Postoffice
Department To read the toadying procla-
nations one would imagine that General
Gresham was a regular Sancho Panza rather
than q level-headed, judicial and self-poised
man. One of the things he had done was
to knock General Chalmers out of time in
the first round in the matter of the Column
bus, Miss, postoffice, and the country was
startled to find out that an en-
tirey new Southern policy had
been blocked out and inaugu-
rated between two days. OF course, this was
all very absurd, but it served to give the
lickspittles an opportunity to fawn and
slobber. The Washington special to the New
York Herald of yesterday quietly observes
that acknowledgement Gresham says that
if he has refused to remove Postmaster Ken
non at Columbus, Miss, as has been re-
ported, he does not know it. He has de-
clined to make removals, but not because
Mr.. Chalmers asked that changes should be
made First Assistant Postmaster-general
Hatton says that the case of the Columbus
postmaster, whose removal Mr.. Chalmers is
said to have demanded, has not been pre-
sented to the Postmaster-general." General
Gresham did not take hold of the Postoffice
Department with display of sky-rockets
and the blare of trumpets, and his admins
tration of the trust will not be marked by a
succession of pyrotechnic displays The
General is not that sort of man, and moth
ing could be more annoying to him than
the nonsense that has been and is being
evolved about himself and his business
methods.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-19
Opposition to Tax Exemption.

New Albany Public Press
The tendency of the time is to the taxation
of all enterprises which are not exclusively
charitable. The public sentiment in opposi-
ton to tax exemptions is growing stronger
yearly and we may rather expect to see the
taxation of property now exempt than the
further extension of the privileges of ex-
empton.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-19
The Very Prince of Interviewers.

Cincinnati News lDem.l
Mr.. Hendricks has been interviewed, but,
as usual, the interview is not replete with in
formation. Mr.. Hendricks possesses in a
high degree the art of leaving every subject
touched in an interview precisely as the
public had seen it before. This leaves the
interviewed happy, and makes the inter-
viewer bite himself and groan with bafti ed
rage.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-19

ceived. Harrison represents votes, Hurl-
bert and Wheeler represent egotstcal the
orists. But they say Harrison was elected
by the rabble. Indeed, then who elected
Edison in New York and Stephens in Cincin-
natl? Theories may be very pretty, but it
takes votes to elect men to office in this
country, and the man or party who advocates
free trade in this country at the next election
might just as we'll butt their heads against
81 STONE wall ~
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-19
President Arthurs Reoreations.

81. AuRUsIIUe optCIHI
Late last night the President attended SER
vice in the colored Methodist Church, next
to the Magnolia Hotel in company with
Mrs Miller, Miss Bruce and Secretary
Chandler. The choir and congregation sang
for more than an hour their favorite hymns,
which were listened to with deep interest
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-19
Seems to BE Second Hand After All.


The indianapolis Journal is enraptured
with Acknowledgement Hord because he
quotes poetry in giving his legal opinions. If
the Journal had heard Mr., Hord fire off that
same quotation as often as some of the rest
of us have, it would not sound SO striking
and original by this time
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-19

HERR WATrERsoN is evidently in favor of
5amming the Iroquois, or atleast of damming
the fateful current of eloquence that swept
the little Democratic boom out of existence.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-19

In Wheeling, W. Va. fiiteen-year-old boy re-
fused to obey his teacher, and because she tried
to compel obedience he knocked her down, beat
and kicked her until her recovery is doubtful.
That boy had undoubtedly been reared in fam
lily where corporal punishment was considered
injurious to the moral and physical well-being of
youtb,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-19

THE Irish torpedo ram that so suddenly
and mysteriously disappeared few days
ago has been heard from. She is at Pam
rapo N. J., about to undergo repairs. There
is no itemized account of the number of
British ironclads she ran down during her
brief cruise
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-19

THE patrons of the Central Academy, located
at Plainield, under the management of the
Friends of that vicinity, will learn with much
pleasure that the resignation of Erastus Test,
the efficient principal, was not accepted by the
board at its late meeting, the vote being nine TO
one, and that Prof. Test being thus cOmpli-
mented by his employers, will withdraw the
resignation and devote himself with increased
energy to the interests Of the institution. He