The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-13
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

THERE ia really to dispute Tenny sons
title to stand with his own generation and with
tue generations which to follow as in an
eminent and almost in an exclusive sense, the
poet of the Victorian age. And the distinction
which has now been conferred upon him, irrele-
want in form as IL is and supelfuous In respe ct
to its object is neither irrelevant superflu-
GUS testfying in behalf OF his conntrymen
the honor in which they hold Alfred Tennyson.
New York Times.
THE Democratic party will be forced to fight
on a platform of tariff for revenue only 1t was
badly whipped on this platform, and seems not
TO have learned wisdom from defeat. 1t is quite
safe TO say that the voting power of the country
will not accept the platform. The financial
power of the North, the East and West in our
Judgment, is equal to the task OF defeating any
candidate for the presidency VINO shah adopt
Wattersons cry as the shihbOieth OF the party.
Macon tGa.) Telegraph and Messenger.
THE lord rectorship of the University of ST.
Andrews is q purely honorary Distinction con-
ferred by the students at their pleasure. The
government ana laws OF Great Britain do not
recognize IT, The place to which Mr.. Lowell was
elected does not como within the constitutional
inhihition and as it is merely compliment paid
by some Scotch buys, and not by amy EuglIsh in
stitution, WE do not see why our Irish congress-
men shonld worry about it, They appear To have
gone off half-cockeo, US it were.--L0ulsville
Commercial
WE shoad have been glad to see the country
SHARED the struggle between protection and free
trade in year when much else exists to depress
business; but since IL has come, let it come. Let
us have square fight on the open issIe The
Democratic party has been laundering in the
index long enough. Let it fight or surrender 1t
will mean the same thing i'll the end, but the end
will come quicker ProtectiOnists were deceived
once by double dealing i'll the presidential cleo
ton of 1914. and the result was the tariff of
1916. They are not to be deceived again.-PhIl-
adelphia Press
If tho Democracy finally resolve in Congress
and in the convention to adhere to the prOtec-
ZIONIST system, no matter with what mOdifica-
tons, then the convention Will probably do the
same, aud the tariff question will not enter into
the presidential canvass, since both Democrats
and Republicans will then take substantially the
same view of the case, the difference between
them being only difference OF details. But if
the Democrats in Congress and i'll the national
convention adhere to the idea of a tariff for rev.
enue only then the tariff issue will play IL con-
trolling part III the canvass In the latter event,
it will he absurd for the Democracy to nominate
any man but a IhorOughgoing, uneomprOmising
free-trader-New York Sun.
THE Khedive cannot hold the Soudau or Raglan
Kardofan without assistance. He is mainly re-
sponsible for disastrous chmraigp, undertaken
against the advice of Lord DutferIn, Sir Evelyn
Barring, and even or Hicks Pasha himself He
was unwilling 70 renounce his fictitious author
ity over the African empire conquered for his
prede cessors on the throne by Sir Samuel Baker
and Colonel Gordon. The British government is
not directly responsible for the bunders and dis.
asters of Obeid and Suak:m, hut it cannot avoid
the couse qu-ncts OF the khedive's rash adven-
lures and visionary schemes of conquest. 1t
must either support him in the Soudan, or cut
off from Egypt an empire as large as India; and
Whe thPr II INDUCES his ambition or dwarfs and
par al y Zes his authority, 1t must garrison his
territoI les permapently.--New York Tribune.