The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-11-08
GENERAL COMMENT.
Expressions of a Few of the Leading Papers
on the Result.

NOT READY FOR THE FUNERAL.
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
1t really doesn't look as though the G. 0.
?. was ready for funeral honors 1t will
live to give the Democrats such twist next
year as will make them roar as did the
devil when st. Dunstan inserted his nose
between his red-hot pinchers.
SATISFIED INDEPENDENTS.
Kew York Times.
The election of yesterday shows mainly
that the independent Republicans have re-
gained substantial confidence in their party;
that they were satisfied with the character of
their candidates, and with the way in which
they were chosen, that they recognize in the
Republican organization again an instrument
useful for good government
THE PARTY CAN AFFORD TO JoLLIFY.
st. Louis Globe Democrat
The party at large can afford to follow the
example of its members in Massachusetts
and hold iollificaton meetings all over the
country at this reinsurance that the nation
is not about to be fed to 1.-The great organ
lied appette;;" that there is still to be
chance for sound money and intelligent
dealing with matters affecting the material
interests of the people, and that party of
no principles will not supplant the party
which believes in something and has accom-
plished so much.
New York Tribune
Yesterdays work makes Republican sue
cess possible in the next presidential contest.
i New York, Massachusetts, and Pennsylva-
MIA had all followed Ohio in going Democratic
this year, few would have been hopeful
enough to believe that so overwhelming a
current could have been turned back in
single year Now everybody can see that
the fighting ground is left; that the Repub-
lieans can fairly hope, by good conduct and
good fortune, to carry every State they had
in 1880, and that, as against a party SO prone
to blunder, and with so many chances to
blunder as the Democrats, their prospect for
carrying enough of them is more than fair.
DEMOCRATIC SUICIDE.
Philadelphia Times (Dem)
Pennsylvania has been literally torn from
Democratic supremacy by suicidal Demo-
cratic hands, and the time is past when Dem
ocratic leaders can close their eyes and re-
main silent Had Democratic power been
faithful to the trust given it in generous con-
fidence Pennsylvania would have voted
Democratic Yesterday as surely as the set
ting of the sun, and the electoral vote of the
State would have been settled in favor of
any conservative and patriotic Democratic
candidate. But madness and imbecility
ruled the faction that gained accidental DEM
ocratic power and the Democrats must now
start their battle over for 1884, broken in
prestige and weighted with the pronounced
failure of Democratic reform in the debata-
BILE aud usually controlling State of the
Union.
INGERsoLL ON BUTLER AND THE NEGROES.
Washington Special.
Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll, before the re-
suit was known, said: II hope Ben Butler
is beaten in Massachusetts,. | have watched
his campaign pretty closely, and it has seemed
to me that he has been willing to sacrifice
party, principle, persons, races-every thing
in the world for Ben. Butler. He had simply
his own aggrandiZement in view His cam
paign has been purely selfish one. He has
been against everybody and every thing but
Butler and that is not broad enough plat
form for me to stand on. l nope he is beaten.
And I hope too, that Malone has been sue
cessful in Virginia, but | am afraid he hasn't.
The Danville riot probably frightened the
negroes, and had the result that it was in
tended to have. Look at the circulars they
sent out They said they would stand
by those who stood by them, and employ
those who were for them. That is to say,
they in a wholesale way have announced
that they should not stand by any colored
man who voted against them and that they
would not employ him. And look at the
Democrats in Richmond, in the resolutions
at their imprOvised meeting announcing that
in the contest of races the whites have never
been the aggressors. 1t reminds one of the
farmer that was caught in the road killing
sheep. They cried, Sheep thief!' at him.
He answered, Who has stolen a sheep?
Whenever a sheep jumps over a fence and
bites me l will kill him. The poor, timid
white people of the South whenever sheep
jumps over the fence and bites them, they
propose to kill him. l do not blame the
negroes if they did not vote No one stands
by them. The Republican party doesn't
stand by them the courts don't stand by
them, and we have all been miserable hypo-
critics toward the negroes"