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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-06
The Indiana Democratic Legislature.

Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
Those who followed the proceedings of the
Indiana Legislature, which is, happily, about
to expire for this season by Limitation, hardly
need to be informed that more infamous
assembly, pretending to represent the people,
has rarely disgraced the capital of great
State. The power that moved the Legislature
was in the lobby, and it had a power behind
it that used money as the great lever The
result is not disappointing 1t was what
might be expected. 1t was inevitable. One
of the results is. the utter decentralization of
the benevolent and penal institutions OF the
State. In day or two the time will have
come to present pen picture of that body
and its work.
This is what the citizens of Indiana have
to show for the work of the majority last fall
in electing Democratic Legislature. They
will not be likely to make that mistake
again very soon
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-06
The Governors of Georgia.
Atlanta Ca Chronicle.

htlanta Oua-) chronicle.
Georgia has had fifty three Governors from
1913 to 1888. The first Governor after Gov
ernor Oglethorpe was Stephens. The pres
ent Governor is the second Stephens that the
State has had in the executive chair. Twen-
ty-four Governors have held two terms. and
two Jared Irwin and Joseph E. Brown held
one three terms and the other four. The
Hon. Pope Barrow, United States Senator is
grandson of Governor Wilson Lumpkn;
Chief Justice James Jackson, of Governor
James Jackson; Northumberland John
Milledge, of Governor John Milledge, and J..
J. Whitaker, of Governor Jared Irwin.
Governors Towns, Cobb Johnson, Brown
and Colquitt all have living sons There are
only six living x-Governors-Browu, Jen-
kins, Ruger, Bullock, Conley, Smith and
Colquitt. All of the Governors from Ogle-
thorpe to Brownies to 1S57-are dead.
From Brown to Stephens are all living, ex-
cept James johnson
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-06

that brought about his death. 1t was the
mind and not the body, that gave way. 1t
was infinite WEAKNESS and a longing for rest
Mr.. Stephens made his will some time ago
He leaves $4,000 in money to the children
of his late brother, Judge.Stephens, and the
rest of his estate, barring few minor be-
quests, to his nephew, Colonel John A. Ste
phens.
What his estate will foot up depends largely
on the sale of his new History of the United
States" He made about $4,000 on 1.-THE
War Between the States, and his new book
is selling well. Above his requests his estate
will probably pay $4,000
MR.. STEPHENS RELIGIOUS BELIEF.
few moments after death had taken
place, some one remarked on the calmness
and tranquility with which Mr.. Stephens had
faced it from the first. DIR. Steiner said:
'Such a man as Mr.. Stephens could have
faced any sort of death with perfect calm
ness"
Some one asked about his religious belief.
DR.. Steiner said:
Il was with Mr.. Stephens several years ago
when he was very low-he thought he was
dying, and was very fearful. l was going
to Augusta for the night, when he stopped
me. He said; Doctor, l want you to see
me die. Except Toombs and my family l
think more of you than any man on earth.
want you with me when ole. agreed 10
stay with him. Shortly afterward DR.. r.
vine came in. He said Mr.. Stephens, will
go out and see Harry and his family, and
when come back, if you have no objections,
will read chapter in the Bible and we
will have prayer Mr.. Stephens said quick
ly:
"'I do object and most decidedly 1 have
no objection to prayer, for believe in it,
but do object to deathbed repentance. |
have made it the rule of my life to live each
day as if it were going to be my last In the
heat OF politics l have sometimes forgotten
myself, but l am no better to-day on my
deathbed than have tried to be every day
of my life, and l have no special prepare
tons to make and no special pleas to offer.
That was Mr.. Stephens's creed and belief.
heard him say on another occasion: Real
prayer means to throw yourself at the feet
of Jesus Christ and to pray trustingly. Ny
prayer is the Lords prayer and the public
ans prayer Mr.. Stephenss creed was sim
pie, but it would have sufficed to have car
ried him without tremor through the most
terrible death struggle. 1t was the rule of
his life to live every day as if it were to be
the last"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-06
THE STATE PRESS.
The People will Thank Governo

The People Will Thank Governor Porter.
Fort Wayne Gazette.
The Indiana legislators, or that portion be-
longing to the Democratic persuasion, have
taken the responsibility of withholding the
bills that appropriate the money with which
to carry on the State government including
the asylums and benevolent institutions of
the State. This step was taken to
force the Governor to accept the infamous
police measure in which the Democrats have
turned their backs on a lifelong principle.
that of local self-government, and propose
that the State shall govern the city of Indi-
annapolis by set of bummers placed over
the people by the Democracy of the State.
The Governor has seen fit to exercise his
con stitutional prerogative by vetoing the
bill. The people all over the State of both
parties will thank him for this service
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-06
The Attempt of the Democratic SIuggers
Correspondence Commercial Gnzette


Correspondence Commercial Gazette
The slugger programme to punish the op-
ponents OF the metropolitan police bill and
to force Senator Willard into the Speakers
chair night before last is being discussed
here. The whole game was understood BY
Governor Hanna when he left the chair and
the reason that he was not locked in the coat
room was that he held his hand on the door
until the row began. The selection of Will
lard to try to usurp the chair was because
no other Democrat was so mentally weak
that he could be used for a dirty Job
which Bell and McCulloch were too
dlscreetly courageous to undertake
McCulloch went to the cloak-room
but his hand was not raised to obstruct the
efforts of Governor Hanna to regain the
chair. In fact, the great physical courage of
Senator Nee ulloch which enabled him
from the back end of the Senate Chamber to
to call the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS "a tool and
fraud, eked out in the cloak-room when
an employe of the Senate applied to him
those foul epithets which every man who re-
spects his mother feels bound to resent at
any hazard ANYHOW, the sluggers failed in
their programme, and the whole gang of
them were ordered out of the galleries on
motion of Senator Brown, and off the floor,
where they had crowded in order to aid the
gang
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-06
No Fee and Salary Legislature.
EIkhart County Journal.

This General Assembly should not adjourn
without passing the bill flee and salary] or
some better bill, if any can be devised, or at
least make the attempt. The law should IN
no way interfere with the salaries of officers
elected under the present law but should so
arrange the compensation of county officers
that they shall not receive several times as
much pay for their services as they are
worth. This county Office business is one of
the worst abuses the taxpayers OF Indiana
submit to, and leads to the most corruption
in nolitics
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-06
STATE EXCHANGE TABLE.
The Legislature May See Themselves
as Others See Them.
Tho Brown-Heffren Combination Gone Out
in General Disgrace-Other Topics of
General Interest
THE CITY PRESS.
Good Godi These Are Law Markers

Good Godi These Are Law Markers.
Saturday People.
All decent men should turn away sick
from a perusal of the proceedings of the
night sessions of the Senate this week. They
were simply disgraceful. The like was prob
ably never seen before Some of the honor
able senators half asleep, some members
drunk, Others fighting mad. Brown, to his
great credit behaved himself and acted de-
Gently Senator Benz was free to say that
the Senate was drunk, when he moved an
adjournment. And these are our law makers!
Good God!
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-06
Governor stephens,s Successor.

ATLANTA, Ga, March 5,-Hon. James S.
Boynton, president of the State Senate, was
to-day sworn in as Governor. He ordered
an election to fill the vacancy caused by Mr..
Stephens's death. for the oath of April
The Democratic executive committee of
the State has been called to meet next Thurs
day, in Atlanta, to consider what action is to
be taken.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-06
The Closing Scenes Disgraceful.


The closing scenes of the General Assem-
bly, have been simply disgraceful. The
Democrats have not by any means had mo-
nopoly of the indecency. The efforts of the
Republicans to retari and defeat measures
desired by the majority deserve the con-
demnation of all good citizens. The met
ropolitan police bill is no worse than other
special legislation devised for Indianapolis,
and the onus of it will rest upon the Dem
ocracy.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-06
The Bureau of Statistics.


Our greatest and only Legislature recently
legislated the Bureau of Statistics out of ex-
istence. The reason is presumed to be that
of Captain John B. Conner, the able chief of
the department, in the exercise of his duty
collected statistics very damaging to the
liquor traffic This the Democracy could
not tolerate. 1t is unfortunate if the State
must lose the services of Captain Conner
who has proved to be the most earnest and
efficient worker who has held such a posi-
ton in Indiana.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-06
Suicidal Folly.


JehersonviI1e News IDemJ.
The proposition to reconsider the appro-
priation and thereby precipitate an extra
session, in order to force the metropolitan
BILL is simply monstrous, suicidal folly.
The Democrats have made their record in
favor of the metropolitan bill, and this is the
best they can do. If they listen to some hun
CRY office-seekers at the capital they will eff
fectually damn the party and give this State
to the Republicans in 1884 Don't do it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-06
The state-House Contract


There is very little doubt but the Legisla-
ture will make a new contract with the pres
ent State-house commissioners, allowing
them to complete the job at two million
dollars-thus giving them bonus of two or
three hundred thousand dollars. And in
two years they will want another contract
and another hundred or two thousand, and
SO on to the end of time.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-06
A Relief to the People.


Wabash PIandeaIer.
The people OF Indiana will breathe freer
after this week. This infamous Legislature
closes its infamous career next Monday.
The night scenes in the Senate the past week
have been as disgracefu to humanity as the
nocturnal orgies of drunken buns in the
back of a saloon up dark alley.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-06
Copperheadism Revived.
O"PPCr III utfe'r7r1r HscFTFCu'
Lafayette Journal.

Lafayette JOurnaI
Copperheadism has raised its hideous head
in the Legislature of 1888 as it did twenty
years ago. but it will receive blow from the
be so well aimed and effective that copper
heads will be forever laid in the dust. Such
political reptiles as Heff'ren and Brown and
others must be scotched, and they will be.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-06
DIR. Goblin for President of Asbury.

Every word the indianapolis Journal says
of DR.. Goblin is true. He is finished scholar,
a gentleman of high order of talents, who by
his urbanity, dignity and sympathetic ma
ture would draw to him the students of the
university. His friends here are legion in
every church of this city, and he would be
welcomed again to our midst with open
arms
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-06
Welcome the New Railway Company.

II.
With all due respect to the street car COM
pany, the new corners should be welcomed.
No company or corporation should hold a
mortgage upon the privileges of such a city
es this. indianapolis is too large and lively
for dozen men to pull it about by the ears,
as it were. Give them a chance.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-06
The Old Prevaricator.

New York Graphic.
1t seems that David Davis is to be married,
after all, the lady being Miss E. e. Burr, of
Fayetteville N. c. We do not propose to
forbid the banns, but why did the colossal
wretch want to lie about it?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-06
A Record of Folly.


Frankfort Banner.
The Legislature will leave record of acts
that will curse the leaders for years to come.
No Legislature in modern ages, barring the
aid voted to the food sufferers, has such
record of folly and mistakes.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-06

anything on record. The people
will stand by and sustain Governor Porter in
the step he has taken. All that is wanted
with blind partisan is to let him have
plenty of rope and he is sure to execute him
self This the Democratic leaders have done
in the Legislature.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-06
The Drunken Senate.

New Castle Mercury.
Remember that it was a Democrat who
moved to adjourn because the Senate was
not in a condition to do business. He de-
clared that half of the members were drunk.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-06
Put the Dashes on the Election Ballots.

When the language of State senators on
the floor becomes so filthy that blanks and
dashes are necessary to report it, it is time
that the people replace their names on the
election tickets by the same-or rather by
the names of those who are at least decent.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-06

No matter how advanced in life,
Good teeth in either man or wife
Or maid are rich prize;
And those who would the gift preserve,
From Sozodont won't swerve,
Should they at all be wise.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-06
\ Look Backward for Precedents.


While the opposition papers are denoucing
Lieutenant-governor Hanna, they should let
their minds run back again to Lieutenant
governor Gray, and then back to the "treas-
sonable Legiature" of 1888.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-06
Have Disgraced Themselves.

Indianapolis Tribune German.
In 1884 there will be no Democratic Legis-
lature The Democrats of Indiana have dis
graced themselves
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-06


1t is safe to say that no newspaper man in
America has turned his coat in print so often
as Field-marshal Murat Halstead. He has
the ambition of a leader, but his post of honor
is at the tail end of all political movements in
which he has figured.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-06
a seheme OF Thugs and Bummers.

Upton Advocate
The passage of the metropolitan police bill
will make Marion county give Republican
majority of 5000 in 1884. The police bill is
pet scheme of the thugs, bummers and
shoulder-hitters of our large cities.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-06

Leaves a Bad Stencil Behind 1t.
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
The Indiana Legislature goes out leaving a
bad smell behind it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-06

If you are suffering with cough, cold, or
hoarseness. take Cough Bush; it will cure you in
few hours.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-06

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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-06
Gives a New Lease of Life.

st. Louis Globe Democrat.
The passage of the tariff bill gives the Re-
publican party new lease of power
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-06

A man who had travelled about,
Was heard very plain to speak out:
81 have chewed in all lands,
But the finest of brands
Is the Bull Dog without any Doubt"
A man up at Kalamazoo
Said no decent Tobacco he knew;
But the "Bul Dog" lie tried,
Was so well satisfied,
He bought whole caddy to chew.
A resident at way station
Was grumbing about his location.
He said: "Pd not mind
If only could find
Bull Dog Plug in this part of creation"
An old man who used it before
Saw a Bull Dog" sign over door.
He said: "While I'm by
I'll procure a supply,
30 bought all they had in the store"
An cold timer" not noted for gumption,
Said his son nearly died of consumption,
But his health was renewed
When the "Bull Dog" he che we'd
That he lied was the common presumption
But the steady increasing demand
shows the chewers do all understand
Though Bull Dog don't cure
All the Ills we endure,
IT'S the finest by far In the land.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-06
Not a Thing of Beauty or a ,Joy Forever.

Cincinnati Enquirer (Dem).
The Indiana Legislature was not altogether
thing of beauty, and therefore it is not
expected that it will be joy to generations
vet unborn.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-06
An Ubiquitous Partisan Measure.


The metropolitan police bill is an in
iquitous partisan measure, and its passage
by the Democratic majority, in spite of the
wishes of the people of indianapolis and
Evansville, is an outrage that will not soon
be forgotten.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-06


o, it's sweet-scented Legislaturel That's
what it isl
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-06

Fort Wayne Gazette.
The partisans in the Indiana Legislature
have shown to the world that in political
work they can go several degrees lower than
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-01-08
''GWina to Be a Lawsuit. =

We were sitting on the hotel steps at
Franklin, Tenn, when eolored man
came up and asked the time of day. A
gentleman, whom everybody addressed
as Major, gave the hour and added:
s.Say, Moses, want a good, stout
man TO move some fencing for me. I'll
give You dollar to come up and work
for me Tomorrow"
Couldn't do it, sab. TIE got to
tend dat Peters lawsuit to-morrer."
''Well, next day.
Next day de old man Brown has his
lawsuit. y
''Then say Thursday
Couldn't do it, sab. OATS de day
Mrs. Simpson am TO be tried fur frowin'
an ak at Elder Barrow
well, will you agree to be on hand
FridayP''
NO, Sab. On Friday Pze gwine seb-
en- miles out to tend lawsuit befo'
Squar' Marshall
tsCan you come Saturday,
Reckon not. Major. More'n likely
de Taylor hog-killins case will come off
Saturday.
ssSee here, Moses said the Major as
he dropped his feet and leaned forward,
.scan you spare me any one day next
week?''
Cant promise fur sartin, sab, kase
some of desc lawsuits may be disjourned
ober, you know
He was only fair sample of the race.
Next day, as / rode out on the Spring
field pike, I met five slashing fellows
walking at gait OF six miles an hour,
After dividing a plug of tobacco among
them, / asked:
ssGoing to townpo
Eyes, sah.''
Circus coming in to-dayp''
Reckon not, sab, but dar's gwine to
be lawsuit, an we's pushin' right long
fur front seats. M Quad IN Detroit
Free Press.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-01-08
An Old Hand at Il.

An Austin grocer grossly insuIted
Mrs. Nose Sehaumburg the other day.
without intending if. She is an i'm
mensely stout woman. and, stepping on
the scales. playfully requested the gro
Ger to weigh her. AS he adjusted the
weights he remarked that she weighed
one hundred and ninety pounds, which
proved to be her exact weight.
'.Iiow did you come to guess itP'' she
asked.
Il am used to guessing at weights. |
weighed hogs for FIVE years in Cinein-
natl f'--(5ukpest0ga NeLrs.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-01-08

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