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form, stating sufficient grounds to entitle
the party to such continuance, though the
statement may be false, the court
cannot know it, and grants the motion. If
the public would cure this evil their remedy
lies in mastering up courage enough to have
their %neighbors indicted for making these
false applications for the purpose OF delay,
All abuse of the court in this and similar in
stances should be cast in the opposite direc-
ton. What is true as to the afidavlt for
continuance is also true with many other
features, and a spirit of candor and fairness
demands that the responsibility for these
g%rievous apnoyances that are daily breeding
d%isrespect for the manner of administering
the law, should be placed where it belongs.
In these much-needed reforms the neople
have fully as much to do as the courts, and
the conscientious efforts of all citizens will
be required to accomplish them.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-28

ANOTHER monopoly, realizing not less than
80 to 200 per cent. on its capital-as free-trade
to pieces and gone into hopeless bankruptcy,
This time it is the Rancocas thread mills, of
Mount Holly, Pa. Three hundred hands are
thrown out of work, and the payment of
$1s,O 900 in wages per month is stopped.
Strange that such a pampered monopoly
should succumb.
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Presidential Candidates.

In the same manner that Judge Tourgee, in
the Continent, considered the Republican posi-
BILE candidates for the presidency, he takes up
the leading Democrats mentioned in connection
with that high office. He thinks that the selec-
tion of a presidential candidate by the Demo-
cratic party Will be much more difficult than the
formation of a ticket by the Republicans. This
for the reason that the Republican party ia more
nearly a unit on the great Issues, so that it will
have no difficulty In constructing a platform.
The writer thinks, however, that the Democratic
candidature will be far more simple and easy of
solution than that of the Republicans. for the
reason that "the Republican party Is a party of
'kickers'-an army OF generals, each one of
whom must be in the lead, or he is likely to sulk
or even TO desert. AS an organization 1t
of 'cranks.' and whims and fantasies abound
in all grades of its membership. Any one of
these who is not entirely suited is at any time
ready to head a revolt" Referring to the solid
South, Judge Tourgee is of the opinion the cleo
toral vote there "might just as well be counted
and set over TO the Democratic candidate. SO
far as these votes are concerned, it does not
matter in the least who Is the candidate. Any
man who runs on a Democratic platform and as
a Democrat will receive them ALL" The only
element of doubt, ia the writer's mind, affecting
the Democratic canvass OF 1884, sis the fringe of
n ortnern electoral votes necessary TO make a
majority of the electoral college when Joined to
its southern pnalanx. New York, New Jersey,
Connecticut, Indiana, Colorado and California
are the real debatable ground, To these might
be added Ohio, were it not for its perverse way
of going for one party on the off years. and
the other in national elections, with amazing
regularity. New York, with one OF the others,
or Indiana with two Of them, establishes victory
In their behalf. 1t ia with relation to the vote of
these States, therefore, that the nominations
will be made. If a man 10 found whom the ma
jority of the convention feel perfectly confident
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-28

IT is said that many persons interested in
the liquor business at Cincinnati will
throw every impediment in the way of the
execution of the Scott law" In other words,
dissatisfied with the laws of the State, they
will deliberately set about bringing them
into d%isrepute. The people of Ohio would
do well to rebuke an element that assumes
to be superior to their fellows, in that the
common laws framed for all shall not bind
them to obedience. The Scott law has been
pronounced constitutional. 1t now remains
for the authorities to enforce it, and law
abiding citizens to obey it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-28

On the 18th of last April, Judge Hoadly
was approached by a reporter to get his views
on the constitutionality of the Scott license
law. He gave it as his unqualified opinion
that it was unconstitutional. Judge Foraker,
appealed to at the same time, thought the
law constitutional, having been carefully
drawn after the decision of the Supreme
Court had been rendered on the Pond bill.
This proves little, perhaps, but shows that
the latter had a clear head.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-28

The Journal made its upon the
recent decision by the Supreme Court of
ploye could sell property intrusted to him
by his employer and run off with the money,
INT not be liable in a prosecution for lar
ceny, for the benefit of the public. The
officer of the State-a prosecuting attorney
had attempted to punish the defendant by
a conviction for larceny, but failed, in the
meantime spending the price of as much
property as he had already lost in the prose-
cution. To put Others upon their guard in
similar cases was the sole purpose of the
item. There was no surprise in it. expressed
or implied.
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ion with regard to the respective systems OF
protection and free trade, we remit the dis
cussion to the people," etc.
In 1876 and 1880 the Democracy declared
for a tariff "only for revenue" and for rev.
enue only" Thus have the national Demo-
cratic conventions juggled with this great
question. As on all other issues, the Demo-
cratic party has played fast and loose, has
blown hot and cold, according to the de-
mands of the occasion.
The last utterances on this question made
by Democracy in convention assembled, may
be found in the Indiana platform of last
year, the paragraph on that issue reading as
follows:
I'VE demand a revision of the present IN
just tariff. The constitution of the United
States confers upon Congress the power to
establish a tariff for revenue, and as a just
ana proper exercise of that power, we favor
such an adjustment of its provisions, within
the revenue standard, as will promote the in
dustries of the country and the interests OF
labor, without creating m~onopolies."
This is the plank which Senator Voorhees,
claims to have written, and it may have
found an Endorsement in Difference to his
wishes. The Kentucky platform of this
year, despite the fact that Watterson is a
rabid free-trader, is silent upon the tariff
question. Kentucky would naturally advo-
cate free trade, but policy forbade that such
n~eresies should be officially promulgated in
such near proximity to Ohio and Indiana.
The Ohio Democratic platform, adopted last
week. contains the following sentiment on
the tariff issue:
I'VE favor a tariff for revenue, limited to
the necessities of the government economi-
cally administered, and so adjusted in it's APP
plication as to prevent unequal burdens,
encourage productive industries at home,
afford just compensation to labor, but not to
create or foster monopolies."
In the foregoing we have the epitomized
history of the attitude OF the Democratic
party on the policy of protection to Ameri-
can industries through the levying of a tariff
upon imported goods. 1t will be seen that
in all instances in which Democracy gave
even the color of affording protection to our
manufactures it was done in an %equivocal
manner. so that any policy subsequently,
followed could be made to appear consistent
Herewith. 1t will be seen, too, that ali
such l~eanings are so distinctly Republican,
their character that their purpose is manifest.
1t is the same old policy of duplicity for
which Democracy is famous; the same as was
the 1864 convention at Chicago, where De-
mocracy with one hand patted the Union
soldiers on the back, and with the other held
aloft sought to effect a compromise even at
the cost of a disrupted Union. Democracy
failed then on account of its duplicity and
disloyalty, and it will fail in 1884 on account
of its insincere position on the question of a
protective tariff. Its dishonesty is becoming
more and still more apparent, and the people
canno be brought to trust their interests in
the hands of such a party.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-28

& MRS. MARY DAVIS, now of Bridgeport, Conn.,,
is in jail charged with having robbed a postofice
and with other daring burglarles. A Waterman
in a lumber yard, who was gagged and bound
while a masked party of four broke open the
safe, testified that the fingers which gripped his
windpipe were small and soft, aud that the
owner of the hands, though dressed as a man,
had a sweet, feminine voice. This, in connec-
ton with the discovery of a woman's boot tracks
about the premises, led to the detection of Mrs.
Davis. She belongs to a respectable family in
Boston, but eloped from boarding school with a
convict who represented himself as a rich South
erner, and has since followed her husbands
fortunes. Mrs. Davis's career is another proof
that Boston women are equal to anything they
undertake.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-28

The funds donated to the suferers on ac-
count OF the Mississippi floods should be
chiefly distributed among the tenants and
laborers upon these lands. The owners are
generally above want, and the loss of a single
crop will hardly be felt. Their soil is as rich
as the valley of the Nile, and long ago put
the owners in easy circumstances. Not so
with the tenants and laborers. They are
rarely fortunate enough to have a seasons
provisions ahead, and when thisy years crop
is destroyed, next years bread goes with it.
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late war.

In view of the extortions practiced by rail-
way companies in the way Of exorbitant
freight charges, the project of building a
canal from Lake Erie to navigable water in
the Wabash, has been revived. The agitation
comes principally from the inhabitants of
the Wabash valley.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-28

THE President has approved the finding of
the court-martial and the recommendation
of the Secretary of War that WATSON be dis
missed, imprisoned eighteen months at hard
labor, and to have the causes of his punish
ment published at length in the newspapers
of Iowa, the State from which he was APP
pointed. The poker boom in army circles
will thus experience a serious check.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-28

IT ought to strike the average Ohio tax
payer that the affirming of the constitution
atty of the Scott law is a good thing. There
is no doubt that men in the liquor traffic
should meet their share of the burden OF tax
alton as fully and cheerfully as do those en-
gagged in other branches of business. The
Scott law will not be cried down indiscrimi-
nately by any party
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-28

THE Irish World, of New York, complains
because it is not allowed to freely circulate
in the British empire. If it contains sedi-
tious articles, it can not take reasonable ex-
ception to the inhibition. TIL United States
pronounced against certain papers during the
lato xrar
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-28
Journalistic Hanlau.

Richmond PnIIadlnn,
The Journal is already the most complete
and readable newspaper ever published in
Indiana. How it can be further improved is
a wonder. Every Republican should feel a
pride in it. indianapolis papers, as a rule,
are FULLY up with the times, but the Journ Il
leads them all. 1t is q HGnlan in the great
Journalistic regatta.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-28

Ex-STATE TREASURER Polk, of Tennessee,
was placed upon trial in the Criminal Court,
at Nashville, on Tuesday. The defendant
asked for a continuance or account OF the
absence of his clerk and book-keeper; the APP
plication was denied, and the work of inn
paneling the jury commenced. The loose
ideas upon financial obligations entertained
by the party that elected Polk may have
been a factor among others that induced the
commission of the robbery of the State, but
THAT should not shield him now. The road
from open reputation to robbery is easy
and natural. A little stretch of the former
reaches the latter, and for the public
good Polk should be convicted and punished.
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consider himself lucky to get away with his life.
In n trial there this week, Mr., Choke" Smith, at
torney, called in question the character of the
plaintiffs daughter. The plaintiff so far forgot
the sacred surroundings and the august pres
ence of the court, that he arose hastily and
called Mr.. Smith a liar, The outraged attorney
rushed at the offender, struck him in the face
savagely and kicked him, after which he resumed
his speech without further interruption. The
judge kindly refrained from filming plaintiff for
contempt, but rendered Judgment against HIM,
Influenced, probably, by the convincing argu-
ment of the opposition.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-28

IN the current lectures upon the mistakes
of Moses and Ingersoll, the chief blunder
seems to be overlooked-that is that Moses
CHARGED no fees at the door.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-28

MRS. GAINES is again thwarted in the immedi-
ate realization OF anything in her judgment
against the city of New Orleans. The case now
goes to the Supreme Court, and a decision cau-
not be reached in less than three years.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-28

THE defective working of our legal ma
chinery cannot be cured altogether by swear
ing at the jury and officers of the court.
The people must turn their efforts also in
.he direction of working up a sounder pub
lie sentiment upon these matters. Neither
judge nor jury triAes with justice upon their
own motion. The vexations, delays and i'm
proper conduct, if any, spring from outside
influence. AS a rule, the morale OF the judi
ciary is fully up to the standard of the
purest public sentiment, and most Of their
acts complained of arise from the unwar-
ranted conduct of the litigants, except as to
the evils resulting from the over-nicety in
the application of technicalities. The annoy
anoe from this source is chargeable to the
bench for INDUCING them and the bar for
urging them. But in matters material to
the issue in hand, the court is often imposed
upon by reckless swearing. When an appli-
cation for continuance is made in regular
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-28

IF the Rev. Stone or, of Chicago, is cor
rectly reported, he believes in the ancient and
absolute doctrine of "infant damnation," or
that children who die before regeneration are
lost. The Rev. Sawyer is several centuries out
of his orbit.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-28

THE decision upon the Scott law leaves
Hoadly in the attitude of making war upon
the constitution that he must take an oath
to support if elected.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-28

AN Ohio editor has fled to the mountains, pur-
sued by no less than three women who claimed
to be married to him. The possession of inOrdi-
nate wealth is a great temptation to indulge i'll
these expensive luxuries.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-28

THE 'thOughtful man" Of the Courier-JOurna
should mediate over the cOlOred boy John II.
Alexander, who has just been admitted as a
cadet at West Point after William Waite, white,
had failed. The freedman is marching right
along in the line of progress.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-28

AN effort is being made in Washington to open
the National Museum, Smithsonian Institution,
Congressional Library and similar institutions
on Sundays, for the benefit of many who have
no other leisure time in which to visit those
places. The movement does not meet with the
approval of the ministers of the city, only two
expressing themselves in its favor. The chief
objections raised are that the attendants in the
Institutions will necessarily be deprived of sun
day privileges, and that disorderly crowds will
gather and create disturbances. While these OBJ
~iections have not much weight 1t seems probable
that the effort will not meet with success.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-28
THE INDIANAPOLIs JOURNAL

Can be found at the following Places;
LONDON-American Exchanged Europe, 4
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~PARIs-American Exchange in Paris, 3, Boulevard
des Capucines.
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CINCINNATI. c. Hawley & Co, 1884 Vine street.
LOUISVIGLE-C. T. bearing, northwest corner
Third and Jefferson streets.
n. L~OUIs-Union News ConIpany. Union pepot.
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contempt, but rendered Judgment against HIM,
influenced, probably, by the convincing argu-
ment of the opposition.
THIS anecdote is told of the late Commodore
Vanderbilt:
cat Saratoga, on one occasion. when sitting on
the piazza of a hotel, a somewhat overdressed
lady approached and claimed us acquaintance.
Ihe Commodore arose and talked afably with
her, while his wife ana daughter shifted the air
with scorn. Father said the young lady, as the
commodore resumed his seat, didn't you remem-
Der that vulgar Mrs. B as the woman who
used to sell poultry TO us at homer Certainly
responded the Old gentleman, promptly, and L
remember your mother when she used to sell
root beer at three cents a glass over in Jersey.
when l went mp there from Staten Island ped
ding oysters out of my boat AS this homely
reply was heard by II group surrounding the fam
lily, there was no further attempt at austocratic
airs on the part of the ladies during that sea-
son."
A MAN In South Carolina has been fined 5000
for selling Jamaica ginger without a license.
The man claimed that ginger was a medicine,
while the court held that it was an intoxicating
beverage, and Of course the court knew what 1T
was talking about. Chllls must be powerful"
cold in South Carolina if the sufferer gets
drunk on the ginger required to ward them off.
-
The New York World speaks of Edwina
Booths 'fiancee." That's what comes of Mr..
Pulitzer forgetting his Western simplicity. How
much better 1t would have been to have simply
said "Miss Booths feller." The gender of
French nouns would not have been violated,
and the World readers would have caught on
fully as well.
MR.. BEN. HOGAN, for many years a prize-fight-
or and a man of sin, but more recently a saver
of souls, is in Colorado on an evangelistic tour.
The Denver Tribune welcomes Mr.. Hogan, and
expresses the hope that he will thrash that part
OF the community which he may fail to convert.
WITH the near advent OF the Fourth of July it
is gratifying to note that a certain Cincinnati
firm manufacturing toy pistols has dumped 200
gross into their furnace and remelted them into
less deadly shapes. The sale of such weapons
should be strictly forbidden by law.
THE "thoughtful man" Of the Courier-J0urnal
should mediate over the colored boy John H.
Alexander, who has just been admitted as a
cadet at West Point after William Waite, white,
had failed. The freedman is marching right
along in the line of progress.
IF the Rev. Stone 5 or, of Chicago, is cor
rectly reported, he believes in the ancient and
absolute doctrine of "infant damnation," or
that children who die before regeneration are
lost. The Rev. Sawyer is several centuries out
OF his orbit.
MRS. GAINES is again thwarted in the immedi-
ate realization of anything in her judgment
against the city of New Orleans. The case now
goes to the Supreme Court, and a decision can-
not be reached in less than three years.
--
AN Ohio editor has fled to the mountains, pur-
sued by no less than three women who claimed
to be married to him. The possession of inOrdi-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-28

MAYNARD, Mass, people went in for literary
culture and invested in a public library, which
was put in Charge of a lawyer who volunteered
to work for pure love of the cause. When a
woman inquired for a certain volume ana was
informed that it was not in, she called him a
liar. The volunteer librarian jumped over his
desk, cuffed and choked the offender until she
was black in the face, after which she had him
arrested. Culture IN Maynard seems tC have re-
ceiyed a backset.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-28

NEW YOEK-F.fth Avenue and Windsor Hotels
WASHINGTON, D. C.-Breptauo's LOIS Pennsylva'
mia avenue.
House.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-28

WITH the near advent of the Fourth of July it
is gratifying to note that a certain Cincinnati
firm manufacturing toy pistols has dumped 200
gross into their furnace and remelted them into
less deadly shapes. The sale of such weapons
should be strictly forbidden by law.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-28

Mr.. BEN. HOGAN, for many years a prize-fight-
or and a man of sin, but more recently a saver
of souls, is in Colorado on an evangelistic tour.
The Denver Tribune welcomes Mfr. Hogan, and
expresses the hope that he will thrash that part
of the community which he may fail to convert.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-28

THERE is a curious coincidence in the names of
the two women who have most recently come
into prominence before the New York public.
The real name of Lillian Russell, who lately ran
off to England with the homeliest cad that ever
appeared on these shores, is Helen Leonard, and
Helen Leonard is the assumed name Of the in
fatuated woman who shot an imagined rival in
the affections of a septuagenarian lover.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-28

THE unhappy man who goes to law must ex-
pect humiliatio and insult without limit, but as
a general thing he escapes from court without
bodily injury. In Atlanta, however, he may