The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-01-08
THE SPIRIT OF THE PRESS,

MR.. HENDRICKS letter Ia an Illustration of Mr.,
Hendricks incapacity to catch up with a mod
ern idea till IL has been crystallized in law and In
fact. He is a slow team, but gets on to the new
track II time Is given him.-Cincinnati Commer-
cial Gazette.
THE great revolutionary party of Russia has no
connection with Nihilism. which aims to pro-
duce anarchy. The revolutionary party en-
braces many thousands of influential persons who
demand sweeping reforms in the government
and the administration of the empire.-Louis
VILE Courier-Journal
THERE must have been a corner in sackcloth
and ashes in Boston after the full bud get OF Mas
sachusetts sins and stupidities had been unloaded
on a representative assemblage of citizens who,
until then, had fondiy imagined their State was
the chief among thirty eight and the one alto
gether lovely.-New York Herald.
MASSACHUSETTS will not find 1t easy to ignore
either its criticisms or its recommendations,
Butler evidently intends to be a live Governor,
and if there Is not "A raking up of old abuses, a
breaking to pieces of routine methods, and the
infusion of new vigor, tempered with economy,
in the administration of affairs, 1t will not be his
fault.-New York Times.
In order to get people to vote two things must
be brought about: The voters must be educated,
and such a system OF voting be adopted as will
assure every man that his vote has it's proper
value IN the general result. Before our elections
express satisfactorily the will of the people there
must be some system of minority representation
Louisville Commercial.
THE permanent and proper revenue from dis
tiled spirits and all that can be derived from it,
in the long run, is the tax on annual consump-
ID hlu budL W III II 10 ahottou III JhC
degree by the extension of the bonded period.
The House ought to pass the bill at once. Every
days delay is an injury, and an injustice because
an injury .-Louisvllle Commercial.
~GovER and ex-Vice President Hen
bricks has been accused of being Il little slow
and exceedingly cautious at times about ex-
pressing opinions, but he has Usually been care
full to be accurate when he did give expression
to opinions coupled with racts. We can under :
stand how some people can deliberately misrep-
resent the civii-service bill. AS Mr.. Hendricks
is incapable of this he must have failed to read
the bill.-Cincinnati News.
THE deep and persistent distrust of the Demo
cratic party still remains, ana defeat OF reform
by Democratic tricks and Vaccinations will ar
ray the whole independent vote against the
Democratic party in the election of 1884, be-
cause it would be clear that in the event of sue
cess that party contemplated a 'clean sweep"
to which the country will not consent. On the
other hand, tho Republicans are responsible for
legislation, and defeat of reform will go far to
make Republican success in 1884 impOssible.-
Harper's Weekly. .d"
NOBODY of sense ~imagines that the Pendletop
bill will he thoroughly efficient all at once. But
whoever believes in the object of the bill, as Mr.,
Reagan said he did, ought to see that the passage
even of an imperfect bill has a great moral
value. Al the lowest it is a declaratory resolu-
ton by Congress in favor of the principle Of the
bill, and very different from the platform bun
make a practical application of the principle. A
real and not a sham admission of the principle is
the beginning of all reform; and In making such
an admission yesterday Congress took o long
step toward securing a reform OF the civil SER
vice-NeW York World.