The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-25
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

THIS was founded a government of law; but
false sentiment has substituted trial by pistol for
the law and its sentence.-Philadelphia Press.
If there is one thing that the people of this
country have made up their minds upon, 1t Is
upon the proposition that the spoils system must
GO And any party that takes the responsibility
of refusing the reform system fair trial Will be
smashed TO mathematician Herald.
ALREADY there are signs OF sundry raids to be
made upon the Treasury during the coming
winter. and experience has shown that Con-
gress is not proof against such attacks. In order
to effect a reform that shall be lasting the gov
eminent must be made poOr.-New York Herald,
THE Germans are as strongly opposed, as
rule, to bad political economy as they are to
what are called sumptuary laws. And thou
fall will vote with the Republicans next year
in behalf of sound finance and material prosper
ity.-St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
THE Prince of Wales, should he ever become
King of England, will have to behave himself in
a most exemplary manner, A vicious king,
even wholly useless king, is an impossibility
in iinnossibiiiv Wv snvwhere The So World moye e.
Charleston News and Courier.
AT the present writing, it would appear, Seua-
tor Voorhees, is hostile to the tariffOr-revenue-
only cry. But this illustrious statesman has
managed to get from one side of the fence to
the other with great agility whenever pursued
by fancied exlgency, and there Is no telling
where he may be found next year.-New York
Times.
MAJORITY of the people are Republicans,
through and through, but they are for genuine
with. By civil-service reform we do not mean
the Eaton Gregory commission merely, but re-
and will cut off every unnecessary official and
run tie business of the government on business
principles-Chicago Inter Ocean.
SOUTH CAROLINA has the same interest to-day
that Massachusetts has in the supremacy of the
national government, and constructions of the
constitution affect all States alike. Therefore
We look for the disappearance OF that part of
the old controversy from living politics. It can
not, at least, continue to have any sectional
ton which all desre.-New York Times.
THE complete victory of the Hoadly faction
this year would mean that Thurman shall be
entirely ignored in the Democratic convention
of next year, and that Pendleton will have
solid Ohio delegation to cast where he chooses
and when. This is not a comfortable situation
for the Thurmanites to think on They will not
rocks ahead for the Pendletonites.-C Chicago
Tribune.
JUDGE HoADLY will run for Governor on the
issue of free money for the Democrats during
the campaign and free liquor for everybody in
case the Democrats get into power. We do not
believe that this Is a good year for that kind OF
with Senator Thurman, who is represented as
saying, as he fed the convention: "The ticket
cannot be elected, and does not deserve to be-"
New York Tribune
If vigorous. radical measures are adopted
General Crooks victory ought to end the long
record of Indian war and spoliation. If there is
any hating or halfway measures the result will
be that there will be more outbreaks, and the
work will have to be done over again. 1t will
save time and money and life. perhaps, to clinch
General Crooks victory by so disposing of his
captives that they will never be heard Of again
Cd the war-path.-Chicago Tribune.
INSTEAD of taking q loaded revolver and kill
ing his traducer, Mr.. Belmont peaceably evoked
the law, and has found 1t powerful to vindicate
his good name and to put upon his enemy an
ineradicable stain as reckless and causeless
libeer. II few OF the hotheads who are con-
tinually taking matters into their own hands,
often without reason, will initiate this action,
they will be surprised to learn how effective law
is to redress the wrongs of the innocent and to
punish the guilty.--Phladelphia Times.
THE horrors of accident are not individual.
The Brooklyn bridge crush is followed by the
fatal stampede in a Sunderland hall. A great
catastrophe is invariably duplicated at another
time and place They cannot be effected by the
influence OF the press, Neither are epidemics of
crime wholly effected by the press, any more
than epidemic disease. 1t may be determined
after time that there is sporadic poison in the
and that there may be spiritual COMMUNICATIONS
as well as physical contagious Chicago Inter
Ocean.
THE liquor interest will do we'll to consider
whether in making fight against this law, to
the sacrifice of all public interests and political
principles 1t is not showing an irrecOncilability
that may continue a conflict which will eventu-
ate in radical temperance measures, and which
makes it impossible for moderate men to stand
up against these. This will be the sober thought
of those who represent this interest, and these
sober after-thoughts will supervene in the Dem
that it has principle to stand on and after the
election il will declare that its victorious conven
tion did the most foolish thing that was posi-
be.-Cincnnatl Commercial Gazette.