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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-26
The Buffoonery iu the Senate.

ShelbyV1lle HepuDllcau.
First the Senate bounced Kirk, its door
keeper Then it bounced the secretary, and
its second doorkeeper and reinstated its first
doorkeeper, and elected c. T. Nixon, Re-
publican, as clerk. Then it bounced Mr..
Nixon and reelected its first clerk, so that
it now has its original clerk and doorkeeper.
Beautiful work for honorable senators.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-26
Speaker Bynum's Bulldozing.


The present Speaker of the Indiana House
of Representatives had never been equaled
Score one for Shockney. He is the first man
that has had the nerve to conquer Bynum's
bulldozing. Some men clothed with ''little
brief authority make egregious fools of
themselves. To this class belongs Speaker
Bynum. The Gazette congratulates Mr..
ShockneY on his nerve and good sense.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-26
No Occasion for surprise.

When the control of the common wealth
was turned over to party controlled and
owned by the liquor interest we should not
be surprised to find saloon morals and saloon
billingsgate even in the State Senate Hoosier
Democracy is, indeed, thing without a rival
for its vileness and audacity, and is well
represented by such leaders as Brown in the
Senate and the rebel acknowledgement
Heffren in the House.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-26
MIR. Elan for Governor.


Muncle Times,
When the Republicans come to look
around for candidate for Governor, they
can make no better choice, they can find no
better man, than good, modest, big-hearted,
blue-eyed John B. Elan.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-26
The Convict-L Question.

IIgUIItI ItHIIeT'
If convcts are to be worked why cannot
the State work them and receive the benefit
instead of letting them out to individuals
who grow rich from the profits thus accrued?
If it pays such men as Winterbotham to
work conyicts it will pay the State. We
want prisoners to work but want the State
to reap the benefit of their labor.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-26
The People Ignored for Party Purposes.

The Democrats in the Legislature have
hunted every nook and corner of the State
where there is a Republican in office and
have always found time to pass bills that
would enable their removal. The 500 or 800
bills of interest to the tax payers of the State
take back seat under suspension of the
rules, when any of those party measures are
introduced .s.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-26
Publishing the Pension Lists.

No honest pensioner can object to this
plan; it is only fellows who are not deserving
of pensions who are ''kicking"-they know
that they are frauds and do not wish to be
exposed. The people-those who have to
carry this enormous pension burden-favor
this apparently fair proposition. and the gen;
eral demand is, Give us a printed pension
list"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-26
License Is Participation.


ii whisky selling is great wrong, no
money that can be paid for the privilege of
selling it will make it right; but the granting
of such privilege makes the grantors partici-
pators in committing the evil. If it is right,
imposing license fee on it is a piece of I'M
Unsuitable tyranny and an outrage. We do
not believe that temperance people, in In
diana or elsewhere, will ever be entirely sat
SIZED with license law.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-26
Loyal People win Rebuke Hetrren.

Lafayette Journal.
The soldiers who fought to save the Union
will rebuke this Democratic party which has
made the most malignant and the most cow
ardly of the Knights of the Golden Circle its
leader in terms so unmistakable that even
Mr.. Heffren will not need to inquire what
they will do about it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-26
Prohibitionist,s Bigotory.



Absolute prohibition, at its best is only a
distant possibility, while partial prohibition,
and great restraint of the evils of the liquor
traffic, is practicable and near at hand.
From this standpoint of facts, opposed to
bigoted theories and self-righteous sentiment,
can any Christian man find excuse for refus-
ing the good he can get, out of a blind devo-
ton to the good he may desire?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-26
THE CITY PRESS.
The Democrats Legislature,

napolis People Qnd. Dem.)
We assert boldly and above board and
without fear of successful contradiction that
there will not be another Democratic Legis-
lature in the next decade. Make note Of
this, and see if the whirligig of time does not
prove it.
Brown and Bell, honorable senators, yes
terday were talking together and helping
each other with their pet measures as though
nothing had happened, which causes us to
exclaim, with the old German, Vat gun
try. vat beeblesl''
The present Legislature has lost to the
Democracy at least 10000 votes at the
next election. Should there be a special
session this number would be increased to
10000 But, for Gods sake, Governor Porter
don't let us have special session. enough
is as good as feast, and we have oil had
enough
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-26
Has Greatly Lessened His Influence.

COTumDus KepuDIlcan.
Many ladies were present in the chamber,
but this did not shame the windbag from
Jackson into any sense of decency All who
witnessed the scene were utterly disguised,
and it was evident afterward that Brown, by
his outrageous conduct, had greatly lessened
his influence and forfeited the respect of his
own party.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-26
Good Work of the Liquor League.
Goshen Tim.

Goshen Times.
We never expected to hear much good of
the Indiana liquor league, but if they can
break up unlawful sale of liquors in
drug stores where it exists, and then take an
other step and enforce the law against their
own members when they violate il, it will go
into history with a goo d-sized page in its
favor
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-26
The Legislature ONLY a Foretaste.

Michigan City Enterprise.
Led by the traitor Horace Heffren, the
Democrats of the House have assumed and
carried out the roll of regular political bull
dozers to an extent not excelled by the Dem
ocratic Legislature OF war times. 1t is but a
foretaste of what the people of the country
will have dished up to them, should the party
of so-called reform ever get into power
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-26
Mr.. Hefren,s Question win Be Answered


Heffren's question will be answered during
the presidential campaign. Treason must
and will be made odious in this State. The
Union sentiment is too strong to let such in
famous traitors as he remain long at the
front. The soldiers will rebuke the insult.
Indiana will be vindicated and redeemed
from rebel leadership
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-26
The Legislature VIII Be Cursed.


Steuben county Republican.
If less attention had been given to polit-
ica legislation and more to that demanded
by the people, the Democrats might have
made something of reputation as reformers,
but as it is the praise bestowed will be but
small compared with the curses which will
be uttered by Democrats as well as Repub-
licans
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-26
A Disgracefnl Scene.

New Albany Ledger (Dem).
That was a very disgraceful scene in the
State Senate between Senators Bell and
Brown, and if correctly reported should have
the effect of RELOCATING one or both OF them
to private life for the future. The Demo-
cratic party cannot afford to uphold the
blackguards.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-26
State Capitals.
Boston Post.


The idea of having State capitals in large
cities is all wrong. Have 'em in small towns,
where hotels are bad, variety shows scarce,
and most of the girls homely. Then you'll
get short sessions and quick adjournments.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-26
Better tn Remodel the Constitution.



1t will be better, we have no doubt, as a
matter of economy, to remodel the constitu-
ton and make it conform more to the spirit
and wants of the present times. In which
case our Supreme Court will be enabled to do
something else than spend its time in decid
ing the laws passed by our Legislature, at
the request of the people, unconstitutional.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-26
shamefulIy Deceived the People.

Lafayette Journal.
The Democracy have shamefully deceived
the people and been false to their trust, The
supposed welfare of the party has engrossed
the entire time thus far OF the session. Every
measure that does not give promise of filling
offices with Democratic spoils-g rabbers re-
ceiYes little attention.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-26
The Legislature Has No Parallel
,fayette Courier

The record made by this Democratic Legis-
lature has no parallel in pure cussedness
since the aid and comfort Legislature OF the
war. Horace Heffren leader of the House
and Jason Brown leader of the Senate Ye
gods, was there ever such pair and such a
party!
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-26
Advice from a Friend.

Chicago Inter Ocean.
Temperance orators along the Ohio river
will do well for some months to avoid eulogiz-
ing water. The poetry kind of soaks out of
water after it has stood six feet deep on the
parlor floor for a week.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-26
No BETTER than a slum.

Logansp6rt Journal.
With the beast Heffren believing in the
House, and the brute Brown bucking and
bloviating as boss in the Senate the Gem
eral Assembly is little better than sum.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-26
The Question of High License Will Boom.

Logansport Journal.
The question of a high license tax and
be very apt to boom considerably in the next
campaign in this State. The liquor traffic
owns the Democratic leaders, but it will
discover some day that the people are incor-
ruptible
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-26
The Day of Vengeance Approaching.

The State charities are raped to crafty
partisan desire for Office Such a measure
was legitimately born in the foul brain of
such man as Jason Brown and properly
championed by Horace Heffren, but the day
of popular vengeance is approaching
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-26
Local Self-Government.


1t seems strange that, after all we have
heard about local self-government by the
Democracy, it should now, here in Indiana,
be their pet measure, to deprive the two
largest cities of the State of such govern
ment But anything to get office.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-26
Would it Draw or Disgust.

VlnolnnatI JOurnhI ~
Perhaps the Indiana Senate could be in
duced to give an entertainment for the bene-
fit OF the flood sufferers.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-26
Not Left Comfortiess.

Philadelphia Record.
Evangelist Barnes has sailed for Europe;
but Evangelist Joe Cook remains among us
TO preserve the theological equilibrium of
the hemispheres.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-26
Horsford,s Acid Phosphate

is recommended for headache occasioned by in
digestion ana whenever there is general feel
ing of sluggishness and lack Of energy.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-26
Does Not Cause Pride to the Democracy.

Monticello Herald.
Historical al lusions to the late rebellion
are not prone to fill the Democratic heart
with gladness nor puff him up with pride.
What-are-you-going- to-do-about-it Hetfren
will hear from the loyal masses in 1884.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-26
Chicago,s Contribution.

Cincinnati Enquirer.
We desire to acknowledge the receipt of
two dozen collar-buttons for the flood sufer-
ers from Chicago.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-26
Disgraoed His Manhood.


On Wednesday Senatar Jason B. Brown, in
all alteration with Senator Bell, disgraced
his manhood and dishonored the position he
holds. He should be promptly expelled from
the Senate.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-26
Hefrren's Reasonable Conduct.

AS long as Heffren remains in public life
she papers of Indiana should continue to
sing in his ears his reasonable conduct. Still
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-26
Better Provide Free school Books.

MauIsOn UOurler.
Indiana had much better give her poor
boys and girls school books than to spend
$40, 900 year on a college that is not needed.
We shall always have enough colleges in the
State supported by private enterprise.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-26
Should BE summarily Kicked QUO.

Lafayette Journal.
No words can be found too severe to con-
denim and denounce this exhibition of in
decency and breach of senatorial decorum.
Brown ought to be summarily kicked out of
the seat he disgraces.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-26
A Lack of Judicial Dignity.

Richmond Palladium.
Probably the most disgraceful thing about
it 1.-THE Cougar Mandler easel is the conduct
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-26
The Gougar-Mandler Trial Farce.

frankie rt crescent.
The Cougar Mandler trial has degenerated
into broad farce, with the court as stage
manager, the attorneys as actors and the jury
as supes-the jury is mere figurehead, and
will never come to a verdict OF any kind.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-26
The Kind of a License Law Needed.

North Manchester Journal
If this Legislature would pass a high
license law, carefully guarding against selling
to minors and habtual drunkards requiring
all screens and devices of the dark-lantern
order to be taken down. requiring the sa-
loonist to transact his business as other
.radespeople~do it would look more like
regulating" the liquor traffic than anything
they have done so far, and is, perhaps, more
than they will 90.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-26
Three Constitutional Things.

South Bend Tribune.
The indianapolis Journal is about right
when it says that there are three things
recognized by the law of the State as consti-
tutonal-ste ling, getting drunk and SLAM
dering women.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-26
STATE EXCHANGE TABLE.
Vigorous Denunciation of the Work
of the Democratic Legislature.

Fhe Rape of the Benevolent Institutions
Tho Disgraceful Episode in the Senate
Question of high License,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-26
The Rape of the Benevolent Institutions

Richmond Palladium.
The Democrats will consummate the rape
of the public charities, regardless of their re-
form pledges, the Governors veto and the
wrath of the people. While we regret that
the State should be so dishonored and i'm
5ortant institutions endangered yet we ed
nit that Just such lessons are occasionally
necessary to remind the people what a cor
rupt, false and dangerous thing the Demo-
cratic Marty is
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-26
Punish Him, and Speedily.

Fort Wayne Gazette.
Brown should have the proper punishment
administered, and that speedily. Let Brown
be expelled.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-26
The DRS xxx. SURGEONS,
DR.. KENNEDY AND DIR. BECK,

Will be at the Occidental Hotel Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday, Feb 26, q and %.
three days only; and three days every fourth
week during the year 1888. All diseases and
deformities of men, women and children
treated. Consultions free. All patients
treated by the month and all remedies fur
nished. The doors of the ladies' entrance
will be unlocked. Ladies can go right up to
the ladies' parlor
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-26

CROUCH on Rats Clears out rats mice, flies
reaches, dbugs, ants, vernn, chipmunks. 15c.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-26

-- SIG, 432,I5I,s
LIABILITIES.
Reserve at 4 per
cent, Mass. stan
dard .......,.....$ 13 .645, 1886
Balance dstribu-
ttons unpaid. 7S,76506
Death and endow-
ment claims un-
paid...-..-- 14O,05900 IL, S64, $3.50 c
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-07-25
Sharp S~windlers.

Lest such a trick should be tried in
this section, and to put the RIVER Press
readers on their guard, we give the fol-
lowing new game the festive horse thief
is working" successfully in many parts
of the country: He reads the newspa-
pers closely, and when an estray horse
is advertised as taken up he sends his
pal to examine the animal, say it amt
his, and return with a minute descrip-
ton of the horse. Armed with this des-
cription he calls upon the guileless
ranchman, describes the horse he has
lost and RECEIVERS 81 the property. He
then talks about the distance to his
home, ETC., and finally offers to sell it at
about half it's value. The unsuspecting
ranchman often bites at this opportun-
ity, and, after he has gloated over his
bargain for a few days, the real owner
comes along, proves his property, and
leaves the victim out of pocket just the
amount he paid the aesthetic horsethief
for the animal.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-07-25

A WELL-KNoWN ex-United States Judge
Of New York, and a confidential friend of
Tilden, is responsible for the following:
"4ou may state authenticity hat Mr..
Tilden will be a candidate; and you may
also say, although it may sound a little
strange, that John Kelly will be one Of
his most Jealous supporters. For a long
time Kelly has been fighting Tilden,
and the latter has been quietly weaving
a net about his enemy until he has him
now where he dare not say his soul is
his own. Tilden and his friends have
been gradually working among the fol-
lowers Of Kelly, until, excepting the
Irish, the entire slum element of New
York city are as faithful in their allie
glance to Tilden as ever they were to
Kelly. A few days ago Mr.. Tilden serv-
ed notice upon Kelly hat he must have
his support or off would go his head, and
Kelly responded that he could be relied
upon. The cid show of hostility will be
maintained, but Mr.. Tilden has nowthe
entire Tammany support, which he has
never had before. Tilden will have a
solid delegation from New York in the
cOnvention.o
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-07-25

THERE is every reason to believe that
the friends of the Dakota admission
scheme will use every effort to crowd
the measure through the next session
Of congress, the plan being, as before, to
divide the territory, and admit the most
populous half to the Union. The mat
ter can not, with any shadow of justice
to a rapidly growing section of the coun-
try, be much longer postponed. To off
set the scheme, the democrats, realizing
that their former fiimsy excuses for OPP
position will not much longer stand,
propose, it is understood, to offer a bill
providing for the division of Texas into
two or more states. This will increase
the party strength in the senate, and
make republican ascendancy in that
body a more doubtful problem for sew
eral years to come.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-07-25

ONE of the most prosperous OF Penn
~sylvania liquor dealers made it point
to open barrooms where there is a strong
local option law to forbid sales. He
reasons that men will have liquor ifthey
want it, and, if they are obliged to get
it on the sly, will not grumble at paying
q high price. He carried on his trade
for two years in Sharon, where the
traffic was prohibited. He managed to
do it, however, and got a dollar q pint
for whisky which cost him a dollar and
a quarter a gallon. He often made over
a hundred dollars a day. Finally they
arraigned him in court. He had the
case postponed for six months, and went
on as before. The jury disagreed, and
he had six months more. The end was
a fine of $50.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-07-25

II is of the greatest importance to
Benton that the Indian reservation be
thrown open to settlement, and our peo-
pie should neglect no opportunity to as
sist in securing that end. When the
commissioners to treat with the Indians
arrive in this section they should be in
duced to pay ayisit to the river metro
polls, or in the event they do not, a COM
mittee should be appointed to wa. on
them andpresent in its proper light the
situation Of affairs in northern Montana
with respect to these Indians.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-07-25

ticket, as Hendricks has fallen into dis
favor in some quarters. 1t is, however,
very unlikely that the old gentleman's
health will allow him to enter into an
other hard campaign, and with Tilden
out Of the way it certainly looks like
Mcdonald, of Indiana. He is a very
strong second choice now. Bayard has
apparently a hopeless following, judging
flom the talk of his admirers. Butler
comes next, but the support Of Massa-
chusetts is about all there is of him.
The sentiments of the democracy in re-
gard to him exhibit every feeling, from
the utmost contempt through respectful
fear to alleged genuine admiration. It
must be borne in mind, however, in set
ting up democratic candidates, that
Hoadly with an "if'' attached to him
looms up ready to smash all present
states. If he is elected governor of Ohio
the democratic party may imagine, as
in Cleveland's case, that they have dis
covered their political Moses, and before
the Hoadly boom dies out he may have
secured the nomination. But just now
he is but a conditional candidate.
From the present outlook the chances
are that Arthur or Lincoln will be the
republican standard-bearer with Nc
Donald leading the democratic host in
the political battle.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-07-25
A Slight Decrease.

PORTLAND, Oregon, July 17.-North-
West News special: although the wheat
acreage in the state is greater the yield
will not be more then 20 per cent. of
last year. The decrease is due to heavy
frosts in the Willamette valley and dry
weather for the last two months. The
hay crop will be large, but fruit poor.
Reports from Montana, Idaho, and Da-
kota indicate fine crops. Cattle are in
excellent condition.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-07-25

MARSHAL BoTKIN is busiIy engaged
in investigating last falls election frauds
in this territory, not for the purpose of
contesting the Hon. Martins seat, be-
cause that would be worse than useless
in a democratic congress, but to satisfy
the public at large that fraud was used
III assisting Martin Maginnis to his seat
in congress. In Missoula county the
Marshal has obtained unquestionable
evidence Of fraud in counting returns,
which gave his opponent yer ! 900 lie
gal votes. Testimony relative to Custer