The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-08
Parties Need Dis oipline.

sure thing take heed?
Parties Need Discipline.
Lafayette Journal
Party leaders will only be followed when
they lead in the right direction. When they
act from purely selfish and partisan motive
they are generally rebuked, and that, too, in
no gentle terms. The Republican party has
committed some blunders, and it has been
punished. If the discipline il has undergone
shall teach it to avoid future mistakes its
success will be as signal and as brilliant ash its
past. A common devotion to the principles
OF the Republican party, and an honorable
policy, linked with a scrupulous regard for
the will of the Republican voters, will assure
victory.
The Republican Party and temperance.
Clay County Enterprise.
The Republican is the only party that has
ever done any thing tor temperance and has
done it incident tally and in keeping with the
general policy of the party. When it has
gone further it has always met with defeat,
Is it not better to keep the party in power
and secure what can legitimately be accom-
plished for this question than to overload it
and thus bring sure defeat not only to the
party, but to temperance as well2 There is a
SAVIOR of tyranny" in the endeavor to handi-
cap party with a non-political question,
against the will of majority of its members.
Frankfort Banner. r..s.
Senator Harrison is in no way responsible
for the appointment of Judge Woods to the
United States judgeship. For this appoints
ment, Others who have the ear of the Presi-
dent are alone responsible, and they can have
this consolation that they have appointed a
man who believes the people have no rights
corporations are bound to respect The
Banner wants every reader to remember this
fact, that Senator Harrison requested the APP
pointment of a brave soldier, who, as judge
and lawyer commanded the respect of all
who knew him.
Not Satisfied with MIR. Voorhees,.
Shelby Volunteer, (Dem.)
We want man in the Senate who repre-
sents our views on the great economic prob
lens of the day and not fellow who thinks
farmers are benefited by being forced to pay
four prices for all they buy while they are
compelled to sell all they raise in competi-
ton with the whole world. Dan Voorhees,
is the only Democratic member of Congress
from Indiana who advocates protection and
yet he expects tariff-for-revenue-only men to
return him to the Senate. 1t won't work,
and the Tall Wabamore of the Suckash will
have to retire.
How to Cure niiteracy.
AT the South SO per cent. of the colored and
30 per cent of the white population are una
BILE to read and write. Surely this is a state
of things that ought to be remedied. AS o
remedy let the constitution be amended so
"that on and after the year 1890 no person
not before eligible shall be permitted to vote
at any election in any State or Territory in
the United States who shall be unable, when
asked to do so by the officers of the polling
place, to write his name and read the laws OF
his country IN English, or his own native
tongue"
The Irish Vote and Free Trade.
Muncie Times.
If the Irish people of our country wish to
advance the cause of England and thereby
deter their own, let them vote with the Dem
ocratic party, which party is pledged to free
trade. If they wish to carry out the letter
and spirit of the resolution adopted at the
Philadelphia convention, to buy no more
goods of England, but to encourage home
manufactures, let them vote with the Re-
publicans and thereby help to continue the
protective system which has made our coun-
try one of happiness and prosperity.
Keep the Organization Intact.
New Albany Republican.
We think it the duty of the Republicans
to start up fire under the political pot and
keep it boiling from now henceforth to the
fore the people that will try the grit and
stamina of the grand old party to its core,
and no preliminary step toward the further
ance of republicanism should be neglected.
Thorough organization and cooperation are
needed, ana it is none too soon to begin to
get the ranks drilled and in working order.
The Inspection of Public Institutions.
Columbus Republican.
One of the greatest needs is a more thor
ough and searching system of inspection Of
all charitable institutions, so that it may abb
solutely be known at all times that they are
conducted in the manner contemplated in
their creation. No matter what Governor
Buffers object was in stirring this matter up.
if it arouses the country to a sense of the
abuses practiced in the name of charity, and
leads to a reform in this respect he will have
accomplished good work.
The Liquor Interest and the Democracy.
Logansport Journal
The liquor interest is rapidly gaining
controlling interest in the Democratic party
in all the great States of the West. 1t has
the Ohio Democracy completely under its
thumb and no man hostile to it can be NOM
mated on the partys ticket this year. In
Indiana similar situation exists The SUBJ
serviency of the Illinois Democracy to whis-
ky has been strikingly shown by the defeat
of license law during the present session of
the Legislature.
Little Chunk of Fact.
Lafayette Courier.
very large proportion OF the foreign
emigrants who come to this country come
on money sent them by their friends here.
That is to say, while laborers and mechanics
in Europe are unable to earn enough to
bring them to this country, their friends
here are able to send them the requisite
funds. Yet there are free-trade cranks who
persist in asserting that wages are no higher
in this country than they are in Europe,
The Solid Ground of Protection.
Frankfort Banner.
Upon any ground at any time, the advo-
Gates of protection can meet, answer and
confound the advocates of free trade, and
they can do SO because their position is right.