The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-19
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

THE Republican party and the present admin
islration are fair subjects for searching criticism
from their political opponents, but the efforts to
reach them by joining a diSreputable wretch like
Dorsey in defainag the memory of President
Garfield is neither decent nor shrewd.-New
York Times
THE telegraph operators, however, must act
on their peril, and they will do so intelligently
if they will but bear in mind that they are not
masters. but servants, and that their real master
lie not company, but the organized life of socie-
W. which to defy is folly and mere rashness.
Boston Advertiser.
THE presidential election will not turn entirely
on personal questions. The platforms will be
made by the action of the two parties, and when
the conventions meet next year IL will be found
that the names now mentioned Will, many OF
them, be found among the dead and h0pelessly
wounded.-Louisvle Courier-Journal.
WE know part of the sun story about what
happened in Chicago in the time OF the conven-
ton, and what occurred in New York at the
conference in August, TO be tissue OF iniscon-
captions, misunderstanding and lies, and we
believe the rest of it to be of the same character.
No proof Is presented, and I'm our opinion none
exsts.-Ciucinnati Commercial Gazette.
IT speaks very well for the wOrkingmeD that
they repudlate kearney. He Is the last man IN
the world 20 be Intrusted with any leadership or
authority, especially in a movement based on
the in herent principles of equality and democ-
racy. His only qualification is his impudenee,
which Is quite equaled by his ignorance, and he
attempts the high and noble role of a popular
leader with the temper and spirit of pirate and
slave trader.-New York World.
THE assertion that protection ana imitation are
twins is bombast. There Is no imitation in pro.
lection. 1t augments the wages of the working
men, giving them the full purchasing power of
what they earn, but it does not make them pay
higher for their food than what is paid in free
trade countries Protection here gives to the
working man more money to buy with than free
trade does in England, and it does not enhance
the price OF what ne buys.-Cleveland Leader.
VOTERS have no faith in party that tries TO
gets Office by tricks and lodges, evasi0ns and
conceaiments. They reason, and rightly, that
such party is either a mere conspiracy of
greedy spois- grabbers, or that it has dark de-
signs which 1t does not dare to avow. Probably
half million voters Will vote against the DEM
Ocratic party for no other reason than this, that
it brands itself as unworthy of confidence by
the tricks and evasions to which it resorts.-'New
York Tribune.
THE ''Doss" game is one which has not so far
been successfully played with the Federal adj
niinistratiOn. If Mr., Garfield bad lived, we
should have seen admirable example OF il;
but the pistol OF Guiteau prevented that. When
Mr. Arthur became President there were people
silly enough to suppose that lie would be the
servant or tool of a ''boss;' and those who dis
liked or suspected him were quick to set on foot
runners of his subserviency to Mr. Coukng. but
the piililic has long ago discovered, what the
Herald very early predicted. that Mr. Arthur is