The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-06

get up the matches do not arrange these affairs for re-
creation; They, are after the public's money, and they
are not dainty about The means they use for filling
their pockets.-New York Tribune.
THE delegates 70 Chicago are first for the Repub-
lican party and for the man who is most likely to lead
it to victory, whatever his name may be. After they
have held their conferences with other delegates they
will be able to come to a conclusion as to which candi,
date is most likely to carry New York the easiest, and
he will get their votes.-.Cleveland Leader.
THE popular mind may be bull-headed, and may go
wrong, but it is always robust and masculine in i'm
pulses and judgments. 1t has its heroes, but they are
always of the strong-soldiers, orators, statesmen, who
are strong in their own persons. 1t would quickly
cast OFF with contempt a bit of fimsy sentimentafity,
set up as the supreme end of a party which has saved
and regenerated a nation of fifty millions of people,
and which has strong leaders. who are identified with
all its great work.-Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
WHAT we must come to is II that the law must recog.
nize the fact that the preliminary action of parties
which determine what candidates shall be voted for
and seeks to influence public opinion in their favor, IS
as much a part of our machinery of government as
the more formal act of voting at the elections provided
by our Constitutions. The primary convention, the
State convention and the campaign meeting should all
be recognized and protected by statute, and places for
holding them should be provided in every civil or mu-
nicipal division. We would not need rich men for
candidates then, and primary elections would attract
the quiet voter louisville Commercial.
THE preference of a majority of the people is UNI
d~oubtedly with the Republican party; but to make
that preference active and effective, there must be no
mistake made and no extra risk assumed as to candi-
dates. All personal considerations will have to be
SuDOru1naUeu TO tine interests OF the party as a party,
and a ticket put in the field that no Republican can
find any plausible reason for refusing or neglecting to
support. With that kind of a ticket, the victory will
almost surely be ours; and on the Chicago convention,
therefore, rests a responsibility which every delegate
should consider a personal obligation to permit no
nomination of a less acceptable character.-St. Louis
Globe-Democrat,
THE great opportunity of the Republican party lies
in winning the support of this reform and ~independ-
emit element. With that support. success is assured.
Without it, success is not merely uncertain, it is alto
gether improbable, and nothing but fatuous blunder-
ing on the part of the Democratic party will make it
possible. This aspect of the situation ought to be
thoroughly impressed upon the minds of the delegates
who are to gather at Chicago within a month. Some
OF them may not like to recognize it, but it is a stub
born fact which must be taken into their calculations
If they propose to act with a view to party success.
Neither of the two men who will go into the conven-
ton with the largest number of delegates favorable to
their nomination can bring to the party the support
of this element which is so essential to success. To
nominate either of them would be to invite defeat.
New York Times.
OF course, it is the right and duty of the Legislature
to forbid. under severe penalties, the sale of fraudu-
lent authorizations of food. or the fraudulent substitu-
ton of one article of food for another, by which con
sumers and honest producers are systemati cally
cheated. But this is what the State Legislatures take
especial care not to do. The laws of New York, as
well as of most States, require that oleomargerine
shall be marked as such when sold as a substitute for
butter. These laws, however, are treated with con-
their execution. If laboratories in charge of compe-
tent chemists were established in the principal cities,
and made part of their detective police force, a whole
some check would soon be put upon the extensive
authorizations of the food of the people. This system
of cheating can be. arrested only when the consumer
can take his purchase, no matter how small, to the lab
oratory and have its genuineness tested at public ex-
pense.-Philadelphia Record.