The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-04
POLITICAL NOTE AND GOSSIP.

Mr.. BLAINE will be the guest of Mrs. zacha-
riah Chandler during his stay in Detroit
ST. PAUL. Day: Ben Buffers campaign still
holds out.-Chicago Tribune. It's the widows
cruise.
THE Republicans of New Hampshire have
nominated for Governor Moore Currer aged
about eighty.
Hon. STEPHEN A DOUGLAS, a son of the great
Senator Douglas is making impressive speeches
in this campaign.
Hon CHURCH HOWE, of Nebraska, is in
charge of the Republican headquarters just
opened at Nashville.
THE Chicago Democracy have resorted to
matchmaking houses OF ill-repute and gambling
dens to raise campaign funds.
IT is reported on authority that Gen Thomas
Ewing has written to friend in Ohio that he. in
tends to vote for Blaine in November
Mr.. FAwoETT the English Postmastergen-
eral, says of the English workingmen that there
has been no substantial improvement in their
condition for the past fifty years.
PHILADELPHIA Press: Cleveland is the only
presidential candidate in the field who refuses to
declare his tariff principles in bold plain lau-
guage. No coward will be elected President
this year.
MILWAUKEE is stirred up With reports that Al
exander Mitchell, its richest man. will soon re-
sign the presidency Of the Chicago Milwaukee s.
st. Paul railroad on the chance Of getting into
Cleveland's cabinet.
THE Christian names of presidential electors
should be printed at full length on the election
tickets. This is all the more necessary as a
Democratic Congress will count the vote, and
will take advantage of every technicality
HENRY B. HARRISON, Republican candidate
for Governor of Connecticut, was the author and
chief advocate of the bill for the defence of lib
erty, which passed the Connecticut Legislature
in 1854 and forthwith and forever ended slave
hunting on the soil of that State.
Mrs LOCKWOOD the equal rights candidatefor
President, will speak in Cleveland, o., ON the
18th inst, on the issues OF the campaign She
will make her first campaign speech in Balti-
more in few days, and will then go West
through Philadelphia and New York.
A BLAINE and Logan club with 126 members
has been organized among the students of Ham
ilton College, at Clinton, New York. A Cleve-
land and Hendricks club with % members and
St. John club with members serve by contrast
to show the great strength of Republican senti-
ment in the college.
ACCORDING to the Albany Argus Dem Gov
ernor Cleveland did not write to the Ohio Demo
Gratis that protection was ian irrelevant issue"
but that it was IAN innocent discussion" There
is broad and statesmanlike view of the matter,
almost as noteworthy as General Hancocks re-
mark that the tariff was local issue.
THE Republicans of Nebraska have settled all
disagreements and are heartily at work for
Blaine and Logan, with the expectation of poll
inga Republican majority of 10000. In the
Third district, the largest in the country. COM
plete harmony has been restored by the unani
nous nomination for Congress of G. W. E. Dor
sey, chairman of the State central committee.
Mr.. J. B. MoCULLAeH says there is good
fighting chance of beating Gen. Marmaduke in
Missouri. The Prohibition vote for DIR. Brooks
will be heavy and this will be almost wholly
drawn from the Democrats. He also thinks
that the Republicans will carry several congress
sional districts. Glover Democratic candidate
in the Ninth (St. Louis district will surely be
defeated.
AT the town elections in Connecticut, next
Monday, the people will vote on the constitu-
tional amendment, already twice accepted by
the Legislature providing for biennial instead
of annual sessions. Several of the most infiu-
entail journals of both parties have opposed the
measure and the general opinion seems te be
that it will suffer popular defeat as similar
proposition did few years ago.
Mr. HENRY w. ALLEN, a New York business
man, in an interview at Ashtabula O., quoted
Dr. Deleyan of Albany, N. Y, an intimate
friend of Grover Cleveland, as saying that
Cleveland did not expect to be elected He is
satisfied with the honor of being nominated DIR.
Delavan says Blaine will certainly carry New
York by large majority. He says the major
ity would be larger if Butler was not in the
field.
PHILADELPHIA Press: The shadow of the
late George w. Julian, of Indiana-the same
Julian who nsed to call the Democrats Christ
less whelps'-is now lowering over the camp of
those same 'wheps," melting them to blacken
shapes and shadows that fit and dance upon the
horizon of the Democratic circle, there is none
so sad in suggestion so snared and soured as
that of the man who was once George w. Julian.
ALBANY Journal: Another prominent work
ingman has felt compelled to oppose Governor
Cleveland The Hon. David Healy, chief clerk,