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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-24

American nation respected and honored at home and
abroad. He will give lustre to the American flag
and new sweep and scope to American trade and IN
terests. And he will do this by peaceful means
Philadelphia Press.
WE must take the best that get and not the
best that we conceive Scion said of his laws and
to insist on ideal results when the facts do not admit
of them is to become impraeticabe, purist and a
dude whose place is not with parties at all but in his
solitary chamber and communion with his own soul:
In that sphere he is often of admirable use but out OF
it as often an obstructonist and Pharisee-New
York Commercial Advertiser.
WE hope the graduate of this year will not be too
nical to vote and that he will abure the silly atfecta-
ton of despsing politics. Let him read the papers
read political history, study up the questions which
divide political parties and be able to express an IN
telligent opinion of their merits A fellow who has
spent much time in studying the affairs of the little
cities of Heas ought to be ashamed not to know and
to about the politics of the greatest republic IN
the world And if he wants to distinguish himself in
politics. him from the start that the path OF
the professional kicker is not easy, and isn't long.
New York Sun.
WE credit them 1.-THE independents with enough of
patriotic feeling and uprightness to resent and in
stantly repel some nominations that might be made
If they should have presented to them by the Demo
cratic convention, candidate of the Butler pattern,
for instance, they would instantly prefer Mr.. Blaine
in their hearts whatever pride of opinion might move
their tongues to say. Nor would they deceive them
selves to the practical effect of what they call "a
Republican revolt" If has any effect it is to elect
the Democratic candidate, whoever he may be. Is
that exactly position which conscientious and
patriotic men mean to takel-New York Tribune
THE best of them [Wall street stocksl have been
only mortgages the possible earnings of remote and
uncertain future. The worst of them have been the
deceitfu promises of desperately dishonest men, Sc
cured by property that had existence but in their
lying inventions The odfashioned idea of share OF
stock that it certificate that the holder had act
uay paid the face value of toward enterprise and
entitled to proportionate share of the profits
therein, is exploded In many cases the STOCK
shares of to-day represent not cent of padn cap
ital and are merely the chips in gaming operation
of which the construction company" is the most ia
miliar type.-New York Times
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New York World.

Mrs. Blaine is lady honored in society, be-
loved by those who know her well, but has not
the happy faculty of making friends and ac-
quaintances and retaining them which her hus-
band possesses. A society writer discoursing
upon this subject recently said: at is being
discussed in society by those who remember the
plans for great exclusiveness at the White House
begun land suggested, as all believe by Mrs.
Blaine) with the early weeks of the Garfield ad.
ministration, how thoroughly Mrs. Blaine, if her
husband is elected President, will carry out the
project for, as she then expressed it, Working
people esteem it a privilege to go to the White
House. 1t is a well known fact that many who
went to call on Mrs. Garfield on Tuesday and
Friday evenings at the White House before her
illness began were refused admission, while
others at the same time We admitted. Some
were refused even after they sent in their cards"
Mrs. Blaine is of New England stock-ta
well-formed with strongly marked features, set
in frame of gray, almost white, hair; stern,
earnest character and manner, and a long eX-
perience in public life such as few women have
had. The mother of half dozen children, she
has not allowed her social duties to interfere
with those of her home; and yet on the other
hand, has never neglected her duties to society
or her husbands position The entertainments
at the Blaine mansion have always been elegant.
and attended by only the best elements of
society. Personally, she does not enjoy public
life or its honors, and it is more that the crown
ing ambition of her husbands life might be re
allied that she welcomed the result of Chicago
Gen. Logan is the first married ma nominated
by the Republican party for Vice president in
twenty years. His wife, Mrs. Logan, is one of
the most popular and brilliant women in society.
In figure she is much like her associate, Mrs
Blaine, and in face they are somewhat similar
In gentleness of manner and tact as a politician
and social leader she is surpassed by few. She
is one of the busiest women in social and politi-
cal life here. She attends personally to the SEN
ator's political affairs supervising the work rela
tive to his large correspondence, examining into
the subjects referred to in the thousands of let
tiers he receives, and making herself quite as ia
miliar with his affairs as he is himself Person
ally she is perhaps the better politician of the
two. She has taken fighting hand in all of his
campaigns, and in ability to entertain and make
friends political and personal, she is surpassed
by few women in public life. One other Sen
ator's wife is something like her in this respect
Mrs General Williams, of Kentucky. In person
Mrs. Logan is quite as attractive as Mrs. Blaine,
in manners, even more So She is tall with we'll
rounded figure, handsome, intelligent face,
hair almost as white as the driven snow, in
marked contrast with the raven locks of "Black
Jack, her husband.
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THE KING OF THE HARVEST.
The Ever-Reliable Esterly Knocks the
PersimmOn and Scoops the Field.
Light Draft" Tight Bundles and Easily
Managed Was the Unanimous
Verdict.

The most spirited trial of harvesting machines
that has occurred this season took place on Sat
urday in field of barley ten miles from Ander
son. Ten noted self binders were in the contest
the lightdraft Esterly, Piano. Champion, st.
Paul, Deering, ST., Deering, jr, Mccormick,
Johnston, Excelsior and Minneapolis The little
Esterly was placed upon a pair of binder trucks
and hauled by two horses to the field of contest,
a distance of ten miles. The same two
horses, after resting barely thirty minutes,
were then hitcned to the lightdraft Esterly and
went gaily into the field, cutting right along,
never missing bundle or choking (only stopping
when compelled to by the stopping of some
faulty contesting machine which called hault
to adjust its binder relieve a choke '
The Johnston choked down and had to pull out;
the Deering, jr., would not bind, and ran so
hard it nearly ruined the team, and all the
others were in greater or less trouble. The Nc
Cormick had on three large mules and it tagged
them out to pull it. The Champion had three
large and powerful horses and their work was so
heavy that they were badly blowed long before
the end of the contest g
The Esterly did, as she always does, admir-
ably, and received the warmest appreciation of
the fair minded farmers who saw the trial 1t
was the only machine that did not choke or miss
a single bundle during the contest, and was the
favorite for lightness of draft, evenness of work
and easy management. The agents sold four
machines on the ground.
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CURRENT PRESS COMMENT.

LET bondhoders demand that he [Jay Could shall
renqush his trusteeship let stockholders demand his
resignation from the drectorates of their companies
let his decline to boards with
him. let banks and bankers decline to contract with
him those identified with him. When we have
thus shown resolution to repress those who corrupt
individuals courts and legislatures to advance their
selfish schemes, then, and not till then will people
breathe freely then. and not till then, will investors
at home and abroad have their confidence in
porate properties restored.-New York Sun
But Mr.. Blaine will come to the Presidents chair
the strongest the truest and the most typical Amer
lean of our times. AT last it is not accident, but
the choice of the natural and the acknowledged leader
Mr.. Blaine is the most popular living American be-
he is the most representative living American.
He is TO the American people what Gladstone the
English and Bismarck to the German. He has the
same creative genius, the original power of con
ception, the same high stateclaft. He will dignity
and eXalt the American name. He will make the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-24
Let the Tattoo Be Honored.
"Gath's" Note. Book.

We have tattooed man. Let the name be
honored. Also on the skirmish line I
have heard the tattoo in the drawn
battle when the weary army went to rest know
ing that to -morrow would be sulphury again.
The tattoo was beaten next when the camps and
hospitals too were glad with victory, and blessed
in the heavens by fevered eyes the stars seemed
to shed the gentle music back Finally the tat
too dissolved the noble army which
moral philosophers, marched before its long
insulted President with modest mien and hal
lowed feelings of gratitude to God that it had
persevered to the last and never mutinied by the
way. November next the tattoo will be beaten
upon another dead rebellion when the tattooed
man walks up the White House porch and says:
my countrymen, ave."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-24

They laugh at old Jack Logans English. How
do they like his Americana Bred in Egypt, of old
dices Wien it was wa 4 eV to Law Ut them S dow down
for the Union he had the courage of his patriot
ism. There was no pseudo Chevalier Bayard in
him, not to know which was his country and
which his county. He thought that the flag was
the language, and that is the American he spoke
to the enemy. Shame on a man from Illinois
who forgets that John Logan went to the front
to fight that he might stay home, and write and
enrich himself He would have been welcome in
would have made him President if he had gone
there and they possessed the power. He will
live to sit at the head of the Senate, and teach
people whose English is their only doubtful dis
tinction to hear the American language ''as she
is spoke"
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on all public questions, but to have an under
standing with them that they are to use what he
tells them in any way they like provided they
do not print it as coming from him. Very rare
ly has his confidence been betrayed. Many a
Washington correspondent has obtained repu
tation for skill in forecasting party or con
gTessiOnal action and for wisdom in the discus
sion of the topics of the day, based on
judicous use of the information and opinions he
has got in little talks in BlaineS library or bed
room late at night. Blaine never asks favors or
commentator from correspondents nor resents
their criticism. With high estimate of the
power of the press, he does not regard it as ON
nipotent and knows that while it can lift up
weak man into temporary prominence it cannot
pull down strong man. He has stood as much
newspaper hostility and abuse as any man of
this generation, but, after all, not much more
than Henry Clay endured. and not as much as
was heaped upon Andrew jackson. We are dis
posed to think that the statesmen of the earlier
periods of the republic were far above the reach
of calumny, and moved about in an atmosphere
of serene patriotism. perusal of the files OF
old newspapers will dissipate this no
ton. They were one and all de-
nounced as corrupt, ambitious, self-seeking
men. To borrow Tennyson"s phrase "They
walked with their heads in a cloud of poisonous
flies" How little Blaine cares for the attacks
upon his personal character, one instance which
ton of 1880 he was much abused in the newspa-
pers hostile to his candidacy on account of the
Mulligan letters. One day, about fortnight
before the convention met he was in New York
at the Fifth-avenue Hotel, and having business
down town he invited a friend to walk with him.
To avoid the crowd in Broadway and the chance
to be detained by acquaintance. they followed
the back streets. Near Canal street Blaine
stopped in front of blll-poster's board bearing
the placard of variety theater, on which APP
peared in starring red letters the words, "Mulli-
gan Guards" "Do you see that" asked Blaine.
'Well, if I am nominated for President | want
the band to play that tune the first thing"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-24
THE AVERAGE REFORMER.
Little Story with Local Application and a
Great Truth,

Great Truth,
General Brownies Speech in Peelle- English Case
Mr.. Speaker l wish you would refer to the
testimony of William Pinkney Fishback, which
is to be found here in the Record Gentlemen,
give me your attention while l read what this
prominent Republican admitted. Here is the
questions well, did you not have some COM
Functions of conscience as lawyer when you
voted that ticket on that materialW Now that
was a lucid and strictly legal question. He
answers: II have not changed my opinion about
that ticket which l expressed to Senator Melon
aid" 1 remember the fellow in the story
book who asked Sandy about the state of rel
gion in his town. He said it was very bad, very
bad. There were no Christians in it except
Davis and himself, and he had some doubts
about Davis. Laughter My friend William
Pinkney Fishback thinks there are but two hon
Donald and he has some doubt about Mcdonald.
Renewed laughter
which he expressed to Mcdonald! He says it
was not when he voted but before he voted. He
voted this fraudulent ticket that is, he voted
part of it and he scratched part of it, He said
when he voted it that it was fraudu-
lent ticket and probably designed for
fraudulent purpose. Yet he did
vote that ticket after he had expressed that
opinion. When, according to the language of
the committee, he had voted that ticket he had
done whatl Why, he had admitted that it was
fraudulent, and gotten up for fraudulent pur-
poss. | submit the question to any lawyer in
this House, was the question or answer legal!
Would it have been admitted in any court in the
trial of any easel put the question to you
that, instead of this being an admission it was
simply the expression of opinion of gentleman
whose particular prominence in the Republican
party of late is made manifest by writing polit-
zeal disquisitions through the Democratic press
against the dogmas and doctrines of his party
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Calkins and Blaine.

''Jayhawker." in Cincinnati Enquirer.
Hon. w. H. Calkins bore the same relation to
the Republican convention that Blaine did to the
one at Chicago. The vote showed that his
strength was in the strong Republican districts
to bear the brunt of electing him. Mr. Calkins
is large man intellectually, an effective speak
er, and one of the most active mixers in Indi-
ana. Mixing is easy work for him, because he
likes people and wants them to like him. Hisr
gallantry and good nature made him a populas
hero with his comrades in the army, and he la
kept alive the fraternal relations he then held
with the boys. In ability and character Mr.
Calkins is the peer of any man in the State.
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stood on a corner waiting for car When the
car came along she thought she would wait lit
tie longer and get on one that was not SO
crowded Poor woman! She had heart disease,
and she died on that corner Ever since no wo-
man in Louisville has ever failed to get on
rammed -jammed crammed mule-car. Every
woman is sure she will die if she waits for a car
that any body can breathe in.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-24

New York Commercial Advertiser
The country does not care fig what religion
the Utah people believe in or practice but it
means that they shall cease to commit crime by
Wholesale and shall submit to the rightful au
thority of the United States. When they do
that they will be free to worship the great Pan
jandrum himself if they see fit
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-24
A Ticket Suggested.
Milwaukee Sentinel.

UIIIWdUkVB :
Butler for President and Jeff Davis for Vice
flag" in the North and an appropriation in the
South, with the wild cry of turn the rascals
out for convenient campaign shibboleth, would
certainly prove popular card, and would be a
hard ticket to beat 1t would be like the sheet
which the Apostle Peter saw let down from
heaven at Joppa, filled with 'all manner of four
footed beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and
creeping things, and fowls of the air"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-24
A Poor Plagiarism from Governor Morton

One day, during his administration as Gov
ernor of Massachusetts, he went out driving
with Oliver Ames, the Republican Lieutenant
governor Butler sat on the back seat, facing
the coachman. Ames sat on the front seat,
facing Butler Butler looked at Ames during
lull in the conversation for a moment or two,
laughed quietly and then remarked: Games,
you remind me of the Democratic party" why,
Governor, with a smile, ''you can't see anything
until you get by it ~. ....l. =.
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Big, Manly, Sincere, Honest.



Hon William H. Calkins is big, manly, hon
est, sincere fellow without the smallest grain of
subtlety or finesse in his composition. He is the
kind of man you would naturally and implicit
ly trust for he has the appearance and manners
of an earnest, honest man, and, what is better
yet he has a record which does not belle his ap-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-24
A Plea for the Straw Hat.

New York Evening POST.
The trouble with the Anglomaniac is that,
like all zealots, he goes to irrational lengths.
The straw hat is feature of the national dress
and life which we cannot possibly give up for
the sake of England; and if James G. Blaine is
the man we take him for, he will say something
about it in his letter of acceptance.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-24

National Republican.
r. R. Shiel, the nominee for State Treasurer,
served four years private, and came home to
win distinction as rarity in the shape of an ar
dent enthusiastic Irish Catholic Republican.
For long time he stood alone. sort of political
rara avis, but to-day ''Rhody' has the satisfac-
ton of knowing that Irish Republicans are num-
erous in Indiana, and that as a class they have
been markedly recognized in denomination
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-24
HOW He Loves HendricIxs.

Gaths New York Special.
I forgot whether told you that Mr.. Tilden, be-
ing recently spoken to by friend, heard the re
mark: Governor, you can not decline merely
now. You will have to fight your way out
of the nomination" Tilden raised his eye lit
tle put his ear forward and whispered to his
friend: 'Will Hendricks have to fight his way
out of the nomination." ~
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Tho Growth of Habit.
Louisville Courier-Journal.

LOUISVILLE Courler-Journal
There are many persons who do not under
stand why women-especially large fat women
always get in a crowded mule-car rather than
wait a few minutes for car in which they
might be more comfortable. But there is IA
reason for it. just after the first street railroad
had been built in Louisville very large woman
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-24
One Trial of the Campaign.

New York Commercial Advertiser.
Blaine poetry is coming in at the rate of
bushel q day Two poetry editors have already
sent in their designations. They feel themselves
upon the borderland of insanity.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-24
LINCRUSTA WALTON

prepared to show the people of Indiana what
LINCRUSTA is and it's wonderful and artistic applicability
to interior decoration 1t the elegant and durable
tera for panels wanscong dadoes dngs etc. shown
and has almost mess possibilities when treated by the brush
of the sk esco painter under whose master hand may
be made to glow with color The LINCRUSTA WALTON,
with figures standing out in bold relief presents depth
and richness that be approached by any other style
interior decoration extant.
would ask all persons interested in art to call and
these goods with their unique patterns in tiles essare ETC.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-24
A Receding Phantom.


BrookIyn Eagle.
The man who caught sight of tariff reform "
through telescope at the Saratoga convention
yesterday had his glass broken early in the
proceedings.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-24

New York master plumbers say 200 men are
already locked out. This is about 80 per cent.
of the iourneymen plumbers union. The jour
neymen assert not more than 400 are locked out.
The bosses intend to advertise for out-of-town
plumbers
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-24
Impudent Question.
Buffalo Express.

Buffalo EXpresS-
'How will my love come back to mel" sings a
fair poet in Western magazine. First tell u.s.
is he a delegate to the Chicago Democratic con-
vention?
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This Settles 1t,


New York Graphic.
We fear Ben Butler can never be elected Pres
ident. He has nephew umpiring for the
Northwestern Base ball League.
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An Awe-Inspiring Mystery.

Pltt5DuTg
There it lay coiled up the floor, harmless
circle of elastic braid, held together by two
nickel clasps, and yet. in all the three hundred
brave men and handsome women present, no one
dared to touch it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-24
Shall We Kill Hinn9

Moralizing Exchange.
No one can afford to have friend whose talk
makes him tired. Life is too short
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-24

Roberts Park Sunday-scbool will picnic at
Zionsville. Friday 9th Fare, round trip,
adults, 80 cents; children, Is cents.
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The Original New Constitution Man.

Logansport Journal
Whatever honor is due the one originally pro-
posing and persistently advocating the calling of
this convention belongs to Mr.. j. T. Dryer, OF
this city, who for years has strongly urged the
necessity of a new Constitution.
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There is no sweetness in a kiss,
Unless your teeth are just like pearls.
Then would you share its trembling bliss,
Use Sozodont at once, sweet girls
For it alone gives to the mouth,
White teeth and fragrance of the South.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-24

Crouch ON PAIN" Porous PLASTER, for back
ACHE pains in the chest, rheumatism. 25c.
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MIwauKee ScntIheI.
The Philadelphia Times says: Justice, so long
delayed, is coming to Fitz John Porter So
they are going to hang him at last are theyl
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frank
Better loves to read
Than to play.
Hear him with his mother plead:
Bring me book from far away.
Books,
The minds food,
Are good;
But never clutch
Too much.
Good soul, sound stomach, strong brain
These are the chain
Which hold the world in your hand,
And govern the land
These serve God the best
Till He gives you rest.
If you'd fill life with true Joy,
My boy
While you use these 'spectacles"
Foryour eyes,
Remember to get strong
AS well as wise.