The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-23
POLITICAL NOTE AND GOSSIP.

SENATOR BAYARD is in the habit of making
speeches without ever once mentioning the name
of Grover Cleveland.
JACOB RoMEIs, who defeated Frank Hurd for
Congress, is a plain hard headed workingman,
who will make as good q RepreSentive as he has
been municipal officer in Toledo.
CARL SCHURZ said his hand should wither be-
fore he voted the Democratic ticket again. While
he has been getting his hand ready for the No
vember wither, perhaps the cold breeze from
Ohio has given him a withered ear
PHILADELPHIA Press Yes, William Walter
Phelps is Republican dude and wears his hair
banged They say he wears it banged so it may
cover up big sabre cash cut upon his forehead
by good Democrat during the war.
MAJOR MCKINLEY at Logansport: II am a
Republican because am an American. want
to see that great American statesman James e.
Blaines elected, because every foreign nation
and foreigner wants to see him defeated"
HENRY WARD BEEoHER's son, Col H W.
Beecher has been quoted as an important add
ton to the Brooklyn Independent movement
In Col Beechers Office sixteen of the nineteen
men employed are earnest supporters Of Mr.
Blaine.
St LOUIS Globe Democrat: The Democrats
didn't expect to carry Ohio. Certainly not
And Lee didn't expect to win the battle of Get
tysburg OF course not. He fought it for fun
Just to keep his hand in He thought he'd
take run into Pennsylvania. and while there
he thought he'd have little brush with the
Yankees.
MoSwEENEY, the assisted emigrant of the
Democrats has been indulging in another lie
He says he was elected Poor Law G uardan with
out his consent Hugh O'Doherty, neighbor
says that insolvency sought the Office, spent
some money to get it. and held it before his ar
rest He does not deny that he performed the
duties of the office
New YORK Sun: Jut now the only apparent
contribution to the campaign which be
traced to tho independent Republicans is a
copious flow of scandal Numerically they are
nowhere but they are potent in defamation, and
that, too. of the most repellent and odious quail
ity. What wonderl Is it not the natural and
logical consequence of their support of Grover
Cleveland
In speaking of the Democratic effort to howl
down Mr. Blaine at Fort Wayne, the Cincinnati
Commercial Gazette says: 1.-THE indecency Of
the Fort Wayne Democrats toward Mr.. Blaine,
and the characteristic attempt to silence him by
a display of mob violence, will do him no harm
in Indiana or throughout the country. 1t is no
better than was to be expected of party that
silences Republican votes in eleven States of the
Union by shotgun and bull whip.
ABOUT ton of campaign documents has been
delivered to the Democrats at Springfield, III.
They are intended to prove that Blaine has been
a Know nothing and are to be sent among the
Irish Catholics. The charges made in them
against Mr.. Blaine have been shown to be false
and malicious. The paper in which they were
first printed, the Boston Pilot, by the way has
declared that Mr. Blaine's principal opponent
has not single qualification to fit him for the
presidency,
GATH" in Broadway Mote book" ~ am
asked occasionally on what the sanguine Demo
Gratis base their hopes of Cleveland carrying this
State. have asked great many Of them to
explain the faith that is in them, and when get
an answer at all, it is the same from each.
They say that Cleveland got 10000 majority
only two years ago. | reply now that the Demo
Gratis had IL, 900 only year ago in Ohio, aud are
beaten IL, 900 or more this year. On the same
principle Cleveland ought to fall off 100000"
"GATHs" New York letter. The appearance
of Gresham at the business mems meeting seems
to cut the last cord which unites the once prom
Using independent movement to the Democracy.
Gresham was designed by portion of the kick
ers at Chicago, to have been their dark horse.
The more Jesuitical kickers even wanted to
cheat Gresham because he was the dark horse,
and have third dark horse yelled in tho rear Of