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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-15
POLITICAL NOTE AND GOSSIP.

SECRETARY LINCOLN will make his first speech
in this campaign at Nation, ILL.,, the 22d inst,
1T is claimed that there are thousands of votes
| in Ohio which will be cast for Democratic State
officers who will vote for Butler instead of Cleve-
land in November.
WoMAN's Journal: Women must be opposed
at all other cost to that which is destruction Of
the home They know with an unerring instinct
that the purity and safety of the home means
purity and safety of the State and Nation.
In the "Solid South" some Democrats, antici-
pating the election of Cleveland, are already
hawking about petitions for appointment to
federal offices and obtaining signatures. There
are five Bourbons looking for the appointment
of postmaster at Charleston, 5. Z.
In the seventy-one years nextpreceding the en-
actment of the Morrill, tariff, Al llS patents were
GRANTED. and 3O8 reissued i'll this country, while
in the scant twenty-four years since the new
patents have numbered 275, 500, and the reissues
10 22l Yet the Boston Post thinks invention
has gone dead because of protection"
ST. LOUIS Globe Democrat: We related yes
terday how DR.. Mclean once cruelty discharged
boy for going to sleep on guard over bushel
of pills and allowing a COW TO eat them up. The
Doctor showed lack of business sagacity in this
He should have promoted the boy and adyer-
tsed the incident as proof of the purely yege-
table character of the pills
PORTLAND Press: Mr.. Beechers memroy
shows signs Of Improvement He can now re-
call accurately a conversation held at a dinner
table many years ago. When few years ago
he was examined in court on matters which
would have been likely to make a lasting i'm
preston upon his mind, a large part of his
answers were II don't know or II don't re-
member"
j. E. CHURCH. of Hackensack, N. j., who
some time ago declared that he would abandon
the Republican candidates and vote for Cleveland
has returned to the fold, as he himself expresses
it. He cannot endure the free trade sentiments,
the sympathy with rebels, the stuffed ballot
boves the midnight murders and the lying about
Mr. Blaine which distinguish the party to which
he had thought of allying himself. Mr. Church
Is a man of taste and courage.
JOHN ROACH made one of the best speeches Of
the campaign yesterday. Every workineman
ought to readit. 1t is short. Here it is, Point
ing to the cruiser Atlanta, which had just been
launched, he said: 'There is the best argument
I lrnsw for protection T,.sstt shin is made up Of
% Der cent labor and per cent. material If
by free trade you make nue. build ships cheaper,
where will the cheApening be donel Certainly NOT
from the per cent Of material No it must
come out Of the IS per cent. paid for laboz.n
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-15

THE New York Herald of to day states that
Mr.. Edward Kearney, the Tammany sachem,
last night offered to bet the sum of $4,000
even that Cleveland would beat Blaine in the
city of New York. There were no takers,
and the money awaits at the Hoffman House.
There is other betting going on, with the odds
in favor of Cleveland. York Special to
Cincinnati Enquirer.
Think of it! What tremendous confidence
Mr.. Kearney, Tammany sachem, must have
TO bet even that Cleveland will beat Blaine in
the city of New York, which gives from no.
900 70 $4,000 Democratic majority. The next
we will hear will be of some man with hardi-
hood enough to bet even that Cleveland will
beat Blaine in Georgia, or Texas, or Missis-
sippi
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-15

THE Democrats have procured letter from
Francis, Bishop of Albany, in favor of
Grover Cleveland. When Protestant minis
ter or body of Protestant ministers indorse
Mr. Blaine, the Democratic press is filled with
the screech of politics in the pulpit But
they print with great zest a letter from a
Catholic prelate, asked for by Democrats, in
advocacy of the Democratic candidate. But
t Francis, or any other bishop, archbishop or
priest, can deliver over the Catholic Church
bodily to the Democratic party. The world
than Irish independence and freedom of po-
litical thought and action.
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been an example of virtue to his flock, fell from
grace and went to the circus. The strict disci-
pline of the church to which Mr.. Lightbourn be-
longs does not forbid ministers looking at a
menagerie, but this misguided pastor did not
lnger with the moral and instructive, if ill
smelling, animals, but walked boldly in and wit
Messed the sinful ring performance. AS soon
as the vestry of the Easton church heard of this
they wrote the pastor sharp letter, which was
followed Immediately by his resignation. Since
then it has been discovered that he was addicted
to athletic sports, which, though not of them
selves indicating depravity, are not ministerial,
and show him to have been untitled to act as
spiritual guide to the dyspeptic Easton people
1t is reported that Mr.. Lghtbourn, who is now
out of a job, seriously contemplates entering
journalism, but the question is, can journalism
lower its standard by admitting to its ranks
man guilty of going to circus2 If he could be
depended upon not to work off as fresh and orig
inal circus jokes "bowed with the weight of
ninety years." or thereabouts, the objection to
his admission might be less weighty. but of this
there is little hope men who bound into Jour
nalsm" from other professions always do this
thing, and the symptoms are decidedly that way
in Lightbourns case. 1t is time a line was
drawn as tightly as the deacon's
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freenen.

THE bank suspension of S. S. Davis, in Gin
cinnati, was caused by his paying teller
"speculatingi in wheat'-1nore of the internal
margin" scoundrelism. Take the record of
all the suspensions and failures, and more
than nine out of ten are caused by some sort
of rascality. Honest and conservative bust
ness, though not a bonanza, affords a legiti-
mate and proper profit, despite the dullness of
the times.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-15

We desire to call particular attention to the
letter below, merely observing that we have
no idea the paragraph quoted was ever written
by General Dow, but that it is bit of for
gerry committed in the interest of the Demo
cratic Liquorleague combination, to which
the third party, nominally for prohibition, is
playing tender. The letter is worthy careful
attention on the part of honest and conscien-
tious temperance men:
To the Editor of tho indianapolis Journal;
In the Monitor-Journal of Oct IL, we find
piece purporting to be written by Neal
Dow, in which the following paragraph &C.
curs
1--WE know perfectly we'll how hard it will be
for men who have shed their blood and imper-
lied their lives in defense of the old flag to do
anything. however, individually, to intrust
the national government to those who endeav-
ored to the utmost Of their power, to destroy
it and to wipe the Union from the map of the
world. BUT prohibition can never be OBJ
tanned in any other way"
Now, if the above does not prove that the
Monitor Journal is run in interest of the Dem
ocratic party, Or Of the solid South, which is
the same thing then you may set me down
non compos mentis. l am nearly seventy
two years old-haYe been minister in
church that carried the only prohibitory ban
ner for nearly one hundred years before 9TH
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-15

lean people have higher idea Of politics than
glass of beer The people of Boston did not
hesitate to throw tea overheard when it came
between them and their rights and liberties.
The brewers should read up carefully on the
history of the Boston tea party.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-15

Rev. A. W. LIeHTBoURN, of Easton, Nd, is
in peck of troubles Mr. Lightbourn has been
for some time pastor of a church at that place,
and fulfilled his duties in manner entirely salts
factory to the congregation until fatal daS
three weeks ago. On that day this man, who is
described as brilliant, talented and graceful,
and who has also reached the age of twenty-five,
when the sins of the world should no longer be
q tenptaNon-this minister, who should have
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-15

CERTAIN members of the New York Stock
Exchange have signifed that they will vote
for Cleveland, for the reason that Blaine is not
an honest man. Measured with the same
standard applied to Blaine, these fellows
would be in the penitentiary.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-15

DEsPAIRMG of defeating Blaine, even by
the desperate and disreputable methods en-
ployed, the Democrats have imported a subject
of Great Britain to take the field against him.
This, supplemented by British corruption
fund, is the last hope of the party of ere
form
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-15

THE New York Sun (Dem.) has keen ap-
probation of Mr.. Beecher's method of an
swering and "disposing of any man differing
with him. The Sun states it thus:
"Beecher-Ask Joy. He will tell the truth.
"Joy, when asked-Mr. Beecher is mis-
taken.
"Beecher-You are a liar"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-15

A BOSTON special says Mr. Elisha Atkins,
a gentleman widely known, denies any knowl-
edge of the statement made by Mr.. Warren
Fisher regarding the alleged offer of $4,000
by Mr.. Blaine, as stated by Mr.. Fisher, for
the Mulligan letters.
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formation

MRS. J. ELLEN FOSTER, the well-known
temperance advocate, after an address in
Pittsburg, on Monday night, said she was
opposed to dragging the temperance issue
into presidential campaign She thought
the question of prohibition ought to be de-
cided by special election, at which no other
issue should be considered.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-15
Impromptu Song.

[Tune-"Old Hundred."l
Ex-Governor Hendricks wants ohangei
The voters with him are agreed,
And by their ballots will arrange,
The programme for the country's need.
The word that sounds from Ohio,
Says Blaine and Logan are our choice;
To the White House they're bound to go,
And fifty millions will rejoice.
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the times.

TT isn't Rev. Ball this time, but thirty of
Bufslo's leading ministers. They say Cleve-
lands immoralities have continued up to the
present. They don't seem to think he has
suffered" and G'repented" half as much as
pictured by James Freeman Clarke.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-15
A COLUMBUS, O., special of yesterday, said:

"Mr Hendricks left the Neil House this
morning. Being questioned by Mr.. Donovin
as he got into the bus as to his views, he said:
L have been over this State too much to be
widely mistaken. The Democrats are sure Of
a majority tomorrow. 1 should say that
about IL, 900 is the most probable figure"
Mr.. Hendricks has had an accession of in
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-15

IT is said of Cleveland that during the day
yesterday he made no inquiry, and apparently
took no interest in the Ohio election. Why
should he9 That was Republican election.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-15

AND Mr.. Cleveland didn't say nothin to
nobody about nothin' He just went on dust
ing his papers and sweeping out his Office. 1t
was Ohio that was talking yesterday.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-15

A BLUR GRASS belle has joined the procession
of elopers but Der action is inexplcable as the
man she married is "a model young man" That
robs an elopement of half its romance, and
women who are inclined to marry such men are
not the kind that generally elope
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-15

ers came to our help; joined every temperance
organization that came along, from the old
Westinghouse on till this latter day saint
movement of the third party, which now
throws off the mask and virtually declares for
st. jefferson Davis. Now am off,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-15

WAS ever candidate more vilely abused and
maligned than James G.. Blaine7 He is walk
ing over the same road trod by Lincoln, Grant
and Garfield
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-15

To tho Editor Of the indianapolis Journah
To decide bet please state in to-morrow's
Journal whether Oliver T. Morton made any
speeches in the campaign of four years ago, or
not. Also his age CONSTANT READER
NEW CASTLE, IND, Oct IA
Yes. He is twenty -four years of age.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-15

A so-cALLED national university" at Wash
ington, which refuses to admit negro students,
would do well to change its name The distinc-
ton in color is very fine in the institution, Mr..
Lavender being one of the officers, but boys with
a suspicious tnge of yellow in their compilations
are ha rred ont
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-15

THE Independent dudes find fault with Gen
eral Logans grammar. His opponent, meas
ured by the standard of loyalty that fits
Logan, would have been hanged twenty years
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-15

WE pay no attention whatever to manu-
scripts written on both sides of the paper.
They go into the generous and hospitable
waste basket without reading.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-15

NEW WORKERS are interested in What-isit
which is described as weird, repulsive- looking
monstrosity, with the body of well-developed
boy and head the exact counterpart of a skye
terrier. l does not seem to have occurred to
any of the eminent scientists who have exam
ined it that the freak" is the independent party.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-15

LEAVE the matter to the loyal States, and
Democracy will never again be intrusted with
the management of public affairs.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-15

DEMOCRATS knew the tariff gun was loaded
and refused to have anything to do with it;
but it knocked 'em silly all the same.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-15

ANOTHER preacher is indulging in Republican
stump speeches Rev. Charles II. Eaton, of New
York city, inveighs against the use of the 'bar"
in politics, He may confidently expect the
Democrats to lump on him."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-15

Now let the manufacturing South join
hands with the industrial North, and we will
have the grandest and richest country in the
xuorId
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-15

If the brewers think it wise to make them
selves and their business political issue they
may wake up to discover that the great Amer
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-15

REPUBLICANS have made the discovery that
the four letters that spell Ohio also spell
GLORY"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-15

THE latest fashionable bonnet in London is
known as the mcrobe. No great danger is APP
pretended from its dissemination, as the microbs
is deadly only when swallowed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-15

BLAINE ''looked mighty sad last week
He always Clocks sad" about the time he hits
Democracy below the belt.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-15

ALI. honor to Ohio, to her gallant Repub-
licans, to her noble defenders of the doctrine
of protection to American industry
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-15

THE Republican elephant has ponderou
tread. Side-shows attract nobody while tn
show in the big tent is gong on.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-15

ALL honor to the German Republicans Of
Ohio, who could not be stampeded on a false
issue. nor be caioled by the brewers of In
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-15

WONDER when it will begin to dawn on
Democracy that American workingmen be-
lieve in protecting American industriesf
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-15

Do the brewers desire to turn over thei
business to the hands of the Democratic part
as political natter
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-15

II SHOULD say that about 1900 Demo
cratic majority is the most probable figure. -
THOMAS A. HENDRICKS, Oct. ID, 1884.
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AN idea of the thnness of Louisville beds may
be gained from the remark of the Courier Jour
nal on the occasion of the death, of citizen
He folded his couch about him" and passed
peacefully to rest.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-15

The man who scalped Ben Hill is again on
the war path, and has his fingers twisted in the
Democratic tOp-knot.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-15

THERE will be hundreds of thousands of
people in indianapolis to meet Blaine. No
postponement on account of the weather.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-15

OHIO did very well for a doubtful State
Iowa, and Kansas, and Michigan are hkewis
doubtful"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-15

THE corporate limits of Indianapolis will b.
doubled to accommodate the crowd on Tues
day next.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-15

THE solid South will be again met by 6
solid North. When will the South show com
mon sensei
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-15

'ToMMY, dear Tommy, come home with us
now, the clock in the steeple strikes" about
1000.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-15

ANXIOUS Democrat Yes, we are quite
sure that Indiana is going Republican this
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-15

GROVER CLEVELAND is going to New York.
This fact might escape notice; hence we al
lude to it,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-15

ONE of the most contentedest men in Indi
ana to-day is Joseph E. Mcdonald.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-15

THERE will be a much larger number of
Blaine men this morning than there were yes
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-15

THE kindergarten will come to order. Dear
little children, how do you like the news from
OhioY
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-15

How's the Journals aviary this morning,
any howl 1t is aviary cold day for Democ-
racv
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-15

WILL Democrats keep their infamous hands
off the homes, and wives, and mothers of the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-15

"THE question in this campaign is not po-
litical, but moral "-George William Curtis.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-15

Mr.. MCDONALD, the Republicans again
Sprung" the tariff question.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-15

THE Ohio returns up to the hour of going to
press indicate that Indiana is Republican by
10, 900.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-15

Mr.. BLAINE set the tune and the Repub-
licans of Ohio nobly kept step to the music.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-15

AS the telephone has it: The Republicans
care talking now"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-15

OUR Tummus thought the Democratic ma
iority in Ohio would be about IL, 900.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-15

MAINE 10000 in September; Ohio, 10000
in October; Indiana TO- 900 in November.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-15

THE Democracy will now understand Mr..
Blaine's magnetism"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-15

MAINE and Ohio, arm in arm, head the Re
| publican column.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-15

INDIANA must keep her place in the Re-
publican column.
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EB. HENDERSON will not hold those ratif-
cation meetings.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-15

Mr.. BLAINE is not honest enough for John
c. s. Harrison and John 7. Dye. He is not
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-15
good enough for Henry Ward Beecher and the

good enough for Henry Ward Beecher and the
dudes
THERE'LL be meetin' here tonight.
IT is the experience of 1880 repeated.
'THERE'LL be meetin' here tonight"
-
KENTUCKY failed to stake care of" Ohio.
BLAINE persists in meeting the people face
to face.
KEEP up the lies, SANDERS and hbels, gen.
tlemen.
THE solid South's corruption fund didn't
succeed.
IT was a great blunder for Mr.. Blaine to go
to Ohio.
SOMEBODY said the tariff was not an issue
this time.
LET it be understood. This is defensive"
campaign
Mr.. HENDRICKS did not come very "wide
of the mark
THE people don't seem to believe the lies
told on Blaine
BLAINE and Logan were in Ohio. Their
track is visible
AND Tommy went begging for votes, and
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-15

AND Tommy went begging for votes, and
didn't get none.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-15

BLAINE and Logan were in Ohio. Their
track is visible
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-15

THERE viii be red sunset tonight.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-15

THE people don't seem to believe the lies
told on Blaine.
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II Blaine had only kept out of Ohiol
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mon sensef
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AND Hendricks didn't get no bird.