The Indianapolis journal., 1884-07-10
CURRENT PRESS COMMENT.

4 good prac-
tce In the Southern States it is practced upon Re-
pubcans exclusively and it is not disagreeable us
to see the medicine administered to the minority Of
the delegates of the Democratic convention The par
y its largely to extingushng the vote
OF minorites and there is why it shouldnot
practice in conventions the policy it enforces at elec
tlons.--C cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
IT is sign of bad political management on both
sides that the religious question has been ugged into
the campaign. As far Catholics concerned
every sensible olitcian knows that the Republican
Catholics will vote the Republican ticket and that the
Democratic Catholics will vote the Democratic ticket.
We may add that the same profound observation ap-
plies equally to the Protestants and to the agnostics
and all others.-St. Louis Post Disuatch
GOVERNMENTS which allow the fullest freedom Of
speech and printing to their people can never be said
g ne IN serious danger for the simple reason that
seldom affects the great mass of the people to dam
gerous degree and Che of the party in power
mouthed demagogues of the opposition are always
ready to below forth their objections to what has
been DONE to what is being done and to what pro-
posed with little regard either to theory fact history
or truth.-St. Louis Globe Democrat.
The Republican party accepts civiIservice reform
as incomplete and asks for This is its position
lngly four years ago, it has advanced to stronger
pledge and more vigorous practice of reform in the
civil service It has nominated who believes in
IT, The success of the reform is bound up in its
cess, and its failure will be the failure and the dis
appearance of this great reform. Every man knows
this to be true and to candid men we commend this
solitary and significant fact enough to prove the
need of Republican success.-Ph Philadelphia Press.
The experience of the first session of the Forty
eighth Congress shows that serious mistake made
when the last apportionentof Representatives. the
number was increased There is no practicable reme-
dy for the evil complained of and it must be endured
until the next appointment is made on the of
1880, by which time it is hoped the grievance will
have done something toward providing for its own
cure In the meantime the people should be instruct
then-that the House is much too large and that in
stead of another increase there ought be decided
diminution. Washington Post.
THE great bulk of the trade Of Central and South
America is monopolized by Europeans England being
in the lead By their speeches and votes in Congress
the Democrats have shown that only are they con-
tent to leave this constantly increasing and most
lucrative trade in the hands Of Englishmen Germans
and Frenchmen, but are willing to go still further
and surrender home market to foreign producers
This party hostile to American industry and labor
expects to be ntrusted with the administration Of
public affairs after the present year and will soon be
appealing to the people for support Friends of a
protective tariff what shall the answer be2-Uleve
land Leader.
AS legislator executive has General Butler ever
done anything to tighten days labor to improve
the lot of woringmanl The intelligent men Of this
class know that they must depend upon themselves
not upon statute, to better their condition. But,
beyond the usual vaporing about eighthour lava
paper contrivance to make fourteen ounces pound
this champion of labor has done nothing hattbis lx
urous and miserly old lawyer stepping from his palace
car or his yacht clad in the fashion Of an ancient
beau should be able to impose upon the working peo-
pie the belief that he anything for them except
for their votes is Of the most curious and least
hopeful anomalies of our politics.-Boston Herald.
CLEvELAND's doctrine is that when the people have
created corporation the creature at once becomes in
dependent forever of its creator which cannot recall
or supervise the power it has granted This is the de-
strcon of the government of the people and the es-
Enlistment of the government by corporations.
Government by corporations is government by those
whose terms of Office never expire, who will never
come to the polls for election, who can never
be removed from their absolute seats by impeach-
ment, who will never die. There has never yet been
invented any political and industrial despotism which
will equal that of the corporations of the country If
Clevelands doctrine should be established that the
grant Of corporate charter is grant Of rrepeaabe
uncontrollable recoverable sovereignity Chicago
Tribune
The Democratic party fell from power as a conspi
racy against human rights, and to-day, with heart un
changed Is attempting to sneak back to power as a
conspiracy for plunder and spols Nevertheless turn
itloose.at Wsshington; this man Cleveland is not q
conspiracy but an estinable gentleman Is this all
there is of the argument does it GO still further9
Does Mr.. Curtis want the country to believe that
Cleveland is much greater than the whole of which
he is part that his presence in the White House
would change the Democratic party from conspiracy
for plunder and spoils into exponentof all the po-
htca beattudesl The leopard cannot by its own ex.
ertion get rid of its spots Is Cleveland then equal to
the job2 Can he singlehanded transform this much
spotted leopard into lambswith fleece as white as
snow3'-New York Tribune.