The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-03
BLAINE AND THE INDEPENDENTS
What the Former Has Been Doing While the
Latter Talk of Mulligan.

What the Former Has Been Doing While the
Latter Talk of Mulligan.
"Gaths" New York Letter.
For weeks and months we had dreary annota-
tons of Fisher and Mulligau, while meantime
the Republican candidate was going around the
country stealing the vote What these reform
ers should have addressed themselves to he was
stealing That vote belongs to the present cam
paign, and is thing of news The Mulligan
and Fisher, and Arkansas railroad matters if
stolen, had long been stolen, and were now of
no consequence except as the viewless spirit of
lovely sound. Blaine went right out West, got
at the people, never replied to anything said
against him personally initiated Garfield ex-
actly, and that captured the vote, and did not
give Mulligan and Fisher one cent. Conceive
the meanness of the man who will not buy his
own letters back at high price Now leaving
jocoseness aside: there is something worth every
man, Democrat or Republic considering in the
illustration have given. We can not afford to
belittle ourselves by searching in the dung-hill
for Illuminating matter to elect Presidents
by. The trouble with the De nocratic party for
some time past has been fear to take up issues
Dig enough to stand long campaign. 1t is no
issue to cry down man who has been in the
public sight at least twenty years, who has been
neither better worse than the general man
we meet and visit and invite TO our house, who,
although stiff partisan, has never been reveng-
ful-indeed, not revengful enough for his
political good. The people are larger than these
reform editors. In the household relations of
families there is to be forgiven and forgotten
often, and if we can forgive those who
the most gratitude shall we fail to overlook the
personal temptations and weaknesses of a public
man who in this country at least is not sur
rounded with the protection and consideration
such as the family circle gives; who is pursued
back to his childhood and even beyond his birth
for something to satirize him with2
About all of the election which is going to hap
pen will be right in this State. This is the most
trading State in the Union. 1t has great deal
of force of character, and great deal of frivol-
ity of character. The best portion of it is the
country. The city has been almost destroyed in
patriotic understanding and grasp of national
matters by the speculative and gambling mania,
which has gone on here so long that nearly
everybody down town behaves as if he had won
the first prize in the lottery, and then bet the
money on horse-race. The next time we nom
mate candidates for President of the United
States the man who asks for Mulligan aud
Fisher will have both his ears cut off and be
turned out to grass among the new born calves.
Reform is not to be accomplished by professors
of reform, but by worldly men in power and op-
portunlty, who see occasion and take it by the
hand. The man who goes around carrying a
trunk, and saying he wants to be elected Presi-
dent of the United States because he has got the
only patent medicine and patent pump in the
world to make men sober, is fanatical humbug.
The man who goes around with an OLD brewery
on his back, saying he represents freedom, and
is its only apostle, will get drunk and be put in
the station house after short journey There
are but two parties in the United States. One
is the party that has been in a good while, and
the other is the one which thinks it better to
have change.