The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-09
CURRENT PRESS COMMENT.

DEMOCRATIC papers outraged at the indignty
the Republican national convention put upon itself in
ocrats had been permitted to retain their hold the
reins of government such terrible thing could not
have happened The negro would not have been al
lowed vote in the first place. and his only would
have been article of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Re
publican.
CURIoUsLY enough the Irish vote" is considered
leved that nearly all the IrishAmericans vote the
Democratic ticket, but there is growing spirit of in
dependence in that large and important element in
population and it is not impossible that the Demo-
Gratis may be called upon this year to show cause
why they should get the Irish-American votes.-Bos
ton Herald.
FROM Fremont down to Garfield, there has never
been a candidate for President nominated who UNI
worthy of the support of any true and we-disposed
Republican paper voter and the possibility of the
Republican party putting forward man for that
great office who will not be preferable to the best can
ddate that be offered by the Democratic party is
remote and improbable not to be worth consider
ing.-St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
THE sale of the island [Cubal to the United States
Mexico is openly discussed but the eagerness of
this country to possess Cuba has entirely disappeared
If the island became of the United States it would
add to the voting population of ignorant
speaking negroes less fitted for suffrage even
than were the freedmen of the Gulf States at the
close of the We have enough unsolved political
problems hands already without going to Cuba
for fresh supply.-Philadelpha Press.
COMPARE the number of educated men in Congress
to-day with the number in the first Congress- under
of politics. Whose fault is it2 Either the Amerie an
college has ceased to be power, the American col
lege professor and educator fails to do his full duty
Real wealth of learning has been sacrificed for mere
trcious ornament and show and instead of individual
excellence and profound scholarship, have unlim
tied diffusion of information rather than the acquire
ment of actual neutrality-suspicious. City Times.
LOOK at the absIrdity of the John c. Emo case in
Canada. Emo is arrested charge of having stolen
money in his possession. Well if there is any founda
ton for the charge he must be thief who has
mitted felony But the mode he has adopted is pro-
nouneed "misdemeanor" by the law, and so Emo can
not be brought back If he had broken into the bank
from the and stolen 500 he would be be deiv-
cred up AS he opened the vaults with the banks own
keys and stole 81 900 600 he is safe Who says that
there is not law for the rich and another for the
poor?-New York World.
THE humblest citizen has right to every protection
which the law give him, and demands, unless
thoroughly supported should be granted. When,
however full proof of guilt is afforded comfy justice
and decency to be regarded than the votes Of
all the Irshmen on the planet. Standardization if no
refuse to be just but punishment will not be slow
in coming Not only will leading citizens when
travelling abroad be deemed conspirators for having
pistols in their trunks but crises will arise when
injustice will swing back upon like boomerang
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
THIS attempt of the poygamists to provide for their
safety by increasing the number of law breakers
should not be without it's effect in Congress- Prompt
ever to be taken. it is not worth while to deal in
captous crtcims about the prevalence of divorce in
portions of the United States in the tendency
of the black to bleach out in other portions.
which the local authorities correct il they
vigilant. But Mormon poygamy is organized def
ance of wise and sovereign law, which cannot be ig
nored in this progressive age The task of suppress
ing 1t IS every day growing greater and Congress
should wake up to its Importance at once.-Phiadel-
phia Times.