The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-27
POLITICAL NOTE AND GOSSIP.

PHILADELPHIA Press: Mark Twain is sup
porting Cleveland up in Connecticut Cleveland
will begin to see through Twains joke in about
two weeks.
SOME of the warmest and most influential
friends of Roscoe Copkling, in Utica, N Y,
are preparing reioinder to the campaign docu-
ment of the handful of self-styled stalwarts
REV. GEORGE E. REED, pastor of the Hanson
Place NJ E. Church of Brooklyn, says that he
doubted the sincerity Of the st. John movement
because St John was speaking for $50 night
THE Republican leaders in West Virginia say
that State will cast its vote for Blaine in Novem-
Der They will work hard to accomplish this
suit. Hopeful reports come from Florida and
Louisiana also.
CHICAGO Inter Ocean: Just wait until you
hear from the loyal men of Indiana on the 4th
of November Indiana will teach the Indianap-
ellis Sentinel and its allies a sound lesson, and
one that they will not forget
GATH: Mr.. Blaine last summer left with Mr..
Arson McCook, of New York, list of State
and electoral votes in which he did not in
cude New York yet elected himself He did
include Connecticut, New Jersey and Indiana.
LOUISVILLE Courier Journal: The infamous
"Jayhawker," who has done so much to bring
journalism into disrepute, telegraphs to the pur-
chased Democratic newspaper which betrayed
the Democrats in Ohio that Indiana will cast its
vote for Blaine.
Mr.. WILLIAM HUNsUcKER, of Ewing jack
son county, Ind, has severed his connection
with the Democratic party On Friday he sent
letter to DR.. j. T. Shields, resigning his posi-
ton as chairman Of the Democratic committee
of Drftwood township.
THE Democratic newspapers have asserted
that but three of the professors of Princeton
University will vote for Blaine Twenty-Five
professors publicly assert that they will vote for
the Republican candidate, and the students are
overwhelmingly Republican.
PHILADELPHIA Press: In the light of the
facts the theatrical bombast of Mr.. Beecher over
this vulgar, immoral canting hypocrite, who
writes to Mrs. Beecher, "Of course | have been
to church" is nauseating to men who can for
give repentant lbertine but do not care to
crown him.
A CLEVER bit of advertising is reported from
Cleveland. 1t was announced in all the papers
that new political party had been formed and
would parade in the evening That night the
streets were packed to see big torchlight pro
cession in the midst of which was transparency
bearing the legend, For Congress-John L.
Raymond"
INTENSE hostility to Grover Cleveland exists
among the workngmen of New Jersey. In Es-
sex county inquiries reveal the fact that fully
50 per cent of the workingmen who have here
tOtOr0 voted the D6mOcrdDlc UlckeU, Will vote IOr
Blaine in November The German American
mechanics are particularly pronounced in their
hostility to Cleveland
REV. DIR. JOHN H. VINCENT, the eminent
Methodist divine, better known ''the Bishop
of Chatauqua" says: ~ am Probibitonist,
and because am Prohibtionst shall vote
for James G. Blaine and so will all other tenn
perance men whose prejudices do not cloud their
Judgment. This St John movement is the most
apcih niapa IF hot
was ever conceived on the part of temperance
men,"
A PRIVATE letter from a prominent Baptist
minister in Maine says that at the State asso-
citation recently held in Houlton effort was
made to ascertain the presidential preferences Of
the clergymen of the denomination in the State.
AS a result it was ascertained that there is not
Cleveland man in the whole number-l25. 1t
NAV be added that in Maine the ministers who
believe in prohibition vote tile Republcan
ticket
NEW YORK Commercial Advertisers It Is
made known to us by a little bird that several
brand new forgeries in the hands of the
Democratic committee, but that they are afraid
to utter them. Even the animal with long ears
may well recall the effect, felt, of such
pretty devices. And yet without Mercy letter,
or Raum forgery, fresh edition of the
epistles OF Muigan, what are the Democrats
and their high minded associates with the
phylacteres to dol
REV. DIR. BEHRENDs "Private advices from
trustworthy persons leave without the
shadow of doubt as to Mr.. Cleveland's personal
immoralities. To call him ''moral eper"-a
phrase of Democratic coinage-may be severe,
but it is true 70 place the highest civic honors
upon his brow and install him in the White
House. whose domestic associations and men,