The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-07-21
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IT is true that it is the business of soldiers to die
and examples of heroism always valuable but wiss
combat and it is well enough proven now that the
north pole is lmpregnable, and that arctic winters
force-Louisyille Commercial.
In at least half dozen Southern States the eector
al vote which will be returned to the President of the
Senate will bear relation at all to the real viii Of
the majority of the qualified voters. There may be
no violence The work of the shotgun has been
already accomplished, and the minority have the
election Offices in their own hands. By tissue ballots
fraudulent counting and other devious methods Of
multiplying the vote of the supplemented negroes the
election, so-caed will be made empty farce.-Ph
adelphia Press.
THE boilers want to use the Democracy to crafty
their revenge upon the Republican party, because il
Insisted upon nominating the whom alarge major
y of the organization preferred. And the Bourbons
want to get into power and appease their appetite for
Office and to accomplish this they willing to loan
the boilers temporarily their organization and
chnery IN return for some necessary help. Now let
us see what will come of this combination cemented
side by desire for revenge, and the other by
hunger for otfce.-Ph Philadelphia Press.
MOST of the federal officers in Mr. Baines district
appointed by Mr.. Lincoln, remained undisturbed in
their tenure, until removed by DEATH If the whole
body of civilservice reformers were summoned to.
gether to prepare address defending the system Of
appointment to which they committed they could
not state their case half so well as Mr. Blaine has
done it for them The intelligent people of the country
will be better satisfied with the cviservice reform
system after reading Mr. Blaine's letter than theT
ever were Unconstitutional Republican.
THE United States now has no living colonists in the
ice of the North After years of adventure and suffer
ing and anxiety the field is clear Let it remain so.
Not when it is played under favorable conditions
is the game worth the CANDLE The discoveries made
by explorers and observers in an uninhabitable
region are but dust in the balance when weighed
against the intending sorrows of bereayed families, the
misery of broken homes the horrible sufferings of
many worthy men, and the grief of nation. Let
there be an end Of this follyt-New York Times.
Mr. CLEVELAND if he should, by some nscrutable
dspensation Of divine providence be elected Presi-
NOVnnhAp will ha tad MOT In
by the States formerly in rebellion. His
principal advisers will be taken from those
for him to resist any demands that they might urge
Can it be doubted that many of those demands would
be included which were formerly called 1.-THE rebel
claims the rebel debt of which the evidences within
the last two years have commanded a price in the
market and the appeals Of the surviving soldiers,
Commercial Advertiser.
VESSEL may placed in quarantine until all danger
that her passengers and crew have brought cholera
vessel and sent unopened from here to San Fran
cisco may carry tho disease to the latter place Once
already the cholera has been introduced into this
country in precisely this way, and the fact is doubt
less well known to health officers. There will be
safety unless every article well every person
on board q vessel coming from suspected port is
had between the vessel and the Shore except throusk
the quarantine of6cers.-New York Times
EoTHI No is more unwise than to throw people into
a panic with regard to the remote possibility Of
forthcoming pestilence 1t is this excitement which
tends to aggavae and spread the dsease and one Of
the most dangerous incidents of the cholera epidemic
in the French towns has been the terror of the in
habitants, who have fed throughout Europe and got
themselves into nervous condition which is favora-
BILE for the work of disease. Through them malady
which would probably else have gone little beyond
the seat OF its outbreak may be scattered As to
our own cities, they successfully ward off the
pestlence matter what its European progress.
The safeguards against its spread well understood
and are demonstrated scientific facts.-New York
Sun.
III the country is to atone to the negro for
the deep injury done it through slavery; if emancipa-
ton and citizenship to bring that their legit
mate benefits and blessings the fruition Of these
measures must be attained by of education.
That alone, moreover, can prevent the negro vote
from being of danger and confusion through
out the country, and therefore national conscience
national duty and sefnterest alike enlisted in the
Of negro education and by consequence in the
Gated he viii not merely sink himself, but be will drag
others down with him; and the one power which can
prevent this mischief Is the Republican party.-NeW
York Tribune.
IT is idle to suppose that Mr. Blaine win be beaten
by personal attacks He is open to them; no one more
so. His record is fit subject ofinqury and invest-
CATION His has been unfair, unpatrotic tor
ignorant and unhnking and his public services have
been of character to excite alarm But while adj
hitting that in the character and Of their candi
date the Republicans are at serious disadvantage,
must not deude ourselves with the idea that this
alone will give the battle into our hands, Nothing OF
the kind viii occurs if we win. it will be because the
people Of this country believe the purposes Of the Dem
ocratic party and It is today organized and Differed
are more conducive TO the prosperity Of the whole
people than the objects aud aims followed by the Re-
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