The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-14
POLITICAL NOTE AND GOSSIP.

Mr.. THEODORE ROOSEVELT will be Mr.. Perry
Belmonts competitor in the First congressional
district of New York.
New YORK Sun: So far as we have observed
the religious press of the country is nearly
unanimous in opposing Mr.. Cleveland on
grounds of morality and public decency.
ROCHESTER, Post Express: 1t is reported, on
what seems to be unimpeachabe authority, that
at the dinner party given by Mrs. Carey in Buff
falo, for Grover Cleveland, there were fourteen
invited guests and eleven sent their regrets
Comment is unnecessary.
NEW YORK Special: Assemblyman Theodore
Roosevelt returned from Dakota. today, and at
once called upon the Republican national com
mittee. Mr.. Roosevelt will take the stump for
Blaine. He will speak first at meeting Of the
Young Republican Club of Brooklyn
'NEITHER by experience, ability, nor char
acter is Grover Cleveland fitted for the presi
dency of the Nation, or entitled TO the support
is the concluding sentence of a scathng review
of Grover Clevelands official acts made by a
committee appointed by the Young Mems Re-
publican Club of New York.
A VERMONT correspondent says that Senator
Justin S. Morrill, will, this week. be re elected
United States senator. He will receive the vote
of every Republican senator and representative
Each branch will vote separately this afternoon
and tomorrow there will be Joint ballot The
Hon. Timothy P. Redfeld, Associate Justice of
the State Supreme Court, is the Democratic can
didate
GENERAL GRANT writes TO friend: II am
taking no part in the canvass, but it is not be-
cause of any change in sentiment l have been
a Republican since the war began and shall CON
tinue so as long as the States in rebellion con-
tinue to cast solid vote for the party that sup
ported the rebellion, whether they have the nu-
merical strength to do so with free ballot and
a fair count or not.
IT is definitely settled that Blaine and Logan
are to visit Bloomington, ILL.,, on the 25th en-
route from Springfield to Chicago A commit
tee of reception, consisting of fifty leading Re
publicans has been appointed 1t is almost def
nitely understood that ex-senator David Davis
will preside at the Blaine and Logan reception
on the oath at Springfield. He will accompany
the party to Bloomington and preside there on
the 25th.
The Womans journal, copying the Rev. DR..
Balls second letter relating to Governor Cleve
lands recent immortalties, says that in such a
contest AS this women must be opposed, at all
other cost to that which is the destruction of the
home. They know with an unerring instinct
that the purity and safety OF the home means
purity and safety of the State and Nation" The
Woman's journal has done good service to the
cause of true womanhood by it's recent course,
but has spoken no truer words than those just
quoted.
SERMON delivered in Boston ut is not my
purpose to fan the fires political passion but
a lover of domestic purity, and as minister of
righteousness, am bound to say that ballot
boxes can not legislate the seventh command
ment out of existence Governors and senators
and Presidents should be made to understand
that the ten commandments are for them as
as well as for the masses that their private lives
are legitimate matters of public inquiry, and if
this question must be fought out at the polls it
might as we'll be done in the current year as at
any later period"
New YORK STAR The preposterous lies about
Blaine's ill-health suddenly ceased flowing from
their mysterious source when he began his Ohio
tour, and-they are heard Of no more. The fact
is, that Blaine, next to Butler, is the most
bodily powerful man OF the day. His tempera