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Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-11-13

TERRY 4 DUMONT,
Architects and Superintendents. Once In
toys' block. Wichita, Kansas. EFT
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-03
CURRENT PRESS COMMENT.

IT appears that the political passions which govern
the great parties stronger than the impulses of
special interests. The majority of the workngmen
will not separate themselves into political organiza.
ton which divides them from the great of the
people. After all, they Democrats Republicans
more than they are labor reformers, antmonopoliss
or Socialists and when election day com es they go
and vote with that political party which has the
greater hold upon their sympathies.-New York Sun.
THERE is justice due the Indians. to be sure, and
they should have every chance to make living and
be deprived of nothing that is essential to their well
fare but vacant land is becoming scarce in this
country and they will have to learn to get along with
smaller reservations and let the lands that they do
not need even if they willing to cultivate them,
pass into the hands of who want them for farm
ing purposes and for means of promoting the inter
ests of civilization and progress-St. Louis Globe
Democrat.
IT is evident that about nnetenhs of the vote for
st. John waSeast at the North and only about one
tenth at the South though cunning Democratic man
ayers promised great vote from that section in order
to induce Northern Republicans to throw away their
power to govern the country part OF them listened
and were deceived. Now they see that they were
simply used catspaws by the Southern politicians
who promised much, but election day carefully
concentrated their whole vote for Cleveland and Hen
bricks If the sincere advocates of temperance can
find any satisfaction in having been thus used, they
are not of the mind we suppose. It can hardly give
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-03

THE Fort Smith, Ark, Tribune has a
Thanksgiving editorial which concludes as
follows:
''To-day, when the broken family circle
gather in annual reunion, from far and near,
around tho old family hearth, they can in
deed feel thankful, the acts of their living
been vindcated, and they can feel that their
dead-long since wrapped in martial robes and
slumbering in the graves of brave soldiers
did not altogether die in vain. The cause
for which they fought, believing it to be just,
was lost and many of the questions left to the
arbitrament OF the sword were settled by the
sword, but the honest American people now
proclaim that 'traitor'-written by the hand
of malignity-.shall be forever washed from
the brow of the living and the tomb Of the
dead. Let us rejoice"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-03
THE SUPPRESSED VOTE.

The New York Tribune cites the fact that
less than half the full vote of Georgia was
poled at the last election as evidence that the
colored people were prevented from voting.
That is very weak argument. Every man in
Georgia knew that the election there was
mere matter of form. Nearly every white
man in the State, and a large proportion of
the colored men are Democrats 1t was one
sided. There was no canvass; no public
speeches, and no means used to get out the
vote The Tribune might have used the same
kind of argument relative to Kentucky and
Texas.-New Albany Ledger.
The Ledger needs an access of information.
The total vote of Georgia in IS 81 was 142 $40
in $780, 1856 556 and in 1876 1S2, 553. The
vote of 1880 is 49, 900 short of the vote of
1876. Will the Atlanta Constitution be kind
enough to tell the people of the North
whether the State of Georgia has lost 15O 900
of its population within the last eight yearsl
The election of 1884 was no more or less
farce in Georgia than the one of 1876 and
$780, But about Kentucky. The vote Of
Kentucky in 1876 was 259, GA; in 1880, 2G7,-
1871, and in 1884 276 1872 an increase
of nearly 1900 over 1876, and of more than
1000 over 1880. So the Georgia argument
will not apply to Kentucky There was
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-03

EVERY little while new beauties develop in
our grand two-million-dollar courthouse. 1t
now transpires that this magnificent public
building, designed and erected for the use of
the capital county in the State for the next
one hundred or two hundred years, has not a
vault in it! A two-dollar-a-day carpenter
could have "'architected" and builded better
than that. It might be well to have the new
State house carefully looked over, to see if the
useful and practical things have been omit
ted SO that the commissioners could indulge
in foreign gimcracks, as was done in the
court-ho The public is interested in this
matter
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-03

comparatively a free ballot in Kentucky; at
least there was no diminution in the total
vote. Anybody who knows anything of the
countrys progress at all knows that Georgia
has gained in population during the past four
or eight years more largely relatively than
Kentucky, but its vote is silenced. In Texas
precisely the same condition. of affairs prevails
as in Georgia. The total vote of Texas in
1873 was 237, 337; in 1880 it was 237, 231, and
in 1854 it was only 1876, 969-more than DO, 900
less. Has Texas declined in populationR We
submit that, with these figures staring them
in the face, the onus is upon the South to
show why the Southern States, with such a
largely decreased vote, should be entitled to
increased representation in Congress and in
the electoral college, Will the South speak
for its suppressed vote2 Why has it been
suppressed Who has suppressed it9 How
has it been suppressed Who reaps the benefit
of the suppression and the advantage of the
increase in representation
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-03

THE Independents not only are not pushing
for a Cabinet position, but no leading anti
Blaine Republican could be induced to &C
cept one.-Springfeld Republican. ..yr
This is Phariseaism gone mad. Better than
the Republican party, they went to the aid of
the Democratic. And, now, with the very
hungry and very thirsty hosts on the
threshold of the public crib they are tum-
bling over each other in panic to get away
from the responsibility of their treachery and
pig-headed folly. If the Independent mug
wump is half as good as be has pictured
himself, he is the very one to come forward
now and lead the people up out of the wider
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-03

PRESIDENT ARTHUR, in his message, re-
fers to the recent election, and remarks that
it is a subject of general congratulation that,
after the controversy and despite the close
ness of the vote, the public peace suffered no
disturbance, but the people awaited the result
patiently and quietly. Mr.. Blaine will hardly
be able to detect in this personal reference
to himself-Louisville CourierJ Journal.
Not directly personal perhaps, but highly
hattering, in that the party whose confidence
he enjoys is not the Democratic party, that
went into rebellion when it found itself in the
minority for the first time in years. The Re
publican party, now, as in 1860, is the party
of loyalty, and can Away be counted on in
support of law and order.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-03

IT was Thomas A. Hendricks who delivered
the grafton at the laying of the new State
house cornerstone without abiding to the
part taken by Indiana in the war of the rebel
lion. Rev William Alvin Bartlett preached
a sermon on the great men and great events
of Washington City without mentioning the
name of Abraham Lincoln or the war. Mr..
Hendricks will never have occasion to leave
DR.. Bartlett's church in a huff because of too
loyal sermon. Mr. Hendricks should be-
come one of the Doctors parishioners.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-03

THE Democratic party has always been the
national party. Put it in big type 1t is a
grand point in its favor, and takes all the
breeze out of the flap and hutter of the bloody
shirt.-Sentinel.
That the Democratic party is national in
any sense will be news to most people. Was
it national in 1861, when it went into rebellion
and attempted to secede9 Has it been ma
tional at any time since' Was it national
prior to Nov. 4, 1884, and during the years
that the South was hammered into partisan
solidity by the murder of Republicans Does
its nationality include Ohio, Pennsylvania,
Iowa and Kansas, or is it confined principally
to Virginia, Kentucky, Missouri and States
further SouthG What has happened, that it
now becomes national after the lapse of
twenty-four yearsG The claim suggests the
idea that it will again lose its national quail
ties when it is again put out of power. 1t is
the only party that is not and never has been
national
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-03

. IT viii not add to the reputation for good
sense and official dignity of Secretary Lincoln
that he aired a petty quarrel with General
Hazen in his official report. The conduct of
the arctic expeditions was not credita6le either
to the Signal-service Bureau or to the War
Department, and theleast said about the matter
the better If General Hazen is incompetent or
unworthy there is way to reach him other
lance. We think the chief of the Signal
Service utterly untitled for his position, his
appointment a scandalous shame as have
the past few years; but Mr.. Lincoln's way of
getting even" with him is puerile
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-03

1T cannot make much difference TO any
one, but it may Interest some readers to know
that, for his own use, Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher rejects the Book of Psalms. The
Psalms, he announces, do not suit his temper,
and all but three or four of them repel him
Revelation is also useless to him; he would
as soon think of trying to light candle at the
aurora borealis as to get inspiration from Rev.
elation." Lest it be feared that he accepts no
part of the Bible, Mr.. Beecher kindly mentions
the fact that he delights in the gospels, and
is pleased with Paul even more than with ST.
John All of which is, doubtless very graft
Tying to st. Paul, or will be in case he ever be-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-03
The Preposterous Mr.. Hendricks.
Boston Herald.

The latest attempt to give Mr.. Hendricks
greater Importance than the head of the ticket
is the amusing theory Endorsed by the Sun,
that the nomination of the Indianian ''snatchsd
New York as brand from the burning for
Cleveland" by conciliating John Kelly and
Tammany Hall into "a determined and success
full support of the national ticket" Considering
that at least %, 900 Democratic votes in New
York city, chiefly in the strong Tammany wards,
were cast for Blaine Butler, and that, in spite
of this Governor Cleveland received over As, 900
plurality, the claim on behalf of Mr.. Hendricks
is even more preposterous than his idea that he
could run the administration.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-03

CERTAIN circles are considerably excited over
the edict from the authorities of Harvard Col
lege that Bancroft must 60" Not Bancroft
the elder historian, nor he of the Pacific coast is
put under ban; oh dear, no. No such order in
relation to them would have caused such con
sternation, and at any rate Harvard authori-
ties apparently give them no thought 1t is the
Bancroft, the professional gentleman, paid by
the university to coach" the rowing crews, who
must go. He has offended the faculty by some
misconduct; but it is feared by friends of the in
stitution that unless the breach can soon be
healed the cause Of education" will suffer
greatly.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-03

New ENGLAND women complain that mar
riageable men are scarce, and that the few who
exist can scarcely be called marriageable. for the
simple reason that they will not marry. And
yet a Texas girl came to Boston the other day,
and within two days had more than forty suitors
for her hand. The way she did it was to adver-
tise for husband, accompanying the announce
ment of her want with a schedule of her prop
erty the latter consisting of $22 900 in Michigan
Iron Mountain Company bonds, 5000 acres of
Texas land, 200 head of cattle, III yoke of oxen,
and two smoke brindle steers 1t takes West
ern woman to show her Yankee sisters how.
With all their boosted culture they had never
thought of this plan.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-03

AN Eastern boarding-school for girls some
what tardily favors this Office with the menu
card of its Thanksgiving dinner. An excellent
and toothsome repast, with all proper and sea-
sonable viands, seems to have been set before
the young ladies of the school on that occasion;
but il there is deeplaid plot to secure, by
means of this appetizing card, recommends
ton of the institution, on account of its good
table, then is the scheme failure. To allay a
suspicion that the girls go hungry all other days
of the year, subsst on hash or cold baked
beans six days out of seven, it is necessary to
send an invitation to Thanksgiving dinner be-
fore, and not after the event. The Journal de-
clines to be subsidized by bill of fare.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-03

THE men who refuse to tell what they know
of the Eighteenth ward frau>l are scoundrels.
Chicago News.
That is exactly what they are. tits refresh
ing to read sturdy utterance like the above,
and the News is to be congratulated on its al
together honorable stand on this question.
The men who were parties to that fraud are
scoundrels, deserving of speedy and adequate
punishment
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-03

PEOPLE who think Mr.. Hendricks has not
done enough sitting down since the election
should remember that he didn't get into that
habit during the campaign. Nor did he crawl
out of Indiana with only dozen hundred
plurality. Chicago Herald.
If the Herald will take the trouble to read
the election returns, it will discover that Mr..
Hendricks "crawled out of Indiana" nearly
thousand votes behind the Democratic State
ticket
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-03

WEadvise the mugwumps tosubsclibe to the
Charleston News and Courier, the Atlanta Con-
stitution, and the Birmingham ALA Age, and
DREAD between the lines of fine writing in those
papers. While patting the negro on the back
the first named paper is not ave7se to deolar-
ing that ''the whites are determined, what
ever the cost, that they will not be slaves to
their former slaves What does that meant
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-03

THE entire genius and energy of the gov
eminent and of the people of Washington
now seems to be expended upon the moment
Gus question whether the Inauguration ball
can be held in the new Pension Building OF
not. 1t would be fearful calamity if it
should happen that a President was inaugural
ed without ball.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-03

BLAINE's majority over Cleveland in the
States that did not go into nor sympathize
with rebellion is 1853, $40. A pretty good in
dorsement, and one that all the mewling of
mugwump organs cannot counterfeit. The
Independents, in going to the support of
Cleveland, joined the solid South and linked
arms with partisan assassins-that is all.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-03

If the new administration shall do away
with the fast mail put on for the personal
benefit of Chicago dailies and maintained at
great extra expense without increasing the
mail facilities of the people, it will not be
altogether bad
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-03

THE Salvation Army has been laboring in
New London, Conn. They billed the town in
this way: Hello! who is thsl Why Kansas
or us and lasso as many of the devils braves as
possible But who is this fellow Captain
Walsh, the converted minstrel. who will speak,
play and sing for the glory of God and the good
OF your soul. The best thing out Take it all in"
New York Tribune
This sort of stuff may result in a revival of
what some people call religion" but the less of
such religion" the better the world. The Sal
walton Army is utter, rank blasphemy, an outra-
geous caricature upon religion, and should meet
with the severest condemnation of everyone,
but especially of Christian people, who believe
their Christianity to be thing of reason, dig
nifty, and of right life
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-03

AT the reading of President Buchanans
last annual message-twenty-fo four years ago
to-day-Senator Clingman, of North Carolina,
a Democrat, fiercely attacked the Pres ident
for declaring against the Democratic claim of
the right to dissolve the Union
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-03

In the Leman- Brand senatorial contest,
Governor Hamilton, of Illinois, gave decis-
ion awarding the certificate to Mr.. Leman,
the Republican candidate. The federal grand
jury at Chicago has returned indictments
against several persons charged with COM
plicity in the attempted fraud on the ballot
box in this case.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-03

THE Cincinnati Enquirer is informed that
Talmage's sky-rocket Thanksgiving sermon
referred principally to South America, and
not to the ''solid South" except 50 far as it
had prospered under Republican admins
tration extending over eighteen years
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-03

A Boston woman is said to haveinvented and
patented meat tenderer" If this be true and
the tenderer really tenders the tenderest treat
ment should be rendered that woman by all her
grateful beef-steak-eating countrymen. AS an
eligible candidate for the next presidency, she
already looms above all rivals.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-03

PHILADELPHIA papers, enyious of their New
York rivals, are endeavoring to work up SEN
sation of the Morosini order out of the elope-
ment of the pretty daughter of a wealthy
butcher with Wiener-wurst man. 1t won't do
The country has an eye to the eternal fitness of
things if Philadelphia hasn't, and knows sym
phony in sausage when it sees one
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-03

TwENTY-FoUR years ago to-day the last
Democratic Congress under Democratic ad-
ministration assembled, and the Democratic
fight for the extension of human slavery was
backed with the threat of rebellion.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-03

comes acquainted with Mr.. Beecher-a con-
tingency which, to many devout minds, seems
highly improbable.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-03

TWENTY -FOUR years ago to-day meeting
commemorating the anniversary of John
Browns raid was broken up in Boston by
Democratic sympathizers with the slave-hold-
ing South, at that time conspiring to go into
rebellion
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-03
The New SRob0cracy.
Madison Courier.

Madl8On COurer
Mr.. Arthur has dsgraced his administration
by appointing the sons of several of his rich
chums to positions in the army and elsewhere.
This is taking care of ones friends at the ex-
pense of honest merit and the people at large.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-03

Le could get all the'religion he wanted in half an
hour, is but drawing logical conclusion from
the doctrine that the 'viiest sinner may return
and be forgiven whenever he sees fit and that a
murderer needs but to ask forgiveness at the
last moment, to enter into the abode of the blest
clothed in shining garments like unto those of
tbe saints
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-03

This ceremony varies in form according to the
tastes and social status of the interested par
ties, but bids fair to stand second in Importance
only to marriage festivities. One wealthy lady
celebrated her recovery of freedom by giving a
gay and gorgeous dinner to her friends. The
mayor who figures in the breaking Of the civil
contract was present and attended to the legal
formalities, after which, and over the wanuts
and wine, he made a graceful speech to the en-
franchised lady, with regrets at the absurdity of
the law which compelled her to wait ten months
before she could get another husband Now
that the example has been set, and that too in
fashions capital, demarried Americans will Won
der that they never thought of this pleasant
style of celebration before, while those who an
ticipate release from marital obligations will
prepare to entertain their friends when the joy
full day arrives Announcements of divorce
receptions" are next in order in society col
umns."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-03

Now that divorces are legal and fashionable
in France, the Parisians have invented the word
'demarrage" to designate the ceremony conse
quent upon the issuing of decree of separation.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-03
Stylish and Expensive Misery.
"Gath" in philadelphia Times.

The tremendous expense of living in this city,
and even cities like Washington and Boston, is
impressing itself upon thousands of persons.
There are persons here who spend $25 900 year
to live and they are about half miserable,
whereas by submitting to some quieter life
they could live extremely well on S., 900 year.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-03

BALTIMORE papers are telling about some big
oysters lately brought TO that city, twelve of
which when opened will fill quart measure
AS the supply of this large variety is limited, it
is probable that each dealer who can secure one
will keep it exclusively to rent to church fairs
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-03

ACCORDING TO Mrs. Carrier the election of
Grover Cleveland is in the nature of pun
ishment to the country. But is it not cruel
and unusual, and therefore unconstitutional
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-03
A Full Hand,

Philadelphia Times (Dem.)
Governor Cleveland's hands are shaken with
much vim and heartiness by hundreds of admir-
ing constituents nowadays. A hand with a
hundred thousand Offices in it is worth shaking.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-03
A Separate Prison for Women.

st. Louis Globe Democrat. -
Indiana has shown by the operation of her re-
formatory institution for women the good effects
of separating female convicts from males, and
treating them from reformatory rather than
punitive standpoint, so per cent. of the inmates
having become orderly and useful members of
society.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-03
A Suggestion to vIce-President Hendricks

Pittsburg Dispatch (Dem.)
If Mr.. Hendricks cannot be satisfied with the
powers and dignities of the position of Vice presi
dent, it may be necessary to inform him that the
limpid Wabash is swarmng with catfish. and
that certain predecessor of his, named Wheeler,
is ready to instruct him as to the most success
full methods for their capture. t...f -..
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-03
Speak to Your Brethren.

st. Louis Post Dispatch (Dem.)
The Illinois senatorship is not worth gaining
at the cost of one dishonest vote.