The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-24
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| had retired to another room to give vent to
his sorrow, only few neighbor women re-
manning to witness the end, and to then pre-
pare the corpse for the burial GLOW hard
he takes it, said one of the women to the
others. Eyes, he loved her tenderly," an
| swered a motherly woman whose sympathies
were aroused in behalf of the sorrowing man.
80 pshaw" piped in an aged spinster. "Hel
be all over it and married again in less than
! six months" To the horror Of the attendants,
the eyes they were beginning to close
opened suddenly, and the lips began to move.
By putting the ear close to the mouth she
was heard to say, feebly at first but GROWN g
stronger as she proceeded: 'fN-o he wont
get married again in six on this,
Miss Nancy Baker And there
W ont be NY funeral here, you
bet" The shock of seeing Miss Nancy
occupying her place at bed and board was
too much for the dying woman, she began to
mend Immediately, and remained long the
mistress of her own house and the comfort of
her family.
The avidity with which a few thousand
Miss Nancys are preparing for first-class
funeral over the remains of the Republican
party is wonderful, while not a few who were
once most devoted in their attachments, when
the party was in good health and able to dis
pense patronage, are rendering themselves
supremely ridiculous by their noisy blubber
ings over the untimely demise of the party.
Dead, indeed! 1t has been somewhat crippled
| by the nonsense of some of it's pretended
friends and its eternal enemy has taken ad-
vantage of its condition and is likely to steal
few federal Offices, but that is all. 1t is not
Dead indeed! A party that gives up that
easy and allows itself to be buried, ought
never to have lived. Look at the facts. Mr..
Cleveland has been elected President
by the meager plurality of 1,047 votes
in the State of New York, with
vote of l. 168 OO3, and lacking 1902 OF ma
iority of the vote of the State. Besides this,
Mr.. Cleveland is not, and never was, repre-
sentative Democrat When elected to the
high and important Offices of sheriff and mayor
he was not elected as a Dem ocrat, but as a re-
former, and voted for by all parties as such.
He was elected Governor on the same plea,
and as such got plurality of 10000. No
representative Democrat ever got such plu-
rality in New York or ever will. He was not
nominated for the presidency as a representa-
tive Democrat, but Republicans dictated their
man at the expense of well-known Democrats,
and the Democratic party, knowing that they
could not elect a Democrat, with history as
such, accepted him for the purpose of catch
ing Republican votes. They caught just
enough to save introducing the plurality
from 1872, 900 to less than l 100. There is GER
tanly nothing discouragng in that, seeing
that on straight Democratic issue, eight
years ago, it gave a representative Democrat
plurality of 80, 742, and that with the same
local discords and personal animosities at the
last preceding general election it had
gone nominally Democratic by nearly 200, 900.
But, say the expectant Miss Nancys and the
blubbering Republicans, who more than half
hope that the party is dead or soon will be, In
diana went Democratic at the late election.
Well, suppose she did. When was Indiana any
| thing else than Democratic unless under very
favorable circumstances Was not Indiana
the hot-bed of treason during the whole of
the warY Was there not organized within her
borders most formidable conspiracy, from
which we escaped only through the wonderful
executive ability of Morton2 Have not those
identical traitors more than once fouted their
banners in the faces of our people by electing
the very leaders of this conspiracy to i'm
portant officesR Portions of Indiana were,
during the war as much in sympathy with
the rebellion as Mississippi ever was and
they are to-day quite as willing that our flag
shall be Inundated by the success of the lost
cause through the ballot Is it strange, there
fore, that these unrepented conspirators should
testify their appreciation of the chief hater
of everything that meant the subduing
| of the rebellion. True to its traditional sub
serviency to the ruling element of the Demo
cratic party, five out of the last six elections
have gone Democratic, and the exceptional
case was exceptional in the personnel Of the
ticket more than owing to any permanent
change of views. Governor Porter and Gen
erel Garfield had elements of personal popular
ity not often found in candidates in Indiana.
Yet the steady growth of Republican priuci-
pies is seen in the reduction Of the Democratic