The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-09-12
POLITICAL NOTE AND GOSSIP.

THE Scranton Republican says that Beecher
continues in the belief that Maria Halpin is
guilty
Mrs. LOCKWOOD is not the first female can
didat for the presidency. Victoria Woodruff
was the original in that direction and widow
Butler like BarlSis, has been willin any time
for half century past.
EVERY single county in Vermont gave the
Republican State ticket majority; and Chit
tenden county, in which Burlington is. and
which has been falsely claimed by the Demo
Gratis, gave over 1900 majority
PHILADELPHIA Press: Thomas Hendricks,
in passing his hat around for votes, should care
fully explain his mission when he strikes Will
lam H. English. Otherwise Mr.. English might
mistake the purposesof the affair and fill the
hat with trouser buttons.
CHICAGO Tribune. thine was when the De
mocracy was proud spotless party, exclaims
Western campaigner. Yes, indeed. Time also
was when Judas Iscariot was citizen in good
standing; but in this glorious era of the Elgin
watch such time is not reckoned.
LETTER in New York Sun: There is an
eternal fitness in things, and when man
becomes sheriff, with all attendant response
biities and misfortunes, he cannot, however
deserving he otherwise may be, obliterate the
bar sinister which follows the occupation of a
Caleraft.s
The Ohio wool-growers have well-defned
ideas Of the best way to promote their interests.
At meeting of their State association, last
week. after addresses by Senator Sherman, Con
| gresham Converse, and Others they provided
| for committee to ascertain whether or not
| each candidate for Congress in the State is in
favor of and will labor to have the tariff of 1867
restored or its equivalent.
! e4ok A.,
term by which the New York Times designated
Governor Cleveland last October. few months
| before the Times declared that the Governors
statements cannot be fifty characterized by any
| other term than audacious, unless we should
venture to call them false, and added that peo-
pie will also give up their faith in the honest
| intentions of Governor Cleveland
ROCHESTER Post Express: Grover Cleveland
telling the truth about his vices and elected to:
high Office in spite Of them, simply because he;
| did not conceal them, would do more to sap the
| morals and undermine the faith Of young men
than anything thathas happened during cen-l
tury past It was courageous to tell the truth; il
would be- more courageous, TO take the conse-j
| quences, and withdraw from i position which;
| the truth shows him unworthy to fill. fHe
Boston journal. When so much is said about
corruption under the government, it is simply
that Of vague and general charges, and com
| parison of the amount of funds handled by gov
eminent officers and the small amount of losses
or defacations with the transactions of corpora
! tons, mercantile firms or in ordinary business
matters it may be safely challenged, will prove
to be to the advantage Of the government Off;
| GERS. How much better state of things there
can be under a Democratic administration the
judgment of any good citizen will not long hest
| tate in deciding.
LETTER to the Dubuque Times argues at
great length to show that the chief business of
the Know-nothing movement was shown in
Southern cities, where the Democrats ruled, and
that it was identical with the proscriptive spirit
Of the Ku-klux Of later years. Among his illus
trations the writer mentions an election riot in
Louisville, in August 1856 in which Ave Irish
men were burned to death. twelve buildings de-
stroyed, women and infants assaulted, and thou
sands of Irishmen and Germans driven from the
! polls by an armed mob Fourteen or fifteen
men were shot in the Streets and the ashes.
hearts and brains Of the slaughtered were after
ward sent in an urn, as trophy, to the editor Of
| the Journal
Two weeks ago the Democrats were saying:
'sOf course, we don't expect to make any inn
preston on Vermont. the rock ribbed. tower:
crested fortress of Republicanism;e and they
didn't Then, despite their desperate but con-
cealed efforts in the Pine Tree State, they de-
clared "0h, well, you know, Maine is Blaine's
own State, and nobody supposes well gain any
thing there. Sure enough they lost to the
tune Of 10000, and now they explain "The