The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-09
CURRENT PRESS COMMENT.

THE anxious inquiry of the Northern Democrats
What does the South want of the new administra-
etonI VIII probably be answered very much the
strange boy answered the inquiry of his uncle to
what part of the chicken he wanted: well I'll tako
the carkess and hunk of the nl-Philadelphia
Press
1T is objected to the proposed pension bill in GEN
ra Grants behalf that dates back TO his retirement
from the presidency That will be only eight wears in
March; and If the soldiers deserved their ar
rear OF their old commander is not less de-
serving If the Nation is do anything for the relief
OF the man VINO led its cause to success let it be
hgglng or niggardly about it-Boston Advertiser
THE mugwump like the Democrats of long stand
ing. can become Republican but the opportunity
offered is at the polls of regular election and in
caucus or at primary election. The Beechers
Curtses Macy eaghs Masons, ETC., ceased to be Re-
pubcans when they voted the opposition ticket and
they they must come back, if at all through the
door by which they went out. They took themselves
INTO the Democracy and it for them to say whether
they stay there or not. 1t is personal matter with
each voter, from the wordfamed Beecher to the
humblest citzen.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
THE who does not accept the platform of his
party who argues against it all occasions. who
untes himself with organizations hostile to cardinal
principle OF his party who every opportunity in
public or in private to teach hostile doctrine cannot
be in any proper of the word Republican. It
matters little what he calls himself it matters little
what his relations individuals NAV have been in the
past; the is hostile Republican principles and
mas no more business in that party in any of its
organizations, than any other Democrat.-New York
Tribune.
IT is of the very essence of our confederated sys
tenn that each State shall control its own affairs and
tins means that when the constitution and laws Of
State are republican in form and spirit there must be
manhood sufficient in the majority in each State to-
take charge of its affairs It is worse than idle Il s
utterly subversive of the principles upon which our
Union is based, to assume that the majority in any
State whose constitution and laws in conformity
to the fundamental law of the United States cannot
take of themselves, but must be under the pupil
age of national power. 1t is extremely mischievous
and demorazing to suggest outside interference-St
Louis Republican.
RISMARcK has alraadv tbraafa,ed N s,,n,n,on .
council of the nobility tributary to the for the
purpose of comforting upon the crown powers that
Will practically nufy the Rechstag If he does, Ii
will be the convention of the notables of France in
1889 again-the Reichstag representing the
third estate that became the national Assembly If
such crisis comes in Germany, with England demo-
cratic to the core France republic and the iShilists
of Russia waiting to strike blow, the nineteenth
century may witness another CONFUSION like that
mighty and terrible agony that drenched France in
blood in 93. and which may free all Europe of 'di.
vine rule louisville Commercial.
THE trial presents some very disagreeable gmpseS
of life. The Chief Justice of England keeping his
daughter on board wages of $400 per year; keeping
his in small Office about the Temple Courts. to
curta the fam lily expenses at the cost of the public;
the persistent and disgusting oicousness of thespre
siding justice in constantly reproving the plaintiff,
and injecting at convenient intervals expressions Of
his horror at the family of the Lord Chief Justice be-
ing subjected to such notifying expressions in
court Of justice and finally the submission to the
jury, and the immediate reversal of the iurys
dict-tis from first to last sufficiently disagreeabe
feature both of manners and law-Boson Advertiser.
IF absolute political control of Utah will not ex-
tinguish polygamy-and such result may well be
doubted for polygamy is not political but social
and moral evil-then there remains but other
method of dealing with it, and that is the method
which was applied to its twin relc-slavery. AT the
time there is little hope with the Democrats in
control of the government, that they will adopt any
radical measures, political legal, martial to break
! the power of the Mormon Church. G. NOT
crime in their eyes when the criminals Democrats,
and the Mormon polysamist would not have
tributed money for the election of the Democratic
ticket except upon assurance that they would not
suffer from federal intervention-C Chicago Tribune
THERE avenues of preferrnent open to the
blacks of the South there their brethren Of
the North. They may toll and expend thor sweat
and blood and grind out miserable lives but is is all
for the benefit of their old task masters. One of
Southern exchanges boasts that from this time
ward the negroes of that section will be good Demo-
Gratis The horrid fortunes of the Romish Inquisi-
ton caused many to abiure their religion and it
will require similar process of cruelty convert the
negro race to Democracy. Their treatment has al
ready been intolerable and now, in expectation of
worse evil in the future, find them abandoning
their old homes and seeking refuge with strangers.
Their past experience has taught them that they have
nothing but evil to expect at the hands of brutazed
Democracy.-Cleveland Leader