The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-10-21
SPIRIT OF THE STATE PRESS.

THE Republican party has no principles,
its policy is expediency. In indianapolis it
declared war on the liquor sellers; in Gin
cinnati-the saloon men closed their doors
Tuesday and worked all day for the success
OF the Republican party.-Miami County
Sentinel.
A NEWSPAPER is like pretty woman in
many respects. TO be perfect it must be the
embodiment of many types. Its form is
made up. 1t is always chased, although
sometimes inclined to be giddy. 1t enioysa
good press, the more rapid the better Ii has
a weakness for gossip Talks a good.deal.
Can stand some praise. Is awfully proud of
a new dresS.-Rochester Sentinel.
DEMOCRACY knows no class, and has always
been the idea of government OF the people,
whether they are learned or unlearned. rich
or poor washed or unwashed. Democracy
does not and can not acknowledge a working
class, an upper class or lower class, because
to do so would be to open the way for gov
eminent by classes-such government as
the Republican party in the quarter century
of its supremacy nearly succeeded in estab-
OOuulS
The candidates entered for the next Con-
gTessIOnal race, according to our exchanges,
are MesSrs. G. Y. Menzies and +. NJ. Spencer
OF Posey; William +. Townsend, of Pike;
James f. Mccullough, of Gibson; Benoni ;.
Fuller, OF Warrick; Henry Kramer, of Spen-
Ger, and William Rahm, of Vanderburg.
Hon. John J. Kleiner, the present incum-
bent does not expect to he a candidate
When the campaign fairly begins there will
be a lively time. Brethren of the press,
please name the winning runner We are
for the man who ''gets there. Mount Yer
non Democrat.
SrEAKING of old and new Democratic lead
ers the Nincennes News has the following
kind and deserving words of Hon. j. +. Nc
Donald: LAS for Mcdonald, he is an able and
a conscientious man. His services have been
real. He stood between his people and their
own folly at a time when all the other lead
ers were run mad, and to-day he has the
proud satisfaction of knowing himself hon
ored and esteemed by those most bitter
against him six or seven years ago. He is
the only prominent man in the party in In
diana to-day, who has stood out boldly and
consistently against that thieving tariff
Davies County Democrat.
PERHAPS the most ludicrous thing in
American politics to-day is the apparently
unconscious ignorance or dishonesty dis
played by class of Republicans. No mat
ter how exemplary in his habits a citizen
may be, if he is opposed to prohibition lac
is according to the idea of these people in
favor of free whisky, drunkenness and all
the results of riotOus living. If he be OPP
posed to woman suffrage, they at once rank
him as opposed to educating women a ty-
rant of the first water, and hostile to NOR
al consideration OF political questions. If
he be opposed to a protective tariff, or in
other words, if he opposes plan whereby
the Government gives single individual
the power 10 levy an exorbitant tax upon
the whole people exclusively for his own
benefit these One-eyed ignoramuses set him
down as opposed to all manufacturing. No
matter ii the opponent OF protection he
manufacturer himself and, as is often the
case, engaged in highly protected industry,
these stupid critics class him.as opposed to
all manufacturing. OF course all intelligent
people regard these critics as either very ig-
norant or very dishonest, and their mouth
ings only excite derision.-LapOrte Argus.
THE Democratic party has supported the
liquor traffic regulated by just and reason
able laws. Ii has opposed prohibition upon
principles and not a matter of policy.
The Republican party, as has been illustrated
i'm numerous State elections during the past
four years, has connected itself with the
Prohibitionists, when they believed by so
doing they could carry the election. Other
wise they have evaded the question entirely.
This could not be better demonstrated than
by reference to the Ohio campaign. The
Democrats made firm stand against Prohi-
bition. With them there was no equivoca-
ton. no evasion; they came out boldly for
high license and against Prohibition and
local option Foraker advocated loca option
until Hoadly, in his Toledo speech, so
plainly demonstrated 10 him that the prln-
ciples of local option and Prohibition were
the same then he 'dodged" the question
entirely. and could not he made to state
whether he favored or opposed Prohibition.
Yet i'm the recent election the liquor men
gave their support to Foraker, and by that
means defeated Hoadly, the Democratic can
didatc Now, then, let them suffer. 1t is
i'm this way that they will arouse a sentiment
| of opposition in the Democratic party and
| some time they will awake to find the sup
| port of this party or portion OF II With
lrawn.-W Times