The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-10
COMMENT AND OPINION.

quicker than Cleveland-Cleveland Leader.
There are muewumps in all parties. and none
is SO prolific of them-a good while before cleo
tomas the Democratic party.-Boston Record.
The official gui.lotine is active on the Pacific
slope. There is no good reason why it should
not be so. 1t does not attract so much attention.
you know.-Albany Express.
Carl Schurz will take the stump for the Re-
publican ticket in New York There is great
rush for return tickets among the murwumn az
| cursionists. Philadelphia Press
There are but two things for the Morrons Ia
90. EITHER they must pack up their goods and
| go oil to found another Deseret elsewhere. or
give up poygamy.-New York Sun.
Hill will as surely be defeated without the
freslaents remuneration of his party as with it,
ana the cause OK administrative reform will be
| more gently but none the less surely furthered
Brooklyn Union.
The President ard Attorney general have had
bit or discussion over the telephone AMI it ia
| believed that Mr.. Garland will presently sell ont
his stock. Such a smart lawyer might nave
thought of that before.-Philadelphia INQUIRER.
Some of the most INSCRIPTIONS men we have
ever known have been among the most foolish
ones. 1t does not relieve Mr. Hill from the
odium of his intimate association with Tweed to
say he has lost his share of the profts.-New
York Commercial Advertiser.
Half educated politicians and publicists-thosa
whose education has been drawn from books
has been supplemented by business experience
have learned that this country needs protective
tariff.-National Republican.
Whatever the incidental or remote effect ON
national politics of the future it cannot be held
that the administration has been placed on trial
when no member of Congress is involved Next
year will furnish the test of the strength of the
administration. Memphis Avalanche
For demanding that the law shall be enforced
in the South, Senators Sherman and Hoar have
been assaulted in a most violent way. But the
Democratic press has no word of censure for
Fitzhugh Lee. when he galops gaily about
under the banner OF the Confederacy.
York Commercial Advertiser.
If the managers of the Bell Telephone Com
pany are shrewd, far-sighted men, they will rec
ognize the desirability of building up now, while
they have the field to themselves, that capital of
public confidence which will be their chief sup
port when the patent rights they possess
have expired. Herald.
The Republicanism of men like John Sherman
and George f. Hoar may be antediluvian in its
way but we observe, not without surprise, that
1t is the species of Republicanism which has the
most terror for the Bourbons of to-day 1t may
be DID, but it is not older than the wrongs which
it seeks to redress Philadelphia Press.
The demagogues who seek to justify the recent
outrageS against the Chinese are grinding no
other mans ak. Neither are they advancing in
any degree the real interests of the working
cldSSeS ErOVlOeu they can keep tnelr own nests
feathered, what happens to any one else is of no
consequence to them-Philadelph Times.
Prince Hohenlohe's advice to the different
sections of the French Republicans. that they
should unite their forces, may be founded on the
belief that the best way to keep the French Re-
publicans from adopting that sensible policy is
to make them think that the German embassa-
dor wants them to do it.-Pittsburg Dispatch
No more corrupt politicians ever disgraced any
State than the coal-oil ''boode" gang who are
setting up the pins to elect John Mclean United
States senator in place Of John Sherman With
all his ridiculous bloody-shirtism, Mr.. Sherman
is to be preferred to any Democrat likely TO OBJ
tain his place.--Boston Transcript (mugwnmpI
1t usually requires presidential election to
unsettle business, but the coming Ohio State
election has taken hold of the minds of the BUSH
ness men of Ohio so thoroughly that they are
able to think and talk OF little else. This must
mean that the battle of the ballots this fall will
prove hotly-contested fght-Cincinnati Sun.
With Tilden feeble and speechless, Seymour
fiat and WE'LL" but occupied with the things
of the next world rather than the politics
of this, and John Kelly shut up in his
chamber and forbidden to talk with the boys, is
is not strange that the Democracy of New York
suffers from depression of spirits. - Boston
Record.
The great question before the people of Ohio
is whether they indorse the solid Southern fraud
that prevailed last year in the election of Cle,e-
land, and want some more of it, and would add
to 1t the control of the Senate of the United
States which would draw with 1t the Supreme
Court of the United States Cincinnati CONNER
cial Gazette
Not single frank and unequivocal recognition
has been given of the new departure which the
Democratic party made in nominating Grover
Cleveland, nor has the one distinguishing ard
contested feature of his adminiStra tion-his at
tempt to conduct the government upon reform
principles-received single explicit indorse-
ment.-Boston Herald
If the polygamous Mormons could outvote the
rest of the people they might make monogamy a
felony and send men to prison for refusing to
take liberal assortment of wives Lacking the
voting strength required for the carrying out Of
such programme, the brethren must be per-
suaded or punished into compliance with tbs
laws of the land.-New York Star.
Whether it is wise in the present state of
British politics for Ireland to make politica!
bUgaboo out of home rule and to alarm England
by asking too much, and putting the demand in
the most aggravating FORM remains to be seen.
Sometimes the more you ask the more You get
But at other times it happens that the more you
ask the less you get.-Ss Louis Post-Dspatch.
All that Mr.. Parnell calls for, contained in the
phrase Legislative independence" does not ex-
coed the bounds of right and justice; and there
is nothing in the idea that Ireland shall legslate
for herself in home affairs which does not appeal
with force to lovers of liberty the world over.
Nevertheless there is reason to fear that Mr.
Parnell has asked too much.-Albany Express.
Colonel Watterson frequently boils gallon OF
new red ink and writes fiery leader with it,
but no one knows better thar he that when hig
contemporaries killed in this way they get
up and walk off like any other stage victims He
has entirely eschewed the duello since that fatal
night upon the Campus Martius when he stabbed
an Italian count to the heart with bar of soap.
Louisville Commercial.
The saintiest man earth never ran against
a lamp-post in the dark without saying some
thing, and the chances are a thousand to ons
that what he said lin the Silly night" would not
bear repetition from the pupit 1t is easy
enough to write an essay against swearing in the
placid domestic circle bnt quite another thing
to bite your tongue half off by stepping down
two steps instead of one, and then lean up
against the banster and reason with yourself