The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-02
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Columbia City Post: There seems to be q
present Democratic Secretary o. Indisng, be
made Commissioner Of Psusione. The G. 4.
Z. "a strongly supporting him.
Lebanon Pioneer The sentiment &c grow.
iEg among the people OF the United States
that 2 President shoGld be elected by the
popular vote Instead OF the Electoral Col
lege Itseems to be better fitted to CO. free
institutions.
Columbia City Post Petitions sre being
circulated asking the Legislature to repeal
the Circuit Court ditch Law entirely, and
have 10 ditch Law except II the Commits.
s~ioner5' Court. The fault &c we hsve 10
ditch laws st al, anC IL is high tins tkeory
was thrown 20 the dogs and We had some
c-ommon-sense, plain and practical ditch
Laws.
Charlottesville Review: The Democratic
House OF Representations has paced bill
after bill. FORGETTING back to the Government
millions Of acres OF land hitherto granted
TO sWindliag land-grsbbing railroad oorpor-
aiors, but every enc OF them, so far, pas
Eeen defeated by the Republican Senate. Do
these lands belong TO the people, or DO
they belong to money sharks for private
speculation That is the simple question.
Frankfort Crescent: General Sherman has
again crossed swords with JEFF Davis. this
time metaphorically. Whenever any Union
soldier spends time criticising JEFF Davis or
alluding 10 him in any way other than as g
dead man he is fooliDg away his time. OF ell
the ohieftalns of the late. but now defunct,
Confederacy, Jefferson Davis is the deadest.
He roes down into history covered with all
the odium Of the lost cause with not one
OF its honora.
Brazil Democrat: Postmaster Langsdale.
OF Gresncastle. in his paper, the Banner, OF
which he is the editor, says: The writer can
say for one postmaster that he does not pro-
pose to become q part OF a Democratic ad-
ministration by continuing IN office under
1t, civil service reform or no civil service re.
FORM" This sounds like the story told by q
discharged employe, whe stated that he had
quit because his employer told him that his
services were no longer desired.
Delphi Times: Continually hsroing about
hard times; betting with a man who has no
money; spending time or money on ~insolent
people; prophesying the results of the cleo
ton oflSSS; putting off paying your taxes
till ext spring; saying anything about the
broken sidewalks; wishing for something you
know you can't have; the girls mourning
for the leap year that is almost gone; trying
TO do a successful business without adverris-
ing; trying to buy or drive a conscientious
man 10 do wrong, saying there is any news
when none can be found, hence the above
for film"
Rockville Tribune: Here we are st the
| close of q year of marvellous abundance,
with more than we can consume, vet suffer-
| Ing for the want OF il: with q plethora OF
money and none to spend; with warehouses
full and wages falling; too rich to take com
fort and 'smothering in our own fa.'. be-
cause, as the tarififes tell as, nobody know VS.
what to expect" Aud as q remedy for all
| this the same paper remarks: abolish all
laws in restraint of trade. divorce politics
from business. ceDine government to its
legitimate functions of preserving life and
property. and then an election will hurt no
mans trade. 1T is this perpetual looking to
government TO foster trade that plays hob
with it. You can't have stability If you
have intermeddling."
Pike County Democrat: The comments of
the press, both Republican aud Democratic,
upon the action of Blaine in Withdrawing
his libel suit against the Indianapolis Senti-
mel, have been strikingly severe. All the
papers consider the plea advanced in his let
ter fipsy, shallow and supericial-that he
could not get justice in Indiana; aud a man
that would pen such q letter certainly has
unbounded and unprecedented gall. The st.
Louis Globe Democrat, the leading Republi.
can paper of the West. has the following re-
garding the insult to the courts of this
State: "Mr. Blaine's letter dismissing his
suit against the Indianapolis Sentinel Is ex-
c~eedingly ill-tempered and unfair in its spir-
its. In effect he says that he could not get q
Just verdict IN Indiana. This Is q serious ac-
cusation to make against the people OF a
whole State. 1t is q seri0usaccusation a yainst
the Federal Court, which in Indiana is Re-
publican in all its branches, and which in
all the States, whether Republican or Demo.
cratic, is honest and impartial. 1t seems to
us that Mr.. Blaine might have withdraw
his libel suit against the Sentinel without
libeling the whole State of Indiana, her Jury
sVafarn and her r0urta 0f ~iuetica.N