The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-28
THE CURRENT OF OPINION.

If the Democratic party were going to select
its next presidential candidate from New York,
his name would be David Bennett Hill-St
Louis Republican Dem.
Canadian Sentiment is largely in their favor
and strong influence will be brought to bear to
defeat any change that will bring American en-
hezzlers within the extraditon treaty.-Cnicago
Tribune.
The Servian rebellion proved that you cannot
let a fire get under way in any quarter of south
eastern Europe without setting the whole region
between the Danube and the Egean in blaze
New York Sun.
The New York platform. notwithstanding its
weak points, is more reasonable and respecta-
BILE document than those of Pennsylvania Ohio
Iowa or Virginia; but it will not rank high as a
political manifesto.-Boston Advertiser.
There will be four years Of Democratic rule,
and then arestoration of Repub lican supremacy
In better and snrer form than has been pre-
yiously known. The work of comprising that
kind of result has already begun.-St Louis
Globe Democrat
The cutlery against the prison-contract system
is to be encouraged from the humanitarian
standpoint. from the labor stand point and from
the stand point of sound political economy.
All arguments in favor of it are either falaciouS
or they are inhuman. Tribune.
Prohibition where the moral support Of
strong majority makes it practicable; high Ii
cense which reduces the number of saloons and
puts their owners under bonds to observe the
law, are very well as far as they 60 and are OBJ
1ects to be sought after.--Ph Philadelphia Press.
The Republican party is growing into posi-
which divorces the civil service from politics.
Grant that it has been slow in getting there
nevertheless it has got there at last and so I'M
mistakably that it cannot recede. Philadelphia
Press.
The quibhling done by Mr.. Villas in the effort
IN CHI OH Of tta LOTT of fha nd
ministration is not needed to satisfy the public
that the course of the Democratic government is
insincere, for of that fact the public has for
some time been convinced.-St. Louis Globe
Democrat
The land agitation in Scotland certainly seems
to be quite as promising as the land agitation in
Ireland was few years ago, and as the ground
has been broken by the latter movement, the
Scotch land law reformers are likely to have a
much easier task in securing the results they
desire.-Boston Herald.
The country never in It's history had such
promise of substantial and Lasting prosperity.
People are generally more free from debt than
ever in the past, and the great mass of consum
ers will greatly enlarge their demands upon
every channel of trade because of their increased
ability to pay. philadelphia Times
In Maine Kansas and Iowa the Prohibitionists
have supplanted the saloon with the drug store
for the sale of spirits in various deleterious dis
guises and have banished the less hurtful beer
and wine. This not the method of temper
ance reform advocated by the philanthropc and
philosophic Benjamin Rush. Philadelphia Rec
ord.
The sordid selfish pursuit Of the money that
goes with public Office is at the bottom of the
party discussions that are hardest to cure. and
every step Toward restricting the area within
which partisan service can be rewarded by pub
lie Office is gain alike to the interests of the
State and the solidity of the party.-Brookiyn
Union.
The President has removed the most faithful,
let the unfaithful stay and appointed large
number of persons of no merit or fitness what
ever, and has been little different in what he has
done from what the worst enemy of civil service
refOi n would have BEEN He talks beautifully
about it, but he acts horribly.-Philadelphia In
quirer.
The lesson taught BY these amazing Indiana
frauds is an old one Extreme caution must be
exercised in selecting agents to be invested with
official power, whether those agents are high or
low. AS good business man watches his en-
ployes, so the public must watch their servants
in order to be sure that they do not 90 wrong.
Frank Leslies Weekly.
The silver dollar according to recent official
computation. is now worth a fraction less than
eighty cents-a decline of six cents since the
present coinage law was enacted. This decline
represents so much clear loss put upon the
country solely for the purpose of making mar
ket for the product OF the oliver mining indus
try.-St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The Republican party believes in the admins
traton Of the public offices for the public GOOD
The Democratic party believes in the admistra-
tor of the pubic Offices for partisan reward.
That is the case in nutshell; and in spite of
all the letters the President may write, and how
ever strenuously he may assert his beliefs or
intentions, he cannot alter the facts.-Chcago
Tribune.
The Republican State ticket is remarkable for
its uniform excellence. Every man on it is not
only unobjectonable, but has positive fitness
for the Office for which he is named. 1t is a long
time since either party in this State has put be-
fore the voters list of names for which an
honest man could take a greater pleasure in
voting than he can for this.-New York Even
ing Post
Even in the face of Mr. Eatou's Endorsement
of the character and good standing of the ad-
ministration il this regard, when the public
remember the recent wholesale changes In the
Postofice and Treasury Departments, they can
scarcely help feeling, like the patriarch of DID,
that while the voice, true indeed is that of
Jacob it is the hand of Esau that has been felt
so far.-Pttsburg Dispatch.
The New York Republicans have nominated a
strong aud unexceptonable ticket, upon plat
form that. whatever its insincerity, yet makes
the issue of administrative reform in a way that
there could be no shirking The Democrats
have met the issue by spoilsmen's nomination,
which will not only repel every independent Re-
publican vote. butequally the votes Of thousands
ofindependent Democrats. Philadelphia Times.
There can be no lasting reform of the civil
service. no wise or honorable foreign policy
faithfully maintained. unless the voice of the
people freely expressed can control their govern
ment and shape its policy. All the other
questions about which men dispute are second
airy to this greatest question of all, whether the
right of the people to free suffrage and honest
elections shall be defeated.-New York Tribune
'The readjustment of parties augured by our
of nd he
aid may indeed, be effected. But when it is
effected we shall be much mistaken If three
parties are found in the field. We think there
will be bat two, that one of them will be called
Republican, and that the mass, so far as there
was a mass of those who left it last November
will be marching behind its bauner.-New York
Commercial Advertiser.
No wonder the British manufacturers are more
eager than ever to procure a revision of our
tariff, which protects our market for own