The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-13
COMMENT AND OPINION.

y The nPrviest man In the world has oeen ais
covered in Jersey City. His name is Pahdu and
ne has taken the cake by marrying his mother
in-law.-Kansas City Journal.
Upright Republicans, as well as straightfor
ward Democrats, ought to unite in any effort
that will result in election day only on presi-
dental years for all the States of the Union.
Washington Post
Undertaken Merritt's bill for the Grant funeral
-$l4 163-is not extravagant, but his blowing
about it is. Merritt should treat his converse
tional powers to an interval of relaxation.
philadelphia Press
the ex-officers of the confederate army are
gradually being crowded out of the country. An
other of them has just been ordered to Spain as
the diplomatic representative OF this govern
Philadelphia Press
! The existence of constitutional government is
ut stake in asserting the supremacy of the law
over ali classes When it is enforced upon the
richest and most powerful, it will be compare
lively easy to make the poorer and weaker
classes respect it.-Pittsburg Dispatch
What a blessing it would have been to the cit
liens of Cincinnati and vicinity could John H.
Mclean and NJ Halstead have been induced to
make up their differences on Flood rock at about
HIP o'clock on Saturday morning.
Sun.
The Rev. Leonard, Prohibition candidate for
Governor of Ohio says he expects to live in that
State when there is not a saloon in It, When
that time comes the old gentleman will get his
lican.
The body of the first Napolean is inclosed in
five collins, but the remains of the late John
Peter ST. John are being carted around by the
Prohibitionists with nothing on them but
paper collar and a linen duster.-Louisviile Com
Inercial
The mugwump desertion of Cleveland is the
beginning of the end Cleveland's administra-
ton cannot succeed without mugwump indorse-
ment. The mugwumps made him, and they
will unmake him by leaving him.-Donver
Tribune.
The Heunepin Canal is to be part Of great
national waterway from the Mississippi river to
New York city. St Louis and New York are as
much interested in that water way as Chicago If
they can't see it we know OF reason why any
one should attempt to have them see it.-Chi
cago Inter Ocean.
As all his other utterances should have led the
public to expect Ferdinand Wards latest bid
Cor popular sympathy cannot be relied upon as
truth. He is SIMPLY trying to cheat the public,
as he has already cheated his other dupes.
Springfield Republican.
For the sake of the good name of Presbyte-
rianism and the respect that all people of char
acter feel for the Presbyterian Church, it is to
behoped there will be no trial for heresy and very
little more noise made about the MangaSarian
affair-Philadelph Times.
If the South had encouraged manufactures,
she would have had nothing to fight for. The
slavery and secession. The loom and the spin
rng wheel made the North strong and enabled
1t to conquer-New York Telegraph.
Elf confession can be used against criminal
Ferdinand Ward has a slim chance of escaping
punishment His own account of how he led
General Grant into borrowing that $l50000
from Vanderbilt is enough to prove him a rogue,
and very mean one at that.-Boston Tran
script.
The artificial combination which owed its ORR
gin to slavery, in support of which a wealthy
class was united which the Irishry, can hardly
last much longer, now that slavery is dead and
gone. The dissolution of the party system in
the United States seems fairly to have set in
Toronto Week.
The camels turned loose upon the Arizona des-
ert, some years ago. have SO multiplied that
Shey roam the Gila valley in herds of 100 or
more. The hunters of the Territory have great
sport in chasing them. camel hunt is a long
way ahead of the old fashioned deer drive.-San
Francisco Examiner.
If Mr. Parnell had not 30 openly declared for
the protection of Irish Industries by Irish leeis-
1ation, his speech would not have attracted
attention; but having made the protection of
these industries of the leading reasons for
Legislative independence no wonder that British
Journals are excited-Boston Journals.
There is no more sense in tipping waiter
or bedroom servant who is faithful than a
prompt salesman or an efficient helper of any
sort The system is an outgrowth of the aristo
cratic caste basis of society in Europe, and should
not get foothold here, where labor is held to be
honorable and paid for on its mertS.-W ASKING
ton Star.
There has never been a time since the war
when the Republicans were not willing to enter
upon thorough work OF education at the South
under national auspices and at national expense;
and there has never been a time during that
period when the Democrats were willing to let
such a project be consummated.-St Louis
Globe Democrat
That Irish leaders and English statesmen
should be brought together to right wrong to
palliate a grievance. to restore kindly relation
between two countries which cannot afford to
separate from each other, and whose interests
gre in many respects Identical, no one can doubt,
either on this the other side of the water.
New York Herald.
The value of the traffic that annually passes
He'll Gate is estimated to be billion dollars.
The toll it took in the shape of wrecks until
recent years was of enough value to make it's
removal well worth 81 900 900, the labor it has
cost, and the danger that was incurred in the
unparalleled work that has been so happily
accomplished. brooklyn Union.
Wards statement is not of nature to excite
the least public sympathy for him, is it of
any value in showing where efforts TO recover the
stolen property should be made. All the facts
that he states bearing on this point were known
before, and there is not one word in what he
says that lessons his guilt or should diminish by
a day his term at Sing Sing or Auburn.-New
York Tribune.
The mugwumps cannot divide their allegiance
They pretend to be friendly to Cleveland but
the pretense is feeble device to mask their
abrupt flop. No sophistry. however tortuous or
adreit can alter the basic fact that vote for Ira
Davenport is vote of censure and rebuke regis
tered against Grover Cleveland 1t is we'll that
this should be clearly understood. York
Graphic lDem.)
There is to-day, fortunately, no sentiment of
walsx swN 4hn
feeling of intolerance-to use a word formerly
much more frequently used than now on both
sides of the spiritual controversy-no rigid be-
lief in any one patented process of salvation,
which need check the impulses of any clergyman
TO pay the full measure of tribute to the work of
John McCloskey.-New York Times