The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-24
COM MENT AND OPINION,

| Non partisanship IN municipal affairs is in
separable from civiseryice reform. They neces-
sarly GO hand in hand.-Boston Transcript
1t takes Mr. Gladstone most of his time to say
! all the nothing he has to say about what he is
| going not to do about the Irish question.-Chi-
cago News.
| The Presidents message is sufficient Motif
| cation that the country need not hang up its
| stocking expecting to get any tariff reform.-Chi
| cago Times
What the Mormons need to insure their safety
| In crime is supply of Democratic judges all the
way up to the United States Supreme Court.
| Cleveland Leader.
With Hon. William r. Morrison leading the
| Democrats in Congress, we may yet see the
time when Pennsylvania will be spelled with a
''p."-St Louis Republican
The time for the annual meeting of Congress
ought to be changed to the second Monday in
January. Nothing is accomplished at the short
session in Observation-Disclosures Sentinel
Morrison is bluff hearty. sincere man, whom
| one cannot listen to for five minutes without
| feeling that the party were doomed that should
follow his leadership. -Memphis Avalanche
1t is said that Mr.. Morrison never read book
On the tariff in his life. This probably accounts
! for the fact that he is an absolute as we'll as
horizontal free trader.-Atlanta Constitution.
1t is not Fitz John Porter who ought to be re-
| lieved SO much as the unfortunate public. We
are therefore in favor OF anything that will put
| an end to the Fitz John Porter matter.-Chicago
| Mail
Gladstone is evidently disposed to give Ireland
| a Parliament, even if it takes all summer. Col.
Gladstone the pioneer of Republican party
| in Great Britain and Observation-Disclosures
| Press.
The Democratic ouarrels in Maine increase
| and intensity daily The leaders of that party,
according to their own testimony. are worse
| than the Republicans ever believed them to be.
Boston Journal.
Life insurance is the worst possible field in
| which to make experiments, and where there are
| so many stable companies in which to insure
there is no excuse for trying those which are
| new or doubtful, or certainly unsafe.-Charles-
ton News and Courier
There is one thing to be said Of the disposition
| of Germany to gObble up outlying islands. 1t is
| generally exercised as to islands only known to
children lately through geography and ofice-seek-
ers just through the cvlservice examinations
Memphis Avalanche.
A recent writer argues that certain animals
have the sense of humor. in common with hu-
| man beings Surely even the most solemn mule
must feel like laughing when he looks at the
antics of the present administration in the mat
ter of reform. Louis Globe-Democrat.
When the general good of having the bonds
paid off and interest stopped is postponed for
the convenience OF the banks there seems to be
| a good deal of foundation for the Kentucky SEN
ator's charge that the Treasury is not run in the
interest Of the people. -Pittsburg Dispatch.
The Democrats in Congress are said to be
working for harmony" And they will get it
the same kind of harmony as reigned between
that man and wife who had, both of Them but one
and the same great object in all their welded life
and that waste be boss Minneapolis Tribune
The indignation expressed among Democrats
| at Washington over the recent utterances of Mr.
Saltonstall is intense and vehement. Whenever
a Democratic Official is suspected of being in
| earnest in his civil service reform professions
he is certain to get himself hated. Boston
| Journal.
| Nobody need fear any Mormon uprising. The
Saints are not laundering after their heavenly in
heritance to any such extent They may fuss
| around good deal In order to induce the gov
eminent to send troops to Utah, but it will only
be with view to selling their garden truck
Portland (Ore News
It seems rather childish in senator's to call for
a law to prevent them from acting as Office
| brokers Why don't they refuse of their own
motion, as Senator Edmunds and others have
done, to act as the go-botween Of Office seekersl