The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-10
SOME HIT AND MISS CHAT.

A recent triangular correspondence between
three well-known gentlemen Of the city, was
terse and to the point MIR. Geo. Brecount, who
isatenant Of Mr. w. H. Morrison, found that the
water at his house had been cut off, and he
wrote: Dear Brother Morrison-no water
Please attend to it, Mr.. Morrison enclosed this
70 =. A. W. Davis, Of the Water Works COM
pany, and added: Dear Brother Davis--Bre-
count says no water. Please attend to 1t" and
Mt. DAVIS, In return, wrote on the same piece or
paper: Dear Brother Morrison-No money no
water: Send money and I'll send water. Please
attend to it. and it was finally attended to.
Mr.. James Walsh, Of Greenfield, who was
reading clerk of the last State Senate expects to
be deputy United States attorney under Con-
gresham Lamb when he succeeds to the chief
position. Mr.. Walsh was educated for the
priesthood. and is a young man Of decided
ability. Last summer he canvassed the State
for the Democrats, his speeches being parti
'cularly directed against Rhody" Shiel, who by
the way, is his own uncle. Walsh studied law
with Dave GoodIng, the Hancock statesman,
but this should not be counted against him.
There are great many good citizens who
would like to know what peculiar fitness has
been discovered in Mr.. Thomas Cottrel to make
him an available candidate for mayor Of the city.
Since he became member of the police force,
and has assumed to be the autocrat of that or
ganization, the papers have been filed with in
tervlews with him about various matters, and he
has done more to create dissatisfaction and
strife among members of the force than any
other man connected with it. There
mas recently arisen various ques..
tons of veracity between him and
the State officers, he declaring that they have
held meetings and done certain things and they
fatty denying it. If Mr.. Cottrell can't be re-
moved from the force it would be in the nature
OF special blessing if he could be prevailed
upon to keep from talking 30 much.
Tho honorable Simeon Coy has at least one re-
deeming quality, and that is that he never
kicks at what is said about him in the papers.
He is the original ''yaller' dog under the
party wagon, and on this account
will stand any abuse or Misrepresentation.
Recently however, Mr.. Coy has had occasion to
complain of something that was said about him,
the circumstances of which were about as fol-
lows: gentleman came to him, and said, Sim,
i was with party of men the other day, who
were discussing various things and one of them
said: regard Austin H. Brown as the shrewd-
est and smartest politician in town, and re-
marked, Wen, for regular political hustling,
would rather have Sim Coy The other fellow
said We'll, the difference between them is that
would'' Sim thought a minute scratched his
head and then said: ''Wel that is the toughest
thing that has been said about me yet"
81 They were holding gospel services at the In
diana Hospital the other Sunday, and there
were 600 or 700 inmates in the chapel After
considerable trouble the congregation became
quiet and the chaplain got down on his knees to
pray just as he was about to begin, the 81
Lawn 49,
middle of the hall and gravefy observed, "Well,
- the Democratic party anyhow" and it came
pretty near breaking up the meeting That
woman may be insane but she certainly echoed
the sentiments Of great many people who are
not.
One by one the fond hopes and aspirations of
the Democratic politicians are being destroyed
by the heartless administration On last Tues
day the news came over the wires, with dull,
sickening thud, that the President had appointed
j. M. Fry postmaster at Mahalasville, Ind, and
what the public want to know now is: Who in
the name of all that is deserving, is J. M Fry,
and why was not Eb Henderson appointed for
this placeY During the heated political cam
paign, last summer, it was generally under
stood that all Mr. Henderson would ask
as recompense for his distinguished servicesfas
chairman of the Democratic State central com
mittee, was that he should be appointed post
master at Mahalasville, and now Fry has got it.
This is t0o much. Nobody appears to know or
care where Mahalasville is, but Mr.. Henderson
wanted the place, and he ought to have it,
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Mr.. OF Davis. a gambler, who died here some
time ago. was very llliterate man, but bright
and original. The following is credited to him:
When he lived in Anderson several years ago.
while walking in the outskirts OF the town one
evening, he saw barefoot man sitting on the
front step of his house complacently smoking
pipe, while his wife was working hard in the
garden. Davis looked at them a minute and
then slowly remarked: II have saw have
saw many and many of alazy man. but that there
fellar ought to have been born lnjun.'
Representative Kruegar, of LaPorte county,
who was in the last Legislature, did not have
very exalted opinion of the electioneering ability
of ex Senator Winterbotham, who was candi-
date for Congress against Mr. Calkins in 1892
1--WE could have beaten Calkins," said he, 'if
Winterbotham had not made one or two bad
breaks. Why, at big meeting 1T Michigan
City he pitched into Calkins hot and heavy
for voting for the river and harbor bill, de-
nouncing it as steal and an outra~~ in
spite OF the TACT that that same bill gave "ity
$4,000 to improve its harbor. Afte DIS
Winterbotham and / canvased the cou to-
gether One night we had meeting in a small
town, where our crowd was nearly all farmers
and mechanics-men with cowhide boots and
overalls on. Winterbotham got up and COM
menced to talk about the tariff, and between you
and me he didn't know any more about it than
Charley Jewett does about "Baxters Call to the
Unconverted." He went on TO say "Gentlemen,
when was in Europe / bought several silk
dresses for my family, and three or four suits of
broadcloth for myself, and when we landed in
New York we had to pay heavy duty on them
l tell you this tariff is all wrong'-and just then
and old farmer got up and said, Bought broad
cloth clothes, did you. you BANKED old dude
Why don't you wear overalls like the rest of us9,
THAT did settle it," continuedyMr. Kruegar,
and Winterbotham didn't get many votes in that
town"
What are to be done with the three spots of
green and gravel we call our parks this summer9
A few dollars judiciously expended in Military
Park xnnld do nraat nnnd Tho anna $780,