The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-11-18

metalists. the bi-metalists. the gold-bugs, the
carbohydrates and the metalomaniacs gen.
orally, are each preparing brief arguments To !
show in g. few volumes that every other
opinion is that of a crank and an idiot, and
the coming session of Congress promises TO
be nurky with the smoke of the battle of
debate over the great currency question.
We don't know how much truth there is
IL the specific assertions of the Winamac
Journal, but there is truth in them in gen.
eral rule:
DIR. De la Matyr, one of the brightest
lights of CreenbackiSm, was also boYcOtted
by his large Methodist congregation at Indi-
annapolis, and solely because he did not
preach the gospel according to st. Republi-
canism. No Democrat or Greenbacker can
get licence to preach from Methodist con-
ference, a cold truth that is driving thou
sands of Methodists into skepticism or to
other more tolerant churches.
The following, from the Valparaiso Mes
senger, will apply anywhere:
Wonder why property holders don't keep
their sidewalks in good repair. 1t don't
cost much; all il wants is a little energy to
get at it. Ii would add greatly TO the beauty
OF the town and the convenience of the pub
lie Don't wait for your neighbor to make
the start
Forget it probably. The Brazil Democrat
says:
General Logan's forthcoming book is to be
called 'Treason's Pathway TO the Rebel
Ion." In the advance sheets no mention is
made of Black Jack, the recruiter of the
first Rebel regiment that ever disgraced the
soil of Illinois.
The Starke County Ledger says:
Now that General Mcclellan is dead and
unable to defend himself the usual host of
1lx- aol- l..
memory. These scoundrels are unworthy of
a moments notice,
The Crawford County Democrat makes a
good point:
The South is in the saddle indeed, as John
Sherman would say, but the saddle is on the
near wheel mule of a six mule team hauling
cotton to market, and she's in there to stay,
and that's what hurts the New England
States.
The following from the Auburn Courier
shows how ready abuses come. They will
never be avoided by changing one system for
another.
1t has been discovered by Assistant Secre-
tary Fairchild. of the Trearurv, that the
civil service commission has allowed the
same sets of questions TO be used for several
years in examining applicants in that de-
partment. And the clerks have become so
familiar witt. them that they pass with very
high percentages. One woman was marked
ninety-eight having already corrected for
others the same questions asked her. Mr..
Fairchilds private secretary is now getting
up new questions.
The outrage mill is run down. The Noble
County Democrat asks:
Why do not the Republican papers de-
nounce the shooting of John Hebrew,
colored voter of Baltin ore, last Tuesday? 1t
.Iosr. o. rol. I~l.w
Sherman howled about, except that it gives
the lie to his pretence that they are all COM
mitted by Democrats. In this case the vic
tim was a Democrat; and his only offense
was soliciting another colored citizen to
vote the Democratic ticket.
The Frankfort Crescent wants the matter
| looked into little:
Ii is said an effort will be made to place
all honorably discharged Union soldiers on
| the pension rolls. This will eventually be
| done; but whether the time has come for
the measure is question. Before any steps
are taken in that direction it might be well
| to look into the matter and see what the
annual outlay would be. 1t might bank
! supt Uncle Samuel.
The Terre Haute Gazette makes a fitting
answer:
Washington specials to radical Republican
| papers represent President Cleveland as in
| terpreting the Democratic victories in the
| important State elections this year as an in
| timation to him to make greater haste in the
| appointments of Democrats to Office. The
statements OF the Presidents purpose in all
| probability, however, are to be understood
as indicating what the papers which publish
them want him to do rather than what he
| will do. President Cleveland has taken time
to learn as far as possible the character of his
| appointees and has made, consequently,
| few mistakes. The Democratic victories of
this year are an Endorsement OF that honest
and conservative course.
The Shelby Times says:
From the beginning there have been, and
| to the end there will be, two diverse types
| of thought which have controlled the diverse
| political factions. The one distrusts the
people and adores the executive. 1t is afraid
that popular assemblies may become mobs,
and liberty may degenerate into license. 1t
believes in government which influences,
| directs, or even controls the expression OF
popular opinion. That party used to be
called Federal and is now called Repub-
| lican.