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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-07
The Democratic Situation in New York.

New York Commercial Advertiser.
It is the rnugwump habit of mind to regard
himself the infallit lie exponent of all that is
right, and great and glorious, and to insist that
the party with which he allies himself shall con-
duct itself in strctest accordance with his wishes
That is why he is mugwump 1t was his
domineering impracticabity that made him a
mugwump, and it is that which keeps him So
But, in order to please the mugwumps and
secure their support, the Democratic convention
must sacrifice all the desires and purposes of its
own party. The attitude of the nugwumps is
one of lofty superiority, with which there is no
possibility of practical dealing. They say in Of
feet: Either of the great parties may come to
going to either; the mountain must come to
Mahomet." Without the mugwump vote the
Democrats are in the minority, and to secure the
mugwump vote they must ALLEVIATE so large a
part of their own proper support as to leave
themselves still moro hopelessly the minority
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-07

the privileges of statehood on the part of
Washington and Wyoming will bring about
the necessity for action long desired by the
equal suffrage champions, and as equally
dreaded by the lawmakers. At all events,
no better opportunity is likely to be given
for investigation into the practical workings
of the experiment. It may be remarked, in
this connection, that so far as outsiders may
judge, the introduction of female suffrage was
accompanied in Washington Territory with
little or no friction, and no social upheavals,
some citizens who were prejudiced in advance
against the practice now going so far as to
testify to what they regard as its beneficial
results. Young Mr.. Voorhees,. son of the
Honorable Daniel, of Indiana, who was
elected as delegate to Congress by the aid of
the female vote, should be able to throw some
light on the matter
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-07

THE proposition to connect the State house
grounds with Military Park by buying as much as
possible of the intervening ground and putting it
into park order, may never take shape in action,
on account of the expense, but such an arrange
ment would make very pretty park. 1t would
be sort of ''saddle-bag' model, certainly, but
the beauty and value of park does not depend
on its regularity of outline. It may be a circle
or a square, or parallelogram, or as crooked
as one of the London parks and if it be we'll
cared for, fully shaded and watered, lowered
and turfed inside. it will be attractive ornament
the city, honor the State, and conduce to health
and refinement. If such an union be impossible,
from the cost of the connecting territory, the
front ''plaza," or square may be easily. cheaply
and benefcially enlarged and should be- A full
square in length-one half NORTH the other
south of Market street, with the intervening
section of that street, might be readily
bought, extending east to the alley between
Tennessee and Illinois streets, and thus could be
added along the whole facade of the Capitol, an
area of more than 300 feet in width. This would
make front exposure completely open and free
of nearly 600 feet from north to south, by 400
from east to west, counting the space from the
building to the street at 100 feet This would
make as fine an opening in front as ST. Paul's in
London has, or the cathedral in Milan or
Florence, and it would not be a costly addition,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-07

THE Philadelphia Times mentions, as a
leading objection to the admission of Wash
ington Territory as State, the fact that it is
so far away nobody knows anything about it
the nobody, of course referring to Phila-
delphians in general and the Times in par
ticular To people outside of that city who
have some knowledge of the Northwest, the
Ignorance of remote province like Pennsyl-
vania will hardly seem sufficient reason for
keeping State out of the Union. The adop-
ton OF woman suffrage in the Territory is
also held to be an objection to its further
progress toward statehood. AS this vexed
problem must come up before the congress
sional statesmen some time for serious con-
sideration, it may be that the effort to gain
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-07

THE readiest road to the high places in the
Democratic synagogue seems to be through
the Republican party. Democrats dyed in
the wool, or born in it, have no show with
renegade Republicans. tt is not long since
Isaac P. Gray, Republican, acting as presi
dent of the State Senate, threatened if the
secretary would not he would himself, call the
name of Republican member for his vote
while his seat was bitterly contested by the
Democracy. It is no longer since Thomas
Cottrell was the most implacable Republican
in the city, and the object of more Democratic
invectives and straight cursing than any two
other Republican ward workers. He wanted
to be postmaster, and couldn't so he became
Democrat and now he beats all the native
Democrats, partisans of lifetime of faithful
adhesion, because he has favored the crime
breeding xpense-making element, and it is
resolved to acknowledge the obligation. 1t
will be interesting to contrast what the Dem
ocratic papers say Of him now with what they
said when he was accused of managing all
the election tricks and tactics of the Repub-
icans in the Seventh ward
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-07

and undaunted determination. Mr.. Denny
had great strength in the southern wards, and
it is, therefore, to be presumed that the Re-
publicans of those wards not only understand
the task before them, but are ready for it.
The scenes in the election of 1882, repeated,
in degree, in 1884 in the southern wards, will
not be forgotten now, and the central COM
mittee and the candidate will organize and
prepare for the issue that has been so defiant
ly fouted in their faces by the Democratic
Liquor Alliance in the nomination of Mr..
Cottrell. We believe we can confidently
appeal to all the members of the Republican
party for an earnest and determined support
of Mr.. Denny on the explicit platform upon
which he has so unreservedly placed his en-
didacy.
No word need be said for the city clerk.
Careful efficient, painstaking, gentlemanly-
a model citizen and a model clerk-George
Breunig should be given a majority that will
show appreciation for faithful service With
this platform and this ticket let all good citi-
zens go in to win
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-07

THOMAS MCDOUGALL, the well-known tenn
perance leader in Ohio, writes an open letter
in which he refers to the stories about Dr.
Leonards using liquors for medicinal purposes,
very properly defending that gentleman for
being sensible enough to follow the advice of
his physicians, and then says for the benefit
of his temperance and prohibition friends:
ut will be a pity if the citation of per-
fectly proper incident in DR.. Leonard's life,
one which of itself cannot reflect on his char
acter, cited to show the difficulties and
dangers ahead to the church of Christ in en-
forcing its discipline arising from this move
ment for prohibition, falsely so called,
should divert the minds of our people
from an intelligent appreciation of the
fact that taxation is the true tenn
perance' and from the serious results
which will flow from Dr. Leonards success as
a politician at the head of political move
ment to defeat and destroy the Republican
party.
"As politician engaged in such work.
and doing it as he is with all the zeal and
method of a partisan, DR.. Leonard must ex-
pect to be treated as such.
"He cannot expect anyone, especially a
Republican, to remain silent and permit him
to use his calling as minister of the gospel
to shield him frqR proper attacks in his new
calling from on high to destroy the Repub-
lican party.
"He must expect to be done by as he is
doing by others. And certainly he and his
associates cannot expect us to be blind to
their attempt to ally the church of Christ
with a political party, the results of whose
labors are to give us free whisky and beer
for generation to come,
Democratic misrule, increased and in
creasing taxation and John f. Mclean, of
the Cincinnati Enquirer, as United States
Senator for John Sherman, and all this in the
name of God and true temperance
"Do not let US forget the Importance of the
election this fall and the possibility of the dis
astrous results have named, if the political
Prohibitionist succeeds, by spending all our
time in discussion of how much wine or bour-
bon whisky DR.. Leonard drank when sick, and
how much of it was needed as a medicine,
and when is it a beverage and when a medi-
cine"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-07

We should like to have some of the great
and good reformers who are perpetually preach
ing about running the government as bust
ness concern and on business principles. to
say why and wherefore the employees of the
government should be inhibited from being
as active as they want to be in politics. AS
long as they attend to business, whose bust
ness is it what else they dot The head of a
great mercantile house, the superintendent of
important commercial interests, can always
find time, if he has inclination, to engage in
politics But what would be right in him
would be wrong. it seems, in the head of the
government or the head Of department. A
collector of milk bills may 60 to primaries
and conventions and be as busy in party work
as bee. and still do his business creditablv
and well; but Collector of Customs or of In
ternal Revenue shall not have the same priv
lege.-New York Sun.
You argue WELL But why can't the Demo
cratic party be honest enough to openly recog-
nize this palpable axiom of politics and bust
ness' Why must the administration sneak
in the business of making removals and APP
pointments and hide behind the contemplate
screen of offensive craftsmanship Why not
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-07
Dinner to President Arthur.


1t will be remembered that shortly after ex-
President Arthur left Office it was proposed to
tender him banquet at Delmonico's. The sub
York and the East, the political leaders who
pushed his fortunes at Chicago and personal
friends. Democrats as we'll as Republicans But
the banquet VAS deferred on account of General
Grants sickness, and later the projectors of the
scheme were scattered through the country
Now they returning to New York and tho
dinner will take place this fall. probably after
the November election. 1t vii be entirely nom
partisan in character, and President Cleveland
will be urged to attend.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-07

rise to the occasion and declare its intention
to do as it is doing because it wants to,
and wants to get rid of Republican officials so
as to make room for Democrats and few
mugwumps who have done soma service for
the Democratic party9 Surely no sensible
man is deceived by this specious pretense of
observing the spirit of the civil-service law,
and the hypocrisy of pretending to can but
be harmful, not only to the Democratic party,
but to politics in general, for the reason that
it brings the law into contempt and makes it
a subject for ridicule
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-07

IT is the veriest nonsense to talk of drawing
a lesson from 'the verdict of the people in
the election of November last. The decision
adverse to the Republican party was rendered
by the hummer wards of New York city and
Brooklyn, reinforced, or backed, by a solid
South, where elections are unknown, and the
river counties of Indiana, which are soaked in
Kentucky prejudice. This is not exactly the
kind of jury that the Republican party has
been in the habit of respecting, and, instead
of shaping the party's honorable policy to fit
such perversion of the country's best judg-
ment, an appeal will be taken and The case
carried again to the court of public opinion.
AS well might a just and honored man aban-
don those principles which have made him
honorable because suborned jury had de-
cided one case against him in half dozen in
the course of quarter of century. The
first work to do is to impeach the jury, and
have the finding set aside
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-07

THE New York Worlds gratuitous assertion
that General Grant ever conceded the cleo
ton Of Mr.. Tilden, is absurd. General Grant
was not the kind of man to talk. that way
nor positively in any other way, in case like
that of 1S76-'77. He favored the commission
in the interest of peace and good will. He
knew as all knew that at that time not less
than half dozen Southern States were carried
by the Democracy by intimidation and fraud
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-07
The Boston Herald saws:

1.-The indications of business improvement
are unmistakable. Secretary Swank will give
some very encouraging facts in the next bull
letin of the Iron and Steel Association. Penn
sylvania iron manufacturers are making rea-
sonable profits on their products. A better
feeling is reported in New York and through
out the country The farmers are going to
get better prices for their products than last
year, and will be more liberal buyers of goods
In the language of the sweet singer of the
New York Sun, we may be happy yet, you
hetiv
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-07

as the ground is mainly vacant now, and where
it is occupied, it is by houses of no great extent
or value, except the State library building. That
isnot so very fine house. either This increase of
the State house grounds is certainly practicable,
and need not be expensive, and it will be a very
judiclous Improvement The huge building
actually uses up the nine acres in which it
stands so largely as to leave no adequate room
around it for a good view fit.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-07
The Albany Evening Journal SAWS:

eve are inclined more and more, as we
study the question, to coincide with the
Christian Union in favor of high license for
beer and ale a still higher license for hard
liquors. and for local option wherever major
ity may desire it. Such law would lead up
gradually but surely to such reform alton
the friends Of temperance are laboring for.
1t would bring the reformation about without
the confusion, the strife and bitterness that
are making enemies of prohibition even
among the best friends of temperance reform"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-07
Delightful Harmony.


NIlWNukee SentlneI.
There is harmony between the Democrats and
the independents, but what would it be like il
they should become inharmoniousl Tha
ing mugwump, the New York Times" refers to
the independent New York Herald in this way.~
'If anything that the New York Herald says or
omits to say, were of the least Importance, we
should be disposed to rebuke it's inso!ence. It's
stupidity is only equaled by its unreliability."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-07
If the truth is told about William Harrell

If the truth is told about William Harrell,
of Pierce county, Georgia. he deserves impris-
onment. Aged forty, he has just gone
through the travesty of marriage with girl
of ten years, her parents consenting to the
outrageous union. The child should be res
cued from the man and placed under the care
of guardian.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-07

THE New York Post, in reviewing the first
six months of the Cleveland administration,
remarks blandly that ''the civil-service law
has been maintained in spirit and in letter."
The great gulf that is fixed between the editor
of the Post and truthful George Washington
widens every day.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-07
To the Editor OF the Indianapolis Jou rnal:

To
Will you please inform me which are Repub-
lican counties in Indianal
LOGANSPORT REGULAR READER
Those that gave Blaine majorities were Ben
ton. Decatur, Delaware, Elkhart, Floyd, Gibson,
Grant, Greene, Hamilton, Hendricks, Henry,
Howard, Jasper, Jay, Jefferson, Jennings Kos,
ciusko Lagrange, Lake, Lawrence, Marion,
Monroe Montgomery, Morgan, Newton, Noble,
Ohio, Parke, Porter, Randolph, Rush. Steuben,
Switzerland, Tippecanoe, Union, Vermillion,
Vigo, Wabash, Warren, Wayne.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-07
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL

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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-07
The Bowling Committee.

Saturday Independent.
If that committee of investigation wants to
get at the true inwardness or the bottom facts,
why doesn't it have some lawyer on hand who
will make an honest effort to get tat them2 Every
question put thus far looks as if they were de-
liberately planned to let the game escape.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-07

''MANY people do not love me at first" says
the Hon. Thomas Cottrell, waiting kiss
toward the respectable and reluctant members
of his party; II am an acquired TASTE"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-07
What VIII XIII Him, Dead>sure.

Pittsburg Commercial.
Prohibition Leonard's chances fox being elected
Governor of Ohio are not improving The latest
accusation against him is that he prescribed
whisky and cod-liver oil for brother clergy
mans pneumonia. The cod-liver oil will kill
him. No man, whether prohibitionist or
preacher win a gubernatorial campaign IL
Ohio With suspicion OF cod liver oil upon his
record
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-07
FoR MAYoR-CALEB S. DENNY.
For CLERK-GEORGE T. BREUNIG.
The Platform.


The Republicans of Indianapolis accept the issue
made in the platform and nominations of the Demo
cratic city convention and in the pending and
approaching election invite the cooperation and sup
port, not only of the members of their party.
but of all citizens, of whatever political affiliations
who favor
First-The enforcement Of law in the interest of
public order and for the preservation of private rights
Second-The strictest economy in the administration
of the affairs of the city government within the
raised from the present rate of taxation and of the
refundng of the existing city debt at lower rate Of
interest.
Third-The levy Of tax of 500 per year upon
each saloon in the city the proceeds whereof shall be
placed in the general fund of the city treasury.
Fourth-The overthrow OF the arrogant domination
of the Liquor League in the politics of the city and
State.
Fifth-A rebuke to the Democratic officers of State
who have prosti1ted the merop Titan police system
to the basest partisan ends whereby the citys good
name has been scandazed, it's peace and good order
imperiled and the efforts Of honorable public officers
TO vindicate the law paralyzed
tI want to say, in the first place, that
plant myself sqnarely, fiat-footed, with both
feet upon the platform you have adopted"
Nh
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-07
A Useless Debate.

milwaukee SenJlnei
Governor Hcadly declines Dr. Leonard's chal-
lenge for joint debate. After mature CON
sideration Hoadly finds that they are both work
ing for the same eni-for tie defeat of the Rs-
publican party and for free whisky-and, there
FORE debate is uncalled for.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-07
A Pointer for Brother Leonard.

PIttsburg COMMERCIAL.
Rev. T. De Witt Tamage writes that he has
Thought and prayed on the subject, ard can
not see that it would be my duty TO accept the
nomination for Governor Of New York, on the
Prohibition ticket. Brother Leonard. of Ohio,
may owe his troubles to his omission to seek
wisdom where Talmage says he found it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-07
HoIman's Junketing Trip.
Pit tsburg Dispatt


1t is with pain and regret that the nation per.
ceiyes Mr. Holman the great objector, becoming
a victim to the junketing vice. His committee
on the Indians has been travelling about two
months now and has sedulously kept away from
the scene of any of the Indian troubles. Is it
possible that Mr.. Holmans objections in times
past were for political revenue onlyl
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-07

Mr.. DENNY stands squarely with both feet
on the platform. Nothing could have been
more satisfactory than his acceptance speech.
1t was strong, manly, unequivocal.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-07
Very Discouraging.
P,ttsburg Chronicle.

Pfttsburg Nhronlce.
There seems to be no hope for ballot-manipu-
lator Mackin, of Chicago. All his fne.spun
legal points have been overruled, and it looks
now as if he would have to serve out his sem
tence for perjury in the penitentiary. This If
very discouraging to one Of the principal Demo
cratic ia1ustries
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-07
The Council aud Corporations.

Saturday PEOPLE.
There is great danger of the BIG corporations
owning the next city Council. The Street Rail
wav Company have the credit for owning the
present We do net know that it viii be at all
an improvement to have the Council divided up
among a number Of soulless corporations.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-07

THE Caroline Islands would appear to be
that neither would go to war for their pos
session Yet it looks as though a fight would
Eaka nlaca
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-07

SPAIN and Germany might well try the ex-
pertinent of pouring oil on the troubled
waters Of the Pacific. War will be an ex-
pensive investment to each power
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-07
About the Same.

Washington Republican.
Mr.. Phelps is popular with the English peo-
pie now as he was unpopular with loyal Ameri-
cans little more than twenty years ago.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-07

LET the Republicans continue in the nomi
nation of first class men for the Council
Those already named give fine promise for a
business h0lv
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-07
Looking Up.
Atlanta Constitution.

Atlanta Constitution.
The business outlook is as promising in the
some are inclined to think that it is even more
so. Good crops count for a great deal.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-07
so They Would.
Philadelphia Times.

Philadelphia Times.
A good many OF the people who picked up the
prohibition poker for fun would like to lay 10
down in earnest if they could.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-07
Crush dine La,y-Breakers.

Saturday Herald.
The Herald is for law and order. Crush the
law-breakers under a mountain of ballots.
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