The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-17
COMMENT AND OPINION.


| lanta Constitution.
There is no enthusiasm for the Democratic
| TICKET In Massachusetts. It is quite respectable.
providence Journal (Rep)
Doubtless it was in red-hot political cam
paign that Pythagoras remarked: Gall men are
| hars"-Clncinnati Times Star.
:. BY this time Johnny Mclean has discovered
that 1t was not Halstead who was the Republican
candidate. -Milwaukee Sentinel.
The prohibocrats of Ohio were smoothly and
| artlstlcally wiped out Unholy alliances never
ala prosper.-Mnneapolis Trbune,n
The hello of certain Telephone transaction
| Is making Attorney general Gariand's Indian
summer red-hot one.-Louisville Commercial
| The Democrats of Virginia would do better to
save their shouting till they are out of the woods
Dragging doesn't carry elections.-Boston Her
add
| Governor Hoadly will now have leisure to go
| over to New York and see with what grace Gov
ernor Hill can march to defeat.-Philadelph ia
| Times
It seems to be agreed out in Ohio that the
JOINT debates were failure so far as exertng any
| influence on the election is concerned.-Spring-
| field Republican.
| The eght-hour agitation, now beginning,
promises to be the most thoroughly organized
| movement ever made in this country by the
| wage-earners.- Globe
days study of the Ohio election returns
|
mind that the mossback was out with his little
tomahawk.-Pittsburg Dispatch.
According to present Appearances the Ohio
| democrats have got their thrashing The ma or-
lty against them may not be large, but it is suf-
| hclent-New York Evening Post
| The day is not far distant, we trust, when the
sun will set forever the beauties of the under
| taking business. Cremation is making steady
| progress.-San Francisco Chronicle.
| Nothing can be more contemplate and indie
| cent than the conduct of the mugwump papers
| toward the first Democrat in the country Grover
Cleveland.-W ashington Post Dem.
The Hoadly rocket sizzled out in the upper
| ground of oblivion Tuesday with what the poets
call dull, sickening thud. "-Memphis Ava
| lanche
The ardor of the Presidents counting of Gov
Hoadly was resistless, and he got his candidate
| nominated. From the start it Cleveland
Express.
Policy gambling is the worst OF all forms of
the great evil as it robsthose least able to lose
without giving them even remote chance of
ever getting their money back.-Pittsburg
Chronicle.
Mr.. Sherman in Congress, can be relied upon
not to do anything which shall prejudice his
chances to fill higher position. He has not been
| failure in any Office he has yet held.-Boston
Transcript.
The American people are resolved that the
South shall not retain her ascendency in the Ma
ton by ballotbox frauds, intimidation, Bob
Lees bloody saddle and Ku-klux assassina-
tion.-Troy Times.
If the 'iobbing" Democracy has been rebuked
in Ohio, the same element of the party must be
rebuked in New York unless we are prepared to
admit that Ohio is more vigorous for reform than
New York-Brookiyn Union
| In the first preliminary skirmsh for position
| in 1883 the Democrats meet disaster Federal
patronage has not proven such a mighty force as
they expected. All their hopes of making Ohio
| Democratic State are blasted-National Re
publican.
Mr.. Sherman points with pride to the sudden
| growth of his boom for 1885, and Mr.. Blaine is
probably sorry that he didn't go and make Just
one little speech in Ohio, seeing that his side
was going to win after all.-Philadelphia Rec
| ord (Dem.)
| AS matters stand, discredt has been thrown
on Christian temperance work. the temperance
cause has received cruel stab, and all this has
| been done In accordance with delusive plan to
advance the political interests of the enemies of
| real temperance. Express
The result in Ohio proves the strength and
| vigor lent to party, in a political campaign by
| good nominations. All the candidates on the
| State ticket were unexceptionabe in every
respect and worthy of the places they have been
| elected to fill Philadelphia Press.
| Governor Hoadly's declared unwilnguess to
refer the question to popular decision necessarily
cost him the support of those Democrats who
| earnestly favor prohibition and regard the pop
| ular will as entitled to expression and effect
New York Commercial Advertiser.
| 1t is said that experience keeps dear school,
but fools will not learn in any other" But even
in that dear school the petrifed political fool
will not learn. Instinct differs from reason in
that it is unteachable. The petrifed political
| fool can only follow his Bourbon instincts. :"
Chicago Times.
| Our brethren in Virginia will fight the coed
| fight and keep the faith. They have the sympa-
thies of the Republicans in every other State
| They will win victory, and the time is not far
| off when the Bourbons. looking back to 1885,
| will be thankful that they were defeated Ma
tional Republican.
| Tho largest liberty of individual action con
| sistent with law and order is the highest and
best protection the State can accord to the work
| lngman Let him beware of any protection, so
called, which infrnges his perfect freedom of
barter in the labor market or any other market
st Louis Post Dispatch.
| One of the amusing things of the day is the
| surprise Of Mr.. Cleveland at the election in
Ohio Cleveland should stop fumblng papers
on his big desk long enough to post himself as to
persons and parties in at least one State in the
Union His ignorance something awful.
| Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
The work which is now in progress in the
/ South, 1t is true, is such work as was completed
| In the Nortn generation ago. but the signlti-
| cant fact is that it is in progress. Whatever the
causes that have kept the South back in the in
dustrial race, the obstacles have been removed,
| and the race has begun. 1t will not stop
| Charleston News and Courier
| Up to the last moment the great uuestion--the
! greatest question in our national polltcs-was
| kept at the front in Ohio. The foretold defeat
of the pre- Adamites" has not come Ancient
history has not been turned down. The wisdom
of those who believed the Republican party
should either die dare to contend for the right
has been indicated National Republican.
How many people have the Prohibitionsts
| persuaded or prevented from drinking rum in the
| State of Ohio during the past twenty yearsq If
all the time. money, influence and labor whio h
| these deluded Prohbtioniste have in the past
several generations wasted on futile political can
vases had been applied TO the methods which
oh teriza Mr Murrhu,S ,zorl.