The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-25
MMENT AND OPINION.

THE Presidents worst enemies are those or
his own political household. New York Mail
and Express.
THE harmony of the Democratic party has not
been equaled since the days of the Donnybroox
fair in its prime Boston Record
The condition of the police force of Vincennes,
Ind reminds US of something which has slipped
our memory just for the moment-Chcago
Mail.
THE Century's question: "What shall we do
with our ex PresidentsF' is respectfully passed
along to the old gentleman at Greystone
National Republican.
"DEMoCRATIC simplicity" appears to be wildly
overdone in the character and department. of our
minister to Japan, Governor Hubbard. if the
stories are even half true.-Boston Herald.
APPARENTLY, the Democratic spoilsmen in
Congress are trying to insure the election of a
Republican House next year, go as to spite an
anti spoils resident.-Philadelph Times.
The declaration of Mr.. Evarts in favor of the
cartwheel dollar causes additional pang of
regret over the withdrawal of Roscoe Conkling
from the Senate. st Louis Globe Democrat.
SENATOR BEcK's speech on Monday was
fierce denunciaton of the administration, but it
will do no good. This administration can stand
any amount of denouncng we've tried it.-Phil
adephia Inquirer.
GENERAL RosEoRA,7s is reported to be dis
satisfied with his Office. There is no law that
we know of to prevent the General from resign
ing; but perhaps that is what he is dissatisfied
about.-Pittsburg Dispatch.
THE best proof that there was no partisanship
in the resolve of the House to change it's rules is
the TACT that both parties We're of like mind, the
vote in each being about three to one in favor of
change. -Philadepha Record
THERE is movement in the larger cities to boy
colt the high priced theatrical companies. 1t is
pretty tough tax to pay two dollars and half to
hear one horse actress announce that she is
limo -cent-Atlanta Constitution.
THOSE who have severely. criticized the Presi
dents message should at least try to learn to
love it. They may have to read that kind of
literature once year for the next seven years,
and it is not philosophical to persist in regarding
it as an unmixed evil.--St. Louis Post-Dis-
patch.
IT is surely time that the dog question should
be treated nationally. We import and breed
dogs by the thousand. We stimulate this kind
| of stock culture by kennel shows and prizes and
at the same time we break out in periodical war
against the dogs and slay them indiscriminately.
New York World.
If Congress would devote fortnight to the
earnest consideration of ways and means bv
which the introduction of bills could be so regu
lated and restrained as to exclude crude i'll di-
gested, useless and absurd measures from the
calendar. the usefulness of that body as legis-
latve machine would be greatly enhanced. New
York Commercial Advertiser
IT is conceded that no religious test can be ap-
piled to qualifications for Office in Illinois From
the Governor down an officer may be an atheist
or agnostic. If witness is disqualified by
want of religious belief, the curious anomaly
would be presented that an agnostic Chief Justice
of the State could not be a witness in
the court over which he presdes New York
Herald.
No reform of the civil service will be complete
until all but the great administrative Offices,
which must be filled from the dominant party,
that the will OF the majority expressed at the
polls may be executed-no reform will be com
plete until all Offices but these are filled by men
impartially selected for conspicuous fitness
wholly unconnected with mere party allegiance.
Washington Post.
SOME hypercritical editors are complaining be-
cause Minister Hubbard of Texas, at the Court
of the Emperor of Japan, said to an overpolite
French minister who sat next to him at a state
dinner: Don't you Monsure me; my title is
Governor Why, do you not know that this is
simple and unassuming administration, not in
sympathy with the dudsh dilletantism of effete
arstocracy2 What else could you expectl-Cin-
cinnati Sun.
1T is TO be hoped that the pardoning power in
Illinois will be stalwart and sensible enough to
resist the tide OF sicky sentlmentasm which
has already begun to flow In favor of the pardon
Of Mackin, the ''fine worker" of election frauds
in Chicago. Mackin committed capital offense
against popular government and he should be
made 10 smart for it, and to have an opportunity
for refo rim away from the temptations Of the
Gazette
WE trust that the time has not come when any
man, be he Mormon or Methodist, can be punished
in this country because of his religious belief If
there be any person in Utah who is guilty of
polygamy let him be prosecuted, and let him
suffer the penalt but let no man suffer under
the federal laws for the sole reason that his
creed is the Mormon. creed and his church
| the Church of Latter-day Saints. The United
States should not lay its hands on that church.
or any other church. New York Times
AS for the alleged conflict between honest aud
criminal laborers it would seem not so difficult
matter to deal with. If there are a hundred
thousand laborers within given community,
and a certain number should become convicts,
the producing power of the hundred thousand
should not be materially lessened. Nor should
The compensation for the labor of any class be
changed by the detection of the criminals If
nobody were given the power to put the product
of the criminal class upon lower than the nor
NAL price the conflict would be moro imaginary
than real.-Louisville Courier-JournaL