The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-17
COMMENT AND OPINION.

OVM w Elm AND vi kAIUNs
Polygamy will not stand prison cells and fines.
New York World.
Keep an eye on the labor agltator whose hands
are soft and philadelphia Times.
Perhaps the greatest living humorists are the
Chase Lawrence Townley heirs - Minneapolis
Tribune.
The energetic gentlemen who undertook to
s'put Mr. Randall in hole" were surprised to
find that the hole was not big enough. -Phila-
delphia Inquirer
Bourbonism in the south end of the Capitol an
other chance to show its temper on the educa-
tional bill. National Republican.
A little confirmation DOW would no doubt be
very gratifying to the offensive Democratic par
tisans who were appointed to take the places of
offensive Republican partisans. Chicago Mail.
If there had been more men in the Southern
Confederacy like Toombs it would have gone
down easier If there had been more like
Stephens it would never have arisen -Cincin-
natl Sun.
The Kelley correspondence sent to the Senate
leaves Secretary Bayard in the same place in
popular estimation. He has bad taste in the men
he selects for championship and is generally RI
MISUNDERSTANDING Tribune.
So long as one of the three surviving Repub-
lican interal revenue collectors wears his official
head the Democratic spokesman declines to be-
lieve that this is really Democratic administra-
unconditional Republican.
The rulers of England seem to be getting
ready to swallow Parnells dose homeopathically;
but it is likely that before they get through it
will be administered to them in the old-school
heroic style.-Pittsburg Dispatch.
Somebody ought to take Secretary Manning
by the ear and tell him that he is not employed
by the country to run the United States Treas
ury in the interest of Wall street wreckers and
spectators. Atlanta Constitution.
Neither the President himself nor the Con-
gress should be permitted to name his successor
beyond the short period reasonably necessary to
enable the people to fill the vacancy in the con-
stitutional way.-St Lo1is Post-Dispatch.
1t is time for Congress to take decided stand
against the use of the resources or credit of the
government for the promotion of private
schemes, whatever claims of commercial i'm
portance may be set up for them.-New York
Times.
AS question of Democratic policy, as well as
principle, the unbroken record Of our party is
against sumptuary laws. In this prohibition
movement we see the greatest danger to Demo
cratic supremacy in the South.-Augusta (Ga.
Chronicle
The correspondence in the Kelley matter has
been laid before the Senate. 1t is chiefly inter-
esting as showing that the zeal of the admins
tration to get Kelley a fat job was in inverse
proportion to its anxiety to keep nearly every
body else from getting one.-Chicago Times.
1t is singular fact that the man who headed
our armies, and was twice President of the
United States, left to his family nothing save
that which he earned with his. pen, In this
respect the pen was certainly mightier than the
sword. But then, the man was honest.--Cin-
cinnati Sun.
Not revolution but evolution marks the Next
cans now. and rapid evolution at that They
have hopeful future people who can do
what they have done, since they made an end to
Macmillan and to the ambition of the third Ma
poleon, are capable of building nation worthy
of the name.-Pittsburg Times.
To the Democratic organs All jump on ex-
President Hayes again for attending the Hen
bricks funeral-and jump hard. Hendricks once
said to George Alfred Townsend: II always
him into Office and then abuse MIN for taking it. ="
All jump on Hayes!-Phladelphi Press.
The partisan decision of the Supreme Court of
Ohio, affirming the legality. or, at least the
availability of the recent election frauds in that
State, is what has been anticipated by many,
but it is none the less shame to the judiciary
of the State, and an outrage upon justice and
popular suffrage. Chronicle Gazette.
The only sure way to destroy Mormonsm,
polygamy included, is to break the power of the
church as an organization, and deprive the priest
hood Of the despotic sway that they now exer-
else over the actions and conscences of their fol-
lowers Mr. Edmunds is on the right track at
last and it is to be hoped that Congress will sus
tain him.-St Louis Globe Democrat
We have not suffered in our dignity in this
question Of the Austrian mission any further
than through the unreasonable prominence given
to it by the President. and the sooner tho Senate
disposes of it, and the sooner the President ap
points some acceptable citizen to represent us at
Vienna, the sooner we shall be extricated from
the appearance of being in childish pout over
nothing at all.-Chicago Tribune.
There is no abatement of the pride the people
take in General Grants career. There is no less
ening of affection for his memory, The trouble
is that the half dozen principal managers of
the subscription-the men who got up the com
mittee and put the five hundred names upon the
llst--ask for greater degree OF confidence in
their discretion than the public even, it seems.
a majority of their own associates willing to
accord.-New York Herald.
What is needed in the way of amendment of
existing governmental arrangements almost as
much as the better regulation of presidential
succession, is some provision by which the organ
ization of new Congress shall be effected inn
mediatoly upon the beginning of its legal term.
AS matters now are, Congress does not meet in
regular session till full year after it is elected
This is an utterly absurd condition, and it has
more than once been the occasion Of embarrass-
ments and Observation-Disclosures Tele
graph.
1.-THE Bourbonsl are what the controlling motives
of their house have made them. Inheriting the
physical defects and vices due to generations of
unchecked protigacy; inheriting. also, the weak
brains which come of seclusion from strenuous
life; stepped in all sensual indulgences, pulled
up with carefully instied ideas of their own i'm
portance, surrounded always by lying fatterers
and base sycophants or crack Drained enthusi
asts, they demonstrate to all the world what the
divine rights of kings come to when given their
own way.-New York Tribune.
An Acceptable Present.