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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-09
IRELAND AND ENGLAND,

The attitude Of Ireland or the Irish people,
toward England, during the complications in
which the British government is now involved
is to many more difficult of explanation than
the apparent lack of spirit exhibited by the
government. There are those who cannot
understand why the agitators do not take ad
vantage of the situation, and add to the gov
ernment's embarrassment by stirring up
trouble in Ireland. So far from this has been
the course pursued, that Ireland has enjoyed
| unwonted quiet since the Afghan dispute has
engaged the attention of the government; and
beyond the vaporings of 'Nationalists' this
side the Atlantic, no sign has been
given but of strictest loyalty. Those who
know the Irish people in their homes wretched
as most of them are, know that at heart they
are loyal to the British government, and that
/ the great majority Of them would be quick to
take up arms in behalf Of the Queen. OF a
truth, the Irish people as a body do not seek
autonomy for Ireland, and entertain no seri-
Gus thought of rebellion. What they object
to is not the form of government under which
they live, but it is the unjust laws which
operate so disastrously against them. Accord
ed justice, Ireland will ever be content to
remain part Of the British empire and to ex-
tend >unfeigned loyalty to the crown. The few
who dream of an Irish Republic will see that
dream pass unfulflled away. The hostility
occasionally evinced toward officials in that
island is more an evidence of discomfort with
ernment from which they emanate. AS be-
tween England and any foreign power, Ire
land will be for England every time, and her
sons will be as prompt to fill the ranks of the
army as any from any part of the kingdom
This has been the history of the past, and is
as true to-day as ever.
In return for this loyalty and devotion there
should be amplest reciprocation on the part
of the government. The laws should be so
amended as to mitigate if not entirely re-
move the wrongs and distress that the Irish
people have suffered. The officers appointed
to administer the laws in Ireland should, as
far as possible, be chosen there, affording an
incentive to honorable and patriotic conduct,
aud relieving prolific source of complaint
The evils of absenteeism should be remedied
as far as possible, and the people given every
opportunity to improve their condition. The
few indictments would then be compelled to
cease their complaining, and if any should
still persist the authorities could lay hold of
them in the confidence that the action would
be sustained, not only by the outside world
but by the better class Of the Irish people,
who, we feel, will be quick to attest appreci-
alton of anything like decent concession in
their favor. If Mr. Gladstone cannot cope
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-09
THE New York Sun has this statement of
what it calls historical study:

W4idl ~ Calls q ulStOLlcdl STUDY.
Thirty two years ago Frank Pierce became
President. He was the last Democratic
President but one till this present year. The
Wings having been in power for the four
years previous to Pierce, there was great
gathering Of Democrats at Washington to get
the Offices which they felt sure were to be
taken from the defeated Wings
''Mr. Marcy, the new Secretary of State,
and one of the longest headed men that ever
belonged to Cabinet, soon filled the i'm
portant places in his department with genuine
Democrats of marked ability. There was no
nonsense about William L. Marcy.
"The new Attorney general, who stood
very near to Pierce, was that nondescript pol
itician, Caleb Cushing He was sort of
premonitory mugwump He told those at
the capital who were looking for offices that it
was the wish of the President that they
should go home, and that if they were wanted
he would send for them. Well, good many
of them went home. They went further
They went to the national convention of 1856,
when Pierce was candidate for renomina-
ton, and they froze to him till his vote sunk
to four and half, when he disappeared. Not
so with Cushing. When the tide turned he
became a Republican.
'"These are historical facts that will bear
close STUDY
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-09

THE New York Sun inclines to the belief
that our ministers may well be dispensed with,
at saving of some half million dollars annu-
ally. Ii emergencies arise in our foreign re-
lations, the Sun argues, the President has the
power, under the Constitution, to appoint a
minister. Ordinary business can easily be
managed by means of Geographic communities
HiOn, if necessary. This is good argument as
an abstract reform. and has been urged for
years by the Journal and other newspapers;
but il adopted what would become Of the
McLanes and Keileysl
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-09

REFERRING to the ''better element which
is frequently heard Of, the New York Sun
says, with much sarcasm and too much truth:
eve suppose that the better element con-
sists of those who wear good coats and kid
gloves, and fare sumptuously every day, and
never go to primary elections, or any elections
at all oftener than once in four years. If this
be what is meant, our Memphis friend is talk
ing most dreary twaddle.
''For our part we have more faith in a
Democrat whose hand is hard with labor, and
whose heart is honest and true to his princi-
Piles, than in thousand fancy politicians who
never 90 to the polls at all, except, perhaps,
when President is to be chosen.
1.-THE masses are sound and true but the
so-called better element is very often nothing
but delusion and humbug."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-09

francis E. WARREN, the Governor of the
Territory of Wyoming, bears the following
testimony as to the effects of woman suffrage:
II have been citizen Of Wyoming ever
since it's organization, and resident there
before its organization, while it was yet part
OF Dakota; and from my experience and obser-
walton | am compelled to say in justice to the
women of Wyoming, that woman suffrage has
not lowered the grade of public officials in
that Territory On the contrary, our women
consider much more carefully than our men
the character of candidates, and both political
parties have found themselves obliged to
nominate their best men, in order to obtain
the support Of the women. AS business
man, as city, county and Territorial officer,
and now as Governor of Wyoming Territory,
[ have seen much Of the workings of woman
suffrage, but | have yet to hear Of the first
case Of domestic discord growing out Of it.
"Our women nearly oil vote, and since in
Wyoming and elsewhere the majority of
women are good, and not bad, the result is
good, and not evil. While / had no hand in
passing the act which gave to women this
privilege, | must acknowledge its success now
after fifteen years trial, and l will now add
that no attempt to repeal the law has been
made for ten years, and none, believe, is
contemplated; for the practical workings of
woman suffrage commend it more and more
to favor among men and women as they I'M
derstand it better and know more of its fruits.
1t has been productive of much good in our
Territory. If the women Of Massachusetts,
are as intelligent and public-spirited as those
of Wyoming (and [ have no reason to doubt
they are) their political influence will be for
good government and public order Certainly
this is the case in Wyoming"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-09

BEING asked whether he would vote for the
confirmation of PillsburY for internal revenue
collector, Senator Frye, of Maine, says:
Personally, see no reason why should not
vote for the confirmation Of Pillsbury as
quickly as for any appointment that Cleve-
land has made. They say Piilsbury was a
Copperhead. Every man that Cleveland has
appointed to prominent place is either a
Copperhead or a rebel. They say he stole a
State. Well, Secretary Lamar stole State,
and he murdered 10000 men to do it." Con-
tinuing, he referred to the record the Presi-
dent is making. cleveland" he said, els get
ting too much credit altogether. He is not
paying the least attention to civil-service re-
form ideas. He makes pretense of retaining
postmasters who have unexpired terms, but
there are only about 8, 900 of them. They are
turning the other officers out as fast as they
can. They cannot cut off all these heads at
once. If they should work twelve hours a
day it would take them year to do it. The
most of Clevelands appointments have been
about as bad as they could be. see nothing
in his administration to commend" The
Senator has given expression to the sentiment
that in six months will be universal outside
the Democratic party. The Presidents ap-
pointments have been about as bad as they
could be, with a few rare exceptions.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-09

AUSTRIA once refused to receive ministe 7
sent to Vienna by this government This
was Arson P. Burlingame, who was after
wards sent to China, where he made such a
name. Burlingame. was member of Congress
before the war; just before a new congress
sional election he asked Ben: Perley Poore,
who was special friend Of his. what he should
do in the House to help in the coming election.
Poore suggested a resolution of sympathy 70,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-09

THE young man who sends over the cable
dispatches is little short of adjectives. He
announces the possibility of marriage be-
tween Lord Harrington and Miss Anderson,
and adds that they are 'splendidly matched. >
The bronze jacket and hat worn by Lady
Lonsdale at her wedding also matched splen-
didly.1 Any high-school girl, with her 'just
too lovely and perfectly exquisite could do
better than this.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-09

|. Mr.. JAMES BLACKBURN, the brother Of
Senator Blackburn, of Kentucky, has been APP
pointed collector of internal revenue in the
Lexington district. Mr.. Blackburn is credited
with the authorship Of the following letter:
'.ABINaDoN, Va, Oct. 9. 1S61.-My Dear
Wife: | have left you and our children in the
land of the despot but God grant that I may
soon be able to make the Union men Of Ken
lucky feel the edge Of my knife From this
day hold every Union traitor as my enemy,
and from him scorn to receive quarter, and
to him will never grant my soul in death;
for they are towards and villains enough
Brother Henry and I arrived here without
hindrance. have had chills all the way,
but | hope to live to kill forty Yankees for
every chill that I have ever had.
learn that Hardee is still in the
Arkansas lines, inactive and If this
proves true / will tender my resignation
and go Immediately to Kentucky. I hope
that [ will do my duty as a rebel and free
man. Since have the Union men of Ken
lucky, | hope to begin the work of murder in
earnest and if ever spare one Of them may
hell be my portion. l want to see Union
blood flowing deep enough to swim my horse
in Your husband, JAMES BLAcKBURN
Is there no decent Democrat in Kentucky
that could be appointed to office by the IRE
form" administration Like the appointment
Of Kelley, the appointment of Blackburn
whose authorship of this letter was made pubs
lie before he was appointed-is foul and in
famous insult to every loyal and patriotic man
in the country.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-09
The Chicago Postoffice Ca Q.
Chicago News.

Postmaster Palmer has not yet received
official notification of his suspension and the APP
pointment of Mr.. Judd as his successor Mr..
Palmer said it was an unheard-of thing to re-.
ceive charges against the incumbent of an i'm
portant public Office and remove him without
giving him an opportunity to defend himself He
expressed confidence that the Senate would cali
for the charges, and give him chance either to
refute or acknowledge them He was willing to
leave it to the public to Judge whether he had
conducted the Office on business or political
basis
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-09

S. CORNING JUDD, appointed postmaster of
Chicago, was, according to an official report on
the Camp Douglas matter, in 1864, a promi-
nent member of the peace organization,
known as the Sons of Liberty" or s.Ameri-
can Knights If there is any Shiny old
copperhead and unreconstructed rebel who
has not been provided for by this reform
administration, he should apply at once. The
oversight has not been intentional.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-09

By the election Of the Republican in the
Ihjfty-fourth senatorial district in Illinois,
the legislative deadlock is broken, if the Re-
Npublicans act in harmony The Democratic
county clerks are attempting to fix up a
scheme, under the manipulations of scoun-
drels from Chicago and Springfield, to defraud
Mr.. Weaver out Of the seat to which he was
entitled. They had better study the Mackin-
Gallagher cases before they go too far
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-09
THE New York Sun saws:

General Grant has the ability to write a
peculiarly compact, distinct picturesque and
telling English style. Here and there it may
be, careful critic might be able to suggest
some trifing improvement in phraseology or
in construction; but, generally speaking, the
compositions of the General are models, and
the attempt to improve them would only be
injurious. He knows what he wants to say,
and he has the faculty of saying it in an un-
affected and unequivocal manner that is
agreeable and instructive to those who read"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-09

THE Chicago News is doubter and scoffer,
50 far as confidence in the great Objector is
concerned. It says: 'The Hon. William
Steele Holman, of Indiana, has achieved con-
siderable notoriety as an economist, but we no.
tice that where the fat offices are, there are
his friends to be found. We have come to re-
gard Mr.. Holman as the sort of reformer that
strains at gnats and swallows camels"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-09
Everywhere the Same.
Terre Haute Express.

|
The Democrats in the indianapolis city counv
Gil defeated the ordinance increasing the saloon
license from $52 to 800 year. The local DO IS.
Sim Coy, saloon-keeper manipulatedhis party
machine and with one exception the Democrats
voted in the negative. What chance is there
here in Terre Haute. to put upon the LIQUOR
business a fairer proportion of the taxation9 The
business pays not tenth of what it should,
considering that it is directly the cause of great
part of the expense to the municipal govern
ment.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-09

EASTERN newspapers have way of describ-
ing Mr.. Hendricks as 'ssmall, slight man. "
Either this reference is used only in polit-
ical sense, or else the reporters have been i'm
posed upon by spurious ce-president.
Physically, your Uncle Thomas is neither
small nor slight, and, politically, he is not to
be bowled down by small ball, as Mr.. Bynum
will discover
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-09
Recompense.
Kokomo Gazette. Tribune.


Indianapolis has suffered for fourteen weary
weeks from most severe attack of Legislature
of the unterrifed; she is now bound hand and
foot by council under the control of Sim Coy
and his saloon and brewery companions; she IL
compelled TO buy postage-stamps of "God bless
he-Democratic- party" Abbott, yet she is happy
sphere over all the fields, and oftentimes the
fence and leads the Western League for tho
championship by large odds.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-09

AS the Journal presumed, there seems to
be little ground for. the belief that some
malicious person fred at the Presidents train
on the return from Gettysburg. No bullet
marks have been found, and it is hardly prob
able that an assassin would shoot "wild"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-09
Stops q Scandal.
New York Sun


The recall of Mr.. Bingham from the mission
to Japan, and the resignation of Mr.. Van Buren,
as United States CONSUL at Kanagawa, will
probably prevent the exposure Of scandal be-
tween these two persons that had long disturbed
their official relations, and was cause of seri-
Gus annoyance to the Department of State.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-09
An Apparent Inconsistency.

PhlIadeIpbla RECORD.
There seems to be trifing inconsistency
somewhere in the conduct of some of our Demo
cratic friends who spent the summer of 1884 in
pointing out to the country that the Republican
party had become hopelessly corrupt through
it's adherence to the spoils system and are
spending the summer of 1885 in endeavoring
to force the spoils system upon the Democratic
party
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-09

minneapolis Tribune
Nick Bell, the Missouri foghorn who wanted
to be First Assistant Postmaster general and
accepted a clerkship. is writing letters to tie
himself conspicuously officous in this regard
Mike Doran, Pat Kelly, Nick Bell and Tom
Hendricks are the lend men" of the administra-
ton
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-09

Mr.. KEILEYs haste in departing for Vienna
indicated fear lest the appointment should
get away from him. He should be reminded
and of the fact that Vienna can be reached by
+aleonanl,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-09

IT is now given out that the $5l, 100000 pack
age of money at the national treasury, for a long
time used for the special deectation of brides,
they being allowed to handle it, is nothing more
than package of paper carefully tied up and
preserved. A man who would cheat a poor bride
is mean enough to do anything Turn the ras-
cal ont.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-09

THE telescope for the new Lick Observatory
in California will be sixty feet in length, and
will bring the moon to within eighty miles OF
the earth. Close enough, almost, to let us throw
old oyster cans and hoopskirts into lunar back
Yards
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-09
A Change win BE Made.


The saloon men of Indianapolis have again
triumphed. The council has refused to increase
their license. At the next city election the peo-
pie will be mighty apt to rid the city of the
present set of officials, whose every move Is
dictated by Sim Coy and few other bloats.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-09
HARPER's Weekly for to-day saws:

Freedom of worship in this State is no
where threatened or infringed. The bill Sc
called is proposed law to introduce 6
sectarian form of worship into public institu
tons, and the Republican refusal to support
it is good sign. It seems to be hardly pos
sible the project will be agitated further al
present, but undoubtedly it will reappeal
baraaftar
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-09

THE Georgia water melon growers meet in
convention to-day to arrange for marketing the
coming crop. Prices for early lots will be fixed,
it is thought, at the rate of rs cents for the
water and % cents for the melon.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-09
Now Count the Noses.

Philadelphia Press.
Brother Hendricks, during the campaign last
fall, used to find great comfort in telling his
hearers that there was money enough in the
Treasury to give every voter 49, In view Of
this, it may be that the present count Of the
money in the vaults is merely the preliminary to
a general division on the Hendricks plan.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-09

Miss HATTIE ROGERS. of Erie, Pa, recently
distinguished herself by stealing a horse and
leading the officers a fiftymile chase across the
mountains. She says it was glorious excitement,
and we'll worth five years in the penitentiary
She may change her mind
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-09

"THE management of his office was perfect, ;"
says Mr.. Villas of ex-Postmaster Palmer, of
Chicago. Turn the rascals out says the
administration, land if they are not rascals,
turn them out anyway"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-09

JUSTICE HARLAN has appoined 'Tug"
Jonas United States marshal until the Presi-
dent can find somebody for the Office that was
STEPPED in treason and rebellion to his eyes
during the period of the war.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-09

A CoNNEcrrcUT woman, in looking through
her family Bible the other day. found colonial
six-pound note dated 1853 No wonder Connect
ticut has degenerated morally if family Bibles
are only opened once in two hundred years
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-09
The Sunday Journal.
MartinsyilIe Republicap

Martinsvil1e Republican.
The Indianapolis Sunday Journal Is one Of the
best papers published in the United States. No
other city the size of Indianapolis, can boast or
such paper as the Journal The people OF tho
State should give it hearty support.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-09

He is the enemy of England who misplaces
her air-cughion while arrangements are pend
ing TO arrange graceful fall.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-09

THE missing line Of the epitaph for Gordon s
cenotaph has been supplied, and it now reads:
Warrior of God mans friend not here below.
But somewhere, dead, in the far waste Soudan,
Thou yest in ali hearts; for all men know
This earth hath borne simpler nober man"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-09

GROVER CLEVELAND has seen the strongest
day Of his administration. Els brain-pan is
too contracted for a President of the United
S.tntnn
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-09
viii the Authorities Answer?

st. Louis Republican.
The State of Indiana has captured the club
that laid out the express messenger, but whore
is the robber who welded the club2
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-09
The Dawn of Better Days.

Columbus Republican.
The time has passed in Columbus when half q
dozen men can sit around beer table and fix
up ticket, then cram it down the throats OF
the unwilling voters
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-09

The opinion is gaining ground in London
that the British campaign in the Soudan was
conducted on principles little better than bar
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-09
Has Tripped Himself.

Philadelphia Press.
The trouble with Mr.. Bayard seems to be THAI
he has got in front of his future.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-09
An Adv Till Forbid.

Chicago News.
Wanted-To find foreign country that will
take one A. M. Kelley, and no questions asked.
Address in the strictest confidence Thomas X.
Bayard, State Department, Washington, d. C.s
u. S. A.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-09

Ii Russia does not see what she wants she
should not hesitate to ask for it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-09

The Massachusetts Legislature has again
voted down the equal suffrage bill They did
this so they could have some fun left for next
year
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-09
They Know 1t Now.

Union City Eagle.
not run In their interests.