The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-16
CURRENT PRESS COMMENT.

LAMAR Vest, George, Morgan and Harris united in
erecting sign board that Presdentelect Cleveland
must carefully scan before he makes up his official
family The rebels of the sixties rebels yet with this
distinction of character: Having tried and failed they
know they cannot rule by force they will test the
virtue of fnesse. Their little game must be blocked
Make mistake about that.-Pittsburg Times
THE temperance cause is too commendable one to
be made to suffer from unjust conclusions But
these will do it less harm than to retain within its
sells man who may have advocated the reform only
to it for his selfish purposes. For these
it is desirable for all parties concerned that the
whole truth should be known and that the guilty per-
persons if there such, be exposed to public
scorn.-Philadephia Press.
THE bill ought to pass both houses without word
of objection Gen Grants services to the Union were
simply nestmable He left life position at the head
of the army to accept the presidency against his ncna-
tions. Private individuals have since that time given
him tokens of their gratitude and admraton but the
Nation has done nothing The least it can do, in
honor. is to place him upon the retired list of the
army that he led to victory upon many and such
important occasions.-Boston Herald
Is it not possible for English writer's to get it into
their heads that nearly all the revelations made by the
dynamiters themselves here made for the purpose
of raising money to live and the qualification of
examination in court of law9 And do these writers
not perceive how difficult it must be to detect the
formation of Dynamite designs on this side of the
water when their execution the other side of the
water battles the highly trained vigilance Of the Eng
ltsh police9-New York Evening Post.
THE pages of history are darkened by the records
doubted whether, when all the facts are brought to
light there will be found in the list quite so in
famous as the who carries the of jefferson
Davis Charles l. obstinate tyrant, Earl Went
worth a calculating villain, James'Il treacherous
knave Lord North servile fraud, Benedict Arnold
despicable traitors but it appears from the records
that Jefferson Davis combines the evil characters of
all these and of lesser historical scaps besides.
Chicago Times.
THE South believed in 1861 that certain rights
which she believed essential were threatened To
protect these rights she appealed to the arbitrament
of the sword She defeated, and she accepted as
final the verdict of the sword to which she had ap-
pealed. This is all that brave men should have de
manded-it is certainly all that brave can yield
reproach of traitor was laid the graves Of the sol
diers who died in her service and who died happy in
in the knowledge that thew died for her. she would de
serve the contempt that all brave men would faster
on her. We thank God for the words Of our senator's
Atlanta Constitution.
THE baseball nuisance it seems is to be kpt up all
the year round Various journals of civilization not
content with reporting the doings Of the ball sharps
in the season with as much particularly though
they vital to society put in the winter months
with hardly less amount of arrange
nents for the future Considering that the whole
baseball business is managed in the interest of pro
fessionals in whom the public can have no possible
except that which attends the performance OF
any body of gymnasts to make these athletes public
characters and to treat their doings though they
were matters of state concern surely shows lack OF
proportion. Philadelphia Telegraph.
| THOSE who rally around Cleveland will find the Re
! publican party just as audacious and determined
quite as vigorous in assault and difficult to be sue
cessfuy resisted. when it drove buchanan admin
istraton the breakers and scattered its fragments
| all abroad. The Republicans still think themselves
able to walk straight up to the Democratic party take
by the collar and jerk it out of its boots they
4 were in 1860. II commend them" said Mr. Webstel
in his famous conflict with Hayne. Calhoun and Ben
History tells us that they needed them all before the
contest was ended Let toe supporters Of Mr. Glove