The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-09
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WI may expect to the senatorial contest Ebegn
in right good earnest as soon as the Republicans
rally in full force Only one ballot ought to be neces-
sary to choice Every Republican should now come
into line and support General Logan in good faith
and with determination to win 1t is not fair for
the few who prefer else to stand and de-
mand of the majority that they surrender.
There should be- no thought of anything
f 6G kind senator The + to elect
forded, should be promptly improved by making John
A. Logan his own successor.-Chicago Inter-Ocean.
ALL private detectives may not even for price be
willing to commit perjury bat the fact that are
that they employ wretched creatures who are that
they plan and plot to begue the persons whom they
should be sufficient to induce the court to fng their
evidence aside unworthy of belief. In all such
they but hirelings, and their compensation
pretended discovery of evidence upon which divorce
can be obtained 1t may also be said that in all such
cases they are both moral and legal nuisances that
should be vigorously abated.-Philadelphia Inquirer
PREFERENCE of liberty and sympathy with nation
of blood and great traditions whose advance
has always extended freedom and civilization, is not
Day, Professor Goodwin Smith said that he had little
faith in conquest as means of civilization but if
ever az sincere Eefort to give civilization has been
made, England has made it in India. It might he
said be doubtful whether England is richer or hap
pier for possessing india but the overthrow of her
power there would not be gain to India or to
humanity. 1t would only restore the murderous
chaos from which England has lifted the country
Harper's Weekly.
AS matter or fact, Mr.. Cleveland is not radica,
cviservce reformer. He does not hesitate TO remove
and suspend when it suits his purposes do So and
the great majority of his appointments have been
made from among the Democrats of the ultra school
But he has not put himself completely in the hands of
the spoils faction Hendricks would have done and
hence his course has met with disapproval from the
politicians The complaints which are heard now are
but the preliminary mutterings which will grow and
sWe into loud outcry as soon the party workers
shall be persuaded that Mr.. Cleveland seriously pro.
poses to use the government patronage according to
his own personal preferences, and not as the poli.
ticians dictate.-Chicago Tribune
Our people have too much sound sense to be- gulIed
into sympathy with the house of Romanoff, because
1t answered the purpose of that astute dynasty to
favor CUR federal government during our civil war
The ministers of French autocrat supported tbe
thirteen colonies in their for independence bnt
Americans on that account caioled into Gov
doning the nquities and deploring the downfall If
the ancient regime. We quite as capable to-day 81
making the right discrimination between the ntarasts
OF Carbon and the welfare of the Russian race
From the ACKNOWLEDGMENT of Sweden and the extirna-
ton of Poland TO the strangulaton of Magyar lber
ties in 1919 the Romanof dynasty has been n curse
TO Europe whereas the Russian people, freed from it's
execraoie shackles, might become potent blessing.
Now York Sun.
lie lacked principle and he lacked manliness He
never won tncrespect of his contemporaries He did
not leave fragrant memory to the generation that
succeeded him. IL the American people came at last
to recognize his talent it the most that could be
fairly expected of them. Beyond that they had no
disposition to go. the great authors of America
wereto be commemorated there several who were
greater than Poe, and they who had honored
the nation in their lives well in their writings
Irving and Bryant not forgotten in this con-
nection but il statues in public places to be
reared there We're Longfellow and Cooper and
Hawthorne. and Bancroft and Motley and Prescott.
and Emerson and Whittier and Holmes, any one of
had done far more for literature than had Poe
and al OF Whom moved among their.countrynen with