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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-08
BLAINE AND ARTHUR.
The Presidents Cool and Perfunctory Sup
port of the Ticket.

Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
General Hawley, with his little pen. has pricked
Gazette have been industriouslv blowing and thew
subside suddenly.-Times Star.
If you mean that what Hawey says proves
that President Arthur gave such support to the
Republican national ticket last summer as
would have been given if he had been pleased
with the nominations, you are mistaken. The
Presidents courtesy was unfailiug, but he did
not allow himself to be placed in friendly rela-
tons with the Republican candidate in public
way as General Grant did. 1t is true that Ar
thur voted for Blaine and Grant did not. but
Grants call was worth more than Arthurs vote:
and if Arthur had shaken hands with Blaine al
the Fifth -avenue Hotel it would have been
worth many votes. New York was the key Of
the position, and the only member of the Cabi-
net who opened his mouth there was Gresham.
Then the appointments of Hatton and MoCul-
lOch were not favorable to Blaine. The Mug
wump attitude toward Arthur now is one of the
many symptoms of the truth, which was thai
the President did not overcome the inertia in be-
half of Mr. Blaine.
Exactly the help that Blaine needed, and that
Arthur could have given him without any in
fraction of dignity was not given. The result
is the President will have a Democratic sue
cessor. We have no pleasure in saying this
President Arthur has done so many things 40
well and handsomely that we regret to find fault
with him. His words to Senator Hawley wore
i'll good temper aud taste, but they were not toll
lowed up Blaine was defeated by the sneaking
treachery of a few of those who professed stall
wartism in New York, and Frank Hatton kicked
high with joy, and McCuloch sent to Congress-
a report very soothing to the Democracy, and
Mr.. Arthur will not be elected to the Senate.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-08

THE prospect of business growing better is
cited as proving that the business interests
are not alarmed by the near advent of Demo
cratic administration If the incoming adj
ministration were in position or temper to
enforce strictly Democratic ideas, there would
be no business at all in six months that could
possibly be avoided. Indications are. how
ever, that the wiser elements of that party
have profited by the experiment made by the
vote on the Morrison bill in May last, following
which all branches of manufacturing were well
nigh paralyzed aud from which it may be the
country is now about to recover under the
belief that no attempt will be made to go to
the lengths proclaimed by Democratic free
trade extremists. Business will recover just
in the proportion that it becomes apparent
that the policy Of the Republican party is not
to be overturned. The recuperation can be
measured by the recession of free-trade Demo
cratic sentiment in the country.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-08

THE Indiana Farmer for this week discusses
at some length the effect of the large number
Of idle men and of the reduction in the rate
of wages of those yet employed upon the ques-
ton of consumption. 1t shows what the ex-
tent of the underconsumption is caused by
the enforced economies in living, and alludes
to the paradox of the hard times when there
is surfeit of money and of food in the coun-
try. The article concludes as follows, which
is significant, coming from paper that is en-
tirely non partisan, and devoted exclusively
to agricultural, industrial and commercial
interests. The Farmer says:
Confidence lies at the bottom of all pros
perity. If that be destroyed, panic and disas-
ter ensues, and low prices and depression are
the result, for it.puts stop to industry and
that is followed by underconsumption of the
large class who depend on daily wages forsub-
sistence. The present industrial depression
began with the tariff revision of 1888 It is
very likely that it would have been but tenn
porary if this had been followed by the cleo
ton of Hon. Samuel J. Randall as Speaker of
the House of Representatives. for he is known
to be al ardent friend of tariff protection.
But the revision of 1883 was followed by the
organization Of the House by the most pro-
nounced free traders, and this by persistent agi-
tation of what is known as horizontal reduction
of tariff duties on imports. The manufacturing
industries were alarmed and stampeded. The
| fires went out, wages were cut down, and rap
idly the process went on till by sheer neces-
sity underconsumption to the average amount
of $30O,000,0 900 annually ensued. This oc-
CURED at home, where over three-fourths of
all we produce finds market. And it is seen
that the agricultural producers suffer in low
prices with all the rest by reason of the de-
struction of home markets to the amount of
the inability to consume, which closing of the
industries and reduction of wages have occa-
stoned.
''The late trip to the South by the Hon.
Samuel j. Randall, and his addresses in be-
half of our home industries and protection. is
a most significant and hopeful sign of coming
better times. 1t is the more significant be-
cause the visit is said to be made after re-
| cent conference with President-elect Cleve-
land All signs point to cessation of the
free-trade agitation under the incoming ad-
ministration, and if this shall be the policy,
there will be rapid restoration of business
confidence and resumption of the industries,
and therefore buoyancy of our home markets.
This will be followed by better prices because
of stronger demand behind which will be
the normal ability to consume"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-08

A WASHINGTON special to the Philadelphia
Times announces, with the appearance of
authority, that the new Secretary of the
Treasury will be man who will execute the
Democratic national tariff plank with scrup-
ulous fidelity. The name of the coming off
cial is not given, and, as it is not known that
any equestrian who excels in the great act of
riding two horses at once around the ring in
opposite directions is out Of an engagement,
the public is left in a state of agitating uncer-
tainty. Mr.. Hendricks has another job
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-08

MRS. TAUszKY, the young wife SO nearly
murdered by her jealous husband, a few
nights since, seems to have mo more sense
than the law allows" She has already written
a letter to her darling husband" 81 am all
right. Am only Frustrated by nervousness.
You viii, am told, get better soon. Do not
worry. dear, and as soon as can get out, rest
assured l will come to see you Lovingly. "
If old Tauszky is insane, such a letter will
do him no good. If not insane, his wife is a
fool for writing it,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-08

TIMES are hard, and no mistake, but that does
not prevent Mrs. James p. Scott of Philadel
phia, from giving grand ball in herhalf- million
dollar house. And the fact that hundred
thousand or more men are out of work in Penn
sylyania did not prevent the occasion from being
gratifying success. The account says: 1.-THE
house is lighted by electricity, and subdued
colored effects were introduced to give variety
to the spectacle. The elite of Philadelphia So
ciety was fully represented, and there were
some noted beauties from other cities. It was
the greatest and most brilliant event of the
winter. The loveliest ladies and the handsom-
est men, dressed to perfection as characters
from the operas, and in magnificent costumes,
made, in many instances for the occasion,
crowded the superb halls that are decorated
with the delf and art treasures of Europe, and
danced in the quadrilles and various fancy
dances dancing master from New York
directed several special fancy dances, in one of
which twenty of the greatest beauties in the city,
all of them brunettes, danced the Spanish bolero
with fans and castanets. A group of twenty
club men appeared in red swallow-tail coats
lined with white satin, embroidered white vests
and black trousers f"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-08

IT is said that Senator Morgan III. Weir, Of
LaPorte, will be, or try to be, Democratic
leader in the State Senate this winter Those
who can remember the eccentric election of
Bright and Fitch to the national Senate in 1857,
may recall the eccentric part that DIR. Senator
Weir took in that affair. The Democrats had
majority of the Legislature on joint ballot, but
were in minority in the Senate. When the
House asked the Senate to meet in joint conven
ton to elect peniteniary director, or Wabash
canal trustee, or something of that sort, in
tending, when the joint convention was held
once, to continue it in existence by adjourn
ments to fixed days till they could elect the
senators, the Senate took no action. 1t didn't
refuse or concur in the House resolution How
the Democrats then proceeded to make joint
convention of their House aud Senate mem
bers by themselves, and to elect Bright
and Fitch, most Of our readers know. The
Senate did not adjourn for the proposed
legislative election mob-that is all
it was, legally regarded-and the Repub-
lican members remained in their seats, while
the Republican members of the House with
drew, leaving that body with no quorum It
was the understanding of all of them that
none were to show themselves inside the bar
of the House or answer TO their names.
Morgan FL. Weir was Republican member
from LaPorte He hung about the hall of the
House while the sham proceedings were in
progress, and alone, of all the Republicans,
answered to the call of his name when the
viva voce voting began for senator's He did
not vote for anybody, but answered ''here,"
within the bar, to the call of his name, and
thus gave formal and official sanction to the
lawless action of the party he pretended to be
opposed to. 1t made no difference in the pro-
/ ceedings or the result, but it broke the gem
eral understanding, and got him enough
hearty cursing from Republicans to have
started store Of greater communications.
The party never forgave it or forgot it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-08

Mr. Gilbert P. Cook, the missing cashier
of the Havana n Y, bank. has made an ex-
ception to the rule adopted by his Canadian
associates of carrying off all the assets of the
institutions with which they have been con
nected Mr. Cook cleaned out the safe, and
took everything loose about the premises
along with him on his northern tour, but
kindly left behind one hundred acres of marsh
land belonging to the firm, and which was
valued at 80 an acre
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-08

Gov HoADLY, in his annual message to
the Ohio Legislature, renews his recommends
tion for the passage of an amendment where
by the State election should be held in presi-
Dental years on the same day with the nation
al election. Better have all State elections in
NoyembeT. instead of the alternate ones.
The October State business is not what it is
cracked up to be. Indiana got through with
it, and so should Ohio just so soon as possible.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-08

The structures upon Margaret Fuller by
Nathaniel Hawthorne, which have lately been
brought out in the memoirs Of the novelist by
his son, have created quite commotion in the
circle which chooses to regard her as having
been literary priestess when alive and an in
tellectual saint now. Several of her old friends
have come to her defense through the press,
among them James Freeman Clarke, in the
independent. The testimony offered in her
behalf is to the effect that Miss Fuller was
remarkable woman, with an excellent, loyal,
truthful soul, a brilliant intellect and fac
ulty for making ardent friends. This, after
all, does not conflict with what Hawthorne
had to say, he merely qualifying the descrip-
ton by the statement that her nature was
coarse. The truth seems TO be that this
noted woman owes her celebrity more to the
fact that her personal influence over her asso-
ciates was very great, rather than to
her literary productions, which are by no
means remarkable. With strong personality
and not few admirable qualities, she at
tracted many friends to her side, and possessed
the power of retaining them. The same
forceful character, together with her acknowl-
edged lack of tact, might easily have repealed
others, and this was the effect, doubtless
upon the sensitive and poetic nature of Haw-
thorne. She Jared upon him, and in the
privacy Of his note book he made bold to say So
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-08

THERE is something almost ludicrous in
members Of the State Board of Agriculture
criticising Governor Porter for having APP
pointed live man commissioner of the State
for the New Orleans exposition. Had the ex-
position been one of archaeology, the Governor
would have known just where to go for a
mummy-and then the State board would not
have been overlooked
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-08

The Democratic caucus last night noni-
mated Mr.. Charles j.. Jewett for Speaker, a
triumph of the younger element Of the party
over the Gooding mossbacks. 1t is also a
rebuke to the revolutionary, reeking
crowd of bummers, who, under the
lead of Bynum and Moody in the last House,
defeated the appropriation bills. Mr. Jewett
is man of ability for the place. probably the
best Of the material offered; but he was sup
ported by the most disreputable ''rings,"
and the influences that have contrib
uted to make him Speaker are unclean
and dangerous to public morals. Mr.. Jewett
has an arduous task before him. He must
prove superior to the character of some of his
most effective supporters, or his administra-
ton of the speakership will add nothing Of
credit to his reputation.
The Republicans have very properly and
wisely nominated Hon. Geo. A. Adams, of
Morgan county, as their candidate for Speaker
He is a man Of character, ability and legislat-
i've experience He will make safe and ca
pable leader of the Republican minority on the
floor. The Legislature meets this morning at
10 o'clock. The Governors message will be
delivered tomorrow.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-08
THE News saws:

eff Mr.. Myers doesn't know that the po-
lice commissioners have, from the beginning
allowed saloons to traffic on Sundays and hoi-
days, and at night after hours, in violation of
the law, made and provided, and in violation
of their oaths to enforce the law, then he
takes the cake with the red-ribbon attach
ment as the most ignorant man in public life
in Indiana
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-08

JUDGE SENEY, of Ohio, member of the
House Judiciary committee, and a law writer
of some repute, has been looking up the civil
tenure of office law, and calculating the ex-
tent of its repressive effect upon President
Clevelands removal of Republican officers and
appointment of Democrats He finds that the
law is of no force whatever in protecting in
cumbents, if the President desires to get them
out and fill their places with Democrats. 1t
is entirely question of presidential desire
and pluck. During the recess of the Senate
the President can remove any officer he
pleases and appoint whomsoever he pleases to
the vacancy, the appointee to serve until the
end of the next session Of the Senate. Judge
Seney's plan is to remove every Republican of
fcer SO soon as the Senate adjourns, and I'LL
their places with Democrats. If the Senate
refuses to confirm them, all the President will
have to do will be to send in other Democrats,
and until some one is confirmed the appointee
holds his Office and draws his salary while
whenever a confirmation is made, the officer
will be Democrat. The scheme is brilliant
one, and is so arranged as 'to catch the coon
gwine or comm" 1t all depends upon the
backbone of the President If it were Hen
bricks, now, instead of Cleveland, what visions
would open to the hungry and thirsty boys!
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-08

Hon. JosEPH E MCDONALD is too good a
man to be any further used as convenience
by the selfish and scheming Democrats of In
diana 1t is shameful and outrageous, the
way in which such men as Thomas A. Hen
bricks have traded upon him and his political
strength in this State
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-08

THE naval officers who loaf about this port of
entry will please take notice that the long tailed
and seedy coats in which they are accustomed to
disport themselves have been declared unsuita-
BILE by high authority. That ancient mariner,
Secretary Chandler, has been casting his eye
over the naval uniform, and declares that the
long overcoat must 60 and one of sack length
whatever that may be-substituted, the
same to be lined throughout with black silk.
This attention to the wardrobe of overworked
public servants is the more particularly COM
mendable when the arduous duties of the Secre-
tary in keeping the navy out of the wet are con-
sidered
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-08

THE man who would have Mr.. Watterson's
friendship must leave whisky alone. And we
don't know that be is Prohibitionist. Mr.
Randall laid sacrlegious hands on the Ken
lucky staff of life, and-well. Henry is not
fond of Samuel
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-08

In is reported that John Swinton's paper, a
New York labor organ, is about to suspend. 1t
was started about year ago upon the proceeds
and savings Of many years of arduous journal
istic labors on the part of Mr.. Swinton, which
funds, it is to be presumed, are now exhausted.
When he buckles down to hard work again in
order to pay his board bills, he will possibly con-
clude that he himself is the true labor organ.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-08
Governor Porter,s strength.

Indianapolis Special to Philadelphia Press.
To the question, 'Who Of the Republicans do
you regard as the most popular with the people
the most formidable to the Democratsf Gov
ernor Hendricks replied: Governor Porter is
much the strongest He possesses the faculty
not only of softening but actually of winning an
opposition in larger degree than any Republic
an have ever known
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-08

If the Hon. Samuel j. Randall did not live in
a region where buffalo-robe overcoats and COON
skin caps do not grow, it might be supposed from
the ado made by the correspondents over his
new glove-fitting gray suit and glossy white
collar" that the distinguished congressman was
accustomed to appear in the semi-civilized garb
of the frontier Perhaps, however, he has hith-
erto had his clothes made in Philadelphia.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-08

1T is rumored that Samuel j. Tilden has
to be used as an educational institution for
the training Of young men in political careers.
1t is understood that the course of instruction
will be optional as to readin' and writin', but
every youthful politician will be compelled to
learn Climber
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-08

We favor a peace policy for the United
States, with amicable relations with all the
world, and for that reason nominate General
George B. Mcclellan for Secretary of War
We regard him as the most brilliant man in
his line in the world.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-08

will be more than likely to go right ahead and
prove that they have no ability 1t is enough
that woman should have new spheres of labor
opened to her; she should not be encouraged in
disposition to boss the entire line of business
she may happen to engage in.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-08

AN Alabama woman, who is running saw
mill and making money, writes to Northern
paper, and advises men who contemplate going
into that business not to do it, 'for not onein
twenty has the ability to succeed" Then the
audacious woman goes on and tells the twentieth
man how he must manage in order not to fail
This sort of effrontery can not be submitted to,
and, instead Of taking the advice. the nineteen
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-08

Her admirers protest that the publication of
this opinion is an injustice to her memory,
but inasmuch as she is a shadowy creature at
best to the present generation, the new light,
though not fattering brings her personality
nearer than some of the panegyrics upon her
life have done, and in that sense may be con
sidered valuable rather than harmful.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-08

THE managers of the Agricultural College of
Massachusetts announce that as soon as their
chapel and library building are completed, the
institution will be ready for business. These
eminent grangers should be informed that the
spring blowing can be done without the aid of
prayer and the crops planted out of doors.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-08

For strict conservatism and careful utterance
we recommend this, from the New York World
written in answer to query by a correspond
ent: There are said to be l. r89 chapters in the
Bible" If asked if there were such edicts as the
Ten Commandments, the World editor would
probably say: sit is go reported"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-08

II 1880 there was tremendous how. about
fraud in the Indiana State election; yet the
figures show that the vote east in October and
November were practically the same. There
Is now going up the same unceasing bawl
about the fraud in the Ohio October election,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-08

very evidently paramount in the Democratic
breast. But we shall see what we shall see,
and the readers Of the Journal will be kept
fully advised Of the work of their chosen rep
resentatiyes
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-08

THE latest developed cranky woman of wealth
is Mrs. Eloise Newman, of Baltimore, who has
just married man of twenty three, her own age
being nearly thrice that Her object was to
make sure. that he got her fortune, $4,000 He
nrnhahlu will
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-08

A CHICAGO pickpocket has pleaded not
guilty because he was operating on the open
Board of Trade In brutal disregard of the
plausible defense, the judge held him to ac-
count
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-08

THE many friends of August Tichinkelsohne,
of Bohmisch. Reipa, will regret to learn that he
has just failed for 1852 900 forms, Gus was
always little venturesome in business.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-08

THE Louisville Courier-Journal enumerates
the ingredients of a pie made in ITO. Probably
saw it on a railway lunchcounter.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-08

To the Editor Of tho indianapolis Journal:
Has the State of Indiana regularly organized
militia; if so, who is superior officer, and where
does he live2
ANDERSON Ind, 1885.
lis
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-08

We have yet TO hear of anybody shedding
tears because of the likelihood of the Indian
apolis Base Ball Club being shut out of any
league or association this season.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-08
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A bets that if registers letter, and it is
lost. the Postoffice Department will refund his
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MILIIaAN. Ind, Jan. g. 1885.
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