The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-07


That part of Tennyscn's new poem which
speaks of something as being swallowed in
vastness, lost in silence, drowned in the depths
of a meaningless past" is now taken to be a
whack at the mugwumps.- Courier
Journal
The war is over, felow-citizens, and there is
no use foone about it. Let us not blind our
selves, however, to the tough, leathery fact that
the great Robert E. Lees battle saddle is still
winning political issue in Virginia -Philadel-
phia Press.
The opinion has been fully expressed that
such support as journals like the New York
Times and Post have given to the Republican
candidates was more dangerous than their oppo-
sition. and the theory seems TO have some color
ing of fact. Boston journal.
Who are the mugwumpsQ What are they?
Have we been nursing phantoms in our dreams?
is the mugwump formal, or is he but the night
mare which returning health has exorcisedl
Produce for us mugwump that we may ana
lyze him!-Washington Post.
In opinion, it will be very difficult to show
that the success of Hill has any deep Importance
for the administration. 1t certainly has in it
nothing to occasion the Republican party any
more serious feeling than one of passing disap-
polntment.-Mn eapolis Tribune
1t is proper that the President should protect
himself against the wearing visitation of Office
seekers. but it is absurd to exclude senators and
members of Congress in wholesale way by q
public order. even when their purpose is to ad-
vocate appointments. milwaukee Sentinel
When both parties make their nominations
selecting good men from their own ranks-men
who believe in the principles of the political par
ties of which they are members-and pay no
attention to the trading and trafficking mug
wumps, the latter's insigniicance will be clearly
demonstrated. CHICAGO Mail.
1t is living shame to be forced to give to
court Of justice partisan name, yet the present
O1p t nj hoc fano yarlH
to do So Let us see,, then, if this Democratic
court will dare to further provoke the people by
an open defiance of law and an open protection
of fraud and forgery. Cincinnati Sun.
The great significance of the result of yester-
days elections in this State and out of it is the
indication which it gives of decided inclina-
ton to draw party lines with greater exactness
than they have been drawn for a number of
years. The Importance of this indication cannot
be overestimated. -Philadelphi Telegraph.
The noisy and pretentious 'mugwump" or
gans that, by their absurd and illogical attempt
to support Davenport on the basis of loyal devo-
ton to Cleveland, alarmed and enraged tens of
thousands of straight Republicans and com
PEELED Mr.. Cleveland to put his vote, money and
whole official influence into the Hill campaign.
New York Mail and Express
The people are tired of theory and buncombe
Let the poor man have chance. Let no man
be hampered by useless examination. Let
every person be judged by his actual fitness for
the place ne seeks This is a question which af-
fects all parties. The masses of the people
Democrats, Republicans and Prohibitionists
alike-must suffer from class system--Cincin-
natl Enquirer
1t will be noticed that the mugwumps suffer
none of the pain and disappointment of defeat.
They did their duty, as became noble fellows of
their sort. and, enveloped in the cloak of their
own peculiar and transcendent righteousness,
they rise superior to the adverse happenings of
world Ac of ho ia Of tbo
there can be no doubt that mugwumpism is dead.
Kansas City Times (Dem.)
1t is not expected that disestablshment will
be carried this year or next. All the power of
the aristocracy and of fashionable society is on
the side of the fashionable church, and il will
take time to break down the barriers and lay
low the walls. But it will be accomplished, and
it will be accomplished, like every other neces-
sary and salutary reform. through the agency of
the Liberal party.-Charleston News and Cour-
Ter.
Of one thing the mugwumps ought now to be
convinced. The President is as intensely par
tsan as any Democrat in the country. He may
talk of independence, non -partisanship and civil
service reform as a matter of political strategy,
but his main purpose is to serve his party Be-
tween the most disreputable Democrat in the
country. and the purest and ablest Republican,
he would vote for the former to fill any office
milwaukee, Sentinel.
The mugwump newspapers forgot that the
imagined power of the press amounts to nothing
except as it proclaims the will and registers the
deepest convictions of the people. The people
means the many, not the few. In this American
community. the power is lodged where the votes
are, in the hands of the hard working millions
With them. and them alone, it lies to determine
the usefulness and authority of newspapers, and
the fate Of public men.-New York Sun.
The future of the Democratic party will be de-
termined largely by what is done this winter by
the Democratic party represented by the execu-
tive, and the House, and the minority in the
Senate. The elections of next year will be the
trial elections. The verdict. il it should be hos
tile will not be necessarily conclusive, but until
that time. the Democratic party will do we'll TO
count the results or this falls elections as simply
a vote of further confidence Memphis Ava
lanche
Bishop Sharp did sensible thing in renounc-
ing the practice of polygamy, and in complying
with the law; but he is mistaken in supposiug
that the people of the United States will ever
make any compromise with the Mormons on this
matter. The question will be solved by all the
men of the Mormon Church following the Bsh.
ops footsteps and abandoning polygamy, and in
surrender will ever be accepted. York
Tribune.
The interests of skilled and unskilled labor are
seldom common. however common their sympa-
thies may be. Skilled iaborers, as a ruls, are
intelligent men with the genuine American rev.
erence for law. The Knights of Labor organiZa-
ton Is not help to them and when to belong to
1t is to incur the suspicion Of idiocy and crime,
they will be compelled TO seek other means of
showing their unselfsh interests in the welfare
and elevation o. the men who lacking the intel
lgence of the industry to acquire any trade or
craft, must go through life as common labor
ers st Louis Republican.