The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-09
COMMENT AND OPINION.

The press is only powerful in politics when it
reflects the will of the people, and then its power
Is very limited. denver News.
Familiarity breeds contempt. This explains
why the South has not yet learned to despise the
silver dollar Macon Telegraph
All three of our Justices have been indicted
Tor emoezzlement This looks like slap in the
race OF justice himself IN MI
Democrat.
:, Inc mugwumps are probably preparing to join
the Greenbackers. bnt the Greenbackers will be
SICK OF them before the season is over-Atlanta
Constitution.
The Massachusetts, Democrats are trying to
look cheerful because they have elected "a re-
spectacle minority" of the Legislature. New
York Mail and Express
II this sort of thing goes on much longer it
viii be distinction for man to say of him that
he was not one of Andy Johnson's private secre-
tares.- Philadelphia Record.
There was mugwump party. Any nforma-
ton showing the whereabouts of that party now
will be thankfully received by it's bereaved wet
nurse. Girl S-h-rz.-Philadelphia Press.
The political skies are bright, indeed, but it
will not be safe for the Democrats ID try a
second time to elect candidates like Governor
Hill and his associates.-MemphsA Avalanche.
Again and again has the lesson been repeated
In our history that political spoils divided in q
partisan spirit weaken the party which uses
them, and that a business administration
Herald
The nomination for the vice-presidency may be
tossed to New York, but the chances are that
Connecticut or New Jersey will get it. SherA
man and Joe Hawley is not improbable come
bination of our friends, the enemy.-Atlanta
Constitution.
The last man who should cry out for cheap
money is the laboring man. 1t is his interest all
the time to get the pay for his labor in dear mon
ey. What he wants is cheap commodities. so
that his money may buy him q good living
Philadelphia Record.
1t was the sposmens victory, won through
the apathy Of the reformers Yet it has done
the Republican party the inestimable service to
make it plain to the reformers of both parties
that there is no hope for reform in the Democ-
racy.-Brooklyn Union.
Under ordinary circumstances, Riel richly de-
serves to be hanged, but if he is now or was
irresponsible in any degree for his rebellous
actions his life ought to be spared, especially as
he will be prevented from ever again fomenting
seditious strife.-Philadelphi Inquirer.
There is about as much difference between
real independent and mugwump as there is
betwean fighting general and drum major.
The latter wears more feathers and makes more
noise than a Napoleon, a Wellington or a Grant,
but he wins no battles New York Star.
A mon partisan" administration is inconsst-
emit with the theory of our government, because
Presidents are elected by political parties differ
ing IN their ideas of the policy which is best for
the Nation, and generally presenting direct issues
upon which the people are to decide-New York
World
The fact that the proposed plan of railroad
combination is heralded as the most comprehen-
sive and original ever devised is fanfare. the
notes of which are exceedingly familiar, as it is
thus that all previous readjustments have been
announced to the public. Louisville Courier
Journal.
Under moro liberal Interpretation of the
sch nf lox xryifh hok%1 IL
the everyday emergencies of government, and
with Democrats in control of their execution,
civiservlce reform ought to make signal ads
vance in popular respect and confdence-New
York Star.
1t would have been In better taste to have re-
tanned Dr. Gregory permanently the Repub-
lcan Commissioner or else to have appointed
one new member from each party, retaining
Judge Thoman as the experienced member
and as the Democratic head of the board.--Min-
neapolis Tribune.
It is an unpleasant fact, but nevertheless a
fact, that we have come upon a time when those
who love the Union heroes will have to defend
them, as we'll as contend against the disposition
to exalt the rebel heroes above them No one in
the North expected to live to see the day. But
it is here-Iowa State Register
Two Cinnamon in Omaha have Just sued pa-
per in that city for libel, and there is abundant
evidence that John is making encouraging prog
ress In the adoption of American customs. If
he Will 90 INTO pOlltlcS ana become a mugWump,
there will be no longer any doubt of his talent
as an imitator. philadelphia Press
Cinnamon may do we'll enough in Phila
delphia or New York. but in the higher civiliza-
ton of Washington Territory they are clearly
out of place. But just as surely as the years go
round the social organization on the Pacific
coast will pay, In some way or another, for Its
cruel intolerance to these SILENT Flooding people,
Philadelphia Times.
The Carlisle and Morrison forces in Congress
should be taught early that they cannot safely
assail the protective principle and if our manu-
facturers and workingmen generally were to
organize under the leadership of the Protective
League they would be much stronger and
more effective force than if they relied upon
their individual efforts -Phiadelphia Inquirer
1t is nonsense to claim for the Indians any sort
of control over the disposal of lands they have
sold and coded to the United States, when the
government unQuestonably can, by law, transfer
the title of their patented lands from the tribe
to individuals in severalty or ordain that all or
any portion of the same shall be sold to the high
est bidder for their common beneft-St Louis
Post Dispatch.
The New York Republicans are now convinced.
doubtless. as Republicans everywhere else are.
that this issue of free and honest suffrage is in
politics to stay until it is settled and settled
rightly; that it must be maintained as decidedly
in Cincinnati and Chicago as in South Carolina
and that 1t will not be surrendered at the behest
of any tree trade apoogists for balot-box COR
rupton. Philadelphia Press.
1t is true th6fe is a strong sentiment in favor
of burial simply because custom has robbed it Of
it's horror and it is proper to respect this senti
ment and to allow the slow growth of familiarity
to conquer those who are opposed to cremation,
rather than to attempt to argue down the senJi- ,
ment But the fact must be admitted by every
rational being that it is only matter of senti-
ment that stands in the way of cremation.-Mil-
waukee Sentinel.
The wretches in ST. Louis who tried to avenga
themselves for the failure of the street-car con-
ductors' and drivers strike by blowing I'D cars
and their unsusrecting occupants with dynamite
have been caught, and their punishment ought
to be prompt and severe. 1t is exceedingly diff
hcult to keep up a sympathy with workingmen
in their contests so long they harbor among
them rascals who capable of resorting to