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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-26
A WASHINGTON special SAYS:

1T is announced here to-day that the Pres
ident has given orders that two correspond
ents, who telegraphed the late stories about
troubles at the White House between Miss
Cleveland the President and others, be here
after excluded from the building"
1t is to be hoped this is true. The White
House is the Presidents home, and be has
the undoubted right to debar from it any one
who fagrantly outrages the proprieties, as was
done by those who telegraphed the false re-
port of disagreement between Mr.. Cleye-
land and his sister. The President is entitled
to have The privileges of his home regarded as
sacredly as are those of the home of any
other citizen Of the Republic
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-26
CURRENT PRESS COMMENT.

THERE is plenty of money in the country. and it is
represented by currency good any in the world
The United States is no longer borrowing nation
and panic in financial circles is hardly among the
possibilities. The farmers of the West compare
lively out of debt and with their farms and stock paid
for people afford more contentedly to await for
the mcney-making times to return. With wise econ
omy things will right themsclves-much sooner
than if there is effort all along the line to force
them to do so.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
THE railroad business is like any other business. Ii
it is oved done it must suffer. and will suffer until
economy is practiced colossal fees to officials and
torneys and lobbyists are cut off. and corporations
deal honestly with each other and harmonic their in
terests extent If they not paying profits
it is their fault and do not see how farmers
manufacturers, commercial men, State and Nation.
al officials going to help them. A sharp, brisk
meeting between the managers and stockholders
would be more TO the purpose far the question
Of railroad earnings is concerned.-Chicago Tribune.
THE reelection of Hon. John A. Logan to the
United States Senate tardy justice, but it was
justice all the 1t is vndicaton by one OF our
great States of a who has always been an ex.
ponent Of the truesf Republican sentiments It 10 ell
so rebukc to fraud and attempted sales in politics.
There has never been time since the four months
balioting began, when single cogent reason existed
against Mr.. Logans election. The result is ore that
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-26

Judge Gresham's Technicality.


Justices Gresham and Harlan, of the United
STATES Circuit Court who have just had the case
of the Chicago election conspirators before them
on writ of error, have disagreed, and the case
will now have to go to the United States SUI
preme Court. There was no question raised as
to their guilt, the point being purely technical.
The prisoners were tried on an information in
stead Of an Indictment and the point was whethc
er this was permissible in crime Of
that grade There is no question that they
had perfectly fair trial and that
their guilt established to the satisfaction of
the jury, yet their punishment will be postponed
for months or years, and perhaps they will es-
cape on the merest technicality. 1t is perhaps
best not to override the letter of the law in any
case, yet it must try the patience of those who
have given their time and means in the effort to
convict these scoundrels and break up their evil
practices, and, after they have succeeded. see all
their work in danger of being overthrown for a
trivial informality in the procedure, when there
was not even claim that any injustice was
done.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-26

Illinois has to regret and that the nation at
largo may well take pride in 1t is too early yet to
say whether this election viii make Mr.. logan the
next candidate of the Republican party for President
or not but it does make certain the fact that he will
be strong candidate. He Is however, too much of a
man and too thoroughly identified with his party and
IT'S interests to desire the nomination unless his
will be the surest guarantee of in the coming
presidential election Regarded in sn lights, the
turn OF John A Logan to the United States Senate
Republic.
THIS country will rejoice and will have good rea.
son TO rejoice the triumph of British democracy
LOT Englsh democrats to be our friends
English aristocrats are sure to be our foes All
through the civil when the leaders of both par
ties in Parliament with Mr.. Gladstone at their head
were consplring to do mischief in concert with
their precious friend the Emperor Napoleon the
British democrats Silent helpless with no representa-
ton IN Parliament in the at the clubs stood
like rock on the side of the North They like
dumb heart; they had opportunity of speaking
their mind but they had reserve of power which
woke contemporary lately stated that it was Rus
STA which held England and France in check 1t was
nothing OF the kind; Russia is too cunning to mix
up in tights which do not concern her. It the
rank and file of the nonvoters in England who. By
their mute, stold but menacing attitude, compelled
the British arstocracy to hold its hand And if they
come into power shall have for the first time
in history alliance with Great Britain that will
be sincere. San Francisco Chronicle.
PIE proves after all to be mans best friend,
pecaly rhubarb pie and this cannot be contested for
it is certified to by less authority than Samuel
J. Tilden. He declares with the weight which be-
longs to the utterances of the Nestor of the Demo
cratic party that rhubarb pie is restoring his youth
1t would that in the secusion of Gramercv Park
and Greystone his system had fallen into alkaline
condition. By absorbing the acid of rhubarb pie he
developed the usual chemical combination, and so the
venerable statesman lids fair to become more
the salt of the earth He always famed, in the
heydey of his strength and wit for the of his
repartee; by adding his native acidty the
ness of oxalic and malic acids he will probably
quire preternatural sharpness. What pity this
wonderful remedy had not been discovered before last
JULY We should never have heard of Mr. Cleveland.
Tilden would have been the nominee by aeclamation
of the Democratic party and he had been successful
augural would have bristed with sharp sayings and
calculated drops Even before he took to rhubarb
pie he said of the best things that recorded
in political history; with such stimuant, what
reputation he might have achieved as a wit.-San
Francisco Chronicle.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-26

WE print this morning the full text of Mr..
Beechers first sermon in his evolution series.
Whatever may be thought of the Plymouth
pastor now, none can doubt the great influence
he has exerted upon the religious thought of
the country, and there will be q wide
spread desire 10 read in his own words
what he says is the ripened fruit of his long
life of ministerial study and work With this
series of sermons Mr. Beecher's pulpit labor is
to close, and he intends to leave them in a
volume as the fnality of his religious belief.
In this view the sermons will be read by all
classes of people with the greatest interest.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-26
An Unexampled Outrage.
Kokomo Tribune.

Where and when was active an open rebellion
against government not considered bar
to political advancement under that govern
ment and damning crime? Where and when
was the prince of leaders of a conquered revo-
luton a suppressed rebellion, dubbed an able
statesman, a loyal patriotic citizen by those
highest in authority in the government Has it
not rather been the rule that the sins of the faith
er, in this respect tainted the children at least
of the first and second generations Yet, under
a Democratic administration, the loyal people Of
the Nation are daily outraged by the appoint
ment to the most honorable positions in the gift
of the government, of the rankest and most un-
repentant traitors the government has ever
known 1t is unexampled
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-26
DISSATISFIED Democrats are calling for

DISSATISFIED Democrats are calling for a
reorganization. of the Civil-service Com
mission in Washington, because it is now
composed of two Republicans and one Demo
Graf, and they want the majority the other
way Democrats never can be made to be-
ieve in the absence of political bias even in
the mugwumps, but to suspect the civil
service men of offensive partisauship' shows
q shocking lack of faith in reform senti-
ments. Come to think of it, though, they
may have reason sor their distrust. The
Democratic member of the commission, it
will be remembered, went home, not only to
vote, but to make speeches for Cleveland last
fall. According to their own ruling, this
should call for new deal as to his position.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-26

THE New York Tribune, in urging the
Legislature to vote for high-license law,
says:
$50 far as we know, the high-license system
has worked we'll wherever given an honest
trial In Illinois statistics prove it to have
had an admirable effect. The minimum Ii
cense for dram-shops in that State is $500.
and for the sale of malt liquors $3.50. In Cook
county, where Mayor Carter Harrison has
done his best to defeat the act the number of
liquor shops has nevertheless diminished from
500 to 1000, and there has been an increase
of over one million dollars in the city reve
nue. In nineteen other cities in that State,
before the law went into effec there were
1888 liquor shops, yielding public revenue of
1850. Under the high-license law the
number of such places decreased to 468, but
yielded public revenue of $253 900. Arrests
fell off, and there was 80 per cent. less of
drunkenness In Cairo arrests decreased so
Fer cent, and in Springfield Is per cent; and
other places made an equally good showing.
Is not that conclusive evidence Of the benef-
cial effect of such lawg"
"Official statistics show in other directions
that taxation checks the consumption of lq
uors. Under the internal revenue laws i'm
posing q tax on spirits their consumption has
considerably declined The figures show that
$4,000, 900 people in this country last year,
consumed less spirits than $1,000, 900 PEG
pie consumed in 1860. The exact figures for
1884 were 1890, S37 gallons consumed. while
in 1860 the consumption was 86,364, STA gal
Ions. II the consumption last year had been
proportionate to that of 1860 it would have
reached 100, 1000, 900 gallons, instead Of which,
it was considerably less than half that amount.
'These facts ought to convince any legisla-
tor that the imposition of high tax on the liq
uor traffic has restraining influence. In Hi
nois it has had wholesome tendency in ex
tirpating the low groggeries and in diminish
ING crime"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-26

A PROMINENT politician who is ON init
mate terms at the White House is quoted as
saying, in regard to appointments and party
policy, that Mr.. Cleveland will move quicker
before long, and the faster he goes the faster
he'll move" The poor man has evidently
resolved to fight no longer against fate, but
to submit to the inevitable. He knows that
when he once begins to move as his hungry
and thirsty party wants him, natural mo-
mentum will SO increase the velocity of his
gyrasions that at the end of four years he viii
fly off at q tangent and be heard of no more.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-26
Sauce for tho Goose.
PHILADELPHIA Press.

1t is stated that two Democratic editors are
rival candidates for postmaster at Wikesbarre.
Under other circumstances it might be embar-
RAISING for the administration to decide between
two such clever aspirants: but now all trouble is
obviated by the fact that it cannot appoint
either ~.lhe circular of Postmaster general
Villas clears the way. 1t announces that If a
man is Republican editor, that fact involves
such offensive craftsmanship as to be sufficient
reason why he should not be a postmaster. OF
course, what is made rule for one side must
be made rule for the other, and Democratic
editors must be ruled out. Let them accept our
congratulations that their hands will not be tied
by appointments, and that they will continue to
enjoy their independence.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-26

THE Journal this morning seems disposed
to distrust the good faith of the railway com
panies in the project for a new Union Depot
The News has never ''spared for the crying
of the railways when it thought them desery-
ing of censure, and it certainly thinks the
new Union Depot the most urgent improve
ment of the railway business in indianapolis.
But it has reason to think the delay is more a
matter of compulsion than indifference, and
that the resident managers and some non resi-
dents are as eager for the change as the press
or the people. The trouble is, primarily, that
railroad business had not been very profitable
lately, or for a year or two, particularly to
the throat-cutting through lines, and none of
them are provided very amply against mis-
chance or extra expense. This state of things
makes them cautious about undertaking new
enterprises involving big OUTLAWS. AS one of
the chief resident managers said to News
man the other day, they are afraid to set foot
where there may be mud under the surface
till they know how they can pull out and
clean off if they should break through In
other words, they are not provided against the
reasonable probabilities of an enterprise in
volving so very large an outlay and such long
lasting liabilities.
The above from the News is very remark
able. The railway companies have not be-
come bankrupted within the last three months
through their own throatcutting. They
must have known their financial condition
when they were before the Legislature asking
the passage of the bill for condemning prop
erty, and were filing the newspapers with
authoritative statements that so soon
as the bill was passed work would
be Immediately commenced thus entering
into an implied contract with the people and
the Legislature. The excuse put forth on their
behalf by the News is sufficient in itself for
distressing the good faith Of the railway com
past sixty or ninety days to secure the pas
sage of their Union Depot bill.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-26

THE violation of liquor laws by saloon
keepers was the cause of three murders on
Sunday, one each in Chicago, Cincinnati and
Louisville. In this city riotous lot of bum
ners took possession of Garfield Park, and
violated the State and national liquor laws.
The traffic is lawless whenever opportunity
against which the people are moving.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-26

infraction of moral law than other men who do
not judge wisely concerning possible conse-
quences of their acts. Perhaps man who sets
physical laws at defiance 70 the extent of jump
ing l35 feet bears greater moral responsibility
for his deed than for a mistake in the ordinary
avocatons of life, but the ordinary mind will be
slow to so believe
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-26

TIE Paris police were called on to disperse
a mob Of Anarchists, on Sunday, and at Chi
cago the few laboring men in attendance at n
meeting Of the same class of people resented
an insult put upon the memory of Abraham
Lincoln by one of the speakers. These fell
lows are q dangerous, worthless set, wherever
found, and should receive no encouragement
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-26

By the corrupt purchase of the legislative
government of New York city company has
at last been given the right to lay street-car
tracks down Broadway, to the evident harm
of that great tLoroughfare. Of course, the
bill is simply gigantic matchmaking scheme
New York is the city that turned the scale in
favor of .sciyi.servioe REFORM
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-26

from honest men. For the greater part they
are chronic loafers, and where this is not true
they are disreputable self-seekers. They are
the enemies of honest labor, and in no sense
or degree represent the mass of that honorable
class who are known as workingmen, the bone
aad sinew Of the country
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-26

DEMOCRATIC organs must be getting little
weary of having to defend each new federal
appointee from the charge of disreputable
conduct. They have pulled Mr.. Lothrop
through on the strength Of his own testimony,
but are out of breath and ill-tempered as a
result of their exertions.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-26
An "Oaensive Partisan Defined.

WARSAW Times
An offensive partisan" is always q Repub-
lican. Democrats, no matter how much they
may have encouraged the assassination of Lin
coin, or the wholesale murder Of inoffensve col
ored people, simply because they persisted in
voting the Republican ticket, can, in no sense,
become offensive partisans' according to the
present ADMINISTRATORS ideas
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-26
Bringing UP the Rear.
Philadelphia

Philadelphia Press.
The Boston Transcript a mugwump organ of
eighteen carat responsibility, acknowledges
that sthe Democratic party always marches q
generation or so behind the Republican And
it might have added that the rear rank of the
Democratic column is well guarded by the mug
wump contingent who follow the army to spec
ulate or suffers stores.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-26

ATTORNEY GENERAL GARLAND has decided
that Indians cannot lawfully be appointed
postmasters. Mr.. Garland is evidently aware
that postmaster should be mild hammered
patient being, and that to place man fani
lar with the tomahawk under the provocations
Of the Office would be to establish dangerous
nreceden4
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-26

If it be true, as reported, that Miss Cleveland,
the Presidents sister, is about to publish book,
the fact shows that she is shrewd woman of
business, whatever her social accomplishments
may be. volume, whether it be school text
book or work of genius, will attract much more
attention when the author is known as the lady
of the White House than would have been the
case had it appeared while she was an obscure
country school mistress.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-26
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL. TUESDAY, MAY g. 1885

from the capital. He left note for the own
er of the wheel explaining that he had
borrowed it, etc. This will enable Mr..
Higgins to send him an appointment by mail
The delay on the part of the President is very
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-26

THE erroneous use Of the word "vaccina-
ton" for "inoculation" must be very distress
ing to purists, yet the idea conveyed by it is
perfectly understood.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-26

A WEST VIRGINIA applicant for place
under the administration has grown tired of
waiting, and, stealing bicycle he has HE'D
himself home over the pixies leading westward
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-26
Accounting for the Mackin Decision.

Minneapolis Tribune.
Judge Gresham does not seem to be the stern,
just man he used to be AT one time scoundreis
were pretty sure to get their deserts when they
were arraigned before him. but age seems have
mellowed him just little too much.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-26
Hard on the PARTY.

Philadelphia Press.
The Louisville Courer-Journal pronounces
Higgins simply an honest and conscientious
gentleman and true Democrat" This is kind
to Higgins, but rather rough on the Democracy.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-26

THE Anglo-Russian dispute is not yet adj
justed, but there is not likely to be war; 1t
takes time to settle questions of such magni-
tude
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-26

WITH materials and laborat the lowest rate,
this is an excellent time to put upa new
depot 1t is needed by the public and by the
roads
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-26
A Clean Paper.

The Evening Minute.
There has been no better or cleaner paper ever
published in this city than yesterdays Sunday
Journal 1t was free Of almost every objection
that could be urged against Sunday paper
and there not article in it that might not
proftably have been the theme of family con-
yersatiOn.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-26

1T is currently reported that .innumerable
hungry and thirsty Democrats will endeavor
to secure the services Of Mrs. Ohm, the Wa
bash woman who casts out devils. They want
her to cast offensive Republican partisans out
of of;ca
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-26

IT is said that Thomas Mast was not appointed
minister to Germany because Mr.. Curtis did not
ask the President to appoint him. Bismarck
would DO glad to meet the young man who has
repeatedly represented him with pigs head
It's pity mat Tommy didn't get to GO
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-26
Advice to Hanna.

Philadelphia Times.
AS bit of 6isinterested advice, 1t is suggest
ed to the Hon .Bayless w. Hanna that he had
better start for Persia before somebody saws
his boat
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-26

New York Graphic.
If Ferdinand Wards creditors have no com
plant to lodge against him they should club to-
gether to petition for his release and present
him with a testimonial.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-26
yyorkinp It's Own Destruetion.

National Republican,.
Democratic administration could not dam
age it's party more seriously by supporting
polygamy than by heaping honors on the ayowed
enemies of free schools
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-26

The Duke of Brunswick left property to the
value of $4,000, 000 1t is presumed that his
partner, Bake, has enough money to carry on
the billiard table manufactory.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-26

SALOONS should be made to bear part of
the special expense entailed by the liquor
traffic. A license fee of 500 is none too
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-26
To Alleviate McGonagle's Misery.

Indiana Fhalanx.
In the poem by J McGonaele in our last Issue,
the word language in the last line should have
been larynx according to the copy.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-26

IT is to be hoped that Cincinnati will not soon
be again visited by calamity like the fire of
last week, if it provokes the papers Of that city
to get off sentences like this one:
''The terrible affair Of Thursday last, in the
destruction of the lives of company of indus
trious young women who were honorably earn
ing an humble livelihood. and tho life of brave
and good young man, who stood back with
knightly chivalry and gave the ladies the first
chances Of safety when every moment was an
age of agony and added peril-this red terror is
not the first or likely to be the last, Of the sort
in this city-and taking the country through,
there is not month that something Of this fear
full nature does not come to pass-gye its warn
ing--fll the public with apprehension and indig
nation-and presently fade out with the hideous
history that has gone before"