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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-10
A GRIEVoUs DISAPPOINTMENT.

1t was very t~houghtless and inconsiderate
of President Cleveland not to 60 to church
last Sunday. If he had no regard for his i'm
mortal soul, and had the singular and mex
cusable taste to prefer his own society to
listening to amelliduous sermon from the lips
of the pastor Of New York-avenue Presby-
terrain Church, he should at least have re-
Elected that by remaining away from the
sanctuary he was causing grievous d~isappoint-
ment to many souls. For long months the
members of that flock have had reason to be-
lieve that he would enter their fold. Nopains
have been spared to turn his footsteps in that
direction. Was it not given out that the
distinguished shepherd in charge was an old
friend of the presidential family, and loved
one, if not all, Of them like a brother. That
there might be no thought Of political bias
nor a suspicion of offensive partisanship-of a
Republican character--did not the pastor
carefully omit a mention of Lincoln from his
sermon on the great men who had lived at the
Capitale Was it not made known, months in
advance, that in order to make room for the
coming stranger the minister would sacrifice
his family and all his relations to the extent
of giving up his own pew? Did he not hasten
to call upon the chief magistrate before he
had fairly shaken the dust of Albany from his
garments In view of all this, was the
expectation of wearing the spiritual
scalp of the President an un-
reasonable oneG The congregation thought
not, and prepared to welcome the new mem
Der in appropriate style. The silver plates on
the pew doors were polished up till they shone
again, the gilt pillars and other golden decora-
tons were retouched till they glittered like
new, and much thought and labor, to say
nothing of money, were expended in the
floral decorations. Among other things, one
thousand wide-mouthed bottles were provided
and filed with choice exotics. But all this
expense was wasted, for Mr.. Cleveland re-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-10

per seed for the entire stock. AS may readily
be believed, this is a higher price than ordi.
nary grades of cotton command, so much
higher, in fact, that it is a valuable testi-
monial of the advantages gained by advertis-
ing in the Journal. Cotton-seed, we presume
to say, is worth very much less than the rates
quoted above, say from ten to fifty cents per
bushel. 1t is apparent, therefore, that the
mention of an article in tie Journal has the
effect Of greatly enhancing its value, as has
been demonstrated in this instance. The
News and Courier will have to take its turn,
the same as others, though its bid is fatterin-
for a starter.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-10

THERE are faith cures and faith cures. But
when it comes to the kind that are warranted to
work, mmen those of Ohio. At Steubenville
a young man named Chamberlain injured his
nose and bled, apparently, to death. While his
life blood ebbed away the mother spent her ener-
gies in prayer, relying solely on the Great Ply
stefan. The boy finally went into commissions,
and, to all appearances, expired, The indignant
spectators then rushed off after a coroner. The
official did not come until next morning, when he
was astonished to find the young man, not only
alive, but ''as we'll as ever" He AYERS that he
was dead, but that his mothers prayers restored
him to life. This is the first instance of the
kind in the history of Ohio.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-10

THERE has been an attempt on the part of
the Republican papers to fix upon the Demo
cratic majority the responsibility of the extra
session. The charge will not, however, hold
water. Certain it is that in the last week the
Republicans of the House have voted solidly
against the taking up of the appropriation
bill. They, more than the Democrats, have
trammeled whatever action might have
avoided a reconyening of the Legislature.
Sentinel.
The Republican members of the House who
voted against taking up and passing the
appropriation bills have here a ~foretaste of the
charges they will have to meet next year in
the political canvass.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-10

THE next city campaign in Indianapolis will
likely turn on the question Of high license
upon the liquor saloons. When the tax
payers return fresh from the payment of their
taxes upon real estate and personal property,
and reflect that the whisky shops pay but
little if anything, they will go to the polls and
vote for aldermen and councilmen who will not
stand shivering in front of theproposition to put
as high q tax on the saloons as they practi-
cally can. The present tax of $50 is merely
after prolonged struggle, and by a dishonorable
COMPROMISE.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-10

THE project of connecting London and
Paris with pneumatic tubes can hardly strike
less terror to the soul of the average Briton
under the English channel. BY means of the
latter they fear that the sacred British soil
would be invaded by the French in case of
any unpleasantness between the two coun-
tries; and they will not, of course, be slow to
reflect that enough dynamite may be shot
through the proposed tubes to blow up all
London.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-10

THE Lafayette Sunday Times, edited by
Col. John S. Williams, the well known Demo.
crat, has this fitting article, which we COM
mend to careful reading:
1.-THE RE APPoRTIoNMENT OUTRAGE.-The
Legislature has passed and the Governor has
signed the gerrymander bill, under which the
Notwithstanding nearly one-half the
people OF the State-are almost entirely dis
franchised so far as the Congress of the United
States and the General Assembly of Indiana
are concerned. Of the thirteen members Of
Congress from Indiana, it has been so ar
ranged that the Democrats will secure
Overwhelming the Republicans only two.
In the General Assembly the outrage is pro-
portlonately great-the representation of Re-
publican counties being Systematically cut
down and the representation of Democratic
counties increased.
"And not only are Republicans outraged by
this outrage, but Democrats as we'll. In this
congressional district parties have been very
evenly balanced-two Democrats and'two Re
publicans-Myers, Ward, Ortiz and Doxey
having represented it. Under the new deal it
is overwhelmingly Republican, and the Demo
Gratis of the district practically v~oiceless in the
popular branch of Congress.
nthe General Assembly Tippecanoe county
has for many years been represented by one
Senator and two Representatives. We cast o.
200 votes-in round numbers. This
would make 1900 votes for each repre-
sentative. We are a couple of hun
dred votes below the average required,
and so we are cut down to one
Representative and a joint representation
with Clinton county. Why? Because Tippe-
canoe county is Republican. For in Demo
cratic counties Senator Hustled notes that in
dozens of cases only from 2,215 to 5000 votes
are required to elect a Representative.
'The object of this, Of course, is to keep the
State Legislature continually under Demo
cratic control. Query: Will it succeed The
Times predicts not. The Democrats of the
country to-day are in power, mainly through
a desire of the people to inaugurate more de-
cent methods in politics. Outrages such as
noted above have been in times past perpe-
trated by Republicans-and always to the in
jury of the party; for decent men cannot be
controlled by party shysters-and the Dem
ocratic party will find it out in this case."
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CURRENT PRESS COMMENT.

WE incline TO believe that Great Britain will be left
to pursue her Egyptian adventure unmolested. She
viii be left to her Irish middle, and nobody will dis
turb her. She will be left to worry about her colonies
in India, Africa and Australia. And while she is
worrying, and quarreling. and wasting her strength
the other powers will be unhindered in their schemes
of conquest and annexation. For, in the ancient
fable, it was while two of the robbers were coming to
blows that the third robber ran off with the booty.
New York Herald.
THE Democratic party has lived a hand-to.mouth
existence. considering that the evil Of the day was
sufficient therefor, and usually has had so much evil
on hand that there was little disposition to worry
about the future. Hence, as the party has at present
several matters of far more pressing Importance than
laying the foundations of future prosperity and ex-
tensive commerce, it is altogether likely that the
treaty question will be indefinitely postponed. The
idea of wasting time in discussing trade relations
when offices are to be divided and spoils to be dis
cussed is something which the average Democrat will
consider supremely ridiculous and not worthy the at
tention OF a true party servant.--St. Louis Globe
Democrat.
IT is natural that those who we're instrumental in
electing Mr. Cleveland should be sanguine of his sue
cess at the outset and predict the best results; it is
equally natural that those who. before the election,
distrusted his fitness and thought his party incapable
of wise and wholesome government, should attach out
little weight to general professions OF reform, now
ever copiously uttered, until they see them material.
lied into accomplished facts. In the meantime, 1t IS
proper that the new President should be treated with
the Difference due to the high station in which he has
been placed, and that he should be encouraged by his
political opponents as well "a political friends in every
inst and honest endeayor to advance the public vel.
Fare by such means as lie within the power of the ma.
tional xecutive.-Milwaukee Sentinel
ROLLER SKATING at best is a craze, and Is no worse
than other crazes, such as tobogganing. bobbing, pro.
gressive euchre, 4-oclock teas, metaphysical seances,
and other mild forms of insanity, at which all that is
charged against roller skating may be committed.
Has it never occurred to these moraists, who, we
fear, have passed the heyday of youth, that the tobog
gan offers facilities for Irritation, and that in the wild
and reckless struggle for the BOBBY prize in progress
i've euchre many . young man may be sowing the
seeds of progressive pokera If the young person can
not bs trusted in the roller skating rinks. can no or
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compromise

IT is understood that the gentlemen of the
army are highly gratiied with the appoint
ment Of Mr.. Endicott as Secretary of War, for
the ~reasonthat he has no affiliations with the
army either through personal friendships or by
having taken part in military affairs. The
opposition to a military Secretary is bitter
because, owing to the discussions in the army,
SUCH an aprointee could never secure their
confidence. In palmer words, the jealousy Of
each other is so strong among the leading Of
fcers that they could not see the promotion
Of one of their number without anger and op-
position. The army is a great institution.
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IT should not be forgotten that while the
appropriation bills were pending in the House
and theirpassage was beingrendered impossible
by the action Of the Democratic majority. the
Republican members of the Senate endeavored
togetthe measures before them. Senator Foulke
introduced, or sought to introduce, bills of like
provisions with the House bills, but was
prevented by the Democratic majority in
that body, which played into the hands Of
their party associates in the House. "his
occurred twice. The Republican senators did
all in their power to avoid the necessity of a
special session, but were blocked by the Dem
%ocrats, who seemed determined to force it
upon the people Of the State. Two years ago
the same party tried the same game, but a
Republican Governor could not be coerced.
and he carried on the State government with
out the Legislature. AS soon as the executive
branch of the government fell into Democratic
hands, the way was plain to force a special
session, and the six-dollara-day s~poilsmen
played their game successfully.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-10

COMPLAINT is made by Philadelphia Demo
Gratis that the federal officials of that city did
not raise flags over the government buildings
Oh Inauguration day. Perhaps the officials
omitted the cermony for fear of seeming to
sympathize too much with Mr.. Cleveland, and
thereby being accused of offensive partisan
ship" That partisanship is a thing that may
work two ways seems not to have occurred to
the hungry and thirsty brethren.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-10
Not the Love of David and Jonathan.

ou6I DyV WIG htpUbIlCAh.
As Hendricks had shrewdly guessed, this cry
for the s'old ticket in Indiana effectuaHy ham
strung the Mcdonald boom 1t divided the
Democratic forces. About that time I'VE speak
now upon very high authority Hendricks, in
talking to one of his most intimate friends. used
this remarkable language: II do not know that
| can ever be President of tho United States;
but one thing I do know, and that is I'll be
blanked if Joe Mcdonald ever shallr That
doesn't sound very much like the David and
Jonathan, Castor and Pollux, Romeo and Juliet
sort of undying love and relationship which the
henchmen would have us believe exists between
their idol and Mcdonald.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-10

In his farewell address to the regular ses-
sion of the Legislature, Mr.. Speaker Jewett
who has been, by the way, a capable, clear
headed, though intensely partisan officer
says:
''The first hour of this. session I declared
that, in my opinion, this House was, in point
of worth, the peer of any that ever organized
in Indiana. What was then an impression is
now a settled conviction. Day after day l
have seen you diligently and intelligently dis
charging your duties as worthy representa-
tiyes of those who sent you here
In the proclamation converting the special
session, Governor Gray says:
'Whereas, The present regular session has
failed to pass a general appropriation bill,
making provisions to carry on the State gov
eminent and support the various State insti-
tutions for the years 1886 and 1887, a bill
making specific appropriation, a bill to raise
revenue, and make appropriations during the
years 1886 and 1887 to continue the con-
struction Of the new State-house, and other
important bills" etc.
Governor Gray tells the truth by the
record, and Mr.. Jewett was getting off the
usual twaddle. We put Governor Gray
against the Speaker. The people of the State
know that the Legislature did not ebay after
day diligently" do anything. For a week
they diligently" frittered away the time, and
Mr.. Jewett more than once expressed his dis
o,7cf
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-10
I'll T
for startel

The proclamation Of Governor Gray calling
an extra session Of the Legislature will be
found in the report of the legislative proceed
ings. It has been manifest, rs foreshadowed
in the Journal, that the Democratic majority
in both Senate and House have been working
for this result for weeks. The Democrats
have within one or two of a two-thirds vote
liz each branch OF the General Assembly, and,
as has been demonstrated by the passage of
the congressional and legislative apportion-
ment bills, they had the power to pass what
ever measures may have been agreed upon in
their caucus. Never in the history of In
diana legislation Lave such outrageous and un-
fair laws been enacted as by the Democratic
majorities in the present Assembly. The shot
gun policy against the Republicans of Missis-
sippi and South Carolina, and other States,
takes the color of law, for precisely the same
purpose, in Indiana. The ends that have been
attained by murder and intimidation at Ham
burg and Copiah are sought by gerrymander
in Indiana. It remains to be seen whether
the desired results will be accomplished. The
chance advantage that the Democrats OBJ
tanned in the present Legislature they now
seek to use for the perpetual disfranchisement
of the Republican voters of Indiana. These
superintendent bills seek to control the next
House of Representatives in Congress, and to
send q Democratic Senator from this State in
place of Senator Harrison, hoping thereby
to get the majority in the United States Sen
ate, and thus, with the President and House,
the absolute control Of the national govern
ment. Should they succeed in these designs,
there is no limit to which Democratic greed
may not lead. As stated, the Democrats have
had both houses Of the Legislature by over
whelming majorities. They have left nothing
undone which they sought to do, nor have
they done anything that they tried to leave
undone. They have failed to investigate the
accounts of the Treasurer of State, because it
was manifest that the investigation would
cause trouble to a Democratic official. They
have failed to pass laws removing officials from
the Soldiers Orphans Home at Knightstown,
when it was in sworn testimony before their
Democratic committees that soldiers orphans
had been outraged by such Democratic Off
cials. They have even failed to prepare the
appropriation bills necessary to carry on the
asylums for the insane, the deaf and dumb,
and the blind. They have failed to so much as
introduce a bill to levy a tax to complete the
State house, while they knew that. the con-
tractors were only waiting such an opportunity
to increase its cost. In short, they have
failed in everything they were sent here to DO.
The chapter of their shortcomings could be
enlarged; the record of their benefcent meas
ures is naught. A thousand dollars a day for
this extra session is to be wrung from the tax
payers of Indiana, to be levied on their lands
and their personal property. While the whisky
saloon goes free, the widows cow and the
lame soldiers horse may be sold to pay this
extra expense. Great is Democracy.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-10
OF Course, He Did.

Chicag 60 Inter Ocean.
Did Hendricks. as chairman of the Indiana
delegation, conspire from the first against the
~favorite son whom he professed to ~supportl Was
that speech itself cunningly devised to throw
cold water upon the nomination by deftly slip
ping in the remark that anybody could carry In
dianal Was the little Hendricks boomlet that
rose and fell so suddenly manufactured yH6ez.
his own directionl Was it, in fine, another case
of Joab saying: "Is it well with thee, my
brother?" and at the same time running a sword
through the unsuspecting Abner9
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-10
GENERAL GARFIELD is quoted az having

GENERAL GARFIELD is quoted az having
said of Rosecrans:
"'The fault in him seems to be that he has
a screw loose somewhere. He is always about
to succeed, but does not succeed. He has
everything in shape, and, when you are about
to see a great success, he collapses and moth
ing comes of it. He has been in mining, in
stock-raising, and | don't know what all, and
this same fate always overtakes him."
Fate overlook him again when he voted
against the Grant bill. Indications are that
the collapse this time will be final.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-10

THAT the Journal is the best advertising
medium west of the Allegheny mountains has
long been conceded, but a new proof has been
afforded. A few days ago the Journal Incl
dentaIly mentioned a new variety of cotton,
The characteristics of which were larger and
finer fiber, besides being nearly, or quite, fire.
proof, the latter being a quality long the de-
1ideratum of a cotton wearing public. Now,
80 far as the Journal is concerned, it matters
little whether the story is true or not; but the
very fact that the Journal gave cormtenance
To it, has created a demand for it, and the
charleston News and Courier readily offers $40
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-10
A Righteous Act Performed.

Indianapolis News,
Widespread attention should be attracted by
a righteous act which President Cleveland per-
formed yesterday. He refused to so to Brother
Bartlett's church, where everything had been
prepared for him ian eloquent sermon having
been fired off, the account saysl; the people were
packed in like s~ardines, and they went away dis
appointed. And yet it is to be presumed that a
similar dissertation of a sacred place may be-
expected every Sunday, the place for tho
worship of God being turned into a presidential
peep show.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-10
Mr.. Hendricks's Treachery.

IeTTB HENIe MAI.
Honest Joe Mcdonald can stand his defeat,
and will bear it without a whimper. He is the
ablest Democrat the State has to-day, and he
ought, and doubtless would have been asked
ton. He has received nothing but treachery
from that gentleman in return for his faithful
and self-sacriicing service to him. Joe McDon-
aid can stand this treatment if the Democracy OF
Indiana can stand it, but there is likely to DO a
good deal of bad blood engendered in the party
by this kind Of management.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-10
The Lion and the Jackass.

warsaw TImeS.
The indications are that Mcdonald is at last
aroused by the outrageous treatment he has so
continuously received from Mr.. Hendricks. and
now proposes to strike back. He has borne
much, and it isn't in human nature to stand such
reatment as he has received from professed
friends any longer. The lion seems at last
brought to bay by a jackass, and the outcome
will be the same as usual, we presume.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-10

THE st. Louis Globe Democrat is getting
ready to eat crow again in 1888. It is rather
early in the campaign to begin abusing promi-
nent and popular Republicans. It was that
which lost last election. 1t doesn't pay to
fight within the ranks. Since any good Re-
publican is preferable to a Democrat, the duty
of Republicans is to stand together.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-10

his first assistant, who shall hear and decide
all appeals from the Pension Office, must be a
Union soldier. But the pension for every
Union soldier is liable to go before the Secre-
tary of the Interior, in obedience to law, and
the present Secretary is the man who stood up
in the Senate of the United States and de-
Tended Jefferson Davis.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-10

If the extra session has been called for the
purpose OF f~erreting out rascalities in the
management of public charities, like that of
the Soldiers Orphans Home, and swindling
~islature, the Journal has no more to say, save
that It will be necessary to sit the entire forty
davo
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70 the Editor of the Indianapolis Jou rnar:

To settle a dispute, will you please state
whether New Years day, 1901, was the begin
ming of the first or second year of the nine
teenth century, A SUBSCRIBER.
dana Ind.
1t was the beginning of the first. The year
100 closed the first century, 200 the second cen
tu-y. and 1900 the eighteenth century. Con-
sequently, the nineteenth century began with
the wear 1901.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-10

PROBABLY MI. Mcdonald will be compla-
cent enough to accept expatriation for the
benefit of the little gang of conspirators who
want him out of their way when the next
senatorial election comes around.