The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-01
POLITICAL AND PRESS OPINION.

POLITICAL AND PRESS OPINION.
THERE will be a very general feeling that
Blaine made a mistake either ia bringing or
dismissing his suit-Burlington Hawkeye.
GROVER CLEVELAND is showing good sense
in declining 10 receive presents from any and
all sources. The country Will respect him
for bis determination IN this respect
Cleveland TO- Herald.
PEOPLE are learning to take sensational
stories of bloody wars over Dakota county
seats with a grain of salt. Dakota people
fight with Samson's weapon, which doesn't
let blood.-st. Paul Mimi Pioneer Press.
The runner thai Mr.. Beecher is to bsve an
appointment abroad is said to range among
the probabilities. But the existence of
Blaineism in Plymouth Church is q proof
that it is not yet ft to dispense with the
services of its distinguished moral instructor.
chicago Times.
SoUTH CAROLINA is prepared for and ex-
poets the removal of the import duty on
rice as part of a general plan of tariff revis-
ion. fhe duty on rice is in large measure q
revenue duty. We are ready to begin tariff
reduction in South Carolina. but not to end
.here Charleston IS. c. News and Courier.
THERE are symptoms that when the Re-
publican party goes out of power its most
active leaders will take to the highway.
This method of pluDdering, it will be re-
membered, is not very different from that
which they have been practicing. A Repub-
iicsn out OF q job is a dangerous character
Atlanta Constitution.
WE should mini that Mr.. Blaine might
come at last to the point of questioning his
own discretion as q letter writer, when the
Republican Judge of the United States Dis
trict Court for Indiana felt compelled to ask
Mr.. Blsine's attorneys in the libel suit to
stlike out his letter from their reasons for
asking for a dismissal of the action against
the Indianapolis Sentinel. The direct sig
nifcsnce of that ruling seems to be twofold
first, that Mr.. Blaine is no lawyer; Sec
ond, that he is no gentleman. The ruling
vas undoubtedly correct in both particu-
lsrs.-Boston Post.
A TEXAS paper, the Luling Wasp, ex-
plains in this way why it expects to keep
clear of entangling alliances with the Sher-
~ 81 Vi Jul t0A ACtkCAo3 spun
open envelopes to get at the unwritten side,
and call into service the brown wrapping
paper in which we carry home our bundles
from the store. Our special kilograms are
got through while the operator is away at
dinner, and we compel the proprietor to set
type, sweep out the Office monthly kindle
fires, fetch water, make up the forms, enter
tain visitors, discourage borss and deliver
the paper to city subscribers. We don't in
tend to bankrupt on this line"
IT is averred by the New York Times that
on Sunday last Mr.. CLEVELAND was LED into
some incivility toward Mr.. John r. Mclean.
of Cincinnati, who had gone to Albany to
visit him. 1.-THE Governor, " says the Times,
sis reported to have listened quietly to all
that was said by the Cincinnatian in the wsg
of suggestions, but when these took the
shape of advice that was patronizing and
somewhat in the nature of q demand, then
he shook his head, and with such vigor that
his visitor took IN early departure" 1t
seems evident that MIR. Cleveland intends to
manage his own affairs in his own manner,
and that he is not looking around much for
advice from outside statesmen. But we can
not believe that be has been guilty of impo-
likeness to q visitor, and especially to q
visitor of SO much experience and dis
tinction as Mr.. Mclean. Neither can it be
true that Mr.. Mclean offered any advice
that was pstronizing." That is not his
style. Mr.. Cleveland's task is difficult
enough without being aggravated by the
efforts of invidious mischief-makers.-New
York Sun.
SECRETARY FRELIEGHUYsEE misses the vital
point of objection to the Spanish treaty as
ii is viewed by those who, with the Times,
put the interests of the whole community
ests of any class, and we do not think be
has greatly strengthened it in the estimation
of those protectionists who look upon their
WI personal and pecunisry interests as the
only ones worth considering at all. The
sfIankn announcement that ''other conven-
tions have been negotiated which will have
the effect of extending the sources FROM
which we shall have free sugar; the state
mentithat q discrimination is still provided
for agsist imported tobacco, and the Score
tary's remarks upon the division of the
tr~eaty-making power will have no weight as
against the indisputable fact that Congress
can find ways and means of tariff reform
which will benefit the overburdened tax
payers vastly more than the abolition OF
$4,000. 600 of sugar duties without dimin'
ishing the revenue by more thar half thai
smount.-New York Times.