The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-04
COMMENT AND OPINION.


to wit, to woo.-Lowell Courier
PANELEoTRIo Garland must smile when he
reads the Presidents proclamations about re-
form.-Chicago Mail.
THK indian of the future is to be an American
citizen. and it is high time he was started and
grounded in his new career.-Atlanta Constitu-
ton.
WE may not have much of navy ahoat; but
when 1t is called to shore duty at the Secretarys
house in Washington it ia stupendous social
success.-Boston Advertiser.
ATTORNEY GENERAL GARLAND will take ad-
vantage of the Presidents last message. and
will hereafter consider his certificates of Pan
electric telephone stock as private papers.-St
Louis Post Dispatch.
his efforts at tariff revision, but the bill which he
has proposed will not bring the needed relief to
the Taxpayers of the country, and for this reason
it will fail.-Charleston News and Courier
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has committed an
error In recalling from the Senate the nomina-
ton of Major Merrill for promotion to the lieu
enant-colonelcy, to which he is fairly entitled
| alike by seniority and gallant service. -Phila-
delphia Times.
THE prominence which Mr.. w. Scott Ray, of
the Indiana press. has obtained from his attack
on President Cleveland, is very good example
| of the success that attends man who chooses
the right moment to make conspicuous donkey
OF misunderstanding Dispatch.
SHOULD the [Blairl bill become law we
should expect many a row over the money dis
| trlbuted, small temporary extension of school
privileges in the South and a reaction whenever
the fructifying stream ceased to flow from the
| national treasury. Herald.
| AMERICAN workingmen can have no sympathy
with men who import foreign notions looking to
the dsorganization of society. 1t is only in
countries where the people do not have their flu
ture in their own hands that the desperate prop
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New York Tribune.
IN suspensions from Office the President does
not act independently, but with the advice and
consent Of the Senate Therefore, when he
dominates some one to fill the place of sus-
pended officer, he should communicate to the
Senate the reasons which influenced him in his
action.-St. Louis Central Advocate
THE position taken by the President is illog-
| ical. undemocratic and unjust His elaborate
| defense does not bear examination. He has in
| vited controversy with the Senate. in which
the latter has only to do nothing in order to win,
and it does not require very sanguine spirit to
| predict for it success. Philadelphia Press.
ALL that portion of the message which may
be taken as response to the judiciary report is
| pure bubble. The President hides behind a
technical distinction between official and unoffi-
cial papers, and thus attempts to create an issue
which the Republican majority has expressly
and in terms disclaimed-Albany Express
1T should be the aim of all legislation on the
subject to conne the postal service to the single
| function of carrying written and printed matter
| at the very lowest rates possible, and to make
| the service steadily more and more prompt and
| efficient-New York Commercial Advertiser
THE Presidents message to the Senate is re-
markabe document-remarkabe in tone, in it's
defiant character, and in its evident desire to pro-
woke, rather than to avoid conflict with that
body. We are bound to say. and we say it with
great regret. that the attitude taken by the
President ant
his position generally. New York World.
AS candidate before the people the present
chief executive laid special stress upon the fact
that the presidency is an executive Office but his
| present position is that the executive brand of
Unconstitutional and hurtfuln is excuse enough
| for coupling fiat and impudent violation of the
law with insolence to the higher branch of the
aw-making power of the Nation.-Chicago In.
| ter Ocean.
| THE good old party is always at its best in a
| fight Nothing else so fills it with enthusiasm
and fuses it into unity. 1t delights to stand by
| man who has the pluck to lead it, and old
Jackson's by the Eternal" is still music to its
ears. 1t will love Grover Cleveland all the bet
| ter if he swears a still rounder oath that the
| people have elected him President, and Presi-
| dent he means to be.-New York Star.
| WHEN the President consigns papers to the
custody of the departments he virtually declares
that they public and not private or confiden-
| tial. He can, of course retain in his own keep
ing such papers as he sees tit, and hold them I'M
der the seal of confdence but when he parts
| with them by turning them over to the depart
| ments there Is no longer any reasonable claim
that they are not public, and. therefore, proper
| y at the call of either house of Congress which
| is required TO act upon the matters to which
| they relate.-National Republican.
| THE Presidents reason for undertaking to lect-
| ure coordinate branch of the government on
| it's powers and its duties is not clear. The Con-
| stitution, about which he talks with so much
volubty, specifically declares that he shall give
| to Congress information of the state of the
| Union and recommend to their consideration
| such measures as he shall Judge necessary and
| expedient" In this message he recommends no
measure. says nothing about the state of the
| Union; but gives much misinformation on sub
| ject on which the Senate has asked from him no
| advice whatever. His obtrusion was doubtless
| due to distrust of the Democratic Senators and
to a confidence in his own superior ability to deal
| with the question. and to desire to get before
| the country his own statement of the case.-New
! York Tribune
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