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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-10
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

PHILADELPHIA Times: Dear Folsoms-Don't
talk.
DRoxERs Journal: at is said that comet is
long This ought to be enough to stop the as
sertion that Henry Jamess tales are the longest in
existence
AN old Illinois Democrat, who knew the Lin
coin family, says that Abraham Lincoln was the
while in the White House he did before he
went there" The remark will bear good deal
of rejecting upon.
M. DE LEssEPs having declared that he is
moving heaven and earth to complete the Pan
anna canal in the stipulated time, San Fran
cisco editor is moved to remark that NJ. De Les
seps wonld get on faster if he moved less heaven
and more earth
Gov. JEREMIAH NJ. RUsK, of Wisconsin, Is ex-
plotted as self made model American, who be-
gan life as a stage-driver and has driven up hill
to the executive chair; but then he occupied a
pretty high seat when he drove stage. Governor
Rusk is splendid typical American.
GENERAL GRANTS tomb will be decorated on
Memorial Day with floral tributes from all the
States and Territories, from ST. John, N. B.,
Bermuda Mexico. and probably Cuba. General
Logan will deliver the Grafton. General Sheri-
dan and staff will attend, and President Cleve-
land is expected
1T ia related that in recent conversation with
Edwin Booth, E. F. Thorne, the actor, called his
friends attention to the fact that, though Amer
lea had been discovered years before Shaks-
peares time, the great author has not alluded
to the New World anywhere in his plays Mr.
Booth said ne had never thought of the omission
before.
ACCORDING to the calculations made by sci
entifc writer lately, 1t requires prodigious
amout of vegetable matter to form layer Of
coal, the estimate being that it would really take
million years to form coal-bed one hundred
between 300. 900 and 400 900 square miles of coal
fields. 100, 900, 600 tons of coal being mined from
these fields in one year, or enough to run ring
around the earth at the equator five and one
half feet wide and five and one-half thick; the
quantity being sufficient to supply the whole
world for period of 1,500 to 1000 years.
MISS MARY MUcKFoos, of Reading, forty five
years old, decided that life was not worth liv-
ing She made careful preparations for death
She placed board six feet long, covered with
a sheet, on two chairs in the best room. where
her body might be 'laid out" Near it she
placed shroud and piece of Grape to be fas
tened to the front door. She drove nail in the
door casing to which to fasten the Grape. This
done. she put the heads of dozen matches in
boiling water and drank the mixture, match
heads and ALL Then she went to the graves of
her parents and awaited death. She was dis
covered and saved. In the evening, when asked
if she would again attempt suicide, she said:
Il don't know; guess not"
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The fugacieus Ohio Democratic Senators
left one of their number, named Van Cleaf, to
watch the Republicans and to be on hand to
develop the want Of quorum whenever it
should be necessary. But Mr.. Van Cleaf
wearied in we'll doing, and left Columbus on
Friday night. On Saturday the Republican
Senators met, adopted by viva voce vote
the resolution seating the four honestly
elected members from Hamilton county, who
were sworn in, took their seats, and the bust
ness of the body proceeded without Interrupt
ton, and with legal quorum present. There
is not flaw in the proceeding. There is
nothing of record to indicate the absence of a
quorum, and the courts have uniformly de-
cided that they cannot go behind or around a
legislative record Aliunde. The Demo
cratic Senators temporarily sojourning in
Tennessee in the interest Of fraud and Doodle
may now come back. Their desperate game
did not work. The Republicans not only had
the right on their side, but they had the
brains
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exercising this power would be SO valuable
that other organizations would be formed with
the intention of securing it. The result
would be civil war following civil war; until
at last the people would inevitably come back
to the wholesome idea that every citizen has
an equal right with his fellows. This is the
foundations stone of the American Republic,
and the people are not to be driven off of it.
There will be no war, for the reason that the
masses are too well grounded in their love of
individual freedom to make fight against it.
There may be riots and destruction of prop
erty, but the Republic will soon tire of them
and of paying for the harm done, and at the
end the individual will be guaranteed the full
est freedom to do the best he can with his
two hands, so long as he does not presume to
interfere with the rights of his fellows. A
realization of this unalterable fact will save
certain men great deal of trouble. A people
so long used to freedom is not going to be
terrified by threats of dynamite nor of the
no less disreputable and cowardly boycott.
The right of the American citizen cannot be
trampled on without getting some one into
frouh1a
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-10

THE time is rapidly approaching when the
Republican party will be ashamed to be seen
with the bloody shirt in its possession.-Chi-
cago Times
1t does look so to some. There are disloyal
people in the South who still believe that the
things the South went into the war Of rebel
lion for are immortal, and must sometime pre-
vail; and there are doughfaces in the North, as
there were prior to the war, who would do
anything to placate this implacable cabal of
traitors. 1t is nothing to them that the Union
soldier is stigmatized as an invader and muir
derer and they can hear his fair name ira
duced without whisper Of protest, lest these
imperious gentlemen be offended. Good will
must be restored between the two sections of
the Union, even at the price of Northern
manhood
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-10

THE Democrats in the Ohio Senate had ma
jority by grace of forgery that was so plainly
exposed that the boldest of them could not
deny it, They insisted that these members
those elected" by grace of the figures added
to the column of totals-should vote on their
admission to the Senate When they saw
they were about to be defeated in that, they
fed the country to break the quorum.
The members remaining very properly pro-
ceeded with business and swore in the mem
bers that had been elected. Business is
business
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COMMENT AND OPINION.

IT was sad day for Democracy when the lost
cause was found. Philadelphia Press.
How glad the Gear must be that he does not
live in Chicago Philadelphia Inquirer
SOCIALISM reduced to practice will be anarchy
or something very much like it.-St. Louis Post
Dispatch.
YESTERDAY s'anarchy" was the cry of some of
the Chicago rioters. Today is ''arnca. Utica
Observer.
BRER MORRISON is tryi9 to catch public sym
patty by putting free salt on its tail-Macon
Telegraph.
ORGANIZED labor will make ten-strike by
boycotting anarchy or anything that approaches
it.--Pittsburg Dispatch.
If the law will permit the hanging of Mr..
Spies and his cowardly associates they ought to
be hanged as expeditiously as possible. Brook
lyn Eagle.
STREwING flowers in the path of jeff Davis is
sort of object lesson In patriotism that is being
given to children away down south in Dixie
National Republican.
IT is only human nature for the man who re-
ceives strike benefits while he is Idle to prefer
ideness to work Thus the system puts pre-
MUM on idleness. Philadelphia Times
THE Anarchist murderers should not be per-
mitted TO escape on any technicality. Better far
that they were never arrested than that they
should now escape punishment-Chicago Mail
ANARCHISTS ana lncenulafieS, VINO nave leIt
their own country for that country's good, and
who have no respect whatever for law or the
rights of others. This is the class that must be
watched, and depressed without mercy or vacilla-
tion.-Pittsburg Chronicle
RELIGIOUS association In Chicago, of course
from the best motives, recently had Spies, the
Chicago Anarchist, discourse to them on his
favorite theme They must feel now much as If
mad dog had been discussing for their benefit
the details of new dog-license system. Boston
Record.
IT is time for all Of us to consider how much
longer shall tolerate the intrusion of these
agitators and disturbers from abroad. Europe
has been emptying her Anarchists on our shore
aud it may tacome a matter of self-protection to
ship them back or to say ''hands off."-Philadel
phia Press.
THE energetic course pursued by Governor
Rusk. of Wisconsin, In restoring order at Mil
waukee appears the more praiseworthy when 1t
is considered that he is a candidate for re-elec-
ton. The anxiety about votes by timid men
who have mobs TO deal with may cost good
many lives.-Boston Advertiser.
The biggest and most important result of the
labor agitation will be 80 create most uDpre
cedenIed depression In industrial investments3
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don't count on hearing him confess that he
committed crime as well as blunder in ad-
vocating secession. AS matter of fact
wouldn't we despise the man If he assumed
any essentially different tone from that which
characterized his utterances at Montgomery
and Atlantaa" 1t is understood that the pro-
prietor of the Graphic is an English gentle
man, who resides in Canada, and the above
extract indicates that the paper is edited
from the Canadian end of the line. The
writer has no conception of the american
idea" of loyalty and honor to the Union.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-10

The character of the miscreants who looted
the drug store at Chicago may be judged by
the fact that every bottle having the appear
Rnce OF containing intoxicants was carefully
though hastily carried away. 1t is reported
that among others large bottle of carbolic
acid was passed around among the pillagers,
and that some four or FIVE were fatally
poisoned before its nature was discovered, two
having already died.
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The Atlanta authorities turned out several

The Atlanta authorities turned out several
sion to pay homage to jeff Davis. Think of
it! What hollow mockery was this. What a
guilty sacrilegeon the true principles of lib
erty his whole tour has been. What would be
the condition Of these colored school children
to-day, if Jeff Davis and his co-conspirators
had been successfully There would have been
no colored school children. There would have
been no schools for them anywhere in all the
South. It would still be felony to teach
them to read and write. No teacher would
be allowed to teach them anything A coat
Of tar and feathers, the lash, and probably
death, would be the penalties inflicted upon
any one who would presume, even, to attempt
to teach them. These colored children, their
fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters,
would be slaves, doomed to hard, lifelong toll.
without pay, doomed to the whip and lash,
doomed to be bought and sold like cattle,
doomed to be hunted with bloodhounds upon
their first step towards freedom Yet these
innocent colored children are made to bow
down before this cruel and heartless oppressor of
their race. Their fathers who Joined the
Union army, and bravely fought for liberty,
were merciessly butchered in cold blood, under
Davis's government, simply because they were
colored men. It was wicked, diabolical hypoc-
risy, to parade these colored children before
jeff Davis In the sight of colored school
children, Davis, if he were wise enough, could
see his fate in history, and learn how utterly
out Of place he is everywhere in this wide
world to-day.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-10

TwENTY-FoUR Poles at South Bend have
united in signing card for publication, stat
ing that they have been accustomed to vote
the Democratic ticket, but that they now
candidates. explaining that they had voted
with the Democratic party under the mis-
taken belief that it was friend of the work.
ingman; but events, as they have occurred in
that city, lead them to the conclusion that
such professions on the part Of the Democratic
leaders are made simply to secure their votes.
Their names are appended, and it is apparent
that they mean what they say, and that they
will not again be fooled. The workingmen Of
the country can accomplish whatever they
wish through the ballot-b box Tt is slavish
prejudice that so many entertain that keeps
them from securing legislation that would
speedily solve every difficulty. The example
of the Poles at South Bend may be proftably
initiated by workingmen oil over the land.
It is the history Of the Democratic party
that 1t is party of broken pledges. It will
promise anything in the campaign only to for
get it, or to fail to keep it after the election
has passed. In the last presidential campaign
it promised all kinds Of reforms, and if it has
made any that is for the good of the country
at large, the people have not discovered what
it is. The tariff was to be fixed up-no man
knew just how, but it was to be so reformed
that it would bring vastly better results to the
country. The tariff has not been touched,
and will not be- They promised to reform
the Republican methods Of managing the
finances of the land. They were already so
we'll conducted that the reform" prz<y could
devise no improvement, and beyond cheap
and contemplate trick attempted in differ
emit and more complicated method Of making
a monthly showing Of the state Of the public
treasury, nothing has been done. The Demo
cratic party has not been able to improve on
Republican methods. 1t never has been and
never will be. IF anything Is to be reformed
in this country, the Republican party will do
it, and the Democratic party, as usual, will
feel compelled to indorse it by following in
the same path. The Republican is the only
party that has ever given the country any
real progre So, and it is the only one that has
kept its pledges. It does not write platform
to catch votes, and then forget it when it gets
into power The man who allows himself to
be deceived by the specious pledges of Democ-
racy shows wonderful power of being able to
forget the perfdy of that organization, OF is
easily mislead after having been repeatedly
dacaivad
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cares to follow

On Saturday we published the number OF
daily papers printed in Alabama, Georgia and
Mississippi, according to the last census.
There is to-day but one daily paper Published
in the whole State of Alabama. The Daily
Dispatch, of Montgomery, Ala, prints at the
head of its editorial page this line:
''The only daily paper published in Ala
bama."
There is but one. and MONTGOMERY has got it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-10
There is but one, and Montgomery has g

The Chicago Mail says of Mayor Harrison:
"Mr. Harrison's squeal just at this time
may win over to him some unthinking sympa-
thizers, but people who know the man, his
methods and his record will not be affected by
it. Anarchy would be reigning in this city
to-day were it not for the newspapers. They
have had to drag Harrison out by the hair OF
the head and make him do his duty"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-10

A "coURTLY old gentleman of Atlanta is
quoted as saying that the rudeness of the
women in crowding men off the sidewalks
and otherwise misconducting themselves in
public is direct result of the chivalry of the
men. The men, he says, have, out of the
kindness of their hearts and the nobleness of
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-10

If there were no saloons in this country
there would not be one strike to where there
are now twenty. Not that all strikers are
drinkers, but that the traffic puts burden
upon the people that keeps many of them per-
petually impoverished. The man who is fru-
gal, temperate and industrious need not re-
hain poor many years.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-10

THE daily circulation of daily newspapers
printed in Alabama according to the last GEN.
sus, was 9660; in Georgia, 27,s3O; in Mis-
Eissippi (Jeff Davis's State), only 1900, max
ing a total in the three States of d, 900.
Alabama to-day has only one daily newspaper;
In 1880 the census gave it six.
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be found that nine in ten of them were hard
workers, that they had nothing to do with the
saloons, and that they were not professional
agitators, nor were they of opinion that their
employers were bent on grinding them into
the earth The way is open to every man who
cares tn follow
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-10

OUR correspondent at Charlottesville takes the
trouble to explain the facts in the case growing
out of the publication of card from Mr.. I. L..
Stillwel, in which he called the correspondent a
liar Any explanation is entirely unnecessary
There can be no doubt that the facts were sub
stantially as first stated by our representative;
the bad temper and billingsgate of Mr.. Stillwells
card sufficiently corroborated the dispatch, if
confederation were necessary.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-10

The New York Graphic rises to inquire
what jeff Davis has to live for except to try
and justify his past, and asks: sfWould it be
unreasonable to expect that he would cringe
and repent~ .'Of course. admits the
Graphic, ''he might accept the inevitable
with dumb lips, but when he speaks at all we
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-10

A BREAD riot on the part of the men who
have deliberately thrown away a chance to
make decent living, because they want to
work less, would come with very bad grace,
and would not meet much sympathy. Men
who refuse work that others would be glad to
bake are not in position to plead pity.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-10

THEY had very quiet Sunday in Cincin.
natl yesterday. Governor Foraker and Mayor
Smith are not afraid to do their duty In pre-
serving as well as in restoring peace They
have evidently profted by the adage that an
ounce of prevention is worth pound of cure.
They deserve the thanks of every law-abiding
citizen in the land.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-10

IT is the first time that legislative major
lty ever bolted to keep minority from doing
anything. The Democrats had majority in
the Ohio Senate But they ran away to Ten
nessee. And, after all, the dreadful Re-
publicans seated their four mon. Now,
indeed, is the cup of Democracy full and
pyerfowinp.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-10

THERE is an awful wailing on the Scioto
among the Democrats 1t is 80 hard to be a
thief and get caught at it, and have the
stolen goods taken away from you That is
The situation of our friends, the enemy, in the
great State of Ohio.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-10

JUST at present we shall be excused for not
observing refined and subtle distinctions as
ferrous vermin, whatever be their name, are
thoroughly exterminated, we will apply our
selves TO the task of splitting hair south by
southwest
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-10

THE Chicago Anarchists do not want bread
half SO much as they do beer. They do not
ask for more wages. but for less work. The
men who have been successful in this coun-
try have not got their start that way. 1t will
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-10

ENOUGH money is worse than thrown away
In this country to give every family decent
home. The business Of all is to appreciate
This fact and to apply the remedy.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-10

TIE newspaper pictures Of the Chicago
anarchists represent them with necks suitable
Cor hanging They will come handy for the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-10

The loss of wages in the city of Chicago
alone, by reason. of the numerous strikes, is
at the rate of $780, 900 week. The strike is
bread question cuts no figure in the move
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'sWHATEvER others represent, this man JEFF
human slavery, the degradation of labor, the trea
non OF secession and rebellion, the horrors and
fnfamies of Libby and Andersonville, all, in
short, that is most malicious vicious aud dam
nable in American histcry.'-Gov j. B. Foraker,
ps Ohio
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.'THE Union never wronged us. The Union
has been an unmixed blessing to every section,
TO every State, and to every man of every color
In America. Benz Hill, of Georgia.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-10

IT will be found that justice and equality
cannot be boycotted out of existence. These
things cost too much to be given up now.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-10

GEN. JOHN B. GORDON yesterday formally
announced himself as candidate for the Office
Of Governor of Georgia. This explains his
part in the great Jeff Davis resurrection.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-10

LABAN GREGORY, of English, Ind, desires
the address of some officer of Company 81,
Eighth Indiana Volunteers.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-10

LABOR must be free, organized or morgan
bed
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l1gnant guest as permanent resident3 Is it
prepared to bear the cost moral as we'll as mate
rial, which the exhibition of so blind and reckless
a hospitality will entail upon it2-New York
Tribune.
THE lawless ignoramus Is not without certain
logic in his reasoning when he contends, as he
persis tently does contend that he has the same
moral right to seize what he wants by force as
another fellow has to seize what he wants by
process of law, but in defiance of the spirit Of
law. The mainstay of a governmental system
like ours must be morality rather than force; and
whom the people who profess to be moralists,
under any pretext countenance political ina
morality, they have no right to complain because
others improve on their teaching and discredit
all law -Philadelphia Telegraph.
THE rule or ruin party has placed the labor
unions in false light, has injured the cause OF
labor reform. and has put back the whole labor
movement twenty or thirty yearS If organized
labor is to succeed, the dynamite faction must
be suppressed. 1t cannot be suppressed by any
kid glove policy, but rather than have 1t rule,
the veterans of the trades unions and the labor
unions should go out and form another organ
ization so guarded against the anarchist and
destructionist impulse that nothing so un- Ameri
can and reasonable would ever find shelter iR
the organizations Chicago Inter Ocean.
IT is time that the long suffering, honest and
law-respecting American people. who are chiefly
workingmen, should teach these un-American-
ICED outlaws a lesson that will be remembered
to the end of days 1t ought to be- made so
plain that nobody will hereafter doubt that,
whereas all who think themselves aggrieved may
appeal to the law through the courts or to the
makers of law through the ballot box, for those
who appeal from the law and would introduce a
reign of anarchy through the torch and tha
dynamite bomb. there is an effectual dispenser
the Calling gun. and an effectual punishment
the hanGmanis halter Boston Advertiser.