The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-25
COMMENT AND OPINION.

THE Tweed ring has gone, but at last accounts
Jake Sharp was till there Philadelphia Times.
AS things look now, it is John Morley who is
the coming successor to Mr. Gladstone Spring
field Republican.
Now, if congressman were paid by the job in
stead of by the year-but why refer to this sad
subject?-W ashington Critic.
A NUMBER of Democratic papers take the po-
sition that Garland is innocent but that he ought
not to have done it.-Milwaukee Sentinel.
CONGRESSMAN BLAND asserts that nature sup
plies the volume of money. Now, If Mr. Bland
would only let nature alone-Boston Adver-
tiser.
CLEVELAND will be a candidate for reelection
in 1888 if he can find somebody to introduce him
to the Democratic party.-Macon Telegraph
(Dem.
THERE is some hope for Ohio now. A Demo
cratic Judge has been discovered who has more
respect for the law than for the Doodle gang.
-Pittsburg Chronicle.
IMPORTED laborers seem just now to be the
Bedouins of the industrial situation. Every
mans hand is against them, and their hand is
against every manipulating Dispatch.
THE President is said to be very much inter
ested in the Pan electric investigation. Wants
to know whether there are any rascals to be
turned out. probably.-Philadelphi Inquirer.
THE ending of the Indian war in Arizona is
officially announced, but the Indians continue to
improve some Indians to exterminate them.-St.
Louis Post Dispatch
THE Democratic party is weak in its leader
Ship but it is more fatally weak in it's lack of
agreement upon the principles and policy of gov
ernment "A house divided against itself can
not stand Boston Herald.
THE Knights of Labor are the men to consult
If it is proposed to get up bill for the regula
ton of the sale of liquor. They know some
thing about the temper and the wants of the
people whose tastes are to be controlled.-New
York Sun.
ALL the world knows that the greatest need
of the South to-day is education, and further.
that for obvious reasons this great work will not
be done without national aid and supervision.
The interest, the prosperity Of the whole coun-
try is involved, and it is high time the long-neg-
lected work was theoretically begun. Philadel-
phia Telegraph.
THE national victory of 1884 begins to bear the
fruits that were predicted for it. The Southern
ers begin to feel their oats, and preparing to
dominate the party of which they know them
selves to be the strong right arm AS time passes,
we shall have striking and frequent evidences
that the center of influence in the Democratic
party is below the Mason and Dixon line-Al-
bany Express.
IT is probable that not one half of the rascali-
ties perpetrated by the Democrats in Ohio last
fall has been discovered as yet. But enough is
known to make plain the presence of Demo
cratic conspiracy TO cOnCrOl Cno Natlon through
the suppression Of the Republican vote in the
Southern States and the perpetration of fraud
and forgery on the ballotbox in the great cities
of the North. Philadelphia Press
LET every document be open to inspection.
Let every nomination be publicly considered. 1t
will be better for the man who is coming into
| office. He will take the position untrammeled.
It will be better for the man going out. He will
be free from suspicious The secret session,
except where diplomatic affairs are concerned,
is an anomaly in free government Equally
so is an executive file of documentary informa-
tion which must be kept private. Let in the
light on the whole business.-Chicago Tribune.
IT is the reputation for dirty, bacl-stars work
which de6es an administration. When the peo-
pie see that secret intrigues are allowed to shape
the action of the highest officials, they cannot
help losing confidence in the sincerity of men
who began by declaring that they would rise
above such intrigues. and would conduct the
public business strictly as public servants.
Here, again, the President can blame no one but
himself if there is great distrust on the part OF
citizens who were anxious to think we'll of him
and his work. York Tribune.