The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-05
NJ AND OPINION.

COMMENT AND OPINION.
THE Chinese will have to go. although they
know nothing about the Pan-electric Atlanta
Constitution.
CONGRESS is treating Dakota like a ripe water
melon. and is thumping her before dividing her.
st. Louis Post Dispatch.
WHILE Mr.. Cleveland is in the Ietter-writing
mood, why doesn't he give us his thoughts on
Observation-Disclosures Mail.
THE great trouble with Grover Cleveland is
that he mistakes bull headed stubbornness for
craftsmanship. philadelphia Press.
REDUCED to its simplest formula, the Presi-
dents message is, simply: Il shant, and you
can't make me."-Philadelphia Enquirer.
The New York World resports the President
as being bilious: Well, the President has no adj
vantage of the Democratic party in this particu-
lar. Macon Telegraph Dem
TWENTY years ago we also had a President
who delivered lectures to the Senate ON the
constitutional rights of that body. His name
was Andrew Johnson.-Boston Record.
1T is expected that one hundred speeches will
be made on the silver question in Congress before
the members get through. This is dreadful.
Emigration agents will please send circulars.
louisville Commercial.
MULTIPLICATION doctrines are the same to the
American people, whether they relate to the
tariff or to polygamy; and the pretended higher
- "a 0A4tae UASA P0V AZ GA0
name Of such rocking bestiality as Mormonism,
is more hideous than it can be in any other shape.
New York Mail and Express.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND would like to compro-
mise his little affair with the Senate by an agree
ment that if the legislative body will ask the
executive body no questions, the executive body
will reciprocate. Almost any wrong-doer would
be willing to compromise with the authorities on
the same terms. -Cleveland Leader.
We cannot help thinking that if the President
had frankly given the Senate all the information
asked for, regardless of the motive with which it
was sought. he would have disarmed attack. AS
it is, he has invited further assaults, and pro-
voked a needless political contest which may
prove most injurious to the interest Of his party.
| New York Sun.
SHERMAN was the friend Of Grant always, and
there was nothing that need have excited him in
| the letter that has been made public. But there
is a subject, a question of history, that is worthy
the dignity and utmost ability of General Sher-
man. 1t is to review the Shiloh article in the
March Century by Don Carlos Buell.. Cincinnati
Commercial Gazette.
THE very arguments of the presidential COM
munication in support of the absolute authority
of the President. only help to show what a dan
gerous precedent it is which Mr.. Cleveland Is
endeavoring to establish, and how capable of in
finite abuse the presidential Office would be if it
should come to be filed by a dishonorable man.
Minneapolis Tribune.
If Mr.. Cleveland does not want the repre-
sentatives of the people in Congress to see such
letters as he receives in reference to the admin
lstratlon or the government, or in reference to
any other subject, he should choose some private
place of deposit. The White House stove would
seem to be more appropriate than the public
files OF one of the departments. New York Sun.
IF the President may remove an officer with
out having any reasons which can be called for,
may he remove without giving the reasons.
facts, ~fctionS, or arguments which he has put
mon Oubiic files. over which ha will ohnptlu
cease to have any control? This is certainly a
question of sufficient importance to warrant
Congress in passing a law on tho subject at
once, prescribing what papers are to be consid-
cred public and official records, and what not.
New York Evening Post.
IF it be true that China has no right estab-
lished by treaty to demand indemnify for such
losses and injuries as have been specified, we
require from her what she cannot require in re-
turn, for we have demanded and received large
sums as indemnity funds from China, and have
never been slow to insist upon the full protection
of our citizens engaged as traders or mission
aries in that country. Do the principles of in
ternational law provide for one-sided action in
matters of this kind2 Can it be that while we
have a right to ask for reparation China has
none?-New York Times.
IT has taken him THE President just one year
to show that he does not yet comprehend either
the nature or the limits of the executive func-
tons and to exhibit q combination of audacity,
NEStAcA A. A. PONA . AANA AOu u AiS DECQ0-
cessors ever equaled, and which certainly none
of his successors will ever exceed. In the face
of such a record he has the assurance to notify
the Senate that nothing lis sufficient to discour-
age or deter me from following in the way which
| am convinced leads to better government for
the people" Chicago Tribune.
THERE never was a better chance for pricking
a bubble, never a better chance to confuse great
wisdom by plain action, never a better chance
for a direct moral purpose to put a digniied and
plausible hypocrisy to shame. III partisanship
were to be forgotten one day in honest action
the Senate would say to the country: THE puri-
ty of the public service demands that the govern
ment have no secrets. We open our doors, be-
challenge the President to Guido us in frankness
or publicity, whatever his sins may have been,
aud let the country judge between us.-Brooklyn
Union.
IT the President, yielding to the pressure of
the spoilsmen, removes a faithful, competent of
fetal merely that he may find a place for a party
worker as a reward for his partisan work, the
country should know il. If he removes one for
cause. the country should know it. The great
est Of all obstacles to civil-service reform has
been the idea entertained by Presidents and SEN
ates that the federal offices were theirs. and that
they could parcel them out or bestow them as
rewards to their faithful party adherents with
out regard to the rights Of the country In the
premises, which are absolute rights, as the
country, and not the President and Senate, owns
the Offices, and has a right to know why one per-
son is removed and another appointed. -Phila-
delphia Telegraph.
Schooner and Crew Lost.
GLOUCESTER, Mass, March 4-The schooner
Dare and crew have been given up as lost. The