The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-11-25
COMMENT AND OPINION.

THE Republican press is a unit for Mr.. CIeye-
lands nomination. Republican.
WHAT protection does is to keep the home
market of 100000 for home producers Low
ell Mail.
GENERAL KAuLBARs appears to be the j. n.
of Europe. We tender the General our con-
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Constitution.
WHEN an old-fashioned Indiana Democrat
wants TO find the hest Of the Democratic party
he stands at Henaricks's grave.-Chieago Inter
Ocean
FREE-TRADERs and music boxes are very much
alike. Neither would be heard from if it wasn't
for their respective cranks.-Louisville Com
mercial
THE New York Evening Post says the restora
ton of District Attorney Benton is "a step back
ward Yes the President went back after the
Missouri delegates -Rochester Democrat
THERE are plenty of true politicians true
and lofty in manhood;" and it may be added that
the true politician, like any other true man,
never forgets his friends. York Sun.
WORSE than Mephistopheles of old is the
agitator or walking delegate who persuades the
laboring man to strike and half starve his family
1T the wrong end of winter. Philadelphia
Times
ONE Of the most melancholy effects of the
Presidents order reinstating Benton is seen in
the facial distortion of the mugs. How can they
wump when the lower jaw rests on the breast
INDIANA's growth in intelligence is quite graf
flying Holman's majority has dwindled from
5000 to less than 700 in four years. A few more
public schools in his district will settle the great
objector. inneapolis Tribune
THE Chicago Anarchists are said to be con-
siderin. new plans for the destruction Of the
city. 1t is about time the citizens were think
ing of effective plans for the destruction of the
Anarchists, -Pttsburg Chronicle.
PRIV tho nnnr dawn Tndiant The
Choctaw Nation has just got verdict of g. $685.,
708 against the United States. Geronimo made
a mistake when he went to war lie should
have gone to law.-Baltimore American.
THE farmers who have had to sell two sue
cessive crors of wheat at from IS to 80 cents
bushel have rather different ideas from those of
Bob Ingersoll as to the possession of land being
a panacea for all social and poitico economic
ills.-New York World.
THE leader of the Democratic partyin the next
House will be the only leader it has had in
dozen years. His name is Samuel Jones Ran
dali. and he comes from Philadelphia, carrying
about the only level head that finds a place on
his side of the House. Boston Record,
FRANK HURD, Notwithstanding his defeat,
says he never saw the Democratic party In bet
ter shape than now AS there never was time
when the party more nearly resembled a well
disorganiZed scrap heap, Franks opinion is
little peculiar, to say the least of it-Denver
Tribute Republican.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS continues to regard
Grover Cleveland rs the most remarkable man
of modern times He says there is not another
man in America who could have created such
sensation at Harvard. But George William for
gets Ben Butler could make bigger disturbance
there.-Chicago Herald.
THE Moen- Wilson or Wilson -Moen mystery
bids fair to 60 laundering down the ages
punched with the conundrum about the Man
with the Iron Mask, and the ever-recurring
question about the great unknown who so far
forgot himself as to strike the late William Pat
erson.-New York Tribune.
As for compulsory coinage. we believe it is
wrong in principle but 1t is better than no coin
age Free coinage of silver would place that
metal on parity with gold, and free coinage is
what the people will insist on. Not all of Eu-
rope nor all the banks can whip out the silver
dollar in this country.-Atlanta Constitution.
THE surprising old man. Payne, never
squeaked during the late campaign. He has not
had an idea to give his party, or one particle of
help for any body. His whole public service con-
sists in getting men appointed to Office who as
sisted in the Infamous frauds through which he
reached the Senate.-Cincinuati Commercial
Gazette
THE weakness of Secretary Bayard in quietly
submitting to the depredations of the Canadian
pirates has cost American fishermen just 240, 900
barrels OF fish this season. It would take
Grover Cleveland, Daniel Lamont, and half
dozen others OF our most eXpert anglers year
to catch enough fish to make up this deficiency.
Philadelphia Press
II has been discovered that some Cincinnati
city contracts which originally read 81 for paw
ing and 80 cents for grading, now read ST. SO and
80 cents. They have way in Cincinnati OF
making every figure so that it can be changed to
a g. 1t does not strain the memory to call up u
time when the Democrats carried certain dis
trict there by changing a Z to a 9.--Chicago
News.
II George cannot hold the workingmen be-
cause of his free-trade views, how will the
Democratic party fare if it makes tariff-tinker-
ing an Issue? 1t will be found much easier for
free traders like Mr. Cox to furnish the Repub-
licans with campaign material than to get the
average workingman to draw tho distinction be-
tween free trade and tariff for revenue only
Brooklyn Citizen Dem
THE gross earnings for sixty-seven rail DIS
for the first week in November show all in, .
over last year of nearly per cent, anG )
earnings OF twenty-nine roads for the SCI
week in November increased nearly as mucn,
which comparison being with liberal volume of
business last year is especially encouraging, and
indicates that business has an impetus which
will carry it steadily forward. Cincinnati Com
mercial Gazette
THE Democratic administration has not the
slightest sympathy with American manufacture
ing interests. md through legislation and its
executive policy is doing all that it can to dis
courage them. 1t we'll deserves the open con-
tempt OF the foreign press for this course. 1t re-
mains to be seen whether the Secretary of the
Navy, in the face of adverse comment, will per-
sst in advertising abroad for naval designs
which native talent can easily produce
Francisco Chronicle
THE amount of money annually collected from
distilled spirits, beer and tobacco in their va
rious forms, is immense, but many well-to-do
man in Milwaukee evades the "taxn entirely by
not using one Of the articles named The poor
man must pay his ''tax" or the tax gatherer
will sell his cooking stove; but he may live in
comfort and wax rich, and never feel the burden
of taxation" that the freetraders alege is laid
upon him by the tariff, simply because he
chooses To do without the imported articles
Milwaukee Sentinel
One Democrat In Thousand
Logansport journal.
The conduct Of Mr. IIahman dafaatad Dana