The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-24
STATE PRESS AND POLITICS.

of selecting Republican candidates for joint
Senator and Representative, at Madison. Aug ..
Mr.. Stephen Metcalf has been compelled TO
tire temporarily from editorial charge of the
Anderson Herald. by reason of the recurrence
of severe symptoms of affection ofAshe eyes
from which he has been suffering for the past
four years. He hopes to be able to resume active
work on the paper after a rest OF a few weeks.
Dr. c. C. Hi tt, until recently one of the edit
ors of the Winchester Democrat, has made ar
rangements to establish new paper at that
place to be known as 1.-THE Organizer" Re
ferring to this action, the Winchester Journal
says: The Doctor has long been a strong DEM
ocrat, but the eighteen months failure of the
party to redeem single one of its many pledges,
and the fippaEt and heartless yetoes of the bills
pensioning brave and deserving Union soldiers
has set him, as it has thousands OF other
Union soldiers, to stop and ask the question,
whittier we driftingg"
Grreencastle Times: There is nothing more
to be gained by the Prohibition party foolery in
Indiana
Lawrenceburg Press While he has his hand
in Cleveland ought to veto these dull Demo
cratic times.
Charlottesville Journal: The man to. be ad-
mired is the one who is on one side of the fence
or the other.
Versailles Republican: corrupt ballot aud
| a false count-these the principles upon
which the Democracy depends for success.
Clay County Enterprise: If these are the good
times promised from the stump in the last cam
paign, what would the country do UNDER bad
times?
Lafayette Journal Holman objects to every
thing except the exhibition of his liver-pad In
the windows of drug stores. He is said to be
somewhat stuck on his liver-pad
Lafayette Journal. When the time comes for
assessing Office holders in aid of the virtuoas
Democracy, the pretense of reform now rampant
will likely be seized with paralysis Of the back
| bone.
| Upton Advocates The first duty of ali Pro-
| hibitionsts, local-optionists and moral reform
| ers is to defeat the Democratic party. Get
| them out of the way, and reform will come right
quick.
| Logansport Journal: President Cleveland is
evidently relying on the solid South for his flu
ture political success. 1t is also plain that the
| solid South will retire from power three years
| hence and take Grover with it.
Warsaw Indianian- Republican: The Demo-
cratic politicians who imagine that free trade
| crusade will add to the strength of their party
| at the West are egregiously mistaken. There is
no freetrade class at the West.
| Rushville Graphic: Cleveland will go down in
| history as the least intellectual, least magnan-
| imous, least humane, most gross and most pre-
sumptuous of all Presidents There is consoa-
| ton In the thought that he will only have one
| term.
| Frankfort Banner The principles of the Re-
publican party are as true to-day as when it had
control of the Nation. They of as vital i'm
portance now as then, and it as much duty
now to press these principles for consideration
as then.
Connersville Times: In the eyes Of the pres
emit administration it is impossible for Democrat
to be offensive partisan under any circum-
stances, but Republican is offensive if he does
anything more than vote, and if he has an
Office, off goes his head.
Columbus Republican: The Republican party
came into power because it represented grand
principles, it retained power for the same rea-
son, and if it returns to power it will be because
of its adherence to principle, not because the
other party makes blunders.
Logansport Journal: Should Grover Cleve-
land ever come before the people of the United
States again a candidate for President the
soldiers and the people of the loyal North will
send him veto message longer and stronger
than he ever sent to Congress.
Elkhart Independent: The Seymours are dead
the Humans exiled into obscurity-tne Nc
Donalds ostracised-the Randalls split in
twain-the Bayards ridiculed-the Hewitts
want no more of Congress-the South il in the
| saddle and mediocrity is holding high carnival.
Madison Courier: 1t was the leaders of the
national Democratic party that bullied the South
into secession and rebellion, and very much
the self-same leaders at this very hour have
bulldozed the South into a state of opposition to
every principle that free government depends
upon.
Lebanon Patriot: The Democratic party is a
party of mistakes, yet it will not do for the Re-
publicans to rely for success upon the mistakes
of the Democracy. What the Republicans want,
to insure success, is aggressive campaign on
ringing issues. This will win in State and local
campaigns.
Paoli Republican: Senator Vance declares
that clvil-service reform has demoralized De-
mocracy. and that the party will soon return TO
the spoils system We have all along enter
tanned the impression that Democracy had de-
moralized civil-servce reform, as well as civil
service itself
Kokomo Gazette Tribune: Is President Cleve-
land bigger fool than all of his predecessors
combined, or is this Congress bigger fool than
all other Congresses combined! One or the
other OF the propositions must be true There
are but two horns to this dilemma, and neither
is Republican.
South Bend Tribune: The indianapolis Sen
tinel says there is an honest Democrat for every
Office in the country. Very true, perhaps but
not one honest Democrat in ten gets the Office.
The Democrats such towards that nine
tenths of the Offices are gobbled up by renegade
Republicans and demagosues.
Greensbure Standard: The people will yet
demand redress for wrongs committed against
their expressed wishes, and the enforcement of
laws clearly constitutional will be the pro
gramme Liquor dealers must moderate their
demands, and cease contributing much of
their large profits from their business to defeat
the proper enforcement of law.
Spencer Republican: Honest elections are
what the Republican party demands, and they
are what the Democratic party does not want
The last Democratic legislature, by the dishonest
gerrymander of the State made an honest and
fair election impossible. With that record of
criminal obstruction of the ballot, that parry is
pledged to dishonest elections
Franklin Republican: If the offensive parti-
sanship dodge had two sides to it it would fur
nish the administration with a fine opportunity
to supply long felt want of many hungry and
disappointed party workers. If the President
| expects to suppress In the Democratic bosom the
| doctrine to the victor, etc, he will probably
ascertain in the near future that he isn't yet as
| big man as old Jackson