The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-06
COMMENT AND OPINION.

| THE bottle as we'll AS the barrel is becoming
too prominent In politics Philadelphia Times.
EARTHQUAKES shocks have no effect on the out
| put of congressional candidates Philadelphia
| Inquirer.
WHAT is needed in Maine is not more law but
more men willing to be as good as the laws are.
| But this is not political work. Boston Adver
| tiser
GENERAL MILES apparently recognizes the
fact that Geronimo is one of the most dangerous
men to have surrender to you that there is.-Bos
ton Record.
THE State Department may have derived some
Information" from Envoy Sedgwicks mission.
but so far it has not been on the Cutting affair.
-Pittsburg Chronicle.
THE latest advices from Envoy Sedgwick are
to the effect that, Notwithstanding all reports
to the contrary, his heart still beats warmly for
his native land. Philadelphia Press
THE War Department was slow to believe that
Geronimo had escaped, but the public, who are
better acquainted with the antics of the army,
believed it rOmpty-Pittsburg Chronicle
PUBLIC Printer Benedict has had his brother
appointed as chief clerk in his Office. Some
call this patronage. We prefer the new express
sion, ''civil-service reform. "-Cleveland Leader.
THE third party Prohibition movement is en-
gineered only by old political hacks. If it were
"a genuine political and moral reform it would be
led by a different class of people Chicago Jour
nal.
LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL is making the
| important discovery that it is not half so much
fun to occupy the position of the bear it to
take the part Of the baiter.-Pittsburg Dis
patch.
ANARCHIST PARSONS thinks that the verdict
OF murder against him and his associates was
largely the work OF the newspapers. There is
not decent journalist in the country who will
not take this a handsome compliment to his
profession Washingtcn Star
THE California Democrats, who in State con-
yention, Endorsed the Cleveland administration,
and also recommended the free coinage Of sill
yer, must have discovered solution of the clth-
cult problem of how to face both ways simuta-
neously.-Philadelp Record.
THE Mormons are very exultant over the fact
that prosecutions against them have ceased since
the present administration into power.
The big Mormon lobby that appeared in Wash
ington last winter evidently didn't go there
merely for fur.--P Philadelphia Press.
WHEN one remembers how the Democratic
papers used to rave and roar on the subject of
nepotism some years ago, one cannot help ad-
mirinG the consistency OF the old party as shown
by the companyfron movement of whole famil-
les into Office under the new dispensation.
tional Republican.
THEY the laboring menl cannot stop these
abuses by organizing third party but they can
lay hold of the government by means of party
organizations ready to their hand, and do what
SOOu Was
commensurate with their opportunity there
would never be another Congress elected that
would not be amenable to their control -Phila-
delphis Record.
THE 101 veto messages of President Cleveland
have been collected in a book by Washington
lawyer, who accompanies them with incisive and
illustrative comments. This book should prove
useful to campaign speakers and perusal of it
will be instructive and interesting to all old SOL
diers and others who desire to understand the
pension vetoes which Mr.. Cleveland spent so
much precious time-New York Tribune.
TEN months ago Mr.. Dow declared that "the
Maine law was as we'll executed any other of
our statutes" Is not this as true now? And if
the Republican party has given Maine prohibit
tory laws, has embodied prohibition in the Con-
stitution, and has enforced prohibition as well
as any statute, whore is the justification for an
attempt on the part of Prohibitionists to 'kil'
| the party which has done all this?-Boston Jour
nal
1T was characteristic of Cleveland to refuse
Tildens contribution on seacoast defenses for
| his message. The late leader of the Democracy
had his faults, but he had brains enough to fit
out score of Clevelands, and in the discussion
of all great political questions he was the peer
of any statesman in the country. It must have
been rather CALLING to him to have his carefully
prepared opinions such question rejected by
a man who is not only mere tyro in public af-
fairs, but whose small capacity forbds his ad.
| vancement-San Francisco Chronicle.
THE Republican party should first organize a
vigorous movement against the saloon in poll
tics. 1t should disfellowship and repudiate such
of its leaders and organizers as work chiefly in
and through the saloons. 1t should cease to toll
crate the nomination in this and other cities of
rumsellers for local Offices or for any Office And
it should select its candidates for the State Sen
ate and Assembly with such care as to provide
against special legislation in the interests of the
most disreputaole Of drinking resorts such as the
bill passed last winter making the decisions of
the excise commissioners renewable by the
courts unquestionablv was. This much done,
the party might properly and hopefully enter
upon the antisaloon movement Until it has
thus purified itself of saloon dehement and dom
nation and fortified itself against betrayal from
within, the efforts of its members, whether sin
| cere merely sef-seeking, to lend it's strength
to the new movement will be futile and ridicu-
lous.-New York Times.
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