The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-24
THE STATE PRESS AND POLITICS.

Noble county, on THURSDAY, June "a
The proprietors of the Fort Wayne Gazette
announce that they will begin the publication of
daily evening edition in German. The paper
will be six-column folio. and will be furnished
ut cents per week. The first issue will appear
July l.
Smarting under their defeat at the recent city
election, the Republicans having elected their
ticket, the Democratic Council of Anderson has
to nominal figure. The action was ostensibly
in the interest of reform" but it was piece Of
petty spite work.
Wabash Plain Dealer Reform" red flag and
confederate supremacy results of Democratic
success in 1884
Charlottesville Journal: 1t seems to be the
soul of jeff Davis instead of John Browns that
Is marching on.
Fowler Era If there is anything that needs
boycotting in this country it is the rum shops
where Socialism and Anarchy are bred.
Kendalve Standard: Capital and labor will
both be wiser at the end of the season, though
each will have black eye and look dull.
Lawrence Mail: The most expensive luxury
the people of this country have ever INDUCED in
is the present style of .Jeffersonian simplicity"
Rushville Graphic: The resurrection of jeff
Davis has done more TO solidify the Republican
party than the whole campaign efforts Of the
last four years.
+. Lawrence Mail: We have waited patiently,
but in vain, to see in any Democratic paper
protest againt the recent Haunting of the bloody
shirt of treason.
Goshen Times: Jefferson Davis is the idol of
the people of the South. and they voted solid for
Grover Cleveland Put the two together aud
draw your own conclusions.
Princeton Clarion: The time for the fulfill
ment of the Democratic promise of one dollar
hushel for wheat in the event of success at the
last election. has been indefinitely postponed.
La Porte Herald Chronicle: 1t is enough 10
make anybody laugh to read the stuff about the
protective tariff making things dear They never
were so cheap. Some articles are too cheap.
Colfax Chronicle: The car which bore the
Davis stiff on its tour from Atlanta to Savan-
nah had this inscription on it's sides: He was
manacled for u.s." That's a new name for a pet
ticoat
Kentland Gazette: The prudent workingman.
who loves his family, will hesitate long before
lending aid to the onslaughts upon employers in
general, and only too often without sufficient
reason.
Petersburg Press: Democrats Of Indiana may
think that they need Offices in order to carry the
State at the coming election. but their greatest
need is policy, some tangible issue and q bet
ter record
Muncie News: A few Democrats have come
to the awful conclusion that JEFF Davis Is
fool" That means that Davis is a fool for still
defending cause that they were fool enough to
be ia sympathy with.
Martnsville Republican: If the Democrats
want to open the books as badly they fegned
last campaign why don't they do it'll There
several thousand people in Indiana who would
like to see them opened.
Michigan City Enterprise (Dem.) Mr. Owen
secured an appropriation for improving the Cal
umet and proposed to stand by his constituents.
Bully for Billy Owen, the brave little Congress
man from the Tenth district.
Fowler Era: When will that So per capita be
distributed In these days of strikes, business
disturbances and hard times four hundred mill
ions distributed out to the people would bring
great relief to the poor and oppressed.
Elkhart Independent The interrogatory is
timely and pat, can the Democratic party. a
party, be intrusted with government Read its
record made by its representative mon in the
Forty ninth Congress and then answer
Warsaw Indianian- Republican: A useful end
( will be gained by the attempts of the ex-rebel
members of Congress to see how much Ku-klux
eloquence will be endured by the body to which
they belong. Something is needed to stir up the
loyal North.
Kokomo Gazette Tribune Northern Demo
cratic editors, poor devils. are having hard
time of it. They are to be pitied, for the Dem
cratic party is bad crowd to keep together
any platform except that of I'm hungry; turn
the rascals out"
Lawrence Mail If the feelings of q majority
Of the Democrats of this country to be con-
suited, jeff Davis would be the next Democratic
candidate for the presidency-this much has
been demonstrated by the recent tour of Davis
through the South.
Butler Records jeff Davis. as an individual,
is an exceedingly small matter in the Northern
mind; but JEFF Davis, the representative of
the principles that inaugurated rebellion, receiv
ing the plaudits of hundreds of thousands of the
Southern people. is q matter of no little moment.
Franklin Republican,: The rank and file OF
the Democratic party in the North are honest
and patriotic. and how they honestly hang
to the old rotten hulk of slavery, secession and
rebellion, without single attachment that they
love, except the name Democrat, and that mis-
homer. is the one thing that seemeth past all
comprehension.
Mitchell Commerciai We are not likely to
forget what our soldiers fought and died for be-
cause adopt practical form of gratitude in
that connection; and certainly our expenditures
for pension purposes still come far short of an
Bwering the full demand of justice to those who
rescued the government from the greatest peril
which it has ever encountered.
Kendavile Standard: The Southern press is
now busy proving the North was solely response
BILE for the war, and the demand is that the
North must quit calling it rebellion, the great
rebellion" and those engaged in it on the North
srn side ''rebels. traitors" and the like. Down
on your knees, oh. North and beg pardon! And
yet hardly fifteen months of Democratic as
cendencyl
Lebanon Patriot: A prominent Democratic
business man said to us this week, that since the
reduction Of the tariff on wool, and the
quent importation OF foreign wool, sheep-raising
In Boone county, which had attained large pro-
portions few years ago, was now playing out
That there was very little 10 the wool trade now.
IL this be true what would become of sheep
raising in this country with wool the free list
Knightstown Banner: A great deal of active
opposition 10 all measures that provide for
Increase of soldiers pensions comes from South
rrn Senators and Representatives who were in
the rebel army. This is but natural They
we're actively engaged in trying TO destroy the
government that pays the pensions. They failed
Ia that; but they still live to work for the de-
struction of the pensions themselves
Martinsvlle Republican: There is no denying
the fact that about all the real progress this