The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-12-27

discharge tho duties and responsibilities OF the
Office Our Legislature has an opportunity 10
distinguish itself for official honor and political
integrity, or itself With disgrace ana inIa'
my, in violating all the rights of The people, 10
serve the ends of partsanism and corrupt and
ambitious politicians
Bourbon Mirror: Among non-laborers there
are more loafers than capitalists; and 1t is the
loafers viciously working upon the credulity or
legitimate laborers, fomenting discomfort, seek
ing to live by preying upon The sympathies OF
their victims, who are misleading workingmen,
propagating false theories and disrupting the
harmony of labor interests, that ia America are
universal rather than special with class
Monticello Herald: The Democratic press is
now engaged in defending the Indianapolis tally
sheet thinkers and throwing every impeachment
they can in the way of the examination now De-
ing conducted before Commissioners VanBuren.
1t is an unfortunate day for any party when It's
press finds 1t necessary for the partys good to
to assist in concealing the facts In such an out
rageous crime as the court is now trying to in
vestigate.
Kendallville Standard All the advantage the
Democrats have in the present Legislature they
have through a :llainous gerrymander; but Two
wrongs will not make right, and the RepuO-
leans will resort to no wrongful means to over
throw them. But all the laws, honestly exc
cuted, will allow them the Republicans ought to,
and will have, In getting this the Democrats
will undoubtedly whine and try to make believe
they are cheated, but howling won't serve them
The right must prevail
Lafayette Courier: While we are opposed to
teaching men trades in prison we would yield
just to see how neatly striped suit would MT
the Marion county gang who poured acids on to
the tally sheets and changed the figures so as TO
elect two Democrats on the face of the returns.
The disgrace of the party who committed the
crime is not enough. Ten years behind the bars
of the State prison would be the thing. Let the
party Of the right stand firm to their rights and
tho people will stand by them.
Elkhart Independent: The way Judge Woods,
of the federal court, handled the Indianapolis
conspirators is characteristic of the man and de-
fensive of the respect court demands 1t is a
queer state of things any way you please to look
at it that contumacious witness like Mr.. Per-
kins should set at defiance the courts Of county
and the United Safes court with any hope of re-
ward unless getting himself recorded as the one
supreme of the nineteenth century. This
PerkinsCoy gang may never be handsomer,
but when Judge Woods gets through with them
they will know more
Hendricks County Republican: The country
Is fretted with humanitarian cranks who are
iostIing each other in their individual and sew
eral attempts to take posture as leaders OF the
masses" 1t never occurs to the solitary fixed
and asqunt idea of socialism to separate and as
sort this mass of human beings with view to
weighing capacity against capacity, and tend
jency against tendency They never concern
themselves about causes, being wholly occupied
with effects-possiby contenting themselves
with regarding every effect as sufficient cause
in the sense Of pretext-for quarreling with
the established order Of things.