The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-08
COMMENT AND OPINION.

1T looks as though the President were in inn
minent danger of spraining his veto machine on
the pension bills. 1t needs rest and oil-Ph;la-
delpha Press.
If things keep on this way Mr. Gladstone will
need the services of some OF our American re-
turning boards or Cincinnati election clerks to
come out even.-Boston Record.
In these days no man rises to the his hest rank
in any church without possessing virtues Of the
highest order and reputation stainless as per-
feet pearl-San Francisco Chronicle.
THE remarks of the Senate committee on pen
sions in regard to the Presidents vetoes are
pointed. but, in view of his expressions in his
veto messages, are anted.--Boston Journal
PERSONS who have been so base as to intimate
that Judge Holmans change of front was expo
dted or in any way influenced by patronage
ought to be indicted, under the old Maryland
law, for uttering blasphemy. How can we ex-
pect holiness in the Capitol when every outcrop-
ping of true goodness is reviled or sneered att
National Republican.
The country is anxious to fully and fairly I'M
derstand Gettysburg, regardless of whose fame
may be dimmed or frightened thereby. but il
does not want reckless stump speeches like that
of Colonel Norris General Butterfeld can tell
much important truth and support it beyond diss
pute; and General Sickes has made franknesg
on General Butterhelds part a public duty.
Philadelphia Times
IF Mr. Edgerton or some other Indiana civil
service reformer, if another can be found among
the Hoosiers, could only get chance to run for
Governor of Indiana other Office, on a
civil-service reform platform. he would find out
by experience how much stock the Democrats Of
that State take in the nonsense which he
breaches New York Sun lDem,)
WHEN labor organizations denounce judges,
jurymen and witnesses because they have done
their simple duty as good law-abiding citizens,
pronounce perpetual boycott against Them hold
them up TO execration, and practically invite vio<
lence against them. they do very unwiss as well
as very reprehensible act, aud injure the cause
of honest labor, which nine-tenths OF the com
munity are anxious to uphold. - New York
World.
THE great measures of finance which needed
to be consummatei, the relief of the mercantile
community by the passage of uniform bank
ruptcy law, and another for the regulation Of
interstate commerce. were never considered by
the Democratic House. They were persistentiy
thrust aside in order that partisan legislation
the fishing fer votes-might proceed uninter-
ruptedly, and it has so proceeded philadelphia
Inquirer.
THE facts in these vetoed cases viii be brought
to light, and they will show how wrong the
vetoes have been. Enough has already been
shown TO dispose the President to hedge and to
try TO throw the responsibility on the Pension
Bureau He cannot she'd all blame this way.
These bills were passed by Congress and not by
the bureau, and it was the conversational EVIL
dence he should have examined It he proposed
to exercise the veto power Milwaukee Sen.
tinel
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND can 70 into history, il
ne chooses, MS the President who profassed to
seek reform aud brought about him the most
shameless ring Of plunderers that ever infested
the public Offices. Or he can claim the thanks
of his own party and tho confidence Of the pub
lie by turning out every man who has been
guilty of participation in this scandalous Job 1.-THE
telephone scandal 1t is for him to choose. and
he may be sure that Republicans who care much
reputation Of the country, would rather not seq
him drag the American name through the mira
New York Tribune.