The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-20
COM ENT AND OPINION.

WE can get along amazingly well without Con.
gress, but we cannot get along without the third
and fourth-class postmasters. Atlanta Constiru.
ton.
THE reason so many of our millionaires ara
stoop-shouldered is on account of their carving
silver dollars in their pockets York
journal.
LORD RANDOLPH CHURcHILL's plan for an
Irish Parliament fails to provide for the admis'
sion of Members from Tammany HalL-St
Louis Post-Dispatch.
WHEN too late to be of any practical use, a few
Democratic papers are beginning to speak out
frankly about the infamous frauds perpetrated
by their political brethren in Cincinnati Ma
tlonal Republican.
SENATOR PAYNE will not demand any investi-
CATION. He knows all about the affair. If the
other fellows want to find out, why let them in
vestigate. That is the position Of q statesman.
philadelphia Press.
WILL the pious Democrats, those OF them who
could write. who got down on their bellies and
scrawled 329 on the sidewalks during the Gar
field campaign, tell US what they think Of Pan.
electric Garlandi-Chicago Mail.
WHEN they get to selling wives at Ave cents
apiece out in Ohio there seems to be something
abnormal in the relations of demand and supply.
Ohio legislators are reported to have sold as
high as s., 500 each; and yet every one knows
that the wives are twice as valuable. -Pittsburg
Dispatch.
THERE are a great many we'll people
in this country who will heartily enjoy General
Lew Wallace's attack upon General Halleck.
There is little doubt in literary circles, and none
in those of the army, that General Hallecks
swell head made him long a burden to our cause.
Cincinnati Sun.
THE United States is to-day the only impor.
taut nation which is coming legal-tender silver,
while the five silver nations of Europe, whose
CO operation is essential. are not coming, but are
contenting themselves in keeping the currencies
previously coined. OF the two, our policy is OBJ.
viously much the better adapted to assist the
selfish schemes of England and Germany.
Louisville Courier-Journal
The South is in need of nothing more press.
ingly than a revival of the grand old spirit of
pioneer enterprise. There is q general staena-
ton from the Gulf of Mexico to the Ohio river.
from Mobile 10 Louisville. A pitiful lack of en-
yields scant support. when they might share in
the enrichment which rewards the pioneers OF
the West.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
DEpLoRABLE at any time. railroad s.rate-cut-
ting" at this time, in consideration of the eondi-
ton of the country is more wicked than many
offenses which the law stamps with the brand Of
criminaligy. Those trunk-iine managers who
are guilty of this repetition OF it know that
public opinion condemns them, but they care lit
tie when it g, de- itself in empty denuncia-
tons, however .ment. Therefore. let public
opinion ccnce itself into q definite demand
upon Congre n interference as one OF the
most urgent uties of legislation.-New York
Herald.
THE influence of the President is Just now a
negative quantity. He will not lift q finger to
prevent the defeat of the only financial policy he
has advocated. Whether it is true, as some re-
port. that the Secretary Of the Treasury DIS
agrees with that course or not, it is certain thai
some of the Presidents supporters think it weak.
1t is also certain that some opponents in his own
party suppose that he is trying to influence votes
by hopes of patronage, and resent it. Until tho
situation changes decidedly at Washington,
business men may as we'll calculate that no ad-
iustment. however reasonable in itself, has any
chance of success. New York Tribune.
THE open enemies of jeff Davis now have little
chance to obtain public Office, but his friends and
followers are being stated with spoils. The main
thing that troubled JEFF twenty five years ago
was that the control of the country was passing
out of the hands of State sovereignty men; bur
now, when the situation is reversed. he has good
reason to feel happy. JEFF believes that State
sovereignty is the cornerstone of Jeffersonian
Democracy. and Cleveland Is as good a Demo-
ccat as he. and proves his faith by preferring in
all things the upholders and defenders of the
Jeffersonian dogma. JEFF Davis is q little churl-
ish in his old age, but he cannot refuse Clevs
land a well earned tribute. Chicago Tribune.