The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-06-23
POLITICAL NOTES.

given an Endorsement by another Chicago
club.
THINGS are getting so now, says the Phila-
delphia Times, that Mr.. Blaine makes a
speech whenever mackerel gspes or a dog
'howls at night.
ADvIcES from Pittsburg, Pa, say that the
State Convention of liquor dealers, to be
held in this city July Is, Will be very largely
attended, every city and town in the State
doubtless being represented.
'IT might be good plan. says the Phila-
delphia Times independently 'for Congress
togo further than it has yet done by sub
uniting constitutional amendment making
it impossible for legislative riders to be at
tached to appropriation bills in the future"
w. ID. BIcKHAN, editor of the Dayton
Journal, one of the brightest and most stall
waIt Republican papers in Ohio, confesses
great admiration for Blaine, but thinks the
party would run a serious risk'' by nomin-
sting him again. 1t Is a ''risk" which the
most reckless insurance company would
scarcely dare assume.
JOHN P. IRISH, editor of the San Francisco
Alta, having been mentioned as q candidate
for Lieutenant Governor, responds through
his paper in this eminent Irish fashion: "He
feels to much respect for an office great
enough TO have been filled by John Daggett
to wish that it should fall to q fellow about
whom he knows so many things that won't
bear discussion. Therefore he wishes to say
he is not candidate"
A WASHINGTON correspondent asserts that
President Cleveland is sharpening his official
scythe with the intention of ousting all the
Republican officeholders. His inactivity up
to the present time is excused upon the
ground that: "The civil. service inherited
by the administration has been the growth
of twenty four years of Republican rule and
can not be dismissed in . day or year. The
work CT removing Republicans necessarily
require time"
THE lisuor business liability bill reported
in the Massachusetts, Legislature recently is
a noteworthy departure from customary
lines of liquor legislation. 1t proposes to
make all the parties pro6ting by the traffic,
from the seller to the real estate owner,
jointly and severally liable for some of its
consequences. An action is authorized
against any or all of these parties for the
recovery of damages, not to exceed S., 600,
for the loss of life through intoxication.
THE Boston Herald Qnd.) says: The Re
publicans who are laying in great store of
campaign thunder in regard to the extrav-
agance of the Democratic House should pre-
oora sor,a ahIa axplopof;o,, Of fba fact fbot
every bill yet passed by that body has been
increased by the Republican Senate, while
the original extravaganza of the Upper
House, in the ST., Oee, 0Oe Blair bill, and the
new pension bill, greatly surpasses that Of
the popular branch. 1t is ''six of one and
half a dozen of the other" with the odds
against the Senate.
THE State of Maine has enjoyed a prohib-
itory liquor law for more than a generation.
Liquor legislation of additional stringency
has been put upon the statute book from
time to time, and the principle of prohibit
ton has been incorporated into the State
Constitution. Yet there has never been any
great difficulty in obtaining liquor in Maine,
except in the small rural communities and
in the larger towns liquor shops flourish as
if the traffic were free and not forbidden.
Instead of recognizing the fact that prohi-
bition is failure, and must necessarily be
such until human nature is very much
changed, the Maine Prohibitionists go on
clamoring for more law and more enforce
ment, although they ought to know that
law which impertiHently interiors with
mans personal and private concerns can not
be enforced, and must defeat itself.-New
York Sun.