The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-23
COMMENT AND OPINION.

| STooKsLAGER is now in position to know bet
ter.-Pittsburg Dispatch.
| DoDGING politician, like man who dyes his
| mustache, deceives no one but himself.-Phila-
| delphia Record.
| WHILE the President is out Of town would be
| a good time for some one to smuggle In foreign
| policy.-St Louis Chronicle.
THE trouble with Lord Randolph Churchill ap
| pears to be that he is not quite big enough for
boss.-Phlladephi Inquirer.
| THE greatest service that can be done to the
| Irish cause at present is to put muzzle on
Finerty. -Pttsburg Dispatch
| Ii Cutting should be released on Secretary
| Bayard's demand he ought to he Immediately
| appointed Minister to Persia. Chicago Journal.
PERHAPS the State Department is waiting to
| hear from Mr.. Blaine as to what course to pursue
| in reference to the Mexican agony.-New York
| Tid-Bits
| Mr.. PowDERLY is full of good intentions. but
| he let's his wicked partners boycott them before
| they turn from blossoms intopippins -Phadel.
| phia Record.
THE religious combatants of Belfast are still
anxious to murder and burn houses Is there
anything more enterprising than religious enter
prise?-New York Graphic
| THE President is reported to have been full of
jokes as he rode away In his palace car to his va
cation. He probably rehearsing his pension
| vetoes to his companions. Boston Record.
EMrGRANT rates are going lower and lower.
/ It will not be the fault of the steamship compa-
MES If all the surplus population of Europe is not
poured into the United States. Cleveland Lead
| or.
| THERE is no show for anarchy in this country
i Every body thinks as he chooses, but if any body
were allowed to force his views upon others this
privilege would be suspended. Philadelphia
| Times
| OHIO Prohlbitionists have denounced Francis
| Murphy as meddlesome and mischievous $
| Mr. hu fall S nd not y1nli
| there is method in their madness. Chicago
| ter Ocean.
TT is as much as most mon can be expected to
do 10 give up their liquor; ask one to give up his
/ political party also and he will turn from the
whole reform movement with disgust. -Cincin-
natl Commercial
SENATOR VOORHEES, wants Indiana to give
| Democratic majority at the coming election.
/ The Senator's drafts on Indiana Democracy have
| before this gone to protest for non-acceptance.
| Boston Record.
Mr.. BAYARD has been so markedly failure
/ that IL is very grave question whether he
ought not to resign position which IN its re-
/ sponsbitles is so important and influential.
! = Boston Advertiser
THERE is an increasing like ihood that after
/ Lawyer Sedgwick gets down to Mexico and finds
| out how matters stand. he will advise Secretary
/ Bayard to pay the costs and have rhe case dis
sei-Phiadelphia Press.
! THE hanging of these seven men will be les
son that will not need repetition in this gener-
alton. at least 1t will be to all tho world dec
laraton that in this land of liberty the law is
| supreme. Atlanta Constitution
i IF the Democrats Of Michigan cannot get on a
! higher plane than that embodied in the monerel
ticket and pernicious platform of yesterday they
need the discipline of further defeat TO teach
! them both sense and honesty. Philadelphia
| Times DEM
THE prospect o. a war, with the chances Of
| heartenine that the South is apparently on the
| point of deciding that Secretary Bayard may
make peace without honor and without delay. In
any event the declaration of war must be de.