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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-26
COMMENT AND OPINION.

GLADsToNE's defeat is no other mans victory.
New Orleans Picayune
VERY possibly the child is born who will be
the first president of the British republic. PROV
idence Journal.
A PORTION of the trouble with the Panama
canal seems TO be that thus far all the water is
in the stock. Dispatch.
LOWELL was thought to be pretty bad snob,
but he would make white mark on the black
board of Minister Phelpss exclusiveness. To
peka Commonwealth.
Poor Nellie Grant! She would have been
happier woman if she had married decent
American. 1t is pity she did not take fancy
to some Southern man.-Augusta (Ga.) Chron-
icle.
Now the packages of congressional garden
seed, distributed at the right time and on good
soil, bear the fruit of denomination and gladden.
the heart OF the giver.-St. Louis Post-Dis-
patch
THE dynamite orators and dishonest cashiers
are of one mind on the subject OF the new extra,
dition treaty. They all think it wicked instru
ment, which interferes with mans enjoyment
of another mans rights. p Philadelphia Inquirer.
SUPPOSE Ehret is boycotted and his business
ruined; hasn't he enough that he can stand
it, The whole burden falls his employees.
The iaborers' weapon is, in short, the worst
boomerang ever invented. -Springfeld Repub-
lican.
WE doubt If President ever before admitted
that he vetoed bill under misapprehension,
and hopes that Congress will pass it over the
Veto as Mr. Cleveland is reported to have done
in regard to the Montana railroad ill--Boston
Journal.
EVERY campaign committee should be sup
piled with one of Edison's graphophones, in
which candidates could interview themselves to
their hearts content, and which the chairman
could then lock mp securely till after election.
Philadelphia Times.
THE boldest witness against the Chicago An
archists so far is woman; and the boldest of
the Anarchists is a woman also. If the male
part of Chicago were left out of the question it
might turn out to be very courageous city.
-Pittsburg Dispatch.
THERE is no kind Of donbt that we need diff
ferent military policy in the treatment OF such
treacherous redskins as Geronimo and Chaco
and the punishment of these men for the crimes
they have already committed could not fail 60
have a sanitary effect-New York Commercial
Advertiser.
WHAT man earns and saves is of no use to
him, unless he is protected in tho free enjoyment
and employment of it. He might better throw
it into the sea than invest it in manufacturing
establishments, and then divest himself Of all
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less intended to take the place of that veteran
custom OF passing resolutions after all the devil
ment is DONE
North Manchester Journal: The workingman's
interests can and will be adjusted by the law
and law making power without loss to the man
or injury to society. The Socialist a foreign
CROWN ana antagonistic to form of govern
ment, must take his chances with the Anarchist.
the polygamist and the boycotter.
Grown Point Registers Props NAV sustain
tottering wreck Tor the time being, but to build
up the Republican party, add strength to the
foundation, it must be solid, and that means re-
form in all things. manly character and a bold
and fearless expression in maintenance of tho
right and aggressiveness against the wrong
Lebanon Patriot: Before the war. in the good
old Democratic times, Democratic administra-
tiens were paying 12a per cent interest for
money to pay the ordinary expenditures of the
government The low rate of interest is the
work of Republican administrations, as we'll as
the law and precedent for calling in and paying
off the bonds
Monticello Herald: Under the new dispersal
tion prices have steadily declined until they have
reached point hitherto unknown Trade is at
a standstill, real estate is without market, and
an era of hard times is upon the country. II
the Republican party was responsible for sncn
evils in other days, why not hold the Democratic
party to accountability nowf
Greencastle Banner: Social evils including
drunkenness should be left to the restraining in-
fuences of moral and Christian forces, aided by
adequate police regulations. Equity requires
that the expense put upon the public by saloons
should be borne by them as q special tax and
that they should be responsible for damages by
them to property, persons or families.
Evansville Journal: The Prohibition conven-
ton at Princeton, yesterday. besides nominating
candidates for Gibson county Offices, ETC., placed
Mr.. Leroy Calvert, of this county, in the field
for Congress He is very respectable and es-
teemed citizen, but if he doesn't vote the un-
scratched Democratic ticket he will act differ
emily from Armstrong township Democrats gen
orally
Washington Gazette: The Democratic party
is party of principles 1t is possessed of so
many principles that it has enough to go round.
and is not therefore put to the inconvenience of
harmonizing itself upon any one There is there
fore necessity for its leaders to be agreed upon
anything, SO far as the party is concerned, but
the country meanwhile must suffer for the want
of some certainty as to what the future is to
bring forth
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right to choose what men he will employ, or
what wages he will pay. Capital would not be
saved, that is to say, labor would starve. II the
owners of capital had not the right so to employ
1t as to gain something by It's use-New YORK
Tribune.
FREE trade would be fatal to the further de-
velopment OF the South; fatal to its progress
ana fatal to its prosperity Under the opera.
tons OF such policy, the farming interests OF
the South would decline, even though the gov
eminent were to furnish each farmer his impie-
ments and his clothes. Atlanta Constitution.
IT is in the interest of the individual laborer
and of the common rights of man that it should
De settled, once for all, that man who is able
and willing TO work may accept such work as ne
pleases, from whom he pleases, such terms as
he pleases, and this without suffering from vlo-
lence or from the more inhuman penalties OF the
oycott.-Boston Journal
THERE is an obvious reaction from the extreme
sentimentalism of twenty years ago. Then some
OF the best men in the country denounced capt.
tai punishment as crime Now the necessity
OF taking life in certain cases is universally con-
coded. Then fogging in the army, in the navy
and in schools was abolished; now there is pretty
general impression that wel-oieo cowhide IN
vigorous hand may prove quite useful ally to
the cause of virt1e-San Francisco Chronicle.
NOTHING would cause greater grief to O'Dono-
van Rosa than the settlement of the Irish cues
ton by the granting of home rule, or by any
hood would be gone, because there would no
longer be any excuse for emergency funds. :"
Miscreants of his type ought to be reached by
State or federal laws A law making 1t mis-
demeanor to solicit subscriptions by agents or by
newspaper publications for the declared or i'm
piled purpose of destroying property would put
stop to good deal of O'Donovan Rossas viii
lainy.-Boston Transcript
If Senator Payne had felt certain that his title
to his seat would be made clear and free from
scandal by an inquiry he would have demanded
it. If the Senate had been sure that its honor
would be fully vndicated by investigation it
would have promptly ordered one. The opposi-
ton was due not to the weakness of the case.
but to its strength. There is no other way of ex-
planning it-no other ground for the strenuous
opposition that was made. The result was
feared. and majority of the Senate was de-
termined to avoid it. This is its way of guard
ing its honor and its dignity, but it will only
lower both in the estimation of the country.
New York Times
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THE New York Sun pertinently directs the
attention. of the Democratic free trade papers
which are demanding that free-trade man
shall be nominated for the presidency next
time, to the fact that there are some very
good reasons why nothing of the kind
will do. 1t explains that the solid South
is to be relied on in any event, as it
seems to have no idea beyond the one
that it is Democratic. Indiana is not a
free-trade State, and was carried for the Dem
ocratic ticket in the last election by the popu-
larity of Thomas A. Hendricks. This leaves
the only hope of the Democratic party in the
Eastern States, which are very far from being
in favor of free trade. Without the vote of
New York, which is doubtful at best, it is USE
less for the Democratic party to think of car
rying the next election, and it would be ike
shaking red rag in the eyes of bull to try
free trade on that State The Sun is evident
ly Of opinion that the few free trade papers of
the West do not know even the first princi-
Piles of politics. This is trihe discouraging
to men like Henry Watterson, but it is
Democracys only hope and the more power
full organs of the party in the East will have to
have their way, as usual.
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A FELLOW too worthless to be a decent
bootblack has performed the foolhardy feat of
jumping from the Brooklyn bridge celebrat-
ing it by getting on a big drunk. The daily
press of New York have honored him by pre-
senting portrait of his ugly mug in their
columns, and for the time being he is the hero
of the hour, to the scandal of every honest,
but poor man in the city. 1t is proposed to
hire him at fancy figure to "tend bar" in
some cheap and nasty saloon, and the papers
are giving him hundreds of dollars worth of free
advertising. 1t is this kind of encourage
ment that makes men make fools of them
selves rather than work at an honorable call
ing. The public is to blame for it, for it is
even more foolish than the fellows who at
tempt these things. The latter make money
out of it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-26

THE appropriation for the Inauguration of
the Bartholdi statue is coupled with pro-
vision, placed upon it by the Senate, that
none Of the money shall be expended for
liquors and tobacco for the entertainment of
guests In view of the disgraceful orgies
that were had on the government vessels at
the time of the Yorktown centennial, the pro-
vision is wise one, and will be upheld by the
moral sentiment of the county. We want
no grand international drunk on the occasion
of the Inauguration of the statue of Liberty
enlightening the world Let Liberty be
sober on that day.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-26

THE editor Of the Cincinnati Commercial
Gazette publishes a long editorial reviewing
his work during the war and the past twenty
years. 1t is matter of little relative impor-
lance; the Payne case rises far above all per-
sonal considerations, as the Commercial Ga
zette has well said and oft repeated. But one
expression is worth noting. The editsr says
of Mr.. Lincolns Emancipation Proclamation:
II believed the proclamation was of no ac-
count in political sense and military error;
and still think it was" We believe there are
but few persons in the country to-day who
would care to say that they still entertain
that opinion Of the greatest and wisest state
paper issued by the immortal Lincoln, and
upon which his great renown rests more than
upon any other. 1t was ''upon this act, be-
lieved to be military necessity, warranted by
the Constitution" that Mr.. Lincoln evoked
"the considerate judgment of mankind and the
gracious favor of Almighty God" We believe
the verdict of the world is that this invocation
was not unanswered The act was owned
and blessed of God, and it has nearly won the
considerate Judgment of mankind
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-26

THE interview with Sergeant Fredericks
printed elsewhere, in response to the sensa-
tional statements of the man Cornell, at San
Francisco will be read with interest, and will
settle some points long in controversy. Ser
geant Fredericks was member Of the Greedy
party, who, by his courage and endurance, Sc
cured the full confidence of his commander
and comrades. He says that he himself saw
Private Henry steal food on three different oc-
casions, and the party demanded his life each
time, and that it was only as an inevitable ne
cessity that Greedy consented to his execution.
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SENATOR Coke is tired of waiting for the
report of the Morrison surplus resolution from
the committee on finance, and, on Saturday,
entered a motion to discharge the committee
from its further consideration, which will be
debated to-day. 1t is quite probable that the
motion will carry, and the resolution come
directly before the Senate for action. 1t will
be well, we think, for the resolution to PASS,
and let it 60 to the head of the Democratic
administration and see how he will receive
this vote of want of confidence. AS was
well said, were such a resolution to be passed
in the British House of Commons as it was in
the House of Representatives, the result
would have been the resignation of the Minis
try and the formation of a new government
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-26

ANOTHER free American has proved recreant
to the trust reposed in him and has made his
way to Canada. This time it is C. D. Nc
Kensie, of Ashland, KY, who for years has
enjoyed the respect and confidence of the
community in which he lived until by the
merest accident, it was found that Tie had
made a mistake in the accounts he kept. The
employer who made this find thought nothing
Of it, but the book-keeper, thinking all was
known, took flight to the amazement of all
who knew him, and it was found that he had
appropriated $4,000 that did not belong to
him. Hurry up that new treaty.
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that they should be sold under direction of
the lady herself, so that the business may be
well done, that no inferior images of her mar
velous beauty get into circulation. The Sun
favors the idea of court photographer The
Presidents order on this point must be taken
in the same sense that his orders in respect to
the civil-service rules are to be taken. 1t re-
quires very little to put them in tho category
of innocuous desuetude
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-26

IT is in very bad taste for the papers of
New York city to BLACKBOARD Joseph Pulitzer
because of alleged discoveries of things in his
past life that are supposed to be mental in the
estimation Of the haute monde. Assaults Of
that character upon him only reveal the con-
temptible animus that possesses his oppo-
nents. Let him De judged ON the merits of his
present work. If the boom of his paper can
DO punctured in any honorable way, let it be
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-26

AS social study, and without regard to
anything questionable in ir, 1t would be inter
esting to know how it was that Sir Charles
Dixie was enabled to hold the affections and
allegiance of the lady who is now his wife,
and who did not marry him until the scandal
that has resulted so disastrously to him was
before the public, and she herself was made IA
miliar with it. 1t is a fact that womankind is
inclined to pardon things in man that man
would not in the woman he expects to marry.
1t is possible that his wife did not believe the
stories told of him, in which event the result
of the trial now ended must be very severe
blow to her love and her womanly pride. To
have her husband placed before the world as
libertine of the grossest type can but be very
humiliating to her. How much, if any, of this
ed to become his wife, and how much did she
know at the time she so courageeusly de-
Tended him in public, and expressed the de-
sire to marry him at the earliest practical mo-
mentg The public cannot help admiring her
courage, though deploring her poor judgment
in choosing husband and protector. 1t is
possible, of course, that she knew it all, or
had that womanly intuition that Sir Charles
had not been what he should have been, and
that she hoped, by her fine display of courage
and confidence in him, to disarm criticism,
and to draw the man she loved out of the
mire of scandal. How much she knew will,
of course, never be known, so that it is i'm
possible that she can be accurately gagged in
any particular in connection with her marriage
to him. Whatever she may have known she
still shows that womanly heroism that has
with him into Punishment without murmur
of regret. And what cruel Punishment,
with husband shorn of honor and the respect
Of his fellow Where is there woman
in all the world that would not hesitate to
enter upon such life, and where, indeed,
may mot be found good and true women who
would not do sog This is one of the unsolved
riddles of the sex, creditable to their natures,
but never to be understood. Whatever may
be the verdict of the people on the conduct of
Sir Charles Dixie, the conduct of his wife,
now that she is in the current Of shame into
which her husbands misconduct has thrown
her, is another example of woman's fortitude
under the most distressing and humiliating
circumstances There is no compensation for
what she is now doing but the approval of her
conscience. There is startling contrast be-
tween this lady and the brazen woman who
seemed to glory in her shame as she defantly
confessed it before the world. 1t is a shame
that Sir Charles and the woman with whom
he committed such an infamous crime should
not have met and married before they were
the means of destroying the happiness of 9th
ers. Unfit for the love of others, they would
have been each others complement.
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CALI FoRREpUBLIcAN sTATECONyENTIoN

The Republicans of Indiara and all others
who will cooperate with them in the coming
campaign, are invited to meet in delegate con-
yention, in the cityo Indianapolis, on
Thursday, the I'd Day of September, 1886,
at 10 o'clock A. NJ, for the purpose of adopting
platform and for nominating candidates. to be
voted for at the November election, for the fol-
loving Offices
Secretary Of State.
Auditor Of State.
Treasurer OF State.
Attorney general.
Judge of the Supreme Court for the Third
district.
Clerk Of the Supreme Court.
Superintendent of Public Instruction.
The convention will be composed of /, 1914 dele
gates, apportoned among the several counties on
tho basis of the Republican vote in 1884, as fol-
lows:
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THE effort to collect a fund for testimo-
behalf of Ireland is well enough in its way;
but there should be no sleep lost over it until
some of the many worthy things this side the
Atlantic are cared for. There is the fund for
the completion of the pedestal for the statue
of Liberty. That should be secured. And
there is that other enterprise, providing for a
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-26
Nav Overdo the yetoing,

Atlanta constitution (Dem)
The President is famous for his vetoes, but he
undertakes very serious job when he proposes
to stop, by Veto legislation that an over.
whelming majority of the people desire. 1t
would be a comparatively easy matter for Mr..
Cleveland by nimble exercise of the veto pow
er. to practically usurp the functions of Con-
gress and add to his duties Of executive the du-
ties of national legislature, composed of him
self and Mr. Daniel Lamont, his able private
secretary; but such a scheme is contemplated
neither by the people nor the Constitution under
which their government is carried on.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-26

The delegates from the counties composing the
several congressional districts will meet in In
dianapolis at 7:30 o'clock on the night preceding
the date of the convention, at such places as may
be hereafter designated, for the purpose of Sc
Letting
organization.
Ono member of the committee on credentials.
One member of the committee on resolutions.
One vice-president of the convention.
One assistant secretary of the convention.
By order of the Republican State central COM
mittee. JAMES N. HUSTON, Chairman.
L. T. MIcHENER, Secretary.
INDIANAPOLIS. Iud. July "a, 1886.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-26

THERE is at least one honorable Democratic
newspaper in the country. The Memphis
Avalanche has the courage and conscience to
say that ''the vote in the Senate yesterday on
the Payne investigation settled the principle
of corruption in favor of great wealth. 1t
only remains to determine how rich man
must be to entitle him to bought seat"
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indianapolis News.
The United States Senate has NOT relieved Mr..
Payne by the vote which it gave yesterday
more than two to one in opposition to investiga-
ton. 1t has simply -sharcd the odum with him.
1t is charged, and generally believed, that that
by the corrupt use of money on the part of one
of the'great corporations of the country and Of
corrupt politicians The man who profits by it
doesn't ask for an investigation, and his cel-
leagues refuse to order an investigation This
is not the last of it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-26

THE public is beginning to wonder which
Is the worse, offensive partisanship," as de-
fined by the President, or inefficiency in the
public service The ex-criminals now in the
postal service are ripping it to pieces in this
part of the country.
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The Guileless Granger.

Chicago Business.
The Kansas Iowa and Missouri farmer, who
hasn't dollar interest in the market was
numerousy on the floor to-day, discoursing wish
eloquence about the bad prospects for corn in his
neshborhood. The countryman who hasn't any
interest in the market, and who never specu-
lates, always makes Decline for the Board Of
Trade the minute he arrives in town.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-26

The meanest man has been discovered in
the person of st. Paul butcher, who, to prove
that his corn beef was not the cause of poison
ing certain persons in the place, fed some of
it to two Of his children, both of whom have
since died from the effects of eating it. The
punishment should be to compel him to par
take of it likewise.
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The twenty thousand dollars for the Y
NJ G. A. building have been secured and 1926
are subscribed on the remaining ten thousand
dollars. There is no doubt but the full
amount can be raised, and the new building
dedicated without a dollar of debt. Such a
consummation is one devoutly to be wished.
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done, if his competitors choose to. 1t is ex-
ceedingly unfair and mean to refer to the fact
that at one time in the remote past he served
as hostler. There is nothing incompatible
in that fact with his being something great
deal more dignifed now. Snobbishness will
not dnrur, hin
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-26

THE next fest of the North American
S@ngerbund will be held in the city of st.
Louis. indianapolis was the only competitor
Of the city by the bridge, but it was not
thought possible that we could accommodated.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-26

EACH day new evidence is adduced in the
trial of the Chicago Anarchists that warrants
their hanging. There should be no failure in
this thing. Every one of them should be
hanged, with as little delay as the law will al
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