The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-23
COMMENT AND OPINION.

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brides by any other name do smell as loud
-Pittsburg Chronicle.
MR. MoRRIsoN's latest may be described as a
diagonal bill. cut with strong bias toward free
Unconstitutional Republican.
FITZ JOHN PORTER squeezed through the
House, but he has to get by Logan yet, and he
will hardly make it.-Chicago Mail
A PAN-ELEoTRIc motor, fabricated with Stand
ard company oil, ought to make a tolerably fast
political machine.-Boston Advertiser.
In advancing the work of true temperance re-
form one Cough is worth more than whole
library of prohibitory statutes. Philadelphia
Record.
IF'Fitz John Porter had fought as vigorously
at the second battle of Bull Run as he has since
to be indicated there wouldn't have been all
this trouble.-Providence Journal.
IF Uncle Sam were half as active for his age as
M. De Lesseps the isthmian ship canal would
have been put through long ago-Philadelphia
Inquirer.
"WHAT to Do with the Dead heads an article
in the Canandaigua Messenger Make them ad
vertise. That will put life into them if any
thing wilL-Danville Breeze.
KENTUCKY and Missouri have laws making
gambling felony but in either State murder
seems to be considered about as mild form of
dissipation as croquet Tribune.
IF any Republican Senator is bribed by the
power of patronage to consent to the executive
usurpation, the country will hold him in an un-
comfortable Observation-Disclosures Sentinel
THE secrecy of the executive session serves
merely to prolong an Illicit power OF the Senate.
It is tradition without reasonable Justification
and it must be renounced.--New York Evening
Post.
PARNELL will wait. because justice takes her
own time to right all wrongs. Besides, the man
who runs the huzz-saw is always calIuer than
the one who does the monkeying Philadelphia
Times
WITH practice in breaking his sentences into
from four to sixteen pieces and using words of
the common speech, the New York Senator may
yet get to be considerable of deoater. Boston
Record.
THE Evening Post permits its Washington
correspondent to say. THE President has never
appointed a bad man to Office, knowing it."
There never has been severer arraignment of
the Presidents inteliigence.-New York Trib-
une.
SENATOR SHERMAN never said a truer or a
better thing in his life than when. few days
ago, he declared apropos of this very subject
that there ought to be no secrets in the conduct
of such government as ours.-Philadelphia
Telegraph.
The movement against free trade In England
is growing right along. The Louisville Courier
Journal. which espoused free trade sentiments
because ''itS English, you know"-for we can
see no better reason for twill coon learn that
it isn't so English now as it used to be-Louis
Vile Commercial.
THE Republican Senators have taken their DO
sition with excellent strategy, and it is impreg-
nable, ii they stand to their guns. If there are
any among them who hesitate about making the
fight, let them remember that this situation as
it stands to-day is the key to the presidency in
18SS.-Albany Express.
THE people of this country are constantly re-
minded of two stupendous facts--that we are all
alike toilers; that there is no permanently rich
class and no class permanently poor. 1t ought
not to be impossible for labor and capital, there
fore, to join forces to achieve a common prosper
ity.-New York Herald
THE practical question now is whether an hon
est Democratic President can have any good
reason for hiding from the Senate the official pa
pers the files of departments which refer to
tho suspension of an officer. Public Office is n
public trust, and public papers are public prop
ertv.-New York World.
ACCORDING to our view. the position of the ad-
ministration In regard to the Presidents power
of removal is needlessly weakened by the refusal
to send to the Senate the papers for which that
body has asked. The true policy would be to let
the Senators see all there is, and let them make
the most of it-New York Sun.
THE people cannot judge till they know all the.
facts; and until the facts are known their sym
pathies will remain with Mr.. Cleveland rather
than with the Senate because he has surely
made fewer partisan removals than his prede-
cessors; and into the motives Of his predecessors