The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-12-13
THE STATE PRESS.
What the County Papers Are Saying About
Current Matters, State and National.

| Orleans Examiner: From what was left OF
the ruin the Democratic politicians of Indiana
seem determined to build funeral pile and
die in heap.
the rheumatism in his knee to the Potomac fats
and the lameness in his civil-service reform poll
| icy to the Missouri sharps.
| Lafayette Call: The truth is, there is neither
| law nor decency 10 back the Smith movement
| and il hts party shall back him ND in it. thew
| will utterly disgrace themselves in the eyes of
| all fair men.
| Anderson Herald: The people defeated the
| gerry mander swndle, and now the originators OF
the gerrymander propose to defeat the will of
| the people by still more infamous scheme.
Will the people stand i'll
Brookvle Americans The Democratic party
| is now making another record that will be con-
| demned in like manner by all honorable and
| fair-minded men and bring upon the organiza-
| ton another defeat in 1888.
Princeton Clarion: The Democratic party Of
| to-day is sandwich with an upper crust OF imi-
| tation civll-seryice reform and lower one OF
| indigestible free trade. No wonder the Presi-
dent hesitates before swallowing it whole.
Wabash Courier An Eastern exchange says
! that progressive Democratic clubs" are forming
| in Indiana. If this be true, the Courier would
| suggest tin crawfsh as an appropriate badge
| Crawhsh and Democrats observe the same laws
of progression.
| Fort Wayne Gazette: The idea of Colonel In
gerso going around offering to bet ST. 900 to 800
! that Cleveland will not be the next President
| and expecting some body to take the bet is alb
surd. The Colonel will find out before long that
| people are not so green as they look.
Steuben Republican: All the Republicans
want in the matter of the State Assembly is
| simple, square justice-just what they
| titled to- no more, no less. The party capable
| of enactine the late gerrymander in Indiana lie
capable of any other villainy that may be neces-
| sary
Nobesvlle Republican Ledger The Demo
| cratic party persists in tagging twenty years
| behind the times. 1t remains for the Republican
| party to keep step with the demands of the day,
| and with cordial patriotism take hold of the
questions that CO. O0O 600 people are asking to be
| solved
Rising Sun Recorder The country was barely
i able to stand President Cleveands veto of l01
| pension bills, but the appointment of Dr. Dab
| ney, one OF the Andersonvie rebel prison guards,
| to pass on the claims for pensions of Union sol
| diers is more than the country can stand, aud it
| rebels with will
Lawrence Mail: The people of this country have
paid dearly for their knowledge of the true char
| acter and purposes of Democracy, as shown dur
| ing the administration of Cleveland: but If they
have the wisdom to profit by the lessons which
| experience has taught. their knowlege will, per-
| haps, not be too dearly bought
| Lafayette Courier: The fellow who originated
| the phrase, "Turn the rascals out" has not yet
received an appointment He is reported to be
very hot and threatens to paint it on the other
banner in 1888. He has already made inquiry
as to vacancies in the Republican party. His
application will be taken under Amusement.
| Monticello Herald: ThePresident's late inter-
| probation of the civilservice law, applied to
officials of opposite political belief is fine illus
| tretion of the difference between tweedledee and
and tweedledum. Aside from this, however, we
can only perceive Mr. Cleveland's gravitation to
genuine Bourbonism at the expense of con-
| sistency and everything else.
Spencer Republican: Clevelands administra-
ton is smutteG with corruption and jobbery from
| the first till The Pan-electric job was dis
| grace enough for one administration. but this
real estate corruption adds deeper disgrace.
! The Red Top job connects the President with a
| corrupt scheme to extort money from the people
| to fill the pockets OF scheming scoundrelS.
Connersville Times: Suppose the Democratic
candidate for Lieutenant-governor had been
| elected, does any one think the Democrats would
! have commenced n suit to set 1t aside? Never
| before in the history of the country has party
turned its back on its record so completely, in
such short time Nothing could more con-
clusively show that such thing as principle or
honor is utterly unknown among its leaders
| Terre Haute Express No evil can be modified
or abated without preliminary agitation. The
| interference of the Liquor League of Indianapo-
lis with the legitimate business of that city will
ventilate more unpleasant truths than it will care
| TO have revealed. The business men have moth
ing in their records that cannot bear close scru-
| tiny. With the whisky men the situation is pre-
csey the reverse.
| Lawrenceburg Press: If the unspeakable In
! humanities of Andersonville must be recognized
/ by this reform administration, why not send
! tho Dabneys to some foreign port or make them
clerks to some Southern Office instead Of thrust
| ing them upon the dearest memories and most
| sacred interests of Union sodiers2 This APP
pointment is of piece with the sneers of Cleve-
| land III his pension vetoes.
| XTorea,y U,;,O,a.. t. 49, -ns-o III
good, sensible, patriotic and wise let Mr.. Cleve-
| land recognize Democratic federal rather than
confederate soldiers for such places are within
his gift Do not disgrace the Democratic fed
eral soldier by compelling him to receive his PEN
| sion through former comrade of Wirz, the
| Andersonvile butcher, rather than loyal
Democrat. This is too much
| Loeansport Journal The honest rank and file
of the Democratic party will not indorse this
| monstrous madness of partisanism. The Sim
| Coys and lib Hendersons cannot lead these
| masses into willing partnership with crime and
! moral degradation and the desperate Demo
| Gratis, who are now for brief season on top will
learn in due time that they have only been piling
up wrath against the day of wrath.
| LaPorte Herald Chronicle: The appointment
OF The ex-Andersonvile guard as pension ex-
| aminer looks like act of desperation on tho
| part Of Clevelands administration. 1t is as
much as to say that the Presidents only hope
| for denomination and election must come from
desires
mollify that section as much rs possible The
recent elections in the North had very little in
them that was comforting to the party in power
Columbus Republican, Most people are willing
to do some things voluntarily that they would
fight rather than be forced to do. This applies
to the liquor traffic Many are disposed to allow
the dealers a good many privileges without ques-
ton, but when the latter say you shall allow us
these privileges or we will injure and annoy you
all we can, they are very apt to reply that they
don't propose to be forced to do this thing ard
will see who is the stronger
Rushville Republican: There is honesty
enough in the ranks of the Democratic party to
repudiate leaders whose ideas of craftsmanship
are the highwaymans-that might makes
right The trouble with the party is, that it is