The Indianapolis journal., 1886-04-21
1ouIsy1LLE AND oINo1NNArI MoBs.

over the city Of Louisville and vicinity is
gradually spreading, and Democratic blood on
the moon may now be seen half way across
| the State of Indiana, and we don't know how
far South. Indignation meetings are the or
der of the day. and conventions of the faithful
are called almost nightly. If every Democrat
were a cat, and every cat natural orator, the
| air could not be more filed with lamentations
and swear words. Altogether, it is one of the
saddest occasions that has ever cast shadow
over the fair face Of Democratic hopes. A
widow has fairly distanced the Kentucky
scrubs, and has come in at swinging gait
under the postofice pole. Instead of giving
up the stakes gracefully, the players are dis
posed to plead the baby act and to behave
real naughty in various ways Halls have
| been hired, and orators let loose, and the rab-
BILE invoked to lift up their voices, so that the
clamor has been such that no man of peace
has been able to get a square breath since the
President was taken in and done for by this
willy. widow. Were the question, '1s life
| worth livingT to be propoundedin in Louisville
to-day, it would be answered in the
negative by large majority. Hung be the
heavens with black calico, and send the bill
to the Courier-Journal Office. The thick, blu
ish fog at Cleveland is opalescent compared
with the impenetrable gloom that has settled
over the city of Louisville. The cholera may
and may not visit that city this year, but it is
all the same. For what is life to people who
have pleasure no longer in itf Seasons and
circuses may come and go, but the stricken
people Of that city will heed them not. Mer-
chants are doubling their stock of sackcloth
and ashes, and the demand threatens to ex-
haust the supply. The hoary Jeremiahs of
Kentucky have come forth from their mount
ain Businesses, and proclaimed the most dire
full things, unless the President shall recon
slider his intention to give placeto this woman.
| But now thread of light illumines the
East. The tidings have been sent from the
city where the Great Captain lives that he has
relented, or backed down, or something, and
| will recall the order placing this widow over
the city Of Louisville. And what then? Will
those who have been shrieking in the market
place be comforteds Will the thirty
five able bodied men who have
passed many sleepless nights over
the hope of getting this same Office be any
| the happier when some other man, instead
of woman has iti And what Of the Presi-
| dent and his famous vertebr@, which has been
represented as built on the principle of the
| wonderful one-hoss shayf For over thirteen
months the question Of the Louisville post
Office has been one that he had to think about.
held the place to which he has now reap
| pointed her He doubtless knew the three
dozen gentlemen who did their utmost to get it
| away from her. Having thought it over in
all it's aspects, it was reasonable to suppose
that he knew what he was doing for it has
| been said of him that he has natural genius
for governing How comes it, then, that the
bowling of Kentucky mob should so easily
disconcert him? Is it that he hopes to escape
the condemnation of his partya That were
| vain hope, for do what he may, he
is doomed to 60 out of power the best
abused man that ever occupied the White
House. What has been taken for backbone
in The President is but stupidity
that prevents him from being able to
discriminate in advance His lack of fore
sight has got him into the embarrassing posi-
ton that he now occupies. He knew that
Mrs. Thompson had held that Office for nine
years, and he has been represented as saying
that he believed in rotation in public Office,
| though the offices should not be made the
| sport Of elections. And now, after thus en-
couraging the Democrats of Kentucky to hope
that something better would be had, he casts
them into the cave Of gloom by reappointing
| this very Objectionable partisan The
Louisville mob knows very well that it has
the advantage of the President in this matter,
and does not intend to let him escape the re-
sponsibility. Without Office, Democracy has
no desire to win in a national election. With
out Office when Office may be had, a Demo
cratic administration is not Democratic. The
Louisville mob has pronounced on this point,
and the President is served with a warning
| that he must hand ont the spola tn the elect or
get ready to be mathematical. The joyful
! tidings are waited to the disconsola.e there
| that the intimidation has had its intended ef-
| feet, and that Mr.. Cleveland is about to re-
consider his action and give the widow her
| Walking .nanera If this wonld not ha ma k;nor