The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-06-30
COMMENT AND OPINION.

BRIGHT's disease now seems to be opposition
to Gladstone. -Pittsburg Chronicle
WITH Lord Randolph Churchill as his mouth
piece, the British lions roar sounds very much
like bray. -Phiadelphia Inquirer.
GENERAL DEMoRILIzATToN is making one of
his most successful campaigns among the Indi-
ana Democrats. Republican.
If the Presidents veto messages do not make
General Black s1uirm, it is because he has
hide like an alligator. Chicago Mail
LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL will find before
he gets through with him that Gladstone has
hoodooed him. whether he has any of the power
of a fetish or not.-Denver Tribune.
1T is suspected that somehow. IN the middle of
stack of private pension bills, President Cleve-
land has accidentally affixed veto to his own
utterances regarding single.term Presidency
-Nlnneapolis Tribune.
1T is awsully exasperating to the man who
doesn't like the way in which big newspaper is
run. to send in vigorous protest and then see
the big newspaper keep right on running In the
way he doesn't like.-Cambridge Chronicle
JOURNALISTS are never made in college lecture
rooms; nor can they so be manufactured. They
might as well talk of making poets by opening
course OF lectures upon tropes and trochees,
dactyls and spondees st Paul Pioneer Press.
GENERAL NEAL Dow admits that the Repub-
cans of Maine will easily elect their ticket this
year. The ancient BOWS scheme for smashing
the Republican party would seem to have been
granted an indefinite furlough Philadelphia
Press.
THE supreme peril Of the Knights Of Labor to.
day is within their own household, and until
they not only profess but resolutely enforce,
obedience to law and respect for all Lawful
rights, they cannot command the sympathy and
support OF either labor or capital. Philadelphia
Times.
The number of Democratic aspirants seems to
be altogether too humorous for satisfactory
distribution of the limited number of Offices.
scarcely strong Democratic congressional clS-
trict has thus far been reported where wranghng
is not importing the party's prospects. Albany
Express.
THERE is reason to doubt whether there is
anything in the statement of the department.
that number of postal clerks conspired to
strike That they complained of the unreason-
able exactons of the department and proposed
an appeal to Congress is probable, but this
would not justify removal Milwaukee SEN
tinel.
The obvious duty of Republican members is
to prevent tariff tinkering of any kind until the
House has majority friendly to home indus
tries When the people want such House, they
will elect it. Revision of protective tariff by
foes of all protection would be an absurdity. To
permit it would be an act Of suicidal folly.-New
York Tribune.
MIR. CLEVELAND does not understand the spirit
ofthe loyal people of the United States. They
VIII HOI sue Win MIN III us nafSn, uuISeilDR
pension vetoes. They prefer to let one pretender
draw a pension who never earned it to letting
one deserving soldier suffer for the want of it
because he has proof to establish his
burlington Hawkeye.
WITH great reluctauce-for every American
admires De Lesseps's pluck, and, of course, de-
sires to see canal cut through the isthmus
the people of this country have come to the
conclusion that the canal company is destined to
fail They would be rejoced TO wake up some
morning aud find that they have been all wrong
San Francisco Chronicle.
UNLESS the Knights of the Mailbag are grad
ually or instantly discharged. the Postmaster
general can never feel sure that they will not
conspire to bring on strikes and tie ups in the
railway postal service The safe course is to put
the Postoffice Department entirely in the hands
of the Great Order of Democrats SO fa- as the
civiI-service business will allow.-New York Sun
DEM
IT Harvard College has done much In the
past two hundred and fifty years in the cause of
learning and morals. but it has something yet to
do, long as it is evident from the painful token
Of fact that the cleaning out of saloon is an
ordinary incident in college life unnoticed ex-
cept when the magnitude of the consequences
elevates the proceedings to the dignity of
crime.-St. Louis Post Dispatch.