The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-22
COMMENT AND OPINION.

The best fighting ground of the Republican
party in 1886 is in ennessee.-Nationai Repub4
lican
Four years of Democratic administration
Will wear out the regulations, among Democrats,
OF great many Democratic statesmen.-Boston
Record.
THERE has been too much cant of ciyilse
reform and too little of the real thing What
ever embarrassment belongs to the present situ-
alton Is largely of President Clevelands own
| making. Philadelphia Record.
THE Mexican silver dollar contains more silver
than ours. and yet it will only pass in this
country for rs cents. Why don't 'the friends OF
silver adopt measures for the protection of these
maltreated strangers. Sentinel
WITH the assistance of the Gear, who might
consent to look upon the cession of Eastern
Houmelia to his protege as payment on account
for his own services, the Porte would be able to
defy the Austrian Vaccinations and escape for
the present fresh curtailment Of its posses
sions.-New York Sun.
Our system of government-now the Oldest
unchanged government in Christendom-must
furnish alike the ideals and the practical hints
which are to help England to discover some way
| OF living peaceably with the Irish, and to help
the Irish to learn the real meaning of home
ule."-New York Mail and Express.
SENATOR PAYNE says Donavin, the man who
accuses him of buying his seat in the Senate, ia
| cur" aud q ''drunkard," and that he shall
take no notice of his charges. This cur and
''drunkard" appears to have been considered q
good enough man to run Democratic organ 10
Columbus, and to be assistant Sergeant-at-arms
of Democratic House. Portland Press.
No change in existing silver laws will be made
during this session. To this there is but one
possible exception. If Secretary Manning takes
the advice of tine Sun and makes his next bond
call payable in silver dollars then there will be
howl throughout the length and breadth of the
land which win lead to a speedy adjustment Of
the impending financial troubles. Cincinnati
Sun.
THE work Of the South must be done by this
class of laborers negroes, it will not be done
at all. They can be retained by treating them az
white men are treated under like circumstances
in the North; and nothing short of that will pre-
vent their constant drifting away to localities
which offer them better chances to earn homes
and to enjoy ordinary rights and privileges.-St
Louis Globe-Democrat
AN experienced and powerful political leader
in President Cleveand's place-a role which he
apparently has no ambition to undertake.
would have party at his back in Congress- with
out regard to what name its members had here
tofore called themselves by. With such leader
ship lacking, there is apparently nothing to do
but watch the drift of things toward reforma-
ton of parties Boston Herald.
TIE national peril threatened by the electoral
count experience of 1876-T was even graver
than that threatened by the defective succession
| law. The country would not again submit to
| the means by which Mr. Hayes was counted in,
| nor would it pass again so quietly through such
crisis. 1t is the part OF craftsmanship and
| patriotism to guard against this danger. The
electoral-count bill should be passed without de.
lay.-New York Herald.
| WE can secure all possible advantage from the
use of silver by fixing a limit to the coinage Of
| standard dollars or by limiting the amount
for which, when coined. they shall be legal TEN
der. and leaving the amount of coinage TO be de-
| termined by the wants of commerce. In either
| ha rod hy
| Withdrawing the smaller notes up to aud includ.
| ing the five-doar notes and substituting for
them silver dollars or fractional coin, or silver
| certificates of minor OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES York
Times.
SO long as there is chance that the United
States may come to use silver alone, England
and Germany will persist in trying to force upon
this country an inferior kind of money, of which
they can control the value. But when the United
States refuses, those nations will be compelled ia
join with US in measures for the better use of
siver This Is the opinion of the wisest and
| most earnest friends of silver on both sides Of
the ocean, and it is matter of regret that the
people OF the West and South do not make the
same opinion known to their represer tatives
New York Tribune.
Rev. T. DE WITT TALMAGE's advice to women
about to marry is almost as prohibitory "a
Punch's famous Don't" He says to first pray
fervently. and then look out for a man who has
reformed, who does not go to the club. who ia
not selfish. who does not advertise for q wife
who is a Christian, who does not 60 to the opera
or into the gay world, but spends the hot sum
mer months toiling in his Office. Where the
perplexed woman will ind just such an animated
mummy it is difficult to imagine Mr. Talmaee
is not such one himself, but he might open an
intelligence Office for old maids.-New York
Star.
In good many things Prince Bismarck is be-
hind the age. and one of these is oversensitive-
ness to newspaper attacks There is nothing so
foolish in public man as to be always Worrying
about what newspapers say of him. No man Is
hurt by newspaper attacks unless they ara
founded on fact and then it is the fact and not
the attack which hurts. Mere newspapers abuse
not grounded on substantial truth, does no one
any harm. Indeed, when it appears in a parti-
san journal. and is aimed at a member of the on
posite party. it is much more likely to help the
person abused than to injure him. 1t Is newspa-
per neglect which public men have chiefly to
fear. San Francisco Chronicle