The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-11-22
COMMENT AND OPINION.

AMERICAN inspiration ends where imitation Of
England begins.-James G. Blaine.
Oh, civil service reform. what crimes are com
mitted in thy name!-Boston Record.
A GREAT part of the 1883 contest will be be-
tween Grover Cleveland the newspapers -Phila-
delphia Inquirer.
IF Henry George doesn't play more careful
game Ben Butler may trump his labor ace yet
philadelphia Times
The man who suffers himself to be black
mailed is almost as bad as the man or woman
who black-mails him. Chicago Journal
The whole country has its hand to its ear
waiting to hear the remarks Of the Mugwumps
on the Presidents backdown. Chicago journal
THE political signs may be misleading. but
they point very strongly to the election of a Re-
publican President and a Republican Congress
| in 1888.-Denver Tribune.
THE tone of the Presidents letter to the Iro-
quois Club suggests regret on his part that ne
did not think sooner Of asking the club to pre-
pare his message for him. PHILADELPHIA In
quirer.
THE gentleman who thinks the election was
over on the evening of Tuesday, the I'd day of
Novemb her, will please tell us the exact political
complexion of the Indiana Legislature. Mime
apolis Tribune.
THE mugwump party, which disappeared so
mysterously when the votes were counted in
this State in 1885, has been rediscovered in
| Philadelphia. woman there says Henry Ward
Beecher is her mother. -Binghamton Ropub-
| licau.
MEASURED by what had gone before and BY
all that had gone before in recent years, Mr..
Arthurs administration was certainly above the
average that the country had known since that
of Lincoln and was not inferior to any.-New
York Evening Post.
In fifteen days Congress will be with US again.
Let US hope that the defeated will not deem it
necessary to make long speeches in explanation
of their disasters. well-behaved corpse is the
first great requisite of a comfortable funeral
| National Republican.
GENERAL KAULBARs is about to leave Bull
garia and has hidden farewell to the different
diplomates. The experience of this brow .beat1no
Muscovite tool has been akin to that of the one
man who had to contend against eleven obdu.
! rate jurymen.-Philadelphi Record
To the student of political science the evolu-
ton or the LABOR party through its RISE culmina
ton and decline will furnish study OF more
| than dramatic interest for tho coming two or
three years. viewed from purely partisan
standpoint, however, Repu blicans can afford to
look upon the spectacle with a good deal more
| equanimity than can their Democratic brethren
st Louis Globe Democrat.
THEY want high wages for eight nou1s' daily
work IN comfortable, well-heated shops and fac
tories, with city amusements and dissipation in
the evenings IN the beer and whisky shops Such
men cannot be driven out of the cities and it is
simply preposterous and ridiculous for them to
continue Cabling about a supposed monopolv
or farming land. If stocked farms were given
to them for nothing on condition of abandoning
city life and living on the land and working it,
neither they nor their wives, daughters or sons
would accept 1T and comply with the condition
Henry George knows all this we'll enough. and
he could not be coaxed hired or forced to live on
and wogk farm the rest of his life.-Chicago
Tribune,