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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-11
COMMENT AND OPINION.

THE Republican foot of Dakota Is morally GER
tain to trip up on the Democratic House.-Phila-
delphia Times.
THE Marquis Of Harrington appears TO be the
man who liz always ready when he isn't wanted.
--Philadelphia Inquirer.
THE House investigation should be prompt and
complete. and then the Attorney general should
retire. Springfield Republican
THE war against liquor has at least one ad-
vantage over the war against slavery. 1t will
be fought principally in the courts instead Of the
field.-Philadelphia Inquirer.
ONE year in power and one big scandal on its
hands. How many more will the remaining
three years Of the Democracys lease Of life bring
fortb!-Minneapolis Tribune.
THE Democrats in Indiana are not SO confident
as they were when they supposed they made the
State solid In the next Legislature in order to
defeat Senator Harrison.-Boston Journal.
THE crusade against the Chinese has reached
a point where the President must interfere TO
stop il, or it may result in a breach of our rela
tions with the Chinese goyernment-Pittsburg
Chronicle.
IT is no harm for Democratic officials to hold
stock in a telephone company or in any other
corporation; but the stock should be paid for
with money. and not with influence. ATLANTA
Constitution.
THE Democratic party has existed for many
years without Grover Cleveland. and can survive
the shock of divorce that would relegate him
to the foot of the ladder again. Macon Tele-
graph (Dem.
NEARLY all the alien landlords are represented
in this country by agents who reside here al.
though they rarely become naturalised citizens
What would there be to prevent the non resident
aliens transferring their holdings to the resident
agents. and thus prolonging the rule Of alien
laadiordism In slightly changed formi The
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-11

paper" is criticised by those who know little
or nothing about it, but who feel it incumbent
upon them to periodically 60 into moraizing
tantrums because the people of their charges
or their patrons seem to expect such stuff.
AS we said before, there is much to deplore
in the daily press, as there is in the religious
press The journal did not and will not at
tempt to defend the daily newspaper from the
charge that it is 'too much blotched with
records of crime to be benediction in our
homes" We frankly confess that to be too
true; just as we bewail the fact that the re-
igious press is "too much blotched" with sem
sational gush and ministerial license to be a
benediction, not in our homes only, but even
in the sanctum of the average daily news
paper" where benedictions are so greatly
needed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-11
The Stories About Judge StaIio.

Washington Special.
Germans who interested themselves In secur-
ing the appointment of Judge Stallo have taken
means of informing themselves about the cor.
rectness Of the lrecent stories to his discredt,
which purported to come from Rome As re-
suit, they say they find them wholly without
any basis to afford the least ground for a reAec-
tion against Judge Stallo They declare them
to have been started with malicious purpose. ex-
actly as were the stories that Minister Pendle-
ton had made himself obnoxious at Berlin.
They charge the allies of the ''Ohio gang" with
being behind these stories, both in the case Of
Mr.. Pendleton aud Of Judge Stallo.
Mr. Payne, as usual. was found playing into
the hands of these disreputable men. He had
for some time been trying to find out how Judge
Stallo was appointed, and who Endorsed him,
and was declaring that there should be no con.
frmation until he found out. Finally, as he
could learn nothing through the department he
went to the President. who told him he had APP
pointed Judge Stallo as q representative Ger.
man, not particularly as an Ohio man.
Mr.. Payne now processes himself satisfied. and
says all obstacles are now removed to the con.
firmation. But, 30 far as the Senator was con-
cerned the obstacles were just as much out Of
the way before, since it is Senator Sherman who
controls Ohio combinations.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-11

TEE introduction into the Senate of Senator
Colquitt's local option bill for the District of
Columbia marks an epoch in the legislative
treatment of the liquor traffic question. The
bill may not pass this Congress, but it will
pass some Congress- and the people of the
capital city will be given the privilege of say
ing what shall be the treatment accorded to
the public traffic in intoxicants. Local option
is the principle long advocated by the Journal.
coupled with high taxation for localities where
the majority of the people favor the continu-
ance of the traffic. To this complexion it
must come at last, not only in the District of
Columbia and in the State of Indiana, but
elsewhere and everywhere. Three States of
the South have tried the local option and tax
principle with such success that NO induce
ment could be strong enough to persuade
them to abandon it for anything else. It is the
application Of the democratic principle of gov
eminent to the vexed question, which no one
can successfully controvert or oppose. And
the Journal desires to state that a local option
law would be perfectly constitutional in Indi-
ana. There is no necessity for change in
the Constitution. In repeated decisions the
Supreme Court has recognized the constitu-
tionality of the principle
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-11

REV. JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE, the Boston
mugwump preacher who openly defended Mr.
Cleveland in the Halpin affair, assuming the
scandal to have been true is out in an inter-
view in which he expresses his perfect salts
faction with the President on the score of
civil-service reform. He thinks no true friend
of reform has any good reason to complain
A specimen Of the moral obtuseness of Mr..
Clarke's virtue may be given: 'It seems to
me that when Garland turned the case of the
Bell telephone over to an assistant, because he
owned stock in the Pan-electric, he did his
duty and freed himself from censure. His
case is similar to that Of judge who is inter
ested and asks another judge to try the case"
1t is not to be wondered at that a preacher
who reasons thus on question Of morals is
entirely satisfied with Mr.. Cleveland's applica-
ton of the principles of civil-servioe reform
An appointment like that of Barney Conroy
would throw such man into an ecstacy of
pleasure.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-11

The Courier-Journal chooses very mop
perfume time to wall out its disappointment
over the failure to re-nominate Tilden in $780,
when it says: General Hancock is dead, and
the man who was set aside in his favor at Gin
cinnati in 1880, on the plea of physical decrepi-
tude, still lives" Mr.. Tilden was not passed
by on account of his advanced age, but rather
because it was impossible to explain the cipher
kilograms involving the attempted purchase
of electors in Oregon and Florida. But even
physically, Mr.. Tilden has been little better
than dead for the past ten years.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-11

Republican State Editorial Association.
The annual meeting of the Indiana Republican
Editorial Association, is to be held at the United
States Court room, Indianapolis. Ind, on
Thursday and Friday. Feb. Is and 26. 1886.
Following is the programme.
THURSDAY.
100 o'clock p M-Address by the president. .
Pr. M.-"What will be the issues of 86 and
'88. and what should be the attitude of the Re-
publican party to themp Geo. j. Langsiale,
Greencastle Banner.
2:30P. M-Discussion.
3:30P. M.-'Whatis the natural and proper re-
lation of the newspaper to its party?" Geo. I.
Reed, Peru Republican.
AZ. M.-Discussion.
Evening Reception. Address by Hon. r. w.
Thompson.
Morning Session: $50 o'clock A. M.-"Value OF
Cooperation in Party and Editorial Work." by
III. s. CARRIER. of the Madison Courier.
10 A. M-Discussion.
ia M.-"How Far Can Newspaper Afford
to be Partisanf" by c. Ricketts,. of the Columbus
Republican.
li:30 A. M-Discussion.
Afternoon Session: 1:30 p. M.-Election of
officers.
Miscellaneous business.
Adjournment
W. III. ELLIOTT, President.
j. o. HARDEsTY, Secretary.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-11

AT last there comes an authoritative denial
of the several absurd stories so industriousy
circulated recently affecting the sanity and
good breeding of Judge Stallo. minister to
Rome. It seems that they are the outgrowth
of the same spirit that set afoat the tales
about Minister Pendleton and his wife, Their
genesis is sufficient to stamp them with
falsity, if they were not on their face ridicu-
lous. Judge Stallo's is one OF the few COM
mendable appointments of this administra-
ton, as was that Of Mr.. Pendleton. The
Judge is man of ability, culture and high
character. He has lived in this country and
in Cincinnati for nearly half century, and
in his remarks at the farewell banquet given
him by his fellow-citizens he gave voice to
sentiments which show his entire devotion to
the United States and its institutions, and
which amply refuted the foolish phrase
alleged to have been used by him in an ad-
dress to German club. Mr.. Cleveland's
reputable appointments are few enough, and
it is the duty and pleasure of any Republic
an newspaper to uphold and defend them.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-11
THE publishers of the puget Sound Week

The publishers of the puget Sound Week
ly Co-operator, labor organ printed at Seat
tie, W. t., have kindly favored the Jour
nal with copy of their first issue. 1t is a
cute little pink paper, with the following mot
to at its head: ''That is the most perfect gov
eminent in which an injury to one is the con-
Germ of ALL" Lack of time has prevented a
further examination into the merits Of the Co.
operator, but the conduct of the Seattle mobs
in injuring the Chinese constrains US to be-
lieve that its circulation is limited in that
town, or that in reading its columns the sub
scribers have overlooked the motto.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-11
It Was the Presidents Invention.

Speciai TO Cincinnati Enquirer
The President will soon realize that he has
after him some of the ablest debaters and polit-
ical schemers In the Republican Senate Il Ia
their purpose to unmask him. They hold that
his so-called policy Of reform is simply one Of
personal defamation Of character He has used
public men as cats-paws TO blacken the ehar-
acter of American citizens, and it is the pur-
pose of the Senate TO fasten the origin Of this
policy where it belongs
They are advised that il was President Cleve-
land. and not Postmaster Villas. who conceived
the extraordinary offensive partisan" circular.
The very fact that il was sent out under the seal
Of confidence proclaimed on its face that it was
an underhand warfare, which would not stand
unchallenged public scrutiny.
Sailing under the poetic name Of Reform, the
mailers, who. while they shrink from duty, do
assaii private character in order to GET appoint
ments for Democrats under an ADMINISTRATORS
elected hx Democrats.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-11

TIE voice of the better class Of Democratic
papers is nearly unanimous in demanding that
the Attorney general get rid of his Pan-elec-
trio stock. They don't care how much he
realizes on what didn't cost him anything, and
are anxious only that he should let go of it.
The case of Mr. Garlands solicitous friends is
very much like the lady who was asked what
she had done with all her jewelry and fine
clothes. 81 felt they were dragging my Soul
to destruction" she replied, $50 gave them
to nv sister"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-11

WE close as we began; the tariff is the
most serious obstacle to the development of
this country. Free trade, or what is better
called revenue reform, is the only policy which
will relieve the labor problem of its most
threatening aspect and enable the railroads to
keep out of the hands of receivers.
vile Courier-J Journal
1t is not often we get SO frank statement.
Hereafter there is no occasion for doubt. In
the mouth of a Democrat the phrase revenue
reform means free trade
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-11

THIS is the season for pneumonia. Halls
Journal of Health cautions the people against it,
saying that beyond all speculation upon the
theories of the disease it is plain that anything
which lowers the vitality of the system is con-
ducive to the disease, and should be carefully
avoided. Overwork, either physical or mental
has much to do with 1t, and this explains why so
many business mon and brain workers become
its victims. Sudden changes of the weather and
drauehts of all kinds are also to be guarded
against In word live temperately, dress
warmly. avoiding all manner of imprudences,
and you need have no fear Of pneumonia
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-11

SENATOR CoLQUITT's bill to establish local
option in the District of Columbia is said to
contemplate the exercise of power by the
residents which belongs only to Congress.
This being the case and it being understood
that majority Of the residents favor limita.
ton of liquor-selling, the business of Congress
seems to be to exercise its power in the direc-
ton designated.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-11

No ONE who knows the fiber of Mr.. Cleye-
lands mind will be surprised to hear that he
will stick to Mr.. Garland, and that he sees
nothing wrong in the Attorney generals rela-
tons to the Pan-electric Telephone Company.
Mr.. Cleveland is as stolid as lump of clay.
he has no moral susceptibility. He is an alb
solute stranger to the thing men call con-
science. Of course he will stick to Garland.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-11

TAKING their cue from the Queen, English
ladies of title look coldly upon Mr.. Gladstone,
and some Of them, it is said, have refused to
accept from his hands assignments of office
as maids of honor to her Majesty. This is
dreadful; but the question is, will Mr.. Glad
stone OF. the scornful ladies suffer most from
these boYcotting tactics?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-11

their wealth from Atlanta. This is to be re-
GREETED. But may it not be that there is
some compensation Ihe money spent to
make this million and quarter profitable,
diverted to other channels may do even more
good for the city. There will certainly be a
large saving to working men through the
absence of liquor saloons. It is a little early
yet to strike balance OF be frightened by
threats
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-11

AN English clergyman expresses the opin-
ion, through a London paper, that Ireland is
entitled to bill of enforcement. She could
probably get it if the appeal were made before
} fair tribunal, on the ground of Incompatible
Ity of temper, cruelty and failure to provide.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-11

THE stories respecting the poverty of ex-
Marshal Bazaine, Of France, are denied on good
authority. The surrenderer of Metz is living at
Madrid in comfortable circumstances on the in
come Of his wife, derived from property in
Mexico The present income of Nine. Bazaine
is estimated at Ell. 400 year. Her eldest son is
a volunteer in crack ''Cacadore" battalion in
the Madrid garrison, ard she herself has still re-
tanned much of her dashing Mexican style ard
good looks. Bazaine is now seventy-four years
old
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-11

kTnSSeventh congressional district conven-
on viii meet in Superior Court room No. 2,
6urt-house, this afternoon, at half-past
elock. Hon. Benjamin Harrison will arrive
the city from Washington at noon to-day,
will be in attendance upon the convention
make an address.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-11

The alarm Of the English aristocracy over
the admission Of working man into the Cab
met is uncalled for. It will be but little
while until he abandons his Objectionable
habit Of working and becomes as idle and use
less as any of his distinguished associates
At least this is the customary course of the
workingmen who attain high official position
in this country.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-11

Down in Georgia the moonshiners do not con-
tent themselves with shooting revenue officers
In Newton county, few days ago, two brothers.
named Parker. waylaid government officer and
riddled him with bird-shot Seeing that they
had not finished him, they swore out warrant
for his arrest, charging him with assault and
battery. Had they killed him, his body would
have been held on a charge of murder.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-11

place, and his high character and experience
viii be Of great value and advantage to the
new committee. There liz no man in the Sew
enth district who would make more capable
committeeman, and it is high compliment
to Mr.. Ransdell that he has no competitor for
the place. His reelection by reclamation
viii be fitting and appropriate.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-11

1T has perhaps occurred to readers of Indi-
ana news that for a State whose citizens are.
in the main, peaceful and law-abiding, far too
many shooting ARRAYS of fatal nature are
taking place of late. The daily list is discour-
aging to those persons who have cherished
hopes that the millennium was to take its
start from this latitude.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-11

Mr. MoCuToHEoN, of Michigan. has q spite
against the knights Of Labor. and has introduced
bill authorizing the Public Printer to frank
copies of the Congressional Record to every dis
trict organization of that order. Until law is
passed compelling the Knights to accept this IA
vor, there will probably be no hostile demonstra-
tion. 1t is hard to understand why labor should
be thus imposed upon.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-11

ERE is no opposition to the reelection of
aniel ID. Ransdell as member of the
|central committee from the Seventh
9sional district. Mr.. Ransdell, as a
Of the committee during the last two
proved his capacity and fitness for the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-11

LOUISVILLE prays deliverance from foot
pads. They are becoming so numerous that
each citizen is beginning to regard his neigh
Dor with suspicion.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-11

THE perennial ST. John said in q recent speech
that it was not he who prevented Blaine's cleo
ton to the presidency, but Blaine who defeated
him. There is really no harm done in allowing
the man without State to put the matter In this
light if it affords him any comfort. Blaine GER
tainly did defeat him by large majority.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-11

lsnce. Had the majority Of the men COM
posing the crowd been in such desperate con-
dition as the Anarchist speakers claimed,
they could not have been dispersed as they
were from time to time by the kalf-hearted
efforts of the police.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-11

The Vincennes Commercial thinks Hon.
Samuel w. Williams should receive the
Democratic nomination for State Senator
from Knox county, giving as a reason that he
introduced fifty-three bills, resolutions and
amendments and ''made more motions than
any other member"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-11

A PENNSYLVANIA man has discovered how to
realize STA on dead horse. He dosed the car
cass with poison and dragged it to secluded
place in the woods In two days ffty-eight dead
foxes were found near the body. The bounty Of
81 each and 80 each for the hides make up the
sum. Two Italian tramps, who cut off, and cooked
and ate some of the flesh, were poisoned also;
but this ia not included in the total
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-11

LONDON has police force of about IL, 500
men, well drilled in the tactics necessary to
repel mob and suppress riots. If it becomes
necessary, large military force is at hand in
the several barracks. London is safe from
any mob containing less than half million.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-11

Ii the few hundred Socialists scattered
through the London mob could have been
sifted out and put where they would do the
most good. namely, in the warehouses, there
would have been no mob and no acts Of vio-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-11

IT is said that the royal family oc Great Brit
ain is torn up again over the question of pre-
cedence The admission of Battenberg has not
yet been adjusted. and they don't know where to
place him. The children of the Prince of Wales,
now entered in society, must be accorded rank
on state occasions 1t is hard to say what should
be done with Battenbere AS for the children.
they might wait for the second table.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-11

81 is said that the United States sub
D at New Orleans refuses to take standard
fer dollars on deposit. Perhaps this off,
], who presumes to be law unto himself,
int be sent somewhere where he might
control over very limited space, and
interfere with the business of the people.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-11

WITH all their rioting and lawlessness, the
London mobs did not behave precisely as
starving men might be expected to do
Starving men do not raid beer saloons and
Jewellers shops first in mad search for bread
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-11

ONE more German and two new English
singers have been engaged by the managers of
the American opera company. Well, we
Americans are so cosmopolitan that it doesn't
really matter from which Of the provinces our
''home" talent comes
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-11

NEWSPAPER portraits Of Major general Win
field s. Hancock were, in most instances,
little better than burlesques. No two looked
alike. When will reputable papers abandon
the cheap nonsense?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-11

The President still continues to have con-
6dence in Mr.. Garland. If this state of things
goes on much longer. it will be time to in
quire who has confidence in Mr. Cleveland
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-11

ATLANTA is threatened with the loss Of
capital by the withdrawal of men engaged in
the liquor traffic. 1t is stated that business
men. rated as worth in the aggregate 81, 25o,-
600, have gone to Dallas, Tex, withdrawing
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-11

LIVING or Dead" is the title Of Hugh Con-
ways latest story. That is exactly what people
are asking about the author. 1t is suspected
that his reported death was an error. and that he
will announce in the last chapter of one of his
most thrilling novels that he is alive and we'll
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-11

THE turbulent Irishman will be excused IL he
cachinnates IN his sleeve at the situation in Lon
don in the hands of purely English" mob.