The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-15
THE STATE PRESS AND POLITICS.

THE STATE PRESS AND POLITICS.
AUGUST IA is the date agreed upon for holding
the Republican convention in Hendricks county.
THE Newton county Republican convention
will be held at Mount Ayr, on Thursday, June
II.
THE johnson county Republicans have decided
on Thursday, June II, as the date for holding
their nominating convention.
THE Republican central committee Of Pike
county has issued a call for county nominating
convention, to be hold at Winslow on Saturday.
May go
THE Princeton Clarion expresses confidence in
the ability of the Republicans to elect Con-
gresham in the First district to succeed
Kleiner.
The joint convention to nominate Repub
lican candidate for Representative from the coun-
ties of Newton and Benton will be held at Fair
Oaks on Tuesday July g.
THE Greene county Republican convention
will be held at Bloomfield, on Saturday, May 20.
The township conventions for the selection of
delegates will be held on the day preceding.
The Rush county Republican committee an
nounce June IL as the date for holding their
nominating convention. The primaries for the
selection of delegates will be held on Saturday,
May o.
The North Manchester Journal has entered
upon the twelfth year of its useful existence,
with prosperous past and an encouraging
future. 1t is an enterprising newsgather and
live Republican paper
THE Michigan City Enterprise expresses the
opinion that B. F. Shively will be the Demo
cratic choice for Congressman in the Thirteenth
district. The Enterprise also favors Gen. Jasper
Packard for the Republican nominee.
JUpGE POLLARD, thoroughly disguised with
his experience with Cleveland's administration,
has returned to Delphi to resume the practice of
law. He is reputed to be soured on politics, and
announces that never will he again be a candi-
date for any Office in the gift of the Democratic
party.
Hon. HENRY G. DUNCAN, Of Bloomington, is an
nounced as candidate for the Republican nomi-
nation for Congress In the Fifth district The
Bloomington Telephone, abiding to the desire
manifested for his selection, recommends him as
a gentleman of high character and eminent
qualifications, and expresses the belief that if
nominated he will lead the Republicans Of that
district into the promised land
In timely editorial the Upton Advocate d.
reefs attention to the fact that the Republicans
throughout the State where they have held their
county conventions, are using great care and
much discretion in the tickets nominated, and
adds:
Exceptionally strong tickets have beer placed
in the field everywhere the county con ventions
have been held, and they will more than com
m la nf fha Thop
should be no backward step in this direction.
Let the remainder of the county and district
tickets, and the State ticket. be composed of the
best material to be found, and no power can pre-
vent the Republicans from carrying the State
this fall"
LA PORTE Herald Chronicle: When Democ-
racy rules treason is rampant.
LEBANON Patriot: Doesn't it begin to look as
though the South was in the saddles
MUNoIE News Democrats are the first to cry
''open the books" and the last to do it.
RUsHvILLE Republicans: In Indiana, the De-
mocracy are In, and the people are Sc 000 900 out
GREENcAsTLE Times: These times are emil
nently Democratic and are becoming more so
daily.
LAGRANGE Standard, Alabama has only one
daily newspaper, but it has q dandy Democratic
majority
LAPoRTE Herald Chronicle: The red flag and
the confederate flag have come to the front
These are Democratic times.
MARTINsvILLE Republican: Anarchism and
jeff Davisism must be stamped out. There is no
room for them IN this country.
Upton Advocate: Take Cleveland's Indiana
appointments and it seems he has reversed the
Democratic battlecry and is doing all he can to
'turn the rascals in"
MUNcIE News The salocn-ke of this
State seem bent on making high license an issue
in the coming campaign. They have taken the
first step In the matter
MUNoIE News The State Treasurer is call
ing for money. His party has run the State in
debt. exhausting the treasury and is now asking
to be retained in power.
WINCHESTER Herald: The sTost causen is too
infinitely lost to bring its skeleton from the con-
federate closet and faunt it with gibberish gush
in the face of loyal Columbia.
SHELBYvILLE Republican: With the An
srchists IN the North and jeff Davis in the
South it looks as if the great North American
Union is badly beset with destructive cranks.
MUNCIE News: The man whose foot the shoe
pinches is generally the man who skcksn
There are mon already demanding that there
shall be no bloody shirt the coming campaign.
LAWRENCE MALL There is room in this conn
try for all honest and industrious men; for all
who know how to appreciate the freedom of our
institutions. But there is no room for Anarch-
lists.
SPENCER Republican: Every day new evidences
appear that the Democratic party is dominated
by the jeff Davis South. The lickspirtles and
doughfaces In the North are as numerous and
craven as in 1861
PARAMOUNT News Among loyal men, men
who are true to their country. such vipers as
Davis are detested He is indeed smann with
nanimity of Abrahom Lincoln, would have been
with the silent majority years ago.