The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-17
COMMENT AND OPINION.

This cry of ''stop thief from the Democratic
pickpockets is played out-Bridgeport Standard.
THE Eastern Shore peach is In our midst
and that is why our midst feels happy. -Balti-
more American.
DEMOCRATIC temperance planks have always
been recognized as very unsound timber.-New
York Commercial Advertiser
A MAN whose nature is dishonest will steal on
salary of SIS, 900 year readily as he will on
81, 50O-Phladelphis Bulletin.
CALL quiet in Belfast They will break all
the heads in sight tower there and when they are
all broken they call it ''quiet Boston Record.
Upon Mr.. Tilden more than anyone else rests
the responsibility for the Electoral Commission
and the failure and disgrace which it produced.
New York Star
THE addition of Mexican territory to the Union
would strengthen the Western interests against
those of Wall street But it would be better IL
the addition could be made peaceably War
should be avoided il possbe.-Denyer Tribune.
IT is announced every day. with unvarying
regularity, that Secretary Bayard will not with
draw his demand for Cutting. WE'LL why
doesn't he get him. then? What is the good of
demand ii no attention is paid to itY-Wash-
ington Ratchet.
MAINE got prohibition through the Republican
party. So did Iowa. If these States keep pro-
hibition it will be through the Republican party.
If they go back to free rum it will be through the
efforts of the third-party prohibitionists.
York Mail and Express
GETTYSBURG was one of the great battles eff
history, and If to the genius of Sckles the vcto-
ry cannot be exclusively ascribed, he may fairly
claim the credit of having been chiefly instru-
mental in correcting an error that might have
proved fatal to the Union arms - Brooklyn
Eagle.
The Herald says that the resolutions adopted
by the Indiana Democratic convention "defne q
Democracy that deserves success" And yet
these resolutions contain no allusiOn to civil
service reform. Does the Herald mean that
that Issue is hot essential to the deserving of sue
cess9-Boston Journal
THERE is strong popular reaction against the
corruptness of political patronage and the
courts are doing good work in ferreting out the
scoundrels and Furnishing them. 1t is an indi-
cation OF a healthier condition OF public senti-
ment, and sign that the days Of Doodle are
numbered. Chicago Tribune.
THE Empire State decided the presidential
elections of 1880 and 1884. It will also decide
that of two years hence Bat the facts, which
have been dealing unkindly with the Democracy
of tho commonwealth in tho past half year, have
decreed that it shall again take its place in the
Republican column in 1888-St Louis Globe
Democrat
Mr.. CLEvELANDs experience with the press
may not always have been to his liking; that of
few men in public life is because few men are
infalbe; and it is doubtless true that he has had
some special causes for irritation; but his account
with the newspapers of the country is by no
means confined to one side of the ledger.-Wash-
ington Star.
A COMMENTED wage-werking class would be as
hateful to Anarchists as the accumulation of
property. They hoped for the failure of the
eight-hour demand that there might be the
greater temptation to workingmen to join in I'M
lawful enterprises. They were the enemies of
honest labor as well as of capital and property.
Chicago Herald.
I'm xu0u ho wall ony,ld suI, Lwx
peaceful negotiation. to assimate her laws to
those of the United States. so far as the natural
rights of the citizens of the two countries are
concerned but we have no right to compel this
or to demand that our citizens shall be exempt
from the operation of any civilized system under
which they voluntarily place themselves. New
York Times
THE State Department needs the information
it :s now in search of. though it would have been
infinitely better if 1t had found out whether or
not Cutting was legally held before it made its
peremptory demand for his release. However, it
is never too late to learn if not to mend and
Secretary Bayard may find out through General
Sedgwick that the best think to do with his de-
mand for Cuttings instant release is to withdraw
it-Philadelphia Press.
Our view is that an American citizen is great
deal more important than any body else on the
face of the globe. and if the present government
of the United States cannot make Mexico as
chary of treadng on the toes of American citi-
liens as of trampling upon the big, fiat foot of
English citizens, the American people will try to
get government that can and will The insu-
lar arrogance of these provincials in London is
beyond endurance Charleston News and Cour-
Ter.
AS the case now stands, we can discover but
little reason TO suppose that Mr.. Cleveland is
likely again to be Democratic candidate
for the presidency. Yet as an English poet
hath it:
We are living. we are moving,
In grand and awful time.
Between August, 1886, and August. 1883. lots
of political surprises may be in store for US; and
nevertheless human nature will remain essen
TALLY the same.-New York Sun