The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-20
COMMENT AND OPINION.

CUMMENT AND UPINION.
WANTED-A Democratic leader in the Senate
to point the way that Democrats ought TO 60
Philadelphia Times Dem.
PERHAPS it would be as well for the President,
if there is future need of admonitioE, to
name names. Boston Record.
KELLY the motor man, resembles Congress
He can work so many months without accom-
plishing anything. Herald.
IT is beginning to look as if the "scab' is the
man of sense. who sticks by his employer, earns
his wages thankfully receives them, pays h S
debts and makes his home happy. Philadelphia
| Call
If Mr.. Powderys address fat Atlantic Cityl is
correctly reported, Mr.. Powderly is the very
wrong man in the very wrong place, and the
worst enemy that labor has in America to-day.
Philadelphia Telegraph.
| THE Democrats of New Jersey are now more
| alarmed than the Republicans at the prohibitory
movement. 1t is thing which is not all on one
| side. as the editors of city Democratic papers
| imagine, because the saloons are local headquar
| ters of the Democracy in large cities.-Boston
| Journal
THERE is no sentiment in Mr.. Clevelands
| party that honestly approves and sustains his
| civliservice reform ideas: and if he should at
tempt a thorough going enforcement of his new
| order. he would be obliged to remove three
| fourths of the men he has appointed for fragrant
violations or it.-Minneapolis Tribune.
| Unless we read our esteemed New York con
| temporaries amss these days, Charles A. Dana
Joseph Pulitzer, Whtelaw Reid, George Jones'
4 William Dorsheimer, Horace White, and e. l..
/ Godkin are severally aud collectively the most
unmitigated liars and the despest-dyed rascals
| this Western hemisphere ever encountered
Newark Journal.
| legislative assembly of professional bruisers
would not be the most dignifed body in the
world, but one that would debate public ques-
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ment of the fistic arena would be more respect
| able than the present body, that consume win
| ter, spring, and most Of a summer in demon
strating how not to do it.-Chicago Times.
The popularity of chess is not to be regretted
1t is eminentlY respectable game, which does
not thrive in bar-rooms or in noisy society. 81
lence and clear heads essential for its enjoy
! ment 1t is altogether too slow to amuse p.efes-
sional sports. while it affords brain workers with
wholesome diversion from the wearing toll of
their calling Francisco Chronicle.
Now that the industrial enterprises Of New
| England have been built up by protection. it is
| not surprising that some of her organs are In
! favor of free trade; for New England would
rather compete with Europe than with the
South; and if protection continues to be the pol
icy of the government, that section will have to
| compete with the South to a Observation-Disclosures
Constitution.
| COMMON sense has seldom been possession of
| the Democratic party It's absence is as marked
| to-day as ever. And unless it learns wisdom
soon and radically changes its course, the sound
sense of the country will rise up and restore to
| power that party which to-day haSenough of
! that homely quality to demand an American sys-
tenn of labor. to develop home industries and
to care for the welfare of the American working
man.-Boston Advertiser.
| THE Gladstone plan, confessedly, was full of
| difficulties 1t may be that any other will be
equally beset with them. But if the Irish con-
| tingent will stand resolutely to their purpose
there is no doubt at all that these difficulties will
one by one disappear and that within year or
| happily agreed upon Mr. Gladstone is beaten.
but home rule for Ireland is as certain of ulti-
mate victory as it ever was. Brooklyn Eagle.
| IT is one thing to surrender dynamite fsnd
who has taken refuge In America after doing his
execrabe work 10 England. 1t Is another and
very different thing to surrender to British tri-
hunals those who are accused of consplring here
or of raising money for the wanton destruction
of property in England. Their offense lies
against American law; and they should be prose
cuted before American tribunals and not sur
rendered to English courts.-New York Tribune.
CLEVELAND has never shown more plainly his
narrow minded, cynical view of public affairs
than in these vetoes, in which he takes the
ground that men who suffered in the war, to
which he sent a substitute, are trying to defraud
the government out of pitiful pension of $40 or
$40 month. Some of this skeptlcism and sar
casm might we'll have been exercised on the Fitz
John Porter bill, which deserved to be vetoed
far more than these petty claims for invalid pen
sions.-San Francisco Chronicle
Mr. PowDERLYs arraignment of the militia
as enemies of the workingmen and as agents of
capitol to crush out labor is cowardly, false and
demagogicaL The purpose of the militia is TO
maintain the authority of the law when it is in
danger and the proper legal authorities are pow
eress to do So and to protect society from mobs
organized for plumber and destruction 1t is
never called upon except in TIE most extreme
cases, when the lawless elements of the com
munity have risen and overpowered the legal
guardians of the peace.-Chicsgo Tribune.
| BECAUSE the mugwumps carried Indiana for
| Mr.. Cleveland they should, we are told, control
the appointments. The principle is all right but
| the trouble is with the facts. 1t was the Demo-
| Gratis who carried Indiana, not the mugwumps
| and it is the Democrats, not the mugwumps
| who should be appointed to Office This mug
| wump seems to forget, like others of his kim
| that the independent movement was inaugu-
| rated with the sole and supreme purpose, not of
bossing the offices but of beating Brother Blaine
| But now their ambition swells like spring buds
| New York Sun.
| THE tendency to pooh-pooh all revolutionary
| movements In this country will be good deal
| discouraged by the revelations now being made
| at the trial of the Chicago Anarchists. 1t is
/ being demonstrated that very real and extensive
| mischief was plotted, that there were plenty of
! miscreants ready and willing to set it afoot and
| that it failed more through accident than the
vigilance of the police. In fact, it begins to look
| as though Chicago had had narrow escape from
| catastrophe. and the question must arise how
| much of the same villainous anarchism is latent
| in other parts of the country.-New York Trib-
une.
Mcdonald and Voorhees, as They Refreshed.