The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-20
SPIRIT OF THE STATE PRESS.
High License and Tax-Payers.


High License and Taxpayers.
Terre Haute Express.
High license enlists the support Of the better
element engaged in the liquor traffic. 1t is the
only temperance movement which is aided Dy
this interest. 1t engages the lively aid OF those
temperance people who take no part in the ag1-
tation when the question is free whisky vs.. pro-
hibition It will have the help Of the moderate
drinker, and, in fact, Of everyone except the
doggery-keeper, the wholesale dealer who seeks
custom among the doggeries, or the prohibition
1st IN whom there is neither reason nor guile Ii
temperance, and it is the only practical means OF
relief that the law-giving power can furnish.
Twelve Months of Democracy.
Columbia City Commercial.
Nearly twelve months have elapsed since the
party Of pretended reform went into power. and
what is the RESULT Instead of reform the most
gigantic frauds ever known in the history of the
country are being unearthed and found to have
been perpetrated by Democratic leaders and
ward bummers. The better element OF the
party instead of being able to applaud the do
their chagrin and disappointment at the utter
failure OF their party managers to make good
their boosted pledges of party reform.
An Invitation to the Lobby.
Terre Haute Express
Ao moran eueCb Oh the roLe0tlOn OF GarIan0 IN
the Cabinet is the most serious feature of the
whole affair." It is notice that an administra-
ton, whose only recommendation at the outset
was the promise of reform. condones or over
looks such transactions as the receiving from a
lobber stock whose value. it is expected, will be
enhanced by subsequent action by these officials.
1t is an invitation to the lobby to reappear at
Washington-a notice to weak men in public life
that the absoution for any such sin as Garlands
Is granted in advance
Clear, Clearly and Truthful.
North Manchester Journal
Yesterdays Indianapolis Journal is one Of 6.
great deal OF interest to the old soldiers on ac-
count or lts four columns of campfire stories
picked UP at the meeting of the G.. A. R. in that
city. and given in connection with the same
The Journal is the most enterprising, as well as
the best, daily newspaper in the Wet, and moth
ing enters it's columns but what is clearly, truth
fully and clearly treated
A Thankful World.
Lawrenceburg Press.
To the thriftless man this is a hard world .sIt
shoves angrily aside the man who stands with
arms akmbo set, until occasion tells him what
to DO" But there was really never more CRATE
full creature. If you can only persuade the
world you are doing something useful for it. it
Will never get done thanking you. 1t will offer
you wealth, heap pleasures at your feet, or
crown you Win nonor.
--
Our Old Friend s.Nepot."
Rushville Republican.
Speaking about our old friend Nepot;sn. it is
said that under Mr.. Clevelands reform admins
tratlon sixteen members of the rebel Vance fam
lily, OF North Carolina, hold Offices which col
lectlvely cost the country $25, 800 q year. There
office-holders out of one rebel family but no
Republican Union soldier need apply
1t COrrects Its Errors.
Winchester Herald.
The Republican party is a party Of achieve
ment, progress and reform 1t corrects its own
errors and purifies its own atmosphere II is
destined to rule and regulate this government;
Its principles can never die; it believes in the
purity OF the ballotbox and the altogether divine
majority of the will of the people
What Nerve and Energy ACCOMPLISHED
South Bend Register.
clerk and dealer the enterprising, pubic-spirited
citizen. and now at the head of of the largest
manufacturing industries in the United States
the South Bend Chilled Plow Company, is an ex-
ample of what nerve and energy will accomplish
What He Might Have Added.
Lebanon Patriot.
"a public Office is a public trustn said the
President, and he might have added, 81 will
stab public official in the back at any time and
permit no United States Senate to ask the
reason why"
Good Advice the World Over.
Logansport Journal.
What the people of Cass county want to get
out of their heads-and the sooner the better
is the idea that one part of the community can
be built up at the expense Of another part.
Democratic Scandals.
Martinsvile Republican.
The hungry hounds installed in Office by Cleve-
land have already become involved in more
scandals than disgraced twenty-four years Of
Republican rule.
A Fisherman's Luck.
Fort Wayne Gazette.
In his fight with the Senate President Cleve-
land finds that it is one thing to hook fish and
quite another to land him.
NOVEL INSANITY TREATMENT.
A Story from Snake Fill Which DIR. Spitzka
Thinks Has a Sea-Serpent Flavor to 1t.
New York Commercial Advertiser.
Dr. George W. King superintendent of the
Hudson County Lunatic Asylum, at Snake Hill,
is said to have effected in the cases of two
patients. Patrick Ryan and John Murphy, for
many months the worst lunatics in the asylum
by unique method. Both patients were put in
one cell. Instead of tearing each other to pieces
each conceived the idea that he had been placed
in the cell for the purpose OF taking care of the
other When the doctor called on them, after a
weeks confinement no found them quiet, and
each expressed a hope that the other would re-
cover. They were kept thus confined for two
months, then the doctor reported that their