The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-06-25
COMMENT AND OPINION.

BETWEEN employers and employees. the late
Mr.. Vanderbilt's prediction regarding the public
seems about to be fulflled.--Minneapolia
Tribune
Some of the Wisconsin Knights of Labor want
TO nominate "a full State ticket" 1t cannot be
expected that the Prohibitionists will support
such ticket-St Louis Post-Dispatch
The Democrats of the present Congress, with
the assistance OF their thick-neckeG President,
are fast making Republican political capital for
use in next falls campaign. Leader.
IF American should deliver stump speech
in the crazy style OF Lord Randolph Churchilps
manifesto, he would not stand a ghost of
chance to be made village constable. Spring
field Republican.
IT may be that some of the Southern Congress-
men who are careering around as free traders
will finally discover that they do not represent
the Democratic party OF the South as 1t Is now
constituted. Atlanta (Ga.l Constitution.
THE suggestion that Mrs. Cevelands head 30
stamped on the silver dollar may have been made
in the hope that no one would be so ungalant as
to assert that a silver dollar bearing her image
is worth only eighty cents. -Brooklyn Eagle.
HAS any one noticed that there has been very
little said about anarchy for the last week or two
After the execution of the Chicago Anarchists
are inclined to believe that it will drop out Of
sight altogether York Commercial Adver-
tiser.
JUNE is far spent, and still President Clsv8-
land declines to pander to public opinion by re-
moving Attorney general Garland How the
star-eyed angel of Public ofice-is public-trust
must take on when no one is nigh'!-New York
Tribune.
THE right to regulate railroads carries with it
the power and the duty to protect them in their
operation from outlawry and crime, no matter
what may be the pretext for interference. This
is sound doctrine, legally and practically.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
THE main hope of the Republican party at
present seems to lie in the fact that the presi-
Dental booms which are booming so merrily
havo got to be exposed to the nipping and eager
frosts of two winters before the time comes to
nominate anybody. --Pittsourg Dispatch.
No,more benefcent reform could be made by
the House than rule that against every appro-
priation it makes special tax shall be laid Is
is entirely possible and easy to do this and when
1t IS done every voter will be able to see what
he is taxed for and to decide whether he likes it
or not.-New York Herald.
EIGHT hours is not fair days work. nor can
any amount of incendiary appeal to working
men make it So 1t stood to reason that the
craze could not last long; but during its short
course it has worked an amount of mischief
which will require many an hour of ''overworks
to allay. Philadelphia Telegraph.
THERE is an inestimable debt due the men
who risked their lives to save the government
and it is not only bad in morals but bad in policy
for the present administration to attempt to ig-
more this claim. Commissioner Black and his
chief, President Cleveland, should understand
that they will be held to strict accountability
for the manner in which they deal with the
Union veterans. Philadelphia Press.
THE heaviest Democratic congressional dis
trict in Indiana, which mas already been noted
as being favored with several Democratic cam
didates, does not stand alone. The Gibraltar
district in Arkansas also has several Democratic
candidates. Both districts will probably be rep
resented in the next House by Republicans.
Wherever the Democrats are thickest the con-
tention the spoils is heaviest 1t looks very
much as though the Democratic majority in the
present House will be knitted in the strongholds
of its friends.-Albany Express.