The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-05
COMMENT AND OPINION.

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Democratic coffn.-Denver Tribune.
GARLAND is the Pan-pachyderm Of the nine.
teenth century. The hide of a rhinoceros is I'M
visible gauze compared with his Boston Record.
IL Atlanta. everybody is waiting for somebody
else to violate the prohibition law. This leaves
the whole matter where it ought to be.--Atlanta
Constitution.
CERTAINLY, Rose, certainly. Chicago will get
there on time. The Mail can't think of any
classical SMILES, but It secondE your motion.
Chicago Mail
THE most serious obstacle in the way Of tue
immediate triumph Of home rule, is the fact
that there is grand old man. in the ranks Of
the opposition.-St Louis PostDispatch.
A CHICAGO clergyman says that every Chris
tan who smokes cigar associates with tha
lowest and vest class of society. So he does il
he eats beefsteak Free Press.
EVERYBODY seems to understand the nature
of the Democratic Endorsement of the President
up in New Hampshire, namely, that it is not sin.
cere. In private they growl as before. Boston
Journal
WHEN true women marry they marry in earn
est; and no one of them would exchange places
with any other bride for the sake of having her
nuptials paraded before the Nation. -Pittsburg
Dispatch
THE PAYNE scandal in the Senate and the Gar
which not even the sweetness and light of
form administration can clean or conceaL-Phil-
adelphia Press
MORE Democratic economy. The Brooklyn
navy-yard has been closed and over thousand
men thrown out of employment because of tho
failure to pass the naval appropriation bill.
-Pittsburg Chronicle.
The Boston Herald devotes a leader to 1.-THE
Improvement of Congress-" No use you can't
improve this Congress The only thing to be
done with it is to throw it away and get good
one.-Philadelphia Inquirer.
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Cleveland should not at once reform his diplo-
matte and consular service. Let us be rid of the
old hacks, and political dead beats. and played
out public men.-Memphis Avalanche.
Mr.. RASNEYs report on the Pan-electric fool.
shness serves to make it still palmer that Attor-
ney. general Garland is too morally obtuse, or
too innocent. to remain in a high public Office;
and if he doesn't take the hint, the President
should. Boston Herald.
Mr.. CHAMBERLAIN puts low estimate upon
the average intelligence of Englishmen if he
fancies that the police protection which ne seeks
will commend him to the country. The yarn
about dvnamters plots is cheap, even for an
election dodge. Springfield Republican.
WITH all of its shortcomings, the jury system
bazoned the way to personal freedom, and we
must continue to trust the jures; a little sacri-
fee OF time and convenience on the part OF In
telligent men now and then would 60 far toward
improving their personnel. -Philacelphia Rec
ord
THE right of men to better themselves In all
lawful ways is undispntable, but the time has
not yet come when Americans are prepared to
include RIOT murder and the wanton destruction
of property in the list of lawful and proper
means of self-adyancement-New York Com
mercial Advertiser.
THE Republicans quarrel and nurse their en-
nifty. They strike back at each other through
the balot-box. The Democrats do not They
may be enemies before. but at the polls they are
friends. The wings of the Democratic rooster
flap together on election day, and that is why il
sometimes overcomes the Republican eagle.
Philadelphia Inquirer
TIE passage of the House resolution Fin tha
Pan-electric casel will neither exonerate nos
vndcate anybody who needs it. Such action
will simply smirch the House with a scandal
which is now the exclusive property of the ad<
minstration. The only possible relief for any.
body is for the Attorney general to retire The
Solicitor general has never been confirmed and
probably never will be.-Springheld Republican.
THE only safe prediction possible under the
circumstances is that. sooner or later home rule,
more or less according to Mr.. Gladstone's plan,
will be granted to Ireland, and, be that speedily
or slowly accomplished, never again will such
coercion be applied to her as she has groaned
under during the twenty years of which Mr..
Bright so eloquently speaks a period of ad.
vancement and comparative prosperity for her.
Brooklyn Eagle
THE hopeless indecision and want cf nerve
shown by Governor Oglesby have done more to
retard and demoralize the business interests OF
Chicago during the past two months than can
well be imagined. It Illinois voters ever get q
chance to elect another Governor and don't elect
a man with more of the qualities of real Gov
ernor than Oglesby has displayed, the State de.
serves TO be at the mercy of Anarchists and
rioters indefinitely. Philadelphia Times.
THE esteemed Herald thinks MIR. Ranney
would have done better not to have made promi.
nent the fact that the gentlemen involved in
this disgrace pan electrlcl are all Democrats.
That is question of style which shall not
argue with our Boston criticaster. They ara
Democrats and their performances in this mat
ter is reproach not only to the party to which
they belong, but to the administration of which
several of them are officers and to the country
of which they are tizens.-Boston Advertiser.
AMERICAS sympathy for them does not neces.
sary involve any hostile feeling towards Eng
land. We on this side OF the Atlantic, who have
healed the wounds of rancorous and Desperate
civil war through the application of the home
rule principle, know and feel that the same rem
edy would be beneficial to Great Britain, as we'll
as to Ireland. We send money there partly be-
couse we like to hep struggle for human rights
anywhere, and partly because the aid thus given
is trivial compared to the tribute sent from this
country to fatten Irish landlordism during half
q century past York Graphic
ONE thing is incomprehensible. Just as our
home Industries are showing signs of vigorous
life and prosperity, some of our Southern Con-
gressmen are bestirriug themselves in the inter-
esfs of the free trade folly They would let in
the cheap products of Europe. and force our
struggling farmers and mills to close doors.
We all have too much at stake to permit any
mischievous tinkerng with the tariff Our
farmers are as deeply interested in this business
as anybody else. The building up of our own
industries means more people, more towns. big
ger towns, in a word home markets. Atlanta
Constitution
IT will not do to try and laugh this movement
down, or TO treat it. as some Democratic papera
do as an attempt on the part of the Republicans
to rake up old war issues for use as campaign
material The New Orleans Times Democrat Ia
one of the leading Democratic papers in tha
South, and is not engaged in manufacturing Re-
publican campaign weapons. The question
should be met firmly but dispassionately and
settled decidedly in the negative. That the
South, as now politically. constituted. would