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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-31

THE Chicago Times takes very narrow and
very mean view of the services Of Decoration
Day. After calling attention to the fact that
no other country observes such ceremony
in honor of their dead heroes it draws the
inference that the American people are hypo-
critical, and that all that is done and said on
that day is dishonest and discreditable. 1t
arrives at this conclusion by declaring that
''95 per cent. of those who manage the routine
of decorating the graves of the soldiers do it
in the interest of political aspirations" This is
an insult to tens of thousands of the best men
and women in the country. The Times can
not help knowing that there are literally tens
of thousands of men and women who Loyalty
and periodically go to deck the graves of the
dead from the best Of motives that ever
prompted human action. They have no ak
to grind beyond the desire to inculcate that
love of country in the hearts Of the young
that shall be its bulwarks in years to come
The Times is a chronic snarler at all things
calculated to increase patriotism and love of an
undivided country, and is quick to apologize
for anything and all things that may be said and
done in the interests of the '1ost cause" that
jeff Davis swears is not lost, but must eventu-
ally prevail. If the Times was a little less
determined to be independent, it might be a
little. more patriotic and little more char
liable toward the men who fought to save the
Union from disruption. 1t might at least,
leave their friends the poor privilege of honor
ing their memories without mourning the dis.
pleasure of the Times.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-31

THE superiority of Indiana oolitic limestone
has another substantial recognition in the splen-
did structure for the Art Museum in Cincinnati,
which was formally opened on May IT, This
building erected at cost of $780, 900, is finished
throughout the interior with Bedford stone
This is specially noteworthy, inasmuch as the
building itself is typical illustration in art and
architecture The dimensions of the building
are 2l4 by 107 feet, of the Romanessue style
The outer walls are of Cincinnati blue limestone.
the arches OF Missouri syenitic granite, the
main entrance of polished columns of Bay of
Finley granite, and the interior walls are lined
with Bedford limestone. This limestone is rap
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-31
NEW YORK ENTERPRISE.

Reading the account of the New York press
on the fast train that has been put on for the
special delivery Of the papers of that city to
the cities throughout the State, one can but
be impressed with the fact that the effect
upon the natives was in the nature of an as
founding phenomenon. Thousands and tens
of thousands of the best citizens Of that State
seem to have staid up all night to witness the
coming of the train on Sunday morning. At
Albany sixteen men and three women, the
Leading people Of the place, were ground
under the wheels Of the train, SO great was
the crowd at the depot to see the cars arrive.
This incident in no way abated the interest
in the wonderful achievement, and the re-
mains were swept into heap while the
crowd continued to gaze at the engine and
cars that had come all the way from
New York city. At Schenectady this was
repeated, congressional candidate being
and women. Even this mishap did not have
any effect upon the people, who continued
talking about the unprecedented feat of run
ming train on Sunday all the way from New
York city. At Buffalo, where the train ar
rived late in the evening. three aldermen and
a pup were killed. But the enthusiastic pop
ulace continued buying the papers up to mid
night, and then went to bed sobbing because
they could not buy more. No other topic of
conversation would be tolerated, and several
preachers were mobbed who presumed to hold
services in the evening, instead Of going
to the depot to see the cars come
in. At Elmira the Mayor got down
on all fours and dragged the news
paper wagon through the streets amidst the
plaudits of the populace. He will undoubted-
ly be renominated by reclamation. AT Po-
dunk, the people were frantic until the train
arrived, and the engineer was given the free
dom of the city, together with purse con-
tanning golden crown and dollar and forty
two cents in money. In many parts of the
State the people are still shouting over the
event, and it is doubtful if they can be stopped
in time to harvest the wheat crop The pa
pers are being sold with blue ribbon tied
around them, and inclosing a photograph Of
the editor in ten different stage costumes.
Such an excitement has not been witnessed
since the 'stars FELL in 1888 Everything
else is forgotten. Knights of Labor have
abandoned their strikes, and Anarchists have
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-31

The next State election will be held on
Tuesday, Nov. 9, 1886. No one will have the
right to vote at that election who was not a
resident of the State on Saturday, May /,
1856, and of the township on Friday Sept
3, 1886, and Of the precinct on Sunday Oct.
3, 1886 Remember these dates. This resi-
dence must have been continuous until the
act of voting. If these facts are remembered,
they will answer thousand questions to be
asked between now and the day of election.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-31

let up on making bombs to enjoy the novelty
of seeing the cars that have come 80 far, and
to spend their campaign fund for papers.
Publishers are jubilant, and it is with the ut
most difficulty that anything coherent can be
got out of them The crowned heads Of
Europe are cabling for the latest particulars,
and the old world vies with the new in paying
tribute to this most marvellous achievement
Speculative land-holders along the line of
railway are building hotels to accommodate
the unnumbered thousands who are crowding
into New York State to see the train go by.
Unless check is put to it, it is feared that
some of the managers of the papers will go
mad in the vain attempt to compute their cir
culations. They have already reache ed mill
ions and the tendency IS still upward. They
are sending all over the country for blank Aft
davits, and are offering rewards for men who
will testify to the figures they place on them.
1t is to be hoped that arrangements will be
made for half fare rates between the West and
that portion of the country. There will prob
ably never again be such an opportunity to
see SO many peculiar people in the world
Now is the time to subscribe. Price no object
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-31
Jerseys Taxes ON Railways,

the Supreme Court rendered q decision to the
effect that a former act of the State Legislature
imposing a special tax on the railroads Of the
State was unconstitutional. This estopped the
State from collecting large amount Of revenue
on which it had depended. and the public treas.
ury was in great financial straits. The matter
vas taken to the Cour. of Errors and Appeals and
It's ;..Acision was rendered to-day. BY a vote OF
III 10 tn, ending of the Supreme Court was re-
yersed and the i..ilreae tax law declared consti-
tutional, except in thos cases 10 which the raiis
road claims to have irrepeA.~ charterss In
which further argument will be heara.
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idly taking the first rank throughout the conn
try, and is one of our most important industrial

OK the 10Th Of May dispatch from Cleve-
land. o.. was published, to the effect that some
member OF tine order had asserted that Hon.
James G. Blaine was a member of the knights
Of Labor, whereupon our esteemed contempor-
ary the News. appended to the dispatch these
words:
"1he following is an editorial from the News
of the date March %, 1886:
"Wait till the chance comes for J. G.. Blaine to de-
clare himself. He viii be the biggest Plumed Knight
of Labor in the bunch see if he ism IT,
In the New York Sun of a day or two ago, in a
dispatch from Cleveland, where the Knights of
Labor are in session. there was the following:
''The reporter of the Sun found General Mas
ter Workman Powderly in his room tonight,
surrounded by the members of the executive
board.
g have an urgent telegram from the Sun,
said the reporter, instructing me to ask you
whether James G.. Blaine is member of the
Knights of Labor.
1.-THE reply was somewhat surprising as well
as vehement First there came loud No from
one of the members of the board. Then came
this from Mr. Powderly
In heavens name, there have been enough
bad things said about US without that Let it
rest there. Mr.. Barry. shut the door. l can't
talk any more.'"
1t is sad to see the prophetic infallibility
and knowledgeousness of our Q. c. thus rudely
disturbed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-31

REV. DR.. JEFFREY pays his respects to
Sam Jones in righteously indignant way
The expression which has SO justly aroused
the Doctor is but another of the extreme ex-
pressions INDUCED in by Mr.. Jones which
absolutely nulify all the good he might do
and could do were he to observe the amenities
and decorum Of which minister of the Cos
pei should be the special exponent.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-31

The Knights of Labor in session at Cleve-
land, with Mr. Terence Powderly in COM
niand, memorabilia the President for execu-
tive clemency toward those Knights who are
IN jail in Texas for contempt of Judge Par
des's court. Mr.. Powderly ought to know
that even President has no authority over
sentence for contempt of court. And yet
this is the man who was to revise the Consti-
tuition Of the United States, at the invitation
of the Democratic committee of demagogues
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-31

THE New York Star apologies for the un-
patriotic act of Capt. S. M. Sanders, who had
the very bad taste to publicly and ostenta-
tiously drink toast to the health Of Jefferson
Davis, and says: Sensible people will see in
the incident only evidence that. when unbent
in convivial intercourse, even the last of the
confederates could own that the Union cause
had triumphed." The stupidest fool in the
world would have to own that the Union
cause had triumphed. So could the most ma
lignant and uncompromising rebel. jeff Da-
Wis could do nothing else But that is not
enough. 1t will be time enough for loyal SOL
diers to begin to toast this man when he shall
not only own that the Union cause triumphed
but that it was well for all the people, South
as well as North, that it did triumph. jeff
Davis is the man who, on the occasion of the
"convivial intercourse" referred to- proclaimed
the principles immortal that the South had
fought for, and declared that the lost cause
was only sleeping to be rearoused some day
to another test Of arms on the field. He is
not the kind of man that any man who loves
his country would care to honor in any man
ner. The suspicion can but obtain that the
gallant captain was intent on making cheap
notoriety in the South for the purpose of
booming the sale of the products for which he
was canvassing the South. The Star is kind
enough to say that his trade will be largely
increased by reason of the fact that he bowed
down before the man who lives only to curse
the fate that kept the Confederacy from being
established.
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AN ALARMING GLASS OF FACTS.


The careless thinker or one who does not
think at all, regards the late labor develop
ments as mere caprice of few laboring men,
whereas they are the inevitable outgrowths OF
the unsettling of confidence by the threaten
ing of the revolutionists now in power in the
government We say threatening, for SO far
it is only that With more than a year of
undisputed sway in Office the Democratic
party has done nothing but distribute few
Offices among the faithful, turning out compe-
tent and tried men, and in many
cases substituting jail-birds and ex-peniten-
tiary convicts so VIGOROUSLY dishonest and
incompetent that the better element Of the
party has been in constant protest against
the wickedness, and begetting internal dis
sensions in the strife for place of which the
scenes in the late congressional convention, in
Indianapolis, are only sample, except that
it has held in terrorem over the business Of
the country the constant fear that measures
the most radical would be adopted in regard
to the manufactures, agriculture and COM
merce of the country. The strikes which
have so disturbed the business Of
the country are but surface indica-
ton Of danger that lies concealed from
the casual observer The official report of
imports and exports during the year ending
May 81 throw an electric light upon the real
danger. The growing wealth of nation is
indicated by the difference between its re-
ceipts and expenditures, just as is the case
with farmer OF mechanic If farmer buys
more than he sells he is growing poorer; so
with nations. The official posting of the
national books reveals the following alarming
facts: We exported for the year ending
May 81, 1885, $746, 1867, 121, while for
the year ending May 81, 1886. the first
year of Democratic misrule and threatening,
only $667 004, 570 falling off of 500, 862, SOL.
On the other hand, we imported during the
first period only $500, 800, while during
the latter period we imported 1923, 34S, 625,
making difference against US of $31, sos, 633.
being an aggregate difference of $101, 472, 1874.
But this calamity does not stop here. During
the first period we exported only SO, 1874, 1914 of
gold to settle our balances, while during the
second we had to export 500, 312, 976, making
a difference in one year of 500, 12S. 0S2,
or an aggregate difference of $3.50, liz, 1856.
It must be borne in mind that this
is the result Of the threatenings Of the revo-
luton in business which the Democratic
party proposes, and before anything has been
done except tho distribution of the spois
among spoils-hunters. It remains to be seen
whether the rank and file Of that party can
afford to indorse party whose policy has
brought such calamities upon the country in
so short time. There is not enough in the
scramble for Office to atone for such showing
in one year.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-31

INDIANAPOLIS already has new city hall
that she has every reason to be proud of, the
new State-house is assuming proportions that
begin to reveal its beauty and magnifcence,
and it remains only that the new union de-
pot be constructed, and then the city will
have right to feel that she is getting out of
the woods Work on the depot should be be-
gun before another month shall have passed
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-31

WITH anything like fair play, it was evil
dent that the anti-Bynum Democrats would
have named another man in his place. 1t re-
mains to be seen whether the boiling Demo
Gratis, who undoubtedly represented the ma
jority of the party, can be whipped back into
the traces In short, is Mr. Bynum to be rec
ognized as the Democratic political boss in this
district? Is he big enough mani
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-31

A NEW union depot would be of inca liable
advantage to the city Of Indianapolis this
week. The crowds could be the better
handled, and the visitors from abroad would
go away much better pleased with the city
and its public conveniences. 1t is the duty
of every citizen to afford every encourage
ment to the project of putting up the new
stfucture at the earliest possible date
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-31

THERE will be thousands of visitors in the
city this week They should be accorded the
warmest of receptions Let them see that
Indianapolis is thoroughly alive to all that
goes to make city prosperous and thrifty.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-31

have the portrait of Miss Folsom, which will
add another ten years to the age of
frankie" and by that time she will begin to
be nearly old enough to make suitable COM
panion for man fifty years old. We still
think the President will marry the mother.
Everything except the idlest gossip points in
that direction.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-31

THE Democratic judicial convention, held
on Saturday last, determined that the Bailey
and that the organization in the interest of
Bynum was fraudulent. Mr. Bailey's candi-
dacy has the Endorsement of this high party
authority
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-31
mocracy.

THE visiting thousands will discover that
indianapolis has one of the best and finest
city halls in the country, thanks to the gen.
crosby of one of her pubiic-spirited citizens.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-31

THIS is the week for flags and banners and
bunting The colors should be displayed from
every house and shop in the city.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-31

SUPERINTENDENT CHARLTON should esche W
politics. His position is not one that renders
1t incumbent upon him to emphasize his De-
mocracY.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-31
Too Wise for HIS Own Good.

Minneapolis Tribune.
Mr.. Powderly has been speaking a few more
wornz OF wisdom. He is rapidly undermining
his own positioa by this course as any expert
enced politician viii tell him.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-31

THE Chicago Times, bringing some poor poet
to the bar of justice for the offense of initiating,
in feeble way, the poem of Theodore OHara,
in which occur the well RENE bered lines:
'On Fame's eternal camping-ground
Their silent tents spread,
Concludes its reprimand by saying they are a
part of ''one of the finest compositions to which
the civil war gave rise" In point of fact, they
were written before the war of the Rebellion
began, and were inspired by the war against
Mexico. They have been fearfully overworked,
but are indeed among the best in the language.
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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL.

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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-31

IT is not enough to paint the town red Thu
week. 1t must be made red, white and blue
every time.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-31
One Democra. sue of an once.

Mscon Gal Telegraph.
1t is now positively stated that Mss Folsom is
Democrat. We are glad of this. 1t is ap en-
couracing sign to see Democrat put in ONCE
now and then.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-31

THE New York Sun publishes portrait of
Miss frances Folsom, as the Presidents
bride-elect. Frances must be at least ten
years older than frankie Next we shall
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-31
An Empty Honor in Pennsylvania.

Phia0eIph1a Press.
The movement to bestow the Democratic NOM
ination for Governor upon George A. jerks does
not receive that excellent gentleman's approval.
Colonel Jencks. we understand is willing to at
tend the funeral, but he is fatty opposed to dIiv
irp the hearse.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-31

MRS MoLLIE HUGHES, fashionable Louis
vile lady, has been arrested on the charge of
grand larceny, she having been detected in rob
bling several stores. A search found at her resi-
dence much valuable material that she had thus
accumulated without the formality Of paying for
the same. The remarkable thing about the ar
rest is that the commission de unatico iquirendo
has not been appointed. 1t certainly is q case of
kleptomania, the lady in question being too
prominent to society to warrant any other con
clusion.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-31

THE decorations should be flung to the
breeze to-day. The regular business of enter
tanning the guests of the city begins to-mOr-
row
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-31

THE American eagle must be given every
opportunity to soar this week.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-31

MAUD MILLER, the eccentric daughter of her
still more eccentric father, the poet of the ST.
erras. the gushing girl who astonished herself by
marrying two men without the formality of a
divorce from the first one she espoused, is now
''acting" in concert hall in the Bowery, New
York city. She did not take long to reach her
laval
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-31

Boston Record.

One way to crush the bloatsd butter man
would be TO forbid his coloring the goods.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-31

GIVE the visiting boys in blue soldierly
welcome.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-31

IT is to be general hailelujah week all
round.
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