The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-08-10
POLITICAL NOTE AND COMMENT.

THE New Haven Register, the leading Demo
cratic paper in Connecticut. frankly says that
The chances to-day in Connecticut are against
the Democrats"
THE Democrats slandered Lincoln, Grant and
Garfield just as villainously as they do General
Harrison. Lincoln, Grant and Garfield were
elected. Detroit Tribune.
In a word, the great objection to the Mills
bill is that it proposes stsriff for revenue on
the North with incidental protection for the
South.-Philadelphia Inquirer.
THE Republicans in California are in earnest
this year. Acounty convention was held in that
State recently. lasting two days and q half. dur
ing which time not q single delegate left his
post.
The columns OF political items Ia the New
York Press are SO filled with the names Of Dem
ocrats deserving the frss-.rade party that they
contain but little else Of interest. Chicago
Journal.
THE st. Louis Republic Dem ommen
ing Of General Fisk's letter Of acceptance, gen.
erously thinks that it shows him to be patriotic
and deserving of a large Republican vote In the
doubtful States.
JACOB HoosE, a leading Democrat and builder
Of Skaneateles, N. Y, has raised . Harrison
and Morton pole in that town. with the aid OF
seventeen other Democrats. all Of whom will
vote the Republican ticket
A MILLION Democratic tracts will be sent out
tomorrow, and as they 60 on their sad mission
throughout the land, these tracts can DO plainly
tracked by the merry fioppsrs they leave behind
-PIttsburg Chronicle.
WE are not hearing so much about Mr.. Cleve-
land being stronger than his party as we were .
short time ago. Has the party been strengthen
inc Or ic Mr. Cleveland euferluO from fha aner-
waiting influences Of dog ~days3-Peoris Tran
script.
DR.. Brooks, who prayed that the Union forces
would be defeated, is now praying for the defeat
of the Republicans. There is no evidence that
the Doctor has any more influence with the AL
mighty now than he had twenty five years ago.
Peoria Times.
EVEN the Democratic leaders are being con-
verified. At first they said they were free.
traders. now they call themselves 'ant-protec-
tionists;" and about election time they will DO
ardent 'protectionists." Public opinion 10 q
eres educating force.-Brooklyn Standard I'm
ion.
Mr. JON D. SANDERS writes that the Lin.
coin club, at Dana, Vermillion county; which
was reported in the Sentinel to be dying out. is
10 q fourishing condition. and doing active
campaign work. He also denies that there is
such a man in the locality as Cork, who assumed
to DO the Sentlnels Informant.
A REPUBLICAN national committeeman is
looking over North Carolina. and his report will
decide what will be done towards carrying that
State. Congressman Gear, OF Iowa. Payson, of
Illinois. and other leading Republicans win de-
liver tariff speeches at the request of the North
Carolina Farmers Alliance this month
WE don't hear SO much loud talk nowadays
about disciplining the Democrats who didn't
think the Mills bill judicious, drumming them
out Of camp, forcing them to 60 where they be-
long. etc. The masqueradine free-traders are
not nearly so bumptious and truculent, now that
the fight has begun, as they were beforehand.
Hartford Courant
The New York Saloon Journal and tho St
Paul Brewers Gazette are doing their best to
elect Cleveland and Thurman. And yet the
Democratic press howl about the Republican
party being for free whisky. Maybe these Pro
hibition journals don't want it free. Possibly
they prefer low license and 10 cents q drink.
Minneapolis Tribune.
The Albany Times Dem says that the
Democratic effort to belittle Harrison by call
Ing attention to the Blaine demonstration is
mighty poor politics, and suggests that it would
be better il the Democrats should pick ont some
man of their own party and have him create q
similar demonstration. There was a time when
q dozen Democrats would be available for such
q purpose.
ONE Of the delegates to the Democratic ma
; tional convention was overheard to say, on the
B corner Of Suffer and Kearny streets, q few
= evening since, IS follows: 1--WE do not expect
TO carry California or, indeed. any of the Pacific
coast States for Cleveland. What we want 10
this city and county; We don't get any OF the
federal Offices, anyhow. and we are going to 90
after this city. San Francisco Wasp.
THE Cleveland Leader doesn't have q very
high opinion of the senior Senator from Indiana.
1t SAYS: 1.-THE most arrant and blatant dema-
goeue in this country is D. ". Voorhees,, Of In
diana He Is as dishonest intellectually and po-
litically as . common thief. Nobody but q petty
larcenist in politics would debase himself as
VOORHEES, did at Terre Haute the other day, on
the occasion of opening the Democratic cam
paign in Indiana
THE Boston Herald. q Cleveland supporter,
puts this disagreeable question to the railway
maenates who constitute the working majority
stated that Candidate Morton, Immediately fol-
lowing his nomination for the vice-presidency,
resigned his dictatorship in both the Canadian
Pacific and the Illinois Central roads Now, can
some OF the leading Democratic campaign mana
gers cay as muchf"
THE Nebraska State Journal thinks that
President Cleveland ought to write his Thanks.
giving Pi'oiSmoson ho"' duu postpone nIS let.
ter OF acceptance until some time near the mid
die of November, because it will go a little hard
to write a ringing THANKSGIVING document after
the election, while he could let himself loose on
q letter OF acceptance that didn't care how many
fools it hit, subsequent to the declaration OF the
vote for electors in the several States.
HON. THOMAS j. CARRAN. of Cleveland, O., .
leading politician Of that city. has been making
a tour through California. Speaking Of the po-
lItical situation there he says: Democrats make
no %pretense OF carrying the State. and when ap-
preached dismiss the. subject with the assertion
that California is a Republican State anyhow
Well-informed Republicans estimate that tho
party will have at least ID, 1000 majority in the
State and will have no difficulty in carrying the
entire Pacific slope"
THE young ladies OF Viroqua, Wis.,. have
formed a club and adopted q constitution with
the following preamble:
We, the young women of Viroqua, believing that
the first concern of al good government is the virtue
and sobriety OF the people and the purity of their
homes; aud believing that the Republican party cor.
daily synpathizes with all wise and well directed eff
forts for the promotion of temperance and morality,
do, in order TO form an effective organization by
which we may give 10 the Republican party our heart
stitution for the Young Woman's Republican Club of
Viroqua.
Will Please Him.
New York Mail and Express.
The greater the demonstration to Mr.. Blaine
the more will General Harrison be delighted,
both haranea he adrpira. NJ. DI.,-~ GOD harauea