The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-03
What the Indiana Papers Are Saying About
Current Politics and Other Topics.

The busy Democrats who have been figuring
out the enormous surplus have put their pencils
oenind their long ears, as they observe the
Wanted excess of the Treasury reduce itself to
q vulgar fraction. Petersburg Press.
The tariff question still continues to be the
all-absorbing topic of the day. with the people,
Notwithstanding the frantic efforts of Cleveland
to attract their attention from il by waving the
red flag in their faces. Liberty Herald.
Speaking of trusts" General Harrison says
these things should be made unlawful. prohib-
tied and punished as conspiracies against the
people" General Harrison IL IN perfect har-
mony with his party on this subject. Porter
County Vidette. o2
Indications are that the present campaign will
end about as the Greeley campaign did. Demo
Gratis everywhere. while protesting that they
are still Democrats, declare that they are not
free-traders and will not vote for free-trade can
didates.-Unio City Eagle.
The italian cheap laborers are still being
shipped into Indianapolis In direct Competition
with respectable home laborers, and the Demo
cratic managers will vote them for Cleveland.
What wonderful friends they are to the labor
ing m-au.-Laerange Standard.
Grover Cleveland, swelling with assumed rage
against Canada, IN order to catch Irish votes,
and at the same time trying to wink st England
with his free-trade eye, is enough to make even
q war widow, whose pension he has vetoed,
laugh outright-New Castle Courier.
All the indianapolis papers which recently
have been protesting to be champions of the
rights of the laboring classes, except the Jour-
nal. are mum as clans about the imported ltai-
ian laborers at work in the gas trenches in that
city to the exclusion Of home laDorers. -Muncie
Times.
The Republican platform proposes to abolish
the internal revenue tax only in certain contin-
Rencies, which are not likely to arise. The Dem
ocratic party, with the Mills bill, propose to
turn the whole whisky business Of the country
over to the moonshiners Of the South.-Ply-
mouth Republican.
Tariff for revenue only sends the peoples
money abroad for foreign supplies and their
products abroad for q foreign market. A pro-
for supplies produced here, and creates a re-
liable homo market Cor the products Of our
farms.-Steuben Republican.
The Democratic party Of Indiana believes so
strongly in free trade. that it refuses to protect
the helpless inmates of the Hospital for the In
sane against those Democratic spectators who
are reapine rich harvests by feeding the afflicted
wards of the State upon impure and unwhole-
some food. Princeton Leader.
1t IL painful to hear that Sim Coy refuses to
come out for Cleveland and Thurman. Con-
sidering what a ''good Democrat" he has been
10 the past. this will be sad news to his party
friends. But the fact is that Sim won't 'come
out" for tho ticket. He can't. He is in the
penitsntiary.-Shelby Republican.
Colonel Matson says he has looked over the
/ Qelu IN lnCldna, anQ Knows ABOUT WHAT Inc
| prospects are. He eavs the only thing he is
afraid OF is that the Democrats are over-conf-
dent, and too certain OF victory. Speaking for
| Tippecanoe county we can truly say to the
Colonel that his fears are rnfornded. -Lafay.
cite Call.
Democratic party during the war, the leaders
cay that is in she past; the past should be for
4 gotten, auc we should look to the future. But
In this State the Democrats have gone back even
-. H. ~ --1-1>
charges against General HoveY-Corydon Re-
publican.
Mr.. Cleveland has had q eplint put on his
backbone. The chairman and secretary Of the
Democratic central committee, the president Of
the Hendricks Club, aud a bakers dozen of other
Connersville Democrats, have telegrsphed their
s'hearty approval of his 'retaliatory" message.
This is what the country has been waiting for.
-Rushville Republican.
The significance in the great desire of the
Democrats for q joint debate 10 the fact that
Joint debates serve only one purpose-the draw
publican ranks are swelling with converts to the
protective tariff principle, there seems to be no
good reason for helping the Democratic man
ayers keep their forces intact.-Worthington
Times.
The Democrats of Indiana are preparing them
selves for any kind of political music desired.
A short time ago Mr.. Voorhees, produced a key
note in 1.-The greatest speech CT his life" now
MIR. Mcdonald has presented another in some
thing of deeper bass, and Governor Gray is at
work to manufacture the third. which is to be
the real, genuine. simon pure, old Jacob Town
send unadulterated essence of Democracy.-Ric
mond Palladium.
II Cleveland really meant to kick sand in the
eyes Of the people and blind them to the tariff,
Oh which his party Is SO rapidly going to pieces.
his great war message must rank among the
most stupendous plumbers of history. The
country paused q moment. glanced at the mani
festo, and recognized that IL came from a coward
who wouldn't fight 10 1860, but hired q substi-
tute. Clevelands proposed war is irresistibly
contradictions Gazstte-Tribune
1t has always been a subject of amszsment
that Irishmen in America could support the
Democratic party and the British policy of free
trade. Ii Is not strange then that having come
to see the folly of that course they are breaking
from it by thousands. and will at the next cleo
ton vote in the interests of ireland, and not as
heretofore, in the interest of England. No r.
ishman ought ever to forget how free trade has
cursed Acknowledgement Palladium.
The return to the personal charge against
General Harrison simultaneously by the Demo-
cratic newspapers and liars of every grade,
shows q preconcerted move from Democratic
headquarters at Indianapolis. 1t 10 doue, not
with the expectation of developing proof to sub
s~tantiate the charges and obtain the standing
rewards offered, but to divert the public mind
from the issues that are breaking the Democrat
ic party down in every State and every county
in the United States. The penitsntiary yawns
for the scoundrels engaged in such disreputable
work.-Muncie Times.
James B. Ryan, of indianapolis, writes q letter
to the Sentinel to prove that the Republican
party is the representative of the old Know
nothing party OF 1924. The only prominent
politician we know Of in this State who can be
identified as q relic Of that organization, is the
present Democratic Governor of Indiana, Isaac
p. Gray, who received the ardent and enthusi-
sstic support of the man Ryan four years ago.
Weston Mackey. OF Roseburg, and Henry
Young, OF Marion, knew Isaac as one of the
most active organizers of the Know-nothing par
ty when it was a power in Randolph county, In
diana, and Darke county. ~Ohio.-Marion Chron-
icle.
The cause or woman suffrage receives its
severest blows from the hands of those who wish
to be considered its advocates. One Of these, a
in the papers for several years past, WAS at
ance 70 such sweet. womauly words as these:
''Ths Republican party is in favor of free whisky. y
General Harrison has not as much brains in
finger" All of which shows that when lovely
women enters the field of politics, campaign lies
will roll as elibly from her tongue as they do
from the masculine lips of the ward politician,
and ten to one she will be able to give some
pointers to the slang -whanRing, mud singing
demagogues who are already the disgrace Of
the parties To which they belong.-Fort Wayne
Gazette.
Time.