The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-08-22
POLITICAL NOTE AND COMMENT.

TIKI red baudana does not wash well. New
York Sun.
EVERY four years the Democrats carry Wis
consin up to within a short time Of election.
Milwaukee Sentinel.
AMONG the conspicuous mugwumps of 1884
who will vote for Harrison this year, ex-Secre-
tary Bristow Is said to be one.
WHAT monopolist. pool, trust or combine in
all the land is not doing its best for the success
of the Democrats ticketl-Grand Haven
Herald.
GENERAL GARFIELD's plurality in Indiana in
1880 was 6,642. We couldn't think of taking
less than 13, pa for General Ha~rrison.-Detrois
Tribune.
THE Buffalo Commercial characterizes Presi-
dent Cleveland's message as one of the graudest
blunders inscribed on the political record Of the
country.
"WHoM the gods would destroy they first
make mad, should be changed so as to read,
becomes a fool, " and then it would at the case
of Congressman Bynum, of Indianapolis.-Chi-
cago Journal.
THERE is not a single Republican presidential
postmaster in all of Vermont. The last ono
was recently removed at Montpelier, and a
Democrat installed in his place.
In 1864 Thurman wrote the plank in the DEM
ocratic platform declaring the war a failure.
Applied TO his campaign in 1888, it would be con-
spicuously true.-Chicseo Journal.
The Denver Republican says the Harrison
and Morton sentiment in Colorado is growing,
and to prove the statement, publishes the names
Of 200 Democrats who will this year vote the
Republican ticket.
THERE is much inquiry in Connecticut as to
the absence of ex Senator Eaton from the Dem
ocratic caucuses an meetings. His we'll
protection views make his attitude on the Mills
bill a subject of national interest
THE number Of meetings and banner raisings
already held by the Vermont Republicans great
ly exceeds those ever occurring before in one
year. but their number is no greater than the
size of the audiences attending them and the
enthusiasm which marks all the proceedings.
THE Minneapolis Tribune says that there is
one vigorous. unanimous. Herculean Democratic
kick all over the State against that party's nomi-
nee for Governor of Minnesota. The candidate
is not personally Objectionable, but the party is
boss-ridden. and that's what the people objects TO.
The Rev. E. B. Lewis. an ex-msmber Of the
Prohibition State mmit of Ohio, goes
around with q Harrison and Morton button in
his coat and in answer to inquiries says that he
has concluded that the best way for him to
serve his country is to vote with the Republican
party.
LEVI p. MORTON is really q good-lookine man,
though the campaign banners make bim look
as though he were advertising q patent medicine
and had posed for the "before taking ~illustra-
ton. In reality his features are clean-cut and
handsome and his complexion Is fresh and
wholesoms.-New York World.
president FELLOWS, OF the Iowa State Tenn
| perance Alliance, asks the third party adherents
this pertinent question: do not the methods
| employed in smashing the old parties tend rather
to divide and ALLEVIATE the friends Of prohibition
and to set the factions to fighting each other in
stead of uniting them against the common enc
my!'
THE fact is that Morton is the bes.lookine
| man in the whole lot of candidates, and is only
exceeded in looks by Belva Lockwood. But
beauty is not Levi P. Morton's strongest hold.
He is . business man and the right man to fill
the position of Vice president of the United
States. He enjoys the perfect confidence of the
business public of New York. and is gradually
gaining the support of all business men in the
| country. Chicago Equity.
The ST. Louis Republic evidently doesn't like
the conduct of Henry Watterson in the present
Democratic campaign. IL says, the editor Of
an infueatial newspaper might be engaged in
better business for himself aud his party than
hanging around Democratic headquarters in
| New York, dsllyiug with ssditiop and encour-
aging the enemy with vague hints OF Demo
| cratic disaster, unless President Cleveland bows
the knee to the spoilsmen.
THE Washington Sunday Herald. intensely
Democrat. has this paragraph: w hear that
there is a great rush of Irish voters toward Har-
rison; that there are five Irish Republican clubs
J in New York where there Was one in 1884