The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-11
POLITICAL NOTE AND COMMENT.

THE postoffces are being worked for all they
are worth, except carrying the mails -Syracuss
Standard.
THE percentage Of gains attained by the Re
pubicans in Vermont and Oregon applied TO
New York will give Harrison nearly 200 900 ma
jority.-Utica Herald.
WHAT shall it profit a man II, in order to
II cents on the cost Of living, he relinouishss
81 in wagesl These figures, waee-earners, are
oficial.-Toledo Blade.
'WE 1.-THE capitalsts) can control the working
ingman only so long as he eats up to-day what
he earns tomorrowr-W. l.. Scott, Mr.. Cleye-
lands political manager
THAT pious sheet, the New York Voice PRO
hibitionl Is especially vindictive toward the Re
publican party. 1t headlines o long article:
How Republican Saloon keepers In Maine
Have Full Swing and Do as They Damned
Please"
THE President feels compelled to characterize
the attempt to brand him as . free-trader as de-
ception but for all that the electoral conflict now
in progress is a conflict between free trade and
protection and nothing less. London News, July
6. 1888
Mrs. A. 6. 4. BERER. of Finney county, Kan
sas, is so much of Republican that she will not
accept the Democratic nomination for county
school superintendent. Her husband is o Dem
ocrat, but that makes difference 20 her. Ar
gument for woman suffrage.
THE Republican party is the party Of the
home. Its platform declares in favor OF the
purity Of the homo Ameriean women under
stand this; hence, whenever we find them inter
esting themselves in politics, We find them, nine
times out of teo, on the Republican side Los
Angeles Times.
II LIKE the boy who hired his sietef to make
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litical meeting in Maine the other evening.
'Some one said to the boy, You could have
taken those shirts to the factory and had them
made as well as your sister made them, and
saved 81 on the dozen Yes said the boy pro-
tectionist, Sister Sally got good price, 1
know, but she always pays me well for what
do for her. That 81 bill is still under the same
roof with me, and if sickness, or trouble, or
hard luck comes to any OF our family, that
money is there in the house"
ZIoN's HERALD, . leading Methodist newsps-
per. resents the statements which are shost as
to what the Methods denomination is to DO
in the presidential campaign, and says:
The bishops have no authority in the matter, nor
would they control the action Of the humblest voter.
Indeed there is not unanimity of opinion the
SsaSps m the Reno'ng esmpasn Inc nG'siensl
the Epscopaliap Congregationalist Baptist. In
fact, the majority of Methodist voters are Repub-
ucans respectable minority are pontical froniOi-
tonists, and and smaller proportion loyal Dem
ocrats. The Methodist is . political freeman, and
and will continue to exercise his freedom.
| PATRICK FORD, editor Of the Irish World, the
| leading Irisn-American newspaper Of New
| York, says over his own signature in the cur
rent issue: "A situation of affairs is brough.
| about when every American citizen must be
| practical on the question raised. The man who
| believes in protection to American labor cannot
consistently vote for Cleveland and Thurman.
| and the man who favors free trade cannot
| logically support the platform which Harri-
| son and Morton stand. There are surprisingly
| foolish things at times done in this world: but
| to ne it does seem impossible for the American
| people. on an issue sharply defined rs this
tariff question is, to deliberately vote for their
own ruin