The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-11-21
COMMENT AND OPINION.

GEN. HARRISON will not appoint Democrats to
Office, and he does not play poker; so the Demo
cratic Senators will not have much inducement
to pass their evenings at the White House dur
ing his administration st Louis Globe-Dsmo-
crat.
THE fact remains, despite Democratic denial,
that where no other matters Of local nature in
terfered and the fight was a fair one on the
principle OF protection versus free trade, the
Republicans uniformly gained. -Nebraska State
Journal.
WITH one Soutterner Speaker OF the House,
another one chairman of the ways and means
committee, another one chairman OF the plat
form committee, and several others absolutely
debating the fiscal and revenue policy OF the
government, it strikes US that the South possess
cs about all the substantial political power OF
the country. Santa Cruz Sentinel.
THE Harrison boom" which was expected
Immediately after the election made an appear
ance in the iron trade promptly on time. Pro-
ducers were almost overwhelmed with orders
for a few days. Prices were az once advanced,
steel rails Immediately going up from $685. to
$40, and other staple iron products rising with
corresponding buoyancy. -Philadelphia In
quirer.
GEN. HARRISON cannot hope to satisfy all the
demands Of the South, nor viii he justify ali the
dire predictions of Bourbon North -haters. But
that ne will be a true friend TO Southern inter
ests and a real HELM to Southern prosperity wo
who helped elect him are as happy in osliev-
ing as We are n seeing the temperate and hope.
full spirit in which that election is received by
truly liberal Southerners buffalo Express.
IN no community where Republican MAORI
ties are overwhelming, or where the election
machinery has been in their hands. has an at
tempt been made to deprive a single political
opponent OF his free participation in al election.
1t is only where Democrats are In the majority,
or where. as in the South, a welI-orRanized
minority has obtained control by q violation OF
State, as we'll 90 national laws. that such prac-
tices prevail-Omaha Republican.
INSTEAD of maintaining it THE postal serv-
iceI, Mr. Cleveland at once began to undermine
and destroy its efficiency by turning out COM
petent and well-disciplined men and filling their
places with inexperienced and unworthy persons.
The service has steadily dsteriorated through
out the whole country. Ii has been Q source
Of continual and general annoyance and dissp-
pointment, going from bad to worse in every
respect, until to-day il is a mere burlesque Of its
former exccllence.-St. Louis Globe Democrat.
who has held the imperial sceptre of
the American presidency should not afterwards
struggle for q living. There is something re-
pulsive to national pride in It, Nor while serv.
ing as President should he be required to hoard
his salary and skimp bis hospitality to acquire
means of future support. The President should
live generously and entertain like a gentleman
while in Office. and be assured decent support
for the remainder of his life when he lays down
the sc~eptre-Chicago Tribune.
ADAM made a fool of himfelf and tried Ia
thrust the responsibility upon Eve, on the plea
have fallen from grace. The South, speaking
by the mouth of the Charleston Is. c. News
and Courier, tries to shirk its responsibility 70,
defeat upon 'ths Northern politician of the
Hewitt Hill stripe" claiming that the
South 10 used by them as a cats paw. This is
an absurd statement. The Northern Democracy
is the cats-paw, and has always been the cats
paw OF the S~outh.-Portland OreeoIian.