The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-12

If he could devise law by which lawyers could
be held personally responsible for the restriction
and defeat of justice, and for the escape of Of
Tenders, he would greatly relieve the press and
would close one avenue of its criticisms which
is in constant use.-Chicago Tribune.
THE truth is Lamar has been nominated for
the Supreme Bench solely because of his record
as secessionist and rebel Cleveland would
never have thought of naming for such post a
Northern man slxty-six years of age. unknown
to the courts and without legal or judicial train
ing. If Lamar lived in the North his name
would not have been taken into consideration in
connection with the vacancy in the Supreme
Court His prominence as secession advocate
and rebel, as an admrer of Calhoun and friend
of jeff Davis. alone account for his selection by
observation-disclosures Tribune.
THE Reading road was entirely in the right in
resisting the strike or the railroad hands, and il
is in the right to refuse to compromise it's po-
sition, either by arbitration otherwise. It
seems disposed. however TO treat the miners
strike it treated the railroad strike, and this
would De both unjust and unwise. What the
interests of the company and of the public
quire is that the miners should be detached
from the railroad bands aud their grievance
sldered by itself. This is what the managing
Knights of Labor, who i've by stirring up
will assist them if it continues to treat strike
against reduction of wages as 1t treats strike
to prevent it from doing what it is legally bonnd
to do. New York Times.
THAT confirmation is impending does not witt
ate the objections to Mr. Lamars promotion.
The consummation will be- deplorable whether
viewed from the patriotic or the partisan stand
point To resfate the reasons why the nomi-
nee should be rejected is hardly necessary in
view of the almost unanimous protest OF the
Republican masses against the exaltatlou OF one
whose chief distinction achieved in an eff
fort to destroy the Union who has never ac-
cepted in good faith the results of the war,
and who, by temperament and training, is un-
fitted for the Office to which he aspires. Repub-
licanism is united and emphatic in its opposi-
ton, and the Republican Senators responsible
for confirmation will be held TO rigid response
bility when the day OF reckoning arrives
Brooklyn Standard Union.
THE truth is. the internal taxes collected by
the general government ought to be collected
by the separate States and applied by them to
the expenses of their governments and the
payment of their debts. There is basis of JUS
tice in all this business which there would not
not President and Congress to be elected next
summer. This two great PARTIES should not
practice too much upon the supposed fealtv to
party of the people, because they may both
awaken some morning to find themselves left.
When the American people get down to real
business. it is a square deal that they desire
above everything else.-Salt Lake Tribune.
A SOUTHERN who stood by the Union will
not do? Justice Harlan is not representative
Southern man" because he never participated
in the views of the Constitution enter tanned by
the great majority of the Southern people," If
President Cleveland should nominate South
erner. now Democrat, who had not been a
rebel. we should expect to see Senator Stewart
vote to reject him on the ground that no man
should be put upon the Supreme Bench who
his life, and that the reign of good will could
never begin SO long as men were appointed to
office to whom there was nothing to be forgiven.
Senator Stewart is fortunate in not having to
explain his vote to such Republican constitu-
ency as that of New York, Ohio Illinois or
loWa.-New York Tribune.