The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-27
COM MENT AND OPINION.

MAKE the execution awful in its secrecy, de-
prive it of any sort of sentiment gloriica-
ton, make it's mystery something terrifying,
and there will be fewer Driscolls and fewer
Whyos.-New York Graphic.
THE Southerners are boasting over the fact
that they have ':as good rebel as any of them"
on the federal Supreme Bench. A Northern
paper which alleges the same thing ia accused
of waving the bloody shrt"-Chicago Jour
nal
THE government would save a great deal of
money by estimating the eleventh census. It
amounts to the same thing in the end. It takes
about ten years to count the people and make a
report that the statistics of one year makes all
wrong.-New Orleans Picayune.
Mr.. FRYE stated a very solid truth when he
said that the Republicans take up Mr.. Ceve-
lands free trade gauntlet with great pleasure
They have been waiting many years to meet the
Democrats face to face on the vast issue of pro-
lection and. though the latter have hitherto
been able to dodge their eager adversaries, they
are cornered by their own Presidents message,
Boston Journal
THAT thing in institutions which enables
a factory girl to wear hustle and buy a hair
brush-which enables her father to look up
from his hard toll and smile at the coming lady
ne sees in the bonnie lassie he calls his
daughter--is American invention. We have
claimed no patert on it. and already Tvs beneh-
cent influence is carrying hope to the lowly all
over the world.-Chcago Times.
TIE merits Of the contest cannot be exam
ined honestly and fairly, as Republicans main
tain they ought to be. because Mr. Carlisle and
refuse to inquire whether the man they have
elected Speaker honestly entitled to a seat
in the House. If Democrats think they can af-
ford TO face the workingmen and the whole PEG.
ple on that state of facts, the Republicans are
ready.-New York Tribune.
WHATEVER his merits may be, General Bragg
of Wisconsin, is not diplomatic in manners
speech or experience. He is an exec edingly
irascible and ill-tempered man. He goes to
represent this country 1T a capital which at this
iuncture stands in more important relations to
us than any other country on the earth. He
goes the last Of a succession of dreary fail
who have represented at Mexico under
MIR. Bayard's INSTRUMENTATION Advertiser.
THE best place for the Southern colored peo-
pie is in the Southern States, among their white
neighbor and under institutions the very spirit
of which is the fullest protection of life and
property. Our surmises TO she real motive
of the great Kansas exodus movement may
prove TO be entirely without foundation; out we
warn the colored people against emoarking III
scheme which they cannot fully fatnosn me
colored man who is already free cannot afford
to take any risks.-Charlessou news ana
Courier
WE are trying to find some reason Tor tho
mans presence in the court but We confess TO
much embarrassment the point The best
men in the Senate objected TO the confirmation,
on the ground that the man Is neither lawyer.
a patriot nor in any emphatic sense entitled TO
the Mace The thing is simply scandalous.
While some will be sure TO arraign US for dsbat-
ing matters not in orr province. We shall accent
the criticism cheerfully. Who now believes that a
court made up of men like Lamar would fail to