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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-14
WHO BROUGHT THE CHINEsE2

Democratic papers either blunder egregi-
ously or lie very recklessly, when they assert
that the Republican party is responsible for
the beginning of Chinese immigration. The
fact is, Chinese immigration commenced in
1850. under treaties negotiated by Democratic
administrations, and nearly 10000 came
under those treaties. At that time their inn
migration was encouraged by the Democratic
State authorities of California Shortly be-
fore the adoption of the Burlingame treaty, in
1869, McDougall, the Democratic Governor of
California, published his message recommend
ing legislation which should induce fur
ther immigration and settlement Of the Chi
nese-one of the most worthy classes of our
newly adopted citizens Pursuant to this
recommendation the Democratic Assembly
passed bill providing for five-year contracts
with Chinese laborers; and another Demo-
cratic Legislature slobbered all over the Chi
nese, and asked the President to appoint
commissioner from California to cultivate
more amicable relations with China These
facts are of record, and we'll known in Cali
fornia. No attempt was made to restrict
Chinese immigration until after the Repub-
lican party came into power
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-14

LISTEN to the words Of life-long Democrat,
Howard Briggs, who thus describes In the Put
nam County Democrat the conduct of his own
party:
1.-The Democratic party has of q fact reached
the forks of the road 1t had TO choose between
duty 10 the people and subserviepcy to their op-
pressors-betweep the claims Of labor or the be-
hests of capital With characteristics stupidity
and ashort-sightedness whose parallel and con-
seauent Punishment from power q quarter of q
century ago, it chose 70 fasify its record as tho
friend of labor and sell itself to the money
power. 1t attained power on the solid and dis
tnct pledge Of reform, but its every act has
been base betrayal of that pledge. 1t promised
to lessen the peoples bunaen, but it has added
to them 1t promised retrenchment and econ
omy. but in the first year of its accession to
power il expended more money than was taken
istration which ths people hurled from
power because OF Its extravaganza. IL promised
a return to Democratic simplicity and frugaIity,
but its first act in Congress was to swell the
civil-service list in order that positions might be
provided for the reward OF partisan servants. 1t
has more faith In tho Doodle contributed by the
money holders than it has in the patriotism of
the plow-hoiders. 1t resolved that reform Is
necessary in the civil service, but it is today
clamoripg for return to the spoils system,
which is at war with the very lite of the service
Ii promised to turn the rascals out but il has
put rascals in office, until even the Indianapolis
Sentinel was forced TO cry haiti It's policy has
been continuation and Endorsement OF the pol
icy of its adversary. with an aggravatcn OF its
evils, and without single measure of relief to
an over-burdeued people If It's national policy
county affairs has been even worse; but we for
baar
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-14
WOMAN IN POLITICS.

The Organizer" that more-or-less able or
gan Of the w. c. T. T., is grieved over the
fact that the Journal disapproved of the
demonstrations of the woman delegates at the
national Prohibition convention, and vet in
vites feminine participation in the Republican
campaign. There is not the inconsistency in
this that the Organizer affects to see. In
urging women to form Republican clubs, the
Journal has expressed no encouragement of
such unseemly and vociferous exhibitions as
jumping on chairs, waving bonpets and hand
kerchiefs, fourishing umbrellas, ''hollering7
and getting red in the face. Political enthu-
siasm is commendabls thing in men or
women, if held within certain limits; and
there is reason to believe that the latter can
freely and satisfactorily indulge in it without
loosening their back hair or getting generally
disheveled. Still, if women must .'holler,"
and there are some indications this year that
they must and will, they are much more be-
comingly engaged in throwing up their bon
nets for Harrison than for Rev. Brooks, the
ex-rebel, who disapproves of the equal suf-
frage plank in the third party platform.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-14
TIE WHISKY PARTY.

Contrast the utterances of the New York
Democrats and the Massachusetts Repub.
icans on the liquor question, and then reflect
that the party which condemns all efforts to
restrict the whisky traffic is the one which the
third party is assisting to retain in power,
while it condemns. the other, that demands the
submission of prohibition amendment.
Never was the hollowness Of third party pre-
lenses more clearly shown than in its failure
to indorse measures for which they profess to
be working merely because they are put for
ward by Republicans. Fortunately, how
ever, it is the leaders only who show them
selves such willing tools of the Democracy.
AS the results in Oregon. Vermont and Maine
clearly show, the voters who were expected to
assist in Republican defeat are too sensible to
be led into the trap. The ''tens of thousands
who were to rally to the Prohibition standard
dwindled to hundreds in those three States,
and the same story is likely to be repeated in
all other Northern States in November.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-14

THE Chicago Herod, Democratic, indorses
of the party as shown by the Mills bill, that
il is but step toward free trade or a revenue
for tariff only, and adds:
''This is the logic of the situation. If the
Democratic party fails now to grapple with
this stupendous error it will fail of success in
November"
This is frank, honest and courageous, and
the Journal begs leave to repeat that both Mr..
Cleveland and his party would be stronger if
they were as honest and brave as the Herald.
The people unerringly detect trimmer ana
dishonest man.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-14
THE present head of the Bureau of Stats

THE present head Of the Bureau Of Stats
tics. at Washington, is dyed in the wool
Democrat from Missouri, and would not let
any statistics unfavorable to the Democratic
party go out of his Office if he could help it.
Yet his last report shows that the imports of
the United States for the year ending June
80, 1888, were 1888, 900. 900 and the exports
were $742. 600. 900, leaving balance Of trade
of $41, 600, 900 against US. In the last year of
Republican administration. ending June 80,
1885, our imports were $500, 769, 900 and our
exports $751;, O59, 900, showing balance of
$3.50, 29O 900 in our favor.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-14
CAMPAIGN PERSONALIsM,

The Boston Herald gets of the following:
$50 far back as our recollection runs,
Judge Thurman stands solitary and alone
among all the candidates on the national tick
cts Of the two great parties who can be said to
have entirely escaped the calunny that is
generally heaped on the nominees for Presi-
dent and Vice. president. No reputable news
paper or campaign orator has had aught but
kind things to say of the Old Roman, fact
which speaks volumes for his blameless life,
as well as for the good sense of his political
opponents in recognizing it.
Credit where credit is due. Mr.. Humans
escape from unpleasant comment and the
dragging up of his personal record speaks far
more for the decency and forbearance of Re-
publican press and campaign orators than for
his blameless life. General Harrison's life is
also blameless, and no flaw can be found in
Mr. Morton; both are men of immaculate
character, but they have not therefore, es-
capped calumny. If the Republicans cared to
descend to the use of that sort of ammuni-
ton against either nominee on the other
ticket, they could find plenty Of it to their
hand, and furnished by witnesses of their own
party
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-14

THERE should be some equitable arrange.
ment respecting the occupancy of Tomlnson
Hall. 1t is the only proper place in the city
for the holding of large meetings, and when
distinguished men of any party come here,
drawing to hear them thousands of people,
the city hall is the place to have the meeting
held. We do not believe that the Republican
county committee or the city clerk have taken
any unfair advantage in this matter, and We
are confident satisfactory arrangement can
be effected, if the Democrats desire one in
stead of to pose before the people as lot of
sniveling school-boys, complaining that some
BODY is "scrouging."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-14
stopped.

Four years ago tho Greenback party had a
votes than the Prohibitionists and all other
side-show parties pu. together This year
seven delegates come together at call for
national convention, exchange condolences,
and go their way. While the Republican
party stands ready, as it has for thirty years,
to promote the welfare and meet the demands
Of the people in every line of reform and
progress. the history of the Greenbackers
will be the history of all third-party oppo-
nents. The Greenbacker's place is with the
party of the Greenback.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-14

THE Louisville Times, the evening Demo
cratic organ of that city, boastingly says,
after the Maine election:
Meanwhile the Democrats are not discour-
aged; they have more than held their own,
notwithstanding the Prohibitionists of the
old original temperance State were absorbed
by the Republican party. WE HAVE GOT
THE SOLID SOUTH AND INDIANA NAILED
DOWN. OK TO NEW YORK"
The solid South. Of course, can reasonably
be depended upon; but there may be slip as
to Indiana We copy the paragraph. however,
TO again call the attention of the Republicans
of this State to Democratic plans and pur-
poses. They expect to buy the vote Of In
diana out of hand. The only way to circum-
vent the Democratic corruption is by the
hardest work and the closest organization.
Every Republican must be detective and a
policeman to save Indiana from Democratic
debaucherv
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-14

The hoodlums or. scoundrels, which ever
they may be. who are interfering with polit-
ical meetings in any way. must be summarily
suppressed. They should be caught and
who cut down and carried away the political
banner across Pennsylvania street should be
ferreted out and made an example of. Indian
apolis is not Yazoo county, Mississippi, and
the very first signs of a spirit of hoodlumism
should be squelched incontinently. That the
interference may be more in sport than in
viciousness makes no difference. 1t must be
stoned
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-14
TIE DESTROYED MAIL SERVICE.

If there were no other issue before the peo-
pie, the shameful condition to which the mail
service has been brought under Democratic
management should alone be sufficient cause
it possible to 'turn the rascals out" The
partisan uses to which the service is put, the
dishonesty and inefficiency of the postmasters
and assistants, the disregard of law and private
rights, are outrages upon the public which can
not be characterized in too strong terms. A
deterioration of the service was inevitable
after the dismissal of the trained force which
had brought it so near perfection; but had the
new men been intelligent and competent they
would have attained measure Of skill in their
duties before this time, and complaints would
be fewer than at first. So many of them,
however, were ignorant and incapable, and
appointed for political reasons only. that in
stead of improving the service has steadily
most uncomfortable, and constant source of
anxiety and loss to its patrons. Its prostitu-
ton from its legitimate uses into Demo
cratic campaign factor is disgraceful, and
without parallel in the country's history. The
throwing out of Republican documents, the
failure to deliver Republican newspapers, the
tampering with and losing of sealed letters
from Republican headquarters, are not iso-
lated occurrences. These outrages are
practiced constantly, and as complaints
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-14

A FEW days ago it was announced in tele-
graphic reports that Judge Ney, of Independ-
ence, Ia, had decided that under the prohib-
itory law of that State man had no right to
This ruling had so much the appearance of an
effort to create prejudice against the law that
it is no surprise to learn from the Iowa State
Register that the judge who makes the OBJ
noxious Interpretation is Democrat. The
Register adds: "No friend of prohibition in
tended that the law should have any such
meaning, and the Supreme Court will quickly
override such decision
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-14
HERE is a gem Of rhetoric from sscrstarv

HERE is gem of rhetoric from Secretary
Vilas's recent political effort at Milwaukee:
"Then it was that the monstrous vampire
hidden in the tariff which famed seductively
with the wings of protection the laborer
whose hearts blood it sucks, was begotten in
sin. to rob the toiling producers in the fields
and forests of the wealth they created
Subsequent events show that the vampire
- pretty tolerably powerful up in Vermont
and Maine, and that the benighted laborers
"whose blood it sucks not only make no eff
fort to escape. but positively encourage the
monster in the act.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-14
THE New York Star and other Democrat,

THE New York Star and other Democratic
papers have made much out of statement
by Mr.. Hugh J. Carroll. that Alexander Sulli-
van, of Chicago, would do nothing against
the Democratic party this year, being luke
warm toward the Republican ticket. Mr..
Sullivan promptly contradicts the report. say
ing: my participation in the canvass is
not due to any dissatisfaction with the Re-
publican party or its candidates. am Re-
publican, heartily favor protective tariff,
and will vote for Harrison and Morton"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-14

Ar the G.. A. r. reunion in Columbus, a
dispatch was read from the President express
ing his regrets that public business prevented
his attendance After a moment of silence
one old soldier asked: ibid he send substi-
tute9" This created roar of laughter, which
was increased when some one moved to refer
the Presidents dispatch to the committee on
pensions. Finally delegate asked if Cleve-
land had been invited by any officer of the
Grand Army. Il do not know of any such
an invitation" replied Commander-in-chief
Rea. This announcement was received with
shouts of applause, and the matter ended.
Growers regrets were uncalled for.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-14

whose genius and brilliant qualities partially
everything to chance and luck, assumes the
airs of mighty potentate and swells himself
up to sucL an extent that none of his old ac-
quaintances, or those who made him can get
within speaking distance, men despise him.
This is the kind of punishment Cleveland is
getting now in New York. Thousands of
Democrats who voted for him four years ago
will vote against him this year out of pure re-
venge for mis- insulting treatment of those to
whom he owes the greatest personal and po-
litical obligations.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-14

show, in all parts of the country. Not one
postmaster or route agent but many. are en-
gagged in this unlawful work, and not one but
feels secure from investigation and punish
ment. The responsibility is not upon these
employees, who are merely tools, but upon the
head of the department, and upon President
Cleveland, whose disregard of civil-service
laws give countenance to all the abuses per-
petrated by subordinates. The remedy for
this state of affairs is with the people, and con-
sists simply of taking the authority over such
important public interests from Mr.. Cieve-
lands incompetent hands.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-14

THE reunion of General Harrison's old reg
iment, the Seventeen Indiana, held at Clay
ton. yesterday, was an exceedingly pleasant
occasion for those who participated. General
Harrison's response to an address of welcome
was entirely non partisan, and he particularly
requested that all present should forget poll
tics for one day and meet him and one an
other simply as comrades. This wish was
observed, and politics were not introduced or
referred to in any open way
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-14

THEY had big demonstrations in 1910 as well
as in 1858. The Boston Transcripts calls TO
mind that the day of the Maine election was the
anniversary of an immense Harrison procession
which took place in that city forty-eicht years
ago. 1t is estimated that sixty thousand people
participated in the procession. Every State
and Territory was represented Hard cider was
dispensed at nearly every street corner. In the
procession were 800 banners. The echoes Of the
enthusiasm OF 1s4O which como down to this
generation. sufficiently account for the eager
ness of the veterans who voted for Tippecanoe
to join in the fight for another Harrison. Like
old war horses, they are alert at the signs of
battle, and are anxious to enjoy once more the
sensations of their youth. and to rejoice in an
other great victory.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-14

HoN. GEORGE l.. CONVERSE one of the
old-time Democrats who believes in protec-
ton, has published an interview in which he
says that 1.-The Democratic party made great
mistake, serious blunder. in declaring its
principles He thinks the party should have
been content to stand on ''the straddle" of
1854, and then Mr.. Cleveland would have been
elected. But he says that it is doubtful now,
as New York, Connecticut and New Jersey
are protective Ststes. ur. Converses words
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-14

committed to prohibition as moral question,
it comedies to every member the unquestioned
right of private judgment as to his political
action. The membership of the Methodist
Church is the worst sort Of body to be trans
ferred in any given direction by coterie OF
schemers. The result of the unwise action
of the third-partyites has been to compel
number of the leading members and officials
of the church to declare themselves with
Bishop Newman, who has been falsely claimed
as third party Prohibitionist. He writes a
letter in which he says he votes as he prays.
and shall vote for Harrison and Morton.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-14

REPUBLICAN orators in Indiana do not neg
lect the great issue of the tariff, but they are
also wise in losing no opportunity OF pre-
senting local questions to their hearers. The
people of the State are anxious that their in
dustries shall be protected, but they are also
concerned with the protection of their insane
friends, and the protection of the ballot,
neither of which they can depend upon under
the present Democratic administration Of
Local affoirc
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-14

GENERAL HARRISON knows the surplus is
$lS0.000,000. and avoids making figure.
Chicago Herald.
Grover Cleveland stated the surplus to be
$130,OOO.OOO. The day after his letter
Washington authority stated it to be
$103. $50, 600. Do you know what the surplus
really isl Do you know it to be $3.50, 600, DOOR
What is the surplus, and where will it be one
or two years hence, at the rate of Democratic
expenditure7
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-14
POLITICAL NOTE AND COMMENT.

1T makes us think of the war rsfrain-'sWe
are coming, Father Abraham. 3oe, 900 more !"
Detroit Tribune.
Rev. GEO. l.. CAMERN. Democrat, says: .I
have always regarded New York, New Jersey
and Connections as tariff States, and If am
not greatly mistaken. they viii so declare them
selves in November
GENERAL BUTLER says. in an interview printed
in the Boston Advertiser: Nov say that uu
less this country is ready to fall back into her
condition in i774, the Democrats party will 90
beaten. In my judgment The Democratic party
In the North has been, over since jackson, in
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-14
MIrHop1srs NOT THIRD.PARTY1TEs.

The third-party people have done all they
could to create heimpression that the Metho.
dist Church was favorable to their preposter-
Gus policy of helping to put in power the free
whisky Democrats. The Journal, which
that church, some time ago suggested that
the Fisk and Brooks managers would find it
a difficult job to tie the church to the free
whisky prohibition political alliance, and 90 it
has proved. While the Methodist Church is
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-14

are: 1.-The protective feature of the platform
of 1884 gave Mr.. Cleveland support that he
would rot have received otherwise. Had the
protective plank of the platform of 1884 been
adopted by the st. Louis convention, Mr..
Cleveland could have been reelected, but it
is doubtful now if he can be-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-14

THE New York World has no occasion to be
a fool. even if IL Is Democrat, and SO it says
of General Harrison's letter: 'The letter is
we'll written. 1t is reasonably free from plat
itudes, and contains one or two suggestions
which viii undoubtedly strengthen Mr.. Har-
rison's candidacy"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-14

If it be true that the Republican commit
tee has prs-empted Tomlinson Hall to keep
the Democrats from using it, the trick will be
about on a par with that of the Democratic
committee in pre-empting all the hacks and
carriages for use on election day. Such bust
ness is the small beer Of politics. That Tom
linson Hail, however, has not been pre-
empted, is patent, because the Democracy
have engaged il.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-14

The workingmen of Indiana will read with
Interest the address of their fellows employed
in the mills of Bayview, near Milwaukee.
Eight hundred of them issue an appeal to Wis
eonsin workingmen to vote for Harrison,
Merton and protection. The facts, figures
and arguments of the Bayview address are an
ananswerable argument against the Demo
cratic free trade party and policy.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-14

Hon. WILLIAM WARNER, of Missouri, who
has been elected Commander of the G. A. R.,
will worthily fill that high Office. He is now a
Republican representative in Congress from
s'poor old Missouri
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-14

Ok the 25th Of August the Chicago News,
Cleveland organ, said: elf David B. Hill is
nominated in the convention on Sept. II the
Democrats viii save money by stopping right
where they are and acknowledging Harrisen's
election" Well, David 3. Hill has been
nominated What has the News to say now?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-14

In answer to number of inquiries we state
shat the amount of the surplus In the Treas
ury is officially stated to be $103.950. 0O0.
This at the date of Sept. 10.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-14

THE lot of the New York mugwump, who is
bound to swallow Cleveland, civilservice
record and all, but will not support Hill be-
cause his civil-service record is bad, is very
unhappy one. The role of ''holier-t han-thou"
is mighty hard one to I'LL under the peculiar