The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-16
COMMENT AND OPINION.

votes of three or four Republican Senators in
whom the Republican party has the least conf
dence-Chicago journal.
GOVERNOR GRAY's ''boom" for the Democratic
nomination TO the vice presidencv is too weak
and puny thing to be exposed to the chilling
blasts of observation-disclosures journal.
The directors of the vincennes & New Albany
road met in Vlncennes. on Friday last and de-
cided that work should begin the enterprise
in early March. Most of the right of way has
been secured.
The Louisville. Evansville & st. Louis road
liz to expend considerable money this year in
building new stations the line. One is to be
erected at Princeton, Ind, to cost 1000.
THE blasphemous clergvmen should come to
some agreement in this matter. The Rev. DR.
ALTERATION Burchard says Mr.. Cleveland is
Gods man for President" while most others of
the free-and easy familiarity with Gods purpose
school hold that the Prohibition party is Gods
choice.-Milwaukee Sentinel.
The short road which is to form a connection
between the Lehigh Valley and Jersey Central
roads is rapidly nearing completion. When the
connection is made the Lehigh Valley will aban-
let and run both its freight and passenger trains
through over the Jersey Central.
THE reason that the price of wheat is lower
than it ought to be to pay the farmers who raise
wheat in this country is that too many farmers
in various parts of the world raising wheat
for the market Some of them should engage in
more profitable industries il it is psssibla find
anything that will pay better. Nebraska State
Journal
IF the colored Republicans of the South will
voluntarily" abstain from voting, they did
az the recent election at jackson, Miss, after
receiving warnings printed in red ink and illum-
mated with pictures of daggers, pistols. aud
death heads, we presume there will be no
trouble" in the fall campagn.-Cleveland
Leader.
The United States was turning out in 1880
Eve and quarter billions of dollars of manu-
features annually; about one fortieth of this.
las, 600. 900, made in the States of the five
Southern members of the ways and means COM
mittee of the House, which is called upon to
pass upon the protection to these industries
Philadelphia Press.
The Decline Gazette says that when the Chi
cago division of the A, Z. & S. F. road is opened
for business. the freight and passenger depart
ments will be separated. Mr. Blaine, at present
having charge of both, will take the freight de-
partment, and j. j. Bryce, now on the Pacific
coast. VIII be appointed general passenger agent.
The company could not we'll make a better Sc
lection.
AS for our belief in the winning power of
good candidate upon platform of protection, it
is one founded on many things Of solidity,
among others on the results of all congressional
elections since 1882. We may be wrong about
it. but we do believe that the Republican party
can win this year, and do it easlv with prop
er candidate upon proper platform.-Philadel-
phia Telegraph.
THE suppression of the suffrage is not war
issue. 1t is a question of imminent, practical
and vital Importance. The present and future
welfare of the whole country is involved in it.
Our national elections legislation and other ap-
pliances of political safety and general prosper
ity all seriously affected by it; and it cannot.
therefore, be put out of sight by any amount of
sophistry and derision.-St Louis Globe-D Demo
@crar.-
LAWYERS say that it will be three or four years
before the Pennsylvania Company get their ap-
peal. in the case where they seek to break the
lease of the St. L. ~ V. road to the Terre Haute
& Indianapolis Railroad Company, before the
United States Supreme Court. Meantime
President McKeen will continue to operate the
road in his accustomed quiet way and make
some money off of the western end of the Van
daia, which has heretofore been an elephant
his hands.
THE whole power of the Knights will be ex-
erted to prevent the miners from going back to
work, even their terms, so long as the
railroad hands are not taken back on theirs. If
the miners can makeIbetter terms for themselves
than bv acting in concert with other strikers
and under the direction of the KNIGHTS, then the
''great principle" upon which the order was
founded is ali moonshine. AS matter of fact.
so it is, but the men who get their living out
of the organization cannot be expected to admit
this. AS matter of fact the fewer men
on strike the easier it is TO take care of them
and the likelier they are to carry their point
New York Times.
No man, be he who or what he may, can sit
upon the bench of the Supreme Court of the
United States who entertains any doubt as to the
validity as to the binding force and effect of
the three great amendments. 1t would be ask
ing too much of the Senate to confirm a man
who is in doubt as to the legal existence of
organic law which he will be called upon to APP
ply over and over again. We do not make di-
vinity professors out of atheists or agnostics;
nd it would be just about as appropriate to call
Bob Ingersol to the rectorship of Trinity
Church as to put Lamar on the Supreme Bench,
IL he has any question as to the legality of these
amendments. San Francisco Chronicle
THE same public sentiment that impelled the
United States Senate to accept and pass the bill
regulat ing interstate commerce would be
aroused to new vigor in the validity of the
commissions acts should be tested and a de-
mand would arise for legislation that would not
be open to con stitutional objections. In that
event Congress would be forced to pass laws, of
uniform and general application, providing for
remedies through the courts that within the
convenient reach of shippers. The shippers
would be gamers in the end by such legislation,
that they may look with complacency upon
the efforts of the railroad interests to resist
the supervision of governmental commissions.
-Philadelphia Record.
Mr.. LAMAR is held to be the originator of the
mississippi plan" of supervising the legal rights
of colored voters. At any rate, he is known to
be in sympathy with it. Here are some millions
OF voters who we're not rebels, denied the right
guaranteed by the Constitution. 1t should be
the determined policy of the Republican Sena-
tors to vote to confirm no man who is believed
to be accountable in any degree for this great
outrage or who is believed to be in sympathy
with it. Eventually this outra ge must be
brought before the Supreme Court It is CO.
lossal wrong, concerning which the attitude of
any man who aspires to the Supreme Bench
should be satisfactory to the Republic Sena-
tors Inc Repuoilcan party can nave no higher
mission than the righting of this wrong, and one
of its principles should be unrelenting opposition
to the appointment of Supreme Court justice
who is believed to be an advocate of Southern
methods of suppressing votes.-0liwaukeeS Sem
tinel.
THE quarrel should be settled, and that
promptly. without more ado, aud, If it is not.
the authorities of the State should move at
once against the illegal combination of the coal
mining and shipping companies, compelling
them to dissolve their combination, and to per-
NIT the ordinary laws of trade to govern the
price of such a prime necessary of life coal.
If there is not sufficient law to met q case
of this kind in which corporate dignity stands
the way of prompt adjustment of difficulties
which bear so GENEROUSLY upon the people, let
law be provided to do it. 1t is monstrous that
two such bodies those engaged this dis
agreement can. by the stubbornness of one or
the other, deprive the people of the country of
fuel heat, and motive power. for that 10 what
will be done unless the trouble be speedily set
tied. A corporaIion created By the people and