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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-05

THE Louisville Commercial in editorial
concerning the state of affairs in the city treas
ury of New Albany. says:
''If the accounts of Treasurer Weir are as
straight as he claims they are, there is no reason
why he should so persistently refuse to surren-
der his books for examination. 1t the result
should vindIcate him, he would be the most
popular man in Floyd county. and this he knows
as well as any one else Yet he chooses the op-
posite course, and retards IN every way IN his
power the investigation. Certain members of
the City Council by their votes and acts, seem
to think that they represent Mr.. Weir, instead
of the taxpayers. Their acts and votes are
closely scrltinized, and conjectures very I'M
complimentary in character are made Why
should they object to an investigation! Why
want the report closed now, when 1t is lncom-
pletel These questions are being asked every
| where
Members of New AIbany's Council must
| push the pending investigation to the end, and
| if a shortage is found let the city prosecuting
| attorney have the power and the necessary aid
| to put the matter before the court it should
| be- There is tremendous power. power In
| politics. and money power, behind Sam Weir,
| and it is known fact that it is being used to
| burst the investigation The last meeting OF
| the Council showed that it had begun to work.
Let the citizens of New Albany see their coun-
cimen, and tell them that an investigation, full
and complete, must be had. If the result is a
yindication of Mr. Weir. it Will be advantageous
both to that gentleman and the city; but if, on
the other hand, it shall appear that the city s
money has been wrongly appropriated, the
sooner the knowledge Is arrived at the better
for all Interested
Judging from the past, the road to COM
plete Investigation will be hard one to travel.
but right is might and the battle should be
fought out on the line of justification if inno-
| cent punishment if guilty.
IAN honest man is fearless man. Clad in
the panoply of his virtue he meets his accusers.
| not with threats of assassination, but with the
| confidence begotten by the knowledge of his
| probity. courts an inquiry into his conduct and
| accounts.
sTJ'ba Commercial has no time nor disnosition
| to stop long enough to listen to the blackguard
| ism of the New Albany Ledger, which is sup
| ported by the ring, and defends all plunderers
| both in city and county. If the Ledger will put
out little energy and tell us something about
the missing fifty-two pages of record then il
| will have done greater work than is suspected
| of it.
Let the finance committee of the New Albany
City Council stand by the investigation which
| has been begun. The members of that commit
| tee viii see that the people will stand by them
| 1t is due to the taxpayers. A halt now will be
| a sign of cowardice worse.
| 'Let the truth come out; let the light in"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-05

WE want TO see some of the Anglo maniacs
and freetrade doctrinaires tackle the state
ment made by Senator Sherman that mine
tenths Of the manufactured commodities used
by American farmers are cheap in this
country as they are in England. and in some
instances cheaper" Also the statement chat
the clothing worn by workingmen, including
blankets, is sold in the United States at as low
prices as in London or Liverpool" Great
solid facts like these good for adolescent
young free traders to cut their teeth on.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-05
THE Jackson (Miss.) Clarion wants
maintained.

THE jackson (Miss.) Clarion wants a sys-
tenn Of school books constructed on the Mis-
sissippi plan. Hear it:
1--WE have the brains in Mississippi to do it;
economy demands it, and the extortionate
prices paid to present authors of school-books
since the war necessitates some such measure
as an Independent and protective measure; and
further, battle against the installation into
our posterity that we, their ancestors, are
traitors. We are paying over three hundred per
cent. more for books now than in ante-bellum
days, without cause. and quietly allowing
Northern authors, through their histories, to
tell our children we are traitors, and by al
lowing them used, indorsing it."
It is pity indeed, that Mississippi chill
dren could not study school-books that would
impress their minds with the holiness of the
lost cause, and the sacred duty of kissing the
rebel flag as long as scrap of it can be found.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-05

THE Republican club of New York correct
ly states intelligent opposition to the con-
firmation of Mr.. Lamar, when it says: t'Our
opposition to Mr.. Lamar is not due to the fact
that he is Southerner, or was identified with
the late rebellion. We do not oppose him on
any political grounds. We base our opposi
ton upon the fact that he is not in sympathy
with the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments
to the Constitution of the United States, not
withstanding his declaration to the contrary.
His political actions in Mississippi since the
war demonstrate that he is totally unfit to
construe judicially the amendments referred
to and the law enacted to carry out the same"
All accounts agree that several Democratic
Southern Senators would vote against Mr.
Lamar on the grounds OF his unftness for the
place of Supreme judge, but it is demanded
by the "Solid South" that ne shall be
elevated to that court as representative
of the Decentralization idea of the rebellion,
and, therefore, he will be supported by the
"solid" vote of the Democracy. That is reason
enough for solid Republican opposition.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-05
GERMAN TEACHING MUST GO.

The decision Of the committees of the st.
Louis school board that the German language
shall no longer be taught in the public schools
of that city, is significant occurrence. st.
Louis has a large German population, and it
has been argued that if not unjust, it was at
least impossible to deprive the children Of so
influential body Of citizens of the privilege,
so long enjoyed, of studying the parents
native language at public expense. Opposition
to the teaching of such non-essential branches
of learning has long existed, however, and the
growing tendency of those in control opermit
in any other direction, has increased che
objections The annual cost of instruction IN
the language amounted last year to something
over 100000, while at the same time
the school funds so low that
it was a problem how expenses were to
be met. Suggestions from interested citizens
that German be dispensed with were ignored,
and, as customary in such cases, reduction
in teachers salaries was proposed by the board
as a feasible mode of lessening expenses.
Ih6 question became an ISSUE az 1no idIA
election of school trustees, and much to the
surprise even of the anti-German element, no
difficulty was found in electing the men OF
their choice. Upon investigation it was found
that the supposed demand by native Germans
that their language be taught was, to some
degree, at least imaginary, and that many of
them were quite willing to accept English in
struction alone. The burden of maintaining
this costly adjunct to the school system
was found to have been imposed upon the
public more as a political measure than for
any other cause It will now, however, be
dropped, and the $50, 900 applied where it will
do more good.
The conditions which have existed in st.
Louis are the same under which Indianapolis
schools suffer. The tendency everywhere is
towards simplifying the school system, and
the decision in st. Louis shows that public
sentiment there has been reused to demand it.
It is only question of time when like re-
form will be brought about here, and the
school men will show wisdom by giving heed
to the signs that their hobby must 60.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-05

THE Rev. DR.. Rawlins, of Spencer, Ind,
presented the following petition to his congre
CATION very large one, a recent Sunday
night and it was about unanimously signed:
.'To the Honorable Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the Congress of the United States:
1.-The undersigned citizens of the United
States. out of pure love to their country, do
hereby earnestly petition that you will not al
low Utah to become State so long as the local
civil power of the Territory remains In the
hands of the Mormon priesthood, and the peo-
pie evade or refuse obedience to the present
laws of Congress against polygamy."
This will do to copy in every town and city
where the people think the twin relic of
barbarism" should not be protected by State
autonomy for the benefit of the solid South.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-05

where the protective tariff has not already
meliorated it, is somewhat akin to what the
whole country would be when we import all
manufactured articles, and our entire popula-
ton are engaged in agriculture, or else our
own manufacturers are upon a foreign basis
and wages adjusted to European standard.
Mr.. Barry's report, which we print elsewhere,
is worth serious attention. 1t is not the talk
of politician, but of an intelligent represent
alive of workingmen.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-05

Mr.. THOMAS b. BARRY, of the executive
board of the Knights of Labor, has paid a
visit to the Southern States and he paints a
picture of the condition of labor in that sec
ton of the country which should be read and
studied by every workingman in the country.
The Southern States have always been free
trade in sentiment they have never, until
lately, been touched with the benefits Of pro-
lection; they were for four years under an
ideal free-t trade confederate constitution. AS
near as possible the condition of those States
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-05
The Objections to MR.. Lamar.

New York Press.
First-He has not single qualification fos
the place from the standpoint or legaI aolilty-
Sacond-When the question of passing upon
the validity of the 18th, 14th and 10Th amend
ments to the Constitution was before Congress
TbirdNHe was an originator of the 'Missis.
Slim; niann of murder intimidation and fraud
To prevent lawfully qualified voters from exer-
cising rights guaranteed by these amendments.
Eo9rtb-He declared from his seat in the
Senate that he would not hear Jefferson Davis
denounced as traitor without raising his voice
in protest
Fifth-Within the past year or fifteen months
he defended Calhounism and Calhoun
These are the reasons for opposing Lamar
and plainly speaking. The Press says his APP
pointment was much more of an insult to the
foyal people of this country than was the at
tempt of the President to send back the cap
tured rebel flags.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-05

GOVERNOR GRAY informs Grover Cleve-
land that his free-trade message to Congress
is nothing but plagiarism or rehash of great
truths that Isaac uttered in bis cam
paign of 1884. This is almost scandalous
conduct on the part of an aspiring young
statesman who is moving heaven and earth to
be the tale piece to Cleveland or to any other
man on the national ticket Does Governor
Gray think this is the way to impress the
lump of clay in the White House9 He mis-
takes the Democratic behemoth, if he does.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-05

THE St. Louis Republican, the Democratic
paper, says of the action of the school COM
mittee: reform is not ended with the re-
moval of German from the school curriculum.
Drawing, the art of making mud-pies and 9TH
err frills should engage the attention of the
committees at the earliest practicable moment.
The board is pledged to a platform of COM
mon sense and the sooner the schools are
brought to common-sense basis, the sooner
will the promises made to the people be full
filed
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-05
Protection in the South.
New York sun.

Not many weeks ago the leading newspaper
of Alabama, the Mobile Register, impressiyely
declared its sentiment in favor of protection to
American industries and American wofkin gmen;
and now we find the following utteranee in the
Age. of Birmingham, another important Demo-
cratic journal of the same State:
We will carry the protection banner for Alabama
and Alabama's workingmen if other paper will do
it. and take chances.
This is now the prevailing opinion of every
Southern State except. possibly. Florida and
Mississippi The changes that have taken place
in those great commonwealths during the past
twenty years are exceedingly instructing.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-05

II the State Board of Agriculture can dis
pose of the present State fairgrounds on
favorable terms it should not fail to take adj
vantage of the opportunity. Indianapolis
part of the city will be equally convenient to
all concerned, and in many respects will be
more advantageous. The fair is with us but
one week in the year, and the ground it now
occupies will soon be needed by new residents
who will remain permanently.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-05

THE public is not likely to get wildly ex-
cited over the fight between Chicago Anar-
chists and Milwaukee brewers, even though
it be true, as declared, that there is great
principle" involved. If the Anarchists want
to boycott Milwaukee beer the people of the
country will try to be resigned, and if the
brewers retaliate by fixing it SO that not an
Anarchist can get drink of beer in Chicago"
even then they will look complacently on.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-05

Mr. EvARTs says the Republican Senators
can be trusted about the case of Mr.. Lamar.
and intimates that the public ha We no
right to interfere. We do not know about
that. We can tell. better after the vote is
taken. and in any event the people have a
right to talk about the case as much they
please and to express their opinion about it as
plainly as they please. Mr.. Evarts to the
contrary Notwithstanding.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-05
LIQUOR LAW VIOLATIONS.

A jury in the Criminal Court found a sa-
loon keeper guilty of violating the law, on an
appeal from the Mayor and doubled the fine,
but refused to impose the work house sentence
that had been added to the fine in the lower
court. There has been enough of this sort of
performance by weakened or weak-headed
Criminal Court juries. Saloon-keepers do not
care cent for the occasional fines that may
be imposed upon them; they can make money
by pa ying them and violating the law. What
is wanted is to send some of these law breakers
to the work house, and it is disgraceful to the
iuries in the Criminal Court that it can be
said of them that never has a work-house SEN
tence been imposed in an app called case from
Mayor Dennys court. The juries could not
do better for the saloon-keepers if they were
in their employ. and it is high time to stop
this trifiing with the law. The liquor cases
in the Criminal Court are being watched as
they never have been before. and if weak or
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-05

IT looks as if the committee appointed by
the new Democratic organization to quiet
factional strife might find its first job right at
headquarters. The differences of opinion in
regard to those resolutions indorsing Gov.
Gray for the vice-presidency may need at
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-05

THE way the free traders put it to their
inner consciousness is this: "It's great pity
all the statesmen are protectionists, and that
our side has no better champions than college
professors and congressman whose tariff
oratory is off the same piece with the elo-
cuence used in criminal law practice"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-05

THE celebrated tariff message was little
slow in getting into circulation down in
Texas, but finally the Texans heard of it, and
now President Cleveland is hearing from
Texas. There is..reasonto believe that one Of
those promised supplementary messages will
soon be issued.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-05
THE STREET RAILWAY.

The recommendations of the Mayor re-
specting the Citizens Street-railway Company
should receive the prompt attention Of the
Council. The subservience of the late Coun-
ellis to the Tom johnson monopoly was Scan
dalous and the bad taste left in the mouth
by their action and non action should be done
away with by wholesome and needed reforms at
the hands of the present bodies. If the state
ments of Mr.. Denny be true, and he is lawyer
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-05

but that it will be much harder to elect him
than four years ago. ''You can readily antici-
pate what the President had in his minds
eye when he wrote his free trade message"
said he. "His idea is to cater to the South
and the free-trade element in New York City.
Within these bounds Mr.. Cleveland thinks he
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-05

THE Democracy are going to initiate Re-
publican tactics and organize a Hendricks
Legion throughout Indiana. Let the legion
be formed. There was another organization
somewhat: famous in history. and the record
is that "the name was legion" 1t is the
Lincoln League that shifts victory in the air,
and goes prancing along toward the ides of
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-05

Hon. JOHN SHERMAN, it is said, spent
more time upon the preparation of the speech
he made yesterday than upon any he has
ever delivered. The speech, which is printed
this-morning, shows it. It was very unfortu-
nate that Mr.. Sherman and Mr. Voorhees,
should both speak upon the same subject the
same day-for Mr. Voorhees,.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-05

THESE are days when the Cleveland Lamar
Villas Don Dickinson-free-trad solid
South combination is doing some very I'M
comfortable sweating. And it may be re-
marked, also, that the atmosphere is not par
ticularly pleasant for Republican milksops
and the statesmen" who believe in apologizing
for the results of the war, and in giving the
front seats to representatives of State SOW
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-05

MANAGERS of the new Democratic organiza-
ton in Indiana are wise in providing special
arrangements for taking cognizance of fac
tional fights in the party; but the ''straighten-
ing OUT committee should be composed of
men who can stand great physical and mental
strain. The business of that committee will
begin at once, and there will be no picnics to
brighten its weary way.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-05

In forbidding inventor Kelley to remove his
motor from where it now stands, or to vary its
construction mode of operation, Judge Fin
letter, of Philadelphia, proves himself to be de-
void of .vibratory sympathy.n
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-05

Mr.. HIGGINS, late appointment clerk of the
Treasury probably wishes he had followed the
example of Mr.. Lamar and hung on to the Office
he had until another was sure. The astute
Eugene should have learned before this that the
promises of politicians but frail depend
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-05

THE Journal welcomes Mayor Denny as
convert to it's theory that it is possible for the
fire department to assist in spripkling the
streets without interfering with their other
duties Next we shall bring Chief Webster
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-05

Now honestly, you free traders and tariff
reformers, how do you like the John Phoenix
way in which Senator Voorhees, 'fdid up"
Statesman Sherman2
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-05

THERE is something unique and comical in
the beer-brewers rising up and shifting the
beer guzzling Anarchist. Who can imagine
anarchy or an Anarchist without saloon at
tachment7
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-05

SENATOR SHERMAN's speech ought to be
printed as campaign document and circu-
lated broadcast throughout the country.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-05

Hon. HENRY S. NEAL, leading Demo-
cratic politician of Ohio. is reported by the
Cincinnati Enquirer to think that Cleveland
will be the nominee of the Democratic party,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-05

Mr.. SHERMAN confined himself to facts and
figures; Mr.. Voorhees, scared far above and
beyond such paltry and material considera-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-05

THE Cleveland and Voorhees, combination
made its first flyer on yesterday. 1t will be
Gov. Gray's turn next week.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-05
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL

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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-05

tachment?
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-11-19
ANgNIT-g. ~ orrosI.a corN.EL.

AMENITIES or OPPOSING COUNSEL.
for, ar boz this casc. the suit may be- nomnally
between private parties, and yet the gov
eminent" meaning the party 10 power in
the house of commons, and from which The
cabinet is selected. ho The real party IN inter-
est IN uch cases. contrary % all American
ideas o. fair dealing, the attorney general
often act, for the parts WHO Is on the gov
eminent side. The annexed engraving rep
resents the attorney general SIR Richard
Webster, opening the case, with the asso-
ciafe counsel and other "big Wigs grouped
around him.
Sir Charles Russell. leading counsel for the
Irish members. is one of the most suave Of
gentlemen, ana maintain, the most cordial
personal relations with the opposing counsel;
hut the Am.r ican reader vino notes the sharp
passages between them IN the course Of the
examination may incline 70 consider this
much like The quasi friendly haudshake be
tween two pugii.is just before they proceed
To- The serious business Of smashing each
others couutnanccs out Of all likeness TO
humanity.
As all American readers know, the qucs-
ton Of home rule for lrclandshas reused all
the fury possible between belhgcrent Celt
and stubborn Saxon. and 1t was only natural
that the organization of the Land League and
the attempts If the British authorities in Ire
land 10 suppress 1t should lead 10 what is
called "agrarian outrages." And as there
are always hoiheaded and revergeful indi-
viduals, there have been some murders, Of
which the most noted was the assassination
Of Cavend,sh and Burke in Phoenix Park,
Dublin Following this The London Times
published series Of articles headed Par
nellsm and Crime, charging the response
bilty for these murders upon the Farnellites
Finally, 10 published alleged letters Of Mr.
Parnell Wsufying the murders Messrs
Panen and Egan promptly denounced these
letters as foreeries Hence tine suit-nomi-
nallya civil suit. but really an attempt 70
determine iudicially whether the Irish mem
beers Of parliament have been melting 10 out
rage and murder
II is. therefore. q tral Of the greatest po-
iucal importance important that the
government consented to set aside the regu-
lar judicial machinery and have the case
tried by commission Of eminent judges
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-11-19

a large interest in the much talked Oh Sou'n
Pennsylvania railroad.