The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-07-30
THE INDIANA STATE PRESS.
Interesting Expressions of Political Opinion
from the Counties fthe State.

from the Counties OF the State.
Turpie comes about as near filing Ben Harri-
sons seat as a navy bean would Q barrel
-Brookville American.
The record of Senator Harrison is 30 thor
oughly in accord with the best American citi-
Zenship that the agreement 10 causing the De-
mocracy much anxiety-Auburn Dispatch
Persons who have been travelling over the
State say Republican prospects were never so
good as at present. The party is harmonious.
full of enthusiasm and confident OF success.
-Bluffton Chronicle.
General Harrison improves with each speech.
alarmed lest he make q blunder or wear out"
before the campaign is over. Let er 60, Harri-
eon. e Haute Express.
Free trade or protection is the issue, and the
Democratic party is showing a growing desire
to avoid its discussion. Having forced the is
sue, they must face the music and abide the
consequences. Benton Republican.
II the Democratic party is not a free-trade
party it ought not to have adopted the Presi-
dents message and the Mills bill as a part of
their platform, nor ought they to be running
Cleveland for President.-Clay County Enter
prise.
The President has made two appointments to
the Supreme Beneh-Lamar and Fuller-one an
unrepentant rebel and the other q Northern
copperhead. The South already has one foot in
the saddle and is preparing to mount. -Lafay-
cite Courier.
The present campaign is the most important
and far reaching in its results of all the cam
interests of the United States. but almost
equally concerns the interests OF England.
Monticello Herald.
Tippecanoe county will 90 to indianapolis on
Aug. z. A few people may remain behind to
watch the city, and see that no one carries it
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absent that day, paying their respects to Gen.
Ben Harrison. Lafayette Call.
1t is not the weakened Democrats that are
coming over to Harrison and Morton, it is the
strengthened ones. Strong men, intelligent
meu-men with brains and ideas and strong
joints-are the kind that are standing mp for
protection and the American flag against free
trade and the red bandannA Columbus Repuo-
licau.
The Democrat says Henry Booze. ore of the
largest wool-growers 10 Greene county, is free
trader. That is true. and he is a Democrat who
would be in favor of the highest protective
duties should his party so declare. 1t is also
true that Mr.. Booze has two years wool clip in
bis barn now, because he can't get as high a
price for it as he could before the tariff on wool
was lowered 10 per cent-Worthington Times.
Fifty years ago the Democratic party was the
party Of publication; twenty-five years ago the
party of human slavery, and to-day the party Of
free trade. 1t has never improved only as it has
been forced to do SO. 1t has been compelled to
advance in order to be within objecting distance
of the Republican party. but has never taken
the lead in the advocacy Of q single great meas
ure now upon our statute ks.-Winchester
Herald.
DR. E. W. Harmon, of this city, who was a
soldier, has concluded that there are too many
vital interests at stake in this campaign for him
to aid n keeping the Democrats in power by
throwing away his vote on the third-party ticket
sl.- FL - 4. IL. hSa NtoD 90 n %
for General Harrison this fall. The Doctor will
make a speech at an early date and give HIS
reasons for the faith that 10 in im.-WInches-
ter Journal.
The conviction of Coy and Bernhamer may
operate as a deterrent TO open and daring DEM
ocrstic fraud in Indiana this year, but the
Bourbons may be expected to perpetrate scan
dalous outrages upon the ballot just the same,
taking care that their tracks are well covered.
The Democratic party never won a campaign
fight honestly and fairly. Republicans will ind
that eternal vigilance is the price Of success Of
the party and Of good government in Indiana
this yenr.-Wabash Plain Dealer.
If Gen. Ben Harrison, who is the father of
the first dependent pension bill ever introduced
in Congress-, had been elected President in 1854
instead OF the present big mud-drum and soldier
bater, all old soldiers who are unable to earn q
living at manual labor would be getting $l2 per
month pension. There are . number OF old
soldiers in this county now who are not able to
work. but are forced to work or live on the
charity of the people. II is a shame and dis
grace to thus treat the defenders OF this coun-
State.
The more this Euglish. Southern Confederacy
free trade idiocy Is studied the more plainly
does its scoundrelism to the poor and struggling
laboring classes of America appear. 1t is o
scheme in the interest of the great manufactur-
ing concerns Of England. the wealthy importers
and the INSCRIPTIONS money lords of America.
Thanks TO our form of government the poor and
middle classes have the opportunity TO vote
Down and out of power the men and party that
proposes to degrade and pauperize them. and in
November next will do so.-Liberty Herald.
Let the people remember that the Indiana
Hospital for the Insane is still in the hands of
the horde of corrupt Democratic spectators.
who have increased their private fortunes and
rewarded their friends 70 the detriment of the
institution and the irreparable injury and abuse
OF the unfortunate individuals therein confined.
The same dishonorable practices are still carried
on and the same rogues and ward ~claouers are
still in charge of the States insane. Will the
voters Of Indiana suffer this state of affairs to
remain for the next two yearsl-Princeton
Leader.
In the gas aud oil belt of Indiana the manu-
facture of glass has become Q vast and
expansive industry. furnishing employment TO
thousands Of men, skilled and uuskilled. at fair
and generous American wages. The gas terri
tory includes an area in Huntington county,
Blackford. Grant, Miami aud Wabash. in this
congressional district Should the Mills bill
pass the Senate the glass-works OF our district
would have TO succumb TO the inevitable, unless
they could get labor to run them as cheaply as
the hslf-clothed and half-fed hordes of over
crowded Europe run their factories. Hunting
ton Herald.
Ii Is OF the utmost Importance that our best
speakers be placed where they will do the most
good. Where can they do the most goodf We
answer, In the country school-house. There
they are always sure of an earnest and attentive
audience. IL may not be a large ariience.
probably not more than q dozen farmers. but il
viii. be an audisnce that eagerly takes fact and
argument The Journal can speak for Carroll
county. IL can say that its farmers are inteili-
gent and well read. They ara on the alert