The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-01-12
COMMENT AND OPINION.

The Republican party is, to a certain ex-
tent, committed in favor of cheap sugar.
commended fully as much as any other IN
the measure during the last campaign, and
should be Observation-Disclosures American.
HIGH-license Republicans have been Civ
ing the saloOn-keepers fair warning and
notice for years-.toO many years,that high
license was coming. They have had ample
time to sell out and let themselves down
easy if they didn't like it.-New York Press.
FAIR and honorable proceedings at the
congressional polls would tend strongly to
fairness and honor at all other polls. At
the very least, the regulation of Congress
sional elections could not fail to make
bad matter some better.-ChicagO Inter
Ocean.
CAPITAL that was holding back before
election has gone out seeking new invest
ments feeling secure in the promise which
the verdict of the people gave them that
the present wise and well-tried policy of
the country shall be preserved.-DetrOit
Tribune.
No man should be given the right of
suffrage until he is qualified by education,
general knowledge of the Constitution to
which he Swears allegiance, and Identity OF
interest with the land of his adoption, to
exercise that right intelligently and hon.
estly.-Washington Post.
WE suppose that President-elect Harri-
son would rather have the good will of the
South than not. He can get it by giving US
national administration. The South does
not ask for generosity. nor is there any
cause for the exercise of executive clem-
ency. The South wants justice.-Atlanta
Constitution.
MIR. LINCOLN used to say that q nation
could not exist half slave and half free.
Neither can it expect TO exist with half the
country Obeying the law and the other half
defying it; with one-half submitting to be
ruled by a fair ballot and the other half
refusing to- permit fair elections.-Des
MOines Register.
THE simple execution of the laws of the
land and the enforcement of the provisions
of the Constitution over the whole country
alike is what General Harrison and his
party have pledged. This will be done,
and then there will be more talk of a
Southern policy" being needed.--Wheel-
ing Intelllgencer.
THE suppression of the colored vote in
the South must cease. 1t cannot be per-
mitted to go on without pOlluting beyond
the possibility of publication, the very
fountain of national authority and popular
power. The cancer is eating into the body
polite, and it is but q question of time
when it will attack the vital Organs.-Min-
neapOlis Tribune.
WHEN a man is in office few years, and
is turned out, he is worse off than if he had
anything is saved from an official salary,
and he finds himself adrift, out of the line
of business or occupation, aud i'm part
untitled for private duties. The greed for
office is unaccOuntable to sensible men.
Chicago Journal.
THE continued piling up Of standard
dollars serves no useful purpose, and the
silver certificates which are practically re-
deemable only in gold &C ntinue to go into
circulation in place of other forms of money,
and are generally received as equivalent TO
and practically representingthe gold which
they do not prOmise.-New York Tribune.
The Republican party, once more in
national supremacy, will see to it that the
colored element is properly rewarded for
its loyalty to the flag and its fidelity to the
Republic; and President Harrison will use
all the constitutional power he possesses to
see that there is a fair vote and an honest
count everywhere. The discrepancies be-
tween the votes and the population of the
Southern States are not likely to be so
gross and glaring as they are nOw.-Roch-
ester Democrat and Chronicle.