The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-08
NJ AND OPINION.

IT is not very creditable to the House of
Representatives of the United States TO say
that it is necessary for the Speaker to exer-
else arbitrary control over debate and leg
islation in the closing hours of Congress in
order to prevent jobbery and corruption.
louisville Commercial.
THE danger of the liberation of bull
doing methods in the Southern States is
illustrated by the deliberate attempt, by
nnii null the laws OF West Virginia, to
the people elected. The theft of the presi-
dency itself is but a step beyond this.-Al-
bany On. w. Journal.
Four years ago the Bourbons wasted lots
OF talk about what they would discover in
going over the books.n When the books
firely, correct after twenty-four years of
Republican administration. The interest
ing question now is. will they be found in
as satisfactory condition after four years of
Democratic rules-Cleveland Leader.
ARE the free-trade tariff reformers. who
are planning a new campaign. going to
hight 1T out on the old linef Let them hoist
a banner, "a tariff is a tax" and give it the
Old meaning, and they will be easily routed
again. If they haul down that banner and
treat, and kept on the run. Go ahead, gen.
tlemen, we are ready for yOu.-Detroit Trib-
une.
PRESIDENT HARRIsON's administration
can please the Democracy by simply giving
TO the people good government. The Eagle
believes that this administration will have
more trouble with its W party, on the
question of office distribution, than it will
with the Democracy, to whom principle
VIII be superior to patronage-at least until
the next Irrational extraordinarily Eagle
(Ind.l
tory as the veto President. The distinction
Will! not be complimentary, for it will be a
notice of the -egOtism, Obstinacy and self
Will that abused a prerOgative which
should have been used with wisdom, mod
esty and self-respect. 1t took a hundred
may it take another hundred at least to
n his equal.-lOwa State Register.
ALTOGETHER, the new Cabinet is a queer
collection of amiable nObOdies. 1t is a very
bold stroke on the part of the new Presi-
dent, but it will not, as the boys say, pan
out. Mr.. Harrison is not as big a man as
General Grant was, and even General
Grants administration was nearly wrecked
and disgraced by the nObodies to whom he
gave Cabinet positions; Let us wait and
see what the result will be.-Atlanta Con-
stitution iDem.)
THE attacks which have been made upon
the management of postal affairs for the
last eighteen months have not had their In
spiratiOn in political p~artisanship, but, on
the contrary, complaints have been made
repeatedly by men of all parties who were
forced to suffer inconvenience and loss by
the negligence and Incompetence of post
Office employees. The degeneracy of the
Postofice Department has become q ma
tiOnal scandaL.-Rochester Democrat.
WITH the exception of Blaine and Win
dom, none of those who have been chosen
to advise the chief executive as to the con-
duct of the affairs of the Nation have
more than a local reputation. They may all
be very able men, but they have given no
conspicuous evidence of it, and do not give
character to the new administration. 1t
is evident that the idea has been either to
emphasize Blaineism in the Cabinet by
making Blaine the only conspicuous MEM
Der of it, or else to give the President an
members, to have and enforce a policy of
his own. Time will show which view
is the correct one.-Memphis Avalanche