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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-01-10

ly to the expense of government, as well
as the Generalization of society, the
people are determined to curtail the evil.
The Republican party of Indianais fully
committed to the policy of high tax and
local option. They have declared in
State convention that politics and leg
islation should be kept free from the
influence of the saloon. The liquor
traffic must obey the law. We favor
legislation upon the principle of local
option, whereby the various commune
ties throughout the State may do as they
shall deem best-either control or sup
press the traffic in intoxicating liquors."
In addition to this, the present S1OO-lim-
itatiOn ON city dram shop licenses should
be repealed. so that every city and town
may impose the highest tax possible.
The present management OF the State
benevolent institutions calls loudly for
reform. The system is radically wrong,
and not in accord with the spirit of the
age. In the case of some of the institu-
tiOns, notably the Insane Hospital, it has
led to scandals and abuses which have
brought disgrace on the State. The
fundamental error of the present sys-
TEN is in making the institutions the
spOils of politics. thus converting what
should be a public benevolence into a
political machine. Their management
should be entirely removed from party
politics. Indiana is far behind some
other States in this regard, and will con-
tinue to be until our Legislature realizes
that the honor and reputation of the
State are of more Importance than
temporary party advantage, or the re-
warding of political harpies of the DR..
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. school.
There is room for reform in the school
book question, and, perhaps, in the
school laws. Something should be done
to reduce the cost of school books and to
encourage or enforce larger attend
ance in the schools. As now organized
they are not fulfilling their mission.
Theoretically they are>free schools, but
practically they do not reach the people.
4 large and increasing number of chill
dren of school age are growing up in
ignorance and truancy. In time these
will in turn become the parents of other
tr'uant and ignorant children, thus
adding to the mass of illiteracy and the
dangers of the State. 1t may be that
reducing the cost of school books will
contribute to an increased attendance in
the schools.
/ These are some of the important mat
ters that will demand the attention of
the Legislature, but not all. They re-
late strictly to the domestic affairs and
good government of Indiana. There
lis enough in the proper consideration
and disposition of these and other
kindred questions to occupy the entire
time of the Legislature without giving
any attention to national affairs OF par
tisan politics. The people have a right
to expect that the Legislature will at
tend to the bushes for which it was
elected.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-01-10
PERSEVERANCE IN RASOALITY.

The Democrats have concluded not to
hermit acknowledgement Robertson
TO preside over the Senate during it's or
ganization. Thus they begin, as they
did two years ago, by trampling on the
Constitution and ignoring the will of the
people. They do this to preserve their
consistency and vindicate their rascally
record of two years ago. They are act
ing ON the theory that man might as
well be hung for stealing a sheep as a
lamb. Perhaps, from their stand point,
they are right; for their record in this
business is so bad that nothing they do
can make it worse.
The exclusion of Lieutenant governor
Robertson from the Senate chamber, and
the usurpation of his functions, in 1889,
rests on a different basis from that of
1887. Then it was insisted that Green
Smith, being President of the Senate,
was ex OfficiO Lieutenant Now
he is no longer a member of the body,
and it is proposed to elect new usurper,
although the present Senate is new
body and Col. Robertson has been recog-
nized as Lieutenant governor, and act
ed as such on the State Board of Equal
ization for two years. The entire pro-
ceeding is characteristic of the Indiana
Democracy.
The Republicans would be justified in
asserting and enforcing the right of
Lieutenant-governor Robertson to pre-
side over the Senate at allhazards and at
any cost, but tits sometimes better to sub
NIT to violence than to retaliate in kind.
In the present case there is not enough
involved to justify resort to extreme
measures, and the Republicans will find
better way to vindicate their position
and punish the high-handed outrage
which it has been decided to perpetrate
for a second time.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-01-10

Office of President, and received that
nomination-as / know from unques-
toned authority-absolutely unpledged.
The only promise he made was that, if
elected, he would conduct the admins
tration on Republican principles Mr..
Haines is General Harrison's pastor, and
is not Gin politics." but he is probably
quite as well qualified to speak on this
subject as are the corps of newspaper
correspondents who daily evolve columns
of news" about the President-elect
from their inner consciousness.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-01-10

A CONVENTION of representative col
ored men, numbering about $50, assem-
bled in Montgomery, Ala, on Tuesday,
and continued in session yesterday, to
discuss what might be called a modus
vivendi-or, in other words, how to i'm
prove their condition in the South. A
Montgomery dispatch says:
THE body adopted resolution indorsing
the Blair bill, and asking the Alabama
members of Congress to urge it's passage
and support the measure. Other questions
discussed were: How shall we bring about
better state of feeling between the racesf
How will we obtain equal accommodations
on railroads. How shall we make the pub
lie school system more beneficial to our
own racer How shall we obtain fair
election and countP The sentiment of the
convention is decidedly against the emil
grafton and colonization movement. The
speakers expressed themselves as satisfied
with this country, and say the race is deter
mined to stay here with the white people,
if they are allowed to do so, and promise to
do all in their power to live in peace with
all, endeavoring to educate their children
and accumulate property"
This brief outline of the proceedings
of the convention is highly creditable to
those composing it. All the trustworthy
information we get concerning the con-
duct of the better class of colored peO-
pie in the South indicates that they are
making steady progress on the right
lines. Such a convention as this, held
in the heart of the old slaveholdine
region, and in the very city where the
provisional confederate government was
born, shows that the world does move
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-01-10

cheerfully subscribe to the declaration
that patriotism is next to goodness"
and that it is 'the duty of every COM
rade to preach patriotism, to practice it,
and to teach it to the youth of the land"
In fact, every veteran does, in effect,
subscribe to these principles when he
becomes member of the order. If in
carrying them into practice he lays him.
self open to the charge of partisanship,
it is because patriotism and Republican
ism are terms practically synonymous,
but it is only the small calibered
Koontzes who are willing to cast odium
upon their party by acknowledging that
Democracy does not mean loyalty to the
country. Adler and shrewder Democrats
prefer to share with their political op-
ponents the credit of working for the
public good, regardless of party. Only
men who are Democrats first and
patriots or not as the party orders will
abandon the Grand Army to join an
ayOwedly partisan association.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-01-10
1t Pays to Read Newspapers.

A workingman in this city who was COM
planning of hard times recently was asked
paper, s'Weli," said he, II hope 1 shall
never be too poor to take apaper. Thought
/ was too poor for ten years after / was
married. My wife suggested that take a
paper regularly and did SO, and it was the
me home evenings. afforded me pleasure
and instruction and was a comfort TO the
whole family. ! had to stop the use of to-
bacco for whole year once in order to pay
for the paper. and the result was that l
that one item have saved enough to pay
for several daily papers. So long as have
money enough to buy bread with l will
have money enough to pay fer my news
paper. There is not man too poor to read
ment he can make, both Tor himself and
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-01-10

INVENTORS ought to have their
rights, but Mr.. Pease, of Iowa, will
probably have extraordinary difficulty
In proving his claim to be the original
inventor of the telephone. He says he
perfected it in 1872, but it will require a
vast amount ofexplanation to satisfy the
courts as to the cause of his silence all
these years, while the Drawbaugh suits
and other telephone controversies have
been going on. The Journal does not
wish to prejudice his case, but will, never-
theless, venture the opinion that Pease
will save useless expense by ringing
Off early.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-01-10

THE raging quarrel between Kansas
City Democrats over an unexpected va
cancy in the postoffice leads Demo-
cratic paper of st. Louis to remark that
fighting over an Office which will be in
charge of Republican before the June
roses blow, would seem to be pastime
for such Democrats only as must be very
hard no for amusement and employ
ment." This paper seems to forget that,
as stated by the esteemed Mr.. Curtis,
Democrats are not only very hungry,
but very thirsty" and also that those
who got nothing of the administration
are naturally hungrier at the end of four
years than they were at first. 1t is I'M
kind to jeer at party brethren who are
furnishing even for taste of the spoils.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-01-10

THE Louisville Courier-Journal sneers
at the idea of farm-hands earning good
wages in Massachusetts,, which State, it
says, "can produce nothing with fertili-
ty but arrogance and trade humbug."
The CD. has probably never heard of
the profits of high farming, dairy farm
ing, poultry farming and other branches
extensively pursued in New England.
There are men in Massachusetts who
make more money off of twenty acres
than the average Kentucky farmer does
from five hundred.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-01-10
The Ingenious Fishers of Men.

By the sleepless correspondents who are
now timing the calls on the President
elect, the visit of the Studebaker brothers
from South Bend was accurately booked.
1t was taken for granted. as a dispatch
says, that the boom for Blaine was to get n
boost, and that incidentally Ex-Governor
Long were the faces, then, when it APP
peared on rigorous questioning that tho
brothers had only called by appointment
to sell couple OF carriages, and had not
been asked what they knew about Cabinet
making. The net result of the inquisition
is that General Harrison insists on paying
the regular price for what he orders, and
that the brothers have his order for an
inauguration coach" to cost $1,000 and 10
family carriage at $1,000. To call for a
Cabinet and get a coach is better luck than
usual The country may be assured that
nothing escapes the fishers of men in In
dianapOlis
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-01-10

GEN. CLINTON b. FISK, late Prohibi-
ton candidate for the presidency, re-
Gently paid high tribute to General
Harrison's valor and Christianity in a
speech delivered at Red Bank, NJ. The
value of this testimonial will probably
be appreciated by the recipient when he
remembers that General Fisk worked
for the reelection of Grover Cleveland,
whose valor and Christianity he does not
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-01-10
The Chatter About Rich Senators.
hfladelnhia Press

The Senatorial elections, due in week
or So have set going the usual charge that
the Senate is "rich mans club" and that
the seats in each State as they come in GO
to the highest bidder. This is all nonsense.
The Senate has fewer rich men in proper
ton to its size and the wealth of the conn
try than any other upper chamber in any
one of the larger European countries. Not
over one-fifth of the members of the Senate
are wealthy in the provincial sense; not
one-seventh are wealthy enough TO stand a
New York rating. and only one, Leland
Stanford, is many times millionaire. One
half are men of moderate means, and the
leading men in the Senate are poor men.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-01-10
A Southern Protectionist.

New York Graphic.
The solid South has given new evidence
of its shaky condition politically by the
action OF Senator Brown, of Georgia, in
on Saturday in favor of protective features
of the tariff bill. Senator Joe" Brown. as
he is familiarly known, is the weaithIest
Southern man in the Senate, and one of the
wealthiest men of his section. He has wide
influence and great political power. He
has been known as favoring protective
tariff, but his present action was not an
ticipated. He has evidently concluded TO
be a protectionist, even if il leads him into
the Republican camp.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-01-10
praise.

IT is fact already established by con-
temporaneous history that one of the
main objects of the trainers of the
United States Constitution, and one of
the strongest arguments in favor of it's
adoption was to secure policy of ma
tional protection. Washington, Jeffer-
son and Madison all favored protec-
ton, and approved protective-tariffb bills.
All attempts to make the contrary ap-
pear are perversions of history.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-01-10
1VOWeQIy partisan ASSOCIATION.

GOVERNOR GRAY urged pressing off,
cial duties as reason for inability to
accept the invitation to the "St. Jackson"
day celebration at Columbus on Tues
day. 1t is pity the celebration came
SO early. The Governor will be at leis-
ure next week and for some time to come,
and will doubtless be open to any and
all engagements in the political line. He
Will go to Columbus next year-that is,
If they happen to want him there.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-01-10

WHILE various editors and CORES pond-
ents are talking knowingly about the
pledges made by General Harrison, the
following, from an article by Rev. NJ. l..
Haines, of this city, in the new 'Aleth-
odist Magazine" is not without timely
interest: against the urgency of GER
tain friends, he (Harrison] steadfastly
persisted in his refusal 20 take any steps
which would place him in the position Of
9 seeker after the nomination to the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-01-10
VIII Dress in Their Usual Style.

The Indiana delegation to the coming i'm
auguration are found 10 be all right as far
as clothing is concerned. They will all be
dressed alike. and their clothing is being
made by fashionable New York tailor,
They wish to do away with the impression
that Hoosiers do not know how to dress.
Berry Wall, or any one 10 whom the mantle
of the king of the dudes has fallen, had
better look to his laurels.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-01-10
Harrison VIII Likely BE Chosen.

General Harrison, of Indiana, a gentle
man whose name has become somewhat
familiar in politics of late, hopes to be
elected President of the United States next
Monday. The Electoral college. which
meets on that day to choose new ruler
for the Nation. is reported to have selected
General Harrison for the Office. Grover
Cleveland, of Washington, ID. G., will also
receive some votes but there is reason 10
believe that General Harrison will be
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-01-10

DAKoTANs-the word sounds awk-
ward, but is what they call themselves
fDakotans doubtless dotted their busters
yesterday, and, donning double blankets,
danced by the heat of the fire to keep
their souls from freezing, dreaming
meanwhile of the picnics that were past.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-01-10
To the Editor of the indianapolis Journal:

To the Editor Of the Indianapolis Journal:
Please state how patent can be obtained
at the least possible expense, and what
would probably be the least expense of OBJ
tanning one. 2. Can hired substitute,
who was wounded in the late war, draw q
pensioni PATENT.
By writing to the Commissioner of Pat
ents you can obtain blank forms of applica-
ton with instructions. If you can make
your own drawings, specifications, claim,
etc., you may be able to obtain patent
without the assistance of an attorney. The
patent office fees are SIS on the filing of a
claim and $40 additional on the issuing of a
patent. If you employ an attorney he
makes his own charge. 2. Write to pen
sion agent
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-01-10
The Troubles of a writer.

Mr.. Charles Dudley Warner is said to be-
one of those authors whose manuscript
makes trouble in printing offices. lie is
supposed to be the writer OF most of tho
literary reviews in the Hartford Coprant.
One of these the other day spoke of tho
'.obscurity of sentiment in book, and it
appeared in print the "obscenity of senti-
ulentD
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-01-10

THE Board of Health, it seems, was a
little out of sorts, and all it needed to be
set right again was a newspaper tonic.
Having swallowed the dose, it is on its
feet again, and all is well. The Journal
is good doctor on occasions, even if it
hasn't sacred iron-clad code of ethics.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-01-10

AFTER the induction of Lieut.-gov.-elect
Ira j. Chase into Office, on the 14th inst,
the chair will be filed by that official
whenever he chooses to occupy it.-Sen-
tinel
What becomes of the great constitu-
tional argument of Mr.. Reeve7 Evidently
the Sentinel does not lay great stress
uuon If
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-01-10

OF course the Democratic Senators
have decided to keep Lieutenant-gOv-
ernor Robertson out of his place as pre-
siding officer. If they had not decided
to engage in some disgraceful and un-
lawful transaction they would not be
Democrats.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-01-10

The candidacy of Thomas Marley,
for president of the boards of trustees
of the State institutions, is simply con-
tinuance of the -Coy-Sullivan
regime in another form.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-01-10

THOSE were noble sentiments ex-
pressed by Mr.. Travis, the new COM
mander of Mcpherson Post, at Craw-
louisville, as given in yesterdays dis
patches. Any member of the G.. A. r..
who loves his country, and is faithful to
the cause for which be fought may
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-01-10

his family. 1t is the last expense / will lop
of. ] will drink my tea and coffee without
sugar before ] miss my daily paper. and 1
can better afford to do So"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-01-10

DISTRICT ATTORNEY BAILEY issued 24O
summonses for witnesses to appear before
the grand jury on Jan. IA, to testify upon
election cases.-Sentinel.
Wonder if any of them refer to in
duiries about the Whitaker circular.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-01-10
Stands Alone.
philadelphia Pre-!

Philadelphia Press
General Harrison enjoys the unique dis
tinction of being about the only man in the
country who has not fixed up Cabinet
slate for the new administration.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-01-10

So far as we are acquainted with cOlored
journalism, the best paper published in
the interest of the colored people is The
Freeman, of this city. No other paper that
we know of is doing as good work in the
special field indicated. Its advocacy of the
interests of the colored people is able and
dignifed, and it's illustrated sketches of the
colored literary men and women are excel
lently we'll conceived and executed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-01-10

THE Methodist Magazine" is the title of
a new thirty-two page monthly published
in this city. The character of the publica-
ton is indicated by the table of contents of
the first number, which is as follows: "Pas-
toral Evangelism" by Rev. S. A. Keen:
Religious Training of Young Converts and
Children" by Rev. C. E. Asbury; ''Concen-
tratiOn," by Rev. V. w. Tevis; Present
Times" by Rev. j. F. Woodruff; Progress
of the Sunday-school Idea," by Rev. Will
lam Teller; snake Haste" by Rev. John
M. Bailey; "A Mothers Influence" by Liz
zie Hopkinson, and a sketch of Benjamin
Harrison. by Rev. M. l.. Haines. There are
also various editorial departments. The
magazine is geographically attractive. and
with so large corps of contributors will
undoubtedly prove valuable addition to
church literature. Published by III. NJ. Dia-
mond. indianapolis. Price, $3.50 per year.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-01-10
THE INDIANAPOLIs JOURNAL

Telephone Calls.
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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-01-10
GENERAL AssEMBIY-sTATE LEGISLATION.

If the General Assembly, which con-
venes to-day, properly appreciates its
duty, it will confine itself strictly to the
work of legislating for the interests and
honor of the State. Whatever party
leaders may think, that is what the peO-
pie at large expect and desire of the Leg
islature. 1t is elected for that purpose,
and no other. Indiana has now popu-
lation Of 100000. The duty of legislat-
ing for so large population, with its
vast and varied interests, material and
moral, financial, educational and COM
mercial, is very important one. 1t is
duty that should be approached with
firm determination to discard all per-
sOnal, partisan and selfish considerations,
and legislate solely for the interests, the
honor and the welfare of the entire State.
A General Assembly that fails to do this,
or, at least, to honestly attempt it, is
faithless to its trust, and unfit to exist.
Not all of our General Assemblies have
shown this spirit. Some have con-
spicuously and disgracefully failed. 1t
is to be hoped the present one will have
proper appreciation Of its relations and
dutv To the neon1e =