The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-10-23
STATE PRESS OPINION

This query is pertinent. Would the great
American voters do 1t again if they had
Characterization News.
If Tom Reed was in command 1T would
either be a vote or vacation for the Sen
ate Of the, United States.-South Bend Trib-
une
Indiana Republicans feel encouraged and
are ready for another contest, since the
glorious victory at Indianapolis last week.
Farmland Enterprise.
Judge Gresham may possess all the at
tributes of great statesman. but the
close of the first seven months of the
Cleveland administration finds him the
least conspicuous member of the Cabinet
Wabash Plain Dealer.
Green Smith is sure he could secure
vote in the Senate If he had charge of that
body We admit that under Democratic
control the United States Senate has got
pretty low down, but it has not yet adopted
the tactics Of the sand bagger.-Newcastle
Courier.
Better far for any party to be defeated
on a first class ticket than to succeed upon
bad one. The same thing is true in ref
erence to platforms and that is just the
trouble with Democracy to-day. Their sue
cess upon their last national platform is
likely to cost them many years OF future
supremacy Review.
/ The proposition to erect building at the
fair in honor of the lost Confederacy is in
famous from. its first conceptions The
worlds fair is supposed to represent the
progressiveness and civilization if the race
but the Confederacy can hardly be classed
in that list, however charitable one may
be inclined to look upon it.-Kokomo Times
The permission given by the managers Of
the worlds fair for the dedication, on the
grounds of monument to the late Confed-
eracy, is something worse than mistake
1t is an outrage to the patriotic sentiment
of the couttry and declaration on the
part Of the managers that treason is to be
respected equally with observation-disclosures
Palladium.
From $500 to $1,000 day is the amount of
Michigan City's contribution to the fair.
When you take that sum or a quarter of
that amount out of a town of this size
every day for three or four months it is
no wonder that there Is little ready money
In circulation. Words fair year has not
been the most profitable for this or other
towns surrounding Chicago. = Michigan
City Dispatch
If you are an honest man, If you are
bound by any money obligation or other
obligation, set about now to secure a re-
lease from any man whom you suspect will
endeavor to use his power to force you to
his will. 1t is not the part of American
citizen to be the willing slave Of any indi-
vidual. Therefore, secure your freedom be-
fore 1t is everlastingly too late.-North Yer
non Republican
The directors would lower the dignity
and discre6it the worth and purpose of the
great exposition by keeping it open after
Oct. 81. They would put 1t on the money
grabbing level of the native fakirs on the
outside Of the walls and the sharps, native
and foreign, that populate the Midway
Plaisance. Instead OF ending In a blaze of
glory, the greatest congress of the worlds
genius and intelligence In the history of
civilization will be permitted to sputter it
self out like a tallow dip.-Kokomo Dis
patch.