The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-08-31
THE INDIANA PRESS.

Democratic editors and orators will con-
tinue to eulogize the German tariff law, but
Cleveland thought it too perfidious and dis
honorable to receive his approval. He put
the brand of Cain upon it.-Madison Courier.
Mr.. Cleveland, in his letter to Representa-
tive Catchings, confesses that the job is
bungled. But nobody is surprised, for when
did the Democratic party ever attempt to
do anything it did not bungle?-Crawfords-
vile Journal.
The Republicans are embarrassed this
year with the abundance of political am
munition that the Democrats have given
them. Cleveland alone has supplied. them
with enough to answer all general pur-
poses.-Winchester Journal.
During all this tariff muddle, Democratic
recrimination and Kilkenny cat fighting. the
Hon. Isaac P. Gray, far from the madding
crowd, looks conplacently on from afar
off, draws his salary, encourages the buzz
zing of the presidential bee, saws wood and
says Observation-Disclosures Courier.
Mr.. Conn, of the Thirteenth Indiana dis
trict, says he does not care to serve longer
in Congress. Several other Democratic can
didates for reelection have about come TO
the same conclusion. If they have not fully
decided the question, the voters will do it
for them next November.-For Wayne Ga
Zette.
The pipe line from the Indiana gas field
to Dayton. Springfield and a dozen other
Ohio towns is completed, and is expected
to begin pumping fifty million feet a day
from seventy-five wells into another State.
II is idle to talk about stringent regulations
for preserving the treasures OF the gas field
when there is no limit to the pipeline drain
age Anderson Herald.
AfterAdefeat it can sometimes be truth
fully said that all is lost but honor. The
situation in which the Democracy is
placed by the passage of the Sugar Trust
tariff bill is one to which such an exclama-
ton does not apply. All is lost. honor In
write over the door of the late corrupt and
incompetent Congress.-Steuben Republican.
The tariff fight is to be continued until
the good times of forty and fifty years
ago are fully restored, is what the Demo-
cratic leaders tell us. In other words. it is
to be continued until wheat sells for 40
cents a bushel, farm hands work for So a
month, laborerS receive % cents a day, cali
CO sells at S712 cents a yard. and eggs, and
butter, and turnips, and onions Will not pay
for hauling 10 market.-Munci Times.
We believe in laws which enable our me-
chanics and laborers to earn enough to sup
port their families and lay by sufficient to
buy a home and protect them from want
when the time comes when they are unable
to labor as hard as they did in the prime
of life. This the Mckinley law did, and
we believe that it's repeal was wrong, and
the day will come when those who favored
1t viii regret it.-Shelbyville Republican.
Governor Matthews boosted In his speech
at the Democratic State convention that the
State debt had been reduced $4,000 during
his administration This is almost the ex-
act amount recovered by the State from
the federal government for direct taxes
paid during the war. So. if il had not been
for this handsome little legacy from the
taxpayers of the war period, no reduction
of the debt could be shown at all. notwith-
standing the boosted increase OF revenues
from the new tax law.-Monticello Herald.