The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-01
THE INDIANA PRESS.

The Democratic campaign has been
opened. but you wouldn't think so.-La-
Porte Herald.
This is one of the years in which the best
thing a Democrat can do for his party is
to divert public attention to some other
subject.-Noblesville Ledger.
The White House has been given a fresh
coat of paint, but the administration. which
needs it much worse, still has it's spots
and blemishes uncovered.-Goshen Times.
The Democratic administration, having
got rid of as many Union soldiers as pos
sible, is now engaged in turning women out
of the departments and putting hungry
Democratic voters in their p~laces.-Shelby-
vile Republican.
The campaign has been opened by both
parties in Indiana; that is to say. the Re
publicans opened theirs as wide as a barn
door and the Democrats about wide enough
to let small sneep pass through one at a
time.-New Albany Tribune.
The leaders and press of the Democratic
party are now wrestling laboriously with the
question how they can make the seller Of
forty-five-cent wheat think he is making
more money than he did when he sold 1t
for one dollar.-Seymour Republican.
Will the workingmen and mechanics of
Indiana consider it a benefit to them to
have their wages reduced from 20 to so
per cent. in order that they may purchase
~foreign-made goods at prices a little lower
than are asked for the domestic article?
Fort Wayne Gazette.
The reception of Hon. G.. w. Fairbanks
at Hartford City yesterday evening was
full of encouragement to the Republican
party. He was met at the station by four
hundred glass workers bearing banners in
scribed, Democracy Reduced Our Wages
% per cent."-Marion Chronicle.
One of the needs of Indiana is a new
Constitutions; or, at least, a radical revision
3. 49, - IA.
its usefulness. The organic law under
operated is good enough of its kind, per-
haps, but it is not the right kind.-Lafay-
cite Courier.
To furnish constant employment for ell
at a fair If not highest remuneration is
the policy of the Republican party, and al
ways has been. The policy of the Demo
cratic party is, and always has been. to
make every thing cheap. labor especially,
close our own manufactures and buy
abroad.-Frankfort News.
One way to kill a bear is to entrap him
in a big deadfall in which a big log falls
on him and breaks his back. Mr.. David =.
Hill is now smelling the bait in a deadfall
which will break his back for once and all.
If he only knew whether the string. ended
at BuZzard'S Bay he could tell what tC
do.-Terre Haute Express.
The Democratic party is breeding a class
of economists who will soon be figuring
to ascertain the very smallest amount OF
food and warmth necessary for the sus-
tenance of working people, as is the Gus
tom of live stock raisers. and then the
next step will be TO furnish these under a
t~askmaker's contract in exchange fol
labor.-Rushville Crap lie.
To meet competition under free trade we
must meet prices. The march through thai
competitive point means a march through
fire, a loss to every merchant in the United
States who has goods on his shelf. II
means "A loss TO every workingman In
months of lost employment and in a return
, to employment only at wages competing
with the lowest foreign wages.-Logans-
port Journal.
Voorhees, stopped over badly when he said
that no enactment in American history
has been more odious to the American peo.
pie than the Mckinley law of tariff taxa.
ton He forgot that Ohio Endorsed the
Mckinley law by $1,000 Republican ma
jority, Pennsylvania by $4,000, then cam.
Oregon and Iowa. then New York and New
Jersey. then Vermont by $4,000. then Maine
by the largest Republican majority shs
ever gave.-Elkhart Journal.
A. N. Martins meeting at Somerset fun,
proves the statement made In the Plaiz