The Indianapolis journal., 1895-01-14
THE INDIANA PRESS.

THE INDIANA PRESS.
The Legislature should consider well be-
fore taking the appointive power away
fro m the Governor.-Niddletown News.
The last Legislature created, it is said,
thousand new offices. This one should make
itself famous by abolishing about 1,4e0.-
Peru Republican.
Senator Enively is making a great step
in attempting to go from pie-partisan boards
tions.-Loganspcut Journal
The Legislature should be fair in pass
ing the apportionment bin both as to con-
gressmen and State representatives and
Senators A fair and Just bill will meet
the appreciation of all fair-minded citizens
of either party.--Columbus Republican.
The rocket attached to the string holding
the valve of the Matthews boom was not
touched off at the jackson celebration in
Indianapolis last night Isaac p. Gray was
on guard with a loaded gun and no one
dared go near the fuse.-South Bend Trib-
ue.
If the present law is as stated by him,
State Auditor Henderson is right in suggest
ing a change in the State banking law, so
that the State Auditor shall not only have
the power to examine such banks, but also
the power to- enforce correction of the
abuses and unsafe methods found to exist.
--Terre ffaute Tribune.
The Republicans carried Indiana last fall
because the people were dissatisfied with
the Democratic management of national and
State affairs. They want better business
than partisanship to guide and control af-
fairs. The Republicans promised better
things and they must keep their promises.
Greenfield Republican.
The first duty of the Legislature is to
keep the list of subordinate employees strict
ly within the limits of law The creation of
sinecures for the sole purpose of favoring
henchmen is a custom that must be careful
lxv a. hU ha
disgraced the last Legislature, and the peo-
pie expressed their disapproval in unmis-
taxable terms.-Lafayette Courier.
When the State is redistricted with fair
ness, it will be reliably Republican for years
to come if the party stands by its pledges.
For the first time in many years we shall
have Republican United States Senator
and in 1896 a Republican Governor will be
elected. The party will doubtless reduce the
State debt and institute many needed re-
forms. That is what it is there fGr.-Peters-
The Republican majority in the General
Assembly will do well if it proceeds directly
to business and secures for the people the
reforms urgently demanded. With
good, safe. working majority, and unanim-
irX oi nnenn among fne on a h
accomplished by the present assembly be-
fore March 10. than was performed by all
the Democratic Legislatures since 1S81.-Wa-
bash Plain Dealer
An effort will be made at the present
sitting of the Legislature to place the bene-
violent institutions of the State under the
control of non-partisan, or at least, bi-part-
isan boards The Republican party has ad-
vocated such course in reference to the
benevolent institutions for number of
years, and now, with overwhelming ma
jOrity N both bracheS OF the Legislature,
it has opportunity to put its theory into
practice.-Gas City Journal
Every Republican member of the Indiana
Legislature should keep in a conspicuous
L
of his party, the declaration of principles
upon which he went before the people ask
ing their suffrage. That platform pledges
him to an economical. business like ad-
do we'll to carry gout those pledges to the
best of his ability, both in the spirit and
trfed with, and while they are not un-
9 bd but patient and long
for deeds performed.-Frankfort News.
The Senate bill for the reapportonment
of the State for legislative purposes gives
Montgomery, Clinton and Boone each Rep
resentative and the three counties joint
Representative. 1t also provides that the
three counties shall compose one senatorial
district and be given two Senator's. Under
the enumeration a senatorial district has
about II GOO voters and a representative dis
ties have about 22.oO0 voters this is about as
fair an apportionment as possibly could be
made. We are told that the whole bill cuts
Charlottesville Journal.
The Indianapolis Journal justly complains
THAT the right.to change Of venue from
the county in criminal cases is often abused.
Upon the affidavit of the most worthless
criminal, that he believes he cannot obtain
justice in the county where he is indicted,
the court is obliged in criminal cases and
accustomed in most others, TO grant a
change of venue. which involves the county
and the witnesses in an expense that often
aggregates thousands of dollars, when il is
known that the only real ground for the
change is delay escape from merited bad
character. The Legislature might do some
thing TO relieve witnesses ana taxpayers
in this particular case.-Anderson Herald
A toll road in the State of Indiana is as
much a back numbered institution to-day
as ox-team- A. few years ago every
road that entered Rushville tolled. The
Republican took up thu matter of free roads
and fought it through. To-day there is no
toll road in the county, and proposition
to return to the old system would raise a
revolution Even those who protested most
strongly against putting down the we'll
sweeps, insisting that 1t would break the
farmers up to pay taxes to keep the pixies
in repair, are now convinced OF their error.
Instead of increasing 1t has lightened their
free. and large mileage of free pixies. the
! gravel road repair tax is only five cents of
each hundred dollars. the cost to the man
| paying ON 5000 being only y, a sum much
lass than his tolls under the old plan R1-