The Indianapolis journal., 1895-06-24
REMARKS ABOUT THE TOWN.

The local weather clerk at Indianapolis
must have been eating too many cucum-
bers. His indications OF late have not indi-
Gated worth cent.-Muncie News.
Indianapolis is to have season of open
air opera. but the promoters of the enter
prise judiciously refrain from announcing
that it will be wide open.-Lafayette
Courier.
The Indianapolis ball club. for the first
time since the dawn of time. has substan-
tial lead in the race for the championship
of the Western League. She has often
headed the procession heretofore, but II
was always when the procession about
faced."-Richmond Item.
The indianapolis News of Tuesday con-
tanned a column editorial scoring very
sharply the newspapers Of the State, out
side of Indianapolis, for their structures
on the capital CITY, and insisting that such
criticism should stop. The News should
take some of its own medicine.-Worthing-
ton Times.
A very large majority of the people of
New York cannot understand why 1t is
that people In the West should now deny
to New York all that she has been taking
as hers a matter of course, and they rid
icule the idea that there can possibly be
another city where any of the country s
business might be transacted. Indianapolis
feels the same way as TO the State.-Terre
Haute Mail.
The fact is that people are selfish and
inhospitable in large cities. perhaps nc
more so in Indianapolis than in other towns
of its size. This being the case they
should not agree to entertain people free
We have heard that il is almost impossible
to get entertainment for the ministers Of
an annual conference in the chief city OF
Peru do this every year. They do it be-
cause they are more hospitable than In
dianapolis or any other city Of its size
The Indianapolis News deplores the
"wretched spirit Of detraction" which. II
says. the people of Indiana assume toward
the State capital Last week the News
in illustrating argument. quoted with
evident relish the language OF "a little
dried-up Yankee" who. with much profan-
ity. told Hoosier atNthe Minneapolis Re-
publican national convention that what VIC
needed in Indiana was less politics and more
newspapers. Now the facts of the case
are that Indiana has proportionally as
many newspapers as New England, the
from the newspaper ANIMALS, this in spite
of the fact that One-fourth Of the New
Engiand i;.an number Is published in Boston In
ADDITION Indiana is flooded, as no other
State is, with outside newspapers, St
Louis, Chicago Detroit, Toledo and Cincin-
natl papers being daily dumped by the tor
OH hOOSler SOIL. Inc TACT that the News
quoted with apparent approval. rather than
with indignant resentment. this contemptu.
Gus expression on the part Of an ignorant
provincial, is an indication that il is toe
ready to cultivate the "wretched spirit OF
detraction" when directed against the whole
of Indiana. The trouble is that the News
often endeavors by assuming the role of a
missionary to the Hoosiers to give the i'm
preston that Indianapolis is better than
the State. Indianapolis is a beautiful cap.
tal city, and Indianians generally are
proud of it, but it is not an oasis in q
the News and its school of Indianapolitan.
are fond of intimating.-Terre Haute Trib-
une.