The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-10
VIEWS OF INDIANA EDITORS.

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The lifting of economic questions out of
the range of partisan politics is one of
the surest means of quoting the spirit of
unrest that now ~endangers national exist
ence.-Lafayette Call.
The law requiring that all township war
rants be audited by the county commits
sioners before they can be paid and fixing
a penalty promises to work a very salts
factory reform-WaShington Gazette.
Farmers and manufactures can do no
better than write their members of Con-
gress to vote for any measure to revive
American shipping and open a market for
American goods.-NeWton County Enter
prise.
Esq. John C. Filler is making a great
kick this morning. He says, Where's
your prosperity? Yesterday l planted po-
tatoes and when l went out to gather my
crop this morning there was not a potato
in sight."-Muncie Times.
If there is a man in this country who
better than any other could afford to be
perfectly dumb on national issues for four
years to come, that man is Grover Cleve-
land, the greatest industry Wrecker of the
century.-Knightstown Sun.
Prosperity is what the people of this
country want. If it comes as a result of
tariff and other legislation enacted by the
Republicans they will remain in power. If,
upon the other hand, prosperity does not
return under the operation of Republican
laws, then some other party will be given
control in 1900.-Middletown News.
The tendency of the Democratic party all
over the country is to break in two. The
principles of the gold and silver factions
are as opposite as the poles and there
seems to be no disposition on the part
of either of the factions to give up any
part of it's doctrine or to compromise the
radical differences.-NoblesviIle Ledger.
Our Democratic friends boot at the idea
of waiting the action of other nations on
the silver question, and tell us this cOun-
try is big enough to manage it's own none
tarv affairs independent of the world. Not
so. however, OF the tariff question. They
are Mortified at the thought of enactlng the
Dingley bill over the protest of Canada,
England and other foreign powers.-Parke
County journal.
1t may not be known generally, but there
are quite a number of men in Indiana who
have made a living for years by washing
gold. Down in Brown county, the province
without a railroad, without a negro, with
out q Jail and with more Democrats than
Republicans, they have been washing gold
for some time. Nevertheless. Brown is a
free-silVer stronghold. The fact that no
great wealth abounds there is fairly good
evidence that no large amount OF gold has
been found, nevertheless, it exists in small
quantities.-Lafayette Courier.
That element of the gold Democracy
which is charging President Mckinley and
Congress with bad faith in not making
the question of monetary reform the para
mount one during these first months of the
regime in national affairs is not meeting
with much encouragement or sympathy
outside its own limited circle. Every honest
man of average brains knows ana admits
that President Mckinley and the .Repub-
lican party are following a line or pOllcy
in exact accord with the promises, both
positive and implied, that were made dur
ing the campaign-Terre Haute Express.