The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-11
VIEWS OF INDIANA EDITORS.

1t is thought that Mckinley returned a
misft suit of clothes to a certain Philadel-
phia tailor-henee the party is going to the
bow -wows-Fort Wayne Gazette.
The conduct of the members of the In
dianapolis Literary Club at their meeting
last week should cause Governor Mount to
congratulate himself that he was black
balled.-Newport Hoosier State.
Nothing will do so much TO revive pros
perity as to reduce the Importation Of for
eign, made products. Keep them out and
let the demand be supplied by the products
of American labor.-Middletown News.
Do Democrats ever think, when they are
complaining that good times are not al
ready here, that they are paying the Re-
publican party the highest possible compE-
ment by showing how much more they ex-
pect of it than they did of the Democratic
party?-Plymouth News
Those so-called ''free-silver Republicans
who are trying to organize party should
simplify matters by falling in with the
Bryan crowd They are not Republicans
and have no right to Islander the grand old
party by associating cheap money with its
name. --Terre Haute Express.
We once had breakfast spell" with
the South and it lasted three years. 1t
sounds well for Senator Morgan to say
that a war with Spain would last about
twenty-five days" He doesn't know as
much about 1t as a schoolboy does about
maticS.-Plainfield Progress.
Pessimists, croakers, calamity howlers,
to the rear! The times are improving. All
signs point to a speedy return of prosper
Gus conditions; not a time for wild and
reckless speculation, but for legitimate
business enterprises to prosper as the re
suit of conservative management ana we'll
directed eftort.-NeW Castle Courier.
Governor Mount is being criticised for
exercising his rights in the line of more
rigid economy in the expenditures for the
state institutions. The Governor is right,
and as long as the struggling masses from
the stringency Of the times are unable TO
for retrenchment in eXpenses.-Waterloo
Press.
Don't croak because the times are hard.
When the best intelligence, skill and cour-
age of American business men are en-
gagged in overturning the foundations upon
which the hard times rest and flourish, and
show every evidence that their laborS VIII
not be in vain, be patient and encouraged,
and tell your neighbor to be hopeful.-No-
blesville Ledger.
With farmers getting more for their grain
and cattle and hogs, with the business ham
died by the merchants of the country
greater than for many years. and with our
exports for 1896 1925, 000,000 in excess of our
imports, conditions among the people of
this country cannot be so serious as the
Vernon journal
The time has come when to carp and caVll
at the slowness with which prosperity is
returning to this country, after the depres-
sion of the past three years, has lack of
truth added to that mean malice Whlch
can rejoice in misfortune. Prosperity Is
coming and the slowness of its approach
only means it's surenessr and its stability.
Evansville Journal.
The thing for Indiana Republicans to do
is to prepare to elect a Legislature rather
than engage in the entaglements Of an
ante-eIection senatorial squabble. Then
when we have been successful let US elect
to the United States Senate man whose
Republicanism is always on tap, whose
services to his party entitle him to the
honor and whose ability and fitness are
Notwithstanding Review.
What would it profit man if he secures
the Endorsement of the Republican state
convention for United States senator and
through the strife. and aeFimony that such
an unprecedented act would occasion IN the
party we should lose the Legislature? we
believe that a man who gives countenance
to such a scheme thinks more of his own
personal ambition than he does or the wei
fare of the party.-Brookville American.