The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-30
STATE PRESS OPINION.

The administrators course in regard to
ne sale of the Union Pacific is likely to
prove one Of its most popular accomplish
ments.-Richmond Item.
The persistency with which the Ohio DEM
ocrats avoid discussing tariff or currency
this year is quite remarkable, especially in
view of the fact that they made silver their
chief issue only three months ago.-Delphi
Journal .t
Prosperity items are no longer news.
Everybody knows about it, just the same
as we all know of the rising and the set
ting of the sun. Accounts of mills starting
up, of long stagnant commodities suddenly
growing active, of additional employment
given to labor no longer attract attention
because the novelty has worn off-Plym-
outh Republican. s
The display of husking gloves and nit
tens in the clothing store windows is evil
dence that the days of corn husking are
here. The harvesting of the corn crop is
well on the way, some of the grain being
on the market nowf Corn is bringing a
good price, compared with other years, ana
the farmers are correspondingly well
pleased with the season returns for their
liberalization News.
Possibly if the fishermen would get a
clear comprehension of the fact that the
rivers and lakes belong to and are under
the control of the State, they would more
readily realize the fact that the State has
them as useful as possible by preventing
the wanton destruction of the food they can
acknowledgements Standard.
The kind of advertising Indianapolis IS
getting since Mayor Taggart was reelected
is not calculated to benefit it much. Such
men as Taggart regard town as fenced
In when sobrlety, law and order prevail.
And Taggart wants to be Governor of the
great State of indiana lie would be very
thin when spread out over this grand old
RpnnhliPan
Our new tariff will not hinder foreigners
from getting just what they wish of our
wares. Our tariff viii not hinder other ma
lions from buying our grain. meat, cotton,
tobacco, cloth, coal, petroleum and manu-
featured wares. What the new tariff will
do is to prevent foreign manufacturers
from forming combinations to smash" our
industries by flooding our markets with
wares undervalued to reduce the duties,
which they could under the late tariff sell
here at prices that were below the reach
of our own manufacturers and high-wage
tariH.-GOShen Times
Mayor Taggart's electioneering tactics are
gradually being exposed. Here is an exam
pie of his coon-trap campaign to "cotch em
a comm and a gwine:'' He promised to
give the liberal schools of medicine
homeopathic, eclectic or physio-medical-a
representation on the Board of Health, and
on the strength of the pledge he received
HuHuFtuS Oh VOTES, as there are great
many people of that as all other cities who
prefer these to the old allopathic system
After his election he failed to keep his
promise; whereupon four liberal physi-
clans, Drs. Winter Stewart, Runnels ana
Haggard, called on him and DR.. Winter
asked him this question: What shall i
tell the men asked to vote for you on this
promise TO give our interests a member on
the board?" To this the mayor replied:
You can tell them that Taggart led DIR.
Winter makes this statement in Sundays
Indianapolis Journal, and its truth is certi-
fled to by the other three who heard it,
This puts Mr.. Taggart in a pretty small
hole for a man who aspires to be Governor
of the great State Of Indiana. The Item
Taggart for that office by adopting their
campaign battle cry, Tell them Taggart
so, the Republicans might give the smiling
straddler a benefit by nscribing that noble
sentiment on their own banners, in case of
his nOmination.-Richm Item.