The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-05
sTATE Press OPINION.

Probably a larger number of people re-
ceived holiday presents in the form of an
| advance in wages this year than on any
! former occasion in the history of the coun-
/ try.-Vincennes Commercial.
/ A Democratic paper says the Republican
conference at Indianapolis very carefully
avoided the Dingley deficit AS the boy
with the apple remarked about the core
| there amt goin' to be any dehcit.--Terre
/ Haute Express.
Mr. Bryans theory that it would be proper
| and honest for the debtors of the country
| to pay off their mortgages and other debts
in fifty-cent dollars because since they had
| borrowed those dollars wheat and other ar
| ticles had decreased to one-half their former
value, thus approaching gold, have fallen
rather fiat since wheat went up TO 81 and
| the farmers OF the country have been paying
| off those debts with dollars worth 100 cents
| each-ColumbuS Republican.
| 1t is evident from the discussion by school
men that there is too little system and uni-
| formity in the matter of administering the
| truancy law. Every man interprets it to
| suit himself Such a haphazard enforce
ment will not prove satisfactory and will
serve to make the law itself very unpopular.
| 1t behooves school superintendents, township
| trustees and truant officers TO get together
| and have the law interpreted and then work
| toward it's uniform ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
| Republican.
| IneFe WON De much leIL Oh the IOTelSH
| building and loan associations which have
| reaped such rich harvests off Madison coun-
| ty people when they complete their passages
| in and out of our local courts. Corporations
| organized to rob people may rob some of
| them all the time but they can't rob all
| of them at any time Judgment day has
| come to the associations which have robbed
/ many of the people up to this time and
| their nefariouS business will now be forever
| Stopped.-Anderson Bulletin.
The Democrats of the national House of
| Representatives have put themselves on rec
| ord in favor of an indefinite continuation of
| the tiat-money principle. In doing this they
drive still further away from them every
| business man and business interest and make
| it apparent that in the coming national cleo
| ton every man who voted for Mckinley in
| 1896 and thousands who unWllingly support
| ed Bryan because he was the candidate of
| their party will be found hereafter in the
ranks of the Republican party and support
| ing its candidate as the only representative
| of sound money and sound financial views.
| -Shelbyville Republican.
| The favorite argument-n fact, the only
argument-advanced by the enemies of the
| civil-service law is that it creates a privi-
! legged class. The impression is sought to be
| conveyed that by it the great body of the
people are shut out from the benefits of
| office; are forced to stand back for a few
who, making their way to the front by an
swering technical and irrelevant questions,
settle down in to a snug life tenure This is
untrue. 1t was the old system that created
! a privileged class. 1t was composed of the
| political managers, who formed a trust and
] farmed out the governments favors to their
own ge-Crawfordsville Journal.
! Gentlemen who have been talking about
nominating a United States senator at the
state convention can see from the situation
| in Ohio that nomination does not always
nominate-neither does a nomination elect.
In all fairness Mr.. Hanna should have the
| full Republican vote in the joint caucus of
| the party and should be elected. Mr.. Hanna
| was Endorsed by the Republican state con-
vention of Ohio just as the candidate for
| Governor other state candidates were in
| dorsed They were elected under this in
| dorsement and so should Mr.. Hanna be elect
| ed. Whether Mr. Hanna will ultimately be
| elected or not remains to be seen, but enough
! has been developed in the plan to see that
| it is not the best way of nominating and
| electing a. senator.-Muncie Times.