The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-19
STATE PRESS OPINION.

1t is becoming painfully apparent that it
may be necessary to annex Aguinaldo with
Naturalization Chronicle.
A good evidence of prosperity is the fact
that We have never exported more or i'm
ported leSS-LebanOn Patriot.
The men who constitute the army to-day
are not the fault-finding, complaining COM
binatlon that the newspapers would make
them approximation New Era.
If the war had failed, judging by De-
mocracy's delight when it can find a critic
be in great glee.-Lafayette Courier.
The following question was asked of
about one-half CT the boys: Would you
enlist again if there was a call?' Yes, in
deed was the prompt answer.-Kokomo
News.
Republican meetings this fall might well be
designated obsequies at the tomb of fiatism.
What we want to see is that the old hobby
Is given good and secure buriaL-Muncie
Times.
Trade follows the flag and the flag follows
the Republican party, which advances but
never retrogrades, unfurls the flag, but
never haulS 1t down, and leads to national
honor and prominence-Greensburg Review.
There is not military bureau In all Eu-
rope but considers our war with Spain one
of the greatest successes in history. But
the copperhead element in this country is
determined if possible to belittle it in every
conceivable way.-Muncie News.
Sampson, Dewey. Schley and other naval
heroes treat the supercilious efforts of Dem
ocratic tricksters to create jealousy among
these commanders with silent contempt
They don't fall into the trap set for them
worth a cent.-BrOokville American.
The fact is, that among men of military
age, right here in Brazil, there has been
larger death rate from sickness since and
during the war than in any regiment from
this or any other State. the seekers for a
political issue TO the contrary notwithstand-
ing.-Clay County Enterprise.
If our misguided friends, the free silver
fellows, really propose to make 16 to l an
issue in the coming campaign the Repub-
licars are perfectly satisfied. In the light
of events which have transpired during the
past eighteen months the Republicans don t
want anything easer.-Hammond Tribune.
AS the Republican party has fulfilled it's
pledges in the past, ii can be trusted to do
the same in the future; as the country has
prospered. in spite of war during the adj
ministration of President Mckinley, a great
er prosperity will follow peace and a contin-
uance in power of the party.-Lafayette
Call
We have interviewed quite a number of
the Greenfield boys, members of the One
hundred-and-ti fty-eighth Indiana who are at
home on furlough, and they say that the
stories about the starvation, men being
buzzed and blowed by flies and eaten by
maggots are internal lies-Greentield Re-
publican.
There were more reasons In the sixties for
bowling about the mismanagement of the
war and incompetency of Secretary Stanton
than there is now to decry Secretary Alger
as incompetent. We would hear little about
the incompetency of our leading officials
were there no political motive at the bottom
of it all.--New Albany Tribune.
The sick soldier issue will not win in
Indiana. The condition Of the regiments re-
Gently returned from the South is both an
answer and a rebuke to those who have
tried to- divert public attention from the
only issue Of the campaign by representing