The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-03
DIscI1E INsTITIAuR MONTH.
Delicious English and Latin Remarks
to Kentucky Legislature.
Henry Watterson. In Courier-Journal.


a ciandestine affection, may not be unwilling
70 listen TO some casual post-mortem OBJ
serVations. The poor ghost that thus re-
sNlsitetn the glimpSeS of the moon will hard
~ De denied the consolation that may be
round in the remembrance that-like the
WIDOW Wiggins's husband, who was a boss
or in Kentucky. Time was when
II were well for Democrats to
listen listen and take heed and they they did
listen and take heed; though there was
never time when they had greater occa-
SION to do so then at this very moment
Having gone to its account it is no matter
to the Courier-Journal whether they do. or
40 not; wherein, perhaps, they viii discover
the better reason for some touch, or at
ANYHOW, 1t proposes to chance a few in
congruvial remarks, hit or miss.
. Inc present Legislature is for nothing if
II be not for free silver. (Casus belli rabies
caninaD Free silver at the ratio of 16 to /,
or bust, constitutes the reason of its being
(Veni, vidi viciD Why should it wait for
It should at once pass an act remonetiZing
silver and making it legal tender for all
uepts, public and private, in the State of
kentucky. (Con amore de mortuis nil nis
oonumD OF course silver has already been
Temonetized by Congress, and is legal
LENDER; but such an additional act by the
state would sound well and look well; it
would reinforce the national credit-terrify
england and Germany-and please the boys
forts!( There should be a preamble re-
cltlng how money that was good enough for
AJdulel Boone is good enough for the deSpOtS
OF Europe and the plutocrats of America, to
say nothing about the gold bugs of Louis
vile and the tin-horn gamblers of Wall
street. Qpse dixitD
The joint resolution reques ting the
resignation of that arbitrator, William
Lindsay, was right enough as far as it
vent It's adoption made proud of the
legislature. But it did not go far enough
!Quo vadis populo auditD Words are but
nolfIerent weapons even in the hands of
Such statesmen, orators and scholars as
compose the present General Assembly. In
the character of loyal and learned repre-
sentatlves of the people. true to their con-
Nlctions of duty and their oaths of office
they cannot stop here. (Ne plus ultra de-
faugatiO nemD To do so would be bias
phemy, and prove but lame and imrotent
ccrclusion to the obligation they owe to his
tory and mankind. Besides, what were
they elected for ii not to purify public life
and to purge the Senate. AS to that arch
traitor. William Lindsay what is an unsup-
ported joint resolution but q scrap of pa
per, a scratch of pen breath of wind?
mandate. Away off there at Washington
and in the giddy maZeS of the dance. he
may not see fit to hear about it. A more
drastic measure is requisite. PRO forma
de causibusD Yet the Assembly must have
a care. 1t must proceed with caution. The
Governor being a Republican, and, there
fore, beyond its Jurisdiction, the case as
sumes prima facie and unorthodox proper
tons. The regular order will have to be
dispensed with. Ordinarily it would be easy
TO call out the militia and march TO the
scene of the arch-traitor's syllogisms and
msdemeanors, to drag him thence by the
hair of his bald head to bring him back in
irons to Kentucky and to burn him at the
stake OF course, the Governor might be
impeached and turned out; but that would
take too much time. (Internos p. d.. q.D
Indeed, little irregularlty IN such an
emergency will not matter. (AQuila non
capt. muscasD The Legislature should
therefore, at once provide for a military
aUribus assinaD Mr.. Saunders should bring
in bill creating an ex otticio, ad valorem
Eleventh Legion, o-bono-publico; pass
the sergeant-at-arms of the cloak room,
with a suitable escort Gall wool and yard
WideD to the national capital to serve 1t on
the arbitrator. William Lindsay. If still
he refuses to obey, have an order entered
on the journals of the two houses recitlng
that he's no gentleman.
The city of Louisville needs to be horn
swoggled by a committee committed in adj
vance to bona tide malevolence and plur1-
bus malpractice. The party needs torrld
example. The Legislature needs TO snow It's
power. Calomel and vermifuge will not
suffice. Neither will blue pills nor hokus-
pokus. The mayor was elected to find offices
for all true Democrats. His failure to do
this is fiat bigamy, bordering closely on
simony and fuXions He should be su 15
pended forthwith, impeached later. His
Office should be fumigated, and If found
etficacioUs, should be declared vacant Gn
hoe vino). and Mr.. Kremer appointed cab
owes initio vacuumD to serve until the lower
house, by and with the advice and consent
of the Senate, can name his constitutional
successor. Mr.. kremer Will llIlSeII IuTlllSH
both the Latin and the law for the purpose.
The boards should not, however, be abol-
ished, because the places upon them will be
needed for the hungry and thirsty among
those who love the people and their party
but an act of attainder (de laureat REGINALD
should be brought forward and, II this
answereth not, then-stern and strldent
though the necessity may be-recourSe
should be had to Judge ThOmpson's court
''Where the wicked cease from troubling,
And the weary are at rest"
The Caesarian operation should be per-
formed on all the charitable institutions.
The churches might be rectifed, but not
molested. The railway, bank and insurance
presidents should be interrogated and de-
capitated. The prisons should be infuriated
(qui quisque. quibus, non inquirendoD and
no gay gazette should be tolerated in any
public Office. Neither highjinks nor cock
olorum should be allowed, except at Frank
fort. Three master commissioners in chan
Gerry should be named to reorganize the
party in the State, with power to send for
persons and papers, to show cause, to levy
war, to coin and borrow money TO have,
to hold and to get property and progeny.
and dies rae cum sails granoD to fill all
vacancies in the Asylum at Anchorage and
in the Nose Green Club in cases not other
wise made and provided by law. Whenever
a gold piece is found in the state treasury,
or in the treasury Of any city, town or
county, it should be conhscated and dis
solved at the corner next succeeding gro
cera cum doggere nil nisi sugaremD and If
any man offers to circulate any such coin,
or TO offer it as a wager, or by any act of
innocuOuS deSuetude to offend his neiglbor,
let him be compelled to set EN- up Cab intio
aurisD All trusts. franchises and taxes
should be abolished. The law fixing the
crime of usance upon coon dogs not yet of
legal age should be repealed. 1t is both
useless and oppressive. Resolutions should
be passed in fAvor of the farmer. Also
against corpora tons. An ex-post facto law
should be enacted forbidding gambling,
games of chance and speculative enter
prises except poker, faro, keno and craps.
''Alea sequa vorax species certissima parti,
Non contenta bonis, arimum, quoque per-
tida mergit;
Furca, furax-infamis, mus, fursa runa. .
But. on pain of the public displeasure, no
man should be permitted to stay out when
ne has openers, or to draw one when he
holds three of Il kind. In cases of delin-
quency ode bona esto) he should be required
to marry the lady.
We take it for granted that the LegisIa-
ture will exterpolate the Bloomfield branch
of the l.. q N. abolish the Associated
Press and pass act giving the Courier
Journal $50 900 for these few lines; and SO we
shall conclude by observing that, if our
failing in none of these particulars, they
may be spared the occasion even to go TO
Frankfort again during their natural lives,
giving the whole people the happiness of
rejoicing with them and of saying in one
voice: well done, done brown, and done
TO a cracklin', good and faithful servants
(assina culpa deoD; you have suffered
enough for your country; enter into the joy
of eternal private life. and, hereafter, be-
dazzle only the dear ones at home" de
quisibus, alb initio. non titD
Harrison Answers the Question.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
Gen. Benjamin Harrison has been in
Washington for a week, and he has been
entertained as an eX- President invited