The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-12-15

The Democratic party, In its vain search
for a tenable issue to be used next cam
paign. has about discovered that all issues
are dead ones in the face of unexampled
prosperity.-Muncie Times.
A Democratic editor complains that Mr..
Mckinley did not refer to protection in the
recent message. What's the use of talking
on a well-established law? The tariff Is no
longer a problem. ANY one who looks about
or the country knows that We have protec-
ton. What's the need of talking about
it?-Marion Chronicle.
The British are getting some hard knocks
in their war with the Beers. But John Bull
is a slayer" and there is an old proverb
which says: 1T is a long lane which has
no turn."-Rushville Republican.
If the national presidential ticket Of 1900
should be respectively Mckinley and Root
and Bryan and Hogg, what an excellent
opportunity would thus be presented for
play upon words.-New Castle Press.
That this has been a good inancia year
for the government is to be seen in the re-
port of the director of the mint, who says
that the coinage of both gold and silver
has been the greatest of any year in the
history of the country, and that the gold
production is increasing rapidly.-South
Bend Tribune.
The United States, in a peaceable man.
ner, is securing a place among the most
favored nations in the distribution of Chi
nese trade. Its occupancy of the Philip
pines, with the great port of Manila, gives
1t a colgn OF advantage in the struggle for
commercial supremacy in the Pacific that
will be more fully appreciated with every
year that passes.-Terre Haute Express.
AS the Democratic candidate for Presi-
dent is the true friend of the laboring man,
as we'll as of silver, he will, of course, be
delighted to read the annual report of the
Pennsylvania factory inspector. which
shows an increase OF 32S,000 persons en-
ployed in the mills coming under his SUI
pervision, as compared with S96.-Kokomo
Tribune.
While talking about changing the basis
of representation in the Republican nation
al convention. 1t would be more in accord
with the demands of justice to change the
basis of representation in the House of
Congress to the number of votes cast. In
the North there are single districts that
cast more votes in congressional elections
than do whole States in the South.-Mid-
dletown News.
The Advocate suggests that some day
this winter the people of Upton county
should get together and have a Mckinley
day. 1t would be the proper thing for all
the DtoDlc 10 meet Ait give praise dld re-
joicing to the man that has led the country
to such prosperity, and has taken the coun-
try through a war with a foreign country
and is putting down a rebellion in one of
our possessiOns.-Tipton Advocate.
The plan of employing an attorney at a
fixed salary to defend paupers in court is
an excellent one. 1t will save the county
a good deal of money, Moreover. 1t will
facilitate court business. Pauper cases, in
most of which there is absolutely nothing
to do but to plead guilty, often drag along
to the attorneys appointed to
defend them. Under the new regime the
attorneys for the paupers Will always be
expected to be on hand to try the cases.
and he will frequently be able to dispose
of them i'm Observation-Disclosures Palladium.
Representative Crumpacker has been
urged by Speaker Henderson to accept the
Craftsmanship Of one of the committees on
elections. The speaker sent for Mr.. Crum-
packer and showed great interest in the
latter's bill, providing for a reapportiOn-
ment of congressional representation from
the South. The speaker is evidently in
sympathy with Mr.. Crumpacker's bill, and
has decided to give him an opportunity to
press the matter upon Congress by putting
him at the head of an election committee,
which would have charge of the bil.-Val-
paraiSO Star-Nidette.
The st. Joseph County Savings Bank
will have been doing business for thirty
years on the 1st of January. 1t has had a
continued prosperity ever since its organi-
cation, and now has a deposit of nearly
two millions of dollars. The inestimable
value of the bank in encouraging saving
and thrift is illustrated by the fact that
it has five Thousand depositors. The saw
ings of these people are aggregated and are
doing active service in the business of
northern Indiana, for some of this money
is loaned in different cities, and the small
savings of the many are bringing prosper
| itY to the whole Re-