The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-12-11
SPIRIT OF THE STATE PRESS.

The cost of the election I'm 1898 in Coal
Creek township was STA, but with voting
machines it would only be $7S Money
saved Is big Observation-Disclosures
Journal
The county reform law, while perhaps
not perfect in every detail, has neverthe-
less thus far proved a bar to more gratis
than any law ever passed by an Indiana
observation-disclosures Patriot.
The old idea Of "curfew" laws to keep
children off the streets at night is again
being agitated in various parts of the
country. Parental authority, backed up by
an old slipper, ought to answer the purpose
-Muncie News.
There is story that old senators mis-
took the junior senator from Indiana for a
page. When Mr.. Beveridge opens up those
senator's will think he is whole book with
an appendix, as Mark Twain would say
Marion Chronicle.
Secretary Gage has recommended an ap-
preparation of sos, 900 for the Marion Sol
diers' Home George w. STEELE was instru-
mental In securing this generous amount
Tor the old veterans. Steele generally gets
what he goes after.-Elwood Call-Leader.
1t would be good thing for the city of
Indianapolis and Marion county to get her
warning factions right before she goes into
the Republican state convention. Marion
county has been treated royalty by outside
counties and owes a better account of her
ewardship.-Covington Repui lican.
The closing year finds the business men
Of Greensburg. than whom there is none
better earth, well satisfied with the re-
suits OF their labor. With activity and
prosperity all about them, the merchants
naturally have felt the results and came
out in better shape than for years past.
-Greensburg Review.
This is the sad season of the stale egg.
Last summers hen triumph is ashes in the
shell. The cold storage egg, with taste
of sawdust and age, makes breakfast a
duty rather than delight, and sends the
husbandman to work with a bad memory
in his mouth. The winter-working hen
Is a prize and a perennial blessing. Avoid
the June egg. 1t may be well preserved,
but 1t Is tasteless regret and travesty.
Marion Chronicle.
The proposition to change the basis OF
representation in Republican national con-
time 1t is championed by Henry G.. Payne
of Wisconsin. That ii will meet with OPP
position from the South is expected, but
Republican prospects in that section cannot
be helped by the continuance of a plan
whose chief product is scandal, and In
favor of which no sound argument is pos
sible.-Kokomo Tribune.
People who think that the commercial
travellers have any notion of rushing into
| the bosom of the Democratic party because
of their fear of trusts, are very credulous
indeed. Drumers are very clear headed
| men. They know perfectly Well which
party laid them off in 1893, and they know
which party took them on again at better
salaries than ever, in 1886. They know
| equally well which party is calm and sensi-
BILE in its opposition to trusts, and which is
! hysterical and Observation-Disclosures News.
| Farmers were never so prosperous or In
such independent financial condition. We
| talked with a Hancock county farmer
| Friday who. on less than 200 acres. made
| 81 900 clear above a living, during each Of
| the years of 1898 and 1899. He did it chiefly
| with hogs and cattle. If every farmer In
| the county would farm as SUCCESSFULLY a:
| this man, in ten years Hancock county
| would not only be one of the richest anC
most prosperous counties in Indiana, bu
| in the United States. excepting countie:
| with large cities, of course.-Greenfield Re
\ publican.