The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-31

which our dependencies will feel Will be
great. 1t is a great national disaster.
-Elkhart Review.
A Republican Congress may be expected
to do more for real temperance advance
ment in connection with the army canteen
question than any party or faction In the
country, not barring the Prohibition aggre-
Standardization News.
There is apparently no escape for Nicely.
He and his associates who appropriated
public money to their own use will be pun
ished as they should be. The administra-
ton is making n thorough investigation.
Seymour Republican.
Josiah Gwinn, the able editor of the New
Albany Public Ledger, says he approves
the action taken by Governor Mount in the
Finley requisition case. Now and then you
will find a Democrat who knows the differ
ence between right and wrong, and who
thinks before he speaks.-Terre Haute
Tribune.
II is stated that one of Neely's schemes
was to buy the Isle of Pines which lies
south of Cuba. Why buy it? If he had
succeeded in stealing Cuba the outlying
islands would simply have fallen into his
lap. The Muncie Napoleon should not be
belittled by being charged with intentions
on small islands.-Richmopd Palladium.
Indiana is necessary u the successful
candidate for President this year. This
State will be the center of the fighting.
Republicans must regard the State as
doubtful and put forth their best efforts
accordingly. The battle of 1896 should indi-
cate the way Indiana must he won from
the hordes of calamity.-Marion News.
Down at Atlanta a great church confer
ence declined to receive a communication
asking it to extend its moral support to
woman suffrage. In the same conference
objection was raised to the new hymnal
because Nearer My God to Thee" con-
tanned therein was written by a Unitarian!
Comment is unnecessary.-Anderson Bulle-
tin.
Said B. NJ. Allen, a prominent Democrat
from Birmingham, Ala, at Indianapolis
yesterday: IF we couldn't win with free
silver when times were dull and men were
out of work what can we expect TO do with
this issue when everything is prosperous!
And there isn't a Democrat in the State
that will answer the observation-disclosures
Republican.
We seem to gather from the Indiana
Democratic press that Governor Mounts
refusal to return the Kentucky suspects
to their own State is taken as i%ncontro-
vertible proof that he himself fired the
fatal shot into the body of Senator Goebel.
The Kentucky Goebelites are not taking 1T
nearly so hard as their Indiana brethren.
-Muncie News.
The sound money Democrats of this State
have sounded the tocsin and will refrain
from being corraled in the Bryan camp.
They favor independent candidates for
President and Vice President. With the
sound money element of the party in re-
bellion all hope of carrying the State for
Bryan. Populism, flag furling, base money
and reputation is sheer insanity.-Vln-
cennes Commercial.
An Englishman in a small New York
town hoisted a British flag on the Queens
birthday. Boer sympathizers burned the
flag. This is merely a straw to indicate
Americans and shows the distance TO
which unreasonable interference in a
quarrel entirely outside our zone OF duty
might lead this Nation II unreason be al
lowed TO rule.-Marion News.
The prospects of some fun in the Indiana
Democratic camp are excellent. The Dem
ocratic editors have Endorsed bimetallism
without referring to 16 to !. Two men are
candidates for the gubernatorial nomi-
nation, but they refuse to commit them
selves to Mr.. Bryan's hobby. The wild and
reckless element of the party must hustle
If Indiana is kept true to the principles
of the Chicago platform.-Muncie Times.
Through the postal scandals In Cuba the
city of Muncie has become widely known,
but the extended reputation which she has
thus acquired is anything but enviable and
is a decided misfortune to that prosperous.
f1ourishing city. 1t certainly is to be re-
GREETED that some of those who have been
known as her prominent citizens should
thus by their gross misconduct bring re-
proach upon her fair name. All this un-
fortunate and deplorable condition of
things is attributable to the men involved
in this disgrace losing sight of the fact
that public Office is a public trust and not
a private snap.-South Bend Times.
When Governor Mount said that mo man
shall be taken from Indiana to be tried by
a court organized to convict he uttered
a sentiment that will be Endorsed by every
honest man in Indiana. Governor Mount
has shown that he has the courage of his
convictions and that he is not afraid to
assume responsibility for what he knows is
right. We shall hear a loud and deep how
from Democratic threats that are thirsting
to drink the blood of Finley and Taylor,
but Governor Mount will have the backing
and support of a class of men who be-
lieve in justice and right and the bowling
will be in vain.-Columbus Republican.