The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-12-10
INDIANA EDITORIAL NOTES.

An Indianapolis bribe-taking councilman
was sentenced to the pen%itentiary. Now
build more p~enitentiaries and let other
municipalities follow suit. = Marengo OBJ
server.
Senator Frye's presentment Of the ship
subsidy bill was lucid. There is consid-
cradle criticism of the measure in the air.
but it looks as though the more 1t is dis
cussed the more popular it becomes.-Mun-
Gle News.
Congressman Crumpacker is right when
he proposes to reduce the representation in
Congress when the right to vote is denied
voters. This would cut about half of the
Southern congressman from four or five
States.-Anderson Herald.
The Indiana Legislature should enact the
law against vote-buying. 1t was repealed
by the last Legislature, and we lave now
a half measure which Furnishes the man
that sells, but lets the buyer go free. The
rest of the country is laughing at Indiana.
Union City Eagle.
One argument for the ship subsidy is
that the European ship lines can hire labor
cheaper han American lines. If a sub
sidy is granted to overcome that difference
it should be accomplished by an ironclad
condition that receivers of subsidies must
pay higher wag than the Europeans or
forfeit their susidies.-Terre Haute Ex-
press.
Kentucky Goebelite Democrats are in
a bad way when they cannot roll up
more thar a paltry 5000 plurality for
their candidate. Had the votes in the
State been counted as cast, Yerkes would
have been Governor by a majority that
would have reached ten times the plurality
claimed for the politician upon whom the
mantle of Goebel has charlottesville
Journal.
The Legislature should indulge in no ex-
t~ravagances this year, and should be I'M
usually careful in steering clear of ques-
tionable legislation. 1t has been some time
since state affairs cut any figure in the
campaign. but: in view of all circum-
stances, there is a chance that they may
come to the front two years from now,
especially if the record made this year is
not perfectly clean and commendable.
Franklin Republican.
Mary Yellin' Lease, the famous shemale
politician from suffering Kansas, has APP
piled for q divorce from her husband on
the grounds of desertion and failure to
provide. Owing to the fact that MARVEL
lin has spent the most of her welded life
knocking about the country making politi-
cal speeches, while her husband was at
home selling prunes and raising the kids
by hand. we fail to see how she hopes to
Substantial her complaint.-Decatur Jour-
nal.
When a resolution was introduced in the
indianapolis Council for an investigation of
the case of Councilman Higgins, sentenced
to prison for soliciting a bribe. Mr.. Mori-
arity, one of his Democratic colleagues.
said: cit is again our friend. Mr.. Higgins.
Therefore / vote with my other Democratic
friends MIR. Moriarity is right in standing
by his friend, Mr.. Higgins, and his party.
What's the use of having friends If you
do not stand by them as you would expect
them to do unto you?-Terre Haute Trib-
une.
1t is to be hoped that Maurice Thomp-
son, who is now seriously Ill, will recover.
He has done much for the elevation of lit
erature in the Nation, and his whole active
life has reflected credit on the State of
his residence. Mr.. Thompson has been.
perhaps, the very best of the essayists.
There has been no more charming writer
in the whole course of American letters
Not a great novelist. because he was es-
sentially a painter of pictures, and not a
story teller, he has still achieved success
in the field of fiction. 1t will be a very
great loss to the State If he shall die.
Lafayette Journal.