The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-06-18

which can be construed as a committal
of future action" says Secretary Hay 10
our representative In China This IS good
American doctrine and sufficiently clear.
-Muncie News
From the aftermath Of the womans
club meeting comes repetition of an as
sertion that should not be lost sight Of.
Probably there was no finer flight OF ora
tory than when Miss Alice Coonley Ward
asserted that wells prevent kissing and
injure the eyesight. Courier
Just why the Bryanites should quarrel
over the financial plank of the platform
to be made at Kansas City we cannot
understand. Has not Bryan already been
nominated on 16-to-1 platform? Do they
think gold standard people do not know
he Is the Populist NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Republican.
The Democrats in Congress succeeded
in Furnishing w. ID. Bynum for opposing
Bryan's election in 1896. He was a gold
Democrat who could not stifie his con-
vsctions. BY its treatment of Mr. Bynum
the party has given notice that II has no
use for honest gold Democrats.-Richmo
Palladium.
Mr.. Bryan cannot complain if the people
do not regard him with great respect If he
persists IN running about the country con-
sulting with minor leaders of his party ard
conducting a canvass for the highest off,
cial position in the world. after the manner
OF candidate for petty local office.
-Terre Haute Tribune.
1t is not patriotism but foolish perverse-
ness that induces the Boer leaders to talk
of continuing the war with guerrilla tac-
tics. The cause is lost. they cannot hope
TO win, they do not hope to win. Such a
course only entails suffering and bloodshed.
poverty and crime, with nothing worth
seeking at the end of it.-Vincennes Com
mercial.
| Lawton was right when he said shortly
before his death that If he should be shot
down the responsibility would be upon the
| traitors i'm America and it is now shown
| that Bryan, himself just out OF the uni
| form of soldier, is directly aiding and
| abetting our enemies and urging them to
| continue the killing and wounding of our
| soldiers. He be President? Not while pa
trotism is living principle in this most
| patriotic OF natfons.-Muncie News.
The platform is the patchwork of DEM
agogues of the worst class, and is framed
to catch votes and without any hope OF
ever carrying out single plank. The
| people of Indiana are too smart TO be
caught by its Shiny phrases, and the No
/ vember election will show the beginning
of the undoing of the Taggart machine In
Indiana. it has already lost its force
| with the people of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
vile Journal.
| Once again has Governor Mount endeared
himself to the people of Indiana by re-
| fusing second time to unite with Ken
| lucky bourbons In their determination to
assassinate their fairly elected Governor
| either by shotguns the machinery OF
| courts, both loaded for the same hellish
| purpose. If there was anybody left in this
| State who thought Governor Mount to be
lacking in vertebrae, he ought to be con-
WINGED by this act. that the Governor
! spinal column is all right.-Fort Wayne
| News.
Again has Governor Mount refused to
| honor a requisition issued by the man who
usurped the Office of Governor of the State
/ OF Kentucky, and by refusing to deliver uI
| the person of w. s. Taylor, the man who
| was fairly elected by the people of Ken.
1 lucky. Governor Mount did exactly right
| Not while James A. Mount is Governor OF
| Indiana will any person accused by that
| gang of political cutthroats be given III
| to be hanged like ga pig to a POLE as the
| gang has declared its purpose TO do.-Ko-
| komo News.