The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-01-14
INDIANA EDITORIAL NOTES.

The Richmond Town Council Is being held
by the very useful injunction TO prevent
a too sudden acquisition of a very expen-
sive electric light plant TO be operated by
the - Chronicle.
A financial bill for firmly establishing the
gold standard and making all money inter-
changeable has been introduced into Con-
gress by Representative Overstreet. This
is a good measure and ought TO pass with
out any delay.--Columbus Republican.
The selection of MIR. Artman as presiding
officer of the Indiana House Of Representa-
tives is a pronounced triumph of the re-
form element. 1t amounts to a notiica-
ton that jobbery will receive no encour-
agement from the speakers ~chair.-Scuth
Bend Times.
The progress of the negro race in this
country involves questions that have never
before confronted any nation. The physi-
cial emancipation of the negro was the
work of the nineteenth century; his moral
and Intellectual emancipation is for the
Observation-Disclosures Call.
One member of the Bryan family has sue
ceeded in securing office. William S. Jen-
nings, a cousin of the late Democratic can
didate. was yesterday ~inaugurated Cover
nor of Florida. If w. j. wants to get a real
office he ought to go South and run for
VI q GU oCNNA DNho
Ex-Governor Pingree, of Michigan, is be-
ginning to "see things" and it might be
suggested that he change his brand of
liquor. His prediction that this. country
will witness a bloody revolution within the
next twenty-five years indicates that the
old man is really worse off than his friends
had supposed.-Huntington Herald.
So far as Wayne county is concerned,
there is no primary election law needed or
wanted. If other localities would adopt
the nominating election plan in vogue here
they would have the chances of fraud re-
duced to the minimum. There is no occa-
sion for saddling on the people an expen-
sive nominating machine .--Richmond Palla-
dunn. rs
Leaving to the sociologists the question
as to whether the man with the hoe is
"a brother TO the OK" we should say,
from a perusal of some of Edwin Mark
hams efforts, that this prolific producer of
Populistic meter is at least first cousin
to a no less patient animal which is
adorned with ears instead Of horns.-Peru
Republican.
That is a good proposition by Representa-
tive John II. James, of Greencastle. where
by county treasurers are tc be freed from
the necessity of binding themselves, soul
and body. to some private party or corpora
ton in order TO get the bond required by
the law. a county treasurer elected by the
people becomes a mere tool in the hands Of
those who have the pull on the treasurer
as the law is now.-Richmond Sun-Tele-
gram.
Mr.. Bryan's renark at Chicago that Il
am a private citizen, with excellent pros
poets of remaining SUCH" may have been
either a modest remuneration or a trick TO
| draw out vehement disclaimers from his
friends. So 1t was when the crown was
offered to julius Caesar, land he put il by
thrice, every time gentler than the other;
and at every putting by mine honest neigh
bors shouted" And then. to quote a classi-
cal phrase of Mr.. Bryans, "he got it in
the neck."-Terre Haute EXPRESS.