The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-08-24

Now some idiot is booming Schley for
the presidency. This is the worst blow he
has received since Senator Wellington so
warmly espoused his cause.-Clay County
Enterprise.
The announcement that some sixty new
rural free delivery routes will be estab-
lished in Indiana this fall means a material
addition TO the States mileage of good
roads.-Plainfeld Progress.
Captain d. F. Aliens frequently voiced
opposition to the retention of the Philip
pines is now explained. He wants to he
secretary OF state. and thinks Democracy
is to be won by such eXpressions.-Elkhart
Review.
The older Indians. whose brutal instincts
have been kept under control by the gov
eminent. must have chuckled over the evil
dence of our superiority shown by a re-
vival Of the Indian torture of burning at
the stake.-Lafayette Call
The people who are breaking their necks
to give something toward a loving cup for
Admiral Cervera could find better ways 10
spend their money. Hobson started the
movement. He has been guilty of unwise
things liberalization Tribune.
Edna Wallace Hopper (who. since her
divorce from De Wolff. is necessarily a
grass-Hopper) must be getting hard I'D for
advertising. She has come out now as a
winner of thousands on a 100-to-1 shot on
an ill-starred racer.-Marion Tribune.
The country will not be surprised to hear
that President Shaffer. of the Amalgamat-
ed union. is almost worn out. The burden
OF calamitous responsibility which he has
been carrying for the last few weeks would
have staggered a giant. - Terre Haute
Tribune.
The mayor of Laporte has issued a proc
lamation requiring dogs to be muzzied or
killed. The sense of such a proclamation,
especially during weather like the present,
a. 80 /. zIAa t-l-l
of weather are ~aggravating enough 10 drive
almost any dog to m~adness.-South Bend
Tribune.
The list of casualties involving loss OF
life recorded in the newspapers daily is
simply appalling. Whether it is because
people are growing more careless or neg
lect TO safeguard human life in order to
save a few dollars are questions that might
be determined in the crimina c~ourts.-Fort
Wayne Journal-Gazette.
Democratic state conventions are letting
national issues severely alone this year.
With the returns from last November still
in mind. the Democrats are looking about
for state and local issues with which TO go
before the people. As 10 the national ques-
tons. the Democracy seems TO have COM
pletely lost its bearings.-Huntington Her
aid.
One fact brought out by the twelfth
census is of more practical Importance than
all lit Itcl put tOktlltAs II = l0dl Wttn1n
the last ten years the average term of life
enjoyed by a citizen of the United States
has increased perceptibly. the death rate
having decreased one and one-half per an
mum for every 1000 Observation-Disclosures
Herald.
Whatever success has been achieved bv
labor OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES a good deal has
been accomplished by them-is due TO the
conservative clement. The radicals have
been eminently successful in stirring up a
rumpus every now and then. but when IL
came TO adjusting matters the conserva-
tives were generally in evidence. II il
likely always to be thus.-South Bend
Times.
A Yale professor has demonstrated by
experiment that the tail OF an adder may
be grated upon the body of a rattlesnake.
This is a more interesting than useful dis
dertake TO discover Why II is that usually
a not prescriptions politician can he
So successfully grafted TO a public job he
will he laboring TO high purpose and benefi-
cent e~nds.-Fort Wayne Sentinel.
TnIman says his brand Of Democracy is
the only real thing. He is an unblushing
advocate OF lynch law. and declares In
favor Of the shotgun as a political argu-
ment. He Is also the man who read the
Kansas city platform 10 the convention
and repeated. for oratorical effect. the
statements of that document about the
consent Of the governed. No wonder the
country concluded that the ''anti-imperial-
lists were only joking .-Vincennes Com
mercial.
Palma is distancing all competitors as a
Cuban presidential probability. A large
majority Of the Cuban papers. So far as
they have expressed any choice at all. have
favored him. With Gomez on his side the
odds seem To be decidedly i'm his favor. He
has another important advantage. His
long residence in the United States has