The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-15
INDIANA EDITORIAL NOTES.

1t costs each citizen sl75 per year to
maintain the pension list But it cost the
pensioners a good deal more than this to
maintain the country when Ii was In dan
ger.-Anderson Bulletin.
There is a fortune wrapped up in every
automobile and 1t only requires a careless
chauffeur to release it to the person who
receives bodily injury by being run over
by the machine, or to his family when he
loses his life from the same cause.-Lafay-
cite Journal.
Quite a bunch of those Danville hoodlums
have succeeded in getting into the Jail al
though hardly in the manner they origin
ally essayed. Now that they are safely
there the public manifests an enthusiastic
willingness to let them stay.-Terre Haute
Tribune
If the politicians Of Kentucky who have,
by packed jury and partisan court,
condemned Caleb Powers to death, were
convinced of the guilt of Powers, Taylor
and others. why not grant them a fair
trial before an impartial and unprecedented
jury ?-Middletown News.
The Atlanta Constitution has reached the
conclusion that Arthur Pue German is by
far the most suitable and most available
man whom the Democrats could name for
is steadily growing in the minds of
thoughtful Democrats throughout the
country.-South Bend Times Dem.)
In the expenditure of the $4,000 for repair
of the courthouse care must be taken that
a room be provided for the Goshen court
house ring, that it may be more closely in
touch with its county agents. Its duties in
CURED that its facilities for graft should
be increased and made as comfortable as
Observation-Disclosures Review.
The Indiana woods are full of Democrats
eager for the nomination for Governor next
year. The list includes broken down finan-
ciers, retired Congressman. college profess
sors, village ex-pOstmaSters, ward bum
mers. farmers, mechanics, fishermen and
others scattered over the commonwealth
from the St. Joseph to the Ohio, from the
Maumee to Momence rock.-South Bend
Tribune.
The managers Of the Hitz campaign al
Indianapolis have issued circular In which
they state that Holtzman cannot be elected
mayor over Bookwalter. The Sentinel then
demonstrates clearly that Hitz has no show
at all. The inordinate and indiscriminate
| abuse of Bookwalter by the opposition
press In Indianapolis creates sympathy fol
him throughout the State. Mayor Book.
walter is a gentleman. a good Republican
and an honest man, and deserves to be re-
| Rehabilitation Courier.
| A good many people will agree with Sen.
ator Beverage that the country is not suf.
fering for the want of financial Legislation
| 1t is desirable, of course. that there bt
some means of adapting the volume of cur.
rency to the exact demand for 1T at all tin es
| but there are few persons that agree a.
| to how this is to be done. In the nature OF
| things IL is impossible to forecast the exact
| demand for currency, and IL is impossible
| of course, to make laws that will determine
| the matter in characterization Chronicle.
An editor over at Berne had his house
blown up because he tried to prevent g
publican from getting license to sci
liquor. Suppose his wife and innocent chill
| dren had been killed, 1t would have beer
premeditated murder; there is no doub
! about this. 1t would seem. then, that 3
| person in free and glorious old Indiana ma,
| have opinions If he keeps them under I
| bushel. He may believe that righteous
ness exalted a nation" but he must not in
| trude il on anybody else by exercising the
rights of an American citizen-Richmont
] Palladium.