The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-12
INDIANA EDITORIAL NOTES.

Will the editors who broke bread with Hon.
Thomas Tasgart last week forget the obligation
when a chance for personal Journalism presents
itself? They should not.-Elkhart Review.
This man Bookwalter. of Springfield. o.. whom
Mr.. Bryan proposes as the Democratic nominee
for President has one qualification anyway.
His biography states that he was born in In
diana. But he will have to produce a salts
factory excuse for leaving the State before he
can expect the support OF the Characterization
Chronicle.
More than half the pig iron furnaces in the
Lake Superior region are out Of blast. II there
is thing more than another calculated to
make leisure for the workingman, it is a long
season of labor strikes to maintain a principle.
though it generally happens that about the time
the principle gets thoroughly established there
IL nothing left to which 1t can be satisfactorily
applied--Lafayette Journal
W. ]. Bryan's recently acquired son-in-law Is
threatening for Congress as a Republican
but inasmuch as he was dense unknown up to
the time he married the Nebraskans daughter,
a few months ago. the announcement of his
purpose to break into politics has not created a
sensation sufficient to be available for starting
a prairie fire.-Lafayette Courier.
Whatever taste OF dull times we shall have
will be directly chargeable two distinct forces
the reckless boomers led by j. Pierpont Nor
gan and the instigators of labor troubles and
manipulators OF strikes Upon the heads of these
individuals rests the full responsibility of the
stagnation that has already set in and that is
liable to extend its baneful influence and effect
far beyond its present dominion.-South Bend
Times.
Tending himself in his old age and poverty
against the charges made by Mr.. Bristow has
a clever wording, ard II written without as.
sistance. shows that whatever Tyners age his
| mind has its primal powers The case is a pa
| thetic one. but every official scandal has its
sentimental side disclosing the suffering of in
| nocent ones in the family or of chiefs made
| victims of younger and INSCRIPTIONS men-For,
Wayne News.
The newspapers disseminating instruction
| under the head of THE Art OF Falling" The
| Pit of IL is that IL is easy to avoid serious in
| jury If you know the trick. There is a certain
| Nebraskan now in Europe who might have read
| this few years ago to some purpose but 4,
seems that it is everlastingly too late now &c
| be Of service to him. He not only fell, but he
/ fell hard. and all, suppose, because he did
not know how TO fall without mourning injury
-vincennes Commercial
| Governor Bliss of Michigan has written a let
| ter 10 the commissioner Of pensions, in which
| he asks that his pension be discontinued fol
| the reason that he does need the money III,
| has recently been placed on the pension rolls
/. and he says that his purpose in applying for 9
| pension was TO secure place en- the rolls alonl
| with his comrades, and not for the money Their,
| are thousands Of others who drawing pen
sions that do not need the money, and Governor
| Bliss has sc. them a good example, but we sus
| pect that there will be few who will follow it
| Columbus Republican.
william r. Hearst will be of the Demo
cratic members Of the House committee on labor
| He was told at time that he could not hav
| the place. But he did give up. He wire,
to all the big labor centers and the heads o
labor organizations took the matter in ham
| with such zeal that not only Joe Cannon. bu
the Democratic leader as well. came to the con
clusion that Hearst should have the assignment
II is not hard to what William Randolph
Hearst is driving at these days. 1t Is said tina
Mr. williams. Democratic House leader. is jus
as bitterly opposed 70 Hearst's scheme Of I'd