The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-31
INDIANA EDITORIAL NOTES.

General Miles is reported to have said
that he would rather be the owner of a
Texas oil well than President of the United
States. Happily he may have his choice
Lafayette Call.
And so Ann is only eighteen years old so
says the man who set a million of people.
more or less, to figure it out. Well let it
go at that, but we shall always think that
both Ann and Mary lied about their age.
-Tipton Advocate
Mr.. Bristow took one hundred and ten
thousand words to tell what he knew about
the postoffice scandal. 1t is evident that
what our public men need is a thorough
course of training on some copy readers
desk-Logansport Journal.
The sword OF justice seems poweriess
against the pistol in South Carolina, yet
South Carolina politicians who contemplate
disposng of their enemies should remem-
Der that Lieutenant Governor Tillman had
to hire twelve lawyers.-Goshen News
Times.
Tom Taggart having finished the work
of forming Mayor Holtzman's cabinet, is
now at French Lick ready to entertain any
Of his appointed friends whose salaries will
permit them to sojourn at a first-class
hotel for a few days TO take rest.-Lafay-
cite Journal.
Several thousand actors are out of Jobs
in New York and wondering what to do
next. 1t will occur to few of them that
art and the public would suffer little If they
went to work. A wedding out process would
be greatly relished by the theater- patroniz-
ing public.-South Bend Times.
Now labor unions are trying to boycott
nonunion lovers. Girls are asked not 10
keep company with men who cannot show
a union card. IT is no doubt a union
cal in q
making, but the card is generally issued by
the county clerk and not by labor union
-Elkhart Review.
The United States has no reason to be dis
satisfied with the situation in Manchuria.
We have an open door for trade in any
event and In case Russia and Japan try
conclusions in the exhilarating game of war
we have all sorts of things to sell: We
neither view with alarm nor point with abb
Nomenclature Haute Tribune.
At Waterbury, Conn, a Democratic
candidate for mayor who stood for laxity in
the enforcement of law against rioting, pro-
viding the disorder was inaugurated in the
name of labor has been hopelessly showed
under. No one in this country has any,
thing to gain by an assault upon law and
order and the working man least of all.
Muncie Times.
The closing of a bank here and there is
not necessarily alarming. Instances of that
kind recently transpiring simply go to prove
that prosperity has caused some specula-
tive elements to creep into the legitimate
line OF banking that have right to be
there and the sooner they are weeded out
the better for the stable business in
terests Of the country at large-Lafayette
Courier.
Ex-senator Charles A. Towne says ''It
does him good to battle again in the atmos-
phere of honest, Democracy" Just how
much the ex-senator is in need of a bath
is a question that he alone is best able to
determine. but If he feels better after that
kind of an experience we don't why
ANYBODY should deter him. There are per-
sons that would be improved by bath of
almost any sort and II Mr.. Towne classes
himself among them so be it.-Marion
Chronicle.
..If the price of silver" remarks the Webb
City (Mo) Register. continues to advance
until sixteen ounces is worth more than an
ounce of the yellow metal the goldbugs
will be ashamed to acknowledge that they
ever opposed the free coinage of silver :"
In that contingency all Americans could re-
joice in the enhancement in the value of
one of our products; but the silver party
would die for its object was to pay debts in
dollars worth less than 100 cents.-Hartford
City Times.
Publisher William Jennings Bryan, of
the Commoner. in setting forth the merits
of his publication as an advertising medium,
quotes letter from j. w. Mcclure of Sc
dalia, Mo-, I'm the course of which he says:
Missouri lands are steadily advancing and
are going materially higher" And this
under a high tariff administration possessed
OF the money devil. Editor Bryan ought 70
see to II that the advertising columns Of