The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-01-24

State Press Comment.
Governor Durbin proved that he had his
legislative rough riders pretty well In hand
He got his ripper bill through, but the
roads were bad in spots--Tipton Tribune
Senator DeHaven stood by Governor
Durbins ripper bill. The close compan-
ionship of these two eminent statesmen is
| growing just a trifle suspicious.-kokomo
Dispatch Dem.)
The only Republican newspaper in In
diana that inGorses the DurbinG oodwine
bill is the Lafayette Courier. and its argu-
ment suggests conviction against its
will.-Fort Wayne News.
| Governor Durbin's ripper weathered the
storm in the State Senate yesterday, but
the real danger lays in the House and
| there's where the ripper may get ripped.
Anderson Bulletin Qnd)
| The Republican managers Of the ripper
bill forced trump card into the Demo-
cratic hand instead of playing it them
selves, by allowing the Democrats to amend
| the bill. making it nonpartisan, which 1t
was not before. in any shape.-Terre Haute
| Express.
| The ripper bill passed the Senate This
| measure knocks out the Jeffersonville Re-
formatory board. and the Democratic sena-
tors divided evenly on it, evidently want
| ing to get rid of the Hert faction and not
| especially desiring to join the Governor s
J ripper guards.-Vincennes Sun.
The Democrats in the Legislature seem
to be very complacent with regard to the
fate of Goodwines ripper bill This
might perhaps be a useful pointer to the
| Republicans from political standpoint.
The DemmeS evidently feeling that
| it is not their OK that is being gored-Rich-
| mond Palladium.
Whenever the board of managers of a
| state institution so far forgets itself as to
| deliberately ignore the Governor of the
State, as the Jacksonville board did, its
members should hand in their designations.
| Failing in this, ii is entirely appropriate
| that the Legislature should get rid of them
| by special Observation-Disclosures Courier.
The General Assembly is making its
| greatest mistake in passing the ripper bill.
| The bill is designed to GUST the present
| board of the Reformatory at Jeffersonville
because they acted, with what is considered
| by some. too much Independence. The Of
Tense, If an offense, does not justify
measure so radical and so much akin to
Kentucky Goebelism.-Madison Courier.
The Jacksonville Reformatory bill passed
the Senate Wednesday, with only ten sena-
tors in opposition. Three of them are
Republicans and seven Democrats. The
| Republicans voting against the bill were
There is stronger opposition to the bill in
the House, where there is reason to hope
| II will be amended in important particu-
| lars, if not defeated.-KokomO Tribune.
To say the least of it the Reformatory
ripper bill is nothing more than peanut
politics and that of a small variety. The
Democrats are voting for the bill for the
purpose of putting the Republicans lin
! the hole" 1t is politics with them and
petty spite with the Republicans. The
| House should reverse the action of the
| Senate and bring the upper branch to it's
| SenseS.-Noblesville Ledger.
! If the trustees were not expected to man.
age the Reformatory. what were they APP
pointed for? If they have not honestly per-
| formed their duties, according to law,
| charges should be preferred against them in
| regular form. To do otherwise would
clearly indicate that politicians are seeking
| to control the institution, and fear a fair
| investigation. If there is anything wrong,
turn on the light.-Mount Vernon News.
| The Republicans placed the State penal
and benevolent institutions in the hands
of nonpartisan boards. and they have never
| been so well and economically admins
tered. The Republican party will be held
| responsible for any change to partisan con-
troll they may make that will seek to make
| political machines of them TO further the
| ambition of any citizen or State official. II
| would be we'll to make haste slowly, mem
berS of the observation-disclosures Progress
Examiner.
The bill is animated by personal spite.
Stripped of all verbiage and characterized
in plain rms. it is a proposition to rape
a public institution I'm order to satisfy the
poitiuN lust of a jealous and piqued Gov
ernor. If the board of managers of any
State institution are to be summarily re-
| moved because they are personally unpopu-
| lar with THE Governor of the State, will
have a condition of affairs that will be in
| tolerable to common decency and good
| government.-RichmorG Item
| nj, ut &c
policy of the party which the Legislators
should never allow to be delivered. If the
board of the Reformatory has done any
thing which it should not do investigation
is in order. and investigation has beer
asked If the Legislature desires To order
| an investigation that action will be per-
| fectly proper, but to proceed To abolish il
| I'm the manner proposed, without any tria
whatever would be the rankest injustice
| 1t seems almost incredible that the bill
should have been seriously considered anC
that any number of Republican Legislators
can be found who will indorse it.-Elkhari
! Review
The passage of the ripper" bill, which
is intended to enable Governor Durbin tc
take revenge on Messrs. Shvey, Melon
aid, Terhune and Williams, is a sorry ex
ample of spells politics II ought to bt
called measure to degrade the manage
ment of our State institutions, for that il
most certainly will do if not killed by the
lower house. The large vote for the Trip
per- bill. thirty-nine TO ten. is a bad
comment upon the intelligence and pro
gressiveness Of the State Senate. There
are men in that body of whom the bes
people of every portion of the State would
expect better things.-Richmond Sun-Tele
gram (Dem)
The attempt being made to turn the In
diana Reformatory into a political machine
is a sin-the objectionable sin-against thu
people of Indiana. The Indiana Reforma
tory, under its nonpartisan and excellen
management, to-day leads in efficienc,
every similar reformatory institution IN
the United States. Indeed il is the mode
for all such institutions to follow. To MAKE
a political machine of it is TO destroy alb
| solutely its efficiency and to cast a stu
upon the high character Ii maintains. tt
do this Is not only sin, but crime
The Ledger cannot believe that the Hous
| of the Indiana Legislature will be guilty o
| such unwisdom. The people of the Stat
rely upon the House TO save them from sucl
disaster.-New Albany Ledger (Dem)
Foolish Counsel.