The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-30
INDIANA EDITORIAL NOTES.

1t may be a big ,'if." but if the proposed
Coliseum Is completed at Indianapolis in
time that city may capture the Democratic
national convention next year. That would
be almost as good as Ringling's circus.
Bloomfield News.
1t will always remain a mystery to the
~barbarians Of the North why the negro is
good enough to raise and even nurse the
Southerner's children, cook his food. wait
upon his table. act as his personal servant,
and yet Is not mt to carry his mail.-Rich-
mond Times.
Kentucky was 20 have a legal hanging
last week, but the convict committed suicide
a few hours before the time appointed for
the execution. Kentucky has no luck at all.
When the State does try to uphold the law
something steps In and interferes.-Logans-
port Journal.
One term in the lower house of the
qualify a man for the lofty position of vice
president. Therefore the boom for Booth
Harrington for this place recently sent
adrift from Kokomo town, Indiana, is a
little premature.-South Bend Tribune.
The city of London has recently had some
valuable, though expensive. experience in
the municipal ownership business. 1t has
discovered that estimates as to the cost of
municipal plants are a delusion and a snare
anu tldt III liz " L tdIUluSS ana eA-
penses are as mysterious as Chinese
Observation-Disclosures Palladium.
Some of Indiana's citizens who find gold
on their farms and then send it to the
State geologist for assay, complain because
he does not agree with them as to its being
gold. They are right. He should find the
gold every time. What is the use of being
a geologist. if you can't find gold in our
soil? How Blatchley was ever reelected,
when we consider how many people he has
disappointed. is a mystery.-Noblesville
Ledger.
We think it would be easy to prove, If
necessary. that men in public places are as
c~lean-handed and as clean-minded as ever
they have been since this government; be-
gan. Moreover, it would not be difficult to
prove that on the whole they are better.
Now and then a public official goes astray,
il is true, but one public official, or n dozen,
or a hundred are not Uncle Sam. a st.
Louis or the State of Missouri is not the
entire country.-Crawfordsville Journal.
The election of fourteen Republican
councilmen (out of a total of twenty in a
rock-ribbed Democratic city like Fort
Wayne demonstrates anew the uncertainty
of politics In municipal contests. Political
managers should take notice Of these
periodical u~pheavals and bear in mind that
judicious. honest and upright administrator
Of municipal affairs takes precedence of
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questions and s~sues.-South Bend Times.
The Democratic party of Indianapolis,
since Taggart's downfall. has to seek new
material for a candidate for mayor. The
gentlemen who expected to be candidates
in the event of Taggart's success are out
of the race, and new men are coming for
ward. Whether or not there will be har-
mony between the Reach and Taggart forces
remains u be seen. Anyhow, it will take
all the harmony possible and a strong can
didate to defeat Bookwalter.-Columbus Re-
publican.
One of the benefits to Terre Haute from
the great of the PoiySechnic In.
stitute by Chauncey Rose was that II
brought to this city scientific men whose
EQUALS can be found only In the great insti-
tutes Of the larger cities. In their ;jnes we
do not have to send to Chicago. Pittsburg
New York or st. Louis for expert counsel
But those cities send here to get The counse
of Professors Mees. Gray. Hows, Noyes
Wagner and others in matters OF engineer.
ing. electricity, Haute Express
II q newspaper man knew how many
knocks he received behind his back he
would ADOPT another calling, remarked
citizen the other day. The citizen was mis-
taken. The newspaper man who succeeds
expects to be maiigned by every lawbrcaker
swindler and hypocrite. every cafpins critic