Political notes and social commentary from 1880s Indiana
Editorial notes project 1884 Republican candidates with Edmunda and Gen Sherman as favorites, discuss Indiana's next election timing, and predict a Hoosier Republican year. It critiques cholera prevention, treasury coin policy, and jokes about a Scipio ticket. It covers education funding, Quaker discipline, black progress, Confucian agnosticism, and social attitudes in a florid, period voice.
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Edmunda
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Gen. Sherman
Arthur
Ben Harrison
Indiana
Hoosier
Court dispute on taxation of bond premiums persists
The New York case centers on whether the premium on government bonds is taxable. Assessors valued personal property at $600,000 for the estate, later reduced to $72,000 as the excess market over par value of bonds. The Court of Appeals overturns lower courts, ruling market value is not more taxable than par value. Also noted is Lord Lansdowne preparing to become Canada’s governor-general, admired for prudence and charity.
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New York City
Supreme Court
Court of Appeale
Police
General Revenue Fund
Cleveland
Cincinnati
Ohio
General Assembly
Scott Fay
Divorce Reform Through Education Not Law
A columnist argues rising divorces reflect moral education gaps not needs for harsher laws. True marriages endure when parents teach sober affection and noble marital duties from childhood, guiding both sexes toward a higher philosophy of marriage. Legal changes won’t curb divorces without home based reform.
Jefferson as Statesman and Politician in American History
A critique tracing Jefferson from patriot and founder of the Declaration to a politician who allegedly compromised his statesman legacy. The piece argues Jefferson’s postwar career diluted his earlier ideals, condemning his state supremacy doctrine and embargo policy as costly missteps, contrasting him with Washington and Monroe.
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Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
Union
Washington
Flo
Callioup
Davis
James Monroe
Jefferson and the party in the postwar era silence
A dense political essay contrasts Jefferson the statesman with Jefferson the politician and critiques the Republican stance on Jeffersonian ideals. It discusses the Declaration of Independence, Calhoun and Davis, and the shift from Jeffersonian doctrine to state supremacy, culminating in Ohio liquor laws and the Scott and Pond statutes as party-driven fiscal and social policy responses.
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Treasury
Rufus Choate
Jefferson
Republican Party
Calhoun
Jeff Davis
Davis
Republic
Washington
Hamilton
Opinions of the Press on Tariff and Trade Debates
A roundup from multiple papers rails against free trade and praises tariff protection. It cites notes from the Cleveland Leader Cincinnati Commercial Gazette Vermontville Hawk and others, contrasting Republicans and Democrats, with references to Garfield and Dorsey and economic comparisons of pre and post tariff costs.
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Vermontville
Republicans Favor Harri rbury Ticket in Pennsylvania
The New York Tribune notes that Pennsylvania Republican organs show no index of dissatisfaction with the Harri bury ticket. Independent papers praise the candidates as heartily as hard party organs, and the Rav al will bolster their position despite Blumpers row and the New York Herald’s critique.
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New York Tribune
Pennsylvania
Harrivbury
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Christendom
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