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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-08-21
Mr.. BYNUM'S SPEECHES..

Mr.. Bynum has ~repudiated the Atlanta
Constitutions report of his speech at that
place. He says he was incorrectly reported,
and that the sentiments imputed to him never
could have been uttered or entertained by
him. Well, we will put Mr.. Bynum on the
witness-stand. On the 25th of April last he
delivered a..speech in the House of Represent
atives which was published in the Congress
sional Record. We p rint some extracts from
that speech along with the report of his At
lanta speech as reported in the Constitution:
ATLANTA SPEECH, JULY SPEECH IN THE HOUSE,
&c. APRIL %.
I'm my own city we sour manufactures
have every kind Of man. run nine. ten or eleven
ufactory, and every onelmonths, as the case may
of them have increased be, upon an average,
their output until we when Q sufficient sup
have n surplus. and have ply is produced for a
TO seek foreign markets. whole year, when the
In eight months we can doors are closed aud the
manufacture more than Operatives are dis
we can consume IN aIcharged TO await the re-
year. AS a consequence vival OF the market
the factory hands are On page Z he further
turned out of work for says:
four months to starve. Few wsee-workers
At the end of a year a are able TO lay up any.
laborer is doing we'll If thing; they do well to
he is even. When he il Keep even. / have seen
ont of work he is out ofIthe officer walk into the
money. His grocer will humble home, carry the
not credit him.. / know furniture out upon the
Of a man in my own city street, and then compel
who went out day after he mother and children
day and could find moth TO abandon their shelter
ing 20 do. At last his while he closed aud fast
wife, noble woman that ened the doors, because
she was, said: L know the rent was unpaid
shat You cannot get And again:
work. There Is no de- with our gamers
msnd for your work. filled to overlooking and
Come take care OF the our mills packed with
children, and / will golgoods, we have seen la
to the wssh-tub and boring men and their
make q living Our families, for the want
| tariff Is not a protectiveI of work, suffering for
| tariff, but is a destruc food and shivering for
tive one, and especially clothing
TO the farming interests
Of this country"
These speeches were made under different
| circumstances In the House Mr.. Bynum
was speaking in favor of the Mills bill, which
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-08-21
LAME

After nearly a month has elapsed, the At
lanta Constitution prints q curious sort Of an
article respecting Mr.. BDum's July speech in
that city. the intention of which is to relieve
our Congressman, but which, in reality, only
makes more conspicuous the truth of the
charge brought against him. We reprint the
Constitutions article. It is not the work Of
the editor of the Constitution, nor of the re-
porter who reported Mr.. Bynum's speech, nor
of any responsible person connected with
the paper. It is the expression
of 'the writer" whoever that may be;
and 'the writer" is careful not to Say that the
published report was either unjust or incor-
rect, but contents himself with a eulogy of
the man and the speech, and says it might
have been uttered in Indianapolis. Why does
not the Constitution editorially say that the
report it made of the speech was inaccurate,
and caused Mr.. Bynum to appear to say the
very reverse of what he now says he saidi
Why does not the reporter acknowledge that
he unsupported and misrepresented Mr.. By.
mum, and that instead of a SANDER
upon our manufacturers Mr.. Bynum
actually gave indianapolis "a good send-offp
The truth is, as the Journal has conclusively
demonstrated, that Mr.. Bynum was making
an argument to show that protection was
running the country, and he illustrated his
argument by reference to Indianapolis. What
the Constitution reported him as saying fits
intot the whole speschin perfect harmony, audit
is the only thing that will so fit. A good send
of" for Indianapolis would have been incongru-
Gus and out of place. Both the internal and
external evidences are conclusive against Mr..
Bynum. Tho belated efforts of himself and
his Georgia ''writer" cannot extricate him
from the hole he voluntarily tumbled himself
into in order to show his vassalage to Mr..
Roger Quarles Mills. Mr.. Bynum has made
his anti-protection, free-trade bed. and he will
have to lie in it; he cannot lie out of it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-08-21
TURN THE RASOALS OUT.

What is the matter with the mail servicef
In May there were 90. $40 errors in the distri-
button of letters, 278 lost packages, 131 mis-
sent pouches, and 40 lost pouches. There is
no telling how much these mistakes damaged
the citizens who lost their mail ATLANTA
Constitution.
The Constitution knows perfectly well what
is the matter. 1t knows that when that emil
nent civil-service reformer, Grover Cleveland,
came into power, the affairs of the Postofice
Department were well administered; that a
comparatively perfect and constantly-improv-
ing system was in operation, and that COM
plants were few. 1t knows that Immediately
after that date the removal of experienced
postal clerks and other officials began. in order
that their places might be given to party
workers, without regard to their fitness for
the positions. 1t knows that from that time
the service began to deteriorate, and that it
has constantly grown worse, until, as it says,
the loss and annoyance to the patrons is al
most incalculable. The excellence of the
AoimSA ocA'ASo q NV sAos suo mcu
were Republicans-for many were
not-but that they were qualified for the per-
Torrance of their duties. The unsatisfactory
condition of the present service is not due to
the fact that the new appointees are Demo
Gratis. but that they are Democrats chosen
will reference only to their ''claims" upon
their party. The entire department has been
turned into a political machine, and the in
evitable consequence is the neglect of its
legitimate business. The complaints are not
confined to one locality, but come from Chi
cago, where the theft Of thousands of letters
is only discovered accidentally; from Phila-
delphia, from Boston, from San Francisco,
and from rem ote fourth class Offices. The
public suffers in order that Grover Cleveland
may secure a certain number of votes in
November. and its only hope of relief is that,
Notwithstanding the aid of this machine, be
may be defeated and the service restored to its
former state of efficiency under a genuine
reformer. Reasons accumulate for believing
that the Constitution will not be chief mournel
when his defeat is accomplished.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-08-21

Mr.. Bynum, however, in his attack on Gen.
Harrison, descended to equally mean. ma
licious and low-fung methods. which furnish
additional proof that he has a fatal facility for
catching up rumors concocted or repeated by
d~isreputable and characterless scoundrcls, and
dignifying them with the presumed RESPONSE
bility attaching to a member of Congress.
Such a style of political warfare is unworthy
any man who wears the title and bears the re.
sponsibility of a representative of the people
in the Congress of the United States.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-08-21

Atlanta Constitution.
The writer of this heard the speech of Hon.
VIM. d. Bynum, of Indiana, at Piedmont Chau-
tauqua-every word of it There WAS not q
word uttered by MIR. Bynum concerning Indian
apolis or any OF the citizens of Indianapolis that
be might not have uttered in indianapolis, or to
any class Of citizens of Indianapolis. We be-
lieve the love of Atlantians for Atlanta is
proverbial. Mr. Bynum did not say q word con-
corning Indianapolis that any Albanian might
not have said of Atlanta aud been spplsuded in
saving It
This is written in no constrained courtesy. and
is suggested by no sense OF hospitality. 1t is
possible that In the runeing report of his speech,
which did not pretend to be . verbatim report,
certain paragraphs or sentences might have been
construed to mean what the full text Of the
speech would not justify. In . sense Of justice
TO . gallant and honorable gentleman, who made
friends by the thousand and who made a speech
that, while Democratic to the core, could offend
no party or class. we make this statement. 1t
would have been made sooner had we known
that Mr.. Bynum's admirable speech was being
used to his detriment We do not know the ex-
tent of the hostility that the Indianapolis Jour.
nal bears him, but We beg it to put on record
this statement concerning his speech. from one
who heard 1t from beginning to cod, and which
cannot differ from that Of anyone who heard the
speech % delivered.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-08-21
OUT OF HER OWN MOUTH.

Mrs. Helen NJ. Cougar has set herself to
defeat the Republican party. In last weeks
Voice, the national organ of those who have
banded together for this purpose. she
'arraigns" the Republican party for many
grievous offenses, among which is that in
1882 i. did not, in its platform. indorse pro-
hibition, but only proposed to submit the
question of a constitutional amendment to a
direct vote of the people without declaring in
favor of the amendment. Mrs. Cougar must
be very f~orgetful or very malicious. If she
will think a moment she will remember that
by the Legislature Of 1881 two amendments
were proposed by a non-partisan vote, mem
bers of each party voting for and against
them, one to insert prohibition and the other
woman suffrage in the Constitution. If she
will further refresh her memory she will re-
call that, subsequently,, the W. c.
T. q. of Indiana appointed a strong
delegation of eminent women, Of whom
Mrs. Gouger was chief, to visit the two con.
y~entions of 1882, and request each to incor-
the submission as q non-partisan measure;
that they visited the Democratic party at its
convention, Aug. 2, and that q resolution was
Incorporated as requested, and that after it
was read and adopted Mrs. Gouger came for
ward on the rostrum, and publicly thanked
the convention, and said that she, as a repre-
sentative of the w. c. T. u, was entirely
satisfied, although the platform expressly
committed the party against the amendment,
and proposed to fight it at every stage. A
week later she and her colleagues visited the
Republican convention in their official capacity
as representatives of the W. C. T. u. and
in their private interview with the COM
mittee on resolutions they were very emphatic
in requesting that nothing should be said for
or against either amendment-they wanted
only a chance to have them voted upon, and
wanted them kept free from all party alliances,
and the resolution was framed in exact ac-
cordance with this request, and adopted
with enthusiasm. If she will stop and
think a moment, she will remember
that the spokesman of the W. c. T. T., a Mrs.
Helen NJ. Cougar, Immediately came to the
front of the stage, and, in a most eloquent
manner, said: Gentlemen of the conven-
tion-On behalf of the W.. G. T. U. Of In
diana, / thank you, and as you have given US
no uncertain sound, / give you no uncertain
sound. You have done right. You have
very wisely and very properly, in accord with
the wishes Of the w. c. II. U. of Indiana,
left the questions untrammeled from partisan
influences. Again l thank you on
behalf of the w. C. T. U. of Indiana for your
honorable action this morning, and pray for
the success of our great causes. l thank you
and trust you"
That was Mrs. Helen NJ. Cougar in 1882.
The Republicans, as requested by the w. c
] 7. U, 'wisely and very properly kept the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-08-21

The New York World has discovered "Gener.
al" Curtis, the presidential nominee OF the
American party. His full name is James Lang
don Curtis, and he is described as a erizzled. lit
tie old gentleman, who has . bright and clipper
way Of talking. He is outspoken in his views.
which are decidedly anti-forsign. In fact, be
was . Know-nothing thirty-6ve years ago. and
does not seem to have changed much. "You
may think" he said. shat / am d~eluding myself
when l tell you I shall get 10000 votes in New
York alone. have had some political expert
ence. / was the candidate of the Young Ameri-
can party In 1854 in the State of New York. and
Horace Greeley paid me some very nice compli-
meuts.n General Curtis is s~ixty-six years old. is
a successful manufacturer and quite wealthy.
He lives at Bridgeport. Conn. though be does
business in New York.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-08-21

repeats the duty on wool, and which Mr..
Bynum says is right because wool '.grows,"
and therefore ought not to be protected. His
line of argument was, the bill ought to be
passed because protection was running the
country. At Atlanta he was addressing a
Southern audience, and had told them that
he represented a manufacturing constituency;
be was talking in favor of free trade, and his
line Of argument was the same as before, viz,
that protection was running the country.
This is the invariable argument of free
traders. They tell the people that they are
robbed and impoverished by protection; that
'the rich are growing richer and the poor
poorer" that protection enables the capitalist
to Cypress the laborer; that the British
workman is better off under free
trade than the American workman
ia under protection, etc. These argu-
ments, false and mischievous as they
are, un-American. unpatriotic n full of the
seeds of communism, are the stock argu-
ments of those who are trying to break down
the American system of protection. Mr..
Bynum followed this line of argument in
both the speeches above quoted from. They
corroborate each other.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-08-21

AT the last election for Congress Georgia
cast %, 395 votes for ten Representatives, as
follows: Wood. 2,061; Turner, 2,411; Crisp,
1,704; Grimes, 2.9O9; Stewart, 2,99o; Blount,
LISP; Clements, 5,043; Carlton. 2,267; Cand-
Ter, 1855, and Barnes, 1,944. At the same
lime an election was held in Dakota, where
104, OIL votes were polled, not . single one Of
which has any power in the selection of a
Representative in the councils of the Nation.
Twenty-Five thousand three hundred and nine
ty-ive voters in Georgia elect ten Congress
men, while four times as many voters in Da-
kota do not elect a single one. Of the votes
cast in Dakota GO, 1872, or nearly two-thirds,
were Republicans.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-08-21

Mr.. E. 2. ALLIs, proprietor of the Re.
lance works, Milwaukee, Wis, an establish.
ment where 1000 men are employed, has, at
the request of his employees, addressed a let
ter to them on the political issues of the day.
Mr.. Allis is an uncompromising independent
in politics, and his address is wholly nom
partisan. It is a careful, candid examination
of the tariff in its relation to American in
dustries, from the stand point of a business
man of years of experience. He says that the
great overshadowing question in the present
campaign is whether or not the American
protective system shall be maintained. He
points out clearly to the men the fact that
they are receiving the highest wages paid any
where in the world for similar work, and re-
minds them that it Il is their patriotic duty to
see, so far as lies in their power. that this con-
dition is maintained. The only way, in his
judgment, that this can be lone is by the con-
tinUation of the policy that made the differ
ShSO OAAo1 "A "A SAOidSiOup " q kIO0lCk VI
less extent, of the products of foreign cheap
labor from our shores. Mr.. Allis then pro-
ceeds to make a very pertinent and local ap-
plication of the principles of protection, and
closes by saying:
." deem it my duty at the present time,
temporarily sinking all other questions-to be
revived at a more suspicious time-to do my
utmost in this election to strengthen the Re
publican party, which broadly and openly
espouses the cause of protection to American
industries, and trust that every one of you
who loves his family, his home and his coun.
try, will do the same. When we have sue
ceeded in rendering permanent our present
position of vantage. then we can look forward
and strive for other benefits and advances,
but if we lose what we now have, our condi.
ton will be helpless indeed"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-08-21

The Washington Post advances the sage
opinion that the coming of the immense dele
cations to visit General Harrison indicates
active work upon the part of railroad agents,
rather than the popularity of the Republican
candidate. Before this theory is accepted in
this neighborhoOd, it will be necessary for the
Fost to explain why the same phenomena are
not observable at Washington. Several rail-
roads lead to the national capital through
densely populated regions, and each is well
supplied with agents. A presidential candi-
date is located there. and the city has other
attractions of which Indianapolis annot boast.
How does it happen that the agents do not
prevail upon the people to flock to Washing
ton by thousands and tens of thousands
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-08-21

A PHILADELPHIA judge has refused to per-
NIT men to be naturalized who cannot tell
the form of government of the country AS
a result of this, a local Democratic club has
ordered one hundred copies Of the United
States Constitution for the use of persons who
wish to take out naturalization papers. What
method will be taken for the instruction of
would-be citizens who cannot read is not
made known. Printed copies of the Consti-
tuition. for instance, would hardly be of much
service to Italian gentlemen of the class now
being naturalized under Democratic auspices
In this CITY.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-08-21

The national Democratic committee has
issued q campaign document containing
the statement that General Harrison once
declared q dollar a day enough for any work
ing man. Perhaps the committee which, not
withstending the size of its individual barl's,
b said to De in need of money, has not heard
Of the Journals offer to pay 81, 600 for proof
that General Harrison ever uttered such
words. Let it produce its proofs and get the
money. This document, by the way, is a
development of Colonel Brice's ''clean cam
paign,n and campaign of intellect"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-08-21

The British export trade in 1883 was flO9,-
600, 600 less than it was in 1873, ten years be-
due to q great extent to the establishment Of
protective-tarif laws in some of the leading
nations on the continent. A similar decline
in the ten years from 1883 to 1893 would prac-
tically destroy the foreign trade of the United
Kingdom; hence the eagerness of the British
manufacturer to have the rich markets of
Am srica-the best in the word-opened up to
him. The loss on the continent would be
more than recompensed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-08-21

THE Atlanta Constitution comes tardily to
the defense of Mr.. Bynum, and declares that
he said nothing about Indianapolis in his
Chautauqua speech which a citi-
zen of Atlanta might not have made about
his own city truthfully and without offense.
The Constitution is not specific; but If an
Atlanta man can say truly that the working
men Of that place are idle four months in the
year. and have no credit at their grocers, then
Atlanta is in a very bad way. 1t may be
true Of the Georgia capital. but it is a vile
SANDER on indianapolis.
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questions out of their platform, and out of
the discussions on the stump. Those who
had assumed the management wished them to
be "untrammeled from partisan influences"
and now this sam Mrs. Cougar ''arraigns7
the Republican party for not advocating their
measures when thus instructed not to. For
this, she wants to kill the Republican party.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-08-21

WHILE the New York Evening Post was de-
nouncing Blaine, in 1884, as the embodiment
IF all that is corrupt in American politics, the
World thought the Post frst-class authority,
but now that it is bitterly attacking Hill, the
World says that eft is as plain as A-B-C that
the Post cannot be fair to a political oppon-
emit 1t makes considerable difference whose
OK Is pored.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-08-21
Some p ertinent Ouestions.

New York Mail and Express.
Will any one recall precedenss for the visita-
lions Of suen large DELEGATIONS as have been
such q peculiar aud encouraging feature OF Gen.
eral Harrieon's campaien2 Can any thouEhtful
citizen, of whatever party. fail to recognize the
significance of a long series of spontaneous dem
onstrations of this sort. that could not, by any
possibility. be MAIDS in honor of any man VINO
had not a very strong bold on the admiration
and confidence of the people who have known
him longest and bestl Could any one conceive
of the possibility of such demonstration being
paid to Mr.. Cleveland
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-08-21

To the Editor OF the Indianapolis Journal:
Please inform me III the number Of soldiers
10 United States and in Indiana who are receiv-
ing pensions. ~ The amount OF money re-
ceived in Indiana for pensions. al The num-
Der of soldier votes in United States and in In.
diana A READER.
ORLEANS, Ind.
1. Up to July. 1887. 800. O37 pensions were
granted in the United States and 80. 521 in Indi-
ana 2. $7,037, 1872 "a. 3. There is no way of
reaching an exact computation of this vote.
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Telephone Calls.
Business Ofice.-....-2S8 Editorial Rooms--...242

THE President is said to be dissatisfied with
Chairman Brice because he does not push the
tariff issue to the front. The President need
not worry about that. The Republicans will
see that the tariff issue is kept at the front
without anv help from Mr.. Brice.
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70 tn. Edito. of the -1ndlauapoli. Jou rnal.

Tell me: L How to pronounce Sacha, the
Russian pet name for Alexander. 2. Who
Clsrkson and Titcomb pitch for. 3. What as
tronomer was called the Columbus of the skies.
4 The exact location OF MERGED, MERGED county,
California HUGH MORTON.
i. 1t is pronounced as if the "h" were q *. "
2. Clarkson for Boston, Titcomb for New York.
8 Copernicus. 4. II is in the Joaquin valley,
near the center of the State. and about 100
miles southeast OF San Francisco.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-08-21

Mr. BYNUM disclaims the particular form
of the lie that General Harrison's law partners
procured the naturalization of several China
men here in this city. and voted them in his
interest when a candidate for the United
States Senate. The lie in this special guise
seems to belong to United States Senator Vest.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-08-21

SAYS Mr.. Blaine: TRUSTS are largely pri-
vate affairs" Oh, yes. The Standard Oil
Trust is a strictly private affair. but it has
wonderful dealings with the public New
York World.
, And some Of it's representatives are in high
places. as instance Senator Payne, of Ohio,
and Secretary Whitney, of the Navy Depart
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-08-21

AMERICAN Notes and Queries contains an elab-
crate disquisition on the origin of the word
"muewump." It was not worth the space. The
no longer exists. He is either . full
fedged Democrat. or has returned a wiser but
ssdder man to the safe Republican fold.
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Atlanta Constitution.
The reader who wants something solid and
ssnsiblsu ought 60 be satisfied these days He
viii not iLd much society news in the papsrA