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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-29
THE LAST WEEK.

The last week of the campaign opens auspi-
ciously for the Republicans, with victory in
sight, but not yet won. The supreme effort
is yet to come. Thus far the Republicans
have made a magnificent fight, but the deci-
sive battle is yet to be fought. The time for
argument has passed. As Mr.. Blaine said at
Newark. "That has been made. What we
want know is perfected organization, and the
result of that will be victory"
At this time we do not see how the Repub-
licans can fail to carry the State if they per-
form the remaining work Of the campaign as
well as they have that already done. We do
not even see how they can be cheated out of
it, or beaten by fraud, if they are true to
themselves and insist upon their rights and
on the rigid enforcement Of the law at every
point.
The remaining days and the day of election
should be devoted to close, personal work.
The Democratic plan of campaign for the last
week involves a variety of fraudulent
schemes, reinforced by a general
air of bravado and claiming everything. They
are expressing q confidence they do not feel
and trying to make votes by claiming them
At the same time, their real strength and
effective organization must not be moderated.
The Democracy in Indiana are we'll organized.
They have plenty of money, and will make a
desperate fight. The Republicans can only
beat them by making an equally determined
fight, with legitimate weapons against illegit-
innate ones. We can and must beat them by
personal work. Therefore, to every Repub-
lican in Indiana, we say let the last week of the
campaign be made the browning one. What
ever you nave done or tried to do, before, let
your efforts be redoubled now. If you have
not yet secured one vote for Harrison and
Morton, make il a point to do so during this
week. 1t is the end that crowns the work.
The end is at hand, and now is the time for
work.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-29
TOO LATE, MR.. CLEVELAND.

Mr.. Cleveland and Mr.. Bayard, the attempt
West recalled. will not win. The letter of
the British minister to his California English
born friend was an honest expression of the
British view of the present controversy be-
tween the Republican and Democratic parties.
Sackville West said nothing new; nothing
that has not been said a thousand times in
other ways, and by as high British authorities.
The English newspapers, one and all, of the ul-
ira free-trade school, devoted to English inter-
ests, joyfully received the free-trade message of
Grover Cleveland, and sawin the Mills bill that
followed the opening wedge that would drive
ahole in the American markets big enough to
admit England's surplus products, and afford
better employment to the starving millions of
England's workingmen. Everybody under
stood that the retaliation message
of Cleveland was mere political bun
combe. 1t was not regarded seriously either
in this country, in Canada or in England. 1t
was universally received as a cheap political
trick. intended to affect the election. The
English papers SO treated it, and they sud-
denly became mute about the Mills bill and
the free-trads message, under orders from
headquarters that their o~ficious and ghoulish
glee was badly hurting the free-trade party in
the United States.
Sackville West told the truth. He merely
followed the practically universal current of
expression, both in this country and in his old
home. If the English papers could say so
much, why could not he, the British minister,
be equally candidi So, he wrote his English.
born inquirer in California the exact truth.
He told him that Cleveland was playing
retaliation for election purposes. and that the
administration was friendly to England and
free trade. To pillory Sackville West is the
basest ingratitude Of panic-stricken politi-
clan. His recall will do no good. His let
ter stands. What is written is written.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-29

we, with all our free trade, can not manage to
compete.
1.-THE Yale lock-makers can afford to pay the
carriage of their goods to England, and yet
undersell the Wolverhampton masters in the
very heart of the lock trade, just as the Bel
gians can quote lower rates for angle-iron de-
livered in Derby than the local iron-masters
Of the Midlands. The Philadelphia engine
makers can turn ont as serviceable locomotives
as any English firm, and ship it all the way
to New Zealand for f600 less than the En-
glish tenders. In south Russia the agricult-
ural implement trade is said to be passing
entirely into the hands of American export
ers, in spite of English and German COMPETE
tors, though the latter are nearer by 5000
miles to the local market. With the excep-
ton of made-up clothing, which is dear be-
cause labor is highly paid, and not because
the duty on stuffs is so heavy, there is not a
single manufactured article produced in the
United States, from carpets to cotton, from
locomotive engines to steel axes, from agri-
cultural implements to cutlery, and Yankee
notions, as many little domestic appliances
are called, which is not as cheap or even
cheaper there than in this country
This article bristles with points, and some
of the statements are a complete refutation Of
free-trade arguments used during this cam
paign.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-29

carefully attended to. Secretary of State
Griffin has discharged the duties of that Office
with equal ability and courtesy. Hon. ]. A.
Lemcke, Treasurer Of State, is one Of the most
thorough and careful business men that ever
filed the position. Auditor Carr has ad-
ministered the complicated affairs of that
Office with entire success. Encouragement
Kitchener has rendered valuable service to the
State, and brought a number of important
suits which the public interests require he
should be continued in Office to man age. Mr..
Lafollette has added over 1926, 600 to the
State school fund, and has done more county
visitation and looking after misapplied and
unaccoun.ed-for funds than any Superin-
tendent of Public Instruction the State ever
had. These excellent State officers, tried and
proved by one term, are before the people for
reelection, reinforced by several new candi-
dates, equally deserving of popular support.
Twoyears ago the people decided that the in
terests and honor Of the State demanded the
removal of the Democratic party from power,
80 far as it could be done at that election.
This year the strongest possible reasons exist
why they should complete the work, and
make a clean job of it by electing the entire
Republican ticket and a Republican Legis-
lature.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-29
OPENING TIE PRISON DOORS.

The following provision of the Mills bill has
been overlooked. Section 80, dovetailed in
among other matters. provides:
"That. whenever il shall be made to appear
to the United States court or Judge having
jurisdiction. that the health or life of any
person imprisoned for any offense in a county
Jail or elsewhere is endangered by close con-
fnement, the said court or judge is hereby
authorized to make such order and provision
for the comfort and we'll being of the person
SO imprisoned as shall be deemed reasonable
and proper"
What has that to do with the tariff ques.
ton? Nothing whatever, nor with any mat
tar of legislation embraced in the Mills bill.
Anti Mormons in Utah, Montana and other
Territories say it is intended to cover the case
of Mormons imprisoned for violation of the
polygamy laws. These Mormon bishops and
other polygamists are cunning ~rascals, and
are able to make themselves pretty solid with
Democratic Territorial judges. Under the
foregoing provisions they can all be prac-
tically released from prison on a mere showing
of i'll health.
This is evidently a Democratic bid for
Mormon support, in anticipation of the admis.
sion of Utah as a State. 1t is quite natural
that the party which favored slavery should
have a warm side for the 'twin relic of bar.
barism."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-29
SOLDIERS.

The ~scandalous scheme to entrap Union
soldiers into a secret Matson and Myers
organization, on the promise of a pension, or
Of an increase in the amount now received, is
being played all over the State. Republicans
should be Oh their guard. Soldiers who will
be thus gulled will only prove how witless
they are. The scheme is bold and fraudu-
lent. It's secrecy proves its character. Union
soldiers should neither be deceived nor cajoled.
If they ever receive a pension it will be
because they are entitled to it. The man
who would offer a pension for votes Ia essen
tally q criminal scoundrel.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-29
DEMOCRATIC FRAUDS

One Of the Democratic managers, who was
recently asked on what he based his ~expecta-
ton of carrying the State, replied, ION our
good schemes-we have so many good
schemes"
The Republicans base their confidence Of
carrying the State on the unprecedented
popular enthusiasm, the thousands of changes
in their favor, their thorough voluntary or
ganization, the showing of their poll lists, and
the assurance that they have a large majority
Of the legal voters. The Democracy base
their hopes on their schemes" Some of these
are known.
Scheme No. l Is the pension.peddling
scheme. The State is full of pension agents,
and other authorized representatives of the
administration, who are trying to seduce or
intimidate old soldiers with promises or
threats in regard to pensions. In some cases
new pensions or q increase of old ones is
promised, and in other cases a reduction is
threatened. conditioned on how the soldier
votes. In this district a circular ia
being used, sent out from the
Pension Office at Washington, which says
by special request of Hon. W.. D. Bynum
we are authorized to look up your pension"
This circular is shown to Republican soldiers
who have made application for pension, and
they are told if they vote the Democratic
ticket their application will be granted. All
guarantees of pensions or of increase are based
on a promise to vote the Democratic ticket,
with the added information that if they do
not they will regret it. Soldiers who can
thus be seduced or intimidated are taken into
q secret organization and bound by q pledge
to vote for Cleveland.
Scheme No. 9 is the double-ticket fraud.
This is an old Democrati, scheme, and has
been practiced for years by men of the Sim
Coy and Eugene Higgins stamp. Two ballots
are folded together in such q way as to escape
detection before they are dropped in the box,
but when shaken up they spring apart. This
scheme involves the connivance of an officer
of the election, and will be attempted in
strong Democratic precincts. It is a bold
and dangerous scheme, and demands careful!
and vigilant work to detect and thwart it.
Scheme No. 3 is the circulation of bogus
tickets, headed with the names of the
Republican candidates but bearing those
of the Democratic electors. Voters must
remember they do not vote for the
candidates for President and Vice.presi-
dent directly, but for the list of Republican
electors.
Scheme No. 4 is the circulation OF Harrison
and Morton pastors designed to paste over the
head of the Democratic ticket, leaving the
names Of Democratic electors on and making
gulIible voters believe they arc thus voting
for Harrison and Morton.
Scheme No. 5 is the Acknowledgement Of le-
gal colored voters by purposely leaving their
names of Of Democratic poll lists. and then
challenging their votes on election day, and
bulldozing any person who may propose to
swear them in.
Scheme No. 8 is the general purchase of
votes. the colonization of voters in the river,
and strong interior counties, and the corrupt
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-29
GRIPPITHs n KERN.

The only new name upon the State ticket
in this campaign, excepting the candidates for
Governor and Acknowledgements. and for
the Supreme Court, is that of Hon.
John L. Grifiths, candidate for Reporter
of the Supreme Court. For a number of years
Mr.. Griffiths has been regarded as a most
promising lawyer, while his service in the last
General Assembly brought him into great
prominence as a ready debater and a Repub-
lican of sound judgment. His nomination
for the Office of Reporter was a most fitting
one, and the canvass he has made of the State
has been strong and brilliant. He has made
a very large number of speeches, and has been
in the widest demand from every quarter of
the State. Of high character, decided ability,
perfect integrity of life and habits, and,
equally with Griffin, Carr, Lafollette and
Kitchener, a representative of the young men
of Indiana, Mr.. Grif6ths commands an en-
thusiastic support.
His opponent, Mr.. John w. Kern,
has made probably the most con-
spicuous!y questionable canvass Of
any candidate on the Democratic tick
ct, with the possible exception Of the
~brawling Bill Myers, who disgraced Indiana
when he was its Secretary of State. Mr..
Kern has made what is known as a saloon
canvass. He has identified himself with the
lowest and basest elements of politics. From
many portions Of the State comes testimony
as to what he has done and said in his own
advocacy, while the Republicans of Indianap-
oils know for themselves his outrageous mis-
representations and impertinences about Re-
publican headquarters here. The Republic
ans have treated Mr.. Kern with a leniency
he has not deserved. He has presumed upon
the good nature of his Republican friends,
and their regard for the social qualities that
would otherwise make him a popular and
genial companion. John L. Grifiths, wheth-
er in a campaign or in the quiet months and
years of life, ia and has been an honorable,
heightened, reputable gentleman. He has
done himself credit in his canvass this year,
and we are quite certain hat the question.
able tactics of his opponent will not avail to
lessen the vote that will be cast for the Re-
publican candidate.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-29
a FAIR ELECTION.

Shall popular elections become a farcef
Shall government of the people and by the
people faili These questions are formulating
themselves right here in Indiana. They are
presented for immediate solution. They are
involved in the coming election.
There is not a particle of doubt that on a
fair vote the Republicans have a decided plu-
rality in Indiana to-day. Every experienced
Republican politician or old campaigner who
has spent a week in Indiana during the pres
ent canvass has become firmly convinced of
this fact. There is not a single exception to
this assertion. The people are with Us beyond
a doubt. The Democrats are having some
large meetings, and their forces are well or
ganized and well in hand, but the numbers,
the enthusiasm, the inspiration. the popular
drift are on the side of the Republicans. The
changes have been ten to one in our favor.
On a fair vote the State is Republican to-day
by 10. 900 plurality.
The Dem ocrats know we have the State on
a fair vote, and they are preparing to
steal it. They know they have no hope in a
fair election, and they propose to try and
override the popular will and the popular vote
by fraud.
Can this be done in Indianai It has been
done in Southern States and in New York
city, but can it be done in Indianaf If it can
be, popular elections will be made a farce and
popular government will be overthrown.
1t is not alone the Republicans of Indiana
who are interested in having a fair election.
Honest Democrats, honest men of all parties,
and every lover of his country, irrespective of
politics, is interested in having the will of
the people fairly expressed and fairly recorded.
The machinery and methods that can achieve
a fraudulent victory this year can do it the
next, and the next, until soon there will be an
end of government by the people aud for the
people. and we shall lapse into a state Of
chronic fraud and incipient revolution.
IF the honest men of Indiana do not unite
in demanding a fair election the time may
not be far distant when they may as well have
no election at all. The Republicans want an
honest election, and have done all they can,
by moral and material support, to secure one.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-29
Telephone Calls.
Busipeu Ofcs..-..--238 Editorial Rooms.--..222
'fPrivate.1


BEVERLY. Mass. Sept. Is. 1888.
SRI am in receipt of your let
ter of the 4th inst, and beg to say
that l fully appreciate the difficulty
in which you find yourself in cast
ing your vote. You are probably
aware that any political party that
openly favored the mother country
at the present moment would lose
popularity, and that the party in
power is fully aware cf this fact.
The party, however, is, [ believe,
still DESTROYS of maintaining friend
" relations with Great Britain, and
is still as DESTROYS of settling all
questions with Canada which have
been unfortunately reopened since
the rejection ofthe treaty by the Re-
publican majority IN the Senate,
and by the Presidents message, to
which you allude. All allowances
must, therefore, be made for the
political situation as regards the
presidential election thus created.
It is, however, impossible to predict
the course which President Cleve-
land may pursue in the matter of
retaliation, should he be elected;
but there is every eason to believe
that, while upholding the position
he has taken, he will manifest a
spirit of Cancellation in dealing
with the question involved in his
message. l inclose an article from
the New York Times of Aug. %,
and remain, yours faithfully,
Il. S. SACKSMLE WEST"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-29
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

PRINCE BISMARCK has gone back to besr and
tobacco.
IT IL said that Mile Soucarct, who won frst
prize at the beauty show at SPA. is really a
handsome woman. She has a wonderful com
pIexion.
MIS- HARRIET BEEcHER STOWE is ~clingine to
life with remarkable power. A week ago she
sesmed diving. but rallied. Feebls IS she is she
may live for weeks yet
IT is said that an uncle Of Secretary Bayard.
DR.. j.. j. Bayard. is a hermit living in a hut OF
bis own construction about twenty miles north
west Of San Antonio, Tex. to which he betook
himself many years ago upon the elopement OF
his wife with a preacher.
THE statement was recently made that the
London Times was to replace its famous CORE
s~pondent at Paris, Il. De Blowitz. by..Brinsley
Richards, correspondent at Vienna FOR the same
journal. The report was unfounded. NJ. De
Blowitz is too valuable 70 the Times TO be laid
on the shelf His long service IN his present
position, his worldwide fame, and the Tact that
the conservative Times does not often make i'm
partant changes in its personnel combine 20
render his occupancy Of his position on the staff
OF The Thunderern one likely 10 exist for an
indefinite time.
JANE HADINa is only twenty-ssven years OF
age, tall-at least an inch taller than Bernhardt.
Decided red hair, and not auburn, as described.
She never wears q wig. and her couture 10 as
odd as the woman herself. Its worn in a sort
of wavy crown and fastened at tn. back loosely
B 18th . pin. Not cnfrequently, In moments OF
action, part Of it becomes undone and loose
wisps Of it strays about Der ears, or fall on her
shoulders or about her back. but il never de-
tracts from the effect she aims At Quite the
contrary; IL only indicates 20 a thoughtful OBJ
server the woman's intense earnestne.s. for
under no circumstances does the artist ever
moment OF the action of the scene. But of ali
actresses faces-and this point Ia agreed upon
BY all who have seen H~ading-hsrs Is the most
expressive ever known. With all these strikin,
qualities Hsding 10 rarely beautiful
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-29
OUR STATE OFFICERS,

The contest of 1886, in which the Repub-
licans carried Indiana, was made almost en-
tirely on State issues, the Encouragement of
the State finances, the Infamous gerrymander
and the prostitution of the benevolent insti-
tutions being the principal ones. In addition
to having the popular side of these issues the
Republicans nominated an exceptionally good
ticket and it was elected. The issues and the
candidates supplemented each other. The
same issues figure largely in this election,
changed only in showing more strongly than
ever the incompetence and corruption of the
Democratic party, and the same candidates
are presented for reelection with the added
strength Of Hovey and Chase for Governor
and Lieutenant governor; Coffey, Berkshire
and Olds for judges Of Supreme Court and
Grifiths for Reporter. The present State
ticket is largely the same one that was elected
two years ago. and the candidates presented
for reelection are even more worthy of pOpu-
lar support now than they were then.
By permitting the reelection of State off,
GERS the Constitution gave the people an OPP
p~ortunity to express their approval Of those
who have earned it. The State has never
had a set of officers who have more fairly earned
it than the present incumbents. Each and
every one Of them have performed the duties
Of their respective Offices in such a way as to
disarm criticism and challenge approval.
Every interest Of the State has been watch
fully guarded and every detail Of business
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-29

The blooming flowers of scratching" Re-
publicanism in Marion county are John f.
Sullivan and Thomas Taggart; the one in
dicted for conspiracy to commit an infamous
crime against the ballot, and the other the
successor to Coy in the management of the
Coy Democratic machine, according to Coy
methods, for the defeat of Benjamin Harrison
In his own county. We scarcely think that
independent Scratching" Republicans look
with peculiar pride upon the results OF their
itch of self-conceit.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-29

In his alleged reply to Mr.. Blaine, Don
Dickinson takes AZ per cent. of the value of
manufactures produced in the Eastern States,
and claims that that is the amount paid by the
people over and above what should have been
the cost. Certain Western States, he esti.
mates, have paid one-sixth the amount. If
Mr.. Dickinson's false and absurd assump-
ton indicates his own belief, then he favors
the absolute abolition of the tariff and is an
out-and-out free trader. IF he is not, his
words are as meaningless as they are foolish.