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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-04

IN his speech before the Union League
Club, of Chicago, last Saturday night, Mr..
Lucius B. Swift gave this scandalous instance
of how the employees of the pension Office in
this city have been bled for the Democratic
campaign fund:
'Word was passed among'the employees that
the pension Office at Indianapolis had been
assessed 5000. There were fifteen Democrats
and one Republican. Late in July last the
Democrats were kept after office hours by the
chief clerk, and the matter of the assessment
was brought NJ, and they were urged to help
pay it. After a more or less vigorous protest
on the part of some employees. it WAS finally
settled that each one should pay 2 ID per
cent. of his salary. Part of this was paid
soon after to the chief clerk IN the pension
Office, in envelopes which he had distributed,
marked with the pame of each clerk. 1t is
needless to say that this is not only q scandal
lous outrage upon the clerks, but it is a viola
ton of law"
The violation Of law in this case is no more
outrageous than in the case of Taylor's politi-
cal black-mail in the postofhce.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-04

SOME laundering fool in the Chicago Herald
unearths a diabolical plot to c~olonize colored
voters in Indiana by the Republican managers.
and some other blunderer repeats the story in
the Sentinel with SCARE" headlines. This is
the way the story starts:
"CHICAGo, Oct. 2.-To-day's Herald says
900 Chicago negroes left the Polk-street depot
Friday evening. and 800 Saturday. They
went over the Wabash and Atlantic roads,
and were bound for various points in northern
Indiana. some going as far south as Indianap-
oils. The idea is to colonize them throughout
the State so they can vote for Harrison at the
coming election. The reason they are sent
into the State this early is SO they can be
registered"
The Herald should get q liar with sense
enough to know the laws of Indiana There
is no registration law in Indiana, and voters
are not registered. That is sufficient to do
away with this bit OF ~humbug.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-04

THE circular issued by j. E. Townsend.
chairman of the Ohio State Democratic exec
utive Committee, making a campaign assess
ment on federal o~fice-holders, shows at once
the holiness and desperation of the Demo
cratic plan Of campaign. There has been no
more shameless exhibition of corrupt methods
in politics than this. A reading Of the circu-
lar should satisfy Indiana Republicans of the
against the effects of the Democratic corrup-
tion fund that is being raised with q view. no
doubt, to using it in this State.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-04

IT has been discovered that 500 Indians re-
siding in San Diego county, California, are
legal citizens Of the United States. and are
therefore entitled to vote. They belong to
the Mission and Pueblo tribes, and acquired
citizenship through various decisions il COM
plicated land suits and by a ruling of the
General Land Office, which expressed itself in
this way:
''That the Mission Indians of California, as
well as the Pueblos of New Mexico are. and
have been since the acquisition from Mexico
of the territory upon which they are now
located. citizens of the United States under
the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo."
An attorney who has been looking into the
matter says that over $500 Indians were
affected by this decision, and that 500 are
legally entitled to vote. If this is found to
be true poor Lo will receive something like
the attention and consideration that, by vir-
tue of heritage, he has always merited.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-04
THE Philadelphia Press sums up the pres.

THE Philadelphia Press sums up the pres.
ent status of the campaign into seven propo.
%sitions, the fourth of which is this:
1.-The Democratic leaders are concentrating
their fight on New York and New Jersey. All
their money goes there. and there is the GEN.
ter of their fight. They fear it is a hard one,
but on it they are putting all their strength.
and for it they are ready to sell all they have"
We do not doubt that the Democrats are ex-
pending their utmost efforts to carry those
States, butthe Press should know that this will
not suffice, and, therefore. does not include
the whole Of the Democratic campaign. The
Democrats cannot elect their candidates with
the votes of the solid South and of New York
and New Jersey. The Democratic campaign
embraces enough electoral votes to elect, and,
therefore, includes other States than the ones
named. 1t is perfectly evident that the DEM
ocrats intend to carry Indiana-if in the
power of fraud and corruption to do it. They
are relying upon repeating the story Of 1884.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-04

THE Louisville Times. the rabid rebel evening
attachment Of the Courier-Journsl. has this
choice paragraphs:
"Anna Dickinson is showing what q BLACKBOARD
a woman may become when she turns herself
loose. She out Forakers Foraker when speak
ing OF the President of the United States, char
acterizing him as that haueman from Buffalo
1t is not because he WAS q good haueman when
be was sheriff that the old viraeo hates Mr..
Cleveland, but because az a headsman be has de-
capitated the G. o. .. Get thee to a nunnery,
Ann
An I~rish-American citizen Of Louisville sends
this to the Journal, with the pertinent inquiry
whether the Times supposes that Catholic nun
neries are filed with blackguards9 That seems
to be the iaea o: the gallant and clivalrous
editor.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-04

THE total appropriations for 1889 amount
to $500, 1872, 296. In 1885. the last year of the
Republican administration, the total was
$195, 40, 5Ss, but this did not include a river
and harbor bill. and later the pension appro-
priations were increased. The total appfopri.
ations from 1886 TO 1889. inclusive, were. up
to date, 81, O38. 476, 1874, an average of $3.50,
GIG, 046 per annum. The total appropriations
in the preceding four years. 1882 to 1885. in.
elusive, were 1913, 173. $50, IN average OF
1885. 1913. 2s2. The annual difference is about
$24, 900, 900 more under Cleveland than under
Arthur.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-04

SAM SMALL, the evangelist and Prohibition
given his enemies an opportunity to ventilate
his character. 1t is claimed that he drew pay
from the Georgia Senate in 1876, while acting
as stenographer in an impeachment trial, and
afterwards refused to furnish the proper par
ties with the testimony. This happened
while San was a sinner, and for that reason
he fails to see why it should have any weight,
now that be is converted.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-04
THE New York Tribune. in an article

THE New York Tribune, in an article an
~nouncing that ''Seven-mule Barnum" is in
full command OF the Democratic campaign,
says:
sit will be folly for Republicans to for
get that a vast corruption fund will be used
with experienced skill against hem in New
York, Brooklyn. Jersey City, Newark, New
Haven. Hartford. Indianapolis and other cities
in close States. when the election comes. Let
there he no further false reliance upon sup
posed Democratic lack of funds or excess of
honor. If any forgery or fraud is possible to
defeat the Republican party it will be at
tempted. Incessant watchfulness is necessary
and the people everywhere need to be- warned
against crediting the forged documents OF
false statements that are to be expected with
Mr.. Barnum at the 'front.'"
So far as the people Of Indiana are con.
cerned, they will not forget it, nor will they
belittle the strong force of power and cor
ruptiOn they must meet in order to carry this
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-04

70 the Editor OF the indianapolis Journal.
Please state the number of pounds OF wool
used in this country in q year; domestic or i'm
ported. A
NEVADA MILLS, Ind.
In 1885 we produced 3Os. 600, 900 pounds and
imported 0 1856. l7O; in 1856. produced 800, 900,
600 pounds and imported ia. 03s, 600; in 1887.
produced 2s5, O00. 600 pounds and imported ia,
noe non
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-04

In his Michigan speech BOSS" Dickinson
stated that the people Of Michigan are pay.
ing tribute to New England by maintaining
the tariff on Manufactured articles. 1t is the
same unpatriotic and dishonorable rant in.
dulged in by Mr.. Lewis Jordan, of this State.
when he. says the Democratic party will
have no show until the manufacturers of Yer
mont and New England are broken down.
But Boss" Dickinson is inexcusably ignorant
as well as unpatriotic. AS a matter of fact
the State Of Michigan has more capital ia
vested in manufactures than any New Eng
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-04

State. or to keep it, rather. for it is already
Republican beyond a question. The Journal
desires to say to Democratic criminals and
scoundrels of all types and of all grades that
they will find a mighty rocky road in perpe-
trating their proposed crimes against the bal
lot in Indiana. Don't monkey with the buzz
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-04

SPEAKING of the afidavits of the thirty
five Bloomington Qll.) citizens, to the effect
that General Harrison uttered no remarks
derogatory to the Irish. the Philadelphia
Record says: "a whole mountain of aiidavits
could not, however. bury the campaign liar"
Well, no; not unless the mountain could
manage to fall on the entire Democratic party
ar onfa
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-04
To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal

I o ths Euttur OF tb8 InulanapoIiS JOurnaE
l. Are the surgical instruments used 10 the
United States mostly OF foreign manufactured
= Can We compete with the foreign manu-
facturer 10 price and quslityi 3. Is George L.
Cor verse out for Harrison and Mortonl 4. Is
there a club in existence called the ''Voorhees
Bell cord Clubi1 An OLD SOLDIER.
A large portion Of the surgical instruments
sold 10 this country are imported, but there are
several American manufacturer who make bet
ter instruments than the imported. The latter
are cheaper than American instruments, though
not 80 good. There 10 . duty of 45 per cent.
ad valorem on foreign surgical instruments.
2 Hon. George L. Converse. of Ohio. has de-
clared for Harrison and Morton.
, We have not heard Of any such club
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-04

PROBABLY the Sentinel will not realize
largely upon its investment in attacking
Republican manufacturers and proposing
.eboycotts' against all merchants who will not
first walk up to its counter and pay a license
to do business in Indianapolis. We believe
this is the first effort ever made by a leading
newspaper to introduce these methods into
indianapolis journalism. We do not think
they will succeed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-04

land State except Massachusetts,. Manufact-
ures are increasing more rapidly in the Westf
ern States, such as Michigan and Indiana,
than in the East, and in the Democratic effort
to break Town hated New England, the Demo
Gratis will doubly injure the rising States of
the West and Northwest.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-04
e or so.

IT is asserted that the wheat corner had
nothing to do with the failure Of the Chicago
Traders Bank, but somehow the public looks
for such failures after '.iurries" Of that sort,
and is seldom disappointed. Perhaps, how
ever, they are merely condolences.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-04
first one system and then the other. has only
strengthened his belief in protection.
SAID Mr.. Allen G. Thurman. in . spsech

SAID Mr.. Allen G.. Thurman, in a speech
at Waverly. o., Aug. 5, 1867:
"Just as firmly as / believe that the negro
race is not capable of self-government-and,
in the light Of science. history aud expert
encs. l certainly do believe that-just so firm
ly do l believe that the white race is thus
capable. and if this be so I cannot expect it
to surrender its power or share it with those
whom God. for His own wise purposes, has
made inferior and incapable"
Mr.. Thurman should repeat this to the
next delegation of colored people that call
upon him,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-04

SOME unknown person having contributed
s l 1000 TO the Democratic campaign fund, the
Boston Herald gratefully remarks that the
giver takes his place with the anonymous
donor of SO, 600 to Mayor Hewitt's Florida
relief fund. Mercy Is the Democratic sit
uation IS bad as thisf
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-04

IN 1880 a Democratic Supreme Judge said
of a partisan decision, intended to influence
the action CT a political convention, "Tele-
graph it to the boys" In 1888 a Democratic
president of the Insane Hospital board. in
loaning 81. 900 of the hospitals money to a
memberOf the ring. says ''The boys are pretty
badly pressed now"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-04

THE Democratic assertion that New York
business men do not favor protection seems
to. be a mistake. Levi P. Morton is a repre-
sentative New York business man, and he
says that an experience of forty years, with
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-04
upon him.

LUMINOUS correspondent of the New York
Times, writing from Illinois, says: ''The in
difference to Harrison is profound" In view
of the extraordinarily large aad enthusiastic
delegations that have been pouring into In
dianapolis from Illinois during the past two
months, almost without iniermission, such
correspondence as this is in the highest de-
gree valuable as news"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-04

PERHAPS the reason Mr.. Thurman will not
write a letter of acceptance is that. after his
free-trade speeches, he finds a difficulty in
hedging and making the document conform
to the latest version of the Democratic policy.
1t is hard to teach an Old man new tricks,
after he has practiced the old ones for fifty
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-04
Those English Army Blankets.

TO the Editor OF the indianapolis Journal;
see by the Sentinel Of this morning that the
surplus hating Democratic administration has
Saved" ''our government s6l6 by purchasing
army-blanKets in England. May I ask how
much America was helped by q process OF ''sav-
ing which sent out OF our country 81, 504 which
might have been spent heref May l ask the
Sentinel to explain who lost So, sS5. granting the
solo saved by the patriotic Secretary OF Warl
AMERICAN FOR AMERICA.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-04

A DEMOCRATIC interviewer reports Chair
man Quay as "oppressively reticent and visi-
bly, satisfied" concerning the outlook of the
campaign. This is a very good condition for
Republicans to be In.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-04

BY the corrupt action of the Insane Hos
pital board John E. Sullivan had the use of
$1,000 out of the contingent fund for nearly
two months without paying a cent Of inter
est. ''The boys were pretty badly pressed"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-04

PAYING for 10000 copies of the Senate COM
mittee's whitewashing report on the In
sane Hospital ring out of the hospital
funds saved the Democratic campaign fund
Just that much The amount was $16S. 81.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-04

THE attorneys of the Harrison-S Sullivan
ring ought to be made to disgorge the $40
corruptly paid them out of the peoples money
for defending the ringsters,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-04

TIE Insane Hospital trustees loaned John
E. Sullivan 81, 600 out of the contingent fund
because, as DR.. Harrison said, she had always
been a friend to the hospital" 1t will be
news to the people Of Indiana to learn that
the notorious purveyor of maggoty butter was
"a friend TO the hospital"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-04

By buying English made blankets the gov
eminent was enabled to ave $616, but de-
prived American industry of a total of So, 100.
This is the way the surplus is nursed to attack
American workingmen.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-04

THE Democratic national committee treat
the memory of Thomas A. Hendricks with
silent contempt. How soon we are forgot
when We are gone"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-04
The Reduction of the Mills Bill

The duties collected from foreign
importations Cor the year ending
June 81. 1857. statistical ab-
stract. 1887. page 16. WAS. $212. O32. 423. 30
Add tional and discriminating duty 2~.1s9.SS5.75
Making a total of 49,. S214, 222, SO9.65
Duty equal 10 unpaid internal rev.
enue tax on domestic spirits and
tobacco brought back but in
Guided in additional, etc"..... 1896, 52S.49
Leaving entire duties from foreign
inUOrtatiOns- S212.2 25, 7s1.1s
Mills estimated reduction BY his
bill, according TO the official
statement of the ways and means
Ommittes- ss,I76,o54.2e
Average reduction, 36 $40 per cent.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-04

THE Sentinel says President Cleveland was
not responsible for the order to return the
rebel flags. Does the Sentinel ever reflect
upon the ultimate fate of campaign liarsi
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-04

IT required a complicated system of false
from the contingent fund of the Insane Hos
pital to pay the ring attorneys, but it was
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-04

IT IL not surprising to learn OF An outbreak OF
yellow fever at Gallipolis, o. People who will
live in a town Of that name expose themselves
to attacks Of almost anything dreadful
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-04

YES. 'the boys were pretty badly pressed"
last year, and it resulted in two Of them get
ting into the penitentiary.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-04

EVERY utterance of the two Republican
candidates serves to strengthen the public
conviction that the Chicago convention chose
wisely and we'll.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-04

WE suggest as a motto for Democratic ban
ners in the mex. procession, The boys are
pretty badly pressed now"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-04

The people of Indiana will understand why
'the boys were pretty badly pressed" last
year. They had been putting up money for
Sim Gov.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-04

that his alarmed aud desperate fellow-man-
ayers nave resorted to violent means to choke
him off.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-04

BY the way. what has become of the anus
silence for two or three days suggests . fear
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-04

The Insane Hospital, under its present
management. has become Robbers Roost."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-04
Leaving entire duties from foreign


The Insane Hospital is gradually getting
ventilated, but it needs fumigating.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-04

Protection to home industries / regard as
the most important plank in any platform
after the Union must and shall be pre-
served Gen. U. s. Grant, in 1888.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-04

81 have SO long followed Mr.. Mills that
whatever be commands, l do."-Mr. Bynum,
OF Atlanta
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-04

''The main question at issue lin America]
IL ENGLISH FREE "A against the CONT
MENTAL SYSTEM OF PROTECTION. The
American election is infinitely more impor-
tant to Englishmen than their own internal
politics just sc this juncture. The re-
suit of the American election will help to de-
eide many important issues in Great Britain"
London Sunday Times, July 10, 1883.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-04

"The negro is a prolific animal."-Allen G.
Thurman's speech at Port Huron, Aug. 22,
1883.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-04

II am for Grover Cleveland because I am a
free-trader Henry George, at Cooper Union,
Sent. Z. 1888
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-04

1T is my deliberate judgment that the
prosperity of America is mainly due to her
tystem Of protective laws" Bismarck.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-04

w 1.-THE capitalists can control the work
ingman only so long as he eats up to-day what
he earns fo-morrow."-W. L. Scott, Mr..
Cleveland's political manager.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-04

W should be slow to abandon that sys-
TEN of protective duties which looks to the
promotion and development of American in
dustry and to the preservation of the highest
possible scale of wagrsf FOR the American work
Eman.O-Benjamin Harrison.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-04

Grover Cleveland has done more 10 ad-
vance the cause of free trade than any Prime
Minister of England has ever done. London
Economist.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-04
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL
THINGS TO THINK OF.

Telephone Calls.
Business Ofce-.-...23S Editorial Rooms.--.-242
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-04

mo mans wages should be so low that he
cannot make provisions in his days of vigor
for the incapacity of accident or the feebleness
of old age."-Benjamin Harrison.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-04

''Tbe wages of the American laborer cannot
de reduced except with the consent and the
votes of the American laborer himself. The
appeal lies to him."-James q. Blaine.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-04

This Is not the time to weigh in an apothe-
cary's scale the services or the rewards of the
men who saved the Nation. Benjamin Har-
rison.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-04

al hold It 10 be true that whenever the
market price is so low that the man or the
woman who makes an article cannot get a fair
living ont of the making of it, it is too low
Benjamin Harrison.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-04

"We believe in the preservation OF the
American market for our American producers
and workmen."-Beniamin Harrison.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-04

II saw the other day in one Of our Indian
apolis papers a good overcoat advertised for
81 81, and it must be a pretty mean man that
wants to get one for a dollar ."-Benjamin
Harrison.