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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-12
THE MAINE VICTORY.

The Republican victory in Maine does not
shrink. The majority will be, as Mr.. Blaine
telegraphed Monday night, 10000, with both
branches of the Legislature Overwhelmingly
Republican. This is the largest Republican
majority for TWEEN ty years. Garfield, popular
as he was, only carried the State by 1858.
The local enthusiasm caused by Mr.. Blaine's
candidacy in 1884 resulted in a Republican
majority, in the September election, of 49,
700. and of 10000 for Mr.. Blaine himself.
That was highwater mark, and the present
majority exceeds it. Mr.. Manley, chairman
of the State central committee, telegraphs to
General Harrison, "This means 25 600 for you
in November" and we have no doubt it does.
The force of this victory cannot be broken.
The same causes that operated in Maine are
operating in other States. and will produce q
like result. Democrats are trying to belittle
the victory by saying that it was foregone
conclusion, that they made very little effort.
etc. This is not true. They made great eff
forts to reduce the Republican majorities.
All accounts from Maine agree that both par
ties did their best, and it was a very hot
campaign. The Democrats expected to make
reduction in the Republican majority which
they could claim as a victory. Instead Of
that they are completely knocked out" and
the Republicans come up smiling with the
biggest majority since 1866. Unless we mis-
take the signs of the times. this is the begin
ming of tidal wave which will sweep over
the country and land every Northern State
high and dry in the Republican camp.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-12

PROTECTION proposes to convert American
raw material into finished products for Ameri
cans by American labor, while free trade
would import the finished products of foreign
labor. Protection would pay American wages
while free trade would pay foreign wages.
One would keep the pay-rolls in this country,
while the other would send them abroad. No
country in the world surpasses the United
States in the variety, extent and richness of
its natural resources. Our fields and farms,
mountains and plains are rich with undiscov-
cred or undeveloped wealth. Every kind Of
metal or metallic ore exists here in album
dance. Our forests yield every kind of timber.
We raise more cotton than we can use and
ought to raise more wool. There is nothing
manufactured in the world that cannot be
manufactured here, and very few things pro-
duced in the world that cannot be produced
here. Nature, therefore, and the God of ma
ture have indicated protection of home in
dustries as the true economic policy of the
United States. Let us manufacture our own
raw material with our own labor and keep our
pay.rolls at home.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-12

A DEMOCRATIC candidate for President,
now deceased, who was not afraid to tell tha
truth concerning the operation and results of
free trade, said
envy distinct recollectons on this head 90
back to the period Of industrial arrangement,
business collapse, and widespread pecuniary
ruin which closely followed the close of our
war with England in 1915. Peace found this
country dotted with furnaces and manu-
4 factories which had suddenly grown up dur
ing the few last preceding years, under the
,precarious shelter of embargo and war. These
mot yet fairly established in o country
whose commerce was almost wholly external,
or confined to the seaboar6-steam naWga-
ton being yet in its infancy. and canals and
7 railroads unknown among us-found them
selves exposed to determined and resistless
competition from abroad. Great Britain, un-
der the egis Of her vast naval ornaments,
had pushed her fabrics into almost every
corner of Asia, Africa South America, and
Z the isles of the sea, meeting no competition
i but from the rudest and most inefficient bar
? bsrian rivals ignorant alike of spinning jen-
MES, power looms and steam. OF some of her
fabrics great stocks had nevertheless accumu-
lated. These were now thrown upon our
markets in perfect deluge. Our
manufactures went down like grass before
the mowers; our agriculture and the wages of
labor speedily followed. In New England I
Judge that fully one-fourth of the property
| went through the sheriffs mill, and the pros
tration was hardly less general in any part of
the countryr
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-12

Mr.. BLAINE told story in one Of his re-
cent speeches which indicates that the Demo-
cratic campaign liar of 1S40 was no less
accomplished than his descendants of 1888.
1t was Pennsylvania orator, who, as the story
goes. undertook to prove that the stories which
the Wings were circulating about the Leroism
of General Harrison at the battle of Tippe-
canoe were false. He had in his hand, he de-
clared, the documents to prove that the battle
was about to be lost through the utter incom-
potency of General Harrison, and every
man sacrificed to the fendish ferocity of the
Indians, when, at the critical moment, Major
general Martin Van Buren,, Of the New York
Reserves, came 10 the rescue, and routed the
enemy. A good many colossal lies have been
told about the Harrison of 1888, but no one
has gone so far yet as to say that it was Cen.
Cleveland and not he who behaved so gallant
ly at Peach-tree Creek. Still, there is no tell.
ing what may come.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-12
THE existence of surplus in the Treasury

THE existence of a surplus in the Treasury
is a standing rebuke to the present admins
tration and a monument of financial folly.
By the act of March 3, 1881, the Secretary of
the Treasury is authorized ITO apply at any
time the surplus money in the Treasury, not
otherwise appropriated. or SO much thereof as
he may consider proper, to the purchase or
redemption of United States bonds" With .
large public debt and this authority to apply
the surplus to its reduction, there is no ex-
cuse for its existence. The administration
has shown far greater anxiety to increase the
surplus than to reduce the debt. If the sur
plus now in the Treasury were applied to a re-
duction of the debt, as it could and should be,
it would result in saving the government
millions of dollars in future payments of in
terest. The millions which might thus be
saved and which the administration refuses
to save by applying an idle surplus on the
debt, will eventually have to be paid by the
taxpayer
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-12

dition is not a falling off in the strength of
the temperance movement as its enemies
may hastily conclude. but rather growing
feeling in favor Of practical politics and OF
seeking temperance reform through existing
party organizations. The Journal has always
maintained, and often argued, that the advo-
Gates of prohibition were by no means the
only friends of temperance, and still less that
the third-party prohibition movement en-
braced all the true friends of temperance re-
form. The State elections above referred to
show that the number of persons is increasing
who do not believe that the cause OF temper
ance reform can pc best promoted through
prohibition or third-par movement. The
prohibition movement and the Prohibition
party are on the wane, though the cause Of
temperance reform is not.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-12

THE Civil Service Record quotes General
Harrison's recent remarks. on the regulation
of the State, penal and benevolent institutions,
and says the speech shows that be is fully
aware of the necessity of lifting these insti-
tutions above the evils of the spoils system.
The Record adds: His election to the presi-
dency, of course, could have no direct infiu-
ence upon this most desirable attempt, but
alive to the need of reform in his own State,
and understands the only method of making
it permanent" The civil-service reformers
right on this question. as he is on others
relating to public interests.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-12
AN Exploded CHARGE.

Only few of the more disreputable Dem
ocratic papers continue to circulate the shame
less lie that General Harrison said that dol
lar day was enough for a workingman.
Rochester Democrat Chronicle
Of course this is true now, as it has all
along been. Only fool or knave, whether
a man or newspaper. would repeat such an
idiotic charge, at any time or under any cir
cumstances. General Harrison has been more
or less in public life since he became of age,
for more than thirty years. and at any time
has been liable to become candidate for pub
lie Office. To suppose that he would or could
have uttered such sentiment, putting it on
the lowest possible grounds of selfish pru-
dence, is to presume that he was fool, and
nobody has seriously charged him with that.
We note, however, with regret that the
Atlanta Constitution and the Charleston
News and Courier repeat the assertion, upon
the report that evidence of the truth of
the charge has been submitted to the Journal,
and a demand made for the 81, 900 offered as
a reward for evidence. These papers should
know that nothing Of the kind has occurred
No proof has been submitted, nor offered to be
submitted A man. in the employ of the Dem
ocratic committee, and who has been convicted
by sworn and unimpeachable testimony Of
having confessed that he was liar, made de-
mand for the reward In letter which repe at
ed, in substance, what the disreputable Bailey
had scraped together in his recent speech.
On eof he chief witnesses summoned, Isom
Hughes, of this city, at once denounced
Bailey as fasi6er and garbler, and outside Of
that there ives not syllable of evidence that
any justice of the peace would accept as con-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-12
NONE of Clevelands pension vetoe

NONE of Cleveland's pension vetoes has
created more indignation among rightminded
people than that of the widow of Lieut. Gin
ton D. Smith, of Winchester, this State.
This man suffered tortures for nearly twenty
years, and finally fell victim to wound re-.
ceived in battle. The fact that he had scme-
times, by the advice of physician, resorted
to morphine to alleviate his sufferings gave
the President pretext for vetoing pension
for his widow, and, at the same time, SANDER
ing the memory of the dead soldier Atten-
ton is called anew to the case by the state
nent of friend and fellow workman, who
gays that during the ten years following the
war not less than ninety -seven surgical opera
tons were performed on his arm and shoulder.
Yet the President not only vetoed his widow q
pension, but libeled her dead husbands men,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-12

Mr.. CLEVELAND vetoed, during the first
three sessions of Congress, III pension bills,
and up to the 1st of August he had refused to
sign Isl, which makes 1913 bills that did not
meet his approval. The record of twenty
four years Republican administration is three
actual vetoes. The record of a trihe over
three years of Democratic administration is
III vetoes and ISL disapprovals These
figures are absolutely correct, and can be
verified by the records. No Democratic news
paper dare publish them and then assert that
Cleveland, the man who hired a substitute
and turned his back on the exercises of Dec
grafton day, is a friend to the veteran or his
cause
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-12

IN accepting the Republican nomination for
Congress from the Second district of AIissis-
sippi, Gen. James r. Chalmers says: II be.
ieve that the protective tariff, If continuous,
will enrich the South as it has enriched the
North. Already we see that cotton factories
and wooden and lumber mills are springing up
in our midst, and that more pig-iron was
made in the whole Union in 1866 under a
revenue tariff" The light is breaking.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-12

1.-THE WHEEL" upon which the Demo
cratic mai ority in Arkansas came near being
broken. is secret society operating in some
. of the Southern States, much as the Changers
once operated in the Middle States. In Arkan-
sas its demands were: Il. Consolidation of the
national and State elections, and rigid and
severe laws for the protection of the purity of
the ballot-box. (2) Protection to farm
products. (S.) State improvements by taxa
ton. The Wheel made no nominations
but asked the Democratic party to sanction
its claims This was denied, but tho United
Labor party did, and that party ''The Wheel"
supported at the late election. It is little
late to introduce 1.-The Wheel into America,
but If it can be used to break the solid South
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-12

MR. BYNUM asserted in his speech on Sat-
urday night that the rate of the tariff was add
ed to the price of the articles imported. The
present Secretary of State. Mr.. Bayard. has
lately published the report of L. A. Lathrop.
consul to England, which states that cotton
cloth and fannels are both cheaper in New
York, Washington and San Francisco than
here England, and yet there is a tariff
duty on cotton cloth and wooden goods. Does
Mr.. Bynum talk to the people for the purpose
of deceiving them, in order to avoid the con-
sequences of his free-trads principlesf This
is a reading age.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-12

Mr.. JAMES DEERY, the superintendent of
carriers in the postofice, presided over the
Grady meeting. OF course. this is violation
of Mr.. Clevelaad's order to government en-
ployes, bat no attention will be paid to it.
The fact, however, may explain some things
in the wretched postal service. If Mr.. Deery
would pay less attention to politics and more
to the business for which the public pays
him, it would be better for the people.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-12

A FARMER writes rs that he has copy Of
the English free-trade journal, which he in
tends to read to one of Mr. Bynum's audiences,
after the latter is through, which contains the
following editorial.
eff the Mills bill should pass it would, no
doubt, stimulate the trade in English woods.
as one of the provisions of that bill is to ad-
NIT all woods free of duty"
The writer adds: II am opposed to opening
our markets free to the products of the Brit
ish. and Mr.. Bynum will find plenty more
who are thinking the same way
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-12

Mr.. ByNUM has, thus far, neglected to send
the Journal the name and address Of that no.
BILE buckingham who tended the children
while his wife went to the wash-tub to make
living Cor the family. We had hoped to print
his portrait by this time. We still insist that
Mr. Bynum should take that man around with
him in his campaign. and exhibit him as an
awful example of the effects of protective
tariff on the manufacturing industries of In
dianapolia
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-12
POLITICAL NOTE AND COMMENT.

THE President has concluded to accept the
Democratic nomination. More fool he.-Spring
field I'LL News
Ny voice 10 still for war.-Sempronius Cleve-
land. His voice was very still for war in 1863.
Buffalo News
AS tariff reform measure the Mills bill is q
sham and fraud. To al practical intents aud
purposes il puts whisky on the free list, and yet
its advocates have the impotence 20 bswl free
liquor" at the Republicans Tribune.
The wage-earners Of this country own more
property than all the other wage-earners of the
world put together. The wage-earners OF Con-
necticut and Rhode Island own moro property
than wage-earners of the whole world outside OF
the United States.-Senator Plat.
HAVE made up my mind that a country that
raises and sells raw material will always be
poor and ignorant. and country that manu-
features what it raises and allows its brain to
20 into partnership with its hands will become
intelligent and rch.-Colonel Ingersol-
The poll Of seven excursion trains passing
through Logsnsport, Ind, for Columbus. O.. to
attend the national encampment of the Grand
Army of the Republic showed the choice of the
passengers for President as follows: Harrison,
2,446; Cleveland, 49, The trains polled con-
tanned passengers from California and Iowa.
SAMUEL ALasisToN, of Chicago. owner of
stock yards at Chicago and Pittsburg and of q
30,o0o-acre farm in the West, says. "Protec-
ton is the greatest boon to the farmers of this
country that the country has ever known. The
fact is that SO per cent. of all the farm produce
OF this country is sold In the manufacturing
centers of Chicago, Pittsburg, Philadelphia,
New York and the New England States
THERE is one clause of the Mills bill that the
Democratic organs have suppressed, as far as
they can. II reads az follows:
That all clauses of section 3244 of the revised
Statutes and all laws smendatory thereof aud all
other laws which impose any special taxes upon man
ufacturers of stills, retail dealers IN liquors. ana TO-
tail dealers In malt liquors are hereby repealed.
How is that for free whiskyg'-Cleveland
| Leader.
HERE are some free trade figures. They come
| from Ireland, where free tsade with England
| Scotland and Wales ives instituted IN 1871.
| Free trade w.s 40 it, ed IN England in 1873
Ireland, since is2@. these statistics bear upon;
Died of famine. se -.
Persons ev;cted- o,ooo'vVo
Number Of emgYaai s..-. n o
Number evicteG from $40 Z, 1S51----.l, 81 oOO
| Number evicted frog iSl : 10 1S60------ 10000
| Number evicted from Ls61 20 is70--.--. 5SSOoo
| Number evicted from s11 20 IeS6----. f~S,oVo
THE pLMooEAr,c PROGRAMME.
Yes. that Is our wish.
o. thar wish,
70 table tie tariff
And talk about fish.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-12

You cannot fool the English newspapers.
They know hawk from a handsaw. The
London Chronicle says Of the Presidents
letter:
cit is immaterial to discuss what President
Clevelands crusade should be called. He may
give it any name he likes as long as we know
it is in fact a crusade of free trade"
Possibly Mr.. Bynum and the Indianapolis
Sentinel will call this stupid forgery but
the extract came ali the way from England
by Associated Press, and appeared in the
Chronicle of yesterday morning.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-12
A PREE.TRADE PARTY.

NJ. Cleveland says, in his letter of ac-
ceptance: 1--WE have entered upon no crusade
of free trade. The reform we seek to inaugu-
rate is predicated upon the utmost care for es.
tablished industries"
Mr. Cleveland says in private conversation:
81 believe in free trade as believe in tho
Protestant religion"
Roger Q. Mills, the chief instigator of the
'reform We seek to inaugurate,' and the au-
thor of the reform" bill, says: II desire free
trade, and will not help perfect any law that
stands in the way of free trade"
Henry Watterson says: The Democratic
party is free-trade party or it is nothing.
The Democrat who ia not free trader should
60 elsewhere"
Secretary Fairchild says: add to the free
list as many articles as possible. Reduce du-
ties upon every dutiable article to the lowest
point possible"
Henry George says: Mr.. Cleveland
stands before the country champion of free
trade
Sunset Cox says: at would be q glorious
contamination of this debate could we only
have gentlemen on the other side join in
this invocation to paper and type, and to the
hearts of honest men to clear tho way for
British Golden free trade"
In the light of these interpretations of Dem
2 ocratc policy. the candidates attempt to
"hedge" ia too transparent. 1t indicates
fright, and when the leader is scared, stam-
r pede of the flock is sure to follow.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-12

A SPECIAL dispatch in yesterdays Sentinel
assures the readers Of that paper that, under
the circumstances, the result in Maine is
great Democratic victory. 1t was very mod
est of the Sentinel to hide the news of that
"victory" in an obscure corner of the seventh
page, and build no display heads over it. Po-
litical victories are not usually announced in
that wav
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-12

CHAIRMAN JEwETT'S assertion that because
declined the Republicans are unwilling
to discuss the issue. is very cheap campaign
ing, as was the issuing of the original "chal-
lenge." There is no issue before the people,
or none that the Democrats can bring up but
that Republican orators are willing and
anxious to talk about. To put it briefly, Re-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-12

The recent elections in Oregon, Vermont
and Maine all show considerable falling off
IN the Prohibition vote. This is significant
States in widely separated parts of the coun-
try, aud result like this may be taken as
indicative Of general condition. This con-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-12

that much of the inquisition may be compla-
Gently regarded, at least for the present. In
1884 the Democratic plurality in the State OF
Arkansas was 46, 1856; in 1886 it was 81, $50; in
the election just held it is about 10000,
counting in all the ballot boxes stolen, and
the usual contingent and intimidation,
some features of which were given IL the
Journal yesterday. 1.-The Wheel is good
thing.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-12

Mr.. B7NJM seems to be more at home SLAM
1ering Indianapolis workingmen than stating
facts. s'The exact amount of the tariff du-
~ is added to imported goods, is his theory.
But lately the government imported two
thousand army blankets, upon which there is
duty of $147 each; but the price to the
government Cor each was only 80 cents less
than the regular price of American made
blankets of equal quality.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-12

THE rumor that Governor Gray receives
hourly bulletins from Columbus concerning
Thurman's health, is probably unfounded.
Governor Gray is a shrewd politician, and
since he has seen which way the political
wind is blowing, is probably not specializing
on possible emergencies and the securing Of
smpty honors
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-12

THE New York Democrats meet to-day to
dominate Governor Hill. His nomination is
opposed by the better element, but as hon.
esty and responsibility have very little show
in the New York Democracy, the protests will
have no weight. He will be chosen by the
liquor interests, which will work together
with the third-party people for his reelection.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-12

that viii appeal to the calm, deliberate judy
ment of the people, and will, as his speeches
have already proved, be powerful stimulant
to the quickened and quickening beat of the
public pulse, in harmony with the principles
and policies Of which he is the advocate and
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-12

GEN. HARRIsoN's letter of acceptance will
Be read by the country with the knowledge Of
the fact that there is a man behind every
cord Of it. He means what he says, and says
what ha means
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-12

AGRICULTURAL reports from Vermont and
Maine indicate abundant farm crops, but the
teeming fields fail to Guido the Republican
harvest However, agricultural plenty and
Republican majorities usually accompany
each other
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-12

ALL accounts point 20 the possibility that
poor old Mr. Thurman may not last the cam
paign out In the event of his demise Gov.
Gray might probably be chosen as his sub
siitute on the ticket. in which case two new is
sues would be added tothe campaign-namely.
graveyard insurance and the harvesting of the
vatermslon