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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-16
THE GOVERNMENT DEPOSITS.

The fact is not denied that certain ma
tional banks are enjoying deposits of govern
ment money to the amount of $50, 600. 600,
and that they are indebted for this favor to
Cleveland's Secretary of the Treasury. These
large deposits, at 6per cent, are worth $500. 900
a month to the banks. Commenting on this
state Of things. the Journal said:
"a President who has shown himself to be
thoroughly inscriptions and untrustworthy
in politics has no right 20 complain if, under
suspicious circumstances. his personal honesty
is questioned. If the President is directly or
indirectly a party to the transaction by which
favored banks are profting to the extent of
So, 600, 900 a year by these enormous deposits
or government funds, he is personally dishon-
est. A man of his habits and loose principles,
who has brought himself TO believe that his re-
election Is necessary to the welfare of the
country, could very easily 60 a step further
and justify himself in accepting a campaign
donation of $40, 600. TO be made in his name,
by banks that were ~profting by his generosity
with the public money"
We repeat this with emphasis. The Sentinel
attempts a defense of the President by quot
ing from oneof John Sherman's reports. while
Secretary of the Treasury, to show that in
1879 the national banks had much larger de-
posits than they have now. So they had, and
there was good reason for il. There was no
surplus then as there is now of idle money.
Secretary Sherman was engaged, under the
law, in refunding the debt, by selling 4 or 4 10
per cent. bonds and redeeming 6 per cents.
He was not allowed to call any bonds for
redemption till he had the money on hand to
redeem with. Therefore it was necessary to &C
cumulate funds by the sale of ono class of bonds
to redeem the other. and when be did make
a call of bonds he had to give three months
notice to the owners. This compelled an
accumulation of money in the banks. The
new bonds were sold through the banks, and
the proceeds were allowed to accumulate for
the purchase of old bonds. This was a very
different matter from taking money out of
the treasury and depositing it in the banks.
Secretary Sherman was refunding the debt
anu AOuuSAhS tAo HoNoiiAuucueS iutSAcSs dC-
count every day. Cleveland's Secretary re-
fuses to purchase outstanding bonds Will the
surplus, as the law requires him 20 do, and
deposits 500. 900, 900 in favored banks. We
have no doubt whatever that the Democratic
campaign fund is p~rofting by the transaction,
aud probably, if the truth were known, Grover
Cleveland's $40, 900 donation came about in
that way.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-16

with as much interest as Cleveland's is now,
and svhen he was elected the London Times
said: 1.-The triumph Of General Pierce is
essentially a triumph of free trade" AS he
had been elected on a platform of tariff for
revenue only" the Times was right in term
ing his election a free-trade triumph. On the
7th of January, 1853, it printed in a c~onspic-
uous place a letter from its special correspond
emit in America in which he said:
"Now signs are every day appearing to en-
courage the free-traders that protection is
more effectually dead in the United States
than in England. Unless the surplus revenue
is absorbed in q war, the next Congress will
enact a system of finance which will wipe out
the last vestige of U protective tariff forever"
No doubt this was glad tidings to the Brit
ish. and the Times seems to have accepted it
as true, for on March 4. 1853, the day of
Pierce's Inauguration, it said:
"The President of the United States as
sumes this day the supreme power in that
great common wealth and enters upon the du-
ties of the Office to which he was elected in
December last by a large majority of his fell
low-citizens in almost every State of the I'm.
ion. We may anticipate that the policy of
the United States will be more openly di-
rected to the unrestricted freedom of CONNER
cial intercourse with the contiguous prov
inces of the British empire and with foreign
countries"
These expectations were not disappointed.
The tariff, from which the principle of protec-
ton had already been partially eliminated.
was still further reduced during Pierce's ad-
ministration. The tariff act of 1856 was a
vicious attack on protection. Pierce signed it
on the very last night of his administration.
and left it a legacy of disaster to the
country. When the Republicans came into
power in 1861 they re-established the policy
of protection which has prevailed ever since.
Now it proposed to overthrow it, and the
candidacy of Grover Cleveland. representing
that idea, is watched in England as eagerly
as that of Pierce was thirty odd years ago.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-16

Fisk for Governor in 1856 had 10. 500.
The report also says that a great gain 10 ex-
pected 10 Georgia, aud that West Virginia and
North Carolina will probably be carried by the
Republicans. if the Prohibitionists persist in
keeping their electoral. tickets in the field in
those two States, the great body OF their vote
coming from the Democrats.
Rev. Robert NJ. Hatfield, ID. D.. one of the
leading Methodist preachers in the country,
gives q number of reasons in a long letter in the
October Statesman. telling why be is q Repub-
lican. AS a lifelong advocate of temperance he
does not propose to throw away his vote or cast
IL where it will aid or comfort the Democatic
party. AS between the two leading parties ne Is
against Democracy because their candidate IL
OF unsavory reputation; because they are wrong
on the tariff; because they are putting forward
the men who once tried TO destroy the govern
ment, and who are today disfranchisirg hun
dreds of thousands of voters in the South. He
is q Republican because that party protects
American labor against the nauper labor OF
Europe; because of its glorious history in fight
ing for justice to humanity; because il recog-
nizes the rights of the colored citizen, and is dis
posed to treat them fairly. and, finally. because
General Harrison's private character calls for
no viudication or apologies.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-16
THE LATEST DEMOCRATIC LIE.

We yesterday received q telegram from
jamestown, N. Y, stating hat it was report
ed there that the Journal had admitted the
"dollar-a-day lie" was proven, and had paid
over the 50, 900 reward offered. Yesterday,
also, a letter was received from a prominent
Republican of southern Indiana, saying: ~
have information that seems to be reliable
that the Democrats have q scheme, on the
eve of the election, to fill the State with cir
culars stating that the Indianapolis Journal
had yielded thequestion on the "dollar-a-day'
lie, and surrendered the SO, 000."
1t is hardly necessary to say there is not a
word of truth in the rumor referred to. 1t is
simply an attempt to bolster up one lie with
another. We give the warning throughout
the State and country against this latest de-
velopment of the Democratic Campaign of
intellect"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-16
TIE DEspIsED CLEVELAND.

We congratulate the Democrats on one
thing: When Grover Cleveland is defeated
they can speak their minds about him. For
the last three years they have been under =
mighty restraint; after the 9th Of November
they can tell the truth. Cleveland has not
been in a position to hear the truth, nor his
party in a position to tell it. In a few weeks
it will be different; then look out for frank
ness. Cleveland is undoubtedly the most
thoroughly despised man to-day who has ever
filled the presidential chair. It is doubtful if
he has q disinterested friend in the United
States. A man who does not care for friends
is not apt to have them. The Southern peo-
pie despise Cleveland because be did not
possess bravery enough to fight for his sec
ton. Loyal people of the North despise him
because he fought by proxy. Old soldiers
despise him because of his brutal vetoes Of
pension bills. Old-line Democrats despise
him because he is a political accident
and ~upstart. The rank and file of the
Democratic party despiss him because of his
civil service professions, and the mugwumps
because of his broken civil-service pledges.
His Cabinet officers secretly despise him.
because he treats them all as mere clerks and
subordinates. Newspaper men and Washing
ton correspondents despise him, because he has
repeatedly snubbed them as a class and as in
dividuals. Buffalo people despise him. be-
cause, since his election, he has put on airs
and given the cold shoulder to his former in
Inmates. His earliest political supporters
despise him for his ingratitude towards those
to whom he owes everything politically. In
telligent workingmen despise him for his
| repeated vetoes of measures in their interest.
Everybody despises him for his coarse ego
tism, his boundless assumption and his fatal
istic belief in his lucky star. He has no
friends-plenty of hatterers. but no friends.
At present he is a political necessity to his
party. After his defeat the seal of secrecy
will be removed, and for once, at least, Dem
ocrats will tell the truth.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-16
NOTE AND COMMENT.

The Chicago Tribune has made an analysis Of
the votes in the last two general elections
around New York bay: In 1884 the four coun-
ties, Kings, Queens. New York and Richmond.
gave Cleveland a majority of g., 6s5, while in
the State at large his majority was only 1,0i7,
showing that the Republican majority which
came down to Harlem bridge was 81, 63S. In
1880 the vote in the same counties gave Han
cock "a, leo majority, but Garfield carrisd the
State by 81 1893 majority, indicating that he had
5.l93 more votes than Hancock outside of the
four big Democratic counties. The Republicans
now claim that this majority back OF the Har-
lem bridge territory will be between 50. 900 and
10000, as against 81. 63S four years ago and
15,l93 eight years ago, and TO Offset this the
Democrats, in the four counties around New
York Bay, must swell their majority from g.
085 four years ago 10 over 50, 600; or, in other
words, these counties must give the Democrats
90 600 more votes this year than they did in
1884 in order to have any chance OF carrying the
State.
At a recent meeting Of the Prohibition ma
tional executive committee. one of the msubers
made . report. which, be claimed, was the re-
suit of q careful canvass of the vote they ex
pected to receive in the doubtful States. where
they are expending their time ana money. IL
was as follows.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-16

The p~retense that the Democrats have a
prior claim on Saturday night Nov. 3, for a
street parade. is all bosh. The claim is an
afterthought and an attempt to shut out Re-
publicans from a closing demonstration. It
is in keeping with the bulldozing methods of
the Democracy, bat we give notice here and
now that it will not win. The Republicans
will have \ demonstration in the public streets
on the night of Saturday, Nov. 3. There will
be no necessity for interference or collision,
and the Republicans will neither seek nor
tolerate any. They have been used to march
ing when they pleased, and they are not afraid
to be out after dark.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-16

HoN. WILLIAM WALTER PHELPS said, in a
recent speech: "If the Democracy will not lie
about Harrison, we promise not to tell the
truth about Cleveland" 1t is q fair promise,
and one which Republicans willingly made at
the beginning of the campaign. Democrats,
however, in spite of Brice's declaration that it
was to be a clean campaign, nave lied persist
emily and Indignantly about Harrison. II
Republicans shall, by way Of retaliation and
in justice to themselves and the country, de-
eide to tell the truth" about Cleveland, his
followers cannot deny that they have brought
their punishment on themselves.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-16
pBR1sHABLE Farm AND GARDEN PRODUCE


For some years past Hon. j. B. Conner,
formerly chief of tho State Bureau of Stats
tics, has been collecting facts and data with
reference to the home consumption of perish
able products in the United States. The
term perishable products embraces such
fruits, berries. vegetables and other products
of the farm or garden as must be marketed
soon in order to be realized upon, and which,
of course. are non-exrortable. Mr.. Corners
careful investigation Of the subject leads him
to the conclusion, expressed in a communica-
ton printed elsewhere, that the towns and
cities Of the United States of 5, ZOO inhab-
itants and over, consume, of these perishable
products, $3.50, $40, 900 worth per annum.
The home market for this class of products
is mainly due to the development of home
manufactures under a protective tariff, and
the sum annually paid for them is more than
three times as great as the whole amount of
tariff duties. Thus every new line of inves-
tigation furnishes additional proof of the
benefcent results of protecting home in.
dustries.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-16
PosToPPIcE oRIMINALs-s1oo REWARD.

P~0ST0FFICE oRIMINALS-S100 REWARD.
this Office a Democratic campaign document
which he found folded in his copy of the
Journal, and which he believes to have been
placed there by the Democratic postmaster,
as was probably the case. He protests
against this interference with his mail, and
asks if the law provides no protection. This
complaint is only one of many. For months
past the delivery of the Journal through the
mails has been systematically delayed, and
great annoyance caused both to publishers
and subscribers. Since the campaign opened
the service has been still further prostituted
to partisan purposes by the folding of Demo-
cratic literature in the papers after they are
received at the Office of delivery. This pro-
ceeding is in direct defiance OF the law, which
exacts a penalty from the postmaster for
every act of the kind.
Complaints at headquarters meet with no
response, and the Journal now proposes to try
other remedies. To this end it offers a re-
ward of 800 for evidence that will convict
any postmaster of inserting circulars or other
documents in copies of the Journal before de-
livery to subscribers, or of otherwise tamper-
ing with private mail. An example must be
made, and the Deer Creek postmaster will
planning subscriber will collect the evidence
that will convict this particular postal mis-
creant.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-16

shall be Entrusted again to the party which
increased the State debt 81, $40. 900 during its
last four years of power.
These are some of the points to be decided
by the next election. More might be named,
but these are enough to incite Republicans to
their greatest effort. The honor and welfare
of the State and Nation are largely dependent
on the result, and the result is largely de-
pendent on Indiana. Three weeks remaip in
which to work. Let every day and hour be
utilized.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-16
ENeLANp,s INTEREST IN PREF TRADE


Franklin Pierce was one of the smallest
Presidents this country ever had. He was
really hardly as much of a man as Grover
Cleveland, yet the candidacy and election of
Franklin Pierce excited great interest in En-.
gland. This was a good while ago, but some
times it is we'll to learn from history. Pierce
was elected in 1852. and his election was hailed
with delight in England. This was not be-
cause he was a representative American States
man or a man of broad and elevated views,
for he was no more so than the present in
cumbent of the presidential Office. But It
was because be represented the idea of ''pro-
gressive free-trade." The triumph of free
trade and the triumph of the rebellion are
the only two things hat England has ever
taken much interest in so fer as American
politics are concerned. Pierce was nominated
for President at the dictation Of the free.
traders of the South. The London Times
then, as now, the consistent advocate of Brit
ish interests, said he, was "a valuable
and practical ally to the commercial policy of
this country" meaning Great Britain. Then,
as now. the commercial policy of England
was to force free trade on the rest Of the
world, and specially on the United States.
Pierce's candidacy was watched in England
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-16
CLEVELAND AND HENDRICKS.

The Democrats had their grand rally and
barbecue at Shelbyvills, yesterday, with
numerous roasted steers and Judge Thurman
as the attractions. Shefbyville was the long
time home Of the late Vice-president Hen
bricks. 1t was a favorite place for holding
Democratic rallies in his lifetime. and the
Democrats are still trying to c%onjure in his
name. The present administration has no
right to do so. Mr.. Hendricks was in all re.
spects a much greater man than Grover Cleve-
land, and the latter knew it, and, like the
small man that he is, treated the Indiana
statesman shamefully. Mr.. Hendricks was
very early given to understand that he must
not expect to have any influence with the ad-
ministration. He was Inundated over and
over again, having to fairly beg for the APP
pointment Of Postmaster Jones. Grover
Cleveland did not come to his funeral. There
is every reason to believe that Mr.. Hendricks
had great contempt for the accidental occu-
pant Of the White House, who thusSnubbed
him. Mr.. Henry d. Pierce prints the follow
ing letter from the late Vice-president, writ
ten to his (Hendricksis) sister two months
after Cleveland's Inauguration:
ATLANTIC CRY. NJ. Ma 9. 1885.
"Dear Sister Ann:
Il have been at this place a few days. Will
return to Washington tomorrow or next day.
Eight or ten days ago l had a conference
III n n----
think that is the name) had left the consul
late in bad condition.. and the vice-consul
had been promoted and had done well. So it
might be found useful to continue him. We
talked quite freely, but not satisfactorily. l
an not sure that this was sincere-it seemed
too absurd. l was at Gettysburg after that
and travelled with the President, and had a
full talk with him and protested against
Baysrd's proposition Of continuing the vice
consul. " But the trouble is that the
Secretary of State appears to control all
foreign appointments himself. Up to this
time / do not know of an exception. 1 have
found the whole matter Of appointments most
disagreeable. because no opinion can be
formed till the appointment is announced, and
in SO many cases those are disappointed who
were supposed to have most information. /
supposed - was going to strengthen
his application with letters from persons sup
posed to be in favor at headquarters-General
Hancock and others-but / think nothing has
been done. Perhaps it would do no good, but
it would have been well to try.
A~ffectionately, T. A. HENDRICKS.
There is a touch of sadness in this letter.
1t shows that the Goldfish occupant of the
White House was already forcing on Mr..
Hendricks mind the conviction that he was
not Tin favor at headquarters" He was made
to feel this more and more to the day of his
death. 1t was Cleveland's way of taking re-
venge on Mr.. Hendricks for daring to be a
greater man than the President.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-16

QUEER what a different impression the same
idea produces when expressed in the vernacu-
lar of the Democratic politician and the studied
phrase of the statesman. Here is Mr..
Humans saying in his letter of acceptance:
II thought then Tat the time of the nom
i%nation. as l still think, that whatever /
could properly do to promote the reelection
of President Cleveland, / ought to do. His
administration has been marked by such in-
tegrity. good sense" etc., etc., etc.
What Mr.. Thurman said at the time Of the
nomination, in a conversation which was pos
sibly not intended for publication, but merely
as a guaranty of good faith, is reported u
have been something to this effect: well
they have put me on the ticket to help pull
that id old h-g through, and I reckon II
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-16

Iy corrected. This honorable showing is dis
regarded by the Post. which continues to refer
to him as q deserter. The descent OF this
paper, which was once published ''by gentle
men for gentlemen" into a slanderous, vi
Imperative. mendaciously partisan sheet must
cause its honorable founders to turn in their
graves. Next to the Voice, the Post is the
most conspicuously indecent liar in the Unit
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-16

GOVERNOR HILL agonizes over the duty on
salt, but with the commodity selling at 81 a
the burden which he says they are bearing.
A young Democratic orator and ex- Congress
man of this city could give Mr.. Hill points on
this from a past experience. The attractions
of free salt, when presented in his most elo-
quent manner, not only failed to excite his
constituents, but the Outrageous tariff on
trace-chains' had no effect in rousing the
populace to the sense of its misery. Salt has
no SAVIOR as a campaign issue.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-16

THE New York Post cherishes a particular
ly venomous dislike to Mr.. Patrick Ford, ed
itor of the New York Irish World. and has
made him the object of most outrageous per-
sonal abuse. 1t has charged him, among
,ther things, with being a deserter from the
Union army. Mr.. Ford meets this charge by
showing in the most conclusive manner that
in January, 1868. he wa taken prisoner, and,
as often happened in the service, was reported
missing, and by an error of the muster-roll,
made before the facts were known, was re-
ssgaed as q deseEter. This record was Official