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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-27

GENERAL MASTER WORKMAN Pow
DERBY is being criticised by Democratic
papers for having accepted a Republican
nomination for delegate TO the Pennsyl-
vanla constitutional convention. Mr..
Powderly has been classed as an indie
pendent in politics, and the organs are
so accustomed to independents" who
assume the title as a disguise to conceal
the Democratic proclivities they are
ashamed of, that they nno hide their
surprise ard displeasure when n of
the number shows Republican leanings.
1t must be acknowledged that they have
some basis for the claim that all So
called Independents are Democrats in
reality, but there are exceptions to this
rule, and Mr.. Powderly appears to be one.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-27

THE amicable settlement of the l.. f.
& w. strike justitics anew the Journals
recent expressions of confidence in the
good sense and discretion of working
men and their growing tendency to free
themselves from the influence of mere
agitators. Doubtless they might have
reached the same agreement at an
earlier date, and with less loss and
trouble to all concerned, but the coming
together of managers and men even
with so much delay is significant of a
disposition to obey wise counsel Both
sides have made some concessions, and
if agreements are carried out in good
part more harmonious relations between
the ROAD and it's employees will exist
hereafter
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-27
The Currency Issue.

By next winter 1t will be PLAIN to the
country that President Harrison stands
between the country and the demand for
free silver. His position on this issue has
always been clear, and his Albany speech
renders it equally clear that he looks on the
day of compromise rs past and gone. The
country must choose between the Demo-
cratic party, which supports the unlimited
coinage of silver. and the Republican party,
which opposes it. There IL no middle
ground, ana the struggle next winter
promises 10 center the attention of the
country upon President Harrison's defense
of q sound currency.
The extracts reprinted this morning from
Western papers approving the position of
tho President are hardly less significant
than the words of the President themselves.
They show that there is n strong and in
f,uentlal sentiment in that section which
will stand BY the President and the Repub-
lIcan party in the fight for honest money.
With such support there can be no doubt
that n sound currency will win.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-27
A CASE OF DARE NOT.

The refusal of Mayor Sullivan's train
ers to allow him to meet Mr.. Herod in a
discussion of municipal affairs is a clear
case of "dare not.n There is no reason
to doubt that it was the first purpose of
the Mayors sponsors and keepers to
have him meet Mr.. Herod. Indeed, such
was the intimation of Manager Taggart
the north. Such were the intimations
OF several of the Mayors friends before
the return of MIR. Taggart. Why, then,
this change of purpose7 Why this weak
ruse Off comparison of Republican rule
in the past with the Mayors manage
ment under the new order of things
which the Sun has so effectually ex-
posed? The answer is no puzzle. The
Mayor and his trainers have looked the
ground over, hence their conclusion. At
first they imagined that with all the
figures at his command he would have
such an advantage over Mr.. HerOd that
he could hold his own and even secure an
apparent triumph. But as time passed
and the Mayors advisers looked the
ground over, it became more and more
apparent that it would not be safe to
permit his Honor to engage in such a
contest. Controller Woollen's figures,
useful as they might be to man with
the capacity and alertness to use them,
would not help Mr.. Sullivan out. There
would be ugly charges to meet, and
pointed and incisive questions to answer,
which no amour of coaching could pre-
pare Mr.. Sullivan to meet, answer or
parry. Men of larger capacity and of
sharper intellectual parts would find it
troublesome to explain some of the dark
ways and tricks of the Sullivan regime,
but the Mayor, whatever may be his
varied virtues, is not that sort of a man,
and such is the confession of his trainers
and sponsors in their refusal to have
him meet Mr.. Herod. There are some
very embarrassing features in the Sulli-
a regime. He may not be re-
sponsibIe for them, but unfOrtu-
nately he is made their sponsor.
The gerrymander, which the Mayor
united with Mr.. Coy to perpetrate, by
which a large number of taxpayers have
been practically DISTINGUISHED, is a
troublesome transaction for a straight
forward man to meet. The reason for
retaining a man in the office of street
commissioner who, aside from being the
most inefficient man for the place that
could be named, insults citizens who ap-
peal to him, would be difficult to give
when demanded directly. The reason
why the streets have heen allowed to
get into a worse condition than they
have been for years would be hard for
Mr.. Sullivan to give. An explanation
for the increasing of the salary list from
SEQ, 900 to $4,000 a year would require
more skill than the Mayer has. The
justification of an unusually large ex-
penditure of money, making a large de-
ficiency probable, would require more
skill than the Mayor commands.
The Mayor sponsors, those who know
his capacity and realize his limitations.
have carefully canvassed this whole
matter. and, as the result. decline to
have him participate in the discussion.
Thus they confess the inability of their
candidate to stand forth and defend his
record. Their refusal is their proclama-
ton of his unfitness for the Office OF
MayOr.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-27
Only One Honest WAY.

NOV IU1k FTtHT-
There is only one honest way of raising
money. and that is by selling something,
either your labor or some article OF proper
ty, OF by borrowing on satisfactory securi-
~. There are various dishonest methods.
too numerous to describe. They all usuai-
ly turn out in the end about as badly for
the person doing the wrong as for the vic
tim. The Farmers Alliance can devise no
scheme that has not been tried, from the
leather money of Carthage to the assignats
of thu French and the confederate cotton
bonds. In al cases somebody has paid the
cost in the end, and nobody has been any
better OFF.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-27
Suspects a Deep-Laid Plot.

Muncie Herald.
We have seldom seen so many ~falsehoods
crowded in so small a space as were in the
article published in the Indianapolis News
on last Saturday. 1t IS very evident that
the News has nit upon the most systematic
plan that has ever been concocted to give
Muncie and the Indiana gas field q black
eye. The natural-gas liar has been hard at
it from the day the first gas we'll was
drilled In the State, and Muncie, it seems,
has been the center target. The News
article on Saturday bears evidence all
along tho line of a deep-laid scheme con-
ceived, not by the News publishers, but by
some corporation that seeks to swallow the
naturalgas interest and mOnopoliZe the
entire output. \ The News, in its
advertisement, stated to the people that a
fair report would be made and the facts in
every particular would be given. But to
the astOnishment of our people the News
articles carry the c~olOring of paid adver-
tisements, in the interest of the Standard
Oil Company or some other company that
wishes to discourage manufacturers and
spectators from longer entering the Indi-
ana gas field. 1t ia plainly to be seen by
all who are acquainted with the facts per-
tanning 10 the condition of the gas wells
that the reporter for the News either does
not know the truth, or misstates the facts
purposely.
The News cannot find any wells that have
been abandoned in Muncie or it's surround
ings, and further. the News cannot find a
single well that was ever turned into the
lines but what is making q fair showing
and giving a fair output. Muncie Is the
most favOrably located of any city or town
in the belt. from the fact that the gas rock
lies some eighty feet above the salt level.
Our wells are dry and the gas is pure, while
some of the towns in the belt are not so
favorably located because the gas rock lies
below the saltwater level. Muncie has no
lack of gas, and VIC believe that in a square
of five miles surrounding Muncie there is
sufficient gas to supply every want In In
diana for years to come.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-27

THE shadowing of Mr.. Herod by the
police is about the dirtiest bit of low
down politics on record. OF course. the
object IS not so muchthe hope of fasten-
ing anything disreputable on him,-be-
cause, so far rs that is concerned, Mr..
Herod lives an open life,-as it is to
keep track of his movements and report
them to n Democratic managers. BY
logging his steps in this way Messrs.
Taggart & Co. expect TO be able To fol-
low him MP and counteract his work
among disaffected Democrats. 1t would
be bad enough if they employed and
paid a private detective for such work,
but to put the city police on it is a gross
outrage.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-27
Wrong and Misleading.

Anderson Bulletin.
The Indianapolis News is devoting about
three columns a day, telling what it don't
know aboutnatural gas and how rapidly
the field is being exhausted and the wells
filling with water. Whether these articles
are published in the interest of the Stand
arb Oil Company or any other company
makes but little difference. So far as the
Anderson field is concerned they are wrong
and misleading. but can be Of little harm.
One important lesson can be learned from
the Ncws's gas articles, and that is that
gas-line companies are yet busy leasing all
the lands possible from the hoGgish farmer
and piping the gas to foreign cities.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-27

PENNSYLVANIA Republican convention
the Philadelphia Press says: 1.-The
blunder was made in sending out Sena-
tor Quay's platform, which was not the
one adopted. That draft was used as n
basis by the committee, but it was vitality
changed, and every effort of Senator
Quay's friends to get his pet scheme
restored was defeated, both in committee
and convention
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-27
Wrath in Grant County.

Marion Chronicle.
The people in this section of the belt read
the News articles with surprise and indig-
nation. The News writes itself down an
ass when it ~impudently thrusts upon
the citizens OF Grant county a state
ment that every resident in this
favored community knows TO be false. The
only rational explanation of the course of
the News in hiring an outsider to show
that gas wells in the Indiana field are
growing weaker, and in giving no hearing
to the other side. IL that the whole job was
conceived and carried out in the interest of
the Indianapolis pipelines.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-27

MAYOR SULLIVAN is either aware of
the prostitution of the police force to
partisan politics or he is not aware of it.
In either case he is unfit to be Mayor.
If he knows and permits it he is a party
to the wrong. and if he does not know
it he is too easily deceived to be trusted.
1t is the Journals opinion, however,
that he knows what is going on very
well, and that he is perfectly willing to
nroft by ii.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-27

THE present indications are that only
$50, 600, 900 of the outstanding $4,000, 900
of four-and-a-ha!f per cents. will be
presented for redemption Sept. 2. as the
rest will be extended at 2 per cent. A
few days since it looked as if the figures
might be reversed. In either event the
treasury is prepared to discharge all
current obligations.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-27

THE combination of playful dog. man
and shotgun is apt to be a bad ono for the
man, as indicated by two cases reported in
the Journals State news yesterday, in each
of which the animal rubbed against the
and discharged the gun shooting
the owner. 1t is worth noting that 1t is
always a loaded gun that a man leans on
when his dog is frisking about his feet.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-27

INSTEAD of adopting civil-service rules
for the appointment of city employees
without regard to political opinions or
services" as the charter requires, the
Board of Public Safety seem to have
adopted a rule requiring them to shut
their eyes TO violations of the law and
work for the Democratic ticket.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-27

THE value of the products of the man.
u~factures of Massachusetts was $751;
061. 1853 in 1890. against 1914. 634. 269 III
1896. and yet the free-trade papers are
depl0ring the decay OF the manufactur-
ing interests of that State. 1t is a kind
of decay which people can stand a good
deal Of
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-27

THE Peoples party in Texas demands
that sub-treasuries be established in
every State. SO that the people can have
more money. As there is no means by
which they can get money from the pub
lie treasures legitimately, this demand
causes one to- suspect that these Texas
fiat-money people intend to "hold up"
those institutions.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-27
Wished Him Set.

Mr.. Summerboard-What are you up to, nowl
Mr.. j. Hay Seed-Jist q settin' this hen.
''While you are about it couldn't you set that
rooster too!'
''set tn ~roosterl II that amt a good one!
wy
CAS- was saying. could you not set him for
about six in the morning! am tired of being
walked at daybreak."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-27

THERE is trouble in the Peoples party
in Ohio. The party organ, the Cincin-
natl Post, charges that III. f. Barnes, the
chairman of the State central committee,
is either a fool or a traitor, because he
has sent out notices to the effect that
none but cranks can expect more than
%, 900 votes in Ohio this year.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-27

~ order to harmonic things it might
be advisable to have the city charter
amended SO as to make the chairman of
the Democratic city committee and the
president of the street-railrOad COM
pany coordinate branches of the city
government. If this is done we submit
that their salaries ought not to be raised
while they continue in office.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-27

IF the Board of Public Safety were
disposed to do its duty S~uperintend-
ent Colbert would be brought to book
for openly meddling in politics, and if
he did not turn over a new leaf he
would be discharged. 1t is more likely,
however. that he has instructions from
the hoard
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-27

THE increase of S5,OO0,OOO in the ma
tional bank circulation since the extern
sion of the Observation-Disclosures
bonds has been made largely by banks
IN the Western and Southern States.
But this fact will only make the Peoples
party leaders more indignant.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-27

THREE years ago the cry was, "the
ordinance, the ordinance is the thing
Now there is a combined movement for
tho repeal of the ordinance, and the cry
is. "The meter, the meter is the thing.n
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-27
why Shonld He?

Philadelphia Record
Objection has been made in some quarters
because Mr.. VIM. ID. Hoyells refused To ex-
press his opinion on the occasion ~ Mr..
James Russell Lowells death. But Mr..
Howells's opinions are a marketable COM
iuodity. Just like fish glue or baked beans.
Why should lie give them away gratis to
the first Sonerf
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-27

ACCORDING to Mr.. Tom Taggart,
Mayor Sullivan is ready to do what he
can to make the condition of city affairs
known TO the people of indianapolis,
but it is practically confessed by the
committee and himself that he can
not and dare not stand up in public and
defend his OWL administration This is
just what everybody suspected from the
start.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-27

IL the Democratic members of the
police force showed half as much zeal in
enforcing the law as they do in election
eering for Mayor Sullivan the city would
be the gamer in every way.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-27

THE present city administration has
done one thing beyond a doubt. 1t has
demonstrated the necessity of reform in
the city government before it has been
in power six months.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-27
NIioht Re In4uced

Hungry Higgins-Queer notions people has. 1
read in a paper the other day that London folks
has a custom of putin "a piece of money in the
water when they gives q young one a bath.
Weary Watkins-Well, 1 wouldn't mind takin'
the chances on a bath meself if there was money
init
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-27

Cannot a citizen, humble though he be,
protest before this mighty body or its
clerk without being ou~trageously in
suited because lie dares TO state his
0~riavanca9
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-27
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL

Csn be found at the following places
Exchange in PariS 80 Boulevard
des Capucines.
NEW YORK-GTsey House and Windsor Hotel
PHTLADELPHIA-A. Z. Kemble. $50 Lancaster
avenue.
CHICAGO-Palmer House
CIECINNATI-J. r Hawley& Co. 1b4 Vine street.
LoUIsyIILE-C. It. Deering. northwest corner
Third and Jefferson streets.
ST. LoUIs-Union News Company. Union Depot
and Southern Hotel.
WASHINGTON. d. Riggs House and Eobitt
House.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-27
BUBBLES IN THE AIR
When He Used to- elk UD.n

Mr.. Wickwire-The next time that fool barber
puts any lo~ud-smelling oil OH my hair 1 will break
his neck.
Mrs. Wickwire-I rather like the scent. 1t car
ries me back to the days when we were counting.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-27

THE scheme for the repeal of the nat
ural-gas ordinance and the increase of
rates is developing in fine shape.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-27

REPUBLICANS regret that Governor
Campbell should nave the chills now, SO
that he cannot take the stump, but they
know that he will have them in Novem-
Der, and Will be glad of it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-27

NOTWITHSTANDING the alleged rapid
exhaustion of natural gas, the local
holders of large blocks of stock are not
selling. On the contrary, their brokers
ora huufp1
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-27

CAPE NAY PoINT. Aug. 26-The wife Of
the President to-day received a set of en-
crossed resolutions from the order of Pa
triotic Sons of America, ut Bellevue, KY.
ex their thanks To her for her de-
terniined efforts In having nothing out
goods of domestic manufacture brought
into the White House and eongratulating
her Oh her American ideas. Mrs. Harrison
has acknowledged thereeeipt of the resolu-
finns
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-27

PoLITIcs sometimes acts as q safety
valve-a kind of Board of Public Safety
valve, as it were.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-27

REFERRING to the fact that some
papers arc still commenting on the plat
form which was not adopted by the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-27

SAN Francisco. Aug. en-. IL. Will
Jams. "A special Treasury agent AT Seal
islands. Alaska. who arrived from the
north Yesterday. left for Washington to-
oay with a report for the Secretary OF tho
Treasury. lie reports trat the total nnm-
her of seals taken by the North american
Commercial Company since Aux. !. lsgl. 10
IVA. IL Is estimated that pQaclers have
taken about forty thousand
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-27

THE Board of Public Safety is prin-
cipally engaged in trying to save the
Democratic ticket.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-27
outrage.

WHAT has the Board of Public Safety
done to earn their salaries2 The Board
of Public Works has been kept pretty
busy. but who a point to anything
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-27
A Pretty Picture

New York kccGrter
A river of golden grain flowing out. n
river of gold flowing in-that is the bright
American outlook just now.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-27

Illinois has a State Bureau of Labor
Statistics. This bureau has done the cause
of truth and righteousness a ~seIrice by
on the light so che people could see
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-27
To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journai:

To the Editor OF the Indianapolis journal:
Will you please answer the following: The
case is an assault and battery. A has b arrested
on a State warrant. Is A a relator IN the easel
Il IS found not guilty. Can the costs of the case,
jury, ETC., he taxed legally against A, who is a
man of property and able to payl III the costs
cannot be legally taxed against a. will you ex-
plain the difference between n surety OF the
peace case and assault and battery! READER.
In an ordinary prosecution for assault
and battery. where A has b arrested upon
o State warrant. A is not a ~relatOr, but a
prosecuting witness. In case B is acquit-
ted, A cannot be made to pay the costs of
the prosecution. Ia. surety-of-the-peace
cases there is a statutory provision that.
if the finding be for the defendant, or if
the case be dismissed, Or if the complaining
witness fails to prosecute. "all costs shall
be adjudged against the complaining wit
ness" There is no such provision in or
binary criminal prosecutions. In nan
cases it would be better if there were.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-27

In an article in the Forum George Haven
Putnam, of the New York publishing
house, endeavors to show that the charges
of greed and oppression brought against
publishers by authors are unjust, and that
there is really a fair and equitable division
of profits. In proof of his position he
states that the cost of bringing books
effectively before the public has greatly in
creased within thirty years, that this in
creased cost of distributing machinery has
been borne by the publishers, while there
has been no deduction in the rate Of royalty
paid to authors. He ANONYMOUSLY illus
trates this point b. saying: D the book
published at 81. on which the author for
merly received a royalty of 10 cents, this
royalty remains the same, but the net price
coming to the publisher, in place of being,
Us formerly, 81 cents. is g. cents. 50 cents.
CT even 80 cents" This showing will hardly
do much to make the authors happy. They
may be gratitied to learn that publishers
profits are less disproportionate to their
own than formerly. but they will not be
convinced that they are not yet too large.