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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-06

THE New York World recently pub
lished as special an alleged interview
with the manager of the George. Dana
g. Sons Company, an extensive fruit
packing firm at Belpre. o., in which he
was made to say that the company was
using only foreign tin; that there was no
American tin to speak of on the market.
and that the members of the firm, who
had formerly been Republicans. were
now Democrats. The World Inter
view" was sent to Mr.. William f. Dana,
secretary of the company. who writes as
follows:
The alleged interview with the IMAM
ager' of our canning factory is fake only
conceivable BY desperate Democrats No
one connected with our company. nor any
one knowing anything about our business
was interviewed. The tin-plates we used
this season we purchased last winter. ct
which time American tin was not ayaiia-
BILE in sufficient quantity. We have recent
ly been offered American tin. the steel
plates for which were made less than one
hundred miles from our factory. which.
for quality and price, is equal to any offer
ing of European tin. 1t is also worthy OF
note that we sell thousands of dollars
worth of canned goods annually in the
town where these steel-plates are made.
This is infinitely better than buying abroad
and selling nothing to the workmen who
make the metal. OF the members OF our
firm who. according to the World, cannof
support the Republican ticket, one 10 edi-
tor and proprietor of a large daily kepub-
lican newspaper in Muskegon. Mich; an
other is stumping Ohio for Harrison and
Reid, and o third is township committee
man In the same cause.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-06
THE PROSPERITY OF INDIANAPOLIS.

The prosperity of indianapolis and
the towns in its Immediate vicinity has
been so marked during the past three
or four years that it is unnecessary to
undertake a recapitulation. 1t is seen
in hundreds of new dwellings,, covering
acres which were farm lands four years
ago. in scores OF new enterprises giving
employment to thousands of people, in
the larger stores and the much larger
traffic, in the growth of building and
loan associations, and in many other
directions. The facts of the census
bulletins to the effect that the same in
dustries which employed ten thousand
hands in 1880 employed 14,56S in 1890,
and that while ten thousand hands earned
S3,?17,114 in 1880, 1857 were paid
81, 793, 500 in 1890; the fact that each en-
ploye earned S495 in 1890, or S103 more
ton of the wage-earners in Indianapo-
lis and the more general prosperity of
the industries affording them employ
ment. Since 1890 the progress has been
more marked. More new industries and
more extensions have been made in the
past two years than in any preceding
four years, and more during the past
year than during any preceding two
years.
These are facts which cannot be con-
troverted by the most skillful calamity
howlers. During the last two years of
President Harrison's first term, carrying
out the Republican policy. this enlarged
prosperity on all hands has como 10 all
the people of Indianapolis and the grow
ing towns about it like Brightwood,
Haughville and West Indianapolis.
Can any prudent and thoughtful man
safely assume the risk OF calling into
the control of national affairs party
| which has declared purpose to utterly
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-06
destroy a policy which has been fol-
lowed by such signal prosperity?
PRESIDENT HARRIsos's AMERICANIsM.

"What ! admire more than anything
else in President Harrison" said we'll
known gentleman of this city yesterday,
sis his intense Americanism. He is a
great man in every way-a pure man.
IN eloquent orator, and so on-but still
admire most his intense devotion to
every thing American" There is moro
in this than appears on the surface.
There are Americans and Americans. 1t
is one thing to be loyal to American
ideas and interests In a formal, per-
functory way. and another thing to be
aRgressively and intensely loyal to them.
President Harrison il the latter. There
are few Americans as much so. and GER
tainly we have never had President
who gave such unmistakable evidence
of being thoroughly possessed Of the
sentiment Of loyalty to American inter-
he never omits an opportunity to pay n
tribute to the flag and to the idea of
nationality which it represents. His
illusions to this topic have been fire.
quent and felicitous. In his latest Off
cial utterance. his Thanksgiving procla-
nation, he cites as one of the causes of
gratitude to God that "He has blessed
our schools, and is bringing forward
patriotic and Godfcaring generation to
execute His great and benevolent de-
sign for our country"
It is not in words alone that President
Harrison's intense Americanism finds
expression. 1t is shown by his acts, by
the promptness, decision and fearless
ness with which he has asserted
American rights. 1t is shown by
his solicitude for the protection
of American industries and the holding
of American markets for American
manufactures. 1t appears in little
things as we'll as in great ones. When
Mr.. Cleveland was President it was the
custom of the various departments at
Washington to buy largely Of foreign
| goods. when domestic goods would
have served as we'll or better. Since
the administration of President Harri
son began all that has been changed,
| and goods of American manufacture are
used in the departments. Soon after
| the present administration came in the
Department of Agriculture advertised
for bids for supplies, naming. among
other things needed, Marcus Ward g.
Co.'S and other foreign papers. Presi-
dent Harrison's attention was called to
this schedule and the items were stricken
out. 1t appeared that the demand for
foreign paper had been put in by clerk,
| Democratic hold-over, in accordance
with the instruction given him under
! Democratic rule. This is only one of
many cases in which the President has
shown his intense Americanism. 10y
atty to American ideas and interests
has been cultivated by him to such an
extent that it has almost become pas
sion. 1t is an admirable trait in an Amer
| lean President.
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HARRIsON's BETTER PROSPECTS.

Four years ago Benjamin Harrison, a
comparatively unknown man, hampered
with the distrust which conservative
business men in the East have for West
ern men, was pitted against Grover
Cleveland, who had all the official force
behind him. an army Of marshals in New
York and elsewhere. enjoying the active
support of the potential Governor Hill,
who was running on the same ticket,
and defeated him. Now Benjamin Har-
rison, after an administration which has
met with general appreciation, enjoying
the confidence of conservative men, car
rying out policy which has proved its
wisdom, is again pitted against Mr..
Cleveland, who has discussions in bis
own State and cannot be stronger in any
close State than he was in 1888. In view
of these facts, Benjamin Harrison's pros
poets are infinitely better than they
were four years ago.
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. they will vote against what they believe
to be the best thing for the country.
There are from ten thousand to twenty
thousand such voters in Indiana. The
country has never enjoyed more gen.
eral season of prosperity; capitalists
were never SO confident, and new enter
prises are starting up all over the State;
labor was never so fully employed at so
good wages; the Harrison administra-
tion has the confidence of the country
and the respect of the civilized world to
such an extent as few of its predecessors
have enjoyed. Several Thousand business
men in Indiana who. as conservatives,
voted for Mr.. Cleveland quietly four
years ago will vote this year to ''let well
enough alone" Is there evidence of
this? Yes, in this city, in the fact that
a Republican business man who is COM
PEELED to be absent election day went to
four conservative business men who
voted for Mr.. Cleveland in 1888 before he
found one who would vote for him this
year, with whom to make a pair. The
blusterer knows nothing of this class of
voters in Indiana, but when the votes
are counted the silent effect of such
voters will be known. Wage-earners
are discussing quietly and intelligently
the issues as they affect them, and Re-
publicans who are in position to know
assert that the Harrison vote from this
large element will be much larger this
year than in 1888.
These and other reasons lead Repub-
licans to declare their full confidence
that when the votes are fairly counted
Benjamin Harrison's State will give him
a larger majority over Mr.. Cleveland
than it did in 1888.
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THE BASIS OF REPUBLICAN CONFIDENCE IN
INDIANA.

Every official report which the Re-
publican State central committee has re-
ceived during the past week serves to
strengthen the opinion that when the
polls close. Tuesday night, majority of
the ballots in the boxes will be Repub-
lican. Every Republican speaker who
visited headquarters during the past
week testified to increased earnestness
and activity.
There is every reason why this should
be so. Very few who have been Repub-
licans in the past have gone over to the
Democrats, and, in most instances, their
motives are so well known that they
have had no influence upon others. On
the other hand, there have been Access
sions from other parties to the Repub-
lican party in two-thirds of the voting
precincts. In some instances the gains
have been but one or two, but in
others from half dozen to q
dozen accessions are announced. These
show that the drift of opinion is toward
the Republican party.
There is an important element that
the noisy buffers who strut about ho-
tells and pool-rooms cannot take into
consideration this year. and that is the
influence the prosperity of the country
and the entirely safe administration of
Benjamin Harrison is having upon a
large class of business men. who are not
so firmly attached to either party that
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-06
THE PRESIDENTS THANKSGIVING PROOLA-
NATION.

Thanksgiving proclamations are apt
to have the perfunctory character of
regulation official documents; the day
must be set apart each year, it is GUS
tOmary to call the attention of the peo-
pie to blessings vouchsafed them by
Providence, and the functioDaries at the
head of Nation and States often do this
in way that suggests lack of per-
sonal feeling or interest in the matter.
The causes for thanksgiving are indi-
Gated in a vague and general way, and
there is red tape fOrmality about the
utterances. as if the writers were per-
forming an official duty which they are
glad to have off their hands. This is
not so with President Harrison's procla-
nation. He sees clearly what reasons
the people of the Nation have
for rejoicing, and he names them
in simple and direct phrase. And the
causes for gladness are not only clear to
him, but the great source of the bless
ings as we'll. 1t is not perfunctory
speech that specifies these blessings as
gifts of Cod" but the expression of
firm and serene Christian faith. He is
assured that the pestilence was not
stayed by chance or by the efforts of
man alone. but by the directing inf1u-
ence of divine power. He recognizes
in the growth of patriotism, the increas-
ing reverence for law. the diffusion of
comfort and content, elements that help
in the development of Christian char
acter, and that are, therefore, spiritual
gifts. He sees in the calls of charity
the means of broadening the souls of
the people. Although it was declared
of old that giving was moro blessed than
receiving. the opportunity to give is not
often classed in these later days
among the things to be thankful
for; but when it increases the spirit
of generosity and helpfulness and
strengthens the gratitude of the
giver for his own prosperity and ability
to alleviate suffering, it properly be-
comes good fortune. Only he who has
known through experience the moral
benefits to the River arising from the
exercise of self-denial and charity fully
appreciates the fact that the relief of
the distressed is an advantage to the
Samaritan not less than to him whom
he lifts up. And when from one who is
sore bereaved comes the acknowledge
| ment and reminder that Gle has given
his grace to the sorrowing," the words
are not formal and stereotyped utter
ance, but the outbreathing of a childlike
trust in the God whose gifts to us he
enumerates. 1t is thing to rejoice in
that the Nation has at it's head man of
proud intellect and high attainments,
who yet cherishes q simple faith in
things spiritual and in benignant
| Providence-a faith which it is the ten
dency of the age to weaken in lesser
mlnds-and whom the people give
thanks on the day appointed they may
we'll include this among their blessings.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-06

The Terre Haute Express relates the
following incident of wildcat bank
times, which it vOuches for as true, one
of the operators being we'll remembered
by. some of the old citizens of Terre
Haute:
In starting q bank and issuing notes
under the old system of free banks, two
very important necessities met the banker.
amount OF specie with the State authori-
ties TO protect hls circulation and he also
needed q good quotation for his notes in
the bank-note detectors. The man We arc
talking about joined with an Eastern
party TO start bank In this State. With
less than 5000 they expected TO run
bank capitalized at SOC, 600. and they did il.
The Indiana party. who was as smooth as
oil and as sharp as Yankee. tirst paid
81, 600 each to the editors of two bank.note
detectors to quote his proposed bank
note at par. He never denied having
made this transaction. About the
same time he paid to the proper State off,
Ger Tour informant thinks it was the Audi
tori 81, SEQ to Issue certificate asserting
that Blank 81 Blank had deposited with
him enough specie t. guarantee 900, 100
capital stock in the bank of -. The
currency was printed and sent to the Indi-
ana mans store in which our informant
was employed at the time. The Eastern
man came ont and signed mp the bills as
president. The smooth Indiana man, whom
all will remember as a truly good man. took
the bills East and succeeded in exchanging
them for Eastern money. Before very long
Blank IL Blanks notes were quoted at %
per cent. discount The next issue of de-
tectors put them down to Sd. In another
month or two the notes were quoted at rs
per cent. discount and very soon after the
bank was reported having failed. and
there was nobody to redeem the notes. All
this happened inside of one year.
All such bank mates as these were
taxed out of existence thirty years ago.
and the Democratic platform says: 1--WE
recommend that the prohibitory ten
percent. tax on State bank issues be re-
pealeG."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-06

NOTICE TO AGENTS.

The Journals facilities for
collecting and printing cleo
ton returns are now more
complete than ever, and its
columns will present, at the
earliest possible moment, the
latest and most reliable fig
ures. 1t is requested that
agents send in their orders at
as early a moment as possible,
so that preparations can be
made to get out the extra sup
ply in a prompt and salts
factory manner.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-06

THE zeal OF the new convert is conspic-
uously shown by George Parsons Lathrop,
whose entrance into the Roman Catholic
Church was announced q few months ago.
In q recent article he says:
know OF one daily prayer that has gone up for
months past. that the mass of the American
people should lie led into the one fold OF the one
ShepherG-thc true church. Why 90 pray that
the American people shonld become Catholicsl
Because IL is their natural destiny. The best
people on earth ought TO be loyal believers in
the best religion. Catholic faith. IN my opinion
is the only force that can save our national char
by many dangerous elements and tendencies.
from the peril or disintegrat;on. 1. too. believe
that the next century will see tidal wave Of
conversion sweeping tine majority ofour country
ruen into the holy Catholic Church.
Mr.. Lashrop is evidently in deep earn
est. and the wonder inevitably arises as to
the manner IN which his father.in-law
Nathaniel Hawthorne. would regard this
attitude if be were yet alive. Hawthorne
was froe from prejudice and bigotry. but
he had embodied the Puritan idea in liter
ature. and must have been more or less i'm
fluenced by the Puritan spirit. both from
inheritance and study. TO have taken into
the bosom of his family a man of snch op-
posing faith might. In the language OF
piety. have como TO him as something of q
Cross.
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THE Democratic demagogue always
proceeds upon the assumption that the
masses are ignorant, and, therefore. will
believe any story he can tell them.
Years ago there might have been ground
for this assumption, but now there is
none whatever. The mass of people.
particularly waGe-earners in the leading
industries of the country. are, as a
whole, reading people. and few mat
tiers of general Importance escape them.
Still, the Democratic demagogue and
manager of the TaRgart- Coy and Senti-
mel calibre addresses them as if they
were ignorant and thoughtless. The
Taggart-Coys and the Sentinel and
Bynum have caused the dead walls to be
covered with posters declaring that "a
vote for Harrison is vote for Frick."
when they know that Frick Is not a
friend of the President. and after all
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-06

THE death of the late Hon. o. P. Nor
ton, which occurred Nov. 1, 1877, will
be concentrated to-day by appropri-
ate exercises in one of the city churches.
1t is fifteen years since he died, and no
year has passed without the event being
COMMUNICATED in manner indicative
of the profound esteem in which the dis
tinguished statesman was held by his
neighbors, friends and political associ-
ates. There is scarcely parallel in the
country to the duration and steadfast-
ness of devotion which prompts these
exercises. They are equally honorable
to him whose memory is thus preserved
and to those participating therein. and
are plainly Indicative of the strong inn
press he made on the times in which he
lived
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-06

THE Journal has long list of the
names of taxpayers whose taxes have
been reduced by Auditor TagRart, in
violation of law, and probably to insure
their continued support of the Tam
many regime. But while this list con-
tains several hundreds, it includes but n
small part of the thousands whose taxes
on the same property are from 10 to IS
per cent. higher this year than they
were last. Auditor Taggart has no
more right to remit taxes assessed than
has any other citizen. 1t is, however, in
keeping with the general mismanage-
ment of county affairs Mt the court
house. which has become the hoadquar-
tiers of Marion county's Tammany Hall.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-06

DEMOCRATS tell us that a protective
tariff is not only unconstitutional but is
q hardship. A hardship on whomf On
the American consumer, who gets his
products at reduced prices7 No. On
the American workingman. whose wages
are kept up by protection against COM
petition with foreign pnuper labor7 No.
On England? Yes. On Germanyq Yes.
On every nation filled with the products
of pauper labor seeking to capture our
markets? Yes
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-06

THE work of the redemption of Marion
county from the control Of tax-eaters
must begin with the County Commits
sioners. On Tuesday the people will
vote for two of these officers. The Re-
publican candidates are James Marion
Van SICKLE for the First district and
Franklin Vonnegut for the Second. Tax
payers, if they consult their interests,
will vote for them.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-06

In thirty-four States of the Union the
banking laws are just as they were be-
fore the war. In this State the free
banking law of 1852 is still in force.
There is nothing except the prohibitory
ten-per-cent. tax on State bank issues
to prevent banks. under any of the old
State laws. from resuming operations
and issuing notes. If the tax were re-
pealed, as the Democratic platform
recommends, State banks of issue would
spring up by the hundreds.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-06

WORKINGMEN and farmers would suf-
fer most from a wildcat State bank cur
rency. Merchants and business men
would deposit the notes at once. getting
rid of them as soon as possible, but the
workingman or farmer would keep them
In his pocket several days and have to
stand the loss. There never was so dia-
bolical and effective device for rob-
bling poor men as a fluctuating and de-
preciated currency.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-06

IT is said that many voters do not
know that there are two ballots to be
voted on Tuesday-one containing the
names of the candidates for presidential
electors and State officers and one upon
didates for Representative to Congress
and for county officers. Precinct COM
mittees should caution voters about this
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it good enough for the American work.
ingmen. but / would like to see man
wearing that suit cross his threshold or
walk down street with him. except, per-
haps, on election day." There are thou
sands of Americans, peers of Governor
Boies in every respect, who to-day are
wearing ready-made suits that cost less
than so.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-06

THE Friday before the presidential
election of 1888 Chairman Brice tele-
graphed to leading Democratic manag-
ers in every State that Cleveland was as
certain to be elected as election day
came. Thereat, thousands of Demo-
Gratis made haste to get all the money
they could control and rush to the pool
rooms and to Republicans to bet odds
on Cleveland. All over the country 800
was put up on Cleveland to $50 or S75
on Harrison. In the gambling houses
in New York greater odds were given
in many instances. so confident did the
Democrats become on the assurance of
Chairman Brice. The Harrity commit
tee, just now, is heartlessly sending out
similar assurances. The Democratic
national committee does this to bring
out full vote. utterly regardless OF the
fact that. by so doing, thousands of
Democratic voters will bankrupt them
selves. Experience should be warning.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-06

THERE is only one kind of journalism
cheaper than the boiler-plate business,
and that is the kind which concocts
bogus dispatches and sensational fakes
in the Office and prints them as ''spe-
riaIa -
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-06

THE old-fashioned Bourbon instinct
lively regards the American flag, telling
the glowing story of nationality, over
the school-house as a menace to that
sort of State rights which leads the
handbook to assert that q national cur
rency is unconstitutional.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-06

CAN any intelligent voter come to any
other conclusion than that Chairman
Taggart has put Sim Coy in charge of
the Democratic election machinery be-
cause he has shown his facility at bal
lott box crimes in the past?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-06

A DEMOCRATIC orator in New York,
having no facts, launched into oratory
with the following words: 1.-THE Dem
ocratic star is on the ascendant; no cloud
mars its obscurity." And he was right.
The "obscurity" of the Ascendant
Democratic star" hides it from the eyes
of all except those infamed by Demo-
cratic rOmancers