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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-09-30
THE sHBLBYvILLB MEETING.

The Sentinel says: mo such meeting
as that held at Shelbyville yesterday
has been known in this State for years,
if indeed it has ever been equaled." The
reference is to the meeting of Wednes-
day, and, considering the character of
the assemblage. the Journal concurs in
the statement that no such meeting has
been known in this State for years, if
ever before. We may add that it is to
be hoped no such meeting will ever be
held in Indiana again. s-roi,s~r
The truth is the affair of Wednesday
was more of a ~disgraceful orgie than
anything else. Shelby vile has become
is we'll known throughout the State as a
Democratic stronghold where. on such &C.
c~asions as this, Everything goes" These
political barbecues have come to be I'M
derstood as an open dispensation to
everybody to do as they please and q gen.
eral invitation to sports of all kinds. Of
course they are attended by many re-
spectacle Democrats, but no respectable
Democrat eve goes a second time If he
can get out of it, while the attendance of
gamblers, thieves and toughs increases
from year to year. The proportion
of these classes who attended the
meeting of Wednesday was larger than
ever before. The affair mad been widely
advertised in terms which were we'll un-
derstood as meaning that the town was
D. H. xhr~-~ xr.la 1nop Tho roc,lk
was a carnival of gambling. stealing
and drunkenness, without even a pre-
tense on the part of the local authorities
to punish or restrain the offenders.
"Shell games" and other swindling
games we're carried on openly. Thieves
piled their vocation at every corner.
Hundreds of pockets were picked. The
streets were thrOnged with drunken
men. Every saloon was q center of de-
b%auchery. The number of persons who
listened to the speeches was small
compared with the number of those who
seemed only intent on gorging them
selves with half-coOked meat and then
filling up with bad liquor. Sober men
were in a humiliating minority, and the
number of gamblers and confidence men
was only exceeded by the number of
their victims.
Such meetings as this are no credit to
the State nor to the party holding them.
There are plenty of respectable Demo-
Gratis in Indiana, and there is no neces-
sity of turning a Democratic meeting
into a drunken orgie or a congress of
criminals. Indiana has outgrown such
demonstrations as that of Wednesday.
Public decency and public morals require
that the S~helbyville barbecue be discon-
tinued.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-09-30
About PEOPLE AND THINGS.

CHAUNCEY M. DRPEw will deliver the
Columbian grafton at the Carnegie Music
Hall, New York. on Oct. 10. in connection
with the grand celebration of the discOv-
cry of America.
Rosa BONHEUR'S already celebrated
painting of Horses Thrashing Corn" still
remains unfinished in her studio near Fon-
tainebleau. This picture has been bought
by an American amateur for D $1,000.
The Kalser's new daughter is o ~particu-
larly welcome addition to his household,
for the reason that previous to her appear
snce on the scene eighty-four years had
elapsed since q Queen of Prussia gave birth
to "A daughter.
Mrs. TAYLOR, the widow of the much
lamented author and former American
minister to Germany, Bayard Taylor. has
written q book. which will soon be pub
lished and shich is said to be . particular
ly clever production.
BLoNDIN is now sixty-eight years old,
but he can walk q rope as steadily and
safely as when he crossed Niagara in the
long. long ago, when such n deed of daring
was the wonder of the world. Of course
he now uses the low rope for his perform
ances.
THE personal column of New York daily
contains this golden opportunity: "A WELL
educated young man of good social posi-.
ton Will marry any lady of means who will
provide funds for him to procure q divorce
from his present wife, who he cannot get
along with"
MIMI. ADAM, the famous Paris blue stock
ing and editor. is still, at ffty-six. q very
handsome woman. She is the p~ersonifica-
ton of business energy From 0 in the
morning until . In the evening she works
at her profession. and from tire latter hour
until 3 In the morning she gives her time
to social duties.
THE late General John Pope. by dating
one of his orders Headquarters in the sad
die" prompted the confederate commander,
Robert I. Lee. to perpetrate what was said
TO be the only joke of his life: What can
you expect" he is credited with saying,
''Of n general who puts his HEADQUARTERS
where his headquarters ought to bef"
THE hero of Waterloo, the Iron Duke,
was In some ways as plain and frugal O man
when in the neld as our own General Grant.
An autograph note from the Duke. recently
made public in England, shows his care
fulness in small things: Put MP the coat.
waIstcoat. trousers and boots that 4 have
pulled off," ho writes to bis porter, land
give them to the bearer. Let him bring
them In n owel. which he Will take hack
with the things 1 now have on. Give hun
also my umbrella"
All SIN.
John Chinaman, our 10. John,
In bis full sleeve doth laugh
AT Uncle Sans request OF him
For his grim photograph
John Chinaman, our 10, John,
Has no intent TO go,
And q kodak cant exclude our John,
John Chfnaman, our jo.
Boston Transcript.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-09-30
BYHUM,s sHINPLAsTBR MONEY PLAN.

Now that Mr.. Bynum, after being the
strenuous advocate of free silver coin
age for years. has made the discovery
that only silver-mine and silver-bullion-
owners would be benefited by that
scheme, he has made himself the lead
ing champion of State banks of issue in
Indiana. Evidently ignorant of the ex-
p~erience of the country with State bank
money, he declares for q system which.
when in force, robbed the people of
millions annually. He does not fully
explain his scheme, except hat the
State bank issues shall be based upon
State or approved municipal bonds.
There is but one system by which the
note issues of any bank can be made
reasonably sound, and that is for the
State to print, issue and redeem for the
banks all of the notes to which their Sc
curity deposited with the State would
entitle them. That is the plan of the
present federal banking law. 1t in.
volve an extensive engraving and
printing establishment and a large off,
cial force to prevent fraudulent issue.
How many States could afford to Great
such a system' Does any intelligent
man believe that an Indiana Legislature
would duplicate the national system for
the printing and issuing of State bank
hottest 1t is out of the question.
At present there is no law on the
statute books regulating banks of issue.
If the 10 per cent. United States tax on
such circulation were repealed, the
Legislature would be compelled to pass
a law regulating such banks. unless the
Secretary of State should assume the
power to issue charters to them as he
does other corporations. Such a law
would be like the old law, There would
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-09-30
THE STATE PRESS.

TALK with the people proves that the
Democratic howl that tariff 10 a robber tax
does not Getract their minds from the fact
that the Democrat tax Law 10 the force bill
that 10 taking the good money out OF their
pockets in y way that hurts.-Anderson
Herald.
A GERRYMANDER may be overthrow by
ballot only to give place to another, bur
oyerthrown by tho conrts it 10 settled for
all time. The man who honestly desires o
fair apportionment will welcome the ju-
dicial solution Of the quostion.-Owen
County Journal.
GENERAL WEAVER, the populist caudi-
date for President. opposed the 5.cent tariff
Oh eggs. because. as he claimed. it, would
raise the price. While lodging eggs
thrown 1T him by fiery Democrats in the
south, the other day. he doubtless wished
the tariff prohiDitory.-South Bend IriL-
une.
LIT theserrymander matter be finally set
tied now and forever whether this crime
against suffrage can ana will be remodied
by the courts. and for this purpose W. will
cheerfully ac9uiesce in the Democratic
threat TO have the pending case carried to
the United States Court on q writ OF error.
Sullivan Union.
LEADING Democrats declare hat they
are in favor Of restoring the duty on sugar
because IN such a case II would be "a tariff
for revenue only" ALI who favor such .
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-09-30

SHORTLY after the election of Mr.. Har-
rison. in 1888, the New York World, be-
ing in o penitent and truthful mood.
said:
The Democratic party neither controlled
nor lays claim to having controlled the al
ministration of President Cleveland.
Therefore il cannot be held responsible for
the results of that administration, neither
for the injury his vacillating course has
done to the cause of civil-seryice reform
nor for doing the right thing at the wrong
tlme." in precipitating the tariff Issue on
the pefiious edge OF a presidential cam
paiRn. nor for the other multiplied mis-
takes of the President. nor for his Obnox
ious personal acts or characteristics.
Now the World is engaged in the
cheerful occupation of eating it's words
and trying to convince its readers that
the salvation of the country depends on
the election of Cleveland.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-09-30

an act of homage or worship. 1t 10 nearly
identical with the drink offerings to the
Lord made by the early Hebrews on many
occasions of public and private life. Among
the Greeks and Romans nearly all sacrifices
to the gods were accompanied with hba-
tions. wine being poured over them. Liba-
tions usually consisted of unmixed wine.
but milk or honey diluted with water was
also used for the purpose. The liquid used
in christening the virginia-avenue via
duet was probably red ink or coIored water.
as the persons who planned that ceremony
would never have permitted good wine TO
be so wasted.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-09-30
Another Result OF McKinleyism.

Brads,reets-
The foundations have been laid at For
est Hill. a suburb of Newark, ". j.. for a
big mandatory for the manufacture OK
fine cutlery, to be operated by Tiffany ~
Co, the New York jewellers. The factory
will be completed next spring. and it will
furnish employment for $50 hands. For
more than a year the company. it 10 said.
has been making ex experiments looking TO
the manufacturing also of high-class table
cutlery. IL has for some time purchased
English blades and manufactured Its own
mountings. The manager of Tiffany * Co..
L. Cook, is reported by the Boston .Adver-
tiser To have said: 'Ir is true that we in
tend 20 60 into the business of making fine
cutlery. We have for years been import
ing large quantities from England. but now
we believe we can manufacture a better
and more satisfactory article at home.
Heretofore we have been compelled 20 &C.
cept such goods as the foreign manufactur-
ers were content to give us, but under the
present protective ffsrif w will try 10
make articles more suitable for use IN this
country. Not 90 very long ago We had TO
import most of our silver and plated ware.
Now the finest in the world Is made righe
here.n
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-09-30
How OnssMan Got Advertised.

From the Barktown Bugle: "Mr. Charles
Hustler, a lifelong Democrat, has repudiated
the tarif-smashing, reactionsry organization
that has so long held his allegiance. Under the
Mckinley bill. Mr.. Hustler truthfully says. he lie
enabled to sell sugar, coffee, hardware and gen.
eral notions at prices lower than were ever
dreamed of I'm the old free-trade days. Hence,
he asks. why should he not cast his vote for the
party whose wise policy has enabled him to sell
the finest stock of goods in Barktown at O cost
but little more than nothingl"
From the Barktown Banner. next day: The
Infamous lie in a certain sheet of yesterday TO
the effect that our most eminent merchant, Mr..
Charles Hustler, had deserted the political faith
OF his fathers, could only have emanated from
the diseased imagination of the subsidized tool
of the plutocracy. Mr.. Hustler il still stanch
and true. While 1t is a fact that Brother II. has
the finest stock of goods in Hooppole county, yet
the fact remains that the general misery and
woe due to the grinding exactions of those tat
teners on the blood of the poor, the Republican
party. has touched him as we'll, and coInpels him
TO sell his magnificent stock of goods at less than
cost. Every good Democrat should stand by
Brother H.. in this our hour of need"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-09-30

THE words of General Slckles which
have sent the cold chills up the backs of
the Democratic managers in New York
read as follows:
Go home and instruct your children and
educate your neighbors OH the principle
that no man who opposed the %pensioning
of the Union veterans of the war of the re-
bellion can hold an office of trust, honor
and profit in the United States.
Then when he had presented to the
Third Corps association a tender resolu-
ton of sympathy with the President, he
went on as follows:
Now that we have formally voted our
sympathy, l want to say 10 you personally
that / esteem Benjamsn Harrison highly
both a. a man and n cOmrade. l rave seen
him at Resaca and else upflInchin0ly
leading his regiment into the thickest of
the fight. lie did not send - substitute
when the fight was on; he went himself.
and, moreover. in the midst of all bis high
duties he always lind time to look after
the wants of needy comrades and to sign
their pension bills.
And General Sickles was a delegate
at large in the convention which nomi-
mated Mr.. Cleveland.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-09-30
TIN-MILL.
1t Will Shortly Resume Operations on .
Much Larger Scale.

1t Will Shortly Resume Operations on .
Much Larger Scale.
Anderson Times.
American tin will again be made in An
dersoD. And Anderson made American TIN
will go into the markets OF the country in
greater quantities than ever before. Mr..
Courtlanl &. Clarke yesterday vouchsafed
the information that " ithin two weeks the
Anderson TIN plate mill would again be In
operation. and from the day IL starts
disturbed. it will turn out good.
bright American tin. The Anderson
tin-plate-mill is now under the control Of
Mr.. Clark. Mr.. Allerton and their friends.
and so far as resources are concerned. there
will never be any financial em barrassments
in connection with the operation of the
mill. The only trouble while Mr.. Orvis
was struggling to put the enterprise on It's
feet was q lack of financial resources.
Happily that trouble il now a matter Of
the past. for the resources of the new firm
are ample TO put n hundred enterprises into
euccessful operation. That they will make
q great and grand success of the Anderson
tin-piate-mill goes without the saying.
The ordinary citizen, who sees but one
or two papers. can never form an idea how
far reaching anu extensive was the con-
spiracy against the Anderson TIN plate-mill
under its old management. The Times
ventures to say that the UNANIMOUSLY false.
scurrilous articles which were published in
the Anderson Democrat and indianapolis
Sentinel have gone into every Democratic
pa per in the United States. and wherever
they were published Anderson and her in
d~ustries were damaged. The distorted
account of the failure of the tin-mIll was
put into sfereoty pc plates and sent TO pub-
fishers. who were thus enabled TO print foul
ISLANDERS against anderson at the expense
of the Democratic central committees. thus
making the machinery of that party large
ly responsible for the damage lone TO An
derson.
Now that the tin-plate-mill is on a sound
financial basis the Times is curious To know
what line of attack against il will he made
by the enemies OF Anderson's industries.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-09-30

Mr.. HENRY INDUCES in no abuse of
his opponent, Mr.. Bynum, but in every
speech he leaves the posing statesman
of the Seventh a battered and disfigured
effiey. When Mr.. Henry shows from
Mr.. Bynum's speech that he has voted
with the free-coinage people year after
sear, even to the last vote IN the present
House, and now comes out with the con-
fession that free coinage of silver would
result only to the advantage of silver
mine owners and silver bullion owners,
he convicts Mr.. Bynum. by his own
words, of untitness to represent this
district.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-09-30

knliauolpnio SpeoCn.
i cannot believe but that the people OF
this country will vote for Harrison and
Reid great and long-continued applansel.
because thew represent Republican princI-
pies and Republican policies. President
Harrison's administration of the past four
years has been one of the most splendid
administrations this country has ever en-
joyed. Great cheers and applause. lt
has been clean, conservative patriotic.
wise, able. It's domestic policy has been
firm and thoroughly American in spirit.
Applause.
1t was this administration that said TO o
foreign government that was making un-
warranted demands upon this country. il
was this administrator that wrote: This
government has never received orders from
q foreign government. and doesn't propose
to begin now" Great applause
would as soon put In OF the
armies of the United States a public enemy
ss to let u commercial rival dictate our in
d~ustrial policy. iApplause. It is a good
thing i'm this wicked world to find out what
your enemy wants you TO do and then 90
and do the other thing Applause. There
is not a nation of Europe which doesn't
want Harrison beaten and Cleveland
elected. not one. Applause.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-09-30

THE New Albany Ledger, one of the
out-and-out Democratic organs of this
State. recently devoted q half column
to the wonderful development of the
plate glass industry which was begun in
that city by the late w. c. DePauw. 1t
calls to mind the large expenditures he
made to establish the industry. but it
fails to note the fact that Mr.. DePauw
appealed to Congress to give him such
protection as would enable him to COM
pete with the French makers, who de-
clared that they could afford to lose
money for a time in order to break
down the DePauw enterprise. Con-
xress maintained a protective duty, and
the Mckinley law continues it. But for
Ills. there would be-pe( 1ass industry
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-09-30

school-ooy but knows what is the motive
OF these legislative apportionnlents. and IL IS
die for the courts TO excuse the action on
other grounds. or 10 keep silent as 10 the
real reason. which Is nothing more nor less
than partisan advantage taken In defiance
OF the Constitution and In utter disregard
of the rights of the citIZen. Ii Is
time TO stop il. And the citizen has a
right to appeal to the courts In defense oil
his most sacred rights under the Constitu-
ton. He cannot be Obliged to wait for
prosecuting attorneys or the Attorney
general. 10 il as well n public as "a private
grievance, and the individual elector can
invoke the aid of the court in hie own be-
half. and call attention also to the exist
ence OF a great public wrong. There Is no
higher privilege granted TO the citizen of q
tree country than the right of equal SUI
frage. and thereby 10 an equal representa-
ton in the making and administration OF
the laws of the land.
The Journal will be surprised il the
Supreme Court of Indiana does not rec
ognize the unconstitutionality and in
herent viciousness of the gerrymander
as clearly as the Michigan court did.
and if some of the judges should adopt
the very language of Judge Morse. we
trust Democratic papers will not de-
nounce them as corrupt partisans.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-09-30
be so wasted.

To the Editor OF the Indianapolis Journal
Please state why Napoleon Ia called 1.-The man
OF December" and who 1.-The men OF September
are, and whya E. l. r.
Louis Napoleon was so called by Victor
lingo because the coup d'etat by which be
took possession of the government CO.
CURED in December. The "men OF Septem-
Der" were Danton. Marat. Robespierre,
Desmoulins and other leaders who were
responsible for the reign of terror In the
French revolution. the most bloody part of
which. known as the September massscres.
lasted through the month of September,
1902
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-09-30

EX-STATE TREASURER COOPER and
the other Democratic owners of
the Encaustic tile-works in this
city may vote for Cleveland.
but they are not in favor of free
trade. AT all events, they are not in ia
vOr of free-trade in tiles. Their estab-
lishment could not exist without protec-
ton. The old tariff law placed q duty
of 35 per cent. ad valorem on encaustic
tiles, and 90 per cent. on flooring tile. In
1888 the Mills bill proposed to reduce
this duty, and Mr.. jackson Landers
went to Washington to work against
a reduction. or at least to see that too
much of q reduction was not made. He
secured the cooperation of MIR. Bynum,
and through their joint efforts it was
finally arranged that the duty on en-
caustic tiles should be reduced 5 per
cent, while that on flooring tile should
remain unchanged. 1t was insisted
ON in behalf of the owners of
the tile-works that any reduc-
ton in flooring tile. which is their
principal product. would prove very dis
astrous to them, and on the strength of
Mr.. Bynum'srepresentation to this effect
the duty on flooring tile was left un-
changed. The Mills bill did not become
a law, and the duty on tile remained I'M
changed until the passage of the Nc
kinney law. which increased it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-09-30

HI Dan ghters of the Revolution who
live in Pittsburg have Como to work in a
practical way to demonstrate the useful
ness of their society. Pittsburg has many
historic associations and q few relics of it's
early history survive. One of these is a
century-old block-house o. fort. and pos
session of this has been secured by the
women. Ii will be restored. externally and
internally, to resemble q frontier fort of the
last century, and the surrounding shops
and houses will be removed to
give free approach to 1t. Americans are
slowly learning TO have respect for such
historic landmarks, having learned that it
is not the new but the old which gives
charm to the cities of the old world.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-09-30

THE Milwaukee Sentinel sizes up the
Cleveland letter of acceptance about
right when it says: "There ie, as usual
in his writings, a whacking of the plati-
tudes, there is the cathedral solemnity,
the pretentlousness of the pedagogue
and the luRubriety of the posing pes
simist." The Sentinel forgot to mention
the conscientious conservation of the
colicky condoler.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-09-30

THE coming election is p~re-eminently
one in which the issues affect the indus
trial and business interests of the coun-
try. Consequently the people who are
interested in them should take q hand
In the campaign work.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-09-30

Mr.. CLEVELAND tells a reporter that
whatever he may do in New York, he is
sure of one thing. namely, that he twill
not mingle in any political complica-
TONS" But suppose political complica-
lions mingle with hims
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-09-30

THAT was a new and perhaps bold de-
parture of the hotel at Albany which re-
fused quarters to Champion Corbett.
becsuse Of the distsstefnl crowd he would
attract. Corbett himself Is rather superior
to his class in respect of habits and man.
ners, but there is no denying that his fol-
lowers and admirers are q bad lot. 1t is a
point gained for good morals when a hotel
declipes to entertain the chief of prize
fighters on account of the company he
keeps. It is a good set-off against the rec
cent efforts to make prize-fighting respect
able.