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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-10-19
NIB. BYEUM AND MUNICIPAL REFORM.

Mr.. Bynum, in his speech at North
indianapolis. Monday night, attacked
Mr.. Henry's record rs a member Of the
State Senate. Among other things he
charged Mr.. Henry with voting against
the old metropolitan police bill, which,
he said, was "the entering wedge to the
municipal reforms which have since
been carried out" and he added that
"no good citizen of Indianapolis would
for a moment wish to return to the old
partisan police system in vogue prior to
1897
Mr.. Bynum. with his usual unfairness
and disregard for truth, tried to create
the impression that Mr.. Henry was op-
posed to municipal reform as embodied
in the present charter. This is untrue.
The metropolitan police bill which Mr..
Henry voted against was one that placed
the appointment of police commissioners
for this city in the hands of the Cover
nor and State officers. This was a
wrong system, and he did right in op-
posing it. 1t was wrong because it
interfered with local 1self-government
and placed the power of appointing po-
lice commissioners for the city of Indi-
annapolis in the hands of State officers
who lived in various parts of the State.
That system was not. as Mr.. Bynum as
serted, ian entering wedge to munich
pal REFORM" On the contrary it was OPP
posed to the fundamental idea of mu-
nicipal reform, which requires that all
executive power shall be vested in the
Mayor, who is elected by the people.
That is the principle of the present
charter, and it differs radically from the
principle of the bill which Mr.. Henry
voted against.
By the way. what has Mr.. Bynum ever
done for municipal reform? He has
always stood in with the Coy Taggart
crowd in this city. He was cheek-by-
jowl with the crowd that tried to defeat
the present city charter. He has never
lifted a finger or contributed SO much
as q feathers weight to the cause of
municipal reform.
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born, keightley. Kennedy of Marion. Kenne-
dy of Montgomery. Kennedy of Morgan. Lam
ham. Leeper, Lincoln, Martin of Franklin.
Marvin OF Boone, Marvin of Fountain,
Montgomery. Morgan. McCord. Osborn.
Pyeatt. Pfstllin. Ratlif, RaRan. Reddlck.
Reeder, Ribble. Roseberry. Shaffer. Short
ridge. Sbngsrt, Smith. SNYDER, Taylor of
Dayiess. Taylor of Upton. Thomas. Thomp-
son OF Henry. Trusler. Twibill. Williams of
Brown, Williams of Lawrence, Woody and
Wynn-74.
..Nays-Cauiley. Dawson. Gossman. Law.
Martin of Wells, McFadden. McMichael.
hamsey. Romine. Shaw. Walz. Washburn.
Waterman and Willett-14.
This resolve, which is entitled House
joint resolution No. 0, a joint resolution
in relation to tho manufacture of poll
ishcd plate-glass in the State of Indiana.
was passed by the Senate Feb. %, 1876
yeas, 90; nays, 1G-as follows:
Yeas-Baxter, Beardsley, Bearss, Boone.
bowman. Bunyan. Chapman. Crea. Daggy,
friedley of Lawrence, Friediey of Scott.
Hackleman, Harvey. Harw0rth, HeDder-
SOD. Hendricks, Hough. Howard. ohnso
Of Floyd, Johnston OF Parke: La Rue, Nett,
Oliver, RiDgo. Roe. Scott. Thorn pson, To-
bin. Underwood and Wilson-3O.
Nays-Beil. Cardwell. Culberson. Dyke
man, Glvan. Gooding, Grove, HUMPHREYS.
Major. Maxwell. Peed, SaFnighnusen Skin
ner, Slater. Smith, Winterbotham-16.
No more emphatic avowal of the ne
cessity of n protective tariff was ever
made than the preamble to this resolve
contains, as the foregoing extract
shows. Nor car there be any doubt re-
garding the Endorsement which Mr.. De-
Paw asked of the Governor and Legis-
lature. since, in his letter to Governor
Hendricks, which was sent to the Leg
islature, he said:
In this great struggle against the COM
blned interests of Europe in this depart
ment of manufacture. kind words of cheer
and encouragement from the Governor and
Representatives, OF my native State would
be grateful. as well AS of great advantage
to me. If the Legislature should ask Con-
gress to give fair. just and necessary pro-
lection bv tariff duties, and an honest en-
forcement of the same TO manufacturers of
polished plate-gless, America will. I'D q few
years. make her own plate-glass. thus add
ing many millions to her wealth. and tens
of thousands to the number of her skilled
workmen and en- p.oyment to many OF her
now idle laborers.
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To the Editor of the indianapolis Journal:
While returning from Europe. some timo
ago. l met o foreigner on the ship who was
coming to New York for the purpose OF
manufacturing q certain kind Of goods in
tina city. In conversation with him. he
informed me that he was coming to this
country in order to avoid the payment of
the duty on his wares. Now, q 'tariff-for-
revenue. Onlyv Democrat would have said
to the poor. deiuded foreigner: MY dear
sir. you are very greatly mistaken about
thai matter; we Americans pay the duty.
Henry Watterson. Henry George, Grover
Cleveland, and all our great statesmen say
So"
Can any "tarif-reformer' imagine how
this intelligenr business man came to the
conclusion that he was paying the duty on
his goods. and wanted to come to this coun-
try to escape it's payment Why are the
people in Europe universally In favor of the
election of Mr.. Cleyelands Simply from
the fact that they hope for a radical reduc-
tion of the tariff If the Democratic party
should como into power. Why Is an En-
glishman SO greatly interested in the re-
duction of the tariff, II we pay the duty
for bim2 What difference can it make to
him how high the tariff is when some other
fellow pays iR
But our Democratic friends still contend
tiIdt HutcNcE Outy 10 Uut upou aTtlClc5 Is
added TO the price, that the consumer pays
1t, and the rascally American manHfact-
nrer puts just that amount In his pocket
as profit. Let us see If that is true: Mr..
Springer. chairman of the committee on
ways and means, in his recent speech at
Detroit, said that the Mckinley bill added
26 per cent. to the tariff. Now. if the
Democratic theory be true, the price
of articles should now be &c per
cent. higher than before that act was
passed. But what are the factsf Why,
the price, OH tho average. is lower than it
was before the Mckinley bill was formu-
lated Now, if some sprightIy young RE-
former" will explain just how and when
the consumer pays the added q per cent.
he will be entitled To a Cleveland badge.
thrown In. JOHN Is. GLOVER.
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VOTED AGAINST his CONSTITUENTS IN.
TERESTS,

There has been no question before
people of Indiana had as large a pecuni-
airy interest as that of refunding to the
States the direct tax levied and col
iectcd by tho general government in
1861. The tax was levied proportion
ately on all the States. The Northern
States paid their shares, but the South
ern States, most of which had already
seeded, paid nothing. In some of tho
latter a portion of the tax was collected
by levying on property. but no South
ern State voluntarily paid any part of
the tax.
Obviously the proposition to refund
the tax was in the interest Of the States
that had paid it, and as the Southern
States had paid nothing, they would
not profit by the refund. The Southern
members. therefore, we're ali opposed
to it,.
The Southern members voted in the
interests of their States. but not so all
the Northern members. Mr.. Bynum
voted with the Southern members
against %refuDding the tax, although his
" State was one of the beneficiaries
of the measure. Indiana's share in the
refund was $500, 144.03, less q claim
which the general government had
against the State and which was put in
as an offset. The net mount actually
refunded, as shown by the last report
of the State Auditor, page &c. was $719,-
144.03. This was the amount which
MIR. Bynum voted against refunding to
the State. Nearly every Republican in
the House and many Northern Demo-
Gratis voted as the interests of their
States required they should, for the re-
fund, but Mr.. Bynum voted tho other
way.
What was Mr.. Bynum's reason for
thus voting? 1t was this: The vote
was taken during the second session of
the Fifty-first Congress. At that time
Bynum vas an aspirant for the speaker
ship of the Fifty-second Congress. He
wanted Southern support. Mills, of
Texas, and Crisp, of Georgia. were also
aspirants for the speakership. Being
Southern men it was certain they would
both vote against the refund. Rynum
voted against his own State in order, as
he hoped, to make himself solid in the
South against Mills and Crisp for
Speaker. He knew when he cast this
vote that the State was deeply in debt
and its treasury nearly empty. He know
that an onerous tax law had just been
passed and that tho State was paying
over $4,000 q year interest, yet in Or
der, as he thought. to promote his per-
sonal interests in the speakership race
he voted with the Southern members
and against ~refunding to his own State
S719,144. The money was collected
by the late Governor Hovey and paid
into the treasury, where it at once be-
came available for general purposes.
When a State is "hard up" $719,144
comes in very handy. What do the peo-
pie think of a man who. to advance his
own interests, would vote agai nst those
of his constituents
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-10-19
A PARTY OF NEGATIONS.
Democracy Should Be Defeated Because 1t Has
Nothing to Offer the People.

Do the Editor Of tho Indianapolis Journal:
Since the campaign of 1910 l have been q
pretty close observer of politics. and for
many years was an active participant in
every campaign. The present campaign
surpasses anything in many respects have
ever witnessed. / AVE seen it far surpassed
in enthusiasm and bitterness. 1t comes
nearer q campaign of intellect than
my we have had in my recollec-
ton. / rave never seen q time
in the last forty five years that the Demo-
cratic party did not have some one good
thing in its platform to offer the people as
an induesment for the people to vote its
ticket. But this year it comes before the
people with a platform that has not one re-
deeming feature in it: not o thing
the people want. not o thing or
principle that would do them any
good II its measures were carried
to refer the people to as o stlmulant
10 induce them to vote for its candidate.
Tn Democracy have but one thing, and
one alone, by which they can expect TO car
craft" but that word. although it has done
good service In former years. is fast losing
its prestige, and, like the falling of
the autnmnal leaves. Is In its dotage,
anu likely TO perish In using. we OILen
hear of the most logical candidate.
This is a year when there Is but
one logical Iparty, and that is the
Republican party. This. party has N
thing TO offer the people besides its name,
and it has evidence from former years that
it can and will give the people what it
promises if given power. The Republican
party offers them something real, tangible
and meritorious. 1t offers protection to the
farmer and for his products q better
market. 1t offers protection to our manu-
factories, SO they can compete with the
world. 1t offers more work to
men in the factories and better wages than
they have been getting, and will give them
better money, or az good as any nation on
been tried and not found wanting; n map
will not turn his back on them or their fam
equal to any emergency that might arise;
9 man who is prominently quail
fed to fill the position he now
occupies. | believe he will be triumphant
ly elected. Men who vote from principle
SCENTS offers something in return. Many
good money and prosperous times, and
voters will, most of them, vote for him, for
they want their first vote to represent
something. Hundreds will vote for him be-
such great inducements, aud because be
MUNCIE, Ind, Got. II. OBSERVER.
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They Iiointed the Law.

The charge made In the municipal cam
paign of 1891 that the Democratic firemen
and policemen we're assessed was demon
strated yesterday beyond q doubt. A fire.
man. who was then in the clty's employ,
approached a prominent law firm yester-
day, and wanted to bring suit against the
Democratic campaign managers to recover
damages. He said no had been assessed
SO. but thinking the charter protected
him, refused 10 pay it. He was tbereupon
marked for discharge and released at first
opportunity. The attorneys satisfied them
selves that the mans story was true. but
told him il would be useless To bring such
n suit. What was done IN 1891 is unques-
tionably being lone in 1872. The Demo
cratic policemen have already been as-
sessed and most Of them paid up during the
first week OF the month.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-10-19
BYNUn AND ORGANIZED LABOR.
In his speech at North Indianapolis,
Monday night, Mr.. Bynum said:

In his speech at North Indianapolis,
Monday night, Mr.. Bynum said:
! propose from this time forward to make
it exceedingly interesting for HIM MI.
Henry 1t Is not surprising that he Is a
great pet of the Journal. which has been
the most uncomprOmising enemy to or
gained labor In the State.
The implication is that Mr.. Henry is
an enemy to organized labor and is
therefore a pet of the Journal, (which"
Mr.. Bynum says, "has been the most
uncompromising enemy to organized
labor in the State"
As between Mr.. Henry and Mr.. Bynum,
what are the facts? MIR. Henry is re-
garded in the city of his residence as a
public benefactor. He has been largely
instrumental in bringing to Anderson
several manufacturing establishments
which give employment to a large num-
Der of persons. He has contributed in
other ways to building mp the city and
furnishing employment for its working
men. The w%orkingmen regard him as
their friend because he has proved his
friendship by his acts and by doing
them practical service. What has Mr..
Bynum done7 If he has ever in any way
contributed to the interests of labor, or
ganized or unorganized, the columns OF
the Journal are open to him TO state
when and where. He has always been
and still is the open enemy of local
manufactures. So far from aver
assisting to bring O new indus
try to this city or district he
has advocated a policy hat would
destroy most Of the factories already
here. In q speech at Atlanta he SIAN
dered the city by stating that manu-
featuring here was greatly o%verdone,
that most of the factories were closed a
considerable part of the year. and that
skilled workmen walked the streets un-
able to get employment or credit from
their erocers, so that in some instances
the wife had to take in washing to sup
port the family. What has he ever done
for labor except to yawp for it during
campaigns?
Mr.. Bynum, with the gall of a pro-
fessional demagogue, refers to the Jour-
nal as "the most uncompromising enemy
of organized labor in the State.n The
Journal has been the friend and en-
ployer of organized labor ever since
labor was organized. 1t pays organized
labor every week during the We ar more
than Mr.. Bynum ever paid it in all his
life. IL lie can prove that he ever paid
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-10-19
INDIGNANT VETERANS.
They Free Their Minds Regarding the Cleve.
land Circular Sent Them by Democrats.

The Journal is in receipt daily of copiea
of the circulars of the National Veterans
Tariff-reform League. which have been
seat to ex-soldiers in Indiana. The COM
ments accompanying these are often more
emphatic thar elegant. 1t is impossible to
publish any considerable part of these re-
plies to the managers of the Cleveland
campaign, but one or two are here given in
part as samples. Isaac Brinkworth. late of
the Thirty-eighth Indiana Volunteers. of
Jeffersonville-a soldier who carried q
musket two years and came cut of the
service as liutenant-col0nel. writes the
managers of the Tariff-reform Leagu an
open letter, from which the following 10
taken:
From the day that Fort Sumter fell into tho
hands OF the rebels until the final surrender OF
Jobnston's army TO General 6herman.i In 1865. M
active cooperation was ali directed 20 a restora-
ton OF the Union, and since It's ACCOMPLISHMENT
what activity has been left In me Is directed TO-
wards sustaining that party that in those trying
days stood firmly by the boys In bine,
friend of the old soldiers. and whose standard.
bearer. President Harrison. was an honorable
participant III that struggle for national exist
ence. Presenting yon also 10 have been an honor
soldier, 1 cannot understand how you
can support Grover Cleveland. VINO furnished a
substitute. when be should have gone himself II
his patriotism had been Of atrac type. anu who.
when ne lad tbs opportunity 20 show his love
for the old veterans, insulted them 10y his up
pant vetoes. and as one OF his South Carolina
Champions says. slapped the dirty beggars IN
the face"
Isaac Irwin. of Company G. Eleventh
Indiana Volunteers, sends the Cleveland
circular from Kirkiin 10 the Journal and
frees his mind IN these words:
/ received the inclosed letter today which ex-
plains itself. I wish TO answer through your
paper and hope you viii publish IL To the world
4 wish To say that I vote a. ] shot. IEaye no
i 49, e. go. - n sanf "A sphEfffnfn IN fQhf hII
battles. nor would / vote for n man who stayed
at home and stabbed the soldier IN the back, and
then. after the war l. over, comes up and says II
am the soldiers friend" No: God forbid that l
should 20 degrade myself As 10 vote for such men
a. Grover Cleveland or copperhead Stevenson.
! am glaa that | have two boys who with myself
will stamp the eagle and let IL go. The boys
tn blue here will vote all right. We have n sol
dier's Club here Ga sixty who propose 10 vots
for Harrison. Reid and Chase 1 will close With
n hurrah for Harrison and Reid and the entire
Republican ticket lt
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-10-19

IN 1870. that great Hoosier captain of
industry, w. C. DePauw, predicted that
If The plate-glass industry should be
given adequate tariff protection, in n
few years America would be making its
own plate-glass, adding millions to her
wealth and thousands to her skilled
wOrkmen. Adequate protection was not
given until tho Republican tariff act of
1888. but the prediction has come true,
and, more than that, the price of plate
glass, which was $3.50 a square foot
when the prediction was made. has
fallen to 20 cents a square foot. Then
no Democratic Representative of Indi-
ana in Congress would have dared OPP
pose such q measure as Mr.. DePauw
asked, but in 1892 every Democratic Rep
resentative voted to put tin-plate on the
free list, thus voting to destroy an in
dustry which is as important to Indiana
now as was the plate-glass industry in
1875.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-10-19

THE New York correspondent of the
Philadelphia Press states that he has
information from n most reliable source
that Mr.. Horace White, of the New York
Evening Post, is the author of the wild
cat currency plank in the Chicago plat
form. This is not at all surprising. Mr..
White is not known TO fame rs q finan-
cier. and perhaps did not realize that
he was opening the way to endless
fraud and a disturbed condition of bus
mess. Or if he or other Democrats who
approved the plank did understand its
commercial bearings fully they did not
care. Mr.. White belongs toa paper and
a party whose chief and foremost efforts
are directed to doing away with the
results brought about by the success of
the Union cause in the war. One means
to this end is a restoration of the State
rights idea, and the establishment of
State banks would be 8 step in this di-
rection. In their zeal to oppose the
Nation by attacking national currency
Mr. White and his friends have, in the
vulgar vernacular. bitten off more than
they can chew, aud would be glad Of y
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-10-19

organized labor as much in all his life as
the Journal does every week in the
year. it will retract this statement and
apologize. During the last ten years Mr..
Bynum has drawn $4,000 out of the
public treasury as a Congressman; dur
ing the same period the Journal has
paid a good deal moro than ten times
$4,000 to organized labor and has sup
ported every just and reasonable meas
ure in its interest. Yet this professional
politician and chronic office-seeker. who
has never contributed anything but
wine to the cause of labor. and who has
been obtaining the votes of working
men. under false pfetenses, to keep him
in q lucrative Office where he has per-
sistently opposed their interests. has the
audacity to assert that the Journal is
the uncompromising enemy of organ
lied labor. This is truly Bynumistic.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-10-19

SOME time since Mr.. Roosevelt, the
aristocratic gentleman who is treasurer
of the Democratic national committee.
devoted a portion of his abundant leis-
ure to writing a book entitled Five
Acres Too Much" 1t was rather bright,
but his antipathy to the Irish got the
better of his discretion when he made
the following reference to that people:
The inhabitants of tho Emerald isle are
certainly n magnificent race, especially
when their biographer does not happen TO
own a house which has strayed on their
land, and does not want to run for alder
man; and if they did not lie, steal, cheat,
rob. murder. yet drunk, periure themselves.
quarrel. fight and insist upon damages I'M
reasonably they would be almost as good
as other nations.
The publication and circulation of this
piece of scurrility among the Irish voters
of New York, uttered by the personal
friend of Mr.. Cleveland and an official
of the national committee, is something
more than an annoyance.
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use Is now confined to %colloquiai or illit-
erate speech. In which il generally conveys
more or less of contempt

To the Editor Of the Indianapolis journal
What was the popular vote in Alabama and
Florida at the last popular eleeloni READER.
In the presidential election: Alabama.
Harrison. 56.197; Cleveland, 1880. Flor
ida. Harrison. 26,657; Cleveland. 59,561.
Elections were held in both States o few
weeks since. but the Official vote has not
been declared. 1t vas reported that the
would be counted in by about 5000 over
the independent, who claims to have had q
decided majority. In Florida the Repub-
lioans did not vote, the Peoples candidate
was the only opponent of the Democracy.
and no got only about 5000 votes, or one
fourth of the Democratic vote.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-10-19

THE State committee has received q
letter from a Republican in a close
county stating that Democratic schem-
ers were trying to make trades with Re-
publicans to vote for certain Republican
candidates if the Republicans would
vote for certain Democrats. This is not
politics, but the reverse. If any Repub-
licans are thus trapped they will be
double dupes, rs the Democrats will
not keep their pledges, while the Re-
publicans who undertake to do so would
run the risk of in~validating their bal
lots. Moreover. such an agreement
could be used to successfully challenge
a Republicans vote if he made the bar
gain, as it would be held to be in viola
ton of the secret ballot law.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-10-19

Marriage licenses were issued yesterday
as follows: George Cannon and Nellie
Taylor. John j.. Kelley and Mary X. Regan.
Simon Miller and Ella Gray. John Lucid
and Mary Judge. George Derleth aud
Emelia Welker. Edward Fitzgibben and
Emma Bauerlie. Bushrcd Thomas aud
Maris Conner, Charles +. Hoitz and
Roslna X. Preignifz. Jeremiah Traylor and
Jessie Smith. William Wned and Emma IA.
Reid, Robert q. Dunn and Catherine j.
Diggs. John Coleman and Matte l.. Cosbv.
Charles III. Cole and Ada Wilson. Henry
Mispcr and lrcna Harbaugh.