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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-09-18

The people of Indianapolis are justly
proud of the city charter. As a form of
municipal government it is one of the
best in the country. But it has never
had a fair trial. One of its best features.
and one from which much was hoped,
was the concentration of executive
power and authority in the hands of the
Mayor. thus locating the responsibility
for the enforcement or nonenforcement
of law. Most unfortunately for the
charter and for the city, the first Mayor
under it, and the only one thus far. has
shown himself to be ~nervcless. weak,
vacillating and unfit. The Mayor should
be q man of nerve and of sand" q man
who will not shirk duty nor response
bility. With such a man for Mayor the
people would realize the true merits of
the city charter rs they have not yet
had an opportunity of doing. The char
ter has fallen into bad hands. Its
friends should rescue it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-09-18

erts Park. and Rev. DR.. Wells, from
Grace. DR.. Cleveland easily became a
conspicuous man in the city. An elo-
quent preacher, with liberal tendencies,
of wide and varied culture, with the
happy faculty for making friends, he
was not long in becoming one of the best
known men in the city, particularly to
people of literary %inclinations. Hun
dreds outside of-his church will deeply
regret his departure. because he has be-
come to them n valued friend and ac-
quaintance. Rev. DR.. Van Anda has
proved himself one of the strong men in
the Methodist Church. An able and
convincing preacher, a faithful and
conscientious pastor, and full of zeal in
the cause of his Master, he has greatly
strengthened Roberts Park Church, and
his departure isa source of universal re-
greet. Rev. DIR. Wells. by the conscien-
tious discharge of his duties, has en-
deared himself TO the congregation OF
Grace Church, and leaves with the affec-
ton of the people he has so ably served.
But while three churches regret the loss
OF three so able preachers and pastors,
they can console themselves with the
knowledge that the Methodist Church
has many other able and jealous preach
ers, and that it's bishops have the ca
pacity to put them where they can be
most useful.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-09-18

-FOUR Sunday-school conventions. church
conferences and educational associations
put together. The delegates 20 these bodies
come here.are entertained at the cost OF
the citizens and 20 away leaving the town
poorer than when they came. The sport.
ing man comes here TO spend money and
have fun He always drops u lot OF
moner. lie makes business lively tor the
merchants who sell goods TO the gay
women, and the jewelers.. the gamblers. the
hotels. the saloons all do q thriving busi-
ness. landlords get higher rents. and the
money thus brought TO town flows into the
channels OF trade and brings good times"
These are almost the exact words. omit
ting q few explrtiyes. in which the advo-
cate or q "wide.open" policy expressed
himself to me. Mayor Sullivan. whatever
he may say to the contrary. has the same
views. Acts speak louder than words
Bat there is another side to this ROSY
picture of the fruits of the wide-open
policy. Yesterday | talked with two
laoorihg men. one a lourneyman and tho
other an apprentices. They are victims or
the crap shooters" For months they
have been in the habit OF going with their
weeks earnings on Saturday nights TO the
crap dens and getting fieeced. They spoke
OF one place where "A butcher stood in 'front.'
OF his shop and invited boys AID men who
were on their way home with their tin
buckets to 60 into the basement. where the
game was In progress. Another Casa
wholesale merchant had n young man in
his employ who. being short in his so-
counts. ex planned that ne had been robbed
in n u gambling den. The young mans
father put q mortgage or the family
home, and the young man lost his
place and his reputation. Another
Casa young man employed by a large
corporation was In the habit OF coming TO
his work in the morning very sleepy aud
weary. Last week he turned up drunk.
muddy. penniless. He had borrowed OF
his friends and what he borrowed and all
his wages had been blown in" TO maket the
town prosperous. These three true stories
came To me in one day without my seeking
them. Now. Mayor Sullivan and Mt.
Hawkins lead on with your "'wide-open"
banner. but let those who follow it to the
ballot box know that they ara indorsina
that policy and all the consequences which
flow from it. W. L. FIsuBACK.
INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. l6.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-09-18
ovBR0oNFIDENT HACKERS OF SULLIVAN.

Mayor Sullivan's champions, the gam
blers, seem to have parted with discre-
ton. Instead of observing caution while
the Sullivan campaign is on. they have
been as reckless and defiant as if it were
q month after the election rather than
three weeks before il. This shows their
confidence in the reelection of the Sui
livan-Buskirk-C Coy ticket. They seem
to have come to the conclusion that
with their influence and their money
they can defy the friends of law, order
and decency in indianapolis. They rea-
son that because Mr.. Sullivan was
elected two years ago by their aid and
their money he cannot be defeated this
year. They assume that their support
of the Sullivan-B uskirk ticket was as
we'll known in 1891 and in 1893. and that
the fact of their support in return for
immunity from prosecution does not in
terest the people of indianapolis. They
that the voters of this city are
utterly indifferent to the existence of
scores of gambling dives. in which hun
dreds of mem lose ali their wages and
scores of young men are ~debauched, and
will 60 to the polls Oct. 10 and vote for
Sullivan and Buskirk.
1t now seems very probable that the
gamblers are deceived. Many ~intelli-
gent men could not be made to believe,
in 1891, that the candidate who was ex-
Aol1nL nc hntto, %ho- ~, ror%- nv I;o
managers. had made an alliance with
the gamblers and dive keepers to per-
NIT them to violate the laws md swim
die and debauch if they would max his
election sure. Two years have
passed, and those voters who were then
incredulous have been amazed to sec
that what the Journal predicted before
the election of 1893 has come true. They
have seen the most obnoxious forms of
gambling carried on without hindrance
and the municipal judge become its
champion. These Disguised and indig-
nan voters now know that this nOtOri-
Gus swindling and ~debauchery is car
ried on openly and defiantly because
the men who thus violate the laws know
that Mayor Sullivan dare not prosecute
them in earnest. This collision be-
tween the Mayor and tho gamblers and
dive keepers is notorious, and is the
TOPIC of in circles where it
would not be believed two years ago.
If the gamblers and dive keepers are
defiant in their violation of the laws
and public opinion just before an cleo
ton, what will they do should their
Mayor and their judge be re-eleeted7
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-09-18
MR.. eLADsToNE's PLAN OF CAMPAIGN.

Mr.. GladstOne's plan of campaign, as
in the Sunday Journal, is bold and rad
ical. Instead OF accepting the adverse
vote of the House of Lords on the home
rule bill as q defeat and acceding to the
well-known desire of the Queen for a
dissolution of Parliament and an appeal
to the country, Mr.. Gladstone proposes
to push the fighting all along the line.
He proposes to introduce n series of
measures each of which will command a
large degree of popular support, and
which, combined, will make an exceed
ingly strong platform. These measures
will be framed with O view of securing
popular support and "a majority in the
House of Commons, but they will
body such principles rs to make it
certain that the House of Lords
will vote against them. Thus by
forcing the Lords to vote against cheese
popular measures. a%rraying itself by re-
peated records against the Commons
and the people. Mr.. Gladstone hopes to
make q platform on which he can go be-
fore the country with every prospect of
a sweeping victory. The fight for
homo rule in Ireland will be for the
time being suspended, or, rather,
changed into q fight against the House
of Lords, in the expectation that, this
obstacle being broken down, home rule,
together with the other liberal meas
ures which it is proposed to push to the
front, can be carried through triumph
antly. The measures on which it is
proposed to make the House of Lords
show its hand are the parish council bill,
the disestab lishment of the church in
Wales and Scotland, the electoral regis
tration reform and zone man one
relations between London landlords and
tenants. The mere enumeration of the
measures is enough to show that Mr..
G~ladstone's plan of campaign is very
shrewdly devised. Each of them has q
strong popular demand behind il, and
the more they are discussed the stronger
they will become. If Mr.. Gladstone can
get the measures through the House of
Commons Gnd force the Lords to an ad-
verse vote on them, he could not desire
n stronger platform on which to go be-
fore the country.
Before accomplishing this, however,
he has n long ana difficult road to travel.
Even If he can hold together the heter-
ogeneous elements that form the Liberal
majority in the Commons, it will prob.
ably take two years to get all the meas
ures through the House. Two years il
a long time to a man nearly eighty-foul
years old. Moreover. it would be two
years of continuous fighting with a strong
and compact minority contesting every
inch of ground. Defeat IN the
House on any one of the measures
would compel Mr.. Gladstone to resign
He will have the moral influence and ST
lent opposition of the Queen to contcn,
with ut every point. and while the meas
ures which he proposes to introduce ar,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-09-18
WHY THE SENATE DOES NOT VOTE.

The Democratic majority in the Senate
could have q vote upon tho Sherman re-
peal bill in forty eight hours if it so de-
sired. 1t is the fault of the leading
Democratic Senators that the vote isbe-
ing delayed. The Germans and the
Noorheeses do not want a vote Mt the
present time, because it would cause q
greater disorganization of the Demo-
cratic forces than the vote on the VIII
son bill did in the House. These leaders
arc waiting to unite the Democratic
party in the Senate. They evidently
think that the process is going on. and,
If time enough is taken, the party in the
Senate will be practically united ere
long. Mr.. Faulkner may be reconciled to
vote with the Presidents party after his
vicious amendmentshall have been voted
on. Other free-silver men have
other propositions. and all have long
explanations to make because of a
change of front in regard to the free
coinage of silver. Many Senators are
waiting for the leaven of the Presidents
policy to change the soggy lump of the
Democracy which they have indoctri-
mated with all sorts OF financial heresies.
Several who have promised the Presi-
dent to vote for the repeal bill are pos
ing to their constituents as those who
are considering the whole subject with
conscientious thoughtfulness. In time
they will vote for repeal; but If they
should do it at once they would be
charged with that suldcnness of con-
version which. in politics, causes unfa-
vorable criticism and grave suspicion.
Consequently, whenever the Democratic
party in the Senate shall be united"
the dreary PETER and the long-speech
silver Senators will be squelched, either
by agreeing to Jake a vote on a certain
day or continuing in session until the
minority can talk no longer and must
vote.
This being the case, the question,
why does not the Senate vote?" need
be no longer asked. 1t is s~uperfluous.
The Democratic party is uniting. 1t
must nave time.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-09-18
THE "WIDE-OPEN" POLICY.
Facts for Mayor Sullivan and Those
Who Propose to Support Him.

To the Editor OF the Indianapolis Journar
Shall indianapolis be a "wide-o POM
towni That is the question TO be passed
upon at the city election next month.
Mayor Sullivan. through his Board of Pub
lie Safety. Gays yes" and Mr.. Denny, who
is the opposing candidate. says no." 1t
is for the voters 20 say the final word by
their ballots. Mr.. Hawkins. who speaks
for the Mayor. understands. | suppose,
what the phrase wide open" means when
used in reference to city government. A
man who has made a great deal of money
in this city by engaging in pursuits not
altogether mice" talked to me very freely
on the subject. and. jud ging from the con-
duct of Mr.. Hawkins. be has impregnated
that gentleman with his views. "Indianap-
oils will never rank as "a city until IL treats
sporting men with more hospitality. A
few weli-kept bawdy houses. n number of
gambling houses. n rao- track. vi a facil-
ties for pool selling Will do more In build
up tho town and bring moDcg 10 Il than All
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-09-18

SCARCELY u week passes that some
licensed dive keeper or bartender does
not shoot some hanger on OF customer.
When n searches the records no will
find a cause for this use of firearms, and
it is that due punishment is never Wis.,
tied upon such offenders. Often they
do not get into court, and when they do
they escape with inadequate punish
ment. For example, about two years
ago a bartender shot and killed n man.
He was tried and given the inadequate
sentence of two years Imprisonment.
When the term was half out, on the pc
tition of Mayor Sullivan and the Demo-
cratic magnates of Marion county, he
was p%ardonod. So long as the chances
of escape from any punishment are four
out of five, and a man sentenced for
manslaughter gets off with a years i'm
prisonment, on the petition of every
Democratic official in the county, shoot
ings and life-taking will increase in
such places.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-09-18

At their meeting to-day the directors
of the worlds fair will discuss the prop
osition to continue the fair during the
first two weeks Of November. The act
of Congress closes the gates on the last
day of October. and 1t would require
congressional action to continue il be-
yond that time. The object. of course,
is TO increase the receipts of the fair,
and if that can be done to any material
extent its life should be prolonged. 1t
has been SO great q success in every
other way that everybody would like to
see 1t prove q financial success. The
Centennial Exposition of 1876 was con-
tinued till Nov. 10, and the attendance
during the last ten days aggregated
nearly 1000 persons.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-09-18

from the country. and they don't relish
the language in which the message Is
couched.-Fort Wayne Gazette.
EVERY financial crisis that the country
has had during the present century,, with
one exception. occurred during the admin
istrstIon of s. Democratic President.
Democracy is q thing OF Ill omen.-Eyaus-
Vile Journal.
REPUBLICANS in Congress Will have done
all the repeating necessary when they have
helped to repeal the Sherman purchasing
clause. They lay no call TO help repeal
or modify the tariff or remove the State
bank tax.-Elkhart Review.
THE plea of currency contraction ss an
argument for the revival of State banks
of Issue is so Grotesguely absurd that no.
body having any knowledge of the imam
cial conditions will make Ii or be impressed
by lt.-Shelby Vile Republican.
IT begins to dawn on members of the
ways and means committee of the House
of Representatives that. In attempting TO
frame a tariff bill In accordance with tie
Democratic national platform, they are
playing with d namite.-Mnncie News.
THE walls of distress from the great un-
employed are tariff hearing Is" before tie
American people. sitting as n of
the whole on the state OF the country. But
the tariff thinkers are deaf as fenceposts to
all such sounds.-EvansvIlle Standard.
If it takes two months for Congress,
when urged to do so by II majority of the
people. TO adopt q bill Of one short para
graph repeating the Sherman law, how
long will it take this honorable and august
BODY of statesmen to revise the tariff bill?
-Muncie Times.
THERE is q s%uperiuity OF senatorial
courtesy among the members OF that body.
but the Senate as q whole is not wasting
any courtesy on the business men of the
country who are waiting in anxiety for
Congress TO repeal the silver purchase
clause and adjOurD.-Wabash Plain Dealer.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-09-18

Can be found at the following places:
~PARIS-AmeTiean Exchange IN Paris, SO Boulevard
de CapuciIes.
NEW YORK-Gilsey House and Windsor Hotel.
PHILADELPHIA. 2. Kemble, 3735 Lancaster
avenue.
CHICAGO-Pelmer House.
C1NCINNATI-J. Il. Hawley& Co., 154 Vine street.
LO~UIsvILLE-C t. Deering. northwest corner of
Third and Jefferson streets.
Ell. LoUIs-UniOn News Company. Union Depot
WASHINGTON, D. C.-Riggs House and Ebbitt
House.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-09-18

WHEN a Journal reporter asked Mayor
Sullivan if he knew how long it had
been since a gambler had been fined in
the Police Court his Little Honor replied
that is cut of my department. and /
pay no attention to the court docket"
The docket of the Police Court ia open,
but the trouble is the Mayors eyes are
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-09-18

THE city charter says: 'It shall be
the duty of the Mayor to cause the or
dinances of the city and the laws of the
State to be enforced" Not for a single
day since he was elected has Mayor Sui
liyan Obeyed this provision of the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-09-18

undoubtedly popular, they have never
been distinctly in issue before the peo-
pie. and therefore lack the prestige of
popular Endorsement. On the whole. it
is very doubtful if Mr.. Gladstone will
live to see his plan of campaign succeed,
but no doubt he will make q grand fight
for it. and If he dies he will die in the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-09-18

IT is hoped hat Controller Woollen.
in his report promised to-day. will go
out of his way to explain the failure of
his r%efunding projects. 1t will interest
taxpayers to know why they are pay
ing S64 a day as interest when it could
have been stopped.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-09-18

The committee OF Congress which
permits a foreign manufacturer to de-
clare in its presence and at its hearing
that ne hates the American manufac-
turer. and then permits him to go on.
has not hat spirit of Americanism
which resents an insult to its country
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-09-18

A MILD raid upon the gamblers by the
Mayor now can deceive nobody, as
everyone would know that it would be
done with the consent of the fraternity
and To deceive.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-09-18

THE wool growers are making an effort
to induce Congress not to destroy the i'm
p~ortant sheep industry of this country.
TO that end they are circulating petitions
for signatures which will be sent to that
body. 1t is an excellent move. Those who
desire petitions in the proper form for sig
natures and circulation should write to j.
w. Hull. Indianapolis.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-09-18

EVERY day that passes without a re-
peal of the purchase clause of the Sher-
man act tends to strengthen the public
belief that the present business depres-
sion is due to tariff tinkeriDg legislation
by Congress.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-09-18

WHEN Mayor Sullivan was asked if
he intended to close the gambling rooms
he innocently replied that he did not
know there were any gambling rooms
in tile city. Is he quite sure there is q
Statehouse here2
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-09-18

MAYOR SULLIvAN's most Jealous back
er and the most potential Democratic
leader in Marion county wishes that the
federal election laws had been repealed,
as was attempted, in 1879.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-09-18

THE reserve of tho New York banks
was increased S7.635,32 during last
week, and was On Saturday SO, IL, 700
in excess of the 20 per cent. required by
the United States banking law. This
means that money is abundant in the
East. and that the bank depositors' scare
Is OYER
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-09-18

IN obedience to tho laws of the Meth
odist Church, the pastors of three of the
most influential churches bid farewell to
their charges and will go to new fields
Rev. DIR. Cleveland. from the Meridian
street, Rev. DR.. Van Anda. from Rob-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-09-18
Diplomatic Approach.

~Tommy-Paw, 1 told Jimmy Braggs that you
was the best papa any boy ever had.
Mr.. Figg-Oh, you didl Have you raked the
leaves Oft the yard as i told you to do when L
won't down town this morning.!
"N-no.u
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-09-18
A Happy Dream,

Hungry Higgins-Wuz the angels ralkin' to
you in your sleep last night that you was smIlin'
SOL
Weary Watkins-Naw. I was havin' a dream
that q law had ben passed that all the railroad
tanks should be flied wit beer instead OF water.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-09-18

THE Democratic Congress may put
wool on the free list, but it will never
double the tax on beer. Already the
brewers organization in New York has
protested against the Wells PROPOSE
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-09-18

TIE Cherokee Strip is $50 miles long and
fifty-eight miles WIDE. which means that 1T
contains 1910 square miles, or 6.6So, 400
acres. One-third of the strip is said to be
of no value except for q cattle range. That
is. about $500. 900 cores is fit for farms. Al
q quarter sectiOn. or 100 ceres, TO q settler,
there is land for 81, coo families aside from
those who build towns. According to the
reports three times that number rushed
into the strip on Saturday.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-09-18

YESTERDAY one of the pastors in this
city who 10 alleged to vote the Demo-
cratic ticket as II mugwump, deplored
the prevalence Of gambling, and the
fact that the public conscience was not
aroused to an organized movement
against the alarming evil. The excel
lent preacher was very much IN earnest
about the matter, but of what avail?
The Mayor, whom such excellent
citizens as he helped to elect. two years
age, stands in with the gamblers, and
the municipal judge elected ut that time
made q decision which rendered any at
tempt to prosecute gamblers utterly
useless. IL all the excellent citizens
who help the Democratic party into
power IN cities as mugwumps should
unite to prosecute the gamblers in In
dianapolis, they would be bsffed and
defeated. for the reason that the Demo
cratic officers and managers in the city
and county arc in league with these law
breakers. Even if they could secure
! their indictment, the indictments would
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-09-18

How many inspectors has the Sulli-
van regime at the present time9 Does
any one know? Perhaps the controller
will put it in his report to be presented
to the Council tonight.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-09-18
or Course She Doesn't.

Smithers-Doesn't your wife ever want to
know where you were ut when you are out so
late as you are tonight!
withers-No, sir, she does not. My wife was q
BOSTON girl.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-09-18

Is the chairman of the Sullivan COM
mittee sending ~loaters to Mr.. Catterson,
the so-called Republican member Of the
Board of Safety, to elk" for Sullivan?