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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-10-10
THE INDICATIONS OF SUCCESS.

The Journal simply shares the convic-
In the campaign when it says that the Den
ny ticket will or can elected to-day.
The opposing forces are powerful. All that
vicious self-interest, that pandering to vice
and crime can do will be done. An enor-
nous corruption fund, drawn from gam
blers, county and city officers. dive keepers
and corporate tons like the Big Four, has
been expended by men who are schooled in
al sorts Of infamy, led by Simeon Coy
There is no lawlessness which has not
been organized and no sort of official pill
mote the election of the Sullivan ticket. 1t
is not an opposition to desplse.
But opposed to it is the Indignation Of an
outraged community. 1t has not declared
itself in public speech or in set resolution;
but men and women who do not want dives
and gambling houses at their doors, regard
less of party, appear to be thoroughly reused
by the shameless and defiant indecency of
the Sullivan campaign. Taxpayers look at
swollen assessments and then at lax and
corrupt government. Citizens who believe
in home rule see a valuable property turned
over to a corporation, and that corporation
sending its anti-Sullivan employees where
they cannot vote, and ask If Board of
Public Works which will shameessly take
5000 week of public money to employ
men to vote for Sullivan are above sus-
picion. of political sharp practice in such a
transaction. They understand the conspir-
acy which has cast the stigma Of default
upon the credit of Indianapolis.
Good citizens, men and women, have be-
come so exasperated over incapacity and
lawlessness that they seem to have forgot
ter party lines. Good citizens constitute a
large majority OF the voters of Indianapo-
lis II 1t is, as all indications point, and If
the decent voters of the city are as much
In earnest as all reports indicate. Sullivan
ISM or, rather, Coyism, will set with the
sun tonight, not to rise tomorrow morn
ING and never again in that name
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-10-10

tain that there Is no popular demand for
legislation so radical as the provisions OF
the Tucker bill.-Washington Post.
A feminine observer OF the doings of the
Senate inquiries: Seriously now, which Is
the talking sexT'-Boston Transcript.
The repeal bill may be regarded q
Non Sequitur measure-because IL does not
follow.-Philadelphia North American
Talking OF compromise in the United
States Senate, that body appears to be al
ready fatally compromised. = Philadelphia
Record.
Every wife occasionally wishes she could
vindicate herself by letting some woman her
husband praises have him for few weeks.
Toronto Mall.
Mr.. Cleveland would probably feel obliged
If a few of his warm personal friends would
attend strictly to their own business here
after.-Syracuse Herald.
There was dog fight in City Hall square
yesterday. and the Legislature of Idaho ad-
journed to see 1t. There is nothing mean
about us.-Boise City Record.
1t must have been peculiarly gratifying
to the President to have a copperhead
like Voorhees, vouch for his patriotism.
New York Commercial Advertiser.
Republican majorities throughout the
country next month-large and decisive ma
jorities-would go a long way to restore
public confidence and quicken now depressed
Observation-Disclosures Press.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-10-10
THE DANGER OF FRAUD.

I'VE shall have the votes in the boxes to
elect the Denny ticket when the polls
close" said a well-known business man yes
terday, "but the getting of them out is an
other thing" Dive keepers have predicted
that Denny would be counted out II elected.
All men who believe in popular govern
ment should insist that the vote shall be
honestly counted and declared. Men who in
the North favor anything else more
dangerous to society than If they were
bomb-throwing Anarchists.
To-day he friends of popular government
must see to it that there is an honest count
In Indianapolis. In every precinct they
must make arrangements to watch the
count. The act of the Legislature Of 1891,
which prohibited the presence Of watchers
to represent candidates on party tickets,
was in the interest of fraud, as Demo-
cratic Senators said In the last Legislature.
Torewarned is forearmed. There are three
anti-Sullivan men who either watch or par
ticipate in the count in each precinct. They
can either prevent fraud or protest against
1t In manner which will make its COM
mission next to impossible.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-10-10
TO INDEPENDENT VOTERS.

There is in this city a considerable num-
languid interest in politics. and are not
closely identified with either party. Party
ties, If they have any. sit very loosely on
them. They are more interested in busi-
ness than they are In politics, yet. at heart,
they are thoroughly In favor of honest
politics, good government and the enforce
ment of law and order. Some of them may
lean to the Republican side. others to the
Democratic but they are not partisans and
are not in politics.
1t takes a good deal to arouse this class
them an opportunity to prove their good
citizenship. There never was q city cleo
ton that involved less Of political PARTISAN
ship in the ordinary sense. The issues are
far more important than those involved in
an ordinary city election. To partisans the
contest may present partisan aspect but
to the large number of those who are not
actively engaged in politics 1t presents
much broader aspect and one tnat Involves
the fundamental principles of good govern
ment and good citizenship Mr.. Denny is
not running simply as Republican, nor
Mayor Sullivan simply Democrat. AS
the issues are made UP one represents the
elements and forces that go to make city
orderly, respected and prosperous, while
the other represents exactly the opposite.
Mr.. Denny represents the cause Of law and
order, and good government, while Mayor
Sullivan represents the cause of lawless-
ness and crime. Without reference to the
personal characters of the two men. this Is
what they represent In the present contest.
Between the forces which they respectively
represent there is. in this city. as in all
others, an irrepressible conflict
The contest which Is to be settled to-
day presents the great problem Of munic-
ipal government in a form that cannot be
evaded without cowardice, nor rightly
solved except by the united efforts of all
good citizens In the cause of good govern
ment. If the Independent and nonpartisan
voters, who are more interested in good
government than they are in party politics,
will do their duty to-day the city will be
rescued from the disgrace OF a continuance
Of the SCllivan-Buskirk-Co Coy Polster-Tron
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-10-10

In order to ascertain the sentiment Of
Southern business men In regard to the
silver repeal bill the Dry Goods Economist,
of New York, recently addressed circu-
lar to the principal merchants of the trade
in the South asking for signatures to dec
laration in favor of the immediate passage
Of the bill. Replies from more than sixty
prominent merchants in the largest cities
and towns of the South were unanimously
in favor of unconditional repeal. Some of
. them stated that they did not know bust
in sympathy with the repeal movement The
truth is, the sentiment among intelligent
business men all over the country is prac-
tically unanimous in favor of repeal.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-10-10
Correcting a FellOw-Mugwump.

New York Evenipo Post
The article liz Harper's Weekly on the
Van Allen, case. which the Times ss., quotes ties
surdity of the charges and falseness Of the
stories told" was. we believe, written un,
der a Misrepresentation OF the facts, and
will be corrected next week How tn. the
the President was ignorant that Mr.. Van
Aliens claims to the appointment rested
upon any other basis than his fitness for
the place." we cannot understand, as the
President was warned by several Of his
friends as early April or May that MT
Van Aliens appointment would be popular
ly ascribed to the unquestioned fact that
he had made a very large contribution TO
the campaign fund. In June, too he re-
ceived a letter from Mr.. Whitney urging
Mr.. Van Aliens appointment net only in
spite of this fact, but because OF IL. The
President knew very well what Mr.. Whit
ney meant by Mr.. Van Aliens cordial,
generous and patriotic support in the can
Vass when friends were few and calls were
great" There has been no assertion any
where, so far as we know, that Mr.. Van
Allen was selected solely because of his fit
ness for the place. What his friends have
said was that he was nominated in return
for his pecuniary support but that he was
fit for the place.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-10-10
sHREDs AND PATCHES.

Some day President Cleveland may con-
clude to abolish the Senate.-Chicago Trib-
une.
Edison's dollar would be ''as good as
wheat" MISUNDERSTANDING Chronicle-Tel-
egraph.
Mary a man owes his success in life to
the advice he didn't take from others..-De-
troit Journal.
No man is as good as he demands the
young man shall be who asks for his daugh-
ter.-AtchiSon Globe.
Doing is the great thing. For II, reso-
lutely people do what Is right, in time they
come to like doing it.-Ruskin on
1t may be said OF Judge Maynard that he
Is fully as good as his party in this State.
New York Morning Advertiser.
President Cleveland swallowed the Dem
ocratic platform. but 1t seems that the dose
went back on him.-Albany Herald
It may be that the present election laws
can be improved by amendments that
will tend to prevent their abuse and pro-
mote their efficiency, but 1t Is quite GER
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-10-10

A gentleman who recently returned from
London, where he came in contact with
capitalists and financiers, says they are
looking anxiously forward to the repeal Of
the Sherman act. During this year 1t is es-
timated that English people have sold in
this country, on account of uncertain silver
legislation. nearly 800 100000 worth OF rail-
road securities owing to fear that inter-
est and principal might be paid in silver
with this fear removed and government
finances placed on sound basis there are
unlimited amounts of English capital await
ing investment in first-class American Sc
curitieS.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-10-10
THE RESTORATION OF CHICAGO.

Chicago has a right to jubilate on the
twenty-second anniversary of her great fire.
Never before in the history of the world has
the miracle been wrought which that city
has seen. Twenty-Five years ago the fire,
which began on Oct. 9. was still sweeping on
its way and devouring the homes Of hun
dred thousand people, and possessions that a
hundred millions could not replace. Wooden
walls melted like wax, iron burned away.
and brick and cement crumbled in the face
of those terrible flames. When the fury of
the fire had spent itself for lack of material
there was nothing left of Chicago. A third
of it's inhabitants were homeless, its bust
ness was destroyed, the money losses were
tremendous, and no one who saw the ruin
and realized the desolation could have won
dered had hopeless despair seized upon the
people. But that not the American,
least of all, the Chicago way. The citizens
courage Before the ashes were cold restor-
alton had begun. Before year was ended
great business blocks had taken the places
of those that were burned, and strangers
were heard to ask where the fire had been.
In five years only trace Of the fire could
be found here and there, and the city was
stretching far beyond the old limits. Twen-
ty-two years, and what does the world see!
A city greater than was dreamed of. even
in the hopeful days before the fire, q city
reaching far out over the prairie where the
fires of innumerable mills and factories
flash their lights upon incoming trains.
city whose magnifcence, whose enterprise
and irrepressfble energy are among the
modern wonders AS If the miles Of pal
aces, the architectural triumphs Of the bus
mess quarter. the splendors Of the parks,
the innumerable evidences of wealth and
prosperity and comfort were not achieve
ments sufficient, more is offered. The world
is invited to Chicago, and to that newer and
even more marvellous white City," which is
Chicago's browning work. In less than
quarter of a century it has risen from what
seemed hopeless ruin into one of the greatest
cities Of the EARTH and has, in addition,
brought into existence an exposition whose
beauty and completeness. within and without,
silence all critics and leave room for praise
and admiration only.
Reviewing all these things accomplished.
what other sentiment could Chicagoans
fitness? They rejoiced nightly, but they
had cause. and all the country rejoices with
them that Chicago day was, like Chicago a
great success.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-10-10

selves and In Chicago. Enterprise and
energy would have awaited little had not
the people stood together. They believed in
the possibilities of their city and were
ready to unite in any plan for improve
ment that would tend to the common bene-
fit. Doubt, timidity and lack Of confidence
where their city was concerned were I'M
known to them. Their faith was great,
complished undertakings equally remark
able. The people have worked together,
and their achievements speak for them.
The lesson is one that the residents OF GER
tain other towns which shall be nameless
might take to themselves with profit.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-10-10
Tho Press and the Lawyers.
1ila dalDhiQ InOuirer

The most INSCRIPTIONS newspapers, OF
which there very few, never surpass In
malignant insinuations the same kind OF
LAWYERS engaged in the trial of a desperate
cause. For some peculiar reason there
does not seem TO be any restraining influ-
ence upon their vfhdictive tongues. When
press If II ever does. the press will doubt
less acqUiesce in the will Of the people,
but IL IS the essence of effrontery for men
whose success is due to the wanton manner
in which they have abused and slandered
their felow-citizens to protest against the
liberty of the press. There is decent
newspaper that ever liDels man in the
true sense of the word. Sometimes IL makes
miss tements, but without malice, and the
LEGISLATURE has passed q law making it a
misdemeanor in this State for any man TO
give false information to a newspaper. and
this will probably put an end to prosecu-
tons of newspapers for libel, since the real
guilty party is now the sufferer.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-10-10
Did Van Allen Shouts
New York Press.

There is something inspiring In the pa
triotism of the American people. Men
shouted themselves purple yesterday over
the triumph of the Nigilant who scarcely
knew a yacht from a bumboat or a main
sail from jib sheet Boys howled with de-
light who merely understood that some
thing representing John Bull had been
knocked out again by something that stood
for Uncle Sam. Women, both old and
Young. caught the infection and clapped
with low that a graceful craft fiuttering
the American flag and built by American
hands had won q triumph. No one need
despair of the Republic while such a healthy
and unanimous spirit thrives.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-10-10
AT IT'S OLD TRICKS
Sentinel Prints a Lie Out of Whole
Cloth on the Eve Of Election.
Groundless SANDER Against Mr.. Denny
About an Alleged Beer Soiree
That Never Occurred.

Six years ago when Mr.. Denny was q
candidate for Mayor the Sentinel printed
baseless SANDER about him, and a re-
suit a poor colored man, who was induced
10 make an affidavit, died Of reporse. Tho
sentinel had this old negro make an af-
EoaVit that Mr.. Denny was taken home
drunk. The negro afterwards made a
counter affidavit IL which he swore that
he was bulldozed into making the first af-
hdavit and that he was drunk at the time
The Sentinel was compelled to print a re-
traction. The affair weighed so heavily
on the old negro's mind that he became III.
was taken to the hospital, where he died
short time afterwards. The SentinePs
lie was sprung on the eve OF the election.
Yesterday morning IT printed another Of
these lies, at time when it knew that Mr..
Denny would not have much time to enter
a denial. 1t charged him with attending .
meeting at a cooper shop on Usage street,
where free beer was served, and IL further
stated that Mr.. Denny drank several
ent. 1t is almost unnecessary to add that
the story Is an unmitigated lie There was
the meeting. There has been no beer. free
or otherwise, at any OF the meetings which
Mr Denny has addressed. Mr.. Denny has
vases for Mayor nor has he ever taken a
drink or paid for drink for another. He
I4oo Hoi tOucueu liquor IOr years. Inc De-
stial campaign made by Sullivan has caused
50 much indignation among the decent peo-
pie or Indianapolis that the Democratic
committee tried at this late hour 10 spring
this weak campaign lie against the Repub-
hcan candidate.
Mr.. Denny's attention was called to the
SentinePs article yesterday. Said he
The only vestige of truth In anything
the Sentinel says is the fact that j was
present at a cooper shop on that street for
a few minutes on that evening. Mr.. Hughes
White, the precinct committeeman, pre-
sided and asked me TO say a few words to
the small party assembled which did be-
fore going across the river to meeting
held that night. There was not a drop OF
beer or liquor at the meeting. / drank
mono myself, and have never heard until
the Sentinel account was shown me thar
there was any beer there or in the neigh
hood on the occasion named. / only re-
NAMED ten or fifteen minutes having been
requested that afternoon TO come by and
show myself simply, on my way TO the
meeting over the river / will say further
that have not attended a single meeting
this campaign at which liquor of any kind
was served, and have no knowledge that a
single glass OF liquor was INDUCED in by
any one in any such meeting during the
time Of its continuance or afterwards in
connection with IL. 1 have had no meetings
In or about any saloon, and have not been
inside of one from first to last"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-10-10

1t Is reported on good authority that the
officers of the Big Four Railway Company
have sent out Of the city. so that they cam
not vote to-day, every possible train man
who is opposed to the Sullivan ring. There
is other evidence that this outside corpora
ton has used its power to help the cause Of
Sullivan. 1t may be that the Big Four ex>
poets to avoid paying it's taxes. now long
overdue, by the aid of the Sullivan-Taggart
ring. The sending away of an employee
with the intent of depriving him Of the
privilege Of voting is violation of the laws
of Indiana
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-10-10

Yesterday was the greatest day of the
worlds fair In point of attendance and en-
thusiasm, and is not likely to be surpassed
during the remaining days, although IL
the weather holds good there will doubt
less be an. enormous attendance during this
month The railroads are having all they
can do to handle the passenger traffic.
and all the Chicago papers of yesterday
admitted that the city had never before
been so crowded.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-10-10

The story goes in Washington that
when Secretary Gresham went to Postmas-
ter-general Bissell the other day to request
that Postofffce Inspector Bearss of this
State, be not removed he was politely but
firmly informed that Senator Brice had
asked for Mr.. Bearsss removal and ne
would have to go. Secretary Gresham does
not seem to have much influence with this
administration
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-10-10

not to the point The present contest f.
simply one Of sailing qualities and speed
under ordinary conditions and it is enough
for the American yacht to have demonstra-
ted her superiority under the conditions pre-
scrioed- Probably If the owner Of the VAL
kyrie wants to arrange a rough-weather
contest he can be accommodated
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-10-10
Not Unpreiudfced.

PERMANENTLY don't you vote as the
rest of Us have? You can't help but see
that If ever man was entitled to a d.
vorce this one is.
Obstinate Juror-Yas, mebbe he is, but
II that there woman gifts her divoast
hev it on good authority that she intends
to try and marry me. and 1 amt takin'
no SIGH chances.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-10-10

The second of the international yacht
races was won yesterday by the Vigilant In
several minutes better time than the first.
The result OF these two races makes 1t al
most certain that the America cup will
still remain In American hands. 1t Is
claimed by some Of the champions OF the
yalkyrie that she is better all-around
boat than the other. would show better
qualities in rough weather. ETC., but this is
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-10-10

At the last election the law relative to
keeping the crowd fifty feet away from the
voting place was violated time and again
stances, men forced their way into voting
places who had no right there. Republic
ans will make a note OF all such violations.
iShed
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-10-10
The Way to Fnme.

Wibble-You saw the fellow who drove
our car? You may not believe me, but his
humor has been published and illustrated
in half the papers OF the country.
Wabble-You don't say? How does II
come that he is not writing any more?
Wibble-He never did write it. He had IL.
1t was after he was cured that the patent
medicine company gave him so extensive
publication
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-10-10
This prophecy has proved to be history.

The legal-tender money in the New York
banks on Saturday was s2s.o 900 in excess
of the lawful requirement, which is seven
der such conditions money will soon be
cheap to those who can offer first-class COL
iaterals. Consequently, what the people
need is not more money. but more and bet
ter collatera.lS
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-10-10
A Scientific View.

The Professors Daughter-Oh, papa,
here is the sweetest little bird that one of
the boys caught in the yard. l would so
like to keep it for a pet, if 1 only knew
what it eats.
The Absent-minded Professor-We can
find that out easily enough. I'll just cut it
open and examine its crop.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-10-10
BUBBLES In THE AIR.
Wnsn,t He RfghtI

Teacher-Tommy Figg, you may give
definition of a gentleman as the word Is
understood nowadays.
Tommy-A gentleman Is Teller that is
so dead sure that he Is better than all the
other fellers that he does not ever have to
say so.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-10-10

when shall I go IMP asked a colonel
of the gallant General Kearney at Chan
elegant fighting all along the line" Let the
friends of law and order remember the or
der of the hero and the martyr Of the hard
won field of Chantilly.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-10-10

Simeon Coy processes to be great cham
pion OF South Side interests. yet when he
was in the Council he voted against ap-
propriating half the revenue from the sa-
avenue vfaducf
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-10-10

The scoundrels who made the precinct
boundaries have put twice as many voters
into the strong Denny precincts as In many
Sullivan precincts. This is a violation Of
the election law, but IL the voters In the
large precincts go to the polls early and
vote promptly every one can vote.