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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-09-29
A PRACTICAL APPLICATION.

The declaration OF General Harrison.
at Chicago, to tho effect that "all social
order, all domestic happiness. and all
constitutional and legal institutions are
dependent upon the acceptance. by all
the people, of the principle of obedience
to law" will meet the hearty approval
of every intelligent man and woman in
the land. Without regard TO party, the
best people of the country would enroll
themselves in a league for the purpose
of creating q public sentiment which
will sustain the laws and demand that
oil offenders shall be tried by properly
constituted courts. If courts and their
officers could feel that they are sus.
tanned by such an intelligent conviction,
there would be less cause for complaint.
Ii is because elective officers do not re-
ceive such support, and because they
feel that their future is in the hands
of the lawless or the reckless, that
courts have fallen into dIsrepute,
and lawlessness has become ram
pant. Whitecapism has fiourished in
this State. where the courts have failed
to check violence, until the officers of the
law stand in fear of if not in league
with the lawless. There is no safety
for person or property in such CON-
munItics. General Harrison has taken
the i~nitiative-why should not his sug-
gestion be followed BY a State organiza-
ton. the sole purpose of which should
be to create a wider sentiment in favor
of obedience to law and to stimulate a
better execution of the laws for the
protection of life and the suppression of
lawlessnessf
Here in Indianapolis, however. the
people who believe in the supremacy OF
law have a more urgent duty to per-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-09-29
SHREDS AND PATCHES.

Nature intended that Rio should be
roasted after being shelled-Pittsburg Dis
patch.
No one seems 20 know what is going on
down in Rio Janeiro. but Uncle Sam has
sent the Charleston to sea.-Chicago Dis
patch.
Defaulter Weeks, who has found refuge
in Costa Rica, was no yachtsman, though
he was very mucn Of a skipper.-Toledo
Commercial.
1t takes four years for a college to turn
out a good student, but it frequently turns
out a bad student In less than three months.
Texas Siftings.
1t is to be hoped that il will be a very
long time before any American shall again
drop $4,000 in the campaign slot TO try his
weight.-New York World.
AT this dusty season OF the year. when
a boy comes home at night he is so dir
~ his mother is compelled to wash him
In three waters and blue him before he IS
fit to be een.-Atchison Globe.
The charge that A-ttorney-general Olney
plays tennis and wears creased trousers
would scarcely be noticed If he were oc-
casionally to shake his racket at the
trusts.-St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The flow of silver speech in the Senate
means, unless it is checked very soon now,
a flow of gold In the wrong direction. Elo-
quence is a mighty expensive luxury some
times, and this is one of them.-Hartford
Courant.
That will be a happy day for the South
when its white people shall have learned
that they can only be prosperous and re-
spected when they favor protection and
permit free elections.-New York Mail and
Express.
Persons who received the impression that
Senator Hill had been resting this summer
will please take notice that there are only
sixty-ive anti-snappers among 3S4 dele
gates to the New York State convention
Detroit Tribune
Carl Schurz's favorite quotation is that
beautiful snatch from Cicero. 81 am never
less alone than when alone;' and the
neighbors say that only the word crowd
ed" can express the Great Unappreciated's
condition.-New York Commercial Adver-
tiSer.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-09-29

form. The managers of the Mayor have
entered into a conspiracy by which he
and the officers under him are to ignore
the statutes of the State, deemed by
successive legislatures to be essential
to the public security and well-being Of
society, and permit their open and con-
slant violation in return for several
thousand dollars to be used to purchase
votes. This is q grave accusation to
make against n Mayor, but the Journal
has shown that saloon keepers have
been assessed by the Mayors managers,
and those who know saloon keepers
have learned from them that they have
been assessed and that many have paid
the assessment with i'll grace. The best
of them prefer to obey the laws,
but Tho worst Of them, who keep dives
and protect gamblers, desire to keep
open all night and on Sunday because
during the late hours and the whole
day they can reap q harvest they would
fail to get if the laws of Indiana were
enforced. They covet the money which
men would take to their homes if they
were not enticed into dives open all
night with crap attachments. 1t is with
these lawless people, these robbers of
men whose families need the neces-
saries of life. and these sharks who en-
tice young men and boys into paths
which lead to infamy, that Mayor Sulli-
vans managers have conspired, giving
them security in thu pursuit of their
robbery for a corruption fund. Right
here, then. the work to which General
Harrison alludes should be begun-right
here, where the officers have conspired
with gamblers and dive keepers to ig-
more the law and to make the business
of robbery and debauchery secure
against the interruption which an en-
forcement of the laws would involve.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-09-29

IT is made plain by the investigation
into the affairs of the Cherokee Strip
that the opening of that territory was
ehamefully mismanaged by Secretary
Hoke Smith. Smiths talent at blundcr-
ing had been amply shown before in his
manner of conducting the Pension Of
tice-higher authority being compelled
to call him Off when the cutlery from
Democratic soldiers made itself heard.
1t would nave been better for the well
fare and reputation of this administra-
ton if the hitherto unknown Georgian
had been left in obscurity. A man so
utterly incompetent for his duties has
seldom, if ever, been placed in SO high
an Office In this country.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-09-29

a means of self-dcstruction. 1t has
been settled by war that no State or
combination of States has a right 10 de-
stroy the government by secession. No
more have they a right to destroy it by
the more insidious, but not less de-
structive, method of dishonest and cor
rupt elections. The Constitution was
intended to preserve the government.
mo- to destroy 1t. 1t cannot be made an
instrument for the promotion of dishon-
est and unfair elections any more than
it coald be made an instrument for the
protection of slavery or the justification
of secession, though the same party and
the same influences that tried TO prOsti-
tute it TO those ends are now trying to
utilize it for the repeal of the national
election law.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-09-29

GENERAL HARRISON said in his speech
at Chicago, referring to the geograph-
ical location Of the State: I'VE hold a
position that might well have won
for us. if it had not been earlier won,
the title of the keystone State"
The point was we'll made. P~ennsylva-
mia was called the keystone State be-
cause il was the middle one of the thir-
teen States when the Constitution was
adopted. At present the center of pop
ulatiOn is in Indiana, and likely to re-
main here for man years to come,
while the physical conformation of tho
country is such as to make the State for
oil time a passage-wa "a for transconti-
mental ommerce. However, the sobri-
quet of Keystone State properly belongs,
and is worthily worn by Pennsylvania.
Indiana is satisfied to DO the Hoosier
State, and car claim the credit of hav-
ing converted a term of derision into
one of honor, a fact that vas happily
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-09-29

THE Brooklyn Eagle, a Democratic
paper, in an editorial on the nomination
of judges, "a few days since. said:
There is no officer SO bad as a bad
judge. There is no officer so harmful to
the community rs q weak or incompe-
tent judge" If the Eagle had heard of
the harlequin judge OF the Indianapolis
municipal court, it doubtless would
have added: There can be no officer so
destructive of public safety and public
morals as the Judge who is the declared
champion of law breakers.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-09-29

referred to by Governor Matthews.
More and more, as the State becomes
improved, and its people educated and
cultured, this term will cease to have
any suggestion of an offensive meaning.
and will come to represent everything
of which Indianians are proud. Let us
hope the time may never come when
her sons and daughters, In any part of
the world, will not take pride in avow-
ing their nativity in the good old
Hoosier State.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-09-29

DURING the hot days when the Ma
tional ~Encampment was in session in
Tomlinson Hall, a we'll known member
of hat body. residing in this city,
sought the person in charge of the build
could not be let down. He was told
that they could not. as the pulleys on
most of them were out of order. And
yet it costs twice as much under the rule
of the tax-eaters to care for Tomlinson
Hall as it did during the last year of
Denny,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-09-29

ONE item in tho appropriations made
by the Council reads: "For interest
and exchange for bonded debt, $780,
100. CO." If that remarkable financier
who is chairman of the finance commit
tee, Mr.. Rassmann. had not become the
tool of the Frenzels, the city would have
now been paying S42, 33S less interest
than it is, and the clause above would
have read: "For interest on bonded
debt, $50. S31. CO." Sullivnnism ia a tax.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-09-29

THE managers of the worlds fair an
nounce that on Oct. 8, which is to be
Chicago day." they will pay the last
installment of the bonded debt of the
fair and wipe out all floating debts of
every kind. They will leave nothing to
be provided for but the current ex-
peDses of the fair and the stock, on
which q considerable sum is sure to be
paid. 1t seems, therefore, that the
financial success of the fair is assured.
The effect of the fair on the country
at large is quite another question. When
it was first proposed. it was claimed that
it would be of great advantage to the
country financially; first, in arresting
the tide of foreign travel an d inducing
Americans to spend theirmoney athome
this year. and, second, in attracting a
very large number of foreigners, who
The fair has not had either of these eff
fects. AS many Americans as usual
have gone abroad. and outside of ex-
hibitOrs and commissioners. compare
lively few foreigners have visited the
fair. One effect, however. has been very
marked. The fair has drawn q great
deal of money to Chicago, and the en-
tire country has paid tribute to it. Hun
dreds of thousands of persons have been
econOmizing for a year to go to the fair.
and q great many communities have
been squeezed pretty nearly dry to sup
port it. The people of the country at
large, at least those in this section, will
not be sorry when the fair closes. They
desire to see it a financial success, as it
certainly is in every other respect, but
they have had enough of it..
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-09-29

Two years ago the Democratic man.
convention whose work was not SUBJ
mitted to the people for their Judgment,
as has always been the custom where
constitutions are radically changed. de-
prived 70. 900 cOlored men of the right to
vote. 1t was done under the pretext
that local government was in peril in
the presence of q majority of colored
voters, and to insure good government
was necessary to deprive the colored
man of the right to vote. For ten years
Mississippi has had nothing to fear from
the colored majority, and consequently
one might assume that there would be
peace within the borders of that State.
Such, however, is not the case. White
capism and other forms of lawlessness
are rampant. Ruffians have banded
themselves together throughout the
State, and have given notice to cotton
growers that any man who gins cotton
until the price shall be 10 cents q pound
will, On the first o~ffense, have his Gin
house burned, and will forfeit his life
as the penalty Of the second. Already
several gin houses have been burned,
and the cotton growers in some sections
are terrror-stricken. They are not per-
mitted to market their cotton, and, un-
der the conditions which such q state of
things creates, cannO purchase supplies.
This sort Of thing has been going on for
several weeks, and yet this State gov
eminent, which is the result of an al
most unanimous Democratic vote, does
not raise a protest even against such
organized outrage.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-09-29

the city debt at a lower rate of interest.
The Council has followed this advice,
and, as a result, the city has continued
to pay and is still paying 7.3 per cent.
interest on S1,245, 900, which could have
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-09-29
Some Excuse.

Police Justice-Young man, 1 am ashamed
to see you, the son Of respectable parents,
casting your lot with a disorderly gang
that lives only for the purpose of annoy
ing decent citizens and disturbing theat-
rical performances.
The Young MAXWELL, my father could
not afford to send me to college, and 1 had
to have some fun some way.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-09-29
Tile INDIaNAPOLIs JoUKNAL

Can be found at the following places:
Exchange IN Paris, SO Boulevard
ce Capucines.
NEW Y~ORK-Gflsey House and Windsor Hotel
PHILADELPHIA-A. p. Kemble, 3735 Lancaster
avenue.
CHICAGO-Falmer House.
CINCINNATI-J. r. Hawley& Co., 154 Vine street.
LoUIsvILLE-C. T. Deering, northwest corner Of
Third and Jefferson streets.
ST. LoUIs-Union News Company, Union Depot
WASHINGTON, d. C.-Riggs House and Ebbitt
House.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-09-29

IT is possible for indianapolis to have
q city government run upon the same
intelligent business principles that Co.
Lilly ran the encampmenta affair. If Mr..
Denny shall be elected Mayor the
Journal believes that he will run it in
the interest of the people rather than
the ~tax-eaters.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-09-29

THE Republicans desire to have as
much silver money as can be kept. dol
lar for dollar, on a parity with gold.
IL the country has a Republican tariff
system much more silver can DO used as
money without danger than can be I'M
der a free trade policy, which would
stimulate the importation of goods
which could be produced at home up-
der prOper protection.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-09-29

THE Presidents continuous daily
prayer" that the Democrats in Congress
may act wisely, now so long unanswered.
leads to a suspicion that the Demo-
cratic Congress is one OF the sinners
who is past the line where prayer can
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-09-29

THE appropriations for pay rolls of
fire and police departments, engineers
Office. and salaries just voted, aggregate
S2S3,561.72. against S157. 124.62 during
Denny's last year, ar increase OF so per
cent. Can no Sullivanite attempt TO
show home owners. who find their taxes
doubled. why IL is necessary to spend
for the above purposes $3.50 as often as
81 was expended under Denny in 1897
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-09-29

If the Republicans in the Senate
were preventing a vote on q bill repeal
ing the federal elections laws. as the
silverites and a majority of the Demo-
Gratis are preventing q vote on the bill
repeating tho Sherman law. would not
Senators Voorhees, and German find a
way to force a vote2
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-09-29

THERE is danger that while tho Sem
ate is extending unlimited courtesy to
Senator WolcOtt, his ~discourteous at
tacks upon Senators may cause some of
the dignifed and serene members to
forget their courtesy, as did Senator
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-09-29

OF thirty-eight Republican Senators,
twenty-five will vote to repeal the
Sherman act. while the straIght-out
Democrats are believed to be equally
divided, standing twenty-five for and
twenty two against repeal. Their Popu-
list allies are against repeal. Thus, if
left to the Democrats and their allies.
the vote would be against repeal.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-09-29

"TEONoMETERn is the name of an in
strument recently invented by a French
physician. 1t might be a good idea to
apply a TrOnometer to tho city admin
istration to find the exact strength of
Mr.. Tron's null.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-09-29

Is the expense of the incompetent
engineers department multiplied by
four since Denny's last year, that lie
might serve a railroad corporation
against the city's interestsf
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-09-29
Sensible.

Weary Watkins-Say, dere's a washout
on de road here. Hadn't We better flag de
train an tell 'em about it?
Hungry Higgins-Not much we won't.
De hands on dis DAD has jist been armed
wit new rifles, and we'll git plugged sure.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-09-29

II the Missourian had stuck TO the tradi-
tional corncob pipe and not taken uD the
habit of smoking strings of tobacco and
tissue paper. the heart of st. Joseph would
not have been burned out by O wretched
ciuarerte
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-09-29

CAN ybody tell why the receipts
from dray licenses. which were S114.3O
in 1889, were only $152.5O last year7
Does the money stick to somebody's fin
uersf
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-09-29

THERE is every reason why the GAM
b.ers and dive keepers should work
for a continuance of the present Board
of Public Safety. 1t has brought safety
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-09-29

TAXPAYERS should remember that in
his first message. O years ago, Mayor
Sullivan informed the Council that il
was useless to try TO refund any part of
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-09-29

THOUSANDS of voters would like to
know why So per cent. more money is
paid as salaries now than under Denny,
in 1880. Who dare attempt On explana-
fiOp9
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-09-29

VINO will explain why the pay roll of
the police has been increased 20 per cent.
since Denny's last year?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-09-29

IT vas Mr. Woollen who said that
$3.50 would be saved annually if his
plan had received the sanction of the
Democratic Council.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-09-29

Can any Sullivanlte tell why the pay
roll of the fire force should be II per
cent. greater in 1893 than in 1889, under
DennyP
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-09-29

CAN anybody tell why the receipts
from hack licenses, which were 8 $50 in
1889, were only $500. 80 last year? Does
the money stick TO somebody's fingers?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-09-29

THE only hope OF Sullivan and Bus
kirk is the liberal response of the as
sessed saloon keepers and gamblers to
the corruption fund.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-09-29

CAN anybody tell why the receipts
from dog licenses, which were S3.013.50
in 1889. were only $2,37950 last year,
Does the money stick to somebody's fin
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-09-29
Ennurh Said.

He-My wife left last week on a visit to
some relatives in Sioux Falls
She-Oh, Mr.. Wobbosh, this is so sudden.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-09-29
IN THE AIR.
A Long SERPENT.

N Long SefPeht.
Wickwire-Wnat is the longest snake you
ever saw?
Lushforth-About three days.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-09-29

GENERAL HARRIsoN's speech at Chi
cago was exceedingly appropriate to the
OCCASION. and, like all his speeches,
pressed. The one on which he laid the
greatest emphasis was the vital impor-
tance of obedience to law. The growing
lawlesspess of the times and the in
creasing frequency of lynchings gave
special point to what the speaker said.
Attained lawyer. and himself a most con-
sentative and ~lawabiding man, Gen.
eral Harrison regards these lawlcss out
breaks with horror and alarm, as, in
deed, every good citizen should. 81
know of nothing to-day" he said, "that
so much shames us as q Nation as these
fiendish. barbarous, devilish lynchings."
He is right. They are fast bringing
American justice into contempt and
making the American name synonymous
with barbarism. 81 appeal to every
man." said General Harrison. 'to enroll
himself as a defender of law and order
in the community where he lives, to
stand by the legally constituted au-
thorities of the people to the death. if
need be, in defense of the law and in
the protection of any criminal. no mat
ter how heinous the charge against him,
until he Is brought under the penalties
of the law" There ought to be such an
enrolment in every county in the
United States, and it should contain the
name OF every lawabiding citizen, ir-
respective of race, color or party. 1t is
time we should begin to rescue the
country from the just charge Of being
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-02-04

Two bills providing for q system 81
State banks are pending iu the Legis-
lature OF North Carolina. They werC
introduced in anticipation Of the re-
peal of the prohibitory tax on State
bank currency by the new Demo
cratic federal government. Their pur-
pose is TO put the local banks in shape
TO flood the Safe, and perhaps i'll
naighboring commonwealth, with
wildcat notes at the earliest possible
moment after the Democracy has re-
deemed its pledge 10 cut away al!
obstacles in the way of a return &c
the fluctuating currency of ante
bellum times. A movement TO the
same end was started in Georgia some
time ago. 1t will undoubtedly become
general throughout the South if the
10 per cent. tax on State bank issues
is abolished by the incoming Congress.
Free trade was not the only pernici-
ous policy that triumphed in Norem-
Der.