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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-10-28
FOR wORKINGMEN TO THINK OF.

The Des Moines Artisan, the official or
Dor and the Trades Assembly of Des
AIoines, has come out for the Republican
State ticket on national grounds. The ed
itor of the Artisan has been lifelong Dem
ocrat. He worked and voted for Cleveland,
but he cannot shut his eyes to the fact
that the success of the Democratic party
tive of most disastrous consequences to the
business of the country. The editorial in
which the paper declares in favor of the
Republican candidates says:
We have arrived at the forks of the road.
The political and industrial situation In the
Republic Is such that labor is the most in
terested factor in the ultimate results of
the pending campaign. While the Artisan
is political paper, at the same time 1T is
a nonpartiSan advocate. Yet in spite of its
nonpartisan attitude it is compelled TO look
existing conditions in the face and deter
mine conclusion embodying its best judg
ment and give utterance TO words OF truth
and soberness' in the interest of its spe-
cific constituency-the toilers. The inau-
guratiOn of Mr.. Cleveland to the presiden-
cy-last March-had such disastrous effect
upon the business situation and so revOlu-
tlOsliZe0 commercial cOn0ltlOnS lnat q prOnt-
able manufacturing and commercial era
was at once precipitated into condition
Of doubt, and SO alarmed the Industrial
capitalists OF the Nation that a crisis was
developed that eliminated in a positive
and widespread calamity-So far reaching
that it touched all of the industrial and
country. Factories closed FORCES shut
down, glassmakers pulled their fires. banks
both suspended and failed, the great trans
portation corporations began TO retrench,
and all eliminated in the discharge of hum
dreds of thousands of mechanics and Ia
borers, and thus set adrift in the country
vast army of idle men who were evolution
lied from a condition of self-support and
comfort to position of begSars and aims
takers.
The article proceeds to say that these
alarming conditions have resolved local and
State issues into national issues and that
every mechanic and workingman. be he
Democrat or Republican, Populist Pro-
hibitionist, il he is a thinking man and
comprehends the simple principles of po-
litlcal economy, must see that the present
conditions are cue to a fear that the DEM
ocratic party will carry out its free-trade
policy. These facts, coupled with the in
action and imbeclity of Congress. have led
the Artisan to conclude that he Demo-
cratic party is an organized menace to ma
tional prosperity. For these reasons, and
without reference to State issues. il de-
clares in favor of the Republican ticket in
Iowa, and wishes Republican ideas to pre-
vail in Ohio and Massachusetts, on Nov.
Z, next"
If American workingmen possess a 1.-THE
OF the intelligence they are credited with
a great many thousands of them must
have reached conclusions similar to those
expressed by this formerly Democratic ed
itor of labor organ.
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FROM ALL AROUND THE STATE.

The indications are for a severe winter
The corn shucks are unusually thick, some
having as many as sixteen layers. and the
squirrels are laying in larger supplies OF corn
and nuts than usUal.-Lawrenceburg Press
a few days since Norton Ogdon secured
four fine salmon with hook and line at
the dam on Eel river, weighing about three
pounds each. In the past two weeks over
two hundred fine bass have been caught
-Worthington Sun.
Fresh fish are quite plentiful in town, and,
although small as a general thing, nearly
everybody who takes the trouble to go
a-Eshing succeed in securing fine strings of
bass speckled perch. sunfiSh, bluegills and
ringers.-Warsaw Times.
No doubt the first mules that were ever
sold by the pound in this part of the coun-
try were sold by Aaron Turley to Il. Han
cock yesterday morning at this place. The
price paid was l21e cents per pound, and
seven mules, averaging fraction over l. 135
pounds. brought the owner 1888 75.-Orleans
Progress.
That oil fields have been OF inestimab,e
value to Wells county, especially Noting.
ham township is proven by the assertion
of an experienced oil man. who recently
stated that at least $30o0.O0o had been in
vested I'm labor leases and machinery In
these fields. That amount has staid with
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-10-28

residents OF this county. and it would be a
safe wager TO make that less than that
amount OF oil has not been produced.-Blun-
ton Chronicle.
Hunting is an amusement which is very
popular at this time of year. Rice hens. or
coots, as they should properly be called,
have been and are still being slaughtered
hereabout by hundreds. The flesh OF this
bird is good TO eat, still Ii is not of that del
icate taste which is usually found in most
game birdS.-LaPorte Herald
The work of blasting the rock from the
bed of the Kankakee river at Momence is
progressing favorably. The cut is now
through a fiinty rock that requires drilling
and blasting. The drill holes are put down
seven or eight feet apart and dozen blasts
fired at once by electricity. Forty teams
are now employed The work Is half COM
peted. and will result in draining thousands
OF acres along the Kankakee bottoms
Rochester Republican.
Since farmers have commenced to husk
their corn they find the crop much better
than they had expected. 1t is fairly good
but a little short in number of ears. The
Ligonier Banner reports receiving a sample
or corn raised on some of the swamp lands
reclaimed by the big ditch lately constructed
through Noble county that will average at
least seventy bushels to the acre, and one
five thousand bushelS.-Lagrange Standard
Tie swamp and low lands of st. Joseph
county are becoming profitable invest
ment to their owners. Many acres are be-
ing converted into peppermint farms. This
has been a favorable season fer the mint
farmers, and the cron will play no small
role in the sum total of the county's varied
products. Heretofore there has been no
home market for the oil, but this season
Milton & Eliel are handling it, saving the
farmers much trouble and expense. To-day
they made large shipment of st. Joseph
county oil of peppermint, and they expect
to handle large share of this county's pro-
duction. The oil of peppermint produced
here is very fine in quality.-South Bend
Xmas
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WILL NOT CAUSE CONTRACTION.

Senator Vest, in letter to a St. Louis
merchant declaring his intention TO vote
against unconditional repeal, says he has
no doubt that "the unconditional repeal of
the Sherman law with the contraction OF
the currency which would follow. would
create far more distress than the Sherman
act possibly can" Senator Vest draws on
his imagination for his facts and his fears.
The repeal of the silver purchase clause
would not cause any contraction of the cur
volume of currency by a single dollar. SEN
ator Vest speaks of the repeal of the Sher-
man law. He must know that it is only
proposed to repeal that clause of the law
which requires the purchase of 100000
ounces of silver bullion per month, and the
issuance of silver notes therefor. The
mainder of the law, sustaining the notes
already issued and regulating the holding of
the bullion as security therefor. will remain
in full force. In short, the repeal Of the
purchasing clause of the Sherman law will
way whatever.
Instead OF causing a contraction Of the
currency il is altogether probable that re-
peal Of the purchasing clause will cause an
expansion of the currency. 1t is the uni
versal opinion among intelligent business
men that repeal will contribute largely to
the restoration of confidence. The effect
of this would be to bring the money that is
boarded and in hiding into active circula-
ton. thus practically increasing the volume
of currency. Another effect will be, by re-
moving the silver menace. to increase the
foreign demand for American securities,
thus causing money to flow here from
abroad. Nobody need fear that the repeal
of the silver clause will cause a contrac-
ton of the currency.
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ported by a committee a majority OF whose
Thus far the opposition to the bill In the
discussion in the House has not been directed
against the national jurisdiction over bank
ruptcy, but to some provisions of the meas
ruptcy except a farmer or a wage-earner.
Why these two very important and very
large classes are denied the privilege is
not explained. Before any person can be
adjudged a bankrupt. it must be proved in
a regular trial in court that he has COM
mitted one of the following acts:
% Concealed himself or remained away
from his place of business or residence
with intent to avoid service of civil pro-
cess; C) failed for thirty days to secure the
release OF property levied on by process OF
law for 600 or over; % made transfer &c Of
his creditors; (D made an assignment for
the benefit of creditors or filed in court a
written statement of inability to pay his
debts; % made, while insolvent, contracts
for speculations of margins 90 made, while
insolvent, transfer of property or suffered
1t to be taken by process of law for the
purpose of giving a preference; % suffered
a Judgment to be entered against himself;
60 secreted property to avoid its being
while insolvent, an execution for $500 or
over. or a number of executions aggre-
eating such amount, TO be returned un-
satisfied; or Q0) suspended for thirty days
the payment of his commercial paper to the
amount of $500
The above would seem to include about
everything, leaving very narrow limits for
a man who would become a voluntary
bankrupt. 1t seems very appropriate that
lie the industrial system of the country by
substituting revenue for a protective
tariff should precede that work by law
which will facilitate the adjustn ent Of
business disasters.
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THE USUAL DEMOCRATIC TACTICS

Just now the newspapers in New York are
manifesting much interest in what is known
as the colonization Of voters" which means
the collection of lot OF tramps into house
where they are presumed to be lodged, and
from which they are registered as voters.
AS the same tramp can be lodged under a
different name in several precincts, he can
have as many votes as lodging places. The
lodging places are maintained by party
managers persons paid by them. The
managers are always Democrats, and the
frauds are always committed in the interest
of the Democratic ticket. The Herald has
unearthed the colonization works of the Hon.
Dry Dollar Sullivan, rising Tammany
statesman, who has served twice in the
Assembly and is now a candidate for the
State Senate. If he succeeds he will reach
Congress by the same tactics. The Herald
has made quite spread over its expose
but other independent and Democratic pa
pers seem to accept it as a matter of little
consequence. The Cleveland organ, the
Times has made a discovery of colonization
and false registration on an extended scale
in the suburbs Of Brooklyn. designed to
cure the election of Mclaughlin. Democratic
and anti-Cleveland ring candidate for Mayor.
and indirectly Of the Democratic candidate
for judge of Appeals, who in plain language
stole an election return two years ago to
make the New York Senate Democratic.
The Times makes out very fragrant case
against the anti-Cleveland Democratic lead
ers. Colonization and false registration
have been discovered in Albany, hotbed of
such crimes. but as these are committed I'M
der the auspices of Judge Herrick, Cleve-
land magnate, the Times is not interested.
1t does, however, call attention to similar
crimes reported 20 have been perpetrated
in Buffalo by the wicked hater of the Pres
ident, Lieutenant Governor Sheehan.
None of these are Republican complaints,
but all are Democratic. mugwump or indie
pendent. No intelligent man in New York
who is candid will pretend that such frauds
have not been perpetrated In the Demo-
cratic strongholds of New York and New
Jersey for years. The enforcement of the
federal election law has held the
perpetrators Of these crimes in check
in years when Representatives to
Congress were elected. 1t was more TO open
New York to ballot-box frauds that the
movement is made to repeal the federal
election laws than to please the South. Be
fore last year both parties were equally rep
resented on registration boards in New
York, but Tammany changed the law when
the Legislature became Democratic. To-
day the best hold which the Democratic
managers have upon New York State is
the increasing of the party majorities by
baIlot-box crimes in the cities of New York,
Brooklyn Albany, Buffalo and Troy. Those
frauds last year and the votes of those who
were led to believe that Cleveland change
would insure better wages for less work
gave that State to Mr.. Cleveland. But the
independent and the mugwump did not pro-
test then.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-10-28
Saved by Republicans.
New York Tribune.

The country has been saved as respects
monetary perils, by the patriotic fidelity
and self-sacrficing courage of Republican
Senators. The people recognize the fact;
the President himself has promptly recog-
nized it, and whatever the Issue may be as
respects Democratic States, the honor %
splendid fidelity to the public interests rest g
time to come. unless patriotism and intelli-
gence meantime desert therl, that they
will trust the party which did Its duty re-
gardless of it's own interests. rather than
the party which almost unanimously de-
cided to do a dishonorable and disastrous
thing and was only driven into decent Re-
havior by Republican Senators and the
president
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NATURALIZATION A FARCE.
contrast Between the Processes I'm
state and Federal Courts.
New York Tribune


''Is this a monarchy or q renublic7.,
asked one of the judges OF the Court OF
common Pleas the ctner day of an appli-
.Denocr r,ti1 q nsp aperSs -, -, .,,
| cant, hastily
He has the right idea" suggested the
nudge, and he was admitted
Who is the President of the United
States?' was asked of another applicant.
an Irlshman' In the Superior Court
George Washington" he answered
promptly. and then. correcting himself:
ON, no; IL wasn't George Westinghouse
over, but 1 don't know who is Presidens
now"
He was also admitted.
Under the present system of administer
| ing the laws citizenship has become so
cheap thing that only small proportion
OF those who apply cor the honor in this
| city pay for their own papers. Those per-
nicious institutions known as naturaiiza-
| ton bureaus pave the way for all sorts OF
abuses. Tammany~ Hall has fun swav in
| the county courthouse this fan. as ths
| Republicans did not establish one OF those
bureaus this year. Tammany agents VITA
| cnecks to pay the fees of those wishing
to become citizens are all about the CORR
doris of the building. AS n result, nearly
| every man who becomes citizen in this
| that the Common Pleas and the Superior
courts turn out about two hundred citi-
zens each every day, some. idea of the
| strenStn which Tammany derives from this
| institution can be gained
Ine examination by nearly all the judges
Il
| farce SO, FAR as arriving at any adequate
| idea OF the qualifications of the applicants
| FOR citizenship they know and can know
nothing about them from the fimsv exam-
| nations which they make.
| In the Superior Court Thomas BoeSe the
| chief clerk, has instructed his deputies to
| reject the most ignorant of those who an
| ply for naturalization papers, and so they
are not allowed to go before the Judge at
| all. Some of the judges seem to take il
| for granted that this examination made by
| the clerks is all that is necessary and so
| they pass the applicants as fast as they
| can sign their names to the certificates.
The process OF naturalization as carried
| on I'm the United States District Court is in
| every way a dignifed and deliberate pro-
ceeding. The petitioners are not so numer-
| Gus as they are in the State courts the
| fees charged being larger Judge Addison
| Brown passes on ali the applications, and
| examines each candidate as if the matter
| were an ordinary judicial proceeding Hs
| doesn't ask stereotyped questions, varying
| his inquiries with the apparent intelligence
| of the man before him. IL the would-be
citizen knows little English the Judge
| spares no pains TO have all questions made
entirely plain TO him. Sometimes over ten
| minutes thus spent on a single man.
| Indeed, some educated men who wish TO
| become citizens think the Judge is need
| lessly careful, but he has a high idea of the
| standard of American citizenship.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-10-28
The Closing of the Enir.

A great many people are asking whether
the worlds fair will really close on Mon
day and what will be done with the build
ings and grounds thereafter. 1t is definite
ly settled that the gates of the fair will be
closed Monday night, not to be opened
again under former conditions. The grounds
Will remain open for some time to such as
wish to visit Them and an admission fee
will be charged, but the official existence
OF the fair will be ended. The removal of
the buildings will, necessarily, take con-
siderable time. It may be several weeks
before all the exhibits are removed, but
that work will go on rapidly. Under their
contract with the South Park commissions
ers the managers OF the fair are bound to
turn the park over to the commissioners
Jan. ]. 1894 The park commissioners say
they will insist on the fulfillment of this
contract, while the managers of the fair
say it will be a physical impossibility and
cause them immense loss. Some of the own
ers of foreign buildings have also protested
against being required to remove them so
quickly, and have united in asking an ex-
tension of time. Some of the foreign build
ings cost a great deal of money, and the
owners claim that they ought to be al
lowed reasonable time to realize as much
possible on them. The same is true of
the State buildings. On the whole 1t IS
probable that the park commissioners will
extend the time of turning over the grounds
till the middle of next summer or possibly,
till next fall.
The Javanese village and all it's contents
will be sold at auction to the highest bid
der, next Wednesday, and the German vii
lage will probably be disposed of the
same way OF other features in the cele-
brated Midway Plaisance it is said
Lady Aberdeens Irish village will keep
open until the middle of November anyway,
and probably longer Mrs. Hart will close
ready To move everything to the midwin-
ter exposition at San Francisco. The ia
vanese village will close Oct. 80. not to
open again. Manager Moone says he .ex-
poets to keep the Samoan village open all
next week. but not longer. The German
village will close and Wednesday the Two
military bands start on tour of the coun-
try. Manager Hofheimer, OF Hagenbecks
arena, said he had not yet decided whether
to continue quit. He thought his COM
many would be governed by what the 9TH
ers did. Manager Levy said the Turkish
village would stop Oct 80 and commence
packing up the next day. Cairo street is
in no hurry to get away. The Moorish
ning month. The Ferris wheel has
no Intention of stopping as long as people
want to ride in it. Monday will be the last
day for old Vienna and the Volcano, but
the Lanland people expect to remain some
time The others are undecided 10
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Mavor Denny and his administrative
boards must not forget that one of the
strong arguments used by the Republicans
during the recent municipal campaign in
favor of a. change was the extravaganza
of the Sullivan administration. We de-
nounced the large increase in the salary
list which had been made during the last
four wears We denounced the party in
power for increasing the expense OF the
police and fire departments, for creating
new places for political pets, for dealing out
soft snaps-in short we denounced tax
eating in general and particular The pres
ept administration came into Office pledged
to change all this 1t is pledged to abolish
not one or two, but every useless Office. 1t
is pledged to reduce salaries to bedrock
basis 1t is pledged to reduce the cost Of
the police and fire departments to the very
lowest figure consistent with efficiency. 1t
is pledged to reduce the expenses Of taking
care of Tonlinson Hall and Of running the
station house. 1t is not only pledged to do
these things but it must do them if it ex-
poets to make both ends meet. 1t is no
poets TO make both ends meet. The prun-
ing knife must be used vigorously and re-
lentlessly. There must be a general cut
ting off and cutting down of expenses. The
Journal hopes the Mayor and his admins
trative boards will not forget this
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A Story with an Application.
Washington Letter in the independent
The Damncrats Whn do not III,

NtISHIIIBtoII t1Ie
The Democrats who do not like Mr..
Cleveland are telling each other stories OF
the difference between stubbornness and
hrmness. One of these that / heard ia
worth repeating. "An elephant was pass
ing along a road and came TO a bridget
looked slight and ill-bult. With his ears
pricked up he examined it, tested IL with
his proboscis and one foot gingerly pressed
upon the shaking timbers. 1t would not
bear his wetght-all the power in the world
would not have mad that elephant go on
that bridge That was firmness. A mue
going along that road saw the shad-
ow of the leaves from a tree flicker upon
the sands; he stopped and waved his large
ears, then he laid them back on his neck
and planted bis forefeet at n slant. and all
the power in the world could not have per-
suaded or forced that mule to walk across
those shadows. That is stubbornness-''
Then they look toward the White House
and laugh
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The Pulitzer newspaper in st. Louis. de-
voted to free trade, remarks:

Gold comes and goes with the balance of
trade, and our exports may be depended
upon for an adequate supply of the yellow
metal as long idiotic legislation does not
interfere.
Our exports the past year were about
s50,OOO,Oo0 less than our imports, and at the
present time the ways and means commit
tee is connecting ''idiotic legislation. the
chief object of which is to increase imports
in oder to obtain a greater revenue The
purpose of tariff for revenue only is to
increase the importation of merchandise
and that kind of tariff would be a stand
ing menace to the maintenance of a gold
basis in this country
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-10-28
Harrison Was Right.
Joe Howard

When ex-President Harrison ventured to
Nitrate that his successor would find a
newly elected Congress, brought together in
special session for a special purpose. some
thing like a team of unruiy Eorses. our
Hcmocratic contemporaries affected 10
laugh. Not TO put too fine a point on it,
they did laugh. jollying themselves the while
belief that the President had simply 10 sug-
rest thumbs up TO find every congressional
dCit perpendicular, in compliance with his
demand Now it's different The digits are
clinched, and every mans fist appears TO be
arrayed against that OF his brother. On the
whole Harrison was correct and con-
ternporaries were in error.
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be little difficulty in convicting the muir
derer, one is at a loss to see the necessity
for paying OUT SO much money for lawyers
fees. The Gazette denounces the proceed
ings editorially. and declares that it is q
set-up job TO loot the county treasury,
Democratic and Republican lawyers unit
that way.