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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-04
LOCATION OF STATE INSTITUTIONS.

The Lafayette Courier, commenting edi-
torialIy on the suggestion that the State
University be removed from Bloomington
to this city. says:
II is a part of the preliminary work of a
well-organized movement to have all OF the
State educational institutions removed from
their present locations TO the capital. This
plan c-ontemplates the consolidation of the
State University, Of Bloomington, the Nor
University, of this city. The movement
has been organized with great deiiberation
and ingenuity. As the result aimed at must
be brought about by legislative action. the
undertaking necessarily partakes of a semi
political character. The prime movers
lave heretofore taken active precautionary
measures to prevent a clash of political
interests when the final coup is
Tn leading politicians or both parties at
Indianapolis are working in harmony and
with a thorough understanding. The gen.
eral plan of action is to secure a Legis-
lature that will favor the proposition for
centralizing the State educational fnstitu-
tions. Then, whatever else remains TO be
done to consummate the scheme can be
easily accomplished. A large sum or money
has already been privately pledged in sup
port of the movements million dollars or
more. and when the proposed change is
s sanetion q p ov the The heg sssse win be m cs snea
upon to supply anolher million or wo.
These are not reckless assertions nor sur
misses.
All this sounds very funny, and especially
so. coming from a paper usually so level
headed as the Courier. If it has any in
formation concerning any plan, movement
or conspiracy of the kind indicated, it will
confer a favor on the public and earn the
credit of a journalistic scoop by publishing
the facts. Certainly nothing of the kind
is known here. The only foundation for The
Courier's somewhat hysterical outbreak is
the recent renewal Of a chronic suggestion
that the State University be removed to
this city. This suggestion comes from
some of the alumni Of the institution who
1t excites no interest among business men
or politicians, and very few people in Indi-
annapolis have ever given it a second
thought. AS for the other State institu-
tions. so far as the Journal knows. their
removal has never been suggested or
thought of. The statement that there is
an organized movement to that END is
without any foundation. and the assertion
| that a million dollars have been pledged to
carry it out is too absurd for serious refu-
tation. Money does not grow on bushes
here, and those of our citizens who have a
little can use it to much better advantage
in many other ways than that indicated
by the { ,urier. The whole story is ridicu.
| Ions
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-04

When an English board of trade can bag
net officer at one banquet it seems to have
reduced the expenditure OF money TO a
science.-Terre Haute Express.
The Democrats at Washington are count
ing upon Indiana returning the same num-
Der of Democratic Congressman TO be
found in the present delegation. They seem
to be running the campaign at long range.
After the election they viii be wonderfully
impressed with the Old adage which speaks
of counting chickens before they are
Matched. '-Fort Wayne Gazette.
The New Albany Ledger says Repub-
licans have always condemned the Aus
tralian ballot law. That is not true. The
Republicans never condemned anything
about that law except the notifications
made by the Democracy 10 aid them in
their corrupt practices. The law as a
whole is admirable. and ought TO be let
alone now that voters are accustomed TO 1t.
-Elkhart Review.
That London banquet and Wilson'S speech
are worth a good many votes to the Repub-
licans. He gave the snap away when he
said 1T was the purpose of the tariff re-
formers TO tear down the defenses' of
American industry so that Great Britain
and others" could ENTER cur home mar
kets.' The American workingman will re-
ply TO the toast drunk to Chairman Wilson
by the president OF the London Chamber
or and they will make that re-
ply on Nov. 6.-Crawfordsville Journal.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-04
NEW KIND OF COLLEGE PRESIDENT.

At the formal opening of the college term
of the University of Pennsylvania, on Mon
day, the new provost, or, to use the COM
mon term, president, stated in his inaug-
ural address that hereafter the financial
and educational interests Of the university
would be divorced. He would take charge
of the former and the vice provost of the
latter. The announcement created some
what of a sensation. and yet it is distinctly
In the line of modern university work. The
time was, and not so very long ago, when
the financial and business interests of our
universities were either almost wholly ig-
nored or were entirely subordinated to the
a college must be distinguished as an edu-
Gator and be a minister of the gospel. The
ability to conduct religious exercises was
all important. Business qualifications were
not thought OF. These were left to the hap
hazard control of a board OF managers or
trustees, who took very little interest in
the college further than TO attend the an
nual commencement exercises and pose be-
fore the students as great men. This plan
worked so poorly that by degrees 1t began
TO be demanded that a college president
should nave business sense as we'll as book
learning, and that he should be able TO
lead on In finance as well as In prayer.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-04
THE LIES ABOUT MIR. HENRY.
Unhappy Position Occupied by tn,
Democratic State Organ.

80 NDSLlJ
The Indianapolis Sentinel is greatly wor-
ried because of the Bulletin ~refuting its
gross and uncalled for misrepresentation
or Charles L. Henry. The Sentinel, of
the interest of w. d. Bynum. The editor
of the Bulletin is a Democrat. Two years
other candidate on the Democratic ticket
from Grover Cleveland to coroner. He has
known Charles L. Henry for thirty years.
He knows his record as a politician and as
a private citizen. He knows that what the
Sentinel said about him Saturday is false
and was said with a view of detracting
Bulletin believes In fair play, and can think
of no better motto to express its position
on that score than, to use the words of
Grover Cleveland when maligners were at
tempting TO assail his record, tell the
truth" This the Sentinel has not done, and
thousands of Democrats in Anderson and
Madison county know it. Such stuff as the
Sentinel puts out may do for political rid
den Indianapolis. but it will never do for
Ma' Hen county to democrats hs ats b Tney know
pable and upright man. They know
he is for his district. his county and his
city. They know he has been the
employment in this county than any
other person who ever lived here. They
understanding with organized labor. They
know that when elected to Congress he
will not go twelve miles from Alexandria
to find a man for postmaster for that place.
They know he will not go five miles into
the country and take a farmer who got
his mail at another place and make him
postmaster for Frankton people. They
know that he will work earnestly and sue
c~essfully to obtain recognition for his dis
trict. This they know by what he has done
for Anderson and his county. They know
that the people and not the postmasters
will have a representative in Congress.
Many of them also know that Mr.. Bynum
had to secure the support of the Demo-
cratic organ of Madison county two years
ago by making an ante-election agreement
for the appointment of a postmaster in
Anderson. They also know that Mr.. BY
mum has failed to keep his promise to put
two more Anderson printers into the gov
eminent printing office, and DR.. c. E. Diven
knows that the promise of Mr.. Bynum,
made in a hotel room at Indianapolis a;
the last Democratic State convention, 10
have him CDiven) appointed TO a place In
the auditors Office at Washington has moi
been kept. They know all this and more,
and that is why they do not believe the
Sentineps lies. and why many of them will
vote for Charles l. Henry in November
The Sentinel will know this much the mex
| dav after the election.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-04
A LOST MOUNTAIN.

The United States have recently lost a
mountain. The loss will not impoverish
the country. since it still has left a large
number of mountains, but it has few If any
equal to the one it has lost. Its name is
Mount st. Elias, derived from the fact
navigator, on st. Elias day. 171. 1t came,
or was supposed to have come, into the
possession of the United States with the
purchase of Alaska, in 1867. the considera-
ton for which was less than half a cent
an acre, mountains thrown in. From that
time until the completion of the recent sur
vey of the boundary line between Alaska
and the British possessions. Mount st.
Elias was supposed to be on United States
soil-very close to the line, but still on our
side of it. The map makers, recognizing
that as long as the boundary line was not
officially determined there might be some
doubt as to the ownership of the noun
tain, considerably placed it almost exactly
on the line with a distinct bearing toward
the Alaskan side. Several years ago an
enterprising Yankee planted the American
flag on the highest point of the mountain
then reached, where it still waves unless
it has yielded to the elements. This was
at an altitude Of 11,46O feet, and later ex-
plorations nave fixed the height of the
mountain as 1903 feet above sea level, or
more than three thousand feet higher than
Mount Blanc, the highest peak of the Alps.
But we have lost Mount st. Elias, and
with it our claim to the ownership Of one
of the highest mountains in the world. The
recent official survey OF the boundary line
settles it beyond any doubt that the noun
tain is on the British side of the line, base,
sides, summit and all. IT is a British pos
session out and out. The boundary line, as
officially determined by careful survey and
international agreement, is the one-hundred
and-forty-first meridian of longitude, and
as Mount st. Elias stands half a degree
east of this line it is lost to us forever.
Americans may stand on the Alaskan side
of the line and feast their eyes on its gla-
ciers and it's snow-capped summit, but
they can no longer claim it as part of
Uncle Sans domain. Map makers and
| teachers of geography will please take no.
tice.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-04
DEMOCRATIC ROUGH SHEDDING.

From all accounts. the Democratic speak
ers in this State are having what is some
times termed trough sledding.' In the first
place their audiences are, from a Demo
From the day of the opening of the cam
paign. when the Hon. Jason b. Brown. the
Hon. John E. Lamb and other speakers re-
fused to address the small number who
turned out to hear them, there has not been
a Democratic meeting in the State that did
not fall far short of the expectations of the
to work and the old-time attractions do
not draw. Big posters. private appeals and
brass bands have little or no effect. The
people refuse to respond. A good many
Republicans turn out to witness the dis
comffture of the enemy and to make sure
of an accurate count of the number present
at the meetings. but the Democratic masses
are not in evidence. They are tired.
But small audiences are not the only
thing that the Democratic speakers have
to contend with this year. When they face
their audiences they are at a loss what to
say. Their confidence is smaller than their
audiences. and their arguments are even
weaker than their faith. No Democratic
speaker can face an audience in Indiana
this year without feeling that he is plead
ing a desperately bad case before a jury
whose verdict is already made up. Senator
with his extemporaneous eloquence, such as
it was, now puts his hearers to sleep by
reading a speech ''as tedious as a twice
told tale vexing the dull ear Of a drowsy
man. Senator Turpie. whose boast is that
he can %vituperate in seven different lam
guages, makes a mild speech in which he
tries to prove that the Democratic party is
the original and only friend of the working
man. Judge Holman, not having caught
up with current events, discusses Jeffer-
sonian Democracy. Governor Matthews
makes some grossly erroneous misstate-
ments about national finances and tells how
we'll he handled the State militia. AS an
extra attraction for some of the Governors
meetings. Chairman Taggart, of the Demo-
cratic State central committee, is ad-
vertised to speak with him, but as every
body knows MIR. Taggart does not make
speeches this is clearly a ruse to get al
audience for the Governor. Mr.. Bynum is
telling the people that the seeming prosper
Try which the country enjoyed under pro-
lection was entirely fictitious. and that the
only way to insure real prosperity and pre-
vent labor strikes is to equalize wages in
the United States and foreign countries.
And so it goes, each speaker adopting his
own line of defense and presenting the
Democratic apology after his own fashion.
Meanwhile, the faithful refuse to turn out
and the signs continue to multiply that the
people are sick and tired of the party of
false pretenses and false promises.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-04
BYNUM,s APPRoPRIATE TUNE.

Yesterday a Bynum wagon containing
four or five filters and drummers was pass
ing through the streets, the ffers playing
9Th Girl 1 Left Behind Me-" OF itself it
was a matter of no general significance,
except to show that Mr.. Bynum is having
the well-known air which the filters were
giving the public was most suggestive in
Mr.. Bynum's case. TIE Seventh district is
the girl which Mr.. Bynum leaves behind
him from the week after election every
even-numbered year until a few weeks be-
fore that event. Having favors TO ask of
here to ask, but as soon as he has re-
ceived them, he goes off whistling 'IThe
Girl 1 Left Behind Me-" as did his filters
yesterday. If Mr.. Bynum was not COM
PEELED to have an election he would never
show his face in the Seventh district. When
it was announced that he would not run
this year, his friends said that he would
make Washington his home and take up
the practice of law at the capital, which
means that he would become a legal lobby
list. When Congress is not in session ar.
Bynum's constituents can hear of him
making speeches In different parts Of the
country. now TO Tammany on the Fourth OF
JuIy-the Tammany whose outrages are
now being exposed-in Oregon, and else
where, but never in Indiana. The telegraph
has reported him time and again. here and
there, but never consulting his constitu-
Indianapolis. What the nonresident landlord
OF ireland is to the House OF Lords, Mr..
Bynum has. for six years. been. in a large
degree, to the Seventh district. 1t and its
interests are the girl he has abandoned and
left behind him. When workingmen petition
him TO stand by their interests as they see
them, he writes them insulting letters in
which they are told that their employers
are putting them up to such things and
that they are densely ignorant. When the
House might. at least. have shown a dis
position I'D save II A1dIilSoH icSipiocit5
treaties which gave to three Westerr
States, one OF which is Indiana, the valu,
able -four trade of Cuba, he turned his
pack upon the millers. practically whist
ling eth Girl 1 Left Behind Me-" wher
he has a cadetshlp at his disposal for the
Seventh district. he huns The Girl i Left
| Behind Me-, and appoints his son. ignorins
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-04
THE L PRESS.

1t now takes two and a third bushels of
wheat to buy twenty pounds of sugar. The
farmer is yet to hear from in November.
Journal.
If President Cleveland had written Con-
gresham Wilson a letter advising him to
keep away from the banquet rendered him
by the London merchants he would nave
done his country as we'll as his party good
service.-Columbia City Mail,
Secretary Morton is telling over in Eng
land that 1.-The people of America have
finally said adieu to the protective sys-
tenn" This is an Interpretation Of the re-
cent elections that has not occurred to
anybody else.-Shelbyville Republican.
With full control OF all branches of the
government the Democratic party is re-
sponsible for all that has happened, and
while its leaders offer excuses the masses
have learned by bitter experience the mis-
take that was made in 1892 and intend TO
rectify it this fal~l.-Logansport Journal.
The Republicans are not running any
body for President this year, but they are
keeping the fact plainly in view that they
have plenty Of presidential material, and
that when the proper time comes they will
nominate a man whose election will be a
foregone Observation-Disclosures Republican.
Mr.. Wilson apparently enjoys the distinc-
ton of being wined and dined by London
aristocracy. but the mere fact that he is
receiving such consideration Is proof 10 the
working people OF the United States that
he has deliberately betrayed their inter-
ests for the benefit of Europeans.-Vin-
cennes Commercial.
A Democrat remarked last evening, in
reference TO the violation Of the civil-serv-
ice law, that the law might be BANKED.
but the Democrats were going 10 make al
they could during the next two years, for
they didn't expect 10 get another chance
at the offices during the present genera
tion.-Richmond Palladium.
il has been asserted often that much
British money has been spent through the
Golden Club and other agencies to s7read
the free trade doctrines in this countrv-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-04

Many of the most successful college presi-
dents in recent years have been quite as
and executive ability as for their literary
and educational equipment. Now comes the
president of one of the eldest universities
in the country and says that he shall de-
vote himself exclusively to the manage
ment of its financial interests and leave its
educational interests entirely TO the vice
president. This is not so much of a new
departure as it is the natural result of an
evolutionary process in which the applica-
ton of the American mind to educational
affairs is working out practical results.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-04

Englishmen are not destitute of humor.
When Congressman Wilson, in his London
banquet speech, said he was not sure that
he could call upon his hearers to rejoice at
United States, except in so far as they
approved sound principles more than they
valued selfish advantage, he was greeted
with Hear Heart" and laughter. John
Bull could not refrain from laughing at the
suggestion that under any circumstances
he would place sound principles above self
ish advantage. John does not engage in
business for fun.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-04

the fact that there are five hundred boys
in the Seventh district who would eagerly
strive for the prize in competitive exami-
nations, as they do in nearly every North
ern district. Yes, "The Girl / Left Behind
Me- is the most suggestive tune Mr.. By
NUNS ffers can blow. But this year the
Seventh district voters will leave William
d. Bynum be~hind-badly behind.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-04

Isaac Pussy Gray always was a lucky
man in politics. 1t must make Senators
Voorhees, and Turpie red hot to think that
while they are perambulating the State and
audiences the willy Isaac is enjoying the
pleasures of legation life in Mexico with
little to do beyond drawing his salary.
in time to share in the wreckage. That is
Isaac's way.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-04

The Fort Wayne Gazette says that the
opening meeting of the Democratic cam
tised weeks in advance to be addressed by
Judge collars, was attended by less than
sixty persons, and that all the later meet
ings hav been surprisingly small. 1t is
hard lines for the Democracy when they
cannot get up a good meeting in "old AL
len."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-04
A ragged

The scene was slowly parted,
And TO the folks disclosed
Miss Fannie Flossie Footlites
AS Venus" finely posed.
Encouraged by the stiffness
And darkness of the house,
Across the stage there scuttled
A wild, ferocious mouse.
A start, a scream of terror,
And, huddled on a chair,
Stood Venus" wildly grabbing
For skirts which were not there!
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-04
Deceived.

Everett Wrest-I believe I will join the
Socialists.
Dismal Dawson-You know what them
Socialist fellers want? They want every
man in the country to work fer the State.
Everett Wrest-What? Wy, the Teller I
was talkin' to about it last night said. that
the idee was fer to make the State do the
work fer us.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-04

The attention of Governor Matthews is
called TO the fact that Democratic dealers
in this city complain that awards for stores
for the hospital are made to the highest
of the Southern prison.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-04

Chicago Record.

Chicago Record.
The Companion Cfired to give lessons in
polite department., whispering to her en-
ployer)-Now, Nine Newrich, is the time to
rise and ask your guests in to dinner. And
remember, don't call them gents.
Mime. Newrich Cn loud, firm tones)-Wil
the males please step into the dining room2
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-04
Holm for the ParentIess.

Now, that is what 1 call an appreciation
of the proper thing"
What in the world are you talking
about? '
about that South-side grocer's contribu-
ton of a barrel Of self-raising flour to the
orphan asylum"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-04

Gated in Congress and i'm public ever since
he has been in Congress has reduced the
wages in most employments from 10 to 80
per cent. and has. worse than that. de-
prived thousands of men of all employment.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-04

Those Democrats who are claiming that
dicted for contempt by the administration
would have us believe that the President
appoints grand jurors and instructs them.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-04

The Sentineis story to the effect that a
statute believed to be inimical to labor
was enacted by the influence of Mr.. Henry
was exposed two years ago. AS a SIAN
aerer the Sentinel is not a success this
season
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-04

Hoke Smith driving out settlers in north
ern Michigan to give their lands to a rail-
road corporation is sustaining the prece-
vicus Secretary Of the Interior in Iowa and
R-ooon
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-04

The Democratic chairman of the ways
and means committee could not have been
had borne a special letter of introduction
to the president of the Golden Club
from bis great and good friend. Grover
cIaxoIaud
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-04

The fact that the Wichita, Kan. cyclone
passed within ten feet of the house of Gov.
Lewelling and did it no harm means that
more general Republican sweep of No
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-04

There was an election. or. rather. a re-
turning of votes by the Democratic election
officers in Georgia yesterday. to show that
that State is reliably solid. When votes ere
counted in contested sections OF that State,
as deposited. there will be some interest in
a Georgia State election.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-04

The only people who are realizing the
promises of clover made two years ago are
land panic has not affected their wages
nor paralyzed their business.