The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-10-08

stand by Your Party and Vote for
Safe. Economical Government.

Say you are a business man with enter
prises in hand which you must employ
agents to manage. All the details of bor-
rowing and expending money in conducting
them you leave to these agents. with whom
you make contracts for definite periods of
time. all their acts performed during those
periods TO bind you. But you find directly
that they are not managing we'll, are pay
| ing too high a rate of interest, are extray-
agant in their expenditures and will quick
ly bankrupt you by the course they are
pursuing. You can do nothing, however,
though you feel that you are being rbobed.
Your contracts bind you and your remon-
strances are of no avail. a
But after a time your contracts expire
and you GUST one of these agents. They
were equally bad managers, equally dis
honest, as you believe. but you GUST but
one, making a new contract on exactly the
cid lines with the others. You are foolish
for doing so, all will think. and you will
| yourself admit. But 1t is your business,
and that is the way you do 1t.
For the management of the other branch
of your business you make a contract with
a new man, still, however. on the old
terms. The new man introduces a new sys-
tenn, an obviously correct system, with
nv SVO "a iiit III atit Il OIc
at a lower rate OF interest and pays off the
old Indebtedness, so saving you money;
cuts down expenses to a legitimate basis,
saving you more money; proves himself in
vincibly honest; makes your business+in
short, perfectly satisfies. every end for
which it was designed-esc1t
though these two men have been operating
side by side for you, and you have had to
constantly expostulate with the one lin
vain-and had nothing but approval for the
| other. Won now propose To OI1Sf the good
man and reinstate the other bad one. though
all the antecedents and all your knowledge
tinue to rightly manage your affairs. and it
is as certain as death that the other will
mismanage them to thestop Of his bent.
| There is a term quite common in our
United States colloquial ~yernacular to ex-
actly fit the man who could manage his
t p5iva smae epsi prisht after ieys igsa I fa Rep%Sli sna
travelling man who goes PVT Ct indianapolis
Then how about him who'proposes to man.
age public business in such a way? And
isn't the folly of many worse than the
folly of one?
Some of our Indianapolis travelling men
who call themselves Republicans are in
tending to vote for Taggart, it is said.
! That is, they mean to vote to nave the
business of the city. general and school,
conducted about upon the plan indicated
above. Such men certainly cannot have
got 1t home to their apprehension hat poll
5 Whic Is fact afteT It al Should y, ! ss seen cn oer ex psslnsss;
NhitA o>es ~ cAfcNaN o~Nths Oet
| with vicious and imbecile national politics
during the last two years should nave
taught a wooden man.
ton has also a business bearing. Whether
or not it is wicked for a man to drink a
glass Of doI beer is a ps sues aaSn t for the ms.i in sar
one is poison for another. I think, in SUBJ
stance. But an explicit notice to the vicious
flass tS be- the tS sapnt wSeb ih adfi tnsr e fr a@e D sag,
Chicago. they may come here and practice
their %callings in defiance of the law. that
must in some measure operate to drive BUSH
business men who make the law-abiding
reputation Of a city ap, element in their
While they are a little against us as to-
Chicago, perhaps; and. If this city goes
Democratic in the pending election it will
advertise itself to the country as a law
contemning community.
There's talk abroad. too, of Republicans
who will not vote for Trusler because he
nothing could be more absurd. ! am posi-
| lively assured that he did vote for Harri-
son. But II he did not. what sort of an
eye can he have who claims to be a friend
of Harrison's and yet cannot see that he
could by no means more effectually harm
the General than. by helping. for such a
at this time? More still--they thereby make
a man greater than the party, and harm
both their friend and the party for the sake
rarely had here a better opportunity to vim
dicate the integrity of the party than is
now afforded us. II has been charged,
with too much justice, may be, that the
party is subject to bossism. But Trusler
was nominated by a convention of the par
ty upon his known ability to discharge
the duties of the mayoralty and the GER
tainty that he would discharge them If
elected. Not a trace of bossism there!
1t will he no less than a party scandal,
then. IL he is defeated, because his oppon-
ent cannot be elected without Republican
votes. and his defeat will be an explicit re-
pudiation by a section of the Republican
party of Indianapolis of the element Of
personal integrity in official position.
The Republican party is the greatest
thing on earth when IL Is true to itself,
and is. / believe it Gamble shown. the in
strument that has given TO the last half
of the nineteenth century the forward trend
hat makes il the most remarkable period
i'm the history of mankind, down to date.
| But IL will not be true to- itself IL its men,
hers vote against a good man who is regu-
larly presented to 1t for preferment for
personal reasons. 1t is easy to find fault.
and no man is perfect. But the issue is a
plain one now in our local election, and
should confuse no one. A rigidly honest
and law-observing business administrator
of CITY affairs. or one subject to personal
w~hjm-which do you want. you whose in
terests are here in indianapolis?
We who are Republicans should not hest
tate in our answer to such a question, but
should vote our ticket. and. so far as our
action can go. give a right impulse to 1896
by ~electing a law and order ticket here in
Indianapolis. o. w. SEARS
Indianapolis, Oct. T.,