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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-23
SILVER AND WHEAT.
Recent Prices of Both an Object Les
son Worth Studying
New York

The short crop of wheat in other parts
or the world has done more to raise the
States during the last two months than
years of free coinage of silver could do.
Whether it was the weather abroad or "a
foreign substitute of our own chinch bug,
which, according to Judge Aldridge, of
Texas, can eat up one-half the sixteen to
one in three weeks. is not mate
rial, but the law of supply and demand is
clearly shown in the result.
And the advancing price of wheat has an
interest out of the ordinary juss at pres
ent, when a presidential campaign is being
fought on the issue mainly of a demoneti-
cation OF silver. Phis has been
used in season and out of season until it
has become accepted as an economic truth
in it's application by further asserting that
there can be no recovery in price until the
coinage of silver at a ratio of 16 to / is re-
sumed. We are now witnessing an advance
at q time when the free coinage of silver
was never more doubtful, and as If to en-
phasize the very fallacy of q connection
between wheat and silver prices, the quo
tations of silver have fallen to the lowest
point recorded In three years.
The commercial price of bar silver in
New York Oct. 13 was 641la cents an ounce,
making the value of the metal in q silver
wheat in New York was so cents. the high
est price reached up to that date on the
bull movement. On July 8, the day before
Mr.. Bryan was nominated, silver sold at
ISIS cents an ounce. Its decline in a period
of about ninety days was. therefore. AS
cents an ounce. In the same period wheat
rose from 63ss cents to so cents. an in
crease of 163s cents. In this short time
wheat and silver prices. instead of NOV
ing in sympathy, as per the time-worn
theory. nave drawn apart 2Oat cents,
There never was a clearer demonstration
of the law OF supply and demand as affect
ing prices.
If silver. regardless of production, can
be maintained at a ratio of 16 to l with
gold, so wheat. regardless of the supply
in the world, ought to nave a fixed value.
But, as has just been shown. both wheat
and silver are subject to the immutable
laws OF supply and demand. The unlimited
coinage of the white metal would no more
enhance its value than selling wheat in
government packages would increase price.
In other words, an ounce of silver under
free coinage could gain nothing because
of the mere fact that the government had
certified to the weight and handed the coin
back to the owner. We might as well at
tempt to make men fifteen or eighteen feet
tall by decreeing that one foot equaled a
yard.
Free coinage of silver might, it is true,
increase the price of wheat in
silver, but both would find their real worth
only when measured in gold.
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THE CHANGING SENTIMENT.
Americans Talk ImpulsfveIy, bu'
They Vote Deliberately.
United State Investor

United States Investor.
Nothing is more striking than the change
of sentiment Which appears to have taken
place in the West in the last few months
regarding silver. One Eastern business
man. for instance, tells us that when he
travelled through Iowa. Nebraska and 9th +
trans-Mississippi States in July. he found
nineteen cut of every twenty persons
tinged with silver, and II the election had
taken place then MIR. Bryan would have
swept that locality. When he traversed
the same country In the latter part of
September he found that a great change
had taken place, and that most OF the per-
sons who had formerly talked. silver were
then advocating gold. To what is this
change due?
Probably to q number of causes. In the
first place the atmosphere of this country.
and especially the atmosphere of the West,
seems TO breed impulsiyeness. But the
American temperament is. on the whole,
a nicely alanced affair. Unlike many i'm
pulsive races, we are characterized by re-
fiectiveness. Our temperament makes ii
very hasty III saying what we are going
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abroad Mems Sound
IN MRS. CASTLES BEHALF.
Mrs. Dwyer Will Testify Concerning
the KIeptomanfac's Acts.

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 22.-Mrs. Kate Dwyer,
prominently identified with the retail fur trade
in this city, left for London tonight. Her mis-
sion has but one object, and that opportunity will
be afforded her in London on Nov. , to testify
to the unmistakable peculiarities of the un-
fortunate Mrs. Castle, accused OF shop-lifting.
Preceding Mrs. Dwyer there was sent forward in
the early part of this week some seventy-five
dispositions, each of which contained the sworn
statements of people in varied walks Of life who
have testified to the singular characteristics of
Mrs. Castle. Included among these Opponents are
street-car conductors. dry goods merchants of
every class, vegetable dealers in the section of
the city where Mrs. Castle resides, butchers, con-
PETITIONERS, chinaware proprietors. in fact, state
mentS from people covering nearly the entire
field in which merchandise and other goods are
bought and sold. Efforts and expense have not
been spared in hunting up people who could
testify TO the extent TO which Mrs. Castle carried
on her unfortunate. practices. 1t is believed she
is mentally deranged to such an extent that she
failed to realize the publicity of her illegal acts.
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DEMOCRATS IN NEW YORK.
Have No Hope. and SuIk in Their
Tents

New York Letter in Boston Transcript.
The inactivity of the silver Democrats, on
the other hand. is the inactivity of adj
mitted and crushing defeat. Their State
committee has its headquarters in Madison
square, whence a little group of unknown,
incompetent and indifferent men pretend to
be conducting a campaign. Their own
words, / had almost said, are the only
signs of it's existence. Apparently they are
Throughout the State the wing of the party
that has chosen to be regular at all costs
is demoralized. The local leaders have
proved themselves to be regular, and SO. as
they believe, protected their future. This
done, they have sunk into discouraged in
difference They know little. they care less.
about the s'lverites and their cause in the
broader aspects. The machine OF which
they were parts and from the integrity of
which they drew their strength is cracked
and broken. Their old chiefs are skulking,
like Hill: Indifferent. ike Murphy. or in re-
volt. like Flower. They neither know nor
trust the new leaders who have come like
bubbles to the surface. Their whilom
sources of revenue are in the main closed
to them. Certain defeat in the State cam
sive years they have endured it. No Won
der they are sulien and Indifferent, and
that their working followers. except a few
ebullient silverites, are as disheartened and
sluggish as they. 1t is hard to stir them
even to the contesting of an Assembly dis
trict that under ordinary circumstances
they might expect to win.
In this town Tammany puts a Drawer face
on its deInoralization-the worse here for
the quafTetS OF lVS IeauefS ana tner SnreWd
m~aneuvering for position after the election
has passed. The treasury of the Wigwam
is low, and there is no means to replenish
it. The prospects Of the chiefs are most
depressing in the city and in the State
alike. High and low there are cease,ess
chickering's. High and low there are few
signs of the mastery campaigning of
which Tammany at its best is capable.
Every week there are reports that it is
about to begin an active canvass, but
naught comes of them. There is no effort
to win back those who have forsaken the
Wigwam. while much has been said and
done to repel them. In many quarters In
the city. especially among the better-to-do,
the Germans and the Jews. the old Tam
many following is ~grievouslv shattered.
Probably it will cast the small est vote it
has ever thrown in a presidential election
in November.
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Indiana

FORTVILLE, Ind, Oct. 22.-Dr. Birtsell
township. this county. was buried near his
late residence yesterday by the Masonic
lodge of McCordsville. Mr.. Wittram was
~eighty-three years old and leaves u host
of friends and relatives. S. l.. Wittram, a
son. is a prominent physician of Bright
wood.
FARMLAND, Ind, Oct. Mrs. Ann
Worl, wife of eX-Trustee George w. Worl,
died this morning after a severe illness of
several weeks. Mrs. Worl was well known.
She was a prominent worker in the w. r.
c. and in the aught Of Pocahontas.
The interment will be at Union Cemetery,
near Windsor, in the morning.
GREENSBURG, Ind, Oct. Mrs.
Maria Ricketts,, a penSioner. was found
dead in bed this morning. She retired the
evening before in her usual health. The
cause was heart disease.
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Found Dead i'm Bed.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
ANDERSON, Ind. Oct. 22.-Michael
Bronnenberg, a wealthy farmer seven miles
northeast of Anderson, was found dead in
his bed this morning. Mr.. Bronnenberg,
who is seventy-seven years old, was the
second male white child born in Madison
county. His father settled here in 1919, and
the son Michael now owns the old home
stead and several other large farms IN the
county. He leaves a large family, all being
grown. Mr.. Bronnenberg was in the city
yesterday with his neighborS to see Bryan,
but made a visit to Republican h~eadquar-
tiers and declared that he would bet Il farm
on Mckinley. Last night about 2 O'Clock
his wife aWoke and found him dead.
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though he had never voted. but would join
the Mckinley First Voters Club and cast
his influence for sound money.
Hon. NJ. d. Tackett spoke Wednesday
night to the Republicans of huntsville.
Gee clubs were present from Elizabeth
town and Sardinia.
Hon. a. a. Davidson. of Seymour. the
Democratic sound-money ~elector from the
Fourth district. spoke to a good audience
at Hope last evening.
Mayor George W.. Croner. of Muncie. adj
dressed the Republicans of Hartford City
at the opera house there Wednesday. Inc
nall was filed to overflowlng.
l.. b. Swift spoke for an hour in the Lin
ton Opera House Wednesday night TO the
capacity of the house. He confined himseif
mostly TO the money question.
Hon. Charles l.. Henry spoke to a great
crowd at Ingalls, Tuesday. There We're
delegations in parade from Noblesvllle.
Pendleton, FORTUNE and Greenfield.
joel Stafford spoke to a large Republican
audience at Eureka Monday night. at Mid
way Tuesday night and also an enthusiasts
tic crowd at Gentryville Wednesday night.
Senator Thomas E. Bovd spoke at Bed
ford Wednesday TO the great crowd that
evening Senator Boyd spoke again at a
camp fire.
Hon Oscar Knott, gold Democrat, of the
speeches in German in Spencer county the
past few days, at Fulda, st. Meinrad and
New Boston.
John N. Schultz, who has been a lifelong
D6IlOCfaI anu u prominent ClliZCH Tilt
business man of Crawfordsville. has an
nounced that he cannot vote for Bryan
and the free-silver craze.
Edgar Z. Hendee. of Anderson, addressed
one of the most enthusiastic meetings of
the campaign at Kewanna Wednesday
evening. The farmers living in the locality
were present i'll large numbers.
One of the greatest sound-moue speeches
of the campaign in New Castle was deliv-
cred in the courthouse Wednesday night by
Hon. Henry Volmer, Mayor of Davenport,
Ia. He was introduced by Hon. d. l.. Herr
tage, district elector on the Palmer and
Buckner ticket.
The Republican demonstration at Brooks
burg, in jefferson county. yesterday in
cluded an immense industrial and aSrfcul-
tuIal parade. Three thousand were in line,
including 40 horsemen. Major Linck, of
Jefferson county, and attorney Smith, of
Switzerland county. spoke.
Edwin S. Elliott. of Chicago, spoke at the
Terre Haute Republican wigwam Wednes-
day night to a big audience. There was a
parade preceding the meeting, and al
though there had not been a special effort
to make a big demonstration one of the
largest professions of the campaign turned
out.
Encouragement w. A. Ketcham spoke
port Wednesday night. Logansport has
had Ex-Governor Flower, of New York;
Hon. job P. Irish, of California: William
d. Bynum and John r. Wilson, for sound
money, in the last few days with good ef-
feet.
The South Bend Railroad Mems Sound
money Club is making elaborate prepare
tons for q grand demonstration in South
been preparing for this celebration for
some time. Among the railroad men COM
ing are delegations from Niles, Dowagiac,
Vicksburg, Kalamazoo, Buchanan. Battle
shen, Warsaw. Plymouth, Laporte, Rolling
Prairie, New Carlisle, in Indiana.
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WOMAN'S RELIEF CORPS
DISTRICT MEETING At BEDFORD
ADDRESSED BY MRS. SIMS.
Summit Refrigerator Plant Burned
with Total Loss of $4,000 and
Only $4,000 Insurance.


Special to the indianapolis Journal.
BEDFORD, Ind, Oct. 2.@The Woman $
Relief Corps, Tenth district, was in con-
yention here this week. The department
president, Mrs. Sims; the district president,
Mrs. Donbet. and Department Commander
Caylor, ana +. NJ. Smock, assistant depart
rent acknowledgement, and Mr. Tucker,
chief of staff, were present. A
camp fire was held Tuesday night.
presided over by Commander Cay
Tor. Mrs. H.. II. Edwards, of this city,
gave the address of the evening. 1t was
beautiful and patriotic in sentiment. Short
speeches by the department commander.
oiXpp
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Good Advice 70 the south.
New Orleans Picayune CDem.)

NEW OTledHS IlCdyunc tCeHiJ
The Southern States. with the richest re-
sources that nature could confer upon any
country, needs capital for their develop
ment. 1t is known that the largest sur
plus of ready cash is in the great cities of
the East. Why should there be any effort
TO antagonize the people from whom the
greatest benefits are to be asked and ex-
pected? If the Southern people mean bus
mess, they will enter into no hostile or or
fensive combinations. They need to be
friendly with both East and West, and get
all the benefits that are to be derived from
a fair and honest course in business. Sec
tionalism nearly ruined them. They should
beware of it in the future.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-23
TWO MATCH RACES.
Pilot Boy Beat "a A., and Ruben-
stein Defeated Star Pointer.

MANSFIELD, o., Oct. PA perfect day
and track and a large attendance marked
the races here to-day. The first race was
between the racing stations, Star Pointer
(2:O21a) and Rubenstein (2:05), for a purse of
81, 500. The trotting match was between
Senator A.. (2:1) and Pilot Boy (2:104) for
the same sum. Both races were won in
straight heats. Rubenstein took the pace
in 2:11A, 2:15, 2:111a. Star Pointer broke
badly at the turns on the half-mile track.
The trotting race was more closely con-
tested. but Pilot Boy moved like clock
work and was an easy winner in 2:1614.
2:18, 2:16A. Matthew Laird drove Ruben
stein; John McCleary. Star Pointer; George
Senator A.
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Indiana Campaign Notes.

Robert Il. Lincoln and Stephen A. Doug
las will speak in South Bend on the last
day OF the campaign, oct. 81.
James X. Knox, OF Brazil, and John Ma
son, of knishtsville, spoke to & large crowd
at jackson Hill Tuesday night.
n delegation of $50 Eiwood Republicans
went to Alexandria on n special train yes
terday morning to attend a big rally at thai
place.
After Bryan spoke at Muncie sixty-five
free-silver people went to Republican head
quarters and gave UP their silver badges
for gold badges.
Mr.. Charles L. Adamson, for more than
ten wears at the head of the Adamson
Patent Company, with head office in Mum
Gle and branch offices in every State in
the Union. last night issued q card in which
he stated he had always been q Democrat.
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Special to the indianapolis Journal.
MUNCIE, nd, Oct. 22.-The immense
crowd that semble at the opera house
last night to hear the address of Hon.
James Campbell did not seem TO interfere
with the meeting arranged for the colored
orator, Hon. A. II. Roberts, at the court
house. The record that Mr.. Roberts has
made in this State was sufficient to in
sure for this meeting a good attendance.
The orator held his audience by the charm
of his eloquence. He spoke for an hour
and a half. making many telling points.
The negro race has in Mr.. Roberts an able
champion, the Republican party a strong
advocate
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-23
The Fall i'm Prices.
New York

THE gold dollar has deprecated the
price of our farm products" says the silver
advocate
The gold dollar is not responsible for the
fall in the price of farm products. The
present rise in wheat is a sufficient refuta-
ton of this fact. Here are a few figures
which may be of interest.
The total cereal crop in the United States
in 1869. namely. corn, wheat. oats, barley.
rye and buckwheat. was 1.3S7. 900. T52 bushels.
and the population was 38. 55S.3 81, a per
capita production of thirty-six bushels.
In 1879 the total crop reached 2.697.5So. 229
bushels. and the population of the country
was SO. 155. iS3, a per capita production of
5S.S bushels.
In 1889 the crop OF these products
amounted to 3,5lS, SIG, 9o4, and the Population
was 62.622, go, a per capita production of
5G.5 bushels.
Thus, While the production of corn.
wheat. oats, barley, rye and
combined Increased about $50 per cent. be-
tween 1869 and 1889. the population increased
only about "a per cent.
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5000 WE'RE DISAPPOINTED.
That Number Gathered at ROachdale,
Where Harrison Did Not Speak.

Special 20 the Indianapolis Journal.
ROACHDALE, Ind, Oct. 22.-On account
of a misunderstanding with the chairman
of the Putnam county committee and the
failure of General Harrison to come by
this place and speak to the people, there
was a crowd of five thousand Republicans
sorely disappointed last night. There was
the biggest crowd ever seen at a political
meeting here and the enthusiasm was un-
bounded. Large delegations came in from
Ladoga, North Salem, cambridge and other
places and there We're three hundred to
come from Russei1Ville, but were stopped by
a telegram aging Harrison would not be
here. Judge Robinson and Milroy Gordon
were to speak in the hall after the Har-
riSon speaking and they both failed to get
here, which was a double disappointment
to the large crowd. The town was heauti-
fully decorated for the occasion.
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More Armenian Refugees.

NEW YORK, Oct. %. - There We're $50
Armenian steerage passengers on the Ham
burg-Amserican line steamer California,
which arrived this afternoon from Ham
burg and IIavre. They were shipped in
Havre and are booked for various destina-
lions. The captain states that ali have
He does not anticipate any difficulty about
landing them. as he says they are not likely
to become ii public charge. There are only
a few women and children among them.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-23
CITY NEWS NOTES.

Mr.. w. z. Fishback will give a talk to
the Young Women's Christian Association
tonight on European Travel After the
lecture light refreshments will be served.
Every member is allowed to bring one
guest. either lady or gentleman.
Prof. Joakim Reinhard, now of Purdue
University. will lecture at the Girls Class
steal School at $50 n. m. this morning. The
subject will be, THE Children of the Vi
kings" This is the first of a series of lee
lures to be given at the school on alternate
Friday mornings during the year.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-23
Bartholomew County Politics.

TO the Editor of the indianapolis Journal:
our correspondent was led into error in
some of his statements as published in this
mornings Journal. First, he conveyed the
impression that all of the Moneys are 20.
ing to vote for Mckinley. This is entireI,
without authority, for it has been under.
stood all along that they were for Palmer
and Buckner. They are now very active
in their support Of that ticket. and say
they viii vote it. Second, the Republicans
have not made any ella ms as to this county
The majority of the Democrats was about
four hundred in 1892. This will be largely
reduced and probably wiped out.
WILLIAM q. IRWIN.
Columbus. Ind. Oct. u.
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AIexnnCria's Big Rally.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.

opeclaI 70 the IndianaDoIis JOURNAL.
ALEXANDRIA, Ind, Oct. 22.-The larg-
est and most enthusiastic rally of the cam
paign was held in this city this afternoon.
]. Frank Hanly was billed to address the
meeting, but was prevented by sickness.
and Hon. Frederick E. Holloway. Of Evans
Vile, was substituted. a delay of the train
prevented his arrival until nearly 4 O'Clock.
In the meantime j. f. Mcclure and H. G.
Ryan addressed the audience. Mr.. Hoilo-
way made one of the most eloquent and
forcible political speeches ever delivered
in this city. The procession was over five
miles in length and required two hours in
passing d given point. Some estimated the
crowd at L. nl
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Last night the police arrested seven boys
who are charged with having broken UP
the Republican meeting at Lincoln lane and
South East street Tuesday night. They
are John and Sylvester Moriarity, William
and Charles Murphy. Albert Klann. Lii
Kritsch and Ernest Thleger. The boys
range between fourteen and nineteen years
of age. They We're arrested on warrants
sworn out by the police. Patrolmen Leet,
Mininger. Cox and Beechman made the ar
rests. The lads were gathered in this
morning between l and 2 o'clock. They are
charged With assault and battery and
throwing stones.
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Prayer at u Republican Meeting.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
RIDGEVILLE, Ind, Oct. 22.-Hon. Frank
B. Posey addressed the largest political
meeting ever held in Ward township Deer
field last night. The crowd was estimated
at one thousand. Only half of the people
could get into the M. i. Church where
the meeting was held, which was opened
by prayer by Rev. w. O. Pierce. Delega-
tons were present from Union City, Win
chester, Saratoga and Ridgeville. A Nc
kinley pole $50 feet high was raised at 4
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diversified at Edinburg.


Special to the 1ndianapolis Journal.
EDINGBURG. Ind, Oct. 22.-The Hon.
Jesse Overstreet was greeted by an i'm
mense throng here tonight. The jam was
50 great thai 1t was almost impossible to
get through the streets. There were sew
erai delegations with large wagons tllled
with young women. and any number of
drum corps. III order that as many people
as possible might hear MIR. Overstreet he
first spoke from a wagon on the street,
while the Hon. r. y. Brown spoke in the
hall. which was packed. When MIR. over
street had finished on the street he went
to the hall and MIR. Brown spoke on the
street. Both made able and convincing
speeches and were cheered to the echo. II
is but truth to say that up to date the
Democrats at this noint have made a poor
showing at their .large. meetings.
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Student Killed by Footpaas.

CLEVELAND, Oct. 22.-Joseph Lupinek.
Reserve College. at Hudson. o.. who was
assaulted and robbed by ~footpads on East
Madison avenue Monday night, died of his
injuries to-day. He regained consciousness
asst night long enough to state that he was
struck from behind with a heavy club. but
did not see his assaflants. The police have
no clew. Young Lupinek's parents live at
No. l4JG Central avenue. this city.