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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-01

In a speech at Kokomo Il few days ago
Mr.. Shively,. Popocrat candidate for Gov
ernor, used the following 'spring-wheat'
argument in favor of free silver:
If the government should pass a law that
spring wheat should not be ground INTO
flour and sold as breadstuff but winter
wheat alone should be admitted to the
mills ground and sold as breadstuH the
price of winter wheat would go up ana the
price of spring wheat would go down 70 d
level with stock feed. Now, suppose that
after this law had been in operation Tor a
time il should be repealed. Would not the
price of spring wheat go up ana the price
ity of values were reached. when both were
admitted freely to the mills?
OF course the Inference was that the tree
coinage of silver would send the price up
to parity with gold. Some of Mr.. Shively' $
hearers thought the illustra ton very con-
vincing. but a correspondent of the Ke-
komo Tribune. who signs himself Winter
Wheat" disposes of it in this fashion:
The mills (nints) We're not closed to
sDring wheat fSilverl in 1873. They nave
been running on more than sextuple time.
and the output of flour (silver dollars) has
been seventy times as great since that date,
tWenty-three years ago, as for eighty years
sold in the market for as much as winter
wheat flour gold dollars), yet the spring
wheat (silver bullion) can be bought in the
open market at half the price of winter
wheat (gold), whether we take one-halt the
crop or all of it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-01

A short time ago the South Bend Tribune
printed an extract from a letter written by
Mr.. W. A. Squires, of Texas, to Mr.. Glenn
Studebaker, of that city, an old friend
stating his intention of voting for Nc
Kinley. AS Mr. Squires has been a life
long Democrat some of the South Bend
Democrats questioned the genuineness of
the letter, and got another friend of his
to write to him, inclosing the clipping and
asking if it was true IF not true, said
the writer, Il wish that you would state
so in YOUR letter, with authority to me to
make the same public" Mr. Squires
answered this letter with one of consider
able length. and sent copy of it to the
Tribune for publication. Ii is "a scorcher."
The first paragraph is as follows:
Your favor of Sept. is at hand. and in
reply will say that l wrote the letter you
refer to to the Hon. Glen Studebaker. of
not one word to take back | even could
add much more to it. were 1T necessary,
and give you good reasons as a Democrat
who has assisted in fighting for the prln-
ciples of Democracy and has voted the
Democratic ticket straight. never scratched
a ticket for over thirty-six years
The writer then proceeds to give in very
plain and vigorous language some of his
reasons for refusing to support the Popo-
crat platform and candidate, concluding as
follows:
| can tell you why l support Major Nc
Kinley for President. He is nearer the ole
landmarks of Democracy on this financial
question now agitating the people because
he is in favor of a 100-cent dollar, honest
and sound money; in favor of the govern
ment and all persons paying tner honest
debts in accordance with contracts made
opposed to Reputation in all its forms. ano
stands by the people and for the people
believing that what is good for the FARMER
*, good for the laborer. and what Is g0oC
for the laborer is good for the merchant
and all should have a fair race for hnan
cial gain. l had rather take in mine little
more protection and have sound money ant
a hundred-cent dollar than little less pro
lection and free silver and nat money
worth fifty-two cents on the dollar. an
in favor of the utter defeat and destruction
of the root and branch of Bryanlsm. ALA:
Tillmanism alias Mechanism, alias an
archy repudia ton and public and .prlvat
dishonor.
are tens of thousands. of good and loya
Democrats in the United States ana 900
or more here in the great State or Texa
who have never scratched ticket no
| voted for Republican in their lie VINO WI
| vote this kind of Democracy next NoVem
| Der and bury Bryan and SewaI SO dec
POLITICALLY and otherwise that should Ga
| briel blow his horn for thousand year
| they never could be resurrected
Mr.. Suuires is a successful business man
| and was. until recently chairman of tn
| Democratic committee in his congressiona
/ d,strict It is presumed South Bend free
silyerites will not ask him to define hi
position any further
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-01

No speech delivered in Indiana during
the present campaign has caused more
comment in the State press than that of
Hon Charles l.. Jewett recently delivered
at, Columbus The comments are various
but that the speech was unansweraple IN
its facts and logic is shown by the way in
which Democratic PAT ers abuse Mr.. jew
EFT. In fact it was hot only very able,
manly and patriotic speech, but it was a
scathing arraignment of a party that mas
demonstrated its uselessness for any good
p1rpoSe.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-01
A Wet Day.

All day the heavy clouds hung down,
Gray mists about the hills were thrown,
The trees dripDed ceaselessly;
The while a sad and low refrain,
That seemed to tell of constant pain,
Came up from the gray sea.
Yet. spite of all the damp and chill,
Some little flower stars shining still
Might in the hedge be seen;
And ever through the falling rain
Was borne into the sodden lane
The scent of eglantme.
With eventide the brightness came
The sun shone out with sudden flame
AS joy to who grieves;
He touched the mournfu trees with gold
And lighted rainbowS manifold
Among the dripping leaves
Soft cloudlets of rosy hue
Came sailing through a tender blue;
And like soothed child.
The earth, though still her eyes We're we
And grief she could not quite forget,
Looked up to heaven and smiled.
ga
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-01

Such deal as that which has been con-
summated by and between the Popocrat
and Populist leaders in this State is dis
graceful to all concerned. 1t shows an
equal readiness on both sides to buy and TO
be bought and, while it can hardly be said
that there was sacrifice of principle where
none was left to sacrifice. there was a COM
pIete abandonment of political honesty on
both sides. 1t is dirty piece of business
and ought to be repudiated by honest DEM
Ocrats and Populists alike.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-01

The Popocratfc committee viii do well TO
have the promised money of the bonanza
mine barons in their hands before they
begin to pay out funds. The warning given
bv the New Yorker who pu- 600 into the
purchase and running of the New YORK
Mercury upon the assurances OF the DO
nanza silver mine Senators that they would
make it all right with him and then leIt
him in the lurch should not be lost upon
the men who are engaged in carrying out
their scheme to double their wealth in sill
yer mines at the expense of the country.
Mr. Tom Patterson represents the same
greedy combine of silver Senators and
unscrupulous political adventures that vic
tfmized the New York capitalist.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-01
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, rampaT
IL " 49,
following:

The ST. Louis Post-Dispatch, rampant
free silver, is shamed into publishing the
following:
Mr. Charles Parsons and nearly all the
leading bankers of st. Louis nave signed
statement in which they declare that the
ssnanic circular recently reproduced In the
Post dispatch was not issued by the Amer
ican BANKERS Association and that it is a
fraud and a forgery. The circular o owas
first published in the latter part OF 1893 or
the early part of 1894. Its authenticity was
denied by President Pullen and Vice Presi-
dent Hendrix at the recent meeting OF the
American Banking Association in St Louis,
and in the absence of affirmative proof
their denial must be accepted
This so-called Panic Circular has been
widely circulated by the free-silver press,
along with other campaign fakes. including
the forgery attributed TO Abraham Lincoln.
etc. They have all been exposed time and
again. but they continue to be used in the
campaign of education on the Popocratic
side. ssssSes4
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-01

In his address on Tuesday to farmers and
railroad men from this State, Major Nc
Kinley dwelt somewhat on the point that
Horkingmen as a class are the largest cred
.tors in the country The point has been
made before, but he put 1T in q new light
1.-THE employers of this country, he said
.sowe their employees every thirty days, IN
good times more than the bonded debt OF
the United States" This is a surprising
statement but undoubtedly true. The
bonded debt of the United States is $751;
1854 300 According to the census of 1890. the
total wages paid TO employees that year IN
the manufacturing industries alone of the
United States, exclusive of officers and
clerks was 81, 799 gu, 492. This die not in
GUIDE railroad employees or persons engaged
in mining, numbering and Q vast number o.
other industries. There can be No doubt
that the aggregate of these wages would
sustain Major McKinleys assertion A con-
siderable proportion of these wages IS
paid weekly. but much the largest part
monthly That however, is not material.
The point ifs that the workingmen OF the
country earn more every month than the
er tire amount Of the Londsd debt, and are
therefore creditors every month ~ tnat
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-01

The clamor about alleged Republican at
tempts to bride Populists which has filled
the air for several days past was evidently
intended to divert attention from, the
operations of Popocrat managers which
have resulted in an actual purchase of the
Populist committee.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-01

Mayor Pingree, the Republican candidate
for Governor of Michigan, suspected of
being in favor Of free silver. has issued a
letter to the Republican voters, in which
he declares himself in hearty accord with
the ST. Louis platform on the money ques-
tion as upon all others. This declaration
has greatly delighted the sound-money men
in hat TAT
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-01

In 1890 there were 7o4.ooo men employed
in the railroad business in this country
The number at present is not much great
-, hacause. on account of hard times and
depression of business caused by free-trade
legislation and the free-siiver agitation'
there has been retrenchmenf all along the
lire. There may have been some reduction
az wages for the same reasons, yet the ag-
er>rate amount paid to railroad men il
srorv,o,,s, Major Mckinley, in speech
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-01
Another Sherlock Holmes

Il don't see how you got on to me- said
the bunco man, sadly. I've gone ana
wasted a whole summer growing the
whiskers and getting the tan for this
farmer makeup, and | get pinched the
minute L hit the town. How did you get
on?"
The great detective smiled (at the prison
er s expense, by the way) Il never knew
a farmer to light a match on the sole of
his boot" he said.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-01

Vice presidential candidate Sewall ad-
inits that all his ocean shipping contracts
contain a clause, Freight payable in gold
or sterling but he says that has been the
custom for forty years and he cannot
change established custom Innocent Mr.
Sewall, Does he not know that he has fur
nished an unanswerable argument in favor
of gold as the only nfiexible standard of
value and the money of commerce?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-01

Mr.. Bryan assails trusts in general, and
IF President will have Congress pass laws
to suppress them. If the Constitution will
not permit it, he will have the Constitu-
ton changed. And yet Mr.. Bryan has for
two years been the champion of trust
whose purpose is to force upon the country
"a deDreciated currency
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-01

enormous sum. Yet Mr.. Bryan tells them
they are not interested in establishing and
maintaining confidence and that they will
be benefited by cheap dollar
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-01
He Is on Again.

Now doth the meek and lowly college
youth.
Chat earnest seeker after ancient truth)
Appear once more on current history
page,
Prepared the furious football fight to wage
And exc the air to fill with rah-rahs, frozen
clodS,
Thumbs, eyes. noses also hair in wads.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-01

In the News of Tuesday evening was an
editorial in which an attempt was made
to make it appear that the Bryan platform,
dictated by the silver mine interest is IN
favor of protection. To prove this 1t quoted
a portion of the platform, as follows:
We hold that the tariff duties should be
levied for purposes of revenue, Such o utiIs
to be so adjusted as to operate equally
throughout the country, and not dlScrim.
mate between class or Sef Gu he Needs of
the government. honestly ana ecohohllcai-
ly adminiStrated.
The News quoted no further. but If it
had given the whole of the Chicago plank
it would have continued as follows;
We denounce as disturbing to business
the Republican threat TO restore tne NY
Kinley law, which has been twice coll-
demned by the people in national eieGtl cue -
and which, enacted under the false plea CT
protection to home industry. proved pro
life breeder of trusts and monopoies, en-
riched the few at the expense Of the many
restricted trade and deprived the producers
of the great American staples OF access 70
question is settled are opposed 70 aIiS
agitation for further changes in our tariff
Laws eyceDt such as are necessary to make
the deficit in revenue caused by the az
verse decision of the Supreme Court on the
income tax.
The whole platform commits the Bryan
party to. free trade as opposed to protec-
ton. of which he was one of the nolslest
champions as he is now of the free COIN
age of silver and declares that the present
| tariff shall stand until the handful OF silver
mine owners shall force the country to pay
| them as Mr.. Bryan practically puts 1t, Sl.29
an ounce for their silver, or about double
| the market price. That the News took less
than half the tariff plank of Mr.. Bryan S
| platform must be accounted for on the
ground that it did not have a complete
| cow
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-01

Mr. Kern evidently thinks that it is less
an offense to rob six million dopositors and
shareholders of building and loan associa
lions of half of their deposits by paying
them in 50-cent dollars, which he denounced
in his speech of May Is, than it is to be
hotter
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-01

ON Tuesday. said Nearly s500.0oo.0oo are
annually paid to railroad employees. Pres
ident Ingalls,. in his recent annual report,
stated that the system of which he is pres
ident made payments during the last year
of 1913, 263 to engineers and firemen on
freight frains; $243, TAT to engineers and fire
men on passenger trains; s212, 24e to switch
ing engineers and firemen; S446.22 to freight
trainmen: S2i1917 to passenger trainmen;
s439, 1s1' to switchmen; s74.133 to watchmen
and fiagmen: s1s9, coo to locomotive and car
cleaners: $685., 651 to track repairers, and so
on These are not all the items of expendi-
lures for labor and do not include any clerks
CIR salared officials. The figures show that
the wages of employees are a large FACTOR
in the expense of running a railroad As
this is true of every railroad in the united
States, one can form an approximate ldea
of the amount paid to this class OF WORKERS
in wages annually. Can it be possible that
they want to cripple their employers sun
further or reduce the purchasing power OF
the dollars in which they are paid?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-01

The South Bend Tribune prints an ex-
tract from a letter recently received by Mr.
G. H. Dunkle, manager of the Indiana pa
per mill at that city, from cousin VINO Is
engaged in mining and merchandising IN
Chihuahua Mexico. The writer is also IN
terested in building and loan associations
i'm South Bend, and says he fears from
what he understands of the situation In
This country that the election of Bryan
and the adoption of free-silver coinage
would greatly depreciates building and loan
association stock He adds:
We have free silver here and oid-tlnne
war prices. We run two stores and retail
sugar at % cents a pound; rice, the same
coffee grain, 6212 cents per pound; lard, %
cents per pound; flour, 1212 cents per pouIlu
calico % cents per vara l33 1-3 1nchesl.
brown muslin, % cents; bleached muslln %
to AZ 1-3 cents per vara- From these prices
take cents per pound freight from Chl-
huahua and you have prices at the railroad.
Tonmon labor is 81 and S1.25 per day. a
tinted States dollar is equal now TO lsS
cents in Mexican money and changes with
the price of silver. sef
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-01

In no city has Mr. Bryan made many
speeches as in Chicago and in few cities
has the sound-money sentiment gained so
much ground.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-01

Minneapolis business man who recently
returned from sojourn of several weeks
at his old home in Germany, informs the
Tribune of that city, that that country is
highly prosperous. TO the same effect is
the statement in the Chicago News con-
corning England by well-known attorney
who has spent some time in that country.
He says:
In England the very acme of financial
and commercial well-being prevails Al
no time in the history of that country mas
there been a greater accumulation Oh Iuie
capitaI eager for investment abroad Zen
banks in London alone now have over Two
billion of dollars on deposit, or an average
of 5000 600 900 each. Private loans to any
amount are being made at the rate or /
and IL per cent. per annum.
Such statements show that England ana
Germany are not suffering under the gold
standard The crime of 1916 in England and
the crime of 1871 in Germany do not seem
TO have operated as Mr.. Bryan asserts the
crime of 1873 has in this country. With the
silver question rightly settled and agitation
ended. this country will be more prosper
ous than Germany or England.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-01

There is no such potential trust in the
land as the silver combine" 1t proposes
to rob all the people by forcing them to
MexieO'S money basis.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-01

1.-The Money Question in It's Relation to
the Political Campaign of 1885, is the title
of a pamphlet by John @. Williams, OF
Terre Haute. 1t is an intelligent and COM
prehensive review of the whole subject,
and brings out the historical and legisla-
tive features very clearly.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-01

The displacing of five Democrats. alleged
ticket who had heen nominated by regu-
larly constituted conventions and substi-'
tuting Populists for them is altogether 8
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-01
TpueutIe Optics.

What an idiot love makes of man.
Here Timmins has been writing poetry to
his sweethearts gentle eyes.
well, what of it?'
What of it? How can she be gentle-eyed
when she is cross-eyed?"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-01

Is it Mr.. Bryan's strength or his en-
thusiasm that has given out? Which is
weak, the flesh or the spirit?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-01
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ever, the sentence has caused little sur
prise. Ii has been long understood that
a very severe sentence would be passed,
in order that the clemency which Presi-
dent Kruger Is certain to exercise might
appear greater 1t is thought that the
sentence OF death will be commuted 70
a short term OF Imprisonment and big
fine. unless Mr.. Chamberlain's dispatch
TO President Kruger. read in the house
Of commons. should irritate the chief mag
istrate Of the Transvaal into greater
severity than he would Otherwise exer-
else. Mr.. Chamberlain's telegram Is re-
garded here as being precipitate and as
leaving President kruger no time 10 act
on his own account, and as having. more
over. the ring OF dictation.
Washington City, April 2s.-United States
Vice Consul knight. at Cape Town. cabied
TO Secretary Olney this afternoon that he
understood that Hammond's sentence
would be commuted.
Senators Perkins and White were very
much surprised when shown the Asso-
ciated Press cable announcing that Ham
mond had been sentenced TO death 1t was
their impression when the plea OF guilty
was made that an understanding had been
reached which would not mean the death
penalty Perkins expressed the belief that
the law required such a sentence, but that
the government would commute 1t. The
California senators probably will ask
through the state department that Glenn
ency be shown TO Hammond. although
White says that in the face of the plea of
guilty OF high treason he Is not sure this
government could make very strong repre-
sentations The belief Is expressed here
that Hammond before returning TO Pre-
toria had sumo understanding on the sub
ject OF the sentence to be pronounced and
the proceedings that would follow sen
tence 1t is believed he will not be put to
death.
When Senator Stewart. who is a per-
sonal friend Of Mr.. Hammond, heard OF his
conviction, ne Immediately set TO work to
prepare a petition in Mr. Hammond's be-
half which he had circulated among sena-
tors and members OF the house. The petit
ton Is addressed to President Kruger and
is a plea for pardon. II sets forth the
high character OF the accused. and while
IL is conceded by the petition that the crime
to which he pleaded guilty is a most ssri-
Gus one and directed against a government
for which the signers have a high regard.
they still ask as an act of ciemency that
the oTense be condoned and the prisoner
liberated. The petition was signed by all
10 whom 1t was presFhted.