The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-29

silent man of destiny. who said, Let 1t be
understood that no repudiator of our pub
lie debt viii be trusted In public place.
and Ii win go far toward strengthening
credit that should be the best in the world
Garfield, stricken at the threshold or ms
career, but not until he had given promise
of an unusual capacity for affairs. Cleve-
land. intrepid defender of the public honor
politics, greatest of Presidents in time of
peace since Washington. His fame is Sc
cure. His name will always be associated
with good wages good morals and good
government. What Infinite distance lies
between these WORTHLESS and his frequency
from Nebraska. A lawyer without client
an editor without a newspaper, a dispenser
or cheap nostrums and quack remedies TO
q sorely afflicted people and an applicant
within the past few months for the posi-
ton OF advance agent for any old show
He travels about collecting tribute money
and declines TO speak unless the stuff is
Forthcoming.
THE CANDIDATES CONTRAsTED.
Contrast the broad, patriotic grasp of
principles In McKinley's utterances with
the vaporings and frothings of this poiti-
cal mountebank. His speeches are charac-
terized by fiippancy and bufoonery when
they do not breathe out threatenings and
slaughter against the well-to-do. They
abound In false premises, shallow reason
ing and impossible conclusions. Popunst,
Democrat, revolutjonist political skirt
dancer, going Up and down the land SOW
Ing the seeds of discord, strife and sedi-
tion preaching the gospel of envy Jeal-
ousy, hatred, avarice and revenge. His
nomination was not the result OF mature
elaboration or sober thought. 1t pure
~ matter of emotion. 1t is not surpris-
ing therefore that his admirers all over
the country are sending him rabbits feet,
good luck. He io said the froVers other her
day that he felt that he was
divinely commissioned to lead the reform
movement for the Democratic party this
year. If that be true 1t is the first time
the Lord has made mistake since he sent
this globe spinning through space. Gov
ernor Foraker compared Mr.. Bryan to the
river Platte, which is three thousand miles
a very important difference. viz: The river
Platte is said to dry up occasionally. / saw
cartoon the other. day representing Nc
his uniform on, knapsack on his back, mus
ket on his shoulder. going forth to war.
Bryan was IN short clothes. sitting in a
high chair playing with rattle and he
has been playing with it ever since The
bring TO the discharge of the duties of his
office careful study, patient thought ripe
experience and honest purpose. Some of
lacking in the juvenile declaimer from Ne
braska.
We have never been a Nation of repudia-
ton. it took US sixty years to pay off the
debt incurred by the revolutionary war;
debt. of $40 to the individual necessitated
py the war of the rebellion was two-thirdS
pald or when BENJAMIN Harrison retired
from once. 10 discharge single one of
our obligations in anything other than the
best money in the world would be to make
this country Kissing, a by-word and a
reproach among the nations. We have pre-
served our credit unsullied through one
hundred years and more of glorious effort
Let us transmit it to children and our
childrens children, even to the remotest
generation, with its splendor undimmed
we have such memories and such hopes
an arena vast and a people SO yfrile
that We may confidently expect that the
web of our national life will be the most
beautiful fabric of the ages, if we provide
things honest and Of good repute in the
sight of all men.