The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-26
DOWN IN KENTUCKY.
Bryanites Rage While SOund-MOney
Democrats Work Hard.
I o,isrilIo Ietter in washington Post.

The sound-money men have all the news
papers, too. The only silver daily In Ken
lucky died of starvation only few days
ago. The managers at the silver headquar-
tiers. who are Inexperienced and ungracious
persons insist that the press OF he hlt ca
that they don't care tuppence, or words
to that effect, because the people are with
Bryan. and do not listen to what the cor
rupt and capitalistic, venom-squirting hire
ings, and all that sort of thing write any
more. One hears a great deal of choice
language at the silver headquarters. If he
should attempt TO quote what was said
about President Cleveland, Secretary Car
isle Mr.. Hanna and the Cour1er-J ournai.
particularly, this edition of the Post would
not be allowed transmission through the
mails. 1t seemed to be about an even thing
between the President and Mr.. Hanna. Mr..
Kinley's name was scarcely mentioned.
The most convincing evidence that Ken
lucky is going for Mckinley is the way the
breath that half the workingmen who are
wearing Mckinley buttons are going TO
vote for Bryan, and IN the next breath
the State and purchased the labor vote
like sheep at the shambles." They claim
that he has bribed all the clergymen in the
country and one of them says that he
knows absolutely that Archbishop Ireland
say that all the lawyers are in the pay of
the corporations and trusts, and are there
fore compelled to vote for Mckinley; that
all the wholesale dealers are fer the Re-
publican ticket because the retan dealers
throughout the State would boycott them
/
words are dry en- their lips. they will turn
around and assert that the stories in the
Courier-Journal about the business men of
Kentucky being for Mckinley are pure
fakes. They say that they have made
canvass of the State, and know TO a GER
tainty that not one merc Llad IN ten IN
A member Of the executive committee OF
the Democratic party, who is assisting to
Headquarters, tells that Hanna has assessed
the national banks Of the country through
the Controller of the Currency 81 Uo9 each
and had thus raised q fund OF Sl2,0J0G03.
When / told him how many national banks
there were, and made little mathematical
calculation to show that such a fund could
not reach anywhere near million, he
turned on me and declared chat ali news
paper men were in Hanna's pay, and We're
not able to tell the truth anyhow
When you pin the Bryan men down to
figures they will claim that he is certain
of from $4,000 to $1,000 majority and VIII
into details they become very mysterious
and decline to tell where the vote is coming
from. At last after you have crowded
them into a corner they will admit that
they are depending upon that great army
of honest working men, VINO nave ave peel. peen
assert themselves at the polls. Ihat Is,
no doubt an uncertain quantity. but the
Bryan managers do not know anythlng
about it, They have made no canvass,
they have had no experience IN the man
agement of campaigns. and they do not
know the State. Every Intelligent sup
porter OF Mr. Bryan realizes that if he does
carry Kentucky it viii be because Of his
strength with 1he farmers and common peo-
ME which could not be overcome by the
STUPIDITY of his committees.
At the sound money headquarters there
is no mystery no disorder, but everything
is conducted upon strict business prin-
ciples, under the direction of the ablest
business men in the State Ihey nave an
organization that covers three-fourths of
the counties in Kentucky and in most of
them to the school districts. In the strong
Republican counties they have not at,
tempted TO do any work They will tell
you that they have $1,000 men enrolled in
sound money clubs, who have never voted
that they expect to Increase that number
TO 10. coo before the election. IL you want to
know who these men are they will show
YOU lists of their names- There rs nc
secrecy about 1t. Nor do they conceal