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New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1896-08-19
MINNESOTA
STATE NORMAL. SCHOOLS.
WlNONA, MANKATO, ST. CLOUD
AND MOORHEAD.

These schools are organized for the
training of teachers for the public schools
Of the state.
ORGANIzATIoN.-Each school comprises
two departments Normal Depart
ment and the Training Department or
Model School,
The Normal Department embraces:
(a) An Elementary Course of two years
for teachers of rural districts and ele-
mentary grades.
Coz An Advanced Course of five years
for teachers of advanced grades.
(c) A Professional Course of one, year
and two years for graduates of high
schools.
(O A kindergarten Training Course
lat Winona, St. Cloud and Mankato.)
ADMISSION Graduates of Ugh schools
and colleges, and teachers holding ccun-
ty uperlntendents' first and second grade
certificates are admitted without exami-
nation. All others are required to pass
an entrance examination.
EXPENSES. Tuition is free to all who
pledge themselves to teach in Minnesota.
Text books are furnished at rental of
$3.per year. Provision Is made in each
school for economical living. The aver
age cost of furnished rooms with board
is about So per week. The Ladies Home
at st. Cloud, the new Dormitory at Moor
head, and the Ladies' Home at Winona
offer board, furnished room, heat, and
light, at from So to $50 per week.
DIPLOMAS. BY a accent act of the leg
islaturc, adiploma becomes a state teach
ers' certificate Of the first grade.
Tie next school year opens at all the
schools, Sept. 4, 1896. En-
For free catalogues and circulars, Civ
ing full information, address the presi-
dents as follows:
IRWIN SHEPARD, Wlnona.
EDWARD Soaring, Mankato.
GEORGE R. KLEEBERGER, St. Cloud.
LIVINGSTON c. LORD, Moorhead.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1896-08-19

IRWIN SHEPARD, Wlnona.
EDWARD Soaring, .Mankato.
GEORGE r. KLEEBERGER, st. Cloud.
LIVINGSTON c. LORD, Moorhead.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-29
THE POSTAL-CARD BALLOT.

The Chicago Record has no politics but
its subscription list Any venture which
will increase the sales of the paper it's pub
Usher embarks upon. More than a month
ago he conceived the idea of getting a
postal-card vote in the twelve States which
will decide the presidential election. The
names of men to whom postal cards were
sent were obtained from postmasters out
side of Chicago. In that city the cards
We're sent out upon a plan which seemed
satisfactory to the leaders of both parties
When the Record announced it's enterprise
it asserted that such vote would be a sure
indication of the trend of public sentiment
in the States from which the ballots were
collected. With the count of Tuesday
afternoon the Records election closed The
fC1 iS he
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-29
STILL UNANSWERED.

Early in the campaign workingman re-
siding in Owasco, Carroll county, sent the
Journal a list of questions which he desired
that the silver orators and papers would
answer. The campaign is now closing, but
in ell the speeches the Journal has seen re-
ported the following questions. proposed by
the Owasco laboring man, have not been
answered.:
Who owns the silver bullion-the farmers
and labor1ng men, or capitalists and silver
mine owners?
If it were coined how would it increase
the money in circulation?
How would the free coinage of silver in
crease the demand for labor?
How would free silver increase the labor
ing man S wages?
How would such coinage increase the
price of wheat?
How would free silver increase the eX-
portation of our products?
How would you make the silver dollar
go as far as q gold dollar in paying for the
necessarics of life which we import?
Mr. Bryan has made about five hundred
speeches, yet he has not answered the more
important of the foregoing practical and
pertinent inquiries. In Michigan an editor
had several questions like them put into
the hands of the mine owners candidate.
Did he answer them? Not a bit of it; he
simply turned upon the editor with a tor
rent of abuse. Mr.. Bryan does not answer
such questions, because he cannot, In the
face Of the panic which ne said last Feb
ruary would probably follow the success
of the silver mine owners ticket, he cam
not answer such questions. And what is
true Of Bryan is true of the rest of the
Popocrats who are advocating his election.
Unfortunately for the candidate and the
cause of the owners of seventy-three silver
mines, thousands of men In every State
have observed that Mr.. Bryan cannot an
swer these questions. Consequently they
have sought answers elsewhere and have
proved that the free coinage of silver
would contract the currency by the loss
of 5000 600. 900 of gold; that instead of in
creasing the demand for labor, the panic
which free coinage would cause would close
thousands of factories, reduce the number
OF employees of railroads and those en-
ployed in the distribution of merchandise;
and that the free coinage of silver would
decrease the wages of labor. Since early
in July. when these questions were asked.
thousands OF men who were deluded by the
agents OF the mine owners and their Sc
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-29

Governor Matthews admits the correct
ness of that portion of his PaoH speech
slandering General Harrison. He has evil
IDENTIFY been doing it for weeks, knowing
that the statement is false, and the indi-
cations are that he proposes to repeat that
SANDER in the remainder of his speeches.
There are but one or two epithets which
can be applied to any man who misrepre-
sents another willfully and persistently.
These the Journal will not put in type.
because they suggest themselves to all men
who know the difference between truth
and falsehood. The man who. as Governor,
took occasion to insult the business men of
Indianapolis for not paying homage to Mr..
Bryan simply emphasizes his disregard of
the common decencies by the SANDER which
he has uttered against General Harrison.
knowing it TO be a deliberate untruth. The
decent people of Indiana have had enough
of Claude Matthews.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-29

Business plans and contracts Of all kinds
are retarded by the coming election Sew
eral large manufacturing concerns think of
retiring IL Bryan is elected. The manager
for p. @. Dun & Co. in Louisville, KY,
says: Il know of four large manufactur-
ing enterprises that will be started in Ken
lucky if Mckinley is elected St Paul
paper says: Several large houses in this
city are arranging their affairs to go out
Of business should Bryan be elected" In
the natural gas belt cities and towns of this
State many orders have been received con-
tingent on the election of Mckinley. Even
the Indiana stone quarries affected
The Bedford Mail prints a letter received
by operator there from an agent in one
Of the cities in which the writer says:
II the election goes the right way l am
satisfied there Will be a big demand for
stone here. | think we will get orders for
twenty to thirty cars of blocks to be ship
PED right away after the election. What
shape are you in to handle them? There
are d great many contracts signed with
they are to go ahead and if not vice versa.
So it is all over the country and in every
line of business. There never was an cleo
ton on which so much depended in a bust
ness way as the one which will occur next
Tuesday.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-29
LET THE LAW BE oBEYED.

| The circular issued by Chairman Gowdy
| to the chairmen of Republican county COM
| mittees seems to have been intended to
| bring TO a legal test the question whether
/, the name of any candidate can legally APP
pear in more than one ticket on the ballot.
Mr.. Gowdy directs county chairmen to in
struct Republican election officers not to
aggregate the votes cast for PoDulist cleo
tors on the Democratic and Populist tick
cts, but to count them separately, giving
the Populist electors only the votes cast
under the PoDuIist emblem and the Dem
ocratic electors only those cast under the
Democratic emblem. Without in the slight
| est degree questioning the correctness of
Chairman Gowdy's motives in issuing the
circular the Journal is of opinion that he
errs in his construction of the law. If
there was a legal method of preventing the
fusion between the Democrats and Popu-
lists the time to have applied it is past
The names of the candidates are on the two
tickets, and the ballots should be counted
as they are cast by the people. Election
officers are sworn to observe the law. They
will have it before them, and they will not
find in it any authority to refuse to count
DdllOtS, regular ana leSdl IN Otner respects,
on the ground that the names of some can
didates appear in two places. 1t would not
be wise at this late stage of the campaign
to attempt to introduce a new element of
confusion. especially when the law does not
clearly authorize it. Indecent and corrupt
as the PoDocrat fusion in this State un-
doubtedly is. the voice of the people is the
supreme law, and attempt should be
made to stifle thwart 1t by resorting to
technicalities or arbitrary methods. Tenn
porary advantages gained by such methods
are worthless and more injurious to the
victorious than to the defeated party
Elsewhere in this paper is printed the opin-
ion of the Attorney-general which is
strongly against the legality of the chair
mans instructions The letter of instruc-
tons should be withdrawn at once and
election boards should make their returns
in conformity with the opinion of the At
torney-general.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-29
HOW BUSINESS IS WAITING.

All thoughtful persons recognize the fact
that the coming election involves ques-
tons that go to the foundation and per-
petuity of the government. 1t is also con-
ceded by all intelligent business men that
the election of Bryan would precipitate a
panic and cause a revolution in business
from which it would take the country a
long time to recover The dishonor of re-
pudiation and the effect on the national
credit it never could recover from. These
facts justify the frequent remark that the
present campaign is the most important
that has occurred since the civil war.
Another phase of the situation that must
be apparent to all is the vast amount of
business interests that are awaiting the re-
suit of the election and Immediately de-
pendent on it. The variety and extent of
these interests are beyond computation
One hears of them in all directions. OF the
many thousands of persons who will read
this article probably there is not one who
does not know of some business transaction
that is held in allegiance pending the result
of the election. These transactions vary
in magnitude from few dollars to hun
dreds of thousands. They include every
thing from the roofing of barn or the re-
pairing of house to the establishing of a
mandatory or the building of a railroad
A great many orders for goods have been
given conditioned on the election of Nc
Kinley. Hundreds of contracts have been
made voidable at the option of either par
ty If William j. Bryan shall be elected
President of the United States. A leading
broker of Pittsburg said few days ago.
If Mckinley is elected from S., 100000 to
$40 000, 900 worth of Pennsylvania traction
bonds will be sold in London. If Bryan
wins the foreign capitalists say they will
not give the money" This means that
IS. 100000 or s10.o0oO0o will be expended in
certain railway improvements in that To-
cality if Mckinley is elected that will not
be if Bryan is elected. 1t is SO all over the
country. Philadelphia paper says that a
conservative estimate of the amount of
money idle in that city awaiting the result
of the election is SIS. 900, 0oo A Birmingham
(Ala.) special says: ''lI sound money tri-
umphs in the November election So, 900, 900
will be expended in completing manufacture
ing concerns in Alabama which were
started iscnae months ago but have been
held NJ, since the agitation OF free silver
Was b9sun. a ST. Lou.s dispatch SAYS;
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-29

And now comes Mr.. Butler the Populist
Senator from North Carolina and chair
man of the Populist national committee to
the front to remark that the reason Tom
Watson's letter was not received is that
he did not put a sufficient amount of post
age stamps upon it and it was held back
by the postmaster in Georgia Can 1t be
possible that Senator Butler does not know
that a letter which bears stamps, any
stamps. is forwarded with the deficit
marked for the receiver to pay on delivery?
It may be that-the postmaster in Watson s
town held back the letter for lack of suf-
ficient postage, but If he did he is guilty
of a violation of law.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-29

The Fort Wayne Gazette says that at a
Popocratfc demonstration at Cherubusco,
Ind, on Saturday, there were three red
flags carried in the procession. The Ga
zette adds:
The parade would have been larger but
for the presence of these flags. Some
Democratic soldiers, who intended to
march when they saw these flags said, no,
sir they would not train in that crowd.
There were other Democrats who refused
on the same ground. There was great ex-
citement amongst some of the onlookers,
who were with difficulty restrained from
rushing in and tearing up the red flags.
Ex-Governor Gray'S son, who " as late in
arriving, went up to his hotel. and when
the procession passed by expressed his
strong cisapproval of the exhibition of the
symbol of anarchy, and We are told that
in his speech afterward he condemned it.
The red flag represents the political SEN
timents of the Chicago Anarchists, who,
after their conviction and sentence to the
penitentiary were pardoned by Governor
AItgeld. Altgeld ard Bryan are in perfect
harmony on the question Of the right Of a
mob to defy the authority of the United
States. Every Anarchist in Chicago will
vote for AltgeId and Bryan. Why should
not the red flag be carried in Popocrat
procession?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-29

The Record seems to have been very I'M
easy over the showing which it has called
forth, and has made several attempts to
break the force Of result which it ad-
vertised at the outset as conclusive If the
Records postal cards were fairly distrib-
uted. which it claims, certainly the names
furnished by Democratic postmasters, two
thirds of whom Bryanites, would not
naturally be largely those Of Republicans
1t may be added that while the returns are
not in any sense conclusive, the fact that
nearly three times as many of the Record s
list declared for Mckinley as for Bryan
can but be regarded as showing the trend
of public opinion
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-29
country.

stead of sending Democrats to Indiana to
make speeches, has sent for the most part
Populists and representatives of the silver
mines. Except Fred Williams. not a man
who has been a Democrat of anything like
national reputation has been heard in this
city. Just now, Senator Butler, of North
Carolina, Populist who has led In the
fight against the Democratic party as a
Populist, has come into Indiana to instruct
Democrats to vote for Bryan. He is in the
Senate as the enemy of the Democratic
party in North Carolina The Popocrats
and Bryanites may applaud him, but real
Democrats cannot.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-29

Il gals the Bryanites to know that all the
conservative business interests of the coun-
try are opposed to him. but they might as
well recognize the situation. So far as the
local building and loan associations are
concerned, about 65 per cent. of them have
a gold clause in their mortgages. and. so
far as they can exert any influence, they
are using 1t for sound money. 1t would
be very strange If they were not in line
with all the other moneyed institutions of
the country and all the organizations rep
resenting industry, thrift and business. 1t
is absurd for the free-silverites to claim
that Bryan has any support among insti-
tutions that represent the savings Of the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-29

The Chicago police should make effort
to discover and bring to punishment the
rowdies who threw eggs at Bryan pro-
cession in the street. Whether they were
anti-Bryan men acting on their own mo-
ton, or whether, as lis more likely, they
were employed by the Bryan managers to
perpetrate the outrage, makes differ
ence so far as the quality of the act is
concerned. The duty of discovering the
perpetrators of the outrage and bringing
them to punishment is equally binding in
either case. Such practices must not be
permitted to become engrafted on our pol
tiles, and the way to prevent them is to
nip them in the bud.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-29

Bryan's definition of a demagogue as
zone who advocates a thing which he does
not believe in order to conciliate those who
differ from him. recalls his definition of
eioGuence. In one of his speeches at the
beginning of the campaign he said: "Elo-
Quence is simply the speech of a person
who knows what he is talking about and
definition of eloquence made to fit himself,
just his definition of a demagogue was
made to let him out
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-29
PANIC AND coxEY ARMIES.

Mr.. Bryan is on record as saying that
panic would follow the passage OF free
silver coinage law. Expert Frewen. a Brit
ish bimetallist who has come to this coun-
try to urge the election of Bryan. has said
that his election would be followed by a
tremendous panic" The Sentinel warned
its readers that panic would come with the
free coinage of silver and Mr.. John w.
Kern declared in May that panic would
follow a success of the silverites Nine
teen twentieths of the business men OF the
country are equally certain that panic
would come with the election of Bryan.
AS Bryan is not going to be elected. we
need look at panic only as an evil which
will not come. There can be no doubt that
the first result of panic would be the clos
ing of the larger part of the great indus
tries of the country making tens OF thou
sands of men beggars simply because there
is nothing left for them but begging. The
folly of the overthrow of protection turned
many thousands of good men to idleness
and to want. Most of them struggled man
fully to avoid asking charity, and most of
them succeeded. Some could not, and a very
few were led in their despair to join Coxey
dTLlleS 1ellSrdl SOAey ~ OilS VI ZIG H]-
tional orators on behalf Of the silver-mine
owners ticket. Colonel Jennings, who
is one of the most active of the Popocrats
in this county, recruited CoXey battalion
here. Where there were tens who were
willing to join Coxeys army in 1894. hun
dreds, in desperation, will feel that they
must do so-must do something to pre-
vent starvation. Tramps are the complaint
and often the terror of farmers families
now. The greater part of them are tramps
from choice, but when there is a general
closing of factories and discharge Of labor
because there is no employment, thousands
Of men who are now good citizens will
seek food and shelter by roaming over the
country.
There are thousands of farmers in Indi-
ana who remember the march of Coxey's
armies through their neighborhoods, to
whom they supplied provisions to save their
property from pillage. Are there farmers
in Indiana who. to oblige the plutocrats of
the silver trust, will vote to fill the country
with bands of hungry men-bands aggre-.
eating thousands where tens marched after
Coxey and his imitators?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-29

Before Mr.. Bryan became the agent of
advocate of unlimited issues of irredeem-
able greenbacks. General Weaver. when
urging Bryan's nomination by the Pop
ulist national convention, declared that
ocrat. That General Weaver was right the
following extract from a speech delivered
in the House by Mr.. Bryan June 5, 1894,
proves:
clusion that the general government has
not only the right to issue all needed paper
money, but that, since 1t alone can issue
legal-tender money, it is in duty bound to
of commerce. An irredeemable pa
per currency, properly limited, will affect
the volume of the currency, and therefore
prices, to the same extent as like ad-
money could be used to pay the expenses of
the government. 1t can reduce the tax
levy to that extent, and the people Will re-
ceive the benefit of the issue Just IN pro,
save to that extent the taxes they would
otherwise have to pay The tariff on some
of the necesSarieS of life might be reduced
and the deficit made up by an issue of
improvements which Congress might deem
desirable. HarborS could be deepened and
rivers could be improved in this way.
This is free trade to give our markets to
foreign competitors. and the free and prac-
ticaliy unlimited coinage of irredeemable
paper money by printing presses. No Won
der that sound-money Democrats are leav-
ing the Bryan party by scores.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-29

One of the biggest life insurance compa-
MES in New York. after careful canvasses
by it's agents throughout the county, repre-
senting all parties. estimates the Mckinley
electoral vote at 2e6, which leaves ISL for
Bryan. This is the estimate of conserva-
tive business men. The estimate of Chair
man Babcock. of the Republican congress
sional committee. is 1902 for Mckinley, and
one of his colleagues puts the Mckinley
vote at a25. Good Judges believe that the
latter Is much nearer the mark than the
former.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-29
chairman Kurtz, of the Ohio Republics

Chairman Kurtz. of the Ohio Republican
executive committee, a conservative and
cautious political manager. says: "Ohio
will give Mckinley larger majority than
she ever gave to a leading candidate on
State or national ticket, with the possible
exception of that given to Brough in
1863" This means that Mckinley will
carry Ohio by $4,000 to 10000 majority. In
diana is closer State than Ohio. but the
same influences that will make u large Re-
publican majority in Ohio viii make safe
one In this State
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-29

Yesterday two young n1en at the sound
money headquarters got into conversation
with a lifelong Democrat and farmer. He
agreed with them on tfeAmoney question.
but raised the point that be got but 1914
cents for his wool clip Hsswas told that
wool was worth over 20 cents in 1879 under
Tho Mckinley law. Show nae the fsures
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-29
Bryan May Not Recover.

A constable from Magistrate Nickerson' s
court yesterday arrested Edward Brown
the man who assaulted Dennis Bryan Mon
day night in a West Indianapolis saloon
Bryan and bis brother and Brown got into
a fight in Wilson's saloon, and Brown hit
Bryan in the face with a beer glass Bry-
ans nose is broken and he has several bad
gashes in the face. 1t was thought that
he might not recover. as the physician at
ending him is still fearful that blood
poisoning may set 1t. Magistrate Nickerson
fixed Browns bond at 5000 and set tie
hearing Of the case for Nov. g.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-29

Matters can't be much worse than they
now are said silverite the other day.
He is wrong; they can be infinitely worse.
Matters will be infinitely worse when half
the men now employed are idle. with no
money to purchase food; worse for the
farmer when labor, his best customer, is
deprived of employment so that he cannot
buy. Times are hard now, yet, far as
living is concerned the farmer has an
abundance of food and the greater part of
labor has wages with which to purchase it,