The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-03
INDIANA REPUBLICAN OPINION.

Don't NEEDLE with the currency, but 60
back to protection and peace and plenty
will again reign supreme.-Noblesville Led
ger.
The man who votes for free silver votes
for a panic and ought TO realize that fact
before he casts his ballot.-Fort Wayne
Gazette.
Politics make strange bedfellows, and a
desire to win overshadows every other
consideration with free-siiver agitators.
Clay City Reporter.
The laboring men of the country are be-
ginning to realize that free silver will lift
high the prices of commodities. but keep
low the wages.-Noblesville Tribune.
1t is not that the country needs more
circulating medium, but that 1t needs to
inspire the worlds confidence in the char
acter of the medium its puts forth.-La-
fayette Call.
The free coinage of silver is the boldest
attempt at robbery that ever was made
upon any people who were supposed to be
smart enough to see a barefaced scheme.
-Pendleton Republican.
In the fight for a stable currency and
against any policy that will change the
value of the dollar the wage Garner ought
to be in the van as the man who has the
most at stake-knightstown Sun.
The brains, the craftsmanship and the
character of the Democratic party are
against Bryan. The thoughtful men who
care for their country are not marching
with the coiumn.-North Vernon Repub-
lican.
The way for farmers to get better prices
for their products is to vote to have the
factories opened up once more 50 the un-
employed labor can change their fare from
soup 10 the sub%stantials of life.-Orleans
Examiner.
Our money is all right. We only need
Mckinley and protection to revive cont-
dence and renew business. This will put
the money into circulation and this will
settle the financial observation-disclosures
Commercial.
Mr.. Bryan says that In his campaign he
will know no difference between Democrats
and Populists. There is no difference. il
Mr.. Bryan may be considered a fair sam
pie of the latter-day Democrat.-Wabash
Plain Dealer.
If Bryan is shrewd he will take advan-
tage of his present notoriety to negotiate
with the publishers of that Omaha paper
for an increase of salary and a permanent
position. He will need both after election.
Goshen Times
1t knocks a great deal Of the beauty out
Of the free-silver advocates promises where
they are pointed to the present condition
of affairs in Mexico, which is the principal
free-Siiver country in the world.-PorteI
County Vidette.
Do nothing to disparage the very excel.
lent dollar this country now possesses. but
do everything in your power that favorS
the protection of every American interest
and the inauguration of thirty years more
of prosperity.-Warsaw Times.
Not many Republicans will have such a
radical friendship for silver as 10 inriu-
ence them to line up with Aiigeld. Tillman
and the Populist breed that are simply the
advance agents of communists and an
archy.-Martin County Tribune.
The question of partisan politics is in a
manner eliminated from this campaign. 1t
is now a question OF preserving the cred
it of the Nation and preventing the worst
panic that has ever afflicted our people
since the foundations of the Republic.
| -Muncie News.
The Republican party is in favor Of the
use of the largest amount of silver con-
sistent with the parity of gold and silver.
1t is not in favor OF the use of gold alone
nor of silver alone as a money. but it does
insist that all its money shall be just as
good as the best.-Greenfield Republican.
Free silver is as un-American as it's twin
destroyer. free trade. The Democrats hood
winked the people on false promises about
free trade bringing prosperity, and are
now trying 10 repeat the experiment by
advocating free coinage of 80 cents worth
of silver and calling it a dollar.-Bloom-
field News.
The Popocrats expect to dupe the farmei
into voting for Bryan and free silver Will
the old promise of better prices for thea
and corn. The farmer has had these empt,
promises made to him too often. and al
though he can be fooled part of the time
he cannot be fooled all the time.-Nortl
Vernon Republican.
The real trouble with the business affair
of the country is because the Democrat
have turned down protection, reciprocit,
and good tariff regulations. When thes
are restored. and not until then. will any
thing like prosperity be realized in thi
country. free-silver notions to the contrary
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Standard.
theoretically. bimetailism can be define
as the free coinage of both gold and silver
but when there is a disparity in the com
mercial value Of the two metals, and thei
production can neither be limited nor def
! initely known. an attempt to make bimetal