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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-07-29
To Republican Editors.

The summer meeting of, the Indiana Re-
publican Editorial Association will be held
1t Lafayette. and every member is urged
to attend this important meeting. The
meeting for business will open at s p. m.
Thursday. July 30. Important subjects Of
vital interest TO the press will be briefly
discussed and acted upon. A second bust
ness meeting will be held on Friday morn
ing aboard the steamer on Lake Erie. The
citizens of Lafayette have provided excel
lent entertainment for the afternoon and
evening of Thursday. Apply for transport
tstion from your nearest connecting points
with the following roads, to Lafayette. to
the general passenger agents of the MonoD.
the L. E & W.. the Wabash and the Big
-Four railroads. The party will leave La
fayette In Wagner palace sleepers for To-
ledo at midnight. arriving In Toledo at S:55
g. m Friday. via the Clover Leaf route.
Steamer will await there for Putin Bay.
Toledo citizens Will entertain tie party in
the evening. and all who desire can reach
home Saturday night. Transportation will
be furnished at Lafayette for the lake trip.
and the expense will be very small. Much
preparation has been made for this trip.
and every member who can should take adj
tify the secretary not later than Monday
of your Intentions in the matter. so that
carriages. ears. etc. can be provided. One
member and one member of his family is
allowed transportation. Come and be with
Us. j.. A. KEMP. Secretary.
Salem, Ind, July 26.
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VOICED BUT NOT WON.

Those Democratic managers who have
been giving out that they would capture
the Populist convention did not carry them
selves SO jauntily last night as they did
when the delegates began to drift into town
Monday afternoon. But they know more
about the stuff of which Populists are made
han they did. Those managers who are
anything to get office are surprised to find
a crowd Of men who have positive convic-
tions which they will not sacrifice. what
ever others may think of them. With the
views entertained by the rank and file of
the Populists the Journal has no sympathy,
because 1t believes them to be heresies. and
very vicious heresies. but the devotion Of
these men TO their beliefs challenges re-
spect. They do not propose to abandon
their organization and rush TO the aid of
the Democracy, which two years ago as
sailed and derided them as cranks and
lunatics. The Populists have nominated a
ticket of their own. and doubtless will sup
port 1t. They say. with a force of logic
which they do not always observe in adj
vocating their beliefs. that if the Demo-
cratic party of Indiana has been convinced
that the doctrines Of the Populists are
sound let the Democratic party drop it's
name and join the Populists instead of
nominating a ticket without consulting
them and asking them to support it.
AS for the Democratic managers in In
DIANA. they now know that they will not
capture the 90, coo voters who voted the
Populist ticket in 1894. They may get a
portion of them. but those Populists scat
tered throughout the State who were rep
resented by a decided majority of the dele
gates in yesterdays convention will not
vote the Democratic State ticket unless the
Democratic managers make some PROPOSE
ton which does not mean the annihilation
of their organization and the abandonment
of their peculiar creed. If the Populists
adhere to their action in yesterdays con-
vention the Democrats can expect little
assistance from them by combinations on
legislative and county tickets. Where there
is a prospect of election the Democrats will
insist upon all the candidates., and will
show liberality only where Republican
ascendency makes the election OF an OPP
position ticket impossible.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-07-29
THE CHURCH IN SUMMER.

Chronic grunblers, who are frequently
heard criticising the church because II runs
in a groove and does not do its duty by the
community in the way of offering counter
attractions TO the pleasures and tempta-
tons of the outside world. can find little
room for their customary structures when
they contemplate the various
and other semi-religious and semi-social
gatherings now being held here and there
throughout the State. Bethany, Acton,
Pine lake. Rome City and Winona are the
most notable of these conventions. though
there are camp meetings less elaborate in
arrangement held in various places in In
diana each season, which attract only local
attention, and yet serve an important So
cial purpose. For ever camp meetings are
modernized. and openly combine a share of
with the religious exercises. All these
gatherings. large and small, are out
growths of church work, and answer ad-
mirably the purpose intended-that of hold
ing the attention of young people and
keeping them under good influences even
in their outings. For the young people like
these summer assemblages. with their out
of-door life. their simple diversions and the
opportunities for acquiring various kinds of
useful knowledge with the smallest degree
of mental exertion-this e~xertion being re-
duced the further by the pleasure of study
ing with congenial companions. II is the
companionship that attracts them most.
doubtless, as it does at the regulation sum-
mer resort. but at the latter it is enjoyed
under less wholesome restrictions and in a
more feverish atmosphere.
II a city church is closed for a few weeks
during the hot season the critics can rest
assured that moral influences are not at
rest. but have merely transferred their
field of operations. People go about in the
summer for personal comfort, and the
spirit of the religious organization to which
they belong goes with them.
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THE LOSS TO F~RATERNAL sOCIE-
PIES.

II one thing more than another gives SOL
idarity and permanence to the secret socie-
ties of this country 1t is the feature of in
surance which all or nearly all of them
maintain in some form. If these organiza-
tons did not promote fraternal feeling and
afford a certain amount of social culture.
the fact that their system of benefits and
insurance encourages mutual helpfulness
and thrift warrants their existence. Thou
sands of families would nave been left help
less but for these beneficial social societies.
Many will be surprised to learn that no
less than ninety-one orders are doing a
mutual insurance business. with a member
ship of 2,O17, 347. who nave a total of $685.
$50. 7S9 of insurance in force. Most of these
societies are we'll managed and are
financially strong They are paying out
millions Of dollars every year for the bene-
fit of their members or deceased members
families. While these institutions are open
to all, it is a ~ell-kno fact that wage
earners and those who work for salaries
and farmers are chiefly interested in these
benefit orders because they can save a few
dollars a year.
Among others who will be affected by
what Mr.. Bryan calls a cheap dollar. and
which he says some people call a dishon-
est dollar. are these 2.017. 347 members of the
secret orders who have been paying their
assessments year after year in dollars worth
100 cents. That a limited number of men en-
| gagged in silver mining and specializing in
silver stocks may become m~illionaires, and
even multi-millionaires. these two million
small and thrifty savers are asked to sup
| port a monetary scheme which would rob
them of half the money they have paid into
these fraternal societies. At the present
membership the average received by bene-
| fciaries Is about 81. 500. If we go to a silver
basis these member will receive dollar:
worth the bullion in them in the market
now ffty-three cents, but always less thar
the value of the gold dollar or its equiva.
lent which they ave paid in.
How many members of these fraterna
! societies are willing to make such a sacri
flee to the greedy and grasping silver trust
| IL asked, man by man. each would protes'
against such a proposition. Still. every on
of them who votes the Bryan ticket will
help. SO far as he is able. to promote tn
conspiracy which will rob him of half hi
savings In a fraternal society.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-07-29
A PARTY WITHOUT PRINCIPLE.

The course of the Democratic party in the
present campaign is calculated to destroy
the last vestige of respect that honest men
fessions. This is true generally of that
wing of the party which supports the Chi
cago platform and nominations. and it is
especially true of the free-silver wing of
the party in this State. The history Of poll
tics affords no parallel to the shameless
abandonment of principle and reputation
of platform declarations that the free-silver
Democracy in general and the Indiana
Democracy in particular have been guilty
of. To prove this it is only necessary to
compare their latest platform declarations
previous to this year with that on which
they are now standing. The Democratic
national platform of 1892 contained the fol-
lowing:
The dollar unit of coinage of both metals
must be of equal intrinsic and exchange
able value. or be adjusted through interna-
tional agreement or by such safeguards of
legislation as shall insure the maintenance
of the parity of the two metals. and the
equal power of every dollar at all times in
the markets and in payment OF debt; and
We demand that all paper currency shall be
kept at par with and redeemable IN such
com. we Insist upon tnlS pOitN dS copcci-
ally necessary for the protection of the
farmers and laboring classes. the first and
/ most defenseless victims of unstable money
and q iuctuating currency.
On this distinctly sound-money declara-
ton the party nominated a distinctly
sound-money man with the full knowledge
that he was and for years had been opposed
not only to the free and unlimited coinage
Of silver, but to the continuance of silver
courage under any conditions whatever.
Mr.. Cleveland accepted the Democratic
nomination on this platform in good faith.
and was elected. He stands now where he
stood then. but the party has changed
front. Now it has discarded the idea that
both metals must be of equal intrinsic and
e-xchangeable value" it has discarded the
idea of international agreement; it has dis
carded the idea that the parity of the two
metals or the debt-paying power of the two
dollars shall be maintained; and has dis
carded the idea that the welfare of the reo-
pie demands a stable and unfuctuating
standard of value. 1t now stands on a
platform which demands the free and I'M
limited coinage of silver at a ratio which
would destroy the parity of the metals,
expel gold from the country. flood the
country with 5s-cent dollars and precipi-
tate universal disaster.
II the present position of the Democratic
party in general is contemplate. that of
the Indiana Democracy is doubly so. The
Democratic State convention OF 1892 de-
clared: 1--WE believe that there should be
kept in circulation a full and sufficient
volume of money. consisting of gold. silver
and legal-tender currency at par with each
other" This was in substantial accord
with the sound-money declaration OF the
national platform OF that year. The parity
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-07-29
SOME uNaEDEEMEp PROMISES

A leading feature of the Democratic pres
dental campaign in 1sSS was an attack on
the surplus in the treasury Thu national
platform of that year said: The money
now lying idle in the treasury. resulting
from su~perfuous taxation, amounts to m Die
than $i25. oCo. 900. and the surplus collected
is reaching the sum of more than $50. 0o0.-
700 annually The accumulation OF the
surplus had not hurt anybody, and at that
time and for years a~fterward the country.
under Republican legislation. enjoyed great
prosperity. During that campaign Demo-
cratic speakers and papers talked so much
about the necessity of getting rid OF the
surplus that many persons came to believe
that IL the Democratic party succeeded
again the surplus would be distributed pro
rata among the people. just as some now
think silver dollars will be under free sill
yer coinage. The party did not succeed
that year. and the accommodating surplus
was applied by a Republican administra-
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greater hardness. durability and distinct

greater hardness. durability and distinct
Eess of Impression.
The coinage of 50. 0o0. 600 in standard silver
dollars. which was recently ordered by Sec
rotary Carlisle, will not interfere with
other coinage work. The coinage of gold
double eagles will be carried on during the
coming fiscal year at Philadelphia, Pa.
and San Francisco. Cal.
The treasury is constantly receiving gold
bullion from the mines, mostly at San
francisco. and continuous coinage is re-
CURED to prevent the accumulation of bull
licn- Double eagles are coined for the most
part. because they absorb more gold with
less work on the part of the minis. and are
preferred in most gold transactions.
Subsidiary silver will be coined during
the coming year at New Orleans and Phil
adelDhja. The minis are having no diff
Guilty at present in keeping pace with the
demand The most active pressure is for
cents, whose coinage is limited To the mint
at Philadelphia. They are being rapidly
turned out. and it is believed at the mint
bureau that the supply will keep pace with
the demand. The coinage of standard sill
yer dollars has only recently begun for the
current fiscal year. and ii Will probably re-
quire the entire sum authorized by Secre-
tary Carlisle to meet the demands for re-
demDtion purposes under his view of the
law.
The redemption of Sherman notes in sill
Yer dollars has reached the amount of
So, 1884. l22. or more than the entire coinage
under the Sherman law prior to 1895.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-07-29

TIL Journal notes with some misgivings
the announcement thai Mr.. Carrot Hobart.
Republican nominee for Vice President:
plays golf. The fact is an innocent one in
itself. but it involves explanations, for there
are vast numbers. of the American people
who never saw a game Of golf, and almost
as many, perhaps, who never heard of IL.
Indeed. it is doubtful if it has penetrated
that considerable region of country west
of the Allegheny mountains. They do not
play golf in Indiana, at all events. and as
the unaccustomed name may, to some ears,
have a sinister sound. the question will be
raised as to what sort of a game the next
Vice President is addicted, and dark
visions of playing cards will float through
the unsophisticated but, high-principled
Hoosier mind. If Mr.. Hobart had gone to
playing baseball all would be well; 1t might
not be fatal for him to tackle croQuet,
or even tennis. for these gentle and pleas
ing sports had made a certain Roadway
here before the day of the bicycle. But
out West they don't know golf. and it
er to add to his stock of knowledge on the
currency question a theoretical acquaint-
ance with this game in order that he may
explain its harmless character to any ques-
toner. There is reason to fear that Mr..
Hobart has done a rash thing in joining a
club of this kind without first consulting
his political managers.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-07-29
SUBSTITUTE METAL FOR CENTS


WASHINGTON, July 2s.-Experiments
with pure nickel and aluminium as substi-
tutes for the present nickel pieces will be
made at the minis by order of Director
Preston during September or October.
The objection to a change in any form
of coin or notes is the disposition OF the
public to refuse the old forms and insist
upon having the new. This would drive in
TO the minis for recoinage s14.ooo.oO0 in
nickel pieces which are now in, circulation
and 81. 600 I'm cents The advantage
claimed for pure nickel. instead of the al
10y now used in nve-cent pieces. Is it's
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-07-29
WILL MOVE ON HYMERA
MINERS FROM NINE TOWNS CAMPED
LAST NIGHT AT STAR CITY.
This Morning May See Serious TrOu-
ble-ClintOn DiGgers Reported
in a -rosperou Condition.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
SHELBURN. Ind, July 2S.-To-night at
9 o'clock the miners of Linton, Digger,
Farmsworth, Niggertown. Star City. Jack
sonhill, Alum Cave. Shelburn and Currys-
vile camped at Star City. and in the morn
ing at 5 o'clock they start for Hymera to
persuade the Hymera miners not TO resume
work. From information gathered from the
leading miners. Manager Harder is quoted
as saying that if the miners could induce
Hymera miners to quit work he would re-
sumo work at the 60.cent scale
at the Star City mine. President knight.
of the Mine-workers' Union, organized
Alum Cave to-day. The situation
is growing more complicated each day.
Star City. which suspended operation pend
ing the action of the convention at Terre
Haute, resumed work Monday with a re-
duced force. The principal move among the
ten or twelve mining organizations is to in
duce all miners working below the 60-cent
scale TO cease until difference is adjusted.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-07-29

Recent events have imposed pom the
patriotic people OF this country n respon-
sibility and a duty quite as great as any
since the civil war. Then IL was a struggle
TO preserve the government OF the United
the financial honor OF the United States.
Then II was a contest TO save the Union
Now 1t Is "A contest to save the spotless
credit of hat Union. Then section was
arrayeu against section. Now men of all
sections can mite. and will unite. to re-
Duke the Reputation OF obligations and
the debasement OF our currency."-william
Mckinley.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-07-29

Of gold and silver and the equal purchasing
and debt,Daying power of all dollars was
kept prominent. On this sound-money
platform Hon. Claude Matthews was nomi-
mated and elected Governor. Now he is
trying TO Guido the whole frce-silver crowd
in the violence OF his demands for the free
and unlimited coinage Of Scent dollars.
II there is any parallel in the history OF
American politics TO this change of front
and desertion of principle the Journal Is
not aware of IL.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-07-29

Under free silver coinage a man could
take to the mint silver bullion worth now
81 600 in gold and rave it coined. free of
charge. into about 1.ss1 dollars. which
would still be worth only 81. 900 in gold. or
about IS cents apiece. AS these dollars
would be full legal tender the owner could
use them in payment or any debt he might
owe. or In payment of wages of his en-
ployes. The original owner Of the bullion
would make a pile of money. but no subse-
quent holder or handler of the silver dol
.aH .
lars would make anything.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-07-29

The Republican party never appeared to
greater advantage than it does to-day.
when patriotic and conservative men Of all
classes. irrespective of politics. are looking
to 1t as the keeper of the Nations power
and the only means of averting unspeak-
ab1o disaster
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-07-29

The conviction and sentence of DIR.
Jameson and his associates In the Trans
vaal raid Is a substantial triumph of Brit
ish justice. The result falsifies the pre-
dictions of those who thought the trial
would be a perfunctory proceeding. and,
while the sentences are not very severe.
they are sufficiently so to vindicate a prin-
ciple and ought to be satisfactory to the
Transvaal government
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-07-29

But a few brief weeks ago Mr.. George
Fred Williams was.a pet OF the Democratic
party in Massachusetts. but since he
changed his views from sound money to
silver in a single night he finds none to
love him or do him honor. He wanted the
State committee to indorse Bryan, which
request il declined; he wanted it to name
an early date for the State convention, and
it promptly fixed the time late in Septem-
Der. George Fred may put in a plea Of
emotional and temporary insanity and be
restored to the bosom of his party, but
without some move of this sort he is likely
to be left OFT in the cold permanently
Which Is a pity. for George Fred. when on
parade. added TO the gayety of the Nation.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-07-29
Highly I'm Earnest.

Much free-silver sentiment out this
way?" asked the tourist.
"Much?" echoed Rubberneck Bill. Much?
wy friend. it has got so that every time
a Teller has the jim-jams. instead of i'm
aginin' snakes in his boots. he thinks his
pockets is full OF gold twenties."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-07-29

While William J. Bryan. the Democrat
Populist-free-silver candidate for Presi-
dent. IL bowling and scraping to a dozen
mobs and setting his tattered sail to catch
the breezes from every quarter. Major Nc
Kinley stands on the Republican sound
money platform. like a tower of strength.
four square to all the winds that blow.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-07-29
The Cheerful Idiot.

They don't have the melons now that
they did when you and 1 were young said
the landlady TO the Cheerful Idiot. and the
Cheerful Idiot. who always resents any re-
marks about his approaching middle age.
said. sadly: II guess they don't have the
same melons now. but / do think We have
the same butter"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-07-29

There should be inspiration for Republic
ans in the reflection that IL they defeat the
Democratic-Populis c-free-silver combina-
ton this year they will defeat all the ties
and isms there are in the field. The en-
emies of sound money and good govern
ment are all rallied under one banner.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-07-29

The idea Is widely prevalent that the
legal-fender quality Of the silver dollar has
been abolished or restricted. This Is a
mistake. The standard silver dollar is full
legal tender to any amount whatever. the
same as gold. and subsidiary silver Is legal
tender to the amount Of ten dollars.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-07-29

prised at the leniency OF the sentence.
after Baron Russelrs summing up. He said
further that he and his friends had all de-
cided TO return to Africa as soon as their
sentences had expired.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-07-29

People who had grown a trif1e weary OF
bicycle talk now note with qualification a
broadening of the conversational field
There are two subjects of discussion now,
When two or three people are gathered to.
gether 1t is no longer safe for the observer
to bet that they are talking of their wheels
They are just as likely to be arguing the
silver question.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-07-29

wILKEsBARRE, Pa, July ga re-
ouiem mass for the repose OF the ninety
souls OF the entombed men In the Twin
mine. at Pittston, was celebrated In ST.
Mary's Church. Upper Pittston. to-day.
Father Greve. pastor. was eelsorant
Bishops O'Hara and Hoban and apeut
,wenty rriests were In attendance. Bishop
Hoban preached the funeral sermon and
Bishop O'Hara gave the fnai dissolution
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-07-29

The New Albany Tribune says that Sem
ator Turpie. In his speech in that city Sat-
urday night. stated that the standard sill
yer dollars are not full legal tender. II so
he stated that which is not true.
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FOR JACKSeN'S NEW TRIAL.
specific Errors Charged In the Papers
Filed Yesterday.

FRANKFORT. KY. July 2s-The papers
In the case of Scott Jackson. convicted OF
the murder OF Pearl Bryan near Fort
Thomas. Ky. were filed to-day In the Court
of Appeals. The court Is asked 10 grant
a new trial on the ground OF specineo