The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-26
INTERNAL sIisCHIEF.
EVIL Effects That VIII Follow the Bry-
ante Campaign.
New York Tribune.

me wickedness of this Bryanite cam
pdlSn or lies and forgerieS would be suffi-
Gently damnins if it were to be confined
70 the campaign and to end with election
Day. 1t is an infamous thing to utter false
moods Tor the sake of misleading men and
inducing them to vote otherwise than as
they would If they heard only the truth
Yet this IS what Mr.. Bryan and his man.
ayers are endeavoring to do. They began
with Wanton and malicious forgery on the
eoltor1al page of Mr.. Bryan's own paper,
under his name editor-a forgery which
mas been repeatedly exposed, but never yet,
80 so Tar as can be ascertained, retracted.
Ihey went on to attribute false provisions
10 the Constitution. to garble and distort
letter OF Prince Bismarcks. to invent
spurious speech and credit to Lincoln, to
falslfy and lie about a Tribune editorial,
and to do innumerable other jobs of the
same kind. Their latest such performance
-unhappily. 1t is to be feared, not their
lasts the publication of what purports TO
De a circular letter sent out by the Secre-
tary of the Bankers Association, couched
IN infamous language, of which it is to be
said that no such letter was ever written
ana no such secre larry of such an associa-
ton ever existed.
We are told that Mr.. Bryan, Mr.. st. John
ana other managers of the Popocratic cam
paign are personally honest and honorable
men. Is it possible that they deem this
honest and honorable political warfare? Or
if, in their fanatic zeal for Mr.. Bryan's
election. they reckon that the end justifies
the means are they so blinded as not to
not cease with the immediate end at which
theV aim? They are teaching men lies for
temporary purpose, out the lies will re-
main permanently in those mems minds. 1t
Is no light thing to make neil believe that
Whlch Is untrue, and not only untrue but
mlschievous to the peace anu security of
the Nation. 1t is serious thing to per-
suade men that the Constitution declares
something it does not declare that Lin
coin said something he did not say, that
a large proportion of their fellow men are
hostile to them when they are not hostile
10 them. 1t would be a hideous thing to
pollute the water supply or poison the food
or a great city. But what is it to pollute
the minds and poison the understanding of
half the Nation?
That, and nothing less, is what Mr. Bryan
ana ms coparceners are seeking to do. They
are hooding the land with written and
spoken lies of the most dangerous descrip-
tlon, with plausible and ingenious incite-
ments to theft and violence and insurrec-
uoh; Ihey are apparently placing upon
sucn means their sole reliance for success
in the coming election. In that thew will
faii-tremendously fail. But success could
not and failure will not in the least palIiate
the iiilquity of their conduct Nor will
their failure undo the evil work they are
now dong upon the minds of their VIC
TINS: Men made disloyal to the fatherland
brother made TO hate brother classes in,
cited &c wage war against classes citizens
MADE regardless of executive authority and
cohtemptuous of courts of justice not only
Tor this campaign, but for unnumbered
years 10 come, and all with no reason but
Wanton calumnies and forgeries and false
hoodS-theSe will be the inevitable harvest
or the seed these honest and honora ble,'
men are sowing.