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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1896-09-26
The Campaign OF Intimidation.

SO fragrant has become the abuse
of intimidating labor ON the part OF
the single gold standard plutocrats
that even the official head of the
Knights of Labor, General Master
Workman j. X. Sovereign, has felt
called to protest against thu infamous
outrage against the rights of Ameri-
can manhood. He publishes in the
silver Knight Waterman, of Wash
ington, ID. c., a lengthy article Civ
ing his reasons for such action in
detail, which he prefaces with the
following card:
Office of General Master Workman.
Order of knights of Labor,
Sulphur Springs, Ark, Sept. ,,
1896.
Editor of Silver Knight Waterman,
Washington, ID. c.
Dear Sir:-In the Doubtful States
of the Mississippi Valley every kind
of threat possible on the laboring peo-
pie is made to whip them into line for
Mckinley and the single gold stand
ard. Working people every where
who favor free silver are threatened
With Discharge because of their po-
litical opinions. 1t seems to me very
important that we should command
the labor field and / hope through
the aid of friends Of our cause to be
able to begin operations at Chicago
not later than September l5. The
continuation of Free Government in
America demands that We Win this
Fight for the People. Hoping to
receive your encouragement and sup
port in the work / have undertaken,
l remain,
Respectfully yours.
TotrN p Nourprt<~
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1896-09-26

LADIES, Hirschman' are now ready
to show you the New Gapes and
Coats.
HRscHMAN's are opening their
line of Ladies New Fall Capes and
Jackets.
The two year guaranteed suspen-
der is kept only by Hirschman' ).
Every farmer and workingman
should buy them:
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1896-09-26

FALL styles in Gentlemen's Cloth
ing and Hats, arriving Daily at
Meminger's.
Those are neat ChiIdren's Snita
Hirschman's are showing; their
prices are within reach Of ali.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1896-09-26

fhe circulation of the New DOMINION
steadily increases and islarger now than
ever before.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1896-09-26
New Il. & o. station In Baltimore.

The new Passenger Station of the
Il. a o. r. r., at the intersection OF
Mt. Royal Avenue and Cathedral
Street, Baltimore, Md, was opened
for business September LIST.
The new Station, which will be
known as Mt. Royal Station, is one
of the finest buildings of its kind in
America. 1t is located in the resi-
Dental section of the city and is
easily accessible by Street Railway
service from all parts of the town.
Camden Station will remain in use as
heretofore, and all trains running
over the Philadelphia Division will
stop at both Stations. All tickets
to or from Baltimore will be honorcd
to or from either Station, and bag
gage will be checked to either Sta
ton at the option of the passenger.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1896-09-26

KEEP one thing in mind: no mat.
ter how low others offer goods,
Hirschman's are always lower.
EXTREME low prices that compe-
tition cannot touch rule Hirschman s
Clothing Department. A guaran-
teed saving of % per cent.
ANOTHER line ofCarpets; lngrains
from IA cents upwards; Hemps from
IA cents upward; Rags from IA cts.
upward. Brussels, Moquettes and
Administers at Hirschman's.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1896-09-26
Another Republican. Fake DIsproved.

The claim has been loudly made
that Mckinley while friend of sill
yer had never voted for free and UNI
limited coinage of silver at the ratio
Of Is to |. This claim has been so
strenuously urged by local Republi-
cans that they have actually come to
believe it themselves. For fear that
others may be led astray innocently
by these claims we would refer our
readers to Page 241 of the Cong.
Record, Volume 6. An examination
of this will yield some very interest
ing facts. A bill had been present
ed by Mr.. Bland and after being read
the regular number of times was put
to a vote. The bill consists of two
sections. section first provides that
there shall be coined at the several
minis of the United States the sill
yer dollar of the weight of 4125
grains troy of standard silver, as
provided in the act of Jan. Is. 1887,
on which shall be the devices and
superscriptions provided by said act
which coins, together with all silver
dollars heretofore coined by the
United States of like weight and fine
ness, shall be legal teuder at their
nominal value for all debts and dues,
public and private, except where 9th
erwise provided by contract; and
any owner of silver bullion may de
post the same in any United States
coinage mint or assay office to be
coined into such dollars for his ben
eft upon the same terms and condi-
tons as gold bullion is deposited for
coinage under existing law.
Section second provides for the re-
peal of all acts and parts of acts in
consistent with the provisions of the
act
The votes shows Buckner and Nc
ley voting aye and Bragg paired af
firmatively. These then are the men
who hold up their hands in holy hor-
ror at the idea of free coinage who
go into SPANS over the Democracy
forsaking its time honored princi-
pies, who are shocked beyond ex-
preston at the scheme Of "dishones-
tyo advocated by Mr.. Bryan. Mr..
Mckinley has sacrificed his person
al beliefs in the vain hope of his
election. Bragg and Buckner for the
notoriety it would give them. Bragg
lost the stake he played for; Buckner
is almost forgotten; and Mckinley
is rushing in the arms of Hanna
headlong to utter destruction. Who
is the repudiator, who the dishon-
est one? Bryan the consistent or
Mckinley the puppet of plutocracy?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-20
THE CHEERING OUTLOOK.

The Democratic managers at Washington
nave given out a statement showing the
number of Representatives to Congress
they expect to elect. which involves a prac-
teal admission tina the Republicans will
nave 210 electoral votes. These managers
claim that they will elect 1870 Representa-
tives. In the States of Connecticut, Della
ware, Iowa, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts,
| Michigan, New Jersey, New Hampshire,
New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania,
Rhode Island, Vermont and Wisconsin they
claim but thirty-one Representatives. These
States have 30 electors. These managers
claim eight of the twenty-five Representa-
tives in Illinois. four of the eleven in Iowa,
five of the twelve in Michigan, three of the
twenty-three in Ohio and two of the ten in
Wisconsin. This claim is a concession that
the electoral votes of Illinois, Iowa. Michi-
gan, Ohio and Wisconsin will be given to
Mckinley.
In this table of the Democratic managers
in Washington ten of the thirteen members
of indiana are put in the Popocratic COL
umn. These figures Will be reversed when
the votes shall have been counted, and the
$4,000 'ANANA EeN u -
will involve will go to the Mckinley col
umn and make one more than is necessary
for an election. In addition to the vote of
Indiana being for Mckinley, the following
States can be counted for the Republican
candidate in addition to those conceded by
the Democratic managers in Washington:
Kentucky, thirteen; Maryland, eight; Min
nesota, nine, and West Virginia, six, which.
added to the 210 conceded electoral votes.
with the vote of Indiana, makes 2e1 votes
for Mckinley.
The votes Of the States conceded by the
Democratic managers, namely-Connecti-
cut, Delaware. Iowa, Illinois, Maine, Mas
sachusetts, Michigan, New jersey, New
Hampshire, New York, Ohio, OREGON, Penn
sylvania. Rhode Island, Vermont and Wis
consin, and those of Kentucky, Indiana,
Maryland, Minnesota and West Virginia
all almost as certain for Mckinley as is
the coming of election day-insure his cleo
ton with thirty-seven to spare. To the
above, of which the Republicans at the ma
tional headquarters are absolutely conf
dent, are added by Chairman Hanna the
votes of California, Kansas, Nebraska, the
two Dakotas, Washington and wyoming
fifty-one. making the Mckinley vote in the
Electoral College 302. Here is a margin of
seventy-eight to go and come on over a
clear majority of the electoral vote, which
is 224. For the Republican confidence in
carrying most of these States there are
ample reasons. To these reasons can be
added the unmistakable fact that the cur
rent has set strongly in favor of the Re-
publican ticket.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-20

Before the letter of Mr.. Sheerin has
ceased to be a leading topic of remark in
political circles. Mr.. Sterling r. Holt adj
dresses a letter to the Democrats of In
diana which will have a potent influence.
Mr.. Hollis letter is not SO vigorously
phrased as is Mr.. Sheerin's, but the cool
and steady hand with which he applies the
dissecting knife makes his work equally eff
fective. In all that has been written about
the silver mine owners trust there has
been no phrase spoken or written which
better describes the animus of the Bryan
campaign than "the gentlemen constituting
a trust are putting up a large fund in the
way of investment in the presidency" This
is followed by the opinion that the free
coinage of silver would cut in two the
wages of fifteen millions of wage earn
ers"-the opinion of a cool-headed and sue
cessful business man. These are not, in the
Judgment of Mr.. Holt, in accordance with
the teaching of the fathers of the Demo-
cratic party.
What Mr.. Holt says about regularity is
equally forcible. Mr.. Bryan is not a Demo-
crat. He did not vote for Mr.. Cleveland.
because he had some trade to carry out
with Populists. What he has TO say about
kicking off of the Democratic electoral
ticket the five candidates at the behest of
the Populists and the selection OF the five
by the same Populists without rendering
any compensation will cause many Demo-
Gratis to reconsider the matter and conclude
with Mr.. Holt that the true course for Il
Democrat to pursue is to vote against tie
silver trusts candidate and a Popocratic or
Populist electoral ticket.
Following the address of Mr.. Jewett, the
declaration of Colonel Mclean and the let
ter of Mr.. Sheerin, this letter of the late
chairman Of the Democratic State commit
tee telling the Democrats of Indiana that
as self-respecting men they are absolved
from all duty to support the alleged Demo-
cratic electors" will cause thousands Of
Democrats to act upon Mr.. Hollis advice.
The managers who are responsible for this
outrage upon the Democratic party cannot
counterfeit the disastrous effects of the dec
larations Of such able and trusted leaders
as the men named. The words of such
leaders as Jewett, Lea Sheerin and
! Holt must dishearten the leaders and be-
wilder the rank and file.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-20
ACTION OF \ LABOR ASSEMBLY.

Sixteen members of the Trade and Labor
Assembly of Chicago, who are prominent
leaders or officials of organized labor, took
it upon themselves to investigate the rec
ords Of the American Federation of Labor,
of which Mr.. Gompers is president, to see
If they sustained the claim that the feder-
alton had given expression on political
questions. The assembly. it may be well
to explain, is made up of delegates repre-
senting all the labor unions in the city.
The Popocrats had made the claim that or
ganized labor, by the action OF the fedora
ton, was. bound to vote for the candidate
of the free-coinage party. The authors of
the circular point out the fact that last
December the Federation of Labor, in the
convention I'm New York. amended the con-
stitution so that it cannot take any action
In favor of party politics. ANY vote like
indorsing Bryan and the free coinage of
silver would be in violation of the constitu-
ton. Having proved that the federation
cannot take action in favor OF any candi-
date or party by quoting from the proceed
ings OF the federation, and having declared
that 1t has no political platform and cah-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-20

Few men nave had a more extensive ac-
uuaintance in Indiana than Rev. B. F. Fos-
ter, whose death is announced in another
column. Previous to his connection with
the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows he had
become widely known as a minister, and
since thai time has retained close relations
with the church people. Owing to his pop
uIarity his services have been in demand
by members of his denomination through
out the State in their seasons of f~estivity
and mourning, and his death will be as a
personal loss to the many homes where he
of1iciated at marriage and funeral, and so
came into association will the sacred
things of family life. His long term as Sec
rotary of the Grand Lodge also made him
a host of friends, and to the Odd Fellows it
will seem that a landmark is gone when
they miss his kindly face from accustomed
places. He was seldom brought prominent
ly before the public, especially in later
wears, and he did his part as a man and a
citizen in a quiet, unassuming way, but it
is such men who are missed and regretted
in a community when they depart from it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-20
BILLY in His NiEhfy.

OF all the sights since the day of grief
When the first man disobeyed.
And took from the fg its pristine leaf
To begin the clothier's trade,
The strangest yet was the one that came
To that far Northwestern town.
When the air was rent with a wild acclaim
Fer Billy in his nighty-gown.
Billy in his mighty. mighty, mighty,
Billy in his little mighty gown.
Now. gold bugs, weep with a bitter wall
For your passing day OF grace;
Oh, British lion, conceal your tall
IN some safe, secluded place.
IT'S the oriflamme we've needed SO
To lead Us to renown.
In hoe signo vinces! Let her go!
Here's Billy in his nighty-gown,
Billy in his mighty. mighty, mighty.
Billy in his pretty mighty gown.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-20

teen times as much silver as gold in the
world and being produced annually" The
writer denied the statement. and asks for
the historical facts. The man who makes
such a statement is too hopelessly ignorant
to waste time upon at this period of the
V He should be classed with the
man who, early in the campaign, got a ten
dollar gold piece to keep until the country
had free coinage of silver, when he would
Hamilton and Jefferson's words have been
quoted thousands of times during the cam
paign to show that only the market value
of the metals can be considered in fixing a
ratio
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-20
Jack-Rabbit statesmanship.

To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal:
Mr.. Bryan's shirt-tail campaign of
lungs, lunacy, lying and larceny pre-
sents the most indecent spec
tacIe that has ever been wit
messed in a political canvass. When Mr..
Parnell scandalized the Liberal party by
his fire adder escapade, en- dishabille, Mr..
Gladstone reduced him to the ranks, not,
as was said, because of his moral delin-
quency, which was a yenial fault. but be-
cause the great party would not follow a
leader who had made himself ridiculous.
The nasty suggestiveness of this political
mountebank's late performance in holding
meetings for women only an idea Dor
rowed from the posters of quack doctors
who masquerade among their petticoat as
semblies of hysterical females. TO rob them
OF their money by peddling nostrums for
the cure of ills that are wholly imaginary
this is probably the dirtiest dodge OF his
dirty campaign. And this is the man who
aspires to the place once occupied by the
sages and statesmen of the Republic! Not
only is he personally ridiculous and indie
cent, but his rawlings against thrift and
frugality, the mainstays of national pros
perity. and his appeals to the tramp ele-
ment SAVIOR of lunacy. II has been the
good fortune OF this couptry hitherto that
the line of party cleavage has been vertical
and not horizontal. High and low. rich
and poor, were found in goodly numbers
in all parties Party lines were drawn on
out reference to classes or conditions. For
the first time In our history the appeal Is
now made to the prejudfceS and passions
of the lawless and thriftless; the poor man
IL told that his more fortunate neighbor Is
his natural enemy, whom IL Is his right
and duty to loot. The widow and orphans
to whom a small patrimony has been left.
which has been producing a modest In
come. are to be robbed In the interest OF
millionaire mine owners and rascally bor-
rowers who have invested their borrowed
capital In losing ventures. These incendiary
appeals are bolstered up by the shallowest
assertions of fiction as fact. If anything
Is established by history and the opinions
of the greatest statesmen and fnanciers.
posed of gold and silver, where one Is UNI
dervalued according to its commercial
value. the undervalued metal viii escape
and hide itself. This was announced as
IL law centuries ago, and 1t has never been
broken in the history OF any nation. Mr..
Bryan says that Congress can suspend and
nullify the operation OF the law. Congress
can as well stay the ebb and flow OF the
tide or prevent the obscuration of the sun
the wits of our people gone wool gathering
SO far that the opinions of such men as
Isaac Newton, John Locke, Thomas Jeffer-
son. Alexander Hamilton. are TO givu place
to the yagaries of a jack-rabbit politician
who sprang from the sage brush of Ne
braska upon the platform of the Chicago
convention and captured the Democratic
standard and bore II into the camp Of the
Populists? w. +. FISHBACk.
Jndfauano1is Oct 10
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-20

a Bryan organ il. the far West has
learned that the advance in the price of
wheat is due to low stocks in Europe and
TO the further fact that those people must
eat. And while the Bryan organs are dis
covering a few practical facts the peo-
pie who were half inclined to believe
the assumption of the siiverites that wheat
has been low because of the gold STANDARD
are now convinced that such a claim is a
hunbug. The discovery that there is no
connection between the two has turned
thousands of farmers away from the sup
port Of the silver mine owners.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-20

The Chicago Record received postal cards
expressing presidential preferences in sixty
nine counties in Indiana, as far as counted
to Saturday afternoon, as follows: Nc
Kinley, ISIS; Bryan, $3.50; Palmer, 113;
lowering, 20. While Mckinley will carry
Indiana by d round plurality, it will not be
anything near as large as the figures indi-
cate, unless Democrats in battalion follow
Sheerin and Holt in refusing to be made
PODuliSt5-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-20

z. L.. Terre Haute: "a LII his speech at
knowlesviile, n. Y, Mr.. Bryan said: The
PRONUNCIATION of the gold standard is an
attack upon your homes and your firesides,
and YOU have as much right to resist it as
TO resist an army marching to take your
children captive and burn the roof over
your head () The elections in all of the
Northern States nave shown large gains
over 1894. In but two of the Southern
States, Arkansas and Florida, did the Re
publicans nave a distinct ticket. In all of
them the Democratic plurality was re-
1uca6
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-20

The Sentinel recently remarked: I'VE
cannot publish any more long communica-
lions during the present campaign" May
be this determination accounts for it's
failure to publish the recent interesting
communication addressed TO Indiana DEM
ocrats by Hon. S.. p. Sheerin. Mr.. Sterling
r. Hollis communication of the same ma
ture is also long, and presumably will not
be found in that paper this morning.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-20

public beggars" is what Bryan de-
w~orkingmen were who desired their indus
tries protected. When Mr.. Bryan appears
in that center Of protected industries. or in
dustries which should be protected, the gas
belt-let the thousands of workingmen who
find employment in those industries re-
memher him.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-20
Notes Af Meefinrs.

William l.. Taylor and J. Frank Carson
will speak at Southport Thursday evening.
J. p. Eirick, of Chicago, will speak in
German at Columbia Hall on Friday night.
John c. Robinson spoke at Crothersville
last night in the interest of sound money.
S. H. Spooner will speak at Clermont
Thursday night and at Allisonville Friday
night.
At noon to-day Jesse Overstreet will adj
dress the employees of the Atlas engine
works.
The Brightwood meeting for Thursday
night will be addressed by l.. D.. Hay and
Charles n. Thompson.
Lucius r. Swift will address a meeting of
the voters of Decatur township at West
Newton on Friday night next.
Grand Master Sovereign, of the Knights
of Labor, will speak at Tomlinson Hall
tonight in the interest of the Bryan prop
uganda.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-20

While Governor Matthews may not see
the straits into which his leadership has
brought the Democratic party of Indiana,
many of his followers undoubtedly do, un-
less the sadness which sits upon their faces
is due to other griefs. AS Il presidential
aspirant he began by rejecting the advice
of the ADLER men of his party. When he
was not nominated and Bryan was,
he had not the discretio n to realize that
strous mistake. and began to herate those
more intelligent Democrats who did. lie
took the first occasion which offered to de-
nounce them as 'Hessians and traitors"
He assailed them in interviews. Nor did
the results of his plumbers inform him that
he was wrong. He told reporters that GER
tain leaders We're asses. lie insulted
friends by refusing him a place on
the Board of Elections. He has unneces-
sarily angered the sound-money Democrats
by not placing the name which they had
chosen at the head of their ticket. He
has been leader in all fusion movements
by which Democrats lave been taken from
congressional and legislative tickets and
Populists put in their places, to the end
that he may secure, not a Democratic Leg
i~slature, but a Matthews Legislature which
will send him to the Senate. If these
Democrats whom ne has insulted do not see
that his senatorial hopes are blasted they
are not the men they have been in the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-20

Mckinley will not only receive the largest
popular vote ever given a presidential cam
didate. but he will have a popular majority
the largest ever recorded. The Mckinley
majorities in New York and Pennsylvania
will exceed the entire vote of Colorado,
Nevada, Montana. Idaho and Utah, the
chief silver producing States.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-20

The proposition that all the friends of
sound money display the stars and stripes
from their houses and places of business
Oct. 81 should meet with general favor. No
better use can be made of the flag of the
country than to identify those who are
against repudiation.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-20

The desperate Bryanites will endeavor to
spring sensational fakes during the last
days of the canvass, but no sensible man
will be Influenced by them. all the
country wants is better times, not panics,
and better times can come only through
the election of Major Mckinley.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-20

During the remaining days OF the cam
paign every man who desires the return OF
something like activity to business should
do all In his power to bury Organism in a
very deep grave
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-20

If Mr.. Bryan wants an engagement as
advance agent for a show of any kind after
Nov. 3 he will probably have no trouble
in getting it. He has demonstrated his
ability TO get over the ground and do the
talking act.