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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-03
CAUSE TO TAKE COURAGE.

The past week was one in which much
progress was made in Republican organi-
cation in Indiana. Hundreds of meetings
were held n many clubs with a large
membership were organized. All the re-
ports indicate a decided Improvement in
the outlook. Republicans are covering the
ground with literature and speakers. Here
and there there is a spot which has been
infected by the heresies Of the silver-mine
trust, but they are neither numerous por
so badly infected as at first reported.
There is ample evidence to show that
many who were caught with the silver IL
fusion two months ago nave oeen led to
see the matter in its true light. and are
back in the Republican ranks. While it is
true that the Republicans nave lost a few
men, ii is equally true that the cause of
men who have never acted with the Re-
publican party-many of them men o. in
fuence. and some of them having q consid-
cradle following. One OF the lest indica-
tons is that the people are eager to hear
the issue discussed from the sound-money
basis. Under ordinary conditions, meetings
to discuss political issues would have
called out only a few of the most sturdy
wheel-horses, but so great Is the interest
in the money question this year that pTac-
tically all the people in the neign5orhoods
where such meetings have been held at
tend.
These are encouraging indications, be-
Carca fhav shan that the urorL orroa1x,
done has been effective, and that the work
which will be lone will bring forth the
most satisfactory results. For once intelli-
gent men In all walks of life find that they
have an issue which is of vital Importance
to them. For hat reason every man who
realizes the necessity d a sound currency
Is an effective worker-a fact which cunts
for more than much platform speaking and
the general "whooping-up" OF campaigns.
Another hopeful Indication is found in
the general fall in the spirits of the lead
ers Of the silver party In this State. They
have dropped that vociferous iamboyancy
which characterized them when they went
to Chicago and swarmed about the Demo
cratic State convention. Most things have
worked against them, and many of them
are beginning to think they have been de-
ceived as to the volume and lasting quality
Of the silver craze.
Now is the time for every friend of sound
money to help the cause. A thousand men
who read the Journal can win to the GER
tain support Of good money a thousand
men a week. 1t is their cause; let them
fight their own battle.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-03

The federal revenues during the month Of
July were $13. oOO, 900 less than the receipts.
This is unusual and probably will not be
repeated, but a deficit may be looked for
at the close of every month. Everybody
except a few men in the Treasury Depart
ment knew two years ago that deficits
would be a monthly occurrence unless the
German revenue law should be amended.
Yet when Congress assembled in December
last the President did not call attention to
the insuficiency Of the revenue, but, both
in his regular and his special message,
warned Congress of the depletion Of the
reserve, not even intinating that it was not
due largely to the necessity of paying out
the redeemed greenbacks to meet current
expenditures. The Republican House has
tened to pass a bill which would now be
yielding $40, 900, coo of revenue annually, but
it received no support from Mr.. Cleve-
lands sound-money friends in Congress.
II all of those Senators had voted for the
measure it could have been passed. In
the silver State Senators to prevent the
enactment of the bill. The senatorial
clique which controls that body for free
silver will doubtless refuse to give the
treasury relief during the next session.
Consequently they are responsible for the
further issue of bonds. if they shall be is
sued, because the proceeds of such sales
are necessary to pay the current expenses
of the government.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-03

ism practical or operative Is as impossible
Herald.
Whose silver bullion would be coined into
money free provided the government en-
tered upon the scheme of free coinage? 1t
would be the possession of the great silver
barons of a few far Western states. and
for every 81 cents of their buiiion tney
would obtain a coin stamped "one dollar
tran une gove wn11e he theirs pP rSn theirs only.
-Muncie Times.
While candidate Bryan and the Demo-
cratic party are flirting with every mon
grel political party in the land. from Pop
ulist to Prohibition. in the frantic policy
OF anything TO win" Major Mckinney ana
and an honest PLATFORM, are not seeking
changing alliances OF any sort. but are
trusting simply TO the honor. wisdom ana
patriotism OF the pubiic--Mishawaka En-
terprise.
Destroy one-half OF the banking capital
of the country. reduce the currency to one
third of its present value. rob every PEN
sioner of one-half his pension. every bank
depositor Of one-half his deposit. every
creditor of one-half his due, destroy ma
uonal credit. and farmers, who more Than
any other class are interested In preserv-
ing the rights of property. would be among
the greatest sufferers.-South Bend Trib-
bune.
W. Wcit doAcu tht oiEtI uds W ~
would be with the emblem at the head OF
the ticket when the straight Democratic
party dominates next month. The So
called Democratic convention at Chicago
claims the rooster and so does the straight
honest-money party. The only way We can
see is for both parties 10 use the rooster,
the straights 10 use a 'Golden-spangled
Hamburg" with a single tail. and the DEM
opops and Popodems the Silver Wyan-
dottes' with a double tail.-Auburn Dis
patch.
If the Democrats succeed in bamboozling
the people into the Endorsement of free
silver the next forward movement should
be the free and unlimited coinage of an
thracite coal. Free silver means doubling
the value of every ton of silver from the
mountains of Colorado. Free coinage of
anthracite coal would enrich the barons OF
Pennsylvania and there is just the same
measure of justice TO the whole people as
is involved in the present conspiracy of the
trust, engineered by Stewart and the West
ern mine owners OF the white metal.-La-
fayette Courier. p
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-03
FORGERIES IN THE PLATFORM.

TIL controversy that has sprung up re-
garding the authenticity of the Chicago
platform as officially promulgated furnishes
additional proof of the trickery and dis
honesty of the free-silver managers of that
convention. AS published the day after it's
adoption the platform contained the follow
ing:
We demand the free and unlimited coin
age of both gold and silver at the present
legal ratio OF Is to /. without waiting for
the aid or consent of any other nation. We
demand hat the standard silver dollar
shall be a full legal tender equally with
gold. for all debts. public and private. and
We favor such legislation as will prevent
for the future the characterization of any
kind of legal tender money by private con-
tract.
The press report of the convention pro-
ceedings showed that Senator Hill offered
an amendment to this plank providing thai
such legislation should not affect contracts
made prior to its enactment. and that the
amendment. with others offered by Senator
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-03

There Is unmistakable evidence that Re-
p~ublicans are gaining ground and conf
dence throughout the country. and partic-
ularly in this State. 1t Is given out from
headquarters at Chicago that very cheer
Ing reports are coming in from the far
Western States. and leading Republicans
in Colorado, Utah. Montana, oregon,
Washington and California predict thai
Mckinley and sound money will win in
each Of those States. 1t is not likely the
Republicans will carry all Of them. but as
the tide Isl now running they will carry
some OF them. In this State there is a
very distinct change observable in the last
two weeks The first feeling of alarm
among Republicans at the possible danger
OF a Observation-Disclosures fusion
has been followed by a reaction and return
OF confidence. Local Republican, clubs are
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-03

A firm doing business in Lynn. Rush
county, Indiana. has received a letter from
Ex-Governor Furnas. of Nebraska, who Is
a cousin of one of the members. in which
he predicts that thv State will cast Il
good round majority for Mckinley and
sound money" OF the Popocrat candidate
he says:
/ am personally acquainted with ". j.
Bryan His private and moral character
and habits are perfectly clean and pure.
He is an exceedingly clever. sociable, mag
netic gentleman. one of the most captivat-
ing s-ilver-tongued orators in the land, but
in politics What Bob Ingersoll is in religion.
Is regarded as a stranger TO business prin-
ciples or craftsmanship. His oratory is OF
the sounding brass and tinkling cymbal."
and "glittering generality" order; alto
gether appeals to passion and prejudice. L
have not heard or read an argument from
him on any question. He claims TO be a
Democrat. His words and actions are Pop
ulistic. The old-liners. stalwarts of the
Depocratic party in this State. will not.
with a few exceptions. vote for him. As a
rule. those in this State who favor free
unlimited coinage of silver are the dis
gusted of other parties. or interested in
silver mines or silver bullion.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-03
HEROIC

. The party of high-browed women was
singing gladsomely, when a mar who had
the appearance Of having nothing TO do
approached the street corner on which they
stood.
Might I inquire the occasion. miss?' he
asked of the first woman whose attention
he could attract.
we have just erected a fountain with
free ice water" she said. I'VE are trying
to overthrow the rumseller."
Miss said the seedy man, in a voice
that was fairly husky in its ea~rnestness.
the way to git away wit the rumseller Is
not by free ice water, but by ccenin' a
free beer fountain. That will kill i'm dead
erin a mackerel, an don you forgit It."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-03


resentative are members. How far does this
mar Downing speak their sentiment n
purpose? About the Chicago convention
there were men talking OF bloodshed and
of looting banks. but they were supposed
TO have been ~inoculated with the views of
the anarchism of Altgeld. At st. Louis
war was talked by men who are called
l~unatics. This. however, Is different. The
Bimetallic League. as it falsely calls itself.
Includes the senatorial clique of Southern
Democrats, chiefly ex-Confederates and
silver State Senators. who came very near
controlling the Chicago convention, and
would have done so had not the hoy ora
tor Unexpectedly stampeded the rank and
file of the delegates. thus preventing the
nomination of Senator Teller. The leaders
of this falsely named league are largely
members of Congress. under oath to sup
port the Constitution of the United States
and that security which the Constitution
was framed to insure-are they in sympathy
with their agent Downing? Some of them
have been in one conspiracy against the
life Of the Republican, they favoring an
other war to overturn constituted authority
In this country, 'in comparison with which
the late war was child's play?" Are the
men who represent the silver-mining in
terest, whose product is not worth $50 00,-
900 a year, going to resort to bullets if the
ballots of freemen are not recorded in favor
of doubling the value of their silver prop
critics? Their accredited agent sent to New
York not only predicts war as the con-
sequence of Bryan's defeat, but declares
that we the Bimetallic League, propose
to settle this question by ballots If possible,
and by bullets If necessary" Downing is
in the pay of the silver mine owners trust.
1t is fair to assume that he speaks their
sentiments. or. If not their sentiments, is
threatening bullets and a deluge of blood
as a bluff to brighten the American peo-
pie. This sounds much like JEFF Davisism
in 1850.
| The attention of people of all parties is
called to the incendiary and reasonable
language of this accredited agent of the
mine owners trust and the Bimetallic
League. Already the incendiary language
of such agents has poisoned the minds of
many ignorant but well-meaning people.
so that they regard constituted authority
| and the laws of the land with disfavor.
The Chicago platform is saturated with
such heresies. Who will say that the
threats of such men as Downing do not
make the overthrow of those who predict
anarchism the paramount issue of the cam
/ paign?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-03

Hill. was received with Kisses and prompt
ly rejected. Now Democratic papers are
printing conspicuously 1.-The Platform as
Adopted-Declared to be a correct copy by
Official Stenographer Edward b. Dickin-
son. AS now printed the resolution above
quoted has the clause added:
But it should be carefully provided by
law. at the same time. that any change in
the monetary standard should not apply to
existing contracts.
This is substantially Senator Hills
amendment which was rejected by the con-
vention. 1t has been added since by order
of the convention managers in order to
make the original resolution a little less
offensive. The added clause really does not
improve the resolution a particle. but the
managers evidently hoped it would.
Another plank in the platform has been
materially changed. As furnished to the
press and published the day after its adop-
ton the platform contained the following:
We. therefore. demand that the power
to issue notes to circulate as money be
taken from the national banks. and that all
paper money shall be issued directly by the
treasury Department, be redeemable in
coin and receivable for all debts, public and
private.
TIL platform as now published, amended
and revised by the convention managers
and certified to as officially correct. reads
thus:
We, therefore. denounce the ISSUANCE of
notes intended to circulate as money. by
national banks as in derogation of the Con-
stitution, and we demand that paper which
is made a legal tender for public and pri-
vate debts or which is receivable for dues
to the United States. shall be issued by the
government Of the United States and shall
be redeemable in coin.
There is not as much change in the sense
of this resolution as in the former one, but
there is the same evident purpose to tone
down and sugarcoat. Both of the resolu-
tions as now officially promulgated are
forgeries.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-03

In the course Of an interview in the New
York Sun. William III. Downing. an ac-
credited agent of the BimetaIlic League.
makes the following statement:
We propose to settle this question by
ballots. IL possible. and by bullets IL neces-
sary. 1 tell you that IL this question isn't
settled, and settled In cur way. there will
be a war in this country. in comparison
with which the late civil war was child's
play.
Senator Jones. OF Arkansas. who has al
ready done some fighting to destroy the
Republic. is the president OF this league.
and nearly every othera Southern Demo-
cratic and silver mining Senator and Rep-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-03

The statement in the Sunday Journal by
Mr.. Sedgwick, of Richmond, Ind., as TO
the practical operation and effect OF free
silver in Central America is one of the
most interesting and instructive that has
appeared on the subject. Mr.. Sedgwick is
a prominent manufacturer of Richmond
and has spent some years in Nicaragua
in charge of coffee plantations there owned
by his firm. In this capacity he has been
a large employer of labor and has had ex-
tensive foreign exchange dealings with
other countries. His statement bristied with
points showing the disadvantages of a de-
preciated currency. but perhaps the most
striking one related to wages. He said:
Our company giys employment to be-
tween four and five hundred men. and they
receive an average OF Al cents per day
for their labor. The price is the same now
as 1T was when we started in business.
The money of the country is on a free
coinage-of-Silver basis, and hence the price
paid is in silver. The first money we paid
them was on a basis OF gold, being worth
Sl.6o. Their Al cents was then worth 2Ila
cents. To-day gold is worth s2.17. and at
the old rate at which the men are paid
their wages amount to but 10 cents in our
money.
This corroborates the contention of
sound-money men that when money depre-
ciates wages are the last thing to re-
spond. The prices of all commodities in
Nicaragua have gone up as the currency
deprecated. but wages ave remained sta
tionary. The workingxnen of this country
should think this matter out TO a final
conclusion before voting for free silver.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-03

forming all over the State and local meet
ings are being held with excellent results.
The Republican press OF the State fur
nishes many proofs of a healthy political
activity. and the general expression is that
the drift Of public sentiment is strongly in
favor OF Mckinley and sound money. Al
together, the outlook is very encouraging
and growing brighter every day. II the
Republicans continue to push things
there will be no doubt as TO the result.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-03

Judge Van Wagner. one OF Ex-Governor
Boies's ii~eutenants at Chicago. has assert
ed that his candidate could have had the
vote of the Illinois delegation IL Boies had
pledged himself to make AltgeId Attorney
general In his Cabinet. Boies refused TO be
. party to any such bargain. so. after vot-
ing for Bland to keep the pledge. "A num-
Der OF times. the Illinois delegation swung
- the support OF Bryan. Now there is
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-03

That was rather a neat word coinage of
Secretary of Agriculture Morton's when he
spoke Of the "deferryizing'' of fatboats in
favor of steamboats, and OF the latter in
favor of steel bridges and railroad trains.
The "demonetizing'' OF a f%uctuating and
obsolete standard of value was not more
a necessity of progress than the defer
ryizing' of the early methods Of crossing
streams
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-03
Economics.

1.-THE present trouble is that there are too
many men for the number of jobs" said
the amateur lecturer on the situation.
And that amt all, mister interrupted
Dismal Dawson. Another trouble is that
there is too much work to the job after a
man gifts it,"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-03

1.-The Republican party not only believes
in sound money and the highest public
faith and honor on the part of the govern
ment of the United States to all it's cred
itors. but also it believes in a tariff which.
while raising enough money to conduct the
government economically administered will
serve the highest and best interests of
American labor. American agriculture,
American commerce and American citizen
ship."-Wiliam Mckinley.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-03

The United States has double the amount
Of silver money per capita in circulation
that any country on the silver basis has.
The silver nations are the no-money ma
tons Moreover. three-fourths of their
people do not have the food which the poor
country
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-03

Tn Washington Qnd.) Gazette says that
. building and loan Investment company
Of this city recently wrote to their agent
In that place that the agitation of the
free-silver element OF this country has so
demoraiized affairs that 1t is impossible TO
secure investments and this company has
decided TO make no further loans until aft
er election" is the way the free-sil-
yer agitation Is beneft!ng borrowers.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-03

One shudders TO think what disastrous
consequence might have ensued to the
British aristocracy IL Lord Salisbury had
really fallen asleep during a debate on the
Irish bill. with his head on the Duke OF
Devonshire's shoulder. If in that position
the Premier had snored the British Con-
stitution itself might have been shaken.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-03

Boies because he would not promise were
given to Bryan because he did promise TO
place the pet of the Anarchists at the
head of the Department of Justice.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-03

The headstrong course of the Populist
STATE convention in Missouri has upset
Democratic calculations In that State, as it
has here. Evidently the Populists are not
the cats to furnish the paws with which
the Democratic monkey can dig the chest
nuts out of the ashes.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-03

The more they ponder the matter the
more the prudent supporters of Mr.. Bryan
will oppose his going over the country max
ing speeches. As a speaker he has devoted
his time to advocating the cause Of the
silver-mine owners, and that is not an en-
ployment which gives a man versatility.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-03

In 1891 Russia's wheat crop was les. SAG. 600
bushels. and in 1894 1T was 1856. 900. oeO. Ar
gentina's wheat crop rose from 80. oOO,O 900
bushels in 1891 to $1,000. 900 in 1894. These
figures are suggestive. because they indi-
cate the increased product of those coun-
tries which are active competitors.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-03

Candidate Bryan Is said to have an
nounced that he will make a campaign
tour that will include every State in the
Union. He has talked himself t~hreadbare
already. and 1t will not take many more
speeches to bury him under a phenomenal
ma fority.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-03

The local free-silver organ repeats with
editorial sanction the silly lie that Johann
Most. the New York Anarchist, will vote
for Mckinley. Even IL this were so, Alt
geld would be a fair Offset to Most, but the
latter recently wrote a letter to a citizen
Of Greencastle. Ind. asking for informa-
ton on the subject. stating that he had
no intention of voting for Mckinley.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-03

The Journal does not set up as a proph-
ct. but present indications are that after
the election the friends OF Mr.. Cheadle will
have a large quantity OF debris to remove
TO find his remains.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-03

The people who work for wages n sal
aries and deposit small savings in banks,
or invest them in building and loan
stocks are the real creditor class of the
country and the veritable money sharks.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-03

Gen. Lew Wallace and Gen. Dan Sickles
year." was the remark of a Boston man
who followed Speaker Reed at the recent
meeting in Maine. Senators Harris and
Jones. the solid South and the kings of the
silver mines do not attract veterans.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-03
Political Discussion.

Wunside Our candidate is not at all
afraid to say what he thinks. There is
nothing shrinking about him.
Tutherside-How opinions do differ. 1t
seems to me that the more we learn OF him
the more he shrinks.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-03

Millionaire Sewall has announced that
Mr. Bryan will soon be his guest, but Popu-
list Watson has not been publicly notified
that his spare room will be occupied at any
time by the head of the ticket.