The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-14

basis by borrowing money and putting 1t
into farm lands and improvements. AS
matters stand you will have to pay these
debts in money as good as that which you
borrowed. that is, In gold or it's equivalent.
But the free coinage of silver will enable
you to pay your debts with dollars worth
only half as much as gold. thus. in effect.
scaling down your debts one-half' At the
same time he manages to convey the i'm
preston that this cheap money Will be
much easier to get hold of than good money
now is. There are debtors with whom this
kind of an argument may be effective, but
they are not honest ones. An honest
debtor would say to Mr.. Bryan: Get out
with your rascally proposition. What do
you take me for? / am poor and times
are hard, but am no scamp. There are
worse things than being in debt. and one
of them is being a rascal. If cannot pay
my debts 1 will not try to rob my creditors.
1 would rather lose my farm than my char
acter." The Journal believes that, by as
much as honest debtors outnumher dis
honest ones, Mr.. Bryan's scheme of repu-
diation will be rejected by that class.
A Few days ago the Sentlnel puDllShed
a letter written BY one DR.. James A Hole,
of Salem, O., to some person in this city,
in which he spoke of himself as an ''old
Republican" denounced Mr.. Mckinley as
"a demagogue,' and declared in favor of
free silver. In prefacing the letter the
Sentinel says:
1t comes from a lifelong Republican and
a man who grew UP with Mckinley from
his boyhood. The writer is a physician of
standing in his profession, graduate of
a medical institution in Philadelphia that
ranked among the most celebrated in the
country in it's day and Il man who has
been known throughout medical circles
through his enthusiastic devotion to Re
publicanism well as his medical abili-
ties.
The article fell under the notice of a
prominent citizen of Salem, o., who writes
to the Journal as follows:
Two years ago when DR.. Hole failed to
convince the Republicans of the Eight
eeLth district (McKinley's old district that
they should nominate him, he declared
himself an independent candidate, ana got
some Republicans who had compassion on
the old fellow, because they believed MIN
to be in his dotage, to sign his petition
lot, and when election came off he got just
eight votes in ColHn biana county. where
all his relatives live. do not think this
is the best recommendation for man
when he cannot command the vote of
large family of which he is member. In
Stark county he got one vote, and in Ma
a total vote of thirty-four in the district
which cast 20.S03 Republican votes. 1,051
Democratic, 1879 Prohibition and S,9l2 Pop
ulist This is the standing of the man.
He conducted a campaign of abuse of all
good Republicans by his contributions to
Democratic papers, whose influence was
given pretty largely in his candidacy, but
thirty-four votes was the. extent of that
influence. He appears to be up to his old
trick of writing letters and claiming what
he has been in the past, but for two years
he has been a disappointed man, and con-
Quoted himself very much other would
be politicians who fail to receive what they
try to make the party give them.
With this kind Of a record DR.. Holes de-
nunciation of Mckinley and accession to
the free-silver ranks need not disturb any
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