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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-14
GORMAN AFTER MONEY.
He Will Attend Personally to Its
Proper
Washington Special.

w ia lOA Special.
Senator Germans visit to New York
been there several days, but has kept out
OF public view as much as possible. A
close friend says he will be back next Mon
day or Tuesday. There is no occasion for
the upbuilding of a mystery about Senator
Germans pilgrimage. He went TO New
York to make Il last Macedonian appeal to
contributions to the Bryan campaign fund.
Senator German has more influence with
the moneyed interests of New York than
all the rest of the Bryan campaign man
ayers put together, and he was deegated
to build fires under some millionaire gentle
men who would benefit directly and per-
sonally by a free-silver triumph. In the
opinion of Chairman Jones and other who
have the direction and guidance of the
ways and means end of the campaign. the
members of the so-called silver trust have
not put up witt proper and BETTING gener-
osity commensurate with the magnitude
of the profits that will accrue from free
coinage. They charge the mine owners
with a willingness to let the mob do the
fighting without contributing anything
worth mentioning to success.
Senator German is said to have found
the real reason of the failure of the mine
owners to come to the front with cash was
business sagacity of the Bryan managers
in Chicago and Washington. Their honesty
is not questioned, but their ability from a
political and business point of view rates
at a heavy discount. Senator German is
understood to have found it impossible TO
raise considerable amounts of money ex-
the duty of distributing it where the best
results would follow. Senator German is
in favor of retaining d goodly sum for use
in the border States, but to throw the bulk
Senator does not find it convenient to
spend a part of the remaining time before
election in Chicago he will have a per-
sonal representative on the ground-a look
out as it were.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-14
THE v TRUST.
enormous Profits of the Muti-IiIIion
aire Mine Owners.

New York World.
The World showed yesterday that some
OF the mines produce silver at a cost OF
only 50 cents an ounce. The cost I'm other
mines ranges upwards to about 50 cents ar
ounce. As this silver is worth in the mar
ket 20 to 81 cents an ounce. the margin OF
pront Is easily seen to be a very heavy
Moreover. some of the mines represent
no actual investment whatever. Counting
nominal capital of only 81 000. 600. If has
paid dividends amounting to 81. 212. 6O0. The
Granite Mountain is nominally capitalized
dividends to is stockholders s12, 120, 600.
Other mines show enormous profits on in
vestments that are largely fictitious.
Yet the multi-millionaires who own
these properties coolly ask the people of
the country to pay them incalculable mil
lions of additional profit by coming each
&c cents worth of their product into 81 %
worth OF legal-tender money. They ask
the country thus almost exactly to double
TO them the market price of a product al
ready so profitable that it pays them mill
lions every year to produce it.
So far as they are concerned free COIN
age would do precisely this. 1t would en-
able them to pay a dollar of wages or debt
with 81 cents worth of silver. How far
the process would enhance the general
value of the silver dollar no man can
know. But this much is clear: Every
penny of the advance. be 1t much or little,
must be paid out of the peoples earnings.
While every penny of the difference be-
tween the new price of silver and it's mint
price will represent So much of robbery
from creditors and tOilers.
In brief. this great silver trust is a con-
splracy among a hundred or SO multi
millionaire mine owners to rob creditors
of their dues and to levy a tribute upon
tie wages of everyole who works.
is there any conceivable reason why any
Wo~fklngman, any savings-bank depoSitor,
any holder of a life-insurance policy or any
other honest man should vote for this rings
programme?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-14

Ex-Representative Conn, now residing in
Washington and publishing the Washington
Times. has offered $500 for proof that oil
metaliism is not a myth, $500 for proof
that the election of Brya!I will not bring
a panic, $500 for proof that the govern
ments running expenses could be met in
any other way than by fiat-money issue,
or by bond sales or by the enactment OF
a higher tariff law, $500 for proof the free
coinage will give us more money in time
to prevent a money famine, and $500 for
proof that free coinage will not bring us TO
a silver basis. Captain Conn makes these
offers specially to Mr.. Bryan. and has of
fered to submit the answers to Mr.. Dana,
Of the New York Sun; Mr.. Kohlsaat, of the
Chicago Times-Herald; Col. Alexander x.
Mcclure. of the Philadelphia Times. ard
two other independent editors for decision.
Here is q chance for Mr.. Bryan TO make
more money than he ever realized from his
alleged practice of law.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-14
.naRE-FAcED swINDLE.

Yesterday the Journal called attention to
the circular headed Demands of Organ
lied Labor for Free Coinage ETC., printed
in the Sentinel and stuck on the walls as
a poster, saying hat it was old matter.
In a letter in answer to an inquiry from
]. ]. Donahue, 12 Pope street. Louisville.
p. NJ. Arthur, chief of the Brotherhood of
Engineers, has written:
Cleveland. O., Oct. Z. 1896.
Mr.. Jas. j. Donahue, Louisville, Ky:
Dear Sir-I am in receipt or your eS-
teemed favor of the 9Th inst, with circular
ineiosed. In reply will say that two years
and a half ago a gentleman called upon
Mr.. Sargent and myself at the Gibson
House, in Cincinnati. He read over n doc
nment purporting to be a petition to Con-
gress, which l regarded at that time as
being in the interest OF labor. After he
had read it through he asked me If l had
any objections to signing 1t, and | said no.
and thought no more about it until during
the present campaign it has been used for
political purposes
So that | may not be misunderstood
sues of the day is as an individual, not as
an executive officer of a labor organizes
ton. lam not in favor of the free coin
age of silver, as stated In the circular, and
Intend to vote for Mr.. Mckinley, and shall
advise all my friends TO DO w
Yours very respectfully.
p. M. ARTHUR. G. c.. E..
Two years and a half ago one of the
agents of the silver mine owners secured
Mr.. Arthur's signature to hat he REGARDED
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-14

When the local leaders of the sound
other title for the ticket than National
Democratic" they imposed on the Board of
Election Commissioners the duty of Sc
Letting a name for them. The two free
silver members of the board, Governor
Matthews and Mr.. Kern, have performed
this duty by selecting the title Gold
standard ticket This is as far as they
dared to go in the direction of being Of
fensive and insulting. They deprive the
sound-money Democrats of the right to call
themselves Democrats at all, thus virtually
ruling them out of the party as far as a
political junto can, and they give them
what is intended to be the offensive desig-
nation of gold standard" The sound
money men ought not to object to this.
The United States has had nothing but a
gold standard since 1858. and no other
standard prevails to-day in any civilized
country of the world. Even the free-sil-
verites recognize it when they say ZIG to
l." Most of them do not know it. but their
lack of intelligence does not alter the fact.
The ''gold-standard ticket" ought to at
tract the votes of all sound-money Demo-
Gratis who have not made up their minds
to vote for Mckinley. The selection of the
head of Thomas Jefferson as a device for
the ticket is appropriate. He was a gold
standard man, and, although he had his
faults. he was very far removed from a
rascal or a repudiator.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-14
Harrison in Richmond.


The wal is over for a certainty when
ex-PreSident Harrison can make a speech
in u seething mass meeting of ten thou
sand or twelve thousand crowded into a
huge shed in the outskirts of the CITY of
the Confederate capital of war
times. and meet with less incivility than
Bourke Cochran received at st. Louis the
night before, and far less than the nresi-
Dental candidate of the other side received
from Yale students at New Haven. Mr..
Harrison has always been a stiff party
man, in office and out of office, though
the South might remember with pleasure
one or two distinguished honors i'm the
way of judicial appointments sent that
way. No. the dangerous exacerbation in
this campaign, SO far as sectional feeling
has been aroused. is not between North
and South. We may well be thankful for
for rejoicing If the defeat Of the Chicago
programme Is so overwhelming and so
largely participated in by the great West
ern States hat the new sectionalism shall
be buried along with the new fiatism mas
~auerading in free and coinage
OF silver.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-14

candidate for President should maintain
almost strict silence from and after his
nomination. or. if he spoke at all, it
should be in the fewest and most noncom-
initial words. Now he is expected to make
speeches every day. Bryan has set the ex-
ample of stumping the country from the
rear end of a car, and even this may be-
come the custom hereafter. The Ultimate
effect may be to create a change in the
kind of qualifications looked for in presi-
Dental candidates and to cause too much
weight to be attached to the mere gift of
oratory.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-14

Chairman Babcock has made up the rec
ord of the two parties on the important
bill to protect trainmen on interstate rail-
ways. The measure was vigorously urged
by General Harrison in three messages be-
fore it was passed. In the House the car
coupler bill was opposed by seven Repub-
licans and seventy-seven Democrats. OF
the latter, sixty are now Bryanites and are
declaring that free silver is the panacea
for all the ills of labor. in the Senate ten
votes were given against the bill, of which
eight were those of Democrats. One of
these Democrats is now supporting the gold
standard, but all the others are active sup
porters of free silver. One of the two
Republicans opposing the bill was Senator
eva of Nevada, the king of the silver
push" whose recent troubles with the
printers employed on his newspaper, the
Silver knight, are well known. 1t was
claimed that the car coupler bill would
cost the railroad corporations $77, 900, 900, but
while all the leading Republicans in both
houses Of Congress voted for the car coup
Ter bill, s. per cent. of the opposition came
from Democrats who now support Bryan
and join with him in trying to array labor
against capital.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-14
Harrison and Reed.
Boston Transcript.

AS Boston crowded to hear MT. Keed iase
night. Cincinnati turned out TO isten 70
General HARRISON. As a speaker 6enerai
Harrison, once grant his premises, Is clear,
convincing. logical. There is scdrcsiy 4, $ :
Observation-Disclosures demonstration. 1t is the talk
of a LAWYER dissecting the plea or the other
Sida ard showing wherein ii Is mortally
yraeL hafora the court of public opinion.
Ard vet there is a glow of eloqnence about
w crorvd 70 hear him is an encourage
ing sign. for 1t reveals their ability TO pre-
fer calm presentation to oratorical nre-
ar nroeches either Mr.. Reed or General
HARRISON in ability or in national interest.
Tbar among those who flock to hear those
eantIamen there may be many actuated by
Curiosity is perfectly true, but that the
majority are drawn to listen to men az
teachers whose positions On the Issues or
the hour are we'll known is a cheering In
dication of the popular desire TO learn from
those who arc able TO instruct.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-14
The demonstration of the Mckinley

The demonstration of the Mckinley ex-
soldiers and of the sons of soldiers who
will vote for Mckinley, last night, proved
beyond doubt that the veterans are with
Mckinley this year as they have never be-
fore been for any one candidate for Presi-
dent in Indiana. Colonel McLean compared
the enthusiasm of the veterans with that
they showed when called upon to rally to
the support of the Union in April, 1861. Ex-
soldiers turned out and marched who have
not been in any sort of a procession for
years. In every respect the demonstration
exceeded any other in this city this year
and fully met the expectations of those who
had a part in getting it up.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-14
Rebuke to SectiOnaIism.

PhlIadeIpfld HeCOFu.
One of the most impressive demonstra-
tons among the political pilgrimages to
Canton was that which started yesterday
from the Shenandoah valley. The spec
tacie of a delegation composed of 1000
Confederate soldiers paying their respects
to u Union soldier who is a candidate for
the presidency representing the party i'm
mediately responsible for the conduct of
the civil war upon the part of the North
ern States furnishes a new and striking
proof of the restoration of complete am
credit and of orderly and constitutional
government. What a. rebuke this action
upon the part of Southern soldiers offers to
the aiders and abettors of the new sec
tionalism, which seeks not only to array
one part of the country against another,
communities. into hostile classes and fac
tiOnS.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-14

The Republicans, not alone of Indiana,
but of the country at large, are to be con-
graduated on the fact that ex-President
Harrison has consented to take an active
Part in the campaign in this State. There
is no other American statesman whose
words will carry greater weight throughout
the country, while the people of Indiana
will hear and read them with especial
pleasure. General Harrison is a man who
always tries to see and do his duty, and in
this case he is actuated by the highest
motives of patriotism. His itinerary will
embrace different portions of the State
quite impartially and enable a vast number
of people to hear him.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-14

In May last the Orange Judd Farmer.
published at Chicago. asked its subscribers
to express their preferences for presiden-
tial candidates and stheir views on the
leading economic issues of the day. The
result of the poll, published May 80. is of
some interest at this stage of the cam
paign 1t shows Republican votes for five
candidates, Democratic votes for ten cam
didates. and third party votes for six. The
three highest Republican candidates were:
Allison, 1,09S; Reed, 1.172. and Mckinley,
1000. The three highest Democratic cam
didates were: Carlisle. 236; Hill. 295, and
Boies, 316. The three highest third party
candidates were: Cameron. 1S1; Tillman.
246, and ST. John, 400. Bryan did not re-
ceive q vote. He had not been discovered
yet. The votes on measures showed a ma
jority in favor of protection and reci-
procity, against the free coinage of silver,
and in favor of international bimetallism.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-14

We nave about four billions of silver
money and about four billions of gold
money in the world. Suppose We destroy
one pile and make the other pile do the
service of both. What is the result? The
demand for money remains the same, and
the supply of money is cut in two. The
result must be that the value of each dol
lar will rise.
This is one of the things Mr.. Bryan said
to ladies only" in Minneapolis. He under
will not wish to know the value of the dol
lar after gold is destroyed and the pile
Of silver is increased from four billions to
as many as the mines can supply the
bullion for and the minis can stamp.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-14
The Value of Literary History.

Professor Trent. IN the Atlantic.
Literary history belongs to the domain of
fact just as much as geography does, and
the ability on the part of a child to reel of
the names of authors and their dates is Just
as useless as his ability to tell the apita
OF Bolivia or to draw a map of A~fghanis-
tan. A certain amount of literary history
is useful-the amount given in Mr.. Stopford
Brooko's and Professor Richardson's prim-
ers and in Mr.. Brandei Matthew's volume
on American literature-but not a bit more.
for as intellectual training literary history
is not nearly so efficient as many another
study.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-14
"Fifty-Cent Godsends."

Il have known men who have not seen any
kind of dollars for so long that a 50-cent
dollar would be a godsend to them."-W. j.
Bryan, at Logansport, Ind.
But why not give them the 100-cent dol
lar which they received in 1892? Any man
who was willing to work could find en-
ployment in that year, and no one offered
him a 50-cent dollar when a. 100-cent dol
lar was due him Tor his labor. And how
about the 1000, 600 men who are employed
in the United States to-day? Are we to
give them 50-cent dollars, instead of the
1G0-cent dollars they now receive, in order
that some other people may also get only
half what they ought to have? When we
can pay 100-cent dollars to every one. Mr..
Bryan, why compel any one to take 50-cent
dollars?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-14

In the bill for the repeal of the purchase
clause of the Sherman act of 1890. reported
in the Senate by Senator Voorhees,, the
policy of the United States in reference to
silver is set forth as follows:
And it is hereby declared to be the pol
icy Of the United States to continue the
use of both gold and silver as standard
money. and to coin both gold and silver
into money of equal intrinsic and exchange
able value, such equality to be secured
through international agreement, or by
such safeguards of legislation as will in
sure maintenance of the parity in value
of the coins of the two metals, and the
equal power of every dollar at all times
in the markets and in the YIN of
debts. And it is hereby further declared
that the efforts of the government should
be steadily directed to the establishment
of such a safe system of bimetaIiism as
will maintain at all times the equal power
of every dollar coined or issued in the
United States. in the markets and in the
payment of debts.
This is the last declaration OF Congress
on the coinage question, the bill becoming
a law Nov. 50. 1898. The Senate passed the
bill by a vote of 43 to 50, Senators Voor-
hees and Turpie both voting for it. In the
House the following members from 1ndi-
ana voted for the bill: Brett, Brookshire,
Jason g.. Brown. Bynum. Cooper. Ham
mond. Holman. johnson, McNagny. Mar
tin. Taylor, Waugh. Mr.. Conn was not
present when the vote was taken. This
means that on Nov. /. 1889. every Demo-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-14

Reader, Rockport: The condition of the
English masses has improved very much
since 1916, when the single gold standard
was adopted, measured by wages. The
wages of the cotton spinner was Is shillingS
a week in 1920, but "a shillings in 1880; those
of the blacksmith from "a to 80 shillings;
of the mason from % to So; of the car
penter from 20 to 80 shillings. The hours of
labor have been reduced from sixty-nine
a week in 1897 to fifty-seven in 1887. Even
agricultural wages advanced in a marked
degree between 1885 and 1885.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-14

William Jennings Bryan is the first cam
didate or aspirant for the presidency who
has ever tried to reach the Office through
the low and dangerous art of the dema-
gogue. 1t has remained for him to try and
win the highest office in the gift of the peo-
pie by appealing to popular passion and
prejudice, arraying section against section
and class against class.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-14

East and the West, the fact remains that
their people look at great questions of pub
Tic policy in the same way. This was true
when the issue was resistance to slavery in
1860, the support of the Union cause during
the war in 1864, the rejection of the propo-
sition to repudiate part of the national OBJ
lgatlon to bondholders in 1868. and, in more
recent times. the protest against Mckin-
ieyism in 1882. We have now the simple
moral issue whether this Nation shall re-
pudidte half of all debts, public and pri-
Vate. The East has already shown that it
regards this proposition as abominable. The
West is as certain to reach the same con-
ciuslon as 1T is certain that the masses of
the people are honest in both sections.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-14

needs no introduction and so favorably
known that he does not need to carry Gre
dentials. Colonel clean expressed his
opinions on the issues in clear-cut sentences
preliminary to introducing General Sickles.
Among the Democrats who reject Organism
in Indiana none is better known or more
influential than Colonel Mclean.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-14

The American people have been fortu-
nate in their Presidents. The office has
been filed by twenty-five men, of whom
nineteen were elected President and three
We're elected Vice President and became
President by succession. OF all these the
only one who failed to show proper sense of
the responsibilities of the office or exhib-
tied a reckless or unsafe temper was An
drew johnson.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-14
The Best OF Reasons.

New York Evening Post.
A correspondent asks us to tell him
.'some way TO form an estimate of how
the national election will co. and asks
rs it not possible TO show exactly why we
should take a hopeful view of McKiniey's
election?" We think it is. Like causes pro-
duce like effects. When the voters of New
England are overwhelmingly against the
Democratic party. the voters of the West
are bound to be the same way. After all
that is said about the differences of the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-14

Perhaps when Governor Matthews said
the sound-money Democrats would not poll
1900 votes In the State he meant to say
In this city. That would not let him out.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-14

If you have among your acquaintances a
man who is regarded by his %neighbors as
having a screw loose the chances are
that he is a Bryanite. Cranks flock to-
gether. no matter how their individual hob
bieS vary.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-14

Chairman Pickens is right when he says:
There is no longer any question that the
nominee of the Chicago convention is a
Pcpulist." If a man who voted for Weaver
in 1892 on the Populist platform adopted at
Omaha is not a Populist, what is he?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-14

crat in Senate and House voted for the
above declaration. More than that, on q
direct proposition to substitute free coin
Senators and all Of the Indiana Democrats
in the House except Brookshire, Holman
and Taylor voted against free coinage of
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-14

The rally of sound-money railroad men
tomorrow promises to be one of the most
notable local events of the campaign. So
far from being an evidence of coercion, it
will demonstrate the independence of rail-
road employees and their habit of thinking
and acting for themselves.