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The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1896-09-26

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the future by the past. We have
scrlptural authority Tor the assertion
that the tree is known by its fruit.
These trees have been bearing fruit
Tor twenty years, and there has not
been thing on II single tree that a
laborlng man would have in bis house.
These are the men who by the for.
nation of great trusts have stiaed
competition, driven tho SIN: Ill com.
petitor ont of business. viii they ct
this late day turn around and cham
plon laws for the special benefit and
protection OF the ]aboriDg M IN? Show
me the man who has tried to break
down labor organization and will
show youa man who to-day is sweating
blood for fear some laborin 8 man is
going to have his wages cut into.
Now, my friends, the policy of the
enemy is to divide and conquer.
Whenever there has been an effort
upon the part OF the laboring men to
secure any Legislation needed by them.
where have they found their friends?
They have found their friends upon
the farm, and not in Wall street, And
now they appeal to the laboring man
to come with theSmoney changers and
help them defeat the farmer because
he wants higher price for his pro.
duct.
They want the laboring man to be-.
ieve that the free coinage Of silver il
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news. Now IL prints some alleged letters
in proof Of the theory that 1t has been i'm
posed upon. III these letters. like the affi-
davits, are bogus the Sentinel has been
prosecuted and deceived again: If they are
genuine they simply prove its dense stupid
ity and eagerness TO believe a lie. Evil
dence on these points is unnecessary.
Something should be conceded to the in
teIligence of the public. The festive bull
frog which jumps at a hook baited with
red flannel and impales himself on its point
does not need to furnish further evidence
of his stupidity. So far as that particular
frog is concerned the case is closed. Courts
take judicial knowledge Of established facts.
and when a paper makes such an exhibition
of mingled stupidity and dishonesty as the
Sentinel did in exploiting the alleged Ohio
County Free-silver Club the public does
not require documentary evidence of the
fact. The best thing the Sentinel can do is
to drop the matter. If 1t can.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-29
THE SENTINEL's DILEMMA.

The Ohio County Free-silver Club seems
TO have a fatal fascination for the Sentinel.
into the candle where its wings nave al
ready been scorched. The Sentinel started
out by trying to prove by false dispatches
and forged afidavits that there was a Re
publican free-silver club in Ohio county
containing nearly as many members as
there are voters OF all parties in the county.
When the falsity OF the story was exposed
and declared that IL was being pursued by
invisible. unknown and INSCRIPTIONS per-
sons who were filing its columns with fake
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When i'm Reality People Scramble to
See and Hear Him Because He Has
Peen Well Advertised.
SPEECH TO MANY FARMERS
USUAL EFFORT TO RRA THE
MASSES AGAINST CAPITALISTS.
Mr.. Carlisle's U~tteranccs Again Used
a a Text-Address at Niagara
Falls in the Evening.

LOCKPORT, N. Y, Aug. 2S.-This was
the day of the farmer in William
j. Bryan's campaigning tour and was
the most interesting one since he came
into the "enemy's country" Out in the
woods of Knowlesville, forty miles east of
Niagara Falls, he addressed, the farmers
assert. at least 10000 people, but a more
conservative estimate is at least $4,000. 1t
was the occasion of the Orleans county
annual barbecue and Mr.. Bryan was asked
to attend. He was billed to reach there at
noon and was up and doing early this
morning. He took an electric car from
Buffalo at S o'clock for Niagara Falls.
stopping only at Tonawanda for a five
minutes speech. Two hours were spent at
the falls, after which the journey to
Knowlesville began. Along the route to
Knowlesville stops were made at Sus-
pension Bridge, Lockport and Medina.
with about a thousand gathered at each
place. He was obliged to decline speech
making with the excuse that 1.-The spirit is
willing but the throat is weak" but Mrs.
Bryan partly atoned by distributing flow
ers which had been forced upon her along
the route, for which men and women
scrambled.
Out in the woods at Knowlesville Mr..
Bryan spoke to an enormous crowd He
frequently INDUCED in repartee with the
auditors, who shouted Interruptions. When
a voice queried loudly why do you quote
Carlisle he replied because no man has
presented a more forcible argument for
bimetallism than Mr.. Carlisle" Marcus IL.
Phillips. a Republican free-silver man, who
served several terms in the Legislature,
nreSided and introduced Mr.. BRYAN as the
great commoner." The candidate talked
in competition with a remarkable array of
sideshows. merry-go-rounds and shell
games which had come to prey upon the
farmers. A gan of sharpers is following
in the wake of the Bryan campaign and
to-day many pockets were picked. After
the speech it seemed for a time hat the
candidate might be slaughtered. for the
men who wanted to shake hands nearly
pulled him from the carriage, exhausting
him so hat he was obliged to rest upon
a bed, while Mrs. Bryan figured alone at
the reception which followed. At Z o'clock
Mr.. Bryan boarded the train for Niagara
Falls, where he spoke to a large audience
in the evening from the balcony of the
Cataract House.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-29
GENERAL HARRIsox's SPEECH.

No speech which has been delivered In
this country in recent years has been
awaited with so much interest as that of
General Harrison. 1t is not necessary TO
add that. In every respect. it will meet the
expectations of his friends. The very first
point which he makes-that the Republican
party cannot be expected ito put aside any
of the great principles IL has advocated in
order to win a vote'-is most timely. be-
cause IL will silence those who have COM
planned that such Is the purpose OF the Re-
publicans. His treatment of the silver
question is unlike that OF any of the great
speakers. Its merit lies in the fact tina
the Illustrations are from the transactions
of everyday life with which every reader
is familiar. For Instance, who can fail to
see the force of that illustration in which
1t is shown that the merchant can mark up
his goods TO the values of silver money,
but no man who receives wages for labor
can mark up his compensation in silver.
nor can the pensioner write SIG in the place
of IS In his pension certificate? During the
campaign there will be no more striking
expression than the first dirty errand that
a dirty dollar does is to cheat the working
man."
But that portion of General Harrison's
speech which will attract most attention
Is that part devoted TO the revolutionary
feature Of the Chicago platform. 1T is
not the silver platform or the platform
generally which most concerns me-" said
a Democratic Judge in this State to a
f-f.-I e. - -s-- Il.----
convention. but the lawless spirit and ut
terances of delegates and the crowd in har-
mony with them" Noting it by the
speeches of the leaders. General Harrison
said:
The atmosphere of the Chicago conven-
ton was surcharged with the spirit of
revolution. This platform was carried and
Its nominations made Will accompanying
Incidents of frenzy that startled the on
lockers and amazed the country The
courts and the President were arraigned
for enforcing the laws and government by
the mob was given preference over govern
ment by the law enforced by court DEGREES
and by executive orders.
II listened to a speech by a Bryan lead
er a few nights ago." said a well-known
citizen of this State not long since. 1T
was not his argument in favor of repudia-
ton which gave me anxiety, but the
utburst of applause which his threat to
loot the banks If they inserted a gold
clause in their notes called forth-the spirit
of anarchism." Il am not quite clear on
the silver question: remarked a lawyer in
this city recently but if 1 am in favor of
free coinage. nothing in the world would
induce me to vote for Bryan on the Alt
geld platform
These utterances show that there is in
the country a large numbe of thoughtful
men who see in the Chicago platform
and it's candidate a menace to constitution
al government. For all these men General
Harrison spoke. and the reading of his
timely words Of warning on this subject
will cause thousands of patriotic citizens
to take q renewed interest in a campaign
which involves the existence of constitu-
tional government. social order and the en-
forcement of the law.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-29

A few days ago the Danville Republican
a Philadelphia firm to McConn & Co., of
Danville, who are dealers in wool. 1t is
not a political letter. but one written by
one business man to another. The follow
ing extract is taken from the letter:
You will probably be somewhat surprised
when / tell you that we are entirely out of
the market. lot buying a pound of wool.
and this seems to be the case all around.
The sales last week in all the markets of
the country amounted to only a little over
one million pounds. There was never any
thing like this before in the history of the
country. The combination of silverites.
Populists. Socialists, etc, have done the
business. Their actions have almost
paralyzed trade in all the branches.
The German tariff law deprived the wool
grower of one-third of his price and one
third of his market. The wooden goods
made abroad by cheaper labor and i'm
ported under the rascally ad valorem tariff
nave glutted the market. A large part of
the wooden mills of the country are shut
down. This situation was bad enough, but
now it is rendered worse by the uncertainty
which the silverites have created as to the
future money. No manufacturer will put
gold into WOOL ana WOODEN goods while
there is any probability that he will be
forced to accept deprecated silver in pay
ment or be involved in a panic which will
result in a total loss. The condition of the
wool market is described by the Danville
Republican as follows:
The case of wool is a strong proof of this
which comes directly home. Millions of
pounds of wool in this country would now
be i'm the hands of farmers wen at the low
price which was paid had dealers known
the future. The farmers succeeded in un-
loading. and the wool is held by the mer-
chants in towns and cities who bought it
believing that they could sell IT even If
there was not profit enough to pay them
for handling IL in ordinary seasons. These
dealers now find the wool on hand with no
market. their money tied up in IL with no
immediate prospect for n change for the
better. Free silver will not help them be-
cause they paid for the wool In gold or its
equivalent, while only the fear of free sill
yer is causing great distress
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-29

The silver agitation has resulted in ex-
tensive deposits being withdrawn from De-
troit banks and deposited in Canadian
banks. The certainty that the latter will
continue to pay checks in gold or its equiv
alent gives them the preference. Canadian
banks or bankers are no more honest than
those o. the United States. but under free
silver coinage our banks would be forced
to a silver basis. AS ex-President Harri-
son said in his New York speech, the
American banker would say. Although my
integrity revolts against it. my honesty is
coerced." and through sheer compulsion he
would pay out Scent dollars.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-29
MEANING OF FREE COINAGE.

1t means the debasement of our
currency to the amount of the differ
ence between the commercial and
coin value of the silver dollar, which
n ever ~changing, and the effect
be to reduce property values,
entail untold loss, destroy
condolences, impair the obligations Of
Ssh the labOrers and producers of the
create . panic of ~unparal-
leled severity and fnhict upon trade
and mmer q deadly blow. To any
such policy Il am unalterably Op-
posed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-29
Fl RISING

The tide which turned in favor of Re-
publicanism, sound money and law and or
der six weeks ago has been increasing in
volume and intensity ever since. No longer
are letters from different parts of the State
filed with panicky rumors of detection.
On the contrary. from all private and con-
idential sources of information there comes
but one rcport-the increasing Improvement
CT the Republican situation. Six weeks
ago the silverites might have carried In
diana. If the election should be held next
Tuesday it would be Republican. The
number of men who have really been Re-
publicans who nave gone over to the silver
mine owners party. outside of the disap-
pointed place seekers who have found in
silverism a pretext to walk into the camp
of the enemy, is very small. Those who
ing cannot count corporals' guards where
they expected battalions and even ~brigades.
So few and so inconsequential has been
this detection of self-commissioned cap
tains and generals that those who are fight
ing in the party ranks have not SO much
as noticed their absence or criticised the
pr clamations which they made on leaving.
Already these losses have been much more
than made good by accessions from the
pa rty whose leaders have been captured by
the silver barons. There are few pre-
cincts in Indiana in which there are not
men who have been Democrats who will
not be Bryanites. In many precincts such
en- can be counted by fives and tens.
This great change has been wrought by
the united and prompt action of the mass
CT Republicans. Two months ago Republic
eEs generally realized the danger and cour-
ageously set about the work of a~verting it.
Past differences were dropped and no in
quiry was made regarding leaders. but the
Jealous Republicans in every community
organized for the battle. To refute the
heresies scattered broadcast in the tracts
CT the silver-mine owners league there has
been put into the hands of reading voters
hundreds of thousands of pages of argu-
n.ents in favor Of sound money. Fifty thou
sand Republicans in Indiana are we'll in
formed regarding the history and functions
of money, where earlier in the campaign
lEtlO WElt " HNt llOlAQiCu. AlCCu L iillS
great work has been done by men who
talk and reason with their neighbors. Be-
fore the Bryanites had made a dozen
speeches hundreds of addresses had been
made in behalf of the Republican cause.
Three months ago the g.ib-tongued silverite
who had learned his lesson monoDolized
the street-corner forums; now. in every
community. there are weil-posted men who
can expose his heresies.
There is yet much work TO be done; con-
sequently there should be no let-up. No
earnest Republican should think of a fur
Tough until the polls are closed in Novem-,
Der. Force the lighting all along the line.
and, above all, on the extended skirmish
line. where every good soldier is at his best
because his own commander.
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that when November comes they will act
for themselves" Great applause.)
During the brief stop i'm Niagara the
Bryan party was taken on a special car or
the Gorge railroad to Lewiston. a distance
of several miles down the river. The road
Is built under the cliff on the American
side. and runs close by the rapids. COM
msnding a fine view OF the falls. Mr.. and
Mrs. Bryan stood on the front platform.
and at Lewiston shook hands with a small
party. After ascending the tower Tor a
view of the falls they boarded a train for
knowlesviIle. near Medina. 10 speak at the
farmers picnic.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-29
Awful Strain.

The four champion prize fighters Of the
world came out on the stage. bowed TO the
audience as they were introduced, took
their seats. and the great battle was on.
The silence was awful. At the end of one
minute, one champion had fallen to rise no
more. Then dropped another and another,
and at the expiration of six minutes more.
but one remained. There was a light Of
triumph in his eyes, but the sweat was
pouring down his face and every limb was
trembling.
But he had won. He had remained silent
for seven minutes.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-29

Indiana. Wisconsin,. Michigan, Minnesota
and Iowa. the Minneapolis Tribune ays
that IF the Republican prospects are as
good In the other FIVE IS in Minnesota the
outlook is highly encouraging" And yet
in Minnesota the silver Democrats, silver
State ticket headed by a silver Republican.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-29

In Its business aspect the question before
the people is whether the existing standard
consequences to business, TO labor and to
enterprise. and q new. debased and nuc-
tuating standard be substituted. In it's
moral aspect the question is whether we
shall become a nation OF regulators and
the government be branded with a stigma
which 1t would take generations to recover
from
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-29

The statistics collected in Chicago by
Robert p. Porter for the Inter Ocean show
that the number of hands employed by the
leading industries of that city and vicinity
is about 20 per cent. less than in 1890.
The Democratic tariff is responsible.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-29

Judging from the expressions OF the Re-
publican papers in New York. the recent
State convention. in naming Representative
Black for Governor. gave the party a
young man of high character. upon whom
all the factions can unite. Mr.. Black is a
young man who won his distinction by
lighting the ballot-box stufing element Of
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-29

Some of the Bryanites are telling a class
of voters who are not in position to get
information, but who are in favor of pro-
lection, that the Bryan party will pass a
protective tariff with a free-silver bill. No.
cal speakers will do we'll to call attention to
this fraud.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-29

W. l.. Wilson, a prominent business
man in Nebraska, who is acquainted with
the Popocratic candidate for President.
thus describes him: He represents law
yers who have few clients, financiers who
have no funds and craftsmanship which is
n ade up OF sixteen parts OF elocution to
one OF study. experience and wisdom"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-29

In 1892. says Postmaster Hesing. of Chica-
go, the German vote was three parts Demo-
cratic and one part Republican. bVt in 1896
he predicts that because of their adherence
10 SOUND money the German vote will be
three parts Republican and one part Dem
ncratic
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-29

You are getting only Il cents a pound
for your WOOL" said Speaker Reed. in a
rural county in Maine. last Wednesday.
Only 10 cents put in a listener. Yes
replied Mr.. Reed. that is the way I always
understate my facts. You can always re-
all what 1 say to you at a profit
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-29

The Chicago Tribune says the sound
money Democrats of Illinois have all the
money they need or can use for literature.
speakers or other campaign expenses. and
that they will begin a vigorous campaign
immediately after the convention in this
citv
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-29

Traitors" "Hessians," tories are the
angry epithets which Governor Matthews
hurls at the sound-money Democrats. To
add "copperhead' to these epithets would
revive painful memories. consequently he
does not use II.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-29

The Mexican laborer, who receives less
than half the wages in silver worth so
cents a dollar that the United States labor
er on similar employment receives, has
the Bryan crow OF thorns pressed upon his
brow by Mr.. Bryan's friends. the mine own
ers, with a vengeance.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-29

Between Jan. 1 and July 81. 1886. $3.50, ALP
standard silver dollars were coined, or 531.-
IA more than from the date of the estab-
lishment OF the mini in 1892 to the great
crime of 1873"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-29

The next time Mr.. Bryan goes to church,
II the preacher is a ~sound-money man he
might find a suggestive text in Job viii. 2:
'How long wilt thou speak these things?
And how long shall the words of thy mouth
be like a strong wind?"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-29

The Sentinel Is publishing a serial, which,
II properly headlined. would read, THE
Way we were Done Up by Correspondents"
II 1t likes to print testimonials to its own
imbecility that Is its own affair. The Jour-
nal considers that it proved the facts suffi-
GENTLY for all practical purposes the other
day. and has passed on to more interesting
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-29
THE IyDIANAPOLTs JOURNAL

Can be fourd at the following places:
NEW YORK Windsor Hotel and Astor House.
CHICAGO-Palmer House and p. o. News Co..
81 Adams street.
r. Hawley g Co.. 14 Vine
street
LoUIsvILLE-C. T. Deering, northwest corner
Of Third and jefferson streets. and Louisville
Book Co.. 3s Fourth avenue
ct. LOUIs-Union News Company. Union Depot.
MASHINGTON. ID. C.-Riggs House. Ebbitt
House. Wizards Hotel and the Washington
News Exchange. Fourteenth street. between
Penn avenue and r street
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-29

There Is this difference between the
who go to Canton to hear Mr.. Nc
kinley speak and those who listen to Mr..
Bryan on his hippodroming tour: All of
McKinley's visitors will vote for him, while
a very large proportion of those who go
out OF curiosity to hear Bryan will vote
against him.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-29

'Jehiel seems to be kinder breakin', don't
you Think asked the neighbor.
Hes losin' sleep is what's the matter
with him." Mrs. Jason explained. He in
sists on settin' up every night till sixteen
minutes to one, jest TO show his devotion
to tho caucen
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-29

Considering the fact that the silver-mine
clique embraces a score of men and cor
porations with half a billion dollars. the
s.hene Of their managers to induce farm
ess to contribute their produce to help
swell their campaign fund is simply
cheeky.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-29
In one of his recent speeches Mr.. Bryan

IN one or MS recent speeches Mr.. Bryan
said:
What is the principle that underlies 1t
all? 1T is that the law of supply and de-
mand applies to money as to everything
else: You know That If the worlds crop
next year OF a certain article is very much
greater than the crop this year, That arti-
Gle VIII fall in price. IL the crop is much
smaller tnan this year. that article will rise
In price. You know that the law of supply
and demand reaches and controls all sorts
OF property. IT reaches and controls money
as well as other forms of property
All of which is true, but Mr.. Bryan seems
to have forgotten it later on in the same
speech. when he said:
Do you know what they overlook? They
overlook the fact that when we bring silver
into competition with gold We increase th,,
supply OF standard money; that the silver
dollar will be worth as much as the gold
dollar.
That is. when you bring 5000. 900. 900 of
uncoined silver into competition with the
silver now in use and now being mined,
which is worth q little less than 20 cents an
ounce, this immense crop or supply will so
enhance the value of the whole that it will
be worth $1.29 an ounce.