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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-28

sets, represented by abundant stock on
hand, valuable assets of all kinds, but no
cash with which to further conduct opera
tons or pay his laborerS. Such is the de-
plcrable condition of hundreds of manufae-
turers throughout the country to-day, ana
all for lack of that confidence which shouic
prevail but which is Frustrated by
the many threats embodied in the Chicago
platform. Every line of business has been
and must continue to be. conducted upon
what might be termed cooperative or
mutual plan between consumer. retailer
iobber, manufacturer and national banks
One must depend upon and favor the offier
Your local merchant can accommodate you
with credit if he can be assured OF similar
favors from his jobber. The jobber can &C
conlmodate the retailer if in turn. he en-
joys extended credit from the manufac-
turer, knd right here is where we strike
the stone wall. unless unbounded CONT
dence exists, for the manufacturer cannot
possibly carry his jobber unless the banks
W i'll accept the manufacturer paper (Which
unfortunately is not the case under present
Threatened dsbasement Of our currency.l
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-28
SAMPLE SILVER LIES.

Editor Shanklin delivered a speech re-
Gently at Seymour, Ind, in which ne said:
Why. my countrymen, if all the silver in
the world were dumped at our doors ana
the per capita circulation of our .oOoV,9oo
people one dollar. How many IN TINS auol-
ence would be particularly oufoened py on
addition of one dollar to their present cap
ital?
Mr. Shankiin is evidently anxious to do
his share towards maintaining the reputa-
ton of the free-slverites for recklessness
sf statement The Seymour Journal having
disputed the statement, a Populst of that
town who pinned his faith to Shanklln
wrote to him for confirmation of it. The
latter's reply printed in the Populist
organ at Seymour. He said:
The last statistical information is that
since the decentralization of silver the
worlds product of that metal mas peen ue-
clining and for the last two or three years
reported it was only about seventy million
What | said was that if the entire supply
of silver now being mined We're dumped
here it would only increase the volume OF
our currency a little more than one dollar
annually. l have not the time to cite you
the references, but this statement is abso-
ey reliable # y6ey Rhpud do So
furnish their authorities.
Mr.. Shanklin probably got his last sta
tistical information from Professor Coin
or candidate Bryan. 1t is about as nearly
| correct and absolutely reliable" as most
of their pretended statements of fact. In
stead of the worlds product of silver hav-
ing decreased since the so-called demone-
tization of silver in 1873, it has largely in
! creased. During the five years from 1866
| to 1870 inclusive, the worlds production, as
shown by a statement in the last report of
the Director of the Mint, was 215,2579 14
ounces; from 1871 to 1875 it was 49, 069
ounces: from 1876 to 1880 it was 1893, 009
ounces; from 1881 to 1885 it was 460,01S,722
ounces; from 1886 to 1880 it was 544, 557 155
ounces. and during the four years from 1891
to 1894. inclusive it was 624, 1857 2S9 ounces.
These figures show a steady and great in
crease in the production of silver for the
last thirty years. Mr.. Shanklins state
ment that for the last two or three years
reported it was only about 100000 ounces
is grossly incorrect. The statement that
eff the entire supply of silver now being
mined were dumped here it would increase
the volume of our currency d little more
than one dollar annually is equally wild,
The coming value of the worlds product
of silver in 1894 was $2l6 S92. 200, and that of
1893 was S214 AS 800 more than three dollars
per capita for our population in each year.
1t is by such grossly erroneous or will
fully false statements these that free
silverites of the Coin school are trying
to fool the people into voting for Bryan
ism.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-28

The Ligonier. Ind, Leader prints the fol-
lowing letter written to firm doing bust
ness at Cromwell. Noble county, by the
Waite & Barnes Furniture Company, of
Sturgis, Mich:
Gentlemen - Agreeable to promise, We
write you concerning lumber contract. We
have decided that we cannot place any
contracts of any kind under existing cir
cumstances. This free-silver agitation has
destroyed what little business thea Demo-
Gratis by their free-trade legislation, had
left us. and it is not good business policy to
go further on uncertainties. Our factories
here are all closed down, for the first time
in the history of the town. I do not know
what your politics are, and my only excuse
is my earnestness and sincerity in the mat
ter. McKinley's election by big majority
will restore confidence so sadly lacking, and
if we have a Republican House and Sen
ate. with protection and reciprocity, you
were experienced under the Mckinley tariff
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-28
a Political Mistake.
Richmond Item

John w. Kern and Green Smith the two
Democratic leaders who gave the best pos
silver last May, have quit kicking thrown
up their hands and demurely walked back
into the Popocratic camp. They use n great
many words to explain the consistency of
their course. but the simple truth is they
think more CT their parry machine than
they do of their honest convictions They
haven't the courage to submit to temporary
unpopularity in order to be recognized as
really great hereafter. But they have made
a mistake. even from the standpoint of po-
litical expediency. By their half-hearted
course they will lose the confidence and
earnest support of both the Democratic
factions and when the time comes to dis
tribute party honors they will probably be
ignored all around.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-28

One of the stock statements of Mr. Bryan
is that if this Nation of 100000 people es-
tablishes the free coinage of silver at the
ratio of 16 to 1 it will at once raise the
price of silver to par or from 60 cents to
81 20 an ounce. President Ingalls,, in his
Chicago speech, disposed of the Bryan as
sumption with a single fact from history.
The Latin Union II 100000 strong, composed
of peoples using nearly double the money
now in use, at a time when the annual out
put of the mines was far less than the pres
ent yield utterly failed to maintain the
parity of gold and silver when the CONNER
cial value of the two metals was only IL to
l. In view of such experience the Bryan
reiteration is absurd.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-28

The name of Hon. Charles l.. Jewett is
very familiar to Indiana Democrats by rea-
son of his craftsmanship of the State CEN
trail committee during two campaigns. He
has long been recognized as man of abil-
ity and honor. When such a man de-
nounces the action of his party and re-
pudiates the fraudulent platform it has put
forth his reasons for doing so should COM
mand attention. Mr.. Jewett's speech at Co
lumbus Saturday night was bugle call
for all Democrats who place the honor and
prosperity of the country above mere party
fealty to vote for Mckinley The closing
paragraph of his speech will bear reread-
ing. He said
great Nation will be most surely reacneu
by a system of sound money, q tdilu SUI
ficient to produce revenue aoJuslea III t,re
Gus foreign policy, which shall MAKE re
ciprocal trade not only an advantage 10 us,
but a necessity to all our nelghbors upon
the American continent and among the
Western seas. Such a policy VIII carry tne
flag and the commerce OF our Goulr.i hs
around the world. All honor to the Eepub,
lican party in that it now stands Tor an
these things. 1t made great sacrlhces 10
do so 1t sacrificed the support OF states
rather than retain them at a pricfe, wnlch
it scorned to pay. Laying aside ola QUAR-
relS forgetting old differences ana coming
with unbiased minds to consideration OF
present emergencies, it must be admitted
by candid men that, either from choice or
through force of circumstances the Repub-
Ican party to-day struggles for the best
interests of the American people. Its plat
form is distinctly right upon the questions
that are now agtating the public MIND lts
candidates manfully accept that platform
in all its integrity and stand to-day for that
which is most laudable in politics, most
conducive to the PUBLIC peace and the
preservation of the public honor. At least
i believe these things and so believing;
give to this party my vote and cheertul
support / do not overlook the tremendous
Drice which every man pays who prefers
his country to his party, and who allows
his patriotism to come between him and
his former political associations. 1t means
that he must abandon all hope OF poItlcal
preferment. ana forever lay his amblnon
,inon the altar of his country. Those VINO
are not willing to make such sacr1hce
NAV follow their own course. have CHOSEN
mine. Believing that so long as present
conditions exist it is the duty OF every
patriotic man to support the Republican
nartv and its candidates, Will do so cneer-
fully and without the slightest regard TO
nersonaI consequences. May you do like
wise We will march to the music OF the
Union. and our high purpose shall be one
country and one flag, now and forever
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Political VersicIes.

with Apologies to Riley)
When the frost is the punkn and the fodder g
in the shock
And We've heard the spcechifyin of the whole
free-silver flock,
When Bryan's train is homeward bound and
Altgeld is rest,
When Tillman sheaths his pitchfork and Jones
has done his best
It's then will come the votin' and the people have
their say.
As they crowd into the votin booths that great
election day;
And you'll never hear the CROWN of the Demo-
cratic cock,
When the frost is on the punkn and the fodder S
in the shock.
N. S. SeIby in Princeton Clarion
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-28

The Hendricks County Republican prints
a letter received by d citizen of Danville
from friend who is postmaster at Cedar
Rapids, Neb. The writer says:
I will give YOU some of my reasons for
my belief that Mckinley will carry Ne
braska. Five out of six commercial tray
elers that come to this town assert that
from travelling over the State they ind
McKinley's friends in the lead. Personally
| think [ can say / am fairly we'll ac-
auainted over the State having been COM
mander of the Indiana Veteran Associa,
ton of Nebraska for two years. and
find two out of every three veterans i'll
favor of Comrade Mckinney. l find about
two-thirds of the business men OF towns
and cities in favor Of Mckinley and pros
perity / find in a great many places a
majority of farmers. in favor of Mckinley
] find that Republicans are at work &c
show that Mr.. Bryan is advocating that
which at it's best lis but an experiment
that may cost too much. So far as | know
most of the straight Democrats will vote
for Mckinley.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-28

The large body of intelligent men who
find employment with the railroads, and
who are now as a matter of interest or
ganized to support a sound currency. must
feel compIimented by those orators and or
gans which constantly asserting that
secretly they belong to clubs in which they
are pledged to vote for Mr.. Bryan. There
is not efficient man in the employ of a
railroad who does not know that he is at
liberty tosvote as he chooses, and that by SC
doing he does not put his employment in
jeopardy. In view of the action of the great
mass of the railroad men and of their en-
tire freedom to vote as they choose, the
constant reiteration of this insult to the
manhood of thousands of the most intelli-
gent wage-earners in the country comes
very near being an outrage
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-28

One sentence in President NJ t. ingalls,
speech at Chicago should cause worklngmen
to do some hard thinking For twenty
five years, he said, you have toiled ana
worked in order to get your wages advanced
to where they are now, and, in one day, If
this scheme succeeds on the Sd of Novem-
Der, you reduce your wages anywhere from
30 to 25 per cent" A workingman who
votes for free silver votes to undo what
has been accomplished by organized labor
in twenty-five years.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-28

The Louisville Commercial publishes an
interview with a resident of that city, d
skilled mechanic, who has just returned
from a stay of eleven months in Eng
land. where he saw much OF the working
people. He says
The people of England never were bet
ter off and never mad more money than
they have at the present time. | was In
England eleven months this time, and
know that the mechanics and factory
hands live well. Out of the entire number
less than per cent. are unemployed, ana
there is work for all who will work
OF course, our present tariff law has been
a great advantage to England but it is ev-
ident the people there are not suffering
from a gold standard As they have had it
for three-quarters of century it is about
time for the suffering TO begin if it is in
herent in that cause .a
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-28

The following appeared in our highly es-
teemed and much-persecuted contemporary.
the Sentinel, yesterday, under the caption,
Arrest Him Promptly
The following will explain itself very
promptly: .. ca,
tall send the Sentinel this messenger.
who will inform it that the Sentinel will
be charged tonight in puo1c speech with
having not only been offered, but having
received S25, 600 to advocate Mr. Bryan
election.
The Sentinefs answer:
Indianapolis Sept. IS
To the Herald. Columbus. Ind:
We have heard conhdentlaily that the
Sentinel will be charged tonight IN a public
snaech with having been bribed by accept
ans election If this charge is made, ar
resi- the speaker for libel Immediately
This seems to point to another diabolical
Mot. The persons who have caused this
;ncendiarv rumor to be Started are doubt
less the same ones who originated the re-
norts concerning the Rising Sun Free
silver Club. 1t IS evidently the in
tention of these bad citizens to
bring the free-silver organ, and Incl
dentally the cause 1t advocates. into con-
tempt. The idea that it could be bought
with the paltry sum of $4,000 to advocate
the election of any other than Simon-pure
Democrat OF the Jeffersonian-Jaekson
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-28
This is the way the vieksburg Post goes

This is the way the Vicksburg Post goes
for the Popocrat platform and candidate:
Mr. Bryan has many peculiar ideas of
government, and among them may be IN
cluded this fantastic notion of the basis
upon which the federal judiciary should
be placed. He has practiced elocution in
stead of law, and has studied cicero ora
tons instead of Story's Commentaries on
the Federal Constitution"
Mr.. Bryans conception of the American
form of government is crude in the ex-
treme- On the one hand he denies the
power OF the national government to pro-
tect its mail service and to maintain and
while the other hand he would arm the
government with new, untried and auto
cratic powers for carrying out the schemes
of the Populists, and would reconstruct
the whole basis of the federal judiciary in
order to sustain such powers.
With the national government owning all
the railroads and telegraph lines. regulat-
ing the wages and relations between en-
ployerS and employees with a SuDSerVlent
federal judiciary, from the Supreme Court
judges down to circuit and district Judges,
ready to carry out by judicial DEGREES the
will of the majority that elected them,
instead of giving a. fearless and lndepend-
ent Interpretation and administration of
the laws. there would be system OF ty-
ranny, oppression, robbery and rottenneSS
that has never been witnessed in the his
tory of civilized governments.
The platform makes all the demands,
and Mr.. Bryan has repeatedly said: Il
indorse everything in the platform"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-28

The story to the effect that Governor
Matthews ignored General Harrison at the
ceremonies incident to the presentation of
silver service to the battleship Indiana, was
not started by the friends OF the latter, SO
that it did not seem incumbent on them to
deny it. As the story is being repeated in
many papers in the State, it is due to
Governor Matthews to say that friends of
General Harrison who were present declare
there is no founda ton for it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-28

The Plymouth Republican reports Mr.
-Kellison as saying in his speeches In that
county that there has not been a silver
dollar coined in 1896. Mr.. KeIliscn ought
10 know better. and could if he desired to
inform himself. There have been mora
stfandasrd silver dollars coined in 1896 than
there were during the entire period from
the establishment of the mint to 1873. They
are being coined now Ut the rate of about
Z 90 ooo Is month. Any person who wants
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-28

The United Brotherhood of Carpenters
and Joiners at the national convention at
cleveland. voted to increase the salary of
the president of the organization This
seems TO be a step in the right direction.
The man who has the ability to conduct
ypne OF those large organizations can COM
mand a good salary.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-28
The Insoience of wealth.

''If you would spend q nickel for a cake
of SOAP said the sarcastic citizen. lit
would be the best investment you could
make.
Soap? Soap" retorted Dismal Dawson,
in bitter scorn. wy don't you ask me to
blow me dough fer a grand pianner or some
other kind of luxury? Every cent counts
with me-"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-28

The Sentinel has been .confidentially" in
formed that public speaker intended to
charge that it had accepted a bride of $4,000
to support Bryan. This is doubtless typo
graphical error-$25 was probably the sum
the speaker intended to name.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-28

Those who are familiar with the can
didates on the Marion county Republican
ticket, as now completed. cannot say that
organized labor has not been most literally
s.oucYdcrad
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-28

George Fred Williams is many times too
small to play the part of the late General
Butler in Massachusetts. The General re-
sorted to sensationalism to carry out his
plans. but Williams puts them up from
pure delight of seeing his name in the
headlines of the Boston papers
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-28

.'Polfteness is the cheapest thing there is
for it's intrinsic value. zE54
Yes. That is the reason it is used. fhat
is why people put I am your obeolent
servant at the end of letter, where it
costs nothing and don't put it at the end
Of telegram Z
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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL

Can be found at the following places:
NEW YORK-Winosor Hotel and Astor House.
CHICAGO-Palmer House and p. o. News Co..
21I Dearborn street -. -
CINCINNATI-J. r. Hawley q Co., ie4 VINE
street.
LOrTfSVIT4LF-C. T. Deering, northwest corner
OF Third and Jefferson streets, and Louisviiie
Book Co.. 356 Fourth avenue.
ST LoUIs-Union News Company, Union Depot
WASHINGTON, D. C.-Riggs House, EoDitt
House Willaro,s Hotel and the Washington
News Exchange. Fourteenth street. between
Penn. avenue and r street
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-28
Strictly Business.

II shall need not less than $1,000 for cos
Tunes said the star.
You don't get it, said the manager with
the directness of his kind. Il am going TO
spend three thousand on your dress, and
I've got a genuine count who is willing to
marry you for another thousand. There is
your advertisement and l save Il thousand
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-28

While Mr.. Bryan and his organ are con-
stantly appealing to US to make ourselves
independent of Great Britain they parade
in big type any expression of a foreigner
which cap be twisted to mean an opinion
In favor of the mine owners scheme.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-28

A Harrison county Popocrat justifies him
self in voting the Democratic ticket for the
last thirty years because during the war
the Republicans suspended the writ of
.sCorpns Christi Harrison county Democ-
racy is of the rock-ribbed kind.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-28

Rev DIR. Pa--khurst, the New York re-
former, is a Democrat, but he is not a
Bryanite- 81 hear said the Doctor, that
Mr.. Bryan quotes the Bible as an authority
for free silver. He will find no warrant in
the Bible for man to pay back fifty-three
cents where he gets a dollar
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-28

At the present time 612 of the township
trustees are Republicans, and 374 are DEM
ocrats Four years ago the Democrats had
more than two to one. The township trus-
tee is the election judge in the precinct in
l,o
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-28

Major Mckinley gave new turn to an
old idea when he said, in one of his speeches
on Saturday, 1.-The American people are
not fooled but once subject" They
were fooled on the tariff question in 1892,
and they have not forgotten who fooled
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-28

The Chicago Times Herald will not say
that President ingalls, in his speech in that
city ''eclipsed the splendid orations of Mr..
Schurz and Mr.. Cochran but in argument.
in force. in precision he rose to very high
level" Mr. ingalls, would be greeted by an
immense audience in this city.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-28

The farmers of the United States now
produce scarcely one-third of the wool con-
su1ned by the people. They ought to pro-
duce all we consume and under proper pro-
lection would do so, and every acre devoted
to sheep husbandry would be an acre with
drawn from competition in other lines Of
agriculturt-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-28

Mr.. Bryan is fond of saying that reforms
never come from above and never work
downward: YET his cheap money reform
proposes to work from OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
dollars down to so cents.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-28

The sound-money Democratic organiza-
tion seems to be as strong in the new
State of Washington as in States in the
Central West.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-28

Mere self-interest is not the highest mo-
tive OF action in republic, but when a
majority of voters decide. each for himself
that their interests will be promoted by
voting for a certain party and candidate
that means the greatest good to the great
est number. That is what Republican sue
cess this year win mean
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-28

A government which would stamp oo
cents worth of silver for every one having
silver bullion in quantities of 500 should be
Ienient with counterfeiters who put more
ar less silver in their coins.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-28

Prince Bismarck favors protection and
the gold standard for Germany, but he is
willing the United States should try free
trade and free silver if it wants to.
Thanks Prince.