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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-02
ABANDONMENT OF PROTECTION.

There is room for a reasonable doubt of
the sincerity of those Democrats who pro-
fess to favor sound money, but refuse to
vote for Mckinley on the ground that he
persists in talking tariff" Whether he
talked 1t or not, every man of intelligence
must know that the doctrine of protection
for American Industries is Republican doc
trine and is not to be abandoned because
another issue demands present attention.
They must see that the Importance of the
principle has been demonstrated anew by
the deficiency in the revenue caused by
the Gorman-Wilson tariff law, and that a
reimbursement of rates at the earliest pos
sible moment is essential. But whether
they recognize this or not, they should not,
as Mr.. Harrison put it, expect the Repub-
lican party to reorganize itself because
their party is -disorganized. The Democrats
who are earnest in their support of sound
money doctrine respect the position taken
by Mr.. Mckinley and appreciate the force
of his arguments from his party's stand
point. The New York Evening Post, than
which no stronger advocate of free trade
can be found, acknowledges that the Re-
publican candidate could not do otherwise
than to continue to preach the doctrine
with which his party is SO firmly identified,
and holds that this should offer no impede
ment to any Democrat who wishes to vote
for the maintenance of commercial intag-
rity. The Philadelphia Times, also a Dem
ocratic organ, says:
1t must be remembered that the tarlff
issue IS an important one with a very large
class of American people, and especially
with farmers and wage earnerS, VINO nave
been sorely tempted, by the deceitful prom
ises of cheap money demagogues, to desett
their party lines and vote to dlShonor their
Nation, degrade their money and Empower
iSh themselves. 1t was this reason, doubt
less. that made Mckinley express his views
so plainly upon the question of tariff re-
vision, and as a party candidate IL was MS
first duty to hold his party lines together
as far as he could do so consistently With
his own convictions of public duty.
The Times thinks that The has doubtless
strengthened his cause materially, espc-
cially in the States west of the Pennsyl-
vania and Ohio line, by making the tariff
an issue second only to that of sound
money; and as the question of tariff is CT
no consequence whatever until the ma
tional credit shall be fully established, all
patriotic citizens can we'll afford to post
pope the discussion of that question until
we have a government whose credit is be-
yond the reach of the revolutionist." 1t
advises sound money Democrats not to Re
Influenced in their action by his express
sionS on the tariff.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-02
THE RIGHT TO BOLT.

OF the Democrats who will support
Bryan many will do so for reasons relat-
ing to party discipline and organization.
Being lifelong Democrats and accustomed
to vote the party ticket without much
question. they are disposed to accept the
platform and candidate of the Chicago
convention as a final expression of the ma
jority. Il believe in majority rule" said
one of this class of Democrats, and while
1 am not in favor of the free coinage of
silver l am willing to surrender my views
to those of the majority. l am no kicker"
How far a man should surrender his
majority is a question which every man
must decide for himself. The strength and
force of mems convictions vary all the
way from the consistency of clabber or
putty to that of steel. Some men yield
their so-called convictions much more
readily than others do. A man who joins
a party or acts with it because it repre-
sents principles which he believes in ought
not to be willing to surrender his con-
science to It's keeping or to follow it after
it has abandoned its principles, simply be-
cause the abandonment is ordered by a
majority. 1t is difficult to see what the
aaction of a majority can have to do with
changing the status of a question that
rests On ethical principles, or Why a man
should yield his conscientious convictions
at the of a political convention.
Hon. William Jennings Bryan, the free sill
yer candidate for President, has expressed
some views on this subject. In a letter
written before his nomination to the Hon.
George A. Garden, of Texas, dated Feb. is.
1896, he said:
In June. 1895, l was discussing the silver
question at Jackson, Miss, when a gentle
man in the audience asked me if / would
support a gold standard candidate on a
gold standard platform If the Democratic
convention should nominate such a can.li-
date. | answered that while L did not be-
iieve the Democratic party would take
such action, | would refuse to support the
nominee in the event that 1t did select a
gold standard candidate on a gold stand
ard platform. $ $ . NO convention can
rob me OF my convictions. nor can any
party organization drive me TO eonspire
against the prosperity and liberty of my
country. IS : Mr.. Cleveland would not
support a free silver candidate for the
presidency. and he should not do so if he
really believes that free coinage would
ruin the country. because a mans duty to
his country is higher than his duty to his
party.
AT this time Mr.. Bryan had no expecta-
ton of being the free silver candidate for
President. The speech by which he was 10
stampede the Chicago convention was not
yet composed. and his ambitious dream
had not yet taken shape. The letter, how
ever, is none the less interesting as an ex-
preston of his views as TO the right and
duty of a man TO bolt a party nomination
that did not represent his convictions or
TO which he could not give his approval.
1t is a complete justification of the refusal
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-02

The readiness with which leading Demo-
cratic papers, heretofore ardent advocates
of the doctrine of free trade, turn to the
support of the Republican ticket and urge
members of their party to ignore the doc
trine of protection AID vote for Mckinley
for the sake of sound money, suggests the
possibility that they are influenced by a
consideration they would scarcely admit,
but which many individual Democrats
frankly acknowledge, namely, the convic-
ton that a reasonably high tariff has its
merits. Many business men who fancied,
four years ago, that they wanted a merely
nominal tariff and loudly preached re
FORM have had such forcible object les
commercial depression that they no longer
fly into a rage when they hear protection
advocated, but are even heard to suggest
an increase of rates as a remedy for pres
ent ills. One instance is typical of many.
A commercial traveller. with headquarters
at indianapolis, a Democrat, and hereto
fore a rampant tariff reformer'-more cor
rectly defined as free inadvertently an
nounced his intention of voting for McKin-
ley on sound-money grounds. In converse
ton he expressed his belief that business
would improve at once if the Republican
ticket were elected. On being asked if he
thought this improvement would come
about solely because of the warding off of
the free-silver evil, he made quick reply:
"Ol, Congress must pass a tariff law" He
had seen the effect of the principle he had
once advocated, and had found that prac-
tice and theory were by no means in har-
mOnv.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-02

j. q. T.. Wabash: Americans arriving in
London. Liverpool or other leading cities
of Europe in which there is direct trade
with the United States. are able to ex-
change standard silver dollars for the
money of the country they are in, but
probably they would find it necessary TO
pay a broker a small per cent. The ex-
change can be made because there is al
ways a demand for United States coin by
immigrants. If the silver dollar should
not be worth a gold dollar in the United
States it could be exchanged abroad for no
more than its bullion value in gold, for
gold in all the leading nations is the meas
ure of values.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-02

Mr.. Bryan had a variety of financial
schemes in 1894. when he ives a member of
Congress. A bill to construct the Mica
ragua canal by issuing greenbacks was in
troduced by him. He proposed to issue
ments of $40. 900, 900 each to the company,
such greenbacks to be legal tender and to
be in every respect the equal of all other
money issued by the government. His
n ain purpose was not to secure the bene-
fits of the canal to the United States, but
to find a new and direct means of getting
morey into circulation. In a speech in be-
half of the measure he argued that if Con-
gress would decide to increase the cur
rency a certain amount annually, say $780,
GOO, 900. it could reduce the tax levy to that
give an excuse for a limited increase of
currency, but he went on to say that there
were other special improvements for which
government paper could be issued. eff we
find" he said, that the currency needs TO
be increased and do not desire to reduce
taxation. we can, by the issue of a few
millions a year, construct a ship canal
from Buffalo 20 the Hudson river, and thus
give to the grain of the Northwest ocean
rates from Chicago and Duluth to Liver
pool, not to speak of the military advan-
tage of such a canal. We might, by the
issue of a few millions a year, connect the
Mississippi river with Lake Michigan, and
thereby increase the between the
Northwest and the South" And this is
the visionary creature whom misguided
and cratic people, of whom CoXey and
Debs and Altgeld are representatives, wish
to make President of the United States.
He would set the presses to printing
money on the morning of March 5, if he
Were inaugurated On the 4th, and could set
aside the Constitution and the Supreme
Court by edict.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-02

The convention which assemblies here to-
day will be unique in its origin, spirit and
purpose. Probably no other political con
%vention, certainly no national convention,
has ever been held in the United States
freer from selfish motives and unworthy
influences than this one. AS far as can
be judged from appearances or gathered
from the expressions and acts Of its pro-
moters and leaders, it will be held for the
sole purpose of opposing and defeating a
movement fraught with danger to the coun-
try and conserving the principles of a par
~ which gives. by this movement. the best
evidence of its right TO exist. General Har-
rison said in his New York speech: "A
party that cannot be s>l!t - : nahljc d.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-02

The proposition to amend the Constitu-
ton SO as To require seven judges of the
Supreme Court to hold an act of Congress
unconstitutional savors of Populism. This
is a government of majorities. The pres
ident may be elected by a majority of one
might be the result of one majority in the
popular election. An act of Congress may
be passed by a majority Of one vote. and
the member who casts it may have been
elected by a majority of one. To require
seven judges out of nine to concur In a de-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-02

ace." If the recent action of the Chicago
convention had not caused a split in the
Democratic party it would indeed be a pub
lie menace. That which remains of the old
organization, with Mr. Bryan at it's head,
is still a public menace of the most danger
Gus character. The convention which
meets here to-day represents the saving
element of the Democracy. and is properly
characterized as the flower of the party.
grind and no official favors to ask. They
come here to discharge what they conceive
to be a duty to their party and the coun-
try, and the Journal gives them full credit
for patriotic motives.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-02

The Journal, for itself and its many
friends. again extends a hearty welcome
to the National Democratic convention.
collectively and individually. TIL Journal
Is moved TO emphasize this welcome in the
absence of any evidence that the Governor
OF Indiana intends to show the ordinary
courtesies expected by and accorded TO the
members of a poultry show. 1t is due TO
the memory CT the politically departed to
say to visiting strangers that. after many
attempts AT political suicide. he was
pushed off at Chicago by his friends. who
watched with satisfaction his flattening
out by the normal pressure of that great
cyclonic Popocrat convention. His scat
tered remains were swept together and re-
slvified long enough to leave to the pres
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-02

Followers of julius S-tangnowski. q Ger
man Baptist preacher in New York, expect
to ascend into heaven from Union Square
some time this forenoon. People who are
not saved like themselves viii not be de-
stroyed, but will be left on earth until the
gradual shifting OF the globe TO a new axis
brings the north pole immediately under
the sun. when they will be deluged and de-
stroyed. This being the case. there is no
need for a general suspension of business.
The Democratic convention can SO right
ahead.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-02

Following is from a report in the Vevay
Qnd.) Reveille of n local old settlers meet
ing:
Mrs. Lucy Detraz was born where Vevay
now stands. in 1906. the fifth child born in
the place. Her father was John Morerod.
Her father made straw hats and took them
TO Cincinnati in a pirouge and sold them
for $3.50 each. He was offered a tract Of
land in what is row the heart of Cincin-
natl for six hats. Mrs. Detraz saw three
buffalo on the island below Vevay at one
time and has heard panther and wolves
there. She has seen bear with hogs eating.
About 1903 the British offered s. for every
American scalp taken by the Indians. but
the French were exempt. The Morerods
We're French. The Indians came to their
reuse one time and, finding them French.
they said: ''bobba shilla. bobba shilla. -
which meant friendship. friendship. They
were invited in and t.iey lighted their pipe
OF peace and all smoked. Mrs. DetraZ re-
members the earthquake of 1911, saw. the
pewter dishes shake in the dresser and the
cradle rock. 1t was the custom in early
times among the French at Vevay for the
sc~hoolteacher to baptiZe as well as the
preacher. and Mrs. Detraz was christened
in this way
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-02

road from Toledo to South Bend | VIII
pass through your town on the 3d of Sep
TENDER. but cannot stop. IT not on the
road communicate with the national COM
mitfee. / will confer with IL about Indi-
ana Peru. to be sure. IS not a place OF
national Importance. but the candidate OF
a great party for the presidency should
be well enough acquainted with it's geo.
graphical location 10 know that Peru Is
not ION the road from Toledo to South
Bend. Wa bash Plain Dealer
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-02
re word beginnin' wit a W.
Sad Case.

81 have been here for three days. said
the stranger, impressively.
Yes, suh," said the landlord of the
Georgia village tavern.
And 1 did have a notion of investing and
settling down here, but if that c~onfodnded
fellow in the house across the way can't be
induced to stop playing If You Love Me,
Tell Me So on the cornet, 1 am going to
some other town."
Mister said the landlord, when / tell
you who the pore Teller is, mebbe you won't
blame him SO much. That there is Tom
Watson"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-02

Chairman Babcock, of the Republican
congressional committee, has been looking
into the record of the Nevada Senator's on
the money question. and finds some inter
esting facts. Senator Sherman. in his re-
cent speech. made one quotation showing
that Stewart was formerly an advocate Of
the gold standard, but Mr.. Babcock finds
a. abundance of other evidence to the
same effect. Stewards answer to Sher-
mans charge is that he used the word
gold" in a broad sense. and really meant
coin" but he will hardly be able to con-
vince any one that he meant anything else
than the yellow metal in this extract from
one of his speeches:
We have resources abundant to get the
gold. When gold is invited to a country
like this. with such an Industrious people
as we have. with our resources and our
industry. ] say there will be no difficulty
about getting sufficient gold.
Or this:
Gold never has compromised. You say you
have got up a compromise bill on the sub
ject whether gold shall be respected. Gold
has made the world respect il at all times.
The English people thought they could get
along without gold at one time, but they
had to go back to it.
Or this:
IO0 lllh SUI III VI Jul OOi
try. Invite it back and 40, 900, 900 people will
get you all the gold you want.
Senator Jones, too, has a good gold rec
ord. On one occasion he asked:
Does this Congress mean now to leave
entirely out of view and to discard forever
a standard of value? Did any country ever
accumulate wealth, achieve greatness, or
attain a high civilization without such
standard? And what but gold can be that
standard? What other thing on earth pos
sesses the requisite qualities?
He went on to say: Gold is the articula-
ton of commerce. 1t is the most potent
agent of civilization. 1t is gold that has
lifted the nations from barbarism. 1t has
done more to organize society, to promote
industry and insure its rewards. to inspire
progress, to encourage science and the arts
than ~gunpowder. steam and electricity. So
exact a measure is it to human effort thA,
when it is exclusively used as money 1T
teaches the very habit of honesty. 1t
neither deals in nor tolerateS false pre-
lenses. 1t cannot lie. 1t keeps it's prom
ises to rich and poor alike.
With both these estimable gentlemen on
record as holding such sound-money senti-
ments. and both of them insisting on hav-
ing a gold clause in all their commercial
paper- it is becoming increasingly difficult
for them to convince the public that they
are sincere in their advocacy of free silver
or are supporting tie doctrine for any
other than a selfish purpose.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-02

The nomination of Mr.. Clevland by the
convention which meets to-day would be a
mistake. Undoubtedly he is in fun sympa-
thy with the movement and the incarnation
OF all 1T represents, but it would be asking
too much of him to become it's leader. He
can help it as much by a ringing letter of
he will write that soon after the convention
adiourns.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-02

During the two years and a half that the
Sherman law was in force the government
purchased nearly six tons a day of silver
pulilon, yet the price fell steadily during
the entire period. If the purchase of six
tons a day would not keep the price of
silver bullion from falling. how much would
the government have TO coin to bring it up
to a point where the silver dollar, which
contains 50 cents worth of silver, would
be worth leo cents?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-02

Bicycles are to blame, of course. Within
the last sixty days one hundred ears nave
been laid off by the West Chicago Street
railway Company and two hundred en-
ployes thrown out of work. The street car
managers say the action was made neces-
sary by the increasing use of the bicycle
and the corresponding decrease in the num-
Der of street car patrons. West Side Chi
cagoans who have not bought wheels con-
slider themselves the chief victims, since
they are obliged to wait longer for cars
and to hang or by their eyeiids as usual
when they get on.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-02

emf convention his mantle of prophetic
love, as evidenced by his famous inter-
view, after which he was politically ami
hilated by the Hon. John r. Wilson. the
secretary of the organization that called
this convention.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-02

The Chicago convention searched for a
man for d candidate who was thoroughly
unsoG1d on the money question. To-day's
convention will be as careful to nominate
one who is pre-eminently sound.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-02
The Cheerful Idiot.

THE boot and shoe industry said the
statistical boarder, lis the one which en-
ploys the largest number of hands,"
THAT is strange said the Cheerful idiot,
thoughtfully; Il should lave thought it's
extent would be measured in feet, instead
of hands,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-02

Free-silver men say we nave not money
enough to do the business OF The country,
yet when President Cleveland offered the
last 500, 00o, 900 of bonds to American pur-
chasers $3.50. 000,0 00 of idle American capital
said to the President we will take your
bonds at 3a per cent.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-02
Sensitive

Weary Watkins-Say, Hungry, this here
booze is great. Would it be an insult to asst
how you got it?
Hungry Higgins-Worked a old guy fer a
quarter.
Now, what did you want to introduce
that there word fer? 1t clean takes all the
enjoyment out of the OCCASION"
Two word?'
THAT there word beginnin' wit a W."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-02

An Armenian martyrs memorial, with
inscriptions recording the circumstances of
the slaughter. is to be erected at Hawar-
den, England. In view of the Indifference
of England TO the slaughter at the time
1t occurred and the failure to offer even a
protest in behalf of the martyrs, the erec-
ton of memorials hardly accords with the
American sense of the fitness of things.
whatever the British may think of it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-02
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL

Can be found at the following places:
NEW ~YOkk-Windsor Hotel and Aston House.
CHICAGO-Palmer House and p. O. News Co..
81 Adams street.
CINcINNATI-J r. Hawley G. Co., 14 Vine
street.
ToITISVILLIs-C. T. Deering, northwest corner
Of Third and Jefferson streets, and Louisville
Book Co., S6 Fourth avenue.
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, 1896-09-02

When a candidate for elector and two
members of the executive committee of the
State committee in the Bryan parry ten
der their designations, the silver mine own
ers' cause is crumbling about the edge, so
to speak.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-02

Governor Matthew's is missing the OPP
p%ortunity of his life to make the ~acquaint-
ance of the flower of the Democratic party
of the whole country.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-02

Until the platform is made. perhaps it
is premature to say that the brains of the
Democratic party are now in indianapolis,
but hotel registers Indicate as much.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-02
Il IN THE AIR.
Human Nature.

Tommy-Paw, what is human nature?
Mr.. F~igg-Human nature, my son, is the
excuse generally offered by a man who has
been acting like a hog.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-02

A man down in New Jersey offers to sell
his eight months old baby for 60 cents. At
first thought this would seem to be a regu-
lar bargain counter price, but it should not
be forgotten that it is a New Jersey baby.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-02

of sound money Democrats to support Mr..
Bryan, and ought to point the way for all
voters of that class.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-02
Twelve Pages :

There will be no kissing of Grover Cleve-
lands name in the convention which meets
to-day.