Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-09-11
IN INDIANA.
Benjamin Harrison's State Is
for Sound Money.
It Will Give Its Electoral Vote to
Major Mckinley.
Big Gains Tor Republican Ticket Among Wage
Earnera.

lndianapoiis Ind, sept. lo.-The sound
money cause is gaining daily in Indiana
The Workingmen, at first caught nv the
glamour OF the idea Of voting for q
poor man $ candidate" have generally
settled down to 4 common sense view of
their own interest in Il stable currency
tremendous vote for Mckinney Or
Palmer Will come from this source As n
straw. may be cited the case. of one IIr,.e
present business depression began 500
hands were steadily employed but where
work is now Kept going with 500 divided
INTO TWO shirts. alternating at half-time
50 that what labor ana pay there are
may be made TO 20 AS far as possible.
These poor fellows would have a right
ii anyone has, to feel discouraged over
existing conditions and disposed to vote
for a change" without close considera-
ton as 70 the sort of change involved
So far from yielding to This impulse they
took poll among themselves. - fvw DAYS
ago. which shows that every one Of the IN
Democrats as well as Republicans, will
vote against Bryan. The railroad men
everywhere in tins n"iShbOrhood are or
ganlZug meetings among themselves aua
inviting sound money speakers to add
dress hem. SO strong q set is there in
he right direction nereabouts, indeed
that conservative estimates give Marion
county to the Republicans by from JWAJ
70 5000 plurality. though it Is normally
Democratic 10y from lWI 10 1900.
The citizens OF Indianapolis are IN cs-
p"ciai demand as speakers At meetings
outside. one of these rs John Griftiths
who Is AN orator in the rhetorical sense.
and whose work among the farmers in
tho northern part of the state has been
50 notable that he commands audiences
of :}A1 OF even 5WH people. Another Iu-
cius Il. Swift more widely known
through the United States as editor Of
The ClNil Service Chronicle. is "a speaker Of
very different sort. lie has no flights
IF fancy; he simply talks to his audiences
substantially IN the same tone and man
npr as he would talk 10 Il gathering OF
fIiauds In his own library, hut he pre-
pares himself with authorities for every
statement h" makes. 50 that to question
his facts or figures is like inviting a
broadside from IN old-fashioned three
decker.
Mr. Swift has more demands upon him
than he can begin to meet bui he still
iudulges himself in the uncommon luxury
NJ paying his own expenses. as the work
be does is purely labor Of love and pa
trotism. ana he prefers 70 emphasize its
antire enforcement from party interest.
II makes no difference 70 him under what
party auspices he speaks, his speeches
are wholly non-partiSan in the broader
sense. no candidates name being men
toned except Incidentally or where. for
any reason. he tells his audience which
ticket he personally expects % vote. The
independent fashion in which he mas for
years been in the habit OF voting. and
ihe frank way in which he speaks his
mind on all occasions when his views of
Individual datYare we'll defined has given
1 good deal of weight TO any statement
he makes to the farmers ana working
men. 10 whom he Is sometimes introduced
Isl IA man without a party ia curiosity
in this poiiticS-ridden state
Indiana contains, in round numbers. be-
tween 510no ana 6AaQn German voters.
rWo prominent Germans in Indianapolis
have taken hold of the canvass among
HON and organizcd clubs throughout the
state. One Of them is John Frenzel, IA
leading banker and general iinancicr. He
$ "A Democrat of the most extreme school
md u great believer IN party discipline,
hut no sooner had tho Chicago hippo |
drome declared itself. than he came out
with a halfooted deuunciation OF The |
whole business as a fraud ana a disgrace |
% the honored name OF Democracy. He |
took prominent part in furtherins the |
third ticket movement, and was conSpicu- |
lu- in the councils of the recent National |
Democratic convention. The German |
Democrats responded with spirit to his |
cali for volunteers to keep the Old party |
true to its traditions.
The other German Of note who is max
Ing his influence felt IN this campaign is |
Herman Usher. IA leading merchant OF
and one of her most public |
spirited citizens. He has always been an |
independent in politics. ana the IS or 60 |
artisans in his establishment have been
encouraged by him at al times to vote
freely. according To the dictates of their
conscicnces, and irrespective of any
knowledge they might gain of his own
preferences This sort OF reputation.
Spreading through thy state, has well
prepared the way Tor MS work. as presi-
don't Of the German Sound Money
League, IN forming non-partisan sound
money ciuts.
hcse orSanlzdtlohS 90 not pledge thelr
NJ mherS 10 the support 81 amy particular
ticket, but merely to resist the repudia-
non ana anarehlStlc movement IN our
politics democrats ana HSpubiicans are
meeting on common ground IN the clubs