The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-24
INDIANA NEWSPAPER OPINION.

The election of Bryan would mean gen
eral demand upon the debtors for settle
ment. That would mean a disastrous
| money panic.-Columbus Republican.
The thing to do with the free-silver con-
spiracy IS to bury it deep beside its twin,
the greenback swindle. One tombstone
will do for both.-Shelbyville Republican.
Those who want the bonds of the govern
ment paid in cheap money should remem-
Der that they themselves will be called
I-Delphi Journal.
The people will remember the crime of
1894. when labor was demonetzed by the
passage of the free-trade tariff bill, and
will repudiate the party that passed it.
Clay County Enterprise.
No man who believes in free coinage at
16 to 1 is bimetallist any more than a
man who would advocate free coinage at
to or to /. He insists on that which
would make bimetalIism impossible.-Sey
mour Republican.
y private letter from Lincoln states that
there are five Mckinley pictures to one of
Bryan displayed in that city. More intim-
idation, perhaps and these people are
-Terre Haute Express.
No man who advises men to wear Nc
Kinley badges until election day and then
vote the Popocratic ticket. as did Bryan
people who first of all. hate deceit and
hypocrisy.-Danville Republican.
Nowhere are there more earnest and en-
thusiastic followers of the Republican
standard than are the workers in the mills
and factories in this campaign. They have
had sad realization of the mistake made
four years ago.-AnderSon Herald.
The American people are not fools. True
they were mistaken four years ago to
the effect of free trade. which is the most
potent reason why they will not be bum
coed by the very same crowd with naked
hook of free slyer.-Vevay Reveille.
The poll of Henry county shows over 200
out-and-out sound-money Democrats. They
will not all vote for Palmer and Buckner, for
some of them have put patriotic duty above
desire TO save the organization from ruin
and will vote straight for Mckinley and
Hobart.-New Castle Courier.
The free coinage of silver would not put
another dollar in circulation, but win de-
stroy the value of the dollar we now have.
Restore the protective tariff; make our
goods at home: restore the home market
to the farmer: set The unemployed to work
and prosperity is assured.-Muncie Times.
The silver mine owners managed to I'M
load on the country under the silver pur-
chasing act of 1890 49,, S3S 109 ounces of sill
yer, for which they received from the
people about S26, 900, 600 more than it is now
worth Yet they howl about the country
doing nothing for silver. "-Crawfordsville
Journal
Debts are now measured by the gold
standard. and to reduce that measure one
the creditors as the change OF yard meas
urement to eighteen inches by the mer-
chant after the customer had made the
contract at thirty-six inches.-Attica
Ledger.
Eliminate the silver question entirely and
consider Bryan and his platform the
other questions, he is a menace to the
peace and prosperity of the country. ELM
mate all other questions and consider him
the silver question alone, the signs of
probable evil increases. Taking him and
r%In fhG 10 crF,s.
alarmed at any possibility of his election.
Lagrange Standard