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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-26
BRYAN AND THE woRKINGMEN.

The workingmen of this country owe it
to themselves to resent the low estimate
OF their manhood which has been put on
them by Mr.. Bryan by voting against him.
1t is evident that he regards them as a lot
Of pusllanimous slaves who are afraid to
have any opinions of their own. His advice
to them is to make a false pretense of 10y
atty to Mckinley by putting his picture
in their windows and wearing his coors III
their buttonholes while they vote the Dem
ocratic ticket. 1t is not only a dishonor-
able proposition which is thoroughly dis
creditable to it's author, but it is plainly
founded upon an utterly unjustifiable as
sumption of the dishonesty and cowardice
of the workingmen. If he believed in their
honesty he would not make IL proposition
to them which man with d trace of
honesty in him would accept. If he be-
lieved in their manliness he would not urge
them to play a cowardly part. He would
not make a proposition to them which he
knows is regarded as insult by honor
able men unless he thought it would be
adopted. All his talk about the coercion of
workingmen by their employers has its
hood.
1t is plain that Mr.. Bryan does not UNI
derstand the workingmen of this country.
They are neither dishonest nor cowardly.
There are just as many of them who have
the courage of their political convictions
and civic duty as there are in any other
class of the community. If they wish to
vote for him they will do so without any
sneaking or lying about it. If any of them
are philanthropic to vote for a re-
duction of the purchasing power of their
wages in order to confer a favor on the
gentlemen who have silver for sale or wish
to scale their debts they certainly will not
try to conceal their philanthropy behind a
Mckinley picture or button.
The whole Bryanite campaign has been
OF ganized and conducted on low estimate
of human nature. 1t was inaugurated as
an elaborate and gigantic system of brib-
cry. The silver interests were bought with
a promised increase in the price of silver.
A dollar stamp is to be put on every SO
cents worth of silver and the owner of it
is to get much possible for it from
the people who have other goods to sell,
which are not marked up in this way by
the government. A bid was also made for
the vote of every dishonest debtor by
promising to legalize the Reputation Of a
portion of his debts. He is promised an act
of Congress which will make the swindlins
of his creditor perfectly safe and respect
able. Not single appeal has been made to
the patriotism or the honor of the country.
Nearly every effort to gain votes for the
Chicago ticket is a proposition to buy them
for a pecuniary consideration.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-26

Candidate Bryan ought not to have chal-
lenged comparison between his patriotism
and that of Gen. Lew Wallace. The lat
ter has fought in two wars, and the for
mer in none as yet. When the Southern
States attempted to break UP the Union in
order to establish the doctrine of State
sovereignty General Wallace offered his
services to the government to prevent it.
Bryan is pledged to the very doctrine of
State sovereignty as declared in the Pop
ocrat platform that the United States has
no right to enforce its laws within a State
without asking the permission of the Gov
ernor thereof. He may call this patriotism,
just as he calls Reputation honesty, but
that does not make it So 1t will be bad
day for the country when majority OF
the people come to prefer the Bryan kind
of patriotism to the Cen Lew Wallace
kind.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-26
WHAT THE FIGIIREs pRnvr

Several deductions can be made from tho
above figures:
First-that the labor received in 1892 s16o
where it received 81 in 1860.
Second-That in 1892 SO cents purchased
81 in 1860 N
Third-That while the days wages Of 1850
would purchase but dollars worth OF
goods, the days wages In 1892 would pur-
chase SIT worth-a practical increase in
the value of the days wages of "a per cent.
twelve to ten.
Fourth-That from 1873 the date of the al
legged great crime" when a DAYS labor
IN gold was s1.47i, to 1892, the height OF
Mckinley times, wages increased to 1.6g2
or Z,S cents, and that on the gold basis IL
took S1.15, in round numbers, to purchase as
much as .93 cents would in 1892. In other
words. the purchase of the same quantity
of merchandise from the days wages Of
1873 would have left the Garner the differ
ence between $l.471s and $l.15 or 321l cents
while In 1892 he could have purchased tho
same goods for % cents aud had left from
his days wages the difference between
$17O in round numbers. and 80 cents, or
81 cents.
Fifth-That from specie resumption in
1879 to 1892 the increase of wages was con-
tnuous while the general run of the prices
of the necessaries of life was downward.
Sixth-That the hardest times that WACO
workers ever knew in this country were
during the era of the inflated and fiuctuat-
ing paper money of the war period, because
the rise in wages did not begin TO respond
to the rapid advance in prices. The depre-
Cidteu dliu HuctuallHS SILVER dollars or
free coinage would bring us back to those
hard times for men and women who work
for wages.
To the statistics of the Senate committee,
which are quoted by all parties as an au-
thority, are added those of the census of
1880 and 1890 regarding wages in the manu>
featuring establishments of the country,
as follows:
1890 1890
Number of hands. 200, 732 4476094
Total wages paid. $685. 462 252 90 49, III $50 $500
Wages per capita. 1915 4S4.s5
These wages do not prevail now because
of the disastrous attempt to substitute
revenue for a protective tariff, but under
the protective system, from the date OF spe-
Gle resumption until the election four years
ago, wages steadily and materially adj
vanced, purchase power considered.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-26

Popocracy and the mailman who is so des-
perately engaged in an effort to capture the
Observation-Disclosures Courier.
The Republican party does not promise
that if Mckinley is elected dollars and wine
and honey will flow into the home of the
borer will have the opportunity to work at
good wages and be paid In dollars whlch
viii buy as much as the dollars or the cap
Observation-Disclosures SUM-
The election of Mckinley simply means
that the money of this country is to be
kept right where it is now; that the silver
dollar is to be maintained equal TO the goid
dollar in purchasing power ana aepbt-payinis
are to be continued in circulation, toSetner
with the paper currency calling Tor coin.
Angola Magnet
Friends of sound money in Indiana must
not forget that Benjamin Franklin Shiveiy
is dangerous to the cause of honest mon
ely and of stability to prosperity as BRYAN.
Do not forget the vagaries of ShiVeiy Wnen
he was father to all the Nagarles
of the greenback craze and that he has not
changed color at all in the present iree-
silver Observation-Disclosures Review
The assault on Secretary Carlisle Is OF q
character to excite indignation and alarm.
but it is nothing in comparison with the
smoldering embers of lawlessness that are
only awaiting an opportunity TO prIdh
forth in flame. The loyal people OF tIils
country ought to combine without further
III ging to crush the monster that confronts
them. All minor issues and considerations
should be put aside and ignored until !, Il, Is
decided whether this government Is 10 I'VE
whether it is to be sacrificed at the De-
hests of political Adventures and madmen.
Lafayette Courier.
1t will cost the people-that is the PopoA
cratic people-of this town SIS a minute TO
hear Mr.. Bryan tell the laboring men that
the dollar that is now being paid to those
who have not been shut out of their JOBS
by the German tariff law, Will Duy 100
many loaves of bread and will provide ms
table with too many of the necessaries or
life. This is a big price to pay for a dec
laration that has been delivered by the
Bow Orator $50 times with but slight varia-
ton. While potatoes, eggs, butter, wheat,
cows, hogs and cattle are cheap, oratory
at the rate of 81 for three seconds is rather
dear.-CrawfordSville Journal.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-26
WALLACE AND BRYAN.

Bryan says he is as loyal and patriotic
as General Lew Wallace, but he has never
done anything to induce the public to ac-
cept that statement as true.-Lafayette
Courier.
II am as patriotic as Lew Wallace or any
other man.".-William j. Bryan, at Craw-
fordsville Oct. %. This egotistic statement.
like most of MIR. Bryan makes in his
speeches. is not proven. General Wallace
patriotism is a worldwide admitted fact.
II Mr. Bryan has ever gained any distinc-
ton by the advocacy OF any patriotic meas
ures IN Congress or out of IL the world has
vet to find IL out.-Crawfordsville Journal.
Mr.. Bryan is barking up the wrong tree
when he talks to an Indiana audience or
pitting his patriotism against that OF Lew
Wallace. IL the Bryan type OF PATRIOTISM
is anything like the sample displayed IN ms
public utterances. he iS<now, IN proper com
pany with Altgeld Pillman and others or
that class and should take criticism IN good
part. The patriotism of General Lew wal
lace has been fully demonstrated, while up
to date Mr.. Bryan's loyalty to American
institutions Is ali wind.-fiammond. Tribune.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-26
POLITICAL SHOTS.

Three letters could express Dave Hilrs
position if he would but write them-NIT.
-Philadelphia Press.
Yes, yes, Ohio will go for Bryan Ohio
will give it to Mr. Bryan in the neck and
elsewhere-CialveSton News.
Bryan is working westward. He wants
to be among his friends when the blow
falls.-Philadelphi North American.
Startling news from Pennsylvania - the
chairman of the Populist State committee
Claims the State.-Springfield Republican,.
Debs is now going around the country
boasting. I've been in JAIL Ihat Is Just
what every rascal should be able to say.
Philadelphia Inquirer.
Altgeld has discovered that he has been
suffering from the proximity of escaping
gas And he hasn't been very near Bryan
most of the time, either.-Chicago Post
The Democrats of Indiana are deserving
the fusion ship so rapidly that Chairman
Martin has sent out a circular cry of alarm
1t comes too late however. Indiana Is safe
for NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Blade.
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P. H. asks if there was any silver paid out

p H. asks if there was any silver paid out
as interest on bonds during Clevelands
first administration. There was not unless
those who presented the coupons or to
whom the interest was due asked for silver.
But this question has nothing to do with
the present issue, which is: Shall the
United States drop from a gold to silver
standard simply to double the wealth OF q
few plutocratic and greedy silver mine own
ers and thereby rob millions of small
money depostors and involve the country
in a panic? The chatter about the pay
ment of the interest on bonds is childish
and irrelevant under such peril and rob-
berry as a fall to a silver basis involves.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-26

The reasons why William J. Bryan should
Eot be elected are too numerous to be stat
ed in detail, but some of them may be
mentioned. AS for example:
Because he is inexperienced in public af-
qualified for the office.
Because, having failed in the law he
abandoned his chosen profession for jour-
nalism, and. having failed at that, became
a candidate for President
Because he has shown that he possesses
qualities which render him an unfit and
dar gerous man to be placed at the head
of the executive branch of the government.
Because ne favors a monetary policy
wolves the reputation of honest debts by
the government and by individuals. and
which he himself admits would cause
panic.
Because he defies the lessons of expert
ence and the teachings of all writer's on
finance and political economy, and utters
as truisms doctrines which are unsupport-
ed by facts. by reason or by any authority
whatever.
Because he makes to different classes en-
tirely antagonistic statements relative to
the effects of the free coinage of silver
thereby showing that he is seeking votes
at the expense of consistency and truth.
Because he has repeatedly used garbled
quotations in his speeches and attributed
to public men, living and dead statements
which he knew might easily have known
were false and forged.
Because he has time and again advised
workingmen to wear Mckinley badges and
march in Mckinley professions and then
vote for Bryan. thus counseling most
contemplate form of hypocrisy.
Because in all his speeches he seeks to ar
ray class against class interest against in
terest, and one section of the country
against another.
Because he appeals to the passions, pref
udice,. dishonesty and greed of men instead
of to their intelligence, honor and patriot
ism.
Because in all his speeches he breaches
the gospel of hate and furnishes moral aid
and comfort to anarchism and every form
of lawlessness.
Because he has openly and repeatedly
pledged himself as in favor of that part of
the Chicago platform which protests
against the right of the United States gov
eminent to enforce its own laws within a
State without the consent CT the Governor
thereof.
Because even as a politician he is sail
ing under false colors and seeking votes
under false pretenses claiming to be a
Democrat when the record shows that for
some years past he has been a Populist.
Many more reasons might be given, but
perhaps they can all be summed up in one.
namely. that his election would show that
| the American people are unfit for self-gov-
eminent and would marx the beginning of
| the end of the Republic.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-26

The speech of Hon. George w. Cooper,
delivered Saturday night and printed in
the Sunday Journal, was q very strong
presentation of the reasons why Demo
Gratis who are such from principle ought
not to vote for Bryan. Mr.. Cooper re-
ferred to the amaigamated Democratic and
Populist parties as "the Chicago and st.
Louis combination and showed that it
was complete abandonment of Democrat
ic principles His statement of the partic-
ulars in which the Popocrat platform and
candidates antagonize the principles OF
true Democracy Is worth repeating:
Firstly endeavoring to excite the pas
sions of our people against foreign nations
without any just provocatfon.
Second-They have proposed. IN Nlolalion
of the doctrine of economy and simplicity
in government, wild schemes for buying
ana operating railroads and telegraphs and
for improvements Of rivers and harbors
and the construction of canals as an eX-
cuSe for the use of nat money.
Third-They have advocated a system OF
finance which would result at least IN a
partial Reputation of debts. both public
and private, which would inevitably result
in the violation of the public faith and
honor.
Fourth-They have pledged themselves to
a limitation upon the power OF the general
rob it of its dignity and leave it almost as
helpless and as pitiful as it was under the
Federation.
These points We're clearly and strongly
enforced. The speech places Mr.. Cooper
among the foremost of consistent and in
dependent Democrats in this State.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-26
Rrxnn the Boaster.

How bold a sailor off the sea
That big Nebraska boy must be-
To climb a holy height SO rare
And place his patriotism there'
Would BRYAN be what Wallace was
When valiant for the Union cause,
If given q chance in war to dare
And place his patriotism there
Would Bryan face the lannon's mouth,
Against the vaior of the South
Hot surging through the powdered air,
And place his patriotism there?
would BRYAN do what Wallace did.
And. in the clouds of battle hid,
Hurl back the rebels to despair
And place his patriotism there?
Would Bryan take the sword of wrath
And write in duty's awful path
A name almost beyond compare
And place his patriotism there?
How bold a sailor off the sea
That big Nebraska boy must be,
To climb a holy height % rare
And place his patriotism there!
Tucker w. Taylo
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-26

away, where has 1t gone? Not to st. Louis
or Cincinnati, for those cities are as
strongly for sound money as Chicago Is.
Not to Louisville. Indianapolis or the
smaller cities. for they are all for sound
money. Not to any Eastern city. for they
are even stronger for sound money than
Western cities are. 1t must be that it has
gone to Denver or Mexico. Poor Chicago!
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-26
FARMERS FOR GOOD MONEY AND
PROTECTION.

Every report which speakers and 9TH
ers bring from the counties made up
chiefly of farmers is to the effect that
they are all right" This does not mean
that no men who have been Republicans
are now silverites, but that the number
OF such is very small and that the small
number is much more than made good by
the number of Democrats who cannot vote
for the new Democratic leaders and the
free-silver heresies. In June there were
thousands of farmers who were impressed
by the plausible and alluring heresies of
the silver-mine owners; but now that they
have heard the other side, nine-tenths of
them are enthusiastic for the Republican
ticket. They have balanced the books and
find that it is far better for the farmer to
have a sound dollar than a cheap and
fiuctuating one.
The accounts of the professions made
up of farmers in twenty counties the past
week-processions such as have never be-
fore been seen and would have been
thought impossible three months ago
prove that the Republican farmers were
never so much in earnest to win a victory
as they are this year. The distinctive
characteristic has been the yellow decora-
tons and emblems; but above all is the
earnest purpose to defeat Organism. In
purely agricultural localities, speakers
who have expected to meet a few hundred
people as quiet listeners, have been sur
prised by two or three thousand hearers,
coming in professions and alive with en-
thusiasm. For the remainder of the cam
paign the meetings will be demonstrations
of Republican and sound-money enthusi-
asm rather than discussion and calculation
I'VE know as much about the money
question do the town people," said a
farmer to speaker in u distant county
land we are as much for sound money and
for protection
In this connection no injustice can be
done to hundreds of others who have had a
part in the good work to assert that the
rare canvass which Hon. James A. Mount
has been making the past three months,
largely among the farmers, has been of
iEcalculable benefit to the Republican
cause. A farmer who, when he was nom
mated. knew more farmers than any one
man in the State, and knew them in a.
manner which caused them to believe in
min, ne got d at Jtie outset WHICH
enabled him to win the wavering and con-
vince many who had inconsiderately es-
poused the mine-owners' heresy that they
had been misled. Mr. Mount has not been
holding meetings in the large cities, but
his fame as an able and candid speaker
has given him large audiences wherever
he has spoken.
In the words Of John NJ Stahl, the prac-
teal farmer who is secretary of the Farm
ers' National Congress: 1.-The advocates Of
free silver have been quietly, persistently
and adroitiy working among the farmers
for two years; but the quiet, grave man
that passes back and forth along the fur
rows may be depended upon TO think it
out and to vote in November as he has al
ways voted heretofore-for the greatest
good of the greatest number"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-26

The local Bryan organ says the course Of
the Chicago press i'm advocating Mckinley
and sound money has resulted in the boy
cotting OF the city by country merchants.
There Ii no fall trade in Chicago" it says;
lit has been driven away by the extreme
partisan position of its newspapers, politi-
caiS puipiteers. bankers, merchants and
manufacturers II VA. probably surprise
Chicago people to leass THAT there IL no
ssn trade there. but II Il has been driven
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-26

Ex-Attorney-general Green Smith is re-
ported to be boiling over with rage and
epithet because of the course pursued by
Messrs. Sheerin and Holt. He says that
gratitude for party favors should have led
them to support the party nomination for
President as it does him. The ex-Attorney-
general has a sixty-thousand-dollar sense
of marty gratitude
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-26
The following is from the market report


Bar silver, 651sc; Mexican dollars. 504c;
silver certificates 653s6t6J5sc. At London
bar silver closed at 80 lid per ounce.
Similar reports have appeared every day
for years past. The price of silver bullion
is quoted as regularly the price of wheat
or eggs, and it has fiuctuated more than
either. The London price OF bar silver,
so lilo pence per ounce means 62 2-16 cents,
somewhat less than the New York price.
Mexican dollars, 50l4 cents means that
although the Mexican dollar contains six
or seven grains more of silver than the
American dollar. ana Is legal tender in
Mexico. it ~ worth only the bullion value.
To make our silver dollar the equivalent
of gold silver bullion should be worth sl.2s
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-26
q, cour.. He Never said IL.

To the Editor OF the Indianapolis Journal:
notice in the Indianapolis Bryan organ
that It's CORE spondent at Wilkinson quotes
me as saying that Henry Z. Johnson would
he beaten In this district for Congress by
Or Robinson. / did not make such an as
sertion and never thought OF such \ thing.
because / firmly. believe That Mr. johnson
swithstanding fusicn, LYING and everything
else used by the so-called Democrats.
am with ninety-nine out OF every hundred
travcAing statesmen. for Mckinley and
sound-money. JAMES J. JOHNSON.
New Castle. Ind. Oct. -
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-26

The meeting at Tomlinson Hall on Satur-
day night was in all respects a great one.
and General Harrison's speech was treat
to the vast audience that heard it. He
spoke with great earnestness and at suffi-
Gent length to give room for greater free
dom than short speeches afford, the result
being very effective speech. On Friday
next General Harrison will start on anoth-
er railroad tour and will give some clos
ing words to the people before the day OF
battle
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Got the Best of the Cook.

PhiladeIphia fttCUIu.
At last one American woman has tri-
,mnhed over the autocrat of the kitchen. A
cook i'm a New York house refused to roast
some beef for dinner on the ground that
the day was Monday. and that 1t was set
apart for the cooking of game Then the
leave and when the latter refused she was
taken away by the pol &c. She INFORMED the
ma gistrate before whom she appeared that
she knew her rights, but he, In reply, as
sured her that her employers also had
rights and fined her So. Score one for The
American matron-