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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-23
SUGGESTION FOR BRYAN.

From the day of Mr.. Bryan's nomination
to this time the Journal has placed before
it's readers all that he has had to offer in
behalf of the cause of his employers. just
as it would print the testimony of a per-
jured witness in a case of public interest
that the reading world might be able to
render a Just verdict. In doing this it does
not indorse the heresies he mouths for SO
much per station stop any more than it
agrees with a subcrned witness. While it
condemns the methods and mendacious
statements of Mr.. Bryan it does recognize
his abilities. his good parts. as a Yankee
would say, and it is with great regret that
the Journal believes he was denied an en-
try into a life and occupation worthy his
talents and aspirations. 1t kindly offers,
without price, the following valuable sug-
gestions for the benefit of Mr.. Bryan in
the near future: Two weeks from now
there will be no free train to carry you,
Mr.. Bryan, zig-zag over this land of liberty
and restored confidence. The waiting
crowds at way stations who waited you on
your egotistical pilgrimage will have Joined
the ranks of busy workmen, not only in
daily IdDofS, out III nOuTly nQSdHfldS, lidt
YOU were defeated. There will be no sealed
envelope marked $3.50 to be handed you
at county seats as the price of seeing your
generous smiles and mouth, or of hearing
your bugle blasts leading the assaults upon
the prosperity of your fellow-citizens, the
virtue of the Supreme Court, the integrity
and power of the Nation or it's financial
honor. There will be no gatherings In
great cities of countless thousands to re-
cieve you and your newly fiedged, imma-
ture, destructive doctrines. These things
will all nave passed away. and while you
may for q time feel dazea, not knowing
whether you have been Knocked out, or
whether you were ever in it, do not de-
spair. Life is yet worth living, especially
to you. Crepe around among the wreckage
tina will shortly terminate your circus sea-
son. after you have washed away the tears
Induced by the salt spray of that ugu-
brious trip most politicians take during life.
and gather of the fiotsam and jetsam what
may become valued mementoes for your
self and posterity. Secure copies Of all
you havb said. and OF all that has bken
said about you. Then In due time set =
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-23
A CHEAP MONEY COUNTRY.

Mr.. George w. Fishback, of ST. Louis,
whom General Harrison made secretary of
the United States legation to Argentina,
resigned a few months since and is now in
this city. Yesterday noon he addressed the
sound-money meeting, presenting some in
teresting and instructive facts. Argentina
Is one Of the new rivals of the United
States in wheat raising for export. Its ex-
port has increased at a rapid rate. But the
most interesting fact about Argentina is
that it has cheap money. 1t has a money
that will stay in the country-S30s .o00, 900 of
paper money for 10000 900 people, or over S73
per capita. That is an amount of money
which. to use the phrase of The fatists,
should be sufficient to enable the people to
do business on Il cash basis Argentina is
reported as being a very prosperous coun-
try. Like Mexico. it is, for those who
have landed estates and capital invested
in banking and industry. but for the mass
of people those who till the soil and work
for wages, ii Is not. The equivalent of the
dollar in paper is worth but so cents on the
average The labo-er on the farm gets the
equivalent of a paper dollar a day, but
when he goes to purchase the necessaries
of life, and he purchases very few, his dol
lar is worth 80 cents or less. The railroad
engineer gets $3.50 a month. which means
$50: the bricklayer $3.50 a day, which means
so or S. cents. That is, the wages in Ar
gentina in a deprecated paper money are
at about the same figure that is paid here
in money as good as gold. Prices of all i'm
ported goods are enormously high. because
the gold price is paid in deprecated paper
nancy. which nuctuates from day TO day,
and often ten or twelve points. The mer-
chant. to make himself safe. makes his
prices high to avoid loss by the nuctua-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-23

certified copy of the verdict of Nov ),
1886. in the case of VIM. J.. Bryan VS.. the
American people. Put these carefully away
husband them well, for this world. In
Guiding yourself. will never see the like
again. What them" you ask. Simply re-
new your application for a place suited to
your qualifications; aspire even to take the
stage. Your lung power has been tested
and found good. The managers who secure
you will prosper and stick closer to you
than the men who told you to say that
the price of wheat fell with that of silver,
ard would advance with the free coinage
thereof" And you will prosper, too. Your
daily fee will be equal to that you charged
some gentlemen for securing the continu-
ance of a case in court. Do not be dis
couraged. Mr.. Bryan. The Journal still
takes an interest in you. It will contribute
On every occasion OF your appearance in
the city of Indianapolis a whole silver dol
lar, backed by a gold dollar and the United
States of America, worth, according to
your repeated statements, 200 cents, for a
seat in the gallery where you can readily
recognize it by a fine bimetallic bouquet
fastened well upon it's broad-gauge re-
portorial breast through the clinches of the
monstrous gold bug.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-23
INDIANA NEWSPAPER OPINION.

It's all right to predict victory, but the
way to get it is to work for ft.-Greens-
burg Review.
The Republicans made and have kept the
silver dollar as good as gold. The silvercrats
are trying to make II nan as good as
gold.-New Albany Tribune.
When Republican administration fails to
give prosperity to the country then it will
be time to vote some other than the Re-
publican ticket.-Albion New Era
Four years more of Democracy means
four years more of free trade and depres-
sion, supplemented by four years of free
silver, reputation and dishonor.-Bluffto
Chronicle.
Prosperity will come just so surely as
Mckinley is elected, with 4 Republican
Congress to stand at his back in the i'm
terest of America and American citizens.
Columbia City Commercial.
Mr.. Bryan looked as if he was not only
disappointed, but Disguised with the chilly
reception given him by the Richmond peo-
pie, and the people seemed equally disap-
pointed in him.-Richmond Telegram.
In one Of his speeches Mr.. Bryan declares
that protection is the most vicious thing
in American politics." He would go on
the poor in American homes.-Warsaw
Times.
The election of a Republican President is
the thing of great Importance in this cam
Daigp. But none the less Is IL important
to elect a good strong Republican Congress
to back up the President with wholesome
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Republican.
Independent action at 16 to 1, although 1t
would give us a law, would not give us the
actual use of both gold and silver. 1t would
exclude gold and give us silver monometal-
lism, which is as bad or worse than gold
monometallism.-Wfnchester Herald.
The greatest question after all in this
campaign is the anarchy question. If we
have BRYAN and anarchy W. shall have
taken a long step towards the destruction
of our government. and people viii soon
be discussing how they may save their lives
and property. instead of the money ques-
tion.-Brookville American.
McKinley's letter of acceptance still re-
mains the best exposition OF the Repub-
lican platform and the principles Of sound
money. His speeches and his life in this
campaign have been the most consistent
and emphatic declaration Of the Republican
and sound-money principles, upon which
Mckinley stands like a rock--Terre Haute
Express.
Which is ii better for a farmer to do,
send his surplus wheat a thousand miles
TO the sea coast, three thousand miles
across the water. pay the freight, sell it
to "A. mechanic who gets less wages, or sell
1t right here at home to the mechanic who
gets more wages? If we settle that ques-
ton we will settle the financial question
of this campaign and settle IL in favor OF
protection and home maskeLss-Greenield
Republican.
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items. The mass of people who work for
wages are Italians, English and Germans,
in the order named. No class of people in
this country who work for wages are SO
wretchedly fed and clothed as those who
do all the labor in Argentina. The chief
business of banker is specializing in the
huctuating paper currency, the cost of
which eventually falls upon the wage
earners and the farmers who rent lands.
All Argentina, except the banke and
large farmers who raise wheat for export,
would like to get back to a specie or gold
basis, since the mass of the people. upon
whose progress and prosperity the growth
of Argentina depends. are fettered by the
curse of a deprecated and fiuctuating cur
rency. such as that of Mexico, and such
as ours would be should the scheme Of the
silver mine owners be approved in the
election. Argentina. like Japan and Mex
leo, is a warning.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-23
A ROW In THE MEETING.
Attempt 30 inject Politics in Fcdera-
ton of Labor.

The executive council of the American
Federation of Labor held a very stormy
meeting yesterday, and the secrets are so
closely guarded that scarcely an inkling
of what happened can be learned. 1t Is
understood that the subjects under discus
sion were the coming election of a presi-
dent and the attempt OF some members to
inject politics into the organization. 1t is
also understood that the opposition that
defeated Samuel Gompers for president two
years ago is actively at work now to elect
some other man, and that the effort of
some of the members of the council to Sc
cure II new president was partly what
caused the heated discussion in the meet
ing. The meeting was of such nature that
even the clerks in the office were excluded
from the adjoining rooms and given a va
cation for the day. The meeting began at
IL o'clock and did not end until the middle
of the afternoon. AT all times during. its
continuance loud talking and accusing
charges could be heard from the stairway
leading to the office floor of the De Soto
block.
An effort was made last night to find
some OF the persons present at the meet
ing, but none We're at their homes and tho
visitors 10 the city who attended it had
either left town or were as hard 10 find as
the local members.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-23
THE BOOTHS AND BOXES.
Reinecke's observation-disclosures NJ
Actual Cost.

Julius Reinecke, Democratic candidate
for County Commissioner. thinks the cleo
ton booths furnished by G. f.. Darnell do
not provide a sufficient secrecy. He says
it would be possible for the man using the
middle booth to see how his S~1eighbors are
voting. He wants the county to place
wooden partitions between the booths in
stead of the curtain that is to be used.
In regard to the letting of the contract to
c.. f. Darnell for making larger ballot
boxes without any definite understanding
as to the price, the commissioners show this
was In the nature of an emergency case.
The booths were completed, and then 1t
was discovered that on account OF the great
size of the ballot the boxes were not large
enough. There was not then time to go
through the regular process of advertising
for bids, and Mr.. Darnell said he would
do the work of making telescope boxes and
charge what it was actually worth, the
price to be to the entire satisfaction of the
commissioners. This was accepted, as It
was a case of necessity that something
should De done,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-23

The notice which the Anderson manufac-
turers put up in their shops to the effect
that they desired every man to vote as he
thought best, but at the same time stating
that, in their Judgment, the interests of
all would be served by maintaining a sound
currency, probably meets with the approval
Of all those who are employed in the land.
There have been scores of such notices
given by manufacturers, yet Bryan, with a
meanness which seems to be monopolized
by him. when he saw the Republican no.
tice for flag day. said:
L do not want employers to go about over
your town and throughout the country and
lind out who has a flag in his window, and
then threaten to discharge any man who
does not say he is going to vote the Re
publican ticket.
This is a repetition of his advice to the
wage eari1ers of the country to play the
sneak. More than that, it is an attempt
to array ignorant men, and Bryan ssumes
that all wage earners are such, against
those who employ. He would make them
believe that unless they display the flag
they will be discharged. And yet this con-
scienceless demagogue and stirrer-up of
strife is a candidate for the Office held by
Washington, Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln
and Grant!
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-23

The closing paragraph1of that portion of
Secretary Carlisle's Speech which is given
in this issue is an answer to the senseless
charge that the coming of nearly $50, 900. 600
of gold to this country is the result of po-
Iitical manipulation. He only adds the
weight Of his official position to the facts
which the statistics of imports and exports
presented during the months of July. Au-
gust and -September-a balance in our favor
of more than $50, 900, 900. What Secretary
Carlisle says in the same connection about
the loss of that gold in the event of the
election of Mr.. Bryan is vastly more i'm
portant. He declared that 1t would go
back to Europe, that the reserve in the
treasury would be lost. and, in effect, the
country would be in the panic incident to
going to a silver basis the day after the
election. With this warning the Secretary
closes MS speech.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-23
In St. Paul. a few nights ago. a Bryanite

In ST. Paul, a few nights ago, a Bryanite
candidate for Congress, ~denouncing the
crime of 1873, said: 'tYou all know what
Senator Setwart says about that. You all
know what Bryan and Debs and Altgeld
say about that, and now let me tell you
what the immortal Lincoln says about that
great crime" And only a roar of laughter
from the crowd prevented the speaker from
going on and telling what Lincoln said
about something lone eight years after his
death. 1t would have been as true as many
other things attributed to Lincoln by Popo-
Gratis,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-23

Republican National Committeeman Ker-
ems, of Missouri, predicts that the State
will go for Mckinley. 1.-The sound-money
element of the State" he says, feels that
it would be worth millions and millions of
Republican rule" The Republican gains in
st. Louis alone are sufficient to overcome
the entire Populist vote that will be cast
for BRYAN.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-23

where he had been at work FIVE or six min
utes when he heard the steps OF the men
rapidly entering.
A man, one Of the large crowd that
quick y assembled, suggested that the high
waynen had. got wind of the fact that the
citizens in that part of town were about
TO organize a police force in opposition
to Mr.. Colbert and determined TO make
one last raid before the appearance of the
v~igtlants. Another said that IL was fortu-
nate for Mr.. Bull that the robbers had
table men, else the police might resort to
the stock explanation and declare that the
robbery was a fake" which he had fixed
up himself to cover some irregularity in hig
cash accounts. Nobody saw a po fcemaH
near thai corner last night be'
fore the robbery. Nobody ever does, ex.
cept when the officers from another beat
go TO the drug store TO make their tele-
phone calls. A large crowd of people
stopped at the drug store after the musi-
Gale at the Propylaeum. and more than one
heard to remark that the citizens
in q hurry.
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injured by the free coinage of silver. If the
firm should withhold a portion of their
wages to promote the election of the sound
money ticket? Yet ID. NJ. Hyman, one of
the millionaires of the silver trust, has told
a correspondent of the New York World
that the miners have donated 10 the Demo-
cratic campaign fund by allowing their en-
ployers to withhold a certain portion Of
their DIV rolls.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-23

Congress can do a good many things"
said Major Mckinley yesterday, but 1t
cannot make you rich or the country rich
by debasing the money of the country"
Mr.. Bryan thinks differently, but he has
been so busy qualifying himself to become
the advance agent of a theatrical company
that he has not had time to read what his
torians have written concerning the disas-
trous results of debasing the currency in
other countries.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-23
Mailing Him.

The Lady-See here! Where nave you
been until this hour in the morning?
The Gentleman-'Scussin' politics, m'dear.
Tell you, country's in danger.
n doubt. Now. will you tell me If you
are of the opinion that the Democratic
party has always upheld the strict const1-
tutional constructionists?"
Guess it has"
HAS what?'
Railways upheld EN-"
Upheld whom?"
Strict cons'rictional observation-disclosures
tural s~trictionist-'
That viii do, dear. You had better go
70 he'd
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-23

The two most prominent Democrats in
Illinois during the past twenty odd years
are Colonel William r. Morrison and Cen
eral John M. Palmer. For years the for
mer was the most conspicuous Democrat
in Illinois. II, prior to 1892. the Democrats
of Illinois had been called upon to name
a candidate for President, Colonel Morrison
would have been the man. Like Governor
Hendricks and ex-senator Mcdonald, he is
a man qualified by character, ability and
experience to be d presidential candidate.
He was the recognized leader of the party
in the House during three congresses prior
to his defeat in 1886. He is now the chair
man of the Interstate-railway Commission.
This is the man who has thrown the pres
ent Popocratic leaders in Illinois into con-
fusion by declaring against the Bryan tick
ct and assailing Governor Altgeld in a long
and very vigorous letter. Colonel Morri-
son. gives the weight of his conservative
character to sustain the charge that Gov
ernor Altgeld is mainly responsible for the
financial irregularities which made the late
State Treasurer Ramsey a defaulter. The
last paragraph of the Morrison letter is a
snapper for the whip which the epistle is
for the present Popocratic managers in Illi-
nois:
The Democratic party of the State once
lost. then regained power. 1t will doubtless
ernor Altgeld, Hon. II. i. Taubeneck and
Hon. Jehu Baker, but it will more certainly
survive this leadership il as a party 1t can
be relieved from the scandal OF laws dis
obeyed, oaths broken and treasures plum
dered.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-23

Mr.. Bryan. In a speech In Congress on the
Wilson bill, said: Il want tic site as EN-
phatically as words can state that I con-
slider it as false in economy and vicious in
policy to attempt to raise at high prices
that which we can purchase abroad at a
low price" In other words, he proposed
to buy where he could buy cheapest with
out regard to American industries or Amer
lean labor. In accordance with this pol
icy he voted to put wool. lumber and other
American products on the free list and to
reduce the duties on still others. In the
same spirit he denounced American manu-
facturers as public robbers" and American
workmen who asked for protection as a
help to higher wages as "pubnc beggars."
His plan for helping manufacturers and
workingrnen is to add the free coinage OF
silver to free trade, thus reducing business
TO the basis of 50-cent dollars.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-23

President Cleveland's address at Prince
ton yesterday was one Of the best he has
ever delivered. Addressed primarily TO the
undergraduates of a single institution. it
was really intended for the whole Ameri-
entation of the duty of the scholar in poll
tics. and no more earnest and patriotic ap-
peal for the maintenance of a high stand
ard of citizenship. Without any display Of
party spirit or reference to current issues,
it shows that Mr.. Cleveland is opposed
with all the force OF his nature to the
demagogieal and dangerous movement led
by Bryan. The address does honor to Mr..
Cleveland, and Is III harmony with the best
traditions of the high office he holds.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-23
Pleasure stiti to Re Had.

II gosh, Bill" said the farmer with the
square jaw, ito my own knowledge you
hev changed your campaign button -four
times accordin' to the speaker you heerd
last. What you goin' to do to injoy your
se'f when the campaigns over?'
Wal" said the farmer with the stray
Cling yellow whiskers, what's To pervent
me goin' to protractid meetin' and gitt'n'
religion, same IS I've done every winter fer
fifteen yearS?"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-23

The Sentinel seems to think that the
forged opinion of the London Financial
News is wiser than those of Grover Cleve-
land, Secretary Carlisle and such Demo-
Gratis as Senat Palmer, General Buckner
and the great body of American Democrat
ic business men like Senator Ingalls,. The
Sentinels preference Illustrates the force
Of habit. since for years it has accepted the
free-trade policy of the British.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-23

Every person possessed of a modicum of
common sense will agree with Major Nc
Kinley that There is no such thing as
creating wealth by the mere breath of
clares that those who deny the power OF
Congress to make so cents in silver equal to
a dollar In gold are unpatriotic. He COM
pares them to the Tories of the revolution
airy period, and wants to know who would
be SO base and cowardly as to say that a
country which has whipped Great Britain
in two wars cannot legislate that water
shall run up hill if it wants to. Great is
Populism, and great is Bryan, it's prophet.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-23

James c. Garter. Of New York, a Demo-
crat and one OF the ablest lawyers in the
land. in fact. the leader OF the New York
bar, in a recent speech. said:
I think it important to bring before you
and for you to consider the hideous char
acter-it is nothing less than hideous-that
is assumed by the Bryan le~aders-Byran,
Tillman. Altgeld and those whom they have
called upon to advance this campaign.
Their campaign consists of an appeal to
ignorance. It is not only an appeal to
an appeal to dishonesty, but 1t is also an
appeal TO hatred. malice. envy and all man.
ner of Observation-Disclosures.
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the United States. That is a very different
thing than the fixing of the price of gold.
The United States has enacted that 371A
grains of pure silver shall be stamped one
dollar in limited quantities, but that num-
Der of grains of pure silver is worth 50.S7
cents to-day
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-23

For two weeks past Governor Altgeld has
been going through Illinois ~denouneing in
the bitterest terms the Mckinley mama
gers for advocating the display of the Amer
lean flag and abusing the national .colors in
the vilest language. As a result the Bry-
antics have. in a number OF instances, torn
down the flag.