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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-03
luton. the excuses of which furnish the

luton. the excuses of which furnish the
most revolving recitals in modern history:
In the country the state of the people
was wretched. though In many districts the
soil was already much subdivided and the
peasant proprietors numerous. one quarter
OF the soil was in their hands, yet their
condition was little better for this. Their
burdens were still very heavy; their
knowledge and methods of tiilage rude;
they had no capital to expend on the lana,
no good tools, no cattle, no manureS; VIM
ter after winter they fell TO the famine
level and maintained miserable existence,
till the sun again revived them and sent
them forth once more to labor on the
fields. At the beginning of the revolution
severe winter set in and the sunerinss
of the people were extreme. and multitudes
persisted OF cold and hunger. The feudal
aids and services, the game laws. the COM
mon wine press and common mill left the
peasant no rest and forbade him ever TO
hope for comfort. AS he gained In intelli-
gence and rose above the dead level of iS-
norance in which his masters had care
anger him. The winter Of 1855
was terrible, especially in Paris and all
France was excited by distress and hope.
The capital swarmed with incomers from
the country districts around: ever since the
great haiistorm of July, 17SS. when the
stroyed in all the best corn-growing dis
tricts of France the district around Paris,
crowds of desperate country folk had
about Paris" says 'i: M. Taine. lis ' engulfed
therein; some seek work. some beg. all
prowl about, prey to hunger and the ru
mors of the street. The crowds contain
strangers from all parts OF the country,
mostly in rags, armed with sticks, whose
very look is menacing, and vagabonds,
ragged fellows, almost naked, with ap.
palling faces"
There are no conditions like those set
the people of this country. We have no
starving people. Many do not have what
they would choose for food, and more do
not have all of the kind they would choose
for drink; but they are not living year
after year lust above the famine level"
The crowds of people that gathered to see
Mr.. Bryan. to whom the language quoted
Is addressed. are not ragged. but WELL
dressed people. The audience which listened
to this emissary Of the silver mine trust,
Sunday night, was a well-fed and decently
clad class of people. In the distress and
oppression of the people there was
cause for revolution in 17SS in France; but,
while there is business depression and lack
of full employment in the United States
just now. whole masses of people are not
furnishing for food. Then an absolute and
dissolute king and a profigate nobility OPP
pressed the people by all sorts of exactions;
here. property supports the government,
whose benefcences multiply with the
years.
And yet this agent Of the silver mine
trust. the greediest and most pfofiigate
clique of wealth in this country, makes a
threat of French revolution because the
conditions here and i'm France in 1859 are
the same. He is shouting anarchy to pro-
mote the interests of the silver mine trust
which EMPLOYS him.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-03
TIME AND LABOR WELL SPENT.

Last spring a good many papers. repre-
senting, no doubt, the ideas of large
number of their readers, were advocating
the supposed merits and benefits of short
presidential campaigns. 1t was urged that
if nominating conventions were not held
until August, even September, enough
time would be left before election for the
proper presentation of the questions at
issue to the people. While this might be
true of some campaigns where less i'm
portant principles were at stake, it was
emphatically untrue of this. If the election
had been held week after the nomination
of Mr.. Bryan in July he might have car
ried enough States TO give him a majority
in the Electoral College. A month or two
months later this might still have been
true. But by the end of two months the
people were becoming well informed upon
the issues and were reaching conclusions,
based on argument and sound reasoning,
which differed widely from the first i'm
pulses. Matters upon which they had
thought little and concerning which they
had had but little information were ex-
planned to them. The monetary system,
which to many had seemed intricate and
mysterious was shown to be founded upon
simple business principles which all might
understand and which every citizen was
personally interested in maintaining. 1t
was. above all things. a campaign of edu-
cation, and the statesmen and party lead
ers were no more anxious to set forth the
knowledge than the people were to listen.
But time was required for the spreading of
this information. Printing presses were to
be set at work, documents to be prepared
and circulated, speakers secured and their
lines of travel arranged-all the complicated
machinery Of great parties to be put in
motion before anything could be accom-
ly and effectively shows the marvellous
adaptability of the people to organization
and the executive ability of party leaders.
The education of the people upon the issues
was undertaken, and within four months ii
has been SO thorough that a great change
has taken place in public opinion. In one
State after another where the drift of senti-
ment was toward free silver the current
has shifted that this dangerous doctrine
mas comparatively Jew iiieiuS. rToiu d po-
sition where it had a chance of success
alarming to cool-headed and patriotic cit
liens the Chicago ticket has fallen into
such disrepute by reason of the light
thrown on it that il is likely to meet with
the most overwhelming defeat known to
the history of politics In this country. Two
months would not have done this; three
would hardly have been enough, but in four
months this work has been accomplished
else all signs fail. The campaign, as
Whole, has been a remarkable outlay of
energy, but the results promised in the al
most certain election Of Mckinley will well
repay the time and labor spent.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-03

Barney Lloyd, of Charlestown, w. Va,
IS the last surviving member of the grand
jury. which. in 1859, indicted John Brown
for invasion and indting insurrection.
Car Nicholas has become patron Of
literature. He has commissioned NJ. Isto-
mine to make a collection Of the popular
songs and patriotic ballads of his empire
The lake Sir John Millais spoke regret
fully of the skepticism and cynicism of this
age, and said: THE great defect to-day
in young men is want of reverence. I'm
Til a young man can admire-nay. until he
can give homage - there is no hope for
him.
A party of young Americans have been
astonishing Scotland by making a tour IN
a great prairie schooner draped with the
stars and stripes and bearing the legend
The Raiders" after Crockett's novel
They are delightfully."- Independent of hotels
and railroads.
Mrs. Ormiston Chant, who is one Of the
women who led the crusade against Eng
lish music halls, has taken a new road to
her object. She has written songs which
she Is trying to get sung on the music-h hall
stages and which she thinks will do the
frequenters of the places much good.
General Greedy has been experimenting
with bicycles sn the signal corps Three
of them were recently sent to San Antonio,
where Lieutenant Reber has been testing
them. He reports that they of great
value when military telegraph lines break.
repairs can~be made quicker and less
valuable time lost than when horse and
wagon have TO be secured.
Mr.. Andree. the originator Of the bal
loon expedition TO the north pole. has per-
fected all his plans for the renewal of his
attempt next year at the beginning of
July. The expenses have been guaranteed
by King Oscar Baron Dickson and Mr..
Nobel. and II Is to a war ship that has been
assigned the duty Of conveying the explor-
er and his companions TO Spitzbergen.
Prince Bismarck. on his last birthday. re-
ceived handsomely carved oaken chest
divided into five compartments. each rep
resenting one OF the 1--WE divisions OF the
world The chest contained newspapers
from every known quarter Of the eartn
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-03
FORTY YEARS AGO AND NOW.

To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal:
1t will be forty years tomorrow since the
Republican party closed its first national
campaign with the holly contested election
of Nov. 4, 1856. 1t is familiar. but always
inspiring history how the new party had
gathered to its support the flower of the
cid Wing and Democratic parties to join
with the hitherto despised Abolitionists in
rescuing the great undeveloped West from
the blight of slavery, the consequent deg
radiation of labor and the national dis
honor of fostering barbarous institution.
Veteran Republicans, who were first voters
then, recall still with pride the generous
enthusiasm of that campaign, when they
felt themselves enlisted in such crusade
for humanity against the tyranny of preju-
dice and the dishonorable shifts of poll
ticians, as this country had not witnessed
since the revolutionary struggle. Cold cal
culations counted for nothing. They went
to the polls confident that they would win
because they knew they ought to win, be-
cause they knew the honor and prosperity
of the Nation depended upon the success
Of the only party in that contest that put
right before mean expediency, civilization
before barbarism, freedom before slavery.
Though defeated in that election IL is not
strange that the Republican party only
gathered strength from defeat for the
splendid series of triumphs unequaled in
the party history Of the world.
To-day the Republican party is confronted
with an issue momentous, is commits
stoned with a duty as high and inspiring, as
called it into existence forty years ago and
drew to its support the conscience, the
patriotism, the intelligence of the North.
The integrity and prosperity of the Nation
are deeply involved now as then: the
contest has been as CALAMITY and as zeal
ously waged. 1t only remains to win, to-
day, the victory which was then postpor ed.
to prove to the world that in 1896 the Re-
publican party as truly represents the 10y
atty of the American people TO justice and
good government it did in 1856 II We
do our whole duty to-day tom " will
be a proud anniversary in the hi Of
party born of noble struggle (, man
rights, whose latest achievement o re-
demption from threatened dishonol f the
Nation it once saved from ACKNOWLEDGMENT
j. Q. DONNELL.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-03

In the Journals news columns will be
found several cases in which Republicans
have been arrested on trumped-up charges
OF attempting to bride voters. In one case
the justice before whom trial was had, him.
self Democrat, dismissed the accused
men because he was certain all the arrests
had been made solely to create political
capital. In another case the man who
brought the charge declared it was false
and that Democratic lawyer and others
had melted him TO bring the accusation.
This is despicable business. and ought to
cause reaction against the men and cam
didates who hope to profit by it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-03
JONES'S BAD ADVICE.
POpOcracy's Manager Would Have La
Dor Commit Suicide.

Dor Commit Suicide.
New York Herald.
Whom the gods would destroy they first
make mad Such seems to be the condi-
ton of the Popocratic managers to-day.
When the Democratic party passed into
the control of the nondescript elements that
have dominated 1T since the Chicago con-
vention many loyal Democrats remained
faithful to the organization, despite their
dissatisfaction with the principles and the
men there put forward. They were not
prepared to deny that a majority OF the
delegates had a right to reverse the party S
time-honored financial policy, which they
were led to believe was TO be made the
chief feature Of the campaign. Although
they could not restore prosperity to the
country, they were reluctantly persuaded to
accept 1t as part of the Democratic creed
for this election at least.
Upon this question the battle began. The
great bulk of the voters upon whose sup
port the Popocratic candidates depended
cratic nominees never imagined that there
would be any important issue other than
that involved in the free coinage problem
But as the canvass of the electors went
on 1t became more and more apparent that
the majority of both OF the old parties
would not support the free-siiver Eeresy
Not only was the new party abandoned by
almost all of the former leaders of Dem PC
racy but the rank and file also began to
desert. From a horde without principle 1t
soon tended toward being mob without
enthusiasm.
1t was then that the reckless supporters
D
archy to be seen. Steadily the Popocratic
chieftains from Bryan himself down to the
cart-tail orators on the Bowery moved
away from the financial question and tried
to stir up strife between those who toll
with their hands and those whose brain
work provides the opportunities for manual
labor.
Chairman Jones gave out yesterday an
appeal to workingmen that shows the des-
perate condition OF the Popocratc cause
ard the final purpose OF his associates more
clearly than any previous step taken by
them He calls upon wage earners to de-
mand from their employers an immediate
guarantee that their pay shall be increased
after the election in case Mr.. Mckinley is
elected. He does not indicate what their
action should be In case this demand should
be refused. but his malicious purpose Is
more the less evident If workmen can be
stirred up 10 the point of making a specific
demand the cunning Popocratic manager
knows that pride will carry them on to the
point OF striking should the demand be re-
fused
The whole scheme Is intended to array
one class OF labor against another class and
against capital. In this country probably
not per cent. Of the population can be re-
garded a. idlerA We AL work In our diner-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-03

The Journal takes pleasure in calling at
tention to the excellent service which all
of the candidates for the nomination for
Governor have rendered during the cam
paign. There have been no more effective
speakers than Messrs. Posey, Griffiths,
Cumback, Johnston and Shockney. Major
Doxey met the executive committee as
often as he was called upon, and rendered
efficient service. Business engagements
kept Mr.. Griffin out of the campaign dur
ing July, and since that time his health has
been so precarious that he could not speak.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-03

know. that the Australian ballot law as 1t
prevails In nearly every Northern State
contemplates free and untrammeled vote.
and that bulldozing and electioneerers are
not allowed near the polls. The Indiana
law says: mo person other than the cleo
ton officers shall remain wi hin fifty feet
of the polls except when voting" Neither
the gold syndicate nor Bryan free-silver
heelers can violate this law with impunity
His Dretense that the sound-money men
will violate it is a violent presumption, and
his advice to his own followers to do so
shows how desperate he is. 1t is bad adj
vice. and he must have known it was when
he gave it,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-03

Governor Matthews has told that he tel
egraphed a Southern paper that Indiana
will vote for Bryan. but those who remem-
Der Governor Matthews's predictions in the
past know that they are worthless. In
1894, while the Election Board was burning
the extra ballots after the election, he de-
clared that in his judgment the Dem ocrats
had carried Indiana bv a good majority
Six hours later everybody knew that the
Republicans had carried it by nearly As. 900
plui atty
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-03
The Popocrats Yesterday circulated a G

Of a negro with dice as ornaments for his
shirt front. Under this caricature were
the words. Gabriel l.. Jones. Republican
candidate for Representative" Mr.. Jones
is not gambler as this picture would in
dictate, but man of so good character that
he has been employed as teacher in the
public schools. 1t is much to his credit
that, born 70 servitude he was graduated
from the indianapolis High School with
honor.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-03

The Bryan platform declares that gold
monometallism is a British policy" Gold
recommendation does not exist in any coun-
try in the world. and there is more than
twice as much silver in circulation in Great
Britain as there IS in Mexico. silver
standard country.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-03

Votes ought to be weighed, not counted.
says Schiller. The result would be the
same to-day If this were done. With honor.
integrity. patriotism. prosperity balanced
against reputation and anarchy. who that
knows the American people can doubt
hea x,ieSf2
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-03

The fact that Mr.. Bryan has an excellent
personal character cut little figure in the
matter. The other fact that he represents
a platform which means reputation and
anarchy, and that he breaches these de-
structive doctrines. shows what he is cap
able of under certain conditions. He is not
to be trusted
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-03
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL.

Can be found at the following places:
NEW Y0Rk-Windsor Hotel and Astor House.
CHICAGo-Palmer House and p o. News Co.,
III Dearborn street =
CINCINEA1I-J. X. Hawley & Co.. La Vine
street
LOU1SvILLE-C. T. Deering northwest corner
OF Third and Jefferson streets. and LoaisFihe
Book Co.. &c Fourth avenue
WASHINGTON, Il. c.-Riggs House. Ebbitt
House, Willard Hotel and the Washington
News Exchange. -Four teenth street, between
Penn avenue AMI + street.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-03

Yesterday morning Chairman Gowdy re-
ceived a telegram from a man in Texas
asking if 500 could be placed even that
Bryan would carry Indiana. Captain
Gcwdy replied at once. giving him the
name of the banking house where all such
wagers would be taken to the amount Of
thousands. There was no response.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-03

There will be no postponement on account
of the weather. Rain will not keep RepuD-
lican voters at home to-day; they ARE too
deeply in earnest to mind temporary dis
comfort or Inconvenience.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-03

Should it rain to-day do not mind 1t, but
vote early and take those who are feeble
to the polls In carriages. Better get wet
than run the risk Of the panic which Bry
an has admitted to be likely to follow his
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-03

A man in this city. who travels for
Chicago house, received a notice yesterday
which read as follows: 'If Mckinley is
elected report here on Wednesday," All
weeks ago
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-03

In the estimate OF counties published yes
terday Shelby was made to give Repub-
lican plurality of 5Oo 1t should have been
made Democratic by 500 and in that way
1t is counted in the footings. Decatur. Re-
publican by 600. was not in the list at all.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-03

Mr.. Bryan Is preparing to continue the
campaign after Mckinley is elected. He
will be wise to hunt a more remunerative
job. Before 1900 the boy candidate and his
cause will have passed into an oblivion SO
deep that it will require an effort of
memory on the part of the average man
to remember who ran for the presidency
on the Popocratic ticket this year
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-03
BUBBLES In THE AIR.
Not Working.

"You," shouted the long. lean man. 'you
sir are no patriot
well, what if 1 ain't?' retorted the
short, fat man. "Elections's over. amt it?'
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-03
WEATHER FORECAST.
Fair for indianapolis and Vicinity
Tuesday.
ELECTION BULLETINS.

Election returns will be displayed from
the Journal building tonight by stere-
-opticon. The Journal believes the news
iii be of such character as to cause the
veliest satisfaction among all who favor
rood government and national honor.
The editorial rooms will not be open to
the public.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-03

The names Of half the hundred Demo
Gratis who have given notice that they VIII
see to 1t that there Is no bribery in In
dianapolis are a contribution to the gayety
of the local campaign.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-03

A prominent business man In this city
received a dispatch from a wholesale Nor
chant In Cincinnati saying that ''Dr. Wise
feels indignant over the infamous false
hood published In the Sentinel to IL e.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-03

Tens of thousands of Democrats voted
for Lincoln in 1864 because they were pa
triots; tens of thousands Of Democrats will
vote for Mckinley to-day because they are
not Populists.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-03

The man who has a share Of stock in
building and loan association votes to con-
tribute half of it to the plutocrats of the
silver mine combine" when he votes for
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-03

The Bryan platform says: mo discrim-
nation should be INDUCED in by the gov
eminent Of the United States towards any
of it's Debtors Truly interpreted, that
means they should all be swindled alike.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-03

A weapon that comes down as still
AS snowfakes fall upon the sod;
But executes freeman's will,
AS lightning does the will Of God;
And from its force no doors nor locks
Can shield you-'tis the ballot box.
John Pierpont
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-03

In 1861 Jefr Davis and his followers de-
nouneed the determination of Abraham
Lincoln to enforce the laws OF the United
States as usurpaticn and tyranny. The
BrSer and Altseid platform says: I'VE de-
,R6uncs arbitrary interference BY federal
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-03

The Popocratic platform says: 1--WE ex-
tend our sympathy to the people or cuba
If Bryan should be elected the people OF
Cuba could return the compliment to the
people of the United States.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-03
Good Reason.

"I have no use for a man who has no
enemies"
mo; that sort of fellow rarely has
enough money to be able to lend one five
when necessary
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-03
Hack Work.

"Still doing hack work." asked the OBJ
noxious Person, with bland smile.
"Oh, no." said the Literary Lady, with
a smile still more bland; II have bought
a pencil sharpener.''
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Forced Into the Business.

Simmons-What is this hear about you
going on the stage?
Timmins-Pm afraid I'll have to. I've got
about three dozen gold-and-silver Jokes
that 1 can't see any other way of working
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-03

The wage earners should vote against
the candidate who has assumed that they
are sneaks. His name Is Bryan.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-03

Do not monkey with the ink dauber
called stamp. and thus run the risk of
DISTINGUISHING yourself Stamp both ballots
In the eagle square with care.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-03

Reputation would be al everlasting dis
grace 10 the country. Bury it with an
avalanche of votes for sound money