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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-31
INTERFERENCE WITH PRIV ATE
RIGHTS.

The Popocrat platform demands that the
mine owners and stamped as one dollar
''shall be made full legal tender equally
with gold, for all debts public and pri-
vate'' 1t adds: I'VE favor such legislation
as will prevent for the future the demone-
tization of any kind of legal-tender money
by private contract" This means that 1t
shall be made a penal offense to make spe-
cial contracts payable in geld. The object
of this is to clinch the case in favor of the
mine owners fifty-cent dollar. If men
could make contracts payable in gold as
thousands are already doing the dishonest
dollar would be generally boycotted. The
Popocrat platform demands legislation to
prevent this. Bryan has frequently de-
clared that the Chicago platform as a whole
had his unqualified approval, but in one
of his speeches, few days ago, he ex-
pressed his distinct approval of the clause
quoted. He said:
l notice that some of our critics are
much excited because the Chicago platform
says that We pledge ourselves to secure
such legislation as will for the future pre-
vent contracts for a particular kind of
money. Why. they say that we are not
going to let people contract. We are not
going to let them make contracts that are
against public policy; we do not intend tha t
they shall demonetZe by private contract
what this government makes money by uni
versal law. You say that we have no right
TO interfere with private contracts.
If there We're no other evidence of the
fact this would show that Bryan is a polit-
ical charlatan and quack. The government
has more right to prevent men from
making n contract for the delivery of n
certain amount of gold all at once or in in
stallments. than it has to prevent them
from contracting for the delivery of a GER
tain quantity of wheat or lumber. or a
certain number of horses. TO make a note
other contract payable in gold is not to
.tdemonetize" silver. as Bryan calls II. 1t
is simply the exercise OF private right
which the government has no right to in
terfere with. However. with Bryan for
President. AitgcId for Attorney-general.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-31
STUPID OR DECEPTIVE-WH

If Mr. Bryan is rot very dishonest he is
very stupid, because he continues to declare
that a gold dollar worth twice as much in
the market as a commodity will circulate
side by side with q silver dollar. Most of
his supporters have done their intelligence
the credit to admit that the free coinage of
silver would drive gold out of circulation
money, because all experience sustains
that judgment. Both jefferson and Hamil-
ton held to that judgment when one of
them said, and the other agreed, that if
the legal ratio differed from the commercial
ratio in the smallest degree the metal
which should be undervalued in the least
by the legal ratio would cease to circulate
as money.
1t seems incredible that a man can be so
ignorant of history and of affairs as to in
sist that gold will remain in circulation
with silver at the present legal ratio when
the commercial ratio is 81 to 1. 1t is in
credible, because it would suggest itself to
men of the feeblest intellect, when a gold
dollar will purchase enough silver to make
two dollars, that any one would pay the
gold dollar for the same quantity of mer-
chandise that ne could get for one of those
silver dollars of which the gold dollar as
merchandise would purchase two. Yet Mr.
Bryan affirms daily that there will be more
money with free-silver coinage. because the
additional silver money will be added to
the gold and silver in circulation. II Mr.
Bryan believes that statement he has not
practical judgment, and consequently is
not fit for President; if he does not believe
it, and still breaches it, he is rascal.
Fortunately most people of the present
generation have had experience of their
own to prove that when there are two
kinds of money the cheaper drives out the
better. The greenback drove out coin as
soon it could not be redeemed in COIN
The greenback was the fluctuating measure
of value until within a month of the re-
sumption of specie payments, when the
greenback became redeemable in coin or
gold. AS General Harrison said in Tomlin-
son Hall, cheaper silver would drive out
gold; cheaper copper would drive out silver
and still cheaper iron would drive out cop
per if they were used as money at any
other rate than their commercial value
The astonishing thing is that Bryan still
proclaims this economic heresy in spite of
the dictates of common sense and all ex-
nerience
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-31
ENTHUSIASM AT MUNCIE.
Efforts of Debs to Capture the Stand
Resented by Republicans.

AT Muncie, where the train arrived at
$780, the streets were packed all the way
from the railroad to the courthouse square
There had been no parade, but incident
had occurred during the morning that had
keyed the Republicans up to high pitch.
The announcement that General Harrison
was to speak from the stand at the court
house had drawn thither a great crowd of
people who had taken up positions near the
stand and were holding them during the
morning until he should come With a
foreknowledge of this condition of affairs
the Democrats had brought Eugene Debs
to town, and he suddenly appeared and
made a speech from the courthouse steps.
The intention was to have him speak from
the same stand as Harrison, but the Re-
publicans guarded the stand and would not
permit him TO mount it. This ambuscade
aroused the wrath as we'll as the enthus-
iasm of the Republicans and they were
Ei-rdly accountable for the almost frenzied
enthusiasm they displayed for Harrison
upon his arrival. He was escorted through
the crowded streets to the stand where he
found the big square packed with people
cheering themselves hoarse. The ovation
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-31
A REPUBLICAN WEEK

1t has been Republican week in Indiana,
as was that which preceded it. A most
conservative estimate. based upon an actu-
al poll, shows that Indiana win go for Nc
Kinley by a substantial plurality. If the
Republicans in every precinct put forth
their best efforts until the polls shall be
closed, that majority will be a very decided
one. With the sentiment which now pre-
walls in the party a fresh appeal to bend ev-
cry effort to the work does not seem neces-
sary.
The enemy is making strenuous efforts.
He is indulging in very big talk which is
very cheap. But the fact cannot be ignored
that during the past week not less than d
dozen Democrats of State or local prom
inepce have declared against Organism.
Such an occurrence in the Republican party
would have been equivalent TO defeat and
it is defeat for the PoDocratic leaders in
Indiana. The managers boast of what they
will do on election day; but they have not
in their possession anything like full or
accurate poll of the State. In Marion
county the Popocratic mana gers do not
know on which side their ward and precinct
committees are. The same is true in other
counties in which the larger cities are To-
ca ted. The Pooocratic State chairman has
betrayed his Generalization by panicky APP
peals to the faithful to guard against the
brbing of Iheir committees and election
officers.
On the other hand. the Republicans and
the advocates of sound money have "A
thorough and efficient organization. What
is of more Importance their voters are in
earnest Speaking particularly for Marion
county the Journal repeats the statement
that if all the counties in the State will do
AS well proportionately, McKinley's plural
ity will be $4,000. Such sweeping changes
Will be shown by the counting Of the vote
will not be shown in only few of the
counties, but, if every sound-money man
does his full duty, McKinley's majority will
be one of the largest ever known in pres
identiaI wear
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-31

In his attacks corporations, and on
RAILWAYS in particular Bryan has asserted
that the rates of transportation for agrI-
cultural products have not been reduced in
equal ratio with the price of these products.
This is not true, as Bryan might easily
have ascertained if he had wanted to know
the truth Mr.. G. v. McNeal. auditor of
the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company,
and we'll known in this city, has compiled
a table showing the rates of transportation
on wheat from Chicago to New York and
the price of wheat per bushel in New York
from 1872 to 1895. The rates of transporta-
ton were taken from official sources and
the price of wheat from the prices current
in New York in October of each year. They
show that the rate of transportation on
wheat declined from 60 cents per hundred
in 1873 to 20 cents per hundred in 1895, while
the price of wheat declined from $1.61h in
1873 to 6SN cents in 1885. The decrease in
the price of transportation was 66 % per
cent, while the decrease in the price of
wheat was 58A per cent. Thus, instead of
the decrease in the rates of transportation
not having been in equal ratio with the de-
crease in the price of wheat, as Bryan as
serts the former has exceeded the latter by
nearly one-siXth-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-31

The Popocratic managers have arranged
it is said for n series of Sunday meetings
in this city, Mr.. Debs being announced as
the orator. This is an innovation in lndi-
ana in fact in this country. The AltGeld-
ties in Chicago had arranged their great
parade to take place on Sunday, but the
protests against it were so loud that Chair
man Jones was able to induce Governor
Altgeld to recall the order. Any political
meeting on Sunday thus late in the cam
paign will fill not only halls but the streets
with shouting men. Thus far in this cam
paign and in previous campaigns in this
State and in the country the quiet of Sun
day has tended to relieve the tension A
day of rest to all, and sacred to a large
part of the people, it is very certain that
this use of it by the Popocratic managers
will not meet the approval of the greater
part of the people. Many people who are
not religionists will see in it's being devoted
to noisy meetings and shouting crowds a
departure toward that anarchism which
is based upon atheism and finds special de-
light in the dissertation of a day the OBJ
servanee of which has been the custom of
the American people. Is Indiana to be the
first State in which the godlessness of an
archism is to be displayed in the desecra-
ton of Sunday?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-31

Several of the patrons of the Indianapolis
Trade Journal having protested against its
advocacy of sound money, in its last issue
the editor puts his name to an article
which cannot be regarded as an apology.
After setting forth the advantages of a
sound currency, such as the country has
the editor goes on to say
All this we are asked to exchange for a
proven cheat, n sham u degradation. Asked
to become a nation of liars, thieves and
ereen-goods swinders. Liars, because We
had taken other peoples money promising
ia, return it in as good condition and value
as when received. Thieves. because we
would be taking something but giving Moth
ing in return. Swindlers because-well, the
definition is apparent
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-31
THE FAKE ABOUT WAGES.

Four years ago the free-trade Sentinel
type to proving that there was then no
in-plate industry in this country and that
there never could be any under the Nc
kinley tariff. To-day. in spite of a hostile
tariff, there more than two thousand
men who are earning wages in tin-plate
factories or rolling mills which make the
steel plates for timing because of the tin
plate industry in Indiana. Under prosper
GUS times and with fair protection the
gas belt of Indiana promises to become the
center of the tin-plate industry in the
United States, employing thousands of men,
Now the free-trade and Bryanite Sentinel
is using it's black type and display head
lines TO make it appear that during the
Harrison administration wages were re-
duced as they never were before or since.
The lie is very stupid one, because there
are many thousands of wage earners in
Indiana who know that their wages are
Low much lower than in 1892 and that they
were higher four years ago than at any
period in the history of the country. 1t is
also well established that wages advanced
after the enactment of the Mckinley law
in 1890. Labor Commissioner Peck of New
York, Democrat, summarized his report
as follows:
1t appears that there was a net increase
of wages of $6,3T7, 5000 in the year 1891,
compared with the amount paid in 1890,
and net increase of production of S31,315,-
1869 in the year 1891 over that of 1880. OF
the siXty-seven industries covered n per
cent. of them show an increase either in
the wages production, or both, and there
were no less than IS, 779 instances Of indi-
The total trades represented amount to
H. and give employment to 2S5,0O0 work
ingmen and women. The total average ln-
crease of yearly earnings of the 2S5,O0O en-
rloyes was 1928. IL. The average yearly earn-
ings of the employees iii the fifty trades
show an increase of $4396 in 1891 as COM
pared with 1890.
The accurate annual reports of the Labor
Bureau of Massachusetts disclose an adj
vance of wages in the leading industries
in that great manufacturing State. But
what Is most against the Sentinel is the
general conviction that wages were higher
four years ago than before, and that the
fall since the overthrow of the Mckinley
tariff is due to its repeal.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-31

John Clark Ridpath seems determined to
win notoriety as the champion of revolu-
tionary propositions. All intelligent men
who have read his campaign pamphlet
tortions and falsehoods, will no longer have
use for the WORKS of the alleged historian.
A war hist Dry part of which he COM
piled was urged on a committee of mil
itary organization by a canvasser. AS soon
as one of them reported that it was in part
the work of Ridpath, they decided that a
war history written by the author of the
Arena distortions was not a safe book for
instruction of sons of veterans. In Con-
gress Mr.. Ridpath could be of no use,
while Mr.. Faris has shown the qualities
which are essential to useful Represent
a
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-31

or hunderd reliable and earnest men at
every precinct in the State will help to
swell the Mckinley majority in Indiana by
hundreds. This is particularly important in
those precincts where the Bryanites may
have majorites. With the friends of sound
money the issue is not which of the names
on the ballots shall hold the offices, but
whether this country shall have panic and
disaster or prosperity and peace
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-31

Mr.. Bryan turned them over to the Popo-
cratic national committee On inquiry the
Wards Investment Company, OF Lincoln
reports that the two lots are in the bot
toms. three miles from the Capitol, and
are not worth to exceed $3.50, with years
back taxes. Thus do the announcements of
the Popocratic managers in Chicago fall
short of realities
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-31
PrOper Course.

She-We have decided to postpone our
wedding until a month or so after election.
Her-You don't mean to tell me that he is
so interested in politics that he has no time
to get married? 7af
She-Oh, dear, no. 1t was my idea. We
would have got so little space in the pa
pe1S, you know
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-31

The Women's Mckinley Clubs which have
been organized in this State have not been
merely ornamental, as some have assumed
in many instances they have co-operated
with other clubs and made themselves very
effective in looking after the doubtful or
indifferent voter
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-31
Unfortunate Remark.

Mister" said the honest searcher for en-
ployment, can't you give me some way to
earn an honest dollar
Cit out of the place" shouted the Popu-
listic gentleman with the long whisllers.
Cit out l don t want no goldbugs workn'
fer me-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-31

Chairman Jones, OF the Democratic ma
fional committee, offers $500 reward to any
person or persons who will furnish evidence
OF case of the coercion, intimidation or
bribery Of a voter. AS he and the Popo-
crat press have been charging that tins
Was being done extensively they ought to
be able to find case without Offering a
big reward
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-31

Some sound Democrats saying
If they thought there was any doubt about
McKinleys election they would vote for
him. but as his election is certain they will
vote for Palmer and Buckner If they
really desire the triumph of sound money
why not give Mckinley a whole vote in
stead of half of one?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-31

There is not a man of fair sense in the
country who does not know that the cleo
ton of Mckinley will help rather than dis
turb business; not intelligent business
man in fifty who does not fear that Bry-
ans election will cause a panic
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-31

One of the Popocratic lies which the COM
mon liar is sent out to repeat is that he
knows of fifty men in such and such a
shop who wear Mckinley buttons and are
members of Mckinley clubs, but who are
going to vote for Bryan.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-31

Chairman Jones. in one of his recent hys-
terical circulars. declared that his combina-
ton is sure to beat the plutocracy. So it
has for all the money that it has had for
the campaign has come from the richest
and greediest plutocracy in the country
the silver mine plutocracy. Sure of defeat
if the Jones managers have any of the
money in their grasp they have beat the
plutocracy.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-31

John A. Dix said in his celebrated dis
patch in 1861: IF any one attempts to haul
down the American flag, shoot him on the
spot" There are other ways of dishonor-
ing the flag besides hauling it down, and
one of them is invoking its aid in the cause
of national dishonesty.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-31

Every who works for salary or
wages is creditor because the employer
always owes him for his service from two
are 100000, and as creditors they should
not surrender the best dollar for the cheap
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-31

The convention of soldiers and soldiers
sons yesterday was a delegate convention,
ard, considering all the moving events in
the campaign, it was larger than could
have been expected Its enthusiasm was
Ir,hounded
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-31

Brag and buster are the reliance of the
Popocratic leaders in this State. They have
no organization, because the Martin COM
mittee has had no time to make it. while
for the most part, the county organizations
have fallen into the hands of young and
inexperienced men whose devotion to sill
verism has brought them to the front
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-31

Tile State of Mississippi acquired infa-
nous notoriety by Reputation more than
fifty years ago. Ten other Southern States,
all of which will vote for Bryan have
repudiated State obligations. Now it is
proposed that the United States govern
mens shall join the procession by making
its honest debt PAYABLE in 50-cent dollars.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-31

The friends of sound money are warned
that the Popocratic chairman at Chicago
and the PopuIist chairman. the first from
Arkansas and the last from North Caro-
lima have issued circulars urging Bryanites
10 go to the polls and remain there all day
That is their privilege, and 1t is also a
warning to the friends of sound money TO
do the same. The respectful presence of nifty
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-31

1T has been announced with a flourish of
trumpets that ". III. Hoyt, Chicago mer-
chant who has always been a Democrat,
donated two pieces of real estate in Lin
coin, Neb., worth $4,000. to Mr.. Bryan. and
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-31

1t is a question between the interests of
q few hundred plutocratic silver mine own
ers and those of 100000 men and women
who work for wages and salaries. The lat
ter will take care Of their own interests.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-31
The Cheerful Idiot.

"Egg-throwing," began the earnes
boarder, lis gross indignity.
1T depends on the number of them,
said the Cheerful Idiot. 1T takes twelv
dozen to make a gross, you know"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-31

The Populist yawp about gigantic con-
spiracies" and wholesale fraud is d
healthy premonition of their overwhelming
defeat
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-31
BUBBLES IN THE AIR.
What They We're.

"Pillbody has good many revolutionary
ideas in his head
Those are not ideas revolving in Pill
body's head. They are wheels.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-31

Put out the flags to-day, and. that there
may be no mistake about it, attach a pic
ture of Mckinley. 1t will be at home on
the flag.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-31

Love of country excludes every sugSas-
ton that would degrade or dishonor the
Nation. Nothing does this more inevitably
than debased and fuctuating currency.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-31

The triumph of Organism would be tho
defeat of al that the friends of republican
government have contended for.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-31

Il do not teach the doctrine of hate, said
Mex lnley the other day; Il prefer the doc
trine of hope" In that he differs from the
Bryan Altgeld-Till speakers
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-31

Our federal Union: 1t must be pre-
served said Andrew jackson. Our ma
tional honor: it must be preserved say
all patriotic Americans
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-31

4 No prudent man, TO crafty personal
prejudice, will vote for Bryan and thereby
take the risk of losing wages by the panic
which would follow his election.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-31

Those who would Mexicanize the currency
OF our country should carry the Mexican
flag.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-31

IL you want to vote for Populist Pres
ident standing on three Populist platforms
md for five Populist electors, stamp within
the rooster square
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-31

Patriotism is vital condition of national
permanence ara national honesty is an
essential quality of patriotism.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-31

State there will be no straight Democratic
ticket In the presidential election this year.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-31

Many nations have survived political mis-
takes. but no country can ever fully re
cover from an act of deliberate dishonesty
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-31

Bluff. blus.er and bulldozing will not
carry the election this year.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-31

The men of rs who adopted the American
flag did not understand that independence
meant Reputation.