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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-19
Piece of Political Ignomfny.

Miami County Sentinel Dem.)
The deal which has been in
Indiana between the Chicago and st. Louis
branches of the Populist party, by which
the former is given ten and the latter five
of the fifteen presidential electors, is the
lost cause. In view of this unholy coalition
the action of the National Democracy in re-
fusing TO surrender the t-ime-honored prin-
ciples of the Democratic party to the mad
hereSieS OF Populism and the lurid mani
feStations of socialism and the allied forces
of the very worst element in our political
and social life most certainly indicates the
wisdom, the patriotic devotion to correct
principles of government which actuated
to stay the mad rush to fanaticism. The
combination of these two forces of Pop
ulisR3 presents one of the most fantaSticdl
conglomerations of political and economic
malcontents that has ever raised its voice
for a common cause. Thousands of Demo-
Gratis who have decided to support this I'M
canny collection of fanatical hybrids be-
cause they look upon it as the mature de-
liberation of the majority of their party as
whittier are they drifting? They should
ascertain whether the ship on which they
have embarked is manned by safe hands or
by a pirate crew. They should INQUIRE
whether the ship is bound for a safe port
or is being steered for the reefs. where IL
will be dashed into pieces and sunk in the
maddened waters or political destruction.
No Democrat who loves the traditions OF
his party, who believes that the puhIic
that have been revered during more than
q century can consistently cast his lot with
those whose most exalted motive reeIrs
with Dertidy and dishonor.
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SECOND SERIES OF SHOCKS.

/ was detailed to write up the haunted
house. / think sometimes life must be a
joyless Sahara for the common reporters
who work on papers where a man is not
detailed but is simply sent to do a
piece of work. Only those papers where
the editors are journalists and not plain
newspaper men are permitted to detail
reporters.
So, as / said, I was detailed to attend a
moving seance at the haunted house. The
mystery of the thing appealed to my roper
torial aeumen. My guide was a man of ex-
perience in such affairs, and fearing my
heart action might not be strong enough he
took the precaution to feel my pulse and
Like a crafty general, he took no chances,
and advised that we should prepare our
selves against the evil effects of any I'M
toward surprises. We did so at Kissel's.
What admirable balance in all things ma
ture keeps. 1 wonder if there be a con-
venient bar across the way from all
haunted houses?
After being, as I supposed, properly forti-
fed, / grasped my heavy cane firmly and
resolutely stepped forth to meet the genii
of the Newport cottage. 1t was a weird
October night. The S o'clock shadows
seemed drifting with impalpable forms. 1
may nave only imagined this from the
stories related by the guide while we were
enjoying the hospitality of Kissel, and 1
may also have only imagined that, as we
approached, the cottage tipped forward on
its southeast corner and bowed it's gable
three times. My fingers frightened about
the biceps fiexor of my guide, who emitted
a sharp cry OF surprise and exclaimed.
What is it, StevieT'
My guide insisted on calling me Stevie,
although l told him repeatedly my name
was stephen.
''Oh. n-n-nu-nu-nothing," I stammered,
determined not to show weakness.
well, then, don't be a sissy" he replied.
unfeelingly. Nothing's going to hurt YOU
My guide was a coarse fellow. with none
of the finer sensibilities of a reporter who
had been detailed" to this awful business.
We climbed the little incline to the
gloomy house, and / saw the trees shaking
and the leaves trembling ominousIy. A low
rumbling of the distant trolley car added
it's terror to the ghostly situation. and ii
distinct crunchlng of the wheels of a car
riage over the uniInproVed street sent sew
eraI shivers down my spinal vertebrate. I
would have retreated precipitately had L
not been rooted TO the spot with fear. One
should always retreat "precipitately" and
be rooted TO the spot but, of course. not
at the same time.
Above in the sky scurrying ghosts OF
clouds seemed 10 quicken their flight to es-
cape from some unseen pursuer. The as
pect OF nature was certainly suggestive of
uncanny forebodings- My delicate olfac-
tecting news, could scent a dull. drab and
cloying odor in the very atmosphere. A
faint. gray light trickled from the partly
closed window OF the cottage, and heavy.
black silence mantled the neighborhood.
With an almost superhuman effort 7
braced UP and suggested to my guide that
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ready said. count for naught. Protests to
The time when the citizens voice counts
most is on that supreme day-election day.
What you want to do is to elect a Congress
that represents your views; then you won't
need to resort to petitions to regulate them
or to keep them from injuring your in
d~ustries. Let the voice of Maryland this
year resound as the voice of Maryland did
last year-for honest money and protec-
ton.
The tariff question is a question wholly
of labor. We Will manufacture with the
world, If the rest of the world will pay as
good wages as are paid in the United
States: but as long as they do not, pa
triotism, genuine Americanism and every
industrial interest demands that we should
make our tariff high enough to measure
the difference between the low cost of la
Dor in foreign countries and the cost of
labor in this. Then, you are interested in
honest money. You don't want any short
dollars. You have tried short hours in the
last four years, and have not liked them.
When you give a full days work to your
employees, you want to be paid in full, I'M
questioned and unalterable dollars. This is
the kind we have now, and the kind we
propose to continue if the American people
sustain us this year.
Il thank you for the kindness of this
visit. / thank your spokesman, every one
OF them, for the generous and assuring
words they bring to me. l wish for all of
you a safe return to your homes. and in all
the years of the future happiness, con-
tentment and prosperity"
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Methodist ministers, Meeting.

4 The Methodist ministers meeting will be
held in the parlors Of the Meridian-street
Church at 10 o'clock this morning. 1t is
desired that all travelling and local minis
tiers who wish to be enrolled for the con-
ference year be present or send their adj
dresses, as the roster for the year is to be
prepared. These meetings are open to the
public. DR.. 7. A. Goodwin will read a
paper on The Moral Status of Children as
Held by the Methodist Episcopal Church. -
Speaking of Rev. DR.. H. A. Cleveiand's
sermon before the Minnesota Conference
last week, the Methodist Herald says: 1T
was optimistic and characterized by a fine
literary touch and a vein of poetry, the
theme being Spiritual Progress" DR.,
Cleveland is returned to Mankato, Mimi,
for another year.
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USEMEN

The Park has a strictly clean, merito-
ricus vaud sville show to-day, Tuesday
and Wednesday, when Fields & Han
sons Drawing Cards make their mi
tial bow of the season here.
Among the many contributors are
such ~well-known comedians as Fields
and Hanson themselves. in their entirely
original musical speciality; the peerless
producer of popular parodies, Joe Flynn,
with some new pretty little things"
this city; Dryden and Mitchell, Genaro
and Bailey. Fred -Valmore,. Miss Annie
ana Page aee Senator" FRANK Bel, and a
host of others. From the rise to the fall
done to which women can take exceptions.
1t Is a programme of real vaudeville nov
elites. The company is well known here;
be marked by the usual big houses. The
opening performance is this afternoon.
Next Thursday Murray g. Murphy's Com
edians Will be at the Park in "O'Doud's
Neighhors."
Thoroughbred" the new English COM
edy produced by Charles Frohman. and to
be seen at the Grand Opera House next
Thursday and Friday nights and Satur-
day matinee and night. has for one of its
leading incidents the Disgusting of three
men as negro minstrels, in order that they
may view an Ascot race without their
presence being discovered. They hap
pen on the very people from whom they
are most aaxi5us to keep their presence
a secret, and are put to great straits to
sustain the roles hey have assumed.
Of these three parts with very ludicrons
effect. Mr.. Seabrooke's associates in the
Davenport. Isabel Evesson. H. NJ. Pitt.
Maggie Holloway Fisher, Charles w. But
Ter, Maud White and a half a dozen others.
The advance sale opens at the Pembroke
this morning.
The Wilbur Opera Company. with a new
set of living pictures said to eclipse even
the last series shown here, will be at the
Park next week
The Empire will this week offer its
patrons something new in the amusement
line in connection with the melodramatic
play. THE Lost Paradise. which opens
to-day. This novelty is the much-taiked-
Of Edison's .vitasoepe. which has been the
~reigning success of all the larger cities for
some time past, Edison's latest toy is a
projection OF his kaleidoscope figures in a
stereopticon fashion on a white screen in
"a darkened hall. The moving figures are
all life size. When the hall is darkened
a buzzing and roaring is heard, and an
unusually bright light falls on the screen.
Then come into view two precocious Young
persons of the variety stage in pink and
blue dresses, doing the umbrella dance
with commendable celebrity. Their motions
are all clearly defined When they vanish
a view Of an angry surf breaking on a
sandy beach near a stone pier amazes the
spectators. The waves tumble furiously
and the foam of the breakers flies high in
the air. A burlesque boxing match be-
fat one; a comic allegory. called the
Monroe. Doctrine;P one scene of Hoyts
dance by a tall blonde are some of the
views shown. The cement announce
that the vitascope Will also be held over
during the engagement of the American
Vaudeville Company, which opens at the
Empire next Thursday matinee for the
re remainder of the week.
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NATION IS PARAMOUNT
REV. F. f. DEWHURST'S LAST SER
MON ON CIVIC RELIGION.
A Fundamental Principle of This
Government Is that the Nation Is
Higher than the State.

The last of the series of six sermons on
Civic Religion" was preached by Rev. F..
E. Dewhurst, at Plymouth Church, last
evening. The subject was The Old FEEDER
aIism and the New" Mr.. Dewhurst pref
aced his sermon by reading some extracts
from the address of ex-Minister Edward j.
Phelps before the centennial celebration of
the federal judiciary. He gave an account
of the constitutional convention and the
opposing tendencies at work there. He de-
scribed the early federalist movement as
having three impulses behind it.
'In the first place." said he, "the i'm
pulse of the earliest settlers was in SYM
pathy with England and English policies
and administrations. In the second place
all of them who had property or interests
of any sort were naturally drawn toward
a federalistic movement which brought
about a centralized form of government.
Third, and worthiest in Importance, was
the conviction cherished by many hat if
the nation was to triumph and be respected
1t must have political unity and solidity
and that the Nation must be m to
the State. The greatness of the Nation de-
pended upon the decadence of colonial
spirit and policy. 1t was this third impulse
that was the great justification of the fed
eralistic movement as its power. How easy
1t would have been in those formative days
to break the Nation up into a lot of petty
and insignificant provinces and how surely
they would nave failed to gain the respect
of other nations. What an anti-climax to
the heroism of the revolution.
This principle of nationality has been
threatened at other times, but has always
found new friends and supporters. 1t was
in the fiery furnace of civil war. but came
out without the smell of fire on it's gar
ments. The people of the South as well as
tho nna1n Of tho North nxya~ H.
possession of a country great and noble be-
cause of its unity; because a man can
stand up and say to all the world: L am
a citizen of no mean country The triumph
of this idea is the triumph of what was
greatest in federalism, and having now
this great truth we must not permit any
man to bring it into dishonor or endanger
its p~erTnanence.
Anything which appeals to the spirit of
turbulence and unrest, which puts it's trust
in the rage of discontinued multitudes
rather than the light of reason and calm
sense of justice is, whether Intentional or
not, a blow at what Washington called
The palladium of our national safety and
prosperity
Just as in the civil war men of all par
ties rallied loyalty about the Union when
they perceived the growing peril, so now
there should be no party utilization so
strong that men will not sever those ties
IL they believe a like menace threatens the
citadel that is more sacred and precious
than all other things"
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ISRAEL TAYLOR DEAD.
Passed Away While Sitting i'm IA Rock
ing Chair-Lived Here Forty Years.

ing C~hafr-Lfved Here Forty Years.
Israel Taylor died at his residence. 81
Broadway, at 1920 o'clock Saturday night,
of consumption and general debility He
had been Ill for about two months, though
his decline began only about three weeks
ago. He was confined to his home only two
weeks and was not confined to his bed
much of the time. Death came while he
was sitting in a rocking chair.
Mr.. Taylor was born in Clinton county,
Ohio, May 5, 1925. He came here in 1855
and was a resident of this city continu-
ously until the time of his death. He was
for a, long while connected with Harrison's
Bank as general b~ookkeeper. but resigned
his position to accept a position as assist
ant cashier of the Central Savings Bank
when it was organized. He was connected
with the bank when it was SO cleverly
robbed of about $1,000 by a man and
woman. The woman drove UP to the bank
in a carriage at the noon hour and sent
word in for Mr.. Taylor to come out. She
wanted to talk with him about releasing q
mortgage. She detained him at the car
riage for a few moments and while there
her confederate slipped into the bank and
took all the money in sight. Mr.. Taylor
remained with the bank until it suspended
He advised the board of directors against
suspension, and the sequel showed that his
Judgment was best. The bank paid 50 cents
on the dollar. During recent years Mr..
Taylor had been engaged in the real estate
and insurance business. At the time of his
death he was special agent of the New
England Mutual Life Insurance Company.
Mr.. Taylor was a member of Meridian
street NJ. z. Church since the days when il
was known as Wesley Chapel. and was a
member of the official board all that time.
He leaves a widow and three children.
The latter are Charles p. Taylor of this
city, George M. Taylor of Portland, Ore,
and Miss Carrie Taylor of this city: Two
sisters also survive him, living in Chicago
and Richmond. The funeral will be held
Tuesday at 2 o'clock at Meridiali-stTeer
Church. DR.. Sims will preach the sermon
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To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal.
So much Is being said during this CAM
paign about the common people that ie
would certainly be interesting to know
where a complete line of distinction could
be drawn between the common people and
the other class. 1t is likely that some dem.
agogue thinks he can distinguish a COM
mon man from his address and general APP
pearance, and can fatter him by a prom
Use that in the near future bright sill
yer dollars will be showered down
like bright drops OF rain from a summer
cloud. He may irclude in his imaglna-
ton as belonging to the common people
the farmer and mechanic and those who
are generally engaged in physical labor.
If he imagines the class referred to above
as belonging to the common people, and
thinks they are susceptible to fiattery. he
might find himself very much mistaken;
for it would be much safer to risk the COM
mon sense and practical knowledge OF
the common people, some of whom have
never seen the inside of a college or had
very many common-schoo advantages.
than many of the professional men who
have had the advantage of Il college ed.
ucation and a long course of professional
study. The parties that the demngogue
terms common people as a rule know what
is best for themselves and the country.
Most of them know that the universal
coinage of silver could not possibly benefit
any class of people except the mine own
ers, who would take $50 worth of bullion
to the mint and have a hundred legal
tender dollars coined from II, after which
they would consider free circulation to
have quite a different meaning to them
from free coinage, but they would invest IL
in a way that would be most profitable to
themselves. 1t has been said that Mr.. Bry-
an considers this the poor mans cgm-
paign. If that is the case IL would
constitute two more classes tina could NOT
be easily separated. The man who Is worth
$40. 600 is "a poor man, compared with the
Vanderbilts, and the man that Is worth
$40. 900 is a wealthy man compared with
the man that Is not worth anything. And
there are many men in this country who
are scarcely worth a dollar thae have bet
ter judgment and are better qualified to
east an intelligent vote than hundreds Of
others who are comparatively wealthy.
The chief complaint of to-day is the search
ty of money, while IL is being constantly
coined at the mints, and there are millisns
of idle silver dollars in the country, to-
gether with between four and five hundred
millions of gold, that Will be freely circu.
lated after confidence is fully restorsA
The signal for prosperity and better timeu,
with Il free circulation OF sound money all
over the country, will be given about the
4th Of November by the roar OF cannons all
over the country and the flashing OF the
glad news over the wires that Mr.. Nc
Kiniey will be- inaugurated President Of thu
United States the 4th day OF next March.
JAMES TAYLOR.
Qreencastls. Ind. Oct ~.
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Labor Federation and silver.

To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: :
Inasmuch as the New York Herald of the
18th predicted that the Indiana. Federation
of Labor would declare for free coinage,
and the Indianapolis Sentinel of the 14th
predicted that that body would indorse
Bryan. /, as a deleg2 e, think that the
facts should lie known.
A resolution setting forth the fraudulent
characterization of silver and demanding
independent free coinage was offered, and
was advocated by a large number of del
egates, working, as some of us believe. I'M
der instructions from the Democratic State
central committee. They were so confident
of their ability to pass the resolution that
dodgers were circulated about town an
nouncing a meeting to be held at the
High-street Theater. the place for Demo-
cratic speaking, and that Messrs. Carter
and Drummond. of Fort Wayne, and d. f.
Kennedy, of Indianapolis, would make ad-
dresses. This was done in spite of the fact
that the Federation had a programme for
the same hour. President Gompers was
announced to speak, but, fearing that he
cured by the Muncie delegates to take his
place. This did not count with the Bry-
an delegates, who were determined to
make all the political capital possible out
of the convention of the Federation. For
this reason they used Mr.. Kennedy's name
without his consent. After a turbulent
session the resolution was laid over by a
vote of more than two to one.
This action so surprised the silver con-
SpiratorS that they became utterly demon
allied. Two of the advertised speakers left
on early trains, and the third was feeling
too badly to make much of a speech. The
resident committee who had the matter in
hand and cared for the convention do not
take kindly to the interference of the sill
verites with their arrangements for the
meetings. The pavilion was well filled by
people who desired to hear a labor speech,
but We're disappointed because OF the in
q hflifN of Mr. Com ARK 70 hn nTaaAn -~1
the failure of Mr., Kennedy to speak.
The defeat of the fr~ee-coinage resolution
was a great victory for those who would
keep politics out of the Federation. If the
silver resolution had passed there is reason
to believe that the usefulness of the Fed
GRAFTON would have been destroyed.
Muncie, Ind. Oct. II. RESIDENT.
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Work of DIR. Wharton.

Rev. II. NJ. Wharton, the Baltimore evan
gelist, preached three sermons yesterday.
In the morning he preached to a large
congregation at the First Baptist Church
on the Duty of the Hour" In the after
noon and at night he was at the College
avenue Baptist Church, where the bap>
tismal rite was administered at night. In
the afternoon DR.. Wharton preached from
the text, Il must work the works of Him
that sent me while the day lasts, for the
night cometh when no man works" Every
man, the pastor said, has a work to per-
form, a work that can be done by no one
else. The work, he said, was to endeavor
to form a good character and devote time
to the cause of Jesus Christ.
DR.. Wharton has had a season of very
successful work at the College-avenue Bap.
tist Church. All this week ne will hold
union services at the First Baptist Church.
The following are the subjects for each
night; Monday, The Gold Standard >
Tuesday, THE election Wednesday. "A
Converted Politician Thursday. (which
Side Are You On?;" Friday, Gold and Sill
yer, Free and Unlimited M. and Mrs.
z. w. Bush will sing each night.