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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-05
WHICH SHALL IT BE-

Assuming that the farmers of the West
are the only debtors in the country, which
is not true, Mr.. Bryan has time and again
said to them: Free silver will give YOU
d cheap dollar with which to pay your
debts
During his trip through the East Mr..
Bryan has given it as his opinion, time and
again, that free silver will raise the price
of silver to $1.29 an ounce, equal to gold. =,
But one of these things can come true
under the free and unlimited coinage of
silver. III the price of silver rises under
free coinage so that a silver dollar will
have the same intrinsic value as the gold
dollar now has, it will De just as dear as
the .t200-cent dollar as Altgeld and BRYAN
call the dollar we now have. If, as Mr..
Bryan told the farmers before he went
East, free silver will give you a cheap dol
lar with which to pay your debts the sill
yer dollar will not rise in intrinsic value
to the equal of the gold dollar. One of
these things is an impoSibility.
When Mr.. Bryan speaks here he should
consider in one of his four ADDRESSES his
two conflicting opinions, and declare that to
which he now adheres. Which shall the
silver dollar of free silver coinage be in
Indianapolis cheap dollar or a dollar
worth as much as bullion as the gold dol
lar?
If Mr.. Bryan is getting to a part of the
country where the kind of dollar which
will come with free silver may need a
double explanation, the Journal suggests
that Mr.. Bryan may, with a. view of CATCH
ing the votes of the farmers whom he and
his kind patronize as d~ebt-burdened, de-
clare in his afternoon speech that the free
coinage of the mine barons' silver will in
sure cheap dollars with which to pay debts
because it is probable that more farmers
will listen to him in the afternoon than
in the evening. In the evening. when thou
sands of wage earners and shareholders in
building and loan associations Ill be pres
ent. Mr.. Bryan can declare without much
risk thatS.'free silver viii raise the price
of silver to $1.29 an ounce, ? - to gold"
Lest Mr.. Bryan shou' for"~5 20 give
one or both of thess : res. opin-
ions here, some person @'eoU-d he 50 bold as
to call his attention 10 conflicting iudg-
ments as to the result @, tae free and I'M
limited coinage of silver Upon the value of
the silver dollar.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-05

decided by the Board of Commissioners
When Mr.. Kern was appointed a member
of the board the Journal expressed the
opinion that. being a fairly good lawyer
with some reputation to maintain, he would
not lend himself to any dirty scheme or
small trickery to keep the sound-money
Democratic ticket off the ballot, but since
his recent public recantation and CONVEX
sion to free silver he has been showing so
much zeal that it is impossible to say how
far he will go. The latest expression of
the hope which the silverites have been in
dulging was in a statement of the Sen
tinel a few days ago that 1T has be-
come an open secret that the boilers
are having considerable trouble in getting
500 names to the petition to have their ma
tional ticket placed on the ballot" And
now even his hope is dashed to the
ground, for the petition has received over
two thousand signatures, of which more
than one-half We're obtained in this city.
1t is evident, therefore, that the sound
money Democrats will be able to comply
with every legal requirement, and that
their ticke can only be kept off the ballot
by some high-handed arbitrary ruling of
the Board of Election. Commissioners. If
that course should be finally adopted it
Democrats that they would all vote
straight for Mckinley, thus making the
failure of the free silverite hopes complete.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-05
INDIANA NEWSPAPER OPINION.

Mr.. Bryan is doing a very creditabie job
of talking his opponent into the presidency.
Wabash Plain Dealer.
What good result can be obtained by
handwriting employers and building up the
fortunes of money sharks?
Banner.
The Bryanites talk about the necessity
of a stable currency and then go about adj
vocating doing that which Will make 1t I'M
stable.-EIkhart Review.
Leave the dollar as it is and give us the
prosperity we had with that dollar under
the administration of Benjamin Harrison.
Mount Vernon Republican.
The free-silver advocates admit that gold
is the standard of the world when they say
they will raise the price of silver up to the
price of gold.-Elwood Cal-Leader.
People in November should bury visionary
money and tariff thinkers so deep that they
will not again reach the surface during this
Journal
Mr.. Bryan ought to tackle something easy
at first, such as making Sewall and Wat
son circulate together at a harmonious
ratio on his t~icket--Terre Haute Express
III Mckinley is elected the business world
win know thai the LANCER Of free coinage
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-05

In his article in the Forum of October
General Harrison says that ten leading
free-silver Senator's, when the Sherman bill
was pending. were. / know, more positive
than Mr.. Bryan is. now that the purchase
of 4,50O, 900 ounces of fine silver per month
would take up the silver surplus that they
said was weighing down the market price,
and so make and keep our silver dollar at
par with the gold dollar. The actual re-
suit was that Bin grains of pure silver.
worth, on an average in 1889, 72.4 cents, adj
vanced in 1890 to a2.6 cents, and then de-
clined each year until in 1894 it reached the
low limit of 45.7 cents. Shall we trust
these prophets again at our cost?' And
yet Mr.. Bryan, when in the East. expressed
the opinion with more or less confidence
that free coinage would bring silver, worth
So cents an ounce now, to $1.29 an ounce,
the price it must bring to make the intrin-
sic value of the W dollars equal.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-05

Even If MIR. Bryan should be elected and
both branches of Congress become Demo-
SGaIic, al the laws OF governmental repu-
diatton they may be able to enact will not
forever destroy or permanently invalidate
the sacred promises and obligations made
Reputation may reign supreme for a brief
period and the fultillment of its previous
promises be prolonged for a time, but the
regime of Organism will not be eternal
and the day of settlement will come, and
all honorable obligations will be satisfac-
torily adjusted If gold redeemable money
remains in circulation ever dollar
will circulate for 100 cents in gold.
The money bearing date of 1896 and prior.
or that which presents other distinguishing
lars if free silver passes for one dollar:
III it passes at one dollar free silver will
pass for just what 4l2i4 grains Of silver
bullion Is worth in the open markets of
the world. now less than hfty-three cents.
and on the decline. Congress can legalize
cheap money into unlimited legal tender
power. but 1t cannot equalize the pur-
chasing powers of a cheap and a sound
dollar. The proposition that gold redeem
able money may remain In circulation is
hardly feasible, for it has been the sad
experience of all Notwithstanding our
equal values will not circulate to-
gether. The more valuable invari.
Gus receptacles offered for it,
seclusion. The retirement of all our gold
per capita TO about that of Mexico. 1t will
not tax the brain of great financiers. prac-
teal business men. political economists, or
the true philosophers to foretell what the
result of such contraction of our currency
would be. Mr.. Bryan says that If he is
elected we will have two kinds of money
silver for the poor and gold for the rich.
This is true, and the rich mans money will
be retired. because he can afford II. but
the poor mans money will remain to per-
form it's functions in the great scheme of
debasing and demoralizing the only true
monetary system known to civilization.
We will then have the humiliating distinc-
ton of being the only intelligent nation in
the world that in time of profound peace
purposely debased It's money. there
by revolutionizing business. democrat
izing its social and political af-
fairs. and that, too, at the behest
of political mountebanks and a syndicate
composed of less than forty silver bonanza
kings, whose present surplus of 1858, 00l. 900
will be increased b. free silver $65, 0oo.0o0
per annum. If this fabulous amount of
money, with its annual increase. should be
scattered over the entire country. ii would
partly alleviate the pain and sorrow Incl
dent to free silver, but it's benefits will be
confined to the localities where silver is
mined all told embracing States whose
combined vote is smaller than that of Ohio
in the Electoral College. O. d.
indianapolis, Oct. 5.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-05

In a presidential campaign so important
and exciting as the present one it is nat
ura4 that the national election should be
tie ovarshadowing feature, but Indiana Etc-
publicans should remember they have a
duty to perform to the State in the cleo
ton of their excellent State tickle and a
Republican Legislature. There is reason
TO believe that the Popocrats have aban-
doned all hope of carrying the State for
Bryan and will concentrate their efforts on
trying to secure a majority in the Legisla-
ture. They cannot do this without a great
be caught in that trap. This is one of the
years when, if a man is Republican at all,
he should be a Republican through and
through, and vote the straight ticket from
into a false security by the apparent sur
render of the State to Mckinley. The good
work of the last few months should be con-
tinued with increased vigor during the re-
the last vote is polled on election day. In
diana Republicans ought to try and break
the record this year and place the State
well up in the list of those contributing to
the crushing defeat and deep burial of
Popocracy and Organism. At the same
time they should work to secure a Legisla-
ture that will elect a Republican United
States Senator and to give the State ticket
a complimentary majority.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-05
DISAPPOINTED HOPES.

Ever since the organization of the
sound-money Democratic n ovement in this
State the free-silver managers have in
dulged i'm a. hope that their ticket could be
prevented from getting a place on the
ballot. First, they schemed TO capture the
Board of Election Commissioners in the
hope of thereby getting some arbitrary rul-
ing that would keep the sound-money
ticket off. In pursuance Of this plan Gov
ernor Matthews. in plain violation of the
law, refused TO appoint the person named
by the late Chairman Holt as a member of
the board. and persisted in his refusal till
Mr.. Holt resigned. Then the point was
raised that the sonnd-money men would
not he permitted TO use the naine National
Democratic. This point has yet to be
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-05
AN OBJECT LESSON IN GOLD.

The Madison Courier says that all the
employees of the Eagle cotton mills, at that
city, between 300 and 400 in number, were
paid off last week in gold, the pay roll
amounting to several thousand dollars.
This was a good object lesson in
the present campaign of education.
In the first place, it is an eff
fective answer to the assertion constantly
made by fiat money men that there is no
gold in the country, or if there is it can
only be obtained by paying a large pre-
MUM. In this case the proprietors of the
mills got gold on their check on their SIM
pie statement that they needed it. Then
it was convincing proof to the men that
under our present monetary system all
our different forms of currency are as good
as gold and practically convertible into it.
The gold dollars they received will not buy
any more of the necessaries of life or go
any further in payment of rent or debts
than would silver dollars, or the other
forms of currency in which they are
usually paid, because the maintenance of
a gold reserve and the pledge of the gov
eminent to maintain their parity makes
them all equal to gold. But with Mr..
Bryan and free coinage of silver the sit
uation would be very different. The
change from a gold to a silver standard
would make all oar dollars equal to sill
Yer. Then if the managers of the Eagle
mills wanted 81, 200 in gold they would have
to pay about so per cent. premium for it,
as is the case in Mexico. They would pay
off in ffty-cent dollars. which the Chicago
i.ez- l. ---l IO-11
tender for all debts public and private,
or if they paid off in paper money it would
be on a silver basis. 1t would be a long
time before anybody,s wages would be
raised, and until they We're nearly doubled
the employees of the Eagle mills and all
other wage earners would have to get along
as best they could on fifty-cent dollars. and
would have to work as long and hard to
earn one as they now do to earn a gold
dollar.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-05

The veterans were never so much in earn
year. There is reason for it. They object
to having the $13S, 900, 900 of pensions paid in
deprecated silver dollars. They object to
Altgeldism. They object to having pension
affairs go into the control of a Senate dom
mated by such hide-bound ex-Confederate
Bourbons as Chairman Jones, Of Arkansas;
Harris, of Tennessee; Tillman, of South
Carolina; Blackburn, of Kentucky. and
Vest, of Missouri. Every Southern Senator,
except one, voted against the pension law
by these Senators are the backbone of the
50-cent dollar proposition. In 1892 when it
was learned that ex-soldiers were going to
support Harrison more unitedly than in
previous years a. conference of Democratic
soldiers at the time of the National En-
campment made arrangements for a secret
canvass to win back those who had been
Democratic soldiers. In this State the mat
ter was put into the hands of two men
who are now drawing salaries by the grace
of Governor Matthews. They caused the
wavering soldiers to be told that the Dem
ocrats. if they came into power. would
treat them with liberality. Hoke Smith
was the result. They will not be fooled
law and order. and for the men who have
stood with the soldiers in time OF peace
and in time of war.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-05

In Fountain county a young Populist
speaker. in assailipg President Cleveland,
expressed the hope that some one would
take the traitors life" and a number of
people in his audience applauded. A Dem
ocratic member of the last Senate, speak
ing in one of the counties of the Ninth
congressional district, in two or three adj
dresses applied epithets to the President
which are never used before a mixed au-
dience. These reports come from reliable
sources. They are said to be samples of
the vile and incendiary language which
ftot-headed speakers are using In different
parts OF the State. The spirit OF Aitgeld-
ism and ~TiIlmanism, and the tone Of class
hostility which runs through the later
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-05

The Journal is one of the Republican pa
pers which never took any stock in the
sincerity OF Populist Kolb, of Alabama, be-
cause it knew 0at he left the ballot-box-
stuffing Democracy in Alabama because he
could not get an office from it. Less than
two months ago he was denouncing the
Democrats for ballot-box frauds, and for
the last four years he has proclaimed him.
self the champion of fair elections. Now
he has joined the regular Democracy.
whose leaders he has charged with having
counted him out of the office of Governor
on two occasions.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-05
Mine Owners Come Down.
Washington Special.

WdSTIIBt OH oDyCIdT'
The Popocrat committees are again in
funds. The trip of Chairman Jones to New
York was evidently productive OF results.
Back bills are being paid and the furrowing
faces of the managers. The silver mine
owners must have received the renewed
assurances OF protection they demanded
as the price of contributions-for II Is now
known that they let down literally. The
Popecrats cannot at this stage OF the pro-
Sceedings make a poor mouth, for they
are fixed"
Both Republican and Democratic commit
tees report a sudden cessation I'm the de-
mand for literature. comparatively lew
ocuments are going out-that -, few COM
pared with the terrific swell boom of a few
weeks ago-and the volume is still dimin-
fishing sharply. The voters nave gone
through with the preliminary educational
stage OF the canvass and are now viewing
the spectacular features OF the perform
ance The spellbinders occupy the middle
of the stage right down over the footlights
and will hold the position TO the end.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-05
what would Come with Free silver

To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal:
No intelligent. conscientious person ques-
tons the truth of the proposition that the
free and unlimited coinage of silver at the
ratio of l to IS will force gold into retire
ment. This being true. it stands to reason
that all gold redeemable money will follow
gold. or, If from patriotic motives 1t should
remain in circulation. it will appreciate in
value, while silver will depreciate in value
The government issued and coined this
money with the promise. backed by law,
that it should be as good as gold and uiti-
mately redeemed in gold. AS sure as we
continue an honorable government, just as
surely will every promise made by
it be fulfilled TO the very letter. and with
this assurance holders of gold redeem
able money will either retire 1t or circu-
late 1t at gold prices. To me 1t appears
that they will prefer boarding IL, knowing
1T will some day become all II WAS intend
ed-:old in value and purchasing power.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-05

Candidate Bryan knew more four years
ago than he does now. In a speech deliv-
cred in Congress March 16, 1892. in discuss
ing the cause of low prices, he said:
You must attribute it to the inventive
genius that has multiplied a thousand
times, in many instances, the strength of
a single arm, and enables us to do to-day
with one man what fifty men could not do
fifty years ago. That is what has brought
down prices in this country and every
where.
This shows that at that time he had "a
correct understanding of one of the main
causes of low prices. Now he attributes
them wholly TO THE crime of 1873, and the
depreciation in the price Of silver. He has
progressed backwards.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-05

speeches. seems to have fired the hotheads
who are making speeches In this city it
was manifested in kissing the portrait of
the President When so-cailed Democrats
were to speak. In other parts Of the State
where the talking is left to a class of men
who study Altgeld and Tillman, the Bit
terness and wickedness in their hearts
are expressed in vile epithets and
in language only usea by men who
are assassins. A cause which leads
men to resort to language which may in
spire franks to the deeds of Guiteau is not
a good one-as that of the combine of
the Populists and the silver-mine million
aires cannot be.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-05

In his letter accepting the Populist nomi-
nation Mr.. Bryan congratulates the Popu-
lists on their breadth of patriotism in
going .outside of party lines for a cam
didate. Yet he voted for the Populist can
didate for President in 1892. and the Popu-
list convention at st. Louis was given most
positive assurances hat he was a Populist.
Captain Kolb. the leading Fopulist of Ala
bama, said: Bryan would have been nom-
mated at st. Louis regardless of the ac-
ton at Chicago"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-05

The Journal feels like extending new con-
to the Republicans of Indiana
on their choice of a candidate for Cover
nor. The nomination of Hon. James A.
Mount was recognized at the beginning as
a wise one, but time has shown that it
was a peculiarly fortunate one. He is not
only "a strong and attractive candidate in
his personal character and record, but he
is proving a very effective speaker. He is
making a very thorough canvass of the
State. and the local reports of his meetings
show that he IS doing excellent work.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-05

While the election of Mckinley is con-
coded by the most intelligent observers,
prises or enlargement Of business opera
tions nave concluded to wait a few weeks
longer until assurance is made doubly
sure. The election of Mckinley, especially
If it be by a very emphatic majority, will
be followed by a healthy boom in business.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-05

The local agent of the Wabash railway at
Pleasant Lake. Ind, recently wrote to Mr..
o. S. Ashley, president of the road, in New
York, asking if it was true, as rumored,
that several men had been discharged from
the company's employ for supporting Bryan
ard free silver. IN his reply, dated Sept. "a,
Mr.. Ashley says
The statement that Ihave ever discharged
or caused to be discharged any employe
of the Wabash Railway Company on ac-
count of his political :opinions is without
the slightest foundation. All employees of
this company can vote for any candidate,
any party or any platform they please,
rection with the Company. Whoever states
to the contrary gives circulation 10 an I'M
qualified .falsehocd. ] nm anxious that eV-
cry man who votes should inform himself
in regard to the question involved in the
coming election that he may decide wisely,
but whether he votes for sound money
or free silver, . he may be assured that
knowledge or consent. You may therefore
safely challenge any one to the proof of
charges to the contrary. / claim for the
employees of the Wabash Railway Company
perfect liberty to think as they pieaSe,
without Hterferenceteu the part CT anyone.
and l claim for myself the same right.
Consequently / do not hesitate to express
my opinions as afcitizen in favor of sound
money and against the adoption of the
/, believing that such a financial policy
would be greatly injurious to the business
interests of the country, and especially
prejudicial to workingnen.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-05

There may be things of great import involved in
this campaign
/ haven time to think of them. and that's why
complain;
For what is gold or silver free, if just below my
fiat
Some tenants cooking cabbages and other things
like that?
How can / ask my friends to dine or take a
hand at cards.
How can / ever entertain my genial fellow bards?
How dare ] think OF visitors when Just below
my fiat
some tenants cooking eabbages and other things
like that?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-05

was elected to the House from Maine IN
what was regarded as a close district, but
he has so grown in favor in his district
that at the last election his majority was
12,000. Ex-Governor Dingley is an earnest
and logical speaker. whose ability and can
dor will help the Republican cause wher-
ever he speaks. Indiana Republicans are
fortunate in getting him for a few
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-05

Hon. Nelson Dingley. of Maine, the chair
man OF the ways and means committee of
the House. spoke with Representative Hen
ry TO an immense audience In Pendletan
Saturday. and will speak at other polrsss
I'M the State during the canvass. x-Gov
Dingley IL one OF the leaders of the Re-
publican party in Congress-. No man In
me country II better informed II the
dranciaIaftairs of the country. III 1881 he