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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-05
OVERRIDING A THING,

A week ago the Cincinnati Enquirer pub
lished, under six headlines. the story of
one Frank Field, of that city, who claims
to have recently returned from Nicara qua
with glowing stories of the very high wages
paid in that small republic all because
the country is on a silver basis. The article
attracted the attention of Mr.. Isham Sedg-
wick. Of Richmond, Ind, who is president
of two coffee companies and secretary of
two others doing business in Nicarag qua.
After perusing the article Mr. Sedgwicl
writes: Il want 10 say that there is no
more glazing line of faisehoods published
in the Enquirer or any free-silver paper
than that attributed to Frank Field"
With the letter Mr. Sedgwick sends ex-
tracts from the accounts of the transact
lions of the companies of which he is an
officer, showing the wages paid and the
prices OF articles purchased. The facts in
this statement are as follows:
July l. 1886. draft of $500 on account of
the Esmeralda Coffee Company was sold
for $l.0So in silver This silver was paid
by the company during July for labor and
material For 1S7 days, labor $3.50 was
foreman was paid SIS month in silver:
for twenty-four days labor $500 was paid:
"A
of the Jilqueros Coffee Company for $500
was sold for $.0S5. Some of the bills paid
by the company as follows: Fifty
pounds of flour brought from San Fran.
cisco, 81: fifty pounds OF salt. $3.50; ma
tive COW. SIG; three cooks for the month
S. each. 1856 days labor cleaning coffee
plantation, $500 twenty-one days labor
cultivating bananas, $775: thirty days COM
mon labor, men boarding themselves SIS:
ninety-two days labor on fences $36 so:
foreman for the month. S30-all of which
items were paid in silver. Two drafts of
the Indiana Coffee Company aggregating
$3.50 in gold, were sold for 81, $40 in silver
The following are some of the items of
expense paid with this cheap silver: Eng.
lish superintendent, $50 a month; sixty
seven days labor planting coffee men
boarding themselves. $33.40-less than 50
cents day in silver: twenty three DAYS
replan ing. with board. So These bills viii
be fur nished fer the inspection of the En-
quirer Or anybody else who desires TO verify
the statement
Such cold facts as these dispose of the
glowing statements published by the En-
quirer's man TO the effect that men are
paid from 81 to 81 a day TO load cargoes of
bananas. and that clothing is cheaper in
Nicaragua in silver than in gold in Gin
cinnati. In one of the accounts sent the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-05

uInph over fanatcism. Fire insurance men
we're never more busly employed but II
requires all their efforts TO hold renewals.
Lew business. except In rare instances be-
ing out of the question Life insurance So
lctors equal TO the emergency are doing
much better. So much idle money, capital
at standstill and life insurance. affording
the best safeguard TO private fortunes that
offers. opens the way TO the enterprising
solicitor. But the prospects are gloomy
most gloomy-for salaried men and all de-
pending upon employment for an income-S
III the shadow of evil has within a few
weeks, produced such results what must
follow should all that is dreaded materials
ize into calamity, destructive TO all in
terests and lasting as the slow and in-
sidious influences that brought ii about?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-05
what the Populists Demand.

Hon Warner Miller, in North American
Review.
The proposition to debase and cheaper
our money is found in the demand of the
Populists for the free and unlimited coinag
of silver at the ratio of Is to |. The avow-
ed object of this is to scale down all the
debts both national and private 80 per cent.
Union we contracted a national debt of
nearly three thousand millions Of dollars;
we borrowed this money upon the best
terms that we could the rate depending
from day to day upon the success or de-
feat of the Union armies, and the faith of
the world as to our success
We pledged the world that we would pay
our debt in the honest money of the world.
When the war closed some faint-hearted
and dishonest people advised the repudia-
ton of the entire debt; others quite as dis
honest at heart. but not so bold in state
ment demanded that the debt should be
paid in greenhacks or fiat money; but the
bered the dishonest towards. and we have
gone on paying our debt and interest in
gold or its equivalent, until to-day less
than one-third of the debt remains 10 be
liquidated.
After this record for honesty and fair
dealing shall we scale down the remainder
of the debt of so cents on the dollar. and
thus forever tarnish and blacken oar record
as a people?
The Populist platform demands that the
government shall be permitted TO liquidate
this debt in a deprecated currency. We
still owe great debt to the soldiers of the
late war in the form of pensions. Shall we
dollar? That is what the PopuIists demand.
Or shall we continue to pay these pensions
in the same money with which we have
paid our bonds and the interest?
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one of organs Failacte..
Boston Evening Transcript


Seldom do we find an opportunity to agree
with Mr.. Bryan but when he said i'm his
speech al Rhinebeck that you cannot have
masses without that prosperity proving OF
benefit to all mankind, he stated the truth.
Precisely, but here as elsewhere the policy
that Mr.. Bryan proposes would give the
lie to his promise. Free silver would bring
disaster to the ma sses, and many of the
toilerS, who at first hailed il promising
them double pay, realizing that
by so much diminishing the purchasing
power of the money paid to them. Wage
earners are very differently situated from
farmers, and in this campaign they
truths more readily. gentleman who has
recently travelled through the West found
the line of cleavage between the farmers
and the wage earners on the currency
him were full of the belief that free silver
would double the price they would get for
their wheat. The wage earners were either
not so confident of being benefited by free
silver or outspoken against il. This gem
tleman attended free-silver rally at which
a speaker remarkably candid for his side
admitted that farmers would receive more
ers would and adjured the latter to make
some sacrific for patriotism. The wage
earners appeared to be of the opinion that
The present kind of patriotism was good
enough for them. AS the wage earnerS
have awakened from delusion on this sub
iect perhaps the farmers Will see a new
light when they come to think that If the
iy that they will have to pay so much more
for all farm supplies as to wipe out the sill
yer profit that 53-cent dollar seemed,
and only seemed TO give them.
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THE FARMERS VERDICT.

The Vermont farmer refuses to be Bry-
anized.-Buffalo Courier
Vermont is an agricultural State, but the
farmers there seem to take no interest in
the debasement of the currency.-Balti-
more Sun.
mont, but the Democratic farmers largely
well. have made common cause to main
tain the honor and integrity of the Re-
Times
The result in Vermont is especially sig
nifcant because the great majority Aof the
upon the farmers that Bryan has based
his sole hope of succeSs.-New York Com
mercial Advertiser.
1t is quite possible that the farmer has
been maligned He is charged with being
the cornerstone and mainstay of the free
silver craze, but the returns from Yer
mont's rural districts don't show him to
be guiity.-Kansas City Journal.
And the farmers did it. Vermont is the
typical agricultural State of the East. The
Democratic tariff has been felt in that
State more depressingly than in many
others. by reason of Canadian cpmpetition
at their very doors, encouraged and aided
by the inequalities of the Cleveland Wilson
tariff.-New York Mail and Express.
AS an evidence of the utter demoraliza-
ton of the Democratic party the voting in
Vermont lacks nothing of completeness.
That. however. was anticipated. The pc
cular and impressive lesson of the figures
lies in the proof afforded that the farmers,
rs a class, are not the fools or dupeS which
they have been represented to be.-Phila-
de1Dhia Record.
The Vermont farmers make small wages
in the rosiest of times, and they probably
have felt the stress of the last three years
as much as any farming community in the
country. let when invited to join the free
silver-Populist army and get abundance of
cheap money and two prices for their
products they quietly kick their inviters
out of the sbailiwick.-P Philadelphia North
American
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Journal so appears to have been paid for
loading a cargo. According TO the En-
quier's informant everybody keeps silver
money in jars, and a silver dollar buys as
much as a gold one when. from the trans
actions of these coffee companies, a gold
dollar is exchanged for s217 IN silver. From
these statements it is very evident that the
Enquirer's man has been OVERRIDING the
lying act. Doubtless the Enquirer and its
romancers have not learned that the gov
eminent of Nicaragua has taken action
which will put the country on a gold basis
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-05

given their party a man of presidential
caliber, whose personal qualities and public
record would fully. justify, him in aspiring
to the executive chair under more hopeful
conditions. The second place will add very
materially to the strength or the ticket in
a section where its power will tell most
effectively from a political point of view
Boston Herald Qnd.)
Palmer and Buckner, Democracy unde-
filed and immortal: a reunited Union; the
prosperity of the country; the protection or
the poor and the protection of the rich;
the regnancy of the law: the honor of the
Nation; the honesty of the citizen, 1t IS a
ticket and a cause worth working Tor,
worth fighting for; ticket and cause
which command intelligence and flre en-
thusiasm. = Louisville Courier journal
(Dem)
For the first time since 1861 the issues of
the civil war have been ignored in making
nominations for President and Vice Presi-
dent General Palmer fought one side
at Chickamauga; General Buekner fought
on the other Both fought we'll and both
upon conviction. These two now NOM
mated one ticket, and it does not occur
to anybody to be surprised or shocked.
Our politics is again national. 1t is no
longer disturbed by apDartions of dead
and gone past.-New York World tDem)
The nominations of the Indianapolis con-
vention are a logical and worthy outcome
of the National Democratic movement.
They fifty express it's spirit and purpose,
anu SlIIklllBly dudplcu " impress tiiO1i
upon the thinking minds of the entire
country, in every section and of whatever
party. The platform on which the candi-
dates are placed is one on which. as Dem
ocrats and as patriots. thew may stand
with perfect self-respect and with honest
pride. Unouestionably the Indianapolis
convention was a Democratic convention.
New York Times Dem)
In the selection of candidates the In
dianapolis convention again failed to eX-
hibit that consistent regard for solar walk
ideals which the previous lofty utterances
of the delegates had given the country
right to expect Senator Palmer and Cen
eral Buckner are men who through years
have held their characters above reproach.
The bravery of neither has ever been ques-
toned. Both long ago won and have al
ways held the regard of their States. But
neither has been distinguished in finance,
neither has a great deal of statesmanshp
in his regard neither has brilliance in let
tiers or great power in practical conduct of
public business.-St. Louis Republic Gree
Si
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-05
GARFIELD's WARNING.
His Utterance When Opposing Free
Coinage Twenty Years Ago.


Extract from Speech Delivered July -.
1876.
In, opposing the free coinage of silver
President Garfield used the following inn
pressive words: ''Mr. Speaker can hard
ly conceive q situation in which the House
could be brought more directly face to face
with what seems to present on the one
deepest public disgrace.
1T has happened in the fiuctuation OF
these metals that there is now notable
opportunity to cheat seven millions of men
by adopting the baser metal as the stand
ard of payment, and thus accomplish
Swindle on SO great a scale as to make
the achievement illustrious. BY the pro-
posed measure one-fifth of the enormous
aggregate public and private debts can be
wiped out with a sponge This Nation
owes 81 100 OOO, 600 and private citizens of the
United States probably owe S2,500.00O 600.
possibly more. At the present moment the
relation of debtor and creditor in the United
States involves nearly $1,000, 0000 900. 1t is
man from Indiana that at one fell stroke
one-fifth of all this enormous sum shall be
wiped off, repuGiated. and that the process
shall be called honest legislation. Since
have been in public life have never known
any proposition that contained so many ele-
swinding as this.
Gentlemen may remember the financial
shock of 1897, the later shock of 1857 and
the still later shock in 1873. Conceive them
the overthrow of business would be light
in comparison with the shock which would
follow.
Put in operation the provision now sug-
gested and all our gold coin will leave the
country as fast as IL can be carried abroad.
Do this and a revolution in our monetary
affairs utterly unparalleled in the history
of our Nation would follow.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-05

r. R. W., city: The congressional dis
tricts are constituted as follows:
First District-Posey. Gibson, Wander
burg. Warrick. Pike. Spencer,
Second-Knox, Sullivan Davless, Green,
Owen. Monroe Martin. Lawrence.
Third-Dubois. Orange, Crawford. Perry,
Washington. Harrison Floyd, Clark, Scott
Fourth-Jackson. Brown, Bartholomew,
Jennings, Decatur. Ripley, Dearborn, Ohio.
Switzerland Jefferson.
Fifth-Vigo, Vermillion, Parke. Clay, Put
nam. Hendricks, Morgan.
Sixth-Hancock Shelby. Henry, Rush,
Wayne, Fayette. Union. Franklin.
standardization, Johnson
Eighth-Madison Delaware. Randolph,
Jay. Blackboard. Wells, Adams.
Ninth-Fountain, Montgomery, Boone.
Clinton, Carroll. Upton. Hamilton.
Tenth-Warren. Tippecanoe, White, Ben
ton, Newton, Jasper, Lake, Porter. La
Porte.
Eleventh-Cass Miami. Howard, Grant,
Wabash. Huntington.
Twelfth-Whitley, Allen, Noble, DeKalb,
Steuben Lagrange.
Thirteenth-Pulaski, Starke. ST. Joseph,
Elkhart Marshall Koscusko, Fulton.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-05

Ex-senator N. P. Hills newspaper, the
Denver Republican free silver. replying to
the statement that 16-to-1 silver dollars
are worth only 80 cents in London. offers
to take a million of them at 80 cents apiece,
delivered in London within thirty days and
repeat the, operation as often desired.
Mr.. Hill is either blufing or looking for
a gudgeon to add a few more dollars to
his millions. He knows that as long as
free coinage is not the law of this country
the standard silver dollar will be main
tanned by the government at parity with
gold. Hence, if he could purchase Ameri-
can silver dollars in London at 80 cents
apiece, and ship them to New York, he
would make 10 cents profit on each one,
less freight charges. If, however, Mr.. Hill
melted the million dollars he is so anxious
to secure at so cents, and then disposed of
them, he would lose $370, 900. for the dollars
which he purchased at 100000 would be
worth only $3.50 600 as silver bullion.
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silver Agitation and Business.
Insurance Rough Notes.


The effects of agitation over the silver
question in this State are most apparent in
business circles. Stagnation in trade, the
closing of manufactures and the reduc-
ton of work hours TO one-half time or less.
have thrown thousands of wage earners out
of employment. made serious cut in the
only capital labor has a claim upon. The
idle are beginning to feel pressure that
threatens to prove dangerous. In the gas
belt and the mining districts labor troubles
are being fomented and insurance interests
are likely to suffer in consequence. Capital
Is making no new ventures. and its activ-
ity is diminished in the ratio that profit
disappears. Trust companies have already
been called upon to furnish bonds for
ceivers in several instances, an pros
poets for the future are anythi 1t en-
couraging. even should sound tri-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-05

In his speech at Elkhart Mr.. Bryan took
new tack in his effort to array labor
against capital and INDUCED in some ribald
abuse of a railroad company. He said:
1 find here a little slip printed upon an
appropriate color-yellow Tt says: i,
the undersigned, blank in the employ of
blank. that is very appropriate blank,
because the man who issued this consid-
cred the employee a blank. Il, blank. in
the employ of the blank railroad COM
pany''-it ought to be biankety blank
blank, hereby make application for mem
berShip in the Railway Mems Sound-money
Club"
The slip on which he was commenting
was application for membership in a
sound-money club of railroad men. Of
course, no person was obliged to sign it
unless he wished to. Presumably the
movement originated with the men them
selves, as it has in other cities, but Mr..
Bryan tried to create the impression that
it was an act of coercion on the part of
the company. The language in which he
referred to the company was as profane as
a Presbyterian Populist could make it, and
is in keeping with all his efforts to incite
employees against employers
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-05

Indianapolis has had her first experience
in handling national political convention
and has come out of it with flying colors.
Perhaps it would be proper III this case to
say she has won golden opinions. The
crowd was not larger than the city mas
held on some former occasions, but 1t nad
to be we'll housed and taken care of, and
it was In other respects, Is hall decora-
TONS press arrangements, telegraph facil-
tiles. etc. there was shown a clear appre-
citation Of what was needed and the knowl-
edge that comes of experience how TO go
about it Altogether the city made a fine
nr-H
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-05
Bryan.

He secured the nomination
At the silver convocation
By the fervid agitation
OF his chin.
He has Travelled through the Nation
And disturbed the population
BY the loud vociferation
OF his lungs.
Since Vermont's late demonstration
He is making his migration
To his Western reservation
On his ear.
With the whole conglomeration,
Popocratic aggregation,
Howling Dervish coIloca ton.
Blowhard-crank amalgamation,
He will view the situat ton
At the campaigns termination,
On his back
Chicago Tribune.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-05
advertisers Set the style.
Philadelphia Record.

feature of the literature of the cam
paign is the fact that many of the foremost
speakers on each eide have taken to pep
pering their speeches with automatic ex-
pressions They find that in economic dis
cussion genera Titles are not able TO lodge.
while epigrams stick in the minds OF the
people. The pithy style Is not original with
the campaigners; the advertisers started II.
They are the chief Dhrasemakers ana
thought condensers of the age, and they
which have made millions for advertisers
can be worth as much in a political as in d
husinasS camnaign.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-05

The Bryan convention announced in its
platform that there would now be no deficit
in the revenues had not the Supreme
Court declared against the constitutional
fty of the income tax. AS no one who
claimed to know anything about the mat
ter claimed that the income-tax act would
afford more than $4,000 600 of revenue the
deficit of the past three months would have
eaten that amount up
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-05

II Mr.. Bryan believes. himself. that a
free-coinage law would make the $3,0oO,-
100000 of uncoined silver, now worth 81
cents an ounce, worth $4,000, 900 600, why
does he not insist that the rich owners of
this bullion should pay into the treasury
a part of the extra $4,000 600, 900 he pre-
diets? Is he really the hired man. of the
silver bullion owners looking out for their
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-05
She Got = Seat.

"Of course I don't expect to get seat, .
said the large lady, who was hanging to
the strap. And | don't think | ought to
have one, neither. 1t amt no more than
right when man has spent the last nickel
he's got for a ride to make him stand up;
indeed it amt
Seven men arose, each jingling some sill
yer in his pocket. as if to resent the i'm
putation.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-05

sound money Democrats. Such language as
the Sentinel has been using in abiding to
them must be avoided. Where Populist
candidates have been nominated for Con-
gress, ii is probable that the Palmer Demo-
Gratis will name candidates of their own
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-05
A New Button.
New York Letter.

New York Letter.
Won n an rd from Vermont air. and when he
iolled back in a cross seat the big button
i'm the lapel of his coat caught every eye.
R,t IN wasn't an ordinary campaign joker.
II was a silver dollar. highly polished, bear
ing a cartoon-lilSe portrait OF the windbaS
ieesnd in bold letters, lin God We Trust.
T'5e lower half circle completed the mar
rat tive in these words, for the other AZ
cantsr And the more the people la the
car smiled the broader grew his grin.
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precept md Practice.

THAT was pretty strong plea the pas
tor made" said the prosperous member
hut / fear we can't put 1t in practice
Where would a man land in this day If he
were to give his cloak also TO the man who
asked for his coat p
i have half a notion to try it to some
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-05
BUBBLES IN THE AIR.
Tbe odds Too Great.

Jim Smith insulted me-" said the young
Eentuckian I'm gwine to ambush i'm
fust chance 1 get.
Not much you amt said the aged pa
rent 'Whar would our family be a hum
dred yeahs from now eff 1t started feud
ha GpojrhS2'
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-05

The free siverites who kicked Mr.. By
mum out of a Democratic convention should
ponder the text. The stone which the
builders rejected. the same has become the
head Of the corner"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-05

One of the best things about the Ma
tional Democratic convention is the evil
dence 1t afforded that every purpose oe
such convention could be better served
without great crowd of rooters and boom
ers than with them. The convention ought
to mark new departure towards better
order of things in that regard
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-05

1t may be that Mr. SeYall has called at
tention to the letter he wrote six weeks
ago to the Bryan managers. offering to
get off the ticket, because of the assem-
bling of the sound money Democratic con-
venton and the Vermont election with the
intimation that he cannot fail to be graft
fed should his name be dropped for Mr..
Arnf-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-05

II the INDIANA sound-money Democrats
organize as they can, they can give the
rainier ticket forty thousand votes The
drift is that way, and it will go that way
with accelerated force if the names of
two or three Populists are put upon the
electoral ticket