The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-08
Already Filled with Cranky Schemes
Deserted by Their Fathers and Pet
Ideas Killed by Prosperity.
BY. PRUDENTIAL
THAT CLEARLY SHOWS POPULISM'S
CALAMITY MISSION Is ENDED.
Mortgages on 10000 Farms to Be Paid
or This FaIl-CrOker for Mayor
of Greater New York.
Special TO the indianapolis Journal.

IOHEhA, Kan, Sept. 7-Recently your
correspondent had occasion to view the
comparatively new Populist graveyard and
was amazed at the rapidity with which its
space has been filled. The deaths among
the darling pet schemes of Individual Popu-
lists have been so numerous that they have
been buried in trenches like fallen heroes
after a battle. Only the great ideals and
cardinal principles have been honored with
imposing monuments. The diminutive slab,
sacred to the memory of the sockless shins
of Jerry Simpson, marks the eternal rest
ing place of the first fraud that died in
the camp of Populism. The inscriptions
upon other stones tell us that subtreasuries,
government loans upon real estate and silk
paper currency have all been gathered
home to the fathers Simpsons bill for
fiat money and the decentralization OF both
gold and silver after three years sleeps the
sleep that knows no awakening.
The stroller reads again: In memory
of the free and unlimited coinage of silver
at the ratio of 16 to l. assassinated by
Bill Mckinley and Mark Hanna Nov. 3,
1886" Strolling further, quaint and Curl
Gus double monument attracts the gaze:
THE venerable Siamese Twins. silver and
wheat, faVorite sons of w. j. Bryan, sew
cred and killed by fate, executing the ever
|
few steps further on is seen a newmade
grave with no headstone The sexton is
sought for information and he irreverently
| says that yesterday they buried the devil
who has been going about asking, Where
is that promised Mckinley prosperity?
Joyfully and swiftly the stroller left the
| uncanny spot and ceased to breathe the
| miasmatic eXhalationS from the putrefying
| Populistic doctrines.
PAYING OFF MORTGAGES.
| II fc haa ioo
which says: Forty thousand Kansas
homes will be cleared of mortgages this
fall" The reader must not conclude that
this is some more Kansas boom. 1t is the
language of John w. Breidenthal, the
| Populist bank commissioner, the most ca
pable and worthy official that party has
| produced, and until recently he has been
| chairman of their state central committee
and howled calamity along with the rest
| of them. Yet he says: kansas is to-day
the most prosperous State in the Union.
| There will be 40 000 homes cleared of mort
cages this fall. Think of what that means.
| The mortgages will average LOCO each,
which means the expenditure OF $4O,OOO,UU
1t means also that this State is becoming
| a commonwealth of homes. 1t means that
the farmers of Kansas are realizing the OPP
portunities which are offered them and do
ing their best to make the most of them
81 have received several letters from
banks in the smaller towns of the State
asking If they cOulU legally ISLuS6 Qc-
posits This is a condition which never
before prevailed in Kansas. Inc banks
have thousands of dollars on deposit and
do not care to take the responsibility OF
receiving more money. There is no demand
for it, consequently the bankers desire TO
Never in the history of Kansas has
there been as much money with which TO
pay debts as we find in the State to-day.
The State has struck a wonderful Streak
of luck, and it is not due to the restoration
of confidence or much-vaunted wave OF
prosperity. Conditions brought good
wheat crop; the prices advanced; catt19 are
plenty and command a good price. THESE
conditions found Kansas in good position
to profit immensely thereby, ana we are
There never has been a time in the his
tory of the State when the farmers nave
not raised enough to live on. Now comes
this magnificent year with immense crops
and high prices, and 1t IS ntIIe Wonuer
thew are making the best of 1t. The people
are making an earnest effort to get out or
debt. and when they succeed in doing TINS
the Kansas farmer will be the most nue. to
pendent person on earth. Because ne
knows enough to keep out of debt Wnen
once he gets started in the right dlrectlon,
of course, John doesn't give the hepao+
leans any credit for the States present
happy condition but it is taken as an az
mission from high Populistic authority that
genera op [odSphbii his chairmanship. Such talk
disoualifies man for manipulating ca
lamity campaign.
CAUSE OF PROSPERITY.
The other day their county convention
assembled in a county seat. The Popu-
lists said the present prosperity was caused
nv Almighty God. The free-silver Repub
licans attributed it to the famine in India,
and the Democrats declared the Republic
ans had nothing to do with it, The Kan
sas CITY Star says the Republican party is
lucky History indicates that the party
has either been lucky or had God on its
side 1t is a remarkable coincidence that
always links Republicansm with prosper
ity and Democracy with adversely. AS for
Populsm that is a vulture that feeds upon
carrion, calamity and sorrow IN the deep
shadows and swamps of despair. 1t fattenS
on masma and stencil and dies IN sunlight
and healthy atmosphere.
Products Of all kinds are going up, and
Popuism, as it has been known in the
past, has gone up. But don't be led TO be-
iieye that the cranks are all dead and the
lunatics all cured. The Republicans or
Kansas will. in the campaign of 1898, be
compelled TO meet the bewhiskered brood
under the banner of socialism, though they
may avoid the use of that word in order to
avert prejudice. Their old uniforms are all
threadbare, frayed around the edges ana
| posteriorly absent, and. as a last resort; in
order to fool the people some more. they
must adopt the doctrines of socialism and
destruction of federal courts Their tend
ency is in that direction Doster believed
that the user of property had more right
to il than the owner. and they made MIN
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Glenn
ents attended the funeral of the Chicago
Anarchists ana talks SOtlfllSIu anu AlAcy
made him reporter of the Supreme Court.
Ex-senator John Martin believes in social
ism and became clerk of the Supreme
Court Ieedy was ready to blow blood
into the ears of plutocrats, and they made
him Governor.
The Associated Press has familiarized the
reader with the contest between the Popu-
list administration and the federal courts.
Vet patriotic Kansans are not alarmed at
the outlook Clements was at St. Louis the
other day with Debs. and thought that
meeting too conservative. But Clements
does all his fighting with his mouth. Dur
ins the legislative revolution in 1893 he
scented the battle from afar. and was care
fnl to keen himself afar No man can be
found rash enough TO make affidavit that
he saw Clements in or around the Capitol
grounds during the time known as the
"siege." Among those lOud-mouthed fell
lows can be found only very small per
cent. of fighting men.
The Governor has not yet worked up
courage enough to call an extra session of
the Legislature. but there are indications
that he will reach that condition during
tho autumn The state treasurer says there
will be no funds available for that purDose
this wear 1t was suggested to the Gov
ernor that scrip could be used in payment
of exDenses and he replied Hell. yes: the
Legislature can do anything. Prosperity
is hitting the Populists hard, and they
don't know how to dodge. A. c.
CROKER FOR MAYOR.
Tnmmany Tiger Longing for the