The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-22

against the competition of invading hosts.
has superseded Mr. Stump. an ex-congress-
man of German birth, and of sympathies
not in entire harmony with existing immi-
grafton laws or with the American spirit
In regard to further restrictive legislation.
Whether correctly or not l will not pre-
tend to say. Mr.. Stump was credited with
being placed in charge of the immigration
Bureau through the influence of the steam
ship combine an association of gentlemen
who control practically all of the great
navigation companies whose vessels ply be-
tween America and Europe. Mr.. Powder
ly is not accused of representing this pow
erful influence, and the. Treasury Depart
ment for the first time in many years APP
pears to have swung free from a sinister
influence. The Senate committee on i'm
migration is solidly American in it's mem
bership.
"Cy' Sulloway is out after Senator
Chambers seat in the Senate, and from all
appearances, he will give that veteran poll
tican a hard run. ICY" Sulloway is one of
the conspicuous figures in Congress, al
though he is only entering upon his second
term as a member Of the House. He is
looked upon as something of a freak both
at home and in Washington. He has not
upon him, but in his physical appearance
he is 50 out of the ordinary as to have COM
manded recognition. He is six feet four
inches in height weighs $50 pounds, and is
always pointed out by the guides at the
Capitol as the statesman who joined the
Salvation Army and married a captain in
that organization. Although he has not
done a great deal in Washington, he is one
of the best known men in New Hampshire.
and popular with the multitude because of
his radical position on all live subjects and
the untrammeled freedom with which he
expresses himself. He is a wild and woolly
free-silver man, although he smothered his
convictions last year sufficiently to vote
for and support the Republican ticket. He
was soldier in the late war and is an en-
thusiastic "comrade," believing that the
government should pay in pensions, not
$140,0O0,00O. as now, but 100000 annually,
and that all positions in the government
service should be filled by veterans or sons
and daughters of veterans. He is a SUBJ
scriber to all platforms for the enlargement
of personal liberty; believes in restricting
the powers of the courts, and summarily
stopping government by injunction. He new
er hesitates to rub the fur of influential in
terests in his own State the wrong way.
There Is nothing sacred to him about New
England, New Englanders nor New England
traditions. He delights in being sensational
and in doing unusual and unlooked-for
things. One of his latest outbreaks was to
attack the hide and leather interests of New
England and to denounce in the harshest
terms the men who tried to prevent a duty
on imported hides. He said that, if he had
his way, he would put the duty high
l, l.
worth IS, ''as it was when he was a boy"
He ridicules the statement that the duty
which the law imposes will not put money
in the farmers pockets, and says that the
man. is a fool who argues that the farmer
does not know when the jacket on his cow
or OK is not made more valuable by tax on
the competitive article from outside mar
kets. He announces as his platform that he
would like to build a wall of protection
around this country so high that not dol
lars worth of merchandise of foreign man.
ufacture could be brought into our markets
with a balloon. This would seem to stamp
him as ineligible.to membership in the Cob
den Club. "Cy' Sulloway is making his
fight for the Senate on geographical
grounds Senators Gallinger and Chandler
both live in the same town, and the Saliva
ton Army statesman is trying to make the
people believe that their interests will be
better served by having man in the Sen
ate from another part of the State. Senator
Chambers position has been weakened
somewhat by losing the support of powerful
railway interests which have heretofore
contributed largely to the success of his
campaigns. However, as he has a gift for
dividing his enemies, and getting them to
fighting each other at critical times, il
would not be a safe betting proposition to
bank on Chambers defeat next year.
Mint Director Preston is of the opinion
that the production of silver in this coun-
try and other parts OF the world will not
decrease, in spite of the fall in value of
the white metal He explains that silver is
a bi-product of great majority of gold,
copper and lead mines, and that the yield
from those sources alone will keep up the
production to nearly its present aggregate
In his opinion, the mining of silver will re-
turn a large profit to producers at so cents
an ounce, and even at lower figure than
that. OF course, many silver mines will have,
to close down as the price of bullion de,
preciates, but the supply in other quarters
will hold up and even increase.
w. G. NICHOLAS.